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CHAPTER XIII.
THE CIVIL WAR - Part II
REGIMENTAL SKETCHES - EIGHTIETH - ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH - FIFTY
EIGHTH - ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIRST - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SECOND
- SEVENTY FOURTH - MILITIA OF 1862 - MILITIA OF 1863 - SOLDIERS'
MONUMENTS
EIGHTIETH REGIMENT-SEVENTH CAVALRY.
The Seventh Cavalry was recruited in the counties of Schuylkill,
Lycoming, Tioga, Bradford, Northumberland, Montour, Clinton, Centre,
Chester, Luzerne, Dauphin, Cumberland, Berks, and Allegheny, and
organized at Camp Cameron with the following field officers: colonel,
George C. Wynkoop, of Pottsville; lieutenant colonel, William B. Sipes,
of Philadelphia; majors: James J. Serbert, of Philadelphia, James Given,
of West Chester, and John E. Wynkoop, of Pottsville. Regimental colors
were presented by Governor Curtin on the 18th of December, 1861, and on
the following day, in pursuance of orders from the Secretary of War, the
regiment started for Louisville, Kentucky; there it reported to General
Buell, of the Department of the Cumberland, and was placed in camp of
instruction at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Breaking camp toward the close
of January, 1862, it proceeded to Nashville, Tennessee, where the three
battalions separated, and were assigned to duty in western and middle
Tennessee. In May the Second and Third battalions participated in an
attack on the Confederate General Morgan at Lebanon, compelling him to
retreat. In June the First battalion moved with Negley's column for
Chattanooga, encountering the enemy at Sweden's Cove; and on the 13th of
July the Third battalion, with two infantry regiments and other troops,
was attacked by the enemy in overwhelming force at Murfreesboro and
compelled to surrender. On the 1st of July the First battalion, attached
to Smith's brigade, occupied Manchester; and early in the same month the
Second and Third, under Lieutenant Colonel Sipes, led the advance of
General Dumont's expedition across the Cumberland mountains, forming
part of General Nelson's command in his advance from McMinnville shortly
afterward. On the 21st of August the Second battalion participated at
Gallatin in a battle between the Federal and Confederate cavalry, in
which the former, on account of inferior numbers, suffered severely. The
First battalion accompanied General Buell in his retrograde movement
through Kentucky in September, 1862, the Second and Third remaining at
Nashville as part of General Negley's command.
Upon the reorganization of the cavalry arm of the service in the
Army of the Cumberland under General Rosecrans in November, 1862, the
Seventh was assigned to the First brigade of the Second division. When
the army advanced upon the enemy at Murfreesboro in December this
brigade led the center, and the entire march from Nashville to Stone
river was a continuous battle between the cavalry of the two armies. On
the 31st an engagement occurred at Overall's creek, in which the Seventh
lost sixty-one. On the 31st of January the First brigade was ordered to
proceed to Rover and break up a Confederate outpost, which was done with
entire success. A variety of movements was participated in during the
months of April, May, and June, culminating in the capture of
Shelbyville on the 27th of June, in which the Seventh regiment rendered
conspicuously gallant service. Skirmishes occurred at Elk river
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on the 3d of July, at Sparta on the 17th of August and early in
September the regiment moved with the army on the Chickamauga campaign,
passing through Tennessee into Alabama in pursuit of Wheeler in August.
Early in 1804, while stationed at Huntsville, Alabama, a large part of
the regiment re-enlisted, and was given a veteran furlough. Breaking
camp on the 30th of April, 1864, it joined Garrard's division and set
out with Sherman towards Atlanta, joining in Kilpatrick's raid several
months later and taking part in a number of engagements. This was a
campaign of unusual severity, and at its close the regiment was
remounted and equipped at Louisville, completing its preparations for
the campaign of 1865 at Gravelly Springs, Alabama. It joined the command
of General James H. Wilson on the 22d of March, marching with his
expedition across the Gulf States from Eastport, Mississippi. On the 1st
of April it was engaged at Plantersville, and on the following day
arrived in front of Selma. It led the assault upon the fortifications of
that city, suffering severe loss, and carrying the defenses triumphantly
not-withstanding the determined resistance of the enemy. On the 16th of
April it was engaged at Columbus, Georgia, and on the 20th arrived at
Macon, where, the war having closed, it remained until mustered out on
the 13th of August.
Company D was recruited in Northumberland and Montour counties,
with the following roster:-
Captains: James Bryson, John T. Newcomer, Uriah C. Hartranft,
Samuel C. Bryson.
First Lieutenants: Joseph Castles, John Schuyler, Jr.
Second Lieutenants: James S. Henderson, Jesse B. Bank, Michael
Breckbill.
Sergeants: William A. Hartranft, Michael N. Bushey, Alfred Roberts,
Samuel M. Blain, Joseph D. Wolf, Franklin McFarland, Martin L. Kurtz,
Abraham G. Leiser, D. Webster Rank, Peter R. Wagner, Joseph W. Davis,
Daniel F. Wagner, F. J. Trumbower.
Corporals: Aaron M. Yocum, Charles A. Dentler, Joseph V. Fulton,
Charles E. Wagner, Henry C. Artman, Uriah S. Hayes, Martin Yerk, Aaron
B. Koons, Joseph L. Heffler, William Koons.
Buglers: Jacob H. Wagner, James C. Irwin, Neil Guigune.
Saddlers: Charles Kerlin, Oliver P. Barr. Blacksmiths: Hiram
Wertman, William Perry.
Privates: Lewis Artman, Henry Billman, William Biggart, Montgomery
Brush, John C. Brown, Clinton W. Boon, Samuel Boyer, William Bly, James
C. Bly, Jacob T. Balliett, William Barnhart, Robert M. Biggart, Charles
A. Balliett, William D. Balliett, Reuben Confear, Charles Crouse, Adam
Crawford, Peter Curner, Timothy Crimmins, Henry Conrad, Luther B. Cole,
Jacob Cramer, Rockwell Demund, John Divers, Charles Dewalt Richard
Dougherty, Peter Dentler, Joseph E. Dougherty, John Dugan, Daniel G.
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Dilldine, Thomas J. Ellis, John Elick, Henry J. Fry, Jeremiah Flech,
William A. Fetter, Joseph Falls, John W. Freese, William W. Gray, Isaac
D. Gensel, George S. Gold, H. H. Gwynne, William H. Garrett, Elias High,
William B. High, Henry J. Hower, Joseph Hess, Thomas Huff, George M.
Hoffman, S. W. Hagenbuck, William F. Heiney, John Huff, William Huff,
George E. Hill, Benjamin Hefner, Levi S. Hays, James H. Harman, Ellis L.
Irvin, John Jarrett, Thomas R. Johnson, William Jackson, William H.
Keiffer, John Kerchner, James Koons, Levi Keener, Amos H. Kisner,
Charles Kemerer, Jacob H. Krisher, Silas Kirk, Jesse Kisner, Oliver P.
Koons, Samuel E. Leinbach, Walter Lynn, Elias Lynn, Samuel Lilly, Henry
Larkins, John H. Morrison, Robert B. Miller, William D. Moyer, John H.
Moyer, Robert J. Miller, Benjamin F. Miller, John Meadowcroft, William
Machamer, Isaac Y. Messinger, George R. Miller, Lee M. Morton, John
Machamer, George Masser, George W. McCollen, Robert A. McMahan, David
McKean, Charles C. McCormick, William McCormick, William C. McCoy, S. W.
