Pa. Reserves Descendant's Association Sticky

May
21

Updated 05/20/2013!     Listed below you will find a basic database which is FREE and open to the public. Anyone who has an ancestor who served in the PRVC is more than welcome to join....there are no fees or charges. Your email address will also be made public, unless you state otherwise...then it will not be published. The goal of this association is to unite family with the history of they're ancestors. Our goal is to share information, so if anybody has anything to share...please do so. If you wish to join and be part of this, email kanesrifles@gmail.com and send us: Your name, your Ancestor's name, his Company, Regiment, your permission to publish email address (not mandatory) and a brief description of "how" your related to this individual.

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Dec
28

This website solely relies on the generous donations and contributions from you, our visitors. Whether it be donations made monetarily to keep the site running, or content contributions for the website itself - every bit goes a long way in ensuring this website continues to grow and be educational to everyone.

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New Publication! "Meade's Breakthrough at Fredericksburg" by Don Ernsberger Sticky

Dec
28

Authored by Don Ernsberger
Published October 24, 2012

Today, when we hear or read of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, attention is focused on the countless infantry charges up Marye's Height's into the artillery and rifles of the Confederate Army. Scenes of The Irish Brigade storming the rebel wall and of Richard Kirkland giving water to wounded men in blue dominate the Fredericksburg story. Yet as Francis O'Reilly, Fredericksburg Historian and author has stated for many years, the key to the entire Battle on December 13,1862 was the action downstream where Meade's Pennsylvania Reserves broke, for a short time, the Confederate lines attempting to carry out what many feel to have been Major General Ambrose E. Burnside's intended plan that day. Inspired by this fact and mindful that a book focusing solely on the "Meade Assault" had yet to be researched and written, Don Ernsberger has written the story of Meade's Breakthrough and the Confederate Response.

Now Available on Amazon.com!

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Private Snyder, John Wesley, Company K, 4th Reg't., P.R.V.C.

Mar
25

Researched and written by Douglas Mooney

John Wesley Snyder, or Wesley, as he called himself, was the second of six children by Joseph and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Snyder, and was born in Charlestown Township on May 17, 1839. As a boy he received his basic education working his father’s farm and in the local schools. Later he also attended Oakdale Seminary, in Pughtown, South Coventry Township, and at the West Chester Normal School (now West Chester University).

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Private Haldeman, Samuel M., Company K, 4th Reg't., P.R.V.C.

Dec
27

Researched and written by Douglas Mooney

Very little is known about the early life of Samuel Morton Haldeman. He was born on April 9, 1841, probably in Chester County, although the details of his family are unknown at this time. Newspaper accounts during the war give his place of residence as Kimberton, in East Pikeland Township, and it is possible that he comes from one of the many branches of the Haldeman family that lived in the area at that time.

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Private Anderson, Everett W., Company K, 4th Reg't., P.R.V.C.

Dec
27

Researched and written by Douglas Mooney

Everett Wesley Anderson was born on July 12, 1839 in Schuylkill Township, Chester County. The sixth of nine children born to Joseph Everett and Rebecca M. (nee Workheizer) Anderson, he grew up on the family farm outside Phoenixville and developed a reputation as a passionate horseman and a hard-riding foxhunter. These skills, in particular, would one day serve him well during the Civil War.

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