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Corporals: Robert D. Sutton, F. T. Alexander, James B. White, Ben- jamin P. Addleman, Myers Eckenberger, John M. Wimer, W. H. Kirk- patrick.
Musician, Emory A. Sadler.
Privates: Hiram Brown, Joseph M. Bowman, Lyman Brown, Freeling Brown, Christopher Cramer, Aaron T. Cross, Benjamin F. Camp, George Crispan, Robert Coulter, John H. Crawford, George W. Conver, Ephraim Dempsey, David Dorland, George Elliott, R. H. Fitzsimmons, Smith Ful- kerson, William J. Grable, Andrew Griffin, James B. Galbraith, John Griffin, Frederick Heigle, William A. Horton, Thomas J. Jones, John Jour- don, Hiester Keith, William Kreckle, Marcus Lockrout, Samuel Leslie, David Lovell, William Loose, Gilbert Morgan, George McCool, John S. May, Thomas M. McFadden, John H. McQuaid, Annis Moore, Alexander McCurdy, William McKinzie, Daniel B. McMillan, David P. Morrison, Samuel McChesney, George Meager, Robert B. Nellis, Isaiah Nellis, James Nickleson, James . Oldridge, Thomas H. Pollock, William B. Powell, Thomas J. Ross, Joseph D. Ross, William Remley, Samuel B. Ross, Ab- salom Smith, Samuel Stewart, Anthony Showers, George S. Shattuck, George W. Scott, John Seibert, Daniel K. Sheffler, Alexander F. Sawhill,
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Alexander Sallinger, Samuel M. Skeel, James D. Shaw, Thomas H. Tem- pleton, Ezekiel N. Tracy, Robert Taylor, William A. Varner, William P. White, John H. Wilhelm, William J. Welsh, Bradford Wilson, Henry J. Widle, Edward Wallace, William Winkleman, John Wilson, John Wolf- kill, James S. Wonzer, John Walters, John Yingling.
FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.
This regiment was principally recruited in the counties of Mercer, Craw- ford, and Venango. It was organized at Camp Curtin with the election of William Maxwell, of Mercer county, colonel; Elhannan W. Woods, of Mercer county, lieutenant colonel, and Jeremiah Culp, of Bradford county, major. It was subsequently commanded by Colonels Charles T. Campbell, Peter Sides, and George Zinn; Thomas S. Strohecker, who was promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy March 12, 1863, was the only field officer from this county. The regiment was ordered into line with the Army of the Potomac in February, 1862, and assigned to Jameson's brigade of Heintzleman's division. At the operations against Yorktown it was engaged in the trenches under conditions exceedingly deleterious to health, and in consequence of this and subsequent exposure it became necessary to discharge quite a num- ber of the men on account of sickness. It was engaged at Fair Oaks May 31, 1862, at Charles City Cross Roads on the 30th of June, at Malvern Hill on the 1st of July, at the second battle of Bull Run on the 29th and 30th of August, at Chantilly on the 1st of September, and at Fredericksburg on the 13th of December. The principal engagements in which it participated in the following year were Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, sustaining severe losses on both occasions. In January, 1864, the regiment was dismissed on veteran furlough and after an absence of forty-nine days returned to camp. On the 4th of May it was engaged at close range with a detachment of the enemy near Chancellorsville, losing one hundred and forty-three men in killed, wounded, and missing. In January, 1865, having been greatly reduced in numbers, the regiment was consolidated into a battalion of six companies, and later, by a union with the Eighty-Fourth, restored to its former strength. On the 25th of March it was engaged in the demonstra- tions about Fort Steadman which inaugurated the movement resulting in the capture of Petersburg. It was mustered out of service in June at Alexandria.
Company I was recruited in Venango and Mercer counties. The roster was as follows:
Captains: Thomas S. Strohecker, Lorenzo D. Bumpus, James D. Moore, John R. Ross.
First lieutenants: George Supplee, John Bowers, Thomas E. Merchant.
Second lieutenants: Jesse R. Williams, Edward S. Benedict, John F. Cox, Henry M. Adams, Cyrus P. Slaven, James M. Lewis.