McIlrath, Charles S. Nicely, John Nelson, Reuben Nicholas, John A. Opp,
John O'Connor, James O'Day, Samuel Ormrod, George H. Pfleger, Frederick
M. Roberts, Jonathan Rogers, James Reeder, Hiram Reynolds, Franklin
Richards, George L. Riffle, John Robenold, Charles Russle, Samuel
Robenold, Samuel Sprout, John S. Schuyler, Aaron Sechler, George Snyder,
Abram L. Sterner, Ellis A. Snyder, Ellis Shaner, John B. Sees, Peter
Shady, Jacob Shady, Abraham Shuman, David S. Specs, Israel Sanders,
William B. Stout, Harman A. Sevison, Jeremiah Slaght, William Stitzel,
James D. Strine, William H. Stimner, Simon Snyder, Adam Schuyler, Newton
L. Sayers, Thomas Sanders, Jacob D. Smith, John Tomy, Robert C. Watson,
Herman G. Wolf, James F. Watts, William W. Wertman, George H. Wykoff,
John Wesner, Cyrus Wertman, Richard S. Worral, Thomas A. Worral, William
W. Weeks, Philip Willard, Daniel C. Weik, Daniel Wise, Albert B. Watson,
John S. Welliver, Angustus J. Watson, Henry Wenerick.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH REGIMENT - SECOND PENNSYLVANIA HEAVY
ARTILLERY.
The Second Artillery organized in January, 1862, with Charles
Augeroth as colonel, John H. Oberteuffer, lieutenant colonel, and
William Candidus, major. On the 9th of January three companies were
ordered to Fort Delaware, and on the 25th of February the remaining
seven were ordered to Washington, where they were assigned to duty in
the fortifications near Bladensburg. The three companies at Fort
Delaware rejoined the main body of the regiment on the 19th of March,
and on the 24th of November its numbers were further increased by the
addition of two companies from Luzerne county. The regiment remained in
the works north of the Potomac until the 26th of March, 1864, when it
was transferred to Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy, south of the river. At
that time it numbered considerably more than
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the quota allowed by law, and it was accordingly determined to organize
a provisional regiment from the surplus men; this was effected on the
20th of April, 1864, and the Second Provisional Heavy Artillery was
assigned to duty with the Ninth corps. It participated in the battle of
the Wilderness, and in all the operations of the campaign until it
arrived before Petersburg. The original regiment was ordered to the
front in May, arriving at Port Royal on the 28th, and at Cold Harbor on
the 4th of June. The Second battalion joined in a charge upon the
Confederate intrenched line on the 18th of June, losing ten killed and
sixty-five wounded. During the months of June, July, and August the
regiment performed arduous duties in the trenches, losing in that time
more than half its effective strength. A consolidation with the
provisional regiment was effected on the 5th of September; on the 20th
the First and Second battalions joined in an attack on Fort Harrison,
losing more than two hundred men, including several of the principal
officers. The regiment occupied the line south of Fort Harrison until
December 2, 1864, when it was ordered to the Bermuda front. After the
evacuation of Petersburg it was ordered to that city, and after the
final surrender of the Confederate forces the companies were distributed
throughout the lower counties of Virginia. It was mustered out of
service at City Point, Virginia, January 29, 1866, and discharged at
Philadelphia on the 16th of February.
There were about forty-five men in this regiment from
Northumberland County, distributed through various companies.
FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
The Fifty-eighth was recruited at Philadelphia and vicinity by J.
Richter Jones, its first colonel, and in the northwestern counties,
including Northumberland and Luzerne, by Carlton B. Curtis, its first
lieutenant colonel. The organization occurred on the 13th of February,
1862, and, breaking camp on the 8th of March, the regiment proceeded to
Fortress Monroe, where, on the 10th of May, it was assigned to an
expedition against Norfolk. There it performed provost guard duty, and
was engaged in guard duty at Portsmouth navy yard and elsewhere in the
vicinity until October, when it was ordered to Suffolk From that point
it participated in several expeditions to the Blackwater. On the 5th of
January, 1863, it embarked with a force under Major General Foster for
Beaufort, North Carolina, and at Bachelor's Creek Station, eight miles
west of Newbern, constructed a fortified camp. On the 13th of February
Colonel Jones surprised a Confederate camp at Sandy Ridge, taking one
hundred forty-three prisoners, and throughout the spring and early
summer the regiment was constantly engaged in repelling attacks from
detached parties of the enemy. On the 16th of April it served as a
protection to the right flank of a column of Union troops passing from
Newbern to Little Washington. On the 21st of May the Confederate camp at
Gum Swamp was attacked and one hundred seventy-five
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prisoners captured. The regiment was ordered to Washington, North
Carolina, on the 27th of June; there it was posted at various points in
detachments, and acquired proficiency in artillery practice. On the last
day of the year an expedition was made to the vicinity of Greenville,
resulting in the capture of prisoners and horses. Guard and picket duty
was continued without incident until the evacuation of the post at
Washington was ordered at the close of April. The entire command then
proceeded to Fortress Monroe, where the Fifty-eighth was incorporated in
the Third brigade of the First division, Eighteenth army corps. On the
9th of May the division had a sharp encounter with the enemy near the
Appomattox, this regiment sustaining a loss of twenty. It was assigned
to the work of destroying the Petersburg and Richmond railroad on the
following day, and throughout the remainder of the campaign on the south
side of the James, though constantly employed in field and fatigue duty,
was not closely engaged. When the Eighteenth corps was transferred to
Grant's army, the Fifty-eighth embarked for White House, and arrived at
Cold Harbor on the 1st of June. It was immediately ordered to the front,
losing thirty-five killed and wounded. Two days later it participated in
the grand assault of the Union forces upon the enemy's works at Cold
Harbor, and again sustained serious loss.
The veterans of this regiment were given a furlough on the 24th of
June, returning to the front on the 25th of August, 1864; on the evening
of September 28th, crossing the James river, the Fifty-eighth was
assigned with another Pennsylvania regiment to the difficult and
dangerous duty of assaulting Fort Harrison, one of the most important
points in the Confederate line of defense between the river and White
Oak swamp. This was triumphantly effected on the 29th, but of nine
officers and two hundred twenty-eight men who advanced to the charge,
six officers and one hundred twenty-eight men were either killed or
wounded, and the regimental colors were almost completely annihilated.
On the afternoon of the same day the Fifty-eighth joined in an attack
upon the Star fort; this was also successful, but the advantage gained
was lost by the failure of re-enforcements to arrive at a critical
moment. The regiment was employed in picket, guard, and fatigue duty
from this time, participating in active movements at various places.
After the surrender of Lee it was assigned to duty in the lower counties
of Virginia under orders of the Freedmen's bureau, and was finally
mustered out on the 24th of January, 1866.
Company I was recruited in Luzerne and Northumberland counties The
roster is as follows:-
Captains: John Buyers, Angelo Jackson.
First Lieutenants: Thomas Birmingham, Heber Painter.
Second Lieutenant, John B. Searles.
Sergeants: William H. Blair, Robert Hedian, James Harlor, Samuel
Wolf, William H. Gass, Norman W. Haas, John M. Dickover, Samuel C.
Barton, George W. Klase.
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Corporals: Robert Martin, George W. Adams, Hiram Fisher, Samuel
Taylor, George D. Aton, John Fisher, H. Housewart, James De Witt, Joseph
Nagle, Solomon Yordy, Joseph Crist, Henry Bartsher, Bennett E. Cobley.
Daniel Boughner, Jacob M. Boyd, L. R Gaffney.
Musician, John Mullen.
Privates: Solomon P. Aton, Louis Angermiller, H. A. Addleman,
Samuel Bartsher, Aaron Burket, Robert Brown, John Barton, Martin L.
Bloom, Robert W. Bell, Edward Berney, Charles H. Cook, William R. Cook,
Samuel Crist, Joseph E. Carpenter, Daniel Conrad, William K. Conrad,
Henry Conrad, Patrick Carl, Thomas Cruse, Henry C. Cook, Samuel T.
