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rick's raid; October 12th and 13th at Rome; at Lead's Cross Roads; at Nashville; at Plantersville; at Selma; and at Columbia.
MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN COMPANY I, EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENT, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE. )
Privates.
Campbell, Henry, Feb. 8, 1865; mustered out with company June 28, I865.
Graft, Andrew, Feb. 8, 1865; mustered out with company June 28, 1865.
*Martin, James K. P., Feb. 8, 1865; discharged by general order June 27, 1865.
Phillips, William, Feb. 8, 1865; mustered out with company June 28, 1865.
This regiment was organized September 8, 1861. The Middletown men joined it at Hampton Station, Va., in the spring of 1865. They were in the engagements at Jones' Farm, White Oak Road, Gravelly Run, Five Forks, Southerland Station, Jettersville, and the pursuit to Appomattox Court House. The regiment was mustered out of service at Washington, and finally disbanded July 4, 1865.
MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN COMPANY D, ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE.)
Corporals.
George Neiman, Feb. 21, 1861; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
William H. Moore, March 10, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Richard F. Eppler, March 15, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Musicians.
Valentine Baumbach, March 7, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
James P. Hipple, March 8, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Privates.
Countryman, Adam, March 1, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Copeland, Benjamin, Feb. 20, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Daugherty, James D., March 10, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
*Dead.
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James, David, March 13, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Kurtz, Levi W., Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Roop, Solomon, March 1, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Roop, Christian, March 1, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
*Starr, William, Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
Weirich, Jacob, March 10, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.
This regiment was organized in the fall of 1861. By the spring of 1865 it had been reduced to a skeleton. It was re-organized on Roanoke Island. In March of that year eight new companies (in one of which were the Middletown volunteers) were assigned to it; they were how- ever never consolidated with the original companies, and on the 25th of June, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of service at Newbern, N. C.
MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, TWELFTH CAV- ALRY. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE.)
Sergeant.
John Core, Co. E, Feb. 23, 1864; mustered out with company, July 20, 1865; veteran.
Farrier.
*John Minsler, Co. E, Feb. 27, 1864; mustered out with company, July 20, 1865.
Private.
Winaugle, William F., Co. E, Feb. 3, 1864; mustered out with com- pany, July 20, 1865.
They were in the campaign against Early in June, 1864; were in actions at Solomon's Gap, Pleasant Valley and Crampton's Gap; at Winchester on the 20th; at Kernstown on the 23rd; the loss of the Twelfth in this engagement was heavy; were with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. In an engagement on the 21st of August they suf- fered loss. In December the regiment paroled the railroad from Har- per's Ferry to Winchester, and here had frequent skirmishes; on the 22nd in battle at Harmony it had six killed and nineteen wounded. Their last skirmish was at Edinboro at the time of Lee's 'surrender.
*Dead.
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MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, THIRTEENTH CAV- ALRY. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE.)
Sergeant.
Benjamin F. Bretz, Co. F, Aug. 14, 1863; three years; promoted to corporal, March 1, 1865; mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Privates.
Coover, Adam G., Aug. 28, 1863 ; three years, mustered out with com- pany, July 14, 1865.
Fortney, Christian, Co. I, Jan. 24, 1865; one year, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Fratz, William H., Co. C, Aug. 14, 1863; three years, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Gottshall, Daniel, Co. C, Aug. 12, 1863; three years, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Hetrick, Daniel Co. C, Aug. 1, 1863; three years, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Kough, H. A., Co. C, Aug. 7, 1863; three years, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
Miller, Frederick, Co. C, Aug. 12, 1863; three years, mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
McBarron, H. H., Co. I, Jan. 24, 1865 ; one year, wounded at Raleigh, N. C., April 13, 1865; mustered out with company, July 14, 1865.
They participated in the cavalry engagement at Jefferson, October 12, 1863; here the regiment lost one hundred and sixty-three killed, wounded and prisoners; were engaged three days in the retreat to Centreville ; participated in the severe fighting from the 5th to the IIth of May, 1864; in Sheridan's raid had engagements at Beaver Dam Sta- tion and Hawe's Shop; in the last affair the regiment lost ten killed and thirty-five wounded and missing; at Trevilian Station; June 24th at St. Mary's Church; in this action the Thirteenth lost three officers and thirty men, killed, wounded and missing; July Ist relieved Wilson ; were engaged at Jerusalem Plank Road, Malvern Hill and Lee's Mills. At Coggins' Point one hundred and fifty of the regiment were captured ; September 29th, in action at Wyeth farm, lost two officers and fifteen men ; were engaged October 22nd at Boydton Plank Road; December 8th and 9th, at Hatcher's Run, it suffered severely. February 5th and 6th was fighting all of both days at Gravelly Run, and on the evening of the 6th at Dabney's mills. About the middle of February the Thir- teenth went to North Carolina; had an engagement with Hampton's Cavalry; July 14th, returned to Raleigh, N. C .; on the 15th went by rail to City Point, Va., thence via Baltimore and Philadelphia to Camp Cadwallader, where it arrived on the 19th, and on the 27th was finally discharged.
