h'i- ^M/ m. i^' .<^^^'K: ^^^ '^.sUs i^M fi '^- M LPi. 'k ■Vj \n^^ c^ _^.;i* ■.>^ VvVVVV'., ■. ' /v:> ^^IP^^^v /^^^vy^v yVyVv'vv '•* A.JII\/n* vvyy ^m^ifnuft^ *i/*WW* 7^* V vIV-1 itttfi awippw' V^VwVvvv'yVyy* ^vvvv^vv^^vvwvvv'vvvvv* V c V ,v V V. V, y w H iy ' ^ y . iMi^m^f, ■'iit^^imMimMmmm Av;, :VV>'v,^y,' oyTrnWiyMT /^^,^:^' v*y,^' :y'^^^v!^^'iK.^:.^'a^''jili ;vy^v^v/u,^ ?v^V;\:/v^;,^ ^'¥;^ lipJ^feii^ /:v:V'V^v^;y TmviX mM^mJ}^ kv. I .1 ^ A^ On the 8th of July, 1862, the PeninsuUxr Campaign came to a disastrous close. McClellan was at Harrison's Landing. The siege of Richmond was raised. Fifteen thousand men had been lost to the army in the fruitless struggle. That grand army, which was the pride and hope of the country and which had fought its way to the gates of the Rebel Capital, had staggered back in a seven days' combat to the banks of the James river. The North was stunned with grief and de- spair. Halleck was made General-in-Chief. On the 14th of July, Pope took command of the Army of Virginia. On the 17th, the President was authorized to accept the services of one hundred thousand volunteers for nine months to serve as infantry, for whom the same provision was made as for volunteers for three years, except as to bounty. At the same time arrangements were made to set in motion the terrible machinery of the draft. The President approved the Confiscation and Emancipation Act. The Nation was beginning to adopt stringent and energetic measures. On the Slst of July, all leaves of absence were revoked and annulled, and all officers and privates capable of ser- vice were required to join their commands. During the FORMATION OF THE COMPANIES. 1 first week of August, the Confederate Generals were as- sembling their forces for the purpose of crushing the army commanded by General Pope and advancing to the cap- ture of the Capital. On the 9th of August, Jackson fought Banks at Cedar Mountain, Such was the aspect of military affairs in the East whilst the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment was recruit- ing. About three weeks were occupied in this labor. Ju- niata county furnished two companies, namely: F and I. Captain John P. Wharton, of Perryville, led the men of Company F, and those of I came in charge of Captain Amos H. Martin, of Miffiintown. Both these ofiicers were men of mature years and sterling character, and the young men who followed them from the banks of the Blue Juni- ata were the flower and promise of the county. The remaining eight companies were from Franklin coun- ty, except part of one company, which was furnished by Fulton. Doebler gathered around him, in Company A, the young men of Chambersburg; and here also Miles and John H. Reed assembled companies G and D. Brownson led down C from Mercersburg. The mountaineers of Ful- ton, under Pott and Hoke, uniting with the men of Antrim collected by Wm. H. Davison, formed Company B, under Austin. Waynesboro' sent out E, under the Walkers. From the highlands of Path Valley, John H. Walker was followed by the bulk of Company H, Elder filling out the complement with St. Thomas' contribution. The quota of Greencastle marched out as Company K, under Rowe and A. R. Davison. The materiel of these companies was also excellent. The very pick and pride of Franklin county responded to the call of the President at this great crisis of the struggle. The towns and the hill-sides of the Con- ococheague sent of their best youth. A fair proportion of the ofiicers had seen service and learned the rudiments of drill and discipline in the school of actual hostilities. 1 ,00 co^ / '0 ORGANIZATION OF IHE REGIMENT. This regiment, made up so largely of the citizens of Frank- lin county, was always regarded with i»ride hy her people as her peculiar contribution to the war. The several companies of which the regiment was com- posed assembled at Camp Curtin between 1;he 6th and 10th of August, 1862. These having been duly mustered into service, an election for field officers was held in camp on the loth of August — the electors being the company officers. This election was without legal force, and merely served to indicate to the Governor the wishes of the regiment in this regard. James G. Elder, of St. Thomas, Franklin comity, who had been captain of company C, Second regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, (three months service) was elected Colonel. Captain John Dick, of the One Hun- dred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, then serving with his regiment in the field, was elected Lieutenant Colo- nel, and D. Watson Rowe, late First Lieutenant of Compa- ny C, Second P. V,, was chosen Major. The selection of Captain Dick was due to the desire of the regiment to have the aid of an experienced soldier, but the regulations of the War Department, at the time, prohibited officers of three- years regiments from being transferred to nine-months or- ganizations, (as was said,) and the Governor accordingly com- missioned James G, Elder as Colonel, D. Watson Rowe as Lieutenant Colonel, and James C. Austin, who had been voted for as Lieutenant Colonel, to be Major. At the same time, John Stewart was commissioned as Adjutant, and T, Jefferson Nill as Quartermaster. On the next day, the men having been supplied with arms and clothing, and the companies furnished with camp and garrison equipage, the order to proceed to the front was received by Colonel Elder, and at 4 A. M. of Friday, the 15th of August, tents were struck, and the commissions of the Field and Staff Officers being now handed to them, the re- giment was conveyed by car to Baltimore and thence to ^ y/!^9^'^^' y t) ^ 8 AT CLOUD'S MILLS. o Washington, where it arrived at 4 A. M. of the succeeding day. Remaining at the Soldiers' Eest until noon, the march was then taken up for the south side of the Potomac, and at 6 P. M., tents were pitched near Fort Alban}'-, about five miles from the city, a beautiful location, which was named Camp Stanton. General Casey was here in command of the provis- ional brigades, and to him reports were made. At this time the Surgeons joined the regiment and the Non-Commissioned Staff were appointed. From this camp, on the 22nd of Au- gust, the command was moved to Alexandria, and thence four miles out to Mrs. Scott's house, near Clouds' Mills. The regiment was now brigaded with the Ninety-First, One Hundred and Twenty -Ninth, and One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded re- spectively by Colonels Gregory, Frick and O'Brien. Brig- adier-General Erastus B. Tyler was assigned to the com- mand of the brigade. No change took place in the bri- gade organization whilst the One Hundred and Twenty- Sixth was in service, and General Tyler remained in com- mand until the term of service of the regiments had ex- pired. Here the regiment was fully supplied with am- munition and transportation, and began regular drill. It was ready for work. Major Hershberger, of Chambers- burg, went down to the front and instituted a school for officers, which was kept up until the result of the second Bull Run necessitated active movements of the command. On the 23d of August, orders were received by Colonel Elder to be in readiness to proceed to "Warrenton; but, for some reason, the regiment was not moved. On the 26th, indeed, the baggage was loaded and sent off, ])ut the men remained in camp, and in the afternoon again pitched tents. On Sunday, the 31st of August, orders came at 8 P. M., directing Lieutenant Colonel Rowe to prepare to proceed with six companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth and a section of artillery to Bull Run bridge and hold it. / \ WITHIN THE LINES OF WASHINGTON. The companies were called out, a train of cars with the artillery aboard stood ready near by. At 11 P. M. Colonel Eowe was ordered to Alexandria for final directions, but the order to move did not come, for the tide of battle had already passed the point designated, and the bridge was de- stroyed. On this day, companies A and B were sent se- venteen miles to the front in charge of an ammunition train, and Company K was also sent to Fairfax Station to guard and care for the wounded there collected. The deep boom- ing of cannon had now, for several days, warned the regi- ment of the fearful struggle dail}^ drawing nearer, and at length the streams of wounded and stragglers revealed only too clearly that a second time, on the field of Bull Run, the banners of the Union had trailed before the foe. On the 2nd of September, the whole army was drawn back within the lines around Washington, and the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was moved to a position one mile from Alexandria, named Camp Wade, between two Forts. Here, on Saturday, the 6th of September, Reverend Samuel J. Niccolls, appointed Chaplain to the regiment, joined it, and the Commissioned Staff was thus made full. On Sunday, the 7th, a long and tiresome march was made from this camp to Fort Corcoran, up the river, and back again to Camp Whipple beside Fort Richardson, where tents were pitched in a peach-orchard. At 6| in the evening di- vine service was held by Reverend Mr. Niccolls, the chap- lain, before head-quarters. At that hour, unknown to the men, the whole rebel army had crossed tbe Potomac and were settling around Frederick. At this place the regiment learned ot the dismissal from the service of Major Austin, on the 5th of September, for visiting Washington without leave, contrary to General Or- ders, No. 114. Major Austin had been very sick of a se- vere chronic disease, and ignorant, like the rest, of the or- der referred to, went to the city and placed himself in charge HOMES IN DANGER. of a physician there from August 28th till September 3d, when he rejoined the regiment. This summary dismissal was subsequently, upon a better understanding of the mat- ter, revoked and Major Austin restored, but he then re- signed. He accompanied the regiment, however, to An- tietam. It was whilst lying in this camp, a portion of the regiment in the rifle-pits, and the remainder on picket at Bailey's Cross-Roads, near Munson's Hill, every one supposing the enemy to be in full force in front of Washington, and an assault upon the fortifications daily expected, that a flood of letters from Franklin county first informed the men of Lee's invasion of Maryland, and that their hearths and altars were threatened. A very deep feeling pervaded the entire re- giment. Every one pondered the situation, and endeavored to divine the near future. While thus the letters came in from the 8th until the 11th, showing with each day an in- crease of excitement at home; while Lee was issuing his proclamations to Maryland, and McClellan was marching in five parallel columns on Frederick; the men of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth picketed and drilled, and lounged and smoked in the works around Washington, the monotony broken only by a review on the 9th by Gene- Fitz John Porter and General Whipple. But the after- noon of Friday, the 12th, found the brigade of Tyler march- ing through Georgetown and Washington to Meridian Hill, at the foot of 14th street in the latter city, whence began, on Sunday, the 14th of September, the march for the bat- tle field of Antietam. Before we follow the regiment from Washington a bit of romance connected with its history is to be chronicled. Wil- liam Fitzpatrick, of Western Virginia, loved or was loved by Frances Day. Fitzpatrick enlisted in company F, from Juniata county, and went to the war with the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment. Li a short time he fell ill, A SERGEANT IN PETTICOATS. u\ k and o' a the 24th of August, 1862, whilst the regiment lay at CI oud's Mills, he died in the hospital at Alexandria. On ^^16 day he died, Frank Maine, a Sergeant of company F, ^^" laccountably deserted. When he enlisted he was a stran- F ^er to all the men of that company, but in a few days he had so ingratiated himself with his comrades and officers as to be promoted to Sergeant. He was not heard of any more while the regiment remained in service. But long after, in the far West, a soldier, wounded badly in a great battle, could not conceal her sex, and Frances Day then told how she had followed Fitzpatrick into the army and become herself a soldier and a Sergeant in the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers; of her deser- tion upon her lover's death, and the abandon and despair which led her to seek again the ranks of the army. To ve- rify her story, letters were written to the officers of Compa- ny F, atMifflintown, and thus the mystery of the Sergeant's desertion was dispelled. On Sunday, Sept. 14th, the regiment marched with the brigade from the Camp at Meridian Hill for the Monocacy, by way of Rockville, encamping by that stream on the af- ternoon of the 16th, about the time Hooker's corps was first put in motion on the field of Antietam, and the great battle began. On the first day's march. General Humphreys with his staff" was observed on the roadside, snatching a marching review of the brigade as it passed by en route, and it was then learned that a day or two before he had been as- signed to the division composed of the brigades of Tyler and Allabach. He remained at the head of this division until the muster out of the regiments composing it. Of these two officers, Tyler and Humphreys, who together had sole charge of the fortunes of this regiment, General Hum- phreys was a*Regular officer, past middle life, educated at West Point, deeply learned in engineering, long attached to the Topographical Department, and so far, during the . ^-^^^ y6 "^ 1 •) HUMPHREYS AND TYLER. 0\ -' c war, ou the staff of General McClellan. He entered the ser- vice on the 1st of July, 1831, as Brevet Second Lieutenant, in the Second Artillery. Served in Florida: resigned 30th September, 1836: was appointed First Lieutenant of Topo- graphical Engineers, July 7th, 1838. He knew little of hu- man nature in civilians, and when he first assumed com- mand of this division he was not well fitted to handle citi- zen volunteers. Nevertheless, he was greatly relied upon. General Tyler, on the other hand, was not an educated sol- dier, hut full of military spirit and aptitude, and admirably suited to have charge of a brigade of men fresh from the people. He was heartily liked by all under him, and was as much respected as liked. He was a large, soldierly-look- ing man, in the prime of life. He entered the army at the outbreak of the war as Colonel of the Seventh Ohio, and served under Rosecrans in West Virginia. He subsequent- ly fought by the side of Shields in the Valley, when Stone- wall Jackson Avas there. The regiment was fortunate in both its general ofiicers. Tyler's brigade lay on the Monocacy, by the Frederick road, from the evening of the 16th till the middle of the af- ternoon of the 17th of September, during which time a large body of paroled Union prisoners, surrendered by Miles at Harper's Ferry, passed southward. About 3 o'clock the march was taken up for Antietam, by way of Frederick, Middletown and Boonsboro,' and the command was forced forward all night, halting but one hour on the top of South Mountain tor rest, and at 8 A. M. of the 18th arrived on the battle field, received twenty additional rounds of ammu- nition, and took position in reserve with the rest of Porter's corps. The men were much fatigued with the twenty-six miles forced marching, but were in good heart at the pros- pect of making their first fight near home.. The reinforce- ment which Humphreys thus brought to M'Clellan number- ed six thousand men. The fight was not resumed. Lee I y ^.^Q/'O" ■ ' — ^— "^ /6 ANTIETAM. THE RECONNOtSANCE. 13 "^^ o crossed the Potomac, Tyler's Ijrigade was moved down to the river bank and watched tlie enemy on the other side all day, while an Ohio battery amused them with an occa- sional shell. The brigade went into camp one mile from Sharpsburg, where it lay without a movement worthy of note until the 16th of October. The One Hundred and Twenty- Sixth regiment, raised on the border, was over- overflowed all the while it lay here with friends and rela- tives, who came in great numbers, bearing loads of pro- visions and delicacies. The State Colors were presented here, and the division was honored with a review by the President of the United States. On the 16th of October, General Humphreys, with his di- vision and some artillery and cavalry, made a reconnoisance into Virginia, crossing the Potomac below Shepherdstown and proceeding as far as Leetown. The enemy's cavalry hovered in the Federal front all the way, and his horse-artil- lery were kept pretty busily at work. He fell back, however, without showing much resistance, and the casualties were few. The reconnoitering force encamped over night near Leetown, and next day retraced its steps and recrossed the river, the movement having been very flnely conducted by General Humphreys. After this, for two weeks, the time passed as before — in guard, drill, parade and review. The ladies of Waynesboro' relieved the monotony somewhat by the presentation of a beautiful banner to Company E, many of the fair donors being present. At length, on the 30th of October, 1863, (M'Clellan having begun his movement on Warrenton,) the regiment broke camp at 3 P. M., and moved about six miles into Pleasant Valley. At day -break next day the march was resumed, the river at Harpers' Ferry was crossed on pontoons, and the brigade halted four miles beyond the Ferry, in Loudon county. On Sunday, 2nd of November, Snickersville was reached and the regiment went into camp, but having only V -cO^C^ ^ -00, X(^ 14 SNICKER'S GAP AND WARRENTON. % had time for supper, the inarch was coiitiuued after dark to the top of the mountain — Snicker's Gap. Here, on the top of the Blue Ridge, the brigade lay until Wednesday, the 5th. The weather was growing cold. The west winds whistled on the mountain peaks and pierced to the marrow of the men's bones. But there were compensations. The sol- dierSj living off the enemy, reveled in mutton and veal. The enraptured vision of the pickets drank in the beauties of the Shenandoah Valley, spread out like a great quilt beneath them — Berryville plainly in view, and the distant spires of Winchester dimly visible. From Snicker's Gap the command was moved towards Aldie, but when about four miles from that place changed direction and passed through White Plains to N'ew Balti- more, and thence to the vicinity of Warrenton, where it lay encamped until the 17th of November. Here M'Clellan, attended by Burnside, his successor in command of the ar- m}^, bade farewell to all the corps in a grand and brilliant review, A day or two later, Fitz John Porter also reviewed the 5th Corps upon taking leave of it — Hooker succeeding him. While here, the six corps of the army were consolida- ted into three Grand Divisions of two corps each, and the Fifth Corps, now under Butterfield, was assigned to the Center Grand Division, which Hooker commanded. On Sunday, the 16th, Hooker reviewed Humphreys' division, and the men began to know "Fighting Joe," and to take pride in him as their commander. In the evening, Rever- end Mr. Niccolls preached his farewell sermon to the bri- gade, at General Tyler's headquarters. The leave of absence granted him by the Presbyterian Congregation of Cham- bersburg had expired, and he now resigned the chaplaincy and returned home. On Monday, the 17th, the division began its march by way of Warrenton Junction and Richland Creek to the vi- cinity of Falmouth. The weather was rainy, the country FREDERICKSBURG. traversed poor and deserted, the rations short, and the march, though the stages were not long, was altogether disagreea- ble. On the 19th tents were pitched six miles from Fred- ericksburg, and on the 22d camp was shifted to a point two miles nearer Falmouth. The coldness of the weather now admonished the soldiers to build chimneys and otherwise promote physical comfort in their tents, and the camp soon became a temporary village. Upon the arrival of the regi- ment here, it was greeted with the return of Captain Reed and Lieutenants Cook and Hornbaker and a number of en- listed men left sick at Antietam. At 4 A. M. of the 11th December, the reveille was beat- en and the regiment moved out to the field of its first great battle. It halted in a level plat about two miles out. The next day it was moved forward a mile or two and bivouacked in a pine woods near the Philips House, and close by the river. During both days the men were inspired by the mu- sic of bands and the deep booming of Burnside's cannon on the river bank. On Saturday, the 13th of December, the brigade crossed the Rappahannock on the upper pon- toon bridge, entered Fredericksburg at the northern end, then turning to the left moved down to the centre of the town. At o| P. M, General Tyler moved his command to the front, and filing to the right from the Telegraph road, en- tered a low meadow, at the far end of which stood a large brick tannery. . Above this meadow, overshadowing it, frowned the rebel redoubts and batteries. The command was massed in this enclosure — the Union and Confederate batteries playing over the heads of the men. Very soon a Tebel officer was observed to advance a section, and imme- diately he opened od the crowded mass beneath. The shell dropped down into the throng and threw the earth and man- gled bodies into the air. The men were not in line of bat- tle — could not form in line — were simply awaiting orders. They could only watch the battery on the height above; watch THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. the flight .of the shell into their midst, and shudder at its destruction. It was awful to stand thus and be slaughtered. But at length the order came to move to the left of the Tele- graph road and form in two lines under cover of a hill, pre- paratory to a last charge upon the rebel works on Marye's Heights. The road was swept by the enemy's shell and tlie bullets of his sharp-shooters. The right of the regiment was hurried across; the left waited a moment at the edge of the road, then it also hastily passed over, but not scathless. Lieutenant Fortescue, of G, had scarcely put foot into the road before a ball from a sharp-shooter's rifle pierced his head and he fell a corpse. As rapidly as possible, for it was growing late, the column of assault was formed in two lines. The tirst line was com- posed of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Pennsylva- nia, under Colonel O'Brien, on the right, and the One Hun- dred and Twenty -Xinth Pennsylvania, Colonel Frick, on the left; the second line, six or eight paces in the rear, was made up of the One Hundred and Twentv-Sixth Pennsvl- vania, Colonel Elder, on the right, and the Xinety-First Pennsvlvania, Colonel Gregorv, on the left. While the brigade was thus forming, at the base of the hill, a battery above was engaged in a fearful and desperate duel with the rebel artillery — their manv ffuns concentratino; on it a converging fire. It was an unequal fight. The artillery- men, black with powder and smoke, worked like fiends. Volunteers were sent from the res^iments below. In a short time the men were scattered about the ground dead, and the guns were rendered useless or hauled oft'. At this moment General Hooker and General Butterfield came out of town, and from an eminence a short distance to the rear, prepared to watch the eflfect of Humphreys' charge. The men were ordered to rely solely upon the bayonet and cautioned not to fire; the command: "Officers, twelve paces to the fronti" was given; the bugles sounded the charge, yf'^ ar- oOv THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 1/ "^^^p 4 and then, with cheer upon cheer, the hill which covered the formation was ascended and the charge began. The ranks were well kej)t; the men ran steadily and in line. The brick house on Marye's Hill was already reached. The even- ing was fine; it was just beginning to grow dark. This was the fourth charge made that day over this same ground. Hancock had followed French, and then Howard had gone up the hill. Each charge was repulsed after fifteen immor- tal minutes. When the third charge failed, Burnside, riding down to the Rappahannock, (the men of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth saw him pass,) gazing over at those heights, exclaimed, "That crest must be carried to- night!" Humphreys had been at once ordered across. So far he had done his work well. "jSTo prettier sight was ever seen," said Hooker, as he turned to leave the field after the failure of the assault, "than the charge of that Division." General Humphreys himself, a stern judge, who, brave to a fault, exacted much of the soldiers under him and was lit- tle given to compliment, spoke highly of the conduct of his command. General Tyler iu his report extols their gallant- ly. Harpers' Pictorial, a week after the charge, contained a large wood-cut illustration of it. But it was unsuccessful. In front of the brick house at the foot of the crest, and along the raised ground to its right and left, lay a body of men in line prone on the earth. They were the men of the last preceding charge. Whether they did not wish to be run over by the men and the officers on horseback, or from whatever cause, they raised partly up, cried halt, remon- strated with violent 2:esticulations as the chars-ino; line came upon them, and thereby very greatly disarranged the ranks and broke the force of the charge, ^ut the column passed over them like a storm. Colonel Elder led the riofht wins: of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth to the right of the brick house. Lieutenant Colonel Rowe sent part of the left wing, placed in his charge, also to the right, and led 2 \ >5< BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. ^\ the two left companies,' II and K, around on the oth'er side. These latter companies having a clear field pressed rapidly beyond the house and quite near the stone wall, blazing now in tlie evening with the enemy's fire. Colo- nel Elder, with those who went to the right of the house, was gj-eatly obstructed by fences in the way, which had to be broken down. N"evertheless he pushed vigorously beyond the house and approached the stone wall. As the house was passed on either side, the fire of musketry, which was severe before, grew terrific. The long line of stone wall was a sheet of ftame. From every eminence, in front, to right, to left, the rebel cannon were turned on the charging column. Whatever was to be done must be done quickly. In one moment more the wall could be gained. How it came about is not known, but certain it is that the men lying in front of the house, who had been passed over, began to fire at the enemy through our advancing lines. Immediately there was -a stop. The fire in the front, the fire in the rear, every Jiash visible in the twilight, astounded the soldiers. Be- wildered, they stood for a moment irresolute; then in their excitement began to fire at the rebel line. This was fatal. The charge was over. All its momentum was lost. It w^as folly to think of leading men leisurely up to that blazing fence; it was more hopeless still to expect them to stand still and remain enduring that fire. The oflicers urged. Colo- nel Elder, gallantly pushing forward, fell badly wounded. General Tyler was struck on the breast with a piece of shell. General Humphreys already had two horses killed under him, and was raving in front of the lines — urging the men on whilst pulling his holsters from under his dead horse. Among the line oflicers of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, Doebler, Pott, Wharton, Walker, Fletcher, and Mackey, had been carried from the field. Men were falling rapidly. Their feeble fire against the stone wall w^as futile. It was growing dark. Lieutenant Colonel Rowe ^^/,0O , _— 60^ /6 °^ BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 19 '^ iV was on the left of the regiment, on the other side of the house, ignorant that Colonel Elder had fallen. The regiment was without a Major. It fell back with the rest of the brigade to the protection of the house, and descending the acclivity up which the charge had been made, re-formed under the cover of the hill whence the charge began. Of the character of the work which this division ^^as put to do, and of the behavior of the men who followed Humph- reys up those heights on that December evening. Gene- ral Hooker speaks thus, under oath a week afterward, before the Committee on the Conduct of the War; and he who won on many a bloody field the sobriquet of "Fighting Joe," must be supposed no mean judge of a brilliant charge: Major General Joseph Hooker, sworn and examined.* "About 2 o'clock, on that day, [December loth,] I received orders to send another of my divisions to support General Sturgis, and about the same time I received an order from General Burnside to cross over my other two divisions and attack the enemy on the Tele- graph road— the same position we had been butting against all day long. As soon as I received the order my divisions commenced crossing'. "I rode forward to see what I could learn from the officers— French, Wilcox, Couch, and Hancock— who had been engaged in the attack. Their opinion, with one exception, was that the attack should not be made on that point. After conferring with them I went to exam- ine the position to see whether or not it could be turned. Discover- ing no weak point, and seeing that many of the troops that had al- ready been engaged in the attack were considerably demoralized, and fearing that should the enemy make an advance, even of bvit a small column, nothing but disaster would follow, I sent, my Aid- de-camp to General Burnside to say tliat I advised him not to attack at that i)lace. He returned, saying that the attack must be made. I had the matter so much at heart that I put si:)urs to my horse and rode over here, '[the Lacy House, where the committee were sitting,] and tried to dissuade General Burnside from making the attack. He insisted on its being made. "I then returned and brought up eveiy available battery in the city, with a view to break away their barriers by the use of artiHery. I proceeded against the barriers as I would against a fortification and ^ *See Report on the Conduct of the War, Part 1, pp. 667, 671. HOOKER'S TESTIMONY. endeavored to breach a hole suflficiently large for a "forlorn hope" to enter. Before that, the attack along the line, it seemed to me, had been too general — not sufficiently concentrated. I had two batteries posted on the left of the road, within four hundred yards of the po- sition upon which the attack was to be made, and I had other parts of batteries posted on the right of the road at the distance of five or six hundred yards. I had all these batteries playing with great vigor until sunset upon that point, but with no apparent effect upon the rebels or upon their works. During the last part of the cannonading I had given directions to General Humphreys' division to form, under the shelter which a small hill afforded, in column for assault. When the fire of the ar- tillery ceased I gave directions for the enemy's works to be assaulted. General Humphreys' men took off their knajjsacks, overcoats and haversacks. They were directed to make the assault with empty mviskets, for there was no time there to load and fire, AVhen the word was given the men moved forward with great impetuosity. They ran and hurrahed, and I was encouraged by the great good feel- ing that pervaded them. The head of General Humi^hreys' column advanced to within, perhaps, fifteen or twenty yards of the stone wall, which was the advanced position which the rebels held — and then they were thrown back as quickly as they had advanced. Pro- bably the whole of the advance and the retiring did not occupy fif- teen minutes. They left behind, as was reiwrted, seventeen hun- dred and sixty of their number, out of about four thousand. "I may as well state here that Sykes' division was drawn up to support Humphreys, so that in case he should succeed, I could throw forward all the force that I had left — Sykes' division, about four thousand laien — to hold the position in face of thirty thousand who were massed behind that wall. That was why I did not like to make the attack, because even if successful, I could not hold the po- sition. It was now just dark. Findingthat I had lost as many men as my orders required me to lose, I suspended the attack, and direct- ed that the men should hold, for the advance line between Frede- ricksburg and the enemy, a ditch that runs along about midway be- tween the enemy's lines and the city, which would aftbrd a shelter for the men. "I will say that, in addition to the musketry fire that my men were exposed to, the crests of the hills surrounding Fredericksburg form almost a semi-circle, and these were filled with artillery, and the focus was the column that moved up to this assault. That focus was within good canister range, though 1 do not think any canister was thrown on my men that day. All these difficulties were api>a- rent and perfectly well known to me before I went into this assault. 2^" -. 7^ ^ BATTLE OV FREDERICKSBURG. Thoy were known also to other otncers. General French said to me that the whole army could not take that i3oint." * * * Question.— Had you made any impression upon their \vork^ Ansioer. -Not the slightest; no more than you could make upon the side of a mountain of rock. '=- * * * * * Question.— IIoiv did the men behave during the attack'^ Anstver.-They behaved well. There never was anything more glorious than the behavior of the men. No campaign in the WORLD EVER SAW A MORE GALLANT ADVANCE THAN HUMPH- REYS' MEN MADE THERE. But they Were put to do a work that no men could do." Colonel Elder was carried from the spot wliere he fell to the brick house, and after a while into Fredericksburg to the hospital, where he was placed in charge of Doctor Nugent. His left leg near the thigh was fearfully shattered, and his life for a time was despaired of. He was subsequently con- veyed to Washington, where he remained until the regiment was mustered out, the command of it devolving, thenceforth, on the Lieutenant Colonel. The wounds of Captain Doeb- ler also prevented his return, and Lieutenant Welsh was in charge of Company A from this time. During the charge the color-bearer of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth regiment was shot, and the colors of that regiment v/ere rescued and safely brought otf by George E. Jones, of com- pany H, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, and returned by Lieutenant Colonel Pvowe to the regiment. The brigade went into action two thousand strong, and lost in the" few minates of the charge, thirty-three officers and four hun- dred and twenty-three men. About 9 o'clock at night the brigade was withdrawn from the field and rested in the streets of the town. At 3 A. M., however, it was again taken under Colonel Gregory to the scene of the evening's charge. Everything now Avas perfect- ly quiet, not a gun broke the stillness of the night. The groans of the wounded rang out clear in the night air. The ground was strewed with the dead and dying, and the ambu- lances and stretcher-bearers flitted quickly and quietly over v^^ oo-- 00^ >5« ■00- ^ &l\ _, BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. ^\ the field A deep mist obscured everything. Lieutenant Walker was out with a party detailed for the purpose, seek- ino- all nio-ht long the wounded and dead of the One Hun- dred and Twenty-Sixth. Until daylight the regiment lay on the ascent below the brick house. In the morning the brio-ade was relieved and taken by General Tyler mto Fred- ericksburg, the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth bemg quar- tered in a graveyard opposite the office of G. H. C. ^^^we, Esq which was used as regimental headquarters. 1 he 14th was Sunday. On the evening of the 15th, the One Hun- dred and Twenty-Sixth was posted as a strong picket along one of the streets in the suburbs. From this duty it was subsequently taken, toward midnight, and hurriedly con- ducted across the city and out to the left beyond the limits of the town, across a stream and up a road to a small brick house Here four companies were held in reserve, and the remainder were posted on the edge of a precipitous hill running in a semi-circle round to the railroad. The ene- my's pickets could be heard talking. The men crawled quietly to their places and lay flat down, their guns pomt- ino- throuo-h the fence. Arrived at the block-house. Lieu- tenant Oolonel Bowe placed therein Captain Brownson, with a dozen of his men, and sent Captain Walker with six of company E's men across to the railroad. Just at this time the moon shone out brightly for a little while, throwing lono- shadows down the hill, rendering what Avas domg ob- servable to the enemy. But fortunately the changing of the pickets was now accomplished. Soon, however, it grew dark again and towards morning rained very hard. All night long the army of Burnside had been busy seeking the North bank of the Eappahannock, yet so quietly that not the re- bels only but this regiment (except one or two officers) knew nothing of it. Toward daylight an order came to withdraw the command as speedily and cautiously as possible. Colonel Eowe had k ^,, . -^ X^jQ/^" " — — *'*'xCp<^ /^ ^ LENTZ IN THE BLOCK-HOUSE. 23 '^ "A o VV. hardly begun to put this order in execution before it was countermanded, and the men had to be put back. Then part of a company of the J^inety-First under Captain Lcntz, and also a body of Berdan's sharpshooters were sent to him. Again the order came to withdraw^ and again it was coun- termanded by fast-riding aids-de-camp. The army was not yet quite over the river. The Lieutenant Colonel was ex- ceedingly fearful these movements among the pickets would draw the attention of the enemy. It was a long time grow- ing light, but now at length it was broad-day, when, not too soon, the order came to hasten to the bridges. The regi- ment was hastily collected together. Lentz, with his men and the sharp-shooters, were to remain until the One Hun- dred and Twenty-Sixth should begin to move down the road to town and then fall in as skirmishers on the flank and rear. All this was happily executed (with one oversight), and the regiment, double-quicking, entered the town, found the low- er bridge taken away, hastened to the upper bridge, without stopping for the knapsacks which had been stored when about to proceed to the charge. This bridge had also been swung out into the river, but was nowput back, and the regi- ment crossed over to the other side. Then the brido-e was agam cut loose and Fredericksburg was abandoned by the Union army. The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was the last regiment to cross. But Captain Lentz with six of his men was in the block- house. Lieutenant Bonsall, of F, the officer sent to Avith- draw the pickets and convey the orders to Lentz, had mistaken his lieutenant for him, and he was in utter ig- norance of what was doing. Here he remained some time alone (he and his six men) of ajl the army, in front of the enemy. A rebel soldier, approaching cautiously, found six guns suddenly thrust out at him, and surren- dered. Brought into the block-house he surprised Lentz with the news of the evacuation of Fredericksburg. Look- o >^o»- BACK IN CAMP. 0\ ing out he saw the TJnion line deserted and the rebels o^atherins: towards the block-house. He left suddenly with his prisoner, down the steep hill, across the caual, through the edge ot the town, the other end of which was swarm- ing with rebels, hid behind the abutment of the destroyed bridge, until a gallant little fellow, a drummer, swam across for a skiff, which, brought back, saved most of Lentz's party. The morning of the 16th the regiment breakfasted in the pine woods where it had bivouacked the night of the 12th, and after noon settled down in the former camp. It left camp with twenty-six officers and six hundred and six men, but company I, having been detached as hospital guard, did not participate in the action. A few days after the battle of Fredericksburg, the Rev. John Ault joined the regiment as Chaplain. He remained with it, however, only until the 18th of January, when the mud-march was begun, at which time, being sick, he went home on leave, and did not rejoin the command again until it arrived at Harrisburg for muster-out. Until the mud- march the life in camp was monotonous and devoid of ex- citement. The courts-martial of Lieutenants Cook and Hornbaker, of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, and af- terwards of Colonels Frick and Armstrong, of the One Hun- dred and Twenty-Mnth, which grew out of the dress-coat difficulty, alone gave any zest to it. Lieutenants Cook and Hornbaker left the regiment at Antietam after the battle, when the regiment was under orders to move, and went home, sick, with the Surgeon's leave — but there was want of for- mality in procuring the leaves of absence. Though both un- doubtedl}' sick and wholly unfit for duty in the field, they failed to send to the headquarters of the regiment the cer- tificates required by regulations and orders. They were ac- cordingly found guilty and dismissed, and left as the com- mand started on the mud-march. The dismissal of Lieuten- ant Cook, upon a full presentation ot his case, was after- /6 ^ DRESS-COATS. 