In Remembrance - The Civil War

In Remembrance

The American Civil War

Lieutenant Zebulon Dyer, CSA (1837-61)

Dyer was born in 1837 in Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West
Virginia. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society and Phi Kappa Sigma; he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1859. Until the outbreak of the war, he spent the next two years teaching and studying law.

Dyer entered the Confederate States Army as a lieutenant in 1861; he was killed later that same year at Allegheny Mountain on December 13.

William Capers Round, CSA (1842-1862)

Round was born on April 23, 1842 to George Hopkins and Mary Louisa Round in Cokesburg, South Carolina. He entered Dickinson as a member of the class of 1863 in the fall of 1860; however, like so many other young men of the time, he withdrew from Dickinson to enter the Confederate States Army in June of 1861. He served in the CSA until his death at the Battle of Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862, a month after his twentieth birthday.

Leven William Luckett, CSA (1840-1862)

Leven W. Luckett hailed from Loudon County, Virginia. He entered Dickinson as a sophomore in the fall of 1855. However, he stayed only one year and does not appear in the catalogue for 1856. While a student, Luckett was a member of the Belles Lettres Society. Evidence indicates that he subsequently attended the University of Virginia

It is most likely that Luckett entered the Confederate States Army in the early summer of 1861. He served as a private in Company D, 8th Virginia Infantry. He was wounded on June 27, 1862 at Gaines Mill, Virginia and died two days later.

Samuel Hamilton Peach, CSA (1831-1862)

Peach was born in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on March 14, 1831. He entered Dickinson as a junior in 1850 and received his bachelor of arts in 1852. Peach was an active member of the Belles Lettres Society as a student.

After graduation he moved to Lumpkin, Georgia and set up a law practice after being admitted to the bar there.
When the war erupted, Peach was commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He died in Lumpkin on July 3, 1862.

William Robinson Aldred, USA (1828-1862)

Aldred was born April 6, 1828 in New Castle County, Delaware. He received a bachelor of arts degree; as a student, he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society.

After graduation, Aldred became a teacher back home in Delaware.
Aldred became a lieutenant in the 3rd Delaware infantry; he later rose to the rank of adjutant. He died at Front Royal, Virginia on August 8, 1862.

Captain William Laws Cannon, USA (1839-1862) Cannon was born on April 6, 1839 at Bridgeville, Delaware. His father, William Cannon, was a successful merchant who later became governor of Delaware during the war. At Dickinson, Cannon was a member of the Union Philosophical Society as well as Phi Kappa Sigma. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1860. After graduation he obtained a position at the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Cannon became a captain of the 1st Delaware cavalry in the Army of the Potomac and was placed in command of Company B. He contracted typhoid fever during the occupation of Bel Air, Maryland, dying there on August 18, 1862.

Captain Jennings Marion Clarke Hulsey, CSA (1834-62)

Born on June 14, 1834, in De Kalb County, Georgia, Hulsey was a member of the Belles Lettres Society and Phi Kappa Sigma as a student at Dickinson. He was one of four men who were suspended for allegedly tarring Professor Tiffany’s blackboards; he received punishment but was allowed to return to school and graduate with his class.

After receiving his bachelor of arts, Hulsey returned to Georgia to study law in Atlanta; he later was admitted to the bar.
In 1862 he entered the Confederate States Army and became captain in Company F, Eight Georgia Iinfantry, Second Division. Hulsey was killed in the second battle of Bull Run on August 31, 1862.

John Radcliffe Smead, USA (1830-1862) Smead was born in Carlisle in 1830, the son of Raphael C. and Sarah Radcliffe Smead. He entered Dickinson as a junior in the fall of 1847, pursuing a partial course. He was a member of the UnionPhilosophical Society. The family was stuck with tragedy when Smead’s father, died in 1848 of yellow fever while returning from the Mexican War. Therefore, Smead withdrew from Dickinson to take a position in the Coast Survey until he was able in 1851 to enter West Point where his father had been an instructor. He was commissioned four years later and became an instructor in mathematics there.
In 1861 Smead helped to organize the first company of Pennsylvania Volunteers within half an hour of receiving Lincoln’s first call for troops. He enlisted in the 2nd artillery but was commissioned as a captain of the 5th artillery. Smead led his company in the battles on the Peninsula before he was killed at the Second Bull Run on August 31, 1862, when he was struck in the head by a ball from a Confederate ten-pounder cannon.

