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Abraham Skelley, Myers Sargen, Frederick Shady, William Strause, Benjamin F. Starrett, Robert Stoner, David Sarver, John D. Sample, David Sample, Edwin M. Scott, Phillip Stambaugh, Daniel Shatzley, Sebastian Steece, Samuel Seaburn, G. Shendeldecker, Henry Stewart, William B. Shaw, Law- rence Shields, Joseph Shonefelt, James Shonefelt, Reuben Shull, Amos Sny- der, Joseph Thomas, Emory Tribby, Oscar F. Terance, S. Umbowerwer, Charles Ulp, John Vought, Alexander Williams, Sylvester Williams, Michael Wireman, Samuel Weller, Thomas White, Wilmer West, Isaac Wells, William Wright, Charles Wilbur, John Williams, James Young.
Seventy-seventh Regiment .- Only a part of one company (E) went from Mercer County. The regiment was organized at Pittsburgh, and went thence to the western army, arriving at Louisville October 18, 1861. In the follow- ing March it proceeded to Nashville, when it moved with Buell's army to the battle-field of Shiloh, where it participated in the second day's engagement, April 7, the only Pennsylvania regiment on the bloody field. It took part in Halleck's farcical siege of Corinth, and subsequently belonged to the Army of the Cumberland, and bore a heroic part with Rosecrans in the bloody battles of Stone River, Liberty Gap and Chickamauga. It took part in the later movements around Chattanooga, shared in the Atlanta campaign, and then aided Schofield and Thomas in the sanguinary struggles of Franklin and Nashville. After the war was virtually over it was sent to Texas. Remaining some months, it returned to Philadelphia, January 16, 1866, and was mus- tered out soon thereafter.
Company E (recruited in Mercer and Allegheny Counties) .- Captain, William A. Robinson; first lieutenant, Robert H. Long; second lieutenants, Beverly S. Gould, William P. Price.
Sergeants: Alfred T. Carnes, James R. Martin, John W. Crawford, Alfred Ray, William T. Morrow, Thomas C. Stubbs.
Corporals: Albert Oliver, George Walters, Charles Swartz.
Privates: A. C. Behrends, John A. Butler, Homer Bailey, John Barnsley, Nathan Barnaby, J. S. Bartholemew, A. M. H. Behrends, Isaac L. Boyer, Jesse Brine, Chauncey F. Boylan, Isaac R. Baird, Ezra T. Clark, Thomas J. Crawford, Jesse Coy, Frederick Carpenter, Johnson E. Clark, H. M. Cum- ming, Isaac N. Chase, Martin Christ, Thomas L. Cathcart, David Dally, Christian W. Ditzell, John R. Duncan, Joseph Donelson, Asa Eckles, John Eckles, Joseph Eckles, Enoch Eckles, William F. Emmick, A. D. Eastwood, Townsend E. Fall, Edward F. Findley, John Fitzgerald, David Fitzgerald, Christian Glatzan, Frederick Garmes, William P. Griffin, Thomas Hardy, Emory H. Harnish, Joseph Hill, Warren Hill, Joseph C. Hill, John A. Hake, George W. Haumer, Francis Lambert, Joseph Lambert, Robert Little, William Long, John Lockhart, William Loper, Robert Materre, Edward J. Murphy, Michael McNulty, E. G. Mclaughlin, Robert McCartney, William McLain, Hughey McCanna, Samuel Parker, Michael Rutledge, James H. Reed, James Rodgers, John Richardson, William P. Rowley, Thomas A. Richardson, William J. Smith, David P. Sloan, George W. Swartz, Henry M. Schell, David Sunderlin, David A. Stamp, Richard J. Shorten, George Stamp, David Taylor, James R. Thompson.
