NEWS: Casualties, 125th Pennsylvania Volunteers, September 24, 1862, Blair County, PA

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Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa., Wednesday 
Morning  Sept. 24, 1862
 
KILLED AND WOUNDED  125th REGIMENT Pennsylvania Volunteers
 
Letter from the 125th Regiment P. V.
(Correspondence of the Standard)  Keedysville, Md., Sept. 18, 1862.
 
Mr. Editor: - Below I give you a list of the killed and wounded in the 
Blair County Companies in action of yesterday.  I have not time, at 
present, to give you any account of the part taken in the fight by the 
125th, but can say that we did all that was required of us, and, at the 
close, were highly complimented by Gen. Williams, commanding our 
Division.  Blair and Huntingdon counties have no cause to be ashamed of 
their Regiment.  You can rely on this list as being accurate:-
  
Adjt. R. M. Johnston, wounded, hip, (since dead.)
 
Co. A - Capt. Bell
Killed -  A. Womer, Jas. Hunter.
Wounded - Lieut. W. F. Martin, arm; Alfred Abbott, slightly; A. G. 
Edwards, leg; Austin Crissman, shoulder; Henry Crocker, breast;  
Charles Huff, severely; John Isenberg, leg; Erastus Kinsel, leg and 
shoulder;  George Orr, slightly; Jas. Roseberg, slightly; F. Wolf, leg 
and face; George Vaughn, slightly;  Robert Kerr slightly.
 
Co. B - Capt. Huyett
Wounded - Jas. Geiser, slightly; David Donnelly, leg; George McGonigle, 
thigh; John Mock, thigh; Milton Powers, hand; B. F. Wolfkill, slightly;  
Jno. A. Teats, leg; Andrew Simms, back.
 
Co. D - Capt. Hostetter
Killed - Corporals Wm. Burley, Emanuel Burley, Jno. A. Kelley;  
Privates Jos. S. McLaughlin, Isaac Markley, John A. Brown.
Missing - John E. Davis
Wounded - Capt. C. R. Hostetter, seriously; Lieut. M. Marshall, 
slightly; Peter Tries,  Sergeant E. L. Russ, mortally; Private Jno. 
Rose, seriously;  Stephen Aikens, seriously; Francis Bowen, Jno. 
Walton, L. Burley, slightly; W. B. Blake, S. H. Williamson, Jno. 
Rollin.

Co. E - Capt. McGraw
Killed - Franklin Baker
Wounded - John  Dunlap, hip; Adam Burge, foot; David Harlerode, hip; 
Jesse Benton, arm;  Wm. McGinnis, ear.
 
Co. G - Capt. McKeage
Killed - Corp. Jas. H. Gibboney
Wounded - Sergt. David E. McCahen, leg;  Jos. Reed, shoulder; John 
Prunkard, finger off; Jas. Morrow, arm; Albert Beamer, arm; Jas. 
Holler, hip; Jas. D. Riddle, stomach, mortal; Thos. Charles, leg;  Jos. 
G. Price, foot; Bascom H. Sharer, leg; D. R. P. Johnston, shoulder;  
John Sanders, arm.
 
Co. K - Capt. Gardner
Wounded - Wm. Beals, Fred Hoeffler, Michael McDermott, Louis McDermott, 
Charles Dillon, A. H. Bortman, Simon Benden, George Jones, Hiram 
McGuire, Robert Smith, John S. Beals, Fred. Ward, seriously; Samuel 
McClain, Abraham Rhodes, Patrick Kearney, Thos. Weakland, James 
Commoford, seriously.
 
The total causalities in the Regiment amount to 23 killed and 129 
wounded.  All our killed with one or two exceptions have been recovered 
and decently buried.