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MEMORIAL

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SCHUYLKILL COUNTY,

IN THE

AMERICAN SLAVEHOLDER'S REBELLION,

Emuracing a Complete List of tub Names of all tue Volitnteers from Tan
County during the War ; Patriotic Contributions bv the Citizens ; List
of the Names of Tuose who fell in Battle or i>ied by Disf.ast; ;
Desoriptions of the part taken in various engagements by our Reg-
iments, WITH Casualties ; Chronological Record of the PRi>f-
ciPAL Events of thr Rebellion ; Biographical Sketches
OF Prominent Officers and of Surgeons from the
County, &c., accompanied by a Plate of Portraits
OF Generals and Colonels from this County,
and a Map of the Southern States with
THE Battle Fields MarivEd.

COMPILED BY FRANCIS B. WALLACE.

Associate -Editor of the ^' Miners' Journal.^'

Published by
BENJAMIN BANNAN
POTTSVILLE, PA.
1865. .

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OP THE MEN OP SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, WHOSE NAMES ARE IBENTIFIED

WITH THE PRESERVATION OF THE LIFE OF THE REPUBLIC,

THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

Preface, .------ 5

Introduction, __---- -7

The Three Months' Campaign. — Departure of Volunteers. —
Muster Rolls of Washington Artillerists, National Light
Infantry, Ringgold Rifles, Scott Artillery, Minersville. Ar-
tillerists, Port Clinton Artillery, Marion Rifles, Lafayette
Rifles, Washington Light Infantry, Ashland Rifles, Colum-
bian Infantry, Llewellyn Rifles, Wetherill Rifles, Tower
Guards, Wynkoop Artillery, Scott Rifles, Jackson Guards,
German Light Infantry, Nagle Guards, Washington Yea-

gers. Keystone Rifles, Union Guards and Schuylkill Guards, 13

Recapitulation of total number of Three Months' Troops, - 43

Sword Presentation to Major Campbell, - - - 45
Resolution of Thanks from Congress to first troops who entered

Washington, ------ 49

Presentation of Colors to 25th Penn. Regiment, - - - 49

Patriotic Contributions, Meetings, Incidents, &c., - - 52
Patriotic Fund, _.----- 60

Return of the Three Months' Troops, - - - - 7G

Deaths during Three Months' Service, - - - - 80

Three Years or the War. ----- 83

Muster Rolls of the Forty-Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, - 89

Muster Rolls of the Ninety-Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, - 112

Muster Rolls of Cos. E, B and C, Fifty-Fifth Penna. Regiment, - 128
Muster Rolls of Cos. A, C, D, E, F, I, K and L, Seventh Penn.

Cavalry, - - - - - - -130

Muster Roll of Co. L, Third Penn. Cavalry, - - - 134

Muster Rolls of Cos. K, A and II, Sixty-Seventh Pa. Regiment, - 13G

Muster Roll of Co. II, Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, - 137
Other Pennsylvania Regiments, ----- 139

In Regiments of other States, - - - . 160

In the Regular Army, • - - - - - 164

In the Navy, _------ 167

Grand Recapitulation, ------ 168

The Calls in 1862, for Troops. . - - - 174

War Meeting in Pottsville, - - - - - 175

The Nine Months' Volunteers. — Muster Rolls of the One

Huntlred and Twenty-Ninth Pa. Regiment, - - 178
Muster Rolls of Cos. C and K, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh

Pa. Regiment, - - - - - - 185

Muster Roll of Co. K, One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Penn.

Regiment, ------- 186

Muster Roll of Co. I, One Hundred and Fifty-First Pa. Regt., - 186

Muster Roll of Capt. Jones' Provost Guard, - - - 187
Other Nine Months' Regiments, ----- 188

Deaths in Nine Months' Service, . . - . 190

ii Contents.

First Trlicafened Invasion of Pennsylvania, - . , igj

Accounts of conduct of Forty-Eighth Regiment in Battles near

Bull Run, -----_. 191

Casualties of the Forty-Eighth Regiment in acUons of ATagust

29 and 30, and Sept. 1, 1862, - - - - 19i

Casualties of Fiftieth Regiment in same battles, - - - 195
Officirl Report of Col. Henry L. Cake of part taken by Ninety-
Sixth Regiment in engagementa of S^pt. 14 and 17, at

South Mountain and Antietam, - - - - 19G

Casualties of Ninety-Sixth Regiment, - - - ^. 198
Account 01 part borne by Forty-Eighth Regiment in Battles of

South Mountain and Antietam, _ - _ _ 2OI

Casualties of Forty-Eighth Regiment, - - - - 203

Casualties of Fiftieth Regiment. - » - - _ 20-1

The Pennsylvania Militia, - . . _ 205

Muster Roll of Company F, Second Regiment, Penna. Militia, - 20G
Muster Roll of Capt. Eshelman's Company,- Fourth Regiment,

Penna. Militia, -.--..- 207

Muster Rolls of Cos. B, G and II, Sixth Militia Regiment, « 208

Muster Rolls of Cos. A and E, Seventeenth Penna, Militia, - 212

Muster Roll of Capt. Tics's Militia Company, . - . 214

The Draft »f 18B2, ------ 210

Musier Rolls of Cos. A, D, F and H, One Hundred and Seventy-
Third Penna. Regiment, Drafted Militia, ' - - - 217
The First Battle of Fredericksburg, - - - - 221

The part the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Regiment took in

the Battle, --_____ 222

Oi!icial Report of Col. Frick, containing List of Casualties sus-
tained by the Regiment, - - - - _ 22G

The part taken by the" Forty-Eighth Regiment in the Battle, - 229

The Seventh Penn. Cavalry in the Battle of Murfreesboro, - 232

What was Done j:^ 1803. ----.. 239

Cavalry Fight at Kelley's Ford, Va., - - - . - 239

Second Battle of Fredericksburg, - - - . _ 240
Account of the part borne by the Ninety-Sixth Regiment in the

Battle, and List of Casualties, - - - -. 240

Narrative of the part taken by the One Hundred and Twenty-
Ninth Regiment in the Battle, and List of Casualties, - 244
CoL Prick's Official Report, - _ _ _ - 246
The Ninety-Sixth in the Battle, - - - - - 247

Return of the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Regiment, - 251
The Second Invasion of Pennsylvania, _ . _ . 255
Muster Rolls of Cos. A, B, C, E, G and I, Twenty-Seventh Re-
giment, Penna. Volunteer Militia, - - _ _ 256
Col. Prick's Official Report of the Skirmish at Wrightsville, Pa., 264
Muster Rolls of Cos. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and K, Thirty-Ninth

Reg., Penna. Vol. Militia, . _ - - . 268
Muster Rolls of Cos. C, F, H and I, Fifty-Third Penn. Volun-
teer Militia, ------- 279

Deaths in the Militia Service, ----- 283

The Draft of 1863, - - - - - - 284

Drafted Men who entered the service, - - - - 284

Drafted Men who furnished Substitutes, - - - - 285

Drafted Men who paid Commutation, - - - - 290

The Call in October, 1863, for three hundred thousand Volunteers, 294

The Third Year of the War, - - - - - 295

Contents. ill

Arrival Home of Re-enlisted Veterans, - - . 29o

Muster Rolls of Forry-Eightli Regiment, re-enlisted Veterans

and Recruits, ------- 302

Muster Rolls of Cos. A, C, D, F, G, I and L, Seventh Cavalry,

re-enlisted Veterans and Recruits, - . _ 311

Muster Roll of re-enlisted men and recruits of Ninety-Sixth Reg., 315

Muster Roll of re-enlisted men and recruits of the Fiftieth Reg., 316

In other Pennsylvania Regiments, _ - _ - 318

In Regular Army, .__--- 322

(irand Recapitulation, ------ 324

The Siege of Knoxville, Tenn. — Part taken in it by the Fortj-

3*]ighth, and List of Casualties, - . - - 325

Casualties of the Fiftieth, ----- 329

Muster Roll of Co. E, Two Hundred and Tenth Penna. Reg., - 330

The Campaign of 1864, . _ - - - 331

Part borne by the Forty-Eighth in the series of Battles from

the Wilderness, Va., to Petersburg, with List of Casualties, - 333
Part borne by the Ninety-Sixth Regiment in same Campaign,

•with List of Casualties, - - - - - 348

Part borne by the Fiftieth, with List of Casualties, - - 351

Part borne by the Fifty-Fifth, with List of Casualties, - - 355

Casualties of Fifty-Sixth, Sixty-Seventh, Eighty-Eighth, Ninety-
Third and One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry Regiments,

and Seventh and Twenty First Cavalry, in same Campaign, - 359
Casualties of Co. F, One Hundred and Ninth Penn. Regiment,
and Seventh Pa, Cavalry, in Sherman's campaign from

Chattanooga to Atlanta, Ga,, ----- 301

A Daring Attack. — Account of the part taken by the Seventh

Cavalry, ------- 363

Muster Rail of Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth Reg., 365
The One Hundred Days'"^ Men.— Master Rolls of Cos. C and H,
One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Penn, Reg., and Lam-
bert's Independent Cavalry, ----- 367

Return home of Ninety -Sixth Regiment, - _ - 370

Call for Five Hundred Thousand Men. — Names of recruits to

Forty-Eighth and other Pennsylvania Regiments, - - 371

Call for 'Three Hundred Thousand Men. — Names of recruits

under the call, ------- 379

The Total Number of Men furnished by Schuylkill County

during the War, - ^ _ - . - 395

The Closing Campaign, ----- 396

Casualties of the Forty-Eighth, - - - - - 398

Our Dead, - - ----- - 404

Battle Narratives, __ , ^ . - - 423

The Chronology of the REBEt,LioK, - - - - 437

President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; - - - 479

President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, - - 480

Contributions, Incidents, &c., ----- 483

Biographical Sketches of Officers, _ - - 501

Our Surgeons, »------ 532

CoxcLusipjf, -._---- 546

ERRATA.

Page 77. — "Geo. Leib" should be Edward II. Leib.

Page 121. — "Company E," (9Gth Reg.,) should be Company F.

Page 128.— "George S. Hill," should be George 11. Hill.

Page 303. — Company A, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued, should
be at head of page.

Page 304. — Company B, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued, should
bo at head of page.

Page 316. — Company A should have been inserted after "Fiftieth
Pennsylvania Regiment."

PREFACE.

In the pages of this Memorial we have endeavored to give a
faithful record of the services of Schuylkill County in assisting the
Government to crush the wicked and most causeless Rebellion of
1861. It is eminently proper that such a record should be pub-
lished; for this County wears the distinguished honor of having
been one of four to throw into the National Capital the first troops
for its defence against the conspirators, which promptness it is
stated on the highest official authority, saved Washington from
invasion ; the archives from seizure, and possibly, the persons of
the President and of the members of his Cabinet from violence.
Thus early was she in the field. She has contributed several regi-
ments, and the blood of her sons has been shed in all of the most
important engagements of the war, while there has hardly been a
fight at any point along our vast military line, in which she has
not been honorably represented.

The names of the gallant men who have shed a lustre upon the
County, merit honorable perpetuation in a durable form like this,
and we have undertaken the pleasing duty, convinced that
posterity, while enjoying Liberty secured to them by the bravery,
and self-sacrificing action of these men, will revere them as we love
and respect the memory of the soldiers of the first War for Ameri-
can Independence.

With this explanation of the motive for the publication of this
Memorial, we submit it as a record of the work of Schuylkill County
in the good cause, and as worthy not only of the attention of the
relatives and friends of the men whose names are enrolled therein,
and the citizens generally, of the County, who feel proud of the
part she has borne in the contest, but of all who appreciate courage,
loyalty and patriotism.

PottsvilUj Schuylkill County^ Pa.

INTROBUCTION.

In preparing as we purpose, for preservation bj the Volunteers
from Schuylkill County, in the Union Army, and by their fathers
mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and brothers, this simple, yet in
its long list of patriotic names, eloquent record of what the great
Mining County of Pennsylvania has done, to assist the Federal
Government to crush rebellion, it is no part of our purpose to
touch upon apparently irrelevant topics. However tempting it
might be to recur to the days of William Penn and Roger
Williams, to contrast the widely opposite sentiments of the early
settlers of the Atlantic coast, and from it to deduce facts which
were stepping-stones to the present rebellion of the American
slaveholders, we refrain, and for the double purpose of brevity and
of getting speedily at the main object of this work, we will confine
ourselves to a preparatory glance at the more modern events
preceding the rebellion.

In 1824 the first Protective Tarifi", in any sense of the term.
was passed by Congress, under the guidance of the lamcDted
Statesman, Henry Clay, whose able and eloquent advocacy of
the measure, earned for him the title, " Father of the American
System.'' The operations of this Tariff were so beneficial to the
material interests of the country, that prosperity soon spread
throughout the land. In 1828 John Quincy Adams was elected
President, and a strenuous effort was made to repeal the Tariff of
1824. The advocates of a repeal finding that the effort was likely
to prove abortive, united with some ultra Protectionists, and suc-
ceeded in effecting a considerable increase on the rate of duties of
the Tariff of 1824. Their sole object seemed to be to make that
measure extremely obnoxious to the South, and in this they suc-
ceeded. In 1832, Gen. Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, was
elected President, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
Vice-President, both Southern men and slaveholders. After their
inauguration, the extreme Southern men, led by Calhoun, en-
deavored to secure Jackson's sympathies for the formation of a

viii. Introduction.

Southern Confederacy. At a celebration given in Washington, on
an anniversary of Jefferson's birth-day, President Jackson and
Vice-President Calhoun were present, and in pursuance of the plan
agreed upon to commit the President in favor of Nullification
measures, a toast to that effect was drawn up and placed for his
use, under his plate. The incorruptible patriot on the instant
perceived the tenor of it, and with the nerve of a Roman patrician,
gave the toast rendered famous by the event,

*' The Union must and shall be preserved."

Foiled in their attempt at that time to disrupt the Union, in
consequence of the firmness and patriotism of the President, a
quarrel took place between him and the conspirators; and Calhoun,
who for many years had supported the policy of Protection, on the
ground that the slaves consumed but lightly of foreign manufac-
tures, while the North would pay the mass of duties, turned and
denounced the bill of 1828, as tending to rob the South. Calhoun
then inaugurated the Nullification scheme, which as all are aware,
was promptly crushed under the heel of the veteran Jackson,
while the author only escaped hanging, by keeping out of the way
of the authorities. At that period Henry Clay, the great but
we fear, for the welfare of the country, too often erring Compro-
miser, introduced his celebrated compromise Tariff bill, which was
adopted. Its provisions gradually reduced the then existing
duties down to twenty per cent., the sliding scale occupying a
period of about five years, until the mininum was reached. The
effect of the operations of this Tariff was," to prostrate the industrial
resources of the entire country, and resulted in 1840 in the elec-
tion to the Presidency, by an overwhelming majority, of Gen.
Harrison, his opponent being Martin Van Buren. Next
followed the passage of the Tariff of 1812, under the operations of
which the country attained a degree of material prosperity, un-
precedented in its previous history.

It is a recognized fact that although Calhoun advocated the
Protective Policy in the early history of the country, he never did
so with any other motive than to consolidate the South on an unity
of interest in opposition to the progressive growth and prosperity

Introduction. ix.

of the North, especially the New England States, He thought that
Protection would injure the commerce of New England, which
indeed, it did for a time, and it was on that ground, opposed by the
people of those States. But not continuing to answer the expected
result J finding it impossible to unite the Slave States on the Tariff
question, and his Nullification scheme failing Calhoun then bent
his energies to the work of consolidating the South on the Slavery
question. That in future, was to be the alpha and omega of the
demands of the slave oligarchy, in order to enable them to rule
the country. At any time threatened with the loss of power,
rebellion was to be inaugurated.

One of the favorite ideas for enlarging the area of slave territory,
and increasing the strength of the South in the United States
Senate, was the annexation of Texas, out of which it was contem-
plated to carve five new slave States. Texas came in, in the mean-
time, as a single State, which it still remains. By its admission,
however, two additional votes were secured in the Senate, besides
the repeal by the casting vote of George M. Dallas, the Vice-
President, of the Tariff act of 1842. The free trade bill of 1846,
which was substituted, is known as ^' Walker's Bill."

Notwithstanding that in 1846, there were fifteen slave States
against fourteen free States : the extent of territory occupied by
the former being 851,440 square miles, but of the latter only
402,693 square miles, or less than one-half! the war with Mexico
was inaugurated, to extend still further on this continent, the area of
slave territory. This scheme miscarried, however, in consequence
of the people of California, the State to be dedicated to Slavery,
deciding in favor of Freedom. Close upon the footsteps of this
defeat, followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise^ the first
act in the thrilling and bloody drama enacted by the friends of
Freedom, and the cohorts of slavery, on the soil of Kansas. —
Freedom, however, triumphed, after one of the most remarkable
struggles recorded in history, and Kansas now nestles young, but
free, vigorous, unshackled, among her sisters.

From that sanguinary contest sprang, like a giant, full armed,
the Republican party, upon its bright shield emblazoned the'great,
undying principle of opposition to the extension of slavery into
the territories of the United States. The principles of the party

X. Introduction.

were embodied in the Chicago Platform, and Abraham Lincoln,
now President of the United States, was selected as the standard-
bearer of those principles. He triumphed at the November elec-
tion of 1860, mainly in consequence of the split in the Democratic
party, growing out of the sam« subject as embodied in the respect-
ive platforms of the two wings according to their peculiar views.

As a matter of history we here insert the planks in the Chicago
Platform, bearing upon the Slavery question :

4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and
especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our
political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext,
as among the gravest of crimes. "" -;^ ^ •)!• -s- * *

7. That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dan-
gerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that
instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legisla-
tive and judicial precedent ; is revolutionai-y in its tendency, and sub-
versive of the peace and harmony of the country.

8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States
is that of freedom ; That as our llepublican fathers, when they had
abolished Slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no per-
son should be deprived of life,, liberty, or property, without due process
of law," it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation
is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all
attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a terri-
torial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery
in any Territory of the United States.

9. That we brand the recent re-opening of the African slave-trade,
under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial
power, as a crime against humanity and a burning shame to our country
and age ; and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient mea-
sures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic.

The Presidential election took place on the 6th of November,
1860, and resulting in the election of Lincoln and Hamlin, the
candidates of the Eepublican party, for President and Vice-Presi-
dent, South Carolina, acting by a Convention chosen for the pur-
pose, assembled on the 17th of December, and on the 20th, passed
unanimously, what was styled ^^an ordinance to dissolve the Union
between the State of South Carolina and other States united with
her, under the compact entitled the Constitution of the United
States of America."

January 9, 1861, the Mississippi State Convention passed the
ordinance of secession, fifteen delegates voting nay.

Introduction. xi.

January 12, Florida and Alabama adopted ordinances of seces-
sion ; Florida passed her ordinance by a vote of 62 to 7, and
Alabama by yeas^ 61 ; nays, 39.

January 19, the State Convention of Greorgia adopted the seces-
sion ordinance by a vote of 208 against 89.

January 26, the Louisiana State Convention passed the ordi-
nance of secession by a vote of 113 to 17.

February 1, the Texas State Convention passed an ordinance of
secession, to be voted on by the people on the 23d of February,
and if adopted, to take effect March 2.

February 8, the Montgomery Congress elected Jefferson Davis
President, and Alexander H. Stephens Vice-President of the
Southern Confederacy.

March 4, Abraham Linooln was inaugurated at Washington,
sixteenth President of the United States.

March 4, Texas declared out of the Union.

April 12, At 4.30 A. M., fire was opened by the secessionists
upon Fort Sumter, and continued until 12.55 P. M., of the 13th,
when the flag of Fort Sumter was drawn down, and the Fort was
surrendered soon after upon honorable terms. No men were re-
ported on either side killed or wounded.

April 15, The President of the United States called by procla-
mation, for 75,000 volunteers to suppress insurrectionary combina-
tions. In the same proclamation, an extra session of both Houses
of Congress was called for the 4th of July.

B^ the President of the United Slates.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past,
and are now opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States
of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the
ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the
marshals by laws :

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws,
have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the
several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-live
thousand, in order to suppress the said combinations, and to cause the
laws to be duly executed. The details for this object will be immediately
communicated to the State authorities through the War Department,

xii. Introduction.

I appeal to all loyal citizcus to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to
maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National
Union, and the perpetuity of the popular Government, and to redress the
wrongs already long enough endured.

I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces
hereby called forth will probably be to re-possess the forts, places, and
property, which have been seized from the Union, and, in every event,
the utmost care will be observed consistently with the objects aforesaid,
to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or inference with property,
or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.

And I do hereby command the persons composing the combinations
aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to^their respective abodes,
within twenty days from tins date.

Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an ex-
traordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested
by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress, The Senators
and Representatives are therefore, summoned to assemble at their respec-
tive chambers at 12 o'clock noon on Thursday, the 4th of July next, then
and there to consider and determine such measures as in their wisdom,
the public safety and interest may seem to demand.

In witness wherepf, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the eighty-fifth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the President.

William H. Seward,

Secretary of Stale.

April 16, The Ringguld Flying Artillery, of Heading Pa., Capt.
McKnight, 180 men, received a requisition from the Governor
this morning, to set out this evening, at 6 o'clock, for Harrisburg,
the place of rendezvous for the first Pennsylvanians in the field.

April 18, Arrival at Washington of the Washington Artillery
and National Light Infantry of Pottsville ; the Ringgold Light
Artillery of Heading; the iVllen Infantry of Allentown ; and the
Logan Guards of Lewistown,

April 25, Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, issued a proclamation
announcing that the State had been transferred to the Southern
Confederacy. The people subsequently confirmed this action, at
the polls.

May 6, Secession act passed by Arkansas.

May 20, Act of secession passed by North Carolina.

June 24, Proclamation of the Governor of Tennessee that the
State had dissolved all political oonnection with the United States
Government.

THE THREE MONTHS' CAMPAIGN.

We come now to tlie main purpose of this work, to record what
Schuylkill County has done to aid the Government in the suppres-
sion of the Rebellion.

The first shot at Sumter roused our people as one man, and
when the President's Proclamation appeared, the armories of our
volunteer companies were thronged with men to enroll their names,
to fight for the Union.

On Monday, April 15, at noon, the Proclamation of the Presi-
dent was received in Pottsville, when Capt. E. McDonald of the
National Light Infantry, and Capt. Jas. Wren, of the Washington
Artillery Company, telegraphed to Gov. Curtin, at Harrisburg,
offering the services of their companies. They were accepted and
ordered to start without arms or equipments, on Wednesday, 17th.
The excitement was so great that when they left Pottsville for
Harrisburg, the Artillerists numbered in its ranks, 131 men, and
the Infantry, 113 — both containing as fine material as ever entered
the service.

The Miners' Journal of April 20, contained the following
notice of the departure of these troops :

DEPARTURE OF VOLUNTEERS.

The Washington Artillerists and National Light Infanty left on Wed-
nesday last for Harrisburg, in obedience to the call of the President.
During the whole day the greatest excitement prevailed among our
citizens, and the scene at the armories of the respective companies was
quite lively and spirited. New recruits Avere rolling in at every moment,
and the lists were soon swelled to above the requisite number. The
Artillerists numbered one hundred and thirty rank and file, and the
Infantry somewhat above a hundred men — many who wished to volunteer
their services, were prevented from doing so on account of the short notice
at which the companies were ordered otF.

The day was very cold, raAV, and disagreeable ; but notwithstanding
this, the people flocked in by thousands from all parts of the County,
and it seemed as if its whole population had been poured forth to witness
the departure of our gallant volunteers, who with a noble spirit of self-
sacrifice, have exchanged the comforts of home, for the fatigue and labor
of a soldier's life.

About half past twelve o'clock the concourse of people that had
assembled about the armories of the two companies, was so great, that

14 The Three Months' Campaign.

it was with difficulty that a place was cleared for them in the street. —
Every body was pressing forward, and all striving to speak a parting
word and take a final leave of their friends, with whom they were com-
pelled to separate.

As the companies proceeded down Centre street, to the depot of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, they were greeted with cheers from
the thousands who lined each side of the street, and a perfect ocean of
handkerchiefs waved by the ladies, who had taken possession of all the
windows, and every available situation along the street. All the stores
were closed and business entirely suspended. At the depot the crowd
was immense, and it was almost impossible to force your way through
it. The tops of the passenger and freight cars, the roofs of the depot
and neighboring houses, were black with spectators. Never had so great
a concourse assembled on any one occasion before in Pottsville.

The Pottsville Cornet Band, which had escorted the companies to the
depot, immeiiately before tlie starting of the cars played "Hail Colum-
bia and " Yankee Doodle." As the train slowly left the depot, cheer
upon cheer went up from the assembled thousands. The men were in
good spirits, but there were some, who though possessed of manly hearts,
who could bravo toil and danger without complaint or fear, who could
endure suft'cring with stoical indifference, but who could not prevent the
tear from starting to the eye, when called upon to bid farewell to all
their friends.

The Washington Artillerists and the National Light Infantry, will con-
stitute one of the finest bodies of men from Pennsylvania. They are
mostly composed of fine, abled-bodied young men in the vigor of health.
They leave us with the best wishes of one and all who remain behind,
and a heart-felt prayer will bo tendered for their safety while absent.

These companies reached Ilarrisburg on Wednesday night, and
were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to go to Washington
early next morning. The next morning they were drawn up in
lino near the depot of the Northern Central Railroad, and sworn
into the service of the United States by Capt. Simmons.

The muster rolls of the Companies as they reached Harrisburg,
were as follows :

WASHINGTON ARTILLERISTS.

Caplain— JAMES WREN.
First Lieutenant — David A. Smith.
SecoJid Lieutenant — Feancis B. Wallace.
Seco7id- Second Lieutenant — PuiLir Nagle.
Orderly Sergeant — Henry C. Russel.
Second " Joseph A. Gilmour.

Third "■ Cyrus Sheetz.

■Fourth " Wm. J. McQuade.

Quarter-Master Sergeant — G. H. Gressano.
First Corporal — D. J. Ridgway.
Second " Samuel R. Russel.

Third " Charles Hinklb.

Fourth " Reuben Snydee.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Washington Artillerists — Continued.

PRIVATES

George H. Hill,
Francis P. Dewees,
Wm. R. Potts,
Thomas Johnson,
Nelson T. Major,
I. E. Severn,
Thomas Jones,
Thomas Severn, Fifer,
George Meyers,
J. C. Weaver,
John Engle,
Chas. P. Potts,
Chas. Loeser, Jr.,
H. K. Downing,
Wm. H. Harden,
J. B. Brant,
Chas. SlingluflF,
Theodore F. Patterson,
Chas. Evans,
Chas. Hause,
Francis Hause,

D. B. Brown,
John Christian,
A. G. Whitfield,
W. Bates,

Oliver C. Bosbyshell,

R. F. Potter,

A. H. Titus,

Jos. Reed,

Joel H. Betz,

John Curry,

Robert Smith,

Aug. Reese,

Hugh Stephenson,

H. H. Hill,

Eli Williams,

Benjamin Christian,

Thomas Petherick, Jr.,

Louis T. Snyder,

E. J. Shippen,
R. M. Hodgson,
Wm. W. Clemens,
C. C. Pollock,
Wm. Auman,
Wm. E. Riley,
Edward T. Leib,
Daniel Merer,
W. Brown,
Edward Nagle,
Godfrey Leonard,
Charles F. Garrett,
G. W. Bratton,

Charles A. Glenn,

W^m. Spence,

Patrick Hanley,

Wm. J. Feger,

Wm. Lesher,

D. C. Potts,

Alba C. Thompson.

Daniel Christian,

Reuben Snyder,

Samuel Beard,

Thomas Irwin,

Henry Dentzer,

Philip Dentzer,

H. Bobbs,

John Pass,

Heber S. Thompson,

B. F. Jones,

John J. Hetheringtou,

Peter Fisher,

Wm. Dagan.

A. F. Bowen, Drummer,

J. R, Hetheringtou,

Nelson Drake,

Benjamin Heflfner,

Francis A. Seltzer,

Charles A. Hesser,

Samuel Shoener,

Charles Maurer,

James S. Sillyman,

Henry Brobst,

Peter Grow,

Alfred Huntzinger,

W. Alspach,

John HofFa,

J. F. Barth,

Wm. Cole,

David Williams,

George Rice,

Joseph Kear.

Charles E. Beck,

F. B. Hammer,

P. H. Frailey,

Thomas Corby,

Charles Vanhorn,

John Noble,

Joseph Fyant,

Alex. S. Bowen,

John Jones,

Frank Stitzer,

Wm. A. Maize,

Wm. Agan,

George H. Hartmaa,

The Three Months' Campaign.

Washington Artillerists — Continued.

John Nagle, Richard Bartolett,

Wm. Heffner, Lewis Douglass,

Vict. Wernert, Richard Rice,

Val. Stichter, Fred. Christ,

Francis B. Bannan, Frank P. Myer,

Wra. Bartholomew, Bernard Riley.
Geo. Steahlen,

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 4

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 9

Musicians, 2

Privates, __-_--- 116

Total, 131

NATIONAL LIGHT INFANTRY.

Captain— F.. McDONALD.
First Lieutenant — James Russell.
Second Lieutenant — Henry L. Cake.
Third Lieutenant — Lewis J. Martin.
Quarter-Master Sergeant — D. Downey.

PRIVATES

J. Addison McCool,
Lamar S. Hay,
George G. Boyer,
John Simpson,
Thomas G. Houck,
Edward Thomas,
Elias B. Trifoos,
John Stodd,
Lawrence Manayan,

B. F. Bartlett,
Wm. Madara,
Emanuel Saylor,
Wm. T. Garrett,
John P. Womelsdorff,
Charles Russell,

J. J. Dampman,
Ernst Saubrey,

C. F. Hoffman,
Jacob Bast,
Daniel Eberle,
Wm. H. Hodgson,
Ernst T. Ellrich,
Amos Forseman,
C. F. Umberhauer,

James Carroll,
John Benedict,
Edmund Foley,
Thomas Kelly,
John Eppinger,
John Rouch,
David Howard,
Jeremiah Deitrich,
William Weller,
William A. Christian,
Mark Walker,
Pvalph Corby,
Henry Mehr,
F. Goodyear,
William Carl,
Anthony Lippman,
John P. Deiner,
William A. Beidleman,
Charles J. Shoemaker,
James Donigan,
Edward Moran,
Herman Hauser,
Louis Weber,
Thomas H. Parker,

The Three Months' Campaign.
National Light Infantry — Continued.

Abm. Mclntyre,
Wm. R. Roberts
Jonas W. Rich,
Charles Weber,
Terence Smith,
F. A. Schoener,
William Pugh,
Frank Hanley,
James Smith,
George W. Mennig,
James INIarshall,
Ira Troy,
Uriah Good,
William Irving,
Patrick Curtin,
John Burns,
Edward McCabe,
F. W. Conrad,
John Donigan,
John Mullens,
John Lamons,
William McDonald,
George W. Garber,
F. W. Simpson,
Alexander Smith,
David Dilly,
George Sbartle,
A. D. Allen,
W. F, Huntzinger,
Geo, A. Lerch,

John Howell,
Henry Y eger,
Wm, Davenport,
James Landerfield,
James R. Smith,
Michael Foren,
Alexander Smith,
W. M, Lashorn,
Levi Gloss,
Samuel Heilner,
Enoch Lambert,
Frank Wenrich,
Joseph Johnston,
Henry C, Nies,
Jacob Shoey,
John Hartman,
William Buckley,
Henry Quin,
Thomas G. Buckley,
William Becker,
J, P, McGinnes,
Chas, J. Redcay, Jr.
William Britton,
Thomas Smith,
J. M. Hughes,
Thomas Martin,
Henry Garing,
Dallas Dampman,
John Bodafield,
M, Edacar Richards.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

Total,

108

113

These companies with the Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading,
Logan Guards of Lewistown^ Allen Infantry of Allentown^ and
some forty-five regular troops, passed through Baltimore at noon
of Thursday, the 18th, unarmed, and exposed to the insults of a
secession mob. No riot, however, took place, and these troops
reached Washington at 8 o'clock that evening, and bivouacked at
the Capitol — the first volunteers from the Free States, to enter
the Capital at the call of the President. Schuylkill, with three
sister counties of Pennsylvania, wears the distinguished honor of
being first in the field, for the defence of Washington.

18 The Three Months' Campaign.

These companies subsequently formed part of the 25th Regi-
ment, commanded by Col. Henry L. Cake; Lieut. -Colonel
Selheimer ; Major James H. Campbell, and Adjutant M. E.
Richards.

These companies were afterwards divided, a portion being on
detached service at Fort Washington, on the Potomac, the com-
missioned and non-commissioned officers being as follows :

NATIONAL LIGHT INFANTRY.

Company D, 2bth RegimeniT

Captain— E. McDONALD.
First Lieutenant — Jabies Russell.
Second Lieutenant — Lewis J. Martih,
First Sergeant — La Mar Hay.
Second " Abr'm McIntyre,

Third " Wm. Huntzinger,

Fourth " Geo. G. Boyer.

Fifth " Daniel Downey,

First Corporal — E. A. Soubray.
Second " Edward Moran.

Third "■ Charles Russell.

Fourth " Frederick W. Conard.

WASHINGTON ARTILLERISTS.

Company II, 2hth Regiment.

Captain—DANID A. SMITH
First Lieutenant — Francis B. Wallace,
Second Lieutenant — Philip Nagle.
Third Lieutenant — Henry C. Russel.
First Sergeant — Samuel R. Russel.
Second " D. J. Ridgway.

Third " Val. Stichter

Fourth " Godfrey Leonard.

First Corporal — Joseph Kear
Second " Reuben Snyder.

Third "■ Isaac E. Severn.

Fourth " Charles Hinkle.

HASKIN GUARDS.

Company B, 25th Regiment.

Captain— J AMES WREN.

First Lieutenant — Joseph A. Gilmour.

Second Lieutenant — Cyrus Shebtz.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Haskin Guards — Continued.

Brevet Second Lieut. — Wm. J. McQuade.

First Sergeant — Geo. H. Gressang.

Second " Thomas Johnson.

Third *' Wm. Heffner.

Fourth " John Engle,

First Corporal — Henry K. Downing.

Second " Francis Hause.

Third " John Noble.

Fourth <' AVm. Feger.

Acting Quarter- Master — Peter H. Feailet.

The next companies that left Scnuylkill County, were the Ring-
gold Rifles, of Minersville, Minersville Artillery, Scott Artillery,
of Schuylkill Haven, and Port Clinton Artillery. These com-
panies left on Saturday, April 20.

The muster rolls of these companies^ as they left^ are as follows :

RINGGOLD RIFLES,

OF MINERSVILLE.

Company I, 5th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— GEO. J. LAWRENCE.

First Lieutenant. — Chas. N. Brumm.

Second Lieutenant — Samuel Richards.

First Sergeant — Thos. D. Griffiths.

Second " Fred. Gunther.

Third " John J. Williams.

Fourth " Thos. Robertson.

First Corporal — Wm. H. Jones.

Second " Geo. Parey.

Third " Joseph Forney.

Fourth " John Evans.

Musicians — Niel S. Maclay, R. K. Lbvan. ""

PRIVATES ;

George Allen,
Samuel Allen,
David Auld,
William Ball,
Joseph Beadle,
Henry C. Benseman,
Winfield Benseman,
David Bowen,
Jacob Burkert,
Isaac P. Chalfant,
Daniel Chester,
Daniel Christian,

Lewis Lee,
James Levens,
David Levy.
John Lovet,
James Manning,
William Maggison,
Amor Markert,
Wm. D. H. Mason,
Joseph Morgans,
George l^cNeil,
Henry Owens,
John Parry,

The Three Months' Campaign.

KiNQGOLD KiFLES — Continued.

Charles Cholar,
John Crawford,
Lewis Dennis,
Reuben Dewalt,
William Dier,
Peter D. Eby,
Albert C. Forney,
Richard Forney,
John Geiger,
John Goodfellow,
Benjamin Haines,
Charles W. Haines,
William Hesser,
George B. Hindson,
William Hopkins,
Watkin Howells,
John Jefferson,
Raymond A. Jenkins,
David J, Jones,
Thomas Joy,
Charles 0. Keller,
James D. Lawrence,

William S. Peel,
William Redner,
George Reece,
Henry Reese,
Stephen Reese,
Michael Shilthorn,
John S. Silver,
Henry Snyder,
AFoert W. Sterner,
Joseph Smith,
William E. Taylor,
William H. Taylor,
John W. Thirlwell,
Theodore P. Trayer,
Frederick Watkins,
William Webster,
Sampson Wigmore,
Jacob Witman,
George W. Wythes,
Joseph H. Wythes,
Jacob Zimmerman.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3

Non-commissioned OflBicers, - - _ - g

Musicians, - 2

Privates, ----__. 53

Total, ^

SCOTT ARTILLERY,

OF SCHUYLKILL HAVEN.

t>th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— F. B. MEDLAR.
First Lieutenant — D. F. Burkert.
Second Lieutenant — T. K. Mills.
First Sergeant — U. A. BastJ
Second " P. F. Quinn.

Third " C. R. GUERTLER.

Fourth '< F. D. Koch.

First Corporal — J. R. Wertz.
Secojid " Wm. Kendricks.

Third " J. G. W. BossLEK.

Fourth '< Joseph Morgan.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Scott Artillery — Continued.

Henry Dry,
George Schreds,
J. W. Coho,
J. B. Wright,
Laft. Becker,
C. Raudenbush,
Jacob Christ,

C. Betzler,
Joseph Ropp,
Geo, Miller,

D. Houghman,
J. Sheriff,
»Samuel Martz,
H. Heffner.
John Polly,

J. Huntzinger,
H. P. Urner,
R. Auman,

C. Oaswalt,
M. Poyer,

F. Krohberger,
0. Nuttle,

D. Matteson,
W. Conway,
A. Kissinger,
P. Sheck,
William Kluck,
J. River,

J. L. Minnig,
F. Wise,
Samuel Gray,

F. Scheck,

G. W, Mercer,

PRIVATES:

J. F. Saylor,
William Mowry,
William Hain,
J. Wenting,
H. Hehn,
H. Knorr,

D. Renard,
Benjamin Emerick,
J. B. Martz,

M, Johnson,
J. Swivel,
J. Freshly,

E. W. Minnig,
William Shadle,
George Reed,
Jacob Hehn,

S. Arnprister,
J. L. Weber,
W. H Mennig,
Noah Cross,
C. Knorr,
J. McLaird,
Daniel Haffa,
E Blanch,
E. Coller,
William Hiney,
J. Strausser,
J. Bower,
J Dampman.
P. L. Logan,
C. Bickley,
V. Burns.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

Total,

8
65

MINERSVILLE ARTILLERISTS.

K>th Regiment rennsylvania Volunteers".

Capfai7i—WM. HOWER.
First Lieutenant — G. W. Brumm.
Second Lieutenant — Daniel Freilek.
First Sergeant — Frank C. Bender.

The Three Months' Campaign,

MiNERSViLLE ARTILLERISTS — Continued.

Second Sergeant — Daniel P. McElrot.
Third " CoNDY Fury.

Fourth " Philip Wernert.

First Corporal — Wm. Wensel.
Second " Jacob Pauley.
Third <' John Carr.

Fourth " Michael Foley.

PRIVATES : -

John Foley,
Michael Devlin,
John Cari'oll,
Fred. Kline,
Jacob Geir,
Ed. A. Reed,
Patrick McGlinn,
George Ridley,
Henry Smith,
Thomas Nixon,
Charles Gerhard,
Charles Weitzennigger,
Wm. Kennedy,
Michael Moran,
John L. Brennan,
Adam Godshall,
Thomas Brennan,
Mathias Laubach,
Joseph Smith,
Patrick McGovern,
John Donehue,
James O'Donald,
Thomas Levens,
James McManemen,
Elisha Andrews,
Charles F. Falls,
Robt. A. Maingay,
Thos. J. Weaver,
Patrick McDonoch,
John H. Burger,
Thomas Murphey,
Wm. Murphey.
Wm. Diehl,

Philip Gullung,
John Pteed,
Fred. Sieber,
Philip Mohan,
John McGee,
James Porter,
Daniel Martin,
Michael Bamrick,
Henry Leitenberger,
Michael Condron,
John Gehrer,
Patrick McGuire,
Patrick McGee,
John Duff,
Jacob Haase,
Edward Furguson,
Thomas Williams,
Thomas Reese,
Zebastian Grover,
Thos. S. Brown,
Joseph Tonkinson,
Daniel Hummel.
William Holze,
William S. Welsh,
Morgan Pugh,
John Bissicomer,
Adam Ehni,
William Levant,
William Welsh,
Samuel Achebach,
James H. Levan,
George Reamer.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

8
67

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

PORT CLINTON ARTILLERY,

6th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. James Nagle.

Captain— J). B. KAUFMAN.

First Lieutenant — Geo. F. Shillinger,

Secofid Lieutenatit — 0. Hatch.

Orderly Sergeant — E. W. S. Kiemtzel.

Quartermaster — Wm. H. Harrison.

Fijer — James Sterner.

Drummer — Frank Lintz.

PRIVATES :

Elijah Miller, Joseph Bridegam,

Arthur P. Hatch, Henry Hyneman,

Oliver McLane, John Kling,

John Taylor, Samuel S. Moyer,

J. M, McCallister, Nathaniel Cunfear,

James M. Elliott, Michael Keller,

D. McCallister, Aaron Boyer,

John A. Elliott, Thomas P. Smith,

Benjamin G. Otto, John A. Moyer,

John Shenk, Thomas W. Combs,

John Murry, Franklin Fabean,

Nelson Simons, Henry Wyneman, Jr.,

George Hendricks, Daniel Fox,

Frank Wentzel, M. R. Thompson,

Peter Bridegam, Justice Caret,

Benj. Roberson, John Seaman,

Joseph Long, Isaac Miles,

Franklin Simons,. Chas. Beauverly,

Lewis Long, A. Weathern,

James Gribben, F. Boch,

Samuel Wallace, Harman Leager,

Wm. Huntzberger, John H. Dillinger,

Obadiah Stahlnecker,. T. P. S. Roby,

J. Richards, Wm. S. Lessig,

John H. Stager, Theodore Dearing,

Henry Snyder, Henry J. O'Connel,

W. S. Heartline, Henry Mackeson,

John Little, Augustus Shearer,

Richard Lenhard, Wm. Markle,

Frank Nolen, John McGrath,

John Walters, Moses Nolen,

William Clark, John H. Moyer,

Joseph Mauer, George Linsy.
Wm. J. Elliott,

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 2

Musicians, -- 2

Privates, 67

Total, 74

24 The Three Months' Campaign.

The next companies left Schuylkill County on\Sunday; April
21 . They were, Ashland Rifle Company, Capt. Israel Seitzing-
ER ; Marion Rifles, Port Carbon, Capt. J. K. Siegfried ; Colum-
bian Infantry, Glen Carbon, Capt. J. Brennan ; Llewellyn Rifles,
Capt. H. Chance ; Wetherill Rifle Company, St. Clair, Capt. Ed-
ward Farne; Washington Light Infantry, Pinegrove, Capt.
Mathews, and Lafayette Rifles, St. Clair, Capt. Jennings.

The muster rolls of these companies as they left, are as follows :

MARION RIFLES,

OF PORT CARBON.

6/^ Regiment Pennsylvania VolunteerSi

Captain— J. K. SIEGFRIED.
First Lieutenant — M. D. Weand.
Second Lieutenant — Geo. W. Snyder.
Orderly Sergeant — Philip Cares.
Second " John Gillespie.

Third " James Teasdale.

Fourth " Thomas Hilton.

Quartermaster Sergeant — Jacob Buchman.
First Corporal — Geo. W. Holder.
Second " Chas. Hilbert.
Third "■ James Gillespie.
Fourth " James Kane.
Fifer — Stephen Jones.
Drummer — Henry Swartz.

PRIVATES :

Samuel Aregood Theodore Pletz,

Alexander Allison, Patrick Pursell,

Abraham Ahley, Charles Paul,

James Boyd, F. W. Reed,

Joseph Beadle, Patrick Sheilds,

David Bour, J. W. Shappell,

George Burton, Jos. A. Seligman,

I. Courtright, Geo. Stout,

C. L. Chillson, Jas. Stout,

Wm Garris, William Smith,

P. Garber, Jno. Stanton,

R. M, Iluntzinger, John Smith,

Ashton Hilton, Wm. Stevenson,

Jas. Henderson, Samuel Seitzinger,

Henry Hodge, Alexander Smith,

Henry Ilignor, John Seward,

Abm. Hummell, A. Shilthouse,

Wm. Kane, Geo. W. Thomson,

Robert Kane, Jesse Templin,

Jno. Kline, J. Umbehower,

Anthony Kliugols, Thos. Williams,

The Three Months' Campaign.

Marion Rifles — Continued.

Joseph Kepley,
John W. Laing,
Wm. Lloyd,
John Lloyd,
Wm. Mackey,
Philip May,
Saml. McQuade,
Wm. Martin,
Jno. P. McCord,
James B. Oliver,
David J. Price,

Perry Watts,
David Wertle,
Watkin Waters,
Wm. Williams,
Emanuel Bechtel,
M. Davidheiser,
John Ferry,
.John Mullen,
D. B. Mitchell,
G. W. Stillwagon,

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, _ - _

Total,

LAFAYETTE RIFLES,

OF ST. CLAIR.

Captain— SN^l. H. JENNINGS.
First Lieutenant — Wm. G. Burwell.
Second Lieutenant — Jno. Ennis.
First Sergeant — Chas. BlxVCker.
Second " Thomas M. Price.

Third " Wm. G. Gwytiier.

Fourth " NicnoLA Schjieltzer.

First Corporal — Michael A. Welsh.
Second " David Ruse.

Third " Jambs Blacker.

Fourth " Edward R. Breckon,

Fifer — Wm. Birt.
Drummer — Michael Clark.

PRIVATES

Wm. Ansbach,
Wm. Blacker,
Wm. Brown,
Wm. Brennan,
John Blakely,
Wm. Childs,
Thomas Cresswell,
Benneville Clase,
James J. Cooper,

Jeremiah David,
Theodore Koch,
John Kelley,
George Lockett,
John Mason,
Edward Mason,
Patrick Murray,
John L. Morgan,
Wm. Price,

The Theee Months' Campaign.

Lafayette Rifles — Continued.

John Crow,
John Catcher,
Wm. Davis,
John Dougherty,
Jonah Davis,
John Donley,
Wm. Dudley,
John Dolan,
Jos. Dixon,
George Evans,
John f'rancis,
George Farnie,
Wm. Gittin,
Thomas Gwyther,
llobert Green,
John Green,
Wm. Gable,
Evan Humj)hries,
George Hancock,
James Highten,
Marshall Harrison,
David Jenkins,
Isaac B. Jones,

James Pusey,
Frank W. Richardson,
Robert Rogers,
Reese Reese,
Jno. Snaden,
John W. Smith,
George Smith,
Wm. M. Steel,
Edward Sedgwick,
John Stevens,
Chas. Taylor,
John Taylor.
George Thomas,
John G. Thomas,
John Thompson,
xYdgate Vanhorn,
John Vincent,
David D. Walker,
Thomas Wilson,
Daniel Walker,
John Wood,
George Wonders,
Adam W. Zimmerman.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3
Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 8

Musicians, ___----2

Privates, ------- G4

Total, 77

WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY,

OF PINEGROVE.

\Qth Regimaii Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— \l. II. BECHTEL.
First Lieutenant — J. W. Barr.
Second Lieutenant — P. A. Filbert,
First Sergeant — E. M. Mathews.

Second
Third ««
Fourth "
First Corporal-
Second "
Third <'
Fourth "

Philip Keeley.
Caleb Wheeler.
Lewis Lookingbill.
-Jacob B. Kreider.

Wm. Bonawitz.

Jerome Ley.

Peter Rump.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Washington Light Infantry — Continued.

Josepli Allison,
Bearmount Brook,
Paul H. Barr,
Wm. W. Bright,
Robert Byers,
George Bretz,
Daniel Bretz,
Henry Britigum,
Wm. Brenner,
Daniel D. Brown,
Marcus Dry,
Frederick Dutter,
George Fritz,
Wm. H. Filbert,
Henry Fry,
John Fox,
Henry Feger,
Wm. Grove,
Aaron Greenwald,
George Goodman,
Edward Heckman,
Edward Heisler,
Jacob Huber, Jr.,
John Harvey,
Adam Hand,
Joseph Harmon,
David Harrigon,
Frederick Hammer,
Henry G. Krise,
Benhart Kamget,
George Kill,
Samuel Lehman,
Irvine Looser,
Wm. Lehman,

PRIVATES

Joshua Martz,
Franklin Muthart,
Joseph Moorheiser,
Samuel G. Miller,
Harrison Manviller,
Franklin Moore,
James Manviller,
George Rothmend,
Henry Reinoehl,
David Reader,
David Spangler,
Israel Spancake,
Ephraim Schrope,
Peter Smeltzer,
Thomas Schwartz,
Thomas Seibert,
Aaron Stees,
Frederick Schrope,
Jacob Snyder,
Amos Stine,
George Schnept,
John Scherer,
Gotlieb Schiveller,
John Scheeler,
William Sick,
William Wetzel,
Frederick Wegelin,
Peter Weaver,
Wm. M. Wolverton,
Samuel Weiler,
Henry Yeager,
Andrew Zimmerman,
Peter C Zelleff.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

Total,

8
67

ASHLAND RIFLES.

Con^any E, 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Jas. NagU.

{7a/)^am— ISRAEL SEITZINGER.

First Lieutenant — Levi C. Leib.
Second Lieutenant — John C. Garner.
Ejisign — John Von Hollen.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Ashland Rifles — Continued.

Quarter Master
First Sergeant-^
Second ' '
Third ''
Fourth "
First Corporal-
Second "
Third <'
Fourth "■
Drummer — Jos

— George Harman,
R. F. MosoN.
Peter Houk.
Franklin Steese.
Frederick Hopkins.
-Franklin Garner,
Andrew Arnold.
John Slaterback.
Oscar IlAiiNr
EPH Keeler.

Thomas Brennen,
Henry Barndt,
Emanuel Bolich,
Josiah Berger,
Barnabas Billian,
John Colohan,
Daniel Carmitchel,
Thomas Connor,
Patrick Colohan, Jr.,
John Cleaver,
Gabriel Crow,
William Cooper,
Henry F. Dengler,
John O. Davis,
Isaac F. Davis,
Howard Edmonds,
James A. Easton,
Evan Evans,
Lawrence Foclit,
George Fetterman,
Lafayette Fetterman,
Jacob Farrel,
J. J. Fertig,
James Gillespie,
W. T. Hartz,
Charles Henrich,
W. A. Himelright,
Franklin Hart/,
James Hetherington,
John Heck,
Richard Jones,
James Knabb,
John F. Klock,

PRIVATES :

John Langton,
John Loudon,
Abraham Levy,
Joseph Mann,
Martin V. Murry,
Nathan J. Moyer,
Condy Maguire,
B. F. May,
Thomas Owens,
Jacob Oswald,
Samuel K. Phillippi,
George Price,
Thomas Piatt,
Christian Rherig,
John Rhorback,
Ptichard Rahn,
Erastus Shuman,
Edward Shutt,
George N, Simpson,
Jacob K. Shelley.
Calvin Shindler,
Anthony Spoo,
Thomas Smith,
Peter Schneider,
Edward Wentzel,
Joseph E. Wilson,
John A. Wilson,
John Wagner,
Tobias Witman,
James Bradbury,
James Craige,
James McDade.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, _ - -

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

COLUMBIAN INFANTRY,

OF GLEN CARBON.

bth Regimejit Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— SAM^^ BRENNAN.
First Lieutenant — John Keating.
Second Lieutenant — Michael Curry.
First Sergeant — Thomas Lawler.
Second ' " Daniel Lawler.

Third " Patrick Brennan,

Fo2irth "■ Michael Daily.
First Corporal — James Keating.
Second << George Lawler.
Third "■ Patrick Wade,

Fourth *' William Curran,

PRIVATES :

John Carroll,
Nich. Delany,
Michael Brennan,
Eli Lee,
J. Mulaowny,
Patrick DuUerd,
Daniel Carter,
Patrick Tobin,
Michael Keating,
Daniel Curry,
John Whelan,
Richard Moran,
James Moran,
James Borgin,
James Grant,
Patrick Brennan,
William McDonald,
William Ryan,
Alexander McMentru,
James Brennan,
Matthew Mouly,
Patrick Brennan,

William Carty,
•Tames Boyle,
Edward Brennan,
William Dullerd,
Edward Keating,
William Cleary,
John Mulhall,
Nicholas Purcell,
Thomas Tobin,
Laughlin Brennan,
John Moran,
Patrick McKerns,
Patrick Dooling,
William Simmons,
Lawrence Tobin,
William Daily,
James Tobin,
William Brennan,
Michael Foley,
William Curran,
Michael Cavenaugh,
Michael O'Brien.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

LEWELLYN RIFLES,

Gth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— BIRMsl CHANCE.

First Lieutenant — Edward J. Robson.
Seco7id Lieutenant — A. D. Siioffstall.
First Sergeant — Joseph Dilcamp,
Second " Thomas Partridge.
Third " Philip Fitzpajrick.
Fourth <•'■ William Davis.
Quarter- Master Sergeant — John D. Burgb
First Corporal — D. A. Alspach.
Second " Benjamin Fociit.

Third " Daniel Troiitman.

Fourth " Michael Murry.

Fifer — William Downing.
Drummer — B. Downing.

PRIVATES :

Thomas Anges,
•John Athey,
John A. Bush,
F. H. Barnharty
.John Burlee,
William Burk,
Daniel Bonawitz,
Michael Brennan,
Michael Cavenaughy
W. J. Clauser,
Simeon Clausei',
Richard Cole,
Augustus Delcamp,
Thomas Dolan,
George English,
William English,
M. Emrigeuldo,
Joseph Fisher,
William Green,
James Green,
.James Galagher,
Joseph Gee,
Joshua Grecnawalt,
Thomas Grant,
F. Galagher,
Edward Griffiths,
Patrick Grant,
John J. Hopkins,
Daniel Hilbert,
Andrew Haws,
J. A. Horn,
Joseph Hendrickson,
Thos Holigan,

Francis Jones,
John Johnston,
Daniel .Jones,
William Kerns,
Charles Kutz,
Gotleih Kutzer,
William Lavenberg,
L. Lavenberg,
Daniel INIanning,
Andrew Miller,
John Moran,
C. IMcNulty,
Jacob Minnig,
Charles Maurer,
James Mullhall,
John Maley,
H. Updegrave,
Peter Rhoades,
R. Rodgers,
H. Runyan,
John Rooney,
George Rankkin,
William Straw,
Joseph Shoffstall,
R. S. Thirwell,
George Wilson,
•Tames Wilson,
Samuel Wesner,
Benjamin Warey,
Israel Warey,
George Young,
Peter Zimmerman,
John S. Zimmerman.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Lewellyn Rifles — Continued.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, _ - -
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, _ - - - -

Privates, - . - - -

Total,

3
9

2
66

WETHERILL RIFLES,

OF ST. CLAIR.

Captain— EmN KKD FRANE.

First Lieutenant — John D. Jones.

Second Lieutenant — Frederick A. Herwig.

First Sergeant — Thomas Ray.

Second " Henry Kroba, Jr.

Third '^ John March.

Fourth " John Carl.

First Corporal — William J. McCarthy.

Second " Edward A. Smith.

Third " William G. DeTurk.

Fourth " Thomas Torbet.

3Iusicians — John Buttbrwick, John Bummersbach.

PRIVATES

James Atkinson,
James Bummersbach,
August Beurne,
Jacob Britt,
Lloyd T. Brewes,
William Breman,
George Beaumant,
Charles H. Blue,
John W. Barnes,
Benjamin Chadwick,
William H. Cape,
Joseph W. Dennings,
.lames Dormer,
Patrick P. Donovan,
Lewis Deekes,
Charles Dress,
Daniel W, Freeman,
Frederick Grum,
George Hetherington,
John Howels,
John Humphreys,
William H. Humes,
John Harrison,
Samuel Hawn,

Peter C. Kreiger,
Nicholas Kern,
Charles Kaler,
Samuel Kendall,
Thomas Lewis,
Evan Lewis,
John Lennen,
Samuel Mateer,
Peter Mahley,
John McGowen,
James Martin,
William Murgan,
Michael McHugh,
James Moore,
Jeremiah Mahon,
F. McLafferty,
Jacob Neifert,
Amos L. Neilds,
Morris O'Neil,
Jacob Parvin,
Thomas Paul Palmer,
James Riley,
John W. Reese,
Charles L. Roorbach,

32 The Three Months' Campaign.

Wetherill Rifles — Continued,

Edwin F. Hensel,
Hatton Hannum,
William Johnson,
Joseph Korbey,
Ralph Korbey,
Faro W. Krebs,
James King,

John Rhobalt,
John S. Steele,
Michael Sedgwick,
John Taggert,
Henry Huhn, '
Nicholas Welsh,
Augustus Wolf.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, _ - -
Privates, - - -

3
8

„.- - - 2
... 62

Total, ----- -^ - 75

The companies that left the County on Monday, April 22, were
Tower Guards, Pottsville, Capt. Tower ; Nagle Guards, Capt. D.
Nagle ; Wynkoop Artillery, Silver Creek, Capt. W. Winlack;
Keystone Rifles, Fort Carbon, Ca| t. Matthew Byrnes; Wash-
ington Yeagers, Pottsville, Capt. Hendler ; Scott Rifles, Tamaqua,
Capt. Lebo; Jackson Guards, Tamaqua, Capt. C. M. Donovan;
and German Light Infantry, Tamaqua, Capt. Guenther.

TOWER GUARDS,

OF POTTSVILLE.

6^A Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. James NagU.

Cff^iom— CHARLEMAGNE TOWER.
First Lieutenant — James Ellis.
Second Lieutenant — Henry Pleasants.
First Sergeant — "William J. Hinkle.
Second " Henry Fisher.
Third *' Edavard C. Baird.

Fourth " John J. Huntzingek.

First Corporal — Samuel M. Ruch.
Second " David H. Hoefman.

Third " Daniel H. Leib.

Fourth " Hugh Mullin.

Drummer — Abraham Nagle.
Fifer — Cornelius Trout.

PRIVATES :

Acorn Martin, Frank Krebs,

John Bailey, Samuel B. Laubenstien,

John H. Batdorf, John Larenberg,

Charles Berluchy, George Leech,

The Three Months' Campaign.

Tower Guards — Continued.

John Bolich,
William Bowman,
Jacob Boyer,
James B. Brown,
Joseph Buck,
Thomas Campbell,
Charles Christian,
Mahlon Collet,
John R. Conyngham,
Samuel Cowley,
John Cooper,
Charles Crosland,
John Cruikshank,
Frederick W. Davis,
Thomas N. Davis,
Daniel D. Dillman,
William Douty,
Richard Edwards,
Thomas Fitzimmons,
George W, Foltz,
Andrew Garber,
Samuel Heffner,
Charles Hazzard,
John Hower,
James Hood,
Zachariah Jones,
J. H. Kaufman,
Henry Z. Kibler,
Herman Krauth,

Frank Leonard,
Frank Lebengood,
Luke Lee,
0. W. Lilley,
Hugh Lynch,
John Martz,
George W. Matz,
John McElrath,
John McShier,
Jacob Mervine,
George W. Overback,
Frank J. Parvin, Jr.,
John Paull,
Robert M. Rinker,
David Y. Root,
Thomas J. Rose,
Gabriel Shollenberger,
Daniel Siegfried,
John Snyder,
Jacob Spotts,
Elisha Stonef'
Edgar R. Titus,
George J. Weaver,
Andrew Weinman,
Allen Weir,
Henry Williamson,
William Wren,
Elias Yerger.

RECAPITULxVTION.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, - - -

Total,

2
65

WYNKOOP ARTILLERY,

OF SILVER CREEK.

IQth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— 'SNYLLIAM WINLACK.

First Lieutenant — Patrick McQuade.
Second Lieutenant — Lawrence Ennis.
First Sergeant — William Cullen.
Second " Robert Was sen.
Third " James Gallery.

The Theeb Months' Campaign.

Wynkoop Artillery — Continued.

Fourth Sergeant — Wm. Treaner.
Quarter- Master — Thomas J. O'Brien.
First Corporal — Stafford Johnson.
Second " John Carty.

Third " Charles Murray.

Fourth " Thomas Feeley.

Drummer — James McAllister.
F-tfer — Michael Martin.

PRIVATES :

Solomon Berger,
James Brenin,
Stephen Croney,
William Corby,
Samuel Clemens,
Francis Cramer,
Thomas Corcoran,
Robert Dawson,
Charles Dumb,
Patrick Delaney,
Evan Davis,
Francis Dooling,
Patrick Donivan,
John Elliot,
Dennis Fuller,
William Fitzpatrick,
Michael Foley,
John Heggins,
Patrick Heggins,
Jacob Hill,
Albana Harp,
John S. Haas,
James Irving,
Daniel Jones,
Martin King,
David McAllister,
Thomas Miller,
William Miller,
Charles Morrison,
Samuel Miller,
James McKinney,

James Meeghar,
Peter McGonagle,
John McGraw,
Michael O'Brien,
Jonah Piatt,
George Rogers,
Andrew Rogers,
John Sneddin,
James Shields,
James Soesby,
William Snyder,
John Scott,
John Slowy,
Andrew Sponsler,
Benjamin Smith,
Thomas Tosh,
John Thompson,
John Thomas,
John T. Williams,
John S. Wingerd,
Richard S. Walters,
Henry C. Young,
John Garrison,
John Geary,
Samuel Fairchild,
John Rosser,
Thomas Moon,
William Frederick,
William Taylor,
Jacob Hew,
William Morris.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3
Non-commissioned Officers, - - - . 9

Musicians, -.----_2
Privates, 62

Total, ,--..-.. 76

The Three Months' Campaign.

SCOTT RIFLES,

OF TAMAQUA.

Captai7i— WILLIAM B. LEBO.

First Lieutenant — S. B. Lutz.
Second Lieutenaiit — William DePue.

PRIVATES

Edward Davis,
David Davis,
Samuel B. GraefF,
John M. Reinhart,
William King,
George E, Huglies,
William J. Williams,
0. G. Treichler,
Jeremiah Trout,
John Greathead,
Richard Kitchen,
William Lane,
George W. Henrie,
Theodore Casey,
George W. March,
William T. Thomas,
James Scheifly,
George Kistler,
Isaac Chester,
John Minnier,
Nicholas Lusch,
Charles Freidenberger,
William Miller,
Martin Barr,
George Vardy,
Philip Heilman,
Ephriam Moser,
John Dunn,
James Barton,
Jonas Hine,
Thomas J. Richards,
David Reese,
William Delamore,
John H. Southam,
Thomas March,
Daniel B. Brause,

Henry H. Snyder,
John Fairchilds.
David II. Burkey,
David Nahf,
Elias Fatzinger,
John Richardson,
William Shoemaker,
John Kershner,
Jeremiah Delay,
Albert Moyer,
Peter Shlasser,
Edward Jones,
David E. Davis,
Thomas W. Griffith,
James M. Moyer,
William Allen,
Abraham Markle,
Charles C. Hensberger,
B. Williams,
B. A. Houser,
Samuel T. Kehl,
William R. Moyer,
Samuel Brobst.
John Landie,
Elias Macord,
J. Smessersmith,

E. B. Thomas,
Joseph Mummy,
William Schwartz,
Robert Casey,
Patrick McManamon,

F. Klechner,
William Higgins,
Jacob Campbell,
William Horn,
Daniel Trout,

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Privates,

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

JACKSON GUARDS,

OF TAMAQUA.

Company D, IQth Regiment FennsT/lvania- Volunteers.

CajHain—Q. M. DONOVAN.
First Lieutenant — Condy Boyle.
Second Lieutenant — Patrick McGuigan.
First Sergeant — Patrick Parrell.
Second " Charles Harkins.

Third *' Edward M. Nelis,

Fourth " Owen Boyce.

First Corporal — James O'Donnell.
Second " Joseph Early.

Third " Patrick McKeloy.

Fourth *' Stephen McShaeffry.

Drummer — John Higgins.
Fifer — Richard Dunn.

PRIVATES;

Hugh Boyle,
Pati'ick Boner,
John Broderick,
Robert Boyle,
Patrick Conahan,
Condy Cannon,
.John Campbell,
James Conner,
Francis Cannon,
Patrick Costin,
Michael Cavanaugh,
John Chapman,
Thomas Clark,
Thomas Delaney,
.James Deacon,
James Fitzgerald,
Condy Fisher,
William Foster,
Patrick Fitzsimmon,
Pati'ick Gorrick,
Condy Gallagher,
Anthony Gallagher,
Patrick Hagerty,
Matthew Long,
Charles Millet,
James Mulhasen,
Thomas Mulhasen,
Daniel Mundy,
Edward Morrissey,
Patrick Melly,

Michael Mulloy,
Stephen Mulloy,
Isaac Mason,
John Mooney,
Michael Martin,
Patrick Mulhart,
Francis Moore,
Charles McCahill,
Alexander McManus,
William McShaeflfry,
John McGuire,
John McHugh,
Henry McNalley,
Edward McDevitt,
James McGonly,
Peter McGovern,
Patrick McGee,
Patrick Powers,
Martin Ryan,
Michael Reardon,
P. C. IL Rooney,
Patrick Shovelin,
Michael Stapleton,
Richard Tobin,
F. A. Whitaker,
Patrick Winkle,
Samuel Walley,
Michael Kearney,
Adolphus Zearklebach.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -

Privates, _ - -

Total,

The Three Months* Campaign.

GERMAN LIGHT INFANTRY,

OF TAMAQUA.

IQth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers'.

Captain— Vm.\AP GUENTHER.
First Lieutenant — Henry Eigenbrod,
Second Lieutenant — John Goepfert.
First Sergeant — John Horn.
Second " Andrew Hartwig.

Third " William Sandrock.

Fourth " John Hoffman.

First Corporal — Christopher Erbe.
Second " Frederick Eigenbrod.

Third " Frederick Kroll.

Music — William Maettern.

PRIVATES :

John George Albricht, Conrad Kuch,

William Aedling, John Kuieriem,

Christopher Boetler, Christopher Keitel,

Larenz Berlet, John Linburg,

Theodore Burri, George Moeller,

John Foolher, Balthasser Rabe,

Christopher Gross, Jacob Kimback,

Adam Hartwig, Jacob Seepp,

Valentine Hess, Christopher Schade,

George Hess, Peter Schlosser,

Justus Haethe, Adam Storck,

Jacob Horman, Phillip Wallauer,

Aaron Heiman, Christoph Hartman,

Conrad Herwig, Augustus Rediger.
Herman Keilman,

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned OfiScers, 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 7

Musicians, ._.----l
Privates, 29

Total, 40

NAGLE GUARDS,

OF POTTSVILLE.

Qth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Cap^am— DANIEL NAGLE.

First Lieutenant — David P. Brown.

Second Lieutenant — William W. Potts.

The Three Months' Campaign.

Naqle Guards — Continued.

First Sergeant-
Second "
Third <'
Fourth "
First Corporal-
Second "
Third "
Fourth ''

-F. A. BoxAwiTz..
G. W. Garret.
Jacob Douty.
Nicholas Wtnkoop.*
-J. F. Brannan.
James Sand.
Nathaniel M. Stout.
David Hodge.

PRIVATES

George Aurand,
George Ayrgood,
William liambrick,
AVilliam Barrier,
David Baker,
George Boyer,
John Bowler,
David Biggs,
William H. H. BroAvn,
James Bambrick,
Jacob F. Beliler,
Alpheus Cheany,
Matthew Clarkon,
Peter Carrel,
James Cochran,
Wallace Cake,
Thomas Cliadwick,
J. E. Dreiblebies,
George W. Ebert,
Samuel Fisher,
William Griffith,
Henry Heiser,
William Houck,
James R. Helms,
Adam Hendley,
Israel Hendley,
John HinckclitF,
Archibald Hodge,
Silas C. Hough,
Thornton Hanley,
John Johnston,
William Johnston,
Samuel Kramer,

Wesley Knittle,
Jacob Kline,
George Knowles,
William Lawrence,
Charles Lucas,
Edward Morris,
Thomas Martin,
Charles Matthew,
Anthony Norgan,
Charles Norgan,
Thomas D. Price,
Charles F. Rahn,
Thomas Reid,
Thomas Ryan,
E. F. Sh appall,
Michael Sands,
David Sands,
George Snyder,
Leonard F. Shishorn,
Frank Seitzinger,
Henry Seitzinger,
William F. Small,
David Schrack,
Jacob Shade,
Jacob Semore,
William Trimmins,
Henry Wilson,
Patrick Whalan,
John Ward,
William Wernick,
J. H. B. Warfield,
Israel Vancannan, .
James Winters.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - - -

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

WASHINGTON YEAGERS,

OF POTTSVILLE.

Company F, Gth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Captain— R. J. HENDLER.

First Lieutenant. — Theodore Miller.
Second Lieutenant — Nicolaus Michel.
First Sergeant — John Liebner,
Second " Christian Schlitzer.

Third " George Broschart.

Fourth " William Landefield.

First Corporal — Bernard Becker.
Second " Michael Friederich.

Third " John Landefield.

Fourth " Philip Lambruschini.

Drummer — Andrew J. Snyder.

PRIVATES

Julius Bathe,
Joseph Braem,
Peter Broschart,
George Barnes,
Richard Brennan,
Reuben Burch,
William Callighan,
Thomas Drobil,
Joseph Dockweiler,
Charles Eberle,
Joseph Eick,
Ignaz Foss,
George Grass,
Larenz Gutmann,
Charles Gluntz,
Charles Gessler,
Eberhard Gessler,
Adam Heim,
Joseph Hohmann,
Casper Henry,
August Hammer.
George Hummel,
Henry Jaeger,
Valentine Kimmel,
Charles F. Kuentzler,
John Klein,
John Kleindinst,
William Koehler,
Henry Lang,
Charles H. Lukowitz,
William Montgomery,

Charles J. Murphy,
Adam Mayer,
Michael Messev,
Gottlieb Nathalz,
Henry Osswald,
Christain Prong,
Laughlin C. Quigley,
Preston Rassiter,
Jacob Riegel,
Charles Reinhardt,
Peter Rebhahn,
Francis Renner,
Jacob Saj'lor,
Lewis Seltzer,
Conrad Stoifregen.
Henry Staehle,
William Seyfert,
Joseph Sturm,
John Schneider,
Ernst Schwanner,
George Schwartz,
Martin Seip,
Jacob Scheibelhut,
Francis A. Voelkert,
Anthony Wageck,
Frederick Weitzel.
Gottlieb Wisehuk,
Peter Wollium,
George Wandress,
Charles Zapf,
Frederick Zeppeniield.

RECAPITULATION.
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned OfUcers,
Musicians, . - _ _

Privates, . - _ _ .

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign.

KEYSTONE RIFLES,

OF PORT CARBON.

6</i Regiment Pennsjflvania Volunteers.

CVjt)/fl?n— MATTHEW BYRNES.

First Lieutenant — Wm. Cusack.

Second Lieutenant — Thos. Brennan.

First Sergeant — John Mullen.

Second " John Moore.

Third " Michael Dougherty.

Fourth " Barnard Duffy.

First Corporal — John Leamy.

Second " AVm. Gaynor.

Third "■ James Burke,

Fourth " James Slattery,

Musicians — Thomas Fegan, Edward Cunningham.

PRIVATES :

James Allison,
James Agnew,
Henry Bouseraan,
Martin Baker,
John Brennan,
Francis Byrnes,
Michael Brennan,
Ethcn Crandall,
Patrick Cawley,
Ptichard Condon,
James Creamer,
James Casserley,
Edward Coyle,
Michael Cannon,
Patrick Curran,
Edward Coonan,
Thomas Carlin,
Francis Carr,
James Dailey,
Peter Dogget,
John Dorrigan,
"William Flannery,
jNIartin Foyle,
John Fitzsimmins,
William Fitzgerald,
Patrick Gavin,
James Gollaher,
Patrick Gleason,
Edward Hoary,
Brian Hailey,
Daniel Harrison,
John Hailey,

Samuel Haj^es,
William Jefferson,
Andrew Keaveny,
Daniel Kent,
Patrick Kelly,
William Keaten,
George Little,
William McDonnell,
Edward McVay,
Michael McGlaughlin,
Jam.es ]\IcLanghlin,
Jeremiah Manauge,
Daniel McCabe,
John Martin,
Daniel Mooney,
Edward Mullen,
James O'Brian,
W^illiam O'Brian,
George Prichard,
James Parks,
Hugh Rudy,
Thomas Rowe,
James Ryan,
John Ryan, Sr.,
John Ryan, Jr.,
James Sullivan,
Michael Sullivan,
Patrick Shannon,
Patrick Smith,
William AVhite,
Patrick W'alker.

RECAPITULATION.
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, _ _ - - .

Privates, _ _ - - -

2
63

Total,

The Three Months' Campaign. 41

On Wednesday, April 24, the Union Guards, of Pottsville,
Capt. Anthony, and Sclmylkill Guards, of Minersville, Capt.
Bennett, took their departure. These companies, with the Jack-
son Guards, Wynkoop Artillery, and German Light Infantry,
formed part of the 16th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, the
field officers of which were :

Colonel — T. A, Ziegle.

Lieut.- Colonel — George J. Higgins.

Major — Feank T. Bennett.

Annexed are the muster rolls of the Union Guards and Schuyl-
kill Guards :

UNION GUARDS,

OF POTTSVILLE.

%th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

C'ajofam— JOSEPH ANTHONY.
First Lieutenant — John P. Powers.
Second Lieutenant — John Dougherty.
First Sergeant — Thomas Quirk.
Second " John Shortall.
Third " James Fogertt.

Fourth " John M. McBarron.

First Corporal — John Ryan.
Second " Thomas Dooley.

Third ♦' Patrick Curry.

Fourth " Dennis Carrol.

Drummer — Thomas Smith.
Fifer — Wm. Perry.

PRIVATES :

James Brady, Michael Hillan,

Michael Boland, Martin Hamburry,

Arthur Branagan, James Kerns,

William Brennan, Thomas Kennedy,

Edward Britt, Michael Kelly,

Michael Bohanau, Michael Lanigan, ^

Francis Conery, John Lynaugh,

William Cowey, Frank McCann,

Thomas Cowey, Edward Moore,

Daniel Cole, William McGuire,

Patrick Cook, John McGowan,

Thomas Cullen, John Murray,

William Clancy, Daniel McCoy,

Robert Calhoun, Bernard Blunkirt,

Hugh Drummond, John Quinn,

Jeremiah Drenan, Philip Reiley,

Peter Devine, John Ragan,

Thomas Dougherty, Patrick Savage,

The Three Months' Campaign.

Union Guards — Continued.

Patrick Darahan, James Sexton,

Daniel Doogan, Edward Shield,

Robert Devine, Timothy Sullivan,

Francis Davis, Thomas Scott,

James Davis, Peter Stanton,

Joseph Dolan, Robert Troy,

Thomas Egan, Thomas Tracy,

Thomas Farrell, James Tye,

Edward Ford, John Toben,

Thomas Flinn, Peter White,

James Goolden, Aaron William,

John Glerson, Richard AValsh,

Patrick Gallager, John Walsh,

Thomas Hussey, Dubois Williams.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 8

Musicians, -_____. 2

Privates, ------- 64

Total, 77

SCHUYLKILL GUARDS,

OF MINERSVILLE.

lQ)th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

6'a^^am— HORACE C. BENNETT.

First Lieutenant — Andrew Liddle.

Second Lieutenant — William E. Kline.

First Sergeant — John Davidson.

Second "

Third

Fourth "

First Corporal

Second "

Third "

Fourth "

Drummer — John Jones.

John McGurl.
Thomas Simpson.
Michael Comefokd.
-Robert Hutchinson.
George Kantner.
John Matthews.
William Foley.

PRIVATES

William Bareton,
John Berger,
William Brennan,
Patrick Brennan,
Joel. Black,
James Connor,
William Chalenger,

James Kerron,
James Killrain,
John Murray,
William Nixon,
John Nolen,
Michael Landy,
David N. Morgan,

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Schuylkill Guards — Continued.

William Cooper,

James Connor,

James Cantwell,

Thomas Dunlap,

John B. Davis,

Carl Fritchley,

Nicholas Foust,

John N. Furguson,
^ William Fowler,
' James Forbis,

Jacob Ford,

George Faster,

Andrew Grant,

John Garret,

Michael Hughes,

William Hay,

John Henry,

Daniel Hughes,

Frederick Hinch,

John Hoar,

John HefFner,

James Johnson,

John H. Johnson,

John Judge,

Edward Jones,

George Morris,
George Minnes,
John McDonald,
James McCulloch,
Robert Pace,
Joseph Prosser,
Thomas Roads,
William Robertson,
Frederick Rice,
Isaac Beed,
James Schoffield,
Samuel Snoddy,
John Sutton,
Joseph Spencer,
Samuel Slocum,
John Stonehouse,
Thomas Steel,
D. Shollenberger.
Charles N. Taylor,
Thomas M. Thomas,
Benjamin A. Watres,
John Worm el,
James H. Welsh,
John Williams,
Joseph Zimmerman.

RECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -

Privates, - - -

Total,

1
64

RECAPITULATION.

COMPANIES.

Washington Artillerists,
National Light Infantry,
Ringgold Riiies,
Scott Artillery,
Minersville Artillerists,
Port Clinton Artillery, -
Marion Rifles, -

Carried forward, -

3
o

o
o

ii6

131

—

108

113

o
O

—

23 45

554

630

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COMPANIES.

Brought for-ward,

554

630

Lafayette Rifles, -

Washington Light Infant

^T' -

Ashland Rifles,

Columbian Infantry, -

Llewellyn Rifles, -

Wetherill Rifles,

Tower Guards,

Wynkoop Artillery, -

Scott Rifles, - - -

Jackson Guards,

German Light Infantry,

Nagle Guards, -

Washington Yeagers,

Keystone Rifles,

Union Guards,

Schuylkill Guards, -

23 companies, showing a

total of,

168

1528

1795

Here we have in twenty-three companies that left Schuylkill
County, from the 17th to the 24th of April, 1861, — one week —
seventeen hundred and ninety-five men; and as Governor Curtin
refused to receive any more companies from Schuylkill County,
we believe that a sufficient number of citizens from the County
enlisted in companies from other sections to make our contribution
to the three months' service, in round numbers, two thousand
men. If the other counties in Pennsylvania had sent men in
the same ratio to their population, about seventy thousand men
would have been furnished to the Grovernmeiit from this State
alone; or nearly as many men as the President called for in his
first requisition. This is a proud record for the County and State.

Of the four Brigadier Generals which Pennsylvania had in the
three months' service, Schuylkill County furnished one. General
George C Wynkoop, who served on the Potomac, in General
Patterson's Division. She had two Colonels, James Nagle,
who commanded the Gth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
Henry L. Cake, who commanded the 25th Regiment, Pennsylva-
nia Volunteers, besides other field and staff officers, from Lieut. -
Colonels down to the lowest grade.

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Hon. James H. Campbell^ member of Congress from the
Scliuylkill District, hastened to Washington with the first troops,
to assist in the defence of the then threatened Capital. Mr.
Campbell was mustered into the service of the United States, on
the 19th day of April, A. D., 1861, as a private in the " Wash-
ington Clay Battalion," formed for the defence of the National
Capital, Cassius M. Clay, Major commanding, and served in the
saiiie at the City of Washington, until the 6th day of May, 1861,
when upon the disbanding of the battalion he was honorably dis-
charged.

Mr. Campbell was. May the 1st, 1861, elected Major of the
25th Kegiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Henry L. Cake;
was duly commissioned, and served in that capacity, until the Regi-
ment was mustered out at the expiration of its term of service.

Mr. Campbell entered with great zeal and spirit, upon his
military duties ; and the citizens of his District admired his course
so much, that they presented to him during his term of service, a
magnificent sword, which cost fifty dollars. The presentation took
place on the 22d of June, 1861. The sword bore the following
inscription :

TO MAJOR JAMES H. CAMPBELL,

THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN ;

From those who believe his Arm loill prove as effectual in the
Field as his Eloquence in the Forum.

Rev. S. F. Colt made the presentation, as follows :

Major Campbell : — The citizens of Pottsville hasten to meet you, on
this brief visit from the camp to your home: and I am charged, for them,
to express their continued confidence in the manly and upright course
you maintain, as their representative, and as proving yourself by prompt
devotion and active service in the hour of treachery and rebellion, a
worthy son of the American Union.

We live, Sir, in trying times. Action, action, deeds and daring,
rather than profession, are now required to show where the heart is.
From a long continued and most blissful repose of peace and prosj)erity
the nation has been suddenly aroused as by an earthquake, to a tremen-
dous conflict — a conflict, involving its constitutional integrity, its very
governmental existence ; a conflict threatening destruction to all the
protection, privileges and happiness, which the Constitution and Govern-
ment of the Union give to thirty millions of freemen ; a conflict most
strange and unnatural, in which, as it appears, the machinations of a
quarter of a century's concealed treason have filled with fratricidal hate
men of Southern States, who, in their frenzy, led by covenant-breakers,

46 The Three Months' Campaign.

ruthlessly assail, and madly seek to destroy that Government of the
■whole Union, which has fostered them, given them whatever of strength
and greatness they now have, and which Government is even now neces-
sary to their own existence and prosperity, as a Republican people.
But, sudden and unnatural as is this conflict, it gives also occasion and
opportunity to millions of freemen, to prove themselves men, and worthy
of the boon God has given them in the Constitution of this Republic. A
grand Union army rallying on the instant, as by one impulse, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, maintaining their sodality as one people — who
will now dare to ask, are we a nation, or have we a Government ? Nay
more, this almost^miraculous response to the President's call for men and
means to support that Government, demonstrates to the world that a
Republic begets and cultures the purest patriotism. Such a Government
is worth a million of lives. The Nation cannot be maintained, no, not
for a day, on the absurd basis of State-right!? sovereignty. Our patriot
fathers. North and South, fought and freely bled, to win and establish
liberty and the peaceful pursuit of happiness in a Federal Union for the
continent. By a wisdom, bordering on inspiration, they sought to make
it indi'ssoluble, by the cementing bonds of the Constitution,

Compromise this, their grand work, their glorious legacy and nothing
on earth will be secure to us or our children. Dark will be the day,
and pregnant with woes to this land, aye, to the world — and cursed will
be the dastard race who suffer it — -when this most perfect effort at self-
government by a free people, shall bo resolved into the anarchical reign
of fragments. But, blessed be the God of our fathers, he has united our
people with one mind on this great question. He has given them one
heart, to do and to dare for it. So united, they must prove invincible !

Major Campbell, the citizens of Pottsville are proud of the firm and
unfaltering course you take, and so eloquently maintain in your place in
the halls of legislation, on this momentous issue. Be assured, sir, the
people in their majesty, will stand firm to those who stand firm for the
Union.

To me, Sir, it remains to perform a most agreeable duty. In other
climes, crowned heads have been accustomed to signalize and reward
worthy men by touching their shoulder with the sword, and dubbing
them Knights ; and this was held as a high honor for many ages. But,
honored Sir, our republican usages are simpler, and truer to the hearts
of a free people. The sovereignty of a noble impulse of grateful regard
for well tested fidelity, seeks, by the presentation of some token, to
convey to you and yours some humble, yet significant, testimonial of
public esteem.

Moved by admiration for the devotion you evinced in so promptly
taking arms, and sharing with rank and file, the exposures and toil, the
fatigues and dangers of the citizen soldiers, by night and by day — in
the streets of Washington, when our National Capital was threatened by
treachery and by assault — we, your fellow citizens, have procured this
sword, and beg you to accept, and wear it, as a token of our cordial
appreciation and hearty acknowledgment of your faith and bravery,
your constancy and devotion in the hour of our national trial. May it,
in your hands, my dear Major, prove ever true as your own heart has ;
and in bearing it for the defense of the God-given IJnion, may you prove
as efficient in the field, as you have been eloquent in the forum.

Mr, Campbell in substance said :

Mr. Colt, Gentlemen of the Committee, and Friends : — I had not

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anticipated that my impromptu visit of a day, would add one more to the
many gratifying proofs you have ever given, of your confidence and
kindness. I am deeply moved by this new evidence of your approval, and
am unprepared to thank you as I ought, I can only say, I accept your
beautiful gift with gratitude, and dedicate it to the most sacred cause
that ever called for the unsheathing of steel — the defense of our beloved
country, and the maintenance of her laws. In that cause, the loyalty of
the people has moved with power and passion. In that cause, a nation
has arisen as one man. In that cause, may God permit me to do service,
with each faculty he has given !

In accepting this token of your regard, I must disclaim the merit your
speaker so kindly attributes to me. I have done no more than the
simple duty of a citizen ; no more than hundreds from your midst, —
thousands all over the land have done ; no more than every man before
me will do if necessary. I, who have known you long and well, know
your patriotism and loyalty. If I did not, I see it proclaimed on all
sides by mute but eloquent indications. The good old colors are all
abroad.

They decorate your children's garments ; they ornament your houses ;
they wave, with tender significance from the windows of the brave
absent ones, and float in glory from every eminence.

" From mount, and pinnacle, and spire,
Unnumbered banners lift their bars.
And waving — wafting — high and higher, —
Fill all the firmament with stars 1''

Lift up the grand old banner — the beautiful symbol of union ; and
proclaim death to everything that assails or threatens it. The destiny
of this great, free people can only be perfected in union. The land may
know convulsions, and tribulation, but not a divided rule. I repeat,
death to everything that crosses the path of the Union, from whatever
cause or quarter. If interest interferes with it, let that interest perish.
If affections are at variance with it, those affections must be in abeyance.
If friendships conflict with it, they should be renounced. The claim of
country is paramount to every claim or tie. When the sons of Brutus
plotted treason, their father condemned them to the traitor's death; and
gave the world an illustration of the unselfishness of the patriot's nature.
The children of his hearth — the strong yearnings of his heart, were
sacrificed to the public good. Modern patriotism is not less exalted
than the ancient virtue ; and the events of past weeks have enriched the
annals of history with sublime evidences of devotion to country. I use
the phrase in its broadest significance. Our country is vast, but patriot-
ism is the most liberal, comprehensive, and exalted of virtues. It is not
a narrow, and vulgar provincialism, compounded of local passions and
prejudices ; clamorous for imaginary and fantastic rights of sections to
be based upon the ruins of the whole. Wide as Heaven, it can compass
all the land !

In the great conflict of the time, we are not battling for a State, but
for the United States ; not for the North, but for all ! For the perpetuity
of the government of Washington, over the whole land ; and for that
great future of peace, prosperity, and progress, which can only be en-
joyed under the union of the States. If to that future, the hope of the
present must be sacrificed — so let it be. The present is but for a time;
the future is for all times. Let this generation sow the seed from
which a thousand generations shall gather precious fruits.

48 The Three Months' Campaign.

People of Pottsville, you have done bravely in this noble cause. Your
County has over two thousand men in the field. More, I will venture
to sa}'-, in proportion to her population, than any county in the Union.
Nearly a thousand more have tendered their services and await the
acceptance of the Governor. Your companies were the first to respond
to the President's proclamation ; the iirst to face the angry mob of
Baltimore; the first to march down the broad avenue of the Capital; the
first to garrison your public buildings and barricade them for defence.
When the brave men of Massachusetts arrived from the fray of Balti-
more, your men were there to welcome them ; and wlien railroads and
telegraphs were destroyed and bridges burned ; when the Government
was hemmed in by its foes, and all communication with its friends cut
off, they, together, for nine long days and nights, held your Capital and
archives. They could not learn how you were moving to their reinforce-
ment, and conflicting rumors filled the air. They were told that the
New York Seventh had been cut to pieces in Baltimore ; that their dead
bodies were lieaped upon the sidewalks ; that your Gen. Wynkoop was
fighting his way through Maryland ; that the soldiers of the North could
not or dared not come to the rescue. But with patient faith and calm
courage — day by day and night by night — they watched and waited,
and kept rebellion at bay, until at last the New York Seventh and
Massachusetts Regiments arrived, and the Capital was saved. From
that day to this, regiment after regiment has poured down the avenue,
until all count is lost ; and the tents of a grand army whiten all the
heights of the South land ! More beautiful than the daisies, they unfold
among the Spring verdure of the fields ! God be praised for this
wondrous blossoming ! God be implored for the inestimable fruits
thereof !

As I see before me the fathers, and brothers, and wives of my com-
rades, I would say to them collectively what I would say to each indi-
vidually ; your soldiers have done good service everywhere and are still
in the advance. Under Wren and Smith they garrisoned Fort AYashing-
ton when secession swept to its ramparts — felling the forest, mounting
the guns, manning the battery, they showed themselves ready to labor
or to fight in the cause. Under Cake and McDonald they guard the
Arsenal with its 70,000 stand of arms. Under Tower they held the
road for their brethren in arms, guarded the pass through the enemy's
country and joined the force of Nagle in its march upon Harper's Ferry.
With Christ and Spencer, they encamp upon the outposts beyond
Alexandria with their faces Southward. They are still in the advance I
Better men, braver officers, never marched to meet the foe. Be proud
of them, for they do you honor ! May they return to you crowned with
victory.

During the delivery of Major Campbell's response, there was
tremendous cheering, particularly when he proclaimed '■'■ Death to
all Traitors." The above is only a portion of his speech. He re-
pudiated all compromise with traitors with arms in their hands,
and pronounced all compromisers as nothing but traitors in dis-
guise. He was in favor of giving the pirates of Jeff. Davis,
when caught, ten minutes to say their prayers, and then hang them
up at the yard-arm. ('^Plenty of time. Major Campbell,'' replied

The Three Months' Campaign. 49

B. Haywood, Esq., who was standing close by.) That he was in
favor of voting for a half a million of men, and hundreds of
millions of dollars, to crush out this wicked rebellion as speedily as
possible, and forever. All these sentiments called forth the most
tremendous applause.

Major Campbell was called back suddenly, to Washington, to
join his Regiment, a portion of which was ordered up from Wash-
ington, to the Division of Gen. Patterson. When the extra
session of Congress met on the 4th of July, 1861, Major Camp-
bell took his seat. In the course of the session, in justice to
Pennsylvania, that placed the first volunteer troops in Washington
for its defence, and to Schuylkill County that furnished two hun-
dred and thirty-six of the men composing them, Mr. Campbell
offered a resolution, recording the fact, which was adopted. The
following is a copy of the vote of thanks, signed by the Speaker of
the House, and attested by the Clerk :

XXXVII Congress of the United States,
AT THE First Session,
In the House of Representatives, July 22d, 1861,

On motion of Mr. James H. Campbell, Pa.

Resolved, That the thanks of this House are due, and are hereby
tendered to the five hundred and thirty soldiers from Pennsylvania who
passed through the mob of Baltimore, and reached Washington on the
eightee7Uh day of April last, for the defence of the National Capital.

galusha a. grow.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Attest, Em. Etheridge,

Clerk.

On the 27th of May, 1861, a beautiful stand of colors was pre-
sented to the 25th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Col.
Joseph W. Cake, of Pottsville. The presentation took place in
the square east of. the Capitol in Washington City, in the presence
of the Secretary of War, and other distinguished gentlemen. Col.
John W. Forney, presented the colors to the Regiment on behalf
of the absent donor, and Major Campbell received them. We
append Major Campbell's speech :

Col. John W. Forney: — In behalf of the officers and men composing
the 25th Regiment of Pennsylvania, I tender to you and through you to
the worthy and patriotic citizen of Pennsylvania, Col. Joseph W. Cake,
who has presented the Ptegiment with this beautiful national emblem,
their thanks. Sir, we heartily respond to the patriotic and noble senti-

50 The Three Months' Campaign.

ments which have escaped from your lips. We see in this glorious
banner of our country an emblem of civil and religious liberty. On
every fold, in every star, we read the history of the past. We remember
the dangers, the trials, and the struggles of the Revolution. It brings
back to memory the terrible massacre of Paoli, the blood-stained snows
at Valley Forge, the tight at Trenton, the surrender at Yorktown, and the
long and bloody conflict at Saratoga. We remember tliat those patriotic
men who resolved to die, or be free, adopted this as the emblem of their
faith and their nationality. In many a terrible conflict, through weary
years, they rallied round it, fighting to uphold it, and dying it with their
hearts' best blood. [Cheers.] This national emblem was not established
in a day. We have heard much, but we really know nothing of the
sacrifices and sufferings of those gallant men in their effort to attain
civil and religious liberty. Sir, the poorest man in our regiment would
consider himself forever disgraced if he uttered but the smallest com-
plaint of any want, or any denial he has suffered in a cause so sacred as
this. He has held before him the example of our fathers, their struggles
and their trials, and remembering their history, he will bear on, fight
on, dare on, until that banner flies in triumph from the Rio Grande to
the waters of the Kennebec. [Cheers.] Sir, it is the emblem of relig-
ion, it is the God-protected and God-sustained banner of the universe ;
it is the only emblem of free institutions, of man's capacity for self-gov-
ernment, on the face of God's universe. When it dies, liberty dies ;
while it lives, liberty lives. In my humble judgment, while the grass
grows, and the white clouds float in God's azure as they float now, that
flag will wave without a star dimmed or a stripe erased. [Cheers.]
They talk of that other banner, that miserable reptile flag, with some
seven stars. We want all the stars and all the stripes, and we loill have
every star and every stripe upon its folds and every acre of ground with-
in our glorious limits. [Great applause.]

Treason must die. There is no spot of earth within our limits over
which that banner has floated or will float on which treason can live.
["True," and cheers.] Die it must. It must die before our victorious
columns. It must die a natural death and it must die a social death. It
must die everywhere. It must find no foothold on this new world in the
cottages of the humble or in the mansions of the great. I am opposed
to open rebellion. I am opposed to secret rebellion. [Cheers.] If our
laws — and I say it as an American citizen, and a friend of law and
order — if our laws punished not treason directly, and sufficiently, I would
make other laws. [Loud cheers.] Sir, if there is no other remedy,
we will meet it with the bayonet, everywhere. ["That's it," and great
applause.] In this great national struggle there must be no haclcicard move-
ment. Men laud those who have been placed at the head of our national
affairs, and justly so, because they have been found sufficient to the
emergency. While they go on in well doing we will rally around them,
but if they fail to advance, public opinion will consign them to the back-
ground, and other men will lead the column. We must move on! [Ap-
plause.] There must be no backward movement. If we have not men
enough in the field, let us have two hundred thousand more. Let us at
once push on our victorious forces. Let the music of the battle drum be
heard in one continuous roll from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; let our
tents whiten the land ; let our soldiers everywhere be on the march, and
our navies cover the sea.

The freemen of the country have taken the contract to put down the
revolt, and they want to do it — they mean to do it. [Wild applause.] I

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only represent these gallant men, when I say, sir, that their motto is,
death to everything that crosses the path of the Union. [Cheers.] It is not
for me to refer to the fact that these young men from the mountains of
our old State — your State and mine, God bless her! — bared their breasts,
unarmed to the mob of Baltimore. Where a Washington monument
towered to the Heavens, they feared no violence ; they thought to meet
no enemy. Carrying this glorious emblem, they thought they were
among friends ; and though they found foes, they came here, as you
have so eloquenty described, unarmed, and, if I may use the expression,
"fluttering their rags with an air of majesty." [Laughter.] You have
referred to the fact that there was a want of care of these young men in
some quarter. I grant it. They have not been so equipped, nor liave they
had their wants supplied, as citizens of our State deserved. It is not
for me to say where the fault lies, but these men know that even the
commissariat blankets, such as were furnished to them, (and I can im-
agine none worse, ) may be w^orn like the purple of an emperor ! [Laugh-
ter and applause.]

It has been said, and it may have had its effect upon the public — I
know not and I care not — that probably England may, to advance a
supposed manufacturing interest, take part in this great struggle, in be-
half of the rebels of the South ; but, sir, I have no fear that England
will become so lost to all sense of honor, and diametrically opposed to
all her past history, I fear it not. The supposition does her injustice.
But if England — and while I am in this mood, under this flag, and upon
this American green, I will say, that if any alliances can be made by
these traitors with any of the European nations, let us know it now,
while we are in the humor. Let us go into the fight like the Sioux
Indians, who never count their foes. [Immense applause.]

I fear I am making too long a speech for a man who wears a uniform,
but let me make one further remark. There are men throughout the
South who sympathise with our Union cause. There are true men as
ever lived in these so-called Confederate States. They cry to us for help
and succor. Weighed down by an armed despotism, with the yoke of
an unscrupulous enemy around their necks, without the means to strike
a blow for liberty, they call upon the Government for arms and for means
to aid them in their struggle against this despotism. What would you
think of a Government that would refuse to aid and protect them? Shall
we not extend a helping hand to the gallant men of Kentucky, Western
Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia ? It is our duty to
afford them all the assistance in our power. If we fail to carry this
emblem into their midst, to send our eagles there, and give them all the
aid that men, arms, money, and ships can give, this great Government
is faithless to its trust. We are bound to protect them. Thousands and
hundreds of thousands of them give allegiance to this Government, and
when they demand protection we must protect them. If the Government
failed to give that protection, it would fail of its high object and be con-
signed to perdition.

Mr. Speaker. [Laughter.] Col. Fokney, I am done. You and I
sometimes suppose we are in the hall of the House in our immediate
neighborhood, and you, I know, will pardon a slip of the tongue such as
has just fallen from me.

I cannot close without congratulating these officers and men upon the
fact that this flag was presented to us to-day by as noble, as patriotic,
and as generous a citizen as our mountain land ever produced — Col. J.
W. Forney. [Great enthusiasm.]

62 The Three Months' Campaign.

PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS, MEETINGS,
INCIDENTS, ETC.

Having summed up the number of men from Schuylkill County,
who sprang to arms at the first call of the constituted authorities,
it now becomes our pleasing task to record what the people of the
County who remained at home, did to sustain the Government, and
encourage the soldiers in the field to du their duty. This page of
the record is quite as bright and honorable as any we are called
upon to notice.

The Messrs. Atkins, of the Pioneer Furnace, concluded to pay
to the families of their hands who volunteered, two dollars each per
week, during their absence.

During April, 1861, meetings were held in all the important
towns of the County, at which patriotic resolutions and measures
to support the families of volunteers, were adopted.

In Pottsville on Tuesday, April 23, an interesting ceremony
took place at the column and statue erected to the memory of
Henry Clay, which stands on the slope of the hill east of the resi-
dence of John Bannan, Esq. The iron column was decorated
with the Stars and Stripes. The daughters of Mr. Bannan
furnished the flag, and an Alexander S. Faust was found, who
supported by his men, was willing to mount the column, some eighty
feet in height. Amidst the shouts and cheers of the multitude,
assembled upon a few minutes notice, the flag of our beloved country
was placed by him in the iron hands of the statue, and it floated
gracefully in the breeze, held by the statue as a solemn rebuke to
those who would tarnish its lustre.

The following were the proceedings on the occasion :
On motion of John T. Werner, Esq., the following officers
were appointed :

President, John Bannan, Esq.; Vice-Presidents, Col. J. P.
HoBART and Jacob Kline, Esq.; Secretaries, James W. Bowen
and Bernard Esienhuth.

After some patriotic remarks from the President, the following

The Three Months' Campaign. 53

resolutions were offered by B. Bannan, which were adopted by
acclamation :

Resolved, That here at the base of the statue of that patriot whose
whole life was devoted to the preservation of the Union, and the support
of the flag of this country, the immortal Henry Cla.y, we renew our
vows of fidelity to the constituted authorities of our country, and to the
maintenance of this rightous cause we pledge our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honors.

Resolved, That while we have earnestly desired to live on terms of
peace an.i amity with all of our fellow-countrymen, every principle of
self-preservation demands that we should crush out rebellion and trea-
son, and uphold the Constitution and laws of our country.

The Kev. F. W. Conrad, a native of Schuylkill County, but
a resident of Ohio, then addressed the meeting in a few thrilling
remarks, in honor of the patriotism of the illustrious dead, the
glory of our flag, and the patriotism of the people of Schuylkill
County, in sending thousands to the field of battle, in maiutenanco
of the Constitution and the Union.

After which the assemblage dispersed with three rousing cheers
for the glorious Star Spangled Banner, and the maintenance of the
Constitution and the Union forever.

It might be stated here as a gratifying fact that no County in
the North exhibited more flags after the Rebellion commenced,
than Schuylkill. School houses, churches, machine shops, found-
ries, private residences, all were decorated by their patriotic owners
and occupants. Flags met the eye everywhere — even a tall pine
tree on the summit of the " Second Mountain," below Pottsvillc,
bore its National streamer, placed there by a gentleman stopping
at the Mansion House, who climbed the mountain's rugged side, to
accomplish his patriotic purpose.

In Pottsville, on Tuesday evening, April 16th, a meeting of the
citizens was convened at the Court House. This was on the eve-
ning before the first volunteers left the County for the Seat of
War.

John Bannan, Esq., was called to the chair, and the Hon.
Strange N. Palmer, Benjamin Haywood, Thos. H. Walker.
Charles Dougherty, Myer Strouse, and James Sillyman,
Esqrs., were chosen Vice-Presidents. Howell Fisher, and Geo.
H. Clay, Esqrs., Secretaries.

The President opened the meeting with a stirring appeal, and

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was followed by the Hon. James H. Campbell, who eloquently
stated the objects of the meeting. They were to take into con-
sideration the state of the country, and make the necessary arrange-
ments to provide for the families of soldiers then leaving us. On
his motion, a committee of five was appointed, with Andrew
RussEL, Esq., as Chairman, to take charge of the fund to be
raised. On motion of John M. Crosland, Esq., the name was
changed from Committee to that of Trustees. The chair appointed
the following persons as Trustees : — Andrew Russel, Chairman,
Thomas II. Walker, S. N. Palmer, Levi Huber, and Ben-
jamin Haywood.

Thomas H. Walker was then called upon to address the meet-
ing, and report progress of subscription. In a few earnest remarks
he set forth the duty and necessity of united action, and closed by
announcing a subscription at that time of ^3,700. Further sub-
scriptions were called for, and during the meeting were swelled to
S5,200.

On motion of John M. Crosland, a ( joromittee of Correspond-
ence was appointed to keep up communication witli the absent
soldiers, and to attend to any matters of business they may require.

E. 0. Parry, Esq., urged the necessity of a response to the
President's Proclamation, and offered the following resolution :

Resolved^ That the citizens of Schuylkill County, in reply to the
Proclamation of the President, adopt as the expression of their senti-
ments, the address now being signed in the city of Philadelphia, in the
following words : — " The unparalleled event of the past week has revealed
to the citizens of the United States, beyond question or possibility of
doubt, that a peaceful reconciliation under the form of our Constitution,
is repelled and scorned, and that secession means, in the hearts of its
supporters, both treason and war, against our country and nation. We,
therefore, the undersigned, loyal citizens of the United States and in-
habitants of Schuylkill County, responding to the proclamation of the
President of the United States, hereby declare our unalterable determina-
tion to sustain the government in its eiforts to maintain the honor, the
integrity, and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity
of the popular government, and to redress the wrongs already long
enough endured. No differences of political opinion, no name or badge
of diversity upon points of party distinction, shall restrain or withhold
us in the devotion of all we have, or can command, to the vindication of
the Constitution, the maintenance of the laws, and the defence of the
Flag of our Country."

The resolution was adopted, when on motion of Hon. James H.
Campbell, it was resolved, that instead of circulating the petition

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for signatures and sending it to the President, he be telegraphed
that the 92,000 people of Schuylkill County, men, women, and
children, are ready to respond to the Union.

Mr. Crosland, offered the following which passed by acclama-
tion :

Resolved, As a well founded sentiment of the citizens of Pennsylvania,
that should the requisition of the Government upon the Border States
for their several quota of troops be not responded to, that Pennsylvania
will fill up the balance of the 75,000 men required to sustain the laws.

Adopted.

Mr. Haywood was then called for and responded in his usual
happy style.

Repeated calls were made for Myer Strouse, Esq. He ad-
dressed the meeting, and his remarks were received with continued
applause. He was followed by John M. Crosland, Esq., who
made a few remarks. On motion.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be telegraphed to the
Associated Press of Philadelphia.

The meeting was then closed by prayer from the Rev. Mr. Colt.

A call was published for a mass meeting at the Court House,
on Tuesday, April 23d, for the purpose of making arrangements
to support the families of the soldiers, whilst absent from home
fighting the battles of their country. The call was signed by the
prominent and influential citizens of the County.

On Wednesday, April 17th, a meeting of the citizens of Miners-
ville and vicinity, was held at the Odd Fellows' Hall.

Charles W. Taylor, Esq., was called to the Chair.

Col. John Silver, Michael McGurl, George Spencer,
John P. Powell, Edward Shissler, Michael Weinrick,
Michael Weaver and Abraham Hexter were appointed Vice
Presidents.

Clement S. Foster and Abram Stager were appointed
Secretaries.

Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. F. Meredith.

On taking the chair the President stated the object of the
meeting.

C. S. Foster moved the appointment of a committee of five to
report resolutions. The chair appointed the following : Clement

56 The Three Months' Campaign.

S. Foster, Capt. B. C. Christ, Seth W. Geer^ Esq._, Joseph
OsLER, and John Quinn.

Rev. John F. Meredith, Col. Silver, Col. Maingay and
Charles Brumm addressed the meeting.

The committee on resolutions reported the following:

Whereas, A band of conspirators have armed themselves against the
Government of the United States, and have by force seized large quanti-
ties of arms and treasures belonging to our Government ; have insulted
the nation by firing on our flag, when hoisted on board of an unarmed
vessel, sent by the Government to supply its men and ofiicers with provi-
sions: and have taken possession of our Forts, Arsenals, &c., have
banded themselves together for the purpose of destroying the Union of
these States, and have by great and extraordinary means collected a
force of seven thousand men at Charleston, with the most approved
weapons of the day : have bombarded and captured Fort Sumter in
Charleston harbor, manned by a force of seventy-nine soldiers and thirty
laborers; have trailed the " Star Spangled Banner " in the dust ; have
threatened to take possession of the City of Washington; are now in-
vesting Fort Pickens with a large force. And,

Whereas, The Government of the United States have patiently borne
these numerous insults and indignities until "forbearance ceases to be a
virtue," in the vain hope that these bad, bold leaders of secession, would
see the inevitable ruin to which they and their misguided followers are
drifting. Therefore,

Resolved, That the present position of the President of the United
States, in calling on the several States for troops, to defend the property
of the United States, and re-capturing the forts already in possession of
the conspirators, meets our hearty approval.

Resolved, That it becomes the duty of the Government to use all means
at its command to enforce the laws, and sustain the honor of the country,
by re-taking all public property in the hands of the conspirators, "re-
pelling force by force."

Resolved, That we highly approve of the Message of his Excellency,
the Governor of this Commonwealth, and the subsequent action of the
Legislature, in voting the appropriation of $500,000 to properly arm
and equip the volunteer organization of the State.

Resolved, That we recognize no political party ; that we will by act
and deed sustain the existing Government in enforcing the laws of our
country ; that we know of no distinction between those conspirators of
the South arrayed against the Federal Government and those in the
North who give them aid and comfort.

Resolved, That we will furnish our full quota of men and means, when
called for by the Government, and that those of us who remain at home,
pledge ourselves to furnish to the families of those who go to fight our
battles, the necessary means for their support, so far as it lays in our
power.

Resolved, That the President and Vice-President be empowered to
appoint a committee of six ladies and six gentleman, Avhose duty it shall
be to procure a list of the names of those who volunteer their services
in the Borough of Minersville or its vicinity, in the service of their coun-
try ; and whose further duty it shall be to visit their families, and in
every particular to carry out the spirit and meaning of the foregoing
resolutions.

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On motion, the resolutions offered by the committee^ were adopted
by a unanimous vote, amid tremendous cheering.

Capt. B. C. Christ then addressed the meeting in a patriotic
speech.

On motion of William Spencer, the President and Vice-
Presidents were authorized to appoint seven trustees to take
charge of the general fund.

On motion, a subscription list was opened, and twenty-five
hundred dollars were subscribed for the families of our volunteers.

John VYitzeman, Joseph Hartman, Edward Shissler,
Seth W. Geer, Franklin Lawrence, John Breslin, and
John Sterner were appointed trustees.

Mrs. J. B. Strenbeck, Mrs. Joseph F. Taylor, Miss Eliza
Christ, Mrs. John Tucker, Mrs. Lewis Pfeisticker, Mrs.
Geo. Lawrence, Rev. E. Auld, Rev. J. F. Meredith, Rev.
M. MalonE; Rev. John Roberts, Rev. Wm. Wright and Rev.
D. Sanner, were appointed visiting committee.

The meeting closed with prayer by Rev. J. Roberts.

The spirit of patriotism that pervaded the County in those April
days, when the Government was in imminent danger at the hands
of traitors, is illustrated in the fact that an entire brigade of troops
was offered, and that gray-haired men, and lads scarcely seventeen
years of age, wished to be enrolled as volunteers, and were much
depressed when refused. Another gratifying exhibition of the
hour, was the spectacle of men of all parties. Democrats, Republi-
cans, etc., vieing with each other in proclaiming their determina-
tion to stand by the Government in its hour of trialj in sustaining
the Constitution, the Union and the laws.

On Wednesday evening, April 17, a meeting of the citizens of
Schuylkill Haven was held at the public house of R. Schuck &
Son.

Gideon Bast was called to the chair; John D. Deibert,
Henry Saylor, Henry Voute, Henry G. Robinson, and Wm.
Kreamer, were Vice-Presidents, and Dr. D. W. Bland Secre-
tary. Patriotic speeches were made, and the wildest enthusiasm
prevailed.

A committee of finance, consisting of the following gentlemen,

58 The Three Months' Campaign.

was appointed: — Henry Hesser, Henry Voute, John Deibert,
Henry Saylor, Col. T. C. Zulick, and R. A. Wilder, and W.
A. Bines of Cressona.

The business of the committee was to visit the families, and
in their discretion give such an amount of money as the condition
of the family merits. The subscriptions were very liberal, and as
an evidence of the true patriotic spirit which animated our people,
over eight hundred dollars were subscribed by those present, with
a promise of renewing the individual amounts if required.

Dr. J. Gr. Koehler, Dr. P. R. Palm and Dr. D. W. Bland,
offered their professional services to the families of the volunteers,
gratuitously.

The meeting adjourned with nine cheers for the Union, the
Constitution, and glorious Governor Hicks, of Maryland.

On Wednesday evening, April 17, a meeting of the citizens of
Tamaqua was held at the house of Michael Beard, for the pur-
pose of forming a military company and furnishing material aid to
support the Government in the crisis, Capt. Peter Aurand was
nominated President, and Benjamin Heilner, Will Higgins,
John Nefe, John Hartz, John Waters, and William Brock,
Sr., Vice-President, and S. Morganroth, Secretary,

On motion of C. F. Shoener, Michael Beard and B. F.
Hughes were appointed a committee to take charge of the sub-
scription list for raising funds. The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted :

Whereas, There is armed resistance to the due execution of the laws
of the United States in seven States of the Union, and a peaceful enjoy-
ment of the public property prevented, and

Whereas, A series of events following one after another in rapid
succession^ have brought our glorious country to the eve of a terrible
and overwhelming crisis which threatens to divide our Union and our
Government. Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That we the citizens of Tamaqua, in town-meeting assembled,
without distinction of party, do solemnly pledge ourselves to stand by
the Union, the Constitution, and uphold the laws of our beloved country.

On Wednesday, April 17, before the Washington Artillery Com-
pany left for the seat of war, four beautiful swords were presented to
the commissioned officers, by the following patriotic Scotchmen :

David Beveridge, David Glover, Jacob Glover, Capt. C

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F. Glover, Robert A. Glover, John McDonald_, David
Fulton, and Thomas "Wren.

The Press of the County was represented in the army, by three
of its members, Col. Henry L. Cake, of the Mining Record ;
Capt. H. J. Hendler, of the Jefferson Democrat, and Lieut,
Francis B. Wallace, of the Miners' Journal ; the Bar by Lin
Bartholomew, Esq., who was appointed Judge- Advocate by
Major-Gen. Wm. H. Keim, with the rank of Captain ; James
Seibert, Esq., Licut-Colonel 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-
teers; James Ellis, Quartermaster of the 6th Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers ; C. Tower, Esq., Captain of the Tower Guards,
and F. p. Dewees, Esq., and Wm. R. Potts, Esq., members of
the Washington Artillerists. The medical profession was also, ably
represented by Dr. John T. Carpenter, Dr. Henry R. Sillyman
Dr. H. C. Parry, and Dr. McKibbin. We allude to this latter
matter more in detail, under the three years' head, to show how
Schuylkill County is honored at this writing, in the field, by her
surgeons. There is no record more gratifying to her pride or
patriotism.

We also look back with great satisfaction, at the prompt and
earnest manner in which the adopted citizens of the United States,
residing in Schuylkill County, responded to the -call for men.
The Washington Yeagers, of Pottsville, and German Light Infantry,
of Tamaqua, were composed of Germans, while among the finest
companies that left the County, for the seat of war, were the
Union Guards, Capt. Anthony, of Pottsville, and Capt. Bren-
NAn's company, of Glen Carbon, all the members of which were
Irishmen. The Guards when they left, were dressed in the Gari-
baldian uniform ; while none of the men in Capt. Brennan's
company, were less than 5 feet, 9 inches in height, and some
measured 6 feet, 2 inches. In the company were five brothers,
Caton, ranging from 19 to 32 years of age, all born in Ireland.
Other companies left the County composed entirely of Irishmen,
and also of Germans — and the English, Welsh and Scotch filled
the ranks of other companies in great numbers.

Much interest was felt in the County, owing to the rapid manner
in which men were leaving for service in the army, in the relief

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of their families, and several meetings were held on the subject.
A bill was drafted and adopted, for action at the special session of
the Legislature, for the purpose of equalizing throughout the
County, the expenses of such relief. At that time the following
amounts had been subscribed, which it was decided should be
regarded simply as advances or loans for immediate use, and until
the legislative plan could be rendered effective. This, however,
does not alter the circumstances under which the subscriptions
were made. The money was offered freely, patriotically, as a gift,
if necessary, before the legislative action was thought of, and the
donors merit all the praise bestowed upon them.

PATRIOTIC FUND.

POTTSVILLE.

Burd Patterson & Son,

T. H. Walker,

J. M. Wetherill,

P. W. Hughes,

B. F. Pomroj,

L. F. Whitney,

James W. Bowen,

Benjamin Bannan,

John Bannan,

John Shippen,

E. O. Parry,

J. Silliman,

G. H. Clay and C. W. Begins

J. H. Campbell,

Charles Baber,

J. S. Carpenter,

A. Russel,

G. W. Snyder,

B. W. Cumming,
Wm. Milnes, Jr.,
Solomon Foster,
Frank Pott,
Fox & Brother,
John Clayton,

Myer Strouse & Mother,

Wm. Wolfif,

John P. Hobart,

A. H. Halberstadt,

Benj. Haywood,

Palo Alto Rolling Mill,

Michael Bright,

John T. Werner,

Carried forward,

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Brought forward,
Thomas Foster & Co.,
I. F. Voorhies,
Samuel Morris, Jr.,
John S. Morris,
R. R. Morris,
W, Donaldson,
T. M. Russel,
David Beveridge,
Jacob Christian,
Jacob Huntzinger, Jr.,
H. Rosengarten.
J. W. Cake,
Geo. Patterson,
Ruch & Evans,
Whitfield & Dornan,
E. H. AVheeler,
John Stine,
P. D. Luther,
Abright & Burkhart,
Mrs. E. Lessig,

B. Bartholomew,

C. F. Glover,
Lewis Ilerwig,
Solomon Hoover,
John P. Hofman,
Charles Boehmer,
J. G. Cochran,
Wate Windsor,

J. G. Brown & Son,
Daniel Shertle,
C. H. Hsesler,

Carried forward,

$4100

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The Three Months' Campaign.

Brought forward,
Richard Lee,
Jacob Greenwalt,
Joseph Schloss,
D. L. Esterly,
R. C. Green,
Geo. Hofercamp,
John W. Weber,
Richard B. Mathias,
William Garrett,
Jesse Foster,
Charles Loeser,
Isaac Beck,
Charles Sillyman,
James H. Graeff,
J. B. Beatty,

F. B. Kaercher,
C. H. Tyson,

J. C. Hughes,

G. Silverberg,
Samuel Scott,
Hoffman & Rishel,
John Hodgkiss,
M. R. Spohn,
Jacob Kline,
Geo. Lauer,

A. K. Whitner,
Joseph D. Jones,
N. L. Loose,
W. M. Zerby,
Stichter & Thompson,
Schloss & Loeb,
Isaac Moyer,
Adam Shertle,
Edward Morrison,
Charles F. Kopitcsh,
Milton Boone,
Wm. G. Wardle,
Samuel Garrett,
Lewis Reeser,
Wm. Thompson,
Geo. Evans,
Frank Carter,
M. G. Heilner,
' B. Reilly,
Chas. Frailey,
L. P. Garrigues,
Wm. I. Parvin,
Mudey & Bowen,
G. H. Willits,
Dennis Dunlevy,
F. Altstadt,
J. P. Bertram,
Jas. R. Shearer,
John R. Deihm,

Carried forward,

p5893
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25
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50

Brought forward,
D. H. Leib,
Danl. D. Moreton,
J. F. Harris,
G. AV. Good,
Jesse J. Hawley,
John Tregea,
John L. Mennig,
Henry Shelly,
G. W. Bell,
George Hadesty,

50 Breneman & Landefelt,
20ij. B. McCamant,
25 Wm. L. Whitney,
50 John Heebner,
25 L. Laubenstein,
50 Edward Harris,
25 R. D. Shoener,
20 Chas. T. Bowen,
10 Morris Robinson,
12 Chas. A. Rahn,
20 T. H. Rickert,
10 Chas. Logue,
10 Michael Murphy,
50 George de B. Keim,
50 Jacob A. Hazen,
10 Wm. B. Wells,
20 Nichols & Beck,
30 Pliny Fisk,
20 Gideon Bast,
50 A. S. Moorhead,
25 Benjamin Pott,
20 Robt. F Weaver,
10 L. Vastine and J. Pott,
20 Wm. Jklortimer, Jr.,
100 B. F. Taylor,
50 James Focht,
25 Thomas Johns,
20 D. G. Yuengling,
50 J. W. Roseberry,
50 N. C. Morrison,
10 Henry P. Edmunds,
25 P. W. Sheafer,
50 Strange N. Palmer,
25 D. E. Nice,
50 Wm. Matz,
20 A. Henderson,
10 Oliver Dobson,
25 B. F. Griffith,
10 John Noble,
20 Jos. S. Elliott,
20 Charles D. Hippie,
10 Samuel Lewis,
10 Levi Huber,
10 William Weber,

$7440

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Carried forward, $10,022

The Three Months' Campaign.

Brought forward, $10,022

A. Prior, 10

H. Weber, 10

Joseph E Jackson, 10

William II. Smith, 10

J. P. Sherman, 10

Dennis Brennan, 5

John Bindley, 10

Henry Chambers, 10

Thomas Wren, 50

E. Fister, 10

Mark Crawshaw, 25

Jacob Brill, 10

Charles Hossler, 50

John Pollard, 10

Thomas Thomas, 10

Gr. N. Bowman, 10

E. W. Jones, 25
John Whitzell, 10
J. W. Haas, 10
G. W. Mortimer, 10
James Lanigan, 25
H. R. Huntzinger, 20
N. Fox, 20
Heber B. Smith, 10
Benj. B. McCool, 20
Z. P. Boyer, 25
M. F. Maize, Agt., 50
Joseph Heislei", 10
James B. Reed, 25
J. A. M. Passmore, 10
Daniel W. Scott, 10
Chas. W. Pitman, 60
Charles Lord, 25
Thomas Harris, 20
Thomas Cooch, 100
Samuel Chrisman, 10
Geo. K. Smith, 25
D. D. McGinnes, 15
R. M. Palmer, 100
Geo. R. Houghton, 5
H. Gerz, 5
Peter Jennings, 10
Silas Strouse, 25
G. H. Lippe, 25
Joseph Morgan, 5
N, Wetzell, 10
J. Rabeneau, 10
Wm. E. Boyer, 100
H Boehmer, 10
Jos. Wollison, 20

F. C. Kuentzler, 10
John G. Betz, 25
John Moser, 10
Daniel Hill, 20

Carried forward, $11,187

Brought forward, $11,187

F. Olmmacht, 10
Jacob Ulmer, 10
John Kromer, 10
T. A. Godfrey, 50
Samuel Huntzinger, 25
W. H. & J. M. Huntzinger, 25
Thomas Pctherick, 100
Samuel Harrison, 100
Christopher Loeser, 200
Jabez Sparks, 20
Lucy Dornan, 20
J. Seitzinger, 10
B. Christian, 10

D. H. Schooner, 30
B. Evert, 20
L. Tousant, 10
J. C. Conrad, 20
W. Pollock, 10
Simon Derr, 25
L. Schwenk, 6
W. D. Hodgson, 10

G. S. Repplier, 25
J. C. Harper, 10
M. Mortimer, 10
J. Trough, 10
T. R. Bannan, 25
J. M. Beatty, 20

E. E. Bland, 10
H. Vandeusen, 10

A. M. Allen, 25

B. S. Langdon, 20

C. Little, 25

D. Krebs, 10

F. Sanderson, 20
R. Lee, 10
D. W. Miller, 10
F. B. Gowen, 25
H. Fisher, 25
D. B. Green, 25
Geo. Byerle, 15
F. Patterson, 15
W. L. Helfenstine, 20
F. B. Wingert, 5
J. B. Olewine, 10
H. Gressang, 10

A. W. Sterner, 15
H. Zimmerman, 10

B. Weller, 10
Geo. N. Downing, 10
Jasper Snell, 15
Geo. Bright, 60
J. Schum, 10
J. Smith, 20

Total, $12,437

The Three Months' Campaign.

Philip Alspach,
L. H. Allen,
J. W. Abbott,
Wra. R. Allen,
H. K. Aurand,
Wm. L. AUebcach,
Joseph Adam,
Boyd Workman,
Lewis Buehler,
Geo. L. Boyd,
Henry S. Boner,
Thomas E. Brode,
Michael Beard,
Michael Barry & Co.,
Wm. B. Bensinger,
George Brown,
Francis Bright,
Lewis Beck,
John S. Boyer,
R.. Billman,
H. Conrad,
Geo. W. Cole,
Philip Conrad,
Robt Carter,
Henry Clayton,
John Donaldson & Co.,
E. A. Denniston,
Wm. Draper,
Jesse Dodson,
Philip Dreher,
Geo. W. Denniston,
Peter Dodson,
Philip Dormitzcr,
Kobt. F. Ditchburn,
E. J. Fry,
M. P. Fowler,
Philip Faber,
P. D. Fenstemakcr,
Geo. W. Gowen,
Jacob B. Gardner,
B. F. Hughes,
John G. Houser,
James M. Hadesty,
Reuben A. Heaton,
Henry Huhn,
Benjamin Heilner,
Dr. David Hunter,
J. L. Hill,

Abraham Haldeman,
Mathias Haldeman,
Conrad Ifland,
Stephen Jones,

Carried forward,

TAMAQUA.

^ 25 1 Brought forward,

100 J. R. Jones,
25 Roland Jones,
10 Wm. IC. Jones,
10 Wm. Jacobs,
20 Frank Donaldson,
15 Henry Underline,
10 Nicholas Seilzinger,
25 John Johnson,
25 G. A. Klauder,
10 Wm. Krause & Bro.,
50 J. J. Kauffman,
50 A & D. Long,
25 A. Landauer,
25 M. F. Ludwig,
25 J. K. Lovett,
25 J. Lavenson,
30 Joseph Lavenstine,
25 Thomas Lewis,

5 Edward Enderline,
25 David Edmunds,
25 J. B. McCamant,
10 Chas. Moyer,
20 John Moyer,
60 Aaron Meyer,
50 S. Morganroth,
25 G. H. McCabe,
15 James McHugh,
10 J. W. Nutz,
25 Thos. S. Patterson,
20 John Parker,
10 Solomon Pfleger,
10 Thos. L. Pearce,
10 James Ryan,
50 George Pteagan,
100 William Reagan,
25 E. Godfrey Rehrer,
25 Preston Robison,
25 D. C. Reinhart,
25 Chas. F. Shoener,
50 Michael Schwartz,
25 Meyer Schwartz,
10 John N. Speece,
25 H. F. Stidfole,
25 Daniel Shipp,
25 B. B. Smith,
50 Wilbur F. Smith,
25 G. W. Sands,
10 Simon Stine,
25 M. Thompson,
20 Jos. D. Thomas,
25 Chas. Vaughn,

$1395

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$2860

The Three Months' Campaign.

Brought forward,
Frank Wcld3%
Rev. M. A. Walsh,
L. 0. Whitman,
Geo. Wiggan,

Carried forward,

William H. Johns,
James S. Kirk,
William Price,
Walter Sedgwick,
John Holmes,
R. H. Coryell,
Jonathan Hethrington,
James G. Hardy,
F. W. Richardson,
Joseph Atkinson,

D. K. Slobig,
Samuel Dew alt,
Christopher Beichly,
John Seitzinger,
John Dawson,

Mrs. Dawson,
Charles Henderson,

E. R. Breckon,
John Gathers,
R. H. Irwin,
Louis H. Koch,
John L. Geiger,
William Bradbury,
Jonathan Johnson,
Chas. Boone,
Abraham Sharp,
Roland Whitfield,
Thomas Watkins,
J. A. Smith & Bro.,
William Silliman,
Jacob Gwinncr,
John Callen,
George S. Repplier,
John T. Nicholas,
A. P. Carr,

W. Haas,

George W. Keiter,
George D. Bensinger,
John R. Williams,
H. Neiman,
William H. Jennings,
John Pollock,
James Wood,
David J. Richards,
J. A. Kuhns,

Carried forward,

$28601 Brought forward, $2950

20 Henry Waters, 20

10 Gideon AVhetstone, 15

Henry A. Weldy,

Henry Weldy.
Total,

$2950

$3020

ST. CLAIR.

$250

Brought forward,

$1370

200

George B, Wagner,

100

Thomas Francis,

Wm. E. Stone,

Thomps Reese,

William E. Porter,

Samuel C. Arnout,

Daniel Williams,

William J. Smith,

Amzi Brown,

F. Gantret,

William Gittings,

William Short,

David T. Richards,

John Jenkins,

Chas. Wagner,

Joseph E. Jackson,

Charles Lawton,

Adam Wagner,

Joshua Ketner,

Matthew S. Stoker,

James Medara,

John Brown,

Michael Brown,

Chas. L. Roorbach,

Thomas Evans,

Joseph AVilde,

Jacob Bretz,

William J Williams,

John Williams,

Christian Frantz,

George Stahl,

Patrick McCullough,

Humphrey Lewis,

Owen Jenkins,

William P. Williams,

William M. Davis,

John Cook,

James Morgan,

Jno. Lamb, $2^, Wm. Runkle,

$2^, 5

Benjamin Haines,

William Morris,

Theodore R. Johnson,

H. H. Stauffer,

Peter Smelzer,

$13701

Total,

$1767

The Three Months' Campaign.

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN.

Gideo!! Bast,
John I>. Deibert,
Henrv Say lor,
T. (\"/ulick,
W-1"'. r, . Levan,
Henry Voute,
Henry Hesser,
James Kirpatrick,
Dr. 0. L. Say lor,
John W. Koons,
William Kramer,
John Byerly,
Michael Bosler,
Wm. Gensamer,
D. C- Schrader,
Jas. M. SchTvalm,
Solomon Barr,
Joseph Dengler,
Henry J. Saylor,
Daniel Saylor,
Dr. J. P. Palm,
Abraham Saylor,
Drs. S. & F. Shannon,
Heisler Zimmerman,
Chas. Laudenbacher,
Isaac Paxsou,
Isaac Miller,
Abraham Loeb,
P. K. Wintersteen,
A. A. Hesser,
Henry Byerly,
James K. Graeff,
William K-eber,
Enoch Bindley,
Kobert Irwin,
A. J. Mason,
William Hoy,
Chas. Dengler,
Azariah Jones,

$200

100

00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
50
00
00
00
00
00

Carried forward, $1062 50

Brought forward,
C. Loose,

$1062 60
25 00

H. M. Kutch,

5 00

Jacob Major,

5 00

Joseph Mayer,
P. W. Blackburn,

2 00
2 00

Joshua Heiser,

5 00

M. Kerkeslager,

5 00

Chas. Saylor,

10 00

Erastus Moser,

1 00

James Hill,

5 00

Daniel Small,

15 00

W. A. Field,

10 00

H. B. Zulick,

10 00

E. T. Warner,

50 00

.John Warner,

60 00

Robt. Irwin,

5 00

Alex. W. Saylor,

15 00

Chas. Wiltvout,

15 00

Henry Helms,
Nathan Palsgrove,

2 00
10 00

Beneville Bast,

5 00

Adam Snyder,

Dr. John G. Koehler,

10 00
25 00

Joseph Reber,
Isaac Dengler,

10 00
10 00

Michael Cook,

10 00

Elias Dreher,

2 00

Joseph Freeman,

1 00

.J. W. Butz,

10 00

B. F. Lessig,

1 00

Wm. Fessler,

5 00

S. M. Shultz,

25 00

Abraham Hay,
Jos. A. Dreibelbeis,

6 00

10 00

Henry Hartzel,
John Barr,

6 00

5 00

Henry W. Bowman,

15 00

Total,

BRANCH TOWNSHIP.

Wm. H Hopkins,

$100

A. T. Troutman,

100

Wm. Kendrick,

Jacob F. Faust,

John Sinzel,

John Shultz,

Daniel Dilman,

Philip A. Clauser,

Carried forward,

$350

Brought forward,
Wm. L. Williams,
Chas. H. Miller,
Francis Goyne,
William Goyne,
Benjamin Kauffman,
Wm. H, Goyne,
Damon Shrop,

Carried forward.

$1473 50

$350
25
26
20
20
20
10
10

$480

The Three Months' Campaign.

Bi'ought forward,
Wm. Bush.
Thomas Cockill,
George Harris,
G. W. Ernst,
Ezra Cockill,
Henry Reed,
Thomas Cole,
Christian Buery,
David J. Evans,
George Hime,
Morgan Williams,
Jacob F. Hime,
Alexander Fink,
Edward Noble,
J. H. Reed,
Elias Kauffman,

Carried forward,

B. D. Thomas,
A. Hexter,
Jonas Laubenstine,
Michael Weaver,
Moses Heiser,
Frederick Snyder,
J. K. Burns,
Jacob Snyder,
Elias Miller,
J. H. Richards,
Theodore C. Rogers,
Abraham Trout,
Jacob Maurer,
Thomas Burgert,
Wm. INIealing,
Joseph Hartman,
J. Witzman,
Adam Confere,

D. H. Geiger,
Cyrus Moore,
J. F. Meridith,
Samuel Williams,

E. A. Auld,
Franklin Heisler,
Samuel Kauifman,
Henry George,
W. A; Knabb,
Isaac Allaback.
Chas. Nelms,
Geo. J. Hehr,

J. M. Tucker,
John Pearce,

$480
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
6
5
5

$625

. Brought forward,
Daniel Shopbell,
Wm. Rowe,
Andrew Maury,
Wm. Hacker,
Clement Alarsh,
Jacob H. Zimmerman,
Thomas Jones,
Jacob Clauser,
Duncan Thomas,
Philip Gehres,
David Neyser,
V. K. Boyer,
W. H. Tyson,
Henry Shadel,
John Zimmerman,

Total,

S6i

MINERSVILLE.

$10 00 Bronght forward,

5 00 J. K. Krcwson,
5 00 Daniel Riesinger,
5 00 Hiram Moyer,
5 00 Edward Shissler,
5 00 Wm. Haubauer,
5 00 Alexander Jeflfrys,

1 25 John Bresslin,

2 50 J. L. Ossler,
5 00 James Harly,
5 00 George Marsh,

5 00 William Matthews,

2 50 1 Thomas Kear,

2 50 'John Miller,

2 50 J M. Freck,

5 00 Edward Wernet,

2 50 1 Frederick Wiess,

2 50'Samuel Felix,
20 00 Jonathan Sheave,

5 00 jF. Schollenberg,
10 00 Evan Evans,

5 00 'John Mohan,

2 50 jB. Gallagher,

2 50 j Philip Jenkins,

5 00 H. W. Prevost,
2 50 Jacob Ramer,
2 50 B. F. Shuder,
2 00 ' Chas. Geble,

6 OO^G H. Potts & Co.,
5 00 George Yarnell,

2 60 Michael Snyder,
2 50 S. D. Piercal,

$694

$148 25

Carried forward, $148 25

5 00

o
O

Carried forward, $279 75

The Three Months' Campaign.

$279

$505

Brought forward,
David Lamont,

$505 48
2 50

Frederick Miilly,
John Duth,

2 50
1 00

Wm. Krammer,

4 00

Thomas T. Jones,

2 50

John Sterner,

2 50

Thomas T. Davis,

2 50

Jacob Weist,

5 00

William Verner,

10 00

Joseph Burger,
Dalrympble Muir,

2 50
2 50

William Bedden,

2 50

W. P. Daniels,

2 50

Isaac Davis,

2 50

George Anslu,

2 50

Henry Parall,

1 00

Total,

$553 98

Brought forward,
Benjamin Klupp,
A. H. Eager,
J. H. Christ,
T. H. Schollenberger,
E. Borda,
David Glover,
D. R. Bennett,
Daniel Hoch,
J. Wadlinger,
T. P. Davis,
J. W. Danenhower,
John Fisher,
Francis Bedford,
L. Pfeilslicker,
William Jenkins,
Thomas Jenkins,
Thomas R. Williams,

Carried forward.

At a meeting of the citizens of Port Carbon, held April 18th,
1861; the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

Resolved That the sum of one thousand dollars be appropriated for
the relief of the families of such citizens of Port Carbon, as volunteer to
serve the country in this her hour of need. The same to be paid in such
sums as may be called for by the committee of relief.

When it was understood that the County Commissioners were
about making arrangements for the relief of soldiers' families, the
council of Port Carbon, at a special meeting held May 15th, 18G1,
rescinded the above, and at a meeting held June 12th, passed the
following to cover expenses already incurred :

Resolved, That one hundred and two dollars be appropriated for the
relief of families of volunteers, and that orders be drawn in favor of
Jesse Turner, Treasurer of Relief Committee, for the same.

These sums, the patriotic contributions of our citizens, make,
with some SI 500 contributed in Tremont, an aggregate subscribed
in Schuylkill County, within a week, for the relief of the families
of volunteers, of $22,551 48. This generous contribution given
freely, and every penny of which unquestionably would have
been paid, if it had been necessary, is a striking proof of the gen-
uine patriotism of the citizens of the County.

On Friday evening, April 19, the citizens of Tremont and
vicinity, held a meeting at the public house of Weber & MocH.

Alonzo a. Livermore, was called to the chair. Henry Heil,

68 The Three Months' Campaign.

Levi Eckel, and Herman W. Luders were appointed Vice-
Presidents. Henry Heilman and John B. Ziebach, were
appointed Secretaries.

On taking the chair, the President in a union-loving and patriotic
manner stated the object of the meeting.

Tiios. B. Walker moved the appointment of a committee of
seven to report resolutions. The President appointed the follow-
ing : Tiios. B. Walker, David Oliver, J. P. Bechtel, Zack.
Batdoef, D. H. Wilcox, G. Drake, and Frederick Wer-
theimer.

C. L. PiNKERTON, Mr. Matthews, and James Foley, ad-
dressed the meeting in a brief, yet spirited and truly patriotic style.

The committee on resolutions reported the following :

Whereas, The President of the United Spates has issued a Proclama-
tion, calling for volunteers to aid in maintaining the Union the Consti-
tution, and the enfoi'cement of the Laws, and

Whereas, We feel bound to respond to such an appeal, not only by
our conviction of the whole dependence of all our business enterprises
depend on the principle of social order, and peace of our whole country,
and obedience to its laws, but being also impelled by every sacred obli-
gation of duty and love to our Government, to whose protection, under
God, we owe the existence of all our prosperity and happiness as a free
and independent people ; therefore

Resolved, That forgetting all political strife, unmindful of party lines
and names, that we, the citizens of Tremont and vicinity, brothers of one
beloved country, and that country now in danger, we hereby earnestly
pledge ourselves to use all our endeavors to strengthen the Government,
now in the hour of her trial and impending danger, to stand by our
national banner, the Star Spangled Banner, the glorious union, and the
enforcement of the laws throughout our country ; and

Resolved, That we deem it the imperative duty of all the young men
of this vicinity, to form themselves into a military company, and be
ready and heartily willing for service when their country calls them to
defend those innumerable blessings handed down to us by our forefathers
to honor, protect, and preserve ; and

Resolved, That we deem it the duty of all good union-loving and loyal
men to their country, to contribute to the full extent of their means,
their ability, and their influence, to establish the honor of Tremont, in
responding to its country's call, and as an appreciation of the liberties
which we are and have been living under, but likely to be stolen from us;
and

Resolved, That the chair be empowered to appoint a committee of five,
whose duty it shall be to recruit members for a volunteer company in
Tremont and vicinity, and to provide means for the maintenance of the
families of those who may volunteer to serve their country.

On motion, the resolutions offered by the committee were adopted
unanimously, amid great cheers and applause. The " Tremont

The Three Months' Campaign. 69

Saxhorn Band/' then favored the meeting with some of their soul-
inspiring music. The Star Spangled Banner, Hail Columbia, and
other national airs were plaj^ed, after which loud and oft-repeated
cheering took place.

Thos. B. Walker then addressed the meeting in a short and
exceedingly appropriate manner.

On motion of Adam Wolf, the President was authorized to
appoint a committee of five to recruit members for a company, and
also to solicit aid for the maintenance of the families of those per-
sons who may volunteer. The chair appointed the following : J.
A. L. TiCE, Henry Heil, Frederick Werthiemer, Hiram
PiNKERTON, and Jacob Gruber, Jr.

On motion a subscription was opened, and fifteen hundred dollars
were subscribed for the families of our volunteers.

The meeting adjourned with nine cheers for the Stars and Stripes
and Union, forever.

x\s the sons of Schuylkill County, were first to respond to the
call of the President in the hour of national peril, so its fair
daughters were foremost in the offer and acceptance of their services
as " ministering angels " in the army. The following correspond-
ence will explain the remark :

To THE Hon. Simon Cameron,

Secretary of War, Washington City.

Dear Sir : The women of Potts-
ville are forming an association of nurses, to be known as "The Potts-
ville Nurse Corps;" and they desire hereby to tender to you their
services, in attending to the sick and wounded of the Schuylkill County
Regiment of Volunteers, during the present term of their enlistment —
and they hold themselves in readiness to go to any part of the country,
whenever duty may call.

On behalf of the Corps, very respectfully yours.

Signed by Twenty-one Ladies.
Pottsville, 21d April, 1861.

War Department, ■)

Washington, May Zd, 1861. j
Miss Amanda Silliman, Mrs. Juliet H. Campbell, and other Ladies
OF Pottsville, Penna. Dear Ladies: I have been most deeply im-
pressed and affected with your communication. The feelings and patriot-
ism of the country must be stirred to their profoundest depths, when
ladies, reared and living amid all the refinements and elegancies of life,
are willing to share the privations, endure the toils, and brave all the
perils of the soldier's camp, that they may contribute to the comfort, and
soothe the sufferings of their husbands, brothers, and friends, who are
fighting the battles of the country.

70 The Three Months' Campaign.

Knowing many of you personally, and nearly all of your fathers,
husbands, and brothers, and knowing too, what sacrifices you propose to
make in the service of the nation, and appreciating fully, how much
your tender and delicate attentions would contribute to alleviate the
sorrows and suffering always incident to war, T will most gladly and
thankfully accept your "labor of love," whenever hospitals are organized,
and the condition of the army is such as to be in need of your ministra-
tions. At such time, I shall not fail to avail myself of your kind offices,
and will give such orders and directions as will make your situations as
comfortable, and your facilities as ample as the circumstances will
permit. With sentiments of the highest regard and esteem, I am, dear
ladies, most truly, your obedient servant,

Simon Cameron,

Secretary of War.

Well may we reiterate, '^ noble women of Schuylkill V

On Saturday, May 18, a flag was raised on the tower of Trinity

Churchj Pottsville, and the ^' Star Spangled Banner" was sung by

the choir.

On the commencement of the war, a prayer was appointed by

Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, for use in the churches of the

Diocese. We annex it, with an exhortation by the Rector of

Trinity Church, published by him, April 27 :

0 Almighty God, who art a strong tower of defence to those who put
their trust in thee, whose power no creature is able to resist, we make
our humble cry to thee in this hour of our country's need. Thy property
is always to have mercy. Deal not with us according to our sins, neither
reward according to our iniquities ; but stretch forth the right hand of
thy Majesty, and be our defence for thy name's sake. Have pity upon
our brethren who are in arms against the constituted authorities of the
land, and show them the error of their way. Shed upon the counsels of
our rulers the spirit of wisdom and moderation, and firmness, and unite
the hearts of our people as the heart of one man, in upholding the
supremacy of law, and the cause of justice and peace. Abate the
violence of passion; banish pride and prejudice from every heart, and in-
cline us all to trust in thy righteous Providence, and to be ready for every
duty. And oh, that in thy great mercy, thou wouldst liasten the return
of unity and concord to our borders, and so order all tilings, that jDcace
and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established
among us for all generations. These things, and whatever else thou
shalt see to be necessary and convenient for us, we humbly beg through
the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

GOD IS OUR REFUGE.— P.mZw 46.

Dear Brethren : The tumult and excitement of the hour are perilous
to the Christian spirit and temper, as well as to national affairs. To our
risen Lord, let us, one and all, resort. Our chief pastor has promptly
set forth the above prayer ; and in this awful crisis we must look to
God—

The Three Months' Campaign. 71

Still save us, Lord ; and still

Tby servants deign to bless:
Hear, King of Heaven, in times of ill,

The prayers that we address. — Ps, 20 and IS.

From Easter unto the Ascension all our Saviour's T.-ords and deeds
remind us that lie will speak unto His people. Precious consolation !
To this dear llefuge, beloved, let us turn in public and in private, that
our noble Government be sustained and re-established with ncAV vigor
of union and liberty, that unnecessary bloodshed and sacrifice may be
providentially averted; that every family may receive again its absent
ones alive and well, peace and frateimal good-will be speedily restored,
perpetual prosperity eventually secured to our whole country, and the
best interests of humanity be more and more advanced by the over-ruling
hand of our merciful God and Saviour.

Affectionately, yours,

D. Washburn,

Rector, ^-c.

The ladies of Pottsville labored faithfully and industriously. Up
to June their Sewing Society completed for the troops from Schuyl-
kill County, 800 havelocks, 135 bands, 90 towels, and 150 needle-
cases. The ladies of Orwig-sburg, Tamaqua^ and other sections of
the County also worked industriously, in furnishing these useful
articles to the volunteers. Resolutions of thanks were adopted
and published, by companies H, Capt. Smith ; B, Capt. Wren i
D, Capt. McDonald and F, (Lochiel Greys, of Ilarrisburg,)' of
the Twenty-Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, company
C, Capt. Wm. B. Lebo, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and company H, Capt. C. Tower, Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.

The volunteers also adopted resolutions of thanks to Mrs. Jas.
H. Campbell, Mrs. Catherine Mortimer, Mrs. Oliver Dob-
son, Mrs. F. L. Foster, Mrs. Samuel Mortimer, and to the
Messrs. Morris, Nichols & Beck, Benj. Haywood, Samuel
Huntzinger, Lin Bartholomew^ R. A. Wilder, and many
others, friends and fellow-citizens, for welcome and appreciated
gifts.

Among the most patriotic and enthusiastic of the citizens of the
County, when the rebellion assumed huge proportions, were Scotch-
men. We have already alluded to the fact of a sword presentation
by them to the commissioned ofl&cers of the Washington Artillery
Company.

Subsequently when the company was divided, to form another

72 The Three Months' Campaign.

for the Regimeut, which new company was commanded by Capt.
Wren, the swords were presented by the remaining officers of the
original company to officers of the new company.

When the division took place, Messrs. B. T. Taylor, W. F.
Patterson, and other citizens of Pottsville, as a mark of esteem,
presented to the commissioned officers of company H, four fine
swords, which elicited from the officers the following appreciative
expression :

Fort Washington, Md., \
. June 12th, 1861. /

To Messrs. Benj. T. Taylor, Wm. F. Patterson, and others of our
Friends in Pottsville, instrumental in presenting us with four beautiful
swords.

Gentlemen : At a meeting of the undersigned, commissioned officers
of company H, Advance Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, held this
day, the following preamble and resolutions were lananimously adopted:
Whereas, Messrs. Benj. T. Taylor, Wm. F. Patterson, and other
respected citizens of the Borough of Pottsville, whom we are proud to
call friends, have in the most generous manner presented us with four
beautiful and serviceable swords, therefore

Resolved, That we appreciate the gift so highly that it shall be our
earnest endeavor in whatever position we may be placed, to allow no
stain of dishonor or direlection of duty, to sull^^ their blades, the bright-
ness of which should be typical of the soldier's character, the keenness
of whose edges should bo excelled only by the wearers' zeal in their
country's service.

Resolved, That a copy of these proceeding be fui-nished to the donors,
and that they be published in the papers of the Borough of Pottsville.

David A. Smith, Captain.
Francis B. Wallace, First Lieutenant.
Philip Naole, Second Lieutenant,
Henry C. Russel, JJrev. Second Lieutenant.

Schuylkill County had in the three months' service one Briga-
dier General, George C. Wynkoop, with the following Aid-de-
camps: Captains J. M. Wetherill and Lin Bartholomew.
Capt. J. HiGGiNS, Brigade-Quartermaster. In Gen. Wynkoop's
Brigade were, five regiments and one detached company. The
regiments were the First, Second, Third, Ninth, and Sixteenth.
The Sixteenth regiment was organized under command of Col.
Zeigle, of York, Lieut. -Colonel Higgins, of Tamaqua, and Major
Bennett, of 3Iincrsville, and comprised the following five Schuyl-
kill County companies: Union Guards^ Capt. Joseph Anthony,
Pottsville; Schuylkill Guards, Capt. Horace C. Bennett, Miners-
ville; Wynkoop Artillerists, Capt. Winlack, Silver Creek; Jack-

The Three Months' Campaign. 73

son GuardS; Capt. Donophan, and German Liglit Infantry, Capt.
GuENTHER, both of Tamaqua. The balance of the Sixteenth was
distributed between Bucks, Adams, and York counties.

In July, 1861, the citizens of the County commenced making-
preparations to receive appropriately, the three months' troops
upon their return home. The time of the first companies expired
on the 17th, but the Government could not spare them, some being
in Gen. Patterson's column in Virginia, and the others at Fort
Washington, on the Potomac, sixteen miles below Washington
City. The term of service of company H, Capt. Smith ; company
B, Capt. Wren, and company D, Capt. McDonald, Twenty-fifth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, expired on the Wednesday
preceding the battle of Bull Hun, but the companies expressed a
willingness and desire to remain as long over their time as the
Government required their services, and they were not mustered
out of the United States service until the week after the battle.

Before company H left Fort Washington, which with two other
companies of the Twenty-Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and some artillerists of the regular army, it had strengthened, and
garrisoned when ''secession swept to its very ramparts," and
Washington was closely besieged, it was delegated by some of the
ladies of Pottsville, who had friends and relatives in the company,
to present to Major J. A. Haskin, who commanded the post, a
beautiful gold pen and pencil case, as a token of their appreciation
of him as an officer and a gentleman. The Major had taken great
pains to render the troops efficient in drill and discipline, and the
kindest feelings existed between him and the men. Many promi-
nent citizens of the County had met the Major at the Fort, and
were much impressed by his courtesy. The present was certainly,
a delicate testimonial, and was highly appreciated by the Major,
who is an old army officer, and who served gallantly in the Mexican
War, losing his left arm at the battle of Chapultcpec. A more
patriotic, better artillery officer the service does not contain.

The pencil which cost about ^25, bore the following inscription :

TO MAJOR HASKIN, U. S. A.,
From the Ladies of Pottsville.

74 The Three Months' Campaign.

The Major acknowledged the gift, in the following note :

Fort Washington, Md , ")
July 17th, 1861. f
Ladies : — Captain D. A. Smith has handed me the pen and pencil,
which you have been so kind as to present to me. It is most pleasing
to me, when I think who are the donors, and it will be treasured as a
memento of the very agreeable time I have had with some who are near
and dear to you, and for whose good opinion I am indebted to you for
this beautiful gift.

Hoping, that one day, I may be able, in person, to present my heart-
felt thanks, I am. Ladies,

Sincerely Yours,

J. A. Haskin, Brt. Maj. U. S. A.

As the term of service of the Schuylkill County troops was
drawing to a close, the citizens of the County made, as we have
intimated, preparations to receive them appropriately. Minersville
and the other Boroughs, were beautifully decorated with flowers,
wreathes encircling mottoes of welcome, etc. In Minersville the
programme adopted for the reception of the soldiers was as follows :

To be met at the depot by a procession of citizens, societies, and
thirty-four young ladies in white, under command of Mr. John
Trayer, Ciiicf Marshal, where they will partake of lunch; when
they will then form into line and march through the streets to the
hotel of Samuel Richards, where a speech of welcome will be
delivered by Seth W. Geer, Esq., when they will be dismissed.

In Pottsville a meeting was held at Pennsylvania Hall on the
16th of July, to make arrangements for the reception of the re-
turning volunteers.

Hon. Strange N. Palmer, was called to the Chair, and
Christopher Little, Esq., appointed Secretary.

The Chairman briefly stated the object of the meeting — adverting
to the sacrifices and services of our noble volunteers, and expressing?
on behalf of the whole community, an appreciative disposition to
do them becoming honor, on their return. Other gentlemen
followed in a like strain of eulogy and intended welcome, while
discussing various suggestions as to the ceremonies befitting the
occasion ; when, finally, the following committee of twenty-one
was selected, to arrange the details of the general plan agreed upon
— after which the meeting adjourned :

Hon. Strange N. Palmer, Chairman, Christopher Little,

The Three Months' Campaign. 75

D. E. Nice, Frederick Foster, Benj. T. Taylor, William
F. Patterson, Frank Pott, Thomas H. Rickert, Daniel
Schertle, Chas. W. Pitman, John S. Morris, Wm. Kiland,
Charles W. Clemens, Wm. L. Whitney, WxM. Fox, Samuel
HuNTZiNGER, Danl. D. Moreton, B. Reilly, F. B. Kaercher^
Jos. F. Seiders, and Peter S. Martz.

THE PROCESSION, ROUTE, &c.

The committee met on the 17th, and adopted the following
programme :

A civic procession, under the command of a Marshal, and
accompanied by a band of music, to form at the railroad depot, as
the companies may severally arrive, and escort them, by a short
route, through portions of the principal streets, to Market Square,
where a brief speech of welcome will be delivered, and the proces-
sion immediately dismissed.

John P. Hobart, Esq., was elected Marshal, with power to
appoint his aids.

The following route of procession was fixed :

From the depot, by Union, Centre, E. Norwegian, Coal, nij.:h.
Centre, Mahantongo, Ninth, and Market streets, to Market Square,
when a brief speech of welcome will be delivered, and the proces-
sion immediately dismiss.

The committee was then divided into sub-committees and their
respective duties assigned them, as follows :

No. 1. — Committee of Reception, to proceed to Reading, or
farther, at their discretion, and meet the returning troops, — Mt^ssrs.
Huntzinger, Schertle, Patterson, Whitney, Pitman, Keilly
and Palmer.

No, 2. — Committee on Speaker and Music, — Messrs. Little,
Pott, Fox, Taylor, Foster, Kaercher, and Seiders.

No. 3. — Committee on Stand and Decorations — to fit up the
Speaker's stand, and to provide and see to the display oi lligs,
mottoes, wreathes, &c., along the line of route.

Subsequently John Bannan, Esq., on the invitation of the
Committee, consented to make the first speech of welcome ; and
the services of the Pottsville Cornet Band (N. J. Rehr, Icail'M-,)

76 The Three Months' Campaign.

and the Citizens' Cornet Band, were engaged to furnish the music,
while the ladies went to work to make wreathes for the stand, and
for decorations along the route of procession.

The week following the battle at Manassas the Schuylkill County
troops were ordered to Harrisburg to be mustered out of the service.
They reached home during the week ending August 3d, and were
warmly welcomed by the citizens of the County. Every town was
in accordance with the preparations to which we have adverted,
gaily decorated with wreathes, flowers, etc.

In Pottsville, garlands, wreathes, and arches, bearing mottoes
and expressive of the joy of the people, met the eye continually.
We never witnessed a series of more exciting and interesting
scenes than when company after company of weather-beaten^
bronzed and toil-worn men marched from the depot up Centre
street, surrounded by their friends, and amid the plaudits of a
dense mass of spectatorvS, that occupied the side-walks and steps on
the route. The companies as they respectively arrived passed
over a short route, preceded by the Pottsville Cornet Band, and
finally halted at the Market House, where they were formally
welcomed home by John Bannan, Esq , Benj. Haywood, Esq.,
and other well known speakers. All united in urging the men to
be ready to respond in the future, to their country's call, as
promptly as they did in April, 1861.

Among the incidents of the return we might mention that at
Harrisburg Capt. Tower's company received a fine grey uniform,
the gift of the Captain ; and that the members of Captain E.
McDonald's company presented him with a beautiful sword, sash,
and belt, valued at fifty dollars. When the Tower Guard returned
home, the members of the company wishing to testify their esteem
and afi"ection for their commander, presented to him a sword
which for quality of blade, chasteness of ornament, and beauty of
finish elicited much admiration. The scabbard of bronzed metal,
bore the following inscription :

Presented bij the Toioer Guard, of Pottsville, Pa.,

TO CAPT. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER,

As a token of their respect for him as a man and soldier, and of
their esteem for him as a friend. August 10, 1861.

The Three Months' Campaign. 77

The presentation of the sword took place on the evening of
August 15th, at the residence of Capt. Tower, Mahantango street,

Pottsville.

The presentation was made by Captain Henry Pleasants
formerly First Lieutenant of the company, as follows :

Capt. Tower; We have come together to greet you once more here at
home after the three months' service in which we have been engaged,
and the many hardships that we have shaved in it with you, in a great
cause We have come now to make you a marked expression of our
respect, by presenting to you a sword. This gift, which we de^sire to
make you, let me say to you, sir, is not intended as a return for the
many and substantial favors you have conferred on the company ; but it
i> intended, as is inscribed upon it, as a token of our esteem for you
personally ; of our respect for you as a soldier and a patriot, and of our
regard for you as a true and disinterested friend. I am happy that I have
been deputed to present it, and I now do present this sword to you as
such a token, in the name of the Tower Guard, of Pottsville.

Capt. Tower responded in an eloquent and feeling speech,
during which he alluded to the scenes through which he had
passed with his men during the previous three months. He paid
a high compliment to the foreign born population^ which had
flocl^ed so manfully and promptly, to the support of the Govern-
ment.

After the presentation, which was witnessed by quite a number
of our citizens, ladies and gentlemen, the company was invited by
Mrs. Tower to partake of a collation, for which the Guards re-
turned thanks through Capt. Pleasants. Capt. P. subsequently
entertained the Guards at Pennsylvania Hall.

The whole affair was pleasant, while the tribute was due Capt.
Tower for his patriotism and self-sacrificing spirit during the
early days of the rebellion.

The following young men of this County, who went out in the
three months' service, as privates, received during that period,
appointments in the regular army : Geo. Leib, Louis T. Snyder,
Wm, a. Bartholomew, Joseph A. McCool.

A somewhat remarkable circumstance in connection with the
passage of the Schuylkill County troops through Baltimore on the
18th of April, to Washington City, is worthy of record and preser-
vation. The first blood actually shed in the war was that of Nich-
olas Biddle, of Pottsville, a colored servant of one of the officers
of the Washington Artillerists, who was struck on the face by a

78 The Three Months' Campaign.

missile hurled by a rioter, and cut so severely as to expose the
bone. He bled very freely and now bears the sear of the wound.
Negro slavery was the cause of the war, and the first blood shed in
it by the secessionists, was that of a negro, in the streets of Balti-
more. A sinp;ular fact.

When the Potts ville companies passed through Baltimore on the
18th of April, and reached Washington the same evening, there
was of course, much anxiety in Pottsville, to have reliable intelli-
gence concerning their passage through, etc. The first news
received, was the following dispatch from 0. C. Bosbyshell, then
a private in the Washington Artillery company, and subsequently,
J.leutenant and Captain in Col. Nagle's Schuylkill County Regi-
ment for the war, the Forty-eighth : ^''

Washinutcv, April \\)lh, 1801.
Arrived last niglic. at eight o'cTock — all well. ATjout GOO of us marched
through Baltimore guarded by police force, 400 strong, All sorts of
insults and threats heaped upon us. Men stood it without flinching or
reply. Let all friends of company know we arc quartered in "Northern
Wing of the Capitol."

" 0. C. Bosbyshell, 0/jr."

