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PA Civil War Era Newspaper Transcription
Adams County, Pennsylvania
Adams Sentinel - June 7, 1864
We learn that John W. Shipley, of Cumberland county, a member of Captain Minnigh's company, of the Pennsylvania Reserves, 30th Regiment was killed since the battle of the Wilderness, while the company was on picket duty.
Samuel Fisher, from this place, a member of Company P, 87th Regiment, P. V., we learn has also been wounded.