History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 70

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

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ordered a second charge. The men moved forward in splendid form, but upon reach- ing an exposed place, they had to meet an enfilading fire from the enemy. The regi- ment held its ground in this position for twenty minutes, which caused a heavy loss to its ranks.

Meantime, General Hartranft formed a cordon around the fort, and prepared to move on the works. The Two Hundredthi Regiment, with the Two Hundred and Ninth, moved forward under a withering fire and scaled the fort. Fort Steadman was retaken and the victory was due to the gallantry of Pennsylvania soldiers. In a letter written by General Hartranft, in 1889, he said :

"I know of my own personal knowledge of the gallant services of the Two Hun- dredth on the morning of March 25, 1865. Although it was the first time the regiment had been under fire, losing, within the space of twenty minutes, 117 men, killed and wounded, no veteran regiment could have done better. Not a single soldier left the line."

The attack on the enemy's works at Pe- tersburg had now begun. The Two Hundredth Regiment, under command of Major Rehrer, moved forward with the division under Hartranft, McCall command- ing the brigade. They drove the enemy from Fort Sedgwick and on April 3, entered the city of Petersburg. The Two Hun- dredth Regiment was one of the first to enter the city and unfurled its banner from the Court House. After the capitulation of Petersburg, the regiment moved with the army to the surrender of Lee at Appo- matox, on April 9. The Two Hundredth Regiment then moved to Alexandria, Vir- ginia, where it was mustered out of service on May 30, 1865.

COMPANY A, TWO HUNDREDTH REGIMENT.

Officers-Captains-Adam Reisinger, John Wimer. First Lieutenants-William Reisinger, Edward Smith. Second Lieutenant-Jeremiah Oliver. Sergeants-Wil- liam Toombs, George Rudisill, George Armpriester, Philip Peiffer, Andrew J. Gottwalt, Henry Horn. Cor- porals-Jacob Lehr, William Oliver, Samuel N. Jessop, Lewis H. Epley, Edward Lehman, Charles D. Elliott, Franklin Ziegler, Bernard McFarland. Musicians- William S. Temple, Emerson J. C. Rudy.

Privates-William Albrecht, Peter Allen, Richard Boyd, George Burkhart, Jacob Buser, Henry Buser, Wil- liam Chaney, John B. Conly, Charles Cook, John A. L. Eck, Emanuel Erb, Wellington Erwin, John Frash, Martin Fry, Jacob L. Fuller, Jesse Gentzler, Augustus

Greiman, Emanuel Heilman, Levi Heilman, Washington Hess, Samuel Hess, Charles N. Hibner, Andrew J. Haack, Jesse Hamm, Andrew Isaac, Columbus Ilgen- fritz, George M. Jacobs, William Kendig, Jacob Koons, Jr., George H. Koons, Jesse Kroffit, Edwin Kessler, Michael Kessler, Tobias Kalinder, John Lehr, Edward Leiben, Carl Liking, Daniel Lukenbach, George N. Meredith, John E. Miller, Abraham Musser, John M. S. Nevins, George Odenwalt, Philip F. Odenwalt, James S. Perago, William H. Perago, Daniel Platts, Samuel Platts, Thomas Powell, George W. Powell, Peter Rhine- hart, William H. Rively, John Seigle, Alexander Seipe, Daniel Seipe, Aaron G. Simon, Adam Slouk, Israel E. Smith, M. J. K. P. Smith, John Snyder, Charles H. Spangler, Lewis Spiese, Frederick Spiese, William Sponsler, Joseph Sponsler, Joseph Shangfelter, John A. Stiles, Isaac Stroman, Jacob Stroman, Henry Stine, Samuel Swartz, Stephen Sweeney, Jacob Spiese, William Warner, Christian Warner, Edward Werrer, David A. Wilhelm, Charles Ziegler.

COMPANY D.

