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Corporal Joseph Pierce served the Union Army during some of the most significant battles of the Civil War, including the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg. Pierce was promoted to Corporal following the Battle of Gettysburg, making him one of the highest ranked Chinese American soldiers in the Union Army. Pierce injured his back badly after falling over a fence during the Battle of Antietam and was hospitalized for over a month. Pierce’s injury plagued him for the rest of his life, resulting in muscle weakness and constant pain. Despite his disability, Pierce’s pension was not high enough to support his family and he worked until his death in 1916. Today, Pierce’s portrait hangs in the Gettysburg Museum, a tribute to the Asian and Pacific Islander soldiers who served during the Civil War.

Awww he looks so young.

Extremely cool history. Thank you

Heroic achievement and inevitable tragic life. Prayers and Thanks.

Did he start the Shanagarry Pottery?

Park House Ballyboggan, Co. Wexford perhaps? www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&amp... maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,702807,622825,7,9

There are Pierces listed in Wexford who founded an ironworks in the town in the 19th century. They had an estate called Park House with a round tower folly in the garden www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&.... would this fit?

ccferrie snap

There's certainly Pierces in a big house in Ballyboggan: www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Wexford... www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003617294/

Samuel Stillman Pierce (1887-1973) from earlyaviators.com/epierces.htm : Samuel S. Pierce died August 4, 1973 at his home in Milton, Mass. where he was a teacher for many years at the Milton Academy. He was a grandson of Samuel S. Pierce, founder of the food chain that bears his name. He was born in Wellesley Hills, Mass. January 23, 1887 In 1910 he studied at the Louis Bleriot Flying School in France where he obtained a pilot's license. He made his first solo flight March 23, 1911. In 1916 he joined the New York Militia as Ensign and taught flying at Bayshore, N.Y. He and a student were seriously injured in the smash-up of a Burgess-Dunne seaplane, ending his flying career. The balance of World War I he spent at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, resigning as Lieutenant, USNRF in 1921 due to poor health. He is survived by his wife, Mary Sweitzer Pierce, a daughter, Mrs. Mary Pillsbury of Milton, Mass. and three grandchildren. Yes, that is a Burgess-Dunne Seaplane he's standing in front of.

See also comments under www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/14004100262/ Ensign Samuel Pierce is mentioned in the cited papers.

Mrs. Edith W. Pierce, a nurse by training, became Philadelphia's first female city inspector of highways and street cleaning in 1913. She founded a Junior Sanitation League to encourage young people to take an interest in healthy urban environments. The Junior Sanitation League had over 10,000 members during her time, with each child wearing a pin that said "For Clean Philadelphia Streets." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1914-09-19/ed-... She's mentioned in Martin V. Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment (University of Pittsburgh Press 2004): p. 106.

If her name is Edith, why has someone tried to confuse the issue by tagging the photo with the name "Elizabeth"?