Who were some important figures of Pennsylvania during the Civil War?

Question

Specifically during or around the battles of Gettysburg, Hanover, and Fairfield.

Answer 1

Pennsylvania had forty-eight general officers and fourteen commanders of armies and corps, namely: George Gordon Meade, George B. McClellan, Winfield Scott Hancock, John F. Reynolds, Andrew A. Humphreys, David B. Birney, John Gibbon, John Grubb Parke, Henry Morris Naglee, Charles Franklin Smith, Goerge Cadwalader, Samuel G. Crawford, Samuel Peter Heintzelman, and William Buel Franklin. Generals David McMurtrie Gregg and Benjamin H. Grierson were distinguished cavalry commanders, Washington L. Elliott was chief of cavalry in the Army of the Cumberland, and commanded a department. Admiral David D. Porter, the heroic naval commander, was a native of Chester. Galusha Pennypacker, of Chester County, a brevet major general when under twenty-two years of age, was the youngest general in either army during the war. He led the assault on Fort Fisher and was wounded seven times in eight months.

Private Richard Montgomery of the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers was the last enlisted man killed in the fighting in Virginia. He was killed at Farmville, on the morning of April 9, 1865, shortly before General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant.

Oliver Wilcox Norton of the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, a Brigade bugler, assisted General Daniel Butterfield modify the Infantry bugle call for Lights Out, thereby creating the hauntingly beautiful "Taps".

Pvt. William Henry Christman, Company G, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, was the first military service man interred in Arlington National Cemetery on May 13, 1864. Pvt. William Blatt, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry, was the first battle casualty interred at Arlington on Saturday, May 14, 1864. Pvt. William H. McKinney, age 17, of the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry was also interred on Friday, May 13, 1864. He was the first soldier to have family present at his funeral.

Seven commissioned officers of Company C of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers were killed in the line of duty---more than any other company in the Union Army.

Answer 2

One important figure was Evan Morrison Woodward.
He served as a Captain, and later as an Adjutant in the Second Pennsylvania Reserves.
He was present at Gettysburg, Hanover Court House, as well as many other battles, and he kept a journal and wrote his "Picket" letters in the Sunday Transcript. He was honorably discharged on account of a disability on Setember 22, 1863. His book "Our Campaigns" was published in 1865.