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Concerning this Book (pcw0001.txt) Units which included Philadelphia elements (pcw0001.txt) PHILADELPHIA IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 CONTENTS (pcw0001.txt) The Shadow of Armed Conflict (pcw0002.txt) President-elect Abraham Lincoln at Philadelphia (pcw0002.txt) The State Military Establishment (pcw0002.txt) Pennsylvania Militia, Philadelphia Commands, 1861 (pcw0002.txt) Historic Militia Commands of the City (pcw0002.txt) The U.S. Arsenals at Philadelphia (pcw0002.txt) The Washington Brigade, 1861 (pcw0002.txt) The Closed Gate at Baltimore (pcw0002.txt) Organization and Work of the Military Department of Pennsylvania (pcw0002.txt) The Three Months Volunteers, 1861 (pcw0002.txt) Philadelphia Commands, Three Months Service, 1861 (pcw0002.txt) The Philadelphia Home Guard (pcw0002.txt) May and June 1861 -- A Surplus of Enlistments (pcw0002.txt) The Military District of Philadelphia (pcw0002.txt) War Service of the Railroads (pcw0002.txt) The Three Years Regiments - Part I (pcw0003.txt) The Three Years Regiments - Part II (pcw0004.txt) The Three Years Regiments - Part III (pcw0005.txt) The Three Years Regiments - Part IV (pcw0006.txt) Army Bands (pcw0007.txt) Colored Troops, Camp William Penn (pcw0007.txt) Some of the Fighting Regiments (pcw0007.txt) Fort Delaware and Fort Mifflin (pcw0007.txt) The Navy (pcw0007.txt) Work at the Old Philadelphia Navy Yard (pcw0007.txt) and in Private Shipyards War Service of Our Ships (pcw0007.txt) The Naval Hospital and Home (pcw0007.txt) The Refreshment Saloon Movement in Southwark (pcw0007.txt) The Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home; (pcw0007.txt) Soldiers' Home in the City of Philadelphia Before Antietam (pcw0007.txt) Philadelphia Troops, Emergency Militia of 1862 The Civil War Financed in Philadelphia The Military Hospitals at Philadelphia Philadelphia Surgeons who Served The Citizens' Volunteer Hospital West Philadelphia (Satterlee) U.S. General Hospital Mower U.S. General Hospital A Key to the Official Records of the Military Hospitals The United States Army Laboratory The Invalid Corps, Companies Recruited in Philadelphia Patriotic Volunteer Firemen The Union League of Philadelphia The Invasion of 1863, Gettysburg Local Defenses in 1863 Organizing for Defense Emergency Militia from Philadelphia, 1863 Ninety-Day Militia from Philadelphia, 1863 Monuments, Markers and Tablets at Gettysburg Gettysburg, 1913 Semi-Centennial Reunion at Gettysburg, July 1913 July 4th, 1863 The Ellets and the Mississippi Ram Fleet Philadelphia Companies Enlisted in Regiments of Other States Eastern Troops to the Army of the Cumberland The United States Sanitary Commission The Christian Commission The Patriotic Clergy and Chaplains Bounties and Drafts Camp Philadelphia Camp Cadwalader The One-Year Regiments, 1864-5 Enlisted for Nine Months One Hundred Day Troops, 1864-5 Army Necrology Citizens of Philadelphia who Gained the Rank of General Officers Brevets in Philadelphia Regiments Regiments Losing Fifty or More Killed or Fatally Wounded Boy Soldiers of "61-65" Central High School in the Army and Navy U. of P. in War Girard College in the Army A Pennsylvania Monument at Cold Harbor Recruiting Stations in Philadelphia Some Local Associations for the Aid and Comfort of Soldiers Relief from the City When Richmond Fell Three Sundays The Welcome Home, 1865 Famous War Songs Return of the Colors Major-Gen. Charles Ferguson Smith The Dahlgrens Thomas Buchanan Read James E. Murdock Military Order of the Loyal Legion Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day in Philadelphia National Cemetery at Philadelphia Grand Army Association Regimental Associations Organizations of Naval Veterans The Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War The Women's Relief Corps Army and Navy Medal of Honor Men The Sons of Veterans, U.S. of A. Principal Memorials of the Civil War Located in Philadelphia Reorganization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania Regimental Histories at the Libraries War Chronology, Philadelphia =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= OFFICE OF THE MAYOR PHILADELPHIA March 14th, 1912 Col. Robert B. Beath, Philadelphia, Pa. My Dear Colonel: I have taken the liberty of appointing you a member of a special committee of three to co-operate with me in regard to the publication of a book, "Philadelphia in the Civil War," by Frank H. Taylor. As an old soldier, you are undoubtedly interested in the work, and I am very desirous to have it do full credit to all those concerned in its publication. The other members of the Committee are Colonel John P. Nicholson and General James W. Latta. Hoping you will accept the appointment and thus help me in a worthy cause, I am, with regards, Very truly yours, Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE December 1st, 1913 Hon. Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia The members of the Special Committee appointed by you to co-operate with you in the publication of "Philadelphia in the Civil War," by Frank H. Taylor, respectfully submit that: They have read the manuscript while the work was in course of preparation, followed the proof as its publication progressed, have been repeatedly in session, and inconstant consultation with the author. The book is the result of the author's conscientious, resourceful, intelligent and untiring industry. Original research has uncovered facts not heretofore disclosed; official records appealed to, and personal recollections sought for to supply matter not previously available. The literary construction of the work exhibits a control of language which, while it preserves a most attractive and readable style, concentrates the material from a great mass of the literature of the times. The regimental sketches have been verified or revised either by leading members of the associations, where regimental associations have been maintained, and in their absence from the personal recollections of survivors. The illustrations are from contemporary prints, with original drawings by the author. They have been selected with a discriminating judgment, many are of especial historic value, and together they give to the text a sentiment that invites the reader's close attention. A substantial historic asset, added to the City archives, the work will ever remain a "living witness" to Philadelphia's prompt and patriotic response in men and means when the country most needed the help of the soldier and the sailor. Robert B. Beath John P. Nicholson James W. Latta, Committee =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= THE TRIBUTE OF WAR There is "a theme of martial music which represents the approach, the presence and the departing march of a body of soldiery. The first faint notes grow clearer and louder until, amid the acclaim of trumpets, the brisk beat of drums and with the quick stride of an aspiring movement, the troops sweep by in all the brilliance and panoply of war, and then their tread slowly recedes away."[1] [1] From an address by Colonel William McMichael upon the placing of the corner-stone of the First Regiment Armory, April 19th, 1882. So the Union volunteers of the great American war came, in proud array, along the flag-draped corridors of our national history, passed on to their mission, consecrated to the cause of national integrity. Whatever may now be told of their heroism and triumph can be but an echo of the music which led them on, which stirred the souls of all loyal and patriotic men and women of that far-gone time. Written half a century beyond the days of which it relates, this book is, at best, only an outline of events, guiding the student of our local annals to those abundant sources of information, the numerous regimental histories, official records and personal narrations to be found in the libraries, wherein the glory, suffering and sorrow of war are depicted, and where the names and deeds of all soldiers and sailors of Philadelphia who had a part in the great conflict are inscribed. There has been but scant room between these covers to portray the ardor of the men, the sacrifices by women, the patriotic toil of children in the schools. It was a time of all-pervading self abnegation, changing the fortunes of a whole community. Out of the travail of this loyal city has arisen her prosperity and greatness of to-day. Monuments are erected to the honor of our heroes of the Civil War, but the greatest of memorials is the splendid fact of a Union restored and perfected, looking out upon the world unafraid, based upon the rock of enduring Freedom, an example for the patriots of every nation to follow, and in the consummation of which the people of Philadelphia had an honorable part. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER AND MILITIA ORGANIZATIONS COMPOSED OF, OR INCLUDING, PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES WHICH SERVED IN THE COURSE OF THE CIVIL WAR Washington Brigade, 1st and 2d Regiments, Gen. William F. Small, not mustered in. THREE MONTHS' SERVICE, 1861 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th Infantry; Commonwealth Artillery; First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry; McMullen Rangers. THREE YEARS' SERVICE 23d, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 36th, 41st, 56th, 58th, 61st, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 71st, 72d, 73d, 74th, 75th, 81st, 82d, 88th, 90th, 91st, 95th, 98th, 99th, 106th, 109th, 110th, 114th, 115th, 116th, 119th, 121st, 147th, 150th, 157th, 183d, 186th, 187th, 188th Infantry; 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Cavalry; 2d and 3d Artillery; 2d Provisional Heavy Artillery; Schaffer's Battery A; Independent Company Engineers. COLORED TROOPS 3d, 6th, 8th, 22d, 24th, 25th, 32d, 41st, 43d, 45th, 127th Infantry, colored troops. These regiments were raised as a part of the United States Army and were not credited to the State of Pennsylvania. ONE-YEAR SERVICE 192d, 198th, 199th, 203d, 213th, 214th, 215th Infantry, and Keystone Ind. Battery. NINE MONTHS' SERVICE 154th and 179th Infantry. SIX MONTHS' SERVICE, 1863 20th Cavalry; First Battalion Infantry; Third Battalion Infantry; Woodward's Ind. Battery. MILITIA EMERGENCY SERVICE, 1862 7th (not mustered), 8th, 9th, 20th, 21st, 25th Regiments; Battalion (National Guards); Ind. Battalion Baldwin Light Infantry; Haine's Ind. Company Infantry; Wilson's Ind. Company Infantry; Robertson's Ind. Battery; Miller's Ind. Battery; Landis' Ind. Battery. MILITIA, NINETY DAYS' SERVICE, 1863 32d, 40th, 44th, 45th, 49th, 51st, 52d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th Infantry; Rich's Ind. Company Infantry; Frishmuth's Ind. Battery; Fitzki's Ind. Battery; Hasting's Ind. Battery; Dana Troop, Cavalry. MILITIA EMERGENCY SERVICE, 1863 20th, 31st, 32d Infantry; Mann's Ind. Company Infantry; Spear's Ind. Company Infantry; Campbell's Ind. Company Infantry; Landis' Ind. Battery; Miller's Ind. Battery; First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. ONE HUNDRED DAYS' SERVICE, 1864-1865 196th, 197th Infantry; Keystone Battery; Stroud's Ind. Railroad Troop; Southard's Ind. Company (colored troops) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=