Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, 1834-1915
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Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1835-1916.
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Enlisted as 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd Pa. Reserves Corps, Co. H. (1861). Saw action with the Army of the Potomac. Became Captain in 1863, captured by Mosby's Raiders and sent to Libby Prison (1863-64); escaped and re-assigned to Army of Potomac on staff of Gen. Meade (1864). Commissioned Major in the Signal Corps (1863); became Colonel in charge of Signal Corps Bureau (1865-66). Brevetted Brig. Gen. and resigned from Army in 1866. Became a lawyer in the Philadelphia area and often spoke on the Civil War especially his escape from Libby Prison. Died in 1915.
Lawyer and U.S. Army officer, from Valley Forge (Chester Co.), Pa.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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