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Sergeants: George W. Lower, William C. Stewart, O. D. Waterman, William Curtis, Alfred Aurandt, Henry M. Snare, William Bone, Orsemus R. White, James W. Cummings, James L. Wykoff.
Corporals: Joseph Enders, Lartis Campbell, Jacob W. Miller, John C. Shinefelt, Amon Houck, James Colbert, Elijah Gorsuch, Samuel L. Hare, David A. Stewart, James A. Davis, Virgil Brigham, Elijah Estep, James Zahniser, L. N. Herring, C. G. Barker, A. C. Hanna, Levi McFadden, Albert Reynolds.
Musician, Jeremiah Black.
Privates: James B. Armstrong, Jacob Ashton, Howard D. Avery, John Bradley, Anson M. Bidwell, K. H. Bassett, Edwin E. Brown, David Bell, Jacob Blake, Oscar A. Bailey, Oren D. Brigham, Eliphalet Bush, Peter Ben- ner, William B. Brinner, William Barret, James J. Bruner, Demetrius Barnhart, George Cassell, J. J. Clevenger, John Charles, Wayne Campbell, Robert Collins, John C. Cathumas, Francis Chilson, Jacob Cramer, Thomas Dugan, Judson Davy, Frank Duanehaffer, John Drake, James Ellerson, Henry C. Estep, Joseph D. Everhart, Samuel Eddleman, David Estep, A. Eichman, James Evans, Henry Ford, Henry Felber, George A. Flannigan, James Gallagher, George Garner, Warner Hurley, Henry Heverly, Austin Hoban, Robert Hartley, John Herman, Isaac D. Harris, Henry Hale, Will- iam Hurley, William A. Houck, Samuel Hale, Isaac Hollenbaugh, Caleb Higbee, Michael Haggerty, William Ishman, William M. Johnson, John Kilgore, Hugh Kearnan, Levi Kessler, Daniel King, Richard Lanely, Sam- uel Lessick, James M. Lias, Frank Lewis, George R. Mountain, William A. Maxwell, Charles Monroe, Simeon Middeaugh, James Miller, Levi Metzker, Andrew J. Mosher, Jacob S. Miller, Andrew J. Marks, C. Muxum, Henry Mclaughlin, Samuel McDonald, Julius C. McGonnigle, Edwin North, Adam Nash, Samuel Nunamaker, William Newhouse, Daniel Oberly, Levi Ostrander, George W. Parks, George Patton, James Rue, Charles W. Richards, Henry Smith, Henry Schwab, William Scott, Henry Snyder, Jacob Shaffer, Bradley Sherwood, John Taylor, Joseph Tetweiler, John E. Ullery, Loomis Vargason, Jesse D. Vargason, Julius Veit, David S. Walters, Moses Wood, David H. Weaver, John C. Wilson, E. Wayland, August Wagoner, Thomas C. Wykoff, Henry B. Wood, William Wanrick, James A. Yingling.
SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
The Sixty-Third was recruited in Allegheny county and the valley of the Allegheny river, with one company from Beaver, and a comparatively small number of men from Venango. The field officers were Alexander Hays, a native of this county, colonel; A. S. M. Morgan, lieutenant colonel, and Maurice Wallace, major, at the time of its organization, in 1861. It was assigned to the Third brigade of Heintzelman's division, and did gal-
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lant service at Fair Oaks, Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, the sec- ond battle of Bull Run, and Chantilly; General Kearny having been killed in the latter engagement the division was ordered to the defenses of Wash- ington, but after the battle of Antietam rejoined the army and participated at Fredericksburg. The regiment also took part in the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns, and in the movements of 1864 in Virginia.
Company G, recruited in Allegheny, Venango, and Armstrong counties, was composed as follows:
Captains: Charles W. McHenry, Isaac Moorhead.
First lieutenants: S. Hays Cochran, James S. Williams.
Second lieutenants: Robert Houston, William R. Nicholson.
Sergeants: Aaron W. Gilmore, John Cessna, John M. Thomas, John C. Brookbank, William B. Peiffer, Robert W. Martin.
Corporals: John Pickel, James N. Coulter, George A. Cook, William M. Smith, Alfred B. Lupher, Frank H. Johnston, Edward Wacksmith, Milton J. Adams, Benjamin H. Smith, Matthew A. Rankin, Simon Steffy, William J. Graham, Thomas Q. Martin.
