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HISTORY

OF THE

EIGHT Y-SEVENTH REGIMENT,

PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS,

PREPARED FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS, DIARIES,
AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES
OF INFORMATION.

BY

GEORGE R. PROWELL,

_
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS

AND PORTRAITS.
SS eee

YORK, PA.:
PRESS OF THE YORK DAILY.

1903.
*
PREFACE.

HE plan of this work is to tell the story of the Eighty-
T seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, from the
time it entered the service, in 1861, to the end of the great con-
flict for the preservation of the Union. The first chapters de-
scribe how the regiment was recruited and organized, and how
the soldiers went to war. Then follows a mental picture of the
daily life and acts of the men, portraying their sturdy courage
and devotion to the country and the flag, their experience in
camp, on the march, in battle, in the prison pen, and how the
returning soldiers were welcomed home.

To the comrades of the regiment, it is hoped the work will
present a stereoscopic view, a panorama of their career in the
army, which will take them back in memory to the time of their
early manhood, cause their pulses to thrill, and help them to
live over again those eventful years of the past. For the non-
military reader, the aim has been to make the history interest-
ing, instructive and entertaining, and show how the soldier of
the Civil War served and fought and endured to prevent the
dismemberment of the Union.

A comprehensive description of all the engagements has not
been attempted, but the part taken by the regiment in every
skirmish and battle in which it participated, is given in detail,
as well as an account of its long marches, during the entire
period of its service.

The project to prepare and publish the history of the regi-
ment originated at the reunion of 1897. It culminated in a
ye
reality, in 1900, through the enterprise of Captain W. H. Lantus,
of Company I, whose earnest support and intelligent judgment
made it possible for the appearance of the work.

During the preparation of the history, Captain John Fahs, of
Company A, and Lieutenant Stallman, of Company C, were
added to the Historical Committee appointed at the reunion,
and gave efficient aid and assistance. John C. Hoffman, of
Company G, was untiring in his efforts, and rendered faithful
service to the author. The regimental papers were loaned by
Colonel Schall; Lieutenant Colonel Stahle gave a helping hand
in many ways; Major Findlay I. Thomas furnished material of
important value, and Edward J. Chalfant spent many hours in
aiding the author to collect and arrange the historical data.

Many volumes of government publications were carefully
read for official information. The diaries of Lieutenant Charles
H. Stallman, Lewis I. Renaut, Captain Solomon Myers, Lewis
Frey, Jonathan S. May, Michael Heiman, James Oren, Henry
C. Pentz, George Blotcher and Captain George J. Chalfant,
and the information furnished by Captain Maish, Lieutenant
Strickler, Captain Blasser, Chaplain Eberhart, Corporal William
T. Ziegler, Michael Smyser, Charles E. Gotwalt, Howard F.
Andrews, Samuel B. Gray, H. L. Neuman, Philip M. Shive,
and other comrades, have been of the greatest value in the pre-
paration of the work, which it is hoped will be a valuable sou-
venir to the members of the regiment and their friends.

York, Pa., February 1, 1goo. G. R. P.
CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction— Organization of the Regiment—Camp Scott.

CHAPTER II.

Guarding the Northern Central Railroad—Camp McKim at Bal-
timore—Camp Jessie at New Creek, West Virginia.

CHAPTER III.

Campaign in West Virginia—Rowelsburg — Beverly — Clarks-
burg—Elkwater—Crab Bottom.

CHAPTER IV.

From New Creek to Winchester—The Winter Encampment at
Winchester.

CHAPTER V.

Campaign around Winchester—The Fight at Newtown—En-
gagement at Bunker Hill—Ba'tle of Carter’s Woods.

CHAPTER VI.

Joining the Army of the Potomac—Manasses Gap—Bealton
Station—Kelley’s Ford—Mine Run Campaign.

CHAPTER VII.

Winter Encampment at Brandy Station—Reorganization of the
Army of the Potomac—With the Sixth Corps.
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CHAPTER VIII.

Going out of Winter Quarters—Battle of the Wilderness.

CHAPTER Ix.

Battle of Spottsylvania—General Sedgwick Killed —General
Morris Wounded—Colonel Schall in Command of
the First Brigade.

CHAPTER X.

Movement to North Anna and Cold Harbor.

CHAPTER XI.

Battle of Cold Harbor.

CHAPTER XII.

Change of Base—March to the James River—Before Peters-
burg— Weldon Railroad.

CHAPTER XIII.

From Petersburg to Maryland—Battle of Monocacy.

CHAPTER XIV.

Campaign under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley—
Engagements at Snicker’s Gap and Charlestown—
Battles of Opequon and Fisher’s Hill.

CHAPTER XV.

The Battalion—Battle of Cedar Creek—Sent to the army of the
Potomac— Siege of Petersburg—End of the War.
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CHAPTER XVI.

Southern Prisons—The March to Staunton in 1863—Libby and
Belle Isle—One Hundred 87th Boys on the Way to Dan-
ville—Their Prison Experiences at Andersonville,
Millen, Blackshear, Florence and Salisbury.

CHAPTER XVII.

Return of the Regiment—Reception at York—Mustered out. of
the Service—Committees of Reception and Entertainment
—Regimental Association and Reunions.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Biographical—Roster of the Regiment.
 

loist of 28 Engagements.

NEwrown, Bunker Hitt,
WINCHESTER CartTER’s Woops,
Manassas Gap, BEALTON SYATION,
KELLEY’s Forp, Branby StTrarion,
Locust GROVE, Mine Run,
WILDERNESS, SPOTTSYLVANIA,
LavureEL HIt1, Po River,
Norru ANNa, ToLoporomy,
Co_p Harxpor, WeLvon RaiLroap,
PETERSBURG, Monocacy,
SNICKEk’S Gap, CHARLESTOWN,
OPEQUON, Fisuer’s Hit1,
CrEvAaR CREEK, KERNSTOWN,

SEIGE OF PETERSBURG, SAiLor’s CREEK.
CHAPTER I.

IN'TRODUCTION—ORGANIZATION OF
THE REGIMENT.

Union forces met with a reverse
on the 2tst of July, 1861, at Bull
Run, where the first hard fight-
ing of the Civil War took place.
The people who expected the
war to end in three months, and
were eager for a great battle,
now looked upon the situation
with anxiety and alarm. But the
distressed ship of state had a
firm hand at the helm. Presi-
dent Lincoln, as masterful a man
as the world ever knew, was
equal to every great occasion
during those dark times in our
country’s history. When he is-
sued his second call for troops to
defend and perpetuate the gov-
ernment which our forefathers had brought forth on this Con-
tinent, patriotic freemen from all the Northern States respond-
ed with alacrity. Failure had not diminished zeal for a good
catuise; disaster had not abated devotion to country, and five
hundred thousand men rushed to arms. It was this condition
of affairs and of public sentiment that gave birth to the Eighty-
Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, to serve for three
vears or during the war.

In the month of April, 1861, a few days after Fort Sumter

 
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was fired upon, the York Rifles, commanded by Captain George
Hay, and the Worth Infantry, under Captain Thomas A. Ziegle,
fully armed and equipped and under excellent drill and disci-
pline, offered their services to Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania. They were sent to Cockeysville, Maryland, to guard
the Northern Central Railroad, a part of which had been torn
up by Confederate sympathizers, in order to prevent the move-
ment of Union troops to the defense of Washington. On the
2oth of April, the day after the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment
was attacked by a mob while passing through Baltimore, the
York Rifles under Captain George Hay, with John W. Schall
as First Lieutenant, entered the three months’ service in re-
sponse to Lincoln’s first call for 75,000 volunteers, and became
‘Company K in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment. A com-
pany, raised by Captain Charles H. Buehler, of Gettysburg,
joined the same regiment. The Worth Infantry, York Volti-
quers, Hanover Infantry and Marion Rifles of Hanover entered
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel
Thomas A. Ziegle. When these regiments returned from the
three months’ service in July, the war for the preservation ot
the Union had only begun. The early enthusiasm which found
its outlet in a short term of enlistment had died away. The re-
verse at Bull Run showed the country what to expect, and the
government at Washington was stirred to renewed activity.

The Union sentiment in York was strong and found vent in
public meetings, where resolutions of patriotism and loyalty to
country were adopted and afterward published. On the roth of
August Captain George Hay received a commission as Colonel.
Lieutenant John W. Schall was chosen Lieutenant Colonel and
Captain Charles H. Buehler of Gettysburg, Major. Recruiting
was begun at once and Camp Scott on the Public Common be-
came the place of rendezvous and instruction. When fully or-
ganized the regiment numbered 38 commissioned officers and
rooo enlisted men.

Of the ten companies composing this regiment eight were
from York county and two from Adams.
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COMPANY A.

This company was originally the “Ellsworth Zouaves,” a
local military organization named in honor of that brave but ill-
fated officer who gave his life to his country at the opening of
the Civil War. The company was organized May 10, 1861, and
met regularly for practice in the old Vigilant engine house
which stood on the site of the Western National Bank, of York.
The offiiers chosen were James A. Stahle, Captain; Dr. Jacob
Hay, 1st Lieut.; John F. Spangler, 2d Lieut.; George J. Chal-
fant, 1st Sergt. The company was composed of young men
nearly all of whom were under age. They drilled almost every
evening in an up-stairs room of the Vigilant engine house or
on the common to the rear of the Motter House. The first
uniform was made of blue worsted goods and was close fitting.
Captain Stahle made a diligent study of tactics and soon had his
company quite proficient in the manual of arms. He made a
specialty of the Zouave drill. On July 4, 1861, a number of la-
dies of York presented the Zouaves with a beautiful flag. Rev.
James A. Brown, afterward chaplain of the 87th Regiment, made
the presentation speech. The flag was received on the part of
the company by Hon. John Gibson. It was made of blue silk,
ornamented with heavy straw-colored fringe. It has been kept
since the Civil War, by members of the company, and at the
time of this writing, is in the possession of Capt. John Fahs.
The Freystown band was attached to this company, on July 8.
It subsequently became the regimental band until August, 1862.
When arrangements had been completed to organize a new
regiment, with George Hay as Colonel, the Zouaves immediate-
ly offered their services. On August 24, 1861, almost the en-
tire company and a number of recruits were mustered into the
United States service by Lieutenant Tyrrell, of the Regular
Army. This ceremony took place on Newberry street in front
of the warehouse of Lewis Carl. The Zouaves then became
Company A of the 87th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
The company was commanded by Captain Stahle until Jan. 1,
1863, when he was promoted to Major of the Regiment. Lieut.
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Hay resigned in November, 1861, and was succeeded by John
Fahs, who was promoted to Captain Jan. 1, 1863, and command-
ed Company A in all the engagements in which the regiment
participated until June 23, 1864, when he was taken prisoner on
the skirmish line before Petersburg, Va. ist Lieut. John F.
Spangler, upon whom the command of the company now de-
volved, was killed at Monocacy, July 9, 1864. Company A did
not now have a commissioned officer and Captain James Adair
of Company F was placed in charge of it. George J: Chalfant,
who entered the company Aug. 23, 1862, became Captain of the
company in the battalion. January 1, 1863, 1st Sergt. William
Bierbower was promoted to 2d Lieutenant.

COMPANY B.

Company B was recruited by Jacob Detwiler, of Harrisburg,
John Crull, of Newberrytown, and Lewis Maish, of York. Near-
ly half of the original membership was from Harrisburg, and
other parts of Dauphin County. The balance was chiefly from
Newberry Township and the Borough of York. John Crull had

‘an extended experience as an officer in local military organiza-
tions. Twenty years before the war, he had been lieutenant in
a cavalry company, which drilled for a long time in his native
township. He commanded the Washington Guards, an infantry
company, composed of about sixty men, for six years. Captain
Crull brought a squad of forty-seven men to York as soon as
he heard that arrangements were being made for the organiza-
tion of a regiment. The men were rendezvoused on the old Fair
Grounds and camp life began by Lewis Maish taking charge of
the recruits and instructing them in foot movements and squad
drill. Some days later Jacob Detwiler reported in camp with
nearly fifty men from Dauphin County. On the following day
the officers chosen were Jacob Detwiler, Captain; John Crull,
1st Lieutenant; and Lewis Maish, 2d Lieutenant. The company
then moved to Camp Scott on the Common, being one of the
earliest to complete its organization. On September 14, it was
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CoLoNEL GEORGE HAY Major CHARLES H. BUEHLER.
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Army. Lieutenant Crull resigned July 26, 1863, and was suc-
ceeded by George C. Stroman, who was promoted to Adjutant
of the Regiment, July 10, 1864. Captain Detwiler was discharg-
ed on account of disability July 21, 1863, and during the month
of October following, Lewis Maish was promoted to the cap-
taincy of the company. He commanded it in all the engagements
of Grant’s campaign in 1864, until his capture near Petersburg
Va., June 23, of that year. James Tearney became Captain of
Company B, in the battalion Oct. 13, 1864, and was promoted
to Colonel in the veteran service May 23, 1865.

COMPANY C,

This company was largely recruited from Hopewell, Chance-
ford, Fawn, Lower Chanceford, Windsor and other townships
in the lower end of York County. A few members entered it
from York. Andrew J. Fulton, of Stewartstown, and Murray
S. Cross, of Windsor, brought to York on August 27, 1861, a
squad of men and went into camp. More recruits were added.
‘The company was organized with Andrew J. Fulton, Captain;
Murray S. Cross, tst Lieut.; and William E. Patterson, 2d Lieut.
These three officers had been in the three months’ service. On
September 14, Lieutenant Baldwin of the sth U. S. Artillery.
mustered the company into the service. It then had seventy
men, By the latter part of September the full quota of 100 men
had been enlisted. They were drilled in squads and by company
on the Public Common, at Camp Scott. Captain Fulton re-
mained in command of the company until Dec. 24, 1862, when lie
became Colonel of the 166th Pennsylvania Militia Regiment in
the 9 months’ service. Lieutenant Cross was promoted Captain
the following day, and commanded the company during the
remainder of the three years term of service. Samuel Saylor
became Ist Lieutenant. Charles H. Stallman entered Company
C as 3d Sergeant, was soon promoted to Sergeant Major. He
was commissioned 2d Lieutenant Dec. 25, 1862, and upon the
resignation of Lieutenant Saylor in January, 1864, was promoted
ist Lieutenant. He was taken prisoner June 22, 1864.
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COMPANY D. F

During the latter part of August, 1861, Noah G. Ruhl, of
Shrewsbury, was requested by Col. Hay to raise a: company
in that locality. He had previously served a term of five years in

the Regular Army was Sergeant Major of the 4th U. S. Infan-
try in the Mexican War. On the roth of August, James H.

Blasser was the first member to enroll his name as a volunteer
in this company. His father, George Blasser, of Shrewsbury,
and Henry Seitz, of Glen Rock, began to assist in recruiting the
company. Early in September, they were ordered to York,
where the company was organized with Noah G. Ruhl, Cap-
tain; George Blasser, 1st Lieut.; and Henry Seitz, 2d Lieut.;
James H. Blasser, 1st Sergt.; and Edgar M. Ruhl, son of the
Captain, 2d Sergt. Sept. 19 the company was mustered into the
service by Lieut. Baldwin. A number were added to the com-
pany on the 25th. It then had 96 enlisted men, which with the
commissioned officers made 99 men. More were soon added
making the full complement of 100 men. Peter Ford, who first
enlisted with Company D, became quartermaster of the regi-
ment. Company D was uniformed the same day it was muster-
ed into the service. The men were then marched to the Variety
Iron Works, owned by Small & Smyser,where each man received
a large musket of Harper’s Ferry manufacture. They had been
changed from the old time flint-lock to a percussion gun. With
these muskets, a ball and three buckshot in one cartridge, were
used. The cartridge had to be torn open with the teeth. A man
having lost his front teeth could not enlist. The other compa-
nies were provided with the same kind of gun. A few months
later the Austrian rifles, and later the Springfield rifles were sup-
plied the regiment. Henry Seitz resigned, and Sergeant Blas-
ser succeeded him as 2d Lieut. George Blasser resigned Octo-
ber 25, 1862, and his son became First Lieutenant, and Edgar
M. Ruhl, 2d Lieut. When Captain Ruhl was promoted to Ma-
jor of the Regiment May 9, 1863, Lieut. James H. Blasser was
promoted to Captain of the company. At the same time E. M.
Ruhl was made Ist Lieut., and W. H. H. Welsh, 2d Lieut. On
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March 19, 1864, Captain Blasser resigned his commission, and
Edgar M. Ruhl was promoted to Captain. He was killed at Ce-
dar Creek October 19, 1864. Lieut. Welsh was captured at
Winchester, June 15, 1863, and was a prisoner of war until 1865

COMPANY E.

Solomon Myers had been a member of the Worth Infantry
of York for several years before it entered the army at the open-
ing of the war, in the 16th Penna. Regiment, as Company A, of
which he was 1st Lieutenant. Soon after expiration of their three
months term of service Lieut. Myers began to recruit a com
pany for three years. With the assistance of William F. Frank
he had enlisted about 60 men, when Isaac Hull brought a squad
to York from Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County. An organ-
ization was then effected, with Solomon Myers, Captain; Wil-
liam F. Frank, rst Lieut.; and Isaac Hull, 2d Lieut. A few more
men were added from York, and when the full quota of 100 was.
recruited, Lieut. Baldwin on Sept. 13 mustered thern into the
service on the York Common as Company E of the 87th Regi-
ment. Drill in squads and by company was at once begun.
Captain Myers remained in command of his company, except
while on recruiting service for three months during the spring of
1864, until the end of the three years term. Lieut. Frank was
discharged on account of physical disability, Jan. 17, 1863, and
Lieut. Hull early in 1864. Alexander Strickler, who had been
a member of the Worth Infantry five years, and went with it in-
to the three months’ service, enlisted as 1st Sergeant in com-
pany E. In January, 1863, he was promoted 2d Lieut., and ear-
ly in the spring of 1864, to rst Lieut. He commanded the com-
pany in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, and on the famous
charge at Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864. Captain Myers returned
to the Regiment June 2. Charles J. Fox, who became 2d Lieut.
in June, 1864, was wounded and captured before Petersburg
Va., June 23, 1864, and afterward was promoted to Captain in
the veteran service. 2d Lieut. Peter Nickle was killed near
Petersburg, April 2, 1865. This was the color company of the
regiment.
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COMPANY F.

‘This company was recruited by Captain Buehler, William J
Martin and James Adair at Gettysburg, Pa., during the latter
part of August, 1861. Captain Buehler had lately returned
from the army, where he commanded Company E in the 2d Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the three months’ service.
Many of Captain Buehler’s men at once re-enlisted for three
years. They resided in Gettysburg and vicinity. All the non-
commissioned officers in the new company had been in the three
months’ service. The balance of the company was recruited
in and around Gettysburg. On Sept. 2, with 84 men, Captain
Buehler came to York, via Hanover Junction, and in the after-
noon marched to the Fair Grounds, where several days were
spent and then they moved to Camp Scott, on the Public Com-
mon. William J. Martin was chosen Ist Lieut. and James
Adair 2d Lieut. On Sept. 14 Captain Buehler was chosen
Major of the Regiment, William J. Martin was made Captain,
James Adair 1st Lieut. and Theodore Norris 2d Lieut. The
company was now armed, equipped and ready for duty. Captain
Martin had considerable experience in military matters, and
proved to be an excellent drill master, but a wife and several
small children then at his Gettysburg home, needed his pres-
ence there, and on Sept. 13, 1862, he resigned. Lieut. Adair
was promoted Captain and was in command of Company F dur-
ing the balance of the three years’ term of service. Lieut Baker
was captured at Monocacy and held for several months a pris-
oner of war. Corporal Skelley engaged to be married to Jennie
Wade, the only woman killed in the battle of Gettysburg, died
of wounds received at Winchester, Va., on June 15, 1863; Cor-
poral Sheads was killed at Monocacy. Among the 27 survivors
of the company are Captain Adair, now of New York, and Cor-
poral Wm. T. Ziegler, of Gettysburg, ex-member of Pennsyl-
vania Legislature.

COMPANY G.

Company G was recruited at Hanover by Vincent C. S.

Eckert, ex-member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and Henry
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Morningstar. The latter had just returned from the three
months’ service as 1st Lieut. in the Hanover Infantry which
belonged to the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by
Col. Thomas A. Ziegle, of York. Among the recruits of Com-
pany G who had served with the Hanover Infantry were, Isaac
Wagner, William C. Waldman, Henry Strine, William Neuman,
Silas C. Yingling and Lewis I. Renaut. The last mentioned
became principal musician of the regiment. When the company
was organized. V. C. S. Eckert was chosen Captain, Henry
Morningstar 1st Lieut., and Robert A. Daniel, of Ohio, then a
teacher in York County, 2nd Lieut. Some members of the com-
pany enlisted from York and other sections of the county. They
were mustered into the service Sept. 25, 1861. Captain Eckert
retired from the service Sept. 1, 1863. Lieut. Morningstar,
who was captured at Winchester June 15, 1863. was promoted
to Captain, but he was held a prisoner of war until March, 1865.
Robert A. Daniel, who became tst Lieut. Dec. 1, 1863, com-
manded the company in most of the engagements in which it
participated. Private Hoffman, of Company G, became regi-
mental postmaster in July, 1864. Sergt. Daniel L. Welsh was
killed at Monocacy July 9, 1864. Lieut. W. C. Waldman be-
came Adjt. in the veteran service; Sergt. Andrew G. Shull be-
came Ist Lieut. Co. D. Samuel W. Keasey, who became 2d
Lieut. Co. D, Jan. 21, 1865, was killed at Petersburg April 2,
1865.

COMPANY H.

When the news of the plan to organize a regiment at York
had reached the village of Wellsville a company was recruited in
Warrington and adjoining townships, and was organized with
Ross L. Harman Captain, Wells A. Farrah 1st. Lieut. and John
L. Shilito 2nd Lieut. The company was mustered into the
service September 19, 1861. Captain Harman resigned Jan.
18, 1863, and Lieut. Shilito Aug. 16, 1862. These vacancies
were filled by the promotion of Lieut. Farrah to Captain and
Andrew B. Smith 1st Lieut. R. S. Slaymaker was promoted
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from Sergt. Major to 2d Lieut. Jan. 1, 1863. Lieut. Slothower,
who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill, near Winchester, Va.,
June 13, 1863, was the first officer in the regiment to be killed.
Two days later Captain Wells A. Farrah was mortally wounded
in the last charge at Carter’s woods, and died soon after in the
hands of the enemy. For a time the company was command-
ed by Lieut. Alexander Strickler of Company E. Philip
Gentzler was made Captain April 5, 1864. In the hard fought
battle at Monocacy, Maryland, Daniel P. Dietrich, who was
chosen 1st Lieut. April 5, 1864, was killed. Wm. S. Culp was
promoted ist Lieut. from Sergt. Major Sept. 15, 1864, and quar-
termaster of the veteran organization Dec. 13, 1864. Isaac
Wagner was promoted 2nd Lieut. Sept. 18, 1864. Company H.
lost three commissioned officers in battle.

COMPANY I.

The nucleus of this company was a military organization at
New Oxford, Adams County, Pa., which Thaddeus Stevens
Pfeiffer had been drilling in the early months of 1861. His
father conducted an academy in New Oxford. The son and
some of the boys had been students in this institution, and Dr.
Pfieffer himself assisted the captain in training them in the man-
ual of arms. Every Saturday these boys, dressed in red trous-
ers, blue jackets and red caps, drilled in Centre Square, then
marched out of town and back again. The company had fifty
members. Anthony M. Martin, was 1st Lieutenant, and James
Hersh, 2d Lieutenant.

When Captain Pfeiffer heard of the organization of a Regi-
ment at York, he began to recruit a company for the military
service, and on one of the last days of August, 1861, started for
York. Their departure from New Oxford was an eventful day
for the village. Crowds of people went to the train to see them
off. Upon their arrival at York they marched to the old Fair
Grounds, and spent the first night in a large building there. A
number of recruits from Abbottstown, McSherrystown, Littles-
town, Conewago, and other parts of Adams County, and a few
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from York County were enrolled. The full number of 100 men
had now been enlisted. After a few days of drill in squads and
by company, they were mustered into the service for three years
by Lieut. Baldwin. Captain Pfeiffer was killed in front of the
works at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. W. H. Lanius who had
enlisted as a private in Co. A, August 25th, 1861, was transfer-
red to this company as Ist Sergt. about ten days after; was ap-
pointed 2d Lieut., March 2, 1863, promoted to 1st Lieut., Dec.
7, 1863, and was commissioned Captain of Company I, June 24,
1864. Captain Lanius served as an aide on the brigade staff
from May 9 to July 9, 1864, when he was wounded at the bat-
tle of Monocacy. After his return to the Regiment, he com-
manded his company during Sheridan’s campaign in the Valley
of Virginia until the end of the three years’ term of service.
During the time he was a staff officer, his company was com-
manded in the field by Lieut. Edward J. Coe. Anthony M. Mar-
tin who served as Ist Lieut. from date of organization of this
company was promoted to Adjutant of the Regiment November
18, 1863, was killed at the battle of Monocacy July 9, 1864.

Findlay I. Thomas was brevetted Major for gallantry before
Petersburg ‘April 2, 1865.

COMPANY K.

‘John W. Schall, a native of Bucks county and a graduate of
the Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont, was engaged in the
mercantile business in York when the war opened. He entered
the army as Ist Lieutenant in the York Rifles, a local military
company, which enlisted in the three months’ service with
George Hay as captain, April 19, 1861, the day of the riot in
Baltimore city. This company responded to the first call for
troops by President Lincoln.

At the expiration of the term of enlistment Lieut. Schall re-
cruited a company for the three years’ service and many of his
former command joined it. The company was organized with
John W. Schall Captain, Dr. John MclIlvain ist Lieut., and Jacob
Emmitt 2nd Lieut. They were mustered into the service at
York by Captain Tyrrell, of the Regular Army, Aug. 24, 1861.
Captain Schall was in command of the company until Sept. 14,
1861, when he was tendered the position of colonel of a regi-
ment to be organized in York. Declining this offer in favor of
Col. George Hay, he accepted the lieutenant colonelcy of the
regiment.

John W. Albright, who was active in recruiting men for Capt.
Schall’s company, was commissioned captain Sept. 14, 1861,
and Charles F. Haack at the same time was made 2d Lieut
succeeding Jacob Emmitt, who was promoted to adjutant of the
regiment. Lieut. McIlvain was promoted to assistant surgeon
of the 68th Pennsylvania Regiment, March 23, 1863, and Charles
F, Haack succeeded him as 1st Lieutenant of the company.Chas.
P. Stroman was chosen 2nd Lieut, Captain Albright and Lieut.
Stroman were both captured at Winchester, Virginia, June 15,
1863, and remained prisoners of war until March 12, 1865, when
with other officers of the regiment, they were discharged hy
special order. From June 15, 1863, to July 9, 1864, when he
was killed at the battle of Monocacy, the command of Company
K devolved upon Lieut. Haack. As the coinpany had no com-
missioned officer present after Monocacy, it was placed in charge
of Lieut. Strickler, of Company E, who commanded it untii he
took sick during the following August. Sergeant Lewis R.
Haack, brother of Lieut. Haack, was in charge of the company
during part of the Valley campaign under Gen. Sheridan.
CHAPTER II.

GUARDING THE RAILROAD—CAMP M’KIM—CAMP JESSIE.

“7 N the morning of September 16
1861, Companies A, B, E, J and K
being fully armed and equipped,
left York in charge of Lieut. Col.
Schall to perform guard duty
along the Northern Central Rail-
way. They relieved the 2oth In-
diana Regiment and were distrib-
uted along the road from the
Pennsylvania line to Baltimore.
Each company was assigned the
duty of guarding about five miles
of track, keeping special watch of
the numerous bridges.

They were stationed as follows:
Company B, under Captain Det-
wiler, from New Freedom to Parkton, with headquarters at Bee
Tree; Company I, Captain Pfeiffer, from Parkton to Monkton
with headquarters at White Hall; Company E, Captain Myers,
from Monkton to Cockeysville with headquarters at St. James’
Switch; Company K, Captain Albright, from Cockeysville to
Relay House with headquarters at the latter place; Company
A, Captain Stahle, from Relay House to Woodberry where the
line of guard ended, with headquarters at Melvale.

‘The remaining five companies, C, D, F, G and H, left for
Cockeysville, then the regimental headquarters, at 9 a. m. Sat-
urday, September 29. They were commanded, respectively,

  
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by Captains Fulton, Ruhl, Martin, Eckert and Harman. This
detachment was accompanied by the regimental band, under
the leadership of Captain William Frey. Each regiment during
the first year of the war was allowed to have a band whose
members were paid by the government. The band was given
quarters near those of the field and staff officers at Cockeysville.

Some of the companies remained at regimental headquarters,
while others soon relieved companies on guard.

Each company in the regiment was divided into squads, which
were usually in charge of a non-commissioned officer. These
squads guarded the numerous bridges distributed along the
line of the railroad.

The Northern Central was a main line of transportation to the
front from the North and the West. It was a safer route to
Washington and the army than the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, which was frequently torn up by the enemy at places in
Western Virginia, and part of Maryland. There was a constant
movement of troops and supplies through Pittsburg, Harris-
burg, York and Baltimore to the Army of the Potomac, then
near the National Capital. During the exciting and uncertain
period of the early part of the war, the guarding of this line of
road was a very important and responsible duty. The company
commanders were enjoined by Col. Hay to exercise the strictest
vigilance in guarding the bridges, as there were many Confed-
erate sympathizers in Baltimore and in other parts of Maryland,
who were arming themselves for the war.

The regimental headquarters, and the tents of five com-
panies was called Camp Dix, in honor of Gen. John A.
Dix, of New York, who had been appointed to the command
of the Middle Department with headquarters at Baltimore.

‘The regiment was especially fortunate in its field staff and
line officers, most of whom had been in the three months’ ser-
vice, or had long training and experience in drilling military
companies at home. The Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major
and some of the captains were good tacticians. The companies
were distributed along so many miles of track that it was never
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possible to have the entire regiment meet until the following
year. The practical applications of the principles in the school
of the scldier were thoroughly taught. Guardmount, squad
drill and company drill were practiced with precision and regu-
larity. Some men in each company had an acquaintance with
military movements, while others who came direct from the
farm or the workshop needed special training. The drill in the
“facings,” often disclosed the fact that many men otherwise in-
telligent, were not always certain which was the right hand or
which the left. When the order “right face” was given, face
sometimes met face with inquiring astonishment and quick at-
tempts to obey the order, made still greater confusion. The
drill in marching and wheeling often resulted in uncertain lines.

These were ripples upon the surface of the volunteer’s life.
Beneath was the deep resolve on the part of these men to act
well the part assigned them in the great tragedy of the Rebellion.
The record of the conduct of the regiment, on many a battle-
field, the graves of comrades in the Sunny Southland, the arm-
less sleeves and the folded pantaloons of survivors at the end of
that struggle, were evidence of faithful execution of that resolve.

The larger part of the time spent along the railroad was de-
voted to fitting the men by drill and discipline, for the life that
was before them. The days of hard tack had already come.
The evil hour of salt pork had arrived, though fresh beef and
raised bread were frequently furnished. But the sanitary con-
ditions were watched with zealous care. It is doubtful whether
any regiment in the field during the Civil War had officers who
looked more faithfully after the comfort and physical welfare of
their men than Colonel Hay and his field staff and line.

After the men had been drilled in squads and by companies
for about a month, the field officers called together seven com-
panies for battalion drill in a field that sloped toward the rail-
road. When the order “Forward March” was given, a delight-
ful and inspiring sight was afforded the spectator. The men
moved down the slope with steady ringing tread in almost per-
fect alignment. The big Harper’s Ferry muskets, finely polished,
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gleamed and shimmered in the sunlight. It was indeed a success,
such as marked the exhibition drills given by the regiment on
several occasions afterward. They seemed invincible as they
marched on, the band playing, the colors flying, a martial spirit
in the very air, until some unfortunate boys to the left stepped
on a bumble bee’s nest, and a moment later on another nest.
They were regular black-headed Maryland buzzers and stingers,
and soon began a spirited attack. The line was temporarily
broken along the left and the amusing antics of some of the men
excited the risibilities of the sternest officers. It was a
dearly-bought victory for the bumble bees. Camp kettles filled
with hot water were hurried to “the front,’ and the live bumble
bees soon disappearea from the face of the earth.

‘he company cook was a character, invested with all the
dignity of his important position. It was his duty to deal out
the rations. Coffee came in quart or pint tin cups, bacon, salt
pork, or beef, on tin plates, and bread or hard tack with out-
stretched hands. The boys learned to eat their meals sitting on
the grass or around improvised tables with a relish and avidity
that told of peaceful complacency and easy digestion. Some of
the boys indeed longed, not for the flesh pots of ancient Egypt,
but the pepper pots, sweet cream, apple butter and other appe-
tizers of their homes. At noon the sun looked straight down
upon the bean soup, salt pork and sometimes roast beef, vege-
tables and half melted cooks.

The enforcement of discipline and obedience to order; the
yielding up of the individuality and personal will soon compact-
ed each company, and eventually the regiment into a whole, to
be wielded by one man as a weapon of offence or defence—ready
to be hurled against an enemy to overwhelm, or to stand as
adamant to oppose the advance of an approaching foe.

In the evenings of the early fall, after the sun had given place
to the moon, pranks of course were played without being
noticed. Some of the men changed into boys and did whatever
mischief their hands found to do. A wag in one squad gath-
ered all the toads he could find near the company headquarters
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and tied them in the legs of a comrade’s pantaloons. The next
morning the owner of the trousers, not at all confounded said
with a smile:

“Boys, I didn’t think any of you would be guilty of toadying
to me in this way.”

The story of James Fisher nick-named “tanglefoot” of Com-
pany I, when he was mustered into service at York was never
forgotten. The company was drawn up in line and each man
was ordered to march double quick for some distance, halt and
then return the same way. He had marched but a short dis-
tance when he gave himself a twist causing a lameness in one
foot.

“Pass out,” said the mustering officer in a stern voice.

Jimmie straightened himself up, marched a double quick, came
back, and then turned a hand spring three times, landing ‘in
front of the officer, who said with a smile:

“You'll do; a regular athlete I guess.” And the whole com-
pany laughed. Playing at cards was one of their chief pas-
times in camp. One night a party of boys disobeyed orders
and continued a game after 10 p. m. even to an early morning
hour. A German in the company who claimed that he was
disturbed by the noise they made, reported their disobedience
to the captain. Two other boys of the same company went
without leave to a corn husking party at a neighboring farm
house, and the captain found out their violation of rules. They
were all sentenced to the wood pile. The next day the Dutch-
man looking on remarked. ‘Das ist die weg, es geht, die boys.
who zu die barty goes, carries die wood und die boys who
cards play, schplitts it.” The day for rigid discipline had not
yet come. Akinson Powell, a good soldier who afterward was.
killed in the battle of Winchester, was the first to sound the
tocsin of war. He was a member of one of the squads, belong-
ing to Company B, and was on duty at a bridge five hundred
yards or more from the company headquarters at Bee Tree.
About the hour of midnight, in one of the early days of, Octo-

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ber, he fired a shot at some “rebels,” who would not heed his
challenge to “halt.”

Captain Detwiler, Lieutenant Maish and the cook were
the first to be aroused from their slumbers. Then Musician
‘Barringer and Private Corl gave the alarm and awakened every
man in camp. They sounded the long roll with tremendous
effect.

“Fall in and let every man be ready for a double quick,”
‘shouted the captain with great earnestness. Away they moved
‘toward the sentinel, who had met the enemy.

“Let this be a chance for every man to show his courage,”
‘said the lieutenant as the march began. A\ll in line seemed
‘anxious for a fight, and they were soon at the “scene of action.”

“Where is the enemy?” asked the captain.

“There are some bridge burners down there in the thicket,
and I’m waiting till they move again, to get another whack at
them,” said the sentinel.

A diligent search was made in the dark, when the company
cook, armed with his fifteen pound musket, stumbled over a
dead animal, along the edge of the thicket. The company re-
turned to its quarters and the next day Farmer Walker came
into camp, mourning the loss of his horse. The sentinel had
shot him. On the early morning of Oct. 22, there was an alarm
in camp at Cockeysville and Company C marched to Luther-
ville, but returned the same day without seeing the enemy.

Two weeks after Company I went on duty at White Hall, a
sentinel near Monkton, fired a shot at a supposed bridge
burner. The report of his gun awakened the entire squad, and
another one nearby. The men moved ona double quick to the
assistance of the guard, and found the entire force of rebels to
‘be a cow whose life was saved by the ball from the sentinel’s
musket missing its mark.

On Saturday evening, September 29, a detachment
of 40 men from Company K, under command of Cap-
tain Albright and Lieutenant MclIlvain, went to Westminster,
Maryland, and disarmed a company recruiting for the Confed-
erate service. Upon arriving at the town they found that the
secessionists were drilling in the armory. They entered the
hall by a rear door with a rush, and soon frightened the Mary-
landers into surrendering their arms which were taken back to
the company headquarters at Relay House.

Having succeeded so welt on this expedition, another was
planned on October 12. This time the same number of men went
in a train to Westminster and then marched 18 miles to a
small village in Maryland. After a slight resistance they cap-
tured thirty Springfield rifles in Confederate hands. It was
Saturday alternoon,but having provided three days’ rations they
went four miles farther on, to Liberty. The village physician,
a loyal man, invited them to remain over night. The following
day they went through the manual of arms on the village green.
much to the admiration of the citizens. A company of thirty
Confederate sympathizers were compelled to surrender their
Springfield rifles. In the afternoon Captain Albright and his
men marched in a drenching rain to Westminster, and slept in a
hall. They returned with their prizes the next morning. Soon
after arriving at headquarters at Cockeysville Company F was
sent down to guard the line from Timonium, nearly to the Relay
House, with company headquarters under command of Cap-
tain Martin, at Lutherville, where barracks were erected for
winter quarters. Here the company recruited a few members.
Spangler Welsh, of York, who joined the company Oct. 22, was
umber 98 on the company rolls.

Company G early in October was sent to White Hall. A
squad under Lieut. Daniel was stationed at Burns’ Switch, be-
tween White Hall and Parkton. Early in November,Company
B was relieved by Company C, and together with Company I,
went to regimental headquarters for the winter. Company K
went first to Relay House, later moved to Falls Road and put
up frame barracks. ,

Lieutenant Crull taught Company B anew movement. The
command was, “Advance from the centre, inward face,’ while
marching on a flank. Then the centre four would advance, the
right and left would face inward, toward the centre, and march
together, following the centre four. That would bring the com-
pany into fours. It would march in that way until the command
“Into line, march,” was given, when the men would double
quick right and left, and get into company front again. This
movement became very popular and attracted considerable at-
tention. Col. Hay took a liking to it. One day, a number of
ladies and gentlemen from York visited the regimental head-
quarters. ‘The Colonel requested Company B to drill according
to the new movement. Captain Detwiler determined to show
off his command himself.

The drilling place was a large open field, where he put the
boys through the various movements of the drill with success,
until Major Buehler said “Well done.” Then he marched his
company in fours to headquarters, where the portico was crowd-
ed with visitors, who admired the movement of the troops as
they came up the pike. When they moved in front of the visi-
tors, the Captain with a certain lapse of memory shouted “Left
into line,” which all the boys knew was a mistake. Bent on
some fun, they obeyed the command. A minute later the whole
company was in confusion.

“Tut, tut, what are you doing,” exclaimed the bewildered cap-
tain.”

“You gave the wrong command,” squeaked the smallest boy
in the ranks. But they went through the evolutions with ad-
mirable effect afterward and then marched back to their quar-
ters.

The big Harper’s Ferry muskets, each weighing about fifteen
pounds, were too heavy and cumbersome. When they were fired
off, they kicked like a small cannon. They were exchanged for
the Austrian rifle. This was a much shorter and lighter gun
and seemed like a toy in comparison to the old one. They fired
a minie ball of small calibre. The following year Enfield rifles
were supplied. Later came the famous Springfield muskets very
extensively used by the army during the last two years of the war.

The companies were all furnished with ammunition for
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target shooting, which was frequently practiced, until a majority
of the regiment became fairly good marksmen. Each man was
required to stand in front of his company and fire at an object.

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Squad, platoon and company firing were also practiced. When
the Austrian rifle with the elevated rear sight, was furnished the
regiment, the men were taught to fire with different elevations
of the rear sight. By means of this rear sight, a good aim could
hit a target at distances ranging from 100 to 1,000 yards.
Company A remained at Melvale during the whole time the
regiment was on guard duty along the railroad. A squad under
Sergeant B. F. Frick, was stationed at Woodberry; another squad
in charge of Sergeant W. F. Zorger a short distance north of
Melvale; still another under Corporal Denues at Mt. Washing-
ton, This company being nearest Baltimore, received many vis-
itors from the city. Like the other companies they erected
frame barracks, two stories high. The bunks were on. the sec-
ond floor, cooking department down stairs, and the captain’s
office on the same floor. The.men were all brought together
for company drill. Captain Stahle continued the Zouave drill,
and introduced new movements. ‘Later, a regulation Zouave
aniform was purchased, and then the company gave an exhibi-
tion drill in Monument Square, Baltimore. It was witnessed by
many spectators. Then they were invited to a flag raising in the
12th ward. The regimental band was along and enlivened the
occasion with excellent martial music.

The drill of Company A, by the beat of the drum, othe hands
of Frank Barnhart, was interesting. The “deaf and dumb” drill
by which this company and some of the others went through
the various evolutions without any command or signal, received
favorable comment wherever witnessed.

In all marches and exhibition drills bow-legged Harry Fink,
the trained fifer of Company A, did his best and his music was
highly appreciated.

The musical club formed at Melvale was in demand on
many occasions. This club was composed of B. F. Frick, W. F.
Zorger, Captain Fahs, Jacob S. Upp, R. S. Slaymaker,C. A. Lau-
master, Henry C, Pentz, Henry Shultz and Samuel Evans.

Members from other companies joined it afterward and they
made the welkin ring around the historic old town of Winches-
ter, Va., during the winter of 1863.

Rev. Dr. James A. Brown, who afterward became president of
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, was the first chaplain. of
the regiment. ‘He conducted religious services regularly at
Cockeysville, and at stated times, went to visit the different com-
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panies and preach to them. Dr. Brown continued in the service
until July 16, 1862, when he resigned, and became chaplain for
the U. S. hospital at York.

Major Buehler’s wife spent several months of the winter and
spring with her husband at Cockeysville. February 17 the regi-
ment received pay for two months and the same day celebrated
the surrender of Fort Donelson to Gen. Grant. John Kipp, of
Company A went to Baltimore to receive instructions in taking
care of the sick and wounded. Feb. 22, seven companies assem-
bled in Baltimore, where Major Gillen, in behalf of Governor
Curtin, presented the regiment with a beautiful state flag. The
chap‘ain responded to the eloquent presentation speech.

On the morning of May 30, eight companies of the regiment
assembled at Cockeysville, and marched to Towsontown. For
two hours the soldiers delighted a large crowd of people, by a
military drill. The boys were in fine trim that day, and created
a very good impression. There was a “grand Union celebra-
tion,’ in the Court House in the evening. The interior of the
building was decorated with numerous flags, wreaths, and spring
flowers in rich profusion. The band under leadership of Cap-
tain William Frey played patriotic selections, beginning and
concluding the exercises with “The Star Spangled banner.” The
audience joined in singing this national air and great enthusiasm
prevailed. The meeting was addressed by J. I. Stewart, of the
Towson Bar. Before adjournment, handsome bouquets were
presented to Col. Hay, Lieut. Col. Schall, Major Buehler and
Adjutant Emmett. A banquet was given to the officers of the
regiment and to the band.

The following named soldiers died while the regiment was on
duty along the railroad: Company A, Charles Dellinger and
Samuel Miles; Company C, Henry Wagner; Company F, Ed-
ward Seitz, Forrest Little and Samuel Wysotsky. Benjamin
Snyder, of Company K, was killed by train.

The roll of the 87th Band was as follows: William Frey,
leader; John Lehr, Henry Blum, H. J. Frey, William Wygant,
George Luff, John Frey, Jacob Gilbert, John Blum, William
Rupp, Edward Blauser, John Miller, Emanuel Frey, Calvin
Gilbert, Theodore Slentz, John L. Sheffer, George Bush, Chris-
tian Bender, John Zimmerman. The band was stationed at
regimental headquarters at Cockeysville. It was a noted or
ganization, with an excellent reputation for discoursing fine mu-
sic. While at Cockeysville, the members occupied a school
house for their quarters. Each man was armed with a sword
and a revolver. They had to perform guard duty and were re-
quired to be on hand at dress parade, and take the lead in all
marches. The band was divided into three classes with regard
to pay and rank. Four of them ranked as orderly sergeants,
four as corporals, the balance as privates. They received their
pay from the government, and when pay day came along, by mu-
tual agreement the money was thrown together and divided
equally among all members.

Becoming tired of guard duty along the railroad,the regiment
asked to be relieved. The request was granied and on May 18.
1862, all the companies rendezvoused at Hampden, three miles
from Baltimore. Here, for the first time since entering the
service, the entire regiment met and drilled. On May 24, they
went into camp on McKim’s hill, a short distance east of the
present site of Union Station, Baltimore. ‘Shree days later the
six right companies and a battery, under Col. Hay, were sent
to Monocacy Bridge. They arrived there at 6 a. m. of the 2gth.
The roar of the enemy’s guns was heard in the direction of Har-
per’s Ferry, After the danger of an invasion of Maryland had
subsided, Colonel Hay and his men returned to Mclkim’s hill,
on June 9.

The encampment at Baltimore was a centre of interest and
attraction. It was the first opportunity the officers had to show
how well the men had learned the art of war. Large crowds of
people came to witness the exhibition drills and dress parades.
The Baltimore “Clipper” of June 17 said: ‘The 87th Regiment
Penn’a Volunteers in camp on McKim’s. Hill displays excel-
lent training in drill and discipline. The conduct of the men since
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favorable comment. On Sunday afternoon last, the regiment
on dress parade showed off to fine effect in the presence of a
large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen of our city.”

But camp life at Baltimore was soon to end. Virginia was
the battle ground for the armies in the East, and to some part
of that State the regiment expected soon to go. It was the wish
of the officers and men to be transferred to the seat of war. For
no one now thought the war would end without a great struggle.
Sad reflections filled the mind, but the true hearted and tender
are among the bravest of men. When the hail of bullets swept
the field. when shells shrieked and made hideous music above
and around them, as those missiles of war did at Winchester.
Spottsylvania, Cold Habor, Petersburg, Monocacy, Opequon and
Fisher’s Hill, these sanie men marched to the front with faces
stern and lips firmly set. They were typicai of a class of pa-
triots, from all over the North who volunteered to defend thie
country and the flag during the dark days of the Rebellion.

On the evening of June 22, orders came to prepare to move
the following morning; it was supposed to Harper’s Ferry, but
no one knew where. Tents and all camp equipments were to be
sent to the Baltimore and Ohio Station, in the early morning.
By 8 a. m. the regiment was on its way westward through Mary-
land. After a short halt at Harper’s Ferry, the train moved on
to Martinsburg, and arrived at Hancock at 10 a. m. on the 24th.

After stopping an hour or two at Cumberland, Maryland, the
regiment was moved on to New Creek, then a village of half a
dozen houses, in West Virginia, between Cumberland and
Piedmont. On the site of New Creek has since been built the
flourishing town of Keyser. The regimeni encamped on low.
ground between the Potomac river and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.

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were in camp near the A tents of the 87th. This command was
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post at New Creek, where a considerable supply of quartermas-
ter’s stores had been kept.

The camping ground was low and unhealthy. A number of
the men took sick and a few died of fever, among whom was
Jonathan Barnitz, a descendant of General Michael Woudel.
Both regiments then moved to higher ground, near Fort
Fuller, which was being enlarged and made stronger. Details
of men from both regiments were put to work to complete the
fortifications. Lieutenant Hull, of Company E, and Captain
Coffey, of the 23d Illinois, while out with a detail of men from
their regiments working on the fort, met for the first time since
the Mexican War where they had served in the same company.

The 87th made a splendid appearance at battalion drill aud
dress parade soon after arriving at New Creek. The regimental
band played some lively selections. The Irish Brigade observed
the drill, and listened to the music with delight and admiration.
Colonel Mulligan was called upon for a sneech. His curly
locks, green vest and splendid physique interested the boys as
he stood before them, but his eloquent words of praise won
their affections. He closed his address by saying: “After see-
ing so much that was good, Illinois surrenders to Pennsylvania.”

Colonel Mulligan was a native of Utica, New York, and at the
opening of the war was a lawyer in Chicago, where he recruited
his regiment. His entire command had been captured and pa-
roled at Lexington, Missouri, in 1861. His life story is an in-
spiring lesson on patriotism. Being fatally wounded in a charge
on the Confederate lines near Winchester, Virginia, July 26,1864,
his men attempted to carry him from the field; but seeing that
the colors of his brigade were endangered, he said to them:

“Lay me down and save the flag!” repeating the order when
they hesitated. They obeyed, but before they returned, he was
borne away by the enemy and died in their hands. Such was
the fate of one of the bravest men of the Civil War, who at the
age of ‘33 gave his life to save his country.

General Kelly, whose headquarters were at Cumberland,
Maryland, reviewed the troops at New Creek. The place was
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called Camp Jessie in honor of Jessie Benton, wife of General
Fremont. The 8th Army Corps was created July 22, 1862. The
troops at New Creek were placed in this corps under command
of General John E. Wool, with headquarters at Baltimore.

Blackberries were plentiful along the mountain side near New
Creek. Some of the company cooks prepared delicious pud-
dings with them. They proved to be a welcome change from
the ordinary camp fire. A ration of flour was dealt out at times
and with the flour other delicacies were made with the fruits
and berries of the neighborhood..

During the night of July 29, an alarm was sounded by the
pickets in the direction of Piedmont. Captain O’Rourke, com-
manding the battery belonging to Mulligan’s Brigade, thundered
forth his guns and soon all the forces in Camp Jessie were in
martial array. The forming of the line of battle was both ex-
citing and amusing. Some men came into the ranks half dress-
ed, some came without shoes, a few with one shoe, and no blouse.
It was soon discovered to be a false alarm, and the pickets who
gave it for a little fun, found themselves in the guard house for
several days.

Corporal Laumaster, of Company A, was given a detail of
men from the 87th and the 23rd Illinois to remove some commis-
sary supplies from one building to another. A jovial Irishman
and some of his fellows smelt the odor of whiskey which was in
a room they were not expected to enter. They got underneath
the building, bored a hole through the floor and the base of the
barrel. The ardent spirits flowed down into buckets, canteens
and kettles. There was a lively time in Camp Jessie the next
few days before the officers knew from what source the liquor
was obtained. It was even said that some of the very good
boys got into the guard house.

The summer of 1862 was passing by and camp life on the
banks of the Potomac River was soon to end. The succeeding
chapter tells of the campaign in West Virginia.
CHAPTER III.

CAMPAIGNING IN WEST VIRGINIA—BEVERLY:

 

CLARKSBURG—-.
ELKWATER—CRAB BOTTOM.

UITE early in the morn-.
ing of August 20,informa-

tion came to New Creek
that a large band of guer-

rillas under General Im-

boden, was marching to-
ward Rowlesburg, a vil.
lage in the mountain re-
gion of Western Virginia.
The enemy’s desire was tc
destroy the Baltimore and’
Ohio railroad bridge over
Cheat River at that place.
On the following day Gen. Kelley ordered eight companies oi,
the 87th Regiment, under Col. Hay, and one section of

O’Rourke’s battery, from New Creek to Rowlesburg, where they
arrived at 2:30 p. m. of August 21.

They at once began to march southward in the direction of
St. George, the seat of justice of Tucker county, in search of the
enemy. <A caisson of ammunition slid down an embankment, a.
distance of seventy-five feet toward Cheat River. This accident
caused an hour’s delay and the party halted for the night around.
a small church, eight miles from Rowlesburg. Some of the men
slept that night on the ground in a heavy rain. Tents and other-
camp equipments were left with Companies H and I at New-
Creek.

 
Early the next morning the party hastened to St. George, but
Imboden, after destroying the court records and robbing the
post office, had left before their arrival. After marching five
miles and fording Cheat River three times in that short distance
they bivouacked in an open field. The line of march was taken
up at 8 o’clock the next day. Crossed Cheat River again at
Black’s Ford and halted until noon at Hollow Meadows.

“Here,” says Sergeant Major Stallman in his diary, “we cap-
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green corn near by and the boys prepared a big feast which all
enjoyed.

“At I p. m. we recrossed the river and marched to Carrick’s
ford, where the Confederate General Garnett was killed in an
engagement with General McClellan in 1861.

“We crossed the river again, then went west over the Laurel
mountain, arriving at New Interest, a small village in Randolph
county, and encamped in a large field. We crossed Cheat River
five times to-day. The men grew very tired.

“The sky was clear and the weather warm. The next daywhen
we took up the line of march and soon arrived at Beverly, which

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was a pretty town of fifty houses before the war. We _ found
about one-third of the dwelling houses unoccupied, and our boys
took possession of them.

“Today we met a battery and detachments of an Ohio and a
West Virginia regiment. We are still without tents, using only
blankets for shelter at night. A number of guerrillas are report-
ed to be near us. Our camp at Beverly was at the head of Tygart
valley,20 paces from the Tygart Valley river. On the 27th of Au-
gust we took possession of the county jail for our headquarters.
The next day we received fresh bread and beef which pleased all
the boys, for we had to eat mess pork and hard tack for several
days. In the evening Gen. Kelley reviewed the brigade
encamped here. It was composed of the 87th Pennsylvania, two
companies of the roth West Virginia four companies of the 86th
Ohio, Ringgold’s Cavalry from Somerset county, Pennsylvania,
and a battery.

“Col. Hay was placed in command of this post, and Lieut.Mar-
tin,of Co. I,was made post adjutant. The following day our regi-
ment went into Beverly and again took possession oi all the
empty houses. At 2-p. m. three companies of our regiment were
ordered to protect a bridge, three miles from Beverly, and Coni:-
pany K was sent with a train of pack mules to Dry Forks, twen-
ty-hve miles distant. Both parties were away two days, and re-
turned to Beverly Aug. 31.

“The next day we heard that the enemy under Col.Jenkinstook
possession of Buckhannon, where they destroyed the court rec-
-ords and robbed the post office. An attack is expected soon
and we are making preparations to meet the enemy. Today we
received the news that Companies H and I had been on their way
to Beverly with our camp equipments, but were obliged to re-
treat back to Clarksburg on account of Jenkins’ raid on Luck-
hannon. ;

“This band of guerrillas the next day made a raid on Weston,
and destroyed considerable property in that town. During this
movement of the enemy Companies H and 7 hastened with the
-wagon trains to join the regiment. They were expected to ar-
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rive at Beverly September 5. Early in the morning of that day
Company A marched six miles out from Beverly to the top of
Rich Mountain, where they met the two companies and Wagon-
master Hamme with the regimental teams. They all arrived at
Beverly at 3 p. m. and received a hearty welcome.”

The boys at once put up tents at the edge of town, near a
church which was used as a hospital. In a neat little cottage
near the church, a woman of marked intelligence resided. Her
name was Mrs. Arnold. She often visited the invalid soldiers
in the church, and brought them nourishing food. With tender
solicitude for their welfare, she took a few of the sick into her
own home. Two members of the regiment, on guard at the
church, one day thanked her for the interest she was taking in
their sick comrades.

“I am only doing my duty,” she said. Then they talked about
the second battle of Bull Run, which had been fouglit a few days
before, when many soldiers on both sides were killed and wound-
ed.

“My brother is an officer on the other side, but I hope he is
safe. He thinks he is right, but I am in favor of the Union,”
continued Mrs. Arnold.

“Who is your brother?” asked the guard.

“General Jackson; he is called Stonewali Jackson now,” and
she moved into the hospital to give comfort and encouragement
to the sick soldiers there. Mrs. Arnold visited the camp of the
regiment when at Webster in May, 1863. This was soon after
the death of her brother who was killed at Chancellorsville.

Colonel Hay was given charge of the post at Beverly. On
Sept. 6, Lieutenant Colonel Schall was ordered by General Kel-
ley “to proceed with the 87th Regiment and one section of Mauls-
by’s Battery to Elk Water and occupy the fortifications at that
place.” Elk Water is 20 miles south of Beverly. They started
at 7 a. m. Sunday, Sept. 7, and marched nine miles to a little
church on the banks of a small stream. Here they rested till 3
p. m. and then proceeded through the site of Huttonville which
had been destroyed by Federal troops some time before. They
arrived at Elk Water at 8 p.m. The boys found plenty of good
apples on the march. Elk Water fortifications were situated in
a picturesque region, surrounded on all sides by high’ moun-
tains. Tygart river, the boys found to be well supplied’ with
mountain trout, and other fish. Company C was sent on a scout
six miles up a narrow valley. They returned to camp at 4 p.
m., having seen no rebels but,caught 100 fine trout. Col. Jen-
kins and his men had left Elk Water two days before. On the
oth Companies A and B were sent out as a scouting party, and
the following day Company D made a circuit of sixteen miles
and returned in the evening.

September 12 Colonel Schall received the following dispatch
from Kelley. ‘Our troops have been defeated on the Kanawha
and are retreating down that river. You will therefore fall back
to Beverly without delay. Destroy your tents.” On the same
day Col. Hay at Beverly was ordered “to get all troops at Cheat
Mountain, Elk Water, Beverly and Dry Forks, and march by
road to Webster without delay.” Col. Schall had sent Company
E ona scout. They did not return until later in the evening.Af-
ter burning all the tents, they had with them, the regiment
formed in line, at 11:30 p. m. and marched all that very dark
night in a heavy rain, arriving at Beverly at 8 a.m. Some of
the boys had eaten too many fish at Elk Water. They took
sick and were sent back under the care of Assistant Surgeon
McKinney.

At 4 p. m. on the 13th a forced march from Beverly to Web-
ster began. Col. Hay was in command of the troops in this
movement. After going 8 miles they bivouacked for the night
at the foot of Laurel Mountains. Broke camp at 6 a. m., crossed
the mountain, marched 22 miles and reached Phillippi, the
county seat of Barbour county, at 7 p.m. Here General Kelley
had been wounded in one of the earliest engagements of the
war. At 1 p.m. the 87th.arrived at Webster, where they heard
that Harper’s Ferry had been captured by the enemy and the
great battle of Antietam was going on. Gen. Kelley went to
New Creek. In the forenoon of the 16th, he telegraphed to Col.

3
Hay to proceed at once to Clarksburg with his own command,
the Ringgold cavalry, and Maulsby’s battery, and report to Col.
Wilkinson in command of that post.

They quartered at Clarksburg in tents laicly left by the Irish
Brigade which command had returned to New Creek. The
regiment remained thirty days in this camp, during which time
pay for two months was received. The people of Clarksburg
were loyal to the Union and showed many acts of kindness to-
ward all Federal troops. Lieutenant Martin, of Company I, was
acting adjutant during the absence of Adjutant Emmitt, at
York, on recruiting service. Colonel Hay drilled some of the
West Virginia regiments.

A recruit was received by Company D from the mountain re-
gion of West Virginia. After a few days drill the orderly ser-
geant selected him with a detail of men to go on picket duty.

“What,” said the mountaineer, “I can’t go. Its dangerous to
be near those guerrillas, and there are lots of them in the woods.
They think nothing of shooting a fellow. No, sir, you won't
get me near ’em on picket duty. I want to go with a big army.”

“Captain,” said the sergeant, “here’s a man won’t go on
picket duty.”

“Are you sick?” asked the captain in his kindest tone.

“No, sir,” answered the recruit, as he gave the military salute.

“Then why don’t you go,”

“Well, captain, the truth is I am afraid to stand out alone. My
father is brave, and so is my brother. Both are in the army.
But I would like to go home.”

“Guess that’s the place for you,” said Capt. Ruhl, who se-
cured his dismissal from the service.

October 3 Adjutant Emmitt arrived in camp with forty-five
recruits from York, Dallastown and vicinitv. Among them was
George Chalfant who joined the mess of Se1geants Shultz, Zor-
ger, Frick, Upp and Wagonmaster Hamme.

On Sunday, October 19 General R. H. Milroy reviewed the
troops at Clarksburg which were then placed in his command
and designated the Cheat Mountain division of the 8th Army
Corps. He delivered an address to the 87th Regiment and was
enthusiastically applauded. He told them they would have more
hard marching very soon. Two days later he gave orders to
move to Buckhannon, thirty miles from Clarksburg. They
marched 14 miles in the crisp, cool air and bivouacked for the
night in an open field, where some of the boys engaged in ath-
letic sports.

“While passing through the village of “Bull Skin” a man,
bowed down with the infirmities of age, with wonder and as-
tonishment gazed upon the fiag carried by the color bearer. It
was the first time he had seen the Stars and Stripes. But he
knew nothing about the war or the cause of troops marching by
kis home. :

Fifteen miles was the next day’s march, through a beautiful
and romantic valley near the centre of which nestled the inter-
esting little town of Buckhannon, the seat of justice of Upshur
county. Jenkins and his guerrillas had made a raid into this
quiet and peaceful community, some weeks before. They had
destroyed valuable property and then “skedaddled’” into the
mountains, which afforded excellent lurking places to avoid open
collision with the Union forces. This mountain region had
been traversed by McClellan and Rosecrans, the year before
The former had defeated the enemy’s forces under Garnett, and
captured 1,000 prisoners, at Carrick’s Ford. He then telegraphed
to Washington that “Secession is killed in Western Virginia.”
But Jenkins and Imboden still roamed over this country in the
fall of 1862, and General Milroy determined to drive them out.

The affluents of the Monongahela and the Kanawha rivers di-
vided this region into many narrow valleys. The country was
Alpine in its character. The roads were few and narrow, and
almost impassable. The dense growth of underbrush in many
places made it difficult even for skirmishers, and it was not pos-
sible for troops and trains to move elsewhere than in the narrow
roads. Large cannon could not be utilized in some localities.
Mountain howitzers of light weight were used. They were
sometimes tied on the backs of mules and in that way taken
across the steepest ridges and mountains.

The little village of Buckhannon, which in its best days did
not have more than 400 inhabitants, now became a place of ren-
dezvous for a large part of Milroy’s Division, When the 87th
arrived, on Tuesday, October 20, there were only four companies
of the 12th West Virginia Regiment encamped there. The ad
West Virginia came two days later, and on that day Col. Hay
was given command of the post. The oth and the 3d West
Virginia Regiments came Oct. 23, and at 4 p. m. of the same
day General Milroy and his staff rode into camp. Ile was given
three hearty cheers. Next came the 123d and the 116th Ohio
Regiments and two West Virginia batteries. The 2d and the
oth West Virginia Regiments departed for Beverly on the 28th.

The First Brigade of Milroy’s Division was composed of the
123d Ohio, commanded by Col. Keiffer (who afterward became
Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington), the
12th West Virginia, the 87th Pennsylvania and a battery. Col.
Hay was made brigade commander. Oct. 31 the boys were paid
for two months, and the next day the 12th West Virginia went
to Beverly.

The 87th received bran new Sibley tents and the following day
started on a march to Beverly, expecting soon to meet the
enemy somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia. They
had good roads for 12 miles, and then halted for the night at
Middle Forks. Each company had its wagon on this march.
The one belonging to Company I broke down and did not arrive
in camp until 3 a. m. of the next morning.

The sun rose behind dense clouds on that Sunday, but at 6:30
o'clock the line was formed, and the regiment marched in steady
columns to the top of Rich Mountain. The drum corps under
Musician Kraus did its best to spur up the boys on the march.

It was on the top of Rich Mountain (where the regiment was
now resting after eating a dinner of beef, beans and hard tack)
that General McClellan had fought one of the first battles of the
war. The boys looked around over the battle field and saw
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where the Union dead were buried in a garden, and the Confed-
erates in a level place near by. The sun came out from behind
the clouds and lit up the hills and valleys beneath. It was an
interesting sight to the soldier boys, who from this elevated
position could see through the clear atmosphere into the dim
distance. The view was magnificent, for the scenery was both
romantic and picturesque. In the evening the boys pitched
their new Sibley tents on the old camping ground by the village
of Beverly.

On November 4 a difficulty arose between the camp guards
belonging to a West Virginia regiment, and a squad of the 87th
Regiment who wanted to go into town. One of the excited Vir-
ginians who had been hit with a brick, fired a shot which mor-
tally wounded Abraham Fox, of Co. E, and Albert T. Barnes,
of Co.H. The ball passing through one and lodging in
the other. They both died within two days. It was an un-
fortunate affair and caused a bad feeling for a time between the
two regiments. The influence of the officers over their men
prevented a bloody encounter between the troops.

The long tedious marches were more than Col. Hay could
endure. He became disabled at Beverly and returned to York
Nov. 6, remaining one month for rest and recuperation. On
the same day orders were given by General Milroy to prepare
for a vigorous campaign in pursuit of the enemy, who had been
raiding through the country to the southeast of Beverly, toward

_the Shenandoah Valley.

‘The 87th Pennsylvania, the gth and 12th West Virginia, two
companies of cavalry and a battery were to form an expedition
under command of Col. Latham, of the 12th West Virginia, as
acting brigadier general. This force was to go in three direc-
tions, and eventually to meet at the head of Crab Bottom, a nar-
row little valley in Highland county, 40 miles from Beverly.

Three companies of the 12th West Virginia and one company
of cavalry were to go by way of Elk Water; the gth West Vir-
ginia and one company of cavalry by way of Franklin; seven
companies of the 12th West Virginia, the 87th Pennsylvania and
a battery were to go directly southeast over the Staunton pike.

Col. Latham accompanied the last mentioned party. At Io
a. m., Nov. 6, they started and the 87th halted for the night after
a march of 14 miles, at the foot of Cheat Mountain. Col. Schall
and Sergeant Major Stallman bunked together in a haunted
house which had been deserted. Col. Latham and his staff oc-
cupied an adjoining room. They slept well and none of them
saw ghosts or heard spooks.

At 7 a. m. next day they began to climb the steep ascent of the
mountain over a narrow road. It had snowed all forenoon, and
still the white fakes were coming down. Four inches had fallen,
and now covered the mountain from base to summit. It was a
romantic sight for the vanguard to behold the columns of boys
in blue, moving around the winding road on their way to the
mountain top. And now they halted to prepare their dinners
of beef, coffee and hard tack on the site where some of General
Rosecrans’ men had wintered the year before. Their log cabins
were still there, as well as other traces of the encampment.

It was easier for the wagons, as well as the soldiers, to come
down Cheat Mountain than to ascend it. A march of eight miles
brought them to the base of the eastern slope. They were
passing through the county of Pocahontas, an historic name,and
after crossing Greenbrier river stopped on the banks of the
stream, ‘The weather was very cold. Two diarists record that
water froze in the canteen while crossing the mountain. It had
ceased snowing for a time, but began again towards evening.
After supper was eaten the soldiers looked over to the east and
beheld the Alleghenies, still higher mountains to be crossed the
next day. Company I, which had been in the lead, captured a
rebel lying by a fire fast asleep. He claimed to be a deserter.

Greenbrier Valley was almost deserted by its inhabitants,
Some of the officers of the regiment found a house near the
camp in which they slept. Most of the men sat around the
campfire till daylight. A few wrapped themselves up in their
blankets, and slept underneath tents made of spruce bushes,
which protected them from the falling snow. At 6 a. m. the
bugler and the fifers found their instruments frozen up
The drummers aroused the camp. The march began at- day-
break. It was twenty-one miles to Crab Bottom, the place of
destination. The snow was still coming down and the Allegheny
mountains had to be crossed that day.

At II a. m. the moving columns reached the summit of the
mountains and the men cooked their dinners around some fortifi-
cations. The enemy had their winter quarters here one year be-
fore. Their log cabins were still standing. A torch was applied

 

SITTING AROUND THE CAMP FIRES.

to some of them, and the men warmed themselves around the
roaring fires. The weather was intensely cold. They did not
want to leave the comfortable place, but in time of war orders
must be obeyed. The mountain was crossed, and Col. Latham,
with his two regiments, one battery, and ten wagons, arrived at
Hightown, better known throughout the surrounding country
as “Crab Bottom,” at 5 p. m. of that eventful Saturday, Novem-
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ber 8, 1862, after completing one of the hardest and most ro-
mantic day’s marches experienced by the regiment during the
three years of its service.

The storm king came down upon them with unrelenting fury
all day. It had snowed incessantly for two days and one night.
It is doubtful whether the veterans at Valley Forge under Wash-
ington during the Revolution, endured the rigors of winter,more
heroically than did the hardy sons of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia in this memorable campaign through the Alpine region
of the Old Dominion. They took up their quarters in comfort-
able cabins, built by the Confederates under Col. Johnson, a
year before.

Crab Bottom is at the head of a pretty little valley of the same
name. The inhabitants, before the war, were a happy and con-
tented people, who prospered fairly well in raising cattle and
in cultivating their fields and gardens. Early in 1861, the doc-
trine of secession had been preached all through this region by
emissaries from Richmond andthe Shenandoah Valley. Most of
the men in Crab Bottom had cast their lot with the Confederacy,
and had become the worst bushwhackers of the Civil War. Some
of them had gone so far as to destroy the homes and firesides
of their neighbors who were Union sympathizers. Many had
fled from the valley when the 87th reached there on November 8.

Col. Schall was requested to ask for forty volunteers from his
regiment, who were to accompany a noted Union scout, by the
name of Slaton and do whatever he demanded of them. The
object of sending this party was to make a careful search
throughout the valley, capture all bushwhackers they might
come across and lay waste their homes. Slaton and his men
started early in the morning.of November 10. While standing
on a porch talking to a farmer and his wife, “bang” went a rifle in
the hands of a bushwhacker a few hundred yards away. The
ball passed through the. crowd and imbedded itself in the weath-
er-boarding of the house. Then they started in pursuit of the
man who fired the shot but he escaped.

They divided themselves into two squads, scoured the coun-
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try and burned the houses of two of the worst guerrillas, known
to Slaton who had been a resident of the valley. They found a
depot of supplies belonging to the enemy, containing some hams,
about 1200 pounds of butter and some honey, and they captured
one rebel scout.

One of the last places that they stopped was at the house of
the leader of a noted band of guerrillas. He was not at home.
but his wife, a comely woman of fair intelligence and pleasant
manners met the men at the front door step.

“Where is your husband?” inquired Slaton in stern tones.

“He is not at home,” she responded.

“Your husband is the head of a gang of bushwhackers,” re-
plied the leader of the scouting party, “and we must punish him
for what he is doing.”

“What you say may be true, but why should I suffer for his
“conduct?” And then with all the fervor of her womanly nature,
she plead. with them not to apply the torch. The stern heart
of Slaton was touched. Turning to his associates, he said:

“Come along boys. Let the house stand. I am ready to obey
orders to capture the cowardly bushwhackers, but we will not
punish innocent women.” They returned to camp as the shades
of evening were falling over the encampment at Crab Bottom,
and reported to headquarters.

Col. Latham in command of the brigade at Crab Bottom or-
dered Major Buehler, of the 87th, with Company A, Capt. Stahle;
Company B, Capt. Detwiler; and Company C, Captain Fulton, to
proceed to Franklin, with four days rations for themselves and
supplies for the 9th West Virginia Regiment whose men were
reported to be without rations for two days. That region had no
Union sympathizers and much of the country had been laid waste.

They left on Sunday morning, November 9, went ten miles
through what was termed in those days “a regular secesh coun-
try,” and found quarters for the first night in barracks built by
Imboden’s men. They captured a lot of fine turkeys, chickens
and geese and at once began to dress the fowls for supper. Oth-
ers were engaged in killing sheep and calves for the same pur-
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pose, while still others came into camp with butter by the firkin
and honey by the box. An enthusiastic forager was coming
with a hive of bees. The weather had become warm that day,
and the busy little bees wanted to know what kind of an excur-
sion they were going on; so they found their way out of the hive
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hive, and hastened into camp with a hundred bees following
to pay their respects to him and his comrades. e

Major Buehler looked up and said:

“The boy didn’t seem to know his gun was loaded. Wonder if
he could run that fast if the Rebels were after him.”

“Soon the savory smell of roast lamb, fried veal in butter, ten-
der chicken, and delicious young turkey, filled every nook and
corner of the camp.

 
“We'll call this “Camp Good,” said the funny man of Com-
pany C,” “for even the old goose that I cooked is tender,” he
continued.

The Major looked a little ser-
ious, but thought to himself:

“This is the first opportunity for
a long while that the boys have
had to prepare such a meal. This
is a time of war and we are
not influenced much by sentiment
these days. The people from
whom these fowls were taken are
our enemies.” But he looked a
little more puzzled than usual.

After a sound refreshing sleep,
bow-legged Harry Fink, “the pied
piper,” of Company 'A, was sent
around the camp to wake up the
men for the march. At Io a. m.
they met the Virginia regiment,
and supplied the men with rations,
including some of the turkeys, HE DIDN’T KNOW IT
chickens, mutton and veal cap- WAS LOADED.
tured on the way. Glad indeed,
they were to get the provisions, and they made the welkin ring
with hearty cheers upon the arrival of Major Buehler and his
men.

Captain Stahle with Company A went in search of “some per-
sonal property useful in time of war.” He returned to camp in
the evening with 112 head of cattle and twenty-five horses as
trophies of the day’s work.

The three companies andthe 9th West Virginia arrived at
Crab Bottom on the evening of the 12th. General Milroy and
his staff had arrived on the 11th.

‘On Wednesday, November 12, Colonel Schall with 300 men
including Company D, Captain Ruhl; Company E, Captain

 
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Meyers; Company F, Captain Adair; Company G, Lieutenant
Morningstar; Company I, Captain Pfeiffer; and Company K,
Captain Albright, received orders to go south to Franklin, a dis-
tance of 28 miles. Col. Latham with 250 men of the 12th West
Virginia Regiment, went over another road the following day.
Col. Schall and his men were only 40 miles from Staunton and
from the hilltops on their march, could look down into the his-
toric valley of Virginia, the region of exciting scenes for the
bovs the following summer. The next day they marched down
the east fork of the Potomac, then went over to the West Branch
of that stream, and crossed the North Fork Mountains, going a
distance of 18 miles, and rested for the night in an open field.

Friday, November 14, was a warm day. The snow had melted
and the roads were muddy. The movement down the river was
begun at early dawn. When they arrived at Seneca Branch
Col. Schall directed the wagons to go northward toward Web-
ster by way of St. George, through one of the narrow valleys
between the mountains. After the men filled their haversacks
with three days rations, and rolled up their blankets on their
backs, they were ready for the march across the mountain ridges.

They were moving in a northwesterly direction toward Bever-
ly, where the tents and baggage had been left November 6, when
they went to Crab Bottom.

At Dry Forks they met the 12th West Virginia Regiment
which had just arrived from Franklin. After finding a place
to bivouac for the night three fat steers were slaughtered in
preparation for a big feast for the 600 men under Colonels Lath-
am and Schall now resting here. But the wagons were gone
and so were the company cooks. Neither skillet, pan, nor pot
to cook the savory meat, was accessible in this wild mountain
region. So the men prepared fine fillets of beef, stuck sharp
pointed sticks into them and held them over the blazing fires
made of hickory wood. The Virginia boys furnished the salt,
and a fine supper of beef, crackers and coffee, was relished by
the hungry men. There was enough to satisfy the most rav-
enous appetites.
The next day’s march began at 6 a. m. It was twenty-five
miles to Beverly across the Cheat and the Allegheny mountains.
As there were no guerrillas in this region, the men turned their
attention to the romantic scenery. Sergeant Major Stallman as-
serts in his diary that he saw a huge rock 850 feet high and 250
broad, standing upright along the mountain side. It was an im-
posing sight and excited the wonder and astonishment of all the
soldiers. Now came dense thickets and only narrow paths over
which the men could march, often in single file.

‘he saddest and most unfortunate accident of these long
marches in Virginia occurred on November 15. They were
crossing the mountain by a narrow path, often moving in single
file, sometimes through a thick undergrowth of trees and bushes.
John Q. Colehouse, of Company F, whose home was at Littles-
town, Adams county, Pa., was killed by accident. The hammer
of a comrade’s Springfield rifle caught in the bushes. He turn-
ed around to disentangle it when the gun went off. The ball
passed through the rolled up blanket on the soldier’s back and
lodged in his brain. He died instantly. His comrades dug a
grave with their bayonets, wrapped his body in his blanket—a
soldier’s winding sheet, and buried his remains on the mountain
top. The drummer boy beat the dead soldier’s last tattoo, the
fifers of Companies F and I, played a solemn dirge and the col-
umn moved onward. A few comrades remained behind and
placed a stone at the head of his grave.

When Col. Schall and his men were within five miles of Bev-
erly, a courier came from General Milroy with orders for them
to bivouac for the night four miles east of the town, which was
then full of soldiers, preparing for a forced march to Webster.
Early the next morning, they took up the line of march, met the
other three companies at Beverly, obtained their tents, and pro-
ceeded toward Phillippi.

Companies A, B, C and H had remained at Crab Bottom two
days after the departure of the other companies for Franklin.
Sixty men of this detachment were detailed to accompany Slaton,
the scout, up the Black Creek Valley to capture some guerrillas,
who were lurking in that region. If they could not find the men,
they were to seize all cattle seen on the way. They captured
26 head of cattle on the farm of Captain Garman, of the Con-
federate Army, who happened to be home. Upon the approach
of Slaton and his men, the Captain mounted a horse, and soon
disappeared from sight. There was a lively chase after him by
Slaton and two mounted men, but the Captain had the fleetest
horse and escaped.

When the regiment arrived at Crab Bottom on the evening of
November 9, they took Captain Evans and his squad of men
prisoners. These men together with other prisoners captured by
scouting parties, 54 in all, were put in charge of Lieutenant John
Fahs, of Company A, who was appointed acting provost marshal
by General Milroy. They were marched with the regiment to
Webster.

During the few days that the regiment remained at Crab
Bottom, scouting parties captured 52 horses and 300 cattle. The
four companies left for Beverly, and arrived there at noon of the
15th. Here they expected to rest for a while but the following
morning joined the regiment in the forced march toward Web-
ster. The roads were very muddy, but they marched 26 miles
by sunset and then pitched their tents five miles south of Phil-
lippi.

“But,” says Sergeant Lewis Frey,in his diary,“we had nothing
to eat; our wagons were far back, trudging along in the mud. in
fact we were all mud up to our knees ourselves. Finally one
of our teams came with crackers. We had nothing but hard tack
for supper. Had no kettles to cook coffee, and we slept without
blankets that night. They were back on our wagons, some of
which were fast in the mud. It rained the next day. We reach-
ed Webster at 2 p. m. where we found many soldiers in camp.
Our teams did not reach Webster till noon of the 18th. Many
of us slept the night before in empty houses, or wherever we
could find shelter. At 3 p. m. we left over the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for New Creek and arrived there at 2 a. m., and
pitched our tents further up the hill than we were when we left
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in August. The 106th New York Regiment had taken posses-
sion of our old camping ground.”

