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Chris and Jordan Back at The Camera Store: Just Like the Old Days https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/chris-and-jordan-back-at-the-camera-store-just-like-the-old-days/ #photographyretailers #thecamerastore #youtubechannel #camerastores #Inspiration #Editorial #dirtyjobs #oldhaunts #petapixel #dpreview #Culture #retail #tcstv
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Chris and Jordan Back at The Camera Store: Just Like the Old Days https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/chris-and-jordan-back-at-the-camera-store-just-like-the-old-days/ #photographyretailers #thecamerastore #youtubechannel #camerastores #Inspiration #Editorial #dirtyjobs #oldhaunts #petapixel #dpreview #Culture #retail #tcstv
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Wait, they cast #TimothyOlyphant as a sassy android in #AlienEarth?! I guess there is a 100% chance of me watching the show.
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‘Alien: Earth’ Review: FX’s Sci-Fi Prequel Is an Intriguingly Ambitious, Eventually Thrilling Journey Into the Semi-Known
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‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/31/alien-earth-disney-noah-hawley-writer-director-interview-timothy-olyphant-fargo #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SciencefictionTV #Television #Culture #Alien #Film
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It always starts at 3:21 AM.
Last three mornings.
I need more locks.#horror #creepy #cosmichorror #bellforgingcycle #lovat #quietcorners #oldhaunts #urbanfantasy #books #horrortok
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Bumped into this thanks to @sepinwall 's post - the morning after having watched the #TheGoodPlace episode with #TimothyOplyphant
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Decided to play the old VHS tape I found.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U1xUGG0r6-I
#liminalspaces #cosmichorror #creepy #foundfootage #horror #urbanfantasy #lovat #quietcorners #oldhaunts #bellforgingcycle
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Suburban zombies are back and ravenous as ever in Santa Clarita Diet S3 trailer - The family that preys together, stays together. Drew Barrymore and Tim Olyphant star as She... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1471899 #televisionstreaming #santaclaritadiet #gaming&culture #entertainment #television #trailers #netflix #zombies
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Raylan: Either Markham's a hell of an actor or he really didn't know what his boys did to Calhoun.
Tim: Well, he knows now.
Raylan: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes.
Tim: You just come up with that?
Raylan: I read it somewhere.
Tim: Well, do me a favor and say it again slow so I can write it down. - Jacob Pitts as U.S. Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson and Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens in #Justified
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Raylan: Either Markham's a hell of an actor or he really didn't know what his boys did to Calhoun.
Tim: Well, he knows now.
Raylan: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes.
Tim: You just come up with that?
Raylan: I read it somewhere.
Tim: Well, do me a favor and say it again slow so I can write it down. - Jacob Pitts as U.S. Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson and Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens in "Justified."
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Love this show.
Givens: "You ever hear of the saying, 'You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole'?" - Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens in "Justified."
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Some bourbon appreciation courtesy of Raylan Givens.
#Justified
#StayFrosty
#ElmoreLeonardRaylan: Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something like that ... sharp, inhospitable. Same reason I never understood the fascination with the artichoke.
Aguilar: Who are you? D.E.A.?
Raylan: Now, bourbon is easy to understand. Tastes like a warm summer day. - Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens in "Justified." -
As an editorial policy we would never use an AI manipulated image without a declaration unlike Hugh Nailon and the team at 9News.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/statement-from-9news-melbourne-director/09d719f9-ac72-482a-a915-0d6865d50e40Strange they haven't been able to name the automated Photoshop filter used.
Adobe have no Idea about the filter.Here's a picture of Nailon looking relaxed, and a bit like Timothy Olyphant from Hitman.
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“Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.
* Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;
First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;
* Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;
* Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;
* Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;
Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).
* Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;
* Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;
* Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;
James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).
* Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;
* Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
* Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;
* Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;
Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;
* Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;
* Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).
* Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);
Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;
* Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;
* Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;
* Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;
Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).
* Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;
* Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;
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* Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;
* Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;
* Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;
Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).
* Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;
Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;
* Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;
* Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;
* Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;
Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:
I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.
Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.
Sources:
- “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
- Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
- Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
- U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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“Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.
* Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;
First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;
* Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;
* Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;
* Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;
Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).
* Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;
* Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;
* Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;
James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).
* Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;
* Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
* Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;
* Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;
Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;
* Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;
* Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).
* Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);
Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;
* Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;
* Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;
* Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;
Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).
* Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;
* Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;
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* Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;
* Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;
* Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;
Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).
* Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;
Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;
* Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;
* Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;
* Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;
Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:
I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.
Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.
Sources:
- “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
- Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
- Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
- U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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“Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.
* Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;
First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;
* Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;
* Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;
* Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;
Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).
* Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;
* Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;
* Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;
James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).
* Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;
* Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
* Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;
* Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;
Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;
* Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;
* Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).
* Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);
Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;
* Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;
* Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;
* Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;
Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).
* Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;
* Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;
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* Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;
* Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;
* Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;
Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).
* Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;
Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;
* Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;
* Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;
* Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;
Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:
I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.
Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.
Sources:
- “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
- Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
- Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
- U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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“Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.
* Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;
First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;
* Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;
* Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and residing with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons on Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; Postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;
* Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;
Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).
* Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub and his younger brother emigrated with their parents circa 1852 and settled in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where their father found work as a stone mason; a sixteen-year-old cigarmaker in 1861, Jacob became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War, enrolling as a field musician with Company A; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;
* Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on 16 September 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, army surgeons determined that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; he subsequently died from his injuries at Mower on 12 March 1865 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;
* Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated his wife and children to Camden County, New Jersey; he died there on September 5, 1915;
James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).
* Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder because he was diagnosed as insane by physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, he fell from a window and died at that home on September 16, 1921; he was interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;
* Eagle, Augustus and (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorable discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, he died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
* Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;
* Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on 20 August 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;
Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Gardner, Reuben Shatto (John A. and Jacob S. R.): Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; Reuben was then severely wounded, shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; hospitalized at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, he ultimately returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; they then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;
* Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; he died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894 and was interred at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;
* Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933.
* Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, rising through the ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. leadership positions; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died at the age of ninety-one at the veterans’ home in San Francisco on October 11, 1935 and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);
Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and spent most of is early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, opting to enlist as a private with Charles’ company on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;
* Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;
* Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;
* Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;
Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).
* Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;
* Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;
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* Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and a U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;
* Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;
* Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;
Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).
* Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;
Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;
* Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;
* Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;
* Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter from Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), after he had recently been promotoed to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he married, started a family and worked as a carpenter in Ashland, Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company;
Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:
I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
Later in life, he became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy of U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died while serving with the Union Army.
Having returned home after the war, William Williamson had found work at a slate quarry, married and begun a family with his wife in Belfast, Northampton County. He lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.
Sources:
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
- Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
- U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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“Labor Is Life” (U.S. Postal Service’s Labor Day Stamp, 1956, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Bakers, blacksmiths, boatmen, butchers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, cigarmakers, coal miners, factory workers, farmers, gardeners, gold miners, iron workers, masons, quarry workers, teamsters, tombstone carvers. These were just a few of the diverse job titles held by the laborers who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Many returned to their same occupations after the war ended while others found new pathways for their life journeys. Far too many were never able to return to the arms of their loved ones and still rest in marked or unmarked graves far from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In honor of Labor Day, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story is proud to present this abridged list of blue-collar men and boys who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry between August 1861 and January 1866, as well as the names of two of the women associated with the regiment who made their own unforgettable marks on the world.
* Auchmuty, Samuel S. (First Lieutenant, Company D): A native of Duncannon, Perry County and veteran of the Mexican-American War who was employed as a carpenter during the early 1860s, Samuel Auchmuty responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War by enrolling as a first lieutenant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 20, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his work as a house carpenter and launched a successful contracting business that was responsible for building new business structures, churches, single-family homes, and schools, as well as renovating existing structures; he died in 1891, following a brief illness;
First Sergeant Christian S. Beard, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Beard, Christian Seiler (First Lieutenant, Company C): A twenty-seven-year-old, married carpenter residing in Williamsport, Lycoming County when President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1865, Chistian S. Beard promptly enrolled for Civil War military service before that month was out as a private with Company D of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; after rising up through the ranks to become a first lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on Christmas Day, 1865, and returned home to his wife in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he continued to work as a carpenter; after having several children with his wife, he was widowed by her; remarried in 1884, he relocated with his wife and children to Pittsburgh, where he continued to work as a carpenter; ailing with heart and kidney disease, he died there on November 16, 1911 and was interred at that city’s Highwood Cemetery;
* Burke, Thomas (Sergeant, Company I): A first-generation American, Thomas Burke was a twenty-year-old cabinetmaker residing in Allentown at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on the day that the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded (August 5, 1861), he was officially mustered in as a private; from that point on, he continued to work his way up the ranks, receiving a promotion to corporal on September 19, 1864 and then to sergeant on July 11, 1865; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865, he returned home to Lehigh County, where he married and began a family; sometime in early to mid-1871, he and his family migrated west to Iowa, settling in Anamosa, Jones County, where he was employed as a carpenter and contractor; he died at his home there on October 22, 1910 and was buried at that town’s Riverside Cemetery;
* Colvin, John Dorrance (Second Lieutenant, Company C): A native of Abington Township, Lackawanna County who was a farmer when he enlisted for Civil War military service on September 12, 1861, John D. Colvin transferred to the U.S. Army Signal Corps on October 13, 1863, and continued to serve with the Signal Corps for the duration of the war; employed as an engineer, post-war, he helped the Pacific Railroad to extend its service from Atchison, Kansas to Fort Kearney in Nebraska before returning home to Pennsylvania, where he married, began a family and resided with them in Olyphant and Carbondale before relocating with them to Parsons in Luzerne County, where he became a prominent civic leader and member of the school board; initially employed as a machinist, he went on to become superintendent of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company before taking a similar job with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company; the U.S. Postal Service’s postmaster of Parsons during the early 1890s, he died there on March 15, 1901 and was buried at the Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre;
* Crownover, James (Sergeant, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old teamster residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Crownover rose up through the ranks of the 47th Pennsylvania from private to reach the rank of sergeant; wounded in the right shoulder and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864, he was marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, where he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on November 25, 1864; during captivity, he was commissioned, but not mustered as a second lieutenant; given medical treatment before he was returned to active duty, he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he found work at a tannery near Blain, married, began a family and then relocated with them to East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, where he worked as a teamster; relocating with them to Braddock in Allegheny County after the turn of the century, he worked at a local mill there; he died in Allegheny County on July 18, 1903 and was buried at the Monongahela Cemetery in Braddock Hills;
Jacob Daub, circa 1862-1865 (carte de visite, Cooley & Beckett Photographers, Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina, public domain).
* Daub, Jacob and William J. (Drummer Boy, Company A): A German immigrant as a child, Jacob Daub emigrated with his parents and younger brother, William, circa 1852; after settling in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where his father found work as a stone mason, Jacob grew up to become a cigarmaker, and also became the first of the two brothers to enlist in the American Civil War; after enrolling at the age of sixteen, he was classified as a field musician and assigned to Company A as its drummer boy; his nineteen-year-old brother, William, a carpenter by 1865, followed him into the war when he enlisted as a private with the same company in February of that year; after the war ended, both returned home to Northampton County, where they married, had children and went on to live long, full lives; William eventually died at the age of eighty in 1928, followed by Jacob, who passed away in 1936, roughly two months before his ninety-first birthday;
* Detweiler, Charles C. (Private, Company A): Berks County native Charles Detweiler enrolled for Civil War military service on September 16, 1862; a carpenter who later became a farmer, he served with Company A until he was severely injured in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, when he sustained a musket ball wound to the middle of his thigh; treated at a Union Army hospital in Virginia before being transported to the Union’s Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he learned that the musket ball had damaged his femur and femoral arteries; following his wound-related death at Mower on March 12, 1865, he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Kutztown, Berks County;
* Diaz, John (Private, Company I): An immigrant from Spain’s Canary Islands, John Diaz emigrated sometime between 1862 and 1865 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a cigarmaker; on January 25, 1865, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted with the Union Army at a recruiting depot in Norristown, Montgomery County and served as a private with Company I of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he resumed work as a cigarmaker in Philadelphia, eventually launching his own cigarmaking firm, which became a family business as his sons became old enough to work for him; sometime between 1906 and 1910, he relocated with his wife and several of his children to Camden County, New Jersey, where he died on September 5, 1915;
James Downs (circa 1880s, public domain).
* Downs, James (Corporal, Company D): A twenty-three-year-old tanner residing in Blain, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, James Downs was captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River; held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864, he received medical treatment and was subsequently returned to active duty; following his honorable discharge with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1865, he returned home, married, began a family and relocated with his family to Phillipsburg, New Jersey; suffering from heart and kidney disease, and possibly also from post-traumatic stress disorder, rather than “insane” as physicians at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania had diagnosed him, he fell from a window at that home and died at there on September 16, 1921; he was subsequently interred in the Veterans’ Circle of the Brookville Cemetery;
* Eagle, Augustus (Second Lieutenant, Company F): A German immigrant as a teenager, Augustus Eagle arrived in America on June 23, 1855, two years after his brother, Frederick Eagle, had emigrated and made a life for himself in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; both men married and began families there, with Fred employed as a laborer and Gus employed by the Crane Iron Works; when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, both men enrolled for military service on August 21, 1861 as privates with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; in 1862, Fred fell ill and was honorably discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, but Gus continued to serve, rising up through the regiment’s enlisted and officers’ ranks; commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was honorably discharged on September 11, 1864, upon completion of his three-year term of service; post-war, Fred became a successful baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars) and died in Catasauqua in 1885, while Gus owned a successful restaurant in Whitehall Township before operating the Fairview Hotel, which became a popular spot for political gatherings; after suffering a series of strokes in 1902, Gus died at his home on August 17 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
* Eisenbraun, Alfred (Drummer Boy, Company B): A tobacco stripper and first-generation American from Allentown, Lehigh County, fifteen-year-old Alfred Eisenbraun became the second “man” from the 47th Pennsylvania to die when he succumbed to complications from typhoid fever at the Kalorama Eruptive Fever Hospital in Georgetown, District of Columbia on October 26, 1861; he still rests at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Cemetery in Washington, D.C.;
* Fink, Aaron (Corporal, Company B): A shoemaker and native of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Fink, grew up, began a family and established a successful small shoemaking business, first in Allentown and then in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in Carbon County; on August 20, 1861, he chose to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to help bring the American Civil War to a quick end when he enrolled for military service; shot in the right leg during the fighting at the Frampton Plantation during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died there from wound-related complications on November 5, 1862; initially buried near that hospital, his remains were later exhumed by Allentown undertaker Paul Balliet and returned to Pennsylvania for reinterment at that city’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Fornwald, Reily M. (Corporal, Company G): Born in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Reily Fornwald was raised there on his family’s farm near Stouchsberg; educated in his community’s common schools and then at Millersville State Normal School, he became a railroad worker before returning to farm life shortly before the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service at the age of twenty on September 11, 1862, he was wounded in the head and groin by an exploding artillery shell during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862; stabilized on the battlefield before being transported to a field hospital for more advanced medical care, he spent four weeks recuperating before returning to active duty with his regiment; promoted to the rank of corporal on January 19, 1863, he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably discharged at Berryville, Virginia on September 18, 1864, upon expiration of his term of enlistment; after returning home, he spent four years operating a blast furnace for White & Ferguson in Robesonia, Berks County; he also married and began a family; sometime around 1870, he left that job to become an engine operator for Wright, Cook & Co. in Sheridan and then moved to a job as an engine operator for William M. Kauffman—a position he held for roughly a decade before securing employment as a shifting engineer with the Reading Railway Company at its yards in Reading; following his retirement in 1905, he and his wife settled in Robesonia, where he became involved in buying and selling real estate; following a severe fall in May 1925, during which he fractured a thigh bone, he died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Reading on June 1 and was buried at Robesonia’s Heidelberg Cemetery;
Captain Reuben Shatto Gardner, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Gardner, Reuben Shatto, John A. and Jacob S. R.: Natives of Perry County, Reuben Shatto Gardner and his brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner, began their work lives as laborers; among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Reuben was a twenty-five-year-old miller who resided in Newport, Perry County; after enlisting as a private with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, he was honorably mustered out after completing his term of service; he then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a first sergeant with Company H of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; also enrolling with him that same day were his twenty-three-year-old and twenty-one-year-old brothers, John A. Gardner and Jacob S. R. Gardner; John officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 18 (the day before Reuben arrived), while Jacob officially mustered in on September 19; both joined their brother’s company, entering at their respective ranks of corporal and private, but Jacob’s tenure was a short one; sickened by typhoid fever in late December 1861, he died at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Virginia on January 8, 1862; his remains were later returned to Perry County for burial at the Old Newport Cemetery; soldiering on, Reuben and John were transported with their regiment by ship to Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida and subsequently sent to South Carolina with their regiment and other Union troops; shot in the head and thigh during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, Reuben was treated at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina for an extended period of time, and then returned to active duty with his regiment; meanwhile, John was assigned with H Company and the men from Companies D, F and K to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas; both brothers then continued to work their way up the regiment’s ranks, with John promoted to corporal on September 18, 1864 and Reuben ultimately commissioned as a captain and given command of Company H on February 16, 1865; both then returned home after honorably mustering out with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865; sometime around 1866 or 1867, Reuben and his wife migrated west, first to Elk River Station in Sherburne County, Minnesota and then to Stillwater, Washington County, before settling in the city of Minneapolis; through it all, he worked as a miller; Reuben and his family then relocated farther west, arriving in King County, Washington after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889; initially employed in the restaurant industry, Reuben later found work as a railroad conductor before prospecting for gold with son Edward in the western United States and British Columbia, Canada during the 1890s Gold Rush; employed as a U.S. Post Office clerk in charge of the money order and registry departments in Seattle from 1898 to 1902, Reuben died in Seattle at the age of sixty-eight on September 25, 1903 and was interred at that city’s Lakeview Cemetery; meanwhile, his brother John, who had resumed work as a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad after returning from the war, was widowed by his wife in 1872; after remarrying and welcoming the births of more children, he was severely injured on October 9, 1873 while working as a fireman on the Pacific Express for the Pennsylvania Railroad; unable to continue working as a fireman due to his amputated hand, he worked briefly as a railroad call messenger before launching his own transfer business in Harrisburg; after he was widowed by his ailing second wife, John was severely injured in a second accident in 1894 while loading his delivery wagon; still operating his business after the turn of the century, he remarried on January 3, 1900, but was widowed by his third wife when she died during a surgical procedure in 1911; he subsequently closed his business and relocated to the home of his daughter in the city of Reading, Berks County; four years later, he fell on an icy sidewalk and became bedfast; aged eighty and ailing from arteriosclerosis and lung congestion, he died at her home on February 20, 1918 and was buried at Reading’s Charles Evans Cemetery;
* Gethers, Bristor (Under-Cook, Company F): Born into slavery in South Carolina circa 1829, Bristor Gethers was married “by slave custom at Georgetown, S.C.” on the Pringle plantation in Georgetown sometime around 1847 to “Rachael Richardson” (alternate spelling “Rachel”); a field hand at the dawn of the Civil War, he was freed from chattel enslavement in 1862 by Union Army troops; he then enlisted as an “Under-Cook” with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 5, 1862, and traveled with the regiment until October 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged in Charleston, South Carolina upon completion of his three-year term of enlistment; at that point, he returned to Beaufort and resumed life with his wife and their son, Peter; a farmer, Bristor was ultimately disabled by ailments that were directly attributable to his Union Army tenure; awarded a U.S. Civil War Soldiers’ Pension, he lived out his days with his wife on Horse Island, South Carolina, and died on Horse Island, South Carolina on June 24 or 25, 1894; he was then laid to rest at a graveyard on Parris Island on June 26 of that same year;
* Gilbert, Edwin (Captain, Company F): A native of Northampton County and a carpenter residing in Catasauqua, Lehigh County at the dawn of the American Civil War, Edwin Gilbert enrolled as a corporal on August 21, 1861; after rising up through his regiment’s officer ranks, he was ultimately commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on New Year’s Day, 1865, and then mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina of Christmas of that same year; resuming his life with his wife and children in Lehigh County after the war, he continued to work as a carpenter; after suffering a stroke in late December 1893, he died on January 2, 1894 and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua;
Mrs. Caroline Bost and Martin L. Guth celebrated the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with fellow Grand Army of the Republic and ladies auxiliary members in February 1933 (public domain).
* Guth, Martin Luther (Corporal, Company K): A native of Lehigh County and son of a farmer, Martin L. Guth was a seventeen-year-old laborer and resident of Guthsville in Whitehall Township at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service on September 26, 1862, he was officially mustered in as a corporal; he continued to serve with his regiment until he was honorably mustered out on October 1, 1865, upon expiration of his term of service; at some point during that service, he broke his leg—an injury that did not heal properly and plagued him for the remainer of his life; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he found work again as a laborer; married in 1883, he became the father of four children, one of whom was born in New Mexico and another who was born in California; he had moved his family west in search of work in the mining industry; documented as a “prospector” or “miner” records created in Nevada during that period, he was also documented on voter registration rolls of Butte City in Glenn County, California in August 1892; by 1900, he was living separately from his wife, who was residing in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon with their two children while he was residing at the Veterans’ Home of California in Yount Township, Napa County, California; subsequently admitted to the Mountain Branch of the network of U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 11, 1912, his disabilities included an old compound fracture of his right leg with chronic ulceration, defective vision (right eye), chronic bronchitis, and arteriosclerosis; discharged on December 12, 1920, he was admitted to the U.S. National Soldiers’ Home in Leavenworth, Kansas on July 30, 1912, but discharged on September 29, 1913; by 1920, he was living alone on Fruitvale Avenue in the city of Oakland, California, but was remaining active with his local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as he rose through the leadership ranks of chapter, state and national G.A.R. organizations; after a long, adventure-filled life, he died on October 11, 1935, at the age of ninety-one, at the veterans’ home in San Francisco and was interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery (also known as the Presidio Cemetery);
Lieutenant Charles A. Hackman, Company G, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Hackman, Charles Abraham and Martin Henry (First Lieutenant and Sergeant, Company G): Natives of Rittersville, Lehigh County, Charles and Martin Hackman began their work lives as apprentices, with Charles employed by a carpenter and Martin employed by master coachmaker Jacob Graffin; members of the local militia unit known as the Allen Rifles, they were among the earliest responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; both enlisted as privates with Company I of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20 and were honorably mustered out in July after completing their service; Charles then re-upped for a three-year tour of duty, mustering in as a sergeant with Company G of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he then spent most of his early service in Virginia; meanwhile, his younger brother, Martin H. Hackman, who was employed as a coach trimmer in Lehigh County, re-enlisted for his own second tour of duty, as a private with Charles’ company, on January 8, 1862; working their way up the ranks, Charles was commissioned as a first lieutenant on June 18, 1863, while Martin was promoted to sergeant on April 26, 1864; Charles was then breveted as a captain on November 30, 1864 after having mustered out on November 5; Martin was then honorably discharged on January 8, 1865; initially employed, post-war, with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s train car facility in Reading, Berks County, Charles was promoted to car inspector at the company’s Philadelphia facility in December 1866; he subsequently married, but had no children and was widowed in 1904; remarried, he remained in Philadelphia until the early 1900s, when he relocated to Allentown; Martin, who worked as a bricklayer in Allentown, did have children after marrying, but he, too, was widowed; also remarried, he became a manager at a rolling mill; ailing with pneumonia in early 1917, Charles was eighty-six years old when he died in Allentown on January 17; he was buried at Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery, while his brother Martin was buried at the Nisky Hill Cemetery in Bethlehem, following his death in Bethlehem from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 14, 1921;
* Junker, George (Captain, Company K): A German immigrant as a young adult, George Junker emigrated sometime around the early 1850s and settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found employment as a marble worker and tombstone carver, and where he also joined the Allen Infantry, one of his adopted hometown’s three militia units; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, George enlisted with his fellow Allen Infantrymen, honorably completed his Three Months’ Service, and promptly began his own recruitment of men for an “all-German company” for the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; commissioned as a captain with the 47th Pennsylvania, he was placed in charge of his men who became known as Company K; mortally wounded by a Confederate rifle shot during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina on October 22, 1862, he died from his wounds the next day at the Union Army’s division hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina; his remains were returned to his family in Hazleton, Luzerne County for reburial at the Vine Street Cemetery;
* Kern, Samuel (Private, Company D): A native of Perry County who was employed as a farmer in Bloomfield, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861, Samuel Kern was wounded and captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864; marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he died from harsh treatment on June 12, 1864; buried somewhere on the grounds of that prison camp, his grave remains unidentified;
* Kosier, George (Captain, Company D): A native of Perry County and twenty-four-year-old carpenter residing in that county’s community of New Bloomfield at the dawn of the American Civil War, George Kosier became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for military service on April 20 as a corporal with Company D of the 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company D of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; joining him were his younger brothers, Jesse and William S. Kosier, aged nineteen and twenty-three, who were enrolled as privates with the same company; all three subsequently re-enlisted with their company at Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida in 1863; sadly, Jesse fell ill with pleurisy and died at the Union Army’s Field Hospital in Sandy Hook, Maryland on August 1864; initially buried at a cemetery in Weverton, Maryland, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred at the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; both George and William continued to serve with the regiment, with George continuing his rise up the ranks; commissioned as a captain, he was given command of Company D in early June 1865; both brothers were then honorably discharged with their regiment on Christmas Day, 1865; post-war, both men married and began families; William died in Pennsylvania sometime around 1879, but George went on to live a long full life; after settling in Ogle County, Illinois, where he was employed as a carpenter, he relocated with his family to Wright County, Iowa, where he built bridges; he died in Chicago on December 3, 1920 and was buried at that city’s Rosehill Cemetery;
Anna (Weiser) Leisenring (1851-1942) , circa 1914 (public domain).
* Leisenring, Annie (Weiser): The wife of Thomas B. Leisenring (Captain, Company G), Annie Leisenring was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a factory inspector after the American Civil War; she became well known through newspaper accounts of her inspection visits and also became widely respected for her efforts to improve child labor laws statewide;
* Lowrey, Thomas (Corporal, Company E): An Irish immigrant as a young adult, Thomas Lowrey emigrated sometime around the late 1840s or early 1850s and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a miner, married and began a family; responding to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to defend the nation’s capital during the opening weeks of the American Civil War, Thomas enlisted with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania on September 16, 1861; after completing his three-year term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged in September 1864 and returned home to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a coal miner near Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, and where he resided with his wife and children; after witnessing the dawn of a new century, he died in Shenandoah on January 11, 1906;
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* Magill, Julia Ann (Kuehner Minnich): Widowed and the mother of a young son at the time that her husband, B Company’s Captain Edwin G. Minnich, was killed in battle during the American Civil War, Julia Ann (Kuehner) Minnich became a Union Army nurse at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. during the war in order to keep a roof over her son’s head; she then spent the remainder of her life battling the U.S. Pension Bureau to receive and keep both the U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension and U.S. Civil War Nurse’s Pension that she was entitled to under federal law; forced to go on working into her later years by poverty, she finally found work as a cook at a hotel in South Bethlehem; she died sometime after 1906;
* Menner, Edward W. (Second Lieutenant, Company E): A first-generation American who was a native of Easton, Northampton County, Edward Menner was a sixteen-year-old carpenter when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 25, 1861; working his way up from private to second lieutenant before he was honorably discharged with his regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he was wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864; after returning home to the Lehigh Valley, he secured employment as a hooker with the Bethlehem Iron Company (later known as Bethlehem Steel) on March 15, 1866; he married, begam a family and continued to work in the iron industry for much of his life; he died in Bethlehem on April 25, 1913 and was buried at that city’s Nisky Hill Cemetery;
* Miller, John Garber (Sergeant, Company D): A native of Ironville, Blair County, John G. Miller was a twenty-one-year-old laborer living in Duncannon, Perry County when he enrolled for Civil War military service on August 20, 1861; captured by Confederate troops during the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana on April 9, 1864 and marched to Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River, he was held there as a prisoner of war (POW) until he was released during a prisoner exchange on July 22, 1864; returned to active duty with his regiment after receiving medical treatment, he continued to serve until he was honorably discharged with the regiment in Charleston, South Carolina on December 25, 1865; after returning home, he married, began a family and relocated with his family to Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a teamster; returning to Blair County with his family, he resided with them in Logan Township before relocating with them again to Coalport, Clearfield County; suffering from heart disease, he died in Coalport on February 16, 1921 and was interred at the Coalport Cemetery;
Captain Theodore Mink, Company I, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (circa 1870s-1880s, courtesy of Julian Burley; used with permission).
* Mink, Theodore (Captain, Company I): A native of Allentown, Lehigh County who was apprenticed as a coachmaker and then tried his hand as a whaler and blacksmith prior to the American Civil War, Thedore Mink became one of the “First Defenders” who responded to President Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to defend the nation’s capital after the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861; after honorably completing his Three Months’ Service in July, he re-enlisted on August 5 as a sergeant with Company I of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; after steadily working his way up through the ranks, he was commissioned as a captain and placed in charge of his company on May 22, 1865; he continued to serve with his regiment until it was mustered out on Christmas Day, 1865; following his return to Pennsylvania, he was hired as a laborer with a circus troupe operated by Mike Lipman before finding longtime employment in advertising and then as head of the circus wardrobe for the Forepaugh Circus before he was promoted to management with the circus; felled by pneumonia during late 1889, he died in Philadelphia on January 7, 1890 and was interred in Allentown’s Union-West End Cemetery;
* Newman, Edward (Private, Company H): A German immigrant who left his homeland sometime around 1920, Edward Newman chose to settle in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he found work as a baker; after enlisting for Civil War military service in August 1862, he mustered in as a private with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers and fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg from December 11-15 of that year; honorably mustered out with his regiment in May 1863, he re-enlisted on October 23, 1863 for a second tour of duty—but as a private with a different regiment—Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with the 47th Pennsylvania until he was officially mustered out in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where he worked briefly as a baker; suffering from rheumatism that developed while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed near Cedar Creek, Virginia during the fall of 1864, he was admitted to the network of U.S. Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the Central Branch in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on July 17, 1877; still unmarried and still living there in 1880, his health continued to decline; diagnosed with acute enteritis, he died there on January 22, 1886 and was buried at the Dayton National Cemetery;
Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, circa 1864 (public domain).
* Oyster, Daniel (Captain, Company C): A native of Sunbury, Northumberland County who was employed as a machinist, Daniel Oyster became one of the earliest men from his county to respond to President Abraham Lincoln’s call to defend the nation’s capital, following the fall of Fort-Sumter in mid-April 1861, when he enrolled for Civil War military service on April 23 as a corporal with Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged in July after completing his Three Months’ Service, he re-enlisted as a first sergeant with Company C of the newly-formed 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19; his brother, John Oyster, subsequently followed him into the service, enrolling as a private with his company on November 20, 1863; after rising up through the ranks to become captain of his company, Daniel was shot in his left shoulder near Berryville, Virginia on September 5, 1864 and then shot in his right shoulder during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19; successfully treated by Union Army surgeons for both wounds, he was awarded a veteran’s furlough in order to continue his recuperation and returned home to Sunbury; he then returned to duty and was honorably discharged with his company on Christmas Day, 1865; post-discharge, he and his brother, John, returned home to Sunbury; Daniel continued to reside with their aging mother and was initially employed as a policeman, but was then forced by a war-related decline in his health to take less-taxing work as a railroad postal agent; his brother John, who was married, lived nearby and worked as a fireman, but died in Sunbury on April 20, 1899; employed as a bookkeeper after the turn of the century, Daniel never married and was ultimately admitted to the Southern Branch of the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hampton, Virginia, where he died on August 5, 1922—exactly sixty-one years to the day after the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was founded; he was given a funeral with full military honors before being laid to rest in the officers’ section at the Arlington National Cemetery on August 11;
* Sauerwein, Thomas Franklin (First Sergeant, Company B): The son of a lock tender in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Thomas Sauerwein was employed as a carpenter at the dawn of the American Civil War; following his enrollment for military service in Allentown, Lehigh County on August 20, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company B of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; from that point on, he steadily worked his way up the ranks of the regiment, ultimately being promoted to first sergeant on New Year’s Day, 1865; following his honorable discharge with his company on Christmas Day of that same year, he returned home to the Lehigh Valley, where he found work as a carpenter, married and began a family; by 1880, he had moved his family west to Williamsport in Lycoming County, where he had found work as a machinist; employed as a leather roller with a tanning factory, he was promoted to a position as a leather finisher after the turn of the century, while his two sons worked as leather rollers in the same industry; he died in Williamsport on July 29, 1912 and was buried at the East Wildwood Cemetery in Loyalsock;
* Slayer, Joseph (Private, Company E; also known as “Dead Eye Dick” and “E. J. McMeeser”): A native of Philadelphia, Joseph Slayer was a nineteen-year-old miner residing in Willliams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania at the dawn of the American Civil War; after enrolling for military service in Easton, Northampton County on September 9, 1861, he was officially mustered in as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers; he continued to serve with his company, re-enlisting as a private with Company E, under the name of Joseph Slayer, at Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas on January 4, 1864; honorably mustered out with his company in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day, 1865, he relocated to Zanesville, Ohio sometime after the war, where he joined the Grand Army of the Republic’s Hazlett Post No. 81; he may then have relocated briefly to St. Paul, Minnesota sometime around the 1870s or early 1880s, or may simply have had a child and grandchild living there, because newspaper reports of his death noted that he had been carrying a photograph of a toddler named Robert—a photo that had “To Grandpa” inscribed on it and indicated that the grandchild, Robert, was a resident of St. Paul in 1892; by the 1880s, Joseph had made it as far west as the Dakota Territory—but this was where his life’s journey took a strange twist; discarding the name he had used in the army (“Joseph Slayer”), he changed his name several times over the next several years, as if he were trying to shed his prior life and all of its associations; acquaintances he met in the southern part of the Dakota Territory during the early to mid-1880s knew him as “Dead Eye Dick” while others who met him after he had resettled in Bismarck, in the northern part of the Dakota Territory, knew him as “Eugene McMeeser” or “E. J. McMeeser” (alternate spelling: “McNeeser”); by the time that the federal government conducted its special census of Civil War veterans in June 1890, Joseph was so comfortable fusing parts of his old and new lives together that he was convincingly documented by an enumerator as “Eugene McMeeser,” a veteran who had served as a private with Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry from September 9, 1861 until January 11, 1866; in 1890, Joseph became a married man; documented as having rheumatism so severe that he was “at times confined at home,” he filed for a U.S. Civil War Pension from North Dakota on March 28, 1891—but he did so as “Joseph Slayer”—the name under which he had first enrolled for military service in Pennsylvania in 1861; ultimately awarded a pension—which would not have happened if federal officials had not been able to verify his identity and match it to his existing military service records, he was diagnosed with angina pectoris in 1904, but still managed to secure a U.S. patent for one of his inventions—a napkin holder; he died in Bismarck less than a month later, on January 12 or 13, 1905; found on the floor of his rented room, his death sparked a coroner’s inquest which revealed that he had been living under an assumed name; he was buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck; the name “Joseph Slayer” was carved onto his military headstone;
* Snyder, Timothy (Corporal, Company C): A carpenter who was born in Rebuck, Northumberland County, Tim Snyder was employed as a carpenter and residing in the city of Sunbury in that county by the dawn of the American Civil War; after enlisting for military service as a private in August 1861, he was wounded twice in combat, once during the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862) and a second time, in the knee, during the Battle of Opequan, Virginia (1864), shortly after he had been promoted to the rank of corporal; he survived and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed work as a carpenter; after relocating to Schuylkill County, he settled in the community of Ashland; in 1870, he married Catharine Boyer and started a family with her; he continued to work as a carpenter in Schuylkill County until his untimely death in May 1889 and was laid to rest with military honors at the Brock Cemetery in Ashland; John Hartranft Snyder, his first son to survive infancy, grew up to become a co-founder of the Lavelle Telegraph and Telephone Company, while his second son to survive infancy, Timothy Grant Snyder, became a corporal in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War; stationed on the USS Buffalo as it visited Port Said, Egypt, he also served aboard Admiral George Dewey’s flagship, the USS Olympia, in 1899;
Drummer Boy William Williamson, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A, circa 1863 (public domain).
* Williamson, William (Drummer, Company A): A farmer from Stockertown, Northampton County, William Williamson was documented by a mid-nineteenth-century federal census enumerator as an unmarried laborer who lived at the Easton home of Northampton County physician John Sandt, M.D.—an indication that William’s parents may have either died or were struggling so much financially during the 1850s and early 1860s that they had encouraged him to “leave the nest” and begin supporting himself, or had hired him out as an apprentice or indentured servant; like so many other young men from Northampton County, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call for help to protect the nation’s capital from a likely invasion by Confederate States Army troops, he stepped forward, raised his hand, and stated the following:
I, William Williamson appointed a private in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
Later in life, William Williamson became a champion for an older woman who had been struggling to convince officials of the federal government that she was worthy enough to be awarded a U.S. Civil War Mother’s Pension, after her son had died in service to the nation as a Union Army soldier.
Post-war, William Williamson found work at a slate quarry, married, began a family in Belfast, Northampton County, and lived to witness the dawn of a new century. Following his death at the age of sixty in Plainfield Township on June 17, 1901, he was laid to rest at the Belfast Union Cemetery.
Sources:
- “A Badge from Admiral Dewey and Schuylkill County” (announcements of Timothy Grant Snyder’s service on Admiral Dewey’s flagship). Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle: October 3, 1899 and November 21, 1899.
- Baptismal, census, marriage, military, death, and burial records of the Snyder family. Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio, etc.: Snyder Family Archives, 1650-present; and in Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records (baptismal, marriage, death and burial records of various churches across Pennsylvania). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1776-1918.
- Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
- James Crownover, James Downs and Samuel Kern, et. al., in Camp Ford Prison Records. Tyler, Texas: The Smith County Historical Society, 1864.
- Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, U.S. Army; Admissions Ledgers, U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; federal burial ledgers, and national cemetery interment control forms, 1861-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General (Record Group 94), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.
- U.S. Census Records, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- U.S. Civil War Pension Records, 1862-1935. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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April 6, 2024 - Day 462 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 489Game: The Callisto Protocol
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Installed: Apr 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34mThe Callisto Protocol is the second game in the April Humble Choice Bundle; it's a third-person narrative-driven survival horror game.
I went into it knowing it's classed as a survival horror game, and a great demonstration of why I try to go into these game without knowing what kind of game I'm getting into.
I don't like "survival horror" games as a category. But there are "SURVIVAL horror" games, and "survival HORROR" games. Outlast is an example of the former, The Callisto Protocol is an example of the latter (at least so far?).
Horror games take me places that feel too close to emotional spaces that aren't good for me; I'm not good with that kind of fear-based adrenaline. Occasionally, though, it's doable.
I found the first half hour relatively... OK. You play as Jacob Lee, a poor victim of "names pulled from a hat".
After the intro, the camera pans forward to the cockpit of a ship, and you come face to face with good old Kirkland-brand Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhamel.
Voiceover and mocap work was done by Josh Duhamel, with the apparent antagonist played by Karen Fukuhara, best known as Kimiko Miyashiro from The Boys.
However, when Sam Witwer shows up soon after, it becomes clear who the real bad guy of the piece is. The fact your first interaction with him is him throwing your innocent character into a maximum security off-world prison is pretty much a "I don't know what I expected moment".
What these actors bring to the game is a sense of this being more than just another survival horror shooter, a game that might actually be serious about its narrative intentions. Whether they can pull it off, I have yet to find out.
In terms of gameplay so far, I was intrigued enough to keep playing, in spite of my nerves. There are a couple of things about the game that make me uneasy.
I don't mind a bit of gore, but The Callisto Protocol is a gorefest. Which brings me to the other thing. You don't just loot bodies in The Callisto Protocol (you little murder hobo), you actually need to perform a "corpse stomp" on them for them to give up their shinies.
That just feels a bit gratuitous.
The graphics and sound design create an incredible atmosphere, and if I'm in the right mood, I might end up trying to escape from Callisto.
The Callisto Protocol seems:
4: Good
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Apple TV – podsumowanie premier #155
Zapraszam do 155. wydania przeglądu nowości i zapowiedzi platformy Apple TV.
Nagrody
Apple TV zdobyło 15 nominacji do BAFTA Television Awards 2026
Gremium odpowiedzialne za BAFTA Television Awards 2026 doceniło dziewięć seriali, a ceremonia odbędzie się 10 maja w Londynie.
Najwięcej nominacji zgarnął „Slow Horses” – 4, a tuż za nim „Severance” – 3. Pozostałe nominowane produkcje to m.in. „Pluribus”, „The Studio”, „Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars”, „Vietnam: The War That Changed America”, „Smoke”, „Down Cemetery Road” oraz „Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”.
Dodatkowo Apple TV otrzymało 6 nominacji do Royal Television Society Awards, w tym za „Slow Horses” i „Down Cemetery Road”.
Premiery
„Imperfect Women” bada zbrodnię, która niszczy życie trzech kobiet w przyjaźni trwającej od dziesięcioleci.
Niekonwencjonalny thriller bada winę i zemstę, miłość i zdradę oraz kompromisy, które nieodwracalnie zmieniają nasze życie. Wraz z rozwojem śledztwa ujawnia się prawda o tym, że nawet najbliższe przyjaźnie mogą nie być tym, czym się wydają.
5. sezon „For All Mankind” zadebiutował na platformie końcem marca.
Jego akcja toczy się po napadzie na asteroidę Goldilocks. Kolonia Happy Valley rozrosła się, stając się bazą nowych misji w Układzie Słonecznym. Jednak rosnące żądania prawa i porządku na Marsie wywołują napięcia między mieszkańcami Czerwonej Planety a Ziemią.
Do obsady powracają Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña i Wrenn Schmidt. Nowe postacie zagrają Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz i Ines Asserson.
Pierwsze cztery sezony „For All Mankind” są już dostępne na Apple TV.
Apple TV przygotowało też dwa materiały przypominające najważniejsze wydarzenia sezonów 1-4.
Sezon 2. „Wonder Pets: In the City” →
Na platformie zadebiutowało od razu 13 nowych odcinków.
Serial opowiada o bohaterskiej trójce zwierząt z przedszkola w Nowym Jorku, które wyruszają w muzyczne przygody na całym świecie, ratując inne zwierzęta dzięki współpracy i talentom każdego z bohaterów. W sezonie 2 powracają głosy Christophera Seana Coopera Jr., Vanessy Huzar i Victorii Scola-Giampapa, a produkcja jest kontynuowana przez Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Snowflake Films NYC, Kavaleer, Happy Nest i Terribly Terrific! Productions.
Najważniejsze premiery kwietnia
Apple TV w kwietniu serwuje mnóstwo nowości – seriale, filmy, sport i powracające hity. Szeroko piszemy o nich niżej, a tutaj znajdziesz skrót najważniejszych premier:
- „Your Friends & Neighbors” (sezon 2) – 3 kwietnia, dramat, Andrew Cooper wplątuje się w ryzykowne sąsiedzkie intrygi; James Marsden dołącza jako tajemniczy sąsiad.
- „Outcome” – 10 kwietnia, czarna komedia z Keanu Reevesem, Cameron Diaz i Matt Bomerem, opowieść o odkrywaniu własnych demonów i szukaniu sprawiedliwości.
- „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” – 15 kwietnia, komediowy dramat rodzinny z Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer i Nickiem Offermanem.
- „Criminal Record” (sezon 2) – 22 kwietnia, thriller policyjny w Londynie, śledztwo w sprawie morderstwa prowadzi do ujawnienia spisku prawicowych ekstremistów.
- „My Brother the Minotaur” – 24 kwietnia, animacja familijna o minotaurze odkrywającym swoje mitologiczne dziedzictwo.
- „Widow’s Bay” – 29 kwietnia, horror-komedia z Matthew Rhys, mieszkańcy wyspy odkrywają mroczne tajemnice lokalnej legendy.
Zapowiedzi
Sierpień 2026 – 4. sezon „Teda Lasso” →
Apple TV przygotowuje się do powrotu hitowego serialu „Ted Lasso” po trzech latach od zakończenia 3. sezonu.
Szczegóły sezonu 4:
- Jason Sudeiis powraca jako Ted Lasso, trenując nową kobiecą drużynę – „Lady Greyhounds”.
- annah Waddingham ujawniła, że premiera nowego sezonu odbędzie się w sierpniu 2026, tuż po zakończeniu Mistrzostw Świata w piłce nożnej 2026, które odbywają się w USA, Meksyku i Kanadzie.
Friday Night Baseball wraca na Apple TV 27 marca!
Apple ogłosiło powrót Friday Night Baseball w Apple TV na sezon MLB 2026.
Start zaplanowano na 27 marca, kiedy Los Angeles Angels zmierzą się z Houston Astros, a następnie Cleveland Guardians zagrają przeciwko Seattle Mariners.
- Transmisje: cotygodniowe podwójne mecze w piątki przez 25-tygodniowy sezon, dla fanów w 60 krajach i regionach.
- Produkcja: nowoczesne ujęcia z iPhone’ów, wysoka jakość obrazu i komentarz ekspertów, bez ograniczeń lokalnych transmisji.
- Dodatkowe treści: od 26 marca w USA dostępny program MLB Big Inning, oraz serie: Countdown to First Pitch, MLB Daily Recap, MLB This Week.
Serial science fiction „Dark Matter” powróci z drugim sezonem na Apple TV. Po sukcesie pierwszej odsłony, opartej na bestsellerowej powieści Blake’a Croucha, twórcy zdecydowali się kontynuować historię – tym razem bez literackiego pierwowzoru.
Nowe odcinki mają pogłębić losy bohaterów walczących o przetrwanie w świecie wieloświatów. W obsadzie ponownie zobaczymy Joela Edgertona i Jennifer Connelly, a do ekipy dołączy Chris Diamantopoulos. Za scenariusz i reżyserię ponownie odpowiada Blake Crouch, co daje nadzieję na spójny klimat i wysoki poziom produkcji.
Zdjęcia do sezonu 2 zakończyły się w lipcu 2025 roku. Premiera planowana jest na początek 2026 roku – prawdopodobnie między lutym a majem.
Pierwszy sezon „Dark Matter” można obejrzeć na Apple TV.
3 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
W „Your Friends & Neighbors” finansowy tytan nagle zostaje rozwiedziony i pozbawiony pracy, a następnie zaczyna okradać swoich zamożnych sąsiadów, aby utrzymać się na powierzchni.
Okradanie własnego kręgu społecznego dziwnie go ekscytuje – ale stopniowo zaplątuje się w śmiertelną sieć. Jeśli jeszcze nie widzieliście pierwszego sezonu, to szczerze polecam nadrobić zaległości.
10 kwietnia – trailer „Outcome” →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę czarnej komedii „Outcome”, reżyserowanej przez Jonaha Hilla, z Keanu Reevesem, Cameron Diaz i Mattem Bomerem w rolach głównych. Serial zadebiutuje globalnie 10 kwietnia 2026 r.
Fabuła skupia się na Reefie Hawku (Reeves), hollywoodzkiej gwieździe, która po szantażu tajemniczym wideo zmuszona jest zmierzyć się z przeszłością, by odnaleźć szantażystę. W podróży towarzyszą mu przyjaciele i prawnik kryzysowy (Hill).
Obsada uzupełniona jest m.in. o Martina Scorsese, Laverne Cox, Susan Lucci i Davida Spade’a. Film wyprodukowany przez Apple Studios, Strong Baby i Matta Dinesa.
15 kwietnia – trailer „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” →
Apple TV ujawniło datę premiery adaptacji bestsellerowej powieści „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” autorstwa Rufi Thorpe. Serial powstaje przy współpracy z A24 i Davidem E. Kelley.
W rolach głównych: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, a także Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, Lindsey Normington.
Serial opowiada historię Margo, świeżo upieczonej absolwentki, która staje przed wyzwaniami życia dorosłego – nowym dzieckiem, rosnącymi rachunkami i ograniczonymi sposobami ich pokrycia, przy wsparciu rodziny z nietypowym backgroundem.
Premierę zaplanowano na 15 kwietnia 2026 roku. Pierwsze odcinki: 3 odcinki dostępne od razu, kolejne co tydzień do 20 maja.
22 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Criminal Record” →
Apple TV kontynuuje rozwój oferty thrillerów kryminalnych. Sezon 2 serialu „Criminal Record” zadebiutuje 22 kwietnia, a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień aż do 10 czerwca.
Serial opowiada o londyńskich detektywach June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) i Danielu Hegartym (Peter Capaldi), którzy muszą współpracować przy śledztwie po brutalnym morderstwie na politycznej demonstracji, co prowadzi do operacji mającej udaremnić zamach bombowy. Pierwszy sezon z 2024 roku zdobył 90% na Rotten Tomatoes.
Fani kryminałów powinni też zwrócić uwagę na „Slow Horses”, „Black Bird”, „Presumed Innocent” i „Dope Thief”.
24 kwietnia – „My Brother the Minotaur” →
Apple TV ogłosiło nową animowaną serię dla dzieci i rodziny „My Brother the Minotaur”, która zadebiutuje 24 kwietnia.
Produkcja studia Cartoon Saloon opowiada historię młodego minotaura wychowanego przez ludzi, który wraz ze swoim ludzkim bratem i grupą przyjaciół odkrywa tajemnicę swojego pochodzenia i stawia czoła mrocznym siłom. W rolach głosowych wystąpią Brian Cox, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen i T’Nia Miller.
Serial porusza tematy dorastania, odkrywania tożsamości i poszukiwania swojego miejsca w świecie.
29 kwietnia – teaser „Widow’s Bay” →
Apple TV ujawniło szczegóły nadchodzącego serialu komediowo-horrorowego „Widow’s Bay”, w którym główną rolę zagra Matthew Rhys („The Beast in Me”). Twórcą jest Katie Dippold, a większość odcinków wyreżyserował Hiro Murai („Atlanta”, „Station Eleven”).
Premiera odbędzie się 29 kwietnia 2026 – wtedy zostaną udostępnione trzy pierwsze odcinki, a kolejne będą pojawiać się co tydzień do 17 czerwca, a platforma cały czas podgrzewa związaną z nią atmosferę na swoim kanale YouTube.
Akcja serialu rozgrywa się w odizolowanym miasteczku 40 mil od wybrzeża Nowej Anglii. Burmistrz Tom Loftis (Rhys) stara się ożywić swoje społeczność, przyciągając turystów, ale legendy i tajemnicze zdarzenia zaczynają się materializować. Serial łączy prawdziwy horror z komedią opartą na postaciach.