Musicians: John Hassinger, Philip Hassinger.
Privates: Wales D. Ashton, Peter Armberger, Robert M. Brown, George Blystone, William Blystone, John Bleakney, Samuel D. Barnett, Peter Boyer, Simon Blystone, C. G. Cooper, Jesse Cole, John R. Cox, W. L. Cal- houn, William Cooper, David W. Coursin, Robert H. Daily, Robert David- son, Asa O. Douglass, James D. Douglass, Samuel C. Dewoody, Christian Deim, Joseph H. Fulton, Robert A. Fulton, Henry Frailey, John A. Frai- ley, Charles France, William Frailey, Thomas Frue, Curtis C. Griffin, Daniel M. Gardner, Joseph Gardner, W. F. Green, James Gates, David R. George, Jacob Gardner, Henry R. Gress, W. C. Hoover, John Henderson, Andrew Henderson, Josiah M. Hays, Cornelius Hoffman, B. W. Hull, Ral- ston Hoover, Samuel S. Hays, John F. Jones, Samuel Jack, Wilder Jack- son, James Johnston, John Kelly, Henry Klugh, William R. Keppel, Sylois Leasure, James Lindsay, Robert C. Law, David C. Martin, Charles Moore, George W. Martin, Samuel Mulberger, Samuel G. Moorehead, James Mar- kle, Thomas L. Martin, David K. Mitchell, Cyrus J. Moore, Andrew J. Moore, Jacob Miller, James S. Myers, William Magee, John T. McCoy, Robert B. McCoy, Hugh McConnell, Clark Near, Philip O'Sullivan, Itha- mar Porter, Noah W. Porter, Joseph P. Rankin, John A. Robinson, Robert Rogers, Isaac L. Rearick, John Ritchey, Lobin Russell, Samuel A. Rhodes, Joseph Rudler, Alexander Rupert, William H. H. Sloan, Edson E. Shep- herd, Jacob Saddler, John A. Sell, William C. Smith, George Schick, Harri- son C. Stoph, M. Schemerhorn, Wilson M. Stills, John Salada, John St. Clair, Adam F. Smith, Thomas Smith, John Silliberg, David F. Sheets, Simon Shall, David Shiery, Andrew J. Smeltzer. John Sitts, Samuel Sharp, George W. Taylor, William Thomas, David J. Thomas, Hampton Thomp-
Chambre E. Taylor
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son, Solomon Vensel, A. A. G. Wilhelm, George Wolfkill, W. S. Whitman, Charles D. Warner, A. W. Wilhelm.
SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT-FOURTH CAVALRY.
Venango county had a larger representation in this regiment than in any other. There was one company from Northampton county, three from Alle- gheny, two from Westmoreland and Indiana, four from Venango, one from Lebanon, and one from Luzerne, which rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, but were soon afterward transferred to Washington, where they were mustered into service and organized into three battalions under the following field offi- cers: David Campbell, of Pittsburgh, colonel; James H. Childs, of Pitts- burgh, lieutenant colonel; James K. Kerr, of Venango, first major; Will- iam E. Doster, of Northampton, second major; James H. Trimble, of West- moreland, third major. Upon the resignation of Colonel Campbell, in March, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Childs was promoted to succeed him; Ma- jor Kerr was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy and Captain George H. Covode to a majority. In the following May the regiment was assigned to McCall's division, Pennsylvania Reserves. In June a battalion under Lieu- tenant Colonel Kerr was ordered to Yorktown, where it remained during the Peninsula campaign. On the 26th of June a squadron led by Captain Her- ron, while scouting beyond the lines, met the Confederate advance and fired the first shot on the Union side in the ensuing Seven Days' battles, in which, however, the regiment was not conspicuously engaged. From Harrison's Landing it marched to Yorktown, and thence to Washington, and rejoined McClellan's army in the movement into Maryland, having been assigned to General Averell's brigade. Owing to the illness of the latter the command devolved upon Colonel Childs, and Lieutenant Colonel Kerr led the regi- ment. At the battle of Antietam Colonel Childs was killed, resulting in the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel Kerr to the colonelcy. In the autumn of 1862 the regiment was stationed near Hancock, Maryland; it was with Pleas- anton in his pursuit of Stuart, and during the battle of Fredericksburg was stationed on the north side of the Rappahannock. In the movement upon Chancellorsville, in the Gettysburg campaign, and particularly in the pur- suit of Lee's retreating army, the Fourth was actively engaged. On the 12th of October, 1863, the regiment, already reduced to three hundred and seventy- five men, sustained a loss of two hundred. When the time for vet- eran re-enlistment arrived more than two-thirds of the men enrolled for a. second term. During the Wilderness campaign the cavalry frequently dis- mounted to form skirmish line. The Fourth accompanied Sheridan in his raid upon Richmond, and in his second raid, of which the objective point was Lynchburg. It was in a number of skirmishes during the summer and autumn of 1864, the most important being the second advance upon the Weldon railroad. After Lee's surrender it was assigned to permanent duty
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at Lynchburg, where it was mustered out of service on the 1st of July, 1865.
