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Henry Yeager | First Schuylkill County Soldier to Die in Civil War
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Henry Yeager | First Schuylkill County Soldier to Die in Civil War
On the evening of June 1, 1861, 21-year-old Henry Yeager of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania succumbed to a fast-moving illness that the medical doctors called “spotted fever.” He become one of the first soldiers from the Coal Region to perish during the Civil War. This may have been meningitis – known at the time as “spotted fever” for the rash that often appears on the skin of those infected. Yeager served with Company D, 10th Pennsylvania and died at…
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