The son of Abraham & Esther (Ammond) Eberhart, he married Mary Elizabeth Gerry December 12, 1854, and fathered James Gerry (b. 07/27/56) and Zelia Clotilda (b. 01/04/60). He brought his family to Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania, in 1855 and in 1860 was a dentist and minister living there. He stood 5' 11" tall and had hazel eyes. (Hair color was reported only after he had turned gray, but his photo displays dark hair.)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-six in camp of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry at Winchester, Virginia, on February 13, 1863, and mustered into federal service that same day as regimental chaplain, doubling as regimental dentist. Captured at the battle of Carter's Woods (Stephenson's Depot) on June 15, 1863, he was ultimately incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, where he fell ill and nearly died. Following parole, he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, and received extended leave from October 10, 1863, through April 22, 1864. Despite not having finished his term of service, he honorably discharged in York with the original three-year enlistees October 13, 1864, his physical infirmities no doubt a factor. He later wrote a six-part account of his experiences as a captive.
Mary died in 1867, and he married Warnetta I. Benton January 11, 1872, in Shrewsbury, fathering Winona S. (b. 10/28/72) and David Cleon (b. 12/01/74). Cause of his death is listed simply as "old age."
OBITUARY: Gettysburg Times December 22, 1913:
The REV. DAVID C. EBERHART, chaplain of the Eighty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, former member of the state legislature,, and known widely among Adams County veterans as "the fighting chaplain", died at his home in Shrewsbury on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. He was eighty-seven years old.
The Rev. Mr. Eberhart, who was one of the best known citizens of Shrewsbury township, had been sick for a long time and had been in a feeble condition for several years. For the last two years he had been blind.
Chaplain Eberhart was discharged with his regiment [false; see above] on Oct. 13, 1864, and has since resided in Shrewsbury. Until infirmities compelled him to retire he was engaged in the practice of dentistry and was active in the work of the Methodist church and Sunday school. Chaplain Eberhart was dearly beloved by the men of the Eighty-seventh regiment and in his later years was frequently visited by them at his home in Shrewsbury.
With his death there remain but two commissioned officers of the field and staff of the regiment still living, one of whom is his colonel, John W. Schall, of Norristown, and David F. McKinney of Lime Kiln, Md., the surgeon. Funeral in Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-six in camp of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry at Winchester, Virginia, on February 13, 1863, and mustered into federal service that same day as regimental chaplain, doubling as regimental dentist. Captured at the battle of Carter's Woods (Stephenson's Depot) on June 15, 1863, he was ultimately incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, where he fell ill and nearly died. Following parole, he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, and received extended leave from October 10, 1863, through April 22, 1864. Despite not having finished his term of service, he honorably discharged in York with the original three-year enlistees October 13, 1864, his physical infirmities no doubt a factor. He later wrote a six-part account of his experiences as a captive.
Mary died in 1867, and he married Warnetta I. Benton January 11, 1872, in Shrewsbury, fathering Winona S. (b. 10/28/72) and David Cleon (b. 12/01/74). Cause of his death is listed simply as "old age."
OBITUARY: Gettysburg Times December 22, 1913:
The REV. DAVID C. EBERHART, chaplain of the Eighty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, former member of the state legislature,, and known widely among Adams County veterans as "the fighting chaplain", died at his home in Shrewsbury on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. He was eighty-seven years old.
The Rev. Mr. Eberhart, who was one of the best known citizens of Shrewsbury township, had been sick for a long time and had been in a feeble condition for several years. For the last two years he had been blind.
Chaplain Eberhart was discharged with his regiment [false; see above] on Oct. 13, 1864, and has since resided in Shrewsbury. Until infirmities compelled him to retire he was engaged in the practice of dentistry and was active in the work of the Methodist church and Sunday school. Chaplain Eberhart was dearly beloved by the men of the Eighty-seventh regiment and in his later years was frequently visited by them at his home in Shrewsbury.
