But Blocher demanded to be paid for allowing the remains to rest in the ground as long as they had. cemeteries found in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. He explained that I suggested to him that if he cut them, then he was only getting for them their value as rails, whereas, if he allowed them to stand to mark the spot he would eventually get ten times as much for them. Biggs was a shrewd businessman as well as a successful farmer and this line of argument worked. There were 287 such packages, he reported. To cover that, the ladies wanted to petition the Virginia legislature for the funds, but the advisory board advised against that. But since then, historians, including Creighton, William Switala and James Paradis, have helped us understand how Basil Biggs took part in this complex and dangerous operation. The ladies of the HMA certainly attempted to collect what was due them from Maury & Co. Blocher removed the plate and refused to give it up until he was given $10. 03/20/60 - married Andrew Fritz), Samuel David (b. The Centinel Marriages, 1810-1813 . Basil Biggs. Every now and then I read in the papers of work going on in raising money for the erection of monuments etc. Husband of Ann Jackson married [date unknown] [location unknown] Husband of Elizabeth (Bygrave) Weaver married 1625 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, United . Shippensburg . Crews separated Union and Confederate soldiers into lines for trench burial on the field. He was born February 13, 1932, in Carlisle, PA. In 1863, Samuel Weaver carefully exhumed thousands of Union bodies from Gettysburg battlefield for burial in the new National Cemetery. The man holding the notebook is Samuel Weaver, Peter's father. One week later, the boxes containing the remains were unloaded from steamers at the wharves in Richmond and solemnly escorted through the streets. Southern mothers still had no sons to bury. But Sam Weaver had a son: Rufus Weaver. Reportedly, Basil used the barn at the McPherson Farm, which he rented, to hide runaway slaves. and white children. His parents (identified in his death certificate) were William Biggs and Elizabeth Bayne (or Boyne), and theres good reason to believe, based on evidentiary clues and DNA testing, that William Biggs was a white man, descended from a Benjamin Biggs, with a white wife (not Elizabeth!) [The Centinel, (Gettysburg, Pa.), Mar. in History from West Virginia University in May 2012. Mrs. Brown went to the bank early that day, he reported, but nothing could be done. We have relinquished to you all our assets [and] have ever since felt that our responsibility was at an end. Margaret E. (b. Reading Biggs headstone, we learn that he died June 6, 1906, 38 years before the date June 6 would be sealed in world memory as D-Day. A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle. When Samuel W. Weaver was born on 21 January 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Boger Weaver, was 29 and his mother, Catherine Carroll, was 24. Weaver used the hook to probe into clothing pockets for items that might help with identification, according to a witness. (Catharine was born on 13 Jul 1787 in , , PA, died on 5 Apr 1834 in Straban Twp., Adams, PA 4 and was buried in Gettysburg: St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Adams . Editors note:For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historianJoel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof,to whom these amazing facts are an homage. The Confederate section of Hollywood Cemetery contains a mixture of identified and unidentified graves. An appeal published in newspapers across the South raised enough money to allow the ladies to buy land and gather the remains of 2,489 Confederate soldiers who had been buried in scattered places across the lower Shenandoah Valley. He set them aside in special packages for relatives or friends to claim later. But by 1860, two years after he had settled there, the United States was on the brink of civil war. The UDC was a product of the 1890s, and its membership and influence were beginning to eclipse that of the older memorial associations. Acting under the authority of an 1862 act of Congress, the War Department began torebury the Union dead into what became known as national cemeteries. (Confederates werent provided for in the cemetery, although according to the National Park Service, a few ended up there anyway.) He wrote of the anguish of those who had a father, son or brother vanish on the battlefield. This page lists soldiers named August Sungrist through Isaac Sweeney who served in Pennsylvania infantry units during the Civil War. This unfortunate result of the battle wouldnt be Biggs only encounter with