William Michael Harnsberger, CSA (1835-1862)

Harnsberger was born May 23, 1835 in Port Republic in Rockingham County, Virginia. As a member of the class of 1856, “Willie” was active in the Union Philosophical Society, Phi Kappa Sigma, and Zeta Psi. His brother, Henry, had been a member of the class of 1841. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree, he returned to Virginia, where he taught until the start of the war.

Harnsberger enlisted in the Confederate States Army soon after the outbreak of the war. He was killed on September 19, 1862 in Loudon County, Virginia.

John McCarty, CSA (c1831-1862)

John McCarty was born around 1831 in Allegheny County, Maryland. He prepared at the grammar school for the 1847-48 academic school year and then entered the freshman class in the fall of 1848. During his years at Dickinson, McCarty was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity as well as the Union Philosophical Society. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852 and thereafter studied law in Cumberland, Maryland. McCarty relocated to Missouri, where he established a law practice.

At the outbreak of war, McCarty was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army. He was killed in action at the battle at Island No. 10 in 1862.

Sergeant Thomas R. Orwig, USA (?-1863)

The son of a Carlisle minister, Thomas Orwig prepared at the Dickinson College grammar school for two years before entering the college in 1855 as a member of the class of 1859. Although Orwig left Dickinson after his sophomore year after his family moved to New Berlin, PA, while here he was a member of the Belles Lettres Society.

Orwig received his bachelor of arts degree from Lewisburg in 1862 and then joined the Union army. He died later that year in a naval hospital in Washington, D.C.

John S. Richardson, CSA (?-1863)

Born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Richardson came to Dickinson as a freshman in the fall of 1854 as a member of the class of 1858. Although he only remained at the college for one academic year, Richardson became a member of the Belles Lettres Society.
He enlisted in the Confederate States Army and was killed sometime during 1863.

William Brown Norris, USA (1803-1864) Norris was born on May 20, 1803 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor of arts from Dickinson in 1824 and began to study law in Bellefonte. In 1826 he was admitted to the Centre County bar and began to practice law. However, a loss of his voice forced Norris to abandon that profession; he therefore moved to Lewistown and became engaged in the iron industry. After several years in this trade, Norris became a surveyor from 1848 to 1852 and was a surveyor for the port of Philadelphia.
A jack-of-all-trades, Norris then entered the insurance business, in which capacity he served until being appointed paymaster of the United States Army. While serving in the army as paymaster, Norris died in Memphis, Tennessee on March 22, 1864, two months before his sixty-first birthday.

John G. Frow, USA (1834-1864)

Frow was born on July 13, 1834 in Mifflintown, Blaine Perry County, Pennsylvania to James and Jane Ann. He entered Dickinson as a sophomore in 1850 but retired in 1852. However, as a student he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society as well as the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Frow received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1856 and became a physician in Mifflintown.
Frow enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a surgeon with the U.S.
Volunteers from 1861 until 1863. He died on March 24, 1864 at Mifflintown.

	Flavel Clingan Barber, CSA (1830-1864) Born on January 30, 1830 near Mifflinburg in Union County, Penn- sylvania, Barber entered Dickinson in 1848 as a junior. He too was a member of the Union Philosophical Society and graduated with the class of 1850, receiving his bachelor of arts degree. After graduation, Barber moved to Pulaski, Tennessee and took the position as principal of an academy there. He was admitted to the bar at Pulaski.
Although northern-born, Barber joined the Confederate States Army as a captain; he was later promoted to major in the Third Tennessee Division. He was taken prisoner in February 1862 at Fort Donelson and was exchanged in September of that year. He was later killed during the Atlanta campaign in May 1864.

Rudolphus N. Cecil, CSA (?-1864)

This Richmond-born Virginian was prepared at the Dickinson preparatory school for the year 1853-54 and entered the college the following year. Cecil joined the Belles Lettres Society, but eventually withdrew from the College.
He moved to Anne Arundel County, Maryland and became a farmer in Millersville.

