Image: William Henry Egle, Surgeon, 116th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War Pension-Gen. Index)
Description: U.S. Civil War Pension (general index card) for William Henry Egle, who served as a surgeon for the 116th U.S. Colored Troops; and the 47th Pennsylvania, Emergency Militia of 1863 (a 1-month militia unit which differed from the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, a 3-year volunteer regiment); and assistant surgeon for the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. Egle later became a noted historian and author, as well as the State Librarian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1887-1889).
Title: William Henry Egle, Surgeon, 116th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War Pension-Gen. Index)
Credit: "U.S. Civil War Pension Files" (general index). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (access provided via The Wikipedia Library and Fold3), retrieved online July 29, 2018.
Author: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (public domain images of U.S. Civil War Pension index cards created, c. early 1900s).
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