Roster of Company B, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry
From the book "Sergeant Hugh Paxton Bigham: Lincoln’s Guard at Gettysburg" By John B. Horner
Roll of Company B, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. Eighth
Corporal Witherow D. Horner was the son of the author's great
uncle. He was born March 19, 1842, volunteered in Co. B, and
served until the close of the war. He was wounded five days
before Lee's surrender, and was confined in the hospital at
Washington for four months. He went to Belle Plaine, Kansas,
in 1878, and died there. Roll of Company B, 21st Pennsylvania
Cavalry. Number 30, Private Theodore B. Horner, was the
brother of the author's great-grandfather, born April 17,
1844; married November 18, 1880 to Jennie Hesson of Harney,
Maryland; died June 4, 1901. Number 52, G. Washington Sandoe,
was the first Union Casualty before the battle of Gettysburg.
Roll of Company B, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry:
Officers:
Non Commission Officers:
- 1st Sergeant Hugh Paxton
Bigham
- 2nd Sergeant C. H. Fulweiler
- 3rd Sergeant Robert McIlhening
- 4th Sergeant Adam B. Black
- 5th Sergeant Washington Withrow
- 6th Sergeant William J. King
- 7th Sergeant Isaac Bucher (C. S. Sergeant)
- 8th Sergeant Isaiah Orr (M. Sergeant)
- 1st Corporal William W. Crooks
- 2nd Corporal John L. A. Young
- 3rd Corporal William B. Reynolds
- 4th Corporal Alexander Bucher
- 5th Corporal Isaac Stochslager
- 6th Corporal J. Harvey Cobean
- 7th Corporal Abraham King
- 8th Corporal Withrow Horner
Buglers:
- 1st Bugler Henry Carr
- 2nd Bugler Robert Mcleaf
Enlistees:
- Samuel Allison
- Ephriam Bair
- Walter Beamer
- Rush Bigham
- William Black
- John Bosserman
- David Brinkerhoff
- John Buckler
- Calvin Bushey
- William Carpenter
- Phillip Cashman
- Michael Cafsat
- Clayton Chamberlin
- Absolom Conrad
- Thomas Culbertson
- John Cumer
- Miller Degroft
- William Dixon
- Daniel Decker
- David Eckert
- William Freeman
- Isaac Fritz
- Craig Geiselman
- William Geiselman
- George Haines
- John Herring
- John Hoffman
- James Holtsworth
- Daniel Hoover
- Theodore Hoover
- Barnhart Hollebaugh
- Peter Hull
- Ephraim Kism
- Joseph Kuhn
- William Lighter
- John Low
- John Lower
- Josiah Lower
- ______McAlister
- John W. McCleary
- Robert Mcreary
- Luther McDonnell
- Daivd McGuigan
- William Mickley
- Joseph Mills
- Samuel Musselman
- Henry Myers
- John Peters
- James Rebert
- Ephraim Reever
- Frantz Rothenbacher
- Washington Sandoe
- George Scott
- Samuel Sherman
- George Schriver
- Lewis Schriver
- Samuel Shull
- John Shultz
- Adam Snyder
- Phillip Snyder
- John Tate
- William Toot
- John Wade
- William Walker
- John Weikert
- William Weikert
- William Weible
- James Wilson
- Edward Wintrode
- David Young
- George Young
Related Reading:
The letters of Major Bell,
Monuments of
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