mill and New Market cross-roads, were now filled with tenderest emotions; and the eyes, that had so often been brightened at the sight of the hero of the Peninsular battles, as he rode along the fiery lines, were now swimming in tears of affectionate memory. The general briefly addressed the men who were drawn around him in camp, and then parted from them, reluctantly as an honored chieftain from his devoted followers.

As rapidly as the companies were mustered out at Harrisburg, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, they were transported to the several counties in which they had been organized. The citizens in every part of the State made ample preparations to receive back, in honor, the heroes of so many triumphant campaigns. In almost every county, the people turned out en masse to welcome home the veterans, who had survived the terrible ordeal of battle and death, through which the Reserve corps had passed, in defence of Union, Liberty and Republican government; ample collations were spread, and the soldiers returning from the war, were invited to partake of the richest viands and the choicest dainties, that the ingenuity and wealth of the people of the great Commonwealth could procure. Men and women of all classes of society vied with each other in zeal to do honor to the soldiers of the Nation. The highest talent in the State was employed to pronounce orations of welcome, and to render prayerful thanks to Almighty God, for the protection, deliverance, and return vouchsafed to the remnant of the Reserves.

A large proportion of the officers and men who were mustered out soon re-entered the service. Many of the privates recruited companies and led them to the field, and the officers, commissioned to higher ranks, rejoined the army. Colonel Hardin, of the Twelfth, was, on the 2d of July, appointed to a brigadier-generalship and assigned to a command in the defences of Washington; Colonel Sickel rejoined the Army of the Potomac in command of the One hundred and ninty-eighth regiment of Pennsylvania volun

teers; and Major Hartshorn, one of the gallant commanders of the Bucktail regiment, was commissioned colonel of the One hundred and nintieth regiment, which was composed of the re-enlisted Reserves.

Numerous efforts had been made by Governor Curtin and by the people of the state to preserve the organization of the Reserve Corps until the end of the war; but the authorities at Washington, adopting an unbending policy that would be applicable to the regiments from all the states, but which was wholly inapplicable to the conditions of the Reserve Corps, rendered it impracticable to continue the organization of the Corps beyond the original term of enlistment.

From the beginning of the war against the Southern rebels until the commencement of the seige of Petersburg no body of troops had achieved a fame so distinct and so universal, as that which attached to the name of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Other troops fought as well. Regiments from Pennsylvania and from other States wrought out glorious histories that will ever be remembered by a grateful posterity, but these fought, in almost every instance, as parts of brigades that were without a permanent name; the Reserves fought battles and won victories of their own; and hence secured to themselves a wider fame in the history of the Nation's struggle up from partial to universal Freedom. The several regiments will have places in the regimental catalogue of the State, but over and above these, with a more enduring lustre, will span the glorious bow of honor, overarching the banners of the Corps. The memory of the dead will be more sacred, and the names of the living more honorable, not only because the men fought in one of the fifteen regiments comprised in this organization, but because they are enrolled as Pennsylvania Reserves.

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CHAPTER XIII.

REGIMENTAL ROLLS AND INDIVIDUAL RECORDS.

Muster-out Roll of the First regiment, P. R. C., commanded by Colonel W. Cooper Talley, originally commanded by Colonel R. Biddle Roberts. Called into service on the 9th day of June, 1861: mustered out on the 13th day of June, 1864.

Roll of Company A, commanded by Captain Mott Hooton, originally commanded by

f Wounded in action.

g To serve unexpired term. h Honorably, by Sec'y of War.

Roll of company B, commanded by Captain Wm. L. Bear, originally commanded by Cap

Metzger, Emanuel C., sergt.a b 14 McClain, Wm. G.