Husband Capt. Caleb Greenawalt 1
AKA: Capt. Calib Greenawault,2 Caleb Greenwalt 3
Born: 1 Jun 1830 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
Christened:
Died: 20 Dec 1883 2 4
Buried:
Father: Daniel Greenawalt (1796-1838) 1
Mother: Emily Squibb (1798-1868) 1 5
Marriage: 7 Dec or 25 Dec 1864 2 6
Wife Mary Margaret Bell 2 3 6
Born: 27 Jul 1842 2
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Died: Aft 1917
Buried:
Father: William McAlister Bell (1813-1893) 7 8
Mother: Elizabeth Stuart McFadden (1813-1900) 2 3 6 8
Children
General Notes: Husband - Capt. Caleb Greenawalt
He always lived on the place of his birth, having come in possession of the homestead farm by inheritance and by purchase from the rest of the heirs. He received the education afforded by the common school of the neighborhood. When a boy he made an occasional trip on coal-boats bound for Cincinnati and Louisville, but most of his minority was spent on the farm. From the first breaking out of the Rebellion he took a lively interest in all measures looking to its suppression. With Col. J. B. Copeland, his brother-in-law, he raised a company for the three months' service, which was not accepted, but the company subsequently enlisted in the three years' service as Company F, Twenty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in as second lieutenant at Camp Coleman, Philadelphia, July 6, 1861, by Maj. Ruff, of the United States army. He was promoted to first lieutenant, and subsequently to the captaincy of the company. The company was attached to Gen. Banks' division of the army, and was first located at Point of Rocks, in the regiment commanded by Col. John W. Geary. While here, Sept. 24, 1861, they were attacked by the rebels, the first skirmish in which he was engaged. A similar affair again occurred October 2d, between Point of Rocks and Harpers Ferry, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, October 16th. His company was in the spirited engagement at Bolivar Heights, in which the first sergeant and one private were wounded. The regiment was ordered to Edwards Ferry, with the intent of participating in the battle of Ball's Bluff, but did not reach there in time to engage in the battle. The regiment was next employed in guarding the Potomac River, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, between Nolan's Ferry and Antietam Aqueduct, his own company being located on the Maryland side opposite Harper's Ferry, a most important post, dividing the lines of the contending forces.
The captain was detailed to construct the rope ferry over which the advance of the army crossed the Potomac, Feb. 24, 1862, and remained in charge of the same until the 1st of May following. He then returned to his regiment, then located at Rectortown, on the Manassas Gap Railroad, being engaged in guarding a distance of fifty-two miles of that road, a duty quite necessary and not a little dangerous, but with very little glory. He was in the battle of Culpeper, Aug. 9, 1862, and under Gen. Pope was engaged in very many of the skirmishes and battles along the Rappahannock River and Orange and Alexandria Railroad, ending with the second battle of Bull Run. After the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, in which his regiment and company lost heavily, the company having a sergeant and four privates killed and seventeen wounded, the regiment occupied Harper's Ferry and Bolivar Heights. He was in the famous battles of Chancellorsville, May 1, 2, and 3, 1863, having both lieutenants wounded severely, and two corporals and seven privates prisoners, and Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d, and 3d, having five men wounded. Following up Lee's retreating army until it had recrossed the Rappahannock and Rapidan, the regiment stopped at Raccoon Ford, on the latter river, where it remained until the Eleventh and Twelfth corps were detached under Gen. Hooker and ordered to join the Army of the Cumberland. After assisting to open up communication with Chattanooga and the Army of the Cumberland, and participating in the different skirmishes incident thereto, he took part in the glorious battle of Lookout Mountain ("battle above the clouds"), Nov. 24, 1863, in which three of his men were wounded, and the next day that of Missionary Ridge, pursuing the retreating rebels all of next day, and on the 27th of November, at Ringgold, Georgia, on Taylor's Ridge, where a lieutenant, sergeant, and two privates were killed, and quite a number wounded, thus ending the campaign of 1863. During the winter of 1863-64 his company veteranized, with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where its decimated ranks were filled with recruits. In March, 1864, it again took the field, and engaged in all the battles and skirmishes from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia, notably that of Rocky Face Mountain, Georgia, May 8, 1864, in which one sergeant and four men of his company were wounded; Resaca, May 15, 1864; Pumpkin Vine Creek, May 25, 1864, and on same day New Hope Church, where two privates were killed and six wounded, continuing for seven days and being, under fire the whole time. He was in the battles of Pine Knob, Pine Hill, and Lost Mountain, June 14th; Muddy Creek, June 16th; Nose's Creek, June 19th; Kolb's Farm, June 22d, in which seven men of his company were wounded; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27th; Marietta, July 3d; and was honorably discharged the service July 20, 1864, arriving home on the 27th.
From this brief resume of Capt. Greenawalt's army experience it will be seen that he participated in most of the notable battles of the war. From first to last he was impressed with the idea that the Rebellion must be fought down, and it would be difficult to find any one who more thoroughly practiced what he preached. On this account he uniformly declined to accept clerical or any other position which would take him from the fighting ranks, and fought against all attempts to transfer his best men from the ranks to such positions. For the number of engagements in which he participated he was exceedingly fortunate in receiving no severe wounds, and with the exception of an attack of typhoid fever in August, 1861, he enjoyed remarkable health during his entire term of service. It is said the best soldiers make also the best citizens. Capt. Greenawalt was no exception to this rule. As a thorough, painstaking, and successful farmer he ranked among the first in a township of good farmers. To the original homestead tract he added the Caldwell farm, adjoining it, and another farm of one hundred and fifteen acres in the same township. In politics he was a stanch supporter of the Republican party beginning from its organization. For fifteen years or more he was a justice of the peace in his township, and was candidate of his party for the State Senate in 1876.
He was runover and killed by a train in front of his own home.