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Norton, Edmund S. do. Farker, George W .. .do Aug. 12, '62. Aug. 12, '62,
Pierson, Josiah do Riggle, George .do Robison, James G. .do Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 12, '62, Riggle, William .do Rung, Joseph .. .do ....
Rhoads, Samuel S do Aug. 12. '62,
Rank, William do ...... Aug. 12, '62,
Ramsey, Tho:nas J. .do Aug. 12, '62,
Riggle, Daniel ... do ... Aug. 12, '62,
Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 12, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company. May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Promoted to Q. M. Sergeant, Aug. 23. 1862. Promoted to Com. Sergeant, Oct. 25. 1862. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Feb. 9, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. . Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1853. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va .. Dec. 13. 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Dec. 24, 1862. Died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1833, of wds. received at Fredericksburg, Va .. Dec. 13. 1862- buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13. 1862. Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Feo. 6, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. 1 Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged for wounds received at Fredericks- burg, Va., December 13, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Oct. 28, 1862. Died near Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 20, 1802., Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863 .: Discharged Jan. 7, 1863, for wounds received at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.
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Aug. 15, '62,
Lougan, Alfred C ... .do .do
Lloyd, John H. ...... Lawton, Edward O. .do
Aug. 12. '62, Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 12, '62, Aug. 12. '62, Aug. 14, '62,
1
NINE MONTHS' SERVICE.
241
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Staver, William.
Private
Aug. 15, '62,
Shadle, George
.do
...
Aug. 12, '62,
Stanchfield, Henry ... do
...
Aug. 14, '62,
Slogenwhite, Jacob
.do
...
Aug. 12, '62,
Stradley, Richard ...
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Smith, Joseph N.
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Seigle, Frederick .. .do
Aug. 12, '62,
Smith, James H. do
Aug. 12, '62,
Staffon, John .. do
Aug. 12, '62,
Shadle, Valentine ...
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Smith, Richard
do
Aug. 12, '62,
Stryker, Henry
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Sechler, Elias.
.do
Aug. 2, '62,
Steward, Abraham ... do
Aug. 12, '62,
Stradley, Archibald
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Sechler, Hammond ... do
Aug. 12, '62,
Stolts, William H .. do
Aug. 12, '62,
Tinsman, Andrew J .do
Aug. 12, '62,
Ulman, Leon A ... do
Aug. 12, '62,
Vorhis, Albert B. do
Aug. 12, '62,
Winegardner, Thos do
Aug. 12, '62,
Wagonherst, Simon do
Aug. 12, '62,
Wigans, George C do
Aug. 12, '62,
Wolf, Oliver W.
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Worling, John P. do
Aug. 12, '62,
Webb, Richard .. do
Aug. 12,
'62,
Wolf, George B. .do ...
Aug. 12, '62,
Yost, William B.
.do
Aug. 12, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1802- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out withi company, May 23, 1563. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 25, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Oct. 6, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Absent, sick, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Dec. 30, '62. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
COMPANY K.
Joseph S. Waream
Capt ...
Aug. 18, '62,
Grant T. Waters
1st Lt ...
Aug. 18, '62,
David B. Weber.
... do ...
Aug. 18, '62,
Ab. B. Selheimer ...
2d Lt ...
Aug. 7, '62,
William A. Nelson
1st Sgt.
Aug. 7, '62,
William Lochart
Serg't ..
Aug.
7, '62,
George S. Morrison
... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Josiah W. Kennedy
... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Wm. D. Wooden
.. do
Aug.
7, '62,
James C. Dysart
Corp
Aug.
7,
'62.
Thomas Cox
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
Theo. B. Smith
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
C. H. Henderson.
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
Wm. R. Wallis
do
Robert H. Junkin
.do
Aug. 11, '62,
John Hughes
.do
Aug.
7,
'62, Pr. to Corporal-discharged-expiration of term.
Dallas Fichthorn ...
Muc ....
Aug.
George Myers. ...
do
Aug.
7, '62,
Beaver, Samuel ..
Private
Aug.
Bumbaugh, Jacob
.do
Aug.
Brower, John A
.do
Aug.
Ball, Ames T
.do
Aug.
Berryhill, Sam'l H. ..
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
Burns, Alexander .. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Bortell, Albert H. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Chestnut, Samuel. .do ...
Aug.
7, '62,
Carpenter, Gabriel ...
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
Cupples, Henry H .. .. do
Aug.
7, '62,
Crissman, Potter .. ... Crawford, Joseph M ... do
.do
...
Aug.
7, '62,
...
Aug.
7,'62,
Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- discharged March 7, 1863.
Promoted from 2d Lieutenant, March 8, 1863- mustered out with company, May 23, 18:3.
Promoted from Ist Sergeant, March 8, 1863-mus- tered out with company, May 23, 1863. Promoted fr. Corporal, Mar. 8, 1863-mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862- absent, in hospital, at muster out. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 2, 1862-mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
7, '62, Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, April 2, 1863. 7, '62, Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. 7, '62, Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. 7, '62, Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dcc. 13, 1862- 7, '62, absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
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7, '62, Cameron, Thos. J .. .do ...
Aug.
Aug. 7, '62, Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 30, 1863. Pr. to Cor .- disch. on Surg. cert., Feb. 15, 1863.
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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Crawford, John ..
Private
Aug. 7, '62,
Duck, Peter
do
Aug. 7, '62,
Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va .. December 13, 1862-absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Derenwechter, Geo. ...
do
Aug. 7, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Druckamiller, Jno.
.do
Aug. 7, '62,
Died at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., January 11, '63-bu- ried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I.
Elliott, James P do
Aug. 7, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Ewing. James .. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Freeburn. George ... .do
Aug. 11, '62.
Fichthorn, Lewis do
Aug. 7, '62,
Felix. William H ..
do
Aug. 7, '62,
Finkle, Samuel. ...
do
Aug. 7, '62,
French. William C.
do
Aug.
7, '62,
Forsythe. Robert .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Forsythe. John. .do
Aug.
7, '62.
Fleck. William .. do
Aug. 7, '62,
Fisher, Albert .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Fisher, Jacob
.do
Aug.
7, '62,
Galbraith, John D ..
.do
Aug. 7, '62,
Gill. James .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Gunter, Abraham ... ... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Ginifen, James.
.do
Hawk, William J ..
do
Aug.
7,'62.
Hesser, James R ....
do
Aug.
7, '62.
Helman, Howard ...
do
Aug.
7, '62.
Hughes, James ... ...
do
Aug.
7, '62,
Harvey, William A do
Aug.
7, '62.
Hemmilwright, G .. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Houser, Joseph. ...
do
Aug.
7, '62,
Jenner, John W
Aug.
7, :62.
Kitting, Wm. H .... .. do
Aug.
7, '62,
Kulp, Henry T do
Ang. 7, '62,
Kershaw, Albert .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Koons, David do
Aug.
7, '62.
Loudenslager, P .. do
Aug. 7, '62,
Long, Isaac .. ... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Morgan, Thomas. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Miller, Charles .do
Aug.
7. '62,
Morion, Lewis R .. do
Aug.
7, '62,
Mover, Israel. .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Milier. John S .. do
Aug.
7, '62,
M'Culough, John .. do
Aug.
7, '62,
M'Laughlin, Jas. B do
Aug.
7, '62.
M'Kinstry, Jas. A. do Noll, Emanuel. .... .do
Aug.
14, '62,
Pedin, Alexander ... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Postlethwaite, T. A do
Aug.
7, '62,
Richards. William .. .do
Aug
7, '62,
Riden, Augustus
Aug.
7, '62.
Stamm, William .... do Selheimer, Oliver P .do
Aug.
7, '62,
Swyers, William do
Aug. Aug.
7, '62,
Stroup, Matthew P. .. do
Aug. ...
7, '62,
Sager, John A .. .do
...
Aug.
7, '62,
Sherman. Henry
... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Smith, James A.
... do
Aug.
7, '62,
Stauber, Benj. T.
.. do
Aug. 7, '62,
Snyder, George A ..
do
Aug. 11, '62.
ยท Spigglemoyer, V. W Stanbarger, H. J
.. do
Aug.
7. '62,
Somers. Hosea ..
.. do
Aug.
7, '62,
Tice, Albert C ....
.. do
Aug. Aug.
7, '62,
Wilson, Alfred
.. do
Aug.
7, '62,
Waream, John A .. do
Aug. 11, '62, Aug. 7, '62,
Wagner, Edward ... .. do
Womer, George .. .....
... do
Ally. 14. '62,
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Wagner, Jackson. ... do
Aug. 14. '62,
Yarlett, David ..
.. do
Aug. 7. '62,
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, March 13, '63. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1833. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 30, 1863. Died at Washington, D. C., December 31, 1862-bu- ried in Military Asylum Cemetery.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company. May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
Wounded at Fredericksburg. Va., December 13, 1862-absent. in hospital, at muster out. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Died at Sharpsburg, Md., October 24, 1862. Deserted October 31, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company. May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Deserted September 17, 1862.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863, Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered.out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company. May 23, 1863. Died November 19, '62-buried in National Ceme-
tery, Antietam, Md., sec. 26, lot D. grave, 451. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1866. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 29, 1863. Deserted October 24, 1862.
Deserted August 15, 1862. .
7, '62.
Vanzant, Wmn. A.
.. do
Aug.
7, '62.
7, '62.
Steidle, Joseph .do ...
7, '62.
Aug.
Aug.
7, '62,
Rothrock, Sani'l A. do do
.. do
Aug. 7, '62.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1:63.
Aug. 7, '62.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1863.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT. -
T THIS regiment was from the north central part of the State, and was com- posed of an unusually fine body of men. Company A was recruited in Montour county, principally from the employees of the Danville Iron Works, B, in Wyoming, C, and D, were recruited in Bradford, E, and H, in Columbia, F, and G, in Carbon, and I, and K, in Luzerne. The companies rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, where they were mustered into service from the 11th to the 18th of August, 1862. On the 15th the following field officers were appointed : Richard A. Oakford, of Luzerne county, Colonel; Vincent M. Wilcox, of Luzerne county, Lieutenant Colonel; Charles Albright, of Carbon county, Major. Col- onel Oakford had served as Colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment in the three months' service. On the 19th the regiment moved for the front, and passing through Washington, encamped near Fort Corcoran, on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, opposite the Capital. Instruetion and drill were immediately commenced, and practiced under the inspiriting music of the guns at Bull Run. and Chantilly.
On the evening of the 2d of September, the regiment moved to Rockville,. Maryland, a march of twenty-two miles, which it performed in seven hours. It was here assigned to Kimball's Brigade, of French's Division, of Sumner's Corps, composed of the Fourteenth Indiana, Eighth Ohio, Seventh Virginia, and One Hundred and Thirty-second Pennsylvania. On the 13th of Septem- ber, the regiment made a forced march of thirty-three miles, reaching the battle-field of South Mountain just as the fighting for the day closed. It par -- ticipated in the pursuit of the enemy across Antietam Creek, and sustained a severe though harmless shell fire, on the afternoon of the 16th. At nine o'clock on the following morning, the regiment met the enemy at close quarters. The position of the brigade was an exposed one, on the centre of the line of battle, and especially trying to new troops for the first time under fire. For four hours the regiment maintained its position without wavering,. when, with ammunition exhausted and ranks shattered, it was relieved by the Irish Brigade, and retired in good order. "Every man of my command," says Colonel Kimball, in bis official report, " behaved in the most exemplary manner, and as men who had determined to save their country or die. * * * A glance at the position held by the rebels, tells how terrible was the punish- ment inflicted on them. The corn-fields on the front are strewn with their dead and wounded, and in the ditch first occupied by them, the bodies are so-
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numerous that they seem to have fallen dead in line of battle."* The loss of the regiment was thirty killed, one hundred and fourteen wounded, and eight missing. Colonel Oakford and Lieutenant Anson C. Cranmer, were among the killed.
After the battle, the Second Corps moved to Harper's Ferry, and the regi- ment was encamped on Bolivar Heights. Lieutenant Colonel Wilcox was pro- moted to Colonel, Major Albright to Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain Joseph E. Shreve to Major. During the month of October, it participated in a recon- noissance to Leesburg, and another to Charlestown. On the 31st it joined in a gencral movement of the army towards the Rappahannock, and arrived at Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, on the 6th of November. On the follow- ing day it was detached from the brigade, and ordercd to duty at Belle Plain Landing. A month later it returned to Falmouth, and commenced prepara- tions for the battle of Fredericksburg. It was assigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division, of the Second Corps. In the charge on Marye's Heights, on the afternoon of the 13th, led by Lieutenant Colonel Albright, the regiment occupied a position in the second line with veteran troops, and showed a hero. ism in the assault unexcelled by the bravest. Sickness and casualties had re- duced the command to three hundred and forty effective men, and of this number it lost one hundred and fifty. Five men and two commissioned officers, Lieutenants Charles M'Dougal and Henry H. Hoagland, were stricken down whilst bearing the colors. The latter was killed while in the act of receiving the flag from the hands of its dying bearer, and waving it on to the conflict. An incident which occurred in this battle, well illustrates the valor and deter- mination which fired the hearts of the citizen soldiery in this war. John Kistler, a private of company F, had his arm blown off at the elbow by a can- non ball, as the regiment entered the fight. With his arm bandaged, he still kept the field, and as the shattered ranks came back from the bloody assault, he rushed up to the Colonel, saying, " We shall whip them yet." As the regi- ment was returning to town, the color-bearer, who had been severely wounded, weak from the loss of blood, but still clinging to his flag, entered a hospital, where he soon after became insensible, and subsequently died. For the moment, the flag in the midst of the darkness, was not missed, though it was known that the colors were with the command on entering the town. They were found and carried away by the officers of another regiment. A court of inquiry was afterwards held upon the circumstances of its loss, the result of which is shown by the following extract from an order issued by General Howard, in command of the corps. "The last color-bearer, badly wounded, left his regiment after dark, and in the town entcred a church used as a hospi- tal, taking his colors with him. He was carried away from this place, and the colors left behind, The very fidelity of the color-bearer, holding to his colors as long as he was conscious, was the occasion of their loss to the regiment. Not only no fault should be found with this regiment, but it should receive unqualified commendation." In an order issued by General French, after re- citing the circumstances as given above, and commending its gallantry in the most unqualified terms, he adds : " As the commander of the division, and knowing the character of the One Hundred and Thirty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, which has fought under my cye in two of the bloodiest engage- ments of the war, and which has the highest encomiums from its brigade com-
* Moore's Rebellion Record, Vol. V, page 459.
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NINE MONTHS' SERVICE.
mander, General Kimball, who knows what brave men are, I have deemed it my duty to make this record, to go with whatever may have transpired in reference to this subject during my short absence."
After the return of the regiment from this battle, to near the close of April, 1863, it was encamped near the banks of the Rappahannock, at Falmouth, and performed only the ordinary duties of camp and picket. In January, Colonel Wilcox was honorably discharged, and Lieutenant Colonel Albright promoted to succeed him, Major Shreve to Lieutenant Colonel, and Adjutant Frederick L. Hitchcock to Major. When the movement to Chancellorsville commenced, the term of service of a portion of the men had expired ; but when the order to march was received, they buckled on their armour, and without a murmur turned their faces towards the battle-field. Soon after its arrival near Chan- cellorsville, the One Hundred and Thirty-second was led to the support of the first line, but was withdrawn without coming to a determined engagement, and with the division was held in reserve during the 1st and 2d of May. On the morning of the 3d it was moved rapidly to the front, where, on the previ- ous evening disaster had visited the Union lines. On entering the woods north-west of the Chancellor House, and between that point and the Freder- icksburg Plank Road, it received a severe fire from the enemy in his well chosen position, which was briskly returned, and a charge delivered with the bayonet, in which a number of prisoners were taken. In the new line of works, the regiment occupied an advanced position, and held it until the close of the battle, when the division was withdrawn and the retreat commenced. The loss of the regiment in this engagement was about fifty killed and wounded. On the 14th of May, its term of service having fully expired, it was relieved from duty and returned to Harrisburg, where, on the 24th, it was mustered out. In his farewell order, General French expressed the hope that after a brief sojourn at home, the brave men of this regiment, who had passed un- scathed through the thickest of the fight in three pitched battles, would again rally around the flag which they had so nobly defended. In this hope he was not disappointed. Two-thirds of the command re-entered the service, and remained until the close of the war. Colonel Albright led out the Two Hun- dred and Second Regiment, in which were many of his old officers and men, and was subsequently brevetted Brigadier General.
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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT,
.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTU SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Richard A.Oakford
Colonel ... do
Aug. 21, '62, Aug. 26, '62,
Promoted from Lt. Col., Sept. 18, '62-discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 24, 1863.
Charles Albright ....
.do
Aug. 21, '62,
Joseph E. Shreve ...
Lt. Col
Aug. 15, '62,
Promoted from Major to Lt. Col., Sept. 18, '62-to Col., Jan. 24, '63-mus. out with reg., May 24;'63. Pr. fr. Capt. Co. A, to Major, Sept. 18, '62-to Lt. Col., Jan. 24, '63-mus. out with reg., May 24,'6 . Promoted from Adjutant, Jan. 24, 1863-mustered out with regiment, May 24, 1863.
Fred. L. Hitchcock
Major ..
Aug. 22, '62,
Austin F. Clapp
Adj
Aug. 14, '62,
Promoted from Sergeant Major, Jan. 24, '63-mus- tered out with regiment, May 24, 1863.
Clinton W. Neal ..
Q. M ...
Aug. 13, '62,
Promoted from Corporal Co. E, Aug. 22, '62-mus- tered out with regiment, May 24, 1863. Promoted from Asst. Surg., 139th regiment P. V., Dec. 23, 1862-discharged Jan. 6, 1863.
James W. Anawalt .do
Geo. K. Thompson As. Sur
Geo. W. Hoover ... do
A. H. Schoonmaker
Chap ...
Frank I. Deemer ...
Sr. Maj.
Promoted from private Co. K, Jan. 24, 1863-mus- tered out with regiment, May 24, 1863.
Thomas Maxwell
.do
Aug. 14, '62,
Promoted from private Co. A, Aug. 15, '62-to 1st Lt. company A, November 1, 1862.
Brooks A. Bass
Q. M. S.
Aug. 15, '62,
Promoted from private Co. I, Jan. 1, '63-mus- tered out with regiment, May 24, 1863.
Elmor H. Wells.
do ..
Aug. 11, '62,
Transferred to company B, Jan. 1, 1863.
Alonzo B. Case
Com. Sr
Promoted from Sergt. Co. C, Dec. 25, '62-mus- tered out with regiment, May 24, 1863. Promoted from Corporal Co. K, Oct. 15, '63-tr to company K, Dec. 25, 1862.
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