MARTIAL
DEEDS
of
PENNSYLVANIA
by
SAMUEL P. BATES
PHILADELPHIA: T. H. DAVIS & CO., 1876
A Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives Project
| The field of history should not merely be
well tilled, but well peopled. None is delightful to me, or interesting,
in which I find not as many illustrious names as have a right to enter it.
We might as well in a drama place the actors behind the scenes, and listen to
the dialogue there, as in a history push valiant men back, and protrude
ourselves with husky disputations. Show me rather how great projects were
executed, great advantages gained, and great calamities averted. Show me
the Generals and the Statesmen who stood foremost, that I may bend to them in
reverence; tell me their names, that I may repeat them to my children. Landor's Pericles and Aspasia. |
CONTENTS.
Part I. General History.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |||
| I | Resume of Pennsylvania History | 17 | ||
| II | Origin of Rebellion | 44 | ||
| III | Outlook at the Opening of the Rebellion | 74 | ||
| IV | Attempts at Pacification - The President-elect in Pennsylvania | 88 | ||
| V | The First Campaign | 116 | ||
| VI | The Great Uprising | 141 | ||
| VII | Preliminaries to the Battle of Gettysburg under Hooker | 158 | ||
| VIII | Preliminaries to the Battle of Gettysburg under Meade | 188 | ||
| IX | First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg | 207 | ||
| X | Marshalling for the Second Day at Gettysburg | 238 | ||
| XI | Severe Fighting on the Left at Gettysburg | 255 | ||
| XII | Fighting on the Right at Gettysburg | 282 | ||
| XIII | The Final Struggle at Gettysburg | 298 | ||
| XIV | The Retreat of Lee from Gettysburg | 313 | ||
| XV | The Conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg | 325 | ||
| XVI | Numbers engaged at Gettysburg | 341 | ||
| XVII | The Militia - Capture of Morgan - Burning of Chambersburg - Final Triumph - Death of the President | 362 |
Maps
FROM FREDERICKSBURG TO GETTYSBURG.
MAP OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD, FIRST DAY, JULY 1ST 1863.
Union Troops - dotted lines Rebel Troops - bold dotted lines
MAP OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD, SECOND DAY, JULY 2ND 1863.
Union Troops - dotted lines Rebel Troops - bold dotted lines
MAP OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD, THIRD DAY, JULY 3RD 1863
Union Troops - dotted lines Rebel Troops - bold dotted lines
Part II. Biography.
| I | Edward D. Baker - John T. Greble - Seneca G. Simmons - Charles Ellett, Jr. - James Cameron - Amor A. McKnight - Mark Kern - Peter B. Housum - Lansford F. Chapman - John W. McLane | 387 | ||
| II | George D. Bayard - Strong Vincent - Charles F. Taylor - J. Richter Jones - James H. Childs - Washington Brown - William Bowen - Samuel Croasdale - Henry I. Zinn - Henry W. Carruthers - Richard H. Woolworth - George A. Cobham, Jr. - Richard A. Oakford - Thomas M. Hulings - Edwin A. Glenn - Guy H. Watkins - W. L. Curry - Edwin Schall - Joseph S. Chandler - Thomas S. Brenholtz | 427 | ||
| III | John F. Reynolds - Henry Bohlen - Hugh W. McNeil - John M. Gries - James Miller- James Crowther - Joseph A. McLean - Frank A. Elliott - William S. Kirkwood - John W. Moore - Gustavus W. Town - Garrett Nowlen - A. H. Snyder - John B. Miles - Harry A. Purviance - Charles I. Maceuen - H. Boyd McKeen - O. H. Rippey - George Dare - Eli T. Conner - Francis Mahler - Elisha Hall - Edward Carroll - Richard P. Roberts | 467 | ||
