. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . % m *. COLONEL JOHN LEVERING, Colonel John Levering was bum near Philadelphia,Pa., April 19, 1826. He is a descendant of Wigard Lev-ering who settled in that city in 1685 and became a largeland-owner, ami a grandson of Captain |ohn Levering ofthe war of the Revolution. In 1849, with wife and child, he removed to Cincinnati ;thence, in 1850, to La Fayette, Ind., where he conducteda real estate and loan business which he established inJanuary, 1856, in the same building. On the breaking out of the war in April, 1861
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . % m *. COLONEL JOHN LEVERING, Colonel John Levering was bum near Philadelphia,Pa., April 19, 1826. He is a descendant of Wigard Lev-ering who settled in that city in 1685 and became a largeland-owner, ami a grandson of Captain |ohn Levering ofthe war of the Revolution. In 1849, with wife and child, he removed to Cincinnati ;thence, in 1850, to La Fayette, Ind., where he conducteda real estate and loan business which he established inJanuary, 1856, in the same building. On the breaking out of the war in April, 1861, at theinstance of Governor Morton, he went to Philadelphiaand made contracts for the equipment of Indiana the designation of Governor Morton and General J. , in Jul}-, 1861, he was appointed by PresidentLincoln captain and a quartermaster of volunteers, andserved in the Cheat Mountain (Va.) campaign. In 1862 he had charge of Post Gauley Bridge, WestVirginia, until August, when he was ordered to the staffof General Pope, commanding the Army of the Potomac
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