This dispatch was received on Friday morning, the 19th, and
relieved the anxiety of the community, in reference to the safety
of the troops.

During the three months' service, the following soldiers from
Minersville, Schuylkill County, members of company I, Fifteenth
Begiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, were taken prisoners near
Hainsville, Virginia, on the 2d of July, and were not released
until June of the following year : John C Hoskin, First Ser-
geant; Christian Evans, Enoch Morgans, John Morgans,
John Wooley.

Early in the three months' campaign, our troops suifered many
deprivations, but their wants were relieved by the liberality of our
citizens. Mr. Benjamin Haywood, Hon. James H. Campbell,
Mr. R. A. Wilder, Mr. John S. Graham, and others, were dis-
tinguished by their kindness and attention to the suiFering volun-
teers. We give the following letter which was published in the
Miners' Journal of May 2.5th, 1861, as an illustration of the
imperative necessity which existed at that time for the attention
which these respected citizens and others bestowed on the subject:

The Three Months' Campaign. 79

Philadelphia, May 2^d, 1861.

Mn. Editor : As no doubt many of the readers of the Journal will be
interested by an account of the condition of the Schuylkill County Volun-
teers, I would request your perusal of my letter published in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer of this A. M.

I have been for some days past brought frequently in contact with
those connected by fi'iendship or association with the volunteers from
this City, and Pennsylvania generally, and find from all the same tale of
neglect,' mismanagement, and peculation. But in no case have I found
anything so bad as the case of the Fifth, and more particularly company
C, from Glen Carbon, They were the first men to go along the line, durinrr
which time raw pork and crackers were their only food. With the aid o!
Mr. Dennison, a member of the House of Stuart & Bro., I succeeded
in procuring suflScient funds from a few personal friends to purchase
and forward to the Schuylkill companies, sixteen dozen underclothing,
and fourteen dozen half hose of a good substantial character, also some
smoking tobacco, and have (he promise of receiving in a few days 100
good flannel shirts from the ladies here. Had it not been for these kind
and noble " Women,'" it would have fared much harder with those
Philadelphia regiments now in the tield, the officers of most, if not all
having had to return and call for their aid.

At the instance of gentlemen of position here, I made a presentment
to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, and also to the District Attorney
that it may be brought before the Grand Jury, and such action taken as
will explain how such shameless conduct has been practiced on the
Pennsylvania volunteers. I had almost omitted to mention an act of the
most prompt and substantial generosity of our mutual friend, B. A. Wil-
der. Having met him casually on the street this A. ?»L, and in re-
ferring to my Washington experience, he at once proposed to give one
hundred dollars, which was immediately expended in procuring some
necessary food, and sent forward by express. The case of our boys
would not appear so hard, were they not placed alongside the troops of
New York, Massachusetts, llhode Island, and New Jersey, and even far
off Michigan, all of whom are well provided for, not only with necessaries,
' but some comparative luxuries, such as gum blankets, in addition to
woolen, and other matters to which our poor fellows are strangers.

I find the little arrangement called the " Ilavelock " made of white
muslin or linen, used in covering the cap is looked upon as not only a
luxury but an absolute necessity, to protect the exposed head and nock
from the effects of the sun. "Query" — if you suggested the want, would
not tlie ladies of Pottsville and the County generally set to work and
fupply the few thousand necessary for the Schuylkill boys? [Our cor-
respondent will perceive that they have already attende 1 to this matter.]
A number of prominent citizens of Lebanon went on to Washington la'^t
evening to look after the company from that locality. They previously
sent forward a good supply of provisions to meet their iiumediate wants.
I have reason to suppose the Sixth regiment is much better provided
for (although far behind the standard of the other States,) in which the
Pottsville companies form a part, and doubt not the pressure now being
brought to bear on public opinion by letters from the sufferers to friends
here and elsewhere, will in a short time compel the lovers of truth to
find it necessary to change the epithet of dirty Pennsylvanians, now so
fiammonly used in referring to the soldiers of our S:ate.

Yours, truly,

John S. Guaham.

80 The Three Months' Campaign.

The deaths of Schuylkill County volunteers during the three
months' service, were few, fortunately. They were as follows :

Capt. Riley, of Jackson Guards of Tamaqua, died May lltb,
1861, in Tamaqua.

Rudolph S. Small, First Sergeant of company H, Fifteenth
Regiment Illinois Volunteers, was drowned on the 19th of July,
in the Missouri River.

Henry G-. Yeager, aged 21 years, of the Washington Light
Infantry, of Pinegrove, died June 1st, at Camp Slifer, Chambers-
burg.

Frederick Echenbrode, of the German Light Infantry, of
Tamaqua, died June 15th, at York, Pa.

David Hughes, of Capt. F. T. Bennett's company, Miners-
ville, died June 12th, at Branchdale, Schuylkill County.

John Thomas, of Wynkoop Artillery, Capt. Winlack, died
June I5th, at the York Camp Hospital.

George Schreck, of the Schuylkill Haven Artillerists, died
May 20th, at Washington.

James S. Sillyman, a returned three months' volunteer (Co.
H, 25th Regiment, P. V.) died in Pottsville, August 27th, 1861.
He had an attack of quinsy, which changing to typhoid fever,
ended fatally. The remains were interred in the Presbyterian
Cemetery, Pottsville. The Washington Artillery Company with
representatives from the Haskin Guards and Capt. Martin's.
Company, attended the remains to the grave, where a touching
address on the worth of the deceased, was delivered by the Rev.
Joseph McCool.

Since our list of patriotic contributions was prepared ; placed in
type, and "worked off," we have received through the attention of
a friend in Pinegrove, the following statement of the subscriptions
of the citizens of Pinegrove and vicinity, for the support of the
families of the three months' volunteers :

PINKGROVE.

George W. Matchin, $100 00

John Kitzmiller, 100 00

Lyman Nutting, 100 00

Levi Miller, 100 00

Carried forward, $400 00

Brought forward, $400 00

Reuben H. Stees, 100 00

James L. Nutting, 100 00

John Hoch, 100 00

Carried forward, $700 00

The Three Months' Campaign.

Brought forward,

$700 00

Brought forward.

$1375 00

John E. Graeff,

100 00

Kennedy Robinson,

10 00

Edmund L. Tyler,

100 00

Christian Ley,

10 00

Wm. Graeff,

100 00

Henry Sponcake,

5 00

Peter Filbert, Sr.,

100 00

Daniel Emrich,

10 00

Daniel Gensemer,

10 00

Wm. Forrer,

60 00

David L. Brown,

10 00

Daniel Reed,

6 00

Josiah Jones,

5 00

Henry C. Hain,

10 00

Wm. L. Reed,

10 00

James T. Kendall,

5 00

Henry Werntz,

15 00

Wm. W. Thomas,

20 00

Wm. Claydon,

10 00

John H. Cowden,

50 00

Frederick G. Werntz,

20 00

John Snyder,

6 00

Isaac Harvey,

100 00

Wm. Lutz,

20 00

W. D. Tyson,

10 00

John D. Rehrer,

5 00

Peter Stine,

20 00

Daniel R. Miller,

25 00

Charles Molly,

20 00

Charles Duehl,

5 00

Wm. Zimmerman,

10 00

Samuel P. Filbert^

50 00

Manoah Brownback,

6 00

Samuel Fry,

25 00

Paul Barr,

20 00

Benj. Aycrig,

50 00

John R. Miller,

10 00

Total.

$1735 00

Carried forward,

$1375 00

This sum of $1735 added to $22,551 48— the aggregate amount
previously noticed — makes a total of $24,286 48 subscribed within
a week. Truly, a most honorable record.

While R. A. Wilder, Esq., the efficient and popular Superin-
tendent of the Mine Hill Railroad Company, a resident of Cressona.
Schuylkill County, endeared himself to the soldiers by his many
kindnesses, he also, found time to devote his inventive genius to
the service of the Grovernment. He planned and put in operation
on the road between Philadelphia and Washington a railway
battery, a formidable engine of war, which did much to protect
that important communication. He also invented an improved
rifle-musket, with sabre-bayonet ; and a lance with revolver com-
bination— a terrible weapon at close quarters. Although these
last named weapons have not been adopted by the Government,
yet their merits are admitted by military minds.

The following additional names of citizens of Schuylkill County,
who were in the three months' service, have been furnished us,
since the lists in the first part of the work, were placed in the
hands of the printer :

George P. Campbell, Jacob Dreibelbies, John Felger,
Edward Bock, JohxN S. De Silva, John G. Dengler, Lewis

82 The Three Months' Campaign.

B. EvELAND, in Company A., Capt. J. C. Dodge^ 11th Penn-
sylvania Regiment, and Sergeant-Major L. L. Bevan.

Errata. — Page 31, ^'Captain Edward Frane" of Wetlierill
Rifles, St. Clair, should read, "Captain Edward Farne.''

Pages 41 and 72 it is stated that the Union Guards, Captain
Anthony, were a portion of the Sixteenth Regiment, P. V, This
Company was in the Sixth Regiment, P. V.

This completes our record of the service of Schuylkill (>ounty in
the Three Months' Campaign. A large proportion of the troops
that returned, at least two-thirds, re-entered the service for the
War. As soon as they returned. Col. Nagle, Col. Cake, Col.
Wynkoop, and Col. Christ commenced the organization of regi-
ments for the three years' service, and succeeded in getting whole
companies from this County, until its record for the War is quite
a.s honorable in point of numbers, as it is for its promptness and
eathusiasm in response to the first call of the Government.

We now enter upon a record of what Schuylkill County did
in furnishing soldiers to the Government for Three Years, or the
War, and for other terms of service; and it is one of which she
may well be proud.

THREE YEARS, OR THE WAR.

Immediately upon the return of the three months' volunteers,
Colonel James Nagle, Colonel Henry L. Cake, Colonel Ben-
jamin C. Christ and Colonel George C. Wynkoop, of Schuyl-
kill County, received authority to raise regiments ''for three years,
or the war/' Recruiting became active, and during the months
of August, September and October, 1861, the drum and fife of re-
cruiting officers were seldom idle in our streets, while their rendez-
vous were almost as numerous as our stores. In addition to the
volunteer officers several officers of the regular army were here;
and did quite a brisk business. We hazard nothing in saying that
in the space of three months over three thousand men were re-
cruited in this County.

Colonel Nagle's Regiment, the Forty -Eighth, P. Y., was
encamped at Harrisburg, while being organized, and was composed
entirely, of Schuylkill County companies.

Colonel Cake's Regiment, the Ninety-Sixth, P. Y., also com-
posed of Schuylkill County companies, was encamped at Pottsville,
until November.

Colonel Christ and Colonel Wynkodp encamped their Regi-
ments, the Fiftieth, P. V., and Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, at
Harrisburg. These Regiments were only partially made up of
companies from this County.

Single companies and individuals from the County, were scat-
tered through other Regiments of the State.

On Monday, September 2d, 1861, the Citizens' Cornet Rand,
numbering twenty-five members, left Pottsville for Harrisburg, to
join Col. Nagle's Regiment.

While Colonel Nagle's Regiment was lying at Harrisburg, the
"Tower Guard," Capt. Pleasants, of Pottsville, joined it. An
exceedingly liberal and patriotic act on the part of Capt. Tower, in
connection with the raising of the Company, merits notice and
perpetuation. It is thus spoken of by the Harrisburg Union :

84 Three Years, or the War.

The " Tower Guard." — On Monday afternoon Captain C. Tower, of
Pottsville, who brought one hundred and sixty men from Schuylkill
County to Camp Curtin last April, and attache i them to the Sixth Regi-
ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and who served through the three
months' service as Captain of his Company, called the "Tower Guard,"
which he uniformed handsomely at his own expense, in that regiment,
was in Camp Curtin again, and paid five dollars apiece, or $430 in all,
to eighty-six men who have come there from that County anew, and are
enlisted, under the name of "Tower Guard," for three years, or during
the war, in the United States service. Mr. Tower had ottered this sum
as a bounty, and has now paid it out of his own pocket to men who
would enlist, as these have done, under the command of Henry Pleas-
ants, also of Pottsville, his former Lieutenant, as their Captain. This
Company contains now eighty-nine men, officers and all, being six more
than the required number. It is attached'to the Forty-eighth Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. James Nagle, and is made up of young,
hardy, and in every way remarkable men ; and it has been assigned to
bear and guard the colors of the regiment. Mr. Tower made a short
and suitable address to the Company after the bounty was paid. From
the appearance of the men, and their enthusiastic cheering while they
listened to his patriotic exhortations, we look to see this Company fore-
most among the first in duty and skill, and always steadfast and effective
around the flag of our country in battle.

We are glad to see such men as Capt. Pleasants brought to command
our volunteers. We learn that he is a civil engineer of considerable ex-
perience, and is well educated and intelligent. We could see that he is,
while modest and considerate, at the same time firm and ambitious; and
we believe that with such unflinching men as are under him, he will do
such service to the country as will bring him more worthy notice here-
after than we now give him.

In the meantime, the country may well appreciate the services and ex-
penditures of Mr. Tower, both heretofore and now also, in helping to
enlist this new Company of rare men under such a Captain as Henry
Pleasants, to serve until the great rebellion is at an end, and freedom
shall be endangcied no more.

In September, the officers and members of the late Sixth Regi-
ment, P. v., prepared for presentation to their late Colonel, Jas.
Nagle, a fine field-glass, bearing the following inscription :

TO JAMES NAGLE,
colonel 48Tn regiment, p. v.,

From the Officers and Privates of his old command, the late (jth Regiment

P. F. , as a Tribute of regard for his Gallantry and Patriotism.

POTTSVILLE, OCTOBER 3d, 18GI.

The Eegiment moved from Harrisburg to Fortress Monroe,
before the glass was ready for presentation, and on the 10th of
October it was received with the annexed letter, by the Golonel,
at Camp Hamilton :

Three Years, or the War. 85

PoTTSViLLE, October 8th, 18G1.

Col. James Nagle,

Dear Sir: — A number of your friends, officers
and privates of the late Sixth Regiment, P. V., commanded by you during
the time it was in service, desire to present the accompanying field-glass,
for your acceptance, in token of our high personal esteem, and the ex-
alted opinion we entertain of your military knowledge and capacity.

Though your characteristic modesty may shrink from any public
eulogy of your conduct and services, our gratitude and admiration will
not permit us to pass them by, without this tribute of affection and
respect.

For may years past the military spirit and organization of Schuylkill
County have been chiefly sustained by your exertions. When the Na-
tion's honor was to be maintained on the plains of Mexico, you with a
well disciplined corps under your command, sprang to arms and hastened
to the field of conflict; in Cerro Gordo's terrific fight you stood calm
and unmoved amid the leaden storm of death which fell on every side,
and by your presence of mind and courage saved many gallant men from
the fearful carnage.

During the long season of peace which followed the closing of that
war, in your own quiet and happy home, you faithfully discharged the
duties of a husband, father and citizen, endearing yourself both to your
family and the community in which you dAvelt.

But now the tocsin of war sounds through the land, and her valiant
sons are called to defend her against foul rebellion's deadly blows.
Speedily a regiment of your fellow citizens take the field, and confer
upon you the command. During the three months we served together,
though inflexibly firm and persistently industrious in the performance
and requirement of every camp and field duty, yet such was the kind-
ness of your demeanor, and your tender regard for the health, safety
and comfort of your men, that we regarded you rather as a friend and
father, than a mere military commander.

And now, that you have, at the head of *a Schuylkill County Regi-
ment—Pennsylvania's 48th— again taken the field at your country's call,
and may soon be in the thickest of the most eventful battle the world
has ever witnessed, on the issue of which the destiny of human freedom
and progress is suspended, we present you with the accompanying glass,
as well in token of our esteem and admiration, as that your eye which
never dimmed with fear as it gazed upon a foe, may more readily per-
ceive his approach and prepare for victory.

Praying that the God of Battles may preserve you in the midst of
danger, and return you unharmed to your family and friends, when our
glorious Union shall be firmly re-established, and covered with still more
illustrious renown,

We remain, yours truly,

Capt. C. Tower,
Lt. Col. Jas. J. Seibert,
Maj. John E. Wynkoop,
Capt. H. J. Hendler,
Lieut. Theo. Miller,
Lieut. D. P. Browx,

And many others.

To which Col. Nagle replied as follows :

86 Three Years, or the War.

Head Quarteks 48x11 Regt., P, V., Camp Hamilton,

Near Fortress Monroe, October 11 th, 1861.

Gkntlemen and Buother Officers, Soldiers and Friends: — Your
favor of the 8th inst., came to hand yesterday, with the beautiful field
glass you saw proper to forward for presentation, to me. I can assure
you it affords me much pleasure and satisfaction to receive and accept
this tribute of affection and respect, coming from those whom I had the
lionor to command in the three months' service. I always tried to dis-
charge ray duties faithfully, to the best of my ability, and am led to
believe that you were all satisfied with my conduct. 1 therefore, accept
the token of respect you send me, witli feelings of gratitude and thank-
fulness, and hope I may be able to gain the confidence of the 48th to the
extent you, gentlemen of the 6th, have expressed in your letter, and
manifested in your beautiful present. It is a source of great pleasure
and gratification to me to know that my services have been appreciated
by the oificers and soldiers of the 6t]i Regiment. In conclusion, allow
me again to return you my most sincere tlianks for this valuable gift,
praying with you, that the God of Battles jiiay preserve us in the midst
of danger, and return us unharmed to our families and friends, after our
glorious Union shall have been firmly re-established, and the Stars and
Stripes shall again be floating proudly over the whole of our country,
I remain, Gentlemen, Very Respectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

James Nagle,
Colonel commanding 48th Regt., P. V,-

To Capt. C. Tower, Col. Jas. J. Seibert, Major John E. Wynkoop,
Capt. H. J. Hendlkr, Lieut. Theo. Miller, Lieut. D. P. Brown, and
others.

The first Scliuylkill County Company mustered into the three
years' service, was the Schuylkill Guards, Captain Horace C.
Bennett, of IMinersville. It was mustered in, August 28th, 1861.

On Wednesday, September 25th, 1S61, the Forty-eighth Regi-
ment, P. v., left Ilarrisburg, for Fortress Monroe, via. Baltimore.
On the road between Harrisburg and Baltimore a fiendish attempt
was made to throw the train from the track. Only two of the
cars were thrown ofi^", and beyond a few bruises, none of the mem-
bers of the Regiment were injured.

After the departure of this Regiment for the seat of war, J. T.
Werner, Esq., of Pottsville, presented to it a fine American
Flag, which cost ^60. The name and number of the Regiment
were inscribed in the centre, with an appropriate motto in the blue.

Col. Nagle acknowledged the receipt of the beautiful present,
in a communication, of which the following is a copy:

Headquarters 48Tn Reot., P. V.,

Camp Hamilton, Fortress Monroe, Sept. 28th, 18G1.
Editors of the Miners' Journal: —

Dear Sirs : — I desire to acknowledge, through your Journal, the

Three Years, or the War. 87

receipt of a beautiful Flag, forwarded and presented to my Regiment by
our fellow-townsman, John T. Wkkner, Esq. We feel very grateful to
him, and return our most sincere tiiauks for the beautiful National Flag
he saw fit to present us with — the flag we all swore to defend, and I have
cvei'y reason to believe that the -IStli will do its duty; believing our cause
just, and trusting in Him wlio rules all nations and armies, we will be
able to have oiir National emblem once more floating proudly over the
whole of our beloved country.

Very Respectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

James Nagle,
Colonel commanding 48//i R('<jt., P. V.

On the 1st of October^ the friends of Colonel Henry L. Cake,
whose Regiment was then encamped on Lawton's Hill, Pottsville,
presented to him a field glass, bearing the following inscription :

Presented to
COL. H. L. CAKE,

hy a few friends.

POTTSVILLE, PA., OCT. 1st, 1861.

On Tuesday, October 1st, the Fiftieth Regiment, P. V., Col. B.
C. Christ, left Harrisbiirg, for the seat of war.

Just before its departure, says the Harriahurg Telegraph, the
regimental colors assigned to them by the State authorities were
presented by Gov. Curtin. The regiment was drawn up in posi-
tion of a three squaie, in the centre of which Col. Christ and
aids received Gov. Curtin and staff. Gov. Curtin at once pro-
ceeded to present the flag in the name of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. He reminded those who were to march beneath
its glorious folds, of the sacred trust thus confided to them, and
assured them of his confidence in their strength to bear aloft, and
their valor to defend that flag, while there was life in their limbs
and blood in their hearts. They were going hence on no common
mission to sustain the aspirations or lust for power of any man.
They were about to march to no war of conquest ; but called forth
by the summons of the chief magistrate of the nation, they went
to maintain and defend their nationality, and evidence the devo-
tion of Pennsylvania to the constitution and laws of the land. The
flag that they were about to receive would be the proof of their
valor and devotion, because upon its folds their record, with the
names of those who have earned fame, would be inscribed, and on
the return of the soldiers of the regiment to their homes in Penn-

88 Three Years, or the War.

sylvania, the flag would be deposited among the archives of the
State, as an eternal memorial of the bravery and gallantry of the
50th Regiment. Was not this sufficient to stir their emulation
and their pride ? It was, and blended with their convictions of
duty, would inspire them to the noblest deeds. In these appeals
Gov. CuRTiN was vociferously applauded by the men of the
Fiftietli, and when he referred to the fact that while they were
thus marching to the defence of their country, there were those at
home plotting treason, the attention of both regiment and specta-
tors was most profound. Gov. Curtin was explicit in reminding
the secret traitors that there was a history of treason in the past
which it would be well for them to peruse and ponder. Pennsyl-
vania was not willing, while thus giving up her youth and man-
hood, her physical strength and intellect, to engage in this strug-
gle, that her reputation should be blackened by the breath of
treason at home. He was determined that the law should be exe-
cuted against these as well as the traitors who were in arms, so
that when peace was proclaimed, all the lurking places of treason
would be purged and the country forever preserved from its influ-
ence. This is of course, a very brief sketch of one of Gov.
Curtin's most admirable impromptu forensic efforts, in which he
is always so peculiarly eloquent and brilliant.

Col. Christ received the flag for the Regiment, and returned to
the authorities of the State his most grateful thanks. He assured
the Governor that the confidence reposed in the men of the
Fiftieth Regiment would be one of its incentives to prompt duty,
and that while there was a man left standing or an arm could be
raised to strike a blow, that flag should be borne aloft in defiance
of all the foes that might assail it. It was their emblem of trust
and confidence, and as such it should be returned to the State
that had reposed it to their care, with its stripes unmarred and its
stars undimmed.

The Tehgrajph states that certainly, no nobler or more enthusi-
astic set of men have yet left the State, and we confidently expect
for them all a most useful and glorious service in suppressing the
rebellion.

As the Forty-eighth Regiment was the first of Schuylkill
County's throe years' forces to march to the seat of war, we will

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now give' the organization of the Regiment as it left the State,
and the muster-rolls of the companies. Recruiting subsequently,
added to its strength, and we have embodied all the names of the
members of the Regiment from the time it was mustered into
service, ip to the period of preparing this — over a year:

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

Colonel.— J AMEB NAGLE.
Lieutenant- Colonel. — Joshua K. Siofried.
Major. — Daniel Naglb.
Quartermaster. — James Ellis.
Chaplain. — Samuel A. Holman.
Sergeant-Major. — Charles Loeser, Jr.
Commissary-Sergeant. — Charles W. Sciinerk.
Fife-Major. — James W, Sterner.
Drum-Major. — Abraham Nagle.
Total, - . 0

BAND.

Staff-Major. -y^vLiAX^ A. Maize. William Lee.

Leader. — J. W. Souders. Edward L. Haas,

William J. Feger, James Aikman.

Daniel Kopp. Frederick Brown.

John T. Hays. Nicholas MgArthur.

Charles Hemming. Albert Bowen.

Levi Nagle. James N. Garrett.

William Birt. John Airman.

John Cruikshank. William Hodgson.

Thomas Severn. Charles Slingluff.

Charles A. Glenn. William H. Gore.

John George. C. T. McDaniel.

John Drouble. H. Wheat.

Total, ------ 26

COMPANY A.

Cap/am.— DANIEL B. KAUFMANN.
Is^ Lieut. — Abiel H. Jackson.
Ind Lieut. — Henry Boyer.
Orderly Serg't. — Benj. G. Otto.
1st Sergeant. — Lewis B. Eveland.

Albert C. Huckey.

William Taylor.

Milton B. Nice.
—John J. Huntzinger.

Francis M. Stidham.

Peter Zimmerman.

.John Little.

John S. Bell.

John Taylor.

Joseph B. Carter.

ith

1st

Corporal

((

\th

((

6th

Qth

((

1th

((

Three Years, or the War.

Company A, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Oonfimied.

PRIVATES.

Airgood, George
Albright, George
Betz, William
Brittain, Elias
Briegel, George
Boyer, Thomas B.
Brondenberger, Charles
Brittain, Israel
Berger, William A.
Betz, George
Cochran, John
Cochley, John
Gummings, B. F.
Day, James
Dailey, Patrick
Davis, Henry
Deitrich, Jacob
Dreibelbeis, William
Dreibelbeis, Benjamin
Ehrgood, George
Eveland, James S.
Eddinger, William
Eckroth, Samuel
Frederici, Franklin
Goodlieart, Charles
Goodhart, Adam
Gallagher, John
Greiger, Charles
Hummel, John
Heiser, William F.
Honsberger, Henry C'.
Honsberger, Jacob D
Hein, William Jacob
Heck, John
Haas, Jordan C.
Hessinger, Lewis
Jones, William K.
Kuret. Newry
Kurst,' Willis S.
Koch, William H.
Kramer, Coleman Jacob
Keller, Benjamin
Koenig, Franklin

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musician,

Wagoner,

Privates, - - -

Liviston, George
Leiser, Daniel
Leiser, John H,
3Iiller, William
Meek, William
McGuire, Bernhard
Morganroth, Levi
McLean, John
Meek, James
Moyer, Samuel B.
Marshall, Joel
Millei', George
Neeley, William
Neeley, Andrev^
N'elson, Simon
Otto, Isaac
Pugh, John
Prigel, George
Price, Henry H.
Perry, Richard B,
Ramer, George
Reese, Lewis M.
Rufe, John
Simon, Frank W^.
Shickran, Augustus
Springer, John
Simon, Morgan
Schriser, Henry
Spreese, John P.
Simons, Nelson
Steele, David
Springer, Jesse
Seltzer, Abraham F.
Shenk, John
Simpson, Henry
Stahlnecker, John
Stahlnecker, Obediah
West, Bernard
Wentzell, Franklin
Weivils John
Whitaker, John
Weiser, Samuel
Williams, Oliver
Youser, John F.

- - - o

Total,

105

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COMPANY B.

Captam.—J AME^ WREN.
1st Lieut. — Ulysses A. Bast.
2d *' — John L. Wood.
Orderly Serg't. — Wm. H. Hume.

Aih

bth

1st Corporal

ith

5th

6/h

7th

Sth

Augusta, Solomon
Bickley, Charles
Brown, Joseph
Barnhart, John S.
Bush, Bominick
Bindley, Alfred E.
Brown, Richard
Bickert, Sebastian
Betzler, Clemence
Bradley, William
Brooks, Joseph
Brook, Samuel
Brennan, Lawrence
Baker, John
Collohan, John
Carlan, Philip
Corby, Joseph
Copehand, Henry
Gamble, Robert
Connell, Thomas
Dorsey, Patrick
Dress, Charles
Delany, Jackson
Devine, Michael
Davidson, Thomas
Davis, John
Davis, David J.
Davidson, Wm.
Davis, Wm.
Durkin, W^ni.
Evans, George E.
Eiler, Israel
Freeman, William
Finerty, Michael
Francis, Wm, H.

Thomas Johnson.
W^M. D. Hughes.
John G. W, Bassler
Nelson W. Majoe.
-Joseph Curty.
Reuben Robinson.
Joseph Johnson,
Andiiew Wren.
George Evans.
Jacob Fkeshley.
Samuel C. Stouch.
Thomas P. Williams,

PRIVATES.

Fritz, Isaac L.
Gabriel, Edmund
Hill, Wkj.
Hoffy, Daniel
Humes, Matthew
Heaton, Cary
Hower, John ^^
Heurie, John Caspar
IIowclls, John
Harris, Wm.
Hafling, John
Humer, Wm.
Ham, Conrad
Hunter, James
Knittle, Frederick
Krebs, Pharaoh
Kleckner, Abraham
Kissinger, Wm.
Lufte, Peter
Langton, Peter
Lamb, Mark
Lucia, John
Long, Jackson
Littlehales, Thos. C.
Lefller, Jonathan C.
Moyer, Lawrence
Molsen, David W.
Marsdcn, George
McKerney, Anthony
McLaughlin, Michael
Mack, Thos.
Mayer, Rolandus
Prince, Elbridge
Prince, Alexander
Reese, L. M.

92 Three Years, or the War.

Company B, Forty-Eighth Kegiment— Continued,

Hoot, Daniel Thomas, David
Rehrig, Joseph • Taylor, Thomas,

Robson, John Vincent, John

Rider, James Williams, John W,

Rush, Adam Wadsworth, John

Shuck, Paul Ward, Wm. H.

.Shilterhowor, Nicholas Watkins, John

Sefrin, Joseph Williams, John

Stanley, Samuel Williams, Thos. G.

Schaeffer, Solomon Yost, Philip.
Schultz, Peter

Commissioned Officers, - - « - . 3
Non-commissioned, - - - . - - 13

INIusicians, ----~__2

Wagoner, ----.... \
Privates, - - ~ -^- - -92

Total, ------- m

COMPANY C.

C'6/^/am.— HENRY PLEASANTS.

1st Lieut. — George W. Gowen.

Id Lieut. — Thomas F. Fitzsimmons.

\st Sergeant. — Ciiaeles W. Erdman.

"M " William Clark.

i^d <■'■ Charles H. Miller.

^th " Oliver C. Hatch.

Color Sergeant. — Arthur P. Hatch.

\st Corporal. — David O'Brien.

2^ " James Hood.

od " James Gribens.

4/A " James Clark.

^tJi " Edward Monagher.

^th " John Dooley.

"ith " Samuel Lewis.

'^th " Obadiah Stollnecker.

Drummer. — Lewis Howard.

Fifer. — William D. Williams.

Wagoner. — Theodore Titus.

PRIVATES.

Bowman, Peter Daubert, William J.

Brennen, Edward Dersh, Henry

Brcnneu, Mark , Dougherty, John

Brennen, William Dudley, William

Burk, Thomas Began, William

Birt, William Earley, Henry

Condron, Micliael Eppinger, John

Conner, James Fitzpatrick, William

Cummings, Patrick Flagherty, Daniel

Daniels, Edward Frazer, Albert T.

Three Years, or the War.

Company C, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Geiger, Jonas
Gettler, Barney
Graham, Gilbert
Hanahoe, Thomas
Hurst, Henry
Hulsey, Wm. H.-
Hamilton, David
Horn, James
Haines, Jacob
Hatch, George W.
Henry, Casper
Hitchings, George
Harrison, John
Harrison, Samuel
Jones, Jacob
Jones, William
Jones, John
Jones, John Wc
Lowe, James
Larkin, William
Liviston, William
McAvoy, Thomas
Morgan, Edward
McFarrell, William
McGloughlin, Michael
Merlin, Henry
Mullin, John
Murray, John
McElroth, James

Commissioned Officers,
Non-Commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Wagoner, - - - •
Privates, - - . -

McElroth, Robert
Murphy, John
Nicholson, James
O'Connel, Henry
Owens, Thomas
Owens, Edward
Pickfert, Hugh
Phalen, Thos.
Quigley, Lewis C.
Rouch, Ed.
Rodgers, William
Roberts, James
Rorety, John 0.
Rudge, Henry
Richard, Daniel
Strauser, Solomon
Smith, Jacob
Smith, Francis S.
Scott, Andrew
Shelby, John
Toben, Martin
Toben, Richard
Thomas, William
W^oll, John
Whalen, Thomas
Walker, Charles
Weiser, Henry
Weiser, John
Weiser, Samuel

13
2

Total, -------- 97

COMPANY D.

Captain.— Dmmi. NAGLE.

1st Lieut. — Wm. W. Potts.

2d " Charles Kleckner.

Orderly Serg't. — Henry P. Owens,

'2d " James K. Helms."

8cZ " Alex. Fox.

4:th ** Peter C. Krieger.

bth ** William Bambrick.

1st Corporal. — George Ramer.

2d <' Leonard F. Schrisron.

3c? «* James Evans.

4:th •* William Timmons.

Three Years, or the "War.

Company D, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

bth Corporal. — Peter Fisher.

Qth " EuwARD Reichard.

1th " Israel Vancannon.

^th " Henry E. Stichter.

PRIVATES.

Aitz, George
Ames, Walter P.
Aurand, Charles
Brenneu, Sr., James
Rambrick, John
Bambrick, James
Rowmau, George
Reckman, Pliilip
Railey, Mattis
Rreunen, Jr., James
Rcrkholter, Henry
Rixler, Elias
Rixler, John
Cantner, Philip Henrj
Derr, John W.
Derr, Levi
Derr, John H.
Dctreich, Jonathan
Dorward, Franklin
Derr, Jacob
Eister, Solomon
Gi*aeff, Henry
Gottshall, Iienry
Grim, Horatio
Houck, William
Heibner, John W.
Houck, Franklin
Harl'z, Peter
Hinan, Mattis
Hunchinger, John
Hartz, George
Harris, William
James, George W.
Kinney, Thomas
Koble, Elias
Kantner, Philip H.
Kessler, John
Klock,, Andrew
Krieger, David T.
Kline, Isaiah

Commissioned Olficers,

Non-commissioned,

Musicians,

Teamster,

Privates, - - -

Kline, J arret t
Kline, George W.
Koons, Joseph
Kline, Charles
Koons, Jacob
Liercett, John
Lenhart, Edward
Lindenmutli, Charles W.
Mangham, James
Morgans, James H.
Miller, Charles
Morgani'antz, Levi
Nunemacher, John
Norringer, Albert R.
Otto, Lotto
Quinn, Lewis
Ryan, William
Rothenberger, Henry
Reese, William
Shertle, George
Sullivan, John
Smith, William H.
Smith, David
Shaeffer, William
Shaeffer, Mat.
StcUwagon, George W.
Seamon, Addison S.
Spear, Andrew
Stichter, Samuel
Tobergty, Augustus
Ungstadt, Solomon
Wolf, Daniel
Whalen, Thomas
Wildt, Christian
Weldy, Daniel
Williamson, Henry
Werner, Jacob F.
Walhaller, Henry
Yarnall, Solomon

3
- - 13

- - - O

- - 1

- 79

Total,

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COMPANY E.

Captain.—

-WILLIAM WINLACK,

\st Lieut. -

-Wi

LLIAN CULLBN.

2d "

Thomas Bohannan.

Orderly Serg' t

— Joseph II. Fisukk.

((

John Seward.

((

Johnson Stafford,

4th

((

Thomas Tosh.

6th

William Trainer.

1st Corp

oral.

— John McElrath.

James Brennen.

Michael Landy.

iih

Samuel Clemens.

bth

James May.

6th

William Clemens.

1th

David McAllister

8ih

((

William Macky.

Drummer.

— George Latham.

Fifer.—Ji

)HN

Cameron.

Wagoner.

-Jo

HN McSORELY.

PRIVATES.

Barlow, Allred
Burger, James
Brown, James
Becker, John
Brennen, John
Bohannan, Michael
Beddall, Samuel A.
Breslin, James
Brennen, Michael
Brennen, Thomas
Burns, John
Breadbent, John
Buler, Lewis
Berger, Solomon
Burns, John
Coogan, Richard
Cressou, Peter
Canfield, Jefferson
Devine, Michael
Doe, John
Dooling, Henry
Delany, Michael
Dooly, John
Duneho, John
Ervin, James
Ferguson, John
Farrel, James
Greener, James
Garrison, John
Griffith, Thomas
Greiner, John
Hyland, William

Henry, Friiz
Henry, Gottleib
Jones, John
Jenkins, William
•Jefferson, William
Knight, Elijah
Lord, Joseph
Lord, Henry
Lynch, Patrick
McLaughlin, James
Morgan, David
Morgan, William
Mercer, John
Mc Freely, John
McNeely, Sr., George
McNeely, Jr., George
Major, Thomas
Martin. John
Murphy, Edward
Miller, James
Miller, William
McGrath, John
McRay, Ptobert
McSorby, John
Morse, William
McAlister, Michael
Morgan, W^illiam
Penman, John
Penman, Robert
Poet, Michael
Purcil, James
Poet, William

Three Years, or the War.

Company E, Forty- Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Patton, Robert
Rogers, Patrick
Robertson, William
Rogers, James
Reedj, Daniel E.
Seward, Samuel
Sunderland, John
Smith, James

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoner, . _ _

Privates,

Schrader, John
Simpson, James
Spousler, John
Trainer, Alfred
Thompson, Robert
Williams, David
Walker, John

Total,

- 98

COMPANY F.

Caj^/am.— JOSEPH H. HOSKING.
1st Lieut. — Henry James.
2d " John L. Williams.
1st Serjeant. — John W. .Jenkins.

William E. Taylor.

Chas. W. Haines.

Uh ''

James A. Easton.

. bth "

Henry Reese.

1st Corporal. — Henry Jenkins.

Jeremiah Griffiths.

Wm. S. Redner.

4th "

William Hopkins.

5^/j '*

Joseph Gould.

6th

George N. Douden.

7th *'

David GRirnxHs.

Miisician.-

—John Lawrence.

David Fulton.

PRIVATES.

Andrews, Jamea

Francis, Richard

Adam, Albert

Glenn, James,

Brown, John

Griffith. Edward

Boyer, Charles

Haynes, Gyrus

Brereton, William

Jones, Francis

Ball, William

Jones, William T.

Devlin, Jr., John

Jenkins, William

Dando, Isaac

Killrain, Michael

Devine, John

Labenburg, William

Dunkerly, Samuel

Leffler, Jonathan

Edwards, George

Lencia, John

Evans, James W.

Littlehales, Richard

Fulton, William

Ley&horn, Thomas

Three Years, or the War.

Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Lloyd, Thomas Straw, William

Mooney, Thomas Starr, John

Monaghan, Patrick ' Thomas, Thomas J.

Morrissey, John Thomas, Thomas

McGee, John Taggart, Stephen

Morrison, John J, Treisbach, Charles

Owens, Morgan P. ThDmas, Evan

Padden, Robert D. Taylor, Thomas E.

Powell, John Williams, Richard

Pugh, Edward G. WVlls, William J.

Paully, James Wallace, Robert

Phillips, John Williams, William D.

Quinn, Patrick Wilson, John

Quinn, Peter Wolff, Daniel S.
Sedgwick, William

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3
Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - - 12

Musicians, __-.---2

Privates, - - - - - - - - 5')

Total, - 72

COMPANY G.

Captain.— VlllLi^ NAGLE.
\st Lieut. — Cyrus Shketz.
2d " Oliver C. Bosbyshell.
1st Sergeant. — Henry C. Jackson,
2c? " Richard M. Jones.

3(? *' Robert Smith.

4:th " Theodore F. Patterson,

bth " Reuben Reeser.

1^^ Corporal. — -Tames C. Neis.
2c? " William Aitman.

od " Curtis C. Pollock.

4fA <' Charles F, Kuentzlek,

bth " Charles B. Evans.

Qth " George Farne.

7th " William Martin.

Sth " Edward H. Sillyman.

Drummer. — Samuel E. Banghart.
Fifer. — James Auman.
Wagoner. — Henry Hablery.

PRIVATES.

Atkinson, William P.
Brennan, Lawrence
Brennan, Michael
Brown, David P.
Briffht, Louis A.

Beidleman, William A.
Bell, Joseph
Brown, John R.
Berger, Mathusalem
Becker, John

Three Years, or the ^YAR.

Company G; Fouty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Maurer, William
Murphy, Edward
Mark, Joel A.
Myer, George
Mason, William
Muldowny, John
McCabe, Edward
Nagle, Henr}' AV,
Nash, Patrick
Nagle, Abraham
Owens, Edward F,
Pugh, John
Price, William
Quinn, Louis
Rogers, John
Jleed, Robert
Ryan, Patrick
Reed, Adam
Raush, Valentine G
Reed^ Josiali A.
Smith, John H.
Smith, William
Shaw, John
Stevenson, William
Sykes, Edward
Strauser, William
Schreffler, Monroe T.
Small, Daniel
Timmons, Charles
Toben, John
Traub, Jr., Gforge
Wallingham, Jonathan
Wonders, John
Yerger, Henry

Burnish, Henry
Betz, Joel
Cummings, Patrick
Clark, Michael
Clark, Thomas
*Clemens, John S.
Chadwick, James
Donne, Daniel
Deihl, Philip L.
Delaney, John
Doolin, Henry
Dentzer, Henry
Eberly, David
Evans, Clement
Flanagan, Edward
Fame, John
Freeman, V/illiam
Galligen, John
Gillingham, William P.
Glassmire, Washington J,
Grace, John
Govern, Jr., Alexander
Galligen, Andrew
Hodgson, John P.
Hutton, John
Humble, John
fHazzard, Charles H.
Jllardell, William H.
Jones, John W.
Kuentzler, John P.
Krebs, Henry
Kagel, John
^Loeser, Jr., Charles
Muldowney, James

"John 8. Clemens, appointed Orderly to Col. Nagle.

-iCharles H. Hazzard, appointed Clerk to Major General Mansfield.

:S;William H. Hardell, appointed Hospital Steward.

^Charles Loeser, Jr., appointed Sergeant Major.

Commissioned Officers, ----- 3

Non-commissioned Ofhcers, 13

Musicians, -----.. _2
Wagoner, --.--_-_]
Privates, - 78

Total, - 97

C 0 31 P A N Y H .

C'f/y>/am.— JOSEPH A. GILMOUR.

Is^ Lieut. WiLLIA.M J, HiNKLE.

2 J " Edward C. Baird.

Three Years, or the War.

Company H, Forty -Eighth B^EGiMENT—Cooitinued.

1st Serffeant.-^DAyiiBiu D. McGinnes.

2c? " Samuel M. Rucii.

3c? " Alexander S. Bowen.

^th " Thomas J. Rose.

^th " William T. Garhett.

1st Corporal. — Chaeles C. Hinkle.

2^/ " Samuel B, Laubenstein.

3c? '* James R. Hetherixgton.

4/A " Raymond A. Jenkins.

^th " Alba C. Thompson.

Gth '* William Brown.

7tk " David B. Brown.

8th " Joseph Reed.

Musicimis. — Andrew J. Snyder.

" Martin Acorn.

Wagoner. — Charles Kyer.

PRIVATES.

Adams, Albert
Aurand, Lewis
Baer, John
Benedict, Jolin E.
Bennie, Crawford
Bensteel, Henry
Berlie, William H.
Christian, George M.
Dreibelbeis, William H.
Davis, William
Dreisbach, Charles
Edwards, Richard
Eberly, Charles
Eisenhuth, George T,
Everly, David
Engel, John
Focht, Charles
Fryberger, Samuel
Fery, Henry
Forney, Richard
Forney, Alfred C.
Hartline, Albert
Howell, John M.
Hopkins, Richard
Huber, William
HeflFner, John H. C.
Herbert, Anthony
Kalbach, John E.
Kimmel, Valentine
Krebs, Francis D.
Lloyd, William
Leib, Franklin
Leib, Edward M;
Mowry, George W.
Mathews, Henry C.

L.ofO.

Kleinginna, John F.
Kelly, Thomas
Kohler, Benjamin
Kimmel, William V. B.
Knarr, Charles
Lauer, Daniel
Loeser, William
Lloyd, William A.
Lloyd, William D.
Lloyd, Horace
McGuire, Bernhard
Marshall, James
Millet, William A.
Miller, Conrad
Moser, Daniel
Mulholland, James
Metz, Joseph
Metz, Charles
Marshall, James
Metzinger, Joseph
Nagle, William
Norrigan, Charles
Ohnmacht, Daniel
Petit, Samuel
Parensteel, Henry
Reese, August
Reese, William
Radelberger, Peter
Ray, John W.
Scott, Michael
Sillyman, Thomas H.
Schmehl, Isaac L.
Schilthorn, George
Sponsaler, John A.
Shay, Henry

100

Three Years, or the War.

Company H, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Smith, David A.
Smith, Peter
Wentzell, James
Williams, Henry
Wildermuth, Josiah F.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, - - -

Wagoner,

Privates, - - -

Total,

Weise, Joseph
Wagner, Jacob
Whitman, Jacob A.
W inlaw, John
Weise, Jacob

COMPANY I.

Captain.— ZOYm R. PORTERr "
1st Lieut. — GrEOKGE H. Gbessang.
2d izett^— Michael M. Kistler.
\st Serff cant. —B-E^ J Aum B. Schuck.
2d " Francis D. Koch,

Sd " Samuel F. Kehl.

4th " Theodore Pletz.

6th "■ Hugh Koch.

1st Corporal. — Edward Shappell.
2d " Eli McCord.

Sd " Jacob Ungstadt.

4th " Harrison H. Hill.

oth " Oliver A. J. Davis.

Qth <' Benjamin B. Kershner.

Tth " Joseph Edwards.

8^/i " Charles E. Weaver.

Musician. — Allen Koch.
" William Faust,

PRIVATES.

Arnold, Isaac
Allebach, Francis
Arndt, Isaac
Barringer Josiah
Beltz, Isaac
Boone, Alexander
Beltz, Anthony K.
Beltz, Isaac K.
Bachman, Jacob W.
Boner, Francis
Bunce, Harrison
Bachman, John F.
Boyer, Daniel S.
Coombe, Thomas
Curtis, Charles

Clark, John
Dresh, Elias
Douglass, Lewis
Ed dinger, William F.
Fisher, Levi
Foust, Eli
Focht, Lewis V.
Furman, Nathan
De Frehn, John
Fenstermacher, William
Gangloff, Jacob
Gilbert, Joseph
Glase, Daniel
Halsey, William
Hoffman, Benjamin

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101

Company I, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Henry, Frederick
Heiser, James
Ilein^ Josiah
Hoiiser, Barnard A.
Haldeman, Jonas
Knittle, Wesley-
Kramer, Franklin
Kehl, Elias
Kretter, Charles N.
Keller, Peter
Kramer, Josiah
Key man, Henry
Klasc, George
Klase, Daniel
Koch, Charles R.
Kreter, Henry W.
Kramer, Israel
Link, Hezekiah
Leiser, Charles P.
Leiser, Charles S.
Moser, John
McReynolds, James.
Miller, William
Moyer, John E.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, . _ -

Privates, _ _ _

Total, " - - -

Millet, Charles H.
Millet, James
Munberger, William
Owens, William
Reinhart, Henry
Reinhard, Henry,
Reynolds, James
Reich, Conrad
Rumble, Paidolph
Rumble, Jacob H.
Reigel Franklin
Schertle, George
Shulther, Augustus
Seward, Christian
Swain, Luke
Snyder, William Si
Sassaman, George
Thresh, Elias
Trainer, Alfred
Umbenhocker, John
Williams, Benneville
Yv'^eiers, William
Yost, Franklin
Zimmerman, Benjamin

1 '>
o

COMPANY K.

(7«j3^am.— HENRY A. M. FILBERT.
'S St Lieut. — Isaac F. Brannon.
2c? " Jacob Douty.
1st Sergeant. — Francis A. Stitzer.

Patrick F. Quinn.

Thomas Irvix.

1st Corj

oral.-

-Daniel Moser.

Thomas Brennan.

Patrick Hanley.

4:th

Francis Jones,

5th

George J. Weaver.

e>th

Charles D. Boyer.

7th

James Moran.

Sih

George M. Denglee

Musician

. — William Straw.

HN M. Brown.
9

102

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Company K, Forty-Eighth Regiment — ContLuutd.

PRIVATES.

Boyer, David
Boyer, Peter
Berger, John
Burgess, Joseph
Burke, Peter
Bausum, Daniel
Brennen. Michael
Brawn, John
Bull, William
Brannan, Isaac F,
Brcnnan, James
Chatham, Joseph
Clarey, Michael
Crawford, John Ao-
Carr, John
Campfield, John
Gurry, Thomas
Carey, John
Dechant, John
Dentzer, George-
Dress, William H.
Dress, David B.
Dress, David D.
Dress, Jonathan
Dress, William D.
Dress, Charles
Day, Albin
Day, Jam-es, Jr.
Day, Frederick H..
Delany, Michael
Dullard, James
Drake, Nelson
Doubert, William
Engly, Adam
Edwards, Richard
Edinger, Horatio
Edwards, Edward
Fonstermacher, David
Fenstermacher, William
Fenstermacher, Elias
Focht, Lorenzo
Grey, Arthur
Haertlcr, Christian

Hendley, Adam
Houser, Nathaniel
Harkins, Hugh B.
Haas, Howard W.
Kavenaugh, James
Long, David
Laubenstein, "William.
Lowler, Johsi
Lord, Jesse
Long, Charles
Labcnberg, William
Lawrence, John
Letierman, Jacob
"Maul, Lewis
McKeaver, Philip
Murphy, John
Main^, George F.
McDermot, Henry
McDonald, James
Mullin, Michael
Moser, Daniel
Omaeht, Daniel
Payne, Edward P.
Eeed, William T.
Richards, Wiiliaa\
Ptees, John
Rabei', John
Rich. Nathan.
Simon, Franklin
Snyder, Frederick W
Stitzer, David K.
Shultz, Henv}'"
Sherman, .John
Shancly, Daniel
Starr, John
Spears, Hiram
Scherman, Adam.
Stine, Peter
Shappell, Edward
Tobau, Thomas
Wool, John
Widner, John
Weaver, John

Commissioned Officers',

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, - _ .

8f^

Total,

101

Three Years, or the "War. 108

RECAPITULATION.

Field and Staff, .-.-._ 9

ivegimeutal Band, ------ 26

<.'Ommissioiied line officers, - _ - - so

Non-commissioned officers, - - - - 126

Musicians, - 19

AVagoners, --_,-_-7

Privates, ------- 793

Total in Regiment, ----.- 1,010

In October, 1862, wlien tke Regiment had been decimated by
disease and battle, having then been more than a year in the ser-
vice, its strength was reported to us by the commanding officer
at 467, of which number 357 were fit for duty.

In September, 1862, Col. Nagle was promoted to the position
of Brigadier General, and commanded the 1st Brigade, Sturgess'
Division. The Forty-eighth Regiment formed part of his Bri-
gade. Its field and line commissioned officers were then as fol-

Colonel. — J. K. Sigfried,

Lieutenant €eUnel.- — Henry Pleasants.

Major. — James Wren.

Adjutant. — Daniel McGinnes.

Quartermaster. — James Ellis,

COMPANY A.

Captain. — D. B. Kaufman.
Fir^t Lieutenant. — Henry Boyer.
Second Lieutenant. — Lewis B. Eveland

COMPANY B.

Captain. — U. A. Bast.

First Lieutenant. — John Wood.

Second Lieutenant. — William H. Hume.

COMPANY C.

Captain. — George W. Gowen.

First Lieute?iant. — Tliomas J. Fitzsimmons,

Second Lieutenant. — Charles Loeser.

COMPANY D.

Captain.— W. W. Potts.

First Lieutenant. — Charles Kleckner.

Second Lieutenant. — E. D. Owens.

COMPANY E.

Captain. — William Winlack.

First Lieutenant. — Thomas J. Bohannan.

Second Lieutenant. — James H. Fisher.

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COMPANY F.

Captain. — Joseph H. Hosking.
First Lieutenant. — Henr^' Jcames.
Second Lieutenant. — John L. Williams.

COMPANY O.

Cajyiain. — 0. C. Bosbyshell.
First Lieutenajit. — C. C. Pollock.
Second Lieutenant. — H. C. Jackson.

COMPANY H.

Captain. — J. H. Gilmour.

First Lieut.-y^m.. J. Hinkle. (Aid de Camp to Gen. Nagle.

Second Lieutenant. — Summerfield Bowen.

COMPANY I.

Captain. — John K. Porter.
First Lieutenant. — M. M. KTstler.
Second Lieutenant. — B. B. Schuck.

COMPANY K. _^

Captain. — ^Isaac Brennan.

First Lieutenant. — Jacob Douty.
Second Lieutenant. — Francis A. Stitzer.

On Monday, October 21st, 1861, the Fiftietli Regiment, P. Y...
Col. B. C. Christ, sailed from Annapolis for South Carolina.,
forming part of the force that on Thursday, November, 7, 1861?
captured the Kebel forts at Port Royal. A portion of Colonel
Christ's command was on board the steamer Wmfield Scott^
and narrowly escaped shipwreck on the voyage, in consequence of
the vessel '^ springing aleak '' during a terrible storm. In this
Regiment there were two full Schuylkill County Companies, with
a few men from this County in other companies of the Regiment.
The muster-rolls are as follows :

FIFTIETH REGIMENT P. V.

Colonel.— B. C. CHRIST.
Quartermaster. — Albert Jones.
Asst. Quarter lyiaster. — John S. Eckel.
Asst. " Charles J. Needlek.

Surgeon. — David G. McKibben.
Drum-Major. — Henry A. Hoffman.
Fife-Major. — Daniel Koop.

COMPANY A.

Captain.— 3. B. BRANDT.

1st Lieut. — Samuel R. Schwenk.

2nd Lieut. — Edward F. Wiest.

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105

Company A, Fiftieth Regiment — Continued.

-Henry J. Alspach.

Henry Brodt.

Samuel Schwalm.

Jacob Zimmerman.

Daniel Hoffa.

-David J. Alspach.

William W. Snydee.

John Heisler.

Franklin H. Barnhart.

John Schreffler.

Daniel Troutman.

Simon B. Bleiler.

Solomon Wiehry.
Clerk. — Benjamin Fociit.
Musician. — Jacob Lehman.

" AViLLIAM J. ScHUCKERT.

Wagoner. — Joshua Greenawalt.

Orderly SergU.

((

4th

((

bth

((

1st

Corporal.

((

4ih

bih

Qth

1th

Sth

((

PRIVATES.

Adams, Nicholas
Bowman, Gyrene
Bowman, William F.
Biehl, Charles
Ballon, David
Blanchford, William
Bixler, John
Bleiler, William H.
Bower, John
Blessing, Gharles
Bixler, Elias
Brenner, Jonathan •
Burns, James
Brum, Peter
Garl, Edward
Clark, William
Gannon, Martin
Cannon, Michael
Dieter, John R.
Derker, Isaac
Deibler, Henry
Delcamp, William H.
Doubert, Jonathan
Dawson, Thomas
Doubert, William
Davis, Benjamin
Engle, Samuel
Ellenbaum, James F.
Erdman, Augustus
Engle, Elias
Engle, Jacob
Ferree, Jacob F.
Fuller, John
Frankhouser, Ch-ristian
Faust, Jonas

Feindt, Isaac
Flinn, Patrick
Fox, Frank
Flinn, John
Grow, Peter
Herb, William
Hesser, William J.
Hartzog, Benjamin
Harter, Jonathan
Hoffa, Samuel
Herring, John J.
Hoyer, Henry
Houtz, Isaac
Herman, Benjamin
Herb, Andrew
Harner, Edward
Herbst, Jacob
Hoffa, Daniel
Joice, Patrick
Kauffman, Philip F.
Kauffman, Samuel W.
Kaercher, Samuel
Klinger, Daniel
Kramer, Joel
Kneedler, Gharles J.
Keiser, Anthony
Lester, George
Laudenslager, John J.
Luhlasser, Jacob
Lengel, Henry
Miller, August F.
Manning, John D.
Minnich, Elias
McLaughlin, Alexander
Morgan, Israel

106

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Company A, Fiftieth Regiment — Continued.

McClellan, Robert
Mochan, Michael
Millei', Jonathan
Mellon, Augustus
Muckenstom, Charles
Otto, Peter S.
Osman, Levi
Osman, Aaron
O'Neil, Patrick
Pace, Ptobert
Raber, John
Rothermel, William
Pviegel, Daniel
Runyon, Harrison
Reigel, Jonas P.
Reese, David
Eahu, Richard
Scliofstall, Aaron

Commissioned Officers, -

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, _ - -

Wagoner,

Clerk, - - - -

Privates, - - -

Total,

Schearer, John D.
Straw, Iliram
Starr, Jacob

Snyder, Abr'm [discharged,)
Stark, Jacob
Schweikert, Emanuel
Thomas, Edward
linger, John
Wenerich, Uriah
Weisner, August
Wolff, Isaac
Weaver, Daniel D.
Wiehry, Franklin
Wiest, Philip A.
Wolfgang, Michael
"^rVilliams, Andrew
Wight, Bursey

1
1

- 2
105

125

Hiney, George

COMPANY B.

Hiney, William

COMPANY C.

Captain.— J). F. BURKERT.

1st Lieut. — George W. Brumm.

2c? " John F. Saylor.

Ist Sergeant. — William H. Mennig.

2d " L. Becker.

3c? " William H. Hiney.

4,th " James Saylor.

5f/i " William Hill.

Ist Corporal. — Augustus Mellon.

2c? " C. Brown.

3c? '' D. PtAUDENBUSII.

Uh " S. LoscH.

bth " L. Eckert.

Gth " G. H. Hoffman.

7th '< R. Bechtel. (Clerk.)

Drummer. — J. Helms.

Fifer. — J. Graeff.

Wagoner^ — L. Schwartz.

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lOT

Company C, Fiftieth Regiment — Continued.

PRIVATES.

Bergcr, Elias Knarr, Benjamin

Bergcr, Augustus Lehman, Josiah D.

Brisons, John G. W. D. Long, Joseph

Brener, Jonathan Little, John

Bergert, Gotleib Long. Lewis

Brown, Benjamin Lloyd, Thomas

Brumm, G. W. Levan, Jaaaes K.

Cake, George Miller, Henry B.

Deibler, Henry W, Murie, Daniel

Dsudle, John Moyer, George

Dunkle, Peter McCollough, Patrick

Donnar, George McGlann, Daniel

Eckley, Samuel Molloy, Patrick

Eckel, Emanuel Marland, Edward

Emrick, William Mecinstorn, Charles

Eckert, Isaac Osw^ald, Charles

Fahl, Richard Oswald, Edward

Fenstermacher, Frank Oswald, Israel

Guertler, Jacob Patten, William

Garrett, Alexander Pugh, Morgan

Gilbert, Aaron W. Powell, Peter

Hiney, George Reed, George

Hoffman, Samuel Ryan, John

Hoffman, William Scheck, Frederick

Heebner, George Schwenk, George R.

Harbst, Jacob Scheck, Jacob

Hehn, Jacob Simpson, George

Hehn, Henry Shirk, A.

Hill, Henry Shaeffer, Enoch

Handell, Joseph Steinbach, Peter

Helms, James K. Williams, Alexander

Keihner, Stoughton Wise, Franklin

Kremer, Jonas W^. W^ildermuth, William

Klingner. George Williams, Patrick

Knarr, Charles W^agner, William

Commissioned Officers, - - - . - - 8

Non-commissioned, - - - - - - 12

Musicians, ------_2

Teamster, _.------l

Privates, -- 70

Total, - 88

COMPANY E.
Roberson, Benjamin

COMPANY F.

Huntzinger, Lieutenant Albert

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COMPANY I.

Mackey, John Denniston, Jolin

Gaskins, James Bush, John A.

Cole, Corporal William Wright, Josiah

RECAPITULATION.

Field and staif, - . 5

Commissioned line officers, - - _ - 7

Non-commissioned ------ 25

Musicians, _------ 6

Wagoners, --.-----2

Privates, 184

Total, 229

On Wednesday, November 6tli, 1861, the Ninety-sixth Regi-
ment, P. v., then in camp at Pottsville, was presented by Gover-
nor CuRTiN with the colors authorized by the Legislature of the
State. The Governor with his staff reached Pottsville at noon on
that day, and was escorted to his quarters at the American House.
At 2 o'clock P. M., the Regiment marched from its camp on Law-
ton's Hill to the Hotel, where the presentation took place. The
Governor, flag in hand, addressed the Regiment, in substance, as
follows :

Col. Cake and men of the 96th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-
teers : — I am here to-day in obedience to the call of this Commonwealth
to perform the last act which you deserve at the hands of your fellow-
citizens, before you leave to take part in the great struggle which now
agitates this once happy and prosperous country.

And here, I cannot but remember, that it was in this Town and Coun-
ty, that when the first proclamation by the President for troops was
issued, men rushed to the rescue and were among the first to reach the
threatened Capital. How you reached there, your march through Bal-
timore, the dangers and insults you contended with, are now matters of
history.

Here, in this vast assemblage of your friends, neighbors and relatives,
this ceremony cannot occur without exciting feelings of pleasure and
emotions of pain. It is certainly, pleasing to this multitude of people
who surround you, to know that so many men of this County are willing
to defend, at the peril of their lives, the liberty which you have been
accustomed to enjoy ; and it is painful for them to separate from you
as you go into the perils of battle to defend that liberty. And yet it is
a high performance and a high duty. This Regiment of men was called
together through the loyalty of the people of this County, in their devo-
tion to our common country, and through the activity, industry and influ-
ence of the gentlemen who command it. And I am here to-day, recog-
nizing you as a regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, about to go into
th© service of the country, to present to you this beautiful standard.

Three Years, or the War. 109

I deliver to you the honor of the State. Is there any man here afraid or
ashamed to bear the standard of Pennsylvania or recognize its legiti-
mate authority ? God forbid ! The legitimate arm will perpetuate this
flag. Thus protected with the coat-of-arms of Pennsylvania in the cen-
tre of the field, upon which is thirty-four stars, indicating the thirty-
foui' States of this grand confederacy, I deliver this flag to you to-day,
that you to all coming generations may declare that confederacy shall
be of thirty-four stars, and not one less. [Applause.]

It is written in the law, that when you shall have returned to your
homes, the flag shall be inscribed with the battles in which your regi-
ment shall distinguish itself, and then filed among the archives of the
State in perpetual memory of your deeds of valor.

It was in Pennsylvania that the fathers of this Government caught the
idea of liberty, which had agitated the nations of Europe for half a cen-
tury, and proclaimed it to the world in the Declaration of Independence.
They gave shape and form to the immortal sentiment, that man is capa-
ble of self-government. It was in Pennsylvania the Convention sat that
formed the Constitution under which we have achieved so much national
glory, and power, and knowledge and so much individuiil prosperity and
happiness.

It was on the Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, that the "Stars and
Stripes " — that beautiful flag of our nationality and liberty, was first
unfurled to the winds. (Applause) This people have always been loy-
al to their trust. They have always sustained legitimately organized
power and government; and they have now testified, by the presence
of tens of thousands of men surrounding the Capitol at Washington, that
they will still sustain them, and defend their liberties to the last.

Yet more : when all means of peace have failed — when all the conser-
vation of this people has been exhausted — when all that could call our
erring brethren back to their loyalty, has been essayed in vain — this
people have declared that if the Constitution must be bathed in blood,
it must be bathed in the blood of the wicked and traitorous. (Ap-
plause.)

And, now, when armed Rebels attempt to tear down this sacred fabric,
which our fathers established, and which we have reared until it has
become the admiration of the world, we of Pennsylvania declare that
liberty shall be vindicated in the blood of the wicked. (Applause.)

I would not speak to you fellow citizens of Pennsylvania, now on the
eve of your departure from the State, if I were not authoi'ized to do so by
law. I speak to you in the presence of your friends and neighbors.
You look for the last time, many of you, on this beautiful country. You
see for the last time, the places of your homes where you were born,
and have passed the days of your childhood, — i\.ye, more ! you separate
from your mothers, your wives, your sisters, and your friends ; and, for
all those who surround you, with the dignity of my office and the hon-
or of the State in my hands, I pray that the blessing of God may rest
upon you.

1 feel full of this great question to-day ; my heart is torn when I con-
sider the condition of my country, my fellow-citizens in arms, and the
best blood of my countrymen to be shed ! And yet our country has
been so much favored by Providence, in the hollow of whose hands you
are, who has done so much for us, that I feel a confidence that his bles-
sings soon must follow, that disaster and defeat may no more come upon
us and that truth shall win the final triumph. It is so written in the
Book of Books. It was so enumerated by our forefathers, and woven

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into our Constitution itself. It is inscribed in tlie history of the world,
and is justified by the experience of past generations. And now, as
then, God will be with the cause of truth. — (Applause.)

Our native country will be restored to peace ; the traitors who are
now first to draw their swords against it, will return again to a sense of
their duty ; and time will lighten all our troubles. What more can I
say to you? Never will I see many of 3^011 again. How proud would I
feel at this moment in discharging the great office you have committed
to me, if I did not know that many of you were to be separated for
months, perhaps forever, from your friends and all that you hold dear.

And yet it is a sweet consolation for you, that if you fall you fall
fighting for the liberty which your fathers gave you ; fall fighting for
that matchless Constitution under which we have grown and prospered ;
fall with the tears of your friends and kin to keep alive your memories ;
fall like brave men, who consider liberty for a single day more valuable
than a thousand years of bondage; fall in meting out justice to those
who would strive to break down this Government, and the liberties our
people now enjoy ; and Avhen you return, as many, if not all of you
must, thousands of your neighbors will welcome you as they weep to-day
at your departure. (Applause.)

Now, as the last act, I commit to you this beautiful flag, and with it
the honor of the great State you rej^resent. I give it to brave men,
who will defend it in the field and bring it back with honor.

At the conclusion of his remarks he handed the flag to Ool.
Cake, standing by his side, who received it in behalf of the offi-
cers and men of the 96th Hegiment, and spoke as follows :

Governor: In accepting this splendid stand of colors for the use of
the 96th Regiment, I beg to express the lively sense of gratitude which
we feel. You have done us great honor in coming here to Pottsville in
order to present to us, in person, the banner of our country — bearing
upon its Union, in addition to the 34 stars, the escutcheon of our noble
Commonwealth.

In times like these it is fitting that the representative of the State of
Pennsylvania should visit his soldiers, and speak to them the words of
encouragement and good cheer. We know, sir, that your duties are
manifold and arduous — we appreciate the magnitude of the task you
have just accomplished, and if, in this organization we have endeavored
to lighten your labors, it is because we know of the vexations and trials
of patience to which you are subjected. Sir, you are the direct ruler of
three millions of free people. You are their chosen representative. —
You represent their energy, their prosperity, their patriotism. Out of
your peaceful household 3'ou have mustered and sent into the field with-
in the short space of six months, more than a hundred thousand stout
hearts, and when Pennsylvania's page in the history of this war shall be
written, it will be pronounced by all men-^it will be acknowledged by
all men — to be incomparable. The energy and completeness with which
your herculean task has been accomplished challenges the admiration of
the world.

We fully appreciate the honor you do us in devoting (his day to the
presentation of our colors. It has rendered them doubly dear, and will
stimulate us in battling for their defence. Simple words serve but
poorly to convey our deep sense of gratitude, but I speak for nearly one

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thousand men when I promise that as long as we can see we will follow
the flag you have just presented — as long as we can strike we will strike
in its defence, and if God Almighty, in his infinite Avisdom and justice,
should decree that we should fall, we will die beneath its shade, strug-
gling for the honor of our country, our State, and our Government.

Sir, it is your privilege to proudly boast that you have not only fur-
nished more men than any other State, but that you sent forAvard the
very first five hundred to defend the imperiled Capital of our common
country, and you must indulge me a little here while I remind you that
this Borough of Pottsvillc furnished you 239 of that five hundred. Let
"me further claim that Pottsville was the first to oft^er you a company.
Captain McDonald called his command together on the 11th day of
April, and we voted unanimously to ofter you our services. The letter
was written that day, and we were accepted on the 15th. Our march
through Baltimore en the 18th is a matter of history, and had something
to do with the fact that Schuylkill County sent you, very soon afterAvard,
2000 more men for the three months call. AYith y(Tur kind permission
this Regiment will march to-morrow morning at sun-rise. After we have
marched, Schuylkill must be credited with having furnished for the war,
about 4,200 volunteers, not to count several companies enlisted for the
regular service, including seventy men, which number were recruited
by" that gallant young Kentucky patriot, Lieutenant Talliaferro, of
the 5th Regular ArtillerA',

Sii', I hope you will pardon my going into these statistics ; whatever
our Borough or County has done, we claim only to have done our duty.
Our State pride overshadows local vanity, but our love of counti-y, our
love for the Union, our love for the Stars and Stripes, brings forth all
our energy, our strength, our patriotism. Upon the altar of our com-
mon country we are willing to sacrifice all that we are, all that we ever
hoped to become — life itself.

Who can do less, and deserve such a country like this to live in ? We
accept all the chances, all the horrors of a vindictive, relentless war, in
order that it may be settled for all time to come that the free govern-
ment of the United States is founded upon the rock of ages. (Compre-
hending fully the power of the rebellion, we yet have faith that the
prowess of our arms will be vindicated, and that our fair land Avill con-
tinue to be the theme of the poet, the hope of the oppressed, the Mecca
of the world.

The heroes of the Revolution fought the fight of freedom. The con-
test for the continuance of the blessings bought for us by seven years of
blood and Avar is upon us. He Avho Avould shrink, he Avho would post-
pone the Avork of vindication for his children's hands to do, deserves to
have had the battles of the revolution left for him to fight.

Gov. CuRTiN in handing over your elegant present to the color guard,
let me again thank you on behalf of each member of the 96th. Let me
also express the hope that you will never regret the confidence you indi-
cate in submitting it to our care. Let us hope that we may contribute
something toward rooting out and forever banishing rebellion, and that
very soon peace and renewed prosperity will again smile upon this land.
In the field or at home, in Avar or peace, our motto shall ever be, "Our
country — right or wrong, our country."

When the ceremony was over, officers and men cheered the
Governor and flag most heartily — the band performing in a mas-

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terly style ''The Star Spangled Banner." The Eegiment was
then marched back to camp, and our distinguished visitors left
shortly afterwards for Harrisburg in a special train, via the Mine
Hill and Shamokin Railway to Sunbury, and from thence to the
Susquehanna.

The flag presented to the Regiment^ was in dimensions eight
by six feet. It was made of silk and bound around the edge with
yellow or golden colored silk fringe, about one and a half inches
wide. In the azure field was the Pennsylvania State coat-of-arms,
with thirty-four stars encircling it. The inscription on the flag was :

" NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT, I\ V."

The Regiment struck tents on Thursday, November 7th, and
on the following day marched to Westwood, where they took the
cars for Washington, via. Sunbury and Harrisburg.

The muster-roll of the Regiment, with all the additions made
by recruiting, up to the time of preparing this, is as follows :

NmETY-SIXTH REGIMEiNT, P. V.

Colonel.— liE-^RY L. CAKE.
Lieutenant-Colo7iel. — Jacob Gr. Frick.
Major. — Lewis J. Martin.
Adjutant. — M. Edgau Richards.
Quartermaster. — Charl-es Sailor.
Sergeant- Major. — John Harlan, Jr.
Quartermaster Sergeant. — John A. Schweers.
Commissary " J. J. Dampman.

Hospital Steward. — John Rodgers.
Surgeon. — Daniel W. Bland.
Assistant Surgeon. — Washington Nugent.
Chaplain. — Rev. Samuel F. Colt.
Ensign. — John Vanhollen.
Total, ---.-_ 13

BAND.

Priyic. 3[usican. — N. J. Rehr. . H. Wallbridge.

Drum-Major. — H. K. Downing. U. V. Roeiirig.

H. G. Wallbridge. J. Ward.

Christian Ferg. C. Oberlies.

A. F. Wallbridge. A. Smith.

C. BoDMAN. H. C. Shoener.

H. M. Law. J. Bodefeld.

H, Bodman. J. N. Lauer.

H. Hoffman. S. H. Parker.

J. W. Morgan. J. Kepley,

Fidel Fisher. A. Pfaltzgrap.

A. B- Wallbridge. C. Trout.
W. McDaniel.

Total, - - - - - - - 25

Three Years, or the War.

113

COMPANY A.

Caj)Udn.—L\ MAll S. HAY.
1:?^ Lieiil. — William F. Huntzinger.
2d " J. Albert Saylor.
l.s-^ Sergeant. — Ernst Sauerrrey.
2(1 " Edward Thomas,

Zd " Charles F. Hoffman.

Atli " Frank >ST:>rpsoN.

iith " Jonas M. llicn.

l.-it Corporal. — Mark Walkkr.
2d •' Henry Gearing.

?yd -' Thomas G. Houck.

4//i " Frank Hanley.

')th " Alexander Smith.

Olh *' William Britton.

7//i •' John Stodd.

Slh " .John Donegan.

Musician. — George Wertley.

" Edward Niese.

Wagoner. — Warren Crosland,

rUIVATES.

I>ai'tliolomew, James
Brazer, Georo-e
Brovrn, William
Bcyaon, William
Bownwell, George
Breunen, Bicliard
Boyer, Henvy C.
Brovn, Thomas
Bevdanler, .JoLni
Breiinan, Francis
Cairoll, Michael
Charlton, William
Dress, WiUiam
Daniels, William
Dampman, Dallas
Dampman, Jonas J.
DeCoursey, George
Denglev, .Joseph F.
Dewald, Jacob M.
Dufer, Luibev
Dentzer, John
Donegan, James
Edwards, William
Ehert, Edward
Endly, -John
Ellis, John
Frazierj John
Fenstermacher, Edward
Farr, Thomas
Ferry, John
Gloss, Elijah
Garragan, John

Grieff, Charles H.
Gee, Joseph
Gould, William
Goldsworthy, .Joseph
Garber, August
Gloss, Levi
Hartline, John
Higley, John H.
Hoffman, Leybrand
Hariline, Daniel
Henry, Emanuel
Hayes, EdAvard
Holistcr, James
Hanley, Thornton B.
Hendley, John
Hocpstine, .Jaro.cs
Hess, James K.
Hummel, John
Ray, William E.
Jones, Gomer
Jones, John
Kisswick, Samuel
Kinzi, Caleb
Ivleininger, .John
Kemp, Edward
Leary, iMichael
LindenuniLh, Daniel
Lindeninutb, Joseph
Lord, William F. D.
Laferty, John
Linneu, Edward
Larkin, Michael

114 Three Years, on the War.

(JoMi'ANY A, Ninety-Sixth Jxeguient— Con lu need.

Larkin, William Rigg, Robert T.
Ledicli, Jacob " RclkI, John

MoiTcll, Mathcw Redcay, Charles J.

IMcnnig, George AV. liefraw, August

Maddisoii, John .Stonefield,

McCoy, Daniel Simpson, John

McCormlck, Edward Simpson, Ilcury

Mc(;innis, James 1'. Smith, Edward

Nash, Michael Sterling, John

Noatheimer, Henry Strouse, Frank

Xugcnf, Chancy K. Smith, William

Nugent, Hugh B. Smith, Tervence F.

O'Donald, James Tomplin, Emanuel

Omar, John Thou^pson, John

Poits, Clement D. Welsh, David

Prichard, David \Veand, William

Propts, John Wade, Frederick F.

Reichard, Henry Waruick, Henry

Rico, Sylvester C. Ward, John

Rodgers, Alexan.lcr Yost, Nicholas

Kodgers. Jolui Zerbe, Charles
Rcinhard, Henry

Commissioned Ofiicors, _...__ ;j

Non-commissioned Othccrs, - - - - L3

Musicians, -_-____ 2

"Wagoner, ----.__ i

Privates, ---.___ 107

Total, ------- ]2G

COMPANY B.

Capfain.—VETEll A. FILBERT.

lf<( Lieut. EUNKST T. Ej.LElClI.

•^.(/ " Levi Hunr.u.

list Scryrunt. — John Van Hollex.

'Id " LkWIS Luf'KlXBlLL.

'')d " Charles J. Siiokmakek.

Ath " John A. ScinvEEUS.

blh " 1'at:l H. Bark.

\st Corporal. — David Hiber.
'Id " Daniel Bonawit/,.

;>r/ »' Jacor C!i:iKR.

4//i "' Erasmis W. Rkki).

'>(lt, " Frederick A. Snyder.

i'jth '• Gregory Rotiiman.

liJi " Frederick Kline.

8//i " Edward T. Jones.

Alusician. — William Lehman.

JOSEI'H Keelei!.
Clerk. — Frederick E. Stees.
Wagoner. — JosEi'ii Schwartz,

Three Years, or the War.

115

Company B, Ninety-Sixth Eeciiment — Continued.

rRIVATES.

Adcock, WiHiam
Aich, Jo-sepli
Bast, Charles
Jjonavfitz, John

lireitigan,

IJell, Samuel
Bridegum, Franklin
]>ower, Joseph
Bcrdania, John
Braunan, Martin
Brenner, Peter
Bonawitz, Jacob
Bast. Jacoh
Berger, Charles W.
r)rown, Thomas A.
r>ucher, Andrew
Birckenbach, Jr., John
Britten, William
Barr, Peter
])anner, Joseph
IHeckle, Michael
(jlemens, William
Clemens, Peter
Christ, Jacob
Chaundy, Charles
Cary, Martin
CoUahan, John
Dubbs, Alexander
L>ubbs, Victor
Dorschki, August
Ecker, Henry
Eick, Joseph
Fritz, William
Fessler, Joseph
Fessler, Irwin
Filbert, William H.
Fry, Henry A.
Ferst, Henry
Fertig, Reuben
Fisher, Joseph
Gnoreck, Jacob
Glennan, Andrew
Goebell, Richard II. L.
Gropsen, John
Grosz, Nicholas
Herbert, John
Ilehn, Heni-y
Ilartenstein, Henry
Harvey, John E.
Harvey, Franklin
Hardenack, John
Huber, Jr., Jacob

Hornisli, John
Reefer, Henry I.
Kutz, William
Kotchin, Lewis
Keesey, James
Kciffer, Jacob H.
Kterclier, Reuben
Luekinbill, Marcus
Leffler, William A. ,
Lewis, John
Litman, Bernhard
Lambert, MathcAV
Langben, George
]\IcNulty, Cornelius
3lcMannmin, Peter
]McGarrity, John
McOnenny, Peter
ivlcDonnel, John
McGirr, James
Martin, Andrew
Matten, John
Mangold, William
Martin, Daniel
jNIoyer, Solomon
Mennig, Jacob L.
Mennig, Joseph
Moreheiser, Joseph
Miller, Charles
Miller, Ileni'y
Miller, John
Nagle, George
Oarther, Jacob
Owens, James
Oarther, Henry
Oestreich, Moritz
Purcel, John
Rahn, Richard
Reiweld, William
Reed, Isaac
Rishel, Reuben
Reed, John
Heed, Israel
Reinoehl, William B
Redinger, Peter
Remer, George
Reinhard, Ferdinand
Scanlcn, Thomas
Shawnessy, Michael
Snyder, Jacob B.
Shirk, William
Sterner, Henry
Sterner, Jeremiah

116

Three Years, or the "War.

Company ]5, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Sterner, JosepL

►sterner, .Joseph
Seigel, Frederick
Seiber, Frederick
Snyder, William li.
Seiberi, ("brislian
Thornisli, Jolin
Tomas, Charles
Tovey, William
Umbenliauer, Charles F.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned, Officers

Musicians,

Clerk, - - - -

Teamster,

Privates, - - _

Total, -

Vaughn, Francis
Wolf, August
Wanner, Jacob
Wolf, Levi
Wlke, Albert
Williams, Charles
W^etzell, John
Zimmerman, Henry.

1
119

130

COMPANY C.

Cajytain.—WllAAA.U H. LESSIG.

First Lieutenant. — Isaac E. Sevkkn.

Sccojid Lieutenant. — Samuel R. Kusskl,

\st Sergeant. — Edwin L. Sevj'^rx.

2.d " Alkxander Allison.

od '' William Buckley.

4M. " * Louis A. Bruns.

^th and Quartermaster's Sergeant. — ITf.nry Fisher.

1st Corporal. — William' Freast.

2c? " Jacob Eptikg.

3c? '• James B. Oliver.

Ath " David Williams.

bth " David E. Rishel.

6/A " HuoH Stevenson.

lih " Thomas Hilton.

%th " George W. Holdbe.

Drummer. — Elias B. Trifoos.

Fifer. — Stephen Jones.

Wagoner. — John H. H. Hanlev.

Clerk. — Edward J. Philips.

PRIVATES.

Allison, John
Alles, John
Allen, John
Ashworth, .Joseph
Billey, John
Balliet, John W.
Beadle, Joseph
Braunagan, iVrthur

Brennan, William
Bishop, Sylvan us
Bast, Charles
Beadle, William
Bocam, Louis
Boyd, James
Brobst, .Jolin
Burns, Patrick

■ 'H^

Three Years, or the War.

117

Company C, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Confinued.

Croslaiid, John J.
Curry, Martin
Curry, Jolm W.
Diudorff, Nicholas
Delgar, George
Davis, David
Davenport, William
Davis, John
Davis, Samuel
Farrel, George W.
Frazer, Jolin
Fisher, Samuel
Fisher, Charles
Foltz, George W.
Fox, Charles C.
Flaney, James
Groatman, Henry
Garis, Thomas
Hay, William
Haley, Bryrni
Hartman, John
Hober, Joseph
Hall, John W.
Jennings, James
Jones, Jenkin
Kluck, John F.
Knittle, Francis
Kind, William
Kuhns, David
Kane, Oiristopher
Lafferiy, James
Lj'nch, Hugh I.
Miller, William.
Matz, Franklin
iSIcMinnzie, Saul

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoner, _ . _

Clerk, - - - -

Privates, _ - -

Milnes, William
Merker, Amos
Madara, William
McCaffrey, John
McAndrew, Edward
Moore, John
Noble, John
Nimelton, John
Oliver, Thomas
Paul, John
Hittman, Henry
Ptichter, August
Rarig, Joseph
Reagan, Patrick
Rishel, Reuben
Radburn, Thomas
Saylor, Charles
Shelly, Charles
Smith, Augustus
Saylor, Jacob,
Suddon, John
Saylor, Emanuel
Saylor, George
Sipe, Martin
Stubblebine, Henry
Spence, Martin
Smith, Boas G.
Schollenbevger, Gabriel
Simpson, John
Thomas, Edward
Thomas, David
Yost, Alexander
Williams, Thomas
Watts, Perry
Wolfinger, James

- - - 3
13

2
1
1

Total,

- 106

COMPANY D.

Copfam.— JOHN T. BOYLE.
First Lieutenant. — Zaccus P. Boyer,
Second Lieutenant. — John T. Hammer,
1st Sergeant. — Amos Forceman.
2c? '' Ira Troy.

10*

118

Three Years, or the War.

Company D, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

od Sergeant. — Charles Beaumont.

Aih '' Ezra Hendley.

Commissary Sergeant. — William Henry.

Isi Corporal. — George Leech.

2(/ '• William Hart.

Zd " James Sands.

^th <■'• James Scofikld.

oth '■'• Thomas D. Price.

Qth "• James Gougii.

1th " George \V. Thompson.

8M " William Morris Lasuorn.

Clerk. — Michael A, Welsh.

Drummers. — John Price, Robert L. Wright.

Wagoner. — William McGlone

PRIVATES.

Adcock, Williftiii
Boyle, Jolm
Becker, William
Becker, Jonas
Burton, Charles
Black, Jolm
Campbell, ThoiuHH
Campbell, William
Comefort, Kyram
Cooper, William
Cunningham, John
Carr, John
Corby, William
Douden, Frank N,
Davis, Edmund
Daughertj. John
Doyle, James
Evans, David
Edwards, David
Ferfay, Peter
Freel, Edward
Fredericks, Samuel
Farrel, Joseph
Grant, Thomas
Greenwood, John
Hannum, J. T.
Hart, Elijah
Hart, Jacob
Heitaer, Frederick
Hughes, James
Henry, Edward
Jones, William P.
Jones, Enos
Jones, Thomas
Jones, William
Kenley, William

Commissioned Of&cers,
Non-commissioned Officers.

^Kepler, George
Kelly, Luke
Krauch, Jacob
Llewellyn, Gomer
Lewis, David
Morgan, John
Moyer, William W.
Morgan, Thomas
Morrisey, Patrick
Mort, John
Moffit, William
Mason, Edward
McGlone, John
Moyer, Milton
Newton, Charles
Prasser, William
Purcell, Dennis
Peckman, Henry
Reese, Thomas
Ritzel, George
Stewart, John
Seitzinger, Samuel
Sands, Michael
Symons, George
Shuttleworth, Thoma;
Shooclin, Cornelius
Tliomas, Walter
Thomas, George A.
Vanderslice, Jones
Walters, Elias
Walters, Jonathan
Wolff, Daniel
Williams, John L.
Williams, David D.
Williams, Thomas D.
Wickersham, Thomas

o
- - - - o

Three Years, or the War,

119

Company J), Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Clerk,
Musicians,
AVagoner,
Privates,

Total,

1
o

COMPANY E.

C^j9^am.— JAMES RUSSELL.

First Lieutenant. — John S, Oijerrexdek.

Second Lieutenant. — John F. Robins.

Is^ Sergeant. — Charles C. Russel.

2d " Philip W. Cool.

3c? " Thomas H. Reed.

4th " William Mayberry.

6th " Evan Thomas.

1st Corporal. — William Whitebread.

2d " John Kelly.

3(/ " Nathan Santee.

4th " Edward Moncton.

bth " Henry Quinn.

6th " Stephen Horn.

7th " William W. Cares.

8^A " William Zigler.

Musicians. — John Waters, George Sterling.

Wagoner. — John Augustine.

PRIVATES.

Aixler, Jolin A.
Ayres, James B.
Black, John
Burkhart, Cyrus
Brennau, John P.
Brennan, John D.
Boyer, Reuben
Best, Henry S.
Balliet, Reuben
Balliet, John
Bar, William
Bennie, William
Balliet, Josiah
Crowley, John
Comerford, Thomas
Carey, Martin
Davis, Samuel
Dunn, Patrick
Frantz, Lewis,
Frederick, Lewis
Foley, John
Fletcher, Herbert
Fry, Emanual

Fry, Ferdinand
George, William
Geinen, Thomas
Gross, Stephen
Getikee, Charles
Hoffman, Henry
Hettinger, Aaron
Howard, David
Huber, Joseph
Hamer, John H.
Johnson, Asberry
Jarrard, Joseph W.
Jones, Jacob
Kuhns, William H.
Klinger, Albert
Kirk, William
Keener, Eli
Kemp, Francis
Kramer, Zacharias
Lukenbill, Morgan
Seiwel, Samuel
Schleppy, Abraham
Smith, Jacob

120

Three Years, or the War.

Company E, Ninety Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Mumaw, Samuel
Mackey, Michael
McGinues, James P.
Merril, John
Muldowney. James
Miller, John
Mitchel, Benjamin
McColl, Daniel
McAftee, Samuel
Nicholas, James
Naughtou, Michael
Naughton, John
Oberrender, John N.
Oplinger, Edward
Onspoch, Edward
Fallen, Charles
Painter, John S.
Pope, John
Roth, Henry
Russel, James S,

Commissioned Officers, -
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - _
Wagoner, - - _ .
Privates. . _ .

Ptamsey, William S.
lliley, William
Spohr, Nicholas
Shearer, Cyrus
Steigner, Adolphus
Smith, Peter
Sharp, William
Schollenberger, Gustavus G.
Stookey, William E.
Sands, James
Trout, William
Vogel, Otto G. H.
Wallen, Daniel
Woodring, Daniel
Weigner, Henry
Woodring, Jacob W.
""Weaver, Jeremiah
Whitebread, Mark
Woodring, Jeremiali
Yosty Joseph

- 18
- - _ »>

- 1

Total.

- lOi

COMPANY F.

Captain.— SO^Y^VR ANTHONY.
First Lieutenant. — John Dougherty.
Second LiexUenant. — Charles Dougherty.
1^^ Sergeant. — Michael Boland.

'Id

4th "

5tk "

Ist Corporal.

Alh

Gth "

Gth '-
llh "

Dennis Carrol.
James Casey.
John Brennan.
Thomas Tremble.
-Thomas Tracy.
Phillip Reilly.
PvicHARD Walsh.
Robert Borland.
James Brady.
William McAllister.
Aaron Williams.
Patrick Sullivan.

Musicians. — William Moorhead, Solomon Spohn

PRIVATES.

Anspach, Edward
Ary, Michael

Boren, Michael,
Boren, Daniel

Three Years, or the War.

121

Company E, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Boren, Thomas
Barnes, George
Barnes, Anlliony
Blizzard, Francis
Barry, Uriah
Boyle, John
Britt, Edward
Brown, David T.
Broms, John
Curtin, Patrick
Cavanaugh, Michael
Carrol, Micliael
Cowley, Samuel
Connery, Michael
Curtin, Timotliy
Curry, Thomas
Daneen, Jerry
Durkin, James
Dunnigan, James
Buyer, William
Booley, Patrick
Donahoe, John
Ferrence, Jr., Patrick
Faust, Daniel
Fell, Bonaparte
Ford, Edw^ard
Flemming, M,
Glacken, Hugh
Glennon, Patrick
Glennon, Andrew
Gouldin, Philip
Healy, Sr., John
Healy, Jr., John
Hamburg, Martin
Horan, Bernard
Harris, Francis
Hifferon, William
Higgins, John
Healy, John
Hartness, Jeremiah
Hauly, John
King, Daniel
Kirk, William
Kennedy, Patrick

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Priyates, , - _

Keating, James
Kain, Rodger
Kavanah, Michael
Lee, George
Leary, Michael
Moorhcad, Edward
Marshal, IMiomas
Martin, Andrew
INIcCole, Daniel
Moran, Micliael
Moran, William
McBride, Michael
McKall, Luke
Martin, Patrick
Marshal, Alexander
Muldowney, James
Mathew, Bernard
Maddock, Sylvester
Manates, William
Nevins, Patrick
O'Donnel, Doniinick
O'Donnel, John
Philips, Edward
Purcell. James
Purcell, Thomas
Powers, Patrick
Quinn, John
Quirk, William
Kuddy, James
Ryan, Michael
Ryan, Lawrence
Simpson, John T.
Smith, William
Shere, Edward
Sweeney, Daniel
Shonelin, Cornelius
Salmon, John
Shilds, Edward
Thomas, Thomas
Tremble, John
Whelan, James
Ward, John
AV'ard, Patrick
AVelsh, John

Total,

110

122

Three Years, or the War.

COMPANY a.

Capimn.—JX^lES N. DOUDEN.

Mr.ft TAeiitenant. — Jacob W, Haas.

Second Lien tenant. — A. S. Fesio.

\st Sergeant. — Frank N. Doupen.

2.rl " John' Wtllfams,

o(/ " J.vcon Allvord.

Ath " Benjamtx 1>. Wacneu.

5/A *' William H. Fesig.

^st Corporal. — Amos Kx'xtzleman'.

"Id " JoxATiiAX Bear.

'•\d " Jacob K. Buehler.

Ath " Henry Ki?iseu.

^>th " John C. Gratz.

C)th " Alfred I). Hans.

7//> " Lafayette Billk;.

8/A " James .Al, Feree.

Muslriitnf. — James Zi'lich, Joseph WonKMAN.

Wiigoner. — Nathan Her:?.

nUVATES.

Ijfido, Julian
Blnnch, Edward
I'orkelb.ach, John
(^oley, v^aimiel
Foj. Lewis L
Grim, John L.
Gloss. John
Goodfellow, John
Heebner, George
Harrison, Frank

Commissioned Officers.

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Vfagoner, _ _ _

Ihivates, _ - _

Kellegher, John
McCormick, John
Nice, Jacob
Reynolds, William
Sell, Fred
Strawser, Abraham
Senger, Peter
Thompson, William W
Trifoos, ^L'lrks

Total,

[The nuijority of the privates In this company was from Berks
and Dauphin counties — Editor.]

C O ,M P A N Y H .

Or;>/(7m.— CHARLES D. HIPPLE.
First Lieutenant. — Henry Royer.
Second Lieutenant. — William J. IVLvrtz.
1st Sergeant. — Wn-LiAM E. Reilly.
'Id " "William H. Davis.

.8 J " Jacob Bru baker.

Ath " Georoe E. Hughes.

0//) " Joseph S. Johnson.

Three Yeaks, or the War.

1 *^'^.

CoMrANY H, Ninety-Sixth IIegiment — Continued,

\st Corporal. — Damkl V>. Hartlink.

2d " HkNRY F. HUXSICKEU.

'Sd " John S. Kkelv.

i(h " John ^l. Huciiks.

iifh " John K. Ekhnslkh.

G/A " (^'iiARLEs 8. Colt.

7th " JosKi'H Monday,

Sth " CollNKLlUS McNuLTv.

Musicians. — Fuanos IIked, Ciiakles Yost.
]Vaff07icr. — CoNiiAU Boiidei..

PRIVATES.

Alvord, David
Ashenfelter Jr., William
Britton, ^Villiam
Brennau, Martin
Brassington, James
Brobst, Samuel
Brobst, John
]5ickel!iia7i, Napoleon
Bower. Nicholas
Bidle, Christian
Bordel, Adam
Boyer, John
Conrad, Emanuel
Cavenaugh, John
Carl, James
Callen, Patrick
Campl)ell, Daniel
Cunningham, Terrence
Cosgrove, Mathew
Carrol, James
Caligan, John
Cartield, John
Crossland, William 11.
Conrad, Edward
Conrad, Komanus
Clancy, Morris
Cleary, John
Davis, Richard
Delaney, Dennis
Davis, Daniel
Dull, George AV.
Donnelly, John
Evans, William S. "
Engle, Daniel
Evans, Richard
Erdman, Jonathan
Evans, John E.
Fisher, Anthony
Fell, Patrick
Fox, William 11.
Friecc. Peter

Fink, John H.
Fell, Charles
Fuller, John
Faust, Daniel
Cee, Joseph
Gross, Jacob
Garber, Thomas
Grater, Piiilip
Haldeman, Joseph T.
Hudson, Edward
Haus, Michael
Hasset, Joliu
Haley, John
IIale3% Charles
Hoy, Frederick
Hillcgas, Charles W.
Hoi'n, William
Hendricks, Benjamin K.
Jenkins, David W.
Kacrchcr, Pteuben
Kline, Charles
Kaercher, Daniel
Kennedy, Joseph
Kelly, Martin
Koons, Ilcni'y P.
Kistler, Levi
Kimmel, Hiram
Kenley George
Lehman, John M.
Lettich, Jacob
Lutz, Henry H.
Lampblock, David
?iJeck, Richard
McDonald, Patrick
Manear, William
Moscr, Ephraim
Mallon, Patrick
Morgan, Thomas L.
Morgan, Thomas
Macknet, Albert H.
Mattis, Daniel F.

124

Three Years, or the War.

Company H, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Miller, Jeremiah
^Murphy, James
Mellon, David
^liller, Aaron
McCormick, Micliael
Netherwood, AVilliam
Ortner, William
Pasco, Joseph
Quinn, Patrick
Schanty, Charles
Seifert, Henry
Seiver, Christian
Strouse, Francis
Sterner, Joseph
Shissick, Samuel
Stidham, John F.
Sentman, John
Shunk, James
Shone, John
Sherry, Frederick

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoner, - - - -

Privates, _ - -

Total, -

Sponsaler, William
Snyder, Joseph
Trout, William D.
Treichler, James M.
Thompson, David P.
Treichler, Oliver G.
Umbeuhanr, Frank R.
Virdow, Patrick
Watts, Perry
Weldon, Jolin G.
Walker, Thomas
Whetstone, Frank
Weon, Henry
Williams, AViJJam T.
Yerger, William D.
Z oilers, Daniel D.
- Zeigler, Charles B.
Zeigler, Oliver J.
Zimmerman, Solomon

121
140

Captain.— l^kXC M. CAKE.
First Lieutcjiant. — Matiiew Eyrxes.
Second Lieutenant. — J. A. Hexnessy.
\st Sergeant. — John Eowler.
'Id " John Killeen.

3rZ " Francis Canfield.

4j/i •' Feancis McGciiK.

bth ** MiCiiAEL Mackey.

1st Corporal. — William Irving.
Id " Michael F_ea'i"ing.

?id *' Henry F.ussel.

Ath " James jMcCaiirol.

bth " John Haley,

G/Zi " Patrick ^'urran.

1th " James Sexton.

8^/t " Elijah Andreavs.

Musicians. — Peter Kelly. Henry Laav, Thomas Buri
Wat/oner. — Ad.'im Reb.

PRIVATES.

Brennen, Peter
Barry, James

Burns, James
Burns, Thomas

Three Years, or the War.

125

Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued,

Brown, Thomas

Boyle, Thomas

Bainbridge, Thomas

Brennan, John

Brown, William

Bannister, Thomas

Brown, Thomas A.

Blecker, Michael

Creamer, James

Crandle, Ethan

Crawford, John

Callahan, Michael

Carl, Patrick

Cadwalader, Thomas Morgan

Cusack, William

Carroll, Patrick

Canton, Thomas

Curley, James

Curran, Patrick

Callahan, Thomas

Conlan, James

Dalton, John

Dooley, John

Davidson, Samuel

Dinert, Jeremiah

Droyer, William

Davis, Edmund

Erwin, William

Evans, C.

Ferns, Patrick

Farrel, John

Foyle, jMartin

Gavin, Patrick

Gleeson, John

Gallagher, Patrick

Galahan, Daniel

George, James

Higley, James H.

Hewne, Emanuel

Haley, Brian

Harper, John

Horan, Stephen

Hobbs, John

Hibbard, John

Haley, John

Harlan, Sr., John

Irving, AVilliam

Kotchin, Lewis

Kerns, Patrick

Kavenaugh, John

Kennedy, Morgan

Kramer, James

Keegan, John
King James
Liman, John
Langton, Martin
Minnich, Joseph
McDonald, William
McArdle, James
Menear, William
McNamara, Richard
Morris, Patrick
McDevit, James
Morrett, John
Morney, Thomas
McAmany, Peter
Morgan, Thomas
Mullin, John
McGrath, Lawrence
Mahaifey, Mannus
McCormick, Thomas
Nixon, Thomas A.
Naughton, Thomas
Nixon, William
O'Donnel, Peter
O'Connor, Timothy
Oestruht, Morris
0' Brian, Michael
Owens, James
Owens, Patrick
O'Donnel, Dominick
Purcell, John
Purcell, James
Purcell, Patrick
Ross, Thomas
Beillj'", Thomas
Buddy, James
Ryan, Michael
Straham, John
Sweeney, Michael
Seigle, Fred.
Sarney, Charles
Shoughency, Michael
Scanlan, Thomas
Sweeney, Daniel
Sullivan, John
Samon, John
Sullivan, Jeremiah
Tye, James
Vaughn, Francis
Whalen, John
Williams, David
M'illiams, John
Weakline William

1-26

Three Years, or the War.

Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officei'S,
Wagoner, _ ~ -
Musicians, - - -

Privates, . _ _

Total,

110

130

COMPANY K.

Captain . — R I C HARD B U DD.
First Lieutenimf.—GEOKGE G. Boyek,
Second Lieutenant. — Neill Coyle.
1st Scj-geant. — Peter Houck.

'Id

William Burke.

Patrick Brennan,

4th

i i

Patrick McGee.

Andrew A:i»derson.

\st Co

rporal.

— Patrick Conville.

James (^antfielb.

William Brennak,

i(h

Thomas Burns.

^yth

• (

James E. Toban.

(j/h

Patrick Delany.

1th

»•

Thomas Moore.

><th

James E. Toban.

Music.

— Jo si-

PH Rutlebge, Michael McMullek

Wagonc?: — Uaniel Lawler,

PRIVATES.

Ablewriglit, William
Andrews, P]lisha
Booth, John
Brown, AVilliam
Butler, Michael
]>roniian, Andrew
Brennan, John
Brennan, George
Boland, Francis
Iforen, Daniel
Boyle, Bobbin
Birney, Patrick
Bergau, Thomas
Broderick, John
Bradley, Larry
Budd, William
Collins, John
Crawford, John
Cantfield, Michael
Cavenaugh, John
Cocklin, Thomas
Coraerford, Kearon

Curn, Jeremiah
Curn, William
Carl, James
Conners, Timothy
Conners, John
Derrah, James
Donley, Edward
Dudley. Thomas
Darraugh, William
Delaney, Luke
Delaney, Philip
Downey, Patrick
Fay, Patrick
Ford, Patrick
Fagan, Patrick
Farrel, John G.
Farrel, John
Flyn, Michael
Gribben, Thomas
Gallagher, James
Gallagher, Edward
Gallagher, Daniel

Three Years, or the War.

127

Company K, Ninety-Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Gribben, Barnet
Graeff, Jacob
HarrisoTi, Jolin
Horn, John
Hollan, John
Hughes, Andrew
Hart, Dominick
Holloran, Thomas
Holloran, John
Holloran, Michael
Jenkin, John
Johnston, James
Keyes, x\ndrew
Kerney, James
Kelly, John
Love, John
Laddia, Patrick
Lavrler, John
Lawler, John J.
Lawler, Thomas
McLane, Patrick
Maley, John
Moffet, William
McMeaghey, Frank
Mullen, Hugh
Mack, Ptichard
McKahie, Frank
McMichael, Barney

MtjAUisler, Patrick
McGuigan, James
McMiiUigan, Barney
lIcGrath, Henr}-
McGlenn, Patrick
McCarty, Michael
Maly, Patrick
Mullin, Michael
Martin, Thomas
O'Brian, Martin
O'Donald, James
Purcell, John
Furcell, John E.
Quinn, Michael
■Quinn, John
Ryan, John
Reece, Reece
Ryan, Lawrence
Reinhart, Ferdinand
Rice, George B.
Sheridan, Anthony
Shields, James
Toban, James
Whalen, Timothy
Wilson, James
Welsh, Patrick
Westner, C'harle:^

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - .

Wagoner, - - -
Privates, _ - «

13
o

Total,

118

RECAPITULATION

Field and Staff,

Regimental Band,

Commissioned Line Officers,

Non-commissioned, "

Musicians, - - -

Wagoners,

Privates, _ _ -

13
25
30

130

911

Total,

1139

128 Three Years, or the War

COMPANY E, FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COL. R. WHITE.
All of this Company with the exception of six members, were
recruited in and belong to Schuylkill County. The Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Regiment, Frank T. Bennett, is also, from
Schuylkill County. The Company left Fortress Monroe for Port
Royal, S. C, in December, 1861, and was stationed for some time
near Hilton Head, and on Edisto Island. In March, 1862, Com-
panies E, F and a of the Fifty-fifth, P. V., while picketed on dif-
ferent parts of Edisto, were separately attacked by a force of some
500 rebels. After some skirmishing, the companies united their
forces, repulsed the enemy and drove them from the Island, Com-
pany F losing in killed, wounded and prisoners some twenty men.
The other companies sustained no loss. Company E numbered
on June 25, 1862, 92 rank and file. In February, 1862, Lieuten-
ant GrEORGE S. HiLL was detailed to the Signal Corps, and was
actively engaged at the taking of Fort Pulaski, and in the severe
engagement on James Island, S. C.

The muster roll of this Company as it left Schuylkill County, is
as follows :

Captain. ~EOn ACE C. BENNETT.
1st Lieut. — George S. Hill.
2d " John Slotterback,
1st Sergeant. — Winfield Bensaman.
2c? " George Slotterback.

3cf " Henry C. Bensaman,

4i/i " George Parry.

5//i " Henry E. Snyder.

1st Corporal. — John McClay.

James Miller.

Michael Murray.

Ath

Miles Rourke.

i>ih

Charles Fritchley.

'oth

John Deitrich.

1th

William Challenger,

Daniel Chester.

Drummer.

— George Allen.

privates.

Acfams, Dennis

Billman, Daniel

Booth, John

Campbell, James

Bannan, John S.

Campbell, John

Beggs, Matthew

Comeford, Patrick j

Baird, John

Conway, Daniel

Berger, Jacob

Coyle, Edward

Three Years, or the War.

129

Company E, Fifty-Fifth Regiment — Continued.

Caton, James Murphy, Peter

Condron, John Mohan, John

Churchficld, Patrick McFarUine, James

Dengler, Daniel F. McNamara, Michael

Delaney, Patrick Munday, Francis

Derr, AVilliam Maggee, William

Finely, Owen McDonough, Patrick

Foulk, George McCain, John

Fowler, William Madden, John

Fluge, Jacob O'Donnel, James

Fairley, Alexander O'Kane, James

Gehrer, John Paden, John

Gallagher, Francis Pease, Robert

Govan, Andrew Kafferty, Patrick

Harrison, John Rogers, Arthur

Hay, Robert Reed, Monroe

Hepler, Henry Reitz, Peter

Hay, William Sharp, Thomas

Haas, George Smith, George

Haas, John Tobin, Thomas

Hughs, David Tobin, James

Jones, John J. Thomas, Hiram

Kuehn, William Welsh, Luke

Kuehn, Jr., William Wormai, John

Kelter, James Wormwood, John

Lynch, Patrick >Velsh Joseph F.

Lawrence, John Wier, David

Lantz, John Wagner, John B.

Langton, Mortimer Williamson, William

Maggee, John Watkins, Samuel D.

Maggee, Thomas Yoder, Aaron

McAllister, Daniel Zernholt, George

Field Officer, - - - ^ - - - 1

Commissioned Line Officers, - - . - 3
Non-commissioned " - - - - 13

Musician, --------1

Privates, ___.-_- 78

Total, 96

COMPANY B.

John Layman.

COMPANY 0.

William Wagner.

On Wednesday, December 18, 1861, the Seventh Regiment,
Pennsylvania Cavalry^ left Harrisburg for Kentucky. Before

11*

130 Three Years, or the War.

taking its departure it was presented with a standard and guidons,
in the Capitol grounds, by Governor Andrew G. Curtin.

Of the field and staff officers of the Regiment, the following
belonged to Schuylkill County :

Colo?icl.— GEORGE C. WYNKOOP.

Majors. — John E. Wynkoop, James J. Seibert.

Adjutant. — R. F. INIosON.

Quartermaster. — Thomas H. Rickert.

The battalion organizations of the Regiment were as follows :

First Battalion. — Major — John E. Wynkoop ; Adjutant — William J.
Allen ; Quartermaster — Wilj.iam J. McQuade.

Second Battalion. — Mnjor — James J. Seibert; Adjutant — N. E. Wyn-
K'^op ; Quartermaster — John D. Burge. *"-

T/u'rJ Battalion. — Major — James E. Given: Adjutant — Dr. Warfield;
(^lartermaster — R. H. Fisk,

Companies A and F of this Regiment were recruited in Schuyl-
kill County. A few men, also from Schuylkill, were scattered in
other companies.

The muster rolls are as follows :

SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY,

(EIGHTIETH REGIMENT, P. Y.)
COMPANY A.

Captain.— WILLIAM H. JENNINGS.

1st Lieut. — Tho?ii.as H. Rickert.

2d '• John D. Jones.

1st Serjeant. — William J. Allen.

2d " Thomas M. Price, Quartermaster Sergt,

Sd " David J. Price

ith " Henry B. Zimmerman.

kith *' John A. Ennis.

G/A " David T. Reese.

l.'st Corporal.— CuARj.KS L. Roorback.

2d " Frederick Hopkins.

3c? " David H. ^yETZEL.

4th " Edward H. Siiutt.

[>th " Pkter F. Kelly.

6//i " Morris O'Neal.

7th " John Greatiiead.

8th " William Arter. *

Farrier. — Frederick W. Davis.

Blacksmith. — Adam M. Fahringer.

Musicians. — Joseph Ashlan, John McIlhmnnhy.

Saddler. — John Clews.

Wa(/oner. — Peter Starr.

Three Yeaiis, or the War.

131

Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

PRIVATES.

Austin, Edward
Anspach, Daniel
Anspach, George
Angus, William
Burns, Anthony
Bateman, James
Bramley, John
Bradley, Edward
Beisel, Henry H.
Beaver, Jacob
Brennan, John
Cowlishaw, Joseph
Corby, Ralph
Cranston, John L.
Chadwick, Thomas
Chadwick, Benjamin
Clarke, Peter
Cannon, Martin
Canfield, John
Carl, John
Davidson, Jonathan
' Dodds, Jonathan
Dawson, Robert S.
Dodds, Matthew
Duify, Francis XJ,
Dolan, Jolm
Duly, Thomas
Effort, Samuel
Ferguson, John
Feindt, Clement
Fogarty, Patrick
Fagley, Daniel
Geigher, William
Gottshall, William
Gilaspie, James G.
Hertzog, Benjamin
Himmer, Jacob
Hazzard, John T.
Heather, John
Hartliue, John
Heney, William
Hammer, Frederick
Hetherington, George
Herb, Felix
Herring, George W\
Jones, Richard
Jones, Jacob D.
Kitchen, George B. F.
Keely, James
Kerby, Ralph
Kelly, Patrick
Koch, Henry
Kelly, John T.

Kahres, Emanuel
Lanigan, Luke A.
Leonard, Francis
Livesly, Edmund
McMuUen, Edward
Montgomery, William
Maul, Lewis
Marks, Isaac
Mac, John
Mertz, James A.
Madden, William
Mahoney, James 0.
Mulcachny, Patrick
Marley, William
Paul, Daniel
Price, David I.
Paul, Emanuel
Powers, Thomas
Rafferty, Philip
Robson, John M,
Rahn, George
Reese, John W.
Roorbaeh, Arthur 0.
Snyder, John
Snyder, Henry H,
Smith, James
Segley, John
Smith, John
Snyder, Emanuel
Shuttheiser, Augustus
Schrope, Frederick A.
Snyder, Peter H.
Shutt, Lewis H.
Shaw, Joseph C.
Tighe, Charles
Thomas, William
Taggart, John
Thompson, John
William, Thomas
W^inter, Peter
Welsh, Charles
W^hite, Charles
Walker, Daniel D.
Wetzel, Augustus H.
W^etzel, John H.
Welsh, Nicholas
Williams, Eli
Weigly, Francis
Ward, Charles
Zimmerman, Robert M.
Zimmerman, Joseph B.
Zimmerman, Henry B.

132

Three Years, or the War.

Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Commissioned Officers, - _ - - 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 14
Mechanics, - -_-__. 3

Musicians, ----___ 2

Wagoner, --..__. j

Privates, ---._.. 105

Total, - 128

Dechant, William

C.OMPANY C.

Lee, George

COMPANY. F.

l5^ Lieut. — Heber S. Tiiobipson.
2d " Berniiard Reilly.

Ist Sergeant. — Geo. F. Stahlin^^

Charles Vandusen.

George M. Boyer.

James A. Wilson.

A. BUMMERSBOCII.
CONDY McGuIRE.

-John K. Donnehower.

George C. Lee.

Valentine K. Boyer.

George J. Harig.

William AYatkins.

Samuel Winn.

William Jenkins.

Joseph R. Fisher.
-Joseph Partridge.
John Conghlin.
Farrier. — William 0. Jones.
Blacksmith. — Adam Mager.
Saddler. — Joseph Reed.
1*/ Teamster. — Josiah H. Anderson.
2d " David Levan.

8<^ " Jonathan B. Reber.

Q. M.

2d "

4th <'

6th "

1st Corporal,
2d

4:th "

Qth ''

7 th "

8th *'

1st Bugler.
2d "

Berger, Martin
Baney, John
Beaver, William H.
Boyle, James
Bowers, Charles
Berger, John B.
Berger, Abraham
Burge, John D.
Brennan, Owen
Bartolet, William H.
]5]-auclier, Charles L.

PRIVATES.

Cochran, John
Crosby, Thomas
Collins, James
Crimmens, Timothy
Cleary, Michael
Clingerman, Charles B.
Cunningham, John
Carey, Michael
Dolan, Thomas
Dickenson, John
Dennings, Joseph

Three Years, or the War.

133

Company F, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Dent, James F.

Murphy, Patrick

Dunlap, Samael

Mo ran.

Michael

Fotheringill, Richard

Miller,

John H.

Flinn, Patrick

Martin,

David

Fisher, Emanuel

Mooney

, John

Fitzgerald, John

Nargot,

Jacob

Fisk, Richard H.

Poff, Amos

Fartich, John A. Jr.

Rosser,

John

Fitzpatrick, Daniel

Reed, F

rancis

Freed, Henry C.

Rehrig,

Peter

Gildes, Michael

Reilly,

John

Hegin, Barney

Reber,

Gideon

Hainz, Henry

Spear,

John V.

Hodge, William

Stephens, William J.

Haley, Patrick

Seiler,

Eli

Hower, Charles S.

Shire, James

Horn, Elias

Siegfrit

d, Daniel

House, John

Shannon, Samuel S.

Jones, Thomas

Trump.

Samuel

Jones, Joseph

Vernon

, S. J. W.

Klinger, William R.

Vandyi

.e, Abraham

King, Daniel

Wilson,

James

Keyser, George

Wilson,

Thomas

Leage, Carl

Wood, '

rhomas B.

Loeser, Charles F.

Wilson,

John A.

Llewellyn, Llewelly

Weight

man, John

Lawler, Edward

Warfield, J. H. B.

Link, Cornelius

Wumer

Amandus

Lambert, George

Zehner

William

Linn, Charles

Ward, John

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers, -

Musicians,

- - 2

Mechanics,

Teamsters,

Privates,

_ - -

Total,

- 106

COMPANY L.

Cluff, John

Roley,

James

Duffy, John

Reed, Francis

McKnight, —

Wright

John

Parker, Thomas H.

COMPANY I.

Bowsman, Henry

Cramer

, Samuel

Clark, Peter

Fallen,

James

134 Three Years, or the War.

Company I, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Hummel, Abraham McGovern, John

James, Peter ■ Taylor, James

Messuer, Michael Watts, William

Messuer, Henry

COMPANY K. ,

Hasker, Garret Reiser, George

COMPANY E.

McGuire, Condy

COMPANY D.

Kurtz, Martin L.

RECAPITULATION.

Field and Staff, --...- 5

Commissioned line officers, - - - - - 5

Non-commissioned '' - - - - 28

^lusicians, --------5

Mechanics, ---.._- 6

Teamsters, -_--_---4
Privates, - - 211

Total, ---_-.- 264

These regiments are the only three year volunteer organiza-
tions in which Schuylkill County is represented by more than a
single full company. During the Summer and Fall of 1861, how-
ever, hundreds of men belonging to Schuylkill enlisted in other
Pennsylvania regiments ; in regiments of other States ; in the
Navy, and in the regular army. We have with much labor and
care, collected the names of these volunteers, and will now give
them, commencing with the regiments of our own State, and then
proceeding to the regiments of other States; to the regular ser-
vice, etc.:

THIRD PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

(SIXTIETH REGIMENT, P. V.)

COL. W. H. AVERILL.

COMPANY L.

Captain.— 5. CLAUDE WHITE.

\st Lieutenant. — Howard Edmonds.
\st Sergeant. — Daniel Jones.

Three Years, or the War.

135

Company L, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

2d Sergeant — John Burlee.

Zd " S. P. BOYER.

4:th " John Johnson.

hth " David Levy.

1st Corporal. --Geo-rge W. Clark.

2c? " John Large.

3c? " William Green.

4//* '« Edward Ferguson.

Bih " William Ryan.

Qth ♦♦ John F. Gallagher.

7th *' Edward Gr[ffith.

Sth ** William A. Noble.

Bugler. — Joseph Miller.

" Marqueze Erneiquildo.

Farrier. — Thomas N. Davis.
Blacksmith. — Holden Chester.
" Watkins Waters.

Teamster. — William Edwards.

privates.

Austin, Edward
Boyer, Samuel K.
Bull, Thomas
Bickley, Charles
Brower, Calvin D.
Brennan, John
Byle^ John
Baker, John
Bainbridge, William
Burns, Anthony
Crauey, John
Carney, Michael
CoUahan, John
Carroll, James
Cox, James
Challenger, David
Cassady, Patrick
Dickson, Joseph
Duncan, David
Donnelly, Michael
Donnelly, John
Devine, William
Edwards, Josejjh J,
Flynn, John
Fulton, Robert
Fox, John
Guenther, Frederick
Gottschall, Adam
Humphrey, John
Hiel, William
Hummel, Lewis

Tohnston, James

vent, Daniel

Kries, George
Klinger, Edward H,
Lawler, Martin
Lambert, George
Lawler, James
Morley, Thomas
McCabe, Edward
McCann, Francis
Mowery, John M.
McMuUen, Edward
Maroney, William
Maby, John
McCabe, James
McAndrew, Edward
Mann, Joseph
Mealy, John
Miller, John H.
Moran, Michael J.
Mann, William
McKniglit, Lawrence
Norton, William
O'Meally, William
O'Neil, Patrick
Ochner, Christian
Porter, John
Price, Thomas H.
Patton, Joseph
Ryan, John
Roaney, John
Reily, Thomas
Reese, David
Reiley, John
Reily, James

1-36

Three Years, or the War.

Company L, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Roberts, Reese W. ■ Welsh, James H.

Slirop, Frederick Wilson, Andrew H.

Stonehouse, John Wyatt, George

Smith, John . Williams, William

Sterling, John ' Wright, Calv.in D.

Shindler, Calvin Waterhouse, William

Shutt, George W. Wilson, George

Stromier, Charles Wiehry, Daniel

Storm, Augustus York, James

Thompson, Ephraim Zimmerman, —
U'mbenhower, Francis

Commissioned Officers, - . _ . 2

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 13

Musicians, - - -- - - - 2

Mechanics, .---__. 3

Teamster, -.--"_-_ 1

Privates, - 87

Total, — - - 108

SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT P. V.

COLONEL JOHN F. STANTON.

C 0 iM P A N Y K .

Ist Lieutenant. — Theo. F. Patterson.
2c? '* William Heffner.

1st Sergeant. — Edward Nagle.

Jno. J. Christian.

Franklin A. Shoener

4:th *'

Francis Hause.

1st Corporal.

— George Rice.

Martin Hutchinson.

John Martz,

Ath "

Samuel B. McQuade.

bill ''

Benjamin F. Barlet.

6^/i

Daniel H. Christian.

1th "

Charles Ewing.

Drummer. — John Y. Wren .Jr.,
Buyler. — Henry ]\1yers.
Wagoner. — Daniel Keeler.

privates.

Albertson, George
Braden, Nathan
Bauman, Jr., John
Bauman, Sr., John
Christian, Benjamin
Davis, Benjamin B.
Deihm, S. Francis

Dimmerling, Peter
Dalius, D. D.
Dunklebergcr, Charles
Ewing, William D.
Fatzinger, Eli
Faust, William
Garrett, Charles F.

Three Years, or the War.

137

Company K, Sixty Seventh Regiment — Continued.

Goyer, John Roehrig, James

Hause, Edward Schmidola, William

Kemery, Daniel Slioebe, Daniel

Langton, Martin Shrively, Daniel

Lutz, Jacob. Schoener, Samuel

Lewis, Edgar P. Schoener, James

Lawlews, John Sands, Theodore

Lowthert, William Snyder, George

McGurl, John Titus, Edgar R.

Moore, Aaron Trout, Jeremiah

Myers, Thomas T. Windland, Abraham

O'Rorick, James Witterman, John M.

l»onter, Henry S. Wilman, John M.
Richardson, John

Commissioned Officers, 2

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 11

Musicians, _._---- 2

Wagoner, __----- l

Privates, _.__.-_ 41

Total, - 5f)

Welsh, William
Higgins, John

COMPANY A.

Collins, Hugh
Johnson, William

COMPANY H.

Glass. Jacob L.

SEVENTEENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

COMPANY —

Captain.— W'TLLWlSl THOMPSON.

Ist Lieutenant. — Baird Snyder.

2d '• William J. Allen.

1st Sergeant. — George W. Garrett.

Quar. " Jacob A. Schlasemax.

Com. " Charles Simmer..

2d " Thomas Hoch.

Zd " Bernard Eisenhuth.

4^/t " William H. H. Brown.

hth " John Smith.

Qth " John C. West,

Ist Corpora/.— Joseph H. Weaver.

2c? " George S. Herring.

3c? " Charles Davis.

Afk " Benneville M. Harris.

138

Three Years, or the War.

Company — , Seventeenth Penna. Cavalry — Continued.

bth Corporal-
Kith -
lih "
Sth

-Franklin Rhodes.
Ebermard Gkssler.
JosEPir H. Beadle.
William Douty.

Teamster. — Radiant Riffert.

" Emanuel H, Boljch.

Blacksmith. — John Martz.

•' Levi Werntz,

Saddler. — Philip Artz.
Wagoner. — Jacob E. Fertig.

privates.

Bradley, Hugh
Brobst, Joseph M.
Blaber, .Samuel E.
Banker, Jonas
IJankev, Lewis
Banker, George W.
Bitler, Joseph
Bleckinger, Francis
Baker, Jacob
Blue, Lsaac IL
Clauser, John P.
Doutal, George
Doherty, John
Dengler, Henry F.
Oerr, Daniel
Derr, Eli as
Eyster, Charles M.
Furhman, Lewis
Finley, James
Fetcrolf, Peter
Gross, William
G anker, Benneville
(ioldrnan, Oliver
Hoy, Daniel
Herbert, Thomas
Haley, Martin
Heiser, Jacob B.
Hoffa, John K.
Haley, Thomas
Koppenhaffer, Thomas L
Kloch, Benjamin F.
Koons, Joel
Kobel, Isaac
Kramer, Zachariah
Kriger. Daniel D.
Linden iijuth, Joseph
Ludwig, John
Luckncr, Pliilip
Langdon, Lewis M.

Commissioned Oificers,
Non-commigsioned Officers,

Michael, Levi
AHller, Samuel G.
McDonald, Daniel
Maury, Solomon
""■Marwine, Charles G.
Matthews, Charles G.
Mulligan, John
Markle, William
McMuUin, Daniel
Moyer, Emanuel
Michael, William
Nungesser, George
Nungesser, Benjamin
Norris, John G.
Obenhouser, Solomon S.
Procter, Charles
Ryan, John J.
Rubright, Aaron S.
Reed, Elias E.
Rupert, William L
Rumbel, Daniel A.
Schrope, Franklin B.
Schorer. Michael
Snyder, John M.
Sell, Isaac
Simmer, Joseph
St. Clair, James P.
Strausser, Daniel
Troy, Charles B.
Troy, Philip
White, Thomas
Werner, -Jacob
WiHiams, William R,.
Weiss, Jonas
Yorgey, Hirajn
Yarnall, Isaac IT.
Yarnall, Samuel
Zimmerman, Jacob
Zimmerman, AVilliam B.

- 10

Three Years, or the War. 139

Company — , Seventeenth Penna. Cavalry — Continued.

Teamsters, .--_--- 2

Blacksmiths, '^

Saddler, -------- 3

Wagoner, _.------]

Privates, 78

Total, -------- 9:J

TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL F. 11. NEILL.

Dewald, Reuben Jenkins, Benjamin (Co. ID

JJoru, Abraham Griffith, John H.

TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL WM. F. SMALL.

Goldsmith, James (Co. F.) Shane, Christian (Co. D.)

TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL A. BUSITBACIL
Gallagher, .);!jnes (Co. A.)

TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL GABRIEL De KORPONAY.
COMPANY A.

Silliman, Jr., Lieut. James - Shirey, James
Sitter. Daniel Hoffman, Gustavus

Cunningham, Thomas Morgan, John

McKeeheney, Corporal Alex. Barnett. Charles

Moycr, William Brennan. Richard

Glase. Sidney Killrain, John

COMPANY D.

Bailey, Edward Arnold, .Jacob

Agnew, Francis

COMPANY E.

Young. Thomas Eveland, Edward 11.

Mosser, Gideon Weston, Herbert

Mosser, Aaron

COMPANY H.
Horn, William

140 Three Years, or the War.

COMPANY K.

McGurl, Tixomas Schreffler, William J.

COMPANY N.

Schwenk, Daniel Bobst, Jacob

Trout, Maberry Goulden, Philip

Dolan, Brian

COMPANY 0 .

Hughes, James

COMPANY P.

Ilart., Thomas Lavcnberg, Sergeant John

Leffler, William

TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL JOHN K. MURPHY.

Haas, Andrew (Co, H.) Marley, John

Hallahan, Patrick

[ HIRTIETH REGIMENT, P. Y. (1st Reserves.)

COLONEL R. BIDDLE ROBERTS.

Marten, Thomas

THIRTYFIRST REGIMENT, P. Y. (2d Reserves.)

COLONEL WILLLAM McCANDLESS.
Wetherill, Major John M. Coleman, Surgeon A. G.

COMPANY A.

Higgins, William Stapleton, Corporal James

Locket, George

COMPANY C .

Shoots, Peter Fitzsimmons, Patrick

Whitegall, Frederick Campbell, John

Heilraan, Philip Foster, Mark
Boyle, John

COMPANY G.

Mattson, Sergeant David B. Conway, William

COMPANY H.

DoUard, Patrick

COMPANY I.

Foster, Color Corporal Thomas J.

Three Years, or the War. 141

THIRTY-SECOND REGT., P. V. (3d Reserves.)

COLONEL H. Ct. SICKLES.

Stallecker, John Donnelly, Michael

Kerschner, Lewis Edwards, William

Carl, James Hadesty —

COMPANY F.

Moll, Lieutenant Edward K. Boyer, William

Gilbert, Adam Thomas, Edward

Yost, Heury

COMPANY L.

Chester, Holden

THIRTY:THIRD REGT., P. V. (4th Reserves.)

COLONEL A. L. MAGILTON.

COMPANY A.

Stahler, David

THIRTY-FOURTH REGT., P. V. (5th Reserves.)

COLONEL S. G. SIMMONS.

Porter. Corporal James Canfield, Patrick

Doherty, Corpoi\al Daniel Creeswell, Thomas

Carr, George Foley, Edward

Troy, Robert Hagerty, Robert

Davis, Francis Mullen, Michael

Sullivan, Marty Paxon, John

COMPANY A .

Dry, Benjamin

COMPANY B.

Johnson, John H. (hospital steward.)

COMPANY F.

Jenkins, James

THIRTY-FIFTH REGT., P. V. (6th Reserves.)

COLONEL WILLIAM SINCLAIR.

COMPANY A .

Parmenter, William A. Canfield, Michael

Slater, Henry P. Kurtz, Emanuel

12*

142 Three Years, or the "War.

COMPANY B.

Sauce, Richard Finny, Patrick

Boran, Thomas McAllister, James

Dasey, Martin

COMPANY C.

('oiler, Charles Bonewitz, Lieutenant Jacob

Johns, Henry

THIRTY-SIXTH REGT., P. V. (7th Reserves.)

Harris, Henry Paul Emanuel

Beddinger, DaviiJ Gottshall Samuel

Heffner, Henry Caughlin, John

Van Burenbiko. Huntzinger, Robert

COMPANY C.

Curry, Thomas

COMPANY G.

Williams, William -

COMPANY H.

Breish, Anron Murray, James P>

Casey, William Mackey, Robert

Dunn, Daniel (Fifer) O'Donnell, John

Delany, Jeremia'i Williams, Sergeant Wm. J.
Miller, John

J 0 M P A N Y I .

Booiicy, John Barr, Henry

Soliday, Cyrus Miller, Charles

Keasey, William

C 0 M P A NY L .
Huntzinger, lloherf, iVI, Huntzinger, John J.

THIRTY-SEVENTH REGT., P. V. (8th Reserves.)

COLONEL GEORGE S.. HAYES.
Fields, Dennis f Drum -major) Powers, Thomas

THIRTY-EIGHTH REGT., P. V. (9th Reserves.)

COLONEL C. F. JACKSON.
Delanej, John Middleton, Longstaff

COMPANY B .

Griffith, Sergeant Thomas D.

C 0 M P A N Y H .

Shields, Michael

COMPANY K .
Flynn, Thomas

Three Years, or the War. 143

THIRTY-NINTH REGT., P. V. (10th Reserves.)

COLONEL JAMES T. KIRK.

Schwepf, George

COMPANY H.

Bretz, George

FORTIETH REGT., P. V. (llth Reserves.)

COLONEL T. F. GALLAGHER.
Koch, John Ernst, Christian

Matteer, William McCue, Michael

Drawble, .John (musician)

COMPANY D.

Keyser, C. W. Bitner, John

Dinfeinger, H. Bitner, William

COMPANY a.

Wentz, Ferdinand

COMPANY H .

Overy, William Mosser, Joseph

Haldeman, C. Williams, Isaac

Moyer, Lewis Poke, Josiah

Ray, William Kistler Daniel

Foulk, Charles J. Detrich, Josiah

Herring, Joseph Krum, Noah

Conigham, Terrence Neyer, Moses

Chester, Holdeu Martin, Monroe P.

Canning, John Adams, David

Delay, John Rex, Aaron

FORTY-FIRST REGT., P. V. (12th Reserves.)

COLONEL J. H. TAGGART.
COMPANY D.

Pike, Martin

FORTY-SECOND REGT., P. V. (13th Reserves.)

COLONEL HUGH McNEIL.
Williams, David

FORTY-THIRD REGT., P. V. (1st Artillery.)

COLONEL R. M. WEST.

Matthews, Captain E. W. Gray, Michael

Bradley, Sergeant Patrick McCabe, John

Robinson, Corporal Thomas Uhler, Ephriam

Boyle, James Bridegam, Frank

144 Theee Years, or the War.

C 0 M P A N Y A .

Barr, Henry

COMPANY C .

Uhler, Ephraim Uinbenliaur, William

COMPANY F.

MooT'e, Corporal L. E. C.

COMPANY H.

Walker, Joseph S.
COMPANY L.

Wilson, George

FORTY-FOURTH REGT., P. V. (1st Cavalry.)

COLONEL OWEN JONES.
Norton, Thomas —
COMPANY a.

Adams, George
COMPANY K.

Horn, Thomas

COMPANY M.

Poll, Sergeant Jackson Allison, James

Smith, Sergeant James

FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL JOSEPH F. KNIPE.

COMPANY K.

McCoUough, Gaven Curren, Nicholas

Douevan, Patrick Brosius, William

Neischwender, Cornelius Brosius, George

Mullin, Patrick Snyder, Augustus

FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL THOMAS H. GOOD.
Kilmer, George Burnshire, Michael

COMPANY C .
epler, George K. Lefend, Henry

FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL WILLIAM H. IIIWIN.
Strausser, Sergeant Jacob

Three Years, or the War. 145

FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL JOHN II. DODGE.

Cummings, Wesley

Niese, Henry C.

Fairfield, Jolin

Donevan, James

Reed, Joseph

Butts, Abraham

O'Harra, Charles

Jeremiah, David

Brennan, John

Dale, Joseph

Collahan, Edward W.

COMPANY

Shivelhood, Joseph

Davis, James

Thomas, Thomas

COMPANY

Smith, Captain Beaton

Hughes, Lieutenant Wra,

"Williams, Samuel

Jones, Sergeant B. F.

Sowers, Erastus

Giles, Lawrence

Lucas, Charles

Welter, Gerhard

Sowers, Ralph

Senef, Albert

Jones, William

COMPANY K .

Jones, Jr., Captain .Tohn Ryan, Edward

Hennessy, Lieutenant John J. Carman, James

Henegan, Michael

FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL JOHN R. BROOKE.
May, Henry

COMPANY A .

Lichtenhorn, C. F.

COMPANY E.

McLaughlin, Patrick McGallas, Daniel

FIFTY^SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL S. A. MEREDITH.

COMPANY C .

Haley, Michael

COMPANY D .

Delaney, John

COMPANY E.

Adams, Dennis Row, Thomas

COMPANY K.

Mitchell, Captain David Hetherington, James A,

Rossiter, Asst. Quar. Preston Cortier, Philip

Kane, Sergeant Robert B. Stevenson, William

Rose, Corporal George W. Allison, George

Barnum, Corporal William Curreu, Nicholas

Dickerson, Francis Smith, Harrison
Jones, Isaac B.

146 Three Years, or the War.

FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLOxNEL CHARLES T. CAMPBELL.
COMPANY A .

Weir, Christian Stack, Jolm

C 0 M P A N Y F .

Mareiue, Edward

FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL J. RICHTEll JONES.

COMPANY C .
Holton, James Owens. James

COMPANY I .

Cobley, Corporal Bennett

FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. V. (2d Cavalry.)

COLONEL R. BUTLER TRICE.
COMPANY A.

Moore, Tboivuis

SIXTY-FIRST REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL G. C. SPEAR.
C 0 M P A N Y CI .

Seiler, Augustus

COMPANY I .

Eaust, Augustus

SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL J. B. SWITZER.
COMPANY I.

Sliurey, Henry

SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL ALEXANDER HAYS.

Cameron, John

Three Years, or the War.

147

SIXTY-FOURTH REGT., P. V. (4th Cavalry.)

COLONEL J. IL CIIiLDS.

C 0 M P A x\ Y a.

I'rcnnan, John

SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, P. V. (5th Cavalry.)

COLONEL DAVID CAMPBELL.

Cowley, Corporal William
Helms, Peter D. (bugler.)
Rohrback, .John
Reudcd, Daniel
Mulgrave, James
Immendorf, Jacob
Barras, John
Downs, Thomas
Edwards, Joseph
Baily, John
llufman, David B.

Harman, George
Bo wen, V/illiam
McGrew, Joseph
Dr^-der, Wetlierill
Halkyard, Adam,
Wilson, Josepli
McEhvain, Hazlctt
Lindenmuth, William
Williams, Charles
Dress, Henry
Riland, Richard R.

Sliuev, Jacob

Madara Charles

G 0 ^I P A N Y

Rockhara, Michael
Grosh, Peter

C 0 i>I P A N Y

Yocum, Lieut. Seth H.
Clayton, Sergeant Henry M.

COMPANY a.

Carl, William :Marley, Thoma*

Drumm, Hugh

COMPANY H.

Nuttle, Oliver, Hartman, .John

Derkin, John
Hough, hSilas C.

Winn, Thomas

COMPANY I .

Clayton, Byron G. Eberle, David

COMPANY K .

Martin, Patrick W^eaver, CJiarles

("ummings, Thomas Hauser, ITci'man

Weaver, Louis

SIXTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL J. PATRICK.

COMPANY G.
Dolan, Owen

148 Three Years, or the War.

SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. V,

COLONEL JOHN T. OWEN.

Ryan, Sergeant John Spatzer, Emanuel

Brown, Edward Livingston, Hugh
Reilly, Martin

COMPANY A.

Cole, James McCoy, Daniel

Maley, John Stonefield, Henry

COMPANY H.

Donahoe, James Bradley, John
COMPANY K.

Flyu, Michael Mulhall, John

SEVENTIETH REGIMENT, P. V. (6th Cavalry.)
colonel r. h. rush.

Pepper, Michael Davis, Joseph

Field, Henry

C 0 M P A N Y A.

Brennan, James Griffith, Thomas

Sanders, Daniel

COMPANY B.

Christian, Daniel Auld, Corporal David

Lanigan, Michael Bowman, William

Sauerbrey, John

COMPANY C.

HoflFman, Daniel Walker, John

Callahan, Thomas

COMPANY E.

Menear, John Stein, Christian

Richardson, John

COMPANY F.

Davis, Evan Christ, Jacob

COMPANY a.

Wright, Henry Roads, John E.

Heckler, Henry

COMPANY H.

Boardy, Albert Loy, ^Yilliam

Helms, Hiram Moyer, George

Knarr, George

SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL ISAAC G. WISTAR.
Miller, Reuben

Three Years, or the War. 149

SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL D. W. C. BAXTER.

COMPANY E.

Raudcnbush, Charles Place, William

COMPANY H.

Wythes, Joseph H.

SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL FRANCIS MAULER.

Billeau, Barnabas Whitesnecker, Charles

Lorenz, Long Heck, John W.

Hartman, John Litmyer, Barnabas

Shoey, Jacob Stang, Henry

White, David Roehrig, Christian

Wondrous, George Sigler, Lewis

COMPANY A.

Buchler, John Beighler, Joseph

COMPANY D.

Pauley, Sergeant Jacob Laubach, Matthias

Yost, Jacob Oarther, Charles

Veil, Nicholas Cloan, James

Mohan, Phillip Weigenecker, —

COMPANY E.

Horning, Gottleib Guenther, Corporal Jacob

Hartman, John Guenther, John

C O M P A NY F .

Goodman, Charles Brushower, George

Navel, .Joseph

C 0 M P A NY a.

Vance, Corporal Frederick Kafer, Matthias

COMPANY I.

Bush, .Jacob

SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL DANIEL H. WALLACE.

Kremer, Jeremiah Knittle, Joseph

Kremer, Francis Guyer, John

COMPANY D.

Nolen, John Burger, Jacob

Kantner, William

COMPANY E.

Benseman, Charles

COMPANY I.

Adams, Patrick Umbenhaucr, William

Umbenhauer, Frank Doonen, Francis

150

Three Years, or the War.

COMPANY

Brumm, Lieut. Charles N.
Moorehead, Sergt William S. •
Hughes, Sergeant James N.
Malick, Corporal Adam
Falls, Corporal Zachariah
Evans, Corporal Joseph
Esterheld, Emanuel
Moser, Franklin
Mourer, William P.
Brown, John
Robertson, Joseph
Malick, Charles
Davis, James

Haas, George
Davis, Robert
Henich, Henry
De Haven, Horace
Mull, Henry
Jenkins, David
Davis, Isaac
Deiter, Peter
Shirey, Daniel
Hurley, William
Boyle, Michael
Conell, Thomas
Reed, Thomas

SEVENTY-SEVENTH EEGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL F. S. STERBAUGH.
Gallagher, Patrick J.

COMPANY G.

Thomas, John

SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL H. A. HAMBRIGHT.

COMPANY A.

Tucker, Augustus

EIGHTY-FIRST REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL CHARLES F. JOHNSON

Brennan, William
Dunn, Daniel

0' Brian, Michael
Halfpenny, James

Casey, William

COMPANY B.

Glenroy, James

COMPANY C.

Morrison, Charles
COMPANY H .

Delay, Corporal Jeremiah
Burns, James
Fisher, Owen
Breish, Aaron
Zimmerman, Emanuel
Guldin, Patrick
Rogers, Andrew
Morton, Lieutenant Thomae
Mackecbney, William

COMPANY I.

SchrefRer, William

COMPANY K.

Kennan, Isaac Dolan, Peter

Kelly, Barney

Rogers, Andrew

Ratcliife, John
Evans, Jenkins
Williams, AY.
O'Donnell, John
Thomas, William
Mackey, Ptobert
King, James
Ratcliffc, John

Three Years, or the War. 151

EIGHTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL D. IL WILLIAMS.
Morgan, Thomas T.

EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL STRONG VINCENT.
Movt, Adam Thompson, Dr.

EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL SAMUEL B. BOWMAN.
Bulles, William Burns, Patrick

Taubert, Washington

COMPANY B.

Pinkerton, Joseph A. Downey, Eugene

COMPANY D.

Snedden, Corporal John

COMPANY H.

Garrigerm, John Rehr, George

EIGHTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.

colonel GEORGE P. McLEAN.

COMPANY A .

Beaumont, William Beaumont, John

Beaumont, George Howard David

COMPANY B.

Eppinger, John Kram, Jacob S.

C 0 J^I P A N Y C .

Pugh, William

EIGHTY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. Y. (8th Cavalry ,>
colonel d. m. grigg.

Payne, Corporal John J. Davis, David

McGirl, Thomas Nunemacher, Joseph

Walsh, James Walsh, John
Pavne, Robert C.

C 0 M P A N Y G .

Gibson, George Thomas, Benjamin
Callaway, William

COMPANY K.

Burton, George W. Goershel, Adolpk
Richards, Thomas

COMPANY M .

Eltringham, Mark Luch, Isadora

Meyer, James M. SlcCann, Andrew

152 Three Years, or the "War.

NINETIETH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL PETER LYLE.

Williams, Joseph Moore, James

White, Thomas Money, Patrick

Smith, Robert S. Donellanson, John

Robinson, Samuel Spades, Hiram

Geran, James Spades, Henry

Hessin, John Dugan, Charles

Calavour, Philip Gill, Charles

McGrath, James Roberts, Theodore

Tomkins, William Brady, Michael

Bricher, Jacob L. Donahoe, Robert

COMPANY B.

Major, Sergeant Charles A.

C 0 IM P A N Y H .

Crosland, Lewis C.

NINETY-SECOND REGT., P. V. (9tli Cavahy.)

COLONEL E. C. WILLIAMS.

Schrope, Frederick Williams, Thomas

Evans, John McGill, James

COMPANY A.

Griffiths, Lieutenant Thomas D,

COMPANY I .

Morris, Richard

COMPANY K.

Garner, Sergeant Frank Jones, John G.

Carmitchel, Daniel Kerrigan, Patrick

Carmitchel, John Tobin, Thomas B.

Moi'gan, Lemuel

NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONEL J. M. McCARTER.

COMPANY A.

Bowman, H. Clay Knapp, Cyrus

Conrad, Henry Knapp, Nelson

COMPANY B.

Fox, Jacob Heck, Abraham

Riland, William H. Lehr, Abraham

COMPANY C.

Southam, Corporal John Southam, Joseph

Moyer, James

COMPANY D.

Barr, Jacob

COMPANY F .

Luckinbill, Charles Oswald, Jacob

Keller, Jeremiah

Three Years, or the War. 153

COMPANY a.

Goodman, Lawrence Wetzel, Jr., William

McQuade, Francis ' Vogt, William

W^etzel, Sr., William Briglit, Sergeant William V> .

NINETY-FIFTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL GUSTAVUS W. TOWN.
Campbell, Peter Umbouhower, Joliu

Sands, David

NINETYSEYENTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL H. K. GUSS.
COMPANY D.

McCanly, Corporal William

NINETY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL JOHN F. BALLIER.

Seddinger, H. K. (hospital steward.)

COMPANY A.

Jacobs, George Deitrich, Levi

Smith, Feter Earny, Joseph

COMPANY B.
Zimmerman, Henry Frank, Lewis

C 0 ?»1 P A N Y C .

Pvindergnecht, Jacob

C 0 ]M P A N Y D .

Koehler, William Ediuer, Joseph

COMPANY E.

Wasser, Jacob Strohm, Frederick

COMPANY H.

Marquett, George Weiss, Henry

COMPANY K.

Kramer, John Bloom, John

Stahley, William Headerly, Frederick

Hetterling, Frederick

NINETY-NINTH REGIMENT, P. Y.

COLONEL ASHER S. LEIDY.
:^[aloy, Michael Keim, John

Maloy, Stephen Kerns, John

Durrah, James Sullivan, John

Williams, Henry Hammell, John

C 0 iM P A N Y C .

Lewis, John Williams, William R.

Tomkinson, Peter Hughes, Morgan

Whitmire, Charles Beadle, John

Thomas, Robert Russell, Thomas

Mullhall, James Russell, William Samuel

13*

154 Three Years, or the "War.

COMPANY D.

Hummel, Jolm JNIcKernan, John

Rice, James

C 0 M P A xN Y F .

Murphy, Andrew Schweider, John

Toohey, James

C 0 M P A N Y K .

Foley, Patrick Feannery, James

Stcelfax, Samuel

ONE HUNDREDTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COLONP]L D. LEASURE.
Palm, Dr.

ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST REGIMENT, P. Y.

colonel D. r>. MORRIS
Winkler, Jenkins Blunt, Joseph

COMPANY I_.

Brown, Lieut. George L, Tomkinson, Joseph

Perry, Sergeant Jolm Beiter, Jacob

Strauser. Joel Went, Jacob

Fritz, John Wingenfield, Adam

Berkman, Henry Weiss, Jacob
^lorris, Richard

ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL W. W. H. DAVIS.

Kennedy. Jonathan

COMPANY H.

Nuncmacher, Moses IMiller, Benjamin

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL WAKE FlKLl) W. (M)RBUT. f

Anspach, Daniel Kline. Edmund

C 0 M P A N Y C .

Dunster, Sergeant Isaac A.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL F. G. MOORHEAD.
Jones, George U. (luusician.)

C 0 M P A NY D .

Jones, Lieutenant William M.

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL THOMAS F. McCOY.
Dinger, Nathan KraflFert Sau^uel

Zeigler, John Kyau, John

Hetherington, James B. JiVkens, Isaac V

Sullivan, John

Three Years, or the War. 155

(j 0 M P A N Y A .

Cochlin, James Ziegler, John

COMPANY B.

Work, John M. Weber, John

Mander, George Moore, Capt. James A.

COMPANY C.

Scheck, Christian

COMPANY D.

Ponehugh, John Kelly, Patrick

Sullivan, Thomas Brennan, Thomas

McCarty, Jeremiah Sullivan, Thomas

Keilly, Edward Mannriller, Harrison Wm.

COMPANY a.

Hershman, Folletin Lehr, John

Heilner, Francis Reed, David

Hoyer, Benneville Scheck, Frederick

Miller, Reuben Sterner, William

Miller, Wendel Snyder, Nicholas

Carl, Moses Nagle, George

Dietrich, Ellis Clouser, Philip

Huber, George Chance, Lieutenant Hiram

Heckler, Henry Kegey, Henry

Hoy, Henry Fox, John

Lehman, Samuel

ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL H. J. STAINROOK.
Purcell, James Mentzel Edward

COMPANY F .

Bowen. John Williams, Evan

McGill, James - Humphrey, Sergt. Jonathan

Powell, John Edwards, John

Ridley, George

COMPANY K.

Stewart, George

ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL WILLIAM D. LEWIS, Jr.
Palm, Asst. Surgeon P. 11. Wiggan, Thomas

COMPANY a.

Blunt, Joseph

ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH REGT., P. V.

(2d Artillery ;

COLONEL A. A GIBSON.

BATTERY B.

Eichly, Adam

156 Three Years, or the "War.

B A T T E 11 Y G .

Downing, E. Butler Pott, Dick

Wren, John Y.

BATTERY I.

Heisler, Augustus Mover, Miltou

Beek, Wells

ONE HUNDRED & THIRTEENTH REGT., P. V.

(12th Cavalry.)
COLONEL L. B. PRINCE.
Morgan, John C. Henric, Adjutant G. AY.

COMPANY I.

Frederick, Reuben

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL ROBERT E. PATTERSON

Welden, Crist opher Oxrider, John W.

Welden, William Casey, Robert

Ferno^Y, John F. McCabe, Alexander

COMPANY A.

Boyd, .Tames Partington, William

Collins, John

COMPANY B.

McCarn, Sergeant Barney Coningham, M.

Rearden, Michael

ONE HUNDRED & SIXTEENTH REGT., P. V.

COLONEL DENNIS HEENxVN.
McCave, Alexander O'Brien, Edward

ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTEENTH REGT., P. V.

(13th Cavalry.)

COLONEL JAMES GALLAGHER.

COMPANY A .

Kleckner, Corporal Isaac Zimmerman, Joseph

Iluth,, George Landig, John

Leiser, Lewis Andrews, William

Zimmerman, Jacob Thomas^, Benjamin F
Gilbert, George

COMPANY B.

O'Shea, Sergeant Edward 0"Shea, J. L. A.

Ilaldeman, Levi Hetfner, William

Welsh, Daniel Thomson, James

Rumble, John H. Dutiy, John
Calloway, William

Three Years, or the War.

15T

Hendricks, John
Miller, John
Lutz, Joshua H.

COMPANY D.

Billig, Jonathan
Lewis, Morgan

COMPANY

Bickleman, Fritz
Spaats, Joseph
Rooney, Christopher
Herbert, Thomas

Lovett, Thomas
Kane, James
Paul, Charles

COMPANY F

Henry, Gottlieb

Shire, Thomas

Falls, William H.

Cunious, John

Miller, Daniel

Mackechney, Corporal Robert

Klinger, Louis

Smith, Godfrey

Managan, Jeremiah

Mullen, James

Rhoads, Matthias

Brienig, Daniel
Murry, Joseph
Faust, Charles
Lutz, John
Richards, George

COMPANY

Murphy, William
Craft, George
Murry, James
Costello, James
German, Richard
Luck, Isadoah
Phillips, John P.
Fox, Philip
Lutz, S. H.
Lutz, J. D.

Kroll, Jacob
Salmon, James
Glassmeyer, A. H.
Smith, Edward F.

ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTEENTH REGT , P. Y

(Philadelphia Corn Exchange.)
COLONEL CHARLES M. PROVOST.
Simpson, William Beard, Samuel T.

Frantz, Adam Maingay, Robert A.

CO MPAN Y I.

Seiders, Joseph L.

ONE HUNDRED & NINETEENTH REGT., P. Y.

COLONEL PETER C. ELLMAKER
COMPAN.Y A.

Delong, Adam

ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY-SECOND REGT., P. Y.

(3rd Artillery.)

COLONEL ANGOBARTH.

BATTERY F.

Porter, Lieutenant Joseph N.
Flaherty, Anthony

Darby, Maxwell
Hogan, Patrick

158 Three Years, or the AVar.

ANDERSON (15th PENNA.) CAVALRY.

COLONEL W. J. PALMER.
This body was originally organized as a single company, to act
as a body-guard for Gen. (the Fort Sumter Major) Anderson,
when he was ordered to take charge of the Department of Ken-
tucky. It numbered a hundred young Pennsylvanians, selected
for their intelligence and moral worth. In this Company were
the following named young men from SchuPj'lkill County :

Jones, Cliarles Henry Kram, Wellington J.

Jones, Ivens R.

The Company after rendering excellent service in the West, was

increased to a battalion, and finally to a regiment, with Captain

Palmer as Colonel. The following named young men enlisted in

it from this County :

Guldin, John Beak, Charles E.

Holmes, David E. Beck, Theodore F,
Morris, Robert C. ' Morgan, Henry W. »

Halberstadt, Alfred M. Kear, Richard C.

Moore, Horace A. Bannan, John N.

Fame, Edward Rahn, Oscar

Gable, William Bratton, Charles W.

Jones, Thomas A. Lefler, Frank
Henderson, James

JOHN WEIDMAN'S CAVALRY COMPANY

Mease, Isaac Lehrer, Abraham

FOURTH PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERY.

C 0 M P A NY E .

Sullivan, Patrick Hughes, Sergeant John C.

FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERY

Pugh, Henry Whalen, James

Hughes, John Harris, Henry

Rice, James , Davis, William

COMPANY A.

Harrison, Henry

SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERY.

Rowe, Robert

McC ALL'S BRIGADE FLYING ARTILLERY.

Umbenhower, William

Three Years, or the War. 159

INDEPENDENT CO. OF ENGINEERS, P. V.

Fyant, Lieut, Joseph

HARRIS' PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

Ferguson, Stephen Lawler, James

Lawlev, Martin

COMPANY E.

Christopher, Michael

IN PHILx\.DELPHIA REGIMENTS,

(numbers and companies not ascertained.)

Bradley, William Boggs, William

Cosgrove, James McDonald, Alexander

Fisher, James Johnson, Patrick

'' SCOTT LEGION."
COMPANY A .

Brennan, Patrick

GEN. NEGLEY'S BODY-GUARD.

CAPTAIN VAN CLE^V.
Edmonds, Thomas

"ANDERSON ZOUAVES."
COMPANY A.

Delay, John

SIGNAL CORPS.

Patterson, Lieut. Theodore F. Garrett, Charles

Curry, John Hodgson, Francis M.

GEN. THORP'S STAFF.

Whitfield, Lieut. Albert G.

GEN. JOHNSON'S GUARD.

Ferguson, Stephen

j "McLEAN GUARDS, CHIPPEWA REGIMENT."

' Morton. Thomas

160 Three Years, or the War.

IN EEGIMENTS OF OTHER STATES.

FIRST NEW JERSEY REGIMENT.

Haley, Thomas

SIXTH NEW JERSEY HEGIMENT.

McCormick, James

COMPANY E.

Lavebrecli, Archibald

FOURTEENTH NEW JERSEY REGIMENT,
C 0 M P A N Y B .

Dengler, Johnlsr.

IN A NEW JERSEY REGIMENT,

(number not ascertained.)
Maley, John

FIRST NEW YORK CAVALRY.

Nunemacher, Joseph

THIRD NEW YORK CAVALRY.

Reilly, Thomas

SEVENTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.

Smith, Joseph

TENTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.

Gordon, David

THIRTY-THIRD NEW YORK REGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Coates, Robert

rniRTY-SIXTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.

C 0 M P A N Y H .
Kane, Patrick

FORTIETH NEW YORK REGIMENT.
COMPANY G.

Burns, William (lost left arm in battle.)

Three Years, or the War. 161

FORTY-EIGHTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.

Duffy, Owen

FIFTY-SEYENTII NEW YORK REGIMENT.

Jones, William Jones, Evan

SIXTY-^NINTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.

Riley, Jolm Fealty, Patrick

ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH N. YORK REGT.

C 0 M P xi N Y I .

McWilliams, Jolm

NEW YORK EXCELSIOR REGIMENT.

Ilartz, Adjutant Wilson

sickles's'brigade.

Spatz, Frank

IN NEW YORK REGIMENTS,

(Numbers ami Companies not ascertained.}
Dolan, Terrence Burns, Michael

Haffy, Condy • Kershner, Lewis

TWENTIETH MAINE REGIMENT.

Davis, Henry

FIFTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT.

COMPANY E.

Amthower, Conrad

EIGHTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT.

Loeser, Colonel Lucien

FIFTH OHIO CAVALRY.

Nierman, Charles

NINTH OHIO REGIMENT.

COLONEL McCOOK.
Brandner, A. G.

TENTH OHIO REGIMENT.

COMPANY E.

Olaspire, William McGlinchey, James

162 Three Years, or the War.

SIXTEENTH OHIO REGIMENT.

COLONEL De COURCEY.

COM PANY E.

De Silva, Lieut. Manuel B.

EIGHTEENTH OHIO REGIMENT.

C 0 jM P A N Y E .

Leib, Valentine H.

TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT.

Kocli, William J.

TWENTIETH INDIANA REGIMENT.

Long, James D.

TWENTY-THIRD INDIANA REGIMENT.

Nunemaclicr, George

THIRTY-THIRD INDIANA REGIMENT.

Houseman, Charles

THIRTY-NINTH INDIANA REGIMENT.

Koch, Francis

FIFTY-EIGHTH INDIANA REGIMENT.
COMPANY H .

Goo<.I, Sei'geant 'Uriah Jones, Zaccarias

EIGHTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY.

Deibert, Jacob

FIFTEENTH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.
COMPANY H.

Small, Rudolph

EIGHTY-FOURTH INDIANA REGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Taylor, Charles N. |

IN INDIANA REGIMENTS,

(Numbers not ascertained.) .
Greenawalt, Aaron Medlar, Charles

Loni?, James

Three Years, or the War. 163

NINETEENTH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.

COLONEL G. T. TURCIIIN.
C O i^I P A N Y K .

Campbell, George P,

FIFTY-FIFTH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.

Casey, Corporal John

IN ILLINOIS REGIMENTS,

(Numbers not ascertained.)
Saylor, ^lorgan F. Steele, William

SECOND IOWA REGIMENT.

Rausli, Thomas

FIFTH IOWA REGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Godling, William

NINTH IOWA REGIMENT.

COLONEL Yv'M. VANDEEVER.
COMPANY E.

Bovrman, Dr. J. .

EIGHTH MICHIGAN REGIMENT.

Scliissler, William

FIFTH WISCONSIN REGIMENT.
G 0 ^1 1* A N Y D .

Evans. Allen Foster, .Tosej)h

Evans, John Foster, Yvllliam

SIXTEENTH WISCONSIN REGIMENT.

COMPANY C.

Evans, William Britt, Jacob

FIFTEENTH KENTUCKY REGIMENT.
COMPANY G.

PkUpp, Joseph

TWENTY-FOURTH KENTUCKY REGIMENT.

COLONEL GRISBY.

COMPANY I.

De SilTa, Sergeant Benjamin Pott

1^4

Three Years, or the War.

THIRTY-SECOND TENNESSEE REGIMENT.

Devine, James

TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI REGIMENT,
COMPANY II.

Weller, Sergeant Joiin-

SECOND CALIFORNIA CAVALRY.

Werner, William Henr}^ Harrison

I^^ THE EEGULAR SERVICE.

THE A. R ]SJ: 1l"

FIFTH ARTILLERY.

Andrew?. I>enj. Franklin

Bojle, Edward

Boyle, Robert

Buggy, Patricdc

Munliall. John

Xowrie. Robert

Powell, John Jones

Wlialen, James

VVillioms, Daniel Richard

Williams, Corporal John

Tanfield, Patrick
(J'onner, John

Donehue, John

(friftith, Tliomas

iiarris, Henry

llaggeriy, Robert

Morn, Abraham
Higgius, Thomas P.
Jenkins, James
Jones, David
Keller, Charles A.
McCJee, Edward
Nixon, William
Na>Ylan, John
NicoUs, John
O'Neal, Francis
Fugh. Henry

COMPANY

Henry, John

Condron, James
Cull, Edward
Eyans, James
Edwards, William
Fury, Charles
Hcllsliaw. Creorcre
Kelly, John D.
McLauglilin, Sergt. Jame*
Morgan, John
Porter, John
Ptice, James
Rae, Robert
Spencer, Jolin E.
Straub, Henry
Tate, Patrick*
Walborn, John
Wrigly, John
Welsh, James
Brennan, Thomas
Coller, Edward
Ferguson, Robert D.
Ferguson, Robert
Jeffries, John
Thomas, John
Kane, James
Glennin, Michael

Three Years, or the War. 165

COMPANY C.

Morgan, Jolin Riland, Peter

Morgan, Daniel

COMPANY E.

Levens, Thomas Grimes, Peter

Day, Elias

COMPANY a.

