The son of Peter & Salome (Troxell) Sheads, he married Mary Miller October 5, 1847, and fathered William (b. 1843), Sarah S. (b. @1853), Alice (b. 1856), Peter A. (b. 1858), Mary (b. 1860 - married R. L. Spangler), Murray M. (b. 1863), Rufus C. (b. 08/09/67), and John L. (b. 1870). In 1860, he was a mason living in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 9, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 209th Pennsylvania Infantry. On November 13, 1864, he was detached to duty with the ambulance corps and became noticeably ill with "varicocele and enlargement of heart," both deemed to be pre-existing conditions. He was then detached as a cattle guard February 24, 1865, but his condition worsened despite the light duty. An examining surgeon remarked that the army should have rejected Sheads because he was "not fit for service in the field" from the first day of his enlistment. As a result, he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate March 20, 1865. Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers spells his last name "Sheats."
*Thank you to contributor Dennis Brandt for this information.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 9, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 209th Pennsylvania Infantry. On November 13, 1864, he was detached to duty with the ambulance corps and became noticeably ill with "varicocele and enlargement of heart," both deemed to be pre-existing conditions. He was then detached as a cattle guard February 24, 1865, but his condition worsened despite the light duty. An examining surgeon remarked that the army should have rejected Sheads because he was "not fit for service in the field" from the first day of his enlistment. As a result, he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate March 20, 1865. Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers spells his last name "Sheats."
*Thank you to contributor Dennis Brandt for this information.
The son of Peter & Salome (Troxell) Sheads, he married Mary Miller October 5, 1847, and fathered William (b. 1843), Sarah S. (b. @1853), Alice (b. 1856), Peter A. (b. 1858), Mary (b. 1860 - married R. L. Spangler), Murray M. (b. 1863), Rufus C. (b. 08/09/67), and John L. (b. 1870). In 1860, he was a mason living in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 9, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 209th Pennsylvania Infantry. On November 13, 1864, he was detached to duty with the ambulance corps and became noticeably ill with "varicocele and enlargement of heart," both deemed to be pre-existing conditions. He was then detached as a cattle guard February 24, 1865, but his condition worsened despite the light duty. An examining surgeon remarked that the army should have rejected Sheads because he was "not fit for service in the field" from the first day of his enlistment. As a result, he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate March 20, 1865. Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers spells his last name "Sheats."
*Thank you to contributor Dennis Brandt for this information.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 9, 1864, as a private with Co. K, 209th Pennsylvania Infantry. On November 13, 1864, he was detached to duty with the ambulance corps and became noticeably ill with "varicocele and enlargement of heart," both deemed to be pre-existing conditions. He was then detached as a cattle guard February 24, 1865, but his condition worsened despite the light duty. An examining surgeon remarked that the army should have rejected Sheads because he was "not fit for service in the field" from the first day of his enlistment. As a result, he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate March 20, 1865. Bates History of Pennsylvania Volunteers spells his last name "Sheats."
*Thank you to contributor Dennis Brandt for this information.
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