The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-08
CONGRESSMEN AT LARGE.
Sketches of Gen. Charles Albright and
Hon. G. w. SchOfeld.
GEN. CHARLES ALBRIGHT.

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Chunk, Carbon county, and is not quite
fifty years of age He was educated a,
Dickinson College, and embraced the pro.
fession of the law, in the active practice
of which he is still engaged. lie Is also
actively interested in the banking busi.
ness, being President Of the Second Ma.
tional Bank of Mauch Chunk
In August, 1862, be was mustered in
TO service as major of the l32d Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which
he served until the regiment was muster
ed out of service on May "a, 1868 He
was promoted to be lieutepant- colonel OF
the regiment on September a, 1862, aud
to the colonelcy on January "a. 1863
The regiment arrived on the field just at
the close Of the battle of South Noun.
tain, September Is, 1862, but 10 time TO
take an active. and efficient part in the
pursuit of the enemy across Antietam
creek. During October, it took part in
rcconnoissances to Leesburg and Charles
town, West Virginia, aud then Joined in
the general movement of the army to.
wards the Rappahannock and preparations
for the battle of Fredicksburg. The regi-
ment was led in the charge 90 Mayre's
Heights, on the afternoon. of November
IL, by Lieutenant Colonel Albright, and
although side by side with vetereB troops,
it stood the brunt manfully. Sickness
and casualties had reduced the command
from the full complement to $40 effective
men, and of these $50 were lost in the
assault. The regiment, subsequent TO
this engagement, performed Only the Or
dinary guard and picket duty near the
banks of the Rappahaunock, until tho
battle of Chanccllorville, in which it took
part, being subject to severe fire Oh the
morning OF the Sd of May, and losing 30
men. Its term OF service having expired,
it returned homo and was mustered out
of service.
Two thirds of the regiment re enlisted,
however, and Colonel Albright again en-
tered the field at the head of the 2O2d
Regiment Of Pennsylvania Volunteers
The new regiment was mustered in on
September 8, 1864, but Colonel Albright
was absent from his regular command for
some time, in command of the forces EN-.
ployed to suppress the riotous disturbances
of the miners in Columbia county The
202d was first employed in keeping open
SheridaD's connections while operating
in the Shenandoah Valley, and subse'
quently in guarding the Orange and Al
exaudcria Railroad. During this period
they had lrequen. skirmishes with the
enemy, but took part in no pitched bat.
tie. In May, 1865, the ,2O2d returned
to the State, and portions of it werc on
duty for time in the coal regions. and
on August Sd it was mustered out OF ser
vice, its colonel having, on March ,th
previously, been brevetted Bngaalef
General for his gallant conduct during
the war.
General Albright is a prominent meu-
Der of the Methodist church, and was one
OF the lay delegates to the recent Genefs'
Conference of that denomination, held "
Brooklyn, taking an active part il the a.
bates and deliberations.
HON. GLENN W. sCHoFIELD.
Judge Scho6eld, the third cand'das
for Congressman at large, is too W." u
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was born in Chautauqua county, Nss
York, March II, 1917; graduated -
Hamilton College in 1910, and remove
to Warren, Pa, where be was adm,t.sI UsI
to the bar in 1913. In 1850 and i10t
he was member Of the State Assembly
and from 1851 to 1859 be was 10 .pS
Ttate Senate. In 1861 he was apP0lu'ss
President Judge of the Eighteenth ouu'
cial District Of the State, and in loo- Nv
was elected Representative from lous
sylvapia to tho Thirty eighth Cons.ea,
being subsequently, re elected iour nv
in succession, and served lately as cue"
man Of the Committee on Naval Ana"I
He was delegate to the recent Na'VDa
Republican Convention, and ae1ea
chairman Of the Committee on fiauv'~
of that body. Judge Scho6eld has lan'S ~"
a high standing in Congress, aud Is w
questionably one of the strongest msu ~
fore the people in the State. lie naU en-.
fused to accept a denomination iaf ~: ,;ah
gress in the Nineteenth district, WIN ,on
he has now represented for peafS w. m
years, but will doubtless consent 10 Soap
on the ticket as candidate for O0HS'''
man at Large.