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CHAPTER XXXV MISCELLANEOUS ENLISTMENTS Captain Tanner’s Independent Company: Muster – Service – Roll. List of Soldiers Enrolled in Various Other Organizations Than Those Already Named. Captain Tanner’s company was not entirely of Clarion county men. The company was composed of 100-day men. It was mustered in August 30, 1864, and discharged December 10, 1864. Its … Read more
CHAPTER XXXIV COMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT Enlistment – Remarkable Number of Desertions – Roll Concerning this company we know little. It was recruited in Clarion county; was mustered in October 16, 1862, at Camp Howe, near Pittsburgh, and mustered out July 26 (or 27), 1863, at Harrisburg, having been in the field … Read more
CHAPTER XXXIII COMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT P. V. FOURTEENTH CAVALRY First Enlistment Recruits – Other Recruits – In the Field – Record of the Men THE following named Clarion county men enlisted in September, 1862, at New Bethlehem, Pa., in Captain David K. Duff’s cavalry company, viz: John W. McNutt, recruiting officer; … Read more
CHAPTER XXXII COMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P.V. Enrollment – Services – Casualties – Roll No company in the whole number of Clarion county companies deserves a higher place in the estimation of the reader than Company H, of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth. It was recruited at Rimersburg, by Professor John Ewing, … Read more
CHAPTER XXXI COMPANY G, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P.V. Enlistment – To the Field – Services – Roll In July, 1862, Dr. Klotz recruited a company known as the “West Clarion Guards.” The men were enlisted in Richland, Salem and Washington townships. The company met at Blair’s Corners August 14, and proceeded by wagons … Read more
The History of Delaware County The Beginning Delaware County, presently consisting of over 184 square miles divided into forty-nine municipalities is the oldest settled section of Pennsylvania. The first major settlement occurred under Swedish rule by Governor Johan Printz who in 1643 established the first court, school, church and governmental offices on Tinicum Island. Equitable … Read more
CHAPTER XXX COMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT P.V. Enrollment – Route to the Field – Services – Roll SOME time in July, 1862, Dr. Charles B. Strattan, of Strattanville, received a letter from Colonel Roy Stone, of Warren, Pa., asking him to enlist a company for his Bucktail Brigade, then being formed at … Read more
CHAPTER XXIX COMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P.V. Enlistment – To the Field – Services – Roll In August, 1862, Thompson Core recruited a company at Curllsville. August 26 was the day appointed to start for the army, and on that day forty-two men left Curllsville in wagons for Kittanning, which place they … Read more
CHAPTER XXVIII COMPANY L, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH REGIMENT, P.V. – ELEVENTH CAVALRY Enlistment – To the Field – Services – Captain Loomis’s Death – Roll. COMPANY L was recruited at various points throughout Clarion county in August and September, 1861, by Captain John B. Loomis. A part of the company was mustered into service … Read more
CHAPTER XXVII COMPANY C, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH REGIMENT P.V. Recruiting – To the Front – Services – Severe Losses – Distinguished Names – Roll CAPTAIN Calvin A. Craig recruited a company at Greenville, Clarion county, Pa., in July and August, 1861. The company enrolled, during its term of service, two hundred and nineteen men, … Read more