dead soldiers in Gettysburg. Biggs chose to make his move at a fateful moment in our nations history. Samuel Weaver is the shorter person on the far right with the long beard and notebook in his hand. We never undertook to collect anything from the Maury estate.Of course if any of this money had been paid to us we would have needed no reminder from you that we had agreed to turn it over to you.. Most were unrecognizable.. For three hot summers, Rufus Weaver toiled to retrieve Confederate soldiers remains from crude Gettysburg battlefield graves. Battlefield dead were most often buried haphazardly. Basil Biggs was no exception. He said that he was present for each exhumation, in which workers used long metal hooks to pull decomposed bodies from graves. Watch. 13, 1811] He entered the same information in his logbook. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. He was married for 55 year A white Gettysburg resident, F.W. As early as 1865, his father had started to get inquiries from Southern families seeking help finding the remains of loved ones killed at Gettysburg. Heres what Guelzo wrote in an email to me Oct. 2: Theres no record that segregation was ever an explicit policy in organizing the Soldiers National Cemetery. His name, if it could be learned, might be penciled on a board stuck in the ground or carved in a nearby tree. By 1873, he had exhumed and shipped from Gettysburg the remains of more than 3,000 Southern soldiers to Richmond, Raleigh, Savannah and Charleston. The historic Battle of Gettysburg was the result. 1-2 won by fall over Cooper Leszczuk (Gettysburg College) 8-12 (Fall 6:53) Champ. Basil Biggs was nothing if not industrious. The women appealed to a man named Samuel Weaver, who had been responsible in 1863 for transferring the remains of fallen Union soldiers into the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg. . It was not long before Weaver heard from the Virginians. The Borough was incorporated in 1806. Feb 25, 2012 - Samuel Weaver supervised the exhumation of Union soldiers from the battlefield and surrounding communities so[.] The documents she presented caused quite a stir among the ladies of the association. As the fighting dragged on, desperate soldiers from both sides ransacked the countryside for food and shelter. In a letter written to Mrs. K.L. The difference between that and the amount expected to be recovered from the Maury bankruptcy amounted to about $3,000. Rose was not the only local farmer who saw the efforts to remove Confederate dead as an opportunity to recoup financial losses suffered during the battle. It took dock workers 21 / 2 hours to unload them, Mitchell wrote. One of the more mysterious characters in the # daystodedication story is Samuel Weaver. Once again, Confederate dead were not welcome in those cemeteries. Weaver, in a report to cemetery authorities, never mentioned the odor that must have attended his work. Henry Louis Gates Jr.is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Upon Weavers death in 1871, they turned to his son, Dr. Rufus Weaver. D. McConaughy, Mr. Samuel Beaty to Miss Maryann Twinam. . Five days earlier, the Powhatan Steamship Company had delivered to the James River wharf at Rocketts 279 wooden boxes containing the remains of 708 Southern soldiers exhumed from the battlefield. These men earned his respect and the respect of the nation. The wagons were draped in white and black and covered with flowers and Confederate banners. They feel assured that in an economical way they can meet all the expenses incident to the removal, and while they would not put aside such voluntary assistance as your Legislature might extend, still they cannot consent to invoke it. In other words, the proud ladies of Virginia would not ask for aid from any Northerner in this project except Weaver, whom they were paying to do the work. The first African-American Civil War soldier to be buried there was Henry Gooden, 127th USCT, in 1884 (this was a re-burial, since Gooden had originally been buried at the Adams County Almshouse burying-ground).But, Guelzo was quick to add, no others were buried there until 1936. What this meant, Guelzo suspected, was that a de facto segregation policy was the rule until then. Accordingly, some [t]wenty-nine black Civil War veterans were buried before 1920 in the colored cemeterythe Lincoln Cemetery [or Good-will Cemetery, since it was originally created by a black mutual-aid society, the Sons of Good-will]on Long Lane.. Lee regiment unknown Weaver found two combs, a diary and the bullet that killed him.. Exhumations of the estimated 2,500-3,000 bodies remaining on the field began on April 19, 1872. It was dedicated Nov. 19, 1863, and immortalized in a speech given