Sobeski Shaffer was the son of Peter and Sara Cameron Shaffer. He enlisted in Battery B of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery on June 28, 1861, and stayed for the entire war, mustering out on June 9, 1865. After the war, on May 24, 1866, he married Serena S. Johnson in Washington County, Ohio. They lived in Mt. Jackson, Pennsylvania, for 13 years. By 1880 they were living in Jackson, Missouri, with children Ida, Amanda, Allen and Sobeski Jr. They were divorced in February 1891. Thereafter, Sobieski led a peripatetic existence, moving from Jamesport, Missouri, back to Pennsylvania, then to Marshall, Oklahoma, and finally to Dos Palos, California, where he died at the home of Mack Johnson.
For the Pension Board he described the second day at Gettysburg as follows:
"The gun I was on commenced firing about 9 a.m. with John Smith Hamill, guner. Claimant was No. 1 on the gun with David M. Weston No. 2, John W. Summers No. 3, and S. J. Grubb No. 4 (who is now dead). At about 2 p.m. we commenced loading with double charges of canister which made the recoil of the gun more violent. It was the duty of the No. 2 and myself to prevent the gun from recoiling to so great a distance and bring it into position as soon as possible while thus assisting to prevent a recoil my left leg sliped through the wheel and my foot caught against the axel of the gun and was going through with such force my leg was twisted entirely around. I do not think there was much attention paid to the occurrence as it was nothing to compare with other things that was then happening around us."
For the Pension Board he described the second day at Gettysburg as follows:
"The gun I was on commenced firing about 9 a.m. with John Smith Hamill, guner. Claimant was No. 1 on the gun with David M. Weston No. 2, John W. Summers No. 3, and S. J. Grubb No. 4 (who is now dead). At about 2 p.m. we commenced loading with double charges of canister which made the recoil of the gun more violent. It was the duty of the No. 2 and myself to prevent the gun from recoiling to so great a distance and bring it into position as soon as possible while thus assisting to prevent a recoil my left leg sliped through the wheel and my foot caught against the axel of the gun and was going through with such force my leg was twisted entirely around. I do not think there was much attention paid to the occurrence as it was nothing to compare with other things that was then happening around us."
Sobeski Shaffer was the son of Peter and Sara Cameron Shaffer. He enlisted in Battery B of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery on June 28, 1861, and stayed for the entire war, mustering out on June 9, 1865. After the war, on May 24, 1866, he married Serena S. Johnson in Washington County, Ohio. They lived in Mt. Jackson, Pennsylvania, for 13 years. By 1880 they were living in Jackson, Missouri, with children Ida, Amanda, Allen and Sobeski Jr. They were divorced in February 1891. Thereafter, Sobieski led a peripatetic existence, moving from Jamesport, Missouri, back to Pennsylvania, then to Marshall, Oklahoma, and finally to Dos Palos, California, where he died at the home of Mack Johnson.
For the Pension Board he described the second day at Gettysburg as follows:
"The gun I was on commenced firing about 9 a.m. with John Smith Hamill, guner. Claimant was No. 1 on the gun with David M. Weston No. 2, John W. Summers No. 3, and S. J. Grubb No. 4 (who is now dead). At about 2 p.m. we commenced loading with double charges of canister which made the recoil of the gun more violent. It was the duty of the No. 2 and myself to prevent the gun from recoiling to so great a distance and bring it into position as soon as possible while thus assisting to prevent a recoil my left leg sliped through the wheel and my foot caught against the axel of the gun and was going through with such force my leg was twisted entirely around. I do not think there was much attention paid to the occurrence as it was nothing to compare with other things that was then happening around us."
For the Pension Board he described the second day at Gettysburg as follows:
"The gun I was on commenced firing about 9 a.m. with John Smith Hamill, guner. Claimant was No. 1 on the gun with David M. Weston No. 2, John W. Summers No. 3, and S. J. Grubb No. 4 (who is now dead). At about 2 p.m. we commenced loading with double charges of canister which made the recoil of the gun more violent. It was the duty of the No. 2 and myself to prevent the gun from recoiling to so great a distance and bring it into position as soon as possible while thus assisting to prevent a recoil my left leg sliped through the wheel and my foot caught against the axel of the gun and was going through with such force my leg was twisted entirely around. I do not think there was much attention paid to the occurrence as it was nothing to compare with other things that was then happening around us."
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