Officers-Captain-William H. Duhling. First Lieu- tenant-Martin L. Duhling. Second Lieutenant-Wil- liam H. Drayer. Sergeants-George Beck, David Hin- del, Henry S. Wilt, William James, Peter Mathias. Corporals-Jacob Coppenheffer, Benjamin Hake, George Yinger, Daniel R. Frysinger, John Forcht, Dan- iel S. Gross, Henry Pealer, Jacob W. Gohn. Musicians -Eli J. Miller, Michael F. Fink.

Privates-Matthias Altland, Samuel K. Bare, Daniel M. Baker, Matthias Baker, Benjamin Basehore, George Basehore, Reuben Boose, Charles H. Beck, Elisha Bare, George Burns, William Bower, Paris E. Beecher, David K. Bruaw, Eli Billet, John Bentz, David Bricker, Peter Corl, Zacharias Crone, William Darone, Charles Del- linger, John Everhart, Henry Erwin, Benjamin Eisen- hower, George Eckhart, George W. Eicholtz, Henry Faught, Edmund Finfrock, Israel Finfrock, Matthias Fry, Daniel Fry, John A. Gross, Jacob Greser, John Gohn, George H. Gross, Daniel Gross, John F. Gross, George Heilman, Levi G. Hake, Samuel Hartman, Sam- uel Heltzel, John Hahn, George Hoffman, Henry Jor- dat, Daniel B. Knaub, Henry Kern, George Knaub, Jacob W. Kohr, H. H. Kochenour, S. H. Kochenour, John A. Krafft, Samuel Mummert, John G. Malehorn, John Malehorn, Solomon May, George Matthias, Daniel Miller, James Maize, Thomas Medlow, Peter S. Moody, John Nease, Jacob Newcomer, Henry Neiman, Henry Ruby, Daniel Rudy, J. Shellenberger, Henry A. Shaff- ner, George H. Schroll, Jacob Schroll, Daniel Schroll, Darius C. Shetler, Daniel B. Shuler, Alexander Seiffert, Daniel Sipe, Robert N. Sipe, Adam Steffee, Peter Z. Strine, Eli B. Sipe, David Strine, Austin Shelly, Enos Shelly, Abraham D. Stover, Zacharias Shipp, Andrew Stough, Edmund Snellbaker, Washington Thomas, Abraham Westhafer, Daniel B. Wallace, Elias B. Wal- lace, Deweese Worner, David B. Wallace, Samuel Yinger.

COMPANY H.

Officers-Captain-Jacob Weist. First Lieutenant- James McComas. Second Lieutenant-William H. Smyser. First Sergeant-Albert Young. Sergeants- Lafayette B. Schlosser, George Krone, G. W. Aughen- baugh, George W. Epley. Corporals-D. A. Straus- baugh, Charles E. Smyser, John F. Durr, John F. Kott- camp, Alexander Kidd. Adam F. Strough, William A. Spangler, Amos Witzel, Henry W. Gottwalt.

Privates-John R. Andrews, William H. Banner, Emanuel Berry, W. F. Bockhouse, Frederick Bock- house, Oliver Brown, Joshua Bennett, Henry A. Berry, Benjamin F. Broomell, Jacob W. Brenner, Alexander D. Bush, Edwin Baum, Charles Brandt, Jacob Berry, Andrew Brenneman, Atwood Broomell, Henry Carls, John L. Callahan, Edward Callahan, Philip Devers,

