c1880s CAPT JOHN M JONES POST 556 Penna G A R CIVIL WAR VET Militia PARADE KEPI

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c1880s CAPT JOHN M JONES POST 556 Penna G A R CIVIL WAR VET Militia PARADE KEPI:
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SOLD \'AS-IS.\" THANK YOU!\"SIX MILE RUN - POST 556 - PENNA\" EMBROIDERED G.A.R.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN\'S PARADE HAT / KEPI FROM THE \'CAPTAIN
JOHN M. JONES POST 556 - CAMBRIA - PENNSYLVANIA\' G.A.R.
MILITIA POST - SUPPLIED BY GEORGE EVANS & CO., 132 NO.
FIFTH STREET, PHILA, PA.This G.A.R. Parade Kepi / Hat for \"POST 556 - PENNA\" appears to date to between 1880 and 1890.
The white leather chin strap is missing a section of leather in the center where it would have gone
around the chin, with the remaining white leather somewhat dried out and need of an oiling or
leather treatment. The two chinstrap holding button measure 1\" DIA. and show either Civil War
or Indian Wars crossed muskets, clearly establishing this as a military parade hat. Captain John M. Jones served in the Civil War and presided over the 133rd REGIMENT, COMPANY
F - CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA. and after the War a G.A.R. Post numbered \"556\" was named after him.
The post was stationed in Cambria County, PA. as well and a Soldier\'s and Sailor\'s monument was erected
in 1913 and dedicated in 1915, according to the copy of the postcard shown below (not sold with hat - for
illustration and educational purposes). The \"SIX MILE RUN\" was obviously a particular parade staging and maybe able to be traced as to
the exact year and day the event was mounted by this particular Pennsylvania Civil War G.A.R.

Measures 8\" on top - front to back and 7 1/2\" side to side; bottom measures 8\" from back
to front of brim and 7 1/2\" from brim tip to top. Hat shows considerable wear and some drying
of leather. Dark cotton cloth body is free of worm holes and mildew. Embroidered lettering
and embroidered tassel surround in good shape, with no deterioration. White edging shows
some material loss and deterioration. Inside brown leather headband lining shows some
deterioration on one side. Topside white leather has a small section missing or chipped away,
with noticeable wear over entire topside leather area. As stated before, chinstrap is
deteriorated and lacking leather in center, but has side leather on each side - and has cracking
in leather.

