The son of Jacob L. & Mary M. (Winemiller) Reary, he married Sophia M. McIlvain July 17, 1855, and fathered James (b. @1857), Jane (b. @1859), Sarah (b. 10/31/66 - married Jarmes A. McCarter), Job M. (b. 11/20/68), Alice (b. 06/12/74 [?] - married George Dorner), Webster A. (b. 06/11/74 [?]), Ruth M. (b. @1876), and John (b. ?). In 1860, he was a butcher living in Mountjoy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered that day as a private with Co. E, 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861. He did not mention this regiment in his pension application.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine June 11, 1861, and mustered into federal service June 20 as 1st sergeant of Battery E, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pennsylvania). The second card in his compiled military service records lists him as "in confinement at Genl Hancock's head quarters," reason not stated, but no record of a court-martial was found. However, he was reduced to ranks November 4, 1861, transferred to Battery C, March 1, 1862, and there his service records with the 1st Pennsyylvania Light Artillery end, giving every appearance that he deserted.
3. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-one with the regular army probably in January 1863 (specific records were not found) and assigned to Co. G, 19th U.S. Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, he was incarcerated initially in Richmond, Virginia. That December, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, and a few months hence was among the first inmates to enter the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland, and furloughed home December 19, 1864. He was unable to return to camp until April 11, 1865, and honorably discharged at Fort Wayne, Michigan, to date April 16, 1865, a private.
In 1880, he was living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, where he died at his daughter Alice's home. The East Berlin News Comet of November 13, 1936, erroneously reports him buried in Biglerville, Adams County.
Carlisle Evening Herald, Carlisle, PA
Saturday, July 22, 1905
Mr. William A. Reary, a veteran of the Civil War and a highly respected citizen, died at 8 o'clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Dorner, North Bedford street, after a lingering illness.
The deceased was 74 years of age and resided in Carlisle for many years. For the past four weeks he had been in a critical condition. He served throughout the civil war, was in 22 engagements, and was taken prisoner at Chickamauga and sent to Andersonville Prison for fourteen months [false: the time is correct but it was in multiple prison locations; see above], and the injuries received in battlefield and prison followed him through life. He is survived by four children: Mrs. George Dorner, Mrs. James A. McCarter, Miss Ruth, Job and Webster {sic}.
The funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in the Old Graveyard.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered that day as a private with Co. E, 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861. He did not mention this regiment in his pension application.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine June 11, 1861, and mustered into federal service June 20 as 1st sergeant of Battery E, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pennsylvania). The second card in his compiled military service records lists him as "in confinement at Genl Hancock's head quarters," reason not stated, but no record of a court-martial was found. However, he was reduced to ranks November 4, 1861, transferred to Battery C, March 1, 1862, and there his service records with the 1st Pennsyylvania Light Artillery end, giving every appearance that he deserted.
3. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-one with the regular army probably in January 1863 (specific records were not found) and assigned to Co. G, 19th U.S. Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, he was incarcerated initially in Richmond, Virginia. That December, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, and a few months hence was among the first inmates to enter the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland, and furloughed home December 19, 1864. He was unable to return to camp until April 11, 1865, and honorably discharged at Fort Wayne, Michigan, to date April 16, 1865, a private.
In 1880, he was living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, where he died at his daughter Alice's home. The East Berlin News Comet of November 13, 1936, erroneously reports him buried in Biglerville, Adams County.
Carlisle Evening Herald, Carlisle, PA
Saturday, July 22, 1905
Mr. William A. Reary, a veteran of the Civil War and a highly respected citizen, died at 8 o'clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Dorner, North Bedford street, after a lingering illness.
The deceased was 74 years of age and resided in Carlisle for many years. For the past four weeks he had been in a critical condition. He served throughout the civil war, was in 22 engagements, and was taken prisoner at Chickamauga and sent to Andersonville Prison for fourteen months [false: the time is correct but it was in multiple prison locations; see above], and the injuries received in battlefield and prison followed him through life. He is survived by four children: Mrs. George Dorner, Mrs. James A. McCarter, Miss Ruth, Job and Webster {sic}.
The funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in the Old Graveyard.
