300 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. ington, I traveled that road for the first time that I had ever been in that settlement and lodged a night at the place. The plantation is the property of Benjamin Parkinson, but rented by him to a Mr. Stockdale, who keeps tavern at it, and who seems to be a decent man, and one against whom there is no charge. He not only confirmed what I have stated above, but added a variety of other particulars equally shocking. Stockdale was forbid, on the peril of his life, to administer any comfort to his neighbors, though they were perishing with cold and famishing with hunger. The general treated the prisoners as they arrived with the most insulting and abusive language, causing them all to be tied back to back except one man, who held a respectable rank, and who, however, was said to be one of the most guilty in his custody. One of the nearest neighbors, who had a child at the point of dying, and observing that they were bringing in the whole neighborhood prisoners, without regard to guilt or innocence, went and gave himself up to Gen. White, expecting, as he was conscious there was no charge against him, that he would be permitted to return to his family on giving bail, but he also was inhumanly thrown into the cellar, tied with the rest, and refused the privilege of seeing his dying child ; nor was he permitted to attend its funeral until after many entreaties he obtained that liberty, accompanied with the most horrid oaths and imprecations. " The most of these prisoners were found to be innocent men, and were liberated. There were but three sent to Philadelphia for trial ; one of them, after having been dismissed at Pittsburgh, and perhaps having taken a hearty grog, through joy at regaining his liberty, expressed himself unbecomingly to some of the light-horsemen. He was afterwards pursued near thirty miles, and taken to Philadelphia; but there was no cause of action found against him at the court. He had served with approbation in the army during the war; his name was Samuel Noy. "A captain, with a detachment of the army, who took a number of prisoners in the southern part of Washington County, is asserted to have driven his prisoners like cattle, at a trot, through creeks, up to their middle in water, and to have impounded them in a wet stable at night, and otherwise to have maltreated and insulted them; though this fact has been confidently asserted, and never contradicted, yet not having the vouchers for it before me, I shall pass it over without being more particular. "Capt. Dunlap, of Philadelphia, and his company were sent to Muddy Creek in the upper end of Washington County ; they took Colonel Crawford and son, Mr. Sedgwick, a justice of the peace, Mr. Corbly, a clergyman of the Baptist persuasion, and others. They were taken early in the morning, and had no opportunity of making resistance. Capt. Dunlap and his party, while they behaved with the greatest dexterity in taking the prisoners, treated them with as much politeness and attention as their situation would admit of, and engaged their gratitude by accompanying unavoidable severity with humanity¹ Capt. Dunlap had a discrimination made in his orders between witnesses and supposed criminals, but treated them all with humanity, and had them comfortably lodged and provided with victuals and drink previous to his taking refreshments himself. By the orders given to Gen. Irwin [Irvine?] he was obliged to take and treat them all as criminals, but he did not insult any of them himself, nor permit them to be insulted by others in his hearing, and he provided for them as well as the camp would permit, and that being a very uncomfortable situation, he had them removed from it as soon as he could. . . . Gen. White was himself the leading, or perhaps the only man of his corps who insulted the prisoners with the most opprobrious language, and punished them in the most shocking manner, short of inflicting death." An account of the arrest of one of the elders of the Associate Presbyterian Church in Chartiers township at that time is related by Alexander Murdoch, Esq., of Washington borough, as follows: "In one of the last conversations I had with my mother, who was a daughter of the Rev. Matthew Henderson, of the Associate (now United Presbyterian) Congregation of Chartiers, she related the following incident touching the Whiskey Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania. On a certain Sabbath morning [probably Sunday, Nov. 16, 1794] Mr. Henderson, with my mother (who was then a little girl) riding behind him, on horseback, started for the old church on the hill. When they reached the road leading to Pittsburgh, they saw, in advance of them, a jumper, made of hickory poles, hauled by a horse ; and on this sled was a copper still and the different appliances for the manufacture of' whiskey. This was a most unusual sight on a quiet Sabbath morning in that religious and orderly community. But in a moment after they were horrified by seeing a file of United States soldiers, and in their midst, a close prisoner, was one of the elders of Mr. Henderson's congregation, the owner of the confiscated still. When the elder saw his preacher he exclaimed in most piteous tones, Ah, Meester Henderson, ain't this terrible?' Mr. Henderson being a law-abiding man proceeded to his church in discharge of his sacred duties, leaving his poor elder to answer the charge of distilling liquors without the payment of a government tax." ¹" These prisoners," says Findley, "assert that they had not the opportunity of signing the terms of the commissioners until the appointed day was past. They were admitted to bail after several months' imprisonment, and though two of those persons were reported to have been a good deal inflammatory, there was no bill found against any of them on their trial. They were not engaged in the outrages against excise officers, or at the rendezvous at Braddock's Field. I cannot find that Sedgwick, the justice of the peace, had done anything to lay a foundation even for suspicion. Crawford, the younger, had been one of the armed party who appeared at the Redstone meeting with a design to punish Jackson; but he was dismissed at Pittsburgh" THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION - 301 Among the prisoners taken (and afterwards marched to Philadelphia) was Capt. Robert Porter, of Washington County. He found that his name was in the list of those who had been denounced as participants in the insurrection, .and, without waiting for arrest, he, on the 13th of November, proceeded to the mouth of Mingo Creek, where the Virginia brigade of Gen. Matthews was encamped, and delivered himself up to Col. Campbell, asking for an examination. A man named Pollock appeared and made some charges against him, but as he was intoxicated and could bring no facts to support his accusations, no notice was taken of them, and he was ordered out of the camp as a vagabond, but Capt. Porter was still held in custody. A narrative of events which followed (gathered from entries in Capt. Porter's journal, written by his own hand) was furnished by his grandson, J. M. Porter, to H. M. Brackenridge, and by him published in his "History of the Western Insurrection," from which the following extracts are taken : "On the night of the 13th November, 1794, James Stewart, Joseph Chambers, Jacob Forwood, Joel Ferree, George Swasick, Sr., George Swasick, Jr., James Swasick, George Sickman, and James McBride were brought into camp, handcuffed, and delivered over to the provost-guard. On the 14th, Col. Lane's regiment, with the prisoners, marched down the river to Benjamin Bentley's, the balance of the army, with the baggage, marching by Esquire Bar-clay's, the army constantly swearing and heaping imprecations against the rebels that occasioned their coming so far over hills and mountains without the satisfaction of a man to oppose them or a gun fired upon them. At Bentley's the prisoners were confined in a log cabin overnight without fire, though it was a cold, snowy, stormy night, and neither chunking nor daubing in the cabin. On the 15th they were ordered down to the Governor's [Lee's] body-guard, and by them delivered over to Capt. George Denial, and were marched the same day through the snowstorm toward Pittsburgh, where they arrived on the 16th. On the 17th they were conducted to the garrison, and delivered to the care of Col. Butler." The commander-in-chief, at Uniontown, on the 1st of November, had announced his intention "to hold the army in this country until daily practice shall convince all that the sovereignty of the Constitution and laws is unalterably established." In a few days after his forces marched northward from that place he became so convinced, and at once began to make arrangements for the return of the army. The notification of the reopening of the inspection offices was made on the 10th,¹ and they were accordingly re- ¹ "The announcement by Inspector Neville was as follows: "Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, the 20th instant, an office of inspection will be opened at Pittsburgh for the county of Allegheny, at the town of Washington for the county of Washington, at Greensburg for the county of Westmoreland, and at Union Town for the county of Fayette. All distillers are required forthwith to enter their stills at the - 20 - opened ten days later without opposition at the principal towns of the four counties. The withdrawal of the army was announced, and the order of its return march directed, in orders by Gen. Lee, dated "Headquarters, Pittsburgh, Nov. 17, 1794," viz.: "The complete fulfillment of every object dependent on the efforts of the army makes it the duty of the commander-in-chief to take measures for the immediate return of his faithful fellow-soldiers to their respective homes, in execution of which no delay will be permitted but that which results from the consultation of their comfort. "On Tuesday morning, at the hour of eight, the Pennsylvania Cavalry will be ready to accompany his Excellency Governor Mifflin, whose official duties renders his presence necessary at the seat of government. "On the next day the first division of the right column, consisting of the Artillery and Proctor's Brigade, under the orders of Maj.-Gen. Irvine, will commence their march to Bedford, on the route commonly called the Old Pennsylvania road. "The following day at the same hour the New Jersey Line will move under the command of hie Excellency Governor Howell, who will be pleased to pursue from Bedford such routes as he may find convenient. "On the subsequent day at the same hour the residue of the Pennsylvania Line now on this ground will march under the command of Brig.. Gen. Chambers, taking the route heretofore mentioned, and making the same stages as shall have been made by the leading division. Maj.-Gen. Frelinghuysen, with the Elite Corps of the right column, will follow the next day and pursue the same route. "Brig.-Gen. Smith, with the Maryland Line, will move to Uniontown, agreeably to orders heretofore communicated to hint, and from thence to proceed on Braddock's road to Fort Cumberland, where he will adopt the most convenient measures in his power for the return of his troops to their respective counties. " Brig.-Gen. Matthews will move on Wednesday next to Morgan Town, from thence to Winchester by way of Frankfort. From Winchester the troops will be marched to their respective brigades under the commanding officers from each brigade. "As soon as the public service will permit afterwards, the Elite Corps of the left column, under Gen. Dark, will follow on the route prescribed for Brig. Matthews, and be disbanded as they reach their respective brigades. " . . . The corps destined for the winter defense will move without delay to Bentley's Farm, on the west side of the Monongahela, near Perry's Ferry, where they will receive orders from Maj.-Gen. Morgan. "The Virginia Cavalry will take the route by Morgan Town, from thence to Winchester by Romney's ; the commandant will receive particular instructions as to their time and manner of march. "The right column will receive their pay (still due) at Bedford, the Maryland Line at Fort Cumberland, and the Virginia Line at Winchester. . . ." The army moved on its return in accordance with these orders. The right column marched from Pittsburgh, by way of Greensburg, Ligonier, and Stony Creek, to Bedford, and thence by way of Fort Lyttleton, Stradsburg, and Shippensburg to Carlisle. The troops of the left column returned by different routes, the Virginians marching up the Monongahela valley office of the county in which they respectively reside, and to do further what the laws prescribe concerning the same, of which they may receive more particular information from the officer of inspection with whom entry is made. "JOHN NEVILLE, "Inspector of the Revenue, District of Pennsylvania, Fourth Survey. " Nov. 10, 1794." On the 27th of November the inspector announced that he wee "directed to notify all persons in the counties of Allegheny, Fayette, and Bedford against whom suits have been commenced in the court of the United States for neglecting to enter their stills that upon their coming forward immediately to the collectors of each county and paying one year's arrearages upon the capacity of the still and the costs of suit, a bill of which will be furnished, the actions will be discontinued."—Penna. Archives, iv., pp. 449, 481. 302 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. into their own State, and passing on by way of Morgantown to Winchester; and the Maryland brigade starting from its camp at Pierce's Ferry, thence moving southeastwardly through Fayette County and its county town to the Great Crossings of the Youghiogheny, and from there to Fort Cumberland by the same route over which it had advanced. The corps left under command of Gen. Morgan, to remain in this region through the winter for the preservation of order, and to assist, if necessary, in the execution of the laws, was placed in camp at Bentley's on the southwest side of the Monongahela. This force was composed in part of troops who had come from the East under Gen. Lee, and partly of men enlisted in the western counties, as advised in the proclamation of the commander-in-chief of November 8th, and authorized to the number of two thousand five hundred men by an act of Assembly of the 29th of the same month. Of those who were thus enlisted, Findley says that many of them were reported to have been among the most troublesome of the insurgents; that the people in the neighborhood complained "that many of them, for some time at first, demanded free quarters and such things as they stood in need of without pay, and that some of the officers committed indictable offenses ; but when the persons against whom the offenses were committed commenced prosecutions they settled the disputes amicably and behaved well for the future. And when the people took courage to refuse to submit to impositions, the soldiers ceased to demand free quarters, or to be otherwise troublesome." But the tenor of the orders issued by Gen. Morgan¹ to the troops under his command, and the well-known character of that general in the matter of the enforcement of discipline, render it probable that the above statements of Mr. Findley, like others made by him in disparagement of the army and its officers, ought to be received with some degree of incredulity. Gen. Morgan's forces continued in their canton- ¹ They were as follows: " General Orders. "CAMP, BENTLEY'S FARM, Nov. 30, 1794. "The General anticipates the happiest issue that the army he has the honor to command will afford to the laws and friends of good order and government in the four western counties of Pennsylvania. The willingness with which the citizens have enrolled themselves to cooperate with the army in the restoration of obedience to the laws are pleasing evidences that the unhappy delusion which lately pervaded this country, under the auspices of the friends of anarchy, are at an end. "The General hopes that the army now butting for winter-quarters will consider themselves as in the bosom of their friends, & that they will vie with each other in promoting the love and esteem of their fellow-citizens, and pointedly avoid every specks of spoliation on the property of the inhabitants. "The officers commanding fatigue parties are particularly directed not to suffer the sugar or other trees producing fruit or comfort to the farmer to be cut down for building, or any other purpose whatever. The burning of fencing, where there is such an abundance of fuel so easily procured, is strictly forbid, and a violence offered to the person or depredation on the property of any individual by the soldiery will be punished in the most exemplary and summary manner. "DANIEL MORGAN." ments at Bentley's Farm (with detachments at Pittsburgh and Washington) until the following spring, when, order being apparently fully restored and established, the last of the eastern troops marched homeward across the Alleghenies, and the western counties were left in full possession and exercise of' their former rights and powers, though a small force (a part of the twenty-five hundred men enlisted in the West under Gen. Lee's proclamation of November 8th) was left in organization, as a precaution against the possibility of further outbreak, until experiment should have proved the civil power to be unquestionably sufficient for all emergencies without military aid. This small force, which was left in command of Col. Gabriel Blakeney, of Washington, was quartered in that town, on the ground which during the previous winter had been occupied by the cantonments of a detachment of Gen. Morgan's command, the location being on and in the immediate vicinity of the present grounds of the Washington and Jefferson College. Gen. Lee remained in the West for a considerable time after the departure of the main body of the army, and on the 29th of November, in pursuance of authority delegated to him by the President, he issued a " proclamation of pardon" as follows : "By HENRY LEE, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Major-General therein, and Commander-in-chief of the Militia Army in the Service of the United States. "A PROCLAMATION. " By virtue of the powers and authority in me vested by the President of the United States, and in obedience to his benign intentions, therewith communicated, I do by this, my proclamation, declare and make known to all concerned that a full, free, and entire pardon (excepting and providing as hereinafter mentioned) is hereby granted to all persons residing within the counties of Washington, Allegheny, Westmoreland, and Fayette, in the State of Pennsylvania, and in the county of Ohio, in the State of Virginia, guilty of treason or misprision of treason against the United States, or otherwise directly or indirectly engaged in the wicked and unhappy tumults and disturbances lately existing in those counties, excepting nevertheless from the benefit and effect of this pardon all persons charged with the commission of offenses against the United States, and now actually in custody or held by recognizance to appear and answer for all such offenses at any judicial court or courts, excepting also all persons avoiding fair trial by abandonment of their homes, and excepting, moreover, the following persons, the atrocity of whose conduct renders it proper to mark them by name, for the purpose of subjecting them with all possible certainty to the regular course of judicial proceedings, and whom all officers, civil and military, are required to endeavor to apprehend and bring to justice, to wit: [Here follows the list of the excepted persons, given below.] " Provided,—That no person who shall hereafter wilfully obstruct the execution of any of the laws of the United States, or be in anywise aiding or abetting therein, shall be entitled to any benefit or advantage of the pardon hereinbefore granted ; and provided, also, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to the remission or mitigation of any forfeiture of any penalty incurred by reason of infractions of, or obstructions to, the laws of the United States for collecting a revenue upon distilled spirits and stills. "Given under my hand, at Head Quarters in Elizabeth Town, this twenty-ninth day of November, 1794. " HENRY LEE "By order of the commander-in-chief. "G. K. Taylor, Aide-de-Camp." The names of the persons excepted by the terms of' this proclamation were THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION - 303 Benjamin Parkinson, Arthur Gardner, John Holcroft, Daniel Hamilton, Thomas Lapsley, William Miller, Edward Cook, Edward Wright, Richard Holcroft, David Bradford, John Mitchell, Alexander Fulton, Thomas Spiers, William Bradford, George Parker, William Hanna, Edward Wagner, Jr., Thomas Hughes, David Lock, Ebenezer Gallagher, Peter Lyle, John Shields, William Hay, William Mcllhenny Thomas Patton, Stephenson Jack, Patrick Jack, and Andrew Highlands, of the State of Pennsylvania. William Sutherland, Robert Stephenson, William McKinley, John Moore, and John McCormick, of Ohio County, Va. The charges against these excepted persons are nearly all mentioned and explained in the following letter from District Attorney Rawle to Judge Alexander Addison,¹ viz.: "PHILADELPHIA, December 24,1794. "DEAR SIR,—I have just now the pleasure of receiving yours of the 5th inst. Agreeably to your request, I proceed to make as full a statement of the reasons for excepting the persons specified in the proclamation as the present opportunity will admit. "The offences of B. Parkinson,* John Holcroft,* Daniel Hamilton,* and David Bradford are too generally known to require a particular enumeration. Arthur Gardner,* one of those who, on the 4th of July, at the meeting of Col. Hamilton's battalion agreed to oppose excise law by arms, etc.; met at Couch's; united in the attack on Gen. Neville's ; issued orders for the meeting at Braddock's Field; of assisting at Catfish the 14th of August in raising a liberty-pole. "Thomas Lapsley, action at Neville's. "William Miller, action at Neville's, and opposed to signing the papers; very contemptuous of the law and processes of the United States. " Edward Wright, at Neville's ; at Braddock's Field; opposed to signing submission. "John Mitchell,* at Neville's, and robbed the mails.² I Penna. Arch., 2 Ser., vol. iv. pp. 500-2. 2 " A certain John Mitchell, who, with the assistance of another person, had robbed the Pittsburgh mail, gave himself up to Gen. Morgan after the judiciary had left the country. This man's evident simplicity induced the general to wish him to escape, and to discredit his being the person ; but Mitchell insisting that he was one of the persons who robbed the mail, the general, instead of confining him, gave him a pass to go to Philadelphia, thereby putting it in his power to reflect on the situation and make his escape; but he went to Philadelphia, surrendered himself to be committed, and, being found guilty on his trial, be was condemned to be hanged. This result was unavoidable on the fact being established; but the President, in great propriety, first reprieved for a time, and then pardoned him."—Findley. " Alexander Fulton, at Neville's ; privy to robbing the mail ; signed circular letter to convene the meeting at Braddock's Field. "Thomas Spiers, same as Fulton. except being at Neville's. " William Bradford, robbing the mail. " George Parker,* at Couch's Fort, Neville's, Braddock's, and militia meeting, July 4th, at Col. John Hamilton's. " William Hanna, atrocious conduct at Neville's house ; shot at Gen. Neville. " Edward Wagner, at Neville's, and menaces against those who signed the paper. "Thomas Hughes, one of the men with blackened faces who attacked Faulkner, &c. " John Shields, a principal in the affair at Neville's. " William Hay; went to Couch's, and then to Neville's, and menaced one man if he would not go; also at Braddock's. " William Mcllhanny, at Neville's. " Thomas Dalton* is, I fear, a mistake either of the clerk or the press ; at least I do not at present recollect nor can I lay my hands on the papers relative to such a person. " Patrick Jack,* S. Jack, and A. Highland, concerned in the outrage on Regan, and the destruction of Wells. "The others are the three fugitives already examined by Judge Peters and ordered for trial, and the Virginians, who will probably be apprehended in the State where they reside. "The youth of George Parker was not known when his name was inserted. In respect to these submissions, it is understood not to avail those who fly from home. It cannot be a bona fide submission in such cases. This also applies to Shields and Lapsley, yet it is open to them all to explain the reasons. of their absences; if proved to be of a justifiable nature, then right to present immunity will be restored. I am, with sincere respect, yours, &c., " W. RAWLE." "To the Hon. A. Addison." (Those marked with a * delivered themselves to Gen. Morgan, under the direction of Judge Peters.) David Bradford, whose name appears on the list of persons excepted from the operation of the amnesty, and who was properly regarded as chief among the leaders of the insurrection, fled the country upon the advance of the army. His last act of rebellion and defiance was done at the Brownsville meeting, where, on the 29th of August, he in violent terms advocated war, and the formation of a separate government. Upon the declaration of the vote, which showed the general sentiment to be heavily against his views, he left that meeting in anger, disgust, and despair, realizing that his power was finally overthrown. Two weeks later (September 13th), at the courthouse in Washington, he, with twenty-seven others, signed a declaration " that no opposition shall come from us, 304 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. the undersigned, to the excise law or to any officer appointed under it." At the Parkinson's Ferry meeting, on the 2d of October, he was present, but crestfallen and subdued. On the 4th of the same month he wrote Governor Mifflin, of Pennsylvania, embodying a long argument in extenuation of his course during the progress of the insurrection, but finding that this did not avail, and that the army was on the march from Carlisle, he left Washington about the 25th of October, and rode to the Ohio River, where it was his intention to embark and make his way down that stream and the Mississippi to Louisiana. " A small Kentucky boat' had been prepared," says Brackenridge, " which was to have received him at Grave Creek, but being pursued by a man from whom he had liberated a negro, under the abolition law of Pennsylvania, he was obliged to leave his horse and take a canoe. Descending in this and passing Gallipolis, be was pursued by a party of five men dispatched from Gallipolis by D'Hebecourt, the commandant of the militia at that place. He had lain all night in his canoe at Sandy Creek, and had got into a coal-boat in the service of the contractor, cold and hungry, about two hours before the party in pursuit of him came up. They entered the boat, demanded Bradford, and took hold of his arm to drag him away. He made no resistance, but a lad from Washington County seized a rifle and singly defended him, obliging the party to relinquish their design and withdraw. This youth had himself absconded under apprehensions from having painted the device of a liberty-pole. Bradford continued his course, pursued by Capt. Jolly as far as Red Bank, which he passed two days before." Capt. D'Hebecourt's report¹ of this affair to Gen. Lee, and the general's reply, are given below : "HEAD QUARTERS, " GALLIOPOLIS Nov'r 10, 1794. " SIR,—I have the honor to inform your Excellency that on the 30th of October, having understood that David Bradford, of Washington, was going down the river in a small canoe by himself, and had passed opposite to Galliopolis but a little while ago, I thought it was my duty, as being a public officer at this post to give orders to stop him. Consequently I sent three of the spies and a subaltern officer, with orders to take him and deliver him to my possession at Galliopolis, where I intended to keep him under a strong guard till I had been honored with your orders. My men overtook him on the 31st, about eleven in the morning thirty miles below the Big Scioto; but unluckily for them, he had two hours before got into a boat of the Contractor's, where they found thirteen men, all ready to protect Bradford, and massacre any who would undertake to take him away. My men after having used their best endeavor, and exerted all measures which prudence and inferiority could suggest in such occurrences, compelled to give up to the majority, and follow the boat as long as possible to try to get a reinforcement from some of the stations on the river; they offered 60 dollars to any man who would turn out with them to take Bradford; but they found the most part of the people disposed in his favor, and inclined to serve his Cause. "By several reports, I have a right to conjecture that Bradford landed at Limestone [Maysville, Ky.] and was conducted to some part of the country where he could safely preach his doctrines, and spread the flame of a new insurrection. It will be almost impossible to take him alive in country where the majority is in favor, and a matter of great chance ¹ Pa. Arch., 2d Series, vol. iv. pp. 450, 470-71 if he can he killed without any fatal consequences. I yesterday saw Capt. Jolly of the mouth of Whelan, who communicated to me the orders issued by your Excellency to take Bradford or to kill him, rather than to suffer him to escape. I gave to Capt. Jolly all the information which I had, and ordered him to proceed to Limestone where he could receive some directions favorable to his purpose. "That boat of the Contractors aboard which Bradford was found, was bound to Fort Washington, under the command of a certain Samuel Duncan, and loaded with coal; there were several passengers on board, who by their hostile disposition appeared to be particularly attached to Bradford. All the information you may wish to have on this important subject can be easily obtained at Fort Washington where S. Duncan delivered his boat. " I am mortified that my undertaking has been unsuccessful, when I would have been happy to have my attachment for this country fully manifested. And if your Excellency thinks that I could be of any service in this affair, and would honor me with some orders, they should be performed with the greatest vigilance and punctuality. " I am Your Excellencys " most Humble and obedient Servant “D'HEBECOURT " Captain Commanding Militia at Galliopolis. "His EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR LEE, Commander in Chief of the Army at Pittsburgh." " HEAD QUARTERS, "PITTSBURGH, Nov 22, 1794. " SIR,—I have received your letter of the 10th inst. and maturely considered its contents. I am concerned that the party in pursuit of Mr. Bradford were unsuccessful in efforts to arrest him inasmuch as I fear the late convulsions of this part of the country, may in a great degree, be ascribed to his counsels and efforts. I hope, at the same time, that be will yet be delivered into the hands of justice ; that he may expiate by his punishment, those offenses which he is supposed to have committed against that country from which he derived his existence and support ; but while I wish that he should be taken, I wish not that he should be destroyed; on the contrary, I should be affected with great concern, should I hear that he had been killed, or even treated with unnecessary severity or cruelty. It is the happiness as it is the pride of America that no person can be deprived of his property or existence but by law. The principle of justice, on which are founded those of the law, pronounce that before he shall be deprived of the latter, he shall be confronted with his accusers, allowed the benefit of exculpatory testimony, and permitted to urge whatsoever he may think necessary for his defense. Conformably to this idea, the several offenders who have been seized in this deluded country, have been regularly delivered to ths civil power which will deal with them according to their merits. "Permit me therefore, to assure yon, Sir, that the information you have received, that I wished Bradford to be killed rather than suffered to escape, is erroneous, and that I shudder at the idea of hunting to death a fellow being. If by your exertions, he could be sent to this place alive you would confer an obligation on me, and on the United States; at the same time, in that event, I should wish him to be treated with every civility consistent with his safe custody. "I am &c &c. " HENRY LEE. "D'HEBECOURT." After his escape from capture by the party sent out by D'Hebecourt for that purpose, Bradford went on the contractors' boat to Fort Washington (Cincinnati), from which place he made his way in safety down the river to Louisiana, which was then under Spanish rule. Obtaining a grant of land from that government, he located on Bayou Sara, where he became a planter and a man of wealth, and where he spent the remaining years of his life. In estimating the character and abilities of Bradford, Brackenridge says, "He was a vain, shallow man, with some talent for popular declamation, which in the present state of the public mind might be productive of mischief. Fortunately he had not the capacity to form any deep consistent plan which looked beyond the present moment with a foresight of all consequences. It seemed to be his THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION - 305 passion to ride on the popular wave, elated with popular applause, and at the same time fearful of popular displeasure." This does not appear to be true, as regarded his capacity for planning. His schemes were deeply laid, and he prosecuted them with a boldness which was not found in the other leaders, and which very naturally made him their chief. If he had been successful they would doubtless have been as eager to share in his success as they showed themselves ready to abuse and defame him after his (and their) failure. With reference to the cases of those who were made prisoners by the cavalry, as well as of many proscribed but not captured, formal investigations were made under the direction of Judge Peters, in the course of which it was made apparent that information had been made against many who had really been guilty of no offense against the government. Many of those arrested were taken to Pittsburgh. Some were released through the interposition of influential friends, while others less fortunate were sent to Philadelphia, where they were imprisoned for some months. Of those who were arrested by the army in this region, Findley says that only eighteen were sent to Philadelphia, and none of these were convicted on trial. A list of those who were sent to Philadelphia under military guard, and an account of their long and dreary march from Pittsburgh across the mountains to the first-named city, is found in the narrative taken from the journal of Capt. Robert Porter, from which a quotation has already been given, embracing the account of the taking of a number of prisoners (of whom Capt. Porter was one), taken on the 13th of November, and afterwards marched to Pittsburgh, where on the 16th they were delivered in charge of Col. Butler at the fort. From this the narrative proceeds: "On the 25th the prisoners were called out of the garrison and surrounded by forty of the garrison soldiers, under the command of Ensign McCleary, and paraded before a detachment of Maj. James Durham's troop of calvary, to whose charge they were to be delivered at Greensburg. The following is a list of the prisoners : Washington County. "Rev. John Corbly, Col. John Hamilton, Col. William Crawford, John Black, David Bolton, James Kerr, Thomas Sedgwick, John Burnett, Capt. Robert Porter Allegheny County. Marmaduke Curtiss, Joseph Scott, James Stewart, Thomas Miller, Thomas Burney, Isaac Walker, John Laughery, Ohio Co., Va. Caleb Mounts, Fayette County. "On the 25th, about ten o'clock, being formed rank and file, and placed in the centre of the aforesaid forty soldiers, commanded by McCleary, they started for Greensburg, where they arrived on the 27th, and were lodged in jail. There they found Samuel Nye (who had been placed there for some rash expression against the officers and government, made when in a drunken frolic), Philip Wylie, and Joseph Parey, which augmented their number to twenty. On the 29th they were drawn out and paraded in the street, and compelled to stand mid-leg deep in mud and snow, and were formally delivered over to the charge of Maj. Durham. They then proceeded on their weary march to Philadelphia. "The order of marching was, each prisoner marching on foot between two of the troop or guard, who were on horseback, and who were ordered by Blackbeard (Gen. Anthony M. White) to keep their swords always drawn, and that if any attempt should be made to rescue, that the heads of the prisoners should be cut off and brought to Philadelphia. At night they were placed in cellars, barns, and such other places as suited the disposition or fancy of our guard. Such was the order of their weary and dismal march to Philadelphia, for thirty days, through snow and mud, in the most inclement time of the year. On the 25th December, paraded at half-past eleven before the Black Horse tavern Tin Philadelphia]. The prisoners, drawn up rank and file, were presented with slips of white paper by the major as cockades, to be put in their hats to distinguish them from the rest of the crowd they were to march through, or as trophies of victory. This was done by the express command of Gen. White, alias Blackbeard ; though the major remonstrated with White, but to no purpose." The prisoners, after having been marched through the streets, in view of a great concourse of spectators, were lodged in the new jail. The Rev. John Corbly was admitted to bail on the 4th of March. The trial of Capt. Porter took place on the 18th day of May, 1795, when, no evidence having been brought against him, the case was, without argument, given to the jury, who in two minutes returned a verdict of acquittal, and he was liberated after having been a prisoner for more than six months. None of these prisoners were convicted. The case of John. Mitchell, who gave himself up to Gen. Morgan, and who on his own confession was convicted of robbing the mail on the 26th of July, and sentenced to death, but afterwards pardoned by President Washington, has already been noticed. One other person was convicted; the crime being setting fire to the house of Benjamin Wells, in Fayette County. In reference to the case of Col. John Hamilton, who was one of the party of prisoners marched to Philadelphia, and who was also sheriff of Washington 306 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. County, and commandant of the "bloody battalion" of Mingo Creek, Findley says that "though a number of this regiment were known to have had an active hand in the attack on the inspector's house, and were in fact considered as the greatest promoters of the insurrection, yet he [Hamilton] not only kept himself free from those outrages, but endeavored, as soon as he heard of the design, to prevent the rendezvous at Braddock's Field. It was he who informed Bradford that the arms and ammunition in the garrison at Pittsburgh were designed for Gen. Scott's expedition against the Indians, and with the assistance of some others persuaded him to countermand the orders and procured his promise to prevent the march. When he could not prevent the march to Braddock's Field, he put himself at the head of his regiment, and was very instrumental in preventing further outrages from being committed. At the court that was held for the county of Washington, a short time after the commissioners left the country, he proposed to take any twenty of the leading insurgents and lodge them in the county jail, if writs were issued for that purpose. . . . The sheriff, to give testimony that he could have accomplished what he proposed, executed every writ of capias that he had in his hands without difficulty. He attended all the meetings for restoring order, with a view to prevent outrages. His being a friend to order, and living where he did [among the Mingo Creek insurrectionists], merited higher approbation than if he had resided where the citizens generally were less disposed to riot." Information of the intention to arrest him was communicated by a friend to Col. Hamilton in time to enable him to make his escape, if he had been so disposed; " but, conscious of his innocence, he preferred traveling above thirty miles to where the judiciary then was, and presenting himself to Judge Peters, informed him that he had heard there was a charge against him, and requested to have it examined. The judge said he was then too much engaged, but would call on him presently; that day, however, passed till evening, when Maj. Lenox, the marshal, in the most delicate manner he could, told him be must put him under guard." Two days afterwards he was marched, under escort of a party of cavalry, to the town of Washington, to which place Judge Peters . had removed. Here he again applied to the judge to have his case examined, but he was put off on some pretext from time to time, and "on the ninth day after he first applied to the judge he was sent close prisoner to Philadelphia, paraded through the streets with an ignominious badge on his hat, and thrown into the cells without his case having ever been examined. After an imprisonment of near two months and a half he had his case brought before the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus, and on examination, nothing being found against him, he was [on the 20th of January, 1795] admitted to bail. At the Circuit Court held in Philadelphia in June following a bill for misprision of treason was sent to, the Grand Jury against him, but every witness that was sworn testified in his favor. There was not even a suspicious circumstance found against him." General pardons to those who had been implicated in the insurrection, and who had not subsequently been indicted or convicted of crimes committed in it, were proclaimed by President Washington and Governor Mifflin in August, 1795, in pursuance of the agreement made in the previous year at Pittsburgh by the United States and Pennsylvania commissioners. A large number of other persons also received special pardons. In January, 1795, the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania declared the elections held in the counties of Washington, Allegheny, Westmoreland, and Fayette, on the second Tuesday of the preceding October, to be unconstitutional and void, for the reason that a majority of the inhabitants of those counties were then in a state of insurrection and opposition to the laws of the commonwealth. By this action fifteen persons then elected, viz., eleven members of the House of Representatives and four senators, were excluded from seats in the Assembly. A special election to fill these vacancies was held in the four counties in February, 1795, when the same persons were again elected, and duly took their seats, except one (Mr. Moore, a senator), who declined the new election. CHAPTER XXI. WAR OF 1812-15—TEXAN AND MEXICAN WARS. IN the war of 1812-15 between the United States and Great Britain, soldiers from Washington County took an active and honorable part, and all classes of the people of the county gave unmistakable evidences of patriotism from the commencement to the end of the struggle. War was formally declared by the United States on the 18th of June, 1812, but the raising of troops had commenced in Washington County prior to that time, in anticipation of the conflict which was known to be inevitable. On the 22d of May the brigade inspector issued the following order and call for volunteers : " BRIGADE ORDERS. " Orders having been received from the Adjutant-General of this State, requiring me to furnish my quota of men (three hundred) from the First Brigade 14th Division P. N., to be furnished by Volunteers, if not drafted Militia.