The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-06
Wurt's Guards.

Wurt's Guards.
Thirteenth regiment, Pennsylvania
militia Of 1862, organized Sept T.. 1852;
colonel. James Johnson, Company {. of
Carbondalc Pa
Captain, James Nicol
First lieutenant. James Hose.
Second lieutenant. Albert :. Wurts,
First sergeant, Michael Dusane.
Sergeants-Thomas Il. Lathrope,
William NiCor, Henry Wilson, Henry
Chapman.
Corporals - Robert Doak. James
Wright. Thomas Lindsay, William
Karger. Aug. :. Wurts, Thomas Sulli-
van. William Pruchbol. Conrad Fisher.
Musician, Ezra W. Jadwin.
Privates--James Allen, Jesse II.
Bagley. Samuel n. Baker Charles w.
Barker. Thomas $. Barrett George W,
Benedict. William Brown, Angus Cam
eron jr. Agar Campbell Lotus
Campbell, William Campbell. Bernard
Chapman. Moses Chamberlain Nathan
r. Cramor, sidney A. Crane. Charles
II. Daley, Francis y. Damn, Edward
Y. Davis. John Decker Thomas
Evans, Fred Fickenshah. Clarence
Farnham, Frederick Goebel, William
Goebel, David W. Gathercolc, John
Gessler, Luther r. Godding, John Har-
ris. Thomas Haigh, Lewis w. Holford
Robert Holland, Christian Honold. Ed
ward Howells William y. Hunter
Robert f, Hurley, Thomas Hurley, jr.,
Joseph ISger George Johnson, Mar
wood Jordan. Edward F. Joslin. Henry
r. Jadwin. jr,. Joseph +. Kirkbride
William konworthy, James Kirkwood
William w. Lathrope, Thomas Lews-
ley, John :. Law, John Maxwell, Chas
Nellen, Oscar &. Moore, John
T., Mills, William f.. Mills. William
Moses, James Mcmillan, James Nc
Laughlin, John Mclean, Laurence
p'Rourke, Townsend Poore. Hugh W
PoNder!Y, John Powderly, Samuel G
Parker. Joseph w. Peck, John Petit.
grew, John f.. Richmond. Charles
Race. Charles Rowe, William Reese
William Ridley, jr,, Thomas Samuels
Daniel scugry, John sherman. Freder.
lex Siegel, George smith. Nichola:
Smith, Daniel stephens, George F
stone, Henry Swartz, jr.. John Taylor
John L. Taylor, David Timer John II.
mer Joseph b. Vannan. Thomas r
Nannan, John D. Wademan, Samue
Williams, John II. Wilson, Theodore
F. Wurts, Asa Yarns, William Yarns
Militia of 1862.
The following is summary Of III,
movements of the PENNSYLVANIA militia
OF which the Wurts guard were q part
After the second battle Of Bull Run
the rebel army FASTENED northward
crossed the Potomac, as the rich har
vests of Southern Pennsylvania invite,
invasion. ON the ith of September, 1S6.
Governor Curtin issued a proclamation
calling the peonle TO prepare for de
Tense; and recommended the formation
OF regiments throughout Pennsylvania
for the purposes of drill, and that dfte
8 D. m all business houses be closed
On the llth, under authority of Presi
dent Lincoln, the governor called 70
fifty thousand men, directing them I
report by telegraph for orders 10 move
The people everywhere few to arm
and moved promptly to the state capi
tai. The Wurts guards arrived 4
Hagerstown, Md, twelve miles fror
Antietam, very early in the mornin
of the 18th. On the evening of the lot
and day of the 18th a fierce battle wa
fought AT Antietam. Fifteen thousan
men were pushed forward to Hagers
town and Boonsboro, in readiness I
advance. Ten thousand more wer
posted in the vicinity of Greencastl
and Chambersburg, and about 25 ,OC
men were at Harrisburg, or waiting fc
transportation thither, But the enem
Mas defeated at Antietam and retreate
across the Potomac
Governor Bradford, of Marylan,
complimented the militia of Pennsy
Nsnia for the readiness with whic
they crossed the border and took the
stand beside the Maryland brigad
showing that in such cause Pennsy
vania and Maryland were one"