25 A wards, and after the master out of the regiment, justly re- voked by order of the President. It is to his credit, that being under arrest at the time of the battle of Fredericks- burg, he asked permission to have his sword and command restored in order to his taking part in the battle, which was refused. Lieutenant Hornbaker made no effort to have his sentence reversed, bnt subsequently entered the army as a private and effaced whatever stain there was upon his re- cord, if any, by his death on the field of battle. The .difficulty about the dress-coats, Avhich was quite an episode in the life of the regiment, was succinctly this: About the 10th of January, 1863, General Humphreys issued an order that all the men should draw dress-coats. IsTow, whatever clothing the men drew above a prescribed quantity, they were charged with, and they were alrea- dy amply provided with blouses and warm under-cloth- ing. Dress-coats were superfluous for comfort. This was represented to the Division General, but he clung to his caprice, and the men refused to take the coats. The regi- mental and compan}' commanders were placed in an awk- ward position. The order was arbitrary, but it was imper- ative. They finally refused to compel their men, and were placed in arrest. They were, in the end, forced to yield and made the necessary requisitions, and the men took the coats off their hands, but threw them away, and the only effect of the order was to subtract several dollars from each man's pay. The Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth remained contumacious, were placed in arrest, tried and dismissed the service, but were restored again by the President, and wrote in their vindica- tion a book called "Red Tape and Pigeon Hole Generals." But now the time had come for Burnside to move again. At 2| o'clock, P. M., of Tuesday, the 20th of January, the brigade to which the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was attached (Tyler's) marched out of camp and journeyed two . —^C yw>^<5o CO /^ ^ 26 THE MUD-MARCH. o\ miles on tlie famous mud-marcli. Towards evening it be- gan to rain and continued to rain all night, sometimes with much violence. The men were drenched; the roads were made dreadful. It rained the next day, during which the command made some four miles. On the 22nd, the brigade lay in a woods where it had encamped the night before. This day there was no forward movement. The afternoon was employed in making corduroy road. There was no thought of going ahead; how to get back was the question. Pontoon trains, w^agons, guns, ammunition trains, encumber- ed the roads. Horses and mules were everywhere flounder- ing in the mud. The soil, though tenacious, was with- .out bottom. The supply trains could not be brouglit up. The whole army, therefore, was put to corduroying. Regi- ments could be seen coming across the country like moving groves, every man carrying a tree top. So Birnam Wood once came to Dunsinane. "Let every soldier hew him down a hough, And hear 't before him." Behind came others bearing the rails of rifled fences. The branches thrown into the mud made a bed for the rails. Whole woods were cut down and thrown into the road. On Friday, whiskey rations were issued to the command, and the same work was continued. At length, on Saturday, the 24th, the brigade marched back over the road it had helped to make to the former camp, and so the mud-march ended. Burnside after this resigned, and Hooker became command- er of the Army of the Potomac. General Meade was assigned to the command of the Fifth Corps. For three months all grarfd military operations ceased. In this interval, however, the troops Avere constantly and en- ergetically drilled and disciplined. The ranks were tilled up. Clothing was furnished, and excellent food in abun- dance. A system of furloughs was instituted. From the let of February till the Ist of May, tlie regiment daily grew better in physique and morale. — cO-^6^s A NEW CAMP. ^ O On Monday, tlie 2d of February, Tyler's brigade was transferred from the camp it had hitherto occupied, near Falmouth, to another a mile or two further West, where were greater conveniences of wood and water. The new location WU8 a very beautiful as well as advantageous one. The re- giments were in the woods, on the sides of gently sloping hills, at the ^ot of which ran a stream of clear water. The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth and One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth were placed side by side and over against the Ninety-First and One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, on the other side of the stream. Brigade head-quarters were near by, on a bluff, amidst cedars. This camp was the home of the regiment during the remainder of its term of service. Three quiet months were passed here in picket and drill, and in- spection and parade; in eating,* sleeping, smoking; in going to camps, and hurdle-races and home (as to some); in draw- ing rations and washing, and writing love-letters; in roll- calls and reviews; in camp and hospital guard, and burials of the dead with mutiled drum. Among the occurrences of this time which excited a lively interest in the men of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment, was the presentation. to General Tyler, by the men and officers of his brigade, of a magnificent young horse, named "Young Salem," of "Grey Eagle" stock, pure white, and superbly beautiful, — bought in Ohio for a large sum, — together with the necessary trappings and housings, and a splendidly mounted sword and spurs. The visit, also, of Governor Andrew G. Curtin, in March, and the subsequent review by General Polardi, a Swiss officer of rank, served to relieve the tedium of the days. About the 25th of February, Stuart pressed back our ca- valry out-posts, which created some excitement in camp. The regiment was hastily forwarded to the picket line, and kept under arms all night — a night which will remain long in the memories of the men on duty. "It snowed and V /^ 28 LIFE IX CAMP. blowed," said thev upon their return, "and we marched in I a circle all night long through the snow and mud*to keen warm," '^ The 22d of February was duly observed by the firino- of cannon in the morning, which, naturally enough, was mis- taken a first for a fierce attack by the enemy.. But the re- pose at head-quarters, and the absence of gay Aids hurrying with sharp messages, quieted all such apprehensions On this anniversary of the birth of Washington, celebrated by the Army of the Potomac, in the midst of a great war for the Union which he founded, an echo in every soldier's breast responded to the loud acclaims of the deep-mouthed cannon. At Head-Qmrters of the mgimeat: On the 25th of Feb ruary. Lieutenant Colonel Eowe was made President of a court-martial and military commission which sat at the head-quarters of Allabach's brigade, and remained on this special duty until the 17th of March, when betook com- mand of the brigade for ten days. During this period, Cap- tain Andrew E. Davison, the senior captain present, com- manded the regiment. On the 31st of March, Captain Rob- ert b. Brownson, of Company C, was mustered in as Ma- jor, and assumed command as such. Adjutant John Stew- art was appointed by General Humphreys, on the 11th of April, Commissary of Musters for the Thii-d Division Fifth Corps and Lieutenant George F. Piatt acted as Adjutant hereafter. In April, Assistant Surgeon Grube was trans- ferred to the Sixth Corps. B. B. Henshey, the Hospital Steward, haying been discharged on account of disability on the 1st of the same month, Lewis Keyser was appointed to fid_ his place. Xugent, resting from the amputations and dressings of Fredericksburg, and the Assistant Surgeon, Swift, dealt out, at the hour of the Surgeon's call, the daily portions of quinine and calomel; while Nil], the Quartei-- master, and his aids, Allison and Kinsler, (what time the ,0o "^XC LIFE IN CAMP. 29 '^ 'J \ o reveille bad summoned the men from their downless couches to the labors of the day,) devoted themselves assiduously to the diurnal duty of issuing bard-tack and pork. The Ser- geant Major, Ziegler, was busy in the Adjutant's quarters with the morning reports, or flitting about the camp with unwelcome details for pickefrior guard. Miller and Dono- van, and their comrade musicians, were ever and anon, throughout the day, sounding their too-accustomed calls; and Tommy Daily and Kauflman, the color-sergeants, at the hour of dress-parade, brought out the colors which they carried so gallantly up the heights of Fredericksburg, and which they were destined to wave so lightly in the face of the enemy in the dark woods about Chancellorsville. In the Companies : In February, Captain William H. Da- vison was appointed Assistant Inspector General on the Staff of General Tyler, and detached thenceforth until the muster out of the regiment. The command of the compa- ny devolved on Lieutenant James Pott; the First Lieuten- ant, Henry M. Hoke, having been made Division Ordnance Officer in October, 1.862, and detached on the staff of Gene- ral Humphreys. On the promotion of Brownson, James P." M'Cullough was advanced to Captain from First Lieu- tenant, to which he had been promoted on the discharge of Hornbaker. The First-Lieutenancy remained vacant. Lieu- tenant Trout, in command of a detachment of thirty men, was on duty at the General Hospital, Stoneman's Switch, from the 16th of January till the 16th of March. John H. Reed resigned the captaincy of company D in January, and Josiah C. Hollinger was its commander subsequently, with Piatt as First Lieutenant and McCauley as Second. All the officers of company LI were absent on account of wounds for two months succeeding the battle of Fredericksburg, and in the interval of their absence. Lieutenant Walker, of E, first, and afterwards Lieutenant McWilliams, of F, was as- signed to the command of that company. Benjamin F. &^ ^° '~~ '^--Qp^' \ c^ 30 LIFE IN CAMP. /■ ^ o Zook was made Second Lieutenant of company G in the place of Harry Fortescue, mourned by his company. Lieu- tenant liovve commanded A. R. Davison's company while the hitter had charge of the regiment, and John W. P. Eeid was for a while Aml)ulance Officer. Company A was kept small by details from it, and Dcebler was much missed by his rnen, but his absence was not resrretted more by them than by Welsh and McLenegan, his Lieutenants. Captain William W. Walker, enjoying a better fortune than most others, obtained from General Hooker a leave of absence for twenty days for the benefit of his health, and hied him off to Waynesboro', leaving George Walker and Brenneman to look after company E. This was before the epoch of "leaves" and furloughs. George L. Miles and McCurdy were accus- tomed, in these peaceful times, to take a quiet delight in ex- ercising their men in the manual of arms; and while Martin of I watched with fatherly care over his men, and Davis amused himself with the drill, the honest Lieutenant Deg-an enjoyed himself often on extra and special duty. Lieutenant Bonsall, of Captain Wharton's company, was in arrest from the time of the battle of Fredericksbure: un- til the 29th of January, on the following charge and specifi- cation : Charge: Failure to deliver orders entrusted to him by his com- manding officer for delivery. Specification: In this, tliat he, the said Lieutenant James C. Bonsall, of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, whilst his company and regiment were on picket duty to the front and left of Fredericksburg, having been order- ed by Lieutenant Colonel D. Watson Rowe, the officer com- manding his regiment, to communicate an order of Brigadier General Humphreys' to the commanding officer of the Berdan Sharp-shooters, and to the commanding officer of a company of the Ninety-First Pennsylvania Infantry, on the picket line held by the said One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment, in rela- tion to the withdrawal of the said sharp-shooters and the said company of the Ninety-First, did fail to deliver said order to the commanding officer of the said comi^any. This at or about 6 o'clock A. M., of the 16th day of December, 1862. g/ ^00 ■ ■ . — oo^ 6 A COURT-MARTIAL. 31 ^ 3V This charge was tried by a court-martial, and Lieutenant Bonsall was not found wholly' blameless, but was restored to duty. His duties during the entire night of the 15th were of an arduous and dangerous character, being constantly sent with orders along the picket line, withdrawing and re- placing the men; yet he performed them with fidelity and alacrity. The blame principally attached, in the opinion of the Court-Martial, to the officer ot Lentz's party to whom Bonsall communicated the order, after asking for the officer commanding the party, and being referred to him as such, and who failed to notify his captain of its reception; and they found him guilty and inflicted uj)on him a sentence of extraordinary severity. This, however, General Humphreys did not approve. In consequence of the failure to receive Colonel Rowe's order, Lentz and his men were in great dan- ger, and some of them were captured, as before narrated. Many other things occurred in this interval between the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, which it would be pleasant to relate, l)ut the limits of a brief Sketch forbid. The Changes in the Rank and File of the Companies: Who, among the thousand men, was killed; who was wounded; who nobly died; who meanly deserted; who was discharged or taken prisoner; who was promoted and who reduced, will be found in the following pages in a compact shape. In the List of Casualties are gathered the heroes of the battles. But not all of them; for many brave men escaped unharm- ed — too many to be mentioned by name. Many gallant deeds of officers and men must remain unwritten, to be told and talked of by the cheerful fire of a winter's night; and many interesting stories and laughable incidents and, per- haps, some pitiful tales, like that of Susan S. Edringtou, — the sweet young lady of seventeen summers, who died on the picket line — must be reserved for those private recitals. In this Sketch a simple chain of occurrences has been o O fc ■ ^ >J*^o» ■- cC^^/^ 1^00- / 6 32 MARCH TO CHANCELLORSVILLE. o 4 forged, each liuk of which, like a morniug drum-beat to a spectral army, will call up before the minds of the participants in the scenes described, a thousand departed and long-forgotten associations connected with bivouac and battle. On Monday, the 27th of April, Lieutenant Colonel Rowe received orders to be readv to move the reo-iment at 12 M., and at that hour the march was taken up for Chancellors- ville. The effective of the regiment was twenty-nine offi- cers and five hundred and seventy-seven men; but Captain W. W. Walker's company having been detailed for guard duty, was temporarily detached from the regiment, decreas- ing its strength by three officers and fifty-six men. Pro- ceediug up the river on Monday and Tuesda}^, the Rappa- hannock was crossed on Wednesday, at Kelly's Ford, by means of pontoons. Crossing Mountain creek the same eve- ning and halting long in the darkness of the night, on Thursday, the 30th, the Rapidan was passed at Ely's Ford. It was an inspiring sight — the crossing of the Rapidan. The long column moving down into the swift river, stretching across and far up the long and gentle ascent on the south- ern side; the men wading arm-pit deep, clothes and car- tridge boxes swinging on the bayonets of the guns held well up in the air. Having encamped over night in a wood of thick-standing pines, on the 1st of May, (Friday,) the direct road to Chancellorsville was taken, and shortly before noon the regiment, with the brigade, was massed by the side of the Chancellor House, a solitary large brick dwelling, on an open clearing of some three hundred yards in extent each way, in the margin of the Wilderness, which constitutes Chancellorsville. Precisely at 12 M., the first gun of the great fight opened. Three roads run east from Chancel- lorsville towards Fredericksburg: on the right, the plank road; to its left, the turnpike, uniting with the former at Tabernacle Church; still to the left, and not far from the w^^OO ee^ / 1. ^ BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE. 33 'J\ river, a road leading to Bank's Ford. Slocuni's corps took the plank road, Sykes' division the turnpike, and Meade, with Griffin's and Humphreys' divisions, advanced on the river road for five miles and came within sight of Bank's^ Ford. Thus this ford was uncovered and a position obtained out of the Wilderness on a commandino; rido;e. As sud- denly as unaccountably the three columns were ordered back. Tyler's brigade hastened back at the double-quick the whole distance to Chancellorsville, and came in just as Sykes was arriving, skirmishing hotly with the enemy who had followed him closely. Tyler was just able to get in without becoming engaged. On Friday evening, the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, with the brigade, lay quite near the Chancellor House, being on the left of the line of bat- tle, which stretched along the Orange plank road, west- ward about four miles. On Saturday, Humphreys was mov- ed back near to the Rappahannock, to the vicinity of Scott's Dam, and held a formidable position there on high and steep bluffs, which he lined with artillery. Here the One Hun- dred and Twenty-Sixth lay during Saturday and Saturday- night, whilst Jackson made his famous onslaught on the Elev- enth and Twelfth Corps. The enemy occasionally sliowed himself on this part of the line, but made no attack or ad- vance. Early on Sunday morning, however, Tyler's bri- gade was moved down from the heights which it held, and hurried to the right. Along the road lay the Eleventh .Corps greatly shattered, ready to occupy the position evac- uated. About eight o'clock Tyler reached the open ground and the road running from Chancellorsville to Ely's Ford, and prepared at once for action. In the hasty march to the right, about thirty men of the regiment had seized the op- portunity to drop out among the men of the Eleventh Corps, and the Lieutenant Colonel commanding having ordered the rolls to be called, four hundred and ninety men only UATTIiE (W CHANCELLOK8YILLE. responded to their names; but they were to be relied upon, and the regiment was still comparatively large. Shortly the order came to move into position in the line of battle, and Lieutenant Colonel Webb, of General Meade's staff — across the open space swept by the batteries, down into the dense woods a good distance — led the brigade and placed it on the right of General French, whom it was to support, and under his orders. Captain TV. W. Walker's company having been detached as before-mentioned, did not participate in the ac- tion, but a few of its men went in with Wm. IT. Davison's company. The brigade was just getting into position on the right of French, (in the order from right to left of iN'inety-First, One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, One Hundred and Twenty- Sixth, and One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth,) when a scout brought word to Colonel Rowe, which was at once commu- nicated to General Tyler, that the enemy was hurrying masses to the right and would advance to the attack at once. At the same moment, almost, the brigade opened iire on the right, and in a few minutes the entire line was engaged. During the whole of this action the right of Tyler's brigade was "in the air." ISTo troops whatever were in position on Its right flank, and there was nothing to protect that flank or prevent its being turned. The First Corps was not yet in place so as to join it. French, therefore, was on the left; nothing was on the right of this brigade. Stuart, now in command — in place of Jackson, shot the night before — ^ was pushing his forces to Tyler's unprotected right, and beyond it. From the first the firing of the brigade was very rapid. The enemy, in the dense woods and thicket, were not very clearly seen by the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, nor did they for some time reply actively at this part of the line. Colonel Rowe, therefore, sent first the Sergeant Major, Ziegier, then Major Brownson, and at last went himself to ^ % '" ' # k< I5ATTLE OF CIIANCELLOIISVILLE. 35 ^ ^V General Tyler to inform him that the fire did not seem to be eftective, and that the enemy appeared to await the time when the ammunition should be exhausted, for their charge — stating that it was already very low and requesting that the firing should cease or at least slacken. But General Tyler, having the whole line and all its exigencies in view, ordered the firing to be kept up, saying "Your men are doing ex- cellently, Colonel." At length, after more than an hour's hard work, the ammunition was spent, and the men were be- ginning to rifle the cartridge-boxes of the dead and wound- ed to supply themselves. The enemy now evidently began to press forward more earnestly; their banners advanced through the woods; their fire began to tell fearfully on the ranks of the regiment. The gaps, however, were speedily closed, and the line was firm. The company officers were very diligent and active. Major Brownson, in the Lieuten- ant Colonel's place on the right, and Captain A. R. Davi- son, acting Major, on the left, increased their exertions. Adjutant Stewart (now Division Commissary of Musters and detached, but participating in the action with the regi- ment), and Acting Adjutant George F. Piatt, aided Brown- son and Davison, respectively, with coolness and eficct. Col- onel Rowe was everywhere along the line with words of encouragement. But every moment it became more evi- dent that unless ammunition arrived soon, the line could not long be held. Colonel Rowe was cut in the check with a rifle- ball. Major Brownson's clothes were pierced with bullets. Lieutenant J. Gilmore Rowe, commanding company K, was borne from the field badly wounded in the head. Captain Walker of li was struck. Men were falling all along the line. On the right, company C had lost full one-fourth of the men McCullough took in. Company 1, on the left, had suftered nearly as much, and company IT even more severely. Gene- ral Tyler now sent word that ammunition was not to be had after repeated endeavors; that General French's orders were ^?^ c^ 76 "^ 36 ■ BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE. '' .X\ I to retire in as good order as possible Avhen the ammunition should be entirely exhausted. Still the enemy pressed harder and harder in front. Such was the state of aftaira in the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, when Stuart, having turned the right of the brigade and taken it in reverse, was pouring down his troops on the right and rear, filling all the woods. The Ninety- First regiment was first struck, and to avoid capture fell back. Then in turn the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, next in line to the right, gave way. This left the right flank of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth exposed. To change front in that dense thicket was impossible, even if the im- petuous charge which the regiment was now^ sustaining in front would have permitted. The line was held, however, till the last minute — till the rebels on the flank were within forty yards; then, from right to left, the line melted away in the thick woods, and emerging upon the cleared space beyond, re-formed behind the battery. Lieutenants Fletcher and McCauley, and Sergeant Lesher, with a number of men, became mixed with the enemy and were captured. The re- bels pressed closely after to the edge of the clearing and showed themselves on the open ground, but the guns open- ing upon them with grape and canister, they speedily dis- appeared in the shadow of the forest. The same fate with the other regiments befell the One Hundred and Twenty-jSTinth, which stood on the left of the line next to French's men. In its turn it was swept back, but so mingled did its men become with the enemy that there was a hand to hand tussle for the colors, which, how- ever, were safelv borne oft" at last. Having re-formed be- hind the battery, which stood near the small white house along the road to Ely's Ford, the regiment remained there in support of it, until the First Corps got well into their j position on the right of the line, when it was withdrawn g with the rest of the brigade back from the road, a short dis- ^^ 76 "^ HOMEWARD BOUND. 37 '" 0^ C tance into the woods, where it remained until tlie return movement began. The night of May the 5th, (Tuesday,) Avas a hard and gloomy one. It rained violently. The commissary stores were burnt. The army was falling back across the river. Agjiin all sacritices had been in vain. The men lay or sat about all night long awaiting momentarily the order to move to the rear. It came at daylight. In the forenoon of the 6th, the swollen stream was crossed on pontoons at United States Ford, and after a fatiguing march of twelve miles, through deep mud, the site of the old camp, whence the regiment started on the Chancellorsville campaign, was reached, and it was done with marching and fighting. A quiet week in camp succeeded the battle of Chancel- lorsville. ■ The term of service of the regiment was about to expire. General Tyler assembled it, and publicly extolled the conduct of the men in both the great actions in which they participated. Tuesday, the 12th of May, was a day of leave-taking in camp. There was a great visiting among the regiments, and the General's quarters were crowded all day. At six o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, May 13, 1863, the regiment took cars at Stoneman's Station for Aquia Landing, and ceased to belong to the Army of the Poto- mac. At Aquia, the boat Warner lay ready to convey the men to Washington, where, after a beautiful ride up the Potomac, they arrived, and went to the Soldiers' Retreat, blessing, all the way, James Watt and those who helped him bring about, for purposes of locomotion, the substitution of steam and iron for human will and muscle. The next fore- noon the cars carried them to Baltimore. At dark they con- tinued their homeward journe}' to Harrisburg. At 7 o'clock in the morning of Friday, the 15th, the regiment marched, with drums beating and fla2:s flying, through Harrisburg to Camp Curtin. The comrades, free from restraint, gay and happy, enjoyed themselves about the town or in the camp, >fe)^-o^ oo^'?^ HOME AGAIN. ''^\ for several days, while the officers were busy with the prepa- ration of the muster-out rolls. At length, on Weduesclay, the 20th of May, the companies were mustered out of ser- vice, the men received their pay and discharges, and, with icordial hand-shakings, separated and started home. The companies from Juniata were welcomed at Mifflntown, and those from Franklin countv received a great ovatioli at •/ CD Chambersburg. Each town and tov/nship beside gave a separate reception to its own peculiar company. o N^o-^, QO- V^-jO/-^" ' -CO. -^^ '^ APPENDIXES. o ;l eWr^^ ^ FIRST APPENDIX. pENERAL E, ^. TyLER'S RePORT OF THE PART TAKEN BY HIW BPvIGADE IN THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. Headquarters Tyler's Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Corps, Camp in the Field, December 16th, 1862. Captain Cars'll M'Clellan, Assistciiif Adjxitant General, Third Division: Captain:— I have the honor to report the following as the part taken by my brigade in the engagement at Fredericksburg, for the information of the commanding General. We marched from our bivouac on the morning of the 13th instant, with the Ninety-First Pennsylvania Infantry— twenty-three officers and four hundred and one men; the One Hundred and Thirty- Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry— twenty-four officers and five hun- dred and eighteen men; the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Penn- sylvania Infantry— twenty-six officers and six hundred and six men; and the One Hundred and Twenty -Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry— twenty-six officers and five hundred and seventy-five men; making a total of ninety-nine officers and two thousand one hundred enlisted men. From the time we left camp until we Avere ordered into action, no opportunity was aflTorded the regimental commanders to have further calls, but such efforts were made to prevent straggling as to induce me to believe that with the exception of the regimental details of twelve men in charge of knapsacks [and Captain INIartin's company of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, detailed us hospi- tal guard, numbering two officers and sixty -three men,] my brigade took its full duty strength into tlie action. o J « )^^' TYLER'S REPORTS. A list of the casualties of the different regiments, prepared with great ea;-e, I herewith send you, making my total loss four officers and forty-six men killed, twenty-nine officers and two hundred and ninety-four men wounded, and eighty-three men missing. Of the latter I have good reason to believe a large majority were either killed or severely wounded. The position first assigned us was on the right of the plank-road, subjected to an enfilading fire from the enemy's batteries on the crest of the hill beyond. Our loss at this point is accounted for as "miss- ing in action." Being almost immediately ordered across the road into the engagement, we were unable to account for them otherwise. I was delayed somewhat in the formation of a double line of bat- tle on the left of the road by the constant passing of limbers to the front and rear, and the deep mud along the line indicated to form on. As soon, however, as the formation was complete, the order to sound the charge was given, the caution having been previously communicated to the command not to fire a gun until orders were received from me. The brigade moved forward in as good order as the muddy condi- tion of the ground on the left of my line would admit, until we came upon a body of officers and men lying flat upon the ground in front of the brick house and along the slight elevation on its right and left. Upon our approach, these officers commanded "Halt!" flourishing their swords as they lay, while a number of their men en- deavored to intimidate our troops, crying out that we would be slaughtered, and the like. An effort was made to get them out of the way but failed, and we marched over them, and when within a very short distance of the enemy's line a fire was opened on our rear, which wounded a few of our most valuable officers and, I re- gret to say, killed some of our men. Instantaneously, the cry ran along the line that we were being fired into from the rear. The command halted, receiving at the same time a terrible fire from the enemy. Orders for the moment were forgotten, and a fire from our whole line was immediately returned. Another cry passed along the line, that we were being fired upon from the rear, when our men, after giving the enemy several volleys fell back. It will be impossible for me in this report to mention the maiiy acts of heroism on that bloody field, but it is due the officers and men to state that they performed their duties well, and they need no higher encomium than to know that their conduct on the field was highly complimented by their Division and Grand Division Com- manders. ^/pU^''" /6°'' TYLER'S REPORTS, o o Colonel O'Brien, One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, led the right front; Colonel Frick, One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, tlie left. I Colonel Elder, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixtli, held the right rear, I and Colonel Gregory, Ninety-First, the left rear. These officers dis- charged their respective duties creditably and satisfactorily, their voices being frequently heard above the din of battle, urging on their men against the terrible shower of shot and shell and, last but not least, the terrific musketry as we approached the stone wall. Of their conduct, I can not speak too highly. Lieutenant Colonel Rowe, Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong and Major Anthony, and Ma- jor Tlionii>s()n, are entitled to great credit for their efforts and oflicer- like conduct during the engagement. • Colonel Elder received a serious wound, (fracture of the thigh) and was carried off the field, Lieutenant Colonel Rowe assuming command. Colonel Gregory received a very slight wound in the hand. Major Tod, of the Ninety-First, lost his right leg from a shell just before the charge was sounded. I fear it will cost him his life. He was a brave and valuable officer. Adjutant Reed, of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, received a serious wound in the thigh, whilst at tlie head of his regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong liad a horse shot under him. Adjutant Green, of the One-Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, exhibited great coolness in the discharge of his duty. Captains Leib, Taylor, Breckenridge, Lawrence, Hague, Lyon, Walker, M'Cready, and Doebler, were very severely wounded, and Colonel O'Brien had a very narrow escape — a ball passing through his saddle from front to rear directly under him. It may not be improper for me to say that Captain Thomas, Acting Inspector General on the staff of the Division Commander, having liis liorse shot and thus j^revented from serving him, joine^i his com- j pany in the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, and was severely wounded while leading his men in the charge. I desire to call the particular attention of the Commanding Gene- ral to the accompanying reports from the regimental commanders relative to the credital)le conduct of the officers and men of their re- spective regiments. I take pleasure in being able to report that the Medical Depart- I ment of the command was well and ably conducted, and although I a number of medical officers were absent, our wounded were well and promptly attended to, under the personal supervision of the Acting Medical Director, Dr. M'Kinney, assisted by Acting Brigade Surgeon, Nugent. , Colonel M. S. Quay, late of the One- Hundred and Thirty-Fourth ^ was upon my staff as Volunteer Aid-de-camp, and to him I am I TYLER'S REPORTS. /" Jo greatly indebted. Notwitlistanding his enfeebled health, he was in the saddle early and late, ever prompt and efficient, and especially so during the engagement. To my staff, who were with me, Cap- tain H. C. Ranney, A. A. G., and Lieutenant J. B. Diehl, A.D. C, do I owe much for their promptness and untiring efforts during the entire six days and nights we were under arms. I am, very respectfully. Your obedient servant i^^S^^^^l) . E. B. TYLER, Brigadier General Commanding. I ^-lO^Oa , ^ ^/f73/f Tl I ^Oo- -co^ r^ >^ ^^ General, fi. B. Tyler's Report OF THE PART TAKEN BY HI.S BRIGADE IN THE BATTLE OK ( "HANCELLORSVILLE. Headquarters First- Brigade, ^ Third Division, Fifth Corps, > Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, May lOfh, 1863. j Captain Cars'll M'Clellan, Assistant Adjutant General, Third Division: - Captain:— I have the honor to transmit herewith a list of the casualties of my command in the action of tlie 3d inst, and also to submit the following report of the part taken by my brigade in that engagement: About nine o'clock, A. M., I received an order from Major Ctene- ral Meade to put my command in motion and go to the support of (Jeneral Freneli; Lieutenant Colonel Webb to indicate tlie position we were to occupy. That officer in person pointed out the line we were to take possession of, directly in tlie face of the enemy and on tlie right of General Frencli's command in tlie woods. The regiments Avere scarcely in position until tlie enemy opened tire upon us, which was promptly and effectively returned by our men. I saw at once that the enemy out-numbered us, as they were in double lines and extended beyond our right. T immediately asked for reinforcements, but was informed that tliey could not l)e furnisiied. Colonel Webb, who had remained in front for some mo- ments, started baclt promising to bring up reinforcements if he could obtain tliem, but he returned in a sliort time witliout them. The rapid and incessant fire of our men prevented the enemy from advancing, although they made several efforts to do so. Holding our position nearly or perliaps quite an liour, reports reached me tliat TYLER'S REPORTS. our ammunitiou was being exhausted, many of the men supplying themselves from the bodies of the dead and wounded. About this time I tliscovered the enemy were receiving reinforcements. Anoth- er double line was plainly seen advancing and extencUng further to our right. I sent for amnninition twice without being able to ob- tain it. (As I afterwards understood it had not come up from the rear.) I reported the fact to General French with the further infor- mation that the enemy were pressing us and asked for orders. He replied that he could not furnish me with ammunition, and to retire in as good order as I could when we should have exhausted what we had. The moment our tire slackened, the enemy pushed forward with at least twice our numbers. As near as I can tell we were in i^osi- tion from an hour to an hour and three-quarters before w-e were forced to retire. During this time the whole line was nnder my eye and I have to say that I never saw oflicers and men behave with more bravery and coolness than did the entire command. The offi- cers were verj- active and I saw many of them aiding the men by preparing their cartridges for the guns. The field officers were pass- ing up and down the lines encouraging their men with great spirit and coolness. The Ninety-First regiment was on our right and received the first fire of the enemy. They are entitled to great credit for their con- duct during the action. Colonel Gregory received a shght wound ' early in the engagement and left tbe field, yet the men kept well at their work under Lieutenant Colonel Sinex. The One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, Colonel O'Brien, was second in line, and no set of men could have behaved better. The officers, one and all, following the example of their Colonel (who was constantly on the alert) were very active and not a man shirked his duty. The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, Lieutenant Colonel Eowe, was third in line, and for earnest, spirited work they could not be ex- celled. Colonel Eowe exhibited the true characteristics of a soldier — brave, cool and determined, and his spirit was infused into every officer and soldier of his command. The One Hundred and Twent^-- Nintli was on our left, and no man ever saw cooler work on Jicld drill