History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 71

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

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Franklin decided to retire from the army. the "Cumberland" were destroyed.

He became executive officer of the "Roanoke" and engaged with the forts at Sewell's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company. point, but the sloop grounded and did not He lived in that city during the remainder get fairly into action. He was commis- of his life, filling many high positions of sioned lieutenant commander, July 16, 1862, In politics he was a commanded the "Aroostook," of the James

honor and trust. Democrat and served as presidential elector River flotilla, in 1862, the "Aroostook," of the western Gulf blockading squadron, in 1863, and was on special duty in New Orleans in 1864. During the operations in in 1876. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and served for many years as vestryman. General Frank- lin was married in 1852 to Miss Annie L. Mobile Bay, in the spring of 1865, he was Clark, of Washington, D. C., who died in on the staff of acting Rear Admiral 1900. They had no children.

General Thatcher, and was the naval representative Franklin's mother was the daughter of Dr. in the demand for the surrender of the City William Buel, of Litchfield, a descendant of of Mobile. He was made commander. Sep-

Peter Buel, of Windsor, Connecticut. His father, Walter S. Franklin, was clerk of the

tember 26, 1866, and given the steamer "Saginaw," of the North Pacific Squadron, House of Representatives at Washington; in 1866-7, on ordnance duty at Mare Island, his great-grandfather was a soldier of the California, in 1868-9, was advanced to the Revolution, and his great-grandmother, grade of captain, August 13, 1872, and com- Mary Rhoads, was the daughter of Samuel manded the "Wabash" and afterward the

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"Franklin," until transferred to duty as Seven Pines and the Seven Days' Battle in hydrographer to the bureau of navigation of Washington, D. C. He was promoted to commodore, December 15, 1880, assigned to special duty in the bureau of equipment department, and became president of the board of examiners, June 16, 1883. He re- ceived the appointment of rear admiral, January 24. 1885, was assigned to duty as superintendent of the naval observatory, and in 1886, became commandant of the European station. In 1887, Rear Admiral Franklin retired, at the age limit of 62 years. Since that time he has resided in Washing- ton. He was married in 1883. to a daugh- ter of Rear Admiral Sands, of the United States Navy. He has served as a member of the Washington National Monument Association ; president of the Inter-national Marine Conference. He is the author of "Memories of a Rear Admiral," an interest- ing volume containing recollections of his experience of forty-six years of service in the United States Navy. Since his retire- ment, he has resided at Washington, D. C.

front of Richmond. In the fall of 1863 and during the famous campaign under Grant, in 1864, Colonel Franklin served with distinction on the staff of General Sedg- wick, one of the ablest corps commanders of the Civil War. He stood near Sedgwick on the morning of May 9, 1864, at Spottsyl- vania, when that great soldier was killed by a minie ball from the rifle of a Confederate sharpshooter. He then continued on the staff of General Wright, the successor to Sedgwick, in command of the Sixth Army Corps, as inspector general, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, being present in the hard fought battles at Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and in the movement of the army toward Petersburg, Virginia. When General Early threatened Washing- ton, the Sixth Army Corps, under Wright, was moved, in July, 1864, to the Shenan- doah Valley, where it took part with the army under Sheridan in the engagements of Winchester, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill, three of the most brilliant victories of the WALTER SIMONDS FRANKLIN, soldier and civil engineer, was born in York, March 1, 1836, son of Walter S. and Sarah (Buel) Franklin, and brother of General William B. Franklin and Rear Admiral S. R. Franklin. He obtained his preparatory education in the York County Academy, an academy at Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Gunnery, a school at Washington, Connec- ticut. In 1854 he entered the Lawrence Civil War. In the campaigns under Grant and Sheridan as a staff officer, for his corps commander, Colonel Franklin served with the highest credit. For gallant and meri- torious services in action, he was brevetted major and later lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, and colonel in the United States Volunteer service. Colonel Franklin continued with the Sixth Army Corps, under Wright, and was present with Scientific School, one of the departments of . it when Lee surrendered at Appomatox, Harvard College, where he obtained a April 9. 1865. After the close of the war technical education, devoting special atten- he returned to his old regiment, the Twelfth tion to civil engineering, receiving the United States Infantry, as captain, and con- degree of Bachelor of Science in 1857. In tinued in the United States service until the year 1870, when he resigned. He then re- turned to his home at York and soon after his retirement from the army became gen- eral manager of the Ashland Iron Company, whose furnaces were situated on the line of the Northern Central Railway, near Balti- more. He continued in this position for a period of seventeen years, retiring in -1887. 1852 he was chairman and rodman for an engineering party, connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. During the years 1857-58 he served with an engi- neering party in the construction of the Fernandina and Cedar Keys Railroad, in the State of Florida. In 1859 he traveled in Europe.