there by President Abraham Lincoln. Basil Biggs was born in 1820 in Carroll County, Md., in New Windsor. Upon graduating, Rufus went to Philadelphia to study anatomy, with the goal of becoming a doctor. He continued to feel, however, that he had been used poorly by the ladies of the HMA. Now the descendants of a true American heroa soldier for freedomwho made others whole with his helping hands, can be made whole themselves through genealogical research and DNA science. Apparently, farmer John Rose was not sympathetic to their mission. @1855), Michael (b. Mr. Maury has given landed security and the matter is eventually secured and Dr. Weaver will certainly secure funds when realized. Unfortunately, Major Stiles was wrong. Confederate monument in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA (photo by author). Weaver had completed the work promised, and had upheld his fathers legacy, but unfortunately the Hollywood Memorial Association never raised enough funds to pay him for the job. Rebel clothing was cotton, and gray or brown in color. Samuel lived in 1900, at address, Missouri. The perseverance of the president of the association, however, aided by [an unnamed] farmers wife, finally secured his permission without compensation. Andrew Curtin, after a visit, to set in motion the establishment of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, 150 years ago this fall. His efforts are noted on a beautiful monument erected in Raleighs Oakwood Cemetery in 1997, where 137 sets of remains that Weaver recovered were reinterred in 1871. After all, Gettysburg was less than 10 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line! It was a bloodbath. Whatever the cause, he allowed more than a hint of frustration to seep into this letter. I then saw the body, with all the hair and all the particles of bone, carefully placed in the coffin.. He spared the trees and in 1881 sold seven acres to the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (GBMA) for $125 an acre, plus an additional $475.12 for damages to his property caused by the opening of what would be called Hancock Avenue. That dissection contributed greatly to medical education and is still on display at Drexel University College of Medicine. Weavers legitimate claim unfortunately fell victim to the animosity of the HMA toward the UDC. During this long interval, I have been waiting and hoping most patiently, as I did for twenty years prior to the present Associations assumption of the responsibility for the debt. . This week's article is by Gettysburg Connection contributor Jenine Weaver. Before the Civil War, Biggs had been a farmer, veterinarian and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Dr. Moses D. Hoge thanked God that our sons and brothers had been returned from their graves among strangers.. Being previously disappointed, and most desirous to know what progress is being made in the settlement of the Maury claim, will you please inform mewhat the prospects are for an early payment of the balance ($1196.34) on the principal of the original debt?, Minors response was also less courteous than before. Fresh coffins stand by at the ready. Cons. His efforts to get paid for it proved to be nearly as difficult. Well on to nine years have elapsed since I have received any communication from the Association, he told her. The FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi, killed Vicki Weaver on Aug. 22, 1992, as she was standing in the doorway of the family cabin in northern Idaho, holding her baby daughter. The funds were deposited at Brown Lancaster & Co. of Baltimore, paid to the order of Mrs. A.D. Egerton of that city. Its a rare and striking photograph that shows Weaver and his men exhuming some of the bodies for transfer to the National Cemetery, according to Gettysburg photo historian William A. Frassanito. He had also been assured by Captain Dimmock in early 1872 that the ladies had $4,000 in hand for the Gettysburg dead., Unfortunately for Weaver and the ladies of the HMA, their funds had been deposited with Maury & Co., a Richmond banking house that fell victim to the Panic of 1873. This unit was assigned to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 and fought the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in battles leading up to Gettysburg, including the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. But there were also diaries, photographs, letters, a rosary and Bibles. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Kate Pleasants Minor, the new secretary of the HMA, referred to it as thunder in a clear sky. Many who were members in 1871-73 had died or moved away. Cutshaw, who succeeded Charles Dimmock as Richmond city engineer; and Robert Stiles. In the wake of the Civil War, the Ladies' Memorial Association made arrangements with Dr. Weaver's Father, Mr. Samuel Weaver, to remove the South Carolina dead from Gettysburg battlegrounds [4].In 1869, before Samuel Weaver could begin the work, he was killed in a railroad accident. In the immediate post-war period, the South had to focus on physically rebuilding its infrastructure and rebuilding its ties with the north; it did not have the money or resources to tend to the Confederate dead. . But historians have recorded that the smell of the battlefield could be detected from afar. In addition to the $6,356 of unpaid principal, Weaver calculated interest on the unpaid debt of more than $6,000. His list would be the starting point for those wishing to locate Southern remains. The streets were lined with weeping spectators, and when they were laid to rest on what would become known as Gettysburg Hill in Hollywood Cemetery, the Rev. [45] . In early 1889, however, Weaver urged Egerton to make another effort. Perhaps it was nothing more than the approach of another years end that made him want to resolve this matter at last. It was an enormous task, and most of the bodies ended up in shallow mass graves. During that summer of 1871, the family of Lt. Col. David Winn of the 4th Georgia contracted with Weaver to collect and return his body, which had been buried on the David Blocher Farm. He was living in Adams County, PA when he died. In the days after the Confederate Army retreated from the North in July 1863, civilians labored to bury the thousands of soldiers lying dead in towns and hillsides across south-central Pennsylvania. As the battles of the Civil War faded, Creighton writes, Gettysburgs black community continued to witness the public segregation of memory. They celebrated Emancipation Day on their own ground and decorated the graves of black and white soldiers, but few outside the race returned the favor. Brother of Thomas Weaver and Richard Weaver. . A thousand former Confederate soldiers followed, preceded by former Southern generals, including George E. Pickett, whose grand assault at Gettysburg had been smashed in the battles climax. The clue to that lies in a comment made in a draft letter written by a member of the HMA in late 1891. However, the graves of men who had fallen in far-off places like Antietam and Gettysburg were beyond the ladies reach, both physically and financially. While the Union dead were quickly moved to their new resting place in the cemetery, the Confederate dead were left in their battlefield graves. In recent years, however, Weaver has begun to receive the recognition he deserves. To this point, apparently Weaver had been charged only with recovering identified remains (although the North Carolina shipment included 14 sets that were unidentified). Such was the case 155 years ago this week, when Samuel Wilkeson, the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, covered the pivotal Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. To avoid notice, arrest and possible death under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Biggs would wait until night to bring the fugitives to the home of another free black man, Edward Mathews, in Yellow Hill. GDCW154 V10 Made by the Review of Reviews Company Picture removed 353979270423 Biggs and another man then used their horse teams to take the coffins to the new cemetery for reburial. By 1850, census records show they were free and owned $300 worth of real estate. #70 Mark Samuel #131 Taylor Weaver #46 Delaware Valley: W: FALL: 3:41: 141 #70 Mark Samuel #358 Michael Inks #110 Penn State Behrend: W: TF5: 16 - 0 2:12: 141 #70 Mark Samuel #3 Kyle Slendorn #8 Stevens Tech: L: MD: 16 - 5: 141 #70 Mark Samuel #53 Levi Englman #72 Ferrum: L: DEC: 9 - 6: 141 #70 Mark Samuel About a decade later . . They Say He Burned Down the Reichstag. Photographs of soldiers corpses remind us of the unfathomable human cost of the Civil Warboth for the nation as a whole, as Drew Faust writes in This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, and for individual families. After the Battle of Gettysburg Samuel was appointed by Pennsylvania governor Andrew Curtain to oversee the exhumation of Union soldiers for . Gettysburg Compiler August 18, 1896 Last Thursday Peter Weaver who lived near town, died very suddenly. While the ladies of the HMA primarily were concerned with honoring the dead, the younger members of the UDC were focused on influencing the future by shaping the minds of the young. He had been awarded $1,356, on paper, but Congress never released the funds to repay him.) With great ceremony, they were reburied in the new Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Va., dedicated in 1866. Men had been shot to death, struck by cannon balls, stabbed with bayonets, clubbed with rifle butts and burned. Hanover photographer Peter S. Weaver, who operated a studio on Baltimore Street, recorded this view dated February 6, 1864. He also wrote to Kate Minor, asking what progress had been made in the settlement of the Maury claim. The ladies seemed to feel that the matter was settled, leaving them with no further responsibility. 