Brennan. Lawrence Sheriff, Jacob

Bruton, Lawrence McClellan, Daniel

Barnes, Richard Douehugh, Thomas

Craven, Patrick Da}-, Alexander,

Campiield, James Redmond, James
Kelly. Patrick

COMPANY H.
Leatherman, Jacob

COMPANY K .

Walsh, William Brennan, Michael

Harrisan, William II,

COMPANY L.

Mayberry, Franklin De Lacy, Lewis Bonnerville

Hummel, Daniel Brennan, William

McGovern, Patrick Davis, Francis

Owens, Thomas Clarey, John

Harrison, Francis Ratchford, Patrick

Owens, Henry Scott, Thomas

Dougherty, Daniel Smith. Francis

Porter, Corporal James Cowby, William

Tobin, John Troy, Robert

Cresswell, Thomas Carr, George

Harrison, Thomas Sullivan, Dennis

Potter, James Sullivan, Martre
Collahan, Thomas

COMPANY F ,

Sullivan, Dennis Scott, Thomas

SIXTH ARTILLERY.
COMPANY a.

Pepper, Michael Letterman, J.

SHERMAN^BATTERY.

Lavell, Thomas

FIFTH CAVALRY.

Leib, Capt, Edward T. Weaver, Charles

W'ilson, John H.

SIXTH CAVALRY.

COLONEL W. H, EMORY.
Everly, William Kane, John

Everly. Morris Kelly, Thomas

Turner, Thomas

*14

166 Three Yeahs, or the War.

COMPANY H.

Mattern, Corporal "William Lawler, Martin

Bird, John Brennan, James

Mills, Benjamin Lucas, Charles

Fields, Henry Davies, Joseph
Heck, Abraham

THIRD INFANTRY.

McCool, Lieutenant Joseph A.

FIFTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY F.

Donly, Arthur Weike, Yan Buren

Delany, Dennis ^ Weike, William

Williams, Francis *" Arerline, C.

IMorgan, David

SIXTH INFANTRY.

Bartholomew, Lieut. W. H. Feilas, Henry

Davis, Joseph Hough, Patrick

Mills, Benjamin

COMPANY B.

Dacy, Martin, Biland, Peter

JNIcCormick, John Stevens, John

Henrie, John

COMPANY K.

How, Patrick

EIGHTH INFANTRY.

COMPANY E.

Wineland, Geof2;e

TWELFTH INFANTRY.

White, Sergeant William L.
COMPANY A.

Coogan, Richard
COMPANY D.

Manuel, Thomas

THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.

Lynch, William Griffith, William R

Lloyd, William Coogan, Richard

Dunlevy, James Corcoran, Patrick

Warlow, John Lynch, William

McCarty, John Miller, John

Conneflf, John Rafterty, William

Williams, Thomas R. McGlone, Thomas

Three Years, or the War.

167

COMPANY G.

Brennan, Michael

FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.

Gerdon, Dudley Higgins, William

SIXTEENTH INFANTRY.

Griffith, William R

EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY^

COLONEL HENRY B. CARRINGTON.
Snyder, Lieutenant. Louis T.

COMPANY E.

Leib, Valentine Henry

COMPANY F.

Ebcrt, John

REGIMENTS NOT ASCERTAINED,

Baird, Captain Henry
Hartz, Captain Edward

Frantz, Matthias

IN UNITED STATES HOSPITALS.

Beach. Surgeon William
Turner, Ass't. Surgeon Thomas
Herrington, Surgeon C. P.
Livermore, Surgeon
Levering, Surgeon John G. C.

Ileilner, Henry

Carpenter, Surgeon John T.

Sillyman, Surgeon Henry R.

Parry, Surgeon Henry C.

MEDICAL CADET.

Saylor, George

IN COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.

Daniell, William
Lebo, William B.

Straub, G. M.
Hewes, John G.

IN SECRET SERVICE.

Byerly, Samuel

THEE 3SrA.VY

Bannan, Surgeon Douglass
Weber, Surgeon Robert L.
Hodgson, Ass't Eng. Rich. M.
Petherick, Ass't Eng. Thomas
McDonough, Michael (marine)

Potts, Ass't Eng. Howard D.
Pryor, Acting Master F. G.
Kelly, Thomas
McDonald, James
Bannan, John

168

Three Years, or the War.

The Navy. — Continued.

McGee, Patrick

Fegley, George (marine)

Ccrger, George H.

Bassler, S. S. (Captain's clerk)

Brannan, James

Carr, James M.

Carr, John

Gray, John

Eiley, Edward

Yost, William (marine)

Peale, William S.

Evans, John

Carroll, Patrick (marine)

Cribbens, Thomas (marine)

Rose, William (marine)

Hippie, John (marine)

Stevenson, John (marine)

McDonough, Thomas (marine)

Corby, Thomas

Holmes, Samuel (marine)
Ewing, Robert T.
Dolan, James
Saylor, Albert
Bentley, Thomas
Britt, John
Barnett, William J.
McGee, Patrick
Haughton, Stephen
Matig, John
Stevenson, John
Finigan, Patrick
Barndt, William John
Dougherty, John
S=hay, John
Mullineause, Henry
Weaver, John
Carpenter, James
Parker, Ass't. Eng. Hiram

GBAND KBCAPITULATION.

The following is a grand recapitulation of tho Volunteers from
Schuylkill County, in the service of the United States, for three
years, or during the war :

Forty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,

Fiftieth . "

Ninety-sixth "

Fifty-fifth "

Seventh Cavalry (Eightieth Reg.,)

Third '' (Sixtieth '')

Sixty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania

Twenty-third "

Twenty-sixth "

Twenty-seventh "

Twenty-eighth "

Twenty-ninth "

Thirtieth "

Thirty-first <'

Thirty-second "

Thirty-third "

Thirty-fourth ''

Thirty-fifth "

Thirty-sixth "

Thirty-seventh "

Thirty-eighth "

Thirtv-niuth "

1007

230

113U

2G-1

108

Carried forward.

3039

Three Years, or the War.

169

Grand Recapitulation. — Continued.

Brought forward,
Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

Forty-first '' " "

Forty-second " *' "

Forty-third (1st Art. Reg.) " "

Forty-fourth (1st Cav " ) '' "

Forty-sixth Regiment " "

Forty-seventh " " *'

Fifty-second " " "

Fifty-sixth " " "

Fiftv-seventh " *' "

Fifty-eighth " " "

Fifty-ninth (2d Cav. Reg.) ♦' **

Sixty-first Regiment ♦• "

Sixty-second " *' "

Sixty-third " " "

Sixty-fourth (4th Cav. Reg.) " "

Sixty-fifth (5th " " ) " "

Sixty-sixth Regiment '• "

Sixty-ninth " '• "

Seventieth (6th Cavalry Reg.) " "

Seventy-first Regiment " "

Seventv-second " . " "

Seventy-fifth " "

Seventy-sixth " " "

Seventy-seventh " " '*

Seventv-ninth " *' "

Eighty-first '« " "

Eighty-second " " "

Eighty-third " " "

Eighty-fourth " " "

Eighty-eighth " " "

Eighty-ninth (8th Cav. Reg.] "

Ninetieth Regiment " "

Ninety-second (9ih Cavalry Reg.) "

Ninety-third Regiment " "

Ninety-fifth

Ninety-seventh " " "

Ninety-eighth " " *'

Ninety-ninth " " *'

One Hundredth " '* "

One Hundred and First Regt. " *'
One Hundred and Fourth
One Hundred and Fifth "

One-Hundred and Seventh " "

One Hundred and Ninth " "

One Hundred and Tenth

One Hundred and Twelfth (2d Art. Reg.) "
One Hundred and Thirteenth (12th Cav.Reg.)"

One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment "

One Hundred and Sixteenth " "

3039

Carried forward,

359S

170

Three Years, or the War.

Grand Recapitulation. — Continued,

Brought forward, 3593

One Hundred and Seventeenth (13th Cav.Reg) 60

One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment " 5

One Hundred and Fifty-second(3d Art. Reg.)' 4

Anderson (15th Penna.] Cavalry " 20

Capt. Wm. Thompson's Comp. (17th Pa. Cav.)" 93

John Weidman's Cavalry Company " 2

Fourth Pennsylvania Artillery " 2

Fifth ii u <t 7

Seventh " " " 1

McCall's Brigade of Flying Artillery *' 1

Independent <Jompany of Engineers, Penna. " 1

Harris' Pennsylvania Cavalry " 4
In Philadelphia Regiments [number and

companies not ascertained] '< 6

"Scott Legion" " 1

Gen. Negley's Body-guard *' 1

"Anderson Zouaves" ~^ " 1

Signal Corps " 4

Gen. Thorp's Staff " 1

Gen. .Johnson's Guard " ^1

"McLean Guards, Chippewa Regiment" " 1

First New Jersey Regiment " 1

Sixth " " " 2

Fourteenth " " " 1
In a New Jersey Regiment [number not ascertained,] 1

First New York Cavalry " 1

Third " " " " 1

Seventh New York Regiment " 1

Tenth " " " " 1

Thirty-third " " " " 1

Thirty-sixth <' " «' " 1

Fortieth " " " " 1

Forty-eighth " " " " 1

Fifty-seventh" " " " 2

Sixty-ninth " " " " 2

One Hundred and Fourth New York Reg. " 1

Sickles's Brigade " 1

New York Excelsior Regiment " 1
In New York Regiments [numbers and

companies not ascertained] " 4

Twentieth Maine Regiment " 1

Fifteenth Massachusetts " " 1

Eighth Virginia " " 1

Fifth Ohio Cavalry " 1

Ninth " Regiment " 1

Tenth " " " 2

Sixteenth <« '< «< 1

Eighteenth " " " 1

Twelfth Indiana " " 1

Twentieth " " " 1

Carried forward

3843

Three Years, or the War. ITl

Grand Recapitulation. — Continued.

Brought forward 3843

Twenty-third Indiana Regiment " 1

Thirty-third " " *' 1

Thirty-ninth " " *' 1

Fifty-eighth " " " 2

Eighty-fourth " " *' 1
In Indiana Regiments [numbers

not ascertained] •' 3

Eighth Illinois Cavalry " 1

Fifteenth '' Regiment " 1

Nineteenth '• " " 1

Fifty-fifih " " " 1
In Illinois Regiments [numbers

not ascertained] *' 2

Second Iowa Regiment " 1

Fifth ;* '* " 1

Ninth " " •' 1

Eighth Michigan '' " 1

Fifth Wisconsin " " 4

Sixteenth '• " •* 2

Fifteenth Kentucky Regiment " 1

Twenty-fourth '^ "- '' 1

Thirty-second Tennessee Regiment '• 1

Twenty-hfth Missouri " •' 1

Second California Cavalry " 1

Fifth Regular Artillery Regiment " 104

Sixth " - " '• " 2

Sherman's Regular Battery '' 1

Fifth ■' Cavalry " 3

Sixth ^' '• " 14

Third " Infantry " 1

Fifth <: u '4 7

Sixth " " " 11

Eighth " •' " 1

Twelfth " '• '• 3

Thirteenth " •• " 15

Fourteenth '' •• •' 2

Sixteenth *■• " . *' "^

Eighteenth " '• " 3

Regular Regiments not ascertained " 3

In United States Hospitals " ^

Medical Cadet " 1

In Commissary Department " 4

In Secret Service " 1

United States Navy " ^

Total, 4,007

On Tuesday, November 5, 1861, testaments and needle-books
were presented to the members of the Ninety-sixth Regiment, at
their camp on Lawton's Hill, Pottsville, by the ladies of the place.
Rev. Mr. Washburn made the presentation address.

172 Three Years, or the War.

November IG, intelligonce received of the victory at Port
lloyal, S. C. The Fiftieth llegiment, P. Y., Col. B. C. Christ,
formed part of the expedition. A portion of the command was
on the steamer "Winfield Scott." Thej were caught in a severe
wale, and it was with the greatest difficulty the vessel was saved.

The Forty-eighth Regiment, P. V., landed at Hatteras Inlet,
N. C, November 12, and was stationed at Fort Clark.

November 30, Rev. S. F. Colt, Chaplain of the Ninety-sixth-
Re<Timent, in behalf of the officers of the command, acknowledu;ed
the reception of nearly 200 volumes of Harper's Library, for the use
of the Regiment, '^procured mainly by the^efforts of presentand form-
er pupils of Miss Allen's Young Ladies' Seminary, at Pottsville."

In December a flag, 20 feet long by 10 wide, was sent from
Schuylkill County, to Capt. James Wren, Co. B., Forty-eighth
Regiment. It was intended to float over Fort Clark, of which the
Captain had command.

The Company acknowledged the receipt of the present, as follows :

[CARD.]
FoiiT Clark, Hatteras Inlet, X. C. \
Jan. 1st 18G2. j
To THE Citizens of Schuylkill CoUxNty :— Co. B, of the 48th Regt.,
r. v., being the recipients of a handsome flag, furnished them by your
generosity, set apart New Year's day to the hoisting it upon Fort Clark,
which pleasing ceremony was performed in the presence of Col. Naglc.
Major Nagle, and the Chaplain, and Co. B, amid a multitude of cheer?
and cries of "long may it wave." After the flag had been flung to tlui
breeze, Col. Nagle and our worthy Captain made a few appropriate
remarks, Avhich were eagerly listened to, after Avhich the Chaplain offered
up a patriotic prayer. The committee on resolutions then withdrew, ami
adopted the following, on behalf of the Company :

Resolved, That we, officers and members of Co. B, do offer our sincere
tliauks to the citizens of Schuylkill County, for their extreme kindneee,
in bestowing upon us such a beautiful emblem of the free.

Resolved, That the members of Co. B, in their inflnite gratitude to the
kind donors, do hereby re-pledge their word of honor, that they shall
ever be true to the noble flag of our country, which has so ruthlessly
been trampled upon by rebellious feet, in defence of which they will
shed their life's-blood, if necessary.

Resolved, That the members of Co. B, shall make this flag the special

object of their pride and care so long as it shall remain in their power.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Minkrs'

Journal, for publication, through which medium our friends may be

made acquainted with our doings, &c.

Serg't Jno. Geo. Basslee,
" Wm. H. Hitmbs,
Committee on Resolutions, in behalf of Co. B, iSth Fa. Rer/t.

Three Years, or the War. 173

Mareli 14, the Forty-eightli Regiment reached Newbern, N. C,
und eaeamped on the battle field.

In Jmne, 18G2, the Miners' Lodge, I. 0. of 0. F., donated a
spacious lot in Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Pottsvillc, for the burial of
4eeea9ed soMiers.. A pafeiotic and liberal act.

lu JiRne, 1"S62, €di James Nagle of the 48th Reg., P. V., was
aippointed a Brigadier General.

' (3n Juty 5, 18G2, the 48th Regiment reached Fortress Monroe,
■the advance of Gen. Burnside's force to co-operate with Gen.
McCIellan in operations against Richmond.

Ji?.iy 2G, intelligence received of the capture at Murfreesboro by
the rel3els, of Maj. J. J. Seifeert of tbe M l^/.talion, 7th Pa. Cavalry.

The particulars of his capture are contained in the following letter :

Nass^yllle, Juli/ loth, 1802.

About 4 o'clock on tlic moruino; of tlie 13tb, tlir«e regiments of Texas
i; angers, and two regiments of Georgia Cavaky, entered the town of
Alurfreesboro", to whicli tliey were guided by the farmers in the neigh-
borhood. They first came upoa the Esarcsue cccupied by Major Seibert,
and would perhaps have passed it ako>^ctiier, ha4 it not been for one of
The men. vdio raised the fly anl Avas going to shoot, when the :Major
seeing the number of the enemy, s.nd knowing the danger of such a rash
act. pulled him back. They had scarcely got away when the rebels
pommencd firing into the marque. The INlajor s cap, which was on the
table, was completely riddled with bullets— they t^ien left, not seeing
Jiim. He, finding it impossible to get the remaitiing few of his command
out at all,' [most of them being on a scout,] worked his way over to the
ilth Michigan, where he thought of course,* the rebels could be driven
i)ack. A good thing occurred while he was again trying to get liis men
in line with the I\Iicliigan Bovs. He had on a pair of private's pantaloons,
and was in his shirt sleeves, had an old musket, put on the belt, and was
standing with his men, wlien Gen. Dufiield, not knowing him in his new
suit, sai°d to him, "Why don't you get into line?"' whereupon the Major
rook his place in the ranks. When the General again came along the
line, he said, "what has become of Major Seibert?'" The Major laugh-
ingly came walking out of the ranks, saying, "here I am."' The General
apologised, and laughingly said, "that is a pretty good joke. ' The
Major is safe, but is a prisoner with General Crittenden, Colonel Lo'steis
r^olonel Parkhurst, and a lot of Captains and Lieutenants. All of the
privates who were captured were released at McMinville, but the officers
were taken to Chattanooga. I regret the capture of the young Major.
He is a fine officer, and has won not only the highest respect of both
officers and men of his regiment, but is acknowledged to be a universal
favorite with all who know him. He was at the time of the breaking
out of the rebellion practicing law very successfully at Tottsville, Penn-
sylvania, and was among the'first to respond to the call of the President,
and served as Lieut.-Colonel in the Cth Pennsylvania infantry. After
the expiration of the term of enlistment, he returned home, and was
actively engaged in recruiting for the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, which
for some months past have done much service in Tennessee. P. P.

THE CALLS IN 1862, FOR TROOPS.

During the Summer of 1862, the exigencies of the service re-
quired a call by the President for three hundred thousand volun-
teers, which was speedily followed by an order for a draft of three
hundred thousand militia for nine months' service.

Under tbe call for volunteers, Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania, on
the 21st of July, issued a proclamation of which the following is a
copy :

J'cnusj/lvania, ss :

111 the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Andrew G. Cuhtin, Governor of the said Commonwealth :

rilOCLAMATION.

To sustain the Government in times of common peril by all his energies,
his means, and his life if need be, is the first duty of every loyal citizen.
The President of the United States has made a requisition on Pennsyl-
vania for twenty-one new regiments, and the regiments already in the
field must be recruited.

Enlistments will be made for nine months in the new regiments and
for twelve months in the old. Tlie existence of the present emergency is
well understood. No patriot will pause now to investigate its causes.
We must look to the future. Everything that is dear to us is at stake.
Under these circumstances, I appeal with confidence to the freemen of
Pennsylvania. You have to save your homes and your firesides, your
own liberties and those of the whole country. I call on the inhabitants
of the counties, cities, boroughs, and townships throughout our bo-rders
to meet and take active measures for the immediate furnishing of the
quota of the State. Let those who cannot go themselves contribute to
provide bounties equal at least to those offered by the adjoining States.
The Constitution prohibits me from drawing money from the treasury
without authority of law, and I will not cast a doubt on the patriotism of
our citizens by assuming the necessity of calling the Legislature at this
time. This is no time to wait for legislative action and the negotiation
^ of loans. Delay might be fatal.

To put down this rebellion is the business of every man in Pennsyl-
vania, and lier citizens will show on this occasion that they do not wait
for the slow process of legislation, and do not desire to throw on the
treasury of the Commonwealth a burden which they are individually
ready to bear themselves.

The conduct of our men already in the field has shed immortal lustre
on Pennsylvania. Let their brethren fiy to arms to support them, and
make the victory speedy as Avell as certain.

I designate below the number of companies which are expected from
the several counties in the State, trusting to the support of her honor in
this crisis, as it may be safely trusted to the loyalty, fidelity, and valor
of her freemen. Whilst the quota of the several counties is fixed equita-
bly so as to fill the requisition for twenty-one regiments, let not the loyal

The Calls in 1862. 175

people of an}'- county limit their exertions to the enlistnieut of the
companies named. Our heroic sons of Pennsylvania have moistened
every battle-field -with their blood. Thousands have bravely died, de-
fending the unity of the Republic and the sanctity of our flag, and other
thousands have fallen sick and wounded, and their places must be
filled.

Freemen of Pennsylvania I Friends of the Government, of order, and
of our common nationality, one earnest struggle and peace will again
dawn upon us a happy, prosperous, and united people.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Harrisburg,
this twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, and of the Commonwealth the eighty-seventh.

By the Governor, A. G. CUllTIN.

*EL1 SLIFER, Secretary of the Commoniccalth.

In the schedule of apportionment for the State, Schuylkill's
quota was fixed at five companies.

The Governor's Proclamation was enthusiastically responded to
by the citizens of the County. A War Meeting was called, to be
held at the Court House on Tuesday afternoon, July 29. The
meeting was largely attended by people from every section of the
County.

The officers of the meeting were :

PRESIDENT :

COLONEL JOHN BANNAN.

VICE presidents:

George W. Snj'-der, Jacob S. Laurence,

Jacob Huntzinger, Jr., Bartholomew O'Reagan,

Thomas Foster, Alexander Jeffries,

William Milnes, Jr., J,ohn H. Guertler,

James Sillyman, Philip Edwards,

Joseph W. Cake, A. Bolton^

Hon. Solomon Foster, Charles Marsh.

Benjamin Pott, Chas. W. Pitman,

Gottlieb Schauble, Charles Baber,

L. M. Thompson, Burd Patterson,

William Lerch, Benjamin Haywood,

Daniel Deibert, John Ruch,

Wm. P. Bishop, Peter D. Luther,

John S. Graham, John Shippen,

Thomas Wren, Richard Morris,

David Beveridge, Samuel Huntzinger,

Daniel Dillman, James L. Nutting.^

John Seitzinger, Esq., Emanuel Boyer,

Isaac Ward, George W. Matchiu,

Dr. A. Schultz, Samuel Reber,

Dr. R. H. Coryell, John Feustermacher,

F. B. Dreher, Samuel Morris, Jr.,

Evan Evans, James G. Cochrane,

Dan'l. B. Althouse, George Patterson,

176 The Calls in 1862.

Charles Bensinger, Silas Strouse,

Herman Neuman, Jerome K. Boyer,

James R. Cleaver, Anthony Garner,

Benjamin Evert, Ferdinand Boedefeld,

Thos. E. Williams, James Smith,

Wra. Donaldson, Uriah Gane,

llicbard Kear, J. Oliver RhoadiB>,

Daniel 11. Bennett, Dr. B„ Beckeiu.

SECRJ9TA>B1ES::

F. B. Wallace, F. B. GowBn>,

W. R. Potts, Esq., John XL Downing;

Walter Sedgwick, Wm. L. Whitney,

Wju. a. Hammer, Henry Huhn.

Spirited speeches were made Ijy Mjer Strouse, Esq., Kev. S. F.
Colt, lion. James H. Campbell, Benj. Haywood, Esq., Capt. C.
Tower, and Lin Bartholomew, Esf{.

The following powerful resolutions, offered by Captain Tower,
were adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm :

The citizens of SehuyJltili! C'Gnnij assembled in mass meeting, this
twenty-ninth day of July, 1862, ai Pottsville, do declare and resolve :

1st. That we recogniy.e- and' prcclaim it as the duty of freemen to re-
member always, that "Eternali vigilance is the price of Liberty," and to
volunteer, at once to arms, in; defance of their institutions, whenever they
are assailed by either a foreign: or domestic foe.

2d. That we will respond to the call now made by the President of the
United States for 300,000 men to sustain the country, its Constitution
and laws, and to crush out fv rebellion which exists without any cause
or provocation, and will furnish our quota of the mea with alacrity ; and
we now announce to tlie world, that we will hereafter, from time to time,
add to the 5,000 volunteers already gone forth from among us, as many
more as may be needed, and speedily too, whenever called for, to frus-
trate conspirators and traitors and put down rebellion.

od. That wc approve of the giving of a home relief to the volunteers
who shall answer the present call, in addition to the advances to be
made them by the United States, and Ave recommend to the Commission-
ers of the County to provide and pay, by means of a loan or otherwise, a
relief, under existing hiws, of fifty dollars to each volunteer iu the live
companies allotted to Schuylkill County.

4th. That we regard as our friends only those who are loyal, and we
mark as enemies all those who oppose the Government of our country,
either in arms, or by giving "aid and comfort" to those who are in
arms against it ; and we Avill support the President of the United States
unqualifiedly, with all our means, if need be, and with all our might, in
any and all measures necessary to subdue the rebels and scatter their
aiders, abettors and sympathisers.

Ath. Thiil-we hail, with great satisfaction, and as promising early and
entire success, the policy now adopted of pushing on the war against the
rebellion without lenity and without protecting the property of rebels,
and we entreat the President and all Government officers, civil and mili-
tary, to go on henceforth aggressively, "conquering and to conquer ""

The Calls in 1862. 177

the rebels and all their sympathisers, with vigor and rapidity, and ivitJi
all the power and means of every kind, which he and they can command
everywhere.

6th. That we will not suflFer any interference in the present, war by
any foreign nation, or any dictation or advice from any quarter in re-
gard to the manner of our conducting the war or closing it, and we
pledge to one another and to the world, that we shall promptly and fully
resent and resist any attempt at intervention in any way in our affairs,

A Committee, appointed at a preliminary meeting, held July 24,
to confer witli the Associate Judges and County Commissioners,
made the following report, which was unanimously adopted :

The undersigned Committee, appointed at a preliminary meeting, held
at the Court-house, on Thursday, July 24th, 1862, for the purpose of
conferring with the Associate Judges and County Commissioners, to
ascertain whether the County authorities would make an appropriation,
under existing laws, to such volunteers who would enlist under the call
of the Governor of this Commonwealth, in pursuance of the recent requi-
sition of the President of the United States, respectfully report:

That they have conferred witli the Associate Judges and County Com-
missioners, and they have unanimously answered that they are willing
to make an appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose indicated, provided,
the citizens of Schuylkill County, in County meeting this day assembled,
shall recommend the same.

Your Committee, therefore, report the following resolution for tke
consideration of this meeting :

Resolved, That the citizens of Schuylkill County, in County meeting
assembled, hereby recommend and instruct the County Commissioners to
make an appropriation of twenty-iive thousand dollars, for the purpose
of granting relief to volunteers and their families, or those dependent on
such volunteers for support, in the proportion of tifty dollars to each
man who shall thus volunteer. fj. W. Roseberrt,

j Edw. Owen Parry,
Committee -\ Myer Strouse,

I James H. Campbell,
[ Jacob Dewees.
PoTTSViLLE, July 29th, 1862.

War meetings were held also in Port Carbon, Schuylkill Haven,
and other places in the County. The effect of this action was,
that in a week, the quota of the County, under the requisition,
was more than full.

The men furnished under that call were as follows

15*

178 TnE Calls in 1862.

THE NINE MONTHS' VOLUNTEERS.

OKE HU]N'DRED AND TWENTY-NINTH REG. P.Y.

Colo7iel— JACOB G. FRICK.
Lieutenant- Colo7iel — J. Armstrong.
llajor — JosKPH Antuony.
Adjutant — D. B. Green.
Quartermaster — Wm. F. Pattebs&n.

The foTlowiucr comnanies composed the regiment : Captain E. G. Rehrer'?, Tamaqna ;
Captain Dever'sT Port"Carbou ; Captain Levi Leib's, Ashland ; Captain William Wren'e,
Pottsville; Captain George Lawrence's, Miuersville; Captain Stoneback's, Captain
Thomasns, Captain Taylor's, Captain Eckart's, Northampton County ; Captain Shimk'fc,
Montgomery County.

COMPx\NY A.

Captain— Q'EQV.G^ J. LAWRENCE.

1^^ Lieut. — William W. Clemens.

2d Lieut. — Samuel Richards. _

1st Sergeant — John S. Silver. ^

2d do. Joseph C. Haskins.

M do. John M. Heilner.

4.th do. Charles ¥. Falls.

bih do. ^Villiam E. Kline.

list Corjwral — John Mathews.

2d do. Albert W. Sterner.

dd do. William Dyer.

4:th do. Geo. W. Wythes.

&th do. Joseph Smith.

(:>th do. Georoe Spencer,

7th do. Joseph Forney.

Sth do. Jacob Zimmerman.

Drummer — Uichard K. Levan, (drum-major.)

Pifcr — Samuel Achenbach.

Wagoner — Peter D. Eby,

Cornpawj CYer/i;— Theodore P. Frazer.

PRIVATES.

Atkins, W^illiam I><^vis, ALel

Ault, Mathias Davis, Thos. B.

Allan, Samuel >^vans, David _

Alexander, John Edwards, Lewis

Adams, Richard Forney, Edward

Allan, John Forney, Henry

Bannan, William Groom, Samuel J.

r,rennan. James Heckman, Jeremiah

Bright, Daniel R. Harris, Stephen

Bri'>-ht, Harrison Heckman, Geo. Warner

Ber'^er, Jacob Hesser, John AV.

Constantine, Charles Hughes, Patrick

Confire, Samuel Howells, Rosser

Cloppier, Peter Hollman, John

Clouser, Simon Heisler, Joseph

Dorrmer, Matthew Howells, Wm. H.

Davis, Wm. L. Humphrey, Benj.

The Calls in 1862.

179

Company A, 129th Regiment — Continued.

IIoflFenden, George
James, John
Jones, Richard
Jefferson, John
James, Thomas
Jenkins, Byron A.
Jones, John M.
Jones, William J.
Jones, AVilliam D.
Kunfare, Samuel
Lee, Eli

Labenburg, Lewis
Lyons, William
Laramy, Charles
Lee, George
Lyons, Mark
Lauclerman, Henry
Miller, Elias
Miller, John I.
Maize, George
Mullin, John
Millington, Thomas
Mohan, Michael
Miller, Henry
McCormick, Barney
Morgan, Thomas
Nicholas, John
Nixon, Joshua
Owens, Thomas
O'Neal, James
Parry, Henry
Parry, John

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, - - -

Wagoner, _ _ _

Clerk,

Privates, . - -

Robertson, William
Rooney, Patrick
Ryan, James
Robins, John S.
Robins, William J.
Robins, Henry S.
Roehrig, Charles H.
Robins, Newsome B.
Schopp, AVilliam
Sutton, John
Seltzer, Albert
Smith, John
Sponsler, William C.
Sweeney, William
Tempest, Martin
Tanner, Albert
Taylor, John
Taylor, Henry C.
Williams, Wm. J.
Wythes, James S.
Wythes, Thomas H.
Webb, Edwin
Weiser, James S.
Welsh, Peter S.
Williams, William
Weiser, George W.
Williams, Thomas M,
Youse, Jacob
Zimmerman, John P.
Zulick, Thomas H. B.
Zimmerman. Jacob

1 ^

1
1

Total,

118

COMPANY B.

Captain~\NIhLlA.lSl WREN, Jr..
1st Lieut. — M. V. B. Coho.
2d Lieut. — Jacob Parvin.
1st Serjeant.— ^Y^l. G. DeTurk.

A. G, Yeager.

James Edwards.

Daniel W. Freeman.

Richard Jones.
-Jou'N W. Coho.

JosEi'ii Bodefield.

Isaac B. Ricn.

do.

Alh

do.

5th

do.

1st

Corporal

do.

180

The Calls in 1862.

Company B., 129th Regiment — .Continued.
4th Corporal — Fhancis Sinclair,
bth do. Evan Humphrkys.

Uh do. George D. Ben singer.

1th do. George W. Staats.

8//i do. Theo. Koch.

Drummer — AVm. H. Sterner.
Fifer — .John Staiil.
C'omjHtivj Clerk — George W. Keiter.
Quartermaster — Theodore Thorn.

. PRIVATES :

Atkins, William
Anspacli, Israel
Binder, Francis
Bedford, George
Brown, Peter
Bernsteel, Edward
Betz, Henry W.
Bobb, Conrad
Clark, Franklin
Cake, Edward
Crawsliaw, Daniel B.
Daddow, Joseph
Davis, Griffith
Davies, John H.
Davis, Thomas
Dauflinger, Augustus A.
Davis, Shadrack E.
Davis, John
Deivert, Charles F.
Dudley, John
Edwards, Richard
Edwards, Edward
Egalf, John
Evans, Clay W.
Ferguson, Anthony
Fredericks, John
Ferguson, Patrick F.
Fisher, Eli R.
Gartley, George W.
Gressang, William F.
Gallagher, Anthony
George, John
Gotloab, William
Gillespie, Dominick
Glime, William F.
Grimer, James
Guertler, AVilliam D.
Haeffer, William
Hodgson, Edward A.
Hart, Daniel D.
Helms, William A.
Hess, Constantine
Uirsch, James

Hoffman, William
Homer, Solomon
James, John
Jennings, John
I\line, Reuben
Knowles, John
Kleinevt, Charles
Lewis, David
Laughlin, Daniel H.
Lewis, Thomas H.
Major, John
Matter, William H.
Mattern, Ephraim
McBarron, John
McLaughlin, Charles
Mortimer, William W.
Mitchell, John
Mullen, John
McElrath, William
Martin, James
Morgan, David
Moyer, John W.
Miller, Daniel
Miller, John
Noles, John
Neiman, Benjamin
Parensteel, Edward
Pinter, Francis
Powells, .Jacob
Probert, Tliomas
Purnell, Isaac
Rich, Jonas M.
Ptaber, Edward
Rigg, John
Riley, Thomas
Rowley, Samuel
Rushworth, Samuel
Spohn, Franklin
Smith, Francis H.
Smith, Robert
Shook, Frederick
Shlotman, August
Shoemaker, John F.

The Calls in 18b"2.

181

Company B, 12ttlh! Regiment

StaLle, Henry
Stodd, WilliaiM
Saylor, J. Benton
Triese, John C.
Thompson, Alexander
Thornton, Thomas
Tracey, Thomas

Commissioned Offis-ers^

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, -

Clerk,

Quartermaster,

Privates,

Continued.

llaomiais, John S.
Uren, Rishard
"Wallace-, Daniel
Weise, John'
Watkius, George-
Yerger, Eli
Zimmer. Emil

»>•

-- - -

- - -

- li

- 101

Total,

12]

COMPANY E.

Captain—^. GODFREY REHRER.
1st Lieut. — William S. Allebach,
2d Lieut. — Robert L. Leybukn.
Orderly Sergeant. — Jacob IT. Martz.
2d do. Elijah T. Bodet.

'dd do. William Shoemaker.

4//t do. John T. Bond.

5^/i do. Webster D, Dbeheb.,

1st Corporal — Lewis S. Boner.
2c? do. Jacob Roberts, Jr.
M. do. Jeremiah Messersmith.
Ath do. Charles H. Sneath.
hth do. Absalom K. Whetstone.
6i!A do. Leonard Bowers.
1th do. Pierce Bousman.
Sth do. George F. Becker.
Drummer — Albert Moter,
PRIVATES :

Allen, Thomas
Allen, William
Bacher, James
Bailey, Clarence E.
Brown, Jacob T.
Becker, Franklin
Bear, John
Becker, Nathan
Billman, Solomon
Blum, Christopher N.
Boner, James
Brown, AVilliam M.
Bond, John
Becker, Henry
Becker, James
Bishop, Jacob S.
Bond, Dr. George
Booth, William

Dorflinger, Augustus
Diutinger, John
Dunuigan, Joseph
Day, Samuel
Davis, William W.
Donaldson, S. F.
Eynon, John
Faust, Samuel
Gallagher, Edward
Grover, Ernst
Gallagher, Edward
Haldeman, William H.
Hartung, Daniel
Heine, Amos
Hoppes, Elias
Houser, Benjamin
Houser, F. AV,
Hendricks, C. H.

182

The Calls in 1862.

Company E, 129tli Regiment —

ilartung, Gideon
Hile, Jonas
Horn? Dr. Jolin
Houser, Joseph
Huntzinger, S.
Jolinson, William W.
Kanffman, E,
Koclier, Grideon
Kleckner, Joshua
Klecknei', Henry
Krause, Adam
Lotze, William
Longacre, J. S.
Lutz, Harrison L.
IMoyer, Lewis
Moyer, Daniel M.
Moyer, Albert W.
Millei', xilexander
Moyer, Daniel H.
McMahon, Michael
Nutz, George
Neyer, Moses
Oswald, James
Tveinhart, Willoughby
Rex, William
Reppart, William

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officer
Musician, . - -
Privates,

Continued.

Rill, David
Reeser, William H.
Raegart, August
Reicheldeifer, D.
Robinson, Wm. H. ]^
Sassaman, Elias
Schultz, William
Shoener, Daniel
Singley, Isaac
Specht, Conrad
Schultz, Henry
Sheaffer, John
Shoener, Francis H.
Snyder, Elias
Speece, John L.
Trout, Franklin
Walker, G. ^N.
Weythel, Franklin
Wommer, Asher
Wagner, Jacob
W^ertman, John L.
Wilford, John B.
Zimmerman, David
Zehner, Stephen
Ziegler, George W.

13
1

Total,

104

COMPANY G.

Ca2nain—\.Y.\l C. LEIB.
\st Lieut. — Erastus M. Furman.
2d Lieut. — John H. Sciiall.
l.s-^ Sergeant. — Franklin Kluse.
2d do. George Bailey,

?jd do. Patrick Collier,

4th do. Daniel Leic.

bth do. Henry Boughner.

Is;; Corporcd — Aaron Lambertson.

Stephen Reese.

John Busycomer.

Edward C. Murray.

Michael Shopbell.

Franklin Bensinger.

Philip Mumberger.

Joseph Fetterman.

ZULICK.

do.

4th

bth

do.

Cjth

do.

7lh

do.

Sth

do.

Musician — Thomas H. B
PRIVATES:

Ayers, Alfred
Boyer, John B.

Bensinger, Francis W.
Bensinger, William F.

The Calls in 1862.

183

Company G, 129tli Regiment — Continued.

Biltz, Lewis
Bickley, Thomas R.
Conway, Neil
Conner, Charles
Chewllew, John B.
Crow, Gabriel
Conrad, Charles II.
Colburn, Moses
Cobes, Joseph
Clever, William
Dreher, Aaron
Davis, Isaac
Darr, John
Daniels, Mark
Davis, David D,
Driesbach, Lewis
Dunkelberger, Samuel 11.
Dupont, Henry
Davis, Francis
Engle, .John
Fritz, Blacious
Fetterolf, Joseph
Fisher, Elijah
Gillham, Gregory
Hull, William
Hollister, Franklin
Houser, Theodore
Hutzinger, Philip
Hampton, Baltes M.
Jones, Benjamin
Kerr, Jacob
Kelly, Luke
Kessler, Andrew
Krapp, Charles
Keiper, John
Learn, Thomas

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musician, - - -
Privates, - _ _

Llewellyn, Richard
Levy, Josepli
Murray, Barnard
Moyer, Frederick
Mann, John
Morris, Thomas
Major, George
Payne, Joshua
Price, William W.
Price, George
Philips, John A.
Pettit, Samuel
Palmer, Strange J.
Reichart, Augustus
Steenhilbert, AVilliaiu
Steenhilbert, Jacob
Shannon, James
Smith, Adam S.
Shoppel, Michael
Smith, George S.
Shelley, Jacob
Snyder, Daniel
Shultz, John
Stellfox, Samuel
Straub, Charles
Trerathan, John
Ward, Patrick
Williams, George
Wentzel, Jonas
Walter, William
Werkel, AVilliam
Williams, William
Zimmerman, Samuel
Zimmerman, William
Zartman, Henry W.

Total,

COMPANY H

Ccqy1ain—:iO\m A. DEVERS.
\st Lieut. — William Lercii.
2d Lieut. — Edwaed Wertley.
1st Sergeant — John B. Steel.
2d do. John Woolley,

2>d do. George Minnes.

Ath do. Samuel H. Eargood.

bth do. William Quoit.

1^^ Corjyoral—^Qii'S. Elliott.

184

The Calls in 1862.

Company H, 129tli Regiment— Cbn^imi^^?.

2d Corporal — William E. Webster.

Sd do. Jabez

WOOLLET.

4th do. William Bracefield.

^{7i do. James

Martin,

Qth do. James

Walsh.

7th do. Gkobrb H, Lercii.

Sth do. Martin Tempest

Musicians — Char l e s

H. May, Cyrus A. Schucker.

PRIVATES

Ash, Samuel

Plolloway, Josepli

Andrews, Joha

Jcnes, Joseph

Brouglicall, William

Lees, Eli

Bracy, George

Lime, James

Beaumont, Charles

Xiime, Isaiah

CiTcher, Franklin

Lambert, Enoek

Barr, George W.

Lewis, David

Bowman, Henry

Lerch, Henry

J)rown, John W.

MuUin, John

Bunibersbach, Peter

McCabe, John

Cannon, jMichael

McCabc, Josepk

Conner, Edward

McCord, John B.

Conner, James

Major, Joha

<^rawley„ James

Keff, Isa^jc

Davis, William

^)rmai5, Henry

Delong, Elias

Oliver, Tobias

Davis, Griffith

Osman, William H.

Dengus, John W,

Payne, George H.

Elliott, Jacob

Roe, Thomas

Eclv, Charles

Bobbins, James

Eldridge, John

Roe, John

Ford, Oswald

Richards, John

Ferguson, Patrick

Reed, Robert

Freed, George

Sneden, David

Oorgas, Lewis H.

.Smith, John W.

Grove, William

Sudden, William

Harrison, John

Shoener, Richard H

Hopkin, Richard

Spang, William

Ilain, Peter

Uhler, Simon

Howard, David

Vemont, Charles

Haas, Wellington P.

Wertley, Jacob H,

JIaslem, John

Commissioned Officers,

- 3

Non-commissioned

Officer?,

Musicians,

_ >>

Privates,

/■>o

Total,

RECAriTULATION.
Field and Staif, - - - -

Line-commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - - .

15
65

The Calls in 1862.

185

Wagoner,
Clerks,

Quartermaster,
Privates,

Total,

1
2

427

523

ONE nUl!TDREr) AND TWENTY-SEVENTH EEGL

MENT, P. Y.

COLONEL ^\. AV. JENNINGS.

[The followin^^ are the Schnvlkill County members. The names not published, num-
bering twenty-nine, belong to Lebanon County.— Editor.]

COMPANY C.

Fisher, Elijah.

COMPANY K.

CapiamSyiLLlXM FOX.
lf<t Sen/cant — Danikl Downey

6(1 do.
bth do.
\st Corporal-
4/A do.
7th do.

ElCHARD BeRTOLETT,

T. Henry Bechtel.
Lewis M. Yost.

Pv. G. LUCKENBILL.

Augustus Klock.

Wagoner — AVm. J. Barr.

PRIVATES;

Aum, Heury
Bumberger, Samuel
Brown, George
Banks, Paul
Berkheiser, Henry
Berger, Benjamin
Brigel, Franklin
Ebcrt, George
Fessler, Ellis
Feger, Henry
Geiger, Charles
Goebel, Benjamin
Herbert, Charles
Hautz, Elias
Hummel, Jacob
Hutton, William L.
Heckman, Edward
Hay, Christian
Heckman, Edward A.
Keller, Frederick
Klahr, Franklin
Kantner, Charles F.
Lengel, George
Lehman, Amos

Lessig, lleubcu
Leidy, Daniel
Lush, James I.
iNlinnich, Charles
Martz, Samuel F.
^loyer, Reuben
^NIcMaree, James
Maberry, Charles
Pierman, Isaac H.
Prigel, Samuel F.
Rupp, Dr. John
Ringer. Franklin E.
Reber, Lewis B.
Reber, George W.
Strauser, William
Schreckengust, Samuel
Strouse, John
Springer. Charles
Snyder, Jeremiah
Thomas, Joseph R,
Upchurch, Theodore F.
Williams, Milton
West, John
Whittle, John

186

The Calls in 1862.

Commissioned OflBcers,
Non-commissioned OfiBcer?,
^Vagoner, - - .
Privates, . . .

Total,

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH REGI-
MENT, P. V.

COLONEL II. M. BOSSERT.

COMPANY

Burns, Mieliacl

Brannan, James

Bandegrast, James

Cocoran, Patrick

Culloglian, John P.

(vonner, Charles

Cowen, John

i'luiligham, Peter

Conner, John C.

Doualiue, James

Donahoe, Edward

Donoho, Patrick

Durkin, Tliomas

Farrel, Michael

Commissioned Officers,
Privates, , . .

Tofal, - - - -

llalley, John
Ilannan, James
Hoarn, Thomas T.
liaman, John B.
Joyce, Thomas
Kelly, Patrick
Lanckton, John
Langton, Martin D.
Malarkey, Roger
Monahon, Bartholomew
McLaughlin, Capt. Dennis
Tige, Michael
Tigh, Michael

- 1
26

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST REG., P. Y
COMPANY I.

Ca;,,'am— WILLIAM L. GRAY.

1st Lieut. — ]f. II. Merklk.

'2d Lieut. — C. P. Potts.

'Id Sergeant — John Cohoon.

Zd do. CriAiiLEs Bartolett.

■iih do. Joseph Kantnkk.

!')th do. Thomas Morgan.

1.5:^ Corporal — Elias Babtolktt.

ith do. John Buchanan.

5th do. Jacob II. Haertlkr.

7th do. Frank W. Berkheiser.

Sth do. John Hendricks.

Musician — Lewis Lebengood.

Wago?ier — George W. Coover.

PRIVATES :
Auchanbach, Jonathan Bacon, Albert

Brcsler, Daniel Dillman, Daniel

Brennan, Patrick Dillman, Benjamin

The Calls in 1862.

18^

Company I, 151st Regiment-

Delp, William
Duncan, John C.
Delcamp, Klias
Deitricb. John
Ehly, Franklin
Eichlev, Adam
Feslcr, Daniel
Fesisler, Micliael
Fisher, Jacob
Feltcn, llenry
Gray, William
IFowser, Samuel
Hoffman, AV. H.
Hendricks, Commodore
llohmakre. Jacob
Hummel, Anthony
Hilbert, Daniel
Heurich, Charles
Hendricks, William
Jones, Isaac
Knabb, Levi

Commissioned Officers

Non-commissioned Offi

Musician,

Wagoner,

Privates,

Total,

Continutd,

Louby, Jacob
McCarty, Harvey
Manning, William
Maclure. John
Moyer, William
Miller, Anson C.
McLaughlin, William
Palsgrove, Stephen
Kunkle, John
Heed, Jeremiah
Ranch, Jacob
Starr, Jeremiah
Schwenk, Samuel
Schwartz, Oliver
Schnerring, Peter
W'esner, William
Yeik, Daniel
Zimmerman, John
Zimmerman, Benjamin F.
Zechman, George

cers,

C APT. JONES' COMPANY OF PROVOST GUAIiD.

This Company durin<x it? term of service did arduous duty at IIarri.«barg and Waj?!*-
■a^tou. The muster-roll is as follows :

CiqUain—^'V. LLINGTON JONES.
'ist Linit. — Pbeston Carpenter.
Id Lieut. — Charles F. Rahn,
\si Sergeant — Samuel Jones.

Lewis Long.

Alrert F. Deibert.

John Hahn,

Samuel Vanderhbiden.
' — John Moser.

George Goodman,

John Berkueiser,

W^illiam M. Wagner,

Francis H. Mover,

Henry Huntzinger.

David C. Brown.

Jacob Ripkes,
Wagoner — 'Augustus L. Ykagkr.

PRIVATES:

Aichey, William Behm, Reuben

AUspach, Marcus Berger, Daniel

?.d

4th

bth

1st (

7orj)

do.

4th

bth

i^h

7th

iith

188

The Calls in 1862.

Capt. Jones's Company of Proyost Guard — Continued.

Blackard, Lewis
r>robst, Samuel K
lirown, Edwin
Baker, Thomas
Berklieiser, Daniel
(■oiler, Israel
CoUer. James
Deibert, G. W.
Ditzler, Henry
Daner, Charles
Deibert, Henrj'^
Drey, Andrew-
Drey, Daniel
Dress, John
Drey, Marcus
Ebele, Joshua
Eckroth, John
Emerick, Joshua
Ebele, Sol
Emerick, Jonathan
Frederick, James
Faust, George W.
Eaust, Daniel H.
Fritz, Joseph
Fritz, Moses
Garret, Gideon
Grover, Peter
Holder, H. C.
Hoffman, Jonathan
Hoffman, James
Hoffman, Henry
Hardenstine, Henry
Homraes, Charles
Hern, John W.
Klock, Horace
Kaump, Sol
Kaump, Reuben
Kramer, George
Kramer, Samuel
Kramer, Thomas

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Wagoner, _ . .
Privates, _ , .

Total, -

Krammes, William

Loy, Lewis

Lackens, William

Lawrence, Charles H.

Lawrence, Sol

Lawrence, Jeremiah

Lindermuth, Jacob

Lehman, Jeremiah K.

Moyer, Edward C.

Moyer, Jacob M.

Moyer, Conrad

Moyer, June

Moyer, James

Meek, David

Mill, John

Mengle, Denilla

Mann, Thomas H.

Miller, Levi P.

Murphy, Daniel
Moser. William

McGuire, Henry

McGlone, Thomas
Neitinger, Henry
Potts, Martin
lleininger, John
lleber, George E.
Eeber, Thomas
Schrader, Jacob
St. Clair, Charles
Stray er, Daniel
Strouse, Samuel
Sassaman, Moses
Stout, Daniel
Sheridan, Daniel
Stein, Henry
Wagner, Martin
AVagner, Adam
Weller, Benjamin
Young, James

- 3
13

- 1

100

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH REGI-
MENT, P. V.

COLONEL JOSEPH W. HAWLEY.
Stager, Sergt. Henry I. Philips, John W.

The Calls in 1862. 180

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGI-

MENT, P. Y.

COLONEL SAMUEL CROaSDALE.

Helwig, Ass't Surg. Theo. A. Seidcr, John
Smith, Jeremiah

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH REG., P. V.

COLONEL HENRY L. ZIM.
Alexander, Sergt. John W. Alexander, James

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND REGI-
MENT, P. Y.

COLONEL R. A. OAKFORD.

COMPANY G.

Yeager, Daniel S. Hay, William F.

Williams, J. F. C.

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THIRD REG., P. V.

COLONEL F. B. SPEAKMAN.
COMPANY A.

Slack, William Grimes, James

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY -SIXTH REG.,P. Y

COLONEL THOMAS M. BAYARD.
Philips, Corporal R. P. H.,

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH REG., P. Y

COLONEL J. H. COLLIER.
Meyers, Theodore Meyers, James

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST REG., P. Y

COLONEL MADLE.
COMPANY K.

Scott, Sergeant D. W.,

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REG. P. A'

COLONEL CUMMINS.
COMPANY K.

McNaller, Bernard

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEYENTH REGI-

MENT, P. Y.

Riddle, Jacob
16^

190 The Calls in 1862.

GRAKD EECAPITULATIOK

One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, - - 52;>

" " " seventh Ilegiment, - - - 57

" " Thirty-seventh Regiment, - - 27

" " Fifty-first Regiment, - - - - 61

Captain Jones's Company of Provost-guard, - - 100

In other nine months' organizations, - - - - 18

Total, 786

DEATHS m NINE MONTHS' SERVICE.

Marcus Drey, of Captain Wellington's Zouave Company of Provost
Guard, died in Harrisburg, October '1, 1862.

George Andrew Lerch, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
Regiment, died in Frederick City, Md., Nov. 11, 1802.

liieut. Edward Wertley, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty- ninth
Regiment, died Nov. 30, 1862.

Captain George J. Lawrence, Company A. One Hundred and Twenty-
ninth Regiment, died in Fredericksburg, Jan. 4, 1863, from wounds
received in the battle of Fredericksburg.

John Michael, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment,
died at Falmouth, Va., Jan. 6, 1863.

Reuben Kline, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment,
died at Falmouth, Va., Jan. 8, 1863.

Edward Reber, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment, died at Falmouth, Va., Jan. 12, 1863,

Joseph H. Heisler, Company A, One Hundred anl Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment, died January, 1863.

George H. Payne, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment, died at Falmouth, Va., Dec. 25, 1862.

Samuel Burklsart Richland, Jr., of Company G, One Hundred and
Seventy-third Regiment, P. D. M., died in Camp Viele Hospital, Nor-
folk, Va., Feb. 12, 1863.

Asher Wooraer, Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment. P. v., died in March, 1863.

August 14, 1862, the Pottsville Cornet Band, which was with
the Ninety-sixth Regiment, reached Pottsville, having been di?»-
charged from the service under an act of Congress, reducing the
number of bands.

August 22, the band of the Forty-eighth Regiment reached
Pottsville, having been oischarged under the operations of the
same act.

The Calls in 1862, 191

THE FIRST THREATENED INVASION OF PENNSYL-
VANIA.

After the retirement from before Richmond, in July, 1862, of
the army under General McClellan, the rebels became emboldened
by their successes, and resolved to attempt a transfer of the war
from the soil of the slave to that of the free States. Everything
seemed favorable for the attempt, as the United States Govern-
ment was organizing its new levies, and our. armies were separated.
While the Army of the Peninsula was being transferred to xilex-
andria, the rebels made a flank movement, in the hope of cutting
off General Pope from his base; defeating him ; capturing Wash-
ington, and invading Pennsylvania. Through the bravery of the
forces under Pope part of the plan failed, after a raimber of san-
guinary battles in the vicinity of Bull Kun, in which the Forty-
eighth, Fiftieth, and other Pennsylvania Kegimonts, participated.

Of the conduct of the Forty-eight llegiment in these contests,
Henry Pleasants, Captain of Company C, wrote as follows, under
date of

Camp Near Alexandria, September 4, 18G2.

After leaving the left of Pope's army, before the Rapidan, which posi-
tion our Division (Reno's) occupied, we marched to Kelly's ford, across
the Rappahannock. From this point we went to Rappahannock Station,
thence along the northern side of the river to Sulphur Springs ; thence
to Warrenton and on to Warrenton .Junction, where we rested for three-
quarters of a day. From here we marched to Manassas Junction, and
on to near Centreville, where we turned to tfie left and moved towards
the Gap which leads to the Shenandoah Valley. Tl)is was on Friday
morning. The action had already begun. We reached the battle-field
at 1 P. M., and at 3 our Brigade, commanded by Colonel Nagle, wag
ordered to attack the rebels in a thick woods. The Sixth New Hamp-
shire Regiment formed on the left, the Second Maryland on the right,
and the Forty-eight Pennsylvania fifty paces in their rear. Hardly had
the column entered the woods when the action began — brisk, fiery and
bloody. Our regiment was marching on with the teteadiness of regulars,
when the battalions in front obliquing to the left and right, permitted
us to advance quickly and occupy the intervening space, pi-omptly open-
ing a destructive fire on the rebels. We advanced fii-ing for about a
quarter of a mile, when Lieut. -Colonel Sigiried halted the regiment, and
after causing the men to cease firing, ordered them to advance with the
bayonet, which was done in gallant style — driving the enemy out of two
ditches, (one of them an old railroad cut,) and going on beyond them.
We had, however, not gone far before we received a volley of musketrj
from behind. Thinking that we were fired on by some of our own troops,
the regiment was ordered back to the nearest ditch, and our fire to the
front resumed. From this time the tire poured on ours and the Nev

192 The Calls in 1862.

Hampshire regiment, was most terrific — from tlie front, left and rear.
The more our colors were raised and spread out to the view of our sup-
posed friends behind, the hotter and bloodier were their discharges. At
last the rebel regiments made their appearance on our rear, when Colo-
nel Sigfried gave tlie order to retreat by the right flank. The men stood
this terrible fire without flincliing, obeying the orders of their officers,
and firing to the front where the enemy was supposed only to be. The
regiments of the brigade were promptly reformed after leaving the woods,
and soon after were relieved by the Second Brigade. The next day,
Saturday, we were present at the battle, supporting batteries, and being
continuously under artillery fire from about 3 to 9 P. M. Our Division
was the last to leave the. battle-field, which it did about 10 o'clock that
night. Next day, although without hardly any sleep, rest or food, we
were drawn up in line of battle until night time. On Monday, about 1
P. M., our Division again marched from Centreville to Fairfax, protect-
ing the train. Wlien about three or four miles from where we started
we met the rebels, in force, posted in the woods and cornfields, and after
fighting till dark, and being reinforced by General Kearney, Ave gained
a complete victory, driving them for nearly a mile. Our regiment was
under fire nearly the whole time, but supporting other troops in front,
we could not return it. The loss of Saturday and Monday was \erj
light, but that of Friday was tei-rible. The forest was converted into
a slaugliter-house. Some companies of tlie New Hampshire were near-
ly exterminated. Some of ours lost about one-half their men. The regi- '
ment lost 1-32 men. The Brigade, out of about 2,000, has lost over 500.

Captain Bosbysliell; of the same Regiment, also wrote to us a let-
ter as follows :

Camp Forty-eighth Regiment, P. V., 1
Near xVlexandria, Va., Sept. 3, 1862. /

A spare moment I devote to giving you a short account of the doings
of tlie Forty-eighth in the late battles near Bull Run. I'll not particu-
larize about our long and tiresome march from Fredericksburg to Cul-
pepper, &c., but suffice it to say, that we arrived on the Bull Run battle-
field last Friday morning. Preparations were being made on every side
for a fight, and we expected, of course, to have a hand in it. We were
not disappointed. Three o'clock, Friday afternoon, Nagle's Brigade
drew up in line of battle — the Second Maryland on the right, next the
Sixth New Hampshire, and the Forty-eighth covering the latter regi-
ment. Oft" we moved, over a clear field, to quite a dense wood, out of
which we were to drive the rebels. The wood was skirted by a fence,
which we had scarcely crossed — in fact, our regiment was just getting
over it — Avlien bang ! bang I whiz ! whiz ! and the battle commenced.
There was no use talking, however. Our Brigade went right in; walked
steadily on, driving the rebels quickly before them, but losing men fast.
A ditch or embankment, in which the rebels had shielded themselves,
and from out of which tlie Brigade which entered the woods before ours
failed to drive them, our Brigade assailed so fiercely, that it was soon
cleared. The Forty-eighth had bayonets fixed. Some of the prison-
ers wanted to know who they were with fixed bayonets, ancl what
troops we were. When informed, they said they thought we must belong
to " Burnside's fighting devils."

The impetuosity of our men was great, and I believe we would have

The Calls in 1862. 193

gone clear througli the woods, without once halting, had not a strong
flank movement been made by the rebels. They came around on our
left, and opened a galling fire on our left flank and rear, which we did
not return for some time, mistaking them for our own. When we dis-
covered it, however, we answered lively, but they were too strong for us,
with their raking cross-fire, and a retreat by the right flank was ordered.
This we did in good order, returning fire for fire, and we got out in the
clearing again, where the "rebs" dared not follow us.

It is difficult to note all the incidents of personal bravery. Colonel
Nagle was everywhere, cheering on the men, and barely escaped cap-
ture. He was ordered to halt by the rebels several times, pursued and
fired at, but escaped. Lieutenant John D. Bertolette, his acting assist-
ant Adjutant-General, our late Adjutant, was wounded in the thigh,
while ably attending to his duties. His aids, Lieutenants Blake and
Hinkle, were actively engaged throughout the entire fight. Upon enter-
ing the woods. Colonel Nagle and his staff left their horses at the fence,
the woods being entirely too thick to ride through, and, in the flanking
by the rebels, the horses were captured. The Brigade lost, in killed,
wounded and missing, some 530 men. The Forty-eighth behaved exceed-
ingly well, and did considerable damage to the ''Louisiana Tigers."
Lieut. -Colonel Sigfried was in the thickest of the fray, encouraging the
men by actions as well as words. He was ably seconded by Major Kauf-
man and Acting Adjutant Gowan. But I cannot particularize ; all be-
haved well; no one shirked, neither officers or men.

Our loss is heavy, some 152 in killed, wounded and missing. The fol-
lowing list I have taken from Acting Brigadier-General Nagle's report of
the killed, wounded and missing in the Forty-eighth Regiment, P. V. :

Killed, 7

Wounded, 61

Prisoners, - - - - - -10

Missing, -_-_-- 74

Total, 152

Nearly all the missing have been ascertained to be prisoners, and will
be paroled and released shortly. Reno's Division — our Brigade included,
of course — was also in the action of Saturday, protecting batteries, &c.
Towards evening we were ordered into the woods, where we went, but
the darkness ended the fight before we exchanged shots Avith the enemy.
Our Division was exposed to the shells and shots of the enemy nearly all
day Saturday — (none in the Forty-eighth hurt; two of Company H, taken
prisoners) — and was the last Division to leave the field. We retired
fx'om the ground at 0 o'clock, and by five next morning were in Centre-
Tille. On Sunday we were picketed about two miles out of Centreville,
and we met the Ninety-sixth on our way out. Monday afternoon our
Division started for Fairfax, and was the first Division engaged in the
fight at Chantilly, where the gallant Kearney and Stevens fell. The
Brigade lost a number killed and wounded again, but the Forty-eighth
escaped with two men slightly wounded, merely grazed. We were posted
in a wood on the right, to prevent any flank movement the enemy might
make. We remained on this battle-field until 3 o'clock Tuesday morn-
ing, when we made for Fairfax, reaching it by sunrise. By 6 o'clock
last night we reached our present quarters, almost fagged out with exces-
sive marching and fatigue. The Fiftieth, Ninety-sixth, and One Hun-
dred and Twenty-ninth, are all near at hand.

194

The Calls in 1862.

At the time of these battles the Forty-eighth was in the First
Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps — the Brigade com-
manded by Colonel James Nagle. In his official report, Colonel
Nagle placed the loss in the Brigade at 502 killed, wounded and
missing, in actions of August 29th, 30th, and Sept. 1st. In the
Forty-eighth Regiment the casualties, as ofl&cially stated, were as

follows :

Wounded.

Lt. J. D. Bertolette, Act. A. Adj. Gen.

Missing.

Lieut. H. C. Jackson, Co. G.

Killed.

Sergeant R. D. Filbert, Co, K.
Samuel Pettit, Co. II.
" Thomas Kelly, Co. H.

Lt. 11. P. Owens, Co. D.

Capt. 11. A. M. Filbert, Co. K.

' — -Corporal Wm. Hopkins, Co. F
Private William Nagle, Co. H.
'* Charles' T. Leiser, Co.
'^ Paul White, Co. K.

Company A.

Private George Albright,
«' William l>etz,
" Elias Brit ton,
" George Miller,
" Andrew Neely.
Company C

Sergeant Tliomas Johnson,
" Basslcr,

Corporal Freshly,

Private .John Lucid,

'* Isicholas Shiterour,
Company C.

Private Thomas Whalan,
" Jonas Geiger,
" Solomon Strauser,
*' James Low,
" Edward Brennan.
Company D.

Private John W. Derr,
" Frank Dor ward,
«' Henry Gott shall,
" George Ilartz,
" Philip H. Kantner,
" Peter C. Kreiger,
" David T. Kreiger.
Company E.

Private Michael Bohannan,
" James Bergain, Sr.,
" James Bergaiu, Jr.,
*' John Becker,
" Henry Lord,

Wounded.

Private Abraham Kleckner,
" Robert Thompson,
'* William Moose,

Sergeant J. H. Fisher,

Fifer, John Cameron.

Company F.

Corporal Henry Jenkins,
" George N. Douden,

Private Stephen Taggart,
" John Powel,
" Thomas Lloyd,
" William Jenkins.
Company G.

Corporal Charles Evans,

Private M. Berger,
" John Grace,
" James INIuldowney,
<' Lewis Quinn,
*' Joshua Reed,
" William Smith,
" John Shaw,
'* John Wonders,
" John Willingham.
Company H.

Private W^illiam Dreibelbies,
J. T. Wildermuth,
*' George T. Eisenhuth,
" George W. Christian.
Company I,

Corporal B, F, Kershner,

Private Rudolph Rumble.

The Calls in 1862.

19;

Company K.
Private Eli Fenstermaker,
•' James Day,
♦* Milton Ludwig,

Company A.
1st Sergeant B. G. Otto,
Corporal John Taylor,

" Brobst,

Private Israel Britton,
*' Henry Davis,
" "William II. Koch,
" George Livingston,
" Daniel Leiser,
" Joel Marshall,
" Morgan Simon,
*' John Leiser,
" John Springer,
" F. W. Simon,

Company B.
Sergeant Philip Hughes,
Private William Bradley,
" Henry Copeland,
"' John Evans,
" L. M. Reece,
" Joseph Ilahny,
" Samuel Stanly.
Company C.
Sergeant 0. C. Hatch,
Corporal John Borety,
i'rivate John Wiser,
" Barney Gettley,
" Mart. Brennan,
'' .John Jones,
" William Larkin.
Company D.
'""ergeant AVllliam Bambrick,
' ^irporal George Ilamer,
" Leonard Shrishorn,

J. T. Vankannon,
" William Timraons,

Private Mattis Bailey,
" Eli Derr,

Isaiah Kline,
" Joseph Kuhns,
*' Charles Miller,
" Boto Otto,

Company E,
Sergeant Stafford Johnson,
Corporal D. McAllister,
Private Alfred Barlow,

Private James Cavanaugh,
" James Dullard,
*' Joseph Burgess.

Missing.

Private Jef. Canfield,
" James Farrell,
" James Greener,
" Joseph Lord,
" Thomas Major,
" John McSorely,
" Michael Brennan,
" Hugh McFeely,
" Simon S. Moyer,

Corporal William McKay.
Company F.

Private Thomas J. Thomas,
*' John J. Morrison,
" John Morrisey,
" Samuel Dunkroly,
*' Peter Quinn,
*' John Devine,
*' Michael Killrain.
" Richard Littlehales,
" Thomas Lyston,
*' John Haggerty.
Company G.

Corporal Joel Betz,

Private John Fame.

Company H.

Sergeant Samuel M. Buch,

Corporal Thomas H. Sillyman,

Private John E. Benedict,
*' William Huber,
" Daniel Lauer,
'^ John W. Ray,
" Isaac L. Schmehl.
Company I.

Sergeant Theodore Pletz,

Private Christopher Seward.
" H. Link.

Company K.

Corporal Thomas Brennan,
" Patrick Hanley,

Private David Boyer,
" W. D. Dress,
" Daniel Shaneby,
'* W. Fenstermaker,
" Hiram Spears,
'• William T. Reed,
*' William Lavenberger,

The Fiftieth Regiment, Colonel Christ, also fought bravely in
these battles, under the command of that officer. The casualties
in Company C were as follows:

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George W. Hinley,

Captain D. Burkert,
Corporal Jouas Krenier,
Private George Sclnvenk,
'• George Simpson,
" Peter Powell,

Jacob Getler,
Charles Knarr,
Franklin Wise,

Killed.

Edward Haerner.

Wounded.

Private Samuel Hoffman,
" Garrett Garrigan,
" Benjamin Knarr,
" Dennis Mellery,
" John Martin.

Missing.

Edward :\[arl,
Ilenr}/ M. Diebler.

The casualties in Company A were :

Killed.

Private Edward Knrner.

Wounded.

Private Henry Hower,

" William Hesser,

'• Andrew Tferb,

*• William Bliler,

" Emanuel D. Faust,

*' August Erdman,

*' Samuel Kautt'man,

" Alexander McLaughlin.

Missing.

Philip A. Wlest.

Corporal John Heisler,
Private Peter S. Otto,

Sergeant Henry Brodt,

" Samuel Schwalm,

-' David J. Alspach,

Private Nicholas Adams,

'« John Bixler,

" Cyrenc Bowman,

" John Herring,

*' Daniel Iloft'a,

Benjamin Herman,
Levi Assmann,

Thwarted in his attempt to destroy Pope's army and capture
Washington, the enemy crossed the Potomac in force, at three
different points, near Point of Ptocks, and invaded Maryland, and
threatened Pennsylvania.

During the week, ending September 20, several sanguinary bat-
tles were fought in Maryland, resulting in the driving of the
enemy back into Virginia. On the 17th, the battle of Antietam
was fought. In these engagements the Ninety-sixth, Forty-eighth,
Fiftieth, and other regiments containing Schuylkill County men,
participated.

The battle of Blue Ridge, or South Mountain, was fought on
Sunday, September 14, in which the Ninety-sixth Regiment
greatly distinguished itself.

Of the part the Regiment took in this and in the battle of the
17th, the official report of its Colonel, Henry L. Cake, spoke as
follows :

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Headquaeters Ninety-sixth Regiment, P, V., "^
Camp near Williamsport, Md., September 23, 1862. j

Lieutenant: I liave tlie honor to submit the following report of the
engagements of the 14th and 17th inst., so far as participated in by this
Regiment.

After marching through Jefferson on Sunday morning, I was ordered
out upon the road to Burkittsville, the Regiment having been indicated
as the advanced guard. When within two miles of the latter village, the
cavalry advance came in and reported a skirmish with a superior force
of the enemy's cavalry. Companies A and F were deployed at once as
skirmishers, and moved forward, the balance of the Regiment steadily
moving on within easy supporting distance. The enemy retired to the
South Mountain, through Burkittsville, our two companies of skirmish-
ers penetrating to within a thousand yards of the base, the balance of
(he Regiment halting at the entrance of the village, at little after 1
o'clock, P. M. As the skirmishers entered the village, they drew the fire
of the artillery posted on the heights, which was kept up during the day,
the shots being divided between the skirmishers and the main body of
the Ninety-sixth, drawn up in line on the Jvnoxville road, the enemy
revealing the position of at least five of their pieces.

At about 4 o'clock I was ordered to draw in the skirmishers, and rejoin
the Brigade with the Regiment. Having posted a picket down the Knox-
ville road, this required some time, and the Brigade had commenced to
move, as had also the two other Brigades of the Division. Receiving an
order from Major-General Slocuni to move on in the rear of the New
Jersey Brigade', I did so, forming where they formed, and moving on
the field to their right. At about half-past five, the Ninety-sixth .had
marched to the line of skirmishers, and I was ordered by Colonel Bart-
lett, commanding the Brigade, to take my position on the extreme right.
The base of the mountain was now about one thousand yards distant.
At that point a road ran parallel to the mountain. On one or the other
side of this road a substantial stone fence furnished good cover for the
enemy's infantry, to say nothing of the wood on the side of the moun-
tain. Brisk musketry firing was in progress on our left, but the good
cover in possession of the enemy, and the distance at which we stood
rendered it quite certain that we could gain nothing at a stand-off fight,
while the artillery posted in the mountain Avas punishing us severely.
It was evident that nothing but a rush forward would win. The order
to " charge " came at last, and with a shout tlie entire line started. The
field through which the Ninety-sixth charged presented many obstacles,
and in order not to meet the enemy with broken lines, I twice halted
momentarily with a stone fence for cover, for a great portion of my
Regiment to form. The last of the series of fields through which we had
to charge, was meadoAV and standing corn. As we emerged from the
corn the enemy met us with a murderous fire. We were within twenty
paces of the road at the base of the mountain, the stronghold of the
enemy. It was here we met our great loss. Shocked, but not repulsed,
the men bounded forward, determined to end it with the bayonet. The
road was gained in a twinkling, the enemy leaving for the mountain.
Those of the enemy who were not hurt, and who seemed too much sur-
prised to get away, begged lustily for mercy.

I had seen Lieutenant John Dougherty, one of my best officers, fall,
but without waiting to see who were down or who were up, I hastily-
formed my line. Major Maginnis, of the Eighteenth New York, promising
to form on my left and follow, and dashed on up the hill. Keeping ths

198 The Calls in 1862.

Hue formed as well as possible, to guard against a probable stand of ihc
enemy at the crest of the hill, I let the men advance nearly as fast as
they could and wanted to. It was a most exhausting charge. By the
time we had ascended half way the cannon had ceased firing on our left,
and the enemy seldom replied to onr fire with their muskets. We made
captures at evei^y step. After passing the crest of the mountain a Lieu-
tenant of the Fifteenth North Carolina delivered himself up. I sent,
during the charge, forty-two prisoners to the rear, including the Captain
of Company G, Sixteenth Georgia, wounded, and other officers and men,
most of them unhurt. Sergeant Anderson, of Company K, shot the
color-bearer of the Sixteenth Georgia, but did not stop to secure the
colors, which were secured by some of oar forces afterwards.

After advancing beyond the crest of the hill, T formed my line for the
purpose of resting the men, who were much exhausted by the hard
march of the day and the furious dash up the mountain. It is with
much gratification that I can report my co^ipanies all present in line,
fully and fairly represented. Colonel Sevier, of the Sixteenth, as also
the officers commanding portions of the Eighteenth and Thirty-second
New York, joined their lines to the Ninety-sixth, and reported to me for
orders. Having thrown out skirmishers to the right and front, I rested
until the reception of orders to return to the foot of the mountain and go
into camp, which order was promptly obeyed, the Brigade going into
camp on the western side of the i:)ass.

During the charge, and just at the moment when a splendid victory
Avas opened. Major Lewis J. Martin was mortally wounded by a musket
ball in the head, and died while being carried olf the field. He was an
accomplished and brave soldier, an unassuming and perfect gentleman,
beloved by all the Regiment, and regretted beyond expression. One of
the first to volunteer in this war, he has at last laid down his life while
gallantly and bravely fighting for his country — the only son of his
mother and she a widow.

A minute before, First Lieutenant John Dougherty, commanding Com-
pany F, was shot through the lieart at my side while bravely leading his
Company to the final struggle at the road. Sergeant Casey, seizing the
sword as he fell, valiantly raised it over his head, and dashed forward
at the head of the Company, which never faltered. There was no better
or braver soldier than Lieutenant John Dougherty. The loss of these
two officers falls heavily on the Regiment.

Dui'ing the charge I had two color-bearers killed and three wounded.

I append a statement of the killed and wounded in detail:

Killed.
Major Lewis J. Martin.

CoMrANT A, Captain L. S. Hay Commanding.

K-illc(L

Corporal Gomer Jones.

Wounded.
Corporal Frank Hanley, Sergeant Edward Thomas,

Richard Brcnnan, Caleb Kinzi,

Edward Fenstermacher, Edward McCormick.

Company B, Captain P. A. Filbert Commanding.

Wounded.

Orderly Sergeant John Yon Hollan.

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199

Company C, C-irTAiN William H. Lessig Commanding.

Killed.
Color Sergeant Sol. McMinzie, Martin Sipe.

Woimded.
Sergeant Alexander Allison, Color Sergeant Thomas Oliver,

Corporal Thomas Hilton, Hugh Lynch,

John Frazer, David Thomas,

Charles Bast, Arthur IJranagan.

CoMPAXY D, Captain John T. Boyle Commanding.
Killed.

Thomas D, "Williams.

Thomas Reese,

Jolin Carr,

Wounded.

William Campholi.

Company E, First Lieut. John S. ObereendeFv Commanding.

Killed.
Otto G. H. Yogle.

Wounded.
Benjamin Mitchell.

Company F.

Killed.

First Lieutenant John Dougherty Commanding Company.

Wounded.
Corporal Patrick Sullivan, John O'Donnell,

Michael Connery, Thomas Tracey,

Andrew Glennon, Francis Harris.

Company G, Captain Jacob W. Haas Commanding.

Killed,

Thomas Haines.

Wounded.

Joel Burd,
Abraham Strasser,
llobert D. Weaver,
Israel Strasser.

Joshua Strasser,
Joshua V/orkman,
John D. Grim,
James Kaercher,
Louis Fritx,

Christian Beidle,
John Haley,
Henry Z. Koons,

Company H, Captain Henry Royer Commanding.

Killed.

John Sentman,
Oliver G. Treichler,
Charles B. Ziegler.

Wounded.

Jeremiah Miller,

Sergeant Joseph S. Johnson,
" George E. Hughes,

William Horn,
John Cleary,
David P. Thompson,
Davis Mellon,
Aaron Miller,
Michael McCormick,

David W. Jenkins,
Thomas L. Morgan,
William Ortner,
Patrick Fell,
Peter Triece,
Anthony Fisher.

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Co3irANT I. First Liei'tenant Matthew Byrnes Commanding

Killed.
William Weaklin, George James.

Wounded.
John B. Davis, Manus McAifeiy,

Thomas Boyle, Boyd S. Campbell,

Peter McAnnany, Michael Callahan,

Daniel Sweeny, John Lennon.

Company K, Captain Rictiart) Bupd.
Killed.
Patrick McAllister, Barney McMichacl.

Wounded.

Jeremiah Cnrran, Jacob Graeff,

Thomas Gribbon, John Ilollan,

Patrick Welsh, Charles Westner,

Patrick Delaney, Patrick Conville,

Michael McCariy, John G. Farrell,

John Broderick, Patrick Fa}',

Barnett McMulligan, Michael llolloran.

RECAPITULATION.

Field Offi

cer,

Company

Killed.

Wounded.

Total, - . - - 19 70

It does not include 14 men slightly wounded, but not incapacitated
from doing duty immediately with their Companies.

The conduct of the Regiment was excellent; my orders under fire
heing obeyed promptly, and with great cheerfulness.

In taking the road, we lost two color-bearers killed and three wounded.
The names of those killed witli tlio colors in their hands, are Solomon
McMinzie, Company C, color-bearer, and Charles B. Ziegler, Company
H. The wounded are — Thomas Oliver, Company C, color-bearer, Ser-
geant Johnson, Company H, and William Ortner, Company H.
Very respectfully. Lieutenant,
Your obedient servant,

II. L. CAKE, Colonel Commanding.
To Lieutenant R. R. Wilson, A. A. A. G.

On the 17th, the Regiment moved from camp at daylight, and crossed
the Antietam at 11 o'clock. With the balance of the Brigade it was sent
to the front to support batteries. While lying in position, a round shot

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struck in Company G, killing Private Frank Treon, and wounding Pri-
vate McCoy Sargent. I have, happily, no other casualties to record.

H. L. C, Colonel Coniraandins.

Note — Was ordered not to make a full report of the hattlc of Wednes-
day, September 17, 18G2. Casualties in all — 20 killed, 71 wounded so
as to be disabled, and 14 slightly wounded.

The Forty-eighth was in the battle of South Mountain, and in
the engagements at Antietam, September 17 and 18, and behaved
nobly. The following account was furnished to us by Captain
Bosbyshell :

Antietam, Near Potomac, Md., ")
September 21, 1862. /

Two more fights to record, in Avhich the Forty-eighth participated —
the battle of South Mountain or Middletown Heights, and that of Antie-
tam Creek Bridge. The former took place last Sunday, 14th inst. We
took up our position behind a small fence in a cleared field, facing a
wood — from which the enemy had been driven in the afternoon, and
where it was feared he would attack again. It was fast growing dark,
and appearances seemed to indicate that we would have to remain and
watch where we were all night. Bu.t no, our skirmishers (Company B,
Captain Wren) soon were attacked, and shortly'- our Regiment became
engaged. Here, to use a vulgarism, we had the ''dead wood" on the
enemy, and could pop away in grand style. The firing of the rebels was
fast and furious, but we returned it as lively, until our ammunition
became expended, when we retired by the left tlank, firing all the way.
Our place was immediately occupied by the Second Maryland, of Nagle's
Brigade. The enemy " skedaddled " after a few rounds from the Second.
and did not disturb us any more that night. We remained close to the
field all night. Some three or four in the Regiment were slightly
wounded. The rest of Nagle's Brigade also participated, and the los^
in the other Regiments was pretty considerable. The next morning we
moved off after the rebels, passing over the battle-field, where piles and
piles of dead rebels lay, evidences of the accuracy of our firing. They
were strewn around thick where we had been firing the night before,
and we received the credit of having piled them up so famously. At
the battle of Antietam Creek Bridge the Brigade became engaged about
10 o'clock in the morning, and continued in the action until it ceased —
at nightfall. About 11 a'clock, Companies B, G, K, and E, of the Forty-
eighth, got into the fight— rthe nature of the ground being such as to
prevent the balance of the Regiment participating. This was on the
east side of the creek, and our boys did nobly. The sport here was so
keen, that I noticed Captain Wren and Lieutenant Douty banging away
with spare rifles, evidently enjoying the fun. Soon the bridge was
charged b}- the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Hartranft.
(as brave a Regiment, with as brave a Colonel as ever existed,) and car-
ried, the rebels leaving in double-quick time. Over to the other side we
followed, and our Regiment was throAvn forward to skirmish. We gained
the summit of some of the little hills, when the rebels opened a terrific
fire of grape, canister, and spherical case from several batteries in front,
causing us to shelter ourselves under the hill. 'Twas not long before
the infantry became engaged, and at 5 P. M., we were ordered forward

202 The Calls in 1862.

to support the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers. We liurried up the
liill, taking our position immediately in the rear of the Fifty-first, lying
dafc on the ground. The artillery filing was terrible, and the range
awfully accurate. The Fifty-first's ammunition giving out, we crawled
up into its place, while it took ours, determined to support us. Finding-
our batteries could not get a position to support us, we were ordered to
retreat, which we did in good order, to the bridge, where fresh aramuni-
lioD was obtained, when we returned and slept on the battle-field. The
loss in the Brigade I cannot give — our Regiment's amounts to some 58
killed and wounded. Among the killed is Lieutenant William Cullen, of
t'ompany E, a brave man, much esteemed by all. Lieutenant M. M.
Kistler, of Company 1, was wounded pretty severely in the shoulder,
il.'olonel Nagle, wlio now ranks as Brigadier (Jeneral, having been so
commissioned by President Lincoln, behaved as usual with great bravery
in these engagements, and our gallant Lieut. -Colonel Sigfried deserves
great praise for his conduct during the actions. He was constantly on
hand cheering the men on. I can occupy no more of your space in
recounting the praises bestowed on the Forty-eighth and the entire Bri-
gade by General St urges and otliers. McClellan says the carrying of
the bridge won the battle, and it was Sturges' Division that did it.

We also, received the following letter from General Nagle :

Ukad^larters First Brigade, 2p Division, 0th Army Corps, )
Camp near Antiefam, September 21, 1862. j'

Enclosed please find a list of killed, wounded and missing, during the
engagements of the l4th inst., at South Mountain, and 17th and 18th
inst., at Antietam Bridge and vicinity of Sharpsburg. I would have
sent it before, but was unable to do so on account of our continual
marching, fighting and skirmishing. I just finished my official report
to-day, and sent it to headquarters, and I immediately had a copy of
casualties made from it, for the information of many anxious and be-
reaved friends, with whom I deeply sympathize.

The particuLars of the engagement you have had before this, so I will
not trouble you with them again; but, in justice to my command, I
would briefl,y say that they have done nobly, and marched up to the
work like aid veterans. And 1 feel proud of my command. The Forty-
eighth has gained a high reputation for its gallantry, and old Schuylkill
need not be asliamed of her representatives in the field. You will see,
))y a copy of General Order No. 11, that the left wing saved the day.

I take pleasure in informing my triends at home, that T received mj
appointment as Brigadier-General, from the hands of General Cox, on
the battle-field on the 19th inst., for which I am much indebted to my
friends who procured it for me.

[ am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES NAGLE,
Brig.-Gen=?ra,l oouimanding 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 0th Army Corp.?.

Tlie number of killed, wounded and missing, in the Brigade com-
manded by Brigadier-General Nagle, was as follows:

Killed. 34

Wounded, - - - - - - 15S

Missing, --..-_-_ 15

Total, 202

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203

The casualties in the Forty -eight Regiment were as follows

Battle of South Mountain — Sunday, Sej?temher 14.

Wounded.
aeorge Brigle, Company A, John F. Kalhacli, Company LI,

Sergeant Wm. CLark, Company C, Michael Scott, Company II,
JauTes McElrath, Company C, Benjamin Hoffman, Coinpany I,

J Kline, Company I), Israel Kramer, Company I.

Corporal Jeremiah Griffith, Co. F, John F. Bocliman, Company I.
James Paully, Company F,

Miss- in (J.
Martin Toben, Company C

RECAPITULATION.

Wounded,
Missing,

Total,

11
1

Battle ov Antietam Creek — September \~th and l8/A.

Killed.
Alexander Prince, Company B, Charles Timmons, Company G,

Alva F. Jeffries, Company D, Corporal Lewis A. Focht, Co. I

Lieut. William CuUen, Company E, Corporal Daniel Moser, Co. K,

John Broadbent, Company F,

Company A.
Corporal H. H. Prince,
Charles Krieger,
B. F. Dreibelbeis,
George Beiz,
John Whitaker.

Company B.
Mathew Iiume,
Frederick Knittle,
liOrentus Mover,
John Robison,
John R. Simpson.

Company C.
Sergeant William Clark,

" Edward Monahan,

Corporal Samuel Wallace,

'- James Gribons,

Robert Rodgers,
James Horn.
Henry Dersh,
Joiin Dougherty,
John Shenk.

Company D.
Corporal Rothenberger,
George Artz,
Walter P. Airaes,
James Evans,

George Dentzer, Company K.

Worinded.

John Sullivan,
George W. Stillwagon,
Samuel Stichter,
Franklin Iloch.

Company E.
Sergeant John Seward.

" William Trainor,

Corporal John McElrath.

Company F.
i Serge-ant John W. Jenkins,
Wm. E. Taylor.

Company G.
Corporal Charles F. Kuentzlor,
John Pugh,
John Rodgers,
Henry W. Nagle.

Company H.
Richard Forney,
Jacob A. Witraan,
Daniel Ohnmacht,
William Davis,
Samuel Frybergcr.

COJII'ANY I.

Lieutenant M. M. Kistler,
Charles Millet,
Peter Keller,
Matthew Fierman,

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The Calls in 1862.

Company K.
David Fenstamaker,
Edward Paj-ne,
Francis Simon,

Killed,
Wounded,

John Shaw,
Peter Boyer,
Sergeant, P. F. Quinn.

KECAPITULATION.

8
51

"59

Total — 8 killed ; 51 wounded, and 1 missing.
The Fiftieth Regiment fought with its usual courage in these
battles. A letter which we received from a member of Company
C, contained the following facts in reference to the casualties sus-
tained by the tvYO Schuylkill County Companies of the Regiment :

Camp Fiftieth Regiment, P. V., Company C, "I
Near Sharpsburg, Md., Sept. 24, 1862. /
Company C is commanded by Captain Daniel F. Burkert, and was
raised in Schuylkill Haven and vicinity.. This Company was very lucky
at South Mountain, as we did not lose a man. We, however, suffered
severely in the late fight at Sharpsburg, considering the time we were
under fire. Our loss v^as two killed and eight wounded. The names are
as follows :

Killed..
llichard Fahl, Daniel ]SIcGlenn.

Wounded.
Augustus Berger-, John Graif,

Jeremiah Helms, William Patten,

Jonathan Branner, Franklin Fenstermacher,

Samuel Agley, Jacob Hehn.

The other Schuylkill County Company is Company A, and is com-
manded by Lieutenant Samuel R. Schwenk. It was recruited in Tre-
raont, Lewcllyn, and vicinity. Their loss in the two fights of South
Mountain and Sharpsburg, was one killed and two wounded. Their
names are as follows :

Killed.
E. Harner.

Wounded.
William Biller, Sergeant S Schwalm.

By request of some of the members of Company A, I also send you a
list of their killed and wounded at the battles of Bull Run and Chantilly,
which you are respectfully requested to publish. The names of those
killed and wounded at Bull Run, are—

Killed.

Peter S. Otto.

Wounded.

Henry Hozer,
Daniel Hotta,
Samuel KauflFman,
Alexander McLauchlin.
Sergeant David Alspach.
Company A also had one man wounded at White Sulphur Springs,
near Rappahannock River, on the 24th of August. His name is Emanuel
Foust.

"(^.'orporal John Heisler,

Nicholas Adams,
(Gyrene Bowman,
John Bixler,
Andrew Herl,
John Herrina:,

The Calls in 18G2. 20.'.

THE PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA,

When the rebels threatened an invasion of Maryland and Penn-
sylvania, Governor Curtin, alive to the emergency, issued the fol-
lowing order :

[General Ohder No. 35.]

Headquarters Pennsylvania Militia, 1
Harrisburg, Sept. 10, 1862. /

In view of the danger of invasion now threatening our State by tlio
enemies of the Government, it is deemed necessary to call upon all the
able-bodied men of Pennsylvania to organize immediatel}' for the defence
of the State, and be ready for marching orders upon one hour's notice,
to proceed to such points of rendezvous as the Governor may direct. Ii.
is ordered —

First — That company organizations be made in accordance with tlie
numbers required under the laws of the United States, to wit : One Cap-
tain, First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, eighty privates as the mini-
mum and ninety-eight privates as the maximum standard of each comi-
pany. The company officers to be elected by each organization.

Second — As the call may be sudden it is desirable that the officers and
members of each company provide themselves with the best arms tliey
can secure, with at least sixty rounds of ammunition to suit the kind c f
arms in possession of the soldiers. Such persons as cannot secure and
bring arms with them, will be furnished by the Government after their
arrival at the place of rendezvous,

7%i,>j_Each officer and member of the company shall provide himself
with good stout clothing, (uniform or otherwise,) boots, blanket and
haversack, ready to go into camp when called into service.

Fourth — Each company organization to be perfected as soon as por^si-
ble, and report the name* of the officer in command, the number of men,
and the place of its headquarters to these headquarters, in order that,
they may be promptly notified to move when their services are require.!.

Fifth — Organizations when ordered to move will be furnished with
transportation by the Government,

Sixth— On the arrival at the place of rendezvous they will be formed
into regiments, or such other organizations as the Governor, Comman-
der-in-chief of Pennsylvania, may direct.

Seventh — So far as practicable and as may l)e found consistent with the
interests of the public service, companies from the same localities Avill be
put together in such larger organizations as may be formed.

Fiffhth — Organizations formed under the recent proclamation are earn-
estly requested to adopt, without delay, such measures as may be neces-
sary to comply with this order.

iYm//j — Organizations called into the field under this order, will be
held for such service only as the pressing exigency for the State defence
may demand.

By order of Andrew G. Curtin, Governor and Commander-in-chief.

[Signed] A. L. PtUSSELL,

Adjutant-General Pennsylvania.

The order had the desired effect throughout the State, and
nowhere was there a deeper feeling of earnestness and determina-
tion than in Schuylkill County. The people closed their places of

206 The Calls in 1862.

business and went to drilling. Companies were organized through-
out the County, and ready to move at a moment's notice. The
order came on the I3th of September, and between that date and
the 17th eighteen Companies left the County for Harrisburg, for
State defence.

This was independent of a number of sharp-shooters, who deter,
mined '' to go it alone."

Captain Daniel Schertle, of Pottsville, organized a" Company of
Cavalry, eighty strong, which marched on the 20th, but the dan-
ger being over they were ordered to return before reaching Har-
risburg. Such an instantaneous uprising of the people was indi-
cative of their unabated patriotism.

The muster-rolls of the Companies from this County that reached
Harrisburg, and were thrown into regimental organizations, are as
follows :

SECOND EEGIMENT, P. S. M.

COLONEL JOHN L. WRIGHT.
COMPANY F .

CaiJtabi—l). A. SMITH.
\st JArui. — Henry C. Russell.
2d Lieut. — Francis B. Wallace.
l*'^ Sergeant — Valentine Stichter.

2d " D J. RiDGWAY.

^d " Edward J. SiiiprEN.

'\th " J. L. Hetherington.

btk '* Charles P. Potts.

\st Corporal — R. Snyder.

VMES B.

Reed.

^BYSIIELL.

•1/A

. B.

Bannan.

hlh

harles

Woodnutt.

(Slh

iiiLir Dentzer.

7th

. H.

Garrett.

8th

ILLIAM

IL Gore.

PRIVATES

;

Austin, R. II.

Carlin, Thomas

Berger, J.

Beatty, J. B.

Bannan, T. R.

Chrisraan, Jacob

Bosbjsell, C. A.

Cliristian, W. A.

Bartholomew, L

Cahoon, John

Bartholomew, G

us.

Berr, Simon

Brooke, L. P.

Day, Edward

Beck, B. W.

Dengler, C,

Boedefeld, John

Dillman, D. D.

The Calls in 1862.

207

Company F, Second Regiment.—

Erdman, Edward
Ehler, William
Fisher, Edward
Foster, Solomon, Jr.
Fister, James H.
Gumpert, A. S.
Harrison, Samuel
JIa,eseler, Charles H.
Heisler, D. A.
Hobart, J. H.
Hower, Samuel
Hawley, Jesse
Johnson, James K.
Knerr, John
Matz, George W.
IMcCool, J. W.
Miller, John M.
Mason, Samuel
McGinnis, Theodore F.
Matz, Thomas
McGinnes, John
Miesse, Charles (drummer)
Nichols, H. K.
Nichols, F. M.
Niedt, Edward
Olewine, Frank
Patterson, J. A.
Pomroy, R. C.
Russell, Thomas M.
Rickert, John R.
Ritter, Samuel E.
Ptoyer, John W.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musician, . - -
Privates, . . -

Total, -

Continued.

Ruch, E. C.
Reed, M. S.
Riley, Thomas A.
Snyder, George
Silliman, A. S.
Smith, W. R.
Shearer, James R.
Schollenberger, D. J.
Schmeltzcr, John
Skeen, Samuel T.
Shoener, L. B.
Snyder, G. Harrison
Smith, H. B.
Severn, Wm, B.
Say lor, Edward
Spiegle, F.
Schwintz, William
Sterling, William
Schmeltzcr, Charles
Tindle, Robert
Taylor, George W\
Troy, Henry
Thompson, David
Tyson, Cornelius
linger, Daniel
Whitney, William L.
Whitney, Samuel R.
Work, Moodie
AValker, Thomas
W^eaver, Francis
Yardley, T. W.

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FOURTH EEGIMENT, P. S. M.

COLONEL LITZINGER.

Captain— 1^. L. ESHELMAN.
1st Lieut. — Jacob Bauchman.
2d Lieut.— M. D. Weand.
\st Sergeant — H. B. Sessinger.
2d " Jonathan Bull.

8c? " D. Huffman.

4i/t '' C. W. Snyder.

bth *' Ira Cartwrigiit.

1st Corporal — J. D. Hade sty.
2d " CD. LuRwiCK.

208

The Calls in 1862.

Fourth Regiment — Continued.

Zd Corporal — Jesse Temtlin.
4th " J. A. Lewis.

bill *' George W. Heebner.

Qth *' Jesse Newlin.

Sergeant-Major — C. L. Chillson.
Quartermaster — C. Rommell.

PRIVATES;

Bailey, John
Bischofs, Joseph
Carr, Patrick
Cummings, B. F.
Culver, B.
Cliff, William
Davis, H.
Fletcher, D.
Freed, John
Glass, Neal
Groves, John
G winner, Jacob
Guiterman, M.
Gane, Uriah
Griffith, D.
Glenn, D.
GcUinger, Daniel
Geiger, Isaac

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - -

Gray, John
Hain, R.

Heilner, J. N.
Hilbert, Levi
Lehler, D.
Lawrence, W. H.
Neyer, Charles
Paul, D.
Pott, John
Phillips, R.
lloxby, John
Smith, M.
Steinbauch, P.
Shisler, George
Tiffany, 0. C.
Womer, B.
Wilson, G. D.
Wintersteen, G. W.
_ _ _ o

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Total,

SIXTH EEGIMENT, F. S. M.

COLONEL ARMSTRONG.

COMPANY B.

C^^fV/m— FRANK POTT.

\sl Lieut. — .Joseph Kear.

'2d Lieut. — Henry M. Huxtzinger.

\st Sergeant — Peter S. Dewalt.

A. K. Whitner.

Pjd

L. C. Bland.

4th

0. H. Sillyman.

bth "

J. P. HorcK.

I*; Corporal — William B. Wells,

D. H. MORETON.

J. H. Beck.

4th "

A. AV. Schalk.

blh "

David Conrad.

G^A *'

Peter Douty.

lih '<

Henry Pullman.

^th "

C. A. Fox.

Musicians-

-John Helms, Frank Kakri iikr

Sterling.

jA>iB3

The Calls in 1862.

209

Company B, Sixth Kegiment — Continued.

PRIVATES:

Buck, Peter E.

Byerle, Lot K.

Bevericlge, David

Berluchy, Charles

Buck, Nathaniel

Brennerman, Philip

Bobbs, Henry

Buck, Henry W.

Bittle, John

Bensinger, William

Chambers, Henry W.

Clowes, Isaac

C oiler, Henry

Chandler, James

Davis, David M.

Droeble, Matthias

Day, John

Elliott, Joseph S.

Edmonds, Henry R,

Entrikin, Thomas C.

Frederick, William D.

Erailey, Peter H.

Fox, Edward

Grim, Lewis

Green, Robert C.

Gross, Isaac

Ganger, Joseph

Garrett, Nathaniel J.

Garigh, Livingston P.

Huntzinger, James M.

Huntzinger, William B.

Hoifman, Perry W.

Hoffman, Charles

Hutchinson, David

Hoffman, Jacob B.

Kirkpatrick, John

Kimmel, Thomas

Langdon, Benjamin S.

Lloyd, Thomas

Lord, Jeremiah

Lehman, Isaac D.

Morrison, Nathaniel C.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Privates, . - -

Total, -

Myer, Franklin P.
Matthews, William G,
Morris, Henry L.
Matter, Henry
McCarty, John
Mendelson, Edward
Martin, Isaac
McGuire, Sol
Miller, Samuel
Nichols, Mahlon R.
Norrigan, Anthony
Oxenwald, Michael
Palmer, Robert M. Jr.
Potts, William R.
Pollard, John
Pugh, Peter
Parton, William
Quinn, Joseph
Richard, Joseph
Reick, George
Reick, AVilliam E.
St. Clair, Reuben
Short, James
Schreffler, Sol
Stout, Nathaniel M.
Shields, AVilliam
Saylor, Theodore W.
Seitzinger, John L.
Starrett, John
Thompson, Lewis C.
Thompson, Josiah W.
Tussaint, Theodore C.
Trega, John
Voute, Charles F.
Wildermuth, Charles \V
Willits, George N,
Wollison, Franklin
Wesley, Edward L,
Womelsdorff, Aquilla
AYilkinson, Allen
"Wilson, James C.
Yost, Henry

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103

210

The Calls in 1862.

COMPANY a.

Captain— E. BENSINGER.

1st Lieut. — John H. Batdorf.

2d Lieut. — William Nagle.

1^^ Sergeant — William If. Heaton.

2d " S. E. VanBuren.

3c? " E. P. BURKIIART.

Alh '* W. A. Bensinger. ^-

bth ♦* John Davis.

1*^ Corporal — David Reese.

2d " E. P. Burke.

3fZ " William Christian.

4th *< Joseph Wilson.

Wi " J. P. Bowen.

<oth " Al. BancroftT

Ith " C. L. Fisher.

8^/i " James Lake.

Quartermaster — William Himmelwright.

Musician — Al. Burkhart.

PRIVATES;

Adams, Ham
Arnold, .Jolm
Bancroft, Thomas
Bretz, Nat,
Blight, William
Bush, Lewis
Burkhart, Isaac
Cleaver, J. R.
Cooper, Edward
Clayton, Nelson
(Jathers, Alexander
Cleaver, John
Camp, Samuel
Coho, J. P.
Didey, W.
Drumader, Jacob
Donahoe, Thomas
Dye, D. M.
Donaldson, W. F.
Donahoe, John
Donahoe, Hugh
Dreisbach, Benjamin
Eyere, George
Feller, John
Faust, S. A.
Frazer, Moses
Garner, M.
Gallagher, M.
Heil, Daniel
Hornshoe, Edward
Hampton, James
Hower, R.
Heller, B.

Kline, Peter
Kline, Frank
Kessler, Charles
Krich, William
Knabb, Levi
Kitchen, W. F.
Kleese, Abner
Levan, D. P.
Learn, Henry
Moodie, Henry A.
Murphy, Joseph
Morgan, William
Matters, William
Meyers, E.
Nyraan, C.

Nierman,

Purcell, John
Parry, James
Rich, Clifford
Reiff, George
Reed, Ike F.
Stitzer, John R.
Swartz, A. K.
Tobias, C.
Thomas, M.
Witman, William E.
Walter, Jacob
AVilson, James
Watkins, M.
Walters, Daniel
Webber, William
Zerving, I.

The Calls in 1862.

211

Company G-, Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Quartermaster, _ - - - -
Mvisician, _ - - - -

Privates, ------

Total,

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COMPANY H.

Captain— C H ARLE S BLACKER.

1st Lieut. — Francis W. Richardson.

2c? Lieut. — R. II. Coryell.

1st Sergeant — R. Whitfield.

2.d " Thomas Rat.

3f? '' William G. Burwell.

4:th " John Krebs.

bth " John Cook.

1*^ Corporal — George W. Johns.

2d " William S. Morris.

Sd " William Anspach.

4th " Peter Maley.

Oth " Thomas W^\tkins.

Qth " Jacob Scheerman.

7th " John B. Metz.

8th " Thojias F. Kerns

Quartermaster — James Brown.

Company Clerk — John B. Reed.

Musician — John Kohler.

PRIVATES

Arms, Levi
Beiclilej, William
Bruinm, Charles
Bennett, John
Iioone, Charles L,
Brightmyer, Jacob
Betz, John

Bummersbach, Jacob
Curley, Michael
Cobley, Daniel
Cahill, P. W.
Davenport, James
Evans, Thomas W.
Else, Thomas C.
Evans, Thomas B.
Geiger, David H.
Gorman, David
Hardy, Thomas
Hussy, P.
Holmes, John
Koch, Lewis H.
Koch, Charles

Kelly, William H.
Krebs, Nathaniel
Kline, Adam
Kane, Frank
Laramy, William
Leahy, Philip
Lewis, Thomas
March, William H.
Morris, Cline
Miller, John R.
McGuire, John
Moses, Ebenezer
Mason, John
Macvoy, B.
Rhoads, Frank
Reiley, James
Seligman, A. M.
Seligman, Benjamin
Seligman, Moritz
Seligman. Jacob
Scholey, Francis
Smith, George

212

The Calls in 1862.

Company H, Sixth Regiment — Continued.

Thomas, Evan
Unit, Thomas
AVakelem, John
Winch, John

Commissioned Oflficers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Quartermaster,

Clerks, - - - -

Musician, _ . -

Privates, - _ -

Total, -

Wincli, Lewis
Wood. James S.
Wagner, Charles
Williams, Daniel

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SEYEI^TEENTH KEGIMEiTT, P. S. M.
COMPANY A.

Captain— ClIAllL^^ S. LEADER.
1st Licui. — Lewis L. IIlntzinger.
2(1 I.inii. — Joshua Heisler.

PRIVATES :

Angatadt, Daniel
Ijarr, David S.
Barr, Frank C.
Barth, John F,
Bast, Emanuel
Berger, John
Berger, Samuel
Bolton, George W.
Brobst, William
Burns, Franklin
Burton, Albert J.
Byerly, Daniel
Byerly, William
Christ, James F.
Clay, Henry
Clouse, William
Deibert, Charles V. B.
Deibert, William H.
Eckert, William
Eiler, Charles
Emerick, Elijah
Freeh afer, George W.
Freehafer, Elhannon W
Freehafer, Rolandus H,
Frehn, Isaac D.
Fried, Heni'y C.
Fritz, Lewis W.
Geiger, Engelberl
Guertler, Henry W.
Guss, Wallace

Guss, John C.
Haegner, Daniel
Harner, Koland
Ileiser, Edward
Heisler, Lewis
Heller, Albert
Hendricks, John
Hendricks, Sassaman
Hendricks, Commodore
Holmes, Daniel B.
Homan, Amos
Howes, Thomas
Kaufman, John G.
Kaufman, Charles F.
Kendt, E. C.
Kerkeslager, Joseph C.
Kline, Jeremiah
Koch, William J.
Koons, John W.
Leader, Charles C.
Leib, Charles P.
Lendt, Christian
Levan, Aaron B.
Long, Isaac
Long, Thomas
Martz, John B,
May berry, Joseph
Miller, William
Nelheiser, William
Nugent, Charles

The Calls in 1862.

213

Company A, Seventeenth Regiment — Continued.

Paxton, Jonathan
Ilaucli, Charles
Reber, Daniel
Rickson, John R.
Roach, Michael M.
Robinson, Albert
Saylor, Henry J.
Schreck, Daniel K.
Schwalm, Joseph
Shadlo, William
Shappell, Henry
Seyfert, Isaac H.
Sheaf, Daniel B.
Shultz, Samuel S.
Sieger, Wesley

Commissioned Officers,

Privates,

Simon, Frank
Sloyer, Aaron
Small, Robert
Snyder, Daniel K.
Stager, Alfred F.
Stauffer, Isaac
Sterner, Jeremiah H.
Stitzer, Theodore W.
Strickler, Albert
AValton, H.
W^eaver, Charles
W^ortz, John K.
Yeager, Hiram J.
Zulick, Henry B.

Total,

COMPANY E.

Bedal, Benjamin
Beckstman, Frederick
Carr, Francis
Dougherty, Patrick
Devine, Thomas
Downing, George W.
Frederick, Michael
Ferns, Patrick
Gordon, William
G arris, William
Garrigan, Patrick
Harty, Patrick

Cgj9<«iV?— ROBERT ALLISON.

\st Lieut. — Michael Scaxlin.

2d Lieut. — Godfrey Leonard.

l.H Sergeant. — James Teasdale.

2d " John Lehman,

2,d " Luke Chillson.

Aih " John Gillaspie,

5iA " Edward Coonan.

\st Corporal — Joseph Bedal.

2d " Michael Kline.

3J " John W. Laing.

4//i " Thomas Fagan.

hth " Thomas Carlin.

6^/t " James Gillaspje.

Ith " Andrew Keveney.

8^A " Ashton Hilton.

Quartermaster — John Carr.

Musicians — James Swartz, Jeremiah Garrigex.

PRIVATES:

Hard}-, ^lichael
Hummell, George
Hensley, Charles
Henderson, James
Jenkins, David
Kane, John L.
Kelly, Michael
Kinsley, James
McKenna, James B.
McKenna, James
Lloyd, John
Moore, Edward

18*

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The Calls in 1862.

Company E, Seventeenth Regiment — Continued.

Mullen, Edward, Sr.
Mullen, Edward, Jr.
Miller, Henry
Morris, James C.
Michley, Henry
Nolen, Michael
O'Donnell, Patrick
O'Harra, John
O'Neil, Peter G.
Oren, James
O'Brieii, Matthew
Prior, Benjamin
Purcel, Daniel
Perry, John
Perry, Acquila

Commissioned Oflficers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Quartermaster,
IMusicians, - - -

Privates, _ - -

Total,

Rhodes, Hezekiah
Robinson, Moses
Richards, Josepii
Rudy, Hugh
Sessinger, George B.
Sands, John
Slattery, Daniel
Stell wagon, "William M.
Sthro, Theobald
Suddon, Edward
Troy, Philip
Williams, John
"VVhalen, John J.
Wanamacker, Denjamin

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Tiie ibllowing Company was recruited in Tremont and Donald-
son. We do not know what Kegiment it was connected with :

Caj)tai7i—3. A. L. TICE.
l^it Lieut. — MicuAEL Moll.
2d Lieut, — Adam Etien.
1st Sergeant — >Y]lliam Chbist.
2d " John A. Horn.

od " PuiLiP Wehtlet.

4i'4i " PiOBERT B. AnGAS,

1st Corporal — Dii. R. D. Brown.

2d " William B. Maybekrt.

3(/ " Isaac H. Alter.

Ath " liENJAMIN PiNKERTON.

QuarterrHaster — Alonzo Livermoke.

PRIVATES:

Adam, William
Althouse, William
A they, Josc})]i
Boltz, Frederick
Barjidt, Jolm
Baily, Ha):iiilton
Boden, William
Bixler, Amos
Barndt, Peter
Dull, Cyrus
Dochant, Joseph E.
Eckel. Levi

Eckel, Aaron
Eisenhart, John
Faust, Elias
Faust, John R.
Far rick, Henry
Farrcll, George
Gallagher, John
Gaskens, John
Garress, John
Harvey, Thomas
Hammer, John
Ilcarter,' Jacob

The Calls in 1862.

215

Captain Tice's Compahy- -Continued.

Gaskins, C. A.
Kirk, Sol S.
Krise, Charles
Koebler, Jacob
Lehman, Abl«
Lauer, Jacob
Moue, John
Mellon, Henry C,
McClochlan, William D.
Miller, Joseph
Miller, William
Minick, William
Minick, Charles
Minick, John W.
Muldonny, Patrick
Otto, Samuel
Owen, George P.
Pelton, William F.
Pinkerton, Hiram W.
Piukerton, George A.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Quartermaster,
Privates, . _ -

Opic, James
Reece, William K.
Rank, David
Roehnl, L. C.
Seltzer, J. A,
Simon, Michael
Snyder, Samuel
Simons, William PI.
Tobias, Samuel
Tobias, Daniel
Umholtz, Augustus
Umholtz, Charles AV.
WilHams, William H.
Wright, John B.
Wetston, Samuel
Wilcox, D. H.
Zimmerman, George
Zimmerman, Daniel
Zerbe, L.
Zeiuer, Michael

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Total,

GRAKD RECAPITULAT10:^r.

Second Regiment,

Fourth

Sixth <' -

Seventeenth Regiment,

Capt. Tice's Company,

Total,

257

1C4

047

After a brief campaign of two weeks, the members of these
Companies returned to their homes. Some of the Companies saw
quite active service in Maryland, being in line of battle near Wil-
iiamsport, on the Potomac, when the rebel army recrossed into
Virginia. The services of the force of militia, furnished by Penn-
sylvania, were gratefully acknowledged by General McCIeUan, then
commanding the Army of the Potomac.

216 The Calls in 1862.

THE DRAFT.

Under the call of the Government in June, 1862, for 300,000
volunteers, the quota of Schuylkill County was fixed by Governor
Curtin at five Companies. These were furnished. On the 4th of
August, the following order was issued by the War Department :

War Detartment, Washington, D. C, August 4, 18G2.

Order calling for militia from the several States :

Ordered — Lst. That a draft of 300,000 militia bo immediately called
into the sei'vice of the United States, to serve for nine months, unless
sooner discharged. The Secretary of War ^'ill assign the quota to the
States, and establish regulations for the draft.

2d. That if any State shall not, by the 15th of August, furnish its
quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by la^v, the defi-
ciency of volunteers in that State will also be made by special draft from
the militia. The Secretary of War will establish regulations for this
purpose.

3d. Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and pre-
sented to the. President, with the object of securing the promotion of
officers of the army and volunteers, for meritorious and distinguished
services, and of preventing the nomination or appcintment in the mili-
tary service of incompetent or unworthy officers. The regulations >Till
also provide for ridding the service of such incompetent persons as now
hold commissions.

By order of the President.

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of WVr.

The quota of Schuylkill County under this new demand was
1,667, to be furnished either by volunteering or by a draft.

Spirited war meetings were held throughout the County for the
purpose of devising ways and means to furnish the quota of the
County without drafting. At a County meeting held in the Court
House in Pottsville, September 9, it was resolved that a bounty of
fifty dollars be given to every volunteer.

The result of these efforts was so far successful, that when the
draft took place under the direction of the Commissioner, John V.
Hobart, Esq., but 1,281 names were drawn.

The men wlio went into the service from the County, under this
draft, were subsequently organized at Harrisburg into a Regiment,
the One Hundred and Seventy-third. Of the field and staff offi-
cers, the following were from this County: Colonel, Daniel Na-
gle ; Lieut.-Coloncl, Z P. Boyer; Adjutant, Eugene Washburn ;
Quartermaster, B. L. Esheiman. Four of tho Companies in the

The Calls in 1862. 21T

Regiment were from Schuylkill County, under command of Cap-
tains Cleaver, Sheetz, GraejQFand Faust.

In December, 1862, the Regiment was moved to Norfolk, Ya.,
in whicli Department it remained during its term of service.

The muster-rolls of the Companies of Captains Sheetz, Graeff^
Faust and Cleaver, are as follows :

0]S"E HUi^DEED AND SEYENTY-TIIIIID REGI-
MENT, P. D. M.

COLONEL DANIEL NAGLE.
COMPANY A.

Cajy/am— CYRUS SHEETZ.
1st Lieut. — Israel Applegate.
2d Lieut. — Charles P. Seitzingeb.
1st Sergeant — William A. Shoener.
2d '* Victor Wernert.

Zd " John F. Brown.

Ath *' Aaron King.

bth " George W. Smith,

1st Corporal — William Swartz.
2d '* Martin Nungesser.

Sd '< Edward Gambol.

4th '* Henry Eisenhart.

6th " Charles Mourer.

6ih " Edward B. Leiser.

7th " John W. Kantner.

Sth " Daniel Ruiif.

Fifer — Henry A. Neiman.
Wago7ier — John ^Y. Hopkins.

PRIVATES:

Allen, Robert Haldeman, Jacob

Blow, Charles Kehley, George

Bankes, Williara Knecht, George H.

Beaver, Gideon Kehley, Daniel

Bowman, Jacob D. Law, Hiester M,

Boughner, .lefferson D. Miller, Charles

Brouse, Nathan Monbeck, Enoch

Beltz, Charles ^Monbeck, John

Bitler, Jerome Mourer, Stephen

Bond, David Moore, James

Boughner, John F. Miller, James

DeFrehn, Henry Mellen. William

Devenport, Samuel Mace, Samuel

Eisenhart, Samuel Mummy, Isaac

Eisenhart, John Meleher, Henry

Fegley, William M. Owens, James

Coho, John Peifer, Elias

Geiger, Edward Price, Thompson

Housman, Conrad Pflueger, William

218

The Calls in 1862.

Company A, 173d Regiment —

Pviegel, Lewis
Kobottam, Benjamin
llouch, Samuel
Stewart, Josiali
Sclilear, Daniel
Slioener, Morgan
Stauifer, John H.
Smith, Daniel
Seltzer, John P.
Seltzer, William F.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officer

Musician, _ _ _

Wagoner,

Privates, _ _ -

Continued.

Shoener, Joseph
Schwab, Adam
Shiverstine, John
Simmons, John
Schaup, Daniel
Washburn, Eugene
Yost, Nathaniel
ZoU, Joseph
Zimmerman, Samuel

Total,

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COMPANY D.

Captain— S>A.'MXSY.Ij B. GPtAEFF.
Isl Lieut. — Benjamin F. Solliday.
'Id Lieut. — Charles F. Miller.
\st Sergeant — Francis B. Graeff.
2c? " Jacob Bock.

o(^ " Elias Giluner.

Ath *' Martin Bbnsinger.

bth " William Backer.

\st Corporal — Emanuel Sassaman.
Id " John Kemery,

Zd " William B. Shock.

\th " Aaron Miller.

5^/t " Philip Wrrtman,

G^/i " William W. Seltzer.

"itli " Henry Enuy.

Fifer — Jesse Grim.
Drummer — Franklin Reber.

PKIVATES :

Adam, Daniel
Beibleliciaier, Peter
Betting, Aaron
Balliet; John 11.
Behr, Elias
Breish, Fraley
Bachert, James
Billman, Gideon
Deiner, James M,
Daubert, Isaac
Eckroth, Adam
Eckroth, Moses
Folk, Henry
Guidner, Jacob
Gombar, Henry

Gibson, William
Geschwender, William
Haldeman, Samuel
Haldeman, John
Haas, Peter
Hoffman, Reuben
Houser, William
Hartung, Samuel H.
Houser, Nathan S.
Iloman, Henry
Horn, Frank
Heiser, Valentine
Ilenninger, Thomas
Kistler,^J. K.
Kocker, Elias

The Calls in 1862.

219

Company D, 173d Regiment —

Koenig, Emanuel
Leiby, Jacob L.
Leitz, Mahlon
Leiser, John
Mehs, Daniel
Miller, Joseph R.
Miller, Reuben F.
Mull, David
Nunemacher, James
Rhinehart, George W.
Rhinehart, John W.
Rubrecht, John
Snyder, Solomon
Snyder, Simon
Schweigert, Philip
Steigerwald, Peter
Steigerwald, David

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officer;

Musicians, - - -

Privates,

Total, -

Continued.

Steigerwald, Frank
Sassaman, Joel
Sassaman, Charles
Sassaman, Israel
Shock, Florentine
Seltzer, Benjamin
Sepp, Jacob
Wertman, Levi
Wertman, Elias D,
Wertman, Willougliby
Wertman, Samuel
Wert, David
Werley, Stephen
Wehr, Nathan
Weaver, Benjamin
Zehner, Nathan H.

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COMPANY F.

Captain— J. R. FAUST.
1st Lieut. — William F. Christ.
2d Lieut. — William H. Otto.
1st Sergeant — J. A. Hoen.

2d
Zd

4th
oth

Joseph Miller.
Adam Hand.
Henry Reedy.
John Kaufeman.

1^^ Coi-j^oral — Israel Klinger.

2d " Peter Bixler.

Zd " John K. Zerby.

-Ith " Franklin Heisler.

bth " H. William Bressler.

1th " John SciiOMrrER.

d)th <' Benjamin F. Pinkerton.

Drummer — Lewis Artz.

Fifer — John F. Dull.

Regimental Postmaster — Solomon L. Kirk.

Teamster — Daniel Weikle.

PRIVATES:

Artz, Peter
Bressler, Augustus
Bixler, Benjamin
Christ, Elias
Clouser, Jacob
Derr, Samuel
Dunkleberger, Israel

Dull, CyTiis
Dipping, Leonard
Dressier, Jacob
Dressier, Josiah
Eckel, Percival
Fessler, Charles
Forteman, Edwin

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Company F, 173d Regiment — Cont

Forteman, James
Fidler, Tjrus
Goodman, Elias
Gable, Daniel S.
Herb, Abraham
Haubt, Franklin
Haas, Isaac
Hand, Josiah
Herring, Jonathan
Kessler, Paul
Klinger, George
Kepner, Emanuel
Kehler, Emanuel
Miller, John L.
Morgan, Daniel
Nightlinger, Henry
Ney, Israel
Nagle, Israel
Otto, John B.
Otto, Nathaniel

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - -
Regimental Postmaster,
Teamster, - _ - -
Privates, - _ - -

inued,

Schucker, Simon
Sponsayler, Henry
Specht, Levi
Swab, Jacob
Snyder, Daniel M.
Sinsel, Peter
Savidge, Val.
Updegrove, Edward
Updegrove, John R.
Wolfgang, John
Workman, Benjamin
Weary, Isaac
Workman, Jacob
Walter, Daniel
AVolfgang, Sol
W^olfgang, Simon
Zimmerman, Elias
Dunkelberger, E.
Troutman, E.
Kehler, William

- 3

- 12

- 2
1

- 1

- 54

"73

COMPANY H.

Captain— ZM,YE^ R. CLExWER.

1st Lieut. — William J. Christian.

2d Lieut. — Henry B. Sessinger.

1st Sergeant — William A. Bensingeu. ^

2d " George W. Downing.

3c? " Peter Imsciiwiler.

'1th *' John Shelly,

bill *' William A. Hi?imelright.

1st Corporal — Charles H. Smith.

4th

bth «'

Qth "

1th "

Sth *'
Musicians-

Bolick, Andrew
Bowen, David
Bawn, Nathaniel
Blakley, James
Copenhaver, John

Jacob Reedy.
William T. Jones.
Andrew Paul.
Peter J. Gilbert.
Patrick Muldowney.
John Stephens.
-Charles L. Fisher, Peter Roderion.

PRIVATES

Conly, Robert
Dunn, Edward
Dillman, Charles M.
Dreisbach, Yost W.
Delaney, James

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221

Company H, 173d Regiment — Continued,

Ditty, William T.

Omer, Robert

Drumheller, John

Paul, Jacob

Fisher, William H.

Parham, Frank

Fisher, Charles F.

Purcil, Daniel

Frometer, Jacob

Paul, David

GoUaher, John

Roderon, Valentine

Garrett, William

Rehm, George

Garris, Peter

Reiff, George

Heilner, Isaac N.

Robertson, George

Hartz, Israel

Smith, Monroe

Huber, Daniel

Stitzer, John

Horbach, Jacob

Strauble, George

Heckler, Jacob

Schapbell, Frank F

Hughes, John

Schredley, Andrew

Hogentogler, William

Smith, George

Jones, Daniel

Toby, Conrad

Kleiusmith, Nicholas

Thompson, Eli

Keim, Joseph

Valentine, Ellis

Koppf, William

Wilson, John

Kreiser, William

Warlow, Joseph

Klase, Charles F.

Williams, Patrick

Morrison, William

Watson, John

Mrtundler, Francis

Yarnall, Isaac

May, Philip

Young, George

Martin, William J.

Zerby, Jackson

Nolan, Martin

Commissioned Officers,

- 3

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, - - - -

- 2

Priyates, . - -

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

Field and Staff, -

- 4

Commissioned Line- officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

- 49

Musicians, - _ -

Teamsters, - - - -

- - - 2

llegiment Postmaster,

Privates, _ - - -

235

Total,

- 310

THE FIRST BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG.

Early in December, 1862, General Burnside, then in command
of the Army of the Potomac, crossed the Rappahannock River
and occupied Fredericksburg, the Rebels retiring to their works

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in the rear of the town. Every preparation having been made, ou
Saturday, December 13, General 13urnside moved upon the enemy's
position ; Sumner's Division forming the right of the Union line ;
Hooker's the centre, and Franklin's the loft. The National troops
fought bravely and stubbornly all day, and even gained some
advantages on the left, but thoy could not perform impossibilities,
and at night they were in a position before the rebel fortifications
clearly explained in the following dispatch from General Burnside
to General Halleck :

Headquarters Asmy of the Potomac, )
December 16 — G P. M. /

Major-General Halleck, Commander-in-Chief:

The Army of the Potomac was withdrawn to this side of the Ptappa-
hannock River, because 1 felt fully convinced that the position in front
could not be carried, and it was a military necessity either to attack the.
enemy or retire. A repulse would have been disastrous to us under exist-
ing circumstances.

The army was withdrawn at night without the knowledge of the enemy,
and tcithout loss, either of projicrty or men.

AMBROSE E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General Commanding.

The forces did not renew the fighting on Sunday and Monday,
and on Monday night the entire army was withdrawn safely to the
north bank of the Rappahannock River. Not a single man or gun
was lost in the retrograde movement.

In this severe contest Schuylkill County was represented by the
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth, Forty-eighth, and Ninety-sixth
Regiments. The latter Regiment was not immediately engaged^
and did not suffer so severely as the first-named commands.

THE PART THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT
TOOK IN THE BATTLE.

The following graphic account of the part the One Hundred
and Twenty-ninth Regiment took in the battle, was written a few
days after by one of its ofiiccrs :

Camp Near Falmouth, Va., December 20, 1862.

Dear : I have been so busy for the last few days making out the

returns and reports for the Regiment, that it has been impossible for me
to sit down and write you after the terrible battle in which we were
engaged on the 13th. I escaped without injury, which seems to me
almost miraculous, for the bullets and shell flew about me most plenti-

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fully, making many a poor fellow bite the dust. So far as I can judge,
our Brigade was in the hottest fire of the battle, and the wonder is that
the Regiment was not entirely cut to pieces. As it is we have to report
io7 of our Regiment among the killed, wounded and missing, out of less
than GOO who went into the fight.

The newspapers will give you a pretty accurate account of the move-
ments of our Division, (Humphrey's) Butterfield's Corps, (Fifth) and
Hooker's Grand Division, on that day, and with the aid of maps you can
get a very fair idea of the action.

We broke camp early on the morning of the 11 th, and were to have
been at the river, ready to cross by 0 A. M. The cannonading com-
menced long before the break of day, principally from our side, for the
purpose of clearing the opposite bank of the enemy's sharpshooters, so
as to enable us to throw the bridges across the river. The attempt was
fruitless for a long time, until several boats, filled with volunteers from
the different Regiments, ])ushed themselves across right in the face of
the enemy, and soon had the bank of the river and houses near by
cleared of the rebel sharpshooters. A good deal of fighting took place
in the streets, but the rebels finally took to their heels. It was nearly
dark, however, by the time this was effected, and in the meantime the
air was filled with the roar of the artillery. We encamped about one and
a half miles from the river, on tlie hard frozen ground, with nothing over
us but the clear, blue sky, and by the time morning came we were all
pretty well chilled. We started early in tlie morning again, and moved
forward nearly a mile when we halted. The large number of troops in
advance of us, and the resistance met with on the other side, made our
movements very slow. We bivouacked for the night in a pine woods,
where we were almost suffocated and blinded by the smoke. During the
whole of the da}' the cannonading was continuous, and every now and
then we could distinguish the sharp rattle of musketry. Dense clouds
of smoke hung over tlie town and about the batteries of the enemy and
our own. The town itself had been fired in a dozen different places and
was burning furiously. The sight from the hill where we were encamped,
was magaificent. We could see from right to left of the whole line of
batteries, where the contest raged most furiously.

Next morning we moved on again, with our whole Division, towards
the middle pontoon bridge. The cannonading had become more furious
than ever, and the continued volleys of musketry told that the infantry
were at last engaged in close combat We crossed the river about noon,
and tlie rebels commenced to pepper us with ball and shell from the bat-
teries beyond the town, though without doing us any more damage, than
giving us lessons in the art of dodging. We had become so well accus-
tomed to the sound and to the shells flying about our heads, that no
confusion was created in the ranks. As we got into the streets of the
town, where we marched and countermarched for an hour and more, the
shell fell fast and furiously about us, shattering the buildings and crea-
ting havoc all around. Here I saw the first man killed. He belonged
to the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
was not more than thirty feet from me when he was struck. He was
almost cut into two. He threw up his hands, exclaiming, " Oh, my God!
take me," and expired almost immediately, I have no doubt the sight
of this made some of the boys feel a little queer — a little qualmish — as
though playing with such balls was not exactly such harmless sport as
many of them had imagined. We deposited our knapsacks and blankets
in one of the buildings of the town and then moved on towards the out-

224 The Calls in 1862.

gkirts of tbe town, by a road leading directly from the river to the bluff
or high eminence on which most of the enemy's batteries were posted.
This hill extends in the rear of the town from the river along the whole
length of tlie town and still further both on the right and'left, and is
perhaps three-fourths of a mile from the town. After getting beyond
the outskirts of the town, we arrived at a marshy place, near an old tan-
yard, protected from the principal battery in front by a rise in the
ground behind which we lay, but in full view from the batteries on the
right. We were not here more than a minute, when from the position
where I stood (on my horse) I could see the smoke belching out from tlie
battery on the right, and I could see the shell come whizzing right down
into our ranks, where it exploded, killing several and wounding others,
1 could see them drawing the cannon back, reloading it, and tiring
again. The shots were well directed each time, and two of them came
uncomfortably close. They had full chance .for sweeping and raking us
where we lay, and we thought it about time to look for better quarters.
It looked fearful to see them loading the guns, running them out, firing
them, and then see the balls come plunging along almost in a direct line
for one's self — and it required more cool courage to witness this without
flinching, than afterward to go into the chai^ge, where everything was
excitement and uproar. Lieutenant Parvin, Company B, was mortally
wounded here. He has since died — his father I think, lives in Reading.
We moved out from this position, and took our position in line of battle
on the left of the road, behind a battery which was playing most vigor-
ously on the enemy in front. The position was nevertheless a dangerous
one, for the shot and shell fell around us and burst over our heads,
e.very now and then stretching some soldier lifeless on the ground.
Here we lay until it began to grow dusk, when a charge was ordered for
the purpose of capturing a stone wall about two hundred yards ahead of
us, and behind which the rebels lay, pouring in a destructive fire, and
the cannoniers working the batteries were fearfully exposed to the shots
from the enemy's batteries posted behind the stone wall, about halfway
up the hill, and from accounts since received, their forces lay thick
behind the wall and in a piece of woods running towards the top of the
hill. The famous stone wall itself ran along the foot of the hill, and
afforded safe protection to a large body of the enemy. In addition to
this were tlie rifle-pits constructed in front, and the numerous batteries
which covered the hill, and you have an idea of the terrible difficulties
to be surmounted, and the tearfulness and rashness of the charge to be
made in order to capture these works. Several attempts had been made
during the day to capture them, but without success, and the ground
oyer which we charged, besides being very muddy, was strewn with the
dead and dying who had fallen in the previous attempts.

When the order to charge was given, we moved forward w^ith a loud
hurrah, and charged at a run, with bayonets fixed, over the gently rising
plain towards the enemy. Our line was well preserved, even though we
were obliged to pass over two other Regiments lying down, and cross a
fence that stood in our way. Immediately the batteries began to play
upon us from every side, and there was a continuous line of fire from
the top of the stone wall right into our ranks. How the bullets whistled
and hissed about our heads, and the shell exploded right in our midst.
Nothing could withstand that withering line of fire. Men fell around
me on all sides, and it seemed almost a miracle that I was untouched.
The line was kept in as good order as was possible under the circum-
stances. We advanced to within a short distance of the wall — perhaps

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fifty or seventy-five yards — and then flesli and blood could stand it no
Jonger. Tlie line began to waver and part — our advance was checked.
We could not keep the gaps in the ranks filled up. The oflficers did their
best to urge the men forward, but it was worse than useless, as nothing
but death stared them in the face. We began to retire, and the enemy
seeing this, poured in a more destructive fire than ever. Still there was
no panic among the men, and although some confusion occurred in the
ranks, we retired slowly and deliberately to our first position, where we
formed once more, ready to meet an attack from the enemy, v/hich we
fully expected after our repulse. Had they attempted it, they would
have found us prepared to receive them with unbroken ranks. By this
time it had grown quite dark ; still the rattle of musketry and the thun-
dering of the cannon continued until long after. The charge our Brigade
had made was the most spirited of the whole day, and we advanced
nearer the enemy's position than any other troops. From the time we
first started on tlie charge to the time Ave returned, was scarcely more
tlian fifteen or twenty minutes ; yet in that short time one hundred and
thirty-seven of our men had fallen, either killed, wounded, or afterwards
discovered to be among the missing. Nine officers of the Regiment were
either killed or wounded, and, so far as I know, there was not one who
faltered or hung back. Our Colonel exposed himself fearlessly, keeping
the line in good order, and cheering the men forward in that fearful
advance; and afterwards, when we were compelled to retire, restored
the line once more, so as to be prepared for any movement of the enemy.
We remained in this position until long after dark, and the firing had
almost entirely ceased — a few stray shots from the pickets were all that
could be hear:l.

Late at night we moved back to town and rested for a time on the
sidewalk of one of the streets, tired, weary and dirty. We were called
into line again after midnight, and once more moved out to the field. It
presented a terrible sight. The dead lay all around us, in every con-
ceivable position, the groans of the wounded and dying filled the air —
one poor fellow, who had a terrible wound in the side, begged to be shc-t
so as to put him out of his miser}'— another young soldier was talking
incoherently of his mother and his home, whilst another still was utter-
ing fearful imprecations. You could also hear the groans of the rebel
wounded, as they lay behind the stone wall. Broken muskets were
strewn over the ground — some of the dead held their guns firmly in their
hands, as though unwilling to give them up, though the power to use
them had long since departed, and they had been summoned to another
land, far away. It was a siglit never to be forgotten. We lay in our
old position until morning, wet, cold and hungry, and then moved back
again to the town, having been relieved by other troops.

We found shelter in some of the deserted houses. The Field and Staff
of the Regiment procured ample accommodations in the "Planters'
Hotel" — a fine three-story brick — we occTipied the "■ ladies' parlor," had
fine mattresses to sleep op, an old fashioned piano to discourse sweet
music, plenty of flour in the larder, out of which we baked ' slap-jacks,"
an abundance of kitchen utensils, enough to supply several Regiments.
The accommodations were extensive and the food very good for soldiers
accustomed to nothing but hard bread and salt pork. The place had
evidently been left yerj hastily, just before breakfast time, for the table
was set, tlie spoons in the sugar-bowls, the cups and saucers ready to
be filled, with rye coffee, I presume, and the table-cloth spread. I did
not get there in time to see what kind of meats or preserves the proprie-

226 The Calls in 1862.

tor Lad intended to regale his guests ■with that morning, probably, how-
ever, the usual beefsteak was on the table, with eorncakes, " hog and
hominy." Here we remained until Monday night, when we were ordered
out on picket, and set to work digging trenches, rifie-pits, breastworks,
&e. We expected hot work next morning, and worked like beavers to
put ourselves in proper condition to receive the rebs. At about 1 o'clock
we were relieved and marched down to the lower part of the town, Avhere
we remained for several hours. We wondered what it all meant, though
we had a suspicion that an evacuation was intended. About 4 o'clock
we received orders to move, and were marched directly across the river
to this side, without giving us any opportunity of getting the knapsacks,
blankets, or tents of the men. We trudged along through the rain and
mud, and at last reached an old camp. It has been intensely cold ever
since, and tlie men have suffered terribly without shelter and without
blankets. ^

THE OFFICIAL llEPORT OF COLONEL FRICK.
The following is the official report of Colonel Jacob Gr. Frick of
the conduct of the Regiment^ vrith the casualties sustained bj the
coininand :

Headquaiitkhs 12Dtii Regiment, P. V., )

Camp near Fredericksburg, Va., December 17, 1862. j

Captain : In compliance with instructions from headquarters First
3>rigade, 1 have the honor to make the following report of the casualties
of my Regiment in the "Battle of Fredericksburg," December 13, 18G2,
and as required by paragraph 465, Revised Army Regulations:

Officers Killed.

Lieutenant J. Parvin, Company B.

Officers Wounded.

Captain Lawrence, Company A. Captain L. C. Leib, Company Gr.
" William Wren, Company B. Lieut. A. A. Luckenbach, Co, C.
" J. K. Taylor, Company C. " Joseph Oliver, Company D.
" Herbert Thomas, Co. 1). Total officers wounded — 8.
" E. G. Rehrer, Company E.

KUled.

Company A. Company E.

John M. Jones, Clarence E. Bailey.
John Nicholas, Company F.

Thomas Millington. Jeremiah Albert,

Company B. Corporal Josiah J. Trausen.
James Edwards, Company G.

John C. Niese. Corporal Joseph Felterman,

Company C. William W. Price,

Corporal William H. Kock. Gabriel Crow.

Company D. Company K.

George Bidwell, Franklin Willauer.
Edward Wilson.

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227

Company A.
Sergeant Chas F. Falls,
Corporal William Dier,

" Jacob Zimmerman,
Samuel Allen,
John Allen,
Peter Cloppier,
Patrick Hughes,
"William E. Kline,
John Robbins,
Peter Welsh,
Jerry Ileckman,
John Ilohlmau,
William Robertson,
John Taylor,
Benjamin Humphreys,

Company B.

Charles F. Dcibert,
Edward Edwards,
Patrick F, Ferguson,
William D. Guertler,
Richard Jones,
Thomas H. Lewis,
Samuel Rushworth,
Eli Yeager.

C03IPANY C.

Sergeant William B. McCarty,
Corporal A. R. Scholl,
W. M. Wliallon.

Company D.

Corporal J. Bachman,

" Reuben Lerch,
Reuben Albert,
Edward Alsfeldt,
Burton Burrell,
Paul Dormer,
Isaac Fine,
Irwin Hartzell,
James Moyer,
Frank Tomer,
John Shiffer.

Company E.
Sergeant E. F. Bodey,
Adam Krause,
William Johnston,
Samuel Huntzinger,
George W. Ziegler,
John A. Shaeffer,
Jacob Wagner.

Company A.
'^illiam J. Jones.

Wounded.

Company F.
Sergeant Oliver H. Armstrong,
William H. Hartzell,
Corporal AVilli.am Ateer,

" Otto Wohlgenmuth,
John Butz,
Enos Dunbar,
Robert EUet,
William Frey,
David Frankenfield,
Edward Fraunfelder,
Joseph Geisinger,
Andrew Iloft'man,
Henry Ilunsberger,
Thomas Kelly,
John Krcssler,
William Joy,
John iVIaginnes,
Christian H. Rice,
Edward Transue,
Joseph AYheeler,
John Wallace.

Comi'axy G.
Corporal H. W. Z art man,

" E. C. Murray,
Aaron Dreher,
Isaac Davis,
Blazius Fritz,
Andrew Kessler,
Richard Llewellyn,
Adam Maury,
Joshua Paj'ne,
John A. Phillips,
Thomas Richards,
George Williams.

Company H.
Corporal Jabez Wooley,
William Grove,
John Haslem,
Peter Hain,
David Lewis,
John W. Dunges,
Henry Bowman.

Company I.
Jacob R. W^eikel,
George Harbst,
Morris Hunsicker.

Company K.
Corporal George A. Simons,
William Sletor,
Henry Steinmetz.

Missing,

Company B.
Peter Brown.

'22S

The Calls ix 18G2.

Com r ANY
llcnry Bonner,
Siumiol r>e;ir.
William W. Sbellov.

Company
Charles Barnett,
Mutiliew McAbee,
Samuel Williams.

Com r ANY
Cliristiau N. Blum.

Company
Uubori Hill.
David Bruoe,
Derrick Arcu.

Ivilled,
WouudeJ.

Company G.
Corporal Mioliael F. Sehopboll.
Franklin IIolli:?ter.

Company IT.
Sergeant Samuel C. Aregoed.
John W, Smith.
Peter Bummerbough.
John Bracey,
James Crawley.
Ely Leese,
William Ihivi?,
Kichard Shoener.
Enoch Lambert.

iieoaphtlatiox.
Officers.

Mtn.

Killed.

Wounded,

Missing,

Total. ------ 137

I have but little to add to the above record. It speaks volumes for
the men of my Regiment, and I cannot speak too highly of their conduct
in the terrible contiict of Saturday, Deeep.iber 13. I believe every officer
and every soldier was in his proper place, and did his Avhole duty.
Their blood has been shed freely for the preservation of the Government
and for the maintenance of free institutions, and they will be remem-
bered by a grateful people.

To Lieut. -Colonel Armstrong, vrho had his horse shot under him. 1
am much indebted for valuable assistance on the field. He was cool anil
courageous: everywhere where duty called him encouraging the men
and urging them forward. To Major Anthony, I am also indebted for
valuable services in this action. He again displayed that courage and
ability that characterized his conduct on other iields since the commence-
ment of this war. Adjutant Green discharged his whole duty regardless
of personal peril, and exhibiied a cool courage that cannot be too highly
eommended.

The gallantry displayed on that fatal field by our brave volunteer*,
under circumstances which did not admit of hope of success, is but
another proof of their unconquerable determination to suppress ibe
Rebellion and maintain the integrity of our Union, at every sacrifice. 1
am. Captain, verv respectfully, \ uiir obedient servant,

JACOB G. FRICK,
Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Penn. Volunteers.
To n. C. Ra.nney, Captain and A. A. General Tyler's Brigade.

The Sclmylkill County Companies in the above list, are A. U,

E. a. and n.

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the tart the forty-eighth regiment took in the

BATTLE.

After the battle, J. K. Sigfried, Colonel of the Forty-eighth,
wrote us the following letter descriptive of the part the Kegiment
took in the fight, with a list of the casualties sustained by his
command :

Headquarters FoRTY-EiGnTii Regiment, P. V., 1
Near Fredericksburg, Va., December 1(J, 18G2. /

As you liave no doubt received a full account of the battle of Frede-
ricksburg and of the evacuation of the city by our forces last night, I
will confine myself chiefly to my own command in the engagement.

We bivouacked in the street on the right of the city the preceding
night; towards noon on the 13th marched toward the left and to the
support of the Second Brigade of same Division, At 1 o'clock P. M.,
received orders from General Nagle to march to the open field in the
rear of the city, when my Regiment was kept in reserve (while the rest
of our Brigade marched forward) until half-past 2 o'clock, when Gene-
ral Sturges ordered me to forward my command to assist in repelling a
charge the enemy was about making on our line. We started and went
at double-quick (a distance of half a mile) under a most terrific fire of
shell, grape, and cannister from the enemy's batteries. Arriving at the
hill (about four hundred yards from the enemy's breastworks,) I was
requested by Colonel Clark, of the Twenty-first Massachusetts Volun-
teers, to relieve his Regiment; their ammunition was nearly expended:
I did so ; when we remained on the crest of the hill until our ammuni-
tion was exhausted (sixty rounds per man,) when Colonel Brown, of the
Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, relieved us. At dusk the hill became
crowded, and seeing other Regiments still coming up. Colonel Clark and
myself concluded best to return to the city for ammunition, and give
room for fresh troops to get under the shelter of the hill.

Too much praise cannot be given to all the soldiers (and the following
officers who were in the battle, viz.: Lieut. -Colonel Pleasants, Major
J. Wren, Adjutant D. D. McGinnes, Captains U. A. Bast, G. W. Gowen,
Winlack, Hoskins, 0. C. Bosbyshell, J. A. Gilmour, John R. Porter, Isaac
Brennan, and Lieutenants H. Boyer, Eveland, John Wood, Humes, Chas.
Loeser, Jr., Bohannan, Fisher, James, Williams, Jackson, Pollock, A.
Bowen, Scliuck, Douty and Stitzer,) for their gallantry during the entire
engagement. Their line was steady and unbroken while advancing
under the most murderous shelling of the enemy, and their fire delibe-
rate, well-aimed and effective.

I deeply sympathize with the families and friends of those who have
fallen, but it is a source of great gratification to know that they fell
while gallantly defending a just and holy cause.

The following is the list of killed, wounded and missing :

Killed.

Company A. John Williams,

Private James Williams. William Hill.

Company B. Company D.

Corporal Reuben Robinson, Sergeant Henry Williamson,

Michael Divine, Thomas Kinney.

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Wounded.

Company A. /' Company F.

Joseph B. Carter, / David Griffith,

William F. Heiser, Evan W. Thomas,

CoMTAxy P.. William Fulton.
Sergeant N. W. Major, Company G.

William Brown, .Ser|?eant James C. Nios,

Clemens Betzler, Daniel Dunn,

Carey Ileaton, 'Tohn Tobin.
I'hilip Carling, Company II.

Lieut. John S. Wood. Captain Joseph A. Gilmour,

C>mpvny C Corporal Alba ('. Thompson.

/-<,„,,„ 1 Ti^, u- • ' Valentine Kinswell.

(yorporal Henry Weiser, p ,

Samuel Harrison, ^ ^ . t^ Company J.

Charles Walker, Sergeant I rancis D Koch,

Andrew Scott, ,.''T^'^''^,l •^^™^' ^^'^^^''

Tvi; 1 „i AT^ni 1 1- VVi son Kerns,

Michael Mctjlaughlm, ,, , , ,, .,.' „

-r,,i ,. VI.,,., „,- j.dward i. fenappelle.

John Murrav. , , „ i /v.

Jacob Gongluff,

Company D. Charles E. Weaver,

Corporal John II. Derr. Anthony BeKz,

II. C. BurkJiolter. Joseph Gilbert,

Company E, Elias Faust.
Robert Hughes, Company K.

Edward Murphy. John Currey,

John Sunderland, Thomas Currey,

Corporal Michael Sandy, Frank Siuion,

" Samuel Clemens. Michael Delaney.

George Ayrgood.

UKCAPITULATION.

Killed, 7

Wounded, - 43

^lissing. ----_. -1

Total, 51

Yours respectfully, J. K. SIGFRIED,

Colonel Commanding Regiment.

The Forty-eighth was in General James Nagle's Brigade.
Annexed is a copy of the Gcnerars official report:

llEADQriAraKRs First BiiniAnp:, 2d Division, 9Tir Aumy Corps, "^
Near Falmouth, Va., December 16, 1862. j

General : T have the honor to submit, the following report of the part
taken by my Brigade in the recent operations against the enemy:

On the morning of Friday, the 12th inst., in obedience to your order,
I crossed the Rappahannock, in the vicinity of the Lacy House, with my
j{rigade, and took position under the shelter on the opposite side of the
river. 1 remained in this position until 4 P. M., when I moved my
troops a short distance down the first street running parallel with the
river, where they bivouacked for the night. On the morning of the loth
1 moved further down said street, left in front, until I came up with the

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right of General Getty's troops. Here I remained until 12^ o'clock, P.
M., when I, by j'our order, advanced to the support of General Ferrero,
who was already engaged ; I moved by the right of regiments to the
front, to pass obstacles, until I got to the rear of the town, where the
regiments formed in line of battle. The Sixth New Hampshire, (Colo-
nel Griffin,) and the Seventh Rhode Island, (Colonel Bliss,) advanced to
the front on the right of the railroad, in good order under a murderous
fire from the enemy's artillery. The Second Maryland, (Colonel Allard,)
Twelfth Rhode Island, (Colonel Browne,) and Ninth New Hampshire,
(Lieut. -Colonel Babbitt commanding,) being on the left of the railroad,
were moved in order under shelter as much as possible, to the railroad
cut, and from there advanced to the front.

The Forty-eight Pennsylvania, (Colonel Sigfried.) was for a time, held
in reserve. At 2=] o'clock P. M., the Forty-eighth was ordered to the
front. The men marched forward under a galling fire, like true vete-
rans.

The whole of my Brigade remained in the front and did good service,
until after sixty rounds of ammunition had been expended, and until
they were relieved at dusk by other troops, when by your order my com-
mand was withdrawn, in good order, to the position occupied on the pre-
vious night. The men were here supplied with ammunition, and then
bivouacked for the night.

My Brigade remained in the same position until Monday evening,
when I was again by your order moved to the front, with instructions to
hold the city at all hazards. I placed my troops in position on the left
of the railroad, and commenced to strengtlien and fortify my position
by throwing up entrenchments and digging rifle-pits, &c. At 11|, P. M.,
by your order I withdrew my command across the river to our former
camps.

Too much praise cannot be given to the officers and men of my com-
mand, especially to the Sixth New Hampshire, Seventh Rhode Island,
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, and Ninth New Hampshire. It is vmneces-
sary for me to speak of the Ninety-Sixth and Forty-eighth ; they, as
upon former occasions, never flinched.

The Seventh Rhode Island had never been under fire before, and mucli
credit is due to Colonel Bliss for the able manner in which he manoeu-
vred his men, he having lost the assistance of his Lieut. -Colonel, Major
and Adjutant, during the engagement.

The Twelfth Rhode Island, being an entire New Regiment, some little
difficulty was had in getting them into position, but they behaved well
and did more service than was expected from raw troops. Colonel
Browne, who was the only field officer, (Major Dyer having been disa-
bled before going into action,) is entitled to much praise for his personal
conduct.

My Brigade went into action with about twenty-seven hundred men,
and my total loss amounts to five hundred and twenty-two.

[Signed] JAMES NAGLE, Brigadier-General.

Brigadier-General Sturges, Commanding 2d Division, 9th Army
Corps.

In this battle, Lieutenant Howard Edmonds, of the Third Penn-
sylvania Cavah-y, and Captain Wilson Hartz, both of Schuylkill
County, were wounded.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, P. V., — in

232 The Calls Ix\ 1862.

Company K, of which there was a number of men from Schuylkill
County — was also in this battle. The Company was commanded
by William Fox, of Schuylkill Haven. He was killed by a shell
while crossing the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, in the attack
on that place. The casualties in the Company among the Schuyl-
kill County men were as follows :

Wounded.
Corporal William A. Clock, "William L. Hutton,

Paul Banks, Christian Hay,

Franklin Brigal, Franklin Klabr,

Ellis Fessler, Charles Minnig,

Elias Hautz, John Whittle.

Wounded and Missing.
Edward A. Ileckman, Lewis B. Reber.

THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO'.

On the 29th of December, 1862, the Western forces under Gene-
ral Rosecrans, captured Murfreesboro, Tenn., after a severe battle.
In the engagements attending these operations, the Seventh Penn-
sylvania Cavalry bore a conspicuous part.

Shortly after the battle we received the following letter from
Lieutenant 15. Reilly and Lieutenant H. S. Thompson, of the
Seventh, in reference to the engagement, and the part the Regi-
ment bore in it. They are interesting and valuable as records of
events that transpired under the eyes of the writers :

MuRFUEESBORo', Tenn., January 7, 1863.

We have just had the most exciting holidays ever passed or wit-
nessed by us. Christmas day was quite warm ; it was celebrated by the
whole army in and around Nashville, but the hurried movements of
Orderlies and Quartermasters told that there was a great move in con-
templation. Christmas night the army received the order to be prepared
to move at daylight, with three days' cooked rations in haversack, and
five days' rations in bulk.

The Array of the Ohio (or Cumberland) started from Nashville at G
A. M., December 20, in a drenching rain. The army advanced on three
pikes. The right wing, under Major-General McCook, on the Franklin
Pike; the centre, under Major-General Thomas, on the Nolinsville, and
the left, under Major-General Crittenden, on the Murfreesboro' Pike.
Our Division (First Cavalry) was divided, one- third going each road.
The First Brigade, in which is the Seventh Pennsylvania, moved on the
Murfreesboro' Pike, in the advance. Colonel Kennett, our Division com-
mander, (of whose staff I am a member,) moved with the First Brigade.
The rain ceased at about 11 A. M.; by this time we had made eight miles

The Calls in 1862. 233

without, opposition. On starting the ninth mile, we discovered the ene-
my's scouts in our front. Skirmishing soon commenced, which con-
tinued until we reached the outskirts of Lavergne (a small village fifteen
miles distant from Nashville,) when we discovered the enemy in some
force in the town. We commenced shelling them, expecting to see them
skedaddle, but they astonished us not a little, upon firing the second
shell, to see a volume of smoke issue from their lines, and at the same
instant a shell pass over our heads, hissing and shrieking, but did no
further damage than the demolishing of a chimney of a house close by.
We immediately deployed, and an artillery duel commenced, which was
soon closed by darkness intervening. Our loss was very small, the
Seventh losing two men wounded.

We started again at 11, A. M., on the 27th, the enemy leaving the town
during the night, but we soon caught up to them. They disputed^ our
passage inch by inch, we only making six miles this day, losing quite a
number of men.

On the 28th (Sunday,) we laid quiet, the right wing this day moving
over to the Nolinsville Pike, and the centre forming a junction w^ith us,
so we had our line of battle formed by Sunday night. Major-General
Rosecrans moved on the Murfreesboro' Pike, which by a move of the
left wing became the centre of our army.

We started early on the 29th, and had heavy skirmishing all day, the
enemy retreating slowly before us. At every elevation they would throw
shells at us. We reached within three miles of Murfreesboro', at 4 P. M.,
when we discovered the enemy in force, and a line of rifle-pits 1,000
yards distant. After severe skirmishing we went into bivouack for the
night. The Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry were out scouting, I believe,
on the 28th and 29th, and took a number of prisoners.

On the 30th, both parties laid rather quiet until about 8 P. M., when
our right wing engaged the enemy, and drove them about a mile. Wed-
nesday, December 81st, broke clear and pleasant. The Seventh had
been thrown a small distance in rear of the line of battle to act as^cou-
riers, and to drive up stragglers. Just at daylight I was sent by Gene-
ral Kosecrans to see that the courier line was extended to General
McCook's quarters. When I arrived at our right, I found a fierce battle
raging, and our right wing falling back in disorder. On returning with
the news, I met Colonel Kennett, who ordered his staflf to rally the men.
We set to work rallying the men, but by this time it had become a rout;
cavalry and artillery came rushing headlong and reported everything
lost. I had succeeded in rallying a few men, when the Texas Rangers
charged. The men I had once more ran, whereupon

'•I am taken prisoner."

The Texas Rangers came up, and one of them, in not the most polite
manner, ordered me to get off my hor^e, at the same time presenting an
ugly-looking revolver at me, I, of course, complied with his reqiiest.
They placed a guard over me, and were about marching me otf into
Dixie, when Colonel Kennett, who had succeeded in rallying some men,
charged. They fled, and I was once more taken, but this time by friends.
I had a very fortunate escape, as the rebels placed us (the prisoners) in
their rear, so we were between the fire of both parties. In the short
time of three minutes (all it took our men to pass us,) there were eight
killed and thirty wounded of the men who were taken with me. I was
also saved the mortification of losing my sword, as the rebels were in
such a hurry that it was overlooked.

234 The Calls in 1862.

After (he rebels had dclenteil our riu;li(, they att.'iolved our ceuire and
left Avith great foree, but here ova- lueu stood iirm aud repulsed (hem
■with great slaugliter. The battle raged furiously here all day, with great
loss on both sides. General Sill Avas killed, and General ^Villich taken
])risouer early in the niorning. Lieut. -Colomd Garasche was killed
about noon, a round shot earrying away his head, lie was chief-of-stalV
to Genei'al Roseerans. Lieutenant Bartholomew was seriously wounded
about 1^, P. M., an Knliehl ball striking him in the lei'i side very low
down, aiul ]iassing out at the right side. 1 found him the next day lying
in a tent without an^- tire in it. lie Avas in good spirits though very
seriously wotinded and sutVering very nmeh. I lelt him to procure a
better place for him. but when 1 returned with help I found that he had
been carried away by some of his mcTu 1 have been unable to iind him
since, as there are so many hospitals and so nuiny thousands wounded.
The bailie of the ;>lst closed at (» P. M., both si<les sleeping Avherc they
fought. All night the ambulances were running, carrying off the
wounded. This day's battle was tiring oil" the old year witli a vengeance.

January 1st. l^^(i:>, broke clear and cool; at 8 A. IM. the enemy ad-
vanced s])londidly " iu double column at half distance," and when
wiiliiu throe lunidvod y.ards of our line, opened lire. Our men were
lying upon ilioii- faces and did not answer until the enemy were within
tifty yards, when General Negley's Division leaped to their feet and
poured a terrible lire into them, at the same instant three of our batte-
ries opened on them with canister and spherical case, literally moAving
them down. The rebels halted and commenced falling back. Our men
rharged aud followed them to their entrenchments — it was here that the
Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry took a stand of rebel colors. The
rebels did not advance again that day, but contented themselves with
shelling our outposts. The cavalry had a fight this day, the Seventh
losing four men killed, and a number wounded. The only name 1 could
ascertain of the killed was .lames Gillespie, of Company A. (^ompany
V lost one killed, one wounded, and some tive or six taken prisoners.
The Seventh also lost all their baggage and camp ctjuipage. it being
taken and burned by the enemy.

•lohn T. Ilazzard, an old citizen of Poitsville, was captured with the
l^aggage train, and when last seen, the reltels had hhn mouuft'd on a rntde
th-ifiii// o)i(' of our .•^ix-niult' /cams of for them.

January 2d opened with a brisk cavalry tight in Avhich the rebels were
worsted. There was no heavy lighting until '-^ P. M., when the rebels
were discovered advancing in force, on ovir left wing, llosecraus' and
Vancleve's divisions were masked here by a thick belt of cedars. Our
troops let the enemy advance until they were «|uite close, when the most
destructive fire of the battle was opened on ihem ; they fell back, and
being agaiai reinforced, again advanced ; three times they .advanced,
three times were they repulsed: they remained back aboiu half an hour
after the third repulse, wheit they once more advanced. It was a beau-
tiful scene : thoy advanced in three lines, almost the whole strength of
their army. Onr men had also been heavily reinforced. The enemy
advanced cheering and at a run. Our troops met them steadil3' pouring
volley after volley into them. They tinally faltered iu their run and
came to a halt. The command fortrard mah here given, and our troops
.ndvanced coolly and quietly. The enemy stood for about fifteen minutes
and then fled. Such a cheer as went up at this moment 1 never before
heard. Our whole army caught it ; the men were nearly frantic. //
ica? fhc efncr of viclon/. The victory was ours, after five daye of <ke

The Calls in 1862. 285

liar.Jff-t fj^fliting known. Our ccnt)C- and right were ordered forward,
(the riglj^had been rallied and redeemed it.-elf.) Cold as it was they
jurnpod into Stone river up to Ihcir wuists and forded it cheering ; but
night now put a 5-top to the confliet. In this day's iihort hut dcciHivo
figlit the rebel GcneralH IIan.«on and Uains were killed. ],iV)i) prisoners
and h'ix pieees of artillery were taken. This night our -wounded rnen
laid on the field in a drenching rain. (Jur troops Wiid by firen this night
for the first time for «ix niglits, a.s fires would Jiave betrayed our positiou
to tlio enerny.

.Saturday, the 'id, wa.- clear and bright, but the roadn and fields were
very muddy : so much f-o that artillery could not be moved without gre;:.t
difficulty. The rebels had rallied somewhat from their defeat of the
evening previous, and were behind their entrenchments. Thi.g day was
p.isFcd in artillery rluels. Sunday, the 4th, was another clear day, but
Ilosecrans don't move on Sunday, unless forced so to do. lie had Ma.-.s
on the batile-fiel'I. He is a strict Ciitliolie, a priest traveling with him
all the time.

Monday we adv^inced at dfjybreak, but the rebeks had skedaddled,
leaving their wounded to our mercy. We marched into Murfreesboro'
with colors flying, and the bands phiying " Yankee Doodle." The loss
on both sides is very heavy. Our Io.^;s in officers is large. We have lost
two I3ri<radier-Generals, about twenty Colonels, and a large number of
lesser officers. The regulars were nearly annihilated, nearly every
officer being either killed or wounded. The loss in men can hardly yet
be ascertained. Our loss is between ^.000 and 12,000. The rebel losi
is much greater. I had a magnificent view of the battle, as my position
in carrying orders gave me a view of nearly every part of the field. Tha
ilead are not all buried : in fact, none of the rebel dead have as yet been
buried; tliey are still lying in hef.ps on the battle-field. It is a sicken-
ing siglit, as a great niunber of them were killed seven daj^s ago. They
are quite black in the fiice. The manner of burial on the field, is thus:
a If.ng ditch, about three feet deep, is dug, into which the bodies, to
1 he number of about one hundred, are thrown. It is then covered, and
the burial party puoceeds to another heap, whore the same operation ia
gone thr<»ugh witJi.

Our troops in this protracted struggle had to contend with hunger thy
last two days, as the enemy cut off our supply train : so, after a severe
fight, they were obliged to lie down without anything to eat, even a lire
or a bit of shelter. The Pennsylvania troops engaged behaved gallantly.
The Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth fought splendidly, and logt a
large number of inen. The Seventy-ninth were not engaged in the fierce
contest, although they were skirmishing all the time.

