The son of Congressman Wilson & Elizabeth Reilly, in 1860 he was a machinist and blacksmith apprentice living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He purportedly married Nancy C. Sales ca. 1862 {questionable] and fathered Thomas (b. @1870), Minnie (b. @1872 - married Charles E. Fogg), Willie (b. @1879), Helen M. (b. 11/??/87), and Frederick Wilson (b. 11/17/87 but is ten in the 1900 census). Wilson is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Chambersburg but listed as unmarried, hence the questionable marriage date.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age in Chambersburg September 5, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Jeffries Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit September 27, 1862. The event was as uneventful as it was brief.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Chambersburg August 1, 1863, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 4 as a private with Co. L in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania), and promoted to 1st sergeant. The company was assigned duty in the Pennsylvania coal mining region to quell rioting there.
2. Re-enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Scranton, Lackawanna County, January 5, 1864, mustered into federal service there on a date as yet unknown, with Co. L in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to 1st lieutenant effective March 3, 1864. However, he was dismissed the service to date September 12, 1864, reason for and the nature of the discharge as yet unknown, the discovery of which is pending further research at the National Archives. His obituary in the Chambersburg Public Opinion claims he "served with credit until the end of the Civil War," which is clearly untrue.
He worked as a machinist for the railroads during most of his life, living in Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1880 and by 1900 residing in Forth Worth, Texas, where he died at his home.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age in Chambersburg September 5, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Jeffries Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit September 27, 1862. The event was as uneventful as it was brief.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Chambersburg August 1, 1863, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 4 as a private with Co. L in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania), and promoted to 1st sergeant. The company was assigned duty in the Pennsylvania coal mining region to quell rioting there.
2. Re-enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Scranton, Lackawanna County, January 5, 1864, mustered into federal service there on a date as yet unknown, with Co. L in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to 1st lieutenant effective March 3, 1864. However, he was dismissed the service to date September 12, 1864, reason for and the nature of the discharge as yet unknown, the discovery of which is pending further research at the National Archives. His obituary in the Chambersburg Public Opinion claims he "served with credit until the end of the Civil War," which is clearly untrue.
He worked as a machinist for the railroads during most of his life, living in Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1880 and by 1900 residing in Forth Worth, Texas, where he died at his home.
The son of Congressman Wilson & Elizabeth Reilly, in 1860 he was a machinist and blacksmith apprentice living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He purportedly married Nancy C. Sales ca. 1862 {questionable] and fathered Thomas (b. @1870), Minnie (b. @1872 - married Charles E. Fogg), Willie (b. @1879), Helen M. (b. 11/??/87), and Frederick Wilson (b. 11/17/87 but is ten in the 1900 census). Wilson is in the 1863-65 draft registration still residing in Chambersburg but listed as unmarried, hence the questionable marriage date.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age in Chambersburg September 5, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Jeffries Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit September 27, 1862. The event was as uneventful as it was brief.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Chambersburg August 1, 1863, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 4 as a private with Co. L in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania), and promoted to 1st sergeant. The company was assigned duty in the Pennsylvania coal mining region to quell rioting there.
2. Re-enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Scranton, Lackawanna County, January 5, 1864, mustered into federal service there on a date as yet unknown, with Co. L in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to 1st lieutenant effective March 3, 1864. However, he was dismissed the service to date September 12, 1864, reason for and the nature of the discharge as yet unknown, the discovery of which is pending further research at the National Archives. His obituary in the Chambersburg Public Opinion claims he "served with credit until the end of the Civil War," which is clearly untrue.
He worked as a machinist for the railroads during most of his life, living in Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1880 and by 1900 residing in Forth Worth, Texas, where he died at his home.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unrecorded age in Chambersburg September 5, 1862, mustered into state service that day as a private with Jeffries Independent Militia Company, and honorably discharged with the unit September 27, 1862. The event was as uneventful as it was brief.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Chambersburg August 1, 1863, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 4 as a private with Co. L in the six-month organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (182nd Pennsylvania), and promoted to 1st sergeant. The company was assigned duty in the Pennsylvania coal mining region to quell rioting there.
2. Re-enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Scranton, Lackawanna County, January 5, 1864, mustered into federal service there on a date as yet unknown, with Co. L in the three-year organization of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, and promoted to 1st lieutenant effective March 3, 1864. However, he was dismissed the service to date September 12, 1864, reason for and the nature of the discharge as yet unknown, the discovery of which is pending further research at the National Archives. His obituary in the Chambersburg Public Opinion claims he "served with credit until the end of the Civil War," which is clearly untrue.
He worked as a machinist for the railroads during most of his life, living in Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1880 and by 1900 residing in Forth Worth, Texas, where he died at his home.
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