One Hundredth Regiment .- This regiment, known as the "Round-heads," had one company from Mercer County, Company G, recruited mainly in Worth Township. Simeon A. Brown was the first captain. He was succeeded re- spectively by Capts. Thomas H. Curt, John P. Blair and Samuel R. Grace. Capt. Brown was killed at the second Bull Run battle, August 29, 1862, and Lieut. Curt was wounded. Capt. Grace, then only a sergeant, was wounded
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at Chantilly, September 1, and subsequently at Petersburg. Lieut. P. B. Rayen was killed at Bull Run on the same day with Capt. Brown. The regi- ment went successively to Port Royal, Charleston and then back to Port Royal. It was with Pope in Virginia during the month of August, 1862, and then at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredricksburgh; then with the Ninth corps went to Vicksburg, Miss., then to Jackson, and thence to Knoxville, Tenn., during the siege of that place. Having passed through Grant's cam- paign, in 1864, it was mustered out July 24, 1865.
Company G (recruited in Mercer County). - Captains, Simeon H. Brown, Thomas H. Curt, John P. Blair, Samuel R. Grace; first lieutenants, Henry L. Grace, William G. Ashton, William Taylor, Thomas W. Douglass; second lieutenants, John Cochran, Philo P. Rayen, John F. Grace, Lester K. Kirk, Robert P. Douglass.
Sergeants: Charles Clawson, Thomas Bestwick, William Eastlick, Samuel Buckley, John Wood, Jacob M. Ball, George B. Mathews, William S. Kilgore, James B. Page.
Corporals: William Clulow, Robert Davis, William Runkle Robert Shields, Samuel C. Wood, John Forquer, Thomas Jones, James M. Hamilton, Burch G. Perrine, L. B. Williamson, John D. Kirk, James Gilliland, Andrew J. Jacobs, James F. Johnson.
Musicians: Jonathan Carroll, James F. Carroll.
Privates: Oliver Asch, James A. Archibald, Joseph A. Allison, John W. Alcorn, Louis Brown, Frederick Bohl, Samuel Bean, Enoch Buckley, Daniel Buckley, Milton Barker, Jacob Bentlif, Adam Barner, William R. Buchanan, James Bird, Conrad Beadel, William Bland, John P. Buckley, William P. Buckley, Henry A. Cozad, Peter Cunningham, Leonard A. Cleary, Wescott Corbin, William Corsnitz, Joseph Cleary, Robert S. Crawford, Sam- uel Curt, David Care, George W. Clark, John N. Connelly, John W. Crooks, Thomas Clark, Samuel B. Campbell, Stephen Devall, Peter H. Deardorff, John Dobbins, William G. Dickey, Siba C. Dilley, Ezra M. C. Dunn, James M. Fury, Jacob Ferree, A. F. Fenstermacher, Emanuel Fry, Alexander Fra- zier, Thomas Fisher, Uriah Forrest, John Gadsy, Wilmot Grace, Christian M. Good, Elias Gilmore, George A. Galloway, William Graham, Sizer Gelatt, Henderson George, Peter Godfrey, William C. Golder, Samuel Godwin, Will- iam R. Grace, Thomas J. Grace, Thomas Griffith, Henderson Hurlburt, Abraham Hart, Noah Heise, George D. Hufhan, Edward H. Hoovler, W. R. Henderson, John A. Johnson, Samuel W. Johnson, George T. Jack, Lester K. Jacobs, Joseph Johnson, William J. Jacobs, Daniel Kain, Joseph Kelso, John Kunkle, John C. Kugle, George Kelso, Henry Kesselring, Ira C. Kitch, Henry O. King, William Kinney, Daniel S. Lanigan, Samuel Landis, David W. Lock, James Low, John Linn, John Lump, John Lockhart, John H. Lark, Bernard S. Lamber, Richard H. Lyner, Francis M. Limber, Reuben Mahne, Frank Messner, Phillip Miller. George Moyer, James Montgomery, David H. Magee, William J. Miller, William J. Morrison, Joseph Mountain, James A. Monck, Patrick Marrion, Henry H. Myer, Gottlieb Mayer, John Miles, William L. McCartney, Robert W. McCurdy, John McClellan, J. P. C. Mc- Williams, George Mc Williams, M. E. McCommons, George McClure, William A. McLean, James K. P. McClellan, John H. McCartney, John McFarland, Alexander McKee, Robert G. Nicholson, Morgan C. Osburn, Joseph Osburn, Jared A. Pauley, Harrison W. Pitzer, James Patterson, George Palmer, Thomas J. Perrine, James Perrine, James W. Perrine, Thomas J. Prior, Samuel N. Richards, William M. Rodgers, Jared K. Rayen, Emanuel F. Rice, William O. Robinson, James E. Smith, Francis Sennet, Martin Spen-
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cer, Charles Shott, Stephen Steward, Enoch Snyder, John Shields, Francis Swain, Augustus, T. Spence, John L. Stroup, Harvey A. Squires, David Smith, Leander Sweeney, Charles Sharp, Joseph H. Slemmons, Paul Stein- bach, Willis W. Tiffany, James Tracy, Edward Tomoney, Thomas S. Tidball, William Thompson, George J. Vogan, George Westlake, John H. Wyland, Louis Weaver, John Wilson, G. W. Washabaugh, Henry Westlake, James Wheeler. John Williamson, James P. Wallace.
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment .- Of this regiment, Company A was from Mercer County, mainly from Mercer, Leesburg, Hamburg, New Lebanon, and the townships of Delaware. Fairview and Wolf Creek. Capt. A. H. Snyder and Lieut. James P. Mckean were from Mercer; Lieuts. A. C. Douglass and William S. Leech were from New Lebanon; Lieuts. John Orr and McLean Thorn were from Leesburg; Lieut. A. T. Black was from Liberty, and Lieut. E. C. Grace from Worth. to major, was killed in the Wilderness May 5, 1864. Lieut. Grace shared the
Capt. Snyder, promoted same fate the same day. Lieut. Orr died September 27, 1863. Lieut. Doug- lass was promoted to be captain, and brevetted a major. He was wounded in the Wilderness May 6, 1864. The regiment performed its first military service on the field of Second Bull Run battle, where they buried 1, 799 bodies which the rebels had left upon the ground. The regiment was present at Freder- icksburg, but did not participate in the battle. At Chancellorsville it lost 123 men in killed and wounded. It was also engaged at Gettysburg, where Com- pany A lost one killed and several wounded. It shared in the Richmond cam- paign until July 9, when it accompanied the Sixth corps to Washington, and thence to the Shenandoah under Sheridan. After Early's defeat it returned to the Army of the Potomac around Petersburg, and continued with it until Lee's surrender at Appomattox. It was mustered out shortly thereafter. Company D had Sergts. William Gregory and Stephen H. Barnett, two Mer- cer County men.
Company A .- Captains: Abraham H. Snyder, Arthur C. Douglass; first lieutenants: John Orr, William S. Leech, Joseph T. Black; second lieuten- ants: McLean Thorn, Ephraim C. Grace, James P. McKean.
Sergeants: James S. Maguire, Ephraim C. Voorhies, Carlton Rice, Alex- ander M. Hoge, Thomas Tanner, John E. Beil, Samuel Walters, Robert J. Pardoe.
Corporals: James M. Stamm, Francis A. Filson, James Patterson, David P. Orr, James B. McCurdy, S. B. Patterson, John N. Reznor, John I. Gor- don, Reed W. Moore, George W. Burns, Allison N. Clawson, William H. Dight, Franklin E. Cole, Hector McCahan, William J. Gibson, James F. Bran- don, R. W. McFarland.
Musicians: Wilson Dean, George W. Riddle.
Privates: Alexander Adams, Samuel B. Alexander, Samuel N. Axtell, James C. Allison, Thomas Armstrong, Irwin Amon, Milton Andrews, William Boyd, Thompson N. Bell, John Boland, James H. Burns, William Corbin, Andrew J. Clark, James F. Craig, Edmund Cornell, James H. Clark, Joseph B. Camble, T. M. Cunningham, James D. Carpenter, Andrew Denniston, William Eberle, John G. Folwell, William Fiery, Solomon Firster, Samuel Fisher, Joseph A. Ferguson, Levi Flowers, James Foster, Charles G. Fisher, Edward Googe, Samuel H. H. Gibson, Samuel Greenlee, Hugh A. Gamble, Absalom Grove, James S. Henderson, James W. Hildebrand, Ira Hoyt, Wil- son Homer, William O. Hamilton, Albert B. Hubbard, Christian Hahn, David C. Hosack, Jacob P. Homer, John H. Homer, William Jack, Isaac R. Kelly, John Kimple, James W. Kerr, Richard H. Lymer, Marshall Long, William
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W. Lundy, James S. Moore, Daniel Madden, J. B. Montgomery, W. M. Mont- gomery, Levi Moyer, John L. Morrison, Leander Millner, John B. Mitchell, George A Moul, Norval W. Muse, A. P. McWilliams, James S. Mckean, William T. McKean, John H. McDowell, James W. McClelland, William J. McKay, John W. McCord, J. M. Mccutcheon, Samuel Olds, Joseph L. Parks, Daniel Palmer, Stephen J. Phinicie, Jacob R. Reker, Ephraim L. Rose, George Reznor, George M. Ray, Samuel C. Rhoat, James A. Ride, John B. Snyder, Jonathan R. Snyder, Samuel F. Stewart, Andrew Shields, William States, Charles E. Stamm, Robert Stewart, George H. States, Timothy Thomas, William R. Thompson, Adam Urey, Abraham Voorhies, H. J. Vandeventer, William A. White, Stephen A. Wood, George W. Worrell, James B. White, Henderson Wimer, Seth Worley.
One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment .- This regiment had but one company from Mercer County, viz., Company B. Its officers were: Capts. Thomas B. Rodgers and Jason T. Giebner, from Mercer; Capt. A. C. Grove, from New Lebanon; Capt. R. C. Craig, from Pine Grove (Grove City); Lieut. John Satterfield, from Hickory Township; Lieut. George Tanner, from Mercer. Capt. Grove and Lieut. Satterfield were wounded at Cold Harbor. The first fighting by the regiment occurred under Hancock, at Chancellorsville. It next engaged at Gettysburg, where its gallant colonel, R. B. Roberts, was killed; Capt. Rodgers was taken prisoner. He was promoted to major to date July 4, 1863. The regiment took an active part in the great campaign of 1864. Its muster-out occurred May 31, 1865.
Company B .- Captains: Thomas B. Rodgers, Jason T. Giebner, Abram C. Grove, Ranels C. Craig; first lieutenant, John Satterfield; second lieutenant, George Tanner.
Sergeants: John Fox, James C. Nolan, Charles W. Giebner, George Per- rine, James L. Griffin, Samuel B. Rodgers, George W. Smail, John W. Johnson.
Corporals: James I. Smith, Alfred Ritner, Benjamin A. Paston, George Rose, Daniel B. Moyer, John Roberts, George D. Moore, Price Dilley, Isaac Davis, Henry Rafferty, Alexander Patton, William Patton, Robert G. David- son, Robert B. Porter, Thomas G. Eagles, Samuel Holmes.
Musicians: David B. Sinclair, Charles Vath, Thomas J. Cozad.
Privates: D. W. Armstrong, William Blair, William Brannan, Hugh Brad- berry, Wilson Bean, George M. Bennett, Nathaniel Breast, Joseph Brackle, William P. Buchanan, Samuel B. Bruner, John L. Baily. William Bowman, John Buckley, Aaron Bollinger, John L. Cochran, Melvin L. Cole, Wilson Cal- vert, Adam Clark, Ransom U. Custer, Adam C. Dilley, George, E. Dilley, Horace A Dewey, James H. Dean, Daniel Deross, Lewis F. Egbert, Caleb N. Failes, John Fishcorn, Hartley Findley, William Griggs, Adam George, George W. Gardiner, George W. George, Charles Griggs, John E. Hunter, Robert H. Howe, Martin Henderson, Michael Haines, Oliver M. Hanna, Calvin Hummel, John A. Hunter, Samuel Huff, John Jones, Allen Kirby, Michael Kilbulley, John G. Lytle, Joseph Mook, George Mears, William H. Mumford, Cyrus Moreland, William Mears, H. C. Montgomery, James Mercer, John O. Marsh, Samuel Mckinley, James McCoy, Michael D. McGeehan, James McKay, Ephraim Osborn, James O'Hara, James B. Porter, William M. Perrine, Will- iam J. Perry, Benjamin F. Powell, Thomas W. Petty, Norman J. Pettis, James M. Robb, Robert G. Smith, Hugh Shaw, William P. Sutherland, Charles Smoyer, Moses A. Spencer, W. W. Sherbondy, John Seiple, Justice Smith, Joseph Swager, William Shaw, Thomas Swager, John Shannon, Edward Scott, Madison Thompson, William H. Turner, Charles Townsend,
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George Thompson, Crawford Thompson, Henry C. Urey, Jesse M. Vogan, George W. Vogan, Samuel J. Wier, Anson A. Williams, Lewis Wright, Thomas M. White, Daniel Walford, Henry A. Writtner, George Young, Jacob R. Zahniser, Matthias Zahniser.
