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Joseph Benson Akers was born on February 3, 1829 in Akersville, Brush Creek Township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest son of carding mill owner Israel Akers and his wife, Elizabeth Lewis Akers. The younger Akers was educated locally, taught Sunday School, and then entered...
Robert N. Baer was born on April 12, 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1858, was elected to the Union Philosophical Society, and graduated with his class. Following this he studied as a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal...
James Iverson Boswell was born in Philadelphia on November 3, 1837. He attended the central high school in that city and enrolled at Genesee College in New York in 1856. A year later, Boswell enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a junior. In the year he was at the College,...
Joseph E. Broadwater was born in Accomac County, Virginia to David and Mary Ann White Broadwater on April 29, 1837. He prepared for college at academies in Drummondville, Virginia and Bel-Air, Maryland before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1854. Broadwater was elected to...
Samuel Cushman Caldwell was born on April 10, 1836 in the west end of Old West at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His father, science professor Merritt Caldwell, and his mother had their home on the first and second floors of the college building. Professor Caldwell was forced to...
Thomas Care was born at St. Mary's in Chester County, Pennsylvania on July 10, 1832. He was prepared at the Williamsport Seminary and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle with the class of 1858. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society, was an active debater, and served as treasurer of...
Birth: December 31, 1836
Death: June 22, 1864 (age 28); Richmond, Virginia; Hollywood Cemetery
Military Service: CSA, 1861-64
Unit: Company K, Second Division
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858 non-graduate)
Rudolphus Cecil was prepared at...
Birth: June 29, 1837; Warren County, Virginia
Death: May 31, 1871 (age 34); Vicksburg, Mississippi
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: 7th Virginia Cavalry; Secret Service
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858)
Daniel...
Philip W. Downes was the eldest son of William H. Downes and his wife Annie Hardcastle Downes and was born in Caroline County, Maryland in 1837. When he was ten, his father was elected as a Maryland state delegate. The younger Downes entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he...
Robert N. Earhart was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1833 to merchant David Earhart and his wife, Catharine Altman Earhart. His father took his large family, of which Robert was the youngest, to Pleasant Valley, Iowa during the 1840s. The younger Earhart received his preparatory...
Birth: May 13, 1834; Frederick County, Maryland
Death: May 12, 1909 (age 74); Waxahachie, Texas
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: Company E, 12th Texas Cavalry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858); M.A. (Class of 1870)
William H. Getzendaner...
Birth: June 16, 1837; Gwinette County, Georgia
Death: April 28, 1874 (age 37); Lawrenceville, Georgia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: Company A, "Prairie Rovers," of the Eighth Texas Cavalry Regiment "Terry's Texas Rangers"
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (...
Birth: June 14, 1834; De Kalb County, Georgia
Death: August 31, 1862 (age 28); Second Battle of Bull Run
Military Service: CSA, 1861-62
Unit: Company F, 8th Georgia Infantry, Second Division
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858)
Jennings Hulsey...
Birth: December 22, 1837; Portland, Maine
Death: November 15, 1918 (age 81);Brooklyn, New York
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: Army of the Potomac, First Cavalry Division of the Army of the Shenandoah
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858); Trustee,...
John H. Lease was born in Newport, Pennsylvania to John and Christina Lease on July 5, 1832. He prepared for college at the Pennington School in New Jersey, then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, just thirty miles from his home. Lease graduated with his class in the early...
Benjamin Lippincott was born the elder son of Crispin Lippincott and his first wife, Mary Ann Wilkins Lippincott, in Haddonfield, New Jersey on July 22, 1827. He prepared for college at the nearby Methodist-affiliated Pennington School. In 1855, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle,...
Joshua A. Lippincott was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on January 31, 1835 to Crispin and Elizabeth Garwood Lippincott. He prepared for college at the Pennington Seminary and enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855, along with his older half-brother, Benjamin...
Birth: April 13, 1840; Loudoun County, Virginia
Death: June 27, 1862 (age 22); Battle of Gaines Mill
Military Service: CSA, 1861-62
Unit: Company D, 8th Virginia Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858 non-graduate)
Leven W. Luckett hailed...
John Emory McClintock was born on September 19, 1840 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of John McClintock and Caroline Augusta Wakeman. His father, a devoted clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, taught mathematics, Greek, and Latin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the...
Birth: October 11, 1837; Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia)
Death: June 14, 1863 (age 25); Richmond, Virginia
Military Service: USA, 1861-63
Unit: 59thVirginia Infantry
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858)
Samuel M. McPherson was born to...
Birth: December 25, 1836; Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Death: October 8, 1900 (age 53); Second Battle of Bull Run
Military Service: USA, 1861-1900
Unit: Regular Army's 4th Artillery
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858); Jefferson Medical College, M.D....