Coleman, Daniel Deets, James E. Danton, Alfred S. Dennis, Asmus Damen,
Benjamin F. Diehl, Edward E. Doran, John Doon, George Eckhart, William
H. Freeman, Philip Forester, James C. Fleming, Solomon Fausold, Henry
Gutschall, Joseph Gregory, John G. Groner, Emanuel Gutschall, William
Galagher, Harris A. Hopper, Samuel Heim, Thomas Hudson, John Hardman,
James Hoey, Patrick Hughes, Benjamin F. Heffner, John A. Jennings,
Thomas Kelley, August W. Keiber, George Lewis, Martin Loftus, George W.
Lee, James Lafferty, Robert Leach, Levi S. Lloyd, Edward Long, William
B. Martin, Henry Miller, James Masterson, George D. Mott, John Mench,
John Morisey, Anthony Marse, James Morisey, Charles Mott, Michael
Morgan, George McDonald, Lafayette McClure, Robert McClure, Michael
McCarty, Moses C. Norris, Winthrop Oplinger, George Oplinger, Albert W.
Osborn, Charles A. Peal, John Reed, Patrick Rafter, Cornelius Robins,
Jonathan Rogers, Benjamin F. Reel, William Reeser, Elias Raker, Joseph
Reitz, James Riley, William Reeser, John G. Snyder, George F. Slocum,
Jacob Slough, M. M. Shoemaker, Ernest Storkey, William H. Skillham,
Joseph M Snyder, Emanuel Stroh, John Sharp, Andrew E. Stewart, George E.
Shafer, Thomas Savage, Norman R. Tracey, Edward Vangross, John G.
Vanleer, William Woods, De L. S. Wynn, Julius Wirth, Thomas Wright,
Martin Welsh, Louis G. Weeks, John Winer, William Williams, Henry Walz,
Henry Werman, John Williams, Oliver Yohe, Nathan Yohe, Peter Zeliff.
In an historical sketch of this company A. N. Brice states that to
it "belongs the honor of first entering the rebel capital after the
surrender and Robert Martin, of Sunbury, carried the first flag into the
city of Richmond at the head of our victorious army."
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT
Four companies of this regiment - C, D, E, and F - were recruited
in Northumberland county. It was a nine months' regiment, and organized
at Camp Curtin with Peter H. Allabach, colonel, William B. Shaut,
lieutenant Colonel, and Robert W. Patton, major. Proceeding immediately
to Washington and thence to Virginia, it moved to the vicinity of
Alexandria and from that place to Fort Ward, where it was assigned to
picket duty on the Lees-
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burg road and Little River turnpike. When the Maryland campaign opened
it marched to Frederick city, and thence, on the afternoon of September
17, 1862, to Antietam, where it arrived in time to relieve troops
exhausted by that battle. At Fredericksburg on the 13th of December it
sustained a total loss of one hundred seventy-seven. Leaving its winter
quarters on the 28th of April for the Chancellorsville campaign, it
arrived at the Chancellor House on the 1st of May, and participated in a
variety of movements until the 15th, when its term of service expired.
Eight days later it was mustered out at Harrisburg.
Company C was recruited by Thomas B. Jones and A. N. Brice. Leaving
for Harrisburg on the 9th of August, 1862, it was mustered into service
on the 14th. It returned to Sunbury on the 25th of May, and was tendered
an enthusiastic reception by the citizens. The roster of this company is
as follows:-
Captain, Thomas B. Jones.
First Lieutenants: Joseph L. Reeder, A. N. Brice.
Second Lieutenant, Owen M. Fowler.
Sergeants: David M. Nesbit, Lott B. Weitzel, George Arnold, Ephraim
Foulke, John Hillbourn, Lorenzo D. Robins.
Corporals: Samuel Bower, Ira M. Rockefeller, Silas B. Snyder,
Charles P. Seasholtz, Solomon P. Klase, Ezeriah Campbell, John B.
Eckman, John A. Bucher, Samuel Swank.
Musicians: James E. Forrester, Kimber C. Farrow.
Privates: Jesse M. Auchmuty, Milton Bastress, Edward L. Beck,
William H. Beck, Benjamin F. Barnhart, Cyrus G. Bittenbender, Sylvanus
Bird, John B. Boughner, Joseph Conrad, Abraham Culp, Charles H. Culp,
John L. Cooper, Hiram Dill, John Dawson, Wesley Ely, John Ernst, William
Evert, John K. Erdman, John Evert, John Fox, George Farley, Peter
Fisher, William Good, Jacob T. Hepner, Elias Hoover, James Hunt, Samuel
J. Hoey, Adam S. Haas, James Harris, Francis Hoover, John Hoffman,
Frederick Hammer, John K. Haas, George D. Irwin, Thomas Johnson, Moses
Kulp, James Kincaid, T. Koppenheffer, Joel Koppenheffer, Daniel M.
Kershner, Peter Kulp, Jacob Keiser, Jeremiah Koppenheffer, James W.
Lyon, George W. Lavan, William Maguire, Vandine Martz, Charles Mettler,
Henry W. Moore, Sylvester Myers, George Mantz, Jacob Mower, Alonzo
Osmon, Oliver Oberdorf, Daniel S. Peiper, Henry K. Price, Samuel Buch,
Jesse J. Reed, Samuel Reed, Servetus O. Reed, John Smith, William
Savidge, John L. Shipman, Saul Shipman, Henry R. Shipp, B. F. Stambach,
Josiah Strausser, Francis M. Smith, Isaac Sarvis, Charles A. Spratt,
Landis Starner, George Y. Weimer, Peter Wentz, David Willet, Samuel
Welker, Conrad Yeager, Solomon Yeager, William Yeager, Adonijah Yocum.
Company D was composed as follows:-
Captain, David A. McManigal
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First Lieutenant, David B. Wilson.
Second Lieutenant, D. D. Mutthersbough.
Sergeants: James W. Couch, J. W. Hackenberg, William A. Troxell,
Roland Thompson, Homer Benedict, Henry McLaughlin.
Corporals: George W. Smithers, David Sterrett, Samuel Haffly,
Samuel M. Brown, Joseph T. Rothrock, Adam B. Weidman, Levi A. Mentzer,
Boswell S. Parker, Harrison J. Miller.
Musicians: Samuel E. Long, Franklin W. Smith.
Privates: Henry Arnold, John T. Arnold, William F. Alexander, E.
Alexander, William B. Alexander, William B. Anderson, Ambrose M. Aults,
William B. Bell, William J. Barger, William Benny, Harvey A. Bratton,
James Beaver, James H. Brower, Josiah H. Conley, Martin Conley, James S.
Castner, John A. Crissman, George Davis, Daniel Dill, George K. Dippery,
Abram Files, Ebenezer B. Ford, Samuel M. Greer, John M. Galbraith, James
Guthrie, Miles P. Guiher, Henry C. Hoffman, John B. Hesser, John Hook,
Levi Hook, Daniel Hardy, John B. Hummel, James I. Hacket, William C.
Heister, Charles E. Kyle, David S. Kemp, Jacob A. Kauffman, Abram
Kishler, John S. Long, Samuel G. Longwell, David E. Latchford, Joseph P.
Landis, Isaac M. Lenthurst, B. H. Montgomery, Allen P. Mitchell, William
A. Mitchell, George D. Mitchell, Henry T. Mitchell, William B. Moran,
Albert L. Magill, Charles Marks, Edward P. Mertz, Mahlon McKlips, George
R. Orr, John W. Ort, Alvin B. Parker, Jacob Price, Allison Price,
Augustns H. Peters, George H. Pratt, James B. Boss, William Rigle, Jacob
A. Rohrer, Noah A. Roamig, H. H. Renninger, John W. Riden, David
Robenold, Hiram Smith, David Stinberger, James W. Smith, John M. Stine,
George W. Stroup, George W. Stahl, David Shank, Joseph H. Smith, Joseph
H. Wagoner, William Walters, William P. Witherow, George W. Wilson.
Company E, though not a distinctively Northumberland county
organization, had a considerable representation therefrom; the roster is
as follows:-
Captain, Isaiah B. Davis.