The Fifteenth Ponnsylvaiiia Cavalry fAnderson's Troop) suffered
severely in several struggles, and for a new liegiment behaved very
well, i don't think any of the Schuylkill County members of the Regi-
ment are injured. I saw Charles Beck about 4, P. M., of the 31st; ke
was then in range of the enemy's shells, and had a narrow escape, a.g I
saw one of them explode within five yards of him, but by beating a
hasty retreat, he came off safe. lie informed me that the other Schuyl-
kill members of the troop were safe when he left them. I have not seen
any of them since. The Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry behaved with
treat gallantry, and .Major Wynkoop, who is in command of the Regi-
ment, (it is consolidated now, and 1 think it will not be again separated,)
has been highly complimented. Captain .Jennings, Lieutenants Thorap-
Bon. While and .Tr.ne«. arc- all r-afe and well, but arc minus all their bag-

286 The Calls in 1862.

gage. Quartermasters Ricket and Reed did all tbej could for the train,
but seeing tlie enemy approaching, they, by a judicious use of horse-
flesh, escaped to Nashville.

The rebels used English bullets almost entirely. I picked up a rebel
cartridge, and on examining the cartridges found the makers' stamp on
them; it was " E. & A. Ludlow, Birmingham, England." The balls are
very pretty, being similar to the Minie ball, except at the base they are
hollow for half an inch, in which is placed a wooden plug, so that at the
explosion the wooden plug being driven into the ball, expands it, and
prevents windage.

Since my last letter there have been three deaths in Company F, viz :
Thomas Dolan, of injuries received in the fight at Sweden's Cove ;
Samuel Dunlap, of disease, and William A. Jones, of a wound received
near TuUahoma last summer. B. R.

January, Sfh. — Lieutenant Bartholomew is much improved. He was
taken to Nashivlle this morning in an ambulance. He was in good spir-
its. I met last evening Lieutenant Zacli. .Tones and Sergeant Good of
the Fifty-eighth Indiana Regiment, both Pottsville boys. They are in
good spirits, and behaved quite gallantly in the battle.* B. R.

^ Ix Cami' near MuiiFREESBORo", TeXxV., January 8, 18G3.

rresuming that a letter from the Fourteenth iVrmy Corps, Department
of the Cumberland, may not be unacceptable at the present time, I offer
myself as your correspondent.

The public will long before this is received, have heard the glorious
news of Rosocrans' victory in Tennessee, but they can never feel the
hopes, doubts, and fears of those engaged in the long struggle. To be
upon the field of battle and feel as though your heart's blood wore staked
on the result, every reverse and every advantage, and finally to come to
a full consciousness that you have been victorious, makes the heart
almost overflow with joy.

Rosecrans moved from Nashville on Friday morning, December 26th,
t.jwards Murfreesboro'. My Regiment (the Seven'sh Pennsylvania Ca-
valry^ was upon the direct Murfreesboro' and Nasliville pike. On this
load the rebel pickets were met seven or eight miles from Nashville, and
driven by the cavalry two or three miles, when they made a stubborn
stand, using their artillery to good effect. On Saturday and Sunday but
little was done, the enemy being driven to within five miles of Mui'frees-
boro". On Monday and Tuesday there was some heavy fighting, but no
important advantage on either side. On Wednesday morning, Decem-
ber 31 St, General Johnson allowed his Division to be surprised, causing
the whole right of our army to fall back. .Just at the time the enemy
attacked our right all the artillery horses of Johnson's Division were at
the creek, a half mile or mile in the rear, watering, and his infantry
leisurely eating their breakfasts. His Division was completely routed,
the men abandoning their arms and retreating like cowards, and these
men too, of General McCook's former Division— men who under other
Generals had fought bravely at Shiloh and other battles. General Sill,
who formerly commanded this Division, now commanding a Brigade in
it, fell on this morning mortally wounded, whilst trying to rally his men.
'fhis General Johnson is the same who so gallantly surrendered his
entire command to Morgan at Gallatin, Tenn., and who censured the
Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry so severely for deserting him in the hour
of his surrender.

The Calls ix 1862. 2-37

Five batteries of artillery, fully thirty guns, with caissons and all
aramunition, belonging- to his Division, were taken by the enemy on the
ol^^t of December, the horses away to water, and the guns not even
unlimbered.

On this day and the following our prospects seemed indeed gloomy,
but on Friday afternoon, January 2d, the cloud hanging over us was
torn awa}' and success again gladdened our hearts. For two hovirs
before dark on Friday evening, after a vei-y quiet day, the most terrific
fighting occurred. The roar of the artillery and musketry was terrible,
the shells shrieking and pufling through the air, and musket balls whist-
ling in all directions.

This night the enemy was driven two miles. Saturday was a quiet
day. Saturday night the enemy made his last attack upon our lines,
which were now pressing him on every side, but defeated again, he gave
up the attempt. That night the rebels evacuated Murfreesboro'. On
Sunday morning General Thomas took his corps to reconnoitre the ene-
my's ground, it being supposed that there might be a trap set for Gene-
ral Rosecrans, but the enemy had actually evacuated. On Monday
morning the army crossed Stone Kiver, entering Murfreesboro' in several
ditferent columns, prepared to form line of battle at any moment. The
First Cavalry Division, under General Stanley, took the Manchester pike,
and encountered a portion of the enemy three miles from Murfreesboro',
drove them three miles further, when night corning on, they were left,
ami where I understand the pickets of the enemy are now posted.

The Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, during all the engagements, be-
haved well. The conduct of the officers and men during the ten days'
fighting has added to the good reputation which the regiment previously
enjoyed. Major John E. Wynkoop was, and is still in command of the
regiment. While under his command, I know that the State can always
be proud of the conduct of the regiment. On all occasions during the
late struggle our regiment has been posted in the front, the position of
honor and danger. On Thursday, January 1st, the rebels captured and
burnt the entire train of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, with aH
camp and garrison equipage, regimental and company books, papers,
etc., and all officers' baggage. Nothing was saved but what each officer
happened to have upon his own person. This happened ten or twelve

miles in the rear near the town cf Lavergne.

■5$- * -;v -;t vf •;<- * •;;-

It is with real sorrow that tlie friends of Lieutenant William Bartholo-
mew will hear that he fell on the field of battle severely v»^ounded.
Wliile bravely doing his duty he received a ritie ball in the side, the
ball entering one side and passing out the other. To both editors of the
SIiNERs' Journal he was well known; under the Junior he commenced
his military career as a private in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, P. Y.
The Sixteenth Regulars, or rather the battalion to which Lieutenant Bar-
tholomew belonged, sntfered terribly, especially in officers. I know
Lieutenant Bartholomew will have the best wishes of all who know Lim,
for his recovery.

The whole loss of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, in killed,
wounded and missing, between December 2Gth, lSt»2, and January 5th,
1863, was sixty-one. I give the loss from Schuylkill County as far as I
know it :

20*

238 The Calls in 1862.

Killed.
James Gillespie, Company A. Henry Fry, C ompany I.

Wounded,

William Madrlen, Company A, Samuel Bramer, Company L

Micbacl Gildea, Company F. John Partridge, " * "

Pn'sofiers and 3!issin(;.

John T. Ilazzard, Company L. Thomas Jones, Company F.

Corpoi'al Carle, Company A. John Wightman, " "

Joseph Shaw, '- " John Fitzgerald, " "

Emanuel Kahlis, Company A. Samuel Trump, " ''

John Koch, '* " Cornelius Link, Company E.

Sergeant William Zehuer, Co. F, Sergeant David Lewis, Company L
Abraham Uerger, '• AbrahiTtii Hummel, " ' '•

Josiah H. Anderson, " William Montgomery, " "

IMr. John T. Hazzai-d i.s well known to all the citizens of Pottsville.
He, when la-^t seen, Avas in the hands of llie enemy, driving a six-mule
team, mounted on one of the mules,

^■■r ".■ -5^ -^ •?:- -;^ ^^ 4^

There are but six regiments and one battery of artillery from Penn-
sylvania in the Western Army, and no troops from any State /urther
east than Pennsylvania.

Our troops here are the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry. Colo-
nel Stambaugli : Seventy-eighth, Colonel Sirwell. and . Seventy-ninth,
Colonel Hambright; the Seventh Pennsylvania ('avalry, Colonel Wyn-
3:oop ; Nintli Pennsylvania Cavalry, foruierly Colonel Williams, now
Colonel James, (who in the three months' service was Captain of the
City Troop of Philadelphia.) the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry (the
Anderson Troop,) and the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Battery.

General llosecrans is a man of truly wonderful energy and persever-
ance. Da}- and night he was upon the field personally examining the
position of liis troops. Colonel Garesche, his chief-of-staff, was killed
upon the field by his side, being struck directly on the head by a shell.
It is somewhat remarkable that, on neither of the two Sundays during
ilie struggle was tJiere any fighting. Picport sayss General llosecrans is
somewhat superstitious upon this subject; unwilling to fight on Sunday
unless compelled (o do so. General Bosecraus is a Roman Catholic, as
was also Colonel Garesche, and has his priest traveling with him always.
Colonel Garesche is said to bare been the most religious officer in our
army. H. S. T.

WHAT WAS DONE IN 1863.

In March, 18G3, in a fierce cavalry fight at Kelley's Ford, the
rebels under Lee, were handsomely ^yhipped. Lieutenant E. H,
Leib,of Pottsville, of the Fifth United States Cavalry, participated
in the engagement, and subsequently wrote us the following ac-
count of it :

Camp keak Falmouth, Murcli 20, 18GS.

I suppose you have heard of the cavalry, and of the success of the
last trip we were on over the Rappahannock. We crossed at Kelley's
Ford; had quite a fight with the rebels, and have taught them one
thing, that we can whip them in a fair stand-up fight. We left camp
for our trip on the IGth, and arrived at Morrisville at dusk. There we
camped over night, and at two in the morning we started for Kelley's
Ford, and there met the enemy. AVe had quite a tinje in crossing, but
we were determined to cross, and we did. 1 am sorry, however, to state
that we lost some good men while effecting the passage. We took about
twenty-five prisoners and killed several of the rebels. We then, after
getting the artillery over safely, moved on the road for Culpepper Court
House; but we had not gone far before our cavalry came upon General
Lee's brigade with himself at its head. They made a charge, but our
men met them splendidly and drove them back. But they were not satis-
fied, and soon came over on our right flank. I must here state they
made a grand mistake. The Fifth and First Cavalry were there, and
your humble little friend had the honor of commanding the Fifth on tlie
occasion. I was ordered to charge, which 1 did, leading tlie gallant
regiment. We drove tlieu), and 1 suppose they will admit tliat they were
never driven so before. We kept it up until they got out of sight, and
we were ordered back by the General, or ratlier Captain Reno, who com-
manded the brigade. Captain Baker had command of the First Cavalrj'.
1 was then ordered to move up in line of battle with the regiment, which
I did through the thick woods and marshy ground, into a clearing. It
was hot work to get there, but we made them leave, and obeyed our
orders to <lrive them. As soon as we arrived about two hundred yard*
in the opening, they opened one whole battery on my command. It wag
rather a hot place, but the men stood it like 8])artans, and held their
ground until ordered to fall back, which was done in splendid style.
We again foiled the enemy under the hottest fire I ever saw. The men
were a little confused, but did not break or straggle. When the enemy
saw our line moving back, their cavalry made a charge down the road.
We could see that they meant to do some tall charging, but we moved
up to meet them with drawn saber, and they turned and fled. They do
not like our cold steel. They here broke and ran up to their entrcuch-
raents, scattering in every direction. It was the finest little fight I ever
saw, and the old Fifth had the work to do. The regiment had the ad-
vance after crossing the ford on the other side, and in conjunction with
the First United States Cavalry, had the rear guard in crossing the ford.
On this side of the river 1 had the rear guard back to Morrisyille. 1

240 What AYas Done in 1863.

would not have missed the fight for a great deal, and hope soon to again
show tlie country that we can whip the rebel cavalry every day in the
week. The army is now in fine spirits, and our cavalry fight is all the
talk in camp. The cavalry are for the present the tigers of this army,
and hope soon again to meet the rebel cavalry. Yours, E. H. L.

THE SECOND BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG.

After nearly a week of fighting on the Rappahannock, General
Jlooker recrosscd on the night of May 5, 1863. The principal
fighting was at Fredericksburg, in which the Ninety-sixth Regi-
ment participated, and at Chancellorsville, where the One Hun-
dred and Twenty-ninth Regiment was engaged.

THE PART THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT TOOK IN THE BAT-
TLE, AND LIST OF CASUALTIES.

To a member of the regiment we are indebted for the fuliowino-
graphic description of the part the regiment took in the battle :

''Lacy House," OrrosiTE Fuedericksburg, Va., ")

May 13, 18G3. j

In ni}' last coninmnication I predicted an early crossing of the Rappa-
hannock V>y our forces — but at the time I must confess that I was not
iu the least apprehensive of our recrossing. The complete success with
which we effected a crossing you have been informed of. The blunt of
the campaign seems to have fallen to the Sixth Corps, and I am proud
to say they performed their whole duty upon all occasions. The terri-
ble and fearful odds Avith which we were obliged to contend, and the
wholesale destruction dealt out to them attests in words of high ;praise
to the indomitable valor and energy of our tired troops. The corps
fought like tigers. The Confederate army are willing to admit that "we
fought superior to any other time."

After the crossing of the men at the same point crossed in December,
the First Division of the Sixth Corps Avere draAvn up in line of battle,
the Second Brigade being on the extreme left, and had anything but a
pleasant position to occupy. The rebel battery, located so as to control
the railroad and the depot of supplies, proved a formidable opponent.
The accuracy with which our batteries were used silenced that of the
enemy upon several occasions during the day. At this point the Ninety-
sixth was ordered to take the railroad, with the promise of support by
the Fifth Maine. The Ninety-sixth reached the road in most splendid
style, but without any support — hence were ordered to fall back. Dur-
ing this operation we had several men killed and quite a large number
wounded. Had tlie regiment received its proper support we would have
charged upon the battery and no doubt captured it.

During the progress of active operations on the left by the First
Division, the Second and Third Divisions were pressing forward
to occupy the city of Fredericksburg and drive the enemy from the
memorable "Marye's Heights." The Heights were gained in fine style.

What "Was Done in 1863. 241

being carried at the point of the bayonet. At the storming of the
Heights our artillery tiring was the most accurate I ever witnessed ;
every shell exploded within the fortifications. I saw two caissons explode,
several limbers broken, and the crack company of Washington Artiller-
ists of New Orleans put hors do covihat. After we possessed the Heights,
several of the officers visited the hills and found that our artillery had
created sad havoc. Fifteen horses were killed within a space of fifty
yards. Quite a large number of dead were strewn over various parts of
the entrenchments. At this point we captured a full battery of brass
Napoleons, which were hauled from the hill by hand.

Immediately after gaining the Heights, we received orders to occupy
the town and use the houses for hospital purposes. The First Division
took possession of the large mansion owned by Mr. Slaughter, brother
of the Mayor. The building is very commodious, and owing to the very
free ventilation caused by the shelling of the town, was most admirably
adapted for the purpose.

I shall not attempt to describe the complete manner in which the
houses have been perforated by our shot and shell. I can only regret
in common with the men of the army that the city has not been burned
to the ground long ere this. There certainly are some most desirable
residences here, magnificent gardens and splendid fields.

In the effort of the Sixtli Corps to effect a junction with the left wing
of General Hooker's army, as ordered, the most terrible conflict of the
war ensued. The enemy hearing of only one corps being in the vicinity
of Fredericksburg, and ordered to join Hooker, exerted all their available
force to prevent this junction. In order to prevent General Sedgwick
from fulfilling his command, the enemy despatched about forty thousand
of their best troops to oppose him. The condition of things at this mo-
ment was most critical. General Sedgwick having full confidence in his
command and knowing exactly what he could do, awaited their attack.
The First Division was ordered to the front, drawn up in line of battle
in support of our artillery. The enemy were massed in the thick woods,
four lines of battle deep. Against these fearful odds it seemed almost
like a sacrifice to oppose them. However, our troops were so flushed with
the victory of storming and capturing the Heights, that they feared no
danger, and were buoyant with hope and confident of success. Without
shelling the woods, or taking any precautionary steps, our troops were
marched into the thicket.

It was soon evident that we had stirred up a "bee-hive," for a perfect
swarm rose up and fired into our lines. The men halted, and taking
deliberate aim deciminated the ranks very effectually of the advancing
foe. The fire opened upon all sides and the battle raged with the most
intense fury. The contest was likely to be one of hand to hand, when
seeing that we were completely outnumbered we were ordered to retire
across the open field and await their advance. This was done but
no "butternuts" followed. The fire of musketry at this point exceeded
anything I ever heard ; it was one perfect continuous shower of lead — ■
miniature messengers of death that made the air musical with fear. It
was here that the gallant Ninety-sixth performed prodigies of valor.
The manner of their charge, the determined manner in which they
unflinchingly braved the storm of iron and lead, elicited from the
commanding General encomiums of the highest praise. Too much can-
not be said in behalf of the conduct of all the officers of the regiment.
The daring and intrepid dash of Major Lessig was commended in terms
of the most exalted praise. By the way, I had the pleasure of reading a

242 What Was Done in 1863.

copy of the letter haiuled the Major by General Bartolett, approved by
Generals Brooks and Sedgwick, in which they compliment him in the
most eloquent style for his unexampled gallantry and daring, recom-
mending that he be commissioned as Colonel of the regiment for his gal-
lantry.

The Major speaks with feelings of pride about the manner in which
the line officers conducted themselves, and of the very valuable aid they
gave him in urging tlie men to do tlieir whole duty. Let me assure the
friends of the Ninety-sixth that hor record is a most glorious one.
General Bartolett says, '-lie believes it to be one of the best if not the
best fight! 7} g regiment representing the Keystone Steite.'"

In this connection let me add that it is a source of extreme gratifica-
tion to inform you of tiie recent fact of "merit receiving its reward."
Lieutenant S. R. Russell, of Company C, has been commissioned as Cap-
tain of Company H. I am very happy to'be able to chronicle this fact,
as tlie Lieutenant is in every way deserving, and is a brave and gallant
ufficpr.

The wounded of our division is very heavy, reaching about fifteen
hundred, the Second Brigade having 087 killed, wounded, and missing,
^Lany of the wounds are slight. Quite a lai'ge number of amputations
have been performed.

On Tliursdiiy last. Doctor Bland took 460 wounded to Washington, on
board the boats " Flero" and " Hugh Jenkins." Among them were nen,rly
all the officers of the division Avho were wounded. They arrived at the
wharf at daylight and by noon were all snugly fixed in the respective
hospitals. At latest accounts they were all doing very well.

Surgeon Bland is detailed in charge of the wounded of the Sixth Corps
who are being exchanged at the "Lacy House." The wounded are
))rought to the river m Confed'-wagons, and there brought over the
river in pontoon-boats, loaded in ambulances, and sent to the corps hos-
jiital at Potomac Creek Bridge. Hereafter the Doctor will be surgeon-
in-cliief of the division hospital.

Yesterday a deserter came into our lines, who reports the death of
Stonev/all Jackson from his late wounds received in the recent battles.
Fredericksburg is garrisoned by a Mississippi brigade under the com-
mand of General Barksdale, formerly Congressman from that State.
The brigade bands are kept constantly employed playing the funeral
dira:e. manv of the wounded having died. An rcvoir.

"AMICUS CUR^."

THE CASUALTIES OF THE REGIMENT.
William Lessig, at the time Major commanding the regiment,
sent us the following list of casualties:

Company A, Captain J. Harlan, Jr.
Wounded.

Sergeant Thomas Brown, "William Daniels,

" Thomas Houck, John Stodd,

Corporal John H. Higley, Edward Lennon.

Hissing.

Sergeant David Brichard, William Brown.

George Brazier,

What Was Done in 1863. 243

CoMrANY B, Lieutenant VonIIollan.
Killed^
Joseph Fessler.
Wounded.
Lieutenant VonHollan, Charles Williams,

Sergeant H. P. Barr, Charles Sterner.

Jer, Sterner,

Missing.
Jacob Bast, James Kesey, '

Joseph Eich, Joseph Morcheiser.

Lewis Kotchey,

Company C, Captain L E, Severn.
Killed.
Corporal William Madara.
Wounded.
Second Lieut. Alex. Allison, John Davis,

Sergeant AVilliam Freast, Henry Stubblebino,

Corporal D. E. Kir~hell, Martin Spence.

Missing.
First Sergeant Henry Fisher, Corporal John Allison.

Company D, Captain John T. Boyle.

Killed.

Corporal James Schofield.

Wounded.

Corporal Charles Newton, Edmond Davis,

Luke Kelly, Walter Thomas,

John Black, John L. Williamsi,

Company E, Captain James Rtssel.

Killed.
Sergeant Evan Thomas.

Wotmdfd.
First Lieut. John Oberrender, Peter Smith,

Daniel McCall, Mark Whitehead.

Jacob Smith,

Missing,
John Miller.

Company F, First Lieutenant James Casey.

Killed.
Michael Connery, Thomas Pur cell.

Wounded.
James H. Hayes, Hugh Keenan,

Hugh Glaokiu, John O'Donnell.

Company G, Captain Jacob W. Haas.

Wounded.
First Sergeant Fi*ank Douden, John S. Rcntz,

Corporal Lafayette Billig, Lewis Fritz,

John Schollenberger, John Pcrkey.

Edwin Moyer,

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CojirANY H, Captain Samuel R. Russel.
Killed.

Corporal D. B. Hartline,
Martin Kelly,
Peter Fries,

Sergeant Jacob Brubaker.
Corporal John Keely,

" C. Knlb,
Daniel Campbell,
Michael McCormick,

Morris Chancey,
Charles Haely,
A. Long,

Wounded.

Missint/.

William Kloss,
Joseph T. Holderman,
John Coffield.

Henry H. Lutz,
Oliver J. Zeigler,
H. J. Eveland,
Napoleon Bickelman,
James Brassington.

William Long,
J. R. Smith,
John G. Weldon.

Company I, Captain Matthew Byrnes.
Killed.
Sergeant Michael Mackey.
Wounded.
First Sergeant John Bowler, Walter Kenney,

Lawrence McGrath, Boyd S. Campbell,

James Conler, Thomas Scanlin.

Missinf/.
Joseph S. Harvey.

Company K, Captain R. Budd.

Killed.
John Farrcll.

Wounded.

Thomas Moov,
Barney Griifen.
Missing.
John Brennan, John Hassett.

Corporal Brennan,
Thomas Martin,

Wounded,

Killed,
Wounded,
Missing, -

Total,

recapitulation.

Officers.

Men.

16
54
29

THE PART TAKEN BY THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH
REGIMENT IN THE BATTLE, AND LIST OF CASUALTIES.

The foUowino; account we received from a member of Com-

pany E :

Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 7, 1803.
Editors Miners' .Journal: Your readers may perhaps feel an inter-
est in hearing some account of the part the One Hundred and Twenty-
ninth Regiment, P. V., took in the late great battle. We left camp on

What Was Done m 1863. 245

?tIonday, April 27tb, and marched to Kelley's Ford, about twenty miles
above here, where we crossed the Rappahannock on a pontoon bridge.
From here we made a rapid march to the Rapidan, Avhich river wc
forded, and proceeded, with scarcely a halt, until on Friday, May ]0,
we encountered the "gray-backs" at Chancellorsville. This was one of
the hardest marches this Regiment ever has made, we being on foot, at
one time, for forty consecutive hours; but regardless alike of burning
suns and drenching rains, the boys pressed on, and "straggling" was a,
thing unthought of— for where Colonels Frick and Armstrong, and Gene-
ral Tyler lead, the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth will follow.

Arrived at Chancellorsville, our Corps was ordered out a road leading
towards Fredericksburg, to feel the rebs. We proceeded about three
miles, made the reconnoissance, drew out the rebs, and returned in
safety to Chancellorsville, where we lay behind the batteries, while the
First Division (Sykes's), of our Corps, opened the ball, by engaging the
force which we had drawn out, and handling them severely. Our divi-
sion, the third of the Fifth Corps, was now assigned a position on the
extreme left of the line, upon a hill covered with timber, where we were
to support a Massachusetts battery. We proceeded to cut the trees and
throw up breastworks, and were just congratulating ourselves upon the
fine position we had, wlien early on Sunday morning our corps was
ordered to the centre, to take the place of the Eleventh, which had ske-
daddled, it was said at the first fire. We were "double-quicked" a cou-
ple of miles toward the right, and then our brigade (Tyler's) was ordered
into a wood, in front of a battery of brass pieces, to draw out the rebs.
W^e "double-quicked" some half mile, down a road, and then filed into
the wood, to the left of the road. We had not proceeded far through
the wood, before we encountered the "gray-backs" drawn up in line to
receive us. We opened fire on them, and for some three hours, I sup-
pose, we gave them as warm a time as they had ever had. Three differ-
ent times they charged on us, and each time they were driven back with
great slaughter. I am proud to say that the boys behaved with the
coolness of veterans — firing by company, by wing and by volley, as the
Colonel gave the comvnands. The Colonel took his position on (he lett
of our Company, directly by the colors, and his cool bravery inspired the
whole command. It made the boys "feel good," as they expressed it,
to see him occasionally take a rifle and try his hand. Adjutant Green
at length came dov^'n from his position on the right, and told the Colonel
that the rebels had outflanked us on the right, and that the right of the
line was falling back. (Our position was on the extreme left of the bri-
gade.) Colonel Frick replied that he had no orders to fall back, and
that he would hold his ground; but, looking up, and seeing that the
whole line was in retreat, that we were far outflanked, and must be cu4,
off, he found it a necessity to retire, and accordingly gave orders to that
effect. We had some hard hand-to-hand fighting in the woods for our
colors, the rebs making a desperate efl"ort to capture them. But the
boys defended them bravely, and brought them out, together with some
of their would-be captors. Lieut. -Colonel .Armstrong came near being
taken. Re was surrounded by about tweil^ " gray-backs," ordered to
surrender, and even laid hold on, but he broke away and ran, and
although his pursuers poured a volley after him, he made his escape.
We drew the rebs out into the open field, where the brass battery 1 h&yo
spoken of, opened on them with grape and canister, and made awful
havoc. The rebs skedaddled back to the woods, where the battery
finished the work with shell, while our regiment reformed behind the

246 What Was Done in 1863.

breastworks. We were soon ordered about half a mile further to the
left, to support Sykes's Division in the trenches. Here we remained
until Wednesday morning, about 2 o'clock, when Sedgwick having been
overwhelmed and driven back from Fredericksburg, the army began to
fallback. We recrossed the Rappahannock at United States Ford, our
division supporting the batteries Avhich covered the crossing of our corps,
and made directly for our old camp, where we arrived about G o'clock
the same evening, after a hard march of about fifteen miles, over roads
which my feeble pen cannot describe, and through a drenching rain.
Sunday was a very hot day, and when the boys "double-quicked" it
into the fight, they threw away their shelter-tents, blankets, and over-
coats; and, as the weather has been wet and raw since, they have been
pretty badly situated. Our loss in killed and wounded is ''42. Major
Anthony was badly wounded in the shoulder. He has the sympathy of
the whole regiment, for he has always sho^n himself a gentleman and a
brave and gallant soldier.

COLONEL FRICK'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

Headquarters One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Reg., P. V., I
Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 8, 1803. J

Captain : I have the honor to report in compliance with Special Or-
ders, No. 77, issued from Brigade Headquarters, of May 7, 1863, that
my command, the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, P. Y., with
the other regiments of the brigade, was ordered to the support of the
Third Corps about 5 o'clock, A. M., Sunday, May 3, At U o'clock, A.
M., the brigade at a "double-quick" entered the works in front of our
batteries and rifle-pits in the centime, at Chancellorsville, Ya,, left in
front, which threw my regiment in the advance. Line of battle was
formed under a severe and damaging tire, about fifty yards in advance
of the Twenty-eighth New Jersey, attached to the division of General
French, and in an undergrowth that, from its density, made the move-
ment peculiarly difficult. In the engagement, that lasted until 11
o'clock, A. M., officers and men behaved with the same coolness and
gallantry that characterized their conduct in other fields since they have
been in the service of their country. The fire v/'as delivered with steadi-
ness and precision. Not hearing the order to retire, the regiment
remained in line after the regiments upon its right had given way. See-
ing that there Avas imminent danger of being cut off by a large force of
the enemy m.oving upon our right flank, the regiment under my orders
faced by the rear rank, retiring in good order under a heavy fire and
reformed in the rear of the batteries. While retii-ing a severe struggle
took place for the regimental coloi'S. The bearers. Sergeants Boner,
Company E, and Miller of Company F, clung to them as manfully, how-
ever, as they had borne them during the fight. One of the rebels who
had seized them was killed, another captured, and the rest driven back.
The rebels advanced in force to the edge of the woods, and so closely
upon the flank of the regiment, that the retreat of some upon its right
was intercepted by their advancing ranks, and they escaped capture by
the confusion into which the rebels were thrown from the active fire of
the batteries.

To Lieut.-Colonel Armstrong, Major Anthony, who I regret to say
was seriously wounded, and Adjutant Green, I must again tender my
thanks for valuable assistance in the field. They performed their seve-
ral duties with the utmost coolness and determination, evincing a steadi-
ness of purpose worthy of emulation.

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247

The regiment sustained a loss of four killed, thirty-one wounded, and
six missing, enlisted men, and one officer, Major Anthony, seriously
wounded. I am, Captain, verv respectfully, your obedient servant,

JACOB G. FRICK,
Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Penn. Volunteers.
To 11. C. Ranney, A. A. G., Tyler's Brigade, Third Division, Fifth
Corps.

Killed.

John R. Jones, Company 0.
David Zimmerman, " E.

-James Brennan, Company A
Thomas Probert, " " B

John Holman, '' E

Major Anthony.
Sergt. Chas. F. Falls, Company

Corporal Elias Miller, '•

John Alexander, "

liyron A. Jenkins, '•

Winsome B. Robins, "

, Jacob Youse, "

\"\Yilliam Sponsler, "

"William Schopp, "

Corporal Wm. F. Glime, "

George Watkins, "
William McElrath,

William D. Guertler, "

Thomas Davis, "

Charles Luckenbach, "

Arthur Davis, "

William Tomer, "

Wounded.

George Oberly,
A. Corpi Wm. H. Haldeman, "
A. James Oswald,
A. Joseph Houser,
A. George Walker,
A. Alexander Miller,
A. George Bond,
A. Theodore Labar,

A. Corporal Cliarles Eck,

B. Isaac Netf,
B. Faussold Ford,
B. James Martin,
B. Jacob Curry,

B. Joseph Kalp,

C. John J. Hausickes^",

D. Martin Kichline,
D.

-AYilliam Spansler,
Richard Jones,

Missing,
Company A. Joseph Donegan,
" B. Samuel Ash,

Company

lan, "

Company E.
H.

Corp. Frederick Weldon,

C. Reuben Fluck,

RECAPITULATION.

Officers wounded,

Privates killed, - - .

" wounded,

" missing, _ - _

32
6

Total, -._.-- 44

Very respectfully, JACOB G. FRICK,

Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Reg., P. V
Captain 11. C. Ranney, A. A. G.

ACCOUNT OF THE PART TAKEN BY THE NINETY-SIXTH REGI-
MENT, P. v., IN THE BATTLE UNDER GEN. HOOKER.
The following statement was furnished by Major William Les-
sig to a friend; who kindly gave us a copy, for use in the '^Memo-
rial :"

We left camp at about 2 o'clock, P. M., on Tuesday, the 28th day of
April. It was raining, and a day calculated to make everybody uncom-
fortable. We made for the river at nearly the same place that we crossed

248 What Was Done in 1863.

over in December last. It was near dark wlien we came to the river, as
we moved very slowly. We expected to go into camp for the night ; the
rain had ceased falling, and it became very foggy, just the night for
making a dash. I was expecting an order to go into camp, and let the
men make themselves comfortable, when an aid of General Brooks came
to mc and said the General wished to see me. I mounted my horse, and
went, V/hen I came up to the General, I found him under a tree with
General Bartlett and all the commanders of regiments in our Brigade.
He soon explained his plans to us. The Third Brigade and our Brigade,
the Second, of the First Division, Sixth Army Corps, were ordered to
cross first; the other Divisions of our Corps were to convey the boats
down to the river, when we were to get in them, forty-five men in each
boat, with live men to pull the oars. Our orders were to take possession
of the rille-pits which commanded the river, and hold them until the
bridges could be built. We were ordered-to be ready to move at 11
o'clock; the watchword was Troy, and we were to shoot the first of our
men who made any noise, or sabre them if possible. I returned to mj
llegiment and gave the orders to my ofiicers. We then all laid down on
the cold and wet ground to sleep. You, perhaps, would suppose we did
not sleep ; but we did, and soundly, too, for a soldier always takes his
rest when he can get it.

It was nearly 12 o'clock before we started, and when we reached the
river vre found ibat the boats were not yet all down. It takes labor to
carry by hand a boat, large enough to carry fifty men, a distance of a
mile and a half, and that, too, down steep hills in the dark. It was get-
ting gray dawn before we were ready. The first boats were full, and we
were standing on the bank ready to take our turn, when the word is
given to push off, and away they go. All is quiet, save the measured
dip of the oars in the water; they arrive near the other side, when sud-
denly comes the bright blaze, then the whistling of balls and the crash
of musketry to our ears, mingled with the groans of the wounded; but
we old soldiers are ready, and so accustomed have we become to it, that
wg fall down flat, and the balls pass harmlessly over us. The first boats
then return; we are in them and over on the other side quicker than I
can tell it to you. We quickly form line of battle, and in a few moments
we have possession of the ritie-pits in our front, and we lay down in
them. Our engineers build their bridges then in safety in a short time;
«ooa a battei'y came over. The rebs were to be seen in our front, but
showed no disposition to molest us. Thus we spent the whole day. At
dark we commenced and threw up a line of works along our front,
expecting to be attacked by the enemy, but were disappointed. Thurs-
day passed away, and still no fighting. Friday came. We still held
our position, our Division being the only one across at this point. The
other Divisions of our Corps were by no means idle. They were paraded
up and down the heights on the other side of the river, to make the
enemy believe that we had a large body of troops with us, when, in
reality, it was only our Corps.

On Saturday evening, at about o o'clock, it became evident that a bat-
tle could not be longer delayed. Our Corps had received orders from
General Hooker to push forward. The troops were accordingly brought
over. The Light Division of our Corps was sent to the front, and drove
in the enemy's line of skirmishers. We were ordered to be under arma
at 1 o'clock at night. This was Saturday, INIay 2. The night before
our men had had no sleep, and now to be under arms at 1 o'clock was
hard on us. But we were ready ml the time ordered, and marched t»

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the front. It was a bright moonlight night. Here we were halted, and
waiting for some time, so that almost all of us fell asleep. At about 4^
o'clock we moved up and took position in line of battle. In one hour
the enemy opened a heavy fire on us of shot and shell, but did us very
little harm, as we were sheltered by a friendly bank. At 7 o'clock I
was ordered to advance with my Regiment, and take possession of a rail-
road, about 700 yards in our front, and also to endeavor to draw the
enemy out if possible. It was a dangerous undertaking, and after riding
out and looking at the ground, I dismounted, and ordered the Regiment
to advance. To accomplish this, we had to drive in the enemy's line of
skirmishers and sharpshooters. I ordered the men to unsling knapsacks,
fix bayonets, and advance at a double-quick. With a cheer (for which
the old Regiment is famous) we went on. The rebs opened a heavy fire
of grape, cannister, musketry and sliell on my gallant band, but not-
withstanding we drove them back and succeeded in taking possession of
the railroad, and held it some two hours under a terrible tire of artillery
and musketry. Twelve pieces of cannon were playing on us the whole
time, and they made several eiForts to retake it from us, but in vain.
After holding it two hours, I was ordered to retire with my command, a
thing not so easily done in the face of an enemy with his artillery in full
play at us ; but I succeeded in getting my men out b}^ twos and threes,
until I was the last man to leave it. How I escaped I cannot say, for
the enemy's sharpshooters kept popping away at me all the time. When
I came back, General Brooks said he thought that was the last of the
Ninety-sixth, and congratulated me on the successful manner in which I
retired with my command. My loss here was five men killed and eigh-
teen wounded.

After a rest of some time, we were ordered to march up to Fredericks-
burg, and a hot march it was. I never felt the sun so hot in all my life.
Up we went, and in the meantime our Corps had taken possession of the
heights above the town. We were hurried throngli the town and out
the plank road. The day was so hot that the men fell down, worn out
with heat and fatigue. We Avent out about three miles, when we had a
short rest. I was sent out on the left, with orders to watch a ravine to
prevent the enemy from coming up it. I remained here about one hour,
when I received an order to come out to the front as soon as I could. I
did so, and came on the ground near Salem Church at 5 o'clock. Gene-
ral Bartlett ordered me to push through the woods on the left of the
One Hundred and Twenty-first New York. At this time the firing was
very heavy on the right, and, as I advanced into the woods, I came on
our skirmishers, who retired as we came up, I enquired of them what
was ahead. They could not tell, except that the enemy was in the woods.
In a few minutes I came in sight of their lines, and at once opened a
heavy fire on them, at about 100 yards distant, and commenced to ad-
vance my line. The firing became terrible, and as I passed down the
line to the left of my Regiment, I saw the line on the right give way
and fall back. I rushed to the right of my Regiment, and found that
the whole line on the right was falling back, and that we alone were
holding our position. Finding that the whole Regiment must be taken
if I did not at once fall back, I gave the orders to do so. At the edge of
the woods we faced about and delivered our fire on the enemy as they
advanced upon us, and then fell back. I was so close on them that they
called on me to halt, but I could not see it in that light. To show how
close a thing it was, my hat fell off; when I stopped to pick it up, a
rausket ball passed so close to my head that it stung me like the sting of

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250 What Was Done in 1863.

a bee. It fell oiT again, and one of ray men stooped to pick it up, "when
lie fell dead: another picked it up, when he wad wounded in the head.
Some of my best soldiers fell in this tight.

A picture of a battle cannot be painted ; no one can form any idea of
\i at a distance; all is smoke, dust and noise.

When I came to the edge of the woods General l?artlett and one of his
aids rode up and ordered me to retire with my men to a place of cover.
I took possession of a small house with some fifty of my men, and taking
the feather beds and mattrasses off of the beds, we made a perfect fort
of it, and from the windows we soon compelled the enemy to fall back,
and night found us in possession of the hovise and part of the battle-
iield, and niy gallant little baud holding tlic advanced post.

We could rescue some of our wounded, but a great many were in the
)iands of the enemy. To add to the horrors of the night the woods took
lire and continued to burn for some timcj- At about 10 o'clock I was
relieved and then fell back to where our Brigade was laying. General
Bartlett invited me to supper with him. Our supper consisted of hard
Jack and coifeo, and it was the first thing I hajl tasted since 4 o'clock in
tlie morning. I was completely worn out, so I laid down on the ground
and was soon asleep. At 3 o'clock I v/as awakened and told to draw
ammunition for my command and have .them under arms by daylight.
You see a poor soldier has very little rest. At 4 o'clock we were under
arms, and took position to support a battery. At 7 o'clock we found out
the enemy were between us and Fredeiicksbuig. This caused us to
change our position, so as to front them in the new direction. Our posi-
tion was extremely critical. We were nearly surrounded by the enemy,
who were strongly reinforced, and at about 4^ o'clock commenced a furi-
ous attack on our whole line. We repulsed them and drove them back
witli great loss. At dark we received orders to fall back towards Banks'
Ford, the enemy making an unsuccessful attempt to cut off our retreat.
My llegiment was ordered to remain and support our skirmishers while
our artillery and troops were retiring. At 10 o'clock we fell back to
Banks' Ford, an<l were again the rearguard, holding the hills command-
ing the Ford until all were over. We then crossed ourselves, and tired
and worn out, we threw ourselves down about daylight to rest. This is
the part we took in the battles of the 3d and 4th of May.

The day we crossed became hot and sultry, and towaids afternoon the
rain commenced to fall, and continued all Jiight. The next morning it
was still raining. I was ordered to go to the Ford and relieve a Regi-
ment there. I received this order from General Sedgwick in person. I
was to try and take the pontoon bridge away, and if not, destroy it.
Wo succeeded in removing it after hard labor. We were on duty here
for two days, when we were relieved by some cavalry videttes to watch
the fcrd, and ordered back to camp. We were the last of the Sixth
Corps back and among the first to go out. The army is not demoralized,
and will fight again just as well as ever.

What Was Done in 1863. 251

RETURN OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-
NINTH REGIMENT, P. V.

The term of service of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
(nine months) Regiment, Colonel Jacob G. Frick, having ex-
pired, preparations were made in Schuylkill County to give the
companies belonging to it a hearty welcome home on their return.
A meeting was held at the hotel of Mr. Daniel Hill, on Monday
evening, May 18, at which the following Committee of Arrange-
ments vras appointed :

Jerome K. Boyer, Daniel Schertle, Thomas Foster, Capt. Frank
Pott, Michael Mortimer, Frederick Patterson, Hon. B. Keilly, M.
H. Nichols, Charles Logue, William Milnes, Jr., Kobert F. ^Yea-
ver, Charles A. Bosbysheil, and Captain D. A. Smith,

The following Committee of Reception was also appointed:

Colonel John Bannan, Captain C. Tower, Major James H.
Campbell, George Repplier^ Charles W. Pitman, Myer Strousc,
and H. Gressang.

At a subsequent meeting the name of Myer Strouse was stricken
from the Committee, and that of J. Wright, Esq., substituted.
The following resolution adopted at the meeting, explains the rea-
son for this action :

Resolved, That we believe a man nnist be either for or agaiust hii«
country; that we draw no distinction between the Government and the
Administration, and that a man who differs with us in opinion in this
matter has had his name unfortunately placed among those of loyal men.
Your Committee think that injustice to them and the brave boys whom
they were appointed to receive, that his name should be erased, and
that of a loyal man substituted.

fll. M. HODGKON.
Committee-^ .TAMES GLENN.

(CIIAS. ERAILEY.

This action was approved by the Regiment.

In the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth there were five Compa-
nies from Schuylkill County— Captain William Wren, of Potts-
ville ; Captain William W. Clemens, (late Captain George J. Law-
rence,) of Minersville ; Captain PI J, Dever, of Port Carbon ;
Captain E, J. Rehrer, of Tamaqua^ and Captain L. C. Leib; of
Ashland.

On Wednesday, May 20th, Captain E. J. Rehrer's Company
stopped at Port Clinton, to go up the Little Schuylkill road to

252 What Was Done in 1863.

Tamaqiia, and Captain Cleiiiens's Company got out at Schuylkill
Haven to go up the Mine Hill road to Minersville. The other
three companies, numbering somewhat over a hundred men,
reached Pottsvillc at 2 o'clock, P. M. They were received with
the firing of cannon ; strains of national music by the Pottsville
and Port Carbon bands, and by the cheers of a dense multitude
assembled at the depot to witness their arrival,

A procession was formed, and moved in the following order:

Pottsville Cornet Band.

Citizens in double file.

Port Carbon Band.

Colonel Frick, Adjutant Green, and Quartermaster Patterson^

mounted.

One Hundred and Twenty ninth Regiment.

Citizens mounted.

Citizens in carriages.

All places of business were closed, and the houses beautifully
decorated with evergreens, flags bearing appropriate mottoes^ etc.
At the Express office a flag bore the following motto :
''Welcome Home, Gallant Soldiers of the 120tli.-'
At the Miners^ Journal o^ae the following motto was on its flag :

" Soldiers of the Republic,

'• Brave Defenders of our Firesides,

"Welcome, thrice Welcome to your Mountain Homes."

Above the main entrance to the rooms of the Union League of
Pottsville was the following:

"The Union League Welcomes Home the Brave Defenders of our Country.''

The Town Hall was neatly decorated in front with red, white,
and blue streamers. There were other places also prettily decorated.

Thousands of persons lined Centre street, and as the brave boys
of the One Hundred and Twenty ninth passed, cheer upon cheer
went up amid the waving by the ladies, of myriads of handker-
chiefs. It was a spirited demonstration, and we could perceive by
the glistening of the men's eyes and their hearty response that the
reception was some recompense for the toils and dangers through
which they had passed.

What Was Done in 1863. 258

The procession pasi^ed over the following route, Captain D. A.
Smith acting as chief-marshal, with Captain Frank Pott as an aid :
Up Union street to Centre, up Centre to Minersville, counter-
march down Centre to Market, and up Market to the market-house.

At the market-house a bountiful collation had been prepared bj
the ladies, of which the soldiers partook, w^aited upon by their
patriotic countrywomen.

After the collation, Lin Bartholomew, Esq., welcomed the men
of the Ilegiment to their homes. He spoke of the engagements in
which the Eegiment had so highly distinguished itself, and paid
a touching tribute to the memory of their brave comrades whose
blood had enriched the soil of Virginia. Mr. Bartholomew wag
warmly applauded.

Adjutant Green responded in a neat and feeling speech. He
spoke modestly yet earnestly of the services in the camp, on the
march and in the field, of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth,
and said that next to the satisfaction a soldier feels in faithfully
discharging his duty, is the welcome he receives from his fellow-
citizens on his return to his home. Lieutenant Green spoke of
the harmony which had existed in the Begiment. It was a band
of brothers. He spoke highly of the soldiers who were in the
Regiment from Northampton County, and of the citizens of that
section. The Lieutenant concluded by thanking the people of
Pottsville, especially the ladies, for their handsome reception, and
gaid that the men of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth were
ready again to shoulder the musket at the call of their country, to
fight for the preservation of its liberties.

Before separating cheers were given for gallant Joe Hooker — in
"whom the soldiers had great confidence — and for the aood old flag.

The reception was in every respect worthy the spirit and patriot-
ism of our citizens, and was a day long to be remembered by all
who participated.

On the arrival of Company E at Tamaqua, they were formed
into procession, headed by the Tamaqua Brass Band, the Chief
Burgess and Town Council, and marched up Broad street, followed
by members of the Hose Company, and citizens on foot and horse-
back ; then countermarched to the front of Ludwig's hat store.

254 What Was Done in 1863.

where a collation was served up, after which they were welcomed
by a speech delivered by Dr. W. W. McGuigan ; and then after
parading other streets they were dismissed, and were taken in
charge by their friends and relations who delighted to honor the
brave. The streets were gaily decorated by flags, bearing appro-
priate mottoes, and banners, and the houses were trimmed with
spruce wreaths, flowers and plumes. Tamaqua had donned its
holiday attire. The stores were closed and 'all work suspended^
and the streets were crowded, making them almost impassable.

Company G experienced a welcome ecfjally enthusiastic on its arri-
val in Ashland. Flags were flung to the breeze, business places
closed, and the boys vociferously cheered as they passed through
town.

The One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment when in service,
was in the First Brigade, of the Third Division, Fifth Army
Corps, commanded by Brigadier General Humphreys. In a fare-
well order to the remaining six nine months' regiments of his
command, the General said :

-X- -X- -X- -X- * *

"In the uiidst of the pressing duties of an active campaign there is
but little time for leave taking, yet I cannot part from the brave officers
and men of my command without expressing to them the satisfaction
and pride I have felt at their conduct from the time when I assumed
command as they marched through Washington in September last to
join the Army of the Potomac, then about to meet the enemy, up to the
present eventful period.

''The cheerfulness with which they have boine the unaccustomed
fatigues and hardships which it is the lot of the soldier to endure, their
zealous efforts to learn the multifarious duties of the soldier, the high
spirit they have exhibited when called upon to make long and painful
marches to meet the enemy, and their bravery on the field of battle,
have won my regard and affection.

" I shall part from them with deep regret and wish them, as the time
of each Regiment expires, a happy return to their families and friends.

-X- - w -S- -Jr -x-

On the 10th of June, 1863, thirteen members of the Pottsville
Cornet Band left town e?i route f(>r Lexington, Ky., to join the
Forty-eighth Regiment, then stationed there. Their names were:
Horace S. Walbridge, leader : Nicholas J. Rehr, Andrew Smith,
A. B. Walbridge, Amos F. Walbridge, Samuel T. Skeen, Fidel
Fisher, Wm. H. Hodgson, J. Boedefeld, Charles Smith, Lewis
Legler, Henry Downing, Alfred Bowen.

What Was Done ix 1863. 255

THE SECOND INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

About the middle of June, 1863, General Lee commenced his
movement in force into Pennsylvania. His advance attacked and
defeated General Milroy at Winchester, Ya., and then crossed tlie
Potomac and entered Pennsylvania, occupying Chambersburg and
threatening Ilarrisburg. The rebel force of all arms, in this inva-
sion, was ninety thousand.

As soon as it became known by telegrapli from the Governor
that our State was in danger of invasion, a mass meeting of the
citizens of Schuylkill County was called, and the necessary arrange-
ments made to organize forces as rapidly as possible to meet the
emergency. When the second telegram was received that the
rebels were actually in the State, it was resolved to close up all
places of business, and let the whole population devote itself to
the organization of companies to march at once. A few hours
afterwards the roll of the Washington Artillerists, Captain David
A. Smith, was filled up to 113 members, and they took tbeir de-
parture on Wednesday, June 17th, at noon, in company with a
body of 73 men raised in Donaldson and neighborhood through
the exertions of Theodore Garretson, coal merchant, and the Union
League of that vicinity, which was commanded by Captain Adam
Etien.

On Thursday morning, 18th, the Pott Infantry, Captain Frank
Pott, 105 strong, left for Ilarrisburg.

In the afternoon of the same day, a Company composed of about
65 of the men employed at Haywood & Co.'s Rolling Mill, and
seven or eight from Burnish & Co.'s Mill, left, commanded by
Captain James Teasdale, with Robert Rrown as First^ and John
Eickley as Second Lieutenant.

On Thursday morning a Company under Captain Leib, who was
wounded at the battle at Fredericksburg, left for Harrisburg.
There were upwards of 70. Captain Leib was compelled to carry
his wounded arm in a sling, it not yet having healed, but he knew
that his State was in danger and that was sufficient.

Captain Charles Dougherty, late of the Ninety-sixth Regiment,
organized a Company of 80 men at Cressona, and left for Harris-
burg on Thursday.

256 What Was Done in 1863.

Captain AYilllam A. Fleld^ of Schuylkill Haven^ also left on
Thursday with about 60 men.

Captain \V. AUcbach left Tamaquaon Thursday for Harrisburg,
with a full Company of about 90 men.

Squads of men also left the County. Within iiccnfi/-four Jiours
seven hundred vohinicers left the County for the defence of the
State.

As an instance of the spirit that prevailed, a young Irishman,
who had joined one of the companies from Ashland, was seized by
his father at the Planes and dragged from the cars, when he was
also seized by his mother. He rescued himself and they seized
him again, when he struck his father a blow and attempted to get
off again ; but while struggling, the cars departed.

The Miners' Journal was almost compelled to suspend publica-
tion. Of thirteen persons employed in the establishment, ^en vol-
unteered, and the others only remained to keep the establishment
from closing up entirely.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V. M.

On the arrival of the Schuylkill County companies at Harris-
burg, they ^Ycre organized into a Regiment, the Twenty-seventh,
P. \. M., and mustered into the service on the 19th of June.

The field and staff officers of the Kegimcnt, with the muster-
rolls of the respective Companies, were as follows :

Coloficl— JACOB G. FRICK.

Lieutenant- Colonel — David 13, Gkeen.

Major — George L. Fried.

Chaplain — IIiciiard H, Aistix.

Surgeon — Dr. 0. Siiittler.

Afsaistani Surgeon — Dr. E. G. Martin.

Adjutant — William L. Whitney.

Quartermaster — William F. Patterson.

Serge ant- Major — Lin Bartholomew.

Commissary Sergeant — Samuel P. Cliss.

Quartermaster Sergeant — Norman Willetts.

COMPANY A.

CajHain—DWlV) A. SMITH.
\si Lieut. — Francis B. Wallace.
:ld LAeut. — Delaplaink J. Ridgwat.
\st Sergeant — Charles Woodnutt.
-c? '• Francis Garrett.

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•257

OoMPANY A; Twenty-Seventh Eegiment — Coutimi<:cL

2d Sergeant — Franklin P. Meyeiu
Ath " William H. Gore.

hth '^ PniLir Dentzer.

1st Corporal — Robert C. Hill.
2f? " Heber B, Smith.

Zd " Francis M. Nichols.

Ath *' Daniel D. Dillman.

•5i/i *' James R. Shearer.

<Sth "■ James H. Fister.

7th " John A. Pattersojt.

Sth " B. F. Oi-EWiNE.

PRIVATES

Bean, Jolin
Bailey, John P..
Beard, Samuel
Beaclier, William
Beaclier, Jolia J.
Boardman, George
Bradbury, J-olin
Bruce, Franklin
Beusin.ger, George
Baunan, J. N.
Bickley, William
diristiau, William A,
Clirisman, Robert
€arter, John
€akc, R.
Day, Edward

Derr, Alfred J. (drummer)
Derr, John J.
Davis, Henry
Decoursey, George
Dentzcr, John
Davis, Jacob
Erdman, Edwai'd
Ehler, Yv'illiam
Eisenhuth, James L.
Foster, Thomas J,
Foster, Sol
Fox, William
Gwinner, Jacob
Gumpert, Abraham
Halberstadt, A.
Hammer, "William A.
Hawley, Jesse
Hawley, Lewis
Hetherington, Edward
Huntzinger, William H,
Helms, John
Huber, Ivenhoe S.
Hummel, Levi
Hummel, Frank E.
Haering, Henry
Hay, La- Mar

Jackson, J, E.
Jacobs, Henry
Keeler, Luther
Lewis, George F,
Lewis, Henry
Luther, R. C.
Lowry, J. G,
"^lason, Samuel
Morris, James C.
McGinnis, John
Miller, John
Miller, Isaac
Miller, Frank
Medara, John
Muth, William
Passmore, J. A. M,
Pott, Benjamin
Parker, W. J.
Quint er, Henry
Ramsey. William
Euch, E. C.
Russell, James
Rofoson, William
Schall, John
Sanders, John
Schmoltzer, John
Sirapsou, Thomas
Simms, Samuel
Saylor, Edward
Snyder, George
Smith, Oliver
Taylor, George* W.,
Thompson, L. C.
Tillet, Jonathan
Walker, Thomas
Weller, William '
Weaver, Francis
Wigner, Jacob
Work, Moodie
Zeigler, William
Zeigler, Joseph

258

What Was Done in 1863.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - .

Total, - . - .

- 8

- 83

COMPANY B.

Capfai7i—FRA^K POTT.
1st Lieut. — Joseph Kear.
Id Lieut. — William R. Potts,
Orderly Sergeant — Dakiel Downet.
2(/ '* Levi Bland.

3c/ " R. F. Potter.

4/A " 0. II. Sillyman.

^th " J. in Bechtel.

1^^ Corporal — James H. Beck.

VOUTE.

'3d

Hoffman.

4th

Schalk.

5th

' J.

EDEFELD.

Gth

WoMELSnORF.

7 th

Day.

Sth '

' Christian Fox.

Musicia

ns—\j. C

ROSLAND, (drummer.)

W. B

[. C

rENSLEN, <*

PRIVATES:

Astrich, D.

Jones, Harr}-

Beck, John 0

Johnston, George

Byerle, L. K.

Knecht, A.

Brenner, H.

Kimmel, T. J.

Byerle, Percival

Kirkpatrick, J. A.

Bittle, John

Langdon, B. S.

Boltz, L. L.

Lord, Jeremiah

Brumm, John

Meudleson, Edward

Bechtel, F. W.

Matter, William II.

Cooper, J. H.

Morris, II. L,

Chandler, James

Meyer, John P.

Coller, Henry

Mellon, Samuel

Colmer, William

Mills, Albert

Carter, Daniel
Cooper, William

Matthews, Henry
Myers, J. B.

Cruikshank, J.

Martin, Isaac

Emhardt, J. F., Jr.

McCarty, John

Fox, Edward

Morris, Samuel R.

Fensler, Henry

Nichter, Andrew

Gartley, John

Oxenwold, Michael

Holt, J. C.

Ostler, J. F.

Homer, Sol

Palmer, Robert M.

Huntzinger, J. M.

Palmer, C. T.

Haeseler, F. S.

Pott, Z. P.

Huntzinger, A. J.

Richard, Joseph H.

Hodgson, J. N.

Rick, William E.

Jones, Henry

Rigg, J. F.

Jones, Reuben

Reed, Jameg

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259

Company B, Twenty-seventh

Kick. John :M.

Klioads, G. W.

Sclioener, C. A.

St. Clair, R.

Seaman, M. S.

Shaw, J. F.

Schmeltzer, C.

Smith, C. J.

Sanci.s, William

Shabb, Emanuel

Schepplev, Heavy

Smith, T.' F.

Sterner, Henry

Shaw. James

Strauch, Isaac

Skeen, George F.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officer
Musicians, - - -
Privates,

Total, - - -

Regiment — Con tinved

Shire, Moses
Silverberg, Max
Shoener, Alfred
Thomas, William L.
Tindle, Robert
Tregea, John
Weslev, Edward
Willits, G. N.
Werner, Charles
Wannemacher, B.
Whitney, Benjamiu
Wren, William R.
Wilson, J. C.
Wells, William B.
Wetzel, C. H.
Yost, William R,.

_ _ o

s, - " - - 13

- - - - 2
89

107

C O M P A N Y C .

• Caphim—0. J). JENKINS.
Is^ Lifut. — J. Basslf.ii.
2,(1 Lieut. — Augustus Smith.
1st Sergeant — Thomas Hammer.
2c? " Ferdikakd SriEGLE.

Zd " JoHxV C. Guss. •

4M *• David Moyer,

bth " Jacob Riegel.

\stCorporol — Frakcis Fidler.
2fl *' Richard W. L"5ioxs.

o'i " Henry Reichert.

4:fh *' ALBEiiT Robinson.

•Mn&iciam — Lewis D. Kimmel, (drummer.)

Wjlliam Smith, (fifcr. )
Cltrh — CiiARiES H. Bowen.

PRIVATES.

Allen, Thomas G, Evans, Samuel

Aubenbach, Joseph Frehafer, E. II.

Ackermau, Clement Forrer, George

Ackerman, Franci« Forney, Albert

Buechly, Albert ITetherington, Thomas

Bickel, John Heiser, Reuben

Brumm, John Howells, Thomas

Coverly, John Hart, Henry

Christ, Jfimes Kline, George

Deibert, Henry Keller, George M.

Pe Long, Charles Kauffman, George Jr.

Esterly, Charles K. Koons, Clinton P.

260

What "Was Done in 1863,

Company C, Twenty- seventh

Leader, Charles C.
Moore, James
Maurer, John
Mattern, William
McDonald, Robert E.
McClemans, Samuel
(Ichmacht, Jabel
Foley, Irwin
Reese, William
Reed, Francis
Reifsnyder, LeTB
►Snyder, Isaac
Sterner, Robert
Stitzer, Wayne T.
Stock, Daniel
Shribeihood, Leonard
Spoats, William

Commissioned Officers.

Non-eommissioned Ofiice

Musiciaiis, - - -

Clerk, . -

Privates,

Begiment — Continued.

Si>iegle, Henry
Sibled, R. S.
Thomas, IMicliael
Wootingtoii, James-
Walbridge, Henry
Warner, Levan
White, Theodore F.
Wilson, William E.
Watson, Thomas
Yeagcr, Francis
Yeager, Lewis
Levan, Aaron B,
Leip, Charles P.
"Larch, William
Lyons, Joseph B,
Lewis, Henry

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57

Arp, John
Arner, D^ D. ^
Armstrong, Williaro
Barton, AYilliam F.
Boyd, G. L.
Barton, William
Bailey, Samuel E.

COMPANY E.

€aptsdn—:i \Qk}V> H. MARTZ.
\st Lieut.— M. P. F0w1.EE.
2d Lieut. — L. S. Boker.
1^^ Sergeant — Geokge Mutz.

C. ITens-y Jones.

Reuben Snyper.

ClIAPvL-ES E. SXEDMAK-

B.. T. Hughes.
1st Corj) oral — H. Biusman..
2d " H. C. BQvmu

Sd *' Elias HorES.

4th " Frederick Siiekkv.

^th '^ John H. Shaeffer.

%th ''■ W. J. HUELO-CK.

Ith " Edward P«.. Bullock.

Sth " A. S. R. Richards.

Musicians — Daniel Dunn.

William Sbigfried.

PRIVATES :

Bond, George T.
.Beisfoi\'., Henry
Brode, Samuel
Baker, Elias
Boyer, Peter
Benningholf, E.
Benaiiighalf, Jo&eplt

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261

Company E; Twenty-seventh

Crouse, Nathan

Cooper, Anthony

Carter, Thomas;

Dentinger, C. J.

Ebert, Jonas

Fero, John

Fry, William

Fisher, John

Focht, Henry

Fritzinger, H. S.

Fry, Joyeph

Fisher, W. D.

Fisher, B. K.

Gillham, Frank

Gallagher, Edward

ilargraves, Edward

Halderaan, Frank

HoUman, John R.

Hunter, Ralph

Hoppes, Sol

Ilendrick, B. F.

Hathrick, Jonathan

Jones, William K.

Johnson, George

Koch, Jeremiah

Kemerer, Mahlou

Koch, Daniel

Kirby, Walter

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officer
Musicians, - - -
PriTates,

Total. -

Regiment — Continued.

Lambertson, Amo«

Lentz, F. S.

Longacre, John S.

Longacre, Jacob S.

Oswald, S. E.

Orr, George

Ramsey, F. A.

Eeifsnyder, A,

Roehrig, William H.

Rottman, William

Rex, Charles A,

Stoui, Daniel

Spurr, Joseph

Siegfried, Lewis

Snyder, W. F,

Siegfried, Henry

Swank, C^-rus
^Smith, Henry
'Smith, F. J.

Schwartz, Theodore

Scott, Hugh

Scheifly, James K.

Waters, John

W^agner, Charles C.

Whetstone, Simon

Xander, Alfred D.

Zellner, Henry

COMPANY a.

Caplain~:iOms H. BATDORF.
\st Lieut. — Harky Shoemaker.
2d Lieut. — Thomas B. Bangropi,
1st Sergeant — Levi Batdorf.
2d " Patrick Boran.

M ♦' Frank P. Coho.

Ath " Edward Ebert.

bth " Michael Horan.

15/ Corporal — Adker Klees.
2d ♦• Michael Collyee.

Zd '* Thomas Canfibld.

Ath " George Weaver.

bth *' Michael Conlby.

6fA «♦ Emanuel Fox.

1th " Michael Gillabpt

8rA *' John Reichabd.

Jf«*?'ciar#— John McGeioie,

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Company G, Twenty-setenth Regiment-
privates J

■ Continued,

Bixler, M. W.

Bysicomer, James

Brooks, Peter E,

Butz, Henry

Batdorf, James

Benner, Jamea

Cleaver, Alonzo

Coabley, William

Cowen, William

Davis, Albert

Dinger, RiKlolpb

Deam, Philip

Donalioe, James

Evans, William

Ebling, Ptobert

Ebling, Albert

Fahl, Jonathan

Flemens, John

Fox, David

Fox, John W.

Fetterman, Charles

Fahl, Daniel

Ghaman, Jesse

Gorrell, Martin

Griffith, Thomas

Gagler, Anthony

Higgins, Martin

Hopkins, John

Hoffman, Simon

Haines, Reuben

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissfoned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Privates, - - >

Kelly, Patrick
Meister, D.miel
Slehaffy, Joseph
Murphy, Frank
Mayer, Frank
Nuss, Martin
Ramsey, Edward
Ryan, Michael
Rich, Clifford
Reese, Evan
iBaiish, Emanuel
Rhine, John
Reigle, George
Raush, Nathan
Raush, Abraham'
S'eitzinger, James
Shuman, Henry
Seitzinger, Henry
Sanders, David
SheriiF, Henry
Serfing, Aaron
Smith, Bush
Seltzer, Akin
Ulrich, Elwood
Wilson, Andre'w
Wanders, George-
Wilson, Charles
Walburn, Frank
Wilson, Abige
Yost, James

Total,

COMPANY I.

Captain— M)A.U ETIEN.

\st Lieut. — Joseph A. Shoffstall,

Id Limt. — Theodore Garretson.

1st Sergeant — John Werfield.

2d " Edward Askew.

3c? " Henry Smith.

Ath " C. N. Gaskins.

bth "■ John Maul.

\st Corporal — Bennetille Wehrt,

2d ■" John Gage.

2>d " 0. D. Drake.

Ath " William M. Hart.

bth " Samuel Whetstokb

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"263

Company I, Twenty-seventh Regiment — Continued.

C)ih Corvoral — William IIarfoed.
1th " David Williams.

Musicians — G, W. Lehman, (fifer. )

James Grbager, (drummer.)

PRIVATES :

Atliey, George

Hoy, Yv^illiam

Atliey, Joseph

Harris, Josepli

Boden, William

Jones, Edward

Boden, Joseph

Kupp. Lewis •

Battersly, Henry

Krise, Charles

Cardwell, John

Miner, James

Coates, T.

Miunich, Charles

Charlesworth, Henry

Moore, Vy'llliam

Duify, Francis

McElhenny, Tl

lomaa

Dunlap, Thomas

Opic, James

Derr, Fidell

Plimmer, John

Evans, Edward

Pierce, Henry

Evans, Samuel

Reed, Robert

Fotheringill, Joseph Jr.

Roebrick, James

Ferguson, John E.

Tobias, Samuel T.

Fotheringill, Joseph

Tobias, Thomas J.

Gaskins, John L,

Willouer, Jeremiah

Graver, Henry

Wood, James

Green, Jesse

Commissioned Officers,

- . -

Non-commissioned Officers,

- _ _

Musicians, - - -

Privates, - . _

Total, ....

5-1

KECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,

„ = -

Non-commissioned Officers, *

Musicians, - - - -

Clerks, . - - -

Privates, ... -

405

Total, - - - - - - 510

The otlier Companies in the Regiment were from Northampton
and Berks.

The Companies of Captains Smith, Pott and Jenkins were from
Pottsville. Company E was from Tamaqua ; Company Gr was
from Ashland; and Company I was recruited in Frailey Township^
Schuylkill County.

On the 24th of June the Regiment moved from Harrisburg to
Columbia, to guard the bridge across the Susquehanna at that
point and defend Lancaster County. The Regiment was attacked
by the rebels on Sunday, June 28. The writer was present on

2G4 WuAT Was Done in 1863.

the occasion; and sub.sequontly penned the following account of the
action :

Columbia, June 30, 18(3:3.

On Suiurda}- ufiernoon last, Companies A (Smitli) and 1> (Pott) -were
ordered to join the Ileginicnt on the other .^ide of the river. We reached
the command about 5 o'clock, west of Wrightsvillo, and were thrown
into line of battle. On Sunday Ave commenced digging rific-pits, and
had hardly completed them when our mounted scouts came in rapidly,
and reported to Colonel Frick, acting Brigadier-General, that the rebe]g
were approaching in force. The men were placed by companies in the
pits, ami about 5 o'clock the tiring becamc-fcu'isk in the front. We conld
sec from our positi'on the rebel cavalry, wiio mounted and dismounted,
were engaged in driving in our pickets. Between that hour and G^
o'clock, the firing was quite sharp, and the rebeUwere trying evidently,
to flank our little force, and cut off our retreat to the bridge, distant
about half a mile. ^Jolonel Frick passed quietly, and exposed to the "
lire of the sharpshooters, from the left to the right of our line, and whis-
pered to the captains an order to fall back to the bridge. This move-
ment was eii'ected in excellent order by tlie command, although exposed
during the movement to a heavy fire of shell and to a galling one of
sharpshooters. The shells exploded over us and in close proximity to
our ranks, and there were many narrow escapes. I am glad to say that
the Twenty-seventh Fvegiment lost no men in killed, and but three or
four slightly wounded. There were no casualties in companies A and
B (from Pottsville.) The enemy did not capture a single man of the
Eegiment. Had Ave moved from our pits live minutes later, my belief is
that our retreat Avould have been put off. As it was we reached the
bridge and effected a crossing, losing but twenty men, members of the
Twentieth Regiment of Philadelphia, Avho were captured. Colonel Krick
saw his command pass, safel}', and then gave orders that the bridge
should be fired. This was done, and by 8 o'clock Columbia and Wrights-
ville were illuminated by the flames of the huge structure.

The rebels Avere chagrined at the frustration of their plan to bag us,
capture Columbia and destroy the Pennsylvania Piailroad at this point.
Although we were compelled to fall back before a greatly superior force
supported with artillery, while Ave had not a single piece, we completely
foiled the attempt of the enemy to cross the Susquehanna at this point.

The enemy entered York on Sunday morning in heavy force, with
several pieces of artillery. It was Early's Division of the rebel inva-
ding army. The force that advanced upon lis with several batteries of
artillery, was Gordon's Brigade, numbering several thousand men — in-
fantry, cavalry, and artillery.

Colonel Frick's official report of the action at Wrightsville is a«

follows :

IIeadquarteus Deiences of Lancaster County, \
Columbia, July 1, 1863. /
Captain: I have the honor to report that, in compliance Avith General
Orders No. 14, from the Department of the Susquehanna, I left Ilarris-
burg on the morning of the 21th ult., and arrived here on the afternoon
of the same day, and immediately sent four companies, in command of
Lieut. -Colonel Green, over the river. On the morning of the 25th uU.,
I sent four more companies to that officer, with instructions to take up

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a position near the York turnpike, about one half mile from Wrightsville.
Hearing, on the afternoon of the 27th, that the enemy were in the
vicinity of York, I ordered my two remaining companies to report to
Lieut.-Colonel Green, that we might be prepared to resist any sudden
attempt by the enemy to get possession of the bridge at this point.
Late in the evening of the same day I crossed the river, assumed com-
mand, and disposed of my force for defence. During the . night our
force was increased by four companies from Columbia — three white and
one colored — numbering about 175 men.

Very early next morning, having obtained intrenching tools from citi-
zens of Columbia and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, my own men
and the negro company (the other three companies from Columbia hav-
ing left for their homes) dug rifle-pits on either side of" the turnpike.
During the morning a detachment of convalescent soldiers from York,
and the Patapsco Guards, in all about 250 men, joined me, and they
were posted on the left of the town, protecting the left flank of my posi-
tion. They were placed under command of Lieut.-Colonel Green. We
were also joined by scattered fragments of the Twentieth Regiment, P.
V. M., under Lieut.-Colonel Sickles, during the morning, which I posted
on the right of the town, as a protection to the right flank.

The work of intrenching was continued until the approach and attack
of the enemy, about 5.} o'clock, P. M., and whilst the work was in pro-
gress, I selected, with" the assistance of Major Haller, A. D. C. to the
commanding General, the several points at which to post my limited
number of men.

The main body of the enemy, about 2,500 strong, composed of cavalry,
artillery, and infantry, took up their position about 6 o'clock, P. M., on
the turnpike in our immediate front, and within three-quarters of a mile
of our rifle-pits. A force of cavalry and infantry moved down the rail-
road on our left, and attacked our skirmishers, who, after replying to
their fire for a short time, retired to the main body, which kept up a
steady fire, and held the enemy in check until they received orders to
retire to the bridge. The rebels succeeded in getting a battery in posi-
tion on the elevated ground on our right, and a section in our immediate
front. These guns were used most vigorously against those of my com-
mand occupying the rifle-pits. In the meantime they sent a column oi
infantry, under cover of a high hill on our right, within a few hundred
yards of the river. None but their skirmishers approached within range
of the guns of the men occupying the rifle-pits, and these being in a
grain field, and obscured from our view, except when they would rise to
fire, it was difficult to do them much harm or dislodge them. They
depended exclusively upon their artillery to drive us from our position
here. Having no artillery ourselves on that side of the river with which
to reply, and after retaining our position for about 1} hours, and dis-
covering that our remaining longer would enable the enemy to reach the
river on both of my flanks, which I was unable to prevent because of
the small number of men under my command, and thus get possession
of the bridge, cut off our retreat, and secure a crossing of the Susque-
hanna, (which I was instructed to prevent,) I retired in good order, and
crossed the bridge to the Lancaster side.

Before the enemy had left York for the river here, I made, as I sup-
posed, every necessary arrangement to blow up one span of the Colum-
bia bridge. When they got within sight, the gentlemen charged with
the execution of that work repaired promptly to the bridge, and com-
menced sawing off the arches and heavy timbers, preparatory to blow-

266 What Was Done in 1863.

ing up with powder, which they had arranged for that parpose. After
an abundance of time was allowed, and after, I supposed, every man of
my command was over the river, and when the enemy had entered tlic
town with his artillery, and reached the barricade at the bridge head, I
gave the order to light the fuse. The explosion took place, but our
object in blowing up the bridge failed. It was then that I felt it to be
my duty, in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, and
marching on Harrisburg in the rear, destroying on his route railroads
and bridges, to order the bridge to be set on fire. The bridge was com-
pletely destroj'cd, though a vigorous attempt was made to save a part
by the soldiers.

I was materially assisted in my operations by Captain Strickler, who
had charge of a small force of cavalry, acting as scouts. I feel indebted
to him for much reliable information as to the movemcnis and force of
the enemy. Major Haldeman (formerly c^;" the Twenty-third Regiment,
P. V.,) volunteered his services, and rendered me very efficient aid.

Lieut. -Colonel Green, who had charge of the left flank of the position
with a force of 250 men, and Major Fried, who took charge of the left
wing of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, P. V. M.,
behaved with accustomed coolness and gallantry, and brought off their
forces in most excellent order. Great praise is due to Captain Oliver,
Company D, Twenty-seventh, P, V. M., commanding a body of skir-
mishers of about 70 men. for the skillfulness and boldness with which
he liandled his men. The officers and men of my command generally
did their whole duty.

Before closing this report justice compels me to make mention of the
excellent conduct of the company of negroes from Columbia. After
working industriously in the ritle-pits all day, when the fight com-
menced they took their guns, and stood up to their work bravely. They
only fell back when ordered to do so.

I herewith enclose a list of casualties: The prisoners taken. 18 in
number, were all from the Twentieth, P. V. M., including Lieut. -Colonel
Sickles of that Regiment. From information received since the engage-
ment, I feel convinced that if my orders had been promptly obeyed no
prisoners would have been taken.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant.

JACOB G. FRICK, Colonel Commanding.

To Robert LeRoy, Captain and A. A. G., Department Susquehanna.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
Wounded.
Henry Matthews, Company B. Sergeant Henry Buriale. Co. F.

Terrence Smith, '• B. " Joseph Fitzgerald, Co. V.

Max Silverberg, " B. Aaron Tice, Companv H.

Corp. Henry Reichart, Co. C. Allen D. Mohr, " "' II.

Michael J. Thomas. ''

On the 26th of June, Governor Curtin issued a Proclamation
calling for 60,000 volunteers to defend the State. Meetings were
held, and recruiting commenced for a Regiment to be commanded
bj General James Naglo, and one to be commanded by Colonel
Royer. On the 30th of June a County meeting assembled in the
Court-house at Pottsville. A committee was appointed to confer
with the Commissioners^ and request them to appropriate ^5 a

What Was Done in 1863. 267

week to the families of all who had families themselves, or depend-
ing on them, who volunteered for the defence of the State. The
Commissioners acceded to the request. A motion was then made
to embrace the families of those -Vho had already gone on the first
call. The meeting called upon the Commissioners to embrace
those also in the bounty, which was immediately acceded to.

Under this, recruiting received an impetus, and the two Regi-
ments were soon filled. Up to July 18, Schuylkill County fur-
nished for the emergency and^under the three and six months'
calls, 2^000 volunteers.

THE THIRTY-NLNTH REGIMENT, P. V. M. -

Colonel— JXMES NAGLE.

Lki{t,-Colonel— J AMES H. CAMPBELL.

The movements of this Regiment up to the time it went into

camp at Greencastle, are narrated in a letter to us, dated- -

Ix Camp near Greencastle, July 17, 1803.
\Yg left Reading for Ilarrisburg on Wednesday evening, at 9,i o'cIocIj,
find after a long and tedious vide in freight cars, over the Leha^non Val-
ley Railroad, we arrived safely within one or two miles of Ilarrisburg,
when, sad to relate, the train in backing on the turnout, to permit the
passenger train last to pass by the train, Avas backed into some coal
cars, mashing in the end of one of the house-cars and breaking as was
supposed, both legs of one of the members of Captain Nagle's Company,
and mashing the foot of one of Captain Harrison's men, who were both
left at Ilarrisburg, where we were immediately transferred to another
freight train, a large or principal part of the cars having no seats in
them, which made it a very tedious way of riding; from Harrisburg we
were started in about half an hour and arrived at Carlisle between six
and seven in the morning, where we lay in and around the cars until
nearly two, P. M., not daring to leave as we did not know at what
minute the cars might start. In approaching Carlisle, we could see the
bare walls and chimneys of the once beautiful barracks, standing as a
sad memento that the rebels had dared to penetrate so far upon the free
soil of Pennsylvania, but thank fortune, they were well punished for
their audacity and were glad to recross the Potomac, with a largely
reduced army. In Carlisle we could also see the eflfects of the enemy's
fire, as we saw several walls pierced through by shells and solid shot,
and were also shown over one half of a shell preserved by one of the
inhabitants. We then started at 2 o'clock from Carlisle and arrived at
Shippensburg by 4, where we left the cars, after being in for 19 hours,
and encamped in the outskirts of the town on Thursday evening.
We camped out in an open field of about four acres, where we soon had a
miniature village under canvass and gave ourselves over to the kind
embrace of slumber, which I can assure you was sweet, after spending
a sleepless night on the railroad. On Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, we left
Shippensburg on foot, and took up our line of march for Chambersburg,
which proved to be a very tedious and tiresome march, through muddy

268 What Was Done Ix\ 1863.

and heavy roads, and by Oie time "wc arrived in Camp McClure, one
mile from Chambersburg, there was at least one full company of strag-
glers bringing up the rear, who came straggling in some one or two
hours after our arrival. The heat was very oppressive and no air astir,
which accounts for so many falling back on the march. We lay in
Camp McClure until Saturday evening, when we received marching
orders, and were n?arched about two miles, where we were again en-
camped until Tuesday morning, when again receiving marching orders,
we v.'ere marched to within one mile of Greencastle, in a roundabout
way, some fifteen or sixteen miles, when we should have done it in ele-
ven miles, at which place we arrived at dusk and were encamped on a
high field, but still not high enough to put us out of the water and mud
when it'rained, which is almost every other day since we have been out.
Here we were joined by the regiments composing our Brigade. Thej*,
as far as I know, arc the Thirty-seventh,* Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, and Forty-first Pennsylvania Ftegiments, V. M,, with Colonel
James Nagle acting Brigadier — and a battery of four guns — and on
Thursday evening we left as a Brigade, and marched one mile this side
of Greencastle on the Iiagerstowu turnpike, where we are now encamped
on a dead level ground in the woods.

While in camp on the north side of Greencastle, we were addressed by
Governor Cuvtin very patriotically, which created great enthusiasm
among the troops, who cheered him time and again, and were not will-
ing to let him stop, although much exhausted by the exertions he had
made in behalf of the troops.

The following are the muster-rolls of the Schuylkill County

companies of the Eegiment :

COMPANY A.

Cajttam—TxOBERT ALLISON.

1st Lieut. — .Jacob Baciiman.

2d Lieut. — James Tealdale.

1st Sergeant — C. L. Chillson.

2d " J. E. GiBsox.

3f? " Jonathan Bull.

4:tk " George Gibson.

^th '< Philip Garris.

1st Corporal — Willia3i Garris.

2d " George B. Fisler.

3c? <« James Henderson.

^th " Isaiah Linn.

bth '« Tobias Oliver.

^yth " C. W. Snyder.

'^th " Jesse Templin.

^i^^ *' S. C. Cartwright.

Serg cant-Major — Isaiah Cartjvright.

Musicians — James Swartz (fifer.)

C. 11. May (drummer.)

Daniel Dick (band*.)

PRIVATES :

Aley, Abraham Bo^er, Daniel

Anspach William Boyer, Franklin

^n^r PI •'"'''' Boyer, John

Bull, Philip Ci-etz, John

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269

Company A, Thirty-ninth Regiment — Continued.

Cartwriglit, Jacob

Laing, John

Daubert, Benjamin

Lewis, John

Dillon, Philip

Moody, John

Dale, William

McLaughlin, James

Droble, John

Morganroth, Levi

Dillman, Peter

O'Neill, Peter

Fletcher, David

OrroU, James

Freed, John

Philips, Richard

Ferney, Joseph

Roxby, J. C.

Fritz, Albert

Ryan, Lawrence

Gordon, William

Rhoads, H. B.

Goodman, Henry

Simpson, J. B.

Groves, John i

Simpson, Joseph

Grant, Patrick

Schrow, Dewald

Gallagher, John

Seitzinger, Thomas

Garris, Joh'n

Smith, Thomas

Glenn, David

Smith, C. F.

Henshley, Charles

Sweeny, John

Hessenberg, Charles

Sedden, Charles

Heebner, H. R.

Singley, W. H.

Hain, Mattson

Smith, Matthew

Haiu, Reuben

Smith, Robert

Hain, Charles

Sedden, John

Hadesty, Harvey

Sessingei', George J

Jones, Evan

Wright, John

Knowles, Nathaniel

Wintersteen, D. L.

linowles, Adam

Worrner, Benjamin

Lechler, David

Wintersteen, H. I[.

Lawrence, George R,

Wlliiams, Isaac

Long, Thomas D.

Commissioned Officers,

- 3

Non-commissioned Officers,

- 14

Musicians, - - -

- 3

Privates, - _ - .

- 67

"87

^ COMPANY B.

Captain— VllllAY NAGLE.
\st Lieut. — E. J. SiiirPEN,
2d Lieut. — Abraham Nagle.
1st Sergeant — Louis A. Bright.

Charles A. Bosbyshell.

John R. Wo3ielsdorf.

Peter Houck.

George W. Beck.
-James Glenn.

Isaac Gross.

B. F. Lord.

John L. Mennig.

Samuel Dampman.

Livingston Hough.

Isaiah Kline.
23

4th

5th

Isi Corporal-

Ath

hth

6th

7th

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What Was Done in 1863.

Company B, Thirty-ninth Kegiment—

Slh Corporal — Caspar Brobst.
Musicians — Simon Derr.

" Charles Miesse.

Wagoner — Israel Krammes.

Continued,

PRIVATES:

Allen, Zacliariah T,

Allison, Henry

Auman, William

Aikiuau, James

Boughncr, Benjamin F.

Brownmiller, Nicholas

Bock, Jolin

Boltz, Cliavles

Buck, Nathaniel

Bancust, John

Bodcy, Charles N.

Boyer, William B.

Christian, Benjamin L.

Christian, Henry

Cooper, George

Cole, Bichard

Carey, William

Dillinger, William

Derrick, Cyrus

Fey, Francis W.

Frederick, William D.

Frailey, Peter H.

Fey, George A.

Horning, Samuel

Hughes, Andrew

Hoover, Perry

Hamm, Conrad

Hammer, Theodore

Haley, AYilliam H.

Horning, Washington

Johnson, Robert

Jones, John

Jones, Thomas

James, David H.

Krater, John

Kimbler, John J.

Lindenmuth, Henry

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - -
Privates, - - - -

Montgomery, Jonas A,
Matz, Thomas H.
Morgan, Enoch
Martz, Alonzo
Morgan, John W,
Nagle, James W.
Rhobottom, Frank
Richman, John
Rickert, John
Rickert, George L.
Sterner, Daniel
Sterner, David
Staats, James L.
Shower, George
Simmons, George I>.
Schloss, Isaac
Lindenmuth, Charles
Lloyd, Michael Sr
Lloyd, Thomas
Liffler, Frank
Liffler, William
Leob, George P.
Madison, James M.
Mennig, Edward W.
Schall, Thomas
Shay, John
Schwenk, Henry E.
Shoener, Geoi'ge
Talich, Thomas H.
Taylor, Eugene
Thiemer, John M.
Williams, Philip
AVildermuth, Gfcarles W
Williams, John C.
Woolison, Franklin
Weaver, John A.
Wernert, George
- - - o

. 2

- - 74

Total,

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271

COMPANY C.

eaj^^am— CHARLES BLACKER.
1st Lieut. — William G. DeTuek.
2d Lieut. — George W. Keitek.
1st Sergeant — James Blackee,

2d " OSWELL FOED.

Zd " John Maecii.

Ath " William Gittins.

^th '* George W. Lookingbill.

1st Corporal — John B. Me^z.

John Beckee.

Thomas Palmer.

4th

George W. Johnson.

5th

Peter Bummeesbaugh.

Qtk

Thomas Lewis.

1th

Nathaniel Keebs.

Sth

Benjamin Haines.

Musiciam-

— WiNFiELD Fritz,

William Hetherington.
PRIVATES :

Anderson, Robert
Ashwortli, Joseph
Baldwin, Tliomas
Beauriiont, Charles
Blakelj, Joseph
Briggs, Thomas S.
Buniutersbaugh, J. F.
CarL Peter
Clifl'Ord, James
Cook, Robert
Coughlin, Thomas
Crawshaw, George W.
Davis, William S.
Demmings, William
Dieuer, John
Dudlej, John
Evans, David
Evans, Thomas
Else, William H.
Ferrebee, Amza
Foster, Thomas
Frohnle, Albert
Grave, John
Gradweil, Thomas
Haines, William
Hardy, Joseph J.
Hart, iVlexander
Hassler, Charles
Howarth, William
Housknecht, George W
Jones, Elias
Jones, Robert
Kelly, John
Maguire, John
MarXj Charles

McCabe, Alexander
McKiernan, Patrick
Millerd, William
Moson, James
Oriel, John
Parker, Richard
Purnell; Isaue
Price, James
Reese, Jacob
Richardson, James
Rodgers, James
Scherr, Rinard
Seligman, Benjamin
Sh after, Henry
(Shilton, Joseph
Smith, Frederick
Smith, John
Stahl, George W.
Sykes, Benjamin
Sykes, George
Thomas, John D.
Thomas, George
Thomas, Samuel
Thomas, William
Townsend, Abraham
Vincort, John
Watkins, William
Webster, Elias
Weiss, Joseph
Wighf^m, Thomas
Williams, John
Williams, Thomas
Young, James
Young, Robert

272

What Was Done in 1863.

Company C; Thirty-Ninth Regiment-

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musician, - - - - _
Privates, . - , .

Total,

• Continued.

2
69

COMPANY D,

Captain— IllQ-MK^ EAY.

1st Lieut. — .ToiiN WOOLEY.

2d Lieut. — William Broughall.

1st Sergeant — John W. Smith.

2d " Jonathan Wiluinghasl,

3t? " James E, Evans.

4th " George Smith.

5th " Edward A. Reed.

1st Corporal — Datid Ckown.

2d
^d
4th
Uh
%th
1th
Wi

David Watkins.
Joseph Urch.
Henry Daddow.
Ljgti Orme.

AuGUSTyS BiME.

Thomas Fielding.
William Bracey.

Blusician — Isaac H. Davidson.

PRIVATES

Bail, Jolin
Easier, Gabriel
Bartley, Alfred
Betz, Harrison
Correl, Rolandus
Carl, Frederick
DaddoTT, John
Deutscii, Jacob J,
Davidson, John
Darkins, John
Evans, John
Evans, Thomas
Evans, William
Eymon, Thomas
Evans, John C.
Ford, Joseph
Fox, James
Griner, Philip
Galden, Evan
Horn, Frederick
Hutton, William
Hutton, Thomas
Houseknecht, Benjamin J.
Hetherington, Jacob
Johnson, Theodore R.
Jones, Edward
Jones, Henry

Jones, Joseph
James, Thomas I>^ •
Jones, Robert
Long, John
Long, Albert
Lorer, John
Mitchell, Samuel
McGuire, Thomas-
Morgan, John L.
Moses, Ebenezer
'Millei% John R.
Kline, Jacob
Price, Reuben
Quinn, Joseph
Rick, Frank
Rolands, Daniel
Roberts, William
Sykes, Henry
Steel, Joseph
Shaffer, Killian
Thomas, John P.
Thomas, Evan
Urch, William
Watkins, Edward
Wilds, John
Williams, Thomas W.
Williams, James E.

What Was Done 115 1863.

27S

Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment — Continued,

Commissioned Officers, - - - - 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - 18

Musicians, - - - - - - 1

Privates, . . - - - - 54

Total,

COMPANY E.

Captain— JOlll^i R. PORTER.
1st Lieut. — Daviu R. Shafeb.
2c? Lieut. — Robert Russell.
1st Sergeant — David Stewart.
2c? *' Thomas Jennings.

3c/ " S^\MUEL Seward.

Ath " 'AsHTON Hilton.
bth " Townsend Himes.

1st Corporal — John Moore.
2d *' Samuel Hbaton.

3c? '* Jonas Hein.

4ith *' John Brown.

bth *' Thomas Jones.

6^^ " Solomon Foust.

1th " William Scott.

^th *' James W. Sterner.

Musicians — Sylvester Schuyler.
♦* Nathaniel Eshelman.

PRIVATES:

Albertson, Jacob
Bently, Cliarles
Bartholomew, Clinton
Beltz, George
Casserly, James
Carrigan, James
Corby, Thomas
Cohon, John G.
Crook, John
Crook, George C.
Crombe, James
Donaldson, James
Eddy, John
English, George
Fenstermacher, William
Fletcher, Edward
Fox, Peter
Fisher, Emanuel
Frank, AVilliam
Flaherty, Patrick
Good, Charles H.
Garrett, James N.
Griffith, William
Howell, William
Hendricks, George

23*

Howard, John
Huntzinger, Jacob F-
Jackson, Henry
Jones, William P.
Kohlcr, George
Landy, John
Lawall, Philip
Mauger, Andrew
Mauger, John
Myer, Henry
Mace, William
Mauger, George
Miller, Wilson W.
Morton, Jonathan
Miller, Samuel
McGerry, Daniel
O'Donnell, Manu«
Percival, James
Patrick, David
Robeson, William
Raab, Andrew
Richards, Philip
Roberts, John R.
Russell, John H.
Smith, William S.

274

What Was Done in 1863.

COxMPANY E, Thirty-ninth Eegiment — Continued.

Spurr, Thomas W.
Sterner, Lewis H.
Sliafer, George W.
Severn, Thomas
Shiverstein, Albert
Taylor, James
Taylor, Charles

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, - . -

Total, -

Tomlins, Edward
Walker, Thomas
"Wiggan, John A.
Wolf, Michael
Wilcox, Thomas
Warr, Joseph

2
G3

COMPANY F.

CajHcdn—S^'ILLlKM M. RANDALL.

\st Lieut. — John W. Coho.

2c? LieiU. — Henry E. Hein.

1st Sergeant — Harvey J. Stager.

2c? *' Joseph C. Kerkesl-ager.

3c? " Daxiel E. Sciireck.

4iih *' Alfred 6r. Yeager.

hth " Albert A. Hesser.

Is^ Corporal — William A. Field.

2c? " Joshua Martz.

3c? " Joseph M. Schalm.

Ath " D. B. HOLMER.

bth " Elijah Ebiricii.

Wi " F. P. Barr.

1th '' Joshua Heiser.

^tli " Henry PiAudenbush.

Musicians — RoLANDUS FREEHiEFFER.

" J. Kline.

PRIVATES:

Auman, Henry
Armstrong, John
Achabach, William
Bolton, a. W.
Berger, David
Boyer, Chai-les
Rubeck, John E,
Christ, Edward
Coxe, H. N.
Clouse, W.
Collins, M.
Dickinson, John
Drey, Lewis
Deibert, William
Detrich, Peter
Dilcamp, W. H.
Dilcamp, C. E.
Dreher, Benjamin

DeFrehn, Isaac
Everett, Daniel
Eisenhart, .John
Fidler, R. H.
Fritz, John
Freed, Henry
Feather, Emanuel
Fenstemacher, Jolm
Grcenwold, Simon
Geiger, J. H.
Quartier, Henry
Good, John
Homan, Amos
Homan, Thomas
Hepler, C. R.
Hummel, Jacob
Houk, C. Y.
Hummel, John

What Was Done in 1863.

275

Company F, Thirty-ninth Regiment — Continued.

Hummel, Henry

Heiser, Edward

Hess Frederick

Hendricks, Sassaman

Hesser, C. F.

Heisler, Lewis

Irvin, Pvolbert
-Krown, Edwin ^

Koch, William J.

Knarr, Isaac

Kantner, P. P.

Kantner, A. W.

Kauffman, Charles

Moody, W. F.

Martz, S. G. W.

Martz, John

Moyer, Harrison

Moyer, Michael

Neiheeser, William

Neiman, Benjamin

Packson, Isaac

Palsgrove, C. B.

Quinter, Henry

Reed, W. L.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Privates, . _ _

Total, -

Ileibsaamer, Isaac
Reeger, Charles
Reed, A. J.
Reed, Franklin
SchuUz, S. S.
Seyiert, Isaac
Schultz, Charles
Saylor, Morgan S.
Seiger, Augustus
Schadel, William
Spindler, Christian
Stitzer, William F.
Sullivan, Daniel
Simons, Harrison
Stauffer, Isaac
Saylor, J. S.
Schwenk, J. R.
Strieker, Albert
Sheep, George IL
Saylor, J. R.
Snyder, Adam
Utz, George
Ullmer, G. H.
Wise, Franklin

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13

- 2
84

105

COMPANY a.

Cfep^am— MICHAEL MOLL.
1st Lieut. — Hamilton II. Bailey.
2d Limt. — YfiLLiAM H. Sciiall.
1st Sergeant — H. W. Pinkebton.
2d " P. Wertley.

3 J " John Pugii.

^th " George English.

bth " Joseph Dixon.

1st Corporal — Isaac D. Lehman.
2d " Alexander TiiOMrsoN.

2,d «' S. G. S. Zerbe.

4,th " Lorenzo Reinceld.

bth *' Robert Angus.

(jth " Lewis W. Heil.

Ith " Robert Moyer.

^th "' John Schall.

Musicians — John F. Miller.
" James Souser.

PRIVATES:

Artman, Nathan Angus, Henry

Adams, Henry Allen, Charles

276

What Was Done in 1863.

Company G-, Thirty-ninth Regiment — Continued.

Bolby, F. K.
Boone, Franklin
Bensinger, Gabriel
Brenly, Charles
Bohman, John
Buehler, George
Brown, J. W. B.
Douglass, Archibald
Eckel, Aaron
English, William
Ege, H. J.
Farch, Christian
Farch, Henry
Focht, Hiram
Fritz, William
Fulmer, W. E.
Hatter, Jacob
Hand, B. W.
Hauser, David.
Kantner, John
Klevenstein, George
Ketner, John E.
Ketner, David
Kremer, Samuel
Lawer, Nicholas
Leiby, Jonathan

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, . . -

Mellon, Henry
Miller. David
Miller, Albert
Minnich, John W,
O'Neal, Edwin
Orwig, J. K. P.
Pritcherd, Thomas
Pritcherd, John
Pelton, W. F.
Pinkerton, George A.
Pelt, James L.
Eumberger, D.
Roehrig. G. B.
Reigle, S. A.
Sheafer, George
Seifert, John
Schantz, John
Stanner, Jeremiah
Smith, Emanuel
Smith, Felix
Snaybeger, J, N. B.
Umholtz, Charles
Umholtz, Augustus
Watson, Joseph
Woollis, Willoughby
Yeager, Edward

- 3
13

. 2
- - - 50

Total,

COMPANY H.

Ca/>^am— JOHN W. BARE.
1st Lieut. — David P. Thompson.
Id Lieut. — William Lerch, Jr.
1st Sergeant — Philip Keeley.

'Id

Abraham Mengle.

James M. Rohrer.

4th

Caleb Wheeler.

^th

James W. Neall.

1st (

(Corporal — George Miller.

George W. Thompson

((

Jacob Snyder.

4th

Theophilus Lewis.

bth

((

James T. Kendall.

Qth

' (i

Joshua Stees.

1th

((

William Shirk.

Sth

Tillman Miller.

Musicians-

-John Jones.

Andrew Snyder.

What Was Done in 1863.

277

Ck)MPANY H, Thirty-ninth Regiment-

PRIVATES :

Continued.

Achenbacb, Daniel
Alvord, Frederick
Baylor, Daniel
Bretz, Michael
Bartels, Rudolph
Benjamin, Theophilus
Barr, John
Bonawitz, John, Jri
Brown, Frederick
Brenner, David
Clark, Samuel
Davis, John
Duffy, Michael
Evans, William
Faust, Henry
Fegley, John
Fuller, James
Feller, Adam
Goodman, William
Gammel, James
Hetlricks, John
Hed ricks, Samuel
Harvey, William
Huber, Andrew J.
Huber, Francis
Huber, Jacob
Hughes, William
Hontz, Benneville
Hand, Isaac
Hummel, John
Hain, Henry C.
James, Benjamin
Knapp, Nelson
Keeney, George
Keeney, Samuel
Kyle, William

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, . . .

tTotal, -

Knipe, Ephraim
Lewis, David
Lewis, Ed.
Miller, Peter
Miller, Jonathan
Manwiller, Aug. B.
Morgan, Thomas
McClellan, George
Moyer, Henry D.
Noll, George
Ney, John
Phillips, Arjftbibald
Phillips, William
Parry, William
Reed, And. J.
Reed, Daniel
Ream, Israel
Row, Henry
Rump, Peter
Rehrer, Jacob
Rahn, Jacob
Reese, Jacob
Roger, William
Shertle, Ed. A.
Stahl, George B.
Spaetzer, Francis
Thomas, David
Treon, Isaac
Thompson, William W.
Updegrove, John
IJpdegrove, Jacob
Updegrove,. Daniel
Wolf, John
Wolf, Jacob
Wolf, Peter
White, Robert

- 8
13

- 2
72

- 90

COMPANY K.

Cop^am— SAMUEL RICHARDS.
\st Lieut. — Isaac P. Chalfant.
2f? Lieut. — David A, Jones.
1st Seryeani — John S. Silver.
2d " John Taylok.

8c? " James Manning.

Atli " Robert Doak.

278

What Was Done in 1863.

Company K; Thirty-ninth Eegiment — Continued.

bth Sergeant — Matthias Ault.
\st Corporal — Michael Mohan.

' Joseph Morgan.

William Cannan.

4th

Richard P. H. Philips

bth

Augustus Kutz.

Gth

John Parry.

1th

Thomas Rhoads.

8th

Joseph Fisher.

Musicians — C. C. Cakter.

Charles Glenn.

PRIVATES:

Austj, Philip
Beach, James G.
Bedford, Charles
Bowman, John
Brace, Benjamin
Bradley, "William
Conherj, xVrthiir
Cutler, Richard
Daniell, William P.
Davis, -John
Davis, Ilenr^' J.
Deitrich, Lewis
Davis, Thomas
Davis, David
Davis, Johii D.
Davis, Jeukin
DreiTbelbeis, Daniel Y.
Dunn, John
Evans, .John
Edmonds, Henry
J'vUt, Charles
Edwards, Edward
Edwards, .John
Furman, Joseph Ts.
Francis, Richard
Grigg, William
Geiger, James
Gurley, William
Gabert, Henry
Gibbs, -John
Goldsunthy, Thomas
Heisler, Israel
Heisler, Franklin
Hancock, David
Howells, William
Hutton, .James G.
Houser, Amos
Jones, Edward
Jefferson, .Joseph
James. William

Jones, David
Jenkins, Isaac
Jefferson, Robert
Jones, John T.
Kauffmatt, Luther S.
Kear, Charles
Knight, James
Kear, Isaac N,
Lewis, John W.
Loeser, J. Washington
Merkle, Gideon
Merkle, Philip
Miles, William
Morris, David
Morgan, Evan
Montgomery, John
Morris, William
Morris, George
Parr}', David
Powell, David
Phelps, John
Rogers, Thomas C.
Roerig, George
Reese, John J,
Raker, Jacob
Reese, John
Ridley, George
Sterner, Winfield S.
Shissler, Edward L.
Shellenberger, Abm
Stager, Abm
Snyder, Jacob
Turner, Edward H.
Thomas, William G.
Thomas, John M.
Witman, Augustus H.
Woolcock, John
Williams, Abenezer
Wentzel, H. L.
Williams, George

What Was Done in 1863. 270

Company K, Thirty-ninth Regiment — -Continued.

Commissioned Officers, - - - - 3

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - 13
Musicians, -------2

Privates, -- - -'- - - 80

Total, 98

KECAPITULATION.

Field Officers, 2

Line Commissioned Officers, - _ _ ^7.

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - 118

Musicians, -- - - - - -18

Privates, 617

Grand total, 782

FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V. M.

Colonel— II. C. ROYER.
Lieut.- Colonel — James J. Connor.
, Major — James Ellis.

Adjutant — Israel C. Becker.
Quartermaster — Jeremiah C. Bitting.

This Regiment^ during its term of service, was stationed &t
Reading, Pa.

The muster-rolls of the Schuylkill County companies are as fbi-
lows :

COMPANY C.

Captain— L. P. GARNER.
1st Lieut. — Isaac Burkhardt.
2d LAeut. — Patrick Collier.
1st Sergeant — J. E. Wilson.
2d V " John CovfAN.

3f? " Charles Comxer, Jr.

4^/i *' G. H. Fetterman.

bth " Martin Devlin.

1st Corporal — Patrick Collohan.
2d " Michael Igo.

3f? *' EusEBius Meyer.

4^/i " Andrew Geary.

^th *' Benjamin Dreisback.

Q)th " Benjamin H. Kupp.

1th " Michael Horan.

8^/t " Michael Farrell.

Musicians — Evan Thomas.

Tobias Whitma'n.
Wagoner — John H. Dov^ning.

PRIVATES :
Buck-waiter, Rowland Britt, Henry

Budd, Charles B. Brennan, John

Burchiield, William H. Brassel, James

Boyer, Elias Conner, John C.

280

What Was Done in 1863.

QOMPANY C; FiFTY-TUIRD REGIMENT, P. V. M. — OontlWJ^d.

Castle, Jerome

Conner, James H.

Convoy, James

Chester, Joseph

Connei% Charles

Convoy, Thomas

Canavin, William

Coby, Silas

Donohoe, Michael

Dryden, Wetherill

Donohoe, John

Deitsch, Henry

Deiner, Christian

Duffy, Barney

Delany, Joseph

Evans, Thomas

Foeller, John

Fiest, Joseph

Fleigel, Barnard

Ferguson, Patrick F,

Fahringer, Isaac

Farrell, Patrick

Gallagher, A. J.

Garner, Louis M.

Garner, Louis H.

Garner, Joseph W.

Gallagher, Michael

Gerraghty, James

Grady, Thomas

Hays, Jordan C.

Houseman, Nicholas

Harman, Lawrence

Hoffman, David

Horn, Joseph

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Wagoner, _ - -

Privates,

Total,

Hetherington, James
Keller, Adam
Keegan, Charles
Kane, Patrick
Kennedy, James
Lamb, John
Miller, Hugh
Monaghan, Anthony
Monaghan, Peter
Meimer. Franklin
Martz, Cornelius
Martz, Charles
"xdcGonnigal, Peter
Monaghan, Stephen
Mullarky, Rodger
Naughten, John
Paul, Henry
Quill, Joseph
Quill, Philip
Ross, George
Ross, William
Ross, Thomas
Sullivan, William
Seitzinger, Charles A.
Smith, Charles
Silver, John
Tinghe, Michael
Tobias, Calvin
Thomas, Samuel
Vanhorn, Reuben
Wilson, William
Walters, Thomas
Yocum, John J.

- 3
13

. 2
1

- 75

COMPANY F.

Captain— Q. DOUGHERTY.
1st Lieut. — C. W. Dengler.
2d Lieut. — Peter White.
1st Sergeant — P. Dress.

JOHN McTaGUE.

Jambs McAree.

4th "■

James Fee.

6th "

George Armold

1st Corporal-

—Frank Lovell.

What Was Done in 1863.

281

Company P, Fifty-third Kegiment, P. V. M, — ContlnueiL

2d Corporal — Patrick Smith.

J, G.

Hoffman.

4th

W. J.

Wright.

hth

<^ W. B.

Detrick.

eth

<* Neal

Con AWAY.

1th

<« Daniel Hagner.

8th

<' James

Braicifield,

Musicians— Willi AU Brobst.

Patrick

: Reiley.

PRIVATES:

Breinig, John

Kromell, George

Brennan, Thorn

Luckingbill, Henry

Coligan, Anthony

Larkin, Thomas

Curry, Patrick

Leibey, William

Cavanough, James

Lee, William

Cassedy, Thomas

Miller, Christopher

Dress, G. W.

Miller, E. B.

Dillman, Jacob

Moyer, William

Dillen, Patrick

Mantin, Murphy

Dendt, Christopher

McQuone, George

Dominick, Biirk

McBride, George

Pertig, Mahlon

McGone, John

Fertig, J. W.

Noland, Philip

Grimm, Henry

Nolan. Patrick

Glover, William

Quinn, James

Gonger, J.

. Reiley, Alfred

Grimes, James

Reese, Samuel

Hagerty, Frank

Reifsnyder, William

Heiser, William

Snyder, Paul

Hudson, Henry

Sweeney, John

Hughes, Patrick

. Walsh, William

Hagner, Henry

Yeager, Frank

Kramer, Ephraim

Commissioned

Officers,,

>>
- •■ - - .J

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians, -

- - ? - 2

Privates,

Total, ^

- 68

COMPANY H.

Captain— 'E. BENSINGER.
1st Lieut. — James I. Lake.
2d Lieut. — Henry Leam.
1*^ Sergeant — Franklin Bensinger.
2c? " Joseph Levy.

3c? " Levi Knabb.

4th " Joshua Payne.

^th " Edward T. Burke.

1st Corporal — Evan Evans.
2c? " George Bevan.

8c? << William F. Bensinger.

4th "• Nicholas P. Brennan.

282

What Was Done in 1863.

Company H; Fifty-third Regiment-— Cmtinued,

PRIVATES;

Bftucroft, Alfred

Brook, John

Davis, Thomas

Evans, David

Farrell, John"

Golling, Richard

Geneal, Jacob G.

Grant, Charles H,

Hookey, Samuel

Henry, Edwards

Hartman, Charles

Jones, EdT7:ard

Jenkins, Thomas

Jones, Thomas

Jones, John

Lee, Martin

Learn, Thomas

Linseymoyer, Nimrod

Murphy, William

Millett, George

Morgan, Thomas

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned OfHcers,
Privates, - . .

Narry, Anthony
Oswald, John
Powell, Samuel
Peters, John
Queeny, Frank
Rice, William
Raber, Jonas
Eeeso, Benjamin
Raber, Peter
Samuels, Lewis
Siraraons, Thomaa
Smith, John
'8pootg|, Alfred
Sager, Martin
Seitzinger, Erastus B.
Samuels, John
Thomas, William
Williams, William
Weber, David
Walker, William
Yommes, John

- 3
9

- A'2

Total,

COMPANY I.

Capfain— THOMAS QUIRK.
1st Lieut. — John P. Bowers.
2d Lieut. — James Mara.
1st Sergeant — John N. McBabron.
2d " James T. McKenna.

3c? '♦ William F. Lee.

4/^ «* William James.

bth •' Edward Rating.

1st Corporal — George Kehr.
2d '* William Barry.

3f/ ** Benjamin Evans.

4/A " Thomas Rating.

hth " Thomas Nash.

%th " David T. Brown.

1th '* John Moore.

^th «« William Kkllt.

Musiciajt^ — Frank Henry.
John Kramer.

PRIVATES

Brennan, Edward
Brennan, Richard
Boyle, Patrick
Boyle, John

Brennan, William
Barnes, Uriah
Carr, Frank
Cantield, Thomaa

What Was Done in 1863.

283

Company I, Fifty-third Regimen

Carlin, John

Dunn, Charles

Delany, Martin

Dorau, James

Dudley, Richard

Duffy, John P.

Flinn, Henry

Gluntz, Henry

Grady, Patrick

Gallagher, John

Hays, Lawrence

Hagarty, John

Hartigan, Patrick

flaiTigan, John

Hughes, James

Hays, John

Hagerty, James

Kelly, John

Karr, Robert

Lynch, James

Lynch, John

Little, George

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - -
Privates, . . -

T — Continued.

Uttle, Patrick^
Lloyd, George
Lloyd, Edmond
Lee, Dennis
Moran, Michael
Melloy, Patrick
McGlone, Pa-trick
Murray, Anthony
McGowan, Bai'tholomew
Maginnis, Edv^ard
Mullarky, Michael
Powers, Nicholas
Sloe, Edward
Fteady, Thomas
Ragan, John
Roch, Edward
Stevenson, Samuel
Walsh, Patrick
Williams, John
Williams, A. B.
Walsh, John
Maginnis, E. B.

- S
13

. 2
52

Total, - - - - -

EECAPITULATIOX.

Field Officers, - - - -
Commissioned Line Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Musicians, - - . - .

Wagoners, . ^ - - -
Privates, - . - - -

Total, . - - .

GRAND BECAPITL'LATION.

Twenty-seventh Regiment,
Thirty-ninth Regiment,
Fifty-third Regiment,

Grand total, - - - -

- 48

- 1
214

284

510
782

284

1,576

DEATHS IN THIS SERVICE.

Emanuel Raush, Co. Gr, Twenty-seventh Regiment^ died ia
Academy Hospital; Chambersburg, on the 26th of July, of typhoid
fever.

Samuel Evans^ Co. I^ Twenty-seventh Regiment; died ia the
same hospital on the 4th of August.

2>t4 What Was Done in 1863.

Charles Bedford, a member of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, died
m Chambersburg, on the 1st of August, of typhoid fever.

Lieut. Edward Mullen, Fifty-third Regiment, died Sept. 14.

Henry Fulman, Co. Gr, Thirty-ninth Regiment, died Sept. 15^
')f disease contracted during '' emergency.''

Charles K. Esterly, Co. C, Twenty-seventh Regiment, died
Sept. 25, of disease contracted during ^^ emergency."

THE DRAFT OF 1863.

In July, I860, President Lincoln issued a proclamation order-
ing a draft for five hundred thousand men to fill up the armies o
the Union.

The draft for the Tenth District, composed of Schuylkill and
Lebanon counties, commenced in Pottsville on Wednesday, Sept.
28d. 1863. The drawing was done by a blind man named Wil-
liam Doubert, of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County. The draft-
ing-box was on a table on a platform, placed in full view of the
j'pectators, adjoining the Provost Marshal's office. The commit-
tee of citizens invited to be present, were Samuel Huntzingery
William F. Mortimer, Robert F. Weaver. Hon. Strange I^'.
Palmer, Hon. Solomon Foster, J. Franklin Harris, Oliver Dob-
,>ion, Daniel H. Leib, and Jacob Kohler.

The draft was made in the following manner : The Deputy
3Iarshal, John M. Mark, of Lebanon County, turned the wheel,
and the blind man drew the names out. The latter passed them
over to the Commissioner, John H. Kinportz, of Lebanon, wha
read the names, the clerk at the same time entering them in a
hwk.

The drawing took place in the order of sub-districts laid down^
jiBd the number of names drawn for Schuylkill County was 3,334^

DRAFTED MEN WHO ENTERED THE SERVICE.
The following is a list of the names of drafted men who entered
the service :

Blakeley, John Craney, John

Boyer, John ^ Cartwright, Jr., Jacob

Blew, Charles H. " Campbell, Owen

Brininzer, Jacob Clark, Piitrick

Becker, John . Collier, William H.

Bretr, Daniel Cosgrove, Edward P.

What Was Donb in 1863.

285

Drafted Men who Enterkd the Service — Continued.

Canfield, Michael
Dulivant, Patrick
Deiner, Martin
Dry, Mordecai
Front, Washington
Gorman, Malachi
Gibson, Franklin
Gangwall, R.
Geiger, John
Garber, John
Gea4-y, James
Hagerty, James
Haflshafer, Jaco\)
Henderson, Charles
Jones, John
Jones, John
Kline, John
Klauser, Peter
Kessinger, Solomon
Kelly, Christopher
Klingeman, Jacob
Knobelock, Ciirigtian
LaTvrence, Isaac
Lich, George
Long, Andrew
Little, George
Mennig, Edward
Murray, Martin
Mills, William
McKeever, William
Mover, George D.

Miller, Jonathan

McKeon, James

Murray, James

Neiheiser, William

O'Hara, John

Purcill. Patrick

Pvupert, John S.

Rabewold, Michael

Reichard, Michael

Pveed, William L.

Seitzinger, Henry

Shelian, Michael

Snyder, Charles W.

Snyder, Charles

Shingler, John

Snowdcn, Martin- -

Swcnk, Henry

Searls, Nelson (colov(^<i i

Smith, Jonathan

Smith, Patrick

Shirk, William

Snyder, Jacob

Tierny, Stephen

Trainer, Charles

Weller, William

Wilson, Charles

Ward, V/illiam

Whetstone, P. G. (enllired

prior to draft.)
"Williams, John

Total, - - 72.

DRAFTED MEN WHO FURNISHED SUBSTITUTES,
The followin^r is a list of tlie* names of drafted men who fur-

nighed substitutes :

Achenbach, William
Achenbach, William
Adams, Daniel D.
Aley, Abraham
Albright, Charles
Alspach, Lewis
Allen, Jr., George
Allspach, Henry
Battesby, John
Barder, George
Baltenweg, Frederick
Baker. Thomas
Baldy, Peter R.
Bachert, William
Banker, John
Bachert, William M.
Barrang, Jacob

24*

Batdorf, John P,
Bannan, Francis C
Bast, Jeremiah
Bahm, Benjamin
Barrall, Daniel G.
Berner, Ludwig
Beltz, George
Berger, Daniel
Berger, Isaac 5
Berger, Harrison
Berkhciser, Henry D.
Becker, Joseph
Becker, David
Berry, John
Berger, Levi
Berger, William
Beattj, James B.

28S

What Was Done in 1863.

Drafted Men who furnished

Beabilheimer, Charles
Bishop, Conrad
BoAve, Banks
Boe, Daniel
Bowers, Henry
Dosby shell, Charles A.
Bobsi, Henry C.
Bortzel, Peter
Boyd, Thomas
Bordy, Jr., Joseph
Boyer, Benjamin
Boyer, Samuel C.
Boyer, Irwin
Bright, Joseph F.
Brooks, Edward
Bryrtnt, John
Breese, Hamilton
Brausc, George
Bradley, John
Bretz, Benjamin
Brummer, Lewis H.
Brumner, David
Breisch, Adam
Brcisch, Henry
B'reinerd, iSolomon
Brown, William
Brown, Peter
Brown, Joseph
Brown, Michael
Buck, Henry

Buck, Jacob
Burk, Gannon

Burns, Wiiliaia

Burns, Andrew*
Butler, James

Burger, Henry S.

Burkort, Elijah P.

Byersmith, Joseph

Byerly, William

Tain, Edward

Carter, Frank

Caughlin, John

Carey, Michael

Carty, James
I Carroll, John

Christ, John H.

Chrisman, B. 8.

Clay, John

Clemens, David

Clauer, Jacob

Coyne, Thomas

Coonan, Edward

Collahan, Thomas

Collahan, Patrick

Substitutes — Contijiucd.

Collahan, Thomas
Coleman, John
Conrad, F. W.
Collins, Peter
Coughlin, John
Conner, Michael
Conner, Jr., Thomas
Corcoran, Michael
Confer, Jacob
Conniff, Patrick
Cox, Benjamin
Curran, James
Curry, Thomas
Camraings, B. F.
Daubert, Franklin
Davis, Robert B.
Davi^, Ebenezer
Dengler, Charles
Dewald, George
Dewald, William
Dotweiler, Peter C.
Deibert, John
Denter, George
DeTurk, Samuel G.
Dice. John
Dindinger, Henry J.
Dillen, "Patrick
Doherty, Michael
Dolan, Thomas
Dolan, Michael
Downing, Henry
Don elm e, W. W.
Donaldson, John
Dorau, Patrick
Dooling, Patrick
Drnmlieller, Linery
Dress, George
Dress, IMichael
Dreibel, Albert
Dutfy, Thomas
Dudley, Benjamin
Dundore, Levi
Dunn, Robert
Dunn, Owen
Easton, Robert
Eberly, Valentine
Ebling, Albert
Ebling, Thomas
Eckroth, Solomon
Eckel, Albert D.
Edmonds. Henry
Eiler, Frank
Eiler, Charles -
Eldringham, Mathias

What Was Done in 1863.

287

Drafted Men who furnished Substitutes — Continue J.

Enis, Robert
Erb, Joseph
Evans, John
Evans, John
Fahl, James
Fahl, Jonas
Fahl, Joseph
Fahl, David
Faust, Charles
Faiss, Andrew
Farrell, John
Feahrer, Franz
Fetherolf, Daniel
Ferry, John
Fegley, Daniel
Fey, Conrad
Fisher, John
Fister, James If.
Fisk, Pliny
Finnegan, Patrick
Finnegan, Patrick
Fidler, Richard
Fidler, George
Field, Levi
Flynn, Patrick
Flanagan, Peter ^

Flanigan, James
Fox, C. A.
Ford, Patrick .
Foeller, John »
Frantz. Henry
Fry, "William
Frederick, Michael
Freed, George
Frederici, Edwin
Fritz, David
Fulmer, Charles
• Furgeson, Thomas
Ganger, Joseph
Gaugler, John
Garis, Philip
Gehrcs, John F.
German, John
Gillingham, Joseph If.
Gildner, John
Glover, James
Glover, Robert A.
Gordon, George W.
Gordon, William
Gowen, Franklin B.
Gorman, Patrick
Gray, Jr., James
Gross, Aaron
Gross, Charles

Grouse, Samuel
Gressle, Matthias
Grimes, Edward
Griffith, I'homas
Gunderman, William
Guldin, Michael
Guldner, William
llassel, Charles
Haldeman, John
Hain, David
Hammer, Christian
Haeseler, Francis
Hagner, William
Haldeman, Gideon
Hauser, Jolm G,
Harbig, Conrad
Hetherington, Thomas
Heisler, Lewis
Heisler, Franklin
Heiter, William .S.
Heim, George L.
Hein, Jonas
Henderson, James
Hill, Charles M.
Hill, John
Horan, James
Houser, Nathan
Houser, Noah
Hohan, Peter
Holshoe, Josiah
Hopkins, Jolm
Hofl'man, Francis
Hoifman, Thomas
Hoffman, John
Hutton, William
Honaker, Christopher
Houtz, Reuben
Horning, Washington
Howard, Benjamin
Huntsinger, Paul J.
Hunt zinger, William
Hufnagle, Silas
Huhn, [lenry
Impehweiler, Lorcnz
James, John R.
Jeffries, Samuel
John, Francis
Johnson, Robert
Jones, Samuel
Jones, Richard
Jungkurth, Ernst
Karcher, Josiah H.
Kalb, Jacob
Keilraan, Georo-c

2S8

What Was Done^ in 1863.

Drafted Men who furnished Substitutes — Continued.

Kerschncr, William
Keller, Cliri.stinn
Kelley, Daniel
Kelly, Michael
Kelly John
Kessler, Charles
Kennig-, Patrick
Kennedy, Peter
Kennedy, Charles
Kennedy, Reuben
Kershner, Frank
Kiefer, Edward
Kintzle, Thomas'H. B.
Kintzle, George W,
Kintzle, Henry B.
Klinger, Alexander
Klock, Jacob
Kleckner, Solomon
Kline, John
Knapp, George
Koch, John
Koch, Henry
Kolb, Philip
Kopp, John
Koenig, Samuel M.
Koehnig, Jr., Samuel
Krell, Peter
Kramer, William A.
Kramer, Adam
Krauser, Daniel H.
Krebs, Andrew
Kramer, Jacob
Landig, Jr., Jacob
Lautenbacher, Charle'
Langton, Peter
Larkin, James
Lawrence, Frank C.
Lewis, Jr., John
Leffler, Samuel
Lessig, James B.
Lewis, George F.
Leopold, A.
Leddy, Mark
Liddle, David
Lilly, Oliver W.
Link, Paul
Lill, Jacob
Lloyd, Jr., William
Lloyd, Henry
Longacre, David S.
Longabauch, Samuel
Lookenbill, Reuben
Lorah, John
Luckin?. John

Lusch, Nicholas
Lutz, Simpson
Luckenbill, William
Martz, Solomon
Martz, Daniel F.
Matz, John B.
Mayberr^^ William
Mayberry, Emanuel
Mason, William
Mattern, Charles
Maurer, Lewis
Mauger, George K.
McAdams, Frank

'"McArdle, Bernard
McConnel, James
McConuel, James
McCormick, Patrick
McCormick, Thomas
McCulIogh, Patrick
McCabe, John
McCano, Patrick
McCarty, William
McCanley, Neal
McDonald, Allen
McGovern. Philip
McGovern, John

McGuig4in, Patrick

McHugh, John
McKnowles, George

McWilliams, Daniel

Meehan, John

Meisberger, Michael

Mfcck, Charles

]Meck, Samuel

Medlar, Morgan F.

Mcngle, Nathan

!Merrick. Jr., Michael

Merrick. Anthony

Miller, William

Miller, Daniel

Miller, Benjamin

Miller, Simon

Millroy, Michael

Minsker, Benjamin

Milnes. Jr., William

Mitchell, Samuel

Morris, Daniel

Morris, Henry

Moran, Robert

Moran, Patrick

Mohan, John

Morgan, Jacob

Moll, William F.

Moorhcad, Alexand&r

What Was Done in 1863.

289

I>aAFTED Men who furnished Substitutes — Continued,

Momberger, Charles
Moyer, Franklin
Moyer, Morgan
Moyer, Joseph
Moyer, Lewis
Moyer, Enoch
Moyer, George
Moyer, Lewis
Mull, Michael
Murray, Jeremiah B.
Murphy, Franklin
Munday, James
Mullen, John
Mullen, Hugh
Naughton, Patrick
Ney, John
Neifert, Joseph
Nichter, John F.
Nolan, Michael
Nolan, James
Obenhaus, Daniel
Ohl, Edward
Orth, Ernst
Ordway, C. J. P.
Oschman, William
Overfield, Charles
Osawald, Peter
Osman, Eregood J.
O'Brian, Edward
O'Brian, Matthew
O'Bryan, William
O'Connors, Patrick
0'Donnel,.Hugh
O'Donnell, Bernard
O'Neal, Michael
Paxson, George
Parvin, William J.
Palsgrove, James
Patterson, Thomas L.
Peale, Edward
Peifer, Levi
Philips, William
Phillips, David
Phillips, Robert
Plappert, Ignotz
Potsdamer, Tobias
Portzel, Andrew
Presman, Joseph
• Price, J. F.
Purcell, Richard
Querin, Peter
Raudenbush, Henry
Randall, W. M.
Raber, Nicholas

Raudenbush, Joshua
Rattigan, Daniel
Repp, Henry
Remely, Thomas
Reich, George
Reber, Benneville
Reichard, Aaron
Reigel, Josliua
Reichelderfer, Roland
Reigel, Jacob
Reed, Solomon
Reynolds Patrick
Rehrer, James
Rhoads, William S.
Rich, Cliflford
Richards, Henry
Richard Charles
Rickert, John R.
Ridgway, D. J.
Rogers, John
Rogers, Thomas ,C.
Rodgers, James R.
Roan, John
Rosser, Henry
Roehrig, Charles
Rump,'^John
Rudy, William. B.
Saylor, Charles P.
Saylor, 0. L.
Sassaman, William
Schuey, Levi
Schaaf, Joseph
Schnell, George
Schuyler, Benjamin
Schriner, John
Schock, Adam
Schugar, John
Schwenk, Joseph
Schwenk, Daniel
Seltzer, William
Seltzer, Francis
Shock, Jacob B,
Shivelhut, Leonard
Shoener. John
Sharp, Hugh
Shields, Hugh
Sholley, John
Shadle, John
Shettleworth, Joseph
Shollenberger, B. V.
ShaeflFer, George
Shellhammer, Samuel
Shoemaker, Samuel
Shoener, Charles F.

290

What Was Done in 1863.

Drafted Men who furnished Substitutes — Continued.

Shaeffer, Thomas
Shappell, James
Shultz, Bnlzer
^attery, Francis
ST^'-, William -
Smith, William B.
Smith, Gordon
Smith, Martin
Smith, Thomas
Smith, George A.
Smolleitz, Peter
Snydei', Baird
Sotzin, William
Sortman, Henry
Spacht, John
SteigerTraid, 11. D,
Stephenson, Micha&l
Sterner, Jeremiah H.
Sterner, Henry
Staller, Daniel
Stephens, Jolm R.
Stout, James
Steaf, Michael
Stahl, George
Stutzman, John
Stine, Jonas S.
Stein, Daniel
Sweeny, Hugh
Swasey, Clark
Teter, Benjamin
Thompson, Louis C.
Treibley, William
Trout, Jacob
Tracy, Henry W.
Trezise, Walter
Ulrich, Nicholas
Vardy, William
Vastine, Rufus
Van Horn, Reuben
Voute, William JP.
Vollman, Philip
Volk, Christian
Wadlinger, John
Walters, William
Walter, Jacob
Walsh, Thomas

Wagner, Valentine
Wagner, Thomas
Wagner, Andrew
Wagner, (-harles
Watkins, Thomas
Waldner, Adam
Wertley, Philip
Wetzel, D. S.
Wentzel, 3eorge
Welder, Peter
Weiler, Daniel L.
Weiss, Joseph
Welsh, Ja,mes
'"VVeihing, John
Weimar. Ephraim
Whitty,'john
White, Peter
Whitney, Frank
Wise, Francis K.
Wilk, Benjamin M.
Wommcr, Jacob
Wolff, Rev D. W.
Wortz, Philip
Wood, Joseph
Woodnutt, Charles
Wormkessel, Daniel
Wolff, Wallace W.
Woster, Henry
Wren, Hale
Wright, Thomas F.
Yost, Charles
Yost. Samuel M.
Yoder, William L.
Yocum, John IJ.
Zimmerman, William
Zimmerman, William
Zimmerman, William L.
Zimmerman, John 8.
Zimmerman, Joseph
Zimmerman, George
Zimmerman, J. M.
Zimmerman, Henry
Zehner, Charles
Zehner, David

Total, - - 666

DRAFTED MEN WHO PAID COMMUTATION.
The following is a list of the names of drafted men who paid
commutation :

Ackerman, Clement
Albright, Thomas

Caldwell, William
Canfield, Thomas

What Was Done in 1863.

291

Drafted Men who paid Commutation — Continued.

Applegate, Joseph J.
Athanothol, Jacob
Artz, Aaroil
Artz, Moses
Artz, Edward
Buckley, William
Boltz, Levi
Brown, Fred. J,
Brown, William
Brown, David
Bretz, John
Burke, John
Blew, Edward
Banker, Lewis
Bachus, Israel
Boyd, James
Banev, George
Billraan, Thomas
Billman, Daniol
Beak, INIoses
Becker, Elias
Barr, Moses ^
Barr, Percival
Barr, Solomon
Barr, Gideon
Berger, William
Berger, Reuben S.
Barthels, Felix
Brosine, Henry J.-K.
Brennan, Thomas
Brennan, Andrew
Brennan, Patrick
Bancroft, Thomas B.
Burns, Joseph
Bolig, Joseph
Bierman, Philip
Bester, Christian
Bowman, Christian
Britt, Edward
Bebham, Peter
Battinger, John
Boyle, John
Bind, Benjamin
Boon, Thomas
Bearman, John
Barry, William
Cabely, Zachariah
Christopher, Edward
Carril, Thomas
Cummings, Hugh
Cruikshanks, William
Cobely, John
Campbell, Patrick
Gallery, Patrick

Deck, Jonathan Z.
Dewees, F. P.
Devine, Peter
Devine, Patrick
Deaker, Joseph
Duffy, James
Deibert, Henry
Deibert Daniel
Downing, George W.
Dalton, George
Dormer, James
Dyke, James
Dondle, Alexander
Dreisbach, Benjamia
Dillman, William
Doherty, John
Dornbach, Gorlech
Dyer, William
Devitt, William
Dinger, Augustus
Dolan, Patrick
Dolan, Patrick
DeFrehn, Elijah
Dietrich, Neri
Evaglesly, James
Ebert, Jonas
Erd, Michael
Evans, Richai'd
Evans, Theopholus
Evans, Isaac
Ernst, Martin
Everly, Peter
Einshweiler, Jacob
English, William
Frederick, John
Friar, Daniel
Fry, Thomas
Feather, Joseph
Farrow, Thomas
Faust, Solomon M.
Folk, Samuel
Fetheroff, Peter
Forney, Jacob W.
Fisher, William
Fisher, Daniel
Fisher, Hiram H.
Ferguson, John
Foley, Michael
Foose, Daniel
Garret, Frank H.
Gowan, Peter
Gross, Fred
Gilbert, INathaa
Grupe, William

292

What Was Done in 1863.

Deapted Men who paid Commutation — Continued.

Catin, Thomas

Campbell, Samuel

Core, John

Clark, Philip

Christ, Henry

Clauer, Franklin

Gebbart, Henry

Geiger, William

Gallagher, William H.

Gottshall, Henry

Golshall, Lewis

Hart, Patrick

Heisenberger, Martin

Howels, Samuel

Higgins, Michael

Herring, Cornelius

Herring, John 11.

Herring, Paul

Heffner, Lewis

Haas, David

Haas, Jacob

Hughes, John R.

Held, William D.

Heiser, Edward

Horiimas, Thomas

Herbach, Christian

Head, John

Hurley, Peter

Hill, Isaac

Hellenthal, Nich.
Hartner, Joseph
Harris, Stephen
Harting, John
Hoskins, Edward
Hagan, James
Hepler, Jacob L.
Hoch, George
Hare, James
Herricks, Edward
Hopkins, William M.
Hirne, Benneviile
Heisler, Edwin
Hummel, David
Hack, George
Heim, Jacob ,
Horning, Fred L.
Horning Samuel
Huntzinger, Franklin
Harne}^ George W.
Hoppsdener, William
HeflFner, Jr., John W.
Ives, Chancey
Johnston, G. W.
Jones, Joseph

Joy, Thomas
Jeifries, David
Knarr, Aaron H.
Kessler, Elias
Kimmel, George
Kramer, H.
Kehler, William Z.
Kline, Jacob
Kantner, Joseph
Kimmel, Jacob F.
Klingerman, John
Kleber, Lewis
Kissinger, Levi
Kerke&lager, Josepk
Kelley, John
Keating, William
Keeler, Patrick
Kimmel, Edward
Koons, Christ
Krider, Israel
Kramer, Joseph
Kohler, 3^\xn
Kleibenstein, Oeorg«
Krause, Jacob
Kramer, Daniel A.
Kramer, Ephriam
Kramer, Jonathan f.

Kershner, Jonathan
Kramer, John
Knese, H.

Keeney, Samuel

Kerdoner, Anthony

Kennedy, Edward

Kinney, Michael

Latmer, Gideon

Longacre, Jacob

Lean, Anthony

Laring, John

Luckins, Thomas

Lessig, William A.

Londonfeld, William

Lake, James

Livermore, Horace P.

Lee, Patrick

Luke, Emil

Ludes, Mathias J.

Lynch, Edward

Lynch, Abraham

Lapf, Joseph

Lynn, Daniel

Lyons, Timothy

Lindermuth, Williaa
Mars, George
Mervine, Lewis

What Was Done in 1863.

Drafted Men who paid Commutation — Continued,

Moser, Ebenezer
Moser, Elias
Mason, W. D. H.
Manning, Israel
Miller, E. B.
Miller, Solomon
Miller, Tilghman
Miller, Edward
Minnich, Henry
Metzinger, John
Moran, James
Mudey, Peter F.
Musket, John
Maley, Matthew
Medlar, Lewis
March, John
Matz, Francis L.
Moyer, Jackson
Moyer, Samuel
Moyer, Henry D.
Moyer, Jacob
Moyer, Julius
Moyer, Joseph
Moore, Henry
Moore, Thomas

McCue,

McCabe, Patrick
Mourley, Gotlieb
Maurer, George
Mayberry, Willinm
Minniug, William
Minnig, Levi
McLaughlin, Pati'ick
Mull, Michael
Morris, George
Martin, Patrick
Mitchell, Job
McGany, John
Moran, Thomas
Madary, Uriah
Neishwender, Michael
Nichol, Ernst C.
Naus, John
Ochr, Daniel
Owens, William
Oliver, Ralph
Oestereich, Rudolph
O'Brian, Martin
O'Harre, Bernard
Oberlies, Charles
Oyster, John
Powers, Lawrence
Patten, James
Purcell, Jamei

Parker, Samuel H.
Pottieer, Frank
Patridge, Thomas
Prescott, Christian
Percil, James
Quinn, Henry
Quirk, Thomas
Quinter, John
Rex, Reuben
Reiner, Gabriel
Rowland, John
Ruth, Franklin
Reuben, Henry
Ruse, George
Reddington, JohE
Rilder, Joseph
Reilly, Francis
Eyan, Terrence
Row, Tobias
Reese, William
Reynolds, Michael
Reed, John H.
Reed, Elijah
Reed, Daniel
Richards, Joseph
Roder, Elias
Reich, Frederick
Ryan, James
Rowe, William
Rudy, Hugli
Rahn, Abel
Ramaly, Nathan
Stutzraan, Israel
Shadle, John
Strauch, Daniel
Sortman, Joseph
Steele, Jared
Straub, Joseph
Schlegel, Solomon
Strusser, Daniel
Smith, Daniel
Smith, William
Smith, Albert
Smith, John A,
Smith, Peter
Smith, Owen
Snyder, Ephraim
Snyder, David
Snyder, Jacob D.
Snyder, Samuel L.
Snyder, Daniel L.
Schlemmer, Christian
Stephenson, James
Seligman, Emanuel

294

What was Done in 1863.

Drafted Men who paid Commutation — Continued.

Sykes, Benjamin
Sterling, William
Simmons, Phillips
Shcad, Jonathan
Seligman, Joseph
Stiue, Jonas
Shcllenbcrg Henry
Schwauk, Joseph
Schlouch, Samuel
Shuman, William
Schlouch, Rudolph
Stack, Joseph
Schweitzer, Wm,
Shields, David
Shirey, EdAvard
Stine, Henry
Suech, Heui-y
Swartz, Jonathan
Sterner, Cliavles
Sterner, Franklin
Speicher, John
Steigerwald, Gideon
Sparks, John L.
Shilferstein, Henry
Sickels, Jr., John
Scott, James
Shoraper, Christian
Shoffstall, Joseph A.
Schnope, Simon V.
Schnob, Jacob
Spangler, William
Shoener, David
Saylor, Harry M. J.
Saylor, Clarkson
Schwartz, Samuel
Stauffer, Joseph
Thomas, John M.
Thomas David T.

Tappe, August
Thompson, Dayid
Terolf, Elim
Updegrave, John
Yeith, John
Wild, John
Woolcock, Thomas
Watkins, Edward
Watkins, David
Weir, Robert
Wilcox, D. H.
Warlow, James
Welsh, William J
Wagner, Peter
William, James
Whittaker, Patrick
"Williams, David
Walker, John
Woolcock, Edward
W^olfgang, Daniel
Wcirioh, Nicholas
W^ooUis, John E.
Walters, William
Whetstone, E. M.
W^eikel, John D.
WetztU, L. Peter
Williams, William M.
Wlietstone, Samuel
Youngfleisch, Christ,
Zimmerman, Peter
Zimmerman, William
Zerby, George
Zerby, Edward
Zerby, Reuben
Zerby, Jacob
Zell, George

Total, -

405

THE CALL IN OCTOBER, FOR 300,000 VOLUNTEERS

On the ITtli of October, 1863, President Lincoln issued a Proc-
lamation calling for three hundred thousand volunteers' to serve
for three years or the war, to take the place of the volunteers
whose term of service would expire during 1864. When a quota
failed to be filled with volunteers a draft was to commence on the
5th of January, 1861.

This draft was subsequently postponed until the 10th dny ot
March, and two hundred thousand added to the number called for
to insure the filling up of the armies to a strength necessary to
carry on successfully, military operations.

THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR.

OUR RE-ENLISTED VETERANS.
To induce the veterans in the field to enlist fur another three
years, liberal bounties were not only oifered by the Government,
hu^ by the various communities of the North. The re-enlisted
veterans obtained furloughs, and returned by regiments, to the
places where they were originally recruited.

ARRIVAL AT POTTS VILLE OF TVrO CO:nIPANIES OF THE
SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVAJLRY.

On the 29th of January, 1864, information was received thnt
two companies of the Seventh Pennsylvania (^avalry, A and F,
belonging to this County, had started from Harrisburg and would
reach Pottsville at noon. A signal of three guns was fired by the
Battery, and at noon the line of procession was formed on Centre
street according to the programme of the Chief Marshal.

On the arrival of the veterans at Mt. Carbon, the New York
Artillery fired a national salute, and the procession took up its
line of march in the following order :

Gen. Nagle and Staff.
Col. Olipliant and Staff.

The Pottsville Band.

Invalid Corps Battalion.

Re-enlisted Veterans, under command of Lieutenant-Col. Seibert.

Curtin Guards of St. Clair, Capt. Blacker.

Ist New York Artillery, 4 pieces.

Committee of Arrangements.

Citizen's.

All along the route the veterans were greeted with cheers, while

.hundreds of flags, banners, and decorations were displayed. The

streets and sidewalks were lined with thousands of people. Across

the streets through which the procession passed were displayed

the names of the different battles in which the soldiers of Schuyl-

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kill County had been engaged. One of the Seventh had on a
rebel overcoat and carried a silk flag which had been captured in
one of their many fights with the rebels.

The procession halted at the Union Hotel, the front of which
waa beautifully decorated with flags, pictures and evergreens,
prominent among which was the motto :

'•Welcome, Veterana, to your Mountain Homes."

A prayer was delivered by Rev. Mr. Koons, after which the
veterans were welcomed by John Bannan, Esq.

Colonel Seibert responded, and thanked the citizens for the kind
welcome accorded. He said that the soldiers did not re-enlist for
bounties, but patriotically. They wanted peace as ho wanted it —
an honorable and permanent one, not the peace of traitors and
rebels. The Colonel said that it was the determination of the men
to fight until the rebellion was crushed. After again thanking
the citizens of Pottsville for their hearty reception of the men who
had fought, endured toils and hardships for the country, he closed
amid enthusiastic applause.

At the conclusion the veterans partook of a collation at the
Union Hotel.

The whole affair was spirited, and creditable to the citizens of
ihe Borough,

ARRIVAL OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
On Wednesday, February 3, 1864, it was announced by Gen,
James Nagle, Chief Marshal, that the veteran Regiment, the For-
ty-eighth, would reach Pottsville during the day. Every prepara-
tion was at once made by the citizens to give the Regiment a
hearty welcome home. Private residences were decorated with
large streamers of red, white and blue, while flags large and small,
were displayed everywhere throughout the Borough. Along the
route over which the procession would pass, were displayed the
names of the battles in which the Regiment had participated. In
Mahantango street at the residence of Mrs. Sillyman, three medal-
lions suspended in the centre of the street, bore the names of
Burnsido, Sigfried and Nagle, under whom the Regiment had
a^rved with distinguished honor.

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the arrival, and presentation of colors.

At 8 J o'clock, P. M., the train containing the Forty-eighth
Regiment, reached Mt. Carbon, and the men were drawn up in
line to receive the beautiful stand of colors prepared by the ladies
of Pottsville for presentation to the Eegiment.

To Mrs. E. K. Bohanan and Miss Miesse, the duty of getting
up the flags was entrusted, and the work was done by Messrs.
Evans & Hassall, Philadelphia. The standard was made of heavy
blue silk, with the State arms of Pennsylvania on one side, and
tha arms of the United States on the reverse, both of which were
surrounded by scrolls containing the names of the following battles
in which the Regiment had been engaged : Bull Run, Aug. 29,
1862. Chantilly, Sept. 14, 1862. Antietam, Sept. 17, 1863.
Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. The guidons were four in num-
ber, a small American flag, and three, red, white and blue, made
of stout twilled silk. On each, was inscribed : ^^48th P. Y.''

Hon. J. H. Campbell made the presentation eloquently, as follows :

OfFICEES AND SOLDIEKS OP THE FORTY-EIGHTII PtEOIMENT : 1 Iiave

been honored by the ladies of Pottsville, your sisters, wives, and mothers,
.with the pleasing duty of presenting this flag,' guidons and markers, as
their testimonial to and appreciation of your patriotism, bravery an-;!
devotion to the cause of the Union.

You bring with you tattered flags from glorious battle-fields-^flags
rent in conflict, but of stainless honor. The ladies of Pottsville beg
leave to place by the side of these, this beautiful flag, the work of their
fair hands.

Where the white horses ramp in the azure field, you sec inscribed
Chantilly, Antietam, South Mountain and East Tennessee, one and all
recalling memories of heroic deeds that will live while time endures.

The fair donors have watched with sympathetic bosc-ms, your trials,
bravery and suffering — the deadly struggle, the sufferings in hospitals,
on the weary march and by the dreamless bivouac, all heroically borne
by you. While they have shed tears for the gallant dead, they come to-
day, with words of welcome and smiles of gratitude, to greet their re-
turning brothers and husbands.

Soldiers, j'^ou have registered a vow in Heaven that the old flag shall
fly in all its original splendor over every inch of territory the Nati'on ever
possessed — and that too, over free territory., A few years since it was
loved and respected everywhere, — for it was everywhere, by glacial pin-
nacles, and under the suns of the tropics— in the marts of the old world,
and the wilderness of the new. It must not now be shorn of its glory.

Soldiers, you car r if peace on the points of your bayonets, and true diplo-
mnryy in your cartridge boxes. We can have no true, lasting or honorable
peace until the rebels submit to the laws of the country.. We as good
citizens, cheerfully submit to constituted authority. We ask no more of
them ; Yi'e will submit to no less.^

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Mr. Campbell concluded by welcoming the soldiers of the Forty-eighth
home, in the name of the ladies of Pottaville.

At the conclusion three hearty cheers were given for the ladies.

Col. Sigfried replied in a neat and appropriate speech. He
sincerely thanked the ladies for the honor conferred upon hia
command by them, in their beautiful gift, and promised that the
colors should be brought back from the field of battle in honor, or
not at all.

At the conclusion of his response. Col. Sigfried was the recipi-
ent of a beautiful wreath, handed to him by a young lady.

THE RECEPTION.

The procession then formed and proceeded up Centre street in
the following order :

Gen. Nagle and Aids.

Col. Oliphant and Staff.

Battalion of Invalid Corps.

Pottsville Band. •

Forty-eighth Regiment, under command of Col. Sigfried.

Honorably Discharged and Convalescent Soldiers, under command of

•Major James Wren.

Seventh Pa. Cavalry, under command of Major Jennings,

1st New York Artillery, under command of Lieut. Hall.

Miners' Lodge, No. 20, I. 0. of 0. F.

Carriages containing Committee of Arrangements.

Citizens on Horseback.

As the procession commenced moving a national salute was fired
by the New Yoiii Battery.

The veterans were greeted all along the route by cheers and the
waving of handkerchiefs. The streets were filled with thousands
of people. A more animated spectacle had been rarely witnessed
here. The tattered flags of the Forty-eighth were objects of great
interest.

After passing over the route designated by the Chief Marshal,
the veterans halted in front of the Union Ilutel, where they were
welcomed to their homes, by John Bannan, Esq., on behalf of
the citizens, after a fervent, patriotic prayer by Key. Mr. Koona.
Col. Sigfried thanked the citizens for their kind reception, and
spoke of the spirit that animated his men in re-enlisting. Ho

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hoped that the command would return to the field recruited up to
it8 full strengths

A collation was prepared by the ladies at the Union Hotel, of
which the Regiment partook. Thq Regiment returned with 340
men. The field and staff officers were, Colonel, J. K. Sigfried.
Lieut. Col., Henry Pleasants. Major, J. A. Gilmour. Surgeon,
Blackwood. Quartermaster, Lieut. Rohannan. Adju-
tant, D. D. Maginnes. The companies were — A, Capt. Kauffman ;
B, Capt. Bast ; C, Capt. Gowen ; D. 1st Lieut. Fisher, com'dg. ;
E, Capt. Winlack ; F, Capt. Hoskins ; G, Ca;pt. Bosbyshell ; H.
Capt. William J. Hinkle; I, Capt. B. B. Schuck ; K. Capt.
Brennan.

Pottsville was to be the headquarters of the command until its
departure again for the field.

Portions of the Fiftieth Regiment, Col. Christ, and Fifty-fifth
Regiment, Col. Whife, also returned, and were warmly welcomed
home. • '

Recruiting progressed lively upon the return of these veterans,
enabling the eommands to which they were attached, to return to
the field in a few weeks, recruited up to ihore than the maximum
number required by the regulations. While home " the boys '' en-
joyed the relaxation from their nearly three years of hard and
dangerous service, hugely.

PRESENTATION OF COLORS TO THE SEVENTH PA. CAVALRY,
By the Ladies of Pottsville and St. Clair.
Tuesday, March 1, 1864, will be remembered by the officers and
men of the gallant Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, as that on
which the fair daughters of Pottsville and her sister borough, St.
Clair, gave into their hands as a gift, a magnificent suit of colors.
It numbered thirteen, a Regimental battle-flag and twelve guidons,
one for each of the companies, bearing their respective letters.
The Regimental flag bore the names of the principal engagements
in which the Seventh had participated, but not all the fights, for
they have been in a score or more. The following were on it : ^^Le-
banon, Ky ;" "Chaplin Hill,Ky ;" << Stone River, Tenn. ;'' <^ Mur-
freesboro ;" " Shelbyville, Tenn ;" *< Chickamauga, Ga \" " Rover,
Tenn. ;'' '♦Nashville, Tenn. ;" "Unionville, Tenn.;" and <'Spar-

300 The Third Year of the War.

ta, Tenn." A silver plate on the staff, bore the following inscrip-
tion : ^^ Presented hy il\e Ladies of Pottsville and St. Claivj to the

Seventh Regiment^ Pa. Cavalry."

The presentation took place at Pennsylvania Hall, at 4, P.
M., in the presence of the fair donors. The meeting was organized
by calling Mr. L. F. Whitney to the chair, and appointing F. B.
Wallace Secretary. K. fervent, patriotic prayer by Rev Joseph
McCool, opened the exercises, after which the colors were presented
on behalf of the ladies, by Lin Bartholomew, Esq. Mr. B. made
an earnest and impressive speech. He said that it was a very
pleasant duty that he was called upon to discharge, in presenting
these beautiful emblems of our nationality^ When the Regiment
retujns to the field with them, they will not only remind the gallant
members of the glory and greatness of the country, but they will
revive recollections of the kind feeling at home that actuated their
presentation. Mr. Bartholomew eloquently eulogised the women
of the country. They have esteemed no labor too arduous, no
time too precious to devote to the welfare and comfort of the
brave defenders of their homes and of the liberties of the nation,
while they have .given with a God-speed, their husbands, brothers
and fathers to the cause, though in so doing it has wrung their
hearts to part with often forever, their beloved ones. In presenting
these colors to the Seventh, the ladies are confident that they will
ever be borne in the face of the enemy with undaunted bravery,
and with undying honor. They know it, for are not your deeds
indissolubly connected with the brilliant achievements of the Army
of the Cumberland, and docs not Kentucky thank the Seventh
among her other defenders, for the immunity she now enjoys from
rebel invasion ? Not Kentucky alone, but a nation that would be
entirely free, is grateful to you for your heroic services. And
know, brave men, that these gifts come to you hallowed by the
prayers of the donors. Those prayers for your Safety and safe re-
turn to your homes, will accompany you to the field, and prove I
trust, a shield in the hour of danger. Officers and men, accept
these emblems of our nationality ; they come from your true friends
and well-wishers, who feel that they will wave in triumph, long
after the colors of a wicked, hell-born Rebellion, shall have »>€«n
trampled in the dust by the patriots of the country.

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"Wm. B. Sipes, the accomplished; brave and efficient Colonel of
the Regiment, received the colors on behalf of his command. He
thanked the speaker for the present, not for its intrinsic value, but
for the source from which it came, for the feeling that prompted it.
The Colonel disclaimed any intention of making a speech. He
would make a few remarks in reference to what the Regiment had
done since it entered the service. It entered upon active service
on Christmas day, 1861, in the Department of the West, under
Gen. Buell, and it has been continually in active service ever since
that time. There is not a battle-field in the South-west on which
its members have not made their mark upon the enemy. The men
know every pathway in Middle and Eastern Tennessee better than
they know the paths around the school houses of their childhood.
For months together they never cost the Government a cent for
the subsistence of themselves or their horses. For consecutive
weeks the officers and men had not changed clothing or had them
off, so incessant and arduous has been their duty at certain times.
They have undergone more than has been or ever will be related.
When these men re-enlist, after through passing scenes of danger
unsurpassed, who can doubt the genuineness of their patriotism ? In
accepting for my Regiment these colors, I cannot promise the
donors that they will remain unsullied and beautiful as now, but I
can promise that they shall never bear the stain of dishonor. In
concluding his earnest, heartfelt remarks, of which we can give
but a faint idea in this report, the Colonel again thanked the ladies
for their gift ; acknowledged gratefully the compliments which
Mr. Bartholomew had paid the Regiment, and assured the fair
donors of the colors that if the Regiment is permitted to bring
them back, they shall be preserved in Schuylkill County, as me-
mentoes of the patriotism of its fair daughters, and as souvenirs of
the history of the Seventh.

The whole affiiir passed off in the most delightful manner.

Subsequently at the residence of Thomas H. Rickerts, the
Quartermaster of the Regiment, a pair of solid silver spurs were
presented to Colonel Sipes. They bear this inscription : " To Col.
Wm. B. Sipes, of the 7th Pa. Cav.,fiom the Ladies of PottsviUeJ'

In the evening the officers of the Seventh gave a supper at
Pennsylvania Hall to their brother officers and citizen friends.

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The Third Year of the War.

In response to toasts speeches were made by Col. Sipes, Col.
Seibert^ Col. Pleasants, Hon. C. W. Pitman, Lin Bartholomew,
Esq., Col. D. B. Green, Mr. L. C. Thompson, Capt. Dart, of
Bradford County, Capt Taylor, Mr. Ellis, and others of the guests,

The guests of the evening separated after singing the " Star
Spangled Banner."

THE NAMES OF RE-ENLISTED VETERANS, AND VOLUNTEERS
RECRUITED IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY,

We will now give the names of the veterans who re-enlisted for
three years, and of the recruits who enlisted in Schuylkill County,
during the Winter and Spring of 1864, with the number of the
Regiments in which they entered. The length of the list is
very creditable to the spirit and patriotism of the County.

We will commence with the Forty-eighth Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Veteran Volunteers, the muster-rolls of several companies of
which we received from the officers after they had passed through
the celebrated campaign of Gen. Grant in Virginia, in the Sum-
mer of 1864, and had arrived in front of Petersburg :

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V. V.

COMPANY A.

Captain, HENRY BOYER.
\st Lieut., Levi B. Evbland.
2d Lieut., Albert C. Huckby.
2d Sergeant, William Taylor.
Zd " Abraham F. Seltzer.
4^A " Henry H. Price.
bth " John Oalagher.
\st Corporal, John Taylor.
Id " Franklin Frederici.

3J Corp'l. Jacob S. ITonsbbrgeb.
^th " Charles Brandenbubo.
5/A " Monroe Heckman.
<6th " James S. Eveland.
1th •* James Meck.
8^/i " Thomas B. Boyeb.
Musician; Wm. H. Hinklet.
Wagoner, Wm. D. Martin.

Airgood, George
Adams, John
Ash, .James D.
Britton, Eliaa
Britton, Isi'ael
Booth, William
Becker, .James
Beltz, William
Bond, George
Bachman, Wm. "•
Baker, James
Beta, George

PRIVATES. ,

Huckey William J.
Hine, Wiloughby
Hoffman, Elias
Holman, John
Hillegas Charles W.
Halderman, Franklin
Hendricks George
Hugg, John
Jones, Charles
Knapp, William
Keller, Benj.
Koch, William A.

Miller, George
Marshall, Joel
Medler, John C.
Martin, Monroe
McFarlin, Jabez
Otto, Isaac A.
Perry, Richard B.
Richards, Philip
Robinhold, Lewis M.
Richelderfer, John
Stidham, Francis Mt
Simons, Frank W.

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303

Carter, Thomas
Cochran, John
Preibelbeis, B. F. C.
Dreibelbeis, William
Dreibelbeis, Joseph
Davis, Henry
Eddinger, William
Eckroth, Samuel
Ely, Frederick
Ferg, Christian
Goodman, Charles
Galagher, Edward
Greenawaldt, Abraham
Houscr, David
Hunsberger, M. J.
Huntzinger, John J.
Hessinger, Lewis
Hegg, John
Hail, Hiram
Hause, Philander N.
Hause, Jordan C.

Kerst, Henry E.
Krueger, Charles
Kerst, Willis L.
King, Franklin
Kelchner, James
Kershner, Jacob
Koch, Daniel H.
Kaufman, William
Leiser, Morgan
Loye, Lewis R.
Livingston, George
Lins, Joel
Lins, Elias
Mallard, Marcus M.
Meek, William H.
Meek, David
McClean, John
McClean, Robert
Moyer, Samuel B.
Moyer, Jacob W.
Mover, Jacob M.

Simons, Nelson
Sterner, H. Lewis
Sterner, James W.
Snyder, Simon
Smith, Thomas P.
Smith, J. Lewis
Sigfried, Jonas
Sigfried, Jacob D.
Sitler, Nathan
SheaflFer John H.
Sheaffer, John W.
St. Clair, Chas. Abel J.
Snayberger, Nicholas.
Schreyer, Henry
Springer, Jesse
SchoUenberger, Samuol
Shickman, Augustus
Williams, Oliver
Weibel, John
W^agner, F. PL
Whetstone, Simon

• Deserted

Sergeant Henry HonBberc:er appointed Sergeant Major.

IH8ynissed, Captain D. B. Kauffmau.

EBCAPITULATION.

Commissioneil Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
ISlusician, - - _ - -
Wagoner, _ - - _ .

Privates, - _ _ >

Dismissed, - - - -

Total,

12
1
1

99
1

117

COMPANY B.

CaplamiVLYSSES A. BAST.
1st Lieut., William H. Hume.
2d Lieut., Thomas Johnson.
1ft Sergeant, Thos. P. Wilmams.
Id '" John Watkins.
od " Robert Campbell,
Alh " Wm. Kissingkk.
bi.h *' John Homer.

15/ Corporal, Wm. H. Ward,

2d
Zd
ith
Bth
Gth
1th

David J. Davis.
Clemence Beltzee.

SEBASTtAN RiCKERT,

Joseph Rarig.
James Rider.
Isaac L. Fritz.

Musician, George W. Johnson.

Altman, Henry
Atkins, William
Albright, George
Barron, John
Brooks, William R.
Bubeck, John E.
Bindley, Alfred E.
Brown, John
Bell, Gardner

PRIVATES :

Frehn, John D.
Glouser, Benj.
Griffiths, Thomas
Heckman, Samuel
Heater, Carey
Haker, John *
Hammer, Jacob
Kershner, Chas. 11.
Louer, Christian

Reppert, William
Stevenson, William
Shifferstein, Albert
Shoufler, Gotleib
Schwartz, Williaiu
Steinhour Lewis
Shoppel, Henry
Williams, William
Wigner, Jacob

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The Third Year of the War.

Bankes, Daniel M.
Deitz, David
Deitz, John
Engle, William

Deserted.

Markle, Abraham R.
Moyer, Laurentus C.
Muldoon, Thomas J.

EECAPITULATION.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musician, - - -
Privates, . . -

Wise, William
Wary, Daniel
Yonker, John

12
1

Total,

COMPANY C.

Captain, GEORGE W. GOWEN.
1st Lieut., Charles Loeseb.
2c? Lieut., William Clark.
1st Sergeant, James Clark.
2c? " Henry Weiser.
3c? '' Jonas Geier.
4th ** John Rorety.
6th " Samuel Wallace.
1st Corporal, Samuel Weiser.

PRIV

2c? Corporal, John Shalvey.
3c? " Henry McDernold.
4ith ♦' Michael Condbon.
6th ** Henry Rudge.
6th *' James Nicholson.
7th ** William Livingston.
Musician, Lewis Howard.

" Robert Rogers.
Wagoner, Gilbert Gbaham.

ATES:

Acker, Abraham A.
Adams, Dennis
Betz, Harrison
Boyle, Thomas
Brennan, Murt
Brown, Daniel
Clark, Robert
Coakley, James
Daubert, William
Dunleavy, Andrew
Demmerce, William
Daugherty, John
Dolan, John
Earley, Henry
Earley, Michael

Fitzpatrick, William
Farrel, Patrick
Gruver, Jacob A.
Harrison, John
Harrison, Samuel
Hartman, John F.
Haines, Jacob
Henry, Casper
Hatch, George W.
Horan, James
Haines, William J.
Johnston, William
Long, Allen A. D.
Lambert, Enoch

recapitulation.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Wagoner, _ - - -
Privates, - _ - .

McCoy, Anthony
McGinnis, Edward
Miller, Alfred W.
Mohan, Michael
Neeley, William
Neeley, Andrew,
Ryan, Richard
Sweeney, William
Sweeney, Edward
Seibert, George C.
Straugh, Isaac
Martin, Toban
Wheatly, John S.
Whitaker, John

12
2

1
48

Total,

COMPANY D.

