Children:
One died in infancy
David Leslie Keifer
John Criswell Keifer
140th Pennsylvania Vol. Infantry
Company H
Enlisted February 22, 1864
Henry Keifer, David Keifer's brother, participated in the battles at Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania (including the assault at the Bloody Angle), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and probably the beginning of Petersburg. He had a thumb shot off while standing guard duty sometime in late June or early July, 1864. He was given a furlough and returned to his family in Pennsylvania. He died of dysentery two weeks later, on July 14, 1864 aged 34.
Ref. E - Will Book F, page 237; Register's Docket 3, page 203. I - Vol 1. p. 571. P page 430, K - page 488.
One died in infancy
David Leslie Keifer
John Criswell Keifer
140th Pennsylvania Vol. Infantry
Company H
Enlisted February 22, 1864
Henry Keifer, David Keifer's brother, participated in the battles at Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania (including the assault at the Bloody Angle), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and probably the beginning of Petersburg. He had a thumb shot off while standing guard duty sometime in late June or early July, 1864. He was given a furlough and returned to his family in Pennsylvania. He died of dysentery two weeks later, on July 14, 1864 aged 34.
Ref. E - Will Book F, page 237; Register's Docket 3, page 203. I - Vol 1. p. 571. P page 430, K - page 488.
Children:
One died in infancy
David Leslie Keifer
John Criswell Keifer
140th Pennsylvania Vol. Infantry
Company H
Enlisted February 22, 1864
Henry Keifer, David Keifer's brother, participated in the battles at Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania (including the assault at the Bloody Angle), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and probably the beginning of Petersburg. He had a thumb shot off while standing guard duty sometime in late June or early July, 1864. He was given a furlough and returned to his family in Pennsylvania. He died of dysentery two weeks later, on July 14, 1864 aged 34.
Ref. E - Will Book F, page 237; Register's Docket 3, page 203. I - Vol 1. p. 571. P page 430, K - page 488.
One died in infancy
David Leslie Keifer
John Criswell Keifer
140th Pennsylvania Vol. Infantry
Company H
Enlisted February 22, 1864
Henry Keifer, David Keifer's brother, participated in the battles at Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania (including the assault at the Bloody Angle), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and probably the beginning of Petersburg. He had a thumb shot off while standing guard duty sometime in late June or early July, 1864. He was given a furlough and returned to his family in Pennsylvania. He died of dysentery two weeks later, on July 14, 1864 aged 34.
Ref. E - Will Book F, page 237; Register's Docket 3, page 203. I - Vol 1. p. 571. P page 430, K - page 488.
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Henry H. Keifer
Died
July 14, 1864
In the 35 year
of his age
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