‘The act of Congress allowing, under pay of the government,
only one band to a brigade, went into effect Sept.2,1862. The
regiment was then at Clarksburg. The 87th band was ordered
to Cumberland, Maryland, where the members were discharged.
They returned to York September 12.

Soon after the regiment came back to New Creek Captain
Fulton, of Company C,was appointed Colonel of the 166th Regi-
ment, and Major Buehler Colonel of the 165th Regiment of
Pennsylvania militia.

“On the evening of November 109,” says George Chalfant, of
Company A, “the Irish Brigade marched through our company
streets in honor of our return to camp. Their excellent drum
corps headed the procession. Such loud and enthusiastic cheer-
ing J never heard before. The following evening, our boys re-
turned the compliment. ‘We carried transparencies with inter-
esting mottoes on them. Our drum corps did its best. Then
Colonel Mulligan mounted a stand and delivered an address,
full of patriotic sentiment, and warm-hearted Irish. fervor
Our boys gave him and his regiment three times three hearty
cheers and marched back to our quarters. The force of nearly
12,000 troops in Camp Jessie were reviewed by Generals Milroy,
Cluseret and Kelley on November 22. To us it was an imposing
sight. Our regiment had to stand in a plowed field. It was a
cold day. We all wore overcoats and gloves.

There are in camp here 12 regiments of infantry, three full bat-
teries and six companies of cavalry. There are five West Vir-
ginia, one Pennsylvania, one New York, one Illinois and four
Ohio regiments here. We are formed into three brigades,
commanded respectively by Gen. Cluseret, Col. Washburn and
Col. Mulligan. Our regiment wanted to go in Mulligan’s com-
mand, but Gen. Milroy, who commanded the division, would not
consent. We are now in the First Brigade, commanded by Gen.
Cluseret. Col. Hay returned to the regiment December 6th.

When Gen. Cluseret, who was a Frenchman by birth and ed-
ucation, took command of his brigade he prepared an address
in his native language. It was translated into English and
read to each regiment of the brigade, by the adjutant. The
document, a part of which is given below, shows a spirit of lofty
patriotism, somewhat marred by the egotism of the author, who
wanted to pose as a modern Lafayette.

“Soldiers,” said he in this address, “By the contidence of
the Government, I have been called to command you. In me
you will find the old soldier of Africa, of the Crimean war and
the war in Italy. Twenty-two years of service and fourteen
years of war have taught me to be daunted at nothing, and to
fear nothing.

“As soldiers we must learn how to suffer and how to fight.
Danger, privations, marches; these are my promises to you.
But I also promise you victory, and a speedy return to your
hearths and your homes with the blessings of your families, and
the plaudits of the nation.”

“Soldiers,” he continued, “place your confidence in our brave
Gen. Milroy, and in me; rely upon yourselves, but do not forget
that there is a God of battles, who alone bestows victory to the
defenders of country and liberty.

“Let the old war cry of France ‘en avant’ be our rallying cry in
America.”

Authentic records show that Cluseret had acquired a good
military education. He had commanded a company of grena-
diers in Algiers, and fought under Garibaldi in Italy, being pro-
moted in 1860 for gallantry at the siege of Capua, where he was
wounded. Before coming to New Creek, he had served on the
staff of both McClellan and Fremont, with the rank of Colonel,
and had taken part under the latter at the battle of Cross Keys.
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Captain JAMES H. BLASSER, Company D.

Caprain ANDREW J. FULTON, Company C
CHAPTER IV.

FROM NEW CREEK TO WINCHESTER,

under command of Gen. Cluseret,in
the afternoon of December 5, re-
ceived orders to move the next day
toward Petersburg, Moorefield and
Winchester. In the evening the
106th New York Regiment, headed
by their military band, marched
through the company streets of the
87th to show their high apprecia-
tion of the Pennsylvania boys. In
the memorable campaign of 1864
these two regiments met again,
served in the same brigade of the 6th Corps, and fought side by
side in a dozen battles.

When reveille was beat, before daylight of the 6th, three
inches of snow covered .the ground, and the white flakes were
still coming down. The march began at 8 a. m., and as the line
moved up the incline of the narrow valley, Captain O’Rourke’s
men fired a parting salute with the new siege guns on Fort
Fuller.

‘The brigade, composed of nearly 4000 men, moved in the fol-
lowing order: A squadron of cavalry, the 9th, roth and 12th
West Virginia regiments, section of battery, wagon train, 87th
Pennsylvania and 122d Ohio regiments. The soldiers in blue
were soon covered with a mantle of white, and the high wind.
blew the large flakes into the faces of the moving column. Pass-

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ing through Ridgeville and Burlington, after a march of thirteen
miles, the brigade bivouacked for the night in an open field,
and called the place “Camp Snow.” Through some mistake
the 87th Pennsylvania Regiment was not provided with sugar
and coffee, two articles necessary to make a soldier com-
fortable and contented. Just as the shades of evening were fall-
ing a four horse team came up the road through six inches of
snow. The driver brought with him the following letter, char-
acteristic of the chivalrous soldier who wrote it:

HEADQUARTERS IRISH BRIGADE, .
New Creek, Dec. 6, 1862.
Dear Col. Schall :— .
Accompanying this find our blessing, our best wishes and two
days rations of sugar and coffee for your gallant regiment. We
learned too late of your deficiency, or would have supplied vou
upon starting. Our officers and men send you this offering,
with instructions to send us word whenever you need either
rations or bayonets, and you shall have them with our hearts and
our arms, double quick.
Wishing yourself and your splendid 87th victory and God's
blessing. I am faithfully,
James A. MULLIGAN.

The brigade struck tents before day, marched seventeen: miles
and encamped within eleven miles-of Petersburg. Reports came
into camp that the enemy, 3000 strong, under Imboden, had
just left that town. -

December 8 was clear and cold. The large force in line tramp-
ed down the snow, and the marching for all, except, for the van-
guard, was fairly good. After crossing the South Branch: of the
Potomac on the ice the expedition reached Petersburg at noon.
Company A, under Captain Stahle, was sent out on picket. -The
men in camp built fires and sat around them during the night,
for the weather was bitter cold.

Petersburg was the most forlorn looking town the boys had
yet seen in West Virginia. Everything was in a dilapidated
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condition, All able-bodied men were in the Confederate army.
The women, boys and old men gazed reproachfully at the “Yanks”
as they marched through town to the music of the Union.
General Cluseret and his men had now gone 42 miles from
New Creek in a southwesterly direction. They remained in
camp at Petersburg for several days. Scouting parties were sent
out in search of the enemy. Foraging was supposed to be pro-
hibited but officers did not prevent it. A captain saw one of his

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mef come into camp with a ham on his back and one under his
arm, Some brought in fine chickens and turkeys. The officers
cach got a share and everybody was happy. A member of Com-
pany K captured some small pigs and roasted them whole. ‘Two
boys of Company I brought in a full grown pig and slaughtered
it in camp.

Gen. Milroy and staff arrived from New Creek on the 11th. Be-
fore leaving that camp he ordered Col. Hay to remain at New
Creek, until further orders with general supervision of matters
at that post.

On the 12th Cluseret sent the 87th as a scouting party on the
Franklin Road. They went 12 miles, finding no enemy, faced
about and returned to Petersburg.
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On the night of the 14th a cavalryman came into camp. with
the unwelcome news that Burnside had been defeated at. Fred-
ericksburg and lost 12,000 men in killed, wounded and missing
the day before.

On the 16th the brigade marched to Moorefield, arriving there
in a heavy snow storm. It was the prettiest town the boys

 

 

 

MAKING BEDS FOR THE NIGHT.

had yet seen in West Virginia, and the surrounding country
was fertile. While the cavalry were foraging for hay for their
horses they found a large quantity of whiskey in a barn.
While at Moorefield General Cluseret heard that a force of
Confederates were in camp at Lost River. On December 8
he asked for volunteers to go with him and rout them. They
were to be supplied with five days rations, but were to leave
their tents at Moorefield. The 87th Regiment volunteered to
go. The other part of the expedition was composed of a squad-
ron of cavalry, two mountain howitzers and one wagon. ‘The
distance was seventeen miles, across the south branch of the
Shenandoah mountains. They had to move by a road never
before used as a wagon route. It was narrow, and at places
very steep and full of bowlders. The artillery and wagon had
great difficulty in moving. They arrived at Lost River village,
composed of four dwelling houses and a stable, at 8 p. m. The
enemy had disappeared. Concealed in a stable, underneath
some hay, a comrade found twenty boxes of chewing tobacco,
which was-distributed among the men. The Lynchburg plugs,
a foot long, were highly prized. But deeper down in the hay
something else was found, which enlivened the visit to this
benighted region of Lost River. It was two barrels of apple
jack, known across the Delaware as “Jersey Lightning.” The
tobacco worked all right, and was soothing the men to sleep.
but the officers had some difficulty to preserve order, an hour
after the men found the ardent spirits.

Fence rails were used to start fires. The bright light re-
vealed a stack of hay near. by. This the boys soon used to
make beds for the night. .In the morning “Squaw,” the cham-
pion forager of Company I, was found to be missing. His com-
rades hunted in vain for him, but found no “Squaw.” After
breakfast some of the boys of another company saw a mound of
earth, a distance from the camp. It looked like a newly made
grave. Here they found the lost soldier in the hole wrapped
up in his blanket in an open box, with hay all around him. He
was Still fast asleep, and unconscious of the joke.

Quartermaster Hersh had captured half a dozen cattle. Two
fat ones were slaughtered and the rest were taken along. The
march began early and during the day they joined the brigade
now on the way toward Winchester. On Dec. 20 a fight was
expected near Wardensville, a dozen miles ahead. The whole
brigade marched in column form with the 87th Regiment in the
lead. Company A was deployed as skirmishers. - The brigade
moved ten miles and halted for dinner. While the men were
eating orders came to move rapidly forward. The 87th went
on double quick and quick time, alternately, for two and one
half miles, but no enemy appeared in sight.

The brigade halted for the night at Capon Springs, the noted
summer resort at the foot of the Shenandoah mountains. Here
the men slept in the beds of the large hotels. The buildings
were deserted during the day. The furniture and bedding were
all there. They expected to enjoy a long sound sleep in com-
fortable quarters during this cold wintry night. But at 2 a
m. reveille was heard and every soldier jumped out of bed, won-
dering what was up.

After drinking a cup of coffee (never mind the cream) and
eating some hard tack, the column moved onward toward Stras-
burg, in the crisp frosty air of mid-winter. They marched seven
miles before sunrise, then halted and built fires to warm their
shivering bodies. They crossed the last ridge of the moun-
tains, and at 2 p. m. arrived at Strasburg.

Gen. Cluseret had followed closely on the heels of the enemy.
The cavalry captured twenty prisoners, and an engagement was
expected, but the Confederates moved a short distance beyond
the town. The 87th halted for two hours in the streets and
then bivouacked for the night in a woods near town.

The boys gathered around the camp fires, for it was the cold-
est day they had ever marched. The ice on the streams, now
four inches, was still getting thicker. Cluseret sent part of the
regiment out to forage. They found some corn, flour and a
few sacks of salt.

Early the next day, Dec. 22, the entire command marched
down the valley to Middletown, and bivouacked. That night
Company A was on picket. During the day George Koch and
George Knodel were captured at a farm house, where they had
gone to get something to eat. They were the first men of the
regiment to be taken prisoners, but were soon paroled.

Some sheds in which Company I was quartered caught fire
and nearly all their overcoats and blankets were burned.
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At 9 a. m. of the 24th the brigade began the march down the
valley through Newtown, and Kernstown. They halted at
some mills for flour, then passed over the battle field where
Sheilds had defeated Stonewall Jackson some months before,
and entered Winchester at 3 p. m., marching through the Main
street to the fortification. Their new Sibley tents were left
with the wagon train at Moorefield. The encampment was on.
the plantation of ex-Senator Mason, author of the Fugitive
Slave Law, and the Commissioner of the Confederate Govern-
ment to England.

Cluseret’s brigade was on historic ground. Winchester, in
the heart of the far-famed valley of Virginia, had frequently
changed hands, and was destined to be captured and recaptured
fifty-eight times before the war ended. In yonder cemeteries,
near each other, 1000 Union and 1300 Confederate dead were
buried.

It was Christmas eve, and the men expected to spend some
time around the camp fires. But just as supper was cooking
Confederate cavalry drove the Union pickets into town. The
87th Regiment formed in line of battle along the hillside, and
moved on a double quick through the streets to the southern
edge of town, where they halted in full view of a brisk skirmish
between the Ringgold cavalry and Col. White’s Confederate
horsemen. Being inferior in numbers, the Union troopers fell
back toward the infantry, and the enemy retreated up the valley.
While this affair was going on some Union cavalry engaged a
considerable body of cavalry up the Strasburg road. Night put
an end to the fighting and the regiment retired to the camping
ground near the fort.

Soon after the arrival of the 87th at Winchester there was a
number of promotions in the regiment which will be found in
the muster rolls at the end of this volume.

January 1 was clear and cold. Milroy with part of his divi-
sion arrived at Winchester the next day. The wagon ‘train
bringing the tents and camp equipments, came at the same
time. The Sibley tents were put up at once. The regiment
had been without them for sixteen days. Michael Smyser, the
commissary sergeant, brought along several fine turkeys, and
banquetted some of his comrades. Most of the regiment went
to church on January 4th. About 100 men were sent out every
day on picket duty. The regimental mail arrived on the 7th.
Boxes, containing many good things from home, came a few
days later.

Colonel Hay arrived from New Creek on January 9. A week
later he succeeded Cluseret in command of the 1st Brigade of
Milroy’s division, in the 8th Army Corps. Cluseret had a dif-
ference with Milroy. He resigned, went to New York and
started a newspaper, favoring Fremont for President of the
United States. In 1867, he went to his native country. Dur-
ing the Franco-Prussian war, he raised the flag of the Red Re-
publicans in Lyons. He was minister of war while the Com-
mune reigned in Paris. When it was overthrown he took
refuge in England for a time, but soon returned to France. In
1898 he posed in the Paris “Figaro” in an interview on the
American soldier in the Spanish war.

General Cluseret died in Toulon, France, August 23, 1900,
after having served twelve years as a member of the Chamber of
Deputies, the lower House of Congress in his native country.

In January the regiment organized a military band. The fol-
lowing named enlisted men were detailed from different com-
panies to play the instruments: James McGuire, Benjamin Ty-
son, Philip M. Shive, Joshua Happold, William Howe, George
Yingling, John Hunter, Henry C. Pentz, N. Z. Seitz, Frank
Barnhart, William Everhart, Silas C. Yingling, John Dunn,
Gibson Johns and John Shaffer.

The first leader was John Diener, who trained the band to
play a number of selections. He took sick and returned to inis
home at Hanover, Pa., where he died in March 1863.

Captain George Ellinger, a musician of fine talent from Lan-
caster, Pa., was chosen leader. He was paid by voluntary
contributions from the commissioned officers of the regiment,
who also raised most of the money to buy the instruments. The
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band became an efficient organization. The excellent music it
furnished was one of the interesting features of the winter and
spring encampment at Winchester, and it cheered up the boys
on many long and tiresome marches during the remainder of the
regiment’s term of service.

January 23 Sergeant B. F. Frick, of Company A, was sent
with a detail of twenty men to guard a signal station for several
weeks on Little North mountain beyond the Union lines. ‘All
was quiet and peaceful till one night the sentinel aroused the
sergeant, and notified him that mysterious lights could be seen
in the woods a distance away. “Mysterion lights, what are
they?” whispered Joe Cook, one of the men whose education
had been received among the basketmakers of East York. He
trembled like an aspen leaf, as he started with the rest, in search
of the “mysterion lights.” They had not gone far till soldier
Joe, no longer in fear of the enemy, shouted “It is only Jack O’
Lantern, Sergeant; I seen it often in the woods and swamps
around York,” and then they all returned to their quarters.

Some time later another phenomenon attracted the attention
of this squad, and excited their wonder and astonishment. The
sun was going down behind the western hills, when one of the
men noticed the images of what seemed to be giants along the
eastern horizon. It was a real phantasmagora, such as is rarely
seen, except in the mountains of Spain, or the highlands of Scot-
land, where the conditions of the atmosphere produce such
scenic effects.

“A worse sign than the mysterion lights,” said Joe Cook.
“Tf the rebels down here are that big we can never whip ’em,”
he continued. Then one of the men raised his arm, another did
likewise. The discovered giants in the sky were but huge
shadows of themselves pictured on the clouds to the east.

Jan. 13 Jacob S. Upp and Albert C. Ford went to Martins-
burg to get some boxes which were sent to the boys from home.
On January 17 Companies A, I and K went seven miles toward
the mountains on a scout. They returned in the evening. Jan-
uary 19, after returning from church, six companies with two
days rations, accompanied by a squadron of the 1st New York
cavalry and one company each of the gth and 12th West Vir-.
ginia regiments, started at 11 a. m. toward Front Royal. They:
marched 30 miles, returning to camp at 3 a. m. of the next day.

The York Gazette of Feb. 10, contains the following letter
sent from Winchester:

“To our friends at home, we all say, send us papers, write us
letters, and finally let me tell you don’t neglect to send us some
of the good things of life. Our communications with home are
almost direct. The Adams Express Company together with
our own ‘Fast Ambulance Express,’ under the supervision of
Wagonmaster Henry L. Hamme, has already brought us some
boxes. Let more of them come with a rush. Flitch and crack-
ers are below par with us.” Charles A. Morris and other patri-
otic citizens of York answered this communication by sending
a number of boxes.

March 12 Milroy was promoted to Major General. The 87th
band went down to his headquarters in Winchester and sere-
naded him. Col. Hay was still in command of a brigade, and
had his headquarters at the residence of Mrs. Maloy, grand-
daughter of Peter Dinkle, of York.

The 67th Pennsylvania, 6th Maryland, the 116th and 123a
Ohio regiments arrived at Winchester about the middle of
March, and the 12th and 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiments
a short time before that date.

When Chaplain D. C. Eberhart came to the regiment at Win-
chester, Gen. Milroy and Col. Hay gave him permission to oc-
cupy, for religious services, one of the vacant churches of the
town. He obtained consent of the trustees of the Episcopal
church, and held services in their church building for two
months. The colored janitor rang the bell. A choir of twen-
ty voices, from the different companies, furnished the music.
One of them, a trained musician, played the organ.

Chaplain McCabe, of the 122d Ohio Regiment, afterward a
bishop of the M. E. church, frequently preached in the same
church.
‘After the regiment returned from the trip to Webster, in May,
and camped southeast of town, religious worship was conducted
near a mill in an orchard. Here the regimental glee club and
the military band furnished the music. The chaplain visited
Companies G and H at Bunker Hill twice during this period
and held services in a church, which the men afterward used as
a fortification, when Jenkins’ cavalry attacked them on June 13.

While the regiment was in camp at Winchester, their tents
were beside those of the 12th West Va. The Sibley tents were
conical in shape, and large enough for thirteen men. In the
centre of each tent was a small sheet iron stove, with a thin pipe
extending along the centre pole to a circular opening at the
top. The men slept in a circle with their feet toward the stove.
The officers’ quarters were more pretentious.

The routine of camp life was about as follows:

First in the morning came the inevitable and startling sunrise
gun, and thereupon the instantaneous clatter of drum and fife
beating and playing the reveille; then the ringing of the order-
ly’s cry, “Fall in for roll call,” followed by the roll call itself;
then breakfast relished with keen appetite. Next came the al-
ways interesting exercise of guard mounting, followed by two
hours company drill, which with a little rest, filled up the time
till dinner.

Appetites whetted by exercise and outdoor life, would find
little to complain of in the government rations, even with the
beef and coffee sometimes questionable in quality.

Then came reading, smoking, writing letters, discussing the
progress of the war, playing at games, cleaning muskets, equip-
ments, or quarters and leaving camp upon passes. Target prac-
tice or skirmish drill follows and in the afternoon, the daily in-
spection of the quarters by the officer of the day, conducted with
great formality, while the military band under Captain Ellinger
plays its best tunes. Then come battalion drill and dress pa-
rade. Gymnastic sports follow the parade. The boys in blue
visit each other’s quarters until the sunset gun tells the evening
has come, when the tent fires brighten up,the moon sails serene-
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ly into the heavens, and looks down upon this interesting camp
of young men, gathered from several states of the Union. For
an ‘hour. or two, these manly youths. sing patriotic songs,then
talk over events of an era in which every moment is.an hour,
every day a month, and every month a life time. The beautiful
valley which this camp overlooked, had been the scene of sev-
eral engagements. On the site of yonder fortifications George
Washington as an officer under the colonial government super-
intended the erection of Fort Loudon, to protect the Virginia
settlers against the incursions of hostile Indians.

On the morning of April 25, General Elliott, with detachments
from five infantry and two cavalry regiments, including the
ten companies of the 87th and Battery L, 5th U. S. Artillery,
went on a scouting expedition northwest of Winchester toward
the mountains. They were supplied with four days’ rations and
went without tents or blankets. It was intended to be a hold
and vigorous raid, into the enemy’s country. They marched 28
miles, arriving at Wardensville at 8 p. m.. The commanding
officer did not give the men time to prepare dinner or supper.
They lived on hard tack, bivouacked for the night in a woods,
and at daylight of the 26th marched on, reaching the top of
Sand Ridge Mountain at 10 a.m. There they rested for a while
then passed down the mountain to Lost River, which was too
high to ford. They returned to Wardensville and halted for the
night. Company C, under Capt. Cross, was sent out on picket.
During the day the cavalry captured one lieutenant and five pri-
vates.

On the 27th they took up the line of march again and on
reaching Lost River the wagons were driven into the stream, in
line, and planks laid on top of them. A temporary bridge was
thus formed, and the infantry in that way slowly crossed tie
river. The party moved toward Moorefield, but returned in the
evening to the former camping grounds. Company G, under
Captain Eckert, and Company F, under Captain Adair, went out
on picket.

On May 28 the expedition started on a forced march toward
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Strasburg; the 87th, under Colonel Schall, led the infantry. The
cavalry was in the advance, arriving at Strasburg at 3 p. m., af-
ter a march of 24 miles. An hour later the Confederate
cavalry and infantry attacked Elliott’s forces, but were driven
back by our cavalry. They soon advanced on another charge,
when our infantry was ordered forward, and the enemy were
driven from the field with a loss of six killed and several wound-
ed. There were some casualties on the Union side. The 87th
was actively engaged but had no losses. At 5 p. m. the regi-
ment was ordered to bring in the dead, and take care of the
wounded. Later in the evening, when another attack was ex-
pected, Company I, under Captain Pfeiffer, Company K, under
Captain Albright were deployed to the left of the road and Com-
pany G, under Captain Eckert, and Company H, under Captain
Farrah, were deployed to the right. The other six companies
remained back asa reserve. But the entire regiment soon mov-
ed forward to Fisher’s Hill, when a charge on the skirmish line
was ordered. Companies E, D and F went straight up the hill,
and companies A, B and C moved by the right flank, and the
other companies by the left flank. When they all met at the
top of the hill, the enemy had fallen back. The expedition re-
turned to Winchester the following day.

On the evening of May 8, news came to Winchester that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had been torn up near Webster,
West Virginia, by a force under Jones. Early in the morning
of the oth, the 87th Regiment and other commands were order-
ed there. They marched to Martinsburg, and taking the cars
at midnight, passed through Cumberland and New Creek, ar-
riving at Webster at 10 p. m. of the following night. The
enemy had disappeared, and the railroad was soon repaired.

The regiment remained at Webster a week, during which
time Colonel Hay received notification that his resignation had
been accepted. He was discharged from the service on sur-
geon’s certificate. A meeting of the regiment officers was
held, presided over by Lieutenant Colonel Schall, when resolu-
tions were adopted regretting that his physical condition ne-
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cessitated the retirement of Colonel Hay from the service, and
commending him for his courage and patriotism, for his cour-
tesy and kindness, for his skill and ability, and for his paternal
interest in the comfort and welfare of his officers and men.

Lieutenant Colonel Schall was promoted to Colonel of the
regiment, Major Stahle to Lieutenant Colonel, Captain Ruhl, of
Company D, to Major, and Lieutenant Blasser to Captain of
Company D.

Colonel Hay presented his sorrel horse to Colonel Schall.
Befcre he returned home, an elegant gold watch was procured,
and neatly inscribed inside of the case are the words. ‘“Pre-
sented to Colonel George Hay as a token of respect, by the offi-
cers of his late command.

The names on the case are those of Colonel Schall, Lieutenant
Colonel Stahle, Major Ruhl, Adjutant Emmitt, Quartermaster
Hersh, Chaplain Eberhart, Surgeon McKinney, Captains Fahs,
Blasser, Myers, Adair, Cross, Farrah, Pfeiffer and Albright,
ist Lieutenants Spangler, Saylor, Ruhl, Hull, Morningstar, Nor-
ris, Martin, Slaymaker, Haack; 2d Lieutenants Lanius, Bier-
brower, Maish, Stallman, Strickler, Welsh, Baker, Daniel, Slot-
hower and Stroman.

This watch has been kept by the descendants of Colonel Hay
as an interesting souvenir of the war.

The regiment returned to Martinsburg by rail May 18, and
marched to Bunker Hill the next day, arriving at Winchester
on the 20th. Companies G and H, were stationed at Bunker
Hill to guard the crossing of the Opequon Creek at that point.
When the 87th returned to Winchester their camp was changed
to Hollingsworth’s Mills, a short distance south of town.
CHAPTER V.

CAMPAIGN AROUND WINCHESTER—THE FIGHT AT NEWTOWN—EN-

GAGEMENT AT BUNKER HILL—BATTLE OF CARTER’S WOODS.

N_ exciting campaign around
Winchester opened in June.
General Milroy, in command of
the 2d Division of the 8th Army
Corps, had held that post since
December 24, 1862. Two days
before his arrival there, Genera]
Schenk, with headquarters at
Baltimore, had succeeded the
veteran soldier General Woolas
corps commander. Milroy was
born in Indiana in 1816 and was
graduated from a ° military
school at Norwich, Vermont.
He had served as a captain in

the Mexican War; afterward studied law, and filled one term as

Judge of the 8th District in his native State.

When the war opened wilroy- became Colonel of the oth In-
diana Volunteers. He won distinction in Western Virginia un-
der McClellan and Rosecrans in 1861, and the following year,
in the same region, under Fremont and Sigel. On March Io,
1863 he: was made a Major-General of volunteers.

When he came to Winchester to take charge of that post the
Valley of the Shenandoah from Staunton to Strasburg was oc-
cupied by a force of 5000 men, mostly cavalry, under General

 
meas
Samuel Jones, a West Point graduate, who had become a Major
General in the Confederate service.

General Imboden occupied the Cacapon Valley to the north-
west of Winchester with a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery,
estimated at 1500 men. These were the only forces of the ene-

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my Milroy was in danger of being assailed by for several months
of 1863.

The object of holding Winchester was to observe and keep in
check the Confederates in the Valley, and to protect the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad against depredations. :

In March: Milroy stationed the 3rd Brigade of his division,
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composed of the 6th Maryland, the 67th Pennsylvania, 1st New
York Cavalry and a battery, at Berryville, under command of
Col. McReynolds, who was given instructions to watch the
passes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the fords across the Shen-
andoah River and to keep open communications with Harper’s
Ferry.

Some months before this, the chief command of the Union
armies had been given to General Halleck, an officer who: had
commanded all the forces in the West, and had thus caught
some reflected glory from the achievements of Grant and Pope.
He gave orders to Milroy to undertake no offensive operations
in force, but to occupy- Winchester as a lookout, and-to retain
McReynolds at Berryville. Milroy had held almost undisputed
possession of the Shenandoah Valley, from the Potomac to
Strasburg, until June 1. The enemy after that date became
bolder and small detachments of their cavalry were met as far
down the Valley as Middlétown. In order to ascertain whether
there was an accumulation of Confederate forces in his front, Mil-
roy determined to send out two reconnoitering parties, one to-
ward Front Royal, southeast of Winchester, and the other under
Col. Schall, up the Valley pike toward Strasburg. Captain W.
H. Lanius; who accompanied the latter and participated with it
in the engagement at Newtown, wrote the following account of
it about four years after the close of the war:

“On the 12th of June Colonel Schall, with four hundred men
of the 87th Regiment; about two hundred of the 13th Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry and one-section of Battery L, 5th U. S. Artillery,
started from Winchester on a reconnoissance in the direction of
Strasburg.

“After proceeding about nine miles the advance cavalry re-
ported the rebels ahead. Col. Schall immediately halted his
command and posted it for action in the following manner: Five
companies of infantry were sent ahead, about two hundred yards,
to the brow of a hill to the right of, and facing the pike, in a
position screened from the view of the rebel cavalry as it would
advance; the section of artillery was planted in a position to the
left of the pike, with guns ranged to sweep the brow of the

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hill over which the enemy would come, with an enfilading fire;
the remaining three companies of infantry were posted in support
of the artillery; the cavalry, with the exception of the advance
guard, was massed on the pike, a little distance in rear of the
point opposite to which the artillery was posted.

“The order was given by Col. Schall to reserve fire until the
enemy had crossed the hill in our front, when the artillery was
to sweep them with an enfilading fire from the left of the road;
the infantry on the right to give them a broadside, when the
cavalry were to charge and rout them.

“This disposition of our force had hardly been made when the
advance guard of cavalry made its appearance on the hill, com
ing in on the run, closely pursued by the enemy, who were
howling like demons. After the head of the rebel column had
crossed the hill, our forces opened fire, raking them with artil-
lery and pouring a destructive broadside fire of musketry into
them from the right of the pike, creating great confusion in their
ranks, when our cavalry made a charge and sent them whirling
in the direction of Strasburg, and picked up a number of pris-
oners. This engagement with a force on our side not exceeding
seven hundred men, resulted in a loss to the enemy of fifty killed
and wounded and thirty-seven prisoners, together with small
arms and horses. There were no casualties on our side.”

The Confederates who took part in this engagement were the
14th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry and a battalion of Maryland
cavalry. An exciting and dramatic episode of this fight was the
appearance of some women at a window in the gable end of a
house to the left of Col. Schall’s five companies of infantry on the
right of the pike. As the Confederate cavalry came dashing
over the hill in pursuit of our cavalry, these ladies beckoned
them with motions of their hands and the waving of handker-
chiefs not to come any farther. But the soldiers did not under-
stand their signs. Some of the Confederate wounded were taken
care of at this house by Federal surgeons.

General Milroy in his official report says: “Colonel Schall re-
mained at the scene of the engagement for an hour, during whict
time his cavalry scoured the country in different directions, but
could find no evidence of the enemy concentrating in large force
up the Valley. He reported to me at 7 p. m. on the same day
at Winchester. The result of. this reconnoissance was entirely
satisfactory to me, and it was conductel with great energy.”

The reconnoissance on Front Royal road was made by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Moss of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with 400
men. He returned to Winchester at 3 p. m. of Friday and re-
ported that he had encountered a large force of the enemy’s cav-
alry, infantry and artillery, near Cedarville, 12 miles southeast
of Winchester. This report was discredited by some of his
officers.

An engagement took piace at Bunker Hill in the afternoon of
June 13. When General Milroy signalled Mc Reynolds’ brigade
at Berryville to fall back to Winchester he directed that the
wagon train proceed towards Martinsburg as rapidly as possible.

This train stopped to feed at Bunker Hill, midway betweer
Winchester and Martinsburg, where Companies G and H of the
87th Regiment and two companies of the 116th Ohio, in all
about 300 men, were stationed to keep a look out for the enemy
and to protect the crossing of the Opequon creek near that place.

The train had been parked and the wagoners were feeding
their horses when a scout came up in great haste and reported
that Colonel Jenkins, with 1500 cavalry, was approaching. The
wagon master, in charge of the train, hurried his men to hitch
up, and taking a position at the road, where the teams should
enter, in order to prevent a stampede, he called out:

“No teamster shall start until I give orders.”

Through ‘his good management the entire train crossed the
Opequon bridge and escaped towards Martinsburg, and finally
reached Carlisle, Pa.

Private John C. Hoffman, of Company G, was on guard at the
bridge when the wagon train was crossing. He had been given
strict orders to allow no one to pass over but army teamsters.

Early in the race to get across came a Jew sutler on foot. He
was halted by the guard. In a fit of desperation he exclaimed:
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“Och, mine Got in Himmel! lass mir ga, lass mir ga! All mine
goots in das train.”

He was compelled to wait till the last wagon had crossed over.
Still he murmured as if in the deepest agony:

“De Rebels git all my tings; all mine goots.”

Down the first hill, and over the next, went the wagon train
raising clouds of dust. It disappeared before the enemy came
in sight, and the sutler got across the bridge.

Jenkins and his men came in on the Berryville road, and were
met by the Federal troops about five hundred yards from the
Martinsburg turnpike. ;

The Confederates dismounted and advanced as skirmishers.
Our men were also deployed as skirmishers, the line extending
obliquely from Berryville road in the direction of the Martins-
burg pike, and shots were exchanged here for twenty minutes,
during which time Private Hoffman made his way from the
bridge across a clover field to his company, which was on a
skirmish line, lying down along the farther edge of the field.
Being the only man in sight in the field Hoffman was a fair

target for the enemy, whose bullets whistled past his ears or
cut the clover at his feet.

Shortly afterward, the Confederates advanced on a mounted
charge. The order was now given for our troops to fall back
to some churches. On the retreat Lieutenant Morningstar, of
Company G, narrowly escaped capture. While in the act of
jumping over a fence, the scabbard of his “Sword of Bunker
Hill” got entangled in some bushes. The accident retarded his
movements until the “Johnnies” almost captured him. Joseph
F. Welsh, of the same company, was wounded and captured.

A short distance away Company H was more unfortunate.
Lieutenant Slothower was killed and Corporal Joseph Henry
mortally wounded. He died two days later, while the battle at
Carter’s Woods was raging. Josiah Landon, of the same com-
pany, was wounded and captured, and George Prowell was
captured. Benjamin S. Kauffman was wounded in both thighs,
fell into the hands of the enemy, and was a prisoner with the
rest of the captured, for nine weeks at Belle Isle.

The Union forces now entered the churches and fired at the
enemy through port holes that had already been made. About
this time John Lemon, a citizen of Bunker Hill, was sent to
them by a Confederate officer with a flag of truce, asking them
to surrender. But they kept up the fight without further loss
till late in the evening, when the enemy withdrew. Then, the
Union trcops fell back to Winchester and took position with
Milroy’s forces in and around the big fort.

In 1899, Mr. J. A. Sibbett, of Company H, visited Bunker
Hill, and was entertained by John Lemon, who was still a resi-
dent of the village.

The entire force, under General Milroy, in and near Win-
chester, at this time, according to official accounts, was 6,900
effective men. Brigadier General Elliott commanded the
First Brigade, composed as follows: r1oth Ohio, Col. Keifer;
116th Ohio, Col. Washburn; 122d Ohio, Col. Ball; 123d Ohio,
Col. Wilson; 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Col. Gallagher; 12th
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Lt. Col. Moss; Battery L, 5th U. S. Ar-
tillery, Lt. Randolph.

The 2nd Brigade, under Colonel Ely of the 18th Connecticut,
was composed of the 87th Pennsylvania, Colonel Schall; 12th
West Virginia, Col.. Klunk; 18th Connecticut, Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Nicholas; 5th Maryland, Captain Holton; Battery D, Ist
West Virginia Artillery, Captain Carlin; Company K, 1st West
Virginia Cavalry, Lieutenant Dawson; Companies D and E, 3d
West Virginia Cavalry, Captain White.

The heavy guns of the principal fort were four 20 pound Par-
rotts and two 24 pound howitzers. They were manned by a
company of the 14th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, com-
manded by Captain Martin.

It was not evident to General Milroy on the evening of June
12th, that a large part of Lee’s forces had broken away from the
army of the Potomac, then under Hooker, and had already come
into the Shenandoah Valley through the various passes of the
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Blue Ridge Mountains. He had received no definite informa-.
tion of Lee’s movement from the military authorities at Washing-
ton. He had signalled McReynolds’ Brigade at Berryville to
return to Winchester, doubled his line of pickets around the
town, and sent forward on the Front Royal and Strasburg roads,
strong cavalry patrols. Lively skirmishing began in various
places. F

Milroy was in constant communication with his department
commander, Gen. Schenck, at Baltimore, who advised him to
retreat to Harper’s Ferry, but gave him no definite orders to
that effect. He concentrated his forces in and around the forti-
fications, and decided to wait till the Confederate leaders had
massed their forces in his front, and then after a sharp engage-
ment order a retreat toward Harper’s Ferry under cover of night.
Milroy’s lofty patriotism and his heroic courage had inspired his
officers and men with his own bravery and determination. They
had confidence in his ability and generalship, and observed his
manner in time of danger with great admiration. But nearly 30,-
000 veterans under Ewell and Longstreet, who had lately won
important victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, were
now approaching Winchester. The contest was to be an un-
equal one. Though not informed as to the vast number of the
enemy with whom he had to contend, Milroy knew he was
greatly outnumbered, but decided to meet them in battle array.

At 6 p. m., on the 13th, a Confederate prisoner captured that
day, told the general that he belonged to Hay’s Louisiana Bri-
gade, of Ewell’s Corps, which together with Longstreet’s Corps
was in the vicinity of Winchester. This was the first definite in-
formation he had received of this important fact. His tele-
graphic communication with Washington by way of Harper’s
Ferry had already been cut.

All the details of the fighting by Milroy’s division during June
13th and 14th cannot be given here. The reader’s attention is
now directed to the part taken by the 87th Regiment. This
command had just been assigned to the 2nd Brigade on Satur-
day morning, June 13, the day after the Newtown fight. Colonel
Schall reported to Colonel Ely, the brigade commander, early
that day. At 9 a. m. the 87th was ordered to move forward
from camp and take position behind a stone wall on the south
side of the Front Royal road,and near a section of Battery L,
Fifth U. S. Artillery, which was engaged in shelling the enemy
in a woods. The regiment remained in that position only a
short time, when the Confederates opened fire with canister
upon it from a battery posted about four hundred yards away.

Colonel Ely, commanding the 2nd Brigade, now directed the
87th to fall back to Winchester, and support Battery L, which
had removed to an elevation on the south side of the town, be-
tween the Front Royal and the Strasburg roads. The regiment
remained in that position until 6 p. m., when, says Colonel
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“T was ordered to report with my command to General Milroy
on Apple Pie Ridge. He directed me to proceed out the Stras-
burg road, and drive away some sharpshooters who were in pos-
session of a mill, We encountered a body of infantry, which af-
ter some skirmishing, fled in confusion closely pursued by my
regiment. We kept up a brisk skirmish with the enemy, till the
darkness of night hid them from our view. I then received
orders to return to my original position in support of Bat-
tery L.

“At 2 a.m. of June 14 I was instructed to fall back to the for-
tifications overlooking the town and take position in the rifle
pits. About 9 a. m. my regiment marched down to Winchester,
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half a mile away, to drive out the enemy’s skirmishers, who had
entered the town on the south side.

“We had some brisk encounters with the enemy on Market,
Main and Braddock streets, and succeeded in driving them out
of town. We relieved the 67th Pennsylvania about 4 o’clock in
the evening, but soon returned to the large fort. An hour later
J received an order to move my regiment to the Star fort, but
while on our way there I was directed to support the 116th Ohio
Infantry, which was stationed in the direction of the battery, and
a little to the right of it.

“Soon afterward I received orders from Milroy to move di-
rectly forward in support of Battery L, which was now opened
upon by a terrific fire from the Confederate artillery. The bat-
tery was captured and its support, the 110th Ohio, was falling
back. I was then directed to take my regiment into the Main
fort, where it was placed in position in the surrounding rifle pits,”

During the engagement of June 13 and 14 the regiment lost
one killed and eighteen wounded. Daniel H. Karns, the drum-
mer boy of Company I, lost his life in the skirmish on June
13. He was the first soldier of the regiment who was kiiled in
battle,

In the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, Milroy had concentrated
nearly his entire command in and around the fortifications, just
outside of Winchester. At 4 p. m. four Confederate batteries,
some of their guns being of long range, opened upon the forts.
Under cover of this fire Early’s division of Ewell’s Corps, a col-
umn of 10,000 men advanced upon the outer works, then com-
manded by Colonel Keifer of the 110th Ohio Regiment. The
enemy carried these outer works in the charge.

The Federal guns in the Main and the Star forts were brought
to bear upon Early’s forces, driving them from the position they
had taken. This afforded a protection to Colonel Keifer’s com-
mand, which fell back to the Main fort.

All the guns in this fort, the Baltimore battery at the Star
fort and Carlin’s battery immediately south of the Main fort,
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Killed at Carter’s Woods. Killed at Carter’s Woods.
A terrible artillery duel now took place, lasting till 8 o’clock in
the evening.

During this contest General Milroy ascended to the top of the
lookout, and with remarkable coolness and bravery. exposed
to the greatest danger, took observation of the enemy, concen-
trating in front of him while solid shot were whizzing by him,
and large shells bursting in all directions around him. He then
massed all his troops in the two forts, which were near each
other, and in the rifle pits in front of them.

At 9p. m. he convened a council of war, composed of himself
and his three brigade commanders. His troops had only one
day’s rations left, and his artillery ammunition was nearly all ex-
pended. Information had been received that on the following
morning the enemy could bring nearly one hundred guns to bear
upon his small command of less than 7000 men.

_ “We decided at this council,” says General Milroy, “that we
owed it to the honor of the Federal arms to make an effort to
force our way through the lines of the beleaguering foe; that our
guns should be spiked, and wagons abandoned; that all our
horses should be taken with us, and that the brigades should
march, in the order of their numbers, at 1 o’clock in the morn-
ing, carrying with them their arms and the usual supply of am-
munition,”

Such was the condition of affairs at midnight, when the com-
mander of this little army sent out his aides to the subordinate
officers, giving them instructions how to move.

Among the regimental commanders, who had already heard
of the decision of the council, was Colonel Schall, who immedi-
ately began to notify his company commanders. While he was
on this mission, Captain Baird, of Milroy’s staff, communicated
to Lieutenant-Colonel Stahle the order for the march.

In his official report Captain Baird says: “It was part of my
duty to notify the commanders of the 87th Pennsylvania, and the
12th West Virginia. When I approached these regiments I
found many of the men asleep in their tents, or in the rifle pits,
It was a dark night, and the company officers began at once to
wake up their men. Every soldier was given instructions that
the evacuation was to be conducted silently, so as not to attract
the attention of the enemy, whose sentinels were not more than
two hundred yards from the forts.”

In his official report of the evacuation of Winchester and the
battle of Carter’s Woods, General Milroy says:

“The column proceeded from the forts at I a. m. through a
ravine to the Martinsburg pike, and then passed down the pike
about four and one-half miles from Winchester. Here I received
a message from General Elliott, stating that our front was attack-
ed by the enemy’s skirmishers. I was then riding forward and
heard the firing.

“The enemy was on elevated ground in Carter’s Woods, and
in a field east of the woods. The first attack was made between
three and four o’clock in the morning. General Elliott filed the
123d, 110th and the 122d Ohio regiments to the left, and formed
them in line of battle west of and in front of the woods in which
the enemy were posted. He then advanced the r1oth Ohio, Col-
onel Keifer commanding, to feel the enemy. This regiment
soon became actively engaged, and was supported by the 122d
Ohio, which took its position on the right of the 11oth.

“We found the enemy present in force, with two batteries.
The Ohio regiments maintained the contest for an hour, or
more, occasionally falling back, but in the main, driving the en-
emy. They captured a caisson and silenced two guns. They
kept up an incessant fire of musketry which caused the enemy’s
right flank to fall into disorder and recoil.

“About the time the contest began on my left { ordered the
87th Pennsylvania against the enemy’s left, but it was driven
back. I now supported this regiment with the 18th Connecticut
and these two regiments again advanced into the woods, but
were driven back. I sent to the support of these regiments the
123d Ohio, and again advanced the line, but it was repulsed with
a very small loss. The range of the enemy’s guns was so ele-
vated as to render their fire ineffectual.

“At this time a signal gun fired at Winchester announced the
approach of the enemy in my rear. Colonel Ely’s brigade was
again rallied. It formed in line of battle west of the Martins-
burg pike and that command was again directed to engage the
enemy. The rioth and 122d Ohio regiments were still main-
taining their fire on our left with energy. I gave instructions
that my forces unengaged and wagon trains should retreat un-
der cover of the contest, taking the Martinsburg pike a short
distance and then turn to the right. These forces went forward
but took 2 road which leads to the left through Bath, in Morgan
county. They were followed after the engagement by detach-
ments from the 18th Connecticut, 87th Pennsylvania and some
of the Ohio regiments. They reached Hancock, Maryland. I
arrived at Harper’s Ferry in the afternoon of June 15th.”

Colonel Schall in August, 1863, furnished the following ac-
count:

“About dark on June 14 my regiment was stationed in the
rifle pits on the east side of the main fort. I held these pits un-
til 1 a. m. of the next day, when I received orders to prepare to
evacuate. While I was giving notice of this order to my com-
pany commanders, and during my absence with them my lieu-
tenant colonel received a verbal order from General Milroy to
begin the march. The 87th was placed on the right of the bri-
gade. We proceeded down the Martinsburg pike about four and
one half miles, when we heard skirmishing ahead. 1 was direct-
ed to form my regiment in line of battle, deploying Company A
under Captain Fahs, as skirmishers. General Milroy was then
close to me. He rode up to me, and ordered me to change my
front to the right. While I was completing this movement I
noticed several regiments to my left. Soon as I had changed
my front my regiment advanced and the one to my left moved
forward at the same time. We both moved toward Carter’s
Woods, and had gone only a few steps when skirmishing began.
It was still dark, and we could see but a short distance. We con-
tinued nearly to the woods, when the enemy opened upon us
with artillery, posted about one hundred yards in our front.
While we were thus engaged with the enemy the 18th Con-
necticut was stationed in our rear. They opened fire almost
through us. This brought confusion into the ranks of my regi-
ment and I ordered it to fall back. General Milroy appeared
in front of the 18th Connecticut and ordered them to cease firing.
It was still dark when this occurred. I reformed my regiment
and advanced with other regiments to the woods, but soon fell
back under a ‘heavy fire to a ravine, about one hundred and fifty
yards from the woods. ‘After reforming my lines again I was
ordered to advance into the woods with the 18th Connecticut
-and the 123d Ohio to my right. My regiment went about forty
yards into the woods on this charge. During this charge my
horse was killed.

“The regiment halted and kept up a skirmishing fire for thirty
‘minutes, the men all lying down. I now saw that | was being
‘flanked by the enemy on my left, and I gave orders to fall back
which was done amidst some confusion. The enemy in large
numbers followed closely upon us to the edge of the woods. My
‘command during the retreat became scattered, some going to
the right and some to the left.

“I received no further orders and could give no further in-
structions to my officers, as to our course. I learned afterward
that Colonel Ely, commanding our brigade, had orders and had
received special instructions to communicate them to the regi-
mental commanders that our destination was Harper’s Ferry.
With about 140 of my men I reached that place on the afternoon
‘of the day of the battle at Carter’s Woods. My lieutenant col-
onel and major moved to the left and reached Hancock. They
had 210 of my men. My regiment is still divided. About 290
were captured and more than 100 missing.”

Colonel Adams, of the First New York Cavalry, who brought
up the rear, reported:

“At 2 a. m., June 15, the main body of Milroy’s division had
reached the Martinsburg turnpike. My command marched with
a strong rear guard in inverse order. We expected to be at-
tacked in the rear by the Confederate cavalry. We never for one
moment expected any trouble in front. The wily enemy, how.
ever, by a rapid flank movement, succeeded in throwing a heavy
force of artillery and infantry in our front at Carter’s Woods.
Here they opened a terrific fire upon our retreating forces. Be-
ing in the rear of our column, I was half a mile from the scene
of action, but the shells passed over and beyond us. I heard the
rattle of the musketry, and the quick and rapid firing of the ar-
tillery. JI then moved up my regiment quickly to the front
where a sanguinary conflict was raging between the contending
forces. The 87th Pennsylvania, the 18th Connecticut and the
t10oth Ohio were at this moment charging upon a rebel battery
strongly supported by infantry, and right gallantly did they ac-
complish the work. General Milroy was present, accompanied
by two members of his staff. My regiment then entered the
fight.”

Further on in his report he says: “In obedience to the order
of Gen. Milroy, I fell back to guard the rear of several regiments
or what was left of them after their desperate charge upon the
enemy’s artillery and infantry in the woods.”

General Edward Johnson who commanded the rebel forces at
Carter’s Woods sent an extended report of this engagement to
the Confederate War Department, from which source the fol-
lowing was obtained: ‘Early in the morning of June 15, I
was sent by General Ewell to the east of the Martinsburg pike,
to intercept the progress of the Federal troops under Milroy
if they attempted to retreat toward Harper’s Ferry. 1 was.
riding at the head of my column with some skimishers between
3 and 4 o’clock a. m., when we distinctly heard the neighing of
horses, and the noise caused by the marching enemy on the
retreat. They soon saw us, and opened fire. I made a disposi-
tion of my troops for an attack. Along the edge of the rail-
road cut next to the pike ran a stone fence, behind which I
deployed the 1oth Virginia and the Ist and 3d North Carolina
Regiments of Steuart’s Brigade, on the right, and three regi-
ments of Nicoll’s Brigade on my left. One piece of battery was
placed on a bridge, another a little to the left and rear, and the:
remaining pieces, with sections of two other batteries, all under
Colonel Andrews, in rear of the position, occupied by my: in-
fantry. The enemy loudly cheering, charged with a large force
against the front of my position, driving in my skirmishers,
and delivering heavy volleys into us. My infantry repulsed
them with considerable loss. At longer range they maintained
a heavy fire upon us, then detached heavy flanking parties of
cavalry and infantry on my right and on my left. They still
kept up a vigorous attack in front.

“My infantry had expended all but one round of ammuni-
tion, and my ordnance wagons were seven miles to the rear.
The situation was exceedingly critical to me. I needed re-en-
forcements. Fortunately, the Stonewall Brigade, under Gen-
eral Walker, appeared upon the scene of action, just in time to
meet the flanking party to my right. He pressed them hotly
through the woods beyond the turnpike and into the woods,
half a mile to the right of the Carter House, where most of that
body of the Federal troops surrendered.

“The flanking party. of cavalry [First New York] and in-
fantry [87th Pennsylvania and 18th Connecticut] to my left was
met by two regiments of Nicoll’s Brigade, the 2d and roth
Louisiana regiments. Raine’s Battery was faced to the left
and played upon the Federals with fine effect. Two sections
were hurried down the road to intercept their retreat. My
two Louisiana regiments moved parallel with the enemy’s line—
a ridge intervening—until they reached a level space, where
we opened a destructive fire upon them, killing and wounding a
considerable number, and with the aid of the artillery, scatter-
ing them in every direction. Many of them were captured by
these two regiments. Milroy riding on a fine white horse, with
most of his cavalry, escaped after a vigorous pursuit.

“We captured at this engagement 2,300 men, about 175 horses,
a supply of arms and equipments, and eleven stands of colors.
The enemy fought with earnestness. They made four succes-
sive attempts to carry the bridge. Two sets of my cannoneers
(13 out of 16) were killed, or disabled. Colonel Andrews, in
command of my artillery, fell at this bridge.”
The official report of the casualties in the 87th Regiment
around Winchester from June 13 to the 15th, including the
battle of Carter’s Woods, was as follows: 2 officers and 12
enlisted men killed and died of wounds; 2 officers and 24 en-
listed men wounded; 9 officers and 190 men taken prisoners,
making a total loss of 239 officers and men.

The casualties in the 67th Pennsylvania were 769 officers and
men; 18th Connecticut, 598; 123d Ohio, 549; 122d Ohio, 413;
5th. Maryland, 320; 12th West Virginia, 233. These are regi-
ments which had the heaviest losses in prisoners. Some of
them surrendered in a body. .

The total loss in 1st Brigade under General Elliott was re-
ported to be 1949; the 2d Brigade, under Colonel Ely, 1430;
the 3d Brigade, under Colonel McReynolds, 1054, making a
total loss to the division under Milroy of 4433 in killed,
wounded and captured.

There was considerable public comment in relation to the
evacuation of Winchester. During the month of August, 1863,
a court of inquiry was convened at Washington, presided over
by the great jurist, Judge Holt, then Judge Advocate General
of the Army. The object of this court was “to inquire into and
teport the facts and circumstances in regard to the evacuation
of Winchester by command of General Milroy.”

Judge Holt, after reviewing the subject in all its details, con-
cluded his report to the Secretary of War as follows: ‘General
Milroy in holding his post at Winchester, and continuing to
resist the attack of the enemy, until June 15, when it was evi-
dent that a large force of the enemy was confronting him, may
have acted wisely. He thus forced the enemy to mass their
troops, as he declares, at some point in his front, after which
he could retreat more intelligently and more safely.

“The three days’ delay of the Confederate Army in its North-
ern invasion caused by the stand Milroy made, at Winchester,
may have been fully worth, to the country, the sacrifice it cost.
The evacuation of Winchester was as well ordered as could have
been expected, under all the circumstances, and the loss of most
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of the government property, which was abandoned there, was
inevitable. It is true that during the retreat, the troops of Gen-
eral Milroy were not kept well in hand, being very much dis-
persed, but that was, in a great part owing to the sudden attack
upon them in the darkness of the night. Another cause of con-
fusion was that his troops on the the retreat, were obliged to
force their way through a body of the enemy’s troops, superior
in numbers.”

On October 27, President Lincoln wrote his endorsement to
Judge Holt’s report, from which the following is taken: “A
division of troops under General Milroy was substantially lost
at Winchester, Virginia, in June. Upon inquiry, it has beer
discovered, that Generel Schenck, the Department commander,
only advised the withdrawal of Milroy’s Division from Win-
chester, but never positively ordered Milroy to withdraw. He
believed the services of the forces at Winchester worthy of the
hazard, and so did not positively order their withdrawal until it
was so late that the enemy cut the wire and prevented the order
reaching Milroy. I find that Milroy disobeyed no order upon
the subject. No court martial is deemed necessary, or proper
in this case.”

The following officers in the regiment were among the pris-
oners: Chaplain D. C. Eberhart, Surgeon William H. McCurdy,
Quartermaster James Hersh, Captain John Albright, of Com-
pany K; First Lieutenants Henry Morningstar, of Company G;.
Isaac Hull, of Company E; Andrew B. Smith, of Company H;.
Second Lieutenants William Bierbrower, of Company A; W. H.
H. Welsh, of Company D; Charles P. Stroman, of Company K,,
and Sergeant Major Frank Geise. No official list of the non-
commissioned officers and privates captured around Winches-
ter and Carter’s Woods, has been found. The number was offi-
cially reported at 190, but is stated since to have been 250.
They were sent to Belle Isle, at Richmond, where they were
imprisoned for a few weeks, and then paroled and exchanged.
Not more than 650 officers and men of the regiment were pres-
ent for duty on June 12. After the hasty retreat from the fight
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at Carter’s Woods 221 officers and men of the 87th Regiment
escaped to Bloody Run, Pennsylvania, 154 to Harper’s. Ferry
and 50 to York. Those who arrived at York encamped there
for a few days and after the battle of Gettysburg returned
to the regiment.

Having been a student of medicine Chaplain Eberhart was
given special privileges, when he returned to Winchester a
prisoner. He obtained permission from General Early to assist
in taking care of the wounded at the Taylor House, then used
as a hospital, where some of the wounded of the 87th were
taken. Early also authorized him to look after the comfort
and welfare of the fifteen laundry women who were prisoners
in the main fort. Chaplains Eberhart, of the 87th, and McCabe,
of the 122d Ohio, wete given charge of seventeen women,
the wives and daughters of Union officers, who had spent the
winter and spring months in Winchester, and fell into the
hands of the enemy at the time of the evacuation. Among these
was the wife of Captain Maish, a daughter of S. F. Guenslen,
a strong Union man of Winchester. On account of her per-
sistent and determined efforts to supply food to members of
the 87th Regiment, who were captured at her house, she was
ordered under arrest, by the Confederate authorities, and sent
with other loyal ladies to Castle Thunder in Richmond, where
she was kept ten days, and then sent under a flag of truce to
Washington City. Mrs. Maish has since felt herself to be as
much a part of the regiment as her husband.

The detachment of the regiment that moved toward Han-
cock, crossed the Potomac and passed on with detachments of
other regiments to Bloody Run, near Bedford, Pa. General
Milroy went from Harper’s Ferry to visit his troops in that
region, and on June 26, issued a public address to them at
Bloody Run, in which he said: ‘

“T am ordered to leave you, and report to General Schenck,
at Baltimore. With anguish, I bid you farewell. If we do not
meet again, I shall watch your course and your actions with the
deepest solicitude. I always expect to point with pride to you

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as brave soldiers, whom I have had the honor to command.
Our cause is clouded with adversity now, but will be ultimately
successful. Hope on, fight on, and may God protect you until
we see our cause triumph, and peace restored.”

In his official report, prepared June 30, at Bloody Run, Major
Ruhl says: “After the battles around Winchester, June 12 to
15, we moved northward, and arrived at Bloody Run June 20,
when I received orders to assume command of the detachment
of 210 men of the 87th Regiment.” In his second report, made
out at Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 31, the following
commissioned officers were mentioned as being present: Cap-
tain Murray S. Cross, and Lieutenants Stallman, Maish, Savlor,
Norris Daniel, Slaymaker, Martin, Haack, and E. M. Ruhl.
His detachment was then composed of 11 officers and 274 en-
listed men on duty and 23 men absent; making a total
membership of 318. Lieutenant Maish was acting quarter-
master, and Lieutenant Daniel acting adjutant.

Several of the officers of the regiment who fell into the hands
of the enemy, were held in Libby, and other Southern prisons
until the end of the war.

After falling back from the last charge at Carter's Woods,
‘Colonel Schall was given a horse that belonged to Colonel Ely,
the brigade commander. With 155 of his officers and men, he
retreated to Harper’s Ferry with other troops. The off-
cers with Colonel Schall were: Surgeon McKinney, Adjutant
Emmett, Captains Fahs, Myers, Eckert, Adair and Pfeiffer, and
Lieutenants Lanius, Spangler, Strickler and Baker. They hal-
ted for the night on Bolivar Heights. The next morning, they
moved across the Potomac and joined the forces on Maryland
Heights. Lieutenant Colonel Stahle went with the detach-
ment to Hancock and to Bloody Run, but soon afterward re-
turned to the regiment.

Thomas Paley, of Company K, thus recalls some of the stir-
ring scenes and incidents of the Confederate attack on the forts
at Winchester, and the battle of Carter's Woods: “I had been
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strengthen the forts. I remember well the terrible artillery
duel on Sunday evening, June 14, and the heroic stand General
Milroy made in fighting a large army of rebels. I recall with
distinctness, and it seems as though I can now hear the loud,
clear tones of Colonel Schall in giving the command, ‘Forward
Eighty Seventh,’ at Carter’s Woods. Then he rode ahead of
the charging column until his fine sorrel horse was shot. With
the utmost coolness and courage, he quietly dismounted, and
gallantly led us on almost to the cannon’s mouth. As we ap-
proached the enemy, I saw Lieutenant Lanius, of Company I,
then quite a young man, leading his part of the line, and as he
turned around to face us, with his sword waving in the air he
exclaimed, ‘Come on, boys, we'll give them hell!’ On this
charge a number of our brave comrades fell, and as the enemy
greatly outnumbered us, we were compelled to retreat. I was
one of those who reached Harper’s Ferry.”

A record of the killed and wounded not heretofore mention-
ed, is given in the succeeding paragraphs.

Captain Wells A. Farrah, of Company H, was struck by a
minie ball and instantly killed, just as the regiment began the
retreat after the last charge. His body fell into the hands of the
enemy, and is supposed to lie among the unknown dead in the
cemetery at Winchester. In August, 1861, he had left his fam-
ily and his home, at Wellsville, Pa., where he had been a pros-
perous merchant to accept the position of First Lieutenant of
the company, and was promoted to Captain in January, 1863.
He was an efficient officer and a brave soldier, displaying. gal-
lantry both in the engagement at Bunker Hill, two days before,
and in the different charges at Carter’s Woods. He was 37
years old. Sergeant John M. Griffith, of Company H, was
wounded at Bunker Hill, while standing in the yard, surround-
ing the home of a Confederate soldier whose family took care
of him for several days. After the enemy left the Valley, he
went to a hospital in Philadelphia, until he recovered. Ed-
ward Wise, Jacob Hoffer and John Hoffman, all of Company H,
received slight wounds in the battle June 15.
Peter Bott, of Company A, was wounded in the leg on the
evening of June 13, when the regiment was skirmishing on
the Strasburg pike, just outside of Winchester. After taking
part in several battles, he was captured June 23, 1864. in front
of Petersburg. He spent several months at Andersonville, a
prisoner of war, and after being removed to the prison at Black-
shear, Georgia, died there the following winter. William
Shriver was wounded near Winchester.

Sergeant Robert D. Greer, of Company B, was instantly killed
in one of the charges at Carter’s Woods. His body fell into the
hands of the enemy, and was buried in the cemetery at Win-
chester. Levi Tyson, of Company C, was killed on June 15.

Zachariah Reichard, of Company C, died on June 16, of
wounds. received near Winchester. Jesse Beck, of the same
company, died June 26, of wounds received on the 15th. Enoch
C. Hartman was wounded at Carter’s Woods.

Milton Spickert, of Company E, was mortally wounded by a
shell, June 13, near the Front Royal road, just outside of Win-
chester. He died in the hands of the enemy, June 22. Edward
Owens, of the same company, was wounded, on June 13, by
the fragment of a shell. He was taken to the hospital at Win-
chester, fell into the hands of the enemy, and was taken to Belle
Isle, where the piece cf shell was removed by his comrade,
Charles Shultz, who was afterward killed at Monocacy.

William Ilgenfritz, of Company E, was wounded June 15, in
right arm. The same arm was shattered by a ball at Cedar
Creek in 1864, and was afterwards amputated at the shoulder.
There were several other members of Company E slightly
wounded at Carter’s Woods. John Lutz, of this company, was
instantly killed in the last charge.

Corporal Skelley, of Company F, was a good fellow and a
brave soldier who fell mortally wounded at Winchester June 14.
He was engaged to be married to Jennie Wade, who was killed
a few days later at the battle of Gettysburg while baking bread
for Union soldiers. Neither of them heard of the other’s fate.
Miss Wade had his picture in her pocket when she was killed.
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Skelley Post, at Gettysburg, was named by its founders, in
honor of their fallen comrade. George T. Little and Joseph
Simpson, of Company F, were wounded by the explosion of
a shell on June 13, and Forrest McElroy was hit by a minie
ball during the fighting around Winchester on June 14.

Henry Shultz, of Company G, was among the wounded at
Carter’s Woods. He fell into the hands of the enemy and was
afterward taken to Richmond by way of Culpepper.

Adolph Weisheit, of Company I, was wounded June 13, re-
quiring the amputation of his arm near the shoulder. George
Adams, of the same company, received a flesh wound in the
side.

“On Sunday, the 14th,” says Corporal Ziegler, of Company
F, “while on the skirmish line, I found a wounded soldier from
an Ohio regiment, in danger of bleeding to death. I tied up
his wound, and stopped the flow of blood. Then I went back
to Winchester, secured a stretcher, and with a detail of four
men, took him to the hospital, thus saving his life.” Corporal
Ziegler was afterward stunned by the explosion of a shell in
the battle on the 15th. He became conscious before the re-
treat. David Hoffman, of Company K, was wounded. June 13,
losing the index finger of his right hand. He was taken pris-
oner on the 15th while in the hospital. He was killed at Mine
Run in the following November.

William Emenheiser, of Company K, was hit twice at Car-
ter’s Woods. The first ball struck the U. S. plate on his belt,
and glanced off; the other passed through his blanket, rolled
up on his shoulders, piercing it with fourteen holes, then grazed
his back between the shoulders without causing serious wound.
He was also taken prisoner.

On the first charge into Carter's Woods, when the 18th Con-
necticut fired into the 87th by mistake, Peter Free, oi Company
E, was mortally wounded. ‘Together with Sylvester Golding,
L. J. Klinedinst and John C. Hoffman, he had gone nearly up
to the enemy’s guns, not knowing, on account of the darkness
his regiment had fallen back. Finding themselves between
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two fires, the other three boys lay down, still firing on the
gunners, close in front of them, until the regiment came up
on the second charge. They had seized a caisson belonging
to the rebel battery and brought it back to the edge of the
woods. Fearing an explosion they took it no farther. Golding
was killed at the battle of Opequon, and Klinedinst died in a
southern prison, the next year. William Newman and John
C. Hoffman, on the retreat, got into a ravine, and had laid
down to get a drink of water from a small stream. They had
taken but one sup, when a whole line of “Johnnies,” on a hill-
side shouted, “Surrender you blankety blank little Yanks.”
But they preferred to run through the ravine and across a field
with the zip of minie balls around them, eventually reaching
Harper’s Ferry in the afternoon.

After the regiment had succeeded in driving the enemy out
of Winchester, on Saturday, June 13, Charles E. Zimmerman,
B. F. Frick, Lewis Frey and Alfred Jamison, of Company A,
were ordered to search a house on one of the main streets, for
a sharpshooter supposed to be in it. They entered the base-
ment, and passed up to the landing of the second stairs, when
a volley from the enemy, a distance away, came in the win-
dows. One of the balls grazed the left temple of Zimmer-
man, making a scar several inches in length, and cut off two-
thirds of his hat rim. Another ball pierced the arm of Jami-
son, causing a painful flesh wound.

Early in the afternoon, while Company A was moving down
the main street of Winchester, a ball fired by a rebel cavalry-
man, struck the U. S. plate on the belt of Henry C. Ginter,
passed through the belt and clothing, and lodged in his car-
tridge box. At Carter’s Woods, Private Ginter was wounded
in the right hip. He concealed himself in the bushes, and after
the battle was over, escaped on a cavalry horse. He overtook
the boys of the 87th on their way to Hancock, Maryland,
where the ball was extracted from his hip by the village phy-
sician, Dr. Wilson.

Lieutenant Morningstar, of Company G, escaped to the east-
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ern slopes of the mountains toward Hancock, with a small
squad of his men, including Daniel Stine and Alfred Wilt.
They sat down to take a rest supposing they were out of dan-
ger of being captured, when a body of McNeil’s Virginia
Rangers of mounted infantry came along and marched them off
to Martinsburg, and the next day to Winchester, where they
met their comrades who had been taken prisoners.

Quartermaster Hersh and Wagonmaster Hamme had made
their way to the right and were hastening toward Harper’s
Ferry, when they were overtaken by some cavalry. After an
exciting experience Hersh was captured and taken back to
Winchester and later to Richmond. Hamme escaped to Har-
per’s Ferry on a fleet horse with the bullets whizzing around
him. The next day he presented Colonel Schall his horse
which had been captured in West Virginia some months before.

Frank T. Metzgar, of Company A, now proprietor of
the National Hotel at York, Pa., had a hand to hand encoun-
ter with a dismounted cavalryman at the Newtown fight on
June 12. After the engagement was over he bound up the
wounds of his antagonist. Metzgar received a painful wound
in the hand in the last charge at Carter’s Woods. He escap-
ed from the battle field and eluded capture by passing behind
a stone fence leading toward the Charlestown road. After
having gone several miles he and some comrades were over-
taken by General Milroy and his staff. As the enemy had no
longer kept up the pursuit, Milroy overcome with exhaus-
tion, fell asleep, and while riding along the road, was held on
his white horse by his aides. The General and his staff ar-
rived at Harper’s Ferry late in the afternoon.

George W. Welsh, of Company K, who was afterward
wounded at Mine Run in November 1863, says: “With seven
others, I escaped as far as Bunker Hill, where we were all
captured by the cavalry. We were sent back to Winchester
and had scarcely anything to eat for three days.”

Samuel W. Keasey, of Company G, later promoted to 2d
lieutenant of Company D, and the last man in the regiment to
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be killed, April 2, 1865, received a slight wound in the face
just before the retreat. Musician Renaut was somewhat de-
layed in binding up the wounds of his comrade. When he no-
ticed the ranks breaking, he ran four miles with all possible
speed, but was captured on the “Johnny Cake” road by some
lively rebels whose language upon approaching him was noted
more for its sulphur than its rhetoric.

Samuel B. Gray, the youngest member of Company E, while
the regiment was falling back, concealed himself in a gulley
about half a mile from Carter's Woods. Very soon the 5th
Virginia came marching toward him, and in a state of trepida-
tion, he fired a shot into the regiment. He then ran amidst
a shower of bullets, and escaped half a mile to the north, when
he saw a squad of Confederate cavalry in front of him. A tree
concealed him from their sight, but the 5th Virginia came
in on his rear. Not knowing that he was the boy who tried
to fight a whole regiment, one of them, in a playful mood,
called out, “Don’t run any further, we ‘uns have Martinsburg
now.”

Then Colonel Baxter came riding up and said, “That’s the
Yank I want to send home for a pet,” and Private Gray soon
started, with other prisoners, on an excursion to Richmond,

“Tiney” Grove, the innocent man of Company G, thought it
unwise that so many overcoats should be left on the field.
‘After falling out of ranks on one of the charges, he threw over
his back a dozen coats and began to retreat alone. But he
was halted by an officious “Johnny” who caught him by the
arm, saying, “Yank, I want you and your coats.” ‘Tiney”
obeyed the command, and marched back with his coats.

“Surrender!” said the leader of a band of rebels, as they ap-
proached Samuel McGinley, the funny man of Company H,
“Our company never drilled that,’ “Sammy” innocently re-
plied, but he gave himself and his gun to the enemy without
resistance. Greenberry Robinson, Colonel Schall’s servant, fell
into the hands of the enemy, but his color was to his advant-
age this time. As he was being marched through Winchester
with other prisoners, Greenberry stepped aside and escaped
into a yard. He then threw off his military coat and looked
over the fence at the moving troops, unnoticed and unknown
among a lot of other colored boys.

The wife of Private Dittenhafer, of Company C, had been
a washer-woman for the regiment at Winchester for several
months. When the evacuation of the fort was ordered, she
mounted a fleet horse, and endeavored to escape with the train
men. After the battle at Carter's Woods, when being pur-
sued by the enemy’s cavalry, she rode away in gallant style,
but was captured and taken back to Winchester and later to
Richmond.

Among the prisoners taken at Winchester was the wife of J.
F. W. Shultz, of Company E. She was a faithful and popular
laundress, who spent several months in the encampment at
Winchester. She was called by the boys, “the Mother of the
Regiment.”

Captain L. H. Grenewald, of York, was chief of the Jessie
Scouts in West Virginia, and of the Grey Eagle Scouts in the
valley under Milroy, who intrusted him with important and re-
sponsible duties. In July 1863, while leading a band of his men
he succeeded, at Falling Waters, Virginia, in destroying a pon-
toon bridge, and capturing part of the wagon train belonging
to Lee’s Army on the retreat from Gettysburg. This was con-
sidered to be a bold and daring feat, successfully accomplished.
Later in the war Captain Grenewald commanded a company
in Cole's Maryland Cavalry.

Among the prisoners was Corporal Philip M. Shive, of Com-
pany E and a member of the band. As he entered the fort at
Winchester, one of the guards called out, “Hello, Philip! what
are you doing here?” Upon looking up, he recognized the sol-
dier who accosted him, as an old friend, formerly from York,
who was now in the Confederate service. Corporal Shive, af-
ter a short imprisonment at Belle Isle, was paroled and ex-
changed. He returned to York, and with another comrade,
took to the regiment a full outfit of fine silver instruments for
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the band, to take the place of the brass ones which were scatter-
ed to the four points of the compass.

During the excitement in the fort, on the night of the 14th,
a sutler’s wagon upset, and its contents were dumped on the
ground. James A. Fellers, of Company I, crept out in the
darkness, toward the upset wagon, and bayonetted a large cake
of cheese. On the march toward Carter’s Woods, he shared.
part of it with some of his comrades. When he entered the
battle, he lost part of what was left and chucked the balance
into his haversack. It was still there when the hasty retreat
began, then he dealt out his cheese in smaller pieces. Some
of the boys gladly paid for the shares they received. Private
Fellers lost a leg at the battle of Opequon, September 19, 1861.

On April 20 the regiment received four months’ pay amount-
ing to nearly $80,000. The next day about $65,000 of this
amount were sent home to relatives and friends.

 
CHAPTER VI.

JOINING THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC—MANASSES GAP—BEALTON
STATION—KELLY’S FORD—-MINE RUN CAMPAIGN.

This chapter opens with the dark days of the Union, darker
than any since the gloomy winter when Washington’s little ar-
my lay at Valley Forge. A northern invasion, skillfully plan-
ned by the Southern leaders, had been consummated, and the
far-famed Potomac ceased, for a short time, to be the border
line which controlled the strife. The legions under Lee had
put that historic river behind them, and were marching through
Maryland into Pennsylvania. The harvest time was coming
on, but the farmers of these border States, fled with their
horses, and many of them with their cattle, across the Susque-
hanna. The State archives at Harrisburg were gathered for re-
moval, and formidable barricades guarded the approaches to
Philadelphia. Ewell had reached Carlisle. Early’s Division
had taken possession of York, and Lee and his hosts were
breaking through the passes of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Every loyal citizen of the North now looked longingly for
the coming of the Army of the Potomac. Heedless of exhaus-
tion, regardless of fatigue, keeping pace with the movement of
their adversaries, that gallant army was bowling along at a
thundering gait, soon to force an issue with the enemy on free
soil. Although confident and reliant, yet Northern people
stood aghast, in awful pause, anxiously awaiting the impending
conflict. The command of the Potomac army on June 28, had
been given to General Meade, who met and defeated the invad-
ing foe, in his native State, on the plains around Gettysburg.
This victory lifted the gloom and relieved the depression, that
at one time, almost seemed to defy the efforts of a loyal people.
While the battle of Gettysburg was going on, Vicksburg fell,
30,000 Southern troops surrendering to General Grant. Lee,
after losing about the same number of men, was in flight to-
ward Virginia and Meade was pursuing him. Such were the
tidings of Sunday, July 5, 1863, and all the church bells of the
North pealed with thanksgiving, and all the bells of the South
tolled with lamentation.

Colonel Schall and his men remained on Maryland Heights
until July 1, with the command under General French who held
the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac. Meantime the
men were engaged, almost daily, in working on the fortifica-
tions. The day the battle of Gettysburg opened, the troops
blew up the magazine, then loaded 80 canal boats with muni-
tions of war and supplies, and left on Chesapeake and Ohio
canal for Washington, a distance of 60 miles. The 87th boys
went on the Ambition,.a boat on which 175 men were crowded.
They stopped on the way, to repair the canal locks which had
been damaged by Stuart’s Confederate Cavalry, and arrived at
Washington, July 4. Two days later they went by rail to Fred-
erick, Maryland, and on the 7th joined the Army of the Poto-
mac on the return from Gettysburg. The regiment was as-
signed to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 3d Army Corps. This
corps had been under General Sickles who lost a leg at Get-
tysburg. It was now under command of General French. The
3d Brigade, composed of the 126th Ohio, 67th Pennsylva-
nia, 106th New York, and 87th Pennsylvania, was placed under
command of General B. F. Smith.

Lieutenant Lanius was made acting adjutant of the regiment
and Captain Blasser, who joined the regiment here, was given
command of Companies I and K consolidated.

From July 8 to July 14, the corps was manoeuvering in the
direction of the enemy, until Lee had crossed the Potomac
into Virginia. It was in line of battle at Boonsboro, but ‘there
was no engagement; then passed over the Antietam battlefield
to Sharpsburg, and reached the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
at Weaverton. On the 17th, the corps crossed the Potomac on
pontoon bridges near Harper's Ferry, and after three days
marching in pursuit of Lee, arrived at Upperville, Virginia, near
Ashby’s Gap.

On July 23, the 3d Corps was sent in haste from Ashby’s Gap
to the support of Buford’s Cavalry who had found the enemy in
force at Manasses Gap. The Ist Division pushed through the
Gap, and the Excelsior Brigade from New York, under Gen-
eral Spinola, made three heroic charges up so many steep and
difficult ridges, dislodging and driving the enemy with consid-
erable loss on both sides. Spinola was twice wounded. Dur-
ing this fight, the 87th Regiment was on Wapping Heights, in
full view of battle and part of the time was engaged in skirmish-
ing. During the night, a dense fog covered the valleys from
the Alleghanies to the Blue Ridge. When the hot rays of the
sun caused it to disappear the Federal soldiers looked down
and found the enemy had marched away.

Meade had intended to have a general engagement with Lee’s
forces at Manasses Gap, but the next day it was discovered that
the Excelsior Brigade had been fighting a brigade of Ewell’s
men, holding the Gap, while Rodes’ Division, forming the rear-
guard of Lee’s army, marched up the valley under cover of the
dense fog. No enemy remained to engage in battle. Meade
had lost two days in getting French’s Corps into and out of the
Gap, and Lee meantime, moved rapidly southward, passing
around Meade’s right flank and appeared in his front when our
army looked across the Rappahannock.

After the failure to flank Lee at Manasses Gap, the 3d Corps
moved southward, and went into camp near Warrenton, where
it remained for a month. On account of the intense heat neith-
er army was in a condition to take the offensive. Many of the
men had fallen out of the ranks on the long march on account
of the oppressive weather. The 87th Regiment, like some of
the other commands, had nothing but shelter tents to shield
them from the hot rays of the sun. The men made arbors over
their tents, covered with pine boughs as a protection. The
country had been foraged to death. But there was one kind of
fruit that gladdened the hearts of the boys in blue, both on the
march toward Warrenton and during the encampment there.
Blackberries, large, luscious and very palatable were found in
great abundance. They were gathered and eaten with evident
relish, and proved to be good diet.

August 1, the 3d Corps moved toward the Rappahannock,
and encamped two miles from that stream. Colonel Schall went
to Washington to attend the court of inquiry in reference to
Milroy’s evacuation of Winchester. During his absence, the
regiment was in command of Lieutenant Colonel Stahle. For
a short time, Colonel Schall commanded the 3d Brigade. On
‘September 7, the corps was reviewed by General Meade. On
September 12 Colonel Stahle furnished the following report of
the strength of the regiment: 15 officers and 205 men present
for duty in camp near the Rappahannock. and 12 officers and
295 men with the detachment at Martinsburg, making the to-
tal strength of the regiment 527 officers and men. Some of
the men captured at Winchester had been paroled, but were
not exchanged, and hence had not returned to the regiment.

Heavy cannonading was heard on the 13th, and two days
later the brigade moved to Kelly’s’ Ford on the Rappahan-
nock, crossed the river there, and marched twelve miles farther
on, halting for the night near Culpepper. On the following
day, they moved four miles west of Culpepper, and went into
camp. On the September 25, the detachment under Major
Ruhl arrived in camp. They were heartily welcomed by their
comrades.

