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Waltz, Jacob .do Weidner, David do
Walker, William A .do Weaver, Benj. F ... ...
...
do Aug. 11. '62,
Watson, Thomas J .. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Watson, Almus L .. do Ang. 11, '62.
Young, Jackson ... ...
...
.do Aug. 11, '62,
Aug. 11, '62,
Evans, Micah
do
Aug. 1I, '62,
Aug. 11, '62,
Resigned October 11, 1862. Promoted from 1st Lieut., Oct. 11, 1862-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Promoted from 2d Lieut., Oct. 11, 1862-mustered. out with company, May 15, 1863.
63
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT,
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Henry A. Troast ..
2d Lt ...
Aug. 11, '62,
Promoted from Ist Sergeant, Oct. 11, 1862-mus- tered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Lomuel Gara
Ist Sgt.
Aug. 11, '62,
Promoted from Corporal, Oct. 11, 1862-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
James H. Ferry
Sergt
Aug. 11, '62,
Promoted from private, Jan. 29, '63-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Win. H. Carlton.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Promoted from private, April 1, '63-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Daniel Ryan.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
H. L. Thompson .. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
George W. Killian .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
George S. Boone do
Aug. 11, '62,
Isaac B. Weidler ....
Corp
Aug. 11, '62,
Francis N. Christ .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Archibald F. Lytle do do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
John R. Hess do
Aug. 11, '62,
John W. Walter do
Aug. 11, '62,
John A. Fulmer do
Aug. 11, '62,
Wm. C. Gallagher .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Wm. A. Bitzer. do Aug. 11, '62,
Henry T. Yackley .. Muc Aug. 11, '62,
Leonard Strickler. do Aug. 11, Burns, Christian. Privatc Aug. 11, '62, '62, Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Burke, Victor. do Aug. 11, '62,
Bogle, Samuel do Aug. 1 :, '62,
Beaner, Jacob do
Aug.
11, '62,
Boyer, Daniel. do Aug. 11, '62,
Bear, Henry E. .do Aug. 11, '62, '62, Aug. Berger, George .do
Bitzer, William G. do
Aug. 11,' '62,
Bradley, William. do Aug. 11, '62,
Christ, William A .. .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Cramer, Robert .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Culp, Andrew. .. do Aug. 11, '62,
Derverter, Benj. .. do Aug. 11, '62,
Ditzler, Emanuel .. do
Aug. 11, '62, Eckert, Jacob. .. do Aug. 11, '62,
Flick, John A .. .do Aug. 11, '62,
Frankford, Philip .. .do Aug. 11, '62,
Fisher, John R do Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Groff, Joseph H. .do
Getz, Thomas S .dc Good, Samuel R .do Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Havercamp, W. C .. do
Harrison, Paul A. .do Aug. 11, '62, Hinkle, John G ... dc Hammer, David F .. do Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, Harley, Joseph .do Krider, Samuel .. do
Kemper, George. do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Kettle, George . do
Aug. 11, '62,
Killian, Menelias. do Aug. 11, '62, Killian, Van Ren'r .. do Keffer, William A .. dc Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Lint, George. do
Leibold, Isaac do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Lindsay, John P. do Aug. 11, '62, Mowerer, Samuel. do Aug. 11, '62,
Miller, Frederick do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mixel, Sheafcr dc
Aug. '62,
Meese, David do Aug. 11, '62,
Minster, John. do Aug. 11, '62,
Mellinger, Moses B do Aug. 11, '62, M'Cullough, W. H. .do Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
M'Laughlin, Levi .. .do
Pool, George do
Aug. 11,'62, Aug. 11, '62,
Peters, William .. do
Peters, Abraham . do Aug. 11, '62,
Proudfoot, John B .. .. do Aug. 11, '62,
Place, Edward .. .do Reed, Edgar C. ... ... do ...
Aug. 11, '62,
Aug. 11, '62,
Wd. and mis. at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, '63. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1853. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted August 10, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with coinpany, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mis. in action at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, '63. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 1, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863-
mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted September 27, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company. May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- niustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 29, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, March 20, '63. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Promoted Corporal, March 17, 1863-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Mis. in action at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, '63. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Mis. in action at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, '63. Promoted to Corporal, May 1, 1863-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Died at Falmouth, Va., Dec. 3, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgcon's certificate, Feb. 9, 1863.
Martin D. Swigart. ...
C9
NINE MONTHS' SERVICE.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Ryan, Nathaniel.
Private
Aug. 11, '62.
Rvan, Johnson ......
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Rice, John C ..
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1-63.
Rayman, John L
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Runner, Jacob.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Ruth, David M
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Rittenliouse, E. C. P ...
