Lane Schofield Hart

A 23 year old bricklayer in Norristown, he enlisted and mustered as First Sergeant, Company B, 4th Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 April 1861, for 3 months' service. He mustered out on 27 July 1861. He enrolled again, in Norristown on 2 September 1861, and mustered as First Lieutenant, Company F, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 16 October. He was promoted to Captain on 28 July 1862.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed Major on 21 July 1864 and was wounded again, at Yellow Tavern on the Weldon Railroad in Virginia, on 19 August 1864 and was discharged for disability from wounds on 17 December 1864.

By 1870 he was a clerk in Harrisburg, in 1880 he was the State Printer there, and from before 1900 to at least 1910, a bank president.

Service information from the History 1 and the Card File.2 Details from the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Charles McDonald.

He married Martha Heebner(1838-1913) in December 1861 and they had 3 children.

10/26/1837; Montgomery, PA

08/13/1924; Harrisburg, PA; burial in Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA