Thursday, August 25, 2005
A Stone for the Captain
Today's Trib has the story of Captain Daniel Dougherty of the 63rd PA.
Dougherty died June 19, 1864, from wounds suffered three weeks earlier at the Battle of North Anna River, outside Richmond, Va. He was just two months from the end of a three-year hitch with the 63rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dougherty survived five of the Civil War's bloodiest battles, from Bull Run to Gettysburg.
He was buried at age 31 within sight of his boyhood home on Cemetery Street, since renamed Carlton Street. ...For 140 years, Army Capt. Daniel Dougherty's unmarked grave drew little notice in a secluded corner of a Lawrenceville cemetery.
That changed Wednesday, thanks to Frank Kelly, of Hampton, who prodded the federal Department of Veterans Affairs to buy a headstone for the Civil War hero.