than was done by this regiment. Their firing was grand, by rank, by company, and by wing, in perfect order. Colonel Frick's stentorian voice was heard above the roar of musketry, and with the aid of his Lieutenant Colonel and Major his regiment was splendidly handled, doing their dut\- well. Too much credit cannot be given the officers and men of the bri- gade. Xot a single neglect came under my notice dnring the en- gagement. The colors of the different regiments show that they 9/'""" /^ TYLER'S REPORTS. were carried well to the front, and I saw them defiantly waived in the face of the enemy. The officers of my Staff, Captains H. C. Ranney and William H. Davison, Lieutenants Diehl and Tyler, rendered me every assistance in their power under an incessant fire. Among the officers seriously wounded I have with regret to men- tion Major Anthony of the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, a true soldier and a dutiful officer. Lieutenant Colonels Howe and hJhaw were slightlj' wounded, as was Lieutenant Diehl, Aid-de-camp. I have the honor (o be, very respectfully Your obedient servant (Signed) E. B. TYLER, Brigadier General Commanding. ci' )^/< SECOND APPENDIX List of Casualties in the one hundred and twenty-sixth pvegiment pennsyii- vania volunteers, at fredericksburg, virginia, december 13th, 1862. FIELD AND STAFF. Colonel .James (t. P^.lder, "Woimdod seveivly in tiiiuli. COMPANY A. WOITNDED. KILLED AND MlSSlXCi. Captain .John Doebler. Corporal Thomas Ct. Pilkinuton, k Corjioral Emanuel Forney. .fohn S. Oaks, k Thomas D. French. " D. Augustus Houser, k George Goettman. I). Frank M'Louglilin, k Benjamin K. Goodyear. David Newman, k Jacob Lightcap. Abraham Reitzell, k David C. M'Gaughey. Jacob B. Shafer, K Harris J. Renfrew. David AV. Washabaugh, n< Jacob Martin. < "OMPANY B. WOrXDEI). KILLKD AND MXSSINC. Lieutenant James Pott. .John Taylor, tc Corporal Jacob H. Swisher. .Vndrew C Richardson, k William Finney. Henry Ruthraiiff. James H. Woy. COMPANY C. WOUNDKD. KILLKD AND M(,SSIN<,-. Corporal Wm. Hays M'Cleliand. William AV. Brinkley, K J. Pjrewer Cusliwa. Dallas p]. Mowen, ic Levi P'ritz. •lohn Pluston AN'ork. CO.M]>ANY D. WOUMDKl). KILLKD AXD :\II,SS1N(;. Sanniel C. Ledy. Henry Cook. K Henry Laman. ^ Jolm B. Lindscy. p WOUNDEK. John h\ Flory. LIST OF CA8UALTIK8. COMPANY E. KILLKD AND MISSING. Sergeant Geo. M. D. Brotherton, K Daniel C. Hoover, S. P. Rouzer, Henry F. Barnett, M K M COMPANY F. WOUNDED. Captain John P. Wharton. Corporal Lemuel Warner. George Dunn. Mortier S. Hench. N. S. Hinkle. R. A. Laird. Samuel Bonsall. Samuel Calhoun. KILLED AND MISSING. Theodore Miller, K WOUNDED. Russell Fields. William J. Knight. Robert W. M'Intire. John S. Shaflfer. COMPANY G. KILLED AND MISSING. Lieutenant Harry C. Fortescue, K Laurence Harmon, K COMPANY H. WOUNDED. KILLED AND MISSING. Captain John H. Walker. Jeremiah Brindle, Lieutenant Josiah W. Fletcher. Robert F. Elliott, Lieutenant William H. Mackey. William H. Rhodes, Corporal Calvin J. Gamble. Samuel C. Elder. Samuel T. M'Clay. Jacob F. Reamer. Newel D. Stark. 1' K K COMPANY I. — NOT IN ACTION. COMPANY K. WOUNDED. Sergeant Henry Strickler. Sergeant John H. Logue. Corporal John M. D. Detrich. Corporal David K. Appenzellar. George W. Alexander. James C. Morehead. Cyrus Baughman, KILLED AND MISSING. Adam C. Bert, K George M. Byers, K James Mitchel, k George W. Shook, K Charles H. Shirey, K Henry M. Spidel' K Joseph Shatzer, k \v, On- o a List of Casualties IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH :REGIMENT PENNSYT, VANIA VOLUNTEERS, AT THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, VIRGINIA, MAY 3, 1863. FIELD AND STAFF. Lieutenant Colonel D. Watson Eowe, Wounded in face. COMPANY A. WOUNDED. Charles Allison. KILLED AND MISSING. Robert G. Randall, WOXJNDKD. George Brunuer. Andrew Glenn. M. W. Kissecker. John Oliver. James H. Woy. COMPANY B. KILLED AND MISSING. Sergeant John Brown Lesher, i' Jonathan Bowman, k C. C. Hagar, m COMPANY C. WOUNDED. Thomas D. Metcalfe. David L. Coyle. Biyson Bruce. George Cole. James M'Connell. William M'Dowell. William E. M'Kinstry. James O. Parker. Joseph Ripple. William M. Starliper. John L. Zimmerman. KILLED AND MISSING. David F. M'Donald, p Nicolas C. Trout, k WOUNDED. Cori)oral Andrew Molby, John B. Heart. Lewas Monath. Adam Nicklas. COMPANY D. KILLED AND MISSING. Lieutenant Clav M'Caulev. •^ -cO-''^^^-^ LIST OF CASUALTIES. COMPANY E.— NOT IN ACTION. COMPANY F. WOUNDEli. ■ (Jorpoiiil Theodore Birch field. Jacob Longacre. J. L. Shultz. John L. Tutton. S. H. Whitmer. Jerome Weisner. KILI,E1) ANU MlSSIXi;. John C. Eberts, m William Colee, m "William Givler, yi COMPANY G. VVOUNDElt. Corporal S. O. B.^M'Curdy. Corporal Richard Waters. James M'Cartney. KILLEU AXli M].s«IN(i. — NONF.. COMPANY H. WOUNDED. Captain John H. Walker. (Sergeant Alfred J. Kent. William A. Gaston. James H. Grey. Samuel Lee. Andrew A. Ponieroy. John Smith. Joseph Shafer. Calvin M. Skinner. KILLED AKD .MISSING. Lieutenant Josiah W. Fletcher, i' Nicholas M. Bowers, k John A. Harris, v John M. Coons, v John H, Stitt, k William Mc. C. VVilsou, p IVUlNDEIi, Cornelius Bartley. T. N. Caruthers." George Geedy. AVilliam Hawk. John B. Henry. William H. Mooie. ]\r. Stumj). COMPANY I. KII,l.Ef> AND StISSlKC. EiJhraim Bell, A. H. Fasick, William Pattori , (George Walls, K J' K K COMPANY K. WOUNDED. ,K1I,I,EI> AND MISSIN'C. Lieutenant John Gilmore Rowe. Simon W. Rupley, William F. Rupert. George P\ Missavy, William H. Snivel v. K K r o»- co-'f)^ I w-> ^33- ^ ^yy rHIRD APPENDIX. firld and .^tnff :|j]ffitrrs -— ||^ommi|sionftl. NAMES. RANK. EEMAKKS. James G. Elder, Colonel. David Watson Howe,! LUmt. Col. Jume.s (\ Austin, Major. Robert S. Browiison, j Afajor. John Stewart, Tliomas J. Mill, Washing'iiG. Nug-ent Frank Grube, Daniel D. Swift, Samuel J. Nicoolls, -'0 ^3, -t^— Adjutant. Qr. Master. Surgeon. I Asst. Surg''n Asst. Sim/'n Chaplain. Wounded severely in thigh at P'redericksburg,Va., Dee. 13, 1862. Absent, wounded and with leave from that date until ex]iirati()n of service. In command of the Regiment from 13th Dec, 1862. Slightly wounded in cheek at Chancel lors- ville, Va., May3d, 1863. Honorably discharged upon resignation for disabilitv: Special Orders, No. 33, Hd. Qrs' ('. G. D., Dee. 22(1, 1862. Promoted from Captain of Co. (', and mustered in as Major, March 31, 1866. Appointeil Com. of Mustei's, 3d Div. r,th Corps, 11th April, 186,;. Appointed Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Volunteers, and transferred to 6th Army CorjJS, A]n-il, 1863. Honorably discharged upon re- g signation, 23<1 Nov., 1862. ^<^ CC^C r o 54 FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS. XAMES, RANK. I RJEMAKKS. John Ault, Chaplain. ' Mustered in at Harrisburg, Deo, 2d, 1862. Joined the Eegt. Dec 19, 1S&2. Absent, with leave^ from Jan. 18, till Feb. 7, 1863. .Then absent, sick, without leave till expiration of service. :\on--^ommissioiic(l Staff. XAMES. I RANK. REMARKS. George F. Ziegler, iSer. Major. \ I ! Wm. M. Allison, Qr. 3/. Svr.^ Cha^i. W. Kinsler, Com. Sergt. Bottsfd B. Henshev, 7/b*-. iSVeifV? Discharged for disabilitv, April 1, 1863. Lewis Kevser, Appointed April 2, 1863. ^v y/^y^ A' o o 9 OMPANY >■ NAMES. RANK. KKMABKS. John Dcebler, John Stewart, Captain. \st Lieut. George W. Welsh, 'Id Lieut William M'Lenegan, 'Id Lieut. John A. 8eiders, 1st Serrft. J. Porter Brown, M Rob't Bard Fisher, M " Thomas Durboraw, I -^th " Benj. F. Deal I oth " Thomas G. Pilkingtou Corporal. David F. Holtiuau, Dennis Reill3', .Samuel M'llroy, Alexander Flack, David Greeuawalt, Thomas H. ^IcDowell Emanuel Forney, Frederick Shinetteld,! Musician. Thomas Donovan, ' " .James G. Gla.ss, u It (( tt 11 Allison Charles, Andrews Geo. B. , Baker Luther S., Waffoner. Private. Wounded severely in arm at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, ne- cessitating his absence from the company during the remainder of term of service. Appointed Adjutant, August 16, 1862. Promoted to 1st Lieut., August 16, 1862, vlec John Htewart. In command of Comjiany A from 13th Dec, 1862, till end of service. From private vice Geo. W. Welsh. Died near Camp Faliii< nith , \'a. , Dec. 24, 1862. Discharged 9th Feb. 1863, for disability. Wounded in action at Frede- ricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. Died, from wounds, 15th January, 1863. Deserted, Oct. 30, 1862. i it- turned March 30, 1863, Deserted, 2d November, 1862. Wounded 13th December, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Promoted to Corporal. I Deserted, Oct. 24th, 1862, IVom jcamp, near 8har])sburg, Md. ,,/ cK>^&^^ (.'OMPANY A. ^^ NAMKS. RANK. REMARKS. Bard Cejihus L. IJigliani John (J. Bittinger Hiraiu J*. IJradley Wm. M., lirandt Daiuol W. Brown John C. Cliue Robert, Clugston Wni. JNl. Cole George F. Davidson Wm. G. Doughtv .lolin, Deatrieii Geo. F. Doyle Isaac B. Dnncan Geo. W. p]arlev Daniel H. Private. Goetman George, (loodyear B. K. Hays John M. Heck George S. Hoeken V)ery Wni, H. Houser David A. House r Hiram, Hutton Jacob H. Huber Abraham Keefer Wm. B. Kennedv William Keller .Tacob Lange HeuiT*- Ijee Thomas Ijightcap .)acol> ^v., \* It Deserted, September 17, 1862, at Frederick, Md. Edmiston Henrv C. Eyster Wilbur F. Fahnestock B. A. Fisler David B. French Thomas I). 1 1 Fuller Christian, Gaft-AVilliam, " Gill William B. II Gilmore James R. Discharged, for disability, by order of Gen. Meade, Jan'v 16, 1863. Discharged for disability. Promoted to Sergeant, Mav 3, 1863. Wounded in action at Frede- ricksburg, 13th Dec. 1862. Discharged for disability. Discharged Dec. 24th 1862, by order of Sec. War. ! Wounded in action at Frede- jricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. j Wounded in action at Frede- [ricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. Wounded in action at Frede- ricksburg, Va., 13th Dec, 1862, died from wounds 2oth Dec, 1862, at Washington, D. C. I Discharged, 19th Feb., 1863, by j order of Surgeon Breer, General iHosjiital, Philadel'a: Disabilitv. j Deserted, Sept, 17, 1862, from 'camp near Frederick, Md. Wounded, in action, at Fi*ede- ricksburg, Va., Dee. 13, 1862. .M 'mr 0> Jl COMPANY A. NAMKS. KANK. ilKMAIlKS. McIlroyHam'l H. M'Lenegan Wm. M'Laughliu David F, Martin Jacob, Malioii Thaddeus M. McGowan Jacob, Maxwell tSauiuel B. McCrvath T. J. C. M'Gaughey David C. Nace David B. Newman David, Oaks Jobu tS. Faxton John N. Pfoutz John F. Piper William, Patton James ('. Randall Edmund, Randall Robert (t. Rhotles John H. Rhodes Franklin, . Roades Henry M. Reid Samuel D. C. Ritter James (\. Rial Henry, Reitzel Abraham, Renfrew Thomas D. Renfrew Harris J. Seibei-t David H, Sliafler .Jacob \\. Private. (( it (I (I 11 Promoted toSergt., May 3, 18G;>. Promoted to 2d Lieut., Aug. lo, 1862. Killed, in action, at Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. l.'J, 1862. Wounded, in action, Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dee. 13, 1862. Died, from disease, at Stanton Hospital, Washi}igton, l.")tli Feb. 1863. Died, 4th March, 1863, from dis- ease, at Camp, near Falmouth , Va. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va. Wounded, in action, at Fi'ede- ricksburg, Va., 13th Dec, 1862. Died, loth Jan., 1863, at Washing- ton, D. C. Discharged 2.3d Dec, 1862. Died, Dec. 25th, 1862, from wounds re- ceived in action, 13th Dec, 1862. Promoted to Corporal. Discharged from General Hos- pital, Philadelphia, by order of Gen. Montgomery, 7th January, 1863.— Disability. Taken prisoner at Chancellors- ville. Killed, in action, at Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, in action, at Frede- jricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Absent, sick, from Oct. 30, 1862. Honorably discharged 31st Jan- uary ,1863," by order Surgeon Hunt, Convalescent Camp, Va., for dis- ability. Wounded, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Died at Hospital, Washington, D. C, 8th July, 1863. .. t- oO^C)^ o / '^' ,00- 58 COMPANY A. ^ NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. Shryock Samuel S. Private. Discharged, Oct. 9, 1862, on ac- count of nervous affection of the eyes. Sharj) Robert, 11 Sixeas Jacob, n Discharged for disability. Stratton Samuel, (« Stewart Reges, it Taylor John, It Wampler Geo. E. il Watson Geo. W. tl Provost Guard at C'orps Pld.Qrs. , from 22d Sept., 1862. AVashabaugh D. W. 11 Killed, in action, at Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 1:5, 1862. Wilt Adam W. u Welsh Philip R, 11 "»»- V 30- -fc 9 OMPANY P- NAMES. BANK. REMARKS. James C. Austin, William H. Davison, Henry M. Hoke, .James Pott, •lames Pott, Harvey Wisliert, I. Y. Atberton, John Brown Lesher, Joseph Myers, John L. P. Detrich, Silas D. Anderson, William H. Weyant, < Jacob H. Swisher, ^. Captain. \st Lieut. Id Lieut. \st Sergt. Id Sergt. M Sergt. 4th Sergt. oth Sergt. Corporal. Promoted to Major. Promoted to be Captain, Au- jgust 20, 1862, vice Austin, promo- jted. Feb. 1863, appointed In- ispector General of Brigade, and detached until expiration of ser- vice on the Staff of Gen. Tyler. Detailed as Division Ordnance Officer, Oct. 13, 1862. From 1st Sergeant, August 20, 1862, vice Wm. H. Davison. Se- verely wounded in the face at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. Promoted to Ist Serg't, Aug. 20, 1862. Promoted to 2d Serg't, August 20, 1862. Absent, sick, without leave, and drojiped from the rolls, March 9, 1863. Promoted to 3d Serg't, Aug. 20, 1862. Captured at Chancellors- ville, May 3, 1863. Promoted to 4th Serg't, August 20, 1862. Reduced to ranks by order of Col. Elder, Oct. 21, 1S()2. Deserted Dec. 10, 1862, just before the battle. Promoted to 5th Serg't, August 20, 1862. Reduced to ranks, Nov. 4, 1862. Promoted t« .5th Serg't, Nov. 4. 1862. Discharged, for disabili- ty, Feb'y 4, 1863. Promoted to 4th Serg't, Oct. 21, 1862. Reduced to ranks at Chan- cellorsville. Discharged, from Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, ¥ch. 9, 1863, on account of general disa- ability and left thumb amputated from wound received in battle at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13th, 1862. cO' ■^ft^ !C< 60 COMPANY n. NAMES. KANK. KEMAKKS. William Ortli, (Jourtiiey G. Glenn, Peter Wesner, James R. Cummins, John H. Hush, .Tared Irvine, D. A. Lamberson, Abbott T. J. Alabaugh S. G. Bowman Jonathan, Baker Andrew Bowman Abraham, Brunner George, Barnheisel J{. W. Pioerner Adam, Barnett Josej^h C Cleary Thos. J. Crunkleton Robert, (^loni'ad Moses, Cleary James, Chambers Thos. J. Clevenger Adam, Dennisar Daniel, Deaver Jesse A. Edwards John, Foreman John M. Finney William, Felteberger John, Greenawalt Jacob, Glenn Geo. W. Glenn Andrew, (liossert Samuel C Glass Daniel, ( tordon David (hove Wm. A. (Trove Emanuel Hager C. C. Corporal. I Deserted, Oct. 21, 1862. Return - jed, March 28th, 1863, under Presi- dent's Pi'oclamation. II Mynician. II Wagoner. Private. II II II II (I 11 II II Promoted to 4th .Serg't at Chau- eellorsville. Never mustered in. Killed, in action, at Chancel- lorsville, May ;5, 186;!. Wounded in left hand, at Chan- cellorsville. May 3, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 21, 1862. Promoted to Cor^joral at battle of Cluincellorsville, May 3, 1863. Deserted, .Sept. 20, 1862. Wounded, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Deserted, Oct. 8, 1862. Discluirged from Hospital, at Newark, N. J., Oct. 17, 1862, on account of disability. Wounded, slightly, at Chancel- lorsville. Died, April lit, ]863, near Fal- mouth, Va. Discharged from Regimental Hospital, near Falmouth, Va., July 14, ls()3, on account of disa- bility. Promoted to Corporal. Captured, in action, at ( 'hancel- llorsville, May 3, 1863. 9-' Oo - COMPANY B. (n n k NAMES. RANK. KKMARKS. Hoopengardner Ab'iu Private. Hoke James S. a Jacobs Adam, i4 KisseckerMatthiasW. u Wounded, slightly in hand, at Chancellorsville, May 3, lS(j:?. Kendall Jolui F. 1 i Promoted to Corporal, Dee. 17, 1862, on aecount of good beha- vior in action. Keith Wilson K. 11 Kelso D. W. 11 Promoted to Corporal, March 1, 1868, for meritorious conduct be- fore the enemy. Lininger Keiiheu, " Long- William, I ( Long Phili]), a Discharged, on account of disa- bility, March 29, ims, by order of Major General Meade. Lindsay James M. 11 Discharged, for disability, Mar. 21, 1868. Litten Hiolimond, u Logan Wm. (1. 11 Died, at Harewood Hos]>ital, November 24, 1862. Moore Wm. H. i L iSIissavy John, a Mellott Noriis, " Deserted, Sept. 2-3, 1862. Mellott ( Jeo. ^^^ i I Deserted, Sept. 2r), 1862. Martin Ija/arus, " Oliver John, a Wounded, in action, severely, at t'hancellorsville, May 3, 1868. Pedieord John ^L i i Pittman Jienj. F. u Parlett John, u Uuthrauff Heniy, ki Wounded, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Dec. l:'., 18(52. Pedieord ('. W. i i ilichardson And'w C it Died, in Douglas Hospital, Jan. 29, 1863, from wounds received in battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 18, 1862. Showalter Saniiiel, u Sj>eelmaii F^awson W. i i Promoted to ("orpoial, August 20, 1862. Ileduced to ranks, by order of (\)lonel Elder, October 21, 1862. Shrader (ieorge. 4 i Promoted to ( !or )orai, ISIareli ] , 1868, for good eom u<'t. Sleighter Amos, ii SalkeldS. W. it .Sterrett Matthias N. i( Shatzer Joseph, 1 1 Stine John, ( t Smith Wm. 1). li • Tritle^Luther D. 1 i Tritle Jaeol. -M. 1 1 i^£ ■-Oo /i^- 62 COMPANY B. NAMES. Truax William, Taylor John, Ulrick John. linger W. P. Wilson James, Witherspoon 1). ('. Wilders James, Unger Samuel, Walker William. Wright Paul F. Woy James H. Woodcock W. W. Young Carlton, BANK. REMARKS. Private. a Died, in Regimental Hospital, near Falmouth, Va., November 27, 1862. Promoted to Corporal, Oct'r 21, 1862. Missing, in action, at Fred- ericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, since which nothing has been heard of him. Known to have been wounded in the leg and disabled. Deserted, Dec. 10, 1862, just be- fore the fight. Wounded, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, in action, at Chancel- lorsville. May 3, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Nov'r 4, 1862. Promoted to 5th Sergeant, March 1st, for good conduct. o .^j®^^, Oa- \ f OMPANY f- NAMES. RANK. KEMAKKS. Robert H. Browiison, James P. M'Cullough, Samuel Hornbaker, Captain. Jacob S. Trout, James P. M'Cullough David Carson, Oliver H. Anderson, William W. Brinkley TTaomas D. Metcalf, Jacob B. Myers, John K. Shatzer, David L. Coyle, David F. McDonald, Peter McC. Cook, John Findlay Smith, David R. Wolff, Wm. H. M'Clelland. Wm. P. M'Cune, Henry Oyler, Alleman Samuel C. Armstrong John, Bennett Jojjn, \st Lieut. 2d Lieut. iHt Scrrft. •2d Serg't. 'M Scrrft. Uh Serg^t. 5th HergH. Corporal. Musician. Wagoner. Private. Appointed Major, by Gov. Cur- tin, 16tli March", 1863. Mustered in as sucn, 31st March, 1863. E'rom First Lieutenant, Marcb 19, 1863, vice R. S. Brownson. Dismissed the service of the U. S., 16th Jan'y, 1863.— General Or- ders, No. 4, Third Division, Fifth Corjjs; and General Orders, No. 13, Head Quarters Armj' of the Potomac, Feb'y 18, 1863. Promoted, February !), 1863. to First Lieutenant, vict Hornba- ker. Died, September 13, 1862. Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Feb. 9, 1863. Killed, at battle of Fredericks- burg, Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Sept. 14, 1862. To 1st Sergeant, Feb'v 9, 1863. Promoted to 4th Sergeant, Dec'r 14, 1862. Wounded, slightly, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Taken prisoner at Chancellors- ville, May 3, 1863. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Deserted Oct. 30, 1862. Returned under President's l*roclamation, % March, 1863. V XS?)X -ceK^?^ /' G4 COMPANY C. NAMES. 1 ^ANK. KEMARKS. Boyd R. Hays, Private. Bowers George K. M. a Brunt TJieodore, u Deserted Oct. 30, 18G2. Return- ed under President's Proclama- tion, March, 1863. Bnuiley .J. Johnston, ii Brubaker Patterson, a r>iuce Bryson, ti Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Byers Edward, u Byers John M. " Cantner Jacob, u Deserted Oct. 30, 1862. Return- ed under President's Proclama- tion, March, 1863. ("anipbell M'Farland, t( (>)le George, '« Wounded, at Chancellorsville,. May 3, 1863. Creigh Thos. Alfred, l( Criliy Tlieodore, 1( Cushwa J. Brewer (< Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Dickey Seth, (( Divelbiss David U. ti Divelbiss Josej^h K. 11 * Doyle Cornelius, (1 Dronenbiirg John T. a • Duffield James B. It Eckert John, 11 Eckman John W. 41 » Findlay Robert 8. 