Levi Maish

A 25 year old teacher in York, he mustered into service on 9 August 1862 and was promoted from Captain of Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry to Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment on 17 August 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right lung in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at hospitals in Boonsboro, MD and at York, PA. He was promoted to Colonel on 3 February 1863 and was wounded again, in his right thigh, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He mustered out with the regiment on 21 May 1863.

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was a member of the State House in 1867-68 and was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1875 and served four terms, to 1891. He was defeated for reelection in 1890 and practiced law in Washington, DC. He was originally buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington DC, but re-interred to Arlington National Cemetery in August 1919.

Service information from Bates.1 Personal details from his Congressional biography.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Scott D. Hann Collection.

11/22/1837; Conewago Township, York County, PA

02/26/1899; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA