V VOL. LXXV T } CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR, 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, By 7. P. Regir Me yer, P. {To be Sergeant Co. A., 148th V. itinued | nent, CHAPTER IV Citizen visitors in flocks came to see | the field A number in- quired of me, to know why the soldiers | talked so very 1 while they seemed with each other. [I ssid: very hard of hearing, ne awful battle, noise and concussion of the air Surjig the dreadful of the 3rd, | greatly injured our hearing; but in and army. oud to each other: s« flerce not angry all | the | the | we are arly deaf; of noise especially canuonade : N This | batt le, ear-drums never ail right again, after whose will week we will | is the Those, however, broken always case a have been hear again. During the night of July 4th I had the the 148th out burying dead at 8 field hospital, a mile to our rear, on the low banks of Rock Creek. Here many desperately lying on the the heavy rains stream rose suddenly the ground so that number of the wounded were drowned before they could all be moved to higher ground. | The wounded, all lying on the bare, | Pioneers of wounded were ground. Consequent on during the day the and overflowed a wet ground, thoroughly soaked by the the major- The head had remedy | rain, were generally quiet, ity seemed to be sleeping. surgeon told me that they covered in kerosene «pecifie for the extirpation of maggots from | the wouuds of the men; and trivmph- antly stated that there a maggoly wound in the place. Up this time soldiers quently the fleid flipping fro wounds dis- “a was no longer to were fre- 4] seen maggots thelr own with ed wang soldier we n and One f Seibel. a2 silos whittied for {lie sharpe: Me purpose, wanded under the arm | rg 4 nsked a surgeon to dress his wound; ! he could not raise his arm; the surgeon took hold of jerked it] violently up, when a hand fall of mag- | gots fell Wounds maggoly in a few hours. Here paihetic young soldier, a mere boy, in on a stretcher, while a soldier walk- ed alongside and with his hand held a wound in the thigh near the body. He said the wound did uot pain him. A surgeon examined the wound, said; nothing can be done for you; you must die. If you have any word or message fo send home, atiend to it yor. will die within a few minutes | after your comrade will take his haud from your wound, and that must be! soon. He asked for paper and pen, | which quickly furnished. He wrote a letter to his muother, stated his | condition, that a8 comrade was holding his wound while her, saying that as soon as he finished | the letter the comrade would let go| and the end must come in a few | minutes. The letter was finished; he | let himself fall back, hesitated a mo- ment, then said; now you may let go, | and Levi Bmith, of Co. A, who held | the wound, did let go and in a few minutes life had gone out, But of the | many dreadful wounds noticed at] Glettysburg perhaps the most horrible | of all is described by Gen. Alexander | of the Confederate army as follows, in | Pickett's charge : “I remember with the most! horrible wound I ever saw. We were | halted for a moment by a fence and as the men threw it down for the guns to pass I saw in one of the corners a man sitting down and looking up at me. | A solid shot had carried away the whole of both jaws and his tongue. | noticed the powder smut from the shot on the white skin around the wound, He sat up and looked at me steadily and I looked at him until the guns could pass but nothing, of course, could be done for him.” The first Union soldier killed at Gettysburg was SBergt. Geo. W. Ban- doe, of Co. B, 21st Regt. Pa. Cav. He was mustered into the U. 8B. service June 23rd and killed June 26th, 1863, on the fourth day of his service, \ The first Confederate soldier killed ‘at Gettysburg was Henry Raison, Co, 1B, 7in Regt. Tenn, Whe combined losses of the two armies was about forty-six thousand, divided about equally between them. Tie losses in officers and men and horsés were extraordinarily great, Twenty-seven Union generals were killed and thirty-one were wounded. Sixteen Confederate generals were killed and eighteen wounded, According to the estimate of Gen: Hunt, chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac, there were expended in the battle of Gettysburg five hundred and sixty-nine tons of deadly missiles, jncluding every variety of shot, shell his hand, ut. { often become | of the the war. Al was brought | occurred one ’ f incidents « § é al once; were and he wrote to | one gud ball known in Europe and America. On the basis of ‘less than one-fifth of the weight of projectile for powder, then there were more than { one hundred tons of powder used. It is also estimated