The movements of Major Ruhl'’s command are reported by
him as follows: “June 30 we marched 8 miles to Bedford, and
on July 3 returned to Bloody Run. July 4 we marched 20 miles,
and the next day we moved to Loudon, via McConnelsburg, 14
miles, and in the evening went to Mercersburg. While-there we
received orders from the commanding general to take to
Loudon, 400 prisoners, 400 horses and mules and gO wagons,
captured from the enemy returning from Gettysburg, by detach-
ments of the rst New York and the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry
regiments. July 13 we marched to Greencastle, Pa., via Mer-
cersburg, a distance of 18 miles. The next day we moved to
Hagerstown, Md., and the following day, passed over the An-
tietam battlefield to Sharpsburg. On August 1, we went to
Martinsburg via Harper’s Ferry marching thirty miles in one
day.”

Major Ruhl remained at Martinsburg until September 24,
when he received orders “to proceed with detachments of the
87th Pennsylvania, 1toth Ohio, and the 6th Maryland regiments
to the Army of the Potomac by way of Washington City, and
report to General Meade.” He was directed to take with him
all property of said detachments. including shelter and hospital
tents. They left Martinsburg at 8 a. m., September 24. Upon
arriving at Washington, General Martindale, Military Governor
of the District of Columbia, issued the following: “Pass Major
Noah G. Ruhl, comnianding 598 men, within the lines of the
United States forces at Culpepper, Virginia.” The following
day Major Ruhl and his men joined the regiment in camp near
Culpepper.

Twelve hundred officers and men of the 3d Brigade includ-
ing the 87th Regiment, on October 7, were detailed for picket
duty for three days. They went on the 8th. Two days later
the remainder of the brigade, with the division, marched from
camp and at 3 p. m. formed in line of battle, in an open plain,
about two miles west of Culpepper Court House. They re-
mained in that position until 8 a. m. of the following day. This
was the beginning of what is known as the Bristoe campaign.
Late in the afternoon of the 11th, that part of the brigade, not
‘on picket, and the 2d Brigade were placed in charge of the
corps wagon train, which also included ammunition wagons,
pontoon wagons and ambulances. The train crossed the Rap-
pahannock going east on the night of the 11th.

On the morning of October 11, after the departure of the
corps from the camp near Culpepper, the pickets referred to
above from the 3d Brigade, were attacked by the enemy while
endeavoring to join their command. The 106th New York
lost in this engagement 3 men killed, 7 wounded and 18 captur-
ed. These casualties occurred when this regiment got between
the enemy’s skirmishers and their cavalry reserve. By skillful
manoeuvering the 87th escaped with one man missing, Conrad
Nickel, of Company G. The pickets then withdrew toward
Culpepper, closely followed by the Federal cavalry who were
hard pressed by the enemy. Upon reaching Brandy Station,
the pickets had an opportunity of witnessing a grand cavalry
charge, while they were supporting a battery. The Federal Cav-
alry had formed in three lines, with drawn sabres and charged
across the plain below, meeting the Confederate cavalry at
the edge of a grove, and a hand-to-hand encounter took
place. Meantime Custer’s Brigade of cavalry which had been
cut off fought their way through the enemy’s lines and rejoined
their dvision. The brigade pickets then crossed the Rappahan-
nock and joined the balance of the brigade at Freeman’s Ford.
At 4a. m. of the 13th,-the entire 3d Division under General Carr
marched to Three Mile Station, remaining there two hours, then
moved to Greenwich. The next day the divison guarded ‘the
corps train, took it across Bull-Run where they lay in line of
battle all night. At 8 a.m., the division moved to Union Mills.
On this day the 87th was ordered on picket, and had a slight
skirmish with the enemy without any loss. On the 16th, three
regiments of the 3d Brigade and one regiment from the Ist
Brigade were sent to Wolf Run Shoals to support Buford’s Cav-
alrv. After seeing the cavalry safely across Bull Run, they re-
joined the division the same day.

Lee, foiled in his attempt to interpose between Meade’s army
and the city of Washington, returned to Manassas Plains, and
the following day moved to Buckland Mills, by way of. Green-
wich and bivouacked at sunset.

October 21, the 3d Corps marched to Catlett’s Station on the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, where it remained four days.
While in camp here, most of the men of the 87th, who had been
captured at Winchester, returned to the regiment, thus materially
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Bealton Station to support Colonel Devens’ Brigade of cavalry,
taking position under cover of a woods. In this engagement
the regiment and entire brigade were under a heavy artillery fire
for several hours with shells bursting among them and all
around them. The cavalry while skirmishing tried to draw the
Confederates into musketry range, but without success. The
€nemy in this movement attempted to carry off the railroad iron
of the torn-up track, between Rappahannock and Bealton Sta-
tions. On the 28th, the 2d Brigade relieved the 3d, which re-
turned to its former camp at Catlett Station. The camp was
moved October 30 to a position near Warrenton, where the
regiment mustered for pay the next morning, and remained in
this camp until November 7.

The movement of the ist, 2d, and 3d Corps to cross the Rap-
pahannock, began early in the morning. Smith’s Brigade left
camp at 6a. m., and arrived with the corps at Kelly’s Ford. At
1:30 p. m. of the 7th it formed in line to sustain the 1st Division
of the corps, while it was engaged in driving the Confederates
from musketry range of the ford. When this work was ac-
complished Carr’s Division crossed the river, and soon after
sunset, went into bivouac. They were now only a few hundred
yards from the battle line. An engagement was expected the
next morning, but wheu daylight came, it was found the Con-
federates had retreated.

At 8 a. m. of the 8th, the entire corps advanced to a point on
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, two miles from Brandy
Station. The 2d Brigade at once began to skirmish with the
Confederates who soon fell back. In the movement of this
day, the 87th and another regiment of the 3d Brigade marched
in echelon, the other two regiments moved in column form,
closed in mass in the rear. The 87th passed through this en-
gagement without any loss, and at night bivouacked in a woods,
half a mile from Brandy Station. November to, they marched
to camp near Brandy Station. The weather grew very cold.
Here they remained for two weeks.

Lee was now south of the Rapidan, strongly intrenched aiong
Mine Run. Meade determined to draw him into action before
he was secure in the occupancy of his position. With this in
view, the Union Army was divided into three columns, the first
or right column was composed of the 3d Corps under General
French, and the 6th Corps under General Sedgwick, the for-
mer leading, was to cross the Rapidan at Jacobs’ Mills; the sec-
ond or centre column composed of the 2d Corps, under General
Warren, was to cross at Germanna Ford; and the third or left
column, composed of the 1st Corps under General Newton, and
the 5th Corps under General Sykes, at Culpepper Mine Ford.

The expedition started on the morning of the 26th. The
2d Corps was at the point of rendezvous at the appointed time,
but French who was leading the two right corps, stumbled on
the wrong road, which caused a delay.

The 87th Regiment under Colonel Stahle, was part of the
3d Brigade commanded by Gen. B. F. Smith. General Carr
was the division commander. The march from camp near
Brandy Station, began in the forenoon and after moving 12
miles, crossed the Rapidan on pontoons over Ely’s Ford at
Jacobs’ Mills, and bivouacked in a field. The roads were very
muddy, on the way to the Rapidan. Rain had been falling, then
freezing and thawing weather followed. General French could
not take his artillery across the river at Ely’s Ford, but had to
send it by Germanna Ford. He had no trustworthy guide
and confusion followed. Prince’s Division, then in the lead,
lost its way, and it had to retrograde on the evening of the
26th. At 7 a. m. of November 27, the march was begun over
the road leading to Robertson’s Tavern. The 3d Division
closely following the 2d, with strong flanking parties on the
right. The 1st Division brought up the rear.

The column moved slowly forward on account of the uncer-
tainty of the road Atga.m.,a few musketry shots were
heard in front. At 11:25 Smith’s Brigade halted on the edge of
a field on the left of the road about three miles from Jacobs’
Mills. At 12:30, firing in front of 2d Division became very
brisk. At 2:30 p. m., Carr’s Division had been ordered to take
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position to the left of 2d Division. Johnson’s and Rodes’ Di-
visions of Ewell’s Corps were drawn up in line of battle at Lo-
cust Grove, five miles from Jacobs’ Mills.

In reference to this engagement at Locust Grove General
Smith, commanding 3d Brigade, reported as follows: “Nov. 27
the brigade marched with the corps soon after sunrise, over the
same road the greater part of the distance traveled day before.
The 2d Division of the corps being in the advance, came upon
the enemy about noon. My brigade being in rear of its divis-
ion, moved slowly along, closed up, with flankers well thrown
out. At 4 p. m., the rapidity of the firing and the number of
the wounded brought to the rear, indicated the enemy was in
force. I received verbal orders to move forward with the bri-
gade, and was directed by General Carr, to move quickly and
take position in line, my right joining the left of General Mor-
ris’ Brigade. In moving through the thick woods, I sent two
staff officers in different directions, to find the brigade of Gener-
al Morris, as I had no time to reconnoiter the ground, over
which I was passing. Finding the 2d Brigade, taking the posi-
tion indicated for mine, I was then ordered to join my right on
2d Brigade, and connect with 2d Corps on my left.

“In marching to my position, I came to a clearing of low
ground, through which ran a miry creek, on the opposite of
which was a matted thicket, which was covered by the enemy’s
fire. In order to protect my men, until I could place them in the
position indicated, I filed the left in front of the line under cover
of some small hills. When this was done, I directed the left
to move back to the line proper, the right having joined with
the left of the 2d Brigade. In doing this, the most of my bri-
gade was thrown in the tangled timber around which on the left
flank, the enemy was moving in heavy columns. The brigade
was under a severe fire without being able to see or accom-
plish anything. The left being in some confusion on account
of the character of the country, I found it necessary to reform
the brigade in a clearing, a short distance in the rear. It then
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moved along the crest of a hill, a little farther to the left and
rear, a good position.

“After consulting with General Howe, of the 6th Corps, who
was of opinion that the hill should be held at all hazards, I re-
mained there, thus holding the extreme left. A brigade of the
6th Corps closed the gap on my right.

“By this movement J prevented the enemy from turning our
flank. The 2d Corps, with which I was ordered to connect,
must have been some niiles on our left, as I could not find or
communicate with it. During these movements the sun went
down and the battle ceased.”

Colonel Thomas Eagan, of the goth New York, in his report
of this engagement says: ‘The 3d Michigan and the goth New
York, formed a second line in rear of the 87th and the 138th
Pennsylvania.”

When the brigade was ordered to fall back, as mentioned in
General Smith’s report, about 80 men of the 87th Regiment,
lined up with the goth New York, and fought bravely with that
regiment until dark. It was during this time that most of the
casualties in the 87th occurred.

After the brigade had fallen back, it became difficult for the
officers to reform their lines. The brigade and entire division
were still under fire from the enemy. During this exciting ex-
perience, Lieutenant Staliman, of Company C, and Lieutenant
Lanius, who commanded Company I in this engagement, met
at the brow of a hill. While carrying on an animated conver-
sation about the arrangement of their companies, a piece of shell
severed the strap of Lieutenant Lanius’ haversack, which drop-
ped to the ground. The Major of an Ohio Regiment standing
near, jokingly said: “Lieutenant you had better retreat at
once, your hase of supplies is cut off.’ The regiment was soon
reformed and held its position till the battle ended.

During the night the enemy fell back to their intrenched po-
sition behind Mine Run, leaving their dead and wounded on the
field, j

In the engagement of this day, November 27, George Hitzel,
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of Company F, was shot through the head and instantly killed.

‘The wounded men were as follows:

Company B—William Eiéholtz, finger; William McCoy,right
knee; William Zorger left forearm.

Company C.—Levi C. Frey, left shoulder.

Company D.—James Muntis, leg; George Armor, leg.

Company E.—William Quickel, left arm, amputated. Corpo-
ral Valentine Roush, hip: William Strater, ankle; Casper Cleff-
man, hip.

Company G.—Charles Booth, finger.

The following is taken from Lieutenant Colonel Stahle’s off-
cial report of the Mine Run expedition:

“At 7 a. m. of November 27 we marched with 3d Brigade.
on the right of the brigade left in front, about 3 miles, and rest-
ed in the woods till 3 p. m. marched forward, met the enemy and
after a very sharp fight, losing one man killed and eleven men
wounded, we marched with the brigade to a new position; lay
on arms duting the night.

“November 28th 3 a. m. marched with the brigade on the right
centre of brigade left in front, bivouacked in a field. Novem-
ber 29th brigade formed line at 3 p. m. my command on the
right centre, for the purpose of storming enemy’s fortifications.
We remained in line till night, then bivouacked. November 30
marched at 3 a. m. on right of 3d Brigade left in front; took po-
sition in line of battle by brigade right in front. I deployed
Company K in advance of regiment as skirmishers. The com-
pany advanced about 500 yards into a very thick pine woods,
when they were fired upon by the enemy lying in ambush, losing
three men killed and 4 men wounded. The company returned
the fire, and held their position. I sent Company A forward to
support the skirmishers. The two companies remained in their
respective positions till relieved by details from the 2d Corps;
then rejoined the regiment, which had moved to the ground
where it had marched in the morning; we bivouacked in the
woods.

“December I we marched at I p. m. on the right centre of bri-
gade right in front; bivouacked in the woods. Dec. 2 marched
at 6 a.m. on the right of the brigade right in front, crossing
the Rapidan River on pontoon bridge at Culpepper Mine Ford.
We took position in line of battle on a hill in the woods close
by the river, to guard the ford. We remained in position till
3 p. m., then marched on the right of the brigade right in front
and bivouacked in the woods. Dec. 3 marched at I a. m. on the
left of brigade, right in front, arriving at Brandy Station at 8
a. m.; went into camp in the woods near the station.”

Carr’s Division, on the morning of the 28th, moved forward
in rear of 6th Corps wagon train, halting at 8a.m. along a
large field where part of the 6th Corps was massed. Heavy
rains had fallen, which were followed by intensely cold weath-
er. The soldiers built fires of green pine wood. These fires
filled the air with a black pungent smoke, which affected the
eyes, and became very annoying. At 4a. m. the division moved
on, and halted at sunset, on the left of the 1st Division, threw
out pickets and bivouacked on the east side of Mine Run.

Farly in the morning of November 2G, General French order-
ed General Carr to hold his command in readiness to join in the
general assault on the enemy’s works beyond Mine Run. The
dav passed without the assault being made.

At 12:30 a. m. of November 30 Carr received orders from
Meade to move at 2 a: m. and report to General Warren com-
manding 2d Corps. He moved to a position on the right of
the 2d Division of the 3d Corps, on the west side of Mine Run.
Warren told Carr that the attack about to be made, should be-
gin by his (Carr’s) Division, pushing through the thick woods
in his front, and his arrival on the other side of the woods, was
to be the signal for the advance of the rest of the line, over the
comparatively clear ground on the left. General Carr deployed
a number of skirmishers, and made every preparation for the
intended attack. About this time the 2d Corps’ pickets were
withdrawn from Carr’s front, and he advanced his skirmishers
to take the position just vacated. A sharp skirmish ensued
resulting in a loss of 3 men killed and 4 wounded. These cas-
ualties were in Company K, of the 87th Regiment, as stated
above in Colonel Stahle’s report.

General Carr held his command in position until 12:30 p. m.,
when he was ordered by Warren to report back to French, join-
ing the 3d Corps at 3 p. m.

In this engagement Jacob Foos and his brother Matthew: and
David Hoffman were instantly killed.

Sergeant George W. Welsh was wounded in both thighs,
Henry Kisner in the left knee, J. Valentine Beck in the foot,
and in the right forearm which was amputated.

General Warren in whose command the 87th Regiment with
its division was temporarily transferred on the morning of the
30th, made the following statements of his operations on that
day: “At daylight all was prepared, and as the sun shone up-
on the enemy’s line I examined the whole front. I found that
the line had been re-enforced with all the troops and artillery
that could be put in position; the breastworks, epaulements,
and abatis perfected, and that a run of eight minutes was the
least time our line could have, to close the space between us,
during which we would be exposed to every species of fire. I
decided not to attack, and so informed General Meade. The
operations of the day were suspended.”

General Sedgwick who on the morning of the 30th was com-
manding two corps says: “At 2 a. m. of the morning, having
been placed in command of the 5th and 6th Corps, I moved
about two miles to the right. It was the inten‘ion of the general
commanding to make a sudden and determined attack upon the
enemy’s left under a concentrated fire from our batteries. The
movement of our troops had been carefully concealed from the
enemy and at the appointed time 8 a. m. I opened fire from six
batteries, and prepared to move promptly upon the enemy’s po-
sition at 9 a. m., the hour fixed for the assault. The enemy re-
plied promptly from several batteries. At 8:15 I received the
order of the commanding general to suspend my attack until
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LIEUTENANT ROBERT A. DANIEL, Lizutenant ALEXANDER STRICKLER,
Company G. Company E.
and the enemy prepared to make alterations. During the day
I was ordered back.” —

General Lee’s forces were beyond Mine Run, on the crest of
a hill, the slopes of which had lately been covered with a pine
forest. This had been cut down and formed into an almost im-
passable abatis. His position was a very strong natural forti-
fication, and sufficient time had elapsed for him to make his line
almost impregnable. A ravine lay between the opposing ar-
mies. Through this ravine Mine Run flowed. It was a nar-
row stream, now deep and on account of the intense cold was
partly frozen over. The run had precipitous banks with boggy
approaches, throughout the entire length of the ravine.

. Sometime during the morning of the 30th General Sedgwick
took a gun, and in the dress of a private soldier walked out to
the Federal pickets. He made a careful observation of the
Confederate lines and fortifications. Upon his return made a
very unfavorable report of the situation. Meade held a_ con-
ference with his corps commanders, and soon thereafter, decided
not to make the assault.

Major Ruhl was in command of the skirmishers in front of the
regiment on the 30th. Early in the morning, he ordered the
man in charge of his two horses, to bring up “Billy,” a fine look-
ing animal. The hostler wanted him to take the other horse,
“for Billy,” said he, “will be killed to-day, Major, if you take
him.” “But bring him up, John,” said the Major. “I guess
the horse and rider will both be dead before night.” Then he
handed his watch and other valuables to the chaplain, with the
request that they be sent home. He never expected to return
from the important duty of that day. But the assault was not
ordered, and horse and rider returned to the regiment.

During the suspense, while the army was awaiting the order
to make the assault, General Carr rode along the lines. He
halted in front of General Smith’s headquarters, where a num-
ber of regimental and company commanders were standing, and
said: “The officer whose command gets inside of the enemy's
works first, will be recommended for promotion.”
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“When the time comes, General, every man in the 3rd Bri-
gade will do his duty,” was the quick response of General Smith.

While the regiment was in the front of battle awaiting the
signal for the 3d Division to begin the assault, nearly every
man pinned his name to his clothing, or wrote it carefully in his
diary, in order that his body might be identified if he fell among
the slain. Had the charge been made on that eventful Monday
‘of November 30, 1863, few members of the 87th Regiment
would have answered to the roll call on the following morning:
The suspense of the long wait for the order to lead in the charge
across the ravine, and scale the fortified position of the enemy,
was probably the most trying experience the regiment had
during its term of service.

After the volley was fired by the enemy into Company K
when on the skirmish line, it fell back a short distance. Being
then supported by Company A, the position was held until these
skirmishers were relieved from the 2nd Corps. The bodies of
the three men, who were killed, fell into the hands of the enemy.
Sometime afterward, an effort was made, by relatives, to find
out where they were buried, but without success.

“The 3rd Brigade moved back at noon of December 1,” says
General Smith, “in accordance with orders, to the junction of
the Orange and Fredericksburg pike, and the plank road to
Germanna Ford, to support the cavalry and cover the flank,
while the infantry moved to the rear. December 2, the brigade
moved with Taylor’s Cavalry and one battery, and covered the
rear of the troops crossing at Culpepper Ford. A few of the
enemy’s cavalry followed and skirmished with the rear cavalry
regiments. After seeing all the troops and trains across Cul-
pepper Mine Ford, I crossed and placed the brigade in position
until the pontoon bridge was taken up and taken away, when
I received orders from General Gregg to rejoin my corps, which
I did near the ford about 2 p. m. and marched with it until
sunset, when the division bivouacked in the woods. We
reached Brandy Station at sunrise on December 3, and re-oc-
cupied the old camp left just one week before.”
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Early in November, Colonel Schall had been ordered to
Washington for medical treatment. He was seriously ill for
several weeks, and was compelled to remain at the hospital.
He never fully recovered until April, 1864, about a month be-
fore the opening of the wilderness campaign.

Lieutenant E. M. Ruhl, of Company D, was an aide on the
staff of General French during the fall of 1863, and while the
Army of the Potomac was in winter quarters until its reorgani-
zation in March, 1864.

Captain Cross was on special duty at Washington at the time
of the Mine Run campaign. During his absence, Company C
was-in command of Lieutenant Stallman. Captain Pfeiffer was
appointed inspector general on brigade staff early in Novem-
ber, and remained in that position for some time after the regi-
ment went into winter quarters. During that period, Lieuten-
ant Lanius commanded Company I.

Dr. McKinney, who was acting surgeon of the regiment
since June, 1863, was promoted to surgeon, soon after the Mine
Run campaign. Theodore Helwig was appointed assistant sur-
geon, succeeding Harris C. Steadman. During part of the fall
of 1863, Captain Blasser, who had been a student of med-
icine before he entered the military service, acted as assistant
surgeon. Lieutenant Stallman was placed on specia! duty to
construct corduroy roads, after the engagement at Locust
Grove. During his absence, for a short time, Company C was
in command of Lieutenant Saylor. Lieutenant Strickler, of
Company E, for three months of the following winter, com-
manded Company H. Amos Ness, who afterward was detailed
as a sharpshooter, was captured near Warrenton, early in No-
vember, but made his escape three hours after he fell into the
hands of the enemy.
CHAPTER VII.
WINTER ENCAMPMENT AT BRANDY STATION.

On December 4 the regiment, with the entire corps, changed
camp to a position nearer to Brandy Station, and occupied log
cabins which had been built by the Confederate soldiers only a
short time before. Here they went into winter quarters.
There were not enough of cabins for the entire regiment.
Some of the boys put up snug little cabins for themselves. The
paymaster came along early in December. For a time, green-
backs were plentiful all around Brandy Station.

Colonel Hay and Major Buehler came on December II, to
visit the regiment. The balance of the year was spent in
picket duty, company, battalion and regimental drills, dress
parades, and fixing up the quarters for the winter.

December 20 George J. Chalfant, of Company A, wrote:
“The men who were captured at Winchester, returned to the
regiment before the Mine Run campaign. They have all been
supplied with Springfield rifles; in fact we have but few Enfield
rifles in the regiment now. The men returned to usin good
spirits. The chaplain entertained us with an amusing account
of his prison experience.”

Soon after the regiment was settled in winterquarters a large
number of boxes arrived from home. They contained an
abundant supply of good things to eat which were the most
acceptable Christmas gifts that could have been received.

Christmas was ushered in by all the bands in camp playing
lively tunes at daylight. January 31 Lieutenant Colonel Stahle
obtained a leave of absence to go home. While in camp at
Brandy Station, the picket line of the army occupied about the
same ground as before the retrograde movement to Centerville,
being about ten miles distant from the camp of the 87th Regi-
ment.

On December 31 the regiment had 14 officers and 567 men
present for duty, 32 on extra duty, 27 sick, 2 in the guard-house,
115 absent on detailed duty and 14 missing in action. The
total strength of the regiment was 803. On the first day of
January the sum of $204 was raised and sent to the Christian
Commission at Baltimore. This money was used to purchase
supplies to be sent to the officers of the regiment who were
held as prisoners in Richmond.

The eventful year of 1864 opened with an extremely cold day.
The regiment was sent out on picket duty, and returned to camp
the following day. After brigade inspection on the rith, the
drum corps went out to quarry stones to pave the streets of the
camp. Dr. Jamison, the division surgeon, recommended a sys-
tem of drainage, for the standing water in camp had caused
much sickness.

There was considerable interest taken in an order for a pub-
fic execution of two deserters, at 2d Division headquarters
Many of the boys went to witness it. On the day the execution
was to take place, the men were pardoned. A member of
Company G, who deserted, and had been brought back, was
sentenced to have his head shaved and forfeit his pay. He was
drummed out of the service, through all the camps of the bri-
gades. A board was placed on his back, with the words, “Ut-
terly worthless,” written on it. He was then marched to the
train, and sent away from camp, never to return.

Soon after the army went into camp, some of the officers’
wives and families, came to spend part of the winter at Brandy
Station. A comrade in writing home says: “To see ladies here
does us all good. The hard every-day life of the army is hostile
to the cultivation of refinement of manners. Their presence
softens the nature of the soldier, who has been separated so long
from home and all its endearments.”

The January ball was the society event of the winter encamp-
ment. It was given in a large tent, sent down from Washing-
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ton, and a number of ladies and gentlemen of note, from that
city were present. Officers and their wives, and invited guests
were dressed in elegant style. The women wore large hoops,
according to the fashion of that day. The band of the New
Jersey Brigade furnished the patriotic music, and a fine orches-
tra, composed of soldiers, played for the dancers. It was an
interesting occasion, and like at Belgium’s capital before Water-
loo, there was, :

A sound of revelry by night at Brandy Station,

And soft eyes looked love to eyes that spake again.

But there was no distant roar of cannon to break up the enter-
tainment, like that heard by Wellington’s men at Brussels. It
came the next day and caused a commotion in camp until it was
discovered that it was caused by a Federal battery testing: some
new guns down by the Rapidan.

Captain Myers and Lieutenant Stallman received orders on
February 17 to report at Carlisle, Pa., for recruiting service.
Frequent details of 100 to 200 men of the regiment were sent
out on picket duty, for three or four days at atime. Heavy fir-
ing was heard in camp on February 6. The regiment marched
at 5 p.m. and arrived at Pony Mountain, 8 miles from camp at:
g p.m. It rained all night, and the men lay down on the
ground to sleep without tents. They returned to camp the next
day in mud, at places knee deep. At dress parade on Feb. 13,
the regiment wore new suits, making a splendid appearance.
February 17 was the coldest night of the winter. “The boys
remained in their cabins all day. The next day the Rappahan-
nock was a sheet of ice, but there were no skates within sixty
miles of camp.”

The re-enlistment fever that broke out early in January, still
continued until 180 of the regiment entered the veteran service,
receiving a government bounty of $400, and also a local bounty
from the district to which they were accredited.

General French reviewed his corps on March 16, on the farm
of Hon. John Minor Botts, a noted Virginian who was loyal to
the Union and opposed the secession of his State.
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On March 27, Colonei Stahle who during the temporary ab-
sence of General B. F. Smith, had been appointed to command
the 3d Brigade held a review. Major Ruhl was then in com-
mand of the regiment, which received pay for two months on
the 22d, and the next day the deepest snow of the winter fell.
An equinoctial storm blew it into drifts. Soon the warm
ravs of the sun melted it and mud was plentiful and cheap. First
Sergeant James B. Beck was in command of Company D for
several months, while the regiment was in winter quarters at
Brandy Station.

On March 3, Congress passed an act reviving the rank of
Lieutenant General. President Lincoln bestowed this high hon-
or upon General Grant. His brilliant record as a commander
in the West, caused public opinion as well as military judgment
to point him out as the one person fitted for the position. Ata
cabinet meeting in the White House, Lincoln and Grant met
for the first time. It was then that the President addressed the
distinguished soldier as follows:

“The Nation’s appreciation of what you have already done,
and its reliance upon you for what remains to be done, in the
great struggle, are now presented with this commission, con-
stituting you Lieutenant General of the armies of the United
States. As the country trusts you, so under God, it wiil sus-
tain you. With what I here speak for the Nation goes my own
hearty personal concurrence.”

To which General Grant responded: “I accept the commis-
sion with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid
of the noble armies that have fought on so many battlefields for
our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to dis-
appoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the respon-
sibilities now devolving upon me; and I know that if they are
properly met it will be due to those armies; and above all to the
favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.”

This ceremony took place March 9. On the-following day
Grant visited the Army of the Potomac in winter quarters
stretching from the Rappahannock toward the Rapidan, a dis-
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tance of several miles. He went back to Washington; but soon
afterward returned and conducted a grand review of the army.
The weather was bad. Rain had fallen for several days by the
flood measurement. There was mud by the square mile, not
only at Brandy Station, but all over the winter cantonment of
nearly one hundred thousand Federal troops.

There was no pomp or display connected with this review.
Some members of the staff posed more pretentiously than their
chief, whose name had become a household word all over the
country. He was to command men who had fought gallantly
under McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, the
successive commanders of the Army of the Potomac.

In the meantime Grant and Meade made preparations for a
reorganization of the Army of the Potomac by consolidating the
five corps into three. The order was issued March 23d, and
the work was accomplished during the following two days. The
Ist and 3rd corps were discontinued. The wearers of the dia-
mond badge,—the emblem of the 3rd corps,—gloried in the re-
cord they made. They were displeased with the order. All
this counted for naught at the War Department. The orders
were enforced. The rst and 2nd Division of the 3d Corps with
Birney and Mott in command were transferred to the znd
Corps. The 3d Division of the 3d Corps, in which the 87th
Regiment had served since July, 1863, became the 3d Division
of the 6th Corps. This division was now placed in command of
Gen. James B. Ricketts, a graduate of West Point, who had
served in the Mexican War and had won distinction in the Army
of the Potomac.

The 3d Division, after the consolidation, exchanged camps
with the 1st Division of the 3rd Corps. The 87th Regiment
was assigned to the 1st Brigade under Gen. William H. Mor-
ris, composed of the 14th New Jersey, roth Vermont, 106th and
151st New York and 87th Pennsylvania. General Morris was
a son of the famous journalist and poet, Geo. P Morris. He
invented a repeating carbine and published a work on “Tactics
for Infantry.”

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Two days after Ricketts’ division was fixed in its new quarters,
the brigades were formed in line for review by General Sedg-
wick the corps commander. The other two divisions of the
corps were formed in the rear of the 3rd Division. After the
review was ended Morris formed his brigade in front of his head-
quarters and required the men to parade in heavy marching
orders with overcoats rolled up on top of knapsacks.

The regimental bands were in line and played lively music.
Each regiment presented arms in succession as the brigade and
division commander approached the centre. The march was
begun with arms at right shoulder shift. Each regimental com-
mander, when arriving within fifty paces of General Morris, or-
dered his regiment to shoulder arms. After passing that offi-
cer, they were brought to right shoulder shift. Each colonel
then took position to the right of the brigade commander, while
the regiment passed in review. Then the ranks of the 106th
New York and the 87th Pennsylvania were opened for inspec-
tion.

The 6th Corps, after the consolidation of the army, contained
40 regiments of infantry, and an artillery brigade, composed of
8 batteries of light artillery. The entire membership of the
corps on May Ist was 24,163 “present for duty.” The history
of the corps is replete with interest. Its record is surpassingly
good, and is filled with the romance and the brilliancy of the
war. The 87th belonged to this corps during the remainder of
its term of service.

In the succeeding pages of this book will be described the
hand-to-hand fighting of the corps at Spottsylvania, the fierce
contest at Cold Harbor, the desperate fighting of Ricketts’ Di-
vision at Monocacy, when his gallant men saved the capital of
the nation from the hands of the invaders; the victories in the
Valley of Virginia under Sheridan; and the crowning success
of the corps at the storming of Petersburg. The Greek cross
waved proudly on the banners of the corps whose veteran le-
gions wrought deeds which had linked that badge and their
record with undying glory and renown.
The heavy rains in March were followed by boisterous winds,
and then mild weather. The grass started to grow around the
encampment, the buds began to swell, and the birds commenc-
ed to sing their sweetest songs. “March 26th,” writes Lieuten-
ant Spangler, “was one of the most beautiful days we ever ex-
perienced. But in the evening of that day, the entire army
was put under orders. A cavalry attack, from the enemy, was

 

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expected. All along the company streets our arms weré stack-
ed. For two nights the men slept with one eye open and one
leg out of bed. We were expecting an attack; but it never took
place.”

After March 23,no passes were granted officers to leave camp.
‘The wives of some of them had spent the winter at Brandy Sta-
tion. They now returned to their homes. General Ricketts
issued an order to be read to every company on dress parade,

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giving instructions, when entering battle, “to allow the enemy
to approach near enouel for a fair mark, then aim low, ard take
care of ammunition.’

Colonel Schall returned to his regiment April 7, after his re-
covery from sickness, that had disabled him for 3 months. On
April 30, just before the campaign opened, he reported 20 com-
missioned officers present for duty and 2 on extra duty. There
were 400 enlisted men present for duty, 77 on extra duty and 15
sick. The total strength of the regiment present was 523
Lieutenant Norris, of Company F, was acting assistant provost
marshal, and Lieutenant Baker, of the same company, acting
quartermaster. Captain Myers, of Company E, and Lieutenant
Stallman, of Company C, were on recruiting service. Captains
Albright and Morningstar, and Lieutenants Bierbrower, Stroman
and Welsh were in Libby prison since June 15, 1863. . Quarter-
master Hersh and Lieutenant Hull, of Company E, were parol-
ed prisoners awaiting exchange; 7 enlisted men were on detach-
ed service. and 180 men, who had reenlisted “for three years
or during the war,’ went home April 1, on thirty-five days fur-
lough; there were 57 men in hospitals away from camp, or at
their homes on sick-leaves; 8 men were in hospitals as the re-
sult of wounds; making 258 men absent from the regiment.
The roll of the regiment present and absent, numbered 33
officers and 776 enlisted men, making an aggregate strength
of 809.

Brigade drills and inspections took place frequently now. On
these occasions the different bands stood on a knoll and played
in turn. ‘April 18, Generals Grant and Meade spent nearly the
whole day reviewing the 6th Corps. The following day Colonel
Schall had the regiment at target practice for two hours.

The large octagon building erected for theatrical entertain-
ments and debating societies, at the division headquarters, be-
came a popular resort for pleasure seekers. The interior was
in the form of an amphitheatre with a stage extending along
one side of the building, which was constructed of logs, about
30 feet in length. Later in.the season, some of the chaplains
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conducted a religious revival in this building. They drew large
audiences.

When Chaplain Ekerhart returned to the regiment, after a
sick leave, he procured a chapel tent, and had it erected near the
regimental headquarters. The boys reorganized the choir, and
services were held reguiarly in the tent, until the opening of
the Wilderness campaign in May, This tent was taken with the
regiment until August, 1864. The brigade chapel was about
500 yards to the north.

There is a pathetic vein in the following description from a
letter of Adjutant Martin, who gave his life to his country a few
weeks later:

“Our camp is quiet to-night; but the army is preparing for a
campaign. Great battles are expected to be fought soon. We
hope this campaign will be the death blow to the Confederate
cause. If Congressmen at Washington or the Rebel Congress
at Richmond, were required to endure the hardships of a sol-
dier’s life during one campaign the war would then end.”

“The birds entertain us in the morning and the croaking of
the frogs is heard at night; but instead of these, we are soon
to hear the rattle of musketry and the roar of cannon.”

The Army of the Potomac was now composed of three corps.
The 2d Corps was commanded by General’ Hancock, of Pennsyl-
vania, an ideal soldier who had just celebrated his fortieth birth-
day. The 5th Corps was under the scholarly and intrepid War-
ren, of Massachusetts, who was but thirty years of age. Sedg-
wick, of Connecticut, the honored commander of the 6th Corps,
was scarcely more beloved by his own command than through-
out the entire army. He was fifty-one. Meade another Penn-
sylvanian, was forty-nine; Grant was forty-two. Sheridan who
commanded the cavalry was thirty-three.
CHAPTER VIII.

THE WILDERNESS.

OLONEL SCHALL and his
field, staff and line officers spent
the month of April, 1864, in pre-
paration for the summer cam-
paign. Guard mount, company
drill, battalion drill, target shoot-
ing and skirmish drill were prac-
ticed with regularity and precis-
; ion. There was a daily inspec-
tion of the quarters and the sanitary conditions were looked after
with zealous care. The regiment was in excellent trim when the
general order was issued for the army to bégin to move toward
the enemy at midnight of May 3. Clark’s mountain, the bold
promontory on the south side of the Rapidan, the silent sentinel
that had kept its ever-wakeful watch on the Potomac army at
Brandy Station, through all the months that it lay at rest in its
winter home, had not been over-vigilant on the first day of May.
It was then that the Fifth Corps began to move from the banks
of the Rappahannock toward Brandy Station. The smoke that
filled the air from the abandoned camps failed to arouse the vigi-
lance of the Confederate signal officer on the mountain top. Lee
seemed to know nothing of the majestic sweep prepared for him
until daylight of the 4th revealed the heads of all the columns at
the very Rapidan itself. Shortly before midnight, the offensive
movement began, which in march, siege, skirmish or battle con-
tinued incessantly until Appomattox terminated it within three
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Hancock’s Corps preceded by Gregg’s cavalry, crossed the
river at Ely’s Ford. Warren’s Corps, with Wilson’s cavalry in
the advance, crossed on pontoons six miles farther up the stream
at Germanna Ford, closely followed by the Sixth Corps, under
Sedgwick.

The 1st Brigade of Ricketts division, of which the 87th Regi-_
ment formed a part, brought up the rear. Reveille was beat at
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The successful pas-
sage of the army
across the Rapidan,
without resistance,was
a source of congratu-
lation to Grant and
Meade. Not only the
army, but the im-
mense train of 4,000
wagons, was now on
the south side of the
stream. “This,” says
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a great success,and it
removed from my
mind the most serious :
apprehension I had PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS THE
entertained, that of RAPIDAN RIVER.
crossing the river in the face of an active, well-appointed, and
ably commanded army.”

The army of Northern Virginia, under Lee, lying south of the
Rapidan, was divided into three corps, commanded by Hill,
Ewell and Longstreet, with Stuart commanding the Cavalry. It
was behind entrenchments, extending a distance of eighteen
miles. According to official reports of the Confederate War De-
partment, Lee’s army numbered 61,953 officers and men—foot
horse, and artillery present for duty on May 1. Grant had 99,438
men, and 274 guns. The 9th Corps, under Burnside, joined the
army on May 5. This increased the moving column undet
Grant to 120,000 men. In point of numbers in fighting an
offensive battle on open field, Grant would have great advantage.
But one under cover of the wilderness, was equal to three at-
tacking.

The country beyond the Rapidan was a wild wierd region; a
dense forest. Within this region and beyond it a wary foe was
concentrating for a mighty struggle. Here two great warring

    

 
 
  

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hosts were soon to make battle record, for slaughter, unparallel-
ed in American history to be read and re-read with intense in-
terest, as long as the English language shall be spoken.

Lee’s headquarters was a distance beyond the river at Orange
Court House; Grant’s in his saddle. As commander-in-chief of
all the armies, he now penned his famous telegram to Sherman to
begin his march from Chattanooga toward Atlanta and the sea to
destroy the Confederate work shops in Georgia, and cut the Con-
federacy in twain. Then he issued orders to the army around
him with the expectation of a general engagement with the
enemy on the following day, May 5.

After crossing Germannia Ford on the evering of May 4, and
camping for the night, Gen. Morris directed the 87th Regiment
to throw out videttes. During the evening low camp fires of the
different commands were plainly visible in every direction. The
brigade began to move at 7 a.m. of May 5. An aide from
Ricketts brought to Gen. Morris orders to pass the Second Bri-
gade (which had just been placed under command of Gen. Sey-
mour) and move forward to the position held the night before by
Wright’s division. One section of the First Massachusetts Artil-
lery accompanied the brigade. Griffin's division of the Fifth
Corps on the morning of May 5 opened the battle of the Wild-
erness, which will be ever memorable as the commencement of
the greatest campaign of the civil war. The other divisions of
this corps had also moved forward over the Germannia plank
road toward Parker's store,sometimes going to the right cr to the
left of this road through the dense undergrowth. Two main
highways, the Orange plank road and the Fredericksburg pike,
extended east and west across the entire Wilderness. The
Brock road begins on the pike and runs southwest to Spottsyl-
vania Court House. The Germanna plank road, after crossing
the turnpike from the north, terminates on the Orange road
about three miles northeast of Parker’s store. The advance of
the Union army was being made with zealous resolution in that
direction. The snapping of boughs ard branches,the tramp over
the cracking underbrush indicated that a considerable force was
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in motion. Soon a wild, wicked roar of musketry is heard to the
left of Ricketts’ division. It reverberated through the forests
with a deep and hollow sound... This was the opening of the
appalling carnage of the Wilderness. The enemy at first broke
under the withering fire, retreated across a clearing, and upon
reaching the other side, made a stand. In an instant the timber
blazed with the fire of musketry. Our men paused for an instant
and then with ringing cheers charged across the clearing
and drove the enemy from their position. Many a brave fellow
bit the dust as this charge was made. While it was going on
Wright’s division of the 6th Corps moved forward with difficulty
through the scrubby pines and tangled underbrush to cover the
right flank of the 5th Corps.

Hearing the heavy musketry fire to the left, where Griffin’s
division had engaged the enemy, Morris formed his brigade in
line at 7:30 a. m., placing the 87th Regiment in the rear and
threw out skirmishers. He then moved out the Germanna
plank road, a short distance, and placed part of his command in
position on one of the narrow plantation roads, near a small clear:
ing. The 87th was now supporting the artillery, which was
actively engaged. The oth Corps having crossed the Rapidan;
now came up and joined the army. Gen.Burnside had aninterview
with Ricketts in front of the 87th Regiment. Part of the gth
Corps then relieved Ricketts’ division, which moved forward at
12:45 p. m. to the Wilderness Tavern, a distance of six miles
from the place it encamped the previous night. The 2d Brigade
held the right of the 6th Corps. Burnside was now on the ex-
treme rght of the army; the 6th Corps was next; the 5th Corps
next, and the 2d Corps occupied the extreme left. Generals
Grant and Meade had taken up their headquarters to the rear of
the centre at the Lacy house.

Ricketts’ division in its forward movement passed the general
hospital, where a large number of the wounded had been brought.
The road was crowded with men bringing other wounded sol-
diers in ambulances and on stretchers to the hospital. They next
passed the place, where details of men were erecting ‘strong forti-
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fications, to be used in case the advance was compelled to fall
back.

‘The 1st Brigade marched to the right a distance of a mile,and
then to the left, penetrating slowly but cautiously, the densest
undergrowth, always on the alert for a charge from the enemy or
a break in the Union lines in front. .

At 4 p. m. the 87th fell back a short distance and _ stacked
arms to prepare for a luncheon. The boys had just begun to
eat their hard tack and pork when the order came to “fall in.”
‘They marched to the plank road on the left, and then moved on
toward the front. Having gone but a short distance, the brigade
was massed near the plank road, about one mile from the Wild-
erness Tavern. Here the enemy had placed a section of artillery

 

on the road and at once opened fire upon our men, the shells
falling within the ranks of the 87th. At 5 p. m. the 1st Brigade
under Morris entered the fight which lasted till dark. The
casualties in the regiment on this day were the following: John
McGuigan, John E. Edie and Frank McGuigan, of Company C,
wounded; and Alexander Nauss, of Company B, captured.

' The regiment was now in the front line of battle. The men
rested on their arms during the night. A distant musketry fire
was heard even to the midnight hour. The 2d Brigade of Rick-
etts’ Division which occupied a position immediately to the right
lost heavily. in the evening while attempting to turn the enemy’s
flank.

On May 6th says General Morris, “I was. given orders to at-
tack the enemy at 4:30 a. m. General Ricketts directed me to
the left of General Upton who commanded the 2d Brigade of
Wright’s Division. Upton informed me that his line would
swing around his left flank as a pivot. When the troops
on his right advanced I took position a little to the rear of his
left, so as to be on his left after he had swung around. At this
juncture, we received notice that the attack was postponed till 5
p.m. The position we had determined to hold was one of ser-
ious importance, owing to a swamp which gave us little room.
My brigade was placed in line of battle. About 10 a. m. the
enemy commenced shelling us with an exact range upon my
brigade, and continued to do so at intervals, throughout the
day. The loss from this cause was 3 killed and 19 wounded in
my brigade.”

Over to the left a real wicked roar of battle rolled up in tre-
mendous proportions in the forenoon. Here Hancock . had
throttled Longstreet and drove him with relentless fury through
a mile of swamp and forest. Then the undergrowth and timber
that had so impeded Hancock and his men concealed the move-
ments of Longstreet until it was his turn to throttle Hancock.
All the ground so valiantly won in the morning, was lost again
by noon. In this contest, Hancock received a slight wound, and
Longstreet, a serious one, which disabled him for months.
About the same time, the noble-minded, Wadsworth fell mor-
tally wounded, at the head of his division. He was then the
oldest officer in the army, who at the opening of the war, left
his princely domain in Central New York to defend the cause
of his country on the field of battle.

The shades of evening were soon to fall, but the battle raged,
and the day’s work was not yet finished. There was a lull in
-the struggle on the left with Hancock’s and Warren’s Corps, but
it rose again with vigor between Sedgwick and Ewell on the
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right. The latter struck the 6th Corps’ right and dealt a terrible
blow. The intrepid Sedgwick fell back, but soon afterward,
sent this laconic message to the commanding general: “I have
re-established my lines,” thus adding lustre to his name, and
an historic phrase to the literature of war.

In this contest General Seymour and a large part of his bri-
gade and part of Shaler’s Brigade, in all 4000 men, were cap-
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During the day Col. Schall drew for the regiment 15,000
rounds of elongated ball cartridges, calibre 58.

“About 6 p. m.,” says Morris, “General Sedgwick sent for
three regiments of my brigade, to reinforce troops on his right
who were driven back by the enemy. I moved out at a double-
quick, the 1oth Vermont, the 14th New Jersey and the 1c6th
New York, and then turned my attention to affairs in front of
me. Finding that our troops were retreating in such numbers
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that it was impossible to stop them, I changed front, so as to
face the right in order to injure the enemy as much as possible,
with my fire as they advanced. General Sedgwick in person
now came to my line. The shells of the enemy were then se-
vere upon us.”

Later in the evening I was instructed to move the 87th Penn-
sylvania and the 151st New York, back to the breastworks, and
to recall my other three regiments. After consultation with
Generals Sedgwick and Wright, I posted my entire brigade. It
was then that the entiré 6th Corps fell back a short distance to
the entrenchments.”

About this time Burnside’s corps was moved over to the left,
and thrown in between Warren and Hancock. It was just be-
fore dark that Sedgwick had re-established his lines. At 9 p. m.
the enemy again charged the 5th Corps and were repulsed. The
hospitals were removed in the afternoon to Chancellorsville.

The casualties in the 87th for this day were the following.
wounded men: Henry C. Ginter, Company A; Daniel Spotts
Company C; Elias H.Redding and James H. Moody, Company
D; Sergeant John H. Sheads, Company F; Corporals Augustus
Weigert and W. D. Homback, Company I; George Gibbons,
George Brant and Ephraim Shanebrook, Company K.

The Potomac Army rested nearly in the same position it held
when the contest began two days before.. Daylight had disap-
peared and the Wilderness was shrouded in darkness, lit up
here and there by low camp fires. The weather was hot and
dry. The loss on both sides had been very heavy during the
day. The Vermont Brigade which formed the right of the 6th
Corps in the afternoon, lost 1223 out of 2,800 men engaged.

Neither army showed much disposition to take the offensive,
‘when the dawn of May 7 began to light up the dark hollows
of the Wilderness. The terrible conflict of the past two days,
-had left both combatants bleeding and exhausted. The chief
event of this day was the indecisive cavalry engagement at
Todd’s Tavern. The Confederate infantry lay behind their in-
trenchments. Lee had not driven Grant across the Rapidan
as he had expected, and Grant had not yet crushed Lee. It.was
a drawn battle. Grant now determined to plant himself be-
tween Lee’s army and Richmond by moving to Spottsylvania
Court House, fifteen miles southeast of the battlefield of the
Wilderness.

The train of 4,000 wagons moved in haste to Chancellorsville
in the evening of the 7th; the infantry began the march toward
Spottsylvania at midnight. The 2d and 5th Corps moved over
the Brock Road; the 6th and 9th Corps by way of Chancellors-
ville where Sedgwick’s forces were to keep guard over the wa-
gon train.

Early in the morning of the 7th Generals Morris and Griffin
were ordered to examine the position of the enemy. About 5
a. m. a Confederate line charged through a woods in front of
their brigades. Our artillery opened upon them and drove
them back in confusion. An hour later, Morris sent the 87th
Regiment and 100 men of the 151st New York all under Col-
onel Schall, on picket duty. They charged the enemy’s skir-
mish line, and drove it back nearly through a dense woods. All
the sharp fighting of large commands in the Wilderness had
ceased the night before, but the 87th, as skirmishers were ac-
tively engaged all dav. The zip, zip of the minie balls above
and around them, kept up a fitting tenor to the deep-toned roar
of artillery in the direction of Fredericksburg. In this skir-
mish line, the regiment was so near the enemy’s skirmishers
that they could hear their conversation, although they could not
‘see them, on account of the dense smoke which enveloped the
woods where the Rebels lurked.

“Hello Yank, how are you?” was frequently heard from the
thickets.

It was quickly answered by “All right Johnnie, look out or
you'll get hurt.” :

It was only a part of the regiment that got in such close
quarters with the Southerners. A detachment had been deploy-
ed to the right. Shortly after midnight, Colonel Schall gave di-
rections for his men to fall back quietly so as not to be heard by
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the Rebels. Then he formed the regiment in line and marched
away toward Spottsylvania to join the brigade. The casualties
reported for May 7 were the following wounded men: Alexander
Brown, Company A; Sergeant William Walters, Corporal Jos-
eph M. Funk, and James Kendrick, Company B; Jeremiah Ster-
ner, Company F; George L. Litz, Company H.

David E. Myers and William Fullerton, of Company F, were
captured. The wounded were removed to Fredericksburg.

At 9:30 p. m. of the 7th, the 1st Brigade began the march
over the Orange turnpike, to the Orange plank road through
Chancellorsville. From there the 6th Corps guarded its own
wagon train, and that of the 2d and 5th Corps in the movement
to Spottsylvania. The men were tired and exhausted. Many
of them fell asleep by the roadside at every stop. The march
was slow and tedious. It took fifteen hours to move a distance
of fourteen miles, halting within two miles of Spottsylvania
Court House, where the brigade was massed on the left of the
road.

“About 1 p. m.,” says General Morris, “Colonel Schall joined
the brigade with his withdrawn pickets; only two of his men
having straggled. At 2:10 p. m. I marched to report to Warren
and reached him at 3.10 in front of the enemy at Spottsylvania.”’

It was the advance of Warren’s Corps that reached the point
of destination first. Such was the plan of the commander-in-
chief; but Longstreet’s Corps, now commanded by Anderson,
had planted their guns on a ridge, and took position behind
the intrenchments near Spottsylvania an hour earlier. First
with Robinson's and then with Griffin’s Division, Warren open-
ed the fight late in the afternoon of the 8th. Owing to the dis-
parity of numbers, he was at a disadvantage. During this con-
test, General Robinson was severely wounded.  Crawford’s
Division soon came up, followed by part of the 6th Corps, in-
cluding the 1st Brigade of Ricketts’ Division.

“When my brigade arrived,’ says General Morris, ‘about
15,000 men were drawn up in a column of attack, composed ‘of
several lines. My brigade was placed in one of these lines.
General Ricketts had not yet arrived. Major Biddle, of
Meade’s staff brought me orders, directing me to move to the
left, about 50 paces beyond the main road, in the rear of Gen-
eral Warren. Later General Warren ordered me to swing my
brigade around to the right of the left regiment in order to face
directly the enemy. Next Warren made me swing forward my
left to the forks of the main roads.”

Sedgwick now appeared with the balance of the 6th Corps,
and took command of the field. In the meantime Hill and
Ewell with their Confederate forces, had taken post behind the
intrenchments. Late in the evening Sedgwick decided to as-
sault the enemy’s works with all the force available, but there
was considerable delay in determining the dispositions for the
attack. Hancock and Burnside had not yet reached the scene
of action. <A partial attack was made by the New Jersey bri-
gade belonging to Neill’s Division of the 6th Corps, and part of
Ricketts’ Division, including the 87th Regiment. Crawford’s
division of the 5th Corps, then joined in the attack. This en-
gagement took place late on Sunday evening, May 8.

The following men of the 87th were wounded: Ephraim
Strayer, Company C; Eli Bear, Company E; William H. Lefe-
ver, Company G; William G. Small, Company H; Rudolph Pat-
terson, and John Glosser, Company K.

The weather had been very hot and dry. The great battle
of the Wilderness having been fought almost entirely with
muskets, there was little of the roar of cannon, which is usually
followed by rain. On the toilsome march of the day the Vir-
ginia dust had changed the blue coats of the Union soldiers to
the yellow brown of the foxes’ fur. The military finery of the
classic Warren, the neat fitting suit of the superb Hancock, and
the plain dress of “Uncle John” Sedgwick looked not unlike
the garb of the Confederates who were to direct the legions of
the South the following days around Spottsylvania.

Late in the evening of the 8th, Commissary Sergeant Smyser,
of the 87th, arrived from Chancellorsville with the wagon train.
Taking two of his four regimental teams he started to distribute

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three days’ rations among the boys. He halted his teams in
an open field and then went forward into a dense pine forest, in
search of his regiment. Supposing he was in hearing distance
of them, he called out:

“Where is the 87th Pennsylvania?”

A “Johnnie,” a short distance away in a thicket, answered
“here.” He moved in the direction of the enemy, and had gone
outside of the second line of Union pickets when a comrade
called out: ,

“Hello, Sergeant, where are you going?”

“To my regiment,” he responded.

“You are nearly in the Rebel lines.” Not desiring another
experience in Libby and Belle Isle the obedient sergeant beat a
hasty retreat. He soon drove his teams into a ravine and made
each of his comrades happy with an abundant supply of meat,
coffee, sugar, beans, salt and hard tack.

 
CHAPTER IX.

SPOTTSYLVANIA—SEDGWICK KILLED—MORRIS WOUNDED—COL.
SCHALL IN COMMAND OF FIRST BRIGADE.

ROUND Spottsylvania the coun-
try was interspersed with open
fields, ridges and knolls. | Where
the timber was left untouched, it
was nearly of the same growth as
that in the Wilderness. In front of
all their intrenchments in the
woods, the Confederates had cut
down the timber and in the open
constructed abatis.

The operations of May 8 left the
enemy in the possession of
Spottsylvania Court House. The
two great armies were concentrat-
ing for another great struggle for
mastery. Lee had posted his three
army corps: upon Spottsylvania
Ridge, a bulwark of defence, and
held the Army of the Potomac at bay for twelve days. These
were days of great anxiety and suspense to President Lincoln
and the entire country.

On Monday, May 9, all the corps of the Union army were in
position in a curved line in front of Spottsylvania. Hancock was
on the right, Burnside next, Warren next and Sedgwick on the
extreme left. The 5th and 6th Corps began to press the enemy
before dawn, developing their position and seeking points of at-
tack.

 
Gen. Sedgwick ordered Ricketts’ division to Laurel Hill and
as early as 3 a. m. sent him the following instructions, which is
the last order on record, the great soldier issued:

“You will rectify your lines as soon as it is light enough, and
strengthen your position by intrenchments. Send to my head-
quarters for tools, and they will be forwarded at once. It is in-
tended to remain in position to-day to give the men rest. Please
send in this morning a field return of your command and make
a report of the casualties in your division. Send at once for
the tools.” !

Gen. Morris commanding ist Brigade of Ricketts’ division ar-
ranged his regiments in a straight line with the 87th Pennsyl:
vania on the right. At 7 a. m. it was decided to construct lines
of intrenchments in the form of an angle. Half an hour later
Morris transferred the 14th New
Jersey from the left to the right of
the 87th, arranging a company
of each regiment near the point
where the angle diverged. At
this point Captain McCartney, of
the Massachusetts First Light Bat-
tery, placed his guns. The artillery
aimed to dislodge some _ sharp
shooters who were behind a clump
of trees, a distance ahead, and to
shell a battery beyond a ridge.

In front of the 87th was a strip

GEN. JOHN SEDGWICK. of woods, and to the left of it a

dense forest of pine, into which the

regiment moved after leaving the breastworks. A Union picket

line had been thrown out in the form of a semi-circle, a distance

of 300 yards beyond the battery. The Confederate skirmish line
was farther out on rolling ground.

The regiment had been engaged in throwing up breastworks
from early in the morning. Sharpshooters still kept firing occa-
sional shots. A ball passed through the gum blanket which

 
Howard F. Andrews, of Company A, had rolled up on his
shoulders.

At 9:45 a.m. Gen. Sedgwick came walking up the line, speak-
ing to officers and men as he passed them. He wore a soldier’s
blouse and seemed to be in an amiable mood and in excellent
spirits. As he approached the head of the 87th Regiment he
told Captain Fahs to hasten the completion of the breastworks
at that point, as the enemy might make a charge during the
day. Then he moved on toward the battery to give directions
about its arrangement. At this instant a soldier near him dodged
upon hearing a bullet whizzing overhead. The general was then
cautioned that he was in danger.

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A moment later a minie ball from a sharp-shooter’s rifle struck
him near the eye, penetrating his brain and he died instantly.
Thus fell one of the greatest soldiers of the civil war. The spot
has since been marked by a beautiful monument shown in the
engraving above.

His body was carried to the rear. In the language of
Gen. Meade “thé death of the beloved commander of the 6th
Corps, was deeply mourned by officers and men.”
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The remains were placed on an ambulance belonging to Mor-
ris’ brigade, and taken to Belle Plain, Virginia accompanied by
a detail of three men from the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, which
had been the general’s escort since May 5, when the army cross-
ed the Rapidan. From Belle Plain, in charge of his staff offi-
cers, Captains Beaumont and Halstead, the remains were taken
to his native State of Connecticut for interment.

Gen. Sedgwick won distinction in the Peninsula campaign, at
Fredericksburg and at Antietam. After one of the most remark-
able forced marches on record, he arrived at Gettysburg on the
afternoon of July 2. The 6th Corps under his command since
February, 1863, was the best in discipline and morale in the
army. He declined the command of the Army of the Potomac
just before it was given to Meade.

About the time Gen. Sedgwick moved forward toward the
battery Gen. Morris walked to Col. Schall, in command of
the 87th. These two officers engaged in a conversation, and
then moved back toward the quarters of Gen. Morris, a short
distance to the rear. While walking near each other, Gen. Mor-
ris was wounded in the leg by a sharp-shooter's ball coming from
the same direction as the one that killed his corps commander.

Major Ruhl, of the 87th, came immediately to the assistance
of Col. Schall, and they escorted the wounded officer to his
headquarters.

“While helping Gen. Morris back,” says Col. Schall, “my at-
tention was called to the death of Gen. Sedgwick, who fell about
100 yards from where Gen. Morris was shot.”

Morris being completely disabled by his wound, was soon tak-
en to the division hospital. The following dav he wrote out his
report in which he says:

“During the five daysof incessant marching and fighting I had
every reason to be proud of the regiments composing my bri-
gade. The coolness, judgment and gallantry of Col. Schall of
the 87th Pennsylvania,Lieutenant Colonel Hall of the rath New
Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend of the 106th New York,
Lieutenant Colonel Fay of the 151st New York, and Lieutenant
Colonel Henry, of the roth Vermont, were worthy of the highest
commendation. The field and line officers also distinguished
themselves.”

The next day Gen. Morris was sent to Washington for treat-
ment. On the oth, immediately after he was wounded, Col.
Schall, senior officer, took command of the brigade,

Lieutenant Lanius, of Company I, the same day was detailed
as an aide on the brigade staff where he remained until he was
wounded at the battle of Monocacy July 9 of the same year.

Captain McCartney’s small guns on Laurel Hill at the angle,
where Sedgwick fell, were assisted by large howitzers of the
5th U.S. Artillery. These guns now engaged in a duel with the
enemy’s battery beyond the ridge. During the day Peter Wit-
man, Charles Spahr, and another comrade of Company A, were
detailed to carry shells from the caisson to the battery. At 6 p.
m. Col. Schall ordered his skirmishers to advance, when they
drove the Confederate skirmishers from their position.

At 6:30 p. m. there was a furious cannonading opened on both
sides. ‘he wounded in the 87th Regiment on this day were
Samuel Zartman, John Myers and Abraham Roat, of Company
B; Henry Snyder and William B. Ramsay, of Company H, and
‘Thomas Taylor, of Company K.

General Horatio G.Wright, of the 1st division, succeeded Gen.
Sedgwick in command of the 6th Corps, which position he held
with honor and distinction till the end of the war. During the
year 1862 he had been a department commander in Kentucky.
He came to the Army of the Potomac in April, 1863, and parti-
cipated in the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run cam-
paigns. His military record had been good.

May 10 Hancock and Warren made two attacks upon the
enemy’s position in front of the 5th Corps, but without success-
ful results. The Union loss in these attacks was 5,000 men. A
portion of the 6th Corps now made an attack, which resulted in
carrying the enemy’s first line of intrenchments, and capturing
nearly 1000 prisoners and a number of guns. Owing to a lack
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of support, it was impossible to take advantage of the results
thus gained, and at night the line withdrew leaving behind the
guns that had been captured.

The ist Brigade during the eyening made a charge, and cap-
turéd a line of rifle pits. It was under a severe artillery fire,
but most of the heavy missiles of war passed overhead. During
the day C. Edward Zimmerman, of Company A, was wounded.

Rain began to fall on the 11th, and continued during the fol-
lowing day when some of the hardest fighting was done. The
6th Corps moved to the left, and marched a part of the night.
Finding the enemy’s left so well guarded, it was decided to at-
tack the centre at a salient point. For this purpose General
Wright “was directed to extend his left, concentrating,” says
General Meade, “on that wing.” At daylight of the 12th, Han-
cock’s Corps assaulted and carried the salient, capturing twen-
ty guns and 3,000 prisoners, including General Edward Johnson,
who had commanded the forces at the battle of Carter’s Woods.
Hancock then advanced to the second line when the enemy, re-
inforced by heavy masses, began an impetuous assault to retake
the lost line, and their guns, at what became historically known
as the “Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania.” At 6 a. m. the 6th
Corps came up. The service it now rendered was of the high-
est importance. It relieved the 2d Corps on the right of the
salient, and Hancock formed on the left of the angle.

At 8a. m. the 5th and oth Corps were ordered to make a gen-
eral attack, and relieve Hancock and Wright. It resulted in a
heavy loss. Lee seemed determined to recapture the line,
wrested from him, and throughout the day, made five heavy as-
saults, each one of which was repulsed. Of all the struggles of
the war to regain a strategic position, this was the fiercest and
most deadly. At times so close was the contest that, rival
standards were planted on opposite sides of the same breast-
works. With a heavy force the enemy still made a determined
effort to retake the famous salient, which became in truth an
angle of death. It presented a spectacle, ghastly and terrible.
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CaptaIN JOHN FAHS, Company A. Captain JAMES ADAIR, Company F.
ing lines at midnight. The loss on the Union side that day was
nearly 8,000, in killed, wounded and missing. The loss on the
Confederate side, was never definitely made known but it was
very heavy. :

The greatest number of casualties on this eventful day to the
Union army was in the 2d Corps, and in the 1st Division of the
6th Corps, now under command of General Russell.

The 1st Brigade under Colonel Schall, although it was contin-
ually engaged in fighting, skirmishing and throwing up breast-
works, in face of the enemy, had comparatively few casualties
in the Spottsylvania campaign. From May 8 to May a1 the
brigade lost 149 men in killed, wounded and missing. During
the attack on the enemy’s works on May 12, Henry Ensinger,
of Company A, while lying on the ground in the battle line, was
killed by the explosion of a conical shell. Christian Househol-
der, of Company C, Charles Howle, of Company I, William
Denues, of Company A, were wounded.

It had rained all day of May 12, while musketry rattled and
cannon roared around Spottsylvania. A woeful night followed.
Hundreds, even thousands of men, lay dead or wounded on the
ground where they had fallen during the day, and the battle rag-
ed even to the midnight hour. ‘Heavy clouds still hung over-
head, and the whole region was wrapped in Egyptian darkness,
save where a few low campfires sent forth a feeble light. The
wounded were not all take to the field hospitals, and their
groans could be heard through the pine forests. A part of the
Union army moved after the struggle ended, the balance rested
on their guns. The 87th Regiment spent a part of the night,
throwing up earthworks, and at early dawn began to help bury
the dead. Devoted surgeons and their attendants ministered
to the wants of the wounded as best they could. No unfortu-
nate ones were neglected, if it was within the bounds of possi-
bility to comfort or sustain them. Some of the tired and worn
out veterans fell asleep in the trenches and slept in the rain un-
til morning.

After two years of service the soldiers of 1861-5, learned that
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it was the business of war to kill and maim. The sooner this
was accepted as a bitter necessity the better the soldier. Men
inured to the hardships of army life become hardened. Such
was the condition of the soldiers who had fought so valiantly in
the Wilderness, and at Spottsylvania. As one after another of
their comrades fell, it was not easy to suppress the thought
that, “the next turn may be mine, and if it is, what of it?” This
is a brief mental picture of numerous scenes and incidents that
took place on many fields of battle during the dark days of Re-
bellion, when thousands of men “yielded up their lives that
this nation might live.”

It was at Spottsylvania that Grant sent this famous dispatch
to the War Department: “We have ended the sixth day of hard
fighting. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the
enemy. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all sum-
mer.”

“In the afternoon of May 13, the brigade was ordered,” says
Colonel Schall, ‘‘to advance and relieve the troops in sur front.
The enemy had been driven from their position. At 3 p. m. we
fell back a short distance. On the morning of the 14th we mov-
ed in the direction of Spottsylvania Court House, crossed the
Po River, and bivouacked for the night..” In the evening of
this day Col. Truex, of the 14th New Jersey, reported for duty.
Being the senior officer, he assumed command of the brigade,
relieving Col, Schall, who again took command of his regiment.

The sun appeared for the first time in three days just as it
was going down on the evening of the 14th. Rain had: fallen
almost continuously during all that time. While on the move-
ment across the Po River, the 87th did some active skirmishing.
On this day, Thornton Hendrickson, of Company A, Washing-
ton Meisenhelter and William F. Spayd, of Company B, and
Samuel W. Parks, of Company G, were wounded. Lazarus
Klinedinst, of Company G, was captured. On May 15th the
regiment was intrenched on Gayle’s Hill, and remained quiet
all day. Amos Moore, of Company H, was wounded on the
skirmish line in the evening.
In the afternoon of the 16th the band played at brigade head-
quarters, and in the evening at division headquarters. On the
following day, the band entertained the regiment for an hour or
two with fine music. At 8.45 p. m. the brigade moved to the
position it had held on the 13th, reaching there at 4:30 a. m. of
the next day.

“On May 18, we moved back,” says Colonel Truex, “to our
former position on Laurel Hill, and upon advancing over the
works had some severe skirmishing.’ In this engagement,Paris
A. Minnich and George Riddle, of Company C, were wounded.

“In the afternoon the brigade returned to Gayle’s Hill,” says
Truex, “with orders to move at daylight. At 5 a. m. the next
day we moved about two miles to the right, and formed a line
of battle on the extreme left of the 6th Corps, where we threw
up earthworks. In the afternoon we were attacked in the rear
by Early’s Division of Ewell’s Corps. We received re-enforce-
ments and drove the enemy back.”

The members of the 87th Regiment wounded were: Cor-
poral Frederick Hubley and Private George Knodle, Company
A; Elijah B. Gibson and Andrew J. Wetzel, Company C; Henry
Spicer, Company G.

Major Thomas, of Harrisburg, then sergeant in Company
I, gives the folllowing interesting account of the return of one
hundred and forty veterans to the regiment, after the expiration
of their 35 days furlough:

“We assembled at Camp Distribution, Alexandria, Va., May
10, where we took a steamer for Belle Plains, which is ten miles
from Fredericksburg. Upon arriving there we were put in a
provisional battalion, with the First Maryland Veterans, under
Colonel Dushane. During the night of the 12th we were as-
signed to guard duty on the Fredericksburg road. We were
attacked by a portion of Ewell’s Corps attempting to get to the
to the rear of the Potomac Army to capture the wagon trains.
The enemy was repulsed. Lieutenant James Tearney, of Com-
pany B, was in command of the 87th boys.

On the 13th, we were again attacked. It was a brisk skir-
mish, but we held our position. The next four days we contin-
ued to guard the road. On the 18th, we moved two miles to-
ward the Army of the Potomac. The next day we started to
join the regiment, and were again attacked by Ewell’s forces.
At 4 p. m. Colonel Dushane changed front, and charged into
a woods, but was driven back. A second charge was made, and
we were again repulsed. At this instant, General Tyler, with
his heavy artlilery division, came rapidly up to the scene of ac-
tion. He asked the 87th boys to form a new line to the rear of
the artillery. At 11 p. m. we were relieved.

“In this sharp engagement, the battalion lost one man killed
and 8 wounded. ;

Among the wounded were Jacob H. Grove, Samuel Fisher
and Jacob Rice, of Company F, and Frederick Witmyer, of
Company E, veterans of the regiment.

 

“During the fight, on the 18th, a stray Indian from the 9th
Corps which had some red men in certain regiments, got with-
in our lines. When one of our men was ordered to take three
prisoners to the rear, the Indian said, ‘I will take them.’ He had
gone back but a short distance, when three shots were heard in
quick succession from his Spencer repeating rifle. Presently
the Indian returned, and when asked what had become of his
prisoners he answered, ‘I kill them.’ He was afterward punish-
ed for his treachery.”

Samuel B. Gray, of Company E, had a lively experience in
capturing a hog on the way from Belle Plains to Fredericks-
burg. He saw a dozen porkers along a stream, and when he
got close enough, he bayonetted one of them. His hogship
resisted the attack, made a vigorous defense, and came nearly
conquering his antagonist. His loud squealing brought another
veteran and a new recruit to the scene of action. The animal
was captured and soon the camp was filled with the odor of
fresh pork being cooked for supper.

 

 
CHAPTER X.

MOVEMENT TO NORTH ANNA AND COLD
HARBOR.

T is a fact of history worthy of
record here, that within a radius
of ten miles from Spottsylvania
Court House, and within the
limits of Spottsylvania County,
more great battles have been
fought with more men engaged
and greater losses of life, than
in any other equal area in the
world. “Within the territory in-
dicated, were fought the great
battles of Fredericksburg, Chan-
cellorsville, the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania, as well as the
smaller engagements at Flamil-
ton’s Crossing, Salem Church.

Laurel Grove, Todd’s Tavern, and at the Po and the Ny riv-

ers. Troops aggregating 500,000 men from every state in the

Union, were here engaged in battle.

The conflict at Spottsylvania had ended on the night of May
12, with indecisive results. The following seven days General
Grant spent, as he says in his report, ‘in manoeuvering, and
awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington.
Deeming it impractical to make any further attack upon the
enemy at Spottsylvania, I issued orders on the 18th, with a
view to a movement to the North Anna river to begin at 12
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19th, Ewell’s Corps came out of its works, and made an attack
which was repulsed. This delayed our movement till the 21st
of May.”

Early in the morning of that day the entire army began to
move. The 6th Corps brought up the rear, and guarded the
wagon train. The 9th Corps passed it before crossing the Po
River. In the afternoon of the 21st, Hill’s Corps in force, at-
tacked the rear of the 6th Corps, but was repulsed by Russell’s
Division, including the 1st Brigade of Ricketts’ Division. In
this affair Eli Farrar and Daniel March, of Company H, were
taken prisoners.

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At noon on the 22d the 6th Corps halted four hours at Guinea
Station on the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, a dis-
tance of 12 miles from the place of starting. At 4 p. m. the
Corps took up the line of march, went five miles farther on, and
‘bivouacked for the night on a large.plantation. At 7 a. m. the
march was begun over the turnpike leading to Hanover Court
House. The day was very hot. After a movement of ten miles
the corps halted, and went into bivouac about two miles from
the North Anna.

The Army of the Potomac on this movement southward pass-
ed through a fair and fertile region under the highest state of
cultivation. Broad fields of large plantations rolled off in all
directions. The homes were mansions, pillared and porticoed,
after the fashion of that day among the aristocratic folk of
old Virginia. The occupants in ante-bellum days, dispensed a
lavish hospitality. Some had twenty, others as many as fifty,
and a few of the rich planters owned as many as five hundred
slaves. These servants occupied cabins surrounding the large
dwellings of their masters whose mandates they strictly obeyed.
Colonel Pollock, of North Carolina, the largest slave owner in
the South, had 3,500 slaves when the Emancipation Proclama-
tion was issued by President Lincoln.

The last days of May had now come, and the early fruits were
ripening in luscious profusion. Fragrant clover, waving grain
and growing corn covered the wide fields.. Stately elms, relics
of those other days of war, when our forefathers rebelled under
the yoke of English tyranny, spread their long branches in every
direction. As the army passed through this country of Con-
federate adherents, the blinds of the windows in the houses were
usually closed, and scarcely a person was to be seen. But be-
hind those blinds, scornful and revengeful eyes watched the
“Yanks” as they marched to the music of the Union.

War's despoiling hand in this region rested with greater se-
verity upon this prosperous people than in the sparsely settled
and unprodutive country lately the scene of so much hard
fighting. But Virginia’s cup was not yet full. Her fair fields
aiready trodden and laid waste were but typical of the devasta-
tion yet to follow in the Old Dominion.

General Grant in his “Memoirs” relates an amusing incident
of the movement through this country. General Meade and
himself went into the yard, surrounding one of these country
homes, and were invited, by the occupants, to seats on the veran-
da, while his troops were marching by. The owner of the plan-
tation and several ladies took seats near them, and engaged
in conversation. Presently General Burnside came in, and upon
being invited to take a seat thanked them for the courtesy. He
then turned around and said, “Ladies, I suppose you have never
seen so many Yankee soldiers before.”
“Oh yes,” quickly responded one of them with a disdainful air.
“I have just come from Richmond, and we have about that
many in prison down there.”

Lee having a shorter route than Grant reached North Anna
first. The advance column of the 6th Corps arrived there in
the afternoon of May 23, following the 5th Corps which had
crossed the river, had been violently attacked, and had repulsed
the enemy. The 2d and goth Corps arrived in the afternoon.

On the morning of the 24th, the 6th Corps crossed the North
Anna River at Jericho Ford, and “at 5:45 p. m.,” says Adjutant
Martin, of the 87th, “our brigade, under Colonel Truex, moved
forward about a mile in line of battle, and rested on our arms
for the night. May 25th we moved at 8 a. m., and half an hour
later, crossed the Virginia Central Railroad at Noel’s Station.
Two miles farther on, we halted, and commenced to destroy the
railway, burning the cross ties and bending the rails.” Lewis
H. Diehl, of Company I, was injured while tearing up the rail-
road. ,

The sth Corps was actively engaged in the afternoon. The
87th was under fire for a short time. During the engagement a
violent thunder storm passed overhead, and the roar of the
cannon and the reverberation of the thunder sounded in uni-
son. All of the wagon trains re-crossed the North Anna River
during the night.

When Grant found that Lee’s position at North Anna was in-
vulnerable, he decided upon a flank movement to Cold Harbor.
Sheridan, who had just returned from his raid toward Rich-
mond, was sent ahead with two divisions of cavalry. The 6th
Corps was detached from the extreme right of the army to fol-
low Sheridan. The 87th Regiment recrossed the North Anna
with the 1st Brigade, and reached Chesterfield Station at 2 a.
m. of May 26, after a forced march, the most fatiguing of the
campaign. Here they stopped for rest. The men lay down on
the ground, using their cartridge boxes for pillows. as the damp
air required blankets for a covering. Two hours only of re-
freshing sleep when the bugle sounds, followed by the loud clear

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tones of Colonel Schall’s “fall in,’ announced to the still tired
men that the line of march must be taken up. The enemy
is not far away. Longstreet with a large force, is moving by a
nearer route toward Cold Harbor, the point of destination of the
6th Corps. In a few minutes the tread of many feet is heard at
early dawn, for the entire corps of twenty-two thousand men
with hastening step, is now moving toward King William Val-
ley along the Pamunkey River, arriving there at dark.. At
11:30 of the 28th, the regiment crossed the Pamunkey, on a
pontoon, near the Nelson House; marched two miles farther on,
and began to throw up earthworks in front of the Pollard man-
sion. A line of battle was formed on a hillside in front of the
Hundley house. There was no general engagement, and they
soon bivouacked for the night.

About noon of May 31, the entire corps moved across the
‘Tolopotomy Creek, drove the enemy from position and occupied
their works. Colonel Schall, with his regiment reconnoitered
a position, at the foot of a hill, then advanced to its summit,
‘where he met a charging column. The enemy were driven back
with a loss of some prisoners. In this engagement Robert J.
Rhinehart, of Company D, was wounded.
CHAPTER X.

COLD HARBOR.

OLD Harbor was a
point of divergence of
all roads leading both
toward Richmond,nine
miles away, and to
White House Land-
ing, the depot of sup-
plies for the Potomac
army. It was a strategic
point of the first im-
portance. After a brisk
action Sheridan, with
two paidone of cavalry, had secured the coveted position on the
morning of May 31. In the evening of that day he reported to
Meade that he was pressed. He was directed “to maintain his
position at all hazards till Gen. Wright came up with the 6th
Corps, and Gen. W. F. Smith with 15,000 troops from the Army
of the James.”

At midnight of the 31st of May Ricketts’ division began to
march from the banks of the Tolopotomy creek. The weather was
very warm and the roads dusty. The 2d Brigade, under Col.
Keifer, was in the advance, and reached Cold Harbor at 10:30
a.m. The Ist Brigade, under Col. Truex, arrived half an hour
later, having never marched better. They immediately began to
throw up breast works. The entire 6th Corps was soon in posi-
tion in front of the enemy, having relieved the cavalry. Gen.
“Baldy” Smith’s command, now designated the 18th Corps, came

 
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up later inthe day. A large force of Confederates, under Long-
street, had reached Cold Harbor at 9:30 a. m., and had taken a
position behind strong entrenchments which had been  con-
structed some time before.

In the afternoon Wright drew up his corps in four lines of
battle. Getty’s division, now under command of Gen. Neill, was
placed on the left; Russell’s division in the centre, and Ricketts’
division on the right, along the Cold Harbor road. The differ-
ent commands stood in line for two hours or more. In _ the
meantime Gen. Ricketts, while making a survey of his position,
tound that a swamp lay between him and the enemy, who were
about four hundred yards away. The Confederate earth-works
extended along the entire line of the 6th Corps, and also of the
18th Corps, which had taken position on the right.

At 5 p.m. the different commands received orders to be ready
at any minute to make a concerted charge on the Confederate
works, and thus open in earnest the now famous battle of Cold
Harbor, one of the fiercest in American history. Col. Schall
was corps officer of the day, until Truex was wounded in the
charge, when he assumed command of the brigade. Lieutenant-
Colonel Stahle was commanding the regiment.