NOTE: These notes contain the names of those who enlisted here; and of those residents here during the war, who enlisted elsewhere.
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOL- UNTEERS. (NINE MONTHS' SERVICE. )
This regiment, seven companies of which were recruited in Dauphin county, was organized August 16, 1862. Colonel William H. Jennings, Lt. Col. Henry C. Alleman, Major Jeremiah Rohrer. On the 17th the regiment, 969 strong, broke camp and proceeded to Washington. For ten days the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, with other new regi- ments, were encamped on Arlington Heights. It was brigaded with the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth New Jersey, and Twenty-seventh Connecticut, and on the 23rd assigned to duty in guarding Chain Bridge, where it remained until the opening of the winter.
At the beginning of December, upon the eve of Burnside's movement upon Fredericksburg, the regiment moved to Falmouth, where it ar- rived on the 9th, and was assigned to the Third Brigade of the Second Division, Second Corps. During the night of the Ioth the engineers commenced laying pontoon bridges in front of the town, but before they were completed the workmen were driven away by the enemy's sharp- shooters, concealed in houses along the water's edge. Defeated in his first essay, Burnside ordered up his heavy guns and opened upon the town. During the bombardment the regiment supported batteries, and when this failed of effect Burnside called for volunteers to cross in boats and drive out the rebel sharpshooters. A party from Hall's brigade was chosen, among whom were members of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, and leaping to the boats and pulling lustily in the face of a shower of bullets they succeeded in reaching the opposite shore. After a brief struggle the enemy was driven and the bridge was com- pleted. Hall's brigade was the first to cross and immediately com- menced skirmishing to clear the town. Concealed in houses and cov- erts, from which they could fire with impunity upon the advancing troops, the rebels clung to their shelter, and by their unerring aim caused grievous slaughter. Half of the town was thus skirmished through, the enemy leaving the houses from one side as the Union troops were enter- ing at the other, when the brigade was ordered to halt and occupy the ground gained, and the columns of Sumner commenced crossing.
During the night of the IIth, Sergt. Solomon Cover and eleven Mid- dletown men were captured and carried prisoners to Richmond. A fierce fire of artillery was opened upon the town on the following morn- ing and the streets were torn by solid shot, but the brigade held man- fully to its work. At a little after noon of the 13th, when repeated at- tempts to carry the heights in front of the town had failed, Owen's bri- gade, to which the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was temporarly attached, was led to the assault. Moving out to the low, open ground to the left of the city, all the while under a fierce fire of artillery in front
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and a flank fire from a deflection in the hills to the right, Owen formed his men in line of battle, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh on the left of the One Hundred and Sixth, and dashed forward to his desperate task. Braver hearts never beat than filled the bosoms of the men in that devoted line. Onward they went over the prostrate forms of the dead and the dying, and up to within seventy-five yards of the enemy's lines; but the storm of deadly missiles was here too terrible to breast, and they dropped prostrate upon the ground and commenced screening themselves behind the dead bodies of their fallen comrades, with which the whole plain was strewn. To raise a head was instant death. In this perilous position the regiment lay for hours, exposed to the pitiless fire of musketry and artillery, and until night had put an end to the contest. But out of that silence from the battle's crash and roar rose new sounds more appalling still; rose or fell, you knew not which, or whether from earth or air a strange ventriloquism of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan that seemed to come from distances beyond reach of the natural sense, a wail so far and deep and wide, as if a thou- sand discords were flowing together into a keynote weird, unearthly, ter- rible to hear and bear, yet startling in its nearness ; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, pierced by shrieks of paroxysm; some begging for a drop of water, some calling on God for pity, and some on friendly hands to finish what the enemy had so horribly begun; some with de- lirous, dreamy voices murmuring loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; some gathering their last strength to fire a musket to call attention to them where they lay helpless and deserted; and un- derneath at the time, a deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless or too heroic to articulate their agony.
The regiment was relieved with the brigade during the night and re- turned to the town. At the conclusion of the battle it retired to its former camp beyond Falmouth. The loss in the engagement was very severe, being two hundred and fifty-seven killed and wounded.
