Unit: Company B, 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers Cemetery records list E.H. Kirby as a Benedictine monk. Additional research is needed to determine who this soldier is,
Enlistment Date: July 14, 1863 Release Date: June 9, 1865 Unit: Company B, 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers Brother Bonaventure (Martin) Gaul, O.S.B., was a private with
Brother George Held, O.S.B., was born in Bavaria on March 3, 1821. He professed vows as a Benedictine monk on November 13, 1851. He died
Brother Hugh Schwär, O.S.B., was “born at Endingen, Baden, on the 1st of April, 1808, he left Europe to join St. Vincent’s where he made