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Thirteenth Cavalry, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment , Company G

Recruited in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

13th Cavalry, 117th PA Regiment Co. G

DIGEST OF JOHN F.MEGINNESS'
HISTORY OF LYCOMING COUNTY

	Jersey shore contributed one company to 117th regiment of 13th
Cavalry -- it participated in invasion of North Carolina -- George H.Jones,
Musician early in Civil War, rose to command company in 194th Infantry.

	The Borough of Jersey Shore and vicinity contributed one company
to the 117th Regiment of the 13th Pa. Cavalry.  It was Company G, commanded 
first by  Captain Alexander H. McHenry, later by Captain Robert Brown.
	It served until the winter of 1864-65 in the Army of the Potomac and
was, thereafter, under the command of Col. Marvin Kirwin.  He took the
regiment to North Carolina where it opened and maintained communications
between Gen. Scofield and Gen. Sherman.

	THE FLAG OF THE 117TH WAS THE FIRST TO BE RAISED
	BY UNION troops ABOVE THE CONFEDERATE STATE
	HOUSE AT RALIEGH, NORTH CAROLINA.

COUNTY MEN IN THE REGIMENT:

RANK @ NAME 			BURIAL LOCATION               	BORN-DIED
Captain Alexander H. McHenry--------- Jersey Shore --------------- 1810-1892
Captain Robert Brown
1st Lieutenant. Aquilla Breach
1st Lieutenant. John R. Smith
2nd Lieutenant James M. Antes
1st sgts. Donaldson Farley
1st Sgts. Caleb McKinney
Sgts:
Stephen Bilby
Andrew C. Brown
Ebenezer White ----------------------Jersey Shore ---------------- 1838-1906			
C.W. Pepperman
Jacob Fisher
Abel Eck
George W. Fisher
Joseph Antes
Charles O'Conner
Curtis Eldridge
Samuel English
Corps:
Oscar Wilkins
Lewis Phlegar
G.A. Aughenbaugh
Thomas Cronon
William Zinck
Jacob Gear ----------------------- Wmspt. Wildwood------------------
Eli Watts
Isaac Wheeland
Frank McMahon
William Gephart
Henry Heacock
Samuel Metzger
Nicholas Shide
James Guthrie
Joseph Casselberry
Pvts:
M.L. Abernatha
Nicholas Aney
James Burkholder
John Bower
Fred Bogar
William Bourne
Samuel Cable
David Craft
John Cramer
John Casher
William Chestney
Simon P. Chestney
Alex Coudrick
David Cochran
Daniel Curts
Albert Clark
Peter Carney
Fredrick Carroll
John Dunlap
Amos Dieffendorfer
Robert Davidson
Cyrus Detterline
John Disbrow
George W. Esserman
Elias Etters
William Edwards
Jacob Eisner
John Eiswort
P.F.W. Fisher
Uriah Fisher --------------------------- Jersey Shore ----------------------
William Fisher
David Fulton
P.C.W. Freedley
John Ford
Charles Foster
George Guthrie
Thomas Guthrie 
Daniel Gephart ---------------------- Collomsville-------------------1838-1892
John Gross
Willet Gerhart
William Gritner ---------------------- Collomsville ------------------     -1908
Charles Given
John Gleason
Phillip Haines
Newton Hallet
Adam Huffman
Frank Hussell
Joseph Guthrie
Thompson W. Hardy
Samuel E. Keller
George W. Knipple
James W. Keller
Jacob Kolz
George Keen
Oliver W. Longan
Robert Lemison
Michael Myers
Wilson Mace
Thomas Martin
James Martin
John Meaney
George Musser
James McNerlin
Martin McDonald
William McElhatton
William McCormick
John A. McEwen
Charles Nickerson
James Norris
Jeremiah Potts
Warren Phelps
Alfred Phelps
Scott Price
John Potter ---------------------------- Jersey Shore ----------------- 1831-1908
Monroe Pifer
Barney Phillips
John Palmer
John Riley
Robert Roe
Phillip Rinn
Hiram Rose
Edward H. Russell
Andrew Rabe
Christian Rinehart
James Russell
Daniel Smith
Peter Stauffer
Calvin Sherrer
H.H. Sweetwood
John Shaver
George Shettle
Isaac Shadle
Peter Shaw
William Stapleton
Henry Thomas
Jacob Umstead
David Ulmer
William VanViliet
Franklin Weaver
Lemuel Weast
John R. Wilson 
Elias W. Zearfuss						                                             

117th Regiment