Lewis P. Firey
Lewis P. Firey was a Southern Unionist who served in the Maryland State Convention, and the Maryland State Senate during the American Civil War. He was the originator of the project for the Antietam National Cemetery.
Firey was born and raised in Clear Spring, Maryland, a son of Henry and Martha Miller Firey. After attending the district school, by the age of 21, he taught at a school for a year, and then entered Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He has been only there for two years because of his health problems, he returned to Clear Spring where he began working on his fathers farm.
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