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patriotism. Immediately after Congress declared war, he was earnest in his support of the Mckinley administration and the war policy. His attitude during that period and also that of his former associates in the Confederate army, wielded a remarkable in- fluence toward reuniting the North and the South. At the request of the President, the grandson of U. S. Grant and the grand- son of Robert E. Lee, served on Lee's staff during the Spanish-American war. Gen- eral Lee, who was universally popular in Virginia, died at his home in Richmond, in 1905.
COLONEL JOHN R. CHAMBLISS, who commanded the Confederate brigade which was the first to reach Hanover, was born in Greenville County, Virginia, Janu- ary 23, 1833. He graduated from West Point in 1853. In 1861, he was placed in command of a regiment of Virginia in- fantry, and in 1862 was made colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, which he led in many actions. When Stuart started on his northern movement in June, 1863, Colo- nel Chambliss succeeded to the command of the brigade of W. F. H. Lee, who was wounded at the battle of Aldie, ten days commanded his brigade on the right of Stuart's line, July 3, at Gettysburg. For gallantry in action and for meritorious services, Colonel Chambliss was promoted to brigadier general. He was killed in a cavalry engagement at Deep Bottom, near Richmond, Virginia, August 16, 1864.
before the forces reached Hanover. He The conflict of arms at Hanover pre-
COLONEL WILLIAM HENRY PAYNE, who commanded the Second North Carolina at Hanover, was born at Clifton, Fauquier County, Virginia, on June 15, 1830. He was educated at the University of Missouri, University of Vir- ginia and the Virginia Military Academy. At the opening of the Civil War he organ- ized a Virginia company, which became famous as the Black Horse Cavalry, and commanded it at the first battle of Bull Run. Two weeks later he was promoted to major. In 1862, he was made a lieutenant colonel. When Colonel Chambliss took charge of Lee's brigade on its movement toward Hanover, Colonel Payne was assigned to the command of the Second North Caro- lina, which did the main part of the fighting on the Confederate side in the engagement
011 the streets and western suburbs of Han- over. Colonel Payne was held as a prisoner of war for several months, and then re- turned to the army, when he was promoted to the command of a brigade in Fitzhugh Lee's division. With the rank of brigadier general he commanded this brigade during the last year of the war.
In 1865 he resumed the practice of law and later became counsel for the Southern Railway. During the last ten years of his life he resided during the winter season in the city of Washington and during the summer at his home at Warrenton, Vir- ginia. He died at Washington in 1904, at the age of 70 years. General Payne had been wounded three times in battle during the Civil War, the first time at Hanover.
INFLUENCE OF THE BATTLE.
The cavalry battle at Hanover, in accord- ance with the views of some military critics, including Major General Pleasanton, was the turning point of Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863. If it had not been for his captured wagon train, Stuart would have passed Hanover and joined Early near York on the morning of June 30. vented Stuart from passing in front of the Army of the Potomac and uniting with Ewell's corps in the Cumberland Val- ley.or with Early near York, which he had planned to do when he crossed the Potomac on June 27. After the battle had ended at Hanover he could not move westward to- ward Gettysburg or northward toward East Berlin without meeting a large force of Union infantry or cavalry. He was com- pelled to make a detour through York County and thus was prevented from com- municating with General Lee, who was then concentrating his forces around Get- tysburg, preparing for the impending battle. Even though he was successful in delivering the captured wagon train to Lee's quarter- master general, at Gettysburg, on the evening of the second day of the battle, he had not arrived in time for Lee to properly utilize his cavalry force to ascertain Meade's intentions and the disposition of the Federal army corps. Lee, Longstreet and Hill all lamented the absence of Stuart's three brigades of cavalry during the first two days of the great contest. The engagement at
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Hanover will eventually pass into history as of Grand Army posts, fire companies and the first serious encounter between the con- fraternal organizations took place in the tending forces in the battle of Gettysburg. forenoon. The literary exercises in Centre Its success to the Union arms had an im- Square were presided over by D. D. portant influence in Meade defeating Lee Ehrhart. and driving him back to Virginia.
THE MONUMENT.
On June 30, 1900, the thirty-seventh anni- versary of the battle was celebrated at Han- over by an imposing demonstration. On this occasion two cannon and two iron tablets, with appropriate inscriptions, were placed within the oval in Centre Square by Major Jenkins Post 99, Grand Army of the Republic. At the same time Camp 328, Patriotic Order Sons of America, erected a tall flag pole and the Gettysburg Battlefield Commission, under direction of the United States Government, placed two iron tablets within the oval to mark the positions of the different army corps when the engagement opened at Hanover, on June 30, 1863. The centre of the oval then contained a fountain erected by prominent citizens in 1874. In 1903, John R. Bittinger, residing near Han- over, and then a member of the State Legis- lature, introduced a bill asking for an ap- propriation for the erection of a monument. The bill passed both houses of the Legis- lature and was signed by the Governor, May 19, 1903. It provided for the ex- penditure of $7,500. Under this act, Gov- ernor Samuel W. Pennypacker became chairman of the commission, to be com- posed of three persons. He appointed Colonel John P. Nicholson, president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association, and Rev. Daniel Eberly, D. D., of Hanover, to serve with him on this commission. They selected Cyrus E. Dallin, a noted sculptor, of Boston, to design and execute the monu- ment. The commission decided to have made an equestrian statue in bronze of a mounted cavalryman on picket duty resting on a pedestal of granite. Authority was given by the borough council and the citizens to erect the monument in the centre of the oval surrounded by neat grass plats, upon which rested the cannon and the tab- lets erected in 1900. The fountain was therefore removed to Wirt Park, within the limits of the town. On September 28, 1905, the monument was unveiled and dedicated in the presence of 10,000 people. A parade
The Governor presented the monument to the town. The speech in response in behalf of the borough coun- cil was delivered by John J. Bollinger. Among the speakers were Colonel H. C. Potter, of Philadelphia, who commanded the detachment of the Eighteenth Penn- sylvania that received the first attack of the Confederates when the fight opened. and General E. D. Dimmick, a retired officer of the regular army, who had com- manded a company in the Fifth New York at Hanover during the engagement. The monument is a graceful ornament to Centre Square, and commemorates one of the most important historical events in southern Pennsylvania.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
During the four and a half years that the Civil War continued, the county of York furnished to the Union army more than 10,000 men who served in different regi- ments. The names of the commissioned officers from York County in the military service were obtained from the adjutant general's office at Harrisburg. The follow- ing is the list :
COLONELS.
George Hay, Eighty-seventh Infantry. 1
Thomas A. Zeigle, One Hundred and Seventh In- fantry.
Levi Maish, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
Andrew J. Fulton, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth In- fantry. Charles W. Divin, Two Hundredth Infantry.
John W. Schall, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS.
Samuel N. Baily, Forty-first Infantry.
James A. Stahle, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
W. A. McCartney, One Hundred and Thirty-third In- fantry.
Geo. W. Reisinger, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth In- fantry.
MAJORS.
A. E. Lewis, First Artillery.
Cyrus Diller, Seventy-sixth Infantry.
Wm. S. Diller, Seventy-sixth Infantry.
Noah G. Ruhl, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Joseph S. Jenkins, One Hundred and Thirtieth In- fantry.
Joseph A. Renaut, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth In- fantry.
David Z. Sipe, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
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ADJUTANTS.
Calvin S. Budding, Forty-fifth Infantry.
Fred R. Smith, Seventy-sixth Infantry.
Jacob Emmett, Jr., Eighty-seventh Infantry.
G. C. Stroman, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
W. C. Waldman, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
WVm. E. Patterson, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth In- fantry.
QUARTERMASTERS.
Charles Garretson, Seventy-sixth Infantry.
Peter Ford, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Milton Culzbaugh, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth In- fantry.
Matthew H. McCall, One Hundred and Eighty- seventh Infantry.
SURGEONS.
J. A. Wolf, Twenty-ninth Infantry.
Wm. F. Smith, Seventy-third Infantry.
W. D. Bailey, Seventy-eighth Infantry.
Washington Burg, Two Hundred and Seventh In- fantry.
ASSISTANT SURGEONS.
James M. Shearer, Forty-first Infantry.
B. M. Patterson, First Artillery.
O. M. Johnson, Fifty-fifth Infantry.
WV. P. Nebinger, Fifty-sixth Infantry.
T. M. Curran, Sixty-eighth Infantry.
John E. McIlvain, Sixty-eighth Infantry.
Jared Free, Eighty-third Infantry.
A. R. Nebinger, Eleventh Cavalry.
G. K. Thompson, One Hundred and Thirty-second In- fantry.
W. J. Underwood, One Hundred and Fifty-first In- fantry.
F. W. Vandersloot, Third Artillery.
S. F. Neely, One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry. Samuel F. Murphy, Twenty-first Cavalry.
L. L. Rewalt, Twenty-first Cavalry.
F. S. Smith, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth In- fantry.
CHAPLAINS.
James H. Brown, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
John T. Baird, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
David C. Eberhart, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
David J. Lee, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry: Stephen M. Smith, Two Hundredth Infantry.
