A Civil War Soldier’s Bloody Battle: Henry Keiser at Spotsylvania

A Civil War Soldier’s Bloody Battle: Henry Keiser at Spotsylvania

On the evening of May 10, 1864, Henry Keiser of Wiconisco, Pennsylvania found himself in the swirling cauldron of combat on the outskirts of Virginia hamlet named Spotsylvania Court House. The battle would live long in his memory. Corporal Henry Keiser and his wife Sallie in 1864. Keiser, at the time a corporal in the 96th Pennsylvania, survived the hellish failed assault on the Confederate works that day. He recorded his memories in his remarka…