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Jesse C. Dyer, George R. Erwin, Alexander Emig, Wil- liam Eberly, Herman A. Eisenhart, William Ehrhart, John Frederick, John G. Fried, Charles Grottrey, John H. Gross, Amos S. Glassick, Jonathan M. Glatfelter, Casper H. Gottcamp, Charles Heinzinger, William J. Harkins, Joseph Hotchkiss, Michael Hoffman, William Hyde, Daniel Hibner, Emanuel G. Heilman, George Hibner, Daniel Hinkle, Daniel Heilman, John Harkins, Asher Hinkle, J. J. Hosselbangh, Joseph B. Hautz, William F. Ilgenfritz, Lewis Kraber, Christian Kott- camp, William H. Kessler, John L. Kraber, Gottlieb Kleffman, Henry Kottcamp, Jacob Kling, Henry S. Kidd, Frederick Kottcamp, Albertus Kraft, Henry Koerper, Jacob Kraut, Howard King, Edwin Lenhart, Franklin Myers, William W. Morrow, Daniel Miller, John G. McCreary, Henry Obendick, Channing J. Pick- ing, John Rodewig, Emanuel Rhinehart, David Richard, Jonas J. Spencer, James B. Schlosser, George Smith, John C. Schrodder, Charles F. Schriver, Henry Schroeder, Henry Sleeder, Edwin Sharp, Michael Smy- ser, Emanuel Smith, George W. Strine, Peter Wise, Samuel Young, Abraham Young, John A. Zinn.

COMPANY K.

Officers-Captain-Hamilton A. Glessner. First Lieutenants-George J. Spangler, Augustus C. Stieg. Second Lieutenant-Zachariah S. Shaw. First Ser- geant-William H. Swartz. Sergeants-George W. Feistel, Henry M. Shelly, Alfred Minnich. Corporal- Michael Shrom.

Privates-Samuel Brenizer, John Baublitz, Henry Brant, Michael Buser, Christian Boll, Edward Blen- singer, James Bell, Henry Brenizer, Henry Bentzel, Nathan F. Buch, John Baymiller, Jacob Bortner, Daniel Barnhart, Charles Bookmyer, Daniel Bentzel, Frederick Crawford, Christian Coble, Albert B. Conaway, George B. Copp, John Deitzer, John Drayer, John Doup, Henry H. Doll, Henry Doup, Martin Emig, Franklin S. Fry, George J. D. Fastre, L. S. Flinchbaugh, Jacob Flinch- baugh, John Frem, Joseph M. Greybill, George Grey- bill, Charles Glatfelter, Samuel Gemmill, John W. Graham, Franklin Gipe, John Greybill, William H. Glessick, William Grim, James E. Gordon, Edwin Hum- mer, David Hasking, William Hartz, Nicholas Hoffman, Augustus Hartman, Abel V. Hartman, George W. Ilgen- fritz, Hamilton Inners, Samuel N. Kilgore, Christian E. Kohler, Vincent Kemmerer, Fred W. Knodt, Charles Kline, Samuel H. Kirk, Aaron King, Joseph Krouse, Jacob H. Kopeman, George M. Kopp, George B. Kline, Penrose Kroft, George P. Koontz, William H. Law, John Minen, Samuel Y. Miller, Michael Minnich, James C. Metzel, Isaac Minnich, Samuel R. Ness, William W. Newbury, Henry W. Newbury, Joshua Peeling, Adam Rubert, Christian Rausher, Henry C. Roth, George A. Richart, John Roth, Ralph Sanders, Franklin Senft, George J. Spangler, Newton W. Stoner, Jacob D. Sly- der, David K. Stroman, Alfred Strokebrand, John A. Sharp, Henry M. Schiding, Philip Snyder, William Se- christ, George Snyder, Eli Stroch, Daniel W. Shaub, David M. Shaub, Henry Shwartz, William H. Thomp- son, Isaac G. Vale, John Wagner, Alexander Wolf, Charles Weiser, George J. Zellers, Joseph Zutelyt.

TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTH REGIMENT.

The Two Hundred and Seventh Regi- ment in the one years' service, was recruited in Tioga, Clinton, Cumberland, Franklin, Lycoming, Bradford, York and Lancaster counties. Company E, commanded by Captain Lewis Small, of York, was largely composed of troops from York County.