—Notice is hereby given to the Regiments to parade in the following order, to wit: " The Twenty-third Regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. John Vance, will meet in Burgettstown on Monday the 1st of June. "The Eighty-second Regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Joshua Dickerson, will meet on Tuesday, the 2d day of June, at the house of R. Graham. "The Twenty-second Regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Samuel Scott, will meet on Wednesday the 3d of June in the borough of Washington. WAR OF 1812-15—TEXAN AND MEXICAN WARS - 307 "The Fifty-third Regiment, commanded by Lieut-Col. Joseph Barr, will meet on the Thursday following at the house of John Love, where officers and soldiers are ordered to be on the ground at 10 o'clock A. M. "The quotas of the different regiments are as follows : "The Twenty-second Regiment shall furnish ninety men. The Twenty-third Regiment " " eighty " The Eighty-second Regiment " " seventy " The Fifty-third Regiment " " “ sixty " With these orders there was issued the following call for volunteers : "VOLUNTEERS OF 1807 AND 1809.¹—You are about to be called into the field for the purpose expressed in the above orders. The cause leading to this must be familiar to every soldier in the brigade. The tyrants of the belligerents have since the first and second tender of your service perpetually plundered our ships at sea and impressed our sailors, and by their bribes induced the Indians to commence murder and rapine on our frontiers. Our government failing in all her efforts to establish a peace honorable to all, have found it absolutely necessary to have a solemn appeal to physical force for the support of our independence from further insult and disgrace. And hence I call upon you as freemen once more to tender your services. "Now, my fellow-soldiers, here offers an opportunity of displaying your love of liberty, your determination to be free. Let it not be said that a draft must be the resort. I judge from former examples that the patriots of this brigade will not shrink from the real test, and the contest alone in the case will be who shall be foremost in stepping out as a volunteer. As this brigade bears the palm for its attachment to the State and general government, it would be degrading to the members composing it not to give a voluntary tender when called upon as a testimonial of its co-operation in these acts. " I request your attention to the glorious example set by our infant sister State, Ohio, in her late tender of volunteers, and the ever-memorable conduct of the volunteers of the State of Kentucky and the Territories on the morning of the 7th Nov. last at the battle of Tippecanoe on the Wabash. To your arms, brother soldiers, and convince tyrants and the blind, deluded savages that you will by a voluntary act support the liberty achieved by the wisdom of the immortal Washington and the strong arm of union with the hope of success in a virtuous cause. "Confidence in you as citizen-soldiers prompts a belief that I shall have the pleasure of meeting you on parade on the different days appointed, then ready and willing to fulfill my fond expectations, and most sanguine hopes. "JAMES DUNLAP, " Brigade Inspector, 1st B., 14 D., W. G. P. M. "WASHINGTON, May 22, 1812." The result of the order and call for volunteers appears in a communication published in the Washington Reporter of June 15th, in which it is stated that the number of volunteers " far exceeds the demand of Maj. James Dunlap, the brigade inspector. The detachment will consist of five flank companies, among which are the Williamsport Rangers, the second flank company attached to the 53d Regiment. The brigade inspector has in two weeks organized, inspected, and put in readiness for marching orders his quota of the fourteen thousand required in Pennsylvania, and made the necessary return to the adjutant-general." On Wednesday, June 22d, four days after the formal declaration of war, a spirited public meeting of citizens ¹ This allusion by the brigade inspector to the " volunteers of 1807 and 1809" has reference to the fact that in August of the former year three hundred and five men of the Washington County militia volunteered and tendered their services under the call made by President Jefferson for ten thousand men, on account of the outrage committed by the English on the United States frigate "Chesapeake," and also to a similar volunteering and proffer of services which was made by men of Washington County for duty in the field in 1809. of Washington County was held at the court-house for the purpose of expressing the determination of the inhabitants to support the government and send men to the field. Thomas Acheson, Robert Anderson, Alexander Murdoch, Parker Campbell, and Thomas H. Baird were appointed a committee to prepare resolutions and an address to be presented on the 27th, to which day the meeting was adjourned. At the adjourned meeting the attendance was very large from all parts of the country, and the enthusiasm ran high, but it does not appear that any actual business was done beyond the delivery of eloquent speeches by Parker Campbell, William Hoge, and others, and the adoption of patriotic resolutions, and an equally patriotic address to the people. On Sunday, July 26th, information was received in Washington of the infamous surrender by Gen. Hull of the post of Detroit and the force under his command, amounting to nearly fifteen hundred men, to an inferior number of British and Indians. On the receipt of this disastrous intelligence a further call was made, and among those who came forward to volunteer was a full company called the Washington Infantry, commanded by Capt. William Sample, with James Ruple as lieutenant, and George Taylor ensign; also the " Williamsport Rangers," under Capt. Tames Warne and Lieut. William Hunter. The Washington County troops, mustered for a six months' term of service, marched for the Canadian frontier under the following "BRIGADE STANDING ORDERS. "The following rules and regulations will be strictly observed by the Officers and Soldiers composing the detachments from the 1st Brigade, 14th Division, Pennsylvania Militia, on their march from this place to Head-Quarters: "1st. Line of march to be as follows, viz.: Capt. William Sample's company, on the right; Capt. Thomas Miller's, second; Capt. Edmund Thomas', third; Capt. James Warner's, fourth; and Capt. David Buchanan's, on the left. "2d. The person and property of our fellow-citizens shall remain inviolable. Disobedience of orders, intemperance, profane language must be peremptorily and rigidly punished. "3d. Morning reports to be made, and by the proper subalterns, correctly, and returned regularly. "Fellow-Soldiers,—We have here to establish our character in a military point of view. It has been asserted by the enemies of our system that the militia are inefficient, and that subordination amongst that description of force is impracticable. We now have a fair opportunity of proving the falsity of both these assertions. In our capacity as soldiers let us refrain from every act which would be considered as dishonorable in a citizen. The circumstances of our being embodied does not change the rules of honor and decorum. Therefore let all our acts be such as comport with those of the soldier and gentleman. Having the fullest confidence that the above orders will be strictly observed, it only remains for me to add that the most particular attention shall be paid in the providing of every necessary accommodation for the comfort and convenience of the troops on their march to head-quarters. "JAMES DUNLAP, "Brigade Inspector, lst B., 14th D., P. M. "RENDEZVOUS AT WASHINGTON, PA., "September 8th, 1812." At Meadville, Pa., this battalion of Washington County troops was joined by the Bedford County volunteers under Col. Piper. A consolidation of the forces from the two counties then took place, and of 308 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. the regimental organization formed, Capt. James Warne, of the " Williamsport Rangers," became the major, and Lieut. William Hunter became captain of the " Rangers." Following is the official roll of that company at the expiration of its service, signed by Capt. Hunter and Lieut.-Col. Jeremiah Snyder, viz.: "Roll and muster of Capt. William Hunter's company of infantry, attached to the First Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Col. Jeremiah Snider, in the service of the United States from the State of Pennsylvania, Brig.-Gen. Adamson Tannehill commanding, commencing the 25th of September and ending the 24th of November, 1812, both days included. Name. Rank. William Hunter. Captain. John Eckells. Lieutenant. Robert McGrew. Ensign. James Freeman. lst Sergeant. William Chalfant 2d " Jesse Robb. 3d “ John Watkins. 4th " Washington Palmer. 1st Corporal. Frederick Layman. 2d " William Crookham. 3d “ Johnson Chalfant. 4 “ th William P. Biles Fifer. Henry Pinkney. Drummer. Private John Bridge. Francis Scott. Samuel Barnett. Joseph Butler. Alexander Jones. William Dalrymple. James Dougherty. Andrew Nicholson. Crofford Daily. Israel Pancoast. John Lefler. William Doyle. Samuel Speaker. William Wallace. Present. William Hunter. John Eckells. Robert McGrew. James Freeman. William Chalfant. Jesse Robb. John Watkins. Washington Palmer. Frederick Layman. William Crookham. Johnson Chalfant. William P. Biles. Henry Pinkney. John Bridge. Francis Scott. Samuel Barnett. Joseph Butler. Alexander Jones. William Dalrumple. James Dougherty. Andrew Nicholson. Crofford Daily. Israel Pancoast. John Lefler. William Doyle. Samuel Speaker. William Wallace. The Washington County battalion marched to the Niagara River in the vicinity of Black Rock, below Buffalo, N. Y., where they remained on duty as part of the command of Gen. Tannehill until the following December, when, before the expiration of their term of service, the six months' troops, including the Washington Infantry, the Williamsport Rangers, and other Washington County men, were allowed to return home, either by dismissal or on furlough, till again called. On Monday, Aug. 24, 1812, information came by express to Washington County that a large force of British and Indians (estimated at five thousand) had landed from Lake Erie at the mouth of Huron River in Ohio, and had advanced to within a few miles of Cleveland, having, as was supposed, the intention of marching on Pittsburgh. The alarm was sounded through all the county, producing the most intense excitement, which resulted in the raising of nearly one thousand men in the county ready for duty, among whom were the infantry companies of Capt. Buchanan, Capt. Thomas, and Capt. Benjamin Anderson; the cavalry troop of Capt. Shouse, of Monongahela City (then Williamsport), and two other companies of cavalry from the central and western part of the county. Under a call for a further quota of troops that was made immediately afterwards most of the men who thus volunteered joined the command of Gen. Richard Crooks, which rendezvoused at Pittsburgh, destined for duty in the West under Gen. William Henry Harrison. A small battalion, however (about three hundred men), which was quickly raised iii the northwest part of the county,—composed of three companies of infantry, respectively, under command of Capts. Thomas Patterson, Samuel Rankin, and John Vance, and two small companies of mounted men, commanded by Capt. Robert Withrow and Capt. Shouse, of Williamsport,—did not wait for the call and the rendezvous at Pittsburgh, but marched at once (independent, as it appears, of any superior command) to meet the invading British and Indian force. Rendezvousing at what is now the village of Florence, in Hanover township, the command of the detachment was given to the ranking captain (Patterson), and Capt. Vance was made acting major. They proceeded to the Ohio, crossed that river at Georgetown, and marched in Ohio as far as New Lisbon, where, for some cause, probably on account of information received there that the story of the British and Indian invasion was without foundation, after a Sabbath-day's rest, they faced to the rear and returned home over the same route by which they had advanced. It has been stated in some accounts that the reason for their turning back was because on their outward march, near New Lisbon, they received information of Hull's surrender at Detroit. This is clearly a mistake, for the news of the surrender was announced at Burgettstown on the 26th of July, and was known to every male adult in Washington County four weeks before they left their homes for the march to Ohio. The company known as the "Ten-Mile Rangers," from the southern part of the county, volunteered for a six-months' term of service, and were on duty at Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Joseph Miller, Sr., now a pensioner living in Amwell township at the age of ninety-two years, and who was the first corporal of the Rangers, furnishes the following account of the movements and service of the company in 1812 : " The Ten-Mile Rangers were a company of resident militia, and were accustomed to muster three times a year. At the time they enlisted in the struggle of 1812 the organization was as follows, to wit: William Patterson, captain; Elijah Rees, lieutenant; Simeon Brown, ensign; Jacob Cook, brigade major; John Miller, son of John Miller, who built the old Hallam mill and the primitive hewed-log meeting-houses of Upper and Lower Ten-Mile, was orderly sergeant. The other sergeants were Ichabod Clark and Daniel Cook [the Cooks were sons of Stephen Cook, and their mother was a McFarland. They lived on the farm afterwards owned by the McGiffins]. The corporals were Joseph Miller (1st), Henry Ustock, and Samuel McCullough. Of the privates, Billy Cook, Stephen Cook, and Benj. Miller are best remembered. WAR OF 1812-15—TEXAN AND MEXICAN WARS - 309 " The Rangers left Ten-Mile on the 11th of September, 1812, and arrived at Meadville, Pa., the place of general rendezvous, on the 25th of the same month. Here the brigade was organized by electing [?] Adamson Tannehill (who was reputed to have been an aide to Gen. Washington) brigadier-general, William Piper, colonel, and William McGeary, major. After remaining at Meadville about a month, we received marching orders, the objective-point being Black Rock. We struck the lake at Erie, and marched thence along the beach about ninety miles to Buffalo, N. Y. The army remained at this point about three weeks, during which time on three occasions volunteers were called for to cross the river to make an assault on the fortifications opposite to Black Rock, and thence to march into the interior of Canada. Each time the Ten-Mile Rangers all stepped to the front, volunteering for a dangerous service; which no one had a right to command, and which could only be entirely voluntary. A force of regulars and sailors crossed the river (date not remembered) and made a night assault, which was successful. A number were killed and wounded, and the British guns of the shore batteries were all spiked. In our camp we heard the noise of the assault, and next morning we saw the killed and wounded brought back. "There being no force of the enemy at hand to oppose a crossing, the whole force was moved to the shore, to be taken over in transports to follow up the victory. The regulars and sailors were to cross first, and the volunteers were to follow. Accordingly about twenty transports were proceeding with the first embarkation, and had got about one-third of the way over the river when, to the utter surprise and disgust of every one, Gen. Smythe ordered their return, and with his army of eleven thousand men ignominiously retired from a battle that was more than half fought. As the several commands were retiring to their old encampments in the neighborhood of Buffalo, an incident occurred which is worth relating, to show the feeling of the soldiers toward their chief. As Gen. Smythe and staff were riding through the demoralized columns on their return, a Dutchman in the ranks looked up into the general's face and exclaimed, ‘Hoora for Gen. Smyt--Cot tam Tory!’ In an instant the general snatched a pistol from his holster to fire into the face of his Teutonic admirer, but it flashed in the pan. ' Tory powter ton't purn coot 1' was the only reply the doughty general's fierce attack elicited. "The army became demoralized and greatly discouraged, the Rangers participating in the general discontent. Thus midwinter found us with little prospect of any active operations, and illy provided for wintering in so rigorous a climate. Under these circumstances the Rangers were granted a company furlough, permitting them to return home, but to hold themselves ready at a minute's warning to respond to orders calling them back. 'There were a number of desertions, but our company remained together until they received their leave. About the middle of December the company formed, and started on the march for home. On arriving at Buffalo bridge we found Capt. Sample, of Washington, with his company, doing provost duty. Our passports were demanded, and on Ens. Brown presenting our furlough we were permitted to pass peaceably. This was well, for our pieces were loaded, and, having turned our backs upon the inhospitable shores of Lake Erie, it was our intention to pass at all events. The company now broke into squads, and passed weary days of marching through snow from three to four feet deep, our squad arriving at home the day before Christmas. Capt. Patterson, Lieut. Reese, and Samuel Herod, of the staff, remained with the army till regularly discharged. The Rangers were never ordered out again. Under all the circumstances, it is not strange that rumors soon became rife that the Ten-Mile Rangers had not greatly distinguished themselves, and that they had left the front without the proper leave. " The next winter a court-martial was convened in Jefferson, Greene Co., consisting of Gens. Calohan (?) and Sutton, and Cols. Thomas Vaneman, Dickison, Roberts, and Thomas Ringland, the latter being judge-advocate. Before this court we were cited to appear to answer a charge of desertion. On presenting the company furlough the court, without further investigation, dismissed the charge, and declared the company honorably discharged. Thus closed a severe and trying campaign, that failed in splendid results only through the cowardice or incapacity of the general in command." It has been stated in some accounts of the war of 1812 that Joseph Ritner, who was then a citizen of Washington County (afterwards Governor of Pennsylvania), commanded a company of Rangers from this county, who served in the West under Gen. Harrison. Another account is to the effect that he was one of those who marched from Briceland's Cross-Roads to Ohio and then marched back, as before narrated. There is nothing improbable in this latter account, but the former statement (that he served in the war as captain of a company) is rendered very improbable by an affidavit made by Ritner, and now on file at Harrisburg, from which the following is an extract: " Joseph Ritner declares that he is the identical Joseph Ritner who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Anderson in first regiment commanded by Col. Joel Ferree, of the brigade commanded by Gen. Richard Crooks, in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812, for the term of six months, and continued in actual service in said war from the 2d day of October, 1812, until the 2d day of April, 1813." The Washington County troops under Gen. Richard Crooks performed good service in Gen. Harrison's Western campaigns, and were honorably discharged 310 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. in 1813, at different times, from April to September of that year. After that time, during the war, the military organizations of Washington County were kept in constant readiness for the field when their services might be required. In the fall of 1814 the county was called on for men, to report at Baltimore, Md., for service against the British forces on the Chesapeake. The quota was promptly filled, and the troops marched under Maj. James Dunlap, but while on their way to the place designated the commanding officer received notice from Governor Snyder, of Pennsylvania, that their services would not be required. They accordingly returned to the county and were dismissed to their homes. In 1836, when Texas was at war with Mexico for the purpose of gaining her independence from the latter country, Maj. Thomas Jefferson Morgan, of Washington, conceived a project to raise a body of men to fight in the Texan army under his command, and when the war should be ended successfully for Texas, these men to settle there on ample tracts of land which, as he was assured by President Houston, would be granted to them in payment for their military services. With this plan in view he issued an address " To ALL PATRIOTIC AND ENTERPRISING MEN, " EMIGRANTS FOR TEXAS. " To Rendezvous at Washington, Pa., on 6th September, 1836." In this address, which was from beginning to end an extremely florid and highly-colored one, he said, " History does not furnish so wide and fertile a field for enterprise, as ever having been presented to the view of any people. Those individuals who have no other aim in this life than the mere accumulation of riches, where will they have so favorable an opportunity to realize their hopes as is now offered upon the plains of Texas? If wealth then be your sole desire, go to Texas, the fairest of a thousand lands." . . . " The undersigned has been authorized to recruit two hundred, and eighty volunteers, and in accordance with this authority I now call upon the freemen of Western Pennsylvania, and of the surrounding districts of Ohio and Virginia, and upon all patriots, wherever may be their habitation, to join me in my undertaking. It is my desire that all volunteers should rendezvous at Washington upon the 6th of September, or as speedily afterwards as practicable. . . ." The result of this appeal was the enrollment of thirty men, who were formed into a company which was called the "Morgan Rifles," and of which T. Jefferson Morgan was made captain by the votes of the members. The time of their march from Washington, as designated in published orders, was Monday, September 19th. 'They marched on the 20th, and proceeded by way of the Ohio River to Louisville, Ky., receiving some accessions to their numbers on the way. From Louisville they continued down the river to New Orleans, and thence proceeded to Texas, but did not arrive there until after the war had been closed by Gen. Houston's final battle and victory of. San Jacinto, which gave independence to Texas. Whether the men of Morgan's command carried out their original idea of becoming settlers there or not is not known. Only a small proportion of those who marched from Washington were actual residents of this county. In the Mexican war of 1846-48, not more than six men from Washington County entered into the United States service, the principal one of whom was Col. Norton McGiffin, whose record in it was an honorable one. Of the others nothing is known. CHAPTER XXII. WAR OF THE REBELLION. Opening of the War—First Companies from Washington County—The Twelfth Regiment—Pennsylvania Reserves—Eighth and Tenth Reserve Regiments. THE military history of Washington County for the period embracing the great war of the Rebellion commenced in those spring days of 1861, when the signal to arms came booming from the guns of beleaguered Sumter and reverberated across the rivers and mountains, from ocean to lake. And it is a history of which the people of the county may well be proud. From the time when the first call for troops was made known until the surrender of the principal hostile army made further calls unnecessary the young men, the middle-aged men, and sometimes the old men of Washington responded to each appeal with• an alacrity and patriotism not excelled in any other county of the State or Union. The war was commenced in the harbor of Charleston, S. C., at daylight in the morning of Friday, April 12, 1861, by the opening of a heavy fire on Fort Sumter from the formidable Confederate earthworks which encircled it. The bombardment was continued incessantly during all that day and the forenoon of the next, and at about one o'clock P.M. on the 13th the fort surrendered, the buildings within its inclosure being on fire. On Monday, the 15th of April, the President of the United States issued a proclamation, declaring the South in a state of rebellion, and calling on the Northern States of the Union for a force of seventy-five thousand men to suppress it. To this call Washington, like nearly all other counties of the State, responded with promptness and enthusiasm, and within the week following the issuance of the President's proclamation two companies (one from Washington borough and one from Monongahela City) had been filled and were on their way to Pittsburgh to join the Twelfth Pennsylvania Regi- WAR OF THE REBELLION - 311 ment, then forming for service in the field. Another company (called the " McKennan Infantry") was also in process of recruitment at Washington, but when its ranks were filled—only a few days later—it failed to secure acceptance from Pennsylvania (the quota being already full), and thereupon marched to Wheeling, where its services were tendered to, and accepted by, the Governor of West Virginia, and it was credited to the quota of that State. The officers of this company were Capt. Lewis E. Smith, First Lieut. A. A. Devore, and Second Lieut. N. W. Truxall. The companies which marched from Washington .borough and Monongahela City to join the Twelfth Regiment, as before mentioned, were commanded respectively by Capt. Norton McGiffin and Capt. Robert F. Cooper. These companies, like the others forming the regiment, were raised for three months' service, a term which at that time was thought to be ample for the suppression of the Rebellion. The Twelfth was one of the earliest regiments to enter the field. It was organized at Pittsburgh, under supervision of Brig.-Gen. James S. Negley, of that city, and included in its organization several Pittsburgh military companies already formed, viz., the Duquesne Grays, Independent Blues, Zouave Cadets, and City Guards. These forming a nucleus, volunteers came in so rapidly that the ranks were filled and regimental officers elected on the 22d of April, viz. : colonel, David Campbell, of Pittsburgh; lieutenant-colonel, Norton McGiffin, of Washington; major, Alexander Hays, of Pittsburgh. Two days later the regiment left Pittsburgh for Harrisburg, where on the 25th it was reviewed by Governor Curtin and mustered into the service of the United States. The regiment moved from Harrisburg to Camp Scott, near York, Pa., where it remained till May 25th, when it was ordered to Maryland to guard the line of the Northern Central Railroad from Pennsylvania to the city of Baltimore. On this duty it remained, posted by detachments along the road, during the entire term of its enlistment. It was mustered out of service at Harrisburg, Aug. 5, 1861. In reference to the Twelfth, and the bloodless duty it performed, Bates, in his " History of Pennsylvania Volunteers," says, "The service rendered by this regiment was devoid of stirring incident, but was, nevertheless, exceeding laborious, was faithfully performed, and was of great moment to the government. The highest expectations were entertained of its heroic conduct in the face of the enemy ; but no enemy was seen, and no occasion presented for firing a gun. It was a noiseless and inglorious campaign, but a highly useful one, for not only was an important and vital line of communication with the national capital preserved and protected, but a fine body of men was thoroughly drilled and perfected in the school of arms, and many who here received their first instruction afterwards led, with great skill, in the most deadly encounters. The field-officers had all received a military training. Maj. (afterwards brigadier-general) Hays, who was killed while gallantly leading his brigade in the battle of the Wilderness, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy." Lieut.-Col. Norton McGiffin, of Washington, was a veteran of the Mexican war, as were also many members of the two old Pittsburgh companies which formed a part of the regiment. The two Washington County companies of the Twelfth were designated in the regimental organization as "E" and "G" companies. Lists of their officers and enlisted men are given below : COMPANY E. (Recruited at Washington.) Norton McGiffin, capt., pro. to lieut.-col.; James Armstrong, capt.; William F. Templeton, lst lieut.; Samuel F. Griffith, 2d lieut.; Oliver R. McNary, lst sergt.; David Brady, 2d sergt.; John Q. A. Boyd, 3d sergt.; David Acheson, 4th sergt.; John D. McKahan, 1st corp.; Henry Brown, 2d Corp.; Robert B. Elliot, 3d corp.; George B. Caldwell, 4th corp.; William A. McCoy, Simeon W. Lewis, musicians. Privates. John W. Acheson. Henry H. Alter. James Barr. Edwin W. Bausman. Peter Blonberg. Hugh P. Boon. John V. Brobst. John A. Byers. John L. Cook. Henry M. Dorgan. Horace B. Durant. Tertius A. Durant. Henry Erdman. Hardman Gantz. John L. Gettys. James Grier. John M. Griffith. Charles Hallam. William T. Hamilton. Alexander C. Hamilton. William Hart. Eli Hess, died. William H. Horn. Robert P. Hughes. Andrew J. Hyde. James B. Kennedy. John Kendall. Philip P. Kuntz. John Lawton. Joseph Lane. Matthew P. Linn. Charles L. Linton. John Loughman. Taylor McFarland. Thomas M. McKeever. John McKeever. Caleb I. McNulty. James W. Montford. William M. Morrison Henry C. Odenbaugh. George A. Perrett. Rollin O. Phillips. Henry A. Purviance. Alexander Rankin. George W. Reed. Samuel B. Rickey, died. John B. Ritner. Alexander W. Scott. Cephas D. Sharp. David Shepherd. James Stocking. Andrew J. Swart. John B. Sweeny. Samuel M. Templeton. Joseph H. Templeton. Robert Thompson. Robert L. Thompson. William H. Underwood. Isaac Vance. George I. Walker. Andrew W. Wilson. James B. Wilson. Robert T. Wishart. Wesley Wolf. COMPANY G (MONONGAHELA ARTILLERY). (Recruited at Monongahela City.) Robert F. Cooper, capt.; John S. McBride, lst lieut.; Jesse C. Taylor, 2nd lieut.; William W. Thompson, lst sergt.; John Myers, 2d sergt.; Owen Bullard, 3d sergt.; John S. Slanger, 4th sergt.; Rees Boyd, lst corp.; Benjamin F. Scott, 2d corp.; John H. Woodward, 3d corp.; Alexander O. D. O'Donovan, 4th corp.; Frederick Layman, musician ; James S. Scott, musician. Privates. Francis Allen. Isaac R. Beazell. Harrison Remington. John Boyd. William B. Brooks. John Belles. William Baxter, Jr. Samuel W. Beazell. Michael Barry. Patrick Collins. Sylvester Collins. William S. Cooper. 312 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Benjamin D. Dickey. John C. Dougherty. Andrew Elliot. William H. H. Eberhard. Andrew Grant. Alexander Gregg. John M. Gibbs. Joseph D. V. Hazzard. S. Bently Howe. William H. Howe. James S. Harris. William H. Heath. William J. Hoffman. Alexander Haney. David Kearney. Henry B. King. William G. Kennedy. James L. Long. Andrew Louderback. Ellis N. Lilley. George C. Leighty. David Morton. James Mehaffy. Charles McCain. William T. Meredith. Thomas Morgan. Thomas Mack. William Mack. Daniel Mockbee. Jacob S. Miller. Augustus J. Miller. Hillery Miller. John Merrick. William Ong. Charles Oliver. William Oliver. George W. Potts. Samuel B. Paxton. Samuel Pritchard. Joseph G. Reager. John Rinard. Reuben Sutton. George Stewart. Alfred M. Sickman. Jefferson G. Vangilder. Theophilus Vankirk. Robert S. Wilson. William Woodward. William H. H. Wickerham. James S. White. Samuel Young. Daniel D. Yates. After the filling of the first quotas the War Department changed its policy and ceased to accept three months' men, the term of service required being three years or during the war, with some exceptions of two years' regiments. During the long struggle Washington County furnished large numbers of troops for the armies of the United States. They served in various commands, but were most numerous in the Eighth and Tenth Reserves, the Seventy-ninth, Eighty-fifth, One Hundredth, and One Hundred and Fortieth infantry regiments, and the First, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, and Twenty-second regiments of cavalry of Pennsylvania. Of the movements and services of these regiments separate historical sketches will be given, with lists of their Washington County members. It is admitted, however, that the lists given are not entirely accurate or complete, but they are as nearly so as it is practicable to make them from the records of the adjutant-general's office. The Pennsylvania Reserves.—The fact that Pennsylvania, by reason of her extended southern frontier bordering on Mason and Dixon's line, was peculiarly exposed to the danger of invasion by the forces of the Confederacy, was at once recognized by Governor Curtin, who on the 20th of April, just one week after the fall of Fort Sumter, called an extra session of the Legislature, which convened on the 30th. In his message to that body he said, "To furnish ready support to those who have gone out and to protect our borders we should have a well-regulated military force. I therefore recommend the immediate organization; disciplining, and arming of at least fifteen regiments of cavalry and infantry, exclusive of those called into the service of the United States. As we have already ample warning of the necessity of being prepared for any sudden exigency that may arise, I cannot too much impress this upon you." In pursuance of this recommendation of the Governor a bill was introduced on the 2d of May, and became a law on the 15th, having among its provisions one authorizing and directing the commander-in-chief to raise and organize a military force, to be called the " Reserve Volunteer Corps of the Commonwealth," to be composed of thirteen regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and one of light artillery; to be enlisted in the service of the State for the term of three years, or during the continuance of the war, unless sooner discharged, and to be liable to be called into service at the discretion of the commander-in-chief for the purpose of suppressing insurrection or repelling invasion, and, further, to be liable to be mustered into the service of the United States under requisition made by the President on the State of Pennsylvania. The regiments and companies composing the corps so authorized were entitled to elect, and the Governor was directed to commission, officers similar in rank and equal in number to those allowed to troops in the United States army. The corps formed under the provisions of this act was quickly and easily recruited, for the enthusiasm and desire to enlist in its ranks was general in every part of the State. The camps of instruction were four in number,—one at Easton, one at West Chester, one at Pittsburgh, and one at Harrisburg. The exigency foreseen by Governor Curtin having arisen, orders were received (July 19th) from the Secretary of War directing all the regiments, excepting the Fifth and Thirteenth,¹ of the Reserves to be assembled at Harrisburg, and there, immediately after the disastrous battle of Bull Run, they were mustered into the United States service. From Harrisburg, " moving rapidly to the points designated by the commander of the national army, the several regiments remained on duty until all danger from a sudden incursion of the enemy was passed," when all of them were rendezvoused at Tenallytown, Md., in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia. There they were formed into three brigades, composing one division, under command of Maj.-Gen. George A. McCall. This was the far-famed division of the Pennsylvania Reserves, which, after the requisite tour of drill and discipline at Tenallytown, moved into Virginia with the forces of Gen. McClellan, and afterwards won imperishable renown on nearly all the principal battlefields of the. Army of the Potomac. Eighth Reserve Regiment.—The Eighth Reserve, or Thirty-seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania (enlisted for three years' service), was composed of companies raised in the counties of Washington, Fayette, Allegheny, Greene, Armstrong, Butler, and Clarion, all or nearly all of which had been raised for the three months' service, but had failed to secure acceptance by the government for that term. One of its companies ("K," previously called the " Hopkins ¹ " These two regiments were already in the field in the vicinity of Cumberland, Md. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 313 Infantry," and commanded by Capt. Alexander Wishart) was recruited in Washington County. The rendezvous of the Eighth was at " Camp Wilkins," Pittsburgh, to which camp the companies were ordered early in June, 1861, and on the 28th of the same month the regiment was formally organized, under the following-named field-officers, viz.: Colonel, George S. Hays, M.D., of Allegheny County; Lieutenant-Colonel, S. Duncan Oliphant, of Fayette; Major, John W. Duncan; Adjutant, Henry W. Patterson. On the 20th of July the regiment left for Washington, D. C., by way of Harrisburg and Baltimore. Receiving equipments at the former place, and tents at the latter, it arrived at Washington on the 23d, and encamped at Meridian Hill. On the 2d of August it moved thence to Tenallytown, Md., where it encamped with other regiments of the Reserve Division under Maj.-Gen. George A. McCall. The Eighth, together with the First Reserve, Col. R. Biddle Roberts; the Second, Col. William B. Mann; and the Fifth, Col. Seneca G. Simmons, formed the First Brigade, under command of Brig.-Gen. John F. Reynolds. The regiment remained at TenaIlytown about two months, a period which was passed in camp routine, picket duty, and frequent alarms along the line of the Potomac, and on the 9th of October moved with its brigade and division across that historic stream, and took position in the line of the Army of the Potomac at Langley, Va., at which place the Reserve Corps made its winter-quarters. In the battle of Dranesville, which was fought on the 10th of December by the Third Brigade (Gen. Ord's) of the Reserves, neither the Eighth Regiment' nor any part of Reynolds' brigade took part, being absent on a reconnaissance to Difficult Creek. On the 10th of March, 1862, the Eighth, with the entire division, moved from the winter-quarters at Camp Pierrepont (Langley) to Hunter's Mills, Va., with the expectation of joining in a general advance of the army on the Confederate position at Manassas. But it was found that the enemy had evacuated his line of defenses and retired towards Gordonsvillle, and thereupon the plan of the campaign was changed by the commanding general, McClellan, and the Reserve regiments were ordered back to the Potomac. On the 12th the retrograde march was commenced, and continued through mud, darkness, and a deluge of rain to Alexandria, where it was expected that the division would embark with the rest of the Army of the Potomac for the Peninsula; but this was not the case. The division of McCall was assigned to duty with the First Corps, under Gen. McDowell, which, with the exception of Franklin's division, was held between. the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers for the protection of the city of Washington. From Alexandria, the Eighth with its brigade marched back to Manassas, thence to Warrenton Junction, to Falmouth, and (May 24th) across the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg, of which place Gen. Reynolds was appointed military governor. An advance from Fredericksburg along the line of the railroad towards Richmond was intended, but this was found to be inexpedient, and as Gen. McClellan was calling urgently for reinforcements in the Peninsula, Reynolds' brigade was recalled from its advanced position on the railroad ; the entire division was marched to Gray's Landing, and there embarked for White House, on the Pamunkey River, where it arrived on the 11th of June. There had been a vast quantity of stores collected at White House for the use of the army on the Chickahominy, and the timely arrival of the Reserves prevented the destruction of these stores by a strong detachment of Confederate cavalry under Fitzhugh Lee, who was then on his way towards the Pamunkey for that purpose. From White House the Eighth marched with the division by way of Baltimore Cross-Roads to join the Army of the Potomac in the vicinity of Gaines' Mill. Thence the division was moved to the extreme right, where it took position at Mechanicsville and along the line of Beaver Dam Creek. On Thursday, the 26th of June, was fought the battle of Mechanicsville, the first of that series of bloody engagements known collectively as the Seven Days' Fight, and also (with the exception of the severe skirmish at Dranesville in the previous December) the first engagement in which the Pennsylvania Reserves took part. In this battle the Eighth (having in the morning of that day relieved the Second) occupied the left of its brigade line, and about the centre of the line holding the bank of Beaver Dam Creek. The First Reserve Regiment was on its right. On a crest of ground northeast of the creek was posted Easton's Battery. At the margin of the swamp which skirts the creek the Eighth was deployed, Companies A, D, F, and I being thrown forward as skirmishers under command of Lieut.-Col. Oliphant. The battle commenced at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Georgia and Louisiana troops of the enemy wading the stream and rushing forward to the attack. " A brief artillery contest, in which the shells burst in rapid succession in the very midst of the infantry, was followed by the advance of the rebel columns, and the battle became general. A charge of the enemy below the swamp, with the design of capturing Easton's Battery, caused the skirmishers to be recalled, and the regiment moved to its support. But the enemy being repulsed by other troops it returned to its former position. Three times the close columns of the enemy charged down the opposite slope with determined valor, butt were as often repulsed and driven back. At night the men rested upon the ground where they bad fought. The dead were collected, wrapped in their blankets, and consigned to the earth, and the wounded were sent to the rear. The loss of the regiment in killed, wounded, and missing was nearly one hundred. Company F being 314 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. upon the skirmish line, and not comprehending the order to withdraw, remained at its post, and fell into the hands of the enemy." At daylight in the morning of the 27th of June the Eighth, with its companion regiments of the Reserve Corps, was withdrawn from the battle-ground of the previous day, and moved down, parallel with the Chickahominy, some two or three miles, to Gaines' Mill, where Gen. Fitz John Porter's corps (of which the Reserves formed a part) was placed in line of battle for the renewed conflict which was inevitable. Butterfield's brigade occupied the extreme left, Sykes' division of regulars the right, and McCall's Pennsylvanians were placed in the second line. Approaching them were the Confederate commands of Gens. A. P. Hill, Longstreet, D. H. Hill, and the redoubtable "Stonewall" Jackson, in all more than fifty thousand men, against half that number on the Union side. The battle opened by a furious attack on the regulars composing Porter's right. These, after having repulsed the enemy in his first attack, finally gave way before a renewed assault. The Eighth. Reserve, in the second line, was posted where a road was cut through rising ground, and the excavation afforded some shelter, but the regiment suffered quite severely from the shells of the enemy, which were directed at a battery which it was posted to support. The battle raged furiously during all the afternoon. At about five o'clock the enemy advanced in heavy masses from the woods, and the Eighth Reserve, with the Second Regulars, were advanced to meet the assault in their front. The hostile line recoiled before them, and was swept back to the woods, but they rallied in superior numbers, and the two regiments were in turn driven back, with a loss to the Eighth of twenty-four in killed and wounded. During the battle the heroic Reynolds, the brigade commander, was taken prisoner by the enemy. The day of Gaines' Mill closed in blood and defeat to the Union forces, and during the night the shattered Pennsylvania Reserves, with the other troops, succeeded in crossing the Chickahominy and destroying the bridges behind them, though two bridges farther down the stream (Bottom's and Long Bridges) still remained, and it was not long after sunrise on Saturday morning when the Confederate force under the indomitable Jackson was massed at the upper one of these and making preparations to cross to the south side. Other hostile forces were also advancing directly on McClellan's left wing, and in view of this rather alarming situation of affairs, the general bad, as early as Friday evening, decided on a retreat by the whole army to James River, where a base of supplies could be held, and communication on the river kept open by the co-operation of the Union gunboats. The troops were informed of the proposed change by an apparently triumphant announcement (intended merely to encourage the soldiers and lighten in some degree the gloom of the great disaster) that a new and mysterious flank movement was about to be executed which would surely and swiftly result in the capture of Richmond. No such assurance, however, could conceal from the intelligent men who formed the Army of the Potomac that their backs and not their faces were now turned towards the Confederate capital, and that the much-vaunted "change of base" was made from necessity rather than choice. During all the day succeeding the battle (Saturday, June 28th) the Eighth lay at Savage Station, on the York River Railroad. On Sunday it moved with the other regiments to and across White Oak Swamp, and at about sunset came to the vicinity of Charles City Cross-Roads, where on the following day a fierce battle was fought, in which the Eighth took gallant part. The first assault of the enemy was received at about one o'clock in the afternoon. " In the formation of the line the First Brigade was held in reserve, but as the struggle became desperate the Eighth was ordered in. Its position fell opposite the Sixth Georgia, which was upon the point of charging, when Gen. McCall gave the order for the Eighth to charge upon it, and Col. Hays leading the way with a shout that rang out above the deafening roar of the conflict, it dashed forward, scattering the Georgians and driving them beyond the marsh in front. A few prisoners were taken. Later the enemy pressed heavily upon that part of the field, and the line was forced back, the Eighth gradually retiring until it reached a new line which had been established, where it remained till darkness put an end to the conflict." The loss to the regiment at Charles City Cross-Roads was sixteen killed and fourteen severely and many others slightly wounded. In the terrific battle of Malvern Hill, which was fought in the afternoon of the following day; the Eighth, being held with the division in reserve, did not become engaged. The battle was opened at about four o'clock P.M., and from that time until darkness closed, the roar of musketry, the crash of artillery, and the howling of canister was unintermitting. Finally the carnage ceased, and the men of the North lay down on the field (as they supposed) of victory. But at about midnight orders were received to fall in for a march, and the Pennsylvania Reserves, with other commands of the Army of the Potomac, moved silently down the hill and away on the road to Berkeley (or Harrison's Landing), where they arrived and encamped on July 2d. The loss of the Eighth Reserve Regiment in killed, wounded, and missing during the Seven Days' battles was two hundred and thirty. After a dreary stay of more than a month at Harrison's Landing, the Eighth was embarked on the 11th of August, and with the other Reserve regiments proceeded to Acquia Creek, on the Potomac, under orders to reinforce Gen. Pope. The division (except the Second Regiment) was moved to the vicinity of Kelly's Ford, and there joined to the Third Corps, WAR OF THE REBELLION - 315 under Gen. McDowell. In the engagements of the 29th and 30th of August the regiment took part, losing five killed, seventeen wounded, and about thirty missing, out of a total strength of about one hundred effective men with which it entered the campaign. Immediately after the close of Pope's disastrous campaign the Reserve division moved with the army into Maryland and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. In the former battle the Eighth lost seventeen killed and thirty-seven wounded, and in the latter twelve killed and forty-three wounded. In this battle (Antietam) the Reserves, being in the corps of Hooker, moved across the creek with that fighting general in the afternoon of September 16th and opened the fight, the position of that corps being on the right of the army. On the following morning the battle opened early, and the First Brigade moved forward, passed through a small wood, and formed line in a large cornfield beyond. The Eighth was ordered into a grove to the left, to dislodge a body of the enemy who had sheltered themselves there, and were engaged in picking off the Union artillerymen. This duty was well and gallantly performed. "The grove was soon cleared, and from it a steady and effective fire at close range was delivered upon the rebel line concealed in the cornfield. For four hours the battle raged with unabated fury and with varying success, when the Reserves were relieved by fresh troops." On the following day the enemy commenced his retreat to the Potomac, covering his design by the feint of bringing in fresh troops from the direction of Harper's Ferry. At the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on the 13th of December, 1862, the Eighth again fought with the greatest gallantry, and experienced a heavier loss than on any previous field. In the crossing of the Rappahannock the Reserves covered the laying of the pontoons for the passage of Gen. Franklin's grand division, and after the crossing they were selected to make the first attack on that part of the field. " In the heroic advance of this small division in the face of the concentrated fire of the enemy's intrenched line, in scaling the heights, and in breaking and scattering, his well-posted force, the Eighth bore a conspicuous and most gallant part. Never before had it been subjected to so terrible an ordeal, and when after being repulsed and driven back by overwhelming numbers it again stood in rank beyond the reach of the enemy's guns, scarcely half its numbers were there. Twenty-eight lay dead upon that devoted field, eighty-six were wounded, and twenty-two were captured." Early in February, 1863, the Reserve regiments were ordered to the defenses of Washington to rest and to receive recruits, which were being sent forward from Pennsylvania to fill their decimated ranks. There the Eighth remained until the opening of the spring campaign of 1864, when it was again ordered to the front, and rejoining the Army of the Potomac moved forward with Gen. Grant into the Wilderness. It left Alexandria on the 19th of April, proceeded to Bristow Station, and thence on the 29th marched to Culpeper Court-House. On the 4th of May it crossed the Rapidan, and on the 5th was once more engaged with the enemy, losing six killed and twenty-seven wounded. On the 8th it moved to Spottsylvania, and in the series of conflicts which continued until the 15th it was almost constantly under fire, and behaved with its accustomed steadiness, though its loss during that time was but three killed and sixteen wounded. Its three years' term of service having now expired, an order of the War Department was received on the 17th of May relieving it from duty at the front, directing the transfer of its recruits and re-enlisted veterans to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, and the mustering out of its other men and officers. Under this order those whose terms had expired proceeded to Washington, and thence to Pittsburgh, where the remnant of the Eighth Reserve Regiment was mustered out of service. Following is a list of the officers and enlisted men of the Washington County company of the Eighth : COMPANY K. Alexander Wishart, capt., must. in June 22, 1861 ; wounded at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862 ; res. Sept. 10, 1862. Samuel S. Bulford, capt., must. in June 22, 1861 ; pro. to let lieut. July 24, 1861 ; to capt. March 1, 1863; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Alexander Hart, lst lieut., must. in June 22, 1861; pro. from sergt. to let sergt.; to 1st lieut. March 1, 1863; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Thomas Foster, 2d lieut., must. in June 22, 1861; res. Dec. 31, 1862. A. S. Eagleson, pro. from sergt. to 2d lieut. March 1, 1863; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Peter Kennedy, 1st sergt., must. In June 22,1861; disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 24, 1862. Nelson R. McNeal, lst sergt., must. in June 22, 1861 ; pro. to 1st sergt.; must. out with company May 24, 1864. R. John McIlwaine, sergt., must. in June 22, 1861 ; wounded at Bull Run Aug. 28,1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 29,1862. James. S. Denison, sergt., must. in June 25, 1861; pro, to sergt.; must out with company May 24, 1864. M. L. A. McCracken, sergt., must. in Tune 23, 1861; pro. from corp.; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Hugh Gettiens. sergt., must. in June 22, 1861; pro. to corp.; to sergt.; detailed as provost-guard, Philadelphia; absent at muster out. Hugh Moore, corp., must, in June 23, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 18, 1862. Andrew J. Luellan, corp., must. in June 22, 1861 ; disch. at Camp Pierpont, Va., June 29, 1862. Theodore J. Dye, corp., must. in June 22, 1861 ; killed at Antietam Sept 17, 1862. Daniel Day, corp., must. in July 26, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 30, 1863. William Loafman, corp., must. in June 22, 1861 ; died Sept. 24,1862, of wounds received at South Mountain Sept. 14, 1862. John M. Griffith, corp., must. in March 25, 1862; trans. 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. Peter McCreary, corp., must. in July 16, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24,1864. Thomas M. Steep, corp., must. in July 22, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. John M. Oliver, corp., must. in June 22, 1861; must. out with company May 24, 1864. 316 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Privates. A. W. Anderson, must. in June 22, 1861 ; died Dec. 17, 1862, of wounds received at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862. David Bambarger, must. in July 9, 1861; wounded at Wilderness May 6, 1864; absent at muster out. William Burk, must. in June 22, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. July 12, 1862. James D. Brownlee, must. in June 22, 1861; wounded Dec. 14, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 15, 1863. Jas. L. Boardman, must. in June 22, 1861 ; disch. on Surg. certif. Dec.16, 1862. George W. Brice, must. in June 22, 1861; disch. by sentence G. C. M. July 27, 1863. William Barnes, must. in Feb. 3, 1864; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. John Brotherton, must. in Sept. 10, 1862; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. John Bulford, must. in Oct. 5, 1862 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. William H. Barnet, must. in Feb. 22, 1862 ; killed at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862. Dennis Butler, must. in June 22, 1861; killed at Wilderness May 6,1864. John L. Butts, must. in July 21, 1861. William Conley, must. in June 25, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Ezekiel Clark, must. in June 22, 1861; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Samuel A. Davis, must. in June 22, 1861 ; disch. date unknown. Andrew Daly, must. in June 22, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 14, 1863. George M. Davis, must, in June 25, 1861 ; trans. to 5th U. S. Cav. Nov. 1, 1862. Samuel Dickinson, must. in April 13, 1864; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. George W. Dye, must. in June 22, 1861; died Sept. 1, 1861 ; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. Sylvester S. Durbin, must. in May 8, 1861; killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862. James M. Evans, must. in June 22, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 13, 1863. Samuel Eckels, must. in June 22, 1861; died at Alexandria, Va., Ang. 29, 1863. James Eckels, must, in Jan. 27, 1864; killed at Wilderness May 6, 1864. George W. Freeby, must. in June 22, 1861; died at Georgetown, D. C., Aug. 30,1861. Andrew D. French, must. in July 9,1861; killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862. John W. Greer, must. in June 25, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. David Gilmore, must. in June 22, 1861 ; wounded at Charles City CrossRoads June 30, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 22, 1862. Andrew Hershman, must, in June 22, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Christian Hornish, must. in July 9, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. April 3, 1862. Henry A. Herrick, must. in July 22, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 23, 1862. William Hart, must. in Sept. 3, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. June 17, 1862. William Immel, must. in July 10, 1861; died Nov. 29, 1861; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. William H. H. Link, must. in June 22, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864; veteran. Joseph M. Lennon, must. in June 22, 1861, trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864; veteran. Antonio Morales, must. in June 22,1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. George W. Martin, must. in June 22, 1861 ; absent, sick, at must. out. George V. Miller, must. in July 8, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 20, 1861. William M. Middleton, must. in June 22, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 22, 1863. Joseph McCreary, must. in July 26, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 20, 1861. James McVeehill, must. in June 22, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. July 21, 1862. Robert McMillen, must. in June 22,1861; wounded at Antietam Sept.17, 1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. March 11, 1863. M. T. McFarland, must. in Oct. 1, 1861 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864 ; veteran. Thomas H. Marshall, must. in June 22, 1861; killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. James D. McMillen, must. in June 22, 1861; killed at Charles City Cross. Roads June 30, 1862. L. E. Ozenbaugh, must. in June 22, 1861; killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Francis W. Orr, must. in June 25, 1861; must, out with company May 24, 1864. Joseph W. Oliver, must. in June 25, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. July 11, 1862. James Plymire, must. in June 22, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. Robert M. Poland, must. In June 22, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. Jan. 2, 1862. Michael Rush, must. out June 22, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. March 3, 1862. Cephas A. Ryan, must. in June 22, 1861 ; died Nov. 30, 1861 ; burled in Military Asylum Cemetery, D.C. Randolph Rush, must. in June 22,1861; died at Washington, D. C., May 25, 1862. James C. Spriggs, must. in June 22, 1861 ; must. out with company May 24, 1864. William A. Sproule, must. in June 22, 1861; wounded Dec. 14, 1862; disch. Dec. 1, 1862. Robert M. Scott, must. in June 22, 1861; trans. to U. S. Reg. Army Nov. 1, 1862 Francis J. L. Steep, must. in June 19, 1863 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864. Leander Sinclair, must, in July 8, 1861; died at Washington, D. C., Nov. 29,1862. Griffith D. Taylor, must. in June 22, 1861 ; killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13,1862. William Wiler, must. in June 22, 1861 ; wounded at Wilderness May 8, 1864; must. out with company May 24, 1864. George W. C. Wilkins, must. In June 22, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. May 15, 1864 ; veteran. Francis L. Wheatly, must. in June 22, 1861 ; trans. to 5th U. S. Cavalry Oct. 28, 1862. Tenth Reserve Regiment.-This regiment, numbered the Thirty-ninth of the Pennsylvania line, contained one Washington County company, viz., the "Jefferson Light Guard," recruited at Canonsburg, commanded by Capt. James T. Kirk, and designated in the organization of the regiment as "D" company. It left Canonsburg on the 6th of June, and at the regimental rendezvous was joined by the other companies of the regiment, which were recruited in Warren, Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Lawrence, Clarion, Beaver, and Somerset Counties. The regiment was organized at Camp Wilkins, near Pittsburgh, in the last part of June, 1861, the field-officers being Col. John S. McCalmont, of Venango County (a West Point officer) ; Lieut.-Col. James T. Kirk, of Washington County (promoted from captain of " D" company) ; and Maj. Harrison Allen. On the 1st of July the regiment moved to Camp Wright, on the Allegheny, from which place on the 18th it proceeded to Harrisburg, where on the 21st it was mustered into the United States service for three years. On the 22d it moved to Baltimore, and on the 24th proceeded to Washington, D. C. On the 1st of August it marched from the capital to Tenallytown, Md., where it encamped with the other regiments forming the Reserve Division under command WAR OF THE REBELLION - 317 of Maj.-Gen. George A. McCall, and was assigned to duty in the Third Brigade under Gen. Ord. The history of the Tenth is much the same as that of the Eighth Reserve Regiment, both being in the same division (though in different brigades) during their terms of service. For the general movements of the Reserves, therefore, reference may be had to the history of the Eighth, already given. The latter regiment, however, was not in the battle of Dranesville, Dec. 20, 1861, where four companies of the Tenth took part in the engagement, but without loss. In March, 1862, the regiment moved with the division to Hunter's Mills. Va., to Fairfax Court-House, to Centreville, to Manassas Junction, and to Fredericksburg, Va., where it joined the forces of Gen. McDowell, and where Gen. Seymour succeeded Gen. Ord in command of the Third Brigade. From Fredericksburg it moved with the division to the Virginia Peninsula, marching from White House Landing to Mechanicsville, where it became a part of the corps of Gen. Fitz John Porter. In the battle of Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862, the Tenth occupied rifle-pits, and sustained but small loss in the terrible conflict of the afternoon. At three o'clock in the morning of Friday, the 27th, it retired to Gaines' Mill. In the battle that followed it was not engaged until about 3 o'clock P.M., when it was brought under a very heavy artillery fire, and later in the day made a gallant charge, clearing the field in front of its position, and holding it against repeated assaults of the enemy. Its loss in this battle was very heavy. On the 28th of June the Tenth was on picket along the Chickahominy. At 3 o'clock A.M. on Sunday, the 29th, it moved on the road to White Oak Swamp and the James River. In the afternoon of the 30th it was engaged, as was also the Eighth Reserve, in the battle of Charles City Cross-Roads. In this engagement the Tenth captured sixty prisoners and a stand of colors. Later in the day it was fiercely attacked by the Confederates, and compelled to give way, but it was done in good order, and the ground was afterwards recovered and held during the night. In the battle of Malvern Hill, July 1st, the Tenth was not engaged. In the latter part of the night succeeding the battle it marched with the division for Harrison's Landing, where it arrived in the forenoon of July 2d. This was the ending of the series of battles known as the Seven Days' Fight, in which the Tenth lost over two hundred men. On the evacuation of the position at Harrison's Landing the regiment moved to the Rappahannock and fought under Gen. Pope in the Second Bull Run battle, Aug. 29, 1862. On the 30th it was again engaged, and compelled to retreat towards Centreville. The loss of the regiment on the 29th and 30th was forty-six killed and wounded (among the latter being Lieut.-Col. Kirk) and nineteen missing. Crossing into Maryland, the Tenth was engaged in the battle of South Mountain, losing twenty-three killed and  - 21 - k wounded. The men fought here with the greatest determination, forcing their way up the mountainside in the face of the enemy, and bivouacked for the night on the summit. At Antietam, on the 17th of September, the regiment was again engaged, though not heavily, and its loss was but light. In the great battle of Fredericksburg, on the 13th of December, the Tenth suffered the severe loss of eighty-six killed and wounded and fifty-one taken prisoners. Its position was with the brigade on the extreme left, three miles below the town of Fredericksburg, where it crossed the river on pontoons. On the 13th a fierce assault was made on the enemy's works, and they were carried, but no support was at hand, and the brigade was forced back, with loss to the Tenth as above stated. After the battle the regiment recrossed the river with the army, and reoccupied its previous camp. It took part in the dreary "Mud March" made by the army under Gen. Burnside, and was soon after ordered to the defenses .of Washington to rest and recruit, its position there being at Upton's and Hall's Hills. Marching northward from the Potomac in the Gettysburg campaign of 1863, the regiment arrived on the historic field at nine A.M., July 2d. At two P.M. it was ordered into the fight at Little Round Top, and there made a vigorous charge, driving the enemy from his position. During the following night the men threw up defensive works. On the 3d the regiment occupied a position between the two Round Tops, where it lay for a long time under an exceedingly heavy artillery fire, and afterwards received and repelled a most determined charge by a heavy body of infantry, holding the ground first, occupied. The loss of the regiment at Gettysburg was but slight. On the 18th of July the Tenth crossed the Potomac into Virginia, and marched to Warrenton. It was afterwards slightly engaged at Broad Run, and on the 26th of October at New Hope Church. During most of the succeeding winter it was engaged in guarding the railroads, its quarters being first at Warrenton Junction, and afterwards at Manassas Junction. On the 29th of April, 1864, the Tenth left its winter-quarters, and marched towards the Rapidan, which it crossed at midnight on the 3d of May, and on the night of the 4th made its fireless bivouac in the Wilderness. On the 6th the regiment was engaged with the enemy, losing one killed and several wounded. On the 8th, 9th, and 10th it was again engaged near Spottsylvania Court-House, with considerable loss. On the 28th it crossed the Pamunkey, and on the 29th moved to Tolopotomoy. On the 30th, at Bethesda Church, the enemy made a furious attack in heavy force, but was repulsed with very heavy loss, the Tenth taking a prominent part in the engagement, and capturing a large number of prisoners. This was the last battle of the Tenth Reserve Regiment, its term of service having expired. Many of the men re-enlisted, who, with those recruited at 318 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. various times after the original muster in, were assigned to the One Hundred and Ninetieth and One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiments. Those whose terms had expired, and did not re-enlist, were ordered to Washington, and thence to Pittsburgh, where they were mustered out of service June 11, 1864. Following is a list of officers and enlisted men of the Washington County company of the Tenth Reserve Regiment, viz. : COMPANY D. James T. Kirk, capt, must. in June 19, 1861 ; pro. to lieut.-col. June 21, 1861. Charles W. McDaniel, capt., must. in June 19, 1861 ; pro. to capt. June 21, 1861; to brev. maj. March 3, 1565; must. out with company June 11, 1864. George H. McNary, let lieut., must. in June 19, 1861; detached for duty in Signal Corps ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Frank Coleman, 2d lieut., must. in June 19, 1861 ; res. Aug. 1, 1862. Charles Davis, 2d lieut., must, in June 19, 1861; pro. from sergt. to 2d lieut. Aug. 1, 1862 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Frank C. Ritchey, 1st sergt., must. in June 19, 1861; disch. July 7, 1863, to receive promotion in the U. S. colored troops. Robert Brady, 1st sergt., must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Benjamin Anderson, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862; must. out with company June 11, 1864. William S Huston, sergt., must. in June 19,1861 ; missing at Wilderness May 8, 1864. Shadrack Beck, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861 ; disch on surg. certif. Aug. 18, 1862. Samuel G. Hodgens, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861 ; disch. Dec. 2, 1863, for wounds received at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862. William P. McNary, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861; pro. to adjt. 123d Regt. P. V., Nov. 15, 1864. William Harlin, sergt., must. in Aug. 21,1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V., June 1, 1864.  John Gundy, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861, died at Richmond, Va., of wounds received at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862. James Hnghes, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861 ; died at Washington, D. C., of wounds received at Wilderness, May 10, 1864. Thomas Paxton, sergt., must. in June 19, 1861; killed at Wilderness May 8, 1864. William Meggs, corp., must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. John V. Cook, corp., must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 19, 1864. James McCahan, corp., must. in June 19, 1861; missing in action at Wilderness May 8, 1864. Wallace Scott, corp., must. in Aug. 21, 1861 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V., June 1, 1864. James M. Scott, corp., must. in Aug. 21, 1861: trans. to 191st Regt. P. V., June 1, 1864. William Glass, corp., must. in June 19, 1861 ; died at Richmond, Va., of wounds received at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862. Robert N. Lang, corp., must. in June 19, 1861 ; died at Alexandria, Va., of wounds received at Wilderness May 6, 1864. Robert N. McPake, corp., must. in June 19, 1861; killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 10, 1864. James McPake, mus., must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. James Merriman, miss., must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. May 3, 1863. Josiah Chambers, mus., must. in June 21, 1861; pro. to principal mus.; date unknown. Privates. Samuel Anderson, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11,1864. Alfred Akey, muse. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 1, 1861. Wash. L. Atter, must. in July 21, 1861; pro. to hospital steward May 1, 1863. Garland Briceland, must, in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. James L. Black, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at White Oak June 30, 1862; must. out with company June 11, 1864. T. Julius Black, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at Wilderness May 8, 1861; absent at must. out. Samuel Brown, must. in June 19, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. June 18, 1862. Joshua Brady, must. in Aug. 21, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. William Cain, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. William S. Caldwell, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Wilson Cochran, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. David Crum, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at Bethesda Church May 30, 1864 ; died at Washington, date unknown. George Cain, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 15,1862. John S. Chambers, must. in June 19, 1861; disch, on Surg. certif. Feb. 15,1863. John Cowan, must, in June 19, 1861; wounded at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. March 8, 1863. Hugh Cochran, must. in June 18, 1861 ; disch. on Surg. certif. May 5, 1863. Joseph C. Culver, must, in Sept. 8,1862 ; disch. by order War Department to receive commission in colored troops. Samuel Cook, must. in Aug. 12, 1862 ; killed at Manassas Junction April 15, 1864. Nathaniel E. Dickey, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11,1864. William Dovel, must. in July 28, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. 1862. James B. Duff, must. in June 19, 1861; trans. to Signal Corps August, 1861. William Donaldson, must. in Aug. 12, 1862; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. Benjamin Evans, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Frank B. Eton, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Luther C. First, must. in June 19, 1861 ; trans. to Signal Corps. James Furguson, must. in Feb.22,1864; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. Thomas Ford, must. in June 19, 1861 ; killed at Manassas Junction April 15, 1864. George S. Graham, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Matthew Greer, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded and died at Munson's Hill, Va., April 8, 1863. D. V. Hammond, must. in June 19, 1861; captured Dec. 18, 1863; died in Libby Prison, date unknown. Charles Horn, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. William Hollingshead, must. in June 19,1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Matthew Harlin, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 5, 1861. Daniel Hellas, must. in Aug. 12, 1862 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V., June 1, 1864; veteran. George Hellas, must. in Aug. 12, 1862 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. William Hellas, must. in Aug. 21, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. Alexander Huston, must. in Aug. 21, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1,1864. William Harsha, must. in Aug. 21, 1861 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. George Hiles, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. William Hunter, must. in June 19, 1861; died at Belle Plain, Va., Jan. 31, 1863. John Jackson, must. in June 19, 1881; must. out with company June 11, 1864. William Jackson, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 9, 1861. Joseph Jackson, must. in Aug. 21, 1861; trans. to 191st Regt, P. V. June 1, 1804. Thomas Jackson, must. in Feb. 22, 1864; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 319 John Jeffers, must. in June 19, 1861 ; died at Richmond, Va., of wounds received at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862. John E. Lang, must. in June 19, 1861; missing at Wilderness May 8, 1864. James Mackey, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Alexander Musser, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at White Oak Sump, June 30, 1862; must. out with company June 11, 1864 Samuel Mackey, must. in June 19,1861 ; died, date unknown, of wounds received at Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862. John McCullough, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. John E. McPake, must. in June 16, 1861 ; wounded at Wilderness; must. out with company June 11, 1864. H. McJames, must, in June 19, 1861; must, out with company June 11, 1864. William McWilliams, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. James McFadden, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. John P. McCord, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. May 3, 1863. John McClusky, must. in June 19, 1861 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864; veteran. James Perry, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must, out with company June 11, 1864. Henry Pettit, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. William Pennell, must. in June 19,1861; must. out with company June 11,1864. James Patton, must. in June 19, 1861 ; disch. by order War Department to receive promotion, date unknown. J. Fulton Philips, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 22, 1862. James Quail, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 10, 1861. William Roberts, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must, out with company June 11,1864. James Rinehart, must. in June 19, 1861; must, out with company June 11,1864. Benjamin F. Ryan, must. in Aug. 12, 1861 ; disch., date unknown. John Sutton, must. in June 19, 1861 ; wounded and prisoner at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862; must. out with company June 11, 1864. A. J. Strosnyder, must. in June 19,1861 ; must. out with company June 11,1864. John Stowrend, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11, 1864. John Sarver, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Henry H. Sheaff, must. in June 19, 1861 ; must. out with company June 11,1864. Brown Scott, must. in Feb. 28, 1862; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. John H. Thompson, must. in Feb. 24, 1862; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1,1864. James E. Wilson, must. in June 19, 1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. Robert Wilson, must. in June 19, 1861; wounded at Wilderness, May 6, 1864, absent at muster out. Joseph Wallace, must. in June 19, 1861; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Anthony Williams, must. in June 19, 1861 ; trans. to 191st Regt. P. V. June 1, 1864; veteran. William Williams, must. in June 19, 1861; killed at Wilderness May 8, 1864. James Young, must. in June 19,1861; must. out with company June 11, 1864. CHAPTER XXIII. WAR OF THE REBELLION.-(Continued.) Seventy-ninth Regiment.-The Seventy-ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania, of which one company was raised in Washington County, and all the remainder of the command in Lancaster, was recruited in August and September, 1861 and organized in the early part of the following month, under the following-named field-officers, viz.: Col. Henry A. Ham-bright, of Lancaster; Lieut.-Col. John H. Duchman, of Lancaster; and Maj. William S. Mellinger, of Monongahela City, Washington County. The Washington County company of the regiment was that designated as " D" company, of which the original commissioned officers were : captain, John S. McBride; first lieutenant, Brisbin Wall; second lieutenant, J. D. V. Hazzard. The regiment was rendezvoused at Camp Wilkins, near Pittsburgh, and on the 18th of October left the city with its brigade (which included also the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania, and was under command of Brig.-Gen. James S. Negley), embarked on steamers, and went down the river to Louisville, Ky., whence it was moved by railroad into the interior of the State, and was encamped successively at Camp Nevin, Camp Negley, and Camp Wood ; the last named being situated near Munfordsville, on Green River. The following winter was passed in camp duty, drill, and picketing, the brigade in the mean time having been assigned to the division of Gen. A. McD. McCook. In the spring of 1862 it was encamped near Nashville, Tenn. On the 30th of March the Seventy-ninth was ordered thence to Columbia, Tenn., from which place, early in April, a detachment of the regiment, under Maj. Mellinger, with a squadron of cavalry and a section of artillery, were sent out to Pulaski, in pursuit of John H. Morgan's guerrillas, who had captured some soldiers of the Seventy-ninth. The detachment occupied the town without much opposition, but accomplished nothing further. After this the regiment remained guarding the Nashville and Decatur Railroad till May 10th, when it moved with a force, under Gen. Negley, to Rodgersville, Tenn., and Florence, Ala., in which expedition it was slightly engaged, but without loss, and returned from Florence to Columbia. On the 30th of May, Gen. Negley set out with a force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery to make show of an offensive movement against the enemy at Chattanooga. The force arrived opposite the town on the 7th of June, drove the enemy from some intrenchments which he had held there, and having done this, Negley returned to Shelbyville, Tenn., having marched two hundred and eighty-four miles in fourteen days. The Seventy-ninth (then under command of Maj. Mellinger) took part in this expedition, and did some little fighting at Sweden's Cove and at Chattanooga, but without loss except one man wounded. The strength of the regiment was then about nine hundred, of whom fifty were in hospital. In July the regiment (then at Tullahoma, Tenn.) was assigned to a brigade composed of the Seventy-ninth and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Nineteenth United States Infantry, under command of Gen. 320 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. William S. Smith. Early in August this brigade was ordered to Nashville, and on the 8th encamped in the southern part of the city, on College Hill. Here, soon afterwards, the regiment was assigned to Starkweather's (Third) brigade of the division of Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, in the Fourteenth Army Corps. With this corps and the army of Gen. Buell the regiment moved northward from Nashville early in September, in pursuit of the Confederate army, which was marching on Louisville, Ky., under Gen. Bragg. The army arrived at Louisville on the 26th, and thus foiled Bragg, who thereupon turned and marched back towards Tennessee. The army of Buell followed, and overtook the Confederates at Perryville, Ky., where, on the 8th of October, a severe battle was fought, resulting in Bragg's defeat and the retreat of his army. In this battle Rousseau's division was heavily engaged during the entire afternoon, and the Seventy-ninth fought with great bravery, losing in this (its first fight of any importance) thirty-seven killed and one hundred and forty-nine wounded. In the pursuit which followed this battle the regiment passed through Drainsville, Stanford, Lancaster, Crab Orchard, Danville, Lebanon, Bowling Green, Franklin, Ky., and Mitchellsville, Tenn., stopping a considerable time six miles south of the latter place. In December it moved to Nashville, where (as part of Thomas' corps) it joined the army then about moving forward towards Nolansville and Murfreesboro'. In the great battle of Stone River, which commenced by heavy skirmishing on Tuesday, December 30th, and continued till the night of Friday, January 2d, the regiment was slightly engaged, losing twelve killed and wounded. It numbered at that time seven hundred and twenty-three officers and enlisted men present for duty. After the battle it lay at Murfreesboro' more than five months, but taking part during that time in a successful expedition to McMinnville and Liberty, Tenn. On the 24th of June, 1863, the regiment moved with the army towards the Tennessee River, and, crossing that stream at Bridgeport, Ala., marched southeast into Georgia on the campaign which culminated in the bloody and disastrous battle of Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th. In that terrible conflict the Seventy-ninth fought bravely on both Saturday and Sunday, losing sixteen killed, sixty-six wounded, and forty-seven missing, a total of more than one-third the number with which the regiment entered the fight. On the night of the 21st it retreated with its division to Chattanooga. It was there posted in the works, and took no active part in the great battles of the 23d, 24th, and 25th of November, at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. On the 9th of February following, at this place, a large part of the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and while daily expecting the usual furlough the regiment was ordered forward with its division to Tunnel Hill and Buzzard's Roost, Ga., on a reconnaissance in force. Some fighting ensued, the regiment losing two wounded. The veterans left on furlough on the 8th of February, returning at its expiration to Chattanooga. On the 9th of May the Seventy-ninth started out on the Atlanta campaign, and accompanied the army in the various movements, and fought in several of the engagements that resulted in the capture of the Confederate stronghold. In this campaign the losses of the regiment were ninety-two killed and wounded. From Atlanta, on the 16th of November, the regiment moved out with the other commands of Sherman's army on the famous march to the sea. No battles were fought on the way, and on the 21st of December it entered Savannah. Immediately afterwards it went into camp a few miles from the city, and remained there until the 18th of January, when it moved northward on the march through the Carolinas. No fighting of any moment took place in the passage through South Carolina, but on the 19th of March the enemy was found in heavy force and strongly posted near Bentonville, N. C., and a severe battle was fought, in which the Seventy-ninth was engaged, charging the strong works of the enemy, though unsuccessfully, and afterwards receiving and repelling a furious and most determined charge of the Confederates. Its loss on this day was fifty-nine killed and wounded. This was the last battle of the Seventy-ninth. From Bentonville it moved to Goldsboro', thence to Raleigh, and to a camp at a place called Martha's Vineyard, where Johnston's surrender and the close of the war was announced. Then the men turned their faces homeward, passing through Richmond, Va., to Washington, D. C., where the regiment was mustered out of service on the 12th of July, 1865. Following is a list of officers and enlisted men of the Washington County company of the Seventy-ninth, viz.: COMPANY D. John S. McBride, capt., must. in Sept. 21, 1861 ; com. met Dec. 20,1864; not must. out with company July 12, 1865. Brisbin Wall, lst lieut., must. in Sept. 21, 1861; res. April 25, 1862. J. D. v. Hazzard, 1st lieut., must. in Sept. 21, 1981 ; pro. from 2d to 1st lieut. April 30, 1862 ; wounded, with loss of arm, at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8,1862; com. capt. Dec. 20, 1884; not must. out with company July 12, 1865. Samuel P. Keller, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; pro. from 1st sergt. May 1, 1862 ; res. Feb. 17, 1863. Alex. O. Donovon, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 7, 1861; pro. from sergt. March 29, 1863; disch. Oct. 14, 1863. Luke P. Beazel, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; pro. from sergt. to 2d lieut. April 23, 1865 ; com. 1st lieut. Dec. 20, 1864; not must. out with company July 12, 1865; veteran. Michael Berry, 1st sergt., must. in Sept. 2, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. John Myers, 1st sergt., must. In apt. 7, 1861 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865 ; veteran. William B. Brooks, sergt., must, in Sept. 16, 1861 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865; veteran. Christopher Galloway, sergt., must. in Sept. 7, 1861; must, out with company July 12, 1865; veteran. William Shields, sergt., must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; must. out with company July 12,1865. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 321 Hugh Pace, sergt., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; pro. to corp. April 1, 1865; to sergt. June 14, 1865 ; wounded in action March 19, 1865. John A. Watson, sergt., must. in Sept. 11, 1861; disch. Feb. 10, 1863, for wounds received in action. Janthus Really, sergt., must. in Sept 11, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 26, 1863. Samuel Jester, corp., must. in Sept. 10, 1861; must. out with company July 12, 1865; veteran. Joseph W. Wolf, corp., must. in Sept. 2, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865 ; veteran. John A. Long, corp., must. in Feb. 23, 1865; drafted; must. out with company July 12, 1863. William Miller, corp., must. in Sept. 16,1861 ; pro. to corp. June 16,1865: disch. by G. O. July 21, 1865; veteran. Henry B. Hart, corp., must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; disch. Jan. 6, 1863, for wounds received in action. Abraham Fry, Jr., corp., must. in Sept. 2, 1861 ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Dec. 15, 1863. William Woodward, corp., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; disch. Feb. 6, 1863, fur wounds received in action. James W. Downer, corp., must. in Sept. 12, 1861; died at Tennessee April 15, 1862. John M. Gibbs, corp., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; disch. Jan. 13, 1863, for wounds received in action. Amzi Eckels, corp., must. in Sept. 11, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. Privates. William D. Abbott, must. in Oct. 7, 1864; must, out with company July 12, 1865. James Allen, substitute, must, in Feb. 14,1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Christian Anderson, Must. in Sept. 2, 1861; absent, sick, since July 8, 1862. George B. Althouse, must, in Sept. 9, 1861 ; trans. to U. S. Eng. Corps Aug. 16, 1864; veteran. John Anderson, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; captured; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 27, 1864; grave 4055. Hiram H. Blain, must. in April 14, 1864; must, out with company July 12, 1865. Ishmael Baer, must, in Sept. 7, 1864 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William Baer, must. in Sept. 7, 1864 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William Brown, must. in Feb. 4, 1865; must. out with company July 12,1865. Hiram Beal, must. in Sept. 1, 1864; must, out with company July 12, 1865. Simon Brownewell, substitute, must. in March 9, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Daniel J. Bussard, substitute, must. in March 9, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Henry Slayer, substitute, must. in Feb. 14, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Michael Brahman, must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; disch. Oct. 5, 1864, at expiration of term. William Bageley, must, in Sept. 2, 1864; drafted; absent, in arrest at muster out. John Boyd, must. in Sept. 23, 1861 ; died at Columbia, Tenn., May 24, 1862. James Buhanah, must. in Sept. 23, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 29, 1863. William Barringer, must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; trans. to Marine Brigade May 1, 1863. John Barringer, must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; not on must.-out roll. George Barringer, must. in Sept. 9, 1861; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 5, 1863. Francis Burgan, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; died at Munfordsville, March 5, 1862. Vulkert Brooks, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. March 26, 1863. William B. Butler, must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; disch. Oct. 3,1864, at expiration of term. Benjamin Brubaker, must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; captured; died at Andersonville, Ga., Nov. 26, 1864; grave 12,168. William Bennington, must in Sept. 12, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. March 20, 1864. D. C. Betting, must. in 1861; died at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 12, 1862, of wounds received in action. Thomas Butchard, must. in 1861 ; disch. Dec. 30, 1862, for wounds received in action. Samuel Bowermaster, must. in 1861; disch. Sept. 5, 1864, at expiration of term. David F. Barkley, must. in 1861; disch. Sept. 24, 1864, at expiration of term. Bernard J. Conner, must. In Feb. 8, 1865 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. John Cusworth, must. in Sept. 13, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 24, 1863. Lewis Chester, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; not on muster-out roll. Ephenetus Craven, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Dec. 6, 1863. William S. Cooper, must. in Sept. 9, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. Hezekiah D. Cooper, must. in Sept. 11, 1861; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Dec. 6, 1863. Sylvester Collins, must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; killed at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. Lafay Culbertson, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. William Caldwell, must. in Oct. 12, 1861; disch. Oct. 29,1864, at expiration of term. Daniel Donaghy, must. in Feb. 24, 1864; must. out with company July 12,1865. John M. Duces, substitute, must. in Feb. 17, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. James Dutton, must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; wounded at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862; absent at muster out. Joseph Demott, substitute, must. in Feb. 17, 1865 ; absent, on furlough, at muster out. William Devlin, must. in Sept. 5, 1861 ; not on muster-out roll. Michael Dougherty, must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; disch. Oct. 27, 1864, at expiration of term. John C. Evans, must. in Aug. 9, 1864 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. August Enders, substitute, must. in Feb. 13, 1865; must. out with company July 12,1865. Alfred Eckels, must. in Sept. 13, 1861 ; absent, sick, at muster out. Samuel Flowers, must. in April 2, 1864; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William Fundston, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865; must. out with company July 12,1865. John Flowers, must. in Sept. 7,1861; absent, sick, at muster out; veteran. Henry Fry, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; Oct. 1, 1862; not on muster-out roll. Thomas Fry, must. in Sept. 10, 1861 ; died at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9, 1862 ; buried in National Cemetery, section A, rangt, 6, grave 25. Malcomb Furgason, must. in Sept. 14, 1861 ; died at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 13,1862. Edward Fuller, must. in Aug. 11, 1864; not on muster-out roll. Jacob Fox, must. in , 1861 ; disch. Oct. 26, 1864, at expiration of term. James A. Green, substitute, must. in March 7, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Jeremiah Gossert, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865 ; mustered out with company July 12, 1865. William P. Gilmer, must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; paroled prisoner; absent at muster out. John Gilmer, must. in Sept. 7,1861; absent, sick, at muster out. Phineas Green, drafted, must. in Feb. 23, 1865; muster out. by G. O. July 14, 1865. William H. Graham, must. in Sept. 7,1861 ; died March 18, 1865; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island; veteran. Williams Galbraith, must. in March 17, 186.5; discs. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. John H. Gundy, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; died at Cincinnati, O., Dec. 14, 1861. George W. Gibson, must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. Benjamin F. Hoch, substitute, must. in Feb. 16, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Samuel Heller, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865 ; must. out with company July 12,1865. James Hook, drafted, must. in Sept. 21. 1864; must. out with company July 12, 186.5. 322 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Samuel Hendrickson, must. in Sept. 9, 1861; wounded at Resaca, Ga., May 13, 1864; absent at muster out; veteran. Daniel Hobaugh, must. in Sept. 11, 1861; absent, sick, at muster out. John Hamilton, substitute, must. in March 7, 1865; disch. by G. O. Aug. 1, 1865. James P. Hill, drafted, must. in. Feb. 22, 1865; disch. by G. O. June 2, 1865. John A. Harry, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865 ; disch. by G. O. June 20, 1865. John Hodge, must. in Sept. 10, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. Ludwig Harding, must. in 1861; disch. Oct. 26, 1864, at expiration of term. Thomas Jester, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; disch., date unknown ; re-enl. April 2, 1864; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Adam S. Johnston, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; disch. Sept. 24, 1864, at expiration of term. Lewis Jester, must. in 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. H. Knabenshur, must. in Jan. 25, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Lewis Klutz, substitute, must. in March 9, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William Kauffman, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Charles King, must. in Aug. 20, 1864; absent, sick, at must. out; never joined Company. Wilson Karnes, drafted ; must. in Feb. 23, 1865 ; disch. by G. O. June 20, 1865. Henry Kelly, must. in Sept. 7, 1861 ; trans. to Marine Brigade Jan. 1, 1863. W. C. Londerback, must. in Sept. 10, 1864; must. out with company July 12,1865. George Lackens, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865; disch. by G. O. May 30, 1865. John A. Miller, must. in April 24, 1864; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Joseph L. Mohler, substitute, must. in March 8, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. David Mentzer, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Frederick Moore, substitute, must. in Feb. 8, 1865; disch. by G. O. June 15, 1865. Abraham Morgrett, drafted, must. in Feb. 23, 1865; died June 21, 1865; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. William S. Mellinger, must. in Sept. 2, 1861; pro. to maj. Oct. 18, 1861. John J. Morris, must. in Sept. 2, 1861 ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Oct., 1863. John H. Miller, must. in Sept. 14, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. May 6, 1862. William H. Mortimer, must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. May 20, 1862. Charles Miller, must. in July 11, 1864; not on muster-out roll. John Morland, must. in Sept. 8, 1864; not on muster-out roll. Henry McCain, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; disch. Feb. 6, 1863, for wounds received in action. Hugh McGreevy, must. in Sept. 10, 1861; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps. Patrick McGreevy, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; disch. Dec. 3, 1862, for wounds received in action. Jacob Ostrander, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; must. out with company July 12, 1865 ; veteran. Jacob Potts, drafted, must. in Aug. 26, 1863; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William H. Pope, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865 ; must. out with company July 12,1865. Commodore Price, drafted, must. in Dec. 8,1864 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. John Parkinson, must. in Sept. 14, 1861; absent, sick, at muster out. William Phelan, must, in Sept. 10, 1864; died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, grave 11. George W. Potts, must. in Sept. 12, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. Thomas Prichard, must. in Sept. 9, 1861 ; not on muster-out roll. John B. Powell, must. in June 25, 1864; not on muster-out roll. John P. Ritter, must. in Jan. 23, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. George Remley, drafted, must. in Dec. 8,1864; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Patrick Roden, must. in Feb. 7, 1864; wounded and prisoner March 19, 1865. James Rose, must. in Sept. 11, 1861; disch. Oct. 3, 1864; at expiration of term. Benjamin Rollison, must. in Sept. 14, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 12,1861. John Rinhard, must. in Sept. 16,1861; disch. Feb. 6,1863, for wounds received in action. John W. Sterling, must. in March 23,1864; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Thomas R. Storer, must. in March 6,1865 ; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Thomas A. Schram, must. in Sept. 12, 1864; must, out with company July 12, 1865. Michael Stern, substitute, must. in March 9, 1865; must. out with company July 12,1865. George H. Stickel, substitute, must. in Feb. 22, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Lewis Starner, substitute, must. in Feb. 16, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. William G. Smith, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1805; must. out with company July 12,1865. Daniel Stoops, drafted, must. in Feb. 22, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1865. Adam R. Stoler, drafted, must, in Feb. 22, 1865; must. out with company July 12, 1866. Franklin Simpson, returned, absent at muster out. John M. Stewart, must. in Sept. 16, 1861; absent, sick, at muster out. William T. Smith, must. in Sept. 16, 1881; disch. Feb. 6,18633, for wounds received in action. Aaron Sutman, must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 15, 1861. George Swanger, must. in Sept. 11, 1881; died at Louisville, Ky., May 1, 1862. Frederick Schick, must. in Sept. 21, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. July 14,1885. John C. Trout, drafted, must. in June 4, 1864; absent, in arrest, at muster out. William Wood, must. in June 3,1863; wounded at Jonesboro', N. C., Sept, 1, 1864; absent at muster out. Philip Wilkinson, substitute, must. in March 7, 1865; absent, sick, at muster out. Joseph P. Wilson, substitute, must. in March 10,1865; disch. by G. O. July 12, 1865. William Wilkinson, drafted, must. in Sept. 21, 1864; died at Newberne, N. C., May 18, 1865. William Wallace, must. in Sept. 2, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. Oct. 2, 1862. John Warren, must. in Sept. 7, 1861; killed at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. John Wood, must. in Sept. 11, 1861; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps March 4, 1864. John H. Watson, must. in Sept. 11, 1861; disch. Jan. 19, 1863, for wounds received in action. Michael Walter, must. in July 11, 1864; not on must-out roll. John Wistler, must. in July 11, 1864; not on must.-out roll. William K. Wise, must. in -, 1861; disch. Nov. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. William Young, must, in Sept. 9, 1861 ; died at Louisville, Hy., May 2, 1862. John M. Yohe. must. in Sept. 11, 1861 ; disch. Oct. 3, 1864, at expiration of term. CHAPTER XXIV. WAR OF THE REBELLION.-(Continued.) Eighty-fifth Regiment.-The Eighty-fifth, a three years' infantry regiment, was raised in the summer and fall of 1861, under an order from the War Department, dated August 1st. The regimental rendez- WAR OF THE REBELLION - 323 vous was' established at " Camp La Fayette," at Uniontown, Fayette County. Recruiting was commenced immediately, and completed in less than three months. The companies composing the regiment were recruited as follows : Three companies in Washington County, one company in Washington and Fayette, one company in Washington, Fayette, and Somerset, three companies in Fayette, one company in Greene, and one company in Somerset. The three Washington County companies were "A" company, Capt. Harvey J. Vankirk ; " B," Capt. Morgan W. Zollars ; and "D," Capt. William H. Horn; the recruiting names of these companies being respectively :' Union Guards," " Ellsworth Cadets," and " Lafayette Guards." The Washington and Fayette company was first known as the " Washington Guard," but designated in the regimental organization as " E" company, Capt. Harry A. Purviance. The company recruited in Washington, Fayette, and Somerset was known as the "Independent Blues," afterwards "C" company of the regiment, and mustered in under command of Capt. John C. Williamson. The regiment was organized at Camp La Fayette on the 12th of November, under the following-named field- and staff-officers, viz. : Joshua B. Howell, colonel; Norton McGiffin, of Washington, lieutenant-colonel ; Absalom Guiler, major; Andrew Stewart, Jr., adjutant ; John Murphy, Jr., of Washington County, quartermaster ; John Laidley, surgeon ; Rev. John N. Pierce, chaplain. About the 25th of November the regiment broke camp, and proceeded under orders to Washington by way of Harrisburg, where it received the State colors, presented by Governor Curtin. Soon after its arrival at the national capital it was moved across the Anacostia Bridge, and encamped at " Camp Good Hope," where it remained during the succeeding winter, engaged in the construction of earthworks for the defense of Washington. In March, 1862, the Eighty-fifth was brigaded with the One Hundred and First and One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania and the Ninety-sixth New York Regiments, forming the Second Brigade (Gen. Keim's) of Casey's (Third) division of the Fourth Army Corps, under command of Maj.-Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes. With that corps the regiment embarked at Alexandria on the 29th of March, and proceeded down the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay to Fortress Monroe, arriving there on the 1st of April, and joining the Army of the Potomac, which then lay encamped on a line extending from the Fortress to Newport News, preparatory to the march up the Peninsula. The movement commenced on the morning of the 4th, and in the evening of the following day Keyes' corps confronted the enemy's lines at and in the vicinity of Warwick Court-House. There it remained until the morning of Sunday, the 4th of May, when it was found that the enemy had during the previous night evacuated his works at Yorktown, and along the line of Warwick River, and the Union army at once moved on in pursuit. On the morning of Monday, May 5th, the Confederate forces were found strongly intrenched at Williamsburg. They were attacked soon after daylight, and the battle raged through the entire day, resulting in victory to the Union arms, the enemy retreating during the night, leaving his wounded on the field. In this, its first battle, the Eighty-fifth was but slightly engaged, and suffered a loss of only two wounded. Moving up from Williamsburg towards Richmond in pursuit of the retreating enemy, the regiment, with its brigade, crossed the Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge on the 20th of May, and marched thence to a position in the army line at Fair Oaks, within about five miles of Richmond. There at a little past noon on Saturday, the 31st of May, Casey's division was suddenly attacked by an overwhelming force of the enemy, and though fighting most stubbornly, was forced back with great loss and in some disorder. The battle continued through the afternoon of the 31st, and the attack was renewed by the enemy on Sunday morning, but resulted in less success to him than that of the previous day. In the battle of Saturday the Eighty-fifth occupied rifle-pits and held them bravely, but was driven from them by assaults from superior numbers. "To be brief," said Gen. Casey, in his report, "the rifle-pits were retained until they were almost enveloped by the enemy, the troops with some exceptions fighting with spirit and gallantry." In the series of engagements known as the Seven Days' battles, commencing at Mechanicsville, on the Chickahominy, on Thursday, the 26th of June, and ending at Harrison's Landing on the James, on Wednesday, the 2d of July, the Eighty-fifth was not actively engaged and suffered but little. Its total loss during the Peninsula campaign was eighty-seven killed and wounded, the principal part of this loss being sustained in the battle of Fair Oaks. When the Army of the Potomac evacuated the Peninsula in August, 1862, the corps of Gen. Keyes was left stationed at Fortress Monroe. From that place the Eighty-fifth with other troops was moved to Suffolk, Va., and remained there until the commencement of winter. At this time its brigade (to which the Eighty-fifth and Ninety-second Regiments had been added) was under command of Gen. Wessells. On the 5th of December this brigade left Suffolk under orders to move to Newberne, N. C., to reinforce Gen. Foster's (Eighteenth) Corps. It was embarked on transports on the Chowan River, and reached its destination on the 9th. It remained in North Carolina about seven weeks, during which time it was several times engaged,—at West Creek, Kinston, White Hall, and Goldsboro',—the Eighty-fifth sustaining slight loss. In the last part of January, 1863, the regiment with its brigade and others of Foster's command was 324 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. transported from Newberne to Hilton Head, S. C., where it arrived on the 1st of February. The brigade was then under command of Col. Howell. Early in April it was moved to Cole's Island, and thence across Folly River to Folly Island. There the men witnessed the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Admiral Dupont, and after its unsuccessful close, the brigade of Col. Howell was left to garrison the works on the island, the other troops as well as the fleet being withdrawn. It remained on duty on Folly and Morris Islands through the remainder of the spring and the entire summer and fall. During this time the Eighty-fifth Regiment suffered very severely, both from the missiles of the enemy and the excessive heat of the weather. From the 20th of August, when it was placed in the advanced trenches in front of the rebel Fort Wagner (which Gen. Gillmore was attempting to take by regular approaches), until the 2d of September its losses were fifty-six killed and wounded by the enemy's shells, and the losses by sickness were still greater. It went on the outer works (August 20th) with an aggregate strength of four hundred and fifty-one, and when relieved (September 2d) it could muster but two hundred and seventy fit for duty. Immediately after this Fort Wagner was subjected to a bombardment of forty hours' duration, which compelled its evacuation by the enemy and the abandonment of the entire island, which was then at once occupied by the Union troops. There the Eighty-fifth remained until about the 5th of December, when it was transported to Hilton Head, and went into camp near Port Royal, S. C. During its stay of more than four months at that place and its vicinity the health of the men was greatly improved, and the effective strength of the regiment largely increased. It was not called on to take part in any engagement, but sustained a loss of two wounded and one made prisoner in a skirmish at White Marsh, near Savannah, in February, 1864. In April following, three divisions of Gen. Gill-more's troops were ordered to the James River, Va., to reinforce the army under Gen. Butler. The divisions designated were Ames', Turner's, and Terry's, in which last named was Howell's brigade, containing the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania. On its arrival in Virginia its strength was increased by the return of the veterans of the regiment, who had been home on furlough, also by the accession of a considerable number of conscripts. It was removed to Bermuda Hundred, and there went into position in the army line. Its first engagement with the Army of the James was on the 20th of May, when in an assault on the enemy's rifle-pits in its front it sustained a loss of twenty-three killed and wounded. On the 14th of June the Army of the Potomac, under Gen. Grant, began crossing the James from the Peninsula. Two days later the Confederate army of Northern Virginia, under Lee, crossed the same river above Drury's Bluff, and the opposing forces at once commenced the long and deadly struggle in front of Petersburg. On the 17th the enemy assaulted a part of the works held by the Eighty-fifth, and the regiment was compelled to retire with a loss of seventeen killed and wounded. On the 9th of July it lost one killed and three wounded by the accidental explosion of a shell. Again, on the 14th and 15th of August, at Deep Bottom and Strawberry Plains, the regiment was engaged, charging with Terry's division, capturing the enemy's works, and sustaining a loss of twenty-one killed and wounded. On the following day (August 16th) it lost nine killed and fifty-four wounded in a charge upon another part of the hostile works, the regiment capturing three stands of colors and a number of prisoners. The troops recrossed to the right bank of the James on the 20th, and four days later the Eighty-fifth, with its corps (the Tenth), was moved to the south side of the Appomattox, where it occupied a line of works. On the 13th of September it was ordered to occupy Fort Morton, a work mounting fourteen heavy guns. A short time previous to this last-named movement Col. Howell had been assigned to the command of a division of colored troops. On the 12th of September, while returning at night from the corps headquarters, he was thrown from his horse and so severely injured that he died soon after. He was a brave and faithful officer, and his loss was keenly felt, not only by his own regiment, but by the officers and men of the entire brigade which he so long commanded. On the 27th of September the regiment was relieved from duty at Fort Morton and returned to its division, with which it took part in the movement of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps across the James which resulted in the capture of Fort Harrison and a long line of other works of the enemy. In this series' of operations it was engaged with the enemy on the 1st, 7th, and 12th of October, and twice advanced to within three miles of Richmond, but sustained no heavy loss. The term of service of the Eighty-fifth was now drawing to its close. On the 14th of October it was relieved from duty in front of Petersburg, its veterans and recruits were transferred to the One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania, and the remainder, whose time was soon to expire, were moved to Portsmouth, Va., and there encamped. :About the middle of November the remnant of the regiment was ordered home, and on the 22d of that month it was mustered out of service at Pittsburgh. Below are given lists of the officers and enlisted men of the three Washington County companies of the Eighty-fifth, also of the company raised in Washington and Fayette, and a list of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the company ("C") recruited in Washington, Fayette, and Somerset, the names of the enlisted men of the last-named company being omitted because the greater part of them were from the two other counties. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 325 COMPANY A.¹ Harvey J. Vankirk, capt.; res. Nov. 7, 1862. William J. Kerr, capt., must. in Oct. 1, 1861; pro. from let lieut. Nov. 7, 1862; capt. Aug. 16, 1862; must out with company Nov. 22, 186L Socrates McGregor, lst lieut ; pro. from sergt. to lst sergt. April 8,1862; to lst lieut. Nov. 7, 1862; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1964. John Rowley, 2d lieut.res April 7,1882. John W. Acheson, 2d lieut., must. in Oct. 14,1861 ; pro. to lst sergt. Jan. 1, 1862; to 2d lieut. April 7, 1862 ; to lst lieut. Co. C Aug. 2,1862. Robert T. Wishart, 2d lieut.; pro. from sergt. Nov. 20, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 14, 1863. Andrew Gilkison let sergt.; pro, to sergt. Nov. 20, 1862; to 1st sergt. Aug. 20, 1864 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Alex. W. Pollock, lst sergt. ; pro. to 1st sergt Nov. 20, 1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. May 28, 1863. Samuel L. McHenry, lst sergt.; pro. to sergt -maj Jan. 1, 1862. Robert Caldwell, sergt. ; pro. to sergt 8, 1862 ; wounded at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1804. William D. Shaw, sergt.; pro. from corp. Nov. 20, 1862; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Robert W. Cresswell, sergt; pro. from corp. Aug. 18, 1862; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Greer Hair, sergt.; pro. from corp. Aug. 29, 1863 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John A. Rowley, corp.; pro. to corp. Jan. 12, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Matt. Templeton, corp., wounded Aug. 21,1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jonathan Bratty, corp.; pro. to corp. Nov.20, 1862; must, out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Thomas Griffith, corp.; pro. to corp. Nov. 20, 1862; wounded Aug. 21, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John S. Butterfoss, corp.; pro. to corp. Nov. 20, 1862; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Alexander M. Ross, corp.; pro. to corp. Oct. 1,1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Oscar F. Lyon, corp.; pro. to corp. Nov. 23, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John N. Brown, corp.; pro. to 2d lieut. Independent Battery H, Pennsylvania Artillery, Oct. 24, 1862. John M. S. Cratty, corp.; disch. on Surg. certif. March 17, 1863. William Milligan, corp. ; pro. to corp. Nov. 20,1862; disch. Oct. 20,1864, at expiration of term. John M. Moore, corp.; pro. to corp. Jan. 1, 1862; to sergt. Co. K Oct. 1, 1863. John M. Morrison, corp.; died at Crany Island, Va., Sept. 14, 1862. Robert B. Thompson, musician; must. out with company Nov. 22,1864. John W. Ingles, musician, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Privates. James Allison, must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Joseph W. Andrew, must. in Nov. 11, 1861 ; must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James H. Bell, must. in Nov. 13, 1861; wounded Aug. 21, 1862; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Andrew Brownlee, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jonathan L. Bebout, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1664. Thomas Briggs, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John B. Bell, pro. to com.-sergt. July 22, 1863. Collins W. Barr, killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. Robt. H. Byers, died at Annapolis, Md., June 16, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862. James 8. Craig, must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James Carothers, disch. on Surg. certif. June 3,.1862. John Curren, must. in July 19, 1862; disch. on Surg. certif. Aug. 21, 1862. Wm. A. H. Chicks, absent, sick, at must. out; veteran. Joseph Campsey, wounded Ang. 21, 1863; trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1866; veteran. Charles Caldwell, trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1865; veteran. Samuel R. Caldwsll, trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. ¹ Date of muster is Oct. 16, 1861, except where noted. John Carothers, trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran., William Crosson, wounded Aug. 16,1864; trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. George F. Cary, died at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 22, 1862. Samuel L. Coulter, died at Beaufort, S. C., Nov. 27, 1863. Nathan A. Day, must. in Oct. 7, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. June 14, 1863. Franklin B. Dillen, died at Yorktown, Va., May 14, 1862. Walter O. Donald, accidentally killed at Bermuda Hundred, Va., July 9, 1864.. Thomas K. Fulton, moat. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Hugh D. Furgus, died at White House, Va., June 19, 1862. Hugh Ferguson, must. in Nov. 14, 1861; died at Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 8, 1864. Dennis Farrell, killed at Deep Run, Va., Aug. 15,1864; veteran. Cyrus Greaves, Mach. on surg. certif. Feb. 28, 1863. Robert Greer, died at White House, Va., June 23, 1862. Andrew J. Hutchinson, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Frank Henderson, disch. on surg. certif. April 8; 1882. James Heigby, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 31, 1862. S. Hendrickson, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 16, 1863. James W. Hardy, died et White House, Va., June 14, 1862. William H. Hines, killed at Deep Run, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; veteran. Adam Johnston, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 13, 1861. Patterson Jubes, killed near Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864. Joseph Kerr, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John R. Kline, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Hamilton Lyon, must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Andrew W. A. Lovejoy, disch. on Surg. certif. April 8, 1862. Matthew Linn. died at Good Hops Hospital, D. C., Dec. 31, 1861. John Low, died at Annapolis, Md., June 23d, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862. Philip Martin, wounded Aug. 21,1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William H. Morrison, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John A. Mansfield, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 13, 1863. James H. McEwen, must. out with company Nov. 22,1864. Joseph E. McCabe, disch. on Surg certif. Sept. 1, 1863. John A. McMillin, died at Washington, D. C., June 10th, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1864. Henry Nickerson, disch. on surg. certif. March 19, 1863. John Neill, trans. to Vet. Corps, date unknown. John Patterson, must. out with company Nov. 22,1864. John Park, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 1, 1862. Joseph Palmer, disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. James Proudfitt, disch. on Surg. certif. Nov. 15, 1862. David G. Paschal, died at Crany Island Sept. 28, 1862. William H. Randolph, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jacob Richardson, must. out with company Aug. 22, 1864. Moses Ross, disch. on surg. certif. May 2, 1863. Matthew Ross, Jr., disch. on slug. certif. Oct. 31, 1861. Henry T. Reynolds, missing in action near Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864. William Sias, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Joseph L. Shell, must. out with company Nov. 22,1884. Joseph Shaw, must. out with company Aug. 22, 1864. William A. Scott, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Thomas H. Sawhill, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 3, 1862. Jacob L. Thompson, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Andrew Thompson, died at Yorktown, Va., June 30, 1862; buried in National Cemetery, sect. 3, grave 143. Thomas Thompson, died at Hampton, Va.,.Oct. 4, 1864. Alexander H. Vance, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William Wibley, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John Wibley, disch, on surg. certif. May 1, 1862. William J. Wilson, disch. on surg. certif. April 4, 1863. John Wibley, must. in March 1, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 10,1885. Alexander P. Welsh, drafted, must. in Aug. 22, 1864; trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1865. Joseph Welsh, must. in Oct. 16, 1861; killed at Deep Run, Va., Aug. 16,1864; veteran. COMPANY B.² Morgan W. Zollars, capt., disch. on surg. certif. May 19, 1882. George H. Hooker, capt., pro. from 2d lieut. May 19, 1862; wounded at ² Date of muster is on Nov, 12, 1861, except where noted. 326 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Strawberry Plains, Va., Aug. 16,1864 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Robert P. Hughes, let lieut., pro. to capt. Co. C Aug 21, 1862. Richard W. Dawson, let lieut., pro. to rapt. Co. I Aug. 21, 1862 ; killed. Abraham S. Dial, 1st lieut., pro. to 2d lieut. May 19, 1862; died June 30, of wounds received at Fair Oaks May 31, 1862; burial record, April 12, 1865, at Richmond; buried in National Cemetery, section A, division 2, grave 15. Julius A. Smith, 2d lieut., pro. to 2d lieut. Aug. 4,1862 ; to 1st lieut. Dec. 4, 1862 ; wounded at Strawberry Plains, Aug. 16, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22,1864. David W. Shields, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 4, 1861; pro. to 2d lieut. Dec. 4, 1862; to adjt. May 31, 1864. James R. Kean, 1st sergt., wounded at Strawberry Plains, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; absent in hospital at must. out. Samuel Stevenson, 1st sergt., disch. to accept promotion June 9, 1864. Isaac F. Overholt, sergt., must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John B. Norris, sergt., must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Benjamin Orbin, sergt., wounded at Morris Island, S. C., August, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Adam Harbison, sergt., disch. on Surg. certif. April 15,1862. James F. Spear, sergt., wounded Aug. 16, 1864; disch. at expiration of term. Menem Sharp, sergt., disch. on surg. certif. April 15, 1862. Joseph C. Dowds, sergt., must. in Oct. 11, 1861 ; pro. to sergt-maj. Aug. 12, 1862. Walter B. Smith, sergt., must. in Oct.11,1861 ; died at Washington, D. C., May 21, 1862. John W. Bigler, sergt., must. in Feb. 25, 1863. David Watson, sergt., not on must-out roll. Davis Miller, corp., must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William McCullough, corp., must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jackson Crumrine, corp., must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Cepluts Dodd, corp., must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. George K. Strewn, corp., absent, in hospital, at must. out. J. S. Shollenberger, corp., absent, on detached duty, at must. out. Abram B. Jiama, corp., died at Fortress Monroe, August 28, of wounds received at Deep Bottom, Aug. 14, 1864. John B. Clayton, corp., must. in Nov. 14, 1861; died at Annapolis, Md., Sept., 1864, of wounds received at Deep Bottom, Aug. 14; burial record, Hampton, Va., Aug. 28, 1864. A. W. Hutchinson, corp., must. in May 31, 1862. A. B. Groner, corp., not on must.-out roll. Eli Crumrine, musician, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William Barker, musician, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Privates. Christopher Anderson, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Alexander Bane, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James B. Bair, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Amos Bane, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 16, 1862. John Ballentine, disch. on surg. certif. April 9, 1862. James Brownlee, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 15, 1862. David W. Baker, must. in Feb. 16, 1862; wounded Oct. 13; trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864. James H. Bryan, must. in Feb. 25, 1964; disch. by G. O. May 22, 1865. Joseph S. Beattie, must. in Jan. 4, 1864; trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864. James Ballentine, must. in Nov. 14, 1861; died at Harrison's Landing, Va , July 28, 1862. William Braden, must. in Nov. 14, 1865; died at Fortress Monroe, Va., December, 1862. Cephas Brooks, must. in Feb. 12, 1864; died at Fortress Monroe, Va., May 22, of wounds received May 20, 1864. William H. Butler, must. in Feb. 12, 1864; died at Yorktown May 6, 1862; burial record, Hampton, Va., May 22, 1864. Robinson Bair, not on must out roll. John H. Candy, wounded Aug. 14; must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Matthew Cain, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 7, 1862. Duncan C. Chalfant, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 19, 1862. Abram B. Croner, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 23, 1862. Thomas Cusick, disch on surg. certif., date unknown. Eli Coder, must. in Feb. 26,1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. James C. Cage, must. in Feb. 27, 1864; trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864. Boyd Crumrine, must. in Oct. 11, 1861; pro. to q.m.