| IV | Alexander Hays - John B. Kohler - Charles A. Knoderer - Robert B. Hampton - Thomas S. Bell - F. A. Lancaster - Calvin A. Craig - Henry J. Stainrook - Milton Opp - J. W. Crosby - Hezekiah Easton - Robert P. Cummins - George C. Spear - Henry M. Eddy - C. Faeger Jackson - Samuel W. Black - Theodore Hesser - Richard C. Dale - William G. Murray - John D. Musser - John M. Gosline - Martin Tschudy - Dennis O'Kane - Geo. W. Gowen - Peter Keenan | 509 | ||
| V | David B. Birney - Charles F. Smith - Robert Morris, Jr. - Charles R. Ellet - Henry C. Whelan - Thomas A. Zeigle - Joseph H. Wilson - Thomas Welsh - Joshua B. Howell - John B. Conyngham - David Morris, Jr. - Prosper Dalien | 556 | ||
| VI | Geo. G. Meade - James Q. Anderson - Hugh S. Campbell - Wm. M. Penrose - Wm. R. Gries - Wm. A. Leech - Rob't. L. Bodine - Elisha B. Harvey - Oliver B. Knowles - Andrew H. Tippin - Alfred B. McCalmont - George A. McCall | 590 | ||
| VII | John W. Geary - Charles J. Biddle - A. Schemmelfinnig - John Clark - Joseph Roberts - S. A. Meredith - A. S. M. Morgan - Owen Jones - William D. Dixon - John F. Ballier - James Starr - D. C. McCoy - James A. Beaver - Langhorne Wister | 628 | ||
| VIII | John F. Hartranft - Richard Coulter - A. Buschbeck - Charles P. Herring - Matthew S. Quay - Jacob H. Dewees - Everard Bierer - Robert Thompson - Joseph H. Horton - Joseph W. Hawley - John H. Cain - H. N. Warren - Samuel B. M. Young - John Markoe - John B. McIntosh | 662 | ||
| IX | Winfield S. Hancock - Thomas J. Jordan - William McCandless - St. Clair A. Mulholland - Samuel M. Jackson - William J. Bolton - John I. Curtin - Joseph P. Brinton - Vincent M. Wilcox - DeWitt C. Strawbridge - Robert L. Orr - Samuel D. Strawbridge - John M. Mark - Thomas F. B. Tapper - William M. Mintzer - Thomas J. Town - William R. Hartshorne - Norman M. Smith - Horace B. Burnham - Marcus A. Reno - William A. Robinson - John F. Glenn - Charles M. Betts - W. B. Franklin | 698 | ||
| X | Andrew A. Humphreys - George W. Cullum - Alfred Sully - Thomas H. Neill - George Shorkley - Levi Maish - Lemuel Todd - D. Watson Rowe - Hiram L. Brown - John S. McCalmont - Daniel W. Magraw - E. S. Troxell - John M. Wetherill - James F. Ryan - T. F. Lehmann - Hiram C. Allemann - Michael Kerwin - John P. Nicholson - John W. Phillips - David McM. Gregg | 736 | ||
| XI | Samuel P. Heintzelman - Isaac J. Wistar - R. B. Ricketts - W. W. H. Davis - Charles M. Prevost - William E. Doster - Gideon Clark - Samuel M. Zulick - Thomas A. Rowley - George W. Gile - David M. Jones - John S. Littell - T. Ellwood Zell - E. Morrison Woodward - R. Butler Price - James L. Selfridge - John Devereux - Joshua T. Owen - William H. Lessig - Edmund L. Dana | 773 | ||
| XII | Samuel W. Crawford - Charles Albright - Ira Ayer, Jr. - Henry J. Sheafer - James G. Elder - James F. Weaver - Peter H. Allabach - David B. McCreary - James A. Galligher - Benjamin F. Winger - Richard B. Roberts - Charles H. Buehler - Charles C. Cresson - Henry B. McKean - David M. Armor - Jacob G. Frick - David Miles - Henry G. Elder - Edward R. Bowen - John E. Parsons - Robert C. Cox - Henry S. Huidekoper - Jacob M. Campbell - Horatio G. Sickel | 810 | ||