that twenty thousand than were Union twenty- eighteen more shots The cannon this battle, eight thousand small arms, The Confederate Army and five captured CRILNON thousand pris- The Union Army on after the twenty-five { thousand small arms that had be long also gnthered, battle, ed to both armies. Israel Otto, of Company A, ature, and nick- ' often In fragment " good nated ‘runty, agingly of his “Devils “poke dispar- fight of shell Sern Pp RiZe, Den,” fies n Of on tep of the head, skull, large and left it in a round heap, the size of a large walout., It was allowed undressed, that way, and life. Had he been half an inch taller, he would have killed, He never afterward grumbled about his short stature, A fragment of a shell cut off the butt stock of the gun in the hands of Will- ism Waits, of Company A, grazing without him any ed his seulp from the ih patch, to heal, in #0 remained through been his hand, harm. The rifle in the in Company F, frag doing of a comrade was struck by a large of shell, which bent it into and jerked it from his without injury to the comrade, Capt. Forster of Company A ipad- vertantly held bis sword with his right below and against the “shield.” hands ment t triangle,” hands, smashed the shield against his hand, doing the Captain no injury HALL. TA. DR. A. Dr. A. E, Gobble, formerly president of the Central Pennsylvania College, at New Berlin, is now associated with the management of the College at Myerstown, and is meeting with the S8INe Success E. GOBBLE. which characterized his administration at New Berlin. He has become one of the foremost educators in the State, Professor Aaron Ezra Gobble, D. D : was for twenty-three years one of the leading citizens of Union county. He was born near Millheim, Centre coun- ty, February 14, 1856. His spent Spring Mills, father soon afterwards moving on a farm in that neighborhood, youth was Near his His early education was received in the public schools, and in the spring of 1870 he became a student at Penn A #1 A own, Yarape ball , siruck upp of on the 1? k, frag and | of | Kuap in life, Bed kd i napsac ¥ Lim the Ths § saved © Mn Lod Use, back. tent size « and so wu { He refused marched back wi ia," snd ‘Oid Virgin- guu lo gn oEpital, on time, relieved aud ac-| A Bible in the knapsack of Frank Wolf, of Company A saved his life in The ball entered knapsack, struck the centre of the Bible and passed almost through it, The solid leaves cut the leaden min- killed in on May 10th, | who the battle at Po River, the following year. This Bible is a treasured relic among his friends to this day. i Another comrade of the 145th, whose name and Company, not recorded had an exceptionally “close call.” A min. | nie ball struck his “U. 8.” belt plate | in the centre, passed half way through | {and stuck. But the Impact knocked | i the down and gave him al uruise, the size of a “flap | Relieved of he marched | | with the boys in pursuit of Lee, three | | days later. George Corman, A, was | | stunned to by the] concussion of an exploding shell, in| {the “Devils Den" It wa [ night when animation returned ; the battle was over; his comrades gone, {the enemy in possession of the battle- | i field, “Johnnies’’ all around him, and | | he, | Richmond, Every man passing through a great | | battle, has ‘close calls’ in abundance, and the foregoing few could be multi. plied into hundreds. In many cases | a button on the uniform, a lead pen-| Was soldier jack" on the abdomen. i Company unconscious pess woods, now which he Bpring Mills attended for Academy, {i fEvernl years In 1878 he entered the sop in Franklin Mars Ancaster, and graduated it sat ont and all ¢ i profess. year he became 0 in Janusry, prit of the nion Bemi- at New Berlin, 1850 he and vil and remained was appoint cipal Seminary head of that institution and Central Penna. College until 1902, when it was consolidated with Albright College, at Myerstown. He was then elected to the professorship of Latin langusge and literature and Hebrew in Albright College. In March, 1881, Was the Central Penna. ference of the Evangelical Association having been previously licensed by the East Penna. Conference of that de- In March, 1882, he was Dr. Gobble re- Con- Dr. Gobble is of Hugue- not parentage and has shown much of the heroic devotion to duty inherit ied from that source. Flattering of- | fers of higher salary could not induce {him to forsake a struggling cause in which he saw the beckonings of duty. His abilities in the school room and in | the pulpit are well known. He is in demand on occasions of church rallies and dedications. He was more than burgess of the of New Berlin, where he lived so many years, In addition to his many other duties ie is now serving as superintendent