History of Warren County

CHAPTER XXII ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENTS One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment – Company F Recruited in Warren County – Regimental Organization – Colonel Harrison Allen, of Warren, in Command – Joins the Army of the Potomac – Assigned to the First Corps – The Chancellorsville Campaign – The Weary … Read more

CHAPTER XXI ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH AND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENTS   The One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment of the Line or Twelfth Cavalry – Organized near Philadelphia – Joins Pope in Virginia – Subsequent Services in the Shenandoah Valley – The First Command to Discover Lee’s Northward Movement in 1863 – Nearly Surrounded … Read more

CHAPTER XX ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH REGIMENT In What Counties Recruited – Its Warren County Companies – Regimental Rendezvous – Original Field Officers – Equipped at Harrisburg – Proceeds to Baltimore – Thence to Harper’s Ferry – Assigned to Banks’s Second Corps – In Action at Cedar Mountain – Heroic Daring Displayed at Antietam – … Read more

CHAPTER XIX FIFTY-EIGHTH AND EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENTS Colonel Curtis, of Warren, Authorized to Raise a Regiment – Is but Partially Successful – Its Consolidation with Another Fractional Command – The Field Officers – Regiment Proceeds to Fortress Monroe – Its Services in that Department – Ordered to Beaufort, N.C. – Transferred to the Army of the … Read more

CHAPTER XVIII FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT – BUCKTAIL RIFLES Manner of Recruiting Its First Companies – The Unique Material of Which It Was Composed – Woodsmen to the Front – Floating Down the Susquehanna – Captain Stone’s Raft-men – The First Company to Leave Warren – To Pittsburgh in Boats of Their Own Make – By Rail … Read more

CHAPTER XVII THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT – TENTH RESERVE Where Recruited – The Warren Guards – Regimental Rendezvous – Organization of the Regiment – It Proceeds to Harrisburg – Thence to Washington – Brigade Assignment – General Ord in Command – The Fight at Dranesville – A Weary March to Fredericksburg – Transferred to the Peninsula – … Read more

CHAPTER XVI DURING AND SINCE THE LATE WAR   Mutterings of the Coming Storm – The Outbreak – Call for Troops – Citizens of Warren in Council–Their Proceedings – The First Two Companies of Volunteers – Others in Readiness – Leaving Home for the Front – Brief Allusion to Other Organizations – Number of Warren … Read more

CHAPTER XV FROM 1830 TO 1861   The First Steamboat on the Upper Waters of the Allegheny – An Account of the Trip – Cornplanter a Passenger – Merchants and Inn-keepers in 1830 – National Character of Early Settlers – The Scotch-Irish at First in the Ascendency – Origin of the Term Scotch-Irish – Those … Read more

CHAPTER XIV FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY UNTIL 1830   Onerous Duties Imposed Upon Early Inhabitants – Passage of the Act of organization – Its Provisions – Initial Proceedings of County Commissioners – The First Term of Court – Its Officers – Jurors – Attorneys – Early Inn-keepers – Reminiscences Concerning the First Term … Read more

CHAPTER XIII THE ERA OF FORMATION, EARLY SETTLEMENTS, ETC., FROM 1800 TO 1819   Formation of Warren County – Its Original Boundaries – Temporarily Attached to Crawford County – Crawford County Organized – Erection of Brokenstraw Township – It Becomes the First Election District of Crawford – Warren County Annexed to Venango in 1805 – … Read more