(Editor's note: Cemeteries are full of interesting stories. This is the second of a two-part series on some of the soldiers buried at the GAR Cemetery in Summit Hill).

By JOE NIHENSpecial to the TIMES NEWSTHOMAS S. JONES was born in August 1839 in Wales. He served in the United States Navy during the Civil War aboard the United States Ships Hartford, Kanawha, Nyack, and Shamokin.Jones served under Admiral David Glasgow Farragut aboard the USS Hartford and was present at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. The captures of Confederate Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powell, and the Confederate Ram Tennessee, and Gunboats Morgan, Gaines, and Selma were credited to actions by the Hartford.Jones is also listed as serving aboard the USS Kearsarge and the Ohio. He was Honorably Discharged at Washington, D.C. in December 1868 with the rank of 1st Class Gunner.Jones was married Mary Ann Williams in 1875 and fathered 12 children. He was living in Summit Hill in 1880 and worked as a coal miner. He was living on Market Street, Summit Hill, in 1900, worked as a day laborer, and was listed as a naturalized citizen. He died in 1906.MYRON FELLOWS was born in 1832. He married Mary McMurtrie on Feb. 5, 1849, in the Calvary Episcopal Church, Tamaqua, Schuylkill County; the couple had no children.Fellows was living with the Chapin family in Huntingdon Township, Luzerne County, in 1850 and worked as a clerk. He mustered into the 149th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company F, as a 1st Lieutenant on Aug. 30, 1862.He was captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. He was commissioned as captain, but not mustered into service, on January 28, 1865, and discharged by surgeon's certificate on March 17, 1865. Fellows was living with the Shively family in New Columbus, Luzerne County in 1870, worked as a retail merchant, and had real estate valued at $1,000 and a personal estate valued at $3,000. He applied for pension on December 13, 1879.Myron and Mary were boarding with the Goslie family in Rahn Township, Schuylkill County in 1880 where he worked as a clerk. He is found in the 1890 Veterans' Schedule for Lansford, Carbon County. Fellows died on March 14, 1897.Obituary: The Times March 15, 1897Myron Fellows, aged 65 years, a prominent shoe merchant, died after a lingering illness at his home at Lansford last night. He was prominent in secret societies and was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Bloomsburg Consistory.He was a valiant soldier during the late war and was a lieutenant in Company F, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was also a member of the famous Bucktail Regiment* and was captured by the rebels and thrown into Libby Prison, where he was confined for seventeen months, being an inmate at the time of the famous escape through the tunnel.He is survived by a widow. (Note: One of the most successful prison breaks of the Civil War occurred at Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., in February 1864. 109 prisoners escaped by tunneling out of the prison; 59 eventually reached Union lines.)*The 42nd, 149th, and 150th Regiments were knows as the Bucktails. They were proven marksmen and wore the tail of the Pennsylvania White-tailed deer on their cap as a sign of their marksmanship.NATHAN TANNER was born in Summit Hill on June 6, 1848, to William and Elizabeth (McDermott) Tanner. He was christened in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Lansford.Tanner mustered into the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry/163rd Regiment, Company M, at age 18 on April 7, 1865. He was described as being 5' 5" tall, having a florid complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, and worked as a laborer.Nathan transferred to the 3rd Regiment Provisional Cavalry, Company D, on July 14, 1865, and mustered out of that Company on October 31, 1865. He served as a bugler in both units. He married Eleanor Bynon on January 19, 1875, in the First Baptist Church, Summit Hill, and parented three children.Tanner was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt and subsequently by President William Howard Taft to serve as Postmaster of Lansford. He was very active in the life of his community in that he held a seat on the Lansford Council in 1882 and sat on the Lansford School Board in 1883.In 1893 Tanner was nominated to run for Commissioner of Carbon County under the Republican banner, and in 1894 he was Secretary of Lansford Board of Health. In later years, he worked in the Dime Bank of Lansford.He also went on to become the Commander of the Eli T. Connor GAR. Post 177. In that capacity he wrote a strongly worded letter protesting the Civil War Monument which now stands in Summit Hill. This monument was originally chosen by the GAR and was to include a list of all the Civil War veterans who lost their lives in the war who were from the area.Due to economic hardships, the project was put on hold for years and when it resurfaced, the town decided to scale back the monument and not include any names on it as a cost-cutting measure.As a result, the GAR protested and refused to take part in the dedication ceremony. Nathan, who was widowed in 1914, died on December 2, 1928, in the home of a son in Philadelphia.The Role of the bugler in the Civil War was:1. Amplify the voice of command of his Commanding Officer or Adjutant.2. Relay calls from other buglers, recognize and interpret other bugler's calls (friend or foe!).3. Serve as the camp clock. The men and livestock began to run their lives by the bugle.4. Build morale and esprit de corps. Ceremonial Calls, Parades, Marches, Quicksteps, Funerals, Visitors, and Important Occasions are all marked by bugle calls.JOHN C. MACLAUGHLIN was born about 1832 in Ireland. He worked as a blacksmith and as a railroad laborer.McLaughlin Jane T. Tanner, sister of Nathan Tanner, on November 6, 1854, in the First Presbyterian Church, Summit Hill, and fathered six known children.He enlisted in the 81st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company H, on September 18, 1861, and served his Company as a 1st Lieutenant.He was severely wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on Dec. 13, 1862. He was promoted to Captain of Company A on May 1, 1863, but resigned his commission because of his wounds. McLaughlin was discharged on June 12, 1863. He was killed in a railroading accident in 1867.From The 81st at Fredericksburg:The regiment went into winter quarters, and remained until the 11th of December, when it moved out to engage in the battle of Fredericksburg.It was held in support of artillery, until the morning of the 12th, when it crossed the river and was posted along the wharf, where it remained twenty-four hours. While here, thirty boxes of tobacco, which the enemy had sought to destroy by throwing them into the stream, were rescued.On the morning of the 13th, it moved up Front street to the railroad bridge, the right resting near the grist mill.At ten o'clock it went into action. Moving down Sophia Street, under a heavy artillery fire directed upon its flank, it gained the position, close up to the enemy's rifle-pits, which has been appropriately termed the slaughter pen, but from which it was quickly forced back to the line, which it held, under a terrific artillery fire, until ordered from the field.Of the five thousand men comprised in the division, two thousand fell in the charge. According to Fox's Regimental Losses in the Civil War, the 81st Regiment is ranked 12th out of the entire army for the most severe loss at that battle. Of the 261 men of the regiment engaged, 176 were casualties. This is a staggering loss of 67.4 percent.ARTHUR McQUAID was born on May 12, 1824, in Londonderry, Ireland. He arrived in America in 1847 and set up shop as a shoemaker.He married Jane Unknown, who was also a native of Londonderry, and according to various census records he parented four children. McQuaid, his wife, and two very young children were living in South Whitehall, Lehigh County, in 1860. He was listed as a master shoemaker, an occupation he continued to at least 1900.McQuaid joined the 186th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company K, as a private on May 16, 1864, and mustered out with the company on Aug. 15, 1865. He lived in Summit Hill from at least 1880 until his death on May 31, 1907. Widowed in 1889, he appeared to be alone in his Hazard Street residence during his last years.Militarily and by comparison, McQuaid was one of the lucky ones. The 186th Regiment was formed at Philadelphia from January 29th to May 31, 1864. The Regiment spent its entire term at Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River and did provost duty (sort of a police force) at Philadelphia. The Regiment lost 17 men to disease.Six articles appeared in the 1917-1919 issues of The Outlook magazine, a ranking New York weekly journal of news and opinion like Time or Newsweek about a character named and entitled "Arthur McQuaid, American." The series was penned by Summit Hill native Dr. Herman Schneider (born 1872).This is the same Herman Schneider who drew the plans for the "new" (1896) First Presbyterian Church in Summit Hill. Schneider also designed and implemented the first cooperative education model for college students during his stint at Lehigh University. He eventually became the head of the University of Cincinnati.The character Arthur McQuaid portrayed "sterling and uncompromising American traits" … "a man who would suffer no compromise with unrighteousness."In Schneider's own words: "As you know, I have devised the situations in which he (Arthur McQuaid) is placed in the stories, and his talks and prayers are of my own making. But I have shaped his actions and his words as true to life as possible."And further, Schneider stated: "Arthur McQuaid 'served the Lord,' as he would have phrased it, as a cobbler in a Pennsylvania mining town.Physically and mentally he was outstanding; he radiated a lasting impression of a jovial man of strong convictions.His controlling passions were the destiny of the United States and a personal God to whom he could talk about daily affairs. He rarely argued or defined these, but he lived them every day.He phrased his thoughts in archaic form as the result of reading the Bible and Matthew Henry's Commentaries daily while he worked." Arthur McQuaid … in today's terms, a role model.MOSES NEYER was born on October 20, 1835, in Mahoning Township, to Joseph and Judith Haeff Neyer. He was raised on a farm and followed farming until August 15, 1862, when he mustered into the 132nd Regiment, Pa. Volunteer Infantry, Company F, as a private. Neyer mustered out with his Company on May 24, 1863. He married Annie Miller in 1866 and parented five children in Summit Hill.He worked as a carpenter in the early years of his marriage. He became a charter member of the Knights of Honor, a post-Civil war fraternal organization, in Summit Hill, on August 25, 1879.In 1880, Neyer was working as a breaker boss for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. In 1887 he started his own business as a coal operator/dealer. Neyer applied for a pension in August of 1890, citing lung disease as a primary complaint.hen the Summit Hill Armory burned in 1908, Moses sat on the committee to plan for a new borough hall/fire department building.His comparatively tiny coal business somewhat expanded and by 1911 the Coal Trade Compendium listed his operation, The Black Rock Colliery, as moving 5,555 tons of coal. Moses died on September 24, 1912.Colonel Frederick L. Hitchcock of the 132nd Regiment wrote his memoirs in War From the Inside, which was published in1904.He recalled: "A group of 'vets' were discussing what they would do when they got home from the war. Several plans had been suggested the taking into permanent camp of the soldier's sweetheart being the chief goal, of course."When Pat's turn came to tell what he was going to do, he said: 'I'll be takin' me girl and settling down wid her housekeepin' and then I'll be hirin' of a drum corps to come an' play the ravalye every mornin' under me chamber winds.''What will you do that for? Haven't you had enough of the reveille here?''I'll just h'itch me winds, an' I'll yell, 'To hell wid yer ravalye; I'll sleep as long as I please!'"