The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-09-25
WHOLE NO. 23O4.

United States Ford Road toward the
Chancellor House, where portion of
the Army was met falling back. Two
companies which had been doing pick
ct duty here joined the command.
With Company B thrown forward as
skirmishers, the line advanced through
the woods, striking detached parties of
the enemy, which fell back on the
main force.
As the regiment approached the open
ground the enemy opened fire and
poured in a steady stream of grape and
canister. Hating his command, Col
onel Speakman sent out detachment
from Company n to the right, which
returned, reporting the enemy moving
with infantry and artillery in that
direction. At this juncture the COM
mand was ordered by General Hum
phreys to fall back to the position first
occupied on the outer edge of the woods.
The woods were soon after set on fire
by the enemy's shells and the regiment
retired to the position ofearly morning.
Here it remained until the close OF the
battle. The loss to the regiment in
this engagement was one killed
Adjutant Edward G.. Bender-and nine
| wounded.
The regiment withdrew with the
army across the river and returned 10
its former camp. Its term of service
soon afterward expired, and returning
to Harrisburg on the 18th, just nine
months from its departure, it was dur
ing the succeeding week mustered out
of service. Subsequently large num-
Der of the members of the regiment re-
enlisted and served to the end of the
War.
TIE SIXTY-SEVENTH.
This regiment was organized in
'Camp Camacs Woods" Philadelphia,
i'm August aud September, 1851, from
companies recruited in Philadelphia
and the Counties of Monroe, Carbon,
Wayne, Jefferson, Clarion, Schuylkill,
Indiana, Westmoreland, Luzerne, and
Northampton. In March, 1852, the
regiment was assigned to the Middle
Military Division, with headquarters
at Baltimore, where the regiment was
encamped for some time.
The Colonel of the regiment-JOhn
f. Staunton-having been appointed
to the command of the military post at
Annapolis, Md, the regiment was AS
signed to duty at that place, relieving
Colonel Dick Coulter's old Eleventh
Pennsylvania Regiment. Here the
regiment remained during the summer
and fall of 1862, when it was transferred
to McReynold's Brigade, Milroy's
Division, then stationed at Berryville,
Va. When General Lee made his in
vasion of Pennsylvania in June, 1868,
the brigade was ordered to join the
division then stationed at Winchester,
Va.
When General Milrcy had decided
to make a stand, after sharp skirmish-
ing and fighting with the advance of
Lees Army on June 18th and l4th, 1t
was decided to evacuate the place In
the meantime the main body of Lees
Army having arrived during the night
of the l4th, had completely invested
the Union forces, and in the atte mpt
to break through the lines of Hays
Brigade, Louisiana Tigers, on the
morning of June 18th, the regiment
suffered heavy loss. Milroy's Division,
after being reorganized in July, 1873,
was assigned to, and made the Third
Division, Third Corps, Army of the
Potomac.
From that time to AppomattoX the
regiment shared the fate of that gallant
Army. When General Grant reorgan-
lied the Army of the Potomac in
March, 1864, the old Third Corps was
consolidated with the Second and
Sixth; the Third Division remaining
intact, was made the Third Division of
the Sixth Corps. In March, 1854, the
| the regiment re-enlisted as a veteran
| organization, and returned To the Army
from its veteran furlough with full
ranks. From that time until the end
of the war the regiment participated
in all the battles in which the gallant
old Sixth Corps was engaged.
When Sheridan was appointed to
command the Valley District, in
August, 1854, he brought with him
from i'm front of Petersburg Torbert and
Custer's Divisions of cavalry, and the
Sixth Corps, and in the battles that
| followed that brilliant but arduous
| campaign, the Sixty-seventh Regiment
bore prominent part. At the battle
of Cedar Creek, October 18th, when
the Sixth Corps made one of the most
heroic stands made by any body of
troops during the War, the regiment
sustained loss of one-fourth its number
| in killed and wounded. The dead Of
the regiment who sleep their last sleep
in the beautiful National Cemetery at
Winchester, Va, exceed those of any
from the loyal States.
The battle of Cedar Creek ended the
War in the Valley, aud in November,
1864, the Sixth Corps returned TO its
old lines around Petersburg. In jan
uary, 1868, Colonel Harry White, who
had been promoted from Major, and
subsequently, to Brigadier General, re-
Joined the regiment, having been a
prisoner of War since June ID, 1865,
with several hundred recruits, and the
regiment started out in its final cam-
paign with full ranks once more. Fort
Gregg, the storming the Rebel works
by the Sixth Corps on April I'd, Sailors
Creek and Appomattox followed soon
after, and on July II, 1865, the re-
giment was mustered out at Halls
Hill, Va, after almost four years OF
hard, faithful, and gallant service.
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