Philip Henry Schreyer

In 1860 he was a 30 year old saloon keeper living with his widowed mother at Milton in Northumberland County, PA. He enrolled on 10 September 1861 in Milton, PA and mustered at Harrisburg on 10 October as First Lieutenant of Company H of the 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry.

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

He was promoted to Captain to date from 28 August 1862 and appointed Major on 18 September 1864, but was not mustered at that rank. He mustered out with the regiment on 8 October 1864.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again in Milton, a mail route agent and postal clerk there. He had retired in Milton by 1900.

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His Antietam wound from Lt. Col. McMichael's Report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Scott Hann Collection.

He married Mary Jane Glancy (1843-1917) in about 1862 and they had 6 children.

03/06/1830 in PA

11/19/1905; Milton, PA; burial in Harmony Cemetery, Milton, PA