Identifier: historyofbeaverc01baus (find matches)
Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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n March, 1865. Most ofthe officers of the 101st escaped at various times, and after in-credible sufferings, hunted by cavalry and bloodhounds, a partof them succeeded in reaching the Union lines, while others wererecaptured and returned to prison. The enlisted men were ex-changed at various times and places, but before the final ex-change took place in March, 1865, over half of them had died.The skeletons of the companies still remained intact, and tothese new recruits were added, and in March eight new com-panies were assigned to the regiment, but these were never con-solidated with the original companies, and on the 25th of June,1865, the regiment was mustered out of service at Newbern, N. C. The 134th Regiment, P. V. I. (nine months).—This regimentwas recruited in compliance with a call for troops to serve ninemonths, issued by Governor Curtin in July, 1862. CompaniesE and I were from Beaver County, with J. Adams Vera andJohn W. Hague their respective captains. The companies were
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Joseph II. Wilson.Colonel of the ioist Regt., P. V. I. History of Beaver County 515 mustered into the service at Camp Curtin, and Washingtonbeing threatened by the advance of the enemy in the secondBull Run campaign, the regiment was ordered to the Capitalbefore its organization was completed. There it was sent toArlington Heights, and at that place its regimental organizationwas completed with the following field-officers: Matthew Stan-ley Quay of Beaver, Colonel; Edward OBrien of LawrenceCounty, Lieutenant-Colonel; John M. Thompson of ButlerCounty, Major. The regiment was variously engaged in thedefenses, not being fortunate enough to participate in the BullRun, South Mountain, and Antietam fights, through no faultof its own, and until the 30th of December lay in camp near thelatter battlefield. While here Colonel Quay was stricken downwith the typhoid fever, and the command devolved upon Lieu-tenant-Colonel OBrien. Later, Colonel Quay returned to duty,but was so much reduced by dis

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