History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . tsylvania, and in the series of conflicts whichcontinued until the it was almost constantlyunder fire, and behaved with its accustomed steadi-ness, though its loss during that time was but threekilled and sixteen wounded. Its three years term ofservice having now expired, an order of the WarDepartment was received on the 17th of May reliev-ing it from duty at the front, directing the transfer ofits recruits and re-enlisted veterans to the One Hun-dred and Ninety-first Regiment
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . tsylvania, and in the series of conflicts whichcontinued until the it was almost constantlyunder fire, and behaved with its accustomed steadi-ness, though its loss during that time was but threekilled and sixteen wounded. Its three years term ofservice having now expired, an order of the WarDepartment was received on the 17th of May reliev-ing it from duty at the front, directing the transfer ofits recruits and re-enlisted veterans to the One Hun-dred and Ninety-first Regiment, and the musteringout of its other men and ofliccrs. Under this orderthose wdiose terms had expired proceeded to Wash-ington, and thence to Pittsburgh, wdiere the remnantof the regiment was mustered out of service. Gen. S. Duncan Oliphant, the subject of thissketch, is the second son of a family of eleven chil-dren—six sons and five daughters—of F. H. and .laneC. Oliphrnt; was born at Franklin Forge, at the Little Falls of the Youghiogheny River, Franklintownship, Fayette Co., Pa., Aug. 1, 1826. (f^ ^^. /iZ-t^t^. a^,lXlD£o/-}Aa^^.f WAR OF THE REBELLION. His experience of school commenced when quite achild, while his father lived in Pittsburgh,—the in-struction of a private tutor in the family at FranklinForge, and subsequently at different schools from timeto time in Uniontown, mostly in the old MadisonCollege building; and his preparation for college atBethel Academy, near Pittsburgh, and the GroveAcademy, at Steubenville, Ohio. In the fall of 1840 he entered the freshman classof Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Washington Co.,Pa., where his older brother John, Gen. J. B. Sweit-zcr. Rev. Johnson Elliot, John Sturgeon, DanielDowner, William Parshal, and Tliomas Lyons, ofFayette County, were among his college-mates. Hewas one of the four orators representing the PhiloLiterary Society, along with Gen. Joshua T. Owen,of Philadelphia, Gen. James S. Jackson, of Kentucky,
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