In preparing for the charge of the 1st Brigade, Colonel Truex
sent Lieutenant Lanius, an aide on his staff, with orders to the
regimental commanders. The 14th New Jersey was directed to
take position in the front line with instructions to fall down
upon reaching the works, so that the second line might pass
over them. The 87th Pennsylvania and the 151st New York
formed the second line. The roth Vermont formed the third, and
the 106th New York, the fourth line, with orders to bring up
stragglers and take charge of the prisoners.

When the signal to start was given, about 6:30 p. m., the 87th
moved steadily forward over an open field, then across a swampy
tract, difficult of passage, to the edge of a woods near the works.
The first line dropped after considerable loss. The 87th and the
15tst New York, on the charge, were under a heavy fire.
Ng ex

As these two regiments approached the Confederate breast-
works, all along the line of the 6th Corps came the command,
“Double quick, march.” With a tremendous yell, thousands of
men of the corps, now dashed forward. The 87th Regiment was
among the first to bound over the earth-works where in a few
minutes they captured and sent to the rear a large part of Hoke’s

brigade of North Carolina troops.
In this movement the second line of the 1st Brigade went for-

ward and took an advanced position. While holding this posi-
tion, after this charge so gallantly and successfully executed,
there was no stubborn resistance in front of them. But the
musketry fire and the cannonading on the left was still terrific,
causing a continuous rumble and roar. There was a deadly
contest going on along the whole battle line in that direction.
Charges and counter charges were being made and hundreds of
men were falling. Night was coming on, but the battle did not
end till Ricketts’ division had captured and held the first line of
the Confederate works—a brilliant achievement which called
forth commendation from General -Meade.

At 7:45 p. m. Ricketts sent the following to his corps com-
mander: “I have the honor to announce the complete success
of my advance this evening, I have driven the enemy from their
works and now occupy them. Have now 500 prisoners, and
have sent others to Gen. W. F. Smith’s headquarters. My men
behaved nobly. Although we have lost heavily, the men are
in the best of spirits.

During the night the 87th Regiment built temporary de-
fences and lay down on the ground behind them. Some of the
men fell asleep. Firing had nearly ceased. Occasionally the
zip, zip of a minie ball was heard overhead. The night was
very dark. About 2 a. m. Major Ruhl was sent back to find the
positions of the other regiments of the brigade. He soon re-
turned and notified Col. Stahle that the regiment had lost its
support on the right and on the left. The enemy had moved
forward, and the regiment was in great danger of being sur-
rounded. The order to “face about” was passed along the line
in a whisper. The regiment fell back quietly and took position
behind the first line of earth works.

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THE SKIRMISH LINE.

Gen. Ricketts received the following congratulatory order
through the commander of the 6th Corps:

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 1, 1864,

Major GENERAL, WRIGHT: —Please give my thanks to Brigadier General

Ricketts and his gallant command, for the very handsome manner in which

they have conducted themselves in the assault on the enemy’s works. The

success attained by them is of great importance, and if followed up will ma-
terially advance our operations.

Very respectfully yours,
GEO. G. MEADE,
Major General Commanding. ~

In sending this order by an aide, Gen. Wright said, “I transmit
this to Gen. Ricketts with the greatest pleasure.”

During the forenoon of June 2 Col. Schall ordered the captured
works strengthened for defensive operations.
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Soon after the arrival of Ricketts’ division at Cold Harbor on
June 1 Lieutenant-Colonel Binkley, of the r10th Ohio, was made
division officer of the day. In the afternoon he was placed in
charge of the picket line. There were detailed for that purpose 250
men from his own regiment and 150 men from the 87th. Captain
Fahs, of Company A; Lieutenant Stallman, of Company C, and
Sergeant Fox, of Company E, served on this detail. This line
of pickets relieved the cavalry pickets, who had driven the enemy
back the day before.

‘Toward evening Col. Binkley was given orders to advance his
line until they would find the enemy. They were then deployed
as skirmishers. In the movement to the right of Ricketts’ divi-
sion in an open field that part of the skirmish line, under Lieu-
tenant Stallman was fired upon with canister, when the men im-
mediately dropped to the ground and moved on their hands
and feet over the brow of a hill where they joined the other
skirmishers. The left of the line then came in contact with the
enemy’s skirmish line, when a sharp fight began.

Col. Binkley now swung his right around, until the entire line
became engaged. He held his position admirably, while Rick-
etts’ division was charging to the left and thus prevented the
enemy jrom making a flank movement. In the meantime the
18th Corps formed in three lines of battle in the rear and ad-
vanced toward the skirmish line. This corps opened fire upon
the enemy, who at once replied. The skirmishers lay on their
arms all night behind breast-works. About noon on the 2nd
they were relieved from picket duty and rejoined their command
with a loss of two men wounded. They were Amos Burke and
William McGonigal, of Company F, 87th Regiment.

In the charge on the Confederate works the regiment hadseven
men wounded, viz: Company E, Frank Steininger, face; Com-
pany G, Lewis J. Hamm, struck by a minie ball, and
William H. Lefever, shoulder; Company H, John H. Kesser,
knee; Company J, Bernard Altrogge, arm, and Corporal Pius D.
Miller, leg amputated; Company K, John A. Wilson, knee, and
Andrew Wiley, leg amputated. ~
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Captain Solomon Myers, of Company E, who had been on re-
cruiting service at Carlisle, Pa., since February, returned to the
regiment June 2. During his absence his company was in com-
mand of Lieutenant Alexander Strickler, a brave and efficient
officer. Regimental Postmaster Herr, who had been captured at
Winchester, returned with Capt. Myers. There also arrived on
the same day 34 of the re-enlisted men after a furlough of
thirty-tive days. Among these was Lewis I. Renaut, the prin-
cipal musician of the regiment. He makes the following entry
in his diary:

“On June 1 we marched 17 miles and camped for the night,
one and a half miles from the battle line, at Cold Harbor. In
the morning we went to the regiment, which had been hotly en-
gaged last evening, and lost seven men. Today we are strength-
ening our position. This afternoon it rained and hailed very
hard, during a heavy thunder storm. The casualties since the
beginning of the campaign in our regiment number 6 killed and
74 wounded, and about 20 missing, making a loss of 100 men.”

During the 2d of June Hancock, with the 2d Corps, came up
and took position to the left of the 6th Corps, Smith was on the
right, and Warren, with the 5th Corps, on the extreme right of
the army. Getty’s division of the 6th Corps took position on
the right of Ricketts’ Division, relieving part of the 18th Corps.

At 4a.m., June 3, the 6th Corps, in concert with the 2d and
18th, began a vigorous assault on the enemy’s works. The Ist
Brigade of Ricketts’ division, now under Col. Schall, advanced
in this assault nearly a fourth of a mile, where the enemy was
met in force, but could not be dislodged. The brigade receiv-
ed orders to throw up breastworks, which was done under a se-
vere artillery and musketry fire. About to o'clock a. m., Col.
Schall, while leading on his men, with the same undaunted
courage he had displaved at Carter’s woods, in the Wilderness
and at Spottsylvania, received a ball in his left arm. It caused a
painful wound but he remained in command of the brigade until
afternoon when he was compelled to withdraw.and place himself
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Captain THEODORE S. PFEIFFER, Co. I.
Killed at Cold Harbor. Major FINDLAY I. THOMAS.
‘The command of the brigade now devolved upon Lieutenant-
Colonel Hall, of the 14th New Jersey Regiment. Many valiant
officers of the 6th Corps were killed or wounded in the contest
of this day.

Captain Pfeifter, of Company I, who went on picket duty with
a detail of fifty men, was mortally wounded and died during the
day at the field hospital.

In his report of the day’s operations Gen. Grant said, “We
again assaulted the enemy’s works with the hope of driving them
from the position. In this attempt our loss was heavy, while
that of the enemy, I have reason to believe, was light. It was
the only general attack made from the Rapidan to the James
which did not inflict upon the enemy losses to compensate for
our own losses. The greatest number of casualties was in the
2d Corps.”

The military band of the 87th and the drum corps were ordered
back to the division hospital, early in the day, where, says Musi-
cian Renaut, ‘500 wounded men were brought from June I to
the evening of June 3, twenty of whom died. We helped to load
some wounded men who were sent to White House Landing. In
the morning of June 4 we buried Captain Pfeiffer under a tree
and marked his grave. His remains were afterwards removed to
New Oxford. Corporal Bailey, of Company D, died and was
buried about the same time.”

The casualties in the regiment for the day were as follows:

Killed or Mortally Wounded :—Captain Thaddeus S. Pfeiffer,
Company D, Corporal H. N. Bailey; Company F, Corporal Isaac
Sheads.

Wounded—Company A, William Denues; Company B, Henry
Eppley; Company F, James Murray, John Shultz; Company H,
Sergeant Henry Z. Bowman, Christian C. Coble; Company I,
John Hale; Company K, Corporal Peter Baum.

Captain James Adair, of Company F, received a slight wound
in the foot, and Amos Keefer, of his company, was shot in the
arm, which was afterward amputated.

During the night of June 3, Captain Myers, of Company E,
with a detail of 50 men, moved forward to make a new line of
intrenchments for the regiment. They had not gone far with their’
work when the enemy, 150 yards distant, fired a volley at them.
The men lay down behind the works they were throwing up and
none were hurt. They returned to the regiment in the morning.

The following members of the regiment were detailed June 3:
as sharpshooters under charge of Lieutenant George C. Stroman
of Company B:—Urias Nichols, Emanuel C. Coleman, Daniel
Dice, Amos Ness, Charles Shultz, Henry A. Zercher, Jacob H.
Miller, Jeremiah Spahr, William Emenheiser, and Sergeant:
George Dosch. Corporal Charles W. Moore, of Company G,
had been detailed as a brigade sharpshooter some time later.
He had a number of miraculous escapes during the campaign of
1864. When he was mustered out of the service he received.
special mention for not having lost an hour off duty during the
three years of his enlistment.

One of the most touching and pathetic incidents of army life.
occurred on the eventful night of June 3. A tired and wornout
soldier, like many of his comrades, had fallen into a sound sleep,
soon after the firing had ceased. About the hour of midnight, a
troublesome dream aroused him from his slumbers. Uncon-.
scious of his surroundings, he raised himself up above the breast-
works, when a minie ball struck him, and he fell on his gun,
exclaiming, “Boys, I’m shot.” The noise awakened some of his
comrades, who came to give assistance, but they could find no
traces of a wound.

“You are dreaming,” said one of them.

“I was dreaming,” said the soldier, “but am I not hurt? What
means this stinging pain in my breast?” And then he lay
down as though he were again falling asleep. The night was
very dark. His comrades did not know that a ball had passed
through his body. The next morning they found it had pene-
trated his heart. He was dead.

On June 4, a member of Company I said to his comrades:
“I am going to jump over the trenches and get behind that tree
yonder. ‘Think I can pick off some Johnny sharpshooters.”
“Don’t go, Jack,” said two of his comrades at the same time.

“Do you hear the bullets singing overhead?” said another.

“But I’m going,”he replied,and bounded over the breastworks,
escaping in safety to the tree. He fired one shot, which was fol-
lowed by a score of Confederate bullets embedding themselves in
the tree, or scraping its bark. He stood erect for an hour or
more, without moving to the right or the left, for a dead line was
on both sides if he exposed himself to the sharpshooters. He
put his cap on the end of his ramrod and moved it out a_ short
distance, when it was pierced by a half dozen bullets. The tree
saved his life, but he remained behind it till the darkness of the
night partially shielded him from danger and then made his way
back to the intrenchments on hands and feet.

Col. Schall remained at the division hospital till June 8, when
he was granted a leave of absence for 30 days on surgeon’s cer-
tificate. He returned to York until he recovered. Before leav-
ing the field hospital he recommended for promotion the follow-
ing officers under his command: Edgar M. Ruhl, from First
Lieutenant to Captain of Company D; Alexander Strickler, Sec-
ond Lieutenant to First Lieutenant of Company E; Charles J.
Fox, First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant of same company;
William H. Lanius, who was also an aid on brigade staff, from
First Lieutenant to Captain of Company I; Edward F. Coe,
First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant of same company.

In the afternoon of June 4 Gen. Wright sent the following to
Gen. Ricketts: ‘In pursuance of the orders already given, you
will advance to-night your position as much as possible toward
the enemy by approaches, and I suggest that you open, if practi-
cable, the line now held by your skirmishers, making a contin-
uous line of intrenchments to be occupied before daylight by
your first line of battle. This line should be connected with the
rear by zig-zags.”

Following these instructions gradual approaches toward the
enemy were made from the 3d to the 1oth of June. The lines had
to be relieved in the night to avoid being seen by the enemy.
Every man that passed to the rear during the day,either for water
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orfor any other purpose did so:at the peril of his life. In day-
light. the men lay in position firing at every head, that appeared
above the enemy’s works and being fired at in turn. The cook-
ing was done in

‘

‘cellars’ as the troops called them, being exca-
vations inthe ground imme-
diately to the rear of the in-
trenchments. These were some
times dug with bayonets,
tin plates, or halves of can-
teens. os

The 87th Regiment on June
5 was placed in the front line
of breastworks. They made ap-
proaches toward the enemy by
moving every night forward to
the earth work constructed un-
der the cover of darkness.

“The right companies,” re-
cords Sergeant Blotcher of
Company E in his diary, “are
now along a wood, which ex-
tends towards the enemy less
than one hundred yards from
us. About twenty yards to the
rear of our regiment is another line of battle, which moves up as
we move. We are behind a line of works thrown up by a detail of
our men on June 3. When a comrade goes to the rear for
water he takes 20 or 30 canteens and is fortunate if a volley is
not fired at him.” .

June 7, while Aaron Stahl, of Company E, was cooking his
dinner, a short distance back of the intrenchments, a minie ball
struck the ground near him and threw some dirt over his meat.

“Hello, the Johnnies are peppering my dinner,” said he to his
comrades.

‘(set down behind the works or they will pepper you,” added
the orderly sergeant.

 
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“They can't hit me,” but he had scarcely finished the words,
when a rifle ball caused a painful flesh wound in his thigh. He
dropped to the ground, accidentally kicking over the skillet. As
he rolled around he shouted at the top of his voice, “Save my
meat! save my meat!”

‘here had been numerous casualties all along the corps line
since June I for continuous skirmishing, and at times furious
cannonading had been the programme for each day. On the 7th
the regiment lost several men. Daniel C. Fulton, of Company
C, while sitting behind the breastworks with his elbow resting
on his knapsack, was struck in the head by a sharpshooter’s ball,
and died instantly. Among the wounded were Michael Walte-
myer, Company C; Aaron Stahl, Company E, and Leonard Wat-
son, Company G. James A. Thompson, of Company C, was
killed early in the morning of the 6th while levelling off the top
of the intrenchments.

The continuous fighting for several days at close range had
given little opportunity for burying the dead and taking care
of the wounded. A cessasion of hostilities was agreed upon be-
tween Grant and Lee on the evening of the 7th. As soon as its
announcement was made by a signal gun, all along the lines of
both armies, soldiers jumped upon the breastworks, sat there and
began to exchange compliments. The scenes that followed were
unparalleled in the history of the war. Communications between
men of the opposing forces were supposed to be prohibited, but
the familiar call: ‘

“Hello, Yank, got any coffee?” was quickly answered by “Yes,
Johnny,I’ll trade you'coffee for tobacco if you meet me half way,”

Then the soldier in blue and the soldier in grey met be-
tween the lines, shook hands, exchanged different articles and
engaged in conversation. Philadelphia and New York papers
were traded for the Richmond “Enquirer,” or some other South-
ern newspaper. One of the last scenes in front of the regiment
was an officer of the 87th drinking to the health of Abraham
Lincoln, when a South Carolina captain beside him drank fo the
health of Jefferson Davis.
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When the gun sounded to end the armistice the expression:

 

 

 

 

CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP.

,

“Get into your holes,’
opened again.

was heard everywhere and the contest
The order issued by Gen. Meade reads as follows. “All corps
commanders are notified that a flag of truce exists to-day, June 7,
from 6 to 8 p. m., when they will immediately send out, under
a white flag, medical officers with stretcher-bearers to bring in
the dead and wounded. No intercourse of any kind will be held
with the enemy. The medical officers and attendants will be en-
joined not to converse upon any subjects connected with military
operations likely to give any information to the enemy.”

On the following day not a cloud was to be seen in the sky.
Kain had fallen during the night. The weather was cool and
pleasant. Sharp skirmishing took place in the afternoon, when
‘Corporal Eaton, of Hopewell township, a member of Company
G, was mortally wounded, while preparing coffee in the “Com-
pany Kitchen.” He was sent to the hospital at Washington,
where he died June 13.

At some places the two armies nae behind breastworks;
‘were not more than fifty yards apart on the 1othh No man
could show his head above the breastworks. The regiment was
still in the front rifle pits. James Mundorf, of Company E, and
Jeremiah Starner, of Company F, were wounded.

Now came the evidences of a change of base. Ricketts’ divi-
sion, which had held its position so well behind the rifle pits, and
had moved forward to within speaking distance of the enemy,
was relieved on the evening of June 10,and moved to the rear to
await orders. Early in the morning of the 11th the 1st Brigade,
now under Col. Truex, was placed to the rear of the 2d Corps.
‘The whole division soon followed.

Grant became convinced that he could not take Richmond
from the north. He had lost during the past month thousands of
-men in killed,wounded and missing. He determined to cross the
_James river and move upon the Confederate Capital from the
south, alsoto cut off the railroads, which brought supplies from
the Southern States to Lee’s army and to Richmond.
CHAPTER XII.

THE CHANGE OF BASE—MARCH TO THE JAMES RIVER—BEFORE

PETERSBURG——-WELDON RAILROAD.

HILE General Grant
was preparing for the
coming flank move-
ment toward Peters-
burg, the different
corps comprising the
Army of the Potomac
rested quietly for two
days, near the scene
of the contest at Cold
Harbor. The plans
were carefully made,.
and the flank marches
were conducted with
great skill, and the
movement of the col-
umns, with a con-
stantly shifting base,

present a study highly interesting and instructive to those who

concern themselves with the larger questions of the war. This
chapter, however, does not take up the movements and oper-
ations of the army, but describes the part taken by the regi-

ment with the 3rd Division of the 6th Corps, until July 6,

when the division was detached from the Army of the Potomac

and was sent to meet Early in Maryland.
The army began to move toward the James River June 12.

The 5th and 9th Corps led in the march. The weather was very

 
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warm, and the roads dusty. Chaplain Eberhart conducted re-
ligious service in the forenoon before the 87th took up the line
of march. The division brought up the rear of the corps, mov-
ing all day a distance of 25 miles in a southeasterly direction,
crossing the Chickahominy River after dark. Here the wagon
train joined the division, which bivouacked for the night on
the south side of the river. They started early the next morn-
ing, and passed through a country noted for bogs and swamps.
After crossing these the 87th rested in a beautiful pine forest;
then entered a fertile and productive country.

After passing Charles City Court House, the division moved
to the right and arrived within two miles of the James River
at one o’clock on the 14th. The army was now short of rations
and the 87th Regiment, together with other commands, sub-
sisted on hard corn and beef for two days. The division was in
line of battle, expecting the enemy might make an attack on
the wagon train. It was the first time the rebels had put in an
appearance since the 6th Corps had retired from behind the in-
trenchments at Cold Harbor. The regiment with the brigade
moved half a mile to the right at 10 a. m. They returned to
the former position at 5 p. m., and formed in line to protect the
wagon trains. Part of the corps began to cross the James Riv-
er on transports. The regiment was now in full view of the
large gunboats lying on the James.

“On the evening of the 15th, the wagon train having arrived
we drew three days rations, which were thankfully received by
all the troops. We then formed by brigade in an open field,
where we remained for the night,” says Sergeant Blotcher.

At 7 a. m. of the 16th, heavy cannonading was heard up the
river where part of General Butler’s forces had engaged the
enemy. Ricketts’ Division changed its position at 8a. m.,
moved nearer to the James, and threw up earthworks to guard
the wagon train while it was crossing the river. General Ben-
ham in charge of the bridge train, laid a bridge 2,000 feet long
across the James in one day. The channel boats were anchored
on water seventy-eight feet deep. Part of the 2d Corps crossed

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over it, the balance on ferry boats. This corps was ordered to
move toward Petersburg. This city, twenty-two miles south
from Richmond, is situated at the head of sloop navigation of
the Appomattox River. It was the focus of all the railroads
except the Danville, which connected Richmond with the
South and the Southwest. If this city were taken and firmly
held, our guns would soon be thundering at the Southern ap-
proaches of the Confederate capital.

The moment it was decided that Meade’s army must cross
the James, below Richmond, and threaten that city from the
‘South, Grant went to the headquarters of the Army of the
James to direct Butler to be ready to move toward Petersburg
‘with his entire force as soon as he could be supported by Meade.

Butler asked to be reinforced by part of the 6th Corps. Grant
‘complied with his request, and for three days, from 17th to the
‘20th of June, Ricketts’ men were in Butler’s command. His
-division on the morning of June 16, was on the north side of
‘the James. Early in the morning he moved nearer to the river.

The main body of the Potomac army, densely packed on
transports was now crossing the stream. The boys of the 87th
watched the movement of the troops to the boats with much
‘admiration.

At 5 p. m. Ricketts received orders to march to Wilcox Land-
ing, which is twenty-five miles southeast of Richmond. Here
the different regiments embarked on steamers for Bermuda
“Hundred eighteen miles distant, to reinforce Butler. The 87th
Regiment and the 14th New Jersey marched aboard the John
Brooks, at 8 p.m. The steamer was packed to its fullest ca-
pacity. There was hardly standing room for all the troops.
‘The weather was very hot, and the trip an unpleasant one. All
the night the distant roar of cannon was heard. Our gunboats
‘were firing upon Fort Darling, an almost impregnable fortress,
which defended the approach to Richmond by water.

At City Point, where the Appomattox unites with the James,
the boat anchored half an hour, and then steamed up the Appo-
mattox, arriving at Burmuda Hundred at 11 p.m. After disem-
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barking, they marched to Butler’s command, then lying behind
fortifications five miles distant. Heavy musketry and artillery
firing was heard on the march. Butler had been fighting for
several days. The division is now in Green Valley, seven miles
from Fort Darling on Drury’s Bluff, and eight miles from
Petersburg. In front of Butler the enemy had a line of fortifi-
cations, twelve miles in length, extending from the James to the
Appomattox.

General Ricketts was ordered to draw up his division in line
at midnight as a general assault on the-enemy’s works was
to be made. The 87th Regiment was formed in the shape of
the letter V, with the colors at the angle. When the skirmishers
moved forward it was found that the enemy had abandoned the
temporary line, giving up their original system of entrenchments,
and-had fallen back to higher and more commanding ground,
closer around Petersburg. The assault was deferred. The divi-
sion then returned to the fortifications. At 3 p. m. of the 18th,
a battery opened upon the ist Brigade, when a number of the
to6th New York were killed and wounded. Henry Dellinger,
of Company E, and Corporal Watson, of Company G, of the
87th Regiment, were wounded. One large shell struck the
bomb proof occupied by the 87th. It caused some confusion,
no one was hurt. The 9th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, belonging to
Ricketts’ Division, opened on the enemy for a short time. There
was tremendous cannonading in the direction of Petersburg.
The 87th boys received their mail in the evening. Many of them
got letters from home. One of the letters brought the news of
the death of Corporal Eaton, who had been wounded at Cold
Harbor.

In the evening of June roth the division was relieved by the
18th Corps, and ordered to march from behind Butler’s fortifi-
cations to join the balance of the 6th Corps. They marched
five miles, crossing three small streams, on pontoons, and
camped for the night, two miles from the battle line of the
Potomac Army in front of Petersburg. It was during the night
of the 18th that a desperate battle took place in front of Peters-
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burg, where the division of colored troops, in storming the
heights of that city, distinguished themselves for courage and
bravery.

An interesting event to the 87th, in the forenoon of the roth
of June, was that of Generals Grant and Butler riding by the
division headquarters. They halted, and Grant took special
delight in exhibiting a fine looking horse he had recently pro-
cured. He dismounted and his noble looking animal was much
admired by a number of officers.

Every man in the regiment, brigade and division was now ex-
pecting to soon take part in a hard fought battle. Preparations
were being made for it. The drum corps and band of the regi-
ment went half a mile to the rear to erect a brigade hospital.
At 7 a. m. a rebel fort opened upon the division. Shot and
shell flew thick and fast. The brigade was massed in a large
woods. They soon moved out of range of the guns. There
were no casualties.

The skirmish line of Meade’s Army was now within half a
mile of Petersburg, then one of the best fortified cities in the
country. On the morning of the 21st, the 6th Corps moved to
to the left of the 2d. It was now on the extreme le!t of the
army. The 87th moved along the heights of Petersburg, four
and a half miles away, but in full view of the beleaguered city,
which sooner or later must surrender to the Federal troops,
gathering in vast numbers around it.

The regiment sent out a detail of 125 skirmishers in the after-
noon to relieve the cavalry. They approached within three
miles of Petersburg, and returned to camp that night.

During the evening a number of the 87th boys engaged in
a discussion about Richmond. One year before 200 of the reg-
iment were prisoners of war in Libby and on Belle Isle, having
been taken there from Winchester after their capture at Carter’s
Woods, June 15, 1863.

In the afternoon they moved near the Williams’ House,
when the brigade immediately began to throw up earthworks,
with bayonets and tin cups. It was tedious business, but each
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regiment succeeded in making a good line of defensive works.
The soil was loose and sandy.

About 11 a. m. the division was drawn up in line of bat-
tle, and moved forward about a mile through thick under
brush.

In the evening of June 21, Colonel Stahle sent out a detail
of skirmishers under Lieutenant Stallman, of Company C, and
Lieutenant Spangler, of Company A, with Captain Myers as
officer of the day They advanced about a mile beyond the
battle line. These skirmishers moved into a woods containing
a dense growth of underbrush. As night came on, it grew so
dark, that the men could see but a short distance ahead. Chris-
tian List, of Company K, who had gone only a few yards in
front of the line, unexpectedly found himself in the hands of
the enemy, who said: “Hello! Yank, come with us,” and he
was marched away as a prisoner. This, part of the line fell
back a short distance to await the approach of day.

During the night the enemy fell back. Early in the morning
of June 22 our skirmishers began advancing slowly through
woods, thickets and open fields, feeling their way as they moved
along. The enemy’s line was not in sight. Occasionally a
single man could be seen on a tree-top, a distance ahead,
keeping a watch of the movements of the skirmishers. When
our men crossed a swamp, the line swung around to the right,
with heavy timber in front and left.

At this juncture, the order “Forward,” was passed from man
to man in a whisper. At the same instant, the enemy rose up
from a place of concealment, and charged our skirmishers,
driving them back. That part of the line on the left, in charge
of Lieutenant Stallman, was cut off, and himself and twelve
men taken prisoners. Thé skirmish line fell back through the
swamp, and remained there over night. About 7 p. m.
Ricketts’ Division charged forward, and drove the enemy hack
precipitately, sweeping part of our skirmish line along with it.
After advancing two miles they halted and began to intrench
themselves.
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During this day Thomas Neely, of Company E, received a
fatal shot, and died in the evening.

The wounded were as follows: Company A, Charles Hyde;
Company F, Sergeant John Sheads; Company K, Alexander
Gleason, Dennis Crimmins.

The following were taken prisoners on the skirmish line:
Company A, Michael Marra; Company B, William Carroll;
Company C, Lieutenant Stallman, Jeremiah Flinn, (died in An-
dersonville); Levi C. Frey, Anthony Grim, Conrad Henk,
Artemas Hildebrand, Enoch C. Hartman; Company D, John
Henn; Company F, Henry F. Coon.

‘The losses during the day in the division were heavy. In the
evening the 87th band and the drum corps were ordered to the
field hospital to help take care of the wounded. About II p. m.
2d Corps assaulted the Confederate works. The rattle of mus-
ketry and the roar of cannon were terrific. The scene on that
eventful June night to our men lying behind the entrenchments
were awe-inspiring, yet magnificent. The lurid glare of burst-
ing shells disclosed to their view the movement of the troops
toward the fortifications, indicating that our flag would soon be
planted upon the ramparts around Petersburg.

The following day, June 23, the sun rose in a clear sky. The
weather was very hot, the atmosphere oppressive. Orders had
been received by General Ricketts for part of his division to take
the front line with Gen. Wheaton’s Brigade of the 2d Division
of the 6th Corps. The Confederates had driven back our cav-
alry, after the latter had torn up the Welden Railroad in places.
They tried to flank our left when part of the 2d Division was
moved to the left of Ricketts, who held the extreme left of the
army. The right of the 87th was then unprotected, The regi-
ment had formed back of a woods with a swamp as a protec-
tion on the left. During the engagement the 62d New York
Regiment, of Wheaton’s brigade, fell back precipitately. This
exposed the right of the 87th, when Wright’s Brigade of Ma-
hone’s Division, came rushing in on the right flank, capturing
75 men of the regiment, including Captain Fahs, of Company A;
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Captain Maish, of Company B, and Lieutenant Fox, of Com-
pany E. The regiment then fell back, and formed a skirmish
line. It soon became engaged with a part of Anderson’s Di-
vision, of Hill’s Corps. The regiment lost in killed, wounded
and missing on June 23, ninety men.

The killed were as follows: Company C, Corporal Isaiah
Hoff; Company D, Jacob N. March; Company E, Sergeant
Michael Riter.

The following men were wounded: Company A, Elijah
Francis, Henry L. Neuman, Alexander Kipp, Samuel Baum-
gardner; Company B, Corporal Lucas Shurer, Privates Daniel
W. Keiter, Cyrus W. Kippel; Company C, Sergeant Adam P.
Stifler, Corporals Samuel B. Ruhl, John C. Broom, Privates
Samuel D. Louck, John Poet, David Saylor, Franklin Seip (died
in prison), Michael Waltemeyer; Company D, John Dettinger,
Joseph A. Glatfelter, Peter Miller and John A. Orwig; Company
E, Lieutenant Charles J. Fox, Private George A. Welsh; Com-
pany F, William D. Holtzworth and Samuel S. George; Com-
pany G, Patrick McCabe, Frederick Schoffstall, Jacob Ruth,
Joseph F. Welsh; Company I, John V. Martz.

The following were among the missing in action: Company
A, Captain John Fahs, Sergeant Henry Shultz, Samuel Andrews,
Toward F. Andrews, Peter Bott, Charles E. Gotwalt, Charles
Metzgar, William H. Shuman, William Shriver.

Company B, Captain Levi Maish, Sergeant Edward Rudy
(died in Andersonville), Frank Drabenstadt, Mathias Hull,
Michael Heiman, Joseph Hummel (died in Andersonville), Mar-
tin Hull, Thomas Malone, James Oren, Richard Quinn, George
W. Rouch, William Ramsay (died in Andersonville), Henry
Shatzler, George Toomey, George Zorger, Augustus Weingard-
ner, Henry C. Welker (died in Andersonville.)

Company C, Henry E. Blaney, William Brenneman, William
H. Poet, Michael Poet, Thomas Bull.

Company D, Corporals Newton Krow, Squire Bamford,
William S. Stewart (died in prison), Privates George Bollinger,
Levi W. Dubbs, George W. Eaton, John Henn, Alexander
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Klinedinst, Lewis Klinedinst, William H. Metcalf. William S.
Stewart was six feet four inches tall. He was never heard of
after arriving at Andersonville.

Company E, Lieutenant Charles J. Fox, Privates John Crone,
John Everhart, Samuel B. Gray, Jacob Horlebein, Augustus
Keiser, Samuel R. Miller, Charles March, Henry Myers, J. F.
W. Shultz, Henry Smith, Jacob Witmer, James H. Moorhead.

Company F, William T. Ziegler.

Company G, Charles Booth.

Company H, Ernst G. Henkle.

Company K, Christian List.

These prisoners were marched to Petersburg and from thence
to Richmond. From the latter place they were sent to Southern
prisons. An account of their prison experience will be found
elsewhere in this book. There were some more men not indi-
cated above who died in prison. Their record will be found in
the muster rolls.

It was a common experience for men to get within the lines
of the opposing forces, by mistake, in the Wilderness Campaign
and at Cold Harbor. The most amusing one, however, that
was brought to the attention of the 87th, occurred in front of
Petersburg. A Confederate soldier had gone out from _ his
regiment at dusk, with a load of cedar canteens to fill them with
water for himself and some of his comrades. When he was
returning to his regiment, he lost his way, and was approaching
the 87th, lying behind their intrenchments. As he came near,
the boys saw the name and number of his regiment on his hat.

“What regiment is that?” he called out.

“The 8th Georgia,” replied one of the boys.

“All right, thought yo ‘uns were Yanks,’ and he climbed
over the earthworks.

“We want you and your canteens, Johnnie,” said one of the
boys.

“And you are Yanks, be gad,” said the tall Georgian, who
became a prisoner.

On June 24 the regiment was on the skirmish line with
 

 

CaPTAIN MURRAY S. CROSS, LiguTENANT CHARLES H. STALLMAN,
Company C. \ Company C.
the 2d Division, of the 6th Corps, supporting the cavalry The
drum corps and band were busy carrying the dead and wounded
from the field. When the regiment returned from picket duty
in the evening, news came, that the division would lie in camp to
rest for several days. It was the fifty-fifth day since the cam-
paign. opened, after the army had crossed the Rapidan May 4.
During all that time the regiment was either engaged, or within
hearing distance of musketry fire, or cannonading, every day ex-
cept three. “In the evening,” records Lewis I. Renaut, “we
‘drew a ration of pickled onion, sauerkraut and pickles, a present
from the Sanitary Commission. June 26 we had review, the
first time since the campaign opened. Cannon continued to
roar in the direction of Petersburg, five miles away. Our
cavalry advanced up the Weldon railroad, nearer to the city, and
destroyed the track for several miles. Everything is quiet in
our front. We drew a ration of whiskey to-day. The weather
is awful hot. Heavy cannonading is followed by successive vol-
leys of musketry. We plainly see the flash of the artillery in
front of Petersburg. Water is very scarce. What we use is
gotten by digging holes in the sandy soil and water settles in
these holes on the sub-soil. This must supply our wants dur-
ing the long and hot hours of the day. We had a fine shower
to-day. The first rainfall for a long time here. On June 28 we
moved our camp to a hill, which is beautifully shaded by a pine
forest. The siege of Petersburg has begun. Our guns are con-
tinually playing on the rebel works. A large number of contra-
band negroes came into our lines. They are bound for the
North. This is the first time we pitched our tents since we
crossed the Rapidan.

“June 29 our corps was reviewed by General Wright. We
then broke camp, and by a very circuitous route of eight miles
marched to Ream’s Station, on Weldon Railroad. It was bad
marching and we had no water fit to drink. June 30, our regi-
ment and the 14th New Jersey tore up the railroad for three
miles. We burned the ties and bent the rails. The cavalry set
fire to the Station house, then went farther up and destroyed
 

 

TEARING UP THE WELDON RAILROAD.
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several bridges. We fell back to the Jerusalem Plank Road at
5 p. m., when the men, tired and weary, fell asleep under the
trees. We beat reveille at 5 a. m., and 100 men went on picket.
The corps moved to our former position, behind the rifle pits,
five miles from Petersburg. July 3 is as dusty as before the
shower. The weather is awful hot. A detail of 100 men went
out on picket. The 9th Corps on our right is engaged.”

July 4 was ushered in with terrific booming of cannon and rattle
of musketry. At the dawn of day all the bands belonging to the
6th Corps were placed in line in full view of the different bri-
gades. They played in turn the different National airs. The
music was a fitting accompaniment to the deep-toned reverber-
ations of nearly a hundred guns, engaged in a fierce artillery
duel with the enemy’s heavy guns behind the defenses of Pet-
ersburg. A ration of whiskey, with quinine, was received by
every man of the regiment and the entire corps on July 5. The
water was bad and the weather oppressive. The Sanitary Com-
mission sent another supply of pickled onions and sour pickles.

In the operations before Petersburg, Truex’s Brigade lost 132
men in killed, wounded and missing. Of this number 104 were
from the 87th Regiment. The career of the 6th Corps in the
Army of the Potomac for the year 1864 was soon to end. At 2
a. m. of July 6, the 3d Division received orders from General
Grant to prepare to move at sunrise, toward City Point. They
were to hasten by water to Baltimore, and thence by rail to
Monocacy, Maryland, to meet Early on his raid toward Wash-
ington City.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE BATTLE OF MONOCACY.

ONOCACY River is
a small stream
which drains part
of Southern Penn-
sylvania, including
the battlefield of
Gettysburg, and
flows into the Po-
tomac, a short dis-
tance south of
Frederick, Mar y-
land. Upon its

banks, the 87th Regiment, with the 3d Division of the 6th Corps,

fought with heroic gallantry on July 9, 1864, and assisted a small
force under General Lew Wallace, in retarding the progress of

Early’s invaders, and in saving the National Capital from the

hands of the enemy. General Lee, having been hard pressed by

the Army of the Potomac around Petersburg, determined, early
in July, to make a diversion in favor of his own army by a men-
ace against Washington City. ‘He did this in order to compel

Grant to detach so much of the Army of the Potomac that of-

fensive operations against Petersburg should cease. Lee’s plans

were facilitated by the fact that the Union army, lying south of
the James River, completely uncovered the National Capital.

The direct line of march by the Shenandoah Valley had been left

open to the advance of a hostile force, by the defeat of General

Hunter before Lynchburg, Hunter then took up an eccentric

line of retreat by way of Western Virginia. The frontier of the

loyal States to the North was then left almost unprotected.

 
eo

For the purpose of carrying into execution this Northern in-
vasion, Lee detached from his own army, a large force under:
General Early, who entered the Shenandoah Valley, and moved.
rapidly toward Martinsburg. General Sigel, who held that post
with a small body of troops, hastily retreated, and took position
with another small force under General Weber on Maryland
Heights, opposite Harper’s Ferry. Owing to the low condition
of the Potomac, and the destruction of the Baltimore and Ohio~
Railroad in several places, Hunter could not rapidly transport
his troops toward Martinsburg, and he did not check the move-
ment of Early into Maryland. General Lew, Wallace, in com-
mand of the Middle Department, with headquarters at Balti-
more, had the only force now at hand, and that a small one, to
dispute Early’s advance.

On July 4 General Grant, at his headquarters at City Point,
on the James River, received the first news of Early’s design.
On that day he sent the following dispatch to the authorities at
Washington: “A deserter from Lee’s army came into camp,
and gave me the information that Ewell’s Corps is off in the
Shenandoah Valley with the intention of going into Maryland
and Washington. I think it advisable to hold all the force you
can, about Washnigton, Baltimore,Harper’s Ferry and Cumber-
land, ready to concentrate against the advance of the enemy.
If Hunter is in striking distance, there ought to be veteran force
enough to meet anything the enemy has.”

On the same day General Wallace telegraphed to Washington
as follows: “I have just been informed that 2,000 Confederate
Cavalry have crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, Maryland.
They are now approaching Hagerstown. A large force of
infantry and artillery, under General Early, is following closely
upon the heels of the cavalry. I am doing all I can to concen-
trate my command.”

Hunter was still marching over the mountains of West Vir-
ginia, and Sigel was bottled up on Maryland Heights. The way
was open; Early swept into Maryland, through Hagerstown, over
the Antietam battlefield and was soon ascending the South
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Mountains. He had destroyed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for a considerable distance, levied a contribution of $20,000 on
Hagerstown, burned some buildings at Williamsport, and raided
into Pennsylvania for horses, provisions, cattle and money. The
excitement in York, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambersburg,
almost equalled that aroused by the approach of Lee toward
Gettysburg one year before.

It was soon discovered that General Early’s plan in this
march toward Washington was to go through Frederick, Mary-
land. This city was considered by him to be,as he once told the
writer, “a central point, from which I could threaten both Bal-
timore and Washington.” General Wallace decided to con-
front the invaders at Monocacy Bridge, nearly three miles south
of Frederick. This place afforded a fairly good defensive posi-
tion. But the Union troops in the East had nearly all been sent
to the army under Grant and Meade, operating against Rich-
mond.

General Wallace left Baltimore on the evening of July 6 and
established headquarters on the east bank of the Monocacy
River near the railroad bridge. The Union forces at his com-
mand were about 2,500 men.

Such was the condition of affairs when General Grant decided
to send the 6th Army Corps, then lying five miles south of
Petersburg, to the assistance of General Wallace, and to the
defense of the National Capital. This corps, now under com-
mand of General Wright, had seen almost continuous fighting
for sixty days. It fell to the lot of Ricketts’ Division to move
first. Although the ranks were much depleted, his men were
in excellent condition ready and eager to meet in battle array
the invading foe then moving toward the city of Frederick in
Western Maryland.

Early in the morning of July 6, just as the sun was rising,
this division, with two days’ rations, began the march. The
roads were dusty, the sun was hot, and before they had reached
City Point, a distance of twelve miles, the blue uniforms of the
soldiers were thickly covered with the dust of old Virginia. At
 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES A. STAHLE.
City Point they embarked for Baltimore. The 14th New Jersey,
and part of the 87th Pennsylvania, with Colonel Truex and his
staff, boarded the steamer Columbia at noon, and sailing down
the James River they reached Fortress Monroe at 9 p m.—
While passnig through Hampton Roads, where the Monitor
defeated the Merrimac two years before, the Columbia an-
chored half an hour. The ride up the Chesapeake was delight-
ful, for the weather was cool and bracing, and the air invigo-
rating. The military band of the 87th played its best selections,
including “Maryland, my Maryland,” and the men of both
regiments applauded. Some of the men fell into a deep, sound
sleep early in the evening, while others sat on deck and watched
the soft rays of the moon shed a liquid light over the placid
waters of the bay. Adjutant Martin completed his list of casual-
ties since the regiment had left its headquarters at Brandy
Station just two months before. There were 204 in all, killed,
wounded and captured. Two days later he gave his own life to
his country on the plains of the Monocacy. The Columbia
anchored at Locust Point at 12 o’clock noon, July 7, after a trip
of 250 miles down the James River and up the Chesapeake to
Baltimore. Orders were given to remain on the boat till the
‘transports came up, bringing the balance of the division. One
of them arrived at 6 p. m., and three hours later General Wallace
sent word that all the troops that had arrived at Baltimore should
disembark at once and start for Frederick. They marched to the
railroad station, boarded a train, and rode all night in a rain
storm, The train moved slowly and cautiously, stopping often
on the way to make sure that the track was safe. The men
passed a sleepless night on the crowded cars. They arrived at
Frederick at 8 a. m. of July 8. Being short of rations,the troops
at Frederick generously shared with Truex’s veterans some of
their own commissary supplies. Loyal citizens of Frederick
gave them some bread, meat and coffee.
The wagon trains and the artillery were left behind. The
Star, one of the later tansports to leave City Point, arrived at
Fortress Monroe at midnight of July 6, remaining there till
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early dawn of the next day, and reached Baltimore at 1 a. m. of
the 8th. Part of the 87th Regiment was on board of this boat,
on which Captain Myers, of Company E, was officer of the day..
This detachment, together with four regiments of the division,
left Baltimore at 8:30 a. m. and reached Frederick at 3 p. m. of
the 8th. They found the regiment, as it was drawn up in line of
battle, about one and one-half miles out on the Middletown road.

The 1st Brigade of Ricketts’ Division, commanded by Colonel
W. S. Truex, was composed of the 151st New York Regiment,
Colonel Emerson; the 106th New York, Colonel Paine; the 14th
New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel Hall; the 1oth Vermont, Colo-
nel Henry; and the 87th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel
Stahle. This brigade had 1750 effective men.

The 2d Brigade, commanded by Colonel McClennan, was
composed of the 9th New York Heavy Artillery, Colonel W. H.
Seward, Jr.; the 110th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Binkley; the
122d Ohio (detachment), Lieutenant Gibson; the 126th Ohio,
Lieutenant Colonel Fbright; the 138th Pennsylvania, Major
May.

These two brigades, together with the troops under Gen-
eral Tyler at Frederick, already mentoined, was the entire force
General Wallace had at his command, to meet an approaching
army of nearly 30,000 men under Geneal Early.

The enemy’s advance had been met on the Catoctin Mountain
and in the Middletown valley, by small detachments of our cav-
alry and mounted infantry, and by three guns of Alexander's.
Battery. A skirmish had also taken place near Frederick om
July 8. On the same day Secretary Stanton telegraphed to
General Wallace, “Sige! is still at Maryland Heights. You are
doubtless aware of the great importance of the railroad bridge
over the Monocacy River near Frederick. If it be damaged or
destroyed, great delay will result in getting reinforcements to
Sigel. Protect fully this most important structure.” Wallace
immediately responded, “I will hold the bridge at all hazards;
send me troops as rapidly as possible. My forces are already
engaging the enemy.”
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Early was now pushing the remainder of his forces through
the passes of the Catoctin Mountain, thinking that none but
militia lay between him and the Nation’s Capital, only 40 miles
away. His troops were veterans, picked for the work they were
expected to do. They were largely composed of the same com-
mands of Ewell’s Corps that General Ricketts aud his valiant
men had been fighting from the Rapidan to Petersburg, before:
they had taken up their silent and stealthy march for the Shen--
andoah Valley and Maryland. But they were soon to meet the:
old flag in the hands of men who were themselves veterans,. and!
‘who had never seen that flag dishonored.

Early in the afternoon Captain Leonard, assistant adjutant.
general on brigade staff, went to the farmhouse of Colonel
Smith, a prominent citizen, residing a short distance out from
Frederick, where he engaged a supper of waffles and chicken for
Colonel Truex and his staff: This was the first time in the
campaign of 1864, that they were in a country where provisions
were plentiful. As they had nothing to eat since leaving Bal-
timore, the night before, every officer was very hungry and soom
expected to eat a hearty supper. It was being prepared by
Colonel Smith’s colored servant, who was noted for her ex-
cellence in the art of cooking.

While they were moving toward the supper table an aide
came riding up, and after saluting the officers said:

“Colonel Truex”—

“General Wallace presents his compliments, and desires that
you fall back through Frederick in the direction of Monocacy,.
immediately.”

The opportunity was gone, and the hungry officers were com-
pelled to leave without enjoying the evening repast.

In accordance with his plans already formulated Wallace de--
termined to withdraw all his troops from Frederick on the even-
ing of July 8, and concentrate them on the Monocacy, where a
part of the 2d Brigade of Ricketts’ Division was already station-
ed. During the afternoon of the 8th the rst Brigade was lying
a short distance west of Frederick. The sun was still shining

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"prightly, when a happy thought occurred to Colonel Truex. He
‘decided that it would be a good thing to show the enemy that a
part of the Army of the Potomac,was on hand. General Early
tad established his signal corps on one of the highest points of
the Catoctin range of mountains, to take observations of what
“was going on in the Valley of the Monocacy. Colonel Truex or-
‘dered up all his mounted men available and rode on his old gray
‘war horse at the head of the column over a hill-top. Riding
mext to him was an orderly holding high in the air the brigade
‘flag, a white-painted banner with the Greek cross, the badge of
the 6th Corps, in the. center. This movement, however, was
not observed by the rebels.

{n order to make double show of strength, Truex had his en-
tire brigade march four times through an opening between two
“pieces of woods, and then began to move toward Monocacy. He
‘made a detail of pickets, and placed it in charge of Major Pat-
‘terson of the 14th New Jersey, who posted his men in the tront,
‘the left resting on the Jeffersonville road, the right opposite
‘the city reservoir. The line was about three miles long.

It seemed almost foolhardy for Wallace to place his force,
‘of not more than 5,800 men, as an obstacle in the way of the
heretofore victorious march of Early with at least four times
that number. Only 3,350 of Wallace’s men were veterans, near-
ly all the rest were raw troops who had never met the enemy
in battle. Wallace scarcely expected to defeat the invaders but
as he says, “I hoped to gain time, compel the enemy to show
their strength, and hold them in check, until the balance of the
6th Corps would arrive at Washington from the Army of the
Potomac and get behind the intrenchments around that city.”

The tst Brigade moved southward during the night, and took
position by the headquarters of General Wallace near the bridge
over the Monocacy. Part of the 2d Brigade in all 1,650 men
had just arrived there from Baltimore.

Late in the evening Colonel Stahle received orders from Gen-
eral Tyler that the 87th Pennsylvania and Alexander’s battery
should bring up the rear. They were furnished with an ignor-
ant guide who took them by a circuitous route over a narrow
road washed out by the recent heavy rains. Lieutenant Strick-
ler, of Company E, with a detail of men guarded the rear of the
regiment in this movement. The bark of the farmers’ dogs to
the West indicated that the enemy were not far away. At one
time the talking of the invaders, and the neighing of their horses
could be plainly heard. A caisson rolled over an embankment
on the march. As ammunition for the artillery was scarce, it
had to be recovered, and this delayed the movement. The regi-
ment and battery marched all night, joining the brigade at 4 a.
m. of July 9. The pickets, under Major Patterson, were also
misled by a guide and did not arrive till sunrise, tired, foot-sore
and hungry.

Soon after the rear of the Union troops left Frederick, the
rebel cavalry under McCausland entered the town. Bradley
Johnson, who before the war, had been a member of the Fred-
erick bar, commanded a brigade of this cavalry, and led the ad-
vance into his native town. McCausland and he, by authority
of Early, made a levy for $200,000, which was immediately paid,
to prevent the city from being laid in ashes, as most of Cham-
bersburg was a few days later by Confederate raiders under Mc-
Causland.

Saturday, July 9, dawned bright and clear, but very warm,
over the beautiful little valley of the Monocacy, where General
Wallace the now famous author of “Ben Hur” and the “Prince
of India,” was making his dispositions for the coming battle.
There was no time for “a chariot race” that day. He took up
his headquarters in a small frame house on the south side of the
railroad,.and on the east bank of the river. This house was
owned by Captain Lieth of the rst Maryland Regiment in the
Confederate service. Most of the troops were on the south side
of the railroad in the direction of the Kieffer Thomas house, and
the farmhouse of James H. Gambrill.

“The advance of the Confederate forces followed closely upon
the Union rear during the night, and early in the morning pick-
et firing was heard within a mile of General Wallace’s head-

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quarters. In the disposition of his troops, Wallace placed his
right, forming an extended line from the railroad in command of
General Tyler who posted a force at the Stone bridge on the
Baltimore pike. Upon the holding of that bridge depended the
security of the right flank, and the line of retreat to Baltimore.
A reserve was also kept at Crum’s ford and at the railroad.

As the left was likely to be the main point of attack, Wallace
ordered Ricketts to form his command into two lines across the
Washington road, so as to hold the rising ground south of it,
and the wooden bridge across the river. Still farther to the
left, Clendenin’s Cavalry took post to watch that flank, and
guard the lower fords of the river. The battery was divided.
Ricketts and Tyler each receiving three guns and a 24 pound
brass howitzer.

About 7:30 o’clock a train arrived from Baltimore with sup-
plies for Ricketts’ men. The 87th Regiment was then stationed
about one-fourth of a mile from the railroad bridge in a yard
in front of the farmhouse of James H. Gambrill and around his
grist mill. The commissary department at 8 o’clock was dealing
out rations, when a Confederate shell from a rifle cannon posted
on a hill about a mile to the West, fell in the ranks of the 151st
New York, mortally wounding two men. A few seconds later,
a shell from the same battery passed over the tent-fly of Colonel
Hall, commanding the 14th New Jersey, and cut off the limb
of a locust tree a short distance east of the New York regiment.

Next a shell, sailing through the air with a rythmical swish,
fell and exploded near the Gambrill house, wounding three men
of the 87th Regiment.

“TI then learned,” says General Wallace, ‘ ‘that the enemy
marched from Frederick by the pike, and threw out skirmishers
behind whom they put their guns in position. The enemy’s
column followed their advance a little after 9 o’clock. They
passed through the fields just out of range of my guns, without
attempting to drive in our skirmishers. They moved rapidly
around to the left, and forced a passage of the river at a ford
about one mile below Ricketts.” ons
— 181 —

Soon after the explosion of the shells within the ranks of the
Ist Brigade, the commissary train steamed away toward Balti-
more, and Colonel Truex changed the position of the 151st New
York. He placed it in support of the artillery on the hill west
of the Washington road to the left of the Federal line. A heavy
skirmish line of the enemy’s cavalry and infantry appearing on
the left and front, the other regiments of the brigade were mov-
ed into position on the left of the 151st New York extending in
the direction of the Thomas House and the Buckeystown road,
the 1oth Vermont being held in reserve. ‘‘The 14th New Jer-
sey,” says Colonel Stahle, “was on our right and the balance of
our forces still farther in that direction.”

“From 9 o'clock to 10:30,” reports General Wallace, ‘‘the ac-
tion was little more than a warm skirmish and experimental
cannonading, in which, however, the enemy’s superiority in
number and the calibre of their guns was fully shown. Against
my six 3-inch guns and one brass howitzer, they opposed sixteen
Napoleons. The enemv’s first line of battle made its appearance
about 10.30 o’clock, and moved against Ricketts, who meantime
tiad changed front to the left, so that his right rested upon the
river bank near the wooden carriage bridge. This change un-
avoidably subjected his regiments to an unintermitted enfilading
fire from the batteries across the stream on the Best farm.

“So great was the enemy’s front, also, that 1 was compelled
to order the whole division into one line, thus leaving it without
reserves. Still the enemy’s front was greatest. Two more guns
were sent from Tyler to Ricketts. Finally by burning the wood-
en bridge, and the block house at its further end, thus releasing
the force left to defend them, I put into the engagement every
available man except Tyler’s reserves.

The enemy’s first line was badly defeated. The second line
then advanced, and was repulsed, but after a fierce and contin-
uous struggle. In the time thus occupied I could probably
have retired without much trouble, as the enemy was badly pun-
ished. The main objects of the battle, however, were not ac-
complished. The rebel strength was not yet developed.”
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When McCausland’s cavalry, dismounted as skirmishers, ad-
vanced upon the leit they expected to meet raw troops, but
were driven back in great confusion by the veterans of the 6th
Corps. The next attack was made at the Y formed by the rail-
road. This was met and held in check by the 1oth Vermont
who were at the same time annoyed by sharpshooters firing upon
them from Best’s farm. Alexander’s Battery opened upon the
barn, set it on fire, and dislodged the enemy. The Union skir-
mishers were withdrawn to the east side of the river, just before
the bridge was burned. After the enemy had been driven back
from the railroad, about noon, there came that ominous lull of-
ten spoken of before a storm.

At 2 p. m. General Gordon with a large body of troops arrived
at the scene of action from Frederick. He came by way of
Buckeystown, and crossed the Monocacy at an abandoned ford
under the protection of a woods and a hill, to the rear of John
T. Worthington’s farmhouse. He formed a line of battle with
the prospect of turning Ricketts’ flank.

“While this movement was being executed,” says Colonel
Stahle, “Captain W. H. Lanius, who was an aide on the staff of
Colonel Truex commanding our brigade, came riding along the
line in full range of the enemy’s sharpshooters, carrying orders
from General Wallace directing the 87th Pennsylvania and the
14th New Jersey to charge across the fields and take position,
with the right resting at the Kiefer Thomas house, which was
then held by the enemy’s slarpshooters.”’

The two regiments dashed heroically forward. “The 87th
Pennsylvania,” reports Colonel Truex, “executed this charge
in gallant style, driving the enemy before them, and then occu-
pied the Thomas house, and established their lines in accord-
ance with instructions.” Clendenin’s Illincis Cavalry now
guarded the flank.

Colonel Stahle displayed great courage in leading his men in
this charge, which was most successfully executed.

So much space had to be covered by the 1st Brigade that no
point of the left was protected with more than a thin skirmish
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line. Captain Solomon Myers, with Company E of the 87th,.
was sent through a cornfield to protect a weak point: Company
K, commanded by Lieut. Haack, was directed to hold the posi-
tion on the extreme left, at all hazards. The lines were now
formed to meet the advancing column of Southern veterans.
Out of the woods and through an oat field, they came in double
line. They moved with great precision down the slope of the
hill, while the boys of the 87th, and the other veterans under
Truex, eagerly watched their movement. They were ordered
not to fire until the enemy had reached an oak tree, about one
hundred yards distant, when several volleys were poured into
them causing heavy losses. They fell back in broken ranks to
the woods by the Worthington house, whose owner soon after-
ward, told Major Goldsborough, of Tyler’s staff, that the officers
had to drive the men up with their swords when they began to
reform the lines for another charge. It was at this time in
the contest, that Gordon’s men learned they were fighting vet-
erans of the 6th Corps. When the front line had been formed
a second time in the woods, it came marching down the slope.
As it reached the oak tree, the vigorous fire from the Federal
line repulsed the enemy again, but only after a fiercer and more
protracted struggle than when they came on the first charge.

At this point Wallace might have retreated with honor, for he
had achieved the main purpose of his heroic stand, that of halt-
ing their onward march and of developing the strength of the
enemy, and checking Early’s movements toward Washington.
But he was expecting the arrival of the three regiments of the
3rd Division lying at Monrovia, only a short distance away.
Telegraph communications had been cut to Baltimore, and it
was not definitely known to him, where these regiments were.
In the meantime, Gordon again reformed his lines for a final
struggle for supremacy. Early had sent re-enforcements to
Gordon, who now out-numbered Ricketts three to one, even
though Wallace had given the. latter every available man he
had.

At 3:30 p. m. the Confederates emerged again from the woods,
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a strong skirmish line appearing first. Then two battle lines
followed, both of which overlapped the Federal line on the right
and left flanks. They came charging down the hill, giving
the “rebel yell.” Ricketts’ men stood their ground with de-
termination, repulsing the skirmish line, and holding the third
charge in check, until their ammunition had nearly given out.
The enemy now came in on their flanks, and captured some
prisoners.

At this juncture. about 4 p. m., General Wallace gave the
order to fall back. It was during the afternoon that the 87th
Regiment had most of its casualties, losing in killed, wounded
and captured, 74 men.

General Wallace, in his report, says: ‘I ordered General Rick-
etts to withdraw his command by a county road, up the Monoc-
acy, to the Baltimore turnpike. This was done with  extra-
ordinary steadiness under a fire of musketry and artillery.
These men of the 6th Corps retreated reluctantly under my
orders. They bore the brunt of the battle with a coolness and
firmness, which, I venture to say, has never been exceeded in
any battle in the war.

“It would be difficult for me to say too much in praise of
these veterans who made this fight. Although the appearance
of the enemy’s fourth line of battle made their ultimate defeat
certain, they were not whipped. On the contrary, they were
fighting steadily in an unbroken front, when I ordered their
retirement. The fact speaks for itself, ‘Monocacy’ on_ their
battle Hags is a word of honor. If we had had trenching tools
in time, no doubt the losses among the veterans would have been
greatly Jessened. Too much credit can not be given General
Ricketts for his skill and courage. In this battle, we did not
lose a flag or a gun. In the face of an overwhelming force of
the enemy my entire command was brought from the field.”

List oF CASUALTIES.

The following officers and men of the regiment were killed,
or died of wounds received in this battle:

Adjutant Anthony M. Martin.
 

 

 

 

LIEUTENANT JOHN F SPANGLER, Co. A. LIgUTENANT CHARLES F. HAACK, Co. K.
Killed at Monocacy. Killed at Monocacy.
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Company A—First Lieutenant John F. Spangler, Private
John Bittinger.

Company C—Sergeant H. F. Waltemeyer. Privates Daniel
Dice, Van Buren Danner, Thomas W. Crowl.

Conipany F—Sergeant Elias Sheads.

Company G—Sergeant Daniel L. Welsh.

Company H—First Lieutenant Daniel P. Dietrich; Private
John A. Cooley.

Company K—First Lieutenant Charles F. Haack.

The following officers and men were wounded:

Captain W. H. Lanius, an aide on brigade staff.

Company A—-Sergeant Wm. F. Zorger.

Company B--Sergeant William H. Parker; Privates Henry
Wilhelm, William Dittenhafer.

Company C—Henry H. Bortner, Henry Burnstine.

Company D—Sergeant Emanuel Ludwig, Corporal John T.
Allison, Private Solomon Innerst.

Company E—William Long, John E. Snyder.

Company F—William Sheads.

Company. G—Sergeant William F. Eckert; Corporals Jacob
Shultz, Henry Stine; Privates John Lichtenberger, William
Wolf, Samuel Lau.

Company H—Corporal David Pentz; Privates John L. Ritter,
Anthony Wolf, Henry Noel.

Company I—Ephraim Bankert, Thomas McLaine, John Noel,
John Snyder, William Perlitz.

Company K—Sergeant Charles Busey; Privates Lewis Rasch,
Nathaniel Thompson, Daniel Keasey, William Emenheiser.

The following were missing in action:

Company A—Corporal Charles A. Laumaster; Privates Hugh
Quinn, Oliver Fissel, Henry Poleman.

Company C—Beniah Anstine, Francis A. Hersey, Eli Farar.
N. J. Klinedinst, Thomas W. Crowl.

Company D—Peter G. Reever.

Company E—Corporals William N. Aughenbaugh, John H.
Baughman; Privates Charles Coover, Jefferson Brunner.
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Company F—Second Lieutenant William F. Baker, Private
Spangler Welsh, David Bowers. :

Company G—Lewis Miller, George Matson, Samuel Berk-
heimer, William H. Lefever.

Company I—Charles Howell, Peter McIntyre, Joseph Stone-
sifer, Daniel Heltzel, Frederick Green.

Company K—Jacob Dobbler, Henry Billmeyer, Joseph A.
Helker.

Joseph G. Stonesifer, of Company I, was reported to have
becn the first man to reach the Thomas house when the regi-
ment charged upon it in the afternoon. While Spangler Welsh,
of Company F, and some comrades were shooting out of a win-
dow of this house, a Confederate shell crashed through the din-
ing room, struck some knives, forks and spoons on a table, and
scattered them in every direction, These men thought it pru-
dent to move out of the house, but while going toward the barn
were taken prisoners.

In the forenoon a ball passed through the cap box and
glanced from the U. S. plate of Charles Spahr, of Company A,
Another struck his bayonet, nearly knockng the gun out of his
hands. Jacob G. Shultz and John Lichtenberger, of Company
G, were wounded in the forenoon by the same minie ball. Cor-
poral Shultz was taken on an ambulance toward Baltimore and
Corporal Stine on the cars to the same city. Jacob Reed, of
Company G, was taken prisoner. While on the march toward
Washington in the dark, one of the Confederate guards allowed
him to escape because he could not see to walk.

Chaplain Eberhart had charge of some of the brigade horses
during the battle, and on the retreat succeeded in saving them
from capture. When there was a lull in the firing along the
railroad, he hurried the men with the horses toward the Balti-
more pike, in the lead of the retreating columns. While riding
across the field north of the railroad, he met two men carrying
Adjutant Martin, mortally wounded, on a stretcher. He could
not get an ambulance, and ordered the men to carry the Adju-
tant to a neighboring farm house, where he died soon after-
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ward. While still conscious, he gave the chaplain his sword
and haversack and asked him to send them to his relatives at
New Oxford, Pa. Harrison Spangler, of Company K, helped
to carry him from the battlefield.

Lieutenant Haack, who had commanded Company K since
June 15, 1863, was struck by a shell about 4 p. m., when the
regiment was ordered to fall back to the pike. He was carried
hastily to the rear by his men and placed on an ambulance
which was driven toward Baltimore. His wound proved to be
a fatal one, and he died near Ellicotts’ mills, where his remains
were temporarily buried in the Methodist church yard. They
were afterward removed to York and buried with military hon-
ors in Prospect Hill cemetery. He was 30 years of age.

Lieutenant John F. Spangler, who had commanded Company
A since June 23, was mortally wounded when the enemy made
their last charge,and were coming in on the flank. The ball
penetrated his breast, and taking a downward course, lodged
in his stomach. In a weak condition, supposed to be dying, he
was left on the battle field when the retreat was ordered. Late
in the evening he was taken to a house and tenderly cared for
by Mrs. Doffler, of Frederick, who afterward became the sec-
ond wife of his father, Jacob Spangler, of Water street, York.
Lieutenant Spangler died July 15. His father brought home
his remains, which were buried in the Union cemetery, North
Penn street, York, Pa. Lieutenant Dietrich was mortally
wounded when the enemy made the last charge. When last
seen by his comrades he was still living. On the retreat he
fell into the hands of the enemy, and died on the day of the
battle. His body was recovered the next day and buried at
Frederick by Union soldiers. Sergeant Daniel L. Welsh, of
Company G, was pierced by a ball that passed through his body
near the heart just as the regiment began its retreat. Lieu-
tenant Daniel, who commanded the company, reported that the
last words he uttered were these: “Tell my friends at home that
I died on the field of battle.” Then pointing to the colors in
front of him, he continued, “and tell them I died while defend-
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ing my country and that dear old flag.” His comrades were
then compelled to leave him on the field. His remains were
buried the next day by Union cavalry. After the retreat down
the Baltimore pike began, the 87th, together with the other
regiments of the brigade, marched all night,arriving at Ellicotts’
Mills, ten miles from Baltimore, and forty miles from the battle
field, at 7 a. m. the next day. They were at first pursued by
the enemy, and some of the men had very exciting experiences
and miraculous escapes from capture.

_ The 2d Brigade, under cover of the cavalry, brought up the
rear, and halted for the night at New Market, twelve miles from
Monocacy. Here the 67th Pennsylvania, 6th Maryland and
122d Ohio, which regiments did not reach Monocacy, joined
the 2d Brigade, and served a good purpose in covering the re-
treat. Many of the wounded during the battle were taken to
Monrovia, a short distance from the battle field, and from there
conveyed in cars to Baltimore.

The 87th Regiment, having lost 104 men in front of Peters-
burg, and 74 men in the battle of Monocacy, was greatly reduced
in numbers. Some had fallen behind on the long and weary
march, after the day’s hard fighting. Not quite 200 men an-
swered to the roll call at Ellicott’s Mills, at noon of July to.
Lieutenant Daniel, of Company G, had remained behind with
some of his wounded men.

Colonel Stahle appointed Lieutenant Stroman, of Company
B, adjutant. The regiment was almost without rations, but
patriotic women of Ellicotts’ Mills and vicinity, brought an
abundant supply of the best provisions the country round about
could furnish. In the afternoon of the 1oth the brigade com-
missary came up from Baltimore, and furnished the boys with
rations for two days.

Sadness and gloom pervaded the town of York when the news
of the casualties in the 87th Regiment reached there. For two
days flags were at half mast. A number of citizens went to
Frederick and Baltimore to look after the welfare of the wound-
ed. They brought home those who could be removed. A few
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days later a flag pole was erected in honor of the regiment, on
South Water street,in the presence of a large assemblage of peo-
ple. Patriotic speeches were made by Rev. Dr. Baum, of York,
and by Lieutenant Colonel Maish, of the 130th Pennsylvania
Regiment, who had been wounded at the battle of Antietam.
“The Union Forever,” was neatly worked on the flag which was
unfurled from the top of the pole. This work was done by Miss
Annie Zimmerman and other ladies of York, through whose
efforts the flag was procured.

General Wallace had intended to move on to Baltimore, but
had received orders to halt at Ellicotts’ Mills, and rally his
forces to meet Early, if he moved toward Baltimore. Hear-
ing that the main body of the enemy had gone toward Wash-
ington, he began to send his troops to Baltimore, to be taken
by rail to Washington.

General Grant, in his ‘Personal Memoirs,”’ makes this inter-
esting reference to Monocacy. “The force under General Wal-
lace was small in numbers to move against Early. The situa-
tion in Washington was precarious. Wallace moved with com-
mendable promtitude, and met the enemy at Monocacy. He
could hardly have expected to gain a victory, but hoped to crip-
ple and delay the enemy until Washington could be put in a
state of preparation to meet Early. With Ricketts’ Division
at Monocacy on time, Wallace succeeded in stopping Early for
the day on which the battle took place.

“The next morning Early started on his march to the Capital
of the Nation, arriving before it on the 11th. Learning of the
gravity of the situation I had ordered Meade to send the other
two divisions of the 6th Corps to Washington for the relief of
the city. The latter reached there the very day that Early
arrived before it. The 19th Corps, under General Emory, ar-
rived in Washington from Fortress Monroe about the same
time.

“Early made his reconnoissance with a view of attacking the
city on the 12th; but the next morning he found our intrench-
ments fully manned. He commenced to retreat, with the 6th

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Corps following. There is no telling how much this result was
contributed to, by General Lew Wallace’s leading at Monocacy,
what might well have been considerd almost a forlorn hope.
If Early had been but one day sooner, he might have entered
the Capital, before the arrival of the forces I had sent there.

“Whether the delay caused by the battle amounted to a day
or not, General Wallace contributed on this occasion, a greater
benefit to the cause than often falls to the lot of a commander of
an equal force to render by means of victory.”

Colonel Schall was at York at the time of Early’s raid. ‘Al-
though he had not fully recovered from the wound he received
one month before at Cold Harbor, he organized the five com-
panies of Home Guards at York, and a part of the hospital corps
into a provisional regiment and went with it to Cockeysville.
He arrived there soon after Johnson’s raiders had left. When
Early retreated to Virginia, Colonel Schall and his men returned
to York. He soon afterward joined his regiment in the field.
Corporal C. Z. Denues commanded the ‘““Menges Guards,” one
of the companies that went to Cockeysville.

The official reports of the battle of Monocacy show the follow-
ing losses in the 1st Brigade, under Colonel Truex: 7 officers
and 74 men killed; 16 officers and 240 men wounded, 1 officer
and 137 men captured or missing; total 505 officers and men.

The losses in the 2nd Brigade were 2 officers and 25 men
killed; 15 officers and 248 men wounded; 3 officers and 274 men
captured or missing; total 567 officers and men.

The losses in the different detachments of the 8th Army Corps
under General Tyler were as follows: 1 officer and 14 men killed;
4 officers and 79 men wounded; 7 officers and 116 men captured
or missing; total 221 officers and men. Many of the wounded
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ADJUTANT GEORGE C. STROMAN.

ADJUTANT ANTHONY M. MARTIN.
Killed at Monocacy.
CHAPTER XIV.

CAMPAIGN UNDER SHERIDAN—CHARLESTOWN—OPEQUON—

FISHER’S HILL.

The 87th Regiment moved by rail from Ellicott’s Mills to
Baltimore, on the evening of July 11, and encamped near
the station. The city was in a state of alarm. Great excite-
ment prevailed on account of the destruction of the railroad
bridges in the vicinity by the Confederate cavalry. While the
battle of Monocacy was going on, Early had sent a brigade of
cavalry under General Bradley Johnson, on a raid from Fred-
erick toward Baltimore. Taking the Liberty Road, he suc-
ceeded in reaching Cockeysville and destroyed the Northern
Central Railroad bridges in that vicinity: In the meantime
Johnson detached the Maryland Battalion, under Major Harry
Gilmore who passed along the eastern boundaries of Baltimore
and destroyed bridges, two miles in length, over the Gunpowder
River, belonging to the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad.
He also halted and robbed two passenger trains on their way to
Philadelphia. General Franklin, a native of York, was a pas-
senger on one of these trains. He was taken prisoner, but a
few days later, escaped from the guard at Reisterstown, Mary-
land.

On the morning ot July 12 the 87th moved to Druid Hill
‘Park, where it remained in camp with the division. At Io a. m.
of the 14th, the regiment with the other troops, took the cars
for Washington. They ate supper at the Soldiers’ Rest in that
city, and halted for the night near the railroad station. Lieu-
tenant Daniel, of Company G, and a number of men arrived
from Monocacy the next morning.
 

FORDING THE POTOMAC.
July 15 was a warm day.. After taking breakfast the division
marched up Pennsylvania Avenue, passing the United States
Treasury which their valor at Monocacy had saved-from the
Confederate raiders. Moving around the curve of the avenue
the White House came in full view. Standing by a window,
President Lincoln watched the moving column of veterans who
marched on through Georgetown and Tenallytown, to Pooles-
ville, Maryland, where they encamped for the night.

The 19th Corps andthe ist and 2d Divisions of the 6ta
Corps were at Poolesville. Their arrival at Washington in time
to meet Early at the northern approaches of the city, had caused
the latter to retreat across the Potomac, and move toward the
Shenandoah Valley.

‘Ricketts’ Division moved at 5 a. m. along the banks of the
Potomac to Edwards’ Ferry, where they forded the stream. It
was waist deep. The weather was intensely hot, and the men
enjoyed going into the water. The march was continued on
through Leesburg, Virginia. At 4 p. m. of the following day,
the division joined the other two divisions of the corps and the
19th Corps.

General Wright was now put in command of the department
for the: defense of Washington. General Ricketts was placed
in charge of the 6th Corps, and Colonel Emerson of the 151st
New York, succeeded Truex in command of the 1st Brigade.
The two corps moved on to Snicker’s Gap, where part of
Hunter’s forces joined them. Early was on the opposite side
of the Shenandoah River. A sharp fight took place at the gap
on July 18, after which the enemy fell back.

On July 20 the 87th passed through the gap, crossed over the
river and was placed on the picket line.

~ General: Early was reported to be moving rapidly up the Val-
ley. Wright, in pursuance of his orders, finding that Early
was beyond Hunter’s forces and apparently about to go back
to Lee at Petersburg, returned with the 6th and 19th Corps to
Washington, expecting to take transports and join Grant at
‘Petersburg. They moved back over the same route travelled

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before. It was now discovered that Early was still in the She-
nandoah Valley, and the 6th Corps rested for two days at Ten-
allytown.

Chaplain Eberhart had the chapel tent erected, and conducted
religious services in it on Sunday, July 24. The paymaster ar-
rived on the same day. Greenbacks were plentiful in camp the
next day. There were many applications for passes to go into
the city, but few were granted. Some of the boys were permit-
ted to go and view the fortifications around Washington.

Colonel Schall returned to the regiment on July 25. Captain
Ellinger, who had been leader of the regimental band for fifteen
months, resigned, and was succeeded by Mathias Selak, of
York.

Early, learning of the withdrawal of Wright’s forces, turned
suddenly on Hunter and defeated him at Kernstown, July 21,
when Colonel Mulligan, commander of the Irish Brigade, was
killed.

Early on July 26 reveille was sounded. The Heavy Artillery
Regiment remained behind the fortifications, at Washington.
The 6th Corps under Ricketts, moved to. Rockville,
Maryland. The next day they marched to Monocacy, where
the entire force halted a few hours. After dinner the boys
walked over the battlefield where they had struggled so hard
on July 9. Some of them went to the cemetery, where their
fallen comrades had been buried.

“On Fame’s eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,

And Glory guards with solemn round,
This bivouac of the dead.”

In the afternoon the march was continued through Frederick
to Jefferson, where they went into bivouac at 11 p.m. The
next day they crossed the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry and
reached Halltown, West Virginia, after a march of 18 miles.

During the night couriers brought the news into camp that
McCausland, with nearly 3000 Confederate cavalry, had crossed
the Potomac at Shepherdstown, reached Chambersburg ‘and
burned two-thirds of that town. The 6th Corps began a hasty
movement toward Frederick City. The 87th Regiment with
the 1st Brigade, brought up the rear and guarded the wagon
trains till they crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, and then
proceeded to Jefferson, joining the corps two miles west of
Frederick where they bivouacked.

The weather was intensely hot and dry. On the march many
ofthe men succumbed to the heat. Lieutenant Strickler, of
Company E, was taken sick and sent to the hospital at Fred-
erick. July 31 Colonel Schall reported 17 commissioned offi-
cers and 337 men of the regiment present for duty. Of this.
number 79 men were on extra duty. There were 12 officers on
the sick list and recovering from wounds, and to prisoners of
war. There were 230 men sick and wounded in hospitals, and
112 in Southern prisons. A few days later about 100 men re-
turned to the regiment from hospitals.

August I Chaplain Eberhart reported that he had held four
services in July, during which month the regiment had moved
400 miles by water and on the railroad and had marched 300
miles. August 3, the regiment moved six miles eastward near
to Buckeystown, and remained there two days. A number of
friends from York and Gettysburg visited the boys at this
place including Major Buehler.

A number of changes were now to be made in the army. Gen-
eral Grant left his headquarters at City Point, near Petersburg,
Virginia, and came to Monocacy, where he held a conference
with General Hunter, then commanding the Middle Depart-
ment. He decided to combine the Department of Washing-
ton, West Virginia and the Susquehanna with the Middle Divi-
sion, and place General Sheridan in command of it. Hunter
approved of the plan and Grant telegraphed Sheridan to come
to Monocacy, waiting there till he arrived.

On August 7, Sheridan took command at Harper’s Ferry.
Grant returned to City Point by way of Washington City. Two
divisions of cavalry, under Wilson and Torbert, joined Sheri-
dan’s forces August 11. With these and the 6th and parts of
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the 8th and the r9th Corps, in all about 30,000 men, Sheridan
began his brilliant campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

General Wright again assumed command of the 6th Corps,
and Ricketts of the 3d Division.

A few days later, Colonel Schall, owing to the removal of
Colonel Truex, was assigned to command the rst Brigade, and
Lieutenant Colonel Stahle succeeded in command of the regi-
ment.

The 87th with the 6th Corps, left Frederick by rail for Har-
pers Ferry. While passing Monocacy Junction the boys saw
Generals Grant, Sheridan and Hunter in conference. They
gave three tremendous cheers, in response to which General
Grant quietly lifted his hat and bowed, while Sheridan waived
his hat. The regiment in the evening went into bivouac. near
Halltown, and remained there till the morning of August Io.
On that day Ricketts’ Division led the march of the infantry
through Charlestown to Berryville.

A general movement up the Valley was planned by Sheridan.
On the r1th they marched 15 miles to Front Royal, and on the
12th moved through Winchester to Middletown. During the
night they lay in line of battle, facing the enemy.

The following morning the march was continued to Strasburg.
The troops halted in a woods. Early was lying behind in-
trenchments at Fisher’s Hill.

General Grant having heard that Lee in front of Petersburg
had sent two large divisions of infantry, some cavalry and 20
pieces of artillery to re-enforce Early, dispatched this informa-
tion to Washington. A courier was sent in haste from that city
to Sheridan, reaching him just about the time he was preparing
for a general attack on the enemy.

Orders were now issued for all the Federal troops to fall back.
They returned through Middletown, being closely followed by
the Confederates, and frequently engaged them in some sharp
skirmishing.

The 87th Regiment encamped in a woods two miles from
Charlestown on the night of August 18. The entire army ard
the wagon trains arrived at this place on the 19th. The regi-
ment remained in camp. The men were very tired, after the
continuous march of two days and one night, through mud and
rain, without rations. Twenty boys of the regiment had taken
a wagon anid had gone out foraging. They got a fine supply
of green corn, which they roasted and supplied the ears to their
comrades on the march down the Valley.

Colonel Schall was corps officer of the day on the 19th. The
next day Colonel Emerson arrived and succeeded him in com-
mand of the brigade.

Major Ruhl, who had been taken sick in Washington July 26,
arrived in camp for duty.

