John Swisher
Name: John Swisher
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 1st MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Mt. Airy, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Left Frederick, MD with Bradley Johnson; Pardoned in Frederick, MD; KIA at Battle of Bull Run, VA, 7/21/1861. According to John Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Swisher was the first Marylander to die in battle.
Source(s):
Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2003), 525; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 307; John Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Volume I (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1882), 226.
