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WILLIAM HENRY PARKER

COMPANY H PENNSYLVANIA 102ND REGIMENT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

William Henry Parker first enlisted as a private in *Co G, 137th PVI on September 7, 1862, and was discharged June 1, 1863. On February 18, 1864 he enlisted in Co H, 102nd PVI at Butler Co. Pa.  Henry was wounded in the left arm and shoulder in front of Fort Hell, Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.  He was transferred to Co I of the 16th VRC (Veteran Reserve Corps) and discharged March 6, 1865.

Henry was born on December 3, 1837 in Allegheny Co., Pa.  He married Mary Craven in Chewton, Wayne Twp. Lawrence Co., Pa on May 26, 1867.  They had 7 children.  Henry and Mary lived in the Chewton, Ellwood City P., area until his death on August 9, 1915.

William Henry Parker is buried in an unmarked grave at Slippery Rock Presbyterian Cemetery near Ellwood City, Pa.

William Henry Parker is the Great great-grandfather of Susan Sylvest of LA, who has generously provided this information.

 

* Pa. 137th Regiment Infantry, Brief History:

Organized at Harrisburg August 25, 1862, and ordered to Washington D. C., attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1862.  Provisional Brigade, Aquia Creek, Va., Patrick's Command Army of the Potomac, to January 1863.  3rd brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.

Service:  Maryland Campaign September, 1862.  Sugar Loaf Mountain September 10-11.  Crampton's Gap September 14.  Antietam September 17.  Duty in Maryland to November.  In defences of Washington, D. C., till December and at Aquia Creek, Val. till January 1863.  Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March", January 20-24, 1863.  Duty at Belle Plains till April.  Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.  Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2.  Chancellorsville May 2-5.  Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa.  Mustered out June 1, 1863.  Regiment lost during service; 1 Officer and 58 Enlisted men by disease.  Total 59.

Resource:  Dyer, Frederick H: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 3, pg. 1615.                                                                        Bates, Samuel; History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers