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The following roll of Company H is from Vol. I of Bates's " Pennsylvania Volunteers " :1
ROLL OF COMPANY H, THITRY-SEVENTH REGIMENT-EIGHTH RESERVE. 2
William Lemon, captain, April 30, 1861, three years ; wounded at Charles City Cross Roads and Fredericksburg ; promoted to lieutenant-colonel March 10, 1863.
James Keatley, captain, April 30, '61, three years ; promoted from private to sergeant August 20, 1861 ; to captain March 10, 1863 ; wounded at Fred- ericksburg December 13, 1862 ; mustered out with the company May 24, 1864.
J. N. Hetherington, first lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; resigned October 10, 1861.
Alfred T. Clark, jr., first lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years ; promoted from sergeant-major October 10, 1861 ; resigned October 25, 1862.
Anthony H. Beck, first lieutenant April 30, 1861, three years; promoted
1 In these rolls of the companies the name is followed by a brief record which gives rank, date of muster, term of service, promotion, wounds, &c.
2 Copied from Bates.
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to sergeant May 2, 1861, to first lieutenant March 1, 1863 ; wounded at Charles City Cross Roads June 30, 1862 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
B. B. Dunkle, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years ; resigned November 16, 1861.
Henry Wetter, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years ; promoted from first sergeant to second lieutenant November 16, 1861, to adjutant May 20, 1862.
Joseph M. Owens, second lieteunant, April 30, 1861, three years ; promoted from private to sergeant July 29, 1861; to second lieutenant August 1, 1862 ; wounded, with loss of leg, at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862; resigned April 14, 1863.
H. R. Brenneman, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years ; pro- moted from sergeant, July 1, 1863; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
George E. Cowan, first sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years ; promoted to first sergeant, transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
A. J. Galloway, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged January 15, 1863, for wounds received in action.
John Monace, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years ; promoted to sergeant, transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
J. M. Rankin, sergeant, June 24, 1861, three years; promoted to sergeant, transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Stephen D. Myers, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at Wil- derness May 8, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
George W. Stover, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at Spottsylvania Court House ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
A. M. Brenneman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged Feb- ruary 4, 1863, for wounds received in action.
S. R. Stratton, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to Reg- imental Band, July 20, 1861.
Joseph Dolby, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; accidentally killed October 10, 1861.
J. R. Whitman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged July II, i862.
Jasper N. Maxwell, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged July II, 1862.
Carson R. Crisman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged March 30, 1863, for wounds received in action.
William Crooks, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years ; wounded at Wilder- ness May 6, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
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James Greer, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Anderson, Robert, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Agnew, John, private, July 21, 1861, three years ; deserted, date unknown.
Bender, Henry, private, July 1, 1861, three years ; mustered out with com- pany May 24, 1864.
Burns, Samuel R., private, July 24, 1861, three years ; transferred to Vet- eran Reserve Corps, December 14, 1863.
Brua, Henry W., private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Boyles, Irwin, private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.
Basim, Calvin, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged December 6, 1862, for wounds received in action.
Beck, John H., private, April 1, 1861, three years; died August 7, 1862.
Barr, Daniel, private, July 1, 1861, three years ; killed at Antietam Sep- tember 17, 1862.
Callihan, Harvey, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died October 10, 1861 ; buried in the Military Asylum Cemetery at D. C.
Cunningham, Robert, private, June 14, 1861, three years ; died September 17, 1862, from wounds received in action.
Davis, Andrew J., private, June 24, 1861, three years ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Dorey, Wilson M., private, May 18, 1861, three years; wounded at Fred- ericksburg December 13, 1862; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Dolby, Charles, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died October 8, 1861.
Furman, W. W., private, April 20, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Frazier, George W., private, June 24, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Frazier, Philip, private, July 21, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Free, Benjamin, private, July 1, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hun- dred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Fox, Jacob D., private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Fulton, Reed W., private, March 4, 1864, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.
Fulton, Wm. T., private, March 4, 1864, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.
Goble, Albert J., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged April 22, 1863, for wounds received in action.
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Girt, David, private, June 22, 1861, three years; deserted July 29, 1861. Hall, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; mustered out with com- pany May 24, 1864.