Four companies of this regiment were from this county. They mustered at Franklin, October 14, 1861, and left at six P. M. for Pittsburgh by the steamboat Venango, arriving at that place at half-past two the following day. On the next day, at four A. M., they started for Harrisburg; at Camp Curtin they were uniformed, and thence proceeded to Washington. The rosters of the respective companies were as follows:
Company H .- Captains: James H. Pennell, Robert J. Phipps, George W. Wilson.
First lieutenants: A. A. Plumer, John R. Dodge, Thomas J. Robinson, Josiah J. Watkins, Adelbert M. Beatty.
Second lieutenants: Abraham Edwards, James M. Gayetty, David P. Lamb.
Sergeants: Albert Benedict, Jacob Lyons, Andrew Brown, James R. Downing, James Wilkins, James McFadden, Reese Clark, James Galbraith, John Crain, Alexander G. Wilkins, Charles Albaugh.
Corporals: David Ray, William H. Gayetty, John R. Stover, Alfred L. Comb, H. F. Bowman, Joseph G. Hall, Charles W. McElray, John Jackson, Samuel Hatch, Russell Lincoln, Wilson Cathcart, Ethan Stone.
Buglers: Edgar Nyle, Daniel Hurstine.
Blacksmith, Lewis Mitchell.
Farrier, A. Bumgardner.
Privates: John A. Adams, Samuel S. Adams, John Anderson, Joseph Bates, William F. Brown, John J. Black, Smith Byers, Andrew H. Bush, John Brown, Joseph Breing, Francis Bull, George N. Crodle, Hiram Con- ner, Matthew B. Conner, John Q. A. Conner, Hiram A. Conner, David Cole- man, William Calaghan, Henry Carner, Adam Crider, James Collar, Asa M. Clark, Robert P. Clark, Parcus Copeland, Charles Castle, Daniel Dunmire, William Davis, George Davis, John E. Davis, John M. Dunn, Zenis N. Durrin, John S. Dick, Josiah Duffield, William Duffriel, George Dewoody, Asa Eastman, C. H. Fahnestock, W. M. Graham, George W. Gates, James Gormly, Samuel M. Gardner, Thomas S. Gibson, John F. Grace, Caleb Gray, Freeman D. Grace, Jackson P. Huey, William G. Hall, Patrick Hughes, John Harris, Joseph Hibbs, Cristopher Hyser, A. H. Hunsinger, Samuel Hewett, Robert W. N. Henry, Reese E. Harris, Hiram J. Hamilton, William A. Johnson, George W. Lindly, David L. Miller, Cyrus Michael, Charles Miller, Thomas H. Megogany, Hiram Milford, Amos H. Monroe, Isaac Maloney, John F. Meader, John McGinley, Milton M. McCully, John McCallister, John McMillan, P. H. McArdle, Jacob Piser, Walter C. Parker, James A. Powell, Sylvester Parker, Richard Quinlin, John W. Riddle, Hor- atio Randall, Anthony Robertson, Charles H. Ruff, George H. Ridgely, Frank Stephens, Alexander Scott, John J. Snodgrass, N. N. Stevenson, Harvey V. Stoops, George H. Smith, Andrew Sanford, Charles S. Sanford, Thomas
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Stevenson, George Thropp, Charles Tripp, John Upton, Wesley H. Varner, John Williams, Alexander Williams, John Winters, Andrew Whisner, John Whiteel, Peter Woodley, James Wood, James Walshaw.
