Alva Beemis
Name: Alva Beemis
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 16th PA Cav., 161st Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 09/27/1862
Company: E
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Franklin Co., PA; Born in Burlington, NY; Sick in Washington, DC, 05-00-1863;Discharge: Washington, DC, medical disability. 7/15/1865
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