-sergt. Dec. 1, 1861. John C. Campbell, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., August, 1862. Addison W. Coleman, must. in Nov. 8, 1861. John Dobbins, must. in Nov. 20, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. April 9, 1862. George W. Elwell, must. in Nov. 20, 1861; died at Annapolis, September 24, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862; burial record, May 6, 1862, National Cemetery, Yorktown, Va., sect. B, grave 258. John Guthrie, absent, on detached service, at must. out. Thomas Gibbons, disch., date unknown. James Gray, disch. on surg. certif. July 4, 1863. John L. Griffith, disch. on Surg. certif. Jan. 31, 1863. Leonard Hammers, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Thomas Hanlin, disch. on Surg. certif., 1863. F. W. Householder, disch. on surg. certif. 1862. G. W. Hagermayer, must. in Feb. 25, 1864: trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. W. F. Hagermayer, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. John H. Howard, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. John B. Hayden, killed at Fair Oaks May 31, 1862; burial record, Sept. 24, 1862. William G. Howard, died at Newberne, N. C., February, 1863. Thomas Jackson, disch. on surg. certf. November, 1861. John Knight, disch. on Surg. certif. August, 1862. Isaac Kelley, must. in Feb. 26, 1864; trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864. John A. Lynn, disch. on surg. certif. November, 1864. Martin E. Layton, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Daniel Martin, wounded near Deep Bottom Aug. 14, 1864; absent at must. out. John Magee, disch. Jan. 24, 1865, to date Nov. 22, 1864. John H. Morrow, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. J. W. McCullough, absent, on detached duty, at must. out. Hugh McGill, disch. on Surg. certif. November, 1861. James McCracken, disch. on surg. certif. July 4, 1863. John McGill, must. in Oct. 14, 1861 ; must. ant Nov. 8, 1861. Joseph L. Newcomer, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Thomas Orbine, missing in action near Petersburg June 17, 1864. John F. Overholt, must. in Feb. 24, 1864 trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Thomas Orricks, died at Newport News, Va., April 24, 1862 ; burial record, Newberne. N. April 6, 1863; buried in National Cemetery. John Parks, disch. on surg. certif. 1862. William L. Pershing, pro. to q.m.-sergt. May 16, 1963. Thomas H. Phillips, must. in Nov. 8, 1861. Presley Ruffconn, absent, on detached service, at muster out. John Rowland, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Evan Ryan, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Joseph S. Reager, disch. on surg. certif. April 27, 1862. John V. Rossell, must. in Feb.25, 1864 ; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. John Riley, died at West Point, Va., June, 1862. George W. Snyder, absent, on detached service, at muster out. John G. Sedgwick, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. David Shuppe, wounded Aug. 16, 1864; absent, on detached service, at muster out. James Smith, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. T. J. Stephenson, absent, on detached service, at muster out. William Stewart, absent, on detached service, at muster out. Moses Smith, prisoner from June 17th to Nov. 26, 11164; disch. April 26, 1865, to date Dec. 3, 1864. Josiah Sterritt, disch. on surg. certif. April 15, 1863. Jacob W. Strickler, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 21, 1863. Benedict F. :grouch, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; wounded Aug. 14,1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Jacob H. Strewn, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; wounded Aug. 16, 1864; trans. to Co. G, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Enos K. Strewn, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. John W. Smith, must. In Feb. 27, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865.  John Smith, died at Point of Rocks, Va., July 31, 1864. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 327 Elias Sponger, died at Beverly, N. J., Aug. 28, of wounds received at Deep Run, Aug. 16, 1864. William H. Sleepy, most. in Feb. 23, 1864; died at Fortress Monroe, date unknown ; buried in National Cemetery, City Point, sect. A, division 4, grave 48. James Stewart, died at Beaufort, S. C., June 24, 1863. Thomas J. Smith, died May, 1862; burial record, Aug. 18, 1862, Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I. George W. Saunders, wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864; not on muster-out roll. James A. Shook, must. in Feb. 23, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 24, 1865. James Torrence, wounded Aug. 24, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 23, 1864. Joshua Torrence, prisoner from June 17, 1864, to April 9, 1865; disch. June 5, to date May 17, 1865. Henry Taylor, disch. on surg. certif. April 18, 1863. Owen Turner, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Aug. 22, 1863. John Walton, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864 Silas Wright, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Samuel L. Walton, absent, on detached service, at muster out. David Walton, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John Wilkes, must. in Feb. 25, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Henry Walker, died at Beaufort, S. C., June 24, 1863. Thomas J. Wright, died of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. Joseph H. Wilgus, died Juno 13, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862. Jacob Younkin, killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. COMPANY C.¹ John C. Williamson. capt.; res. July 5, 1862. Robert P. Hughes, capt. ; must. in Nov. 12, 1861; pro. from lst lieut. Co. B Aug. 21, 1862; to lieut.-col. 199th Regt. P. V. Nov. 28, 1864. Isaac R. Beezell, lst lieut.; res. June 24, 1862. John W. Acheson, lst lieut.; must. in Nov. 14, 1861; pro. from 2d lieut. Co. C Aug. 2, 1862; to capt. and A. A. G. Feb. 29, 1864. William H. Davis, let lieut.; pro. from let sergt. to 2d lieut. March 6, 1863; to 1st lieut. May 21, 1864 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. George J. Van Gilder, 2d lieut.; res. July 31, 1862. David H. Lancaster, 2d lieut.; pro. to 2d lieut. July 19, 1862 ; res. March 6, 1863. James A. Swearer, 1st sergt.: must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Michael Drumm. lst sergt.; killed in action Aug. 16, 1864. William A. Fortner, sergt.; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James B. Collins, sergt.; wounded Aug. 16, 1864; -must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. George W. Smith, sergt. ; disch. on surg. certif. March 26, 1863. Franklin D. Condon, sergt.; wounded Aug. 16, 1864; trans. to Co. D, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865 ; veteran. Walter C. Cravin, sergt.; trans. to Co. D, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1865 ; veteran. John T. Norris, sergt.; trans. to Co. 13, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. John G. Woodward, sergt. ; died June 22d of wounds received near Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864 ; buried in National Cemetery at City Point, Va., sec. A, div. 4, grave 179. Robert F. Holmes, sergt.; killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1861. George S. Groff, corp.; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Lewis Reimel, corp.; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Benjamin F. Durbin, corp.; disch. on mug. certif. Sept. 13, 1862. John B. Groff, corp.; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. George W. Sherwan, corp.; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 5, 1863. Robert M. Fields, corp.; trans. to Co. Is, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1865 ; veteran. James R. Cook, corp.; trans. to Co. D, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. John Wood, corp.; died at Hampton, Va., May 25th, of wounds received May 20, 1864. John Mean, corp.; killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. Richard Coates, corp.; killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. Lemuel Thomas, musician; died at Hampton, Va., Aug. 16th, of wounds received at Deep Bottom Aug. 15, 1864. ¹ Must. in Oct. 31, 1861, except where other dates are given. COMPANY D.² William H. Horn, capt., res. July 6, 1862. Rolla O. Phillips, capt., pro. from lst lieut. July 6, 1662; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John E. Michener, lst lieut., pro. from 2d lieut. July 6, 1862; corn. capt. Co. K Dec. 3, 1863 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William H. Myers, 2d lieut., pro. from lst sergt. July 6, 1862, to capt. Co. G, 188th Regt. P. V., April 29, 1864. George S. Fulmer, lst sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. Sept. 1,1862; to 1st sergt. March 1,1864; com. 2d lieut. June 20, 1864; not mustered; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Harrison H. Spohn, lst sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. July 6, 1862; to let sergt.; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 9, 1863. Hiram S. Myers, 1st sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. Sept. 1, 1862 ; to lst sergt. March 1, 1863 ; died at David's Island, N. Y., Feb. 23, 1864. Howard Kerr, sergt. ; absent, on detached service, at muster out. Jacob B. Speers, sergt., pro. from corp. April 1, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Barnet F. Johnson, sergt., pro. to corp. April 5, 1862; to sergt. July 1, 1863 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John Milliken, sergt., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1862; to sergt. Oct. 10, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. George W. McGiffin, sergt., disch. on surg. certif. March 5, 1863. John Horn, sergt., disch. on surg. certif. July 27, 1862. Thomas M. Burford, sergt., pro. from corp. March 1, 1863 ; trans. to non-com. staff July 1, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John N. Donagho, sergt., captured; died at Salisbury, N. C., Nov. 7,1862. Abram S. Tinley, corp., pro. to corp. March 1, 1863; wounded Aug. 21, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Alexander C. Hathaway, pro. to corp. April 1, 1863; wounded at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Joseph W. Burson, corp., pro. to corp. March 1, 1864; wounded at Deep Bottom Aug. 16, 1864 ; absent at muster out. George W. Dales, corp., pro. to corp. Oct. 10, 1864; absent on detached service at muster out. Benjamin Marshall, corp.; wounded Aug. 30, 1863; disch. Nov. 11, 1864, at expiration of term. Benjamin F. Hathaway, corp., pro. to corp. Oct. 10, 1864 ; trans. to Co. O, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. George Ketchum, corp., pro. to corp. July 6, 1862; died at Hampton, September 26th, of wounds rec. at Deep Bottom Aug. 16, 1864; vet. Abraham Miller, corp., pro. to corp. July 1, 1864; died at Beverly, N. J., of wounds rec. at Deep Bottom Aug. 16, 1864. William W. Garber, corp., killed at Morris Island, S. C., Aug. 30, 1863. Alexander C. Morgan, corp., missing in action at Fair Oaks May 3, 1862. Isaiah Jordan, musician, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James T. Wells, musician, disch. on surg. certif. March 18, 1863. Privates. Joseph E. Amer, absent, on detached service, at muster out. George Amer, must. out with company Nov. 22,1864. William Allmann, disch. on surg. certif. March 25, 1863. Enoch Brooks, absent, on detached service, at muster out. John Bretton, absent, on detached service, at muster out. William A. Bell, disch. on surg. certif. July 8, 1862. Josiah Bretton, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 26, 1863. Henry Bush, disch. June 30, 1864, for wounds received at Morris Island, N. C. Robert W. Baldwin, disch. on writ of habeas corpus, date unknown. James W. Surgan, absent, sick, at muster out. David Baldwin, must. in Oct. 16, 1861 ; missing in action near Deep Bottom Aug. 17, 1864. Stephen Clendaniel, absent, on detached service, at muster out. Daniel W. Crumrine, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Harvey Cox, wounded Aug. 30, 1863; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864, John Clendaniel, must. in Aug. 13, 1862; wounded at Petersburg June 18,1864; disch. by G. O. June 10, 1865. Israel Cumpson, died at Poplar Hill June 24, 1862. Hiram Crouch, died at Folly, Island, N. C., Nov. 20, 1863. Joseph A. Demuth, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Henry G. Dales, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 6, 1862. Mahon C. Donagho, disch. for wounds received in action. Alfred Dougherty, must. in Feb. 22, 1862; disch. by G. O. May 12, 1865. ² Date of muster Nov. 11, 1861, except where noted. 328 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.   Hiram H. Fulmer, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 29, 1862. George W. Fisher, pro. to host). stew., U. S. A., March 8, 1864. George Garber, died at Philadelphia, July 18, 1862. Thomas S. Gage, must. in Dec. 10, 1862. Hezekiah Horn, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Hiram Haver, wounded Aug,-30, 1863, June 18, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jacob Haver, absent, on detached service, at must. out. George Helleck, disch. on Surg. certif., date unknown. Jonas Horn, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 24, 1862. Elias Horn, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps March 16, 1864. T. P. Hathaway, died June 12, 1862. Richard Hathaway, died at Newberne, N. C., March 2; burial record, March 7, 1863. William M. Jackman, disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Leonidas F. Jones, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 4, 1862. Alfred R. Lucre, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William B. Lush, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jasper Morgan, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 18, 1862. Jesse S. Moore, died at Suffolk, Va., Nov. 9, 1862. James Meeks, missing in action near Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 17, 1864. Alexander McCay, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Oliver McVay, Disch. on Surg. certif. Sept. 18, 1862. John McChain, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 18, 1862. William McCormick, must. in March 4, 1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. June 1, 1863. John McIlvain, trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865 ; veteran. William H. McGiffin, died at Harrison's Landing June 8, 1862. H. E. McJunken, died at Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 25, 1864. Wilson Pryor, Disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 17, 1862. Robert Pryor, killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. Edward Roberts, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. William A. Rider, disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 1, 1862. James M. Roach, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 16, 1862. Bowen Reese, disch. Nov. 16, 1864, at expiration of term. John Reese, trans. to Co. C, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. William Rice, must. in Aug. 13, 1862; disch. by G. O. June 10, 1866. William L. Stull, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Eli Smith, disch. on Surg. certif. Sept. 16, 1862. Adam Staub, disch. on Surg. certif. March 16, 1864. J. L. Sondeckor, died at Philadelphia July 12, 1862. Samuel O. Thomas, disch. on Surg. certif., date unknown. William H. Virgin, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Samuel Vandegrift, disch. Nov. 11, 1864, at expiration of term. Theophilus Wilson, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Amos G. Walton, died at David's Island, N. Y., Feb. 29,1864. Henry C. Torts, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. James Yorders, must. in Aug. 13, 1862; Disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 7, 1862. COMPANY E.¹ Harry A. Purviance, capt., pro. to lieut.-col. May 15, 1862. Edward Campbell, capt., pro. from 2d lieut. May 15, 1862; to maj. Sept. 6, 1862. Lewis Watkins, capt., must. in Oct. 15, 1861; pro. from lst lieut. Sept. 6, 1862; died Sept. 28th of wounds received at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. Jacob Davis, let lieut., must. in Oct. 15, 1861; pro. from lst sergt. to 2d lieut. May 1,1863 ; to lst lieut. May 5, 1864 ; com. capt. Sept. 28,1864; not mustered ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. T. S. Purviance, 2d lieut., pro. from sergt. May 15, 1862; killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. Robert G. Taylor, 2d lieut., res. Nov. 22, 1862. Samuel Marshall, let sergt., must. in Nov. 15;1861; disch. Oct. 31, 1864. Oliver P. Henderson, lst sergt., died at Baltimore, Md., May 25,1862. William J. Graham, lst sergt., died at Beaufort, August 30th, of wounds received at Morris Island, S. C., Aug. 21, 1863. William M. Linn, sergt., pro. from private Aug. 18, 1862 ; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. John D. Heckard, sergt., disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 18, 1862. Moses McKeag, sergt., disch. for wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. Jacob D. Moore, sergt., disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 18, 1862. Charles E. Eckles, sergt., wounded Oct. 13, 1864; trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. ¹ Date of muster in Nov. 19, 1861, except as noted. Henry M. Hand, sergt., absent (wounded) at muster out. William G. Miller, sergt., trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. James R. Peters, sergt., killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; veteran. George Fisher, corp., wounded Aug. 27, 186:1; pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Jacob Hand, corp., disch. on surg. certif. April 18, 1862. Hugh B. McNeil, corp., pro. to corp. June, 1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. July 4, 1863. James Watkins, corp., Disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 19, 1862. Adolphus J. Inks, corp., trans. to 195th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14.1864; veteran. Jeremiah Doreon, corp., absent (sick) at muster out; veteran. George W. Downer, corp., trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14,1864; veteran. Robert. M. Mitchell, corp., trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. H. J. McCallister, corp., trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Martin Pope, corp., trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Davis Himmegar, corp., died at Baltimore, Md., May 26, 1862. Henry M. Taylor, corp., died at Hilton Head, S. C., February 5th. William Remmell, musician, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Privates. Matthew C. Axton, trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. Joseph Andrews, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., Nov. 6, 1862 ; burial record, Nov. 8, 1862; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island. John Adams, must. in March 30, 1862. James Byers, disch. by general court-martial Nov. 4, 1862. Thomas Byers, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. John Clark, disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Clark Chew, disch. on surg. certif. June 12, 1862. Elbridge Collins, disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 28, 1862. Josiah W. Crawford, disch. on surg. certif. June 14, 1863. Joseph C. Chase, disch. on Surg. certif., date unknown. Newton W. Chase, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Sherman Chase, must. in Oct. 17, 1862; disch. by G. O. May 27, 1865. Milton B. Chase, must. in April 11, 1864; trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. Greenebury Crossland, must. in Nov. 11, 1861; killed at Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. William J. Crow, died Sept. 12, 1862 ; burial record Aug. 30,1862; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island. Simeon D. Chase, must, in April 11,1864 ; must. out. Aug. 26, 1864. John Dean, disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 3, 1863. James C. Davis, must, in Aug. 9, 1864; disch. by G. O. May 27, 1865. Andrew Devore, died at Baltimore, Md., July 29, 1862. Jacob Deselms, killed near Petersburg, June 18, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Sec. A, Div. 1, Grave 5. John Dongon, died July 16, 1862; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island, grave 220. James M. Edinglield, died at Morris Island, S. C., October 2d, of wounds received at Fort Gregg, Sept. 23, 1862. John Flinder, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 10, 1862. John Finnegan, disch. on Surg. certif. Feb. 24, 1863. Isaac Fisher, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. John Fordyce, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps July 27, 1863. Benjamin Gill, disch., date unknown. Jacob Grover, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., Jan. 31, 1884. Eli F. Huston, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Thomas Hennessy, must. out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Edward M. Hall, wounded Aug. 27, 1863; absent, on detached service, at must. out. William Hand, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 2, 1862. William B. Hays, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V. Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Jeremiah Hartzell, wounded Oct. 7, 1864; absent at must. out; veteran. James H. Huff, trans. to 4th U. S. Art. Nov. 14,1862. William Hartman, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps July 10, 1863. William M. D. Hill, died Dec. 5,1861 ; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. Andrew J. Huff, died near Washington, D. C., Dec. 13, 1861. Lindsay Hartman, killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862. Milton D. Hall, must. in May 25, 1862. Thomas B. Jenkins, must. In Nov. 11, 1861; absent (wounded) at must. out. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 329 James Jordan, must. In Oct. 17,1862; disch. by G. O., June 10,1865. Michael Keenan, trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. Gideon Knight, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps, date unknown. Frederick Lowery, must, out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Mordecai S. Lincoln, disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 15, 1862. Jefferson Lowe, trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28,1865 ; veteran. John P. Lucas, must. in Aug 19, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 10, 1865. John H. Linn, killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., Aug. 27, 1863. John R. Means, absent (sick) at muster out. Thomas Malone, must. in March 2, 1862; ditch. on surg. certif. Sept. 23, 1862. Henry Marret, trans. to 2d U.S. Art., date unknown ; veteran. James N. Mayhorn, wounded Aug. 21, 1863 ; trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V.. June 28, 1865; veteran. William Mahaffey, trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. William H. Marquis, must. in March 25, 1862; died at Beaufort, S. C. September 12th, of wounds received at Fort Wagner, Aug. 27, 1863. John McLean, disch. on surg. certif. April, 1862. David C. McKeag, trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. William McConn, wounded Aug, 27, 1863; trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865. John F. McCoy, trans. to 199th Regt. P. V., Oct. 14, 1864; veteran. Benjamin McCallister, must. in June 20, 1864; trans. to Co. E, 188th Regt. P. V., June 28, 1865; veteran. S. W. McDowell, died at Fortress Monroe, July 2, 1864; burial record, July 21, 1864. Robert Neely, must. in July 25, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 20, 1863. Joseph Neely, killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., Aug. 27 ,1863. David R. Parker, died at White House, Va , June 15, 1862. George C. Rocky, absent (sick) at must. out. Henry J. Rigdon, must. in Dec. 31, 1861 ; ditch., date unknown, form wounds received at Morris Island, S. C., Aug. 27, 1863. Wesley Ralston, must. in Aug. 9, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. June 10, 1865. Jacob Rockwell, trans. to 4th U. S. Art. Nov. 21, 1862. Elijab Rockwell, died at Harrison's Landing, Va., Aug. 16, 1862. Cyrus Sproul, disch. on surg. certif. April 11, 1863 ; died April 14, 1863. Henry Smith, disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Rudolph Smith, date unknown. Charles Vorndal, disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. John Woodward, must out with company Nov. 22, 1864. Christy Welsh, died at Washington, D. C., March, 1862; burial record, Aug. 3, 1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery. John J. White, died August 30th, of wounds received at Fort Wagner Aug. 27, 1863. CHAPTER XXV. WAR OF THE REBELLION.—( Continued.) One Hundredth Regiment.—The " Round Head Regiment," designated as the One Hundredth in the Pennsylvania line, was raised in August, 1861, in the counties of Washington, Westmoreland, Beaver, Lawrence, Butler, and Mercer, " from among the descendants of the Covenanters and of the men who had followed Cromwell, whose leading characteristics had been a devotion to the principles of liberty of person and of conscience." ¹ To the composition of this regiment Washington County contributed one company (" A"), of which the original commissioned officers were: Capt., James Armstrong; 1st Lieut., William F. Templeton; 2d Lieut., Joseph H. Pentecost. This company was mustered into the service ¹ Bates. Aug. 27, 1861. There was no other company made up wholly or principally of Washington County men, though volunteers from this county served in several other companies of the regiment. On the 2d of September the Round Head companies were ordered to Washington, D. C., and upon arrival at the capital went into camp at Kalorama Heights, where the regiment became fully organized under the following field-officers, viz.: Colonel, Daniel Leasure ; Lieutenant-Colonel, James Armstrong (promoted from captain of "A" company of Washington County) ; Major, David A. Leckey. On the 9th of October the regiment with others moved from Washington to Annapolis, Md., where it encamped on the grounds of the Naval Academy as part of a large expeditionary force which was collected there under command of Gen. W. T. Sherman, destined for a then unknown field of operations (which afterwards proved to be the coast of South Carolina). On the 19th of October the regiment was embarked with five companies of the Fiftieth Pennsylvania Regiment on board the transport-steamer " Ocean Queen" and proceeded down the Chesapeake. When they arrived at Fortress Monroe they found the roadstead crowded with a fleet made up of war-steamers and transports filled with troops. This fleet, including the "Ocean Queen," went to sea in the morning of. October 29th, and the sight was grand and inspiriting. For a time the winds favored, and the sea was comparatively smooth, but afterwards a heavy gale came on in which the vessels were scattered, and three or four of them were lost. During this time the troops suffered greatly from sea-sickness and overcrowding on the transports. The fleet had sailed under sealed orders, and its destination was as yet unknown except to the chief naval and military commanders. The " Ocean Queen" having been driven by the gale entirely away from and out of sight of the other vessels of the fleet, the sealed orders were opened and it was found that the destination was Port Royal Entrance, S. C. At last the storm abated, the vessels one by one returned within signaling distance of each other, and the low shores of South Carolina became visible on the starboard hand. Six days (which seemed as many weeks) from the time of its departure from Fortress Monroe the fleet arrived off Hilton Head, S. C., Nov. 4, 1861. The object of the expedition was now apparent, and, with a smoother sea and an enemy almost in sight, seasickness and dejection gave place to buoyant spirits and eager enthusiasm. The fleet was composed of fourteen armed vessels, twenty-two first class steamers, twelve smaller steamers, and twenty-six sailing-vessels. The commander of the fleet was Commodore (afterwards Admiral) S. F. Dupont, whose flag-ship was the splendid steam-frigate " Wabash." The land forces consisted of thirteen regiments of volunteers, in three brigades,—in all about eleven thousand men,—under command 330 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. of Gen. W. T. Sherman. The Second Brigade, composed of the Fiftieth and One Hundredth Pennsylvania, Eighth Michigan, and Seventy-ninth New York, was under command of Brig.-Gen. Isaac I. Stevens. The channel connecting Port Royal harbor with the sea was guarded on either side by a strong rebel fortification. These were known as Forts Walker and Beauregard, and the reduction of these, by the navy, was the first work to be done. For three days after their arrival the vessels remained in quiet, below, as the weather was not considered sufficiently favorable for operations ; but on the 7th the " Wabash" set her signal for battle, and advanced to the attack, followed by the other armed ships in their proper order. They moved in a circular line, up past one fort, and down past the other, delivering their tremendous broadsides into each as they came abreast of it. With the fire from the ships, and the responses from the forts, it was almost a continuous volley of artillery, which shook the earth, and made the very waters tremble. But at length the fire of the forts began to slacken, their replies grew more and more feeble, and finally the Stars and Bars above their ramparts gave place to the white flag. A little later the standard of the Union floated above the captured works on both sides of the channel. On the following day the brigade landed at Hilton Head, and a part of it occupied Fort Walker. On the 17th of December it moved to Beaufort, a place of surpassing beauty, where many of the wealthy people of Charleston had, in the old days of peace, made their summer residences. It was now found deserted by nearly all its inhabitants except negroes. On the morning of the 1st of January, 1862, the troops of Stevens' brigade, supported by two gunboats, crossed the Coosaw River to attack the works of the enemy at Port Royal Ferry, but the Confederates withdrew after slight skirmishing, in which the Round Heads suffered little if any loss, and on the following day the troops returned to camp. Then for five months, which included the delightful winter season of lower South Carolina, the troops remained occupying Beaufort, Barnwell's, Port Royal, Ladies', and other adjacent islands, engaged chiefly in drill and picket duty. This was to them the most agreeable period in all their war experience, except for the fact that there was a considerable amount of sickness in the command, resulting from change of climate. On the 1st of June Stevens' division¹ was moved from Beaufort, and proceeded by transports through Stone River to Legareville, on James Island, where the enemy was occupying defensive works, which were carried, June 3d, after a brisk engagement, in which the Round Heads suffered a loss of nineteen, killed and wounded, and fifteen men and a captain ¹ Stevens then commanded a division, his old brigade being temporarily under command of Col. Fenton, of the Eighth Michigan. (of Co. "F") taken prisoners. Then the regiment lay in comparative quiet (but often under heavy artillery fire) until the night of the 15th, when orders were issued and preparations made for an attack on Tower Fort, a strong work of the enemy near Secessionville, on James Island. Secessionville, the scene of the battle which took place on the following morning, was described by Dr. J. C. Wilson, surgeon of the Eighth Michigan, which was one of the regiments engaged, as "a village composed of a few houses whose owners have seceded from them, situated on a narrow neck of land jutting into the stream on the east side of James Island, skirted by tidal marshes and swamps on either side, and difficult of approach, except from the westward, where is a rebel fort which commands this entrance." The fort was a formidable earthwork, with a parapet nine feet in height, surrounded by a broad ditch seven feet deep, and protected by a broad and almost impenetrable abatis. The neck of dry land over which (alone) it was approachable was barely two hundred yards in width, and every inch of it could be swept at close range by canister from the six heavy guns of the fort and by musketry from its defenders. And it was over such ground, and to the assault of such a work, that the troops of Stevens' division moved forward at four o'clock in the morning of that bloody and eventful 16th of June, 1862. The assaulting column was made up of two small brigades, one, composed of the Round Heads, with the Forty-sixth and Seventy-ninth (Highlanders) of New York, under command of Col. Leasure, and the other composed of the Eighth Michigan, Seventh Connecticut, and Twenty-eighth Massachusetts, under Col. Fenton, of Michigan. Four batteries of artillery accompanied the brigades, and the entire attacking force numbered three thousand three hundred and thirty-seven men. The troops were in line at two o'clock A.M., and it was expected they would move forward at once, but for some unaccountable reason the advance was delayed until nearly sunrise. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, who was present, wrote a communication descriptive of the battle to his paper, in which he said, "It appears, from the statements of some of the officers and men in the regiments, that about one-half mile from the fort there was a narrow pass through a hedge, and the men were compelled to pass through a very few abreast, thus delaying their advance. The Eighth Michigan got through and pushed on with great vigor up to the fort, which they assaulted with a shout. They were met with a murderous fire from the fort in front, and from flanking batteries. A few of these brave men overcame all dangers and difficulties, and, rushing over the dead bodies of their slaughtered comrades, actually climbed into the fort; but it was impossible for them to maintain their ground there against the fearful odds which opposed them, the men who should have supported them being delayed in passing through the hedge." WAR OF THE REBELLION - 331 Just as the Eighth Michigan was beaten back the Highlanders and Round Heads came up, having passed over a wide space, swept by the enemy's canister and musketry: Both the Pennsylvania and the New York regiment rushed on regardless of the fire which met them, and many men of both regiments actually forced their way into the work, but it did not avail. After a struggle of an hour's duration Gen. Benham ordered a retreat, which was then made, the Round Head regiment having sustained a loss of forty-one killed and wounded out of a total strength of four hundred and twenty-one officers and men with which it went into the fight. "At about nine o'clock," says the Tribune correspondent, "which seemed to be the crisis of the battle, and when the generals seemed to be consulting whether they should again advance upon the fort or retire, the gunboats decided the question by opening a heavy cannonade in our rear, which, instead of telling upon the rebels, threw their shot and shell into our own ranks. This must have resulted from ignorance on their part as to our precise position, owing to the rapid changes on the field and in the intervening timber. The shells fell and burst on every side in the very midst of our men, several exploding near the commanding general and his staff. The effect of this unfortunate mistake was an order for the troops to retire, which they did in perfect order, taking position on the old picket-line." Gen. Stevens' division evacuated James Island on the 4th and 5th of July, and moved by transports to Hilton Head, where orders were received from the Executive of Pennsylvania designating the Round Head regiment as the One Hundredth of the line. On the 12th the regiment moved with its brigade to Beaufort, where immediately after its arrival it was embarked on the steamer "Merrimac," and sailed for Fortress Monroe, where it duly arrived, and on the 18th moved to a camp at Newport News. The officers and men knew they were destined to reinforce the armies in Virginia after the disasters of the Seven Days' fight, and they did not like the change, for they preferred to remain in the South where their laurels had been won. The command remained three weeks in camp at the News, and left on the 4th of August, moved up the bay and the Potomac to Acquia Creek; thence by railroad to the Rappahannock, and took part in the campaign of Gen. Pope, being desperately engaged in the second battle of Bull Run, August 29th, where "of the four hundred and fifty who had joined in the last charge but one hundred and ninety-eight came back unhurt." Among the killed of the regiment in this action was Capt. William F. Templeton, of the Washington County company. The fight was renewed on the following day, but without heavy fighting for the Round Heads. On the 1st of September they again fought bravely at Chantilly, losing thirty-six in killed and wounded. At South Mountain, September 14th, it lost thirty-six killed and wounded. It was present at the great battle of Antietam, but not engaged except in a skirmish in which it lost five killed and wounded. Soon afterwards its strength was increased about two hundred by the return of furloughed men and convalescents. Late in October the regiment marched to Weverton, and thence to Berlin, Md., where it crossed the Potomac into Virginia. It passed through. Lovettsville, Waterford, Slack's Mills, Rectortown, and Salem to Waterloo, where, on the 11th of November, it received the announcement of Gen. Burn-side's promotion to the command of the army. On the 15th it was at Sulphur Springs, and moved thence, by way of Fayetteville and Bealton Station, to a camp about ten miles east of the latter place, where was read the order forming the " right grand division" of the army, by uniting the Second and Ninth Corps, under command of Gen. E. V. Sumner. On the 18th the ,regiment marched towards the Rappahannock, and on the 19th reached Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, where the army was rapidly concentrating. Here it remained until the 12th of December, when it crossed the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg, but was not engaged in the great battle of the 13th. It recrossed on the 15th, and remained at Falmouth until Feb. 13, 1863, when it moved with the Ninth Corps (which had been detached from the Army of the Potomac) to Newport News, Va., and there camped, evidently waiting orders for a further movement, which the officers and men hoped might take them back to the Department of the South. The regiment remained in camp at Newport News for more than a month. On the 20th of March the regiment, being again under marching orders, embarked at Newport News, and leaving there on the 21st, arrived at Baltimore on the 22d, and proceeded thence by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Parkersburg, W. Va., reaching there on the 24th, and embarking on steamers, moved down the river, and landing in Kentucky, marched to Camp Dick Robinson, and afterwards to Columbia. About the 1st of June the Ninth Corps, which had been scattered in detachments at various points in Kentucky, was ordered to move to Mississippi to reinforce the army of Gen. Grant, then operating against Vicksburg. The Round Head regiment moved with the corps, going to Cairo, Ill., by rail, and then, embarking on boats on the Mississippi River, was transported to Haynes Bluff, Miss. From there it moved to Milldale, Miss., and remained there and at Flower Dale Church, near Vicksburg, until the operations against that stronghold ended in its capitulation, July 4th. Then it moved with the corps towards Jackson, Miss., in pursuit of the army of Johnston, who had, been hovering in Gen. Grant's rear, attempting to raise the siege of Vicksburg. In the several engagements which occurred from the 10th to the 16th of July the regiment participated, but suffered little law; and after the evacuation of Jackson, on the 16th, it. 332 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. returned to its former camp at Milldale, remaining there till August 6th, when it again took boat on the Mississippi and moved north with the corps. It reached Memphis in the night of the 11th, and passed on to Cairo and thence to Cincinnati, where it arrived on the 18th, and crossed the river to Covington, Ky. From Covington it moved by way of Nicholasville to Crab Orchard, Ky. On the 10th of September it was again on the march, and moved by way of Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, Tenn., reaching there on the 26th. The regiment was slightly engaged with the enemy at Blue Springs, October 10th, and, after considerable marching and countermarching, went into camp, October 29th, at Lenoir Station, where it remained most of the time until November 14th. It was then, with its division, ordered to Hough's Ferry, on the Holston River, to check the advance of Longstreet, who was reported moving up from Georgia towards Knoxville. He was found in strong force, and the Union troops retired before him, and, passing back through Lenoir, continued the retreat to Knoxville. Being hard pressed, however, a stand was made at Campbell's Station on the 16th, and a battle ensued, lasting from about one P.M. until dark. During the night the retreat was continued, and the regiment reached Knoxville in the morning of the 17th, after an almost continuous march of two days and three nights, including a battle of several hours' duration, moving over the worst of roads through mud and rain, and with less than quarter rations. Then followed the siege of Knoxville by Longstreet, which continued eighteen days, during all which time the Round Heads occupied the front line of works, and with other regiments suffered severely for lack of food and sufficient clothing. On Sunday, November 29th, two veteran Georgia brigades belonging to McLaws' rebel division made a furious assault on Fort Saunders (one of the principal works in the line of fortifications inclosing Knoxville), and were repulsed and driven back with a loss of nearly eight hundred men, the One Hundredth Pennsylvania being one of the regiments which received and repelled the assault. In the night of the 4th and 5th of December the enemy withdrew from before Knoxville. In the pursuit which followed, the Round Heads took part, but with no results and on the 18th it encamped at Blain's Cross-Roads. This proved to be the last camp which it occupied for any considerable length of time in Tennessee. It remained here about three weeks, and during that time (Jan. 1, 1864), " While subsisting on less than two ears of corn per day per man, the entire regiment, with the exception of twenty-seven, re-enlisted, to the number of three hundred and sixty-six, for a second term of three years, and soon started for home on veteran furlough." On the 8th of January, 1864, the veteranized command, under orders to report at Pittsburgh,, left its camp, and took the road across the Cumberland Mountains for the railroad at Nicholasville, Ky., nearly two hundred miles distant It reached that place in ten days, having made an average of nearly twenty miles a day over miserable roads and through the snow and ice of the mountain-passes. It reached Pittsburgh on the 8th of February. At The end of the specified time the men reassembled at the rendezvous (" Camp Copeland," near Pittsburgh), and with recruits which had been gathered in the mean time the regiment now numbered nine hundred and sixty-nine men. From Camp Copeland they moved to Annapolis, Md., to rejoin the Ninth Corps, which had, after the regiment had left Tennessee, been ordered East to reinforce the Army of the Potomac. At Annapolis the regiment was brigaded with the Third Maryland and Twenty-first Massachusetts as the Second Brigade, First Division. Col. Leasure was the brigade commander. The regiment remained at Annapolis until April 2 3d, when it moved to Washington, and thence across the Potomac to Bealton Station. On the opening of the campaign of 1864 it moved with the army on the 4th of May, crossed the Rapidan, and on the 6th was hotly engaged in the Wilderness, charging gallantly with the Twenty-first Massachusetts (supported by the Third Maryland), recapturing an earthwork (which had been before captured, but retaken by the enemy), taking a large number of prisoners, and receiving complimentary mention from Gen. Hancock for its share in the work of the day. On the 9th the regiment fought at the Ny River ; on the 12th at Spottsylvania Court-House; on the 28th at North Anna, and on the 2d of June in the general battle of Cold Harbor. Moving across the Chickahominy and the James the regiment arrived in front of Petersburg on the 16th of June, and on the following day participated in an assault on the Confederate fortifications. In the long series of operations which succeeded, extending through almost ten months until the time of the surrender, the One Hundredth Regiment fought well, and sustained its part honorably. It was engaged at the Mine Explosion, July 30th ; was in the actions at the Weldon Railroad, August 19th and 21st; at Poplar Grove Church, September 30th and October 2d; at Hatcher's Run, October 27th; at Fort Steadman, March 25, 1865 (in which action Lieut.