Shade Gap borough

Fifty-Six Days In Uniform

Did you know? George W. Goshorn was mustered in on August 26, 1862. He died at Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, on October 21, 1862.

Fifty-six days.

He was on the roll of Company I of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, the company Huntingdon County furnished to that regiment. The regiment was raised in July and August 1862 and organized at Harrisburg under Col. Roy Stone, and the company's first captain was George W. Speer of Huntingdon.

The roll printed in Africa's 1883 county history gives Goshorn a single line, with a muster date and a date and place of death. It does not say how he died.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-30 against the sources listed: every factual sentence was tied to a verbatim passage and a script confirmed each passage is in its source. Where sources disagreed on a number, the number was left out.

Sources

J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (1883)

Checked 2026-10-30 · County histories and primary sources, read in full

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