The regiment was organized September 8, 1864, with Robert C. Cox, who had served as major of the One Hundred and Seventy- first Pennsylvania Regiment, as colonel. The regiment was sent to the Army of the James, and in November was placed in the Ninth Army Corps, under Burnside. Later it was placed in Hartranft's division, com- posed of six Pennsylvania regiments. Feb- ruary 5, 1865, the Two Hundred and Seventh was first engaged in battle at Hatcher's Run, where the brigade was com- manded by Colonel Cox.

In the attack upon Fort Steadman, Colo- nel Cox, and four companies, were in the advance line, and were among the first to enter the ramparts, where they captured a large number of prisoners. The four re- maining companies followed in close pur- suit and were soon within the fort, where they captured a battle flag. Emerging, as this regiment did, from cover where the enemy had no suspicion that troops were concealed, and moving at a run, he had no time to bring his guns to bear upon the regiment, before it was upon him. The loss, on this account, was slight, being but one killed and sixteen wounded.

The Two Hundred and Seventh was in the front line of battle in the attack and cap- ture of Fort Sedgwick. Colonel Cox, com- manding the brigade, took the lead with the regiment. The color bearer being wounded, Sergeant C. H. Ilgenfritz, of Company E, sprang forward, and raised the flag, and with the regiment planted their colors upon the fort. The loss in this en- gagement was heavy, being 37 killed, 146 wounded, and 8 missing. The success of this attack caused the Confederates to evacuate Petersburg, and one week later, Lee surrendered at Appomatox. The regi- mient was mustered out at Alexandria, May 13, 1865. The following is a muster roll of Company E, of this regiment :

Officers-Captain-Lewis Small. First Lieutenant- Richard C. Ivory. Second Lieutenant-William Keagle. First Sergeants-Michael Harman, Charles H. Ilgen- fritz. Sergeants-Joseph S. Childs, Henry Dennis, Daniel Brian, George J. Horning. Corporals-Tobias Rudy, Ellis Mervell, John Harman, Jacob E. Smith, Laban M. Sykes, Elias F. Graham, Joseph Hoffman, George Miller.

Privates-John F. Blanchard, Charles F. Cox, Fred- erick Snyder, Jeremiah Alexander, John Anderson, Ed- ward Allen, Jonathan Black, John Bush, Edward Black, Frank B. Bradfield, Charles Brian, George W. Bower, William Butcher, James Curry, William Clark, Albert

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E. Comstock, Daniel W. Canfield, Osee Cortwright, William A. Decker, Andrew Dennison, Charles Everly, Jacob Emick, Thomas Edwards, William Eichelberger, Nelson Foulkerson, Henry Fishel, Nicholas Fessler, Marcellus Fried, J. B. Farronsworth, Alfred Foulker- son, H. L. Farronsworth, John George, Henry Gruver, William T. Ginnis, Albert M. Gotwalt, Thomas Green, Samuel Hake, Henry Hamilton, Aaron Henry, Ames Henry, Michael Hake, Israel Hartman, Daniel A. Helker, Henry Hershey, James L. Ilgenfritz, Cornelius Kimble, Elias C. Koller, Josiah Koller, Michael Keesey, Frantz Kaiser, Alex. Kauffman, Samuel Kreidell, Jacob Kunkle, William King, Lewis Krise, Solomon Lehman, Jacob Linck, Cornelius Lefever, Benjamin Long, Henry F. Mackey, Charles Morris, Winfield S. Mackey, John Mannerval, John McCarthy, Lewis Rupprecht, Jacob Ribble, Michael Richard, Harrison Sipe, Frank Shaffer, Benjamin Stover, John L. Shider, Urias Smith, John G. Schladstine, William W. Seaman, Franklin Sheffer, Theodore J. Sheffer, George A. Thomas, Augustus Voss, John Wilhelm, Benjamin Weast, John Wagoner, John Waltman, David Wagner, Samuel Wallace, Wil- liam White, Granville Weiser, William P. Wheeland, Charles D. Wheeland, Lewis Whatson, Daniel H. Withers, John Wageman, Augustus Waltman, George R. Wheeland.