At the opening of the Civil War, he was Colonel Franklin then became connected with the Maryland Steel Company until 1894 and has since continued as a director of that large industry. After retiring from the manufacturing business he was chosen president of the Baltimore City Passenger appointed First Lieutenant of the Twelfth United States Infantry. He served with his command in the Peninsular campaign of 1862, in the Army of the Potomac, under General McClellan and participated in the engagements at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Railroad Company until the consolidation

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of all the roads in the city, remaining vice- day that Lee surrendered, at the request of president of the consolidated roads until Grant, he was promoted to brigadier gen- 1903. Since 1884 he has been director in eral by brevet. From 1865 until 1883, he the Towson Bank, of Maryland, and the was chief of commissary for the depart- Provident Savings Bank, of Baltimore. ments of the army in the west and south- For many years he has served as a member west, being stationed at different times at New Orleans, Nashville, Louisville, San Francisco, Prescott, Arizona, and San Antonio, Texas. In 1883, he returned to the east and was assigned as depot commis- sary of the Department of the East at New York City. He remained in this position until he retired from the army after a long and honorable service. of the United States Light House Board. He was elected a member of the American Institute Mining Engineers and the Loyal Legion, a military order, composed of com- missioned officers who served in the Civil War. He is also a member of a large num- ber of social organizations, including the Metropolitan club, of Washington City, the Maryland, Merchants, Athletic and Coun- try clubs, of Baltimore.

Colonel Franklin was married at York. December 13, 1866, to Mary Campbell Small, daughter of the late Philip Albright and Sarah Latimer Small.

MICHAEL P. SMALL, brigadier gen- eral in the United States army, was born at York, and after obtaining his preparatory education, entered the United States Mili- tary Academy at West Point, in 1851, graduating in 1855. On the day of his graduation, he was appointed brevet second lieutenant of artillery, and served on frontier duty at Benicia, California, for one year. He took part in the war with the Seminole Indians, in Florida, in 1856-7. During the succeeding years until the open- ing of the Civil War, he served in various positions on the western frontier. In 1859. he took part in quelling the insurrection led by John Brown, at Harper's Ferry. In April, 1861, he was promoted to the rank of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad. At the first lieutenant of artillery. During the opening of the Civil War, he re-entered the military service as colonel on the staff of Governor Morgan, of New York. He first engaged as a recruiting officer and then entered the army as lieutenant colonel of the Eleventh Infantry. From March, 1862, to January, 1863, he was chief of staff to General McDowell, commanding the First Corps in the Army of the Potomac. While serving in this position, he participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, the engage- ments in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, Cedar Mountain, Manassas and Civil War, he served in the commissary and quartermaster departments of the army in the field. In 1863, he was chief commissary of the Thirteenth Army Corps. In 1864, he was stationed at Fort Monroe as chief com- missary of the department of Virginia and North Carolina, supplying the armies oper- ating against Richmond on the James River. During the spring of 1865, he occu- pied the responsible position of chief com- missary of the army of the James and de- partment of Virginia. He continued in this position to the end of the war. After the Chantilly. He was inspector general of the surrender of Lee at Appomatox, April 9, Army of the Potomac from March, 1863, to 1865, having performed duty at the battles 1865, as chief of commissary, General Small complied with Grant's orders and issued of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After rations to the Confederate army. On the the battle of Gettysburg, he had the

EDMUND SCHRIVER, major general, United States Volunteers, was born at York, where he obtained his early educa- tion. He is a representative of a family that was prominent in the mercantile busi- ness in York during the early part of last century. In 1829, he was appointed a cadet in the United States Military Academy and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1833. He served on garrison duty during the succeeding year, and from 1834 to 1835, was instructor in infantry tac- tics at West Point. He was assistant adjutant general at Washington from 1835 to 1838, and from 1839 to 1841, meantime serving in the Florida war, in quelling the Indians. He resigned from the army in 1846 and entered civil life, and took up his residence in New York state. For several years he was treasurer of the Saratoga and Washington Railroad Company, New York, and from 1851 to 1861, was president of the .