August 21, after brigade inspection, the enemy made an unex-
pected attack upon our forces at 10 a.m. The 6th and roth
Corps were drawn up in line of battle with the 3d Division on
the left. The musketry fire became very lively, by moon, and
continued at intervals all day. The heaviest losses, in this en-
gagement, were in the 19th Corps and the 2d Division of the
6th Corps.

The 87th Regiment, early in the fight, was sent out on the
skirmish line along the Smithfield Road and did some very ef-
fective work, continuing in the fight until dark.

Private James C. Waltemeyer of Company C was killed; Ser-
geant Henry Eppley of Company B was wounded in the neck,
and Amos Innerst of Company D in the left arm. A few others
received slight wounds.

The regiment remained in line until 3 a. m. of the 22d, and
then fell back to Halltown 5 miles from the battle ground. The
enemy now made a dash forward to capture the wagon train be-
longing to the Federal cavalry. A sharp fight ensued, and the
Confederates were driven back.

Expecting a general attack a Federal battle line, extending
across the entire valley, was formed. At dusk all went into
bivouac.

At 1 a. m. of the 23d orders came to pack up and be ready
to march at any minute. The &th and the 19th Corps to the
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left were engaged:in a sharp skirmish, continuing till noon. It
was followed by heavy artillery firing.

The 87th at 2 p. m. was again in line of battle, but two. hours
later began to put up their shelter tents and throw up breast-
works. ;

A large number of convalescents came to the regiment on this
day from the hospitals. Some of them were men who had been
wounded in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and at Cold Har-
bor and the Weldon Railroad. Some recruits also arrived.

Reveille was beat at 3 a. m. on the 24th, and all troops were
aroused to prepare for an attack, but it proved to be only a
skirmish, which continued a short time. Early’s entire army
was in the immediate front.

At 4 p. m. Captain Day inspected the ist Brigade. General
Averill held the fords of the Potomac. There were no Confed-
erates in Maryland.

Regimental and brigade teamsters arrived on this day from
Petersburg.

August 25, one hundred men of the regiment were sent for-
ward to throw up breastworks. Revielle was again beat early
in the morning. An engagement was expected every day and
preparations were continually being made for it. There was
skirmishing all day on picket lines. The cavalry started at 4
a. m. on a reconnoissance and returned at 5 p. m. They went
toward Martinsburg, where they came in contact with a large
force of the enemy.

During the day the entire regiment was detailed to intrench
and worked nearly all the succeeding night, part of the time in
a heavy thunder :storm.

The following day was quiet and peaceful, with no indications
of a battle.

On August 28, the division moved two miles forward to sup-
port the cavalry and halted in a large woods. The enemy had
fallen back, and were pursued by our cavalry. The division
then returned to its old position near Charlestown, still in the
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The next day it moved forward again to support the cavalry
which had met the enemy near Winchester and was driven back
to within three miles of the Union camp. At 4 p. m. the divi-
sion was again in line of battle. The 87th moved forward as
skirmishers, and assisted the cavalry in driving the Confeder-
ates back three miles. Firing ceased at sunset. Troops fell
back, but lay in line of battle all night.

August 30 our cavalry again dashed up the Valley toward
Winchester, which was now Early’s headquarters. Ricketts’
Division was three miles in advance of the balance of the in-
fantry, belonging to Sheridan’s forces. On the last day of Au-
gust the regiment was paid for two months. Major Ruhl, who
had become disabled on account of sickness received his dis-
charge on surgeon’s certificate and returned home. Captain
Lanius, having recovered from a wound received at Monocacy,
returned to the regiment and took command of Company I.

The nights were beginning to get cool, and the men began
to lay around the camp fires. September 2 Ricketts moved
back to the camp, situated near Charlestown, and took position
to the right of the line in a dense woods. There was plenty of
shade at this place, but water was scarce. On this day 160 re-
cruits came to the regiment. The news of the capture of At-
lanta, Georgia, by Sherman’s army, caused great rejoicing in
camp.

At 7 a. m. Saturday, September 3, the entire army around
Charlestown moved seven miles toward Berryville. Ricketts’
Division halted for dinner, near Clifton Heights, and at 1 p. m.
went forward one mile, and formed in line of battle. The cav-
alry advanced and engaged the enemy near Winchester, captur-
ing some prisoners. The next day the infantry remained in po-
sition. A detail of 150 men from the 87th went out on picket
and the rest put up defensive works. At midnight the 2nd Di-
vision of 6th Corps came to the support of Ricketts. At 3 a.m.
all troops were ordered behind intrenchments. A general at-
tack was expected. The 87th boys worked all night at earth-
works. The enemy did not come. They left the Union front
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and took position up the Valley, beyond Opequon Creek, where
Early decided to dispute Sheridan’s advance.
The news that a train of 4o of our ambulance wagons had

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been captured near Martinsburg, caused a movement of the 8th
Corps in that direction, after Mosby’s men.

At 8 p.m. a number of signal rockets were fired. They went
high up in the heavens, sending forth lights of many colors. It
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was the most brilliant display yet seen in this department of the
army.

On September 9, after a detail of the regiment had gone on
picket duty the camp was moved to a woods nearby, where tents
were put up. A new recruit of Company I was drummed
through the entire division encampment to the tune of “The
Rogue’s March.” He had been found guilty of stealing.

Ardent spirits flowed more freely on this day, than any time
since the regiment was in the service. The boys had attacked
the sutler’s tent, and captured some beer and whiskey. Rain
had been falling in heavy showers for several days. The men
had only shelter tents. Some of these were used by the men to
cover themselves. The nights were cool, and as heavy blankets
had not yet been supplied, some of the soldiers complained of a
lack of interest and attention on the part of the authorities.

At a regimental drill the bayonet exercise was performed by
the 87th, in a way that attracted much attention in camp, and
astonished the recruits who had lately arrived. On the 11th
our cavalry routed the Confederate horsemen at Bunker Hill,
and captured part of their wagon train.

Early now began to intrench himself along the Opequon
Creek, seven miles to the front. Rain continued to fall, making
camp life very uncomfortable. The recruits began to desert.

On September 12 the 3d Division drew three days’ rations.

On the 13th, the 2d Division went forward to support the cav-
alry. Another dreary day of rain followed. One heavy shower
after another fell. The water came through the shelter tents.
The men were compelled to sleep in the wet. In the midst of
all this inclement weather the cavalry and the 2d Division had
a sharp skirmish with the enemy near the Opequon Creek. Sep-
tember 16 dawned bright and clear. The rainy season had
ended. At 9 a. m. the 87th marched to an elevation, a sort of
Mount Ararat, and went through the regimental drills. Many
of the men had received new suits. The regiment went through
the bayonet exercise and the Zouave drill with fine effect. Gen-
eral Ricketts, Colonel Emerson, and other officers were specta-
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tors. There were a number of promotions made in the regi-
ment about this time. The record of them will be found in the
muster roll at the end of this volume.

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sion nearly six weeks, and during that time was successful in all
his manoeuvering with the enemy. His forces were well train-
ed and well equipped, and they were under good discipline. He
had arranged plans for a vigorous attack on Early and thus pre-
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vent any more Confederate invasions into Maryland and Penn-
Sylvania.

General Grant left his headquarters near Petersburg, arriving
on September 16 at Charlestown, West Virginia, where he met
Sheridan. He had in his pocket, prepared in writing, a plan of
operations in the Valley. This he says in his official report, ‘I
never withdrew from my pocket, for, after a conference with
General Sheridan, I found that only two words of instruction
were necessary. They were ‘Go in.’ This order was given
and Sheridan went in. He had his entire army provided with
three days’ rations on the 18th, and ordered a thorough inspec-
tion of all the different commands.

At daylight of September 19, he put his entire army in motion
in the direction of the enemy. The Confederates were in posi-
tion as follows: Ramseur’s Division lay across the Berryville
pike, two miles east of Winchester. Wharton’s Division, un-
der Breckenridge, was at Stevenson’s Station. Rodes’ Divi
sion was near there, and Gordon’s was at Bunker Hill. The
cavalry of Lomax, Jackson and Johnson was on the right of
Ramseur, while to the left and rear of the enemy's general line,
Fitz Hugh Lee’s cavalry covered the space from Stevenson’s
Station to Apple-pie Ridge.

Sheridan’s plan of attack was for Torbert to advance with Mer-
ritt’s Division of cavalry from Summit Point, carry the cross-
ings of the Opequon Creek, at Steven’s and Lock’s fords, and
form a junction, near Stevenson’s Station, with Averill, who was
to move south from Darksville, by the Valley pike. Mean-
while, Wilson, with his cavalry, was to move up the Berryville
pike, carry the crossing of the Opequon, charge through a ra-
vine, and occupy the open ground at the head of this defile.

Wilson’s attack was to be supported by the 6th and roth corps,
and as the cavalry gained the open ground beyond the ravine,
the infantry corps just mentioned, were expected to press on
through the ravine, and occupy Wilson’s ground, who was then
to cover the left. Crook’s two divisions of the 8th corps were
to follow the 6th and 19th corps to the Opequon Creek.
The position Early held was naturally strong, and had been
thoroughly fortified. Sheridan’s forces had to approach their
antagonists, through the above mentioned ravine three miles in
length, shut in by steep, thickly wooded hills, and then form in
line in an undulating valley in front of the enemy. At sunrise,
the cavalry began to drive the Confederates back to their works.
The 6th Corps began to emerge from the ravine at IO a. m.,
Ricketts’ Division was in the lead. The 87th Regiment was
formed in the second line. But it was 11:30 a. m. before a large
part of the troops had passed through the ravine and were ready
to advance.

“The troops were then arranged,” says General Sheridan, “in
the following order: Getty’s Division of the 6th Corps, to the
left of the Berryville pike. Ricketts’ Division to the right of the
pike, and Russell’s Division to the rear of the other two. Grov-
er’s Division of the 19th Corps came next, on the right of
Ricketts, with Dwight’s Division to its rear in reserve, while
Crook with his division of the 8th Corps was massing near the
Opequon crossing.

“Just before noon the line of Getty, Ricketts and Grover
moved forward. The Confederates opening fire along their
whole front and the battle raged with the greatest fury. The
advance was pressed in a resolute manner, and the resistance
by the enemy being equally determined, and both sides, fight-
ing without cover, the casualties were very great. Getty and
Ricketts, in connection with Wilson’s cavalry forced Ramseur’s
and Rode’s Divisions steadily toward Winchester, while Grover
broke up Evan’s Brigade of Gordon’s Division. But his pur-
suit of Evans increased an interval that had already been made
by the deflection of Ricketts to the left, in obedience to instruc-
tions, that had been given him to guide his division on the Ber-
ryville pike. As the line pressed forward Ricketts observed
this widening interval, and endeavored to: fill it with the small
brigade of Colonel Keifer. At this time, the Confederate artil-
lery opened with canister at short range, doing fearful execu-
tion. This was followed py the divisions of Gordon and Rodes
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making a charge upon the weak spot, where the right of the 6th
Corps and the left of the 19th should have been in conjunction.
This resulted in checking the advance by driving back, part of
Ricketts’ Division and the most of Grover’s.”

Sheridan now ordered Russell’s Division, which had been in
reserve, to be put into action. Upton’s Brigade, of this divi-
sion, led in person by both Russel and Upton, charged forward
so vigorously as to drive the Confederates back to their origi-
nal position. This charge of Russell was most opportune, but
it cost many men in killed and wounded. Among the latter
was the courageous Russell himself, who was killed by a piece
of shell that passed through his heart. The 6th Corps lost an
able soldier.

A lull in the battle now followed. Sheridan improved this
time in re-establishing the right of his line, some distance in
advance of the position from which he had started in the fore-
noon. Behind Russell’s Division, now commanded by Upton
the broken regiments of Ricketts’ Division rallied. Dwight’s
Division was taken up on the right. and Grover’s command
formed behind it.

The commanding general now determined to put still greater
force and vigor into the contest. His preponderance of cavalry
enabled him to extend far beyond, and overlap the Confederate
left. After more fighting between the infantry, a general ad-
vance was made at 4 p. m. by the whole Union line. Torbert’s
cavalry made an impetuous charge, and carried the fortified
heights on the Confederate left. The enemy, being pressed by
the infantry and by Wilson’s cavalry on their right, broke in
confusion. Early tried to stem the tide, but his troops retreat-
ed through Winchester with part of the Union forces in hot
pursuit. General Sheridan had carried the entire position
from the Opequon Creek to Winchester, capturing 2500 pris-
oners, five pieces.of artillery and nine battle flags. It was the
most brilliant victory ever gained in the Shenandoah Valley.

The Confederate loss in killed and wounded was 4ooo. They
were left behind and fell into the hands of the Union troops.
Among the killed was Major General Rodes, one of the ablest
soldiers in the Southern army. General Fitz Hugh Lee, who
commanded the Confederate cavalry, was wounded.

The Union loss in this battle was heavy, numbering 658 in
killed and 3759 wounded. The casualties in the 6th Corps ag-
gregated 211 killed and 1424 wounded. The town of Winches-
ter became one vast hospital for the wounded of both armies.

In this battle, one of the hardest in which the 87th Regiment
-participated, it lost 50 men in killed and wounded. During the
fight Jonathan J. Keesey, the color sergeant, was wounded.
When the flag fell it was picked up by Captain Cross of Com-
pany C, who asked for a volunteer to carry it. Daniel P. Reigle
of Company E stepped forward as if on dress parade, grasped
the banner, and bore it, not only during the remainder of this
engagement, but was color sergeant until the end of the war.

There is no official record of the casualties in this engage-
ment. The names of the killed as far as they could be ascertain-
ed are as follows:

Company B.—Corporal Daniel W. Keiter, Privates Joseph
C. Hann and Jacob Karstellar.

Company C.—James H. Weakley.

Company D.—Private William H. Douglass.

Company G.—Privates John L. Kunkle, Sylvester Golding,
William Wagner, Owen Bishop.

Among the wounded were Lieutenant James Tearny and Pri-
vate John Oxenrider, of Company B. Privates William and
Henry Miller, of Company E. There were several wounded in
‘Company G. Sergeant Isaac Wagner was struck by a shell in
the right arm, Privates Benedict Myers in the leg, George Swetz-
-er in the ankle, Calvin Stahl in the side, John Snyder, the right
-arm. Joseph Fox, of this company, a resident of Cedarville,
Illinois, since the war had the one side of his blouse torn off
by a piece of shell which after passing him severed the right
arm of his Comrade John Snyder, standing near him. Another
piece of shell tore away part of his shoe sole. Corp. Fox was
stunned by a minie ball in the fight along the Weldon railroad
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June 23, 1864. William Hampton was stunned and rendered
unconscious, for a short time, by the bursting of a shell. He
had been hit in the leg by a minie ball at Cold Harbor. Jona-
than S. May, of Company D, received a slight wound at Ope-
quon, and at Locust Grove in November, 1863.

Corporal Eli Ream, of Company C, and Jacob Ruth, of Com-
pany G, were among the wounded.

The 6th Corps after the battle moved to the pike south of
Winchester, but as it had been a hard and long day of march-
and fighting, the infantry made no further attempt to pursue
the fleeing enemy. The cavalry followed them up the pike to
Kernstown.

When General Sheridan, with his corps commanders, Gen-
erals Wright, Emory and Crook, rode ‘in. front of the Union
lines around Winchester in the evening after the battle, the
troops became overjoyed with the success of the day, and the
enthusiasm became unbounded.

Elated with his victory, Sheridan went to the school room
of Miss Wright, in Winchester, and wrote this dispatch to Gen-
eral Grant and to the authorities at Washington: “We have
just sent the enemy whirling through Winchester, and we are
after them tomorrow. This army behaved splendidly.”

Congratulations from all sides poured in upon the command-
er-in-chief of this army. President Lincoln wrote the following:
“Have just heard of your great victory. God bless you all,
officers and men.”

In his “Personal Memoirs’ General Grant says, “Sheridan
won a most decisive victory which electrified the whole coun-
‘try. I congratulated him, and had a salute of 100 guns fired
in honor of it, the guns being aimed at the enemy’s forts around
Petersburg. I notified the other commands who also fired a
salute in honor of this victory.”

The battle of the Opequon was accepted as a vindication of
Sheridan’s views and policy. The confidence with which he
that day inspired his troops proved invaluable in the subsequent
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SERGEANT DANIEL P. REIGLE, Company F. CorPoRAL WILLIAM T. ZIEGLER.
The army began to move at daylight of September 20. The
6th Corps was on the left. The 87th moved with the ist Bri-
gade, except a detachment of the regiment which remained in
Winchester one day longer for provost duty. During the after-
noon of the 2oth, Wright and Emory with their corps arrived
at Cedar Creek, and crossing it went into position on the
heights fronting Strasburg.

The 6th Corps was now on the right, the 19th on the left and
the 8th Corps, when it came up, was halted on the left bank of
Cedar Creek. By evening the Union pickets occupied the
northern part of Strasburg, and the Confederate pickets the
southern.

At daylight of September 21, Sheridan with his staff rode
from one end of the Union picket line to the other, noting the
ground and the enemy’s position. Then with General Wright
he reconnoitered the right flank. General Wright then sent two
regiments from Ricketts’ Division and one from Getty’s to seize
a high point confronting the enemy’s main position. But Early,
knowing the value of this point, sent forward a considerable
force which repulsed the Union lines. More troops of War-
ner’s Brigade of the 2d Division were added, and the position
was gallantly carried.

From that time till sundown, the axes of the pioneers opened
the way for planting the artillery on the elevation already se-
cured. Early, all this time, was strengthening his fortified po-
sition. Sheridan now resolved to repeat the tactics which he
displayed at Opequon, by again turning the Confederate left
Hank with the 8th Corps under Crook and prepared to move
Torbert’s cavalry past Early’s right flank. During the night
that followed the 6th Corps continued to hold the valuable line
already gained and which confronted the enemy. At day-
break of September 22, the 19th Corps was moved to the right
and in front of its first position, occupying the ground held the
day before by the 6th Corps, connecting its right with that
corps. Sheridan found the enemy’s right was impregnable, and
he planned to turn their left flank by moving the two corps well

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ito the right, but still preparing to connect with the 8th Corps
when it should re-appear on the scene.

About 1:30 p. m. Ricketts’ Division on the right took a desir-
-able position, moving still farther to the front and with the aid
of three rifle batteries, drove the Confederate skirmish line back
-in confusion, Averill then came up on the right of Ricketts.
The 2d Division of the 6th Corps was moved to the right and
front, connecting with Ricketts. The 1st Division connected
with the 2d Division.

Early’s forces, behind the trenches on Fisher’s Hill, were
‘now but half a mile from the ridge on which these Union troops
were posted.

“When I saw the divisions of Ricketts and Averill advance,”
says Generai Early, “I gave orders for my troops to retire after
dark, as I knew my force was not strong enough to resist a
determined assault.”

Meantime, Crook with the 8th Corps had moved with remark-
‘able secrecy under the cover of woods till he had gained the
enemy’s left flank and rear. He then rushed across the inter-
vening space and at sunset surprised the Confederates by enter-
ing their intrenchments.

Says a Confederate officer, “If the heavens had been opened
and men were seen descending from the clouds, no greater con-
sternation would have been created.” Crook’s men swept along
the Confederate left lank and drove, before them, the dismount-
ed cavalry. A few minutes later, Ricketts joined his right to
Crook’s left. The remainder of the troops of Wright and
Emory, now took up the charge. The 87th Regiment with the
6th Corps descended into the ravine with a headlong rush, over
fields, walls, rocks and fallen trees. They crossed Tumbling
Run and soon scrambled up the heights, while Sheridan and his
staff rode along the line shouting, “Forward! Forward every-
thing!” The entire Confederate line broke from the trenches.
“My whole force retired in confusion,” says Early.

Nathaniel Vooman, of Company B was killed, and Valentine
Myers captured.
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David N. Thomas, of Company I, was the first man of the
regiment to reach the enemy’s breastworks in the charge at
Fisher’s Hill.

Between sundown and dark, every portion of the strong posi-
tion at Fisher’s Hill was carried. The movement was so rapid
that Early had not time to get his guns out of position upon
the pike. Sixteen of them were captured by the Union forces,
eight of them by Ricketts’ Division. Early fled in great dis-
order, under cover of the night, through Woodstock nearly to
Edenburg. Sheridan’s cavalry pushed after him to the lower
passes of the Blue Ridge.

The battle of Fisher’s Hill was the last engagement in which
the 87th Regiment participated. The three years’ term of en-
listment had expired. The following day, September 23, about
250 men of the regiment prepared to return home. Before
their departure General Ricketts, commanding the 3d Division,
in which the 87th had served since March, 1864, presented
Colonel Schall with a letter of commendation complimenting
himself and his men for their valor and their achievements, and
regretting their departure from his command. He also had
the regiment drawn up in line and delivered an address to the
officers and men beforé they left for home.

 
CHAPTER XV.

THE BATTALION—BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK—SENT TO ARMY OF THE

POTOMAC—SIEGE OF PETERSBURG—END OF THE WAR.

After the departure of the regi-
ment for home, on September 23,
1864, at the expiration of their
three years’ term of service, Cap-
tain Edgar M. Ruhl, the senior
officer, was assigned to command
the veterans, those who had en-
listed after the organization of
the regiment and the recruits, in
all about 200 men. They were
then with Ricketts’ Division of
the 6th Corps at Woodstock,
Virginia. The other commission-
ed officers present were: Lieu-
tenants Robert K. Slagle, George J. Chalfant, Ramsey Hanne-
gan and William E. Culp. The last namea was acting quarter-
master. Some of the companies were commanded by a commis-
sioned officer while others were commanded by a sergeant.

Captain Ruhl and his men marched up the Valley with the
corps and halted on the evening of the 23d at Edensburg.

At sunrise, the next day, Sheridan’s army moved in six col-
umns to New Market, capturing a number of prisoners and
wagons. They moved the following day to Harrisonburg.
Early’s forces having marched all night, had gotten some dis-
tance ahead. The 6th Corps remained at Harrisonburg until
September 29, when the march was continued to Mount Craw-

 

CAPTAIN EDGAR M. RUHL,
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ford. Foraging parties were sent out and obtained chickens,
sweet potatoes, apple butter and fresh pork. The corps fell
back to Harrisonburg and went into camp. The cavalry had
gone up the Valley as far as Staunton.

In obedience to orders Sheridan now began to destroy the
barns and stacks between Harrisonburg and Staunton. The
sky was lit up for several nights with these devastating fires.
This fertile valley had been an important source of supply for
the Southern army ever since the war had opened. By the
order of the commander-in-chief of the armies, it was now to
be laid waste by Sheridan’s troops. So complete was the devas-
tation of crops and barns, that “a crow could not fly over the
valley without taking his rations with him,” said Sheridan.

October 6, the march was renewed southward through New
Market, Sparta and Woodstock, reaching Strasburg on the 8th.
The cavalry was then engaging the enemy at Fisher’s Hill.
October 10, the 6th Corps fell back and went into camp near
Front Royal, remaining two days. At Millwood Captain Ruhl’s
boys captured seven boxes of plug tobacco. They became
noted as tobacco foragers. On the 14th they moved with the
corps to Cedar Creek, formed in line of battle and went into
camp on the right of the 8th Corps.

“Little did we think,” says Sergeant Major Thomas, “‘that be-
fore day of October 19 we would be surprised by the enemy
and engaged in a pitched battle with them. When the sudden
attack was first made on the 8th Corps we were at once thrown
in the front line on a knoll, and awaited the charge of the enemy.
To our right was a battery of light artillery which began to belch
forth grape and canister into the advancing foe. We had only
a few minutes to wait until we discovered them coming in dou-
ble line of battle with fixed bayonets. From the streaks of light
coming through the eastern skies, aided by the flashes of the
cannon, we were enabled to see and open fire upon the first
line, coming up the hill. We poured heavy volleys into their
unbroken line, which was temporarily checked. When their
second line pushed forward, it was impossible for our single
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line to hold them longer in check. We stubbornly held our
position for a time, but were eventually forced back by the over-
powering numbers of the enemy.

“It was at this point that our brave leader, Captain Edgar M.
Ruhl, fell mortally wounded, Lieutenant Robert K. Slagle
severely wounded in the hip, and Lieutenant Ramsey Hanne-
gan in the arm. Leutenant George J. Chalfant was struck by a
spent ball.

“Although we had lost our commissioned officers, we rallied

 

and, with other troops, charged forward to recapture the bat-
tery to our left. But we were compelled to fall back, leaving
our dead and wounded on the field.” Sergeant Major Thomas
being the highest non-commissioned officer present assumed
command and reformed his men into line.

The 6th Corps fell back a considerable distance toward New-
town. General Sheridan had gone to Washington a few days
before, and had just returned to Winchester a few hours before
the battle of Cedar Creek opened. General Wright was in-
command of all the forces in the valley during the temporary
absence of the commander-in-chief. It was after the repulse at
Cedar Creek and the sudden retreat that occurred the famous:
incident of “Sheridan’s Ride.” It can be said in justice to the
6th Corps, in reference to this battle, that General Wright had.
already given Early a successful check, and had made the dispo-
sitions of his troops for a counter advance, and was about to
move forward when Sheridan came galloping up from Win-
chester and assumed command.

The battalion participated in the advance of the entire army,
after the arrival of Sheridan, and assisted in driving the enemy
from a stone wall in their front and with the other forces “Tent-
ed on the Old Camp Ground” at Cedar Creek that night. The
Confederates under General Early were completely routed and
his army demoralized. The body of Captain Ruhl was recov-
ered and given a temporary burial, but was afterward removed
to Shrewsbury, Pa. The wounded were now tenderly cared for.
The battalion lost in the battle of Cedar Creek, in killed and
wounded and missing nearly fifteen per cent of its number.
The following is the list of casualties:

The killed were Captain Ruhl, Private Abraham Rhodes of
Company A, Corporal Jacob H. Grove, of Company F, and
Private Augustus Kauffman of Company G.

The wounded were Lieutenants Robert K. Slagle and Ramsay
Hannegan.

Company A.—David Hoke, Joseph McClintock, George
Noel, Simon Richey, Jacob F. Ziegler.

Company B.—George Fletcher, Adam Renninger, George
Hann, Samuel Payler.

Company E.—William Ilgenfritz, Robert Waters.

Company G.—Jerome Herr, Jacob H. Miller, Jonn W. Et-
tinger, Allen McGee.

Company H.—Jefferson Martin, Henry Noel, Henry Com-
fort, Henry Shaffer.

Company K.—Michael Kessler, Joseph Hare, William Mor-
gan, Jackson Hunter.

For a short time Captain Saulsbury of the r1oth Vermont
Regiment, was in command of the battalion. October 22, 1864,
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Colonel J. W. Keifer, who succeeded temporarily in command
of the 3d Division after General Ricketts was wounded at Cedar
Creek, issued a circular which he ordered to be read at dress
parade. This circular contained the following: “I take pleas-
ure in announcing that Corporal Daniel P. Reigle of the 87th
Pennsylvania Volunteers has been ordered by General Sheridan
to report at Washington, D. C., for the purpose of having pre-
sented to him by the President of the United States, a medal

 

of honor for marked bravery displayed on the battlefield on the
evening of October 19, at Cedar Creek, near Middletown, Vir-
ginia, and for gallantly rushing forward through a terrific fire
and capturing a Confederate flag at the stone fence where the
enemy’s last stand was made. Corporal Reigle will also be
given for these exhibitions of noble daring a furlough of thirty-
five days to enable him to visit his home.”

Corporal Henry Shultz, who belonged: to the color guard,
carried the flag while Sergeant Reigle was home on a furlough.
Soon after the battle of Cedar Creek Lieutenant James Tear-
ney, who had been wounded at Opequon, returned. About the
same time Lieutenants William C. Waldman, Z. E. Hersh and
Peter Nickle came back from sick leave. During the latter part
of October Lieutenant Tearney, assisted by Surgeon Theodore
Helwig and the other officers consolidated the re-enlisted men
and recruits into a battalion of five companies. Lieutenant
Tearney, being the senior officer, assumed command. In this
re-organization the men of Company K were transferred to A,
Company I to B, Company H to C, Company G to D, Company
F to E.

On November 1, Major N. G. Ruhl arrived in camp and ob-
tained the remains of his son, which were removed to Shrews-
bury, Pennsylvania, and buried there with military honors.

The election for President was held in the tent of Sergeant
Major Thomas on November 8. The polls were kept open five
hours. The judges were Joseph F. Welsh, B. J. Flick and
William McGonigal, Lieutenant Chalfant and Corporal
Streater acted as clerks. The election resulted in 74 votes for
Lincoln and 11 for McClellan. The next day the battalion
moved with the corps toward Winchester. On November 11,
after a slight skirmish with the enemy, the battalion assisted in
throwing up earthworks and in erecting a fort, which was
named in honor of their division commander, General Ricketts,
who had been seriously wounded at Cedar Creek.

November 1, the battalion, with the 1st Brigade, was reviewed
by General Truman Seymour who had succeeded Ricketts in
command of the 3d Division. On the 16th, Colonel Emerson,
commanding Ist Brigade, reviewed the battalion. On the 2ist,
General Sheridan reviewed the 6th Corps in the rain. On
November 23, the boys received, from friends at home, twenty-
six fine turkeys for Thanksgiving. Soon after the bountiful
dinner of turkey was eaten, a detail of 85 men was sent out to
engage in hard physical exercise, in throwing up breastworks.
December 3rd, Seymour’s Division received orders that the 6th
Corps was to be transferred to the Army of the Potomac, then
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lying behind intrenchments in front of Petersburg. The 3d
Division arrived in Washington city the following day and em-
barked on the transport Utica for City Point. On December
6, they went by cars to Meade’s Station, and marched to the
camp of the 5th Corps, relieving its 2d Division the following
day. On the toth, Seymour took position on the left of the
2d Corps.

December 13, Lieutenant Tearney, commanding the battalion,
was commissioned captain, and on that day went with Lieuten-
ant Chalfant to visit the camp of the 200th Pennsylvania Regi-
ment which had many soldiers from York county. December
16, the boys witnessed the shooting of three deserters at the
headquarters of the 2d Corps. Quartermaster Culp with bag-
gage and tents arrived from the Shenandoah Valley on the 28th,
and the battalion went into winter quarters near Petersburg.
On the last day of the year a Confederate force charged the
Union picket line, but was repulsed.

The month of January, 1865, opened with a cold day. The
wood for fuel, to the rear of the Union Army, became scarce.
The men were compelled to get wood from timber lands lying
between the opposing armies. To accomplish this a truce was
ordered, and squads of men of both armies marched toward
each other, with axes to cut down the timber. When the
“Yanks” and “Johnnies” met they shook hands, exchanged
articles and questioned one another about the war. Then they
all went to work cutting up the trees. After dividing the wood
they carried it back to their respective lines. These soldiers
were friends for a few hours, but enemies as soon as the truce
had ended and they got behind their trenches. During the
month of January frequent details of 100 men or more were sent
out from the battalion on picket duty, fatigue duty and to
strengthen the fortifications. February 10, 3 officers and 120
men were on picket duty with 2d Corps’ line. They were only
200 yards from the enemy, with whom they carried on a lively
conversation.

On the 13th, the coldest day of the winter, 130 men of the
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battalion were on fatigue duty on the fortifications. The boys
received four months’ pay on March 1, and then “squared off”
with the sutler, and settled ‘outstanding debts with one an-
other.”

During the early part of March five companies were added to
the battalion, bringing its membership up to the full strength
of a regiment, but no regimental organization was effected.
Two of the new companies were from Pittsburg, one from
Washington county, Pennsylvania, one from Chambersburg,
and one from Lebanon. These soldiers were cordially wel-
comed by the 87th.

The new command was now ready for active duty. Another
campaign was soon to open. Brigade dress parade was held on
March 20, and 280 men sent out on picket. The Union picket
line was again within speaking distance of the Confederates.

During the last day of March great preparations were being
made for a general attack on the Confederate works along the
line from Petersburg on the right, to Hatcher’s Run on the left.
On the 28th, ammunition in large quantities was issued to all the
troops. The next day Lieutenants Chalfant, Nickel and Kelley
were sent out with a detail of 120 men for picket duty. Cap-
tain F. I. Thomas of Company C was in command of the bri-
gade picket line. They remained out during the following
night. They were not allowed to build fires. Owing to the
darkness of the night the Union and Confederate lines got so
close that the men could hear each other in an ordinary con-
versation. During the night a noise was heard by one of Cap-
tain Thomas’ men in front of his post. He moved slightly
forward when the tall form of a Confederate soldier was seen
coming toward him.

“Don’t shoot, Yank,” said he, in a low tone. “I’m coming
into your lines.”

“Come in Johnnie, you’re perfectly safe,” answered the senti-
nel. Then the man in blue and the man in his tattered gray,
engaged in a quiet conversation.

“T’m tired fighting for nothing in this cruel war, but thank
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God it will soon be over, for our men can’t hold out much
longer,’ continued the Confederate soldier.

“We will all be glad when the war is ended,” said the senti-
nel.

The next day it rained hard for several hours, and mud be-
came abundant everywhere. It ceased toward evening, but at
midnight rain again began to fall in torrents. During these dis-
mal hours a large number of the enemy came into the Union
lines under the protection of the darkness and gave important
information about the Confederate position. The pickets were
relieved in the morning and went into line of battle on a hill.
At 4 p. m. of the 31st, the battalion, with the 1st Brigade, moved
along the line of works to the left of Fort Gregg. There had
been heavy firing on the Union left for several hours. The
weather on April 1 was cold, and the mud was freezing. The
brigade moved behind the skirmish line under the cover of
darkness. In this movement the men were ordered not to speak
loud and to put their tin cups in the haversacks. After being
in line for a considerable time, with orders to remain quiet, the
men got chilled through and through. Some of them began to
kick their feet together.

This was taken up along the whole line and soon the noise it
created drew a fire from the Confederate pickets, when several
men of the battalion were wounded. An order was given to
lie down, but the men resting on the frozen ground, began again
to kick their feet together. This drew another fire from the
enemy, when a private of Company C had an ear shot off. He
gave such a loud yell that it excited great merriment among his
comrades. Another man was struck in the heel. With this
incident the kicking ended.

As early as the evening of March 30, General Wright was in-
structed to be prepared to assault the enemy’s works in his
front. On the evening of April 1, he was directed to make the
attack at 4 a. m. the next day. The point selected in front of
Union Forts Fisher and Welch, was decided upon after the
most careful consideration. There was not light enough to see
 

 

 
 

 

 

LIEUTENANT W. KEASEY, Company G. PrivaTE JOHN C. HOFFMAN, Company G.
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until 4:40 a. m. When the signal gun was fired from Fort
Fisher at that hour the columns moved promptly, broke over
the enemy’s picket line and charged in masses over the main
defenses.

The battalion on this assault ran against a strong line of
abatis. While breaking through this and in crossing a wide
ditch, it was exposed to an entilading fire from the left, losing
two officers and several men. Captain Tearney then led his
men with the brigade, toward a fort in front, but was temporar-
ily checked. Orders were given to move against another fort a
short distance away, but being unable to take that point, the
brigade tell back. After reforming it assaulted a fort between
the other two mentioned and captured it with the point of the
bayonet. After mounting the works the battalion was swung
to the left when the men could see the guns of this fort turned
by our artillerymen upon the fleeing enemy.

In the assault Lieutenant Peter Nickle of Company E, Lieu-
tenant Samuel W. Keasey of Company G, and five men were
killed. Captains Z. E. Hersh of Company B, Captain Findlay
I. Thomas of Company C, Lieutenant N. O. Barnhart of Com-
pany G and twenty-three men were wounded. Captains Thomas
and Hersh were brevetted major “for gallant and meritorious
conduct” in the assault on the Confederate works. It was
claimed that the banner carried by Daniel P. Reigle, the color
sergeant, was the first flag of the brigade to be planted on the
Confederate works, but Colonel Truex, then the brigade com-
mander, reported the flag of his old regiment, the 14th New
Jersey, to be the first.

Corporal Henry Shultz, of Company G, had just returned
from home on a short furlough, and brought with him to the
front, a new uniform and a sword for his former schoolmate
and comrade, Lieutenant Keasey, the gallant soldier who was
the last man of the regiment to be killed in battle, seven days
before Lee’s surrender.

The 6th Corps followed the enemy after the assault, then
turned back and took position in front of Petersburg. The
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battalion participated in the engagement at Sailor’s Creek, April
6, 1865, losing one man wounded. After the final charge acrosr
the creek in this fight some of the men stuck in the mud and
were helped out of their dilemma through the assistance of their
comrades.

The great struggle, between the Army of the Potomac and
the Army of Northern Virginia, was soon to end. Lee retreated
toward Appomattox Court House to the west of Petersburg,
and surrendered his army to General Grant on April 9, 1865.

After the surrender the battalion moved with the 6th Corps
back to Burkeville Station not far from Appomattox, where
they staked out camps. While remaining there General Lee
and other officers rode by on their way to Richmond.

General Ricketts, having recovered from the wound he re-
ceived at Cedar Creek, visited his old command, and received
a royal welcome.

When the information of the assassination of President Lin-
coln was received, it cast a gloom over the entire army. During
the night that followed few soldiers slept. They sat around the
camp fires for hours discussing the sad news. On April 19
twenty-one minute guns were fired in the forenoon and relig-
ious services were conducted in the afternoon by all the army
chaplains. -In the evening the news of the fall of Mobile and
the capture of several thousand prisoners, caused great rejoic-
ing in camp.

April 23, the 6th Corps with four days’ rations in haversacks
and a supply for eight days in wagons, started on a march to-
ward Danville, arriving there on the 27th and encamped a short
distance south of the town. In this march of five days the corps
moved about 9o miles.

On April 30 General Wright issued an order that the com-
mand should thereafter be called the 87th Regiment Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, instead of the Battalion of the 87th Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers.

General Joseph E. Johnston, having shrrendered to General
Sherman in North Carolina the 6th Corps was moved by rail on
May 16 to Manchester and went into camp along the James
River, opposite Richmond where the men had a fine view of
Libby prison, Belle Isle:and the entire city. A few days later
some of them went to Richmond and passed through its streets,
visiting the historic places. Lieutenant Chalfant went into the
State Capitol, where the Confederate Congress had held its ses-
sions. He sat down at one of the desks and made several en-
tries in his diary.

Lieutenant Charles J. Fox of Company E, who had recently
returned to the regiment, after eleven months’ imprisonment,
went with some of his men to Libby, where he mounted a stand
and made a little speech.

On May 22, 1865, Captain James Tearney, who had com-
manded the battalion since December 3, 1864, was commission-
ed Colonel of the regiment. The organization was completed
by the election of Captain Samuel S. Bulford of Company G,
Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain F. I. Thomas of Company C
Major.

Johnston’s army had surrendered to Sherman in North Car-
olina; the Confederate Congiess had dispersed; Jefferson Davis
was fleeing through the state of Georgia; the war was ended.
‘The regiment with the 6th Corps began the march toward
Washington city on May 24. They went through Richmond,
crossed the Pamunkey River, passed near by Cold Harbor and
‘Spottsylvania, went through Fredericksburg, halted at Bailey’s
Station, five miles from Washington, June 2, and staked off a
camp. They did not arrive in time for the grand review of the
army in Washington. On June 8 these troops were reviewed
by President Johnson and Secretary of War Stanton in the Cap-
ital City. The regiment was mustered out of the service at
Alexandria, Virginia, June 29, 1865.

The flag which Color Sergeant Daniel P. Reigle carried in’
the veteran service, was presented to him by his comrades after
the regiment was mustered out. It had been procured by
Lieutenant Jonathan J. Keesey, and paid for by contribution
from the re-enlisted men early in the year 1864.
CHAPTER XVI.

SOUTHERN PRISONS—THE MARCH TO STAUNTON IN 1863—LIBBY AND
BELLE ISLE—PRISON LIFE AND ESCAPE OF LIEUTENANT WELSH
—ONE HUNDRED 87TH BOYS ON THE WAY TO DANVILLE—
THEIR PRISON EXPERIENCES AT ANDERSONVILLE,

MILLEN, BLACKSHEAR, FLORENCE, SALISBURY.

At the battle of Carter’s Woods, near Winchester, Virginia,
June 15, 1863, about 200 officers and men of the 87th Regiment
were captured. A number fell into the hands of the enemy on
the retreat from the battlefield, increasing the list to nearly 250.
The regiment was then serving in Milroy’s Division of the 8th
Army Corps. Milroy was surprised and defeated before day-
light by the overpowering numbers of Ewell’s Corps leading
the advance of Lee’s army on its march toward Gettysburg.
He lost 4000 men in captured out of 7000 effective men compos-
ing his division. Several regiments surrendered ina body <A
large part of the 87th escaped. Those who became prisoners
were marched back to Winchester where they were held for two
or three days, in the county jailyard and in the fortifications
near town, which the Confederates named Fort Jackson after
Stonewall Jackson who had been recently killed at Chancel-
lorsville.

There is no official record of the men of the regiment who
were captured on June 15. The list published below is nearly
correct. The members of the field and staff who became pris-
oners were the following:

Chaplain David C. Eberhart, Surgeon W. H. McCurdy, Quar-
termaster James Hersh, Assistant Quartermaster Albert Ford,
Sergeant Major Frank Geise, and Commissary Sergeant Mich-
ael Smyser.

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Company A.—Second Lieutenant William Bierbower, Ser-
geant B. F. Frick, D. B. Bouge, A. Jameson, Jacob Fritz, Will-
iam Felty, Abraham Frick, Lewis Frey, Charles Z. Denues,.
John Schall, J. Hawkins, George Miller, Michael Mara,
Charles Spahr, Martin Zeigler, William Denues, Elijah Francis,
Geo. Platts, Henry Fink, Emanuel Smith, Samuel Stoner, Will-
iam Shuman, Geo. Feathers, Charles E. Gotwalt, Harrison
Heidler, T. R. Hendrickson, Charles Hyde, James Keller, John
Kipp, Geo. Koch, Peter Bott, Jacob S. Upp, Hamilton Fahs,.
William F. Zorger, Alex. Brown, Henry Ensinger, Lewis M.
Smith, Geo. Knodel, Franklin Barnhart.

Company B.—Henry Wilhelm, Levi Gastrock, Augustus:
Wise, William Miller, Samuel F. Keller, William Drabenstadt,
John Gallagher, John Meyers, B. C. Epler, Peter F. Zorger,
Bernard Smith, Geo. Zorger, Isaac U. Zorger, Adam Bluste,
George Toomey, William Ramsey, James S. Grimes, William
Parker, Geo. W. Rouch, William F. Spayd, Thomas Updegrove,
John Voglesong, Washington Meisenhelter, William H. Zorger,
John C. Simmons, Michael Heiman, William Eicholtz, Joseph
M. Funk, Alex. Nauss, Frederick Glazier, Jacob Lewis, Silas
Mattis, William Connelly.

Company C.—Ephraim Strayer, Peter Ream, John E. Edie,
Jeremiah Flinn, Andrew Isenbaugh, Henry Krider, F. Pfaffen-
baugh, Greenberry Lovell, Isaiah Hoff, Isaac Wagner, Norris
McGirk, George Duttenheaffer, John Weaver, Jacob Sheets,
Michael Wasbes, Rufus Grim, John A. Crowl, John Meltz-
heimer, Elizah B. Gibson, Flinn Richmond, Enoch C. Hartman,
Franklin Sipe.

Company D.—Second Lieutenant W. H. H. Welsh, John
Smith, Conrad Eckert, John McConnell, John T. Allison, Jos-
eph Ahley, Wm. H. Douglass, Albert J. Kelley, George Sny-
der, Francis Fallenstine, George W. Eaton, John Leopold, John
G. Weaver, Isaac Krout, Nathaniel Z. Seitz, Levi W. Dubs,
Squire Bamford, Ephraim Bailey, Alex’r Klinedinst, James B.
Beck, James H. Moody, James Grove, L. W. Waltemyer, Isaac
Hedrick, Francis Midwig, George W. Brenise, Israel Baublitz,
Peter Hedrick, Elias H. Redding.

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— 226 —

‘Company E.—Wm. M. Wolf, Augustus Keiser, Samuel R.
-Miller, Henry Myers, Benjamin D. Dull, Daniel N. Boose,
‘Thomas Neely, Philip M. Shive, Valentine Roush, Henry
-Smith, Eli Bear, Christian Wagner, Peter Weaver, John
Quickel, Edward Gipp, Samuel B. Gray, Edward Owens, Au-
:gustus Rodewig, James E. Mundorf, Casper H. Kleffman.
-Alexander Crouch, Jefferson Brunner, Samuel Cramer, Paul
Mosebaugh, Isaac Plank, Wm. Strator, Peter Slyder.

Company F.—Henry H. Smith, Jacob Rice, Arnold F. Dust-
man, Joseph A. Simpson, Wm. Fullerton, Wm. McGonigal, Wm.
D. Holtzworth, Wm. Grumbine, Zephaniah Rodgers, Jefferson
‘Cassatt, Samuel Fisher, David Culp, Daniel P. Reigle, Charles
E. Skelly, James Steinour, Duncan Little,George Musser, Jacob
Eckert, George Ford, Walter Cassatt, James Murray.

Company G.—Lieutenant Morningstar, Daniel Stine Charles
F. Ropp, Charles Booth, John Ferdinand, Benedict P. Myers,
‘Lewis J. Renaut, Lazarus J. Klinedinst, Joseph Fox, John Bupp,
‘Lewis J. Humm, George E. Yingling, Daniel M. Keesey, John
A. Wilt, George Stine, Valentine Grove, Henry Shultz, Joseph
F. Welsh.

Company H.—Frederick Brecht, David Pentz, Frederick
Dietrich, Henry Noel, Samuel D. McGinley, George C. Carroll,
Ephraim Coble, Ephraim Stouffer, George Prowell, George B.
Lighty, Daniel S. Mickey, Anthony Wolf, Martin Rinehart,
John A. Cooley, John K. Shive, Wm. B. Ramsey, John Aker,
George S. Anderson, Tempest L. Forrer, Wm. Anderson, Jacob
Huntzberger, Daniel Arnsberger, Eli Forrer, John Hoffman,
Benjamin S. Kauffman, Josiah Landen, Valentine Myers, An-
drew B. Smith would have been commissioned First Lieutenant
in a few days if he had not been captured.

Company J.—David N. Thomas, Frederick Green, Ephraim
Bankard, Lewis H. Diehl, Edward R. Herr, Charles Martin,
Albert D. Grove, Joshua Lane, Levi Markle, Solomon McMas-
ters, Robert O’Donnell, Frank M. Peters, Peter McIntyre,
Adolph Weisheit.

Company K.—Captain John Albright, Second Lieutenant
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Charles P. Stroman, George W. Welsh, George W. Sechrist,
phraim Shanebrook, Chas. J. Barnitz, John Holder, Eli Brown,
Henry C. Spangler, Wm. Emenheiser, Michael S. Deringer,
Wm. Marckley, Dennis Crimmins, Peter S. Baum, Harrison
Spangler, W. F. Smith, David Hoffman, Wm. H. Schriver,
Isaac Sweeney, Josiah Diehl, W. H. Ilgenfritz, Thomas Z.
Burse.

On the day set for these prisoners to leave Winchester, the
boys of the 87th, with about 1500 other troops, were formed into
line and placed in charge of the 58th Virginia, a Confederate
regiment of about 300 men under Lieutenant Colonel Bort.
Some of the men of this command had served a short time in
Northern prisons, where they said, they had been treated with
consideration. For this reason, they felt kindly disposed to-
ward their prisoners whom they were now to march up the Val-
ley to Staunton. The daily allowance of rations for the prison-
ers, on the march, however, was only a pint of flour to each man,
who mixed the flour into a paste and baked it on flat stones. If
the stones were heated too much they would burst, and throw the
“dough cakes” on the ground, peppering them with dirt.

“Where are your musicians,” said an officer of the guard, af-
ter the march had continued about half way to Staunton. Harry
Fink, the pied piper of Company A, and Lewis I. Renaut, of
Company G, afterward the principal musician of the regiment,
stepped forward.

“Take the front line,” said the Confederate officer, and these
musicians moved forward to the head of the column with two
drummer boys following, fifes and drums, belonging to the
guards, being handed them.

“What shall we play?” asked Harry Fink.

“Anything,” said Colonel Bort.

They led off with “Yankee Doodle,” and were applauded.
Then they played “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,”
and “The Girl I Left Behind.”

“Very good, give us another tune,” said the commanding offi-

cer.
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After making big eyes toward the Colonel, riding near him,
and holding his fife up to his mouth with one hand, Musician
Fink struck up “The Star Spangled Banner.” Some of the boys
joined in the chorus, others cheered. To their astonishment
the Confederates applauded and the Colonel laughed, for they all
enjoyed the fun. The musical instruments were then returned
to their owners, and the men trod along till they reached Staun-
ton, tired and footsore.

As they entered that town, one of the guards asked Harry
Fink, why he didn’t play something. He stepped out of the
ranks, plucked a leaf from a tree, placed it between the palms
of his hands and played “Yankee Doodle,” causing great merri-
ment among the soldiers in the ranks and the gaping crowds
along the sidewalks.

“I thought the Yanks were wild men, but they are just like
the rest of us,” said an old man who for the first time had seen a
Union soldier.

When the 1500 prisoners arrived at the railroad station at
Staunton, the officers were separated from the privates, and sent
by cars to Libby prison, at Richmond

The privates and non-commissioned officers were turned over
by the 58th Virginia to the Richmond City Guards, a company
of young men who were impudent and saucy.

“Get into de coach, you damned Yanks,” they shouted, as
seventy-five or more men were driven like cattle into a box car
without seats. It was a long weary ride to Richmond. Upon
arriving there, some were placed in tobacco sheds, others in Lib-
by prison, where one squad after another of them was formed
into line, stripped of most of their clothing and carefully exam-
ined. Everything of value that could be found was taken from
them.

While standing in line, waiting his turn, Sergeant Michael
Smyser cut open a piece of bread and put his gold watch inside
of it, and thus “passed the examination” without losing his
time piece.

Sergeant Ford stuffed a ten dollar bill, into his mouth. The
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guard took his knife, diary, and watch from him, and then said,
“Got anything else?”

“No,” answered the prisoner. But the money had swelled
his right cheek.

“Open your mouth, you son of a Yank,” growled the “inspec-
tor” who then thrust his finger inside and fished out the bill.

“I want all you have,” said the guard on the other side, to
Sergeant Frick. “Got nothing but a little note book and a
knife.” answered the Sergeant, in a state of great trepidation
for he had mysteriously concealed a gold watch on his person.

“Give me the book and knife and pass on.” The Sergeant
obeyed, and got through Libby and out of Belle Isle, a few
weeks later, with his time piece. A few of the men sewed some
money within the seams of their clothing, and it was not found
by the “prison inspector.”

“Soon after the examination was completed, all except the
commissioned offcers who were held in Libby, were sent to
Belle Isle, in the James River, within the limits of Richmond.
They wert not there many days till the prison guard asked for
the “Yanks” who came from York, Pennsylvania.

“Here,” answered a dozen boys at the same instant.

“Well,” he said, “our army has been to your town. There
was a drawn battle at Gettysburg, but our troops are now march-
ing toward Philadelphia and New York which will soon be in
our possession and the war will be over.”

“T’ll bet it’s a lie,” said Sergeant Albert. Ford in bold and
defiant tones, “for all their drawn battles are victories for us.”
The guard levelled his gun to fire at the Sergeant, but as there
were no other guards near by, he did not shoot.

The food supplied to the 7,000 or more prisoners in the small
enclosure on Belle Isle was poor, but the term of imprisonment
for the boys of the 87th did not last long. Some were sent
by rail within the Union lines at City Point and from there con-
veyed by boat to Camp Parole, at Annapolis, Maryland, within
six weeks after arriving in Richmond. A few remained a little
longer. After being exchanged, they returned to the regiment,
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then on the movement toward Brandy Station, Virginia. The
commissioned officers captured at Winchester in June, 1863,
were held in different southern prisons until the end of the war
in 1865.

Lieutenant W. H. H. Welsh, of Company D, had a remark-
able prison experience, and the story of his escape is full of ro-

 

LIEUTENANT WELSH.

mantic interest. In the early morning of June 15, 1863, in the
engagement at Carter's Woods, near Winchester, Va., he was
struck by a piece of shell. When the retreat was ordered he
escaped with two privates to the mountains and five days later
was captured at Cherry Run, near Hancock, Maryland, toward
which place a large detachment of Milroy’s forces had gone.
Having removed the insignia of his rank he was marched witl
400 other prisoners, from Martinsburg to Staunton, and from
thence was conveyed in cars to Richmond. After spending
one day in Libby he as moved to Belle Isle. Here he met other
members of the regiment, who had been captured at Winches-
ter.

When the prison guards found out that he was a commis-
sioned officer, Lieutenant Welsh was taken back to Libby, and
placed in a dungeon, where for six weeks, he was kept in soli-
tary confinement, because he had tried to pass himself off as a
private-soldier. He was given one small piece of bread each
day, just enough to sustain life. A bucket of water was sup-
plied him weekly. The water became foul and unfit to drink
before another bucket came. His clothes had to be removed on
account of the mould collecting upon them.

One Sunday morning, the guard entered the dungeon, and
took him up stairs, where he met Captains Morningstar and
Albright, and Lieutenants Bierbower and Stroman of his regi-
ment, and Captain Schroeder of the 5th Maryland, who had been
taken prisoners near Winchester. His comrades bathed him in
a tub and shared with him some of their clothing. The lieuten-
ant being naturally of a cheerful disposition soon became one
ot the jolliest of the Libby prisoners. In order to while away
the monotony of prison life, he assisted Captain E. A. Mass, of
the 88th Pennsylvania Regiment in organizing a troupe which
they called the “Libby Prison Minstrels.” For the amusement
of 1800 other officers then in this noted prison pen, they gave
two entertainments weekly. This was kept up until Christmas,
1863. They were in Libby cleven months, during which time
each officer of the 87th Regiment there, received from home
two boxes of supplies, which were allowed to go through the
Confederate lines.

In May 1864, most of the Libby prisoners were taken to
Danville, Virginia, and from that place were sent to Macon,
Georgia, where a large number of Union officers were impris-
oned. At this place thev were confined in a stockade called
Camp Oglethorpe. This prison was sixty miles from Ander-
sonville where the largest prison in the South for non-commis-
sioned officers and privates was situated. While the Lieuten-
ant and his comrades were here, the officers of the 87th captur-
ed in front of Petersburg in June, 1864, arrived.

About this time with other comrades: Lieutenant Weish start-
ed a tunnel which was to come to the surface underneath a
round house about 300 yards from the stockade. The digging
was done at night with knives and a broken canteen. The loose
earth was carried in small sacks, and placed underneath the hos-
pital buildings in the center of the prison. After digging the
turinel about fifty yards, the work was discovered by. the guard
and it was stopped.

The Lieutenant soon afterward was sent with others to Char-
leston, S. C., where they were placed under the fire of the Fed-
eral guns at Morris Island.,

The yellow fever broke out in Charleston, when 1800 officers
were sent to Columbia, S. C., where they were placed in Camp
Sorghum in a pine forest two miles from the city.

On November 9g 1864, Lieutenant Welsh and eight other
prisoners arranged to bribe the guard by agreeing to give him
$1800 in Confederate money. They rolled $400 around a thick
wad of brown paper, and handed it to a guard at 3 a. m. as they
passed through the guard line. Then they skipped away in the
dark as rapidly as possible. The trick was discovered, how-
ever, when they were about 100 yards away when the whole
guard line fired a volley after them. They all dropped, as if
shot, but a few minutes later disappeared in the darkness. The
following day they covered one another with leaves in the woods.
The last man had to cover himself as best he could. They re-
mained in the woods, thus concealed, until evening came again;
then travelled all night.

They kept up this manner of escape for a month, until they
reached the mountain region of North Carolina. In the mean-
time they lived on fruit, raw pumpkins and grains of corn, oc-
asionally obtaining food from negroes, whom they could al-
ways trust.

While still in South Carolina, they were discovered one night
by a squad of Confederates: when all were captured except
Lieutenant Welsh, Captains Wilson and Skelton, of Ohio, and
Captain Dusenberry, of Newark, New Jersey

After getting into the mountain district, they travelled during
the day, and slept at night. Upon reaching Table Rock Moun-
tain, one of the ridges of the Alleghenies, John Masters, a Un-
jon man, furnished them the best of corn bread and pork and
concealed them about his home four days. After leaving him,
on going down the mountain side in Transylvania county, North
Carolina, two white men, and a colored man came along, behind
them. The leader of the party was John Aiken who said:

“T am sorry to tell you, boys, but you are in danger of being
captured. There is a squad of men after you. Go with me and
I will conceal you till the chase is over.”

He took them to his own log cabin and kept them seven days.
He then directed them to a secluded spot in the mountain, call-
ed Little Bear Wallow, where they built a small log cabin, and
remained in it three weeks.

While here, they made the acquaintance of nineteen deser-
ters from the Confederate army. The party of twenty-one per-
sens started on atramp for Ducktown in the mountains of Eas-
tern Tennessee. After three nights of marching they were
attacked by a company of cavalry, when all were killed or taken
(prisoners, except Captain Dusenberry, of New Jersey, Lieu-
tenant Welsh, and Samuel Tinsley, a Confederate deserter: from
South Carolina. Three days later they were also captured by a
lieutenant and twelve men, near Knottly River. They were tak-
en back twelve miles to an old farm house, where during the
night Tinsley escaped. The following evening, Captain Dusen-
bury and Lieutenant Welsh got away also.

They were now free again, and started together for Cleveland,
Tennessee, where they arrived after manyexciting experiences
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tanooga, Tennessee, and got an order from General Thomas,
in command at that place, to report at Washington, D. C.

Lieutenant Welsh was mustered out Feb. 10, 1865, three
years and six months from the time of his enlistment. He
brought his friend Tinsley to York with him. The latter re-
mained in the North several months, and then returned to his
plantation in South Carolina.

Lieutenant Welsh named his only son “Tinsley” in tender
recollection of his Southern friend, with whom he had so many
exciting experiences. Captain Dusenbury, his other compan-
ion, resides at Newark, New Jersey.

The officers and men of the regiment captured June 23. 1864,
in the engagement along the Weldon Railroad, an account of
which will be found on page 167 in this book, were marched
to the rear and halted at the “Yellow House,” then the head-
quarters of Gen, A. P. Hill, commanding a corps in the Con-
federate army. It was near this house that Samuel Baumgard-
ner, of Company A, had been seriously wounded, and fell into
the hands of the enemy. He was found by Samuel and How-
ard Andrews who were among the prisoners, and was led by
them to the house where they dressedhis wounds. Among the
other men then in Confederate hands, near the ‘Yellow
House,” were Sergeant Elijah Francis and Henry L. Neuman,
cf Company A. When the Union forces moved forward the
next day, these three wounded men were taken to the hospital
by their comrades, and tenderly cared for by the surgeons.

The prisoners from the regiment were marched toward Pe-
tersburg, and lay in an open field to the rear of the Confederate
fortifications. The next morning, all who had knapsacks, hav-
ersacks, canteens and rubber blankets, were required to give
them up. They were then formed in line and marched through
the streets of Petersburg and placed with many other prison-
ers on an island in the Appomattox River at the suburbs of the
city. Here they met their comrades of the regiment who had
been captured June 22.

Two or three days later, with a number of prisoners from the
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2d Army Corps, they were conveyed in cars to Richmond, a
distance of 27 miles, and marched to Libby prison, and other
tobacco warehouses where they were held three days, receiv-
ing a small amount of corn bread and stale bacon. In the
meantime, they were divided into squads, marched into a room
and, after being stripped of nearly all their clothing, were care-
fully searched.

“Tf any of you Yanks have money or other valuables, hand
them over at once. They will be marked to your credit and
returned again,’ said one of the inspectors. A substitute.
who had just entered the service, handed over $500, but he
never saw the money again. He was no “bounty jumper.”

Sergeant Fox, of Company E, stuffed a $50 bill into a large
pipe, and covered it over with tobacco. He expected to “pass
the examination,” but the guards found the money and took it.
A few of the men got through with some valuables.

About 4 o’clock one afternoon, these prisoners, numbering
about 2500 officers and men, were put on a train, about 80 to a
car, and taken to Lynchburg. The cars had no seats. One of
the doors of each car was kept open, and guards placed at it.
There were three or four guards on the top of each car. They
rode all that hot night and arrived at Lynchburg the next morn-
ing.

The railroad between Lynchburg and Danville had been
torn up by Sheridan’s Cavalry. This compelled them to march
to Danville, a distance of 85 miles. Each man was given six-
teen crackers and a very small piece of bacon, to last four
days. but some of the hungry men ate everything they had the
first day. While passing a church, the audience dismissed to
see the prisoners march by.

At one place an old woman came out with a basket of cher-
ries for the Confederate guards. James Oren, of Company B,
‘called out, “Grandmother, will you give me a few cherries?”

“No, I won’t, you Northern people have no business roaming
over our country,” she responded.

“We are not much interested in this kind of roaming, are we
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Jim,” remarked his chum, Michael Heiman, as he mopped the
sweat from his brow.

“Besser we schtayed along de railroad,” chimed in a Ger-
man who had been eager to go “into active service,” when at
Cockeysville in 1861.

“The prisoners trod along in the hot July sun, and arrived at
Danville in time to celebrate the Fourth in large tobacco houses.
At this place, the hungry men were well fed.

After remaining a short time at Danville, Captain Fahs, of
Company A, Captain Maish, of Company B, and Lieutenant
Stallman, of Company C, together with all other commissioned
officers among the prisoners, were sent by rail to Macon, Geor-
gia. The other prisoners were loaded on cars at 4 p.m. The
trains stopped at Charlotte, N. C.,where some loyal women
brought food for the men, but the guards drove the women
away. The next stop was at Augusta, Georgia. Here they
were taken out of the cars, and rested for the night on an open
Ict in the rain, without shelter. Toward evening of the next day,
the entire party of 2500 men, including nearly too from the
87th Regiment, started for Andersonville, Georgia, the largest
prison in the South. They arrived there July 9, 1864. The sub-
joined description of the prison, taken from the report of Col-
onel Chandler, an inspector of Southern prisons made August I.
1864, tells the condition of affairs at this prison when the boys
arrived.

“This prison when completed in February, 1864, contained
an area of 17 acres. It was afterward enlarged to embrace 24
actes. The stockade is 15 feet high and is made of roughly
hewn pine logs, about 8 inches in diameter. They are inserted
5 feet in the ground. A railing around the inside of the stock-
ade, and about 20 feet-from it, constitutes the ‘dead line,’ be-
yond which the prisoners are not allowed to pass. The stock-
ade is surrounded by two other rows of logs. The middle
one 16 feet, the outer one 12 feet high. There are now 30,000
prisoners in this enclosure, giving somewhat less than six
square feet to each man.
— 238 —

“A small stream passes through the enclosure from West to
East. This furnishes the water for washing purposes. The
water in the stream is rendered unfit for drinking before it
reaches the enclosure, by refuse matter from the bakery and
cook house. Under pressure of necessity, the prisoners have
dug numerous wells with spoons and cups from which they
obtain water to drink. The space along the stream, used as a
sink, is in a shocking condition, and cannot fail to breed pesti-
lence. This marshy ground should be filled up. The ground
of the enclosure is entirely bare of trees. There is no material
for the prisoners to erect places of protection from inclement
weather. Each man has been permitted to protect himself as
best he can by stretching his blanket, if he has one, over him on
such sticks as he can procure. Some of the men have dug
holes in the ground, to seclude themselves during hot days.

“The whole number of prisoners is divided into messes of 270
and sub-divisions of go men, each under a sergeant from their
own number. To Captain Wirz, of the Confederate army, is
assigned the supervision and control of the prison. There are
nu established rules for police corsideration, and for the health
comfort and sanitary condition of those within the enclosure.
There is no regularity in the prison grounds. In evidence of
this, by permission of General Winder, commander of the post,
a court was organized among the prisoners who tried for mur-
der, proved guilty and hanged six of their number.

“There is no medical attendance furnished within the stock-
ade. Small quantities of medicine are placed in the hands of
certain prisoners, of each squad or division, and the sick are
directed to be brought by the sergeants of the squads to the
‘sick call,’ to the medical officers who attend at the gate. The
crowd, at such times, is so great that only the strongest can
get access to the doctor. Twenty or more dead bodies are
carte! out each day. The hospital arrangements are imper-
fect. The death rate is increasing, being now twice as high as
it was a month ago. The dead are buried without coffins. The
sanitary condition of the prison is wretched. The principal
causes of death are scurvy and chrenic diarrhoea. No effort iz
being made to stop this condition of affairs by supplying proper
food.

“The daily ration is one-third pound of bacon, one-fourth
pound of unbolted cornmeal, with fresh beef at very rare inter-
vals, and occasionally rice. Molasses once in a long time, is
substituted for meat. There are hardly any facilities for cook-
ing. Some of the men dig in the ground for roots to build
fires. No clothing has been furnished.

“The guard force for this prison, aggregates 3,000 men, mostly
“Georgia troops. They are thoroughly demoralized, mutinous.
and entirely without discipline. They should at once be re-
moved. Some of these men recently took the Colonel of the
55th Georgia Regiment from his tent, placed him on a stump
and compelled him to go through the manual of arms with a
pole.”

The above statements, condensed from an extended report,
were intended to bring about an improvement in the manage-
ment of the prison, but it never accomplished any good results.
Captain Wirz furnished a counter statement, declaring that
“Colonel Chandler when he left me, after a sympathizing look
‘toward the Yankee prisoners from whom he obtained much of
the information he gives, said “This beats anything I ever
saw or heard of; it is indeed a hell on earth.’ But I saw all the
‘time he was visiting the prison that he was made the plaything
-of cute Yankees.”

Colonel Chandler, after the war, lived an honored citizen of
‘his native State. Captain Wirz was captured, tried “as a mur-
-derer, for causing the death of prisoners of war, contrary to the
laws of the Nation.” The court was presided over by Judge
Advocate General Holt. Among the members of the court
‘were General Lew Wallace and General Geary. He was found
guilty and hanged at Washington, D. C., November 3, 1865.

The Andersonville prison was used from February, 1864, to
April, 1865, during which time 13,714 of the 40,000 Union sol-
diers held there during that time, died. The death rate was
highest in August and October, 1864. “There were 220 loyal
hearts answered the last roll call on August 2,” says an official
account. In all 1,811 Union soldiers from Pennsylvania were
placed among the dead in the cemetery, a short distance north
of the prison. The Stars and Stripes now float over this ceme-
tery, from sunrise to sunset every day. Marble headstones have
been placed over all graves that are marked.

The following inscription, taken from the Book of Revela-
tions, was placed on one of these stones by a sister of the dead
soldier: ‘‘They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of them shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living fountains of water.”

Most of the land where the prison was situated is now owned
hy George Washington Kennedy, a colored man, who cultivates
what is arable.

Soon after the boys of the 87th arrived there they witnessed
the execution of the six prisoners mentioned in Colonel Chand-
ler’s report. One day a large number of the prisoners who re-
cently arrived were called up before Captain Wirz who said,
‘Now Yanks, if there are any among you who can read and
write, such men can take charge of the squads of go men.”

“We come from a free country, where there are free schools.
Every one of us can read and write,’ quickly answered one of
them.

Michael Heiman, of Company B, was one of the few prison-
ers who managed to get to Andersonville with money. He was.
able to buy things to eat with it from the guards until it was all
gone.

Corporal William T. Ziegler, of Company F on the day of
his arrival at Andersonville, met David G. Myers, of his
company, who had been in prison since his cavture at the battle
of the Wilderness, May 7, 1864. He found Myers sick and
emaciated, with no shoes and his clothes were all tattered and
torn. The Corporal sat down on the ground, pulled off his own
shoes and stockings and gave them to his sick comrade who
cheered up for awhile after the arrival of his former compan-
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“Providence Spring’ was a boon to the thirty thousand pris-
coners in Andersonville. Shortly after heavy rains had fallen,
‘a stream of pure cold water, gushed from the ground near the,
-northern border of the prison, during the hot days of August
I2th and 13th. The men were at first required to form in line,
-and march in order with their tin cups to this fountain of life.
-No“flankers” were permitted to move up on the right or the left.
It was soon found, however, that the flow of water was perma-
nent and the supply sufficient for all the prisoners. This spring
thas ever since continued to flow, and has been surrounded by
a wall by the owner of the grounds.

After the capture of Atlanta by Sherman’s army, a large num-
‘ber of the prisoners were moved to Florence, South Carolina.
Most of the men of the 87th Regiment were kept at Anderson-
ville until October, when with 9,000 others, they were taken
un cars to Millen, Georgia. At this place they were put ina
mew stockade and formed in divisions of 100 mer with a ser-
‘geant in charge of each division.

“While at Millen,” says Charles E. Gotwalt, of Company A,
“a group of us had gathered around a fire one evening engaged
in a conversation for an hour or more. At Q p. m. we decided
to go to bed. To our surprise we then found that Samuel
‘Zortman, of Company B, one of our group had died without our
‘knowledge. He had been very weak for several days.”

“In November, 1864,” writes Private Gotwalt, ‘the 9,000 Un-
ion ‘prisoners at Millen were requested by the prison authorities,
to vote for President on the same day that the election was held
in the North. It resulted in a majority of 2,500 votes in favor
‘of Lincoln for re-election.

The weather was cold while the boys were in prison at Mil-
len. About twice a week, a squad of them was sent out un-
‘der guard to gather wood for fuel. One day a major came in-
to prison and asked for recruits for the Confederate army.
Quite a number went with him. Most of them were foreigners.

During the latter part of November, when Sherman was on
his March to the Sea, this prison pen was broken up. Charles
E. Gotwalt, owing to his physical condition, was paroled and
exchanged. When he left for home, the following men of the
87th were removed with 8,o00 other Union soldiers to different
prison pens:

Company A.—Henry Shultz, Samuel Andrews, Howard R.
Andrews, William Shuman, Charles Metzgar, Samuel Baum-
gardner, Peter Bott.

Company B.—Michael Heiman, James Oren, George Rouch,
George Zorger, Henry Welker and Henry C. Shatzler.

Company C.—Michael Poet, Henry Poet, William H. Bren-
neman, Thomas Bull, Henry, E. Blaney and Lewis C. Frey.
Artemus Wilhelm, of this company, escaped from the cars on
the way to Millen.

Company D.—Squire Bamford, William H. Metcalf, Levi
W. Dubs, Newton Krow, John Henn, Alexander Klinedinst,
Lewis C. Klinedinst.

Company E.—Samuel R. Miller, James Morehead, Eli Bear,
Augustus Keiser, Samuel B. Gray, Charles March, John Ever-
hart, John F. W. Shultz and Sergeant Charles J. Fox.

Company F.—Harrison Koon and Corporal William T. Zieg-
ler.

Company G.—Lazarus Klinedinst.

Company H.—Sergeant Hinkle.

Company K.—Christian List.

Most of these men were sent toward Savannah with the ex-
pectation of being paroled, but General Sherman’s forces were
approaching that city, and they were taken to Blackshear,
Georgia, and put in a woods. On the way to Savannah, W. H.
Metcalf escaped from the cars. He was taken care of by some
negroes who hid him on an island in a swamp, where they fur-
nished him food. In turn he mended their shoes. He remain-
ed there for a long time. On May 6, 1865, he arrived in Jack-
sonville, Florida, with six negroes who had piloted him there.
He then entered the Union lines.

One carload of prisoners was moved from Blackshear to
Florence, South Carolina, including George Zorger and George
Rouch, of Company B, both-of whom died there. About 4000
were sent over the Gulf Railroad from Blackshear to Thomas-
ville, Georgia, a distance of 100 miles. This prison camp was
surrounded by intrenchments on which the guards were placed.
The dead line was twenty feet from the intrenchments. Augus-
tus Winegardner and Mathias Hull, of Company B, escaped one
night from the Thomasville prison. Both were captured.
They were found ina barn. In jumping from the barn attempt-
ing to escape, Hull injured himself and was taken to the hos-
pital. He was afterward paroled and returned home. Wine-
gardner was sent to Andersonville.

While on the march from Thomasville, Georgia, on the way
back to Andersonville, the entire party of prisoners, then num-
bering about 3,000, halted at Blue Spring, about four miles from
Albany. They were camped in a woods, and were guarded by
old men and boys. The night was very dark. Early in the
morning when they were being formed into squads of one hun-
‘dred men, in order to be counted, James Oren and Michael
Heiman, of Company B, escaped into a cornfield, where they
concealed themselves.

Before daylight they found a good road leading from Albany;
following it they saw a light in a slave cabin where they got
something to eat, then travelled on till daylight and hid in a
woods. In the evening they heard a dog bark, a distance ahead.
Going in that direction they were invited into the home of some
old people who treated them kindly, and fed them on cornbread
and kidneys. When the boys left, they told these friends that
they were on their way to Albany, but went another direction,
and after going a long distance, came to a cabin in a secluded
spot. This building was empty. They went inside of it, laid
down on the floor, and fell asleep.

“Do you hear that noise Mike? This house must be haun-
ted,” said Oren to his companion, as he grabbed up some of
his turnips that he had found during the day.

“Tam sleeping. Don’t bother me about spooks and ghosts,”
murmured Heiman, and they both took another snooze. ‘An
hour later two big rats were pulling off the blanket which they
used to cover themselves.

“Hello Jim,” said Heiman, “wake up, the rats are after your
turnips. Let’s get out of this place.” “All right,” replied Oren,
and they went on till daylight.

The next evening they arrived at the cabin of some negro
slaves who fed them on sweet potatoes, cornbread, and pork.
They also baked a “Christmas cake” of corn meal for them to
take along.

The boys left the cabin before midnight. An old darkey
went along a short distance to show them the way toward Sa-
vannah which they knew had been captured by Sherman’s army.
Pointing reverently toward the sky, the old darkey said, as he
left them: “Look up to de heaven. Do you see de seven stars.
Follow dem and da leads you on to Savannah. May de good
Lord bress you, and keep you safe.”

They moved toward the town of Isabella. On the way they
heard a negro singing, who directed them to a plantation where
there were a large number of slaves, who gave them plenty to
eat. When the boys left this place, the negroes gave them
some lint, a horn and a flint stone and taught them how to make
a fire. After going several miles they entered an old cabin
where nobody lived. James Oren cooked his turnips in an old
tin dish.

Just then a man came in and said, “Guess you’uns are Yanks.”

“We are hunting work,’ answered Oren. Some women
came to see them. Then a negro came to invite them to dinner
at a house nearby. But the boys decided to go with the negro
to a place of hiding. Soon afterwards they moved on toward
Savannah. They waded two streams and travelled on over a
thinly settled country. The next town was Irwinsville. On
the way there, they stopped at the cabin of a negro who was pre-
paring a meal for them when a man armed with a gun entered
and asked them to surrender. Two more armed men followed
with two blood hounds, and another dog.

“Well, we are escaped Union prisoners,” said both Oren and
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Heiman, but we want work so we don't have to go back to An-
dersonville prison.”

“All right, come along and we'll take care of you,” said one
of the men. The boys slept that night in the cabin, on the
plantation of Lawyer Bohannon, who afterward became Judge
of Irwin County. The next day, January 2, 1865, they were
cap:ured. Michael Heiman was placed in charge of the’captain
of police of Irwin County. He worked at shoemaking for a
little while, and then was sent back to Andersonville prison,
where he remained until the spring of 1865. He escaped again
from the guards with his comrade, Henry Shatzler, and got
within the Union lines at Macon, Georgia. Michael Poet and
Henry E. Blaney, of Company C, also escaped and afterwards
accidentally met Heiman near the Flint River.

When James Oren was re-captured near Irwinsville, he was
put to splitting rails for Squire Fenn who gave him some good
clothing. He went to the home of Willis J. Bone, the leader
of a party of Union men and got a gun. On January 5, he es-
caped again, and through the assistance of his friend Bone,
concealed himself on an island in the Great Alapahaw Swamp
where he remained two months. At times he left his hiding
place, and worked on the plantation of Mr. Bone. He was
known by the slaves and some friends as ‘Yankee Jim.”

On April 7, accompanied by a Confederate deserter named
Peasant McDannel he started for Savannah arriving within the
Union line at that city, April 19, 1865. From Savannah he was
sent to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he met Captain
Frank Geise.

The prisoners of the 87th recorded as having died at Ander-
sonville were the following: Sergeant Henry Shultz, of Com-
pany A; Sergeant Edward Rudy, Privates Joseph Hummel, Wil-
liam Ramsay and Henry C. Welker, of Company B; Jeremiah
Flinn and Franklin Seip, of Company C; William S. Stewart
(date unknown) and George Bollinger, of Company D; John
Everhart, of Company E; David G. Myers, of Copmany F; Eli
Farrar and Frederick Brecht, of Company H.
Those who died at Danville were Thomas O. Crowl, of Com-
pany C; Peter G. Reever, of Company D; John H. Baughman,
of Company E. Samuel Burkheimer and George Matson, of
Company G.

Those who died at Salisbury, N. C., were John H. Brown vf
Company A; Sergeant Hinkle, of Company H.

The prisoners were kept at Thomasville about two weeks.
When Sherman began to move northward into South Carolina,
they were sent back to Andersonville where they remained
until the end of the war. Among the last to leave this prison
were some of the boys of the 87th Regiment. They were taken
in the cars to Baldwin, Florida, and released. From there
these barefooted men, weak, wan and emaciated from the cru-
elties of the prison pen, marched to Jacksonville, Florida. A
regiment of Union troops came out to meet them. When these
returning soldiers, in their tattered garments, saw the Ameri-
can flag again, the scenes that took place were both thrilling
and pathetic. Stalwart men who had endured all the hardships.
of war and prison life, wept for joy. The colored soldiers at
Jacksonville ‘welcomed them home.”

The thirty-one men of the regiment captured at Monocacy,
July 9, 1864, mentioned on page 186 in this book, were marched
under Confederate guards, after the battle, toward Washing-
ton. During the engagement of Early’s troops with part of
the 6th Corps at the northern suburbs of the city, they were
placed with other prisoners in an orchard while the shells from
the Union guns passed over their heads. When Early retreat-
ed across the Potomac, they were taken to Winchester, and
from there marched up the Valley to Staunton where they
were kept several days. On the march, a small quantity of
flour, obtained from grist mills, was given each man for a day’s
ration. This was made into a paste, and baked on flat stones.
From Staunton they were marched overland to Charlottsville,
Virginia, and placed for a short time in a stockade.

A few days later they were sent by rail to Lynchburg where
they were drawn up in line and carefully searched. Every-
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thing of value that could be found was taken from them. They
were then moved to Danville, Virginia, and put in a large to-
bacco warehouse, nearly full of prisoners. A number of them
took sick. The medical attendance was poor and a number
died of a fever.

One day the doctor came in, mounted a stand and said:

“If there is a man in this gang who is a good cook, I will
get a position for him, if he gives me ten dollars in greenbacks.”

