Lewis R. Stahlman [Private, Co. I, 148th PA] —September 1, 1862; captured; discharged by General Order May 24, 1865; lives Brookville, Pennsylvania.
“Lewis R. Stahlman was mustered for service with the company and continued with it regularly till two or three days after the battle of Gettysburg, when he was taken down with intermittent fever. He took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the former battle he was one of a reconnoitering party sent out to discover the position of the enemy and they pressed forward till shot at by a sharpshooter, whose ball struck a tree close by them, they coolly taking time to get the ball, and in the battle of Gettysburg his tin cup was pierced through with a minie ball while engaged in the terrible conflict in the wheat field. He taking sick about July 6th as above stated, being then with the company near Hagerstown, Maryland, was taken to Chester Hospital near Philadelphia, where he lay about two months when he was transferred to McClellan Hospital, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he stayed till March, 1864, when he rejoined the Regiment at Brandy Station.
He was with the company in all the engagements of the Wilderness, was in the charges at Spotsylvania, Po River, North Anna, etc. Was captured near Petersburg June 22, 1864, with Philip Boyer, Alonzo Fowler, of our company, and taken together, first to Libby Prison in Richmond, where they were kept about one week, and then to Belle Island a week or so, and thence to Andersonville, toward which they marched on foot about seventy miles to Danville, from whence they were taken in the cars to that horrible place, Andersonville.
Was there three months when rumors came that Sherman was about to move in that direction and they were shipped to a place called Milton, ninety miles or so from the former place. In November an order was issued at headquarters to parole the sick and he being one of them got his parole November 25th, and was sent by Fortress Monroe to Parole Camp, Maryland. Was then real sick and was discharged from there by General Orders, May 24, 1865.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
“Lewis R. Stahlman was mustered for service with the company and continued with it regularly till two or three days after the battle of Gettysburg, when he was taken down with intermittent fever. He took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the former battle he was one of a reconnoitering party sent out to discover the position of the enemy and they pressed forward till shot at by a sharpshooter, whose ball struck a tree close by them, they coolly taking time to get the ball, and in the battle of Gettysburg his tin cup was pierced through with a minie ball while engaged in the terrible conflict in the wheat field. He taking sick about July 6th as above stated, being then with the company near Hagerstown, Maryland, was taken to Chester Hospital near Philadelphia, where he lay about two months when he was transferred to McClellan Hospital, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he stayed till March, 1864, when he rejoined the Regiment at Brandy Station.
He was with the company in all the engagements of the Wilderness, was in the charges at Spotsylvania, Po River, North Anna, etc. Was captured near Petersburg June 22, 1864, with Philip Boyer, Alonzo Fowler, of our company, and taken together, first to Libby Prison in Richmond, where they were kept about one week, and then to Belle Island a week or so, and thence to Andersonville, toward which they marched on foot about seventy miles to Danville, from whence they were taken in the cars to that horrible place, Andersonville.
Was there three months when rumors came that Sherman was about to move in that direction and they were shipped to a place called Milton, ninety miles or so from the former place. In November an order was issued at headquarters to parole the sick and he being one of them got his parole November 25th, and was sent by Fortress Monroe to Parole Camp, Maryland. Was then real sick and was discharged from there by General Orders, May 24, 1865.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Lewis R. Stahlman [Private, Co. I, 148th PA] —September 1, 1862; captured; discharged by General Order May 24, 1865; lives Brookville, Pennsylvania.
“Lewis R. Stahlman was mustered for service with the company and continued with it regularly till two or three days after the battle of Gettysburg, when he was taken down with intermittent fever. He took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the former battle he was one of a reconnoitering party sent out to discover the position of the enemy and they pressed forward till shot at by a sharpshooter, whose ball struck a tree close by them, they coolly taking time to get the ball, and in the battle of Gettysburg his tin cup was pierced through with a minie ball while engaged in the terrible conflict in the wheat field. He taking sick about July 6th as above stated, being then with the company near Hagerstown, Maryland, was taken to Chester Hospital near Philadelphia, where he lay about two months when he was transferred to McClellan Hospital, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he stayed till March, 1864, when he rejoined the Regiment at Brandy Station.
He was with the company in all the engagements of the Wilderness, was in the charges at Spotsylvania, Po River, North Anna, etc. Was captured near Petersburg June 22, 1864, with Philip Boyer, Alonzo Fowler, of our company, and taken together, first to Libby Prison in Richmond, where they were kept about one week, and then to Belle Island a week or so, and thence to Andersonville, toward which they marched on foot about seventy miles to Danville, from whence they were taken in the cars to that horrible place, Andersonville.
Was there three months when rumors came that Sherman was about to move in that direction and they were shipped to a place called Milton, ninety miles or so from the former place. In November an order was issued at headquarters to parole the sick and he being one of them got his parole November 25th, and was sent by Fortress Monroe to Parole Camp, Maryland. Was then real sick and was discharged from there by General Orders, May 24, 1865.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
“Lewis R. Stahlman was mustered for service with the company and continued with it regularly till two or three days after the battle of Gettysburg, when he was taken down with intermittent fever. He took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the former battle he was one of a reconnoitering party sent out to discover the position of the enemy and they pressed forward till shot at by a sharpshooter, whose ball struck a tree close by them, they coolly taking time to get the ball, and in the battle of Gettysburg his tin cup was pierced through with a minie ball while engaged in the terrible conflict in the wheat field. He taking sick about July 6th as above stated, being then with the company near Hagerstown, Maryland, was taken to Chester Hospital near Philadelphia, where he lay about two months when he was transferred to McClellan Hospital, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he stayed till March, 1864, when he rejoined the Regiment at Brandy Station.
He was with the company in all the engagements of the Wilderness, was in the charges at Spotsylvania, Po River, North Anna, etc. Was captured near Petersburg June 22, 1864, with Philip Boyer, Alonzo Fowler, of our company, and taken together, first to Libby Prison in Richmond, where they were kept about one week, and then to Belle Island a week or so, and thence to Andersonville, toward which they marched on foot about seventy miles to Danville, from whence they were taken in the cars to that horrible place, Andersonville.
Was there three months when rumors came that Sherman was about to move in that direction and they were shipped to a place called Milton, ninety miles or so from the former place. In November an order was issued at headquarters to parole the sick and he being one of them got his parole November 25th, and was sent by Fortress Monroe to Parole Camp, Maryland. Was then real sick and was discharged from there by General Orders, May 24, 1865.”
From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
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