One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment .- Of this regiment, Company A was from Mercer County, mainly from West Middlesex and vicinity ; Capts. Horatio N. Warren and Frank M. Powell and Lieut. Martin A. Gilson were all from West Middlesex. The regiment, under command of Col. Robert P. Cummins, Lieut. - Col. Alfred B. McCalmont and Maj. John Bradley, rendez- voused at Camp Curtin in August, 1862. Its service was confined to work on Fort Stevens, Washington; in guarding Frederick, Md., and taking care of the wounded from South Mountain and Antietam; under Meade to share in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and subsequently at Gettysburg. At the latter place Col. Cummins was mortally wounded; Lieut. F. M. Powell was also wounded. Capt. Warren was promoted in succession to be major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel. In the last capacity he acted until the day of muster-out, May 29, 1865.
Company A .- Captains: Horatio N. Warren, Frank M. Powell; first lieu- tenant, Martin A. Gilson.
Sergeants: Cyrus B. Thompson, Thomas J. Wood, Alfred H. Goble, Alex- ander S. Love, John Harsh, John McConnell, William G. Drum, Morgan B. Shirk.
Corporals: Beriah Orr, John Gundy, Jr., John Hosack, William Healey, Lester Moore, Edwin F. Stiles, Joseph Jones, William Jeremiah.
Musicians: Robert E. Gundy, William J. Reed.
Privates: Thomas Brandon, Joseph S. Blair, William C. Brandon, George B. Barnes, William Beatty, Thomas Brown, David Campman, Cyrus Crossman, Henry Campman, John Corey, John Coyl, John W. Coleman, Samuel D. Campbell, H. H. Dougherty, John Davis, David Davis, George T. Dunmire, Thomas W. Davis, Lotwig Evans, Charles L. Ellis, Henry B. Edeburn, Henry Evans, John A. Ewart, Joseph A. Edgar, William Early, John C. Ginger, John H. Green, David Gregg, George H. Hardman, William B. Hall, George Hunt, Thomas Jones, John Jeremiah, William Koonce, John W. Lytle, William Leek, William L. Lightner, Lemuel Marsteller, James Morton, Abijah Morford, James K. P. Morris, Isaac Mccullough, Alexander C. Mc- Nabb, Alexander McCoy, John S. Orr, William A. Orr, Freeman N. Piper, Allen C. Patton, John H. Preston, Henry W. Perry, Albert Rice, James H. Russell, William W. Smith, John R. Smith, John Smith, H. Warren Stinson, Linas M. Stewart, Noah M. Thompson, Alfred Tate, John M. Webster, Will- iam Williams, William T. Williams, James W. Webster, James A. Will- iamson, Job Williams.
One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. - This regiment rendezvoused at Erie, under Col. Hiram L. Brown, Lieut. Col. D. B. McCreary and Maj. John W. Patton. Company G was recruited by its captain, William W. W. Wood, in and about Greenville. Its captains, following Wood, were Thomas F. McCreary and George F. C. Smart; its lieutenants were Joseph L. Linn, John W. Vincent, Robert C. McClure and Stephen A. Osborne. The regiment left Erie for Chambersburg September 11, 1862, and was present at Antietam, its first sanguinary engagement. , After the battle it was detailed to bury the dead, which produced much sickness among the men. It engaged in the battle of Fredricksburg, December 13, where it lost heavily. Capt. Wood and Lieut. Vincent were mortally wounded. It took part subsequently at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, losing
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many men and capturing many prisoners. In the great campaign under Grant in 1864 it did its work manfully. In the operations about Petersburg many of its members were captured and sent south-the officers to Macon, and the men to Andersonville. The portion not captured remained with the army of the Potomac until the close of the war. They were mustered out June 5, 1865.
At the annual reunion of the survivors of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth, held at Corry, Penn., September 18, 1888, Capt. J. C. Hilton read a sketch of the regiment, from which we cull the following to illustrate its gallant record:
"I would like to call the attention of any who have read the Century mag- azine of May, 1888, to the part your regiment figured in the late war. We will take for our basis the killed and mortally wounded. I would not wish to take any honors from any regiment, but will only use in comparison the figures of our old neighbors, the Fifth New Hampshire of the Second corps. This was the best regiment in the whole army (according to Col. Fox's report). Col. Cross, as he marched directly behind me into the battle of Gettysburg, spoke to me as follows: 'Don't forget to-day that you are fighting in your own State, and give them the best you have.' In fifty minutes afterward he was killed, after having been wounded in eleven different engagements.
"This regiment lost during the war 295-yours lost 205. They lost eighteen officers, and you lost eighteen officers, killed and wounded. Their percentage was 17.9; yours 14.1, you having enrolled 1,456 men. There were 2,200,000 enlistments during the war, and the loss in killed was 5 per cent. The larg- est number lost by the Fifth New Hampshire in one battle was 69 at Cold Harbor. You lost at Fredricksburg, with only eight companies engaged, 91 men and 9 officers killed. The Fifth New Hampshire lost of disease, acci- dents, etc., 178; you lost 227. Total killed, wounded, and missing (which in- clude 98 taken prisoners and starved to death), the Fifth New Hampshire lost 1,051; you lost 947.
"Now take from after the battle of Antietam in 1862, when your regiment joined the army of the Potomac, and we find the Fifth New Hampshire lost 230 and you lost 205, the best regiment losing but 25 men more than yours, and from Antietam you participated in all the engagements with the best corps in the army-the Second Corps-the corps that made the longest marches, did the most fighting and lost the most men; and why should it not be when it had Hancock, the superb, to lead it.
"These are statistics obtained from the rolls and histories at Washington, and not idle words. The largest number of officers killed in any one battle from one regiment was 'in the Seventh New Hampshire at Fort Wagner.' You come next with nine officers killed at Fredericksburgh (and only eight companies engaged). You are numbered among the forty-five regiments who lost over 200 men killed in the war."
Company G .- Captains, William W. W. Wood, Thomas F. McCreary, George F. C. Smart; first lieutenant, Joseph L. Linn; second lieutenants, John W. Vincent, Robert C. McClure, Stephen A. Osborne.
Sergeants: George H. Nickerson, James Heckman, Clinton C. Hutcheson, Emanuel Kile, Amos A. Yeakel, William A. Keck, Andrew E. Slater, John C. Dickey, Robert B. Warnock, George W. Poole, James W. Boies.
Corporals : David W. Webster, Elias A. Jones, George L. Palın, Francis Menold, Isaiah McCartney, Thomas E. Clingan, Joseph M. Kitch, William Heckman, J. Q. A. McPherrin, John H. Leech, B. F. Zimmerman, Josiah C. Long, George W. Lee, William M. Davis, George Benson.
