The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-07-17

I ana performed the duties of the com
mon soldier-many of them filling un
I known graves-because they wer
truly patriotic, fighting for principl
and the preservation Of the Union. A
an example / need only mention JOhI
w. Mostoller, of Quemahoning town
ship, private i'm Go. Il of this regi
ment, who at Lynchburg, in the ali
sence of the company's officers, rallied
all the men he could, and leading
charge upon a rebel battery, capture,
it, for which gallantry he received from
the national congress medal, Sigh
token of his country's appreciation o
this brave deed.
In the fall Of 1861 was also recruited
in Somerset county Go. III, S5th Regt
Pa. Vol, Captain James B. Tredwell
afterwards promoted to Major
Norman Il. Ream, of Lower Turkey
foot township, now a Chicago multi
millionaire, the wealthiest son Of Som
erset county, was Sergeant, afterward,
lst Lieutenant in this company. Thi.
was also the Company of Captains
Henry Jackson and Ross II. Sanner
The regiment was under command O
Col. Joshua B. Howell, of UniOntown
and for three years fought its way
through Virginia, ut Fair Oaks, in
front of Richmond, Petersburg and
North and South CarOlinas. Col How,
ell was killed September 1854 by hi>
horse falling upon him.
In 1862 were recruited companies &,
ID and +, Captains John III. Boyts, Ad-
ann Grimm, and Francis \. Edmunds,
of the li2d regiment. This regiment
was under the command of the intrepid
and daring Colonel Robert p. Cum
minis, who had received his introduce
ton TO war as Captain of Co. y, 10th
Pa. Reserves. Col. Cummins was the
highest officer i'm command from Som
erset county during the civil war. He
was IA man OF undOubted bravery and
every inch soldier. Sick in the hos
pital at Washington, he hurried to the
battle at Fredericksburg in time to be
with, encourage and lead his men i'm
that frightfUl slaughter in which the
regiment lost two hundred and fifty
men killed, wounded and missing. At
Gettysburg, on the first day of July,
1865, after having his horse shot from
under him, he himself fell mOrtally
wounded-On the second he died,
mourned by his regiment and regretted
by all who knew him.
Companies T., III and X, Captains
William Maurer, Martin l.. Statler and
George &. Shultz of the list Regiment
were also from Somerset county. Also
companies ID and +, Captains Ed. NJ.
and George F. Baer, I33d Penn
sylyania Volunteers, also an independ-
ent company commanded by Captain
w. VI. SchrOck of Somerset borough.
Besides these distinctive commands
there were great many Of our citizens
who as individuals volunteered i'm or
ganizations raised outside of our county
Charles Henry Ogle, was graduated
at West Point, and served i'm a regi-
ment of dragons from 1915 to 1851.
At the opening of the civil war he
was commissioned major of a vOlun-
teer regiment of New York cavalry.
He died at Harrisburg in 1858.
John Rufus Edie Jr., graduated at
West Point in 1861, was assigned as 2d
Lieutenant 2d L. ;. Cavalry and was
present on the staff of General Wilcox
at the first battle of Bull Ran. After
wards served on the staff of General
Meade as ordinance officer of the Army
Df the Potomac from August, 1858, to
1854. He was brevetted
Major, March l3, ls5j, for faithful and
services in the Ordinance
and in the field. He COM
the Detroit Arsenal for a year
Dr. more and was second in command
At the Pittsburg, Washington and
springfield Arsenals, at which latter
place in IS74 he contracted a fever and
lied. He was a son of Col. ]. Il. Eiie.
Colonel John r. Edie, who ~ a
boy had spent couple OF years at
West Point, was elected member Of
from this district in IS54-lSj6.
When the war broke out he offered his
services to the government and was ap-
pointed Major of the 18th L. :. Infant
~, in which regiment and the Sth he
served during the war, and for several
years thereafter, with honor and dis
Iinction. lie was honorably dis
as Lieut.. Colonel
Henry II. Kuhn enlisted as private
in Co. y, 10th Regt. Pennsylvania r.
June 10, 1851; promoted to Ser
seant June u, 1858; wounded at the
battle of Charles City Cross Roads, Va,
June 80, 1852, and at Fredericksburg,
Va, Dec. Is, 1852 was honOrably dis
2d April, 1864, by the Secreta-
~ of War, to accept commission as
lst Lieutenant in the 23d Regiment of
L. :. colored troops wounded at battle
IF the Wilderness, Va, May Q, 1854. and
1t the battle of Mine Explosion, Va,
July 80, 1851 was hOnOrably discharg-
I'll by order of the Secretary of War
"A, 1864, for physical disa-
Dility caused by wounds received in
battle. January ), 1855, was commits
stoned by the President lst Lieutenant
Veteran Reserve Corps and assigned to
special duty, aud retained in military
service until December l, 1855. Janu-
lry - 1861, was commissioned 2d Lieu
tenant in the 42d Regt. L. :. Infantry;
December 81, 1870, promoted to the
rank of Captain by President Grant
md placed on the retired list of the L.
:. Army. Is at present 4 successful
attorney in the city of JOhnstOwn, Pa,
md serving on the staff of Governor
with rank of Lieut.. Colonel.
First Lieutenant Alexander, son OF
Andrew Jackson Ogle, graduated at
West Point in 1S72- He was assigned
TO the 18th L. :. Infantry and serv-
ed on the frontier, principally in DIko-
IA and Wyoming, until ls9l, when he
was detailed as military instructor in
the university at Columbus Ohio. In
May of that year he came home to
on sick leave and in August
he died.
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