With his death there remain but two commissioned officers of the field and staff of the regiment still living, one of whom is his colonel, John W. Schall, of Norristown, and David F. McKinney of Lime Kiln, Md., the surgeon. Funeral in Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
The son of Abraham & Esther (Ammond) Eberhart, he married Mary Elizabeth Gerry December 12, 1854, and fathered James Gerry (b. 07/27/56) and Zelia Clotilda (b. 01/04/60). He brought his family to Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania, in 1855 and in 1860 was a dentist and minister living there. He stood 5' 11" tall and had hazel eyes. (Hair color was reported only after he had turned gray, but his photo displays dark hair.)
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-six in camp of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry at Winchester, Virginia, on February 13, 1863, and mustered into federal service that same day as regimental chaplain, doubling as regimental dentist. Captured at the battle of Carter's Woods (Stephenson's Depot) on June 15, 1863, he was ultimately incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, where he fell ill and nearly died. Following parole, he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, and received extended leave from October 10, 1863, through April 22, 1864. Despite not having finished his term of service, he honorably discharged in York with the original three-year enlistees October 13, 1864, his physical infirmities no doubt a factor. He later wrote a six-part account of his experiences as a captive.
Mary died in 1867, and he married Warnetta I. Benton January 11, 1872, in Shrewsbury, fathering Winona S. (b. 10/28/72) and David Cleon (b. 12/01/74). Cause of his death is listed simply as "old age."
OBITUARY: Gettysburg Times December 22, 1913:
The REV. DAVID C. EBERHART, chaplain of the Eighty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, former member of the state legislature,, and known widely among Adams County veterans as "the fighting chaplain", died at his home in Shrewsbury on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. He was eighty-seven years old.
The Rev. Mr. Eberhart, who was one of the best known citizens of Shrewsbury township, had been sick for a long time and had been in a feeble condition for several years. For the last two years he had been blind.
Chaplain Eberhart was discharged with his regiment [false; see above] on Oct. 13, 1864, and has since resided in Shrewsbury. Until infirmities compelled him to retire he was engaged in the practice of dentistry and was active in the work of the Methodist church and Sunday school. Chaplain Eberhart was dearly beloved by the men of the Eighty-seventh regiment and in his later years was frequently visited by them at his home in Shrewsbury.
With his death there remain but two commissioned officers of the field and staff of the regiment still living, one of whom is his colonel, John W. Schall, of Norristown, and David F. McKinney of Lime Kiln, Md., the surgeon. Funeral in Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-six in camp of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry at Winchester, Virginia, on February 13, 1863, and mustered into federal service that same day as regimental chaplain, doubling as regimental dentist. Captured at the battle of Carter's Woods (Stephenson's Depot) on June 15, 1863, he was ultimately incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, where he fell ill and nearly died. Following parole, he was forwarded to Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, and received extended leave from October 10, 1863, through April 22, 1864. Despite not having finished his term of service, he honorably discharged in York with the original three-year enlistees October 13, 1864, his physical infirmities no doubt a factor. He later wrote a six-part account of his experiences as a captive.
Mary died in 1867, and he married Warnetta I. Benton January 11, 1872, in Shrewsbury, fathering Winona S. (b. 10/28/72) and David Cleon (b. 12/01/74). Cause of his death is listed simply as "old age."
OBITUARY: Gettysburg Times December 22, 1913:
The REV. DAVID C. EBERHART, chaplain of the Eighty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, former member of the state legislature,, and known widely among Adams County veterans as "the fighting chaplain", died at his home in Shrewsbury on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. He was eighty-seven years old.
The Rev. Mr. Eberhart, who was one of the best known citizens of Shrewsbury township, had been sick for a long time and had been in a feeble condition for several years. For the last two years he had been blind.
Chaplain Eberhart was discharged with his regiment [false; see above] on Oct. 13, 1864, and has since resided in Shrewsbury. Until infirmities compelled him to retire he was engaged in the practice of dentistry and was active in the work of the Methodist church and Sunday school. Chaplain Eberhart was dearly beloved by the men of the Eighty-seventh regiment and in his later years was frequently visited by them at his home in Shrewsbury.
With his death there remain but two commissioned officers of the field and staff of the regiment still living, one of whom is his colonel, John W. Schall, of Norristown, and David F. McKinney of Lime Kiln, Md., the surgeon. Funeral in Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
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