Spangler Welsh, of Company F, held up his hand. After get-
ting the money which he had sewed up in his clothes for safe
keeping, and giving it to the doctor, he was made chief cook in
the hospital for Union prisoners. It was a pleasant relief from
the confinement within the bleak walls of the prison pen, but he
witnessed many sad sights in the hospitals. The sick who
could be removed were paroled.

One day the manager of a foundry came in and asked for
machinists. Corporal Charles A. Laumaster and a few others
held up their hands and soon were busy workmen in the shops
at Danville where they got fairly good rations, but received no
pay. The rest of the prisoners were soon sent to other prisons
until the war ended.

On September 24, 1864, while slightly in advance of the regi-
ment, on the homeward march after the term of three years had
expired, the following men were captured by Mosby’s troops at
Middletown, Virginia: Henry C. Ginter, William Denues and
Henry C. Pentz, of Company A; Levi Mansberger, of Company
B; William M. Wolf, of Company E; and Henry C. Spangler,
of Company K.

They were marched under guard through Snickers Gap to
Culpepper, thence by Orange Court House to Richmond, and
placed in prison on Belle Isle. From this place they were sent
to Salisbury, North Carolina, remaining there until February,
1865, when they were sent to Camp Parole, at Annapolis. Thev
were discharged in April, 1865.

While at Richmond, these men received a piece of bacon,
one inch thick and three inches square and a small “corn
dodger,” as a ration one day. Occasionally what was catled
“bean soup,” was furnished them at Salisbury. This prison
was in an open three-acre field, surrounded by a stockade.
When the 87th boys arrived, 9,500 Union soldiers were kept
within this small enclosure. The prisoners were given a small
piece of meat once a week. A pint of bean soup without salt,
containing about twenty beans, was often a day’s ration for
one man. On several occasions, the prisoners were without
rations for three days. One of the prison keepers would amuse
himself at times by throwing small pieces of tripe into the pris-
on, and then watch the men scramble for them. A small slice
of bread made from chopped corn with the cobs and often the
husks mixed in, was one of the staples.

On Dec. 18, 1864, a desperate effort was made to escape.
The prisoners overpowered the guard of 20 armed men, then
compelled the relief guard of the same number to surrender
their arms. Forty muskets were at their command. Many of
the prisoners had gotten outside. They were halted by a regi-
ment of South Carolina troops, which had left the town by rail
for the front, but were still lying on a railroad switch near Salis-
bury. These troops at once fired upon the escaped prisoners,
killing 30 and wounding 65. The prisoners fought hard with
their 40 muskets until ammunition gave out. They killed the
Confederate Colonel and 15 of his men, also wounded quite a
number, but were compelled to return within the stockade until
paroled.

The prison experience of some of the officers of the regiment
is given in a succeeding chapter on biography.

George H. Maish, of York, received the following letter on
September 12, 1864, from his brother, Captain Lewis Maish:

Officers’ Prison of War,
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 17, 1864.
Dear Brother:—We have been notified by the prison authori-
ties here, that letters from us will be sent North. I take advan-
tage of this opportunity to let you hear from me. I have enjoy-
ed pretty good health since a prisoner, and am getting along
fairly well. We have enough to eat in this camp and have shel-
ter tents. Captains Fahs and Albright, and Lieutenants Bier-
bower, Stallman, Morningstar and Stroman are liere and are
well. We are allowed to write only one page which is carefully
examined before sent.
Affectionately your brother,
Lewis MatsuH.

 
CHAPTER XVII.

RETURN OF TILE REGIMENT—RECEPTION AT YORK—MUSTERED OUT
OF THE SERVICE—COMMITTEES OF RECEPTION AND ENTERTAIN-

MENT—REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION AND REUNIONS.

The regiment encamped on Bolivar Heights overlooking the
town of Harper’s Ferry on the night of Sept. 25, 1864. They
arrived there at 11 p. m. from Winchester, having marched a
distance of 32 miles, bringing with them 59 Confederate officers
who had been captured at the battle of Fisher’s Hill.

Just as the tents were pitched on the heights, the moon
came out from behind the clouds, and sent forth a flood of mel-
low light over the camp of the returning soldiers and the hills.
and vales surrounding. It was an interesting scene. The night
was calm and beautiful; the air cool and invigorating. It was
a splendid time for a long sleep, after the toilsome march of the
day, but the boys were in a reminiscent mood. Many sat by
their tents in the gentle moonlight until morning dawned.
They talked of the war, and its results; the army, and their ex-
perience in it; the return home and the welcome awaiting them.

‘The historic town below them, where John Brown had sound-
ed the tocsin of war in 1859 was never again -to fall into the
hands of the enemy. The gallant Sheridan with his triumph-
ant army, was driving armed forces of secession, for the last time
from the far-famed Valley of Virginia, and Grant was pressing
hard upon the army under Lee in front of the Confederate capi-
tal.

The place where the 87th spent the night, was familiar to:
them. Some had been there in 1863, under less favorable cir-
cumstances, and the entire regiment had marched through the
town several times during their term of service.
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Att 2 p. m. of the 26th, they boarded a train for home, and
soon were passing over hallowed ground, along the placid Mo-
nocacy. Here two months before, with chivalrous courage that
had called forth the highest praise from the commanding gen-
eral, they had assisted, as part of Ricketts’ Division of the 6th
Corps, in halting the invading foe, and saving the city of Wash-
ington from Confederate hands. There was no time for reflec-
tion here, for the train sped onward, and reached Baltimore at
midnight.

At 9:30 a. m. of the 27th they left over the Northern Central
Railroad, for York.

The news of their coming had reached the city by telegraph
at II a. m. announcing their expected arrival at 1 o’clock. A
public meeting of citizens was called in the Court House to
make arrangements for their reception. There was not time
enough to prepare a banquet for the returning soldiers. That
part of the ceremony was postponed till the day the regiment
was to be mustered out of the service. It was decided however,
to give them a reception in.Centre Square. At 1:30 p. m. the
whistle of the locomotive announced the approach of the train.
\t that instant the stores and offices were closed, and a large
crowd of people assembled at the railroad station. When the
train entered the town, all the bells pealed forth a joyous wel-
come, and cheer after cheer from a thousand throats made the
welkin ring.

Then came the waving of handkerchiefs, the warm handshak-
ing, and the heartfelt greetings of friends and relatives. A com-
pany of the 2o1st Pennsylvania Regiment, a squad of the Vet-
eran Reserve Corps, the U. S. Hospital band and a committee
of citizens, formed in line and began the march to Centre Square.
Following these came the military band of the regiment, play-
ing martial music with inspiriting effect, as it often had done on
the match and in camp at the front. The battle flag of the
regiment, now among the archives at Harrisburg, was but a
remnant of what it was in 1861. A patriotic friend had painted
on an ensign, the name of the leading battles in which the regi-
a
ment had taken part. Prominent were the words: Carter’s
Woods, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor,
Weldon Railway, Monocacy, Opequon and Fisher’s Hill. The
procession passed through the streets, amid the huzzas of the
multitude, on the sidewalks, and the waving of handkerchiefs
by the ladies in doorways and at the windows. Flags were dis-
plaved all along the line of march, and the applause was kept up
until the arrival at Centre Square.

They were now on historic ground. In the old court house,
which had stood on this spot, Continental Congress eighty-
seven years before almost to the day, had passed the Articles
of Confederation, embodying the principles for the government
of a nation, which the statesmen and soldiers of the Revolution
were then struggling to establish on this continent. It was the
honor, and the integrity of that nation, that the 87th Regiment
had gone forth to defend and to perpetuate.

Henry L. Fisher, of the York Bar, had been selected, in be-
half of the citizens of the town and the county, to deliver the ad-
dress of welcome. “For your three years of service,” he said,
“you deserve the commendations and gratitude of all loyal men.
You have shown your patriotism and your devotion to your
country in the most practical way possible. We are proud oi
the laurels vou have won, and your heroism is a credit to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We watched your career in
the army, and sympathized with those whose friends have fallen
in battle. Although we have not yet seen the end of the Re-
bellion, you have nobly performed your duty, and your services
will be recorded on the bright pages of history which shall
chronicle the martial deeds of this era.”

Col. John W. Schall commander of the regiment since May,
1863, responded to the address of welcome in behalf of his com-
rades. He said he wished to testify to the gallantry of the offi-
cers and men, who had served under him. They had performed
their duty like true soldiers in camp, on the march and on the
field of battle. When he finished, three rousing cheers were
given. The regiment then marched to the Fair Grounds which
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was used as a headquarters until October 13 when it was mus-
tered out.

When the regiment was organized at York in 1861, it num-
bered 1000 enlisted men, and thirty-eight commissioned officers.
Forty-five recruits arrived while on the march through West
Virginia, and about the same number came to the regiment in
the spring of 1864. When in camp at Berryville, Virginia, in
September of the same year, 175 recruits were received. These
together with the 180 re-enlisted men were consolidated into a
battalion of five companies under command of Captain Edgar
M. Ruhl, who was killed in the battle of Cedar Creek.
The number that returned home with the regiment, at expira-
tion of their three years’ term of service, was about 250.

Forty-five men of the regiment were in the United States
Hospital at York, under treatment for sickness or from wounds
received in battle One hundred and twenty men, and ten com-
missioned officers were still held in the South as prisoners of
war. Some of them were not paroled till the summer of 1865.

Ten commissioned officers and ninety enlisted men of the
regiment and battalion were killed or had died of wounds re-
ceived in battle. One hundred and twelve men died of disease,
accidents and in Southern prisons. The total list of deaths was
two hundred and twelve.

On Thursday afternoon, Oct. 13, 1864, at 2 o’clock, the regi-
ment formed in line, on Market street between George and
Beaver streets, and under an escort of a committee of arrange-
ments, marched to a large chapel erected for the United States
Hospital on the Public Common (now Penn Park). Here a
committee of the ladies of York had prepared for them a splen-
did banquet.

As the soldiers entered the building, the hospital chaplain de-
livered an address of welcome full of patriotic sentiment. Then
the veterans were escorted to the two tables, each 170 feet long,
extending through the entire length of the chapel. Upon the
tables was spread a bountiful supply of the pest food the town
and surrounding country afforded. The men partook of it, with
great relish and evident pleasure. It was an eventful occasion
to the town of York. The committee of ladies who so success-
fully prepared the feast received unbounded praise from the
men who were so highly honored. At the conclusion of the
banquet, toasts were responded to by Horace Bonham, John
Gibson and James W. Latimer, of the York Bar, and by Lieu-
tenant Colonel Stahle and Colonel Schall. At 5 p. m. of the
same day the regiment was mustered out of the service.

The following is a list of the committees for the reception and
entertainment of the 87th Regiment:

GENERAL COMMITTEE.

‘Mrs. George A, Heckert. Mrs. H. A. Hantz.
Mrs. D. A. Rupp. Mrs. C. Underwood.
Mrs. David Rupp. Mrs. Jacob Quickel.
Miss Louisa Durkee. Mrs. J. C. Deininger.
Miss Amelia Kurtz. | Miss Annie Zimmerman.
Mrs. Krout, Mrs. George Upp.

Mrs. Samuel Weiser Miss Sally Small.

Miss Ann Funk. Mrs. Jane King

Miss Ellen Funk. Mrs. George Eisenhart.
Mrs. M. B. Spahr. Miss Sue Spangler.
Mrs. Wm Keller. Mrs. Henry Lanius.
Miss Amanda Fahs. Mrs. Dr. Shaeffer.
Miss Sue Chalfant. Mrs. D. S. Wagner.
Miss Eliza Smyser. Miss Annie Lanius.
Miss Carrie Hay. Miss Annie Kauffelt.
‘Miss Jennie Templeman. Mrs. Henry Small.
Mrs. John A. Weiser. Mrs. Charles Billmeyer.
‘Mrs. Elea’a Baumgardner. Mrs. H. H. Adams (Frys’n).
Mrs. Israel Laucks. Mrs. A. Leitner.

Mrs. George L. Jacoby. Miss Ellen Myers.
Mrs. S. Myers, (Frys’wn). Miss Mary Prince.
Mrs. D. Gosman. Mrs. D. O. Prince.
Miss Jane Fulton. Miss Kate Garrison.
‘Mrs Jane Smyser. Mrs. Alex. Underwood.
Mrs, D. E. Small. Mrs. George Wogan.
“Mrs. Fulton. Miss Maria Underwood.
Mrs. M. Hiestand, (Fry’n). Miss Annie King.

Mrs. E. H. Weiser. Miss Ellen Moore
Miss Jane Latimer. Miss Helen Weiser.
“Miss Sarah Fahs. Miss Martha Johnson.
Mrs. Mary Weigel. Miss Rebecca Brickley.

“Mrs. Michael Kraber. Miss Annie Hantz.
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Miss Sally Weiser. Hon. Peter M’Intyre.
Miss Annie Wogan. Samuel Small, Sr.
Miss Fanny Upp. Jacob Spangler, (Cooper).
Miss Annie Ilgenfritz. Lewis Carl.

Miss Sophy Gressly. S. R. Slaymaker.

Miss Ellie Fahs. Alexander Underwood.
Miss Lizzie Barnitz. John Gibson.

Miss Fanny Tyler. A. J. Frey.

Miss Martha Kerr. E. H. Weiser.

Miss Emma Baumgardner. William A. Stahle.
Miss Mary Beitzel. William Hay.

Miss Ellen Smyser of E. G. J. C. E. Moore.

Miss Julia Baugher. Ed. Wantz, (Frystown).
Miss Ellen Smyser of Jos. Horace Bonham.

Miss Kate Wanbaugh. Dr. C. H. Bressler.
Miss Lydia Kraber. William H. Jordan.
Miss Emma Stough. John M, Brown.

Miss Mary Frick. Dr. Jacob Hay.
George A. Heckert. George H. Maish.

D. E. Small. Wm. B. Dritt.

W. H. Griffith. George Smyser.

KE. G. Smyser. C. A. Klinefelter.

David Laumaster.

GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

Mrs. George A. Heckert. George A. Heckert.

Mrs. D. Rupert. Samuel Small.

Mrs. Samuel Weiser. D. E. Small.

Mrs. George Eisenhart. E. G. Smyser.

Mrs. Mary Weigle. E. H. Weiser.

Mrs. Sarah Myers. J. C. E. Moore.

Mrs. Daniel A. Rupp. Jacob Spangiler,(Cooper).
Miss Amelia Kurtz. Hon. Peter McIntyre.
Mrs. D. E. Small. A. J. Frey.

COLLECTING COMMITTEE FOR FREYSTOWN.

Mrs. Sarah Myers. Miss Sarah Flory.

Mrs. Fulton. F Miss Rebecea Wilhelm.
Mrs. D. Gosman. Hyman H. Adams.
Mrs. Mary Hiestand. Edward Wantz.

Mrs. H. H. Adams.

COLLECTING COMMITTEE FOR LIVERPOOL.

Miss Clara Gross. John Drayer.
Miss Cal. Spahr. Henry Myers.
Miss Sophia Shuman. Jacob Ramer
COLLECTING COMMITTEES FOR THE BorouGuH.

- First Warp.
Miss Helen Weiser.
Miss Martha Johnson.
Miss Annie Hantz.
Miss Rebecca Brickley.
Miss Rebecca Patton.

SECOND WARD.
Miss Annie Lanius.
Miss Annie Kauffelt.
Miss Annie Wogan.
Miss Fanny Upp.

THIRD WARD.
Miss Annie Ilgenfritz.
Miss Sophy Gressly.

Miss Ellen Fahs.
Miss Eliza Barnitz.
FourtH WARD.
Miss Fanny Tyler.
Miss Martha Kerr.
Miss Mary Beitzel.
Miss Ellen Moore.
Miss Ellen Smyser of E. G.
FirtH WARD.
Miss Ellie Smyser.
Miss Kate Wanbaugh.
Miss Lydia Kraher.
Miss Mary Frick.
Miss Emma Stough.

CoMMITTEE ON Toasts, Music, ETC.

William Hay.
E. H. Weiser.
Horace Bonham.

James Latimer.
John Gibson.
W. 4H. Griffith.

COMMITTEE ON IcE CREAM.

Miss Annie Funk.
Mrs. Jane Smyser.
Miss Amanda C. Fahs.
Mrs. A. Underwood.
Mrs. C. Garretson.
Miss Eliza Smyser.

Miss Annie Kauffelt.
Mrs. E. C. Epley.
Miss Fanny Upp.
David E. Small.
George Wantz.

E. G. Smyser.

COMMITTEE ON TABLE LINEN.

Miss Louisa Durkee.
Miss Jane Fulton.
Mrs. Dr Shaeffer.

Mrs. M. B. Spahr.
Miss Jane Templeton.
Mrs. John A. Weiser.

COMMITTEE ON COFFEE.

Mrs. Fulton.

Mrs. Samuel Weiser.
Mrs. Kraut.

Mrs. Sarah Myers.

Mrs. Quickel.

Mrs. George Wogan.
Mrs. H. A. Hantz.
Mrs. H. Lanius.

COMMITTEE ON BuiLpInGc TABLEs.

David Laumaster.
Alex. Underwood.
W. B. Drit.

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‘John M. Brown.
William A. Stahle.
Alexander J. Frey.
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COMMITTEE ON CARVING.

S. R. Slaymaker.

D. A. Rupp.

Cc. A. Klinefelter.

“W.. H. Griffith.

William L. Small.

:Hon. Peter M’Intyre.
Dr. ‘C. H. Bressler.

iE. H. Weiser.

Lewis Carl.

Jacob Spangiler,(Cooper).

William Smith.

Dr. John Hay.

J. C. E. Moore.
Alexander J. Frey.
Hiram Young.
George W. Wantz.
John Frick.

George Eisenhart.
B. Hl. Weiser.
James Kell.

COMMITTEE ON DECORATIONS.

B. H. Weiser, Chairman.
‘Miss Ellen Funk.

‘Miss Amanda C. Fals.
Miss Julia Baugher.
Miss Sue Chalfant.
Miss Annie Lanius.
‘Miss Mary Evans.

Miss Sue Thornbury.
Miss Dora Brown.
Miss Maria Underwood.
Miss Belle Connelle.
MissEllen Smyser,ofEG
‘Miss Kitty Fisher.
Miss Ellen Moore.

Miss Eliza Smyser.
Miss Fanny Tyler.

RECEIVING

Mrs, D. A. Rupp.
Miss Annie King.
Miss Sue Chalfant.
Mrs. G. L. Jacoby.
Miss Louisa Durkee.
Mrs. B. H. Weiser.
Mrs. Dr. Blair.

Mrs. S. Oswald.
Mrs. C. Billmeyer.

COMMITTEE

Miss A. C Fahs. ¢
Miss Sue Small.
Miss Jane Latimer.
Miss Betty Lauman.

Miss Sarah TFahs.
Miss Martha Kerr.
Miss Ellen Mvers.
Miss Mary Tyler.
Miss L. A. Durkee.
Wm. Jordan.

Daniel Rudy.

Daniel A. Stillinger.
John Gibson.
William Hay.

J. C, E. Moore.
W.-H. Griffith.
William Gilberthorp.
Horace Bonham.
George Smyser.

C. A. Hantz.

COMMITTEE.

Mrs. A. Lightner.
Mrs. J. Hiestand.
Mrs. T. Loucks.

Mrs. E. Baumgardner.
Mrs. J. C. Deininger.
Mrs. W. Smith.

Mrs. D. O. Prince.
Miss Annie King.

ON FLOWERS.

Miss Julia Demuth.
Miss Eliza Smyser.
Miss Amelia Kurtz, M. st.
CoMMITTEE on DISHES.

Mrs. David Small. Miss Sue Spangler.
Mrs. D. A. Rupp. Miss Sallie Small.
Mrs. Martin Weigle. Mrs. George Eisenhart.

Mrs. D. S. Wagner.

COMMITTEE ON KNIVES AND Forks.

Mrs. G, L. Jacoby. Miss Jane King.
Miss Mary Prince. Miss Annie Zimmerman.

COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE TABLE.

Mrs, Daniel Rupert. Mrs. D. Gosman.
Mrs. George Upp. Mrs. E. H. We’:er.
Miss Amelia Kurtz. Mrs. William Keller.
Mrs. M. Kraber. Miss Jane Latimer.

REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION AND REUNIONS.

A meeting was held June 2, 1887, at the office of Captain W.
H. Lanius, for the purpose of forming a survivors’ association
of the members of the 87th Regiment.

Col. James A. Stahle was elected chairman of this meeting
and Michael Smyser, secretary. A committee of three, Lieu-
tenant B. F. Frick, Captain James H. Blasser and Owen Davis,
was appointed to nominate officers for the organization. They
reported the following ticket, which was unanimously elected:

President, Col. J. W. Schall; Vice President, Cols. C. H.
Buehler, James A. Stahle and Captain W. H. Lanius; Secretary,
Michael Smyser; Treasurer, C. H. Stallman. On motion, the
President then appointed an Executive Committee composed
of Captains J. H. Blasser and John Albright, and H. C. Ginter,
B. F. Frick and Michael Smyser.

A letter was read from Col. Buehler, requesting that a re-
union of the survivors of the regiment be held at Gettysburg,
July 12, 1887. Captain Lanius was appointed to communicate
with Col. Buehler in relation to the proposed reunion. It was
held in Gettysburg on the day mentioned.

At this meeting, the following officers were elected for the
permanent organization: President, Col. John W. Schall; Vice
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Presidents, Cols. James A. Stahle,-James Tearney, C. H. Bueh-
ler, and Captains John Fahs and John Albright; Secretary, Ma-
jor F. I. Thomas.

The members of the Executive Committee for the year were:
Company A, Charles Z. Denues, Howard F. Andrews; Com-
pany B, Michael Heiman, Albert Roat; Company C, Captains
Cross and Saylor; Company D, James Beck, Jacob H.
Henschke; Company E, B. J. King and S. B. Gray; Company
F, Charles E. Armor, W. D. Holzworth; Company G, Daniel
Stine and Jacob Shultz; Company H, Alexander Sibbet, Jacob
H. Hoffer. September 24, 1888, was decided upon as the time
for the next meeting of the association.

The second reunion was a great success, and the day was
one of the most eventful in the history of York. The autumn
weather was ideal, and the occasion was of so much interest as
to attract a large number of people to the city to witness the
parade of the veteran solciers and attend the exercises of the
association. At I p. m. the regimental band marched to the
headquarters at the office of Captain Lanius, playing a tune
familiar to all the soldiers. It was the signal for loud cheer-
ing which aroused great enthusiasm, and called for still other
selections.

The veterans then assembled in the hall of Sedgwick Post,
G. A. R., where Colonel Schall presided at a business meeting.
Chaplain Eberhart offered a prayer, Major Thomas read the
minutes of the previous meeting. The officers were re-elected.
Captain Cross, of the committee on arrangements, reported that
he and his associates had done everything they possibly could
to make their comrades happy while in the city. They receiv-
ed a vote of thanks for their efforts.

Captain Lanius made a motion which was adopted that a com-
mittee of five be appointed to communicate with the different
commands of the First Brigade of the 3d Division of the 6th
Army Corps, with a view of erecting a brigade monument on
the battlefield of Monocacy. Captain Maish, of Minneapolis,
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Minnesota, presented the association with a portrait of Colonel
Hay.

Lieutenant C. H. Stallman was chosen treasurer, and Cap-
tain Blasser was made corresponding secretary of the commit-
tee of arrangements.

The order was given at 2 p. m. to “fall in,” and the parade
that followed was an interesting feature of the reunion. A
quarter of a century had passed since these veteran soldiers had
marched together on the plains of Virginia. Colonels Schall,
Tearney, Stahle, and Major Ruhl, were on horseback. The
band and drum corps followed them. Captain Fahs was in
command of Company A; Captain Maish of Company B; Cap-
tain Cross of Company C; Captain Blasser of Company D;
Lieutenant Strickler of Company E. Captain Morningstar of
Company G; Sergeant Sheads of Company F;. Captain Lanius
of Company I. and Captain Albright of Company K.

The dress parade took place in Centre Square. The regimen-
tal flag, a souvenir of the war, attracted much attention. This
historic banner had been carried to the front in battle by color-
bearers William Brubaker, J. H. Moorehead, Pius D. Miller,
J. J. Keesey and Daniel P. Reigle. The last named was color-
sergeant at this parade. He had won distinction for his brav-
ery at the battle of Cedar Creek.

In the evening the Court House was filled with an audience
of ladies and gentlemen, cager to listen to the exercises.
Mayor Noell, of York, delivered an eloquent address of wel-
come, which breathed forth a spirit of lofty patriotism.

Captain W. H. Lanius responded to the Mayor’s address. In
the course of his speech he said: “If there was one honor more
that could be added to the achievements of the 87th Regiment,
it would be to have ‘Gettysburg’ inscribed upon our battle flag.
But without the battle near Winchester June 15, 1863, and the
stubborn resistance of Milroy’s band of 7,000 men, in fighting
the moving columns of Lee’s invading army, the battle between
Meade and Lee might have taken place elsewhere with different
results.” This statement brought forth enthusiastic applause.
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The large audience joined the soldiers in singing patriotic
songs. They were sung with so much spirit, that the wave
sounds in passing through the open windows of the old Court
House, were heard all over York. :

A letter to Colonel Stahle from Colonel Ball, of the 122d
Ohio Regiment, was then read, in which he said: “I should be
glad to attend your meeting and grasp the hands of the boys of
your regiment, who served with us in the campaign around
Winchester in 1863. I remember your splendid charge at
Carter’s Woods, when my boys returned from a_ retreat to
support your regiment. I remember with real affection, my old
friend Colonel Hay, also Colonel Schall, yourself and the other
officers of the 87th Pennsylvania. The toils and dangers of the
Civil War bound the Union soldiers together with a tie strong
as steel and lasting as life.”

A long letter from General J. Warren Keifer, of Springfield,
Ohio, contained the following: “Though your regiment was
not in my command, I saw much of it during the campaigns of
1863 and 1864, and I know its history well. No more chival-
rous regiment served in the war, and this is saying much, be-
cause almost universally, the Union troops were gallant men.
Our hopeless struggle around Winchester in June, 1863, held
back Ewell’s Corps, of Lee’s Army, three days which enabled
Meade, to select the historic battlefield of Gettysburg and win
a victory. For your valor and your conduct in battle, you
deserve the highest praise. I cannot enlarge this letter into
a history of your regiment, which, if fully written, will make an
interesting volume. Give the comrades of the 87th my hearty
thanks for their kind invitation to attend the reunion.”

Colonel Stahle read a well-prepared historical sketch of the
regiment. This was followed by short speeches from Colonels
Schall and Tearney, Captain Lewis Maish and Sergeant Gard-
uer. The last named came 4000 miles to attend the reunion.

General R. H. Milroy, in.answer to a teleoram, wrote to
Colonel Schall from his home at Olympia, Washingon State, a
long letter, in which he said:
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“Over one-fourth of a century has passed since you par-
ticipated with me in the war to save the Union’s life. Among
the regiments in my command, I can truthfully say, none was
better drilled and disciplined, or was more reliable in battle,
than the 87th Pennsylvania. This was owing to the intelligence
and ability of its officers, and good material of its composition.

“You say in your telegraphic greeting, that you trust ‘the
day is near at hand, when history shall record my true position
in the train of circumstances which lost us Winchester, but
secured Gettysburg.’ Truth often rises too late for justice,
but this fact is now conceded, that our three days’ fighting
around Winchester, helped General Meade to select his posi-
tion at Gettysburg, and win the battle, which was the turning
point of the war. This is cheering consolation to me in the
sunset of my life. Remember me kindly to the brave comrades
of the 87th Regiment.” General Milroy died at Olympia in
1890, aged 74 years.

At the reunion held in 1889, a banquet was served to all the
comrades in attendance at the Park Opera House. Colonel
Levi Maish was master of ceremonies, and Lieutenant B. F.
Frick led the music, at the camp fire, which followed the ban-
quet. The old 87th Band, under the leadership of Captain
William Frey, discoursed some excellent music. After a short
speech by Colonel Maish, he introduced Major General Hart-
ranft, who was an invited guest. Short speeches were also
made by Captains Geise, Lanius, Reisinger, Major McNair, W.
H. Griffith, E. W. Spangler, Dr. B. F Spangler and Dr.
M. J. McKinnon.

“The reunion of 1890, at Highland Park,” says the York
Gazette, ‘‘filled the breast of every visitor with patriotic emo-
tions. The day was beautiful and the attendance very large.
The early trains brought the veterans to town. At nine o’clock
a. m. they formed in line, marched through town and then took
the cars for the Park. At 12.30 p. m. Colonel Thomas J. Stew-
art and Colonel Schall arrived. The dinner served by W. H.
H. Welsh & Brother was a bountiful repast.”
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At the meeting, Captain Geise delivered the address of wel-
come; Chaplain Eberhart followed with a touching speech on

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SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT, PENN PARK, YORK, PA.

the deceased members of the regiment, among whom were
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Major Ruhl, who had lately died; Miss Sadie S. Stahle, daugh-
ter of the Colonel, read “Sheridan’s Ride,” and was  enthus-
iastically applauded. Colonel Thomas J. Stewart, of.the 138th
Pennsylvania Regiment, spoke eloquently .of the fallen heroes
of the war.

The reunion of 1897, held in York, was an interesting event.
The reception committee was composed of Captains. Lariius and
Fahs, Lieutenant Stallman, James B. Beck, Michael Smyser,
Frederick Breidling, John C. Hoffman, Charles Z. Denues and
Reuben Stouch. One hundred and sixty members .of the regi-
ment enrolled at the headquarters in the Hartley Building.
Twelve members of the old 87th band played the familiar tunes
of war times while the comrades shook hands and exchanged
congratulations. About 1 p. m. the soldiers formed in line and
marched out West Market to Hartley street’ where they took
the trolley cars for Highland Park. The officers who com-
manded the regiment were present. Colonel Schall, one of the
heroes of Cold Harbor, Colonel Stahle who gallantly’ led his
men at Monocacy, and Colonel Tearney who commanded the
battalion in the assault on the works at Petersburg, rode at the
head of the column. They were followed in order by Chaplain
Eberhart, Mother Schultz and the color guard. The companies
were all represented. Some were commanded by an old officer;
others by a sergeant, or a corporal. When Colonel Schall gave
the command, ‘Forward, march,” the band struck up “John
Brown’s Body.” Color Sergeant Daniel P. Reigle proudly
carried the veteran banner which had been presented to him by
his comrades at the end of the war.

At 2 p. m. a business meeting was held in the Auditorium at
the park. The officers chosen were the following: President,
Colonel Schall; Vice Presidents, Captains Adair, Fahs, Lanius
and Cross, and Colonels Stahle and Tearney; Recording Secre-
tary, Major Thomas; Corresponding Secretary, Captain Blas-
ser; Treasurer, Lieutenant Stallman. The president appointea
the following members as the executive committee. Captains
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Lanius and Blasser, Lieutenant Frick, Calvin Gilbert, John Mc-
Laughlin, Charles Z. Denues and A. J. Rudolph.

At the business meeting Lieutenant B. F. Frick made a mo-
tion which was unanimously agreed to that Major F. I. Thomas,
Captain Lanius, Colonel Stahle, Captain Blasser and J. C. Hoff-
man be appointed a committee to have prepared and published
a complete History of the 87th Regiment.

A dress parade in charge of Colonel Tearney was held at 5.
p.m. After the parade the soldiers were all invited to the ban-
quet hall. At the camp fire which followéd, there were a num-
ber of short addresses and the 87th quintette, composed of
Messrs. Frick, Lanius, Fahs, Lutz and Zorger entertained their
comrades with some fine music.

At this reunion John C. Hoffman, of Company G, supervising
principal of the Garfield school, of York, Pa., read an original
poem of 140 stanzas, entitled, “The Gallant Eighty-seventh,”
written in the measure and rhythm of Longfellow’s “Excelsior.”
It takes up the leading incidents and events in the history of
the regiment and is full of happy hits, quaint humor and touch-
ing pathos. The poem has real merit and is a valuable souvenir.

A poem written by Miss Emma E. Allen, a teacher in the pub--
lic schools of York was recited by Miss Flora I. Crider at the
exercises in the afternoon. It was full of patriotic sentiment
and was highly appreciated.

The project to prepare a history of the regiment was not
taken up until January, 1900, when Captain W. H. Lanius gave
it thoughtful consideration. He procured official documents
and the regimental papers from Colonel Schall, and invited the
author of the work to look carefully through them for material
for the proposed history. Circulars were then printed and sent,.
by him as chairman of the committee, to all surviving comrades,
whose addresses could be obtained,inviting them to furnish sucly
information as they had at command. Members of the regi-
ment were also invited to a room in the office of the York
Trust Company, of which he is President, to consult with the
writer, and give whatever assistance they could. To Captain
CAPTAIN

 

W. H. LANIUS.
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Lanius is largely due the credit of furnishing the conditions by
which the “History of the 87th Regiment” has appeared in its
present form.

Captain John Fahs, of Company A, and Lieutenant Charles H.
Stallman, of Company C, were added to the committee mention-
ed above and rendered efficient aid and assistance in the prepa-
ration of the work.

The entire committee deserve the highest praise for the com-
mendable zeal displayed and for the effort put forth to make the
book worthy the name of a history.

In the Spring of 1900, a reunion of 150 members of the 87th
was held in York. Major Goldsborough, of Frederick, Mary-
land, delivered a lecture on “The Battle of Monocacy.’”’ After
this feature, the veterans were invited, by Captain Lanius, to:
a splendid banquet in the Knights of St. Paul’s Hall. It was
an interesting and enjoyable meeting.

The handsome monument shown on a preceding page
stands on an elevated spot in Penn Park at York. It was dedi-
cated on June 15, 1898, to the patriotism, valor and achieve-
inents of the soldiers and sailors who served in the Civil War
from York County. On this site the different companies of the
87th Regiment first went into camp in the summer of 1861.

This monument, designed by J. A. Dempwolf and his brother
Rhinehart Dempwolf, is built of Vermont granite. It is sixty-
five feet high, and is surmounted by a statue of Victory, with a
sword and a wreath in her uplifted right hand, while her left
hand is resting on a shield. E. W. Spangler, of the York bar
presided at the dedicatory ceremonies and Rev. E. T. Jeffers of
the York Collegiate Institute, delivered the oration. Under act
of the State Legislature, the monument was paid for by the
County Commissioners.
CHAPTER XVIII.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

CoLoNEL GEORGE Hay was born in York, August 1, 1809, of
Scotch-Irish and German ancestors, who came to this country
with the early settlers of York county. After obtaining his ed-
ucation in the schools of his native town, he engaged in the
business of a cabinetmaker and undertaker, which he followed
with success for many years. He became interested in mili-
tary affairs in his boyhood, and had a large experience in drill-
ing companies in the militia service. When the war opened
he was captain of the York Rifles, an organization which was
noted for its fine appearance and good training. On April 19,
1861, seven days after Fort Sumter was fired upon and in re-
sponse to the first call for troops, Captain Hay and his com-
pany were sworn into the three months’ service, as Company
K in the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served
under General Robert Patterson in the Shenandoah Valley. At
the expiration of this term of service, July 27, 1861, they re-
turned to York, and were welcomed home by the ringing of
bells, firing of cannon, public speeches and a banquet. On
August 19, he began to recruit a regiment for the three years’
service, and on September 25, 1861, was commissioned its
Colonel. This command was originally called the Thomas A.
Scott Regiment, but the name was changed after a few months
of service, to the 87th Regiment Pennsyivania Volunteers.
While performing guard duty along the Northern Central Rail-
road Colonel Hay instituted regulations which soon made his
regiment quite proficient in drill and discipline. He looked
with zealous interest after the health and comfort of his men,
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and carefully watched the sanitary condition of the camp and
winter quarters. uring the fall and winter of 1862, he com-
manded his regiment in the hard marches across the hills and
mountains of West Virginia in pursuit of Imboden’s guerrilas.
This duty over-taxed his physical energy, and he was com-
pelled to rest for a time at Beverly, when he was put in com-
mand of that post. He was temporarily in command of a bri-
gade of Milroy’s Division while the regiment was in camp at
Clarksburg, West Virginia. After spending nearly a month in
rest and recuperation, at his home in York, Colonel Hay re-
turned to his regiment, December 6, 1862. During the en-
campment at Winchester, Virginia, in the spring of 1863, he
succeeded General Cluseret in command of the Ist Brigade,
2d Division, 8th Army Corps, and held that position for nearly
two months. In May 1863, when the regiment was sent on an
expedition with other troops to Webster, West Virginia, owing
to impaired health Colonel Hay tendered his resignation which
was accepted and he was discharged on surgeon’s certifi-
cate, and returned to his home at York. ‘An account of what
took place when he resigned his command will be found on page
61 in this book. During the remainder of its term of service,
he took a deep interest in the regiment, and on three occasions
visited it in the field. Colonel Hay was married in 1830 to Sus-
an Demuth. Two of their five children survived him when he
died May 24, 1879—Mrs. Amanda Leber and Mrs. Clara Kain,
(since deceased). His grand children are: George Hay
Leber, Edward Leber, Helen Demuth Leber, Susan Crull
Leber and George Hay Kain.

CoLoNneL JoHN W. ScHALL (now a Brigadier General of the
National. Guard), son of ITon. David and Catherine (Audy)
Schall, was born June 22, 1834, in Berks County, Pa. The
Schalls are descendants of a prominent I'rench Huguenot fam-
ily that was driven from France by the religious persecution
following the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Members of
this family came to America in 1748, and settled in Pennsylva-
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nia. Colonel Schall grew to manhood in his native county, and
-obtained his preliminary education in private schools at Trappe
and Norristown, Pa. He then pursued an extended course of
advanced studies in the military academy at Norwich, Vermont.
-After graduation, he was connected, for several years, with an
cngineer corps under John C. Trautwine. Later he embarked
in the dry goods business at York, Pa., where he became a mem-
ber and First Lieutenant of the York Rifles commanded. by
Captain George Hay. This Company enlisted in a body at the
opening of the Civil War, and was one of the first companies to
enter the service fully armed and equipped. For this prompt
action they were afterward awarded medals by the State of
Pennsylvania, having been mustered into the service to date
April 19, 1861. At the expiration of their term of enlistment
for three months, Lieutenant Schall returned to York, and or-
ganized a company for the three years’ service. About
this time, authority was given, by the Secretary of
War, to Dr. Alexander Small, to organize a regiment
at York and at the same time appointing John W.
Schall, Colonel, which position he declined recommending the
appointment of George Hay as Colone! and accepting the Lieu-
tenant Colonelcy. He commanded the regiment in part of the
campaign in West Virginia in the winter of 1862, and on May
4, 1863. was commissioned Colonel, upon the resignation of
Colonel lay. He was in command of all the troops in the en-
gagement at Newtown, June 12, 1863, and while bravely riding
at the head of his regiment in a charge on the enemy at Carter’s
Woods, June 15, had a horse shot under him. He partici-
pated with his command, then serving in the Third Brigade,
Third Division, Third Army Corps, in the engagements at Ma-
nasses Gap, Bealton Station, Kelly’s Ford and Brandy Station.
For several months of the winter of 1863-4, Colonel Schall was at
a hospital in Washington for medical treatment returning to his
regiment April 7, 1864, shortly after the reorganization of the
Army of the Potomac, when the 87th Regiment was placed in
the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps. He was
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am charge of his regiment in the battle of the Wilderness. On
May 9, 1864, when General Morris, standing beside him, was
wounded at Spottsy!vania, Colonel Schall succeeded that offi-
‘cer in command of the Third Brigade, holding that position for
several days during the engagements around Spottsylvania, un-
til Colonel Truex, a senior officer arrived. When the general
assault ofthe army was made on the Confederate works at
‘Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, Colonel Schall was corps officer
-of the dav, but after Colonel Truex was wounded in that charge,
‘Colonel Schall again succeeded to the command of the First
Rrigade. In the forenoon of June 3, being the third day of the
battle of Cold Harbor, he was wounded in the arm, but remain-
ed at his post of duty till in the afternoon. His wound dis-
-abled him for active service until the middle of July when he
returned to his regiment just before it joined the army under
‘General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and commanded
at in the engagement at Charlestown, and in the great battles
-of Opequon and Fisher's Hill. The term of three years having
expired, Colonel Schali returned with the regiment to York and
‘was mustered out Oct. 13, 1864. Before leaving the army
General James B. Ricketts, commanding the Third Division of
‘the Sixth Corps, wrote him the following commendation:

“Your term of service having expired, with that of your gal-
lant regiment, I cannot part with you without some expression
ot my high appreciation of your faithful services. Alwavs zeal-
‘ous and reliable, you have shown the best qualities of a soldier
‘which would bring certain promotion had you determined to
remain in the Corps, which you have ornamented by your distin-
guished conduct throughout the arduous campaigns since cross-
ing the Rapidan on May 1.

“T particularly recall vour gallantry at Cold Harbor, when
‘commanding a brigade, and wounded, you nobly refused to
leave the field, and in the Valley when you shared in our glor-
ious victories at Opequon and Fisher’s Hill. I part with regret
from so good a soldier, and wish you every success in your fu-
‘ture life.”
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After the war Colonel Schall engaged in the iron business at
Norristown, Pa., where he has since resided. He served as
Colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war with
Spain, and was in command of the Second Brigade, Second Di-
vision, Second Army Corps for five months.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES A. STAHLE was born in West
Manchester township, York county, Pennsylvania, January 11,
1830, and obtained his education in the public schools and the
York County Academy. He learned the printer’s trade, which
he followed for a time, and then conducted a merchant tailoring
establishment. From 1858 to 1861 he was the agent for Adams
Express Company at York. Early in life he became interested
in military affairs, and made a diligent study of tactics. Dur-
ing the Spring months of 1861, he organized the Ellsworth
Zouaves. Under his drill and training it became a noted mili-
tary organization which on August 24, 1861, was mustered
into the service as Company A of the 87th Regiment. On
January I, 1863, Captain Stahle was promoted to Major oi this
1egiment, and on May 9, 1863, upon the retirement of Colonei
Hay, he succeeded John W. Schall as Lieutenant Colonel. He
participated with his command in the marches across the West
Virginia Mountains, and in the campaign around Winchester
in 1862 and 1863. During Colonel Schall’s absence at the hos-
pital, he commanded the regiment in the Mine Run campaign,
and part of the tine when the army was in winter quarters at
Brandy Station, Va. While General B. F. Smith was absent
in the winter of 1863-4, Colonel Stahle was temporarily in com-
mand of the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 34 Army Corps. He par-
ticipated with his regiment in the Wilderness Campaign, and
on June 1, 1864, when Colonel Truex was wounded and Colo-
nel Schall had succeeded that officer as brigade commander,
he led the 87th in the general charge of the army on the Con-
federate lines at Cold Harbor, when it captured many prisoners,
and advanced and held a position beyond the first line of the
enemy’s works. During the night that followed, he was at the
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head of the regiment lying on the ground with Corporal Ziegler
of Company F when he received the information that his com-
mand should fall back at once, as it had lost its support on the
right and left. He had charge of the 87th in the engagements.
along the Weldon Railroad, in front of Petersburg and displayed
marked courage and ability as its commander in the battle of
Monocacy. Soon alter the return of the regiment at the end of
its three years’ term of service, Colonel Stahle was appointed.
deputy collector of revenue at York, and held that position un--
der Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur..
In 1894 he was elected to Congress as a Republican to repre-
sent the roth District of Pennsylvania whose normal Demo-
cratic majority is 5000 votes. He has devoted much time to.
agriculture and horticulture, and spends the years of his re-

tirement from public life near Emigsville, a few miles north
of York.

Mayor Cuartes H. BuEHLER was born Feb. 9, 1825, at Get-
tysburg, Pa., where his father, Samuel H. Buehler, had beew
a druggist, and was also treasurer of Pennsylvania College,
and one of the founders of the Theological Seminary in that
town. In April, 1861, he responded to the first call for troops
by raising a company for the three months’ service. His com-
paly was assigned to the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-
teers. Soon after the expiration of this term of service, Cap-
tain Buehler was chosen major of the 87th Regiment, receiv-
ing his commission September 14, 1861. He served with the
regiment during the encampment along the Northern Central
Railroad, and accompanied it on the marches through the
mountain regions of West Virginia in- pursuit of Imboden’s
guerrillas. On Christmas day, 1862, he was discharged from
service in the 87th Regiment, to accept promotion as Colonel
of the 165th Pennsylvania, a nine. months’ regiment whose
members were largely composed of citizens of his native
county.

Colonel Buehler was a fine looking soldier, and was. welt

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~posted in military affairs. He was an excellent disciplinarian
and was popular with his men. In 1860 he married Miss Anna
Fahnestock, of Gettysburg, who accompanied her hushand
-during much of the time he served as major of the 87th. After
ithe close of the war Colonel Buehler engaged in the coal and
lumber business in Gettysburg, and was also agent for Adams
Express Company for twenty-five years. He died March 23,
1806.

Mayor Noau G. Runt had served five years in the Regular
Army, early in life, and first performed active duty with his
Tegimerit against the Seminole Indians. When the war with
Mexico opened in 1846, he enlisted at Pittsburg, Pa., as a non-
‘commissioned officer in Company D, 4th U. S. Infantry, and
served with his regiment in the campaign under General Zach-
ary Taylor. Meantime, he was promoted to Sergeant Major
and was discharged with his regiment soon after the hattle of
Palo Alto. When plans were being formulated to organize the
87th Regiment he was engaged in the mercantile business in
Shrewsbury, where he recruited Company D, was made its cap-
tain and commanded it until May 9, 1863, when he was pro-
moted to major. He possessed a firm and resolute nature, was
a rigid disciplinarian and was always cool and calm in battle.
He commanded the skirmish line, in front of the regiment,
when his division was expected to lead the charge on the
enemy’s works at Mine Run, November 30, 1863, when his reg-
iment escaped almost certain annihilation by General Meade
changing his plans and deciding not to make the assault.
Major Ruhl was with the 87th in most of its engagements, until
August 30, 1864, when he was discharged on surgeon’s certi-
ficate and returned home. On March 17, 1865, he was com-
missioned Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers, but was not mus-
tered. He had gone as far as Baltimore on his way to his old
command, just after the fall of Petersburg, Virginia. Hearing
that Captain Bulford was chosen Lieutenant Colonel of the re-
organized 87th Regiment, Major Ruhl in order to avoid con-
troversy returned to York where he resided until the time of
his death in 1890.

ApjuTant Jacop EmMMeEtt was born at York, Dec. 15, 1830,
son of Jacob and Juliana (Eichelberger) Emmett. He obtained
his education in the public schools and York County Academy,
and entered the service as Second Lieutenant of Company K.
On Sept. 25, 1861, he was appointed adjutant of the regiment.
During part of the year 1862 he was on recruiting service at
York, returning to the regiment at Clarksburg, West Virginia,
with forty-five recruits. He remained with the regiment until
Oct. 14, 1863, when he resigned and returned to York. In 1864,
he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he engaged in
the dry goods business. He died in that city Nov. 1, 1881.

Apjutant AntHony M. Martin was born at New Oxford,
Pa. He had been a diligent student in Dr. Pfeiffer’s Collegiate
Institute where he acquired a good education. When Com-
pany I was organized, he was chosen First Lieutenant, and
served with his company until he was promoted to Adjutant,
Nov. 18, 1863, a few days before the regiment started with the
Army of the Potomac on the Mine Run campaign. His pre-
vious training, and his systematic methods, admirably fitted him
for the position to which he had been chosen. His affable man-
ner, and exemplary character won for him a high degree of
popularity among the officers and men of the regiment, and he
performed his duties with ability and good judgment. Adju-
tant Martin was cool and calm in time of battle, and was fear-
less of danger. About the time the regiment, with Ricketts’
Division of the Sixth Corps, was ordered to retreat from the
field of battle at Monocacy, July 9, 1864, he was mortally woun-
ded, and died at Frederick soon afterwards. The incidents con-
nected with his removal from the battle field, are related in the
chapter on “The Battle of Monocacy,” in this work. His re-
mains were buried in the cemetery surrounding the Church of
the Sacred Heart, near McSherrystown, Pa.
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ADJUTANT GEORGE C. STROMAN enlisted as a Sergeant in
Company B, Sept. 11, 1861. He was promoted to Second Lieu-
tenant May 26, 1863, and to First Lieutenant Oct. 28, 1863.
(On the evening of July 9, 1864, just after the battle of Monoc-
acy, Colonel Stahle appointed him Adjutant of the Regiment to
succeed Anthony M. Martin who had been killed that day. He
served as adjutant until the regiment was mustered out Oct.
13, 1864.

SuRGEON Davip F. McKinney was born in Clinton county,
Pa., in 1836, of sturdy Scotch Irish ancestors, who were among
the earliest settlers in his native State. He obtained his edu-
cation in the public schools, the West Branch High School at
Jersey Shore and at Jefferson College at Canonsburg, Pa.
He then matriculated at Pennsylvania Medical College at Phil-
adelphia, graduating from that institution with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1859. When the war for the preserva-
tion of the Union opened he offered his services tu the author-
ities at Harrisburg. The offer was accepted and he was. as-
signed to the 87th Regiment, then in the field at Cockeysville,
Maryland. He was mustered in as assistant surgeon Oct. 15,
1861, and served in that position with credit and ability until
April 14, 1864, when he was promoted to full surgeon with the
rank of major. Surgeon McKinney was with the regiment
during all the time it was in active service in the field. He
was present at all the engagements in which the regiment par-
ticipated, and did very effective work in the arduous campaign of
1864 in the Army of the Potomac under Grant and in the Val-
ley of Virginia under Sheridan. He was mustered out with
the regiment Oct. 13, 1864. He resides at Limekiln, Freder-
ick county, Maryland.

CHAPLAIN JAMES ALLEN Brown was born in Drumore Town-
ship, Lancaster County, Pa., Feb. 19, 1821, and was graduated
from Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in 1841. He studied
theology, and held pastorates in Baltimore, York and Reading.
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In 1859 he was elected professor of theology in a college at
Newberry, S. C. When the war opened, he returned to York,
and on Sept. 25, 1861, was commissioned chaplain of the 87th
Regiment. He was with the regiment while it was performing
guard duty along the railroad. While in camp at New Creek,
West Virginia, he resigned July 16, 1862, and returned to York.
The following two years he was post chaplain at the U. S. Army
Hospital at York, Pa. From 1864 to 1880 he was President
of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. During
the latter year he resigned and removed to Lancaster, Pa.,
where he died. He was a fine scholar and an able theologian.
Wooster University in Ohio gave him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.

CHapLAIN Davip C. EBERHART was born in Mercer county,
Pa., Nov. 19, 1826, a descendant of Paulus Eberhart who came
to America from Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1744, and settled
in Baltimore county, Maryland. After obtaining his prelimi-
nary education he became a student of dental surgery and med-
icine. In 1850 he removed to Baltimore, where he began the
practice of dentistry and also studied theology. He was
licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal church, and was
assigned to the Shrewsbury circuit. While at Shrewsbury he
abandoned the itinerant ministry, preaching only occasionally
and resumed the practice of dentistry. He joined the 87th Regi-
iment when it was in camp at Winchester, Va., receiving his
commission as chaplain February 29, 1863. He at once or-
ganized a regimental church, distributed religious books
among the men and became an influential officer in the regi-
ment. As mentioned elsewhere in this book, he was taken
prisoner at Winchester, Va., June 15, 1863, while assisting in
taking wounded men to the hospital. At his own request he
was permitted to remain at Winchester about ten days taking
care of the sick and wounded. At the solicitation of some of
the Union officers’ wives, who fell into the hands of the enemy
when Winchester was evacuated, and who were to be sent
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through the lines, by way of Richmond, he accompanied them
to that city, where they were all put in Castle Thunder prison.
The women soon afterward were sent North. At the end of
one week Chaplain Eberhart was transferred to Libby prison,
where he found several other officers of the regiment who had
been captured at Winchester.. He was now surprised to learn
that several surgeons and eight other chaplains taken at Win-
chester were to be held as prisoners of war, among whom was
Chaplain McCabe, afterward a bishop in the Methodist church.
Chaplain Eberhart was held at Libby until October 7, 1863,
when he was released, and after a month’s leave of absence,
reurned to the regiment at Bristoe Station, Va., in November.
While the army was in winter quarters at Brandy Station, he
took pneumonia, and was sent home until he recovered in
April, 1864. He was with the regiment, on active duty, all
through the campaign, from the Rapidan to Petersburg, at
Monocacy and in the Valley campaign, conducting religious
services and in time of battle helping to bring in and take care
of the wounded. Chaplain Eberhart was discharged with the
regiment October 13, 1864, and has since resided at Shrews-
bury, Pa., where he has been engaged in the practice of den-
tistry. He has always been an active worker in the church
and Sunday school.

CapTAIN JouNn Faus, of Company A, was born in York, and
obtained his education in the York County Academy, under
Prof. George W. Ruby. When the war opened he was a mem-
ber of the Ellsworth Zouaves, commanded by Captain James A.
Stahle, and was mustered into the service August 24, 1861, as a
corporal when that organization became Company A, of the
87th Regiment. On December 1, 1861, he was promoted to
First Lieutenant, and was with his company and regiment while
performing guard duty along the railroad, and on the mountain
campaigns through West Virginia. With a detail of men, he
escorted fifty-five of Imboden’s guerrillas, on the long march
from Crab Bottom to Webster, in November, 1862, being the
first prisoners the regiment captured. He acted as Adjutant of.
the regiment on the movement under General Cluseret,
from New Creek to Petersburg, in December, and on January:
I, 1863, soon after the arrival of the regiment at Winchester,,.
was promoted to Captain of Company A, succeeding James
A. Stahle, who had been chosen Major. Captain Fahs com-.
manded his company in the affair at Newtown, June 12, 1863.,.
in the engagements around Winchester the following two days,
and on the early morning of June 15, advanced with his men on
the skirmish line when the regiment entered the battle at Car-
ter’s Woods. After the defeat of Milroy in this hard fought
contest, he retreated with the part of the regiment that reached
Harper’s Ferry in the evening of the battle. On the movement
through Virginia with the Third Brigade, Third Division, Thirdi
Corps in the Army of the Potomac, Captain Fahs took part with.
his command in the engagements at Manasses Gap, Bealtom
Station, Kelly’s Ford, Brandy Station and Locust Grove. On
November 30, 1863, when the general assault of Meade’s Army
was ordered to be made on Lee’s forces behind their intrench-
ments at Mine Run, but afterward countermanded, Captaim
Fahs, with his company, was onthe advance skirmish line.
While in winter quarters at Brandy Station and during the
whole time he commanded Company A, he continued the excel-
lent drill and discipline, for which the company was noted. It
became quite proficient in the bayonet exercise and the Zouave
drill. He commanded his company in the battles of the Wilder-
ness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor and
in the engagements in front of Petersburg while the regiment
was in the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps. General
Sedgwick, the Corps commander, was killed while walking
along the line of Company A at Spottsylvania moving toward
a battery. Capt. Fahs was brave and efficient as an _ officer
and was always ready when any important duty was to be
performed. While re-establishing his line in the engagement
along the Weldon Railroad, June 23, 1864, he was captured
together with several other officers and about ninety men of the
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regiment. He was then taken to Richmond. After remaining
in Libby prison five days, with a large body of officers and men
he was taken to Lynchburg, and from thence to Danville, Vir-
ginia, and placed in a tobacco warehouse. From this place, the
officers were sent to Macon, Georgia, the largest prison for
officers in the South.

Here they met Captains Albright and Morningstar, Lieuten-
ants Welsh, Bierbower and Stroman, of the 87th, who had
been in prison at Libby and elsewhere since June 15, 1863.
Captain Fahs remained there one month, then with about 600
other officers, was transferred to Savannah, Georgia, and placed
in the yard surrounding the marine hospital for about six weeks,
then moved to Charleston, S. C., and put in the jail yard, ex-
posed to the fire of the Unicn guns from the neighboring islands.
This was done by the enemy in order to check the bombard-
ment of the city by General Gilmore. Owing to the movement of
Sherman’s Army the prisoners were sent to Columbia, S. C.,
where they were held several months, and during that time
some of the officers received from home some clothing and pro-
visions which were allowed to pass through the Confederate
lines. The rations received at this prison were not as good or
abundant as at Charleston and Savannah. A pint of corn meal
was given each prisoner daily. Sherman’s approach caused
their removal to Charlotte, N. C., but they were kept there
only a few days. From that city Captain Fahs, together with
about 2000 other officers, was sent tto Raleigh. Sheman was
then passing Northward, approaching the State of North Car-
olina, and the Confederate authorities arranged to parole these
prisoners. This ceremony took place about eight miles from
Wilmington, on the banks of the Cape Fear River. The scenes
and incidents that occurred when the men saw the American
flag upon passing into the Union lines, were intensely dramatic
and deeply affecting. Two days later Captain Fahs and others
tock the boat for Camp Parole at Annapolis, Maryland. He
received his discharge March 12, 1865.

After his return home Captain Fahs engaged in the coal,
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grain, flour and feed business, as a member of the firm of Fahs,
Smith & Co., later of Fahs, Smyser & Co. In the meantime he
devoted considerable attention to agricultural pursuits. He
was a member of the Borough Council eight years, and of the
Board of School Control the same length of time. Since the
date of its organization, in 1875, he has been a director in the
Western National Bank of York. He has also served asa
member of the Board of Directors of the York Trust Company
since its organization in 1890, and in the York Street Railway
Company since 1886. He has been a director and president of
the Farmers’ Market Company of York for a number of years.

Caprain Jacop DetrwiLer of Company B, was a native of
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and when the war opened, was
engaged in business in Harrisburg. He recruited a number of
men in that city and vicinity, brought them to York, and when
Company B was organized, he was appointed its Captain. He
served with his company and regiment while on guard duty a-
long the railroad, on the marches and campaigns in West Vir-
ginia, and during the early months of 1863, while the regiment
served under Milroy around Winchester. Becoming disabled,
he was discharged on surgeon’s cetificate, June -21, 1863.

Capratn Lewis Maisu, of Company B, was born July 2, 1840,
within a few miles of York, a lineal descendant of John George
Maish, who in 1751, came from Germany, and settled first in
Chester county, Pa., and then migrated west of the Susque-
hanna to Fairview township, York county, where he located in
a Quaker settlement. After leaving school Lewis Maish be-
came an apprentice in the Variety Iron Works, of York. He
assisted in recruiting Company B, and was made Second Lieu-
tenant when it was organized. He was promoted to First Lieu-
tenant, May 26, 1863, and to Captain Oct. 25, 1863. He was in
command of his company in the engagements around Winches-
ter, in the Mine Run campaign, and in the campaign under
Grant from the Rapidan to the approaches of Petersburg. In
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the afternoon of June 23, 1864, while the Union lines were being
established for action along the Weldon railroad in front of Pet-
ersburg, Captain Maish and thirteen of his men were taken
prisoners. He now had before him several long and weary
months of experience in Southern prisons, after having gallant-
ly led his men in a dozen battles.

We was first taken to Libby prison in Richmond, and soon
thereafter, with 3,000 other captives sent to the State of Georgia.
About 250 of the number were officers. These were left for one
month at Macon, then the leading prison for commissioned offi-
cers in the South. As Sherman's army was moving in that di-
rection, Captain Maish and his fellow prisoners were transfer-
red to Savannah for two months, and then taken to Charlston,
s. C. They were in that doomed city while it was besieged by
the Union forces under Gilmore, from the neighboring islands.
As Sherman's triumphant army was moving from “Atlanta to
the Sea,” Captain Maish and his associates were sent to Co:um-
Ina, S. C., where they were kept four months, and then moved to
Charlotte, N. C. While stopping for a short time at that city
together with Captain H. C. Smyser, of the 5th Maryland Regi-
ment, and Lieutenant Anderson, of the 2nd Pennsylvania Ar-
tillery, he made his escape into the Union lines. Captain Maish
was mustered out of the service March 24, 1865, having served
his country three and one-half years. He resided one year at
York, and the following year in Tennessee and Arkansas. In
1867 he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he contin-
ued to be engaged in the manufacture of machinery until 1909.
when he removed to Stillwater, Minnesota. Mrs. Maish was
the daughter of a loyal citizen of Winchester. She and the
Captain were married in 1863 during the time the regiment was
in winter camp at Winchester.

Captain ANDREW J]. FuLtToN, of Company C, was a native of
Hopewell township, York County, Pa. Before the war he was
a successful teacher and civil engineer. In April 1861 he en-
listed as a Corporal in Company H, 16th Pennsylvania Volun-
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teers in the three months service. Soon after his return to his.
liome at Stewartstown, he began to recruit Company C for the
$7th Regiment and on September 14, 1861, was mustered into
the service as its Captain. He remained in command of the
company until Dec. 24, 1862, when he resigned to accept the
colonelcy of the 166th Pennsylvania Militia Regiment in the
nine months service. Soon after the close of the war, Colonel
Fulton was appointed Deputy Revenue Collector at York by
President Johnson. His appointment was not confirmed by the
United States Senate, and Henry Welsh of York was appointed.
Colonel Fulton was chief clerk in the office during Mr. Welsh’s
term. In November 1872, Colonel Fulton was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun while out hunting near his home
at Stewartstown.

CapTaIn Murray S. Cross, of Company C, was born in
Windsor township, York county, Pa., March 12, 1835, of Scotch
Irish ancestry. He grew to manhood on his father’s farm,
then went to Baltimore, where he was employed at the carpen-
ter’s trade. He returned to York county in 1858, and followed
his occupation till April 1861, when he enlisted for three months
in Company A, 16th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Soon
after returning home he assisted in recruiting Company C, of
which he was chosen first lieutenant. On Christmas day, 1862,
he was promoted to captain and commanded his company the
remainder of its three years’ term of service. He was one of
the officers who helped to carry the body of General Sedgwick
to the rear when he was killed by a sharpshooter at Spottsyl-
vania, May 9, 1864. Captain Cross was kind hearted and gen-
erous by nature; always took a deep interest in the comfort and
welfare of his men and bravely led them into action. At the
battle of Opequon, when Color Sergeant Jefferson Keesey was
wounded and the flag dropped to the ground, Captain Cross
quickly grasped the banner, unfurled it to the breeze and
bravely held it until Corporal Daniel P. Reigle, of Company F,
stepped up and volunteered to act as color bearer. Captain
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Cross returned home with the regiment in September, 1864, at
the expiration of the term of service. He engaged in business
in York the remainder of his life. He died in 1897.

Captain JAMES H. Brasser, of Company D, born at Shrews-
bury, Pa., August 9, 1831, was educated in the public schools,
and under the private instruction of Rev. A. Berg. He attend-
ed the medical department of the University of Maryland, but
preferring the profession of teaching to that of medicine, he
taught in the public schools of York, Wrightsville, Glen Rock
and Shrewsbury until 1861. On August 19th of that year he
was the first man to enroll his name in Company D, of which
he became first sergeant at the time of its organization, and was
pronioted to second lieutenant May 10, 1862; to first lieutenant
October 25, 1862, and to captain May 12, 1863. He was with
his regiment in all its campaigns to March g, 1864, when he re-
signed. His company having lost thirty-seven men captured
at the battle of Carter’s Woods, but few of its members came
out with those who arrived at Harper’s Ferry, and they were
temporarily placed in Company E. Captain Blasser was put
in command of Companies I and K consolidated until the fol-
lowing September, when he again took command of Company
D. On several occasions, when battle seemed imminent, he
was detailed as assistant surgeon to Dr. McKinney. Captain
1846. He attended the public schools for a short time, and in
Blasser, since the war, has been employed as a civil engineer,
deputy prothonotary, court crier, interpreter of German in the
county courts, bookkeeper for the Standard Oil Company at
York, and bookkeeper for the A. B. Farquhar Company of
York, until his retirement in 1900.

Captain SOLOMON Myers, of Company FE, was born in Lati-
more township, Adams county, Pa., March 14, 1829. He first
engaged in teaching in his native county, then moved to York,
where he was following that profession, and was also justice
of the peace when he entered the three months’ service April
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26, 1861, as First Lieutenant of the Worth Infantry, which be-
came Company A, in the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment. Soon
after the expiration of this term he began to recruit Conipany
E for the 87th Regiment, and was chosen its captain. He was
the only officer of the regiment who held the position of cap-
tain during the entire term of three years, and took part in all
the marches and campaigns in which the regiment participated
during the years 1862 and 1863, displaying marked coolness
and bravery in the engagements at Carter's Woods and at
Locust Grove. For three months of the Spring of 1864 Cap-
tain Myers was on special duty as a recruiting officer at Car-
lisle, Pa., returning to his regiment June 2, while the battle of
Cold Harbor was in progress. He was immediately put in
charge of the skirmish line and bravely held a perilous posi-
tion on two of the succeeding days of that battle. He com-
manded the skirmishers in front of the regiment on June 22,
1864, at the engagement along the Weldon Railroad in front
of Petersburg, when the regiment suffered a heavy loss. Cap-
tain Myers led his men in several important charges at Monoc-
acy and remained in command of his company in Sheridan’s
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley until the expiration of the
term of service in September, 1864. After the close of the
war he was a justice of the peace in York for fifteen years. He
also conducted a music store, and was engaged in the reai es-
tate business, and served as a bank director and as secretary
of building associations. He died in York September 14, 1880.

Captain James Apair, of Company F, was born in Scotland,
and came to this country early in life, settling in Philadelphia,
where he learned the stone-cutting business. When the citi-
zen’s cemetery was laid out at Gettysburg, some time before
the Civil War, he removed to that town, and carried on a large
business in putting up memorial stones. In 1861 he responded
to the first call for troops, enlisting as a sergeant in Captain
Buehler’s Company, in the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, in the three months’ service. After returning home, he
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assisted in recruiting Company F, of which he became first lieu-
tenant. Upon the resignation of Captain Martin, he was pro-
moted to captain, and led his company in all the engagements
in which the regiment participated to the end of the three years’
term of service. Captain Adair was a good drillmaster and kept
his company under excellent discipline. He was always ready
and willing to perform any duty assigned him, and was brave
and fearless in time of danger. He had the highest respect and
unbounded confidence of all his men. During its three years’
service there were six men of Company F killed in battle, two
accidentally killed, eighteen wounded, six died of disease, and
one, David G. Myers, died in prison. Captain Adair received
a slight wound at the battle of Cold Harbor June 3, 1864.
Most of the time since the war Captain Adair has resided in
New York City, where he has been deputy collector of revenue.

CapTrain Henry Morninestar, of Company G, was born in
Hanover, Pa., in 1830, and served as First Lieutenant of the
Hanover Infantry, which became Company G, of the 16th Penn-
svlvania Regiment in the three months’ service. In August,
1861, he assisted in recruiting Company G of the 87th Regiment,
and was chosen First Lieutenant. He was captured by Mc-
Neil’s Virginia Rangers, while on the retreat from the battle of
Carter’s Woods, June 15, 1863, and with the other officers of the
regiment, who became prisoners, was held in Libby prison for
eleven months, and then taken with them to Macon, Georgia.
He was afterward removed to Savannah, to Charleston, and to
Columbia. Together with 2,000 other officers, he was sent, in
‘March, 1865, to Raleigh, N. C., and was paroled with them
along the banks of the Cape Fear River. While he was held a
prisoner of war, he was promoted to Captain but never had the
opportunity of returning to his company. He did not have a
change of clothing during the twenty-one months he was a pris-
oner. Since the war he has resided at Hanover.

CapTaIn WeELts A. Farrau, of Company H, was born Sep-
tember 20, 1826, and early in life engaged in the mercantile
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business in the village of Wellsville, York county, Pa. He was
following that occupation when he began to recruit a com-
pany for the three years’ service and became its First Lieutenant.
Upon the resignation of Captain Harman he was chosen to
command the company, January 18, 1863, while the regiment
was in winter quarters at Winchester, Virginia. Captain Far-
rah had acquired a good education and was a man of pleasant
address. He was deservedly popular with his company, which
during the winter and spring of 1863 he carefully drilled. He
was with his command in the action at Bunker Hill, Va., when
Lieutenant Slothower, of his company, was killed. After par-
ticipating in the hard fought battle of Carter’s Woods, near
Winchester, Va., in the early morning of June 15, 1863, he was
struck by a minie ball and instantly killed. This occurred just
as the Union forces began the retreat down the Shenandoah
Valley, and the body of Captain Farrah fell into the hands of
the enemy. His remains are supposed to rest in the National
Cemetery at Winchester, among the unknown dead. In 1852
Captain Farrah was married to Miss Jane E. McMullin, of
Wellsville.

Captain THADDEUS S. PFEIFFER, of Company I, was born in
1841 at New Oxford, Pa., where his father Dr. Pfeiffer conduc-
ted a flourishing Collegiate Institute for a number of years. He
obtained a good education under his father’s instructions.
Early in 1861, he organized and drilled a military company, in
New Oxford, and in September, 1861, after being enlarged by
new recruits, it joined the 87th Regiment as Company I which
he commanded in all the marches and engagements in which the
regiment took part up to November, 1863. During the last
two months of that year and in January, 1864, he served as act-
ing Assistant Inspector General on brigade staff. He comman-
dea his company in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and dur-
ing the first two days of the battle at Cold Harbor. On the
morning of June 3, he was mortally wounded while in charge
of detail of skirmishers between the battle lines of the contend-
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ing forces. He was taken to the field hospital where he soon
died, and was buried under a tree, His remains were afterward
brought to New Oxford for interment. The Grand Army Post
in his native town was named in honor of him.

Captain Witiiam H. Lanzus, of Company I, was born at
Flushing, Long Island, Nov. 26, 1843, son of Henry and Ange-
line (Miller) Lanius. His father was of German, and his moth-
er of English and French Huguenot descent. His ancestors on
lis father’s side, for several generations, resided in York and
vicinity, where they were prominent and influential in the Mo-
ravian church and in the affairs of the city and county. His
mother’s ancestors lived on Long Island. Henry Lanius, his
father, was a successful lumber merchant, and filled the office of
Chief Burgess of York, as a Republican, during the first years
of the Civil War. Captain Lanius obtained his education.in pri-
vate schocls. and in the York County Academy where he ex-
celled as a student. After leaving school, he was a clerk in his
father’s office, until he enlisted as a private in Company A, 87th
Regiment, August 25, 1861. Two weeks later, he was promot-
ed to Orderly Sergeant of Company I, and performed the duties
of that office while the regiment went on the mountain cam-
paign in West Virginia. On March 2, 1863, he was promoted
to Second Lieutenant, being then the youngest commissioned
officer in the regiment. With his company and regiment he
participated in the affair at Newtown, June 12, 1863, the engage-
ments around Winchester the two succeeding days, and
the battle of Carter’s Woods on June 15, where he led his part
of the line up to the enemy’s works. When the Union troops,
being overpowered in numbers by the enemy, began the sudden
retreat, he escaped with that part of the regiment under Colonel
Schall, to Harper’s Ferry, and for several weeks, thereafter,
was acting adjutant. He was with his regiment in the 3d Bri-
gade, 3d Division, 3rd Army Corps, in the engagements at Mo-+
nasses Gap, July 23; Bealton Station, October 26; Kellv’s Ford,
November 7, and Brandy Station, November 8. During the
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absence of Captain Pfeiffer on brigade staff, Lieutenant Lanius-
commanded Company I in the engagement at Locust Grove on.
November 27.. He was also in command of his company when.
the 3d Division was to lead the assault on the Confederate:
works at Mine Run, November 39, but owing to the impregna--
ble position of the enemy, the assault was not made. On De--
cember 7, while in winter quarters at Brandy Station, he was
promoted to First Lieutenant, succeeding Anthony M. Martin.
who had been made adjutant. When General Morris was.
wounded, on May 9, 1864, at Spottsylvania, and Colonel Schall
succeeded to the command of the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 6th
Army Corps, in which the 87th was then serving, Lieutenant
Lanius was placed on the brigade staff as an aide. When Col-
onel Truex, the senior officer, assumed command of the Ist Bri-
gade, he was continued on the latter’s staff, and was with
the regiment and brigade in all the engagements of Grant’s:
campaign of 1864, in the movement of the army from the
Rapidan to Petersburg, including the battles of the Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Laurel Hill, Po River, North Anna, Tolopotomy,.
Cold Harbor and Weldon Railroad.

After Captain Pfeiffer was killed at Cold Harbor, he
was commissioned Captain of Company I on June 25, still re-
taining his position as an aide on brigade staff. “In the battle
of Monocacy July 9, 1864,” says Colonel Stahle in a description
ol that engagement, “Captain Lanius displayed both courage
and daring. Jn the afternoon of that day when the Confeder-
ates were reforming their line in a woods in our front, with the
intention of turning our left, he came riding gallantly along our
lines, bringing an order from General Wallace for the 87th Penn-
sylvania and the 14th New Jersey to charge across a field, and
take position by the Thomas House.” This charge was success-
fully executed, but soon afteward Captain Lanius while passing
through a shower of balls, was wounded in the arm, which dis-
abled him for about two months, when he returned to the regi-
ment, then under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Vallev, and took
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Opequon and Fisher’s Hill. At the expiration of the three
years’ term of service in September, 1864, he returned, with
the regiment, to York where he engaged in the lumber business
which he conducted with energy and success for a number of
years. In 1884, he organized the West End Improvement
Company, a land company that opened up and developed the
western part of York. He organized the York Street Rai!way
Company in 1886, and has been its president. since that time.

Captain Lanius has been president of the York Trust Com-
pany since it was organized through his efforts in 1890. This
institution has since done a large and prosperous business. He is
also president of the Eastern Extension of the Baltimore and
Harrisburg Railway, was the first president of the Board of
Trade of York in 1886, and is a trustee of the York County
Academy, and the York County Historical Society. In 1867
he was one of the charter members, and became the first Com-
mander of Sedgwick Grand Army Post, No.37, at York,and was
its representative several times at State and National Encamp-
ments. For eight years he served in the borough and city
councils of York. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and
of the Masonic fraternity.

In 1884, he was.a delegate to the Republican National Con-
vention which nominated James G. Blaine for President of the
United States. In all his business enterprises, he has display-
ed good judgment, fertility of resources, and rare executive
and administrative abilities. For twenty-five years, Captain
Lanius has been one of the most active, energetic and public
spirited citizens of York, always supporting every movement
intended to advance the interests and promote the welfare of
the city.

CAPTAIN JOHN ALBRIGHT, of Company K, was born in Balti-
more, in 1826, and moved to York with his parents when he was
ten years old. At the age of eighteen, he engaged in the cigar
trade which he afterward followed as his occupation. In April,
1861, he enlisted with the York Rifles in the three months’ ser-
vice, and became First Sergeant of the Company. After his
return to York in July, he assisted in recruiting men for Com-
pany K, of which he was chosen Captain when John W. Schall
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He commanded the
Company in the West Virginia campaign, and until June 15,
1863, when he was captured at Winchester, Va. He was then
sent with other officers to Richmond where he was held in Lib-
by for eleven months, and then was transferred to Macon, Geor-
gia. His prison experience afterward at Savannah, Charleston
and Columbia, and until he was paroled, was the same as that
of other officers mentioned in this chapter. He was mustered
out March 12, 1865, and returned to York where he was engag-
ed in the tobacco business until the time of his death, May 5.
1896.

LIEUTENANT Jacop Hay was born in York, in 1833, son of
Dr. Jacob and Sarah (Beard) Hay. His father had been a prom-
inent physician of York for fifty-five years, and also served as
president of the York Bank. The ancestors of both his parents
were among the first settlers in and around York. Lieut. Hay
obtained his preliminary education in the York County Aca-
demy; read medicine with his father, and was graduated from
the University of Maryland in 1854. He was in the active prac-
tice of his profession when he enlisted Sept. 11, 1861, in Com-
pany A, of which he was made First Lieutenant. He served
with his company until Nov. 28, 1861, when he resigned and re-
turned to York where he was one of the foremost physicians of
the city and county for thirty years or more. Dr. Hay was an
active member of the County, State and National Medical Soci-
eties, and for fifteen years was a member of the York School
Board, serving three terms as its president. He was married
to Catherine, daughter of Joseph Smyser, of York.

LIEUTENANT W. H. BiERBOweER, of Company A, was born
on Shelley’s Island, Dauphin County, Pa., Jan. 14, 1840, and
was engaged in the tinning and stove business in York when
he enlisttd in Company A as Orderly Sergeant,.September 11,
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1861. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, January 1, 1863,
and was captured at Carter’s Woods, June 15, 1863. For twen-
ty-one months he was held a prisoner of war with other officers
of the regiment who were captured near Winchester, Va.
While he was in prison he received promcetion to First Lieuten-
ant, but never got back to his regiment. He was paroled near
Wilmington, N. C., and discharged March 12, 1865. He died
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Feb. 13, 1899.

LIEUTENANT JOHN F. SPANGLER entered the service, Sept.
11th, 1861, as Second Lieutenant of Company A. He was pro-
moted to First Lieutenant, Jan. 11, 1863, and was in command
of his company from June 24, 1864,until he was mortally wound-
ed at Monocacy, July 9, 1864. He was a native of York, and
a son of Jacob and Sarah S. Spangler. He was born in 1830.
When his father heard that he was wounded, he went to Fred-
erick, and found his son in the Union Hospital, where he died,
July 15. His remains were brought to York, and buried with
military honors in Union Cemetery, July 18. The funeral!
took place from the residence of his father-in-law, David Jame-
son. It was attended by a company from the U. S. Hospital,
the York Home Guards, the Vigilant Fire Company and many
citizens of York. Chaplain J. A. Brown, D. D., officiated.
During the ceremony, the flags of the town were hung at half
mast. Lieutenant Spangler left a widow and two children,
one of whom is living with her mother in Chicago.

