MARTIAL

DEEDS

 of

PENNSYLVANIA

 by

 

 SAMUEL P. BATES

 

 PHILADELPHIA: T. H. DAVIS & CO., 1876

 

 A Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives Project
Copyright 2003

 

  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.                    

                  

 

PREFACE.

 

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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