Ira Nichols Burritt on leaving school learned the printers trade in the office of the Independent Republican in Mon tress (sic Montrose) Pa. On President Lincoln's call for volunteers he enlisted in the 25th Reg Pa Vol. After this Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the 56th Reg Pa Vol and was elected captain of Co K. It has been said that he was at the head of his Company in more than one hundred battles and that he possessed a charmed life, but he received a bullet wound in the thigh at Gettysburg, a serious wound at the battle of the Wilderness, another at the Weldon Road battle each time at the head of his Company. After the War closed he settled in Washington. He bought and edited the Sunday Herald twenty two years until his death. He was a martyr to pain from the effects of his wounds. He had a remarkable memory. It was said that he could spell any word he had seen and that when only three years old he could spell all the Bible names even Nebuchadnezar without hesitation (Family of Blackleach Burritt Jr.)