further marching orders. Started for Chambers. burg, arriving at II A.M., and went into camp, remaining until the 26th, when it was embarked for Philadelphia, where it arrived on the 27th, and on the 1st of August was mustered out of the service.

issued to break camp at 7 A. M., and after a march | 1862, remaining until the 25th, when it received of about eight miles, the brigade crossed the line into Maryland. A reconnoissance in force was here ordered to capture a party of Confederate cavalry, and in which companies K and G secured prisoners; on the 13th broke camp and marched to Hagerstown, where was formed a close junction with the Army of the Potomac; orders were received to hold themselves in readiness for immediate service; part of the brigade (Blue Reserves), under General Kilpatrick, ordered into action, had a brisk skirmish, having nine of their men wounded. On the 14th the brigade was again

The following from Bates's "History of Pennsylvania Volunteers' is worthy of note:

"Further services for which the militia had been called were no longer required, and during the months of August and September the majority of the men were mustered out.

"With few exceptions, they were not brought to mortal conflict. They nevertheless rendered most important service. They came forward at a moment when there was pressing need. Their presence gave great moral support to the Union army, and had that army been defeated at Gettysburg, they would have taken the places of the fallen, and would have fought with a valor and desperation worthy of veterans. Called suddenly to the field from the walks of private life, with out a moment's opportunity for drill or discipline, they grasped their muskets, and by their prompt obedience to every order showed their willingness, all unprepared as they were, to face an enemy before whom veterans had often quailed."

Company I-Captain, George W. Blake; 1st Lieutenant, W. Maris, Jr.;. 2d Lieutenant, John C. Sullivan.

Company K-Captain, William W. Keys; 1st Lieutenant, David A. Woelpper; 2d Lieutenant, Silas H. Safford.

The rank and file of the 32d in this campaign were composed of about as youthful a set of "men" as ever was designated under the familiar title of the "boys," ranging as they did from fifteen to twenty years of age. They were but boys in fact, yet they were men in their readiness to stand the manly brunt of conflict to the death.

It is related by an old officer who was severely wounded at Gettysburg, that he was astonished at the serious-minded and business-like manner in The field and staff on this campaign consisted which this youthful regiment stood not only ready, of the following: but anxious, to enter the mêlee. "There might Colonel, Charles S. Smith; Lieutenant-Colonel, have been many among them," he remarked, Isaac Starr, Jr.; Major, Frank P. Nicholson; Ad-"who were as pale as a sheet, or shivered and jutant, George S. Bethell; Quartermaster, Edwin trembled with emotion when they thought of the Watson; Assistant Surgeons, William Darrah, Jr., dear ones at home, whom they might never meet Thomas A. Downs; Chaplain, J. W. Huntington; again; but every mother's son of 'em," he went on Sergeant-Major, John J. Rutherford; Commissary- to say, "were nerved up to that desperate pitch to Sergeant, George A Smith; Quartermaster-Ser- do or die, and I believe they only wanted the opgeant, J. P. Broomall; Hospital Steward, Samuel portunity to do it. They reminded me," he conMeader. tinued, "of an anecdote I once heard of the Eng. lish General Napier, the daring hero of the Indian mutiny. He was trembling like a leaf, and ashen pale, on entering his first engagement, when but a stripling ensign of twenty years. Shake on," he was overheard to mutter to himself. Go onshake on—but when you've got where I am going to carry you, you'll shake and quake a d-d sight worse than this.'"*

Company A-Captain, James D. Keyser; 1st Lieutenant, W. W. Hollingsworth; 2d Lieutenant, Amos Lanning.

Company B-Captain, Charles S. Jones; 1st Lieutenant, J. McCreight; 2d Lieutenant, George Dodd, Jr.

Company C-Captain, William W. Allen; 1st Lieutenant, John W. Powell; 2d Lieutenant, J. Lowrie Bell.

Company D-Captain, J. Ross Clark; 1st Lieutenant, Charles E. Willis; 2d Lieutenant, Harry F. West.

Company E-Captain, Jacob Laudenslager; 1st Lieutenant, James Muldoon; 2d Lieutenant, Franklin C. Garrigues.

Company F-Captain, Harry C. Kennedy; 1st Lieutenant, Benjamin H. Dusenberry; 2d Lieutenant, Robert M. Banks.

Company G-Captain, Henry J. White; 1st Lieutenant, James C. Wray; 2d Lieutenant, Thos. H. Mudge.

Company H-Captain, George W. Kern; 1st Lieutenant, Mortimer L. Johnson; 2d Lieutenant, David Jones.

