PA Civil War Era Newspaper Transcription
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Miner's Journal - June 14, 1862:
Returned Prisoners The following members of the 15th Regiment, P.V. who were captured at Falling Waters; on the 2d of July, 1861, have been released. Some of them belong to Minersville, this County, and have reached home. They do not give the most flattering description of rebel accommodations:
J Wooley,
J. Thomas,
G. Went,
C. Schlotterbeck,
H. Shankey,
A. Saylor,
G.W. Walters,
G. Thretto,
J. Wilson,
J. Williams,
D.S. Sibert,
G.W. Threkeld.
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