1st Lieut., James K. Helms.
2d LAeut., Henry E. Stichter.
1st Sergeant, Henry C. Gbabff,

2d Sergeant, George Bowman.
Sd " H. C. Burkhalteb.
i(h " H. Rothbnbeegbb.

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Company D, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

i^tk Sfirgeant^ Albert 11. Novinger. (Sth Corporal, Franklin Dorward.
Sup. Serj't, William Timmons.

1st Corporal, BoTo Otto.
2d " Franklin Hoch.
3<j ** Walter P. Aims.
^tk " Jonathan Deitrich.
^t& ** Philip Beckman.

7th " Edward Lenhart.
8^A *' David Smith.
Musician, Charles Brobst.

" Jeremiah Meinder.
Wagoner^ John W. Derb.

Arte, George
Arndt, Charles
Baum, James L.
Baum, Ciias. W.
Baum, Orlando
Boyer, John B.
Buttinger, Joseph
Bower, Jonathan
Brown, John "^
Beissel, George S,
Coyligan. Patrick
Casper, Jackson L.
Cooper, G. W. H.
Derr, Jackson,
Derr, Levi
Dolan, John
Deitrich, Charles
Deitrich, Lewis
Deitrich, Daniel
Deitrich, John
Dalious, James J.
Dorward, Henry
Ebert, Edward J.
Eppley, Samuel
Eyster, Solomon
Graeff, Frank B.

PRIVATES:

Grim, Horatio
Hartz, George
Hinan, Mattis
Hesser, Charles F.
Hoover, John,
Jones, Thomas
Johnston, Stacy *
Kline, Isaiah
Knarr, Daniel
KauflFman, Jonathan
Kessler, Nathan
Kessler, Samuel
Klinger, James
Krieger, Francis J.
Krieger, Peter C.
Kehler, John
Knittle, Andrew
Klauser, Jacob
Kline, Charles
Lindemuth, Joseph
Lettrick, Philip
Miller, Jonas
Miller, Gust. H.
Moyer, Zachary F.
Moyer, Henry D.
Moyer, William F.

Deserted.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoners, - - -

Privates, - - -

Maury, David
Merwine, Daniel
Nolan, James *
Okom, Daniel
Okom, Jonathan
Ritter, Simon
Raber, Jonas Z.
Reeser, Samuel
Ryan, William
Strausser, P. L.
Stichter, Alfred J.
Shriver, Frank B.
Smith, William II.
Williams, David
Williams, William H.
Weldy, Daniel
Walbridge, Amos
Wolf, Daniel
Weikel, AVilliam
Weikel, John D.
Wenrich, Samuel.
Wagner, Aaron B.
Yarnell, Solomon
Zeigler, Joseph
Zimmerman, Elias

Total,

COMPANY E.

C-optain, WILLIAM WINLACK.
1st Lieut., Thomas Bohannan.
2d Lieut., Charles A. Schnerr.
Itt Sergeant, John C. McElrath.

Ud
Zd
4th
Mi

James May.
Wm. C. Cinens.
Thomas Tosh.
David McAllistbb,
26

1*^ Corporal,

4th "

6th *<■

Qih "

7 th

Sth '«

Samuel Clembns.
Samuel Beddall.
Patrick Lynch.
James Greener.
Wm. J. Morgan.
Robert Penman.
John Mercer.
John Pskman.

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Thb Third Yeak of the War.

Company E, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Contmued.

Musician, Geokge Latham. Wagoner, Wm. Jeffersok.

Musician, George J. Heisler.

PRIVATES:
Grant, Patrick

Auman, Henry
IJoyer, Frank
Boyer, Daniel
Boyer, Josliua
Barnett, Daniel D.
Berernge, Ptobert
Breunan, Michael
Bohannan, Michael
Brown, James
Brennan, John
Brennan, Patrick
('onners, James
(/ampbell, Lindsey 11.
(Jumings, Albert
Clemens, Thomas
Clemens, John
Castle, Jerome
DeFrain, John
Dress, Cornelius
Devine, Thomas
Devine, Robert*
Dooley. John
Dunlap, Archibald
Danagh, John
Evens, William
Evens, William
Evens, Thomas
Farrel, Lawrence
Fager, William J.
Frautz, Valentine

Gutschall, Martin.
Gaynor, William
Hodget, William
Hobwood, Thomas
Hardee, Isaac
Hall, Thomas
Jones, John
James, George A.
James, William C.
Judge, John
Kane, William B.
Kelly, Alexandria
Landry, Michael
Lord, Joseph II.
Lyons, John
Leary, Timothy
McMily, George
McElratk, Robert
McElrath, William
Morgan, David
Murry, John
Major, John
Mercer, James
Mullen, William
Meredith, jr,, Robert
Meredith, sr., Robt.
McGee, Thomas
McLaughlin, James
Meighan, James

* Deserted.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Offic

ers,

Musicians, -

Wagoner,

Privates,

Total,

COMPANY

Captain, JOSEPH H. HOSKINS.

2(7 Corpo

1st Lieut., Henry James.

3rf

'2d Lieut., John L. Williams.

Ath "

1st Sergeant, James A. Easton.

bth '«

'Id " Henry Reese.

Qth *'

Zd " Joseph Gould.

1th

Mcllay, John
McClennan, Thomas
McSorely, John
McGinnia, Edward
Muir, Michael
Penman, Mungo
Pocket, John D.
Pierce, Henry
Quinn, David
Quinn, Charles
Reedy, David E.
Rodgers, Patrick
Reasons, William
Regan, James
Ramsay, Daniel
Sigmund, Abraham
Stout, George
Schields, James
Spotts, Alfred
Simmers, William
Schaelfer, George W.
Thompson, Robert B.
Whaland, Thomas
Woomer, Benjamin
Williams, David
Wade, Anthony
W^atson, John
Weaver, Jeremiah
Young, William

Ath
bth
0th

Richard Hopkins.
George Edwards.
Charles W. Haines.

lit Corporal, Robert D. Paden.

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^ral, Wm. J. Wells.

Patrick Monaghan.

John Powell.

Austin Farrow.

Robert Wallace.

Isaac Barto.
Sth Corporal, Samuel Glenn.
Musician, John Laweenck.
Musician, Dayid Fulton.
Wagoner, William Holsbt.

The Third Tear of the War.

307

Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Ackley, Isaac
Andrews, James
Ackenbach, William
Adams, Richard M.
Ball, William
Brennan, James
Brennan, James
Boren, Patrick
Brennan, Murtough
Bradley, James
Burland, William
Bambrick, James
Bush, William
Carroll, Anthony
Curry, Thomas *
Carroll, William
Carroll, Patrick
Carroll, John
Carr, James
Crawford, John A.
Crawford, John
Dunkerly, Samuel
Devine, John
Duffy, William E.
Devlin, John
Devlin, Simon
Davis, William H.
Defrehn, Elijah
Dillman, Henry
Davis, Thomas
Davis, John E,
Dolan, Patrick
Davis, David
Eddy, John
Fulton, William

PRIVATES :
Ferrick, Heury
Finley, Joseph
Garlan, Thomas
Grifl&ths, David
Griffiths, John
Heisler, Henry C.
Hosgood, John
Holsey, Henry
Houte, James
Hause, Hamilton
Haines, Cyrus
James, Thomas
Jones, George II.
Jenkins, Sampson
Krieger, David T.
Kuhns, Jacob
Kohler, George W.
Kohler, William H.
Lewis, Thomas D.
Lyng, John *
Litchfield, Peter
Leary, Cornelius
Lyshon, Thomas
Lewis Isaac
Lawless, John
Lavell, Michael
Morrissy, John
McGee, John *
Murph}', Thomas
Manning, Israel
Murphy, James
McElvie, David
Moore, W^illiam
Manders, George
Manning, James W.

Deserted,

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoner, - - -

Privates, . _ -

Total, -

McVay, John
McCann, Henry
Mallen, Patrick
Murphy, William
Paully, James
Pickford Hugh
Pugh, Edward G,
Phillips, John
Queeny, Frank
Robson, Edward J,
Reese, John J.
Ramer, George
Ryan, Michael
Sheridan, George
Stellwagon, George W.
Smith, William
Shissler, Edward L,
Shaeffer, Timothy
Straub, Horace P.
Thomas, Thomas M-
Thiel, David F.
Taylor, William E.
Turner, Edward
Werner, Andrew
Welsh, Michael
Williams, Richard
Woods, Lewis
West, Edward R.
Wilson, Michael
Wiest, Benjamin F.
Williams, Thomas J.
Whitman Augustus H.
Wallace, Robert
Wilson, Thomas *

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124

COMPANY a.

Captain, OLIVER C. BOSBYSHELL.S^A Sergeant, Charles B. Evans.

1st Lieut., Curtis C. Pollock
2d Lieut., Henry C. Jackson.
1st Sergeant, Richard M. Jones.
2d " Robert Smith.
3 J '• William Auman.
iih " Chas. F,KirKNTZ];4BR

Ist Corporal, George Farnb.

4:th

5th
&ih

Edward H. Sillymak.
Edward Flanagan.
John W. Smith.
Daniel Dowynb.
Monroe Schrefflkk.

808

The Third Year of the War.

Company Gr, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

1th Corporal, Alexander Govan. " Samuel BAKaiiAET.

Muiician, David Ebbrle. Wa<joner, Jacob Dietricu.

PRIVATES :

Auman, James
Atkinson, William P.
Armstrong, John
Abrahams, Abraham
Allison, James
Booker, John
Brown, John R.
Brown, David P.
Brown, Robert D.
Boyer, Daniel
J5oyle, Patrick
Clark, Michael
Cheatham, Joseph
Ounningliam, Patrick
Colihau, Andrew
Clark, Charles
Brobel, John
Dates, Harrison
Delaney, John
Daley, Patrick
iSrans, Clay W

Fame, William
Frazier, James
Frazier, John
Flickenger, Benj.
Galligan, John
Galligan, Patrick
Goodman, Matthias
Gwinner, Jacob
Gross, Nicholas
Grant, Patrick
Humble, John
Ilendley, Adam
Hodgson, John P.
Jones, J. Howard
Kuentaler, John P.
Kautter, John
Krebs, Jr., Henry
Lechler, David
Lawrence, George V/.
Maurer, William
Martin, William
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musician _ _ - -

Wagoner, - . - - .
Privates, , . , ~ •

Total. , - - .

May, Charles H.
Moyer, Jonathan
McDaniels, Winfield 5,
Nash, Patrick
Norrigang, Peter
Ragang, John
Reppert, John
Schrow, Dewald
Sennett, James
Scliaeffer, Christian
Shaw, William
Savage, Patrick
Slatterly, William
Stall, William
Smith, Patrick
Spencer, James R.
Simpson, William
Wright, John
Walbridge, Adolpboa
Williams, William

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COMPANY H.

Vri-plam. WILLIAM J. HINKLE.
\st Lieut,, Alex. S. Bowen.
?'/ Lieut., Sam'l B. Laubenstine
Ut Sergeant^ Alba C. Thompson.

Id Corporal, Anthony Hkrbbbt.

'Id
M

ith
^th

Thomas H. Sillyman
Peter Radelbeuger.
Henry Bernsteel.
Daniel Moser.
David Ji. Brown. *

Isi Corporal, Henry Foy.

Aurand, Lewis
Aurand, Cliarles
Alexander, Joseph
Acorn, Martin
Bonnie, Crawford
Baer, John
Bftunon, Isaac
Batdorf, James

3d " Charles Norhioajt.
4i/i " Charles Fociit.
5th " William Burleb.
6//j " William A. Lloyp.
7ih " Henry C. Mathbws.
8fh '' Jacob A. Witmah
Musician, Andrew J. Snyder.

" James Marshall.
Wagoner, Geo. W. Ciiristiak.

PRIVATES :

Carroll, John
Christian, Henry F.
Chester, Joseph
Cooke, Daniel
Cruikshank, John
Davis, Thomas
Davis, Albert
Davis, William

]5aker, David
Barr, William
Benedict, John C.
Benscoter, Abrahara
Bright, Harrison
Bright, Daniel R.
Beagley, Thomas
Beyerly, Jefferson W.

The Third Year oe the War.

309

Company H, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Mulholland, James
Metz, Joseph
Meter, Charles
Me(z, EdAvard
DeLong, Charles
Donnelly, William
Donnelly, John
Everly, Morris
Eberle, Charles
Edwards, Edward
Edwards, Joseph
Eisenhuth, Gtorge T.
Fetterman, Charles
Fetterman, Isaac
Fox, Emanuel
Fryberger, Samuel
Forney, Alfred C.
Gallagher, John
(^allagher, Anthony
Gannon, Thomas
Howell, John M.
Heffner, John H. C.
Haley, William H.
Hayes, Joseph S.
Heffron, Philip
Halladey, George

W entsell, James
Welsh, James
Wineland, John
Wildermuth, F. Josiah
Weise, Jacob
Yeick, Anthony
Hirst, Job

Iletherington, Jas. R.
Huber, William
Jennings, John
Jones, Harry
Kimmell, Wm. Y. B.
Krebs, Frank
Kalbach, John F.
Klienginna, John F.
Koller, Benjamin
Kopp, Lewis W.
Kyer, Charles
Loeser, William
Lauer, Daniel
Lewis, George E.
Lloyd William D.
Lloyd, John
Murphy, Arthur
Moore, Joseph
Morey George W.

Sergeant Major.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - -
Wagoner, . - -

Privates,

Total

Metzinger, Joseph
Melarkey, Michael
Miller, Conrad
Mo3% Adam
Ohnmacht, Daniel
Olewine, John H,
O'Brien, Michael
O'Donnell, Antkony
Palmer, Thomas
Pritchard, John
Ray, John W.
Reb, Henry
Slenker, David
Snyder Reuben
Schnieder, AVilliam
Stevenson, John
Skeen, Sarauel T.
Severn, Thomas
Spears, John
Scott, Michael
Shilthorn, Georgo
Smith, Peter
Shay, Henry
Titus, Ambrose H.
Tillett, Jonathan
Uhl, George

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- - 102

122

COiMPANY I.

Captain, B. B. SCHUCK.
1st Lieut., Joseph Edwards.
2d Lieut., Francis D. Koch.
1st Sergeant, Oliver Davis.

2d <' LUKK SWAIK.

Zd " Jacob Ongstodt.
Ath " Frank Allebach.
bth '< James McRetnolds.
\st Corporal, Gbo. W. Klasb.

2d Corporal, James Milleb.
8c? *' Daniel Klabb.

Ath *• HeNEY W. CBATEfi.

oth <* Wesley Knittlb,
%th '» Benj. Williams.
1th " Elias C. Kehl.
Musician, William Faust.

" Jacob Bechman.
Wagoner, Israel Kramer.

Beltz, Isaac
Beltz, Isaac K.
Boner, Frank
Bunti, Herman
Bechman, John P.
Brown, John

26*

PRIVATES :

Beyerle, Wm. F.
Bankis, Daniel
Boner, James
Blablehamer, Lewis
Barron, John
Curlis, Chae.

Clark, John
Cooper, John H.
Crowe, Patrick
Cobus, Joseph
Dresh, Elias
DeLong, Charkg

310

The Third Yeah of the War.

Company I, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Derrick, Cyrus
Daleus, John
Drehrer, Benj.
DeFrehn, S. T.
Dresh, Geo.
Dooley, Martin
Deitz, David
Deitz, John
Eisenhower, Abraham
Engel, William
Ege, Henry J.
Frehn, John
Fauss, Lewis
Fritz, Albert
Fourman, Nathan
Gilbert, Joseph
Goodman, Henry
Garber, Lewis J.
Garber, David
Good, Chas. H,
Hein, Josiah
Hill, Henry H.
Henry, Frederick
Heiser, James
Houser, B. A.
Horn, Charles W.
Horn, Washington
Hollister, Samuel

Krater, Charles
Keller, Peter
Kershner, B. B.
Kehl, Daniel J.
Kehl, Samuel F.
Koch, Huglv
Koch, Charles R.
Koch, Allen
Kramer, William
Leiser, Charles S.
Lindemuth, Charles
Link, John
Lengert, Adam
INladenfort, Henry
Monbeck, Lucien
Mack, Albert
Mowrey, Jonathan
Mauger, John R,
McArdel, Barney,
Moyer, John S.
Marberger, William
Neyer, Daniel
Neiswender, Samuel
Neyman, Henry A,
Neifert, Nathan
Owens, William
Price, William J.
Peltz, Theodore

Jones, Thomes

Commissioned Ofl|cers,-

Nou-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Wagoner, - - -

Privates, - _ _

Total,

Reich, Conrad
Rumbel, Rudolph.
Rumbel, Amos
Reinhard, Henry
Reinhard, Albert
Reigel, Frank
Ringer, Frank E.
Reed, Thomas J.
Repperi, William
Reichwern, Jacob
Seward, Christian
Schappell, Henry
Sehall, Thomas
Scheur, William F.
Shoener, Edward
Shoener, Joseph
Snyder, William S.
Smith, Mad. K.
Tyson, William
Umbenhocker, John
Weiers, William
Wheeler, William
Willower, Jerry
Wagner, Charles C.
Watt, Reuben
Yost, Frank
Zimmerman, Benj.
Zimmerman, Albert

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- 103

121

COMPANY

Captain, ISAAC F. BRANNON.

\st. Lieut., Jacob Douty.

Id Lieut., Francis A. Stitzer.

\st Sergeant, Thomas Irwin.

2c? " John C. Hincucliff

M Sergeant, George M. Dengler

4^ "

bth

M Cor^

bth

Qth

1th

^th Corporal, John M. Brown
William LAUBENSTiNEj/ws/c/an, William Straw.
Christ. N. Haertler, <' Henry Yost.

oral, David H, Stitzer.
Horatio Edinger.
Daniel F. Bausum.
John C. Berger.
Henry Shultz.

\st Corporal, George J. Weaver. Wagoner, Warren Carey.
'2d " John Degant.

PRIVATES :

Adams, Martin
Adamr.u, John
Bossier, Samuel

Burgess, Joseph
Bartolet, John
Belford, Wesley

Bartolet, Richard
Cashan, Michael
Dress, Jonathan

The Third Year of the War.

311

Company K, Forty-Eighth Regiment — Continued.

Delaney, Nicholas
Day, Albin
Dentzer, John F.
Dress David R.
Drake, Nelson
Dress, William H.
Edwards, Edward
Ehly, Franklin
Ebert, Jacob
Fougherty, Thomas
Felty, Fertenline
Fenstermaker, Elias
Fenstermaker, Henry
Gray, Arthur L
Gillinger, John
Gross, George H.
Grim, Henry
Haas, Howard W.
Haas, Wellington P.
Houser, Nathan
Houser, David
Hudson, Thomas E.
Heisser, William
HoflFman, Simon

Henn, John W.
Hine, Allen
Haas, Daniel
Harkius, Hugh B.
Jones, John
Koch, Francis
King, John
Kavanaugh, James
Kline, Benjamin F.'
Long, Charles
Lebengood, Lewis
Lord, Henry
Little, John
Leonard, Thomas
Luckenbill, Lewis
Lauby, Jacob
Lauer, John N.
Moul, Lewis A.
Moul, John C.
Miller, Wilson W*.
Mulhall, John
Morgan, George F.
Murphy, John
McKeaver, Philip
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - -
Wagoner, _ - - -
Privates, - _ - -

Nagle, Milton
Osterhoiit, Charles
Payne, Edward P.
Phillips, David H.
Pelton, AVilliam F.
Patry, John
Reed, William T.
Reader, Henry
Reed, Jeremiah
Rich, Nathan
Shaffer, William P.
Shollenbergei", Augustus
Schwartz, Oliver W.
Showers, George
Snyder, Frederick W.
Schack, Gottlieb
Shut, Casper
Sherman, John A.
Snyder, Paul
Trough, Henry
White, Paul
Widner, John
Weaber, Andrew
Whetstone, Ephraim
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- 13
. 2

- 81

Total,

RECAPITULATION.

Compijny

A,
B,

100

117

108

124

122

121

100

Total,

982

SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

Colo7iel—SSU. B. SIPES.
Lieut.-Colonel—ZMi'E^ J. SEIBERT.
Major, 2d Battalion— WM. JENNINGS.
Quartermaster— TllO^. RICKERT.

COMPANY A.

Conners, James C.
Cobley, Daniel

Cahill, Patrick W.
Delaney, James

Farrell, George C.
Hennessey, John

312

The Third Year of the War.

Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Koch. Henry
Kelly, ^lichael
Kennedy, Joseph
Koegan. Charles

Total

McCabe, John
Murphy, Morris
O'Neal, Dennis

Plotz, Frederick
Schlotman, Axiguetuf
Spittle, Thomas II.

COMPANY C

Buden, William

Total

Danlevy, John

Total

COMPANY

Hagerty, James

Jackson, William
3

COM

Captain, CYRUS NEWLIN.
1st Lieut., Ber. Iveilly.
2d Lieut., Jos. H. Denning.
Ord. Sergeant, V. R. Boyer.
Q. M. " Wm. Zehner.
Com. '* Wm. Smith.
2d Sergeant, Wm. Jenkins.
Zd " John Williams.
Ath " Jas. a. Wilson.
5^ " Daniel Siegfried.

PANY F.

(jth Sergeant, John M. Rich.
1st Corporal, Wm. H. Beavkr.
2d " Geo. M. Boyer.

3c? *' CONDY McQuiRE.

4:th " Rich'd Fotheringill.
Bugler, Joseph Partridge.

'' John Coughin.
Blacksmith, Adam Mager.
Saddler, Abeaham Vandyke,

Anstock, Wm.
Aummersboch, Adam
Adams, Joseph
Berger, Abraham
Bowers, Charles
Beler, Jacob
Boruman, G. W.
I Boyle, Patrick
Beacher, Benj.
Beacher, John J.
Bond, William
Bartholomew, C. L.
Brennan, William
Bowers, Denis
Blacker, William
Blacker Charles
Betz, John
Boyer, David
Breslin, Henry
Breslin, William
Broom, Jacob
Bryson, Samuel
Bummersboch, John
Ball, John
Burke, Charles
Ball, Bart.
Beaumont, Charles

PRIVATES:

Bowers, Peter
Beauliart, Joseph W.
Bertz, John
Baldwin, Thomas
Collins, James
Cunningham, John
Coggins, Hart
Cunningham, John
Cockell, Ezra
Cassey, Patrick
Creiger, Peter
Chambus, A. J.
Connors, Edward
Deaner, John
Detyoune, Adam
Dough er, James
Dunlevy, John
Devine, Robert
Davis, John
Dando, John
English, William
Evans, Samuel
Evans, David
Evans, Thomas B.
English, George
Else, William H.
Fartick, John A. J.

Fisher, Joseph R,
Fox, William J.
Fotheringill, Joseph
Fronty, Jacob
Fox, David S.
Flenery, Michael
Fronley, Albert
Fogerty, James
Gower, David
Gradwell, Thomafi
Hower, Charles S.
Harris, William
Haine, Peter
Henry, David
Hagerty, James
Haley, Martin
Hines, Edward
Haldeman, Joseph
Hisser, Wm. F.
Hoffee, B. M.
Hahn, Francis
Hubzer, Jacob
Hagerty, Francis W.
Hart Joseph T.
Houser, George
Jones, Thos. W.
JoDes, Elias

The Third Year of the War.

315

Company F, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

Jonea, Robert
Jonea, David
Jones, David R.
KoUey, Bernard
Kock, Theodore
Kock, George
Kniffe, Aquilla
Kearns, Patrick R.
Knapp, Joseph
Llewellyn, Llewellyn
Levan David
Link, Cornelius
Linn, Charles
Lynch, Daniel*
Long, John C.
Leib, George
Lafferty, Alexander
Lyons, James
Miller, Isaac
Miller, Jr., John
McGuire, John
Moyer, John W.
Mitchell, Samuel
Moore, John A.

Millet, George F.
May, Joseph
McGan, Peter
McLaughlin, Patrick
Murray, Michael
Marchal, Robert
Metz, Adam L.
Metz, George
May, Thomas H.
Manley, Philip
McManamee, Daniel
McShay, Michael
Newser, Christian
Nutz, aeorge
O'Donnell, John
O'Neill, John
Price, James
Paine, Slathiel P.
Rahn, Gideon
Reese, George
Richard, William
Raber, Peter
Robert, Albert
Ray, Thomas

Deaerted

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Buglers, _ - -
Artizans, . - -

Privates,

Total,-

Shutt, George
Shreffler, Solomon
Smith. Frederick
Shaw, Thomas
Sykes, Henry
Sultzer, William
Sheer, James
Shine, James
Stack, William
Simmers, Henry
Thomas, Samuel
Thomas, John D.
Vanhorn, Adgate
Winn, Samuel
Williams, Richard
Wumer, Amandus
Waters, Samuel
Williams, Davis
Watkins, William
Wilson, Michael
Whiteheda. Francis
Williams, Oliver
Williams, John D.

12
2

2
162

171

Allison, Henry
Albert, John
Albert, Jacob
Bayler, Daniel
Burns, James
Cochlin, John
Crouse, Christian
Cooper, Samuel
Caniield, James
Oreiger, Jr., Peter

Total,

COMPANY G

Hardenstine, Henry
Huber, Henry
Hoifman, William
Houser, William
Jones, Lewis
Keidlinger, Henry
Kantner, Charles M.
Miller, Tillman W.
Mease, Levi
Murphy, Michael

Moore, Henry W. ,
Miller, Peter
McGloghlin, Jamca
McQuire, James
Reinoehl, Henry
Rehr, George S,
Steel, Isaac D.
Woods, Thomas L.
Wolf, Elias
Wren, Richard

COMPANYI.

Captain, HEBER THOMPSON. 1st Sergeant,

Li«uimant, Geo. W. McAllisteb. 2of ♦'

Isaac Hall.
Isaac Hkith.

Thk Third Year of the War.

Company I, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Continued.

3(/ Sergeant, James A. Crinnian.
4fA " Thos. B, Stewart,
bth ** James C. Davis.
^h " Fred. Hillbish.
1th *' C. L. Conner.
\tt Corporal, John Morressey.

2d Corporal, Owen P. Keho.

4th
6th

Allen, Thos.
Andrews, Joshua E.
Bohanon, Thos.
Boden, Wm.
Croslaud, Lewis C.
Cramer, Sainl.
Davis, David T.
Dechant, Wm. J.
Bck, Wardes

PRIVATES :

Flattery, James
Gulling, Philip
Hetherington, Jas.
Ilomerth, Wm.
Hummel, Abraham
Lewis, Henry
Mason, Samuel W.
Montgomei"y, Wm.
Ochternocht, Henry

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates,

Casper Sherman.
Peter Pontzler.
Morgan Davis.
John Smith.

Partridge, John
Simpson, Thos. A.
Siltz, Wm.
Strouse, John
Schloss, Isaac
Sands, Albert
Taylor, Charles
Wessner Henry

13
26"

Total,

C 0 M P A N Y L .

Captain, WILLIAM WREN.

PRIVATES :

Bousman, Pearcc
Cohoon, John G.
Glenn on, William

Hellenthal, Bernard
Hackman, Henry
Reber, George W.

Commissioned Officers,
Privates, - - • .

Sullivan, Patrick
Troy, Michael

Total,

recapitulation.

Field and Staflf-Officers,
Company A,

C, - -

- D, - ■
F, - -

- G, - -

I, - -
L, - -

- 16

- 3
171

- 30
41

- 9

Total,

275

The Third Year of the War.

315

NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

A number of the veterans of this Regiment re-enlisted, and it
received recruits to some extent, but not sufficient to enable tho
Regiment to retain its organization at the expiration of its term
of service in August, 1864. At that period the members of the
Regiment were mustered out of service, with the exception of the
following re-enlisted veterans and recruits. Their organization
was called ^'Ninety-sixth Battalion, P. V.,^' and was temporarily
attached to the Ninety-fifth Regiment. There were two Com-
panies— E and L — as follows :

COMPANY E.

lit Lieut., FRANK W. SIMPSON. Sd Corporal, Daniel T. Wallbk,

2dLieut., Chas. C. Russell.

1st Serjeant, John \\\ IlroHEs.

2d " PuiLip W. Cool.

Sd " William Smith.

ith " Joseph Gee.

bth *' Reuben Balliet.

1st Corporal, William Beynon.

2d " William Daniels.

PRIVATES

Bartholomew, James
Berdnia, John

4ik

' William D. Tbaut

6 th

' John Foley.

&ih

' Lewis Frederics:.

7 th

' John Miller.

Sth

' James M. Dens.

Muncia

n, George Sterling.

"Solomon Spo'hn.

Brown, William
Britten, William
Barnes, George
Bittenbender, Levi
Buff, Henry
Buchman, Levi
Bell, William
Cantield, James N.
Clifton, Mashloc
Carj, Martin
Dresher, Stephen
Derneer, Jeremiah
Donegan, John
Earnst, Christian
Evans, John
Fry, Henry A.
Ford, Edward
Fry, George K.
Fox, Charles C.
Hettinger, Aaron F.
Hartman, George H.
Heller, Reuben

Hollister, James
Howard, David
Jones, David
Klinger, Levi
Klinger, Jeremiali
Keeler, Joseph
Kromas, George
Kromas, Levi
Kisppaugh, Elias
Londsedle, George
Latferty, John
Leffler, William
Lutz, Adolph
Litman, Bernard
Lambert, Matthew
Martin, Daniel
Miles, Edward W.
Marshal, Alexander
Mensinger, Stephen
Martz, Samuel
Morrel, Matthew
Ming, Joseph
Muman, Samuel
McNulte, John
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Ofl&cers, -
Musicians, - _ - _

Privates, , - - -
Total, - - . -

Neatharaer, Henrj
Noble, Richard
Nans, David
Paden, Charles
Purcell, Thomas
Ramsay, William S.
Sands, James
Stair, Peter
Simpson, John T
Stegncr, George
Symns, Sylvester
Seiwell, Samuel
Seiwell, Tilman
Schwartz, Joseph
Tiiompson, John
Templer, Emanuel
Washburn, John
Whetzel, John
Welsh, Michael A.
Woodring, Henry
Woodring, William
Wright, Jacob
Welsh, Libert J.

13
2

316

The Third Year of thb War.

COMPANY L.

Ut Lieut., LEWIS LUCKENBILL.
Itt Serjeant, William CnRREN.
2d " John Sullivan.
td " John Welsh.
4M Charles Fisiikr.

PRIVATES

1st Corporal, Arthur Brakkboak,
2d ** James Soye.
8c? " Thomas Gribben.
Musician, James Zulich.

Adcock, William
Becker, Thomas
Bradley, Lawrence
Broderick, John
Carlin, James
Crosson, Wm. IT.
Dull, George W.
Downly, Patrick
Donnelly, John

Garrigan, Hugh
Haley, Charles
Hart, Dominic
Kranch, Jacob
Kavcnaugh, John
Llewellyn, Gomer
Lannau, John
Laddy, Paddy
Moor, Thomas

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Musicians, - - -

Privates, - • -

Morgan, Thomas L.
Murphy, James
McCarty, John
McGrath, Lawrence
Beb, Adam
Shelley, Charles
Salmon, J.
Zimmerman, Solomon.

1
26

Total, - T

Tn addition to tlie above the following are tlie names of mem
of Schuylkill County who enlisted in the Regiment in the Spring;
of 1864 :

Bronnan. James

Mack, Michael

O'Brian, John

Bell, William 11.

Murray, John

O'Neal, James

Comford, Edward

Murpliy, Michael

llyan, Patrick

Fogarty, Thomas

^lalcy, Thomas

Kyan, James

Follman, John

Moran, James

Sullivan, John

Gallagher, Michael

Muldowney, Matthew

Treiny, "William

Hennessey, Daniel

O'Brian, Michael P.

Woodford, Charles

Luke, John

O'Brian, Hugh

Total,

bkcapitulation.

Company

E, - - - -

L, - . . .

- 35

Additional enlisted men, -

Total,

. .

-146

FIFTIETH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

Art, Isaac

Bixler, Jackson

Dodge, Levi

Binkley, Daniel

Clouser, Joseph

Dornsife, Jeremiah "\T

Beach, Charles

Clark, Edward W.

Deitrich, Philip

Boyer, Jacob

Christ, Harry

Erdman, Lenniary

Boyer, Philip

Delcamp, Daniel

Fox, Peter

Bixler, Edward

Dressier, Jacob

Godschall, Joel

Bxesaler, Martin

Dornsife, Isaac H.

Geist, Noah

Breasler, Franklin

Dolcamp, Joseph

Uonenstine, Joel

The Thikd Year of the "War.

317

Company A, Fiftieth Regiment — Continued,

Henry, John
Henry, Jacob
Klauser, Simon
Krebs, Lewis
LucjIs, Peter F.
Michael, Hiram
Maurer, John H.
Otto, Joseph
Philips, Abraham
Pinkerton, Benjamin F.

Total

Steckley, John
Stutzman, Jonathan B.
Seifert, John
Stoop, Daniel
Starr, Abraham F.
Stutzman, Nathaniel
Schreiber, Augustus F.
Schwenk, Abraham K.
Shadel, Henry
Shade, Jacob

Troutman, Elias T.
Troutman, Emanuel
Wiest, Francis K.
Wiest, Hiram K.
Wiest, Samuel B.
Wolf, Michael
Zerbey, John EL
Zimmerman, John H.
Zimmerman, George
Zimmerman, Lewis

C 0 M P

Captain, DANIEL F. BURKERT.
\si Lieut., William H* Hiney.
'Id Lieut., JouN Eckel.
1st Sergeant, Y/illiam Hill.
2d '< Augustus Mellon.

'■id " Charles E. Brown.

4ith " David Roudenbush.

bth " James H. Levan.

1st Corporal, Saiiuel A. Losch.

ANY C.

2d Corporal, Levi Eckekt.

3(/ " Alex. P. Gareet.

4^A " Henry Hill.

5'A " George Schwenk.

G//i " John Dowle.

Musicians, Henry B. Miller,

" Yolney Bell.

" Clinton McGibbiss.

" Wm. H. Gensler.

Agley, Samuel
Burkert, Gottlieb
i^erger, Elias
Baker, V/illiam
Bartlett, Albert
Baker, L.
Burkert, Charles
Berger, Daniel
Bousman, George
Benedict, Jacob
Comber, Alpheus
Correll, Rolandus
Cake, George
Dibler, Henry
Dankle, Peter
Dilcomb, Peter
Eckle, Emanuel
Eckert, John
Eckert, William
Eckert, Isaac
Eckert, John N.
Everhart, Daniel
Fritz, Peter
Fritz, John
Gulliver, Christian
Guertler,^ William D.
Qetler, Jacob

PRIVATES :

Hoffman, Samuel
Hoffman, William
Hoffman, Jerome
Hehn, Heni-y
Heebner, Edward
Heebner, George
Hehn, Jacob
Hehn, William
Harner, Romandes
Kiehner, Stoughton
Koch, William J.^
Kerrigan, Garret '
Knarr, Charles
Knarr, Benjamin
Lehman, Josiah
Lloyd, Adam
Lloyd, Thomas
Lloyd, George W.
Long, Joseph
Losch, William G.
Moyer, George
McCullough, Patrick
McHargne, John
Martz, John B.
Martz, Samuel
Martz, Daniel
Oswalt, Charles

Oswalt, Israel
Oswalt, Edward
llupp, Thomas
Rieger, Edward
Reed, George
Riley, Michael
Ryan, John
Reed, John
Reigan, Albert
Reinheimer, Franklin
Sharon, Franklin
Shoppell, Charles
Schwab, Adara
Schwenk, Samuel
Scheck, Frederick
Scheck, Jacob
Sirles, William
Sullivan, Daniel
Tyson, William
Tyson, Irvin
Williams, William
Williams, Charles
Williams, Patrick
Warner, Levan
Wagner, William
Wiltermuth, William
Wright, Josiah

318 The Thiiu> Year op the War.

Company C, Fiftieth Regiment — Coniinued.

Commissioned OiEcers, - - . . 8

Nou-eommissioned Officers, - - - - 11

Musicians, --.-.. 4

• Privates, - ------81

Total, 99

COMPANY D.

Darifl, Thomas P.

Total, 1

COMPANY K
Hilbcrt, Daniel Clauser, Jacob K.

Total, • - 2

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, 54

C, - 99

D, ------ - 1

" K, 2

Total, 156

TWENTY-EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMEN1\

Shoemaker, Jacob

Total, - . ^, - . - .1

FORTY-SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY K.

Darmody, William Fox, John Knipe, Ephraim F.

Total, .- - 3

FIFTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT,

COMPANY E.

Captam, GEORGE H. HILL. Corporal, Wm. Fowlbu.

PRIVATES :

Ansty, Philip Craymer, ►: — McCann, John

Bannan, John S. Conway, Thoma?" Patten, Thomas

Billman, Daniel Churchfield, Patrick Welsh, Luke

Billman, Solomon Dunlap, George

Commissioned Officer, - . - • . .1
Non-commissioned Officer, - , , \

Privates, -- 1|

Total, - ja

The Thikd Year op the War* « 319

COMPANY F.
Fowler, James ♦

Total, 1

BECAPITULATIOX.

Company E, ------ 13

♦' F, 1

Total, - - - . . - 14

SIXTY-SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY B.
Campbell, Thomas Dallas, John

Total, 2

COMPANY K.

Sergeant, Benjamin F. Bartlett. Corporal, Samuel Shoenee.
Corporal, Daniel Christian.

PRIVATES :

Albertson, George Davis, Benj. B. Schoener, Franklin A.

Christian, Benj. . Langton, Martin Schmila, Wm.

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 3
Privates, ------- 6

Total, .--.--- 9

NINETY-THIRD PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY B.

Limt., Wm, H. Riland. Fox, Jacob

COMPANY C.

Barton, William F. Eastwood, John

COMPANY B.

Sechrist, Christian

Total, 5

NmETY-SEYENTH PENJ^SYLVANIA REG'T.
COMPANY H.

O'Hara, Charles

Total, 1

ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST PENN'A REG'T.
COMPANY K.

GrofiF, Valentine H, Perry, John Tomlinson, Joseph

Morris, Dick

Total .--.-- 4

820 • The Third Year of the "War.

OIS^E HUNDRED A¥D OTNTH PENN'A REG'T.
COMPANY F.

Boran, James Horan, William McGill, James

Breanan, Owen Mahan, Michael Prosser, John

Total ------ 6

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH PA. REG'T.
COMPANY A.

Drey, Daniel

COMPANY F.

Herring, Isaac

Total, 2

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH PENN'A REG'T.

COMPANY D.

Everhard, Abraham

Total, 1

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOURTH REG'T.

[This Regiment— a new one— was recruited in different parts of the State. Its com-
mander was Col. Storer.]

COMPANY F.

Lieutet^inf, W. D. Williams. Serjeant, S. S. Dull.

miVATES:
Adam, 11. W. Hearter, George Riffert, Emanuel

Boltz, Fred'k Krise, Chas. Richards, Joseph

Dull, John F. Lehman, P. F. Trefskar, Anthony

Eckel, Percival Miller, John F. . Trefskar, Bertram

Gallagher, John Marks, Jr., John Wert, Michael

Goldman, Chas. Reinoehl, L. C. Whetstone, Sam'l H.

Hearter, Jacob

Commissioned Officers, - . - . l
Non-commissioned Officers, ... i

Privates, ' - 19

Total, 21

TWO HUNDRED AND TENTH PA. REGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Corporal, M. Montgomery L'Vellb. Tiley, Uriah W.

Total, 2

THIRD PENNSY^LYANIA CAYALRY.
COMPANY C .

Roan, James E. *>

C 0 M P A N Y L .

Bourk, John Donahoe, James Keating, James

Donahoe, Patrick J. Green, D^iniel Lean, Thomas

Duffv, John Keating, James F.

Total, -9

}

The Third Year of the War. 321

FOURTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

COMPANY B. 7

Blake, James

Total, 1

FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY 0 .

Drumheller, John Morley, Francis

COMPANY a.
Lloyd, Edmund Lloyd, George

Total, 4

SIXTH PENNSY^LVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY E.

Aubrey, Thomas Mace, Samuel Schultz, Henry

Eager, James F.

Total, ^

EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY A.

Carrigan, James Miller, Christian Yately, John

Gamble, Edward Owen, James

. COMPANY B.
James, Owen O'Neal, Peter Reilly, Jamea

COMPANY F.

Griffin, Michael, McKern, John Rice, Patrick

Larkiu, Owen McLyn, Henry

COMPANY I.

McCall, Charles

COMPANY M.

Nunemacher, Israel Ward, John

Total, 16

NINTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

McConnell, John T. H.

Total, - 1

ELEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY H.

Shoemaker, Edward

Total, 1

TWELFTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY A.

Clifford, Levi Owens, Lawrence Salmon, Daniel

Clifford, Charles Stevenson, William

Total, 6

27*

322 The Third Year of the War,

THIRTEENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY A.

LyncL, Michael Powell, John ,

Total, 2

SEVENTEENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY H.

Vt'ard, James

Total, 1

TWENTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
COMPANY A.

ScbrocJer, Charles Stein, Henry J. —

Total, 2

FIRST PENNSYLVANIA HEAVY ARTILLERY.

COMPANY B.

Daker, Martin Donner, John

Total --.-.. . 2

SECOND PENNSY^LVANIA ARTILLERY.
COMPANY B.

Conway, Martin

COMPANY I.

Baltz, Charles L. Kelly, Thos. Reppel, John

Conner, Thos. Muth, William H. Rose, John

Fernsler, Henry 0. K. Matter, AVilliam H. Shanley, John

Iletherington, Edw. S. O'Neal, Michael Troay, James

Helms, John S.

Total, - - - - - - - - 14

THIRD PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERY.
COMPANY H.

Davis, Edward Light, William

Total, 2

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND PA. ART.

COMPANY F.

Casey, John J. Graady, Thomas Kelly, Barney

Delaucy, John Harrod, Thomas Leslie, James
Flagherty, Patrick

Total, 7 •

FOURTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY,

Howard, Michael Hawk, James B,

Total, 2

The TniRD Year of the War.

323

FIFTEENTH UISTITED STATES INFANTRY

Adam, Henry
Cowers, John
lirlnton, George
Birkiubine, John
Bradley, Michael
]]alrd, Chp.rles
JJrcnnan, James
Bradley, William
Barrett, John
Carrol, Peter
Camphell, John
Carney, John
Crosby, Lewis
Clark, John
Devine, Philip
Elliot, John
Fell, Bartholomew
Focht, James
Farley, John
Gannon, James
Gunning, William

Total,

Gillmore, Nathan
Higgins, James
Hibbit, Thomas
Hamilton, John
Irwin, George
Jennings, Michael
Kelly, James
King, John
King, Michael
Keim, John M.
Lynch, John
Lee, jNIartin
Llewellyn, John
McGhan, Henry
McDonald, Thomas
Mich, John
Magnan, Peter
McDavid, James
Mason, John C.
Marshal, Bichard
McMenamiu, John

Morncy, John
Metz, John
Miller, John
Martin, Andrew
McCoy, James
O'Brian, Patrick
O'Hara, Charles
O'Neil, Patrick
Philips, Edward
Pritman, George W.
Riley, William
Rorry, James
Bubey, Michael
Smith, James
Sailor, John
Woods, John
Welch, John
"Williams, Charles
"Wagner, Harvey J.
Wilson, John

SIXTEENTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY

Allen, James
Brown, Michael
Burns, Thomas
Bodey, Thomas
Brayson, Peter
Bruce, Peter
Baldwin, Frederick A.
Brown, John
Connelly, Patrick
Clark, John
Crouse, Charles
Cain, John
Connelly, Luke
Boran, James
Dawson, John
Donnelly, John
Daler, Edward
Froulk, William
Farrel, James
Fagan, Michael
Freny, William
Gerret, Patrick
Gibson, Thomas
Grant, xVrthur
Gill, James

Total,

Harrison, Charles
Hare, Francis
Hagerty, Peter
Horan, Thomas
Harross, James
Henderson, William
Harrington, John
H.Jl, Henry
Kruming, Michael
Kelly, John
Kelly, John
Lynch, Peter
Logan, James
March, John
Mitchell, Robert
McGuire, Tliomas
McCann, Mishael
Murray, Charles
McCay, George
Murray, James
^loran, Patrick
Mears, John B.
Maghan, John A.
Mullen, William

O'Neill, Patrick
Osborn, John
Parker, John
Quinn, John
Riley, Martin
Ryan, James
Piiley, Edward
Riuay, Michael
Ross, John
Rooney, John
Sweeney, John
Seymour, Michael
Stanton, George
Sudler, Henry
Sweeney, Augustus
Smith, Philip
Stroup, Peter
Smith, John
Slack, John
Smith, Thomas
Sonner, Edward
Todd, John
White, John
Williams, Barney

324

The Third Year of the War.

FIRST UNITED STATES CAVALRY.

Bloomfield, Christ. Gilmore, Patrick Miller, Henry

Cover, Samuel

Total,

Gilmore, Patrick
Lcman, Francis

FIRST UNITED STATES (COLORED) IN£^ANTRY

C O M P A N Y K .

Harrison, "William H. Lee, Charles

Total, -.---.- 2

THIRD U. S. (COLORE^D) INFANTRY.
COMPANY B.

Enly, Elijah

COMPANY D.

Cole, John C. Wilson, Charles H.

Total, - S

EIGHTH U. S. (COLORED) INFANTRY.

Biiular, Henry A. Enty, Jonathan Powell, Thomas

Dellaman, George Groom, John H. Thomas, Charles

Enty, Gabriel Lee, Edward

Total, - - - - •- - - 8

THIRTY-SECOND U. S. (COLORED) INFANTRY.

COMPANY B.

Jackson, George

Total, 1

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment,

Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, - - -

Ninety- sixth Pennsylvania Regiment,

Fiftieth

Twenty-eighth

Forty-sixth

Fifty -fifth

Sixty-seventh

Ninety-third

Ninety-seventh

One Hundred and first Pennsylvania Regiment,

•' ♦' " ninth "

«• '* " sixteenth '*

" *' " fiftieth <«

*' " '« eighty-fourth

Two hundred and tenth Pennsylvania Regiment,
Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, - _ -

Fourth " " - _ -

931

275

146

156

Total, (carried forward,)

1688

The Third Year of the War. 325

Total, (brought forward,) - 1588

Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, - - ". - - - - 4

Sixth " '' 4

Eighth " «<-.-.*-_ 16

Ninth '' '• 1

Eleventh " . *' 1

Twelfth '* " 5

Thirteenth <' " 2

Seventeenth '« " 1

Twenty-first '* " 2

First Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, - - - - 2

Second Pennsylvania Artillery, 14

Third " " 2

One hundred and fifty-second Penn'a (Art.) Pteg't, - - 7
Fourth United States Infantry, - - - - -

Fifteenth " " *«._'-.-- 62

Sixteenth " '' <' 73

First United State's Cavalry, ----- 5

First United States (Colored) Infantry, - . - 2

Third " " <' " .... 3

Eighth '< " <« u . _ . - 8

Thirty-second " '' " . - . . i

Grand Total, - - - - ^ - - - 1805

THE SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Before entering upon a review of the operations of the great
campaign of Gen. Grant in Virginia^ in 1864, as far as .the Re-
giments from Schuylkill County are concerned, we must glance at
the attempt of the rebels under Longstreet, in November, 1863;
to capture Knoxville'. They were however, signally defeated by
the Ninth Corps, of which the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Penn-
sylvania Regiments formed part. The endurance and valor dis-
played by our troops on that trying occasion, make a bright page
in the history of the war.

Colonel H. Pleasants of the Forty-eighth Regiment, wrote to

us under date, "Knoxville, Nov. 27, 1863,'^ as follows :

The rebels had arranged a well concerted plan to drive out or cap-
ture Gen'l Buruside's army. They sent Wheeler's cavalry across the
Little Tennessee river, and attacked oUr forces south of the Holston
Pviver, driving them back to the hills opposite Knoxville. They were
here checked and repulsed by Gen'l Sanders. Simultaneous with this
movement, Longstreet with his corps crossed below Loudon and attacked
the 9th Army Corps and Gen'l White's Division of the 23d Army Corps,
Our forces fell back to Knoxville, but at Campbell Station there was
quite a little fight, where the 48th behaved well, and lost two of its
jaen — Serg't Joseph Reed, Co. H, killed, cind private Isaac Arndt, Co. I,

326 The Third Year of the War.

who was wounded seriously by a shell and left in a house. The siege
of Knoxville began on last Tuesday, a week ago ; since that time there
has been continued skirmishing, and three hard fights. The 2d Michi-
gan Reg't on the left of the line, made a sortie and drove the rebels ou4
of their rifle pits. On the south side of the river Col. Cameron's Brigade,
•23d A. C, drove the rebels back with heavy loss, and the 48th Pa., with
the 21st Mass. Reg't, three days ago sallied out and drove the rebels
from their rifle pits in a gallant manner.

From another correspondent we received the following :

Knoxville, Dec. 5, 1863.

The siege of Knoxville was raised this morning — the last of the rebel
rear guard leaving our front about d.iylight. The cavalry has started
in pursuit, and squads of prisoners are being brought in every few
minutes. From them we learn that Longstreet's force was greater than
was supposed ; the reinforcement of three brigades from Buckner's
corps, under Bushrod Johnson, which reached him some ten days ago,
having increased his army to 80,000 men, and caused the assault of last
Sunday,

; The battle at Campbell Station was a short but brilliant affair. Our
brigade of the 2od, and a part of the 9th Corps repulsed the rebel attack
in a handsome and effective manner.

The siege of Knoxville has been a signal failure ; it did not prevent us
from obtaining forage and provisions from the country south of the
Holston River, and the several attacks, commencing with the one south
of said River and ending with that on Fort Sanders, were met with de-
termination and ended in complete and bloody defeats. The 48th RegL
has, during the whole of this campaign, at Campbell Station and in
their charges on the enemy's rifle pits, behaved well. The officers and
men have borne the privations and hardships of the siege without a
murmur, and their commander has been constantly at his post of duty.
Col. Sigfi-ied's Brigade went out this morning in pursuit of the enemy,
and no doubt they will bring back some prisoners.

Gen'l Sherman's advance, consisting of about a thousand cavalry,
arrived here yesterday morning at three o'clock ; and Longstreet having
heard of the defeat of Bragg, and the arrival of reinforcements, im-
mediately commenced his retreat. Gen'l Grant's management of this
campaign has been masterly. He ordered Burnside to let Longstreet
cross the Tennessee River and to hold him in East Tennessee until he
would attack Bragg. He crushed the rebel army of the west and im-
mediately dispatched Sherman and Granger to our assistance. Thus by
tliis strategy 30,000 of Bragg's best troops were detained here while he
did not spare one single man of the Army of the Cumberland until the
great struggle was over.

The next letter we received was from Major Joseph A. GiV-
mour, who commanded the Forty-eighth with consummate judg-
mefit and ability, during the entire operations. He very kindly
and thoughtfully, furnished us with a list of the casualties of
his command. The Major's letter is as follows :

Headquarters 48tii Reg., P. V. \
Knoxville, Tenn,, Dec, 6, 1863. j

1 have the honor to transmit the following list of casualties in my
command, since Nov. 15th, to date :

The Third Year of the War. 327

Sergeant Joseph Reed, Co. H, wounded at Campbell Station, Tenn.,

Nov. IGtli, died Nov. 16th, 18G3.
Corporal John Sponsler, Co. H, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 29,

died Nov. 29, 1863.
Private Joseph Weise, Co. H, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 24th,

died Nov. 28th, 1863.
Private Jonas Haldeman, Co. I, killed at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 29th,

1863.
Private Charles "Weaver, Co. I, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Dec. 3d,

died Dec. 5th, 1863,
1st Lieut. Jacob Douty, Co. E, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 24th,

1863.
2d Lieut. Henry C. Jackson, Co. G, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov.

29, 1863.
Private Martin Tobin, Co. C, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 24th,

18.63 ; severe.
Private J. F. Wildermuth, Co. H, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov.

22d, 1863.
Private James Heiser, Co. I, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn , Nov. 29th,

1863.
Private John Murphy, Co. K, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 23d,

1863.
Private Austin Farrow, Co. F, wounded at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov. 28th,

1863.
Private George Livingston, Co. A, missing in action at Campbell Station,

Tenn.^ Nov. IGth, 1863.
Private Daniel Root, Co. B, missing in action at Enoxville, Tenn., Nov.

29th, 1863.
Private Robert McElrath, Co. C, missing in action at Enoxville, Tenn.,

Nov. 24th, 1863.
Private James Brennan, Co. E, missing in action at Enoxville, Tenn.,

Nov. 29th, 1863.
Private Isaac Arndt, Co. I, missing in action at Campbell Station, Tenn.,

Nov. 16, 1863— severely wounded in hip ; left on field.
Private J. E. Sherman, Co. E, missing in action at Enoxville, Tenn.,
Nov. 29th, 1863.

I am, respectfully,

Your ob't servant,
J. A. GiLMOuR, Major Commanding.

Capt. Oliver C. Bosbyshell — subsequently in Virginia promoted
Major of the Forty-eighth, upon the death of the brave, devoted
Gilmour — wrote us the following graphic account of the part
borne by this Eegiment during the operations :

Headquarters 1st Brig., 2d Div., Oth A. C. 1
Camp near Rutledge, Tenn., Dec. 12th, 1863. j
It may not be uninteresting to give you a resume of the doings of this
Brigade, but more particularly the 48th, during the last month. At the
risk of wearying you somewhat, here's at it. Let me preface my jot-
tings down of the last month's actions, with a remark or twa concern-
ing the activity of the Union forces since their first occupation of East
Tennessee. This Brigade left Camp Nelson on the 12th of September,
1863, and since then to the present time, just three months, has march&d

328 The Third Year of the War.

•364 miles and traveled by railroad 128 miles, making 492 miles in all,
besides liavins^ engaged in three lights and as many skirmishes, and
being besieged twenty days. Whoever declares that the campaign m
East' Tennessee has been an inactive one, deserves to be conscripted and
fed on quarter rations for a period of three years.

On the 14th of November orders to break camp rcjjched us at our
beautiful camping ground near Lenoir. On the 15th >ye were at
loudon skirmishing with the rebels all day— this Brigade being the last
to leave and in part protecting the rear of the Army of the Ohio, m its
retreat toward Knoxville. Upon being relieved. the Brigade was pushed
forward to the front, (stopping long enough at Lenoir to be ft-esh ration-
ed ) to take up a position on the Kingston road, which leads into the
Knoxville road near Campbell Station, and upon which there was every
reason to believe the enemy would come in on to cut off our retreat to-
wards Knoxville. It was daylight when the Brigade reached the spot
desio-nated. Col. Sigfried, to whom the ta^k of preventing the enemy s
appS)ach in this direction had been assigned, had scarcely thrown for-
ward his cavalry skirmishers half a mile, when they became engaged
with the rebel skirmishers. It became evident that much depended up-
on our holding this position. Gen. Burnside's orders being to hold it at
all hazards, until reinforced, and well was it held, although the Brigade
was severely pressed on all sides. The lighting at the junction ot the
roads was sharp and savage. Receiving orders to fall back we did so m
«rood style Thus opened the battle at Campbell Station. It was an all
day's fi^ht, commencing early on the 15th, and darkness put an end to
it The fio-ht after the affair in the woods at the junction of the roads,
became one of tlie grandest sights in military display. The battle-fiehl
was clear from woods and obstructions of any kind, so that the partici-
pants could view the movements of each other without diiiiculty. We
could plainly discern the enemy's movements, and then all our own were
visible also. It was a grantl military drill, and beat all the evolutions
of a battalion day one could imagine. Some say Gen. Burnside is in-
capable of handling a large body of troops. An eye \ptness of bis skill-
ful manoeuvring on the battle-field at Campbell Station, will say differ-
ently It is the opinion of those that ought to know, that there have
been few if any battles fought during this war in which so many evolu-
tions had to be performed, and in which troops had been so skillfully
handled Your correspondent does not pretend to set up his own opinion,
but he made good use of his eyes and certainly never beheld a grander
picture nor ever before noticed how beautifully every movement coincided
with a iountermovement of the enemy. Major Gilmou^' arrived from the
East in time to participate in this engagement, and commanded the 4Sth
during it. The regiment behaved well and lost one killed, (Serg t Jos.
Reed Co. H,) one wounded and a prisoner, (private Isaac Arndt, Co. I,)
and one missing, (private George Livingston, Co. A.) After dark the
retreat was continued to Knoxville, where we arrived early on the morn-
ing of the 17th.

Knoxville Gen. Burnside determined to hold, so the pick and the '
shovel were brought into requisition, and digging and shoveling becamd i
as regular a habit as drawing one's breath. Finally we succeeded in 3
becoming strongly entrenched— impregnable as was afterwards proven.
One of the most severe duties to be performed was picketing. Scarcely v
a day passed but some of our men were killed or wounded on the picket
line and indeed so close did the rebel pickets get, that it was unsafe
for a head to appear above our line of entrenchments, as was demon-

The Third Year of the War. 329

Btrated by the killing and wounding of several of the Brigade. On the
night of the 2od of November, the picket line in front of this Brigade
■was driven in by a strong column of the enemy. Col. Sigfried deter-
mined to re-establish his line, so he selected for that purpose the 48th
Penn'a Regt., and the 21st Massachusetts Regt. At daylight on the
morning of°the 24th, these two Regiments made a most gallant charge
(the 48th being led by Major Gilmoui', who managed the alfair most
handsomely) driving the rebels back in great confusion, killing and
wounding a number, and capturing some prisoners. Our line was
re-estabUshed. The 48th behaved most nobly. Its conduct not only on
this occasion, but many others, deservedly stamps it as a veteran organ-
ization. Be it understood that tlie 21st did well also, but I speak par-
ticularly of the 48th, because the people reading this feel more interest
in it. On one other occasion our pickets were driven in, but the line
was re-established by the 2d Brigade. The picket line of this Brigade
at the end of the siege, remained in the same place it Held at the open-
ing of the siege. It would render my letter of an almost interminable
leno-th were I to describe the many scenes and incidents attending the
sie^^e of Knoxville. Never were troops called upon to endure greater
hardships, or placed in more perilous situations, and not once did they
shrink from doing their duty. Of the assault on Fort Sanders you have
already better accounts than I can give. It clearly demonstrated to
Lon<^street that our works were going to be defended and that our posi-
tion''was impregnable. The anxiety attending the siege was keenly
visible on all countenances, but one could plainly discern the determi-
nation of holding out to the bitter end. This feeling all possessed; not a
man in the trenches but said we would hold our position. Longstreet
held out as long as he safely could, but deeming it politic to escape the
snare being laid for him, pulled itp stakes and left on the evening of the
5th inst. About 9 o'clock the same morning. Col. Sigfried took his Bri-
gade out to gather up what stragglers could be found in the neighbor-
hood. The 48th did the skirmishing and brought in a number of pri-
soners. By four in the afternoon we returned to Knoxville, having
scoured quite a considerable part of the country. Monday last we
started after the rebels and reached this point on Wednesday, where we
are at present, resting from the severe trials of the last month.

I have given you but the mere skimming— better pens than mine must
describe the realities we have passed through. In justice to the noble
soldiers of this army it should be done. Braver men never drew the
breath of life— they are soldiers every inch of them. The service just
, ended was one requiring hard, downright courage— one sure to try the
true grit of any man, and this army has passed through it bravely.

The casualties in the Fiftieth Regiment, during these opera-
tions, were as follows :

Emanuel Faust, Co. A, killed at Campbell Station. _

Sergt. H. Gechler, Co. H, wounded at Campbell Station.

A. Gift, Co. E, wounded at Campbell Station. ^

M. McKeon, Co. D, wounded at Campbell Station.

J. Bedford, Co. K, wounded at Campbell Station.

Wm. Cole, Co. I, wounded at Knoxville.

Henry Deibler, Co. A, wounded at Knoxville.

James Birnie, wounded at Knoxville. .„ , .. ^ . x x i

P. McMillai^colored servant, wounded at Knoxville; left foot amputated.

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The Third Year of the War.

ADDENDUM.

After tlie immediately preceding pages had been '-worked off^*
by the printer, we received from the Orderly Sergeant of Co. E,
Two-hundred and Tenth Regiment, P. V., a list of the names of
Schuylkill County men in the Company. We insert the list here,
on the principle of ^'better late than never." Mr. Bower, the
Sergeant referred to, informed us in his letter, that Mr. L'Velle,
who went out with the Company from this County, was at the time
of writing. Sergeant- Major of the Regiment :

TWO HUIsTDEED AND TENTH PA. KEGIMEIS'Te
COMPANY E,

Captain, John Cook. Corporal, Charles Wagneil

2d Lieut., Wm. S. Morris. ^* Charles P. Koch.

1st Serjeant, 'Samu'E'l Bower. ^ '* J. J. Wagner.

'' Wm. H. Keller. '• Bbnj. Haines.

" Uriah W. Tiley. ." Jos. E. Thomas.

" John Gartly. " Epward Fletoheb,
Coi'poral, John R. Miller.

PRIVATES:

Burke, Patrick Hyman, B. Naughton, Michael

Barnes, James Houseknecht, Benj. J. Oriel, John

Barrett, Mark Hagerty, John Paul, William

Betz, Henry C. Joice, John Rasteterf Lawrenoe

Curly, Michael Jlrebbs, Pharon W, Reed, Ed. A.

Davidson, Sam'l Koednitz, Lewis Stolte,- Lewis

Daddow, H. S. Kelley, John Schrader, Bernard

Evans, Thomas E. Leahy, Frank Stride, James

Evans, Reece M. liewis, Henry Sarick, Jos.

Foust, Charles Lintz, Alfred Thomas, John BL

Hart, Alex. McKoy, Wm. Walker, Christopher

Hinchkliff, Sam'l Morley, James Webster, Elias

Hussey, Thomas McMullen, Rob. Ward, Michael

Hoffman, R. McKearnan, John Whims, James

Hoffman, B. McKabe, Joseph Yost, James

Commissioned Ofificers, - - - - 2

Non-commissioned Officers, - - - 11

Privates, . - - - . - 45

Total, .--..- 58

COMPANY H.
1st Sergeant, G. W. Garber.

Total, 1

Previous Grand Total, - - , - 1805

Correct Grand Total, - - - - 1864

THE CAMPAIGN OP 1864.

On the afternoon of March 3d, the Seventh Pennsylvania Ca-
valry, Col. Wm. B. SipeS; which had been recruited to much more
than the maximum number, left Harrisburg for Chattanooga. —
Before his departure from Potts ville, Col. Si pes was the recipient
of a handsome sabre, belt and sash. The presentation took place
at the residence of Mr. Thomas Russel, Mahantongo Street. The
tnft came from a number of the well-wishers and admirers of the
Eegiment, residing in the counties of Schuylkill and Northumber-
land. The work on the sabre was executed by the firm of Simon
& Bro.; Philadelphia, and is really beautiful. The blade of Dam-
f^cus steel, contains a fine etching of an engagement. The handle
is surmounted by an eagle, and contains a large, peculiarly fine
amethyst. The grip is of ivory, neatly carved. The scabbard,
which is ornamented with taste and skill, bears in addition to the
letter ^^S" set with diamonds, the following inscription : '^Presented
to Col. Wm. B. Sipesy 1th Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Ca-
valry, hy the Frienda of the Regiment, 1864." The cost of the
gift was S200.*

The presentation was made on behalf of the donors, by Eev.
8. F. Colt. In his remarks Mr. Colt adverted to the valuable
sei-vices in the field of the Regiment and its Colonel ; of the acts
of kindness that had endeared the commander to his men, and of
the feeling of gratitude and admiration that had prompted the be-
stowal of this gift. The donors were happy in the opportunity to
thus honor their brave defenders, who by their deeds of arms had
pierced the heart of the Southern Confederacy.

Col. Sip^s in response, thanked his kind friends for this beauti-
ful testimonial of their regard. It was another link in the chain
of kind acts which he had experienced here, and which bound
him to this people. He disclaimed any peculiar merit for what he
had done. It was simply his duty. He trusted that his future
acts in the service would warrant this evidence of esteem. He
thought that this war will remove from our National escutcheon
many dark stains that have disfigured it, and in :its results make

332 The Campaign of 1864.

us a greater, a better, a happier country. In conclusion the Col.
again earnestly thanked his kind friends for the honor of which
they had deemed him worthy in presenting to him these beautiful
gifts.

On Monday, March 12th, the Forty-eighth Regiment left Potts-
ville for Annapolis, Md., where its Corps, the Ninth, was ordered
to rendevouz. A band, which had been organized for the Kegi-
ment by Mr. Wm. J. Feger, left Pottsville on the 13th of April
to join the command.

Before Col. Sigfried left Pottsville to join his Regiment, the
Forty-eighth, a number of ladies presented him with a field glass.
The presentation took place at the residence of Lieut. Bohannan,
on the evening of April 18th. A silver plate on it bore the fol-
lowing inscription ; ^'■Presented to Col. J. K. Sigfriedj 48^7i Penn-
si/lvania Vols., hy tlie Ladies of Pottsville.'' Hon. C. W. Pit-
man made the presentation on behalf of the donors.

The Colonel made an appropriate and touching reply. The en-
tire affair was one of those pleasant social reunions which are
rarely forgotten by the participants. The Colonel left town on the
25th. The same week the Regiment moved from Annapolis into
Virginia, with the Ninth Corps. As the force marched through
Washington, it was reviewed by the President, Gen. Burnside
and both Houses of Congress. It is said to have presented a
magnificent appearance. Gen. Grant's movement upon Richmond
was thus fairly inaugurated. On the 3d day of May the advance
of the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan without serious
opposition.

On the 6th of May however, a series of battles commenced,
which lasted until Gen. Grant had his army firmly established in
front of Petersburg, running over a period of two months. They
were sanguinary contests, and tested the valor and endurance of
our soldiers to their utmost. This campaign is unparalleled in the
military history of the world for continued and persistent fighting.
Gen. Grant was uniformly successful in his strategy, out-gener-
aling Lee in every movemeot, and compelling him to abandon
strongly fortified positions and fall back until finally he rested
within his defences at Richmond.

The CAMPAiaN of 1864, 333

In these encounters the folloAving named Pennsylvania Regi-
ments, containing Schuylkill County men, participated : Forty-
eighth, Ninety-sixth, Fiftieth, Fifty-fifth, Eighty-eighth, Sixty-
seventh, Ninety-third, One hundred and sixteenth. One hundred
and eighty-fourth. Seventeenth and Twenty-first Cavalry.

We will give the losses sustained in these engagements, as far
as Schuylkill County men are concerned :

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants, commanding the Regiment, wrote
to us under date, "Battle Ground near Spottsylvania, Va,, May 15,
1864,'^ as follows ;

I send you a list of the casualties in the 48th Regt., from the 6th of
May to this date. In the battle of the Wilderness, the Regiment was
hotly engaged on the Gth, and skirmished in front on the 7th. On tlie
6th 350 men, including nearly all the veterans, skirmished all day on
the right, and the rest of the Regiment moved with the main portion' of
the 9th Corps, and vrere hotly engaged in the centre. The rebel army
having fallen back, the 9th Corps, was moved to Chancellorsville on the
8th. The 48th was not engaged until the 11th, when one division ad-
vanced on towards Spottsylvania on the evening of the lOtli ; but the
battle was not begun near us until the morning of the 12th. We fought
all day, and our Regiment having caught three Georgia regiments in a
little hollow, with rising, open ground behind, which prevented them
from retreating, completely annihilated them. We took over one hun-
dred-prisoners ; one squad of them which I sent to the rear under Lieut.
Bowen, amounted to forty-eight. Afterwards all the troops of our Di-
vision were ordered to make a charge, and the 48th advanced in excel-
lent style through an open, marshy ground, under heavy fii'e ; but the
troops on both our flanks having given way, the Regiment was moved
by the left flank into, a ravine in the woods and shielded from the des-
tructive fire of the enemy.

Our loss has been heavy, but the 48th behaved well, and in the action
of the 12th, owing to our position on the brow of a hill, five rebels were
killed, wounded ar taken prisoners, for every man lost by us.

Since the 12th, a few men have been wounded by sharpshooters, and
we still remain in the front line.

We have to mourn the loss of many brave men, and one of my best
officers, Lieut. Henry C. Jackson, who was mortally wounded in the
neck.

Very respectfully, your friend,

Heney Pleasants.

The list of casualties referred to by the Colonel— from the 6th
to the 15th of May — is as follows :

COMPANY A. '

Killed— Lewis M. Robinhold, Isaac Otto, John J. Huatzinger, Abel
a T. St. Clair.

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334 The Campaign of 1864.

Wounded — Sergt. A. C, Iluckey, Corp. Cliarles Brandenburg, Corp.
Jacob S. Ilonsberger, Morgan Leiser, Benjamin F. C. Dreibelbeis,
Clias. Hillegas.

COMPANY 13.

Killed — Corp. David J. Davis ; Matthew Hume, Frederick Knittle,
Laurentus C. Moyer, Daniel Wary, Jolin Deitz.

Wounded — Scrgt* Thomas B. Williams, Sergt, Wm. Kissinger ; Gott-
lieb Schaufler, David Deitz, John Brown.

COMPANY C.

Killed — Daniel Brown.
■ Wounded — 2d Lieut. Wm. Clark, Sergt. Jones Geier ; Michael Mohan,
AVm. Neely, Wm. J. Haines, Murtz Brennaii, James Coakly.

Missing — George C. Seibert.

COMPANY D.

Killed — Jonathan Kaufman.

Wounded — 2d Lieut. H. E. Stichter, Sergt. Henry Bothenberger,
Corp. Edward Lenhart; James Deitrick, Botto Otto, Ferry L, Strausser,
Geo. S. Beissel, Wm. F. Moyer, John Kehler, Jonas Miller, Joseph Zeig-
Icr, Pat. Cooligan, Andrew Knittle, Gustavus H. Miller, Henry D,
Moyer.

Missing— Edward H. Ebert, John D. Weikel..

COMPANY E.

Killed — Lawrence Farrel.

Wounded — Sergt. John C. McElrath, Corp. Sam'l Clemens ; James
McLaughlin, Geo. W. SchaefFer, David Williams, Vf. Simmons, G. W.
James, W. C. James, James Mcighan, Pvob't Penman.

Missing — Wm. Gutshall.

COMPANY F.

Killed— David F. Thiol, John Morrissy, Lewis Woods, Bichard
"Williams.

Wounded — Sergt. Bich'd Hopkins, Corp. John Powell; Wm. E. Tay-
lor, Israel Manning, Anthony Carroll, Wra. S. Wright, "James Brennan,
And. Westner, Henry Holsey, Wm. H. Kohler, John Eddy, John T. Reese,
John Crawford, A H. Y/hitman.

Missing — Geo. Kramer.

COMPANY G.

Killed — 2nd Lieut, H. C. Jackson ; William Williams.

Wounded — Serg. R. M. Jones, Corp. Geo. Fame; John Becker, Adam
Hendley, James Spencer, M. Berger, John Armstrong, Clay W. Evans,
Pat'k Grant, Wm. Maurer, John Kautter, Patrick Savage.

COMPANY H.

Killed — Abraham Benscoter.

Wounded — Sam'l Fryberger, AVilliam Donnelly, Wm. Huber, Benj.
Koller, John Klinegina, Daniel Ohnmacht, Albert Davis, John Steven-
son, Mich'l Melarkee, Daniel Cooke, John Gruikshank, Mich'i O'Brien,
Charles Focht, John Olewine, Joseph Edwards, Thos. Palmer, Jos
Chester.

MissiNG^-Harrison Bright, Michael Scott, Lewis Aurand, James
Wentzell.

' COMPANY I.

Killed — Henry J. Ege.

Wounded — Sergt. L. Swain, Sergt. J. Ongstodt, Corp. D. Klase, Corp.

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W. Knittle ; Charles Lindemuth, F. Boner, C. W. Horn, M. Dooley, W.
Tyson, C. DeLong.
Missing— W. B. Beyerle, B. McArdel, W. B. Shearer.

COMPANY K.

Killed — John W. Henn.

Wounded — Corp. Geo. J, Weaver ; David R. Dress, Elias Fenster-
macher, Thos. Fogerty, Henry R. Schulze, Franklin Ehly, Simon Hofl-
man, Andrew Weaber.

Col. Pleasants again placed us under' obligations by furnishing
us with the following account of the operations of the Regiment
and its casualties; from the 15th to the "Slst of Pvlay :

Headquarters, 48th Regt., P. V. V.,
Field South of Pamunkey River, Va.
May 31st, 18G4.

I have the honor to inform you of the casualties of the Regiment sinoe
the 15th inst., to date, and its present situation, which is within a gun
shot of the enemy, supporting a battery. The Regiment had been en-
gaged this morning on skirmish line, and an hour ago was relieved by
some other troops, and ordered to support our Brigade battery. While
I am writing our troops are keeping up a very heavy and continual fire
on the line. We are three miles from the Pamunkey River and twelve
miles from Richmond, advancing slowly towards the latter place. Wo
have been under fire every day but three since the loth, moving gra-d-
ually to the left on the enemy's flank. The boys stand it very well.

Wounded — Major Joseph A. Gilmour, left leg — amputated shortly
afterwards.

COMPANY A.

Wounded — Jacob Kerschner.

COMPANYB.
Wounded— t-lst Lieut. Wm. H. Humes; John Barren, Sam'l Heckman,
James Frazier.

COMPANY D.

Wounded — John B. Boyer, Henry D. Moyer, Charles Deitrick.

COMPANY F.
Killed — Patrick Doolin, Henry IMcCann.

Wounded— Sergt. Richard Hopkins ; John Crawford, Henry Dillman,
David Kreiger.

COMPANY H.

Killed— 2d Lieut. Samuel B. Laubenstine, Corp. Chas. Norrigan.
Wounded — John Gallagher.

COMPANY I.
Wounded— Sergt. Francis Allebach, Christian Seward, Frederick
Henry, Herman Buntz, James Boner.

Very Respectfully, your Obedient Servant,

Henry Pleasants, Lt.-Col. Commd'g Eegt.

In addition to the above we had the following letter from a

member of Co. D, 48th Eeg't, dated :

336 The Campaign of 1864.

Camp 48th Rect., P. V. V. \
June 2d, 1864. j

We are about five miles from the Pamunkey River and twelve from
Ricbmond. The Regiment is building rifle pits about thirty yards front
of an orchard. The sun is very hot and it is quite a luxury to be able
t;o be in the shade. Major Gilmour was wounded in the leg ilay before
yesterday, and had it amputated. The boys are all very sorry because
it happened to "be his fate to be hit. He was beloved by his whole Re-
giment, for he is a kind and good officer and a gentleman. Lieutenant
Samuel Laubenstine was killed, and Lieut. W. H. Hume wounded in the
arm. These three officers were all shot at nearly the same spot. I sup-
pose some rebel sharpshooter had range of that particular piece of
ground. Last night a man by the name of Koch of Co. A, had his skull
fractured by a piece of one of our shells. We had a pretty sharp fight
at dusk all along the line, and tremendous cannonading on our left, to-
ward the Chickahominy. Our Regiment was not actually engaged, but
it was a wonder that no more were hurt by our shells, for they burst
right overhead of the right wing of the Regiment.

On the 4tli of June Col. Pleasants again wrote to us as follows :

Battle-Field, near Geove Church, Va., )

June 4th, 1864. /

Yesterday our Division had a very severe engagement with the enemy
on the extreme right of the Army. We drove them over a mile, but our
loss was heavy. Last night the Rebels retreated, and, judging from the
number of dead and quantity of arms left on the field, their loss in our
immediate front must have been over one thousand. We exploded one
of th©ir caissons ; another was left behind, and over thirty artillery
horses lie dead in front of the 48th.

There was a general engagement along the line, and I understand we
"were successful everywhere. I send you a list of our killed and wound-
ed from the 1st of June.

Yours, truly,

U. Pleasants.
COMPANY A.

Wounded — Wra. Koch, Geo. Betz, serious, John Hugg, Simon Snyder,
Elias Linns, Corp. lleckman, J. D. Ash, Sam'l Eckroth, Israel Britton.

COMPANY B.

Wounded— Serg't Sam'l C. Strauch, Serg'tRob't Campbell.

COMPANY C.

Wounded— 1st Lieut. P C. Loeser, 2d Lieut. Wm. Clark, Patrick Far-
rell, John Dolan, Thomas Boyle.

COMPANY E.

Killed — David Williams,

Wounded — Daniel Boyer, by cannon ball on breast, severe, Dan'l E.
Reedy, mortal, Serg't E. Tosh, serious, John Clemens, Rob't Beverage,
Eevere, Patrick Brennan, Chas. Quinn, Albert Cummings.

COMPANY F.

Killed — Edw. G. Pugh, Wm. Smith,

Wounded — Sergt. Jas. N. Easton, Corp. Rob't D. Paden, George H.
Jones, J. Kuhns, W. E. DufiFy, severe, Cyrus Hanes, Jamea Bradly, 8«-
7ore, Jas. Houte, serero.

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COMPANY G.

Killed — Corp. Alex. Govan, Private Jas. Allison.

Wounded — Sergt. C. F. Kurntzler, Corp. Jno. Ilatton, Wm, Martin.

COMPANY II .

Killed — Joseph Alexander.

Wounded — Joiin C. Benedict, Sergt, Henry Berustecl, Coi-p. Henry C.
Matthews, Corp. Wm. A. Lloyd, Jos. S. Hays, Anthony O'Donnell, Jas.
Welsh, Wm. Davis, Edw. Metz.

COMPANY I.

Killed — Wm. J. Price, Benj. B. Kershner, Geo. Dresh.

Wounded — 1st Sergt. Oliver Davis, Sergt. Jacob Ongstadt, Corp. E.
C. Kehl, severely, Peter Kellei', Jno. Clark, severe, Wm. Owens, severe,
Jno. H. Cooper, J. Willour, severely, Wm. Kramer.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Jacob Lauby.

Wounded — H, W. Haas, Milton Nagle, Wm. C. Keiser, Thos. Hudson.

A BRILLIANT CHARGE.

On tlie l7tli of June a gallant and successful assault of a por-
tion of the enemy's works near Petersburg, Ya., was made by the
First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, of which the
Forty-eighth Regiment formed part. During the charge the Re-
giment recaptured the- colors of the Seventh New York Regiment,
of Second Corps, which had been captured by the enemy the day
previously while on a charge. Also, the Rebel colors of the 44th
Tennessee Regiment. The Brigade took 1170 prisoners and two
pieces of artillery. The casualties of the Regiment in this charge
were as follows :

COMPANY A.
Wounded— Elias Britton, mortally, John Holman, John McLean, John
Cochran, Wm. Huckey, John H. Shaffer, Joel Lius.

COMPANY B.
Wounded— Sergt. R. Campbell, Corp.. James Rider.
Missing — Corp. A. Wi-en, Jacob Wigner.

COMPANY C. n

Wounded— Sergt. H. Weiser.

COMPANY D.
Wounded— Lieut. J. Helms, severe, Corp. Jacob Deitrich, severe, L.
Deitrich, severe, J. D. Casper, Joseph Beiilinger, severe.

COMPANY E.

Killed — John Major.

Wounded— Wm. Reasons, severe, Thomas Clemens, severe, James Re-
gan, severe, Jas. Mercer, severe, R. B. Thompson, severe.

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COMPANY F.

Killed — H. F. Straub, Isaac Lewis.

Wounded — INfurt Erennan, Pat Boran, Corp. Robt. Wallace, E. L.
SLissler.

Missing — Mike Lavell, Wm. Auclienback.

COMPANY G.

Wounded — Lieut. C. C. Pollock, severe, Howard Jones, severe, Joshua
Eeed, severe.

COMPANY H.
Killed — George W. Morey, Jefferson W. Beyerle, James Mulholland,
Anthony Gallagher.

Wounded — Lieut. D. B. Brown. Charles Eberle, Lewis Aurand, Jona-
tti^ Dillet.

COMPANY I
Wounded — Lieut. Joseph Edwards, severely, Frank E. Ringer, .Wm,
Kramer, severe.

COMPANY K.
Killed — Nathan Rich.

Wounded — Sergt. Thomas Irwin, severe, John Gillinger, Oliver W.
Schwartz, David Houser.

The following were the casualties on the following day, the ISih:

COMPANY A.

Wounded — Henry Schroyer, Francis M. Stidham, severe, James W.
Sterner, Wm. Dreibelbeis, Jos. Dreibelbeis.

COMPANY C.

Wounded — Gilbert Graham.

COMPANY D. '
Wounded — Jos. Lindemuth. severe.

COMPANY F.

Killed — Simon Devlin.

COMPANY H.

Killed — Thomas Davis.

COMPANY I.

Wounded— Corp. Ben. Williams, Chris. Seward, Sam'l T. DeFrehn,
severely'', Jacob Reichwein, Charles R. Koch, severely.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Arthur L. Gray.

The following additional casualties we received from the officers
eommanding companies, after the Regiment reached Petersburg :

COMPANY a:

[The following are up to September 12th, 1864.]
Killed — Lewis Hessinger, at Petersburg, June 22d.
Wounded — Lewis R. Loyo, severly, Aug.. 10th, in front of Petersburg.

Israel Britton, June 7th, at Cold Harbor. Jabez McFarlin, June 7th,

at Cold Harbor.

COMPANY B.

• [The followiug are up to September 12th.]
Wounded — William R. Brooks, June 25th, before Petersburg. Henry
Slioppel, May 6th, battle of Wilderness.

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COMPANY C.

[The following are up to September 12th.]

Killed — Abraham A. Acker, June 23d, iu front of Petersburg. John
Whitaker, June 23d, in front of Petersburg.

Wounded — Andrew Dunleavy, .June 19th, near Petersburg. William
Demmerce, Aug. 3d, in front of Petersburg.

COMPANY D.

Killed — Henry Dorward, Daniel Okoh. '^

Wounded — Jas. L. Baum, Jac. Derr, Nathan Kessler, John D. Weikei

COMPANY E.

[The following are up to October.]

Killed — Daniel Beyer, Oct. 5th, at Pegram's Farm. John Danagb,
Sept. 80th, at Pegram's Farm.

Wounded — Corporal Samuel Clemens, May 16, before Petersburg.
Corporal Wm. J. Morgan, May 12, at Spottsylvania. Corporal Robert
Penman, June 8, near Cold Harbor. Corporal John Mercer, June 7tli,
near Cold Harbor. Cornelius Dress, June Gth, near Cold Harbor. Pal-
rick Grant, June 27th, before Petersburg, leg amputated. Wm. McEl-
rath, Sept. 11th,. near Weldon Sailroad, Va, John Murry, June 17th,
before Petersburg. Johix McRay, June 18th, near Petersburg. Daniel
E. Eeedy, June 3d, at Shady Grove Church, Va. — [The report to us of
the case of Reedy, is as follows : ''Supposed to have died on board the
steamer, bound north from White Hoixse, Va. Five Minnie balls passed
tiu'ough him, two through right leg, one through left leg, one through
right arm, and one through right breast ; right leg amputated below up-
per wound."] — iibraham Sigmund, June 3d, at Shady Grove Church, Va.
Anthony Wade, June 8th, near Cold Harbor. John Watson, June 27th,
at mine before Petersburg.

COMPANY F.

Killed — Wm. Smith, June 23d, at Shady Grove.

Wounded — Capt. Joseph H. Hoskins, Aug. 3d, before Petersburg
Wm. Duffy, June 9th, at Shady Grove, Va. Hamilton Hause, July 2d,
before Petersburg.

COMPANY G.

KiLLED—Wiliiam Simpson, June 2Gth, before Petersburg.
Wounded— Patrick Cunningham, May 12th, at Spottsylvania Court
House.

COMPANY H.

[The following are up to September Sth.]
Killed— Second Lieut. David B. Brown, Aug. 5th, near Petersburg.
Wounded— Job Hirst, June 26th, before Petersburg. John Lloyd,
Aug. 3d, before Petersburg. Wm. Schneider, July 29th, near Petere-
burg. Samuel I'. Skeen, June 23d, near Petersburg.

COMPANY I.

[The following are up to August 2Gth.]
Wounded — Isaac Boltz, June 3d, at Shady Grove. Chas. H. Good,
June 3d, at Shady Grove. Martin Dooley, June 3d, at Shady Grov«.
Thos. J. Reed, June 3d, at Shady Grove. Jos. Gilbert, June 15. John
U-mbenhocker, July 30th.

COMPANY K.

[The following are up to January 1, 1SG5.]
Killed— John F. Dentzer, Dec. 28th, at Fort Sedgwick*, Va.
Wounded— Sergt. Wm. Laubenstine, Aug. 9. John Bartolet, June 27,
before Petersburg. Ephraim Whetstone, June 23, near Petersburg,

340 The Campaign of 1864.

THE PETERSBURG MINE.

This great undertaking, planned by Col. Pleasants, and execu-
ted by the Forty-eight Regiment, was, unquestionably, a promi-
nent feature of the siege of Petersburg. It was in every way, suc-
cessful, and had not a sad miUtary blunder been committed after
the explosion, Petersburg would have been captured. Subsequent
investigation by the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of
the War, proved that Gen Meade altered Gen. Burnside's plan of
assault at the last moment, inducing confusion and producing a
failure. Gen. Meade was justly censured for his ill-timed inter-
ference in a plan which, in Gen. Grant's opinion, would, if carried
out; have been completely successful. Col. Pleasants' part of the
work was admirably executed, and he and the Forty-eighth Regi-
ment received from military men and the country, well deserved
praise.

The following letter from a correspondent of the New York

Herald, is a narrative of the commencement and progress of the

mine :

Ninth Army Corps, ")

BEFORE Petersburg, Va., July 27, 18G4. j

No feature of the siege of Petersburg lias been moi-e interesting, and
no undertaking more important, than tlie construction of the mine under
the rebel fortifications. So extensive had been this work, so difficult the
obstructions overcome, so complimentary its success to the genius and
perseverance of our soldier^, that more than a passing notice is due
to it.

After the investment of the city, about the 20th of June last, when
our further approach was disputed by the formidable character of the
rebel woi'ks, our officers began to look about them for the means of ac-
complishing, with the least possible sacrilice of life, what then would
have required the most desperate and bloody valor on the part of our
troops, viz : the successful assault of these works. The expedient of a
mine originated with Lieut, -Col. Pleasants, of the 48th Pennsylvania
Regiment. Not that others did not think of it ; but by most of our en-
gineers the idea was not entertained.

The distance between our first line and the nearest and most import-
ant rebel fort was over four hundred yards — too long to hope for suc-
cess when all the difficulties to be encountered in the way of quicksands,
underground marshes, and discovery by the enemy, were taken into
consideration. Col. Pleasants, however, cherished the idea. The rebel
fort loomed temptingly up in front of his line, and being a man of con-
siderable natural energy, and possessed of much practical experience in
mining operations, and knowing that he would be ably supported by his
regiment, which is mostly composed of miners from Schuylkill County,
the coal region of Pennsylvania, he, with permission, commenced oper-
ations. The Colonel had been engaged iu the mining business in his

The Campaign or 18(54. 341

'k was

native State previous to the outbreak of the rebel ion The woi.
commenced on the 25th of June last, as previously stated. Such was
the secrecy with which it was conducted that for a long time the project
was unknown even to those at whose side it was going on It is true
that reports were in circulation of a mine, but nobody could speak cei-
tainly of the matter. So much doubt was there, indeed, that tor a time
it was disbelieved that any such undertaking was on foot. One soldiei
in the breastworks, by whose side a ventilating shaft emerged told hij
comrades in the most surprised manner, tkat "there was ^ ^o ?f J^^ ?^^
under him a doing something ; he knew there was, for he <^o f^ heai em
talk " To guard against indiscretion on the part of the pickets, to pre-
vent any meeting of" our soldiers with the rebels, whereat the secret ol
The mine might be boastingly or imprudently disclosed, our Pckets were
ordered to fire continually. Hence the never-ending fusilade on the
front of the Ninth Corps,' so incomprehensible to tl- other corps, and
which was often referred to in newspaper paragraphs. The enemy
doubtless, suspected at first that the undermining was going on, _bu
when several weeks elapsed without any demonstration their suspicions
began to vanish, especially as their engineers must have thought the

^'The^'prTgress'of the work was necessarily very slow and it was not
until the 25th instant-just one month after inception-that it was com-
nlet d it he outset one of the most important points was to ascertain
fhe exact distance and bearing of the rebel fort. Working under ground
s liteiil y working in the daA. By that particular process of surveying
iall d -trianc^ulation'' these were , arrived at. To be more explicit :
d?s ances were laid off upon the ground behind our works From these
lines as bases, and with\be angles formed by lines extending m the di-
rection of the fort, a simple geometrical problem was formed, the solu-
tion o? ^h h gave the riquii^ed distance. Five different tnangulations
gave a insult of five hundred and ten feet. The excavation was com-
Lnced in the side of the hill whereon our exterior line of woiks luns
?£e tunnel, or, to use the technical term, "gallery," is about four and a
half feet hi^rh, nearly as many foetwide at the bottom, and two feet wide
at the top.^ The Znnl army pick was not suited to the work, as its
flukes were too broad to permit their swinging in the tunneL

Ths difliculty was easily overcome by ^^-^^g ,^«^/?^^t f,"". fronVtk ''
o\.c. nf fbP rPP.ular mininc^ pick. Water was met witii not far from tke
Entrance and^fo. a Ume gale no little trouble. The floor, however, was
nUnM and the sides Snd ceiling shored up. A quicksand was met
S, und! fo obviate it, the range of the tunnel was curved upward so
Uiat the latter half was several foet higher than at the entrance. Ihe
fz ng of the water formed mud in several places, so that the regm.en
.ame from their daily labors bespattered and stained. In fa^c, itwa.
•a^v durinc the past month to recognize a 48th man by his muddy boots
' The ear h,°as fast as excavated, was conveyed in hand barrows, made of
cracker bixes or half barrels, to the mouth, where it was emptied mo
bags which were afterwards used on the top of the breastworks. In
this manner no betraying accumulation of earth took place^

The ventilation of the tunnel was most ingeniously effected. J t
within our exterior line of works a shaft was sunk to the side or the
ILnnel at its iunction with which a fire-place was buiU, with a grating
opening into he gallery. One end of a series of tubes made of pine
boards^was inserted through the earth into this fire-place, where as he
air became rarified and ascended, it created a "suction" or draft m the

342 The Campaign of 1864.

tubes connecting ■with the gallery. As fast as the tunnel pi'ogressed,
additional tubing was jointed on, and followed the workmen step by
step. The smoke from the fire could not, of course, be concealed ; but,
to withdraw attention from it, fires were kept burning at various points
along the line. The lighting of the tunnel was effected simply by plac-
ing candles or lanterns along the walls at a distance of about twenty
feet apart.

At length' the end was reached, and the triangulation was abundantly
verified by the noises overhead. The nailing of timber and planks could
be distinctly heard, and left no doubt that the men were directly beneath
the rebel fort. The enemy were evidently making a flooring for their
artillery. As near as could be ascertained, the distance from the tunnel
to the fort was twenty feet.

After it was sufficiently evident that a p^int directly under the fort
was reached, the construction of the mine was commenced, . The angle
of the fort projects toward our lines, and under this angle the tunnel
diverged into two galleries, each running as near as could be ascertained,
under each side. It was the intention to make the mine consist of eight
magazines, placed at intervals along these branch galleries, so that the
entire length of the fort might be blown up, in place of one spot.

The mines are eight in number — four in either branch gallery. In
some cases they are built in niches, and again right across the tunnel.
They- are two by two, and the explosion will result in four craters, tan-
gent or intersecting each other.

The explosion of the magazines will be effected through tubes of pine
wood, six inches square, half filled with powder. They run along the
bottom of the tunnel, and enter the magazine through openings made
for them. Between each pair of magazines and over the tubing is the
"tamping" of sand bags and logs.

The tubes extend only one hundred feet from the mine ; thence they are
connected with the mouth of the tunnel by fuses, the regular " sure
fire" coal mining fuses of Pennsylvania being procured especially for
the purpose.

The mine was charged to-day. The quaniiiy of powder used v: as six
tons! Pause, and think of it. Six tons, twelve thousand pounds! Im-
agine eight dry goods boxes (the magazines resemble them in size or
shape) filled with powder, and you will have an idea of the mine. What
a terrific spectacle is in store for us.

The following is an account of the explosion :

Headquarters of the Army or the Potomac, "I
In Front of Petersburg, Sunday, July 31. /

The main feature of yesterday's operations was the blowing up of a
Eebel fort early in the morning, within three-quarters of a mile of Pe-
tersburg, to the south-east of that place, which is described as a scene
of most terrific grandeur. The fort had been undermined at the dis-
tance of 500 yards by a shaft under the superintendence of Lieut. -Col.
Pleasants, of the 48th Pennsylvania Eegimcnt, who is a practical miner.
The fort was occupied at the time of the explosion by four companies
of the 18th South Carolina Eegimcnt with six 12-pounders brass can-
non, gun-carriages, caissons, heavy ammunition, kc.

The cross chamber of the shaft running along under the fort at a
depth of some twenty feet, was charged at three difierent points, centre
and each end, with in all about ten thousand pounds of blasting pow-
der. The first attempt to touch off the mine failed, on account of some

The Campaign of 1864. 348

defect in the fuse, caused by dampness, wliich delayed operations an
iiour ov two.

Tliis defect being remedied, the fatal match "was applied, and up "went,
with a jarring, dull thug, an oblong acre or more of ground, in three
distinct earth-spouts, to a distance of a hundred feet or so, mingled with
the guns, gun-carriages and caissons, and the mangled forms of the
gunners, all coming down in a common sepulchre, men and machinery
being buried, from a partial covering to a depth of twenty feet. The
explosion has left a deep oblong excavation, some hundred yards long
and fifty wide, whichis called the '-crater."

Our troops subsequently charged, but it was af'tei a delay caus-
ed by the change of plan. It was too late. The enemy recovered
from the panic into which they had been thrown by the^explosion,
rallied to their guns, and poured upon our advancing lines such a
withering fire, that they were repulsed. The golden opportunity
was lost through the fatal action of a general ofl&cer.

There were some interesting incidents preceding the explosion.
Four o'clock in the morning of the eventful day found Coflonel
Pleasants with watch in hand, mounted on our earthworks, wait-
ing for the grand explosion. Anxious with excitement he waited, for
the fuse had been lighted by his own hand, and a few seconds would
prove the truth or incorrectness of his theory. The time for the
explosion had passed, when Lieut. J. Douty and Sergt. H. Reese, of
the Forty-eighth, volunteered to enter the gallery and ascertain
the cause of the delay. The fuse which was ninety-eight feet in
length, was extinguished. Fifty feet had been burned, but the
remainder was intact. A knife being necessary, Sergeant Reese
hurried to the entrance, and obtaining one, returned, Everything
was finally adjusted. At 4 J the fuse is again lighted, and the
men in the trenches clench their guns with a tighter grasp, and
aWait the explosion. Five minutes passed, and all remains silent.
The Rebe(s in the fort, unconscious of their doom, sleep on ; the
sun, as if anxious to witness the spectacle, mounts the horizon,
and at that moment the earth heaves and trembles as if shaken by
an earthquake. An instant, and then a terrific explosion ; huge
masses of earth, lifted as a child would toss a marble, men, cannon,
caissons, limbers, forges, guns and timbers are belched forth high
ia air, and descend with a heavy "thud,'^ a shapeless, chaotic mass.

It is doubtful whether any of the occupants of the fort made
their escape from death or capture. Numbers were doubtless en-

344 The Campaign of 1864.

gulfed in the yawning crater when the huge mass descended, and
if alive, were so deeply entombed as to render extrication impos-
sible. Shapeless masses, once men, were found in the debris, and
some were found half buried, and were dug out with bayonets,
sticks and swords.

An officer, while sitting in the ruins, resting his hand on the loose
earth thrown up by the explosion, fancied that he discovered a mo-
tion beneath. Taking a piece of board, he explored the dirt, and iu
a moment uncovered the face of a rebel who had been buried in
the ruins. He was uninjured, although nearly suffocated by his
premature burial. The crater formed by the explosion, was oblong
in shape, about one hundred and fifty feet in length, and twenty-
five in width. The destruction of the fort was complete. Four
companies of the 18th South Carolina Kegiment, with a portion of
another, were buried in tlie debris.

A complimentary order of which the following is a copy, was
subsequently issued by the Commanding General :

IIead-Quakters, Army or tpie Potomac, \
C.cuerpJ OfJers, ) ' August 3d, 1864. j

No. p± j

The Commanding General takes gieat ploasui-e in acknowledging the
valuable services rendered by Lieut. -Col. Henry Flea.^anls, 48th Regt.,
I'onnsylvania Veteran Volunteers, and the officers and men of his com-
mand, in the excavation of the mine which was successfully exploded
on the morning of the 30th ultimo, under one of the enemy's batteries
iii front of the Second Division of the Ninth Army Corps.

The skill displayed in the laying out of and construction of the mine
reflects great credit upon Lieut. -Col. Pleasants, the officer in charge, and
the willing endurance by the officers and men of the regiment, of the
extraordinary labor and fatigue involved in the pj'osecution of the Avork
to completion, is worthy of the highest praise.

V>y command of Major-Genkral Meai>e:

S. WILLLVMS, ^•
Assistant. Adjutant Oeneral.

Official : LEWIS RICHMOND,

Assistant Adjutant General,

The reader will agree with us, we think, that the staunch Re

giment and its indomitable Lieutenant-Colonel, richly merited ifc

The annexed report of Col. Sigfried, who commanded a Brigade

of colored troops in the assault, shows how they behaved on the

occasion :

Head-Quarters, 1st Breo., 4tii Div., Otii A. C. >
Defore PETEtiSBURCr, Va., Jttly 31, 1864. /
Sir: — In obiTdience to orders I movei my Brigade on the morning of
the 30th in3t., down tha covorel way iin nediately in the rear of Col,

The Campaign of 1864. 345

Humphrey's Brigade of the 3d Division. On arriving at the mcado-w I
was halted by the stopping of Col. H's Brigade. After remaining hero
sometime, I, in accordance with orders, moved by the Brigade of the
3d Division at a flank as directed across the field through the crater
made by the explosion of the mine. Great dif&culty was experienced
in passing through the ci-ater, owing to its crowded condition; living,
dead, wounded and dying crowded so thickly that it was very diflicult.
to make a passage way through. By the great exertions of the ofiicers
.md heroic determination of the men my Brigade faially made its wav
through, and was lialted beyond by the Rebel line of entrenchment e,
which was filled with troops of the 1st, 2nd and od Divisions ; behind
this line it formed in good order. The 43d Regiment, U. S. C. T., mov-
ed over the crest of the crater towards tlie right, charged the enemy's
entrenchments and took them, capturing a number of prisoners, a rebel
stand of colors, and recapturing a stand of national colors. This line
was part of the continuous line connecting with the crater. The bal-
ance of my Brigade Avas prevented from advancing into this line by the
number of troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3d Division in front of them. This
position left ray Brigade very much exposed to the fire of the enemy,
and it was so exposed at least an hour. Owing to the crowded lines of
troops of the stated Divisions immediately in front, it was impossible to
get my Brigade on. Just as the troops in front were about to make a
charge, a white color-boarer, with his colors, crossed the works in re-
treat, and the troops gave way and sought shelter in the crater, where
was concentrated a terrific fire from the enemy's batteries and entrench-
ments. My Brigade held its position until pushed back by the mass of
troops which rushed back upon it, and until the enemy occupied the
works to its left and the opposite side of the entrenchments, where, be-
coming exposed to a terrific flank fire, losing its numbers rapidly, and
in danger of being cut oft', it fell back behind the line temporarily oc-
cupied by a part of the 18th Corps, where it originally started from.
Here it was rallied and placed in position on this line.

Too much praise cannot be awarded to the bravery of both officers and
men. The former fearlessly led, while the latter fearlessly followed
through a fire hot enough to cause the olde&t of troops to falter.
^- * -x- * * -X-

Ilad it not bccji for the almost impassable croicd of troops of the hadim!
Divisions in the crater and intrcnchments, Cemetery Hill would have been ours
without a falter on the part of my Brigade.

I am, Sir, very respectfully your obedient servant,

(Signed) J. K. Siqfried,

Col. Commanding.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT

OF THE WAR.

The difficulties under which Col. Pleasants labored in execu-
ting his plan — the opposition which he met from general officers,
would have deterred a less resolute *man from proceeding. Had
not Gen. Meade fatally interfered at the last moment, the entire
affair would have been brilliantly successful. The reader can glean

a fair idea of the cause of the failure from the following abstract
29*

340 The CaxMapiGx^ of 1804.

of a report, made to Congress, by the Committee on the Conduct
oi' the War, after full and fair investigation :

WAsniNGTOJv, Feb. 0, I8G0.

The Committee on the Conduct of the War made a report to-day on
the unsuccessful movement which followed the ^plosion of the mine
before Petersburg on the oOth of July last. It covers fifty pages of
foolscap, and is accompanied by a large quantit}' of evidence. It ap-
pears from the report that the idea of the mine originated with Lieut.-
Colonel llcnry Pleasants, Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
mot the approval of his superior officers. Acting Major-General Porter
and Major-Goneral Burnside, commanding the Corps.

Tiie Committee say that Lieutenant-ColoTiel Pleasants labored under
disadvantages in the successful accomplishment of this important work
which would have deterred a man of less energy. It was not merely tlie
evident lack of faith in the success of the enterprise shown by all the
officers of high rank, bath his Divison and Corps Commanders, but that
lack of faith was accompanied by an entire failure to furnish the assis-
tance and implements necess.lry to the success of the undertaking, with-
in a reasonable time.

The testimony of Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants shows that he had to
dig and mine Avith only the men of his own regiment, that the dirt had
10 be carried out in cracker boxes, slung between poles, for lack of
wheelbarrows, and that he was even refused to use an instrument at
head-(iuarters wherewith to make the necessary triangulations, and that
General Burnside had to send to Washington for an old fashioned thro-
dolite. General Meade and Major Duane, Chief Engineer of the Army
of the Potomac, said the thing could not be done ; that it was all clap-
irap and nonsense ; that such a length of mine had never been excava-
ted in military operations and could not be.

Generals Burnside and Potter were the only high officers who believed
in it under these disadvantageous circumstances. The main gallery was
dug live hundred and ten feet in length. The left lateral gallery waa
thirty-seven feet in length, and the riglit lateral gallery was thirty-eight
feet in length. The magazines were placed in the lateral galleries. The
avarage size of the gallery was four and a half feet high and wide. —
After reviewing the different orders for the movement, and narrating the
final failure with the loss of between four and five thousand in killed,
wounded and missing, the disaster is thus summed up:

Your Committee cannot, from all the testimony, avoid the conclusion
that the first and great cause of the disaster was the change made on
the afternoon preceding the attack, in the arrangement of General
Burnside to place tiie Division of colored troops in the advance; the
reason assigned by Gen'l Burnside for not taking one of ihe Divisions ot
white troops for that purpose was fully justified by the result of the attack.

Their previous arduous labors and peculiar position, exposed continu-
ally to the enemy's fire, had, as it were, trained tliem in the habit of
seeking shelter, and true to that training, they sought shelter the first
opportunity that presented itself after leaving our lines ; and it is but
reasonable to suppose that the immediate commander of a Corps is better
acquainted with tJie condition and efiiciency of particular Divisions of
his Corps than a General further reniote from them.

Tlie conduct of the colored troops, when they were put into action,
would seem to fully justify the confidence that Gen.. Burnside reposed
in tliem ; and General Grant himself, in his testimony, expresses biji

The Campaign of 1864. 347

belief that if they had been placed in advance, as General Burnside de-
sired, the assault would have been successful, although at the time the
colored troops were ordered in, the white troops already in were in con-
fusion, and failed in the assault upon the crest beyond the water, and
the fire of the enemy had become exceedingly destructive.

The colored troops advanced in good order, passed through the ene-
my's lines and beyond our disorganized troops there, and stopping but
a short time to reform made the charge as directed. But the fire of the
enemy was too strong, and some other of our troops hurrying back
through their lines, they were thrown into confusion and forced to re-
tire. The Committee disapprove of General Burnside deciding by lot
whether the Division of Potter, of Wilcox or of Ledlie sliould lead the
assault, but there was but little time for selection after General Meade
had changed the programme.

General Burnside testified that each of the Division Commanders as
well as every officer in the command who had given his attention to the
subject in the least degree, was fully aware of the condition of the white
troops, as I had previously stated it to General Meade, and were fullj
impressed with the conviction that the colored troops were in much bet-
ter condition to lead the attack, and of the w,isdom of using the white
troops as support. There was no time to be lost, however, and I decided
that I would allow the leading Division to be decided by lot. The com-
mittee dwell on the fact that the order of attack as proposed by General
Burnside was also changed by direction of General Meade, wath the ap-
proval of General Gi^nt. They also show by the testimony, that when
the order to withdraw was given by General Meade against the repre-
sentation made by General Burnside, orders were also issued by General
Meade for ofl'ensive operations to cease on the right and left of General
Burnside's position, and General Ori's troops were at the same time
withdrawn from the position where they had been placed in support of
the Ninth Corps; the enemy were thus left entirely free to make such dis-
positions as they chose against Gen. Burnside's force within their lines.
The Committee also call attention to the fact, that General Grant attri-
butes the disastrous result of the assault, to a greater or less extent, to
the troops having been sent in unaccompanied by the Division Com-
manders. How far the Division Commanders would have been able by
their presence to have overcome the confusion and disorganization into
which the troops were thrown from the causes heretofore referred to, the
Committee are unable to say, but they refer to it as the opinion of the
highest officer in the service. The Committee also positively disclaim
any desire to censure the conduct of the white troops engaged, althouo-h
they confidently think that the original selection of the colored troops
was the best that could have been made. In conclusion, the Committee
eay, that, in their opinion, the cause of the disastrous result of the as-
sault of the 30th of July last, is mainly attributable to the fact that the
plans and suggestions of the General who had devoted his attention for
80 long a time to the subject, who had carried to a successful completion-
the project of mining the enemy's works, and who had carefully selected
and drilled his troops for the purpose of securing whatever advantage
might be attainable from the explosion of the mine, were entirely disre-
garded by a General who had evinced no faith in the successful prosecu-
tion of that work, had aided it by no countenance or open approval,
and had assumed the entire direction and control only when it was com-
pleted and the time had come for reaping any advantage that might b« '
derived from it.

S48 The Campaign of 1864.

CASUALTIES IN THE FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT

On the 30th of Septonher,

Lieut.-Col. Pleasants sent us the following list of casualties
sustained by the Forty-eighth Regiment in battle, September 30th,
before Petersburg :

Sergt.-Major Henry C. Ilonsberger, wounded.

COMPANY A .

Missing — Lewis H. Sterner, Frank W. Simons, Sam'l SchoUenberger.

COMPANY B.

Missing — John E. Bubeck, Gardner Bell, Jacob Hammer, Thomas
Griffiths, William Stevenson.

COMPANY C.

Missing — Sergt. Samuel Wallace, Murt Brennan, Charles Dintinger,
William Larkin.

COMPANY D.

Wounded — Sergt. George Bowman.

Missing — Sergt. Henry C. Graeff, KJeorge W. H. Cooper, William K.
Williams, Daniel Deitricli.

COMPANY E.

Killed — John Darragh.

Missing — John Doolcy, Edward Magginnis.

C 0 iM P A N Y F . •
Wounded — William Ball.

Missing — Sergt. Robert Paden, William Fulton, Joseph Finbej, Wra.
Moore, Michael Walsh, William Koehler, David Miller, Elijah DeFrehn.

COMPANY G.

Wounded — Patrick Galligan.

Missing — Patrick Grant, Nicholas Gross, Joshua Pvced.

COMPANY H.

Wounded — Corporal Henry Fry.

Missing — Henry Jones, Joseph Moore, John Hallady, Philip HQfFren.

COMPANY I.

Killed — James Heiser.

Wounded — Benjamin Williams, Henry Goodman.
Missing — 1st Lieut. 0. A. J. Davis, Patrick Crowe, .Joseph Cobu3.
Lttcian Monbcck, Nathan Neifert, Henry A. Neyman, William Weirs.

C 0 M P A N Y K .

Missing — George Cross, Thomas Leonard, John Patry, Thos. Fogarty.
Daniel Boyer, Co. E, killed by a sharpshooter, October 5, 18G4.

NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

The following is a list of casualties in this Kegiraent from the
5th to the 16th of May, 18G4 :

IJ Miles from Spottstlvania C. H. , >
May 16, 1864. /
Although our Regiment has been under fire every day since the 6th
inst., either in line of battle or on line of skirmishers, yet the largest

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portion of our casualties resulted from a desperate charge upon the ene-
my's entrenchments on Tuesday, May 10th, when our Regiment, with
seven companies, (companies H, I and K being on skirmish line,) made
a charge and carried three lines of entrenchments ; but the line on the
right and left of our Brigade not coming up, the enemy brought a cross
fire of musketry and artillery upon us from our right and left flanks,
and, unfortunately for our cause, we had to retire again, witli a loss to
our regiment of 120 out of the seven companies, our Brigade capturing
and bringing out 1100 prisoners, which exceeded the actual strength of
the Brigade, after the losses incurred during the charge.

Our officers and men arc somewhat exhausted from the hard service —
loss of rest and sleep — and severe exposure; yet we have had no sick-
ness in the regiment since crossing the Rapid Ann.

A''ery truly, yours,

Levi IIuber,

Major 96th P. Y.

COMPANY A.

Killed.— Capt. Edward Thomas, James Sexton, Alexander Smith,
John Stodd.

Wounded— Corp. Wm. Bynoon, mortally, Wm. Brown, John Donegan,
John Folenei% and in enemy's hands, Edward Fenstermacher, and in
enemy's hands, Daniel Hartlein and in enemy's hands, Michael O'Brien,
Henry Neadhammer, Nicholas Yost, Matthew Morrell, James Lee.

Missing— Sergt. Wm. Lord, Sergt. Dav. Pritchard, Corps. Chancey
Nugent, Edward McCormick and Michael Larkin.

COMPANY B.

Killed — Andrew Bucher. H. J. Keefer, Corp. YVm. B. Pveinoehl.

Wounded — Sergt. P. 11. Barr, Corp. John Ilardenack, Corp. John E.
Harney, Corp. F. A. Snyder, Jac. Wanner, ^ict. Dubbs, .Foseph Minnig,
Wm. A. Leffler, Jos. Sterner, Wm. Mangold, severely, Fred. Reinhard,
Wm. Britten, Jos. Eich, Sol. Moyer.

Missing in Action — Jno. Reed, Sergt. Dan'l Bonewitz, Sergt, C. F.
Umbenhower.

COMPANY G.

Killed— Sergt. S. Fisher, Corp. Geo. Belker, J. Davis, L. A. Bruns.

Wounded — Sergt. Geo. Foltz, severely, Sergt. James B. Oliver, Corp,
Charles Fisher, severely, John Evans, severely, Martin Currey, John
Hartman, John Simpson, Cyrus Shearer, Martin Carey, Adolph Lutz,
Jacob Saylor, Wm. Beadle, and missing.

Missing in Action— Sergt. David Williams, Corp. Frank Knittle.

COMPANY D.

Killed— Corp. James Gough.

WouNDSD— Sergt. Ezra Hendly, Geo. A. Thomas, severely, Jacob
Hart, Wm. Campbell.

Missing in Action— -Sergt. Chas. Beaumont, Sergt. Sam'l Seitzinger,
Edward Friel,

C 0 M P A N Y E .

Killed— Sergt. Wm. Zigler, Sergt. Francis Kemp, Samuel McAffee,
Jacob Wright, William Woodring, Solomon Moyer.

Wounded — Lieut. -John S. Oberender, Sergt. Jno. Ixler, Corp. Jno
Foley, Corp. James M. Denn, Levi Billheimer, Christian Ernst, Aaron
Hettinger, Geo. Landseidle, Richard Noble, Sam. D. Sager and missing^
Charles Shadle, Jacob Sims, Sylvester Sims, Manasses Dutter, Jesse

850 The Campaign of 1864.

Welsh, Enoch ITunirael, and missing, Greo. Kramer, Henry Bishlien, and
missing, Geo. Stagaer, Levi Bittenbender, Wm. Ramsay.

Missing in Action — Corp. Henry Roth, Corp. Lew. Frederick, Casper
Hutter, Christ'n Kermesel, Elias Kishbach, Albert Klinger, John Kram-
mer, Richard Lutzy, John Snyder.

COMPANY F.

Killed — Bartholomew Haffey, John Harley, .Jr.

Wounded — Capt. E. J. Philips, 1st Sergeant Philip Reilly, Sergt. Wm.
McAllister, Corp. Bo<iny Fell, Michael Cavanaugh, Thos. Marshall, John
O'DonncU, Jno. Haely, Sen'r, Corp. Patrick Martin, Geo. Barnes.

Missing in Action — Corp, Thomas Curry, Sylvester Maddox.

COMPANY G.

Killed — Sergt. Benjamin B. Wagner, Sergt. James Ferree, Corp. Josh
Workman, Frank Workoian, .James Betz.

Wounded — Sergt. John Williams, Sergt. Jacob "Allword, Corp. J.
Jerome Miller, John Beard, Geo. C. Bear, Philip Batdorf, Joseph Bal-
liet, Lewis Fritz, .John Luke, Edward Pugh, John Schollenberger, Ban.
Stahl, Lsrael Strasser. . .

Missing in Action — Corp. Joseph Workman, Corp. Eben M. Geary,
(Prisoner,) Corp. Edwin Moyer, Daniel Betz, Eli Hardinger, David
Machemer, John Perkey, Heni'y Roraberger, Henry Wiegner, David
Williams.

COMPANY^ H.

Killed — John H. Stedham, Daniel Campbell.

Wounded — Lieut. Joseph Johnson, Corp. John Shan, Corp. Joseph
Miidey, Abraham Long, Henry H. Lutz, Nap. Beckelmau, Jas. Brassing
ton, Wm. H. Crosscn, Thos. Walker, Frank Whetstone, Corp. John Boyer .

Missing in Action — Dan'l Engel, Jonathan Erdman.

COMPANY I.

Killed — Patrick Kelly.

Wounded — Lieut. Michael Mackey, Corp. John Sullivan, John Samon,
Timothy O'Connoi", Lawrence McGrath, John Lannon, Peter Ivelly,
Walter Kenney, Ethan Crandel.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Corp. William Brennen, Thos. Lawler, Martin O'Brien, Jap.
Moran.

Wounded — Capt. E. L. Severn, right arm amputated, Sergt. Wm.
Ablewhite, Corp. Delaney, Dan'l Hennessy, John G. Farrell, Pat. Ryan,
Sam'l Bell, Andrew Hughes, Thomas Maley.

MisBiNG IN Action — Jas. Murphy, Matthew Muldowny.

RECAPITULATION.

Killed.
Officers, - _ - - - - 1

Enlisted men, ----- 31

-32

Wounded.
Officers, '-----_ 5'
Enlisted men, ----- 108

113

Missing in Action.
Enlisted Men, _39

Total loss, - - - - - 184

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Several sHglitly wounded having remained -with the Regiment ih tlie
continuance of their respective duties, are not included in the foregoing
list. W. II. Lessih,

Lieut. -Col. Commanding.

The casualties of the Ninety-sixth in other engagements, werft

as follows :

On June 1st, in battle of Cold Harbor, Va., Adjutant Hannum wne
wounded, and had his arm amputated.

Major Iluber, slight, Capt. Van llollcn.

C 0 M P A N Y A .

Wounded — Jos. Gile, Patrick McGlinchy.

C 0 M P A N Y B .

Killed — Sergeant Frank Umbenhower,

COMPANY C.

Wounded — Samuel Fisher, John Jones.

COMPANY E.

Killed — Sergeant Jacob Wagner.
WouNDED-s-G. Roomes, Henry Woodring.

COMPANY F.

Wounded — Corp. B. Fame.

COMPANY G .

Wounded — Private Fi-ank Wagner.

COMPANY I.

Wounded — Sergeant Wm. McAllister.

COMPANY K.

Wounded — Private Thos. Gribbin.

Wounded — Private Pv. S. Johnson, Fred. J. Avery. (Company not
given.)

FIFTIETH REGIMENT.

In this Regiment, two of the companies- — A iind C — were from

Schuylkill County. On the 16th of May, Captain Schwenk, of

Co. A, wrote to us as follows, from near Spottsylvania Cuurt

House :

Enclosed you will find a list of the casualties of my Company, in the
several engagements since May 5th, when ive crossed the Rapidan.

May 6th the Regiment was engaged in the hottest of the f ght
at the Wilderness, and drove the enemy in good style to his riile pits,
which he was compelled to leave during the night. May 9th Col. Christ's
Brigade fought and whipped the rebels at Ny River on the Spottsylvania
road. The 50th Regiment charged and drove the rebels nearly half a
mile. The enemy, three Regiments, ifi turn charged, and came within
"fifty yards of the Regiment, which repulsed him in disorder, and occupied
a crest of a hill for which we were contending. May 12th there wag a
general engagement at this place, about one-half mile north-eagt of

352 The Campaign of 1864.

Spotfsylvania Court Douse, in ^liicli our Regiment made a splendid
charge. We lust heavily. ^ • , ,

Firino- has just commenced on our right, and I cannot finish, but must
look after my Company. The Regiment in the several cngageraentslost
at the Wilderness, May 6th, 2 otiicers wounded, 8 enlisted men killed
and 02 wounded. At Ny River, Uaj 9th, Capt. Burkert was wounded,
0 enlisted men killed and 70 wounded. May 12th, 18 enlisted men kil-
led, 42 wounded and 114 missing, and 2 officers wounded and 4 missing,
Capt. Cleveland has since died.

Respectfully,

Samuel Schwenk, Capt. Co. A.

Killed — Henry Faust, Simon Reigle.

Wounded Mortally — Corp. Wm. H. DSicamp, died May 7th, Jaoob
Henry, died same day, Conrad Carl, died May 10th.

Wounded Severely— Sergt. Benj. Focht, Jackson Bixler, Dan. Hoffji,
Nathaniel Rickert, Emanuel Swikert, Elias Xrautman, Michael Wolf-
gang, Daniel Delcamp, John D. Shearer, Augustus V. Schubei', Michiiel
VVoll,' Lewis Zimmerman, Abraham Starr, Nathaniel Stutzman, Isaac
Artz,' and taken prisoner, Aaron Ossman, Cornelius Schlegel, Harrison
Walton, Philip Dietrich, Jonathan Hearter, John Zimmerman.

Wounded Slightly — Corp. Geo. Lester, August Weisnei', Benjamin
Herman, Joel Kramer, Harrison Walton, Isaac Artz, Edward Bixler,
Wm. F. Clark, Peter Fox, Jonathan B. Stutzman, Joel Strohecker, Sam.
B.nViest, Benj, P. Pinkerton, Patrick Joice, Abraham Schwenk.

Missing and Prisoners— Corp. Uriah Wenerick, Corp. Hiram Strau,
Corp. David Baltou, Edward W. Clark, Josiah Saltzer, Dan'l Stein, Hiram
K. Wiest, Daniel Burkley.

The following letter from Sergeant Levan of Co. C, to his bro-
ther in this County, gives further particulars of the actions in
which the Regiment was engaged :

In the Rifle Pits in the Front. 1
May 21st, 1864. /

We have plenty to-do, lighting every day and working every night like
bees. I can't say what the Corps (9th) has done, for the woods are so
thick, that I can only see our Brigade. We were in the fight on the Uth.
We lost our Orderly that day, and the loss in our Regiment was heavy.
On the Uth we met the enemy again. Our Brigade led the advance and
engaged the Rebels." We laid them out handsomely that day. Captain
Burkert was wounded in the charge of that day. Our loss was not so
heavy in the Regiment. V.'o had skirmishing and some small fighting
until the twelfth, when two Brigades of our Division charged into the
woods, at the same time the Johnnies came charging on us ; they dis-
covered us first and got on our flanks and rear. It was terrible ; such a
shower of grape, canister, spherical case and shells, to say notliing of
the musketry. But we pressed on and got up to their works, and the
siglit we saw there ; it was every man for himself. The bayonet and the
butt of the musket were there brought into play, for there was no time
to load. They came around us like bees, but every man was a hero
tliere, and we soon advanced again. I pray that I may never see such
slaughter again.

I was taken prisoner twice before I got out of the woods. The first 1
knew of ^ur being surrounded was v>'hen I heard some one say, "Sur-
render you d Yankee, it is all up with you.'' I looked up and saw

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a terrible big officer swinging his sword over my head. My blood ran
cold. I thought of the horrors of Libby Prison, and then I thought of
home. The last thought gave me courage and strength. So I jumped
for him and took him in the pit of the stomach. I then gave a yell and
started on the run. I thought I was free, when another greasy Johnny
presented his gun in my front, which caused me to halt. "Drop that
gun, its all up with you," he said, when some one took him alongside
of the head, which caused him to drop mighty sudden, and away went
I, and if I did not do some tall running there is no snakes. When I got
to the clearing I laid down to rest a few minutes. I then started to
hunt up the Regiment. I soon found the Captain qf Co. B, We got
eight men together, when the Lieut, -Colonel came, and we formed a line
and rallied the stragglers. Gen. Burnside came up, and said, "Boys,
don't go back, but go and support those guns," meaning a battery that
had no support, which the rebels attempted to take, " and hold it at any
cost." We had just taken our position when Capt. Brumm came to us
with both our flags. It infused new life into us. Brumm deserves the
greatest credit. He took the new flag out of the rebel hands. Our
Color Sergeants were shot.

We were then ordered to the front, to hold the enemy in check who
were advancing. There we lay, a handful of men, sharp-shooting the
enemy's pickets. Gen. Wilcox saw us there, and said, "Boys, you have
done nobly," and proposed cheers for us.

In the fighting up to the 21st, our Company (C) lost 42 men killed and
wounded, besides eleven whom we can't account for. They went into
the charge in the woods on the 13th with us, but never caine out.

I am the only sergeant out of five left. The whole eight corporals are
killed or wounded. The Regiment is very small. Our loss is 333. The
greater part are from the first five companies. We have but five com-
missioned officers left for duty in the Regiment, On the 12th one Cap-
tain was killed, 2 wounded and 1 missing. One 1st Lieutenant, one 2d,
and our Adjutant, are missing.

J. H. Levan,
Sergt. Co. C, 50th Regt., P. V. V.

On the Gth of June "in Rifle Pits/' near Richmond, George
Heebner of Company C, wrote to us, giving the casualties in his
Company up to that date. Thej were as follows ;

Killed — Ord. Sergeant Wm, H. Hill, Privates Michael Riley, Levan
J. Warner, Sam, Martz, Dan. Evert, Jacob Benedict, Thomas Lloyd,
Franklin Sharer, John Reed, Emanuel Eckert, Albert Bartolet.

W6uNr)ED — Wm, Eckers, Peter Fritz, Christ Gulliver, Wm. Hoff'man,
George Lloyd, Adam Lloyd, John Mehargue, Charles Shappell, Adam
Lehwab, Irvin Tyson, Josiah Wright, Coi-p, D. T, Burkert. Sergt. Au-
gustus Mellon, Chas. Oswald, Wm. Wildermuth, Henry M. Diebler,
Josiah D. Lehman, Gottlieb Burkert, Corporal Henry Hill, Lieut. Wm.
H. Hiney, George Cake, Wm. Koch, Lafayette Baker.

Wounded and Missing — Corporal Levi Eckert, JoLa Eckert, Jacob
Hehn.

Missing — Sergt. David Raudenbush, Corp. John Dowdle, Privates
Sam'l Agley, Elias Berger, Peter Dankle, Wm. Guertlcr, Henry Hehn,
Wmi Hains, Garrett Kerrigan, Dan. Sullivan, Wm. V/illiams.

354 The Campaign of 1864.

Mr Heebncr subsequently wrote to us again as follows :

In Rifle Pits, near Petersburg, Va., \
July 1st, 1864. /
It may interest you to give a narrative of our march from Cold Har-
bor. On tlie niglit of the 12th inst,, we received orders to strike tents
and be ready to move at a moment's notice, which order was promptly
executed. It took but a foAV minutes delay, and the column was in line
and ready to march. Our destination was a mystery to us. The boys
passed different remarks. Some said we were going to the White House ;
others thought to Harrison's Landing, and some to the south side of the
James. The latter surmises were correct. While the boys were arguing
this subject, the bugle sounded to move forward, when we commenced
our march. It was rather a fatiguing one. We would move on per-
haps a few rods, and then there would be another halt. In that man-
ner we continue! during the remainder of the night. When daylight
appeared we were but four miles distant from the place we started from
in the evening. Shortly after daylight we halted and lit lire and cooked
our breakfasts, which were ratlier scanty, comprising hard tack and
coffee. Before our breakfasts were completed the bugle again sounded
"forward." It took but a few minutes until the column was again in
line, and proceeding on the march. We continued our march all day
when we again halted in the evening and encamped for the night. Be-
fore daylight appeared we were again on the march, and on the evening
of the 14th inst. we arrived on the north side of the James, where we
remained until the night of the 15th. The cause of our not crossing
sooner was the delay in receiving pontoons. But the Engineers did very
well considering the difficulties with which they had to contend. As
soon as the pontoons were ready we crossed to the opposite side, but we
had hardly crossed when orders were received for a forced march. We
again marched, part of the time double-quick, when we arrived within
ten miles of Petersburg where we halted and cooked our breakfast. We
had but a few minutes to do it in. When fifteen minutes had elapsed the
bugle was again sounded to forAvard, We had but a few minutes to do
it in. We proceeded on, which brought us within two miles of the
Cockade City. The 9th Corps was then formed in three columns. The
Second Corps was also formed in the same order. In that position we
remained until the next morning, when we were ordered about a half
mile to the right, to the same position the Second Corps had occupied
previously. We had not been in this position long before we advanced
in three columns, our corps forming the left, the 2d corps the centre, and
the 18th the right. Our division, which is under the command of Gen.
W^ilcox, was formed in three lines. The rebels seeing us advance, com-
menced shelling us very rapidly, wliich caused some delay in advancing.
However at 12 o'clock we advanced through shot and shell, when we ar-
rived within two hundred yards of tlie rebel breastworks. We then
charged on their pits which were very formidable. The 4Gth N. Y.
Volunteers, also the 24th dismounted Cavalry of the same State, together
with our Ilegiment, formed the third line. We had not advanced far bo-
fore the first and second line wavered and gave way to the right and
left. The first thing we knew we were the first line, but we advanced
with unerring aim until some of our boys were on the rebel works, but
when we looked around we saw nothing but the 46th New York together
with our Eegiment. Our Ilegiment being reduced down considerably by
an enfilading fire from the enemy's battery, after holding the pits for a
few minutes, we were compelled to fall back into the pits which the

The Campaign op 1864. 355

skirmishers -had occupied. Our Brigade Commander then sent an order
for the 46th New York to fall back, and our regiment to hold the pits at
all hazards, which order was promptly carried out. During this engage-
ment our gallant Brigade Commander, Colonel Christ, received a severe
wound in the head while gallantly ui^ging his men on, in the hottest of
ihe contest. * -^ « -Jt * * *

I will give you a list of the casualties of our Company since June 17th :

Killed — James Golles.

Wounded — Edward Beiges, Samuel Hoffman, Sergt. James Levan,
Jessie Wright, William Sirles.

The circumstances under which Col. Christ was wounded, were

thus stated at the time, by a correspondent of the N. Y. Herald :

"I cannot help paying a passing compliment to the gallantry and
coolness of Col. Christ, who handled his men in the most admirable
manner. His quick eye scoured the battle-field, and where the enemy
seemed the most determined, and where our men needed assistance, he
quickly despatched his regiments. He amply redeemed the fortunes of
the od Division, and it is to be regretted that his success was purchased
at the price of a painful wound. A bullet struck him in the side of the
head, just behind the left ear, and traversed about three inches of his
skulL''

The Colonel recovered from the injury, much to the satisfaction
of his men, and his many friends in Schuylkill County.

On the 19th of August the Regiment, with its Division, partici-
pated in a movement on the Weldon Railroad, resulting in gaining
possession of the important point. It was not accomplished
though without a severe fight, during which a fierce attack was
made upon Gen, Wilcox's Division of the Ninth Corps. A cor-
respondent of the Press, writing under date of ''The Yellow House?
Aug. 20, 1864," says :

"General Potter brought the 2d Division, 9th Corps, upon the right of
Wilcox. General White soon took position still further to the right. —
This was early in the engagement. These troops had just performed a
wearisome march over soft. roads, yet they entered the fight immediately
with cheerfulness and courage, holding their place upon the right with
great stubbornness. The SOth Begiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Vol-
unteers captured a stand of colors from the 47th Virginia. Emblazoned
upon the red, white and red folds were inscriptions of thirteen engage-
ments in which the Regiment had fought — from Bull Run to Mine Ruh."

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

Ill this Regiment there was one, Company — -E— from this
County. On the 18th of May a member of the Company wrote
to us as follows :

356 The Camapign of 1864.

Sudden and unexpected the entire 10th Army Corps was ordered from
the Department of the South to the sacred soil of Virginia. Of this
movement you have doubtless heard — of its concentration at Gloucester
Point and Yorktown — of the feint at West Point, York River and of the
occupation of Bermuda Hundred under General Butler. Since landing
here the troops were constantly under fire for nine days until Monday
morning the 16th. We had been steadily advancing towards Fort Dar-
ling, driving the enemy before us with every prospect of success. But
during Sunday night the 15th, the enemy, very strongly reinforced,
moved upon us, and during a dense fog on Monday morning they man-
aged to flank us on the left. The 18th Army Corps gave way first, fol-
lowed during the morning by the 10th. Almost the whole army was
thrown into confusion, and a general retreat was ordered. The 55th
Regt., P. v., was the last to leave the field. Our loss in killed, wounded
and prisoners was very large, but the rebels themselves must have lost
even more than we did, as they did not follow up the advantage gained.
Had they done so they might have added to their prisoners thousands of
stragglers. So terrific was our fire, says one of the prisoners, that at
onetime on the right of an entire regiment only about 40 were left from
the effects of a single volley. Men who have been in some other most
fierce engagements, admit that they were nothing to compare to the fight
of Sunday. Rations were issued to the men on the field but the men
were obliged to lie down ilat while passing their haversacks to have them
filled, to avoid the shells. The 55th Regiment suffered severely in kil-
led, wounded and prisoners, the great number however, were prisoners.
The Regiment went into the engagement on the morning of the 16th
with 900 strong, of which there were not 600 left. Entire loss in the
Regiment since May 6th, 15 commissioned ofiicers and 302 enlisted men.
Among the casualties are Col. Richard White (brother of Senator Harry
White) killed, Lt.-Col. Frank T. Bennett, son of Daniel R. Bennett,
formerly of Schuylkill County, wounded and supposed to be prisoner,
Adjutant Gotschal, supposed to be killed, Capt. David Fox, Co. A, killed,
Capt. James Metzger, Co, C, supposed to be killed. An entire brigade
of the 18th Corps were taken prisoners. We are still in our old position
gained the first day, from which they cannot drive us. There was an
alarm last night and some skirmishing, during which we captured 300
prisoners, with a loss of 40 men in killed and wounded ; I understand
that our men scarcely fired a shot. All the firing, of which there was
considerable, was done by the rebels themselves. They supposed that
they knew where our pickets lay and blazed away, but the pickets were
instructed to rally, and then the first thing the rebels knew they were
inside our lines, prisoners.

Below is an official list of the killed, wounded, prisoners and missing
of Co. E, 55th Regt., P. V., Capt. George H. Hill, from the 6th to the
16th inclusive :

Killed — George Stone, Peter Reitz, Michael McNamarra, Theodore
Weiser.

Wounded — 1st Lieut. J. Slotterback, 2d Lieut. W. Benseftian, Sergt.
John McLay, Sergt. Daniel Chester, Corp. Miles Rourke, Corp. Jacob
Fluge, Privates Andrew Govan, John Madden, Henry Aumet, Chas. H.
Kantner, David Wier, Thomas Wilson, George Raudenbush, Jas, Wood,
Wm. P, Maggee, James S, Campbell, Haly Wren, Chas. Fritzley, Daniel
Lodge,

Wounded and Missing — Corp. John Maggee, Jr mes Tobin, Corp.
William Kuehn, Aaron Yoder, Daniel Billman, Solomoi; BiUman, John

The Campaign op 1864. 357

McCann, Luke Welsh, John Booth, Philip Anstee, Thomas Conway, Rbt.
Reed, James McFarlane, George Dunlop, Thomas Patten, David Hughes,
Edward Coyle, Patrick Churchfield.

lii an engagement, May 20tb, the Company sustained the fol-
lowing casualties :

Killed — John Welsh.

Wounded — Fredrick Reed and Thos. Sharp.

Missing in Action — John S. Bannan, Rosewald and Stephens-

On the 4th of June Capt. Hill wrote to his father as follows :

Near Mechanicsville, Va., June 4, 1864.

Deae Father : — I have only time to write a few lines. We left Ber-
muda Hundred May 28th, and arrived at West Point on the morning of
the 30th. We marched up the railroad to White House Landing, 15
miles, and on the 31st were placed in the 1st Brigade, (Gen. Stannard's)
2d Division, (Gen. Martindale's) 18th Army Corps, commanded by Maj.
Gen. Smith. That afternoon we started for Grant's Army and met them
here, 2J miles from Mechanicsville, on the afternoon of the first of June,
and were immediately put into action, and have been kept under fire
ever since. Yesterday morning our Brigade charged and took two lines
of rifle pits, but were checked by a strong earthwork with heavy siege
guns mounted on it. We held our position, however, though the Brigade
suflfered severely ; Gen. Stannard had a ball in his leg but has not yet
left the field ; every one of his staff was wounded, Our Regiment had
four officers wounded and 134 men killed, wounded and missing. Capts.
Shoener and Nesbitt are both wounded, which leaves me in command of
the Regiment. My Company is commanded by a corporal, the only non-
commissioned officer left for duty. I send a list of casualties in my
company since I wrote last :

Killed — Edward Lewis.

Wounded — Sergt. Wm. Challinger, Color Sergt. Michael Murray, Corp,
S. D. Watkins, Geo. Smith, Michael Guldin, John Fry, Still Hull.

Missing — Patrick Delaney, Wm. Williamson.

I was struck twice, first with a minnie ball, which went through my
coat, broke my pipe and tore' my pants ; second with a splinter on the
shoulder which lamed it a little-

On the 8th of October Surgeon J, B, Brandt, of the Fifty-fifth,

wrote to us as follows ;

In the Field, Va., Army of the Jajies,
55Tn RiJg't Pa. Vols.,
October 8th, 1864.
Casualties of the 55th Reg. Pa. Vols., Capt. Geo. H. Hill, Commanding,
occurring in a charge on the rebel fortifications, in front of Richmond,
near Chapin's Farm, north side of James River, Va., on Sept. 29th.
1864, viz :

COMPANY A.

Wounded — G. P. Barnacle, Francis Warner, Michael Hussa.
Missing — Michael Bock.

COMPANY B.
Wounded — Corp. Frank B. Berger, Samuel Startzer,
Missing — Corp. Emanuel Froehlich, James Tyson, Jac. Snyder, Amos
Stout, Geo. Strickler, Jos. Wike, Ellas Howe, Wm. Idle, Tidele Biref.
30* '

}

358 The Campaign of 1864.

COMPANY Q.

Killed — James Robinson.

Wounded and Missing — Rufus Mitchell.

Missing— William A. Vance.

COMPANY D.

Wounded — Elias Murphy.

Wounded and Missing — Sylvanus B, Summerville.

Missing — Daniel Wenrich,

COMPANY E.

Wounded — Capt. Geo. H. Hill, Michael Golden, G. U. Kise.

Wounded and Missing — Color Sergt. A. Tlanigan.

Missing — Sergt. Mich. Murray, Corp. Geo. Zeinhelt, Hiram Thomas,
John Jeffries, James Murphy.

COMPANY F .

Wounded — Geo. Wike, B. B. Black, Jacob Shauk, John Strain, Henry
S. Swartz, Philip Breidenbach, George Walters, Corp. D. Myers.

Wounded and Missing— Stephen Walker, Solomon Fetterman.

Missing — 1st Lieut. Blaney Adaii, Corp. D. Kennedy, Harrison Over-
dorff, William Cochrane, William P. Patterson.

COMPANY a.
Wounded — Sergt. Thomas Howe, Corp. Charles Long, J. Stiffler.
Wounded and Missing— Sergt. Harry E. Eisenbise, Corp. John Lane,
Harry Shorts.

Missing— Sergt. D. Black, Joseph Wilders, C. Rush, Wm. Smith.

COMPANY H.

Wounded — 1st Sergeant Josiah Hissong, Charles Stokeman; George
Ganehow, Hiram Matthews, Edmund Fisher.
Missing— H. B. Slick, John A. Moyer.

COMPANY I.

Wounded — Matthew Garland.

Wounded and Missing— Capt. John O'Neill, Sergt. Paul Mock, Corp.
Alfred Ruggles, Chas.. Bisbin, Edwin Hughes.

Missing— John Barr, Corp. Jno. Bartlebaugh, Phil. McCormick,

Lawrence.

COSIPANY K.

Wounded — Corp. David Ling, Andrew Mock, F. H. Luther.

Missing — Sergt. John B. Mock. Corp. John Christ, John Koch, Cyrus
Gephart, Andrew Plucker, John Palmer.

And again as follows :

In the Field, Va,, Army of the James,
55th Reg't, Pa. Vols.,

October 19, 1864. _
I have the honor to submit to you the casualties occurring in this Re-
giment since September 29th, 1864, viz :

Wounded— William Jackson, Co; C, Ord. Sergt. Matthew Loughry,
Co. F., Joseph Wyke, Co. B.

Jacob Pluge, of Company E, wrote to us in October, from

Cbapin's BlufF, Va., as follows :

On the 4th of May last, we left Gloucester Point with the Army un-
der G«n. Butler. On the 6th we arrived at Bermuda Hundred and dis-

}

The Campaign of 1864. 359

embarked. We then had some slight skirmishing with the enemy, and
on the night of the 7th we threw up entrenchments. On Monday, the
9th, we marched out in the direction of Petersburg ; fought the battle of
Swift Creek, and drove the rebels about a mile. Rested till Tuesday
morning, wlaen we discovered the enemy in our rear, when we faced
about and gave them a complete threshing, and marched in pursuit till
we cam.e to the Halfway House, where we found them strongly entrenched
on a commanding position. After some manoeuvring and fighting, we
drove them out. Next followed the battle of Red Creek, and on Mon-
day, the I6th of May, the enemy being strongly reinforced, succeeded
in breaking our lines, when we thought it prudent to retire. A few
days after we left for Cold Harbor, where we had several heavy battles —
one on the 27th of iNIay, and one on the 1st June, in which we lost many
brave comrades. The next thing was another flajik movement, and we
made a strike for Petersburg, in which our Corps had the advance, and
after several very heavy battles we again had recourse to the pick and
spade. After the 18th of June we had no regular engagement until the
29th of September, when we made an advance on Richmond on the
North side of the James, and after a day's hard fighting, we rested our
weary limbs in and about Fort Harrison. At 8, P. M., 29th, our little
Regiment was ordered to charge and take a line of entrenchments in
our front, which proved to be a cuain of redoubts, connected by a strong
line of breastworks. According to orders, Capt. G. H. Hill gave the
command, and his gallant little band will all say that they were never
led by a braver officer. With the 158th New York Regiment to support
us, we charged and went to within fifty yards of the works, under a
most terrific fire from at least 15 pieces of artillery and 1500 infantry.
Finding that our support had all left us, and tried to save themselves,
we had to give up the chase. Our loss in this charge was 80 out of 160.
Our Regiment, which numbered 1500 in May, is reduced to 250 for duty,
including a number of wounded that have lately returned.

FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

Company K of this Kegimentj was recruited in this County. —

The casualties in it, as reported to us by Sergt. Isaac B. Jones

were as follows :

Wounded — Capt. Ira N. Bennett, 2d Lieut. Samuel Shaw, Sergt. Geo.
Allison, Corp. Michael Maher, Corp. John Flanaakers, since died, Corp,
William Bowers, since died, Wm. H. Reynolds, Washington Trout, Wm.
N. Roeport, Michael Luby, Daniel Hess, Reuben Seccolty, Cabren Waltz,
James Albert, Edward Warren, Cyrus Madanies, Solomon Benker, Henry
W. Barkley.

Camp at the Yellow House,
ON the Weldon Rail Road, Va.

September 5t.h, 1864.

Enclosed find list of killed and wounded of the 56th Reg't., P, V. V,
in the engagement on the Weldon Railroad, August 18, 19, 20 and 21 :

COMPANY A.

Wounded — Corp. Nelson Early.

864. J

360 The Campaign of 1864.

COMPANY B.

Killed — Hugh McFaden. '

Wounded — Westley M. Brubecker.

COMPANY C.

Killed — Michael Harley.
Wounded — Modest Rubonock.

COMPANY D.

Wounded — Modest Welger,

COMPANY G,

Wounded,— ^Edward Philips.

COMPANY H.
WouNDEB — ^Thomas Cochlin, Patrick Cannon, John Fisher.

COMPANY I.,

Killed — John G. Lebo.

Wounded — T. H. Cyres, AVm. Reeves, Lyman Ayers.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Isaiah Wilbur.

Wounded — Capt. I. N. Bennett, 1st Sergt. Jared B. Colven, Christian
Kir, Robert Kain, Jacob Harrill, since died, David P. Craig, Matthias
Herlinger, Washington Trout, George Night, John Lovegrovf.

From a Schuylkill Vetbban.

SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Geo. Rice.

Wounded — Charles Ewing, Edward Hause, Burd Vliet, Pat'k McBtr-
mott, John Bauman, S. Hayes.

EIGHTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Killed— r^Amos Fisher.

Wounded — George Beaumont, Albert Keen, William Heller, Franklin
Plotz, George Clingiman, John Use, William Ready, Charles RoUen,
Cyrus Strawhecker, Corp. Wesley Hoffman, Ross Hoffman, Corp. David
Whitaker, William Meror.

Missing— Sergt. Jacob P. Becker, Isaac Matthews.

NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT.

Wounded — Jacob Fox.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.

COMPANY a.

Wounded — Capt. Frank Leib, Corp. Samuel S. Kramer, Corp. Abra'm
Faust, Eli Boyer, Thos. Miller, Frank Reber, Henry Deitzler, Henry
Seitzinger, Wm. B. Himback, George Fribey, Henry Trumbo, John Sher-
man, Jacob Shilthorn, Lewis De Long, Jonathan Moyer.

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Missing — George Wildermutli, Adam Beachncr, Peter Snyder, Wm,
Himback.
All of the above belonged to this County.

SEVENTEENTH CAVALRY.

COMPANY II .— ( CajH. Wm Thompson.^
Killed — Sergt. Emanuel Moyer, Philip Troy, Joel Koons.
Wounded — Sergt, Wm. Rupert, Sergt. Thomas Hock, left behind in a
rebel hospital, Geo. W. Bankers, Elias E. Reed.

Subsequently, in Northern Virginia, the Company saw active
service under Sheridan. Its casualties were :

Wounded — Capt. Wm. Thompson, Philip Artz, George Douter, Corp.
Lewis Langdon, Daniel Derr.

Captured — Thomas Herbert, Jacob Worms, Charles Eyrster, Chas.
Mairain, Michael Shover, John Snyder, Joseph Bidlow, Wm. Zimmer-
man, Franklin Shubb, Levi Michael.

TWENTY-FIRST CAVALRY.

Sergeant R. S. Lerich, of Company H, wrote to us under date
*^Camp near Petersburg, July 9, 1864/' as follows :

We have been in several hot engagements since we have been in the
front, one on the ed of June near Cold Harbor, and on the 18th near
Petersburg, and 22d near Petersburg also. We had wounded in three
actions as follows :

Wounded — Sergt. Ed. Heckman, Corp. Jeremiah K. Lehman, George
Reinoehl, Jas. McClennan, Thomas McGouger.

While the great Captain, Grant, was fighting these memorable
battles in Virginia, his able Lieutenant — Sherman — was pushing
southward with a splendid army, from Chattanooga to Atlanta. —
In a series of battles, as brilliant as any ever fought on this con-
tinent, he invariably defeated the rebels, and in September Atlanta
succumbed to our victorious arms.

The largest representation of Schuylkill County in his army,
was in the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, a Regiment that had
acquired a great reputation in the West for its fighting qualities.

In Company F, One Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Reg't,
there were also many men from this County. They were engaged
near Dallas, Ga., May 25th and 28th, and sustained the following

casualties :

Killed — Sergt. John F. Mundy, Josiah W. Matthews.

Wounded — Jonathan Humphreys, John Prosser, Wm. Boran, James
Boran, Thos. E. Lewis, Ord. Sergt. R. J. Quigley, Sergt. J. M. R. Storej'.

862 The Campaign or 18C4.

SEVENTH CAVALRY.

Tliis Regiment during Sherman's campaign was engaged in
many raids, skirmishes and battles, rendering on all occasions the
most effective service. In a letter to us, from a member of the
Regiment, dated ^' Camp before Marietta, Ga., July 2d, 1864,''
we received the following list of casualties sustained by the Re-
giment from April 2Sth to May 31st, inclusive :

COMPANY A.

Wounded — Gustavus Wetzel, William 11. Waldron.
TRisoNprn — William Anspach.

COMPANY B _

Killed — Sergt. Potev Longwell, Sei-gt. James R. Klack,
Wounded — Corp. John II. Yeomans, Allen E. Williams, David Mc-
Clintock, lienjamin F. Warren.
Prison ERS — Daniel Iloflfer, John A. Pattou.

G 0 M P A N Y C .

Wounded — George L. Covert.

Prisoners — Henry 11. Morrisson, William TI. H. Thomas, Robert M.
Cummings.

COMPANY D.

Wounded — Corp. Ileni-y Art man.

COMPANY E.

Wounded — Robert T. Mowrer, William Rishel.

C 0 M P A N Y P .

Killed — Patrick McLaughlin.

Wounded — Jacob Beler, David Williams, John Dener, missing.

Prisoner — Capt. Cyrus Newlin.

C 0 .M P A N Y G .

Wounded — Samuel Muller.

COxMPANY- H.

Wounded — Thomas Lowe.

C03IPANY I.

Killed — Sergt. James Fleming.

Wounded — Josiah Mahafty, Andrew Duflford, Corp. James Waters.

COMPANY K.

Killed — Archibald Mulicr.

Wounded — Jacob Secrist, Ord. Sergt. George Herr, Chas. Tennis,
Exra I'owman, Corp. Abraham Kepperl3^

COMPANY L.

Wounded — ITonry M. Berger, Henry Siegfried.
Prisoner — Henry Rider.

C 0 31 P A N Y M .

Killed — Adam James, William Ainsworth.

Wounded — Corp. Edward L. Beck, Maloney, Theodore P. Seip,

Josiah Coxey, John Crook, missing.

The Campaign of 1864. 36S

A DARING ATTACK.

When Gen. Sherman's x\rmy arrived in front of Atlanta, and
laid siege to the place, a plan was formed to attack the enemy's
communications, to cut off his supplies. For the daring and ha25-
ardous work the best cavalry in the army was selected, the Seventh
being among them. The object was accomplished after severe
fighting and loss. The annexed graphic description of the oper-
ations was furnished to us by. an esteemed friend who participated
in the movement as a soldier of the Seventh :

Camp Ttii Pa. Vet. Cavaley,
In Front of Atlanta, Ga.,

August 23d, 18G4.

Since tlie date of my last communication, up to the ITtli of this
month, nothing worthy of note happened to the old 7th. We were out
on two or three raids, destroyed several miles of railroad for the "John-
nies" at and near Covington on the line of road between Atlanta and
Augusta, captured about two hundred horses and mules, and about half
that number of "Free Americans of African Descent," served two weeks
in the breastworks dismounted, and were beginning to think we were
destined to remain there until Atlanta had fallen, when we were ordered
back to our horses on the 15th inst. Eumor said we were to make an-
other raid, and we were looking anxiously for some defi»ite information,
when about sundown of the 17th we were ordered to be ready to move
at nine o'clock that evening with five days' rations from the morning of
tiie 19th. About midnight we moved out and at seven o'clock on the
morning of the 18th were at Sandtown, a small village on the Chatta-
hootchie River some sixteen miles below tlie Rail Road bridge. Up to
this time we were in the dark as to what we were to do, or where we
were going to do it. We now found we were to form part of the force
which, under the command of Brig. Gen. Kilpatrick, were to make an
attack on the enemy's communications, and endeavor to cut the Macon
Hail Road. I cannot better convey to you the object of the expedition
than by giving you the circular issued by the commanding officer. It is
as follows :

HEAD-QrAETERS Cav.\t,rv Expedition, D. C. >
Samdtown, Ga., August IS, 1S64. /

Soldiers ! Yon have been selected from the Cavah-y Divisions of the Army of the
Cumberland. You have been well organized, equipped and rendered formidable at a
great expense to accomplish an object vital to the success of our cause. I am about to
lead you, not on a raid, but iu a deliberate and well combined attack upon the enemy's
communications, in order that he may be unable to supply his army in A tknita. Two
expeditions have already failed. We are the last cavalry troops of the army. Let each
eoldJer remember this and resolve to accomplish the great object for which so much Is
risked or die trying. (Siguedj

J. KiLrATRIOK,

Brig. Gen. Commanding.

At Sandtown on the l8th the column moved. It consisted of the 3d
Division, composed of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Cavalry, on«
Brigade of the 1st Division, and two Brigades of ours, the 2d Division,
composed of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania cavalry.

The advance struck the enemy's pickets five miles from Sandtowri. —
They oflFered but feeble resistance however, and we met Avith no seriotts
opposition until daylight the 19th, when we struck the Montgomery Rail

364 The Campaign of 1864.

Road at Red Oaks. Here the Rebs were strongly posted parallel to the
road, and had their artillery so posted that they could, as they supposed,
hold us in check, but orders were given to keep well closed up, and keep
pressing forward. They threw their shells with a rapidity and accuracy
that told upon our ranks, but at length seeing that we were getting to
their rear, they concluded it was time for them to be leaving, so they
left on a double quick towards Jonesboro. We following closely in their
rear, drove them all day, and at dusk struck the Macon Rail Road at
Jonesboro. At this point we destroyed over three miles of track, burned
the depot and several other buildings, used by the Confederate Govern-
ment as store houses, and an iron water tank. The latter for a time de-
fied our efforts to render it useless, but at last we brought a piece ©f ar-
tillery to bear upon it, and I rather think it will take more than South-
ern ingenuity to stop all the holes we knocked through it. As soon as
the work of destruction was accomplished, the expedition was on the
move and taking the Covington road daylight of the 20th, found us ten
or twelve miles from .Jonesboro. Here we halted at a church for an
hour. The enemy who were following us were held in check by our
rear guard. We then took a road to the left and struck the main road
from McDonough to Fayetteville, and pushed rapidly forward till about
noon, when we struck the enemy in force at our front. At this point
the 4th Michigan Cavalry struck off to the right to Lovejoy Station to
destroy the Rail Road at that point. They succeeded in their object,
without meeting with any opposition. Our Regiment was thrown into
the woods at the right of the road, and then dismounted and commenced
feeling the enemy. They soon found them, and being too strong for our
number, the 4tUU. S. was sent to our assistance and shortly afterwards
the 2d Brigade of our Division. We then charged the rebs and drove
them some distance, when they rallied and in turn drove us. Mean-
while the force in our rear was pushing us hard ; they threw shells from
front and rear into our columns. After fighting on foot for some
time in which neither party appeared to gain much, we were ordered to
mount, which we did. We were formed in columns of regiments, and
ordered to charge. Our Regiment was on the right, the 4th Michigan
in the centre, and the 4th U. S. was on the left of the road. Another
Brigade was formed in like manner. When every thing was ready the
word was given ; and in they went. Words can scarcely portray the
terrible sublimity of that charge. The air \gas filled with bursting shells
and musket balls. The ground fairly trembled under the tread of a
thousand horses. As they get nearer the foe the grape and canister
come tearing through the ranks, yet nothing can stop our rushing col-
umns. Nearer they come to the yet unbroken line. Now they close up-
on them with a yell which drowns the roar of artillery and the crack of
the musket. Now the rebel line is broken and is fleeing in wild disorder.
Man}' are cut down with the sabre and many more trodden under foot by
the horses. The field is won, the victory is ours, and wild and exultant
is the cheer that makes the very welkin ring. Their battery is silenced.
One of the pieces we brought with us, and the others were spiked and
rendered perfectly useless.

We had some more hard fighting, bat as usual were victorious. The
same afternoon the whole command forded Cotton River, which was so
swollen that the horses had to swim. The next day, the 21st, we cross-
ed Yellow River and destroyed four bridges after we had crossed, and
yesterday, the 22d, the command came in by way of Decatur, having
made a circle around Atlanta.

The Camjpaign op 1864. 865

We accomplished our object, but when we look around for familiar
faces, and look in vain for many who but a weeks ago were full of life
and hope, we realize the cost of our expedition.

Capt. Heber Thompson is missing. The last seen of him he was ral-
lying the men to take the artillery. His horse was shot and he was dis-
mounted. Capt, Percy H. White is missing. We know that he was
wounded, but trust it was not a fatal wound.

The casualties of men from Schuylkill County, are as follows :

COMPANY A.

Killed — David L. Davis.
Wounded — Alonzo E. Kline.

Wounded and Missing — Sergt. David P. Reese, Francis Weiglej,
Wm. Robinson, Peter Mulcachey.

COMPANY F.

Wounded and Missing — Corp. Geo. M. Boyer.

COMPANY I.

Wounded — Orvin P. Keehoe.
Wounded and Missing — Levi Seibert.

COMPANY L.

Wounded — Corp. Charles M. Kantner.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.

For the following muster-roll of Co. F, llGth Regiment, which
was recruited in Schuylkill County in the Spring of 1864, we are
indebted to Mr. John G-. Hahn, a member of the Company. The
letter was not received in time to insert the roll where it properly
belongs, in the list of men recruited at that time. We are how-
ever, thankful that we have, under any circumstances, so com-
plete a roll of the Company.

The Company up to March, 1865, had been in seventeen en-
gagements, and Mr. Hahn also sends us a list of the casualties
sustained, which is very acceptable, as we desire our record to be
as full as possible.

The following is the muster-roll of the Company, as it stood in
March, 1865 :

COMPANY F.

Captain, WILLIAM A. SHOENER. 2d Corporal, Dan. B. Bbrkheiser.

1^^ itewf., George Reber. Zd " Solomon Evely.

lat Sergeant, Edward S. Kline. ^th " Chr. Dieffenderfer,

2d " William M. Wagner, bth " Levi P. Miller.

3c? '' Horace B. Klock. Qth " William L. Hutton.

^th «' Daniel Moyer. 1th " Solomon Kamp.

^ih " Charles Maurer. Musician, Jacob Schrckder.
Iji Corj9oraZ, William Emericii. <' Daniel Kramer.

sm>

The Campaign of 1864.

Company F, One Hundred & Sixteenth Regt. — Continued.

Aikman, William
Adams, David M.
Berkheiser, Benjamin
Bi'igel, Franklin
Berger, Henry H.
Brummer, David H.
Day, James
Dohrman, John H.
Derulf, Elam
Ditzler, Elias
Ditzler, Thomas
Dolan, Michael
Eveley, Moses
Faust, Semana
Fahl, Daniel
Freese, Gideon
Henne, Daniel
Hahn, John G.
Hendricks, Albert

PRIVATES":

Johnson, Joseph M.
Kamp, Reuben
Kramer, Thomas
Knapp, Cyrus
Kramer, Francis
Kramer Samuel
Kramer, Francis S.
Koch, Josiah
Lawrence, Jeremiah
Lahme, Jonathan
Linn, Daniel
Moyer, June
Moyer, Charles H.
Moyer, Lewis E.
Mengle, Reuben
Moyer, Charles
Miller, Lewis M.
Moyer, Albert L.

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians,

Privates, . _ -

Morgan, Joseph P.
Murphy, Daniel
Nyer, Isaac
Rahn, Jacob
Reichert, Christian
Reber, Joseph B.
Reinheimer, Alfred
Reppert, Henry
Reber, Franklin
Shoener, Morgan
Smith, Clayton
Woollis, Willoughby
Wagner, Martin M.
Wagner, John
Webber, Franklin
Webber, William H.
Wagner, Franklin
Webber, William

2
12

2
55

The casualties of the Company were as follows :

DiscHAKGEu — Capt. Wellington Jones, (certificate of disability.)
Tobias W. Miller, "

Resigned — 1st Lieut. P. H. Frail ey.

Teansferked — Owen Eastman.

Killed in Action — James White, Corp. Adam Wagner, Lewis Hein-
bach, Joshua Eveley.

Died of Wounds Received in Action — Charles Reichert, Charlfea
Houk, John A. Berger, Corp. William Moser, Nathan Raush, Joseph
Wagner, Richard Shoener.

Died op Disease— John J. Hanker, Levi Herring, John Freese, Per-
amus Hoffman, Amos Reppert, John Warner.

