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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

Forty-eighth Regiment Field and Staff Officers

48th PA Regiment Officers

Colonel
James Nagle
Joshua K. Sigfried
George W. Gowen
Isaac F. Brannon

Lieutenant Colonel
David A. Smith
Henry Pleasants
Richard M. Jones

Major
Daniel Nagle
James Wren
Joseph A. Gilmour
O. C. Bosbyshell
Jacob Wagner

Adjutant
John D, Bertolette
Daniel D. McGinnes
Charles Loeser
H. C. Hornsberger

Quartermaster
James Ellis      
Thomas Bohannan

Surgeon
David Minis, Jr.
Charles T. Reber
W. R. D. Blackwood

Assistant Surgeon
Israel Bushong
C. P. Herrington
Alvah H. Maloney
Jas. M. Morrison
John M. Huston
John B. Culver
Eugene M. Smyser

Chaplin
Samuel A. Holman
Levi B. Beckley

Sergeant Major
Charles Loser
David B. Brown
George Farne
John Dechant

Quartermaster Sergeant
Alex S. Bowen
Charles W. Schnerr
Henry Krebs
James Gould
Jacob Wagner

Commissary Sergeant
Jacob F. Werner
John C. Berger

Hospital Sergeant
William H. Hardell
Charles B. Evans

Roster Source: Bates, Samuel P. (Samuel Penniman), 1827-1902.: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.

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