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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

Eighty-First Field and Staff Officers

81st Regiment Officers

Colonel
James Miller 
Chas F. Johnson
H. Boyd McKeen
William Wilson

Lt. Colonel
Eli T. Conner
Robert M. Lee, Jr.
Amos Stroh

Major
Thos. C. Harkness
Lawrence Mercer

Adj't
Clinton Swain
David J. Phillips
John B. Munyan
William J. Wilson

QuarterMaster
John M. Dutton
John Brelsford
Lewis W. Ingram

Surgeon
W.A. Gardiner
H.S. Colston
John Houston
John C. Norris

Asst Surgeon
J.P. Kimball
C.S. Widdifield
J.B. Beshler
Samuel Graham

Chaplain
Stacy Wilson

Sergeant Major
Lawr'ce Davenport
Jacob Hentz
Nathan F. Marsh

QuarterMaster Sergeant
Jacob A. Hollinger

Commissary Sergeant
Jacob R. Beers
Joseph S. Webb

Hospital Steward
Frank C. Anderson

Principal Musician
Wilbur T. Gear
Alf. M. Hutchinson
Isaac N. Wilson
Henry Wilson

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