William Pyers

Civil War (Union) · US Army

Record	Events	Title	Source Website	Type	Created
Pyers, William - Page 1	Discharge, Enlistment, Military Service, People	US, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Pennsylvania, 1861-1865	Forces War Records	Image	1 June 2012
JTHG_Living Legacy Tree Logo.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	13 Feb 2016
47th PA Vols_1st State Color_Unwatermarked.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Feb 2016
47th PA Vols_2nd State Color_Unwatermarked.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Feb 2016
Eaton-Mehles Map_Pocotaligo-Coosawhatchie Expedition Route_22Oct1862_USNara.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Feb 2016
charleston-savannah-railroad_Harper's Weekly_4 March 1865.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Feb 2016
Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida_Woodcut.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Feb 2016
Mansfield-Sabine Cross Roads_BanksReportMap.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Mar 2016
Battle_of_Pleasant_Hill_Louisiana_Harper's Weekly_7 May 1864.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Mar 2016
opequan-third-winchester-map.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Mar 2016
Battle of Opequan_LOC.jpg			Forces War Records	Image	12 Mar 2016
William Piers			Forces War Records	Memorial	25 Oct 2013
William Pyers			Forces War Records	Memorial	25 Oct 2013

URL	Events	Description
Pyers, William (Sergeant) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers		Biographical sketch detailing Sgt. Pyers' wounds in action while saving the American flag and his later death in battle.
Pyers, Samuel Hunter (Field Musician) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers		Biographical sketch of Samuel H. Pyers, who served with his father, Sgt. William Pyers, in the 47th Pennsylvania.
About the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers		History of the regiment, including key battles, casualties, company rosters, biographical sketches, etc.
Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers) « 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers		History of the "Sunbury Guards," a local militia unit in Northumberland County Pennsylvania (during the Civil War and pre- and post-Civil War).
Samuel Hunter Pyers
Franklin Pyers
Company F of the 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Company C of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Colonel Tilghman H. Good
reinterred at the Winchester National Cemetery

Source	Events
Find A Grave Memorial for Sgt. William Pyers: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Pyers&GSfn=William&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1864&GSdyrel=in&GSst=48&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=130882371&df=all&	Burial
Ibid. Civil War Veterans' Card File and Registers of Deaths of U.S. Volunteers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives.	Death
Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg: 1869.	Other
Pyers, William, in Civil War Veterans' Card File. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives. and U.S. Census: 1850, 1860	Other
Samuel Pyers at the Funeral of Abe Lincoln (Samuel Pyers’ obituary), in Lebanon Semi-Weekly News. Lebanon: 5 November 1931, etc.	Marriage
Pyers, William, in Sunbury Guards (Company F, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers), in 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story.	Enlistment, Military Service
Pyers, William, in Civil War Veterans' Card File. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives.	Birth, Other, People
Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown: Self-published, 1986.	Death
Pyers, William and Matilda (Heddings) Pyers, in U.S. Civi War Widows' Pension Files.	Marriage
Burial Ledgers, The National Cemetery Administration, and U.S. Departments of Defense and Army (Quartermaster General). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.	Burial
Ibid. Schmidt and National Cemetery Burial Ledgers.	Burial