-Col. Joseph H. Pentecost, of Washington County, was killed); and in the final assault on Petersburg, April 2d. The last-named action closed the battle experience of the Round Heads. A week later came the great surrender which ended the war. The One Hundredth Regiment marched to City Point; was transported thence to Washington, D. C., and there mustered out of service. Following is a list of officers and enlisted men of the company recruited in Washington County for the Round Head regiment: WAR OF THE REBELLION - 333 James Armstrong, capt., pro. to lieut.-col. Sept. 10, 1861; res. July 18, 1862. William F. Templeton, capt., pro. from lst lieut. Sept. 11, 1861 ; killed at Ball Run, Va., Aug. 29, 1862. Joseph H. Pentecost, capt.; wounded at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; pro. from 2d to lst lieut. Sept. 15, 1861 ; to capt. Sept. 9, 1862; to lieut. col. Oct. 16, 1864; killed March 25,1805, at Fort Steadman, Va. James W. Moutford, lst lieut., pro. from sergt. to let lieut. Sept. 9, 1862; wounded Sept. 14, 1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 3, 1864. James S. Stocking, lst lieut., pro. from corp. to sergt. Feb. 1,1863; to 1st sergt. Sept. 1,1864; to 1st lieut. Oct. 16, 1864; wounded, with Mae of arm, at Boydton Plank-Road Oct. 27, 1864; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 10,1865; veteran. William H. Billings, lst lieut., pro. to corp. Feb. 1, 1863 ; to sergt. Sept. 1,1864; to 1st sergt. Feb. 3, 1865; to 2d lieut. March 7, 1865; to lst lieut. May 12, 1865; must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. William Ocker, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; res. Nov. 26, 1862. Edwin W. Bauman, 2d lieut., pro. to 1st sergt. Nov. 29, 1861; to 2d lieut. Nov. 28, 1852; res. March 16, 1864. George M. Metzner, 2d lieut., pro. to corp. Feb. 1, 1863; to sergt. Oct. 26, 1864; to lst sergt. March 7, 1865; to 2d lieut. May 12, 1865; must. out with company July 24, 1865. William H. Underwood, lst sergt., must. in Jan. 1, 1862; pro. to lst sergt. May 12,1865 ; wounded Nov. 29, 1863, and June 2, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. James B. Kennedy, let sergt., pro. to 1st sergt. Nov. 28,1862; wounded Nov. 29, 1863; must. out Aug. 30, 1864, at expiration of term. Benjamin S. Stuart, lst sergt.: killed by accidental explosion of shell at Hilton Head, S. C., Nov. 28, 1861. William A. Gabby, sergt., pro. to sergt. Feb. 3, 1865; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Joseph H. Templeton, sergt., pro. to sergt. March 7, 1865 ; wounded July 30, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Robert B. Elliot, sergt., pro. to sergt., Nov. 29, 1861 ; must out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. M.D. Dewire, sergt., must. in Aug. 2, 1862 ; pro. to sergt. May 12, 1865; taken prisoner Oct. 2, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Eleven Alvey, sergt., pro. to sergt. Sept. 9, 1862; must. out Aug. 30, 1864, at expiration of term. John Cook, sergt.; disch. Jan. 12, 1863. Alexander Adams, corp., must. in Jan. 6, 1862 ; wounded May 6, 1864; pro. to corp. Oct. 26, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. James McIlvaine, corp., must. in March 14, 1862; wounded June 2,1864; pro. to corp. Feb. 3, 1865 ; must. out with company July 24, 1865. D. A. Templeton, corp., mustered In Feb. 26, 1864; pro. to corp. March 7,1865; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. John C. Ralston, corp., pro. to corp. March 7, 1865; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. William Claffey, corp., wounded June 16, 1862; prisoner from May 6, 1864, to March, 1865; pro. to corp. May 13, 1865; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Isaac H. Richmond, corp., mustered In Feb, 26, 1864; pro. to corp. May 20, 1865; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Morris B. McKeever, corp., wounded Aug. 19, 1864; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. William M. Horn, corp., wounded July 27, 1864; pro. to corp. Sept. 9, 1862; mustered out Aug. 30, 1864, at expiration of term. John W. Kerr, corp., pro. to corp. March 7, 1865; taken prisoner June 3,1862; also prisoner from May 6, 1864, to Feb. 27, 1865; discharged by G. O. June 8, 1865. Horace B. Durant, corp., pro. to asst. surg. March 23, 1864. John V. Brobat, corp., discharged Nov. 29, 1862. George B. Caldwell, corp., discharged for promotion Aug. 12, 1862. James P. Hays, musician, mustered out with company July 24, 1865, William H. Walker, musician, died Oct. 4,1861. Privates. Thomas Action, mustered in Feb. 23, 1864; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Joseph M. Aiken, mustered in Oct. 8,1861; wounded Aug. 29, 1862; discharged. James Barr, mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Thomas F. Boon, mustered out with company July 24, 1865. ¹ Date of muster in is Aug. 27, 1861, except as noted. - 22 - Stephen Billings, mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Moses M. Bell, must. In Dec. 1, 1861; mustered out with company July 24, 1865. Benjamin M. Best, mustered in Feb. 26, 1864; wounded at Poplar Grove Church, Va., Oct. 2, 1864; absent at muster out. John G. Brice, wounded Sept. 14, 1862; prisoner from July 30, 1864, to Feb. 27, 1865; disch May 23, to date March 4, 1865. Peter A. Blomberg, died at Beaufort, S. C., Feb. 15, 1862. Nelson Baker, must. in Sept. 13, 1861; disch. Sept. 16, 1862. John C. Caldwell, must. out with company July 24, 1866; veteran. John Clarke, wounded June 17, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Michael Curran, wounded at Petersburg July 30, 1864; absent at must. out; veteran. Thomas Cowboy, wounded June 17, 1864; must, out Sept. 9, 1864, at expiration of term. John Clemens, killed at Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864. Charles D. Chase. must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; Mach. Oct. 20, 1862. Tertius A. Durant, must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Samuel M. Decker, must. in March 18, 1864; taken prisoner July 30, 1864; mist. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Henry M. Dougan, must. in Sept. 13, 1861; pro. to adjt. Nov. 26, 1864; veteran. Thomas Donley, must. in Feb. 13, 1864; died at David's Island, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1864. William L. Durant, must. in Sept. 9, 1861; disch. Jan. 10, 1863. James C. Eckels, taken prisoner Aug. 30, 1862; deserted. Samuel P. Ewing, died Sept. 19, 1861, at Washington, D. C. Sylvester G. Fowler, must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Samuel M. Fowler, wounded June 17, 1864; moat. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Leonidas A. Fowler, must. in Feb. 8, 1865 ; must, out with company July 24, 1865. John D. France, wounded Sept. 17, 1862; Mach. and re-enl. ; wounded Match 25, 1865; must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. William Greer, must. in Feb. 13, 1864; wounded at Weldon Railroad Aug. 19, 1864; ditch. by G. O. Aug. 16, 1865. Thomas Greer, must. in Feb. 29, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. William Grey, wounded Aug. 29, 1862; killed at Petersburg June 17, 1864; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Va., Div. A, Sec. C, Grave 272 ; veteran. Isaac R. W. Garretson, must. in Sept. 16, 1861 ; killed Nov. 29, 1863; buried In National Cemetery, Knox vitro, Tenn., grave 114. Daniel Hall, wounded at Weldon Railroad Aug. 19, 1864; absent at must. out; veteran. Jeremiah L. Herten, must. in Feb. 23, 1865; clinch. June 20,1866, for wounds received in action. Louis Hager, wounded Aug. 29, 1862; Jailed at Petersburg July 30,1864; veteran. Horatio Hamilton, must. in Feb. 13,1864; died June 20, 1864, of wounds received in action. John E. Howe, must. to Feb. 11, 1864; died at Pittsburgh, Pa. Jacob Hartsein, died at Beaufort, S. C., April 5, 1862. Alexander Howell, must. in Sept. 13, 1861 ; died at Beaufort, S. C., Dec. 19, 1861. Charles Beer, killed at Bull Run Aug. 29, 1862. Thomas Hutchinson, disch. March 1, 1803. James Hart, ditch. Dec. 19, 1862. George O. Jones, must. in Feb. 26, 1864; wounded May 6, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. John S. Jeffrey, must. In Feb. 23, 1861; wounded May 12, 1864; Must out with company July 24, 1865. Robert D. Jobes, must. in Feb. 11, 1864; captured; died at Andersonville Aug. 16, 1864; grave 5871. John S. Johnston, must. in Sept. 9, 1861; died. Oct. 3, 1861. Alexander Kerns, wounded at Petersburg June 17, 1864; arm amputated; absent at must. out; veteran John B. Kendall, must. In Dec. 2, 1861 ; wounded May 6, 1864; must out with company July 24, 1866; veteran. Ferdinand Kluvis, Disch. Oct. 15, 1862. John Klotzbalker, taken prisoner June 3, 1862; disch. Jan 11, 1863. John W. Langlitt, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1866 leg amputated; absent at muster out; veteran. John W. Koontz, taken prisoner Aug. 27, 1862; Disch. Jan. 11, 1863. Addison Liggett, must. in March 8, 1865 ; must. out with company July 24, 1864. 334 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Henry H. Linley. must. in May 27, 1863; died Feb. 14, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Ky., Sect. D, Grave 88. John W. Lavery, must. in Feb. 27, 1864; died of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865. James Lowrie, died at Beaufort, 8. C., Dec. 30, 1861. William Lange, disch. March 23,1862. Elijah Linsley, disch April 19, 1862. Simon W. Lewis, must. in Dec. 6, 1861 ; killed accidentally by falling off cars, between Covington and Paris, Ky. Samuel J. Melvin, must. in Oct. 21, 1862; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Josiah Mullen, must. in Aug. 27,1861 ; wounded Dec. 1, 1863, and June 17, 1864 ; must. out with company July 24, 1965 ; veteran. William T. Magill, must. in Aug. 31, 1861; must out at expiration of term. Julius P. Miller, must, in Oct. 8, 1861 ; must. out at expiration of term. Enoch Mountz, must. in Feb. 16, 1864; wounded May 6, 1864; disch. by general order June 2, 1865. Daniel B. Mowery, disch,. Aug. 5, to date July 24,1866; veteran. John Moloney, disch. Dec. 19, 1863. Alexander C. McKeever, absent (sick) at must. out. Joseph H. McGill, wounded June 17, 1864; must. out with company July 24,1865. Ebenezer B. McElroy, must. in Feb. 23, 1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Maxwell K. McCanalin, must. in Feb. 23,1864; wounded June 17,1864; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Benjamin F. McClure, mast. in Feb. 23, 1864; wounded at Petersburg July 31, 1864; absent at muster out. George W. McFarland, must. in Feb.29,1864; absent (sick) at muster out. George W. McClelland, must. in Aug. 31, 1864; taken prisoner June 2, 1864; never heard of afterward. John L. McCullough, must. in Aug. 29, 1862; wounded July 30, 1864; disch. by G. O. May 21, 1865. N. N. McCullongh, must. in Feb. 26,1864; wounded June 2,1864; disch. by special order Jan. 8. 1865. Samuel McCnllough, must. in Feb. 27, 1864; prisoner from May 6, 1864, to Feb. 27,1865 ; disch. by G. O. July 5,1865. James McKeever, Insist. in Feb. 23, 1864 ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps by special order dated Sept. 22,18t14; disch. by G. O. Sept. 29,1865. Jacob L. McCullough, must. in Aug. 31,1861; killed at Cold Harbor June 2, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Sec. B. Joseph E. McCullough, must. in March 31, 1864 ; wounded accidentally June 26, 1864; died July 19, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. John B. McKeever, must. in Oct. 18, 1861; taken prisoner May 6,1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 30, 1864; grave 4407. Daniel McCann, must. in Aug. 27, 1861; disch., date unknown. Charles B. McCollum, trans. to regt. band; disch. Thomas McKeever, wounded June 3, 1862; drowned Aug. 12, 1862; not on muster-out roll. Andrew McPeak, disch, April 5, 1862. John R. McClure, must. in March 14, 1862; disch., date unknown. H. C. Odenbaugh, killed Sept. 14, 1862; buried in National Cemetery at Antietam, Sec. 26, Lot -, Grave 305. Samuel Potter, must. in Feb. 29, 18l4; taken prisoner March 25, 1865; must. out with company July 24, 1865. Morgan Pyle, must. in Dec. 9, 1861 ; disch. Jan. 26, to date Jan. 15, 1865, at expiration of term. Jacob C. Pry, wounded Sept. 14,1862 ; disch. Feb. 4, 1863. Franklin A. Rose, must, in Aug. 26,1861; must. out with company July 24, 1865. George W. Robertson, must. in Feb. 24, 1864; captured at Petersburg July 30, 1804; died at Danville Sept. 16, 1864. Theodore Robertson, must. in March 4, 1865 ; must. out with company July 24, 1565. Simon S. Russell, wounded Aug. 29, 1862, and died Sept. 8, 1862. Frederick Rau, must. in Feb.26,1862; died Sept. 8, 1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. George W. Smith, must. out with company July 24, 1865. William S. Simcox, killed at Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865; buried in National Cemetery, Meade Station, Va. David Shepherd, must. in Sept. 13.1861; disch., date unknown. Isaac N. Stanger, must in March 14, 1862 ; disch. to receive promotion Nov. 19, 1862. George W. Thompson, must. in Dec. 6, 1862; must. out with company July 24, 1865; veteran. Samuel F. Thompson, wounded Aug. 3, 1864, and at Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865; absent at muster out; veteran. James B. Thompson, must. in Aug. 31, 1861; wounded and captured June 2, 1864 ; died at Andersonville, Ga., Ang. 17,1864; grave 5966. T. B. Templeton, must. in Feb. 23,1864; died at Washington, D. C., Aug. 19, 1864 ; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Andrew Thompson, wounded Sept. 14, 1862 ; died Nov. 3, 1863; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island. Aaron Templeton, killed Nov. 29, 1883 ; buried in cemetery at Buffalo Village, Pa. Robert J. Taggert, disch., date unknown. John Wherry, killed at Poplar Springs Church, Va., Oct. 2,1864 ; veteran. Jackson Wimer, must. in Feb. 26, 1864; captured; died at Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 24, 1864 ; grave 9634. John L. Weirich, died at Beaufort, S. C., date unknown. CHAPTER XXVI. WAR OF THE REBELLION.-(Continued.) One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment.-The One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment of Pennsylvania, of which the honorable record extends through the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac from 1862 to 1865, contained five companies raised in Washington County, one company from Greene, one from Mercer, and three from Beaver County. The Washington County companies were designated in the organization of the regiment as follows: "C" Company (Capt. David Acheson), "D" Company (Capt. Silas Parker), " E" Company (Capt. Aaron T. Gregg), " G" Company (Capt. John Fraser), "K" Company (Capt. William A. F. Stockton). The several companies rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, where, on the 21st and 22d of August and 4th of September, 1862, they were mustered into the .United States service for three years. On the 8th of September they were joined in the organization of the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, of which the field-officers were: Colonel, Richard P. Roberts, of Beaver County; Lieutenant-Colonel, John Fraser, of Washington County (promoted to that grade from captain of Company " G") ; Major, Thomas B. Rogers, of Mercer County. On the day following the organization the regiment was ordered to the field, and on the 10th of September it moved from the rendezvous and proceeded to Parkton Station, Md., on the Northern Central Railway. With headquarters at that place, it was posted in detachments along the railroad, to guard the line and keep it open, as the Confederate army was then in Maryland, and threatening Baltimore and its communications. On this, duty the regiment remained until after the battle of Antietam and the retreat of the enemy across the Potomac. From Maryland the regiment was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac on the Rappahannock in Virginia, and arrived there on December 16th, three days after the great battle of Fredericksburg. It was assigned to duty in the Third Brigade, First Division, of the famous Second Army Corps, and went into winter-quarters near Falmouth, where, with the exception WAR OF THE REBELLION - 335 of a few days spent in the historic "mud march" of Burnside's army, it remained until the opening of the spring campaign of 1863. On the 28th of April it moved out with the other commands of the army, and crossed the Rappahannock, bound on the campaign of Chancellorsville. In that ill-starred campaign this regiment, with its brigade, took a brave part during the progress of the great battle, from May 1st to 4th, most of the time in line of battle and under fire during the day, and throwing up intrenchments by night. On the 3d, for more than four hours it sustained attack after attack by the enemy's infantry, and a heavy and incessant fire of his artillery. The assaults were made with the greatest fierceness and determination on the part of the enemy, but were all successfully repelled. During the 4th and 5th of May the regiment held its position on the field, frequently under heavy artillery fire, but not engaged in any general assault by infantry. In the morning of the 6th the brigade recrossed the Rappahannock and returned to the previous camping-place near Falmouth. In June following, the regiment marched with the other commands of the Army of the Potomac in pursuit of the Confederate forces, then moving to the invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. With Hancock's corps, of which it was a part, it crossed the Potomac on the 24th of June, moved rapidly through Maryland, and reached the field of Gettysburg on the morning of the 2d of July, the battle having been opened by Reynolds on the previous day. The Second Corps took position on the left centre of the line of battle of the army. The Third Corps, joining it on the left, was fiercely assaulted and driven back. A division of the Second Corps was sent in aid of the Third. Two brigades of the succoring division went into the fight and were driven back with great loss. Then Gen. Zook's brigade (in which was the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment) was ordered in. It advanced rapidly across a wheatfield, and Zook fall almost immediately, mortally wounded. The command of the brigade then fell on Col. Roberts, of the One Hundred and Fortieth. The brigade charged with the greatest impetuosity, and drove the enemy from his sheltered position beyond the wheatfield, but could not hold the ground after gaining it, and was compelled to retire. In carrying the position and attempting to hold it, the fighting was terrific, the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment losing, in killed and wounded, two hundred and sixty-one, among the former being Capt. David Acheson of "D" Company, and Second Lieut. Alexander M. Wilson of Company "G," both of Washington County. Col. Roberts was also among the killed. The regiment, now reduced by the losses of the day to less than one-half its effective strength, was not again ordered into the thickest of the fight at Gettysburg, but remained on the left centre under a heavy artillery fire during the night and following day. The command of the regiment now devolved on Lieut.-Col. John Fraser, who was promoted to colonel in place of Col. Roberts, who was killed in the charge as before mentioned. In the later movements of the Army of the Potomac during the summer and fall of 1863,—the crossing of the Potomac, the advance into Virginia, the operations along the line of the Rapidan, and the fruitless campaign of Mine Run, which closed the year,—the regiment moved with its corps and performed such duty as it was assigned to, being slightly engaged at Bristow Station, October 14th, taking part in skirmishing at Mine Run, and at several other points, and suffering a small loss, but participating in no general engagement. It went into winter-quarters with the army on the line of the Rapidan. On the opening of the campaign of 1864 it moved from its camp on the night of the 3d of May, crossed the Rapidan at Ely's Ford and entered the Wilderness, where on the 5th it stood in battle line in front of %he first strong position of the Confederate forces. It soon became heavily engaged and suffered severe loss, but held its position through the night. On the 6th and 7th it lay under an artillery fire, but was not engaged. Advancing with its corps it crossed the Po River on the 9th, where works were thrown up, and where it remained till the night of the 11th, when it moved with the corps towards the left, in the direction of Spottsylvania Court-House. At two o'clock in the morning of the 12th the troops had reached the front of the position, where the enemy lay behind a triple line of very strong defenses. At daybreak the men of the Second Corps moved forward to the assault, covered to some extent by a dense fog which lay over thicket and glade. The enemy was partially surprised, but stood resolutely to the work of defense, and the Union loss was heavy before the first line of works was carried. At the second line the Confederates rallied, fought desperately, and held their own. The next day the enemy attacked again and again to recover the line lost on the 12th, but without avail. Fighting continued, but without a general battle, until the 18th, when the heroic leader of the Second Corps again moved his whole force against the Confederate works and a tremendous conflict ensued, but the enemy's position proved too strong and was too heroically defended to be carried even by the veterans of Hancock's corps. Through all these operations in front of Spottsylvania the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment sustained its part nobly and well, and at the close of the last day of battle at this point the regiment had lost about one hundred and eighty men since it plunged into the Wilderness in the morning of the 4th of May. On the night of the 20th the regiment with its brigade and corps moved quietly away from the enemy's front and marched towards the North Anna River, which stream was crossed on the 23d, and after some maneuvering the march was resumed southward. A severe action was fought at Tolopotomoy Creek, where the regiment sustained some loss. Again 336 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. it fought bravely in the dreadful battle of Cold Harbor, losing about sixty men, and bringing its total loss to over two hundred and fifty since the opening of the campaign. From Cold Harbor the army crossed the Chickahominy and marched towards the southeast, having Petersburg for its objective point. The regiment with its brigade crossed the James River in the night of the 14th or early morning of the 15th of June, and in the afternoon of the 16th took part in a general assault on the bristling lines of the enemy in front of Petersburg. The Second Corps renewed the attack on the 17th, and forced the enemy to yield some of his outer works. From this time the history of the investment of the Confederate works encircling the city of Petersburg, Va., is a dreary story of persistent fighting and slaughter such as is seldom found in the annals of warfare; a story which shows that the Southern leaders and soldiers were determined to fight and die to the last man before they would yield this their last stronghold, and that the Union general and his army had resolved never to recross the James until the heroic Confederates had laid down their arms, and the Stars and Bars had been lowered from above every hostile parapet along the Appomattox. For many weary months of blood and terror each army struggled to make good their resolves. Day by day the Union lines were drawn closer and tighter around the doomed citadel. No week passed without witnessing a brave and desperate assault on the grim earthworks on right, left, or centre. Often the Confederates yielded, but sometimes the assailants were repulsed and beaten. But when the Southern men were driven from one line, they bravely stood for battle at the next as defiantly and with as much confidence and courage as if they had never known aught but victory. At last there came a time when the veterans who had stood against McClellan at Williamsburg, at Fair Oaks, at Malvern Hill, South Mountain, and Antietam, who had repelled Burnside's hosts at Marye's Heights, had defeated " Fighting Joe Hooker" at Chancellorsville, and joined in Pickett's earthquake charge at Gettysburg, stood gathered together within their inner works at Petersburg, hardly outside the limits of the city. They were willing to stay and die there, but their general refused to sacrifice them without hope of ultimate success, so he withdrew from the works and retreated with his forces towards the southwest. The Union army pursued, and a few days later the strife was closed by the surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox. During all these long months of suffering and carnage on the fiery circle around Petersburg, the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment participated in the various movements of its brigade and division, and performed its part honorably and well, laboring in the trenches and on the fortifications, charging with the assaulting columns, and making long marches from point to point by night and day. It took part in the engagements at Jerusalem Plank-Road, Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, Boydton Plank-Road, Poplar Spring Church, Ream's Station (two actions), Hatcher's Run, Dabney's Mills, Sutherland's Station, Sailor's Creek, and at Farmville, where, on the 7th of April, 1865, the regiment fought its last battle. Two days later came the historic surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, which virtually closed the war. The regiment remained a short time in Virginia, then moved northward, and was mustered out of service at Washington on the 31st of May. The One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment had among its officers Gen. Harry Bingham. member of Congress from Philadelphia, who commanded Company G, until Gen. Hancock promoted him to hie staff and made him judge-advocate, and who rode with the general along the wavering line at Gettysburg just before it received and, repulsed Longstreet's celebrated charge; W. S. Shallenberger, member of Congress from Beaver, who was adjutant of the regiment; Capt. George Shallenberger, lately superintendent of the State Reform School; Capt. James Darragh, of Beaver, well known in Washington; John L. Gow, Esq., late prothonotary of Washington County; Capt. Harah, late prosecuting attorney of Beaver County. Dr. J. W. Wishart, of Pittsburgh, was its surgeon, and was chief surgeon of the First Division of the Second Corps at the close of the war. The Rev. J. L. Milligan, since chaplain of the Western Penitentiary, was chaplain of the One Hundred and Fortieth. Capt. W. N. Paxton and First Lieut. R. B. Parkinson, of Company B, and J. W. Wiley, Esq., of the firm of Slagle & Wiley, three Pittsburgh lawyers, served in the regiment from the time it entered the service until it was mustered out at the close of the war. R. B. Parkinson served for two and a half years as a private, and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, December, 1864, and served as such until the regiment was mustered out. He was one of a few Pittsburghers who enlisted in Company G as it passed through that city on its way to the front. The Rev. John R. Paxton, now of Washington, D. C., while attending Jefferson College, a boy of seventeen years, enlisted in Company G, went out with the regiment, served to the close, returned to college, graduated, became pastor of one of the leading churches in Washington, D. C., and is now pastor of the West Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church in the city of New York. Lists are given below of officers and enlisted men serving in the five Washington County companies of the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, viz.: COMPANY C.¹ David Acheson, capt., killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Isaac N. Vance, capt., wounded, with lose of arm, at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; pro. from lst lieut. Sept. 23,1863; Disch. on marg. certif. Jan. 12, 1864. ¹ Date of muster in is Aug. 22, 1862, except where noted. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 337 Alexander W. Acheson, capt., pro. from sergt. to lst sergt. July 2, 1863; to lst lieut. Sept. 22, 1863 ; to capt. Jan 30, 1864; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12,1864; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 9, 1864. John M. Ray, capt., prof from sergt. to lst sergt. Sept. 23, 1863; to 2d lieut. Nov. 2, 1863; to lst lieut. Jan. 30, 1864; to adjt. Dec. 10, 1864; to capt. Dec. 13, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. W. J. Cunningham, lst lieut., pro. from sergt. to 1st sergt. Nov. 3, 1863; to let lieut. Dec. 13, 1863; killed at Farmville, Va., April 7, 1865. Charles L. Linton, 2d lieut., pro. to capt. Co. D May 1, 1863. Robert R. Reed, 2d lieut., pro. from lst sergt. May 14, 1863; died at Georgetown, D. C., July 10, 1863. James Blake, lst sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. Sept. I, 1863; to lst sergt. Dec. 13, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. J. D. Campbell, 1st sergt., pro. from sergt. May 1, 1863; killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. James McFarland, sergt., pro. from private May 1, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 186:3 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. John S. Martin, sergt., pro. from corp. Nov. 11, 1864; wounded at Po Raver May 10, 1864; moat. out with company May 31, 1865. Alexander F. Hulfert, sergt., pro. to corp. Sept. 23, 1862; to sergt. Nov. 10,1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. William Vankirk, sergt., pro. to corp. Sept. 23, 1861; to sergt. Nov. 10, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Eli H. Linton, sergt., must. in Sept. 4, 1862; pro. from corp. Sept. 22, 1863; to lieut. 39th Regt. U. S. C. T., April 9, 1864; to capt. Aug. 14, 1815; must. out Dec. 4, 1865. James P Sayer, sergt., pro. from corp. Nov. 2,1863; wounded four times at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certif,,Oct. 25, 1864. John W. Wiley, sergt., must. in Feb. 29, 1864; com. 2d lieut. *Dec. 18, 1864; not must.; pro. to quarter master sergt. Dec. 23, 1863. Richard Jones, corp., pro. to corp. Slay 1, 1863; wounded at Wilderness May 5, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. May 31, 1866. William J. Radcliff, corp., pro. to corp. July 14, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Hugh B. McNeil, corp., pro. to corp. July 14, 1864; wounded at North Anna River May 23, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Philip Alcooper, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Biles A. Sanders, corp., pro. to corp. Nov. 10, 1864; wounded at Tolopotomoy, Va., May 31, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Aaron D. Gunn, corp., pro. to corp. Dec. 13, 1864; wounded at the battle of the Wilderness May, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1805. John Smalley, Corp., pro. to corp. Dec. 13,1864; wounded at Tolopotomoy May 31, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. John Colley, Jr., corp., disch. on surg. certif. June 18, 1863. Samuel Fergus, corp., pro. to 2d lieut. 27th Regt. U. S. C. T. Nov. 16, 1864 ; must out Sept. 21,1865. David L. Rubble, corp., captured at Chancellorsville May 1, 1863; wounded at North Anna River May 23, 1864; disch. by G. O. May 15, 1865. William Horton, corp., pro. to corp. May 1, 1863; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. E. C. Brown, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1863; killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. William Stockwell, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1863 ; killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5,1864. Walter D. Cleaver, corp., must. out with company May 31, 1865. Privates. William Armstrong, captured at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; died at Richmond Dec. 1, 1863. William Amon, must. in Jan. 28, -864 ; killed at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, 1864. Jerry K. Bishop, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 3, 1968. John Blair, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; Disch. on surg. certif. March 11, 1864. Samuel Baird, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps March 16, 1864. James Baird, trans. to Ind. Battery C, Pa. Artillery, May, 1863. John Billies, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 15, 1864. Henry J. Boatman, pro. to sergt. maj. Sept. 12, 1862. Julius S. Black, must. in Feb. 13, 1864; wounded at Todd's Tavern May 8, 1864; trans. to Co. D, 53d Regt., May 30, 1865. Samuel Bonnet, must. in Feb. 8, 1864; wounded at Po River May 10, 1864; trans. to Co. D, 53d Regt., May 30,1865. Lewis M. Cleaver, wounded at Tolopotomoy May 31,1884; must, out with company May 31, 1865. James B. Clemens, captured June 8, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. July 17, 1865. Ellis J. Cole, died at Philadelphia August 2d of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Isaac Cleaver, Jr., died June 20, 1864. Samuel Curry, captured at Tolopotomoy May 31, 1864; died at Andersonville Sept. 2, 1864 (grave 7617). Alexander S. Duncan, must. out with company May 31, 1865. John A. Dickey, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863, and at Deep Bottom Aug. 16, 1864; disch. by G. O. May 15,1865. John W. Duncan, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Nov. 13, 1864. Joseph M. Dye, trans. to Ind. Battery C, Pa. Artillery, May, 1863. Daniel Dowling, died in Washington Co., Pa., Nov. 3, 1863. J. N. Dowling, killed at North Anna River, Va., May 23, 1864. Benton Devon, killed at North Anna River, Va., May 23, 1864. James Eckert, must. in Jan. 28, 1864; killed at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864. Nehemiah Gilbert, wounded at Gettysburg July 2,1863; Disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 20, 1864. Mason Hart, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Thomas Hardesty, trans. to Ind. Battery C, Pa. Art., May, 1863. Lewis Henry, died at Harrisburg, Pa., date unknown, of wounds received at Petersburg June 10, 1864. William Howard, must. in Sept. 5, 1862; trans. to another regiment. Clark Irey, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863, and at Wilderness May 5,1864; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps; disch. by G. O. July 19, 1865. John J. Jordan, trans. to U. S. N., date unknown. Thomas Jones, killed at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. David Jones, must. In July 1, 1863. James S. Kelley, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Daniel L. Keeny, died at Philadelphia, August 20, of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Thomas Lucas, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Thomas W. Long, died August 20, of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864. Robert Lindsay, captured at Gettysburg July 2,1863; died at Richmond Nov. 12, 1863; burial record, Nov. 22, 1863. John Morn, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Samuel Mills, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James Martin, disch. on surg. certif. March 18, 1863. Tillinghast Mowry, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 15, 1864. Morton Mumbower, must. in Jan. 28, 1864; trans. to. Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 15, 1864. Newton Mumbower, must. in Jan. 28, 1864; trans. to Co..D, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. Anthony Mull, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Richard Miller, died July 26, of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; buried in National Cemetery, Sec. B, Grave 42. John E. McCullough, absent, sick, at must. out Thomas McCune, disch. by G. O. June 3, 1866. David McCoy, disch. by G. O. June 3, 1865. Frank B. McNear, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 15, 1864. Daniel McClain, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Aug. 1, 1863. John McConn, died at Wheeling, W. Va., May 30, 1864, of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. George Norris, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3,1863; must. out with company May 31,1865. Alvin Newman, died at Philadelphia August 13th of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. John Pattison, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Andrew Plants, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Esau Powell, captured at Tolopotomy May 31, 1864; must, out with company May 31, 1865. William H. Pollock, wounded at Deep Bottom Aug. 16, 1864 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. William Pollock, mutt. out with company May 31, 1865. William B. Poet, must. in Feb. 27, 1863; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864; tram. to Co. D, 53d Regiment, May 30, 1865. Albertus Patterson, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Jackson Pratt, killed at North Anna River May 23, 1864. Robert Patterson, must. in July 1, 1863. Charles Quail, captured at Cold Harbor, Va., June 6, 1864; Sisal. by G. O. June 14, 1866. 338 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Charles Rentz, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Samuel Rettig, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Henry W. Richards, must. out with company May 31,1865. Austin M. Richards, wounded at Wilderness May, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 9th Regt. Vet. Res. Corp, Jan. 10, 1865; disch. by G. O. June 24, 1865. William L. Ruble, must. in Feb. 27, 1864; trans. to Co. D, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. William Ravenscraft, wounded at Tolopotomoy May 18,1864; trans. to 53d Regt. P. V. May 30, 1865. Gales Rose, died May 29th of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864; burled in National Cemetery, Arlington. John Stockwell, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Presley H. Shipley, wounded at Gettysburg July 2,1863; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. James S. Stockwell, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 30, 1863. William H. Simpson, must. in Feb. 16, 1864; trans. to Co. D, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. Jonathan Tucker, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Simeon Vankirk, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Colin Waltz, wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863, and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 19, 1863. Hugh Weedham, must. in Feb. 26, 186.5; trans. to 53d Regt. P.V. May 30, 1865. Samuel Wise, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; trans. to Ind. Bat. C, Pa. Art., Dec, 17, 1863. James Wise, killed at Tolopotomoy, Va., May 3, 1863. Isaac Wall, killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Jefferson Yonker, wounded at Gettyssurg, Pa., July 2, 1863; trans. to 96th Co., Vet. Res. Corps, date unknown; disch. Aug. 2, 1865, expiration of term. COMPANY D.