Private Peter Davis, a laborer from West Chester enlisted at age 22 on Sept. 16, 1861, for 3 yrs.; in Company E, 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry . He died of typhoid fever at Hilton Head, S. C, on Aug. 12, 1862.
During the month of August 1862, at Hilton Head, the following deaths occurred in the Regiment: Corp. Israel Oat, Company G, August 10, of congestion of the brain; Privates PETER DAVIS, Company E, on the 12th, of typhoid fever; Charles Riley, Company E, on the 13th, of acute diarrhea; Ezekiel Walker, Company C, on the 21st, of typhoid dysentery. These men were buried in the cemetery outside the entrenchments.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
During the month of August 1862, at Hilton Head, the following deaths occurred in the Regiment: Corp. Israel Oat, Company G, August 10, of congestion of the brain; Privates PETER DAVIS, Company E, on the 12th, of typhoid fever; Charles Riley, Company E, on the 13th, of acute diarrhea; Ezekiel Walker, Company C, on the 21st, of typhoid dysentery. These men were buried in the cemetery outside the entrenchments.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
Private Peter Davis, a laborer from West Chester enlisted at age 22 on Sept. 16, 1861, for 3 yrs.; in Company E, 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry . He died of typhoid fever at Hilton Head, S. C, on Aug. 12, 1862.
During the month of August 1862, at Hilton Head, the following deaths occurred in the Regiment: Corp. Israel Oat, Company G, August 10, of congestion of the brain; Privates PETER DAVIS, Company E, on the 12th, of typhoid fever; Charles Riley, Company E, on the 13th, of acute diarrhea; Ezekiel Walker, Company C, on the 21st, of typhoid dysentery. These men were buried in the cemetery outside the entrenchments.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
During the month of August 1862, at Hilton Head, the following deaths occurred in the Regiment: Corp. Israel Oat, Company G, August 10, of congestion of the brain; Privates PETER DAVIS, Company E, on the 12th, of typhoid fever; Charles Riley, Company E, on the 13th, of acute diarrhea; Ezekiel Walker, Company C, on the 21st, of typhoid dysentery. These men were buried in the cemetery outside the entrenchments.
From the "History of the Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry", By Isaiah Price.
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