CAPTAINS.
Win. W. Moore, Company E, Fifty-fifth Infantry.
Nathaniel Z. Seitz, Company B, Sixty-seventh In- fantry.
Charles L. Bittinger, Company D, Seventy-sixth In- fantry.
H. C. McIntyre, Company I, Seventy-sixth Infantry. J. J. Young, Company I, Seventy-sixth Infantry. Frank J. Magee, Company I, Seventy-sixth Infantry. Harrison Stair, Company I, Seventy-sixth Infantry. John Fahs, Company A, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
George J. Chalfant, Company A, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Lewis Maish, Company B. Eighty-seventh Infantry. Zeph. E. Hersh, Company B, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Murry S. Cross, Company C, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Isaac Wagner, Company C, Eighty-seventh Infantry. James H. Blasser, Company D, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Edgar M. Ruhl, Company D, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Solomon Myers, Company E, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Charles J. Fox, Company E, Eighty-seventh Infantry. V. C. S. Eckert, Company G, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Henry Morningstar, Company G, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Ross L. Harman, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry. Wells A. Farrah, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Philip Gentzler, Company H, Eighty-seventh Infantry. WVm. H. Lanius, Company I, Eighty-seventh Infantry. John Albright, Company K, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Emanuel Herman, Company D, One Hundred and Third Infantry.
Oliver P. Stair, Company A, One Hundred and Seventh Infantry.
Wm. T. Reisinger, Company I, Eleventh Cavalry. Thomas B. Griffith, Company C, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
Lewis Small, Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry. .
Alonzo L. Ettinger, Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Ruf. J. Winterode, Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Peter Z. Kessler, Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Samuel E. Miller, Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Jeremiah Kohler, Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
D. M. Spangler, Company G, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
Michael McFatridge, Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Daniel L. Stoud, Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Hugh W. McCall, Company A, Twenty-first Cavalry. Henry Fox, Company K, One Hundred and Eighty- seventh Infantry.
Adam Reisinger, Company A, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
John Winer, Company A, Two Hundredth Infantry. R. B. Hoover, Company B, Two Hundredth Infantry. W. H. Duhling, Company D, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Jacob Wiest, Company H, Two Hundredth Infantry. Hamilton A. Glessner, Company K, Two Hundredth Infantry.
Henry W. Spangler, Company B, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
John Klugh, Company I, Two Hundred and Ninth In- fantry.
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
Wm. W. Arnold, Company G, Forty-first Infantry. Abing W. Minnich, Battery E, First Artillery. James Kincade, Battery G, First Artillery.
Luther Y. Diller, Company D, Seventy-sixth Infantry. Joseph H. Ensign, Company I, Seventy-sixth Infantry. Wm. H. Myers, Company K, Eighty-second Infantry. Jacob Hay, Jr., Company A, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
John F. Spangler, Company A, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Lewis Rasch, Company A, Eighty-seventh Infantry. John Crull, Company B, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Samuel Saylor, Company C, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Jonathan Keesey, Company C, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Andrew G. Shull, Company D, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
George Blasser, Company D, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Wm. F. Frank, Company E, Eighty-seventh Infantry. Alexander Strickler, Company E, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Peter Nickle, Company E, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Robt. A. Daniel, Company G, Eighty-seventh Infantry. R. S. Slaymaker, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
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Andrew B. Smith, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Daniel P. Deitrich, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry. Charles F. Haack, Company K, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Benjamin Gipe, Company E, One Hundred and First Infantry.
Edmund Rutter, Company D, One Hundred and Third Infantry.
Samuel S. Mathews. Company G, One Hundred and Third Infantry.
Charles W. Butts, Company I, Eleventh Cavalry.
D. W. Overlander, Company H, Twelfth Cavalry.
James Crimmins, Company A, One Hundred and Seventh Infantry.
Wm. H. Tomes, Company B, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
D. Wilson Grove, Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
James Lece, Company K, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
John Herman, Company A, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
Jacob N. Slagle, Company B, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
Andrew D. Yocum, Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Wm. H. Becker, Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
John Forry, Company E, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
George A. Smith, Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
John N. Taylor, Company G. One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
George S. Kehm, Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
James A. Grove, Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Jeremiah M. Hanigan, Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Franklin Springer, Company A, Twenty-first Cavalry. Samuel I. Adams, Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Wm. Reisinger, Company A, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Edward Smith, Company A, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Daniel L. Stoud, Company C, Two Hundredth In- fantry. Martin L. Duhling, Company D, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
James McComas, Company H, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
George J. Spangler, Company K, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Augustus C. Steig, Company K, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Samuel B. Urich, Company D, Two Hundred and Second Infantry.
