Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
[This is a transcription of the register of deaths in company H of the 91st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865)]
[A list of everything included in the 91st Pennsylvania's descriptive books, with links to transcriptions, is available here.]
[source: Descriptive book, company H, 91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 94 (Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917)]
[transcribed by Harry A. Ide]
[the right-most part of some entries is lost in the gutter]
Register of Deaths.
No. | Names | Rank. | When. | Where. | Cause. | Remarks. |
1 | John Walters | corp. | Dec 27 /61 | Philadelp | [illegible; looks like'ordery diar [or dear] atc'] in camp | while in the service of the U[S] |
[perhaps 'diar' is an abbreviation for 'diarrhea'] | ||||||
2 | Silas Charmelia | Corporal | May 22 /62 | Washinton [sic] | Small Pox | While in the service of the [U.S.] |
3 | Lawrence Humphreys | Private | April 16 /62 | Washington | Killed by accident | |
4 | William Campbell | Private | 1862 | Alexandria Va | Drowned | |
5 | Miles Finegan | " [sc. Private] | August 10 /62 | " [sc. Alexandria Va] | ||
6 | John Goodwin | Sergeant | Dec 10th /63 | Bealton Va | Typhoid fever | |
7 | Louis Bender | Private | Feby 20 /64 | Chester Barracks Pa | Shot himself | |
8 | Robert J Armstrong | Corpl | May 11th /64 | " [sc. Chester Barracks Pa] | of Disease | |
9 | Samuel Sweeney | " | June 18 /64 | Petersburg Va | Killed in action | |
10 | Charles Burkett | Private | May 19 /64 | Fredericksburg | from wounds recd in action at Laurel Hill Va May 8th [1864] | |
11 | James Hood | " [sc. Private] | June 19 /64 | near Petersburg Va | " " " " [sc. from wounds recd in action at] Petersburg Va June 18 /64 | |
12 | John Keys | " [sc. Private] | June 22d [?] /64 | " [sc. near Petersburg Va] | " " " " " " " " [sc. from wounds recd in action at Petersburg Va June 18 /64] | |
13 | Sergeant Stephen Whinna | Sergeant | June 27 /64 | Phila Pa | " " " " " " " " [sc. from wounds rcvd in action at Petersburg Va June 18 /64] | |
14 | Henry C Crise [sic] | Private | June 24th [/64] | City Point Va | " " " " " " [sc. from wounds rcvd in action at Petersburg Va June 18 /64] | |
15 | James Thompson | " [sc. Private] | " " [sc. June 24th /64] | " " " [sc. City Point Va] | " " " " " " [sc. from wounds rcvd in action at Petersburg Va June 18 /64] | |
16 | William Wolf | " [sc. Private] | July 10th /64 | Alexandria Va | " " " " " " " [sc. from wounds rcvd in action at Petersburg Va June 18 /64] | |
17 | Andrew Steinmetz | " [sc. Private] | Oct 18 /64 | Carver Hospital Washington DC | of chronic Diarrhea | |
18 | Henry A Bennett | " [sc. Private] | Oct 27 /64 | Killed in action on Boyndton Road, Petersburg VA | ||
19 | Harry T Angel | Sergt | Nov [?] 26 /64 | Bates [?] Hosptl Alexandria | of wounds rc in action at Boyndton [Road] | |
20 | George S Phillips | Corpl | Nov 18th /64 | Washington | " " " " " " " [sc. of wounds rc in action at Boyndton Road] | |
21 | Peter [?] Buck | Private | Jan 28 [?] /65 [?] | Petersburg Va | Committed Suicide by Shooting himself while on Picket [?] | |
22 | William A Ross | " [sc. Private] | June 12th /65 | near Washington DC | Typhoid Fever | Died at Division Hospital |
23 | John Strauser [?] | " [sc. Private] | June 24th /65 | " " [sc. near Washington DC] | __ | " " " " [sc. Died at Division Hospital] |
24 | Benneville Hummell | " [sc. Private] | " 26th /65 | Alex Va | Typhoid Fever | Died at Slough Gen'l Hosp |
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