Note: There are so many lists that navigation through them becomes more than a little confusing. Company L was raised in Montgomery and Chester Counties

There are four pages that are the clearest in detailing members of Company L. at mustering out. Not all ranks are given:

1. https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000201618283846
2. https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000201618283845
3. https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000201618283844
4. https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000201618283843

17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L, 162nd Volunteers

organized under Josiah Holcomb Kellogg (1836-1919) ; see also : Colonel Josiah Holcomb Kellogg, (USA)

In the interest of detailing the life of Col. Theodore Weber Bean and the men who served under him, I catalog the soldiers here (Michael M. van Beuren, descendant of Col. (then Captain) Bean)

OVERVIEW

The recapitulation gives the totals for this Company as it was in and around the time it mustered out in Washington DC.

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 98 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 128 Enlisted men by disease. Total 232.
• The first lieutenant provided comments about most soldiers including their promotion dates, if any.
• There were approx. 100 individuals in the Company
• Two Document pages are attached here that profile the soldiers of Company L. The text below is drawn largely from that source.
• The page 73 of 88 "roll of honor" for Company L was transposed from the last muster roll

those who mustered out

~• I use the numbering from the original document.

PAGE ONE

• Theo. W. Bean (Capt) (32)
• William H. Wright (1st Lieut)
• Thos. J. Owen (2nd Lieut) note: Capt. Theodore Weber Bean, (USA) is 2nd Lieut. Thomas J. Owen, (USA)'s sister-in-law's brother.
• No. 2 John M Bean, Quarter Master Sargent, age 32 ~• first cousin to Capt. Bean
• No, 3 Thomas H. Humphrey, Company Sgt. of Downingtown, Chester Co.
• No. 4 John T. Johnson Sgt., (36) of Norristown, Montgomery County., promotrf Sgt. Oct. '64 by Hunter
• No. 5 Joseph C. Jones Sgt. (21) of Conchehaggen (sic) Montg, Co., made Sgt. Nov. 1, 1863 (no bounty) ~• prob of Conshohocken ~• a distant cousin of the future husband of Louise Bean, dau. of Theo. W. Bean (Capt)
• No. 6 Henry C. Yerkes Sgt. (21) of Norristown, Montg. Co., made Sgt. Dec. 10, 1863 ; Aaron Conrad Jones is Sgt. Henry C. Yerkes, (USA)'s fourth cousin. (Aaron is the son-in-law of Capt. Bean)
• No. 24 ; William Miller (25) {both these Miller men were of Jeffersonville, Montgomery Co. > Capt. Bean's own community}
• No. 25 ; Samuel Miller (19) (perhaps) 27 Sep 1841 Montgomery County;D:5 Aug 1904 Hampton, Hampton City, VA < burial at Odd Fellows Gladwyne
• No. 30 Jeremiah Royer Pvt. (29 ) of Perkiomenville, Montg. Co.; BIRTH 12 JAN 1832 • Montgomery ; DEATH 1 FEB 1897 • Frederick, Montgomery

PAGE TWO

• No. 50 Pvt. John Wildsmith, (USA) ; a n iron worker of Norristown and Gulf Mills (restart enumeration
• No. 2 Pvt. William Hunsicker (22) of Montg. Co.
• No. 3 Pvt. Henry Hunter (28) of Montg. Co.

(restart enumeration

• No. 5 Pvt. Reuben Bender (18) (discharged early for loss of arm at Cold Harbor; May 31, 1864)
• Edwin A. Bean , Sgt. (older brother of the Capt. of the Company, Theo. Weber Bean)
• Pvt. Joseph D. McGinniss, (USA) (deserted)
• John G. Tyson Died at Salisbury prison NC having been captured Sep 6, 1864 ;died on or about Feb 22, 1865 at https://www.ncpedia.org/confederate-prison-salisbury {Capt. Bean is a <Lane> , so was Corp. Tyson}

important dates

• 1865, June 16th : Muster report at Cloud's Mills https://jay.typepad.com/william_jay/2014/04/alexandrias-mills.html

commentary

• It can't really be called nepotism, but the ranking officers have many fairly close relationships. Some of these are noted in the text above.
• Capt. Theo. Bean's father, Hon. William Bean , had been dead a few years by the time the war broke out.
• It may be of interest to some that the pioneering Civil War balloonist, Thaddeus Lowe, used Cloud's Mills, the final encampment of Co. L, as a launch site. Lowe's daughter married into the same Stinson family as Capt. Theo. Bean's son, William Heebner Bean. ( Mary Bean ) . When Capt. Theo. Bean's youngest son married in 1903, Thaddeus Lowe was in attendance

~• guessing that ages are as of date of beginning of service: Washington DC, May 8th 1865 (they don't seem to be accurate on the original document)

remarks

1. When the Union Army was near defeat at the Battles of Cedar Creek, it was the 17th PA cav. that was detailed to escort Gen. Sheridan to the front, an action that turned the tide in that crucial battle
2. It was Capt. Theo. Bean who was assigned the duty of Provost Marshall at a time when he was ordered to hang several of Mosby's raiders (see his timeline)

SOURCES

• already transcribed at: http://www.pacivilwar.com/county/montgomeryhistory.html
• photos of monument at Gettysburg
• The roll of honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers = https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/28728/