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 148 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. before the first Fredericksburg fight; captured by Gen. White's guerillas on Meade's Mine Run advance ; served almost a year in AndersonvUle, Savannah, Charleston jail yard and other Southern prisons, and gained liberty by assuming the name of a dead sailor, Wm. Morrison, as a special parole of sailors had been agreed upon between the Federal and Confederate Secretaries of the Navy. His regiment had been discharged several months before his release, and he reached home as one risen from the dead. Served in the Civil War 3 years and 7 months. He served in the Spanish- American War as Color Bearer of the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, U. S. Infantry; took part in the battle of Malate, below Manila, on the night of July 31, 1898, and morning of August 1, 1898; also in the engagement on the 13th of August 1898, when the U. S. forces captured Manila ; had charge of the sharpshooters of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment on the morning of the 1st of August, at Malate, and was commended by Colonel A. L. Hawkins for the good work of his men. Discharge papers, signed by his Colonel, read as follows: "Character excellent, and a model soldier." He was over 12 years in the service of the "Pittsburg Chronicle" as printer and solicitor; nine years with "The Beaver Valley News" as advertising solicitor; one year as manager of the "Daily Herald" McKeesport, Pa., nine years as owner and manager of "The East Liverpool News Review;" now located at Long Beach, Los Angeles county, Cal., with The Pacific Real Estate Company, Palmer, Cate & Co.