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distinguished honor of taking to the war and served under General Taylor at the department thirty-one battle flags and other opening of the Mexican War as assistant commissary in the Third Brigade. In the fall of 1847, Lieutenant Haller commanded his company in the Fourth Infantry on the march under Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. He was succeeded as com- missary to the brigade by Lieutenant U. S. Grant. He took part in the battle of Cerro Gordo and different engagements on the march to the Mexican capital and was pro- moted captain in 1848. At the opening of the Civil War he was promoted to the rank trophies of victory from that field. He fol- lowed the fortunes of the army in the Mine Run expedition during the fall of 1863 and in the campaign under Grant from the Rapidan to Petersburg, in 1864. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general by brevet in the regular army, Angust I, 1864. From March 22, 1865, to June 23, 1865, lie was on special duty under the secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. He was promoted major general by brevet, March 13, 1865, for meritorious and dis- of major. For a time he commanded the tinguished services during the war. After the close of the war, General Schriver served as inspector of the Military Academy at West Point from 1866 to 1871, and several times made a tour of inspection to different army posts. He remained in the army beyond the age limit, and retired from the army, January 4, 1881, when he re- turned to private life. Ninety-third New York Volunteers. In 1862 lie was assigned to duty as provost- marshal for the state of Maryland, but his services were not accepted by the Governor, and he returned to York. In 1863 when Lee began his second invasion of Pennsyl- vania Major Haller was a volunteer aide on the staff of General Couch who sent him to Gettysburg. He had charge of affairs at that borough when General Early's division approached it. He then came to York and because no troops were here to defend the town he repaired to Wrightsville for the purpose of arranging to guard the bridge across the Susquehanna. By orders of General Couch, commanding the Depart- ment of the Susquehanna, Major Haller took charge of affairs at Columbia, and or- dered the bridge to be burned.

JACOB GARTNER LAUMAN, major general of volunteers, was born in Taney- town, Maryland, January 23, 1813. He re- moved with his parents to York, where he was educated, and in 1844, engaged in busi- ness in Burlington, Iowa. He was colonel of the Seventh Iowa volunteer regiment in 1861. He was severely wounded at Bel- mont, November 7, 1861; commanded a brigade in C. F. Smith's division at Fort Donelson, and was promoted brigadier-

After General Gordon fell back from general of volunteers, March 21, 1862. He Wrightsville to York, Major Haller with Division, Army of the Tennessee, at the enemy and reported their movements to

. commanded the Third Brigade, Fourth

battle of Shiloh, April 6-7. 1862, and the Fourth Division of the Sixteenth Army Corps during the Vicksburg campaign. He was relieved of his command by General Sherman, July 16, 1863, and returned to Burlington, Iowa. He was brevetted major general of volunteers, March 13, I865. He died in Burlington, Iowa, in February, 1867.

two companies of cavalry, followed the General Couch at Harrisburg. Owing to a misunderstanding between himself and the military authorities at Washington, Major Haller was dismissed from the army in 1863, and was not restored until 1873, when he was made colonel of the Twenty-third Infantry. At the age of 63, he was retired from the military service.

On June 21, 1849, Colonel Haller was ter his retirement from the army, he re- moved to Seattle, in the state of Washing- ton, where he died May 1, 1897.

