Pennypacker, Galusha
Pennypacker, Galusha (1844–1916), youngest general in the Union army.Born near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Pennypacker grew up in the house that George Washington had used as his headquarters. When the Civil War broke out, the sixteen‐year‐old youth gave up reading law and joined a Chester County militia company as a private. The 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment was organized in August 1861; Pennypacker joined and was elected a captain.
Pennypacker and the unit participated in the Siege of Fort Wagner at Charleston, and subsequently in actions at Swift Creek, Drewry's Bluff, Chester Station, and Green Plains, where Pennypacker, appointed a lieutenant colonel in April 1864 at age nineteen, was wounded three times. In August 1864, he was appointed colonel in command of the regiment, and the following month was given a brigade, which he led in operations around...
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