20 maja – „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” z Tatianą Maslany i Jake’em Johnsonem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę 10-odcinkowego thrillera z czarnym humorem „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 maja 2026 r. Pierwsze dwa odcinki będą dostępne w dniu premiery, kolejne co środę do 15 lipca.
Serial opowiada o Pauli (Maslany), świeżo rozwiedzionej matce, która wplątuje się w sieć szantażu, morderstw i młodzieżowego futbolu. W śledztwie wspierają ją Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn i Murray Bartlett. Produkcję przygotowały Apple Studios i Counterpart Studios, a twórcą i showrunnerem jest David J. Rosen, reżyseruje David Gordon Green.
29 maja – trailer „Star City” →
Apple TV+ przygotowuje spinoff popularnego „For All Mankind”, zatytułowany „Star City”, który zadebiutuje 29 maja 2026. Premiera obejmie dwa odcinki, a kolejne będą pojawiać się co tydzień do 10 lipca, tuż po finale 5. sezonu „For All Mankind”.
Akcja dzieje się w alternatywnej historii wyścigu kosmicznego, przedstawiając pierwsze lądowanie człowieka na Księżycu przez ZSRR. Fabuła skupia się na życiu kosmonautów, inżynierów i agentów wywiadu radzieckiego, pokazując ryzyko, jakie podejmowali, aby przesunąć granice ludzkości.
Pojawił się też zwiastun całości.
Twórcy: Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, Ronald D. Moore (ten sam zespół co przy „For All Mankind”). W rolach głównych: Rhys Ifans („House of the Dragon”).
Star City kontynuuje kosmiczne dramaty Apple TV, oferując alternatywną perspektywę wydarzeń znanych z „For All Mankind”.
5 czerwca – trailer 2. sezonu „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
Apple TV oficjalnie potwierdziło premierę 2. sezonu serialu „Your Friends & Neighbors” z Jonem Hammem. Pojawił się też jego oficjalny trailer.
Nowe odcinki zadebiutują 3 kwietnia (piątek), a kolejne będą publikowane co tydzień aż do 5 czerwca. Do obsady wracają m.in. Amanda Peet i Olivia Munn, a nową twarzą sezonu jest James Marsden.
W drugim sezonie Andrew Cooper jeszcze mocniej angażuje się w podwójne życie niepozornego złodzieja z przedmieść. Sytuacja komplikuje się, gdy pojawia się nowy sąsiad, zagrażając ujawnieniem jego sekretów i bezpieczeństwu rodziny. Szybka kontynuacja była możliwa dzięki zamówieniu dwóch sezonów od razu.
5 czerwca – nowy thriller „Cape Fear” od Spielberga i Scorsese wkrótce na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło datę premiery psychologicznego thrillera „Cape Fear”, produkowanego przez Stevena Spielberga i Martina Scorsese.
Pojawił się także teaser tej produkcji.
Oto oficjalne streszczenie serialu przygotowane przez Apple:
W serialu „Cape Fear” szczęśliwe małżeństwo prawników, Amanda i Steve Bowden, staje w obliczu burzy, gdy Max Cady (w tej roli Bardem), znany morderca z ich przeszłości, wychodzi z więzienia. Ten 10-odcinkowy serial to pełen napięcia thriller w stylu Hitchcocka, będący jednocześnie analizą obsesji Ameryki na punkcie prawdziwych zbrodni w XXI wieku.
W obsadzie znaleźli się Javier Bardem, Amy Adams i Patrick Wilson. Fabuła skupia się na małżeństwie prawników, które musi stawić czoła Maxowi Cady’emu – seryjnemu przestępcy z ich przeszłości.
Serial porusza także temat fascynacji Ameryki prawdziwymi zbrodniami w XXI wieku i jest inspirowany kultowym filmem Scorsese i powieścią „The Executioners”, zadebiutuje 5 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 31 lipca.
19 czerwca – „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem wraca na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło powrót neo-noir detektywistycznego serialu „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem w roli prywatnego detektywa Johna Sugara. Sezon 2 zadebiutuje 19 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 7 sierpnia.
W nowym sezonie Sugar prowadzi śledztwo w sprawie zaginięcia siostry młodego boksera, które prowadzi do szeroko zakrojonej miejskiej intrygi. Serial stworzony przez Marka Protosevicha, a showrunnerem drugiego sezonu jest Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad, Preacher).
15 lipca – Anya Taylor-Joy wraca w serialu „Lucky” na Apple TV
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy serial „Lucky”, w którym wystąpi Anya Taylor-Joy – jej pierwsza duża rola telewizyjna od czasu „Gambitu Królowej”. Premiera odbędzie się 15 lipca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 19 sierpnia.
Serial oparty jest na bestsellerowej powieści Marissy Stapley. Fabuła skupia się na Lucky, oszustce zmuszonej do ucieczki po nieudanym napadzie na miliony dolarów, ściganej przez FBI i bezwzględnego gangstera. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Annette Bening i Timothy Olyphant. Twórcami są Jonathan Tropper i Cassie Pappas.
Zobaczyliśmy już także teaser całości.
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę letniej komedii „The Dink”, która zadebiutuje globalnie 24 lipca 2026 r. Jake Johnson wciela się w Dusty’ego Boyda, byłego tenisowego prodigy’ego, który po kontuzji odkrywa pasję do pickleballu. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Patton Oswalt i Ben Stiller.
Fabuła opowiada o próbie pogodzenia relacji z ojcem, rywalizacji w klubie sportowym i stawienia czoła własnej przeszłości. Film wyreżyserował Josh Greenbaum, a wyprodukowany został przez Red Hour Films i Rivulet Entertainment.
12 sierpnia – 2. sezon „Women in Blue” →
Apple TV zapowiada powrót hiszpańskojęzycznego hitu kryminalnego Women in Blue (Las Azules).
Po udanej pierwszej serii, sezon 2 zadebiutuje 12 sierpnia, a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 30 września. Serial opowiada o czterech kobietach w pierwszej kobiecej policji Meksyku, które odkrywają, że ich rola jest przykrywką dla śledztwa w sprawie seryjnego mordercy.
W nowym sezonie bohaterki zmierzą się z mroczną historią studenckiego mordu z 1968 roku, walcząc zarówno z systemową korupcją, jak i własnymi ideałami.
4 września –„Mayday” z Ryanem Reynoldsem i Kennethem Branaghem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę filmu akcji-komedii „Mayday”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 4 września 2026 r. Ryan Reynolds wciela się w amerykańskiego pilota Tropa „Assassin” Kelly’ego, który po nieudanej misji zostaje uwięziony za linią wroga. Kenneth Branagh gra byłego agenta KGB, który niespodziewanie staje się jego sojusznikiem.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova i David Morse. Film powstał w Apple Original Films i Skydance Media, napisany, wyreżyserowany i wyprodukowany przez Johna Francisa Daleya i Jonathana Goldsteina, a Ryan Reynolds pełni także funkcję producenta wykonawczego.
9 października – „Matchbox The Movie” z Johnem Ceną i Jessicą Biel →
Apple TV zapowiedziało także premierę akcji-przygodowego filmu „Matchbox The Movie”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 9 października 2026 r. John Cena wciela się w Seana, agenta CIA, który powraca do swojego rodzinnego miasta, wplątując dawnych przyjaciół w międzynarodową misję ratowania świata.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro, Danai Gurira i Golshifteh Farahani. Film powstał w Apple Original Films przy współpracy Skydance Media i Mattel Films, wyreżyserował go Sam Hargrave, scenariusz napisał David Coggeshall.
20 listopada – „Way of the Warrior Kid” z Chrisem Prattem i Lindą Cardellini →
Apple TV ogłosiło premierę filmu „Way of the Warrior Kid”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 listopada 2026 r. Chris Pratt wciela się w Jake’a, byłego Navy SEAL-a, który uczy swojego siostrzeńca Marca (Jude Hill) odwagi i pewności siebie, inspirując go do przezwyciężania problemów w szkole. Linda Cardellini gra matkę chłopca, Sarah.
Film oparty jest na bestsellerowej książce Jocko Willinka i wyreżyserowany przez McG. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Ava Torres, Levi McConaughey i Parker Young. Produkcję przygotowały Apple i Skydance Media.
Dalsza część 2026 roku
„The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina” →
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy kulinarny serial „The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina”. Aktorka Awkwafina (Nora Lum) wyrusza w osobistą podróż po Stanach Zjednoczonych, by odkrywać współczesną kuchnię azjatycko-amerykańską i spróbować odtworzyć dziedzictwo rodzinnej restauracji Lum’s w Nowym Jorku, mimo że… nie potrafi gotować.
W ośmioodcinkowej serii Awkwafina uczy się od znanych szefów kuchni, restauratorów i swojej rodziny, próbując połączyć tradycję z nowoczesnym podejściem do kuchni azjatyckiej. Format przypomina popularną serię The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, w której bohater znajduje się poza swoją strefą komfortu — tutaj kulinarnie.
Premiera przewidziana jest w 2026 roku.
Apple TV przygotowuje już 2. sezon hitowej komedii „The Studio”, która w zeszłym roku zdobyła uznanie krytyków i widzów za zabawne parodie Hollywood.
Sezon 2. jest obecnie w trakcie nagrań i zapowiada się jeszcze bardziej gwiazdorsko. Do nowo potwierdzonych gości należą Madonna, Julia Garner, Donald Glover i Michael Keaton, którzy dołączą do stałej obsady z Sethiem Rogenem, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtzem, Chase Sui Wonders i Bryanem Cranstonem. Jeden z odcinków powstaje w Wenecji podczas festiwalu filmowego, gdzie pojawi się także dyrektor artystyczny Alberto Barbera.
Film „What Happens at Night”, w reżyserii Martina Scorsese →
Apple zapowiedziało na jesień 2026 roku premierę filmu z udziałem Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrici Clarkson, Jareda Harrisa i Mads Mikkelsen.
Film powstaje na podstawie powieści Petera Camerona i opowiada o amerykańskiej parze, która podróżuje do tajemniczego, śnieżnego europejskiego miasta, aby adoptować dziecko, odkrywając przy tym zaskakujące i niepokojące tajemnice. Produkcja ma trwać do maja, a premiera może nastąpić jeszcze tej jesieni, co stawia film w roli potencjalnego kandydata do Oscara.
Ciekawe doniesienia
Zdjęcia do 3. sezonu „Severance” ruszają wkrótce
Apple TV wkrótce rozpocznie produkcję 3. sezonu swojego głośnego serialu „Severance”. Pojawią się nowe postacie i nowy reżyser.
Adam Scott potwierdził, że zdjęcia rozpoczną się wkrótce, a reżyserią większości odcinków zajmie się Kogonada, zastępując Bena Stillera, który pozostaje w produkcji w roli kreatywnej.
Premiera sezonu 3 spodziewana jest w drugiej połowie 2027 roku na Apple TV.
Jeff Daniels oraz gwiazda „Grey’s Anatomy” dołączają do 5. sezonu „The Morning Show”!
Jeff Daniels zagra w nadchodzącym piątym sezonie „The Morning Show” rolę miliardera i założyciela znanej firmy inwestycyjnej, podaje Deadline.
To jego trzecia współpraca z Apple TV – wcześniej wystąpił w trzecim sezonie „Shrinking” i jako narrator w dokumencie „9/11: Inside the President’s War Room”.
4. sezon zakończył się w listopadzie 2025; data premiery 5. sezonu nie została jeszcze potwierdzona. Twórcy sugerują, że premiera może przyspieszyć w 2026 r. bez przeszkód w postaci strajków scenarzystów.
Ciekawe, czy Apple subtelnie nawiąże do kultowego „The Newsroom”, którego Daniels był przez lata pierwszoplanową gwiazdą.
Do obsady dołączy również Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy), który zagra Vernona – nowego szefa wiadomości UBN, znanego z bezpośredniego stylu i umiejętności przyciągania widzów. W nagradzanej obsadzie pozostają m.in. Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Beharie, Billy Crudup i Jon Hamm.
Premiera sezonu 5. nie została jeszcze potwierdzona.
Apple TV to raj dla fanów sci-fi!
Apple TV umacnia pozycję najlepszej platformy dla fanów science fiction. Z dwoma hitowymi seriami obecnie na ekranach i kilkoma nadchodzącymi premierami, każdy miłośnik kosmosu, potworów i futurystycznych zagadek znajdzie coś dla siebie.
Aktualne hity sci-fi na Apple TV:<
- „For All Mankind” – alternatywna historia kosmiczna, nowy sezon skupia się na Marsie.
- „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” – walka potworów z udziałem Godzilli, Konga i nowego „Titana X”, nowe odcinki w każdy piątek do 1 maja.
Obie serie cieszą się dużą popularnością i doczekają się spin-offów. Nadchodzące premiery sci-fi, wyglądają natomiast tak:
- „Star City” – spin-off „For All Mankind” z perspektywy ZSRR, premiera 29 maja, w roli głównej Rhys Ifans.
- „Sugar”– noir z wątkiem sci-fi, Colin Farrell jako detektyw w Los Angeles, sezon 2 od 19 czerwca.
- „Dark Matter” – oczekiwany nowy sezon latem 2026, kręcony z udziałem Joela Edgertona.
Wszystkie wymienione wyżej produkcje znajdziecie w katalogu.
Apple TV ogłasza trzy nowe filmy w nadchodzącej ofercie
Apple TV wzmacnia swoją przyszłą ofertę filmową, dodając trzy nowe produkcje.
Biografia Lance’a Armstronga
Tytuł roboczy: „Untitled Lance Armstrong biopic”. Reżyser: Edward Berger (Conclave). W roli Armstronga wystąpi Austin Butler (wcześniej w „Masters of the Air” ).
Film połączy elementy „F1: The Movie” i produkcji Scorsese („Raging Bull”, „The Wolf of Wall Street”) i obejmie życie Armstronga – jego sukcesy i porażki. Armstrong po raz pierwszy zgodził się na użycie praw do swojego życia.
Świąteczny film „Foster the Snowman”
Reżyser: Hikari (Rental Family). Scenariusz: Jono Matt & Peter Huyck („The Studio”).
Bezdzietna para przyjmuje magicznego bałwanka, którego życie odgrywa się w 72 godzinach – połączenie humoru „Elf” i „It’s a Wonderful Life” oraz uroku „Paddingtona”.
Romans „Once and Again” od Rebecca Serle
Apple podobno nabyło również prawa do „Once and Again”, najnowszej powieści romantycznej autorstwa bestsellerowej pisarki Rebecci Serle.
Serle jest autorką takich bestsellerów jak „In Five Years”, „One Italian Summer” i „The Dinner List”.
Oto streszczenie fabuły powieści „Once and Again” według serwisu via Deadline:
Opisywana jako połączenie filmów „Żona podróżnika w czasie” i „Dom nad jeziorem”, historia opowiada o Lauren Novak, pochodzącej z Malibu kobiecie, która porzuciła plażę dla idealnego małżeństwa i życia w Los Angeles. Jednak gdy związek zaczyna się rozpadać, a jej mąż dostaje pracę w Nowym Jorku na lato, Lauren wraca do nadmorskiego miasteczka, które ją ukształtowało, gdzie musi zmierzyć się nie tylko z rodzicami i babcią, ale także z ich najpilniej strzeżoną tajemnicą: kobiety z rodziny Novak urodziły się z darem – każda z nich może tylko raz cofnąć czas.
Apple TV: Brandon Sanderson ujawnia postępy adaptacji „Mistborn”
Brandon Sanderson podał pierwsze szczegóły pre-produkcji serialu „Mistborn” dla Apple TV. Scenariusz jest w połowie gotowy, a autor pełni rolę pisarza, producenta i konsultanta z prawem zatwierdzania treści, co daje mu wyjątkową kontrolę nad ekranizacją jego uniwersum „Cosmere”.
„Mistborn” będzie serią filmów, natomiast „The Stormlight Archive” przygotowywane jest jako serial telewizyjny. Data premiery nie jest jeszcze znana, ale Sanderson regularnie informuje fanów w cotygodniowych filmach na YouTube.
Stellan Skarsgård i Dakota Fanning w nowym thrillerze Apple TV
Apple TV przygotowuje najnowszy międzynarodowy thriller z udziałem Stellan’a Skarsgård i Dakoty Fanning, produkowany przez Sony Pictures Television, donosi Deadline.
Fanning zagra tajną agentkę skarbową w globalnym konglomeracie o politycznych i kryminalnych powiązaniach, której misja zostaje skonfrontowana z uczuciami do głównego celu operacji.
Stellan Skarsgård joins Dakota Fanning in Alex Cary’s upcoming international thriller. pic.twitter.com/iSDrybCDYz
— Apple TV (@AppleTV) March 30, 2026
Reżyserią zajmie się Kari Skogland, a Dakota Fanning będzie także producentką wykonawczą razem z siostrą, Elle Fanning. W projekcie dołączył również Daryl McCormack. Premiera nie została jeszcze ogłoszona, a tytuł serialu pozostaje nieznany.