Henderson, J. W., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged Febru- ary 7, 1863, for wounds received in action.
Henderson, John W., private, May 6, 1864, three years ; not on muster out roll.
Horton, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; transferred to Battery E, Fourth U. S. Artillery, September 1, 1862.
Hepinger, Wolfgang, private, April 30, 1861, three years; killed at South Mountain September 14, 1862.
Hoover, Joseph, private, April 30, 1861, three years; died January 4, 1863, from wounds received at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1861.
Kilgore, Hugh L., private, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Kelly, Thomas, private, July 1, 1861, three years; transferred to One Hun- dred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Linegrover, James, private, May 18, 1861, three years ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Laughner, Nathan, private, June 14, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
McNany, Daniel, private, June 14, 1861, three years ; wounded at Wilder- ness May 8, 1864 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
McKibbens, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
McNaughton, Dun, private, July 21, 1861, three years ; discharged on sur- geon's certificate November 26, 1862.
Maloney, William, private, June 24, 1861, three years ; discharged Decem- ber 1, 1862, for wounds received in action.
Mortimer, John R., private, June 24, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Moody, Silas D., private, June 24, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
McKendree, Hiram, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; killed at Bull Run August 30, 1862.
Noll, Jacob, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; wounded at Antietam September 17, 1862 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Noll, George, private, September 26, 1861, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
O'Brien, William, private, June 1, 1861, three years; wounded at Wilder- ness May 8, 1864 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Potter, George, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; transferred to regi- mental band July 12, 1861.
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Potter Henry, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died at Camp Pierpont, Va., November 9, 1861.
Pritner, Camden A., private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died at Camp Pierpont, Va., February 1, 1862.
Peters, John, private, July 1, 1861, three years ; died October 3, 1862, of wounds received in action ; buried in National Cemetery, Antietam, sec. 26, lot F, grave 568.
Ross, James, private, June 1, 1861, three years ; discharged on surgeon's certificate September 24, 1862.
Ross, John M., private, June 20, 1861, three years ; discharged January 22, 1863, for wounds received in action.
Rheese, Samuel H., private, March 3, 1864, three years ; transferred to One Hundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.
Sipler, William A., private, June 14, 1861, three years ; wounded at Anti- etam September 17, 1862 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Showers, Lewis, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on sur- geon's certificate October 9, 1861.
Sweeny, John H., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged Janu- ary 27, 1863, for wounds received in action.
Shaner, Leander, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on sur- geon's certificate February 16, 1863.
Shull, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on surgeon's certificate February 14, 1863.
Stroup, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; transferred to Company B, Sixth U. S. Cavalry. September 1, 1862.
Sample, James, private, June 14, 1861, three years ; died at Camp Pierpont, Va., December 21, 1861.
Showers, William B., private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died July 5, 1862, of wounds received in action.
Stover, Thomas, private, June 14, 1861, three years ; deserted July 29, 1861.
Templeton, William, private, July 21, 1861, three years ; prisoner from May 8, to May 12, 1864 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Vensel, John H., private, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged February 20, 1863, for wounds received in action.
Wilson, Harrison B., private, April 30, 1861, three years ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Whitehill, Warren, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; wounded at Wil- derness May 8, 1864 ; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.
Walters, Daniel, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; discharged January 15, 1863, for wounds received in action.
Wilson, Sylvester, private, April 30, 1861, three years ; died at Camp Pier- pont, Va., December 14, 1861.
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Young, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged December 22, 1862, for wounds received in action.
Yingling, John, private, January 5, 1864, three years; transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864.
CHAPTER XV.
COMPANY E, THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT-TENTH RESERVE.
Organization - Route to the Field - Service in the Field - Losses - Rocord of Hugh Wilson -- Roll of Company.
