Category: USCT Soldiers

Richard Henry Wilson was born in Martinsburg, Virginia in 1829 before moving to Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a child. During the Civil War, Wilson bravely served the Union Army under Southard’s Independent Company, a USCT unit which organized at Camp William Penn and operated between July 28, 1864, and November 14, 18641. Southard’s Independent was an…

George Washington Price was born on March 28, 1840, in Pennsylvania. It is likely that he was born in the Harrisburg area before moving to Lewisburg as an adult. Census records state that at least one of his parents was born in Virginia, though specifics are unclear.1 On February 21, 1862, George enlisted in the…

Brady Thompson was born in Pennsylvania on December 25, 1841. A census in the year 1860 lists 18 year old Brady as a resident of the Slear household, a white family consisting of husband and wife Elizabeth Smith and Charles Slear, as well as their ten children.1 Because of Pennsylvania’s Gradual Abolition Act, it is…

At the time of the Civil War, brothers Barton, Milton, and William Airey resided in Union County. All three brothers enlisted in the USCT; Both Barton and Milton died during their service. The Veteran’s Administration mistook Milton for his brother William, leaving Milton without a Civil War headstone until 2018. Once William died and was…