The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . EN. GEORGE A. Cl STEK. who fell, with upwanls of 30«> offlv-rr« »nA otrn, »nKiitlo wUh Slou\ Invll*ns n*ar LUtle II» ro Klr»r. M 25. ISTO. THE PEXXSYLVAXIA-GERMAX AS PATRIOT AXD SOLDIER 163 of Kings Mountain and in spite of severewounds kept on fighting until victorywas Vvon and Cornwallis forced to re-treat to Virginia. There were Pennsylvania-Germans inthe War of 1812 and in the MexicanWar, and in these as well as in th
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . EN. GEORGE A. Cl STEK. who fell, with upwanls of 30«> offlv-rr« »nA otrn, »nKiitlo wUh Slou\ Invll*ns n*ar LUtle II» ro Klr»r. M 25. ISTO. THE PEXXSYLVAXIA-GERMAX AS PATRIOT AXD SOLDIER 163 of Kings Mountain and in spite of severewounds kept on fighting until victorywas Vvon and Cornwallis forced to re-treat to Virginia. There were Pennsylvania-Germans inthe War of 1812 and in the MexicanWar, and in these as well as in the warfor the Union they won honor by theirgallant services. Both in the regulararmy as graduates from \Vest Point, andin the navy, Pennsylvania-Germans werenoteworthy. Heileman, who fell in Flo-rida ; Nauman; the Ammens, one a bri-gadier-general, the other an admiral;Gen. Schriver, Gen. Shiras, Gen. Haupt,Gen. Hagner, Gen. Heintzelman, , and Greble and Hambrightwere all of good old Pennsylvania-Ger-man stock. Pennsylvania-Germans tothe number of over seventeen thousandserved in the war for the Union, andHart ran ft and Pennypacker are famous. J^^^^-,.,,,.-,^-,-., , .-^- J. /? ^ ^ (? •? ! i i i \ .^*,i2&^;: ..,&^^. • ... .>y i.;..-:- 1 . J GKN. JOHN D. IMBODEN (See full sketch in The PeinisylvauUi-Goriuan,Jan., 1004) UEAK-ADMIKAL WIXFIELD S. SCHLKV alike in peace and war as men whoserved their State and nation with of Pennsylvania-German stockfought on the side of the Hoke of the Confederatearmy was a grandson of a German Re- *Lieutenant John T. Greble was bom in Phiadcl-phia in 1834, graduated from the Hi?h School andthe West Point Military Academy. He fell in an at-tack upon the Southern forces at Big Bethel, Va.,June 10, 1S61, the lirst orncer of the reguiar arraykilled in the Rebellion. Bates in his Martial Deedsof Pennsylvania, after describing an advance of theUnion troops against the foe and their subse-quent
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