A stunning example of a Sixth Corps ID Badge worn by Peter Moore, Company I.
Sold at auction $1,250.
*Photo courtesy of CivilWarAntique.com
Category: Company I
Frank Baker, Company F
Frank Baker
• Enlisted in Company F; August 28, 1861
• Promoted from 1st Lt. Co. F; March 22, 1862 (to what rank?)
• Resigned July 23, 1862
• Re-enlisted (as Sergeant?), Co. K; February 15, 1864
• Promoted to 1st Lt., Co. I, July 6, 1864 (also showing date as September 9, 1864?)
• Promoted to Captain, Co. E; January 24, 1865 (Date also listed: January 1, 1865?)
• Wounded at Petersburg; April 2, 1865
• Mustered out with Company August 29, 1865
Baker enlisted and was commissioned as a 1st Lt. August 28, 1861, in Company F.
He was wounded during the Breakthrough at Petersburg (Fall of Petersburg/third battle of Petersburg); April 2, 1865.
He mustered out of service on June 29th, 1865.
On July 31, 1866 Baker applied for a Federal Pension on account of his wound.
Served with the 98th PA: Siege of Yorktown, battles of Williamsburg Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, and Malvern Hill. Wilderness, Spottsylvania (assault on the Salient), Cold Harbor, Petersburg, siege of Petersburg, defense of Washington against Early’s attack. He participated in Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, battles of Opequan, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run, Fort Fisher, and the assault and fall of Petersburg.
*Photo and history courtesy of Dave Hann
(Note to self: verify ranks and dates ~ some confusion/overlap with dates and rank via Bates across 4 companies.)
Andrew Sheely
Andrew Sheely
Private, Company I
*The information on this page has been copied from FindAGrave.com
~The following information is courtesy of Dennis Brandt ~
The son of John & Elizabeth (Emelit {?}) Sheely, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Chambersburg April 7, 1865, as a private with Co. I, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.
In 1890, live in Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County, in 1907, in Littlestown, Adams County, but died in Mount Pleasant Township at age 79 from chronic interstitual nephritis with gangrene of an unspecified body part a contributing factor.
OBITUARY
Andrew Sheely died recently at his home in Mount Pleasant township about a mile Southwest of White Hall. He was about 78 years of age and was a Veteran of the Civil War. He lived on the original Sheely homestead in the county and on occasions would speak of the family traditions that when the farm was settled, Indians were neighbors and spots would be pointed out where Indian wigwams had stood.
He leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter, Daniel Sheely of Hanover, Jacob Sheely of White Hall and Mrs. George Shildt of White Hall.
Gettysburg Compiler
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
April 21, 1909
Joseph E. Tibbins
Joseph E. Tibbins
Private, Company I, 98th P.V.I.
Born: November 18, 1847
Jacksonville, Centre County, PA
Died: December 7, 1928 (Aged 81)
Buried at: Hays-Fearon Cemetery, Beech Creek, PA
Document Shown: Discharge Certificate
*A special Thank You to Dr. Joseph E. Tibbins’ great-great granddaughter, Scherry Moore for contributing a photograph of this document.
More information about Dr. Tibbins can be found at www.FindAGrave.com.
Memorial ID: #10485646
Thomas Goltman Zarger
Thomas Goltman Zarger
Private, Company I, 98th P.V.I.
Born: May 21, 1844
Son of John Zarger and Mary Catharine (Goldman) Zarger
Married: December 29, 1868 to Mary Amanda Seilhamer
Children:
John Seilhamer (b. April 26, 1874); m. Mary E. Witherspoon
David Herbert (b. July 27, 1876); m. Lulu Elletta Wallburn
James Shirley (b. May 7, 1881); m. Unknown (Editor of the Gettysburg Daily Times)
After the war Mr. Zarger became a farmer, a school teacher, and was very active in local politics and his church.
More specific information about his life and family can be found on pages 418-419 in the publication: Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania*
Edited by George Oberkirsh Seilhamer (Published 1905)
*Photo credit to same publication.