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William Piers


Civil War (Union) · US Army

United States of America

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Discharge, Enlistment, Military Service, PeopleUS, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Pennsylvania, 1861-1865
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MemorialOct 25, 2013
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MemorialOct 25, 2013

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Pyers, William (Sergeant) « 47th Pennsylvania VolunteersBiographical 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 VolunteersBiographical 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 VolunteersHistory of the regiment, including key battles, casualties, company rosters, biographical sketches, etc.
Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers) « 47th Pennsylvania VolunteersHistory 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

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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