Cpl Whitaker

He was commander of the George H. Thomas Post, 84, G. A. R. of Lancaster and a member  of  the  Lancaster Monumental Association. He was appointed by Governor Edwin Stuart a member of the battlefield commission which erected the Pennsylvania monument at Fort Mahone, VA., in 1909. I have a copy of an old Lancaster Newspaper showing him carrying the flag for the post in a parade. (Attached)


On Aug. 25 1864, Henry Whitaker, a 20 year old central Pennsylvanian, enlisted in the Union Army. He served as a corporal in the 205th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, until his discharge in early June of 1865. During those nine months, Whitaker wrote dozens of poignant letters to the wife he left behind.

 

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