John BOYER
♂ John BOYER
Eigenschaften
| Art | Wert | Datum | Ort | Quellenangaben |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | John BOYER | |||
| Ausbildung | According to 1870 U.S. Census, John and Lucy could read and write. This is apparently true because he wrote her letters while he was away during the Civil War. Unfortunately, she burned the letters upon his return. |
Ereignisse
| Art | Datum | Ort | Quellenangaben |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geburt | etwa 1838 | Dorrance, Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Geburt | 1838 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Geburt | 1838 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Tod | 26. Oktober 1888 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Tod | 26. Oktober 1888 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Tod | 26. Oktober 1888 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Tod | 26. Oktober 1888 | Pennsylvania, USA nach diesem Ort suchen | |
| Aka (Facts Pg) | |||
| Military Service | Civil War Veteran; member of PA 147th Volunteers; Co H; Enlisted 6 Oct 1862; Mustered out on 15 July 1865, Washington, DC. nach diesem Ort suchen |
Eltern
| Henry BOYER | Abigail HICKS |
Notizen zu dieser Person
RESIDENCE NOTE: In 1862, The Boyers lived in Hobby, Luzerne County, PA a nd had been living there only 2-3 months at the time of John Boyer's enlis tment into the Army; his closest neighbor was George Ebert. Prior to tha t, they lived at Buck Mountain, between Eckley and Rokport (from the begin ning of their marriage) until they moved near Hobby. Before Buck Mountai n, John Boyer lived nearDorrance with Samuel Shellhamer for 4-5 years. P eter Enok was the nearest neighbor. After John returned home from the Civ il War, they moved to Rippletown, Luzerne County, PA where they lived f or3-4 years. George Stineman was their neighbor. From there they mov ed to Slocum and remained there until both he and Lucy died.
DEATH NOTE: According to wife, Lucy'sdeposition before the Pension Boar d, John Boyer was being treated for Rheumatism and "pain in his chest a nd through his system." She felt "that he was a half able man any year af ter he came homefrom the Army." She felt "Rheumatism was what disabled h im, it commenced with a stitch in his back, or in his limbs, and that wou ld bring him down full of pain that he could not hardly work...and sometim es he would walk with two canes." "His pain or misery seemed to be in h is back, in his arms, and through his limbs and all over...sometimes his a rms and his fingers would swell up."
She treated his ailments with "Hurshorn Turpentine, Vinegar, white of an e gg and such things."
"the last time he was sick there was a month that he could not work, b uthe was not confined to his bed only from about Tuesday noon until Frid ay a little after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he died...it commenced in h is left side and it seemed to draw right through to theother side...he co uld not eat...the next day...my husband did not know anything and he was t hat way until he died...he laid quiet I could see that he was all fu ll of pain...he could not speak."
MILITARY NOTE: John Boyer served as a Union Soldier and fought in the Civ il War with Company H of the Pennsylvania 147th Volunteers Regiment. He en listed on September24, 1862 in Harrisburg, PA, mustered on October 29, 18 62 at Harpers Ferry and was discharged on July 15, 1865. He received a gu nshot wound on his left wrist at the battle of Gettysburg on Ju ly 2 or 3, 1863, and a gunshot wound of the left ankle at Peach Tree Cree k, Georgia on July 19 or 20, 1864, on the way to Atlanta. His Company fou ght at the Battle of Gettysburg, at Little Roundtop. HisCompany was al so in Alabama.
John Boyer suffered with Rheumatism as a result of his war experiences. Ac cording to his brother, Josiah, "I first knew him to complain of the Rheumatism after the Chancellorsville fight, we laid there in the woods, a nd it rained there for 4 or 5 days and we had to stand right out in the op en rain." Josiah wasn't with his brother immediately after the Batt le of Gettysburg. According to Josiah's testimony at Lucy's Pension Heari ng, he, (Josiah), "was picked out to bury at Gettysburg, to help bury t he men."
Battles inwhich John Boyer participated included: Battle of Chancellorsv ille, VA, May 3, 1863; Battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 3, 1863; Batt le of Lookout Mountain, TN, November 24, 1863; Battle of Taylor Ridge, G A, November 27, 1863 and Peach Tree Creek, GA, July 19-20, 1864. Accordi ng to Col. George A. Cobham, Jr. of the 2nd Brigade, regarding the Batt le of Gettysburg, "The 147th PA Volunteers ofthe 1st Brigade, which arriv ed soon after, took position on our right,which position they resolutely h eld during the heavy attack next morning (July 3)."
MEDICAL NOTE: According to Benjamin Lear for whom John Boyer worked, " he was disabled from labor...I could see that he was disabled by his movem ents, he could not handle any tools, or lift anything, he was weak, his wi fe was stronger than he was...his hand was twisted around someway, wh en he walked and his arms hung down they did not hang alike, and his finge rs were kind of twisted apart and he did notseem to have the use of them. ..Aside from these wounds, he complained of a pain in his heart and side.. .he often had a cough...he often had to quit on account of his heart, he g ot quite short of breath when he would work, he could not walk up a hill l ike other men of his age...He was subject to Rheumatism very much...and th en he told me about a year before he died that he had the Piles...andhe s aid that he was very much plagued with the Piles so that he could hardly s tand up at times...he walked with a cane."
According to brother Josiah, after the war,"he complainedof Rheumatism a nd that his bones hurt him so, and he complained of his lungs, he was ov er here to see Dr. Weiss the last time he was in Hobby, he wanted to get s ome medicine; he said he had such apain in his heart."
According to wife, Lucy, "my husband was perfectly sound and free from dis ease or injury at and before his enlistment...the time he had the Measle s, he was taken sick and they took him off, and he was three days on the w ater, and he was senseless...At discharge my husband did not look health y, he did not appear healthy, and he complained of pain throughhis syste m, through his body...he looked pale, was crippled up, and I did not thi nk by the appearance of him that he was well, he was crippled up in his le ft wrist and his left ankle, and he had pain in his back, sometimes stitch es would fly through him, and when he bent over he could not straight en up he had kind of stitches like, sometimes it would be in his arms, a nd i would notice when he washed himself in the morning that he could n ot straighten up...he used to get short of breath, he said he thought he w ould smother, and he would get up out of bed and we had to open the door.. .Idid not know at the time what it was and I asked the doctor and he sa id it was the heart disease..."
EMPLOYMENT NOTE: On the 1870 U.S. Census, John stated he was a Laborer. A ccording to Benjamin Lear's testimony (November 12, 1889), "he worked f or me by the day often, not steady, but when I had odd jobs to do on the f arm, mowing, making fences, digging gardens and pickingstones, I gave h im the preference because he was a good fellow, poor and needy."
According to Lucy, "my husband used to couple the cars at the coal min e; he worked outside the mine; the boss was Evans, a Welchman, George Eva ns." After the war john also "drove team there (Mount Auger) for George S tineman...my husband used to work a day here and there...he worked in t he coal breaker over the mountain...he worked with Benjamin and George Eng el here for a day or two days at a time."
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The following is found at http://www.brotherswar.com/Gettysburg-3o.htm
Friday July 3, 1863 - Pardee Field & Steuart's Brigade
During the night of July 2nd, as Union troops were pulled from Culp's Hi ll to support the crumbling line of Major General Daniel Sickle's 3rd Co rp at the southern end of the battlefield, Confederate soldiers attacked C ulp's Hill. Along the area pictured, men from Major General Edward Johnson's Division, including Brigadier General Steuart's Brigade, held the trenc hes and breastworks within the tree line originally built by their Union f oes. Federal soldiers slept in the fields that night, getting whatever re st they could in preparation for what was yet to come. The rock at this fi eld's center stands to honor the men who early on the morning of July 3, 1 863, charged across thesefields to retake their works. A bronze plaque mo unted on the western face of the rock pictured tells more of the story.
"At 5:00 a.m. the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Penna. Volunteers
(Lt. Col. Ario Pardee Jr.) was ordered to charge and carry the
stone wall occupied by the enemy. This they did in handsome
style their firing causing heavy loss to the enemy who then
abandoned the entire line of the stone wall.
Report of Brig. General John W. Geary
Commanding 2d Division 12th Corps."
The various reports from the officers involved both describe the resulti ng actions while offering somewhat different descriptions and timeframes f or what occurred. Brigadier General George H. Steuart included this descri ption of themorning's action in his report to Edward "Allegheny" Johnso n, his commanding general.
