Company A
Sergeant
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21st Pennsylvania Cavalry
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Company B
Private
Brother of John Cover Schriver (my 3rd Great Grandfather), who served in Co. G, 138 Pa. Regt.
George enlisted for 6 months of service on June 23, 1863 at Chambersburg Pa. into what was then called Captain Bell’s Troop of Adams County Cavalry, which later became Co. B of the 21st Pa. Cav. Regt.
Discharged; Feb 20, 1864 at Chambersburg Pa.
Battles/Skirmishes Participated In.
Skirmish at Marsh Creek, June 26, 1863.
Engaged by Confederate artillery at Wrightsville, Pa. June 28, 1863. Than retreated to Columbia.
Stationed in Columbia Pa. until July 5, 1863.
Sent to Harrisburg Pa. where they were outfitted and consolidated in Co. B of the 21st Pa. Cav. Regt. Then sent to Gettysburg for guard duty and clean up until discharged in Chambersburg Pa.
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Company C
Private
Joined PA 122nd in 1862. Mustered out May 16, 1863. Joined 21st Cav July 8, 1863. Transferred to Company E 182d, 3 years' regiment P.V., February 20, 1864.
Company D
Private
Is not the same William George in the 158th Penna Inf.
Company H
Private
At sixteen years, he enlisted in the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, a three-year regiment, and participated in every engagement until mustered out August 16, 1865. After the Civil War he enlisted in the United States Infantry and, at the end of ten years, retired as a lieutenant. He applied for and received a pension for his service in 1891.
Company I
Private
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Company I
Private
Jacob Reed was my paternal 2nd great grandfather. He was born 1844 in Franklin County, PA. He enlisted as a private in I Co., 21st PA Cavalry on Aug. 1, 1863. He mustered out with his company on Feb. 20, 1864. He died at age 42 on Sept. 30, 1886 in Quincy township, Franklin Co. PA.
Company K
Private
William N Henry was mustered in at the rank of Private on 5 February 1864 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was mustered out with his company on 8 July 1865 in Virginia.
21st PA Cavalry, 182nd Volunteers, Company K
Source: Ancestry.com, U.S. Civil War Soldiers and Profiles, 1861-1865.
Company L
Private
Died at the National Old soldiers Home in Dayton, Ohio on August 8, 1879 and is interred at the National Cemetery (Section B). Wounded at Weldon Station near Petersburg.