0 N Friday of the May court in 1861, Brigadier-General R. Laughlin, com- manding the First Brigade of the Twelfth Division of the Pennsylvania Militia, organized a company at Clarion under the militia act of 1849. The com- pany was named the "Clarion River Guards," and J. B. Knox, esq., was chosen captain. General Laughlin had letters from the brigade inspector to proceed with the organization of companies in the absence of that officer. The Clarion River Guards encamped at Curllsville with other companies of the brigade early in June, 1861. Captain Knox was commissioned in the State service on the 14th of June, and on the 24th of June he sent out written orders from Clarion to the members of the company which he had recruited, notifying them to report at that town, and be ready to move to Pittsburgh on the Ist of July. Almost the entire company reported, and they proceeded by way of Reidsburg and Curllsville to Watterson's Ferry, where they got aboard an old canal boat, and floated down the Allegheny River to Kittanning. From there they proceeded by rail to Camp Wright, where they arrived on the 3d of July. On the 4th the company took a holiday, and most of the men spent the day in Pittsburgh, as Camp Wright was only twelve miles above the city. On the 5th of July eighty-one men of the Guards were sworn into the service of the State, making with Captain Knox, a total of eighty-two men.
On the 15th of July the company was joined by fifteen other members, who, being mustered in, increased the roster of the company to ninety-seven men ; officered as follows : J. B. Knox, captain ; David R. Craig, first lieutenant ; Val- entine Phipps, second lieutenaut; and other officers as noted in the roster which follows this sketch.
At Camp Wright the Clarion River Guards were assigned to the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and designated as Company E. The Tenth had been partly organized in the latter part of June at Camp Wilkins, also near Pittsburgh. Camp Wilkins was very unhealthful on account of its uncleanli-
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ness ; however, good, wholesome rations were plentifully and regularly supplied, and immediately after entering camp the men were supplied with a superior grade of blankets. That portion of the regiment which had assembled at Camp Wilkins removed to Camp Wright on the Ist of July, and on the arrival of those troops which completed the regiment, the organization was perfected, and the officers who had been elected at Camp Wilkins proceeded to drill and dis- cipline the troops. The officers were, colonel, John S. McCalmont, a regular army officer, from Venango county, also a West Point graduate; lieutenant- colonel, James T. Kirk, formerly captain of Company D; and major, Harrison Allen, formerly captain of Company H.
The regiment was ordered to Cumberland, Md., July 18. It proceeded to Huntingdon, thence to Bedford Springs, by rail. Here the order was counter- manded and the regiment was dispatched hastily to Harrisburg where it was mustered into the United States service July 21, antedating all other Clarion county companies in that respect. Captain Lemon's company was the first recruited, the first in camp, the first to enter the State service, and the first to reach Washington, but Captain Knox's company was the first to enter the United States service. It was mustered in the same day the battle of Bull Run was fought, and on account of the anxiety and suspense, it was hurriedly taken to Baltimore late in the afternoon of July 22. It took possession of the open square near the depot and bivouacked there till the evening of July 23, when with loaded guns and fixed bayonets it marched to the common south of the city. July 24 it went on to Washington. At the depot it met some New York troops who had been in the battle of Bull Run. The sight of these wounded and maimed men produced a profound impression on the members of the Tenth, and they then began to realize the terrible work upon which they were entering.
The regiment marched about a mile east of the capitol and encamped. On the Ist of August it left this place and proceeded to the reserve camp at Tenal- lytown. It served a week on picket duty at Great Falls early in September. The regiment was drilled at Camp Tenally, and it also observed the usual camp duty. General McCall pronounced it well drilled. It was assigned to the Third Brigade. Colonel McCalmont first commanded the brigade, but was suc- ceeded by Brigadier-General E. O. C. Ord. The regiment marched into Vir- ginia and took position in line with the army October 10. On the 20th of December the brigade engaged the enemy, under Stuart at Dranesville. The skirmish began a little past noon and resulted in a Federal victory, which had a good effect on the army, as it served to counteract the bad effect produced by the Union disaster at Ball's Bluff, October 21. The Tenth sustained no loss at Dranesville. Major Allen resigned February 14, on account of ill health, and Adjutant Sion B. Smith was elected major. He was succeeded by Ser- geant-Major O. H. Gaither, who was appointed adjutant.