The regiment was soon after settled in comfortable quarters, and was employed during the winter in picket and guard duty. On the 27th of April, at the opening of the Chancellorsville campaign, the Second Di- vision, now commanded by General Gibbon, moved out to the front of Fredericksburg, and having laid a pontoon bridge, crossed on the 3rd of May. Gibbon was joined in the town by Sedgwick's Corps, which had crossed below, and during the night had moved up to the city. An as- saulting column was formed and those frowning heights which had been so successfully defended by the enemy on the previous December, were now triumphantly carried, prisoners, small arms and guns falling into the hands of the victors. The enemy retreated towards Chancellorsville and was closely followed by Sedgwick as far as Salem Church, where Lee, having turned back from Hooker's front, fell upon and crushed Sedgwick's Corps, compelling it to withdraw to the left bank of the Rappahannock by Bank's Ford. In the meantime, Gibbon, who had been left to hold Fredericksburg, took position around the city, and com-
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menced throwing up rifle-pits. With no barrier left to oppose him, the enemy pushed forward from his triumph over Sedgwick, and soon made his appearance in Gibbon's front, where sharp skirmishing ensued. His position was held until the morning of the 4th, when, under the cover of a dense fog, he recrossed the river. The loss of the regiment in the en- gagement was fifty-three killed and wounded. Lieut. Jacob R. Knisley was among the killed.
The nine months' term of service of the regiment expired on the 14th and in pursuance of orders it was relieved and returned to Camp Curtin, where, two days thereafter, it was mustered out of service. During its brief term of duty at the front, of a little more than five months, it was engaged in two pitched battles unsurpassed in severity, and lost an ag- gregate of four officers and eighteen men killed, fourteen men who died of wounds, sixteen who died of disease, thirty-eight who were dis- charged by reason of disability, eleven who were captured, ten officers and one hundred and twenty-two men who were wounded, and three officers who resigned.
ROLL OF COMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH REGI- MENT, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. RECRUITED IN MIDDLETOWN.
Captains.
Jeremiah Rohrer, Aug. 14, 1862; promoted to major, Aug. 19, 1862. *John K. Shott, Aug. 19, 1862; promoted from first lieutenant, Aug. 19, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
First Lieutenant.
Isaiah Willis, Aug. 14, 1862; promoted from second lieutenant, Aug. 19, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Second Lieutenant.
*James R. Schreiner, Aug. 14, 1862; promoted from private, 'Aug. 19, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Jacob R. Knisley, Aug. 12th, 1862; promoted from first sergeant, March 7, 1863; died May 15th of wounds received at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.
First Sergeants.
David Hyde, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted from sergeant, March 7, 1863 ; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Sergeants.
Solomon Cover, Aug. 13, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Dead.
One of Middletown's Handsome Homes.
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Francis J. Rinehart, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; promoted from private, March 7, 1863; mustered out with company, May 29th, 1863.
William E. Shaffer, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 11, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Caleb H. Roe, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted from private, Jan. 1, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29th, 1863.
Corporals.
Leander Sanders, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
John P. Kleis, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
Henry Willis, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
John W. Klineline, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to corporal, Nov. I, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Abraham F. Brinser, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to corporal, Nov. I, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*David Fisher, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to corporal Nov. 1, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Robert C. Lowman, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to corporal, Nov. I, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*James G. Davis, Aug. 12, 1862; discharged on surgeon's certifi- cate, Feb. 6, 1863.
*Frank A. Shott, Aug. 12, 1862; died Nov. 10, 1862.
Musicians.
Henry Hipple, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Valentine Ruth, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
Privates.
*Ackerman, Ansil, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 12, 1863.
Airgood, Paul, Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Atherton, Alonzo, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Arnold, Jonas S., Aug. 12, 1862; died Dec. 22, 1862, of wounds re- ceived at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.
*Beck, William V., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Dead.
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Bancus, Henry, Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Bretz, Elias Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company May 29, 1863.
Bretz, Benjamin F., Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Brown, Andrew, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Bear, John, Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Burns, John, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Branshoff, Henry, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Brandt, Benjamin, Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Beachler, Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Brown, Henry, Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Brinzer, John, Aug. 12, 1862; discharged on surgeon's certificate, Jan. 22, 1863.
*Bretz, Daniel, Aug. 13, 1862; died Dec. 31, 1862.
Campbell, Alexander, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Cramer, John, Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Coble, Solomon, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Crick, Frank, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
Campbell, David, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to Q. M. Sergt. Dec. I, I862.