TWO HUNDRED AND NINTH REGIMENT.

The Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment was organized at Camp Curtin, September 16, 1864. Tobias Kauffman was chosen colonel; George W. Frederick, lieutenant colonel; and John L. Ritchey, major. Im- mediately after the organization the regi- ment was ordered to Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, and subsequently was engaged with other parts of the Army of the James at Chapin's Farm. On November 24, the Two Hundred and Ninth, Two Hundredth, and Two Hundred and Eighth Pennsyl- vania Regiments became the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Ninth Corps and at the same time the Two Hundred and Eleventh, Two Hundred and Fifth, and Two Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Regiments became the Second Brigade of this division. General John Hartranft, a highly distinguished Pennsylvania soldier, being appointed commander of the division, the regiment engaged in drill fatigue duty on fortifications and demonstrations. A little before daylight on the 25th of March. 1865, the Union line before Petersburg was broken by the Confederates under General Gordon, and Fort Steadman, a Union fort- ress, was captured. When this fact be- came known General Hartranft ordered Colonel Frederick with the Two Hundred and Ninth and Two Hundredth to charge the fort held by the enemy. Moving for- ward under a heavy fire, they seized points

of advantage in the front, when their align- ments having been completed, they again advanced and planted their colors on the works. The Confederates hurriedly re- treated, leaving over three hundred prison- ers in the hands of the enemy. This re- covery of Fort Steadman was one of the bravest and boldest exploits of the Civil War. On April 2d and 3d the Two Hun- dred and Ninth Regiment, in company with the division and corps, assaulted the Con- federate works before Petersburg, and breaking through their lines about the same time as the Second and Sixth Corps, the city of Petersburg was in the hands of the Union Army. The regiment next engaged in the repair of railroads, and, Lee having surrendered at Appomatox Court House on the 9th of April, on the 20th returned to City Point, then to Alexandria, where the regiment was mustered out of service, May 31.

Two companies of the Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment were recruited in York County. They were Company B, Henry W. Spangler, captain; Thomas J. Hen- dricks, William Douglas and William B. Morrow, lieutenants; and Company I, John Klugh, captain; George W. Heighes and Henry L. Arnold, lieutenants. Both these companies had a good record in that army. Captain John Klugh was wounded by a shell in the attack upon Fort Steadman, while leading on his troops. In 1906, at the advanced age of ninety years, and in the full possession of his mental faculties, Cap- tain Klugh was living at Franklintown, York County.

The following is a muster roll of Com- pany B. Two Hundred and Ninth Regi- ment :

Officers-Captain-Henry W. Spangler. First Lieu- tenant-Thomas J. Hendricks. Second Lieutenant- William S. Douglass. First Sergeant-William B. Morrow. Sergeants-William Campbell, Henry E. Keasey, John R. Edie, William H. Smith. Corporals- Reuben Shank, Peter A. Latshaw, Jacob R. Hildebrand. David S. Fulton, Daniel Mckinley, Benjamin F. Ebaugh, William Wolf, Andrew Hason.

Privates-Henry Abel, James P. Alexander, William S. Anderson, James Armstrong, Peter Buvenon, Fred- erick W. Brier, John C. Baldwin, Frederick Biggert, Peter Bucks, Michael Burns, Michael Beams, Joseph Burns, John Brown, Jacob S. Bose, Patrick Bradrick, Henry Coles, William D. Darr, Franklin Denst, Jesse Dierdorff, David Dutton, John Dougherty, Absalom Dethmore, George Ertzerley, William Fleesick, Henry Frank, George Fry, Charles Friday, Elias Fisher, Sam- uel Fleming, Jacob Fry, William Gross, Joseph Gross,