| XIII | William W. Averell - John I. Gregg - Roy Stone - Hector Tyndale - G. W. Merrick - Thomas E. Rose - James Tearney - Amor W. Wakefield - Dennis Heenan - Edward J. Allen - Henry R. Guss - Joseph S. Hoard - James T. Kirk - Thomas F. McCoy - Edward O'Brien - Carlton B. Curtis - C. A. Lyman - Isaiah Price - J. William Hofmann - Edward Overton, Jr. - William F. Small - James Gwyn - William H. Boyd - F. S. Stumbaugh - O. S. Woodward - Robert M. Henderson - Isaac Rogers - Tilghman H. Good - Geo. E. Johnson - J. W. H. Reisinger - A. J. Warner - L. Cantador - John Ely - Edwin E. Zeigler - Asher S. Leidy - Thomas L. Kane | 848 | ||
| XIV | Galusha Pennypacker - William J. Palmer - Samuel K. Schwenk - Martin D. Hardin - Henry M. Hoyt - John P. S. Gobin - J. Bowman Sweitzer - John Flynn - Charles H. T. Collis - James M. Thomson - John H. Taggart - Joseph Jack - Franklin A. Stratton - George S. Gallupe - John A. Danks - Louis Wagner - Thomas J. Ahl - Joseph M. Knap - William C. Talley - James Nagle - M. T. Heintzelman - A. W. Gazzam - R. E. Winslow - J. P. Taylor - W. M. McClure - William Rickards - William Sirwell - Seneca G. Willauer - A. L. Majilton - C. C. McCormick - Benjamin C. Tilghman - Peter C. Ellmaker - F. B. Speakman - Loren Burritt - Daniel Leasure - Charles T. Campbell - George P. McLean - C. W. Diven - John Harper - Charles Kleckner - Joseph B. Kiddoo - George F. Smith - David B. Morris - Henry M. Bossert - Edward Campbell - T. Kephart - F. O. Alleman - Daniel Nagle - A. Blakeley - J. W. Fisher - Noah G. Ruhl - James Carle - James S. Negley - James Miller - Thomas F. Gallagher - J. R. Everhart - B. M. Orwig - Robert Patterson | 896 |
Part III. Civil and Miscellaneous.
| I | Andrew G. Curtin - Simon Cameron - Edwin M. Stanton - Thaddeus Stevens | 957 | ||
| II | Old John Burns - Francis Jordan - George H. Stuart - Mrs. John Harris - Mrs. Hannah Moore | 988 | ||
| III | The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon - The Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon | 1023 | ||
| IV | The Fort Pitt Works - The Petersburg Mine - Libby Prison Tunnel | 1041 | ||
| V | The Gettysburg Cabbage-Patch - The Fall of Henry D. Price - Narrative of Thomas F. Roberts in Rebel Prisons - "Sitting in the same position, the straw hat on his head, the pipe in his mouth, dead" - Shot on Picket - The Swamp Angel - A Surgeon's Adventure in the Rebel Lines - During Escape from Captivity - The Devoted Wife before Mr. Lincoln - Incidents Related by Dr. Palm - Sallie, the Faithful Brute - Death of Robert Montgomery - Rev. Dr. Brown's Account of Chantilly - Captain William Hyndman - Jenny Wade, the Heroine of Gettysburg | 1081 |
General Index to Proper Names.
Contributed for use in the Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja.
Special thanks to the following transcribers:
Judy Banja: 17-43, 90-119, 242-271, 302-331, 392-421, 452-511, 1008-1021
Judith Bookwalter: 44-89, 120-151, 212-241, 272-301, 542-841
Cyndie Enfinger: 182-211
Linda Horn: 512-541
Margaret Long: 362-391
Patricia Martz: 842-901, 932-991, 1022-1111
Barbara Mihalcik: 152-181
Leah Waring: 902-931
Marjorie B. Winter: 332-361, 422-451, 992-1007
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