First Lieutenant: William A. Bruner, William H. Wolfe.
Second Lieutenant, Leander M. Morton.
Sergeants: John Peterman, Elias Bart, Henry J. Heinen, John H.
Easton, Samuel Logan, Warren F. Brenizer.
Corporals: William A. Straub, W. B. Chamberlin, William H. Taggart,
Martin L. Buthraff, Ephraim Hester, William Angstadt, Currin Cahill,
Joseph R. Bright.
Musicians: John Logan, Charles F. Burns.
Privates: Isadore A. Aicher, Julius Arbeiter, Martin F. Angeny,
James W. Bogert, James Burnman, James Bartholomew, Thomas Brooks, Edward
Brous, Isaiah Blair, David P. Bogle, Samuel Byerly, James H. Burner,
Alfred B. Chapin, Andrew Dotts, Charles Eisele, Philip Eisele Thomas
Everett,
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Daniel Everett, Benjamin Fagely, William A. Fisher, Philip H. Follmer,
A. J. Fisher, Reese D. Gauby, Henry J. Gaskin, William Gibson, David R.
Hause, William Hautzicker, John M. Hulsizer, John Huhn, James Halsey,
Franklin Hause, Samuel J. Irwin, Andrew F. Irwin, Reuben H. Kram, David
E. Kutz, Charles Kint, David Kieffer, Charles B. Krauser, David J. Kram,
George W. Kepler, William H. Leisenring, Jeremiah Leinbach; R. M.
Longmore, Phineas Leiser, William Machamer, James Murphy, Robert Miller,
Charles Mathias, Jacob Meixel, Samuel M. Miller, James Montgomery, James
McCutcheon, John McGinnis, Henry Newberry, Isaac Newberry, George W.
Overpeck, Wellington Peeler, Charles M. Rissell, James M. Ritter, John
W. Rantz, G. W. Richalderfer, William A. Runkle, Daniel Rissle, Jacob
Smith, William Spotts, Mathias Strine, George C. Sheets, Levi B. Schock,
Samuel Shadman, Thomas H. Sweitzer, Joseph Straub, Jesse Smith, John A.
Sommers, John B. Straub, Jacob Smith, William H. Trego, John K. Trego,
William Wertman, Joseph Wortz, Henry Walben, Curtis B. Watson.
Company F had the following roster:-
Captains: George W. Ryan, Lewis Miller.
First Lieutenant, Frank W. Keller.
Second Lieutenants: Jeremiah Snyder, M. L. Wagonseller.
Sergeants: John S. Burkhart, Theophilus Swineford, W. H.
Gemberling, Sephares S. Schock, John H. Louis, John Gardner.
Corporals: William N. Keister, Henry Barbin, S. M. Hendricks,
Joseph S. Glover, John J. Gundrum, Henry Steininger, Benjamin J. Smith,
Calvin J. Schock, Henry W. Mattis.
Musicians: Jeremiah Mohney, Henry E. Richter.
Privates: Francis Artley, Jacob Arbogast, Phares Blett, Edward K.
Boyer, Absalom Beaver, Henry W. Benfer, Elias Boreman, Benjamin Bachman,
Edward L. Buffington, John W. Bustle, William M. Boyer, Ner Bishop, John
Bollinger, Henry F. Charles, William M. Curns, Jacob J. Erb, Martin L.
Fisher, James Gibbs, Matthew B. Gardner, G. W. Gemberling, John P.
Greiner, John Gilbert, Henry Getz, David Getz, George G. Greiner, Jaoob
Hendricks, William Heater, John M. Howell, Ephraim Howell, G. E.
Hackenberg, Wellington Housworth, John J. Housworth, John Hagerty, Enos
H. Harmon, Samuel K. Hoot, Galen Haupt, Perry Jarrett, William Keller,
George A. Kline, Paul H. Knepp, David H. Kempfer, Jackson W. Kline,
Samuel Koch, Jeremiah Long, Benjamin F. Loss, D. W. Laudenslager, Alfred
F. Miller, Henry Mull, George Martin, George A. Musser, James Musser,
Elias C. Minium, Henry J. Miller, John W. McBay, Martin W. Rowe, William
H. Rowe, James Roush, H. H. Renninger, Henry Benninger, John Rahmstine,
Jonas Renninger, Abraham Renninger, Samuel Snyder, David G. Schive,
Jacob P. Snyder, Samuel Smith, Henry Schroyer, J. A. Stahlstecker,
Robert Spaid, John Spahr, Jacob J. Stroub, James P. Smith, Edmund F.
Teats, Elias Treaster, J. P. Winnleman, Abraham Wagner, Henry Weiport,
John F. Wagner.
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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT-THIRD ARTILLERY.
The Third Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery was formed in the spring of
1863 by the consolidation of the commands of Colonel Segebarth and Major
Roberts, and organized with Joseph Roberts, colonel, B. V. W. Howard,
lieutenant colonel, and John A. Darling, major. Though originally
designed for special duty at Fortress Monroe, the regiment performed a
large share of field duty. One company was stationed at Baltimore, but
with this exception detachments from the entire regiment participated in
a number of engagements of more or less importance on the James,
Chickahominy, and Nansemond rivers, and also in the capture of Fort
Fisher, North Carolina. During the campaign before Petersburg, Companies
D, E, G, and M served in the Army of the James, and were posted at
Bermuda Front. After the downfall of the Confederacy these companies
returned to duty at Fortress Monroe, and during the incarceration of
Jefferson Davis at that place he was under guard of detachments from
this regiment.
Battery D was principally from Northumberland county, and was
composed as follows;-
Captains: Henry A. Colt, Edwin A. Evans.
First Lieutenants: Frederick R. Kent, James F. Kline, Sylvester W.
Marshall.
Second Lieutenants: William E. Dorsey, E. W. Sheibner, Lemuel
Shipman, Loren M. Leonard.
Sergeants: Josiah B. Edwards, Charles C. Jones, John Hawley, Robert
Burk, Benjamin F. Cox, William Cook, John McLane, Francis M. Thomas, A.
W. Minich, George H. Borger, Joseph Randall, John McLeod, John V.
Walker.
Corporals: F. H. Diettrich, Henry Brown, John E. Eckman, Tobias
Reinard, Uriah Marteeny, George Carey, John Nungesser, Theobald M.
Fields, William H. Boyer, Thomas Lawson, William D. Fisher, Alonzo
Lockard, Jared Boardman, Uriah Foulk, Joseph M. Barkman, John Barnhardt,
Martin V. Stafford.
Artificers: John Diemer, Hiram Hendricks, William Furman.
Privates: Jonathan Arbogast, C. H. Ackenbach, John W. Allen, James
Ayling, Charles Arnott, David Augstadt, William Atherton, Joseph Aspy,
W. Bashore, Alex Bigham, Charles Brobst, Virgil Buchanan, E. J. Bowman,
James S. Bombay, Charles M. Bowman, Jacob Boyer, James Blackford,
Richard Brown, James Brown, William Brown, Robert W. Brooks, John
Balsher, W. H. Blessington, Charles C. Bent, David W. W. Ball, Henry
Breadbiner, John Barrett, John Brown, Thomas Buckley, Henry Burson,
Reinhart Becker, William Blazzard, Thomas Burgess, William Biens, James
Buchanan, William Crider, Alem B. Clever, Henry C. Crawford, Hugh H.
