Pennsylvania 34th Infantry Regiment
(5th Reserves)
Company A
"The Jersey Shore Rifles"


Captain H. Charles Ullman
12/23/1862 - Discharged for disability.
(Captain Ullman is the Father of silent film pioneer Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)

Pic of 2nd Lieutenant McMicken
2nd Lieutenant D. Hays McMicken
06/27/1862 - Wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA. (Cannon shrapnel wound to chest.)
07/31/1862 - Died of wounds at Baltimore, MD.
(Picture provided by Ron Coddington)

Private Frank C. Cowden
12/28/1863 - Discharged at Mannassas, VA.
12/29/1863 - Re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer with the 191st Regiment, Co. D (Teamster and ambulance driver).
05/08/1864 - Wounded (left leg) at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
(Source: John Foster Leach, Great-Grandson of Franklin C. Cowden)


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