Wounded— 1st Lieut. Geo. Reber, 1st Sergt. Edward S. Kline, Sergt.
Wm. M. Wagner, Corp. Solomon Eveley, Corp. Wm. L. Hutton, Daniel
Kramer, Moses Eveley, John G. Hahn, Jos. M. Johnson, Cyrus Knapp,
Francis S. Kramer, Jonathan Lahme, Christ. Reichert, Alfred Reinhei-
mer, Henry Reppert, Willoughby Woollis, Franklin Webber.

Captured — Sergt. Dan. Moyer, Corp. Wm. Emerich, Corp. Dan. B.
Berkheiser, Corp. Christ. Dieftenderfer, Jacob Schroeder, Wm. Aikman,
Dav. M. Adams, Benjamin Berkheiser, Franklin Brigel, Henry H. Ber-
ger, David H. Brummer, James Day, John H. Dohrman, Elam Derulf,
Daniel Fahl, Dan. Henn, Reuben Kamp, Thomas Kramer, Josiah Koch,
Charles H. Moyer, Charles Moyer, Cliristian Reichert, Joseph B. Reber,
Franklin Reber, Morgan Shoener, Clayton Smith, Martin M. Wagner,
John Wagner, William Webber.

The Campaign of 1864. 367

The Company has participated in the following named engage-
ments, since time of organization, February 1, 1864 :

Wilderness, May 5t.h, 1864; Wilderness, May Gth, 1864; Todd Tavern,
May 8tli, 1864; Po River, May 8th, 1864; Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864;
Spottsylvania, May 18th, 1864; Graine's Farm, May 21st, 1864; Tullapa-
tomie Creek, May 3 1st, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 3d, 1864; Petersburg,
June 16th 1864; AVilliams' Farm, June 22d, 1864; Deep Bottom, July 27,
1864; Deep Bottom, August 14th and 15th, 1864; Reame Station, August
25th, 1864; Raid to Hatcher's Run, Dec. 9th and 10th, 1864; Raid to
Hatcher's Run, February 5th to 0th, 1865; Dabney Mill, Feb. 5th, 1865.

THE ONE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN.

Early in July a rebel force under Generals Early and Brecken-
ridge, invaded Maryland, threatening Pennsylvania and Washing-
ton. A battle was fought on the Monocacy in Maryland, which
checked the rebels, saved Baltimore, and when they reached
Washington they were easily repulsed and driven back into Vir-
ginia.

On the 6th of July Governor Curtin issued a call for twelve
thousand volunteers to serve for one hundred days at Washington
and vicinity.

Gen. James Nagle of Pottsville, proceeded at once under the

call, to organize a Regiment at Harrisburg. On the 24th of July

it left Harrisburg for Baltimore, in which vicinity it did duty

during its term of service. The field and staff ofdcers were aa

follows :

Colo7iel— JAMES NAGLE, Schuylkill County.
Lieut.-Col. — Richard McMichael, Berks County.
Major — 0. D. Jenkins, Schuylkill County.
Adjutant — John* H. Schall, Schuylkill County.
Quartermaster — Henry C. Demming, Dauphin County.
Surgeon — J. P. Ashcom^
Chaplain — C. II, McDermond.

The Schuylkill County Companies in the organization were Com-
panies C and 11, 194th Pcnn. Regiment. The muster-rolls of
these Companies are as follows :

ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOURTH PA. REG'T.

COMPANY C.

Captain, ZACUR C. POTT. \st Sergeant, Hudson C. Kind.

lit Lieutenant, Thos. J. Foster. 2o? " Henry Walbridge.
2d Lieutenant, Joan G. Qv&s. Zd «* Daniel W. Filbert.

Bes

The Camapign. of 1864.

Comp'y C, One Hundred & Ninety-Fourth Reg. — Contm'oed.

4tth Sergeant, Robt. M. Palmer.
5fA " Jacob Riegel.
lat Corporal, Milton Williams.
'Id " Henry Deibert.
Zd " Byron 0. Manvillb.
4M " Wm. Helms.

bth Corporal, Amos Boyer,

%th

"ith "

Musician .

Anstock, David
Burkhart, John
Bauseman, Henry
Bausemaii, .John
Bailer, Jacob
Botts, Jacob
Brownmiller, Chas.
Brown, Samuel
Bertram Frank
Beyerle, Henry
Beacher, Wm.
Bathurst, James
Conrate, Levi
Cake, Raphael
Collins, Geo.
Chrisman, Jacob
Daubeuspeck, Wm.
Doiighman, Miles
Eccard, Edward
Frehafer, E. W.
Fernsler, Alonzo
Fernsler, Jno. J.
Forrer, Geo.
Fuchs, John E.

PRIVATES :
Gerz, Joseph
Gluntz, Henry .
Ginter, Dan'l
Hepler, Wm.
Huntzinger, J, A.
Hodgson, James N.
Hame, George
Hardy, Isaac
Hoffman, Albert
Hoffman, Herman
Jordan, Michael
Johnson, John
Kauffman, Geo,
Kalbach, Wm.
Keller, Joshua
Klinger, Wm.
Laury, Geo,
Lynch, James
McGlone, Pat'k
Matthews, Thomas
Moran, Andrew
Nimeiton, Henry
Neff, John
Nash, John A.

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, _ _ -

Total, . - . ^

James Glovek,
Thos. Welsh.
T. P. Gould.

Frederick Orrum.

John Kohler.

Phillips, Thos. H.
Queeny, Wm.
Rhorig, Pat'k.
Rahn, George
Ptoaney, John
Shoener, Charles
Schmelzer, John
Strohmeier, Henry
Skeen, George
Sterner, Jonathan
Smith, Oliver
Shay, William
Sands, Eugene
Steffee, Andrew
Setley, Victor
Toohey, Wm.
Trexler, Franklin
Uble. Joseph
Weidel, Felix
Wiltrout, Dan'l
Williams, Richard
Walbridge, John
Wortz, Wm.

- 13

- - 2

- 71

COMPANY H.

Captain, GEO. W. STAATS.
Ist Lieutenant, John W. Kantner,
2d Lieutenant, Fb. S. Haeseleb.
lit Serjeant, Jno. H. Jervis.
'2d " Jos. Boedefeld.
M " Wm. Christian.
4tih " Jas. Hughes.
bih " John Kirkpatrick.
Brev.-Sergt., John Rigg.

PRIV.
Allen, Elijah Bomm John

Burns, Michael Chestnut, Jas

2d Corporal, Jos. Redcay.

3fZ

' RoBT. Wilson.

Ath

' Wm. Dicus.

5tk '

' Arthur Conneby.

(^th

' Jas. Dolan.

7th '

' Albert Haeseler.

8th

' Lewis Kline.

3Iusiciai

I, Jas. Sterling.

Jno. Snyder.

AILS :

Davis, Thos.

as.

Davis, Jno. W.

The Campaign op 1864,

369

Comp'y H; One Hundred & Ninety-Fourth Reg.^ — Continued.

Delaney, Jas.
Fisher, Benj. ,F.
Faults, Henry
Fox, Geo.
Faust, Jacob M
Francis, Wm. H.
Gottschall, Geo
Good, Isaac K.
Hoffman, Elijah
Howard, Chas.
Howells, Benj.
Hood, Harrison
Horn, Philip
Houck, Kobti
Klahr, Philip J.
Kleident, Adam

Leonard, Jas.
Lewis, Jonah
McGee, Thos.
McGee, Conrad
Madison, Jas.
Morgan, Wm.
Martin, George
Moore, David
TVfiller, Jacob
O'Brien, James
Purnell, Isaac
Reynolds, Michael
Reiggle, Benj.
Reed, Samuel
Roiman, Wendall
Ramsay, Edward

Commissioned Officers,

Non-commissioned Officers,

Musicians,

Privates, . . -

Totals . , « ,

Sterner, Jeremiah
Smith, Wm.
Smith, Benj. F.
Sillyman, John
Shaub, Emanuel
Shertel, Wm. G.
Sponsler, Wnr. '
Snow, Peter
Ulmer, Chas.
Umberger, Michael
Wren, Thomas
Watkins, Nicholas
Williams, John
Wolfinger, John
Yeager, Chas. A.

- 13

- 53

RECAPITULATION,

Field and Staff, 3

Company C, * • • - - - - - 89

Company H,. -•••---- 71

Total, - 163

LAMBERT'S INDEPENDENT CAVALRY.

Of this organization of hundred days'^ men, which rendered
valuable service on the frontier of Pennsylvania and in other sec-
tions of the State, during its term of service, the following mem-
bers were from Schuylkill County :

1st Lieutenant, W. F. Austin.

Sergeant, John A. Patterson. '*

Corporalj Solomon Foster, Jb. "

PRIVATES
BlUington, Aaron Lawton, F. N.

Eiler, George W. Parry, William

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Privates, - • - -

Corporal, James Morris.
'* William Ramsey.
" Whitfield, Roland S.

Russel, James
Rhoads, Geo.

- 4

Total, -
31*

3T0 TiiE Campaign of 1864.

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Regiment, - 164

Lambert's Independent Cavalry, - - - - 11

Grand Total, 175

RETURN HOME OF THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

The term of service of this Yeteran Regiment having expired,
it returned home in September to be mustered out of service. —
The Schuylkill County members reached Pottsville on the 26th,
and as their arrival on that evening was unexpected, they met ax"
impromptu but spirited reception. Early in the evening Centre
street throughout its entire length, was beautifully illuminated,
and when the train arrived, rockets, roman candles, etc., added
beauty to the scene. The Regiment was escorted from the Depot
to the Union Hotel, by cavalry stationed here, by our fire com-
panies, and by one of the largest processions of citizens we ever
witnessed here. The veterans marched up amid enthusiastic
cheers of welcome and the waving of myriads of handkerchiefs
in the hands of fair ladies. The scene was most inspiring and
beautiful. A citizen of thirty-three years residence here, said to
us, "The town has often been in a blaze of enthusiasm, but really,
this is the most extensive conflagration with the people's hearts
for fuel, that I ever saw here.'' Pottsville, indeed, representing
Schuylkill County, welcomed with her whole soul, our brave boys
back from their three years of honorable service in the cause of
truths justice and human rights.

The Regiment came back with one hundred and twenty men.
Three years before it left Pottsville a thousand strong. The bullet
and disease had done their work, and many who left here in full
health and vigor, fill graves in Virginia or on our hills.

When the Regiment reached the Union Hotel, it partook of a
collation hastily prepared, but still acceptable to the tired soldiers,
when they were welcomed home by the Hon. C. W. Pitman, in a
brief but eloquent speech. The soldiers then sought "home,
sweet home;" doubly appreciated by him who has seoQ three years
of hard service in the field.

The Campaign of 1864. 371

Addresses to the large crowd, of citizens that remained, wei-e
gubsequently delivered by Mr. 0. A. Bosbyshell, Wm. Garrett
and Professor Dunbar.

During the following week discharged Veterans of the Forty-
Eighth Regiment and Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, to the num-
ber of about a hundred, reached Schuylkill County, and met an
equally spirited welcome home.

Early in November, the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Re-
giment, Col. James Nagle, and Lambert's Independent Cavalry —
one hundred days' mea — were mustered out of the service, and
the members returned home.

CALL FOR FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.

Washington, Monday, July 18, 1864.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

A PIIOCLA3IATION.

Whereas, By the act, approved July 4, 1864, entitled, <'Au Act further
to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the
United States may, at his discretion, at any time hereafter^ call for any
number of men as volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two and
three years, for military service, and "that in case the quota or any
part thereof of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election
district, or of a count}- not so sub-divided, shall 'not be filled within the
space of fift^y days after such call, then the President shall immediately
order a draft for one year to fill such quota, ©r any part thereof, which
may be unfilled.

And ivhereas, The new enrollment heretofore ordered is so far com-
pleted as that the aforementioned act of Congress may now be put in
operation for recruiting and keeping up the strength of the armies in
the field, for garrisons, and such military operations as may be required
for the purpose of suppressing the Rebellion and restoring the authority
of the United States Government in the insurgent States ;

Now, therefore, 1, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
do issue this my call for five hundred thousand volunteers for the mili-
tary service : provided, nevertheless, that all credits which may bo
established under section eight of the aforesaid act, on account of per-
Bons who have entered the naval service during the present Rebellion,
and by credits for men furnished to the military service in excess of
oalls heretofore made for volunteers, will be accepted under this call for
one, two or three years, as they may elect, and will be entitled to the
bounty provided by the law for the period of service for which they
anlist.

And I hereby proclaim, order and direct that, immediately after the
Uh day of September, 1864, being fifty days from the date of this call,

872

The CAMPAiaN of 1864.

a draft for troops to serve for one_ year, shall be held in every town,
township, ward of a city, precinct, election district, or a county not so
sub-divided, to fill the quota which shall be assigned to if under this
call^ or any part thereof which may be unfilled by volunteers on the
said 5th day of September, 1864.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
[l.s.] hand, and caused the seal of the United

States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 18th day of July, in the year of
oux Lord, 1864, and of the independence of the United States, the 89th.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President : Wm. H. Seward, Sec. c^' State.

Under this call the yarious sub-districts of the County went to
work to fill up their respective quotas with volunteers. The names
(^ the men and of the regiments they entered, are as follows :

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

COMPANY A.

Peter, John

Total, - . ^ , . - - t

COMPANY C.
Sturm, Joseph

Total, - 1

COMPANY E.

Danlop, Archibald Muir, Michael Meredith, Robert

Heisler, George J.

Total, 4

COMPANY F.

Miller, David Miller, John

Total, - ... ^ - - 2-

COMPANY G.

Carl, Peter Laub, Charles Rudolph, John

Galligan, Patrick

Total, 4

COMPANY H.

Craw, Henry Lloyd, Thomas Raup, George M.

Hallady, George Miller, Jacob Road, John

Hetherington, James D. Price, William, Thompson, Josiah W.

Judge, John

Total, ,.---.. 10

COMPANY I.

Boyer, Wesley Freed, Samuel Neyman, Jacob
Total, 3

COMPANY K.

CftBhan, Michael Fenstermacher, Henry Snyder, Paul

Ebert, Jacob Kline, Benjamin F.

Total, .--.--* 4.

The Campaign of 1864.

378

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, -. -1

" C, 1

«• E, 4

F, - - 2

«' a, 4

'• H, 10

"I, 3

" K, 5

Total, - . 30

THIRD PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/

Frank, Adam

Total,

Gallagher, James
Total,

Britt, Henry
Bartholomew, Mon'han
Brahany, Edward
Brennan, Patrick P.
Boas, John
Brennan, William
Brennan, Michael
Brennan, Richard
Bennet, Samuel
Brown John
Bergen, Michael
Bell, William
Bowen, John
Burns, James
Gurry, Thomas
Crean, Patrick
Cardan, Patrick
Cameron, Henry
Cowan, John
Cowry, Patrick
Carey, Edward
Cromin, Thomas
Cain, Martin
Carney, Thomas
I)olan, Patrick
Donahoe, John
Davis, David
Dougherty, John
Donahoe, Edward

Total,

COMPANY A
Morgan, Richard

COMPANY C

COMPANY L

Devine, Thomas
Darragh, James
Davis, John
Evans, William
Farrell, James
Gillaspy, Patrick
Garrety, James
Goulden, Edward
Horan, Thomas
Hope, Dominick
Hurley, John
Hall, William
Kelly, Thomas
Kelly, Patrick
Kline, Wm. E.
Kinney, Edward
Langton, Patrick
Larkin, Patrick
Lewis, William M.
McKeever, Bernard
McAndrew, Daniel
McGlinn, John
Mulheran, William
McGowan, John
Morrissey, Edward
McAllister, Henry
Mulhall, Edward
McGovern, James

Murphy, James
Murphy, Michael
McBrearty, Patrick
INIorgan, Thomas
McLaughlin, John
Michael, William
Mullany, Michael
Norton, Patrick
O'Neal, Michael
O'Neill, Thomas
Owens, Morgan P.
Piatt, Thomas
Parry, David
Phillips, David
Peel, Richard
Ross, William
Riley, Thomas
Pvyan, Dennis
Rose, Thomas
Riley, Henry
Renfrew, James
Sweeney, James
Shivelhut, George
Saddler, Joseph
Waters, John
Whitaker, John
Watkins, James
Wilkins, James

3T4

The Campaign of 1864.

RECAPITULATION.

Compahy, A, --------2

" • C, - - 1

♦' L, - 85

Total, 88

FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

COMPANY B.

Boyer, Charles Luckenbill, Henry Smith, David
Total, - - 3

COMPANY C.

IJensinger, William F, Hopkins, John Price, John

Bensinger, Franklin E. Horn, Joseph Price, William

Britton, Daniel il. Hartz, Israel Remley, John H.

Brady, John Hannon, James J. Spallman, Patrick

Blasius, Lewis Jones, Richard TI. Snow, Peter

Crouthamel, Milton Jones, David Seitzinger, Charles A.

Donahoe, James Klees, Abner G. Seitzinger, John L.

Durang, Philip Kleesner, Peter Smith, Charles H.

Dillman, AVilliam Kuhter, Moses Stahl, John

Dorn, Peter Mertz, SMUiuel A. Shane, Jacob

Evans, Thomas B. iMock, Charles Teple, Robert

Ettriugham, John Maicks, Edward C. Theobald, Geojrge

Fetterman, George Murray, William Treibley, Benj. F.

Fethcrolf, Joseph Meyer, Peter ' Thomas, John

Feist, Joseph Merkert, John W, Wentzel, Jonas

Gartland, Daniel McManaman, Daniel Wilson, Peter S.

Oegler, Anthony Owens, Thomas Warnich, Henry

Houser, Theodore OShaughnessy, Mich.

Total, 53

COMPANY E.
Bummersbach, Peter Ford, Oswald

Total, 2

COMPANY H.
Roberts, Benjamin R,

Total, 1

COMPANY M .

Mason, Edward Sykes, George

Total, - 2

RECAPITULATION.

Company B, -- 3

" C, __.---. -53

" E, 2

" H, 1

" M, 2

Total, 61

The Campaign of 1864.

375

SEVENTEENTH PENN. CAVALEY.
COMPANY F.

Davies, David Morris, Thomas Raker, Isaac

Evans, David Morris, Joseph Stephens, Thomas

Jones, Thomas Morgan Thomas Thomas Frederick

Jones, Richard Price, Henry Williams, John J.

Loftus, Thomas Reese, Benjamin

Total, - - 14

' COMPANY H.

Beaver, Frank Hasher, Bernard Neier, Charles

Bucher, John C. John, Henry T. O'Shaughness}^ Peter

Brennan, Luke Johnson, Lloyd, AV. Pliillips, George

Carl, Jacob Knicher, Abraham Parke, Melvin S.

Casey, Thomas Kline, Felix Plappert, George

Conley, Michael Kline, Jacob Boeder, Nathaniel

Cleaver, Jesse Y. Kestenboimder, James Rumbel, "William

Depken, Henry Kallenbach, Otto Rohan, Peter

Etzel, Gottfried Lloyd, Michael L. Rider, Lloyd T.

Fetterman, Benjamin Lindenmuth, Henry Sommar, Andrew

Fisher, Allen B. McMullen, Daniel Schmitz, Nicholas

Graham, James Mears, Commodore P. Schlee, Joseph

Good, Alfred Mourer, Peter "VVatkins, Edward

Gable, Solomon Marks, Jonas Werntz, Peter

Glen, David G. Miner, Theodore Yeich, Daniel

Higgins, Joseph McDonnell, Michael

Total, 47

RECAPITULATION.

Company F, 14 •

" H, 47

Total, 61

EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

Gillespie, John

Total,

Wfillaec, Vv'illiaro
Total,

Deael, Albert J.
Total,

COMPANY A.

Ileinert, Henry F.

COMPAjSY d.

COMPANY G.

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, - - '1

'' D, 1

" G, 1

Total, 4

ST6 The Campaign of 1864.

FIRST PE]sr:^SYLyANIA CAYALEY.
COMPANY M.

Bird, Alonzo Kinney, Jacob F.

Total, 2

MNTH PENiTSYLYANIA CAYALHY.
COMPANYE.

Gallagher, John

Total, 1

ELEYENTH PEISTFSYLYAKIA CAYALEY.
COMPANY F.

Furey, Charles Giddings, William '

Total, 2

COMPANY H.
Carrey, James B.

Total, 1

RECAPITULATION.

Company F, 2

" H, 1

Total, 2

TWELFTH PEI^ISrSYLYAISriA CAYALEY.
COMPANY F.

Mooro, Samuel

Total, 1

TWEKTY-FIEST PEFIN. CAYALEY.
COMPANY D.

Davison, Joseph Hissong, David Snively, William II.

Finfroch, D. II.

Total, 4

DUEYELL'S PENTIsrSYLYAOTA AETILLEEY.

Bayne, William B. Fink, William Tobias, Samuel A.

Brash, Henry Knapp, Levi II. Williams, Georg«

Bracefield, William F. Kocli, George E. Weaver, George

Commens, Thomas Maloney, Andrew Weaver, Charles F.

Clark, William N. Parton, Henry Yerger, Eli

Eichley, Adam Khoads, Amandua

Total, 17

The Campaign of 1864.

87T

- FIRST PEl^NSYLVAMA ARTILLERY.
COMPANY A.

Fetter, Henry Hanley, James ?kIcLauglilin, Patrick

Goldman, Oliver Maidenford, Edward

Total, 5

FIFTIETH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

Bender, Jacob
Burns, Henry
Boyer, Louis
Burns, Franklin
Bretz, William
Browii, George W.
Correll, Joseph
Christian, Henry B.
Eiler, Charles
Eckert, Marks E.
Garby, Mahlon
Total,

COMPANY

Hulebusli, David
Krebs, Andrew
Knarr, Isaac
Knarr, George
Lendal, John L.
Lindermuth, Jacob
Merker, William
Mills, Henry B.
Marland, Edward
Myer, George
Foots, Martin

Raber, Lewis B.
Seifert, John
Sayman, Lewis
Sheck, Paul
Sweeney, John
Safert, William B.
Smith, John
Shugart, William
Wall, Augustus
Walises, Thomas
Wasner, Samuel
33

FIFTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Herber, Elias

Total, 1

FIFTY-SECOND PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY G.

Ranks, Henry J. Hubler, Edward L. Messersmith, Jeremiali

Fegley, Jesse Lamberson, Aaron Neifert, Henry
Faust, Elias K.

Total, 7

O'Ponnel, Michael
Total

COMPANY K.

McGarr, James

RECAPITULATION.

Company G, --------7

" K, 2

Total, 9

SEVENTIT-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT

COMPANY G.

•Billian, Barnebas

Total, 1

378 The Campaign of 1864.

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH PENN. REG'T.

COMPANY D.

Bojer, Jolin M.

Total, 1

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH PENN. REG'T.
GOMPAISY D.

Everhard, Abraham

Total, 1

ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY-SECOND PA. REG'T.

COMPANY L.

Fisher, Ranslow

Jotal, .-.--.. 1 ;;

ONE HUNDRED & NINETY-EIGHTH PA. REG'T.

Everhard, Daniel M.

Total, - , - - > - - - - 1

ONE HUNDRED & NINETY-NINTH PA. REG'T.

Kiock, John T. Shunian, Henry Saylor, Jacob R.

Litvreiler, John Stuber, John Yost, William N.

Total, ------- 6

TWO HUNDREDTH PENN. REGIMENT.

Diehl, Francis Hofalecli, Michael McShea, Thomas
Davidson, Jonathan Leaver, William O'Donnell, Charles
Fogt, George Matthews, Thomas Richards, John
Goheen, Thomas McCauley, Thomas Scholly, George
Total, 12

TWO HUNDRED & SECOND PENN. REGIMENT.

COMPANY B.

Hoffman, Jacob D. Sechler, Wilson Snyder, Elias

Hyde, George J,

Total. 4

THIRTY-SECOND U. S. (COLORED) REGIMENT.

Kigbee, Hosca Robinson, Benjamin

Total, -.--.-. 2

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

Forty-eighth, - - - - - - - - SO

TUird Pennsylvania Cavalry, - 89 '

Total, - - ~n9

The Campaign of 1864. • 379

Total brought forward, - - - - 11^

Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, ------ 61

Seventeenth, •' " __..-- 61

Eighth *' ** 4

First '♦ '« 2

Ninth " *' 1

Eleventh " *' - 3

Twelfth " " 1

Twenty-first " '' , 4

Dury ell's Pennsylvania Artillery, - - - - - 17

First " «'------ 5

Fiftieth Pennsylvania Regiment, _ . _ - 33

Fifty-first " *«_--.--- 1

Fifty-second " '* - - - - - - 9

Seventy -fifth " ** i

One Hundred and Seventh Penna. Regiment, - - 1

" " '< Fiftieth " «<_.-- 1

«* «' " Fifty-second a . . . 1

<< a a Ninety-eighth " - - - - 1

«' '< " Ninety-ninth << _ - - C,

Two Hundredth Pennsylvania Regiment - - - - 12

Two Hundred and Second Penna. '' - - - - - •#

Thirty-second U. S. (Colored) " ----- 2

Grand Total, 350

This embraces all who were CDlisted in Schuylkill County under
that call, as preStjrved in the records of the Provost Marshal of
the Tenth District. There may have been, and unquestionably
were, representatives of Schuylkill County, enlisted in other dis-
tricts, under the call, but scattered as they necessarily were, it
.was impossible to obtain their names.

THE CALL FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.

On the 19th of December, 1864, the President issued a Procla-
mation, calling for three hundred thousand volunteers, to supply
deficiencies under previous calls, and to provide for casualties
incident to the war. No excess of credits previous to the 19th,
was to be allowed, and in case the quota of any district under the
call should not be filled by the 15th of February, 1865, a draft
should take place in that district.

The citizens of Schuylkill County went to work and recruited
with such success that within the time allotted, the quotas of the
respective sub-districts were almost all filled.

The following is a list of the names of the men who volunteered
under this call, with the numbers of the Pennsylvania regimentg
they entered. I

880

Thk Campaign of 1864.

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.

COMPANY A.

]Jenaingcr, George
Denisey, James
Griffith, Lemuel
Total,

Creitz, Henry I'.
Chectham, Edward
Coutts, John
Christ, David
• Dintinger, William H.
Fry, James B.
Fry, William
Jones, Robert

Total,

FiUiott, Thomas
■' ' Total,

I'ean, Albert
iiradley, James
Connelly, xdichael
Dentzer, Henry
Goodfiech, William
Geist, Heni-y
Hess, W^illiam
Kaiu, George

Total,

Blanck, Charles
Clemens, Joseph
Carby, Thomas
Dunlop, John
Daley, Edward
Gavnor, Austin
Total,

Broderick, Thomas
Ferree, Jacob F.
Total,

Frederick, Joel
Total,

Bennie, Alexander
Evans, Thomas
Graber, John

Total,

Kline, Benjamin F.
Mumma, Isaac
Einker, Charles

COMPANY B.

Seltzer, Francis B.
Shantz, William
W^eikel, Henry
9

Kinsley, Michael
Kleckner, Lewis
Lins, Nathan
Lins, Franklin S.
Lugan, Christopher
Mace, Daniel F. *
Moyer, Daniel H.

COMPANY C.

Martin, James T.

COMPANY D

Knoll, Geo. W.
Kistar, Daniel
Kahler, Eli as
McCormick, Thomas
Montgomery, Levi
McGuirc, Edward
Musco'tt, John

COMPANY E

Hays, Thomas
Loesby, George
Lowry, John
McGeary, Daniel
Murphy, William

COMPANY F

Glacken, Hugh
Shell, Elias

Morsdin, Geo.
Rinker, Henry
Swoyer, William L.
Shoemaker, John
Ulmer, G. H.
Vaughn, Charles
Zehner, Joseph H.

McBride, Richard B.
Ritter, Simon
Schollenberger, Chfts.
Schmidt, Jacob E.
Straub, Emanuel
Whalen, Michael
Wolfgang, Mathevr W.

Mullen, William
Norton, James
O'Neil, John
Walter, Ciiristian
Whalen, James

Wallace, John
Wardrop, Thomas
G

COMPANY G

COMPANY H

Lentz, Willoughby
Mulloohy, Michaeb
McCanna, Peter

Muntitude, John
Smith, Thomas

The Campaign of 1864.

381

Cooper, Matthew
Costello, James
Griffith, Thomas
Lees, John

Total,

COMPANY I.

Lance, Parker Shappell, Jacob

Martin, Robert Smith, William

Reinhart, August Tobias, John F.

Bousman, John
Fenstermacher, Daniel
Total,

Company A,
B,

COMPANY K.

Homan, Amos Wildermuth, Joseph

RECAPITULATION,

Total,

22
2

16
6
1
8

10
4

100

Canfield, Patrick
Ganley, James

Total,

TWENTY-EIGHTH EEGIMEKT.
COMPANY A.

McDonnell, Alexander Wilson, Andrew
Spatzer, Emanuel

Highman, Thomas
Total,

Company A,
- B,

C 0 M P A N Y B .

Moore, Henry E.

RECAPITULATION.

Total,

EOETY-FIFTH EEGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Lyons, William W. McCabe, Thomas

Total, .-_.---

FORTY-SEVEKTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY 0.

Upman, Augustus

Total, - - ^ ■

32*

'^^ The Campaign of 1864.

FIFTIETH REGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Snyder, Daniel IT. Scliwenk, Aaron K.

Total, - - 2

COMPANY G.

Block, David Koch, William Paul, Peter

Fisher, Prankiiu E. Kearney, Charles

Total, &

RECAPITULATION.
Company, A, --------2

" C, 5

Total, ^ - - - 7

FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
COMPANY D.

Welsh, John

Total, 1

FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
COMPANY H.

Brennau, John Dalton, Thomas Horan, James H.

Burke, Patrick Donnelly, Patrick Kealey, Richard

Butler', John Donahoe, Patrick Naughton, Thomaa

Clearv, James Fitzgerald, AValter Paddeu, Henry

Donahoe, Michael W. Horan, Stephen Reddy, Christopher
Donahoe, James

Total, lU

FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY B.

Kemmerer, Frank

Total, 1

COMPANY E.

Connery, Arthur Dormer, John

Total, .--...- 2

RECAPITULATION.
Company B, 1

- E, - - - - - - - - ^

Total, 2

FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY K.

Siweenv, Michael

Total, • - 1

The Campaign op 1864.

FIFTY-OTNTH EEGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

dark, Alexander Waters, Francis P.

Total, --..---. 2

SIXTY-FIFTH EEGIMEJvTT.
COMPANY A.

Anderson, Robert Dougherty, William Prior, Thomas

CosLello, Michael McGowen, Thomas Ryan, Patrick

Chadwick, Richard Minnig, John H. Wanner, John
Dolan, James

Total, - - 10

COMPANY C.

Barks, Thomas Fox, Hugh Murphy, John

Connor, James Gothic, Jacob McNale, Richard

Clews, Joseph Howard, John Mehan, Christopher

Childs, David Hublett, William McLain, Robert

Davis, Reese Jones, Enoch Ruffing, Lambert

Donkin, Joseph F, Lucid, William Stevenson, William

Elliot, John Morgan, David Williams, Thomas J.

Evans, James Miller, Joseph Zell, George

Flynn, Cornelius Morgan, David Zeigler, Andrew
Fox, James

Total, 28

RECAPITULATION.
Company A, --.--.._ IQ

C, ■- - - 28

Total, - - - • - - - - 38

SIXTY-EIGHTH KEGIiMENT.
COMPANY H.

>IcGugert, James Riley, Thomas

Total, - -

SEVENTIETH REGIMENT.

Brennan, John
Fetterman, Leander
Greenhalgh, John
Howe, Wellington B.
Hartnett, Jeremiah
Total,

Blystone, William M.
Crowley, Robert
Curran, Nicholas
Cain, Anthony
Fitzpatrick, William
Total,

COMPANY

Ingham, John
Kent, Daniel
Minnich, Aaron
Moser, George E.

McCullion, JameR
McCanley, John
Price, Franklin
Roadarmel, Ira

COMPANY

Kelly, Edvrard
Kline, Jonathan
Keegan, James
Kapp, John G.
Levan, William B.

McDermott, John
McCuUy, John
Snyder, Jeremiah H,
Tolimsh, Patrick
Watts, Joseph
16

384

The Campaign of 1864.

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, --------13

" B, - 15

Total, • . - - . 28

SEVENTY-FIFTH KEGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Thompson, John

Total, . _ . . .^ . - •

EIGHTY-ISriNTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Hale, Samuel Jones, Thomas

Total, 2

COMPANY B.

James, John

Total, 1

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, -..>.--2
" B, 1

Total, - S

NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT.

Adam, Levi
Brown, Samuel II.
Bartow, Henry E.
Boyer, Henry
Clemens, Israel
Fessler, William
Fisher, Simon
Foreman, William
Faber, Jeremiah
Heiser, Samuel
Total,

COMPANY

Hummel, Henry
Klinger, Elias
Leftler, Samuel
Miller, Peter W.
Minnich, Elias
Marshall, Samuel
Miller, Howard
Ragear, William
Reed, Israel
Ragear, Franklin

Reahm, Israel R.
Reed, Jeremiah
Schmelzer, Geo. W.
Strupenhaver, AaroB
Stomm, James M.
Witmer, Michael
Washington, Fairfax
Weaver, Joseph H. C.
Youtz, Henry

NINETY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

Moyer, Ephraim

Total,

Breen, Peter
Clemens, Henry
Total,

COMPANY C

COMPANYE

Eckert, Franklin
Purcell, Edward

Wolff, William T-.

The Campaign of 1864.

385

Brennan, Dennis
Breuuan, Stephen
Total,

Company C,
E,

COMPANY G.

Lawler, Patrick, R^'^an, Lawrence

RECAPITULATION.

Total,

- 10

ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH REGIMENT.

Tlie following is a copy of the muster roll of a company that was
recruited under this call, in Schuylkill County, by Capt. J. W.
Kantner of Tamaqua, for the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment :

Captain, J. W. KANTNER.
1*^ Lieut., W. A. Christian.
2d Lieut., Elias Sassaman.
Ist Sergeant, Henry C. Boyer.

2d
Zd

Atk
bth

Aaron Kino.
James Moyeh.
Chas. D, Pursell.
Frank B. Graeff.

\st Corporal, Holden Chester.

2c? Corporal, James Hodgkins.
od " Wm. H. Roehrig.
4//i " Joel Sassaman.
bth " Israel Britton.
Q>th " Joseph Hodgkins.
1th " John Hunlock.
^th " John Re alley.
Musician, John Moyer.
" James Sterling.

Alberton, William
Bachart, James
Becker, Joseph
Billman, Gideon
Bream, Francis
Bobst, Daniel
Bowman, John
Bachart, Michael M.
Baker, Samuel
Cook, "William
Campbell, Charles
Callahan, Hugh
Connelly, Peter
Crosley, John AV.
Doubenspeck, Jacob
Donahoe, Henry J.
DonaglifF, Edward
Eckroth, Daniel
Eberl, Edward
Foust, Daniel H.
Fero, John
Fay, Thomas
Fries, John

PRIVATES :

Froutz, Jonas
Fleckinstine, Henry
Geiger, Joseph
Gettis, William
Hess, John
Hollenbach, Frank
Hinkley, Isaac
Haggarty, John
Hullehu, James B.
Heartman, James
Harting, William
James, James
Kemmerer, Lewis
Kocker, Elias
Karshner, Hesekiah
Karshner, Francis
Koenig, Samuel
Koenig, Solomon
Lorah, James
Lorah, Edward
Levan, Obadiah
Long, Samuel
Miller, Levi R

Ulillor .Tf>cor»h

Moyer, Geo. W.
Morgan, John J.
Morgan, David
Opker, David
I O'Brien, John
Ormes, James
Price, Thompson
Paugh, Robert
Reger, William
PtOger, John
Riley, Thomas
Rubrecht, Levi
Schuck, Benneville
Sweigert, Philip
Swenler, William
Steigerwalt, Peter
Steigerwalt, Aaron
Trine, James
Wummer, Charles
Wertman, Levi
Wert man, Philip
Wagner, Harrison
Zellner, William

386

Tbe Campaign of 1864.

RECAPITULATION.
Commissioned Officers, - - - . 8
Non-commissioned Officers, - - - - 13
Musicians, _ _ - - - - "2
Privates, - - 71

Total, -------- 89

0:NrE HUIsrDRED AND EIGHTH EEGIMEIS^T.
COMPANY A.

Allen, John Cliristian, Daniel Jenkins, John

Buhl, John G. Ilnyes, John Owens, John

Bricer, Edward Holland, Henry Williams, William D,
Conahan, Maner

Total, 10

COMPANY M.

Becker, Jonathan Griffiths, William Newton, Richard

Boydell, John Henderson, John Newelton, Henry

Bell, George Higginson, William Reese, Edward

Botts, John Kirby, Ralph Seitzinger, John

Conningham, Nicholas Kelly, Henry Stride, Hugh

Carley, George Klare, William Thorpe, James

Dcarden, Alfred Llewellyn, Thomas Walters, James

Evans, John Lewis, James Wright, Herman

Edwards, Joseph J. McDonough, John Williams, Thomas A.

Fritz, Winfield Morgan, Evan Williams, William
Galligher, John

Total, 31

RECAPITULATION.
Company A, - 10

" M, _ - - - _ - - 31/

Total, - it - - - - - - 41

ONE HUXDEED AND NTINTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY A.

Ford, Nehemiah Filbert, Charles Ilizer, Hiram

Jones, George H.

Total, „-.---. 4

ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH REG'T.
COMPANYI.

Hey cock, Theophilus Morgan, John

Total, ------- 2

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH REGIMENT,

COMPANY F.

Poroy, William Miller, John Rafferty, Charles

Total, - - - - . - - 3

The Campaign op 1864.

387

ONE HimDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST REG'T. -
COMPANY X.

ConraJ, Joseph S.

Moyer Jonathan D.

Smith, Robert

(^.antield, Thomas

Owens, William

Thomas, Evan J.

Derr, Gabriel

Oswalt, Daniel

Williams, William

Fiaher, John

Roach, Michael

Williams, Thomas

Kramer, Israel

Riland, Charles

Williams, John D.

Total,

COMPANY B.

Bayler, Heury

Hendricks, Commodore

Redmond, Charles

Bufliap, Casper

Hetheriugton, Jacob E.

Rader, David

Barr, Edward

Horan, John

Reich, Joseph

Barr, John W.

Harrison, James

Rarich, Levi

Clark, George W.

Hand, Daniel W.

Reed, George

Collins, Thomas A.

Kimmel, Hiram

Riley, Aaron

Carr, Philip A.

Keen, Heury

Schrope, Ephriam B.

Delaney, Edward

Kreicher, Samuel

Shak, Henry

Davis, Wilmer A.

Levy, David

Sagar, John

Dress, Edward

Lengel, George W\

Shartel, Lewis C.

Deibert, William H.

Ley, William

Schwartz, Samuel W.

Ennis, Robert

Lindermuth, Samuel

Saylor, Joseph B.

Eisenhart, Samuel

Lenahan, Patrick

Say lor, Alfred M.

Eierby, Moses

McDonald, James

Shuey, Adam

Fox, Edward

Mease, Michael

Steahley, Frederick

Forrer, George M.

McKinsey, Daniel

Warts, Daniel

Gray, John

Moyer, Isaac

Wagner, Nathan

Gehret, Henry

Moul, Daniel

Williams, John

Hall, John

Marques, Emriguiido

Williams, Milton

Horn, William

Minnich, Samuel

Weiondt, John K.

Horn, Jr., John

Myer, Nathan

Yeager, Jacob J.

Houck, John

Pinker ton, Henry

Zimmerman, Jacob J

Hendricks, Sassamau,

Phillippi, Charles

Zeck, Frederick

Total,

■ -

RECAPITULATION.

Company A,

B, -

15
- - 69

Total,

OKE HUNDRED & EIGnTY-SEC01>rD REG'T.
COMPANY A.

Buckwalter, Jacob Schropp, Franklin Schropp, William

Murphy, Richard

Total, - - - . - - - • - 4

Bressler, Charles
Total,

Buck, Nathan

Total,

COMPANY B
COMPANY E,

ililler, Jacob

Strohl, Adam

388

The

Campaign of 1864.

COMPANY H.

Leslior, Alfred Leslier, Alexander

Total, 2

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, . . . . • > • . • ^

" B, 1

" E, 3

'« H, 2

Total, 10

ONE HUjN"DRED & EIGHTY-FOURTH REG'T.
COMPANY D.

Delogier, James Montgomery, John Wilts, Evaristus
Total, 3

OKE HUNDRED & NINE Y- SECOND REG'T,
COMPANY A.

Boice, Daniel
Cox, Lloyd
Hopkins, Thomas
Jones^ Frank

Total,

Jones, John C.
Jones, Richard
Kunkel, Charles

Powell, Abiathar
Snyder, Joseph
Stiff, Moses

TWO HUNDRED AND SECOND REGIMENT.
COMPANY C.

Drennan, Edward Lynch, James Schimp, George
Dillinger, William H. Madara, Zachariah P. "Wissner, Charles

Faust, Augustus Meghan, John Woods, James

Hood, John R. Quinn, David Wertz William

Hill, William Quinn, Elias Weise, John

Lynch, Bernard Stout, William

Total, . . . . » . . . 17

COMPANY .D.

Cook, Monroe J.

Total, 1

RECAPITULATION.
Company C, ....... 17

*. D, . ....... 1

Total, 18

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTH REGIMENT.

COMPANY E.

Ileagey, Charles

Total, ..... 1

The Campaign op 1864.

389

TWO HUr]N'DRED AND TE:^TH KEGIMENT.
COMPANY E.

Bainbridge, William Kelley, John
Bummersbaeh, Jacob F. Kelley, James A.
Brennan, Edward Leahy, Frank

Haggerty, Jehn Morley, James

Joice, John McCoy, William

Total, - - - -

Naiighton, Michael
Roe, Thomas
Sarichs, Joseph
Stride, James
Whims, James
15

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH REG'T.
COMPANY B.

Mdttee, Matthew

Total, . - - - . . - 1

COMPANY C.

Bear, John Miller, Isaac Scheirer, William

Total, - - - - . - - 3

RECAPITULATION.
Company B, --------1

.i C, -------- 3

Total, - - 4

TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH REC-
COMPANY A.

Hulihan, Martin

i'T.

Fox, Patrick

Total,

Adams, Israel
Barr, Daniel
Blatchley, Wm.
Bookmiller, John
Bloomer, Frank
Crosley, John M.
Connelly, James
Cole, Alexander
Cook, Benjamin J.
Emerich, George
Felty, John H.
Fleckinstine, Henry
Total,

COMPANY C

Fitzgerald, Thomas
Grimes, James
Hummel, John
Hale, Joseph
Levan, Jacob
Lengel, Adam
Marshall, Wm,
McBride, James
Mullen, Michael
Mahon, James
Faugh, Robert)

Kehoe, Edw.ird
3

Reichard, Joseph
Reed, Emanuel 11.
Rehr, Plenry
Rehrer, George
Smith, John II.
Smith, Patrick
Traner, John
Weisert, John
Zimmerman, Isaac
Zimmerman, Geo. M.
Zerby, Joseph

-- ?4

RECAPITULATION.

Company, A,
" C,

Total,

3dO

The Campaign of 1864.

TWO HUITDRED AISTD FIFTEENTH EEGIMENT.
COMPANYE.

Headricks, Charles J. Johnson, Mathew L.

Total, 2

SEVENTH CAYALEY.
COMPANY A.

I>eegao, John Jones, Jacob D.

Total,

COMPANY Q.
Beasinger, George R.

Total, -

COMPANY K.

Burns, John McCabe, Luke

Total, - - ...

RECAPITULATION.

Company A,
" K,
Total. -

EIGHTH CAYALHY.
COMPANY E.

Kagan, Patrick McAughey, John

Total, - - - - -

FIRST ARMY CORPS.— (6;e?i. Hancock.)

Benseman, Henry C. Edwards, William Rice, Sylvester C
Brassier, George Hauer, Cyrus Waltz, Perry
£bert, John H. Rahn, Richard "Vaughn, Francis
Total, y

INDEPENDENT INFANTRY COMPANY^

Aurftnd, Jacob
Brown, Samuel
Burke, James
Bedford, John
Bertram, Franklin M.
Brown, George T.
Boyor, William
Baasett, Melvin
Becker, Samuel
Berger, Amos
Breeoh, Jacob

(^Capt. Womehdorff?}

Capp, Ephraim
Chester, Holden
Davis, William
Dicus, William
Dougherty, James
Fisher, Geo. W.
Frine, James
Folk, Chas. A.
Fox, Wm. S.
Frantz, Augustus
Gallagher, James

Graeff, Francis B.
Grimm, Jr., John
Grimm, Wellington
Hartman, Wm.
Hein, Josiah
Harner, Wm. L.
Hartzell, Wm. T.
Hall, John
Jones, John
Johnston, Benj. P.
Kelly. Johu

The Campaign op 1864.

391

Independent InIpantry Company. — Continued.

Keller, Wm.
King, Aaron
Keefer, Geo.
Libhard, Wm. H.
McNulty, Hugh
Miller, Joseph
McCarthy, Chas.
Michael, Wm.
Moyer, Isaac
Mojer, Jas.
AfcNeil, Wm.
Margern, C. E.
Maly, Thos.
Moyer, Edward
Total,

Propst, Daniel
Parcel, C. G.
Rohrbach, A. T.
Riley, John
Rhoads, G. W.
Richard, Wm. _
Schoelpple, Matthe
Strauser, George
Shoffstall, Charles
Schweiker, W. G.
Schmeltzer, Chas.
Strouser, Abraham
Strauser, Aaron

Strauser, Wm.
Strouse, H. J.
Thomas, Philip
Thomas, Howell
Winne, John
Wertz, Wm. W.
w Williams, Wm.
Wagner, A. F.
Womelsdorf, John R.
Wintersteen, P.
Weaver, Benj.
Weaver, Fayer
Zarr, Benj.

KEGIMENTS, NUMBERS UNKNOWN.

Daress, Thomas Getter, Wm. B, Sanders, Lewis

Duffey, Bernard Madden, Mich. Thomas, W^m.

Flanigan, Mathew Reynolds, Morgan

Total, 8

THIRD U. c

Gala man, Charles
Total,

B. REGIMENT (CQLORED.)
C 0 M P A N Y E .

Wright, Daniel

TWENTY-FOURTH U. S. REG'T (COLORED.)
COMPANY K.

Brown, Alexander Molson, David Surls, John ,

Jones, Joseph Molson, Dan'l Smith, Israel

Total, 6

FORTY-FIRST U. S. REGIMENT (COLORED.)
COMPANY A.

Snowden, James

Total, - - - - - - - - 1

FORTY^THIRD U. S. REGIMENT (COLORED.)

Bartlett, Samuel

Total, ,,». = ,-!

GRAND RECAPITULATION.
Forty-eighth Regiment, - . _ .
Twenty-eighth **

Total carried forward,

105

T07

392 The Campaign of 1864.

Total brought forward, - ^ - - ~ - lOT

f'ort^' -fifth Regiment, - - - -- -,- 2

Forty-seventh " __----. - 1

Fiftieth cc . _ T

Fiftv-first " ------- 1

Fifty-second . '' 16

Fifty-tifth " .._--•-- S

Fifty -eighth '^- 1

Fifty-ninth '' ------- 2

Sixty-fifth «^ ------- 88

Sixty-eighth "- -------2

Seventieth <c _ _ _ _ - - - ^8

Seventy-fifth ••' --_»---- i

Eighty-ninth tt _.„---- 3?

Ninety-third " ___---- 29*

Ninety-fifth " - - - - -- - " lO'

One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, - - - - 89

'• " Eighth " 41

i<. <.<: it jsiinth " _--•-- 4

i: a ii Fourteenth ----- 2

" "• " Sixteenth "• ^

" Sixty-first " - - - - - 84

<■<■ <-<■ " Eighty-second - - - - - 10

a <.<■ u Eighty-fourth - " . * " " ^

" " " Ninety-second - - - - - 10-

Tw& Hundred and Second Regiment - - - - 1&

*' " '^ Erghtli " - - - - - }

a ti " Tenth '«■----- Id

" '« " ■ Thirteenth " " ' ~ " ' t

" " " Fourteeenth ----- 31

" '<• " Fifteenth - - - - - - 2

Seventh Cavalry, -------- o.

Eighth '^ - - - 2

First Army Corps, - " ~ " " ' ~ »^

Independent Infantry Company, - - - - . - 7S

Regiments unknown, ------- 8

Third U. S. (Colored) Regiment ----- 2

Twenty-fourth U. S. (Colored) Regiraeat - - - • 6

Forty-first " " " - - - • - 1

Forty-third " " . " - - - " .1

Grand Total, - - - - -- - "081

This number would liave been increased, but in April, 1865,
•;?hen recruiting was progressing briskly, the fall of Kichmond
nnd surrender of Gen. Lee's Army to the Union forces^ under
Gen. Grant, caused the War Department to issue an order to stop,
recruiting.

On the 2d of March, 18G5, a draft for the deficiency still ex-
isting took place at the Provost Marshal's headquarters in Potts-
Yille. The districts however, were allowed time after the draft, to
SlU up with volunteers, and but few of the drafted men were hel4-

The Campaign of 1804.

398

The following men who were drafted at that time; furnished
substitutes :

Agen, William
Brazil, Michael
Brennan, Michael
Bradbury, Philip
Boyer, Emanuel
Brosius, Duuiel
Bickel, Amos R.
Brennan, John,
Baker, Jacob
Brace, Benjamin
Brownmiller, Nidiolas
Conner, Daniel
Crighton, Alextious J.
Cavenaugh, Patrick
Collier, Martin
Cleary, Peter
DavivS, Silas
Beiter, Andrew
Dougherty, James
Deitzler, William
Duriisire, Elias
Dolbin, Robert
Eckert, William K.
Eberle, George
Evans, David
Eberhard, Frederick
Fisher, Jacob
Fidler, Ehrhard
Grice, Ferdinand
Graeif, Henry
George, Jlichard

Guest, Charles B.
Howe, John
Haney, Patrick
Hughes, William
Hullihan, John
Hofl'noan, Benjamin
Hubler, Levi
Haag, Gottlieb
Harthog, Charles
Hornberger, John
Hummel, George
Hasscll, George
Joice, Martin
Jacoby, Jacob
Krebs, Charles
Klick, John
Kline, Peier
Kip, Levv'is
Keefer, Reuben
Kester, Peter
Luvenson, Jacob
Lloyd, David J.
Miller, Joseijh
Malone, Patrick
Mangan, Thomas
Murrin, Condy
McAnarry, Thomas
Morgan, Lloyd
Medler, John A.
Manger, Henry R.

Miller, David
McLoughlin, Patrick
McFadde, Hugh
Metzinger, John
Nice, John B.
Oberlier, Lewis
Patten, Thomas
Pepper, Thomas
Roth, Francis
Rismiller, Abraham
Steward, Josiah
Smith, William
Schnoke, Jonathan
Snyder, Nicholas
Sullivan, John
Stockett, Thomas R.
Shuler, Nicholas
Thirwell, John
Tobias, Calvin
Toovey, Thomas
Walker, George
Wasser, George
Williams, William
Williains, David T.
Woun, Peter
Welling, Francis
Weber, George
Woodcock, John
Yost, Benjamin K.
Zimmerman, Isaac

In July, 1864, the following drafted men put in substitutes

Greenawalt, Frank
Geiger, David
James, William
Keller, John

McWilliams, John C
Shultz, Augustus.
Shultz, Francis
Spinney, A. P.

Becker, William
Brown. David
Bush, Lewis
Camp, Samuel
Donahoe, Thomas

The following men who were drafted in the fall of 1864, under
the call of July fer five hundred thousand men, put in substitutes:

Beeler, George
Beltheiser, George
Bruase, Nathan
Boughner, Jefferson
Brennan. Jr. Thomas
Brown, John
Bracey, William
Brinnen, John
Bannan, Joseph
Barr, William
Brennan. Edward

33*

Brennan, Thomas
Beadle, William
Canfield, Robert
Curry, Patrick
Coffield, Patrick
Canfield, Thomas
Carr, Hugh
Cullen, James
Donavan, Martin
Davis, Thomas
Doud, John

Davis, John
Doolan, Edward
Dick, John
Donahoe, Joseph
Durkin, Hugh
Eagan, Lawrence
Eagan, John
Fitzpatrick, John
Fullenweiler, Henry
Faust, Samuel
Gantlet, James

394

The Campaign of 1864.

Drafted Men. who furnished Substitutes — Continued.

Gallagher, Michael
Gregory, Simon
Geiger, John L.
Geisweit, Charles
George, Gideon
Gittings, Benjamin
Galvin, Peter
George, John
Guinn, Michael
Ilaine, Isaac
Iloag, Frank
Hockney, James
Joice, John
Jobe, Thomas
Kleckner, Nathaniel
Kelley, William
Kline, Isaac
Knorr, Josiah
Kervin, William
Lawler, James
Leary, Michael
Lawler, Daniel

Leah, Lewis
Littlehalcs, William H.
Lynch, William
Leitenberger, John
McKuan, Michael
McKuan^ John
Morgan, William
McCarty, Cornelius
McHugh, Joseph
Maley, Patrick
IMiller, William
!Moore, Patrick -"

Minnich, Nathan
Muldowney, John
jMcKiernan, John
INlullen, John
Moser, Frederick
Neifert, Edward
Neigard, Andre^w
Neigard, Andrew
Norton, William
Nesbit, William
Orf,,Adam

Oehr, John
Owen, Evan
O'Donner, John
Piobber, Conrad
Quirk, Michael
Reicliley, Anthony
Fvyan, Michael
Piickert, John
Snyder, Charles
Sheiveliiut, Jacob
Sneddon, William
Stuard,* James L.
Stein, Simon
Stone, Samuel
Smith, Thomas
Taylor, Thomas
Taj^lor, James
Tobias, Jacob
Welsh, George
West wood, Samuel
Welsh, John
Zei";ler, Alfred

Larkili, Patrick

The following enrolled citizens put in substitutes after the cal
of July, 1864:

Albright, ^lorganS.
AUwein, Augustus P.
Bouer, H'enry S.
Buck, Peter E.
Boyer, Edward
Bressler, Peter O.
P)echtel, Isaae P.
Biew^, Charles
Boyd, Geoyge L.
Bancroft, Joseph M,
Cole, George W.
Dimmerling, George
Beisinger, Jacob
Dock, Gillard
Enterline, Edward
Ellis, James
Evans, Abraham B.
Faber, Philip,
Foster. Frederick Tj.
Fetherolfy Benneville L,
Feger, Joseph M.
Fehr, Morgan W.
Faust, Jncob
Gorrell, Robert
Goyne, John
Hoiick, Joseph
Hammer, Charles
Holberstadt, A. H.
Hoover, Herman J.

Hesser, John A.
Hilderbrandt, Frank
Huntzinger, Henry
Johns, Jr., William 11.
Jones, John
Jones, Henry C.
Jones, Cleaver R.
Johns, George W\
Jennings, Adam
Kestenbach, Sebastian
Keller, Nathan
Kramer, Benjamin
Lennig. Frederick
Lev}', William
Lindermutli, Jacob
Mock, Mahlon M.
Moodie, Henry A.
Moodie, William J.
Moyer, Solomon
Matt son, Levi
]Mark, llenry F.
jNIichael, Christian
Mellon, James
Nichols, Henry K.
Osman, Edward
Owen, George P.
Patterson, Frederick
Ryan, James

Ryan, John W.
Reber, Rufus 11.
Rollston,' John
Schwartz,, Michael
Sterner, John
Seidle, Daniel &.
Schloss, Abraham
Say lor, Henry
Sn^'der, George H.
Shippen, Edwin J.
Snyder, Benjamin
Sylvester, E.
Scott, Harvey
StoHVegan, Lewis
Strause, Felix
Strause, Joseph
Shuler, Charles
Thompson, T. S.
Thompson, L, M.
Wiggan, George F.
Witzman, John
Woodward, Baker L
Walter, Abner K.
Walker, Thomas H,
Walborn, Daniel
W'etzel, Nathan
Wren, Thomas
Ziebach. John B,

The Campaiqn of 1864. 395

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MEN

Furnished by ScJuii/lhill Comity Uuring the War,

Hardly had wg finished copying the last list of volunteers, in
April, 1805, when- an order from the War Department, consequent
upon the fall of Richmond and surrender of General Lee's army,
to the Provost Marshal of the Tenth District, Capt. Bowen, stopped
recruiting. No more men were loanted — the war vxis over.

From April 17, 1861 to April 13, 1865, the number of men
furnished by Schuylkill County, in response to the calls of the
National and State Governments, was as follows :

Three months' service, - . _ _ . 1,795

Three years' troops, recruited in 1861, - - - - 4,007
Nine months' troops, 18G2, _ - . _ . 735

Militia for State defence, 18C2, 047

One Hundred and Seventy-Third Regiment (drafted men,)
nine months' service, - - - - - -.310

Emergency militia, 18G3, ----- 1,576

Drafted men Avho entered the service under draft of 1803, 72
Ee-enlisted Veterans and Volunteers recruited in Winter

and Spring of 1804, 1,804

Volunteers under call, July, 1804, - - - - 351

One Hundred Days' Men, 1804, - - - - 175

One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment, - . - - 71

Volunteers under deficiency call, December, 19, 1864 081

Total, ■ - 12,335

If we add to this the number of citizens who furnished substi-
tutes, we find that Schuylkill County sent during the war into the
field between thirteen and fourteen thousand men, a record of
which a County of but ninety thousand inhabitants, need not feel
ashamed.

THE CLOSING CAMPAIGN.

The last and brilliantly successful movements of General Grant's
plan to crush the Kebellion, commenced on the 6th of February,
1865, by an advance of the Fifth Corps^to Hatcher's Run, on the
Weldon Railroad. In this movement the Two Hundred and Tenth
Regiment, in which there was a Company from this County, par-
ticipated. After heavy fighting our men^secured important ad-
vantages. The ground gained was never relinquished. In this
fight, Louis Stolte, from Ashland, captured a rebel in a hand-to-
hand encounter. One Schuylkill County soldier was killed and
lix wounded.

After a siege of over two years, Charleston w^as occupied by
the National forces on the 18th of February, 1865. This was
the fruit of Gen. Sherman's brilliant march from Atlanta to Sa-
vannah, and from Savannah Northward throuG;h South Carolina,
flanking Charleston and causing its evacuation on the night of the
17th of February. Major J. A. Hennessy of Schuylkill County,
first unfurled the American flag on the ruined ramparts of Fort
Sumter, and his Regiment, the Fifty second Pennsylvania, was
the first to enter Charleston. The following; facts are from the
Charleston Courier of March 13, 1865 :

"The United States flag was raised on Fort Sumter by Major J. A.
Hennessy, "with a detachment of theo2d Pennsylvania Volunteers, fifteen
men, at twenty minutes before eight o'clock on Saturday morning,
February 18th, after which they proceeded to Fort Ripley, took down
the rebel flag and hoisted the Stars and Stripe*; then proceeded to Castle
Pinckney, and hoisted the same flag there. They immediately started
for the Atlantic Docks, Charleston, (Colonel Bennet being in Major
Ilennessy's boat, having boarded him in the harbor between Sumter
and Fort Ripley.) Arriving at the dock, the 52d P. Y. flag was imme-
diately hoisted and as the balance of the regiment jfi-rived, in connection
with a detachment of the 2d Rhode Island Artillery, took possession of
the Post Office, Citadel, Arsenal, and all public buildings.

<•' The 52d Pennsylvania Volunteers was the first in the city of Charles-
ton, and placed the first flag on its shores, as also on Sumter, h ort Ripley,
jind Castle Pinckney. They formed the first guards in the city, over all
public buildings and property, and with the exception of the detachment
of the 3d Rhode Island Artillery, there were no other troops in the city
for several hours afterv/ards.

"Major Hennessy landed in the city of Charleston with fifteen men ^
of the 52d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, at fifteen minutes past
10 o'clock, A. M., and before 12 had his regiment posted at all pl«ces of

The Closing Campaign. 39T

importance throughout the city, and there were no other regiments than
the 52d P. V. in the city before three o'clock, P. M., the same day,
•while at the same time the 52d had guards posted in Sumter, Ripley,
Johnson and Castle Pinckney, between 8 and 9 o'clock, A. M., same
morning, and all statements to the contrary are false, as will be shown
by the official report of Brig. Gen. Schimraelpfennig, who brought the
first troops into the city after the 52d P. V."

Soon after, Fort Fisher, the principal defence of Wilmington, N.
C, was captured, and the City fell. A Pottsville officer, Second
Lieutenant Wra. W. Clemens, of the Signal Corps, rendered valua-
ble service at the taking of Fort Fisher, by signalling so success-
fully that the fire of the fleet was directed into the traverses occu-
pied by the enemy, thereby materially aiding the land force to
capture the place. His service was acknowledged in a letter from
Admiral Porter to the Navy Department, which was communica-
ted to the War Department by Secretary Welles. Secretary Stan-
ton instructed General Townsend to thank Lieutenant Clemens for
his service, which was done in handsome terms. The chief of
the Signal Corps also expressed his satisfaction with the Lieuten-
ant. Such acknowledgments from high officials are not bestowed
unless there is special merit in the case.

THE END OF THE WAR.

On March 26, 1865, Gen. Grant commenced a serie'5 of brilliant
movements, resulting on the 2d of April in the capture of Peters-
burg and Richmond, and routing of Lee's army. On the 9th
Gen. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to
Gen. Grant. This was soon after followed by the surrender of
the only rebel army of magnitude left. Gen. Johnston's, to Gen.
Sherman. All of the others surrendered shortly after. This
ended the Rebellion. Davis and other leading traitors fled, as
rats desert a sinking ship. Grant was one of the most successful
Generals on record. During the war which he brought so suc-
cessfully to a close by his masterly plans, he captured four rebel
armies. The first was an army of 15,000 men at Forts Douelson
and Henry ; the second was an army of 20,000 at Vieksburg ;
the third the army of Gen. Lee, SOjOOO ; and the fourth the army
of Gen. Johnston, 30,000. These make an aggregate force of
95,00(rmen. This includes only those who surrendered, and not
Ibose taken prisoners in various indecisive battles.

398 Thk Closing Campawn.

CASUALTIES OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT

In the Closing Campaign,

On the 29th of December, 1864, Major J. F. Brannen, com-
manding Regiment, wrote to us as follows :

Head-Quarters, 48th Reg't, P. V. V. \
Fort Sedgwick, Va-, December 29, 1864. j
Yesterday afternoon" our llegiment received a very severe shelling
from the rebel mortar batteries in our front. The following is a list of
our casualties :

COMPANY I).
Wounded. — Corporal Joseph llarig, John Yonker.

COMPANY C.

WoTTNDED. — Kobert Rogers.

COMPANY G.

Wounded. — John Kauter, Charles H. May.

C 0 M P A N Y K .

KiLLKD. — Corporal John F. Dentzer.

Very llespectfuUy, Your Obedient Servant,

J. F. Brannen,
^ Major Corad'g Reg't,

January 2, 1805. — Corporal William Levison, Co. C, was instantly
killed by a sixty-four pound mortar shell coming through his quarters
in Fort Sedgwick. Fragments of the same shell Avounded Lieut. James
Clark of the same Company.

CHARGE UPON THE REBEL FORTIFICATIONS

at I*etersbnrg,

On Sunday, April 2, 1865, the Forty-eighth led the charge
made by the Ninth Corps upon the earthworks defending the City
of Petersburg The Regiment was led by its brave Colonel, Geo.
W. Gowen. As he reached the parapet of Fort Virginia, waving
his sword, he was instantly killed by a piece of shell.

The grief of the officers ar»d men of the Forty-eighth, at the
death of their Colonel, found expression in the following preamble
and resolutions adopted at a meeting held at Farmville, Va., April
15th, 1865 :

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst, our
late Colonel, George W, Gowen, who was killed while gallantly leading
his command in the assault upon the Rebel works before Petersburg,
Va., April 2d, 18 Jo, therefore be it

Resolved, That although we bow with submission to the Divine will,
which has taken him from amongst us, yet we cannot restrain^an ex-
pression of the feeling of deep regret entertained by this Regiment at
hifi death.

The CLosma Campaign. 39ii

Resolved, Th<at in the death of Colonel Gowen, this Regiment has sus-
tained a loss which can never be repaired, inasmuch, that he possessed
the rare qualities of the perfect gentleman united with those of the
brave and efficient officer. Ever attentive to the innumerable wants of
his command, courteous to those with whom he had intercourse, and
displaying to all a kindness of heart seldom to be met with in the army.
Resolved, That the sincere sympathies of this command are hereby
tendered to the family of the deceased.

Capt, R. M. Jones, Co. G,
" F. D. Koch, Co. I,
" F. P. Williams, Co. B,

Committee.
The casualties sustained in the charge by the Regiment, were as
follows :

Killed — Col. George W. Gowen, struck with piece of shell.

COMPANY A.
Wounded — John Adams.

COMPANY 13.

Killed — Sergeant John Homer.

Wounded— 1st Sergt. John Watkins, Sergt. Robert Campbell, Sergt.
William H. Ward, Robert Jones.

Missing— Sergt. Isaac L. Fritz, William Reppert, Michael Kingsley,
Nicholas Stephens, Lewis Kleckner, Henry Rinker, Daniel Hurley?

COMPANY C.
Wounded — George C. Seibert, Corp. James Nicholson, Jasper Gooda-
vaunt, Albert Kurtz, James T. Martin, Paul Dehne.
Missing — Corp. James Hanan.

COMPANY D.

/Wounded— Sergt. Henry Rothenberger, Corp. Levi Derr, Aaron Wag-
ner, Jacob Schmidt, E. McGuire, Joseph Buddfbger, Chester Phillips
Thos. Whische.

Missing — Samuel Kessler.

COMPANY E.

Killed — Daniel D. Barnet.

Wounded— Corp. Wm. D. Morgan, Wm. C. James, Robert Meredith,
Frederick 0. Goodwin, Thomas Hays.

Missing— 1st Sergt. John C. McElrath, Corp. Geo. W. James, David
McGeary, John O'Neil.

COMPANY F.

Killed — David McCloir.

Wounded— 2d Lieut. Henry Reese, Sergt, William J. Wells, Corporal
John Devlin, James Densey, John Crawford.
Missing — Albert Fisher.

COMPANY G.

Wounded— Peter Bailey, John Droble, Patrick Daley, Nicholas Feers,
Thomas Howell, Thomas Smith, John Wright, George Kane, 1st Ljcut!
William Auman.

Missing — Patiisk Galligan.

COMPANY H.

Killed— .Lames King, William Donnelly, George Uhl.
Wounded— Sergt. P. Radelberger, Willoughby Lentz, Geo. E. Leiria,
Benjamin KoUer, Henry C. Matthews, 2nd Lieut. Thos. H. Silliman.

400 The Closing Campaign.

COMPANYI.

Killed— Albert. Mack, Albert Zimmerman, Wesley Boyer.

Wounded— Jonathan Mowery, Charles C. Wagner, Joseph Shoener,
John Road, Henry Goodman.

Missing — Sergt. James McReynolds, James Mullen, Theodore Rett,
John Oats, Thomas J. Reed, Jacob Reichmine.

COIMPANY K.

Wounded— S. Hoffman, Benjamin Kline, Paul Snyder, Jacob Erbert,
David Philips, Jno. Williams, John Windermuth.

Missing — William Pelton, John Marshall, George Shaners.

The first Regiment to enter Petersburg was the Fiftieth Penn-
sylvania, in which there were quite a number of men from Schuyl-
kill County.

Oapt. Edward H. Leib, Fifth United States Cavalry, was severely
wounded during these operations.

And thus closed the Slaveholders' Pi,ebcllion within four

years of its inception. The first act of war was the firing upon
Fort Sumter by General Beauregard, This act cemented the
North into one band of patriots ; annulled all political distinctions,
and united the loyal people everywhere in an earnest endeavor to
avenge the insult given to our time-honored flag. In the South
it had the effect to precipitate headlong into the vortex of seces-
sion, States and people ; and preparations for continued hostilities
became as active on both sides as it was possible to make them.
The North was but illy prepared for the contest, while the South,
owing to the treason of Floyd and the supineness of Toucey, were
provided with material^ with which to carry on the war. The
North put forth all her energies, however, and the Administration,
applying it^self to the task of defending the National Capital simp-
ly, gathered an army about Washington, to protect it from the
rebel army under Beauregard, menacing it at Manassas. Almost
•ountless hosts obeyed the appeal of the President, and in July,
1861, the advance was made against the rebel army, and resulted
in defeat to our forces, but, providentially, not in disaster to our
cause. The people responded to further calls, and prepared to make
new sacrifices for the salvation of the country's life. All that Sum-
mer and Fall and Winter the Army of the Potqmac lay an inactive
mass of men preparing for the struggle which, it was hoped, would
end the war. Meanwhile, military operations elsewhere were eon-

The Closing Campaign. 401

ducted with vigor, and during the year 1861, with varying success.
In West Virginia the rebels sustained a series of defeats ; the
Potomac was blockaded by the enemy's batteries ; Admiral Du
Pont effected the capture of Port Koyal, S. C. ', Commodore
• Strinsjham wrested Forts Hatteras and Clark, on the North Caro-
lina coast, from the rebels ; Missouri was the scene of bloody
strife ; and the year closed with but a sorry record for the past
and little hope for the future. The Trent affair had involved us
in a diflSciilty with England, which happily, however, was peacea-
bly adjusted, and the fear of foreign intervention was removed.
The piratical cruisers, which had obtained their armament by the
connivance of England, had swept our commerce from the sea,
and our cruisers were powerless to prevent the depredations. At
the close of the year, however, we were in a better condition to
prosecute the war than when it commenced.

The year 1862 was marked by greater and more hopeful suc-
cesses. Gen. Grant had captured Fort Donelson and Nashville,
and fought and won the battle of Corinth ; the enemy had been
driven out of Missouri and defeated in Arkansas and New Mexi-
co; Kentucky was free, and a greater part of ■ West Tennessee
was under Federal control ; the coast of North Carolina was oc-
cupied by a Union force ; the Mississippi was opened as far as
Vicksburg ; New Orleans had been captured, and the lower por-
tion of Louisiana was in our possession ; almost everywhere, save
in Virginia, success had crowned our arms. The campaign in
this State resulted in the evacuation of Manassas by Lee; the
operations against Richmond by McClellan on the Chickahominy ;
the capture of Norfolk by Wool ; the operations of Pope ; the
defeat of the Union army and the subsequent invasion of Mary-
land by Lee ; the battle and defeat at Antietam ; and the naval
engagement in Hampton Roads, which demonstrated for the first
time the practicability of iron-clad vessels of the monitor class.
At the close of this year there was hope for the future, but none
dared to predict the speedy downfall of the rebellion.

Still greater success marked the year 1863. The President
commemorated the advent of the year by issuing his Procla-
mation of Freedom to slaves ; General Bragg was driven out
of Southern Tennessee, and t^'iQ Eastern part of the State was
34

402 The Closing Campaign.

redeemed; the success of General Grant at Vicksburg had opened
the Mississippi, and the capture of Chattanooga had opened up
the campaign in Georgia ; an attempt against Charleston had fail-
ed, but Sumter was a mass of ruins ; General Grant had been in-
vested with tlie command of the Military Department of Missis-*
sippi; and all appeared favorable. In Virginia the Army of the
Potomac had been marched up and down the sacred soil ; had
pursued Lee into Maryland, and defeated him on the soil of
Pennsylvania, at Gettysburg; after which it had out-manoeuvered
him in the Virginia Valley, and at the close of the year rested
from its labors.

In the early part of 18G4 General Grant was invested with the
rank of Lieutenant-General and the command of the army, and
forthwith proceeded to plan his combinations. General Sherman
captured Atlanta, and swept like an avalanche through Georgia,
presenting Savannah to the President as a Christmas gift; General
Banks had conquered Louisiana, but, in seeking to extend his
territory, suliered a defeat in the Red River expedition ; General
Meade's army had been planted in front of Petersburg and Rich-
mond with a firm hold, and the anaconda had commenced to en-
velope within its coils the Southern Confederacy. The rebels had
made a third invasion of Maryland, and nearly succeeded in cap-
turing Washington, but fortunately failed. As the year closed,
the people felt that peace was not far distant, and that they would
be called upon for but few more sacrifices. We had passed through
the convulsions and excitement incident to a Presidential election,
and all seemed satisfied that the result would prove a benefit to the
country. During the year nearly every rebel pirate had met its
fate, and the disposition of foreign powers was manifestly more
friendly. The port of Mobile had been closed, and but three
ports, Charleston^ Galveston and Wilmington, were at the disposal
of the rebels.

With the opening of 1865 — the year of jubilee — came still
greater successes. General Sherman swept through South and
North Carolina to find a safe water base at Goldsboro ; Charleston
was evacuated and Sumter was ours ; General Terry and Admiral
Porter captured Fort Fisher, and then in quick succession fell
Wilmington and all the defences of the Cape Fear River ; Gen-

The Closing Campaign. 408

erai Sheridan fought the battle of Five Forks, and then Peters-
burg and Richmond fell, and Lee's army, after retreating till furth-
er retreat was hopeless, surrendered to General Grant, through
whose magnificent combinations all these great and glorious suc-
cesses were obtained.

And thus passed into history the Southern Confederacy. The
people of the South tasted the bitter fruits of rebellion, and met
with terrible but just punishment. As we prepare these closing
pages for the press, those people look upon ruined homes, the graves
of fathers, husbands, brothers and sons, and devastated plantations
as the price they paid for rebellion. Impoverished beyond re-
demption, they are begging of the hand they have striven to smite,
the food their women and ciiildren require.

This nation rises from the fiery ordeal through which it has
passed, regenerated and in the full vigor of life. We have shaken
off the accursed chains of slavery, and henceforth and forever
"all men are free and equal/' We have demonstrated to the
world that Republics can live and that we are yet strong and vigor-
ous, although we have passed through four years of such war as
the world never before witnessed. We now demand the respect
of the civilized world, and teach a lesson to all nations and king-
doms and people that the United States is a power on earth whose
behests must be obeyed.

OUR DEAD.

Upon tlie saddest chapter of this work we now enter. It is to
give a record of the names of the sons of Schuylkill who died
that their country mignr live. They yielded up their spirits in
the noblest cause, and while we mourn, we are consoled by the re-
flection that their memories will be embalmed in the national
heart while Freedom claims a votary on our continent.

FORTY-EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

Colonel George W. Gowen killed April 2, 1865, before Petersburg.^
Major Jos. A. Gilmour died June 9, 1864, in Seminary Hospital, George-
town, D. C, of wounds received in battle, May 31.

COMPANY A.

William Miller died November 26, 1861, on Hatteras Island, N. C.

John N. Spreese died January 21, 1862, on " " "

Bernard West died May 1, 1862, at Newbern, N. C.

Frank Wentzel drowned in the Potomac River, xVugust 12, 1862.

John Springer died in hospital from wounds, October 3, 1862.

B. G. Otto, " " " " " " 15, "

JohnBrobst " " " " " Septemberl2, "

John H. Leiser killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.

James Williams. killed at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.

Lewis M. Robinhold killed in battle, May, 1864.

Isaac Otto " " "

John J. Huntzinger " " "

Abel C. 1\ St. Clair " " "

Lewis Hessinger killed in battle at Petersburg, June 22, 1864.

Heni-y Simpson killed in battle.

David Krieger'died in Washington, September, 1862.

John Ruff " " " December,

George Bright died in Philadelphia, January, 1863.
John Springer died in Washington, October, 1862.

Richard Lee died near Pottsville, March, 1864.

George Betz died in Washington, June 17, 1864, of wounds received
at Shady Grove Va.

Peter Zimmerman died in Annapolis, Md., March, 1864.

Simon Snyder died June 16, 1864, ofwounds received at Shady Grove, Va.

George Airgood died August 15, 1864, of wounds received in front of
Petersburg.

Nelson Simons died in Minei'svillc, July 5, 1864,

David Houser died in City Point Hospital, July, 1864,

Samuel Schollenberger, died in Salisbury, (N. C.) rebel prison, January
15, 1865.

Total, , , 27

Our Dead. 401

COMPANY B

Thomas Davidson die.l at Fort Clarke, Hatteras, N. C, Nov. 28, 186L

Thomas G. Williams drowned by sinking of a steamer, August, 1862.

Isaac Eiler died in New York, August 7, 1862.

Abe Forrer (wagoner) died in Newbern, N. C August 7, 1862.

L. M. Reese killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862. .

Alexander Prince killed at Antietam, Md., September 18, 1862.

Corp. Reuben Robinson killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.

Michael Divine " " " '* " '* '*

John Williams '' " " *' '' '' "■

Wm. Hill killed Dec. 13, 18G2, by fall of chimney in Fredericksburg.

Thomas Connell died December 18, 1862.

John Robson died in Sharpsburg, Md , December 20, 1862.

Corp. David J, Davis killed in battle. May, 1864.

Matthew Hume " <' *' " '*

Frederick Knittle '* " " '* '«

Laurentus C. Moyer " '' " '' "

Daniel Wary "■ " •* " "

John Deitz <* " " "

Sergt. John Homer killed in battle, Petersburg, April 2, 1865.

John Coalts '' " '' " * " ''

Abraham Wadsworth died in Port Carbon, December 18, 1862.

Nicholas Shitehour, died in Washington, January, 1863, of wounds re-
ceived in battle.

Lieut. Wm. II. Hume died in Washington, June 30, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived rn battle.

Samuel Heckman died June 12, 1864, of wounds received in battle,
May 31.

Christian L. Lauer died June 10, 1864, of wounds received at battle of
Cokl Harbor, Va.

William Schwartz died June 26, 1864.

William Kissinger died May 24, 1864, of wounds received in the battl<^
of Spottsylvania.

Total, - ■ 27 _

COMPANY C.-
Daniel Reighard died at Camp Hamilton, Va., November 11, 1861.
Thomas McEvoy died at Camp Wintield, N. C, January 14, 1862,
John Weiser killed at Bull Run. Va., August 20, 1862.
P>arney Getler " " " " "

Corp. A. T. Frazier died in Alexandria, Va , October 14, 1862.
Joseph Lorr " " " " " 20, "

Edwards Daniels " " " " November 1, "

Daniel Brown killed in battle. May, 1864,
Abraham A. Acker killed before Petersburg, June 28, 1864.
John Whitaker " " " '^ "

Patrick Farrell died in Washington, September 21, 1864.
Michael Crintin died in Salisbury Prison, November 20, 1864.
Michael Mohan died in Washington, May 20, 1864, of wounds received

in battle of Spottsylvania. May 12,
Charles Dintinger died in Salisbury Prison, February 11, 1865.
Corp. William Levison killed in Fort Sedgwick, January 2, 1865.

Total, 15

33*

406 Our Dead.

C COMPANY B.

Lieut. Alexander Fox died December 1, 1861, on steamer Spanlding

near Fortress Monroe.
Andrew Spear died April 15, 1862, at Newbern, N, C.
Andrew Klock died June 30, 1862.
Addison Seaman died July 16, 1862.

flattie Sheafer died August 4, 1862, on board steamer Cossack.
Charles Miller killed at liull Kun, Va., August 29, 1862.
George Earner died September 6, 1862, of wounds.
William Barabrick died September 12, 1862, of wounds.
Alva F. Jeffries killed September 17, 1862, at Antietam,
John Sullivan died October 8, 1862, of wounds received at Bull Run.
Henry Williamson killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.
Thomas Kinney " " " " « "

Jonathan Kaufman killed in battle. May, 1864.
Henry Dorward killed in battle, September, 1864.
Daniel Okon " " " " "

Corp. J. H. Dorr died in Washington, January, 1863.
William H. Smith died in Annapolis, April 7, 1864.
John Deitrich died March 22, 1864.
Solomon Eyster died in1*hiladelphia, August 22, 1864,
David Miller died in Annapolis, November 6, 1864.
C. Philip Beckman died in Baltimore, February 9, 1865.
Charles F. Hesser.
Jonas Z. Baber.
1st Lieut. Henry Graeff died in Pottsville, March 26, 1865, of disease

contracted in rebel prisons.

Total, 23

COMPANY E.

John Morton died in Alexandria, Va., September 5, 1862.

John Broadbent killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862. •

James P. Farrall died in Washington, September, 25, 1862.

Thomas Major " '♦ " October 31, 1862.

Lieut. William Cullen killed in battle of Antietam.

Lawrence Farrel killed in. battle. May, 1864.

David Williams killed in battle of Grove Church, Va., June 1, 1864.

John Major killed before Petersburg, June 17, 1864.

Daniel Boyer killed at Pegram's Farm, Va., October 5, 1864.

John Danagh " " " " " September 30, 1864.

Daniel D. Barnett killed before Petersburg, April 2, 1865.

James Shields murdered in Silver Creek, Schuylkill County, February
26, 1864.

Anthony Wade accidentally shot and killed near Cold Harbor, Va.,
June 8, 1864.

Sergt. Thomas Tosh died in Washington, July 7, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived at Shady Grove, Va.,

William Evans died in Philadelphia, June 22, 1864.

Valentine Frantz committed suicide at Fort Albany, Alexandria, April
28, 1864.

Williana Reasons died in Annapolis, June 23, 1864, of wounds received
before Petersburg, June 17.

James Regan died in Annapolis, June 23, 1864, of wounds received be-
fore Petersburg, June 17.

Our Dead. * 407

George Welsh died in Salisbury prison, February G, 1865,
Patrick Rogers died in Washington, March 25, 1865.
Daniel E. Reedy died en route to Washington, of wounds received June
3, 1864, at Shady Grove Church, Va.

Total, 21

COMPANY F.

William Brereton died at Fort Clarke, N. C, December 12, 1861.

Charles Treisbach died in Newbern, N, C, July 1, 1862.

Corp. Henry Jenkins died August 29, 1862, of wounds received at Bull
Run, Va.

Corp. Williams Hopkins killed at Bull Run, August 29, 1862.

Daniel Fenstermacher died in Washington, February 11, 1863.

J. Evans died in Washington, March 3, 1863.

John J. Morrison died in Columbia College Hospital, Washington, Octo-
ber 23, 1862, of wounds received at Bull Run.

David F. Thiel killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864.

John Morrissy " " *' " ♦• "

Lewis Woods " " " " *' «<

Richard Williams " •' '< " '< <■<■

Patrick Doolin killed near Pamunky River, Va., May, 1864.

Henry McCann " " «< '< " " "

Edward G. Pugh killed at Shady Grove Church, Va., June 23, 1864.

William Smith " " *' " '' " " <"- «*

Horace F. Straub killed before Petersburg, June 17, 1864.

Isaac Lewis •' " " " " «<

Corp. John Powell died May 12, 1864, of wounds received at Spottsyl-
vania.

John Bradley, (2d) died June, 1864, of wounds received at Shady Grove
Church.

David McCloir killed before Petersburg, April 2, 1865.

Peter Litchfield died June, 1864.

Israel Manning died May, 1864, of wounds received at Spottsylvania.

Frank Queeney died August 30, 1864.

Andrew Werner died June, 1864, of wounds received at Spottsylvania,
May 12.

Jacob Wagner died in Pottsville, January 3, 1865.

Elijah DeFrehn died in Salisbury prison, December 30, 1864.

William Fulton '' " " " February 11, 1865.

Simon Devlin killed before Petersburg, June 18, 1864.

Total, - - - ' - - - - 28

COMPANY G.

Philip L. Diehl died December 13, 1861, at Hatteras, N. C.

William Smith died September 14, 1862, of wounds received at Bull Run.

Charles Timmons killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862.

Henry Burnish died in Pottsville, December 20, 1862. ^

John Fame died November 8, 1862, of wounds received in battle.

Second Lieut. H. C. Jackson killed near Spottsylvania, May, 1864.

William Williams killed near Spottsylvania, May 1864.

Corp. Alex Govan killed near Grrove Church June 23, 1864.

James Allison " " " <* " " «'

Wm. Simpson " '< " " " ** *'

408 Our Dead.

Edward McCabe died In Washington, November 12, 1862.

John Armstrong died July 1, 18G1, of wounds received at Spottsylvanift,

May 12, 1864.
^Charles Clark died in Annapolis, Md.
J. Howard Jones died July 13, 18G4, of wounds received June 17, before

Petersburg.
Jas. R. Spencer died May 31, 18G4, of wounds received at Spottsylvania.
Charles Hesser died in Washington July 8, 1864.
First Lieutenant Curtis C. Polloclt died in Washington, June 23, 1864,-

of wounds received before Petersburg, June 17.

Total, - ... - - - •- 17

COMPANY il.

William Nagle killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.

Thomas Kelly " " " " " " "^^ "

Samuel Pettit " " " " " " " *'

Sergt. Wm. T. Garrett died at Fortress Monroe, Va., Nov. 23, 1861.

" Charles C. Hinkle died at Ilatteras Inlet, N. C. "
R. A. Jenkins died at Ascension Hospital, D. C, Dec. 24, 1862.
Charles Knerr died in hospital, December 7, 1862.
Sergt. Joseph Reed died November 16, 1863, of wounds received at

Campbell Station, Tenn , November 16.
Corp. John Sponsler died November 29, 1863, of -wounds received at

Knoxville, Tenn., November 29.
Joseph Weise died November 27, 1863, of wounds received at Knoxville,

Tenn., November 24.
Abraham Benscoter killed near Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864.
Second Lieut. Samuel B. Laubenstine killed near Pamunky River, Va.,

May, 1864.
Corp. Charles Norrigan killed near Pamunky River, Va., May, 1864.
Joseph Alexander killed near Grove Church, Va., June, 1864.
George W. Morey killed before Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864.
Jefferson W. Byerle " " " " " " "

James Mulholland '* " " " '' " "

Anthony Gallagher " " " " " "

Thomas Davis " " *' " " 18, "

Second Lieut. David B. Brown killed before Petersburg, Aug. 5, 1864.
Charles Driesbach.
William A. Millet accidentally killed on railroad at Harrisburg, Pa.,

September 7, 1861.
Thos. Lewis died at Islington Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, April 2, 1864.
Charles 0. De Long died May 8, 1864, near Bristow Station, Va., m

route from the Army of the Potomac to Alexandria, Va.
Isaac Bannon died July 26, 1864, in Alexandria.
Joseph Chester died in Fredericksburg, Va., May 24, 1864, of wound*

received May 15.
John Donnelly died in Annapolis, Md., April 21, 1864.
Edward Edwards died April 23, 1864, near Annapolis.
Job Hirst died in Washington, July 3, 1864, of wounds received June

26, 1864, before Petersburg.
Lewis W. Kopp died in Washington, October 1, 1864.
Wm. D. Lloyd died in Lincoln Hospital, Washington, January, 19, 1866.
P. Heneran died November 25, 1864.'
Charles Aurand died in Pottsville, February 9, 1865.

Our Dead. 409

James King killed before Petersburg, April 2, 18G5,
Wm. Donnelly " " " " " "

George Uhl " " " " " "

^olal, 36

COMPANY I.

Alexander Boone died in Fredericksburg, Va., August 11, 18G2.

Charles F. Leizer killed in action at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.

Corp. Lewis V. Focht killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862.

Lieut, George H. Gressang drowned in Potomac River by sinking of
steamer West Point, August 12, 1862.

Jonas Haldeman killed at Knoxville, Tenn., November 29, 1863.

Charles Weaver died December 5, 1863, of wounds received at Knox-
ville, Tenn., December 3.

Henry J. Ege killed near Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864.

William J. Price killed near Grove Church, Va., June, 1864.

Benj. B. Kershner " " " " " " "

George Dresh " " " " " "

James Heiser killed before Petersburg, September 30. "

Charles E. Weber died in Knoxville, Tenu., December 5, 1863.

First Lt. Joseph Edwards died in Washington, July 2, 1864, of wounds
received before Petersburg, June 17.

Capt. B. B. Shuck died in Washington, July 27, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived before Petersburg, June 25.

Reuben Watt died in Annapolis, March 31, 1864.

Lewis J. Garber died in Annapolis April 23, 1864.

John Clark died June 8, 1864, of wounds received June 3.

Jerry Willouer " " 22, " " " " " "

James Boner " " " " 't " " May 30.

Daniel J. Kehl died June 26, 1864, at City Point, Va.

Lewis Beablehamer died July 26, 1864, of wounds received July 24.

Isaac K. Beltz died August 10, 1864, of wounds received August 10.

Daniel Nayer died August 22, 1864, at City Point.

Albert Zimmerman killed before Petersburg, April 2, 1864.

Albert Mack '^ " " " " "

Wesley Boyer " '* " " " "

Total, - - 26

COMPANY K.

Sergt. R. D. Filbert killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.
Corp. Patrick Handley died in Washington, October 25, 1862.

" Daniel Moser killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862.
Peter Boyer died in Cressona, Schuylkill Co., Pa., October 22, 1862.
Peter Burke " " Frederick, Md., November 14, 1862.
Georg'-i F. Maines died on Hatteras Island, November 30, 1862.
George Dentzer killed at Antietam, September 17, 1862.
John W. Henn killed near Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864.
Jacob Lauby " " Grove Church, Va.,^June, 1864.

Nathan Rich killed before Petersburg, June 17, 1864.
Arthur L. Gray " " " " 18,

'John L. Dentzer killed at Fort Sedgwick, Va., Dec. 28, 1864.

Total, 12

410 Our Dead.

recapitulation.

Field Offi

cers,

Compauy

((

•

((

27
27
15
23
21
28
17
36
26
12

Total, 234

NINETY-SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

Major Lewis J, Martin killed at Crampton's Pass, Md., Sept. 14, 1862.
Adjut;'.nt John T. llunuuni died June, 1864, of wounds I'eceived in battle.
Augustus Pfaltzgraf (band) died of small-pox.

COMPANY A.

1st Sergt. Jonas M. Rich killed at Gaines' Hill, Ya., June 27, 1862.
Levi Gloss " " " " " " " "

Hugh B. Nugent wounded at Gaines' Hill. Died in hands of enemy.
Alexander Rogers killed " " " Va., June 27, 1862.
Henry Stonetield " '« " " " " " "

Henry C. Simpson " " " <' -"" « " "

Corp. Gomer Jones killed at Crainpton's Gap, September 14, 1862.
Sergt. Thomas G. Ilouck died in Pottsville, June 8, 1863, of wounds

received Maj^ 3.
Nicholas Yost died in Chestnut Hill hospital, Philadelphia, June 7, 1864,

of wounds received May 5, 1864.
James Sexton killed near Spottsylvauia Court House, Ya., May 10, 1864.
Alexander Smith " " '* " '' " " " "

John T. Stodd

1864, of wounds received May 10.
Sergt. Charles F. Hotfman died in Pottsville, March 31, 1863.
Corp. Frank Hanley died near Bakersville, Md., October 29, 1862.
Michael Carroll died in Pottsville, January 6, 1863.
John Madison died at Camp Nugent near Harrison's Landing, Ya., July

23, 1862.
>nchael Nash died at Seminary Hospital, Ya., March 19, 1862.
Henry Pieiuhart died in camp, White Oak Church, Ya., March 23, 1863.
John Reed died at Fort Wood, N. Y., October 3, 1862.
Elijah Gloss died in Alexandria, Ya., March 25, 1862,
Corp. John II. Higley died at Point Lookout, Md., August 21, 1863, of

wounds received in battle.

Total, 23

Our Dead. 411

COMPANY B.

First Lieut. Ernst T. Ellrich killed at Gaines' Hill, June 27, 1862.

Joseph Fessler killed at Fredericksburg. Va., May 3, 1803.

Corp. William B. Ilineaehl killed near Spottsylvania Court House. Va ,
May 10, 18G4.

Andrew Bucher killed near Spottsylvania C. II., Ya., May 10, 18G4.

J. F. Keefer " " " " " '• " "

William Mangold died in Philadelphia, May 25, 1804, of wounds re-
ceived May 10.

Michael Bleckle died at Camp Franklin near Alexandria, Va., December
4, 1801,

Charles Chaundy died at New Hampton, N. Y., June, 1802.

Henry Eckler died in Pinegrove, June 21, 1862.

George Nagle died in Washington, January 9, 1864.

Henry Sterner died at Point Lookout, Md., August 12, 1862.

William Kutz died near Alexandria, Feb. 4, 1862.

A. Wilkes died June 30, 1864, in Savannah, Ga.

Total, - - 13

COMPANY C .

2d Lieutenant Alexander Allison died May o, 1803, of wounds receiTed

in action at Salem Heights, Va., May 3.
James AVolfinger died .Tulj 7th, 1802, Hill Catcs Farm, Va.
John \V. Hall died at Harrison's Landing, Va., August 1, 1862.
Alexander Martin " " " " 6, "

Alexander Yost died in Fort Wood IIospitaL X. Y., Sept. 12. 18G2.
August Kichter " " " " " " 1, "

Martin Sipe killed at Crampton Pass, Md., Sept. 14, 1862.
Samuel McMinnzie " " " •' " "

Corp. John Allison killed at Salem Heights, Ya.., May 3, 1863.
William Madara " " " •' " "

Sergt. V/m. Freast •' " " " " "

Henry Stubbelbine died in Washington, .Tune 2, 1863, of wounds received

in action at Salem Heights, Va., May 3.
Louis A. Bruns killed in Bartle of Wilderness, May 5, 1863.
Corp. George Delker killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864.
Samuel Fisher " " "•' " "

John Davis " •* '• ''• •'

Wm. Kind died August 2, 1862. *

Henry Hanley died December, 1862.
S. Bishop died October 27, 1864, in Andersonville prison.

Total, 19

C 0 :M P A NY D .

Corp. James Schoficld killed at Fredericksburg, Va., May 3, 18G3.

Corp, James Gough killed near Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864.

Corp. Charles Newton died in hands of enemy of wounds received in

action at Salem Church, Va., May 3, 1863.
William Becker died at Magerstown, Md., November 9, 1862.
Charles Burton died at Harrison's Landing, August 8, 1862.
John Black died at Potomac Creek Hospital, May 29, 1863, of "wotinds

received in action at Salem Church, Va., May 3, 1863.

412 Our Dj^d.

Thomas Campbell died in Pottsville, October 23, 1862.

John Carr died at Burkesville, Md., September 19, 1862, of wounds re-
ceived at Crampton's Pass, Md., Sept. 14, 1862.

William Corby killed at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864.

John Dougherty died at Hagerstown, Md., December 23, 18G2.

James Hughes killed at Gaines' Hill, June 2Y, 1862.

Luke Kelly died in Palo Alto, March 26, 1864.

Thomas Rease kilkd at Crampton's Pass, September 14, 1862.

Michael Sands died in Pottsville, March 20, 1863.

Cornelius Shovelin died in hospital. White Oak Church, Dec. 17, 1862.

Jonas Vanderslice died in Philadelphia, July 16, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived at Cold Harbor, June 3.

Thomas D. Williams killed at Crampton's Pa^s, Md., Sept. 14, 1862.

S. Cover died December 1, 1862, in rebel hospital, Richmond, Va.
Total, - - - - - .,, - - 18

If'

COMPANY E.

Sergt. William Mayberry killed at Salem Church, Va., May 3, 1863.

Evan Thomas,

Sergt. William Zigler killed at Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864.

Chris. Cammcrsel "

Samuel Sager " " " " " "

Jacob Wright " " " " " "

Sergt. Francis Kemp " " " "

Samuel McAtfee " " " " " "

William Woodring

Solomon Moyer " " " " " "

Corp. Nathan Santee died at Chesapeake Gen'l Hosp., Octobers, 1862.

*' Edward Monckler died in Baltimore, July 17, 1862.
John A. Ailer died in Fredericksburg, May 22, 1864, of wounds received

May 10.
Stephen Gross died near Fortress Monroe, August 12, 1862.
Charles Getighe died July 24, 1862.
William H. Kuhns died at Hanover, Va., June 15, 1862.
William C. Stookey died at Fairfax Seminary, October 5, 1862.
Otto G. H. Vogel killed in action at Crampton's Pass, Sept 14, 1862.
Joseph Yost died at Warrenton, October 29, 1863.
John Merrill " " " " " "

J. Bensinger died January 15, 1864, at Savannah, Ga.

Total, 21

COxMPANY F.

Lieut. John Dougherty killed September 14, 1802, at Crampton's Pass.

1st Sergt. Michael Boland killed June 27, 1862, at Gaines' Hill.

Corp. R. Welsh " " " " "

Patrick Ferns " '* " " "

Michael Connery " " " " "

John Haley, Jr., killed May 10, 1804, at Spottsylvania.

Barth. Hoffy " " " " "

Thos. Marshall died .June 25, 1864, of wounds received May 10,

Patifick Kennedy died February 7, 1862, at Camp Northumberland.

Joseph Whelaii 4ied March 25, 1862.

Our Dead. 413

Sergt. Dennis Carrol died in Washington, August 3, 1862, of wounds

received June 27.
Patrick Glennon died in Hagerstown, December 20, 18G2.
John Haley, (3d) died in Philadelphia, December 26, 1862.
Total, - - 13.

COMPANY a.

Sergt. Benjamin B. Wagner killed May 10, 1864, at Spottsylvania.

Sergt, Jos. Ferree " *' '*

Corp. Josh. Workman " " ''

Frank Workman " <' "

.James Betz " " ''

Thomas Haines killed Sept. 14, 1862, at Crampton's Pass.

Simon Brobst died August 24, "

Philip Baddorff died June 8, 1864, in Douglas Hospital, Washington.

Charles Henry Cook died January 17, 1864.

Marks Drifoos died in Washington, December 23, 1861.

James Hill died July 24, 1864.

McCoy Sargeant died September 27, 1862, of wounds.

Elias Strasser, died May 9, 1862.

Frank Treon killed at Crampton's Paes, Sept. 14, 1862.

William Thompson died December 18, 1862.

Joseph Workman died June 9, 1864, a prisoner.

Samuel Williams died December 17, 1862.

Total, - - - - . - - - 17

COMPANY H.

Daniel Campbell killed near Spottsylvania, May 14, 1864.

Peter Fries killed at Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863.

Corp. Dan'l B. Hartline killed " " "

Martin Kelly " " " <*

Wm. Klass " " " "

Henry P. Koons killed at Crampton's Pass, Sept. 14, 1862.

John Sentman " " "* " "

John H. Stedham killed near Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864.

Oliver G. Treichler killed at Crampton's Pass, September 14, 1862.

Chas. B. Zeigler " " " '• *'

Christian Bidel died September 15, 1862, of wounds received at Cramp-
ton's Pass.

James Brassington died June 7, 1864, of wounds received May 14.

John Clarey died October 12, 18(32, of wounds received at BurketSville,
September 14.

John Haley died September 15, 1862, of wounds received at Crampton's
Pass.

Jos. T. Holdeman died Aug. 24, 1864, in Washington, of bayonet wounds.

Aaron Miller died September 20, 1862, at Burketsville, of wounds re-
ceived at Crampton's Pass.

Jere. Miller died January 2, 1863, at Fi'ederick City, Md., of wounds
received at Crampton's Pass.

Conrad Berdel died October 8, 1862.

Jno. Cofi&eld died January 11, 1864, in Richmond, Va.

Conrad Romanus died September 7, 1 862, in New York.
35

414 Our Dead,

Jesse Dft Frehn died May 30, 1863, at Wfiite Oat Ghurcfe,
Dan'l Karcher died November 28. 1861, in Georgetown.
Levi D. Kistler died September 30, 1862, in Chester.
Michael Naus died August 13, 1863, at New Baltimore, Va.
Joseph Snyder died October 8, 1862, in Burketsville.
Wm. Sponsaler died May 20, 1862, in Baltimore.

TotaL - - ~ - - - . 2g

COMPANY I.

Sergr. Francis Canfield killed June 27, 18G2, at Gaines' HilL

Martin Foyle "■ ^i .t i. *<

George James killed September 14, 1862, at Orampton's Pass.

Patrick Kelly killed near Spottsylvania, May 14, 1864.

Tho3. Scanlan killed May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg.

Wm. Wicklam killed September 14, 1862, at Crampton's Pass.

Tim O'Connor died June 14, 1864, of wounds received May 14.

John Mor died July 26, 1862, of wounds received June 27.

Patrick Owens died at Camp Schuylkill, Pottsville, October 21, 186L

Wm. O'Brien died at Camp Northumberland, January 12, 1862.

William Nixon.

James H. lligley died in Pottsville.

Patrick Ferns killed in battle before Richmond.

Joseph Ilalderraan died in Washington, Angust, 1864.

John Bowler died in Pottsville, March 7, 1865.

Total, - - 15

COMPANY K.

Pat. McAllister killed September 14, 1862, at Crampton's Pass.

Barney McMichael " " " ''

John By an died September 22, 1862, at Annapolis, of wounds received

June 27.
Michael Ilollahan died September 26, 1862, at Burketsville, of wound*

received September 14.
Pat. Fay died October 22, 1862, of wounds received September 14.
John Farrell killed May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg.
Wm. Brennan killed May 10, 1864, at Spottsylvania.
Thos. Lawler " " " "

Martin O'Brien killed May 12, 1864, near Spottsylvania.
Lieut O'Neal Coyle died August 22, 1862, at Point Lookout.
J as, E. Tobin died October 9, 1862. at Fairfax, Va,
Thos. Bergen died Octol)er 26, 1862, in Washington.
Jas. Canfield died December 14, 1862, at Point Lookout.
Hugh Smith died January 8, 1863, in Washington.
John Collins died January 13, 1863, "

Jas. N. Tobin died January 17, 1862, at Glen Carbon.
Pat. McGee died September 25, 1863, in Philadelphia.
Dan'l Boran died February 5, 1863, in Washington.
Chas. Wessner died March 5, 1863, at Antietam.
Jno. Lawier died March 11, 1863, at White Oak Church.
Phil. Delan«y died April 26, 1863,
John Kelly died in New York, October 20, 1862.
John Maley killed in battle before Richmond.
Lieut. Thos. Burns killed near Winchester.

Total, - - 24

Our Dead. 415

RECAPITULATION.

Field Officers, 2

Members of Baud, -----._i
Oompany A, --------28

" B, - - 13

- C, --...--. 19

^' D, . - 18

** E, 21

'' F, 13

*' G, -.----.- 17
II, - --.-._ 26

I, - 15

^' K, - - 24

Total. - ' - - - .- - - - 192

FIFTIETH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT,

COMPANY A.

Corporal John Heisler killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.

Peter S. Otto . "■ " '' " "

Edward Harner " " *' " *'

Emanuel Faust killed at Caraphell Station, Tenn., Nov. 16, 1863.

Henry Faust killed near Spottsylvania, Va., Ma}', 1864.

Simon Reigle " " " "

Corp. Wm. H. Delcamp died May 7, 1864, of wounds,

Jacob Ilcnrj *' " '" '■'■

Conrad Carl ^^ "■ 10, '•' ^'

Nathaniel Stiitzmam died in Washington, May 22, 1864.

Sergt. David G. Alspach died in Portsmouth, R. L, Aug. 14, 1864.

John D. Manning murdered in Annapolis, Md., April 14, 1864.

Robert McClelland,

T>, Towney died in Washington, September, 1862.

TotaL ---- = .- 14

COMPANY C.

Ord. Sergt. Wm. H. Hill killed ia battle, May, 1864/

Michael Riley " " " "■ "

Levan J. Warner " " '■'' ^^ "

Sam. Martz '■'■ " " •«' "

Dan. Evert *'■ '* ^* ^' «

Jacob Benedict ■" '' " " "

Thomas Lloyd *' "■ '<■ ^' ^^

Franklin Sharer ^^ ^* '^ " ^^

John Reed ^' *' *^ ^* "

Em-anuel Eckert " *^ << " "

AlfoeK Bartolet '' <« " " <<

James Golles '* <' " June, "
Lucian Schwartz (waggoner) died at Fortress Monroe.
Jeremiah Helms died September 27, 1863, of wounds received in Battle
of Anfietam.

Total, . ^ r ^ . ^ ? » 14

416 Our Dead.

Corp. Henry Deets, Co. F, died in Washington, March 12, 18G3.
John Mackey, Co. I, died in Washington, June 4, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived in the Battle of the Wilderness.

Total, 2

RECAPITULATION.
Company A, --------14

" C, 14

Other Companies of Regiment, _ - - - 2

Total, - * 30

FIFTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY E.

George Stone killed in battle, May, 1864.

Peter Ritz " " " " "

Mich, McNamarra " " " "

Theodore Weiser " " " "

John Welsh killed in battle, May 20, 1864.

Edward Lewis " " " i<. n

John Padden killed accidentally on railroad at Harrisburg, Oct. 17, 1861.

Captain Horace C. Bennett killed at Pocataligo, S. C Oct, 22, 1862.

Corp. Wm. Fowler died in Beaufort, S. C, April 2, 1864.

Lewis Lewis died in Hampton Hospital, Va., " " "

John S. Bannan died of starvation in the rebel prison, Andersonville,

Ga., October 11, 3864.
George Yinchell died in Salisbury, N. C, a victim of rebel brutality,

Jan. 15, 1865.

Total, 12

John Jones, Co. B, died in White Hall Hospital, Bucks County, Pa.',

August 26, 1864.
Arter Rogers, Co. C, died in Beaufort, S. C, September, 1862.
Total, - - - - - - » 2

RECAPITULATION.
Company E, ,__,,-- I2

Other Companies of Regiment, - - - - - 2

Total, 14

SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

COMPANY F.

Patrick McLaughlin killed near Marietta, Ga., May, 1864.

Wm. A. Jones died December, 1862, of a wound received at Tullahoma.

Samuel Dunlap died in Tennessee, 1862.

Jeseph Jones die I in Bardstown, Ky., March, 1862.

Amos Poff'.

Joseph Zimmerman died in Nashville, Ten^., November 29, 1862,

Our Dead. 417

Thomas DoUn died in Tennessee, December, 1862, of wounds received

at Sweden's Cove.
Geo. M. Beyer died in rebel hospital, Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 30, 1864.
Total, 8

Capt. Robert R. McCormick murdered by guerillas near Eardstown, Ky.

December, 1864.
Lieut. Nicholas Wynkoop killed in battle near Gallatin, Tenn., August

21, 1862.
Wm. Morris Robinson died in Jonesboro, Ga., Aug. 21, 1864, of wounds

received in battle. •
Alonzo Martz, Co. I, died at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, April 13, 1864.
Lieut. Francis William Reed, Co. L, killed at Battle of Duck River,

Tenn., June 27, 1863.
George Rahn, Co. A.
George Anspach, Co. A.

John T. Hazzard, Co. L, died in Annapolis, Md., February 16, 1863.
Sergeant James Fleming, Co. I, killed in battle at Big Shanty, Ga.
James Gillespie, Co. A, killed near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dec, 1862.-
Henry Fry, Co. I, " " " " " <'
Sergt. Peter Longwell, Co. B, killed near Marietta, Ga., May, 1864.
Sergt. James R. Black, " " ♦' " " " "

Archibald Muller, Co. K, " " *« << '< '«
Adam James, Co. M, " " " << «< .<

William Ainsworth Co. M, " " *' <* " "
Total, 16

RECAPITULATION.

Company F, -------- 8

Other Companies of Regiment, - - - - - 16

Total, ■' ""24

FIFTY-SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.

COMPANY K.

Corp. John Flanaakers killed August, 1864,

Corp. Win. Bowers " " "

Isaiah Wilbur '« an

Sergt. Geo. Allison died May 23, 1864, of wounds received near Spott-

sylvania, Va.
Sergt. Harrison K. Smith killed in Battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863.
Michael Haley killed before Petersburg, August 19, 1864.
Jacob Ilarrill killed August^ 1864.

Total, 7

Hugh McFaden, Co. B, killed August, 1864. ■
John G. Lebo, Co. I,

Total, 2

RECAPITULATION.
Company K. --------7

Other Companies of Regiment, - - -, - - 2

Total, S

85*

418 Our Dead.

IN OTHER REGIMENTS.

John Eplin, 132d Ta. Regt., killed in battle of Fredericksburg, Decem-
ber 13, 1863.

John W. Sennett, Co. B, 5od Penn. Regt., woiwded and taken prisoner^
May 12, 18G4. Died in Richmond, August 5, 186-i.

Geo. Rice, Co. K, 67th Pa. Regt., killed August, 1864.

Amos Fisher, Co. A, 88th "

Sero-t. Emanuel Moyer, Co. H, 17th Pa. Cav., killed August, 1864.

Philip Troy,

JoelKooas,

Sergt. John F. Mundy, Co. F, 109th Pa. Regt., killed near Dallas, Ga.j,
''May 25, 1864.

Josiah W. Matthews,

James Jenkins, Co, F, 5th U. S. Artillery, died November, 1862.

Geo W. Overbeck, Co, G,. 8th Pa., Cav., aecidentally killed at Union-
'ville, Va., Nov. 2, 1862.

Wm Henry Pritchard, Co. E, 78th Pa. Regt., died in Nashville, Tenn.y
'October 31, 1862.

1st Sergt. Robert A. Maingay, Co. D^ 118th Pa. Regt., died in Camp at
Falmouth, Va., Nov. 24, 1862.

Albert Boone Meyer, Co. L, 9th N. Y. Regt., died in Baltimore, Md.~
Dec 25, 1861.

Patrick Divine, Capt. S. S. Richards' Pa. Cavalry Co., killed at Fred-
ericksburg, Va., April, 1862.

William Casey, 8 1st Pa. Regt., died at Yorktown, June, 1862.

Jos. L. Seiders, Co. I, llSth Pa. Regt., killed in battle.

James Devine, 32d Tennessee Regiment, wounded in battle, captured
and died.

Henry Ham-is, 36th Pa. Regt., (7th Reserves) killed in battle.

Serf^t. Benj. Franklin Jones, Co. I, 52d Pa. Regt., killed in Battle of
^Fair Oaks, Va. ...

Martin Pike, Co. D, 41st Pa. Regt., (12th Reserves.)

Daniel Schwenk, Co. N, 28th Pa. Regt , died October, 1861.

Emanuel Esterheld, Co. K, 76th Pa. Regt.

George Nagle, Co. G, 107th Pa. Regt.

Daniel Wiehry, Co. L, 3d Pa. Cav., killed before Richmond,

.John Davis, in Navy, died December, 1862.

John M. Southapi, on Western gunboat, died in Helena, Arkansas,.
August, 1862.

.lames B. Kane, 13th Pa. Cav., died Jonuary, 1863.

Frank Dolan. 69th N. Y. Regt., died in Washington, January IS, 1863,
of wounds received in Battle of Fredericksburg.

Frederick Bolt?, Co. F, 184th Pa. Regt., died in Alexandria, Va., June
10, 1864, of wounds received in Battle of Cold Harbor.

Edward Sweeney died in Washington, August 25, 1864.

Charles Qiiinn died in Annapolis of wounds, received June 17, 1864, be-
fore Petersburg.

A. R. Wilson, Co. I, 2d Pa. Art., died in Salisbury prison, Jan 5, ISd^^.

Ord. Ser t. George S. Herring, Co. H, 17ih Pa. Cav., killed near Gor-
donsville, Va. , December 23, 1864.

Corp Jac. B. Heiser, Co. H, 17th Pa. Cav., killed near Gordonsville,
Va., Dec. 23, 186^

Lewis Kershner, Co. D, 198th Pa. Regt., killed in battle before Peters-
burg, March 31, 1865.

Our Dead. 419

Henry Hoy, 107th Pa. Regt., died in Pinegrove Township, Schuylk. Co.,
Pa., April 2, 1865, of disease contracted in rebel prisons.

Philip Keeley, 107th Pa. Regt., died in Pinegrove, Sch. Co., Pa., April
1, 1865, of disease contracted in rebel prisons.

Wm. R. Wren, Co. K, 19th Pa, Cav., died at Jefi'erson Barracks Hospital,
Missouri, April 22, 1865.

Sergt. Silas C. Hough, 5th Pa. Cav., killed before Petersburg, April 2,
1865.

John C. Cole, 43d U, S. Colored Regiment, killed before Petersburg,
August, 1864.

Henry H. Bickley, Co. E, 10th New Jersey Regt., died in Philadelphia,
Aug. 23, 1864, of wounds received in Battle of the Wilderness.-

Thomas K. llausch, Co. C, 2d Iowa Regt., killed before Atlanta, Ga.,
August 20, 1864.

(Sergt. James Murray, Co. II. 81st Regt., killed in the Battle of Reams'
Station, Weldon Railroad, August 25, 1864.

Francis M. Stidham, died in Annapolis, Md., July, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived June 18.

Thomas H, James, 1st New York Cav., killed in battle at Berry ville, Va.,
October 3, 1864.

Franklin Wiehry killed near Richmond.

Sergt. Tlieodore F. Beck, Co. D, 15th Pa. Cav., died near Mohrsville,
Berks Co., Pa., January 27, 1865.

Edward McDonough died in Pottsville, July 23, 1862, of fever contract-
ed in camp before Richmond.

Sergt. Wm. Place, Co. E, 72d Regt., killed in Battle of Antietam, Sept.
17, 1862.

William C. Shissler, 8th Michigan Regt., died in W^ashington, Sept. 7,

1862, of wounds received in battle.

Edward Hetherington, Battery I, 2d Pa. Art., (112th Regt.) died .at
David. Island Hospital, New York, Sept. 20, 1864.

Samuel Gaskins died in Donaldson, Sch. Co., Pa., Sept. 18, 1864, of
disease contracted in the service at Vicksburg.

Charles Kolb killed in Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864.

James F. Albright, wagon master, died in Cincinnati, Sept. 6, 1863.

Wm. H. H. Brown, 17th Pa. Cav., died October 29, 1863.

John Roseberry Roads, Co. M, 6th Pa. Cav., died Oct. 22, 1863, near
Durant Station, Iowa.

Degenhart C. Pott, 112th Pa. Regt., died in Port Carbon, March 10, '04,

Capt. Thomas Stodd accidentally killed in Alexandria, La., March 11,
1864, by beiffg thrown from a horse.

Charles Francis Koch, 25th Michigan Reg., died April 7, 1863, in Bowl-
ing Green, Ky,

Edward R. Eveland, Co. E, 28th Pa. Regt., died May 10, 1863, in Camp
at Acquia Creek.

Sergt. John J.. Jones, Co. I, 15th New Jersey Regt., killed May 3, 1863,.
in battle of Chancellorsville.

Frederick Snyder, Co. E, 151st Pa. Regt., died :May 11, 1863, at Wind
Mill Point Hospital, Va.

Capt. James Robertson, Cj. I, 22nd Iowa Regt., killed in ba!tle at Vicks-
burg, May 22, 1863.

Lieut. George Byron Clayton, 5th Pa. Cav., died in Ashland, Sch. Co..
Pa., July 6, 1863.

Geo. B. Smith, Co. E, 147th Pa. Regt., died in Milford, Del.. July 21

1863. . , .

420 Our Dead.

Lieut. Will. K. Pollock, 1st U. S. Art., died in Fort Macon, near Beau-
fort, N. C, August 4, 1863.
Wm. M. Steel, Co. A, 124th TU. Regt., died at Vicksburg, Aug. 7, 1863.
Lieut. J. A. Dunston, Co, C, 105th Pa. Regt., died near Gettysburg, Pa.,

August 26, 1863, of wounds received in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Henry Hehn, 9th Pa. Regt.

Robert Davis, Co. K, 76th Pa. Regt., died at Hilton Head, June, 1862.
Michael Henegan, Co. K, 52d Pa. Regt., killed in battle.
William Welsh, Co. A, 67th Pa. Regt., died Jan. 4, 1862.
John O'Donnell, Co. H, 81st Pa. Regt., killed in battle before Richmond,

July 1, 1862.
John Menear, Co. E, 6th Pa. Cav., died May 11, 1862.
Corp. Jeremiah Delay, Co. H, 81st Pa. Ptegt.,^ killed in battle before

Richmond.
Reese W. Roberts, Co. L, 3d Pa. Cavalry.

Jacob Arnold, Co. D, 28th Pa. Regt., drowned while crossing the Po-
tomac.
Christian Ernst, 11th Pa. Reserves, died in New York hospital.
John H. Miller, Co. L, 3d Pa. Cav., died at Torktown, May 8, 1862.
Benjamin Miller, 6th U. S. -Cavalry.
Henry Harrison, Co. A, 5th Pa. Art., killed in battle.
Jacob Deiter, Co. I, 101st Pa. Regt.
Joseph Dale, 52d Pa. Regt.
Joseph Foster, Co. D, 5th Wisconsin Regt.
Patrick Dollard, Co. H, 31st Pa. Regt., (2d Reserves.)
John McGovern killed at siege of Yorktown.
Thomas Sullivan, Co. D, 107th Pa. Regt., killed in Battle of Antietam,

Sept. 17, 1862.
Thomas Boran, Co. B, 6th Pa. Reserves, killed in Battle of South Mount-

•ian, Sept. 14, 1862.
Martin Dacv, Co. B, 6th Pa. Reserves, killed in Battle of Fi^edericks-

burg, December 13, 1862.
William H. Medler, 81st Pa. Regt., died in hospital near Fredericksburg,

Va., of wounds received in the Battle at that place, Dec. 13.
George Wilson Bratton, Co. G, 15th (Anderson) Cavalry, die'd.at Mur-

fi-eosboro, Tenn., March 5, 1863.
John S. Meredith, Co. H, 137th Pa. Regt. died in Washington, March

11, 1864.
Corp. John H. Slingluff, Co. A, 138lh Regt., killed in Battle of Chan-

cellorsville. May 6, 1864.
1st Lieut. Wm. D. Williams, Co. F, 184th Regt., died Juno 8, 186i, of

wounds receive 1 June 3, at Battle of Cold Harbor.
Joshua E. Reed died in Schuylkill Countj^ May 18th, 1865, from the

effects of ill-troatment in Salisbury prison.

Total, 97

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH PA. REG'T.

(Nine Months^ Service,)

COMPANY A.

Capt. George J. Lawrence died in Fredericksburg, January 4, 1803. of

wounds received in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Joseph Heisler died January, 1863.

Our Dead. • 421

John M. Jones killed in First Baltic of Frcclericksbui'g, Deo. 13, 18G2,
John Nicholas " " " " " "

Thomas Millington " " '« " "

James Brennan killed in Second " " May 3, 1863,

Total, - 6

COMPANY B.

John Michael died in Falmouth, Va., Jan. 6, 18G3.
Reuben Kline " " " " '' 8, "

Edward Reber " " " " " 12, "

James Edwards killed in First Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1863.
John C. Niese " " " " '•' " "

Thomas Probert, " "Second" " May 3, '63.

Total, 6

C 0 31 P A NY E .

Asher Woomer died March, 18G3.

Clarence E. Bailey killed in First Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, '62.
John Ilolman " " Second " " May 3, 1863.

David Zimmerman " " " " " ^' "

Total, -.--.-. 4

C 0 .Al P A N Y G .

Corp. J. Felterman killcl in First battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 'G2.
William W. Pi-ice " " " " " " "

Gabriel Crow " " " " " " "

Total, - - 3

COMPANY II.

Gearge Andrew Lereli died in Frederick City, Md., Nov. II, 18G2.
Lieut. Edward Wertley died Nov. 30, 18G2.
George H. Payne died in Falmouth, Va., December 25, 18G2.
Total, ..-.-.-. 3

RECAPITULATION.

Company A, --------G

" B, G

E, - 4

" G, ----.--_ 3

II, - - - . -, - . . 3

Total, - - 22

, Marcus Drey, Capt. Jones' Provost Guard, (9 months,) died in Harris-
burg, October 2, 18G2.
Samuel Burkhart Richland, Jr., Co. G, iTSd Reg.,'Pa. Drafted Militia,

died in Camp Viele Hospital, Norfolk, Va., February 12, 18G3.
Capt. Wm. Fox, Co. K, 127th Pa. Reg., (9 months,) killed in First Battle
of Fredericksburg, December 13, 18G2.

Total, ..-.---. 3

1^0

Our Dead.

Deaths

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

n Three Months' Service, . - -

Forty-eighth Regiment, - - - -
Ninety-sixth *t - - - -

Fiftieth " . . . -

Fifty-fifth "

Fifty-sixth " - . - -

Seventh Cavalry, - -

Other Three Years' Regiments,
One Hundred and Tweiity-ninth Regiment,
Other Nine Months' Regiments,

234
192
30
14
9
24
97
22

Grand Total,

632

BATTLE NARRATIVES.

THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT IN THE BATTLES BEFORE RICH-
MOND IN 1862.

Our reeord could not be considered complete were we to omit
tlie part that the Ninety-sixth Regiment took in the battles before
Richmond, urider General McOellan in the Summer of 1862, —
In that campaign the Regiment first came under the fire of tho
enemy, and bore itself bravely and nobly under its Colonel^ Henry
L. Cake.

The following letters which we received shortly after Gen. Mc.
Clellan's notable "change of base/' are graphic, and contain a
history of the Regiment's participation in the movement.

The first was written by an officer of the Ninety-sixth :

Camp H^eseler, Jdly 5, 1862.

We have jvist passed tlirough two weeks of incessant toil and danger.
It has been one consth-ntbattle, of tbe most terrible cbaracter, too, since
last Thursday, June 2Gth. After 36 hours of marching and labor, we
went into battle at Gaines' Mills, about 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon.
We passed to the extreme right under a galling fire, in which four of
our men were wounded. We rested in a ravine, while a perfect shower
of shot, shell and balls passed over our heads. It was intensely hot
and dusty, and the fatigue of the men rendered this step necessary. —
When we passed to the right, we crossed a hill, at which the enemy
were throwing their grape and cannister at one of our batteries. Here
I gave out. We had been double-quicking through the heat and dust.
I settled down to a brisk walk, and held that gait until again under
cover of the hill, a distance of a hundred yards. The balls flew all
around, tearing up the ground at my feet. Indeed, I was so tired that
I felt not the least danger. From the ravine, where we were formed in
divisions, we formed line of battle and changed front forward. Here
we received a terrible fire, which fortunately, mostly passed over our
heads. Here Lieut. Ellrich fell, shot through the head. Several others
were here killed and wounded. The line we formed was as straight as
at any dress parade we ever had. We then advanced at double-quick
to within forty yards of the enemy's line, the men cheering as we came
up. Here we were ordered to lay down and load, and fire, lying behind
a fence. The firing continued for one whole hour, man_y of the men com-
pletely emptying their cartridge boxes of the whole 60 rounds. It was
not until dark, and we were in danger of being outflanked, that we
fell back. The men seemed to go reluctantly. When we fell back the
enemy advanced beyond the fence we had oecupied, evidently with the
intention of driving us across the river in confusion, creating a panic

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if possible. We reformed speedily and gave them two or three rounds,
when the batteries opened and drove them back. So ended one of the
most obstinate battles ever fought on this continent, in which our Re-
giment had the last fire, and was the last to retreat from the field. The
enemy had an overwhelming force, and had it not been for Franklin's
Division, must have cut McCall and Porter to pieces. As it was, we as-
sisted them in crossing the river, and thus carrying out Gen, McClellan's
plan of drawing in the right wing of his army. We returned to camp
by eleven o'clock. At half past three Saturday morning, we were ordered
under arms, and advanced to support some guns on the extreme right,
on the Richmond side of the river. We lay all day under the shells of
the enemy, they in many cases passing close to our heads, and bursting
all around us.

Saturday night we spent in cutting timber to obstruct the roads, and
marched at one o'clock, Sunday morning. We marched about fifteen
miles during the day. The men suft'cred terribly. Many were compel-
led to drink the muddy water along the road. At Savage's Station the
enemy attacked our rear guard, but were repulsed with great slaughter.
We encamped Sunday night. On INIonday our Division was posted^
about tv/o miles up the Charles City Road, towards Richmond. This is
between two swamps. About noon the enemy advanced with an im-
mense force, from the direction of Richmond, with the intention of cut-
ting us off. . You will see by the press the details of Monday's fight, sa
1 will not attempt to describe it. The fight on our part of the field
(which extended over three miles of woods and ravines,) was all artil-
lery. We had twenty-four large Parrot guns, which kept up an inces-
sant fire. They attempted to break through and capture our batteries,
but the grape and shells moved them down by whole regiments. So
cflfectively was our artillery served, that our infanti'y scarcely got into
the engagement. They were determined on our left to cut off our re-
treat, and were only held in check at dark by Gen. Kearney. Our Divi-
sion was the last to pass over the White Oak Swamp towards the James
River, passing stealthily within five hundred yards of the enemy at
dead of night. On Tuesday night we were on picket, and marched at
one o'clock, reaching the river at six. You may be able to conceive
some of the labor, exposure and danger we have undergone. On Thurs-
day night previous to our first battle we were digging trenches all night.
Wednesday »ight under arms nearly all night. Tuesday night on picket.
I think, I can safely say, that for ten days I did not get 24 hours of
sleep altogether. We were on the go all the time, often at a double-
quick in the burning sun of midday.

Our loss in Friday's battle was 61 wounded, 13 killed, and 13 missing.
Doubtless most of the missing were left wounded or killed on the battle-
field. I was sorry to hear of the death of Sergeant Roland. I think he
died on the field. The dead bodies will never be found. If the rebels
bury them at all, it will be under about six inches of ground. Those
that they buried at Fair Oaks, were left on the surface of the ground
and covered. I saw many Avith their bones protruding. We always
bury the rebel dead in trenches. One trench at Fair Oaks contains four
hundred, co-vered with about four feet of ground. My company was
very fortunate, only two wounded, one in the head, another in the hand
and leg, and one missing. I am proud of the company; they fought
nobly, obeyed commands, and kept the best order, and I am sure made
many a rebel bite the dust. Col. Cake acted with great bravery ; in
fact, the whole Regiment, officers and men, behaved iiobly.

Battl"e Narratives. 425

It was painful to see the suflfering connected with this celebrated re-
treat. Half of the wounded were compelled to walk all the way. It was
Ji common sight to see men with broken arms (unset) walking. I can't
go into details, but you may be able to form some idea of this move-
ment. The vast amount of baggage wagons, ambulances, artillery, in-
fantry, cavalry, and all the appliances of war, moving over the same
road, fighting daily. You can imagine the dust and heat, and then
think of at least five thousand wounded men and sick trudging along
with the mass.

We found one man of Co. A, away beyond the Chickahominy Swamp.
Ee had his arm shot off, and had trudged along about fifteen miles, and
sunk down in the road unable to go further. Notwithstanding the
magnitude of the undertaking, McCIellan got nearly everything through
safely, destroying comparatively but little. The wounded, nearly all, I
think, had their wounds dressed before being put on the boats.

In the battle on Monday, the enemy charged on our batteries three or
four regiments deep. They were swept away by the grape shot, as they
advanced, without our losing many men. Throughout the whole fight,
the rebels were all mad drunk. Those taken were all drunk, and had
canteens of whiskey. None but drunken men would have charged in
the face of grape and canister, which was sweeping away the very
trees in its course. They were beaten with terrible slaughter at every
point. The army did retreat, successfully ; everything with few excep-
tions was cleared away and gotten safely to the river. Richmond, to be
sure, was not taken ; but what of that ? We have fought the villains,
and have gained a most signal victory.

Subsequently we received from Dr. C. H. Haeseler, of Potts-

ville, who visited the Regiment a few days after the series of

battles, the following narrative of events :

PoTTSViLLE, July 15, 1862.
As it was my good fortune to arrive at the Camp of th^ 96th, P. V., in
McClellan's army, at Harrison's Landing, but a few days after the late
eeries of battles that were fought before Richmond, I feel as if I owe it
to the brave boys in the field, and their families at home, to publish
Bome sketch of my sojourn among them, and of their participation in
the late battles. The substance of ray account of the battle hasTaeen
derived from men and officers of the Regiment, as well as from those of
the 16th N. Y., who were in intimate connection with them during the
fight. I arrived at Harrison's Landing on the Nelly Baker from Fortress
Monroe, at about sunset, of July 2d, and learned that the 96th was en-
camped about a mile from the Landing. As it was difficult, however, to
locate a regiment at that time, in a strange country, and under very
strange circumstances, I deferred my researches until the following
morning, and returned for the night to the steamboat Nelly Baker.
-Next morning at 4 o'clock, in company with Asst. Surgeon Maize, of the
93d, P. v., we started ofi" in a direct line for the regiments. , The ground
having been already softened by the rains of the few days previous, was
dreadfully rutted and cut up by the teams and cavalry of the army, so
that it was more like traveling through thick mortar, about a foot deep,
iban anything I can think of. Having proceeded about half a mile
I discovered where the Regiment had been encamped the day before •
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426 Battle Narratives.

but which had advanced early that morning about two miles further t«
the right and front of the army. Some of the effects of the Regiment,
with the teams were still there, and among those attending to their re-
moval, were the Assistant Surgeon and Chaplain, who kindly provided
a horse for me, to facilitate my progress towards camp. There arrived,
sufiSce it to say, that the luxury of being grasped by those brave and
loyal hands, can only be felt and not described. To see those sun-
browned countenances, expressive with anxiety about the loved ones
left at home, is touching to the heart, but the penis helpless in record-
ing it. The locality of their camp was elevated and healthful, with suf-
ficient woods to afford considerable shade ; and the water, which they
obtained from a small rivulet running through the camp, and from sun-
dry little springs, was deligJitful. The health of the Regiment, now
numbering about seven hundred men, was good, and their appearance
comparatively cheerful. It is true, the forced marches, and sharp fight-
ing of the previous week by day and night, during which time they
were deprived nearly altogether of rest and nourishment, had somewhat
dashed their spirits and fatigued their bodies. Yet when, the second
day of my presence among them, a call was made for five hundred to be
ready for fatigue duty at two o'clock in the morning, they responded
with readiness and good humor ; and at eight o'clock, when they were
relieved by another regiment, they had shown by the increased depth
and width of the entrenchment at which they had labored, that they
could handle the pick and shovel with genuine Schuylkill County alacrity,
and with as much tact as the musket and bj^onet. They had evidently
seen some practice in tlie digging line. By the way, the engineering of
those intrenchments was conducted by our townsman, Lieut. Frank
Farquhar. The Fourth of July was characterized by nothing unusual
in the camps, till late in the afternoon, when Gen. McClellan with his
staff, reviewed the arrny, riding rapidly past each regiment drawn up
in line, which greeted him with deafening cheers, and soul stirring mu-
sic. In the evening the Glee Club of the Regiment sang some national*
and sacred airs, which amid the hushed stillness of the night, and all
the surrounding associations, touched the heart with pathos, and fired
the soul with the keenest enthusiasm. In reference to the part which
the 9Gth took in fehe engagements, I have obtained data and memoranda
from conversations with the soldiers, not only of the 9Gth, Irut of the
whole brigade with which it is connected, and which is commanded by
Col. Bartlett. The substance of these is, that the 9Gth, P. V., went into
the battle of Gaines' Hill, with Slocum's Brigade, on the afternoon of
the 27th of June, coming into plain view of the action on the extreme
left, and filing off to the extreme right, under a hot fire of iron and lead
that pitched into their ranks riglit and left, for more than two-thirds of
the entire distance. When the position was reached that it was intend-
ed they should occupy, they were ployed in double column, and closed
in mass, to rest and await orders. This was on the extreme right wing
of the Union line of battle. It had undoubtedly, been the intention of
the Commanding Generals to move the 9(3th forward in column after the
enemy had been driven back without its aid ; but five minutes after the
Brigade was in position, it was discovered that the Federals were out-
flanked. A shower of spherical case was let into the Brigade, the
96th occupying nearly the whole of a section of a small valley that was
enfiladed by the enemy's battery. A shell fell into the closed masses of
the Regiment, but thank God ! it did not explode, but bounding from
the ground, flew hissing down the ravine. CoL Cake promptly moved

Battle Narratives. 427

his column forward as much out of range as possible, and soon received
orders to form and "go in." His line was formed amid a shower of ball
and bullets ; his front charging forward in a murderous fire. He calmlj
dressed his lines, awaiting orders to charge. It soon came ^'Forivard!
double quick !'^ It was here he lost Ellrich. At home, or anywhere else
he^could have wept for Ellrich, as for a true, unquestioning friend ; but,
in such an emergency everything gives Avay to the one hope of being
able to destroy the enemy before your ranks are decimated. There is a
goal to be reached ; il is the crest of the next rise in front. The Colonel
waves his hand and leads— ^alone, twenty yards ahead. The Regiment
follows him with a shout. From the beginning of the fight the Colonel
was grand, cool, thoughtful, careful of his men ; according to the unani-
mous testimony of his soldiers. Zach. Boy er was urging a couple of
boys to get up and go into the ranks. "Listen to the bullets," says one.
"What of that," says Boyer, "Look! they don't hit the Colonel!" —
"That's so," say the boys, and they went in. The Regiment was under
fire from three in the afternoon till eight at night.

When it left the field, the enemy was almost quiet in front, but an
ugly shelling was hurting it from- the right flank ; the same that greeted
it when it first went on the field. Officers and men were brave. They
went on the field in good order, and only left the position they were
posted in when ordered back to camp. Filing from the field in the dark,
the last Regiment to fire a volley, and the last to leave, they encountered
the Third Regulars, {the regiment to which Lieutenant McCool belongs,)
the officers of which gathered about Colonel Cake and congratulated
him. * Th«y next marched through McCall's Division, and when they
found they were among Pennsylvanians, they halted and gave "threo
times three." First, for the Reserves, second for Col. Simmons, third
for Col. Black, who had been killed that day. These forces had all been
engaged, and were resting on their arms awaiting the morrow or orders. '
Orders came first ; to cross the Chickaliominy and destroy the bridge.
Ail the wounded had been carried to the hospitals ; but most of them,
and all our dead were afterwards left to the tender mercies of the rebels.
The 96th had been on picket on Wednesday night, and on Thursday
night they dug a trench for the foundation of a redoubt in front of their
lines, right in the teeth of the enemy. That made two successive
nights that the most of them were without sleep or rest. On Friday
morning they marched with the Brigade to "Smith's J^ridge," over the
Chickahominy. Newton's Brigade had been over ana returned. Col.
Cake crossed the bridge, and reported in writing, the gathering conflict,
much of it in plain view. He w^as ordei'ed to tear up the brido'e as
gpcedily as possible. He w^orked at it several hours, and was finally
ordered to rejoin the detachment with his regiment, the Brigade being
about to move. A quick march was made down the Chickahominy to
the Woodbury bridge. Newton's and the Jersey Brigade were ahead
and deep in the fight, when Slocum's Brigade crossed over the bridge.
Loss of sleep, hard work, and forced marching had disheartened the
men; but the Regiment did all that its friends could expect or hope.
Having had the pleasure of reading the Colonel's report, (which for the
present must necessarily be Government property,) I observed that
both officers and men were highly praised for the valor they displayed
upon the battle-field. The heroism of the dead was especially extolled.

After a sojourn of five days with the gallant 9Gth, I returned home-
ward with the John Brooks, a hospital transport, having about two
hundred and fifty sick and wounded on board. Coming down the James

428 Battle I^arratives.

River at a place called Sandy Point, we were signalled back by a gun-
boat, and soon had an opportunity of witnessing a little gunboat target
practice, towards a field battery improvised by the Rebels on shore. Wo
could distinctly see rebel cavalry scouting about some distance from the
shore, but they soon skedaddled, taking their brass cannon along.

At Fortress Monroe we stopped about eight hours, to take in coal. —
This giving me time to stroll around Old Point, I was proceeding leisurely
along the beach, and liad just turned from a solemn inspection of the
big Union and Lincoln guns, when who should confront me but a portion
of Capt. Gilmour's men, of the 48th, P. V. They had just landed from
a yawl that belonged to the steam-transport Cossack ; but on seeing me,
took me right on board their yawl, and ferried me over to the Cossack,
where the whole Regiment gloried in the near prospect of strengthening
McClellan with a good, strong dose of Burnside. This was, indeed, a
gratification that my wildest fancy would not have dared to hope for.
Tf 1 had met one Regiment from fottsville, that appeared somewhat
crestfallen under the late terrible slaughter that had transpired upon the
Peninsula, I also met the other, coming, as it were to its relief, full of
ardor, buoyant with hope, determined in purpose. From the Colonel,
who is now acting Brigadier General, to the last private, they seemed
filled with enthusiasm at the prospect before them.

I wish here to express my heartfelt thanks for the great kindness with
which I was received and entertained by the officers and men of the
96th and 48th, P. V. Long and glorious may be their career. God
bless them all ! for there are no better men, nor njLore willing hands,
nor more patriotic hearts, in all our land.

C. H. Haeseler, M. D.

The Kev. S. F. Colt, Chaplain of the Ninety-sixth Regiment,
who was with the Regiment during the battles, furnished to us
the following account :

When the OGth landed at West Point, on the Pamunkey, it was fore-
most in the work of defence ; having been the first to land, and on the
morning of the skirmish there, it was the only full regiment advanced
in line. Its position was on the extreme left, a point not attacked by
the passing enemy, and this circumstance kept it out of the skirmish,
and consequent!!^ out of notice. From tliat day (May 7th) until it
reached Harrison's Landing, (.July 2d) its campaign has been extremely
active and arduous. Since the 27th of June, the Regiment has been
under arms continually, taking part in all the actions incident to a
"change of base." During the eight days, commencing with the night
of the 26th, there was not an hour in which the coux-age and soldier-
ship of officers and men, were not put to the test. On Wednesday night
(2.5th) a large portion of the OGth were on picket so close to the enemy
as plainly to discern negroes doing duty in the rebel lines, and to distin-
guish many of the names called off during their evening roll call. On
Thursday, (26th) Col. Cake was Division field-officer and was fatiguingly
occupied all day on the lines. The cannonading of the fight, in which
McCall and Porter were engaged, near Mechanicsville, kept us on the
qui Vive all the afternoon and evening. Various rumors were flying. It
was at length accepted that Fremont and Banks had pressed closely after
Stonewall Jackson's forces, en route for Richmond, until they were
crowded up to the forces of our right wing, just mentioned, where they
had been subjected to our fire oa three sides, Would to God it had beeu

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10 ! The regimental bands along our lines, for more than an hour iT«r«
discoursing national and favorite airs, and the midnight hours wer«
•winged with gladness pervading the whole army. During the night,
Lieut. -Col, Frick, with large details from the 9Gth and the 7th Maine,
secretly built a three sided redoubt of 400 yards in length, a strategetical
■work of immense importance, accomplished within easy musket range of
the enemy.

Whatever advantage it would have given us in advancing upon Rich-
mond, had our forces been sufficient, it, in connection with operation!
at and behind Gen. Smith's position on our right, did deceive and de-
tain a heavy force of the enemy until Sunday towards noon, and thus
facilitated the change of base, in the presence of a foe greatly outnum-
bering us. On this Thursday evening, Surgeon D. W. Bland had ridden
unaccompanied, over to the scene of McCall's engagement, to attend to
the removal of Capt. Lessig and Lieut. Hannum, two sick officers of the
96th, who were in private quarters near the Richardson Hospital. They
all came in early Friday morning safe, but not a little excited. Thia
w^as the second time the sick Captain had been forced from hospitals by
the rebel shells. At 7, A. M., Friday, 27th, the Regiment was taken with
the Division just to the rear of Gen. Smith's redoubt, to occupy the
enemy in front, and to defend the Grapevine bridge, crossing the Chicka-
hominy at that point. The enemy were in full force on the highlands
up to Dr. Gaines' house. We were, "at every hazard," to prevent the
rebels from effecting a junction at this bridge. About noon some splendid
artillery practice commenced, our guns from both sides of the creek
throwing shell into the rebel battalions, at and near the Gaines House.
But I don't propose to give a description of the battle. To understand
its details, one must have a map of the extended field, on which the
conflict rnged all that afternoon. At 3 o'clock, P. M., the 96th with a
Vermt. regiment, destroyed t'.ie Grapevine bridge, while others destroyed
the bridge just above it, arnd by slashing timber, effectually barricaded
both crossings. The 96th, then passing near its camp, moved down to
and over the Woodbury bridge, and so into the line of battle. McCall's,
Porter's, Slocum's and Meagher's forces constituted that line.

At twenty minutes past thr^e, the 96th filed through the field of battle
with and on the left of the Brigade under a fire of shot, shell and mus-
ketry. Before reaching the ground upon which the Brigade formed, four
men were wounded. According to orders the Regiment was formed in
double column, closed in mass, in the rear of the 16th New York, occu-
pying the head of a ravine enfiladed by several of the enemy's guns.
Col. Cake observing that the guns were trained upon the road leading
down the centre of the ravine, moved the column forward as close as
possible to the crest of the hill occupied by the line of the 16th N> Y.
Here the men laid down to rett, three hundred and fifty of them
having been on their feet for thirty consecutive hours. At five o'clock
the 16th N. Y. moved forward, and the. 96th occupied their position,
promptly changing front forward under a galling fire. Several were here
wounded and carried to the rear. Lieut. E. T. EUrich of Company B,
•was here shot through the brain while gallantly encouraging his com-
pany to press forward. The Regim«nt now advanced at double quick,
charging across the field in fine st^le, the men coming up square, and
cheering as they advanced. A mounted officer of the regulars witnessing
this, spoke of it as one of the best things of the action. The firing was
heavy in front, dropping a shower of "lead and iron around us. The
momentary lifting of the smoke disclosed the enemy's line rising a huo-

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dred yards beyond the garden. Our men were ordered to lie down ;
for several minutes a scathing fire was directed against us. A*, this
point Col. Cake evinced his personal courage, by several times riding
ftlono- his whole linft. He now ordered a volley to be given. The men
rose "promptly, and delivered it so efficiently as to silence the rebels for
a short time. Just now the enemy were discovered to be fearfully near
us, and apparently determined to charge us^ when, at the urgent solici
tation of Major Sevier of the 16th, N. Y., our men were moved fifty
paces to the right, until they mingled with his. For more than an hour
after this the 'dQth poured in their fire. The enemy's charge was not
made, and tne fire was easier to bear as the day declined. But we were
still subjected to an ugly cross-fire of round shot and musketry, cutting
us obliquely from the right. At dusk the Regiment was taken by Col.
Cake in good order, one hundred and fifty yards back to its first position,
stopping'^on the way twice, with an about face, to give heavy volleys.
At the crest of the hill the Regiment formed and delivered several vol-
leys, receiving no reply except from the flanking battery that had an-
noyed us when we first came upon the field.

Just after eight o'clock, with much reluctance and only in obedience
to positive orders, the Regiment marched back to their camp. A large
house on the brow of the hill overlooking the Woodbury bridge was
used as the general field hospital. Here, with two servants, I was pe^r-
sonally occupied with the sick until a quarter to 8 o'clock. The sur-
geons were kept busy to a late hour. At camp, that night, I dressed
fourteen wounded men, who had been brought directly from the field.

The following is a list of casualties sustained by the 96th, P. V., dur-
ing the Battle on Gaines' Hill, June 27, 1862 :

COMPANY A.

Killed^ 1st Sergt. Jonas Rich, Levi Gloss, Alexander Rodgers, Henry

C. Simpson, H. Stonefield. , „ t^

Wounded— 2d Lieut. J. Albert Saylor, 5th Sergt. Joseph F. Dengler,
Corp. Henry Gearing, Corp. Thornton B. Hanley, Corp. Thos. G. Houck,
Dallas Dampman, Chas. Grieflf, Edward Hayes.. Joseph Hollister, Dan'l
McCoy, Hugh B. Nugent.

Missing — Corp. Michael Larkin, A. Garber.

COMPANY B.

Killed— 1st Lieut, Ernst T. Ellrich.

Wounded — J. Miller.

Missing Gross, A. Bucher.

COMPANY C.

Wounded Sergt, Hugh Stevenson, David Kuhns, Brian Haley.

Missing— John Davis, James Wollinger, Joseph Huber.

COMPANY D.

Killed — James Hughes.

AVouNDED— James Doyle, 2d Sergeant Ira Troy, Daniel Wolf, Milton
Moyer, (missing.)

^ ^ COMPANY E.

Wounded — Corp. Chas. Godyke, Jacob W. Woodring, Dan. Woodring.

Missing — Corp. Stephen Horn, John Miller.
C 0 M P A N Y F .

Killed— R. Walsh, Patrick Ferns.

Wounded— J. McGaerity, (since dead,) J. Healy, (supposed, to be
dead,) F. Blizzard, E. Britt, W. Quirk, 1st Serg. M. Bolan, (since deal.)

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Wounded and Missing — 2d Sergt. D. Carroll, Corp. J. Brady, Corp.
B. Rfatthews, D. O'Donnell, M. Mc Bride, J. Quinn.

COMPANY G.

Wounded — L. Romick, E. Moyer,

Wounded and Missing — 2d Lieutenant E. A. Sauerbie, G. Nestor, W.
Strasser.

Missing — S. Nestor.

COMPANY H.
Wounded — J. Callagy, C. J. Zeigler.
Missing — C. Haley.

COMPANY I.

Killed — 3d Sergt, Francis Caulfield, Corp. Martin Foyle.

Wounded — Corporal James Ruddy, Peter O'Donnel, Thomas Burke,
T. Dudlick, John Hobbs, John Hibbard, Stephen Horan, Michael Keat-
ing, Patrick Caliban, Jerry Dineen, Wra. Weaklind, Anthony Sheridan,
John Morrel, Patrick Purcell-, James Cramer.

COMPANY K.

Wounded — John Hollan, Corp. Thomas Moore, John Farrell.
Wounded and Missing — John Ryan, John Kelly.

Among those brought into camp that night, (Friday, 27th,) by our
boys, was a brave Michigander, -with a fearful gunshot wound in his
thigh, tied up with his handkerchief. But I could enumerate hundreds
of cases of unmurmuring fortitude under the severest wounds.

Early on the morning of* the 28th, our teams with commissary and
ammunition, took their place in the train already moving from the left
towards James River. Our portion of the train rested, parked in a
pleasant grove near McClellan's old headquarters, a mile from Wood-
bury bridge, until nine o'clock that night. In this connection, I will
mention an incident characteristic of Col. Cake's watchfulness and care-
taking for the comfort of his command. At nine o'clock Saturday night
he took the responsibility of recalling a portion of the train, and through
the efficient management of Quartermaster Saylor, and Lieutenant Z. B.
Boyer, acting Commissary and Adjutant, had three days' meat rations
cooked for his men. So they were fed while some other regiments near
ua in the line sadly lacked on our weary marchings to the James River.
Indeed Col. Cake was enabled to share with one of the regiments that
had entirely run out of provisions. I remember he did the same thing
on the march from Manassas to Catlett's last spring.

To return to the Regiment on this busy Saturday. There was slashing
of timber in our rear and also in our front. There was marching off to
the right to Gen. Smith's, where we were shelled, then we fook a new
position some distance to the rear of our camp, then back again to
camp and to the lines in front. During the morning a shot from the
enemy passed directly where the Colonel's marque had stood, and others
iu fearful proximity to the position of our regimental hospital. Our
ipen had packed up, and at the different positions were all day in line
of battle, most of tlie time on the picket lines as rear guard. The ob-
ject of all this day's work and of our heavy artillery practice, was to
hold the enemy in check on our right. It was so far a success. At one
o'clock Sabbath morning, in heavy marching order, the Regiment moved
towards the famous White Oak Swamps. There were "rests" with
snatches of sleep, there were log barricades built, and picketing on th«
route. The dog tents were pitched on the bluff just beyond the crossing
of the swamp, and near the temporary general headquarters. Thenc*

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we were marched out some two miles and a half and rested at 5, P. M.,
in a field all night. There had been a successful skirmish with the rebel
eavalry during the morning just beyond this position, in which they
sulFered considerably. Their Major was brought in mortally wounded
and died before noon. The officers' haversacks began to be very light,
and "square bread" i. e. hard crackers, to be very precious with us, bui
good humor abounded. From three o'clock in the morning I had been
engaged in encouraging the sick and wounded on the route, to keep
moving. You may imagine that I slept soundly that night with Drs.
Bland and Nugent, and friend C.,. of Philadelphia, though sheltered only
by a lean-to of rails in a fence corner. Some of the boys managed to
cook some hot coffee in their tin cups. Never did the choicest Mocha
taste better.

On Monday at 8, A. M,, (30th June) the Division was moved out to the
left on the Charles City Cross Roads, some two miles or more, and our
Regiment was immediately sent out to the farthest front on picket duty.
The 9Gth were advanced on the Richmond road beyond all other forces,
and ordered to retire with and after the brigades of Gens. Birney and
Berry, in order that our artillery might rake the advancing rebels. We
supported Hexheimer's battery. The artillery did fearful execution. —
Adjt. Richards, who occupied a favorable position for observing its ef-
fects, assured me, as did others, that on the field raked not a rat could
find a place to live. Just as we were about to charge, Gen. Heintzel-
man came in person for reinforcemants ior Gen. Sedgwick's Division,
which was much pressed. The Jersey Brigade from our Division was
sent, and the intended charge delayed. Meanwhile the battle raged
fearfully on our left. Franklin's Corps having held and driven back the
enemy with the artillery, was again called upon for reinforcements.
Sedgwick and McCall had been much broken. Our Brigade standing
before the batteries ready to charge, was ordered back to go with Mc-
Call. We went at double-quick coming under the enemy's fire in our
new position ; shot, shell and musketry penetrating our lines. But
Gens. Sumner and Kearney had anticipated us, and had regained the lost
ground, driving back the foe with great slaughter. The Regiment was
ordered back to its position, that it could be in readiness to renew its
march after midnight. The exposure of our ofiicers and men during
this afternoon's fight were much leas than on Friday, but I can feelingly
testify that the rebels threw their shot without any care for our safety,
since they whistled over my head from three different directions, and at
the well of the field hospital, Sergeant-Mnjor John Harlan and myself
had at least seven musket or rifle balls pass our legs from the woods in
the direction of McCall's fight.

At that Wayside hospital we left one of our men, who was wounded in
Friday's fight, and whose arm had been amputated in the woods that
morning. I had him in the ambulance once, but he was taken oui
again by the Brigade Surgeon, that the ambulance might be used on the
field. About sixty men were left here, including the wounded rebels
who had been brought in, and about the same number had been dreste 1
and sent towards the river. The successful actions of Monday were,
in my opinion, the favoring crisis of the whole change of base. A de-
cided failure by either of our sections engaged, would have imperilled
the whole array of the Potomac. Leaving the accumulating forces of
the enemy in front and on both flanks, ours were quietly withdrawn,
and met the rising sun of Tuesday on Malvern Hill. Here occurred
Porter's splendid fight, that afternoon. The 96th marched during tk*

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morning from the hill, some two miles, and passed Turkey Island bridge,
spending some hours in making an extended log barricade, and expect-
ing a fight, but during the after part of the night "fell back" quietly to
Harrison's Landing, reaching this the much talked of base, a few mo-
ments before noon on Wednesday, July 2d. Officers and men were not
a little fatigued. We found reinforcements already arriving, and new
supplies of commissary and medical stores. Several sanitary vessels
had already taken north hundreds of the sick and wounded. In the
last change of position, several officers lost no little personal baggage.
I know that for two nights a number were glad of the shelter attorded
by an army wagon, and most of the stajff and line were grateful for
room to sleep with the men in their small dog tents. Thursday, od, found
the army resting in the mud, but moving back again from the river to
establish the more permanent lines and camps, — and in the use of the
pick and shovel the 9Gth has done its full share — and the earthworks
are considered to be almost impregnable. How it may have been in
other Divisions, I don't know, but the 9Gth and other regiments of Frank-
lin's Corps, had little rest for ten days after reaching James River-
being ordered out to trenching, slashing or picket duty often twice in
the twenty-four hours. Lt.-Col. Frick on one occasion with the llegi-
ment, drove the enemy's pickets, by felling trees some distance beyond
their lines — and so opening a free scope for our heavy siege guns to
sweep clear the only way of approach for the rebels to our entrenched
camp that was not commanded by the reach of the guns on the boats.

Lt.-Col. Frick was assigned to the provisional command of the Maine
5th, whose staff had been put hors de combat on Friday,

Major Martin received a complimentary appointment as commandant
of construction, in the completion of the heavy earthworks on our
front.

Long as is this communication, it includes only the briefest possible
summary of labors and actions during daj^s of trial and exposure, in
which we seemed to live a whole life — and in which the 96th acted well
its part, and for which it deserves well of the country it serves and the
State it in part represents. There is hardly an officer in the Regiment
in whom I did not witness something worthy of most honorable mention.
But space forbids it here. That our list of casualties was not greatly
larger is due, under God, I fully believe, to the skill and presence of
mind in the Colonel and his active staff, and to the confidence reposed
in them by the men, and their ready obedience to orders.

The whole change of base has been pronounced a success. Excepting
the breaking of McCalTs and Sedgwick's Divisions, no portion of the
grand army has been discomfitted, and that brief success of the foe waa
dearly bought, since in it their losses quadrupled ours — and they wero
completely forced back immediately.

Yours, &c.,

S. F. Colt.

THE FIGHT AT POCOTALIGO, S. C, OCTOBER 22, 1862.

Our forces under Generals Brannan and Terry, the former in
command, landed at Mackev's Point, and marched seven miles be.
fore meeting the enemy. They drove them from their position in
the woods, followed them up again, and again drove them from
their position two miles beyond.

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After a hot fight here, they viere pursued to Pocotaligo bridge,
which the rebels destroyed behind them. Further progress being
impossible, our forces retreated to the gun-boats. The fight lasted
five hours.

John S. Bannan, a member of Company E, Fifty-fifth Pa. Re-
giment, who participated in the movement, wrote to us as follows :

Camp 55th Regiment Pa. Vols. )
Beaufort, S. C, October 21, 18G2. /

Probably ere this reaches you, you wilLhave heard of an advance
made in this department to cut oti" communication between Charleston
and Savannah at Pocotaligo bridge, and of the retreat of our forces on
account of having no means of conveying ammunition in sufficient quan-
tities to our troops, and of their subsequent return to this place without
having accomplished their object.

The expedition started from this place and Hilton Head on the after-
noon of the 21st. On the 22nd our forces landed and advanced about
five miles when the first fighting commenced. Twice were the rebels
driven from their positions. At the third position our ammunition gave
out, and our forces were obliged to retire, which they did in remarkably
good order. Our artillery captured one wagon of the rebel's ammuni-
tion, and fired the ammunition at ihem as long as it lasted. The fight-
ing continued from about 12 o'clock until dusk of the evening. They
returned last night, 23d inst. The forces engaged from Beaufort were
portions of the 55th and 47th Penn., 6th Conneciicut, 4tli New Hamp-
shire, the 1st Massacliusetts Cavalry and Rhode Island Battery, under
command of Brigadier General Brannan.

The entire loss of our forces will amount to about 300 in killed and
wounded, though it may fall as low as 200, but certainly not more than
three hundred.

The 47th Pennsylvania were the severest sufferers, as their loss out of
GOO engaged, will amount to about 120 in killed and wounded. They
pushed forward with the impetuosity of tried veterans.

The loss of the 55th P. V., is 20 in killed, wounded and missing. —
Four were killed, 24 wounded, and 1 missing, also wounded.

But the saddest loss falls upon Co. E, of Minersville, Schuylkill Co.
Captain Horace C. Bennett, sou of Mr. D. R. Bennett, of Woodside, fell
near the close of the battle, having received a ball in the abdomen. —
Captain Bennett, is sincerely mourned by his Company, as he was uni-
versally^ loved. His death has in fact, caused a gloom throughout the
Regiment, as it will among his friends at home, especially upon his par-
ents. He was but 23 years of age, but bold, brave and courageous.
Fear never troubled him, and he stood boldly up before the terrible fire
of the enemy unflinchingly and unawed. He was the only commis-
sioned othcer killed in the Regiment. None of theiothers are toucheJ.
The mortality seems to have been particularly severe among the non-
commissioned officers. Below I give you a list of the killed and wound-
ed in Co. E, Capt. Eennett :

KiLLKD — Capt. H. C. Bennett.

Wounded — Ord. Sergt. Winfield Benseman, Sergt. George P. Parry,
Corp. John Magee, Thomas P. Magee.

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battle of port royal, s. c.
In this battle, fought January 1, 1862, the Fiftieth Penna. Re-
giment, Col B. C. Christ, participated. His official report is as
follows :

Beaufort, S. C, Jan. 2, 18(32.
Capt, H. Stevens, A. A. G. : —

Sir : I respectfully submit the following : — According to Special Or-
der, No. — , 1 left our encampment at Beaufort at 5 J o'clock, P. M.,
Dec. 81st, 1861, with four companies of my command, viz : C, E, F and
K, and proceeded along the Shell Road in the direction of Port Royal
Ferry, to the Cross Roads, where I was joined by companies D and H.
We then proceeded along the Shell^Road to the six-mile post, where we
bivouacked until 21 o'clock, A. jM.,*Jan. 1, 1862, when I again took up
my line of march, under the direction of a guide, to a point on Brick
Yard Creek. From this latter point I was ordered by the General Com-
manding to a peint called the "Brick Yard," on the upper end of Port
Royal Island, and as soon as boats were furnished me, to push across
Coosaw River, and land at the "Adams' House," where I arrived at 12^
o'clock, P. M., and immediately formed a junction with companies A,
B, G and I, under command of Lieut. -Col. Brenholtz, who had reached
this point from Beaufort by boats. The whole Regiment then took their
position in centre of the Brigade, and proceeded with it, under heavy
cannonading of the enemy, over a narrow causeway, and along a road
leading to the Fort at Port Royal Ferry. When within three-quarters of
a mile of the Fort, I was ordered, with the right wing of my command,
on to the enemy's right, with a view to support Col. Fenton, of the 8th
Michigan, who was gallantly leading his command in the face of a bat-
tery, on the enemy's left. I accordingly moved forward, taking the pre-
caution to throw out small skirmishing parties, the better to watch the
movements of the enemy, and to guard against surprise. After moving
forward about three hundred yards, my advance was fired upon by the
enemy from the wood on our left. I called in my skirmishers, and im-
mediately put my command on double-quick, until within a good musket
range, when I discovered from 400 to 500 of the enemy forming in line
of battle, and evidently preparing to give us a warm reception. I, how-
ever, anticipated his movement, and before his line was completed, mine
was formed and ready for action. I immediately commenced firing, and
I believe, with telling effect, for, at the third volley, the enemy broke
and beat a hasty retreat towards the wood. I again rapidly pushed for-
ward, with a view to cut off his retreat, and prevent a junction with
their main body, when I was arrested in my further progress by shells
from our gun-boats, which now. came pouring in among them, making
sad havoc in their already decimated ranks. After firing one more vol-
ley at their broken and disordered ranks, we retired about 200 yards out
of the range of the guu-boats, and were subsequently ordered to take
a position near the Fort, where we bivouacked for the night, and to-day,
Jan. 2d, re-crossed the Coosaw, and reached our encampment at Beau-
fort at 5 o'clock, P. M.