Conway, Daniel Curtis, Levi Connor, Abraham Connor, William J. Core,
John H. Camp, M. Cunningham, Charles P. Clow, George Cox, Michael
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Carr, Andrew Curtis, Thomas Coyle, James Callahan, John Cameron, James
Connor, Isaac Dawson, James B. Drum, L. H. Dimmick, John Detuk, James
Dille, George Derk, John G. Dennison, William C. Davis, John Dillman,
George W. Dailes, John Dean, William Dowd, Henry Dennison, James Duffy,
William Evans, Thomas J. Eisely, William H. Evo, Joseph Ernst, Alvin
Fowler, Evan Fisher, Amos J. Fortney, J. Farnsworth, Josiah Frantz,
Samuel Fields, Frederick Fleshett, John Fox, Charles Forhad, Robert
Gillaspy, John A. Grant, Augustus Grove, Minus Gallagher, Francis K.
Gibbs, Charles Griffin, Thomas Goover, Charles Gallagher, Oliver Henton,
Henry Helt, Henry Hart, Ovid Hoyt, S. H. Halderman, Elijah J. Hoover, R.
S. Hartpence, W. H. Harden, Thomas E. Harder, Arthur G. Harder, William
Hendershot, George D. Hughes, Andrew Hunlock, William H. Hays, George
Harder, Scott Hide, John Henry, John Harkess, Richard Ingham, Allbright
Jones, Franklin Johnson, John Jordan, Thomas Jones, Richard Jackson,
Elisha Kisner, W. H. Knowlton, John Kinlock, Uriah G. Kerst, Lewis
Kiffer, Merrit H. Kocher, John T. Kidder, Thomas R. King, William
Kisner, Jacob W. Kline, Lorenzo Z. Kase, T. L. Kramer, William Kinley,
C. L. Kenney, John Kean, George Long, Lloyd Lomberson, H. C. Lomberson,
Eugene Lewis, John Lynch, Henry Logan, Joseph Long, Jacob Lefferts,
Levin Lawson, L. C. Leech, Emanuel Lewis, John B. Little, Charles
Livingston, John Laughlin, Thomas Leonard, Henry Little, Miles Marteeny,
Martin Mainnung, Mathias Murray, William Moore, John Martin, John
Messner, Ellis Mordan, John D. Miller, John M. Moyer, B. F. Moyer, David
Miser, Robert Morrow, Robert Montgomery, John Mills, Peter Moyer, John
Mair, George W. Moore, William Miller, Hammond Miller, Franklin Mearady,
William McMillen, George McGee, George McAfee, George McMier, John
McCoy, David McGee, John McCullum, George McGowan, Michael McConnell, P.
McMasterson, Peter McGrath, Daniel C. Neagley, Hunter P. Newbury, Joseph
Noriconk, Charles J. Nuss, Wesley P. Norris, Robert Oman, Henry M.
Oberdorf, Clemson Osmon, John Otlinger, Alfred Putnam, F. B. Patrick,
Charles O. Power, Philander Putnam, Ezra Roush, Joshua M. Roush, Isaac
Row, John R. Reynolds, William A. Ringler, George W. Reifsnyder,
Sebastian Rupp, Richard Remington, Charles Robinson, John Reichley,
Jacob Rifley, James R. Ross, Cornelius Robinson, David Robinson, Robert
Rallston, John A. Rhoads, George Rinall, John T. Stratton, Samuel Spies
Josiah Sweetland, James Small, Stewart Sterner, B. F. Sterner, David R.
Stevens, Christian Sode, Jacob Scheetz, John Settle, Samuel E. Stadden,
Henry K. Springer, Lafayette Snyder, Samuel Smith, Thomas Sullivan,
Ellis Snyder, John Shenfelt, John A. Shout. Abner V. Scott, John O.
Smith, Edward G. Smith, Miles Solomon. B. F. Snyder, George Smith,
Andrew Snyder, Moses Stump, Jesse Sullivan, William Smith, Herman
Schrauber, John H. Stone, Frederick Smith, John Shenk, Jerome Tressler,
George W. Trimble, James P. Thornton, Jonathan Tressler, John Thomas,
Amos Townsend,
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James Thompson, John Taylor, James Taylor, Charles H. Tool, Gilbert
Vandling, David Vankirk, William H. Vankirk, Daniel S. Weiley, William
Weaver, Henry J. Weaver, Henry C. Weaver, George W. Whitenight, J.
Wackershauser, W. Wackershauser, Henry Walburn, William Wertz, Durell J.
Wharton, H. Winterstein, John Weaver, George W. Woodward, David Wilt,
James B. Wallace, Edwin Wynn, John D. Wilder, Thomas Wilson, Charles
White, Henry Wilson, George Worth, George Weisert, John Winn, David
Williams, S. K. Wilson, Elisha Yohe, Riley Zerbe, Nicholas Zeigler.
SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
The Seventy-fourth was originally a German regiment, recruited at
Pittsburgh, and known at first as the Thirty-fifth. There was no
organized representation in its ranks from Northumberland county until
near the close of the war. In March, 1865, its numerical strength having
been greatly reduced by casualties and by the expiration of the terms of
enlistment of many of its men, seven new companies were assigned to it,
among which were two from this county. At that date Colonel Gottlieb
Hoburg was in command, and the regiment was stationed in West Virginia
on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. From Green Spring it
proceeded to Beverly, remaining at that point from the 8th of April to
the 12th of May. It was then ordered to Clarksburg, where the extensive
government stores from which the troops in West Virginia were supplied
were assigned to its protection. With headquarters at this point and
subsequently at Parkersburg, the regiment was detailed by squads and
companies for guard duty along the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. It was mustered out at Clarksburg on the 29th of
August, 1865.
Company C, from Northumberland county, was composed as follows:-
Captains: Elias P. Rohbach, John H. Lewis.
First Lieutenant, Samuel S. Hendricks.
Second Lieutenants: Clinton D. Rohrbach, Benjamin F. Bright.
Sergeants: Ernst L. Starkloff, H. B. Longsdorf, William H. Row,
Peter S. Gussler, John G. Young.
Corporals: A. H. Boyer, Jacob Fetter, Perry Jarret, Uriah Foulk,
Alexander Cassatt, W. B. Longsdorf, Joseph R. Bright, Philip Keefer.
Musicians: Henry Cassatt, P. F. Zimmerman.
Privates: Philip Arrison, Phares Adams, Henry Billman, Jacob W.
Bright, Charles H. Bucher, Henry W. Bucher, John Bell, John T. Bower,
Absalom Beaver, Henry Boyer, Henry D. Bucher, Levi Beaver, Daniel K.
Conrad, Jacob Cassatt, Peter H. Coble, Leonard Dole, Landis Fry, James
P. Griggs, William Gaeringer, Monroe Geasy, George B. Genther, Jackson
W. Harp, F. J. Haughton, John W. Hopper, Thomas Henninger, Bernard A.
Hopper, Galen Holshue, Frederick Herman, Aaron Hummel, Michael K.
Herman, Edward Israel, Daniel Jarrett, Martin S. Kaufman, Henry Kemble,
Eli Kerlin, John
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Leeser, James W. Lyon, John J. Landaw, Gideon Landaw, Frank Leader,
William Lessman, Solomon Lesser, Martin Mills, John Messner, Samuel
Milkof, Thomas E. Metzgar, Joseph W. Meyers, James McPherson, Robert B.
McCay, James P. McKenney, Allen J. McKain, William C. Otto, Albert
Robiny, John Raker, William H. Rohrbach, Julius Ray, George A. Reeser,
William Ritter, John Ritter, Laferius Renninger, Peter M. Snyder, John
J. Shire, Noah Stettler, John Stettler, Peter Stepp, John Shuyler, Henry
Upslinger, John Wilver, John Zimmerman, Henry Zerbe.
Company E was also recruited in Northumberland county; the
following is the roster:-
Captain, William H. Wolfe.
