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77th Pennsylvania Infantry
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Company C
Private
Enlisted as a Private on 8 March 1865.
Mustered out on 6 December 1865 at Victoria, TX.
Company E
Private
M.I. 7 March 1865 at Pittsburgh
Age at enrolement: 21
Height: 6 ft.
Hair: Dark
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Grey
Occupation: Black Smith
Born: Pennsylvania
Regement: 2d E - 77 Infantry
Died: In Hospital at Camp Irwin, Texas 25 Sep 1865
CAMP IRWIN. Camp Irwin, also called Camp Placedo, was a Mexican Warqv encampment established in October 1846 on Placedo Creek near the Port Lavaca-Victoria road, twelve miles west of Port Lavaca in Victoria County. It was named for James R. Irwin, chief quartermaster of Winfield Scott's army during the Mexico City campaign, and served as a rendezvous for troops assigned to Gen. John E. Wool'sqv Center Division and as a temporary military supply depot. Military units that used the camp were Col. John J. Hardin's First Regiment, Illinois Volunteers; Col. Humphrey Marshall's regiment of Kentucky Volunteers; Capt. John S. Williams's independent company, Kentucky Volunteers; and Col. Jonas E. Thomas's regiment of Tennessee Volunteers. Accounts describe the site as low, swampy ground where disease was common and conditions were barely tolerable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. George C. Furber, The Twelve Months Volunteer (Cincinnati: James, 1848). Edward D. Mansfield, The Mexican War (New York: Barnes, 1848).
Charles D. Spurlin
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/qcc44.html
Company E
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Company K
Captain
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Company K
1st Sergeant
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