LIEUTENANT JOHN CRULL was engaged in the mercantile bus-
iness in Newberrytown when plans were formulating for the or-
ganization of a regiment at York. He had a large experience
before the war in drilling military companies in the upper end of
York County. In August, 1861, he recruited about forty men,
brought them to York where they joined Company B, of which
he became First Lieutenant. He was an excellent drillmaster
and was well trained in military tactics. He remained with the
regiment until May, 1863, when he resigned.
“LIEUTENANT CHARLES H. STaLuMAn. of Company C, was
born in Prussia, October 20, 1840, and came to York, Pa., in
1852. became clerk in the hardware store of Rosenmiller & Co.,
in York. where he remained until April 19, 1861, when he en-
listed as a private for three months, in the Worth Infantry,
which served in the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment. He entered
Company C as Third Sergeant, and was promoted to Sergeant
Major while the regiment was on guard duty along the railroad.
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company C, Dec.
25, 1862, and participated in the engagements around Winches-
ter. After the battle of Carter’s Woods, he retreated with the
detachment that reached Bedford, Pa. Lieutenant Stallman
was in command of his company in the engagement at Locust
Grove, November 27, 1863. When the regiment moved on to-
ward Mine Run, he commanded a detail of men to assist in build-
ing corduroy roads for the rapid movement of the troops. He
was promoted to First Lieutenant, January 31, 1864. For three
months he was on special duty at Carlisle, Pa., as a recruiting
officer, returning to his regiment when it was at North Anna,
Va.,in May. On June 1, when the battle of Cold Harbor open-
ed, he was in charge of a detail of men on the skirmish line, and
advanced them through a woods. As they moved into a clear-
ing, a Confederate battery opened upon them. The Lieutenant
and his men dropped to the ground, and moved on their hands
and feet across the brow of a hill, out of the range of the guns,
and did some effective work as skirmishers during the battle.
Lieutenant Stallman was captured on the skirmish line near
Petersburg, Va., Tune 22, 1864. After remaining a few days on
a small island, at Petersburg, with many other prisoners, he
was taken to Richmond, and placed in Libby prison. From
there they were sent by rail to Lynchburg, and from that city,
marched to Danville, Va., where they arrived July 4. They
were put in a tobacco warehouse and fed on corn bread and
pork which tasted very good. They were taken next to Macon,
Ga., and from that place to Savannah, where they received kind
treatment and had plenty to eat. From Savannah they were
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transferred to Charleston, and placed in the jail yard, a hot and
dirty place, where a number died. They were then removed to
Columbia, 5. C. The quarters there were good, but the rations
furnished, poor. When Sherman started from Atlanta, on his
march to the sea, 2,000 officers were sent to Raleigh, N. C.
From this place they were moved to the point of exchange,
about eight miles from Wilmington, N. C., on the Cape Fear
River. There they saw the old flag for the first time since their
capture. A guard of honor was waiting to receive them. On
the march to the steamboat landing colored troops formed in
line on both sides of the way. They had erected an arch over
the road with the words, ‘Welcome Home,” in its center. The
circumstances and the surroundings touched the hearts of the
sternest men, and brought forth feelings and emotions exper-
ienced only on such an occasion. The same day, March 1, 1865,
Lieutenant Stallman and some of his comrades took the boat at
Wilmington for Annapolis, Md., where he arrived on the 5th,
without shoes and with very little clothing. He was mustered
out of the service by special order of the Secretary of War,
March 12, 1865. He then came to York, and after spending a
short time with his old comrades, talking over the events of the
war, and finding all enjoyment possible, he accepted a position
as salesman in the large store of P. A. & S. Small in York,
where he remained until 1874. In that year, he went into the
wholesale tobacco business in York, with R. L. Shetter, un-
der the firm name of Stallman & Shetter. In 1897 he purchas-
ed Mr. Shetter’s interests and has since conducted the business
himself. He has been President of the City Bank of York
since 1895; has been 10 years a member of the School Board,
and two years its president; and is a director in the York Wall
Paper Company. Lieutenant Stallman had a good record as a
soldier and bravely led his men in all the battles in which he
participated.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE Basser, of Company D, born at
Shrewsbury, in 1809, was a merchant, farmer and _ undertaker,
when the war opened. He had served as Second Lieutenant
of the Jackson Greys, a noted military organization, which was
ordered to Philadelphia, during the riots of 1844. He served
with Company D, of the 87th Regiment, from the time of its or-
‘ganization to Oct. 25, 1862, when he resigned. He died at
Shrewsbury, Dec. 23, 1875.

LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER STRICKLER, of Company E, was
born in York county in 1838. When he was quite young, his
parents moved to York where he learned the trade of a moul-
der, and was following that occupation when he entered the
three months’ service with the Worth Infantry, April 19, 1861,
in response to the first call for troops. ‘Soon after his returm
home in July, 1861, he assisted in recruiting Company E, of
which he became First Sergeant. On Jan. 19, 1863, he was
promoted to Second Lieutenant. He took part with the regi-
ment in the battles around Winchester in 1863, and led Com-
pany E in two of the charges at Carter’s Woods. During the
absence of the commanding officer of Company C, on special
duty, he was placed in temporary command of that company
November 30, 1863. On December 8, while in temporary com-
mand of Company E, he was also assigned to command Com-
pany H, and had charge of the latter company part of the win-
ter of 1863-4. During the absence of Captain Myers on recruit-
ing service, Lieutenant Strickler commanded Company E, in
the battle of the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, and led it in the
charge on the Confederate works at Cold Harbor, June 1, y864.
He was commissioned First Lieutenant, June 25, 1864. After
Lieutenant Haack was killed at Monocacy, July 9, he was in
command of Company K until August 1 when he was taken
sick, and was sent to the Union Hospital, at Frederick, Md.
‘Lieutenant Strickler was mustered out of the service with the
regiment Oct. 13, 1864. Since the war he has followed his
chosen occupation of an iron moulder at York.

LIEUTENANT Ropert A. DANIEL, of Co. G, was a native of
Ohio where he had acquired a good English education. When
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the 87th Regiment was being recruited at York in 1861, he
was teaching school in Spring Garden Township. He induced
some of his pupils and other young men in the neighborhood
to enlist, and brought them to York where he obtained other
recruits. Upon the organization of Company G he was made
Second Lieutenant. On November 1, 1863, he was promoted
to First Lieutenant. As Captain Morningstar was a prisoner
during the remainder of the war, Lieutenant Daniel command-
ed Company G, in all engagements in which the regiment took
Part to the end of the three years. He was a brave and com-
petent officer.

Lizutenant M. S. SLoTHOWER was a farmer’s son in the
northern part of York county when he enlisted Sept. 19, 1861,
as a Sergeant in Company H. He was promoted to Second
Lieutenant March 13, 1863, and as an officer, was popular with
his men. In the afternoon of June 13, 1863, when the Union
force, guarding the crossing of the Opequon Creek at Bunker
Hill, near Winchester, Virginia, was suddenly attacked by Jen-
kins’ Cavalry, Lieutenant Slothower was instantly killed. His
remains were buried by the Confederates, at Bunker Hill, but
were afterward removed to the National Cemetery at Winches-
ter, and buried in lot No. 26. He was the first officer of the
regiment to be killed.

Lizurenant Dantev P. Ditrricu, of Company H, who was
mortally wounded in the afternoon of July 9, 1864, at Monocacy,
and died the same day on the field of battle, was a native of
Warrington Township, York County, Pa. He was a young
man of good character and had a fine record as a soldier. When
the war opened he enlisted for three months in Captain Don-
aldson’s company. In August, 1861, he enrolled at Wellsville
with Company H, then being recruited for the 87th Regiment.
He was soon promoted to Sergeant, then to First Sergeant, and
to First Lieutenant April 9, 1864. He commanded his Com-
pany in part of the Wilderness campaign.
 

 

 

LIEUTENANT B. F. FRICKE, Company A. LIEUTENANT JOHN CRULL, Company B.
Lieutenant Dietrich was pierced by a minie ball, just after
the regiment made the last charge at Monocacy. When his
comrades last saw him, he was still living. During the retreat
he fell into the hands of the enemy and it is supposed, died soon
thereafter. His body was recovered the following day after the
Confederates had left the field, and was buried by Union sol-

diers. George F. Felty was one of the last men who spoke to
him.

LinutENAnt CuHartes F. Haack, who commanded Company
K, from June 15, 1863, until he was killed at Monocacy, July
©, 1864, was born in York in January, 1834, and followed the
eccupation of a bricklayer, until the opening of the Civil War,
when he enlisted with the York Rifles in the three months’ ser-
vice. He assisted in recruiting men for Company K, and upoa
its organization, was chosen Second Lieutenant. He was pro-
moted to First Lieutenant March 4, 1863, and led his men in
the engagement at Carter’s Woods, Locust Grove, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Weldon Railroad and Monocacy.
The incidents connected with his fatal wound and death will be
found in the chapter on the battle of Monocacy. His remains
were brought to York and buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
The funeral was attended by many citizens, the Veteran Reserve
Corps stationed at York, the Hospital Band, three companies of
Home Guards, the Laurel Fire Company and Captain Philby’s
Cornet Band, of York. During the funeral the business
houses of York were closed, and all flags hung at half mast.
Lieutenant Haack had two brothers in the 87th Regiment:
Sergeant Lewis R. Haack, now of Havanna, Mason County, Tli-
nois, who commanded Company K during the last month of
its service, and William A. Haack, of York, who served with
credit as a member of Company C, for three years.

Ligutenant Benjamin F. Frick, son of John P. and Han-
nah (Hershey) Frick, was born in York County June 9, 1841,
and obtained his education in the public schools and the York
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County Academy. He was one of the original Ellsworth
Zouaves, and enlisted as a Sergeant when that organization be-
came Company A of the 87th Regiment. He was with his com-
pany and regiment on the long marches of 1862, and in the
engagements around Winchester up to June 15, 1863, when he
was captured, and with many other prisoners, was taken to
Belle Isle, on the James River, at Richmond. After being pa-
roled, he returned to the regiment and took part with it in the
Mine Run campaign in November, 1863. Together with Ser-
geant Major Geise, and others, he passed a successful examina-
tion at Washington for promotion to command colored troops,
and in March, 1864, was assigned to the 39th Regiment United
States Colored Troops with the rank of Second Lieutenant
of Company H, and was soon promoted to First Lieutenant.
For a short time, he was Assistant Adjutant General to Colo-
onel Bowman. During part of the year 1864, he had command
of Birney barracks at Baltimore, the principal recruiting sta-
tion for colorcd troops for Maryland and Delaware. He re-
turned to his regiment in North Carolina, and was present at
the surrender ef Johnson’s army to Sherman in that State. Af-
ter the war ended, he had charge of Fort Fisher until Decem-
her, 1865, when he was mustered out of service with his regi-
ment. Lienteaant Frick then returned to York where he has
since been engaged in business. In 1893, he was elected Pro-
thonotary of York County, being the first Republican elected
to a-county office in a straight political contest.

CoRPORAL JOHNSTON H. SKELLY, of Comoany F, was born
Aug. 14, 1841, at Gettysburg, where he learned the tailor’s trade
with his father, and also granite cutting. He was working at
the latter business when he enlisted in Company E, Second
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, for three months. In Au-
gust, 1861, he joined Company F in the 87th Regiment, and
served with it until he was mortally wounded at the battle of
Winchester, June 14, 1863, and died at Winchester, Tuly 1a,
1863. Corporal Skelly was engaged to be married to Miss Jen-
nie Wade who was killed at Gettysburg during the battle, while
baking bread for the Union soldiers on the skirmish line in
front of her house. After her death a picture of Corporal
Skelly was found in her pocket. This picture is in the posses-
sion of Daniel A.Skelly, a brother residing in Gettysburg. Post
9 in his native town is named in honor of this gallant soldier.
He had a brother in the sanie company with him, and his father

was a member of Company K in the 1o1st Pennsylvania Regi-
ment.

CoRPORAL WILLIAM T. ZIEGLER, of Company F, was born at
Gettysburg, Oct. 3, 1840. He served five and one-half years at
hat making and three years at carriage painting; having just
completed his apprenticeship of the later trade when he en-
listed as a private in Company F, in August, 1861. He received
a slight wound at the battle of Carter’s Wood in June, 1863.
After the Mine Run expedition he was promoted to Corporal,
and served with the regiment in all its engagements of 1864,
up to June 23, 1864. On that day Corporal Ziegler with a
number of men of the regiment was captured, and sent to An-
dersonville prison. It was then that the incident took place
described on page 240 in this book. After ten months of im-
prisonment at Andersonville and other places, he was released
at Baldwin Junction, Florida, April 28, 1865, and discharged at
Harrisburg June 12, 1865. While in prison he was unanimous-
ly chosen Captain of his division. His duties were to receive
the rations for one hundred men, and distribute them. Since
the war Corporal Ziegler has resided at Gettysburg, and was
chosen a member of the State Legislature from Adams County.
He has been actively interested in several business enterprises
of his native town, and is Vice President of the Peoples’ Bank
of Gettysburg.

SERGEANT DanieL L. WELSH, of Company G, who was killed
at Monocacy, July 9, 1864; was born at York in 1832, son of
Charles and Eliza (Laumaster) Welsh. After leaving school,
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he followed the trade of a carpenter in his native town. Before
the war, he was a member of the Worth Infantry, and went with
it into the three months’ service, in April, 1861. He enlisted
with Company G, Sept. 25, 1861, and served with it in all the
engagements in which it took part, until he was killed at Monoc-
acy. Lieutenant Daniel, who commanded Company G, wrote
to the father of the Sergeant the following on July 12: ‘‘Ser-
geant Welsh received a mortal wound at Monocacy, being
struck by a minie ball, a few minutes before we were compelled
to fall back. The ball passed through his body near the heart.
Ve was in all the charges of that fateful day. Being hard press-
ed by the enemy, we were unable to carry him off the field.
The last words he spoke to us were these: ‘Tell my friends at
home that I died on tne field of battle.’ Then pointing to our
colors in front of him, he continued, and tell them I died de-
fending my country and that dear old flag.” Then we were com-
pelled to leave him, and he died in the hands of the enemy.
The day after his death, his remains were buried by some of our
own cavalry. He was a brave soldier, and was highly esteemed
by all of his associates.” Sergeant Welsh would have been
mustered in as Second Lieutenant a few days later, if he had
lived.

Joun C. Hoprman, of Company G, enrolled his name Sep-
tember 25, 1865, but on account of his age and youthful appear-
ance, was not mustered in until Oct. 31, after receiving the con-
sent to enlist from his father, Lewis Hoffman, who had been
the oldest member of the York Rifles in the three months’ ser-
vice. Private Hoffman was in all the engagements in which
the regiment participated, in the campaign under Milroy, in the
Valley of Virginia, and in the campaign under Grant in the Wil-
derness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Weldon Railroad.
In July, 1864, he was appointed regimental postmaster. Just
before the battle of Monocacy, Colonel Stahle requested him
to take judicious care of some regimental mail that could not
be posted at Frederick. On the day of the battle July 9, 1864,
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he went from Monocacy to Chestnut Ridge where he
climbed a tree and from this elevated position for the first time,
viewed the progress of a battle in which he did not participate.
He performed his duties with credit as postman, and was mus-’
tered out with his regiment Oct. 13, 1864. His brother, David
N. Hoffman, of Company K, was killed at Mine Run Nov. 30,
1863. His brother Charles, having lived in the South when the
war opened, became a Sergeant in Johnston’s Confederate bat-
tery and was killed at Gettysburg when his uncle, V. J. Clut-
tere, was in command of the battery. After the war. Private
Hoffman attended Union Academy and the York County Nor-
mal School, and since 1870 has taught school with success in
Michigan, Indiana and in Pennsylvania. For several years he
has been teaching in York, Pa.

In 1867 he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and was detailed as clerk
in the quartermaster’s department at Hart’s Island, in New
York Harbor, whence he was transferred to Madison Barracks,
Sackett’s Harbor, during the Fenian War, and was promoted
Corporal of Company F, 42d Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps.
On May 2, 1868, Corporal Hoffman was married to Miss Mary
A. Ansell of Elmira, N. Y. He was transferred to Fort Ontario
at Oswego, as quartermaster and commissary sergeant. Be-
ing a good clerk: he was sent in April 1869, to Fort Gibson, In-
dian Territory whence he was transferred to Company K, 6th U.
S. Regular Infantry at Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he was
discharged in August 1869. Howard R. Andrews of the 87th
Regiment also served during the Fenian War, as a corporal in
the 42d Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps which was commanded
by General Daniel E. Sickles.

SERGEANT Mayor FRANK GEISE was born in Paradise town-
ship, York county, Pa., May 22, 1837,and enlisted as corporal in
Company D, September 19, 1861. He was promoted to Ser-
geant Major of the regiment in March, 1863, and served in that
position in all the engagements in which the regiment took part
during the year. In the Spring of 1864 he passed the examina-
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tion before the Casey board at Washington, and was promoted
to Second Lieutenant in the 32d Regiment, United States Col-
ored Troops, and was sent with his regiment to Hilton Head,
‘South Carolina. In September, 1864, he was detached from his
regiment, and was appointed assistant provost marshal for the
Department of the South. A few months later he was made
assistant military tax collector at Charleston, S. C. In April,
1865, he was promoted to First Lieutenant in the 54th New
York Veteran Regiment. During part of the following year,
until his retirement from the army in September, 1866, he
served under General Gilmore as provost marshal of Charles-
ton, a position of important trust and responsibility.

Lieutenant Geise attended the Columbia Law School at
Washington,and upon his return to York engaged in the practice
of law with success for several years alone and then in >artner-
ship with E. D. Ziegler and Joseph R. Strawbridge. He served
one term as prothonotary for York County, and at the time of
his death, May 1, 1900, was mayor of the City of York.

Captain Epcar M. Ruut, of Company D, was born at
Shrewsbury, Pa., June 14, 1841, and was a son of Major N. G.
Ruhl. He entered Company D as Second Sergeant in Septem-
ber, 1861, was promoted to First Sergeant May 11, 1862, to
Second Lieutenant Oct. 25, 1862, to First Lieutenant May Io,
1863, and te Captain April 20, 1864. During the fall of 1863
and the early months of 1864, he served as an aide on the staff
of General French, commanding the Third Corps. Captain
Ruhl was in command of Company D during the campaign of
1864, and was a brave and fearless officer. When the regiment
returned home at the expiration of its term of service, he re-
mained with the re-enlisted men and the new recruits who were
formed into a battalion, and he was made its commander.
Early in the morning of Oct. 19, 1864, while firing a revolver,
brandishing his sword and urging on his men to aid the other
forces in. resisting a sudden attack of the enemy at Cedar Creek,
Virginia, Captain Ruhl was struck by a minie ball, which passed
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through his body, severing a large artery. He threw up his
hands and said, ‘Boys, its all up with me.” He died a few
minutes later. Some of his men carried his body to the rear
and secured his sword and some valuables which he had in his
pockets and sent them home. When the Union forces re-
treated from the field, Captain Ruhl’s body fell into the hands
of the enemy. But when the army, upon the arrival of Sheri-
dan, moved forward in the afternoon his comrades recovered the
body and gave it a temporary burial. It was afterward re-
moved to Shrewsbury, Pa., and buried there with military hon-
ors. The loss of Captain Ruhl was deeply felt. He was held
in high favor among all his men. Captain Edgar M. Ruhl
‘Camp Sons of Veterans at York, Pa., is named in honor of him.
A lifesize portrait of Captain Ruhl adorns one of the walls of
the camp room. The cavalry saber carried by him when he
was killed, was presented to the Camp by Chaplain Eberhart,
who had picked it up from a battle field and loaned it to Captain
Ruhl while the latter’s sword was being repaired in Baltimore.

SERGEANT Danie P. REIGLE enlisted as a private in Com-
pany F, September 16, 1861, was promoted to corporal, July
‘9, 1864, and to sergeant, August 25, 1864. When color bearer
J. J. Keesey was wounded in the battle of Opequon, and the flag
fell to the ground, Sergeant Reigle grasped the banner and car-
ried it with the regiment into the thickest of the contest. When
Captain Ruhl was mortally wounded at the battle of Cedar
Creek, Sergeant Reigle stuck the flag into ground and help-
ed to carry his fallen commander to the rear. In the meantime
the Union line fell back, but he rushed forward and obtained the
flag within ten yards of the advancing enemy. When the Union
forces moved forward on a_ charge, Sergeant Reigle, with the
battalion, helped to capture and re-capture a battery four times,
finally pulling the cannon to the rear with their hands, as all the
horses had been killed. When the enemy made the last charge
in this battle, Sergeant Reigle captured a Confederate flag.
For his bravery in this battle, General Sheridan sent him with
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the captured-flag as a trophy of victory to Washington to pre-
sent it to the War Department, and received a medal of honor-
He was also granted a furlough for thirty-five days. On April
2, 1865, when the 87th, with the Sixth Corps, assaulted and
captured the Confederate works in front of Petersburg, Ser-
geant Reigle was among the first to plant the Stars and Stripes
upon the enemy’s ramparts. When the regiment was mustered
out cf the service in June, 1865, his comrades presented to him
the veteran flag which he has since kept in his possession at his
home near Taneytown, Maryland.

COLONEL JAMES TEARNEY enlisted in Company B, Sept. 14,
1861, as a Sergeant, and was promoted to First Sergeant Oct.
1, 1863. In the winter of 1863-4, he re-enlisted for three years
and served with his company as a gallant soldier. In the mean-
time he was promoted to Second Lieutenant. He _ received a
slight wound at the battle of Opequon September 19, 1864. In
November of that year, when the re-enlisted men were organ-
ized into a battalion, he was chosen its commander. Lieuten-
ant Tearney was promoted to Captain December 13, 1864. He
led his command in the charge on the enemy’s works in front
of Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and was brevetted Major for brav-
ery in action. On May 23, 1865, he was commissioned Colo-
nel. He was mustered out with his regiment June 29, 1865.
Colonel Tearney died at Hollidaysburg, Pa., in 1900.

Caprain Frnpiay I. THomas, brevetted major, was born at
Cashtown, Adams county, Pa. August 20, 1842. He moved
to New Oxford in 1860, and was attending Dr. Pfeiffer’s Colle-
giate Institute when he enlisted as a corpora] in Company I.
He was promoted to sergeant in September, 1862. In the win-
ter of 1863-4, he re-enlisted for three years, returned home on a
furlough and rejoined his regiment, with other veterans,
near Spottsylvania, Va., and took part with his command in alt
the remainder of the engagements of Grant’s campaign till July
6, 1864, when the division was sent to Monocacy to meet Early.
He was with the regiment in the campaign under Sheridan.
On Sept. 16, 1864, he was promoted sergeant major, and on No-
vember 16 to captain of Company C. He took part with the
Battalion in the battles at Cedar Creek, Kearnstown, Hatcher’s
Run, Fort Fisher and Petersburg. He received a slight wound
in the engagement along the Weldon Railroad June 23, 1864.
He was also wounded April 2, 1865, in the engagement before
Petersburg, Va., and for gallant and meritorious services on
that day, was brevetted major of U. S. volunteers. On May
23, 1865, he was promcted to major of the veteran regimeni,
and was mustered out of the service June 29, 1865, at Alexan-
dria, Virginia. After returning home Major Thomas spent one
year as a student in Dickinson Seminary; since then he has
had a successful experience in the profession of teaching. He
taught two years in ungraded public scsools, three years in the
Uniontown Soldiers’ Orphan School, and fourteen years in the
city schools of Harrisburg. From 1886 to 1889, he was prin-
cipal of the White Hall Soldier’s Orphan School and the suc:
ceeding year was superintendent of that school. In 1890 he
again moved to Harrisburg, where he has since been engaged
in the public school work. He has been a member of Post 58,
G. A. R., since 1871, and has belonged to the Pennsylvania
Conimandery of the Loyal Legion since 1887. Major Thomas
was married in 1872 to Agnes E. Kirk, whose father was the
first county superintendent of schools for York county. Thev
have two children, a son and a daughter.

I

CAPTAIN GEORGE J. CHALFANT, son of James and Mary Ann
Jessop Chalfant, members of the Society of Friends, was born
in York, Nov. 14, 1839, and obtained his education in the pub-
lic and private schools of his native town. Early in life he be-
came a machinist. He was chosen a Sergeant in the Ells-
worth Zouaves, and joined Company A of the 87th Regiment
at Clarksburg, Virginia, in Oct., 1862, having enlisted on Aug.
23, for three years. He served with the regiment in all its ac-
tive campaigns. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant of his
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Company Sept. 25, 1864. As he entered the service one year
after the regiment was mustered in, he did not return with it at
the expiration of its term, but remained with the Battalion of
which he was one of the few commissioned officers, when it was
formed. With his command, he took part in the battle of Cedar
Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, the charge upon the Confederate works at
Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and the battle of Sailor’s Creek on
April 6. He was promoted to First Lieutenant Dec. 13, 1864,
to Captain of Company A, May 23, 1865, and was mustered out
of the service with his company June 29, 1865.

It is worthy of notice here that the battle of Brandywine dur-
ing the Revolution was fought in part on his great grandfath-
er Chalfant’s farm, and the battle of Guilford Court House in
North Carolina on the. farm of his great grandfather Jessop.

After returning from the war Captain Chalfant resumed his
occupation of a machinist. He was married to Miss Jennie E.
Myers, of York. He died April 12, 1878, leaving one son,
James E. Chalfant.

LIEUTENANT SAMUEL W. Keasey, the last man of the regi-
ment to be killed, was born in York county in 1841. He resid-
ed on a farm in Spring Garden Township, when Robert A.
Daniel, who was teaching school in the neighborhood, began to
recruit for the 87th Regiment. With some of the school boys,
he enrolled his name with Daniel’s squad, came to York and
became a Corporal in Company G of which Robert A. Daniel
was chosen Second Lieutenant. He re-enlisted in March, 1864,
and, for bravery in action at the battle of Cedar Creek, was pro-
moted to Second Lieutenant of Company D, Jan. 21, 1865.
While leading on his men in the charge upon the Confederate
works, in front of Petersburg, April 2, 1865, he was instantly
killed, seven days before Lee surrendered at Appomattox. His
remains were brought home and buried in the cemetery adjoin-
ing Mount Zion church in Spring Garden Township.
ROSTER

OF

87TH REGIMENT, P. V. I.

FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date of |&
Names. Rank. |Musterinto|§ 2 Remarks.
Service. |W
George Hay Colonel|Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate, May 9, ’63.
John W. Schall Aug. 24, 6} 3 |Pro. from Capt. Co. K to Lt. Col. Sep. 14, ’6r
Col. May 9, ,63. Wounded at Cold Harbor
June 3, '64. Disch, Oct. 13, ’64. Exp. of term,
James Tearney a Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Pro. from Capt. Co. A May 23, 65 Mustered
out with Regiment June 29, ’65. Veteran.
James A. Stahle /Lt. Col./Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Pro. from Capt. Co. A to Major Jan. 1, '63; to
Lt. Col. May 9g, '63. Dis Oct. 13,’64. Ex. oftrm.
Chas. H. Buehler |Major. |Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Pro. to Col. 165th P M. Dec. 25, ’62.
Noah G. Ruhl fe Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Pro. from Capt, Co. D May 9, '63. Com. Lt. Col.
Not mustered. Discharged on Surgeon's
‘Certificate Aug. 30. 64.
Jacob Emmett, Jr./Adj’nt. |Aug. 24, ’61} 3 Ero from gad Lt. Co. K Sep 25, 61. Disdh’d.
ct. 14, '63.
A. M, Martio “  |Sep. 12, 61} 3 |Pro. from rst Lt. Co. I Nov. 18, 63. Killed at
Monocacy July 9, 64.
Geo. C, Stroman ss Sep, 14,61] 3 |Pro. from ist Lt. Co. B July 9, 64. Discharged
Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Wm. C Waldman as Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Pro. from 2nd-Lt. Co. D Dec. 13, 64. Disch’d
. June 13, 65 Veteran.
Peter Ford Q. M. |Sep. I9, 61} 3 |Pro. from 1st Lt. Co. D Sept. 21, 65. Disch’d
February 22, ‘63 .
James Hersh “ Sep. 12,61] 3 jPro from 2ud Lt. Co. I Mar. 1, 63. Captured
June 5, 63. Dischd. Oct. 13. 64. Exp. term.
William E. Culp ss Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Pro. from rst Lt. Co. C Dec. 13, 64. Mustered
out with Regt. June 9, 1864.
Wm. H. McCurdy |Surg’n |Oct, 15, “6t | 3 [Discharged February 24, 1864.
Dav. F. McKinney * Oct. 15, 61 | 3 |Pro. from Ass’t Surg. Apr. 10, 64. Discharged
: Oct. 13,°64. Expiration of term.
‘Theo. A. Helwig « JApr. 20, '64 Pro. from Ass’t Surg. Feb. 6, 65. Absent on
furlough at muster out.
H C. Steadman _ /Ast.Sur|/Aug. 1, ’62 | 3 |Discharged January 27, 1864.
B. J. Campbell ee Mar. 27,65) 3 |Mustered out with Regiment June 29, 1865.
Nichl’s M. Hoover of Apr. Io, 65] 3 |Mustered out with Regiment June 29, 1855.
James A. Brown Chap’n Sep. 21,61 | 3 |Resigned July 16, 1862.
James F. Baird Aug. —, 62} 3 |Discharged December 4, 1862.
David C. Eberhart “Feb, 13, °63] 3 (Captured June 15, 63. Disch. Oct. 13, 64, Ex. t.
Chas H. Stallman |Sg. Maj|Sep. 25, ‘61 | 3 |Pro. from Sergt. Co. C. Pro. toznd Lt. Co. C
Dec. 25, 1862. (See Co. C.)
Robt S. Slaymaker . Sep. 11, 61 | 3 |Pro. to 1st Lt. Co. H Jan. 18, 64. (See Co. H.
Frank Geise ‘« |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Pro. from Corp. Co, D. Disch’d Mar. 1, '64, for
; promotion to U.S. Colored Troops. Veteran fs

 
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Names. Rank. |Muster into § & Remarks.
Service. |N%
Chas. P. Stroman |Sg. Maj Sep. 11, 61 | 3 |Pro. to 2nd Lt. Co. K Aug. 7, 63. (See Co. K.)
Findlay I. Thomas a Sep. 12, 61] 3 |Pro. from Sergt. Co. I to Sergt. Major. Pro. to

Joseph H. Welsh
Albert Ford
Daniel Bonge. 1st
Michael Smyser
Wm. McGonigal

John A. Weakley
Sample P. Gable

Lewis I. Renaut
George Kraus

John Deiner
Joshua Happoldt

James C. McGuire

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Pl. Mus/Sep. 25, ’61

Capt. Co. C. Jan. 26, 65. Breveted Maj. Apr.
2,65. Veteran. (See Cos. C and I.)

ee Sep. 25, ’6: Pro. from Corp. Co. D. Jan 26 '65. Com. 1st Lt.
Not mustered, (See Co. G.) -
Q.M.S.|Sep. 13, '65 Pro. from Corp. Co. E Sept. 21,’61 Discharged

October 13, 1864. Expiration of term.
Sep. 13, 61 Pro. from Corp. Co A Sept. 25 ’64. Mustered
out with Regiment June 9, 1865. Veteran.

June 15,63 Disch. Oct 13, 65. Exp. of term.

se Sep. 25, '61 Pro. from Corp. Co E. Sept. 25, 64. Absent on
furlough at musterout Veteran.
Hos.St.|Sep. 11, ’61r Pro. fr. Corp.Co.K Dis. Oct. 13,'64 Ex. term.
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3
3
Com.Sg|Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Pro. from Private Co. F May 1, 62, Captured
3
3
I

Mar. 16, '65 Pro. from Private Co. A May Io, '65 Mustered
out with Regiment June 9, 1865.

Pro from Musician Co G Oct. 20, 63 Transf.
toCo D Nov 1,’65 Mus. out with Co. D. Vet.

Pro. from Private Co. KE May —, 1862. Died at
Annapolis, Md., May 11, 1863.

3
Sep. 13, 61] 3
3 |Died at Hanover, Pa., March 12, 1863.
3
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Sep. 25, Pro from Mus’n Co. E Nov. 2,’64 Mustered
out with Company June 29, 1865. Veteran.
Sep. 14, ’61 Pro. from Private Co. C May 1, ‘65. Mustered

out with Company June 29 °65. Veteran.

COMPANY A,

 

James A, Stahle
John Fahs

George J. Chalfant

Jacob Hay, Jr.
John F, Spangler

Wm. Bierbrower

Alexander Kipp
Frederick Hubley
Elijah Francis
Jos, Berkheimer

Wm. F. Zorger
Henry Shultz

George Tawser
John J: Schall
Lewis Frey
Benj. F. Frick

Edwd. Monaghan
Joseph Hare

Jere. Carbaugh
Reynolds Pilgrim
Charles Metzger

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Sep. 11, 61} 3 |Promoted to Major January 1, 1865.

Sep. 11, 61} 3 |Pro. to 1st Lt. Dec. 7,’61; to Capt. Jan 1, '63.
Captured June 23, ’64. Disch’d Mar. 12, 1865

Aug. 23,6 | 3 |Pro. to 2nd Lt. Sep 25, '64; to ist Lt. Dec. 13, °64;
to Cap . Mar. 23, 65. Mustered out with Co.
June 29, 1865.

Sep. 11'’61| 3 |Resigned November 28, 1861.

Sep. 11, 6x |,3 |Pro from 2nd Lt. Jan. t, 63. Died July 15, of
wounds rec’d at Monocacy, Md.. July 9, 1864.

: Buried in Union Cemetery at York, Pa.

Sep. 11, 61] 3 |Pro. to 2nd Lt. Jan. 1, 63. Commis’ned ist Lt.
July 10. 64. Not mustered. Captured June 15,
1863. Discharged March 12, 1-65

Sep. 11, 61] 3 |Wounded June 23,'64 Pro from Sergt. May 29,
’65. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65. Vet.

Sep. 11, 61} 3 |Wounded in '64. Mustered out with Company
June 29, 1865 Veteran.

Sep. 11, 61( 3 |Wounded June 23, 64 Mustered out with Co.
June 29, 1865. Veteran.

Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Pro. from Corporal May 29, 65 Mustered out
with Company June 29, 1865. Veteran.

Sep. 11, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13 1864. Expiration of term.

Sep. 1x, 61] 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Died at Andersonville,
Ga., April 5, '65. No. of grave, 12,824.

Sep. 11, '6z | 3 |Discharged October 13, 64. Expiration of trm.

Sep. tr, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Sep. 11, '6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term,

Sep. 11, 6x] 3 |Discharged by Special Order March 1, ’64, to
accept promotion in U.S Colored Troops,

Aug. 1,62 | 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, 64.

July 16, 64} 3 |Substitute. Pro. to Corp. Sep 25, '64. Wounded
at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 64. Absent at
muster out.

July 5,64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.

July 4,64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.

Sep. 11, 61] 3 |Prisnr. fr. Jun. 23, 64 to Ap. 20, 65. Proto Cor.

 

May 29, 65. Mus. out w. Co. Jun. 29,’95. Vet.
 

Names.

Rank,

Date of
Muster into
Service.

Ws.

Term

Remarks.

 

Wm Brubaker
Chas A.Laumaster

Alfred J. Jameson

Harrison Heidler
Daniel Begne, 1st
Charles Denues
Robt.S. Slaymaker
Sml. Baumgardner

Wm. F, Smith
Harry Fink
Franklin Barnhart
Andrews, Saml.R

Andrews,HowrdF.

Burns, Jos. G. W.
Boll, Christian
Barefield, Hend'n
Barefield, John
Bendon, Simon

Baker, John C.
Bittinger, John

Berry, John
Beitzel, Edwin
Bonge, Frederick
Brown, Alexander
Bott, Peter

Butterbaugh, Geo.
Brown, John H.
Coleman, Eman’l
Cassidy, James B
Clapper, Jacob
Dissinger, Martin
Denlinger, Henry
Denues, William

Dellinger, Charles
Enrick, Alfred
Eiserman,Christ’n
Evans, Samuel
Everhart, Henry
Ensinger,HenryA.

Feige, Julius
Felty, William
Frick, Abraham
Fritz, Jacob
Feathers, George
Fissel, Oliver

Fahs, Hamilton
Glassmyer, Jacob
Ginter, Henry C.

Gotwalt, Charles E
Galloway, James
Ginder, Samuel
Gable, Sample P.
Hunter, Jackson

Heite, George
Hinkle, David

Corp’l.
do

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Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, '6r
Sep. 11, '61
Sep.
Sep.
Sep.
Sep.
Sep.

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11, 6
II, '6t
11, '6r
Tr, ‘61

Sep.
Sep,
Sep.
Sep
Sep. 11, '6r
Aug. 2, '64

Aug. 1, 64

June 29, "64
July 2:, '64
July 6, 64

Mar. 17, "65
Sep. 11, '6r

Sep.
Sep.
Sep.
Sep.
Sep.

II, ’61
Ir, "6
41, 61
Ir, 6
1, ’6r

June 18, 64!
June 17, '64
Sep. 11, '6r
July 25, "64
Mar. 8, '65
Mar, 17, '65
Mar. 14, ’65
Sep. 11, 61

Sep. 11, '6r
June 3, '64
Mar, Td, 65
Sep. 11, '61
Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, ’6r

Mar, 17, 65
Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, "61
Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, ’6r
Sep. 11, ’6t

Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 11, ’6r

Sep. 11, ’61
Sep. 1, ’62
Sep. 3, 62
Mar. 16, ’65
July 2, '64

June 18, '64

 

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Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Prisoner from July 9, 64, to Feb. 21, 65. Dis-
enieed April 1, 65.
‘Wounded in Winchester campaign. Diseh'’d
October 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Promoted Q. M. Sergt. Sept. 25, 64. Veteran.
Dicharged on Surgeon's Certificate Jan 2 , 64.
Promoted to Sergeant Major Dec. 25, "62.
Wounded June 23, 64. Discharged on Surg’ns
Certificate May 12, 65. Veteran.
Discharged by General Order June 20, ‘6s.
Discharged Oct 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Prisoner from June 23, "64, to Apr. 28, '65. Dis-
charged June rr, ’65.
Prisoner from June 23, '64, to Apr. 28 '65. Dis-
charged June .11 '65.
Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 20, '65,
Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’6s.
Substitute Mustered out with Co. June 2 ,°65.
‘Drafted. Wounded at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct.
19,65. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Discharged by General Order August 3, ’65.
Captured at Monocacy, Md. July 9, '63. Died
ul. 12,64, at Fredk. Md. Bur. Re. Olv’t Cem.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration ot term.
Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration ofterm.
Capturd June 323, 64. Died at Blackshear,
Georgia, December —, °64.
Drafted. Died at Annapolis. Md., Mar, 18, ‘65.
Sub. Captrd. Died at Salisbury,N.C. Dec, 12,'64.
Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65 Veteran.
Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’6s.
Muttered out with Company June 29, '65.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Wounded at Cold Harbor. Prisoner fr. Sep. 24,
64, to Feb, 28, '65. Discharged April 12, ’65.
Died at Baltimore, Md., March 30, 62.
Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65.
Mustered out with Company June 29, '65.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 12,’64. Bur-
ied in Burial Grounds in Wilderness, Va.
Mustered out with Company June 29, '65.
Discharged Oct. 13, €4. Expiration of term.
‘Discharged Oct’ 13,’64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Wnd. May 12, 64. Abs. in hosp. at muster out.
Captured at Monocacy, Md, July 8,'64. Dis-
charged Sep. 27, ’65, to date Nov. 23, °64.
Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps April 4, ’64.
Mustered out with Co. June 29,65. Veteran.
Prisoner from Sep. 24, '64, to Mar. 2,65. Dis-
charged April 25,'65. W’nd at Winchester.
Prisn'r fr. Jun. 23 to Nov. 27, 64. Dis. Feb. 2, 65.
Discharged on Surgeon’s Certific't Apr. 26, '65,
Discharged by General Order June 20, ’65.
Pronioted to Hospital Steward May 10, ’65.
Drafted. Wounded at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct.
19, 64. Absent at muster out.

 

Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65,
 

 

 

 

 

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Dateof |\8&..
Names. ‘Rank. |Muster into| § 2 Remarks.
Service. |H
Herbstritt, Martin|Private|Oct. 15,64 | 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, "65.
Holkamp, William) do |July 12, 64] 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29,
Hoke, David do |June 11, 64) 3 |Substitute. Wounded at Cedar Creek. Dis-
. charged on Surgeon’s Certificate Apr. 1, ’65.
Hamilton, Milt.H.| do |Aug. 2, ’64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Hoover, John do /Mar. 22, 65| I |Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Hersch, Philip do |Mar. 27, ’65| 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, '65.
Hyde, Charles do |Sep. 11, ’6¢| 3 |Wd Jun. 23,64. Abs. in hospt'l at ex. of term,
Hawkins, James do |Sep.11,'61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Hamme, Henry do |Sep. 11, '61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
YWendrickson,T.R.| do ([Sep. 11,'61| 3 |Wd.atSpottsylvania. Dis. Oct. 13. 64. Ex. ot t.
Johnson, George do |June2,'64| 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Kessler, Michael do |July 12, 64] 3 |Sub. Wounded Oct. 19,64. Abs. at muster out.
Kohr, David do |Aug. 28, 62} 3 |Discharged by General Order June 23, '95
Kahill, William do |Mar. 21, 65} 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, '65.
Keller, Henry do |Mar. t5, '65| 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Keller, James do |Sep. 11,6] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kepner, Stephen do |Sep. 11, ’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kramer, Harrison] do |Sep.11,’6t| 3 |Missing since May 27,'64. |
Kipp, John do (Sep. 11,’6] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Koch, George do |Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Knodel, George do |Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Cert. May 20, 64. Vet.
Keller, Fidele Os le imetearelerntrs 3 |Died Oct. 10, '64. Buried in National Cemetery
at Antietam, Md., Sec. 26, Lot E, Grave 545.
Lintner, Benj. H. do |Mar, 20, 65] 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, 65.
[Taumaster, Daniel] do (|Sep.11,’61| 3 |Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps April 4, 64.
Lilly, Henry do |jJuly 28, 64] 3 |Sub. Disch. on Surg.’s Certificate May 12, '65.
Miller, Andrew do |jJuly 29, 64] 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29, "65.
Myers, Michael do |July 18,64] 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Moffitt, William do |July 4, 64 3 |Dratted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Miller, George, Jr... do |Sep. 11, 6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration of term,
Miller, George, Sr.| do |Sep.1r,’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct 13, '64. Expiration of term,
Miller, George do |Jan. 20, 65| 1 |Discharged on Surgeon’s Certifict. May 12, ’65.
Morgan, John A, do |July 14, ’64| 3 |Subst. Discharged by Gen'l Order May 25, ’65..
Marrow. Michael do |Sep. 11, ’6r| 3 |Prisoner from June 22 to Nov. 26, 65. Disch’d
i June 8, '65. Veteran.
Metzgar, F. T. do |Sep.1:, 61] 3 |Wounded at Carter’s Woods. Disc. Apr. 15,’64.
Miles, Samuel do |Sep.11,’61| 3 |Died at York, Pa., January 17, ’62.
Morgan, William do |June 18, 64] 3 |Drafted. Died at Winchester, Va. Oct. 25, of
wounds received at Cedar Creek Oct- 19, '64.
McWilliams, Jacob] do |Sep.11,’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
‘McClintick, Jos.H.| do |July 30, 64] 1 |Wounded at CedarCreek. Discharged on Sur-
: geon’s Certificate April 10, ’65.
McCleary,William| do |Sep. 8, ’62 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, '65.
Neuman,HenrylL.| do (Sep. 11, ’6:| 3 |Wounded June 23, 64. Abs. in hosp. at ex. of t.
Noll, George do |June 24, 64] 3 |Wounded at Cedar Creek. Disch. Nov. 25, ’64.
Philips, Jacob do |June 18, 65} 3 |Drafted. Captured at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, '64.
Parks, Stephen L. do |Juneg, 64 | 3 |Sub. Discharged by General Order May 26,65.
Platts, George do |Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, 65. Veteran.
Pentz, Henry C. do |Sep. 11,’61| 3 |Woundedat Winchester. Capture . Sep. 24,’64.
Pris’r Sep.24,'64, to Mar.2,’65. Dis. May 10,’65.
Poleman, Henry do |Sep.11,’61| 3 |Captr’d Jul 9,64. Diedat Danville, Va., Oct. 2,
64. Bur.in Nat Cm., Sec. A, Div. 1, Grav. 120.
Patterson, James do |Sep. 11, ’61} 3 |Dtscharged on Surg.'s Cert. Late unknown.
Quinn, Hugh do |jJuly 31,62} 3 |Prisoner from July 9, '64, to Apr. 20, 65, Mus-
tered out with COmpany June 9g, ’65.
Rhodes, Abraham do |Sep. 11, ’6r| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65. Veteran,
Richey, Simon do |June 2,64 | 3 |Wd.atCedarCreek, Mus out w. Co. Jul.29,’65.
Rupert, Amos do |Sep.11,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Rutledge, Thomas} do |Sep.1r, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Rhinehart, Geo. do |Sep. 11,’61| 3 |Discharged on Surgeon’s Certifict. Jan. 22, '64.
Rouse, Luke R. do |Sep.1t,’6r| 3 |Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps Apr. 4, '64.
‘Robinson, Thad's do |jJuly 6, 64 3 |Drafted. Disch. on Sur. Certificate May 12,65.
Richey, Joseph do (July 13, ’64| 3 |Subst’d. Disch. on Sur. Certificate May 20,’65.
Rice, William H. do |July 3, 64 3 |Drftd. Died Apr. 24, 65, of wounds rec’d at Pe-
' tersb’g.Va., Apr. 2,65. Bur. Arlngt’n C., Va.
Rhodes Abraham do |June 18, °64| 3 |Drftd. Killed at Cedar Creek,Va., Oct. 19 64.
Shellenberger, J. do ‘Juner,’64/' 3

 

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Date of |® ..
Names. Rank, |Muster into| $ 2 Remarks.
Service, |W
Seninger, Joseph |Private|June 1, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Seeman, Charles do |Mar. 18, ’65| « |Mustered out with Company Juue 29, ’6s.
Stauffer, John H. do |Mar. 14, 65} « |Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Shrom, Jacob do |Sep. 11, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Smith, Abraham do jSep. 11, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Strayer, George do |Sep. 11,'61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Shuman, William do |Sep 11, ‘6r| 3 |Pris. Jun. 23, 64 to Apr. 28,65. Disc. Jun. 11,'65.
Sauppe, Herman do |Sep. 11,61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,64. Expiration of term.
Spahr, Charles do (|Sep. 11, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct 13,64. Expiration of term.
Smith, Emanuel do (Sep. r1,’61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Stroup, Joseph do (Sep. 11,61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Schriver, William do |Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Wounded at Winchester. Prisoner from June
23, 63, to Apr. 28, 65. Discharged Jun. 11,'65,
Snyder, Charles do |Sep. 11,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ‘64, Expiration of term.
Shellenberger,Jno}| do /|Sep.11, ’6t| 3 |Disch. on Surgn’s Certificate. Date unknown,
Stoner, Samuel do |Sep, rr, ’6r} 3 |Dicharged on Surgeon’s Certificate Mar. 24, 64.
Tomes, Michael do (|Sep.11,'61] 3 |Died at York, Pa., December 27, ’62
Upp, Jacob S. do |Sep. 11, ’6r| 3 |Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps Apr. 4, '64.
Wilson, James do |July 7,64 | 3 |Substitute. Captured September 18, '64.
Wise, Henry do |Mar. 17,65} © |Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Wise, Jacob P. do /|Mar. 18, 65} 1 |Mustered out with Company June 29, '65.
Weller, John W. do |Mar. 17, '65| t |Discharged by General Order July 25, ’65.
Weller, Samuel W.| do /Mar. 17, 65} 1 |Discharged by General Order July 109, ’65.
Witman, Peter do |Sep. 11, ’6£| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Zechman, William| d June 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '64.
Zimmerman,Edw.| do |Sep. 11, '61| 3 |Wd.at Spottsylvania. Dis. Oct. 13.°64. Ex. trm.
Zellers, Daniel do |Sep. 11, *61}| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ziegler, Martin do |Sep. 11, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
COMPANY B.
Jacob Detwiler ane Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate Jul.21,’63.
Lewis Maish o |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Pro. fr. 2nd Lt. to rst Lt. May 26, °63; to Capt.
Oct.25 '63. Captrd. Jun.23,’64. Dis. Mar.23,'65.
John Crull st Lt. |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Resigned May 26, ’63.
Geo. C. Stroman do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Pro fr. ist Sergt. to 2nd Lt. May 26. 63; to 1st
: Lt. Oct. 25, 63; to Adjutant July 9, ’64.
James Tearney do /|Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Pro. fr. Sergt to 1st Sergt. Oct. 1, '63; to rst Lt.
Aug. 9, ’64; to Capt. Co. A Dec. 13, 64; to Brev.
Maj. Apr..2, ’65; to Col. May 23, 65. Veteran.
Samuel F. Keller | rst Sgt./Sep 14, ‘61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Henry Epley do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Commis’d rst Lt. May 10,'65. Dis on Surgeon’s
5 Certificate May 16, 65. Veteran.
William K. Parker| Sergt. |Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Pro. fr. Private to Sergt. Oct. 23, 64. Mustered
out with Company June 29‘ '65. Veteran,
James S, Grimes do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Promoted fr Corp. May 16, 65. Mustered out
with Company June 29, ’65. Veteran.
Theo. A. Gardner do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Edward T. Rudy do j|Sep. 14, 61} 3 |Captured June 23, 64. Died at Andersonville,
Ga., Oct. 10, ’64. No. of grave, 10,622.
Wm. Drabenstadt do Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Pro. fr. Corp. Jun.1,’64. Dis.Oct.13,’64. Ex. oft.
Sobieski Leib do |Sep. 14, '6:| 3 |Discharged on Surgeon’s Certificate Apr.7,'63.
Robert D. Greer do /|Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Killed at Carter's Woods, near Winchester,
' Va. June 15, "63.
William Walters do /|Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Died at Phila,, Pa., May 31, 64. of wounds re-
ceived at Wilderness, Va., May 7, °64.
Aug. Winegardner| Corp’l. |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Pro. to Corp. June 23, '64 Prisoner fr. June 23,
“ ‘64 to Apr. 28, 65. Dis. Jun. 16, ’65. Veteran.
Henry C. Shatzler do /|Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Pro. to Corp. Oct. 23. 64. Prisnr. fr. Jun. 23,64,
to May 2, ’65. Disch. June 17, 65. Veteran.
Thomas Malone do (Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Pro. to Corp Jan. 20, '65. Captured Jun. 23, '64.
Mustered out with Co. June 26, 65. Veteran.
Joseph M. Funk do |Sep. 14, ’6t}.3 |Wounded May 6,’64. Absent at Exp, of term.
John Mathias o |Sep. 14,'61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Lucas Shurer oO |Sep. 14.’6r| 3 |Wounded June 23, '64. Absentat Exp.of erm.
William H. Zorger| do /I/Sep.14,’6t! 3 |Wounded Nov. 27.'63. Absent at Exp. ofterm.

 
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Names. Rank. |Musterinto § & Remarks.
Service. |W
John A. Hiney Corp’l |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Absent sick at expiration ofterm. .
Samuel Madlam do |Sep 14, ’61| 3 |Dischargedon Su geon’s Certificate Jan. 12,’62.
John Smith do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Mar. 28, '63.
John Leas do |Oct. 31, 6 | 3 |Pris. fr. Jul..9,’64 to Feb. 22, '65. Dis Apr. 27, 65.
George Toomey do |Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Captured Jun. 23, ’64 Discharged on Surgeon's
s Certificate May 16, 65 Veteran. .
Daniel W. Keiter do (Sep. 14, 6: | 3 |Killed at Winchester, Va., Sep. 19 ‘64. Buried
at National Cemetery, Lot 18. Veteran.
Wm. C. Barringer |Musc’n|Sep. 14, '61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
John Walzer do |Sep. 14, '61 | 3 |Dischargedon Surg.’s Certificate Sep. 29, ’61.
Ayers, Edward T. |Private|Sep. 14, 61; 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65. Veteran.
Arnold, John do |Sep. 11,61] I |Discharged on Surg ’s Certificate May 2, 63.
Bare, Samuel do |Sep.14,’61| 3 |Wd.atC’ld Harb. Mus.out w.Co.Jun.29,’65. Vet.
Ball, Andrew M. do | June 4, 64 Drafted Disch. by General Order May 26, ’65.
Blouse, Daniel do |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Mustered out with Co Jun. 29, '65. Veteran.
Bluste, Adam do |Sep. 14, ’6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Boush, Montgom’y| do |Sep. 15,61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Mar. 17, '63.
Burge, Robert do (Jun. 19,64] 3 |Substitute. Dis. on Surg.'s Certfc’t May 16, '65.
Barnitz, Jonathan do (Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Died at New Creek, W. Va., August 1, ’62.
Bentley, John do |Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Died October 29, ’61
Connelly, William| do {July 7,’64 | 3 |Substitute. Captured September 8, ’64
Cook, Harris J. do |July 2, ’64 | 3 |Substitute. Absent at muster out.
Cotton, William do July 7, °64 3 |Substitute, Absent at muster out.
Callan, John do (july 9,’64 | 3 |Substitute Captured September 8, '64.
Corl,‘James E. do (Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Discharged.Oct. 13 '64. Expiration of term.
Clune, John do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 12, 62.
Crist, Addison do |Sep. 14, '6t | 3 |Discharged on Surg ’s Certificate Apr. 9. 63.
Car ol, William do |Sep. 14,61) 3 |Cap.Jun.23.’64. Dison Sur. Ct. May 16,’65. Vet.
Coble, Moses do (Sep. 14, ’6t | 3 |Died December 4, 62.
Dortort, John do {July 3, ’o} 3 |Substitute. Mustered out Jun. 29. '65.
Drabenstadt, Fink} do |Sep. 74, ’6r| 3 |Captured Jun. 23,64 Died at Andersonv., Ga.
Drake, Christophr do |Jun. 25,'64| 3 |Drafted Disch. by General Order July 27, ’65.
Diehl, Eli do |Sep. 14, ’61 | 3 |Died at Alexandria Apr. 1,'64. No ofGr., 1,715
Epler, Bennevill.C; do |Sep. 14,’6'| 3 /Discharged Oct. 13. 64. Expiration of term.
Hicholtz, William do |Sep. 14, ’6t| 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Epler, Jacob D. do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |/Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate March, "63.
Fisher, Silas do |june 3, '64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Foor, Jeremiah do |June 3, 64 | 3 /Drafted. Disch. by General Order June 9, ’65.
Gauntz, Daniel do |Sep. 14,’6:| 3 |Discharged Oct 13,’64. Expiration ot term.
Glazier, Frederick] do (Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Gastrock, Levi do |Sep. 14,’6t| 4 |Discharged Oct, 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Gallagher John do |Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 26, 64.
Hummel, Joseph do /|Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Died at Andersonville,
‘ Ga., Mar. 2,’65. Grave No. 12,719. Veteran.
Hanks, Benson do (June 3,'64 | 3 |Drafted Mustered out June 29, 165.
Hoover, William do jun. :9, '64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Hull, Mathias do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Pris. fr. Jun.23,'64,to May 16,’6s. Disc, Jul.tg, 65.
Hursh, Samuel do (Jul. 13,64 | 3 |Drafted. Absent sick at muster out
Heiman, Michael do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Wd.at Carter’s Woods, Va., Jan. 15.°63. Prismr.
fr Jun. 23,64, to May 2,’65. Disch. Jun. 21, ’65.
Hurley, John do |Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
Hunter, John F. do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Herrold, John do Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Apr. 7, 63.
Hoenig, Lewis. do |Sep 14,’6t| 3 |Diedat Alexandria Sep. i4,’64. No of Grv. 2,671.
Hann, Joseph C. do |June 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Died Oct. 27, 64, of wounds received
at Winchester, September 19, '64. és
Johnson, Jacob do (Sep. 14, 61 | 3. |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Sept. 23, ’63.
Jones, Edward do |Juner, ’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Kendrick, James do |Sep. 14,'6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 65. Expiration of term,
Kipple, Cyrus W. do Sep. 14,61 | 4 |Wd. Jun. 23,64. Disch.Oct.13,'64. Exp ofterm.
Kueller, Charles do |July 25, '64| 5 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, 65.
Karstetler, Jacob do July 30, '64| 3 |Sub. DiscH. Nov.13,’64, for wds. rec’d in action.
Lewis, Jacob do |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration ot term,
Lenhart, Henry do |Sep. 14,’6r| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Mar. 17, 63.
Lewis, Edward do |jJul. 14, 64 | 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out.
Miller, William do |Sep. 14,’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13. 64. Expiration of term.
Moore, David _| do |July 9, 64, | 3 |Substitute Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Mansberger, Levi! do /[Sep.14,'6| 3 |Pris fr Sep. 24,'64, to Mar. 8,°65. Dis. Jul.27,’65.

 
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Names. Rank. | Muster into| § x Remarks.
Service. |W
Morrison, James |Private|July 14, '64 | 3 /Substitute. Absent sick at muster out.
Milliken Franklin| do .|Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Prisoner from Sep. 24, 64, to Feb. 27, °65. Dis:
eee ; charged Apri, 65.
Mattis, Silas do Sep. 14,61] 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
Myers, John do Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Wounded at Spottsylvania May 11, ’64. Disch.
October 13,64. Expiration of term.
Meisenheld’r,Wsh| do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Wounded at Spottsylvania Discharged Octo-
ber 13, 64. Expiration of term.
McDonald,Rann’ll}| do |June 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
McCoy, Jacob do Sep. 14, 61) 3 |Wounded at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, ’63.
aus Discharged Oct. 3, 64. Expiration of term,
McLane, William do |Sep. 14, 6 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Sep. 11, 62.
Nagle, David do {July 6,64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Newell, Oriel G. do |July 22, '64] 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Nichols, Urias R. do Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Wounded Aug. 16, 64. Absent at Exp. of term.
Nicholas. George do jun. 10, ’64| 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, ’6s.
Nauss, Alexander| do |Sep. 14, ’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct, 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Oren, James do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Prisoner from June 23, ’64, to Ap. 19, "65. Dis-
_ charged June 9, '65. _
Oxenrider, John do |June3,’64 | 3 |Substitute. Discharged Feb. 6,’ 65, for wounds
Z received at Winchester, Va., Sep. 19, ’64.
Price, Thomas do (Sep. 14,61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate May 30, ’63.
Payler, Samuel do |June 3,64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, '65. _ ;
Powell, Ackinson do |Sep. 14,61] 3 |Missing in action, Winchester, June 15, ’63.
Preston, yay E. do |July 26, '64) 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Quinn, R chard do |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Disch on Surg.’s Certif. May 16, 65. Veteran,
Quickel, Gideon do |Juneg, '64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered ont June 29, 65.
Richardson, Jas. do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Absent with leave at muster out. Veteran.
Roush, Adam do Jun. 10, '64| 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Raush, Jacob do Jun. 4,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 69, ’65.
Roat, Abraham do |Sep. 14, 61) 3. |Wd.at Spottsylv. Dis. Oct. 13,'64. Exp. oftrm.
Rouch, George W.| do |Sep. 14, .61| 3 |Captured Jun. 23,'64. Died at Florence, S.C.
Rupp, John K. do (Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Renninger, Adam do’ jJun 20,64] 3 |Drafted. Disch. by General Order May 109, ’65.
Richard, Henry H.| do (Jun. 3,’64 | 3 |Substitute, Died at Winchester Nov. 4, '64.
Ramsay, William | do j|Sep. 14, ’€r| 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Died at Andersonville
: ; . Ga. Grave No. 10,863. .
Simmons, John C.|' do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct: 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Spayd, William F.| do j|Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Wd.atSpottsylv. Dis. Oct. 13,’64. Exp.oftrm.
Snow, Elijah do |July 2,’64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Smith, Bernard do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 65. Expiration of term.
Spangler, Levi do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |lDischarged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 12, ’62.
Smith, Thomas S. do |Sep. 14, ’6t| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 12, ’62.
Sheets, John do (Sep. 14,’61] 3 |Died January 17, '63.
Snyder, Augustus do {July 28,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 20, ’65.
Updegrove, Thos do (Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Vogelsong, John do (|Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13. '64. Expiration of term.
Veoman, Nathan’l) do |Aug.1, 64 | 3 |Substitute. Killed at Fisher’s Hill Sep. 22, °64.
Welker, Henry C. do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Captured June 23, 64. Died at Andersonville
oto : Ga. Grave No. 12,493.
Watson, Wm. W. do /|Jun. 28, 64] 3 |Substitute. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Weaver, William do |Jun. 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, '65.
Wise, Augustus do |Sep. '4, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Williams, Thomas| do |July 7, 64 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out.
Wilhelm, Henry do |Sep. 14, ’6r] 3 |Wd.at Monocacy Jul. 9,'64. Abs. at Exp.oftm.
Wertz, Gottlieb do |Sep. 14, '6: | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certif. Date unknown.
Watts, Thomas do |Sep. 14,’6r| 3 |Died Aug. 23,'63. Buriedin U.S. Hospital Cem-
etery, Annapolis, Md.
Woalden,Henry W| do |july 3. '64 | 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out.
Williams, Andr..B.|) do |Juneg, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Disch. by General Order June 3, ’65.
York, Francis M. do |June 28, '64) 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out.
Zartman, Samuel do Sep, 14, ’61| 3 |Wounded at Spottsylvania. Captured June 23,
64, Died at Millen Prison, Georgia. . i
Zorger, George do Sep. ry, 61] 3 /Captured June 23, 64. Died at Florence, S. C.
Zorger, Peter F. do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Prisoner from Sep. 24,64, to Feb. 28, '65. Dis-
charged April 7, '65. - :
Zook, David do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Dec. 23, ’62.
Zarger, Isaac U. do '!Oct.31,’61 ! 3 |Discharged Nov. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 
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COMPANY C,
Date of \& 6
Names. Rank, |Muster into) x Remarks.
Service. |
Audrew J. Fulton |Capt’n.|Sep. 14, '61} 3 |Promoted to Col. 166th Regt. P. M. Dec, 24, “Ez.
Murray S. Cross do |Sep. 14, '6r| 3 |Promoted from ist Lt. Dec. 25,’62. Disch. Oct.
13, 64 Expiration of term.
Findlay I. Thomas} do |Sep. 12,'61| 3 |Promoted from Sergt. Maj. to Capt. Jan. 26,’65;
to Brev. Maj. Apr. 2,’65. Mustered out with
Company Juri. 29, '65. Veteran.
Samuel Saylor ist Lt. |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Pro. torst Lt. Dec 25, 62. Disch. Jan. 30, '64.
William E. Culp do |Sep. 25, ’6t| 3 |Transf, fr. Co. H. Pro.to Q M. Dec.13,’64. Vet.
Jonath. J. Keesey do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Prom. from rst Serg.to1st Lt. May 29,’65. Com-
missioned Capt. June1s, 65. Not musterd.
Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65. Veteran.
Wn. E. Patterson |4nd Lt.|Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Discharged Dec. 25, '62. Pro. Adjt. 166th P. M.
Chas. H. Stallman| do /Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Pro. from Serg. Maj, Dec. 25 ’62, Com. rst Lt.
Jan. 31,64. Not mustered, Captured Jun. 22,
64. Discharged Mar. 14, ’65.
Isaac Wagner do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Transf. fr. Co. H. Com. Capt. Oct. 29, '64. Not
' mustered. Discharged Nov. 4, '64.
RamsayHannagan| do /|Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Pro. fr. Sgt Sep. 25,'64. Disch. Jun. 21,’65. Vet.
Andrew J. Wetzel |1st Sgt./Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Pro. fr. Cor. to Sgt. May 13,'65; to 1st Sgt. May
29, 65. Com. 2d Lt. Jun, 18,65. Not mustered.
Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65. Veteran.
H. F. Waltemeyer do /|Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Pro to 1st Sgt. May 1, 64 Com, 2dLt. Jan. 31.
64. Not mustered. Died Jul. 22, '64, of wds.
rec’d at Monocacy, Md.. Jul. 9,’64. Buried in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
John Aker Serg’nt|Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Promoted from Corpl. May 14, ’65. Mustered
out with Company June 29, ’65. Veteran.
William A. Haack} do |Sep. 14,’61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Adam H, Carman do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Pro.to Sgt. Aug.1,'64. Dis. Oct.13,'64. Ex. of tm.
Hays Edie do |Sep. 14, ’6t} 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Mar. 25, ’63.
Adam H. Stiffler do /|Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Died at Washt’n D. C., Jul. 6, 64, of wds. rec’d
in action Bur. in Nat. Cem , Arlington, Va.,
John C Brown do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Dischd. on Surg.'s Certificate May 12, '65. Vet.
Eli Ream do /|Sep. 14,’61} 3 |Dischd. on Surg.’s Certificate May 13,65. Vet.
Eli Ream Corp’! |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Pro. to Cor. Aug. 1,’64. Wd. at Opequon, Va.,
Sep. 19, 64. Absent at muster out. Veteran.
Art’s Hildebrand do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |Pro. toCor. June ’64. Prisnr. fr. Jun. 22, '64, to
; Apr. 28,65. Discharged Jun 11, '65. Veteran.
Morris J. Powell do |Sep. 14,61] 3 |Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, '65. Veteran.
Rufus Grim do |Jan.1,’64 | 3 |Promoted to Corporal May 14, '65. Mustered
F out with Company June 29, ’65. Veteran.
Elijah B. Gibson do (Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Promoted to Corporal May 14,’65. Mustered
out with Company June 29, '65. Veteran.
Henry J,inn do |Sep. r4,’61| 3 |Promoted to Corporal May, 29, 65. Mustered
7 out with Company June 29, °65. Veteran.
Samuel F. Nevin do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,’ 65. Expiration of term.
James I, Handley| do (Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 65. Expiration of term.
Francis A, Hersey} do Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Missing tn Action at Monocacy, Md., Jul. 9, ’64.
Pius N. Minnick do (Sep. 24,’61|} 3 |Discharged by General Order Tune 20, 65.
Steward Griffith do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Died at New Creek, W. Va., September 14, °62.
Samuel B. Ruhl do |Sep. 14, 61} 3 |Died July 14, 64, of wounds received inaction.
: Buried in Nat. Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Isaiah Hoff do |Jan.1,’64 | 3 |Killed near Petersburg, Va., Jun. 23, '64, Vet.
Greenberry Lovel |Mus'n. |Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13. 64. Expiration of term.
Jacob H. Snyder do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64 Expiraticn of term.
James C. Maguire do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Pro.to Principal Musician May1,’65 Veteran.
Applegate, Thos. |Private|/Aug. 1, '64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29,65.
Anstine,Beniah K.| do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Missing in action at Monocacy, Md,, Jul.9,"64.
Bates, James do |Jul.17,'64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, '65.
Barnes, James E. do |Aug. 2,'64 | 3 |Drafted Discharged by Gen. Order Jun.28,'95.
Bilby, Edward do |Jul. 28, '64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Bortner, Harry H.| do (Sep. 14,’61/ 3 /Wounded at Monocacy, Md.. July 9, '64 .Dis-
charged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Brennem’n,Wm.H! do_ Sep. 14, '61| 3 [Captured at Petersburg, Va., June 23, '64.

 
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are Date of {&..
Names. Rank. |Musterinto|§ & Remarks.
Service. |W
Blaney, Henry E. |Private|Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Pris. fr. Jun. 23,'64, to Apr. 29,65. Dis. Jun. 28,65.
Bull, Thomas do |Ssp. 18, 61] 3 |Pris. fr. Jun. 23,’ 64, to ee eee Dia ih, 2, hae
Blake, Oram G. do |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Disch. on writ of hadeas corpus Dee, It, ’6r.
Blausser, John N. do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Disch, on Surg.’s Certificate May 16, ’65. Vet.
Beck, Jesse do |Sep. 14, ’6r| 3 |Died at Winchester, Va., Jun. 26, '63, of wounds
received in action.
Breal. Henry do Sep. 18,’61| 3 |Died at Winchester, Va., May 25, ’63.
Case, William J. do |July 12,64] 3 |Sub. Mustered out w. Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Covolt, Jacob do |June 3.64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, °65.
Cross, Samuel do Sep. 13,61] 3 |Transf. to Vet. Reserve Corps. Date unknown.
Clement, Wiiliam do {July 2,'64 | 3 |Sub. Discharged by General Order May 25, ’65:
Crowl, John A, do |Sep.9, 62 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, '65.
Duttenheiffer,Geo.| do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Davis, Martin do |June4,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Dis, on Surg. s Certificate May 2,65.
Dice, Daniel do /Jan.1,’64 | 3 |Died Sep. 2, 64, of wds. rec’din action. Buried
in Mt. Olivet Cem., Frederick, Md. Veteran.
Danner, V. Buren do |Aug. 26, 64] 3 |Died Oct. 10, 64, of wds. rec’din action. Burial
P record Nov. 10, 64, Philadelphia, Pa.
Edie, John E. do Sep. 14,61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 25, '64. Expiration of term.
Farnham,EdgarC./ do (July 25, ’64| 3 [|Sub. Disch. by General Order July 27, ’65.
Fisher, Richard do |Aug. 3, '64 | 3 |Sub. Wd. Apr.12,’65. Dis. by Gen.Or. Jun.21,’65.
Flinn, Samuel do July 2,’64 | 3 |Drafted Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Flinn, Richmond do |Sep. 14,'61| 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of.term.
Flinn, Jeremiah do Sep. 14,’61| 3 /Captured June 22, ’64. Died at Andersonville,
es Ga,, October 12, '64. Grave No. 10,776.
Frey, Lewis C. do |Sep. 14, 61) 3 |Pris. fr. Jun. 22,'64, to Apr.9,’65. Dis. Jun. 2,'65.
Fulton, David G. do |Sep. 14, ’6t| 3 |Killed near Cold Harbor, Va., June 7, 64.
Fluck, Porter do {June 4, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Killed nr. Petersburg, Va , Apr. 2,’65.
Glancy, William do {June Io, 64] 3 /Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, 65.
Grove, Jacob do {June to, 64] 3 /Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Gardner, Absalom} do {July 15, ’64/ 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Grim; Anthony do |Sep.14,’61|} 3 |Captured June 22, ’64.
Glassmyer,Sam'el| do (Sep. 18, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ging, William do |Sep. 18, 61] 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Guinn, Thomas do |Sép. 14,’62] 3 |Discharged on Surg. s Certificate Aug. Ir, '62.
Gemmill, Robert do |Sep. 18,’61} 3 |Died at Cumberland, Md., Dec. 15, ’62.
Hibler, Henry do |Sep. 24, ’62| 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, ’6s.
Housiell, Alex. do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ‘64. Expiration of term.
Hank, Conrad do |Sep.14.'61| 3 |Pris fr. Jun. 22,'64,to Apr.9,’65 Disc. Jun. 5, 65.
Himes, Joseph H. do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Householder, C. do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |/Wounded at Spottsylvania C.H. May 10, ’64.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Housiell, William do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |Disch’don Surg.'s Certificate. Date unknown.
Hose, Michael do |Sep. 14, 61 | 3 |Disch’don Surg.’s Certificate. Date unknown.
Hays. James do /July 4,'64 | 3 |Drafted. Disch on Surg.’s Certifict. Apr.2c,’65.
Hartman,EnochC.| do _ |Sep. 24, ’62| 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, ’65.
Hostler, Michael do |Aug. 19, '64| 3 |Discharged by General Order June 22, '65.
Isenbaugh, Andr, do Sep. 24, 623] 3 Discharged by General Order June 22, ’65.
Jenkins, Harris do July 14, ’64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65,
Kragle, Jacob J. do July 27, '64 | 3 |Drafied. Mustered out with Co. June 29, *65.
Krider, Henry do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kohler, Henry do /|Sep. 14, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kook, Joseph do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, 64, Expiration of term.
Keech, Robert do |Sep. 14,61] 3 |Disch’d on Surg.’s Certificate. Date unknown.
Keesey, Oliver do Sep. 14, ‘6 | 3 /Disch’d on Surg.'s Certificate. Date unknown.
Louck, Samuel D. do |Sep.19,’61| 3 |Wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 23, 64. Ab-
sent at muster out. Veteran. —
Loucks, John do /|Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Lutz, William do /|Sep. 14, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Meltzheimer, Jno.| do |Jan.1, 64, | 3 |Mustered out with Company June 29, 65. Vet.
Mills, Thomas H. do |July 9. ’64 | 3 /Substitute Absent sick at muster out,
Minnick, Paris A. do ‘|Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
McGuigan, Frank| ‘do Oct. 31, ’61 | 3 |Wounded at Wilderness, Va., May 6, '64. Dis-
: charged Nov. 2, 64, Expiration of term.
McGirk, John do |July 2,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
McGirk, Norris do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
McGuigan, John do |Dec. 31, ’61| 3 |Discharged Dec. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ochell, George H. do /July1,’64 ! 3 'Drafted. Disch’d by General Order Jul. 25,’65.

 
 

 

Date of |\&..-
Names. Rank. |Muster into| $< Remarks.
Service, |K™

Pennington, Wm. |Private|Aug. 1, 64 | 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out. :

Poet, William H. do |Sep. 14,61 | 3 |Prisoner from June 23, ’64,to April 21,65, Dis-
charged June 16, ’65. Veteran.

Pfaffenbaugh, F do |Sep 14, °6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Poet, Michael do |Sep. 14,61} 3 |Prisoner from June 23, '64 to May 2, '65. Dis-
charged June 12, '65.

Poet, John do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Dischd. on Surg Cer. May 12, ’65. Veteran.

Perry, Timothy do (July 11, '64| 3 |Subutitute. Died Jan 5, ’65. Buried in Nat.
Cem. Antietam, Md. Sec. 26, lot E, grave 542.

Rogers, D. do /Aug. 2, ’64 | 3 |Substitute Absent sick at muster out. i

Riddle, George do |Sep. 14,'61|} 3 |Wounded at Wilderness, Va., May 7, 64, Dis-
charged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Ream, Peter do |Sep. '4,'61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Rtnehart, Fred’k. do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Dischd. on Sugeon’s Certificate April 11, '62.

Ream, Adam do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Dischd. on Surgeon’s Cer. Date unknown.

Reichard, Zach. do |Sep. 14, 61} 3 |Died at Winchester, Va., July 16, '63, of wds.
received in action.

Stepstone, James do |July 30, '64| 3 |Sub. Captured at Opequon, Va., Sep. 19, ’64

Seip, Franklin do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Wounded and captured, June 23, ’64. Died at:
Andersonv. Ga.,Feb. 5 65. Grave 12 92. Vet.

Stroup, John do |July ir, 64] 3 eee: Mustered out with Company June
29, °65.

Song, Philip do (July 15,'64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Company June
29, ’65.

Snyder, CharlesD.| do /|July 3,64 | 3 |Dratted Mustered out with Co., Juue 29, ’65.

Stump, Franklin do |Sep. 14, ’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Saylor, David do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Wcunded at Petersburg, Va., June 23,'64. Dis.
charged Oct 13, 64. Expiratiou of term.

Snyder, Levi do |Sep. 18, ’61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Sheets, Jacob do |Sep 14,'61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Shadle, John B. do |July 29.'64| 3 |Drafted. Dischd. on Surg.’s Cer., May 31, ’65. .

Stoner, Jonathan do /Aug. 13, 64] 1 /Substitute. Dischd. by Gen. O., June 20, ’&5.

Spotts, Daniel do (Sep. 19, '62| 3 |Dischd. by Gen Order, June 20, ’65

Snyder, Jesse do /|Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Died July 19, 64, of wds. rec’d.in act Buried

; in U. 8S. Gen.Hos. Cem.Anuapolis, Md. Vet.

Sweitzer, Granv. do /|Sep.14,’61| 3 |Died February 22, ’63. Buried in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, York.

Strayer. Ephraim do |Aug. 28, 62! 3 |Died June 5, 65. Burial record May 25, ’65.
Buried in Nat. Cem., Arlington, Va.

Tome, Isaac do (|Sep. 14.’6t| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Fxpiration of term.

Tarbet, James do /|Sep. 18, 61} 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 61. Expiration of term.

Thompson, Jas. A.| do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Killed near Cold Harbor, Va., July 6, 64. Bur.
rec’d, June 6,64. Bur. in Nat. Cem., sec. A.

Tyson, Levi do (Sep. 14,’6t| 3 |Killed at Winchester, Va., June 13, '63.

Wagner, Isaac do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Absent sick at muster out. Veteran.

Witters, Wm. H. do |June 4,64 | 3 \Draited, Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.

White, John do {June io, ’64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co June 29, ’65.

White, Eli do |July to, ’64| 3 |Substitute. Absent sick at muster out

Wilson, David A. do (|Sep. 14,’61} 3 |Dischd. Oct, 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Whalen, Patrick do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Waltemeyer, Wm.| do j|Sep. 18,’61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Wallis, David do (June 25, ’'62) 3 |Drafted. Dis. on Sur. Cer., May 12, ’65.

Waight, William do |Aug. 6, ’64 | 1 |Substitute. Dis. by Gen. Order, June 20, ‘65.

Waltemeyer, M. do |Aug 25,’62| 3 |Discharged by Gen. Order, June 20, ‘65.

Wagner, Henry do |Sep. 14, ’61| 3 |Died Dec. 20, '6t.

Weakly, James H.| do |Feb. 22, '64| 3 |Killed at Winchester, Va , Sep. 19, ’64. Vet.

Waltemeyer, J.C.| do |Jan.1, 6 3 |Killed near Charlestown, Va., August 21, '64.
Veteran.

Wasbes, Michael do |Sep. 14,’61| 3 |Died at Washington,D C., Feb. 11,'64. Buried
in Military Asylum Cemetery.

Weaver, John do |jJan. 1,’64 | 3 |Died at Brandy Sta ,Mar. 8,’64. Buried in Nat.
Cem., Culpepper C H., Va., block 1, seclion

i . A, row, I, grave 1. Veteran.
Zeigel, Ferdinand! do _ /Sep. 14,’6c! 3 !Dischd. Oct, 13, 61. Expiration ot term.