First Lieutenant, Henry M. Spayd.
Second Lieutenant, James T. McGregor.
Sergeants: Henry S. Thomas, Charles H. Seaman, Thomas Satterson,
Adam Batdorf, James Murphy, William Irvin.
Corporals: Joseph Middleton, Jacob Haus, Hiram Dye, Thomas Brooks,
Owen Nagle, Lott B. Weitzel, John S. Middleton, Samuel J. Irvin.
Musicians: John Marshall, Samuel B. Morgan.
Privates: George W. Askine, Alexander W. Blair, James Buoy, William
H. Blind, Nathaniel Burkhart, Amos H. Barrett, G. F. Baker, Charles C.
Bright, Joseph Burk, C. W. Coleman, Reuben C. Creitzer, William Coup,
Daniel W. Cox, J. Datesman, Elam Diefenderfer, James Dixon, John Divel,
William H. H. Diehl, Stephen B. Dodge, George R. Detweiler, Winfield S.
Eckert, Jacob H. Ernst, Michael Fix, William H. Freed, William D.
Freymire, John J. Gehrig, James D. Gehrig, William J. Gaskins, Charles
M. Goodman, Edwin F. Gold, William Y. Gray, William F. Gressler, Joseph
B. Gehrig, Samuel Hoagland, James Hoagland, William Hull, John Hilbourn,
Reese S. Harris, William H. Huth, Joseph R. Housel, Isaac Harline,
William A. Imbody, George Imbody, Samuel J. James, Arthur L. Kline, John
D. Kline, Henry Kissinger, Oliver P. Kaufman, Stephen Kendrick, Benjamin
Klingfelter, David H. Keefer, William H. Miller, Henry Montague,
Benjamin Miller, Levi A. Mathias, John Martin, George W. Overpeck, John
Peeler, Jr., Henry C. Paul, William Penny, Israel Phillips, Jacob H.
Rishel, Samuel W. Riddle, Hegmon Reynolds, Egbert H. Reese, William
Stutzman, George P. Swartz, David L. Starrick, Charles H. Smith.
MILITIA OF 1862.
The second battle of Bull Bun was disastrous to the Federal
forces, and was followed by an immediate movement of the Confederate
army toward the North. Southern Pennsylvania, a fertile agricultural
region, unprotected by any organized force, furnished an inviting field
for invasion, and the defenseless condition of the State became matter
for serious alarm. Governor Curtin issued a proclamation on the 4th of
September, 1862, recommending the
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immediate formation of companies throughout the State; this was followed
by a second on the 10th, calling upon all able bodied men to enroll
immediately and prepare to march at an hour's notice. Acting under
authority from the President, he issued a call for fifty thousand men on
the following day, in response to which there was a simultaneous and
practically unanimous movement toward the capital from every section of
the State. The militia concentrated at Chambersburg, Hagerstown,
Greencastle, and other points in the Cumberland valley, but the enemy
experienced defeat at South Mountain and Antietam, and the necessity for
their services was happily averted. The Third Regiment was organized,
September 11-13, 1862, and discharged, September 23-25, 1862. The field
officers were William Dorris, Jr., colonel, William C. Lawson,
lieutenant colonel, and William Frick, major.
Company A, recruited principally at Milton, Northumberland county,
was composed as follows:
Captain, Thaddeus G. Bogle.
First Lieutenant, Frank Bound.
Second Lieutenant, William K. Wertman.
Sergeants: A. J. Cooley, J. S. Stoughton, Q. L. Andrews, R. H.
Murdock, Trevor McClurg.
Corporals: Oscar Hartranft, Spencer L. Finney, Samuel Clark, Isaac
Sticker, Samuel Weise, J. Woods Brown, Lewis G. Sticker, Daniel Ruch.
Musicians: Samuel Angstadt, Webster C. Brown
Privates: Thomas Artley, Isaiah Auten, Peter Bastian, Adam
Batdorf, Calvin J. Balliet, Alexander H. Blair, Francis Ball, Charles W.
Buoy, Augustus Chapin, William H. Caslow, John K. Correy, Albert
Cadwallader, John Cares, John M. Christ, John Kreitzer, Reuben F.
Etzler, Jacob Eilenberger, Jacob Eisely, Benjamin F. Funk, John G.
Fisher, Henry Huth, Harrison Housel, Charles H. Huff, Edward Hackenberg,
Charles Hartranft, Thomas R. Hull, M. E. Heinen, Charles A. Kutz, Ellis
L. Krauser, Lemuel S. Kerr, William Keiser, James S. Lawson, Augustus
Leiser, James D. Logan, Daniel G. Marsh, William W. Mackey, Alpheus
Meixell, John Musgrave, James Man, Abraham Martz, Miller J. McDaniel,
Samuel McConly, Jacob McConly, Jacob Noriconk, John B. Norris, Michael
F. Noriconk, Andrew F. Peterman, Sampson Paul, George J. Piper, James H.
Phillips, Charles Smith, Asher Smith, Harrison Sticker, Robert L.
Symingion, Benjamin F. Spear, Edward D. Snyder, William A. Schreyer,
Jacob Seydel, Reese H. Swenk, Thomas H. Stadden, Charles Shuman, Hugh M.
Stevenson, George Shiver, Charles H. Seaman, David M. Sheep, Lewis
Swenk, Levi Satterson, Abraham Whitlock, Jonathan Yount.
Company D was recruited at Sunbury; the roster is as follows:-
Captain, Charles J. Bruner.
First Lieutenant, Andrew J. Stroh.
Second Lieutenant, Jacob Rohrbach.
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Sergeants: James B. Roney, Jeremiah H. Zimmerman, Peter Gussler,
Joseph Bright, George W. Stroh.
Corporals: Jacob W. Covert, Henry Bucher, George Oyster, William
Grant Jacob B. Masser, Frederick Kline, Henry Millhouse, Albert Haas.
Musicians: John W. Bucher, D. J. Wharton.
Privates: Philip Arrison, Solomon Boyer, Thomas Baldy, Jacob Bell,
John Bell, George Bloom, William Bowen, Peter Bright George Bucher,
Richard F. Bucher, Benjamin Brosius, Edward Bower, George Beard, Samuel
H. Byers, Jonathan Bostian, Philip Clark, John K. Clement, Ira T.
Clement, Henry Clement, Abraham M. Covert, Franklin Dellbaugh, John
Durst, Norman Engle, Henry Fagely, Jacob Fetter, George Follmer, Henry
Friling, Landis Fry, Nevin U. Fisher, William Fisher, John Gering,
Samuel Gerringer, James Griggs, George Guenther, George W. Hileman,
Jacob Hendricks, Martin L. Hendricks, Samuel Harrison, Alexander Haupt,
William Haupt, Washington Harp, Jackson Harp, Jacob Hoover, George W.
Haupt, John Haas, 1st, John Haas, 2d, James Hileman, Frank N. John,
James Kershner, George P. Krohn, William Keifer, Philip Keifer, Orlando
Krickbaum, John Leeser, James Lyon, Edward Lyon, William Logan, Anthony
Lentzer, Louis Miller, Charles Martin, Alexander Mantz, Thomas McGaw,
Hunter Newbury, John Oyster, Henry Peters, John B. Packer, Julius Ray,
William Rohrbach, Lloyd Rohrbach, Jacob Renn, Levi Seasholtz, Cornelius
Smith, Ernest Starkloff, Henry Strauss, Silas Wiles, John Weaver,
William E. Youngman, Jacob Youngman, George Zettlemoyer.
MILITIA OF 1863.
