Jacob Gilbert Beaver

A clerk from Lewisburg, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry and mustered into service on 16 November 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 June 1862.

He was killed by gunshot to the face in action at the Rohrbach ("Burnside") Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Basic information from Bates1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a CDV in the Pennsylvania State Archives posted to Twitter in 2019 by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

He married Mollie Portius (1842-1934). He was brother to James Addams Beaver (1837-1917) who was Colonel of the 148th PA Infantry and later Governor of Pennsylvania (1887-1891).

06/23/1840; Millerstown, PA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Millerstown Memorial Cemetery, Perry County, PA