¹ Silas Parker, capt., disch. on surg. certif. April 16, 1863. Charles L. Linton, capt., pro. from 2d lieut. Co. C May 1, 1863 ; wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864; disch. on surg. certif. May 17, 1865. James Mannon, 1st lieut., disch. Jan. 16, 1863. James B. Vandyke, 1st lieut., wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; pro. from lst sergt. to 2d lieut. Nov. 2, 1863; to 1st lieut. Nov. 6,1863; disch. on Surg. certif. May 6, 1804. J. F. Bell, lst lieut., pro. from corp. to sergt. June 1, 1863 ; to 1st sergt. Nov. 1, 1863; to 1st lieut. July 20, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Matthias Minton, 2d lieut., disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 19, 1863. James M. Hughes, 1st sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. Nov.1,1863; to 1st sergt. July 20, 1864; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Henry C. Swart, sergt., wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864 ; absent at muster out. John Closser, sergt., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1863; to sergt. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Charles Guttery, sergt., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1863; to sergt. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. John L. Hathaway, sergt., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1862; to sergt. Oct. 24, 1864; wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 2, 1864; absent at must. out. Isaac Sharp, sergt., pro. from corp. Nov.1, 1863; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Moses McCollum, sergt., died at Washington, D. C., May 17th, of wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Cephas D. Sharp, sergt., died August 2d of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Luster Beabout, sergt., died at Pittsburgh September 1st of wounds receive at Tolopotomoy, May 31, 1864. John A. Black, corp., captured at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; disch. by G. O. June 19,1865. George S. Moore, corp., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1863 ; trans. to Signal Corps May 10, 1864. Zechariah Baker, corp., pro, to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; absent at must, out. Nathan B. Evans, corp., prisoner from July 2d to Dec. 28, 1863 ; pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 21, 1865. John Kelly, corp., pro. to corp. Jan. 1, 1865; must. out with company May 31, 1865. ¹ Date of muster in is Aug. 22, 1862, except where noted. James Miles, corp., pro. to corp. Jan. 1,1865; must. out with company May 31,1865. Leroy Woods Day, corp., disch. on Surg. certif. Jan. 4,1864. Franklin F. James, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1863 ; wounded at Petersburg; disch. on surg. certif. April 1,1865. Jacob McAfee, corp., pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1863; disch. by G. O. March 18, 1865. Calvin Ramsey, corp., must. in Sept. 4,1862; trans. to Vet. Res. Corp June 18, 1863. James A. Beabout, Corp., killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2,1863. Beden Beabout, corp., died July 10th of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Samuel B. Evans, corp., pro. to corp. Jan. 1, 1864; died at Washington, D. C., June 13th, of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Parker Hamilton, musician, must. out with company May 31,1865. Alps Cunningham, musician, dish. by G. O. Feb. 20,1865. James McCleary, musician, must. in Feb. 26,18644 ; trans. to Co. H, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. Privates. Robert Birch, disch. September 19th for wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Ira Baldwin, disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 18, 1863. William Beabout, disch. on surg. certif. May 23, 1863. Sample S. Bell, disch. on Surg. certif., date unknown. Hazlett Bell, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 ; trans. to 37th Co., 24 Bat. Vet. Res. Corps, March 16, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 28, 1865. Enoch Baker, captured at Bowling Green, Va., June 2, 1862. Abner L. Birch, died at Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 4, of wounds received at Wilderness, May 5, 1864. James Birch, must. in Sept. 4, 1862; died May 12, of wounds received at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. Miller Blatchly, died at Beverly, N. J., Oct. 4, 1864; burial record, Oct. 9,1864. John L. Brannan, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 11, 1864. Charles Cunningham, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 22, 1864. Levi Curry, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 8, 1863. Silas M. Crispin, must. in Sept. 4, 1862 ; wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 10,1865. Milton Clutter, died at Washington March 20, 1864; burial record, Feb, 20, 1864; buried in Harmony Burial-Grounds, D. C. John W. Cooper, died at Prosperity, Pa., Nov. 7,1884.  Andrew Curry, wounded and captured at Chancellorsville May 1,1868; died, date unknown; buried in Lawton National Cemetery, Mills; Ga., Section A, Grave 85. Wilson Doty, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. by G. O. May 25, 1865. Lewis Dilly, died July 19 of wound's received at Gettysburg July 2,1863; buried in National Cemetery. Thomas Doty, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12,1864. Joseph E. Evans, disch. by G. O. May 13, 1865. Abner Enox, disch. on Surg. certif. Oct. 14, 1863. Enoch French, disch. by special order Sept 14, 1863. Jacob Frazer, trans. to Ind. Battery C, Pa. Art., Dec. 17, 1863. Thomas Glenn, must, in Sept. 4,1862; trans. to Ind. Battery O, Pa. Art Dec. 17, 1863. James L. Gunin, must. in Feb. 29, 1864; not accounted for. James Hathaway, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864 disch. by G. O. May 30, 1865. James Hilton, disch. on Surg. certif. March 31, 1863. Robert D. Hatfield, must. in Dec. 29,1863 ; trans to Co. H, 9th Regt. Vet Res. Corps, Jan. 18, 1865 ; disch. by G. O. July 21, 1865. Jacob Hatfield, died at Washington, D. C., Dec. 31,1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Jonathan W. Hughes, died at Amity, Pa., Nov.5, 1864. James A. Jackson, disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 31, 1863. Samuel Johnson, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 8, 1863. Charles H. Kaine, must. out with company May 31, 1866. George Keeny, must. in Sept. 14, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. March 1863. Amos Kenstrick, disch. on surg. certif. March 23, 1863. Cornelius D. B. Kirk, disch. by G. O. May 15, 1865. Cyrus Lindley, must. out with company May 31, 1865. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 339 Isaac Lacock, wounded with loss of leg at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. on surg. certif. Oct. 25, 1864. William Lloyd, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 3, 1863. John W. Lewis, died at Pittsburgh July 13, of wounds received at Cold Harbor June 1, 1864. Milton Lindley, must. in Nov. 20, 1862. James Lore, must. in March 14, 1864; not accounted for. Enoch G. Martin, must. in Feb. 27, 1864; wounded Jan. 4, 1865; disch. by G. O. June 2, 1865. Lyman S. Miller, must. in Feb. 26, 1864; trans. to Co. H, 53d Regt., P. V., date unknown. Joseph Meeks, captured at Bristow Station, Va., Oct. 14, 1863 ; died at Annapolis, Md., May 13, 1865. James M. Miller, must. in Sept. 4, 1862; died at Washington, D. C., May 20, of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington. James Montgomery, died July 15, of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. John B. McDonald, must. out with company May 31,1865. Winder McKinney, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Nov. 1, 1862. Albert G. Parker, disch. on surgt. certif. May 31, 1863. Jackson W. Paden, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. Philo Paul, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. Peter Phillips, died May 10, 1864, of wounds received at Po River, Va. Harvey Pope, died at Windmill Point, Pa., Feb. 2, 1863. John Quinn, must. in Dec. 29, 1863; trans. to Co. H, 533 Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. George Redd, must. in Sept. 4, 1861; must. out with company May 31, 1865. William Runtan, died at Washington, D. C., June 10, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington. John Sibert, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Joseph Sherrick, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Joseph Swihart, must, out with company May 31, 1865. Harvey Swart, must. out with company May 31,1865. James Sibert, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 24, 1863. Andrew J. Swart, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 19,1884. John Swartz, must. in Feb. 27, 1862; trans. to Co. H, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865; disch. by G. O. June 17, 1865. Simon Sanders, must. in Sept. 4,1862; killed at Gettysburg, July 2,1863. Emmet Smalley, killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5,1864. Amos Swart, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. John W. Sanders, died at Potomac Creek May 16th, of wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. George W. Teegarden, wounded at Five Forks April,1865; must. out with company May 31, 1865. William Teegarden, died at Washington, D. C., June 7th, of wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House, May 12, 1864. Andrew J. Vankirk, disch. April 15, 1865, for wounds received at Spottsylvania Court-House, May 12, 1864. William Watson, must. in Sept. 4, 1862 ; absent, sick, at muster out. John A. Wright, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3,1863 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Harvey Watson, captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. by S. O. April 1, 1865. Christ. C. Welsh, disch. by S. O. April 1, 1865. William Williams, must. in Sept. 4, 1862; died at Alexandria, Va., Dec.18, 1864. Jacob Yoders, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 10, 1865. COMPANY E.¹ Aaron T. Gregg, capt., must in Aug. 23, 1862; disch, on surg. certif. June 5, 1863. Irvin F. Sansom, capt., must. in Aug. 26, 1862; pro. from 2d to 1st lieut. March 1, 1863; to capt., Sept. 1, 1863; disch. Aug. 17, 1864. Jesse T. Power, capt., must. in Sept. 4, 1864; pro. from corp. to sergt. Nov.10,1863, to capt., Feb.10, 1865 ; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Thomas A. Stone, 1st lieut., must. in Aug. 23,1862 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 7, 1863. James A. Russell, 1st lieut., must. in Sept. 4, 1862; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; pro. to sergt. Nov. 6, 1862. ¹ Date of muster in is Aug. 22, 1862, except when noted. William D. Lank, 1st lieut., must. in Sept. 4, 1862: pro, from 1st sergt. Feb. 10,1865; killed at Sailor's Creek April 6, 1865; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Division A, Section D, Grave 14. William A. McMillin, 22 lieut., must. in Aug. 23, 1862; pro. from 1st sergt Co. I, April 18, 1863 ; must. out with company May 31, 1863. Francis R. Stroer, 2d lieut., must. in Sept. 4, 1862 ; pro. from 1st sergt. March 30, 1863; disch. by S. O. Dec. 14, 1863. John Barkley, 1st sergt., pro. from corp. to sergt. April 10. 1863, to lst sergt. Feb. 10, 1865; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Samuel Potter, 1st sergt., pro. from corp. April 10, 1863; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864 ; disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 25, 1864. Isaiah Collins, sergt., pro. to corp. Jan. 24, 1864, to sergt. Feb. 11, 1865 must. out with company May 31, 1865. William P. McMasters, sergt., pro. to corp. Dec. 22, 1864; to sergt. Feb. 10, 1865 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. George B. Kistler, sergt.; wounded at Potomac River May 10, 1864 ; pro. from private Feb. 10, 1865; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James Shaw, sergt. ; disch. on surg certif. Feb. 22, 1863. A. G. Beeson, sergt., pro. from corp. Feb. 23, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. l, 1865. R. G. S. Smith, sergt., pro. to qr. mr. sergt. ; date unknown. B. F. O'Bryon, sergt. ; killed at Tolopotomoy May 31, 1864. Abraham Moore, corp.; must. out with company May 31,1865. Samuel Pritchard, corp.; captured; died at Charleston, S. C, Oct. 23, 1864. Simon Inks, corp., pro. to corp. April 10, 1863; absent, sick, at must. out. George Lafferty, corp., pro. to corp. Nov. 10, 1863; wounded at Petersburg July 4, 1864; died, date unknown. Thomas Kelley, corp., pro. to corp. Aug. 1, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Plumer F. Hall, corp , pro. to corp. Dec. 22, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Harvey Rose, corp., pro. to corp. April 10, 1863 ; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 22, 1863. James Ranken, corp., died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 10, 1863; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery. Robert Russell, corp., pro. to corp. Oct. 9, 1863 ; killed at Spottsylvania Court-House, May 12, 1864. Albert Herron, corp., pro. to corp. April 10, 1863; killed at Tolopotomoy May 31, 1864. Charles F. King, musician, must. in Oct. 29, 1862; must. out with company May 31,1865. Privates. Jackson Ballsinger, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Harvey Ballsinger, wounded at Gettysburg July 3, 1863 ; absent at must out. Benjamin Behannah, must. out with company May 31, 1865. George Behannah, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 22, 1863. Alexander Boniface, wounded at Petersburg, 1864; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 29, 1864. William Ballsinger, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 1, 1863. George Ballsinger, accidentally killed at White Hall Sept. 27, 1862. Franklin Barringer, died July 15, 1864, of wounds received in action; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. A. S. Black, died at Parkton, Md., Nov. 12, 1862. Ely Cady, wounded at Petersburg June 18, 1864; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps; disch. by general order July 14, 1864. Lindsey Cady, discharged by G. O. July 14, 1864. Samuel Cashdollar, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; at Wilderness May 8, 1864; absent at muster out. James Chubbic, mustered out with company May 31, 1865. James Colvin, absent on detached service at muster out. Andrew N. Crawford, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 7, 1863. William E. Chester, disch. on surg. certif. May 15, 1865. Samuel W. Cady, died July 1, 1864. James Caskey, died, date unknown. Thomas Cole, July 1, 1863. H. C. Diffenderffer, mustered out with company May 31, 1865. Stephen Daniels, mustered out with company May 31, 1865. Francis M. Daniels, captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; killed at Cold Harbor June 6, 1864. John Fell, wounded at Petersburg June 18, 1864; mustered out with company May 31, 1865. Zenophon Gamble, discharged by G. O. June 12, 1865. 340 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Charles Guter, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; absent at muster out. John Gawky, Aug. 25, 1863. John S. Hindman, wounded with loss of arm June 18, 1864; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 19, 1863. Josiah Holdman, disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 19, 1863. Daniel Handlin, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps June 9, 1865. Francis M. Hansel, killed at Gettysburg July 3,1863; burled in National Cemetery, grave 24. William Hirst, killed at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864. James Hurley, died at Falmouth, Va., June 18, 1864. Jeremiah Huttenhour, killed at Petersburg. Va., June 18, 1864. Benjamin Ingles, mustered out with company May 31, 1865. Nathan T. Inlay, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 30, 1863. John Johnson, mustered out with company May 31, 1865. Andrew Johnson, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. April 16, 1865. Jesse L. Jones, disch. on surg. certif. April 10, 1863. William B. Jobb, must. in Oct. 29, 1862; trans. to Co. A, 3d Regt. Vet. Res. Corps, Jan. 10, 1863; disch. by G. O. July 6, 1865. Levi Keenan, wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; disch. on surg. certf. Jan. 23, 1864. Christopher Lickle, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 10, 1865. O. A. Lank, died at Falmouth, Va., March 24, 1863. Bart, Lancaster, died at Washington, D. C., Dec. 22, 1862 James Lytle, died at Andersonville. Calvin B. Malabo, must. in June 30, 1863. And. McWilliams, missing in action at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va„ May 12, 1864. Henry McKnight, must. in Oct. 29, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. July 15, 1863. George McMillin, died at Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 28,1864; buried in Allegheny Cemetery. William Pyle, disch. by G. O. June 27, 1865. George W. Pritchard, disch. by G. O. June 7, 1865. John W. Pearce, wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; disch. on surg. certif., date unknown. Jesse Pearce, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Aug. 1, 1863. Hugh Patterson, died at Washington, D. C., Aug. 10, 1863; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery. Harry Pierce, died at Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 1, 1864. Robert G. Roberts, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864; disch. by G. O. June 15, 1865. Alden Rose, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Robert Rudge, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; trans. to Co. H, 12th Regt. Vet. Res. Corps; disch. by G. O. June 29, 1865. William Reynolds, disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 19, 1863. William R. Roberts, must. in Oct. 29, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. May 8, 1863. Francis Russell, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 17, 1863. Sparks C. Roberts, died at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 24,1864. Jesse Stricklin, must. out with company May 31,1865. A. B. Smiley, disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 19, 1863. William H. Sickler, died at Point Lookout, Md., Oct. 14,1864. William Turner, wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 17, 1865. John W. Thorp, died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 31, 1863. Robert Wall, wounded at South Side Railroad, Virginia, May 12,1864; absent at muster out. William F. White, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864; absent at muster out. Joseph Wiltser, wounded at Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6,1865 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. George Windhurst, wounded at Petersburg June 18,1864 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Lowrie Williams, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Solomon Williams, died at Alexandria Oct. 31,1864, of wounds received in action. Joseph J. Woodward, killed at Tolopotomoy, Va., May 31, 1864. COMPANY G.¹ John Fraser, capt., pro. to lieut.-col. Sept. 4, 1862. Henry J. Bingham, capt., pro. from 1st lieut. Sept. 9, 1862 ; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863, at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, ¹ Date of muster in is Aug. 22, 1862, except where noted 1864, and at Farmville April 7, 1865 ; captured at Boydton Plank. Road Oct. 27, 1864; pro. to maj. and judge advocate U. S. V. Sept. 20 1864; brevet lieut-col. and col. and brevet brig.-gen. April 9,1865, must. out with company July 2, 1866. John F. Wilson, capt., pro. to 1st sergt. May 4,1863; to 2d lieut. Sept. 1. 1863; to capt. Dec. 10, 1864; wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 died at City Point April 14,of wounds received at Petersburg March 25, 1865. Wilson N. Paxton, 1st lieut., pro. from 2d lieut. Oct. 7, 1862 ; captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. May 17, 1865. Joseph W. McEwan, 2d lieut., pro. from 1st sergt. Oct. 7,1862; killed's: Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Alex. M. Wilson, 2d lieut., pro. to sergt. Sept. 8, 1862 ; to 2d lieut. Mar 4, 1863; killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. John R. Paxton, 2d lieut., pro. to sergt. Aug. 7, 1863; to 1st sergt. Sept 1, 1863; to 2d lieut. Dec. 10, 1864; com. lst lieut April 16 and capt May 16, 1865, not must.; must, out with company May 31, 1865. William Pollock, 1st sergt., pro. to sergt. Sept 30,1662; to lst sergt. Dec 10, 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James M. Patton, sergt., pro. to sergt. Nov. 1, 1863; wounded at Robinson's Cross-Roads; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James P. Kerr, sergt., pro, to sergt. June 18,1864; must, out with company May 31, 1865. David L. Taggart, sergt., pro. to corp. May 16, 1864; must, out with corn pony May 31, 1865. James L. Berry, sergt., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; to sergt. Dec. 10,1864 must. out with company May 31, 1865. Jasper E. Brady, sergt., pro. to sergt. Sept. 9, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. date unknown. Thomas A. Perrine, sergt., pro, to sergt April 2,1863 ; lost arm at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 7, 1863. James B. Jackson, sergt., trans. to 119th Co., 2d Bat., Vet. Res. Corps disch. by G. O. April 26, 1865. Thomas J. Weaver, sergt., died at Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 9, 1862. Benjamin B. Black, sergt., killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Bankhead D. Barr, sergt., pro. to sergt. Sept. 1,1863; died May 8, 1864. wounds received at Wilderness May 9, 1864. James Volteuburg, sergt., wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 killed at Petersburg June 17,1864; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Div. C, Sec. O, Grave 77. James G. Sloan, corp., pro. to corp. June 1,1863; must. out with company; May 31, 1865. John C. Davis, corp., pro. to corp. July 4,1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James S. Rankin, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; prisoner from July 2i to Sept. 20, 1863; must, out with company May 81, 1865. Ebenezer G. Emery, corp., pro. to corp. Nov. 1,1864; must, out with company May 31, 1865. John Gilkinson,, corp., pro. to corp. Dec. 10, 1864; wounded at Saller's! Creek April 6, 1865; absent in hospital at muster out. Robert L. Stewart, corp., pro. to corp. Dec. 18,1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. William J. P. Patton, corp., pro. to corp. March 25, 1865; must. out with company May 31,1865. Joseph L. Moore, corp., pro. to corp. June 10, 1863 ; to capt. Samuel R. Charlton, corp., Feb. 6,1864; trans. to Co. F, 53d Regt. P. V. May 30, 1865. John R. Mitchell, corp., trans. to Signal Corps Nov. 1,1863. Dunning Hart, corp., pro. to corp. Aug. 24, 1862; wounded at Gettysburg July 1, 1863; trans. to Vet Res. Corps Oct. 18,1864. Ebenezer H. Martin, corp., trans. to Signal Corps April 1, 1864. Joseph Wilson, corp., pro. to corp. June 20, 1864; trans. to Co. G, Id Regt. P. V. R., Feb. 15, 1865; disch. by G. O. July 14, 1865. Henry G. McGinnis, corp., died at Falmouth, Va., June 1, 1863. Frank Jones, corp., pro. to corp. April 1,1864; killed at Tolopotomoy, Va, May 31, 1864. Alexander Gaston, corp., pro. to corp. June 1,1864; killed at Petersburg June 17,1864; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Divides A, Sect. F, Grave 1. David W. Berry, corp., pro. to corp. July 14,1864; died July 4, of wounds received in action June 21, 1864. Robert L. Speer, corp., pro. to corp. Sept. 1, 1864; died Feb. 19, 1865. Josiah H. Carroll, musician, pro. to principal musician March 1,1664. Privates. James Allison, must. out with company May 31, 1865 John Arnold, must, out with company May 31, 1865. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 341 William Armstrong, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864. Boyd E. Atkinson, killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Simon Arnold, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. William Armstrong, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. John M Berry, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; trans. to Co. A, 188th Regt. Vet. Res. Corps; disch. by G. O. June 28, 1865. John Barr, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. David Boyce, killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3,1863. David W. Boyd, killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863'; buried in National Cemetery ; grave 55. Addison A. Coleman, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James M. Crawford, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Stephen Champ, disch. on surg certif. Feb. 8, 1864. Vincent Crawford, died at Falmouth, Va., May 31, 1863. Eli Crawford, must. in Sept. 7, 1862. James S. Daggs, wounded at North Anna River May 24, 1864; disch. May 18, 1865. George Davis, prisoner from July 2 to Sept. 23, 1863; disch. by G. O. June 20, 1866. Charles R. Donaldson, died at Parkton, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. W. G. Donaldson, killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. John L. Gow, absent, on detached service, at must. out. James W. Griffith, wounded at North Anna River May 24,1864; absent, in hospital, at must. out. William S. Greer, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 26,1863. George Grier, died at Falmouth, Va., Feb. 16, 1863. Levi Griffith, died June 25, of wounds received at Petersburg June 18, 1864; buried in National Cemetery. David Havlin, must, out with company May 31, 1865. James Hemingar, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. by G. O. May 27, 1865. John W. Hodgson, prix. from June 2,1864, to April 1,1866; disch. by G.O. June 10, 1865. William A. Belt, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1865 ; disch. by G. O. May 12, 1865. Joseph Hemphill, trans. to Ind. Bat. C, Pa. Art., Dec. 17,1863. James Hamilton, died at Parkton, Md., Sept. 23, 1862. Robert S. Jackson, prisoner from July 2 to Dec. 27, 1863; Disch. by G. O. July 1, 1865. William H. Jackson, disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 7, 1863. Joseph B. Johnson, trans. to Signal Corps April 1, 1864. William A. Kerr, wounded at Bristow Station Oct. 14, 1863; disch. on surg. certif. March 21, 1864. Cornelius D. B. Kirk, wounded at Deep Bottom ; disch. by G.O. May 15, 1865. James Lynn, killed at Gettysburg July 2,1863; buried in National Cemetery. Joseph Lawson, reported killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. William H. Lenom, wounded and captured at Wilderness May 5,1864; died at Andersonville Aug. 25, 1864; burial record Oct. 3,1864 ; grave 10,273. George B. Murray, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; must. out with company May 31, 1865. George W McGibbony, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James S. McGlumphy, wounded at Petersburg March 25, 1865 ; absent, in hospital, at must. out. John W. McMeans, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Thomas M. McNary, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Samuel B. McBride, disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 18, 1863. Robert R. McJenkin, died at Parkton, Md., Nov. 6, 1862. John McNutt, killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; buried in National Cemetery; grave 28. James W. Pollock, must. out with company May 31, 1865. David B. Phillips, wounded; disch. by G. O. May 15,1865. Robert B. Parkinson, pro. to q. m.-sergt. Oct. 11, 1864. Wayne J. Phillips, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Nov. 12, 1863. John M. Speer, must. out with company May 31,1865. John M. Stewart, must, out with company May 31, 1865. David H Summay, must. out with company May 31, 1865. William B. Stewart, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 7, 1862. William Shutz, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 15, 1864. John T. Summey, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 20,1864; disch. by G. O. July 5, 1865. Cyrus Townsend, pro. to q. m.-sergt. July 13, 1863. James Thomas, died at Washington Aug. 18, 1863; burial record Aug. 12, 1863 ; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery. John M. Watson, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Joshua Weaver, must. out with company May 31, 1865. David White, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James P Weaver, trans. to Vet. Res Corps Nov. 11,1863. Hugh Weir, killed at Gettysburg. Pa., July 2, 1863. Thomas Weaver, captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; died at Richmond Nov. 2, 1863. James Young, trans. to Ind. Battery C, Pennsylvania Artillery, Dec. 17, 1863. COMPANY K.¹ W. A. F. Stockton, capt., brevt. maj. April 9, 186.5 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Alexander Sweeney, Jr., 1st lieut., brevet capt. March 13,1865; absent on detached service at muster out. William B. Cook, 2d lieut., capt. at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; disch. May 17, 1865. George Ralston, let sergt., must. out with company May 31, 1865. Benjamin F. Powelson, 1st sergt, pro. to lieut. 41st Regt. U. S. C. Troops Sept. 22, 1864; disch Sept. 30, 1865. Milton R. Boyd, sergt.; disch. by G. O. May 27,1865. Ed. S. Alexander, sergt., must. out with company May 31, 1865. W. R. H. Powelson, sergt, wounded; date unknown; mast, oat with company May 31, 1865. John A. McCalmont, sergt., pro. from corp. March 26, 1865 ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Thomas C. Hays, sergt., killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1868. Samuel K Shindle, sergt., captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; died at Andersonville March 17, 1864; burial record May 15, 1864; grave 1114. Joseph S. Graham, sergt., killed at Petersburg, Va., March 25,1865. Silas Cook, corp., wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; absent at muster out. James K. P. McGill, corp., must, out with company May 31, 1865. William Porter, corp., must, out with company May 31, 1865. George Hanlin, corp., must. out wish company May 31, 1865. Marshall Wright, corp., wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12. 1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James C. Lyle, corp., pro. to corp. May 12, 1865; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Abraham Andrews, corp., pro. to corp. March 16, 1865 ; must. out with company May 31,1865. John D. McCabe, corp., disch. on Surg. certif. Feb. 23, 1863. William Hanlin, corp., wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. by G. O. May 15, 1865. Isaac Donaldson, corp., died at Falmouth Feb. 14, 1863. William Miller, corp., killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. William L. Pry, corp., wounded at Chancellorsville May 3,1863; died at Falmouth May 21, 1863. George W. McConnell, mus., must. out with company May 31, 1865. Jesse J. Morris, mug., pro. to prin. musician Dec. 22, 1864. Privates. James B. Allison, must. out with company May 31,1865. Peter Andrews, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James Arthurs, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James S. Berryhill, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Lazarus Briggs, must. out with company May 31,1865. Daniel J. Butterfoss, absent, sick, at must. out. Benjamin Buchanan, disch. on surg. certif. March 20, 1863. George W. Carter, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Jesse M. Carter, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,1864; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Andrew Cester, wounded at Cold Harbor June 7, 1864; absent at must. out. James E. Cochran, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Ezra Conway, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Joseph A. Corbin, wounded at Gettysburg July 1, 1863; disch. by G. O. May 15, 1865. Isaac W. Chisholm, wounded at Gettysburg July 1, 1863; trans. to Co. O, 9th Regt. Vet. Res. Corps, March 20, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. June 26,1865. ¹ Date of muster in Sept. 4, 1862, except where noted. 342 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Thomas Carter, killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. David W. Corbin, must. in Sept. 4, 1862; died April 21, 1863; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D C. Benjamin Cummings, musk in Sept. 4. 1o62; killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. James A. Cummings, must. in March 27, 1864; killed at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864. Robert B. Dugan, disch. by G. O. May 29, 1865. John M. Day, disch,. on surg. certif. Dec. 12, 1863. Henry Dickson, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps, date unknown. Michael Dougherty, died at Brandy Station March 18, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Culpeper Court-House, Block 1, Section A, Row 4, Grave 117. Andrew B. Davis, died at Parkton, Md., Dec. 9, 1862. Benjamin F. Earnest, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; died at Brandy Station Dec. 14, 1863. James H. Fordyce, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Joseph C. Fraser, disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 30, 1863. John Fulton, must. in Dec. 31, 1862. William M. Geary, must. out with company May 31, 1865. George Gardner, disch. March 20, 1863. John Gardner, trans. to Ind. Bat. C, Art., Dec. 17, 1863. Joseph Guess, killed at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va , May 12,1864. Isaac Golden, died at Washington, D. C., April 15, 1863; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery. Benjamin F. Hawthorn, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12, 1864; trans. to Co. E, 9th Regt. V. R. C., date unknown ; disch. by G. O. June 26, 1865. John Henderson, died at Parkton, Md., Dec. 7, 1862. Robert Hull, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. George W. Johnson, wounded at Petersburg June 14, 1864 ; must: out with company May 31, 1865. William A. Jackson, captured, date unknown ; disch. by S. O. Nov. 2,1864. Robert Lyle, disch. on surg. certif. March 14, 1863. John Makeown, absent, sick, at muster out. Isaac Miller, wounded and captured at Wilderness, May, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out. Enoch Mounts, disch. on Surg. certif. May 23, 1863. George Morrow, disch. on surg. certif. May 22, 1863 ; died at Philadelphia May 27, 1863. Robert Meldoon, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; disch. by G. O. May 15, 1865. John Maloy, killed at Todd's Tavern, Va., May 8, 1864. John Marshal, died at Parkton, Md., Nov. 17, 1862. Morris Metcalf, died at Washington, D. C., March 17, 1865. Robert McClurg, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Benjamin McCullough, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Owen McElfish, must. out with company May 31, 1865. James K. McCurdy, trans. to 153d Regt. P. V. Feb. 25, 1864. Harrison McConnell, must. out Feb. 13, 1863. Colin R. Nickerson, wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; must. out with company May 31, 1865. John W. Nickerson. wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Nov. 16, 1863. Thomas L. Nobls, pro. to com.-sergt. Sept.18, 1862. James L. Noah, trans. to Ind. Bat. C, Art., Dec. 17, 1863. Robert A. Pry, must. out with company May 31, 1865. David McPry, trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 6, 1865. William Rea, wounded, with loss of a leg, at Todd's Tavern May 8,1864; absent at must. out. William A. Rufner, disch. on surg. certif. May 20, 1864. George Reed, must. in Feb. 5, 1865 ; trans. to Co. F, 53d Regt. P. V., May 30, 1865. William Scott, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Nathaniel Settee, must. out with company May 31, 1865. George Sprowels, absent, sick, at must. out. Oliver Staley, must. out with company May 31, 1865. William Stoller, wounded, date unknown ; must. out with company May 31, 1865. Frank Stiver, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Henderson Scott, disch. by S. O. March 12, 1863. Jesse M. Sprowels, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. George Stare, must. in July 1, 1863. Johnson Toppin, wounded at Gettysburg July 1, 1863; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 6, 1864. John W. Tucker, must, In Feb. 29, 1864; killed at Todd's Tavern, Va. May 8, 1864. Robert Virtue, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. Ulysses Wheeler, must. out with company May 31, 1865. Thomas Wilkins, wounded, date unknown; must. out with company May 31, 1865. James Worstell, wounded at Wilderness May 8, 1864 ; trans. to Co. 6th Regt. Vet. Res. Corps., date unknown ; disch. by G. O. July 6, 1865. CHAPTER XXVII. WAR OF THE REBELLION.—(Continued.) First Pennsylvania Cavalry.—The First Cavalry, designated as the Forty-fourth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, and the Fifteenth of the Reserves, was made up of companies raised in Washington, Juniata, Montgomery, Mifflin, Cameron, Clinton, Centre, Clearfield, Greene, Blair, Fayette, Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster Counties, in the summer and fall of 1861. One company (" I," Capt. William H. McNulty) was recruited wholly in Washington County. Company "K," Capt. William Boyce, was raised in the counties of Allegheny and Washington. These last-named companies (together with Company "H") rendezvoused at Camp Wilkins, Pittsburgh, and were mustered into the service in August and September, 1861. The organization of the regiment was effected Sept. 1, 1861, under Col. George D. Bayard (previously of the Fourth United States Cavalry), Lieut.-Col. Jacob Higgins, and Maj. Owen Jones. The regiment joined McCall's division of Pennsylvania Reserves at the camp at Tenallytown, Md.; in September, and remained there engaged in drill and camp duties until October 10th, when it moved to " Camp Pierpont," Va., where it remained during the succeeding winter, participating in the mean time in the battle of Dranesville and in several encounters with the enemy's cavalry and guerrillas, and being constantly engaged in scouting, picket duty, and drill. On the opening of the spring campaign of 1862 under Gen. McClellan, the First Cavalry moved with the army to Manassas and Centreville. It is always difficult to follow in detail of description the movements of a cavalry command, so numerous are the marches, countermarches, and changes of position, and such is the case with regard to the history of the marching and fighting of the First Cavalry. During the year 1862, after the advance to Manassas and the transfer of the Army of the Potomac from the front of Washington to the Virginia Peninsula, the regiment might be said to have been continually in the saddle, marching thousands of miles, always on the alert and frequently in action, though from the nature of the cavalry service seldom participating in the dangers and glories of a great battle. This regiment was in the early part of May employed in picketing the line of the Rappahannock, attached to the com- WAR OF THE REBELLION - 343 mend of Gen. McDowell, and when, on the 25th of that month, he advanced by way of Bowling Green towards Richmond, the First formed part of the cavalry force which preceded the infantry corps in its march (as was then supposed) to reinforce McClellan on the Peninsula. Reaching the Pamunkey River, having driven the enemy's cavalry to that stream, it was there recalled, to move to the Shenandoah Valley against Stonewall Jackson. By way of Catlett's Station and Thoroughfare Gap it marched to Front Royal, thence to Strasburg, where on the 1st of June it was heavily engaged with .the enemy, driving him in some confusion, and fighting again at Harrisonburg, Va., against a greatly superior force. On the 8th and 9th it fought well at Cross Keys and Port Republic. On the 10th it turned eastward again, passed through Mount Jackson and Front Royal, and came to Manassas on the 23d, after a month of continuous riding, skirmishing, and fighting, over a route of nearly four hundred miles. Two weeks it remained at Manassas, then moved with the Army of Virginia under Gen. Pope. Here the service was the same,—skirmishing, scouting, picketing, and duty in saddle constantly, by night and day. At the battle of Cedar Mountain it performed invaluable service, charging, fighting its way back through the enemy's infantry, charging again, saving a battery from capture by the enemy, and incurring heavy loss. When Pope retreated towards Washington, the First Pennsylvania, with the First New Jersey Cavalry, under Col. Sir Percy Wyndham, did more than any other two regiments to protect the rear of the beaten Army of Virginia, routing the enemy, who came on exultantly at the crossing of the Rappahannock, confident of cutting off the retreat of the Union forces. A day later, in conjunction with a division of infantry, it held Thoroughfare Gap turnpike for six hours against the assaults of a heavy force of the enemy under Gen. Longstreet. Finally the regiment fought a good fight at the second battle of Bull Run, August 29th and 30th ; and then, when the campaign was closed, it moved with only two hundred men (of whom fully half were dismounted) to a camp at Munson's Hill, in front of Washington, and then spread out its feeble force of videttes across the highways and byways of the vicinity, guarding against the approach of Confederate foes towards the national capital. There it remained on such duty for nearly six weeks, and was then again moved southward, to guard the front and flanks of the Army of the Potomac, which was moving from Antietam, by way of Berlin and Warrenton, to the Rappahannock at Falmouth, from which point, in the evening of the 12th of December, the two Washington County companies of the regiment were, thrown across to the south side of the river, to picket the space between the enemy's position and the pontoon bridges which were then thrown across for the passage of the troops of Franklin's corps in the then contemplated advance. In the great battle of Fredericksburg, which was fought on the 13th, the regiment did some skirmishing, and was for a time under a heavy fire of artillery, but was not called on to take part in the general engagement, After the battle, the First went into winter-quarters at Belle Plain. It took part in the great "mud march" of January, 1863, and otherwise was employed during the winter in picketing, scouting, and minor raiding in the neighborhood of the Rappahannock. In the spring campaign it was employed in picketing and guarding the fords of the river, but took no part in the battle of Chancellorsville. On the 28th of May it moved to Warrenton Junction. June 10th it took part in the cavalry fight at Brandy Station under Gen. Pleasonton, losing fourteen killed and wounded. On the 22d it was again engaged at Aldie. On the movement from that point towards Gettysburg it was the rear-guard of the cavalry column. In the great battle of Gettysburg it was not engaged, but acted as a guard to the headquarters of the commanding general. In the pursuit of the enemy after the battle the regiment was first engaged at Shepherdstown on the 16th of July. In this action the Washington County companies fought dismounted, and contributed in a great degree to the enemy's repulse. After the fight the regimental camp was made at Bolivar Heights, from which, on the 19th, the First marched eastward, and reached Warrenton on. the 27th. Picketing, skirmishing, and continual marching succeeded until the 14th of October, when the regiment was fiercely engaged at Auburn, Va. In the Mine Run campaign it fought dismounted at New Hope Church, and captured twenty-eight prisoners. The winter-quarters were made at Stevens-surg, and during the entire winter the regiment furnished one-fourth of its effective strength for constant duty on picket and in the saddle. In the opening of the campaign of 1864 the cavalry moved on the 21st of April. This regiment was engaged in scouting along the Rappahannock for ten or twelve days, and on the 3d of May crossed the Rappahannock, and on the 4th the Rapidan at Ely's Ford. On the 5th it was sharply engaged at Todd's Tavern, and drove the enemy. Again, on the 7th, it was engaged near the same place, charging and taking a considerable number of prisoners. On the 9th it moved with the cavalry column of Gen. Sheridan on his great raid to the defenses of Richmond, and before night was hotly engaged. It fought at Ashland, Hungary Station, Yellow Tavern, and Meadow Bridge, near Richmond, then twice crossing the Chickahominy, reached James River at Haxall's, and after a stay of three days there returned to the Army of the Potomac, arriving at Chesterfield on the 25th of May. In the advance of the army the First fought with great determination and with severe loss in the engagement at Hawes' Shop, May 28th, and again at Barker's Mills. From this time the marches and movements of the regiment and its brigade were too. 344 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. continuous and complicated to be followed in detail. It fought in the engagement at Trevillian Station, in Sheridan's second raid, and again at St. Mary's Church, June 24th: Three days later it crossed the James River. On the 12th of July it was engaged at Ream's Station, and on the 27th at Malvern Hill, where it was opposed by the enemy's infantry, and fought dismounted, losing eighteen killed and wounded. On the 30th it fought at Lee's Mills, and soon after at Gravel Hill. It then returned to the south side of the James, and, moving to the Weldon Railroad, fought at Ream's Station, which was the last action in which the First Cavalry was engaged. On the 30th of August, the regiment being then in camp at Jerusalem Plank-Road, the order for its relief from duty was received, its time of service having expired. On the 1st of September the regiment (excepting veterans and recruits) was withdrawn from the front, and proceeded to Philadelphia, where it was mustered out of service Sept. 9, 1864, A list is given below of officers and enlisted men of Companies I and K of the First Cavalry; the first of which was recruited wholly in Washington County, and the latter in Washington and Allegheny. COMPANY I. William W. McNulty, capt., must. in Sept. 6, 1E61 ; res. Sept. 6, 1861, to accept promotion. John W. Ross, capt., pro. 1st lieut. Aug.24, 1861; res. Nov. 23, 1861. George T. Work, capt., pro. from lst lieut. Nov. 23, 1861; res. June 21, 1862. James M. Gaston, capt., must. in August, 1861; pro. from sergt. to 2d lieut. Aug. 24,1861; to 1st lieut. Nov. 23,1861; to capt. July 12,1862 ; to maj. March 1,1863.. Thomas C. McGregor, capt, must. in Aug. 19, 1861; pro. from sergt. to 2d lieut. May 10, 1862 ; to lst lieut. July 12,1862; to capt. March 1, 1863; trans. to batt. Sept. 1,1864 ; must. out by consolidation June 20, 1865. Francis S. Morgan, lst lieut., must. in Aug. 12, 1861; pro. from sergt. to lst lieut. Feb. 25, 1863; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out Sept. 26, 1864. George W. Seigrist, 2d lieut., must. in Aug. 10, 1861 ; pro. from sergt-maj. Nov. 23, 1861; res. May 10, 1862. Joseph B. Richey, 2d lieut, pro. from sergt. July 12, 1862 ; dis. Feb. 18, 1863. George W. Lyon, 2d lieut., pro. from sergt. Feb. 25, 1863; killed Sept. 6, 1863. Samuel C. Work, lst sergt., must. in Aug. 13,1861; pro. to corp. Aug. 20, 1861 ; to sergt. Sept. 1,1861 ; to t sergt. Feb. 25, 1863 ; wounded in action Aug. 14, 1864 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel W. McKee, q.m., must, in Aug. 13, 1861; pro. to corp. Aug. 20, 1861; to sergt. Dec. 11, 1862; wounded and missing at St. Mary's Church, Va., June 24, 1864., Patrick H. McNulty, com.