The data appearing on the tombstone in the photo is highly suspect.
The company register for Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry, lists four men named Speiglemoyer or similar spelling, but their first and middle names were William A. (d. Nov 1, 1864), William H. (d. Sep 6, 1901), Jacob H. (applied for a disability pension in 1880), and Jesse (d. Nov 1864 at City Point, Virginia, with his widow applying for a pension dated January 1865). Clearly, none of those names matches the alleged initials for the subject of this post.
The data on the tombstone obviously came from the following sources. The volunteer death register lists a G. A. Spieglemoyer of Co. I, 181st [sic] Pennsylvania Infantry, who died from typhoid fever at a Harrisburg military hospital on June 2, 1865. There is also cemetery internment control form that documents that burial in Harrisburg for a G. A. Speiglemoire, but again lists him as a member of Co. I, 181st Pennsylvania Infantry. While this would appear to reference the subject of this post, problem is that the 181st Pennsylvania Infantry did not exist. The 181st Pennsylvania was the line number of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and there is no Speiglemoire or any similar spelling in either of that regiment's two Co. I registers. Even assuming a simple clerical error with the regiment's name, the G. A. Speilemoire's in these two documents matches nothing found in the four men in 184th Pennsylvania Co. I register. Given that he had discharged prior to entering the hospital at Harrisburg, it is very unlikely his name would have been dropped from the muster roll.
Who G. (or C.) A. Speiglemoire was is a mystery, but there is at yet no sound evidence that he had been a member of Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Addendum: The comment in the post that this man died as a result of wounds during the battle of Gettysburg appears to have no merit. Whether or not he was wounded there is unknown at this time, but the volunteer death register makes it clear that he had been discharged and had fallen ill on his way home, leading to his hospitalization in Harrisburg.
The company register for Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry, lists four men named Speiglemoyer or similar spelling, but their first and middle names were William A. (d. Nov 1, 1864), William H. (d. Sep 6, 1901), Jacob H. (applied for a disability pension in 1880), and Jesse (d. Nov 1864 at City Point, Virginia, with his widow applying for a pension dated January 1865). Clearly, none of those names matches the alleged initials for the subject of this post.
The data on the tombstone obviously came from the following sources. The volunteer death register lists a G. A. Spieglemoyer of Co. I, 181st [sic] Pennsylvania Infantry, who died from typhoid fever at a Harrisburg military hospital on June 2, 1865. There is also cemetery internment control form that documents that burial in Harrisburg for a G. A. Speiglemoire, but again lists him as a member of Co. I, 181st Pennsylvania Infantry. While this would appear to reference the subject of this post, problem is that the 181st Pennsylvania Infantry did not exist. The 181st Pennsylvania was the line number of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and there is no Speiglemoire or any similar spelling in either of that regiment's two Co. I registers. Even assuming a simple clerical error with the regiment's name, the G. A. Speilemoire's in these two documents matches nothing found in the four men in 184th Pennsylvania Co. I register. Given that he had discharged prior to entering the hospital at Harrisburg, it is very unlikely his name would have been dropped from the muster roll.
Who G. (or C.) A. Speiglemoire was is a mystery, but there is at yet no sound evidence that he had been a member of Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Addendum: The comment in the post that this man died as a result of wounds during the battle of Gettysburg appears to have no merit. Whether or not he was wounded there is unknown at this time, but the volunteer death register makes it clear that he had been discharged and had fallen ill on his way home, leading to his hospitalization in Harrisburg.
The data appearing on the tombstone in the photo is highly suspect.
The company register for Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry, lists four men named Speiglemoyer or similar spelling, but their first and middle names were William A. (d. Nov 1, 1864), William H. (d. Sep 6, 1901), Jacob H. (applied for a disability pension in 1880), and Jesse (d. Nov 1864 at City Point, Virginia, with his widow applying for a pension dated January 1865). Clearly, none of those names matches the alleged initials for the subject of this post.
The data on the tombstone obviously came from the following sources. The volunteer death register lists a G. A. Spieglemoyer of Co. I, 181st [sic] Pennsylvania Infantry, who died from typhoid fever at a Harrisburg military hospital on June 2, 1865. There is also cemetery internment control form that documents that burial in Harrisburg for a G. A. Speiglemoire, but again lists him as a member of Co. I, 181st Pennsylvania Infantry. While this would appear to reference the subject of this post, problem is that the 181st Pennsylvania Infantry did not exist. The 181st Pennsylvania was the line number of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and there is no Speiglemoire or any similar spelling in either of that regiment's two Co. I registers. Even assuming a simple clerical error with the regiment's name, the G. A. Speilemoire's in these two documents matches nothing found in the four men in 184th Pennsylvania Co. I register. Given that he had discharged prior to entering the hospital at Harrisburg, it is very unlikely his name would have been dropped from the muster roll.
Who G. (or C.) A. Speiglemoire was is a mystery, but there is at yet no sound evidence that he had been a member of Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Addendum: The comment in the post that this man died as a result of wounds during the battle of Gettysburg appears to have no merit. Whether or not he was wounded there is unknown at this time, but the volunteer death register makes it clear that he had been discharged and had fallen ill on his way home, leading to his hospitalization in Harrisburg.
The company register for Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry, lists four men named Speiglemoyer or similar spelling, but their first and middle names were William A. (d. Nov 1, 1864), William H. (d. Sep 6, 1901), Jacob H. (applied for a disability pension in 1880), and Jesse (d. Nov 1864 at City Point, Virginia, with his widow applying for a pension dated January 1865). Clearly, none of those names matches the alleged initials for the subject of this post.
The data on the tombstone obviously came from the following sources. The volunteer death register lists a G. A. Spieglemoyer of Co. I, 181st [sic] Pennsylvania Infantry, who died from typhoid fever at a Harrisburg military hospital on June 2, 1865. There is also cemetery internment control form that documents that burial in Harrisburg for a G. A. Speiglemoire, but again lists him as a member of Co. I, 181st Pennsylvania Infantry. While this would appear to reference the subject of this post, problem is that the 181st Pennsylvania Infantry did not exist. The 181st Pennsylvania was the line number of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and there is no Speiglemoire or any similar spelling in either of that regiment's two Co. I registers. Even assuming a simple clerical error with the regiment's name, the G. A. Speilemoire's in these two documents matches nothing found in the four men in 184th Pennsylvania Co. I register. Given that he had discharged prior to entering the hospital at Harrisburg, it is very unlikely his name would have been dropped from the muster roll.
Who G. (or C.) A. Speiglemoire was is a mystery, but there is at yet no sound evidence that he had been a member of Co. I, 184th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Addendum: The comment in the post that this man died as a result of wounds during the battle of Gettysburg appears to have no merit. Whether or not he was wounded there is unknown at this time, but the volunteer death register makes it clear that he had been discharged and had fallen ill on his way home, leading to his hospitalization in Harrisburg.
Inscription
Co. I, 184 Pa Inf
Gravesite Details
Gettysburg Casualty taken to Harrisburg for treatment but died there. [questionable - see bio]
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