The son of Jacob L. & Mary M. (Winemiller) Reary, he married Sophia M. McIlvain July 17, 1855, and fathered James (b. @1857), Jane (b. @1859), Sarah (b. 10/31/66 - married Jarmes A. McCarter), Job M. (b. 11/20/68), Alice (b. 06/12/74 [?] - married George Dorner), Webster A. (b. 06/11/74 [?]), Ruth M. (b. @1876), and John (b. ?). In 1860, he was a butcher living in Mountjoy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with light hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered that day as a private with Co. E, 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861. He did not mention this regiment in his pension application.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine June 11, 1861, and mustered into federal service June 20 as 1st sergeant of Battery E, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pennsylvania). The second card in his compiled military service records lists him as "in confinement at Genl Hancock's head quarters," reason not stated, but no record of a court-martial was found. However, he was reduced to ranks November 4, 1861, transferred to Battery C, March 1, 1862, and there his service records with the 1st Pennsyylvania Light Artillery end, giving every appearance that he deserted.
3. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-one with the regular army probably in January 1863 (specific records were not found) and assigned to Co. G, 19th U.S. Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, he was incarcerated initially in Richmond, Virginia. That December, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, and a few months hence was among the first inmates to enter the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland, and furloughed home December 19, 1864. He was unable to return to camp until April 11, 1865, and honorably discharged at Fort Wayne, Michigan, to date April 16, 1865, a private.
In 1880, he was living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, where he died at his daughter Alice's home. The East Berlin News Comet of November 13, 1936, erroneously reports him buried in Biglerville, Adams County.
Carlisle Evening Herald, Carlisle, PA
Saturday, July 22, 1905
Mr. William A. Reary, a veteran of the Civil War and a highly respected citizen, died at 8 o'clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Dorner, North Bedford street, after a lingering illness.
The deceased was 74 years of age and resided in Carlisle for many years. For the past four weeks he had been in a critical condition. He served throughout the civil war, was in 22 engagements, and was taken prisoner at Chickamauga and sent to Andersonville Prison for fourteen months [false: the time is correct but it was in multiple prison locations; see above], and the injuries received in battlefield and prison followed him through life. He is survived by four children: Mrs. George Dorner, Mrs. James A. McCarter, Miss Ruth, Job and Webster {sic}.
The funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in the Old Graveyard.
A Civil War veteran, he served three terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered that day as a private with Co. E, 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861. He did not mention this regiment in his pension application.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine June 11, 1861, and mustered into federal service June 20 as 1st sergeant of Battery E, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pennsylvania). The second card in his compiled military service records lists him as "in confinement at Genl Hancock's head quarters," reason not stated, but no record of a court-martial was found. However, he was reduced to ranks November 4, 1861, transferred to Battery C, March 1, 1862, and there his service records with the 1st Pennsyylvania Light Artillery end, giving every appearance that he deserted.
3. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-one with the regular army probably in January 1863 (specific records were not found) and assigned to Co. G, 19th U.S. Infantry. Captured at the battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, he was incarcerated initially in Richmond, Virginia. That December, he was transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, and a few months hence was among the first inmates to enter the stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled November 20, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, he was forwarded to Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland, and furloughed home December 19, 1864. He was unable to return to camp until April 11, 1865, and honorably discharged at Fort Wayne, Michigan, to date April 16, 1865, a private.
In 1880, he was living in Carlisle, Cumberland County, where he died at his daughter Alice's home. The East Berlin News Comet of November 13, 1936, erroneously reports him buried in Biglerville, Adams County.
Carlisle Evening Herald, Carlisle, PA
Saturday, July 22, 1905
Mr. William A. Reary, a veteran of the Civil War and a highly respected citizen, died at 8 o'clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Dorner, North Bedford street, after a lingering illness.
The deceased was 74 years of age and resided in Carlisle for many years. For the past four weeks he had been in a critical condition. He served throughout the civil war, was in 22 engagements, and was taken prisoner at Chickamauga and sent to Andersonville Prison for fourteen months [false: the time is correct but it was in multiple prison locations; see above], and the injuries received in battlefield and prison followed him through life. He is survived by four children: Mrs. George Dorner, Mrs. James A. McCarter, Miss Ruth, Job and Webster {sic}.
The funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in the Old Graveyard.
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