-sergt., must. in Aug. 13, 1861; pro. to corp. Sept. 6, 1861 ; to sergt. Dec. 1, 1862; wounded May 28, 1864; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Alexander B. Wythe, sergt., must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 30, 1861. John G. Wells, sergt., must. in Aug. 13,1861; died Feb. 26,1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. John Richmond, sergt, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Oct..6, 1862. William Denniston, sergt., must. in Aug. 20,1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. April 2, 1863. James D. Scott, sergt., must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; pro. to corp. Aug. 20,1861; to sergt. Sept. 1, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John L. Mustard, sergt., must. in Sept. 9, 1861; pro. to corp. Dec. 6, 1861 ; to sergt. Feb. 18, 1863; wounded in act, on June 21, 1864 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Robert D. Wilkin, sergt., must. in Aug. 13, 1861; pro. to corp. Aug. 20, 1861; to sergt. Feb. 25, 1863; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. David Pollock, sergt., must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; pro. to corp. March 1,1862; to sergt. Feb. 25, 1863 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Alexander C. Elliott, sergt., must. in Aug. 23, 1861 ; wounded in action June 21,1864 ; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9,1864: must-out as sergt. Co. A, by S. O., June 20, 1865 ; veteran. Thomas R. Starer, corp., must. in Aug. 21, 1861 ; pro. to chief bugler Oct. 16, 1861. John H. Gaston, corp., must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; dIsch. on surg. certif. Oct. 20, 1862. David Ackelson, corp., must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif, Oct. 20, 1862. Moses Hastings, corp., must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; killed at Oak Grove, Va., April 26, 1863. Eli Lescallet, corp., must. in Aug. 14, 1861; killed at Oak Grove, Va., April 26, 1863. James Barry, corp., must. in Aug. 26, 1861 ; killed on picket at Carter's Run, Va., Sept. 6,1863. Smithson McConkey, corp., must. in Aug. 12, 1861; killed at Milford Station, Va., May 21, 1864; veteran. Thomas Richmond, corp., must. in Aug. 13,1861; killed at Enan Church, Va., May 28, 1864. Hillary Wilson, corp., must. in Aug. 25, 1861 ; pro. to corp. July 1,1862; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John McKinley, corp., must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; pro. to corp. Feb. 25,1863; captured Sept. 6, 1863; absent at must. old. David McGuigan, corp., must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; pro. to corp. Feb. 26, 1863; wounded in action May 28, 1864; must out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Lewis Cramer. corp., must. In Aug. 20, 1861 ; pro. to corp. March 1, 1863; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Thomas H. Cowan, corp., muss. in Aug. 22, 1881; pro. to corp. May 1, 1864; must, out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William J. Rippey, corp., must. in Oct. 4, 1861; pro. to corp. Aug. 1,1864; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William H. Rose, bugler, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; disch. on Surg. certif. April, 15,1862. Chester P. Murray, bugler, must. in Oct. 4, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Privates. Samuel F. Bitts, must. in Aug. 26, 1861 ; twice captured ; must out with company Sept. 9, 1864. George Becroft, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John Becroft, must. in Oct. 2, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 24, 1861. Alexander Berwick, must. in Aug. 22, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. April 15, 1862. Frank Berwick, must. in Aug. 20, 1861; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; veteran. John A. Bingham, must. in March 5, 1864; wounded in action May 9, 1864 ; trans. to batt. Sept. 9, 1864. William Crider, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John Clyde, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Andrew Crouch, must. in Oct. 2, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. April 15, 1882. William A. Curtis, must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; veteran. Thomas H. Conan, not on must.-out roll. Thomas Dunkle, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 1, 1862. Robert C. Elliot, must. I n Feb. 22, 1864; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864. Rudolph Essick, must. in Aug. 11, 1862; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864 ; must. out with Company A, by G. O., June 6, 1865. John F. Foust, must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. April 15, 1862. Samuel A. Garrett, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John H. Groff, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Moses F Gaumer, must. in Aug. 13,1861 ; missing in action, date unknown. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 345 John Gibson, must. In Aug. 20, 1861 ; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; veteran. George W. Gist, must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; died Dec 6, 1861. Jacob George, must. in Aug. 14, 1861 ; died Dec. 17, 1861. Joshua J. Hunter, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. April 28, 1862. Walter Johnson, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John B. Loughead, must. in Aug. 26, 1861 ; trans. to batt. Sept. 9, 1864; pro. to sergt. Co. L Nov.5, 1864; must. out June 20, 1865; veteran. George J. Labarre, must. in Feb. 3, 1862 ; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; pro. to sergt. Co. A, date unknown ; veteran. William J. Lowry, must. in Sept. 15, 1864 ; must. out in Co. L Batt.., 1st Penn. Cav., by G. O. June 15, 1865. William McElroy, must. in Sept. 4, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William McCall, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William S. McCormick, must. in Aug. 13,1861; must, out with company Sept 9, 1864. William McCarrell, must. in Oct. 4, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Peter Mulligan, must. in Aug. 15, 1861; captured Sept. 6, 1863; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Andrew F. McClure, must. in Oct. 5, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 15, 1863. James Miller, Jr., must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Dec. 23, 1862; burial record, died Dec. 25, 1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. James Miller, Sr., must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb.18, 1862. Isaac McConkey, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; pro. to sergt. Co. A ; veteran. Charles Morrow, must. in Aug. 20, 1861; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; veteran. James W. McKee, must, in Aug. 13, 1861; died at Camp Pierpont, Va., Jan. 1, 1862, of wounds received accidentally. Hugh McGowan, must. in Aug. 29, 1864; must. out in Co. A by G. O. June 6, 1865. Archibald Newell, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William F. Patton, must. in Aug. 20, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 18, 1862. William P. Patton, must. in Aug. 24, 1862; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; must. out in Co. A by G. O. June 6, 1865. Thomas Parks, must. in Aug. 20, 1861 ; died Jan. 18, 1862, William M. Porter, must. in Sept. 1, 1861; died at Fairfax, Va., Sept. 8, 1862. Thomas Patterson, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; captured Sept. 6, 1863; died at Annapolis, Md., March 30, 1864. Lewis W. Quilland, must. in Aug. 20, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. June 15, 1863. David Richmond, must. In Sept. 4, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9,1864. A. B. Rosenberger, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; prisoner; returned; must. out Sept. 27, 1864. Lorenzo A. Rice, must. in Feb. 3, 1862; disch. on surg. certif. June 2, 862. John L. Robertson, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; trans. to Co. L Batt. Sept. 9, 1864; must, out as sergt. Co. A, by S. O., June 20, 1866. James Smiley, must. in Aug. 13, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864.. John G. Sauppe, must. in Sept. 5,1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William F. Smith, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. March 27, 1862. Alexander L. Williams, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. Aug. 16, 1862. Grafton Wells, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; trans. to batt. Sept. 9, 1864; veteran. Jacob Wolf, must. in Aug. 13, 1861; pro. to veterinary surg. May 1, 1863. COMPANY K. William Boyce, capt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; res. Dec. 27, 1861. Joseph H. Williams, capt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; pro. from private to lst sergt. Oct. 1, 1861; to capt. Jan. 1, 1862; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864; must. out Sept. 27, 1864. William A. Kennedy, 1st lieut., must. In Sept. 6, 1861; wounded at Hawes' Shop, Va., May 28, 1864; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel Morgan, 2d lieut., must. In Sept. 6, 1861; wounded in action Sept. 15, 1863; must, out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William J. McEwen, 1st sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 15, 1862. John F. Kennedy, 1st sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; died July 26, 1863. Arch. B. Darragh, lst sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; pro. to 1st sergt. July 27, 1863; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John A. Latimer, sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William S. Foster, sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; pro. to batt. Adjt. March 1, 1862. Joseph Wright, sergt., must. in Sept. 6,1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. June 5, 1862. John W. Gault, sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; died Dec. 7, 1862. Robert Boyce, sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; pro, to corp. Sept. 8, 1861 ; to sergt. June 14, 1862; must, out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John W. Boyce, sergt., must, in Sept. 6, 1861 ; pro. to corp. Sept. 8, 1861 ; to sergt. Nov. 1, 1862; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John Patterson, sergt., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; pro. from private Nov. 1, 1862; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Billingsby Morgan, sergt., must. in Aug. 28, 1862; pro. to sergt. July 1, 1864; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864; must. out with Co. M May 27, 1865. Jacob Hanna, sergt., must. in Aug. 28, 1862; pro. to sergt. July 1, 1864; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Joseph Boyce, corp., must, in Sept. 6, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 1, 1862. Andrew G. Happer, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; pro. to 1st lieut. Co. G, 11th Regt. Pa. Vols., March 11, 1862. Samuel Morton, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch, on surg. certif. Aug. 18, 1862. Thomas Conner, corp., must in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on Surg. certif. April 11, 1863. John M. Boyce, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; captured June 21, 1864; must, out Feb. 4, 1865. Samuel F. Ralston, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1862; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Joshua Connelly, corp., must, in Sept. 6, 1861; pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1882 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864: Thomas Westerman, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1862; must, out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel R. Patten, corp., must. in Sept. 6, 1861; pro. to corp. Nov. 1, 1862 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel Brown, bugler, must, in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. April 28, 1863. John C. Keifer, bugler, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; captured at Sulphur Springs, Va., Aug. 22, 1862; killed in action May 28, 1864. Privates. John A. Anderson, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. James Beaumont, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 1, 1862. Thomas D. Boyce, must, in Aug. 28, 1862; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864 ; died Oct. 10, 1864. Isaac N. Boyce, must. in Feb. 17, 1864; not on muster-out roll. Robert Cain, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certf. May 21, 1862. Edward Curran, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Charles A. Calighan, must. in Oct. 2, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1884. Abraham Cox, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. George W. Coup, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Jacob Coup, must. in Jan. 22, 1864; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864; died Sept. 26, 1864; buried in Cavalry Corps Cemetery, Va. William Coup, must. in April 14,1864; wounded in action July 28,1884; trans. to battery Sept. 1,1864; died Nov.8, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington. John Douglass, must. in Aug. 22, 1862 ; disch. Jan. 12, 1863. John M. Duncan, must. in May 25, 1863; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Charles P. Dilks, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; missing in action Nov. 17, 1863. James F. Dodd, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; trans. to Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 1, 1863. William Ewing, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif April 28, 1862. James Ewing, must. in Aug. 29, 1862; died Nov. 22, 1863. 346 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Hugh Flanagan, must. in Sept, 6,1861 ; absent in hospital at muster out. Joseph B. Flitterer, must. in Oct. 16, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Joseph Feather, not on muster-out roll. William Gordon, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9,1864. John Herriot, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel Hooper, must. in Feb. 2, 1864; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864; must. out in Co. M by G. O. Oct. 4,1865. Hamilton Ingram, must, in Oct. 15, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. April 10, 1863. John Jamison, must. in March 31, 1864; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864; must. out in Co. M by G. O. Oct. 4, 1865. Thomas Jones, must, in March 31,1864 ; missing in action June 21,1864; veteran. Joseph M. Kennedy, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel Keifer, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Richard Lesnet, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; killed in action May 28, 1864. John H. Morgan, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Hamilton R. Morrison, must. in Sept, 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John L. McAllister, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Matthew McCombs, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Jacob C. McDowell, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John McDonald, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William McDonald, must. in Sept. 6,1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. George McFeeley, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9,1864. James M. C. Mouck, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Feb.9, 1863. Thomas McCombs, must. in Sept. 10, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. John Meredith, must. in Oct. 15,1861 ; captured at Bealton Station, Va., Oct. 14, 1863; trans. to battery Sept. 1, 1864. Marshall McBride, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to battery Sept. 1,1864. William McMurray, must. in Feb. 17, 1864; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864. William H.. Meanor, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864. Joseph Morrison, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; died Jul 9, 1864, at Alexandria, Va.; grave 2365. Joseph McClanahan, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; killed at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. William J. McClure, not on muster-out roll. Sanford C. Obony, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; disch, on surg. certif. Jan. 23, 1862. John C. Phillips, must. in Feb. 26, 1864; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864. Frederick Quigg, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. John M. Reignaman, must, in Oct. 15, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 23, 1862. William Roberts, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Nov. 1, 1861. George W. Reed, must. in Feb. 2, 1864 ; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864. David Schaffer, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. William Stewart, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Sept. 29, 1862. Joseph M. Sample, must. in Sept. 6, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Jan. 29, 1863. Benjamin F. Shields, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. Aug. 31, 1863. Joseph M. Shaffer, must. in Oct. 15, 1861 ; died Sept. 10,1862. John Trimble, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. George Thompson, Sr., must. in Oct. 15, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. March 1, 1862. George Thompson, Jr., must: in Oct. 15, 1861 ; disch. on surg. certif. March 1, 1862. Henry Vance, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to batt. Sept. 1, 1864. J. H. Westerman, must. in Sept. 6, 1861; must. out with company Sept. 9, 1864. Samuel Wallace, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; disch. on surg. certif. Feb. 1, 1862. James Williams, must. in Oct. 15, 1861; trans. to bad. Sept. 1, 1864. CHAPTER XXVIII. WAR OF THE REBELLION.-(Continued.) The Fourteenth Cavalry.-The Fourteenth Cavalry, or One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, was raised in the summer and fall of 1862, under authority given by the War Department, August 18th of that year, to James M. Schoonmaker, of Pittsburgh, who was at that time a line-officer in the First Maryland Cavalry. The regiment was principally made up of men recruited in the counties of Washington, Fayette, Allegheny, Armstrong, Lawrence,, Warren, Erie, and Philadelphia. Washington County contributed one company ("H"), commanded by Capt. John J. Shutterly, of Canonsburg. The regimental rendezvous was first at Camp Howe, and afterwards at Camp Montgomery, near the city of Pittsburgh. There, on the 24th of November, the Fourteenth completed its organization under the following-named field-officers: Colonel, James M. Schoonmaker; Lieutenant-Colonel, William Blakeley ; Majors, Thomas Gibson, Shadrach Foley,,and John M. Daily. On the same day the regiment left its camp and proceeded to Hagerstown, Md., where the men were mounted, armed, accoutred, and drilled. On the 28th of December it moved to Harper's Ferry, and encamped on the road leading thence to Charlestown. In that vicinity it passed the winter, engaged in picketing, scouting, and occasionally skirmishing with the enemy's guerrilla bands which infested the Shenandoah Valley and the passes of the Blue Ridge. In May, 1863, the Fourteenth moved to Grafton, W. Va., where it was attached to Gen. Averill's cavalry division, and for two months succeeding was engaged in constant marches and skirmishings with the forces of the enemy under " Mudwall" Jackson, Jenkins, and other Confederate leaders, but without incurring much loss. On the evening of the 4th of July information of the great battle of Gettysburg was received, and the regiment thereupon was moved at once to Webster, W. Va., thence to Cumberland, Md., and from there, after two or three days' delay, to Williamsport, Md., where it joined the Army of the Potomac. Advancing on the track of Gen. Lee's retreating columns, on the 15th of July it skirmished with the rear-guard of the enemy near Martinsburg, and a few days later marched to Winchester. On the 4th of August it moved with Averill on his raid to Rocky Gap. It was slightly engaged at Moorfield, W. Va., again more heavily at Warm Springs, and on the 26th and 27th of August took gallant part in WAR OF THE REBELLION - 347 action with the cavalry and infantry forces under the Confederate Gen. Jones, near Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, holding its ground most obstinately, but at last compelled to retreat with a loss of eighty in killed, wounded; and missing. On the 31st the command reached Beverly, having been on the march or engaged with the enemy constantly for twenty-seven days, traveling during that time more than six hundred miles. After some weeks of comparative rest, the regiment again moved (November 1st) with Gen. Averill on another long raid to the southward. Passing through Huntersville, Pocahontas Co.. on the 4th, it proceeded to Droop Mountain, where the enemy was found in-trenched and prepared to fight, but was driven from his position with considerable loss and pursued to Lewisburg, but not overtaken. The regiment, with the rest of Averill's command, returned to New Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Again, on the 8th of December, the Fourteenth was faced southward, bound for Salem, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, which point was reached on the 16th. There the troops destroyed railroad track, bridges, and an immense quantity of army stores gathered there for the use of the Confederate army, in all more than three million dollars in value. Having thus accomplished the object of the expedition, and knowing that the enemy would concentrate in force for his destruction, Averill at once commenced his retreat northward, but this was only accomplished with the greatest difficulty. " On the 20th, at Jackson's River, the Fourteenth, while in the rear struggling with the trains, which could with difficulty be moved, the horses being worn out with incessant marching, was cut off from the column by the destruction of the bridge, and was supposed at headquarters to have been captured. Gen. Early [Confederate] had demanded its surrender under a flag of truce, but setting fire to the train, which was completely destroyed, it forded the stream and made good its escape, rejoining the main column between Callahan's and White Sulphur Springs. That night the command swam the Greenbrier, now swollen to a perfect torrent, and crossing the Allegheny Mountains by an old bridle-path, and moving the artillery by hand, it finally reached Hillsboro', at the foot of Droop Mountain, at midnight and encamped."¹ The regiment reached Beverly on the 25th, having lost in the expedition about fifty men killed, wounded, and missing. From Beverly it moved to Webster, and thence by railroad to Martinsburg, where it went into winter-quarters. During the winter, however, its duties were nearly as arduous as ever, being employed on picket, guard, and in scouting almost incessantly. It was now a part of the First (Col. Schoonmaker's) Brigade of Averill's division. Moving from winter-quarters on the 12th of April, ¹Bates. 1864, the command was transported to Parkersburg, on the Ohio, and thence set out on a raid southward through West Virginia to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and having also in view the destruction of the Confederate salt-works at Saltville. The latter was not accomplished, but a great amount of damage was done to the railroad in the vicinity of Blacksville. At Cove Gap, on the 10th of May, the column was attacked by the enemy, and a battle of four hours' duration ensued, in which the Fourteenth lost twelve killed and thirty-seven wounded. Joining Gen. Crook, the combined forces moved to Lewisburg. On the 3d of June they were ordered to move thence to Staunton, Va., to join Gen. Hunter in his campaign against Lynchburg. At Staunton the regiment was rejoined by a detachment which (being then dismounted) was left behind at Martinsburg when the command moved from its winter-quarters in April. This detachment was under command of Capt. Duncan, of "E" company. The men were soon afterwards armed and mounted, and assigned, by order of Gen. Sigel, to Stahl's brigade. At New Market, May 15th, this detachment was engaged and sustained considerable loss. Soon afterwards it moved with Gen. Hunter on his campaign. At Piedmont, on the 5th of June, Capt. Duncan's detachment, being in the advance, suddenly encountered the enemy. In the battle which followed, it advanced, dismounted, and carried an earthwork, taking a number of prisoners, and afterwards receiving high commendation from the superior officers for its gallantry in action. Marching from Staunton on the 9th of June, the forces reached Lexington on the 11th, and Buchanan on the 13th. On the 15th the column moved to New London, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and thence towards the objective-point of the expedition, Lynchsurg. But the enemy was encountered near the city, and during the succeeding night an entire Confederate corps arrived from the Army of Northern Virginia, which made it impracticable to capture the place. Gen. Hunter then ordered a retreat, in which Schoonmaker's brigade, being then the rear-guard, was attacked by the enemy at Liberty, and sustained the assault alone for four hours, the Fourteenth Regiment losing twenty-four killed and wounded. 'It was again engaged north of Salem with Rosser's cavalry, losing eight killed and wounded. Finally, after an excessively toilsome march, and being at one time five days without food, it reached Parkersburg, and from there moved by rail to Martinsburg. The enemy's forces under Early were now marching down the valley to the invasion of Maryland. Aver ill's troops were again put in motion, and a battle took place between them and the rebel force at Winchester on the 20th of July, the Fourteenth being engaged with some loss. On the 24th, Early's combined forces attacked Averill and Crook, and drove 348 - HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. them to the Potomac, which they crossed and retired to Hagerstown. When the enemy, under Gen. McCausland, was retiring from the destruction of Chambersburg, Pa., he was overtaken by Averill's forces at Moorfield, W. Va., and a severe battle ensued, resulting in the defeat of the enemy and the capture of several cannon and a large number of prisoners. In this action the Fourteenth, which had the right of the first line, lost thirty-five killed and wounded. After this fight the command returned to Martinsburg, and thence to and across the Potomac, guarding the fords. During Sheridan's brilliant campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in the fall of 1864 the Fourteenth was active and frequently engaged. In the action of September 14th it fought well, capturing an earthwork and losing heavily. At Fisher's Hill it was again engaged, but with light loss. On the 27th of September it fought with a spirit and bravery which caused an order to be issued that the name of the battle (Weyer's Cave) be inscribed on its flag. It was again engaged at Cedar Creek, October 19th, and did excellent service on that field. On the 24th, in the Luray Valley, it fought in a brisk encounter, taking some prisoners, and was again engaged with the forces of McCausland at Front Royal on the 12th of November, losing fifteen killed and wounded. Soon after this it went into winter-quarters, but was employed in constant and arduous duty through the winter. The spring campaign was opened on the 4th of April,1865, when the regiment with its brigade moved up the valley, but met no enemy and returned to Berryville on the 6th. Gen. Lee's surrender immediately after virtually ended the war, and on the 20th of April the regiment was ordered to Washington, and remained there for about six weeks, taking part in the grand reviews of the armies of Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan in May. On the 11th of June it was ordered West, and proceeded to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where it was consolidated into six companies, the surplus officers being mustered out. The men were mustered out of the service at Fort Leavenworth on the 24th of August, 1865, and returned in a body to Pittsburgh, where they were discharged. OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE FOURTEENTH CAVALRY FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY. COMPANY H.¹ John J. Shutterly, capt., must In Nov. 24, 1862 ; res. Oct. 2, 1863. Joseph A. Crawford, capt., must. in Nov. 24. 1862; pro. from 1st lieut. Nov. 23, 1863; disch. by G. O. July 31, 1865. William D. McCallum, lst lieut., must. in April 1,1864 ; disch. by S. O. March 18,1865. Henry McMurray, let lieut., pro. from let sergt. to 2d lieut. June 15, 1864; to lst lieut. Jan. 6, 1865; trans. to A July 31, 1865. John E. Bready. 2d lieut., must. In Dec. 8, 1862; disch. April 22, 1864. James B. Johnston, 1st sergt., pro. from 2d sergt May 28,1865; com. 2d lieut. June 6, 1865 ; not must.; disch,. by G. O. July 31, 1865. James Pilling, lst sergt., not accounted for. David W. White, 2d sergt., pro. from cusp. May 25, 1865; disch. by G. O. July 31, 1865. ¹ Date of muster Nov. 23,1862, except as noted. David S. Orr, sergt., trans. to Co. A July 31,1865. John W. McCrunch, sergt., trans. to Co. A July 31, 1865. Benjamin F Craig, sergt. Samuel Auth, sergt. Calvin Donavan, sergt. James V. Waddle, sergt., killed at White Sulphur Springs, Va., Aug. 26, 1863. Alfred W. Murray, sergt. John R. White, sergt., must. in Feb. 23, 1864; died at Annapolis, Jan. 17, 1865. George Dunlap, corp., disch. by G. 0. July 25,1865. Albert H. Adman, corp., must. in Feb. 16, 1864 ; trans. to Co. A July 31, 1865. Lardner J. McCrum, corp., must. in Fob. 16, 1864; trans. to Co. A July 31,1865. John L. Josephs, corp., trans. to Co. A July 31,1866. Charles H. Myers, corp. Thomas Thompson. corp. James P. McClure, corp. James M. Adoo, corp. Daniel McRoberts, corp. Charles Campbell, farrier, trans. to Co. A July 31,1866. Privates. John H. Anderson. George Archer, must. in Feb. 16, 1864. William G. Banks, must. in March 31, 1864;ich. July 11,1866, to date Nov. 2, 1865. James R. Barber. John F. Brown. Colin Buchanan. David R. Bum. Joseph Beadleam. William Bolen. Henry Bish. George W. Bowie, must. in Dec. 2, 1863; trans. to Co. F, date unknown, Henry Burns, must. in Dec. 2,1863; trans. to Co. F, date unknown. John Baker, must. in Oct. 7,1864; trans. to Co. F, date unknown. William H. Bates. must. out Feb. 23, 1864. James M. Chamy, disch. by G. O. May 29, 1865. James Campsey, captured; died at Andersonville March 26,1864; grave 156. Thomas B. Callihan, captured; died at Andersonville June 7, 1964; grave 1702. Thomas Cain, died; buried in National Cemetery, Winchester, V., lot 17. Francis Cooley, must. in Nov. 28, 1862. John G. Coleman. Joseph Coiling. Emanuel Crawford. James Coiling. Jacob Casper. Lewis Carspicker, must. in Aug. 29,1884. Simon Donovan. John Deahl. Jacob B. Eleberger, disch. by G. O. July 13, 1865. William Ervay. Frederick M. Fleming, must. in Jan. 4, 1864; disch. by G. O. July 26, 1865. Frank C. Forbes, must. in Oct. 18, 1862; trans. to Co. A July 31,1866. Jonathan W. Fox. Carl Fulk. James Foster, must in March 21,1864; died April 19,1864; buried in National Cemetery, lot 26. Jacob Fry, must. in Feb. 22, 1864; trans. to Co. D, date unknown. John Frank, must. in April 20, 1863; trans. to Co. D, date unknown. C. O. Fitch, must. in Feb. 27, 1864. Jacob Fry, must. in Feb. 22, 1864. John Gilmore, trans. to Co. D, date unknown. Samuel Gravatt, must. in Feb. 22, 1864. Leander Hart. Benjamin F. Hill, Jr., killed at White Sulphur Springs Aug. 26,1863. John Harrison. James Hiatt. Samuel K. Isett, must. in Feb. 16, 1864. Jasper Jenny. Henry Jackson. James Jordan. Adam Lawhead, trans. to Co. A July 31, 1865. Jacob Lubold. Robert Lindsey, must. in Feb. 16, 1864. Hiram Maseuas, must. in Feb. 22, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 5,1865. William Mossman, must. In Feb. 16,1864; disch. by G. O. June 15,1865. Adam Miller. James C. Martin. John Moon. Franklin Martin. Chris. Mumbleding. WAR OF THE REBELLION - 349 William Murray, must. in Sept. 22, 1864; captured; died at Andersonville Dec. 8, 1864, grave 12,248. Samuel McGee, must. in March 24,1864; disch. by G. O. May 27,1866. John J. McGee, must. in March 24, 1864 ; disch. by G. O. May 27, 1865. Thomas A. McPeak, trans. to Co. A July 31,1865. Sylvester McEllfish, trans. to Co. A July 31, 1865. Sylvanus McAdoo. Robert McCombs. Matthias McClure. John C. McClain. Wilson McMurray. Edward McLaughlin. Andrew J. McPeak. John McDonald, trans. to Co. D, date unknown. Samuel Newhouse, must. in Oct. 29, 1862; dishonorably disch. July 15, 1868, to date Oct. 29, 1865. John Newport. Charles Nolan. Thomas O'Day, disch. by G. O. May 16, 1866. Joseph Oliver. Adam Pifer, must. in Feb. 22, 1864; trans. to Co. D. Michael Penner, trans. to Co. A July 31;1865. David Pecker. John A. Palm. Lambert Parkhill, must. in Jan. 19, 1864. Philip Rosenberger, must. in March 29, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 2, 1866. David Roberts. George W. Ryan. James G. Sees. James Simnes, John Stifen. John Sikup. David Siler. Ludwig Tett. John S. Todd. George Trussell. William J. Wilson, trans. to Co. A July 31, 1865. Patrick Welsh, trans. to Co. .A. July 31, 1865. John H. Wilson, captured; died at Andersonville April 27, 1864 ; grave 764. Jonathan L. Wilson. Andrew Wilson. James M. Wright. David Woods. James M. White. John Watson. Thomas White. Thomas B. Wilson. Gustavus Walter. Christian Wool. Winfield S. White. Matthew White, must. in Oct. 23, 1863. James Yokes, must. in March 25, 1864. CHAPTER XXIX. WAR. OF THE REBELLION.—(Continued.) The Sixteenth Cavalry.—The Sixteenth Cavalry, numbered the One Hundred and Sixty-first of the Pennsylvania line, and one of the most renowned cavalry regiments in the service of the United States in the war of the Rebellion, was raised in the fall of 1862, and composed of men from twenty counties of the State of Pennsylvania. The rendezvous was first established at Camp Simmons, near Harrisburg, but was afterwards removed to Camp McClellan, where the regimental organization was completed about the middle of November. The field-officers of the Sixteenth at its organization were: Colonel, John Irvin Gregg, a veteran of the Mexican war and a line-officer in the regular army; Lieutenant-Colonel, Lorenzo D. Rodgers, of Venango County; Majors, William A. West, of Fayette County, William H. Fry, of Philadelphia, and John Stroup, of Mifflin. One company of this regiment (" K" Company, commanded by Capt. Robert W. Parkinson) was raised in Washington County. On the 30th of November the regiment proceeded to Washington, D. C., and was moved thence to a - 23 - camp near Bladensburg, Md. On the 3d of January, 1863, it moved to the Rappahannock, and went into winter-quarters near the railroad bridge over Potomac Creek, being assigned to duty with Averill's brigade, which was then attached to the Army of the Potomac. Its winter duty was severe, it being almost continually on picket duty on a line nearly eight miles from the regimental camp. On the 17th of March, 1863, the Sixteenth fought its first battle at Kelly's Ford, on which occasion it occupied the right of the line and did its duty well, though with slight loss. In the spring campaign of 1863, which culminated in the battle of Chancellorsville, the Sixteenth was constantly active, the men being almost continually in the saddle from the 13th of April, when they left their winter-quarters, until the 5th of May, when the Army of the Potomac recrossed the Rappahannock after the disaster of Chancellorsville. During this time the regiment skirmished with the enemy's cavalry at Brandy Station (April 29th) and at Ely's Ford (May 2d), but in these affairs lost only one man killed. On the 25th of May the cavalry of the two armies were hotly engaged at Brandy Station, but the Sixteenth, being without saddles, did not take an active part in the fight. On the 11th of June it was brigaded with the Fourth Pennsylvania, Tenth New York, and First Maine Regiments of cavalry, forming the Second Brigade (under Col. J. I. Gregg) of the Second Division of the cavalry corps under Gen. Pleasonton. The Confederate army under Gen. Lee was moving to the invasion of Pennsylvania, and on the 13th of June the cavalry corps commenced the northward march which led to the battle-field of Gettysburg. On the 18th the Sixteenth took the advance, and was compelled to fight its way through nearly the entire day. On the following day it was the same, the Sixteenth fighting dismounted and taking the enemy's positions one after another, but only losing eleven killed and wounded. On the 21st the enemy again disputed the way, and were driven in some disorder through Ashby's Gap. In the conflict at Gettysburg the regiment with its brigade was partially engaged on the 2d of July, but suffered very slight loss. On the 3d it was in line and-under artillery fire, but not actively engaged. In the pursuit of Lee's retreating army, after the battle, it took active part, and on the 16th of July, beyond Shepherdstown, Va., it stood in line for eight hours, during a part of which time it bore the weight of a fierce attack of the Confederate cavalry, losing twenty-one killed and wounded. After the escape of Gen. Lee and the crossing of the Army of the Potomac into Virginia, the Sixteenth took part in nearly all the marches, countermarches, skirmishes, and fights of the cavalry corps during the remainder of the year down to the movement against the enemy's strong works at Mine Run, its aggregate losses in these operations being quite large. After the abandonment of the Mine Run campaign it re-