AREA HISTORY:  Patriotic Dead, Newberry 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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PATRIOTIC DEAD – Page 631

It is a difficult task, as it is a sad one, to chronicle all the names of the 
patriotic dead of Newberry and Fairview, “who yielded up their lives that this 
nation might live” on many a hard fought battle field, or languished in prison 
during the civil war.  Among them were the following:  Gardner Bryan came home 
almost entirely emaciated, after suffering many months in a Confederate prison, and 
died soon after.  Sanford Fisher, a youth of seventeen, while leading the advance 
line of the Ninety-third Regiment, fell, from a flesh wound, in the battle of Fair 
Oaks.  Mortification followed and he died in the hospital.  His brother, Sergt. John 
Fisher, of the same regiment, was pierced through the heart by the well-directed aim 
of a Confederate sharpshooter, while leading on a squad of men, in an open plain, 
during a lull in the famous battle of the Wilderness.  He had served three years 
almost to the day, and had previously engaged in about twenty battles and 
skirmishes.  Ross Krieger died in Andersonville prison.  Harman Miller, William 
Palmer and Samuel May were killed in the battle of Antietam, in less than a month 
after enlistment, in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Regiment, nine 
months’ men.  William Shanly, of Lewisberry, died of disease contracted in burying 
the dead after battle.  Lyman Brubaker was lost in the battle of Fredericksburg, and 
his is one of the many “unknown” graves.  William Walters was wounded, and died 
afterward in a Philadelphia hospital.  Lieut. Arnold, of Capt. Bailey’s company, of 
the Seventh Pennsylvania Reserves, fell while gallantly leading the van in battle.  
His body was carried heroically in the retreat by Henry Gise and George H. Writer, 
two brave comrades in arms.  Being hard pressed by the Confederate advance, they 
were compelled to drop the body, and it fell into the hands of the enemy.  The name 
of others killed are:  John Anthony and Chester Krall, of the One Hundred and 
Thirtieth Regiment; Thompson Nichols, Elias Fissell, William Grove and John 
Nicholas.  Hugh Machlin was accidentally killed at Fort Sumter, while firing a 
salute, celebrating the close of the war.