History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 27

Author: Schenck, J. S., [from old catalog] ed; Rann, William S., [from old catalog] joint ed; Mason, D., & co., Syracuse, N.Y., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1020


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Jesse Knightlinger, died October 7, 1864, of wounds received in action. Samuel C. King, died as a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C.


Virgil Libbey, died at Philadelphia, Pa., June 24, 1864. Joshua Lloyd, died at Andersonville, Ga., September 20, 1864. Morris J. Lonnen, not accounted for.


George W. Magee, absent, sick, at muster out.


Edward Mellen, discharged by general order June 24, 1865.


John Martin, discharged by general order September 8, 1865. Brooks Minker, discharged by general order July 22, 1865. Samuel May, died September 1, 1863.


Thomas J. Magee, died, date unknown.


William Magee, died at Charleston, S. C., date unknown.


George B. Miller, killed at Bristoe Station, Va., October 13, 1863. Isaac Magee, not accounted for.


James L. Magill, discharged on surgeon's certificate, 1862.


O. Willard Miller, discharged on surgeon's certificate April, 1863. David McKinley, mustered out with company.


Owen McClure, discharged by general order July 5, 1865. Charles H. McCoy, not accounted for. Sidney McKee, discharged on surgeon's certificate October, 1862. Samuel Parrish, discharged by general order June 29, 1865.


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John M. Pearce, died June 4, 1863, of wounds received in action. P. Quinn, captured ; died at Richmond, Va., March 3, 1864. Simeon J. Roosa, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. John Rutledge, killed at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862. George S. Richardson, transferred to 53d P. V.


C. J. Richardson, discharged for wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa. William H. Rungan, not accounted for.


Harrison Stoddard, mustered out with company. Byron Sutherland, discharged by general order July 1, 1865.


George W. Shay, captured ; died, date unknown. William Shreve, died December 19, 1862.


Reuben Swaggart, died January 20, 1863.


John P. Small, died at Philadelphia, Pa., August 11, 1863.


Edward Spangler, died June 19, 1864.


Walter R. Stanton, not accounted for.


John D. Stedwell, discharged for wounds received in action.


John Stewart, discharged for wounds received in action.


Jacob Smith, substitute, not accounted for.


James Thompson, mustered out with company.


Charles Thompson, killed at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.


John Thompson, died November 22, 1862.


John Tuttle, killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.


Abraham L. Van Epps, mustered out with company.


Henry Van Keuren, not accounted for.


Lewis A. Van Tassel, discharged on surgeon's certificate, date unknown. Samuel L. Willard, mustered out with company.


Alex. C. Williams, mustered out with company.


Thomas Williams, mustered out with company.


Andrew J. Westfall, discharged by general order May 29, 1865.


William T. Westfall, discharged for wounds received at Fredericksburg, Va.


George Wheeler, discharged on surgeon's certificate June, 1863.


William Whitman, discharged on surgeon's certificate.


George W. Williams, discharged on surgeon's certificate.


Hiram K. Young, captured ; died at Andersonville, Ga., October 17, 1864 ; grave 11,040.


The foregoing roster of Company F tells a remarkable story. Thus, of the one hundred and thirteen men who belonged to it, all of whom, with a few exceptions, were mustered into service August 20, 1862, ten were killed in bat- tle ; six died of wounds received in action; fourteen died from neglect and starvation in rebel prison pens, and seventeen died of disease in United States hospitals, making a total death-roll of forty-seven. Ten were discharged by reason of wounds received in battle, and only eighteen men, good and true, were mustered out with the company.


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CHAPTER XXII.


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENTS.


One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment-Company F Recruited in Warren County - Regimental Organization - Colonel Harrison Allen, of Warren, in Command - Joins the Army of the Potomac - Assigned to the First Corps -The Chancellorsville Campaign - The Weary March to Gettysburg- The Battle - Heroic Conduct During the First Day's Fight - Fright- ful Losses - Retiring through the Town to a New Position - Continuance of the Battle - Victory, Though at a Fearful Cost - The Regiment Highly Complimented by General Doubleday - Its Warren County Men -One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, Otherwise Fourteenth Cavalry -Names of Its Warren County Members - Regiment Organized at Pittsburg - Its Field Officers - Ordered to Harper's Ferry -Campaigning in the Shenandoah Valley -At- tached to General Averell's Command - A Series of Raids and Battles- Brilliant Success Attending the Raid on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad - Great Destruction of Rebel Prop- erty -- A March over the Alleghenies in Midwinter -Swimming Icy Torrents and Swollen Riv- ers - Co-operating with General Crook - Hunter's Lynchburg Campaign - Another Terrible March Accomplished -- Details of Other Feats Performed and Battles Fought -Close of the War - Transferred to Fort Leavenworth - Muster Out.


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT-NINE MONTHS' SERVICE.


C OMPANY F of this organization was recruited in Warren county by Cap- tain Harrison Allen, who had served for a few months as major of the Tenth Reserve. It left Warren borough Thursday morning October 23, 1862, and proceeded to Harrisburg, the regimental rendezvous, where it was mustered into service on the 30th of the same month. A few days later Captain Allen was commissioned colonel of the regiment, George F. McFarland, of Juniata county, lieutenant-colonel, and John W. Young, of Susquehanna county, major.


The regiment moved forward towards Washington on the 26th of No- vember, and upon its arrival encamped on Arlington Heights. Soon after it was attached to the brigade commanded by Colonel D'Utassay, and with that command performed picket duty at Union Mills for several weeks. About the middle of February, 1863, it was transferred to Belle Plain, where it was assigned to a brigade, for a time commanded by Colonel James R. Porter, but subsequently by General Thomas A. Rowley, known as the First Brigade of the Third Division of the First Corps, General Doubleday commanding the division, and General Reynolds the corps.


Just previous to the opening of the Chancellorsville campaign, the Third Division was sent to Port Conway, on the Lower Rappahannock, for a diversion in favor of the operations soon to commence. The movement was successful, inducing "Stonewall " Jackson to move, with his entire corps and train, to a point on the opposite bank. The division was out forty-six hours, during thirty-six of which the rain fell incessantly, making the march a diffi-


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cult and trying one. The command was present at the battle of Chancellors- ville, but it appears that it did little more than to skirmish with the enemy without loss.


Gettysburg was the one battle wherein the One Hundred and Fifty-first won all of its honor and glory. After weary days of forced marches at the rate of thirty-five miles per day, the First Brigade, now commanded by Colonel C. Biddle, in conjunction with its corps, the First, and the Eleventh Corps, arrived upon the field of battle (to this time chiefly maintained upon the Union side by Buford's cavalry) at half-past ten A. M. of July I, and took position upon the extreme left flank of the corps, the One Hundred and Fifty-first, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland, holding the left of the brigade line. As it moved into position it was saluted by the booming of cannon and the rattle of musketry, and soon was whispered the sad intelligence of the fall of General Reynolds. Without delay it was pushed forward by orders of Gen- eral Rowley, now in command of the division, the men unslinging knapsacks as they marched, and advanced obliquely to the top of a ridge to the west of the Theological Seminary, where it remained some time. All firing now ceased for nearly an hour, the enemy having been driven back, and General Archer captured with eight hundred of his men. About noon, however, the enemy again opened fire on both front and right. The latter being a flank fire, to which the brigade was exposed, it was ordered back into the hollow, and here, supporting Cooper's Battery, and subjected to a constant fire from the enemy's artillery, it maintained its position for two hours and a half, only vary- ing its line to avoid the destructive cross-fire of the enemy. At half-past two P. M. the regiment was detached from the brigade by General Rowley, to be held as a reserve, and was posted behind a fence along the south end of Sem- inary Grove, and facing north. A few moments later it changed front forward on the left company, and occupied a temporary breastwork, erected by the Second (Robinson's) Division earlier in the day, just in rear of the seminary, facing west. By this time the enemy had concentrated in large force and began closing in. With only this single regiment in reserve, and with but a single line, Doubleday was opposing thrice his numbers, coming on three lines deep, and reaching out far beyond him on either flank. This great pressure soon began to tell upon the integrity of the Union line. A gap, occasioned by severe losses, was soon made between the brigades of Biddle and Meredith, of Rowley's Division, which was threatening to prove fatal to the entire left wing. Into this gap, by order of General Rowley, the One Hundred and Fifty-first was thrown, to stay the tide which was fast sweeping on-the last reserve thrown into action. In perfect order it moved forward and closed up the broken line, Company D standing directly in front of, and about twenty-five yards distant from, the point of woods where General Reynolds was killed. The fighting now became terrific, and the losses of the enemy in front of the regiment were


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heavy. But the contest was too unequal to continue long. The one atten- uated line was terribly cut up. The celebrated Iron Brigade, having borne the brunt of the battle for five hours, was finally withdrawn, thus exposing the right of the One Hundred and Fifty-first. The regiments on its left were like- wise overpowered, and one after another was forced back, until this was left almost alone to resist the enemy's raking fire. Finally, when more than half its number had fallen, the order was given to retire. At the barricade of rails in the edge of the grove back of the seminary it again took position, where frag- ments of other regiments had assembled, and as the enemy advanced a deadly fire was delivered upon them, which again checked their victorious advance. But here a new danger threatened. Finding that he could not walk over even the remnants of the First Corps, by direct advance, the wily rebel leader had sent a heavy force to envelop the Union left. The movement was speedily successful, and before a warning of the enemy's presence had been given, the regiment received a heavy enfilading volley, by which Lieutenant-Colonel Mc- Farland was shot down, receiving severe wounds in both legs, necessitating the amputation of one, and large numbers of the men were disabled. The moment had come when it could no longer stand the repeated blows of an overpowering enemy, and with remnants of other commands it retreated rap- idly towards the town of Gettysburg. General Early, who had closed in on the extreme Union right, was already in the streets, and here, the way being impeded by trains and disorganized masses of troops, a number of the regi- ment fell into the enemy's hands.


Upon its arrival on Cemetery Hill the regiment numbered but ninety-two men. This number was soon after increased to about one hundred and twenty by the arrival of stragglers and others who had been cut off from the column in passing through the town. Captain Owens was now in command. About five o'clock P. M. of the 2d the command was marched on the double-quick to the support of Sickles's troops. In moving down the Taneytown Road, and when approaching Round Top, the line of the brigade was broken by troops moving in a diagonal direction across its path, and the One Hundred and Fifty- first, with the Twentieth New York State Militia, became separated from the rest of the brigade, and amidst the great confusion prevailing failed to regain their position. Finding themselves thus cut off, or lost, as it were, Colonel Gates and Captain Owens decided to act as an independent command, and moved up on the front line, taking position on the left of the Second Corps, where it remained during the night. When, on the afternoon of the 3d, the enemy made his grand charge, these two regiments hastened to the right to to the support of the troops at the menaced front. Reaching a knoll where a battery of the Second Corps was posted, and in front of which the enemy was advancing, they made a stand and assisted in driving the enemy from a slash- ing, in which he had taken refuge from a flank attack of Stannard's (Vermont)


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Brigade. The enemy was finally driven at all points, many throwing down their arms and surrendering, and the great, dear-bought victory was won. At this point Adjutant Samuel T. Allen, brother of Colonel Allen, was severely wounded. On the morning of the 4th these regiments rejoined their brigade.


Of the twenty-one officers and four hundred and sixty-six enlisted men of this regiment, who went into battle, two officers and sixty-six men were killed, twelve officers and one hundred and eighty-seven men were wounded, and one hundred were missing. The brave Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland and his regiment received the highest meed of praise from General Doubleday, who said: "I can never forget the services rendered me by this regiment, directed by the gallantry and genius of McFarland. I believe they saved the First Corps, and were among the chief instruments to save the Army of the Poto- mac, and the country from unimaginable disaster." Colonel Allen, who had been passing some time at home on leave of absence, returned to his command just as the battle ended, and continued with it until its muster out of service, at Harrisburg on the 27th of July, 1863.


The Warren county men who served in this regiment were reported as follows :


FIELD AND STAFF.


Colonel Harrison Allen, promoted from captain Company F November II, 1862; mustered out with regiment. About two years later or March 13, 1865, was commissioned brevet brigadier-general.


Adjutant Samuel T. Allen, mustered out with regiment ; wounded.


COMPANY F.1


Captain Harrison Allen, promoted to colonel November 11, 1862.


Captain John H. Mitchell, mustered out with company.


First Lieutenant William O. Blodgett, mustered out with company.


Second Licutenant Theodore Chase, mustered out with company.


First Sergeant James L. Lott, mustered out with company. Sergeant Paul W. Brown, mustered out with company.


Sergeant Robert E. Miller, absent, sick, at muster out. Sergeant Benjamin F. Miller, absent, sick, at muster out.


Sergeant A. D. Frank, mustered out with company. Corporal Sylvanus Walker, in hospital at muster out. Corporal George Merchant, absent, sick, at muster out. Corporal Leander W. Wilcox, mustered out with company.


Corporal Nathan J. Cooper, mustered out with company.


Corporal Robert T. Cummings, mustered out with company.


Corporal Raymond B. Jones, absent in hospital at muster out.


1 Those whose names are italicized were wounded at Gettysburg.


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Corporal Samuel A. Tuttle, mustered out with company.


Corporal Clifford Wetmore, mustered out with company.


Corporal Nathaniel A. Billings, discharged on surgeon's certificate January 5, 1863.


Musician Ralph F. Ames, discharged on surgeon's certificate June 2, 1863.


Privates.


Robert Abbott, mustered out with company.


John W. Allen, absent in hospital at muster out.


George W. Briggs, mustered out with company. Ichabod Buck, mustered out with company. James Bates, mustered out with company. Richard Barlow, mustered out with company. Jared F. Bartlett, mustered out with company. John C. Bagley, mustered out with company. Richard Brooks, mustered out with company. Jehiel Carr, absent in hospital at muster out. William C. Carr, mustered out with company. Charles S. Chapman, absent, sick, at muster out. Lafayette Cole, mustered out with company. Perry F. Chandler, mustered out with company.


Isaac Culbertson, discharged on surgeon's certificate April 4, 1863. James Cotton, died July 4, of wounds received in battle July 1, 1863. Ithiel Dodd, mustered out with company.


Nathan Dodd, died at Washington, D. C., June 15, 1863.


Abram A. Enos, mustered out with company.


Jacques Guenth, mustered out with company.


Andrew Gauts, mustered out with company.


David W. Gibson, mustered out with company. William H. Guignon, mustered out with company.


William Guy, absent in hospital at muster out.


John G. Gregory, died near Union Mills, Va., December 31, 1862.


James Green, killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863. Pardon Hazeltine, absent, sick, at muster out. Clinton Hazeltine, mustered out with company.


Marcus Jaquay, killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863. John Knupp, absent in hospital at muster out. Wilbur Kimball, killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863. Lodewick Loveland, mustered out with company.


Alfred C. Lacy, mustered out with company. Frank Lyon, died July 19 of wounds received in battle July 1, 1863. Jo'ın Myers, absent, sick, at muster out.


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Isaac W. Mott, mustered out with company.


James M. Miller, mustered out with company.


Edwin Matteson, mustered out with company. John W. Morrison, discharged on surgeon's certificate March 21. 1863. Peter Miller, died January 10, 1863.


John McIntyre, mustered out with company.


Christopher W. McKelvey, mustered out with company.


James McManus, mustered out with company.


James E. Norris, mustered out with company. Marvin Norris, absent, sick, at muster out.


George Newsbuckle, mustered out with company.


F. E. Perkins, mustered out with company.


John J. Patchin, mustered out with company.


David B. Peck, mustered out with company.


Daniel Porter, wounded and missing in action July 1, 1863.


Pearson C. Phillips, mustered out with company.


James Park, discharged on surgeon's certificate March 14, 1863.


Norman C. Smith, mustered out with company.


Orlando Smith, mustered out with company.


William Sweetland, mustered out with company.


William P. Starrett, mustered out with company.


Hiram Sturdevant, mustered out with company.


Stephen Sweet, mustered out with company.


John Stanton, captured at Gettysburg ; mustered out with company


James Stanton, mustered out with company.


Israel Slye, mustered out with company.


Orin H. Slye, mustered out with company.


George A. Schuyler, mustered out with company.


Samuel A. Samuelson, mustered out with company.


Walter Thompson, mustered out with company.


D. T. Van Vechten, mustered out with company. Charles Walker, mustered out with company.


Daniel Weed, wounded near Union Mills January, 1863 ; mustered out with company.


M. G. Wheelock, mustered out with company.


l'hilander Wright, mustered out with company.


Charles I). Way, absent, sick, at muster out.


Lyman D. Willson, captured at Gettysburg ; mustered out with company. Robert Young, killed at Gettysburg July 1, 1863.


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT-FOURTEENTH CAVALRY.


On the 26th of September, 1862, First Lieutenant George R. Wetmore, with some thirty or more men recruited for the cavalry service, left Warren


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for Erie to join another detachment under Captain Miles, and thus was formed the command subsequently known as Company I, of the Fourteenth Cavalry. The men who left with Lieutenant Wetmore were named as follows : Quarter- master-sergeant, Reuben Mason ; Sergeant David R. Alexander ; Corporals Allen E. B. Mann, William V. Ford, John S. Turner, Horace Robinson ; Sad- dler Bennett M. Metler ; Privates John P. Baxter, Edmund R. Cowell, Levi W. Crouch, Van Rensselaer Farey, M. D. Ford, Elias Frear, Francis H. Free- man, Albert G. Hamblin, Francis Hook, Philip Hoffman, Charles L. Jeffords, John C. Jordan, Patrick Keefe, Alvah H. Mann, L. Phillips, William Prindle, Reuben Rhoads, Joseph B. Rhinehart, Joseph Sands, Leroy Turner, James Upton, John Upton, William H. Wentworth, Ashley F. Winchester, and Rich- ard W. Winchester.


The regiment rendezvoused in camp near Pittsburgh, where, on the 24th of November, a regimental organization was completed by the choice of James M. Schoonmaker as colonel; William Blakely, lieutenant-colonel; Thomas Gibson, Shadrack Foley, and John M. Daily, majors. On the same day the regiment moved forward towards Hagerstown, Md., where horses, arms, and accoutrements were received and a spirited training for cavalry service com- menced. On the 28th of December the command moved to Harper's Ferry, and went into camp on the Charlestown Pike, the advance post of General Kelly's command. It was here actively engaged in picketing all the approaches from the south and east, and scouting the region on both sides of the Shenan- doah River, extending far into the passes of the Blue Ridge, and occasionally skirmishing with the guerrilla bands of White and Imboden. On the night of April 13, 1863, Lieutenant Wetmore, in command of the picket guard, hand- somely repulsed an attack of dismounted rebel cavalry on the Keyes Ford road, and was highly complimented in general orders by the general in com- mand.


Early in May, 1863, the regiment was attached to General Averell's com- mand, and for a time assisted in holding the towns of Phillippi, Beverly, and Webster, in guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and in numerous scouts and movements against the enemy. When the rebel army retreated from the field of Gettysburg the regiment joined in the pursuit, and formed a junction with the Army of the Potomac at Williamsport, Md., on the 14th of July ; but Lee had made good his escape across the Potomac the day before.


On the 4th of August General Averell moved with his command on what was known as the Rocky Gap raid. When approaching Moorefield, Captain Kerr, of the Fourteenth, with a detachment of about fifty men who had been ordered to move on a mountain road to the left, after having captured some guerrillas, fell into an ambuscade, and though fighting manfully was worsted, and made his escape with only a fragment of his command, with difficulty. Moving through Petersburg and Franklin, continually skirmishing by the way,


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and driving " Mudwall" Jackson, after a brisk engagement at Warm Springs, the command, on the 29th of August, encountered the rebel General Jones near Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, and at once attacked. The Fourteenth dismounted, and held the right of the line. The battle raged fiercely until nightfall. The enemy contested the ground stubbornly, but he was pushed back about three hundred yards. Three determined infantry charges of the rebels were handsomely repulsed by the Fourteenth. During the night skir- mishing was kept up, the enemy delivering an occasional volley. Assistance was momentarily expected from General Scammon, commanding in the Kana- wha Valley, and who was supposed to be at Lewisburg, ten miles distant. The enemy was reinforced during the night, and the battle was renewed on the following morning; but no assistance coming to the Union forces, and their ammunition running low, a retreat was ordered. The loss in the Fourteenth was eighty in killed, wounded, and missing. Beverly was reached on the 3 Ist, the command having been on the march or closely engaged for twenty- seven consecutive days, and traveled over six hundred miles.


On the Ist of November General Averell again led his command south- ward on the Droop Mountain raid. Crossing Cheat Mountain, he reached Huntersville on the 4th, whence, after detaching the Fourteenth Pennsylvania and the Third West Virginia Cavalry, he sent them by a detour from the main road on which he advanced, to cut off a brigade of the enemy, said to be sta- tioned at Greenbrier Bridge, under command of "Mudwall " Jackson. But both roads were found obstructed by fallen timber, and the wily rebel made good his escape. At Droop Mountain the Fourteenth came up with the enemy and drove him rapidly to the summit. Here he had intrenched, and was prepared with artillery to fight, but by flanking the position with infantry, and pressing closely in front with dismounted cavalry, he was driven with the loss of two pieces of artillery and almost his entire train. Pursuit was made as far as Lewisburg, but the troops failed to again overtake him.


By easy marches the command then returned to New Creek, on the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad, with the expectation of going into winter quarters ; but on the 8th of December Averell was again in the saddle, faced for Salem. By rapid marching, much of the time in the midst of heavy rains, he arrived at his destination on the 16th, and immediately commenced the work of destruction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the immense stores of the rebel army there collected. Several long bridges, and miles of track were destroyed, besides depots, mills, and warehouses, with grain, meat, salt, cloth- ing, and merchandise, to the value, as was estimated, of from two to five mil- lions of dollars. Intelligence of this daring movement, and the immense destruction effected, soon spread, and the enemy in heavy force was moving up rapidly on all sides for Averell's capture. The retreat was accordingly commenced and pushed with all celerity, though greatly retarded by heavy




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