History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 65

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372

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tin, S. T. Mayberry, Jacob Mowrer, William Murphy, Samuel Murphey, John W. Murphey, T. McAndrews, William McKay, A. J. McCollough, Edward McGraw, William D. McLain, Thomas Murphey, Jacob Myer, Harrison McCord, Philip Miskell, Henry Mcllheany, William H. Meyers, Edward Marks, John Marks, Jos- eph Marshall, James H. McGee, Conrad Mouse, Nervin Miller, William Murphey, Joseph Michaels, Richard McConnell, John D. McGeehan, William Nicholas, Pat- rick O'Donnell, Adam Onstott, William Phillips, James Poleman, Courtland W. Potter, Jesse Reed, Robert A. Reed, Charles L. Robinson, William G. Roper, Cornelius Robinson, Francis Ramish, Henry S. Reynolds, Josiah Reber, John Ripple, Benjamin F. Roberts, Michael Rob- inson, William A. Rarey, Henry Robinson, Henry Ritter, James A. S. Ratcliff, Salathiel Sankey, Benjamin F. Siler, Valentine Shadle, Jacob W. Stauffer, Solomon Shary, Andrew Shick, Adam Shriver, Gideon Stanley, John S. Stafford, Theophilus H. Stees, William E. Stiner, H. Stoutzenberger, Samuel Stuck, Henry Smith, Charles Stroube, Thomas Simpson, John Sullivan, Sam- uel H. Slifer, John Savage, Jr., Elijah Solliday, Charles Smith, John Smith, Frederick Summers, William Stahler, Tru'n W. Stafford, Edwin Spear. William Stineberger, Levi Stump, Martin Swick, D. H. Shen- berger, Edwin Stees, John Tatnall, John H. Turner, W. H. H. Thompson, Joseph Townsley, Jack M. Vanhorn, Thomas M. Watson, John H. Weidle, John Weller, George Willey, Michael Williams, William D. Wood- ring, John H. Wise, George Wire, John F. Wentz, John Wiley, William Worl, Frederick Weller, Jacob Weller, John S. Wade, George Wolf, Peter White, Mark Was- ner, Samuel Yoder, Thomas Zules, Jacob Zimmerman.

The Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Regi- ment, in the three years' service, served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac. Company G, of this regiment, was recruited by Captain William J. Bart, who resided near Hanover. Among those who enlisted from Hanover and vicinity were Lieutenant J. H. Lohr, Oliver W. Gar- ret, Henry K. Wentz, Ephraim J. Stegner, John W. Craumer, David Zumbrum, John Zumbrum, Edwin Garret, David Willet, Josiah Becker. Henry K. Wentz, of Han- over, served as an orderly on the staff of General Peck. This regiment served in the Sixth Corps, in the Peninsular cam- paign, and later in the Ninth.

SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

The Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, which served for a period of three years in the Union Army, was organized August, 1861, at Camp Simmons, by the election of John M. Tanner, colonel ; D. H. Wallace, lieutenant-colonel; Oliver M. Irvine, major, and Charles Garrettson, of York, quartermaster, who, while serving in this position, was appointed a captain in the regular .army.

Early in the summer of 1861 two com- panies were organized for the three years'

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service in York County. one by Captain H. the Seventy-sixth belonged, was ordered to Clay McIntyre, of York, and the other by Virginia. The regiment took part in the Cyrus Diller, of Hanover, soon after he re- battle at Drury's Bluff, where Captain turned from the three months' service. Young, of Company I, was killed. It was These became known as Company D and present at Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, and engagements before Petersburg. Company I of the Seventy-sixth Regiment, and both had an honorable record during The Seventy-sixth, under command of General Pennypacker, assisted in the cap- ture of Fort Fisher, at Wilmington, N. C., in January. 1865. It was mustered out at longest terms of service in the war. the entire Civil War. The captains of Company D were successively Cyrus Diller (afterward major). William S. Diller and Charles L. Bittinger. The captains of Harrisburg. July 23. 1865, after one of the Company I, in order of succession, were H. Clay McIntyre. Jacob J. Young, Frank J. Magee and Harrison Stair.

On November 18, 1861, the regiment re- ceived its colors from the hands of Gov- ernor Curtin, and proceeded to Fortress Monroe. It sailed from there to Hilton Head; assisted in taking Fort Pulaski at the mouth of the Savannah River: partici- pated in the attack on Charleston under General Wright, and engaged the enemy with heavy loss in an expedition to sever communication between Charleston and Savannah.

On July 6, 1863. the regiment

At moved to Morris Island,

Fort

Charleston Harbor, and on the Wagner. roth took part in the memorable assault on Fort Wagner. where it achieved distinction for gallantry. The regiment received the order to charge as the flash of the artillery fire was seen. The men dropped to the ground, the discharge from the cannon passing over them, then started forward with a yell. The ranks were thinned at every discharge. The moat was reached and crossed, and many fell on the parapet beyond: 130 men and five officers of the regiment were left be- hind.

A second assault took place on July 18. Captain Frank J. Magee acted as aid to General Strong in the engagement. Com- pany L went in with thirty-six men and but twelve escaped. Twelve regi- ments were afterward ordered to take the fort by storm, but were repulsed with great loss. Fort Wagner was a heavy sand defense, bomb proof, covering several acres. It was ultimately demolished after a fierce cannonading of fifty days' duration, when it was discovered that it had been aban- doned by the enemy.

In May. 1864, the Tenth Corps, to which

The following is a muster roll of Com- pany D of this regiment, when it entered the service :

Officers .- Captains-Cyrus Diller, William S. Diller, Charles L. Bittinger, James J. M. McCormick. Lieu- tenants-Samnel T. Cleckner, Luther Y. Diller, M. T. Heintzelman, James E. Gordon. Sergeants-Joseph A. Slagle, John J. Bussler, Benjamin Minsker, Edward K. Boyer, Valentine Cook, Noah Waltersdorf, Jacob M. Duck, Oliver R. Milhouse, Henry D. Miller. Corporals -Jackson Williams, Obadiah A. Hines, Edward Lee, Henry Strouse, William Alleman, John F. Benner, Jolın O'Donald, William H. Friede, Joseph Stone, Wil- liam Rhell, Henry Eichinger, George Frederick, Jacob Lechner, William Simpson, Oscar R. Hildreth, Ira H. Woodward, Curtis Sanders, William Cromie, Abner Aurand, Christopher Hynicka, Henry. Spect.

Privates-Edward S. Allen, George Atkinson, William J. Berry, Zachariah Bloom, Samuel Bowersox, Andrew Brown, Horace Burchell, George Baker, Henry Bly, Frederick Boyer, Patrick Barrett, Lot Burns, Jacob Banofe, Cornelius Bollinger, Joseph Bnehenmeyer, Jo- seph Bolander, Jacob Brown, Michael Burns, James Coxey, John Crook, Richard Collins, James Cochran, Rodney Campbell, Emerson Campbell, George Crouch, Andrew Crick, Edward Chester, Charles Caldwell, An- drew Cregar, Francis Cramer, Jeremiah Cramer, Isaac Dobbs, Thomas Dawson, George Dresher, Patrick Don- ahue, James A. Deitrick, Hiram Erisman, Henry Ern- est, John Ernest, John A. Eline, William Fisher, John Fisher, Patrick Finn, Henry Fisher, Michael Fiedler, Jeremiah Fisher, John Garra, Daniel Gallagher, George Green, John Gross, Charles Groff, John Greenmiller, Daniel Gallagher, Joseph Gramer, John E. Hand, Jona- than Hardin, Jacob Hehr, Peter Hauser, Thomas C. Horan, Samuel Hoyman, David Hildebrand, Lewis Hall, George Hallenbach, John Hamlin, Frederick Hendricks, George Holtzman, James Hughes, Charles Helsby, Mor- ris Hickard, William Irvine, Benjamin Jones, Harvey Joslin, Morris Jackson, James Karney King, Thomas Kelley, George Koch, Michael Krinbechin, Noah Kline- felter, Uriah Krebbs, Isadore Kreever, David. King, Moses Kister, Joshua Knedle, William Kantner, Charles W. Lawson, Amos F. Leschey, Martin Long, William Langhrey, William Lyons, Henry Lamberton, Charles Lewensdorf, Thomas Martin, John W. Moyer, Joseph L. Moyer, Charles Meyer, Samuel Musselman, Isadore Markard, Isaac Musselman, Stephen Maroney, William Mummert, Jacob Morningstar, Henry Morningstar, Isaac Miller, James Miller, John Miller, Daniel Meyer, Matthew M'Donald, John M'Glaughlin, Thomas M'Ad- ams, John M'Caley, John Nolan, Henry Petzold, Maris Piccard, Thomas Powell, Cornelius Price, John Pollard, Christian Packard, John Pfarr, William K. Parker, James Quirk, William Raub, Thomas Reily, Franklin M. Roberts, William Roberts, William Reuhenbach, John C. Rhell, Adams C. Reinoehl, Lewis Rake, Charles

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M. Reilly, Frederick Sanders, Robert Smith, Samuel Welsh, Enoch Wood, Eli Wilhelm, George White, Wes- Stitzan, Frederick Swartz, George Sickel, William ley L. Webster, Henry Zorger, Samuel Zell, John Zieg- ler. Sickel, Charles W. Smith, Charles Snyder, James A. Stewart, Henry Sherwood, H. Schmidtman, William Shriver, Frederick R. Smith, Edward Shaffer, M'Age Slade, Joseph Spitz, Henry Schmidt, Robert Slutman, James P. Tracey, Adam Varner, George Veitengruber, Hugh Walker, Lewis Walton, Lewis Wambaugh, Dallas Watson, Andrew Warner, John Wilson, Pius Wanner, George W. Wilson, Solomon Williams, James Wiltner, Jacob Wendle, Wesley Wagner, Robert Wittenmeyer, Henry Yocum, John Yorger, John Zett.

The following is a muster roll of Com- pany I of this regiment :

Officers .- Captains-Henry C. McIntyre, Jacob J. Young, Frank J. Magee, Harrison Stair. First Lieu- tenants-Joseph H. Ensign, Paris Rudisill. Second Lieutenant-J. W. Morningstar. Sergeants-William H. Ziegler, Henry Birnstock, John Loucks, John Lee, Henry Haines. Daniel Lichtenberger, Robert Smith, Elias Spangler, Silas M. Smith. Corporals-David R. Palmer, William Naef, Henry Reicherd, Jacob Camp- man, John H. Simmons, Leander Lewis, George D. Ziegler, Sigmund Myers, Albert H. Mann, William H. Albright, Joseph London, Andrew B. Frey, Ira H. Woodward, Henry James, William H. Smith. Musi- cian-George Biernan.

Privates-Isaac Adams, Pherick Adams, Julius Bentz, Levi Berkenheiser, Andrew Bechtol, Edwin B. Burr, Jeremiah Bowser, Porter Bender, Thomas Burrows, John Bruner, Hiram E. Bixler, John W. Baum, Wil- liam Blanck, Jr., James E. Barnitz, Charles J. Beals, Patrick Cawley, Stephen Crumay, James Coslow, Michael Conroy, James Connelly, William H. Carling- ton, John Cook, Dennis Curtin, William J. Carver, Samuel Dellinger, Joseph Dunham, Anthony Dorman, James A. Decker, John Duncan, Andrew J. Duden, Edwin C. Duncan, George Dietz, Francis Doonan, Wil- liam H. Fishel, John Fry, Patrick Fargus, George Foust, Rufus B. Frank, Patrick Finne, James Frederick, Edward Fournace, Harvey Ford, Michael Golden, Wil- liam Gray, John M. Gompf, Frederick Guyer, James B. Gamble, Leo Gleason, Daniel Heffner, H. M. Hullen- baugh, Jarius D. Horton, John Hetz. Francis M. Hud- son, Edmund Heikus, John Hoffmaster, James Hogan, Michael Hullihen, Calvin Harris, Edwin Harris, Jacob Hulsinger, John Jacobs, William Jones, George John- ston, William Joseph, Patrick Kelly, Francis Kane, Rudy Kennard, Edward Keister, John Lippy, Anthony Leiban, James Lowe, Frederick Lumber, Morris Lent, Peter Lynot, Samuel Law, Franklin Lyman, William Lewis, Charles Lorick, Samuel Minichan, Charles Mar- tin, Patrick Middleton, Charles Markle, Henry Matte- son, Michael Miller, Henry Murray, Samuel B. Moore, Samuel Medlow, John J. Miller, Michael McDermot, Charles McGenley, John Oertel, James K. Oatman, John O'Brien, John Powers, Thomas E. Palmer, George Pe- ters. James S. Patterson, Edmund Peters, William K. Pomeroy, Thomas J. Pennington. Bernard Roberts, Percival Romberger, John W. Reynolds, George Rhine, Henry Reatz, Samuel S. Rogers, Alexander Rider, William F. Reisinger, John Reed, Jesse Rhodes, John Stough, Enoch Sweesey, John C. Spencer, James Slack, John F. Snyder, David Shook, Robert Sutton, Stephen Sybert, Reuben Stough, John Sanford, Isaac Sears, John Sharp, Frederick Sultzbaugh, David Savage, Dan- iel Sloat, John J. Stengle, Thomas Stevens, G. W. Shenberger, Oscar R. Stearns, Reuben Snell, Peter Thompson, Byron Turner, Sydney W. Thomas, Henry Thompson, Jesse Weiser, Roland Wilcox, Henry Wooley, James Wiseman, James Willis, Henry H. Writer, Adam Weaver, Louis Welsh, George Warner, John Weigel, Jacob Weigel, James Walsh, Pardon

CAPTAIN FRANK J. MAGEE, who commanded Company I in the Seventy- sixth Regiment, was born at Wrightsville, York County. December 18, 1837. After leaving the public schools in his native town, he entered Georgetown College. Washington, D. C., and was graduated in 1859. When the Civil War opened he was principal of the schools at Wrightsville and entered the army as second lieutenant of Company I, and participated in all the bat- tles in which his regiment was engaged. For meritorious services, he was promoted to first lieutenant and later captain. He was also aide on the staffs of Generals Terry, Ames and Strong. After the close of the war, Captain Magee returned to Wrightsville, where he served as principal of the public schools until 1871. Mean- time, he was editor and owner of the Wrightsville Star, a local newspaper. . For several years he was captain of the Wrightsville Grays. Upon the organi- zation of the National Guards of Pennsyl- vania, he was made colonel and later was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. which rank he held when he died.

EIGHTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

The Union forces met with a reverse on the 21st of July. 1861, at Bull Run, where the first hard fighting of the Civil War took place. The people who expected the war to end in three months and were eager for a great battle, now looked upon the situ- ation with anxiety and alarm. President Lincoln was equal to every occasion during those dark times in our country's history. When he issued his second call for troops to defend and perpetuate the government which our forefathers had brought forth on this continent, patriotic freemen from all the Northern states responded with promptness. Failure had not diminished zeal for a good cause: disaster had not abated devotion to country, and 500,000 men rushed to arms. It was this condition of affairs and of public sentiment that gave birth to the Eighty-seventh Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers, to serve for three years or during the war.

Company A was organized by Captain

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James A. Stahle, May 10, 1861, as the Ells- worth Zouaves, and was composed of Guarding young men nearly all of whom were under age, residing in York and vicinity. For several months this company retained its zouave uniform, which was changed for the

The different companies of this regiment rendezvoused on the

Bridges. Public Common, which was named Camp Scott, in honor of Colonel Thomas A. Scott, assistant secre- tary of war. September 16, five companies regulation uniform of the infantry. Com- under Lieutenant Colonel John W. Schall, pany B was recruited in Newberry Town- left York for Cockeysville, Maryland, where they were placed on duty guarding railroad bridges. The other five com- panies proceeded to the same place under Colonel George Hay, on September 29.

ship, and was largely composed of the Washington Guards, a military company that had been drilling for ten years under Captain John Crull. A portion of its en- listed men came from Dauphin County. Company C was recruited from Hopewell, Chanceford, Fawn, Lower Chanceford, Windsor and other townships in the lower end of the county. It was organized by the election of Andrew J. Fulton as cap- tain. Company D was organized out of enlisted men from Shrewsbury and vicinity by Captain Noah G. Ruhl, who had served five years in the regular army. On Sep- tember 19, the company was mustered into service by Lieutenant Baldwin. Company E was organized by Captain Soloman Myers, of York, who had previously served as first lieutenant of Company A of the Sixteenth Regiment in the three months' service. Company F was recruited at Get- tysburg by Captain Charles H. Buehler, who, in 1862, became colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Regiment in the nine months' service. Company G was organized at Hanover, largely by Lieuten- ant Henry B. Morningstar, who had served as first lieutenant in the Sixteenth Regi- ment in the three months service. Com- pany H was recruited at Wellsville and was composed of enlisted men from Warrington and adjoining townships. It was com- manded first by Captain Ross L. Harman, and later by Captain Wells A. Farrah, who was killed at the battle of Carter's Woods, near Winchester; Virginia, in 1863. Com- pany I was recruited at New Oxford and was composed of men from Adams County and the western part of York County. This company was at first commanded by Cap- tain Pfeiffer, who was killed at Cold Har- bor, in June, 1863. Later it was com- manded by Captain W. H. Lanius, of York. Company K was recruited at York by Cap- tain John W. Schall, who had served as first lieutenant in the Second Regiment in the Woods. was killed, Lieutenant Slothower three months' service.

The Eighty-seventh remained on guard duty along the railroad, distributed from the Maryland line to Baltimore, until the latter part of May, 1862, when the different companies rendezvoused at Camp McKim, Baltimore. On June 22, 1862, orders came for this command to go to the front. It was transferred by rail to New Creek, the present site of Keyser, West Virginia. At this camp, the Eighty-seventh attracted wide attention among the soldiers there for its excellent drill and discipline. During the fall of 1862, the Eighty-seventh, under command of Colonel George Hay, had a romantic history. It was sent with other regiments to drive out the Confederates from the mountains of West Virginia, where they had been carrying on a guerilla warfare. For several weeks, it marched through snow and rain over hills and through the defiles of the mountains, and then returned to New Creek, where, in De- cember, 1862, it was placed in the brigade of General Cluseret, a French soldier of rank and station, and marched to the Shen- andoah Valley, arriving on Christmas Eve at Winchester, where they went into camp for the winter. The regiment was placed in Milroy's division of the Eighth Army Corps, under General Schenck. It took a conspicuous part in the defence of Fort Loudon, and upon the retreat of Milroy on June 15, 1863, under command of Colonel John W. Schall, led the charge in the battle of Carter's Woods. General Milroy had attempted to defend his position against Ewell's entire corps of Confederates on their northern march in the Gettysburg campaign.

In the battle of Carter's Woods, Carter's Captain Farrah, of Company I, was mortally wounded, and Colo-

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nel Schall had a horse shot under him. A number of men were killed and wounded, and two hundred of the regiment were cap- tured and held for a few weeks as prisoners of war at Libby and Belle Isle, in Rich- mond, Virginia. After the battle of Car- ter's Woods, the Eighty-seventh was di- vided. Some of the men who were not captured marched to Harper's Ferry under Colonel Schall, others moved to Bloody Run, in Pennsylvania, and for a short time remained under command of Major Ruhl. After the defeat of the Confederate army at Gettysburg, the two battalions united in Virginia, and welcomed back the balance of the regiment who had been released from prison.

During the fall of 1863, the Eighty- seventh was placed in the Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Army Corps, under General French. It was in command of Colonel Schall, with James A. Stahle, lieu- tenant-colonel, and Noah G. Ruhl, major.

It was in December, 1863, when

Mine General Meade decided to attack

Run. Lee's position at Mine Run, Vir- ginia. He moved forward with three army corps and laid plans to assault the enemy's works. The Eighty-seventh Regiment with the entire brigade to which it belonged, was drawn up in the first line of battle. Had this charge been made, a heavy loss in killed and wounded would have been inevitable. The weather was cold and dreary, and the roads were frozen hard and ice covered the streams. General Sedgwick reconnoitered the enemy's line, dressed in the uniform of a private, and at a council of war with Meade and other corps officers, it was decided not to make the attack. The Eighty-seventh took part in the battles at Bealton and Brandy Sta- tion, and lost several men in killed and wounded in the affair at Locust Grove.

Late in December, 1863, the regiment went into winter quarters with the Army of the Potomac, on the Rapidan, near Brandy Station, where many of them en- listed in the veteran service. During this winter the Eighty-seventh won a reputation as one of the best drilled regiments in the Potomac Army.

Upon the re-organization of the army in the spring of 1864, when General Grant took charge of all the forces in the move-

ment toward Richmond, the Eighty-

seventh was placed in the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, under General Sedgwick, who had been offered by President Lincoln the command of the army before the battle of Gettysburg, and was killed while standing near Captain John Fahs, commanding Company A, of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, at Spottsylvania, on May 9. The Eighty-seventh took a prominent part in the battle of the Wilder- ness. At Spottsylvania, a few days later. General Morris was wounded and Colonel Schall was placed in command of the First Brigade, and Lieutenant Colonel James A. Stalle took command of the regiment. Lieutenant Lanius, of Company I, was placed on brigade staff.

At the battle of Cold Harbor, on

Cold. June I, when an assault was

Harbor. made on the enemy's works along the whole line, the Eighty- seventh charged over a morass and took a conspicuous part with the division in cap- turing nearly two regiments of North Caro- lina troops. The men slept on their guns that night, having gone farther ahead than any other regiment of the Sixth Corps. It remained in the front line during the suc- ceeding days of this engagement, when the two armies were approaching each other by the construction of zig-zag entrenchments. On June 3, Captain Pfeiffer, while com- manding the skirmish line, was killed by a sharpshooter. Colonel Schall, command- ing the brigade, was wounded in this charge.

When Grant changed his base and marched towards Petersburg, the regiment moved with the Sixth Army Corps. While in front of Petersburg, on June 22, Lieuten- ant Charles H. Stallman, of Company C, and 16 men on the skirmish line, became prisoners of war. In Rickett's movement forward the next day, the Eighty-seventh was flanked by the Confederates, when 90 men, including Captain Fahs, of Company A, and Captain Maish, of Company B, be- came prisoners of war. They were first sent to Libby prison, at Richmond, and afterward languished in different southern prisons until the end of the war.

When Lee found that Grant was pressing hard on his lines around Petersburg, he sent General Early, with 17,000 men, into the

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Shenandoah Valley, to threaten Washing- ton. Grant then dispatched Rickett's the regiment had enlisted, now expired. division of the Sixth Corps in steamers up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore. From that city, they proceeded on cars to Fred- erick, Maryland, arriving there on the evening of July 8, 1864.

Early had crossed the Po- Monocacy. tomac and was approaching Frederick, from which city he demanded an indemnity of $200,000, which was paid in greenbacks. General Rickett's division of less than 3,000 men, together with some scattered regiments of other commands, met the enemy on the banks of the Monocacy Creek, early on the morning of July 9. The entire Union force did not exceed 5,000 men. Rickett's veterans, with heroic gallantry, kept the enemy at bay for eight hours. The Eighty-seventh, under Colonel Stahle, moved with precision and courage, winning laurels for its bravery in one of the hardest fought battles of the Civil War. Captain Lanius, then serving on brigade staff, was wounded and his of Cedar Creek.

horse shot under him while carrying orders for the movement of the different com- mands of the brigade. The entire loss to the Eighty-seventh in this battle was 74 killed, wounded and captured. Among those who died of wounds were Adjutant Anthony Martin, Lieutenant John F. Spangler, commanding Company, A, Lieu- tenant Charles F. Haack, commanding Company K, Sergeant Daniel L. Welsh, of Company G.

Grant, in his "Memoirs," credits Lew Wallace, the commander of the Union forces at Monocacy, with having held Early back long enough to prevent him from cap- turing the city of Washington and the national treasury. The delay gave Grant time to send the remainder of the Sixth Corps and the Nineteenth Corps to Wash- ington, arriving there just as Early ap- proached the city.

With After the battle, Rickett's division, to which the Eighty- Sheridan. seventh belonged, joined the army under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Under command of Colonel Schall, who had returned to the regiment, it took part in the battle of Ope- quon, and the rout of Early's army at Fisher's Hill, near Winchester, Virginia.

The three years' term of service, for which

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 65

Author: Prowell, George R. Publication date: 1907 Publisher: J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1372

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372