11 Findlay IMward J. 11 Deserted at Harrisburg, August 9, 1862. Fritz Levi, t( W^ounded, at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1802. Fulton Joseph R. l( Garns Samuel, 11 Deseilbd Oct. 30, 1862. Return^ ed under President's Proclama- tion, March, 1863. (jiehrett Benjamin F. 11 Discharged, for disability, 19th March, 1863, by order INIajor ( Gen- eral Meade. Hause Milton, " Henninger John, 11 Hendricks George, 11 Hersh David M. 11 Hornbaker Daniel N. 11 Hornbaker Jno. \Vm. 1> Hospelhorn Wm. H. 11 Metcalfe Thomas C. " Miller Christopher, 1> Mowen Dallas E. 11 Killed, in battle, Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Mowry Jacob B. 11 • Myers Andrew A. 11 s^^.. cC ■ 1^ ^' 7^ COMPANY C. 65 NAMES. BANK. REMARKS. Myers Geo. W. C. M'Cune Wm. Brewer M'Cune John E. M'Donald George, M'Culloh J. Archib'd M'Connell James, M'Clelland Robert, M'Clelland Adam, M'Cutclieon Robert, 'M'Dowell William, M'Kinstry Wm. E. North Samuel W. Ortli J, Q,. Adams, Palmer G. W. Parker J. Thompson, Parker James O. Patterson Samuel J. Pensinger Thomas, Rankin J. Watson, Reed Charles F. Ripple Joseph, Ross Adam, Scully David B. Secrist Jacob B. Shorts Henry, Socks John, St. Clair Thomas, Starliper Wm. M. Stine Henry J. Thomas Christopher Tibby James, Trout Nicholas C. Walt William W. Weiler John B. Werdebaugh Wm. Wolff David E. Work J. Huston, Zimmerman John L, Private. Died, in camp, March 31, 1863. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Died, at Camp, near Falmouth, Va., Dec. 5, 1862, of fever. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Wounded, at Chancelloi-sville, Va., May 3, 1863. Ai^pointed Corporal, Oct'r 25, 1862. Wounded, at Chancellors- ville, May 3, 1863. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Discharged, for disability, 10th March, 1863, by order of Major General Meade. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3,1863. Appointed Corporal, Dec. 13, '62. Killed, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Died, atCami?, near Falmouth, Va., February 24, 1863. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Oo-- cO^^< )^0 /' r Company D, NAMES. Johu H. Reed, Josiah C. Hulliiiger. Jeremiah Cook, George F. Piatt, Clay M'Cauley, George F. Piatt, John M' Curdy, Clay M'Cauley, John M. P. Snider, Alex'rL, C.Dingwall William A. Mountz, Lewis Mouath, Charles W. Kiusler, Bottsford B. Henshey WiUiam B. Cook, Henry B. Kindig, BANK. Captain. Captain. \st Lieut. \st Lieut. 2d Lieut. 1st Serg't. 2dSergH. Sd&'erg't. Ath Serg^t. 5th Scrg't. Corporal. REMARKS. Honorably discharged upon re- signation, January, 1863. From 2d Lieut., Feb'y 1863, vice John H. Reed, resigned. Discharged the Service, Jan. 16, 1863. [Dismissal revoked.] Vice Jere. Cook, Feb. 24, 1863. Acting Adjutant at battle of Chancellorsville. Vice Josiah C. Hullinger, pro- moted to Captain. Captured at Chancellors ville. Promoted to 1st Lieut., vice Jere. Cook, Feb'y 24, 1863. Promoted to 2d Lieut., vice 3. C. Hullinger, Feb'y 24, 1863. Discharged, by order of Maj. Gen. Meade, Feb'y 12, 1863. Promoted to Sergeant, Febru- ary 14, 1863. Reduced to ranks at Chan cellors ville. Reduced to ranks, Februarv 17, 1863. Wounded at Chancellors- ville, Va., May 3, 1863. Appointed Commissary Ser- geant, Aug. 15, 1862. Appointed Hospital Steward, Aug. 15, 1862. Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by order of Brig. Gen. Butterfield. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Feb, 25, 1863. -'>^C COMPANY D. 07^ NAMES. Joseph W. Seiberfc, William Fentiman, Sam'l M. Shoemaker, Samuel Etter, Bowman Henry, Barnes Geo. W. Bittinger Joseph S. Bushy Jacob, Bear Daniel, Barnett William A. Buchanan James T. Brittian Melville C. Carr Harry L. Cook Henry, Cook John H., Clippinger John R. Cover Henry L. Evans William C. Ely Francis R. Falter George B. Ferronburg Edward, Funk John L. Gibbs John, Gordon David B. Houser Nicholas B. Harmon George E. Humelsine Menaris, Holby Andrew, Hallman Jacob H. Heart John B. Johnston George W. Keyser Lewis, Kindig David E, Keefer George G. Ledy Samuel C. Lesher John H. Lininger Peter, o Lininger George W. RANK. REMARKS. Corporal. 3fusician. Wagoner. Pi'ivate. (1 u If 11 1( II (< u (1 <1 (I II II II II II (I >l II II II II II II Discharged, Jan. 14, 1863, by order of Maj. Gen. Meade. Reduced to ranks, Feb. 17, 1863. Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by order of Gen. Butterfield. Detached, as Hospital Clerk, from Oct. 1862. Died, Dec. 14, 1862, from wounds received at battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Discharged, Feb. 19, 1863. Ab- sent, sick, from Oct. 1862, Discharged, Jan'y 14, 1863. Died, Jan'y 9, 1863, at camp near Falmouth, Va. Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 23, 1862. Promoted to Sergeant, Feb. 25, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Feb'y 14, 1863. Wounded, at Chancellors- ville. Wounded at Chancellors vile, May 3, 1863. Appointed Hospital Steward. Discharged, March 9, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by order of Gen. Butterfield. 68 ^ COMPANY D. NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. Laman Henry, Lewis Reuben M. Larch Charles, Lindsay John B. Moore Upton H. Mellinger John, M'Kisson James, Miller George, M'Dowell James B. M' Curdy Alexander, M'Grath Allen C. M'Hale Austin, M'Kane Andrew, Mohler Samuel, Mohler Frederick R. M'Nair Amos K. Markward William, Meelman Adam, M'Laughlin James, M'Elwaine Robert, Nicklas Adam, O'Malley Samuel, Palsgrove David L. Palsgrove Jackson, Pike Ferdinand W. Pensinger George, Pensinger Jacob, Peisel David L. Powders David L. Parker John AV. Reisher Samuel, Reilly Francis, Shinafield John W. Shearer Elias, Shultz Andrew J. Shetter Simon C. Simmers David, Stickle Samuel C. Stahl William, Snyder John A. J. f^^hearer Walker, Private. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged, March 10, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va.,Dec. 13, 1862. Died, Feb. 24, 1863, Camp near Falmouth, Va. Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 17, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Aug. 16, 1862. Discharged, Feb. 12, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Februa- ry 14, 1862. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Aug. 16, 1862. Deserted, Nov'r 5, 1862. Promoted to Corporal, Februa- ary 14, 1863. Discharged, Feb'y 6, 1863, for disability. Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 17, 1863. >^^^ COMPANY D. 69 ^^ NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. Spencer David, Shinefleld Geo. S. Trogler William, Washabaugh Daniel, Weaver Henry A. Yeager Leonard, Yenkle Charles, Private. Died, Nov. 2, 1862, at Sharps- burg, Md. Discharged, Feb. 7, 1S63. 9 o .M ,Oo- o f OMPANY F- NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. W. W. Walker, Geo. W. Walker, Thos. J. Nill, Henry H. Breneman, Frederick Berkel, Henry H. Breneman, John A. White, Benjamin S. Gaff, Geo. M. D.Brotherton, Samuel J. Lidy, James B. French, John C. Tracy, Geo. L. Freet, Jacob F. Newman, Luther B. Walter, John C. Anderson, AugustusC. Man ahan , John Bell, Geo. G. Pilkington, Matthias Minehart, Anderson W. W. Bowman Calvin, Bowman Geo. W. Bowman John F. Barnett Henry F. Bender John M. Beard Napoleon, Benchoof Benj. F. Captain. \8t Lieut. 2d Lieut. 2d Lieut. \st Serg't. 2d Serg't. 5d SergH. Mh Serg't. 5th SergH. Corporal. (1 u II u 11 Fifer. Drummer. Wagoner. Private. (1 u (( II Promoted to Quarter Master of Regiment. Promoted to 2d Lieut., Nov. 18, 1862, from 2d Serg't. Promoted to 2nd Lieut.^, Nov. 18, 1862. Killed in action at Fredericks- burg, Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged for disability, 23d Dec, 1862. Died, Dec. 22, 1862, in camp near Falmouth, Va. Missing after the action at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Promoted to Corjioral, Dec. 17, 1862. Discharged for disability, March 2, 1863. Discharged for disability, April. 6, 1863. Died, at Wind Mill Hospital, of typhoid fever, Jan'y 23, 1863 / ^^ COMPANY E. NAMES. BANK. REMARKS. Bear D. Jacob, Boyles Robert J. Carnan Archibald, Cordel John, Cunninghaiu Thos. Criner George F. K. DiftenderferEmanuel, Ditch William H. Detro Lewis, Davis Cornelius, Davis Robert, Delph Michael, Flory John F. Flohr Hamuel, Flohr Thomas, Flory Ellas S. Gamp Frederick, Grove John W. Honodle Adam, Hoover Daniel C. Hoover J. Wilson, Hellane Daniel, HoUingsworth F. S. Hall Finly, Hoof Milton, Izer David, Izer John, Johnston William, Kriner Michael, Kriner Henry, Kipe J. W. Kaddle Adam, Lokas William, Lippy Albert, M'Vicker J. M. Mentzer John, Myers Samuel R. Miller John L. M'Ferren James, Maun Samuel, Miller David, Frivate. ( 1 u 11 II 11 u 11 11 It 11 II 11 11 II II 11 11 II II 11 l( II II Discharged at Washington Hospital, by order of Gen. IMar- tindale, Feb. 19, 1863. Absent in Hospital, from Oct. 30, 1862. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged for disability, 16th Feb., 1863. i Missing since the action of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 17, 1862. Deserted, 14th Sept., 1862, from Georgetown, D. C. Discharged, March 29, 1863, for disability, by order of Gen. Meade. Deserted from Frederick, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. COMPANY E. NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. Nunnemaker Beuj. Newman George F. Noviu W. G. Ogle John E. Price Geo. K, Peters John H. Pool Joseph, Pentz John, Rowzer Simon P. Renfrew W. A. M. Rock Abraham, Rider Frank S. Ripple Angustus J. Singer Daniel W. Seace William, Stull Joseph S. Shooj) Jeremiah, Sellers Amos J. Sherley Wm. H. Smith Charles J. Strausner Paul Saunders William, Sibbett Wilson R. Sanders John, Taylor Wm. H. Taylor George F. Waddle Henry J. Wolff Jacob ■ Williard M. A. Wolff Daniel Wetzel Samuel Private Promoted to 5th Sergeant, Dec, 17, 1862. Died in hospital, April 3, 1863. Discharged for disability, Mar. 20, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. Killed in action, at Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec, 13, 1862. Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Nov. 1, 1862. Absent, sick. Reported as a de- serter, Nov. 3, 1862. Deserted, Sept'r 18, 1862, from Frederick, Md. Promoted to Corporal, April 26, 1863. a O M ? OMPANY r- NAMES. BANK. REMARKS. John P. Wharton, Rob't P. M'Williams, James C. Bonsall, Banks W. Sharon, John W. Phillips, William B. Roush, Martin S. Littlefield, Frank Mayne, Josiah M. Bowers, George Miller, Adam J. Greer, Sol. B. Kauffman, Lemuel Warner, Isaac R. Walton, Wm. W. Mitchell, Franklin P. Kirk, Cloyd Kreider, S. A. G. Mathers, Cha's H. Williamson, Anderson George, Adams John, Anderson Jacol), Bonsall Samuel, Burchfield Theodore, Bolton Enos, Blackford John E. g Beaver Martin, Captain. \st Lieut. 2d Lieut. \st SergH. M SergH. 3d SergH. Uh SergH. 5th SergH. Corporal. a 11 11 Musician. II Wagoner. Private. II II II II II II Injured at Fredericksburg, Va. Deserted, Aug. 24, 1862. After- wards turned out to be a woman, whose real name was Frances Day. Promoted, August, 1862, to 5th Sergeant. Discharged, Dec'r 24, 1862, at Walnut Street Hospital, Harris- burg, Pa. Color-Bearer. Wounded slightly, in right leg, at battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Reduced to ranks at Fredericks- burg, Dec, 13, 1862. Deserted, Sept. 18, 1862. Discharged, Feb. 7, 1863, by or- der of Gen. Sykes. Deserted, Sept'r 18, 1862. Wounded in l»attle of Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Promoted, Aug. 26. 1862, to Corporal. Wounded at Chancel- lorsville, May 3, 1863. COMPAMY F. NAMES. BANK. REMARKS. Bruner Jeremiah, Civils Lorenzo D. Cline John G. Calhoun Samuel, Clay Samuel, Private. 11 k Code Richard M. J. Dressier Jeremiah, Deam William, u u 11 Dunn George, u Ebbert John C. Fink David, Ellis Samuel, Fasic Britton Allen, Fink Porter, u u u u u Fitzi^atrick William, u Guss Jefferson J. A. (( Givler William, Garver Michael, Hood Nathaniel, Hicus William, Hock Samuel, (1 il ti u (1 Hench MortierSam'l, (1 Hinkle N. S. tl Laird Robert A. t( Logan William C. Lauglilin Geo. H. Louder James R. Longaere J. E. Logue Oren, Mathers Jesse, Miller Theodore, (( (1 (1 (1 Moore William B. (( Matthes Samuel W. 11 (( Deserted, Jan'y 21, 1863. Wounded slightly in the hand, at battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged March 29, 1863, for disability, by order of Gen. Meade. Discharged, March 20, 1S63, for disability, by order of Gen. Meade. Deserted, Jan'y 24, 1863. Discharged, Dec. 13, 1862, by order of Gen. Martindale. Wounded in left arm, in battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Missing at Chancellorsville. Taken prisoner near Warren- ton Junction, Nov. 18, 1862. Re- turned to his regiment, Feb. 26, 1863. Died at the Hospital, Washing- ton, Aug. 24, 1862. Discharged, Feb. 7, 1863, by or- der of Gen. Sykes. Missing at Chancellorsville. Discharged, March 2, 1863, or- der of Gen. Meade. Wounded at battle of Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded at battle of Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. AVounded at battle of Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Deserted, Sept. 18, 1862. Killed Dec. 13, 1862, at battle of Fredericksburg. Discharged, Feb. 12, 1863, by order of Gen. Sykes. ")V„ COMPANY F. 75 ^ NAMES.. RANK. I REMARKS. M' Knight William B. Mitchell Benjamin E. Maxwell W. B. Myers William, Peck John, Quay David, How Samuel, Ramp Daniel, tSpout John, Sarvis Columbus, Stoner George W. Swonger David E. Stine Jacob, Shultz Jesse L. Smith William J. Steyner Jonathan, Seys Isaac, Tutton John L. Unholtz H. C. Weidman Adam H. Weildman Elmer, Weildman James, Winters Harmon, Whitmer Samuel H. Warner Jesse W. Woods William W. Weisner Samuel E. Weisner Jerome, Webb Josiah, Williams J. A. Winegardner Sam'l, Yocum John, Yocum Henry, Private. u II u 11 II II (I II II il II II 11 II 11 II II II II II II II 11 Discharged, Oct. 9, 1862, for disability, by order of Maj. Gen. Porter. Discharged, Feb'y 17, 1863. Died, Jan. 24, 1863, in Hospital, Camp near Falmouth, Va. Died, Jan. 19, 1863, in General Hospital, near Acquia Landing. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, for disability, by order of Brig. Gen. Butterfleld. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Promoted to Corporal, for good conduct, at the battle of Frede- ricksburg, Dee. 13, 1862. Deserted, September 20, 1862. Brought back and kept at Harp- er's Ferry until unable to do duty. Discharged, Dec. 31, 1862. Deserted, January 21, 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Deserted, January 21, 1863. Died, January 18, 1863, at Hos- pital, Acquia Creek. Jv^O^Oo- -oO- )^^» \ 9 OMPANY P- NAMES. RANK. REMARKS. George L. Miles, Stephen O. M' Curdy, Harry C. Fortescue, Benjamin F. Zook, Benjamin F. Zook, John H. Harmony, AnthonyK.M'Curdy, John C. Flickinger, John Liggett, John Kasy Jr. S.O. Brown M' Curdy, Tliomas Lindsay, Edward Monath, Peter Dorty, Amos A. Skinner, Richard Waters, William T. Smith, George A. Miller, John C. Miller, li James Muma, Wagoner Beidel Philip D. Private. Bert John, Burkholder Jacob, Bair David W. Barclay Franklin N. Brinsly John, ^ Captain. \st Lieut. 2d Lieut. 2d Lieut. 1st Sergt. 2d Sergt. Zd Sergt. Aith Sergt. 5th Sergt. Corporal. (I Musician. Killed, inaction, at Fredericks- burg, Va., 13th Dec. 1862. Vice Fortescue, killed. Pro- moted from 1st Serg't Feb. 9, 1863. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Feb. 9, 1863. Promoted to 2d Serg't, Feb. 9, 1863. Promoted to 3d Serg't, Feb. 9, 1863. P' • ...trged, Dec. 2, 1862, by or- der of Gen. Butterfield. Deserted, Oct. 30, 1862. Re- duced to ranks Dec. 4, 1862. Re- turned April 1, 1863, Pres'tsProc. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Reduced to ranks, by order of Col. Elder, Dec. 4, 1862. Promoted to 4th Serg't, Feb'y 9, 1863. Reduced to ranks May 3, 1863. Wounded, severely, at Chan- cellorsville, May 3, 1863. Reduced to ranks, Oct. 21. 1862, by order of Col. James G. Elder. Discharged, Oct. 30, 1862, by order of Maj. Gen. Porter. Promoted to Corp'l Dec. 5, 1862. 00^6 y Oo- nCs^ -6 COMPANY G. "'°^ NAMES. KANK. REMARKS. X^ Brinsly Noah A. Coover George W. Cook William J. Ci'ouse Henry C. Duck Daniel, Ditzler Charles N. Dunkle Michael, Dunkle Solomon, Dunkinson Wm. E. Davis Edward J. Eyser Benjamin, Edmondson H. M. Embich Daniel W. Eyster Geo. S. Fleagle Annanias, Forney John M. Fields Russell, French Joseph, (ielwicks Daniel B. Gaff Samuel, Heeter John F. Hepfer Peter S. Harmon Lawrence, Hockersmith M. S. Hei)fer Daniel J. Harclerode Wm. H. Jones John D. Jones David W. Johnston Enos, Kennedy Job, Knite William J. Lightner Franklin, Lynch Reuben, Loudenslager Philip, M'Intyre Robert W. M'Curdy John A. M'Cai'tney James, Miller Franklin A. Melhorn Simon, Private. u u u u (( (1 (1 It (1 (1 11 u (I 11 11 II It II Discharged, April 2, 1863, by or- der of Gen Meade. Promoted to Corp'l, Feb. 9, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged, Dec. 31, 1862, at Frederick, Md. Promoted to Corporal, October 29, 1862. Promoted to 5th Sergeant, Dec. 5, 1862. Wounded, severely, at Frede- ricksburg,Dec. 13, 1862. Discharg- ed, for disability, March 9, 1863. Killed, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. True name, L. Barger. Deserted, October 30, 1862. Re- turned, Pres'ts Proc. April 1, 1863. Died, of disease, at Reg'l Hos- pital, Feb'y 14, 1863. Wounded, severely, at Frede- ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, slightly, at Frede- ricksburg, Dec'r 13, 'l862. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. COMPANY G. ^^ NAMES. I RANK. REMARKS. M'Kee Thomas, Moore John T. Maun William P. Nolan George W. O'Neal James, Oyer Daniel H. Pence Christian, Rosenberger Samuel, Rummel James W. Reitzel Henry 8. Reed George \\. Rinehart Lewis, Stewart Robert, Senseny Ferdinand, Senseny Hiram C. Speer Charles, Shoemaker Geo. W. Sharp Adam, Shatter John S. Shearer Jesse, Shearer Jonathan, Shearer Amos, Smith William F. Walters William H. Worthingtou Isaac, Waddle Samuel C. Witherow Franklin C Wilson Harrison, Zarman Joseph N. Private. Discharged, April 12, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. Promoted to Corporal, De'r 5, 1862. Discharged, Dec'r 24, 1862, by order of Brig. Gen, Montgomery. Died, in Hospital, near Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 14, 1862. Wounded, severely, at Frede- ricksburg,Dec. 13, 1862. Discharg- ed, March 10, 1863. y/gy^^- -oe^ \ 9 OMPANY ^- NAMES. KANK. REMARKS. James G. Elder, John H. Walker, Captain. Ca2itain. William H. Mackey, Josiah W. Fletcher, William H. Mackey, Jacob Snider, Alfred J. Kent, Stephen W. Pomeroy, Andrew Burgess, Calvin I, Gamble, Benjamin Dawney, Samuel W. BeamJ M'GinleyJ. Wilhelm Jas. B. Worthington, Samuel W. Croft, William Campbell, William J. Harrison, \st. Lieut. 2d Lieut. \st Serg't. 2d " 3d " ith " 5th " Corporal. John A, Harrie, 11 Musician. ??^0^, Promoted to Colonel of Regi- ment. From 1st Lieutenant, Aug. 15, 1862. Wounded, severely, in battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Slightly Avounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Promoted, Aug. 26, 1862, from Orderly Sergeant. Wounded, se- verely, in battle at Fredericks- burg, Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, severely, in battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Captured at Chancellorsville, May, 3, 1863. To 1st Lieutenant. Discharged, Jan'y 14, 1863, at Camp near Falmouth, Va. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Aug. 26, 1862. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Reduced to the ranks, by order of Lieut. Col. D. W. Rowe, Jan. 27, 1863. Reduced to the ranks, by order of Lieut. Col. D. W. Rowe, Jan. 27, 1863. Discharged March 2,1863, Camp near Falmouth, Va., for disabili- ty, by order of Maj. Gen. Meade. Prisoner, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Oo- ,00- ^ 80 COMPANY H. 1 NAMES. RANK. KEMARKS. k Martin L. Staubs, Anderson William J. Boatman Wm. F. Burke William H. Brindle Jeremiah, Baker Augustus, Benjamin Wm. JST. Bowers Nicholas M. Cebolt Elias H. Coons John M. Claudv William M. Dielil Hugh, Doyle James, DetrichWilliamT. C. Detrich Jacob H. Elder Samuel C. Elliot llobert F. Everett John W. Ferguson David, Fickes David D. Gillan John W. Gaston William A. Gray James H. Gray Thomas, CJray William, Guyer David C. Haiston William, Haiston Mercer D. Harrison A. 8t. Clair, Plancock Solomon, Hurley Samuel, Hoover Joseph, Jones George C. Kissel Thomas R. Kerr Robert, Wagoner. Private. (1 u (1 (I u (< 1( n II ^S>,- X^g^" COMPANY H. NAMES. KANK. REMARKS. Kridle John W. Lee Samuel, Leedy William, Landis Henry, Myers Samuel, Mason James H. M'Lain Alex'rC. Miller Daniel, Maclay Samuel T. M'Lain Brice B. Pomeroy Andrew A, Ritter Lewis, Ricker Cyrus M. Rose Henry, Rhodes William H. Reamer Jacob F. Skinner David H. Stitt John H. Skinner John A. Swain Geo. A. Shirk Jacob, Shearer Samuel A. Shearer Joseph B. Smith John , Saltsman James D. Sackman Jacob, Sellers John E. Sellers James A. Shirk Joseph A. Stark Newel D. Sliafer Joseph, Skinner Calvin M. Private. X 4-- it a u Wounded, at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Deserted, August 16, 1862, at Harrisburg, Pa. Deserted, October 29, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Md. Discharged, Feb'y 21, 1863, for disability, by order of Brig. Gen. Sykes, commanding Corps. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Died, Dec. 27, 1862, Cami?, near Falmouth, Va. Wounded in arm, at Chancel- lorsville, May 3, 1863. Discharged for disability, Feb. 25, 1863, Camp near Falmouth, Va., by order of Brig. Gen. Hum- phreys, Commanding Corps, Wounded, in action, at Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.— Died, Dec. 21, 1862. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Missing at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and never heard of. Died, Dec. 24, 1862, Camp near Falmouth, Va. Died, Dec. 28, 1862, Camp near Falmouth, Va. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863. Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Wounded, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. ^99- COMPANY II. >AMEvS. UANK. KEMAUKS. Hullivau Theodore, Private. Varner Noali, ti Wilson Thomas B. (1 Discharged, Nov. 21, 1SC2, by order of Brig. Gen. Butterfield. Wilson Wm. M'C. i< Taken iirieoner at Chancellors- ville, May 3, 1803. Williams James, K Woods John F. (t Discharged, for disability. Wyant John P. (( Wentling Andrew It Wagner Henry B. <( Promoted to Corporal, Jan'y 27, lS(i3. Yager Jeremiah, 11 Zigler Jacob, Discharged, for disability, Dec. 23, 18(52. M'Clellan Cornelius, i. To 5th Serg't Aug. 18, 1862, vice Reynolds; to 4th Serg't Jan'y 17, 1863, vice same. Martin Jacob E. i( O'Neal John, i( O'Neal Joseph, (1 Pennebaker Moses, K Pennebaker Daniel, 11 Patton William, 1( Died, of wounds received at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1S63. Parker Cloyd, (( Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 11, 1862. Rowe William, l( Robison AVilliam S. (1 • Roth Joseph B. II Rowe George, Deserted, Sept. 19, 1862. Re- turned to Camp, March 17, 1863. Singer Corbet D. 11 Showers David P. 11 Saylor Allen, 11 Smith Wellington, 11 Stump Mathide, II Wounded, in action, at Chan- cellorsville, May 3, 1863. Dis- charged July, 1863. Venammon Thomas, ii Discharged, for disability, Mar. 28, 1863. Walls George, II Killed, at the battle of Chan- cellorsville, May 3, 1863. Wharton Kepner, II Discharged, for disabilitv, Mar. 28, 1863. Wallace Henry, II Died, in Camp near Sharps- burg, Md., of fever, Oct. 23, 1862. Wise Samuel, 11 Discharged, for disabilitv, Feb. • 25, 1863. k X^t^^^"- 9 OMPANY 1^' NAMES. I RANK. REJIARKS. Davifl Watson Rowe, Andrew R. Davison, John Gilmore Rowe, John W. P. Reid, John Gihnore Rowo, John H. Logue, William Snyder, Simon W. Ruploy, Henrv Striekler, Iiimanuel Hawbecker, Wm. C. Byers, i Scott K. Snivcly, i Tliomas Daly, I ¥•■ Captain. Captain. \st Lieut. 2d Lieut. 1st Serg't. •2d Serg't. 3d Serg't. Ath S'Tfi'f. 5th Serg't. Corporal. Elected Major Aug. 9, 1862. Pro- moted to Lieut. Col., Aug. 15, 1862. Promoted from 1st Lieut., Aug. 0, 18:52. Acting Major of Reg't at the battle of Chaiicellorsville. Pj-omoted from Orderly Serg't, Au,ii;ust9, 18B2. Wounded, severe- ly, in forehead at battle of Chan- cellorsville, May ;>, 18(33, whilst in command of his eomjjany. Promoted to 1st Lieut. Aug. 9, 1862, Wounded, at Fredericksburg, Dee. 13, 1862. Promoted to 1st Serg't, Aug. 15, 1862. Promoted to 3d Serg't, Oct. 14, 1862. Killedin action, at Chancel- lorsville. Promoted to 4th Serg't, Oct. 14, 1862. Wounded, in k-ft arm, at battleofFrederie::sburg,Va.,Dec. 13, 1862, requiring amputation. Discharged, April 27, 1863, at Findlay Hospital, D. C, Promoted to 5th Serg't, April 1, 1863. Reduced to ranks by order of Col. Elder, Oct. 20, 1862. Color-Bearer of Reg't at Frede- ricksburg and Chancellorsville. Promoted to 4th Serg't, May 1, 1863. \^5^oo- ^y. -oe-. COMrAXY K. 87 I "■^ NAMES. RANK. I REMARKS. John M. D. Detrich, Joshua K. Hood, George F. Missavy, David W. Buchanan, John H. Byers, William Snodle, George VV. Bartlo, Appenzeller David K, AlexauUer (xcorge W. Bert Adam C. Bemisdjrfer John S. Beck William H. Byers John Boggs, Barr James W. Bartle Henry, Byers George M. liushoy Calvin, Bro^\•n John McC. Buchanan James H. Baughman Cyrus, Cleverstone Dan'l D. (h-ooks William W. C'olby George, Donathan James H. Davison John B. Daniels William, Eyier George AV. Ferry John W. .^M-r/ Corporcd. Musician. Wagoner. Private. Promoted to 5th Serg't, Oct. 14, 1862. Wounded, in hand, at Fred- ericksburg, Dec. 18, 18()2. Dis- charged, lor disability, March 23, 186?,. Discharged, for disability, Feb. lo, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. Killed, in action, at Chanccl- lorsville. Va., INIay 3, 18G3. Reduced to ranks, May 4, 1803, by order of Lieut. Col. liowe. 'Deserted, Oct'r 18, 18G2, from camp near Sharpsburg, ISId. Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 14, 1862. Wou nded at battle of Fred- ericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 18G2. Wounded, at battle of Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Killed, at battle of Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1802. Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 20, 1862. Killed, at battle of Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Appointed Regimental Wagon- Master, Oct. 8, 1862. Discharged, for disability, bv order of Gen. Sykes, Feb. 7, 1863. VV^ounded at Fredericksburg, by shell, Dec. 13, 1862. Dischar- ged, for disability, by order of Gen. Meade, July 2-5, 1863. Wounded, at battle of Frede- ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 13, 1863, by Col. Rowe. Discharged, for disability, Jan. 14, 1863, b^^ order of Maj. Gen. Meade. On dctatched duty at Gen'l Hospital, from Oct. 29, 1862. Ambulance driver. J -fC- ^m. 'I^^ \ 88 COMPANY K. "^ NAMES. RANK. REMAKKS. Eachus James C. Frye Charles M. Frye Jonas M. Gardner Philip L. Gordon John C. R. Gordon Jeremiah C. Hollar James Wilson, HammiP Albertus K. Holman Joseph, Hyssong Jeremiah C. Ilginfritz Isaiah, Kreps Michael H. Kunkle Charles H. Kuhn John W. Keims William T. Lear Jacob, Lowe John, Lowe Philip C. F. Laughlin Henry, Morehead James C. Marshall John A. Mowers Samuel, Mitchell James, Newcomer Charles H. Palmer John, Parker William H. Palmer Samuel, Potter George H. Palmer Charles H. Pensinger Lazarus, Pool Jacob W. Palmer Simon, Pensinger David N. Pawling George, M. Pentz David. Rupert William F. Frxvate. u a i( <( i( << u u a part, were kindly furnislied by General Tyler, who com- manded the Brigade, and are printed in this volume. Thes^i reports make the first Appendix. The second Appendix is made up of the list of casualties in the regiment, and the third, of the namesof the Field and StatJ' officers, non-commissioned oflQcers and privates, the latter being given by compa- nies. It is well kuown to our people that au or- ganiz-ation is in existence knov/n as the Franklin County Monumental Associatioti, which has for its object the rearing of a monument to the memory of the dead sol- diers of Franklin County. It was thought that a volume like this, so interesting to the soldiers and the friends of the soldiers, would meet with a ready and extensive sale, and it was suggested that the money realized should help to swell the fund of tile Monumental Association. For this pur- pose it is now being published. The book will be neatly bound and sold at one dollar, and our citizens will thus be able to keep a permanent record of the doings of a regi- ment in which they felt the liveliest inter- est, and, at the same time, will contribute to the erection of a monument in honor of the dead of this regiment, as well as those of other regiments who laid their lives upon their country's altar. Orders for the book j should be sent to W. S. Stenger, Treasurer I of the Monumental Association. i 26tl! |/jgiitten;t :|fnn"H|!uHn!H loIiintei^rB, f TO BE HELD AT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1870. -.^^C com:r,a.t>e. S-o^o f/cttije/^ atta .J a. TJIAD. M. MAHOy, Chairman Com. Arntnjjrnn'nts^ 4-^Sns- ■e^^lii ^zKst ^^^!t^ '""-r^mo^ 126th I \t^h mmi mtt TO BE HELD AT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1870. I»AR,T I. ASSEMBLY AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. M., AT THE COURT HOUSE. ORDER OF EXERCISES. PRAYER Rev. J. Ault. ADDRESS OF WELCOME Lt. Col. D. W. Rowe. MUSIC. ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. ELECTION OF ANNUAL OFFICERS. SELECTION OF PLACE OF NEXT MEETING. MUSIC. ANNUAL ORATION, Adjutant John Stewart. I»A^R,T II. BANQUET IN REPOSITORY HALL, FRO^NI 5 P. M., TO 7}^ P. M. Coasts. The Union. Pennsylvania, the Keystone. The Army. The Flag. The Citizen Soldier. The 126th Regt. P. V. Our Dead Com- rades. The Patriotic Women of America. The loyal people of tlie Border, wlio fought the enemy at the front, while their homes were ravaged by rebel invaders. Our Fulton County Comrades. Our Juni- ata County Comrades. i»A.nT III. ADJOURNMENT TO THE COURT HOUSE, ly^ P. M. to 9 P. M. ADDRESSES. RECITATIONS. } ::SHERiimAN's Ride," 'Charge of the Light Brigade.' I»A.R,T IV. PROMENADE CONCERT IN HALL, FROM 9 O'CLOCK TO 12 M., MUSIC, REFRESHMENTS, &c, 4-«3^- -®^e»i^ ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Delivered at the Re-anlon of tbe I26(h Reg. P. v., Dec. 13, 1870, BY LIEUT. COL. D. W. HOWE. Comrades: — The committee of arran^emedts appointed at a meetiog of thetifficersi of the 126th Regiment, which conyened at Troatle's Hotel, m this borough, on the 13th of May last, the unni- versary of the battle of CbancellorsTille, to arrange for this reunion of the whole regiment, on the anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg, have done me the honor, to request that I would wel- come you to the business and the festivities of this occasion. I shall neither deny nor conceal that the duty is a pleasant one. Nothing which concerns the regiment is indifferent to me. For its dead I have unbounded sorrow, for its survi- vors a sentiment of fraternity and the extended hand ot cordial friendship. Its good name every one of us feels to be in his own peculiar keeping. The memories of (he old regiment are cherished in our inmost hearts, and will expire only with our latest breaths. To welcome you, my old comrades and friends, after an interval of seven years, to a renewal of friendships, and an in- terchange of greetings, under such happy auspices and auguries, is, believe me, for I use no hollow professioDS, a duly that is remunerated in tbe performance, if only I shall suitably impress you with the cordiality of our welcome. In whoee name shall I welcome you? In that of the officers who pre-arranged this meeting, whose spokesman I am more immedi- ately. For one allowable source of pride there is to them, that they commanded such men. Whatever their own deficiencies, and they were the result for the most part of the unwarlike era which preceded the rebellion, when for so many years the country basked in the sunshine of peace, and the sword was, if not in very fact, at least afainsl literally, turned into plow shares and ipmmar;d of men, and to the treatment of them as inferiors and subordinates. But yours were like yourselves inured to the pursuits of industry and accustomed to equality, and they were never able at any time fully to play the superior, even on proper and indeed necessary occasions.— You, by yourcbarscterand conductenabled them to command with credit, ana even in the end to • be victorious, and so to reflect upon their past career with pleasure and sometimes even with pride. Our officers, when the piping times of peace had returned again, end war's stern alarums were changed to merry meetings, had nothing so much at heart as to draw you togelher that you who did the work might receive the reward, and that having suffered hardships in common, you might in common and together re- joice in the fruition of your labors. I do not hesitate to welcome you also in the name of the old regiment, whose baptism of fire at Fredericksburg this day recalls and com- oiemorates. But is not this the regiment which now re unites? Not so, my comrades. That body which marched so gaily out of Harris- burg, in August, 1862, which listened to the thunders of second Bull Run and Aiitietam, and went up Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg, and down into the dense woods at Chancellorsville, exists no more. It is a recollection only — a thing that once was. but is no more An ephemeral existencf, that, as we now look back upon its career, lived but a short summer's day and then passed from sight, leaving behind only such memories as linger after the death of a beautiful child, all sadly pleasant and cherished with pain. , For the memory of the past is a sigh. The old regiment, as it once existed in organi ijzed shape, strong in the united strength of a tbousand youthful hearts fired with patriotittn, beautiful as it Btood forth clothed in all the paro- ply of war, around whose standard you gathered, under whose banners you marched to champion the grandest cause that ever men fought for by laud or sea, or for which ever kbightly lance was laid in rest, or ever hero did a deed of derriug^ do — sleeps in the graves of the departed and is nothing in the sphere of sublunary things. This phantom which we call the 126th Regiment, if it seems to you to appear again, to day, arises to your memories and afiectioni alone. Some of its elements and factors only are here. The words of the mustering oflicer spoke it into existence, and at his command it perished. And inas- much as it lives to day only in your fancies— and can never henceforth exist otherwise — I imagine the shade of the old regiment is grateful for this day's reunion, its revivification of the events of the years that are gone, when the regiment made part of the grand army of the Kepublicand had "a local habitation and a name" among mortal existences, andfis delighted at the spectacle which this hall now presents. Above all, I welcome you here and to tbi^ reunion in the name of the patriotie people of Franklin county, who sent you out with their blessings, and received you back with manificeiit ovations. Can any of us forget how this people, our kindred trnd friends, burthened with the weight of the great contest and already beginning to writhe under its wounds, their tears of sorrow mingling with their smiles of encouragement, sent us, their brothers and sons, forth to the battle, with every hope and wish and blessing, themselves consumed with a secret fear both for ■B and our country^-and envying us the felicily- of the power lo do and strike as veil as to pray and hope for the success of the cause? Are their letters forgotton, steadying us, stimulating us 7 Are the numbers in which they flocked to us, when opportunity offered, with presents and every token of regard, no longered remembered? What deep excitement pervaded these homes after a disastrous battle! What sincere mourning for our comrades who fell on the field of honor! What a recfptiou to the survivors when, their period of service eh fed, they retii rned to rteV friends, welcomed with every manifestation of pride and delight! And this same people, again and again, since that time, have made evident their regard for you, have suffered no opportunity to pass to express it, have sought occasions to testify to it. They, to a great extent, placed the good name of the county in your keeping, when they sent so largo a body of you out together to do valiantly for the Union of their Fathers, and because you kept well your trust, they honor you and see you with pleasure assemble on the occasion of the reunion. To what do I welcome you? To a renewal of friendships, to an interchange of gratulations, to cordial handshakings, to the expression of emotions long desiring utterance, to a bursting of the barriers of mere conventiou* alism and a genuine restoration of sundered ties of association, onco as strong and firm as those of almr-etany other possible relation in life; to an abandonment of yourselves to good fellowship within the bounds of decorum, and a thorough enjoyment of the day, divested of all cares save to be happy whilst the day lasts, and to make all the cumrades and friends delighted with the oc casion. Carpe diem! Seize these fleetiiig hours dedicated to the memories of your soldier life, live over again the scenes of the war times; re- call the pleasing occurreqces and if you cbvoM the "moving incidents by flood and field" in your^ career, sinitke again in fancy your pipes at tbo. tent doors surrounded by close friends and true companions, and let some one tell a tale or story and the clear, ringing laugh resound. I invite you to a day's thorough enjoyment, the cares of' life laid aside, and troubles dismissed and for- gotten. Shall we.have never a day of unalloyed happiness? Is heaven so stern as to forbid an interval of joy? If ever you may be happy, it is permitted to you to be so now — Heaven is propi- tious, your fellow men will applaud. Something of business there is for you to do. A moment must be devoted to perfecting the organization of the association we to-day establish, we trust to be long maintained, even to the far off days when half a dozen decrepit men shall alone remain to represent the 126th, and recall the glorious, his tone days of to them '"auld la^g syne." Thisdone, a banquet awaits ymi, where' thegroaning tables, like a sorely pressed garrieon, call loudly to be relieved, and the caterer for thia reunion expecta with anxiety your coming, and,(pa!lid, waits to hear his Highland Jenny cry, "Did'na ye hear their slogan." Let us see to-da^ that "it is inerry in ball, where beards wag all." Something pleasant we fM&ye endeavored tA'proWde for every momeDt of time. What with tortsts and responses, and ad- dresses and recitations, and music and refresh- ments, it IS hoped lo carry you delightedly for- ward to the promenade concert, when with ihe ladies and the mufic leading the festivities, the day shall end, like a successful exhibition of fire works, in a blaze of brilliancy In hhort, though I may not offer you a least of reason, I invite you to an overflow of soul I observe that in accordance with the invita- tions extended you, your wives and your friends have come up on the feast day to enjoy them selves with you. They are welcome. It is nothing to us to be offered happiness, if they may not participate. They were never forgotten in the days we commemorate, and are not lo be omitted now. Without them the reunion could not be a success. The better-half part of the programme would bo necessarily omitted Some of the comrades, however, have not realized, after the Inpse of so long a time, the reasonable expectation of iheir companions in arms In their march through life they have no .supporting column, and no entrenched camp guarded by , love, the sharpest eyed of sentries. You seem to jivoid capture by the ladies with the same anxie- , ty you tried to escape the rebels. You even run, it is said, at thefirst attack. Do yon not perceive how your reputation for courage suffer:'? For ,.