We also found this data on the CAPT. JOHN M. JONES Post 556;\"John M. Jones Post 556, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg has
elected the following officers for 1905: Commander, Thomas J. Hughes;
senior vice commander, David Griffith; junior vice commander, Thos. R.
Williams; officer of the day, William H. Davis; Quartermaster, Edward
Owens; sergeant, Thos. J. Davison, M. D.; chaplain, Milton Jones;
delegate to State encampment to be held at Reading next June, V. S.
Barker. The officers will be installed at the meeting of the veterans
the second Friday in January.\"And also found this:\"Joseph Skelly, a well known farmer of Cambria Township, is lying critically
ill of heart and stomach trouble at his home and is not expected to recover. He
was taken ill about 2 o’clock Saturday morning and got out of bed only to fall
into a chair in a faint. Since that time, he has been threatened with pneumonia
and though the danger of that disease is about past, it is thought that the patient
who is about sixty-seven years of age, cannot recover. Mr. Skelly is a member of
John M. Jones Post 556, G. A. R.\"According to the Friday, February 5, 1904 Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. -
Volume XXXVIII, Number 6 - this one individual belonged to the
CAPT. JOHN M. JONES POST 556; as well; PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, page 1211
NOAH A. DISHONG
Was born in Cambria county, Pa., Sept. 6, 1845, and was a son of Abraham
Dishong, dec., and Mary A. Dishong, born in 1824, still living. He has been
twice married, his first union being with Amanda A. Rose. Of this union were
born the following children: Anna P., Mary E., dec., Amos S., Frank E., Herman
A., Howard T., Evaline, Maggie P., Lemon, Katie S. and Oscar R. He was
married secondly, Sept, 26, 1893, to Mary J. Ludwig, who was born in
Huntingdon county, Pa., March 6, 1866. Her parents, both living, are John
and Elizabeth (Garner) Ludwig. When the country was in peril, the patriotism
of our subject was aroused and he enrolled when 17 years of age, march, 1864,
as a private in Co. K. 187 Pa. V. I. He took part in but one battle, Weldon R. R.;
he was wounded at this conflict June 18, 1864, in left leg; he was taken to hospital
at Alexandria, Va., where he remained until honorably discharged May 6, 1865.
He had two brothers in service, Israel and David, the former died in Libby prison.
His wife\'s father served in Pa. Regt. During the late war. Comrade Dishong belongs
to John M. Jones Post 556, he is a farmer by occupation and is address is Dearmin,
Pa.This G.A.R. parade hat may actually have been worn by any one of the
above mentioned members of \"POST 556.\" Here\'s more about the 133rd REGIMENT that served under CAPT. JOHN
M. JONES;The Pennsylvania 133rd first saw combat in the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. The unit was part
of Brigadier-General Andrew A. Humphreys Division. Overwhelmingly, historians have honored the courage of
Humphreys men. (1) Of all his regiments, the 133rd suffered more total casualties, more officers killed, and more
enlisted men killed than any other. It is also among a very few regiments in the United States army that day with a
reasonable claim to have gotten closest to the Confederate line of defense. (2) No history of the 133rd exists.The 133rd only came into existence on August 15, 1862, short of just four months before Fredericksburg. The 133rd,
like Humphreys\' other seven regiments, were volunteers, that is, without prior military experience. Understandably,
Major-General Burnside withheld Humphreys\' units from early combat on December 13 in favor of more experienced
soldiers. (3) However that also meant that when Humphreys received his order, he and his men knew that it was a
last-ditch measure by Burnside. Burnside\'s order put a greater demand for courage on these raw recruits than on any
other men in the U.S. army that day. Humphreys himself, and circumstances, were to demand even more, none more
so than of the Pennsylvania 133rd. (4)
The town of Fredericksburg was sacked by U.S. soldiers in the days preceeding the battle. One anecdote of the
sacking involves a soldier in the 133rd. Members of the Pennsylvania 155th Regiment made a discovery in the
basement of a residence in town:
Col. Allen sanctioned, for the sake of the sick and wounded in the hospitals, the appropriation of the contents of this
wine cellar, by a reliable committee from the Regiment...At this point a comrade...William R. Jones,...at that time
serving as a private soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty-Third Pennsylvania Regiment, from Johnstown, Pa.,
volunteered to relieve the over-worked men of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth, in the labors of receiving bottles of
wine passed up to them through the grating in the street. Private Jones...soon diverted a goodly number of the last
hundred bottles to himself and companions for services rendered. This diversion was not discovered by the One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth until the next day, when, through Colonel F.B. Speakman, commanding the One Hundred
and Thirty-third, Jones\' good joke on the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth leaked out. (5)
Humphreys\' was the last major United States effort to seize Marye\'s Heights. The battle had begun at a foggy 8 am.
First General French, then General Hancock, then General Howard had sent in their men. All had been repulsed.
Humphreys and his men had seen all of this. General Joseph Hooker was next up, and he personally appealed to
Burnside to desist from another attack. Burnside overrode him. At 2:30 pm Hooker gave Humphreys the order.Burnside\'s battle plan was to have the U.S. soldiers cross a gently sloping field in the rear of the town, overrun the
confederate line of defense at the other end of the field, and then scale an abruptly rising hill and seize the heights.
The plan was simple both in the sense of being easily understood, and unintelligent.Once beyond town, there was no cover for the U.S. soldiers. The field was bare of trees, structures and, except for
a swale, surface gradation. The virtually unprotected distance to be traversed to the enemy line was approximately
350 yards. The enemy line consisted of Confederate infantrymen, three to six deep, in a sunken road, and behind a
stone wall that extended for approximately one mile. Confederate batteries on top of the heights provided protection
for the infantrymen below, and added to the firepower arrayed against the advancing Federals. One Confederate
general said to another that not a chicken could cross the field without being killed. The United States volunteers
could see this too, and did see it all day, before getting called into battle. Humphreys may have added, inexplicably,
to this bleak picture. Reportedly, he addressed his men and described their mission as one of \"forlorn hope.\" (5) He
then led them into battle.If given the \"forlorn hope\" speech was delivered by Humphreys before he knew the half of it. Humphreys did not
know the battlefield at Fredericksburg. He had not been on it all day. His division had been on a hill on the north
side of the Rappahannock River when he received his order. The course of the battle was plain to see from there,
but not the particulars. Humphreys did not know even that the Confederate infantry was entrenched behind a
stone wall. (6)The 133rd was one of two regiments in Humphreys\' first charge across the field. The time of their charge has
been variably described--3:30, 4:00, 4:30. The best estimation is given by the consistent description that it was
about dusk. The time between 2:30 and about dusk was taken up by having to ford the Rappahannock. Crossing
on pontoons, all previous Federal units had been exposed to deadly enemy fire. The 133rd\'s crossing was made
more dangerous by the fading daylight and pontoons made more rickety by use. (7)Once across the river and in town, Humphreys got to examine the battlefield, but his men, of course, did not,
until being led into battle. Under enemy fire, the 133rd began their march from the edge of the town out onto
the field, the twilit scene further obscured by a cloud of gun smoke that hung in the air.Shortly after entering the field, the cloud of smoke lifted, which gave the men a better look at the field, and
the enemy a better look at them. Humphreys had decided that the only hope, albeit a forlorn one, was a bayonet
charge. (8) In the order of attack the 155th, on the left, and the 133rd on the right, went in first. Behind them
were the 123rd on the left, and the 131st on the right. That completed Allabach\'s Brigade. Behind, was Tyler\'s
Brigade, first the 129th on the left and the 134th on the right, and lastly the 91st on the left and the 126th on
the right.NOT A THEATRICAL PROP - BUT A BONAFIDE MILITARY
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