MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE THIRD REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE FIFTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE SIXTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of company F-Roll of company G-Roll of company H-Roll of company I-Roll of company K.................................. MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of ROLLS OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers -Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C― Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of company F- ROLLS OF THE NINTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers- Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C- Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of company F- ROLLS OF THE TENTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff OfficersRoll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company CRoll of company D-Roll of company E-Muster-out Roll of company F-Roll of company G-Muster-out Roll of company HRoll of company I-Roll of company K......... 671 ROLLS OF THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Muster-out Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Muster-out Roll of company E-Roll of company F-Muster-out Roll of company G-Roll of company H-Roll of company I-Roll of company K............... 684 MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE TWELFTH REGIMENT-Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of company F-Roll of company G-Roll of company H-Roll of company I-Muster-in Roll of company K................................ ........................................... 696 MUSTER-OUT ROLLS OF THE THIRTEENTH-BUCKTAIL-REGIMENT -Roll of Field and Staff Officers-Roll of company A-Roll of company B-Roll of company C-Roll of company D-Roll of company E-Roll of company F-Roll of company G-Roll of company H-Roll of company I-Roll of company K................ 710 PREFACE. THE Great Rebellion of the Southern States was formally opened and war commenced by the attack of the conspi rators on Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in South Carolina, on the 12th day of April, 1861. After resisting the terrific attack for two days, early on the morning of the 14th of April, the garrison of less than one hundred men, surrendered to an attacking army of over two thousand strong. On the 15th day of the same month, the day following the fall of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, issued a proclamation, calling out seventy-five thousand militia from the several States in the Union, to serve during a term of three months, in the war against the rebels. A requisition was made on the State of Pennsylvania for fourteen regiments. These were promptly furnished, and, such was the patriotic ardor of the people, that the number was increased to twenty-five regiments fully organized; and as many more regiments, offered by the people, were not accepted by the War Department. Camp Curtin was formed at Harrisburg on the 18th of April, and before the end of the month, the twenty-five regiments were organized and in the field. The Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania was ordered by the Governor of the Commonwealth to convene in extraordinary session on the 30th day of April, to provide for the better establishment of the State militia, and to organize an army for State defence. In a message addressed to the members of the Legislature on the first day of the extra session, Governor Andrew G. Curtin recommended the immediate organization, disciplining and arming of at least fifteen regiments of cavalry and infantry, exclusive of those already called into the service of the United States. Warning had already been given to the people in the border counties of approaching danger, and the long line of the southern boundary, lying on the borders of States seriously disaffected, rendered the adoption of precautionary measures not only politic, but necessary to the public safety. Such was the popular feeling throughout the State, that public-spirited citizens, acting on the recommendation of the Governor, maintained in complete organization the unaccepted companies, and others formed new companies, to be in readiness when a call should be issued for additional troops. The Legislature acted promptly, and on the 15th day of May, 1861, passed an Act providing for the organization of the "Reserve Corps of the Commonwealth," to consist of thirteen regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of artillery. Two days after the passage by the Legislature of the enabling act, Governor Curtin issued a proclamation, setting forth the number of companies that would be required from each county in the State. The distribution was made proportionate to the number of troops already in service from each county, based on assessments in proportion to population. The companies, by the same proclamation, were ordered to convene in State camps formed at Easton, West Chester, Pittsburg and Harrisburg, where, in conformity with the law, they were to be organized and to receive military instruction, until such time as their services should be required for the defence of the State. Under previous calls, hundreds of companies had formed and offered their services to the State, but could not be received beyond the number assigned in the quota called for by the War Department at Washington, which was but a tithe of the number offered by the patriotic citizens of the Commonwealth. When, therefore, it was published that the Governor was about to issue a call for fifteen thousand troops for purposes of State defence, so earnest was the desire of men to be admitted into the service, that many rushed to Harrisburg with all possible speed, from various districts in the State, and besought Governor Curtin to accept companies that were already fully organized and desired to enter the service of the country without delay. In a few days the number of companies offered was greatly in excess of the number required. The troops were speedily assembled in the designated camps, and the Corps was promptly organized under the direction of MajorGeneral George A. McCall. It was the intention of the projectors of the Corps, that the troops should remain in the camps of instruction during the autumn and winter, in order to become skilled in the manual of arms and thoroughly familiar with regimental, brigade and division drills, before going into active service. The fate of war, however, decreed otherwise. The invasion of Pennsylvania was threatened from the direction of Cumberland and Harper's Ferry, through Maryland, whose citizens would offer no resistance to the progress of a hostile army through that State into the borders of Pennsylvania. The danger apprehended and foreseen by the Governor and members of the Legislature, had come even before the swift vigilance of the men who presided over the affairs of the State had completed the organization, arming and instruct |