Civil War Veterans Buried In Union & West End Cemeteries Allentown, Pennsylvania

West End Cemetery

12^th Street

Allentown, Pennsylvania

#1 – Nathan Lins, Priv. Co. A, 48^th Regiment 9^th Corp

#2 – William H. Trumbore, Priv. Co. G, 2^nd Heavy Artillery

#3 – Edwin Hunsicker, Co. F 1^st Heavy Artillery

#4 – William H. Spears, Priv. Co H, 21^st Regiment

#5 – Levi Yenser, Priv. Co. I, 167^th Regiment

#6 – Daniel McCarran, Priv. Co. K, 105^th Regiment

#7 – John Behringer, Co, M, 5th Regiment - Artillery

#8 – Jacob A. Stull, Co. G, 38^th Regiment

#9 – Edwin Kemp, Sgt. Co. I, 47^th Regiment

#10 – William Wiesche, Priv. Co. C, 98^th Regiment

#11 – Francis O. Stuber, Priv. Co. G, 47^th Regiment

#12 – Richard M. Gangewere, Priv. Co. K, 54^th Regiment

#13 – John J. Smith, Priv. Co. H, 59^th Regiment & 2^nd Cavalry

#14 – Adam Gensenleiter, Priv. Co. I, 47^th Regiment

#15 – Wilson J. Labold Co. C, 153^rd Regiment

#16 – George W. Knauss, Priv. Co. G, 47^th Regiment

#17 – John G. Sigle, 47th Regiment

#18 – Frederick Pitschky, Priv. Co. H, 16^th Regiment - Cavalry

#19 – John Ritter, Priv. Co. C, 28^th Regiment

#20 – Peter Jennewein, Priv. Co. C, 73^rd & 163^rd Regiments

#21 – Charles Fox, Priv. Co. E, 4^th Regt. & Co. E, 6^th Regt.

#22 – Conrad W. Krueger, Priv. Co. K 7^th Regiment

#23 – David Seislove, Priv. Co. B, 47^th Regiment

#24 – George Abel, Co. F, 3^rd Regiment

#25 – Henry Knauss, Priv. Co. B, 47^th Regiment

#26 – William Dougherty, Priv. Co. E, 91^st Regiment

#27 – Godfrey Smith, Priv. Co. H, 117^th Regt. & 13^th Regiment - Cavalry

 

A prominent part of the West End Cemetery just off Twelfth Street are the cannons and 'Old Glory' flying gloriously high above the cemetery. Under the flag there are twenty-seven graves of Civil War Veterans. Each grave has a tablet type tombstone marking the grave with the soldiers name and in most instances, the unit he served with. Unlike most Civil War veterans graves in the Union and West End cemeteries, these soldiers were not buried in family plots. Each of these graves is also decorated with a small flag stuck in the ground along side the grave. These flags are placed on each grave by members of Chapter 190, "Order of The Purple Heart", which maintains the immediate area around these graves and periodically conducts ceremonies to honor the Civil War dead.

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