Richard C. Ivory, Company E, Two Hundred and Seventh Infantry.
Thomas J. Hendricks, Company B, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
George W. Heiges, Company I, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS.
Robert W. Smith, Company G. Thirty-fourth Infantry. T. Brandon Hurst, Company H, Thirty-sixth Infantry. Nathan Carman, Company G, Forty-first Infantry.
James E. Gordon, Company D, Seventy-sixth Infantry. J. W. Morningstar. Company I, Seventy-sixth In- fantry.
Wm. Bierbower. Company A, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Charles H. Stallman, Company C, Eighty-seventh In- fantry. Henry Waltemeyer, Company C, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Ramsey Hannagan, Company C, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
WVm. H. H. Welsh, Company D, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Henry Seitz, Company D, Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Benjamin D. Dull, Company D, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Samuel W. Keasey, Company D, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
John L. Shillito, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
Harry J. Harmond, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
M. S. Slothower, Company H, Eighty-seventh In- fantry.
C. P. Stroman, Company K, Eighty-seventh Infantry. C. W. P. Collins, Company D, One Hundred and Third Infantry.
George C. Stair, Company A, One Hundred and Seventh Infantry.
Daniel H. Schriver, Company I, Eleventh Cavalry.
Henry Reisinger, Company B, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
Wm. G. Bosler, Company C, One Hundred and Thir- tieth Infantry.
Frank G. Terbert, Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
Jeremiah Oliver, Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry. John J. Frick, Company K, One Hundred and
Thirtieth Infantry.
Samuel Leinner, Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry.
John M. Kauffman, Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
John Gable, Company C, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
Jacob Diehl, Company D, One Hundred and Sixty- sixth Infantry.
Emanuel Wallick, Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Simon J. Diller, Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Richard E. Elcock, Company G, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Henry Haldeman, Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
S. B. Mclaughlin, Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
Benjamin Gipe, Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry.
S. N. Kilgore, Company A, Twenty-first Cavalry.
D. J. Bossler, Company A, One Hundred and Eighty- sixth Infantry.
Jonathan Jessup, Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Wm. T. Torbet, Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry.
Daniel Keller, Company H, One Hundred and Eighty- seventh Infantry.
John P. Metzger, Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-second Infantry.
James C. Channel, Company' D, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Infantry.
Joseph H. Craft, Company C, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Wm. H. Drayer, Company D, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
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Frederick A. Hershey, Company E. Two Hundredth Infantry.
W'm. H. Smyser, Company H, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Peter Ginter, Company I, Two Hundredth Infantry. Zach. S. Shaw, Company K, Two Hundredth In- fantry.
Wm. S. Douglass, Company B, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
Wm. B. Morrow, Company B, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
Henry L. Arnold, Company I, Two Hundred and Ninth Infantry.
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CHAPTER XXVI
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
War Declared-Victory at Manila-Battle of Santiago-York County Troops.
The treatment administered by the gov- ernment of Spain to the inhabitants of Cuba called forth the criticism of different nations of the world. The outspoken opinion of American statesmen on this subject found disfavor among the Spanish leaders in Cuba, months of the war, with the rank of brigadier general, commanded the Second Brigade, Second Division, Second Army
and on February 15, 1898, the Maine, one of the large battleships . of the American navy, cast anchor and was resting in the Corps. harbor of Havana. The appearance of this war vessel in Cuban waters was objected to by the Spanish authorities. For some un- accountable reason, which was neither ex- plained nor discovered after a careful in- vestigation, the Maine was blown up, and two officers and 264 American sailors lost their lives. This calamity caused great ex- citement in the United States. Spain re- fused to make reparation, asking that the whole matter be submitted to arbitration. Upon hearing this news, Congress declared war against Spain and recognized the inde- pendence of Cuba. Three days later, Presi- dent Mckinley issued a call for 125,000 troops to serve for two years or during the war.
Commodore Dewey, commanding the Pacific Squadron of six ves-
tory won great prestige for the American navy.
Meantime a Spanish fleet appeared off the southern coast of Cuba under Commodore Cervera. This fleet was attacked, July 3, by the American squadron under Commo- dore Sampson, with Commodore Schley second in command. Cervera's fleet was entirely destroyed. The land forces, under General Shafter, had defeated the Spaniards in the battle of San Juan Hill, July 1 and 2, which was the last serious conflict during the war with Spain.
General Fitzhugh Lee, with a large American force, took possession of Havana after the city had been evacuated by the Spaniards and set sail for home.