Confederate victories at Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, and
Chancellorsville, in May, 1863, were again followed by a movement toward
the North, and on the 9th of June, 1863, two new military departments
were established, principally from Pennsylvania territory, for which
volunteers were invited by both the national and State authorities. At
length it became plainly apparent that the Confederate army intended
crossing the Potomac in force, and on the 15th of June the President
called for fifty thousand men from Pennsylvania, with an equal number
from Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia. The Pennsylvania troops
rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, and were there organized to the
number of eight regiments, among which was the Twenty-eighth, in which
was Company B, from Milton, Northumberland county. On the 24th and 25th
of June the Confederate army crossed the Potomac at Shepherdstown and
Williamsport, followed on the 26th by the Federal forces at Edward's
ferry. On the afternoon of the 26th a brigade of Early's division
occupied Gettysburg; the Confederate cavalry had in the meantime
occupied Chambersburg and reconnoitered as far as Carlisle, and on the
26th, the evidence of invasion having become unmistakable, Governor
Curtin issued a proclamation calling for sixty thousand men.
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The campaign on Pennsylvania soil reached a decisive culmination at the
battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, and 3, 1863; and so rapid were the
movements of the armies that the emergency men had scarcely arrived at
camp and passed through the formalities of organization before the
crisis was past and the Confederate army was in full retreat toward the
Potomac. It was thought that its passage would be contested, and that
another battle would be fought, and the major portion of those assembled
at Harrisburg were accordingly pushed up the Cumberland valley to join
the Army of the Potomac; but, although the enemy made good his escape,
the militia was employed at a variety of duties before being disbanded.
The Thirty-sixth regiment was sent to Gettysburg, where it was engaged
in gathering in the wounded from both armies and forwarding them to
other points as rapidly as their condition would permit; in collecting
the scattered debris of the battlefield, whereby some thousands of
muskets, bayonets, etc., were retained, and in affording protection to
government property.
Company E, Twenty-eighth Regiment, recruited at Milton, was
mustered in, June 19-24, 1863, and discharged, July 27-28, 1863. It had
the following roster:-
Captain, Charles H. Dougal.
First Lieutenant, Charles C. Norris.
Second Lieutenant, James Strine.
Sergeants: William B. Chamberlin, Curtis B. Watson, William
McCormick, Carlton B. Davis, Martin F. Augerry
Corporals: David D. Dieffenderfer, Henry Wilson, Charles W. Buoy,
James S. Lawson, Francis Ball, Alfred B. Chapin, Thomas I. McMahan,
William Keiser.
Musicians: James Bowey, William Imbody.
Privates: Isaiah Auten, Franklin Bloomer, William H. Blind, George
W. Bower, John S. Bowyer, Frank Bound, William H. Bogle, Isaac W. Brown,
James A. Cares, Peter Clement, Albert Caldwallader, William Everet, John
C. Fulton, George W. Freed, Reuben Feister, Brown Gehrig, John Huther,
Charles F. Huff, William Hull, George Imbody, Daniel M. Krauser, Abner
Leland, Robert H. Murdock, John C. Mervine, James C. Marr, Hugh S.
McFadden, Thomas McNinch, John M. McDaniels, Sanford Pegg, Martin
Remmert, Ferdinard Reinhold, Cornelius A. Reimensnyder, William B.
Stadden, Robert Symington, William B. Stevenson, John B. Shadle, Henry
C. Stoughton, Levi Satteson, Jacob S. Stoughton, David Sanders, Theodore
Venrick, Jeremiah Welliver, John Yount.
Company F, Thirty-sixth Regiment, was mustered in, July 4, 1863,
and discharged, August 11, 1863. It was recruited at Sunbury, and was
composed as follows:-
Captain, S. P. Wolverton
First Lieutenant, A. J. Stroh.
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Second Lieutenant, Jacob Rohrbach.
Sergeants: William C. Goodrich, Charles D. Wharton, George D.
Bucher, Albert Haas, Benjamin F. Bright.
Corporals: Warren McEwen, S. P. Bright, S. J. Hoey, M. L.
Hendricks, Samuel Harrison, Charles J. Conrad, I. S. Kern, R. B.
Ammermam.
Musicians: William Kriegbaum, D. J. Wharton
Privates: Zebulon Bastian, George Bloom, H. D. Bucher, Isaac Bair,
Edward Beck, John A. Bucher, Benjamin Bohner, Isaac Bubb, John Cogan,
David Druckemiller, Conrad Deitry, Andrew Deitry, William D. Foulke,
George Foulke, Landis Fry, Peter Hileman, John E. Heller, Andrew J.
Heller, Luther Harrison, Thomas Henninger, Jacob B. Hoover, Thomas B.
Hoover, William D. Haas, William D. Haupt, Charles D. Kiehl, Martin S.
Kauffman, Michael A. Keifer, George Krohn, Lorenzo Kramer, Isaac Leeser,
John Lyon, B. F. Landau, George Mantz, Jesse Miller, Mahlon Myers, Lewis
Miller, Jacob A. Miller, John Oyster, Edward Oyster, Raphael Perez,
Franklin Patruck, William H. Rohrbach, Arthur Robins, Henry L. Renn,
Simon Renn, Silas Renn, Julius Ray, George Sterner, William F. Shiffer,
John Shuler, Anthony Speece, H. Clay Seasholtz, Jonas Trego, John
Weaver, Silas Wial, John Wall, John Webber, William E. Youngman, Abraham
Zimmerman.
Company K, Thirty-sixth Regiment, recruited principally at
Shamokin, was mustered in, July 4, 1863, and discharged, August 11, 1863
It had the following roster:-
Captains, Henry C. Harper, A. R. Fiske.
First Lieutenant, J. M. John.
Second Lieutenant, J. A. Shipp.
Sergeants: E. B. Rhoads, John Harris, Ferdinand Rhoads, John
McEliece, Marquis Sholl.
Corporals: Frederick Dibson, William H. Carlisle, William Booth,
John Weir, John M. Best, John Hancock, David Eveland, John Pincher.
Musicians: John S. Bittenbender, H. Startzel.
Privates: Henry Allison, Hiram Bird, William Brown, William H.
Bowlen, Francis Beers, William Boas, G. N. Carlisle, Thomas Curtin,
Nicholas Curren, William Carlin, John Clifford, John Curtis, Lewis
Chamberlain, Adam Derke, Thomas S. Dewees, John Donor, Michael Dooly,
Joseph B. Eaton, Matthias Emes, William Eadie, William Early, William H.
Gilger, J. B. Getter, Jesse Gensel, August Helt, Jacob Hess, Ephraim
Henninger, William Humes, Isaiah Hower, J. P. M. Haas, Isaac Haas, David
Hine, Solomon Hill, Henry Irich, Jesse J. John, Robert Jones, William
Jones, George D. John, William Kissinger, Joseph Kopp, Isaac Keiser,
Frederick Kaseman, John R. Lake, Withington Lake, George Lebig, William
Lebig, Charles Lebig, Michael McCarty, Ebenezer Matthews, George Madara,
George W. Miller, Francis Moore, Henry Neihoff, John Rooch,
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Jeremiah Rotharmel, John Rupp, Daniel Rupp, Thomas Reese, John E. Reese,
Isaac Roup, Edward Stillwagner, Jacob Stillwagner, William Stillwagner,
Daniel Stahler, John Strickland, John Sterrit, Jacob Treibly, Samuel
Tiley, Jacob Tiley, John Tiley, Francis Tobey, Michael Tonney, Daniel
Unger, John Vanzant, David Weaver, Elias Wagner, William E. Walter,
Lucius Wynn.
Company I Thirty-seventh Regiment, mustered in, July 1-15, 1863,
and discharged, August 2-4, 1863, was composed as follows:-
Captain, William H. Wolfe.
First Lieutenant, John Peterman.
Second Lieutenant, Joseph R. Bright.
Sergeants: Henry J. Heinen, John H. Easton, Samuel Logan, William
Gibson, Curran Cahill.
