Source Documents
Record | Events | Title | Source Website | Type | Created | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discharge, Enlistment, Military Service, People | US, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Pennsylvania, 1861-1865 |  Fold3 | Image | Jun 1, 2012 | ||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 13, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Feb 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Mar 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Mar 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Mar 12, 2016 | ||||
| Fold3 | Image | Mar 12, 2016 | ||||
 Fold3 | Memorial | Oct 25, 2013 | ||||
| Fold3 | Memorial | Oct 25, 2013 |
Source URLs
URL | Events | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyers, William (Sergeant) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers | Biographical sketch of Sgt. William Pyers' wounds in action while saving the American flag from enemy capture and his later death in battle. | ||
| Pyers, Samuel Hunter (Field Musician) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers | Biographical sketch of Samuel H. Pyers, who served with his father, Sgt. William Pyers, in Co. C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers. | ||
| About the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers | History of the regiment, including key battles, casualties, company rosters, biographical sketches, etc. | ||
| Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers | History of the "Sunbury Guards," a local militia unit in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (during the Civil War and pre- and post-Civil War). | ||
| Samuel Hunter Pyers | |||
| Franklin Pyers | |||
| Company F of the 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry | |||
| Company C of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry | |||
| Colonel Tilghman H. Good | |||
| reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery |
Other Sources
Source | Events | |
|---|---|---|
Find A Grave Memorial for Sgt. William Pyers: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Pyers&GSfn=William&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1864&GSdyrel=in&GSst=48&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=130882371&df=all& | Burial | |
Ibid. Schmidt. | Burial | |
Ibid. Schmidt and Registers of Deaths of U.S. Volunteers, etc. | Military Service | |
Ibid. Civil War Veterans' Card File and Registers of Deaths of U.S. Volunteers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives. | Death | |
Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg: 1869. | Military Service, Other | |
Ibid. Civil War Veterans' Card File. | Military Service | |
Pyers, William, in Civil War Veterans' Card File. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives and U.S. Census: 1850, 1860. | Other | |
Samuel Pyers at the Funeral of Abe Lincoln (Samuel Pyers’ obituary), in Lebanon Semi-Weekly News. Lebanon: 5 November 1931, etc. | Marriage | |
Pyers, William, in Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers), in 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story. | Enlistment, Military Service | |
Pyers, William, in Civil War Veterans' Card File. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives. | Birth, Enlistment, Military Service, Other, People | |
Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown: Self-published, 1986. | Death | |
Pyers, William and Matilda (Heddings) Pyers, in U.S. Civi War Widows' Pension Files. | Marriage | |
Burial Ledgers, The National Cemetery Administration, and U.S. Departments of Defense and Army (Quartermaster General). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. | Burial | |
Ibid. Schmidt and National Cemetery Burial Ledgers. | Burial |