Company I .- Captains: Charles E. Taylor, Robert L. Coltart, Francis M. Ervay, Andrew Nellis.
First lieutenants: Milo A. Plumer, Robert Coltart.
Second lieutenants: Alexander Frazier, Joshua C. Bealle, Albert J. Servey, William H. Cowan.
Sergeants: Paul Neely, John B. Hogue, William H. Thompson, Daniel W. Servey, Henry Bender, Robert King, Isaac Burris, William S. Keller, John T. Ewens, Cyrus S. Mark, Daniel E. Wise.
Corporals: Parker Lupher, Harvey W. Jones, James Callen, James M. Bethune, Homer C. Brown, William Strite, J. Keas, Lewis McFadden.
Bugler, Robert P. Shaw.
Blacksmith, Artemus Kinnear.
Farrier, William B. Keener.
Privates: William Amon, Loyal Adams, Joseph A. Alter, Jacob Aly, Cortlandt Brown, Crawford Belig, Jacob H. Bethune, Richard Barkly, Daniel J. Brown, William C. Bryant, Joseph Bronnette, Terence C. Byers, Lewis Byrns, John Bethune,. George Baney, Isaac Baney, George Bromley, George Culber, William Criswell, Thomas Colburn, Benjamin F. Crain, John Clark, Ephraim F. Cisco, James Carnahan, Silas Davis, William H. Dill, James R. Davidson, Joseph E. Davis, Benjamin Dougherty, William H. Durning, Daniel Eagan, Thomas M. Elder, Henry Freeby, John E. Freeman, William S. Fleming, John Flager, Samuel R. Foulk, George Ghearing, Lewis Gross, Ira B. Gilmore, Willabed Gneedig, Isaac Gormly, George W. Gates, Jacob Grinnells, James Hoover, Horace Haller, Thomas B. Hoffman, Thomas L. Hays, Marvin S. Hasson, Robert Hilands, George B. Haines, William Harrison, Wiley H. Hunter, Levi E. Hart, Melvin A. Johnson, Milton James, William T. Johnson, Jeremiah C. Jennings, Sam- uel James, Alexander James, Andrew P. Jones, Peter D. Kelly, George Kinnear, Charles Kelly, Truman J. King, Robert Kirtley, James F. Lam- berton, Gilbert Lupher, Barnett Lupher, James Legg, Paul Messner, Will- iam Miller, Daniel Miller, Daniel Murray, James Marshall, William Mooney, Lewis Miles, John L. McCalmont, Robert G. McClelland, Marcus McCurdy, James McMillen, William Mccutcheon, Jacob Nellis, James Posey, Richard Place, John W. Porterfield, John W. Patterson, William Reagle, John Reagle, John Roberts, Josiah Randal, Thomas J. Robertson, Albert Reagle, William J. Reynolds, Rufus P. Seely, Alfred M. Shaw, Josiah Scott, Thomas O. Scott, Charles J. Smith, Michael Smith, Jerry B. Smith, Frank Showalter, Israel Stroup, Edward Stroup, Jacob Smith, Mark Smale, Porter Thompson, Miller M. Thomas, William Thomas, Isaac Taylor, W. D. Taylor, William Thompson, John Vorans, Samuel Wallace, John
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Werrell, Andrew P. Watt, Thomas T. Watt, Francis M. Wilson, George Yeates.
Company K .- Captains: William W. Shorts, Henry M. Hughes, James R. Grant.
First lieutenant, George W. Wise.
Second lieutenants: Robert J. Atwell, John A. Welton.
Sergeants: Joseph W. Russell, William C. Bigler, Solomon Funk, James McGarvey, Richard M. Hoffman, John W. Baker, Samuel B. Foster, James F. Billingsley, Levi Porter, James E. McClaskey, S. M. Lockard, Freeland Henderson.
Corporals: David R. P. Gates, John H. McKelvey, William D. Downing, Jacob Harlan, William C. Eakin, John T. Couse, Wesley B. Foster, Daniel Krister, William C. Yard, Donaldson Graham, John F. Brown, Charles A. Tibbins, Hezekiah Baker, Nathaniel S. Boals.
Bugler, Warren M. Lockard.
Blacksmith, Robert Shaw.
Farrier, Thomas Davis.
Saddlers: John A. Goucher, Daniel Shuler.
Privates: Perry S. Atwell, Joseph Bleakley, William Bleakley, James Bleakley, Frederick S. Boals, Martin Bigler, Oliver P. Barnes, James T. Burr, Alva W. Bigley, Alonzo S. Baker, James I. Burns, William Cramer, W. W. Crawford, John M. Cornelius, Gotleib Coonradt, Thomas L. Curry, Walter Cassidy, Craft Coast, Eri Cary, Andrew J. Donaldson, Thomas Duffey, John R. Dodds, Thomas Dewoody, Reese Evans, Martin B. Foster, Ross C. Foster, Irwin C. Fether, William J. Graham, Brice Gilmore, Henry Highfield, Wesley Highfield, William J. Hickman, Caleb G. Hovis, G. W. Hovis, R. M. Hovis, Jacob Henderson, William Hackett, Charles Huberman, John Highfield, Emanuel Harman, Henry Harlem, H. A. Har- man, James Irwin, David E. Irwin, Albert M. Jones, William H. Jeffries, J. B. W. Johnson, B. W. James, John L. Jackson, George W. Koonce, George W. Kim, Isaac Latchaw, David Latchaw, Sidney Lambert, James Little, Robert Lytle, T. I. Montgomery, J. H. Monjar, D. Montgomery, Harrison Moyer, Alexander Martin, Thomas Michael, Frederick Moyer, Jonathan McKain, John C. McCamant, Perry McFadden, Charles McFad- den, John A. McCoy, William McKelvey, Sullivan K. McKain, D. A. Mc- Williams, John P. Nogler, Peter Nogler, John Ogelsby, Samuel R. Osborn, John L. Perry, Andrew J. Phipps, Harrison Pope, Wellington W. Pope, George C. Richards, Thomas Rock, Samuel R. Russell, David H. Rysor, Washington Richards, Patterson Sankey, Absalom Shuler, Benjamin Stover, . Robert Shorts, John G. Sutton, William C. Sutton, Abram W. Shorts, M. Strawhacker, Jesse Sarver, Robert S. Sarver, John P. Say, Wilson Swetzer, Jackson Shipps, Alexander Thompson, James Thompson, Lafayette B. Varner, David H. Varner, John Varner, Richard M. Walter, John S. Wil-
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son, Clark White, Samuel R. Weston, Eli Williams, Alexander Witherup, John Witherup, David A. Witherup, Thomas Witherup, Henry H. Wilson, Sharpless C. Wise, John B. Woodling, Albert V. Weed, Peter Walters, Israel S. Yard.
Company L .- Captains: Alender S. Duncan, William B. Mays, John P. Barr.
First lieutenant, Henry S. Bickel.
Second lieutenants: John B. Maitland, George W. Wilson, Abner J. Pryer.
Sergeants: Henry H. Lusher, Andrew J. Sollinger, James D. Troutner, John Donaldson, Jonathan S. Roberts, Sylvester Brandon, Samuel F. Karns, William G. Sheppard, John B. Snyder, Sylvester Porter, John Hughes, Augustus F. Loles.
Corporals: Charles E. Nugent, Francis W. Bowen, Peter J. Richey, Richard Conway, George H. Porter, Robert B. Crawford, Harvey Christy, Andrew J. Davis, Jonathan Gloss, John Huston, William A. Seaton, Earl B. French, Samuel N. King, James G. Hamilton, John M. Hilbert, Solo- mon C. Heckathorn, Alpheus Mays.
Buglers: Thomas J. Henderson, William J. Gibbons.
Blacksmiths: Daniel Sullinger, Dominick Scott.
Farriers: Andrew J. Turk, Jackson Hanly.