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Apple TV – podsumowanie premier #154
Zapraszam do 154. wydania przeglądu nowości i zapowiedzi platformy Apple TV.
Nagrody
Apple TV triumfuje na 32. Annual Actor Awards i innych galach
Apple TV potwierdziło swoją pozycję lidera w świecie rozrywki dzięki „The Studio”, które zdobyło trzy nagrody na 32. Actor Awards:
- Najlepszy zespół w serialu komediowym
- Najlepszy aktor w serialu komediowym – Seth Rogen
- Najlepsza aktorka w serialu komediowym (pośmiertnie) – Catherine O’Hara
Inne wyróżnienia Apple TV:
- „The Studio”: PGA, ADG, MUAHS, Casting Society, ACE Eddie, Guild of Music Supervisors, AACTA International Awards
- „F1”: BAFTA (dźwięk), VES (compositing & lighting), AAFCA (Damson Idris – aktor drugoplanowy), IFTA (Kerry Condon), AMS (dźwięk)
- „Severance”: SCL (oryginalna ścieżka dźwiękowa), Artios, ADG, BSC (cinematografia)
- „Palm Royale”: MUAHS (charakterystyczna charakteryzacja), CDG (kostiumy)
- „Slow Horses”: Broadcast Awards, AACTA (Gary Oldman – aktor)
- „Smoke”, „Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”, „Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical”,
- „Mr. Scorsese”, „Number One on the Call Sheet” – liczne nagrody w dziedzinach dokumentu, efektów wizualnych i muzyki
Do tej pory Apple Originals zgarnęły 735 nagród i 3,258 nominacji. Produkcje takie jak „Ted Lasso”, „Severance”, „Pluribus”, filmy „CODA” i „F1: The Movie” wciąż zdobywają kolejne wyróżnienia.
„The Studio” śledzi losy Matta Remicka (Seth Rogen), nowego szefa Continental Studios, i jego walkę z egoistycznymi gwiazdami i korporacyjnymi wyzwaniami w świecie filmów.
Przejęcia, dane i umowy
Tim Cook promuje Formułę 1 w nowym wideo Apple
Tim Cook opublikował krótkie wideo promujące nową współpracę Apple z Formułą 1. Klip rozgrywa się wokół Apple Park, gdzie CEO Apple prowadzi mały pojazd kampusowy i zatrzymuje się obok kierowcy Maxa Verstappena.
Scena stylizowana jest na pit stop F1 – buggy zatrzymuje się w strefie oznaczonej „Tim Box Box”, a mechanicy wykonują błyskawiczną zmianę opon, parodiując choreografię prawdziwych zespołów wyścigowych. Po krótkim postoju Cook rusza dalej.
Materiał jest częścią promocji nowej umowy Apple z Formułą 1. Od sezonu 2026 firma została wyłącznym nadawcą F1 w USA w aplikacji Apple TV, gdzie transmitowane są treningi, kwalifikacje, Sprinty i Grand Prix – na żywo i na żądanie.
Apple promuje partnerstwo w całym swoim ekosystemie: w Apple Sports, Apple News, Apple Maps oraz poprzez transmisje audio w Apple Music. Subskrybenci w USA mogą oglądać wyścigi w 4K, Dolby Vision oraz z wieloma kamerami pokładowymi.
Apple pracuje nad kontynuacją „F1: The Movie” →
Apple oficjalnie potwierdziło przygotowania do sequela hitowego filmu „F1: The Movie”. Producent Jerry Bruckheimer poinformował BBC, że projekt jest w toku, choć nie ujawniono jeszcze szczegółów obsady ani daty premiery.
Decyzja nie dziwi – „F1: The Movie” z Bradem Pittem stał się największym kinowym sukcesem Apple i najbardziej dochodowym filmem sportowym w historii. Apple, inwestując w sport Formuły 1 i startując ze streamowaniem wyścigów na Apple TV w USA od marca, chce utrzymać wysoki poziom produkcji przy premierach kinowych.
Apple TV dodaje do katalogu nowy sezon „Drive to Survive” – wszystkie odcinki już dostępne!
Apple TV wchodzi na tor wyścigowy Formuły 1 – dzięki pięcioletniemu partnerstwu, amerykańscy subskrybenci mają teraz dostęp do wszystkich wyścigów F1, a także do najnowszego sezonu „Formula 1: Drive to Survive”.
Sezon 8. jest już dostępny w całości na Apple TV – niestety tylko na terenie USA, ponieważ jest to cześć umowy Apple TV z F1, w ramach której podpisano inny dokument o wymianie treści między Apple TV a Netflix – w zamian jeden z nadchodzących wyścigów F1 będzie transmitowany na Netflix (również tylko w USA).
Obejmuje wydarzenia sezonu 2025 F1, idealne przygotowanie przed pierwszym wyścigiem 2026, który startuje 7 marca.
Na Apple TV wciąż pojawia się standardowe intro Netflix oraz małe logo w prawym górnym rogu. To nietypowa współpraca między platformami streamingowymi, pokazująca, że Apple stawia na mocną promocję wyścigów F1 w USA.
Netflix liderem rynku streamingowego w Polsce w Q4 2025 – Apple TV wysoko!
JustWatch opublikował dziś najnowszy raport dotyczący polskiego rynku streamingowego, analizując zmiany zachodzące w 2025 roku.
Netflix pozostaje zdecydowanym liderem rynku z 24% udziałem, pomimo odnotowania niewielkiego spadku o 1 punkt procentowy w porównaniu do Q3 2025.
Disney+ i Amazon Prime Video dzieliły drugie miejsce, mając po 17% udziału w rynku. Disney+ zyskał 1 punkt procentowy (z 16% na 17%), podczas gdy Amazon Prime Video utrzymał stabilny udział.
HBO Max (15%) i Apple TV+ (13%) utrzymały stabilne udziały rynkowe w Q4 2025.
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W piątek, 13 marca, na platformie zadebiutowała trzyodcinkowa docuserii „Twisted Yoga”. Produkcja powstała we współpracy Lightbox i Ladywell Films, a wśród twórców są zdobywcy nagród Oscara i Emmy: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Suzanne Lavery i Bernadette Higgins. Reżyserem serii jest Rowan Deacon.
„Twisted Yoga” śledzi grupę młodych adeptów jogi z całego świata, którzy w poszukiwaniu wewnętrznego spokoju trafiają pod wpływ rumuńskiego guru Gregorian Bivolaru, lidera międzynarodowej sieci studiów jogi specjalizujących się w rytuałach tantrycznych. Bohaterowie zaczynają podejrzewać, że trafili do sekty, odkrywając mroczną przeszłość Bivolaru, który wciąż odpowiada przed francuskim wymiarem sprawiedliwości m.in. za handel ludźmi, porwania i gwałty.
2. sezon „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” →
„Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” powrócił na Apple TV.
Pierwszy sezon z 2023 roku zebrał świetne recenzje — chwalono połączenie historii rodzinnej, ludzkiego dramatu i widowiskowych scen z potworami, w tym Godzillą. Dzięki dynamicznemu wzrostowi Apple TV oraz sukcesom takich tytułów jak Severance czy Pluribus, kontynuacja Monarch powinna trafić do znacznie większej widowni.
Historia ponownie połączy losy bohaterów i złoczyńców na Wyspie Czaszki, a także w nowej nadmorskiej osadzie, gdzie z głębin wyłoni się kolejny mityczny Tytan. Stawka jest najwyższa — zagrożenie globalnym wydarzeniem Titanów i tajemnice przeszłości, które zaczynają wpływać na teraźniejszość.
Apple TV rozszerza „Monsterverse” o nowy spin-off „Monarch”
Apple TV ogłosiło nowy spin-off serii „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”, skupiający się na postaci pułkownika Lee Shawa, w którego wcieli się Wyatt Russell. Akcja prequela toczyć się będzie w 1984 roku, podczas tajnej misji Shawa mającej powstrzymać Sowietów przed uwolnieniem potężnego Tytana mogącego zmienić bieg zimnej wojny.
Nowy serial wyreżyseruje Joby Harold, odpowiedzialny również za oryginalną serię. Produkcja rozszerzy Monsterverse, wprowadzając fanów w historię nowych i kultowych Tytanów oraz oferując mocno rozbudowaną narrację postaci.
„Monsterverse” Legendary to uniwersum skupione na walce ludzkości o przetrwanie w świecie, gdzie legendy i mity stają się rzeczywistością. Do tej pory w ramach uniwersum powstały m.in. Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla vs. Kong oraz nadchodzący Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.
Doczekaliśmy się także serialu „The Hunt”, po trzymiesięcznym opóźnieniu związanym z dochodzeniem w sprawie plagiatu.
Franck i jego przyjaciele spędzają weekendy na polowaniach, ale pewnego dnia napotykają grupę myśliwych, którzy bez powodu ich atakują. Po incydencie przyjaciele starają się zachować wszystko w tajemnicy, ale wkrótce Franck odkrywa, że śledzą ich myśliwi, żądni zemsty.
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Sierpień 2026 – 4. sezon „Teda Lasso” →
Apple TV przygotowuje się do powrotu hitowego serialu „Ted Lasso” po trzech latach od zakończenia 3. sezonu.
Szczegóły sezonu 4:
- Jason Sudeiis powraca jako Ted Lasso, trenując nową kobiecą drużynę – „Lady Greyhounds”.
- annah Waddingham ujawniła, że premiera nowego sezonu odbędzie się w sierpniu 2026, tuż po zakończeniu Mistrzostw Świata w piłce nożnej 2026, które odbywają się w USA, Meksyku i Kanadzie.
18 marca – trailer Imperfect Women →
„Imperfect Women” bada zbrodnię, która niszczy życie trzech kobiet w przyjaźni trwającej od dziesięcioleci.
Niekonwencjonalny thriller bada winę i zemstę, miłość i zdradę oraz kompromisy, które nieodwracalnie zmieniają nasze życie. Wraz z rozwojem śledztwa ujawnia się prawda o tym, że nawet najbliższe przyjaźnie mogą nie być tym, czym się wydają.
Pojawił się też trailer tej produkcji.
27 marca – trailer 5. sezon „For All Mankind” →
Apple TV ujawniło pierwszy teaser piątego sezonu „For All Mankind” oraz datę premiery pierwszego odcinka. Joel Kinnaman wraca w roli Eda Baldwina – teraz sztucznie postarzonego.
Sezon 5. startuje 27 marca i będzie liczyć 10 odcinków. Finał zaplanowano na 29 maja.
Akcja nowego sezonu toczy się po napadzie na asteroidę Goldilocks. Kolonia Happy Valley rozrosła się, stając się bazą nowych misji w Układzie Słonecznym. Jednak rosnące żądania prawa i porządku na Marsie wywołują napięcia między mieszkańcami Czerwonej Planety a Ziemią.
Do obsady powracają Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña i Wrenn Schmidt. Nowe postacie zagrają Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz i Ines Asserson.
Pierwsze cztery sezony „For All Mankind” są już dostępne na Apple TV.
Apple TV przygotowało też dwa materiały przypominające najważniejsze wydarzenia sezonów 1-4.
Friday Night Baseball wraca na Apple TV 27 marca!
Apple ogłosiło powrót Friday Night Baseball w Apple TV na sezon MLB 2026.
Start zaplanowano na 27 marca, kiedy Los Angeles Angels zmierzą się z Houston Astros, a następnie Cleveland Guardians zagrają przeciwko Seattle Mariners.
- Transmisje: cotygodniowe podwójne mecze w piątki przez 25-tygodniowy sezon, dla fanów w 60 krajach i regionach.
- Produkcja: nowoczesne ujęcia z iPhone’ów, wysoka jakość obrazu i komentarz ekspertów, bez ograniczeń lokalnych transmisji.
- Dodatkowe treści: od 26 marca w USA dostępny program MLB Big Inning, oraz serie: Countdown to First Pitch, MLB Daily Recap, MLB This Week.
Początek 2026 – 2. sezon „Dark Matter” →
Serial science fiction „Dark Matter” powróci z drugim sezonem na Apple TV. Po sukcesie pierwszej odsłony, opartej na bestsellerowej powieści Blake’a Croucha, twórcy zdecydowali się kontynuować historię – tym razem bez literackiego pierwowzoru.
Nowe odcinki mają pogłębić losy bohaterów walczących o przetrwanie w świecie wieloświatów. W obsadzie ponownie zobaczymy Joela Edgertona i Jennifer Connelly, a do ekipy dołączy Chris Diamantopoulos. Za scenariusz i reżyserię ponownie odpowiada Blake Crouch, co daje nadzieję na spójny klimat i wysoki poziom produkcji.
Zdjęcia do sezonu 2 zakończyły się w lipcu 2025 roku. Premiera planowana jest na początek 2026 roku – prawdopodobnie między lutym a majem.
Pierwszy sezon „Dark Matter” można obejrzeć na Apple TV.
3 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
W „Your Friends & Neighbors” finansowy tytan nagle zostaje rozwiedziony i pozbawiony pracy, a następnie zaczyna okradać swoich zamożnych sąsiadów, aby utrzymać się na powierzchni.
Okradanie własnego kręgu społecznego dziwnie go ekscytuje – ale stopniowo zaplątuje się w śmiertelną sieć. Jeśli jeszcze nie widzieliście pierwszego sezonu, to szczerze polecam nadrobić zaległości.
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę czarnej komedii „Outcome”, reżyserowanej przez Jonaha Hilla, z Keanu Reevesem, Cameron Diaz i Mattem Bomerem w rolach głównych. Serial zadebiutuje globalnie 10 kwietnia 2026 r.
Fabuła skupia się na Reefie Hawku (Reeves), hollywoodzkiej gwieździe, która po szantażu tajemniczym wideo zmuszona jest zmierzyć się z przeszłością, by odnaleźć szantażystę. W podróży towarzyszą mu przyjaciele i prawnik kryzysowy (Hill). Obsada uzupełniona jest m.in. o Martina Scorsese, Laverne Cox, Susan Lucci i Davida Spade’a. Film wyprodukowany przez Apple Studios, Strong Baby i Matta Dinesa.
15 kwietnia – trailer „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” →
Apple TV ujawniło datę premiery adaptacji bestsellerowej powieści „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” autorstwa Rufi Thorpe. Serial powstaje przy współpracy z A24 i Davidem E. Kelley.
W rolach głównych: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, a także Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, Lindsey Normington.
Serial opowiada historię Margo, świeżo upieczonej absolwentki, która staje przed wyzwaniami życia dorosłego – nowym dzieckiem, rosnącymi rachunkami i ograniczonymi sposobami ich pokrycia, przy wsparciu rodziny z nietypowym backgroundem.
Premierę zaplanowano na 15 kwietnia 2026 roku. Pierwsze odcinki: 3 odcinki dostępne od razu, kolejne co tydzień do 20 maja.
22 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Criminal Record” →
Apple TV kontynuuje rozwój oferty thrillerów kryminalnych. Sezon 2 serialu „Criminal Record” zadebiutuje 22 kwietnia, a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień aż do 10 czerwca.
Serial opowiada o londyńskich detektywach June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) i Danielu Hegartym (Peter Capaldi), którzy muszą współpracować przy śledztwie po brutalnym morderstwie na politycznej demonstracji, co prowadzi do operacji mającej udaremnić zamach bombowy. Pierwszy sezon z 2024 roku zdobył 90% na Rotten Tomatoes.
Fani kryminałów powinni też zwrócić uwagę na „Slow Horses”, „Black Bird”, „Presumed Innocent” i „Dope Thief”.
29 kwietnia – zapowiedź „Widow’s Bay” →
Apple TV ujawniło szczegóły nadchodzącego serialu komediowo-horrorowego „Widow’s Bay”, w którym główną rolę zagra Matthew Rhys („The Beast in Me”). Twórcą jest Katie Dippold, a większość odcinków wyreżyserował Hiro Murai („Atlanta”, „Station Eleven”).
Premiera odbędzie się 29 kwietnia 2026 – wtedy zostaną udostępnione trzy pierwsze odcinki, a kolejne będą pojawiać się co tydzień do 17 czerwca.
Akcja rozgrywa się w odizolowanym miasteczku 40 mil od wybrzeża Nowej Anglii. Burmistrz Tom Loftis (Rhys) stara się ożywić swoje społeczność, przyciągając turystów, ale legendy i tajemnicze zdarzenia zaczynają się materializować. Serial łączy prawdziwy horror z komedią opartą na postaciach.
20 maja – „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” z Tatianą Maslany i Jake’em Johnsonem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę 10-odcinkowego thrillera z czarnym humorem „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 maja 2026 r. Pierwsze dwa odcinki będą dostępne w dniu premiery, kolejne co środę do 15 lipca.