Nothing of importance occurred in the regi ment after the campaign of 1863, until its reorganization under the new militia law of 1866. Although receiving very little support or encouragement from the city or State, it yet managed, by individual efforts, to maintain a high state of discipline and drill.

At a stated meeting of the Board of Officers, held December 4, 1867, Brevet Colonel and Major William McMichael was nominated for Lieutenant-Colonel, and elected to that position December 7, 1867, and on the 14th Brevet Colonel and Adjutant James W. Latta was elected Major.

On January 11, 1868, Lieutenant-Colonel William McMichael was elected Colonel (Colonel Prevost having been promoted to Major-General).

On January 20, 1868, Brevet Major R. Dale me, did not reach me in time to elicit a suitable Benson was appointed Adjutant.

in your regiment, and if you but continue to display the high soldierly qualities which distinguished you in the field, its success will be assured."

On December 1st, 1869, the designation of the regiment as the First was authoritatively settled by the decision of the Adjutant General's office to that effect.

On the 25th day of November, 1872, the regi❘ ment left the city to participate in the parade of Evacuation Day, in New York City, and became the guest of the Seventh Regiment, N. G.S. N. Y., returning home on the 26th, on which day the Colonel commanding issued the following:

"The Colonel commanding congratulates the command upon the great success that attended the excursion to New York on the 25th inst.

"Its results surpassed and exceeded all that has been hitherto done; the press, the people, and the soldiery of both our own and our sister city unite in universal encomiums on the drill, discipline, marching, and excellent military and gentlemanly deportment of the entire regiment. The ovation on Broadway, the enthusiastic reception at the Stock Exchange, the review at the City Hall Park, almost faultless in its execution, have added new and brighter laurels to your history, and will ever be pleasing reminiscences to all the participants.

"This expedition, it is believed, has done much to improve the tone of public sentiment towards the encouragement of the National Guard service, and to you it should be but a further incentive to strive by continued application and strict attention and obedience to all orders and instructions to earn a municipal, State, and national reputation that shall stamp this regiment as the peer of all its fellows in all that serves to make the true American soldier."

On the 20th of January, 1873, the regiment proceeded to Harrisburg to participate in the inaugural ceremonies of Governor-elect MajorGeneral John F. Hartranft on the following day.

Colonel James W. Latta having been appointed by his Excellency, Governor Hartranft, Adjutant General of the State, with the rank of Major-General, Lieutenant-Colonel R. Dale Benson was, on the fourth day of June, 1873, elected Colonel of the regiment, J. Ross Clark Lieutenant-Colonel, and Charles K. Ide Major.

During March, 1874, some trouble arose among the railroad hands employed at Susquehanna Depot, with every indication of becoming a serious matter, when the First Regiment was again ordered to active duty. The official report of the Colonel commanding gives a full detail of the regiment's movements and operations in that direction:

"SIR:--I have the honor to report, in conformity to instructions from the Major-General commanding 9th Division, N.G. P., that in accordance with the following telegraphic order from His Excellency, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, received at 11.50 P.M. on the 28th of March, viz.,

"Col. R. DALE BENSON, 1st Regiment Inf., Philadelphia.

row.

"Have your command in readiness to move to Susquehanna Depot not later than noon to-mor Have telegraphed General Prevost. "(Signed) JOHN F. HARTRANFT.' immediate measures were taken to place my command in marching order. At 8.20 A.M. on the 29th of March I received Special Orders No.from Headquarters 1st Division, N.G.P., direct, ing me to proceed at 11 o'clock A.M., via Pennsylvania Central Railroad, to Susquehanna Station, on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and to provide my command with three days' rations and ten rounds ammunition per man. It being Sunday, and the notice being but two and a half hours before the hour designated to move, and being compelled to send three miles for the ammunition as ordered, it was utterly impracticable to supply the men with proper rations; subsistence was, however, furnished by the regimental Quartermaster for immediate necessity, though inadequate. A staff officer was dispatched to the magazine as ordered, and I reported my command at 10.40 A.M. to the Assistant Adjutant-General of the division as prepared to move.

"Just previous to the hour fixed to move I received verbal instructions from Major-General Prevost countermanding Special Orders No.above referred to, and directing me to hold my command is readiness to move at three hours' notice. In compliance with instructions from his Excellency, the Governor, I then directed that the command should be placed under arms every three hours, the rolls of the several companies called, and report of each made to my Headquar ters, which instructions were literally carried out