Corporals: William A. Runkle, Robert M. Lougmore, Isaac Stadden,
James Burnman, Robert Wilson, Samuel M. Miller, Milton Overpeck, William
K. Wertman.
Musicians: Robert P. Bratton, David Robins
Privates: John M. Buoy, Adam Batdorf, Daniel Burnman, Samuel Blair,
Worthington Blair, John C. Balliett, James Bartholomew, Joshua H.
Bartlett, John H. Kreitzer, Charles E. Chase, John A. Christy, Andrew
Dotts, Aaron Derr, John E. Eisle, Jacob Freese, William D. Fisher, Jacob
F. Gauger, Benjamin F. Gauger, Adam Grassmier, Reuben L. Hatfield,
Charles R. Hock, William H. Huth, Julius Hurlinger, John Hill, Samuel
Hoagland, Albert Johnson, Ephraim Kram, William Kutz, John W. Lehon,
John C. Lunger, James D. Lawrence, Jonathan Marriott, Joel R. Messinger,
Joseph Mock, Daniel G. Marsh, Abraham Martz, William H. Marr, Charles C.
McKee, Jacob Noriconk, John Sheets, David F. Speese, Thomas Satteson,
Matthias Strine, Eli M. Trego, James Tate, John Tate, Samuel Van
Buskirk, Morris Van Buskirk, William Walker, George W. Williams, Isaac
G. Wolfe, William Weber.
SOLDIER'S MONUMENTS.
Several memorials of this nature attest the gratitude and honor of
the citizens of Northumberland county for the services and sacrifices of
the soldiers from her territory who lost their lives in the civil war.
The first of these was erected in the year following the close of
the war by the survivors of Company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania
Volunteers. It is a modest shaft of marble, located in the old Sunbury
cemetery, and was formally dedicated on the 16th of May, 1866, the
Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Independent Order
of Good Templars, survivors of the war of 1812, borough officers, and
fire companies participating in the ceremonies, with John Kay Clement as
chief marshal. The Rev. M. Rhodes, D. D., delivered the dedicatory
address. The monument is inscribed
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with the names of the following deceased comrades: Joseph Smith, Jacob
G. Grubb, Peter Swinehart, Alexander Given, Martin Berger, Emanuel
Beaver, Emanuel B. Walter, Sr., George Kramer, Jeremiah Haas, James
Kennedy, John G. Sterner, George W. Bortle, Theodore Kiehl, George
Keiser, John E. Will, James Brown, Jasper B. Gardner, J. Boulton Young,
First Sergeant William Fry, Sergeant Peter Haupt, Sergeant William
Pyers, Sergeant John Babtlow, George C. Watson, George Horner, Peter
Wolf, Seth Deibert. It bears the following inscription: This marble is
erected by the members of Company C, Forty- seventh Regiment
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, as a tribute of respect to the memory
of the dead of their company who fell in battle, and died from disease,
starvation, and ill treatment while in rebel prisons - heroes, who
sacrificed their lives that the Union might live. The Shamokin soldiers'
monument was dedicated on the 30th of May, 1871; the usual Decoration
day observances were conducted, and the oration of the occasion was
delivered by the Rev. T. S. Dewing of the Presbyterian church. The
monument is thirteen feet high, and fifteen feet above the level of the
ground. The base is a solid block of granite from the Gettysburg
battlefield, and the sub-base is of American marble, uniform in color
and quality with the shaft. The die rests on this, bearing upon the
front panel the following inscription:-
Erected
Under the auspices of Lincoln Post,
No. 140, G. A. R.,
May, 30, 1871.
Above the die is a six-inch molding, surmounted by a plain shaft,
ornamented by a raised shield in front bearing above it the words:-
TO OUR FALLEN HEROES.
The monument occupies a prominent location in the Shamokin
cemetery, and is visible from nearly every part of the city. Within the
circular inclosure that surrounds it are the graves of a number of
soldiers.
The Northumberland County Soldiers' Monument Association was
organized, May 25,1872, with the election of the following persons as an
executive committee: John J. Smith, Heber Painter, P. H. Moore, A. N.
Brice, John Kay Clement, T. S. Shannon, L. M. Yoder, S. H. Knowles, G. B.
Cadwallader, D. C. Dissinger, H. G. Thatcher, Charles J. Fox, E. M.
Bucher, H. F. Mann, and L. H. Kase, of whom Messrs. Smith, Painter, and
Moore were president, secretary, and treasurer, respectively. The
association was incorporated by the court of common pleas of
Northumberland county, August 5, 1873. On the 4th of July, 1872, the
site was marked out at the eastern end of Market square, by Alexander
Jordan and Simon Cameron. The corner-stone was laid with the Masonic
ritual on Decoration day two years later, May 30,
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1874, but the completion of the work was delayed from a variety of
causes, and it was not until the 4th of July, 1879, that the formal
unveiling occurred. On that occasion it is estimated that twelve
thousand people were present; there was a grand civic and military
parade, in which a delegation from the Seventy-ninth New York Cameronian
Volunteers, deputations from posts of the Grand Army of the Republic in
neighboring towns, and thirteen fire companies participated; addresses
were delivered by John Kay Clement, A. N. Brice, and James A. Beaver;
and the monument was unveiled by Governor Henry M. Hoyt. At that time
the officers and members of the association were as follows: president,
John J. Smith; secretary, A. N. Brice; treasurer, P. H. Moore; G. B.
Cadwallader, H. F. Mann, John Kay Clement, B. F. Keefer, J. E.
Torrington, J. H. McDevitt, John Youngman, Thomas D. Grant, S. J.
Packer, Lemuel Shipman, J. E. Eichholtz, E. M. Bucher, J. C. Irvin, H.
D. Wharton, C. M. Martin, George E. Hoffman, John H. Heim, H. F. Manges,
James D. Smith, D. C. Dissinger, W. C. Packer, and Emanuel Wilvert. This
monument is situated in the eastern part of the inclosed portion of
Market square, Sunbury. It rests upon a pedestal, elevated upon a mound
of earth, at the outer edge of which are four cannon, the appropriate
accompaniments of a memorial of this character. The names of twelve
leading battles in which the troops from this county participated -
Petersburg, Williamsburg, Wilderness, Bull Run, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Fair Oaks, Vicksburg, Winchester, Gettysburg,
Antietam, and Appomattox - are inscribed upon the shaft. The base bears
the following inscriptions:-
Erected to the memory of the gallant soldiers of Northumberland
county who fell in the battles of the great Rebellion.
Corner-stone laid, May 80, 1874
Erected, July 4, 1879.
James Cameron, of Northumberland county, Colonel of the Seventy-
ninth New York Cameronian Volunteers, fell at the head of his regiment
at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, aged sixty-one years.
Give them the meed they have won in the past;
Give them the honors their merits forecast;
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
Colonel James Cameron, the first soldier from Northumberland county
to lose his life in the war, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
March 1, 1801, and came to Sunbury with his parents in 1808. Thence the
family removed to Lewisburg. After the death of his father he learned
the trade of blacksmith; later he became a printer and editor, and
published the Political Sentinel at Lancaster; he studied law, was
admitted to the bar at Lancaster, and subsequently (August 4, 1851) to
the bar of Northumberland county; at one time he was a superintendent on
the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad; for some years he engaged in
agricultural pursuits with profit
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and success, and operated several finely improved farms near Milton. He
also filled several positions of trust and emolument. When the Civil war
broke out he was stationed at Sunbury as superintendent of the Northern
Central railway, but immediately resolved to enter the military service.
He accepted the colonelcy of the Seventy-ninth regiment, Fourth brigade,
First division, New York militia, popularly known as the Cameronian
Highlanders, and fell at the head of his command while leading a charge
at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was the first officer
of his rank in the Union army and the first officer from Pennsylvania
soil who fell in battle in the civil war.