Serial opowiada o Pauli (Maslany), świeżo rozwiedzionej matce, która wplątuje się w sieć szantażu, morderstw i młodzieżowego futbolu. W śledztwie wspierają ją Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn i Murray Bartlett. Produkcję przygotowały Apple Studios i Counterpart Studios, a twórcą i showrunnerem jest David J. Rosen, reżyseruje David Gordon Green.
Apple TV+ przygotowuje spinoff popularnego „For All Mankind”, zatytułowany „Star City”, który zadebiutuje 29 maja 2026. Premiera obejmie dwa odcinki, a kolejne będą pojawiać się co tydzień do 10 lipca, tuż po finale 5. sezonu „For All Mankind”.
Akcja dzieje się w alternatywnej historii wyścigu kosmicznego, przedstawiając pierwsze lądowanie człowieka na Księżycu przez ZSRR. Fabuła skupia się na życiu kosmonautów, inżynierów i agentów wywiadu radzieckiego, pokazując ryzyko, jakie podejmowali, aby przesunąć granice ludzkości.
Twórcy: Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, Ronald D. Moore (ten sam zespół co przy „For All Mankind”). W rolach głównych: Rhys Ifans („House of the Dragon”).
Star City kontynuuje kosmiczne dramaty Apple TV, oferując alternatywną perspektywę wydarzeń znanych z „For All Mankind”.
5 czerwca – trailer 2. sezonu „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
Apple TV oficjalnie potwierdziło premierę 2. sezonu serialu „Your Friends & Neighbors” z Jonem Hammem. Pojawił się też jego oficjalny trailer.
Nowe odcinki zadebiutują 3 kwietnia (piątek), a kolejne będą publikowane co tydzień aż do 5 czerwca. Do obsady wracają m.in. Amanda Peet i Olivia Munn, a nową twarzą sezonu jest James Marsden.
W drugim sezonie Andrew Cooper jeszcze mocniej angażuje się w podwójne życie niepozornego złodzieja z przedmieść. Sytuacja komplikuje się, gdy pojawia się nowy sąsiad, zagrażając ujawnieniem jego sekretów i bezpieczeństwu rodziny. Szybka kontynuacja była możliwa dzięki zamówieniu dwóch sezonów od razu.
5 czerwca – nowy thriller „Cape Fear” od Spielberga i Scorsese wkrótce na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło datę premiery psychologicznego thrillera „Cape Fear”, produkowanego przez Stevena Spielberga i Martina Scorsese.
Oto oficjalne streszczenie serialu przygotowane przez Apple:
W serialu „Cape Fear” szczęśliwe małżeństwo prawników, Amanda i Steve Bowden, staje w obliczu burzy, gdy Max Cady (w tej roli Bardem), znany morderca z ich przeszłości, wychodzi z więzienia. Ten 10-odcinkowy serial to pełen napięcia thriller w stylu Hitchcocka, będący jednocześnie analizą obsesji Ameryki na punkcie prawdziwych zbrodni w XXI wieku.
W obsadzie znaleźli się Javier Bardem, Amy Adams i Patrick Wilson. Fabuła skupia się na małżeństwie prawników, które musi stawić czoła Maxowi Cady’emu – seryjnemu przestępcy z ich przeszłości.
Serial porusza także temat fascynacji Ameryki prawdziwymi zbrodniami w XXI wieku i jest inspirowany kultowym filmem Scorsese i powieścią „The Executioners”, zadebiutuje 5 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 31 lipca.
19 czerwca – „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem wraca na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło powrót neo-noir detektywistycznego serialu „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem w roli prywatnego detektywa Johna Sugara. Sezon 2 zadebiutuje 19 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 7 sierpnia.
W nowym sezonie Sugar prowadzi śledztwo w sprawie zaginięcia siostry młodego boksera, które prowadzi do szeroko zakrojonej miejskiej intrygi. Serial stworzony przez Marka Protosevicha, a showrunnerem drugiego sezonu jest Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad, Preacher).
15 lipca – Anya Taylor-Joy wraca w serialu „Lucky” na Apple TV
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy serial „Lucky”, w którym wystąpi Anya Taylor-Joy – jej pierwsza duża rola telewizyjna od czasu „Gambitu Królowej”. Premiera odbędzie się 15 lipca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 19 sierpnia.
Serial oparty jest na bestsellerowej powieści Marissy Stapley. Fabuła skupia się na Lucky, oszustce zmuszonej do ucieczki po nieudanym napadzie na miliony dolarów, ściganej przez FBI i bezwzględnego gangstera. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Annette Bening i Timothy Olyphant. Twórcami są Jonathan Tropper i Cassie Pappas.
Zobaczyliśmy już także teaser całości.
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę letniej komedii „The Dink”, która zadebiutuje globalnie 24 lipca 2026 r. Jake Johnson wciela się w Dusty’ego Boyda, byłego tenisowego prodigy’ego, który po kontuzji odkrywa pasję do pickleballu. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Patton Oswalt i Ben Stiller.
Fabuła opowiada o próbie pogodzenia relacji z ojcem, rywalizacji w klubie sportowym i stawienia czoła własnej przeszłości. Film wyreżyserował Josh Greenbaum, a wyprodukowany został przez Red Hour Films i Rivulet Entertainment.
Dalsza część 2026 roku – „The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina” →
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy kulinarny serial „The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina”. Aktorka Awkwafina (Nora Lum) wyrusza w osobistą podróż po Stanach Zjednoczonych, by odkrywać współczesną kuchnię azjatycko-amerykańską i spróbować odtworzyć dziedzictwo rodzinnej restauracji Lum’s w Nowym Jorku, mimo że… nie potrafi gotować.
W ośmioodcinkowej serii Awkwafina uczy się od znanych szefów kuchni, restauratorów i swojej rodziny, próbując połączyć tradycję z nowoczesnym podejściem do kuchni azjatyckiej. Format przypomina popularną serię The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, w której bohater znajduje się poza swoją strefą komfortu — tutaj kulinarnie.
Premiera przewidziana jest w 2026 roku.
4 września –„Mayday” z Ryanem Reynoldsem i Kennethem Branaghem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę filmu akcji-komedii „Mayday”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 4 września 2026 r. Ryan Reynolds wciela się w amerykańskiego pilota Tropa „Assassin” Kelly’ego, który po nieudanej misji zostaje uwięziony za linią wroga. Kenneth Branagh gra byłego agenta KGB, który niespodziewanie staje się jego sojusznikiem.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova i David Morse. Film powstał w Apple Original Films i Skydance Media, napisany, wyreżyserowany i wyprodukowany przez Johna Francisa Daleya i Jonathana Goldsteina, a Ryan Reynolds pełni także funkcję producenta wykonawczego.
9 października – „Matchbox The Movie” z Johnem Ceną i Jessicą Biel →
Apple TV zapowiedziało także premierę akcji-przygodowego filmu „Matchbox The Movie”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 9 października 2026 r. John Cena wciela się w Seana, agenta CIA, który powraca do swojego rodzinnego miasta, wplątując dawnych przyjaciół w międzynarodową misję ratowania świata.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro, Danai Gurira i Golshifteh Farahani. Film powstał w Apple Original Films przy współpracy Skydance Media i Mattel Films, wyreżyserował go Sam Hargrave, scenariusz napisał David Coggeshall.
20 listopada – „Way of the Warrior Kid” z Chrisem Prattem i Lindą Cardellini →
Apple TV ogłosiło premierę filmu „Way of the Warrior Kid”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 listopada 2026 r. Chris Pratt wciela się w Jake’a, byłego Navy SEAL-a, który uczy swojego siostrzeńca Marca (Jude Hill) odwagi i pewności siebie, inspirując go do przezwyciężania problemów w szkole. Linda Cardellini gra matkę chłopca, Sarah.
Film oparty jest na bestsellerowej książce Jocko Willinka i wyreżyserowany przez McG. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Ava Torres, Levi McConaughey i Parker Young. Produkcję przygotowały Apple i Skydance Media.
Jeff Daniels dołącza do 5. sezonu „The Morning Show”!
Jeff Daniels zagra w nadchodzącym piątym sezonie „The Morning Show” rolę miliardera i założyciela znanej firmy inwestycyjnej, podaje Deadline.
To jego trzecia współpraca z Apple TV – wcześniej wystąpił w trzecim sezonie „Shrinking” i jako narrator w dokumencie „9/11: Inside the President’s War Room”.
4. sezon zakończył się w listopadzie 2025; data premiery 5. sezonu nie została jeszcze potwierdzona. Twórcy sugerują, że premiera może przyspieszyć w 2026 r. bez przeszkód w postaci strajków scenarzystów.
Ciekawe, czy Apple subtelnie nawiąże do kultowego „The Newsroom”, którego Daniels był przez lata pierwszoplanową gwiazdą.
Apple TV rezygnuje z „Palm Royale” po dwóch sezonach
Apple TV nie przedłuży produkcji „Palm Royale” na trzeci sezon. Serial zakończył się po dwóch sezonach i 20 odcinkach, pozostawiając niezakończone wątki.
Do tej pory zdobył 11 nominacji do Emmy (w tym Outstanding Comedy Series), wygrana w kategorii Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. Oceny: 60% na Rotten Tomatoes, 6,8/10 na IMDb.
Pomimo uznania krytyków i gwiazdorskiej obsady, „Palm Royale” nie zdobyło masowej popularności porównywalnej do „Ted Lasso” czy „The Studio”.
Martin Scorsese wzbogaca obsadę swojego nowego filmu „What Happens At Night” dla Apple TV
Martin Scorsese po raz kolejny współpracuje z Apple TV+, tym razem przy ekranizacji powieści Petera Camerona z 2020 roku, „What Happens At Night”, donosi Deadline.
W obsadzie znaleźli się Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Patricia Clarkson, Mads Mikkelsen oraz Jared Harris.Film opowie o amerykańskiej parze podróżującej do zasypanego śniegiem europejskiego miasta, aby adoptować dziecko. Trafiają do Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel, pustego i tajemniczego, gdzie bar nigdy nie zamyka się, a restauracja serwuje trzynastodaniowe posiłki z dawnych wieków.
Apple TV ogłasza trzy nowe filmy w nadchodzącej ofercie
Apple TV wzmacnia swoją przyszłą ofertę filmową, dodając trzy nowe produkcje.
Biografia Lance’a Armstronga
Tytuł roboczy: „Untitled Lance Armstrong biopic”. Reżyser: Edward Berger (Conclave). W roli Armstronga wystąpi Austin Butler (wcześniej w „Masters of the Air” ).
Film połączy elementy „F1: The Movie” i produkcji Scorsese („Raging Bull”, „The Wolf of Wall Street”) i obejmie życie Armstronga – jego sukcesy i porażki. Armstrong po raz pierwszy zgodził się na użycie praw do swojego życia.
Świąteczny film „Foster the Snowman”
Reżyser: Hikari (Rental Family). Scenariusz: Jono Matt & Peter Huyck („The Studio”).
Bezdzietna para przyjmuje magicznego bałwanka, którego życie odgrywa się w 72 godzinach – połączenie humoru „Elf” i „It’s a Wonderful Life” oraz uroku „Paddingtona”.
Romans „Once and Again” od Rebecca Serle
Apple podobno nabyło również prawa do „Once and Again”, najnowszej powieści romantycznej autorstwa bestsellerowej pisarki Rebecci Serle.
Serle jest autorką takich bestsellerów jak „In Five Years”, „One Italian Summer” i „The Dinner List”.
Oto streszczenie fabuły powieści „Once and Again” według serwisu via Deadline:
Opisywana jako połączenie filmów „Żona podróżnika w czasie” i „Dom nad jeziorem”, historia opowiada o Lauren Novak, pochodzącej z Malibu kobiecie, która porzuciła plażę dla idealnego małżeństwa i życia w Los Angeles. Jednak gdy związek zaczyna się rozpadać, a jej mąż dostaje pracę w Nowym Jorku na lato, Lauren wraca do nadmorskiego miasteczka, które ją ukształtowało, gdzie musi zmierzyć się nie tylko z rodzicami i babcią, ale także z ich najpilniej strzeżoną tajemnicą: kobiety z rodziny Novak urodziły się z darem – każda z nich może tylko raz cofnąć czas.
Billy Zane dołącza do drugiego sezonu komedii „Stick”
Billy Zane, znany z Titanica i Twin Peaks, zagra w powracającym golfowym serialu komediowym „Stick” w roli powtarzającej się w sezonie 2.
„Stick” to komedia sportowa stworzona przez Jasona Kellera, z Owenem Wilsonem w roli głównej i jako producentem wykonawczym.
Pryce Cahill (Wilson), były golfista, którego kariera upadła 20 lat temu, postanawia zainwestować w młodego golfowego talentu Santi’ego (Peter Dager). Serial opowiada o relacjach i rodzinie znalezionej w nieoczekiwanym środowisku sportowym.
Inne zmiany w obsadzie: Judy Greer i Timothy Olyphant awansowali do ról stałych w sezonie 2.Data premiery sezonu 2 jeszcze nie została podana.
Silo zapowiada szybki powrót – sezony 3. i 4. już gotowe!
Serial „Silo” powróci z trzecim sezonem jeszcze w tym roku, a Apple TV ujawniło, że czwarty sezon, który zakończy serię, jest już w całości sfilmowany.
„Silo” to Sci-fi oparte na trylogii Hugh Howeya, w czołówce Apple TV obok „Severance”, „Pluribus” i „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”, o którym mowa powyżej.
Sezony 3. i 4. są ukończone, co pozwoli na szybką premierę kolejnych odcinków – sezon 4 prawdopodobnie pojawi się w mniej niż rok po sezonie 3.
Pierwsze dwa sezony obejmowały pierwszy tom trylogii; finałowe sezony będą łączyć wydarzenia z książek 2 i 3, niekoniecznie w chronologicznym porządku.
Sezon 3 planowany na jesień 2026 r.
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Apple TV – podsumowanie premier #153
Zapraszam do 153. wydania przeglądu nowości i zapowiedzi platformy Apple TV.
Apple po raz kolejny stawia się w opozycji do toczącej się na naszych oczach rewolucji AI, w które generatywna sztuczna inteligencja zastępuje aktorów w spotach reklamowych i nie tylko. Firma z Cupertino opublikowała krótki, ale jakże wymowny klip zatytułowany „Ludzie Apple TV” – w stylu starej telewizji, bez żadnej postprodukcji. Ujęcia pochodzą z planów zdjęciowych hitów Apple TV i mówią same za siebie.
Apple może sporo wygrać w najbliższych czasach na takiej narracji, co pokazała już nie tak dawna sytuacja, w której firma odświeżyła czołówkę własnych produkcji, przy okazji zmiany nazwy platformy z Apple TV+ na Apple TV – w całkowicie analogowy sposób. Wykorzystali do tego grę świateł na palonym szkle oraz film poklatkowy.
Pisaliśmy o tym tutaj.
Nowy sezon F1 zbliża się wielkimi krokami!
Jak wiecie Apple TV przejęło wyłączne prawa do transmisji kolejnych sześciu sezonów F1 na terenie USA. W związku z tym załoga kreatywna firmy Apple i platformy Apple TV prowadzi intensywne działania promocyjne; związane ze zbliżającym się startem nowego sezonu.
Apple TV uruchamia treści F1 przed startem sezonu 2026
Apple TV rozpoczęło oficjalną zapowiedź sezonu Formuły 1 2026, udostępniając w aplikacji dedykowane materiały wideo dla fanów motorsportu. To element nowej, pięcioletniej umowy, w ramach której Apple TV jest wyłącznym partnerem streamingowym F1 w USA.
Grafika MacRumors.
W aplikacji Apple TV pojawiła się specjalna sekcja „Get Ready for Formula 1 on Apple TV”, oferująca m.in. zapowiedzi sezonu, zmiany regulaminowe oraz podsumowania poprzednich rozgrywek. Wszystkie materiały odtwarzane są bezpośrednio w aplikacji w formie playlisty.
Dostępne treści obejmują m.in.:
- prezentację malowania Red Bulla,
- zmiany regulaminowe F1 na 2026 rok,
- terminarze Grand Prix, sprintów i F1 Academy,
- podsumowanie sezonu 2025,
- finał mistrzostw w Abu Zabi,
- materiały o Lando Norrisie,
- przegląd serii F2 i F3.
Pierwszy wyścig sezonu 2026 odbędzie się w marcu, a Apple zapowiada dalszą rozbudowę treści F1 w nadchodzących tygodniach. Wszystkie wyścigi będą dostępne bez dodatkowych opłat dla subskrybentów Apple TV.
Nowy kanał F1 w Apple TV przed startem sezonu
Apple TV uruchomiło dedykowany kanał Formula 1, dostępny dla subskrybentów w USA. Od 8 marca będzie można tam oglądać wszystkie wyścigi, zaczynając od Grand Prix Melbourne.
Zdjęcie: 9to5Mac.
Co oferuje kanał F1 w Apple TV?
- Dedykowana sekcja w sidebarze aplikacji i szybki link w tv.apple.com.
- Skróty do nadchodzących sesji treningowych, kwalifikacji i wyścigów.
