“Killed by a bomb on the 17th of September, 1862.”
Private Edward Harner joined Company A, 50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in 1861.
The 24-year-old native of western Schuylkill County was killed at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.
His body was returned to Pennsylvania for burial. The remains of Edward Harner were interred in St. Paul’s Cemetery in the village of Sacramento.
His tombstone is inscribed in German, a language that many used in this farming community settled in the 18th century.
Harner’s epitaph notes the young man’s service for the Union and that he was killed by a shell during the Battle of Antietam in one of the fiercest battles of the Civil War.
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