OBIT: Charles H. FISHER, 1915, of interest in Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Keith Petenbrink. Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _________________________________________ Fisher, Charles H. Charles H. Fisher, one of the oldest merchants of Somerset, who conducted a bookstore there for 36 years, died Wednesday of last week. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Civil War when he was 16 years of age. He was a member of Company B, 46th Regiment. In the second day's fight of the Battle of Chancellorsville Mr. Fisher was left on the field with a bullet wound through both thighs. An ounce musket ball fractured and shattered the bones of the left thigh. He was confined to a hospital in Washington for almost a year and never fully recovered from these wounds. Meyersdale Commercial, Apr. 1, 1915