Gen. Joseph W. Fisher and staff of six
28 February 2020
This photograph of Joseph Washington Fisher and staff is in the National Archives. Colonel Fisher commanded the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves in action at Antietam in September 1862. He led the Brigade at Gettysburg in 1863, the new 195th Pennsylvania Infantry in 1864, and was brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers in November 1865. He was a Pennsylvania State Senator 1866-68 and a Justice of the Wyoming territorial Supreme Court from 1871-79.
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