Pennsylvania 34th Infantry Regiment
(5th Reserves)
Company D
"The Slifer Guards"
(Formed in Union County)

COMPANY D OFFICERS

Captain
Thomas Chamberlain 06/30/1862 - Wounded at New Market Cross Roads, VA. and captured.
??/??/1862 - Released as a prisoner and sent to a Baltimore hospital.
09/23/1862 - Transferred into PA 150th Infantry and promoted to Major.
Charles D. Schaffle 09/18/1862 - Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain.
12/16/1862 - Wounded and taken prisoner at Fredericksburg, VA.
01/13/1863 - Died at Richmond, VA.
William H. H. McCall 03/05/1863 - Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain.

1st Lieutenant (Adjutant)
Jonathan E. Wolf 01/12/1862 - Promoted from 1st LT Co. D to Captain Co. G.
Theodore H. McFadden 01/20/1862 - Promoted to 1st LT.
06/30/1862 - Wounded at New Market Cross Roads, VA.
10/30/1862 - Discharged for wounds.
Thomas B. Reed 03/05/1863 - Promoted to 1st LT

2nd Lieutenant
William H. H. McCall ??/??/???? - Promoted from Sergeant Major to 2nd Lieutenant.
03/05/1863 - Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain.
Charles D. Schaffle 09/18/1862 - Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain.
John B. Dayton 03/05/1863 - Promoted from Private to 2nd LT.

1st Sergeant
William H. H. McCall ??/??/???? - Promoted from Sergeant to 1st Sergeant.
??/??/???? - Promoted from 1st Sergeant to Sergeant Major.

Sergeants (4)
H. J. Schofield 11/09/1861 - Died (cause unknown).
James M. Essington 08/21/1862 - Discharged by order of War Department.
George M. Slifer 11/25/1862 - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate for disability.
James Doran 12/13/1862 - Wounded at Fredericksburg, VA.
John C. McMichael 12/13/1862 - Killed at Fredericksburg, VA.
George C. Kelley 06/30/1862 - Wounded at New Market Cross Roads, VA.
12/13/1862 - Wounded at Fredericksburg, VA.
01/01/1864 - Transferred into Veteran Reserve Corps.
William Searles 12/13/1862 - Wounded at Fredericksburg, VA.
William H. H. McCall ??/??/???? - Promoted from Sergeant to 1st Sergeant.
James Fichthorn 06/06/1864 - Transferred into Co. D 191st Regiment, PA Veteran Reserve Corps.
William W. Schwenk 06/06/1864 - Transferred into Co. D 191st Regiment, PA Veteran Reserve Corps.
Richard H. Walk 06/06/1864 - Transferred into Co. D 191st Regiment, PA Veteran Reserve Corps.

Corporals (8)
John Babb 09/25/1861 - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate for disability.
Effinger L. Reber 03/06/1862 - Promoted from Corporal to Sergeant Major.
Jacob Campbell 06/30/1862 - Killed in action.
Jacob M. Barnhart 08/26/1862 - Deserted.
Amos Ditsworth 09/14/1862 - Wounded at South Mountain, MD.
William Haskins 12/13/1862 - Killed at Fredericksburg, VA.
John B. Hafer 12/13/1862 - Wounded at Fredericksburg, VA.
George W. Schoch 12/13/1862 - Accidentally Wounded (place not stated).
George Harbeson 12/13/1862 - Wounded at Fredericksburg, VA.
04/06/1863 - Discharged for wounds.
Jacob K. Mertz 02/04/1863 - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate for disability.
Jacob Reise 06/06/1864 - Transferred into Co. D 191st Regiment, PA Veteran Reserve Corps.
George Eicholtz

Musicians
James Barnhart 08/06/1862 - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate.
John Clymer 06/06/1864 - Transferred into 191st Regiment, PA Veteran Reserve Corps.

Privates
Joseph Barnhart, William G. Beckley, Sylvester Bennett, John Bonnell, Michael B. Boylan, David Canfield, John Connell, Daniel Covert, Thomas Crawford, John Dougherty, John E. Ennis, William Fravel, Benjamin Fry, Thomas Gaskin, Daniel Gilbert, Albert Gilman, William C. Green, Isaac Harper, John Hartman, Nathaniel Huth, George Irwine, Albert E. Johnson, William Johnson, Joseph Joll, Thomas Kennedy, John Kessler, John Knoll, John Kyle, Harry L. Landis, Jerns Lewis, Levi Markel, William Meteer, Lawrence Monroe, Charles Moody, James A. Morrison, Charles Moyer, William Myers, Elias Page, Charles Peeling, John D. Price, John M. Reber, John Reed, Samuel A. Reed, Charles W. Reeder, Darius L. Ricker, John Ripple, John E. Roberts, Patrick Roberts, George B. Saylor, William H. Showers, Levi Smith, Peter Smith, William H. Smith, Charles E. Snyder, Andrew H. Sticker, Harrison Strahan, Joseph Stroup, Thomas Taylor, Henry Theis, Henry Ulrich, Robert Walsh, Charles Washburn, John Welsh, Harrison Wertz, Isaac Wertz, Jackson Wertz, William Whatmore, Luther Wheeler, Newell Wilkes, Thomas F. Wilson, O. B. Woodward, York Woodward

Source:
History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. 5 vols. Harrisburg: State Printer, 1870. Samuel P. Bates

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