of Evangelical Bunday school at | Myerstown, Pa. The next session of Albright Col- lege will begin Tuesday, September 8, Being secretary of the faculty he is a once flown A LOCALS, Lafayette Webb, who for five years, iending with 1901, filled the office of ’T Dr. Alfred Beirly, upon whom the Heidelberg University of Tiffin, Ohio, has just conferred a doctorate of musie, is a well-known Chicago teacher of tousic who has lived there since 1887 in the practice of his profession and who has been quite successful. Very {early in childhood Dr. Beirly | manifested # striking love and talent | for music and almost as a boy became band wherein his He studied voeal music also aud proficient to and musical societies, and in this Way ductor of merit. in 1580 his Choir now io such extensive use and known as the “popular choir serial.” In other ways he has contributed to the literature and art of music, and his compositions are sald to border on 1,000, Dr. Beirly is a native of Madi- sonburg, and is well known profession ally and socially to the people of srush and Penns Valleys, Dr. Beirly the publication of Journal, Prof. Alfred Beirly was the est of a family of girls and five wig! es, young- children —four boys. Joseph, the old- is al present postmaster at Madi- sonburg ; James died while in service in the civil war; Bolomon lives in Missouri ; and Benjamin died when nine DR. ALFRED BEIRLY. young. Charlotte, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Bmith, of Tusseyville, Isabella, is at present making her home with Prof. E. W. Crawford, Centre Hall ; Margaret, is the wife of Millheim, Michael Beirly, the father, was a saddler by trade, and like many other people, did not give his sons more of au education than that gained attend- ing public school. Up to the age of #ixleen or sevenleen years, young Beirly attended the public schools during the winter months and during the summer months worked on the farm. In the class room he was bright, always having made previous preps- ration. His school days finished, Alfred Beirly, then aged about seventeen years, went to Rebersburg where he learned the shoemaker trade with Samuel Mingle. After completing his training in that live with Mr. Mingle, he spent a number of years working at various places as a journeyman, Among other places he worked at Os- ceola and Lock Haven. While in the latter place he became a noted bari- tone player, and with scarcely any practice was able to play any piece of band music, and add a note or run here and there. Later his love for music led him to forsake his trade, and upon doing so be joined a band of mu- York. While associated with this aside the deadly bullet, many lives, Out on the field of Picketts charge, the Colonel of a Confederate Regiment lay dead, his arms clasping the body of his brother, who was Major of his regiment, This was remarkably sin. gular, How did it happen? What act of brotherly affection and attach- ment thus united these brothers in death, during the wild rush of Pick- etts charging columns ? Gen. Farnsworth, a Pennsylvanian, under rash and impradent orders from Kilpatrick, led a cavalry charge, west of Round Top, July ird, broke through the Confederate lines, His command was annihilated, his horse was shot under him, he was twice wounded, and retreat cut off. But when sume moued to surrender, he drew his pis- tol and shot himself through the head, killing himself instantly. A A TC A. LOCALS, Ex-Sheriff C. Stewart Garrett, of Mifllin county, is critically ill, Regular meeting of Progress Grange in Grange Arcadia, Saturday after. noon, 22d inst, Mrs. Harlacher,! who for the p ast six weeks has been visiting)Mrs. Mary Rearick, in this place, Wednesday re- turned to her home in New Berlin, He was a veteran W. Gross Mingle, the principal mov- | ing spirit of the Howard Creamery | Corporation, for the past week, with | his wife and baby boy, has been spend- | ing the time in Centre Hall. The modern creamery has done much to) lessen the drudgery on the farm. Pri-| or to the introduction of the cream | separator, the farmer's good wife and | her daughter were obliged to handle | the product of the cow, Milking, skimming, churning and butter work- | ing was no small item—in fact it was | a bugbear to the farmer's daughter— | in the routine work on the farm. To- | day much of the milking is done by the male portion of the help on the farm ; the product is hauled direct to the skimming station or creamery, and no attention whatever is required on the part of the farmer's wife, The modern creamery has not only mate rially lessened the house labor on the farm, but it aflords a source of regular monthly income, an income that in many cases equals the value of the staple