Although the whole of my command were within range of the ene-
my's cannon for a half hour, and a portion of them within one hundred
yards of a detachment of his (the enemy's) infantry, and for some time
sustained a heavy fire, I have no killed to report, and none wuonded,
save M. Werdenhammer, of Co. E, a slight wound in the right foot, and
Ensign Herbert, slightly wounded in the leg by a spent piece of shell.
A piece of shell also struck the flagstaff, in the Ensign's hand.

436 Battle I^Tarratives.

I cannot close this report without expressing my decided approbation
of the conduct of both officers and men of my command — to the officers,
for anticipating almost every order, thereby rendering my portion of
the work comparatively easy ; and to the men for their strict attention
and prompt compliance with every command.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

B. C, Christ.

BATTLE OF LEBANON, TENN., MAY 8, 1862.
In this engagement the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, Col. G.
C. Wynkoop, participated. The following is the Colonel's official
report :

May 5th, 1862.
CArT. :

Sir : I have the honor to report the result of the engagement with
the enemy to day, as far as relates to my command.

When within half a mile of the town, the advance guard of Wolford's
Cavalry charged upon the pickets of the enemy, and drove them into
the town of Lebanon; they were in return driven back. I then ordered
my command to charge through the town, where we were exposed to a
perfect shower of balls, fired from the windows and dilferent alleys in
the square. After making four charges through the town, I, in ac-
cordance with orders, went in pursuit of the enemy, who were escaping
in force through alleys, and concentrating on the Rome Turnpike. I
charged upon their rear, and pursued them for twenty miles, to the
town of Carthage, killing and wounding many, and taking a large num-
ber of prisoners, the enemy, some fifteen or twenty in number, with one
horse, crossing the Cumberland River in a boat, and there being no
other conveyance on this side, we were compelled to give up pursuit.

I herewith give you the number of my command: Co. L, 30; Co. C,
40 ; Co. E, 40 ; Co. K, 40 ; Co. G, 15 ; Co. B, 15— making a total of 180
men.

Killed, Wounded and Missing.

Co. C, Henry Prime, killed. Wounded — Lieut. Greene and Private*
Henry Howe and E. Verbeck.

Co. E— Killed, H. Winklebleck and H. Kahler.

Co. K— Killed, Corp. T. McGrank. Wounded, Lt. Taylor, and Priv-
ates Caraher and Schreiber, missing.

Co. L — Sergt. I. Reiley, killed, and three missing.

It would be impossible to mention any special officer or private. All
behaved with great coolness and bravery ; but I must not neglect to no-
tice Capt. B. S. Dart, of Co. C, who was the only, commissioned officer
who pursued the enemy to the river, the horses of the others having
given out. Also, Adjt. R. F. Moson, for his bravery. He was on the
right of the charging column in the town, and received a wound in the
side, and some four miles out received another in the right arm, and yei
kept on discharging his duty. Also, Sergt. Kingsley, who acted as co-
lor-bearer, for his courage: He carried the colors in one hand, and hia
Babre in the other. I regret to state that, in the early part of the en-
gagement. Major J. Given was taken prisoner, by which I lost the aid
of a valuable officer. (Signed)

Gbo. C. Wynkoop, Col. 7th Pa. Cav.

THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE REBELLION,

1859.

MAY.

11. Southern Convention at Vicksburg, Miss. Eight States repre-
sented. Resolutions in favor of opening the slave trade passed.

JUNE.

8. Slaveholders' Convention in Baltimore, Md. Every county repre-
sented.

OCTOBER.

16. John Brown, fifteen white men and five negroes seize Harper's
Ferry Arsenal.

17. Militia and United States troops arrive at Harper's Ferry and
besiege Brown and his men in the armory buildings.

18. The armory captured by Colonel (afterwards the Rebel General)
Lee. One marine and twelve of Brown's men, killed. Brown and four
men taken prisoners. Two escape, but are re-captured.

NOVEMBER.

10. People of Charlestown, Va., excited by rumors of an attempt to
rescue John Brown. Governor Wise calms their fears by guarding the
place with a Richmond regiment.

30. In the House of Representatives of South Carolina a resolution
is offered that "South Carolina is ready to enter, together with other
slaveholding States, or such as desire present action, into the formation
pf a Southern Confederacy."

DECEMBER.
2. John Brown and two negroes hung.

20. The medical students from Southern States in Philadelphia col-
leges resolve to secede and join colleges in their own- States.

I860.

FEBRUARY.

2, The trial of Stevens commenced at Harper's Ferry.

^ MARCH.

16. Stevens and Hazlitt hung at Charlestown, Va.

APRIL.

5. Scene in Congress between Messrs. Potter and Roger A. Pryor.

L'o. The Democratic National Convention assembles at Charleston, S. C.

30. The Cincinnati Platform rejected by the National Democratic Con-
vention, and, uponthe adopting of a platform, the Southern delegatee
secede.

MoS Chronological Ivfxord.

MAY.

4. Tlic National Democratic Convention adjonvns until June 18.
9. The Constitutional Union Convention at Baltimore, nominates John
Bell for President and Edward Everett for Vice.

11. A scene in the House between Messrs. Thayer and Grow.
IG. Tlie National Republican Convention assembles at Chicago.

18. Tlie Republican Convention nominate Abraham Lincoln, of Il-
linois, for President, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, for Vice.

JUNE.

I. ^Maryland prohibits the manumission of slaves.

12. Tlie National Democratic Convention, meets at Richmond, and
adjourns until the l!lst.

18. The r>altimore Convention (Rell and Everett) re-assembles.
20. Serious fight in the r>altimore Convention.

23. The National Democratic Convention meets at Baltimore, and
nominates Douglas and Johnson ; the secedcrs also meet, and nom-
inate Breckinridge and Lane.

AUGUST.
16. A Douglas State Convention at Syracuse forms a Union ticket.

OCTOBER.
18. The Governor of South Carolina calls an extra session of the
Legislature.

NOVEMBER.

G. Abraham Lincoln elected President, and Hannibal Hamlin Vice-
President : Lincoln and Hamlin, 108 electoral votes; Bell and Everett,
39 ; Breckinridge and Lane, 72 : Douglas and John&on, 12.

10. Bill introduced in South Carolina Legislature to raise and equip
10,000 volunteers, .lames Chestnut, Senator from South Carolina, re-
signs. South Carolina Legislature orders the election of a convention
to consider the question of Secession.

II. Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, resigns.

14. Alex. II. Stephens speaks at Milledgeville, Ga., in opposition to
Secession, but favored a State Convention.

15. Senator Toombs speaks for Secession at Milledgeville, Ga. Gov.
Letcher, of Virginia, calls an extra session of the Legislature. Senator
Toombs speaks in opposition to Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Stephens in a
few days after gave in his adhesion to rebellioji. Great public meeting
at Mobile, and adoption of the famous Declaration of Causes for Se-
cession.

17. Great Secession meeting in (Charleston.

18. Georgia Legislature votes $1,000,000 to arm the State, and order?
the election of a convention. Major Anderson ordered to Fort Moultrie
to relieve Col. Gardiner ordered to Texas.

19. Gov. Moore orders an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature.

20. 22, 23. General bank suspensions in Richmond, Baltimore, "Wash-
ing;! on, Philadelphia, Trenton, and the Southern States.

24. Vigilance Associations organized by citizens of Lexington Dis-
trict, S. C. [This movement extended all over the South, and thousands
of Northern men and women were driven out of the country with threats,
and often with personal violence.]

29. Vermont Legislature refuse, 12-3 to 58, to repeal the Personal
Liberty bill. Mississippi Legislature votes to send commissionev& lo
conferwith the authorities of the other slaveholding States.

Chronological Record. 439

DECEMBEP;

1. Florida Legislature votes to elect a convention. Great Secession
meeting at Memphis.

8. A John Brown anniversary meeting in Boston broken up. Meet-
ing of Congress ; President Buchanan's message denies the right of Sq-
eession ; it was fiercely attacked by Senator Ciingman of North Caroli-
na, and defended by Crittentlen of Kentucky,

4, The President sends Mr, Prescott to South Carolina, to ask a post-
ponement of action until Congress could decide upon remedies. Mr.
Iverson, of Georgia, made a disunion speech in the Senate, predicting
the secession of five if not eight States before the kh of March,

5. Election for delegates in South Carolina. All the candidates werQ
immediate secessionists.

10, Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, resigns. Senator
Clay, of Alabama, also resigns. Louisiana Legislature met in extra
■session, voted to electa convention, and appropriated $-300,000 to and
the State. General debate begins in Congress on the state of the nation.
It very soon became apparent, from speeches of Iverson, Wigfall and
otlier Southerners, that the Secessionists did not want and would not
have any compromise,

l-j. Great Union demonstration in Philadelphia. Extra session of
the Cabinet on the question of reinforcing Fort Moultrie ; the President
opposes it, and carries his point.

li.-"- Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, resigned because the President
would not sen-d reinforcements South.

17, South Carolina convention assembles. Gov, Pickens takes ground
for immediate secession,

18, The famous Crittenden Compromise introduced. It was this :
To renew the Missouri line of 86° 80^; prohibit slavery north and per-
mit it south of that line ; admit new States with or without slavery, as
their constitutions provide ; prohibit Congress from abolishing slavery in
States, and in the District of Columbia so long as it exists in Virginia
or Maryland ; permit free transmission of slaves by land or water in
any State ; pay for fugitive slaves rescued after arrest ; repeal the in-
equality of commissioners' fees in Fugitive Slave Act,- and to ask the
repeal of Personal Liberty Bills in the Northern States. These conces-
sions to be submitted to the people as apaendments to the Constitution,
and if adopted, never to be changed, Jacob Thompson, Secretary of
the Interior, goes to Raleigh, to persuade the North Carolina Legislature
to vote for secession,

19, Senator Johnson of Tennessee, made a strong Union speech on
Crittenden's bill.

20,^ The Convention at Charleston passes the or:linance carrying South
Carolina out of the Union, The Committee of 13 appointed in the
Senate. Caleb Gushing reached Charleston with a message from Presi-
dent Buchanan, guaranteeing that Major Anderson should not be rein-
forced, and asking the Convention to respect the Federal laws. The
Convention refused to make any promises, and Mr, C, returned after a
stay of five hours,

22. North Carolina Legislature adjourned, A bill to arm the State
fails t© pass the House. The Crittenden proposition voted down in the
committee of 13,

23. The robbery of the Indian Trust Fund discovered at Washina-ton.

24. Attempted removal of ordnance from the Arsenal at Pittsburg,
Pa., prevented by the citizens. South Carolina Convention adopted'^a

440 Chroxological Recorp.

'•3>eclarftiioii of Causes for Succession, and formally perfecied the with-
drawal of the State. An address to the slareholding States was adopted.
Got. Moore orders a session of tlie Alabama Legislature Conxention
elected in Alabama. Majority for Secession over 50,000, South Caro-
lina members of Congress present their resignations. The Speaker
■would not recognize them, aud tieir names were called through iTie
session.

25. South Carolina ConTention adopted resolutions to form a Con-
federate Government of slareholding States.

26. South Carolina Commissioners arrived in Washington. Fort
Moultrie evacuated bv Major Robert Andei^son. who retires with his
troops — about SO men — ^to Fori Sumrer. -_

27. Got. Magofin called an extra session of the Keniucty Legisla-
ture. Major Anderson's movement created intense excitement ; troops
were ordered out in Charleston, and aid was tendered from Georgia and
other States. Revenue Cutter Aiken ireaeherously suirendered by Capt.
M- L. Coste to the Souti Carolina authorities.

28. South Carolina seized the Citstom House. Post Office, and Arsenal
&t Charleston, and occupied Castle Pinknev and Fort Moultrie.

29. John B. Floyd. Secretary of War. resigns. The South Carolina
Commissioners formally sought an audience of the President. He re-
plied next day. refusing to receive them.

31. South Carolina adopted an oath of abjuration and •ilegianee.
and sent Commissioners to the other Slave States, with a view to the
formation of a Sosithern Confederacv.

18 6 1.

JA^rUAEY.

2. Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, took po3session of Fort Maeon. at
Beaufort., the works at Wilmington, and the United States Arsenal at
Fayeiieville. Georgia troops in possession of Fort Pulaski and Jackson,
and the U. S. Arsenal at Savannah.

S. The Critt-enden compromise resolutions offered in the Senate.
South Carolina Commissioners wrote an insulting letter to the President,
and went home.

4. Fort Morgan, Mobile Harbor, seized by Siate troops.

5. The Postmaster at Charleston refuses to make returns to the U. S.
Government. The Star of the West chartered and sent to Fort Sum-
ter to reinforce Major Anderson.

7. Senator Toombs, of Georgia, made a violent Secession speech in
the Senate.

8. Forts Johnson and Caswell, N. C, seized by rebels. Secretary
Thompson resigns from the Interior liepartment.

9. Mississippi secedes. The first guji of the rebellion fired : the forts
on Morris Island fire on the Star of the We^il, and she puts to sea.

10. The steamer Jos^-h Whitney leaves Boston with reinforcements
for the troops at Pensaeola. Fla. General John A. I'ix made Secretary
of the Treasury. Florida secedes.

11. Alabama secedes. U. S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge. Forts Philip
and Jackson, below Zsew Orleans, and Fori Pickens, on Lake Ponchar-
train, seized by Louisiana.

12. The Pensaeola Navy Yard seized by rebels and the cutter Lexris
Cass seized at New Orleans.

Chronological Hecord. 441

13. Lieut. Slemmer of Pennsylvania, in command of Fort Pickens,
refused to surrender, and saved that important fortress to the Union.

14. The Senators from Mississippi -withdraw from Congress, South
Carolina Legislature declared that any attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter
would be an act of war.

15. The coast survey steamer Dana seized at St. Augustine, Fla,

16. The Crittenden Compromise practically voted down in the United
States Senate, by the adoption of Mr, Clarke's substitute, that the Con-
stitution is good enough, and Secession ought to be put down. Col.
Hayne, in the name of Gov. Pickens, demanded of the President the
surrender of Fort Sumter. The President refused to receive him in any
ofi&cial capacity.

17. Batteries commanding the Mississippi erected at Ticksburg.

18. Virginia Legislature appropriated §1,000,000 for the defense of
the State.

10. Georgia secedes. Fort Xeale, at Little Washington, X. C, cap-
tured by the rebels.

20, The Fort at Ship Island captured by the rebels,

21, The Alabama delegation in Congress leave. Fort Neale, at Little
Washington, X. C, retaken by a party of sailors.

22, Seizure in New York of muskets intended for Savannah.

23, Georgia members of Congress resigned.

24, The arsenal at Augusta, Ga., seized by State troops,
26, Louisiana secedes.

30. North Carolina Legislature calls a State Convention to meet Feb-
ruary 28. The forts on the Tortugas reinforced. Ex-Secretary Floyd
indicted by a Grand Jury for malfeasance and conspiracy. Revenue
Cutter McClelland, Capt. Breshwood, surrendered to the Louisiana au-
thorities by its commander.

FEBRUARY.

1. The Charlestonians prepare to besiege Fort Sumter. Texas passes
the Ordinance of Secession. Mint and Custom House at New Orleans
seized by the State authorities.

2, The gold in the New Orleans Mint seized by the State,

4. The Peace Congress assembles at Washington. The Southern
States convene at Montgomery, Ala. Slidell and Benjamin, of Louisiana,
leave the Senate, The Virginia election for delegates to a convention
results in nineteen-twentieihs in favor of L'nion.

8. Col, Hayne, Commissioner from South Carolina, unable to get re-
cognition, finally left Washington, Gov. Brown, of Georgia, seized New
York ships in Savannah Harbor, in retaliation for the seizure of arms in
New York. The ships were released on the 10th. Little Rock Arsenal
surrendered to Arkansas,

9, .Jefferson Davis elected President and Alexander H. Stephens,
Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy by the Convention at Mont-
gomery, Ala., which also adopts the Constitution of the United States as
its Constitution, At the Tennessee election, a large majority is given
in favor of L'nion.

11. President Lincoln started for Washington,

13, Electoral vote counted — Lincoln and Hamlin officially declared
elected,

18, Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of the Confederate States
of America. Twiggs surrenders the military posts in Texas to Van
Dorn.

442 Chronological Recori?.

19. Fort Kearney, Kan., taken by Secessionists ; soon after retaken.

21. Jeff. Davis appointed his Cabinet — Toombs, Sec. State; Mem-
minger, Treasury, and L. P. Walker, War. Governor of Georgia made
another seizure of New York vessels.

22. President Lincoln's night journey from Ilarrisburg to Washing-
ton, in order to prevent an anticipated outrage in Baltimore.

25. News received of the surrender and treason of Maj.-Gen. Twiggs

in Texas.

26. Capt. Tlill refused to surrender Fort Brown, Tex., under Twiggs'

order.

27. Peace Congress submitted to the Senate their Plan of Pacification.

28. Vote on Corwin's report from the Committee o-f 33 ; the resolu-
tions adopted — 136 to 53.

MARCH.

1. Gen. Twiggs expelled from the army,

4. Inauguration of President Lincoln. Texas State Convention de-
clared that State out of the Union.

5. Gen. Beauregard ordei'ed to take command of the rebels at
Charleston.

6. Fort Brown surrendered by special agreement.
18. Supplies cut off from Fort Pickens, Pensacola.

28. Vote of Louisiana on Secession publishetl — For^ 20,448; Against,

17,290. ^, . .

30. Mississippi Convention ratified the Confederate Constitution —

78 to 7.

xVPPJL.

3. South Carolina Convention ratified the Confederate Constitution —

114* to 16. , , . ^ .

4. Virginia Convention refused, 89 to 4o, to submit a becession or-
dinance to the people. . , , .-, . • ^

7. Gen. Beauregard notified Major Anderson that intercourse between
Sumter and the city would no longer be permitted. Steam transport
Atlantic sailed from New York with troops and supplies.

8. Official notification given that supplies would be sent to Maj. An-
derson, by force, if necessary.

9. Steamers Illinois and Baltic sailed from New lork with sealed

10. " Flonting battery of the rebels at Charleston finished and mount-
ed Large numbers of troops sent to the various for'ifications.

11 Fears of the seizure of Washington. Troops posted in the Cap-
itol—oath of fidelity administered to the men. Confederats Commis-
sioners left Washington, satisfied that no recognition of their govern-
ment would take place under President Lincota. Beauregard demands
of Mai. Anderson the surrender of Fort Sumter. The Major declined.
Bids for Treasury Notes opened— whole amount taken at a premium.

12 Actual Commencement of War. Bombardment of Fort Sumter be-
jran'at 4 30 A. M., and continued all day ; partially suspended at night-
fall ' The rebels had in action 17 mortars and 30 large guns, mostly co-
lumbiads The rebels fired at intervals all night; Sumter was silent.
Pennsylvania Legislature voted $500,000 to arm the State. Fort Pickens

rein 01 ce^^^ gutter opened fire about 7, A. M. At 8 o'clock the officers'
Quarters were fired by a shell. At 10 o'clock a chance shot struck down
the flacr At noon most of the woodwork of the fort was on fire ; men

Chronological Record. 443

rolled out 90 barrels of powder to prevent explosion. Sumter's fire al-
most silenced ; the flames forced the destruction of nearly all the pow-
der ; cartridges were gone and none could be made. About 1, P. M., tlie
flagstaif was shot away, when the flag was nailed to the piece, and' dis-
played from the ramparts. Senator Wigfall now came with a flag of
truce, arrangements were made for evacuating the fort, and at 12.55^ P.
M., the shot-riven flag was hauled down, the garrison departed upon
honorable terms, taking their flag, arms and private property. No man
was hurt in the fort during action, and the rebels say that none were
killed on their side.

14. Major Anderson and his men left Fort Sumter, and sailed for
New York.

15. The President's proclamation issued, calling for 75,000 Volun-
teers, and commanding the rebels to return to peace within 20 days.
Extra session of Congress called.

IG, 17, etc. General uprising in the North. Proclamations, military
orders, voting men and money, the order of the day. In the principal
cities mobs visited newspapers and firms suspected of disloyalty, and
compelled them to raise the Stars and Stripes. Legislatures not in ses-
sion were called together ; banks offered loans to the Government ; great
public meetings were held ; Union badges worn by everybody.

17. Pirst troops left Schuylkill County, Pa., and reached Ilarrisburg
in the evening — AVashington Artillery, Capt. James Wren, and National
Light Infantry, Capt. Edward McDonald. Virginia Secession ordinance
passed in secret session, CO to 53 — to be submitted to the people. Gov.
Letcher recognized the Southern Confederacy by proclamation. Mas-
sachusetts Sixth Regiment started for AVashington.

18. Four hundred and eighty Pennsylvania Volunteers — "Washington
Artillerists and National Light Infantry of Pottsville, Pa. ; Ringgold Ar-
tillerists, of Reading, Pa., Logan Guards, of Lewistown, Pa., and Allen
Rifles of Allentown, Pa., passed through Ealtimore exposed to the as-
sault of a secession mob ; reached Washington in the evening, and were
quartered by Gen. McDowell in the Capitol building, being the first vol-
unteers from the North to reach the National Capital for its defence.

Major Anderson reached New York. Sixth Massachusetts pass New
York. Lieut. Jones burned Harper's Ferry Arsenal to keep it from the
rebels. Two of his men were killed by rebel shots.

19. Rebels, under Col, Van Dorn, seized the steamship Star of the

West, off Indianola. Attack on the Sixth Massachusetts in Baltimore

two killed and seven wounded. Baltimore in the hands of the mob. The
Mayor and Governor informed the President that no more troops could
pass through Baltimore without fighting their way.

20. General Dix issues his order, "Whoever dares to pull down the
American flag, shoot him on the spot."

21. The Portsmouth, Va., Navy Yard and the vessels thereat destroy-
ed by the rebels.

22. Arsenals at Fayetteville, N. C, and Napoleon, Ark., seized by
the rebels.

23. John Bell turns rebel. First South Carolina Regiment started
for the Potomac.

24. Fort Smith, Ark., seized by the State troops.

25. Maj. Sibley surrendered 440 U. S. troops to the rebel Col. Van
Dorn at Saluria, Texas.

26. Owing to the destruction of the railroad and telegraph lines com-
munication is opened with Washington by water. Gov, Brown, of Geo.,

444 Chronological Eecord.

prohibited the payment of debts due to Northern men, diverting the
amount to the State Treasury.

27. Numerous resignations of Southerners at Washington who refus-
ed^to take the oalh. The blockade extended to North Carolina and Vir-
ginia ports,

29. The President orders an additional volunteer force, making loo,-
000 men in all, and an increase of the regular army to 85,000. Mary-
land Legislature repudiates Secession.

30. The rebel Congress meets at Montgomery, Ala. Tennessee

secedes.

MAY.

3. Gov. Letcher called out the militia to defend Virginia from the
Northerners. President Lincoln called for 42,000 three years' vol-

5. Gen. Butler, with a Union force, took possession of the Relay
House, near Baltimore.

6. Arkansas secedes.

7. Arlington Heights, opposite Washington, seized by Virginians.,
Major AndeT-son accepted command of the Kentucky Volunteers.

9. Lieut. -Col. Reeve and 813 men surrender to Van Dorn at San An-
tonio, Texas. , c. t •

10. Captain Lyon captures Frost's Brigade, in camp near St. Louis.
The pirate Spraj/ captures the schooner Altvatcr, otf Apalachicola. Mob
attack upon Volunteer Home Guards in St. Louis, the guard fired, 7 of
the mob killed. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee put in command of the Rebel
forces in Virginia.

11. Blockade of Charleston established.

13. General Butler occupies Baltimore, and travel through the city
re-established. Queen Victoria issued a proclamation of neutrality.

14. A schooner loaded with arms for the rebels seized in Baltimore.
Ross Winans arrested.

15. Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, called for volunteers under the Presi-
dent's proclamation.

16. Bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad destroyed. Gen.
Scott ordered the fortification of Arlington Heights.

17. Secession spies arrested at Washington. Rebels fortify Harper's
Ferry. Rebel Congress authorize the issue of Treasury Notes.

19. Engagement between the SewaU's Point Battery and four gun-
boats. Two wounded on our side.

21. North Carolina secedes.

22. Ship Island Fortifications destroyed to keep them from the rebels.

24. General movement of troops into Virginia; the rebels evacuated
Alexandria ; Col. Ellsworth shot by the rebel Jackson, landlord of the
Marshall House, Alexandria, from which" the Colonel had taken down a
Secession flag ; .Jackson was instantly killed. Arlington Heights occu-
pied by our troops. General Butler declares slaves- to be contraband of

war.

25. Our troops destroyed bridges on the Alexandria and Leesburg
railroad. Ellsworth's funeral in Washington.

26. Alexandria put under Martial Law. Western Virginia voted
strongly for the Union.

27. Chief Justice Taney's habeas corpus in the Merryman case dis-
regarded by Gen. Cadwallader. Blockade of the Mississippi commenced.
Brigadier General McDowell took command at Washington. Mobile
blockaded.

CURONOLOGICAL ReCORD. 445

28. Gen. Butler advanced his forces to Newport News. Savannah
blockaded.

29. Jeff. Davis reached Richmond. Our troops advanced, towards
Harper's Ferry, the rebels retire toward Martinsburg.

30. Rebels fled from Grafton, Va. Col. Kelly took possession. Re-
bels fell back from Williarasport, Md. Secretary Cameron declares
slaves contraband of war.

JUNE.

I. Lieut. Tompkins, U. S. regular cavalry, with 47 men, charged
through the rebels at Fairfax Court House, killed Capt. Marr and several
others. Tompkins had 2 killed.

o. Rebels routed at Phillippa, Va., by Col. Kelly, with a loss of 10
killed and 10 prisoners ; 2 Union men were killed, and Col. Kelly was
wounded. Senator Douglas died. Border State Convention met.

6. The Harriet Lane engaged tlie Pig Point batteries. Capt. Ball's
rebel cavalry captured at Alexandria, sworn and let go.

8. Gen. Patterson's advance moved from Chambersburg toward Har-
per's Ferry.

10. Battle at Big Bet'iel : Union force under Gen. Pierce repulsed,
14 killed, 45 wounded — Lieut. Greble and Major Winthrop killed. Reb-
els say they had 17 killed.

II. Col. Wallace surprised and routed 500 rebels at Romney, Va.,
killing 2, losing none.

14, Rebels evacuated and burned Harper's Ferry, destroyed the
railroad bridge, and took the armory machinery to Richmond. Mary-
land Congress election showed a Union victory.

15. Privateer Savannah arrived at New York, as a prize of U. S. brig
Perry. Gen. Lyon occupied Jefferson City, Mo. Price retreated to
Booneville.

10. Skirmish at Seneca Mills, a Secession captain and 2 men killed.

17. Western Virginia Convention unanimously voted its independence
of the rebel section of the S(,ate. Street fight in St. Louis, 6 rebels kil-
led. The surprise at Vienna, Va. ; rebels fire upon a railroad train,
killing 8 Union soldiers, 0 rebels killed. Battle of Booneville, Mo. :
Gen. Lyon routed the rebels under Gens. Price and Jackson, about 50
rebels killed. Lyon lost only 2. Gen. Patterson crossed the Potomac
at Williamsport.

20, Maj.-Gen. McClellan took command in Western Virginia. Wheel-
ing Convention elected Frank H. Pierpont Governor of Virginia.

22. Balloon reconnoissances commenced.

24. Gov. Harris proclaimed Tennessee out of the Union, the vote of
the people being for separation 104,019, against 47,238.

25. Virginia Secession vote announced at 128,884 to 32,134 against.

26. The President acknowledged the Wheeling government as the
government of Virginia, Skirmish at Patterson's Creek, Va., 17 rebels,
1 Union killed.

27. Marshal Kane arrested in Baltimore. J. C. Fremont, arrived
from Europe. Engagement between gunboats Freeborn and rebel bat-
teries at Mathias Point ; Capt. Ward, of the navy, killed.

29. Steamer St. Nicholas captured in the Potomac by the rebels, aided
by Thomas, the "French lady."

JULY,

1, Fight at Buckhannon, Va., rebels routed, 23 killed, 200 prisoners.
Skirmish at Falling Waters, Va.

44G Chronological "Record.

2. Engagement near Martinsbarg, Va., rebels routed, loss heavy;
Union 3 killed.

3. Arkansas called out 10,000 men to repel invasion. Rebel com-
pany, 94 men, taken at Neosho, Mo.

4. Congress met in extra session. Rebels seized Louisville and Nash-
rille Railroad.

5. Pi-esideut's message read ; opposition only G senators and 5 rep-
presentatives. Battle of Carthage, Mo., rebels lost about 350 killed and
wounded; Union loss 13 killed, 31 wounded — Col. Sigel commanded.

G. Gallant fight of 4-3 men of 3d Ohio Reg"t at Middle York bridge,
near Buckhaunon, cutting through an ambuscade of 200 or 300 rebels.

7. Infernal machine found in the Potomac Battle at Brier Forks,
near Carthage — drawn.

8. Thomas, the "French Lady," taken in Baltimore.

9. M ijor-General Fremont put in command of the Western Depart-
ment.

10. Battle at Laurel Hill, Va., a Georgia Regiment routed, loss un-
known ; Union loss 1 killed. Sharp skirmish at Monroe Station, Mo.,
rebels driven off.

11. Battle at Rich Mountain, Va., Gen. Rosecranz defeated Col.
Pegrara. took all his camp equipage, killed GO and took many prisoners.
Union loss 11 killed, 35 wounded.

12. Col. Pegram surrendered to Gen. McClellan his whole force of
GOO men. Union troops occupied Beverly.

13. Battle of Carrickford, Va. ; Gen. Garnett, of Va., killed; Union
loss light — rebel h&avy ; rebel power in Western Vii'ginia broken. Fair-
fax (yourt House occupied.

15. Skirmish at Bunker Hill, Va., rebels routed.

IG. Skirmish at Millville, Mo., rebels fire into a train of cars. Battle
at Barboursville, Va., rebels defeated. Tighlman, a negro, killed three
of a rebel prize crew on the schooner S. J. Waring, and brought the ves-
igel into New York.

17. Skirmish at Fulton, Mo., rebels driven back with loss.

18. First Battle of Bull Run, at Blackburn's Ford, between Union
troops under Gen. Tyler and vhe rebels under Gen. Beauregard ; after
3 hours hard fighting. Gen. Tyler ordered his men to fall back to Centre-
ville for water for horses. Union loss 19 killed, 38 wounded, 2G missing,
rebel loss (Beauregard's report,) 15 killed, 53 wounded.

21. Balde'of Bull Run. — After a severe fight of over six houi's, when
the Union ti-oops had nearly won the field, and the enemy almost dis-
heartened, the rebels were reinforced by Johnson's army from Winches-
ter, who threw themselves en masse on our right. The suddenness and
strength of this onset on our exhausted forces, and in the midst of the
security felt on a field so nearly won, was sufficient to create disorder,
which, in spite of all the efforts of the officers, resulted finally in a pa-
nic. The Union forces engaged did not exceed 20,000, while that of the
rebels wa?, according to their own accounts, 40,000 on the field and about
25,000 ill reserve at Manassas .Junction. Our loss in killed, wounded,
and missing, was reported by Gen. McDowell at 2,708 ; that of the ene-
my, admitted by tliemselves, at 1,002. After the battle Colonel Einstein,
with the 27th Pennsylvania, brought off six pieces of artillery which
had been abandoned in the retreat.

22. General McClellan ordered to the command of the Army of the
Potomac.

23 — 30. Three months' men return home.

CllRONOLCGECAL BECORDr 447

AUGUST.

1. Gen. McClellan begins the reorganization of the army. Rebels
leave Harper's Ferry.

2. War tax and tariff bill passed Congress — -500, 000 men to be raised.
Battle of Dug Spring. Mo., Gen. Lyon defeated Ben McCuUoch's force — -
rebel loss, 40 killed, 44 wounded ; Union loss, 8 killed, 30 wounded.
Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, traitorously surrendered by IMajor Lynde,
wbo bad 750 men.

5. ]3attle.of Athens, Mo., rebels defeated, losing 40 killed.

7. Village of Hampton burned by the rebels under Gen. Magruder.

10. Battle of WiUoiis Creek. — Fought near Springfield, Mo., between
the Union forces under Gen. Lyon, and the rebels under Ben. McCulloch.
Gen. Lyon, placing himself at the hend of the 1st Iowa, whose officers
had been disabled, was instantly killed by a rifle ball in the breast. —
The Union loss was 1,235 killed, wounded and missing. The Confed-
erate loss was officially stated at 421 killed and 1,300 wounded.

12. Ex-Minister Faulkner arrested.

13. Battle near Grafton, Va., — 21 rebels killed — no Union loss,

14. Fremont declared martial law in Missouri.

15. Davis ordered all Northern men to leave the South in 40 days.

16. The President issued a proclamation confiscating the property of
•rebels.

18. The pirate Jejf. Davis wrecked on St. Augustine Bar, Fla.

19. A battle at Charlestown, Mo., — rebels defeated. Missouri ad-
mitted into the Southern Confederacy.

26. Captain Foote (afterward Admiral,) of the North Carolina, or
dered to the "Western fleet. Engagement at Cross Lane, Va., the rebela
defeated.

28. Commodore Stringham's fleet opens fire on Fort Clark, Hatteras
Inlet, and reduces it.

29. Forts Hatteras and Clark, N. C, surrender to Commodore String-
ham and General Butler, with Commodore Barron, rebel navy and G94
prisoners.

30. Fort Morgan, at Ocracoke Inlet, N. C, abandoned by the rebels.

SEPTEMBER.

I. Fight at Boone Court House, Va., — rebel loss 80, village burned.

3. ^Massacre on Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, rebels having
burned the Platte bridge — 17 lives lost.

10. Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Va., Gen. Rosecranz defeated the re-
bels under Floyd, — Union loss 15 killed, 80 wounded ; rebel loss heav}-.

II. Skirmish at Lewinsville, Va., considerable rebel loss — Union loss
6 killed, 8 wounded. The President modified Gen. Fremont's emancipa-
tion proclan)^tion.

12. Fight at Cheat Mountain, Va., Col. .John A. Washington, rebel,
proprietor of Mount Vernon, killed — r^ bel loss about 40, Union 10.
14. The pirate Judith destroyed in Pensacola Harbor.

16. General Dix arrests the officers and members of the Maryland
Legislature, and sends them to Fort McHenry.

17. Bridge broke on the Ohio and Mississij^pi railroad, and nearly
100 of the Illinois 19th killed and wounded.

20. Surrender of Col. Mulligan, at Lexington, Mo., after four days'
struggle with 2,500 men against 26.000 rebels under Gen. Price.

21. John C. Breckinridge joins the rebels.

448 Chronological Becorb.

26, The first national fast day under President Lincoln's admin-
istration.

28. Munson's Hill occupied by Union troops.

29. Baker's California regiment and Baxter's Philadelphia Volun-
teers mistook each other for rebels at Fall's Church, and tired, killing
15 and wounding 30.

OCTOBER.

2. Fight at Chapmansville, Va., rebels lost 60 killed and 70 prison-
ers ; attacked again on their retreat and lose 40.

8. Battle of Grreenbriar, Va., rebels defeated with loss — Union loss
slight. Rebels evacuate Lexington, Mo.

4. Rebels under Col. Bartow, attack the 20th Indiana near Hatteras,
narrow escape of our regiment.

5. Steamer Monticello shelled the rebel troops under Bartow, and
drove them with greot slaughter, to their boats.

9. "Billy" Wilson's camp on Santa Rosas Island, Fla., attacked by
the rebels, but the enemy is driven off ; — Union loss 13 killed and 21
wounded.

13. Skirmishes at Beckwith and Tavern Creek, Mo. — many rebels
taken,

15. Jeff. Thompson captured 50 Union troops at Potosi, Mo. Battle
of Linn Creek, Mo.— the rebels defeated.

10. Recapture of Lexington, Mo., by a small Union force under Maj.
White, Col. Geary routed the rebels at Bolivar, near Harper's Ferry.
Sharp skirmish at Ironton, Mo. ; — rebels defeated — losing 38, Union
loss 11.

21. Battle of Edward's Ferry. Gen. Stone's division of 1,500 men
attacked b}' double their number, during a reconnoisance on the Poto-
mac. After a fierce contest, the Union men were driven back, and re-
crossed in' confusion, a great number being drowned. Senator Baker
was killed while leading the California Brigade. The Union loss was
heavy, reaching in all several hundred. The rebels also lost heavily.
Battle of Wild Cat, Ky., — the rebels under ZoUicoffer defeated by Gen.
Shoepf — an important victory. Battle at Fredericktown, Mo., — rebels
under Jeff'. Thompson and Gen. Lowe defeated, and Lowe killed. Rebel
loss 200 to 300— Union loss 30.

22. Rebel camp at Buffalo Mills, Mo., broken up — 17 killed and 90
prisoners taken.

25. Rebels routed at Romne\% Va., and many prisoners taken by
Gen. Kelly. The rebels retreated to Winchester.

26. Gallant charge of Major Zagonyi, with a portion of Fremont's
body guard, through a rebel force of 2,000 at Springfield, Mo. The
rebels signally defeated, and many of them killed. Union loss about
15 killed,

29. The great naval expedition sailed from Fortress M«nroe, Com.
Dupont in command ; land forces under Gen. Sherman. About 80 ves-
sels and 15,000 men. -

30. The State prisoners sent from Fort Lafayette, N. Y,, to Fort
Warren, Boston.

NOVEMBER.

1. Lieutenant General Scott resigned the command-in-chief of the
Union armies. Gen. jMcClellan appointed in his place. The rebels un-
der Floyd, attempt to capture Rosecranz's army at Gauley Bridge, Va.,
but fail, and Floy<l only saved himself by a precipitate flight.

Chronological Record. 449

2. Maj. Gen. Fremont removed from liis command.

3. Rising of Union men in East Tennessee, who burn or break dowu
several important railroad bridges.

7. The Union fleet capture Forts Y\^alker and Beaurogfvrd at Tort
Royal entrance, take the town of Beaufort, and command ililton Island
and the harbor. The fleet consisted of 73 vessels in all; Union loss
only 8 killed and 6 badly wounded ; rebel loss unknown, but not large.

8. Battle of Belmont, Afo., where, after a sharp contest of 6 hours,
the Union troops retired to their boats before large reinforcements of
the other side from Columbus, Ky. Loss large and about equal on both
sides. Battle at Pikeville, Ky. ; rebels defeated.

10. Kebel foray upon Guyandottc, with (he intention of slaughtering
the Union men, but the rebels were driven oiF and the village burned.

11. Maj. Gen. Halleck succeeds Fremont in command of the Vv'esteru
Department.

15. Frigate San Jacinto arrived at Fortress Monroe, bringing Mason
and Slidell, rebel commissioners to Europe, as prisoners, Com. Wilkes
having taken them from the English mail steamer Trent in the Bahama
•channel.

19. The Missouri rebel State Legislature pass an ordinance of Se-
cession.

* 2o. Fort Pickens and the fleet bombard the rebels near Pensacola,
and burn the Navy Yard and much of the village of Warrenton.
24. Mason and Slidell placed in Fort Warren.

28. Union forces occupy Tybee Island.

29. News of the full occupation of Ship Island by Union troops.

DECEMBER.

2. Meeting of Congress.

4. John.C. Breckinridge expelled from the Senate by a unanimous
vote.

7. Skirmish near Dam No. 5 on the Potomac — rebels driven off, losing
12 men. Gen. Butler's expedition arrived at Port Royal.

9. Congress takes measures to effect an exchange of prisoners. Mr.
Gurley's confiscation bill introduced.

11, Part of the Stone Fleet sailed from Boston. Great fire at Charles-
ton, half the business part of the city destroyed.

13. First military execution in the Union army ; a deserter named
Johnson shot. Battle at Camp Alleghany, Va. ; five Union regiments,
under Gen. Milroy, had a sharp fight with the rebels, under Col. Johr-
son — Union loss, 21 killed, 107 wounded — rebel loss supposed over 2( J
killed. The battle was suspended at night, and the rebels ran away be-
fore morning.

17. Battle at Mumfordville, on Green River, Ky., — rebels defeated,
33 killed, 50 wounded; Union loss, 10 killed, 17 wounded. Gen. Pope
captured 300 rebels near Osceola, Mo.

18. Gen, Pope surprised a rebel camp nea.r Martinsburg, and took
1,300 prisoners, including 3 colonels and 17 captains, and all their camp
stores and equipage ; Union loss, 2 killed — rebel loss not known. About
2,500 rebels taken in three days.

20. Battle at Drainesville. Va. , in which the Union troops under Gen,
McCall signally defeat the rebels ; 57 dead and 22 wounded rebels left
on the field ; Union loss, 7 killed, about 40 wounded.

27. Mason and Slidell surrendered to the Briti.«h Minittcr.

450 Chronological Record.

18 6 2.

JANUARY.

1. Mason and S'lidell left Fort Warren for England. Cannon fight at
Fort Pickens.

7. Ex-Governor Moorliead. of Kentucky, released from Fort Warren.
Rebels routed at Blue's Gap, Va.. witli a loss of 15 killed, and 20 pris-
oners.

10. Waldo P. Johnson and Truptcn Polk, of Missouri, expelled froni
ihe U. S. Senate.

12. Burnside's advance sailed from Fortres^s Monroe.

13. Secretary Cameron resigned. Edwin M. Stanton appointed.

17. Burnside arrives at Hatterns.

18. Gunboat reconnoisance up the Tennessee River.

19. Battle of Mill Springs, Ky. ; rebel 3en. Zollikoff'er killed ; rebel
loss, 115 killed, 116 -wounded, 150 prisoners ; Union loss, 39 killed, 208
wounded. This battle was the first of a series of brilliant victories in
the West.

28. Stone fleet sunk in the channels of Charleston harbor.

FEBRUARY.

3. Rebel steamer Nashville ordered to leave Southampton harbor;
the U. S. steamer Tuscarora endeavors to follow, but is stopped by an
English frigate.

4. Jesse D. Bright expelled from the U. S. Senate.

6. Fort Henry captured, — Rebel loss 70.

7. Gen. Lander's Union forces occupy Romney, Va.

7-8. Battle of Roanoke Island. Union loss 35 killed, 200 wounded ;
rebel loss, 16 killed, 39 wounded. We captured 3000 prisoners, 6 forts,
42 guns, 3000 stands of small arms.

10, Elizabeth City, Va., surrendered to Burnside's forces-

13. Springfield, INIo,, taken by the Unionists,

15. Bowling Green evacuated by the rebels.

16. Capture of Fort Donelson ; rebel Generds Buckner and Tighl-
man taken and 15,000 men. Floyd and Pillow with 5000 men escaped.

17. Battle at Sugar Creek, Ark.

19. Clarkesville, Tenn., taken by Com. Foote.

20. Winton, N. C, burned by Union forces,

22. Jeff". l)avis inaugurated at Richmond.

23. Rebels evacuate Nashville, Tenn, Gen. Curtis captures Fayette-
ville. Ark. Gen. Buell occupies Gallatin, Tenn.

27. Rebels evacuate Columbus, Ky.

28. Charlestown, \'a., occupied by Union troops.

MARCH.

2. Gen. Fred. W. Lander died. Gunboat fight at Pittsburg, Tenn.

3. Union troops occupy Columbus, Ky. General Banks occupies
Martinsburg. Engagement at New Madrid, Mo,

5. Beauregard takes command of the Mississippi army,

6-8. Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. ; Union loss, 212 killed, 926 wound-
ed, 174 missing. Rebels routed with heavy loss.

8-9. Attack on our fleet by the rebel steamer Merrimac ; frigate
Cumberland sunk, and frigate Congress surrendered.

9. Point Pleasant, Mo., taken by Unionists.

Chronological Record. 451

11. Gen. McClellan relieved of chief-comniand.

12. Jacksonville, Fla., occupied by Union troops. Winchester, Va.,
occupied by Gen. Banks,

14. Battle of Newbern, N. C, Union loss, 90 killed, 100 wounded.—
New Madrid, Mo., evacuated by tb* rebels.

IG. Rebels defea^ted at Cumberland Mountain.

21. Gen. Butler arrives at Skip Island. Gen. Burnside takes posses-
«ion of Washington, N. C.

23. Battle of Winchester, Va. — Union loss, 115 killed, 450 wounded,
llebei loss, 8G9 killed, wounded and missing. Fort Macon invested.

28. Battle near Santa Fe, N. M. Union loss, 20 killed, 54 wounded,
35 prisoners- rebel loss, 150 killed, 200 wounded, £)3 prisoners-

APRIL.

■2. Unionists oectjpy Thoroughfare Gap.

3. Apalachjcola possessed by Union forces.

0. Battle of Piitsburg Landing or Shiloh ; rebel Gen. A. S. Johnston
killed. Union loss, 1,614 killed, including Gen. W. II. L. Wallace, 7,721
wounded, 3,9G5 missing and prisoners. Rebel loss net known, thej left
SOO'O dead on the field.

7. Surrender of Island, No. 10.

10. Bombardment and surrender of Fort Pulaski.

11. Huntsville, Ala., occupied by Gen. Mitchell.

16. Engagement at Lee's Mills, near Yorktown,

17. Gen. Banks occupies New Market and Mount Jackson, Va.

18. Rebels repulsed in a night attack upon Union troops at York-
iiOWD. Bombardment «f Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Or-
leans.

19. Battle at Camden, N. C.

24. Dismal Swamp Canal destroyed- Union fleet mn past Forts
Jaokson and St. Philip, the Union gunboat Varinna sunk. Great destruc-
tion of property at New Orleans by the rebels.

25. New Orleans evacuated by the rebels. Fort Macon surrendered.

27. The Union flag raiJfed at New Orleans. Skirmish, near New-
foern, N. C.

28. Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrendered.,

29. Rebels routed at Bridgeport, Ala.

MAY.

S. Gen. Mitchell possesses Huntsville, Ala,

4. Battle of Williamsburg, Va.— Union loss, 2,500; rebel, 3,000.—
Gloucester, Va., taken.

G. Union troops occupy Williamsburg. President Lincoln visits
Fortress Monroe.

7. Battle of West Point, Va.,— Union loss, 250,— rebel, 1,000.

9. Battle at Farmington, Miss. — Union loss, 21 killed, 140 wounded — •
rebel loss, 426, General Hunter issues his emancipation proclamation.
Pensaeola evacuated by the rebels.

10. Surrender of Norfolk. Gosport Navy Yard burned by the rebels,
and Craney Island abandoned. Gunboat battle at Fort Pillow on the
Mississippi.

11. The rebels destroy their ironclad Merrimac.

13. Gen. McClellan's advance at White House, Va.

17. Rebels driven across the Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge.

19, The President revokes Gen. Hunter's eiaaneipatiou proclamation.

452 Chronological Kecord.

21. Gen. McClellan's army within five miles of Richmond, \a.

2;>. General Banks evacuates Strasburg, Va., in consequence of the
advance of Jackson. Com. Farragut shells Grand Gulf, Miss. Battle
at Lewisburg, Va.

25. General McDowell occupies Fredericksburg, Va.

26. Gen. McClellan takes possession of Hanover Court House.
28. Rebels retreat from Corinth, IMiss.

30, Front Royal occupied by Union troops.

31. Commencement of the battles before Richmond.

JUNE.

1. T/ie Battle, of Fair Oaks was resumed this morning at daylight and
continued all day. The Union loss in this battle was 890 killed, 3,027
wounded, and 1,217 missing, — the rebels acknowledged a loss of 8,000,
including five Generals ; they left 1,200 dead on the field.

3. Union troops land on James Island, near Charleston.

4. Rebels burn their works at Fort Pillow and leave.

6. Memphis surrenders after the defeat of the rebel navy. Jackson
routed at Harrisonburg.

7. General Negley opens fire on Chattanooga. A rebel executed for
tearing down the American flag at New Orleans.

8. Battle at Cross Keys, Va.

9. Jackson defeated at Port Republic, Va.

10. Battle of James Island, S. C.

13. Rebels cut railroad and telegraph at White House, in McClellan's
rear.

17. Battle at St, Charles, Ark. ; explosion of Union gunboat Mound
City.

18, Gen. Morgan occupies Cumberland Gap, Ky.
• 20. Union forces occupy Holly Springs, Miss.

25. Gen. Hooker's division of the Army of the Potomac fought the
rebels for seven hours at Oak Grove, Va., and drove them back; Union
loss was over 200 in killed and wounded. General McClellan commenced
his change of base of operations to the James River.

20. The rebels destroy their gunboats on the Mississippi, Gen. Pope
assigned to tlie command of the army of Virginia. Battle of Mechan-
icsville, — Union loss, 80 killed, 150 wounded ; rebel, 1,000,

27. Battle of Games' Mills. — The Union dead w^ere estimated at 800,
and the wounded were innumerable. 4,000 prisoners were reported lost
on that day. AVhite House, Va., was evacuated by Gen. McClellan, and
all the stores which could not be removed were ordered to be destroyed.

28. Battle of the Chickahomivy.
20. Battle of Savage's Station.

30. Battle of White Oak Swatnj}. — This fight lasted nearly the whole
day.

JULY.

1. Battle of Malvern Hill. — The rebels were repulsed at all points, the
battle raged till dark. The loss in these battles is set down at 1,505
killed, 7,701 wounded, and 5,958 missing— total, 15,224. The rebel loss
was never fully known, but was supposed to be fully 20,000. Battle at
Booneville, Miss. ; Col. Sheridan, of the 2d Michigan Cavalry, with a
body of Union troops, defeated 4,700 rebels after seven hours' hard fight-
ing* They left 05 dead on the field ; the Union loss was 41 killed,
wounded and missing. President Lincoln called for 300,000 more men.

Chronological Record. 453

10. The War Department orders a general exchange of prisoners.

11. Gen, Halleck appointed commander-in-chief.
13. Murfreesboro, Tenn., surrenders.

15. Naval engagement on the Mississippi.

17. Battle at Cynthiana, Ky.

18. Traitor Gen. Twiggs died. Battle at Memphis, Mo.

20. Engagement at Beaver Dam, Ya.

22. Military and naval commanders ordered to confiscate rebel prop-
erty.

24. Farragut retires from before Yicksburg, Miss.

28. Battle at Moore's Mills, Mo.

AUGUST.

1. Rebel Government declares Gen. Pope and his officers not entitled
to mercy.

4. The President orders a draft of 300,000 men.

5. Battle of Baton Rouge, La. Gen. McCook murdered by the rebels
while wounded and defenceless.

6. The ram Arkansas destroyed above Vicksburg.

8. The President prohibits citizens from leaving the country.

9. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. — Union loss, 1,500 ; rebel, 2,500.
13. Steamboat collision on the Potomac — 80 soldiers lost. Drafting

ordered to begin 1st of September.

16. Gen. McClellan evacuates Harrison's Landing with his army. —
Rebels attempt to cross the Rapidan, but are driven back.

17. Gen. McClellan's advance reaches Hampton ; the rear guard
crosses the Chickahominy. Gen. Pope's retreat begins.

21. Rebels attempt to cross the Rappahannock.

22. Raid on Pope's rear by Jackson.

23. Battle of Catlett's Station, Va., and retreat of Pope.

25. Rebel attack on Fort Donelson.

26. Rebels get possession of Manassas Junction. Union gunboats
demolish rebel works at City Point.

29. Battle at Groveton, Va. ; rebels defeated with great loss.

30. Second Battle of Bull Run ; after the battle the whole army fell
back to Centreville.

31. General McDowell evacuates Fredericksburg, Va.

SEPTEMBER.

1. Battle of Chaniilly. — The rebels were driven back at all points. —
Major-General Kearney and Brigadier-General Stevens were killed. —
This was the last of the battles fought by the Array of Virginia on their
retreat. The losses on both sides were heavy; that of the Unionists
was set down at 1,000 killed, 6,000 wounded, and 2,000 prisoners ; rebel
loss not known definitely. The army fell back toward Washington.

2. General McClellan appointed to the defences of Washington.

4. Jackson invades Maryland.

5. Pope relieved from command.

G. McDowell relieved from command.

9. Jackson invades Maryland at Poolesville.

10. Jackson occupies Hagerstown, Md. Battle at Gauley, Va.

12. Gen. Burnside occupies Frederick, Md., in pursuit of Jackson.

14. Battles at Mumfordsville, Tenn., and South Mountain, Md. —
Union loss, 443 killed, 1,806 wounded, 176 prisoners ; rebel loss. 4,800.

15, Harper's Ferry, Va., surrenders to Jackson.

38*

454 Chronological Regorp,

17 BatlU of Antietam.—T:he forces engaged numbered about 100,000 ^t5
each'side. The line of battle was four miles long. The field was fiercely
contested and the carnage was terrible. The Union loss in this figlit
was stated at 2.010 killed, 9.416 wounded, and 1,043 missing. The reb-
els acknowledged a loss of 14,000, but General McClellan stated it to be
25,542. Oen. Mansfield was killed.

18. Kebel army evacuate Sharpsburg and recross the Potomac.

lo! Battle of luka ; Union loss, C98— -rebel, 1,263. Rebels leave
Harper's Ferry.

27. Augusta, Ky., destroyed by the rebels.

2u! Gen. Nelson shot at Cincinnati by Gen. Davis.

OCTOBER,

1. President Lincoln visits McClellan's army and urges an immediate-
movement across the Potomac. Gen. Buell's army leaves Louisville.

3. Battle of Corinth. Rebels evacuate Frankfort, Ky.

4 Defeat of the rebels at Corinth ; Union loss, 315 killed, 1,812
mounded, 232 prisoners— rebel loss, 1,423 killed, 5,692 wounded, 2,248
prisoners. The rebels were pursued 100 miles.

5. Union forces occupy Galveston. Battle at Ilatchie River. Rebel*
routed at Fayetteville, Ark. , , ,,

6. Gen McClellan ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the

enemy.

8. Battle of Perry ville, Ky. ; Union loss, 820 killed, 2,600 wounded;

rebel loss, 4,500, ,.,--, t, i •

10. Stuart's rebel cavalry raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania.

12. Stuart's cavalry recross the Potomac.

18. Gen. Bragg evacuates camp Dick Robinson.^

18. The guerrilla general Morgan occupies Lexington, Ky.

21. Rebels leave Western Virginia.

22. Bragg's army at Cumberland Gap. Battle at Pocotaligo, S. C.
23 Rebels defeated at Maysville, Ark.

24. Gen. Buell deprived of the command and Gen. Rosecranz put at
the head of the army of Kentucky.

26. Advance of McClellan's army begun.

27. liattle of Labadieville, La.

29. Great fire at Harper's Ferry.

30. Gen. Micliell died at Port Royal.

NOVEMBER.

3. Upperville, Piedmont, and Thoroughfare Gap in Union possession.

4. Ashby's Gap occupied ; engagement at Markham, Va. General
Grant's army occupy Lagrange, Miss.

5. Order issued for the removal of Gen. McClellan.
G. ISIcClellan's advance occupy Warrenton, Va.

7, Gen. McClellan removed from command. 'General Burnside ap-
pointed. Negro troops engaged at Port Royal.

9. Rebels routed near Moorfields, Va. Gen. Butler's sequestration
order issued.

10. Gen. Bayard's cavalry dash into Fredericksburg.

12. Generarilalleck visits the army of the Potomac.

13. Holly Springs, Miss., occupied by Union troops.

15. Artillery fight at Fayetteville, Va. Rebels evacuate Warrenton
10. (.H'der issueli for observance of the Sabbath in the army.

.Chronological Record. 455

17. Burnside's headquarters at Catlett's Station.

18. Burnside's left wing advance reaches Falmouth, opposite Fred-
ericksburg.

21. Surrender of Fredericksburg demanded, and notice given to re-
move non-combatants.

25. Raid of rebels into Pooleville, Md. Rebels attack Newbern.
2G. President Lincoln visits Burnside.

28. Battle of Cone Hill, Ark.

29. Rebels defeated at Frankfort, West Virginia ; 108 captured.

DECEMBER.

1. A rebel battery captured near Suffolk, Va.

1-3. Rebels in Tennessee and Mississippi retreating before General
Grant's army.

3. Gen. Geary takes possession of Winchester, Ya.

7. Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark.

ll._ Bombardment of Fredericksburg commenced; our troops cross
the river in the course of tlie afternoon.

13^. Battle of Fredericksburg. Union loss, l,ol2 killed, G,000 wound-
ed, 700 prisoners.

15. Gen. Burnside's army retreated to the north side of the Rappa-
hannock. *

20. Gen. Foster returns to Newbern, after defeating the rebels in
four battles, taking Kinston and Goldsboro, and destroying several
bridges and miles of tlie track of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Holly Springs. Miss., captured by Van Dorn. The rebels repulsed from
Davis' Mills, Miss., with heavy loss.

21. General W. T. Sherman commences a movement upon Vicks-
burg in the rear of Haines' Bluff.

28. Stuart makes an unsuccessful foray on Burnside's army at Fal-
mouth, Va.

29. Battle at Haines' Bluff (Vicksburg,) Miss.; Gen. Sherman re-
pulsed. Island No. 10 evacuated by order of General Jefferson C. Davis.

31. The Monitor sunk in a gale off Hatteras. Battle of Murfrees-
boro ; about 7,(!00 men were lost this day.

18 6 3.

JANUARY. •

1. The President issues his Emancipation Proclamation. The rebel-
estimate their losses thus far at 20,898 killed, 69,615 wounded and
21.169 prisoners— total, 209,116. Battles of Hunt's Cross Roads Tenn
and Galveston, Texas. '

2. Battle of Stone River resumed, and ended in the defeat of the
rebels ; the Union loss was 1,533 killed, 1,375 wounded; rebel loss over
10,000 of whom 9,000 were killed or wounded.

8. Fight at Springfield, Mo. ; after ten hours the rebels retreated.—
Losses about equal.

9. Col. Ludlow effects an exchange of prisoners, by which 20,000
men were restored to the Union army.

^ 11. U. S. steamer Hatteras sunk off Galveston by the Alabama.—
Capture of Arkansas Post and Fort McClernand ; Union loss nearly

456 Chronological Record..

1 ,000 ; rebel over 5,000, with all their arms and supplies. Rebels beaten
at llartsville. Mo. .

12. A brigautine prize to the rebel privateer Retribution, retaken
from* the prize crew by a Yankee woman, wife of the captain of the
brio-antine, Avho made the rebels drunk, put them in irons, and brought
the°vessel into St. Thomas. Rebel raid upon Holly Springs, Miss.

14. Rebel gunboat Cotton in Bayou Teche, La., destroyed; Com.
Buchanan, of the Union expedition, was killed,

17. Des Arc, Ark., taken without opposition. Pollockville, N. C,
taken ; rebels retreat.

19, Army of the Potomac moves down the Rappahannock.

21. Gen. Fitz John Porter dismissed from the service.

22. Gen. Burnside's second attempt to cross the Rappahannock foiled
by a heavy storm.

25. Oro-anization of the 1st regiment colored volunteers completed at
Port Royal.

26. Gen. Hooker succeeds Gen. Burnside in command of the Potomac
army. Skirmish at Woodbury, Tenn.,— 35 rebels killed, 100 captured.

28. A steamer and 300 rebels captured.

29. Gen. Banks promulgates the Emancipation Proclamation at New

Orleans.

31. Attack upon the Charleston blockading fleet by three ironclad
steamers from the harbor ; the Merceditas sunk. Cavalry skirmish near
Nashville ; rebels whipped with loss of 12 killed, 12 wounded, and 300

prisoners.

FEBRUARY.

1. Second attack on Fort McAllister; the fort was not taken, its
commander was killed, the Union vessels were -not injured. Franklin,
Tenn., occupied by Union forces. Rebel attack on Island No. 10 ; they
seized a transport, but were quickly put to flight by a gunboat. Rebel
camp at Middleton, Tenn., broken up, — 100 prisoners taken.

2. The ram Queen of the AVest runs the blockade at Vicksburg.

8. Guerrillas routed near Independence, Mo, Lebanon, Tenn., occu-
pied, and GOO rebels captured there. Capture of three rebel transports
by the Queen of the West, in Red River, reported.

9. Gen. Rosecrans orders the summary execution of all rebels caught
in Union uniform or carrying our flag.

10. Fight at Old River, La. ; rebels whipped with loss of 25 prison-
ers and 11 killed or wounded, — Union loss, 8.

U. Queen of the West gets aground near Gordon's Landing, is dis-
abled by rebel cannon and abandoned.

15. Fight at Arkadelphia, Ark.,— rebels routed, losing 26— Union
loss, 14.

18. Mortar boats open fire upon Vicksburg. Clifton, Tenn., destroy-
ed by Union troops.

24. The India nola captured by the rebels below Vicksburg; she is
blown up through fear of Porter's mock monitor.

25. The Conscription Bill passes the House.

The Monlauk destroys the Nashville in Ogeechee River, Ga.

28. The amended Conscription becomes a law. The President calls
an extra session of the Senate.

MARCH,

1. Tlic Coldwater Pass expedition of Porter's reaches Moon Lake.
3. Ne ^ada admitted as a State.

CURONOLOGICAL ReCORD. 457

4. The pirate Retribution condemned at Nassau.

5, Battle at Thompson's Station, Tenn.
7. Battle at Spring Hill, Ark.

10. Jacksonville, Ha., occupied by negro troops.

11. C. M. Clay confirmed as Minister to Russia.

12. The Coldwater expedition arrives at Fort Pemberton, Miss.

13. Battle at Newbern, N. C, — the rebels attempt to retake the toTrn.

14. Admiral Farragut runs past the Port Hudson batteries in the
Hartford.

15. The pirate Clwpman captured in San Francisco Harbor.

19. Admiral Farragut passes the batteries at Grand Gulf, Miss., and
anchors below Vicksburg on the 21st.

21. Death of General Sumner.

22. ]?urnside's corps moves into Kentucky.

23. General Burnside assigned to the Department of the Ohio. The
rebel ram Vickslurg captured by Admiral Porter. Pensacola, Florida,
burned and evacuated by Federals.

25. The ram Lancaster sunk -while passing the Vicksburg battery. —
Battle at Brentwood, Tenn.

27. Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed by Col. Montgomery's brigade of
negro troops. Col. Dandy eiiects a landing upon Coles' Island, S. C.

28. The pirate Georgia leaves England.

30. Engagement at Somerset, Ky.

31. Admiral Farragut silences the batteries at Grand Gulf, Miss.

APRIL.

1. Admiral Farragut destro^'s transports in Red River.

2. Women's Bread Riot at Richmond, Va. Battle at Snow Hill, Tenn.
Rebel cavalry routed, with 50 killed and wounded, and 60 prisoners, —
Union loss, 8.

3. Arrest of Knights of the Golden Circle at Reading. Schuylkill
County Knights frightened.

4. Palmyra, Tenn., burned by the gunboat Lexington.

5. Troops sent from Newbern to rescue Gen. Foster, besieged in
Washington, N. C.

G. Rebel Camp at Green Hill, Tenn., broken up, — 5 killed and 15
taken.

7. Bombardment of Fort Sumter by Admiral Dupont — fleet di-iven
off, fort little injured.

8. Gunboat George Washington stranded in Broad River, S. C, at-
tacked by rebels and blown up.

9. Pascagoula, Miss., taken by a Union force from Ship Island, but
abandoned same day.

10. Battle at Franklin, Tenn., — Van Dorn's attack repulsed — Union
loss about 100, rebel, not known. Rebels routed near Germantown, Ky.

11. Col. Streight's raiding force left Nashville fo: Georgia.

12. Ironclad fleet leaves Charleston harbor. Lieut. -Col, Kimball
killed by General Corcoran.

18. Transpoi't Escort ran the batteries below Washington, N. C,
bringing aid for Gen. Foster.

14. Battle at Bayou Teche, La., — rebels defeated, and their three
gunboats, Diana, Hart and Queen of the West, destroyed — Union loss
about 350 — rebel much larger Gen. Foster escaped from Washington,
N. C, by running the rebel blockade in the steamer Escort.

15. Franklin, La., occupied by Union troops. Rebels raise the siege
of Washington, N. C.

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16. Admiral Porter's fleet of eight gunbonts and several transports
ran past the Vicksburg batteries, losing only one transport and no men.

17. General Donelson (rebel), nephew of Andrew Jackson, died at
Knoxville. Col. Grierson's famous cavalry raiding force started from
La Grange, Tenn.

20. Opelousas, La., occupied by Union forces. Bute a la Rose, La.,
captured by Union gunboats.

22. Rebel raid on Tompkinsville, Ky., — court-hoase burned. Seven
loyal cavalrymen, after being made prisoners in Cedar County, Mo.,
stripped and shot by guerillas. McMinnville, Tenn., occupied by Union
troops. 300 rebels routed near Strasburg, Va., with loss of 40 — Union
loss, 2.

2-4. Tuscumbia, Ala,, occupied, the rebels being driven out. Rebels
defeated at Weber Falls, Ark,

25. Rebel shore batteries at Duck River shoals, Tennessee River,
silenced by gunboats — 25 rebels killed and wounded.

26. 30 rebel cotton gins and mills and 350,000 bushels of corn des-
troyed by a raid to Deer Creek, Miss. Cape Girardeau, Mo., attacked
by Marmadukc's rebels, who were defeated with heavy loss.

27. Gen. Hooker begins his movement upon Fredericksburg. A Texan
legion captured near Franklin. Tenn.

28. Hooker crosses the Rappahannock. Marmaduke overtaken and
badly defeated near Jackson, Mo. Skirmish near Mill Spring, Ky.

29. Fairmount, Va., taken by the rebels who lost about 100 — Union
loss slight. Bombardment of Grand Gulf, Miss., by Porter's fleet —
rebel works greatly damaged — fleet considerably injured, 20 killed and
many wounded.

30'. Gen. Grant's army lands near Port Gibson, Miss. Rebel battery
on the Nausemond River silenced.

UAY.

1 Battle at Port Gibson (beginning of Grant's march to Vicksburg,)
1 1,000 rebels defeated, 500 taken— they retreat toward Vicksburg. Fight
at South Quay on the Nansemond — rebels defeated with great loss —
► Union loss, -41.

2. Battle of Chancellorville between the armies of Hooker and Lee.
Union army checked after a fierce battle. Stonewall Jackson wounded.
Col. Grierson's raiders reached Baton Rouge, La., after 15 days of work
on Mississippi — they defeated the rebels several times, destroyed rail-
roads and bridges, and captured many prisoners.

3. Col. Streight's Union raiding force of 1,500 captured near Gads-
den, Ala. Second battle of Chancellorville — Union troops repulsed —
heavy loss on both sides. The colored regiment returned to Beaufort
from the Cambahee river raid — they captured 800 slaves, and destroyed
$2,000,000 worth of rebel property,

4. Battle of Chancellorville continued — Unionists forced back. Capt.
Dwight murdered, after surrender, by rebels, at Washington, La.

5. Vallandigham arrested. Fort De Russy, Red River, occupied by
Union forces.

6. Hooker retreats safely across the Rappahanock — Lee does not fol-
low. Alexandria, Miss., occupied by Union troops.

7. Col. Kilpatrick's cavalry, after marching around Lee's army, ar-
rived at Gloucester Point, Va.,

8. An attack upon Port Hudson commenced.

9. Bombardment of Port Hudson continued — no reply.

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10. Stonewall Jackson died. Port Hudson assault renewed — rebel
batteries silenced.

11. Fight at Greasy Creek, Ky. ; Unionists defeated with loss of 25;
rebel loss, nearly 100. Crystal Springs, Miss., burned by Union cavalry.

12. Battle of Raymond, Miss. ; McPherson defeats the rebels under
Gregg.

13. Yazoo City, Miss., captured.

14. General Grant occupies Jackson, Miss., after an engagement.

16. Battle of Champion Hills, Miss.

17. Grant evacuates Jackson, Miss., and has an engagement at Black
River Bridge.

18. Gen. Grant occupies Haines' Bluff, and completes the investment
of Vicksburg, Miss.

19. Fire opened on Vicksburg from Gen. Grant's batteries.

20. The navy yard at Yazoo Cit*^, Miss., destroyed by Porter.

21. Engagement in the rear of Port Hudson, La.

23. Port Hudson invested by General Banks.

24. C. L. Vallandigham banished to the South. Eight rebel steam-
ers destroyed on the Yazoo River.

20. Gen. Weitzel's command joins Banks in the rear of Port Hudson.

27. An assault on Port Hudson repulsed.

30. Rev. E. W. Beecher leaves for Europe on a mission.

JUKE.

I. James Island, S. C, evacuated by the rebels.
S. Lee prepares for the invasion of the North.

5. Gen. Hooker makes a reconnoissance at Deep Run, Va.

6. Battle at Milliken's Bend, Miss. ; negro troops engaged.

II. Moseby makes a loray on Poolesville, Md.

12. The Clare7ice captures the Tacony, converts her into a pirate and
is burned. Gen. Gillmore relieves Hunter of the Department of the
South.

14. Gen. Hooker moves from Falmouth to Bull Run in pursuit of
Lee. Federal forces at Winchester and Berryville defeated, and fall
back.

15. The President calls for 120,000 men to repel invasion. The reb-
els occupy Hagerstown, Md., Chambersburg and Greencastle, Pa.

16. Harper's Ferry invested by the rebels.

17. The rebel ram Atlanta captured.

18. 1,700 of Milroy's men arrive safely at Bedford, Pa. Small skir-
mishes with Lee's invaders in Maryland.

28. Rebels occupy Chambersburg, Pa. Skirmish near Gettysburg.

24. Rebels advance to Shippensburg and Hagerstown.

25. Rebels near Cai-lisle, Pa.

26. Rebels occupy Gettysburg. Unionists evacuate Carlisle. Skir-
mish at South Anna, Va. ; General W. F. Lee (rebel) captured. Death
of Admiral Foote.

27. The Potomac army northwest of Baltimore.

28. Gen. Hooker superceded by Gen. Meade. Rebels occupy York
and threaten Harrisburg. Skirmish at Wrightsville, Pa., — Columbia
Bridge destroyed, to prevent the rebels crossing Susquehanna River.

Rebels defeated at Donaldsville, La.

29. Rebels driven from Decherd, Tenn.

30. Mines exploded and rebel outworks breached at Vicksburg. —
Cavalry fight at Hanover.

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JULY.

1. Battle at Gettysbiirg, Pemi. — The battle opened at 0, A. II., by an
attack on the Island llth Corps, by the I'ebels under Longstreet and
Hill; the 1st Corps being in advance, sustained the whole shock, until
the other came up. The tight Avas severe and attended with great loss.
Major-General Reynolds was mortally wounded.

2. Battle at Gettysburg renewed. — The I'ebels attacked the Union
lines at 4, P. M., but after a severe contest were repulsed at all points ;
upward of 6,000 prisoners reported taken.

3. Battle of Gettysburg. — This was the fiercest of tlie three days'
fight. The rebels attempted to turn Meade's left flank, but were repuls-
ed, losing 3,000 prisoners. The fighting was most furious, and th«
slaughter terrible ; the loss in officers on both sides was heavy. Th«
rebel loss was estimated at 2,439 l^illtd, 14.580 wounded and 0,235 pris-
oners. The Union loss is set down at 14,000 killed and w'ounded. 20
battle-flags were taken by one corps.

4. Surrender of Vicksburg and Pemberton's entire army, numbering.
32,000 men. Lee's army rapidly retreating to the Potomac.

5. Vallandigham arrives at Halifax.

6. John Morgan's rebels invade Indiana.

8. Surrender of Port Hudson ; the Mississippi opened,
1). Rebel cavalry defeated at Roonsboro, Md., with heavy loss.
10. Gilmore lands on Morris Inland, taking all the rebel works ex-
cept Forts Wagner and Gregg, which arc shelled by tlie Monitors. Our
forces occupy Jackson, Miss. Rebels defeated at Big Creek, Ark, —
Cavalry fight on the old Antietam field. Lee in fortifications opposite
William sport.

12. Morgan gets into Ohio. Martial law in Cincinnati, Newport an<l
Covington,

13. Great Draft Riot in New York ; many buildings destroyed ; IVte
Tribune office assailed ; Colored Orphan Asylum burned, several negroes
killed. Bragg pulls up at Chattanooga. Yazoo City taken by our troops.

14. New York riots continue; military called out, several conflicts
and some rioters killed — Governor Seymour issues a proclamation. Leo
gets his army safely across the Potomac, — we capture a few stragglers
at Falling Waters.

15. New York Riot continues, — cars and stages stopped, — two ne-
groes killed, — military attacked — Col. O'Brien killed. Riots in Troy
and Boston. Jetf Davis calls out white men from 18 to 45 to serve throe
years.

16. Last day of the N. Y. riot, — a great many rioters killed.

17. Orders given to enforce the draft at all hazards. Huntsvilie,
Ala., taken by Union troops. Rebels evacuate Jackson, Miss.

18. Gillmore assaults Fort Wagner, but fails to take it. Rebels de-
feated at V/ytheville, Vn., — the place destroyed and the Tennessee and
Virginia railroad broken. Raid from Newbern into North Carolina.
400 rebels captured at Rienzi, Miss.

19. Fighting with Morgan at Buffington Island, — GOO of his men
captured.

20. Basil Duke and a portion of Morgan's force taken near Pouieroy,
Ohio, ^Morgan escaping.

23. Engagement at Manassas Gap, Va, — 300 rebels killed or wound-
ed, GO prisoners.

24. Skirmish with Mora;an's men at Washington, Ohio.

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26. John Morgan and all bis men captured near New Lisbon, Ohio.
Rebels defeated at Lexington, Tenn.

29. Rebels defeated at Paris, Ky.

30. President Lincoln issues an order for retaliation in case of bar-
barous treatment of our men,

31. Lee's and Meade's army again on the Rappahannock.

AUGUST.

1. Heavy cavalry fight at Kelly's Ford ; rebels defeated.
9. The rebels defeated at Sparta, Tenn.

14. General Gillmore mounts the "Swamp Angel" on Morris Island,
S. C.

15, Rebels defeated at Pineville, Mo. Fort Sumter breached by
siege guns,

17. Rebels defeated at Granada, Miss. The Mississippi declared
open for trade. Capt. George W. Rodgers killed in Charleston harbor.

18. An expedition to Granada, Miss,, destroys vast quantities of
railroad material.

21. The citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, massacred by Quantrel. Gen.
Rosecranz arrives in front of Chattanooga. The brig Bainbrklge found-
ers at sea. General Gillmore throws Greek fire into Charleston.

23. General Gillmore announces that Fort Sumter is a shapeless
mass of ruins, incapable of ftirther offensive operations. Gen. Steele
captures Clarendon, Ark.

26. Gillmore,.assaults Fort Wagner on Morris Island after siege ap-
proaches. Jeff. Thompson captured at Pocahontas, Ark. John B. Floyd
dies. General Steele captures Brownsville, Ark.

27. Rebels defeated at Hanover, Tenn., and Bayou Meteor, Ark.

29. Five bounty-jumpers shot in the Army of the Potomac. A rebel
ram launched at Laird's Yard, Liverpool,

31. General Buruside seizes Emory's Gap, Tenn. The pirate SumUr
Bunk in Charleston Harbor.

SEPTEMBER.

1. Fort Smith, Ark., evacuated by the rebels. Knoxville, Tenn., oc-
cupied by Gen. Burnside's advance.

2. Burnside's main column occupies Knoxville, and is welcomed bj
the inhabitants.

3. The pirate Florida enters Brest, France. Rebels defeated at Dia-
mond Gap, Tenn.

5. Forts Gregg and Wagner, S. C, assaulted.

6. Forts Wagner and Gregg evacuated by the rebels and occupied by
Gen. Gillmore. Our forces defeated at Moorfield, Va.

7. Gen. Rosecranz occupies Trenton, Ga.

8. Chattanooga, Tenn., evacuated by the rebels. Naval engagement
in Charleston Harbor ; a naval attack on Fort Sumter repulsed.

9. Chattanooga occupied by General Crittenden. Cumberland Gap
surrendered to Gen. Burnside. Union forces defeated at Tipton, Tenn.

10. Gen. Steel-e occupies Little Rock, Ark.

11. Battle at Dakon, Ga. The pirate Florida detained at Brest,
France.

12. Culpepper, Va., occupied by Gen, Meade's advance.
15. The President suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

18. General Burnside's advance at Bristol, Tenn., when an engage-
ment takes place.
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19. Rebels defeated at Fort Smith, Ark.

19 and 20. Battle of Chicamauga.

22. Battle near Carter's Station, Tenn.

24, The President raises the blockade at Alexandria, Va.

27. Jonesboro, Tenn., reoccupied by rebels.

28. General Hooker leaves Virginia to reinforce Rosecranz.

29. Visit of English, Russian and French fleets to New York,

30. Aggregate value of naval captures to date, $30,000,000.

OCTOBER.

2. General Franklin occupies Franklin, La.

3. The President appoints a day of National Thanksgiving.
6. The rebels attempt to blow up the New Ironsides.

6. Quantrell massasres Gen. Blunt's body guard at Baxter Springs,
Mo., after defeating his troops.

8, Quantrell burns Carthage, Mo. Rebels defeated at Lannington,
Miss.

10. Lee commences a flank movement on Meade, but the rebels are
defeated at Robertson's Ford, Va.

11. General Meade falls back to meet Lee. The rebel forces driven
out of East Tennessee.

12. General Meade rests his army on Manassas Plains, having foiled
Lee's plan.

13. Brisk fight from Catlett's station to Manassas. Rebels under
Shelby, in Missouri, defeated by Gen. Brown.

14. Fight at Bristow Station ; rebels defeated — 450 taken prisoners.

15. Skirmishing on the Bull Run battle-field.

17. President Lincoln calls for 300,000 men.

18. Skirmishing near Stone Bridge and Manassas Junction. Jim
Keller, a noted guerilla, taken near Sharpsbui'g, Ky., and shot.

19. Lee recrosses the Rappahannock and marches southward.

20. Gen. Rosecranz relieved ; Gen. Grant takes command.

26. Grant starts his movement upon Lookout Mountain ; a flanking
force crosses the river.

27. Hooker defeats the rebels at Brown's Ferry.

28. Flanking and capture of Lookout Mountain ; it is soon after
abandoned and reoccupied by the rebels.

29. Union prisoners from Richmond, in a state of starvation, arrive
at Annapolis ; some die on the trip from Fortress Monroe.

30. Burnside's forces cross the river at Knoxville and occupy Loudon
Heights. Heavy bombardment of Charleston, S. C.

31. Banks' expedition lands at Brazos Island. Plot in Ohio to over-
throw the government comes to light. Gen, Hooker wins an important
victory at Shell Mound, Tenn.

NOVEMBER.

1. Much anxiety in Richmond about food. Union raid in northern
Alabama ; they reach Florence.

5. Rebels continue to shell Chattanooga. Union camp at Rodgers-
Tille, East Tennessee, surprised, and 4 guns and nearly 800 men taken.

G. Much excitement about the starvation of Union prisoners at Rich-
mond.

7. Meade's army begins an advance ; sharp fighting at Kelly's Ford
and Rapi^ahannock Station — the rebels driven across the river.

8. Meade advances, the rebels retiring toward Gordonsville.

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D. Fight on the Little Tennessee ; a rebel regiment repulsed "with 50
killed and 40 prisoners.

11. Charleston and Fort Sumter regularly shelled day by day.

14. Longstreet crosses the Tennessee and attacks Burnside, who re-
tires toward his works at Xnoxville.

19. Gettysburg Cemetery dedicated. Fighting at Knoxville.

21. Skirmishing along Biirnside's and Longstreet's lines.

22. A portion of Knoxville burned ; the city closely invested by
Longstreet. Successful scouting by negro troops at Pocotaligo, S. C. ;
a grandson of John C. Calhoun killed.

24. Storming and capture of Lookout Mountain ; Hooker's "fight
above the clouds;" defeat of Bragg. Skirmishing near Knoxville.

25. Capture of Missionary Ridge ; Bragg's army routed and driven
back toward Ringgold. Colored troops doing good service in North Ca-
rolina. Rebel Cavalry repulsed at Kingston, Tenn.

26. Bragg's army pursued by our victorious troops. Meade's army
crosses the Rapidan.

27. Brisk skirmishing between Meade and Lee, heavy fighting on the
left.

28. John Moi'gan and six of his officers escape from the Ohio pen-
itentiary.

29. Siege of Charleston progresses regularly, L(ingstreet attacks
Knoxville, and is beaten after a heavy battle.

DECEMBER.

1. Meade's army recrossed the Rapidan without fighting Lee. Gen.
Hooker retires from Ringgold, and the Army of the Cumberland again
concentrated at Chattanooga.

2. Bragg superseded by Hardee in command of the rebel army in
Georgia.

4, Longstreet abandons the siege of Knoxville, and marches toward
Virginia.

7. General Foster announces Longstreet in full retreat from Tennes-
see, whereupon the President orders a Thanksgiving. General Grant'g
captures during the war announced as 472 cannon and 90,000 prisoners.
Congress organizes ; Mr. Colfax chosen Speaker of the House.

8. Congress passes joint resolutions of thanks to General Grant.

9. The President thanks General Grant for the victory in East Ten-
nessee. The President issues a Proclamation of Amnesty.

12. Rebels refuse to receive any supplies for Union prisoners.

13. Rebels repulsed at Catlett's Station, Va.

16. The Virginia and Tennessee Road cut at Salem, by Gen. Averill.

17. The pirate Chesapeake captured at Sambro, N. S., by the I^lla ^
Anna.

19. Th'e pirates of the Chesapeake rescued by a mob in Halifax.

23. Passport required of persons leaving New York.

27. General Joe Johnston takes command of Bragg's army.

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JANUARY.

1. Proposals issued for a loan of $35,000,000 to the United States.

8. Discovery of $6,000,000 in Confederate bonds printed in New
York for the Confederate Government. Surrender of 300 Union troopi
to the rebels at Jonesville, Va.

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9. The steamer Chesapeake (seized by rebels, and run into Halifax,
N. S.,) ordered by the Admiralty Court to be returned to her owners in
New York.

12. Gunboats and transports of Sherman's and Porter's expedition
wp the Yazoo River attacked by 3,000 rebels.

20. General Seymour, at Olustee, Florida, defeated by the rebels.

29. Capture of ScottsYille, Ky., by the rebels.

FEBRUARY.

1. President Lincoln issued a proclamation for 500,000 men for three
years. =

2. Raid by the rebels on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; estimated
damage to property $1,000,000. Rebel attack on Newborn, N. C, re-
pulsed ; the gunboat Underwriter captured and destroyed by the rebels.
Roddy's rebel cavalry driven out of Tennessee.

4. Union forces capture Jackson City and Yazoo City, Miss.

7. An expedition, under Gen. Gillmore, ascends St. John's River,
Fla., enters Jacksonville, and captures 100 prisoners, 8 pieces of artil-
lery, and other property.

8. Advance of Union troops from .Jacksonville, Fla., into the interior,
and capture of property valued at $1,500,000.

18, Generals' Smith, Sherman and others, make a successful raid
into Alabama ; they destroy over 1,000,000 bushels of corn, and capture
1,500 mules and horses, and over 300 prisoners.

19. The Enrollment Bill passed the Senate by a vote of 20 to 16, and
the House (on the 12th,) by 93 to 60.

22. Unconditional Union State Convention of Maryland, held at
Baltimore, and pass resolutions in favor of instructing the delegates to
the National Union Convention to vote for Abraham Lincoln first, last
and all time.

23. Bombardment of Fort Powell, Mobile Harbor, by Adm'l Farragut.

25. Tunnel Hill, Tenn., captured by Union troops, under General
Grant. Athens, Ala., captured by the rebels under Roddy.

26. The rebels beaten at Athens and Florence, Ala., by Union troops.
The rank of Lieutenant General conferred upon Ulysses S. Grant, of the
United States army.

28. Successful reconnoissance by General Custer toward Gordons-
ville, Va. ; capture of rebel camp.

MARCH.

1. Annihilation of a colored regiment by guerillas at Tecumseh
Landing, near Grand Lake, Miss.

2. Successful raid by Gen. Kilpatrick near Richmond.

5. The rebels attack Yazoo City, Miss., and are defeated. .

8. General Sherman returns to Vicksburg from a successful raiding
expedition into Alabama and Mississippi, having destroyed over $2,000,-
000 worth of property, and captured 8,000 negroes and 4,000 prisoners.
State election in New York decided that soldiers may vote.

9. Major General Grant receives his commission as Lieutenant Gen-
eral from President Lincoln.

10. Constitutional Convention of West Virginia adopted a resolution
to abolish slavery.

14, Fort De Russy, on Red River, Louisiana, captured by Union
troops under General A. J. Smith — 11 guns and 300 prisoners taken.
Major General Halleck retired from the position of Commander-in-Chief.

Chronological Record. 465

15. The rebels make a daring attempt to recapture Seabrook, near
Hilton Head, S. C, used as a depot for coal for United States vessels.
Call by President Lincoln for 200,000 men for the army, navy and
marine.

17. Lieutenant General Grant assumes command of all the armies of
the United States. Fort De Russy blown up accidentally — 4 men killed
and 6 wounded.

21. Act of Congress to admit Nevada and Colorado as States, passed.

23. The rebels under General Forrest commence an invasion of Ken-
tucky. President Lincoln issued an order for the reorganization of the
army.

25. The rebels under Gen. Forrest enter Paducah, Ky.— they were
repulsed and driven from the city.

26. President Lincoln issues a new amnesty proclamation.

27. Union troops under Gen. Mower, capture 17 cannon from the
rebels near Alexandria, La.

30. An expedition of Union troops under Colonel Clayton, to Mount
Elba and Longview, Ark., captured 320 prisoners, 800 horses, about 40
%vagons laden with camp and garrison equipments, besides 300 contra-
bands, and killing and wounding about 200 rebels.

APRIL.

1. A band of rebels attack the United States Government plantations
on the Yazoo River, and set fire to .the buildings — several negroes perish
in the flames.

8. Defeat of Union troops under General Stoneman at Pleasant Hill,
La. ; loss 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners.

9. Fight between rebels and Union gunboats at New Falls City, near
Shreveport, La. ; defeat of the rebels — from 500 to 600 of them killed
or wounded. Fight with the rebels at Grand Ecore, La., — capture of
2,000 rebels and twenty cannon by Union troops.

12. Capture of Fort Pillow by the rebels under General Forrest ; all
found in the garrison, except about two hundred, massacred after they
had surrendered— men, women and children.

17. The rebels attempt to capture Plymouth, N. C, but are repulsed
with great slaughter. A portion of Hockman, Ky., burned by the
rebels.

18. A rebel ram at Plymouth, N. C, attacks and sinks the gunboats
Bombshell and Southfield. Act of Congress to admit Nebraska as a State.

20. Surrender of General Wessels and 2,500 Union troops at Ply-
mouth, N. C., after four hours' fighting.

22. Fight between Union troops under General Banks, and the rebels
at Cane River, near Alexandria, La., — 1,000 rebels and nine cannon
captured.

25. One hundred thousand troops for one hundred days, tendered by
the Governors of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, and accepted by
President Lincoln.

29. Madison Court House, Va., burned by Union troops, on account
of rebels firing upon them from windows in the place.

MAY.

3. Admiral Wilkes suspended from duty for three years and publiclv
reprimanded. General Grant commences movements against Richmoncl.

4. Union troops, under General Butler, advance up the Peninsula
toward Richmond, and occupy Yorktown. West Point, &c. The Army

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of the Potomac, under General Grant, cross the Rapidan -without oppo-
sition.

5. Gen. Butler transfers his army from Yorktown and West Point to
City Point and Bermuda Hundred.

6. Battle at Mine Run between the rebels, under Lee, and the Army
of the Potomac, under General Grant ; the rebels defeated and driven
][jack — Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth and Brigadier Alex.
Hays among the killed.

7. Gen. Thomas occupied Tunnel Hill, Ga.

8. Balton, Ga., occupied by Union troops under General Thomas.
Severe battle between the Union army under Gen. Grant and the rebels
under Lee, near Spottsylvania Court House — Major General John Sedg-
wick killed.

9. The ganboats of General Banks and Admiral Porter's expedition
up Red Ri^er succeed in getting down over the Falls near Alexandria,
through the engineering skill of Lieutenant Colonel Bailey. Fight be-
tween Union troops under General Butler and the rebels under Hill near
Petersburg, Va. ; the latter handsomely whipped. Another terrible
battle near Spottsylvania Court House between the Union and rebel
armies.

10. General Sheridan completes a successful raid in the rear of Lee's
rebel army in Virginia, recapturing 500 Union soldiers, and destroying
eight miles of railroad and two locomotives and three trains. Fight
between Gen. Butler's troops and those of Beauregard, without definite
results.

11. The rebel army in Georgia driven by General Sherman to Buz-
zard's Roost Mountain.

12. Major General Hancock captures 7,000 rebels and thirty guns in
a battle near Spottsylvania, Ya. Union troops evacuate Little Washing-
ton, N. C, -when rebels enter and burn all the houses in the place except
about twenty, — women robbed and turned adrift without food or shelter.
The outer line of works of Fort Darling carried by Union troops under
Generals Gilmore and Smith. General Sheridan captures the outer line
of fortifications in front of Richmond.

15. Resaca, Ga., captured by Gen. Sherman's army, with 1,200 pris-
oners, ten guns and six trains going South for supplies ; Union loss in
killed and wounded, 2,700.

IG. Defeat of the rebels under Johnston, at Resaca, by General Sher-
man.

21. The rebels make a furious assault on Gen. Butler's lines, near
Fort Darling, and are repulsed.

23. The Union army under Gen. Grant, makes a grand flank move-
ment against the rebels under Gen, Lee, resulting in a sharp fight and
repulse of the rebels. Lee's rebel army falls back to the South Anna
River; over GOO rebel soldiers captured by Union troops.

25. The rebels, under Fitz Hugh Lee, attack the Union forces at
Wilson's Whai'f, on the James Rive^ and are repulsed.

2Q. Gen. Grant makes another flank movement on Lee's rebel armj*.
crossing' the Pamunkey River at Hanovertown Ferry, and reaching a
point within fourteen miles of Pv-ichmond. Surgeon General Hammond,
U. S. A., convicted by court-martial.

29. Fight between the rebels and General McPherson's Corps of
Sherman's army at Dallas, Ga. ; the rebels driven back with a loss of
5,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners.

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JUNE.

1. A rebel ironclad descends James River from Richmond, and at-
tacks some Union monitors, but is repulsed after two hours' fighting.

Fight between Union and rebel troops near Mechanicsville, Va. ; about
4,U00 rebels captured.

2. John C. Fremont resigns his position as Major General in the
United States army. A portion of General Sherman's armj advances
to occupy AUatoona Pass, Ga. Successful advance of General Grant's
army to Cold Harbor, Ya. General Fitz Hugh Lee and 500 rebel cavalry
captured by Gen. Butler's troops near White House, Va.

3. Gen. Grant attempts to drive the rebels across the Chickahominy
River, and is repulsed ; Union loss, o,000 — Union loss in three days
7,500. "^ '

4. The rebels under Lee, attack Union lines near Bottom's Bridge,
on the Chickahominy, but are repulsed.

6. General Hunter defeats the rebels at Staunton, Va., captures 1,500
prisoners, 3,000 stand of arms and 3 cannon, besides a large amount of
stores, &c. ; rebel General W. E. Jones killed.

7. National Union Convention assembles at Baltimore.

8. The Baltimore Convention nominates Abraham Lincoln for Presi-
dent, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, for Vice President.

10. General Kautz, with his Union cavalry troops, charges the rebel
■works in front of Petersburg, Va., and enters the place, but not being
supported by General Gillmore, is compelled to retire.

11. Fight between Union cavalry, under General Sheridan, and the
rebels under J. E. B. Stewart ; defeat of the rebel troops and death of
General Stewart. General Hunter burns the Virginia Military Institute,
Governor Letcher's house, and captures 6 cannon and GOO horses, and a
large amount of stores.

12. John Morgan, rebel general, captures Cynthiana, Ky., and two
Ohio regiments; General Burbridge, with Unioft troops, subsequently
arrives, defeats the rebels, captures 400 prisoners and 1,000 horses.

13. Expedition of 8,000 Union troops under General Sturgis defeated
by 10,000 rebels under Generals Forrest, Lee and Roddy ; wagons and
ammunition trains lost. Lexington, Va., captured by Union troops un-
der Generals Crook and Averill.

14. Army of the Potomac, under Grant makes another flank move-
ment; crosses the Chickahominy river, also the James River to the
South side of Richmond.

15. General (Baldy) Smith attacks the rebel defences in front of Pe-
tersburg, and captures 13 cannon and about 350 prisoners.

17. Desperate, but ineffectual attempt to capture Petersburg, Va., by
Union troops ; loss, 8,000 men.

18. Genera) Sherman enters Marietta, Ga., the rebels having evacu-
ated the place.

19. Fight off Cherbourg between the rebel cruiser Alabama, Captain
Semmes, and the United States steamer Kearsarge, Captain Winslow ; the
former sunk after an hour's fight. The rebels commence an invasion of
Maryland and Pennsylvania.

21. Fight with the rebels in Georgia ; an important position gained
by General Sherman — rebel loss 700 men. Fight with, and repulse of
the rebels at the White House, Va.

22. Desperate fight between rebel and Union troops on the line of
the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad — the Union troops driven from
their position, but afterward regain it — a Union brigade gobbled up.

468 Chronological Becoed.

26, General Hunter completes a successful raid into Dixie, capturing
and destroying over ^iro, 000,000 worth of property.

27. General Sherman makes an unsuccessful assault upon the rebel
lines at Kenesaw Mountain — Union loss, 2,500.

30. Hon. Salmon P. Chase resigns his position as Secretary of the
Treasury. New Taritf Bill passed by Congress. New Internal Revenue
Act passed. Act passed to raise four hundred millions of dollars by
six per cent, bonds.

JULY.

1. Hon. Wm. P. Fessenden, of Maine, appointed and confirmed as
Secretary of the Treasury, in the place of Mr. Chase, resigned.

2. Union cavah-y, under Gen. Wilson, returned from a successful raid
south of Petersburg, having destroyed 50 miles of railroad and other
rebel property.

o. The rebels commence a new invasion of Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania. General Sherman flanks the enemy at Kenesaw Mountain, and
compels them to retreat.

5. Harper's Ferry and Hagerstown occupied by rebels — the stores at
Ilagerstown robbed.

7. The rebels push their invading columns towards Pennsylvania,
and repulse small bodies of Union troops found at dilferent points.

8. Artillery tiglit in front of Petersburg, Va., — the town set on fire
by shells from Union guns. Frederick, Md., evacuated by Union troops
under Genei'al Wallace, and occupied by the rebels, who levy $200,000
on the citizens. .

9. Union troops, under General Wallace, defeated by the rebels at
Monocacy Bridge.

11. Governor Bradford's house robbed and burned by the rebels. —
The rebels approach within 6 miles of Washington.

12. Frederick, Md., reoccupied by Union troops.

13. The rebels, after an unsuccessful attempt to capture Washington,
retire across the Potomac.

14. Fight between Union and rebel troops at Tupelo, Miss., — defeat
of the latter.

16. General Sherman's army successfully crosses the Chattahoochee
River.

18. Rebels whipped at Snicker's Gap by General Crook. President
Lincoln issues a proclamation for 500,000 more volunteers.

20. Severe fight between the armies of Sherman and Hood in front
of Atlanta— severe assaults of Hood successfully repulsed.

22. Terrible battle in front of Atlanta — rebel loss estimated at 7,000,
15 stand of color, and 5,000 stand of arms, — Union loss about 3,200,—
General McPherson (Union,) killed.

2-1. General Rousseau (Union) completes a successful raid in Alabama
and Georgia, capturing 800 mules and horses and about 700 contrabands.

20. Union troops under General Averill defeated by rebels at Mar-
tinsburg, Va.

27. The rebel troops on North side of James River repulsed and de-
feated, and four of them captured.

28. Severe fight in front of Atlanta, Ga., between the rebel and Union
armies — the rebels attack General Sherman, and are repiilsed with the
loss of 1,000 in killed and wounded.

30. A mine exploded under the rebel fortifications at Petersburg, Ya.,
■which are blown up with the troops in them, — a terrible battle ensues,

Chronological Record. 469

the Union storming column is repulsed with fearful slaughter, — Union
loss, 6,000.

81. A rebel force enter and burn nearly the whole town of Cham-
bersburg, Pa., and rob the inhabitants, leaving them in the most desti-
tute condition.

AUGUST.

3. Rebels under Gen. Early again occupy Mr.rtinsburg, Va., and
Hagerstown, Md.

4. Fight between rebel and Union troops at New Creek, Md.

5. United States fleet, under Admiral Farragut, passes Forts Morgan,
Gaines and Powell into Mobile Harbor, and captures the iron-clad ram
Tennessee (with Admiral Buchanan on board) and gunboat Sebna, — the
Union gunboat Tecumseh sunk by a torpedo or guns of Fort Morgan.

6. Another rebel mine exploded in front of General Grant's lines
without doing much damage, the event being prepared for.

7. General Sherman makes an important flank movement in front of
Atlanta.

8. Fort Gaines, entrance of Mobile harbor, with 26 guns, 56 oilicers
and 818 enlisted men, surrendered to the United States forces. Fort
Powell, with 18 guns, blo\^n up and abandoned by the rebels. Union
troops under General Averill defeat the rebels under McCausland.

10. Explosion of army ordnance boat at City Point, Va., — 53 men
killed and 126 wounded, and a large amount of government property
destroyed.

13. Defeat of the rebels on the North side of .James River, — over 500
of the rebels, 13 cannon and 2 mortars captured.

14. About three hundred rebels make an attack on Selma, Ky., and
are repulsed. Union troops, under General Hancock, advance on the
North side of James River to within 7 miles of Richmond, and capture
600 rebels, 6 cannon and 2 mortars.

16. Another advance by Union troops on the North side of .James
River, — se^teral hundred prisoners and a few heavy guns captured.

18. Advance of Union troops under General Warren across the Pe-
tersburg and Weldon Railroad. — a terrible battle ensues without definite
results, — Union loss about 2,500.

19. Severe fight between the rebels and Union troops under General
Warren, — the rebels repulsed, — Union loss 2,800.

'■ 21. Another battle on the line of the Weldon and Petersburg Road,
between Union troops, under General Warren and the rebels, — the latter
repulsed with fearful slaughter, — Union loss about 3,000.

22. The rebels make another desperate effort to drive General War-
ren from the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, but are again repulsed,
with heavy loss. General Kilpatrick returned from a su«ccessful raiding
expedition, — teai'S up 14 miles of railroad, captures 4 cannon and 200
prisoners. **

23. Fort Morgan, Mobile Harbor, with all its guns, ammunition, &c.,
surrender to the United States forces.

25. The rebels make another assault upon Union troops under Gen.
Warren, on the line of Weldon and Petersburg Railroad, and recapture
four miles of the road, — loss on each side, 5,000.

SEPTEMBER.

2. Atlanta, Ga., captured by Union troops, under Sherman,— 27 guT>g
and 1,000 prisoners taken. Fight in the Shenandoah Valley, near Ber-
ryville, Va., — defeat of the rebels— 20 wagons, 2 battle flags a^d many
prisoners captured.

-170 Chronological Eecord.

4. Fight with rebels at Greenville, Tenn., — John Morgan, the no-
lorious guerilla, killed, and his force dispersed.

5. President Lincoln issues a proclamation of thanks to Admiral
Farragut and Generals C.inby, Granger, Sherman and Sheridan, for
their signal victories over tlie rebels.

9. Successful night attack by Union troops on the rebel lines in front
of Petersburg, Va., — an important position gained.

18. Averill's Corps at Martinsburg, Va., attacked by the rebel Gen.
Gordon, — the latter repulsed.

19. Desperate fight with rebels at Opequan Creek, Shenandoah Val-
ley,— the Union troops, under General Sheridan, capture 3,000 prison-
ers, 15 battle flags and 5 guns.

20. The British government order that no vessel belonging to the
Confederates or United States shall enter British ports for the purpose
of being dismantled or sold.

22. Gen. Sheridan gains a great victory at Fisher's Hill, Shenandoah
Valley, — captures 20 guns, beside caissons, horses and 1,100 prisoners —
Union General Russell killed.

29, Rebel fortifications on Chapin's Farm, near Richmond, Va.,
stormed and taken by Union troops — 15 guns ^lid 200 prisoners captured.

30. The rebels make three unsuccessful attempts to drive the Union
troops from Chapin's Farm, in front of Richmond. Advance of Union
troops and defeat of the rebels at Poplar's Grove, near Petersburg, Va.

OCTOBER.

4, Severe fight between General Sherman's forces and the rebels at
AUatoona, Tenn.

7. The rebel pira(e Florida, with 12 officers and 58 of her crew cap-
tured in the Bay of Baha, Brazil, by the United States steamer Wachusetts.

8. Desperate fight with the rebels near Richmond, — severe loss of
life on both sides. Rome, Ga., recaptured by the rebels, — some officers
and 3,000 negroes taken prisoners.

9. Fight with the rebels near Strasburg, Va.,— about 350 rebels and
11 guns captured,

12. Death of Chief Justice Taney.

17. Capture of Ship's Gap, Tenn., by Sherman.

18. A party of twenty-five armed rebels enter St. Albans, Vt., and
rob three banks of .'? 150,000, and shoot five citizens, then flee to Canada,
where they are arrested by the Canadian authorities.

19. Great battle in the Shenandoah Valley, between Union forces,
under General Sheridan, and the rebels, under Early, — defeat of the
latter, and capture of 43 guns, beside caissons, horses and prisoners.

28. The rebel ram Albermarle blown up in Roanoke River by a United
States torpedo boat, under the command of Lieutenant Cushing. Fight
between General Pleasanton's Union army and Price's rebel army at
Newton, Mo.,— defeat of the latter— 2,000 rebels and 7,100 stand of
arms captured.

30. The State of Nevada admitted to the Union, officially announced.

31, Capture of Plymouth, N. C, by Union troops.

NOVEMBER.

3. Fight between the Union forces, under Sherman, and the rebels,
under Hood, — defeat of the latter. Rebel troops, under Price, attack
Fayetteville, Ark., and are repulsed with a loss of about 1,000 in killed
and wounded.

Chronological IIecord. 471

7. Night attack by rebels on Union troops in front of Petersburg, —
repulse of the former.

8. Presidential election — Abraham Lincoln carries every State except
Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey.

9. General Sherman starts on a march tlirough Georgia to the coast.

11. Rebels rush into Atlanta, supposing it to have been evacuated by
Union troops, and are handsomely whipped, — 900 of them taken pri-
soners.

17. The rebels repulsed in a night attack on Union lines at Bermuda
Hundred.

28. Rebels, under General Paine, occupy New Creek and Piedmont,
and destroy considerable property ; they are finally driven from the last
named place.

29. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, captured by Union pickets in front
of Petersburg.

DECEiMBER.

1. Hood moving his forces against Thomas at Nashville. The Presi-
dent orders the organization of the First Army Corps by General Han-
cock. Hon. Wm. L. Dayton, Minister to France, dies at Paris.

4. Six Southerners arrested in New York by order of General Dix,
on suspicion of being engaged in a plot to fire the city.

5. General Sherman's army united and marching on Savannah. A
fight near Pocotaligo, S. C.

6. General Sherman skirmishes with the rebels 25 miles from Savan-
nah. General Foster and Admiral Dahlgren land near Pocotaligo and
cut the Charleston Road,

9. Captain Duncan of General Howard's scouts leaves Sherman's
army to communicate with the coast.

12. Heavy skirniishing between Hood nnd Thomas. Admiral Dahl-
gren and aeneral Sherman in communication. The rebel General Lyon
enters Hopkinsville, Ky.

13. General Sherman investing Savannah. Admiral Porter's expe-
dition leaves Fortress IMonroe for Wilmington.

14. General Dix issues an order directing pursuit of the rebel raid-
ers over the Canada border. Resolution offered demanding indemnity
from England for the depredations of rebel pirates. Fort McAllister
carried by storm. •

15. General Thomas defeats Hood in front of Nashville.

16. Thomas again victorious over Hood ; the rebel nrmj in full flight,

17. Secretary Seward orders that passports be required of all per-
sons entering or leaving the country, Thomas still pushing Hood,

19, President Lincoln calls for 300,000 more men.

20, Hood crosses Duck River, after losing half his army, 51 guns
and nearly all his generals ; Thomas in close pursuit, Hardee evacuates
Savannah by the Union causeway.

21, Rear Admiral Farragut confirmed by the Senate as Vice-Admiral.
Admiral Porter's fleet in sight of Wilmington, N, C. Sherman makes a
triumphal entree into Savannah,

22, "Hood at Pulaski in full retreat, with a demoralized mob, and a
victorious army upon his heels.

24. Gordonsville occupied by a U^nion force. The naval and military
expedition under Porter and Butler make an attack on Fort Fisher, and
the powder-boat is exploded within 300 yards of the fort.

25. General Steedman moving on Decatur on Hood's rear. The at-
tack on Fort Fisher renewed, and troops landed in the rear.

472 Chronological Record.

2G, Admiral Poi-ter continues the bombardment of Fort Fisher.

27, The expedition against Wilmington withdrawn. Admiral Porter
continues the attack. Hood crosses the Tennessee on pontoons ; Thomas
pursuing.

28. Brilliant success of Generals Stoneman and Burbridge : Tennes-
see and Kentucky clear of rebels.

30. Stoneman returns to Nashville from his great raid in Tennessee
and Virginia. Thomas announces the close of his campaign.

31. Thomas countermands his order for Winter quarters, and directs
a concentration of his command for a renewal of hostilities.

18 6 5.

.JANUARY.

6. Sherman crosses New River and moves on Grahamsville, S. C.

12. Admiral Porter's and General Terry's joint expedition arrives off
Fort Fisher, N. C.

13. The attack on Fort Fisher commenced; troops landed above the
Fort.

14. Parson Brownlow nominated for Governor of Tennessee. Mis-
souri declared a Free State. Capture of Pocotaligo, S. C.

15. Fort Fishei', N. C, captured. Hon. Edward Everett died.

19. Congress thanks Terry, Thomas and Porter.

20. General Thomas reports 13,189 prisoners and 72 cannon taken
from Hood bctAveen September 7, 18G4, and date.

25. Congress thanks Sheridan. Lee made General in Chief by Jeff.
Davis.

28, The rebel House resolves to arm the negroes.

30. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell enter Grant's lines as Peace
Commissioners. Sherman commences his South Carolina campaign.

31. The Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery passes the
House by a vote of 119 to 56.

FEBRUARY.

1. Mr. Seward goes to Fortress Monroe to meet the rebel Peace Com-
missioners. Maryland House, and Illinois ratify the Constitutional
Amendment. John S. Rock, a colored lawyer of Massachusetts, admitted
to practice in the United States Supreme Court.

2. The President leaves Washington to meet the rebel Peace Com-
missioners. The New York Senate and Rhode Island Legislature ratify
the Constitutional Amendment. Gen. Sherman's advance at Braxton'g
Bridge.

3. The New York Assembly, and ^lassachusetts, Pennsylvania and
^Maryland Senate, ratify the Constitutional Amendment.

4. Failure of the Peace Negotiations ; Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward
return to Wasiiington ; the rebels demand recognition, and it is refused.
Sherman flanks tlie rebels at Solkahatchee, and they retire to Branch-
ville, S. C. ^

7. ]\Iaine ratifies the Constitutional Amendment. The amended En-
rollment Bill passes the Senate. The rebel Senate refuse to employ
negroes in the army.

8. Official declaration of the Presidential vote: Abraham Lincoln
212, aid George B. McClellan, 21. Delaware refuses to ratify the Con-
stitutional Amendment; Oliio, Minnesota and Kansas ratify it.

Chronological Kecord. 473

10, Indiana ratifies the Constitutional Amendment. The President
signs the notice to Great Britain for the termination of the treaty re-
specting the naval force on the Lakes. General Gillmore takes com-
mand of the Department of the South, and moves against Charleston.

11. The Senate thanks General Thomas,

16. General Sherman shells Columbia, S. C.

17. Columbia captured by General Sherman. Fort Anderson, Cape
Fear River, shelled by our forces. General Schofield advancing from
Smithfield, N, C. Rebel dollar estimated by the rebels as worth tioo cents
in specie, Charleston evacuated. Louisiana ratifies the Constitu-
clonal Amendment.

18. Charleston surrendered to General Gillmore. General Lee urges
the employment of negroes in the army.

19. Fort Anderson, N, C, captured by General Terry,

20. The rebel House passes the bill to raise 200,000 negro soldiers,
but the Senate rejects it.

21. Generals Crooke and Kelly captured by the guerillas, Wilming-
ton EVACUATED.

22. The Kentucky Senate rejects the Constitutional Amendment. —
Wilmington, N. C, occupied by General Schofield.

23. General Johnston takes command of the forces operating against
General Sherman. Camden, S. C, c-apt-ured. Georgetown, S. C, sur-
rendered.

24. Columbia, S. C, burned. Beall, the pirate and spy, hung oa
Governor's Island. Wisconsin ratifies the Constitutional Amendment.

27. General Sheridan leaves Winchester, Va., on an expedition.

28. General Sherman's forces enter North Carolina.

MARCH,

1. The President officially notified of his re-election,

2. Stantoa, Va., captured by General Sheridan.

4. President Lincoln and Vice-President Johnson inaugurated.

<3, General Sheridan raiding on the James River Canal, destroying
the great feeder to Richmond.

7. Hugh McCulloch confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury.

9. Bragg rep«lsed at Kinston, N. C, by Schofield's advance.

11, The President orders the disfranchisement of non-reporting de-
serters. General Sherman opens communication with Wilmington, N. C.,
l^y means of scouts.

13. Generals Crooke and Kelly exchanged.

14. Sheridan pursaing Early and body guard, all that is left of his
arm}'. General Sherman leaves Fayetteville, N. C, destroys the arsenal,
n,ud moves on Goldsboro.

16. The rebel Congress declares thrt it is impossible to issue any
more Treasury Notes,

17. John Bigelow appointed Minister to France, vice Dayton, dec'd.

18. A movement against Mobile commenced.

19. General Sheridan's entire command arrives at White House, Va.
Johnston defeated at Bentonville, N. C. Golpsboeo evacuated, and the
rebel forces fall back on Smithfield. General Steele leaves Pensacola,
Fla., to attack Mobile.

21. General Schofield occupies Goldsboro, N. C.

22- Concentration of Sherman's, Schofield's and Terry's forces at
and around Goldsboro, N, C

474 Chronological Kecord.

23. The President leaves Washington for Grant's headquarters. The
first company of negro State troops raised in Richmond.

25. Capt. Kennedy, the spy and incendiary, hung at Fort Lafayette.
The rebels attack and carry Fort Steadman, but the fort is retaken by a
vigorous charge of the 9th Corps, the President witnessing the action.
General Granger commences a co-operating movement against Mobile.

27. General Sherman arrives at General Grant's head-quarters. —
Gen. Stoneman captures Boone, N. C. Gen. Wilson moves on Greenville,
Ala. A general advance made on Spanish Foi't, Mobile Bay.

28. A Council of War held, at which the President, Generals Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and Ord are present; the Army of the Potomac
moves. The fleet moves up Mobile Bay against Spanish Fort.

29. Mr. Seward visits the President at City Point, Va. The Niagara
and Sacramento fired upon by the Portugese Forts at Lisbon ; the Niagara
struck on the poop and both vessels then anchor.

ol. The rebels drive our left from Dabney's Mills, but are in turn
forced back. The transport General Lyon burned off Hatteras, and
nearly five hundred lives are lost.

APRIL.

1. Battle of Five Forks, Ya. ; the rebel right doubled up on the
centre, and a portion of the wing cut off.

2. General Grant orders an attack on the whole line, and, after des-
perate lighting, both wings are rested on the Appomatox ; the South
Side Road is cut, and during the day and night Richmond and Peters-
burg ARE EVACUATED, and Lec's army is in full retreat for Danville ;
the rebel General A. P. Hill killed. Selma, Ala., captured by General
Wilson's cavalry, together with the greater portion of Forrest's and
Roddy's commands.

3. The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond discovered, and Gen.
Grant starts in pursuit of Lee ; General Weitzel occupies Richmond. —
Jeff". Davis at Danville, Va., a fugitive.

4. The President visits Richmond and holds a levee in .Jeff. Davi&'
house.

5. Mr. Seward thrown from his carriage and breaks his arm and jaw.
General Sheridan and an infantry column reaches Burkesville, Va.,
heading off Lee, who is at .Amelia Court House ; an engagement at
Lamer's Cross Roads in which the rebels are defeated.

6. General Slieridan attacks Lee West of Burkesville and routs him,
capturing Ewell and a number of other generals. The news of the cap-
ture of Richmond announced to Sherman's army.

7. General Grant urges Lee to surrender to save the further effusion
of blood ; Lee asks for terms.

8. General Giant states the terms of surrender, upon which Lee asks
an interview.

9. General Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to
General Grant. The President and Mrs. Lincoln return to Washing-
ton.

10. General rejoicing all over the country. The President issues a
proclamation closing certain Southern ports.

11. The President makes a speech in which he defines the States of
the rebellion and hints at plans for restoration. He issues a proclama-
tion respecting the treatment of our national vessels in foreign ports
and threatens retaliation for discourtesy. Lynchburg, Va., surrenders
to a Uni )n scouting party.

Chronological Record. 475

12. Members of the Virginia Legislature, by permission of General
Weitzel, call a Convention to bring the State back into the Union. Gen.
Canby and the fleet under Admiral Thatcher, capture the defences of
Mobile. General Stoneman occupies Salisbury, N. C, capturing 19

. pieces of artillery and destroying the arsenals. General Wilson captures
Montgomery, Ala. ; the rebels destroy five steamers and 95,000 bales of
cotton.

13. General Grant advises that the draft and recruiting be suspend-
ed, and an order is issued to that effect. General Sherman captures
Raleigh, N. C. General Canby occupies Mobile, Ala. ; 400 guns taken
in all.

14. President LINCOLN assassinated about ten o'clock in tub
Evening in a private box at Ford's Theatre, Washington, by John
Wilkes Booth. An attempt made by Lewis J. Payne to assassinate
Mr. Seward and family ; also attempts made by other conspirators to
.•assassinate Mr. Johnson and Mr. Stanton. The news of the fall of
Kichmoud received in England at 11.30 P. M. Jeff. Davis and a cavalry
escort leaves Greensboro, N. C.

15. President Lincoln dies at 7.22 A. M. ; Andrew Johnson inaugur-
ated President at 1 1 A. M. Hon. Wm. Hunter appointed Acting Secre-
tary of State. Intense excitement all over the country in consequence
of President Lincolaie assassination. The Canadian Parliament adjourn.
The old flag raised over Fort Sumter, with appropriate ceremonies.

16. Johnston asks General Sherman what terms of surrender will be
offered. General Wilson captures Columbus, Ga. ; 53 guns, 100,000
bales of cotton and 1,200 prisoners taken, and the gunboat Jackson and
large quantities of stores destroyed.

17. General Sherman holds a conference with Johnston at Chapel
Hill, N. C.

18. Arrest of Payne, the attempted murderer of Mr. Seward. Gen.
Sherman grants an armistice and enters into negotiations with Johnston,
subject to the approval of the President, for the restoration of peace
"from the Potomac to th« Rio Grande."

19. Funeral of Mr. Lincoln at Washington. General Sherman orders
a suspension of hostilities. General Wilson captures West Point, Ga.,
also Gritfitt.

20. A reward of $100,000 offered for the capture of Booth and his
co-conspirators. General Wilson captures Ma«on, Ga., and takes Howell
Cobb and Gustavus W. Smith prisoners.

21. The remains of President Lincoln leave Washington and ai-rive
at Harrisburg, Pa. General Sherman's peace negotiations with John-
ston rejected at a Cabinet meeting, and General Grant leaves to visit
Sherman. Kirby Smith declares that he will not recognize the surren-
der of Lee,

22. The remains of M?-. Lincoln arrive at Philadelphia. The sur-
render of Lee announced in England.

24. The remains of Mr. Lincoln amve in New York. General Grant
arrives at Raleigh, and General Sherman notifies Johnston of the rejec-
tion of the negotiations and suspension of the truce: Jeff. Davis leaves
Charlotte, N. C.

25. President Johnson orders the 25th of May to be observed as a day
of sorrow.

26. Booth, the assasein, found secreted in a barn belonging to Mr,
Garrett, near Port Royal, Va., with his companion, Harold ; the latter
surrenders, but the former is mortally wounded and dies soon after.—
General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders all the forces East of the Chatta-

4TG Chronological Kecord.

hootchee on the same terms as those given to Lee. Ex-Governor Aiken,
of South Carolina, arrested at Charleston, S. C.

27. Jacob Thompson, C. C. Clay, W. H. Cleary, William L. McDonald
and Bennett Young indicted at Toronto for a breach of the neutrality
act. The President's remains pass through Buffalo en route for Cleve-
land,"Ohio. Benjamin G. Harris, member of Congress, of Maryland,
arrested for treasonable conversation. Danville, Va., formally surren-
dered to General Wright, of the Sixth Corps ; the machinery taken from
Harper's Ferry Arsenal recaptured ; the movement made by order of
General Halleck. The news of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln receiv-
ed in England.

28. The remains of Mr. Lincoln arrive ai Cleveland. The steamer
Sultana blown up near Memphis, in consequence of overcrowding the
boat, and over 1,700 soldiers, returning from rebel prisons, are killed.
Mosby at Salem, Va., deserted by his command. General Wilson's ad-
vance arrives at Savannah, having raided 481 miles in twenty days, cap-
tured 3.52 guns, five generals and immense quantities of property.

29. The President changes the day of fasting and sorrow to June 1.
The remains of Mr. Lincoln arrive at Columbus, Ohio. The President
removes restrictions upon trade in Southern States. The War Depart-
ment orders a reduction of the military establishment and the discharge
of all recruits, save those for the regular army. Mn armistice between
General Canby and Dick Taylor, preparatory to a suri'ender of the rebel
army. The Army of the Tennessee, Gen. O. O. Howard, commences its
triumphal march from Raleigh, N. C, to Washington.

80. Mr. Lincoln's remains arrive at Indianapolis, Ind. The formal
surrender of Johnston takes place at Greensboro; 36^971 officers and
men lay down their arms.

MAT.

1. The remains of Mr. Lincoln arrive at Chicago. Chief Justice
Chase leaves Washington on a tour to Southern cities. Morgan's old
command surrenders to General Hobson, at Mount Sterling, Ky. ; East-
ern Kentucky and Tennessee declared free of rebel forces.

2. A reward oflTered for the capture of Jetf. Davis, C. C. Clay, Jacob
Thompson, George N. Sanders, Beverly Tucker and W, C. Cleary, as
being concerned in the conspiracy to assassinate Mr. Lincoln.

4. The final obsequies of Mr. Lincoln celebrated at Springfield, 111.
The Connecticut Legislature passes the Constitutional Amendment abo-
lishing slavery. General Dick Taylor surrenders to General Canby all
the forces East of the Mississippi and West of the Chattahoochee. —
Queen Victoria expresses her sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln,

G. $40,387,000 subscribed to the Seven-thirty loan during the week.
The total number of Union prisoners who have died in the Anderson-
ville, Ga., prison-pen announced as over 17,000.

9, The President issues a proclamation outlawing pirates. The trial
of the assassins commenced at Washington. Governor Joseph G. Brown,
of Georgia, arrested at Milledgeville. The formal surrender of the re-
bel fleet in the Tombigbee River, Ala., takes place : twelve vessels capi-
tulate. St. Marks and Tallahassee, Fla., surrender.

10, The President orders active measures against rebel pirates in
foreign ports. Jeff. Davis and family, and Reagan, his Postmaster Gen-
eral, captured at Irwinsville, Irwin County, Ga., by Colonel Pritchard
and one hundred and fifty men of the Fourth Michigan ; Jeff, tries to
escape, disguised in his wife's shawl and a water-proof cloak. C. C,

Chronological Record. 477

Clay surrenders to Geueral Wilson, at Lagrange, Ga. The Haytien re-
bels capture Cape Haytien, Hayti. The last of the rebel^ forces in Flo-
rida surrender to General Ed. McCook.

11. Gideon J. Pillow captured in Selma, Ala. Earl Russell modifies
the order granting belligerent rights to rebels.

12. Z. 13. Vance, of North Carolina, arrested. The last battle of the
war fought at Boca Chico, Texas ; the Union troops repulsed with a loss
of 72 men.

13. Arrest of R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia.

15. Hon. James Harlan enters upon his duties as Secretary of the
Interior.

10, General Sheridan's cavalry arrived at Alexandria, Va., also the
advance of General Sherman's army.

17. It is announced that all rebels in arms East of the Mississippi,
will be considered outlaws after June 1. Rear Admiral Frank Buchan-
an, the Chief of the rebel navy, surrenders at Mobile.

18. Dr. Blackburn, the yellow fever importer, arrested at Montreal.
The ram Stoncicall uncondiiionally surrenders to the Spanish autho-
rities in trust for the United States.

19. Mr. Seward visits the State Department, and attends to official
business. Jeft'. Davis, Alex. H. Stephens, C. C. Clay and Reagan arriv-
ed in Hampton Roads. Lord Palmerston, in answer to a question, says
that England will not interfere with the affairs of this country.

20. Genera) Sheridan assigned to command all the forces West of the
Mississippi.

21. General Sheridan reviews his command in Washington. Isham
0. Harris, of Tennessee, captured.

22. The Committee on the Conduct of the War adjourns sine die after
examining General Sherman. ]\lrs. Lincoln leaves the White House for
her home in Springfield, 111. Jeff. Davis and C. C. Clay consigned to a
casemate in Fortress Monroe. John Letcher, Ex-Governor of Viro-inia.
arrested.

23. Grand review of the army of the Potomac by the President and
General Grant. John A. Seddon, rebel ex-Secretary of War, arrested :
also. Judge John A. Campbell. Negotiations opened for the surrender
of Kirby Smith.

24. Grand Review of General Sherman's army in Washington, by
the President and General Grant.

2-5. Jeff. Davis' shawl and cloak deposited with the War Department.
A. H. Stephens and Reagan consigned to Fort Warren. The Ordnance
Depot at Mobile explodes, destroying about 300 lives and $10,000,000
worth of property ; also 1,000 bales of cotton.

20. Peace from the Potomac to the Rio Geande ; Kirby Smith
surrenders all the forces West of the Mississippi to General Canby ; the
fons at Sabine Pass occupied by a force from the Owasco. The Atlantic
cable completed. Jeff, Davis and John C. Breckinridge indicted for
treason by the Grand Jury of the United States District Court at W^ash-
ington.

27. The President orders the release of all persons sentenced to be
confined during the war.

29. The President issues a Proclamation of Amnesty, and one for the
restoration of North Carolina; Mr. Seward signs both. Telegraphic
communication opened between New York and New Orleans.

31. The public debt to date officially stated at $2,035,753,000 00 in-
terest $124,038,874 02. General Hood, the last of the rebel generals,
surrenders. General Brown takes possession of Brownsville. Texa«
40=^

478 Ceronologigal Recokd.

JUNE,

1. National Fagt Day by proclamation of President Jo-hnson. Tiw
President remits the punishment imposed by Court Martial on Benj. G.
Harris, M. C. from Maryland. John Mitchel, formerly of the Kich-
mond Examiner, becomes editor of the Ne>v York Daily New?^

2. The order requirii>g passports rescinded ; also- the order restrict-
ing the exportation of anthracite coal, i^eneral Grant issvies a eongra-
tulator^ order to his army. Kirby Smith, by proxy, formally »arres)der3
his command on board the Fort Jackson, in the bay of Galveston. Eng-
land withdra-ws the concession of belligerent rights to the So-utb, bufc
fails to remove the twenty-four hour rule.

3. The Missouri, the last of the rebel fieet on Red River, surrenders.

4. Spain withdraws order conceding belligereat rights to the South,

6. An order issued directing all rebel priao-i^ers of war below the
rank of Major to- be diseharged.

9. The President occupies the White House. The traas-port Kentucky
strikes a snag oa the Red River aad sinks • 200 rebel soldiers drowned.

10. Great destruction- of Goveirnnseiit property at Nashville, Tenn. -^
$10,000,000 of stores barHed. Mr. Seward announces the withdrawal
of the order of the Netherlands conceding belligerent rights to the South.

11. The monuments, ereetetl o^n the battle-field of Bull Run, Va., ap-
propriately dedicated,. John C. Breckinridge arrives at Cardenas a fu-
gitive.

12. Missouri adopts a new Constitntio'Ev

lo. A proclamation issued removing restrictic/^ns on tpade East of the
Mississippi, declaring Tesinessee no longer in rebellion, and appointing
William L. Sharkey Provisioaal Governor of Mississippi, Mf. OlareBce;
A. Seward appointed A&sis-tant Secretary of State.

14. John Mitchel, of the Daily News, sent to Fortress Monroe.
• 16. Generals Butls-r, Baa&s, Helnba'el'man and other generals of vol-
unteers, mustered out of s-ervice,

17. The President appoints James- Johnson Provisional Governor of
Georgia ; and Andrew J. Hamilton, of Texas. Edmuad Ruffin, who
fired the first gun at Sumter, blows oat his brains.

19. The Secretary of the Navy notified of the partial withdrawal of
belligerent rights by England and that Ein'gMsk vessels "will not be en-
titled to the customary courtesies,

21. Lewis E. Parsons appointed Provisional Go-vernior of Alab^amia,
23. The President issues a proclamation ordering the blockade of adl

the ports in the United Spates raised on July 1, Adsmiral Samuel F. Du

Pont dies at Philadelphia.

20. All restrictions on trade West of the Mjga-T&sippd rensoved by th&
President ; trade open all over the States.

27. The losses to the South in consequerace of the war estimated in
money at $5,800,000,000.

On the first day of July all the ports of the United States were

declared no longer under blcKjkade. The Stars and Stripes again

waved unchallenged over every portion of our great country. On

the 6th of July; Mrs. Surratt, L. T. Powell, David D. Harold and

Geo. A. Atzerott, assassination conspirators, were executed.

PEESIDBNT LINCOLN'S

EMANCIPATION PEOCLAMATION.

tTaimary 1st, 1863.

Whereas, On the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was is-
sued by the President of the United States, containing, among other
things, the following, to wit :

" That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within
any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the United States, shall be thenceforth and foc^
ever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, includin*
the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain
the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them, in any effort they may make for their actual
freedom.

"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by
proclamation, designate the States, and parts of States, if any, in which
the people therein respectively shall then be in rebellion against the
United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall
on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United
States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of
the qualified voters of such States shall have participated, shall, in the
absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evi-
dence that such State and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion
against the United States."

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the army
and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion, do, on
this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, in accordance with my purpose so to do. pub-
licly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day
of the first above mentioned order, designate as the Staies and parts of
States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion
against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Loui-.
siana, except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St.
John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne,' La-
fourge, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New
Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as
West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northamp-
ton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, aud Norfolk, including the ci-
ties of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are for the
present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order-
and declare that all persons held as slaves, within said designated States
and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free, and that the

480 Second Inaugural Api>i\Fi3.s,

Executive Government of tlie Unitetl States, including tlie military and
naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of
said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people sa declared to be free, to, abstain
from all violence unless in necessary self-defence, and 1 recommend to.
them, that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reason-
able wages.

And 1 further declare and make known that such persons of suitable
condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States,
to garrison forts, positio^ns, stations, and other places, and to man ves-
sels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warrant-
ed by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate
judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

In Avitness Avherof 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this first day of .January,
[l. s.] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

sixty-three, and of the independence of the United Stales
of America the eightv-seventh.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.

Wm. H. Sewaru,
January 1, 1863. . Secretary of Stale.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S

SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

March 4th, 1863,

Fellow Countrymex : — At this second appearing to take the oath of
the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address
than there was at first. Then a statement of a course to be pursued
seemed very fitting and proper.

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great
contest which still absorbs ihe attention and engrosses the energies of
the nation, little that is new could be presented.

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as
well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably sa-
tisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hopes for the future, no
prediction in regard to it is ventured.

On the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts
were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all
sought to avoid it.

While the Inaugural Address was being delivered from this place, de-
"voted altogether to saving the Union without war. insurgent agents were
in the city seeking to destroy it without war ; seeking to dissolve the
Union ;i-nd divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated

Casualties of the War. 481

war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation sur-
vive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish ; and th«
war came.

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distrib-
uted generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.

These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew
that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen,
perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insur-
gents would rend the Union by war, while the Government claimed no
right to more than restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration
which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the
conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease.
Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and
astounding.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes
His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should
dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the
sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we may not be
judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither
has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe
unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences
come, but woe unto the man by whom the off'ence cometh." If we shall
suppose that American slavery is one of these off'ences which, in the
Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued
through His appointed time. He now wills to remove, aid that He gives
to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by
whom the off'ence came, shall we discern therein any departure from
those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe
to Him?

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge
of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until
all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the
Lord are true and righteous altogether.

With malice toward no one, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as aod gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work
we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall
have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and
with all nations.

CASUALTIES OF THE WAR,

Official estimates in the War Department compute the number of deaths
in the Union armies since the commencement of the war, including the
starved prisoners, at three hundred and twenty-five thousand. There
were doubtless fully two hundred thousand Southern soldiers removed
by disease and the casualties of battle, so that no less than five hundred
and twenty-five thousand lives were sacrificed in a contest, begun and

482 Casualties of the War.

prolonged by the South in their vain effort to build up a new Republi«
and strengthen the slave power.

Our greatest losses in any one campaign occurred at Gettysburg, when
23,267 Union soldiers were killed, wounded and taken prisoners. —
Hooker's campaign in 1868 in the Wilderness ranks next to Gettysburg,
as far as regards Union losses, they having amounted to about 20,000,
thou"-h generally reported at 10,000. Burnside lost 12,000 at the battle
of Fredericksburg, McClellan 11,426 at Antietam, Porter 9,000 at Gaines'
Mills, Uosecrans 12,085 at Murfreesboro, and 16,851 at Chickamauga,
and Sherman about 0,000 in the two days' battle around Atlanta.

The of&cial reports of Gen. Grant's losses from the time he crossed the
Rapidan until receiving the surrender of Lee compute them at 80,000.
In the various engagements fought by General Grant in the West, he
left 13,573 at FitTsburg Landing, 9,875 in the severe contests around
Vicksburg, and in the attack on Missionary Ridge about 7,000.

CONTRIBUTIONS, INCIDENTS, &C.

When Schuylkill County sent her sons to the field to defend the
imperilled Union, she resolved; that her means should be offered
unsparingly, to assuage their sufferings and those of their brave
compatriots when disease or the balls of the enemy should prostrate
them in the hospital or on the field. Soldiers' aid societies, under
the superintendence of patriotic ladies, were organized throughout
the County, while individual efi'ort, the full extent of which will
never be known, sent goods worth many thousands of dollars to
the hospitals and to the army. This was early in the war. After
the operations of the United States Sanitary and Christian Com.
missions became fully known and appreciated, they were used as
the best means for distributing to our soldiers the gifts of the
thoughtful and generous donors. The amount of suffering relieved,
the number of precious lives saved by these donations during a
period of four years, must have been great.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

The "Ladies Aid" of Trinity Church, Pottsville, organized Nov. 13,
1861, by electing the following officers :

President — Mns. Andrew Russel.

Vice-Fresidents — Miss Sarah Silliman, Mrs. Michael Bright, Mrs.
J. C. Hughes, Mrs. D. J. Ridgway, Mrs. A. Henderson, Miss Amelia
Pott.

Secretary and Treasurer — Miss Amanda Silliman.

Sixty-eight (68) boxes were forwarded to Washington City, ChristiaD
Commission, Sanitary Commission, Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia,
Miss Green for Palmyra, Col. Nagle, Ilatteras, Dr. J. T. Carpenter,
Charleston, Va., and Cumberland, Md., Harrisburg, Miss Spackman,
1010 Vine Street, Philadelphia, New York, Cooper Shop Hospital, Cher-
ry Street, Master Street and West Philadelphia Hospitals, and to 96th
Pa. Regiment.

In addition to above, sixteen (16) boxes from the public and private
schools were forwarded through the Society for soldiers in the field and
hospitals.

Contributed to the Sauitarv Fair, Philadelphia ;

Goods, valued at * $238 40

Coal, 240 00

Cash, 401 35

$939 75
Estimated value of boxes, independent of those

sent to the U. S. Sanitary Fair, 7,219 06

Total, $8,l&8 81

48-4 Contributions, Incidents, &c.

The Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Pottsville.

From the breaking out of the war till May 1, 18t)3, the Ladies of the
^L E. Church co-operated with the other Protestant Churches of the
Borough in a Union movement in aid of the Sanitary Commission. Of the
amount of stores and cash furnished at that time they have no account.

In May, 186S, however, they formed themselves into an independent
Association under the title "The Ladies' Soldiers' Sanitary Aid Society
of the Pottsville M. E. Church." Under this title they operated for one
year, sending forward in the meanwhile seven boxes of stores valued at
five hundred dollars. On May 2, 1864, they became auxiliary to the
Christian Commission, since which time they have been known as "The
Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of the Pottsville M. E. Church, auxiliary to
the U. S. C. Commission." Under this new organization they forwarded :
Twelve boxes of stores valued at " $1,182 00

Cash to the amount of 968 50

Total to the C. C. $2,150 50

To this may be added the sum of $79 00 in hand May 23, 1865, and
$275 00 collectible subscriptions, or a total of $354 00 which were to
be forwarded to the Christian Commission ; thus making a total to that
organization of $2,504 50 or a grand total to both organizations from
May, 1863, to May, 1865, of $3,004 50.

Th€ Pastor of the Church, Rev. J. B. McCullough. was out as a dele-
gate of the Christian Commission /o«r times, about two weeks each time,
viz. : after the battles of Antietam, of Gettysburg, of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania Court House, aiding with the wounded ; and once on a
preaching tour, while the Army of the Potomac was lying in winter
quarters on the Rapidan.

From the Congregation and Sabbath School of the Church there went
to the war, so far as we know, some 81 recruits, for terms varying from
3 months to 6 years. Of this number the following were killed or died
in the service, viz :

John Maddison, Alexander Govan, Theodore Beck, John Eplin, Thos.
G. Houck, John W. Xennett, Charles Aurand, James M. Rich, John W.
Hall, James Jenkins, Wm. Williams, John Robinson, John Homer, Silas
Hough.

THE SANITARY FAIR.

The Pennsylvania Fair of the United States Sanitary Commis-
sion was held in Philadelphia, in June, 1864. Mrs. Benjamin
Bannan of Pottsville, received a commission, as follows :

Office of the Committee on Labor, Incomes 1
AND Revenues, Philadelpliia, May 14, 1864. i
Mrs. Benjamin Bannan :

Madam : — I have sent you a commission as Chairman for Pottsville,
covering the work for the whole neighborhood, excepting only the Coal
Miners, who are under another organization. The commission covers
all the Trades, Commcrciat and Manufachiring Interests, Lawyers, Clergy-
men, Physicians, Households, Day's Labor, ij-c.

Very truly yours,

L. MONTGOMERY BOND.

Contributions, Incidents, &c. 485

Miss Amanda Silliman was appointed Chairman of tlie Com-
mittee upon "Labor, Income and Revenue" in the female depart-
ment of labor in Pottsville. She was assisted by Mrs. J. Noble,
Miss Taylor, Miss Parvin, Mrs. Bohannan, Miss Lessig, Mrs. Wal-
lace Wolff, Miss flartz, Miss Wolff, Miss Hay woDd, Mrs. Kate
Thompson of Ashland, Mrs. E. J. Fry of Tamaqua, Misses Lottie
E= Birch, Mary Slobig, Sallie L. Wasley, Annie Freeman, Louisa
Allison, Sallie A. Watkins, Mary A. Buechley, Ellen Denning, of
St. Clair, Mrs. Ezra Cockill, Llewellyn, Miss Margaret Dolben,
Cass Township, Mrs. M. Lindenmuth, Minersville, and other pa-
triotic ladies assisted in the work.

Messrs. B. Bannan, E. 0. Parry, Geo. W. Snyder, H. L Cake,
T. M. Freek, John J. Dovey, Geo. W. Cole, John Hoch, Henry
Heil, Theo. Garretson, P. Heckscher and Wm. Verner were ap-
pointed a Committee to receive contributions from the coal trade,
of which fund Mr. E. Borda, Philadelphia, was Treasurer.

The contributions of Schuylkill County to the Fair were as
follows :

Pottsville, - - - - - - $3,788 43

" Goods, valued at „ . . . 80 91
Legal Profession, __--_. 503 00

Employees Ridgway's wharf, Mt, Carbon, - - 17 50

.Ashland, - - - - - - - 380 70

Eldred Township, - - - - - - 108 85

Nevr Castle, - - - - - - - 77 16

Westwood, .-.-.-. 2 50

Barnesville, - - - - - - -7 50

Foster Township, ----.- 30 00

Llewellyn School No. 1, - - - - - 6 36

Mahanoy City, - - - - - - 307 85

McKeansburg and vicinity, - - - - - 39 90

Barry Township, - - - - - - 132 00

Wayne Township, - - - - - -40 15

Minersville, - - - - - - 174 31

West Penn, - - - - - - - 53 65

Port Clinton, ...... 25 25

Llewellyn, - - - - - - -45 10

Cass Township, - .... 49 00

Palo Alto Rolling Mill, - - - - - 388 02

South Manheim Township, - - - - 22 50

St. Clcxir, 272 35

Port Carbon and vicinity, ----- G39 60

East Brunswick, - - - - - - 22 50

Tamaqua, - - - - - - - 237 10

Carried forward, - - $7,451 19

486 Contributions, Incidents, &c.

Brought forward,
Schuylkill Haven, - - - - -

Transportation Department Sch. & Susq. II. R.
Port Carbon Select School, _ - -

Cressona, - - - - " _ "

One box goods from Soldiers' Aid Society, Minersville,
Tamaqua Cavalry, _ . - - -

Henry Barret, soldier, . - . -

Total, - - - - $8,044 19

$7,451

275

- 93

- 38

100

- 70

COLLIERY CONTRIBUTIONS.

St. Nicholas Colliery, H. L. Cake, 40 cars of coal,

" " employees, _ _ _

Employees at V>'heeler, ^Miller & Co"s Colliery,

at J. & E. S. Silliman's
.1. & E. S. Silliman, _ . - - -

Hammett, Van Dusen & Lochman, 50 cars of coal, -
Employees at Hammett, Van Dusen & Lochman's Colliery,

at Big Bun, ------

Employees at Geo. W. Snydex-'s Bine Forrest Colliery,

George W. Snyder, 50 cars of coal,

Employees at Wm. R. Williams' (agt.,) Colliery, Mt. Laffee

Wm. 11. Williams, (agt.) 15 cars coal,

Employees at C. Garretson's Girard Colliery,

4t " " Middle Creek Colliery, -

C. Garretson, 35 cars of coal, - - - -

Employees of J. M. Freck & Co., Ashland, -
J. R. Blakiston and Jos. M. Freck, 50 cars coal from Cen-

tralia Colliery, - _ - . _

Employees at J, & W. F. Donaldson's Keystone Col'y, Ashland,
J. & W. F. Donaldson, . . - .

David Pearson & Co., 50.} cars coal,
Hewett, Clayton cSi Co.,

John Jones, Foulkton Colliery, 20 cars coal.
Employees of " a .

Kitzmiller, Grteff & Co., Lorberry, 100 cars coal,
Workmen of "

Lewis Audenried & Co., 40 cars coal.
Employees of F. J. Anspach & Co.'s Locust Mountain Col

liery, Centralia, near Ashland, _ . _

F. J. Anspach & Co., 25 cars coal, - - -

Henry Guiterman and workmen, - . -

Bedall & Robertson, " . . .

St. Clair Coal Company, 81 cars coal,
Employees of St. Clair Coal Co., - - .

Wheeler, Miller & Co., 16 cars coal,
Henry Heil, 8 cars coal, - - - -

Employees of H. & G. Smith & Co., Gilberton, -
Employees at John Jones' Colliery, Mahanoy
H. & G. Smith & Co., and employees, Mahanoy,
T. H, SchoUenberger and workmen, 88^ tons of coal,

Carried forward, - - .

$1,610

200

124

125

200

1,578

305

314

1,758

159

589

122

248

1,105
154

1,005
230

91
31

- 1,000
1,830

- 1,000
724

00
61
00
95

3,453
54

1,337

141

828

189

143

2,656

556

563

290

74 60

063

$26,211

Contributions, Incidents, &c. 487

Brought forward, - - - $2G,211 82

Geo. W, Cole, Reevesdale Colliery, near Tamaqua, - - 150 00

Workmen at " " '' " - > 250 47

" " . Levari " u u _ . 33 5c

" " Wm. IT. John's Colliery, St. Clair, - 320 50

'' " Otto White & Red Ash Coll'ies, Heckscher & Co., 43-4 0(5

" " Forrestville Colliery, Heckscher & Co., - 04 00

" '• Thomaston " " " - - 24 00

Employees of Heckscher & Co., - - - - 15G 50

Workmen at Heckscherville Colliery, H. H. Dunne, - - 41 00

" " Norwegian Coal Company, - - - 450 30

" *' Locustdale Colliery, Geo. C. Potts & Co., - 285 35

" Kitzmiller, Gn-cff *& Co.'s Rausch Creek Collieries, 205 99

Greenwood Coal Company, 30 cars, _ _ _ 1,124 75

Heckscher & Co., 40 cars coal, and H. II. Dunne, 10 cars, 1,014 55

Workmen at Wm. Dovey's Colliery, Tuscarora, - - 107 65

" " Wiggan & Treibel's Colliery, - - 09 00

" Henry Heil's Strongville Colliery, - - 235 82

'< " Geo. II. Potts & Co.'s Wolf Creek Colliery, - 775 52

'' " Belmont Colliery, _ _ _ . 70 45

Geo. Ormrod and workmen, Tamaqua _ - _ 100 00

Workmen at Dundas Colliery, No. G, Allen Fisher, - - 127 26

From a Clerk — odd change for five days, owing to scarcity

of pennies and currency, could not be paid under 25

cents, _ - _ _ _ _ 67 00

Vv'orkmen of .John Anderson, - - - - 25 25

B. Hammett — proceeds of coal contributed by him, - - 1,929 13

Total, - - - - $34,834 98

While tlie Sanitary Commission was the recipient of large sums
of money from Schuylkill County during the War, and of stores
of value upon which no exact estimate can be placed, the Christian
Commission claimed and r'^ceived substantial assistance. Meet-
ings were held in Pottsville, at which Geo. H. Stuart, Esq.,
and clergymen acting for the Commission, laid the claims of
the Commission before the people. There was, invariably, a
generous response.

The contributions in cash were as follows :

Pottsville, -.-...

Crow Hollow, ---___

New Philadelphia, - _ - _ _

Minersville, --__-_

Pinegrove, -___._

Orwigsburg, -_-___

Middleport, ---__.

North Manheim, - - - - - .

West Brunswick, - - . _ _

$4,731 47

p3,947

217

160 00

118

169

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Brought forward, _ - -

East Brunswick, _ _ _ » -

Pinegrove, __-_--

St. Clair, ------

Kaska William and Thomaston, - - _

Wadesville, _ _ _ - _

Evangelical Sunday School, Schuylkill Haven,
J. H. Sh(X^maker, Tuscarora, - _ _

George Wiggan, Tamaqua, - - - -

"H. S.," Port Carbon, - - - -

Total, - - -. - - $5,302 85

$4,731

- 213

294

- 43

- 10

The contributions of the Coal trade to the Christian Commis-
sion, were as follows :

Workmen at W. Milnes', Jr., Hickory Colliery, St. Clair, $ 511 50

Wm. Milnes, Jr., & Co., - - - - - 488 50

Davis Pearson & Co., 50 cars coal, - _ _ 1,830 61

Heni'y Ileil and woi^kraen, - - - - - 122 00

Lewis Audenried & Co., 40 cars coal, - - - 1,387 99
Employees, Mining Department, Little Sch'kill Nav,, R. R.

and Coal Company, _ - - - . 134 18

Total, . . . _ $4,474 78

The following miscellaneous contributions and estimated value

of stores sent during the war, will sum up as far as we are able to

give them, the contributions of the County :

Middleport, goods valued at - - - - $ 135 00

St. John Sunday School, Auburn, - - - - GO 00

Tremont, _-_--- 82 75

Ashland, estimated value of stores sent, . . _ 1,500 00

Minersville, " " "''.-. 2,500 00

Port Carbon, " .. 4. ;. . - - 1,000 00

Tamaqua, " " *'«'--- 2,500 00

Schuylkill Haven, ^i ^^ i^ . _ - 1,500 00

Mahanoy City, " i^ u . - _ 1^500 00

Orwigsburg, " " 4c u . - - i^oOO 00

Cressona, " u .i . , . 1^000 00

Middleport, u u ,i - . - 800 00

New Philadelphia, ' " '' .« . . . 800 00

Palo Alto, u u u - - - 800 00

Tremont, " u <; . - - 1,500 00

Pinegrove, c. .; .. - . . 2,000 00

Other sections of County, '< << . _ . 5,000 00

Total, . - - - $26,277 75

The above is only an estimate, but we believe it falls short of
the real value of hospital and other stores which were sent duriq^
the war for the relief of the soldiers.

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During the absence of many soldiers their families, unless re-
lieved, especially during the inclement winter season, would suffer.
A movement for their relief was inaugurated throughout the
County. In Pottsville the receipts of the Soldiers' Aid Society
up to March 16, 1865, were $679 22. A considerable quantity
of coal was sent to Philadelphia for the relief of suffering families
of soldiers in that city. Each locality in the County provided for
the wants of families in the neighborhood, but we have no account
of the receipts.

In 1861 the sufferings of the Union people of East Tennessee
were brought to the attention of our citizens, and $1,301 00 were
collected and remitted to Caleb Cope, Treasurer, Philadelphia.

These sum up the voluntary contributions of our citizens during
the war, for philanthropical purposes. Tbey show that Schuylkill
was no niggard with her purse, to alleviate the sufferings of the
men who went forth to battle for the perpetuity of free institutions.

GRAND RECAPITULATION,

Ladies' Aid Society, Trinity Churcli, Pottsville, $ 8,158 81

" " " Methodist Episcopal Church, Pottsville, 3,004 60

Borough, Township and individual contributions to Pennsyl-
vania Sanitary Fair, _ . _ _

Colliery contributions to Penn, Sanitary Fair,

Borough, Township and individual contributions to Christian
Commission, - - - - -

Colliery contributions to Christian Commission,

Miscellaneous contributions for sick and wounded soldiers.

For relief of soldiers' families, Pottsville,
<' " " suffering East Tennesseeans,

8,004

■ 34,834

5,362

■ 4,474

26,277

679

1,301

$92,138

In our notings in the ^^ Three Months' Campaign" of the pa-
triotic exertion of our citizens to furnish men at the call of the
Government, we hardly devoted space enough to a record of the
energy which characterized the efforts of Capt. Charlemange
Tower in that direction. That history is briefly but comprehen-
sively as follows :

On Monday, April 15, 1861, immediately after the news of the

fall of Fort Sumter, on the same day but before the Presi-
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dent's Proclamation, calling for 75,000 volunteers, C Tower post-
ed large printed handbills all through Pottsville, inviting his fel-
low-citizens to join him in forming a company to assist in sustain-
ins: the Government.

On Monday, the 22d April, 1861, C. Tower went, with his
company, containing 160 men, styled then the '' Tower Guards,"
to Harrisburg, and reached Camp Cuitin, in that place, in the af-
ternoon of that day. Only 77 men being nllowed, at that time, in
a company, his men were divided ; one company being allotted to
him, one other full company being formed from them, and the
surplus, beyond these two companies, being put into other com-
panies. The second full company elected Daniel Nagle, who was
third Lieutenant under Capt. Tower, for its Captain, and David
P. Brown and William W. Potts, who had been privates under
Capt. Tower, for first and second Lieutenants, and took the name
of " Nagle Guards." The two companies, as well as the surplus
men, were in the Sixth Regiment Penn. Vols., during the whole
three months' service.

While in Harrisburg, where the regiment was mustered out, af-
ter its return from the three months' service, Capt. Tower's com-
pany was noticed as follows in a Harrisburg paper of August 1,

1861:

The Towjer Guards. — This fine company made street-parade on Sa-
turday morning and were vmiversally admired. Tliey drew up in line
in front of the Treasury Department, when Captain Tower in a few
forcible remarks presented the company to Gov. Curtin. The men were
then put through the manual and drill by Capt. Tower, and their per-
formances were most admirable. The Governor addressed the company
in a few very pertinent remarks, in which he alluded to the patriotism
of Schuylkill County in so promptly responding to the nation's call, and
concluded by returning his thanks to Capt. Tower and his company for
the honor conferred vipon their commander-in-chief in the visit.

The Guard, we believe, is the only company that has paid the Gover-
nor the compliment of a company visit, and considering the excellent
condition of the company, and all the circumstances connected with its
origin, was highly complimentary.

Before the time of the men expired he purchased new uniforms
for them at his own expense.

On the loth of August, 1861, Capt. Tower again posted large
printed handbills throughout the town, urging reorganization of
the ^'Tower Guards,'^ He offered a bounty of ^505 to 101 menj
to be paid from his private funds as soon as they were mustered in.

Contributions, Incidents, &c. 491

Under this call another company was raised and under Henry
Pleasants as Captain, joined the 48th Regt. Penn. Vols., Colonel
James Nagle, for three years, or during the war.

During the war swords and other testimonials of esteem were
presented to oiEcers from the County.

On the 18th of September, 18G1, the ladies of Schuylkill Ha-
ven, Fanny H. Koons, Addic Kline and Kate M. Levan, Commit-
tee, presented a sword, sash and belt to Lieut. U. A. Bast of the
Forty-eighth Regiment.

In 1862 the Ninety sixth Regiment presented to their Lieut.
Col., Jacob Gr. Frick, a beautifully ornamented sword, bearing the
following inscription :

Tresented to

LIEUT.-COLONEL J. G FRICK,

96^/i Regiment, F. V., by his friends in the Regiment, for his gallant conduct

at Gaines^ Jlill, June 2oth, and his efficiency as an officer. — July, 1862.

Subsequently while commanding the r29th Regiment, Col. Frick
was presented with a sword valued at $400. The scabbard bore
the folloTving inscription :

TO COLONEL JACOB G. FRICK,

129<A Pa. Yols. as a Testimonial of the high esteem in luhich his many

virtues as a Commander and Citizen, are held by the officers of

his command. Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 25, 1862.

Camp near Falmouth, Va.

The citizens of Pottsville presented a fine sabre to Col. Geo. C.
Wynkoop while he was in command of the Seventh Pennsylvania
Cavalry.

In 1863 the Ninety-sixth Regiment presented to their Colonel,
Henry L. Cake, a very valuable sword, bearing the following in-
scription :

Fresented to

COLONEL HENRY L. CAKE,

By the offiicers and soldiers of the dOth Reg., F. V., as token of respect for

their commanding officer, and a testimonial of admiration for his gallantry

on the battle-fields of West Foint, May 1th, Gaines' Hill, June 27,

and Charles City Cross Roads, June SOth ; and also for his

universal kindness and care of his Regiment, in providing

for them on all occasions, tvhether in the field, or

on the march.

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February 7, 186B, in Port Carbon, a sword was presented to

Col. J. K. Sigfried of the 48tli Regiment. The scabbard bore

the following inscription :

Presented to
COLONEL J. K. SIGFRIED,

48^/t Regiment, P. F., by his friends of Port Carbon, for gallantri/
and efficiency as an officer in the battles of Bull Run,
Chantilly, South ^fountain, Antietam
and Fredericksburg. '

In 1863, tbe officers and members of Company B, Forty-eigbtb
Kegiment, presented a sword to Major James Wren. On it were
inscribed :

Bull Ran, Aug. 29th, 18G2, Chantilly, Sejjf. 1st, 1862, South

Mountain, Sejjt. 14, 1862, Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.

and Fredericksburg, Bee. 13, 1862.

In 1862, Capt. Frank Poit received a sword bearing the follow-
ing inscription :

Presented to
CAPTAIN FRANK POTT,

by the Members of Co. B, Qth Penna. State 3Iilitia, as a token of their esteem
for his kindness and courtesy. Pottsville, Pa., 1862.

In 1863, the Ninety-sixth Regiment presented to Lieut.-Col.

Lessig a sword inscribed j

Presented to
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL W. H. LESSIG,
By the Enlisted Men of the 9Q>th Reg., Fa. Vols., Sept. 23c?, 1863.
West Point, May 7, 1862, Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862, Cramp-
ton's Pass, Sept. 14, 1862, Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, Ist
Fredericksburg, Bee. 13, 1862, 2d Fredericksburg.
May 2d, Sd and ith, 1863, Gettysburg, July
2cl, Sd and ith, 1863.

In 1862, Capt. Charles Blacker was the recipient of a sword
from the citizens of St. Clair.

In 1864 the members of Co. I, 48th Regiment, presented a
sword to their Captain, F. D. Koch, inscribed as follows :

Presented to

CAPTAIN F. D. KOCH,

By the Members of Co. I, 48th Regt., Penu. Vet. Vol., Dec. 13, 1864.

Swords were also presented to Col. John E. Wynkoop, Major
Joseph Gilmour, Capt. 0. D. Jenkins, and other gallant officers.

Contributions, Incidents, &c. 493

While at Hatteras Inlet, Company D, 48tli Reg., presented a
sword to Major Daniel Nagle. It was inscribed :

Presaited to

MAJOR DANIEL NAGLE,

By the members of Co. D, 4S(h Regiment, Pcnn. Vols., Hatteras

Inlet, N. C, December 25, 1861, as a mark of their

esteem for their former Commander.

When in consequence of ill health, Captain Philip Nagle, of
Co. G, 48th Reg., P. V., resigned in 1862, the members of his
company presented at Newberne, N. C, June 9, their portraits,
numbering ninety-one, to him, handsomely framed.

In Newberne, N. C, in May, 1862, the members of Company

I, 48th Reg., presented a sword which cost $130, to Captain John

II. Porter.

In 1864 a beautiful watch was presented to Sergeant, afterwards
Lieutenant Charles E. Beck, of the Fifteenth (Anderson) Caval-
ry. The case bore the following inscription :

Oiie of the Noble Three Hundred.
SERGEANT CHARLES E. BECK.

From his Friends of Pottsville, Fa. Presented April 1st, 1864.

When the Forty-eight Regiment was home on furlough in 1864,
the members of Company H presented a tenor drum to their drum-
mer boy, who had been with them in all the engagements in which
the Regiment had participated. It cost 845. A small silver
shield on the drum bore the following inscription :

Presented to

ANDREW J. SNYDER,

By the members of Co. H, 48/A Regt., P. V. V., as a token of

esteem^ February, 1864. Bull Run, Chantilly, South

Mountain, Fredericksburg and *East

Tennessee.

The Union League of Pottsville presented to Alfred Bowen,
the first drummer boy from the North to enter the National Capi-
tol in the war, a drum.

In 1863 the ladies of Pottsville presented through the medium
of a committee, a flag to the Ninety-sixth Regiment. It was
made of the richest silk, and contained on one side the State arms
of Pennsylvania, surrounded by the following inscription ;

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Presented to the

9GTH REGIMENT, PA. VOL.,

By the Ladies of I'ottsvillr, Schuylkill County, Pa. ;

tof^ether with the names of the battles in which the regiment had

been engaged. The reverse contained the United States coat of

arms, and also the names of

ChicJcahominy , Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, Second Bull
Bun, Crawj)tons Pass, Antictam and Frederickshury.

