Table of Contents - Campaigns - Regimental History - Regimental Story
This section is from Bates and The History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Co., PA:
"On the 27th of February, 1862, the regiment was ordered to Washington, and, upon its arrival, went into camp near Bladensburg Cemetery. Company and regimental drill was practiced under the strictest discipline. Here the altered flint-lock muskets, furnished by the State, were exchanged for the Belgian Rifles."
From the Company B Muster Roll, Jan and Feb 1862 entry, J. M. Campbell, Col.:
"Left Camp Curtin PA on the 28th of Feb. Was not mustered for pay by the mustering officer"
"The regiment stayed in Washington, D.C., until March 25th."
From the Company B Muster Roll, Mar and Apr 1862 entry, Jon. P. Linton, Maj..:
"The Company marched with the Regiment from Camp Campbell ner Washington City, DC March 29, 1862 to South Branch Station, Balt & Ohio RR where it arrived March 31, 1862, from .. marched to Paw Paw Sta from where it arrived April 8, 1862 and where it is now stationed guarding the Balt & Ohio RailRoad."
O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME 5 [S# 5]
Regiment Strength - Feb 6, 1862
On p. 719, the reported strength of the regiment was 985 with 36 sick (3.65%). [Yes, the bean counters did calculate percentages; the highest of any regiment was 11.22% and the average for Franklin's division was 5.6%.] Among the complaints listed for the army in general were measles, typhoid fever and venereal disease.
Location in Washington - April 1, 1862
Extract, embracing the "First Period," from Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's report of the operations of the Army of the Potomac from July 27, 1861, to November 9, 1862.
"The following troops of the Army of the Potomac were left behind or detached on and in front of the Potomac for the defense of that line April 1, 1862."
GENERAL WADSWORTH'S COMMAND. (partial extract)
One hundred and seventh and Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Kendall Green;
O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME 14 [S# 14]
Orders to Manassas - April 1, 1862
"The commanding general directs that you order at once 4,000 troops from Washington to Manassas, and that you order to that point as fast as they report to you the Tenth Maine, First District of Columbia, Sixtieth New York, and Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Regiments, which have been latterly employed upon the duty of guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; also from regiments which the Governor of Pennsylvania has been requested to send to Washington. These troops will be instructed to report on their arrival at Manassas to Brigadier-General Sumner, or, in the event of his having left, to Brigadier-General Abercrombie. They will be employed as long as their services may be required for the purpose of constructing the field works to be thrown up at Manassas, which will be laid out by Lieut. Col. B. S. Alexander, aide-de-camp, and constructed under the superintendence of Captain Munther, aide-de-camp and engineer."
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