BIO: William SERGEANT, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 250-251. 
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  SERGEANT, WILLIAM, son of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished jurist 
of Pennsylvania, was born 1829, in the city of Philadelphia.  He 
graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied law under Benjamin 
Gerhard, and admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1850; he held a 
prominent position at the bar, and was for a time a representative in 
the State Legislature.  On the breaking out of the Rebellion he was 
commissioned captain of the Twelfth infantry, U.S.A.; afterwards 
colonel of the Two Hundred and Tenth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers; 
on March 31, 1865, he was wounded in his thigh by a ball while 
resisting an attack of the enemy on the White Oak road, near the 
Boynton plank-road, in front of Petersburg, Va., from which he died on 
board of the hospital boat, while on his way home, April 11, 1865; he 
was a gentleman of marked ability and a gallant officer.  Colonel 
Sergeant married, November 8, 1853, Eliza Lawrence Espy, who survives, 
daughter of James Snodgrass Espy and his wife Mary H. Pollard.  Their 
children sere Mary, Margaretta, married John C. Kunkel, Jr., John, died 
in infancy, Sarah Haly, and Eliza, married William Heyward Meyers.