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100_5655 Samuel C. Upwright

In the inner oval of the GAR circle at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska.

 

Private Samuel C. Upwright of the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. The 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery was organized at Philadelphia on January 8th, 1862 and mustered out on January 29, 1866 at City Point, Virginia. They were discharged at Philadelphia on February 16, 1866. They were at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fair Oaks, and other fights. The unit lost 5 Officers and 221 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 385 Enlisted men by disease for a total of 616.

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Uploaded on December 18, 2011
Taken on June 24, 2011