The Committee went to '^the front" to make the presentation,

and on its return submitted the following report :

To the Misses Clara E. Lessiy, Malilda P. Basset and Maygie Boyle, repre-
sentiny the ladies of Pottsville tvlio presented a stand of colors to the
9Qth Beyiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers:

Ladies : — The uudersignecl, committee appoiutctl by you to carry to
the field and present a flag, ou your bcbaU", to the 06th Regt. P, V., left
Pottsville for this purpose on the 8th of June last, and proceeded via
Washington City (where the necessary pass and order for transportation
■were procured) to Falmouth Station, near the Rappahannock ; and
thence on the 10th to the pontoon bridges below and near Fredericks-
burg, Va. There, upon inquiry, we learned the 9(5th were, where they
iiave mostly been found, '-in the front" — having crossed the river the
night before, to the line of our entrenchments on the Rebel side. Being
refused permission to join them there, we were obliged to return to Fal-
mouth, having sent word of our arrival to Maj. Lessig, commanding the
Regiment, through Capt. Edward C. Baird (whom we accidentally and
vei"y fortunately met on the field.)

The next morning, 11th, we were waited upon at the station, by an
escort from the Regiment, who conducted us to their camp on this side
of the river, to which they had returned the night previous.

How cordially we were welcomed by the whole Regiment, officers and
men, and how generously entertained, we cannot pretend to describe.
Nor can we risk invidious distinctions by naming individuals, when all
were so uniformly ready and anxious to do us service. It must suffice
to say that every attention was shown us, and apparently no effort spared
to i-ender our stay both instructive and pleasant, and in our varied and
novel sight-seeing, the fact that we were all the while in the very face
of the enemy and within easy range oi his guns, did not tend, you may
be sure, to dull our perceptive 'faculties, or lessen our appreciation of
the exposures of a sol(?ier's life.

At 3 o'clock, P. M., the Regiment was called out and formed in a hol-
low square to receive the flag ; and upon its being unfurled for the first
in their presence — the pleasant breeze lifting gracefully its silken folds,
and its handsome lettering and ornamentation sparkling in the sun-
shine— then went up such a shout of admiration and grateful welcome
from the ranks, as made the Rcb-^l hills around ring again — it was
Schuylkill reflected on the Rappahannock!

In the presentation remarks that followed, the speaker endeavored to
convey a sense of the high estimation in which the gallant men before
him were held by you, of your appreciation of their services to the
whole country, and of the general pride and interest felt at home on
their behalf, to which Gen. Bartlett, in command of the Brigade, re-

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plied for the Regiment, in most eloquent terms, indicative of the scholar
and statesman, as he had already proven himself the soldier — expres-
sing the warmest thanks for your magnificent present, and guarantee-
ing that the honor of the flag was committed to trustworthy hands. — It
was with special gratification *we noted liis marked commendation of the
spirit and courage and general conduct of the OGth, upon all occasions,
during their long connection with his command.

During the night following, orders were received for the PvCgiment to
move, and by dnylight next morning the camp was broken up, and your
committee were left alone on Ihe field, to make our way back to the rail-
road station and thence home, with many messages of love and gratitude,
and to render you a report of our mission.

Yours, very respectfully,

.John Clayton,

Pottsville, June 15, 1863. C. Little.

Subsequently the flag was returned to Pottsville, accompanied
by the following letter (Vom Dr. Bland :

Camp or the OGth Regiment, P. Y., "|
February, 22d, 1864. /

To Messrs. Christoplier Little and John Clayton, Committee on Presentation,

on behalf of ihe ladies of Pottsville.
Gentlemen : —

At the urgent solicitation of the officers of the Regiment, I have been
deputed to transmit to you by the hands of Lieut. A. S. Fasig, and
through you to the ladies of Pottsville, tlie battle-flag of the Pvegiment.

The occasion of the jDresentation is still verdant in our memory. Upon
Stafford Heights, in the presence of the enemy, and within range of
their shot and shell, we received this national emblem and regimental
history. Since then it has waved upon the hard fought and victorious
fields of Gettysburg, Funktown, Williarasport, Rappahannock Station
and Mine Run.

I need hardly say, the officers and men part with this souvenir re-
luctantl}'. I can present no prouder record than the fact of its azure
field always unfurled before the enemy, and it has yet to trail in the
dust or retreat from the foe.

In connexion with the battle-flag, we send the original national colors
jjresente^l by Gov. A. G. Curtin, previous to the departure of the Regi-
ment for the field. This flag contains its own history. It has waved
upon all the battle-fields of the army of the Potomac, from May 7th,
1862, up to the present time. AVe confide this flag to your safe-keeping.

The anniversary of the birth-day of Washington, is an appropriate
opporti;nity for perfecting this arrangement.

With the brilliant prospect before us, the renewed energy and patri-
otism of the North, we are ever hopeful for a speedy and successful ter-
mination of this unholy war.

Before closing, I nxay be permitted to offer the following reasons for
returning the flag. The estimate in which we liold this magnificent pre-
sent is beyond expression ; but, by reason of exposure to the weather,
the storm of battle, and use upon various occasions, we fear its entire
destruction. The massiV^e fringe has already been torn from the silk,
the splendid paintings and the historic scroll are separating from the
blue field. We cannot but feel, from the value of its association, that

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it should be placed in safe keeping. It is our desire that the ladies be-
come the temporary custodians of these battle tattered banners, to be
retained until such time as they may be called for.
I am, very respectfully,

Your obedient»servant,

D. Y/ebster Bland,

Surgeon, 96th, P. V.
(For the Officers.)

In 1863 the ladies of Port Clinton presented a flag to Company
A, Forty-eighth Regiment.

In 1864 the citizens of Schuylkill Haven presented a flag to
Co. C, Fiftieth Kegiment.

In 1865 the ladies of Pottsville presented a flag to the Fifth
United States Cavalry. It bore the names of forty-one engage-
ments in which the Regiment had participated.

In 1862 Mr. Benjamin Pott of Pottsville gave $300 to Co. B,
129th Reg., it having been the first company of nine months'
men from Schuylkill County, mustered into service.

While the Forty-eight Regiment was stationed at Lexington,
Ky., in 1863, Gen. James Nagle and Major James Wren resigned.
The events were thus noticed at the time by the Lexington, Ky.,

Loyalist :

General James Nagle, who, ever since its formation — now more than a
year— has commanded the 1st Brigade of the lid Division, 0th Army
Corps, and has led it through all its battles, has resigned on account of
ill health. The General was beloved by all his command, possessed the
confidence and esteem of his superior officers, and more than once re-
ceived proof of his acknowledged ability from Gen. Burnside himself. —
He was the embodiment of a true soldier, a strict disciplinarian ; he
was humane and kind as a father, or dear friend, approachable at all
times by even the lowest; he was brave, prudent, honest and good, and
his form, countenance and bearing inspired the beholder with the belief
that he was born to command. In the closing of his military career
our country loses one of her bravest, most honest, patriotic and faithful
officers.

Major James Wren, of the 48th Penn'a. Vols., has also resigned and
gone home. The Major commanded one of the first companies that
reached Washington City at the outbreak of the war, and has been doing
honorable service ever since. He was deservedly popular with the regi-
ment, and the boys would have done anything for the Major. On Sun-
day evening last, at dress parade, he took a formal leave of his old com-
panions. After making a few most atrecting remarks, he began on the
rio-ht of the regiment,"and taking every man by the hand, bade him
good-bye. His feelings bore him out until he came to his old company,
(B,) when he burst into tears. He was now to part with men whom
he had trained and taught to be soldiers, Avatched over, and led in battle.
The images of many of their dead companions ftuist have come to his
mind at this moment, and with them the thought that he might never
again see many of the brave fellows now before him. This parting was

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like the disruption of a family— one of the most affecting scenes in life —
and there were few dry eyes present, even the spectators giving way to
the infection. Early on Monday morning the Regiment, without arms,
escorted the Major to the depot on his way home. They deeply regret
his leaving them, and can never forget him.

Mr. Daniel Christian, of Pottsville, who was himself a soldier
in the war of 1812, for a period of three months, had seven sons
in the service, during the Rebellion, as follows :

Charles Christian was in the Sixth Regiment, P. V., three
months service, in Capt. Tower's company. Before the war he
was three years and four months on board the United States ship
Independence as a sailor.

Daniel Christian, Jr., was in the three months' service. En-
listed February, 1862, in the 67th Regt., P. V-, in Capt. John C.
Carpenter's company, and became a re-enlisted veteran volunteer
for three years or the war.

Benjamin Christian was also in the three months' service, and
became a re-enlisted veteran in the same regiment and company in
which Daniel served.

John Christian, the same.

George W. Christian enlisted August, 1861, for three years in
Capt. Hinkle's company, 48th Regt. Became a re-enlisted vet-
eran volunteer.

William A. Christian was, with the men furnished by the draft
of 1862, a 1st Lieutenant in the 173d Regiment.

Henry F. Christian enlisted in February, 1864, for three years
in Capt. Hinkle's company, 48th Regiment.

In 1864, Miss Sarah, daughter of James Silliman, Esq., of
Pottsville, completed a table composed of pine and spruce burrs,
acorns, etc., which she presented to the Central Fair.

While the 48th Regiment was in Lexington, its Colonel, J. K.
Sigfried, who was Post Commandant, was presented with a pair
of silver spurs by the Union citizens of that place. The Regi-
ment was highly esteemed by the citizens of Lexington for the
gentlemanly conduct of the members and for their sterling worth
as soldiers.

The benevolent Orders in the County during the Rebellion

maintained a firmly loyal stand. Many of their members entered

the service, some of whom laid down their lives in the struccle
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for liberty. We might instance the following, whicli was the first
action taken immediately after the commencement of hostilities :

PULASKI LODGE, No. 21G, A. Y. M.

POTTSVILLE, Sch'kILL Co., Pa-

Stated Comm.unication, — 22d April, A. L. 586L

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted :

Whereas, the so-called Confederate States of America have insulted
Ihe Flag of our Country, and have brought civil war upon our people ;
and Whereas, certain members of this Lodge have responded to the call
of the President of the United States, and have joined the army for the
national defence —

Resolved, That we, the members of this Lodge, hereby "mutually
pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred lionor," for
the stipport of our Country, its Constitution, and its Laws.

Resolved, That in bidding our brethren a hearty farewell, we commit
them to the care of our Almighty INIaster, in a prayer for their support
and protection in their trials and danger, ant) for their happy return
from their present Zt76or, and we commend to them the bright Masonic
and Patriotic example of our Brother Washington.

Resolved, That all members of this Lodge, now absent in, or who may
hereafter enter, the military service of the United States, shall be exempt
from the payment of dues while in said service.

Resolved, That during the* continuance of the present war, the follow-
ing prayer be used in addition to the prayers heretofore prescribed for
the services of the Lodge :

0 Thou Most High, who docst according to Thy will, in the army of
Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth — when Thou givest
quietness, who then'can make trouble ? In this time of rebellion, hide
not Thy face from us : for, in Thee do we hope, and Thy presence is sal-
vation. Give strength and wisdom pienteously, we pray Thee, to all in
authority over us ; and preserve the imperilled life of the nation, that
it may continue a blessing to all time.

0 God, Thou art our King ! Command deliverance for our people,
that they be not seduced and ensnared ; and do Thou restore to the dis-
affected a right mind. Go forth with our armies, that they may do va-
liantly, and push down all enemies of the government which thou hast
ordained : through Tliy name may our armies tread them under that rise
up against us.

Supreme Master, we implore Thy gracious and providential protection
of all worthy Brethren amid the dangers of the war ; in battle may they
be as in the hollow of Thy hand. To the absent members of tliis Lodge,
now engaged in the service of the country, grant, we beseech Thee, good
health, and complete success in their righteous undertaking, with a
speedy and safe return.

And we will praise Thee, who art the health of our countenance, and
our God. Amen.

Resolved, That Brother Secretary be instructed to forward a copy of
the above to each member of the Lodge now absent in the country's

service.

(Extract from the minutes.)

Christophbr Little, Secretary.

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The same Lodge at a stated communication held in April, 1865,
adopted the following :

Whereas, it has been officially announced by the Secretai'y of War,
^liat the City of Richmond, the Capital of tlie so-called Confederate
States of America, was captured by the army of the United States, on
the od inst., and that the rebel army of Northern Virginia under Gen.
Lee, was on yesterday surrendered to the national forces under Lieut.-
General Grant :

Resolved, That, this Lodge offer to the Sovereign Master of the world,
its humble and hearty thanks for these late victories, and its sincere* and
fervent prayer for the speedy and permanent establishMent ©f national
unity and peace.

ADDENDUM.

The following names of volunteers we obtained after the pre-
ceding pages had been put to press :

Adjutant Thomas Nichols, 9th Pa. Cavalry.

W. Thomas Price, Co. C, 47th Pa. Regiment.

Andrew Brown, 73d Pa. Regiment.

John Butterwick, 124th Illinois Regiment.

Edward Brecken, '^ ^^ *■'

William M. Steele, "■ " «' died at Vicksburg, Aug. 7, 1863.

Henry Metz, drum-major, 15th Iowa Regiment.

Thomas Long, represeatative recruit for Edward S. Silliman, Mahanoy
Township.

Thos. Brennan, representative recruit for David P. Brown, Pottsviik.

Henry S. Rudy, Reading City Troop.

James Wagner, 4th Delaware Regiment ; died at Magnolia, Delaware,
July 1, 1865.

Captain Herman Krauth, lOBd New York Yolunteere, Chief Com-
missary of Musters, on General Hartruflf's staff, died at Petersburg, Va.,
July 7, 1865.

The following soldiers from Schuylkill County, died in prisoa
at Anderson ville, Ga. :

J. Brenny, Co. E, 48th Regiment, died July 8, 1864.

J. Fetterman, Co. H, " died Sept. 8, "

E. Gallagher, Co. E, '< died Aug-. 22, '^

H. Hilm. Co. C, 50th *f died June 25, ''

Jas. Tobin, Co. E, 55th *' died Oct. 11, '<

J. McRath, Co. C, 48th '' died July 8, "

Mathias Muldowney, Co. K, 96th Regiment, died August 6. 1864.

J. Mose, Co. A, 48th Regt., died Oct. 4, 18G4.

D. Root, Co. B, 48th Regt., died Sept. 14, 1864.

H. Strong, Co. E, 55th Regt., died October 4, 1864.

S. Winsinger, Co. E, 96th Regt., died July 6, 1864.

Between February 26, 1864, and March 24, 1865, 12,884 Union
soldiers died in prison at AndersonviJle, victims of rebel cruelty
and neglect.

500 Addendum. *

Among those from this County killed in battle during the war,
were John Ward and Owen Brennan, Co. F, 7th Penn. Cavalry.
They fell at the Battle of Chickamauga.

John M. Rich, oi' Pottsville. and John Eckel, Jr.. of Tremont,
who were in the South when the war commenced, were marked as
Union men ; were imprisoned after repeated efforts to escape North,
and'Suffered indescribable barbarities at the bands of the rebels.
Mr. Rich was imprisoned many months in a dungeon under
ground at Salisbury, N. C. He was finally released, and entered
the 7th Penna. Cavalry, where he was known as an excellent
soldier.

The Forty-eighth Regiment was mustered out of the service,
and reached Schuylkill County on the 20th of July, 1865. The
men met a warm reception at the hands of the citizens.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

FROMIISTETSTT OFFICERS.

GENERAL JAMES NAGLE.

General Nagle was born in Reading, Pa., on the 5tli of April, 1822.
Even when a youth his tastes were military. In 1842 he organized in
Pottsville, were he resided, the Washington Artillery Company. When
war was declared against Mexico, he, among the first, tendered the ser-
vices of his Company. They were accepted. The Company left Potts-
ville, December 5, 1846, for Pittsburg, Pa., and was mustered into the
United States service as Company B, 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, The
Regiment was among the first troops to land at Vera Cruz. The Com-
pany was one of the four that first approached the city within a few
hundred yards under cover of darkness, to clear away the chapparel to
enable a naval battery to be planted. Gen. Nagle was engaged during
the entire siege, and rendered efficient service. At the Battle of Cerro
Gordo he acted as Major with his Regiment, with distinguished ability.
He advanced with the Regiment to Perote Castle, where he was stationed
with three other companies under command of the Colonel to keep com-
munication between Vera Cruz and Puebla open, while the army under
Gen. Scott, was advancing. June 20, 1847, he and his company were
engaged at Lahoya in assisting Gen. Cadwallader through the Pass with
reinforcements and large trains of stores and money. The Pass was
strongly fortified by guerillas, but they were routed. October 9, 1847.
he and his company were engaged at Iluamantla ; on the 12th at Puebla
and on the 19th at Atlixco. In each engagement the enemy was routed
with heavy loss. Subsequently he advanced with his Regiment to the
City of Mexico ; remained there several weeks, and was finally stationed
at San Angel until the close of the war. The company was mustered
out of the service at Philadelphia, July 27, 1848, and reached Pottsville
on the 28th, where it experienced an enthusiastic reception.

At a meeting of the citizens of Pottsville, the following amono- otlier
resolutions, was adopted :

Resolved, That wMIe we rejoice in the glorious termination of the late struo-^le with
Mexico, we acknowledge the brave and gallant conduct of the officers and men comnos'
ing the volunteers from SchuylkiU County, under the command of Capt Jame^ -K-iUl'
who answered to the call of duty, regardless of the privations and sufferino-s incident la
a long campaign m an enemys countrj', thousands of miles from their homes.

Soon after his return he was presented Avith a handsome sword by the
citizens of Schuylkill County, for his gallant services in Mexico In
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«ie Autumn of 1852 he -was elected Sheriff of the County, and subse-
quently to Brig.ade Inspector and Colonel. He kept up the organization
of the Washington Artillerists, until the commencement of the Rebellion
in 1861, when his Company under command of Capt. James "Wren, waa
one of the first five companies to reach Washington for its defence.

Captain Nagle -was commissioned Colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania
Regiment by Gov. Curtin, for three months. His Regiment served in
the Brigade of Col. Geo. H. Thomas, Gen. Patterson's Department. Col.
Nagle vyas engaged with his Regiment in the skirmish at Falling Waters.
He crossed the Potomac four times, and advanced beyond Martinsburg
and Charlestown, Va. At the termination of his term of service Col.
TSao-le -was highly complimented by Gen. Patterson, and received a com-
;plimentary order (No. 10,) from his Brigade Commander, Col. Thomas.

In a fortnight after his return from the three months' service, Col.
Nao-le organized the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment for "three years or the
■war." He was commissioned Colonel of it by Gov. Curtin. He was
ordered to Fortress Monroe, and shortly after his arrival there, was sent
by Gen. Wool to Hatteras Island, after Gen. Williams had been relieved.
He was in command of the post four months. After the capture of
Roanoke Island, he, with a portion of his Regiment, accompanied Gen.
Burnside's fleet, and was present at the capture of Newborn, N. C. Im-
mediately after the battle of Newbern, he was assigned by Major-General
Jesse L. Reno to the command of the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 9th Army
Corps. The Corps soon joined Gen. Pope. Gen. Nagle was engaged
with his Brigade in the Second Battle of Bull Run. In an assault upon
the enemy, made in dense woods, where it was impossible to remain
mounted, he led his Brigade on foot. His horse was captured after re-
ceiving eight wounds.

Soon after the battle Gen. Reno recommended him to the President for

promotion to Brigadier-General. Gen. Reno's letter was as follows :

Heap-Quarters, 9th Army Corps, )
Near Wasuikgton, Sept. 7, 1SC2./

To His Excellency, the President of the United States.

Sir --I have the honor to recommend Col. James Nagle, 4Sth Reg. Pa Vols., for pro-
motion as Britjadier-Geueral. Col. Nasle has served with me with fidelity and ability
as commandc?of a Brigade, since the Battle of Newbern, and m the recent battles con-
ducted himself with frallantry, and led his command with judgment and discretion.
1 have the honor to be

Very Respectfully, Your obd't servant,
[Signed] J- L; RENO,

° Major-General com'dg.

The appointment was made. Gen. Nagle was subsequently in the
battles of Chantilly, South Mountain and Antietam, where his Brigade
did good service. During the last named engagement Gen. Nagle's Bri-
gade was the first to advance upon the enemy at the bridge over the
Antietam, and, when it had expended all its ammunition, the 2d Brigade
of the same Division relieved it. Several more rounds were fired, when

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the enemy began to waver, and the bridge was stormed and carried by
the 2d Division, commanded by Gen. Sturgcss. The loss was heavy, but
the gallant assault saved the day, as appears from the following order :

Head-Qt7arters, 2d Div.. 9th A. C, >

Antietam, Sept. 20, 1862. j"
General Order, No. 11.

The General commandiDg the Division, avails himsclfof this lull in the roar of battle,
to return his thanks to the officers and troops, for their handsome behavior in the bat-
tles of South Monntam and Antietam Bridge, and to say to them that he has been assured
by Gen. Burnside ihat Gen. McClellan considers the carrying of the bridge as having
saved the day. • * * » * * " ^ * « *

[Signed] S. D. STURGESS,

Brig. Gen., com'dg.

An officer wrote from the battle-field that Nagle's and Ferrero's Bri-
gades of Sturgess' Division, occupied the ground and held the crest of
the hill all that night, and drove the enemy from the field.

At Amissville in a skirmish. Gen. Nagle with his Brigade, drove the
rebels finely. They were also engaged in the First Battle of Fredericks-
burg. The Brigade fought bravely under its gallant commander, and
sustained a heavy loss.

Subsequently the Ninth Corps was detached from the Army of the
Potomac, and sent to Newport News to recruit. They remained there
for several weeks, and were then sent to Lexington, Ky., where Gen.
Nagle was in command of the post for a short time. lie was then or-
dered to advance with his Brigade to Winchester to watch the movements
of the enemy. From there he went to Richmond, Ky., Paint Lich and
Lancaster, where in May, 18G3, Gen. Nagle resigned on account of se-
vere suffering from angina pectoris — a painful disease of the hear!.

Upon tendering his resignation, Gen. Nagle received from Gen. Stur-
gess the following expression of regret :

Head-Quarters, 2i> Div., 9tii Army Corps.
Dear General :

I cunnot better express the pain \t gave me to forward yonr resignation, than By giv-
ing you a copy of my endorsement upon it, viz : "Resi:)ectfully forwarded and approved.
But I must express my deep regret at the necessity for thus forwardinfr it. By his in-
telligence, energy, zeal and courage, and quiet, unassuming deportment, withal, Gen.
Nagle has endeared himself to this command, and will carry with him the love and re-
spect not only of those gallant troops he has led so often to victory, but of all who have
had the good fortune to know him."

[Signed] S. D. STURGESS,

Brig. Gen., com'dg.

Gen. Nagle issued a farewell address to his troops, and amid their re-
grets and with their earnest wishes for the speedy recovery of his health
returned home.

After having been at home about a month, rest and absence from the
excitement and exposure of the field, had a beneficial effect. His health
became better, and when Gen. Lee commenced his invasion of Pennsyl-
vania in June, 1863, Gen. Nagle organized the 39th Begt., Pa. Militia
for "the emergency," and was commissioned Colonel by Gov. Curtin.
He was mustered into the service on the 4th of July, 1863, and proceed-
ed to the front at once. On his arrival there, Gen. Couch immediately

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assigned him to tlie command of a Brigade, composed of six regiments
and one battery, numbering some forty-eight hundred men. He "was
mustered out of the service, August 2, 1863.

When in 18G4, a call was made for the Hundred Days' Service, Gen.
Nagle vrith characteristic promptness and energy, organized the 194th
Penna. Regiment, of which he was commissioned Colonel by Gov, Cur-
tin, July 21, 1804. He was ordered to Baltimore. On his arrival Gen.
Wallace directed him to report to Gen. Lockwood, commander of the
3d separate Brigade, who assigned Gen. Nagle to the command of all
the troops at Mankins' Woods — about 8000 men. He guarded some of
the approaches to the city until the expiration of his term of service,
when he was relieved and returned with his Regiment to Harrisburg,
and was mustered out, Nov. 5, 18G4.

General Nagle's services in the Rebellion will ever be remembered
with gratitude by not only the people of Schuylkill County, but by the
nation at large, who owe the preservation of their liberties to the self-
sacrificing devotion of men like him.

GENERAL GEORGE C. WYNKOOP.

He was commissioned Brigadier'General by Governor Curtin, April
10, 1861. On the 20th the 1st, 2d and 3d Regiments, Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers, were placed under his command, and he received orders to
march to Cockeysville, IMd. On the morning of the 21st, at 1 o'clock,
the command left Harrisburg by railroad ; arrived at Cockeysville at
10 o'clock, and went into camp. The same day Gen, Wynkoop received
orders from Gen. Scott to march his command back to Pennsylvania.
On the afternoon of the 22d, at 4 o'clock, he arrived at York, and went
into camp. On the 19th of July, Gen. Wynkoop received orders from
Gen. Patterson at Charlestown, Ya., to march his command to Harris-
burg, and have it mustered out. The General was mustered out, August
1, 1861.

On the 21st of August, 1861, he commenced to raise the Seventh Penn-
sylvania Cavalry, and on the 18th of November received a commission
as Colonel — term of service, three years. On the 18th Of December he
left with his Regiment for Louisville, Ky., and arrived there on the 25th.
Left Louisville January 26, 1862, for Bardstown, Ky. Left Bardstown
Feb. 27th, for Mumfordsville, and arrived there March 4th. Left March
llth for Nashville, Tenn., and arrived thereon the 18th. Left Nash-
ville, May 3, for Murfreesboro, by the way of Lebanon. Col. Wynkoop
and his command reached Lebanon, May 5th, at 4, A. M., and attacked
John Morgan and his command. The Seventh gallantly drove the rebels
from the town to Carthage, a distance of twenty miles, where what was

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left of Morgan's band escaped by crossing the river in a boat. In this
spirited encounter Col. Wynkoop captured 1^7 prisoners and 192 horses.
On the 4th of August the Colonel had a skirmish with a large body of
Forrest's cavalry at Sparta. After fighting half an hour the Colonel
withdrew his men, and returned to join Gen. Nelson's command, ten
miles in his rear. Col. Wynkoop had but 163 men with him. Forrest
was 700 strong. On the 17th of August, with three companies of the
Seventh, he left McMinville for Liberty, to join Gen. Johnson. John-
son's force consisted of the 2d Indiana, 5th Kentucky, two companies
of the 4th Kentucky, and three companies of the 7th Pennsylvania Ca-
valry, making a total of 900 men. On the 21st of August Gen. Johnson
attacked Morgan at Gallatin, and after a fight surrendered. Col. Wyn-
koop, however, determined that he would not surrender, and brought oflF
732 men and horses. lie returned to Nashville where he arrived at 1,
A. M., on the 22d.

In consequence of physical disability. Col. Wynkoop was mustered
out of service on the 26th of July, 18G3, having served over two years
with fidelity and honor.

GENERAL BENJAMIN C. CHRIST.

General Christ entered the three month's service as private of Com-
pany E, Capt. Wm. Homer, 5th Penna. Regiment, April 20, 1861: He
was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of that Regiment, on the 22d, and
was mustered out of service July 24, 1861. Upon the return of Colonel
Christ he re-entered for three years, and was commissioned Colonel of
the 60th Pennsylvania Regiment, July 27th. In July, 1862, he was or-
dered to take command of a Brigade, and from that date commanded
Brigades and Divisions, until mustered out of the service, October 4th,
1864. Col. Christ was recommended for promotion by Major-General
Burnside, immediately after the Maryland campaign, in September,
1862, which recommendation was favorably endorsed by Gen. McClellan
and forwarded to the President. He was brevetted Brigadier-General.
August 1, 1864, for meritorious services on Nye River and before Peters-
burg. Gen. Christ made one campaign in South Carolina, one in Mary-
land, four in Virginia, one in Kentucky, one in Mississippi, and one in
East Tennessee. He was at the taking of Port Royal ; at the Battle of
the Coosaw, and at the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina ; at Sul-
phur Springs, Second Bull Run, Centreville, Chantilly, Frekericksburg,
and in all the battles of Grant's campaign of 1864, in Virginia, from the
Wilderness until our forces entrenched before Petersburg. He was at
South Mountain and Antietam in Maryland; at the siege and fall of
Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi, and at Blue Springs, Hough's Fer-

506 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

Tj, Lenoir Station, Campbell Station, and at the siege of Knoxville, East
Tennessee. During his t>erm of service General Christ was wounded
three times — slightly at the battles of the Coosaw and Antietam, and
geverely before Petersburg.

General Christ was a brave officer, and the responsible commands en-
trusted to him prove that he had the entire confidence of his superior
officers. We regret that for want of the necessary data we are unable
to enter more fully into the details of his eventful military career. It
was fraught with peril and hardships, and a'&orned by a heroism wor-
thy of the sacred cause in which he drew his sword.

GENERAL JOSHUA K. SIGFRIED.

General Sigfried entered the service in April, 1861, as Captain in the
6th Penna. Regiment, Col. James Nagle, for a period of three months,
at the expiration of which he was mustered out at Harrisburg, After
his return home he assisted to organize the 48th Penna. Regiment, of
which he was commissioned Major, and mustered into the service on the
1st of October, 1861, He moved with the Regiment to Hatteras on the
11th of November, 1861. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel by elec-
tion, on the 30th of that month. He was ordered to the command of
Camp Winfield, Hatteras, on the 9th of December. He moved with the
Regiment to Newborn, N. C, on tho 11th of March, 1862. In April,
1862, he took command of the Regiment, Col. Nagle having been de-
tached to command the 1st Brigade, 2d Division of what was afterwards
the 9th Corps. The Regiment left Newbern on the 6th of July, and
reached Newport News on the 9th, Colonel Sigfried spent the month
here in placing his Pwegiment in an effective condition. He left with his
Regiment for Fredericksburg, to join Gen. Pope, on the 2d of August. —
The Regiment left Fredericksburg on the 12th ; marched to Culpepper,
and joined Gen. Pope on the 14th. It was immediately thrown forward
to Cedar Mountain, and performed picket duty when Gen. Pope's retreat
commenced. The Regiment moved from there on the retreat, on the
18th. It moved towards and occupied Kelly's Ford on the Rappahan-
nock. Lieut. -Colonel Sigfried, with a portion of his Regiment, recros-
sed the river, in support of Buford's Cavalry, who were engaged in a
sharp skirmish with the enemy. The Regiment remained at Kelly's
Ford until the 22d, when it moved up the River. The Regiment under
command of Lieut. -Colonel Sigfried was in the Second Battle of Bull
Run, Aug. 29 and 30, 1862. It fought gallantly and lost heavily. Sept.
1st he manoeuvred the Regiment skillfully at the Battle of Chantilly. —
He commanded the Regiment through the Maryland campaign of 1862,
participating in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. After the

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last engagement he was promoted Colonel, to date from the 10th of Sep-
tember, 1862. He commanded the Regiment at the Battle of Fredericks-
burg, Dec. 13, 18G2. After the battle he was complimented by Generals
Sturgess, Ferrero and Nagle for the manner in which he took the Regi-
ment into, and for the ability with which he handled it, while in action.
March 25, 18G3, Col. Sigfried left Newport News with his Regiment, for
the West. Reached Lexington, Ky., April 1st, where the Regiment re-
mained on provost duty until September 10, 18G3. During that time
Col. Sigfried was provost marshal of the city, and military command-
ant. He left Lexington on the 10th of September, as Colonel command-
ing the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 9th Army Corps, on the march to East
Tennessee, to join Burnside's forces at Knoxville. The distance — two
hundred and twenty miles — was marched in eighteen days, without fa-
tigue or straggling, in consequence of an admirable plan adopted by
Col. Sigfried upon starting. Arrived at Knoxville, Sept. 28th. Were
ordered to and reached Bull's Gap, Oct. 4th. From there marched to
Lich Creek and Blue Springs. Col. Sigfi^ied commanded the Brigade in
the Battle of Blue Springs, fought Oct. 10th. Returned to Knoxville,
Oct. loth, shortly after which he was ordered to take command of the
2d Division, 9th Corps. On the 22d, with liis Division, Col. Sigfried
moved to Louden ; then to Lenoir, where it remained until the 14th,
when the Division returned to Louden, and covered the retreat of the
Army on the 15th from Lenoir to Campbell's Station. At this point Col.
Sigfried resumed command of the 1st Brigade, Col. Hartranft taking
command of the Division. At the Battle of Campbell's Station, fought
on the ItJth, Col. Sigfried's Brigade opened the engagement, and partici-
pated in it all day, retreating at night to Knoxville, reaching that place
on the following morning. At this time the siege of Knoxville by the
Rebel General Longstreet, commenced. The key of the defences was
held by the Ninth Corps — a very important point in the line of works
being held by the Brigade of Col. Sigfried. The siege was raised on the
6th of December, the rebels retreating towards Virginia, and our forces
following. January 3, 1804, the 48th Regiment having re-enlisted for
three years, left its camp near Blaines' Cross Roads, Tenn., for home on
veteran leave, for re- organization. Arrived at Pottsville, Febi 3. Hav-
ing recruited its ranks to the maximum number, the Regiment left Potts-
ville March 14, 1804, under command of Col. Sigfried, for Annapolis,
where it was ordered to rendezvous. Left Annapolis to co-operate with
Gen. Grant in his great Virginia campaign, April 23, 1804. On the 4th
of May Col. Sigfried was appointed to command the 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, (colored) Ninth Army Corps, the duty of which was to guard
the immense trains necessary to facilitate Grant's operations. That duty
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front of Petersburg, Col. Sigfried's Brigade was assigned to other im-
portant duty. At the explosion of the mine at Petersburg, Col. Sigfried,
with his Brigade, participated in the charge on the enemy's works. Sub-
sequently he was brevetted Brigadier-General by President Lincoln, for
gallantry in this action. He continued in command of the Brigade, un-
til mustered out of service, Oct. 2, 1864, by reason of expiration of term
of service.

During his career in the Army General Sigfried won the highest en-
comiums from his superior officers for the fidelity, prudence and ability
with which he discharged the duties devolving upon him. Without his
knowledge they recommended him for promotion from Colonel to Briga-
dier, for meritorious conduct in the field.

COLONEL HENRY L. CAKE.

Colonel Cake left Pottsville with the first troops, April 17, 1861, as a
corporal in the National Light Infantry. Was mustered in at Harris-
risburg on the 18th, as second lieutenant ; commissioned Colonel 25th
Penna. Regt., May 1, 1801. At the expiration of the three months' ser-
vice, he was mustered out.

xVfter Col. Cake's return home he organized the 96th Regt., P. V., and
was commissioned Colonel of it, August 18, 1801. The Regiment en-
camped at Pottsville until Nov. 8, 1861, when it left for the front. On
the 10th Col. Cake was appointed acting Brigadier-General, and placed
in command of six regiments at Camp Wildfir, near Washington. Dec.
10, 1861, the 96th was attached to 2d Brigade, Gen. Slocum, in General
Franklin's Division. Slocum's Brigade subsequently became 2d Brigade,
1st Division, 6th Army Corps. Col. Cake participated with his Regi-
ment in the following engagements : West Point, Gaines' Hill, Charles
City Cross Roads, Malvern, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Crampton's
Pass, Antietam and Fredericksburg. His gallantry and the effective
fighting of his men won the highest praise. Col. Cake resigned March
12, 1863, and was mustered out May 3, 1863.

COLONEL JACOB G. FRICK.

Colonel Frick was mustered into the service as Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 96th Pennsylvania Regiment, September 23, 1861. He remained
with the Regiment in that capacity (moving with the Army of the Poto-
mac to the Penninsula, and participating with it in the battles of Gaines'
Hill, June 27th, Charles City Cross Roads, June 30th, and Malvern Hill,
July 1, 1862,) until August 29th, when his resignation was accepted, and
he returned home to lead a new regiment to the field.

Biographical Sketches of Officers. 509

He was appointed by Governor Curtin Colonel of the 129th Pennsyl-
vania Regiment, August 15th, and left on the IGth for Washington. Hie
Regiment was subsequently attached to the 3d Division, 5th Corps, and
marched to Antietam. On the 16th of October he accompanied Gen.
Griffin's Division of the 5th Corps in a reconnoissance to Leetown, Va.
They had a brisk skirmish at Kearneysville, after which they returned
to camp near Sharpsburg.

Col. Frick and his command moved with the Army of the Potomac,
October olst, and arrived at Fredericksbui-g, Va., November 17, 1862.
He was engaged in the Battle at that place, December 13th, losing 140
men. He marched with the army under Gen. Hooker, April 29, 1863,
for Chancellorsville, and was hotly engaged in battle on Sunday, May 3,
with considerable loss. The Regiment returned to camp near Stoneman'g
Station, and after remaining there one week, marched to Harrisburg,
and was mustered out of service May 18, 1863.

On the 17th of June, 1863, Col. Frick was commissioned Colonel of
the 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. By order of Gen. Couch the
Regiment went to Columbia, Pa. On the 28th the Regiment had a skir-
mish with the enemy in front of Wrighlsville. Being unable to hold its
position in consequence of the superior number of the enemy, the Regi-
ment retired to the Columbia side of the Susquehanna River. To pre-
vent the enemy crossing and taking Harrisburg in the rear, the Colum-
bia Bridge was burned in pursuance of the following order from Major-
Gen. Couch to his aid-de-camp, Maj. Granville O'Hailer, 7th Infantry,
U. S. Army, and communicated to Col. Frick on the field, when it was
found impossible to successfully resist the advance of the enemy :

(.By the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph lines.)

Habkisbukg, Jcne 28, 1863.
To Major O'Hailer, U. S. Army, A. D. C.

When you iind it necessary to withdraw the main body of Col. Frick's command from
Wrightsviile, leave a proper number on the other side to destroy the bridges, and uec
your own discretion in their destruction. Keep them open as long as possible with
prudence.

[Signed] D. N. COUCH.

On the 4th day of July Col. Frick was ordered to report with his com-
mand to Gen. Smith at Carlisle. He was at the same time placed in
command of the Brigade, composed of the 27th and 31st Pennsylvania
Regiments. This force subsequently marched from Carlisle to Hagers-
town and Chambersburg, a distance of about one hundred and fifty
miles, via Pinegrove, Newman's Cut, Waynesboro, Ringgold, Md., Cave-
town, Chewsville and Boonsboro. Col. Frick and his command were
mustered out of service at Harrisburg, July 31, 1863.

During his military service Col. Frick was the recipient of many ex-
pressions of esteem from his fellow-officers. After the Battle of Gainer'
Hill, the officers of the 96th Regiment sent him a communication, dated
"Camp Nugent, July 22, 1862," expressive of their admiration "for bis
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gallant services upon that occasion," and for "his gallant behavior on
all occasions." In forwarding to Col. Frick the acceptance of his re-
signation. Gen. Bartlett expressed his apprecialion of Col. Frick's sol-
dierly qualities, and of his valuable services during the trying scenes of
the Peninsula campaign. Gen. Slocum, in parting with Col. Frick, ex-
pressed his thanks for the manner in which the Colonel had discharged
his duties, and his high appreciation of the Colonel's conduct. For a
few weeks on the Peninsula Col. Frick commanded the 5th Maine Re-
giment. When he left the ofncers presented a pair of Colonel's shoulder
straps to him, with a letter of thanks for his courtesy and gentlemanly
conduct to them. When the 129th Regiment returned home Gen. Tyler
wrote a letter to Gov. Curtin, in which he stated that Col. Frick '-is
every inch a soldier, a rigid disciplinarian, an eihcient and worthy
officer. His conduct on the battle-fields at Fredericksburg and Chancel-
lorsviile, was characterized by coolness and courage that plainly showed
his capability to manage a large command." These testimonials to an
officer who drew his sword in (he holiest cause, must be of priceless value.

GENERAL HENRY PLEASANTS.

Gen. Henry Pleasants, a Civil Engineer, residing at Pottsville, Pa., as-
sisted in recruiting over 160 men for the three months' service, and went
out as 2d Lieutenant of Company H, (The Tower Guards) Gth Penna.
Regiment.

He subsequently went out as Captain in the three years' service. —
During the month of August, 1801, he recruited his company, which was
mustered ioto the U. S. service at Ilarrisburg on the 11th of September,
1861., being the first Company filled in the 48thPenna. Regiment. While
his Piegiment was stationed at llatteras, N. C, Capt. Pleasants in con-
junction with Lieutenant Farquhar of the Engineers, erected during the
months of November, December and January several fortifications.

The 48th Pa. Regt., having been sent to reinforce Gen. Pope, Capt.
Pleasants was in that memorable retreat from the Rapidan and in the
two days' Battle of Second Bull Run, August 29th and 30th, 1862 ; and
fought at the Battle of Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862, where CJenerals Kearney
and Stevens were killed.

During the retreat of the army of the Potomac to Washington and its
subsequent advance against Lee's army, and in the hard-fought battles
of South Mountain (Sept. 14, 1862,) and Antietam, (Sept. 17th and 18th,
1862,) he was always with his company, which he commanded in all the
engagements.

Shortly after the Battle of Antietam, Capt. Pleasants was promoted to
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 48th Pa. Regt,, the commission dating from

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Sept. 20, 18G2. At the bloody battle of Fredericksburg, Dec, 1862,
Lieut. -Col. Pleasants, although suffering from a contusion of his leg, not
only did good service in his own Regiment, but, under a heavy fire,
placed in position the 12th Rhode Island Regiment and a New York Re-
giment.

In March 1863, upon the arrival of the 48th Pa. Regt. at Lexington,
Kentucky, Col. J. K. Sigfried was made commandant of the Post, and
Lieut. -Col. Pleasants commanded the Regiment till July, 1863, when he
was appointed Provost Marshal General of the 23d Army Corps. In
August, 1863, he accompanied Burnside's expedition into East Tennes-
see (his Regiment remaining at Lexington till September,) and was
through the various engagements in that State and at the memorable
Siege of Knoxville.

The 48th Pa. Regt. having re-enlisted as Veterans, returned home in
February, 1864, and having been recruited to about the maximum
strength, Lieut. -Col. Pleasants took it to Annapolis, Md., when by con-
stant drilling the new men became almost as proficient in marching and
the use of their arms, as the Veterans. From the time the Veteran Re-
giment left Pottsville, Lieut.-Col. Pleasants had command of it, till he
left the service, except when he was ordered to command the 1st and 2d
Brigade of the 2d Division, 9th Army Corps. He, with his Regiment,
were in all the battles of Gen. Grant's campaign from the Wilderness to
Petersburg. At Spottsylvania, M*ay 12, 1864, he commanded his Re-
giment, which almost destroyed Col. Gilbert's Georgia Brigade and cap-
tured over 100 prisoners. At Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, it captured
about 50 of Kershaw's men, and some 200 muskets. In the battle before
Petersburg, on the 17th and 18th of June, 1864, it captured over 300 of
Beauregard's troops, 2 brass cannon and two battle-flags. On the 18th
of June Lieut.-Col. Pleasants assumed command of the 1st Brigade of
the 2d Division, 9th Corps, and retained it till some time in July. lie
proposed, and, with the assistance of his Regiment, excavated the great
mine in front of Petersburg, Va., which, when exploded, (on the 80th
of July,) destroyed a large rebel fort, with its garrison and armament,
consisting of six cannon and about 400 South Carolina soldiers.

Major-General Meade, the commander of the Army of the Potomac,
issued a special order, thanking Col. Pleasants and his Regiment for-
their extraordinary feat.

Col. Pleasants, during the battle of the 30th of July, 1864, volunteer-
ed and did duty on the staff of Gen. Potter, his Regiment not being en-
gaged in the action. He was in different battles near Petersburg, when
the 9th Corps was engaged, and on the 30th of September, when the 2d
Division was surrounded and nearly all captured, his Regiment was the
only one that was brought out safely and with small loss.

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During the month of August, 1864, Lieut.-Col. Pleasants commanded
the 2d Brigade of his Division, and was commissioned Colonel by the
Governor of Pennsylvania on the 6th of October, 1864. On the 15th of
December he received an appointment by the President of Brevet-Colo-
nel of Volunteers for distinguished services, which he declined.

Colonel Pleasants' health having become impaired by the hardships
and exposures of nearly four years of active service in the field, he applied
to be and was honorably mustered out on the 19th of December, 1864.

Subsequently the Secretary of War prosnoted Col. Pleasants to Brevet
Brigadier-General "for skillful and distinguished services during the
war, and particularly in the construction and explosion of the mine be-
fore Petersburg."

General Pleasants was generally recognised as one of the most gallant
officers in action, and his record is one of which Schuylkill County is
proud.

COLONEL GEORGE W. GOWEN.

Geo. W. Gowen was mustered into the United States service as First
Lieutenant of Co. C, 48th Penna. Regiment, at Harrisburg, Pa., on the
11th of September, 1861. Thus commenced the military career of one
of Schuylkill County's grandest soldiers.

As 1st Lieutenant he was made, by Brig.-Gen. Thos. Williams, while
at Hatteras Inlet, N. C, Pi'ovost Marshal of Hatteras Island. Soon af-
terwards he was placed on detached service in Battery C, 1st U. S. Ai*-
tillery, Capt. 0. O. Morris. In this capacity he exhibited qualifications
as an artillery officer of the highest order. He accompanied the Battery
to Newbern and was with it at the siege of Fort Macon. His gun at this
latter point, was excellently managed and did eflFective service in redu-
cing the Fort to terms.

In June, 1862, he was relieved from duty in Battery C, to be made
Acting Regimental Adjutant of the 48th Regt. With marked ability he
managed this department, and won the esteem of the entire Regiment,
both officers and men, by his gentlemanly deportment. In this position
■he passed through Pope's arduous campaign in the Summer of 1862,
and the Maryland campaign of the Fall of the same year, participating
in the battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain and An-
tietam. In September, 1862, he was made Captain of Company C.

Adapting himself to every new position with remarkable ease, he en-
tered upon its duties with a seeming fore-knowledge of their nature. —
Keeping his Company under an excellent state of discipline — always
rigorously just and yet kindly forbearing, he could not but win the love
of his men.

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As commanding officer of his Company, he passed through McClellan'a
campaign from Harper's Ferry to Warrenton in the fall of 18G2, and
was with Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Upon the removal of the Regiment to Kentucky, in tlie Spring of 1863,
he was placed upon detached service for the purpose of obtaining labor-
ers to work on the Government fortifications at Camp Nelson, In this
exceedingly difficult position — requiring the utmost care and tact in or-
der to allay tlie spirit of opposition to the Government, so easily arous-
ed, when any interference with the negro was at all possible, — Captain
Gowen acquitted himself in a most creditable manner. He was relieved
from this position to yet a more responsible one — that of assisting in the
laying out of a new military railroad, to connect Avith the Kentucky
Central at Nicholasville. Here his engineering abilities wore developed
and rewarded by the appointment of Assistant Chief Engineer on the
staff of Major-General Burnside, commanding Department of Ohio, up-
on that officer's advance into East Tennessee. From this position he
was made Asst. Engineer on the staff of Bag. -Gen. R. B, Potter, com-
manding 9th Corps, and found ample opportunity to display his ability
during the memorable Siege of Kno^ville, Soon after the raising of the
Siege he was made a personal Aid-de-Camp on the staff of Major-
General Jno. G. Parke. Here was a yet larger scope for his ability, and
in this capacity his services were of the greatest A^alue to Gen. Parke.
Enduring the hardships of the East Tennessee campaign, he returned
with the 9th Corps to the Ilast, and took part in Grant's unparalleled
campaign of the Spring, Summer and Fall of 18G4,

Shrinking from no danger, but ever ready, Capt. Gowen, in this cam-
paign, won the highest praise. Ever on the alert — the first on the
ground at an alarm — his untiring activitj^ rendered him one of General
Parke's most trusty agents and reliable assistants. For gallantry upon
such fields as the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolapotomy, Cold Harbor
and Petersburg, he was brevetted Major and again Lieutenant-Colonel.
None came out of that year's brilliant campaign with a brighter record
tlian Lieut. -Col. Gowen. In December, 1861, he was made Colonel of
the 48th Regiment, and never was officer more graciously welcomed by
his troops, than was CoL Gowen by the brave men of the 48th. So
highly esteemed was he that he was made the recipient of a most noble
horse and sett of equipments by his men, who took this method of tes-
tifying their love and regard for their beloved commander.

The Spring of 1865 dawned, and found our army still firmly holding

the rebels at Petersburg. The hour for decisive action had arrived.

The Lieutenant-General determined to strike the blow. To the 9th Corps
was assigned the difficult task of attacking the enemy in front, and
breaking through his strongest lines — of assaulting the works at Peters-

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514 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

burg. Early on the morning of the 2d day of April this brave Corps
moved to the attack — the 48th Regiment, led by its gallant Colonel, in
the van. The rebel Fort Mahone the objective point. The work of
carnage began — Mahone was terribly assaulted. The enemy fought with
desperation. The Fort was almost reached, when Col. Gowen, perceiv-
ing a break in the ranks to the right and left of his Regiment, and fear-
ing his men might waver, sprang to the front, and raising his cap with
one hand and waving his sword in the other, led his Regiment on, and
the stronghold was speedily captured ; but oh, the sacrifice !

In the hour of victory Col. Gowen fell, beloved, honored and mourned
by all who knew him.

Thus, when fortune seemed ready to crown the manly eflforts of one so
promising, he fell, a martyr to the cause of Freedom. For his many so-
cial qualities, for his genial, frank, honest nature and for his able mili-
tary abilities he is mourned. His ready, quick perception at adapting
himself to every position he was called to fill, marked him as a man of
no ordinary ability. Schuylkill County may well be proud of Colonel
Gowen's career, and feel that he has added no small glory to her bright
list of honored heroes.

COLONEL I. F. BRANNON.

The subject of this sketch enlisted as Corporal in the 6th Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, for three months, April 27, 1861, and was
mustered out at the expiration of term of enlistment.

He was commissioned by Governor Curtia 1st Lieutenant of Co. K,
48th Regiment, Pa. Vols., August 20, 1861. He was commissioned Cap-
tain of his Company, August 30, 1862, to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of II. A. M. Filbert, who was killed in action, August 29, 1862.
On the 11th of October, 1864, he was commissioned Major of the Regi-
ment, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the mustering out of Major 0. C.
Bosbyshell, at the expiration of his term of service. On the 1st of
March, 1865, Major Brannon was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of
the Regiment, to fill the vacancy caused by the mustering out of Lieut.-
Col. Henry Pleasants at the expiration of his term of service. On the
od of April, 1865, he was commissioned Colonel of the Regiment, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel George W. Gowen, who was
killed in action, April 2, 1865.

Colonel Brannon, during four years of arduous, faithful service, was
in the following engagements :

Second Battle of Bull Run, August 29 and 30, 1862; Chantilly, Va.,

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Sept. 1, 18G2: South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14, 1862; Antictam, Ud , Sept.
16 and 17, 1862; Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; Wilderness, May, 1864;
Spottsylvania, May, 1864; North xVnna River, May, 1864; Tolapotomy,
May, 1864; Bethesda Church, May, 1861; Cold Harbor, June, 1864; be-
foi'c Petersburg, June 17, 1864; before Petersburg, (explosion of mine)
July 30, 1864; Weldon Rail Road, Aug., 1864; South Side Rail Road,
Sept. 30, 1864; Hatchers Run; front of Petersburg and final capture of
the city, April 2, 1865.

COLONEL DANIEL NAGLE.

When the Mexican War commenced, he enlisted — then 18 years of
age — in Company B, Capt. James Nagle, 1st Penna. Regt., as drummer,
and participated in the siege of Vera Cruz and battles of Cerro Gordo,
Lahoya, Huamantla and Atlixco. When hostilities commenced in the
American Rebellion, he enrolled his name, April 20, 1861, in Capt. C.
Tower's Company for three months, and was elected 2d Lieutenant. At
Harrisburg the Company, having 160 men, was formed into two compa-
nies. Of the second company, called Nagle Guards, he was chosen
Captain, and was assigned to the 6th Pa. Reg. He was with his com-
pany in the skirmish at Falling Waters, and crossed and recrossed the
Potomac four times. After his return home he organized a company for
the 48th Pa. Regt., with which -he remained as Captain until the 30th of
November, 1861, when he was promoted Major. When six companies of
the Regiment joined Gen. Burnside at Newbern, March 11, 1862, he was
left with four companies in command of Hatteras Island, where he re-
mained until May, when he was relieved, and joined the Regiment at
Newbern. He resigned at Newport News on the 21st of July, 1862.
When Gen. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in September, 1862, he was com-
missioned Lieutenant-Colonel of tlie 19th Pa. Militia for the emergency.
In November, 1862, he organized the 173d Penn. Regiment, for nine
months' service, and was commissioned Colonel. The Regiment relieved
the 158th New York Regiment, to guard the approaches to Norfolk, Va.,
which duty it discharged until May, 1863, when it was detailed to do
provost duty in Norfolk. On the 10th of July Col. Nagle with his Re-
giment, was ordered to W^ashington, and was assigned to the 1st Brigade,
2d Division, 11th Corps, and was detailed to guard the Orange and Alex-
andria Railroad from Broad Run to Manassas Junction. The Regiment
was mustered out of service on the 17th of August, 1863.

516 IJIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OFFICERS.

COLONEL WILLIAM IL LESSIG.

In September, 18G1, Col. Lessig organized a company for the OGtIi Pa.
Regiment, (Co. C,) of --.vliicli he became Captain. He commanded his
Company in the engagement at West Point, Va., and soon after became
so sick that he had to go into hospital early in .June, 1862. lie was
prostrated during the Peninsula campaign. After recovering his health,
ho rejoined the Regiment on the 9th of August, 1862. He was with the
Regiment at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Ke was promoted to Major,
September 15, 18G2. He commanded in that capacity through the Ma-
ryland campaign of 18G2, being at the Battle of Crampton's Gap, Sept.
14, and at Antietam, Sept. 17. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on
the 23d of December, 18G2. Col. Lessig commanded the Regiment at
the First and Second Battles of Fredericksburg, and at the Battle of
Gettysburg, Pa. He was promoted Colonel, March 12, I860, and was at
Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7, 18G8. He commanded the Regiment
through Gen. Grant's Virginia campaign, 1864, and was afterwards in
Sheridan's Campaign in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, up to
Sept. 22, 1864, when he, with his Fvegiment, left the field at the expira-
tion of its term of service, and was mustered out October 21, 18G4. Col.
Lessig was a brave oflicer, and commanded the entire confidence of his
men.

COLONEL .JOHN E. WYNKOOP.

Col. Wynkoop entered the service, April 11), 18G1, as Captain of the
Ashland Dragoons, to be employed as a rifle company. He was appoint-
ed Major of the Sixth Regiment, Penn. Vols. Infantrj^, April 21, 1861.
In that capacity he served through Maryland and Virginia, with Gen.
Patterson, in the three months' campaign, until August 1st. Here-
entered the service, and was appointed Major of the od Penna. Cavalry,
(then Young's Kentucky Regiment of Light Cavalry) August 7, 1861.
He served through Southern Maryland Avith his Battalion, it being at-
tached to the commands of Brigadier-Generals Sickles and Hooker, who
campaigned along the Patuxent and Potomac. He was transferred in
October, 1861, from the od to the 7th Pennsylvania Cavah-y, of which
he became Junior Major, his commission bearing date, Oct. 14th. He
served through the South-West with Buell, Rosecranz, Thomas and
Stanley, from the takirg of Nashville to the Battle of Stone River or
Murfreesboro, winning praise from his superior officers for his gallantry
in action, and for the skillful manner in Avliich in every instance he
maneuvered his command. "Rosecranz's Campaign with the Fourteentli
Army Corps, or the Army of the Cumberland,'" published in Cincinnati

Biographical Sketches of Officers. 517

in 1863, repeatedly mentions the Major and the gallant Seventh, in tlie
highest terms. In February, 18G3, Major Wynkoop was ordered to
Pennsylvania, with a permanent party, consisting of Lieutenant Heber
Thompson, Co. F, Lieut. Jones, Co. A, Sergt. -Major Dennings and Sergt.
Kelley, to recruit for his Regiment. The following June, upon the in-
vasion of Pennsylvania by Lee, he was ordered by the War Department
to report to Gen. Couch, then commanding the Department of the Sus-
quehanna. Upon reporting Gen. Couch appointed him Chief of Cavalry
in his Department. He had command of all the cavalry of the Depart-
ment during the Battle of Gettysburg and the retreat of Lee into Vir-
ginia. On the 7th of August, 1863, he was appointed Colonel of the
20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and reported with his command to Gen.
Kelly, commanding the Department of West Virginia. He served
through that section, having several successful skirmishes with Imbo-
den, Mosby, McNeal, snd other leaders of guerilla bands then infesting
the country. Col. Wynkoop reorganized the 20th Penna. Cavalry, in
January, 1864, and reported in March to Gen. Sigel, at Cumberland,
Md. He was placed in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion. On the 1st of April, 1864, he with his command, went with Gen.
Sigel, into the Shenandoah Valley. In the beginning of May he fought
part of Breckinridge's command near Mt. Jackson, and drove it several
miles, killing and capturing many of the rebels. Breckinridge was re-
inforced and offered battle to Gen. Sigel. The latter was compelled to
fall back to Woodstock, Va., Breckinridge's force being too strong. In
a few days afterwards Gen. Sigel was relieved, and Major-General Hun-
ter assumed command. Col. Wynkoop served with Hunter from Wood-
stock to Lynchburg, participating with his Brigade, in all of the battles
fought during that campaign. At Piedmont, with three hun:lred men
of his Brigade, he charged the rebel line of infantry, capturing seven
hundred and sixty rank and file ; forty-six line and field officers, and
three Brigade-Commanders. Subsequently he defeated Imboden's com-
mand at Tie River Gap, capturing forty men and three commissioned
officers. Col. Wynkoop formed with his Brigade, the rear-guard in the
retreat from Lynchburg, fighting constantly for seven days and nights.
W^hen Col. Wynkoop left Cumberland early in April, to entsr upon this
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, his Brigade numbered twenty-two
hundred and sixty men. When he returned in the following July after
the retreat of Hunter, his command was reduced to about eight hundred
men. In crossing the Big Suel Mountain he lost three hundred men
and horses. After the return Col. Wynkoop was ordered to Cumber-
land, Md., to reorganize the Brigade ; to remount, arm and equip the
men. Col. Wynkoop was in command of the Brigade eleven months al-
together, which completed his service in the Army.

518 Biographical Sketches of Officers,

colonel robert h. ramsey.

Col. Ramsey was mustered into the service of the United States, July
3, 1863, as 2d Lieutenant of Co. H, 45tb Reg., Penna. Militia, Col. Wm.
D. Whipple, commanding. He entered the Regiment at Philadelphia, —
in which city he was then engaged in business, — at the time of
Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania and of the battles at Gettysburg. The
Regiment was sent to the field at once, under command of Lieut, .Col.
Wheeler. After the escape of Lee and his army across the Potomac, the
services of the militia being no longer required in Southern Pennsylva-
nia, the Regiment to which Lieut. Ramsay was attached, was ordered to
the coal districts of Schuylkill County, as part of a force placed under
command of Brigadier-General Wm. D. Whipple, to quell disturbances
which threatened not only the peace of the County, but which impeded
the operation of the laws of the United States. The Regiment arrived
in Pottsville, July 31, 1863, where it went into camp. Lieut Ramsay
was detailed Aug. 2, 1864, from his Regiment as acting Assistant-Ad-
jutant-General on the staff of Gen. Whipple, commanding second Sub-
District of the Lehigh District. Lieut. Ramsay entered upon his new
duties immediately, which position he held from that date, under Gen.
Whipple, Col. H. 0. Ryerson, 10th New Jersey Regiment, and Col. Oli-
phant, 14th Veteran Reserves, until ordered to the Army of the West for
duty in the field. Lieut, Ramsey's strict attention to duty was rewarded
by his appointment by the President at Gen. Whipple's request, as Assist-
ant-Adjutant-General, with the rank of Captain, to date from December
5, 1863, which appointment was subsequently confirmed by the Senate.
Capt. Ramsey remained on dufy at the headquarters in Pottsville until
February, 186 4, when he was relieved and ordered to report in person to
to Major-General Geo. H. Thomas, commanding the Department of the
Cumberland. Early in December, 1863, General Thomas had applied
to the War Department for Captain Ramsey ; but General Couch, com-
manding the Department of the Susquehanna, to whom the matter
had been referred, declined granting the request for the reason that in
consequence of the frequent change of commanders, Capt, Ramsey was
the only officer left fully acquainted with the duties of the post at which
he was stationed. A subsequent application, however, resulted in Capt,
Ramsey being ordered to report to Gen. Thomas, which he did on the
22d of February, 1864, lie was assigned to duty at Headquarters, De-
partment of the Cumberland, Upon the opening of the campaign against
Atlanta, Capt. Ramsay went into the field with Gen. Thomas as Acting
A, D, C, and Assistant-Adjutant General. He participated in all the
marches, skirmishes and battles of that memorable campaign, which
ended with the capture of Atlanta. He was constantly under fire, and
on several occasions narrowly escaped being captured by the enemy. —

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Though much exposed, he |)asscd through his entire field service unin-
jured. After the capture of Athmta and tlie suspension of field opera-
tions in that section, Capt. Ramsey returned witli Gen. Thomas along
the line of railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga, on which raiding
parties of the enemy were at work — and subsequently to Nashville,
Tenn. There much had to be done, and Capt. Ramsey was of great
assistance to Gen. Thomas. Finally, when all of the work of prepara-
tion had been completed, he again took the field, and participated in the
din and strife of the memorable battle before Nashville, December
15 and 16, 1864, which resulted in the complete, decisive defeat and
demoralization of the enemy. In commendation of Capt. Ramsey's ser-
vices during these two days' engagement, and his uniform.bravery in the
field, as well as for his untiring devotion to duty, both in the Atlanta
and Nashville campaigns, Gen. Thomas recommended him strongly to
the Secretary of War, for promotion to the rank of Major and Assistant
Adjutant-General. The appointment was made, the commission bearing
date January 27, 1865. Subsequently he received the thanks of the
Secretary of War for what he had done during the war. The President,
to show his personal appreciation of Major Ramsey's services in the
field, conferred upon him the additional promotions of Lieutenant-Colo-
nel, and Colonel by brevet. Col. Ramsey, at the time of preparing this,
is still on du'y with Gen. Thomas, commanding Military Division of
Tennessee. We understand that he is much attached to the General,
who on repeated occasions, has shown his appreciation of Col. Ramsey's
abilities and services by flattering commendation. The principal battles
in which Col. Ramsay participated, as far as we are able to learn, are as
follows : 1864 — Buzzard Roost, Ga., May 6 ; Resaca, May 14 and 15 ;
Cassville ; New Hope Church; Dallas; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27 ;
Peach Tree Creek, July 20; Atlanta, July 22; Jonesboro, Sept. 1, and
Lovejoy's Station, Sept. 2. ; before Nashville — Richland Creek, Dec. 15,
and Brentwood Hills, Dec. 16. In addition to these Col, Ramsey par-
ticipated in many skirmishes, etc., of which we have no record. Col.
Ramsey's promotions in the service were rapid, but we, who know the
young man, are not surprised at it ; for he possesses qualifications which
must command the respect and confidence of his superior officers.
Schuylkill County is proud of her young and gallant Colonel.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM THOMPSON.

Col. Thompson left a profitable banking business on the 6th of Sep«
tember, 1862, on receiving authority from Gov. Curtin to recruit a com-
pany of cavalry in Schuylkill County. He was mustered into the ser-
vice as Captain of Company H, 17th Pa, Cavalry, Nov. 1, 1862. This

520 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

Regiment was always connected with the 2d Brig., 1st Cav. Div. under the
successive commands of Generals Pleasantson, Buford, Merritt and Devin.
On May 24, 1863, Capt. Thompson was detailed to take command of
Gen. Meade's escort, in which capacity he remained several months. —
Capt. Thompson was present at nearly all of the prominent battles
fought by the Army of the Potomac during the last three years of the
war, and was with Gen. Sheridan in all of his battles, raids, etc. Capt.
Thompson received a severe flesh wound through the right shoulder,
August 25th, 1804, at Kearnystown, Va., in a charge made by three di-
visions of cavalry on Gen. Early's entire army, for the purpose of de-
veloping his strength and movements. On the 8th of February, 1865,
he was promoted to Major, and on the 19th of May was brevetted Lieut.-
Col. by the Secretary of War, through the recommendation of Gen.
Sheridan, for "meritorious and distinguished conduct in the field," es-
pecially at Hatcher's Run, Five Forks and Appomattox Court House.
To his great credit the reports show that Col. Thompson never lost a
day's duty while in service, except when he was wounded. He was
mustered out with his Regiment, June 20, 1865, after an honorable career
of nearly three years in the service of his imperilled country.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANK T. BENNETT.

He served through the three months' campaign as Major of the 16th
Penna. Regiment, Col. Ziegle. He was mustered in on the 4th of De-
cember, 1801, as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 55th Penna. Regiment, Col.
Richard White. Col. Bennett was taken prisoner at Edisto Island, Mai'ch
16, 1862, and was released October 12, 1862. He rejoined his Regiment
at Beaufort, S. C. On the 10th of June, 1804, he was wounded and
taken prisoner at Drewry's Blufl", in Gen. Butler's expedition to the
South side of James River. He was released Sept. 12, 1864, and mus-
tered out of service, January, 1865.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL J. A. HENNESSEY.

Col. Hennessey was mustered into the 52d Regt., Pa. Vols., as Second
Lieutenant, Co. K, Dec. 3,1861, In that capacity he passed through
the first Peninsula campaign, most of the time in command of his Com-
pany. He was re-mustered as Captain of that Company, Sept. 11,
1862, at Yorktown, Va. He served as such until Feb; 5, 1865, when he
was promoted to the Majority at Morris Island, S. C, while in command
of the boat infantry. Was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of same
Regiment at Salisbury, N. C.

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At diflFerent periods Col. Keimesse^ acted in the positions of Provost
Marshal and Inspector, and was in command of the Regiment for several
months, during which time he entered Charleston and raised the first
U. S. flag over its walls.

Colonel Hennessey's military career reflected the highest credit upon
him. At Charleston Gen. Gillmore congratulated him upon the fact that
he was the officer to raise, after a lapse of four years, the fir^t National
flag over the walls of Fort Sumter and the city. This event is one of
which any officer might well be proud.

MAJOR E. H. LEIB.

No officer from Schuylkill County made a better record during the
Rebellion than Edward H. Leib, of the 5th United States Cavalry.

He left Pottsville, A.pril 17, 1801, as a private in the Washington Ar-
tillery. On the 2Gth of April he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant in the
2d, afterwards 5th, U. S. Cavalry. June 10, 1861, he was promoted to
1st Lieutenant ; April 26, 18G3, to Captain, and March 13, 1865, to
Ure vet-Major, 5th U. S. Clivalry.

The engagements in which Major Leib participated during the war,
were as follows :

1861. — Capture of Alexandria, Va., May 23; Blackburn's Ford, July
18; First Battle of Bull Run, July 21.

18G2.— Catlett's Station, Va., March 12 ; Williamsburg, May 5 and 6 ;
Mechanicsville, May 24 ; Hanover Court House, May 27 ; Old Church,
June 13; Gaines' Mills, June 27 ; Savage Station, June 28 ; Malvern
Hill, July 1 ; Harrison's Landing, July 3 ; White Oak Swamp, (cavalry
battle,) July 29. [His command did picket duty at St. Mary's Church,
and in front of Malvern Hill, while on the Peninsula, and brought up
the rear guard under Gen. Averill when the Army left the Peninsula
for Washington.] South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14; Antietam, Sept. 17;
Sharpsburg, Sept. 19; [Major Leib and his command then moved to
Oldtown, Cumberland, Md., and Romney, Ya. While at the latter place
the rebel General Stuart made a raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Our forces, commanded by Gen. Averill, pursued him for over four hun-
dred miles.] Halltown, Va., Sept. 20 and 29 ; Union, Nov. 2 ; Upper-
viile, Nov. 3; Mannassas Gap, Nov. 4; Little Washington, Nov. 7;
Amosville, Nov. 10; Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13.

1863. — Kelly's Ford, Va., March 17; [where Major Leib commanded
the Regiment. This was the first signal cavalry victory of the war for
the Union troops.] Raccoon Ford, April 30; Fleming's Cross Roads,
May 4; Beverly Ford; Middleburg ; Aldie ; Gettysburg, Pa., July 3;
Wiliiamsport, Md., July 6: Boonesboro', July 8 and 9; Funktown ;
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Falling Waters ; Hazel River, Va. ; Brandy Station, Aug. 21 ; Min«
Run ; Charlottesville : Stanardsville.

1864. — Major Leib was stationed at Baltimore in this year, at the timo
of the invasion by the rebel General Early. He offered his services to
Major-Gcneral Wallace. They were accepted. He was in the Battle of
July 7th, at Frederick, Md., and brought up the rear guard on the 8th
to Monocacy Junction. On the Dth he was ordered to take command of
the one hundred days' regiments of infantry, which were there, and
hold the Baltimore pike bridge crossing the Monocacy. He fought all
day and lost a great number of men, but succeeded in holding the only
road that General Wallace had to fall back on. The General states this
fact in his report of operations. Finally Major Leib brought up to
Baltimore the rear guard of our routed army. On the loth of July he
was appointed Inspector and Chief of Cavalry of the 8th Army Corps,
and went to AVashington with Gen. Ord, where he assisted in driving the
enemy from the gates. In the Fall the Major went on a raid under
Gen. Torbert, to Gordonsville, Ya. They were gone twelve days, and
had two fights, one at Madison Court House, the other near Gordonsville.
1865. — Major Leib participated in the last grand raid under Major-
General Sheridan. After the Battle of Waynesboro', he captured with
his Regiment, the town of Scottsville, a large amount of ammunition
and provisions, and destroyed canal locks and boats. He was in the
advance, and was at one time within fifteen miles of Lynchburg, Va.—
Major Leib captured the main railroad bridge over the South Anna River,
three pieces of artillery, and five hundred rounds of ammunition. He
finally, with his Regiment, reached White House, crossed at Deep Bot-
tom, joined the Army of the Potomac, and took part in the battles be-
fore Richmond. Major Leib commanded the 5th Regiment during the
last brilliant campaign, and was severely wounded in the Battle of Five
Forks, a few days before the surrender of General Lee.

That sums up as eventful a military career as could be compressed
within a period of four years, for a single individual. Truly we may
well feel proud that Major Edward H. Leib is a son of Schuylkill, and
point to him as a model of worth and bravery.

MAJOR EDWARD C. BAIRD.

Edward C. Baird entered the service as a private in the 6th Regt,,
Penn. Vols., in April, 1861. Upon the organization of the 48th Regt,
Pa. Vols., he was commissioned as 2d Lieutenant of Co. II. He was ap-
pointed Captain and Assistant-Adjutant-General in September, 1861, and
assigned to duty upon the staft" of Gen. Meade, then commanding 2d
Brigade P. R. V. C. He participated in the Battles of Mechanicsville,

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Gaines' Mill, Charles City Cross Roads and Malvern Hill, and in the
seven days campaign before Richmond in 18G2,

He was engaged in the Battles of Second Bull Run, South Mountain,
Antietam, First Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In
September, 18()3, he was promoted to Major and Assistant- Adjutant-
General, U. S. v., and was in the Battles of Hatcher's Run and Dabnoy
Mill. He resigned March, 1865.

Major Baird secured the esteem of his superior officers by his fearless
Vravery, conscientious attention to every duty devolving upon hira, and
strict sense of honor. He was an ornament to tlie service.

MAJOR JOSEPH A. GILMOUR.

One of the most gallant soldiers from Schuylkill County, beloved by
all who knew his manly worth, was Joseph A. Gilmour. He laid his
young, bright life on the altar of his country — a martyr to the cause
nearest and dearest to his generous heart.

He entered the service, April 17, 1861, as a private in the Washington.
Artillery Company of Pottsville, and was mustered in and promoted
Sergeant on the 18th. He re^-ched Washington the same evening with
his company — the first, with four other Pennsylvania companies, to ar-
rive at the National Capital for its defence.

At the expiration of the three months' service he recruited a Company
(H,) for the 48Lh Pennsylvania Regiment, and was commissioned Cap-
tain. He commanded his Company with marked ability until he waa
promoted Major of the Regiment. He was with his Regiment at New-
bern, at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at Chantilly, Battle of South
Mountain, Antietam, Siege of Kuoxvillo, and in many other engage-
ments of less importance. At Knoxville he commanded the Regiment
with coolness, excellent judgment and consummate ability. In Gen.
Grant's great campaign, 1804, Major Gilmour fought bravely with his
Regiment from the Rapid Ann, and was almos'. in view of the spires of
Richmond, when on the 31st of May, a ball from the rifle of a rebel
sharpshooter struck his left knee. Amputation on the field was deemed
necessary. The operation Avas performed, and he was subsequently
conveyed in an ambulance to the White House, Va., a distance of over
twenty miles. The journey was painful, but he bore it with a heroism
which under every circumstance distinguislied the man. From the
White House he was conveyed to Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, D. C,
where he lingered until the lUh of June, when death terminated his suf-
ferings.

The body of the dead hero was brought to Pottsville, and interred on
Sunday afternoon, June 12, 18G4. with Masonic ceremonies and military

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honors. The funeral was one of the largest ever -witnessed in Pottsville
— a tribute of love for the man.

The last moments of Major Gilmour were attended by Chaplain W. If,
Keith, who ministered to the departing soul with brotherly affection.
After death he had the body embalmed and dressed in uniform. The
flowers placed on the lamented Major's breast by the kind hand of the
Minister of God, were yet fresh wlien the coffin reached Pottsville, and
formed a band of sympathy between the unkno"wn friend who had placed
them there and the relatives and friends of the deceased. In other
cases of soldiers dying in the hospitals, Mr. Keith acted in a similarly
friendly manner, endearing himself to those related to the dead. He
mav not have his reward here, but he will receive it hereafter.

MAJOR LEWIS J. MARTIN.

Major ^lartin entered the service as corporal in the National Light
Infantry, which left Pottsville April 17, 18G1. During his term of ser-
vice, three months, he was promoted to 2d Lieutenant. In the latter
part of August he reorganiz.ed the Company, which entered the 96th
Regiment as Conipany A. He was promoted Major and mustered in,
September 23, 18G1. Major Martin was with the Regiment in the en-
gagement at West Point, Va., through the Peninsula campaign and in
the seven days' retreat. He was in the Second Battle of Bull Run, and
took part in the Maryland campaign of 1862, up to Seprember 14, when
he fell at Crampton's Pass. Major Martin was a gallant officer, and
strictly conscientious in the discharge of his duties. With a cultivated
mind he possessed amiable qualities that rendered liim a great favorite
in the OOrh Regiment. Had Major Martin lived he would have taken
high rank among our military officers. His death cut short a most pi'o-
misins career.

CAPTAIN BENJAMIN B, SCIIUCK.

Captain Schuck entered the service, October 1, 1861, as first Sergeant
of Co, I, 48th Penna. Regt, In August, 1862, he wfis promoted 2d
Lieutenant of his Company. He was in Second Bull Run, Chantilly,
South Mountain, Antietam. and First Fredericksburg. At Lexington he
was promoted Captain of his Company. He commanded his Company
at Campbell's Station, Tenn., Siege of Knoxville, and through Grant's
campaign in 1864. He was wounded in fiont of Petersburg while on
the skirmish line, from the effects of which he died. He was a very
popular officer, and a good man in every respect. All who knew Capt.
Schuck esteemed him highly.

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CAPTAIN H. A. M. FILBERT.

Captain Filbert was mustered into the service on the 1st of October,
18G1, at Camp Hamilton, Va., as Captain of Co. K, 48th Regt. He
commanded his Company through the North Carolina and Tope's cam-
paigns. He was missed after the Second Battle of Bull Run, and it is
presumed that he was killed during the engagement. Rebel priso?iera
reported that the body of an ofiicer resembling the description given of
Capt. Filbert, was taken from the railroad ditch, occupied during the
Battle by the 48th Regiment, and buried.

CAPTAIN HORACE BENNETT.

Captain Bennett served in the 16th Penna. Regiment, Col. Ziegle,—
three months— as Captain of Co. K. In. advance of Gen. Patterson's
army, Capt. Bennett with a portion of his Company, crossed the Poto-
mac, at Williamsport, Md., in June, 18G1, on a reconnoitering expedi-
tion. He drove in the rebel pickets, and had a sharp skirmish with the
enemy.

After his return he organized Company E, 55th Pa. Regt., of which
he became Captain in August, 1861. He was stationed with his Com-
pany in South Carolina, from December, 1861, and was engaged in sev-
eral skirmishes. He was killed in the engagement at Pocotaligo, S. C,
Oct. 22, 1862. He was a brave young oflEicer ; entered the service from
the purest patriotic motives ; was loved by all who knew him, for his
many estimable qualities of mind and heart, and fell at the post of duty.

CAPTAIN JAMES SILLIMAN.

Capt. Silliman was mustered into the service, June 28, 1861, as a Ser-
geant in Company A, 28th Penna. Regiment, Col. John W. Geary, which
subsequently formed part of the famous White Star Division of the old
12th Corps. The Company was encamped at Camp Coleman, near Phi-
ladelphia, until the Regiment was filled to the maximum number of fif-
teen hundred men. From that camp the Regiment was moved to the
Upper Potomac, and picketed the valley from Point of Rocks to Bolivar
Heights, At the latter place it met the enemy in force, and a battle
took place, Oct. 16, 1861, resulting in the defeat of the enemy. Sergt.
Silliman was continually with his Regiment during all its subsequent
engagements, and was promoted step by step, until he finally reached
the Captaincy of his Company, August 16, 1864. He was in the engag'?-
ments at Leesburg, Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock, Sulphur Springs,
Autietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg ; in skirmishes at Middle-
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526 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

burg, Telegraph Hill, Bristow Station, Bull Run Bridge, Fair Plaj^
Charlestown, Winchester, Parker's Gap, Dumfries, the Wilderness, etc..
and marched almost over every foot of Virginia soil, from Lovellsville
to tlie gates of Richmond ; from the Shenandoah to the fortifications at
"Washington, crossing and re-crossing the Blue Ridge at least half a dozen
times. In March, 18G3, he with his Regiment, was transferred to the
Army of the Tennessee. In December of same year, while at Wauhat-
chie, the members of the Regiment, including Capt. Silliman, re-enlisted
as veterans. He, with his Regiment, participated in all of Gen. Sher-
man's celebrated operations from Lookout Mountain, Tenn., to Benton-
ville. He was at Missionary Ridge, Pea Vine Creek, Ringgold, Siege of
Atlanta, Savannah, etc. He made the circuit with Sherman after the
surrender of Gen. Johnson, and marched via Richmond to Alexandria,
Va., where the Regiment encamped until the review of Sherman's forces
in Wasbinglon, in which he participated. The Regiment then proceed-
ed via Bladensburg, to Phiiadelpliia, July, 1805, to be mustered out of
service. While at Alexandria the men of Capt. Silliman's Company
presented a beautiful sword to him. At Philadelphia Captain Silliman
became very ill, yet such was his indomitable spirit, that he wanted and
was endeavoring to finish up the business connected with his Company,
preparatory to muster out, when his friends forced him to his home in
Poltsville, which he reached on the 27th of July. He told them, alas,
too truly, that he had come to die. He expired on the 31st, in the 32d
year of his age, and was buried in Mount Laurel Cemetery, Pottsville,
on the 2d of August, the Colonel of his Regiment, and General of his
Brigade being present, with hundreds of citizens who appreciated the
worth of the fallen soldier.

Of Captain James Silliman it can be truly said that he died in the ser-
vice of the couutry to which he was devoted, and that no officer in the
army had a greater attachment for his command, a more profound
sense of duty. His memory is embalmed in the hearts of his country-
men.

CAPTAIN HERMAN G. KRAUTH.

Capt, Krauth served in the three months' campaign, in Capt. Tower's
Company, Gth Pa. Reg. He re-entered the service, March 11, 1862, in
the 103d New York Regiment. He was promoted 2d Lieutenant, Sept,
29th; 1st Lieutenant, jSIarch 18, 18G3 ; Captain, June 1st, and Chief
Commissary of Musters in Gen. Hartruff's Staff, May 24, 18G5, for the
District of Nottoway, Va. On the evening of the 27th of June, 18G5,
he was assaulted in Petersburg by three ruffians — it is supposed that he

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was mistaken for some other person — and so severely VFOunded, that ho
died on the 5th of July, 18(35. He came to thi.« country from Wurtem-
berg, a year before the Rebellion commenced. He w'a.« a gentleman of
education, and highly esteemed by his companiou-in-arms.

LIEUTENANT NICHOLAS E. WVNKOOP.

Lieut. Wynkoop, one of the bravest men who left Schuylkill County
during the Rebellion, entered the three months" service as fourth Ser-
geant of the Nagle Guards, that left Pottsville on the 22d of April, 1861,
and formed part of the Gth Pa. Reg. After his return from that service
he entered the 7th Pa. Cavalry ; was appointed Ai'jutant of the Second
Battalion, and left Harrisburg with the Regiment, for the West, Decem-
ber 18, 1801. He served with (he Regiment, ably and faithfully, and
fell in the Rattle of Gallatin, Tenn., on the 21st of August. 18G2.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM CULLEN.

Lieutenant Cullen was mustered into the service on the 1st of October,
18G1, as 1st Lieutenant of .Company E, 48th Penna. Regiment, He was
with the Regiment, faithfully discharging his duties up to the time of
his death, which happened at Antietam. Lieutenant Cullen was one of
the bravest men in the Regiment. At the Second Battle of Bull Run,
after our men had been forced back by the enemy, he rallied a second
time into the fight. He was also in the Battles of Chantilly and South
Mountain, where he distinguished himself by his coolness and gallantry.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. HUME.

Lieutenant Hume was mustered in, September, 18G1, as 1st Sergeant
of Co. B, 48th Penna. Reg. He was with the Regiment at Second Bat-
tle of Bull Run, Chantilly, Soutli Mountain and Antietam, where he
fought bravely. In September, 1802, he was promoted 2d Lieutenant of
his Company. He was in the Battle of Fredericksburg, December, 18G2,
and was shortly after promoted to 1st Lieutenant. He was with the Re-
giment and participated in all of its engagements in East Tennessee. —
He was in all the battles in which the command participated, in Grant's
campaign in Virginia, 18G4, and on the 31st of May, while on the skir-
mish line, was wounded in the arm, from the effects of which he died.
Lieutenant Hume was a good, brave officer, and highly respected by his
brother officers and men of the Regiment.

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LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LAUBENSTINE.

Lieutenant Laubenstinc was mustered in at Ilarrisbui-g in September,
18C)1, as a Sergeant in Co. II, 48th Penna. Regiment. He was at Bull
Kun, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and First Fredericksburg. —
At Lexington he was promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2d Lieutenant of
his Company. lie was through the East Tennessee campaign, and in
Grant's campaign of 18G4. On the 31st of May he was killed instantly
while on skiimish line. He was a goo:l officer.

LIEUTENANT DAVID B. BROWN.

Lieut. Brown was mustered into the three months' service, April 18,
1801, and served in Co. II, 25th Reg., P. V., during that time, as a pri-
vate. In September, 1801, he was mustered in as a corporal in Co. II,
48th Regt., P. V. He was with the Regiment at Bull Run, Chantilly,
South Mountain, Antietam and 1st Fredericksburg. In September, 1862,
he was promoted Sergeant-Major of the Regiment, and in that position
went through the East Tennessee campaign, and Grant's Virginia cam-
paign, 1804. During the siege of Petersburg he was promoted 2d Lieut-
enant of Co. H, to date from June 1, 1864. On the 5th of August he
was mortally wounded in front of Petersburg, while sitting near his
tent in camp. He died while being conveyed to the hospital. Lieutenrnt
Brown was an efficient officer, and commanded the respect of his supe-
rior officers.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE H. GRESSANG.

Lieutenant Gressang served in the three months' campaign as Com-
missary Sergeant in Co. H, 25th Reg., P. V. In August and September,
1861, he assisted Capt. John R. Porter to organize Company I, 48th Pa.
Regt, He was mustered into the service as 1st Lieutenant, October 1st.
He was an active, intelligent, good officer, and unfortunately was drown-
ed in the Potomac River, August, 1802, while en route on the steamer
West Point, to rejoin his Regiment, after recovering from severe illness.

LIEUTENANT JOSEPH EDWARDS.

Lieutenant Edwards was mustered into the service as a Corporal in
Co. I, 48th Reg. He was with the Regiment in all of its engagements,
and was severely wounded in a charge on the enemy's works, near Pe-
tersburg, on the 17th of June, 1804, from the effects of which he died.
He successively filled the positions of Sergeant, 1st Sergeant, 2d and
1st Lieutenants. He was a brave, good officer.

Biographical Sketches of Officehs. 529

LIEUTENANT HENRY C. JACKSON.

When ilie war broke out in 18G1, he was a student at the Millersville
Normal School. From a sense of duty and not from impulse, he left to
join Co. B, 14th Pa. Vols., under Capt. Jennings of St. Clair— a tliree
months' regiment. His time served out he returned to his home, St.
Clair, and remained until the -48th Regiment was organized, when he en-
listed in Co. G. Appointed Orderly Sergeant, he acted in that capacity
until June, 1802, when he was promoted to the 2d Lieut enantcy. The
first engagement in which he took part was Second Bull Run, in which
he was taken prisoner, and after some hardships in getting there he took
up an involuntary but short residence in the famous Libby Prison. —
His health remained good, but through mishaps of the campaign he lost
all his clothing except the old suit on his person (which after leaving
Libby, for obvious, reasons, he had to throw away) and he lost also his
sword and pistol. Soon exchanged he rejoined the Regiment and took
part in the sad affair of Petersburg. From this engagement he came
out safe.

Soon afterward the 48th were transferred to Kentucky. While in
Lexington he was appointed Acting Assistant Provost Marshal of East-
ern District of Kentucky, — Major Lyon being Chief. During the Ma-
jor's illness he had some most important duties. Afterwards he was
Acting Provost Marshal of the City of Lexington. While performing
its duties, he had charge of the money taken temporarily from the pri-
soners, and the office having been broken open by burglars, nearly $800
were stolen — all of which he made up out of his private funds to pre-
serve his character for integrity from even the breath of suspicion.

In the East Tennessee campaign he was wounded by a piece of shell
in the thigh during the defence of Knoxville, while commanding the
picket lines at the time of a charge at night by the enemy on them.

In his last campaign under Gen. Grant he was killed in the severe
Battle of Spottsylvania, Va. He was shot by a rifle ball in the neck,
the ball passing into the chest, and died in twenty minutes. This oc-
curred while lying in line of battle with the Regiment on a higher in-
clined piece of ground. Thus fell Lieutenant Jackson, faithful to every
duty, and though sensible of danger and perils, j^et braving them with
heroic disregard of self. He had determined if life were spared to re-
main in the arm}' till the last organized force of rebellion was over-
thrown. Gifted with a vigorous physical organization, considerable
energy, a clear and active mind, ready utterance, strict integrity, and
withal modest and affectionate, his friends had high hopes of his success
in a civil profession, but he was reserved by Providence to be one of the
numerous martyrs in behalf of the preservation of the Union, and the
honor and free institutions of our country.

530 Biographical Sketches of Officers,

lieutenant curtis clay pollock.

Lieut. Pollock enlisted in the "Washington Artillerists," Capt. Wren,
April 16, 1861, when the first call was made for volunteers, in the three
months' service; was one of the first to enter Washington City, and was
there during the eventful ten days when all communication with the
North was suspended. The Company was from there sent to Fort Wash-
ington, where he remained until his time expii^ed, and arrived home the
latter part of July. lie was then just 19 years of age. About the 20th
of September following he re-enlisted under Capt. Philip Nagle, 48th
Regt., P. V. The Regiment was ordered to Fortress Monroe, and from
there to Hatteras Island. The following Spi-ing they participated in
the capture of Newbern, and were camped in that vicinity for some time.
While there one of the Company officers resigning, he was recommended
for Second Lieutenant, was commissioned by the Governor, and imme-
diately after, Capt. Nagle having resigned, he was promoted to First
Lieutenant. His conduct as an officer was without reproach. Although
firm in the discharge of his duty, he never allowed an opportunity to
pass for doing a kind office for any of his men, and many have testified
to his kindness of heart, and sympathy in their long and weary marches.
His coolness and courage on the battle-field were remarkable in one so
young. Never absent from his post in danger, he inspired others by
his presence of mind and undaunted courage. In August, 1862, his Re-
giment was ordered to Fredericksburg, and from there marched to Cul-
pepper, to reinforce Pope. Hardly had they arrived, when commenced
that memorable "retreat" which "tried men's souls." Marching and
fighting night and day — at Sulphur Springs, 2d Battle of Bull Run,
Chantill}', etc., — they reached Alexandria and Washington, and were
immediately ordered to join McClellan. After participating in the bat-
tles of Antietam and South Mountain, they camped in Pleasant Valley,
near Harper's Ferry — when they obtained a rest which was so much
needed.

Burnside, having superseded McClellan, the 48th was again ordered
to Fredericksburg, and that terrible battle was fought, when so many
brave men fell. Lieut. Pollock narrowly escaped with his life. From
there the Regiment was sent to Newport News, and then to Lexington,
Ky. In July, 1863, he, with several other officers, was detailed for duty,
and ordered to Brattleboro, Vt. He remained there until October fol-
lowing, when he rejoined his Regiment in Tennessee ; was in several
engagements near Knoxvillo, and at the Siege of that place had the sa-
tisfaction of seeing Longstreet repulsed, and a retreat beaten by the
enemy.

In January, 1864, nearly all the Regiment having re-enlisted, they ar-
rired home, having a thirty days' furlough. Alas ! many saw their

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loved ones then, who were destined never to see them again on earth I
among that number was Lieutenant Pollock. About the lOth of March
the Regiment went to Harrisburg, and were ordered from there to An-
napolis. There they remained until ordered to join Grant's Army in his
Virginia campaign. At Spottsylvania, in the terrible battles of th«
Wilderness and Cold Harbor Lieutenant Pollock participated and faith-
fully did his duty, being most of the time tlie only officer in his Com-
pany. Plaving crossed the James and marched rapidly to Petersburg,
the 48th assaulted and successfully carried a portion of the enemy's
works. It was at that time, June 17, 1864, Lieutenant Pollock fell,
severely wounded in the shoulder. The ball having been successfully
extracted, hopes were entertained for his recovery, and he was taken to
Georgetown Hospital, where, notwithstanding all efforts to save him,
lockjaw terminated his existence, June 23, 1804. One of the many who
have given their lives a sacrifice on their country's altar. Who covild
die a nobler death ?

LIEUTENANT ERNEST T. ELLRICH.

Lieutenant Ellrich was in the lliree months' service as a private in
the National Light Infantry. On his return he assisted Capt. Filbert to
recruit a Company for the 9Gth Regiment (Co. B,) of which he becama
1st Lieutenant. Was mustered in, Sept. 23, 1801. From February 12,
1862, to May 12th, he was absent from the Regiment with a broken leg,
and on recruiting service. May 12th, he rejoined the Regiment. H«
was killed in the Battle of Gaines' Hill, Va., June 27, 1862. A good
officer and an estimable man.

LIEUTENANT JOHN DOUGHERTY.

In the three months' campaign Lieutenant Dougherty was 2d Lieuten-
ant in Company F, Gth Pa. Reg. He was a native of Ireland, and cam*
to this country while quite young. He was a soldier in the regular ser-
Tice in Texas and on the frontiers for several years before the Rebellion.
He came to Pottsville shortly before the war, and when hostilities com-
menced entered the 6th Regiment, as stated. After his return from the
three months' service he assisted Capt. Anthony to recruit a Company
for the 96th Reg., (F.) and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant. He wai
in the Battle of West Point, Va. ; through the Peninsula campaign ; in
the retreat ; at the Second Battle of Bull Run, and through the Mary-
land campaign of 1862, up to Crampton's Pass, Sept. 14th, in which en-
gagement he fell mortally wounded. His last words were, "Oh, God,
must I die?" He was an excellent soldier, and died for a country in
whose service he had many years gallantly borne a musket.

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LIEUTENANT JOHN T. HANNUM.

He wns commissioned 2d Lieutenant of Company D, 9Gth Pa. Reg.,
Septembei' 23, 18G1, and was with the Regiment at the Battle of West
Point. He v.-as sick in hospital during the seven days' fight on the Pen-
insula and until he rejoined the Regiment, August 30, 18G2. He was at
Crampton's Pass, Antietam and First Fredericksburg. After the latter
engagement he was promoted 1st Lieutenant, Nov. 21, 1862. He was
also in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg. On the 27th of December,
1862, he was detailed as Acting Adjutant of his Regiment, in which po-
sition he was at Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove and Gold Mine
Run, in 1863. He was in all of the Battles of iSen. Grant's Virginia
campaign in 1864, up to Cold Harbor, in which engagement he was
mortally wounded by a fragment of a defective shell, fired by one of our
batteries. He died in June 1864.

OUR SURGEONS.

During the war Schuylkill County was most ably represented
in the medical corps of the National service. Seveial of her
surgeons were ordered to the most responsible positions, while all
were useful and etficient. We will give brief data of their re-
spective service, merely premising that it is a chapter honorable to
the gentleinen whose names are contained in it^ and of which
Schuylkill County can justly be proud :

JOHN T. CARPENTER.

Dr. Carpenter was appointed Surgeon by Governor Curtin, his com-
mission dating April 21, 1861. He v/as forthwith ordered on duty at
Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, to examine recruits and organize the hospital
department of the camp. By commission, dated June 4, 1861, Dr. Car-
penter was appointed Surgeon of the oth Pennsylvania Reserves, Col.
S. G. Simmons. He went into the field in Western Virginia, June 21st,
with the first Pennsylvania Brigade of three years' troops, as Surgeon
of the Brigade, by seniority. He served as Senior Surgeon of the Penn-
sylvania Reserves, wlien that Division was on duty in the Army of the
Potomac, at Washington, after the First Battle of Bull Run. Dr. Car-
penter was examined by the United States Army Medical Board at
Washington, and promoted to Brigade Surgeon, U. S. Vols., by commis-
sion from President Lincoln, dated September 4, 1861. He reported to

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Major-General Rosecranz in the field at Tompkin's Farm, West Virginia,
Oct. 14, and was assigned to the German Brigade, commanded by Col.
Robert L. McCook of Ohio. lie established the general hospitals for
the sick and wounded of Gen. Rosecranz's army, at Charlestown, and
took charge of them in November, 18C1. He was ordered to Cumber-
land, Md., March 13, 18G2, to take charge of the general hospitals of
the army. He was ordered to Wheeling, Va., April 29, by Gen. Fre-
mont, as Medical Purveyor of the Mountain Department, of which De-
partment he was appointed Medical Director on the 10th of May. He
was ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered on the duty of Medical
Inspector of hospitals, August 25, 18G2. He was appointed Medical
Director of hospitals in Cincinnati and vicinity, September 1st. He was
appointed May 18, 1863, by the Surgeon-General U. S. Army, to be
President of the Army Medical Board at Cincinnati, for examination of
candidates for the appointment of Assistant-Surgeons of Volunteers, —
Gen. Burnside in General Order, No. 131, Aug. 13, 18G3, appointed Dr.
Carpenter Assistant ^ledical Director of the Department of the Ohio.
He was appointed by Gen. J. D. Cox, Medical Director of the District of
Ohio, Oct. 31. Dr. Carpenter was relieved from duty at Cincinnati, March
8ht, 18G4, by order of the War Department, and ordered to report to
the Assistant-Surgeon-General at Louisville, Ky. On the 19th he
was appointed Superintendent and Inspector, U. S. Army general hos-
pitals, District of Kentucky. Dr. Carpenter resigned on the 2Gth of
April, 18G-1. His resignation was accepted, to take effect IMay 15, 1804.
To the exertions of Dr. Carpenter is due the fact tliat the sanitary con-
dition of some of our most important general hospitals, was brought to
a hio-h state of excellence — a work of the utmost importance. In ad-
dition Dr. Carpenter was recognized in the army as an able, skillful
operatiug surgeon.

D. J. M'KIBBIN.

On the 21st of April, 18G1, Dr. ^NFKibbin was commissioned Surgeon
of the 6th Penna. Vols., Col. Jas. Nagle, He served three months,
principally in the Shenandoah Valley, in the 1st Brigade of "Patterson's
Corps of Observation," Col. (afterwards Major-General) Geo. H. Thomas
commanding Brigade After being mustered out. Dr. M'Kibbin appeared
Auo-ust 0, before a Board of Medical Examiners at Harrisburg, and was
appointed a Surgeon of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He performed duty
at Camp Curtin until September, 1861, when he was assigned to and
commissioned Surgeon of the 50th Penna. Reg., Col. B. C. Christ. On
the 21st of October Dr. M'Kibbin was examined and commissioned Bri-
o-ade Suro-eon U. S. Volunteers. He continued to act as Surgeon of the
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534 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

50th Regiment, until February 5, 1862, when he was assigned to duty as
Post Surgeon at Hilton Head, S. C. April 1, 18(32, he was appointed
Medical Purveyor of tlie Department of 'he South, and on the 15th was
assigned to the additional duty of Acting Medical Director, Department
of the South, by order of Major-Generol D. Hunter, commanding — the
Medical Director, Surgeon G. E. Cooper, U. S. A., having been relieved
from the Department while on leave of absence to the North. On the
20th of July Dr. M'Kibbin was relieved of the latter duty by Surg. C.
II. Crane, U. S. A., and sent North in charge of sick and wounded. —
While on this duty he was assigned to organize and take charge of the
U. S. Gen. Hospital at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island. On the 12th
of September Dr. M'Kibbin was re-ordered to Hilton Head, S. C, where
lie performed a range of medical service under direction of Surgeon
Crane, Medical Director at the post, in hospital, in inspections along the
coast, and finally as Division Surgeon of the Ist Division, 10th Army
Corps, Brigadier-General (afterwards Maj.-Gen.) Alt'. II. Terry, com-
manding. On the loth of June, 18Go, Dr. M'Kibbin was relieved from
duty in the Department of the Souili, and ordered to report in person to
Gen. Rosecranz, commanding Department of the Cumberland. July 1,
he was assigned to the charge of the U. S. Gen. Hospital at Manchester,
Tenn., and subsequently in consequence of exigencies arising from the
advance of our army soutliward, organized and took charge of hospitals
at TuUahoma, Tenn., Stevenson. Ala., and Chattanooga, Tenn. On ac-
count of ill health induced by exposure at Chattanooga, and in conside-
ration of more than two and a half years' service in the front, Dr.
M'Kibbin was relieved from duty iu that Department, February 11,
18GI, and ordered to report to the U. S. Provost Marshal-General at
AVashington. At the General's instance Dr. M'Kibbin was appointed a
member of a military examining Board of officers for the Veteran Re-
serve Corps. He remained a member of this Board until Sept. 5, when
he was assigned to the medical inspection of Boards of Enrollment, and
visited and inspected the Boards of each Congressional District in the
States of Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Mary-
land, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
This duty being completed with the last draft and the termination of the
war by the surrender of Lee, Dr. M'Kibbin performed office labor in the
Medical Branch of the Provost Marshal-Generars Bureau, until May 30,
186.3, at which date being desirous of going abroad, he solicited the
Surgeon-General Jos. K. Barnes, U. S. A., to request his muster out of
the service of the United States,

During the three months' service Dr. MKibbin was in the skirmish
at Falling Waters, Va. In November, 1861, he was with the 50th Regi-
ment, and encountered the dangers of a terrific gale off Hatteras. He
witnessed the bonfbardment and surrender of the rebel forts on Hilton

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Head and Bay Point, S. C, to tlie Nav.al foi'ce under Diiponi. the land
forces under Brig. -Gen. T. W. Sh'^nnan, not being called into action.
He was present at the assault by Brig. -Gen. I. I. Stevens, on the rebel
works at Port llojal Ferry, S. C, January 1, 18G2 ; was at the Battle
of Pocotaligo, S. C, under Gens. Braanan and Terry ; was at the de-
monstration against Charleston, S. C, by Com. Dupont and Gen. Hun-
ter ; was at the Battle of Mission Ridge, Tenn., under Gen. Thomas;
was a close observer of the gallant attack upon and capture of Lookout
Mountain b}' Gens. Geary and Hooker, and was present at Fort De Rus-
gy during the raid of the rebel Generals Early and Breckinridge, on
Washington City, in .July, ISOi.

Dr. M'Kibbin's four j-ears of service, were eventful, and he possesses
the satisfactory consciousness of having in every sphere of duty, fulfilled
10 tlie lefter bis contract w^itli the Government.

HENRY CHESTER PARRY.

Dr. Parry entered the State service of Pennsylvania, as an Assistant-
Surgeon, April 23, 18(U. He was attached to the Eighth Regiment of
Infantry, commanded by Col. Emiley. From April until the latter part
of May this Regiment was quartered at Chambersburg, and during that
time Dr. Parry was the Ward Surgeon in the temporary military hospi-
tal established in that town. In tlie beginning of June he marched
with his Regiment in Patterson's column, as far as Martinsburg, Va.,
where he was detached and ordered to Hagerstown to take charge of the
Kennedy Hospital. He remained there until August 4th, wheu lie ob-
tained permission from the Secretary of War to be examined by a Board
of Medical Officers, to examine candidates for admission into the medical
corps of the Regular Army, then convened in New York. He passed an
examination on the 12th of August, and was appointed an Assistant Sur-
geon in the United States Army, his commission to date from August 2(5,
1861. He was then ordered to Washington, and remained on duty as
executive officer of the U. S. General Hospital for regular soldiers, until
January 18, 1802, when he was relieved from duty in Washington, and
ordered to report at Louisville to Major-General Buell, commanding the
Army of the Ohio. The General ordered him to report to Major John
King. U. S. A., commanding the First Battalion of the 5th, KJth, and
19th U. S. Infantry, in camp at Mumfordsville, Ky. There he was as-
signed to duty as Regimental Surgeon in the 19th Infantry, and with
this Regiment, and afterwards as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Brigade, ht
served in McCook's Division, and marched with the Army of the Ohio,
from Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1862, through Nashville, across Duck River,
and through Columbia to Savannah, Tennessee, where Buell's Army ar-

536 Biographical Sketches or Officers.

rived on the niglit of the 6th of April. It was immecliately put on steam-
ers, and hurriedly sent up the Tennessee River to Pittsburg Landing,
where the Army landed, just in time to reinforce and save the exhausted
and shattered forces of Gen. Grant. The next day, April 7, the first
great battle of the war was fought, and the rebel army under Beaure-
gard, compelled to retreat to its entrenchments at Corinth, Miss. After
the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, Dr. Parry was temporarily detailed
fiom his command, and placed in charge o^ the tents containing the
rebel wounded. In that fatiguing and unpleasant duty he was engaged
for five days, when he rejoined his Brigade. From April 13th to May
39th, the combined armies of the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi be-
sieged Corinth. On the 30th the place was evacuated by the rebels. In
the camps before Corinth, the officers and men were often exposed to the
noxious exhalations which rose from the broad forest swamps. There
Dr. Parry became ill with malarial fever, and when the army reached
Florence, Ala., June 20, he was unable to attend to his duties, and was
.sent to Louisville to regain health. At Louisville he obtained leave of
absence, and returned to his home in Pottsville, July 4th. Shortly after
he was ordered to report to Major-General McClellan, commanding the
Army of the Potomac, at Harrison's Landing, Ya., where he arrived
August 11th. At that station Dr. Parry was placed on board of the
steamer Montreal, and ordered to remove sick and wounded from the
Army to hospitals in the North. He was on this duty nearly three weeks,
when he was ordered to report to Assistant-Surgeon McClellan, U. S.
A., whom he assisted in establishing hospitals at Hampton, Va., where
he remained until April, 18G3. While he was stationed at Hampton, he
was at different times detailed on examining Boards, and for duties of
similar character. In the latter part of April he was ordered to report
to Major-General Peck, commanding the army at Suffolk, Va., which
place was threatened by a large rebel force under Gen. Longstreet. —
At Suffolk Dr. Parry was placed in charge of Batteries D and L, 4th U.
S. Artillery, with which command he served until Suffolk was evacuated
by the National forces, and in the entrenchments constructed near Ports-
mouth, Va. He participated in all of the raids made into the enemy's
country, and was often detailed on temporary duty at Fort Monroe, Nor-
folk and Portsmouth. In January, 1864, he was ordered to report to Maj.-
Gen. Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna. Arriv-
ing in Philadelphia he was placed in charge of the U. S. General Hos-
pital for nervous diseases, in Christian Street. He remained on that
duty until late in February, when he was ordered to Harrisburg, Pa., to
take charge of the hospitals in that city. He remained thereuntil June
23d, when he was ordered to Philadelphia, as executive officer of the
large army hospital in V^'est Philadelphia. At that hospital he was
stationed until September 3, when at his request he was relieved from

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duty, and ordered to report to Major-General Sheridan, commanding the
National forces in the Shenandoah Valley. There he served as Regi-
mental Surgeon of the Second U. S. Cavalry, and afterwards as Surgeon-
in-Chief of the Regular Brigade and the First Cavalry Division. He
shared with the troops the perils and hardships of the Valley, being
present at all of the battles, raids and skirmishes that Sheridan or Mer-
ritt fought from the Battle of Opequan, September 19, to Cedar Creek,
October 19, 1864. After the latter battle had been fought, and the scat-
t-ered remnant of the rebel army under Early had been driven down the
Valley to New Market, the Regular Brigade was ordered to proceed to
Harper's Ferry to protect the men engaged in rebuilding the railway
from that place to Stephenson's Depot, a station- about five miles from
Winchester, Va. The Brigade was on this duty until Nov. 27, when it
started from Winchester to hunt the notorious guerilla Moseby. Like
other commands before, it failed to catch him, and after three weeks"
search, was ordered to rejoin the Division (then engaged in collecting
cattle) near Snicker's Gap. When it had done so Merritt's Division
marched back through Middleburg, Upper ville, Paris, Millwood and
Warrenton. The route was dangerous, the troops being constantly an-
noyed by guerillas who hovered about their flanks and rear, in the moun-
tains. The Robinson, Hazel and Shenandoah rivers were obsti-ucted by
ice, which rendered crossing tedious, perilous and difficult. The raid
terminated on the last day of December, when the cavalry arrived at its
old camp near Keanstown. On the 23d of January, 1865, Dr, Parry ob-
tained a leave of absence to go home. At the expiration of his leave as
he was returning to his command he became ill in Baltimore, and lay in
Camden Street Hospital for two weeks, when he obtained another leave
of absence to return home and recruit his health. After this leave had
expired he repaired to City Point, Va., on his way to join the First Ca-
valry Division, then on the far left of our line before Petersburg. Be-
fore he could reach his command, and while af. the Ninth Army Corps'
front, a friend whom he loved dearly— Col. George W. Gowen, 48th Pa.
Veteran Volunteers — was instantly killed while leading the assault on
Fort Mahone, April 2d. Dr. Parry took charge of the body of Colonel
Gowen. He removed it from the field, embalmed it, and obtaining per-
mission from Gen. Grant, carried the precious charge to the late home of
Col. Gowen, Germantown, Pa. After discharging this sacred duty to
the remains of his friend. Dr. Parry returned to Petersburg, April 12th,
and on the 20th succeeded in reaching his command. His health how-
ever, unfitted him for active service, and he was sent to Washington in
charge of Major O'Keefe, a personal aid of Gen. Sheridan, Avho had
been dangerously wounded at the Battle of Five Forks. Dr. Parry was
ordered to the U. S. General Hospital, Augusta, Me., and July G, 1865,
to Fort Preble, Portland, Me., where at the time of writing this he is

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538 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

stationed as Post Surgeon. Dr. Parry was present at many skirmishes
and fights, both in the West and East ; endured fatigue and encountered
peril and a thousand hardships known only to those who have experienced
a soldier's life. We trust that his health may be fully re-established,
and that he may live long for the beneiit of the service of which he is
an ornament.

HENRY R. SILLIMAN.

Dr. Silliman was commissioned Assistant-Surgeon in the U. S. Army,
May 28, 1861. At the First Battle of Bull Run, as principal assistant
of Surgeon McGruder, he rendered valuable aid in the unfortunate hos-
pital which late on the day of that memorable fight, became the object
of rebel barbarity. During the war he was stationed on the frontier
and at Fort Delaware, discharging his duties with great fidelity. We
are not in possession of data to enter more fully into Dr. Silliman's mi-
litary career.

D. WEBSTER BLAND.

Dr. Bland was commissioned Surgeon, October 12, 18G1, by Governor
Curtin, and assigned to duty with the 9Gth Penna. Regiment, by order
of Surgeon-General Henry R. Smith. He reported for duty, October 19,
and arrived in Washington, November 11. On the 25th of November the
Regiment was assigned to the Brigade of Gen. H. Slocum, and remained
in camp during the winter of 1861-2. In January, 1862, Dr. Bland was
detailed by order of Gen. Franklin, as a member of a Medical Examin-
ing Board, to examine recruits. At the Battle of West Point, May 7,
1862, Dr, Bland was detailed as an assistant to Dr. Frank Hamilton for
operative duties. He was with the Regiment during the memorable seven
days before Richmond, sharing the hardships incident to that campaign.
He was present at the Battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, White
Oak Swamp, Charles City Cross Roads, Chickahorainy, Glendale, Smith's
Farm, and Malvern Hill. He was on the Peninsula during July and
part of August, and at Second Bull Run, Crampton's Pass and Antietam.
At the First Battle of Fredericksburg he was detailed as one of the
operating surgeons of the 1st Division, Gth Corps. He was present at
Gen. Burnside's move, January, 1863 ; at Second Fredericksbui-g and
Chancellorsville. After the latter engagement he was detailed to take
four hundred wounded to Washington. After his return he was placed
in charge of flag of truce at the Lacey House, to receive our wounded
who had been left in the hands of the enemy. In May, 1863, Dr. Bland

Biographical Sketches of Oeficers. 539

lfa3 appointed Acting Medical Director of the 1st Division, Gtli Corps,
Gen. Brooks, of the field hospital of Avhich he was Surgeou-in-Chief
during the Gettysburg campaign. He continued Medical Director of that
Division during September and October, and was President of an exam-
ining Board for admission into the Veteran Reserve Corps. He was
Surgeon-in-Chief of the 1st Division, Cth Corps, during the brilliant
movement and complete victory over the enemy at Rappahannock Sta-
tion, Noy. 7, 18G3. On the following day he superintended the removal
to Washington, of 376 wounded of his Corps. He was Surgeon-in-Chief
of the 1st Division, Gth Corps, during the memorable Mine Run affair,
December, 18G3. "Was in winter-quarters at Brandy Station, 1863-4,
during which he was detailed as a member of examining Board of his
Division, for general and special duties connected with the Medical
Department. On the 12th of April, 1864, Dr. Bland was detailed by or-
der of General Meade, as Medical Inspector of the Gth Corps, and as-
signed to duty on the Staff of Gen. John Sedgwick. He was with the
Porps during the historical campaign of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg and the Weldon Rail Road. On the 19th of
July the Corps was ordered to Washington ; Gen. Wright assumed com-
mand of the Middle Military Division, of which Department Dr. Bland
was made Medical Inspector. Vvhen Gen. Wright was relieved and Geni
Sheridan took command. Dr. Bland remained Medical Inspector of the
Corps, and was present at the brilliant battles in the Shenandoah Valley.
He left the field, Sept. 23, 1864, and was mustered out by reason of ex-
piration of term of service, on the 21st of October.

0. M. BOBBINS.

Dr. Bobbins was assigned to duty with the 9th Penna. Cavalry, on thp
22d of October, 1861. He served with the Regiment in Kentucky and
Tennessee, under INIajor-General Buell, until the Battle of Perryville,
when he was detached on the 24th of October, 1862, and ordered by Dr.
Head, Medical Director, Louisville, Ky., to fit up a hospital for officers,
of which he served as Surgeon-in-charge until the 10th of June, 1863.
He was then relieved by an order from the War Department, ordering
all Surgeons to the front. On the 9th of July, 1863, Dr. Bobbins was
assigned to duty on the Staff of CoL Campbell as Surgeon of 1st Bri-
gade, 1st Division of Cavalry, Department of the Cumberland. In De-
cember, 1863, he was relieved, and assigned to duty on the Staff of Gen.
Edward McCook, as Medical Director of that Division. In July, 1864,
Dr. Bobbins resigned in consequence of physical disability. His entire
term of service was in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.

540 IJIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OFFICERS.

THOMAS TURNER,

Dr. Turner entered tba service as an Acting Assistant-Surgeon, on tiie
15th of August, 18G2. His first assignment -was on that date on board
of the ship St. Mark, then used for transporting sick and wounded from
Southern to Nortliern ports. While the vessel lay at Fortress Monroe in
the Autumn of 18G2, he was detailed to take charge of sick and wounded
on hospital transports on the James River. When he assumed his former
position on the St. Mark, he remained until she was turned over to the
Quartermaster's Department, in March, 1863. He was then ordered to
Alexandria, Va., and assigned as Surgeon-in-charge of King Street Hos-
pital, where he remained until January 23, 18G4, when he was trans-
ferred, at his request, to the Desmanes Hospital, (eye and ear infirmary,)
in Washington. Of this hospital he was appd^nted executive officer,
which position he held until its transfer to Chicago. 111., in May. The
Ricord Hospital Avas then organized and succeeded the Desmanes Hos-
pital, of which he was retained as executive oflScer until April 11, 1865,
when he was appointed by the President Assistant-Surgeon of A'^olun-
teers, to rank as such from April 6, 1865. He then reported as ordered,
to the Medical Director's Department, Washington, for assignment to
duty. Having been executive officer of Ricord Hospital from its or-
ganization, and as he was preparing a treatise on venereal disease for
the Surgical History of the War, he was again assigned to duty as ex-
ecutive officer of that Hospital, where he was still on duty at the time of
preparing this, and Examining Surgeon of Quartermasters for the De-
partments of the East and Washington, under General Order, 252, A. G.
0., August 31, 1804.

J. B. BRANDT.

Dr. Brandt entered the three months' service, April 17, 18G1, as pri-
vate, Co. H, 25th Penna. Regiment. Entered three years' service, Aug.
19, 1861, as Captain of Company A, 50th Penna. Reg. In August, 1862,
he resigned that position for the purpose of entering the medical corps
of the service. He joined the 55th Pa. Reg., Sept, 16, 1862, as Assist-
ant^Surgeon. On the 31st of January, 1863, he was promoted to Surgeon
of the 175th Pa. Drafted Militia, and joined the command on the 24th
of February. Was mustered out of service in consequence of expira-
tion of term of Regiment, Aug. 5, 1863. He re-entered the service as
Assistant-Surgeon of 110th Pa. Reg., May 2, 1864, and served with it
until Sept. 15, 1864, when he was mustered as Surgeon of the 55th Pa.
Reg., with which Regiment he served until the war closed.

Biographical Sketches of Officers. 5-41

r. R. TALM.

Dr. Palm was commissioned by Gov. Curtin on thel2tli of September,
1862, and ordered to report immediately for duty. lie was mustered
into service at Harrisburg, for three years or the war, as Assistant-Sur-
geon. The Surgeon-General assigned him to the 110th Pa. Reg., of the
Army of the Potomac. He served as Assistant-Surgeon of that Regi-
ment, until after the Battle of Fredericksburg, in which engagement he
participated. Several days after the battle he was promoted Surgeon
by Governor Curtin, his commission bearing date Dec. 13, 1802, the day
on which the battle was fought. He was ordered to report for duty to
the Colonel of the lo7th Pa. Reg., (a nine months' Regiment) 1st Corps,
Gen. Reynolds. He was Surgeon of that Regiment until the expiration
of its time, and was mastered out June 2, 1803. Surgeon- General King
tendered Dr. Palm a new commission, but impaired health would not
permit its acceptance. While with the 137th Regiment he was selected
as a member of the operating corps, in which capacity he served during
the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, and at Chancellorsville, April and
May, 1863.

J. H. KAUFFxMAN.

Dr. Kauffman entered the army in April, 1861, as a private in Co. H,
6th Pa. Reg, In June, 1862, Dr. Kauffman was appointed Acting As-
sistant-Surgeon, which position he held until November, 1802. He was
commissioned Assistant-Surgeon of Volunteers, jNIarch 14, 1803, and as-
signed to the 128th Penna. Regiment. He was mustered out in conse-
quence of expiration of term of service of Regiment, May 21, 1803.
He was re-appointed May 22, and assigned to the 151st Penna. Reg.
He was mustered out with the Regiment, July 27, 1803. He was assigned
to e52d Pa. Reg., as Assistant-Surgeon, May 31, 1861, and continued on
duty with the Regiment, until the close of the war.

GEORGE W. SAYLOR.

Dr. Saylor was appointed Medical Cadet, Dec. 9, 1801, and served in
that capacity at Hilton Head, S. C, and Washington, D. C, until Dec.
9, 1862. He was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, and assigned to the 116th
Pa. Reg., April 29, 1864. He resigned on the 24th of July, on account
of ill health. He was appointed Acting Assistant-Surgeon, Nov. 17,
1864, and resigned April 18, 1865.

S42 Biographical Sketches of Officers.

C. P. HERRINGTOX.

Dr. Ilorrington was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, May 1, 18f32:
became Assistant-Surgeon, 48th Pcnna. Reg., Sept. 12; Surgeon, 138th
Pa. Reg., Oct. 13, and was mustered out, Dec. 4, 18G3, on account of
physical disability.

F. J. KERN.

Dr. Kern was commissioned Assistant-Surgeon of Volunteers, Aug.
20, 1863, and on the 22d mustered into the service at Fort Monroe, and
assigned to the 3d Penna. Artillery (152d Reg.) Having been recom-
mended by Gen. Butler for promotion. Dr. Kfcrn was mustered in as
Surgeon of the 188th Pa. Reg., April 1, 1804. In consequence of a se-
vere bronchial affection, contracted during the severe Spring campaign
of that year, Dr. Kern tendered his resignation, which was accepted
July 9, 1864. Not being satisfied to remain at home, while the demand
for surgeons to attend to wounded patriots was great, he entered the
Lospital 5«ervice at Washington, August 2, 1804, where he remained until
the close of the war.

CHARLES II. HAESELER.

Dr. Haeselcr entered the service in Capt. T. S. Richards" Cavah-y Com-
pany, July 2, 1803. On the 10th, while his Company lay at Harrisburg.
iie was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, and assigned to the 20th Pa.
Cavalry Regiment, Col. John E. Wynkoop. Dr. Haeseler had medical
charge of the Rcgitnent for nearly three months, and served during six.
He was mustered out with the Regiment, January 7, 1864, their term
of service having expired. His care and attention to the command, as
Surgeon, were so highly appreciated, that the members of the Regiment
presented to him a handsome sword.

DOUGLASS R. B ANNAN.

Dr. Bannan was appointed Assistant-Surgeon in the United States
Navy, in the Spring of 1801. He was ordered to Fortress Monroe on
duty on board the transport Brandywine, in which position he remained
for some months. Subsequently he was ordered to the fleet on the Mis-
sissippi River, commanded by Com. Porter. He was assigned for duty
on board the Gunboat Carondelet, and was present in her at the passage
of the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, He was made passed-Assistant-

Biographical Sketches oy Officeiis. 543

Surgeon in 1864, and in August, 1805, sailed in the Sbawinut, Goldsbo-
rougli's Mediterranean Squadron. Dr. Bannan was one of the inost
highly educated and accomplished Surgeons who entered the service
during the war.

THEODORE AUGUSTUS HELWld.

Dr. Helwig was on the 2d of August, 1802, conmiissioned Assistant-
Surgeon of Volunteers, and assigned in charge of the 128th Penna. Ke-
giaient. On the 12th of July, 180o, he was promoted Surgeon, with the
rank of Major, and served with the 49th Pa. Vol. Militia, known as th«
2d Corn Exchange Ptegiment. He was subsequently assigned to the
87th Penna. Veteran Rggiment, attached to the 3d Division, Gth Corps,
with which he served until he was mustered out, July 8, 1805. lie was
in the following engagem.euts during his term of service : South ]Moun-
tain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy
Creek, Cold Harbor, (where he received a slight wound in the head,)
Petersburg, Monocacy, Charlestown, Opequan (Winchester,) Fisher's
Hill, Cedar Creek, Hatcher's Run, Petersburg and Saylor's Creek.

Dr. Helwig's career in the array was distinguished by great ability,
and fidelity to his duties, and he left the service at the conclusion of the
war, with a record as honorable as that of any Surgeon furnished by
Schuylkill County.

J. BURD PEALE.

Dr. Peale was commissioned as Brigade Surgeon, Oct. 30, 18G1. On
Dec. 2, by Special Order, 318, he was assigned to Department of Poto-
mac, to duty on Gen. StaheVs Staff, 1st Brigade, Blenker's Division. —
Dec. 12, 1801, went into winter quarters at Hunter's Chapel, Va., until
March 10, 1802, when the advance toward Riclimond took place. When
Dr. Peale"s Division reached Warrenton Junction on the Orange and
Alexandria R. R., it was ordered to march by way of Ashby's Gap in
the Blue Ridge, and Berry's Ferry over the Shenandoah River, to Stras-
burg. Failing to cross the River at that point, the Division went to
Snicker's Gap and Ferry, and thence through Berryville to Wood's
Mills, four miles from Winchester. The sick of the Division were sent
thence to the Union Hotel in Winchester. While at Wood's >Hlls, Gen.
Rosecran/ took command of the Division. The management of tlie hos-
pital established in the Union Hotel not pleasing Gen. Rosecranz, on the
4th of May he ordered Dr. Peale to "take charge of and organize as a
Post Hospital" the Union Hotel Hospital, This was an exceedingly dif-
ficult duty. The sick and attendants were all Germans, foreigners, very

544 BioGRAniiCAL Sketches of Officers.

few being able to speak or even understand English. They numbered
about 340 altogether. T^he task was no easy one, to organize a hospital
with such elements, and from a state of the most utter confusion. He
succeeded however, to the satisfaction of the proper authorities. While
he was on this duty the Division was marched by way of Romney to
Gen. Fremont's command, which it joined. Gen. Rosecranz then left it.

By May 23d the sick, left under Dr. Peale's charge, had all been sent
away to the hospital at New Creek and back to their commands, except
twelve, who were too ill to be removed. These he expected to send away
ihe following week and then to close the hospital. That night at eleven
o'clock he learned that the enemy had attacked our forces at Front Royal
on the Shenandoah, defeated them, and were approaching Winchester.
Deeming it his duty to remain with those committed to his care, under
any circumstances. Dr. Peale communicated his determination to do so,
to his Assistant-Surgeon and to the few attendants remaining. They all
expressed their intention of doing as he did. Gen. Banks having fallen
back from Strasburg to Winchester, on the 24lh of May, was attacked
by Jackson's forces, and driven to and across the Potomac River. The
sick who were able to walk from Strasburg, came into Dr. Peale's Hos-
pital on the evening of the 24th, and wore fed on bread, raw ham and
coffee ; they numbered 230, and it required until 12 o'clock to get through
feeding them. About 0 o'clock on the 2oth Dr. Peale was taken prisoner,
and directed by the Rebels to continue attending the wounded as they
were brought in by their (the Rebel) soldiers. Dr. Black, Acting Medi-
cal Director of Jackson's forces, called upon him during the day, and
informed him that he was to take charge of all the Federal sick and
wounded and organize a hospital in the same building he then occupied
llie Union Hotel. All the wounded brought in, and all tlie sick from the
three Union hospitals in Winchester, were then brought to the "Union
Hotel" and placed under his care. They numbered about 338, and at-
tendants were allowed him to the number of 50. Dr. Bissell of the 5th
Conn. Vols., was captured during the morning, and ordered b^- the Re-
bel medical authorities to act as Dr. Peale's assistant. His former as-
sistant who had agreed to remain and assist him if the rebels came, ran
off when they entered the town. So did his attendants except two fe-
male nurses, Mrs. Palmer and Miss McClellan, — two noble women, and
pure patriots — and two male nurses.

During Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday other Surgeons who were
captured on Sunday, were allowed to offer their services to him, and he
assigned a portion of the duties of the hospital to each.

Dr. Peale informs us that Gen. Banks' statement, that eight Surgeons
voluntarily surrendered themselves to the enemy, to take care of our
sick and wounded, is not correct, as all except Dr. Peale, were cap-

Biographical Sketches of Officers. 545

tui ed involuntarily, while on duty in the field with their respective com-
mands, except perhaps Dr. Bissell, who was passing through the town at
the time the enemy entered. None of those captured, except Dr. Peale,
had any occasion to remain, as their duty was with their commands,
while Dr. Peale's was fixed with those who were unable to be moved. — ■
Their capture was equally with his in the line of their duty, but not
exactly as stated by tlie General in his report.

When the rebels evacuated Winchester, Dr. Peale took charge of all
the hospitals that had been occupied by them, three in number, and as-
signed Surgeons from those who were assisting him, with assistants and
necessary attendants to each.

When Gen. Banks occupied the place on the Oth day after the rebels
evacuated, approving of Dr. Peale's conduct, he granted him leave of
absence for seven days to visit his family, v/ho had not heard anything of
him since his retreat. June 19th, Gen. Sigel being in command, by
Special Order, No. 81, Department Shenandoah, Section iv. Brig. Surg.
J. B. Peale was appointed Chief of Hospitals, to carry out the provisions
contained in "Sections 2 and G, of General Orders, No. 3G, Adji. Gen's
Office, Washington, April 7, 1802." About the end of June he was re-
lieved from duty in Winchester, and ordered to report to Gen. Schenk at
Sperryville, Ya. When Sigel's Corps marched from Spei^ryville to rein-
force Banks at Cedar Mountain, Dr. Peale was ordered to remain and
take charge of all the sick of the Corps, over 300 in number. This was
in the night, and as the order tn march had come unexpectedly, no pro-
vision had been made in the way of medicine or food. This caused him
considerable difficulty. Two days afterwards, teams having been sent
to him from Culpepper, he removed all the sick during the night and
morning to that place. Dr. Peale was at the Second Battle of Bull Hun,
Aug. 30, 18G2. xVbout Dec. 7, 18G2, by Special Order, No. 132, Ilead-
Quarters 11th Army Corps, he was assigned to duty at Headquarters as
Medical Inspector of the Corps, on Avhich duty he remained until his re-
signation was accepted, April 29th, in consequence of ill health, caused
by exposure during the winter.

Vv'hile on duty in Winchester as Chief of Hospitals, he organized a
hospital in Jas. M. Mason's house for the sick of Fremont's Department,
who were then in that City.

CONCLUSION,

In concluding this Memorial of the Patriotism of Schujlkill
County, a few suggestive thoughts present themselves, and demand
attention. The first shot at Sumter fired with indignation the
hearts of our loyal people, and by thousands our citizens flew to
arms and marched to the front. This record shows how speedily
after the three months' service they filled for '^three years or the
war,'' the ranks of two regiments ; threw companies into other
Pennsylvania organizations — infantry and cavalry, — and had re-
presentatives in the regiments of not only this, but of every loyal
State from Maine to California. In the regular army and in the
navy, the patriotic sons of Schuylkill County were also found in
creditable numbers. On every great battle-field of the War our
soldiers fought, and many fell, sealing their devotion to their
country with their blood. Others lingered in indescribable suf-
fering, in the prison pens at Salisbury and Andersonvilie, until
death lemoved them be\^ond the reach of their inhuman jailers.
The sacrifices, the devotion, the heroism of these men will never
be fully known. But monuments, sacred to their precious memo-
ries, will arise, and their deeds will live in the hearts of unborn
generations of freenien.

Other loyal citizens of the County, who did not go to the field,
felt it their duty to sustain and encourage the Government in its
efi^orts to subdue armed llcbellion against its authority. They
contributed largely of their means, to assist in filling the ranks of
the Union armies. They assisted every movement to add to the
comfort and efiicijpncy of our forces. In frequent meetings they pas-
sed resolutions, pledging ''their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honors/' lo the contest for existence in which the llepublic was
engaged. They rejoiced when victory crowned our arms, and sor-
rowed, but never despaired, when defeat was encountered by our
heroic soldiers. They sent letters of encouragement to our boys
in the front, and by their welcome sympathy cast halos of joy on
many an else dark bivouac or midnight watch. These citizens —
Union men as they were known — had their duties to meet and
discharge, and this Memorial would be meagre indeed, had they
failed. They did not fail. Shoulder to shoulder ; through good

Conclusion. 547

and evil report ; in victory or defeat ; when Rebellion was im-
minent North ; amid calumny and threats, these men stood firmly
for the right. The Union men of Schuylkill County, in and out
of the army, made the material of which this book is composed.
Without them the patriotism of Schuylkill County would have
been a myth.

A work of this character is nothing unless truthful. It is our
duty ia summing up, to do justice to the men who in the Rebellion,
made the patriotic history of the County. To them it is due.
They must receive the credit. They did the work. To them the
crown of honor belongs.

The men in the County who opposed the Government, at first
passively, then actively, may be classed, and we think correctly,
with the Toiies of the Revolution, their position being, if any-
thing, more ignoble. In 177G the ties of kindred, and we can
readily believe, in many instances, a sincere doubt of the policy of
separating from the mother country, may have actuated opposition
to the Revolution. There is in this the shadow of an excuse for
at least some of the Tories of the Revolution. Rut what excuse
can an honorable mind find for acts of opposition in 1861 by a
citizen against a kind and just Government, endeavoring to crush
an unprovoked, unwarranted, cruel, hellish Rebellion ? Truly —
and we say it reverently — a parallel to the infamous attempt to
destroy this Government, is found only in the effort of Satan and
his confederates, to usurp by Rebellion, the throne of the Most
Hi<yh. Yet this great crime, culminating in the assassination of
one of the purest of American Statesmen — Abraham Lincoln —
had its earnest, zealous defenders in Schuylkill County. When
the hearts of loyal men were oppressed by grief in consequence of
bloody defeats ia the field, the faces of these sympathisers with
the Rebellion, were radiant with joy. When the ne\'is of victory
was received, and patriots were jubilant, these men retired from
public view to their secret conclaves, to hide their chagrin. It
was so palpable that even children noticed and commented upon
their action. They contributed little or nothing to charitable ob-
jects during the war; discouraged enlistments, and excited the
ignorant by false statements in regard to the objects and true me-
rits of the war, to such a degree, that the peace of the community
was jeopardized ; the laws of the United States in portions of the

548 CoNCLUdiox.

County rendered inoperative, and the Government was compelled
at a heavy expense, to keep a military force here for a long time,
to protect the law-abiding, and to enforce the laws. Their leaders
on the stump, to assemblages of the people, ay, even in the streets
of Pottsville, openly expressed sympathy for the llebel cause,
while they mialigned the Government and ridiculed its military
raid financial power. The correctness e=f the statements which
we make, is known to every man in Schuylkill County. We
'''nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice/^ Such in
brief, was the action of men who had no part nor lot in making
the creditable record ^hich we have the pleasure, the infinite sa-
tisfaction of submitting to our loyal people. Wo might, and
probably, it would be just^ to name the men who were most pro-
minent in opposition to the holy cause in which we were engaaed.
.But upon reflection, we deem it unnecessary. They arc well
known. In future years^ when the children of those who fell in
battle, shall say with pride o'ertopping sorrow, "My father was
killed at Gettysburg ;" "iMine fell at Atlanta," or '\Miue yielded
up his life on the bloody breastworks of Petersburg," other child-
ren will murmur, the blush of shame mantling their cheeks, "Oh,
God ! oh, God ! my father was a Copperhead 1 He was the ene-
my in its hour of peril, of the Government that protected his life
and property I" To this disgrace which can never be wiped out,
while the history of the Rebellion exists, we leave the men of
Schuylkill County who opposed the grandest, holiest cause that
ever engaged the mind of man, or in defence of which his life
was asked and freely given, merely stating that the few names of
the sympathisers with treason, which appear in the first portion of
this work, were subsequently, as the War progressed, covered with
ignominy in consequence of the dastardly position they took.

Citizens of Schuylkill County, our work is done. It is a record
of your patriotism. Of its faults and shortcomings, we pray you^
be lenient. It has been written in hours snatched from other oc-
cupations, but in a spirit of love for the task, and pride in the
honorable position your County occupies as an integral part of the
State that did her duty so nobly during the entire War. When
the history of Pennsylvania's action in the contest shall be written,
the page that bears your record will be read with gratification by
your children and your children's children.

APPENDIX.

In the list of muster rolls of the Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania
Militia Regiment, which diirin»; its term of service was commarfli-
ed by Col. Jas. H. Campbell^ we omitted the muster roll of one
Company from this County. The Company was "G," Capt. Samuel
Harrison. Capt. Moll's Company should be "F," and Capt. Ran-
dall's Company "I."

The roll of Captain Harrison's Company is as follows :

Captain, SAMUEL HARRISON.
\»t Limt., Ralph R. Lee.
'Id Lieut., Stephen Harris.
\st Sergeant, Robert Brown.

[The names of the Corporals we have i)ot been able to get. They are
among the following list of privates.]

2d Sergeant, Edward Weisek.
Zd " Wm. Hewes.
Mh " Henry Fulman.
bth '' RioLLAY F. Lee.

Auman, Isaac
Bowen, Jas. A.
Billington, Adam
Bushar, Chas.
Becker, Henry
Blockridge, Levi
Bolick, .John
Clarkson, Mai.
Critz, David
Curry, John
Cake, A. L.
Diciis, Wm.
Doiity, Peter
Dufur, Luther
Dawson, Mat.
Detrick, I.
Evans, David M.
Edwards, Lewis
Egan, Thos.
Flanigan, Mich.
Flynn, John
Floyd, John T.
Gannan, Thos.
Gottschall, Wm,
Heisler, Geo. I.
Harris, John H.
Harris, Morgan
Total.

PRIVATES :

Howard, Benj.
Huntzinger, Wm. C,
Hays, John
Hays, John S.
Hewes, Wm. I.
Hicks, Thos.
Jennings, Adam.
Jones, Isaac
Jones, John S.
Jones, Jos. B.
.Tones, Wm.
Knoll, xVdam
Knoll, David
Lambert, Benj.
Llewellyn, John
Lilly, Henry
Lykens, P.
Mullen, John
Madison, Thos.
McCabe, Mich.
McArthur, Mich.
Matthews, Thos. G.
Maurer, Fi-ank
McAvoy, Mich.
Niepolt, C.
Oyster, S.
Parker, Wm. J.

Parker, Wm.
Robertson, Jas.
Rigg, Reese E.
Robinson, Moses
Stout, N. M.
Stine, Jonas
Savage, Wm.
Schreiner, .Tos.
Stichter, Chas.
Schreiner, John W
Specht, John
Smith, William
Stevenson, John
Spence, Wm.
Stodd, Wm.
Sullivan, Jas.
Todd, John
Ulrich, Nich.
Vaughan, Thos.
Williams, Thos.
AValbridge, John
Wise, John
Weiser, Theo.
Wade, Fred. F.
Williams, Wm.
Wilson, .John
Zinc, Albert
81

Appendix.

' Rkcapitiilation.
Commissioned Officers, - - -
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Privates. _ . . . _

Other Companies of Regiment,

Grand Total of Thirty-ninth Regiment,

782

- 871

CAPTAIN RICHARDS' CAVALRY COMPANY.

Among the companies that left Schuylkill County, in 1863, for
State defence, on the occasion of Gen. Lee's second invasion of
Pennsylvania, was one of cavalry, commanded by Thomas S.
Richards of Pottsville. The muster-roll through inadvertence, did
not come into our hands, until we had prepared the closing
pages of this book and they had passed through the press. —
We now give it however, on the principle "better late than never."
The Company we might premise, was in active service on the bor-
der of the State, for eight weeks :
Captaiiu THOMAS S. RICHARDS. '2d Corporal, Jas. Kirkpatrick.

].v^ Lieut., Zacur P. Pott.
'Id Lieut. ^ William Spencer.
1.9/ Sergeant, Howell Fisher.
'Id •' Willi A :m Wren.
'M " Robert B. Davis.
4//i " John Gillaspie,
~)th " Wm. S. Morris.
i!>th '• David Yuengling.
1.<.7 Corporal, Israel Settzinger.

?>d

4th
bth
iith
1th
Sth

OSCAB RaHN.

Thos. Price.

Natii. G. Garrett.

Wm. D. H. Mason.

John K. Worts.

Jas, Dyke.
Farrier, Elias Seiler.

" Joseph Maybebry.
Wagoner, Daniel Moore.

Byerly, John
Berger, .Tared
Bauer, Chas.
Beadle, Geo.
Bauchan, Geo.

PRIVATES:

Cavanaugh, Mich.
Coho, Martin Y. B.
Conner, Jas.
Crimmin, John
Cleaver, DeWitt C.

Bartholomew, Augustus Dawson, Robt. S.

Bauseman, Chas.
Beddow, Matthew
Berger, Henry S.
Breen, Wm. R.
Berger, Dan'l
Bush, Wm.
Brightmeyer, Jac.
Burns, Franklin
Brian, Wm.
Oalagan, John

Depken, Henry
Devine, Peter
Dolbin, John
Drehev, Jacob
Ernst, Geo. W.
Farley, Peter
Fox, Philip
Frantz, Henry
Geiger, John
Gillaspie, Jas.

Griffiths, Ryce
Gurlong, Philip
Haeseler, Chas. It.
Heller, Albert
Heilner, Percy B.
Herring, Andrew I.
Hindson, Geo.
Holt, Joshua
Hoffa, Benj. W.
Hurst, Edward
Johnson, Wm. S.
Keller, John C.
Kiefer, Wm.
Kinney, Francis
Krebs, John
Koch ^lich.

Appendix.

Ill

Captain Richards' Cavalry Company.

Lynch, Abraham
Lessig, r?enj. F,
Martz, Sam'l
Mcrvine, Chas. B.
Morris, Cline
Moser, Henry
Moyer, George
Maury, Owen
Mortimer, Wm. W
Moyer, John
Nock, Ozias
Noble, John W. W
Phxce, Benj.
Redding, Jos.
Keinhart, Benj.
Kissinger, Dan'l
Total,

Rosselle, Edw.
Rupp, John
Sample, John R.
Seitzinger, Henry
Seddon, Wm.
Silverhorn, John
Seilzinger, John L.
Shirer, Dan'l
Shortz, Wm.
Slattery, Jas.
Smith, David
Smith, Lewis
Spencer, John
Snyder, Baird
Stanton, Peter
Sterner, Albert W.

Recapitulation.

Commissioned Officers, -
Non-commissioned Officers,
Farriers, - _ _

Wagoner, - . _
Privates. - _ .

— Continued.

Stephenson, Thos.
Stewart, Wm. W,
Titus, Ambrose
Treibley, Sam'l A.
Troutman, Abraham
Turubull, Andrew
Wanner, Benj.
Weaver, J ere.
Weaver, Thos,
Wyman, Andrew
Williams, David
W^illiams, Thos. J.
Williams, Henry L.
Zimmerman, Henry

1
94

Other commands in 18G3, emergency service.
Grand Total, -----.

114
1,665

1,779

NINETEENTH REGIMENT, P. S. M.

Colo/iel—nOBERT KLOTZ.

In this Regiment, which served for State defence in September,
1862, and of which Daniel Nagle of Pottsville, was Lieutenant-
Colonel, were the following (^mpanies from this County :

COIMPANY B.

Captain, RALPH R. LEE.
l^<f^ Lieut. Robert D. Brown.
2d Lieut., Samuel J. Dampman.
1st Sergeant, Wm. Y. Cruikshanks

4tft
-yth

Wm. Spence.
John Spence.
James Brown.
Jas. St. Clair

Baruhard, Geo.
Calbach. Wm.
<"arter, John

2d
Sd

4th
5th
6th

1th
Hth

PRIVATES

Cake, Raphael
Cook, Monroe,
Cooper, John

1st Corporal, Reese Reese.

" Louis Biltz.

" Thos. Jenninq-s.

" L. C. L. More.

" H. Walrridge.

'* John Anderson.

" Isaac Ammon.

'" B. F. Boughner.

Coombs, Simou
Detinger, Chas.
Davis, Reese

Appendix.

CoMPAiNY B, Nineteenth Regiment, P. S. M. — Continued.

DeCorsey, Geo.
Evans, Benj.
Evans, David
Easton, Walter
Epting, William
Flannigau, Mich.
Garret, Wm.
Gibson, Frank
(tuss, Sam'l
Horn, Frank
Howard, Benj.
Huntzinger, Wni. J.
Jones, Isaay
Jones, Thos,

Total,

Koehler, Jac.
Kull, Jac.
Liddle, David
Lewis, Henry
Lowther, Wm.
Lynch, Dominick
McAvoy, Mich.
iVLadison, Jas.
Madenford, Henry
Medler. Lewis
Mills, A. V.
Parker, Wm.
Robson, Wm.
Reuss, Geo.

Shearer, Wm.
tSmith, Wm.
Shriner, Jos.
Shriner, .John
Shaw, Jas.
Simmons, Geo.
Smith, Davis
Ulrich, Nich.
Ulmer, Chas.
Walker, Wm.
Wren, Wm. B.
Wagner, Chas.
Williams, David

Recapitulation.

Commissioned Officers, -
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, . _ -

- 13

Total,

COMPANY D.

Capiabu FRANCLS C. BENDER. 4</i Sergeant, John Foley,

\st Lieut., Dan'l Freiler. ^st Corporal, Patrick Welsh.

2rf X«V;?/^., CoxNDY FuREY. 2d - Mich. Weirich.

1st Seryeant, F. Z. Schellenberg. Zd '' M. J. Ludes.

'M " Philip Wernert. Ath " Nich. Miller.

M '• Henry L. Donahue. Musician, Charles Schwarz.

PRIVATES :

Brennan, Patrick George, Henry Manning, Jas. W.

Biirkert, Nicholas Gerhard, Henry McVey, John

Bick, Henry Hornberger, Peter Pfeilsticker, Louis

Carr, John Haflfey, Ed, Schellenberg, H. W.

Cosgrove, Thos. Hildebrand, Francis Super, John

Carr, James HoflFman, George Wadlinger, F.

Canfield, John Klein, Jacob Whalen, John

Elbert, Wm. Levins, Wm. Weissman, Gotthard

Foley, Mich. Lill, Jacob

Feldinann, Louis Manning, Geo.

Total, ------- 28

Recapitulation.

Comissioned Officers, ------ 5j

Non-commissioned Officers, ----- h

Musician, -------- I

Privates, --------- ^^

Total, ^^

Appendix.

COMPANY F

CaiHaln, HENRY ENTERLINE.

\st JAeat., Dan'l Shepp.

'Id Lieut., Alfred D. Seitzixgkr.

Is/ Sergeant., Samuel B. Graeff.

'2d •' Nicholas Lambrecht

'M •' William M. Miller.

\th '' John Weis.

")//i " Erastus VV. Kinzel,

\ftf Corporal, Nicholas Lusch.

'Id '• V/illiam R. Moyer.

PRIVATES

'M Corporal, Daniel C
Ath

rnh
Qth
1th
Sth

BOYEK.

Phaon p. Haas.

Daniel Dean.

John H. Pontius.

Levi B, Moroenroth.

Lewis W. Boyer.
Musician, William Lon(;.

" Abbott Yarrington.
Wagoner, Benjamin T. Hughes.

Branoher, Samuel
Baunan, Joseph
Billig. JohnH.
Oarley, Samuel H.
Brown, John
P»oyer, Samuel F.
Brick, Daniel B.
Bobst, Henry
Bond, George
Boyer, David R.
Boyer, Daniel M.
Conrad, Jr., John C.
Carter, John
DeLong, Charles
Dintinger, Charles J.
Dreher, Lewis
Davis, David L.
Delaney, Lawrence
Divers, James
Dintinger, William J.
DeFrehn, William
Enochs, Joseph
Eltringham, Matthias
Endy, Henry
Eveland, Daniel ^L
Enis, Robert
Eastwood, John
Folk, Samuel

Total,

Faust, Solomon
Fritch, Lafayette
Geisinger, John
Goodballett, Simon
Garber, Joseph
Gornbar, .Jr., Jacob
Gamble, Edward
Granger, Samuel
Graett", Francis B.
Geisinger, Jesse
Haugawaut, Charles S,
Hauser, Samuel
Hauser, Daniel M.
Halderaan, Gideon
Kepner, Henry S.
Karshner, .Jacob
Karshner, Franklin 11.
Kepner, Samuel
Kutz, Adam
King, Aaron
King, Thomas
Lawall, Philip
Lutz, Mahlon
Mull, Frank
Mull, Michael
Morgenroth, Isaac N.
Moyer, James W.
Meyers, Lewis V.

Recapitulation.
Commissioned Officers, - - .
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, - - - - .
Wagoner, -----.
Privates, _ _ - _ -

Moser, Samuel
Nunnemacher, Israel
Portz, Frederick
Rodgers, John
Rice, Moses M.
Reichard, William
Reagan, George L.
Regan, John
Reichelderfer, Joseph
Richards, Abra'm S. R.
Reichelderfer, Jacob
Roehrig, Wm. H.
Scott, .James
Schreffler, Darius
Sorbev, George
Steigerwalt, Levi F.
Seitzinger, Nicholas G,
Scott, William
Schwartz, Theodore J.
ShifFerstine, John
Turnbach, William
Trout, Jacob
Trainer, Patrick
Woomer, Eleasar
Whetstone, Emanuel M.
Whetstone, Elias

13
2

101

COMPANY G.

Captain, V. B. SHOLLENBERGER. \st Sergeant, Simon Hoffman.
^Ht Lieut., Edwin Jacobs. Id '< Samuel Kramer, Sr.

'Id Lieut., J. M. McAllister. 3r? •' J. M. Shollbnbergee.

Appendix.

Company G, Nineteenth Regiment, P. 8. M. — Continued.

Ath Sergeant, Wm. Sciiultze. Ath Corporal, Albert EBLiNfj.

\st Corporal, Sam'l S. Kuameb. Musician, Lewis Kimmel.

2d
3rf

Beiz, Moses
Bromer, D.ivid
Becker, Win.
Berger, Jr., Jolin
Ebling, Albert
Ebling, Thos.
Ebling, Jacob
Eraerich, Morgan
Epler, Sam'l
Epler, Sam'l F.
Fahl, Jonathan
Fahl. Dan'l
P'isher, Benj. K.
Fisher, John
Falil. John F.
Flitsher, Jere.
Gardner, Benj.

ROBT. Eblin(j. "

CoNRAi) Gulp.

PRIVATES :
Geiger, John
Haines, Reuben
Heiser, John M.
Heiser, Sam'l
Heckman, Reuben S.
Heckman, Dan'l
Kramer, Jacob
Lorentz, Joseph
Laub, John
^lurphey, Dan'l
Murphey, Sam'l
Murphey, Frank
Moyer, Frank
Miller, Isaac
Minich. Hiram
Mengel, Wm. F.
Meek, David

Recapitilation.
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Musicians, -----
Privates, ------

Ed. Dbrr.

Old, Fred
Phillips, John S.
Raush, Emanuel
Raush, Nathan
Raush, James
Raush, Abraham
Reaber, Jonathan
Rigel, Jesse
Sigfried, Jas.
Sigfried, John
Shollenberger, Alfred
ShoUenberger, Henry
Shollenberger, Francis
Seaman, Wm. F.
Wildt, Christian
Webber, Wm.

Total,

GRAND RECAPITULATION.

Company B,

C,
" F,

g'.

101

Total, . - . _ - - 270

11, B. GRAEFF of Tamaqua, was Adjutant of the Regiment,

By adding the number of names contained in this Appendix —
447 — to the total on page 395 — 12,335 — we have a grand total
of 12,782 men furnished by Schuylkill County during the war,
to aid in supressing the Slaveholders' Rebellion,

Charles F. Garrett, then a resident of Pottsville, afterwards of
Tamaqua, served during the "Three Months' Campaign," in the
National Light Infantry, Capt. Edward McDonald, and subse-
quently was in the "Three Years' Service."

Erratum. — On page 528, " Lieutenant William Laubenstine
read Lieutenant Samuel B. Laubenstine.

shouUi

Appendix.

VI 1

OISTE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THIRD REGT.

(r, D. 3f.)

Henry Hamjier, of Auburn, Schuylkill County, was appointed Ser-
geant-Majoi' of this Regiment.

COMPANY G.

[We failed to receive the following names in time to insert in the
proper place, page 220.]

CajHam, LEVI U. CHRIST.
^st Lieut. George K. Reed,
2d Lieut., George Zimmerman,
1st Sergeant, Esaias Brown.
2d Sergeant, Henry Reinoehl,
3d " Dan'l K. Reed.
4th " JosiAH Richart.
5^//, " David Rader,

\st Corporal, David Christ.

William Porter.

f, Zd

George Batdorf.

4th "

Abraham Yoder.

5th "

Lewis Noecker,

Gih "

Absalom Hehn.

Ith

William Fehr.

Sth

Michael Kantner.

PRIVATES :

Banny, Amos
Bartlett, Wm. H. H.
Berger, Wm.
Benehof, John
Ben^y, Christian
Baseng, Geo.
Creary, Thos.
Cressman, Geo,
Derr, Benada
Eckler, John
Ehly, Jacob
Emerich, Franklin M
Eyman, John
Freeman, Wm.
Fessler, John
Freeman, Jonathan
Girril, Frederick
Gamble, .James B,
JIuber, Reuben
Hessenberger, .lacob
Huber, Aaron
Heimbach, David
Hubiler. William

Hummel, John
Heilig, Simon
Kern, John
Kramer, Wm. K.
Kershner, John
Kramer, .Jonathan M.
Klick, Danl.
King, Henry
Lomig, Geo. W.
Miller, Isaac
Miller, John
Moyer, Philip
Metzler, John
jMetzer, Jacob
Owens, Aaron
I'axson, Joseph
Rhine, Elias
Riland, Saml. B,
Raber, Jonathan K.
Raber, Jos. B,
Richart, Lewis
Riglin, Chas.
Sattazan, .John

Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers,
Privates, -----

Total,

Snyder, Benj.
Sutzing, Saml.
Schrope, Henry
Shafer, Saml.
Spangler, Jas,
Shafer, Wm.
Schneck, Wm. C.
Schnoke, Wm,
Schnope, Franklin
Sowers, Elias
Snyder, Simon P.
Wenerich, Wm.
Wiltermuth, Henry
Wagner, Henry
Wagner, Joseph
Zimmerman, Edward
Zimmerman, Philip L.
Zimmerman, Wm.
Zerby, George
Zerby, John
Warner, .Tohn

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COMPANY I.

2d Sergeant, David R. Btrkey. Sth Co7'poraI, John Geisinger.

PRIVATES :

Bannan. .los. Chester, Isaac Hank, .John

Boyd, Wm.
Cronaberger, Adam

Filler, Geo.
Gouldner. .Tohn

HeiT, Henry
Karshner. .Jacob

vin

Appendix.

T iT'^r* Ppptaifnt P. D. M. — Continued.
?''Tlh Mye- Lewis V. /.immerman, Henry

irai, Pete': S.Lwalt, Chas. Wagoner, I'e.er

Lehman, Jona. ^

Non-commissioned Otticers,

Privates, --"'"'

2
- 16

Total, - - - ■"

Recapitulation.

Company CI, - " " "

<' I, - - " " "

Serseant-Maior, - - 7 .„ " . ',
Other Schuylkill County men m Regiment,

Total, - - - "

18
1

310

412

SEVENTEENTH PA. VOL. MILITIA.

3/^yo?-.— EDWARD SHISSLER.
LAWRENCE. 1.^^ Corporal, Joseph Kantner

Captain, JACOB S.

\st Lieut., John Teayer.

2c;i:t>ut,IsAAcP. Chalfant.

\st Sergeant, Wm. H. Jokes.

Id
M
Ath

Atkinson, James
Beddow, Matthew-
Bush, Wm.

Burkert, Thomas

Bassett, John

Bakeoven, Rudolph

Bryant, James B.

Christ, Joseph

Cole, Richard

Dyke, James

Dando, Stephen H.

Ent, Charles W.

Evans, John

Edmonds, Henry

Fisher, Lewis
Felsburg, Ernst.
Forney, John W.
Geiger, James Q.
Gabert, Henry
Gable, Adam F.
Gensel, Wm. H-
Hausman, Philip
Hacket, John

Ath

6th

Qth

1th

Sth

John W. Thilwell.
Michael Shilthorn.
Wm. Halbaiter.
Geo. Heindson.

PRIVATES :
Heisler, Franklin
Hehr, John J.
Heilner, Edward M.
Jones, Thomas B.
Jones David A.
Jenkins, Philip M.
Jones, John H.
Jones, John T.
Jones, Edward
Jones, Jacob P.
Jones, Hugh F.
King, Levi
Kohler, Henry J.
Kear, Wm. G.
Kauffman, Luther S.
Laubenstine, Jonas
Lehmler, Philip
Lyons, John
lioeser, I. W.
Lindemuth, Wm.
]\Iorgan, Elijah
Mitchell. Robert
McClay, Neal
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Privates, - - - "

Joseph Thilwell.
Joseph Morgan.
Wm. a. Knabb.
Jacob Haas.
Lewis Debuff.
Philip Jenkins.
James White.

Prevost, Hiram W\
Price, Jacob
Rodgers, Thomas C.
Reed, John F.
Rowe, John
Reese, John J.
Roehrig, Geo. H.
Reisig, Frederick

Shollenberger, Abrah'm

Shindler, Seraphine

Sheard. Jonathan

Spencer, John

Steelfox, Robert

Stroup, Wm. \.

TurnbuU, Andrew

Turner, John

Turner, Edward H.

Thomas, Wm. W.

Warner, Henry

AVie^st, Geo. Frederick

Woiser, Moses

Total,

Appendix.

Captain, WxM. JM. BICKEL.

\st Lieut., James 0. Lehr.
Id Lieut., Wm. H. Schall.
\st Sergeant, Victor Wernert.

COMPANY F.

"Id

4th

Thomas Hajimer.
John Schall.
John S. Snyder.

bth Sergmnt, Wm. A. Shoener.
\st Corporal, Charles Mauser
2o? " Reuben Hay.

?>d " Frank Fidler.

Ath " Thomas Hoy.
Mu.'iician, John Shiemer.

" Frederick Horning,

Albright, Morgan
Boycr, George B.
Boyer, Wm. B.
Dreher, Benjamin

PRIVATES
Kimmel, Lewis F.
Kimmel, Joseph
Kimmel, Wm.
Xoch, Morgan

Dieffenderfer, Christian Koch' George

Dietrich, Joel
Diehm, Jacob
Fey, George A.
Fisher, Charles
Fried, George
Hauser, David
Hoy, Jacob
Hoy, Henry
Horning, Samuel S.
Horning, Washington
Holtzer, Eugene
Haesler, John
Kimmel, Jacob F.

Leffler, Wm.
LefHer, Frank
Beng, Jacob
Madden, Samuel H.
Mauser, George
Moyer, George
Miller, Charies B.
Miller, Charles H.
Neiman, Henry
Pott, Jr., Benjamin
Pott, John L.
Riegel, Lewis
Roach, John
Commissioned Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, -
Musicians, - _ ! .

Privates, - - _ .

Total, ....

Ruhf, Daniel
Schall, Thomas
Smith, Felix
Smith, Jeremiah
Shoener, Morgan
Shoener, Joseph
Shoener, Edward
Smith, Henry
Shindler, John
Swenk, Daniel
Trout, James
Wagner, Thomas
Wagner, Franklin W.
Yeager, Franklin W.
Yeager, Edwanl
Yost, Samuel M.
5^oll, Jr., Joseph

- f>

- o

- 9
2

- 53

aoo^ f.u^ ^ "^"^^'^ ^^ "^°^^^ contained in this Appendix-
f i7nQ^' '"''J '" P'-^ 395-12,335- we have a S total
of 13,034 men furnished by Schuylkill County durin| X war
to aid in supressing the Slaveholders' Rebellion ^ '

should

Appendix.

' TWENTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY.

COMPANY H.

[

I 2d Lieutenant, R. Sherman Lerch. Scrf/eant, EmvARi) Heckman.

(Sergeant, William Harvey, Saddler, Amos Suuey.

" William Grovb.
PRIVATES :
) Harr, George W. McClellan, James Schuelcer, Cyrus

Fry, tlohn McGougert, Thomas Snyder, William U.

Feger, Henry F. Reinoehl, George H. Snyder, William

Lehman, Jeremiah K.

The tbllowiijg were the casualties while in service :

Killed. — Amos Shuey, in action, April 6, 1865.

OiEi). — Private George H Reinoehl, June 2o, 1804, of wounds re-
ceived June l8th.

Wounded. — Sergeant William Grove, Dec. 8, 18tjl; Sergeant Edward
Heckman, June 18, 1864 ; Privates .]er*-miah K. Lehman. June 18, 1864 ;
James McClellan, June 3, 1804; Thomas McGotigoH., June 28, 1864 ;
Cyrus Sehucker, August- 22, 18<V4.

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT, P. V.

COL. ZIEGLE.
Adjutant. — William Brown.

NINETY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V.

(One Year,)

Drummer. — Orrin Frederick.

PRIVATES :

Henry Beyerly, Geo. Ulmcr, • Thoma.s Wreu

NINTH REGIMENT, U. S. V. V.

(Hancoeh's Corps,)

COMPANY F.

Richard Rahn, Francis Vaughn, Wm. Edwards,

George Brazier, Sylvester Le Rice, John H. Ebert,

FIFTIETH REGIMENT, P. V.

COMPANY I

Lieutenant — Richard Rahk.

) EIGHTEENTH U. S. INFANTRY.

first battalion, CO. E.

George E. Wineland.

This makes a grand total of 13,077. We have every reason
to believe that this is as full and complete as any work of the
kind can be made.

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