The War of the Rebellion:
Reprints from the Days of War
Casualties from the
156th Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 2, 1894
This was part of a series of wartime news that the
Philadelphia Inquirer re-printed years later. This is excerpted from a
report that was dated January 30, 1863, from Fortress Monroe, an old fort
that guarded the entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia, the James River
and Chesapeake Bay.