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Stapleford, Amos ... ...
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Smith, George.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Stroak, Isaac
do
Aug. 11, '62,
White, Christian M.
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Witman, Hiram ... do
Aug. 11, '62,
Winters, Isaac B. ...
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Wilson, John B.
... do
Aug. 11, '62,
Young, Obed
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
COMPANY K.
William F. Duncan David K.'Springer ..
Capt ... Ist Lt ..
Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 12, '62,
Emanu'l C.Dorwart
John Trissler
2d Lt .. 1st Sgt.
Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
George F. Springer
Sergt
Aug. 11, '62,
Henry Schaum
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Abraham S. Killian
.:. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Dexter White .......
.. do
Aug. 11, '62,
John L. Killinger ...
Corp.
Aug. 11, '62,
Henry Hartley ......
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Jacob F. Fisher
do
Aug. 11, '62,
William Schaum
do
Aug. 11, '62,
John Rice ...
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Promoted to Corporal, Nov. 1, 1862-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
John Reinhold ..
do
Aug. 11, '62,
George W. Smith
do
Aug. 11, '62,
James C. Suydam ... .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Jacob Boas.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Washington Potts.
Muc.
Aug. 11, '62,
William N. Fisher ..
.. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Alexander, David ..
Private
Aug. 11, '62,
Albright, John R.
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Auchenstine, Chas. Buckmyer, Edward Bertz, Jacob
do
Aug.
11, '62,
Clinton, George Camel, Matthew
do
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Deichler, William
do
Drepperd, William
do
Dorwart, John F.
do do
Dorwart, George
.. do
Dorwart, William
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Erisman, David.
do
Erisinan, Daniel.
do
Forrest, Henry
do
Finfrock, Lewis
do
11, '62, Aug.
Flagg, James ..
do do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Fisher, Henry.
do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Gormerly. Cosmos ..
do
Aug.
11, '62,
Good, Abraham ..
do
Aug.
11, '62,
Groff, John
do
11, '62,
Gompf, William
do
11, '62,
Galbraith, Franklin do Hill. Jacob. do
Ang.
11, '62,
Horner, Henry
do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Hatz, Jacob ..
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Harry, William
do
.....
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15. 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- absent, sick, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 15. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Sept. 6, 1862-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Promoted to Corporal, Nov. 1. 1862-missing in ac- tion at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Mar. 1, 1863-mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Feb. 26, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted August 11, 1852.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. . Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 31, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15. 1803. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with conrpany, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted August 11, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with conipany, May 15, 1863.
Fellenbaum, David
Gallagher, Charles ..
do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62, 11, '62, Aug.
Donnelly, John
.do
Aug.
11, '62,
do
Aug.
11, '6%,
do
Aug. 11, '62. Aug. 11, '62,
Cox, Charles R
...
Sherwood, Benj. F.
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Dec. 15, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company. May 15, 1803. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with coupany, May 15, 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted October 18, 1862.
Hoak, George
do
Aug. Aug. 11, '62, 11, '62, Aug. 11, '62,
Aug. Aug.
Aug. 11, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 15. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
...
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Hoak, Joseph
Private do
Aug. 11, '62,
Johnson, John R
Aug. 11, '62,
Kern, Henry G
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Kahl, John H ..
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Kinsey, Simon. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Lutz, Samuel
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Lewis, Franklin .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Leman, Jacob.
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Lutz, Jacob do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mischlich, Philip .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Milley, Edward F. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Milley, John. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mercer, Atlee
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Mullen, Henry F. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Miller, Jacob ......
.do Aug. 11, '62,
Martzall, George W
do Aug. 11, '62,
Musketness, Peter ..
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Metzgar, Andrew ... do
Aug. 11, '62,
M'Kain, John ....
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
M'Cracken, Lor'nzo
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
M'Minn, Lewis .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Nauman, William ..
... do
Aug. 11, '62,
. Nauman, David H .. .. do Aug. 11, '62,
Nixdorf, Henry .. ....
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Powell, Peter do Aug. 11, '62,
Pence, Phares ..
do Aug. 11, '62,
Reinhold, Samuel ..
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Rider, Joseph ..
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Rudy, John W
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Ruth, John . do
Aug. 11, '62,
Shay, William. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Stewart, William N .. do Shay, Andrew do
Aug. 11, '62,
Smith, George. do
do
Aug. 11, '62,
Swander, Calvin R. do
Aug.
11, '62.
Stape, Samuel do
Aug.
11, '62,
Waller, George do
Aug. 11, '62,
Weidle, John .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Waltz, Taylor .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Wiley, John .. do
Aug. 11, '62,
Wade, Joseph .. ...
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
Young, Henry .. .do
Aug. 11, '62,
Killed at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Died at Washington, D. C., November 25, 1863- buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Oct. 28, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Died at Falmouth, Va., December 29, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1 563. Mustered out with company, May 15, 18.3. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, April 26, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Deserted October 27, 1862.
Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1833- absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Died at Falmouth, Va., January 5, 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Died at Falmouth, Va., April 2), 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1853. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863. Died at Falmouth, Va., December 15, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 15, 1863.
Aug.
11, '62,
Sargent, George
Aug. 11, '62,
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
VINHE quota of Allegheny County under the call of the President, of July 1st, 1862, was fifteen companies. To encourage and hasten enlistments, a mass meeting was held on the 28th, on West Commons, Allegheny City, at which a vast concourse of people was assembled, estimated at not less than fifteen thousand, at which patriotic speeches were made by Governor Curtin, and leading citizens of the county. Resolutions were adopted calling on all loyal men to flock to the national standard, and providing for a subscription for a bounty of fifty dollars to each volunteer. The Rev. John B. Clark, at that time pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church, in Allegheny, and a clergyman of nearly eleven years' standing, at the close of his services on Sabbath, the 5th of August, requested those of his congregation who were willing to enlist in the national armies, to meet him in the basement of the church on the following Monday evening. Many came, and in three days' time thrce companies were organized, of one of which, Mr. Clark was elected Captain. Drill was immediately commenced at the Allegheny Commons, and in a little time ten full companies had been recruited, and a regimental organi- zation effected with the following field officers: John B. Clark, Colonel; Frederick Gast, Lieutenant Colonel ; Hugh Danver, Major. . Companies F and I were recruited at Tarentum, a village twenty miles up the Allegheny River. A small squad which entered company H, was from Greene county. The rest of the regiment was recruited in and about Pittsburg and Allegheny.
On the 29th of August the regiment, a thousand strong, proceeded to Harrisburg, arriving at Camp Curtin on the morning of the 21st, where it was armed and equipped, and on the evening of the same day started for Wash- ington. Upon its arrival it crossed the Potomac, and went into camp at Camp Stanton. Drill was at once resumed, schools for the instruction of offi- cers were established, and the command soon became proficient in duty, elicit- ing on parade the compliments of its superior officers by its fine soldierly bearing. It was assigned to the Second Brigade, * Third Division, Fifth Corps.
On the 29th of August, at the opening of the Second Bull Run battle, the regiment was moved out in the direction of Bailey's Cross Roads, and formed
* Organization of the Second Brigade, Colonel P. H. Allabach, Third Division, General A. A. Humphreys, Fifth Corps, General Fitz John Porter. One Hundred and Thirty-first Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel P. H. Allabach; One Hundred and Thirty-third Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel F. B. Speakman ; One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, John B. Clark; One Hundred and l'ifty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Edward J. Allen.
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT,
18.3
in picket linc, with orders to suffer no person to pass through in either direc- tion. For a day and a half this order was rigidly executed. But as the battle raged and increased in violence on the plains of Manassas, the Union army was borne back, and the broken and dispirited troops came pouring in, until they could be no longer held, the confused mass breaking through and moving on towards Washington, whither the division was soon afterwards ordered to follow. At the Capital, the regiment exchanged its arms, Austrian muskets, with which it had at first been supplied, for Springfield rifles.
.
On the morning of the 14th of September, the command started on the march through Maryland, and arrived near Frederick at night-fall of the 16th. Here the division remained during the 17th, under orders to cover Frederick from the direc- tion of Harper's Ferry. At sunset it received orders to move to Antietam, and at the moment of receiving the orders the sound of battle was heard for the first time that day. The command was again put upon the march, and for the entire night, up and down the rugged way, it was urged forward, and at a little after sunrise on the following morning, was halted on the Antietam battle-field, a short distance from Sharpsburg. A renewal of the battle was momentarily expected, and the men, though worn out by forced marches, stood ready for the onset. The ground was strewn with the unburied dcad. Hour after hour it waited, but no sound of battle came. Finally, it having been ascertained that the enemy had withdrawn, the bri- gade was ordered to Shepherdstown Ford, where it was saluted by a few shots from the enemy's artillery, from the opposite shore, but suffered no loss. At night it retired a mile back from the river, where it went into bivouac, and while it remained in Maryland, was studiously drilled and disciplined.
