table of casualties in it by regiments,
see Appendix C.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A
GENERAL KEIFER IN CIVIL LIFE

I
ANCESTRY AND LIFE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

I was born, January 30, 1836, on a farm on Mad River, north side,
six miles west of Springfield, Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio,
a short distance west of Tecumseh Hill, the site of the original
Piqua, Shawnee Indian village, destroyed by General George Rogers
Clark August 8, 1780.

My ancestors, though not especially distinguished for great deeds,
either in peace or war, were of the sturdy kind, mentally, physically,
and morally.

My grandfather, George Keifer, was born (1728) in one of the German
States, from whence he emigrated to America and settled in the
Province of Maryland about the year 1750. Nothing is certainly
known of his life or family in Germany. He was a Protestant, and
was probably led to quit German-Europe to escape the religious
intolerance, if not persecutions, there at the time so common.

He availed himself of the Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth
year of the reign of King George the Second, which provided for
the naturalization of "Foreign Protestants," settled or who should
settle in his Majesty's colonies in America, and was naturalized
and became a subject of King George the Third of England, an
allegiance he did not long faithfully maintain, as he became a
Revolutionary patriot in 1776.( 1) He participated in the Revolution,
though there is no known record of his being a regular soldier in
the war. He gave some attention to farming, but was by trade a
shoemaker. He resided in Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland,
on Antietam Creek, and there died, April 11, 1809. His wife,
Margaret (Schisler) was likewise German, probably born in Germany
(1745), but married in Maryland. Her family history is unknown,
but she was a woman of a high order of intelligence, and possessed
of much spirit and energy. After her husband's death she removed
(1812) with her two sons to Ohio (walking, from choice, the entire
distance), and died there, February 9, 1827, in my father's family,
at eighty-two years of age. George and Margaret Keifer had two
sons, George (born October 27, 1769, and died August 31, 1845),
and Joseph (my father), born February 28, 1784, at Sharpsburg,
Maryland. They followed, when young, the occupation and trade of
their father. The facilities and opportunities for acquiring an
education for persons in lim