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After several weeks spent in moving from place to place in the early spring of 1862, the Reserves were attached to General McDowell's command, which was charged with the defense of Washington. They were now lying in the vi- cinity of Fredericksburg, which place they had reached via Alexandria, Fair- fax, Centreville, and Manassas. While in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg General Ord was transferred from the command of the Third Brigade to the command of a division, and Brigadier-General Truman Seymour succeeded to the command of the Third Brigade. Colonel McCalmont resigned May 9, and Lieutenant-Colonel James T. Kirk was elected to succeed him. Captain A. J. Warner, of Company G, was elected lieutenant-colonel. The regiment was de- tached from McDowell's Corps, and ordered to reinforce General Mcclellan on the Peninsula. It went by water to the White House on the Pamunky. Hav- ing marched from the White House to the vicinity of Mechanicsville, the Tenth was attached to the corps commanded by General Fitz John Porter, which oc- cupied the left bank of the Chickahominy. The battle of Mechanicsville was fought on the 26th of June. In that sanguinary struggle Company E received its first baptism of fire, and was consecrated to the cause of the Union by the blood of the first of its members who were killed in battle.
During the battle of Mechanicsville the Tenth lay close to the right of the road leading into Mechanicsville. It faced up the Chickahominy, and looked down into Beaver Dam Creek, which flows into the Chickahominy a short dis- tance below the bridge over which the road passes which has just been men- tioned. The Ninth lay on the left of the Tenth and connected with it at the road near the bridge, where there was an embankment by an old mill. The Union troops were on this side of Beaver Dam Creek facing Mcchanicsville, and the Confederates on the Mechanicsville side. The creek is here sluggish. On both sides of it the ground is swampy, and was at that time covered with a growth of underwood. On the Mechanicsville side the distance from the brow of the hill down the slope to the creek bottom is about eighty rods. Down this slope the enemy would have to march to attack the Federal troops. Meantime the Tenth had improved its time by digging rifle pits along the slope on its side of the creek. This was its first experience in that line of duty. The work was directed by Captain McDaniel, of Company D, and Lieutenant Joseph B. Pattee, of Company B. As soon as they were completed a portion of the regiment was posted in these pits, while another part was placed in posi- tion in the woods to the right of them. Company C and Company I were put forward as skirmishers. Just in the rear of the Tenth was stationed Easton's Battery. Thus stood facing each other, these two portions of two great armies. They were soon to enact the first carnival of death in which many of them had ever borne a part, and as the men nervously, fearfully, resolutely, and bravely grasped their weapons of death and anxiously awaited the moment when the awful silence would be broken, it indeed seemed to many of them the " pause of carnage - the brink of fate."
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The Confederates advanced down the slope on the Mechanicsville side of the creek, along the road and through the fields ; but scarcely had they began the descent when Easton's Battery belched forth its iron hail and poured into their ranks a rapid and constant fire. Still on they came until within rifle range, when they were met with a terrible fire from the rifle pits and from the banks along the old mill damı.
They fought hard, but human flesh and blood could not endure such terrible slaughter, and they were forced back up the slope. They rallied and came on again to the attack; struggling desperately and frantically to turn the tide of victory toward their hoped for Confederacy. They concentrated their efforts to pass the bridge and break the Union line, but they were met by men as brave and efficient as themselves. Every attack was repulsed with remarkable vigor by the Ninth and the Tenth, and with broken columns and slaughtered warriors, the enemy was driven from the field, when night mercifully put an end to the conflict. The enemy had gained nothing in this battle, and the result was due largely to the Reserve and to Easton's Battery. Schmucker says : "The Pennsylvania Reserves on the left, commanded by Seymour and Rey- nolds, also fought with much heroism, and succeeded in defeating the attempts of the rebels to cross the bridge over the Chickahominy."
In this battle the Tenth preserved its line intact, and the troops were in an exultant mood when night brought the battle to a close.
Captain Knox's Company E lost two men. Both were killed. They were John C. Phillips and James G. Treyzulany. This being the first battle for Company E, the sketch details the movement of the regiment. Notes of sub- sequent battles will be made mainly, with reference to the company only.
About half past three o'clock P. M., June 27, the company became engaged in the bloody battle of Gaines's Mill. During the struggle it had two men killed-Alpheus Reynard and Amos Kieser. The following were wounded : Lieutenants Valentine Phipps, James L. Wray, and Charles Mclaughlin; Cor- porals Samuel Waley and Samuel S. Wilson; Privates Mathew Black, Thomas Henderson, Daniel Keely, Patrick McLaughlin, George Stiner, John H. Sloan, David Whitehill, Elliott G. Walter, and David Yates-fourteen in all. The wounds of Mathew Black, Thomas Henderson, and John H. Sloan proved fatal. Lieutenant Charles Mclaughlin, Sergeant F. M. Lewis, and Private Elliott G. Walter were taken prisoners. The regiment made a valiant and effective charge about five o'clock, and when the battle ceased, it closed its broken ranks and retired across the Chickahominy.
