Henry McIntire

Henry Martyn McIntire (March 19, 1835 – January 16, 1863) He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1856 and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He attended Yale Law School and read law with Joseph J. Lewis in West Chester, Pennsylvania. McIntire gained admittance to the Chester County bar on September 15, 1858. He practiced law in West Chester until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. and therefore he served as camp commander until the regiment officially elected its officers on June 7, 1861. McIntire became lieutenant colonel under Colonel R. Biddle Roberts, former district attorney from Pittsburgh. On July 4, Governor Andrew Curtin reviewed the 1st and 7th regiments in West Chester. Captured by the Confederates and taken to Richmond, Virginia, he was exchanged for Lt. Col. A. S. Hamilton of the 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment on July 29. He subsequently spent several months recuperating at the army hospital on Davids Island in New York. He succumbed to his wounds on January 16 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was interred at Oaklands Cemetery near West Chester.