In May the camp was broken and a start made for the hills and valleys of Cambria, which all the boys were anxious to see, in spite of the good time they had been having. They marched to Vera Cruz, were taken by steamer to New Orleans, up the Ohio to Pittsburg in the steamboat “Tagliona,” thence by canal to Blairsville, and overland to Ebensburg, where they arrived on the 18th day of July, 1848, after an absence of one and one-half years.
THE “CAMBRIA GUARDS,” COMPANY D
Officers-Captain, James Murray, discharged at the City of Mexico; First Lieutenant, Charles Heyer; Second Lieutenant, Senior, Charles McDermitt, killed in Texas during the War of the Rebellion; Second Lieutenant, Junior, John G. Given, living in Mexico, Ind.; First Sergeant, George W. Todd, killed in the War of the Rebellion; Second Sergeant, David Mills; Third Sergeant, Willaim Mills; First Corporal, Alex B. Cummings, died at Perote Castle, Mexico; Second Corporal, James Skelly; Third Corporal, Milton Roberts, died in Ebensburg; Fourth Corporal, Edward A. Downey, lost a leg at Chapultepec, died in Mexico City; First Musician, Robert Litzinger; Second Musician, John A. Litzinger, died in Mexico.
Privates-James Ashcraft, Henry L. Armour, died in Pueblo, Mexico; Francis Byrne, died in 1897 near Carrolltown, this county; John A. Blair, living in Ebensburg, in May, 1907; Thomas Bradley; William Bruce; A.H. Burkhart, died in Mexico; James P. Buck; David Buchanan; John W. Cameron, died in Cambria county; Joshua E. Campbell, last known residence New Jersey; W.B. Crum; David Cramer, nothing known; James Collins; Lyman Cole, died in Mexico; Richard J. Crozier; B.F. Davis, died in Salem, Ore.; T.J. Davis, nothing known; Edward Dougherty, died in Ebensburg; C. Donahue, died in Cambria county; Samuel Diehl, nothing known; Thomas O. Evans, discharged, died in Ebensburg; Evan D. Evans and Daniel O. Evans, died in Ebensburg; John E. Evans; Evan J. Evans, nothing known; Henry L. Evans, nothing known; John Francis, died in New Orleans; Francis Fultz, died in Mexico; John W. Fredericks, dead; Samuel Fulton, dead; Irvin J. Gregg; Noah Goldman, died in Mexico; William D. Garrison, died in Mexico; John B. Hoover; Theophilus L. Heyer, died in Baltimore, Md.; Adam Helsel; Jacob Houser, died at Perote Castle; Abram Hendricks, died in Mexico; William J. Hood; Samuel M. Holliday, discharged, died; John D. Hughes, died in Johnstown; James Jackson; Enoch G. James; Michael G. Kaylor, died near Carrolltown; James W. Kelso; Andrew Lewis, killed in the Rebellion at Gaines' Mill; John S. Lambaugh, died in Ebensburg; Dennis A. Litzinger; Edward Mumma, died in Pueblo, Mexico; Patrick A. Murray, died in Mexico; Archibald S. McCune, dead and buried at the Summit; George Moses, nothing known; Francis McDermitt; William McLaughlin, died in New Orleans; Joseph Mardis, Thomas D. Martin, died in Mexico; George Neff; J.D. Parrish, residing in Ebensburg in May, 1907; Daniel Plummer, died in Mexico; Silas Plummer, died in New Orleans; John Plummer, died in Mexico; Archibald Patterson, died in Mexico; James W. Rhey, died in Lancaster; John J. Robbins, nothing known; John Spencer; George Sword, died in Mexico; William A. Todd, died in Indiana, Pa.; James Thompson, dead; William Weakland, dead; James Weakland, last heard of in California; William W. Wise, killed in the Rebellion; Daniel Vanrouk, died in Mexico.
Recruits subsequently added: William Cummings, Michael Kelly, John Partush, William Johnston, George Willit. Total, 90.
Ex-Sheriff John A. Blair and Joshua D. Parrish are now residing in Ebensburg, and they are the only two surviving members of either company in this county. Capt. Humphreys had two brothers in his company - William, died from wounds received at Chapultepec, and Thomas, who returned to the
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