94: How did the war dead from the Battle of Gettysburg get buried, and by whom? Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with a casualty list more than 40,000 long. Soldiers were generally buried where they fell, and any farmers field was likely to contain a grave. A dozen more were removed from the cemetery at Camp Letterman, the large general hospital managed by the Army of the Potomacs medical corps, located on the York Road east of Gettysburg. Most were the simple items that the average Billy Yank might carry a comb, a pipe, a toothbrush, a knife, a fork and a spoon. How could an obligation of this size have been created? Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. In a December 25, 1878, letter written apparently to Mrs. Brown, Egerton complained that she had written you from time to time for the past three years on this subject without one word of reply and informed her that she had asked Stiles and Judge J.H.C. The Gettysburg Soldiers' Cemetery and Lincoln's Address: Aspects and Angles. But Biggs wasnt just concerned with honoring the white fighting men at Gettysburg. Weaver reported that 979 of the bodies he exhumed were nameless.. Weaver was not some Wall Street financier or speculator in land or railroad stocks. If the soldier was from the South, he was left in place, and his grave closed up again. View Samuel C Weaver results in Gettysburg, PA including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Then his remains were found, identified and given a proper burial. Samuel was the first full-time photographer in Gettysburg and his photo gallery was on the second floor of his home on West Middle Street. ) he emphasized, that I suggested to the association per Capt. Michael E. Ruane is a general assignment reporter who also covers Washington institutions and historical topics. newsletter for the best of the past, delivered every Monday and Thursday. If Weaver ever received another copper from the Maury estate or the HMA, there is no record of it. (Weaver) Milhimes of Gettysburg, granddaughter Rebecca E. (Milhimes) Peterson and husband James of . He suhsequently practiced law for two years with his uncle, Isiah Dill, at Hanptaville, Ala. but in 1860 returned to this state, settling in Lewisburg. As that information becomes available, this list will be updated to include the new . Levi H. Mumper was born on May 8, 1843, to Samuel Weaver Mumper and Mary Catherine (Shultz) Mumper in a house near Dillsburg. They were buried in corn fields, in orchards, under apple trees, along roadsides, in woods and beside creeks. It is not clear what prompted this letter. A second shipment of 882 remains was sent August 3, and a final shipment of 683 remains was sent September 10 for that year. Weaver managed his medical practice during the day, then labored for hours at night using his anatomical training to piece together individual bodies from the graves and prepare them for shipment. During the three days of combat, the invading Confederate troops turned Basils farm into a field hospital. There was not a grave permitted to be opened or a body searched unless I was present, Weaver, a Gettysburg merchant hired to supervise the exhumations, wrote the year after the battle. Laboring under the shadow of the Soldiers National Cemetery, Creighton writes, the Sons of Good Will struggled to find and maintain a place to bury black veterans.. But Samuel Weaver was killed in February 1871 . The same census tracked Biggs move up (in more ways than one). Bieseckers bid, according to Creighton, was a little over a dollar and a half per body. Once he got the contract, what did Biesecker do? Rufus Weaver lived to the ripe old age of 95, passing away peacefully in 1936. It appears that Egerton might have taken a different tack this time, for in 1902 a member of the Richmond chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy reported to the HMA that an appeal had been made to UDC chapters across the South for the funds needed to pay the remaining debt owed to Weaver. In his report, Weaver explained the process. By this time, Egerton was more than 70 years old and Weaver was 60. And another unknown soldier was found with a handkerchief spread over his face. Gettysburg, however, remained a concern because distance