BIO:  Jacob C. PENSYL, Butler Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 385

JACOB C. PENSYL, shoe-maker, P.O. Guernsey, was born in this county in 1842, and 
is a son of Henry Pensyl, also a native of this county, and now deceased.  Jacob 
C. learned the shoe-maker’s trade early in life.  November 6, 1861, he enlisted 
in Company K, One Hundred and First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.  In the 
spring of 1862 he was at the front in the Army of the Potomac, and participated 
in the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks.  After the evacuation of 
Harrison’s Landing the regiment was detached from the Army of the Potomac, and 
took part in the battle of Blackwater, Va., where, Mr. Pensyl say, the rebels 
used guns that, when discharged, made no report.  The regiment was next sent to 
New Berne, N. C., and was afterward in the battles of Kingston and Plymouth, N. 
C., where Mr. Pensyl was captured, in April, 1864, and confined in Andersonville 
Prison four months; then was removed to Charleston, where he was confined six 
weeks, and, after remaining a prisoner seven weeks more, in Florence, was 
paroled and returned home.  When exchanged he returned to his regiment and did 
duty in the hospital, and received his discharge in July, 1865.  After his 
return home he suffered for a long time from ill health, being unable to help 
himself for months.  In 1868 he married Isabella Peters, who has borne him one 
child, C. Irene.  Mr. Pensyl owns eight acres of well improved land; is a member 
of the United Brethren Church, and belongs to Sergt. T. F. Elden Post, No. 507.  
He votes the Republican ticket.