With the army it crossed the Potomac, and marched up the Loudon Valley to Warrenton, where M'Clellan was relieved and Burnside put in command. From Warrenton the regiment marched to a point on Potomac Creek, four miles from Fredericksburg, where it went into camp and was engaged in drill and picket duty until the 12th of December, when it marched to the music of cannon towards Fredericksburg. On the following day the battle opened, and at three P. M., after the corps of Hancock and French had been checked and terribly slaughtered, Humphreys' Division was ordered in.' It was a for- lorn hope, but gallantly it went forward, and charged again and again those impregnable heights. What brave mon dare do, they did; but it was all in vain. No human power could stand against the storm that swept that fatal ground. The One Hundred and Twenty-third occupied a position in the line, with its right reaching nearly to the pike, and bore manfully its part in the battle, suffering grievously. Lieutenant James R. Coulter was among the killed, and Captain Daniel Boisol and Lieutenant George Dilworth among the mortally wounded. The cutire loss was twenty-one killed, and one hundred and thirty-one wounded. All night long it lay in position, and through the weary hours of the following day, exposed to a constant fire of the enemy's pickets, and until nine at night, when it was ordered to retire. On the night of the 15th, when the army re-crossed the river, the regiment was posted above the Court House, on the outskirts of the city, forming part of the rear guard, and just as daylight was breaking on the following morning, re-crossed the river and took up the line of march for its old camp ground.
In January, 1863, the regiment moved to a camp a mile nearer Falmouth, where it was employed in camp and picket duty. At the opening of the spring campaign under Hooker, the Fifth Corps, now under command of General
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Meade, moved on the 28th of April, with the main body of the army for Chancellorsville. Immediately after its arrival on the 1st of May, the division marched out on the road leading towards Banks' Ford, passing on the way through the deserted camp of a Mississippi Brigade, the tents still standing. It had not gone far before an order was received to counter-march, and not ten minutes after its arrival at the Chancellor House, the corps was attacked, the brunt of the action falling on Sykes' Division of regulars. The brigade was hurried away to the extreme left, where it was at once put to fortifying. At evening of the 2d, heavy firing was heard away to the right, where the Eleventh Corps stood, and at midnight, Jackson having succeeded in breaking and driving in the right wing, a desperate struggle with infantry and artillery was made to push him back, and re-gain some of the lost ground. In anxious suspense the troops awaited the coming of morning, when the brigade was led at double-quick to the road leading from Chancellorsville to United States Ford, where most of the hard fighting of the 3d, the Sabbath, occurred. It was immediately posted in support of batteries, which position it occupied until the close of the battle. While here, seven men were wounded by the explosion of a single shell, and five were taken prisoners. All night of the 6th, while the army was re-crossing the river, the men of the One Hun- dred and Twenty-third toiled manfully, in the midst of a fearful rain, to move the artillery through deep mud to the crossing-the river at flood-tide -- and afterwards occupied rifle-pits until nearly all had crossed. After two days spent in camp, its term of service having expired, the regiment was ordered to Harrisburg, where, on the 13th of May, it was mustered out. Returning to Pittsburg in a body, it met a flattering ovation, the people turning out en masse to receive it, and was finally disbanded.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
John B. Clark.
Frederick Gast.
Colonel Lt. Col
Aug. 21, '62, Aug. 7, '62,
Richard C. Dale
.do
Aug.
8, '62,
Hugh Danver
Major ..
Aug. 7, '62,
Charles D. Wiley.
do .....
Aug. 7, '62,
Wm. P. M'Nary
Adj ...
June 19, '61,
Frank M. Love
2. M ...
Aug. 7, '62,
Henry F. Martin.
Surg.
John S. Augle ... .... As. Sur
Samuel S. Stewart .. .do
William S. Stewart .. .do.
Mar. 25, '63,
11. 1. Chapman ...... Chap ... Bascom B. Smith ... Sr. Maj.
Aug. 23, '62,
Aug. 8,'
Mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Promoted from Captain company A, Aug. 21, '62- discharged by General Order, Nov. 15, 1862. Promoted from Ist Lt. company G, Jan. 1, 1863- mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Promoted from Captain company A, Aug. 21, '62- discharged by special order, Mar. 31, 1803. Promoted from Captain company A, April 9, '63- mustered out withi regiment, May 13, 1863. Promoted from Sergeant company D, 39th reg. P. V., Nov. 15. '62-mus. out with reg., May 13, 1863. Promoted from 2d Lt. company C, Aug. 21, 1862- mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Discharged by General Order, Jan. 16, 1863. Mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863. Discharged by special order, Jan. 29, 1863. Promoted from Sergeant company E, Dee. 20, '62 -- mustered out with regiment, May 13, 1863.
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