Soldier Data for Officers and Enlisted Soldiers of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, "The Roundheads"
From the websmith, David L. Welch, August 31, 2011:
In honor of the majority of initial veterans of the 100th PA that enlisted on this date 150 years ago, I post these interactive data spreadsheets for descendants, Civil War historians and other friends of the Roundheads. Currently the information is fairly comprehensive for Companies A through C for officers and enlisted but all of the companies have a very large amount of information available to search and discover. More information will be added over the next four years during the 150th anniverary sequicentennial commemoration of the American Civil War, 1861-1865.
A big thank you to Tami McConahy for transcribing many soldier pension card data is in order. Also, I would like to thank Jeff Alborn for his numerous Roundhead gravestone images that he has photographed of cemeteries in Lawrence County.
This information has been compiled from a variety of sources and links soldiers to images, biographies, letters/diaries, gravesites/gravestones, personal data (age at enlistment, height, hair color, etc.), birthdate, deathdate, newspaper articles (obituaries, marriage announcements, reunions, wartime correspondence)
References used include:
Historical Data Systems, Inc @ www.civilwardata.com
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
- National Archives: Index to Federal Pension Records
- Lawrence County, PA Soldiers
- Record of the men of the 100th PA Infantry: James C. Stevenson
- Lawrence County Historical Society, New Castle, PA
- PA State Archives: Civil War Veterans' Card File 1861-1865
www.fold3.com (formerly footnote.com)
Pennsylvania Civil War Archives--http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp
Pennsylvania Digitized Civil War Newspapers http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/civilwar/Client.asp?skin=civilwar&AW=1314815386465&AppName=2
Penn State University's "Pennsylvanians in the Civil War Project" at: http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/cw/c.cfm
Pennsylvania 150th Anniversary of Civil War Website http://www.pacivilwar150.com/
and individual private collections as noted within the website.