Isaac E. Filman

A 20 year old machinist in Chester County, he enlisted in Norristown on 9 September 1861, and mustered as Private, Company A, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 September in Harrisburg.

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 January 1864 and to Sergeant on 3 December. He mustered out with his Company on 27 July 1865.

By 1870 he was a boilermaker in Norristown and he served as fireman at the hospital for the insane in Norristown from about 1880 to his death. He was killed in a train wreck at the Exeter Station on the Reading Railroad on 12 May 1899. He and fellow soldier John Coulston were among a group of veterans who were returning from Harrisburg after the unveiling of a statue of Gen. John F. Hartranft there.

Service information from the History1 and the Card File,2 as Isaac E. Fillman. Details from his funeral notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 17 May 1899 and the crash story in the Reading Times of 13 May 1899. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

1841; Chester County, PA

05/12/1899; Exeter, PA; burial in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, PA