GRANVILLE O. HALLER, colonel in married to Henrietta M. Cox, of York. Af- the United States Army, was born at York, January 31, 1819. He obtained his educa- tion in the public schools and the York County Academy, and in 1839 entered the army as second lieutenant in the Fourth CONFEDERATE INVASION OF 1862. United States Infantry, and was assigned to During the year 1861, and the first six months of 1862, the seat of war was in Vir- duty in the western territories. He was promoted to first lieutenant July 12, 1846, ginia, Kentucky, Missouri and the south-

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ern parts of the Atlantic coast and the gulf had taken the offensive and had determined states. General McClellan, who had organ- to march into his enemy's country. It now looked as though the theatre of war was to

ized the Army of the Potomac in the vicinity of Washington, early in May, 1862, be transferred to northern soil. had sailed down the Potomac River with 100,000 men for the purpose of passing up the Peninsula between the York and the James Rivers and capturing Richmond.

After McClellan had besieged Yorktown for one month, the Confederates fell back toward Richmond. The Union army pur- sued them to Williamsburg, where an in- decisive battle was fought. McClellan moved his army to West Point and later north of the Chickahominy River to await the long expected junction of the 40,000 men, under McDowell, who was to march from Fredericksburg. This junction having been prevented by "Stonewall" Jackson threatening Washington, McClellan now moved a part of the army south of the country. Chickahominy, where he was attacked by General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Confederate forces. In the battle of Fair Oaks, Johnston was wounded and was succeeded by General Robert E. Lee, in command of what became known as the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee now re- called Jackson from the Shenandoah Valley and directed him to attack McClellan's right, while he attacked his centre and left. This resulted in the Seven Days' Battle and a change of base of the Union army to the banks of the James River, where, at the bat- tle of Malvern Hill, Lee's army met with a severe repulse. McClellan was ordered to unite his forces with those under Pope and was temporarily relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac.

President Lincoln issued a call for 300,000 volunteers for the purpose of defeating the progress of an invading foe. These troops were to serve for a period of nine months. Soon after these stirring events the patri- otic song, "We are Coming Father Abra- ham, Three Hundred Thousand More," was sung in every military camp of Union soldiers, in every town and city and all centres of population throughout the loyal north. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, issued a call for troops and within a short time sixteen regiments of infantry from the One Hundred and Twenty-second to the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth, in all 14,000 men, enlisted for the defence of their

A meeting was held in the Court

Patriotic House, at York, on the evening Meeting. of September 6, for the purpose of laying plans to organize militia companies in response to the procla- mation of the governor. John Evans pre- sided at this meeting; Robert J. Fisher and Philip A. Small were vice-presidents ; George W. Ruby and Michael Schall. secre- taries. A committee, composed of David Small, William H. Welsh, Horace Bonham, A. J. Frey, E. G. Smyser, and Joseph Smy- ser, was appointed to go to Harrisburg for the purpose of securing arms and equip- ments for the military companies to be organized under the militia act of 1858. This committee proceeded at once to Har- risburg and reported at a meeting held in the Court House, at York, on September 8, that arms would not be furnished by the state unless able-bodied men in the different boroughs and townships of the county had already organized themselves into military companies for drill and discipline. On the same day the following document was printed and widely circulated throughout York County :

Lee moved northward with a Pope's formidable army and defeated Defeat. Pope on the plains of Manassas, known as the second battle of Bull Run, and was one of the most disastrous defeats of the Union army in the Civil War. Flushed with his victories, General Lee planned an invasion into Maryland and Pennsylvania and began to move northward early in September. This movement is "To Repel Invasion! The citizens of the several townships are required to assemble at suitable places within their limits and organize military companies under the act of 1858 to aid each other in repelling in- vasion of their county. Such organizations known to history as the first northern in- vasion by the Confederate army under Lee, then numbering about 65,000 well-discip- lined men. Western Maryland and the counties of southern Pennsylvania became alarmed at this condition of affairs. Lee to consist of the enrollment of forty men,

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rank and file, and the election of a captain, them household treasures and other per- and first and second lieutenants to enable sonal property. the companies to procure arms. By order of the public meeting."

On September 8, the deputy marshal re- ported that they had completed the enroll- ment of the militia of the borough of York and that the entire number enrolled was 1,908 men, of whom 698 were either serving in the Home Guards or in active duty in the army. From the time the war had opened to September, 1862, the entire requisition for troops from the county of York, ex- clusive of the three months' men, was 4,005. Of this number, 2,000 had already entered the army.

