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  • Problems Leading to Muster Out Formation: The 54th, 190th, 191st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers

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    Bill Weidner

    The Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Infantry Corps, composed of 13 infantry regiments, formed in June 1861 for a three-year enlistment by Gov. Andrew Curtin. With a few minor exceptions, they were part of the Army of the Potomac from August 1861, until the end of May 1864.  At muster-out, those members who reenlisted or still had…

  • When They Finally Went Home

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    Bill Weidner

    June 28. 1865 – “Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, By virtue of Special Orders, No. 339, current series, from the adjutant general’s office, this army, as an organization, ceases to exist.” Maybe on the paper of army records, but as long as one veteran of the Pennsylvania Reserves drew a breath, this organization existed and…

  • Another Bucktail Regiment

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    Bill Weidner

    Research of these two units has uncovered another piece of interesting information; the 190th Regiment was known unofficially as the Bucktails. I knew about the 134 Reserves, the original Bucktails, and the 149th and 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers who were formed in 1862 by some of the original 1st Rifles’ officers and comprised the Bucktail Brigade.…

  • So Why Does A Man Reenlist?

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    Bill Weidner

    Gen. William T. Sherman is given credit for saying it first, but it has been often repeated, “War is hell!” The past three years for the Pennsylvania Reserves fell under this description. Since they formed in 1861, these men, at times, lived under conditions not thought fit for human beings, ate food that was not…

  • Maryland Troops in the Confederate Service

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    August Marchetti

    In commemoration of the gallant conduct of the First Maryland regiment on the 6th of June, when, led by Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, they drove back, with loss, the Pennsylvania Bucktail Rifles, in the engagement near Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, Va., authority is given to have one of the bucktails (the insignia of the Federal regiment)…

  • “How Ashby Was Killed : A Correspondent Reviews the Fighting Before the Battle of Cross Keys.”

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    August Marchetti

    William A. Goldsborough, Southern Historical Society Papers 21 (1893) To the Editor of The Times: The following is an extract from a telegraphic dispatch dated Salem, N. J., and published in your issue of June 27:    “Frederick Trullender, proprietor of the machine works of this city, died to-day after a long illness. He was a veteran…