In the fighting at Charles City Cross Roads, June 30, Sebastian Cook, Henry Miller, and George W. Wilson were wounded. On account of their wounds Cook and Wilson were discharged. No further losses were sustained by the company during the Seven Days' fight.
The regiment was at Malvern Hill, but was not seriously engaged in the
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fight. Burton Turney was taken prisoner July 1, 1862. From Malvern Hill it went to Harrison's Landing, where Major Sion B. Smith resigned, and Cap- tain Knox, of Company E, was promoted to major, August 15, 1862, and on the same day Lieutenant Phipps became captain of the company.
During the second battle of Bull Run, on the 29th of August, Company E had the following wounded: Second Lieutenant N. B. McWilliams, and Privates Celin S. Kapp and Davis McBride. Kapp's wounds proved fatal. The regiment was now under Pope in the "Army of Virginia." On the 3Ist of August Hugh Wilson 1 was taken prisoner.
While joining in the stubborn contest which the Tenth sustained at South Mountain, September 14, Company E had three wounded -- Sergeant George F. Kapp, and Privates Fred Brenneman and David Yates.
Immediately after the battle of Antietam, in which the company took part without loss of any kind, Major Knox was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and Captain Ayer, of Company I, succeeded him as major. On the hard-fought field of Fredericksburg, Lieutenant-Colonel Knox led the Tenth, and was highly commended for his skill and bravery. Fredericksburg was fought De- cember 13, and in this engagement Company E suffered severely. Sergeants Allen W. Corbett and Thomas Vausden, and Privates John Disel and Daniel V. Jones were killed. The following fifteen were wounded : First Sergeant F. M. Lewis; Sergeants John D. Lyon and Samuel D. Grable; Corporals George B. Kieser, David Craig, and Harrison Whitehill, and Privates Fred Brenneman, Henry C. Barr, James K. Clark, William R. Livingstone, Henry Miller, George Stiner, David Smith, Robert Whitehill, and James W. Ganoe. James K. Clark
1 In volume I of Bates's " History of Pennsylvania Volunteers " on page 834 the remark opposite the name " Hugh Wilson " reads, " Deserted August 26, 1862." Hugh Wilson did not desert. In the autumn of 1861 he was prostrated with typhoid fever. In December he joined the regiment and went into active service. The effect of the fever and subsequent exposure rendered him unfit for service dur- ing a portion of the spring and summer of 1862. While suffering from yellow jaundice he was offered a discharge, but refused to accept it. At Harrison's Landing, being much worse, he applied for a dis- charge, but did not get one. He continued to grow weaker, until at the time of the series of battles beginning August 24 and ending September I, he was so worn down and exhausted by chronic diarrhea that he could not endure the fatigue of that succession of engagements. On the 29th, while the regi- ment was making a rapid march toward Washington, Wilson found it impossible to keep pace with it, and he was left on its line of march. He wearied along to the water, drank, seemed revived, and tried to get back into the Union lines. He tramped around and hid from the enemy until some time in the morning of the 3Ist of August, when a body of Confederates came upon him, and he was captured. He was paroled and sent to Harper's Ferry; thence to Parole Camp, at Columbus, Ohio. About the Ist of December, 1862, he was exchanged, and being considered incapacitated for infantry service, he was transferred on a special order from the War Department to the mounted service, and assigned to Battery C, Third United States Artillery, and mounted in General Custer's Brigade, Kilpatrick's Division of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac. The officer commanding Company E certified Wilson to the com- mander of Battery C as having a correct record. In 1867 or 1868 Wilson applied for the one hundred dollars additional pay due him. He was astonished to receive notice from the War Department that he was on the rolls as a deserter. He applied to the commissioned officers of Company E, who promptly made affidavit that Wilson was not a deserter. He thereupon received his additional pay, and is now a pensioner. The subject of this note is known throughout Clarion county as Cal. Wilson. He is a re- spected resident of Cullensburg borough, and is now a justice of the peace. W. A. BEER.
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