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Evans G. Gemmill, John Gibsons, George Gemmill, John Gibbon, John Gifford, Patrick Gheerlyer, Charles Hindle, Henry H. Hunter, William Hertzel, George Hoffman, John Hanegan, Jacob Hummer, Thomas Harvey, John Harper, Isaac Hanigan, Barnabas John- son, Arthur Johnson, Michael Johnson, Peter Kretz, Thomas Kelley, Benjamin W. Lynes, Eberhart Miller, David A. Miller, William H. Mitzel, John Morrison, George Mitzel, John W. Miller, William E. Morrison, Samuel A. Martin, Thomas Muller, Thomas Mazzen, Joseplı McClain, John Mclaughlin, Felix McGrier, Pat- rick McGachy, Thomas McCarty, Henry McGee, Obrien Mclaughlin, Jacob Nichols, John Ness, Daniel Ober- lander, Thomas Phillips, Rutter S. C. Rambo, Samuel Riddle, William Riddle, James P. Ream, John W. Rine- holt, Conrad Runkle, Hubert Rian, William P. Schall, William Snyder, Charles P. Strayer, Jacob M. Snyder, Peter Simpson, John W. Smith, Ist, John W. Smith, 2d, Thomas Smith, Charles Smith, David E. Torber, John M. Torber, William W. Wise, John C. Wagner, William H. Wails, Jacob W. Workinger, David Zortman.

COMPANY I.

Officers-Captain-John Klugh. First Lieutenant- George W. Heiges. Second Lieutenant-Henry L. Arnold. First Sergeant-Jacob Law. Sergeants- Andrew Wagener, Jacob P. Baish, George W. Reed, John Law. Corporals-Sear M. Chronister, Martin L. Arnold, Benjamin Apple, Wilson Irwin, Elias Lehman, William P. Reitzel, Henry Heiges, Jr., James G. Kunes. Privates-Martin Arnold, Benjamin F. Anderson, Franklin Arnold, Solomon Arnold, Frederick A. Asper, Emanuel W. Bowman, Jacob H. Bentz, John Blauser, Lewis Blauser, Michael Blauser, John Bupp, George Bupp, John Burgard, William Baish, Samuel Baugher, George Byers, Abraham Byers, Godfried Bishop, Au- gustus Boland, William M. Bleany, William S. Cad- walader, Daniel Chronister, William B. Chronister, John L. Crist, Henry Crist, Absalom Cleaver, John W. Cook, George Ditmore, Frederick H. Darr, Jacob Darr, George W. Evans, William Fickes, Christopher Fortney, Elias Filler, James Gettis, John Barberick, David Heiges, Henry Heiges, Peter Heiges, Samuel Heiges, John Hollinger, Jr., Jacob N. Herman, Edmund Hershey, Tempes Hoffman, Lewis Heiges, Henry Hess, Jacob Haar, Lewis Koch, Alfred Kapp, Henry Kapp, David Kochenour, Jacob King, Michael Kinter, Henry King, Henry Law, Lewis Leer, John Murray, Cornelius Murray, Timothy M'Carthy, Hector B. M'Cay, Archi- bald M'Monicle, Lewis Peterman, George Ritter, Henry S. Reed, Uriah Shearer, George P. Spangler, George W. Snyder, Henry C. Snyder, Benjamin Sear, John H. Siner, William O. Sheaffer, John Shill, John Sowers, George Stokes, Cyrus Sollenberger, Joseph B. Sluth- ower, Lewis Sluthower, Jacob Trumph, Peter Wagener, Michael Wagener, Levi Wagener, Andrew R. Weimer, John Wehler, Frederick Wehler, Joseph Wolf.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Grant. After leaving West Point, he entered the United States army as a topo- graphical engineer. During the Mexican War, he served on the staff of General Zachary Taylor, and carried the orders for that renowned soldier at the famous battle of Buena Vista. For gallantry in this en- gagement, he was brevetted first lieutenant at the special request of General Taylor. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was stationed in Washington in charge of the construction of the right and left wings of the capitol, the treasury department and the general postoffice. At the battle, of Bull Run, the first important engagement of the Civil War, with the rank of brigadier gen- eral, he commanded a brigade in General Heintzleman's division. His command was engaged in the heaviest part of the battle around the Henry House. When the Army of the Potomac was organized under Gen- eral George B. McClellan, his personal friend, Franklin, was given command of a division.

