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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 18, 2013.
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William H. Beach, The First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry ... (New York: The Lincoln Cavalry Association, 1902), 250.
Source note
Corporal William Henry Rihl, a twenty-year old Philadelphia gardener turned cavalryman, was the first Union soldier to die defending Pennsylvania from Lee's Invasion, June 22, 1863.