Civil War: One Hundred and Twelfth (Second Artillery) Regiment, History and 
Roster, Delaware Co., PA

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Source: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, by Henry Graham Ashmead, 
L. H. Everts & Co., 1884, pp. 133.

One Hundred and Twelfth (Second Artillery) Regiment.-On the recommendation of 
Gen. McClellan, Charles Angeroth, of Philadelphia, in October, 1861, was 
authorized by the Secretary of War to recruit a battalion of heavy artillery, -
afterwards enlarged to a regiment,-the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, the 
One Hundred and Twelfth of the line.  On Feb. 25, 1862, seven companies were 
ordered to Washington.  Remaining in the fortification there until the spring of 
1864, the regiment had increased by enlistments to three thousand three hundred 
men, when it was divided into two regiments, the second body under the name of 
the Second Provisional Heavy Artillery.  The new regiment was dispatched to the 
front, and, as infantry, assigned to duty in the Ninth Corps.  It took part in 
all the battles of the Wilderness campaign, and suffered severely, June 17th, in 
the charge at Petersburg.  In May, 1864, the original regiment was ordered to 
join the Army of the Potomac, and assigned to the Eighteenth Army Corps under 
Gen. Baldy Smith.  The story of this organization-two in one-is that of the 
severe year of battle until the fall of Richmond and surrender of Lee.  The 
Second Division, or Provisional Regiment, had hard service before Petersburg, 
losing in four months about one thousand men.  It was part of the brigade when 
charged into the crater when the mine was exploded, and on the 29th of 
September, 1864, after Fort Harrison had been captured, the Second Pennsylvania 
Artillery and Eighty-ninth New York were ordered to charge on Battery Gilmore, 
but the movement not being supported it resulted disastrously, the Second 
Artillery losing in killed, wounded, and prisoners two hundred men.  The history 
of the regiment is most honorable, but being intrusted with the defenses of 
Washington for two years, it was deprived, until the last year of the war, of 
displaying on the blood-stained battle-fields, before Grant became commander of 
the Army of the Potomac, that valor which in a few months earned for the One 
Hundred and Twelfth merited distinction.
  The following men were recruited from Delaware County:

                                BATTERY L.

Marion Litzenburg, 1st lieut., must. in Sept. 1, 1862; pro. to corp. Nov.
    1, 1862; to sergt. June 1, 1863; to 1st sergt. November, 1864; to 2d
    lieut. Dec. 3, 1864; to 1st lieut. Dec. 17, 1864; absent in detailed
    service in Freedmen’s Bureau at muster out.

                                BATTERY E.

Lewis Moulder, private, must. in Nov. 23, 1863; captured; died at Sal-
    isbury, N. C., Jan. 14, 1865.
Charles Barges, private, must. in Nov. 23, 1863; killed at Petersburg,
    Va.
John H. Weaver, private, must. in Nov. 23, 1863; absent, sick, at muster
    out Jan. 29, 1866.
Samuel Long, 2d Lieut., must. in Oct. 9, 1861; pro. to corp. Feb. 1, 1864;
    to sergt. Jan. 1, 1865; to 2d lieut. June 16, 1865; must. out with
    battery Jan. 29, 1865; veteran.
Thomas Chambers,* corp., must. in Dec. 21, 1863; captured at Chapin’s
    Farm, Va., Sept. 29, 1864; pro. to corp. June 20, 1865; captured at
    Salisbury, N. C.; disch. by G. O. July 14, 1865.
John Dover, private, must. in Oct. 28, 1861; disch. Oct. 27, 1864, at exp.
    of term.
John Moulder, private, must. in Jan. 4, 1864; disch. by G. O. June 8,
    1865.
William Neal, private, must. in Oct. 7, 1861; disch. Oct. 6, 1864, at exp.
    of term.
Alexander Phillips, q.m.-sergt., must. in Oct. 9, 1861; pro. to corp.
    April 22, 1864; to 1st sergt. Jan. 1, 1865; must. out with battery
    Jan. 29, 1866; veteran.


* In 1867, Thomas Chambers contributed to the Delaware County Republican a 
series of noticeably well-written papers, entitled “Memoirs of Life and Death in 
Rebel Prisons,” in which the incidents happening therein, as he saw them, are 
graphically pictured.