kept former Confederates from easily claiming the bodies. Appalling post-battle scenes had prompted Pennsylvania Gov. There, according to the 1860 census, 186 free black people lived, Guelzo says, with another 1,500 scattered through Adams County.. Weaver noted that he also examined more than 3,000 rebel graves. During the summer of 1872, at least, he employed what he referred to as a full force of laborers in order to complete the work as quickly as possible, and Weaver was paying the men out of his own pocket. As many as nine rebels were accidently buried among their Yankee foes, according to the National Park Service.). The moment was captured in February 1864, in a churchyard in Hanover, a town east of Gettysburg, where 19 Union soldiers were killed in a cavalry skirmish the day before the battle. Phone: Cell/Mobile/Wireless and/or landline telephone numbers for Samuel Weaver in Gettysburg, PA. (717) 424-3797 (717) 778-1156 (717) 259-9806 (727) 841-9229 (727) 843-9341 AKA: Alias, Nicknames, alternate spellings, married and/or maiden names for Samuel Weaver in Gettysburg, PA. Samuel Weaver in Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1960. Rufus Weaver had been born in Gettysburg and by 1869 was finishing his medical studies and was a demonstrator of anatomy at Philadelphias Hahnemann Medical College. Weaver agreed to forgo the interest if the original principal of $6,356 could be paid. Even though Biggs didnt live to see that day, he had seen other harrowing days, especially before the Civil War. Round 1 - Dylan Weaver (Shenandoah University) 22-8 won by decision over Eli Crum (Lycoming College) 1-2 (Dec 7-3) Did he talk about it with his family or keep it shut up inside? With more than 50,000 estimated casualties, the three-day engagement was the bloodiest single battle of the conflict. Most had been buried in hastily dug holes that were easily disturbed by animals, rain or a plough. Shop sales in every category.Uh-oh, overstock: Wayfair put their surplus on sale for up to 50% off. Having returned to find his farm ransacked, he realized there was a job to do that nobody else wantedexhuming bodies hastily buried during and immediately after the battle and ensuring that they were returned home or reburied in a more dignified way. Union victory. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. Thats right: The actual work of digging up and transporting the cadavers was farmed out to Basil Biggs as subcontractor, and Biggs then hired several black men to tackle the monumental task. The procession was headed by a band, along with the mayor and city officials. Genealogy for Samuel Clay Weaver (1910 - 1916) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. One unknown soldier was found with a Bible in German that was inscribed by Catherine Detanpafer.. It is ironic that little is known about this man, as he played a central role in the creation of the National Cemetery. It worked. He then wrote the name, company and regiment of the soldier on the coffin and numbered it. Samuel Weaver passed away on month day 1920, at death place, Missouri. Years later, in an article in the Cleveland Gazette on June 18, 1892, a Mr. Scotland told of his encounter with Biggs while visiting Gettysburg: He is a veterinary surgeon and is reputed to be the wealthiest Afro-American in Gettysburg. . 14 Gettysburg College 36.0 15 Thiel College 19.5 16 Waynesburg University 18.5 . At Gettysburg, Weaver found as many as 70 Union soldiers in one trench and 150 rebels in another. In 2014, a bronze marker honoring Weaver was erected on Lefevre Street in Gettysburg, and in 2015 a similar plaque was placed in Hollywood Cemetery, on Gettysburg Hill, acknowledging a debt of honor owed by all Southerners, and recognizing his generosity and humanity. Perhaps, after all, its better to be memorialized in bronze than to be paid in coppers. Transcription: The ladies ignored the board and immediately went to work. According to an article written in 1929, Rose refused to let the bodies be removed unless the ladies were willing to pay for them. Thats exactly what our investigation bore out. In 1849 be enter- ed Dickinson seminary, and three years ater entered the janior class of Dickin- son college, graduating in 1855, In 1858 he was admitted to the bar opening an office in Gettysburg. It required one with anatomical knowledge, to gather all the bones, Weaver wrote later. The area around Gettysburg, Pa., was no exception. She earned her M.A. Ada Egerton died four years later at age 77. The second best result is Samuel W Weaver age 70s in Coal Township, PA. Samuel is related to Geraldine T Weaver and Eric S Weaver as well as 2 additional people. 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