With his division, he led the advance of the army from Yorktown to Pamunkly River, where he repelled an attack of the Confederates. May 15. he was appointed commander of the Sixth Corps. During the Seven Days' Battle in front of Rich- mond, he defended the right flank of the entire army against the attacks of General "Stonewall" Jackson, with the greatest skill and bravery. In the march through Mary- land in pursuit of Lee, September, 1862, he had command of the left wing of the army. On September 14, he drove the enemy through Brampton's Gap, in the South Mountain. At 10 A. M., on September 17, he came to the support of the Second Corps in the battle of Antietam and relieved the troops which had suffered so heavily.

In December of the same year, General Franklin commanded the left grand divi- sion, consisting of the Sixth Corps under William F. Smith, and the First Corps under John F. Reynolds. His force in this battle was composed of 40,000 men. He

WILLIAM BUEL FRANKLIN. major general in the United States Army, a dis- tinguished son of York County, was born in York, February 27, 1823. He obtained his preliminary education in the York County had eighty-four pieces of artillery. "Stone- Academy and was graduated from the wall" Jackson commanded the Confederate United States Military Academy at West forces which contested with Franklin's Point, in 1843, at the head of his class. troops, on this fateful day, at Fredericks- Among his classmates were General burg. A difficulty afterward arose between Hardie, the author of the noted work on Burnside, then commanding the Army of military tactics, and General Ulysses S. the Potomac, and General Franklin. The

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Committee on the Conduct of the War cen- Rhoads, a Pennsylvania member of the First Continental Congress.

sured Franklin for disobedience of orders at Fredericksburg. He was one of the officers removed from his command by order of Burnside for insubordination. President

General Franklin died at his residence in Hartford, Connecticut, June 12, 1904. His remains were brought to York and buried Lincoln refused to approve the order of in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

removal of Franklin, and this led to General Burnside's resignation from the command

SAMUEL RHOADS FRANKLIN, rear- admiral, United States Navy, and brother of the Army of the Potomac. In August, of General William B. Franklin, was born 1863, Franklin was put in charge of the Nineteenth Corps and took part with it in the Red River expedition in the southwest, and was wounded in the battle of Sabine Cross-Roads. An incident in General Franklin's career is the fact that he was captured by a band of Confederate scouts near Baltimore, July 10, 1864. They held up a train upon which he was riding between Baltimore and Philadelphia, and made him a prisoner of war. He was taken to Reistertown, Maryland, where he was held two days. While the guard in front of his tent was sleeping, he escaped to Wash- ington. at York, August 23, 1825. During his boy- hood, he attended a select school and then spent several years in the York County Academy, where he excelled in the study of mathematics and the natural sciences. In 1841, three years before the naval academy was founded at Annapolis, he entered the United States Navy. His first cruise was to the Pacific. In 1847, he was present with the American fleet when it made a demonstration on Monterey during the Mexican War. Later he served in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic Squad- rons as a passed midshipman, and on deep sea-sounding duty and the coast survey. He was promoted to lieutenant, September 14, 1855, served in the naval academy in 1855-6, on the sloop "Falmouth," of the Brazil squadron, in 1857-9, on the "Mace- donian" in 1859-60, and on the steam sloop "Dacotah" on the Atlantic coast in 1861-2. He was a volunteer on board the "Roan- oke" in the action with the "Merrimac," in March, 1862, in which the "Congress" and

When Grant was made lieutenant gen- eral, commanding all the forces of the United States, in 1864, he took a special interest in his former classmate at West Point. When Early threatened Washing- ton, in July, 1864, with 20,000 troops, Grant asked Halleck to appoint Franklin com- mander of the Union army, in the Shenan- doah Valley. In 1866, however, General He removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he became general manager of Colt's

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 70

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