William B. Rose

He enlisted as 4th Corporal, Company G, 22nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 7 August 1861. He then enlisted as Sergeant, Company H, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 September 1861. He was appointed First Sergeant on 17 July 1862.

At Antietam on 17 September 1862:

Arriving at a fence, running at right angles to the Hagerstown pike across the open field north of the Dunker Church, an effort was made to rally and check the advance of the now elated enemy, who were emerging from the woods in large numbers. Here Sergeant Benjamin F. Sloanaker, of Company C, Color Sergeant, and with Sergeants Rose and Foy of Company H, planted the colors on the fence and called upon the Regiment to "rally on the colors".

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 24 February 1863. He was captured near Petersburg on the Jerusalem Plank Road on 22 June 1864 and remained a prisoner until 22 February 1865. He was promoted to First Lieutenant to date from 5 January 1865, but did not muster at that rank, and was discharged on 8 April 1865.

He was a coach maker and claims agent in Philadelphia. He was elected to two terms in the Pennsylvania House (1889-1893), was an employee of the US Mint in Philadelphia by 1903, and was Gatekeeper by 1905.

Basic information and the quote above from Ward1, source also of his picture. Service in the 22nd Infantry from Bates.2 Personal details from a bio sketch from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Official Register(s) of the United States (1903, 1905). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

07/17/1835; Philadelphia, PA

10/16/1907; Philadelphia, PA; burial in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA