GETTYSBURG RELIC SHELL FRAGMENT: MILLER POST 551, YORK SPRINGS, ADAMS COUNTY, PA

GETTYSBURG RELIC SHELL FRAGMENT: MILLER POST 551, YORK SPRINGS, ADAMS COUNTY, PA

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Item Code: 1202-1995

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Members of the Miller G.A.R. Post 551, Department of PA, were well positioned to acquire Gettysburg relics: the post was located in York Springs, here in Adams County. This is an iron fragment from the nose of an artillery shell or case shot, clearly showing part of the fuze hole and bearing an old display label in brown ink reading simply, “Gettysburg.”

The Miller Post had been chartered (or “mustered”) July 2, 1887, and was named after a member of the 30th Pennsylvania killed at South Mountain. They met on an upper floor of the Odd Fellows Hall in York Springs until disbanded sometime between 1919 and 1924, with their relics left in the hands of David Starry. Starry served twice during the war, first enlisting as a substitute in October 1862, mustering into service at Gettysburg November 6, 1862, as a musician (drummer) with Co. A, 165th Pennsylvania Infantry and was honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863, in Gettysburg. He enlisted a second time February 1, 1864, mustering in as a Private in Co. B of 21st PA Cavalry on February 3, 1864, and mustering out with the company July 8, 1865. This was a unit that served some of its time dismounted and took significant casualties in Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864.

Family tradition was that he had been entrusted with them as the youngest member of the post though, ironically, he was not the last survivor. The post disbanded sometime prior to 1924; Starry died June 9, 1925; but, we find another slightly longer-lived former member of the post who died in 1931. In any case, Starry had been the post adjutant and the post commander in 1919, and perhaps at other dates, and by 1919 the post was down to just seven “comrades.” These relics remained in the hands of the Starry family until purchased in the 1970s by well-known Maryland antique and Civil War dealer Tom Gordon and his father.

We have handled quite a few relics from the post preserved by Starry and his descendants, some tagged with specific find locations and others not. This is a nicely identified shell fragment from the battlefield.   [sr][ph:L]

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