In early 1862, soldiers of McCall’s Division of Pennsylvania Reserves were offered the opportunity to leave life in the Infantry, and volunteer to serve onboard a newly commissioned gunboat, known as the USS Carondelet. An article published in Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA in 1862 featured the following: “Pennsylvania Reserves Out West: Reports that the Union gun-boat the Carondelet, which ran the blockade at Island No. 10, is manned entirely by volunteers from the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, McCall’s division. They are a fine body of men, and nobly are they sustaining the reputation of Pennsylvania.”1 Those who took advantage of the opportunity were as follows:
Volunteers from the First Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Daniel C. Fraelick, Company E
- Corporal John Hardy, Company F
- Private John W. Jones, Company F
Volunteers from the Second Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private William H. Garrison, Company K
Volunteers from the Third Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private T. J. Moorehead, Company I
- Private Joseph Kreer, Company G
Volunteers from the Fourth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Corporal Dennis McCready, Company D
- Private Henry Fink, Company E
- Private Elias Compton, Company F
- Private William Bailey, Company G
- Private Morris Stow, Company I
Volunteers from the Fifth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Oliver St. George, Company C
- Private Michael Flanigan, Company H
- Private John Sullivan, Company H
- Private Francis Kilburn, Company K
Volunteers from the Sixth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Samuel Long, Company B
- Private Michael Famming, Company C
- Private Francis Mushon, Company G
- Private P. H. Blanchard, Company H
- Private Samuel B. Shaw, Company I
Volunteers from the First Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Amos T. Bisel, Company D
- Private Andrew Brown Jr., Company D
- Private Matthias Red, Company D
- Private William C. Stoner, Company F
Volunteers from the Eighth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Bertram Cox, Company B
- Private Simpson Walker, Company B
- Private Benjamin A. Hoffman, Company D
- Private Simeon B. Wigle, Company D
Volunteers from the Ninth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Richard Bunn, Company E
- Private Lester Dunner, Company H
- Private Robert Fairman, Company H
- Private George Upton, Company I
Volunteers from the Tenth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private J. W. Waterhouse, Company D
- Private John A. Andrews, Company G
Volunteers from the Eleventh Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private John J. Story, Company A
- Private William Jones, Company H
- Private James Kuhn, Company I
Volunteers from the Twelfth Regiment, P.R.V.C. were:
- Private Benjamin Yarnall, Company A
- Private Washington Yates, Company A
- Private Josiah Kirkendall, Company E
- Private John Worman, Company E
Currently a resident of Burke, Virginia - I'm originally from the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have been a student of the Pennsylvania Reserves since 1997 and thoroughly enjoy telling their story. By trade I'm a former IT Professional but presently working as a Letter Carrier for the United States Postal Service.