*Davis, Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Davis, Theophilus, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Detweiler, Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; died at Washington, D. C., Nov. 16, 1862.
Epler, Richard, Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Fratts, William H., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Fitzpatrick, Thomas, Aug. 13, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Dead.
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Hoover, Isaac W., Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Hickernell, Robert, Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., December II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Hickernell, David L., Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Houser, Jacob R., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Herold, Leonard, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Irely, Samuel, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Irely, John, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
James, David, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Jenkins, Henry S., Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Jones, James, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Koehler, Charles, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Keyser, Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Lutz, William, Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Laughman, Daniel, Aug. 12, 1862; discharged on surgeon's certifi- cate, Dec. 30, 1862.
Miller, James, Sept. 16, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Murphy, Robert, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Manybeck, Amos, Aug. 12, 1862; discharged on surgeon's certifi- cate, Oct. 16, 1862.
Miller, John, Aug. 12, 1862.
McBarron, William, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*McNeal, George, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*McBarron, John, Aug. 12, 1862; killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.
Null, Jacob S., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Osman, John B., Aug. 12, 1862; died April 6, 1863.
*Dead.
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Phillips, William, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Ruhl, Wilhelm, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Rehrer, Nicholas, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Rittersback, Jacob, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Ramsey, Charles J., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Reed, John, Aug. 12, 1862; killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, I862.
Schreiner, Henry J., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Stipe, Andrew J., Aug. 12, 1862; captured at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. II, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Stipe, Andrew, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Stipe, Jackson, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
Sheetz, John H., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Shaffer, Isaac H., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Snyder, Joseph H., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Snyder, Samuel, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Siple, William H., August 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Snavely, John W., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Swords, William, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Singer, Philip, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
Sebolt, John, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, I863.
*Stipe, William, Aug. 12, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862 ; discharged on surgeon's certificate, April 1, 1863.
Ulrich, Martin, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Ulrich, Solomon, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
*Dead.
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Wendling, John, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Whisler, John L., Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Winters, David, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
Young, Hiram, Aug. 12, 1862; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863.
LII.
MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEV- ENTH REGIMENT, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE.)
Musician.
Henry Hipple, Co. A, April 1, 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 3, 1865; veteran.
Privates.
Hipple, Benjamin, Co. H; May 7, 1864; mustered out with company, Aug. 3, 1865.
Irely, Samuel, Co. H., May 7, 1864; mustered out with company, Aug. 3, 1865.
McGinney, John, Co. H., May 7, 1864; mustered out with company, Aug. 3, 1865.
The regiment reached the army during the fighting at Cold Harbor ; was under fire on the Chickahominy, June 7th, and on the 17th and 18th at Petersburg; it here lost one-tenth of its numbers, in killed and wounded, and won the special commendation of General Chamberlain ; was again under fire on the 20th at Jerusalem Plank Road, and in en- gagements on the 18th and 19th of August, at Yellow House. Septem- ber 22nd the regiment was ordered to Camp Cadwallader, near Philadel- phia. It headed the Lincoln funeral procession from the Baltimore depot to Independence Hall; was left as guard of honor while the re- mains lay in state, and escorted them from Independence Hall to the New York depot when they were borne away. . May IIth, 1865, it was detached for provost duty in different parts of the State and mustered out of service August 11, 1865.
MIDDLETOWN VOLUNTEERS IN COMPANY C, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY- SECOND REGIMENT, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. (THREE YEARS' SERVICE.)
Privates.
Bankis, John, Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, I865.
NOTE: These rolls contain the names of those who enlisted here; and of those residents here during the war, who enlisted elsewhere.
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Bankis, Jacob, Feb. 10, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
Brooks, Cyrus, Feb. 14, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
Grafe, John, Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, I865.
Hawk, George W., Feb. 10, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
Lynch, John, Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
Miller, Andrew, Feb. 9, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
Ridley, Henry, Feb. 10, 1865; mustered out with company, Aug. 24, 1865.
The Twentieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia (1862) were reorgan- ized and recruited in July, 1864, for one hundred days' service, as the One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment of the line. Their term of service having expired the men were mustered out in November. One company re-enlisted to form part of a second regiment, still known as the One Hundred and Ninety-second. In the spring of 1865, nine new companies (in one of which were the Middletown men), were recruited and reported at Harper's Ferry. A regimental organization was ef- fected in March. When the spring campaign opened the regiment moved up the valley to Staunton and Lexington; but few of the enemy were met, the fighting here being substantially at an end. It was, however, retained and engaged in various duties until the 24th of August, when it was mustered out of service.
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