Military: CWR: Herring, Peter of interest in Somerset County, PA

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Herring, Peter

* Native of Somerset Co. Pa. 
* Duty Sergeant Co. C 2nd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade 
* Enlisted Aug. 27, 1861 
* Died July 24, 1862 of starvation in Andersonville Prison 
* Captured between New Creek and Petersburg, Va. while defending a wagon train 
from Confederate raiders 
* Taken to Andersonville Prison 
* Promoted from Corporal to Sergeant 
* Widow Pension: Applied Sept. 13, 1865, Application #109229, Certificate 
#77826; Minor Pension: Application #266628, Certificate #200406

SOURCE:
* Soldiers Monument, Somerset Courthouse, Somerset, Somerset Co. Pa. [Lists him 
as killed in action] 
* Meyersdale Commercial Oct. 8, 1894 
* Soldiers and Sailors System 
* Maryland Dead at Andersonville 
* Footnote.com