«hame ! No Audersonville awaits the captive of the fnir, and "Libby" has no horrors for her prisoner. She will not release you a green as well as wretched shadow, however she cup tures you; but will lead you a dance of de- lightful measures, alvvays, loyal sir, to the music of the Union. We know that faint heart never won fair lady, and that none but the brsve de serve the fair, and we lament that your courage has died out. Or are there really positions in the ^eld matrimoniitl, not so formidable in appear- ance, still httrder to take by storm than Maryo's Heights at Fredericksburg? Well, we are willing"' to believe it for your eakes and because some of J the comra.ios here with wives and bahi.'H hesi.ie them— (in that I must profoundly coi'gratulate i them— have encountered xoiae infantry since the war ended harder to conquer than ever was Stoiiewalljackson's. •- On look ing over the muster-roll of the regiment, j I am di lighted to ob8(M-ve how many of our boys came back to take the "gifla they left behind them " I thought it would be so, ou the days when l8awthem,.liksipt'»l^,<9p/w.W..i>..8toHtt.w;ill , OD a sunshiny day, thrusting out long necks from their tents to catgh a v^ew of some piece of Virginia calico which whs sailing down the road, j and then retiring back to their bunks to sing, after the manner of the. dying swan, whose note is always, you know, most beautiful just before death, "Annie Laurie." These same girls, who were so constantly screeched out by the life, and 'drdm- med out" by the drum as left behind, I to-day welcome, having at length come up, with all pos- sible cordiality. We went forth, comrades, eight hundred men from this county of Franklin. Aa I look over this assembly now, many of the comrades are here indeed, but a majority of those who took the oath and shouldered arms at Harrisburg are not here. Where are they? and why do they not participate? Some valiant and noble youths we wrapped in their blankets and buried to the sound of the muflSed drum in the enemy's land. They sleep in soldiers' graves, having met death in the midst of battle. "Their bodies' are dust, An«l their good swords rust, And their souU are with the laintt We trust." It was their fortune (shall I call it an evil one?) to die for their country. It was a happy one, if indeed it be true, as Kosciusko dying said, and many champions of fatherland before him, that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum pro patriam mori. They sleep in honored graves. Their fame is secure. No error of theirs can impair the debt of grHtitude we owe them. They live io our memories youthful heroes. We pity them for their youth, we adipire them for their great hearts It it is permitted to them to know and be interested in mundane affairs, and they per- CMve from the Btan-y Kpheren above the VeauT^^'^ Our citizens' were our eoldiers, aud to-daf we j observe a great phenomenon in the old world of ^ the same kind. Germany's citizens are also her Bolilers. And such great things have been !e((V eomplisbed by the citizen soldiers in two hemic- phers, in recent days, that henceforth it is d€- creed that a standing army of professioDal 8oI- diers, a body separate and apart from and above the citizens, from them but not of them, thall not be found. The hireling butchers of a despot vv ill never ugain confront the armed citizens, fighting for fatherland, their weapons guided by patriotism and intelligence. Henceforth armies will not be the play things of monarchs and the tool8 of ambition, nor battles be tought for the glory of dynasties, or houses; but war will be mttdp only for the genuine interests of the Com- uioiiwealth, since it cannot be made without the i>i:>currence and assent of the citizens; forin- telIij;pnoe will guide the ballot, and tb«* man who votes will be the man to fight. The tiischarged soldieis of the Uuion tbcTtfore are not a class, but only a fraternity, Assoeiatiou in dangers and hardships makes fast Iri'ud^, hy a natural law, and Irotfiers in arms &\6 of k'u. They ar(\ indeed, in oue sense, kindred by blood Our re iitiion today is the outgrowth of thi* sentinu nt of fraternity. Companions in arms are held iKgrther, as it were, by » specifs of fr(>e masonry- lud this is a fraternity old', if theirs should be called in question: "Sir, I trust I am not afraid of anything but to do a bad action." But there will be many scenes to live over again to-day, and I detain you from them too long. I invito you to the business of the day, and to its enjoyments. Be happy in the recollection of duty done, and in the glorious future of your coun- try. For the prospect ahead is all radiant and inspiring. We advance to grandeur and power. Wo move on to Empire. The Genius of the Republic guides. The lamp of liberty lights the way. The harmony of the States as they move in their appointed orbits around the central sun of the Union, making music akin to the "muaic of the spheres," is the anthem to which we march. The great company of patriots, libera* tors and martyrs to wrong in all ages behold Ul from above. Already we are out of the wilderness and catch a glimpse of the promised land. We are bound for the other side of Jordan. We are al- ready entering the goodly land our fathers only saw at a distance from the top of the mount. A land, the hum of whose cheerful industry min- gled with the tones of a free and happy people, without a discordant note from the throat of a single down-trodden creature, shall be in the ears of the oppressed of other lands a music sweeter than the strains the enraptured poet heard "When once (he) sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on a dolphins' back Utter such dulcet and harmonious strainf That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their sphetefl To hear the seamaid's music" W()!WI>.AY,.-;!.A>»H)ARY L A r \kii rmmon of tJif ii"-"-- B<;L.'Miit.;ui', 1 riutsylvftnja Voluutc*:! : at Cham- h«rKbui*g recently, the ftvidresB of welcoiiaie was (leli-vered by Lieutenant Colonel D. \V, "Kowe, ai fre-AP.nt associiite law kludge of the '-s-;( r?^l learn- .(«^^ ofJlu(]i.';e Koiive. BE-rjriOX OF THE 126th KEOIl»IENT PJCNNSYI.VAXIA V4»L,ITKTEERS. The first annual re union of the surviving mem- bers of thrt 126th Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teers, was held in Chambersburg, on Tuesday, December J3th, 1870 S"rae two hundred offict-rs and men of the regiment were present, besides invited guests from other regiments The com- mittee of arrangements consisted of the following persorif: T M. Mabon, Chairman; Sergt. John A. Seiders, Lieut. G F. Piatt, Lieut. Josiah W. Fletcher, L'eut. George W. Welsh nnd Sergt. Harry Slncklt-r. For its well arranged pro- gramme, and the able and successful manner in which all the proce'^diogs were conducted, this committee deserves great credit. Accordmg to pri'gianimf», the regiment first assembled in the Court Hous**, at 1^ o'clock, P. M , where the address of welcome and annual oration were delivered. The meeting was called to order by T. M. Mihon, and the exercises opened with prayer by Rev. John Ault. He re- turned thanks to Him who bad permitted the meeting of the day. Though many had been called to lay down their lives on the field of battle, or die a lingering death in the damp tent or loath:es and were listened to with marked pleasure by a very large and highly pleased audience. At the conclusion of the address, a recess of ten minutes was voted, for th^ purpose of Mfford- ing the members an opportuiity to welcome Gen. E. B. Tjler. They crowded around their old leader, who no doubt felt a welcome truer than words could express, in the hearty grasp of each soldier's hand. The recess over, the following business was transacted. The report of the committee on constitution, «fec , accepted, and the following coustitutiou and by-laws adopted: CONSTITUTION. The object of this organization is to promote and encourage amonx the survivors of the 126lh Regiment P. V., the leeliims of friendship and sympathy which grew up amnng itn members du- ring their service in the war of the Kebellion, and to perpetuate the memory of their decewsed com- rades and of the scenes and incidents which they saw and experienced. I. This orcaiiization shall consist of the officers and privates of the J"26ih Regiment who subscribe tbeir names to the constitution, and pay the an- nual dues prescribed by the by-laws. II. The officers shall consist of a President, Vice Prefideiit, Secretary, Corresponding Secre- tary and Treasurer, to be elected by a vote of the members at the wnnual m- eting. HI. The regular armunl meeting shall be held on the i:5th day of December in each year, at a p'ace tr) b;< detiigiiati d at the regular meeting of the preceding year. BY LAWS. I. Eicb member of the organizntion shall be required to pay into the treasury the sum of fifty Mutw aoQualijr. II. It shall be the datv of the Treasurer to re- port at««ach Hnniial ineotine the fiiiancitil condi- tion of the orjjatpizatioii. The report of the cointnittee on officers for the ensuing year was accepted, viz: President— Major Rtibert S. Brownson. Vice Pieuident— Capt. John H. Walker. Secretary— Lieut. George W. Welsh. 1 reasurer— Sergt. Harry Strickler. , The report of the committee on speakers ac- cepted : Orator — William Kennedy. Address of Welcome— Thad. M Mahou. Greencastle wns determined upon as the place of next meeting, Decembm' 13th, 1871. At'jiitant John Stewart then delivered the an- nual oration The following resolutions were presented and adopted: Resolved, That we tender our thnnks to the edUdi-B of tlie T 'alley Spirit, Franklin Hepository, Public Opinion. Valley Echo, Filiate Rtcord, Mercersburg Journal, Fulton Democmt. Valley Sentind, ts decorated and in the convenience of all the arrarigements Three tables were spretid with an abufidant supply of those "good things" which delight the inner man, whicfi had been' prepared by Mr. E. S Shank, the genial proprie- tor of the Montgomery House, who knows how, if any one does, to tempt the paliite and spoil diges- tion. To prevent confusion, the middle table was reserved for the ladies and other invited guests. Whilst the "old boys" of the 126th, after Kev. John Ault had asked a blessing, "did good service on the flii/ks." After supper the guests were provided with seats, and the members of the regiment gathered around the middle table and pledged in cold water the following toasts, proposed by Col Rowe: First— "The Union." i Lieut. Jere. Cook responded briefly to the sen timent — "The Union" — by saying thHt «o much has already been well spoken during the progress ol the day's exercises that he felt they would Ihank him for beiug brief, and he was as willing to con- fer that favor as they were to receive it He was the mure willing to be brief b>'cause the toast announced presented an exhnustless subject. Af- ter a lew poiuted remarks as to the origin of the Union, and the central idea about which it was framed, the principle that all men are created equal, he stated that the antagonism which exist ed on that subject led to the rebellion. War was accepted by the Government to preserve the Union. ■'That," continued Mr. Cook, "is why it seems to me fit and proper that this sentiment should be entertained by us But for the war we would not be assembled in the capacity we are; and as we fought in defence of the Union, at our first re- union to recall the memory of those terrible scenes of war and bloodshed now almost overgrown with the luxuriant growth of the fruits of peace, we naturally rejoice that the Union is safe. "It seems to me that this sentiment ought to convey something more to our minds than the idea of the intecrity of the nation. It is true there are no states missing in the re.«tored Union, but this is not all that is r>'quired to constitute a perfect Union. We all rejoice heartily that our armies were able to hold the rebellious states in the Union in spite of the maduess of secession, but we rejoice far more at the unmistakeable signs of returning reason to the people of those states, and the evidences of their growing love ' for the old fl.ig and government. All these satis- fy us thit the end has justified the war. Let us recogoize in this sentiment the fncts, that our reunion has no sectional feeling in it, und uo sen- timent of hostility toward those who were ar- rayed in arms against the Union, but have re- lumed to herin good faith and sincerity; that this is a Union of the people of the United States, as well as of the several States, that ours is a homo geneous govei nment, that we are one people. Let us give special expression to the thought that whatever of rejoicing we feel and express here, some of it, at least, is due to the recognition of I the fact that the Union which was preseryed through war has brought untiuinbered blesningn to those who in their uiadtiegs fought against it with arms in their hands, as well as to those who were triumphant in the war, nnd that the blessed fruits of peace are to-day acknowledged and prized by them as they are by us. Second — "The patriotic women of America." Responded '.o by \Ym Kennedy You do well to propose a toast to woman, f:>r in our own idea of this world's happiness, woman and toast are inseparably connected. I appreciate the feelings of gratitude which prompted the committee to lUHkethistoastanrssentiiilprtrtonhis programme. For without women I would like to know where any of us would be to-night, and more, there is uot one of us would have a button on bis shirt "Woman," said the ereal Toodles, in a Herculean effort to veut the feelings that swelled in his bosom, "woman, lovely woman, you're a trump." With woman on our side we win the battle ol lite. Some one has said, "womua is like ivy, the greater the ruin the closer she clings," and he was a sour old bachelor who perverted it into the 'closer she clings the greater the ruin." Woman, ir, is the necessity of our being; the great Crea tor saw it was not good for man to be alone, so He gave him woman to increase his joys and double bis expenses But we are to talk of the patriotic women of America They, like th" Spartan mother, never nursed a coward. She told her son, when she sent him forth to do batMt', "Come back with your shield or on it," but how much higher, nobler, is her character who g«v.« her son and left the issue with the Gcd <•( battles. It is my duty on this occasion to speuU ni thu..f li^'ii'iy in ever age Wherever the iron grasp of despotism ha? been broken, wherever the freedom of a people bus been achieved, it has been done by the citi Zen soldier. L'>ok at the history of your own government. It w&r the citizen sol.fier who achieved your libertit^s, the citizen s.ildier who has defended and sustained them. In every bat- tle of the revo!i;tion from the opening fiay at Lexington to the closing fight at Yorktown, it was the citizen soldier wh(» met the dri lied and disciplined hireling of the tyrant end at last van- quished and drove him from our shores In our late war with England, veterans who h«d been drilled and disciplined under the eye of Wfliiiij^" ton, soldiers who in Europe had been the victors of many a bloody field, were vanquished by the untrained citizen solder in almost every battle from Niagara to New Orleans. It wss the citi- zen soldier who sustained our national honor in every battle in the war with Mexico and planted our flag on the walls of her capitol. And in the last great struggle for national life it was the citizen, untrained in war, wh't at the call of his country in the hour of her extreme peril, relinquished his peaceful avocation, and from work bench and plough and desk came to her d<e of the evening has passed I must go so far, however, as to thank you, and the gullantboysof the 126th, inbehalfof my comrades of other regiments, for your remembrance of us on this occasion. I feel that it is no uncommon honor you have done us — Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville toasting the other battle fields of the war. Between all soldiers, Mr. Chairman, there exists a common bond of sympathy, tt was well said by Col. Rowe, in his address of welcome to-dtty, that we are all in a manner brothers. Yes, brothers. Having been called forth to succor the same cause, having passed throuyh the same routine of duties, and having •bared the same kind of dangers, the tie that binds us is almost as strong as that which draws to one another the hearts of those wh'j in child hood's hour knelt at the same parental knee Between my own regiment, which held a reunion hero a few weeks ago, and'the 126th, there exists a peculiar bond of sympathy. It might be said that the same section sent us forth, and in the ranks of the one were numbered many friends and relatives of those in the ranks of the other. We gHve }ou our sympathy in the field, we felt l^roud of your bravery, and we unite to night, pretent and absent ones alike, in wishing you a good time generally. Again we thank you for your kindness. Seveiith— "The Loyal People of the Border, who fought the enemy at the front, while their homes were ravaged by rebsl invaders." Response by L'eut. James Pott. Lieut. Pott in his response took occasion to refer to the rt-peated invasions made by the rebel armies into the defenceless border counties, and I the havoc made by thorn upon the property i>f loyal citizens, many of whom were at the front fighting the cominnii enemy, and animadverted e^yerely but forcibly upon the unwarranted as- | saultg of the press of the State upon our citizens in their appeal to the Legislature for relief. We regret that the extreme ler.glh to which he ex- tended his remarks compels us to forego the pleasure of publishing them in full, and it would be doing him uanifest injustice to present an unsatisfactory abstract of ihcm Thetoa8t8,"The KeystoneStato,""The Flag," ^ "The 126th Regiment P. V.." "OurFulton Coun- ty Comrades," "Our Juniata County Comrades," were taken together and responded lo by all the members of the regiment in three hearty cheers. Interesting letters nnd dispatches were received Uova a number of members of the regiment, '.vhose attendance great distance and other cir- ci; nstancts rendered impossible. Kind iy greet- in!;H and remembrances, tender sympathies for tiie old associates and expressions of regret tha they could not be present came from the far off Pacific coast, from Nebraska, from New Orleans, from Baltimore and other points. The regiment now adjourned to the Court House to listen to the recitations and await part fourth of the programme. Mr. Samuel Palmer was introduced and recited the "Charge of the Light Brigade" in an excel- lent manner. A« no one had been chosen to complete this part of the programme, by a unanimous vote Lieut. J. W. Fletcher was called upon to recite "Sheridan's Ride." The Lieutenant, after re- marking that ho stood on delicate ground in at- I tempting to recite "this poet praised poem of an , artist poet," delivered the production iu a man- ner to excite llie admiration and cheers of the audience The Promenade Concert foHowed next, and as it was iiite.ided it should be, so it was, the crown ing featuri" of the day. Ou reentering Reposi fory Hall, we found the scene entirely changed. Trie tallies wore cleared away, the room was crowded with Itdies and gentlemen promenading — ladies from abroad aiid the pretty girls of Chainbersburg as well — with the Chambersburg Silver Cornet Bind and Orchestra discoursing inspiring music, and the fljor all ready for dan- cing. Is it surprising, good folks, that thoao inclined to trip the "light fantastic" could not resist the temptation to datice? And datice they did until the midnight hour had struck, and the shrieks of the locuoiutive whistle warned the delegations from abroad that it was time to leave. 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