- Materiały archiwalne, np. historyczne wyścigi na torze Albert Park.
- Darmowy podgląd wszystkich sesji treningowych w sezonie. Niektóre weekendy wyścigowe również będą dostępne bez subskrypcji.
Apple pracuje nad kontynuacją „F1: The Movie” →
Apple oficjalnie potwierdziło przygotowania do sequela hitowego filmu „F1: The Movie”. Producent Jerry Bruckheimer poinformował BBC, że projekt jest w toku, choć nie ujawniono jeszcze szczegółów obsady ani daty premiery.
Decyzja nie dziwi – „F1: The Movie” z Bradem Pittem stał się największym kinowym sukcesem Apple i najbardziej dochodowym filmem sportowym w historii. Apple, inwestując w sport Formuły 1 i startując ze streamowaniem wyścigów na Apple TV w USA od marca, chce utrzymać wysoki poziom produkcji przy premierach kinowych.
Apple promuje nowy sezon Formuły 1 kampanią „Shot on iPhone”
Apple przygotowuje się do transmisji Formuły 1 na Apple TV, promując nowy sezon serią zdjęć „Shot on iPhone”. Kampania obejmuje współpracę z zespołami, m.in. Cadillacem i Red Bullem, prezentując samochody, kierowców i nowe części silników wykonane iPhone’em 17 Pro.
Sezon Formuły 1 w USA będzie dostępny wyłącznie na Apple TV od 7 marca, obejmując wszystkie wyścigi Grand Prix, kwalifikacje i sesje treningowe. Subskrybenci Apple TV otrzymują też dostęp do F1.TV w ramach dodatkowego benefitu, zachowując możliwość korzystania z dedykowanej aplikacji F1.
Hours after unveiling its livery via a Super Bowl commercial and in-person Times Square activation, the Cadillac Formula 1 Team continued its innovative launch with a "Shot on iPhone" social and out-of-home executions in collaboration with Apple.
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— Vincenzo Landino (@vincenzolandino) February 13, 2026
Premiery
Apple TV (Apple Original Film) ma za sobą kolejną, głośną premierę filmową. „Eternity”, produkcja studia A24 z Elizabeth Olsen w roli głównej, zadebiutowała na platformie w Walentynki.
Film spotkał się z ciepłym przyjęciem zarówno krytyków, jak i widzów, którzy obejrzeli go podczas kinowej dystrybucji. Obecnie ma 77% oceny na portalu Rotten Tomatoes.
Film wszedł do kin pod koniec listopada, a udział Apple w dystrybucji długo pozostawał w cieniu. Teraz Eternity pojawiło się w zapowiedziach nadchodzących premier Apple TV, co potwierdza rychły debiut streamingowy. Oficjalna data nie została jeszcze ogłoszona – Apple podaje jedynie „zima 2026”.
Produkcja zebrała bardzo dobre recenzje. Krytycy chwalą wysokokonceptową formę romantycznej komedii oraz trio aktorskie: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller i Callum Turner.
W zaświatach, gdzie dusze mają tydzień na decyzję, gdzie spędzą wieczność, Joan musi wybrać między mężczyzną, z którym przeżyła całe życie, a swoją pierwszą miłością, która zmarła młodo i czekała na nią przez dekady.
Na platformie pojawił się też 2. sezon serialowego thrillera „The Last Thing He Told Me” z Jennifer Garner w roli głównej.
Choć serial pierwotnie planowano jako miniserię, sukces pierwszego sezonu – opartego na bestsellerze „The Last Thing He Told Me” – sprawił, że powstanie kontynuacja inspirowana nową książką autorki Laury Dave, zatytułowaną „The First Time I Saw Him”, która ukaże się w styczniu 2026 r..
W obsadzie oprócz Garner znaleźli się ponownie Angourie Rice, Davida Morse’a i Nikolaja Coster-Waldau, a dołączą do nich Judy Greer i Rita Wilson.
Serial opowiada historię Hannah, która wraz z nastoletnią pasierbicą próbuje odkryć prawdę o tajemniczym zniknięciu jej męża.
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27 lutego – trailer 2. sezon „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” →
„Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” wraca na Apple TV. Drugi sezon zadebiutuje 27 lutego, a kolejne odcinki będą publikowane co tydzień aż do 1 maja. Apple pokazało też w końcu trailer nadchodzącego sezonu.
Pierwszy sezon z 2023 roku zebrał świetne recenzje — chwalono połączenie historii rodzinnej, ludzkiego dramatu i widowiskowych scen z potworami, w tym Godzillą. Dzięki dynamicznemu wzrostowi Apple TV oraz sukcesom takich tytułów jak Severance czy Pluribus, kontynuacja Monarch powinna trafić do znacznie większej widowni.
Historia ponownie połączy losy bohaterów i złoczyńców na Wyspie Czaszki, a także w nowej nadmorskiej osadzie, gdzie z głębin wyłoni się kolejny mityczny Tytan. Stawka jest najwyższa — zagrożenie globalnym wydarzeniem Titanów i tajemnice przeszłości, które zaczynają wpływać na teraźniejszość.
Apple TV rozszerza „Monsterverse” o nowy spin-off „Monarch”
Apple TV ogłosiło nowy spin-off serii „Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”, skupiający się na postaci pułkownika Lee Shawa, w którego wcieli się Wyatt Russell. Akcja prequela toczyć się będzie w 1984 roku, podczas tajnej misji Shawa mającej powstrzymać Sowietów przed uwolnieniem potężnego Tytana mogącego zmienić bieg zimnej wojny.
Nowy serial wyreżyseruje Joby Harold, odpowiedzialny również za oryginalną serię. Produkcja rozszerzy Monsterverse, wprowadzając fanów w historię nowych i kultowych Tytanów oraz oferując mocno rozbudowaną narrację postaci.
„Monsterverse” Legendary to uniwersum skupione na walce ludzkości o przetrwanie w świecie, gdzie legendy i mity stają się rzeczywistością. Do tej pory w ramach uniwersum powstały m.in. Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla vs. Kong oraz nadchodzący Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.
18 marca – trailer Imperfect Women →
„Imperfect Women” bada zbrodnię, która niszczy życie trzech kobiet w przyjaźni trwającej od dziesięcioleci.
Niekonwencjonalny thriller bada winę i zemstę, miłość i zdradę oraz kompromisy, które nieodwracalnie zmieniają nasze życie. Wraz z rozwojem śledztwa ujawnia się prawda o tym, że nawet najbliższe przyjaźnie mogą nie być tym, czym się wydają.
Pojawił się też trailer tej produkcji.
27 marca – 5. sezon „For All Mankind” →
Apple TV ujawniło pierwszy teaser piątego sezonu „For All Mankind” oraz datę premiery pierwszego odcinka. Joel Kinnaman wraca w roli Eda Baldwina – teraz sztucznie postarzonego.
Sezon 5. startuje 27 marca i będzie liczyć 10 odcinków. Finał zaplanowano na 29 maja.
Akcja nowego sezonu toczy się po napadzie na asteroidę Goldilocks. Kolonia Happy Valley rozrosła się, stając się bazą nowych misji w Układzie Słonecznym. Jednak rosnące żądania prawa i porządku na Marsie wywołują napięcia między mieszkańcami Czerwonej Planety a Ziemią.
Do obsady powracają Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña i Wrenn Schmidt. Nowe postacie zagrają Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz i Ines Asserson.
Pierwsze cztery sezony „For All Mankind” są już dostępne na Apple TV.
Początek 2026 – 2. sezon „Dark Matter” →
Serial science fiction „Dark Matter” powróci z drugim sezonem na Apple TV. Po sukcesie pierwszej odsłony, opartej na bestsellerowej powieści Blake’a Croucha, twórcy zdecydowali się kontynuować historię – tym razem bez literackiego pierwowzoru.
Nowe odcinki mają pogłębić losy bohaterów walczących o przetrwanie w świecie wieloświatów. W obsadzie ponownie zobaczymy Joela Edgertona i Jennifer Connelly, a do ekipy dołączy Chris Diamantopoulos. Za scenariusz i reżyserię ponownie odpowiada Blake Crouch, co daje nadzieję na spójny klimat i wysoki poziom produkcji.
Zdjęcia do sezonu 2 zakończyły się w lipcu 2025 roku. Premiera planowana jest na początek 2026 roku – prawdopodobnie między lutym a majem.
Pierwszy sezon „Dark Matter” można obejrzeć na Apple TV.
3 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
W „Your Friends & Neighbors” finansowy tytan nagle zostaje rozwiedziony i pozbawiony pracy, a następnie zaczyna okradać swoich zamożnych sąsiadów, aby utrzymać się na powierzchni.
Okradanie własnego kręgu społecznego dziwnie go ekscytuje – ale stopniowo zaplątuje się w śmiertelną sieć. Jeśli jeszcze nie widzieliście pierwszego sezonu, to szczerze polecam nadrobić zaległości.
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę czarnej komedii „Outcome”, reżyserowanej przez Jonaha Hilla, z Keanu Reevesem, Cameron Diaz i Mattem Bomerem w rolach głównych. Serial zadebiutuje globalnie 10 kwietnia 2026 r.
Fabuła skupia się na Reefie Hawku (Reeves), hollywoodzkiej gwieździe, która po szantażu tajemniczym wideo zmuszona jest zmierzyć się z przeszłością, by odnaleźć szantażystę. W podróży towarzyszą mu przyjaciele i prawnik kryzysowy (Hill). Obsada uzupełniona jest m.in. o Martina Scorsese, Laverne Cox, Susan Lucci i Davida Spade’a. Film wyprodukowany przez Apple Studios, Strong Baby i Matta Dinesa.
15 kwietnia – trailer „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” →
Apple TV ujawniło datę premiery adaptacji bestsellerowej powieści „Margo’s Got Money Troubles” autorstwa Rufi Thorpe. Serial powstaje przy współpracy z A24 i Davidem E. Kelley.
W rolach głównych: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, a także Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, Lindsey Normington.
Serial opowiada historię Margo, świeżo upieczonej absolwentki, która staje przed wyzwaniami życia dorosłego – nowym dzieckiem, rosnącymi rachunkami i ograniczonymi sposobami ich pokrycia, przy wsparciu rodziny z nietypowym backgroundem.
Premierę zaplanowano na 15 kwietnia 2026 roku. Pierwsze odcinki: 3 odcinki dostępne od razu, kolejne co tydzień do 20 maja.
22 kwietnia – 2. sezon „Criminal Record” →
Apple TV kontynuuje rozwój oferty thrillerów kryminalnych. Sezon 2 serialu „Criminal Record” zadebiutuje 22 kwietnia, a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień aż do 10 czerwca.
Serial opowiada o londyńskich detektywach June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) i Danielu Hegartym (Peter Capaldi), którzy muszą współpracować przy śledztwie po brutalnym morderstwie na politycznej demonstracji, co prowadzi do operacji mającej udaremnić zamach bombowy. Pierwszy sezon z 2024 roku zdobył 90% na Rotten Tomatoes.
Fani kryminałów powinni też zwrócić uwagę na „Slow Horses”, „Black Bird”, „Presumed Innocent” i „Dope Thief”.
29 kwietnia – zapowiedź „Widow’s Bay” →
Apple TV ujawniło szczegóły nadchodzącego serialu komediowo-horrorowego „Widow’s Bay”, w którym główną rolę zagra Matthew Rhys („The Beast in Me”). Twórcą jest Katie Dippold, a większość odcinków wyreżyserował Hiro Murai („Atlanta”, „Station Eleven”).
Premiera odbędzie się 29 kwietnia 2026 – wtedy zostaną udostępnione trzy pierwsze odcinki, a kolejne będą pojawiać się co tydzień do 17 czerwca.
Akcja rozgrywa się w odizolowanym miasteczku 40 mil od wybrzeża Nowej Anglii. Burmistrz Tom Loftis (Rhys) stara się ożywić swoje społeczność, przyciągając turystów, ale legendy i tajemnicze zdarzenia zaczynają się materializować. Serial łączy prawdziwy horror z komedią opartą na postaciach.
20 maja – „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” z Tatianą Maslany i Jake’em Johnsonem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę 10-odcinkowego thrillera z czarnym humorem „Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 maja 2026 r. Pierwsze dwa odcinki będą dostępne w dniu premiery, kolejne co środę do 15 lipca.
Serial opowiada o Pauli (Maslany), świeżo rozwiedzionej matce, która wplątuje się w sieć szantażu, morderstw i młodzieżowego futbolu. W śledztwie wspierają ją Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn i Murray Bartlett. Produkcję przygotowały Apple Studios i Counterpart Studios, a twórcą i showrunnerem jest David J. Rosen, reżyseruje David Gordon Green.
5 czerwca – 2. sezon „Your Friends & Neighbors” →
Apple TV oficjalnie potwierdziło premierę 2. sezonu serialu „Your Friends & Neighbors” z Jonem Hammem. Nowe odcinki zadebiutują 3 kwietnia (piątek), a kolejne będą publikowane co tydzień aż do 5 czerwca. Do obsady wracają m.in. Amanda Peet i Olivia Munn, a nową twarzą sezonu jest James Marsden.
W drugim sezonie Andrew Cooper jeszcze mocniej angażuje się w podwójne życie niepozornego złodzieja z przedmieść. Sytuacja komplikuje się, gdy pojawia się nowy sąsiad, zagrażając ujawnieniem jego sekretów i bezpieczeństwu rodziny. Szybka kontynuacja była możliwa dzięki zamówieniu dwóch sezonów od razu.
5 czerwca – nowy thriller „Cape Fear” od Spielberga i Scorsese wkrótce na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło datę premiery psychologicznego thrillera „Cape Fear”, produkowanego przez Stevena Spielberga i Martina Scorsese.
Oto oficjalne streszczenie serialu przygotowane przez Apple:
W serialu „Cape Fear” szczęśliwe małżeństwo prawników, Amanda i Steve Bowden, staje w obliczu burzy, gdy Max Cady (w tej roli Bardem), znany morderca z ich przeszłości, wychodzi z więzienia. Ten 10-odcinkowy serial to pełen napięcia thriller w stylu Hitchcocka, będący jednocześnie analizą obsesji Ameryki na punkcie prawdziwych zbrodni w XXI wieku.
W obsadzie znaleźli się Javier Bardem, Amy Adams i Patrick Wilson. Fabuła skupia się na małżeństwie prawników, które musi stawić czoła Maxowi Cady’emu – seryjnemu przestępcy z ich przeszłości.
Serial porusza także temat fascynacji Ameryki prawdziwymi zbrodniami w XXI wieku i jest inspirowany kultowym filmem Scorsese i powieścią „The Executioners”, zadebiutuje 5 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 31 lipca.
19 czerwca – „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem wraca na Apple TV →
Apple TV ogłosiło powrót neo-noir detektywistycznego serialu „Sugar” z Colinem Farrellem w roli prywatnego detektywa Johna Sugara. Sezon 2 zadebiutuje 19 czerwca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 7 sierpnia.
W nowym sezonie Sugar prowadzi śledztwo w sprawie zaginięcia siostry młodego boksera, które prowadzi do szeroko zakrojonej miejskiej intrygi. Serial stworzony przez Marka Protosevicha, a showrunnerem drugiego sezonu jest Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad, Preacher).
15 lipca – Anya Taylor-Joy wraca w serialu „Lucky” na Apple TV
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy serial „Lucky”, w którym wystąpi Anya Taylor-Joy – jej pierwsza duża rola telewizyjna od czasu „Gambitu Królowej”. Premiera odbędzie się 15 lipca 2026 r., a kolejne odcinki będą emitowane co tydzień do 19 sierpnia.
Serial oparty jest na bestsellerowej powieści Marissy Stapley. Fabuła skupia się na Lucky, oszustce zmuszonej do ucieczki po nieudanym napadzie na miliony dolarów, ściganej przez FBI i bezwzględnego gangstera. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Annette Bening i Timothy Olyphant. Twórcami są Jonathan Tropper i Cassie Pappas.
Zobaczyliśmy już także teaser całości.
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę letniej komedii „The Dink”, która zadebiutuje globalnie 24 lipca 2026 r. Jake Johnson wciela się w Dusty’ego Boyda, byłego tenisowego prodigy’ego, który po kontuzji odkrywa pasję do pickleballu. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Patton Oswalt i Ben Stiller.
Fabuła opowiada o próbie pogodzenia relacji z ojcem, rywalizacji w klubie sportowym i stawienia czoła własnej przeszłości. Film wyreżyserował Josh Greenbaum, a wyprodukowany został przez Red Hour Films i Rivulet Entertainment.
Dalsza część 2026 roku – „The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina” →
Apple TV zapowiedziało nowy kulinarny serial „The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina”. Aktorka Awkwafina (Nora Lum) wyrusza w osobistą podróż po Stanach Zjednoczonych, by odkrywać współczesną kuchnię azjatycko-amerykańską i spróbować odtworzyć dziedzictwo rodzinnej restauracji Lum’s w Nowym Jorku, mimo że… nie potrafi gotować.