Colonel John W. Schall, who commanded the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War, entered the army in 1898 as colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volun- teer Regiment, and during the last five
When the war opened Governor
York Hastings, of Pennsylvania, issued
County a. call for the National Guard to
Troops. enlist in the United States ser- vice. At this time Company A. of York, and Company I. of Wrightsville, be- longed to the Eighth Regiment. Company A had been organized in 1875 by Captain E. Z. Strine as the York City Grays. It was assigned to the National Guard in 1877 and aided in quelling the Homestead riots in 1892, under command of Captain Strine, and was stationed at Hazleton. Pennsyl- vania, under Captain Adam Garver. during the coal strike of 1897. The company was mustered into the United States service for the Spanish-American War, May 12, 1898, and went into camp with the regiment at Mount Gretna, near Lebanon. Pennsyl- vania. Colonel Frank J. Magee. of Wrightsville, who had won distinction as a soldier in the Civil War, was unable at this period to go into active operations in the He was succeeded in command of
Victory at Manila. sels at Hong Kong, China, was ordered by President Mckinley to proceed to Manila Bay, the main port of entry to the Philippines. When he entered the harbor of Manila, May 1, 1898. field. he was fired upon by a Spanish fleet of the Eighth Regiment by Colonel Theodore twelve war vessels. He quickly returned
F. Hoffman. The regiment was sent to the fire, and in a short time destroyed the Camp Alger, near Washington, May 19, and entire fleet of the enemy, which was largely composed of inefficient vessels.
assigned to the Third Brigade. First
This vic- Division, Second Army Corps. It was sent
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to Camp Meade, near Harrisburg, August 30. On November 15, it was transferred with the brigade to Camp Mckenzie, Au- gusta, Georgia, where it was mustered out of service, March 7, 1899. The Third Brigade, in which this regiment served, was in command of General J. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
The following is a complete muster roll of Company A :
Officers-Captain-Adam Garver. First Lieutenants- Charles E. Lehman, Calvin A. Seidenstricker. Second Lieutenant-James H. Schall. Sergeants-John Mc- Comas, John W. Fickes, Erastus A. Krafft, John Leh- man, George Lentz, Hubert C. Smith. Corporals- Clarence S. Deveney, Charles F. Eberly, Albert Hess. Charles A. Lutz, Harry J. Test. Musicians-Percy A. Noirott, John J. Schwartz.
Privates-Frederick W. A. Able, Emanuel M. Ams- baugh, James A. Bailey, William H. Baublitz, Joseph Beaverson, Charles E. Berkey, Eli P. Berry, George M. Bievenour, William H. Blockinger, Latimer Brooks, Charles H. Brunhouse, Howard Campbell, James Crim- mins, James D. Danner, John L. Daron, David F. David- son, George W. Deckert, Tilden H. Deitch, Reuben D. Desenberg, Harvey J. Deveney, Luther M. Diehl, Joseph J. Dingler, Albert C. Dittenhaffer, Maslin B. Dunmire, Benjamin F. Durr, Clarence W. Durr, Paul C. Ebersole, William H. Fantom, James M. Flory, George L. Frank, Franklin F. Frey, John W. Frey, Ralph W. Frey, John Garver, Edward J. Garland, Clarence A. Glatfelter, Stewart Glatfelter, Thomas F. Heberly, George C. Heltzel, John F. Heltzel, William B. Heltzel, Amos R. Hollinger, Bert N. Husson, George J. Hyde, William H. Inners, John T. Keesey, Henry L. Keiser, Lee P. Kis- singer, Reuben A. Kranich, Samuel Kurtz, William Landis, David H. Leathery, Tilden Lehman, August Martin, John S. Mckinley, Thomas C. Miller, Miley S. Montague, Joseph N. Moore, Edgar G. Mundorf, Abra- ham Musser, George W. Musser, Arthur Myers, Allen W. Pflieger, Emanuel Pflieger, Robert J. Platts, Harry M. Ramer, Joseph N. Reuter, Robert M. Rolland, John C. Ryder, Calvert C. Scott; Allen S. Shauck. Jacob L. Shive, John C. Showers, Clinton L. Sipe, Daniel H. Sloat, Rudolph E. Smyser, Frederick M. Spangler, Wil- liam H. Spangler, Lloyd P. Stevens, James W. Stine, Justin M. Strevig, Hope W. Strickler, Ulrich Strickler, Raymond Torbert, William J. Walker, Frank R. Wantz, Andrew P. Watt, George W. Welsh, Elwood B. Wit- mer, Joseph F. Wolfe, Daniel B. Yeaple.
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