 

 

 

 

 
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Date of \®.;
Names. Rank. |Muster into) $ & Remarks.
Service. |&
Noah G. Ruhl eae Sep. 19,61 | 3 |Promoted to Major May 9, "63.
Jas. H. Blasser o |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Pro. from rst Sgt. to 2nd Lt. May 12, 62; to rst
Lt. Oct. 25,’62; to Capt. May 10,63. Resigned
March 6, '64.
Edgar M. Ruhl do |Sep. 19, 6t| 3 |Pro. fr. Sgt. torst Sgt. May 12.’62; to 2d Lt. Oct.
25,'62; 1st Lt May 10,’63; to Capt. Apr. 20,64.
Killed at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 64.
Peter Ford ist Lt. |Sep. 19, 6] 3 |Commissioned Quartermaster Oct. 25, '61.
George Blasser -do j|Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Resigned October 25, ’62.
Henry Seitz and Lt./Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Resigned May 7, ’6°, '
Wm. H H. Welsh do |Sep. 19, '6r| 3 /|Pro fr. Sgt. torst Sgt. Oct. 25,'62; to 2d It. May
Io, 63; to 1st Lt. May 20, ’64. Captured June
15, 63. Discharged Feb. 10, 65.
Jas. B. Beck ist Sgt.|Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
J. R. Nonemaker do |Sep. 19,61] 3 |Pro. fr. Priv. to rst Sgt. Com. 1st Lt. May 10,65;
Capt. Jun. 6,'65. Not mustered. Mustered
a out June 29, 65. Veteran.
Jas. H. Hendrix |Serg’nt|Sep. 19, ’61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Robert McDonell do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
James Grove | do Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Emanuel Ludwig do |Sep: 19, 61} 3 |Wounded Julyg, 64. Promoted from Corporal
Sep. 16, 64. Mustered out Jun. 29, ’65. Vet.
Henry Hildebrand! do |Sep.19, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Andrew J. Almony} Corp'l|Sep 19, 6: | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Nathan. Z, Seitz do |Sep. 19,61 | 3 |Discharged Oc . 13, °64.. Expiration of term.
Frank Geise . do |Sep. 10,61] 3 |Promoted to Sgt. Major January 1, '63.
Henry N. Bailey do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Killed at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, '64.
Henry C. Young do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Died January 5, ’63.
Newton Krow do |Sep.19,’61| 3 |Pris fr. Jun.22,’64, to Apr.28,'65. Dis, Juu.11,’65.
John T Allison do jSep. 19,’61| 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
Wm. S. Stewart do |Sep.19''61] 3 |Pro.toCorp. Jun. 20,'64. Captrd. Jun.23,'64.Vet.
Henry Smith do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Pro.to Corp. Jan 21,’65. Mst.out Jun.29,’65. Vet.
Adam Shaffer do Sep. 19,61} 3 |Absent on furlough at muster ont. Veteran.
Squire Bmaford do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Pris. fr. Jun.22to Ap. 28,’65. Dischd, Jun. 11,’65.
Geo. W. Almony |Mus’n, |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65. Veteran.
Adam Leicht do |Sep.19,’6t| 3 |Died December 9, ’63.
Anstine, Valentine|Private|Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Armer, George do |Sep. 19,’61| 3 |Wd.at Locust Grove. Dis. Oct.13,'64. Ex. of tm.
Allison, Chas. R. do |Feb. 8,'63 | 3 |Mustered ont with Co. June 29, ’65.
Albright, Henry do |June 3,64 | 3 |Drafted. Disch. by General Order May 26 ,’65.
Brenise, Geo. W. do |Sep. 19, ’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Bollinger, George do |Sep 19,’61| 3 |Captrd. Jun.23,’64. Died at And’rs’nv. Oct.9,’64.
Bailey, Esau do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Bailey, Ephraim do |Sep. 16, '61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Feb. —, 63.
Butcher, William do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Nov. —, ’63.
Beaverson, Wm. do (sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Oct. 1, ’63.
Brown, Jacob do |Sep.19,’61| 3 |Doscharged on writ of habeas corpus.
Burbage, John do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Mar. 14, '63.
Bowers, Henry W.| do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Died Oct. 28, 64, of wounds received at Cedar
Creek, Va., Oct. 19, '64. Veteran.
Baublitz, Israel do |Aug. 20, 62) 3 |DDischarged by General Order June 20, ’65.
Bodein, William do |Oct. 31.’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Brooks, Samuel do |June2,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Bittner, Jeremiah do |June 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co, June 29, 65.
Bittner, Edw. J. do |July 21,64! 3 |Dratted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Bittner, Francis do {July 21,’64| 3 |Drafted. Absent sick at muster out.
Beitzel, John do july 26, '64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Clark, James do /Oct. 31,’61| 3 |Missing in action June 1, 64.
Coffey, John do |jJuly 26,’64|/ 3 |Substitute. Captured September 19, 64.
Cayton, Franklin do |June 3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Dischd. by General Order Jun. 9, ’65.
Critchfield, John do |June3, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Crook, Horace J. do |June 2,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Disch. by General Order June 9, 65.
Dolla, Frederick do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Dubs, Levi W. do 'Sep. 19,6! 3 '!Pris. fr. Jun.23,’64, to Ap. 28,65. Dis. Jun.11,’65.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Dateof |.
Names. Rank, | Muster into) = ig Remarks.
Service. |W
Dettinger, John |Private/Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 64. Expiration of term.
Douglass, Wm. H.| do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Killed at Opequon, Me Sep. 19, '64.
Deckman,PeterW.| do (|Sep.19,’61| 3 |Discharged Dec. 28,
Deal, Solomon do |June3.’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered ‘one “with Co. June 29, '65.
Dittenheffer, F. do |May t1,’64| 3 |Discharged July 9, ’64.
Eaton Geo. W. do Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65. Veteran,
Eckert, Conrad do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13,64 Expiration of term.
Eaton, Wm. do |Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Died Sep. 8, ’62.
Fallenstine, F. do |Sep. 16, ’6r| 3 |Dischd. Oct! 13,64 Expiration of term.
Gaffney, Edward do |Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Gable, Jonathan do |Sep. tg, 6r| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Glattelter, Jos. A. do |Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Grove, Jeremiah do |Sep 19, ’6t| 3 |Discharged March —, ’62.
Hedrick, Peter do |Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration of term.
Hartman, Al. D. do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Hanke, Fred. do |Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Dischd on Surg Certificate Feb. —, ’62.
Hildebrand, H. do |Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Dischd. on Surg Certificate March — 7635
Holter, Lewis V. do |Sep. 19,’6t| 3 |Dischd. on Surg. Certificate March —, '63
Henn, John do |Oct.31,’61 | 3 |Prisoner trom June 23, 64 to April 28, +65, Dis-
charged June 11, 65.
Hartman, Henry do |June 3,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Haley, Wm do |july 29,64 | 3 |Substitute. Captured Sept. 8, 64.
Innerst, Amos do jAug. 21, 62} 3 |Dischd by General Order, June 7, 65.
Innerst, Solomon do /May 11, '64| 3 |Dischd. by General Order, May, 17, 65.
Jackson, Granvil. do |Sep. 19, ’6:| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration ot term.
Jackson, Nath. do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kelly, Albert do /|Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Wounded June 2,’64. Absentat Mus. out. Vet
Klinedinst, L. C. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Prisoner June 23, 64 to April 28, ’65. Dischd.
June 17, 65 Veteran.
Klinedinst, Alex. do |Sep. 19,61} 3 |Prisoner June 23, 64 to April 28, 65. Dischd.
June 11, ’65.
Krout, Isaac do Oct. 31,’61/ 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
Elin erelter, 5 do |Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Dischd. on Surg. Certificate March —, ’63.
Kelly, Joseph A. do |July 23, ’64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, 65.
Kelly, Patrick do |July 25, '64| 3 |Substitute. Captured Sep. 8, 64.
Leopold, Jno do Sep. 19, 61) 3 |Died Oct. 9, '64.
Leopold, Nicholas do |Sep 19, ’6r) 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Lentz, Franklin do Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Lowe, Jacob E. do |Sep. 19, ’61/ 3 |Dischd. on Surg. Certificate March —, '63.
Miller, Peter do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65, Veteran.
Midwig, Francis do (Sep. 19,’61| 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
Metcalf, Wm. H. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Captured June 23, 64. Dischd. July 11, ’65.
May, Jonathan S. do Sep. 19, ’6r| 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Muntis, Jas. K. do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Wounded at Locust Grove. Dischd. Oct. 13,’64,
Expiration of term.
Miller, Henry do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Wounded at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 64. Absent
at muster out of Company. Veteran.
Mitzel, John do Oct. 31,61 | 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Moody, Jas. H. do (Sep. i9, 61} 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expirafion of term.
Marta, Henry do Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Dischd. on Sug. Certificate January 238, '63.
Marsh, Jacob N. do Sep. 19, ’6t| 3 |Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 23, '64.
Myers, Max. do |June7,’64 | 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Miller, Ludwig do |July 21, '64| 3 |Substitue. Absent sick at muster out.
McConnell, John do |Sep. 19, ’64| 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.
McGee, Allen do |July 1:, '64| 3 |Substitute. Wounded at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct.
3 19, 64. Absent at muster out.
McCormick, Jas. do |July 27, 64} 3 |Substitute. Dischd. bv G. O. July 15, ’65.
Ness, Amos do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Dischd. Oct 13,64. Expiration of term.
Nell, Emanuel do /May 11, °64| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Overlander, Sam. do |Sep. 19, ’61/ 3 |Dischd. Oct 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Orwig, Jon. A. do |Sep.2,’62 | 3 |Dischd. by G. O. June 9, 65,
Redding, Elias H. do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Rinehart, Rob’t.J.| do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Dischd. Oct. 13, ‘64. Expiration of term.
Reever, Peter G. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Captured July 9, ’64, at Monocacy, Md, Died at
Danville, Va , Dec. 17, °64.
Rothberth, Chas. do |Sep. 19,’6t|] 3 Discharged on Surg. ’s Certifiacte Oct. 25, 63.
Robinson, Owen do |July 25, ’64| 3 |Substitute. Captured Sep. 11, '64.
Snyder, George do |Sep. 19, 61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ’61. Expiration of term.

 
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Date of |8&..
Names. Rank, |Muster into $& Remarks.
Service. |

Saxton, Chas P, Private|Mar. 10, 62} 3 |Discharged by order of War Department, ’62.

Spotts, Jacob do |Sep. 25, '62| 3 |Discharged by General Order June 20, '65.

Smith, John do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Died July 27, 63.

Scheel, Michael do |Sep. 19, 6r | 3 |Killed at Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64.

Shaffer, John do |Sep. 19,61} 3 |Died August to, ’64.

Shaffer, William do |Aug.9, '64 | 3 |Discharged. Date unknown.

Sheeley, James do jjJul. 291 64 | 3 |Subst. Wnd. Sep. 19, '64. Abst. at muster out.

Sharkey, John do |July 6,’64 | 3 |Substitute, Captured Sep. 8, '64.

Swearer, John do |Jun. 25,’64| 3 |Drafted. Mustered out with Co June 29. 65.

Swope, John do |July 11, '64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co June 29, '65.

Shoemaker, Peter do |June3,’o4 | 3 |Drafted Dis. on Surg.’s Certificate May 12,'65.

Shockey, Jarius do |jJune 3,64 | 3 |Drafted. Dis. on Surg.’s Certificate May 12,’65.

Sherwood, John do j|July :1, '64| 3 |Discharged by General Order May 13, ‘65.

Wildasin, Eman'l do Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct, 13, '64. Expiration of term,

Weinriech, Fredk.| do |Sep, 16, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Waltemeyer,l.W.| do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 26, '64.

Williams, Henry do |July 7, 64 | 3 |Drafted. Captured September 19, ’64.

Williams, Daniel do |July 28,’64| 3 |Substitute. Captured September 11, ’64.

Wike, John H. do |July 27, '64| 3 |Substitute. Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65,

Weaver, John G. do Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64 Expiration of term.

COMPANY E,

Solomon Myers Capt’n.|/Sep 13, 61] 3 |Discharged with Company October 13, ’64.

Charles J. Fox do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Pro. from Sgt. to 1st Sgt, Jan. 18,’63; to 2nd Lt.
Jun. 25,'64; ta Capt.May 23,65. Captrd. Jun.
23,64. Mustered out w. Co. June 29,’65. Vet.

William F, Frank | 1st Lt. |Sep. 13, °61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 17,’63.

Isaac Hull do |Sep. 13, 6r{ 3 |Pro.fr. 2d Lt. Jan. 18, 63. Discharged on Sur-

: geon’s Certificate May 20, '64.

Alex, Strickler do |Sep. 13,61 | 3 |Pro. fr. rst Sgt. to 2d Lt. Jan. 19, 63; to rst Lt.
Jun. 25,'64, Dis. Oct. 13,'64. Exp. of term.

Peter Nickel do |Sep. 13, °61| 3 |Pro fr. Corp. to Sgt. May 1,’63; to 1st Lt. Dec,
18,’64. Killed ur. Petersbg.,Va.,Apr.2,'64.Vet.

Isaac G. Simmons | ist Sgt.|/Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Pro. fr.Cor. to 1st Sgt Com. rst Lt. Jun. 18,65.
Not must'rd. Mus. out w. Co. Jun.29,’65 Vet.

Benjamin D. Dull do /|Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Pro fr. Sgt. to rst Sgt. Jun. 26,64; to 2d Lt. Co.
D Sep 16, 64. Veteran.

Henry A. Zorger | Sergt. |Sep, 28. ’62| 3 |Commissioned 2d Lt. Jun. 18,65. Not mustered,
Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65. Veteran.

George Blotcher do |Sep. 13,61] 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65. Veteran.

Fredk. Bridling do |Sep. 13,'6t| 3 |Discharged with Co. October 13, ’64.

William Baum do |Sep. 13, ’6t| 3 |Pro. fr. Cor. Jun. 20°64. Discharged Oct. 13, ’64.

John W. Coover do Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Prom, to Cor. Sep. 30, ’61; to Sgt. June 20, '64.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Benjamin J. King do |Sep 13,61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr 20, '63.

Michael Riter do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Promoted from Corp. Jan. 18, 63. Killed near
Petersburg, Va., June 23, '64 :

Jno. H. Baughman! Corp’l. |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Captrd. at Monocacy, Md, July 9, ’S4. Died at
Danville, Va., Feb 2.65. Veteran.

Samuel Cramer do |Sep. 13. '61| 3 |Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, '65. Veteran.

Charles W. Shultz do |Sep. 13, ’61 Died of wnds. rec’d at Monocacy, Md., Jul. 9,

3 64. Bur in National Cem., Antietam, Md.,

Sec. 26, Lot E, Grave 541. Veteran.

Henry H. Smith do |Sep. 25,61 | 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65. Veteran.

Henry Welcomer do |Sep. 13,'61| 3 |Wounded at Winchester, Va., Jun. 15,'63. Pro.
to Corporal Mar. 12. '65. Mustered out with
Co. Jun. 29,’65. Veteran. .

Henry Streater} do /|Sep. 13,61] 3 |Pro. = core 1,65. Mus. out with Co. Jun.
2g. °65. Vet.

Albert D. Stauffer do |Sep. 27, ’61| 3 Pre : Cor. Mar. 1, '65. Mus. out with Co. Jun.
29, °65, Vet

Henry Smith do |Sep. 13, ’61] 3 Pro” to Cor. March 12, '65. Captrd. Jun. 23, 64.
Mus. out with Co. June 29, 65. Vet. ,

Philip M. Shive do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

George Bruner do |Sep. 13,61! 3 !Disch. Oct, 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 

 
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Date of |&\.;
Names, Rank. | Muster into|§ s| Remarks.
Service. |W

John Danner Corp’! |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Pro. to Cor. Nov. 28, ’63. Disch. Oct. 13, *64.
Expiration of term.

Daniel Whitenight| do |Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Pro. to Cor. Dec. 7, '63. Disch Oct. 13, 64. Ex-
Ppiration of term. a :

Daniel N. Boose do |Sep. 13, ’6t| 3 |Pro. to Cor. June 27, '64. Disch. Oct. 13, ’64.
Expiration of term. 7 ‘

W.N.Augh’baugh} do |Sep. 13,61 | 3 |Pro. to Cor. June 27, °64. Disch. Oct. 13, '64.
Expiration of term e

Albert Ford do |Sep. 13,61] 3 |Pro. to Quartermaster Sgt. Sep. 21, '6t. Disch.
Date unknown. en

John G. Bobb do |Feb. 17,62] 3 |Disch. Feb. 17, '65. Expiration of term.

Samuel Sprenkle |Musc’n|Feb. 28,'62| 3 Disch. Feb. 28, 65. Expiration of term.

Brison, William |Private|July5 ’64 | 3 | Wound. Apr. 2, ’65. Disch. by G. O. Date unk,

Bowers, James do |Mar. 14, ’65| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.

Bender, Samuel do |Mar. 14, °65| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65. i.

Bruner, Jefferson do |Sep. 13, ’61| 3 |Prisoner from July 8, 64 to Feb. 26, ’65. Disch.
March 26, ’65. :

Bricker, Samuel do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 65. Expiration of term.

Bear, Eli do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Captured May, ’64. Maat

Byerts, Elias do |Sep. 13 '61| 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Buzby, George do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Disch. on writ of habeas corpus.

Bridling, John do |Sep. 13, ’61| 3 |Disch on Surg. Cer. March, ’63.

Brenneman,Chris do |Sep. 13,61} 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. April, '63.

Bruner, Wm. H. do |Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. July, ’62.

Banner, William do Sep. 13,61} 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. Feb. '64.

Baker, John R. do {April 2,’62/ 3 |Disch. Expiration of term.

Beaverson, Edw. do |Sep 13,’61| 3 |Died near Bristol, N. J., Oct. 2, 64. -

Cousler, John do |Sep.13,’61| 3 |Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Vet.

Corman. David A. do |Sep. 13,’6£| 3 |Wounded. at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, '64.
Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps. Vet.

Crouch, Alex. do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Mustered out with Co. Juue 29, '65. Vet.

Crone, John do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Prisoner from June 23, '64 to Dec. 6, 64. Disch.
March 14, ’65.

Coover, Levi M. do /|Feb. 137, 62} 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. Nov. ’62.

Callahan, Edw. do |Feb.17,’62| 3 |Disch on Surg. Cer. Feb. 19, ’63. A
Dellinger, Henry do /|Sep. 13,’6«| 3 |Wounded at Bermuda Hundreds, Va., June 18,
3 64. Disch. Oct, 13,64. Expiration of term.

Dixon, Roland do |July6,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, '65
Everhart, John do |Sep. 13,’61] 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Died at Andersonville,
Ga., Feb. 18, '65. No. of grave 12,673.
Epply, Jacob G. do /|Sep. 13,61] 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. ’62.
Fox, Abraham do /|Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Killed at Beverly, W. Va., Nov. 6, '62
Free, Peter do /|Sep. 13,'61| 3 |Died Jun 15, ’63, of wounds received at Carters
Woods, Va., June 15, "63.
Gray, Samuel B. do |Sep.13,’61| 3 |Prisoner from June 23, '64 to April 3, 65. Dis-
: charged June 20, ’65. Veteran,
Gipe, Cyrus M. do |Sep. 13, 6t| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, 65. Vet.
Grove, Joseph do |Sep 13, '61| 3 |Disch. with Co. Oct. 13, 64. Expir. of term.
Gipp, Peter do |Sep. 18, ’62| 3 |Disch. with Co. Oct. 13, 64. Expir. of term.
Gipp, Edward do |Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Trans. to Vet. Re. Corps. Disch. Aug. 2, ’65.
Holibein, Jacob do Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Died soon after parole.
Veteran.
Huber, James S. do /|Sep.1,’62 | 3 |Iisch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Hoover, Charles do |Sep.13,’61| 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64, Died
, at Annapolis, Md., Feb 27, °65.
Haupt, Lewis do |Sep. 13,’61} 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Huber, Moses M. do |Sep.1,’62 | 3 |Died at Winchester, Va., June 20, '63.
Harris, William do /Mar. 19, 64) 3 |Killed at Monocacy, Md, July 9, °64.
Hassinger, Wm. do (July 29, '64| 3 |Sub. Disch. by G. O. June 20, ’65,
Hoffman, John do |July 23, 64) 3 |Sub. Disch. by G. O. June, 20, 65.
Hemple, Augustus} do |Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Killed near Petersburg, Va., April 2,65. Vet.
ligenfritz,William| do (Sep. 13,’61| 3 | Wound. at Carters Woods June 15,63. Wound
at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, ’64. Lost right
arm. Veteran.
Johns, George do [July 27,'64| 3 |Sub. Disch. by G. O. June 20, '65.
Keiser, Augustus do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Captured June 23, '64 to Feb. 25, '65. Disch
June 19, 65. Veteran. ‘
Kamper, William do !Sep. 13, 61! 3 |Died at New Creek, Va., July 25, ’62,

 
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Date of }..
Names. Rank. | Muster into|$ g Remarks.
Service. | 1
Kleffman, Casp. H.|Private|Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Wounded at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, '63.
ie. eeoeeee Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Krebb, William do |Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Died of wds recd. at Monocacy, Md, Jul 9,’64.
Kraus, George do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 Captrd. Jan > 63. Died at Camp Parole, An~-
eS napolis, Md.
Long, William do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Wd. at Monocacy, Md., Jul. 9, 64. Discharged
Oct 13.64. Expiration of term.
Lutz, John E. do |Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Killed at Carter’s Woods, Va., June 15, ’63.
Moorehead, Jas.H,} do |Sep. 13, ’61| 3 |Prisoner from Jun. 23, '64 to Dec.,'64. Mus-
tered out with Co, June 29, 65. Veteran.
Myers, Henry do |Sep. 19, 62} 3 |Captured June 22, '64. Died at Andersonville,
is Ga. Date unknown.
Miller, William do |Jul. 23,64 | 3 |Drafted. Wounded at Opequan, Va., Sep. 19,
’64. Absent at muster out.
Mack, Joseph do |Sep. 13,61] 3 |Mustered out with Go, Jun. 29, 65. Veteran.
Miller, Andrew do |Sep. 18,’61| 3 |Captrd. at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 64. Vet.
Minnich, Benj. do /|Sep. 18, ’61| 3 |Mustered out with Co. June 29, '65.
Markel, Geo. S. do |Feb. 28,'62| 3 |Mustered out with Co. Jane 29, '65.
Miller, Henry do |jul. 20, 64 | 3 |Substitute. Wounded at Opequan, Va., Sep. 19,
’65. Absent at muster out.
Mundorff, Jas. E. do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., Jun. 5,’64. Mus-
, tered out with Company Oct. 13, 64.
Miller, Samuel R do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Prisnr. fr. Jun.28,'64, to Ap.28,’65. Dis. Jun.11,65,
Mosebaugh, Paul do |Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Moses, John W. do |Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
March, Charles do |Aug. 15, °62| 3 |Captd, Jun. 23, 64. Dis. by Gen. Or. Jun.20,’65.
Neely, Thomas do |Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Killed near Petersburg, Va., June 22, ’64.
Owens, Edward do |Sep. 12, '61| 3 |Wounded at Winchester, Va., Jun. 13 '64. Dis-
charged with Co. June 2, 65. Veteran.
Plank, Isaac do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Palmer, Jacob G. do |Sep. 13, ’°61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Quickel, John do Sep. :3,’61| 3 /Wounded at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, ’63-
7 Loss of left arm.
Robison, George do |Jun. 13, ’64 | 3 |Substitute. Mustrd. out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Rodewick, Aug. do |Sep. 13, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Roush, Valentine do |Sep. 13,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,64. Expiration of term.
Rupp, Wilson do |Jul. 29, 64 | 3 |Substitute. Disch. by Gen. Order June 20, 65.
Rupert, John C. do |Feb. 17,'62| 3 |Discharged Feb. 17, '65. Expiration cf term.
Sensabaugh, Jas. do |July 6,’64 | 3 |Drafted. Absent at muster out.
Snyder, Jesse D. do {June 2,’64 | 3 |Sub, Com Capt. of U.S. col’d troops July 21
64. Not mustered. Mus. out w. Co.Jun.2g,’65.
Shultz, John C. do |Apr. 20,’64| 3 |Mustered out with Company June 29, ‘65.
Shaffer, Thomas do |Mar. 11,°65| 3 |Wd. Ap. 2,65. Dis. by Gen. Order June 5, ’65.
Shultz, John F.w.| do |Sep. 13, 61 | 3 |Captured June 23, '64. Disch.—date unknown.
Shoemaker Saml. do |July 15,°64| 3 |Drafted. Discharged by Gen, Ordr. Jun. 9, ’65.
Sipe, Henry do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Steininger, Frank| do Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., Jun. 3, 64. Dis-
charged Ocober 13, ’64.
Strater, William do |Sep. 13, 6r| 3 |Wounded at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, 63.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Snyder, Peter do |Sep. 13, ’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Shultz, Augustus do Sep. 13, ’6t| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr 3, 63.
Stahl, Aaron do |Feb.17, '62| 3 |Wd.at Cid. Hrbr.,Va., Jun.6,’64. Dis. Feb. 16,65.
Stagemyer, Ferd do |Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Killedat Monocacy, Md., Jul. 9, 64. Veteran.
Spickert, Milton do |Sep. 13, 61} 3 |Died of wds. rec. at Winchester,Va., Jun.13,’63.
Snyder, Henry do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Died at Beverly, Va., Sep. 22, '62,
Wentz, Herman do |July 29,°64| 3 |Substitute. Discharged by G. O. June 20, 65.
Weaver, Peter do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Witmyer, Fredk. do |Sep. 13. ‘61| 3 |Wounded May 18, '64. Mustered out with Co.
une 29, 65. Veteran. Este
Welsh, George A. do |Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 65. Expiration of term.
Wolf, William M. do |Sep. 13, 61| 3 |Prisoner from September 24, '64, to Feb. 13,65.
Discharged April 28, ’65.
Werner, Charles do |Sep. 13, 61] 3 |Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, :
Witmer, Jacob do |Aug. 17, 62] 3 |Prisoner from Jun. 23, ’64, to Dec. 16,’ 64. Dis-
Sark d by General Order June 9, ’65.
Wykoff, Royal do |Jun. 29, '64| 3 |Drafted. Mustered out June 29, '65.
Waters, Robert do 'June 4, '64 | 3 ‘Substitute. Mustered out June 29, "65.

 
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Dateof | 3
Vames. Rank. |Muster into) + i Remarks
Service. |N
illiam J. Martin |Capt’n.|Sep. 25,61 | 3 |Resigned June 17, ’62.

meee aca No Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Promoted from rst Lieut. June 18,’62. Wound.
June 3, 64, Dis. Oct. 13, 64. Expir. of term.

Theo. C. Norris ist Lt. |Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Pro. from 2d Lt. June 18, 62. Disch. Oct. 13,
64. Expiration of term

Wm. F. Baker and Lt.|Sep. 25, 6 | 3 |Pro. from rst. Serg. June 18, 62, Captured at
Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64. Dis. Mar. 11, ’65.

John H. Sheads Ist Sgt./Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Wound. May 6, 64. Dis. Oct. 13, 64 Ex. of tm.

Wm. E. Culp do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Pro. to Serg. Maj. Mar. 1, 64 to 1st It. Co H.
Sep. 15, 64. Trans.to Co.C. Pro to Q.
Dec. 13, 64. Must. out with Reg. Jun. 29,’

Henry Dustman |Serg’nt/Sep. 25,61] 3 |Dis. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

John Sheads do Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wound. June 22, 64. Dis. Oct. 13, 64. Ex. t’m.

Frank D.Duphorn| do |Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Disch, Oct. 13, '64. Expiration ot term.

Elias J. Sheads oO |Sep. 25, 61} 3 |Killed at Monocacy, Md, July 9, '64.,

John L, Ziegler Corp’l|Sep 25,61} 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Chas. EK. Armor do |Sep. 25,'61| 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term. .

Wm. T. Ziegler do Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Wound. at Carters Woods, June 15, '64. Pris.
fr, Jun..23, *64 to Ap. 29, 65. Dis. Jun. 12, 65.

Wm. McGonigal do |Sep. 25,’6r| 3 |Wound. at Cold Harbor, June 1, "64. Pro. to
Com. Sgt., Sep. 25, 64. Veteran.

Wm.D.Holtzworth| do |Sep. 25,61} 3 |Wound. June 23, '64. Pro. Sgt. Co. KE. Disch.
on Surg. Cert. May 12 ’65. Veteran.

Peter Warren do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Disch. on Surg, Cert. Aug. 7, 63.

Johnson H. Shelly] do |Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Died July 12, 63, of wounds received at Carters
Woods, June 15, ’63.

Joshua Happoldt /Mus’n. |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Trans. to Co. E. Prom. to Prin. Muc. Nov. 2,

; ‘64, Must. out with Co. E June 29, ’65. Vet.

Wm.H. Weygandt} do |Sep. 25, ’6:| 3 |Disch. Date unknown.

Samuel Sprenkle do |Feb. 28, ’62| 3 |Trans. to Co. E. Dis, Feb. 28,’65. Ex. ot term.

Aughenbaugh, H. |Private|Sep. 25, '61 | 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer. Jan. 5, '63

Albaugh, Wm. H. do |Oct. 8, ’61 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cer, Aug. 25, ’62, Q

Bowers, David do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Prisoner from July 9, ’64 to Feb. 21, ’65. Disch.
March 21, '65.

Bentley, Theo. do Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Disch on Surg. Cer. Nov 12, 62,

Burk, Amos do |Feb. 28,’62| 3 |Wounded with loss of arm at Cold Harbor,
June 1, 64. Veteran.

Brickle, Wm. do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Died March 25, '62

Cassatte, Walter do (Oct. 9, 61 3 |Absent on detached service at muster out.

Culp, David do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Disch. Oct, 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Cole, Bernard do (Sep. 25, ’6r| 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Coon, Henry F. do Sep 25,’61) 3 |Prisoner from June 23, 64 to April 29, '65.
Disch. June 8, ’65.

Crilly, Michael do |Sep. 25, ’6r] 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cert. July 14, °62.

Colehouse, John Q do Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Accidentally killed Nov. 15, 62.

Dustman, A, F. do Sep. 30, ’61| 3 |Absent sick at expiration of term.

Davis, Owen R. do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Disch. Feb. 9, ie

Eckert, Jacob do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Disch Oct. 13, 64. Expiration ot term.

Emenheiser, Sam.| do _ |Feb. 28,'62| 3 |Died Sep. 12, ’62.

Ford, George do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Fullerton, Wm. do |Sep. 25,61] 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Fisher, Samuel do |Sep. 25, 6t| 3 |Wound. May 13, 64. Trans. toCo. E. Mustered
out June 29, 65. Veteran.

Flinn, Wm. do /Oct. 15,61 | 3 |Disch. on Surg. Cert. Oct. 31, ’62.

Fry, Henry do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Disch. Nov. 30, '62.

George, Sam’! S. do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Grumbine,Wm.H.| do Oct. 7, '6r 3 |Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expfration of term.

Gray, Wm. H. do |Sep. 30, 61| 3 |Trans. to Co. E. Pro. to Corp., to Sgt. May 12,
65. Must. out June 29, 65. Veteran.

Grove, Jacob H. do |Feb. 28,’62| 3 |Wound. May 13, ’64. Trans to Co. KE. Killed
at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 64. Buried in Nat.

: i Cem., Winchester, Va. Lotg Veteran.
Gilbert, Calvin do |Sep. 25,61 | 3 |Disch. Nov. 30, 62.
Hortzworth, Geo. do ‘Sep. 25, ’61' 3 !Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 

 

 

 

 
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z Date of |\® a
Names. Rank, |Muster into|§ x Remarks.
Service. |W
all, i ti Prpste Sep. 25, 61 | 3 peo on Surgeon's Certificate Sep. 9,°62.
Hitzel, George io «jSep. 25, 6r | 3 |Killed near Mine Run, Va., July 9, ’64.
Johns, Gibson C, do Oct. 12, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certi eae See 5, '64.
King, Robert H. do (Sep. 25,61] 3 |Discharged Oct, 13,64. Expiration of term.
King, Abraham do |Sep. 25,61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certiftcate Sep. 24, '62.
Keefer, Amos do |Sep. 25, 6: | 3 |Dischd. Aug. 24, 64, for wds. rec'd at Cold Har-
; bor Jun. 3, 64, with loss of arm. Veteran.
Little, Duncan do |Sep. 25, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Little, Edward do |Sep. 25, 6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Little, Charles T. do |Sep. 25, 61} 3. |Wounded Jun. 13, 63. Transferred to Co. EF.
Mustered out June 29, '65. Veteran.
Little, George T. do Sep. 25, 61 | 3 .|Wd. at Winchester Jun. 13,°63. Trnsf. to Co. F.
Captrd. Mus. out w. Co. Jun. 29,’65° Vet.
Little, Esaias Z. do Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Feb. 14, '63.
ine William H. oo Nov. 29, '61| 3 araart to erennD Reserve Corps Dec. 15, '63.
Little, Forest o |Sep. 25, 61| 3 |Died November 26, ’61.
Martin, Jerome J. do SED, ae 61 | 3 [Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Myers, David G. do |Oct. 7, 61 3 | Wd. Jun. 15, 63. Captured May 6, '64. Died at
Andersonv., Ga., Sep. 27,64. Grave No. 9893.
Myers, Lewis do /|Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate May 3, '64.
Myers, Peter do Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Nov. 12, 62.
Musser, George do |Oct. 7, ’6r 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Mar. 12, ’64.
Murray, James do |Sep. 25. '61| 3 |Wd. May 6,’64. Killed at Cold Harbor Jun.3,’64.
McElroy, Forest do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Wd. Jun 14,’63. Transf. to Vet. Reserve Corps.
McElroy, John do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Died Feb. 1, 64. Bur, in Nat. Cem., Culpepper
C. H., Va., Block 1, Sec. A. Row 1, Grave 2.
Ogden, William do |Oct.9,’6r | 3 Eilsower ei ae 0 Dec. 26, oe Discharged
Feb. 24, '65, to date Dec. 21, 64.
Rhodes, Charles do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,64 Expiration of term.
Rogers,Zepheniah| do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate May 5, '64.
Rice, Jacob do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wd. May6, 64. Dis. on Sg. Cer, Dec.20,’64. Vet.
Reigle, Daniel P. do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Wd. at Fisher's Hill Sep. 22. 64. Color Sgt. fr.
Sep. 19, 64. Trnsf. to Co. E. Rec'd Medal ot
Honor at Ced. Crk. Oct 19, '64. Mustered out
with Co. E as Sgt. Jun. 29, 65. Veteran.
Rupp, William H.| do j|Sep. 25,61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Nov. 30, ’62.
Shultz, John do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wd. Jun. 4, 64. Abst. in hospital at ex. of trm.
Sentz. Jeremiah do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Shaeffer, Saml. E. do /|Sep. 25,’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Sterner, Jeremiah do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Wd.atCld.Hrbr Jun.6 ’64. Dis.Oc 13,'64. Exp. t.
Skelley, Chas. E. do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct.’ 3, 64. Expiration of term.
Stough, Joseph do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Simpson, Jos. A. do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wd.atWinchstr. Jun 13,'63. Dis.Oc.13,'64. Ex. t.
Sheads, William do (Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wd. Jul.9, '64. Vet. Transf. to Vet. Res. Corps.
Snyder, John E. do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Wd.at Monocacy,Md., Jul.9,'64. Trnsf. to Co.E.
Pro.toCor. Transf. to Vet. Res. C. Nov.27,'64.
Smith, Henry H. do Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Transferred to Co. E. Promoted to Corporal.
Mustered out June 79, '65. Veteran. :
Steinour, James do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Accidentally killed at Gettysb Apr. 28,'64. Vet.
Stoufler, Albert D.| do Sep. 27, 61] 3 ona nal. Ey Bese te Corp. Mar, r,'05- Mus-
tered out June 29, ’65. Veteran.
Sechrist, Charles do Oct. 7, ’61 3 eee oo Surg.’s eereieate Nov. 20, '63.
Slentz, Thad. S. do |Sep. 25, ’61 Discharge ovember 30, '63.
Smyser, Michael do Bee oe 61 : Promoted to Commissary Sgt. May 1, '62.
eee, |e eee el ieee
eitz. Edw. ° Ov. 20, 61 » OI.
Tawney, Perry do /|Oct. 8, ’6r 3 Absent on detached service at exp. of term.
Werner, George do |Sep. 25, 61} 3 | Wd. Nov.30,’63. Abs. in hospital at exp. ofterm.
Wysotsky, Joseph do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Tramsterred to Vet. Reserve Corps Dec. 15, '63.
Welsh, Spangler do /Oct. 22,61 | 3 |Captured at Monocacy. Md., July 9, '64. Dis-
x enarerd Nov. 12, on Expiration of term.
Wysotsk manl.| do jSep. 25, ’61 Died February 12, 62.
vente. ark B. do cen ay 61 : Discharged on Surg.’s Certiflcate Apr. 10, '62.
Ziegler, Emanuel do |Sep. 25,61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr. 10, '62.
Zercher Henry A.| do |Feb. 28, 62] 3 |Transf. to Co. E. Pro. to Sgt. Com. 2d Lt. Jun.
; 15, 65. Not mustered. Mustered out with Co.
June 29, ’65. Veteran.
Zell, William do ‘Sep. 25,61! 3 !Transf. to Veteran Reserve Corps Jan. 15, '64.

 
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COMPANY G,
Date bf jx. ¥ *
Names. Rank. |Muster tnto| = g Remarks.
Service. |W
Vince. C. S. Eckert |Capt’n.|Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged September 1. 1863.
H. Morningstar do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Pro. fr. 1st Lt. Sep. 2,63. Captured Jun. 15, ’63.
Discharged March 12, ’65.
Robert A. Daniel | 1st Lt. |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |/Pro. fr. 2d Lt. Nov 1,'63. Dis.Oct.13,'64. Ex. trm.
Wm.C. Waldman j2nd Lt./Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Pro. fr. ist Sgt. Feb.15,'64. Transf. to Co. D. Vet.
Pro. to Adjt. Dec.13,’64. Disch. Jun.13,'65.
Wm. F. Eckert Serg’nt|Sep. 25, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Charles F. Ropp do /|Sep. 25, ’61| 3. |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Isaac Wagner do Sep. 25,61] 3 |Pro. to ist Sgt. Aug. 24, '64. Pro. tozd Lt. Co. H
Sep.18,°64. Wounded at Opequon. Transf. to
Co. C. Vet. Com. Capt. Oct.29, 64. Not mus-
tered. Discharged Nov. 4, 64.
George W. Stine do /|Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Transf. to Veteran Reserve Corps Dec. 15, '63.
Daniel L, Welsh do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Killed at Monocacy, Md., July 9, '64. ‘
Jacob Shultz. Corp’! |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Wounded at Monocacy, Md., Jul.9, ‘64. Disch.
: October 13, 64. Expiration of term.
John L. Kunkle do |Sep 25, ’61| 3 |Wd.at Opequon, Va., Sep 19,’64. Died, date un-
known. Bur,in Nat.Cem., Winch’st’r, lot 17.
Audrew G. Shull do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Trnsf.to Co. D. Vét. Pro. to rst Lt. Dec. 13. 64.
Com.Capt. May 1o0,’65. Not mus. Dis. Jun.5,’65.
Henry Stine do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Trnsf.toCo.D. Vet. Com. 2d Lt. Jun.6,’65. Not
mustered. Mustered out with Co. Jun 29, 65.
Samuel W. Keasey| do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Trnsf. to Co. D. Vet. Pro to 2d Lt. Jan. 21, '65.
Killed at Petersburg, Va., Apr. 2,65.
Wm.T. Moorehead] do Sep. 25, ’61| 3 /Transferred to Co. D. Vet. Promoted to Sergt.
Mustered out with Company June 29, "65,
john Keller do Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Trnsf.to Co. D. Vet Pro. toSergt. Jan. 21, '64.
Absent on furlough at muster out of Co.
Te’nard W.Watson| do |Apr. 30‘ 62} 3 |Trnsf.to Co. D. Vet. Wd. at Petrsbg Jun. 10,’64.
Discharged on Surg. Certificate Feb. 8, ‘65.
Charles W. Moore do |Dec. 31, 6t| 3 |Irnsf. to Co. D. Detailed as sharpshooter. Dis-
Y q charged Dec. 31,64. Expiration of term,
John A. Faton do Oct. 31,61 | 3 |Mortally wd. at Cold Harbor. Va., Jun. 13, 64.
° Died at Alexandria, Va.. June 15, '64.
Howard Stahl Mus'n. |Sep. 25, ’6t | 3 /Discharged Oct. 13. '64 Expiration of term.
Lewis I, Renaut do /|Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Promoted to Principal Musician. Veteran. Dis-
e fe E charged June 29, ’65.
Austin, Martin Private|/Feb. 28, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surgs. Certificate May 15, 62.
Booth, Charles do Sep. 25,61} 3 |Pris. fr Jun.23,’64, to Apr.28,’65. Dis. Jun.1r °65.
Burkheimer,Saml.| do  |Sep. 25, 6r| 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., Jul.9, 64, Died at
Danville, Va., January 17, 65.
Bupp, John do Sep. 25,6 | 3 |Discharged on Surgs. Certificate Mar. 28, '64.
Bishop, Owen do (Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Died of wds recd. at Opequon, Va., Sep.19,'64.
Buried in Nat. Cem., Winchester. Lot 18.
Dunn, John do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |T'rnsf. toCo. D. Vet. Abst, wd. at muster out.
Everhart, Henry do |Sep. 25, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ettinger, John W.| do |Sep 25, ’6r 3 |Trnsf.to Co. D.Vet. Mus out w. Co, Jun. 29, '65.
Faik, Henry do Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, °64 Expiration of term.
Fox, Joseph do |Sep. 25, 61 Transf.to Co, D. Pro. to Corporal Feb. 1, ’65.
: 3 Mustered out with Co. June 29, ’65.
Ferdinand, John do (Oct. 3r,’61 | 3 |Trausferred to.-Co. D. Veteran. Mustered out
with Company June 29, ’65.
Fry, Jacob_ do |Oct. 31,’6t | 3 |Disch. on Surgs. Certificate Nov. 25, '64. Vet.
Fries. Daniel D. do |Dec. 31,61] 3 |Died Aug 12,63. Bur. Rec., Oct. 12,’63. Buried
e in Nat. Cem. Antietam, Sec. 26, lot A, grv.41,
Grove, Valentine do Sep. 25,'61] 3 [Discharged Oct 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Glock, Adam do Sep. 25, 6t| 3 |Trnsf. to Co. D. Vet. Mus. out w. Co: Jun. 29,'65.
Grove, Philip — do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Disch. on Surg. Certificate Nov. 25,'64. Vet.
Glassmyer, Oliver| do |Feb. 28,62] 3 |Disch. on Surg. Certificate Nov. 25,'64. Vet.
Golding, Sylvester} do |Sep. 25, ’6r| 3 |Killed at Opequon, Va., Sep. 19, °64. Veteran,
How, William R. do Sep. 25,'61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Hampton, William) do |Sep. 25, 61] 3 Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Hooper, James H. do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Hoftman, John C. do !Oct. 31, 61! 3 'Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 
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Names. Rank, |Muster into) § & Remarks.
Service. |W
Humm, Lewis J. |Private|Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Died Feb.28,’65, of wds. rec’d at Cld. Hrbr.,Va.,
Jun. 2,'64. (Bur.Rec.‘‘Lewis Hannan, Phila.”
Hartman, Clayton| do |Sep. 25,61} 3 |Trnsf.toCo.D. Vet. Pro. to Corp. Feb. 28, ’65.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65
Herr, Jerome do |Dec. 31,’61| 3 |Transferred to Co. D. Vet. Disch. May 23, *65,
if to date Dec. 31, '64. Expiration ofterm.
lIlgenfritz, Thos. do Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Irwin, William do Sep. 25, 61] 3 |lischarged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Jacobs, John . do |Sep: 25,61} 3 /Killed at Winchester‘ Va., June 15, '63.
Kerr, David P. do |Sep. 25,61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Klinedinst, L. J. do Sep. 25,'61| 3 |Captured May 14, 64. ne Ye
Keasey, Daniel M.| do |Dec. 31, ’61| 3 |Trusf. to Co. D. Disch. Dec. 31,’64. Ex. cf term.
Kuentzler, Wm. do /|Dec. 31. ’61| 3 /Trnsf. to Co. D. Absent sick at muster out
Kauffman, Aug. do |May5,’64 | 3 |Trnsf. to Co. D. Killed at Cedar Creek, Va.,
October 19, ’64.
Lafever, Wm. H. do |Sep.25,’61| 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64.
Lichtenberger,Jno| do (Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Wnd.at Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64. Absent in
: hospital at muster out.
Lau, Samuel | do |Sep. 25,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Myers, Benedict P.| do /Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Morningstar, Ad. do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct, 13,64. Expiration of term.
Miller, Jacob H. do /|Sep. 25, °61| 3 |Trapsferred to Co. D. Veteran. Mustered out
with Company Jun. 29, 65
Miller, Lewis do |Sep. 25,61] 3 anes te Xo. D Vet. Captured at Monocacy
‘ Md. July 9, ’64.
Matson, George do [May 27, ’64| 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., July 9,64 Died
é at Danville, Va., January 4, ’65.
Moore, Samuel C. do |Dec. 31, ’61| 3 |Died at York, Pa., February 13, ’63.
McCabe, Patrick do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 23, 64. Ab-
: sent in hospital at muster out.
Nickel, Conrad do |Sep. 25,61} 3 |Missing in action October 14, ’63.
Newman, William| do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration ot term.
Norwig, Henry do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Park, Samnel W. do |Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Wounded. Disch. Oct.13,'64, Exp, of Term.
Reed, Jacob do |Sep. 25, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Russ, John A. do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3. |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ruth, Jacob do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Trusf.toCo.D Vet. Captured, date unknown.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Randall, Milton do |Sep. 25,61} 3 |Irnsf. toCo. D. Vet. Mus. out w.Co. Jun. 29,’65.
Rose, Charles do |Sep. 25. °61| 3 |Died at Washington, D. C., Sep. 25,63. Buried
in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.
Stahl, John do |Sep. 25, 6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Stahl, Calvin do Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Wounded at Opequon, Va., Sep. 19, '64. Absent
we in hospital at expiration of term.
Snyder, John dq |Sep. 25, 61] 3 |Wounded at Opequon, Va., Sep. i9,"64. Absent
in hospital at expiration of term.
Sweitzer, George do |Sep. 25, 61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Stine, Daniel do |Sep. 25,61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Stroman, Henry do /|Oct. 31, ’61 | 3 |Discharged in 1862. :
Spicer, Henry do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Transferred to Co. D. Vet. Prom. to Corporal.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Schoffstall, Fredk.| do |Sep. 25, ’6r| 3 |Trnsf.to Co. D. Vet. Mus. out w. Co. Jun.29,’6s.
Shultz, Henry do |Sep. 25, ’61| 3 |Wd.at Winchester, Trnsf. toCo. D. Vet. Pro.
to Corp. Jun. 15,’64. Mus. out w.Co.Jun.29’65.
Test, Abraham do |Sep. 25, 61| 3 |I'rnsf. to Co. D. Vet. Mus. out w. Co. Jun.29,°65.
Wilt, John A. do |Oct.31,’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Welsh, Joseph F, do |Sep. 25, '61| 3 |Wd. and captrd. at Bunker Hill, Va., June 13,
63. Exchd. Wnd. at Petersburg Jun. 23, '64.
Trnsf. to Co. D. Vet. ProtoCorp. Pro. to Sgt.
Maj. Jan. 26,’65. Com. rst Lt. Jun. 6,65. Not
mustered. Mustered out w. Regt. Jun. 29,’65.
Wintrode,JacobF.| do |Sep. 25,’6r| 3 |Captured, date unknown. Trnsf.to Co. D.Vet.
Mustered out with Company June 29, ’65.
Wolf, William do |Sep. 25,61] 3 |Wd. at Monocacy, Md.. Jul. 9 64, Trnsf. to Co.
D. Vet. Mustered out with Co. Jun. 29, ’65.
Wagner, William do |Sep. 25, 61 | 3 |Killed at Opequon, Va., Sep. 19, ‘64. Veteran.
Yingling, George do |Oct. 28,62 | 3 |Trnsf.toCo. D. Mustered out w. Co. Jun.29,'65.
Yingling, Silas C. do ‘Oct. 31, ‘61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 
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Date of
Names. Rank, |Muster into
Service.

 

Remarks.

Term
yrs.

 

Resigned January 18, ’63.

Pro. fr. re Fae ts. Killed at Winchester,
Va., June 15, ’63. .
Pro. to Sgt. Sep. 1, 62; toCapt Apr.5, ’64. Dis-

charged Oct. 13,64. Expiration of term.

Pro. fr. Sgt. Maj. Jan. 1,63. Resigned Sep. 22,63.

Pro. fr. Cor. to rst Sgt. Mar.12,’63; torst Lt. Nov.
16, 63. Discharged Feb. 13, '64.

Pro fr. Sgt. to ist Sgt. Nov.16,’63; to rst Lt.Apr.
5, 64. Killed at Monocacy, Md., July 9, 64.
Prom. fr. Sgt. Maj. Sep. 15, 64. Trnsf. to Co. C.

Pro. to Quartermaster Dec. 13, ’64. Vet.

Resigned August 16, ’62.

Resigned March 12, ’63.

Pro. fr. Sgt. to 1st Sgt. Aug. 1,’62; to 2d Lt. Mar,
13,63. Killed at Bunker Hill, Va., Jun. 13, 63.
Buried in Nat. Cem., Winchester, Va., lot 26.

Pro. fr. Sgt. Apr. 5,'64. Captrd Jun 23,64 Died
at Salisbury, N. C., January 16, ’65.

Pro. fr, Cor. Nov.16,’63. Dis. Oct. 13,64. Ex. of t.

Wounded in action at Cold Harbor, Va; Prom.
fr. Cor. Apr. 5,'64. Dis, Oct. 13,'64. Ex. of trm.

Pro. fr. Cor. Apr. 5,64. Dis. Oct. 13,'64. Ex. of t.

Prom. to Corpl. Jan., '63; to Sgt, Sep. 1,'64. Dis-
charged Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration of term.

Wnd. and captured at Bunker Hill Jun. 13,63.
Exch. Dis. for pro. in U. S. col’d tr. Aug.2,’64.

Discharged Oct, 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Ross lL. Harman |Capt’n.|Sep. 19, '61
Wells A. Farrah do |Sep. 19, ’61

Philip Gentzler do |Sep. 19, '6r

R. S. Slaymaker ist Lt. Sep. 11, '61
Andrew B. Smith do |Sep. 19, ’61

Daniel P. Dietrich} do _ (Sep. 19, '61

William E. Culp do |Sep. 25, ’6r

John L. Shillito aad it Sep. 19, ’61
oO

Harvey J. Harman Sep. 19, '61
M. S. Slothower do |Sep 19, ‘6r

wWHH © BOW WH BA WW |

Earnst G. Henkel | rst Sgt./Sep. 19, ’61

Geo. A. Mowrer Sergt. |Sep. 19, ’61
-Henry Z.Bowman} do _ |Sep. 19, ’61

Jacob H, Hopper do |Sep. 19, ’6r
Jacob M. Herr do |Sep. 19, ’6r

John M. Griffith do Sep. 19, ’61
John C. Kesser Corp’l. |Sep. 19, “61

Daniel Smith do |Sep, 19, ’61 Pro. to Cor. Jan., 62. Dis. Oct 13, '64. Exp. of t
William Gill do |Sep. 19, ’6r Pro. to Cor, Nov.16,'63. Dis..Oct.13,’64. Ex. of t.
David Pentz do |Sep. 19, ’6t Pro. to Cor. Nov.16,'63. Dis. Oct 13,’64. Ex. of t.

Benj. F. Kauffman] do _ |Sep. 25, '61 Wd. at Bunker Hill. Va., Jun.13,'63. Pro. to Cor.
Ap. 5,64 Dis, Oct. i3, 64. Exp. of term.
Pro. to Cor. Apr. 5,'64. Dis. Oct. 13,'64. Ex of t.
Pro. to Cor. Apr. §,’64. Dis. Oct. 13,'64. Ex. of t.
Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate — —, ’62.
Pro, to Cor. Aug. 1,62. Died of wds, received at
Bnkr. Hill Jun 13,’62, Burin Nat. Cem.,lot 26.
Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Aug. —, ’62.
Trnsf. to Co. C. Mustered out Jun. 29,'65. Vet.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13, ‘64. Expiration of term.
Discharged Oct. 13,64. Expiration of term.
Trusf. to Co. C. Pro. to Cor.; to Sgt. May 14, 65.
Mustered out June 29, '65. Veteran.
Captured at Wilderness May 6,’64. Died at An-
ersonville Sep. 8, 64. Grave 8160.
Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr. 2, ’62.
Killed at Beverly, W. Va., Nov.,’62, by Pro. Grd.

John Naugle do |Sep. 19, ’6r
Abraham B. Coble do |Sep tg, ’61
Joseph B. Hobson do (Sep. 19, 61
Joseph Henry do |Sep. 19, 61

George B. Lightz |Muscn.|Sep. 19, ’61
Michael D. Aker do |Sep. 19, ’61
Joseph Rinehart do |Sep. 19, 61
Anderson, Wm. Private|Sep. 19, '61
Anderson, Geo. S. do |Sep, 19, ’61
Arnsberger, Danl.| do |Sep. 19, ’61
Aker, John do |Sep. 19, ’61

Brecht, Frederick do |Sep. 19, 61
Barnes, Philip S. do |Sep. 19, ’61

Brickner, Michael] do |Sep. 19, ’61
Barnes, Albert T. do |Sep. 19, '61

Coble. Ephraim do |Sep. 19, ’6r Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Coble, Christian C.| do |Sep. 19, ’6r Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Cassal, Samuel do Sep. 19, '61 Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr. 16, ’64.

WOWWOWOHWW BW WHOHWWWW WHOWH WHWHOW BOB WH WH Ww

Crowel, ThomasO.| do _ |Sep. 19, 61 Trnsf.toCo.C. Captrd. at Monocacy Jul.g, 64.
Died at Danville, Va., Sep. 18, 64. Buried in
National Cem., Sec. A., Div. 1, Grave 146. Vet.

Comfort. HenryW.|. do Dec. 23, 63] 3 |T'rnsf. to Co. C, Discharged by G. O: Jun. 20,°65.

Carroll, George C. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Died at Brandy Sta. Dec. 12,'63, Buried in Nat.

Cem., Culpepper C. H., Va., Block 1, Sec. A,

Row 1, Grave 5.

 

 

 

 

Cooley, John A. do |Sep. 19,61] 3 |Killed:at Monocacy, Md., July, 9, “64.
Dietrich, Fredk. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Forrer,TempestL.! do 'Sep.19,’61! 3 !Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.

 
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Names. Rank, Muster into) § g Remarks.
Service, \W™
Firestone, Israel |Private|Sep. 19, 6: | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr., '62.
Forrer, Eli do |Sep.19,’6:|] 3 |rnsf.to Co. C. Captured. Died at Anderson-
ville, Ga., Aug. 3, '64. Grave 6642.
Good, John do |Sep. 19, 6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Gardner, Peter do Sep. 19,61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Aug., '62.
Hunter, Alfred M.| do |Sep, 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged’ Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Hoffman, John do Sep, 25,’61| 3 |Wd. at Winchester, Va. June, '63. Discharged
: October 13, 64. Expiration of term.
High, Jacob B. do |Sep 19,61] 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Jan., '63.
Huntzberger, Jac. do |Sep. 19,61 | 3 |Trnsf. to Co. C. Pro. to Corp, Pro. to Sgt. May
29, 65. Mustered out Jun. 79, 65. Veteran.
Hartman William do |Sep. 139, ’61| 3 |Discharged onSurg.'s Certificate, date unkn.
Johnson, Samuel do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Kerr, James A. do /|Sep. 19, 6} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Keller, Wesley F. do |Sep. 19, '6£| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Keller, John W. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Klinedinst, N J. do |Sep. 19, ’6t| 3 |‘'rnsf.to Co. C. Captrd’ at Monocacy Jul. 9,’64.
Returned Feb 20,’65. Discharged » pr. 8, ’6s.
Litz, Geo. L. do (Sep. 19, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Lentz, Jesse R. do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Landen, Josiah’ do |Sep 19,’61| 3 |Wd.andcaptrd at Bunker Hill,Va., Jun. 13,’63.
Exchd. Trnsf. to Co. C. Pro. to Sgt. Sep. 25,
; 64. Mustered out June 29, '65. V teran.
Martin, Peter do /|Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Moore, Francis J.| do |Sep 19, ‘61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Myers, Andrew B. do |Sep 19, 61] 3 |Trnf.toCo.C. Dis. on Sur. Cer. May 19,'6s, Vet.
Martin, Jefferson do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 \Trnsf.toCo,C. ProtoCor. Pro. to Sgt. Sep. 25,
‘64. Wnd. at Cedar. Creek, Va., Oct. 19. ’63.
5 Absent at Muster out. Veteran.
Moore, Jacob do |Sep.19,’6t| 3 Trnsf. to Co, C, Mustered out Jun 29,'65. Vet.
Myers, Valentine do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |I'rnsf toCo C. Captrd. Sep. 12,'64. Disch. May
27, '65, to date Nov. 4, '64.
March, Daniel do |Dec 23. ’63| 3 |Trnsf toCo.C Trnsf. to Vet. Res. Cr. Jan.6,’65.
McClellan, Dav.M.) do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Absent on detached service at muster out.
McGinley,Saml.B.| do |Apr 7, 62. | 3 |Trusf. to Co. C. Disch. by Gen. Ord. Jun. 12;'65.
Mickey, Daniel S. do |Sep. 1g, 6: | 3 Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Noel, Henry do |Oct. 9, ’92 3 |Trnsf to Co. C. Mustered out June 29, '65.
Prowell, George do (Sep. to, ’61| 3 |Captured at Bunker Hiil, Va., Jun. 13, '63. Dis-
charged October 13, '64. Expiration of term,
Peters, Jecob H. do |Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Discharged on Surg. Certificate March, ’62.
Pederson, Chas. E.} do /|Sep 19, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg. Certificate January, '63.
Ritter, John L. do |Sep. 19,61 | 5 |Discharged Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration of term.
Runk, Daniel do |Sep. 19, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 6). Expiration of term.
Rinehart, Martin do |Sep.19,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13.64, Expiration of term.
Ramsey, Wm. B. do /|Sep. 19, 61} 3 |Absent in hospital at expiration of term.
Smith, John W. do (Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Spahr, Jeremiah do |Sep 19,’6t| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Sibbett, John A. do /|Sep. 19, 61 | 3 Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expirrtion of term.
Stough, Reuben do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration ofterm.
Small, Wm, G. do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Absent in hospital at expiration of term.
Slothower, Jac. B. do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ’64. Expiration of term.
Slusser, Latayette do |Sep.19, 61] 3 Discharged ou Surg. Certificate March, ’62.
Snyder, Henry do (Sep. 19,61 | 3 |Discharged Sep. 28, 64. Expiration of term.
Stouffer; Ephraim do « |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Transferred to Co.C. Pro. to Corporal. Mus-
tered out June 29, 65. Veteran.
Shive, Andrew do |Sep. 19, 61] 3 |Transferred to Co. C. Mustered out June 29,
65. Veteran.
Shaffer, Henry do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Transferred to Co. C. Discharged on Surg.’s
Certifict. April 20, ’65.
Sherman. George do |Sep.19,’61| 3 |Trnsf.to Co. I. Disch. Oct. 13,64. Exp. of term.
Shive, John K. do |Sep.19 ’6r| 3 |Died at New Creek, W. Va., August, ’62.
Troup, Emanuel do |Sep. 19, 61 | 3 |Died at Cumberland, Md., in 1862.
Wise, Edw. do |Sep 19, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Wagoner,Roland’s| do |Sep. 19, ’61| 3 |Transferred to Co. C. Discharged January 26,
’65. Expiration of term.
Wolf, Anthony do /|Sep. 19, 61 | 3 Died, of wounds received at Monocacy, Md.,
uly 9, ’64. as
Zell, Peter H. do Sep. 19, 61! 3 bchuteca cee 13, 64. Expiration of term.

 
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COMPANY I.
Date of \2..
Names. Rank. |\Musterinto) £ Remarks.
Service. |

Thad’eusS. Pfeiffer|Capt’n.|Sep. 12, 61] 3. |Killed at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, '64.

Wm. H. Lanius do |Sep. 12, 61 | 3 |Woundedat Monocacy, Md., Jul. 9, '63. Pro. fr.
st Sgt.to 2d Lt. Mar.2,’63; to ist Lt. Dec. 7,63;
to Capt Jun.25,’64. Dis.Oct ,’64. Exp. of term.

Anth'ny M.Martin| 1st Lt. |Sep. 12, 61 | 3 |Pr.to Adjt.Nov.18,'63. Klld. at Monoc’y Jul.9."64

Edward F. Cue do |Sep. 12,61} 3 |Pro.to 1st Lt. Jun 4,64. Tr. to Co. B. Com. Capt.
Co. B (1 ot mustered) Oct.29,'64. Disch. Nov.
25, 64, to date Oct. 13, 64.

James Hersh and Lt.|/Sep. 12, 61 | 3 |Promoted to Quartermaster March 1, '63.

Robert K. Slagle do |Sep. 12,’61| 3 |Wd.at Cedar Creek Oct.19,’64. Pro. fr. Sgt. to 2d
Lt. Sep. 16,'64. Tr. to Co. B. Com. 1st Lt. Oct.
29,64 Not must’d. Dis. Jan. 13, '65. Veteran.

George Dosh Serg’nt|Sep 12, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Edwd. A. Stough do |Sep. 12, '61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Findlay I.Thomas| do |Sep.12, 61| 3 |Wd.Apr.2.’65. Pro.toSgt. Maj Sep 17°64. Vet.

Zeph. E. Hersh do |Sep. 12,’6t| 3 |Tr.toCoB. Pro. to2d Lt. Jan.20,’65; to Cap. Jan.
24,'65; to Brevet Major Apr. 2, 65. Mustered
out June 25, '63. Veteran.

Wm, D. Hombach | Corp’! |Sep 12,’61| 3 /Wd. at Wilderness May 6, 64. Absent in hos-
pital at muster out

Charles Burns do |Sep. 12,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,64 Expiration of term.

Augustus Weigert do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Wd. May 6,’64. Dis. Oct .13,'64 Exp. of term.

Pius D. Miller do |Sep. 12, '61| 3 | Wd. w. lossofleg at Cld. Hrbr., Va., Jun. 1, 64.

Milton J. Yeager do |Sep. 12,’61} 3 |Tr.toCo. B. Pro toSgt. Pro. to ist Sgt May 16,
65. Com. ist. Lt. (uot mustered) June I5, '65.
Mustered out June 25, ’65. Veteran.

Frank M. Peters do |Sep. 12, '61| 3 |Trnsf.toCo.B. Prom. to Corporal May 16,’65.
Mustered out June 29, 65

Jacob Harman do |Sep.12,’6t| 3 |Transf. to Co. B. Prom. to Corporal Jan. 6, ’65.
Absent with leave at muster out

Daniel Decker do |Sep. 12, ’6r| 3 |Discahrged on Surg.’s Certificate August, ’62.

David A. Yount Mus’n. |Sep. 12, 61} 3 |Discharged on Surg ’s Certificate August, ’62.

Daniel H. Karnes do Oct. 1, ’61 3 |Killed at Winchester, Va., June 13, '63.

Adams, George Private|Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Wnd.at Winchester June 13, '63. Discharged
Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Altrogge Bernard do |Oct. 31,'61 | 3 |Wd.Jun.1,’64 Dis. Oct. 13,64. Exp. of term.

Brashears, Alex. do |Sep.12,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13.'64_ Expiration of term.

Bankard,Ephraim| do j|jJan.3,'62 | 3 /Trnsf.toCo.B Wd. at Monocacy, Md.,Jul 9, 64.
Discharged Jan. 3, 65, Expiration of term.

Collins, Nelson do |Sep. 12,61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration,of term.

Crosta, Charles Oe fesieiscissiestes' 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 7, 63.

Dieh], Lewis, H. do Dec. 26,°61! 3 |Tr.tu Co. B. Disch. Dec. 26,'64, Exp. of term.

Eline, Pius do |Sep. t2, ‘61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Felty, George F. do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct 13,’64. Expiration of term,

Fleming, George do Sep. 12,61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Fleming, Henry do |Sep 12,’61| 3 |Burial Rec.: Died at U.S. Hospital, Annapolis,
Md., March 13, '65. Prisoner.

Fellers, James A. do |Sep. 12,61} 3 |Trnsf.toCo B. Absent sick at muster out. Vet.

Fried, Joseph do |Sep. 12,’61]| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Nov. 5, ’63.

Fisher, James C, do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Died at Washington, D. C., Oct. 26,63. Buried

i in Military Asylum Cemetery.

Green, Frederick do |Sep. 12, ’6r| 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., July 9, *64.

Grove, Albert D. do |Sep. 12,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,’64. Expiration of term.

Hale, John do |Sep. 12,’61| 3 |Wounded at Cold Harbor. Loss of arm. Dis-

Z charged Oct. 13, '64.

Heltzel, Daniel do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Captrd. at Monocacy,Md , Jul. 9, 64. Bur. Rec.:
Died at Danville, Va., Dec. 28, ’64.

Iierr, Edward R. do |Oct. 31,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.

Howell, Charles do (Sep. 12, 61] 3 | Wd. May 12,’64. Cptrd. at Monocacy Jul. 9,°64.

Habermehl, Chas. do |Sep. 12, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Jan. 21, '64

Logan, James do |Sep. 12,61] 3 |Trosf.toCo.B Mus. out Jun. 29,°65. Veteran.

Luckenbaugh,Wm| do |Sep. 12,61] 3 /Tr.toCo.B. Dis. on Sur, Cert. May 16,'65. Vet.

Lefever, William do |jJan.3,’62 | 3 |Trnsf.toCo.B. Disch, Jan. 6,’65. Exp. ofterm,

Long, James A. do ‘Oct. 31,’62! 3 'Trusf.toCo.B. Disch Nov.13,'64. Exp.ofterm.

 
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Date of | 6
Names. Rank. | Muster into) § © Remarks.
Service, |W
Lane, Joshua Private/Sep, 12, 61} 3 Died in Washington, D. C., Fcb. 12,64. Buried
in Military Asylum Cemetery.
Little, William G. do |Sep.12,’61| 3 |Died at Grafton, W, Va., Aug. 28, '62.
Markle, Levi do Sep. 12,61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 12, 64. Expiration of term,
Martin, Charles do |Sep. 12, 6} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, °64. Expiration of term.
Martz, John H. do (Sep. 12, 61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Mowry, Blias do |Sep. 12,61] 3 |Wounded at Monocacy, Md., July 9, °64. Dis-
charged Oct 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Myers, Howard C. do |Sep 12, ’6r| 3 |Discharged Oct’ 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Martz, Samuel V. do /|Sep. 12, 61| 3 |Died June 4, °64, of wnds. rec'd May 19, '64, at
Spottsylvania Veteran.
Motter, Henry de |Sep. 12,61 | 3 |Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate, Mar.,’62.
Motter, John G. do Sep. 12,61} 3 |€rnsf. to Co. B. Pro. to Corp, Mar. 21, 65. Mus-
tered out June 29, '65.
Mummert,Andrew| do (Jan. 3,62 | 3 |Trnsf. toCo. B. Wnd. Jun, 12, 64. Discharged
Jan 3, 65. Expiration of term.
Montgomery,Thos| doe /|Sep. 12, '61| 3 !Discharged Oct. 13, 64 Expiration of term.
Mclntyre, Peter do |Sep. 12, 61] 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md , July 9, ’64.
McMaster, Solom. do (Sep. 12, '61| 3 |Captured September 23, °64.
McElroy, Joseph do |Sep.12 '61| 3 |Trnsf. to Co. B, Vet. Mustered out Jun. 29, "65.
McClain, Thos. J. do |Sep. 12, 61] 3 |Trnsf.to Co. B. Wnd. Jul.9,’— Discharged
on Surgeon’s Certificate May 16, ’65. Vet.
McAvoy, Frank do |Sep. t2, 61} 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Aug. 19, '64.
McMauus. Alex, do |Sep. 12, 61 | 3 |Died at Winchester, Va., March 31, '63.
Noel, John A, do jSep. 12, ’61| 3 |Wnd. at Monocacy, Md. Trnsf. to Co. B. Vet
Discharged on Surg’s Certificate May 16,’65.
O'Donnell, Robert} do (Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13. '64. Expiration of term.
Perlitz, William do |Sep. 12,61} 3 |Wd. Jul. 9, 64. Disch Oct. 13, 64. Exp. of trm.
Rickrode, Frank do |Sep. 12,61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Rickrode, John do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Rahter, Adolph do Sep. 12, '61| 3 {Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate Jan. 6, '63.
Rahter, Benjamin do Sep. 12, ’61/ 3 |Discharged on Surg ’s Certificate Jan. 6, '63.
Rickrode, Pius H. do |Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. 7, '63.
Roberts, Albert do |Sep. t2,’6r} 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Cretificate March, *63.
Rooney, James do j|Sep. 12, ’61| 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Jan. zo, '64.
Reidhinger, Fred.| do (Oct. 31,61] 3 |T.nsf. toCo. B. Absent sick at muster out.
Shrom, Henry do Oct. 31, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Sherman, George do |Sep :2,’61| 3 |Discharged Oct, 13, ‘64. Expiration of term,
Stouffer, LutherS.| do (|Sep. 12, 61} 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
Stonesifer Joseph do (|Sep.12,'6r| 3 |Pris. fr. Jul.9,’64 to Feb.20,’65. Monocacy, Md,
Swope, Henry | do (Sep. 12,’61| 3 |Captured September 23, '64.
Schriver, Geo. W. | do (Sep i2,’61| 3 |‘Trusf.to. Co. B. Pro. toCorpl. Pro to Sergt.
| Jan. 20, '65. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Sayers, Thomas do |Jah. 3, 62 3 |Trnsf. to Co, B. Disch, Jan. 3,65 Ex. of term.
Shrom, John Cc. do Oct. 28,’62 | 3 |Trnsf. to Co. B. Mustered out June 29, '95.
Schmuck, John do /|Feb. 19, '64| 3 |Trnsf. to Co. B. Disch. by G. O. June 3, '65.
Snyder, John do /Aug. 1.’62 | 3 |Wnd Jul. 9, ’64. Irnsf. to Co. B. Pro. to Corp.
Discharged by General Order May 109, ’65.
Thomas, David N.| do |Sep. 12, 61/ 3 |Captrd. at Winchstr., Va., Jun.15,°63. Trnsf. to
Co. B. Vet. Pro. to Sgt. Com. 2d Lt. Jun. 15,
65. Not mustered. Mustered out Jun. -9 ’65.
Wilt, Jeremiah do /Sep. 12, ’61] 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64, Expiration of term.
Weisheit, Adolph do |Oct. 31,61 | 3 | Wd, at Winchstr., Va., Jun.13,'63. Loss of arm.
Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Feb. 15,64.
Yeatts, Willam B.; do Oct. 31, 61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate March, *62.
Young, William do Sep. 12,’6r! 3 'Died at York Hospital July 18, '64.
COMPANY K.
ohn W. Schall \Ca tn.|Aug. 24,61, 3 |Pro. to Lieut. Col. September 14, ’61.
a Albright BO Sep. 11,61 | 3 |Captured Jun. 15, ’63. Discharged Mar. 22, "65.
John E. MclIlvain | ist Lt. /Aug. 24, 61) 3 |Pro. to Asst. Surg. 68th Regt. P. V. Mar. 23,"65.
Chas. F. Haack do |Aug. 24, ’61| 3 |Pro. fr 2d It. Mar, 24,'63. Killed at Monocacy,
Md., Juy 9, '63. Buried in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, York, Pa.
Jacob Emmet, Jr. land Lt. |Aug. 24, 61] 3 |Promoted to Adjutant September 25, ’61.

 
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Date of |= 6
Names. Rank, |Muster into § © Remarks
Service, [4

Chas. P. Stroman | 2d Lt. |Sep. 11, '61 | 3 /Cptrd Jun.15,’63. Pro.fr. Sgt. Maj.to 2d Lt.Aug.

7,'63- Com.1st Lt.Jul.10,'64. Not mus. Tr.to Co.

A. Discharged by Special Order Mar. 12, ’65.
Charles Busser ist Sgt.|Sep. 13, 61 | 3 | Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Lewis R. Haack |Sergt. |Sep. 1, ’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ‘64. Expiration of term.
Franklin Ginter do jSep.u,’6r | 3 /Discharged Oct. 13,’64. Expiration of term.
Wm. H. Schriver do |Sep. 1,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,°64. Expiration of term.
George W. Welsh do |Sep 1, 61 | 3 |Wd. Nov. 30,'62. Disch- Oct.13,’64. Ex. of trm-
Wm. Marckley do _ |Sep. 13, 6r | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate Apr, 21, ’64.
Peter S, Baum Corp'l. |Sep. 11, ‘61 | 3 |Discharged Oct, 13, 64. Expiration ot term,
Jerome Heidler do |Sep. u,'6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Mich’! S. Deringer] do (Sep. 11,’61 | 3 |Iischarged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Samuel Decker do |Sep. 1,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term,
M. Morningstar do |Sep u,'6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Cornelius Fecker do j|Sep.11,’6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
George Gibbons do |Scp. 11, "61 | 3 |Wd. May 7.64. Disch. Oct. 13, 64. Ex ofterm-
Christian List do |Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Prsn. fr, Jun.22,"64, to Apr,28,’65. Dis.Jun.11,°6s.
Tawrence Kerber do /|Sep.11, 61 | 3 |Dischd. on Surg.’s Certificate by order of Gen.

French at Brandy Station.
John A. Weakly do (Sep. 1, 6r | 3 |Promoted to Hospita! Steward. —
John Holder Muscn.|Sep. u, ’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Chas. J. Barnitz | do /|Sep.ir,'6 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, "64. Expiration of term
Eli Brown Private|Sep. 11, '6t | 3. |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Billmyer, Henry | do SEP. 11,61 | 3 |Pris. fr. Jul 9,'64, to Feb.2),"65 Disc. Apr.12,'65.
Blockinger, Ulrich) do |Sep.1t "6t | 3 Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Blockinger, John do (Sep rr, "6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 6). Expiration of term.
Brant, Geo. H.C. | do |Sep.1,'6i | 3 |Discharged,Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term
Burse. Thomas Z.| do |Sep, 1, °61 | 3 | Discharged Oct. 13, ‘64. Expiration ot term.
Barry, John do |Sep 11,’61 | 3 |Dis. byorderof Gen. Schenk at Winchest’r,Va,
Beck, John V. do (|Sep.1u,’61 } 3 | Disch. Jul. 4,'64, for was. rec'd with loss of arm

| at Mine Run Novembef,30, '6
Carey, John W. | do |Sep.1r, ’6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. iration of term.
Crimmins,Dennis| do |Sep u, ‘61 | 3 |Discharyed Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Clopper, Jacob | do |Sep. 1,61 | 3 |/Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expirdtion of term.
Dobbins, Henry do Sep. 1, 61 | 3 | Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration ofterm.
Dixon, Wm. H. do (Sep.1, 61 | 3 |Discharged. Oct. 13,°64. Expiration of term.
Diehl, Josiah | do ‘|Sep,m.’61 | 3 | Discharged Oct. 13,64. Expiration uf term.
Dobler, Jacob do |Sep. 11, 61 | 3 |Captured at Monocac ,Md. July, '64.
Diehl, Jacob do |Sep 11, '6t | 3 |Ds. by order of Gen. Schenk at Winchest'r,Va-
Epley, Wm. H. do Sep 11,’6' | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Emenheiser, Wm. do (Sep. 11, ’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct 13, ‘64. Expiration of term.
Eichelberger,G. R| do |Sep.u,'61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Fox, Samuel | do |Sep um, ’6r |} 3 |Discharged O t. 13, '64. Expiratien of term.
Faust, Nathaniel do (Sep. 11,61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,64 Expiration of term.
Filler, John Ww. | do (Sep 11,41 | 3 |Tr.toCo A. Mus. out with Co. Jun. 29,65. Vet.
Foos, Jacob do |Sep. 1, 61 | 3 |Killed at Mine Run, Va., Nov. 30, '63,
Foos, Matthew do Sep. 11, '61 | 3 |Killed at Mine Run, Va.. Nov. 30, '63.
Gleeson, Alex. do |Sep. u,’6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13 '64. Expiration of term.
Glosser, John | do Sep 1, ‘61 | 3 |Discharged.Oct. 13,64. Expiration of term.
Hahn, Nicholas A. do |Sep. 1, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, ,64. Expiration of term.
Hanson, John B. | do |Sep. 11, '61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Helker, Jos. H. do |Sep. 11,*6t | 3 |Captured at Monocacy, Md., July9, 64.
Heidler, Jos. A. do Sep. 11,61 | 3 |fransferred to Veteran Res. Corps Feb. 16,'64.
Hoffman, David do Sep. u,’6t | 3 |/Wd.at Winchstr. Jun.12,’63 Captrd. Jun.15,°63.
: | Exchd. Killed at Mine Run, Va., Nov.20,'63.
Ilgenfritz, Wm.H.| do |Sep.1,’61 | 3 |Tranf.to Co. A. Abs. sick at muster out. Vet.
Knudson, Wm. A. do |Sep. 1, '6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Kissinger, Conrad| do |Sep. 1, 61 | 3 |Wd.at Mine Run Nov. 30 °63. Discharged Oct.
; | 13, '64. Expiration of term.

Kisner, Henry do (Sep. m1, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Koons, John C. | do “|Sep'rr,’6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Koons, Jacob | do Sep. u, 61 | 3 | Dis. by order of Gen. Schenk at Winchest'r, Va.
Keasey, Daniel G, do ‘|Sep. ir, ’61 | 3 |Trnsf. to Co. A. Mustered out Jun.29,'65. Vet.
Kendig, John do |Sep. ir, 61 | 3 |Died at Winchester. Va., March 6, 63.
Lesh, Jacob do: /Sep.u, ’6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
List, Jacob do (Sep. 11, 6r | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration af term.
List, John | do |Sep. 11, 61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Monaghan, Wm. do__'Sep. 11, 61! 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, °64. Expiration of term.

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Date of |& 3
Names. Rank.| Muster into|§ x Remarks
Service. |W
Odenwalt, Chas. |Private|Sep. 11, '61 | 3 |Discharged by order of Gen. Schenck, Win-
chester, Va.
Patterson,Rud’lph} do |Sep.u, '61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Paley, Thomas do Sep. 1, '61 | 3 |Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate Mar.3,’64.
Quinn, Hugh do (Sep. u,’6t | 3 |Prisoner from July 9, ‘64, to April 20, 65. Tr.
to Co. A. Mustered out June 29, '65._ Vet.
Runk, John do |Sep. 11,61 | 3 /Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Ramson, William do |Sep 1, ’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Roth, Simon do |Sep. 11, "61 | 3 |Discharged by order of Gen. Schenck, Win-
chester, Va.
Ruth, Samuel do |Sep. 1, ‘61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.'s Certificate at York, Pa.
Roucher, Martin do |Sep. 1, "61 | 3 |Discharged by order of Gen. French, Brandy
Station, Va.
Rasch, Lewis do |Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Transf.to Co. A. Pro. to 1st Sgt. Pro. to rst
Lieut. May 29, 65. Mus. out Jun 29,’65. Vet.
Rehm, Frederick do |Sep.1,’61 | 3 |Died at Brandy Station Mar. 4, '64. “Buried in
Nat, Cemetery, Culpepper C. H.,Va , Block 1,
Section A, Row 1, Grave No. 13.
Stratmyer, Henry do |Sep 1, ’6t | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13,'64. Expiration of term,
Spangler, Harris’n| do |Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13. 64. Expiration of term.
Spangler,HenryC.| do (|Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Prisoner from Sept. 23, '64, to Mar. 13, ’65. Dis-
charged April 11, ’65.
Shanebrook, E. do /|Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, '64. Expiration of term.
Sweeney, Isaac do |Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Discharged on Surg.’s Certificate at York, Pa.
Sechrist, Geo. W. do j|Sep.1,’61 | 3 |/Transf.to Co. A. Mustered out June 29, ’65.
Snyder, Benjamin} do |Sep. 1,61 | 3 |Killed by accident on Northern Central Ry.
Tyson, Benjamin do |Sep. 11, ’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Taylor, Thomas J.| do (Sep. 11,’61 | 3 |Prisoner from Sept. 24, 64, to Mar. 2, 65. Dis-
charged May 4, ’65. :
Thompson, Nath’l!} do /|Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Wilson, John do /|Sep.11,’61 | 3 |Discharged Oct. 13, 64. Expiration of term.
Wolf, John H. do |Sep 1,’61 | 3 |Transf. to Co. A. Discharged Jan. 63, °6, to
date June 4, 65.

 

 

Note.—Corporal Morris J. Powell, of Co. E, was wounded at the assault on the work
in front of Petersburg, Va.
September 19, 1864. Esau Bailey, of Co. D, was wounded in the same battle

 

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