At the meeting held September 8, it was reported that Captain

Preparing for W. H. Albright had organized,

Defence. in the First Ward, a company of 65 men, rank and file; in the Second Ward, a company of 75 men was organized, with George A. Heckert, cap- tain; Third Ward, a company of 57 men, with Dr. Jacob Hay, captain ; Fourth Ward, two companies were organized, one with 75 men, John Hays, captain, and another com- pany of 70 men, with D. W. Barnitz, cap- tain; Fifth Ward, west of the Codorus, one company of 75 men, with Jacob Wiest, cap- tain. An independent company of citizens from all the five wards of the borough was also organized, with John Gibson, captain. A cavalry company was organized with headquarters at York, with Dr. Charles M. Nes, captain. Conewago Township re- ported a company of 45 men, with T. Quickel, captain, J. B. Bear, first lieutenant, and John Hollebush, second lieutenant.

The report now came to York

Fleeing that a large Confederate army

From under General Lee was moving

Danger. northward and would soon reach the Potomac River. The in- vasion of Pennsylvania seemed to be a cer- tainty and caused excitement throughout the southern tier of counties, and refugees from this region came into York from the westward in large numbers, fleeing across the Susquehanna. Many of the farmers in the county took their horses and valuable products across the river. A number of families from the borough of York also fled eastward for safety from what they thought was impending danger, and taking with

On Sunday afternoon, September 7, 300 sick and wounded soldiers arrived in York. These troops had left the United States Hospital at Frederick, upon hearing of the approach of the invading army of Confed- erates, and were marched or conveyed over- land to Gettysburg, and from thence to York in the cars. About 125 of them were placed in the York County hospital, 100 in Odd Fellows' Hall, and the balance in the United States Hospital on the Common.

On September 13, a small squad of cavalry, acting as a scouting party, rode into York with three Confederate spies which they had captured near Abbottstown. These spies were placed in the Federal prison at Fort McHenry, near Baltimore.

The excitement now grew in-

Committee tense. The Confederate army

of Safety. had entered Maryland. It

was being closely followed by the Army of the Potomac, again in com- mand of General Mcclellan. In all the towns of southern Pennsylvania com- mittees of safety were appointed. On the evening of September 13, at a public meet- ing held in the Laurel Engine house, Chief Burgess David Small, Robert J. Fisher, John Evans, W. Latimer Small, Thomas White, Peter McIntyre, and Daniel Kraber were appointed a Committee of Observa- tion and Safety for the borough of York.

Immediately after the news had reached the borough of Hanover that the southern army might invade the state, the railroad authorities ordered that all their employes should take the oath of allegiance to the United States. As early as September 5, when news arrived in that borough that "Stonewall" Jackson had defeated Banks in the Shenandoah Valley, the condition of affairs became alarming. The wild rumors that were circulated induced the citizens of the town and vicinity to believe that an in- vading army would soon be in Pennsyl- vania. Hanover had sent two companies for the three months' service during the early part of the war. One company from the town and vicinity had entered the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment. A few days before the exciting news arrived that "Stonewall" Jackson had passed through Frederick and was moving toward

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Antietam, a company of 100 men from riages and wagons across the mountains to Hanover had enlisted and had gone to the visit the battlefield. front as Company C of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.

In its issue of September 12, 1862, the Hanover Spectator at Hanover. says :

Excitement

"The anxiety for war news in this borough during the past week has been without a parallel. Crowds of people col- lected in the streets and in the workshops. The invasion of Maryland was on every tongue. The meagre accounts of the news- papers only sharpened the appetites for more news. On Sunday the excitement reached its culmination. What before were nothing more than vague rumors assumed a condition of stern reality. A crisis was upon us. From early dawn, refugees from Frederick and Carroll Counties, Maryland, came pouring into town, some on horse- back, others in carriages and wagons, each and all declaring that the enemy had crossed the Potomac and that 'Stonewall' Jackson was in Frederick. Upon every fresh arrival, crowds collected around the carriages and wagons to hear the stories that each newcomer would relate."

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 71

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