Cecil enlisted in the Company K, Second Division of the Confederate States .

Army at Romney as a private on July 10, 1861. A promotion to 3rd lieutenant came less than a year later on April 23, 1862.

Cecil was wounded in the left foot at Kennon’s Landing on May 24, 1864; the foot had to be amputated at a Richmond hospital, but Cecil nevertheless died of his wounds in June 22. He was buried in the Hollywood Cemetery. He is believed to have been a favorite of General Fitzhugh Lee, as Lee often made special mention of Cecil’s bravery in his official reports.

Henry R. Gamble, CSA (?-1864)

Gamble hailed from Moorefield, Virginia. As part of the class of 1861, he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, but he withdrew from the College before graduation to enlist in the Confederate States Army.

Gamble died at Beverly, West Virginia in 1864.

William T. Kinzer, CSA (1837-1864) William T. Kinzer was born in Blacksburg, Virginia. In January 1856 he entered the Dickinson College grammar school and studied there for a semester before entering the freshman class. As a student, Kinzer was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, the VP society, and the Good Templars Temperance Society. He also wrote several articles for his hometown newspaper.
	Kinzer’s father died in the early summer of 1857, thereby removing his means of financial support. At the end of the spring semester in 1857, Kinzer and a friend took a train to Hagerstown and walked home to Blacksburg from there. Kinzer remained and began the study of law under Waller Staples, Esq., in nearby Montgomery. Kinzer moved to St. Stephens in the Nebraska territory in 1859. He did not enjoy a successful practice, and, after falling gravely ill, he returned to Blacksburg after only six months. Kinzer resumed the practice of law there, but he enlisted in Company L, 4th Virginia Infantry on July 16, 1861.
His military career was an eventful one. He was appointed as a 1st Sergeant on December 27, 1861 but was reduced again to the ranks the following April before being promoted to 4th Corporal in August, 1862, and 4th Sergeant a year later. He was wounded at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863 and was captured at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864. He died on July 15, 1864 at Point Lookout Prison, Maryland.

Albert G. Rowland, USA (?-c1864) Rowland hailed from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He prepared at the grammar school from 1838 to 1839, but then took two years off before becoming a freshman in the fall of 1841. However, Rowland’s student days did not last long as he retired from Dickinson in the spring of 1843; he had in that time become a member of the Belles Lettres Society and had roomed in East College.
Rowland enlisted in the United States Army in 1861 and died sometime around 1864.

	Isaac S. Sullivan, CSA (?-1865) Sullivan came to Dickinson in 1857 as a grammar school student from Hays’ Creek in Carroll County, Mississippi. After preparing at the school for a year, he entered Dickinson as a freshman in 1858. Sullivan was a member of the Belles Lettres Society as well as the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. However, he did not receive his degree as he retired from the College after the spring semester of 1860.
At the outbreak of war, Sullivan joined the Confederate States Army, eventually attaining the rank of major. He was killed at Atlanta in 1865.

John Summerfield Battee, USN (1824-1865) Battee was born on January 24, 1824 in Baltimore, Maryland. Both he and his brother Richard entered the preparatory school in 1837 and a year later, both entered Dickinson as members of the class of 1842. Their father, Richard Battee, Esq., was a trustee of the College. John joined the Union Philosophical Society (as did his brother) and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1842.
He returned to Maryland and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1845; the following year, he studied medicine in Paris. Returning to the States, he became a physicial in Baltimore. Battee served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War from 1847 until 1849. After the war, he returned to his practice in Baltimore until the outbreak of the Civil War. He again became a surgeon, but this time with the Navy. Battee died in a Portsmouth, Virginia naval hospital on November 13, 1865.

Henry Anderson, CSA

Anderson was from Salem, Virginia. He came to Dickinson as a junior in 1850. A member of the Union Philosophical Society, Anderson received his bachelor of Arts degree in two years, with the class of 1852.

Two years after leaving Dickinson, he earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia and went on to practice medicine in both Philadelphia and Baltimore.

At the outbreak of war, Anderson returned to his native Virginia to perform hospital duty. He died in Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Virginia.

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