AREA HISTORY:  Military, Franklin Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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MILITARY – Page 663

The Franklintown Guards was the name of a uniformed military company of fifty volunteer 
members, organized many years ago by Capt. John Hursh.  His successors were Capts. George 
Klugh, George Harbold, and John Klugh.  The last-named gentleman is now a prominent citizen of 
the community, and during the civil war raised a company that entered the Two Hundred and 
Seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and participated in the battles of Hatcher’s Run, 
Fort Steadman and Nottoway River in Virginia.

The old Franklintown Guards was a well drilled company of infantry, which existed for fifteen 
years.