Privates: Joseph A. Alters, John W. Anderson, Stephen Burgwin, Edward Burgwin, Thomas Brandon, James Bryer, Bernard Burns, Isaac Bears, Samuel Bickel, William G. Bishop, Daniel J. Brown, Frank W. Beatie, Charles H. Bates, Thomas Burns, Robert Cain, Albertus Coons, William J. Calighan, George W. Carney, Thomas M. Christy, Clinton Col- lingwood, Charles Coop, Peter O. Conver, Andrew J. Carner, Eli Carner, Thomas L. Curry, Alexander Curtis, William Campbell, David W. David- son, Andrew H. Downing, Thomas Davis, John Drach, William H. Dill, Jacob Eckelbarger, James Estes, Liberty Estes, John Eckelbarger, James H. Fulton, Franklin Flowers, Daniel Ferdan, Anthony Frankhauser, Robert Fowler, Barney Fogle, M. M. Freeborn, John B. Gailey, Cyrus Gardner, John W. Gilger, Garrett Griffin, James Gates, David Howell, Simon P. Hughs, John Hagan, Frederick Hoover, James Hyndman, Sam- uel E. Holdridge, R. A. Hutchinson, Allen S. Jolly, James Jones, John Johnson, John Kellerman, John Kerr, Charles S. King, Michael Kelly, J. H. Louderbough, Jacob G. Lusher, John P. Maitland, George W. Moore, Philander Mays, John Montgomery, John S. Mossman, John Miller, Thomas Morgan, William Manson, Larimer Mays, Williams H. Moore, James Myers, John McCormick, James McMillen, John McTiernan, Thomas Mc- Kain, John McKelvey, Joseph McMullen, Marcus McCurdy, Andrew Mc- Millen, George W. McCoy, Henry Neely, William Nowlder, Henry Ochs, John Oldham, Samuel Payne, Samuel W. Pryer, John F. Pryer, William
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C. Pryer, Thomas A. Parker, John W. Pryer, Robert R. Pike, Octavius A. Russell, John P. Rollins, John W. Roberts, Joseph Roberts, Edward Rice, John W. Reno, John T. Ritter, William Ruhe, Patrick Ryan, Samuel C. Reynolds, John Roberts, William C. Sullinger, James C. Sullinger, Adam Stroup, Michael Sowers, Eliel C. Spencer, John M. Snyder, Jacob Stein- bright, John Snyder, John S. Smith, John Stump, Jacob Sipe, Edward Stroup, George Sheffer, Israel A. Straub, John Seibert, George Tenant, Abraham S. Taylor, James Thorp, Joseph Vosler, Jeremiah D. Went- worth, Samuel R. Walker, P. Zimmerman, F. Zimmerman.
SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT-FIFTH CAVALRY.
The Fifth Cavalry was at first known as the Cameron Dragoons and was among the first of the three-years' regiments raised. There were ten com- panies from Philadelphia and two from the western part of the state, one of which was partially recruited in Venango county. The following were the field officers: Colonel, Max Friedman; lieutenant colonel, Philip Becker; majors: J. L. Moss, Stephen E. Smith, and E. M. Boteler. During the year 1862 the Fifth was principally engaged in scouting in the rear of the army during the Peninsula campaign, and on the north side of York river. In January, 1863, it was transported from Yorktown to West Point and marched in the direction of Indiantown, intercepting and captur- ing a valuable baggage train of the enemy. After a comparatively quiet summer, during which a large number of the men were in hospitals, a bat- talion composed of five companies was sent to the Dismal swamp region in September, part of which advanced into North Carolina. In 1864 the regi- ment participated in the raid upon the Weldon and Richmond and Danville railroads; in the summer, having joined General Butler's forces, it was en- gaged in an assault upon the defenses of Petersburg, and after the union of the cavalry divisions of Generals Kautz and Wilson, started upon what is familiarly known as Wilson's raid, sustaining a loss of three hundred men, half its effective force, in an engagement with General Longstreet on the 28th of July. A similar depletion in its ranks occurred on the 7th of Oc- tober when the division, led by General Kautz, was engaged with a greatly superior force under Longstreet and Pickett. On the 10th of December Longstreet's corps was again the aggressor at Charles City Road, and was repulsed with loss. The regiment continued on picket duty at that place until March 25, 1865; it took part in the maneuvers immediately prior to Lee's surrender and was finally mustered out, three hundred and thirty-one officers and men, on the 19th of May, and the remainder on the 7th of August.
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