W ośmioodcinkowej serii Awkwafina uczy się od znanych szefów kuchni, restauratorów i swojej rodziny, próbując połączyć tradycję z nowoczesnym podejściem do kuchni azjatyckiej. Format przypomina popularną serię The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, w której bohater znajduje się poza swoją strefą komfortu — tutaj kulinarnie.
Premiera przewidziana jest w 2026 roku.
4 września –„Mayday” z Ryanem Reynoldsem i Kennethem Branaghem →
Apple TV zapowiedziało premierę filmu akcji-komedii „Mayday”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 4 września 2026 r. Ryan Reynolds wciela się w amerykańskiego pilota Tropa „Assassin” Kelly’ego, który po nieudanej misji zostaje uwięziony za linią wroga. Kenneth Branagh gra byłego agenta KGB, który niespodziewanie staje się jego sojusznikiem.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova i David Morse. Film powstał w Apple Original Films i Skydance Media, napisany, wyreżyserowany i wyprodukowany przez Johna Francisa Daleya i Jonathana Goldsteina, a Ryan Reynolds pełni także funkcję producenta wykonawczego.
9 października – „Matchbox The Movie” z Johnem Ceną i Jessicą Biel →
Apple TV zapowiedziało także premierę akcji-przygodowego filmu „Matchbox The Movie”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 9 października 2026 r. John Cena wciela się w Seana, agenta CIA, który powraca do swojego rodzinnego miasta, wplątując dawnych przyjaciół w międzynarodową misję ratowania świata.
W obsadzie znaleźli się także Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro, Danai Gurira i Golshifteh Farahani. Film powstał w Apple Original Films przy współpracy Skydance Media i Mattel Films, wyreżyserował go Sam Hargrave, scenariusz napisał David Coggeshall.
20 listopada – „Way of the Warrior Kid” z Chrisem Prattem i Lindą Cardellini →
Apple TV ogłosiło premierę filmu „Way of the Warrior Kid”, który zadebiutuje globalnie 20 listopada 2026 r. Chris Pratt wciela się w Jake’a, byłego Navy SEAL-a, który uczy swojego siostrzeńca Marca (Jude Hill) odwagi i pewności siebie, inspirując go do przezwyciężania problemów w szkole. Linda Cardellini gra matkę chłopca, Sarah.
Film oparty jest na bestsellerowej książce Jocko Willinka i wyreżyserowany przez McG. W obsadzie znaleźli się także Ava Torres, Levi McConaughey i Parker Young. Produkcję przygotowały Apple i Skydance Media.
Apple przejmuje pełną kontrolę nad „Severance”
Apple nabyło pełne prawa do popularnego serialu „Severance”, przenosząc produkcję całkowicie do Apple Studios, donosi Deadline.
Wartość transakcji z Fifth Season wyniosła blisko 70 mln USD, wcześniej Apple jedynie licencjonowało serial. Fifth Season pozostaje jako producent wykonawczy.
Decyzja umożliwia Apple lepsze zarządzanie kosztowną produkcją – sezon drugi kosztował ok. 20 mln USD za odcinek i napotkał opóźnienia spowodowane COVID-19, strajkami w Hollywood oraz zmianami scenariusza. Dzięki przejęciu, firma utrzyma produkcję w Nowym Jorku i planuje rozwój „Severance” jako flagowej franczyzy. Sezon trzeci jest już w przygotowaniu, a czwarty uznawany jest za pewny. Twórcy rozważają też prequele, spin-offy i adaptacje międzynarodowe.
Sezon drugi stał się najbardziej oglądanym serialem Apple TV i zdobył 27 nominacji do Emmy, wygrywając osiem nagród.
Apple TV przejmuje prawa do dokumentu „The Last First: Winter K2”
Apple TV nabyło globalne prawa do dokumentu „The Last First: Winter K2”, pokazywanego na festiwalu Sundance. Film w reżyserii Amira Bar-Leva opowiada o ekstremalnej wyprawie zimą na K2 w 2021 roku, w której uczestniczyli John Snorri Sigurjónsson oraz pakistański duet ojciec-syn Ali i Sajid Sadpara.
Dokument ukazuje surowe warunki góry, rywalizację z influencerami i komercyjnymi ekipami oraz udział celebryckiego nepalskiego wspinacza Nims i jego zespołu Sherpów. Premiera „The Last First: Winter K2” nie została jeszcze ogłoszona. Produkcja dołącza do katalogu dokumentów Apple TV, obok takich tytułów jak „STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie”, „Boys State” czy „The Pigeon Tunnel”.
Apple Maps z przewodnikiem wina „Drops of God” od Tomohisy Yamashity
Apple Maps zyskało nowy przewodnik „Drops of God: A World-Class Wine Guide”, stworzony na potrzeby promocji serialu Apple TV „Drops of God”. Kurator, aktor Tomohisa Yamashita, dzieli się swoimi ulubionymi winnicami w Europie i Kalifornii, wraz z informacjami o godzinach otwarcia, zdjęciami i rekomendacjami dla fanów.
Ta, jedna z najlepiej ocenianych serii Apple TV, „Drops of God” powróciła ostatnio z 2. sezonem – długo wyczekiwanym przez fanów!
Serial oparty jest na bestsellerowej japońskiej mandze o tym samym tytule i osadzony jest w świecie gastronomii i wyrafinowanych win.
Przewodnik można zapisać w Apple Maps, udostępnić znajomym i połączyć z soundtrackiem drugiego sezonu na Apple Music. To kolejny przykład, jak Apple łączy treści z Apple TV z funkcjami praktycznymi w aplikacjach, podobnie jak w przewodnikach „Chief of War” czy „A Day Off” inspirowanych innymi produkcjami.
Dana Eden, producentka serialu „Tehran”, nie żyje w wieku 52 lat
Dana Eden, izraelska producentka hitowego serialu szpiegowskiego „Tehran” od Apple TV, została znaleziona martwa w hotelu w Atenach w Grecji podczas zdjęć do czwartego sezonu. Miała 52 lata, informuje The Hollywood Reporter.
Okoliczności śmierci:
- Policja lokalna traktuje zdarzenie jako potencjalne samobójstwo, choć oficjalna przyczyna śmierci nie została potwierdzona.
- Autopsja została zlecona, a funkcjonariusze zbierają nagrania z kamer i zeznania personelu hotelowego.
- Produkcja stanowczo zaprzeczyła plotkom o powiązaniu zdarzenia z działalnością kryminalną lub polityczną.
Firma Donna and Shula Productions wyraziła głęboki smutek i zapewniła, że pogłoski o narodowych lub kryminalnych motywach są nieprawdziwe. Izraelski nadawca publiczny Kan podkreślił rolę Eden w kształtowaniu izraelskiej telewizji i wpływ jej pracy na liczne produkcje oraz seriale.
Serial, współtworzony przez Eden, Moshe Zonder i Maora Kohna, opowiada historię agentki Mossadu (Niv Sultan), która infiltruje Teheran pod fałszywą tożsamością. W obsadzie sezonu 3 pojawiają się także Hugh Laurie, Shaun Toub, Shila Ommi, Sasson Gabai, Phoenix Raei i Bahar Pars.
Śmierć Dana Eden to ogromna strata dla izraelskiej i międzynarodowej branży telewizyjnej.
Apple TV udostępnia MLS za darmo – start sezonu w ten weekend
Apple TV poszerza ofertę sportową – od tego sezonu wszystkie mecze Major League Soccer (MLS) będą dostępne bez dodatkowej opłaty dla subskrybentów. Sezon rozpoczyna się w sobotę, 21 lutego, a każdy mecz będzie dostępny globalnie.
Wcześniej MLS wymagał osobnej płatnej subskrypcji (MLS Season Pass), teraz pełny dostęp jest wliczony w Apple
TV. To również dobry powód, by pozostać subskrybentem platformy.
★ Zobacz poprzednie wydania i więcej nadchodzących premier i nowości →
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April 6, 2024 - Day 462 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 489Game: The Callisto Protocol
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Installed: Apr 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34mThe Callisto Protocol is the second game in the April Humble Choice Bundle; it's a third-person narrative-driven survival horror game.
I went into it knowing it's classed as a survival horror game, and a great demonstration of why I try to go into these game without knowing what kind of game I'm getting into.
I don't like "survival horror" games as a category. But there are "SURVIVAL horror" games, and "survival HORROR" games. Outlast is an example of the former, The Callisto Protocol is an example of the latter (at least so far?).
Horror games take me places that feel too close to emotional spaces that aren't good for me; I'm not good with that kind of fear-based adrenaline. Occasionally, though, it's doable.
I found the first half hour relatively... OK. You play as Jacob Lee, a poor victim of "names pulled from a hat".
After the intro, the camera pans forward to the cockpit of a ship, and you come face to face with good old Kirkland-brand Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhamel.
Voiceover and mocap work was done by Josh Duhamel, with the apparent antagonist played by Karen Fukuhara, best known as Kimiko Miyashiro from The Boys.
However, when Sam Witwer shows up soon after, it becomes clear who the real bad guy of the piece is. The fact your first interaction with him is him throwing your innocent character into a maximum security off-world prison is pretty much a "I don't know what I expected moment".
What these actors bring to the game is a sense of this being more than just another survival horror shooter, a game that might actually be serious about its narrative intentions. Whether they can pull it off, I have yet to find out.
In terms of gameplay so far, I was intrigued enough to keep playing, in spite of my nerves. There are a couple of things about the game that make me uneasy.
I don't mind a bit of gore, but The Callisto Protocol is a gorefest. Which brings me to the other thing. You don't just loot bodies in The Callisto Protocol (you little murder hobo), you actually need to perform a "corpse stomp" on them for them to give up their shinies.
That just feels a bit gratuitous.
The graphics and sound design create an incredible atmosphere, and if I'm in the right mood, I might end up trying to escape from Callisto.
The Callisto Protocol seems:
4: Good
#TheCallistoProtocol #ThirdPerson #NarrativeDriven #SurvivalHorror #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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April 6, 2024 - Day 462 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 489Game: The Callisto Protocol
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Installed: Apr 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34mThe Callisto Protocol is the second game in the April Humble Choice Bundle; it's a third-person narrative-driven survival horror game.
I went into it knowing it's classed as a survival horror game, and a great demonstration of why I try to go into these game without knowing what kind of game I'm getting into.
I don't like "survival horror" games as a category. But there are "SURVIVAL horror" games, and "survival HORROR" games. Outlast is an example of the former, The Callisto Protocol is an example of the latter (at least so far?).
Horror games take me places that feel too close to emotional spaces that aren't good for me; I'm not good with that kind of fear-based adrenaline. Occasionally, though, it's doable.
I found the first half hour relatively... OK. You play as Jacob Lee, a poor victim of "names pulled from a hat".
After the intro, the camera pans forward to the cockpit of a ship, and you come face to face with good old Kirkland-brand Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhamel.
Voiceover and mocap work was done by Josh Duhamel, with the apparent antagonist played by Karen Fukuhara, best known as Kimiko Miyashiro from The Boys.
However, when Sam Witwer shows up soon after, it becomes clear who the real bad guy of the piece is. The fact your first interaction with him is him throwing your innocent character into a maximum security off-world prison is pretty much a "I don't know what I expected moment".
What these actors bring to the game is a sense of this being more than just another survival horror shooter, a game that might actually be serious about its narrative intentions. Whether they can pull it off, I have yet to find out.
In terms of gameplay so far, I was intrigued enough to keep playing, in spite of my nerves. There are a couple of things about the game that make me uneasy.
I don't mind a bit of gore, but The Callisto Protocol is a gorefest. Which brings me to the other thing. You don't just loot bodies in The Callisto Protocol (you little murder hobo), you actually need to perform a "corpse stomp" on them for them to give up their shinies.
That just feels a bit gratuitous.
The graphics and sound design create an incredible atmosphere, and if I'm in the right mood, I might end up trying to escape from Callisto.
The Callisto Protocol seems:
4: Good
#TheCallistoProtocol #ThirdPerson #NarrativeDriven #SurvivalHorror #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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April 6, 2024 - Day 462 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 489Game: The Callisto Protocol
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Installed: Apr 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34mThe Callisto Protocol is the second game in the April Humble Choice Bundle; it's a third-person narrative-driven survival horror game.
I went into it knowing it's classed as a survival horror game, and a great demonstration of why I try to go into these game without knowing what kind of game I'm getting into.
I don't like "survival horror" games as a category. But there are "SURVIVAL horror" games, and "survival HORROR" games. Outlast is an example of the former, The Callisto Protocol is an example of the latter (at least so far?).
Horror games take me places that feel too close to emotional spaces that aren't good for me; I'm not good with that kind of fear-based adrenaline. Occasionally, though, it's doable.
I found the first half hour relatively... OK. You play as Jacob Lee, a poor victim of "names pulled from a hat".
After the intro, the camera pans forward to the cockpit of a ship, and you come face to face with good old Kirkland-brand Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhamel.
Voiceover and mocap work was done by Josh Duhamel, with the apparent antagonist played by Karen Fukuhara, best known as Kimiko Miyashiro from The Boys.
However, when Sam Witwer shows up soon after, it becomes clear who the real bad guy of the piece is. The fact your first interaction with him is him throwing your innocent character into a maximum security off-world prison is pretty much a "I don't know what I expected moment".
What these actors bring to the game is a sense of this being more than just another survival horror shooter, a game that might actually be serious about its narrative intentions. Whether they can pull it off, I have yet to find out.
In terms of gameplay so far, I was intrigued enough to keep playing, in spite of my nerves. There are a couple of things about the game that make me uneasy.
I don't mind a bit of gore, but The Callisto Protocol is a gorefest. Which brings me to the other thing. You don't just loot bodies in The Callisto Protocol (you little murder hobo), you actually need to perform a "corpse stomp" on them for them to give up their shinies.
That just feels a bit gratuitous.
The graphics and sound design create an incredible atmosphere, and if I'm in the right mood, I might end up trying to escape from Callisto.
The Callisto Protocol seems:
4: Good
#TheCallistoProtocol #ThirdPerson #NarrativeDriven #SurvivalHorror #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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April 6, 2024 - Day 462 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 489Game: The Callisto Protocol
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Installed: Apr 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34mThe Callisto Protocol is the second game in the April Humble Choice Bundle; it's a third-person narrative-driven survival horror game.
I went into it knowing it's classed as a survival horror game, and a great demonstration of why I try to go into these game without knowing what kind of game I'm getting into.
I don't like "survival horror" games as a category. But there are "SURVIVAL horror" games, and "survival HORROR" games. Outlast is an example of the former, The Callisto Protocol is an example of the latter (at least so far?).
Horror games take me places that feel too close to emotional spaces that aren't good for me; I'm not good with that kind of fear-based adrenaline. Occasionally, though, it's doable.
I found the first half hour relatively... OK. You play as Jacob Lee, a poor victim of "names pulled from a hat".
After the intro, the camera pans forward to the cockpit of a ship, and you come face to face with good old Kirkland-brand Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhamel.
Voiceover and mocap work was done by Josh Duhamel, with the apparent antagonist played by Karen Fukuhara, best known as Kimiko Miyashiro from The Boys.
However, when Sam Witwer shows up soon after, it becomes clear who the real bad guy of the piece is. The fact your first interaction with him is him throwing your innocent character into a maximum security off-world prison is pretty much a "I don't know what I expected moment".
What these actors bring to the game is a sense of this being more than just another survival horror shooter, a game that might actually be serious about its narrative intentions. Whether they can pull it off, I have yet to find out.
In terms of gameplay so far, I was intrigued enough to keep playing, in spite of my nerves. There are a couple of things about the game that make me uneasy.
I don't mind a bit of gore, but The Callisto Protocol is a gorefest. Which brings me to the other thing. You don't just loot bodies in The Callisto Protocol (you little murder hobo), you actually need to perform a "corpse stomp" on them for them to give up their shinies.
That just feels a bit gratuitous.
The graphics and sound design create an incredible atmosphere, and if I'm in the right mood, I might end up trying to escape from Callisto.
The Callisto Protocol seems:
4: Good
#TheCallistoProtocol #ThirdPerson #NarrativeDriven #SurvivalHorror #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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Picasso died on this day April 8th in 1973. His painting 'Guernica' showed the horrors of fascists bombing civilians.
Can you find on a #map the location of the city the painting is based on?
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#OTD May 4, 1886, laborers protesting for an 8 hour work day clashed with police resulting in a bombing.
Known as the Haymarket Affair, can find where this took place on a #map:
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#OTD January 15th in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Originally named Michael King Jr., his name was changed at age 5 as his father was inspired by reformer Martin Luther.
See if you can find where he was born on a #map:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=11&type=qRead more about the different places Martin Luther King Jr. lived and visited here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/where-in-world-148239010?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link#History #CivilRights #MLK #Geography #TodayInHistory #OnThisDay