Privates : Andrew T. Axtell, James Aldenderfer, Daniel Belig, John
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Bloodhart, Samuel Bumbarger, John Brown, L. Burkenstock, Justus Bockins, James Boyle, Meredith Batchelder, Abner Bradburg, Henry H. Bear, Samuel Bowman, C. F. Billig, Thomas B. Corner, Thomas Crawford, Henry Carrin- ger, Henry Carriher, A. M. Crawford, John H. Clingan, David Cole, William C. Carpenter, W. H. H. Dumars, T. L. Dikeman, James M. Dunn, Robert Davidson, Charles Dugan, David Davis, Nathan W. Downey, John C. Dumars, George D. Emerick, William H. Eastwood, James Foulk, Cornelius Feathers, Joseph A. Feathers, Elias Foust, H. H. Felthousen, Henry Fox, Frederick K. Guthrie, John T. Guthrie, Albert Goodrich, William Griston, Aaron D. Hoffman, Edward Hoffman, Albert Henry, Michael Hawley, John Henninger, Seth A. Hays, Lewis F. Heller, Henry C. Hoobler, Leonidas H. Hill, H. J. Henninger, Charles Irish, Edward Johnson, Anthony Jackson, William Jones, Joseph A. Kashner, William N. Kemm, George O. Keck, Henry Kremis, Ephraim W. Keck, Reuben Lewis, Andrew S. Long, Jacob Loutzenheiser, Samuel Loutzenheiser, John Loutzenheiser, Sylvester J. Linn, David J. Logan, William Loudermilch, Robert Mills, William Morrison, Michael Mar- tin, Thomas Miles, Michael Maier, Henry Miller, John L. Mohr, Newton Morford, James A, Mowry, James Mohr, William Mullings, William Morgan, W. H. McFatrich, James A. McCleery, Patrick McCann, Cornelius McKain, William McFarland, Alexander McCracken, James McDougal, Joseph A. Nelson, Charles O'Geara, William H. Parker, Syrenus Pearsoll, John C. Robison, John H. Rutter, Reuben R. Reynolds, Jacob G. Rutter, Andrew T. Roberts, Keller Reynolds, Michael W. Ream, John Reynolds, John Reed, David Secondgost, Francis S. Sisley, John M. Schofield, C. L. Satterfield, H. C. Stephenson, George A. Stephenson, William Swartslander, Edward Sanborn, William Smith, Henry Smith, Elias Swartslander, David Sheppard, Simon Smith, John M. Stevenson, James K. Swisher, Benjamin Saul, Edward P. Sheppard, John Schultz, Quincy Stephenson, Daniel Trine, Nathan Trine, John M. Taylor, Samuel Vernon, Charles E. Vernon, William H. C. Walker, George Whitney, John Wagoner, Hiram Williams, James Weekly, William Weekly, Charles W. Willard, George W. Woodworth, Henry D. Young, Daniel Zimmerman, J. W. Zimmerman.
One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Regiment .- This regiment was raised for nine months. It was organized at Pittsburgh, October 28, 1862. It went to Washington and thence to Fortress Monroe. For a time it did picket duty at Yorktown and Gloucester Point. Much sickness characterized its career. In the early part of 1863 it was attached to the Eleventh Corps, and did valiant service. It was mustered out July 27, 1863. Companies A and D were from Mercer County, the former being commanded by Capt. John D. Hill, and the latter by Capt. Anthony Struble.
Company A. - Captain, John D. Hill; first lieutenant, William M. Coch- ran; second lieutenant, James R. Bean.
Sergeants: Dr. William C. E. Martin, Alexander B. Black, John Car- michael, Hugh Martin, John L, McCormack.
Corporals: Joshua F. Davis, James W. Cozad, Samuel M. Hawn, James Gill, James H. Hamilton, John J. Porter, Matthew J. Andrews, George W. Armstrong.
Musicians: Cyrus McDowell, James W. Nelson.
Privates: James Adams, James Aldenderfer, George W. Allen, Adam Boyer, George Buck, Samuel H. Blair, James Blair, William Bruce, Henry W. Billig, G. E. Burns, Uriah Burns, John E. Brown, Reuben Bortz, John Bacher, Freder- ick B. Barnard, Henry Baker, Henry Beil, Joseph Bond, Samuel Betts, Joseph B. Campbell, John Calvin, James Coulter, Milton L. Chatley, James L. Cook,
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