Published by Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer, Harrisburg, PA, 1914. Front & rear eps owner stamp: S.H. Sloan/ Ashland, Ohio. 162 pp., ills.  Exhibits light wear and rubbing of the extremities. Contains the following sequence of handwritten commentary in front eps:

“This is a Present from Wm. Gilweik to S.H. Sloan, Ashland Ohio, k company, 148^th P.V. Fourth Brigade First Division 2 Corps W.S. Hancock Commander.

From W.S. Barr 1011 West First St., Oil City PA to S.H. Sloan Ashland Ohio.

Cap. J.S. Brown of K Co. 148 P.V. First Division 2^nd Corps detailed myself and & three other boys of K Co. to help carry Cap W.S. Barr off the Battlefield of Deep Bottom VA, August 14, 1864, shot in the back of his left ear & through most of the muscle of his neck, and we carried him out of the range of the shells. He had 19 blank days before he came to & the ambulance came along & picked him up & sent him off the hospital. He was wounded through the left leg at Gettysburg July 3, 1863 & that wound cut a nerve off in his leg for about four years. 1920 his big toe died & they took it off & took it off above the ankle & it was not sound & took it off above the knee & he lived several years after.  & his boy writes me that his father was learning to walk a second time every time I went back to PA I went to see him, he got this book & sent it to me. He weighed 225 & it was the heaviest weight I ever carried over one mile out of the reach of the shells. He was Captain in the 105^th P.V. & belonged to the 2^nd Corps./ Corp. S.H. Sloan/ K Co. 148^th P.V.I. Division, 2^nd Corps.”

Winfield Scott Barr, resident of Brookville, PA, enlisted at age 23 as sergeant, mustering into Co. “I”, 8^th PA Infantry, 7/29/1861. Mustered out, he then mustered into Co. “B”, 105^th PA Infantry. He was promoted to 1^st Sergeant, 9/9/1861, 2^nd Lieut., 2/11/1862, 1^st Lieut., 5/31/1862, and Captain, 7/1/1863. WIA Gettysburg 7/2/1863, and Deep Bottom Run VA (head wound), 8/16/1864. Discharged for disability, 11/28/1864.

Samuel H. Sloan enlisted on 9/7/62 as a Private; on that date he mustered into Co. K, 148^th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded on 5/10/64 at Po River, VA. Promoted to Corporal on 10/31/64.  He mustered out on 6/1/65 at Alexandria, VA.

No information on William Gilwiek [?] was found.

Accompanied by a brief amount of internet research material.   [jp/ld]

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