Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A GALLANT REGIMENT
Holds the Most Successful of Its
Series of R eunions.
THE DEATH ROLL OF THE 1O2D
Tells the Story Of the Bravery Displayed on
Hard Fought Fields.
FLAG AND BADGE PRESENTATIONS

The most successful reunion ever held by
the One Hundred and Second Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, was held yester-
day afternoon in Cyclorama Hall, in Alle-
gheny. There were present about 100
members of the regiment, and in addition
their wives, children and friends to the
number of 200 more. Major James A. Nc
Laughlin, superintendent of the Allegheny
Bureau of Health, was chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements, and all the
details of the reunion were well provided
for. Captain s. N. Duval was made chair
man Of the meeting. which was organized
soon after the copious noon lun ch provided
by the ladies was eaten.
Councilman G. w. Gerwig, an old soldi er
of another regiment. made a touching sd-
dress, referring to the remarkable ecord
made by this regiment. Some things that
have been published concerning the regi-
ment have been misleading. In the record
of regimental fatalities, compiled 81 nee the
close of the war, the One Hun dred and
Second Regiment ranks sixteenth in both
armies for hard service and loss Of life. This
regiment went into the service as the Thir-
teenth Regiment, of three months men,
with Thomas A. Rowley as Colonel At
the expiration of its time it was organized
as the One Hundred and Second Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, with - companies and a
complement of 1,15O men. During the
Peninsular campaign the regime served
in Keyes' Fourth Corps and was after ward
put into the Sixth Corps, where it saw some
OF the hardest service of the war; After
Burnside's Fredericksburg assault and
Hooker's disastrous advance on Chancellors-
vile, in both of which engagements the
regiment was under fire, the Sixth Corps
was transferred to the Shenandoah Valley,
where it went through the fire with Sheri-
dan. After that the command was in all
the slaughters of the Wilderness, Peters
burg. and Appomattox roundup: Before
the close Of the war the regiment, by reason
of hot service, was so depleted that its ranks
were filed up by substitutes and drafted
men.
The first. Colonel of the regiment was
Thomas A. Rowley, who died during the
past year. On his promotion to the posi-
tion of Brigadier General he was succeeded
by Colonel Joseph Kincaid, who died dur
ing 1868. His successor was Colonel j. w.
Patterson, killed in the Wilderness. Colonel
William Mc1lwain was then promoted
to the regiment command, and he fell at the
short but awful engagement at Cold Harbor.
The last commander was Colonel j. w.
PatchelI, who is still living and was present
at the reunion yesterday afternoon, coming
from Terre Haute, Ind, to see his old COM
rades.
At the service yesterday afternoon the
members of the regiment who have died
during the year were read, as follows: Gen
eral Thomas A. Rawley, Colonel James A.
Kincsid, j. F. Stewart, Company A. SAM
uel Matthews, G; John Suthern, c; Will
lam Peterson, G; Captain James Bishop,
E; B. F. Hunnewell, E, and James B.
Moore, E. Appropriate resolutions e1-
tending sympathy to the families of the
bereaved were adopted Captain Fullwood,
in behalf of George H. Stewart, presented
to the regiment the original flag OF the
Thirteenth Regiment, and John W. More
land, in a neat speech, presented to Captain
Hamilton the corps badge of Company f.