"The whole command rested from about 11 p. m. till about daylight, [3d], w hen the enemy opened a terrific fire of artillery and a very heavy fi re of musketry upon us, occasioning no loss to the brigade, excepting to t he First Maryland Battalion and Third North Carolina, which in part alternated positions behind the breastworks. The First North Carolina, with t he exception of four companies which had been stationed as a picket on t he other side of the creek, was at this time formed tothe left of the bri gade. At about 10 a. m. the Tenth Virginia was ordered to deploy as skirmi shers, and clear the woods on our left of the enemy's skirmishers. This w as done, and the enemy was discovered in the woods, drawn up in line of ba ttle, at not over 300 yards from the west of the stone wall. The brigade t hen formed in line of battle at right angles to the breastwork in the foll owingorder: Third North Carolina, First Maryland Battalion, Thirty-seven th Virginia, Twenty-third Virginia, and First North Carolina, and charg ed toward the enemy's second breastworks, partly through and open field a nd partly through a wood, exposed to a very heavy fire of artillery and mu sketry, the latter in part a cross-fire. The left of the brigade was the m ost exposed at first, and did not maintain its position in line of battl e. The right, thus in advance, suffered very severely, and, being unsuppor ted, wavered, and the whole line fell back, but in good order. The enemy 's position was impregnable, attacked by our small force, and any furth er effort to storm it would have been futile, and attended with great disa ster, if not total annihilation. The brigade rallied quickly behindrock s, and reformed behind the stone wall which ran parallel to the breastwork s, where it remained about an hour, exposed to a fire of artillery and inf antry more terrific than any experienced during the day, although less dis astrous. Ultimately, in accordance with orders from the major-general comm anding, the brigade fell back to the creek, where it remained during the r est of the day, nearly half of it being deployed as skirmishers. During t he night, the enemy advanced their line some distance beyond the breastwor ks, but were driven back to them again." [5]
In perhaps a somewhat understated manner, Lieutenant Colonel Pardee descri bed the action of command that day. "On the morning of the 3d, we march ed to a point near the line of the previous day and towardthe right of t he line of the brigade, having on our right the Seventh Regiment Ohio Volu nteers and on our left the Fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. Soon after t he line was formed, I was ordered by General Geary, commanding divisio n, to move forward with my regiment to a point which commanded the rig ht of the line of entrenchments, and from which a view could be had of t he movements of the enemy. My regiment, soon after reaching its assigned p osition, became engaged with the skirmishers of the enemy, who were soon d riven from their position. Skirmishers were sent to the front and right fl ank, into the woods, from which they greatly harassed the enemy. At abo ut 8 a.m. an attempt was made by the enemy to turn the right of the li ne of the entrenchments. They boldly advanced to withinabout 100 yards wi thout discovering my regiment. I then ordered the regiment to fire, and br oke their line. They reformed again as a body and advanced. Their advan ce was checked by the heavy firethey received, when they broke and ran ." [5]
Major General Henry W. Slocum, Commander of the 12th Corps, would later wr iter of this days fighting in his official report, "The portion of the fie ld occupied by the enemy presented abundant evidence of the bravery and de termination with which the conflict was waged. The field of battle at th is point was not as extended as thaton the left of our line, nor was t he force engaged as heavy as that brought into action on that part of t he line. Yet General Geary states that over 900 of the enemy's dead were b uried by our own troops and a large number left unburied, marching orde rs having been received before the work was completed." [9]
Brigadier General Geary, of whose Division the 147th Pennsylvania wasa pa rt, would note, " I estimate upon personal observation-in which I am suppo rted by statements from intelligent prisoners in our hands-their kill ed in front of our lines at nearly or quite 1,200,of which we succeed ed in burying 900, and wounded in the ratio of at least four to one kille d, the greater portion of whom were carried off during the night by the en emy. We took over 500 prisoners, independent of those who were wounded, 6 00 of the latter from Rodes` division alone falling into the hands of o ur army." As a testament to the ferocity of fighting, Geary would add of h is Division, "The command expended in the fight on July 3, and in subseque nt skirmishing, 277,000 rounds of ammunition." [5]
Quellenangaben
| 1 | Boyer Web Site, John Boyer Autor: Steve Boyer |
MyHeritage family tree Family site: Boyer Web Site Family tree: 212681-2 |
Datenbank
| Titel | Wilhelm, Petereit Family Tree |
| Beschreibung | Wilhelm Family Name is from Marzhausen, Neu-Eichenberg, Werra- Meissner-Kreis, Hessen, Deutschland and the most recent births for my 3rd grandparents in Linden, Hannover, Germany Petereit Family name is from Prussia and ending with my great grandfather in Tauroggen, Lithuania Krompholz Family name if from Salzburg, Österreich and then moved to Lithuania. Wenger, Pfieffenberger, Amaisserin, Neufang Family names are from Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg, Austria and Undberg, Salzburg, Austria and also Dorff, Salzburg, Austria |
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Susan
Knight Wilhelm
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