Benjamin M. Orwig

---

---

Husband Benjamin M. Orwig ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Oct 1867 - Des Moines, Polk Co, IA 2
         Buried:  - Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA

---

         Father: Samuel Orwig (1798-1872) 3
         Mother: Mary Myers (1803-1867) 1

---

---

---

Wife

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Benjamin M. Orwig

---

He was studying law in the University of Pennsylvania when the Civil war broke out, but patriotically offered his services as a soldier, enlisting as a private in the battery of which his brother Thomas was captain. His preceptor, a distinguished attorney of Philadelphia, had made him a proposition by which one of them could be exempted from military service, but the young student rejected the well-meant offer, saying "No act of mine shall tend to lessen the number of Union soldiers." He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and at the expiration of his first term he re-enlisted, January 1, 1864, for "three years or the war," serving until mustered out July 24, 1865, at Philadelphia. Orwig's battery played a prominent part in the service, and on July 26, 1862, the inspector-general pronounced it superior to any other volunteer battery in the army. On his return to the paths of peace, Lieut. Orwig completed his preparation for his profession, and located in Des Moines, Iowa. But hardships incident to a soldier's life had undermined his delicate constitution, and he died at Des Moines in 1867; his remains rest in the family lot in the Mifflinburg cemetery. When he entered the army he took with him a Bible, and, at the solicitation of his friends, a bottle of brandy. The book returned well-worn, but the bottle remained unopened.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 856.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 857.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1074.