31st Pennsylvania Infantry - Officer Elections

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31st Pennsylvania Infantry - Officer Elections.
Captain James N Byrnes, captured at the Wilderness & James R. Nightingale, killed at White Oak Swamp, VA.


Headquarters, Company C, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers
Camp Pierpoint, VA

October 31st 1861

We do hereby certify that at an election held October 31st 1861, in the above company, for a Second Lieutenant to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Francis Fox, late 2nd Lieutenant, resigned:

Mr. James R. Nightingale

Was duly elected a second lieutenant of Company C, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps

James N. Byrnes, Captain, Judge

John Conroy
Augustus Goodwin, clerks