crops. And this is not all, the modern creamery has had much to do with the great advance in the price of butter, and has made a cash market for the product. less at this period that he laid the foundation work upon which he has | world. After traveling through New York | and other portions of the country, the | subject of this sketch again returned to | Madisonburg, taught music and de voted some time to holding musical { conventions in all parts of the county. Having a desire to further enlarge | his musical ability, Mr. Beirly deter- mined to go west, and finally landed in Chicago, and the success he met | with there is told in the first few para- graphs of this article. Prof. Beirly no doubt inherited his love for music from his mother, who had some talent for that art. When a boy, Mr. Beirly constantly whistled; no matter what his work or mood, he would whistle. This seems to have been the first development of his mu. sical turn, Lf A i, LOCALS. Sunday was a pleasant day and bronght out many young couples in quest of pleasure, D. W. Bradford invested in a De- Laval cream separator, and hereafter will manufacture his lacteal fluid Into butter. 95 ody 1 DEATHS, MARGARET JONES, Mrs. Margaret Jones, widow of Lew- is B, Jones, deceased, died at her home in Lewisburg, Baturday afternoon, after an illness of a long duration, aged seventy-seven years, seven months and ten days, says the Jour nal of recent issue, Mrs. Jones was born near Spring Milis. Early in life she was convert- ed and united with the M. E. church, iu which she was a consistent member until the day of her death, For thirty years she had been a sufferer from the inroads of disease which she bore with greal patience to the end. Her closing hours of life were calm and peaceful On Feb. 14, 1845, became the wife of Lewis E. who preced- ed her to the land beyond, sixteen years ago. Mrs. P. I. Shultz, their only child, remains to mourn her loss. The faneral services were conducted by Rev. R. H. Colburn, her pastor, the residence of her son-in-law. Among those from a distance in at- tendavce were Rev. L. K. Evans, of Pottstown, a brother of deceased: Miss Helen Bmith, Geo. Goodhart and wife of Centre Hill; Dr. D. M. Wolfe, of Spring Mills; Daniel Daup, Potters Mills; Bamuel Reber, Williamsport; Jesse Irvin, Reading; J. Wells Evans, Spring Mills. MRS, she Jones, at dv MISS MARTHA P. WILBON, Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The indications are for a fine crop of potatoes, Grain threshing has commenced in real earnest. R. Porter Odenkirk recently moved into his new home near Lewistown, Put your best foot forward if want to get there with both you f i eel, Bore minor made in the house, Prof. W.T of Philadelphia, is spending his veeation Centre County, te school improvements will interior of the Meyer, in of Miss Emma Foster, Mifinburg, 4 A ’ is the guest of Mrs, Mary J. Odenkirk, in this place, J. A. Garthoff, formerly burn, bas been appointed a mail carrier in Be Over thousand people is what Pawnee Bill's wild west show advertises, Lewisburg Friday afternoon and evening. and Miss Headings, of Reedsville, and Bud. Harper, of Belle- fonte, Bunday were entertained by Miss Helen Hosterman. of ( substitut & sllefonte. one and historie horses Dan Smith basket Valley The tenth annual the Kishacoquillas will be held picnic of Railroad at Gibboney Park on Miss Martha P. Wilson died at her home in this place, after an illness of | three weeks, from an aflection of the | lungs, and other complications due to | old age. Her age was eighty-one years | and six wonths, Twenty-seven years ago Miss Wil- from Clarion county, her! former home, to the home of her De ter. Mrs. Jane W. Love, wife of Judge | W. W. Love, sat Tusseyville. After the death of Judge Love, Miss Wilson with her sister, io Hall, snd since RGD CRIN removed Centre the death of Mrs. Love | has lived alone, At all times, and especially during her sickness, she received every attention from her friends and neighbors, had the highest respect for her. She is survived by the following brothers and sister: J. O. Wilson, Philadelphia ; Willlam Wilson, Falls City, Nebraska ; John O. Wilson, Cos- mopollis, Washington ; Mrs. Marga- ret Sloan, California, The funeral will be held this (Thurs- day) morning, at 9:30 o'clock, services at her late residence, conducted by Dr. W. H. Bchuyler, of the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member. Interment in the Centre Hall cem- elery, three years ago, she who MRS. ELIZABETH 8 GAR BRICK The angel of death entered the Gar- brick home at Coleville Friday morn- ing and took thence the spirit of a kind and loving wife and mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stover Garbrick, wife of Amos Garbrick, says the Daily News. Her death was due to dropsy complicated with various other dis- eases. Nhe had been ill for twenty weeks, The deceased was born in Penns Valley, vear Bpring Mills, and was sixty-eight years old on the 12th of last December. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Stover and she was the daughter of Michael Btover. Bhe was married to Amos Garbrick, who sur- vives her with one daughter, Mrs, Sanyder Tate, She also leaves three brothers and one sister: Michael, of Philipsburg; Uriah, of Houserville; Solomon, of Minnesota Lake, Minnesota; Miss An- nie Stover, of Jefferson county. The funeral took place Bunday af- ternoon, Rev. H. C. Holloway, D. D., officiating, Interment in the Union cemetery. WILLIAM WALBURN, William Walbure was found dead in bed Bunday morning at the home of Ex-Commissioner John D. Decker, near Potters Mills, where he was stay- ing temporarily. His age was about seventy-three years, The decensed was a resident of Gregg township, having lived in the moun- tains south of Bpring Mills. He was not a township charge, but the over- seer of poor of Gregg buried him, Mr. Walburn retired as usual Batur- day night, and when discovered Bun- day morning he was lying in bed ap- parently asleep, but life had fled. MRS, ELIZA PAINTER. Mrs. Eliza Painter died at the home of Wm. H. Lee, near Tusseyville, Monday evening st the advanced age of ninety-three years. Funeral Thurs day, interment in Zion cemetery, Rev, J. F, Bhultz officiating. JOHN NEVIL, John Nevil, Potter township charge, died at the home of Mra. Mary Decker, near Potters Mills, Saturday. Interment took place Monday. His th. D. to Mr. and Mrs. children. Friday went Salona visit Mr. and Mrs. John Emert, ents of Mrs. Stover. They Olie Btover and {to par- returned Rev the + HH. appoint town for Rev. W. K. Foster. he two » pulpits Ww. offers 5 parator, for i Schuyler next inday n Watson Will nents | other words. t ministers ex change (s Ginger rich, es for sale Cream The reasc I HE n selling 18 100 stuall achine Chnrles H. master and ret f Henderson, for ired merchant of Lewis- Monday. He was pentin G. A. R. and N. G. P. and was 62 Years old. mer post- promi- circles Fish Commissioner Meehan has re- ceived a check for §166, being half the fine imposed on three men who were caught killing fish in county, lear Run, this by exploding dynamite. The siding at the station with steel rails during the past two weeks. The old iron rails were not able to bear the weight of the modern freight cars when loaded to full capac- ity. John H. Miller, of Erie, making a remittance the leporter, that he regrets that he will not be able this year to make his annual trip to Centre Hall to attend the encamp- ment. Guy W. Jacobs news boy, having succeeded John Foreman in that role. Guy is prompt in his deliveries, honorable in his deal - ings and a perfect little gentleman in manners, was laid in to states is now the local At a recent fire in Lewistown, the hose carriage on its way to the scene struck Anna BShimp, aged twelve years, daughter of Bert Shimp, form- erly of this place. The child was considerably bruised and injured. Misses Vestie and Edith White last week visited their sister, Mary V, White, at the home of J. W. Conley, east of Centre Hall, The former is from Bellefonte and the latter for the past ten years has been in Phila. delphia. Jas, I. Lytle and wife entertained the following friends last week : Murs, Heirst Cronover and daughter, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Oaks, of Petersburg; Mrs. Etta Ross Glenn and son, of Lemont; Mrs D. H. Weaver and son, of Pine Grove Mills, Levi Noll, a farmer residing near Lewisburg, had a valuable blooded bull killed by lightning during a recent storm. The animal had gotien its head into a wire fence, the wire acting as conductor for the lightning,|passed along the fence and killed the animal. Three hundred and seventy-eight bushels of Fultz wheat-—twenty-seven and one-half bushels per acre—from thirteen and three-quarter acres, is the record for the acid phosphate goods sold by D. W. Bradford, The crop was raised on the editor's patch, west of Centre Hall. The crop followed wheat, potatoes and barley. The MiMinburg Telegraph makes this complimentary mention of Rufus Lee, son of Jacob Lee, of Linden Hall: Rufus Lee, who for the past few months has been working at the Penn. Station in this place, during C. F, Lontz's absence, has been transferred to Jersey Shore since Mr. Lonts's re- turn. Rufus is a steady and indos- trious young man, ieing Jory obliging and sccommodating and will make age was about sixty-five years, one of Pennsy’s Rout wrusted waplogen,
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