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204th
Pennsylvania Regiment, 5th Pennsylvania Artillery
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204th
Pennsylvania Regiment, 5th PA Artillery Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 5 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Fifth Artillery. — Col., George S. Gallupe;
Lieut.-Col., Joseph Browne; Majs., Michael Baer, Howard Morton, George
M. Irwin, William H. Hope. This regiment, the 204th of the line, came
from the counties of Allegheny, Lawrence, Beaver, Cambria, Westmoreland,
Armstrong and Greene, rendezvoused at Camp Reynolds, Pittsburg, and was
mustered into the U. S. service during the latter part of Aug. and the
first 10 days of Sept., 1864, for a term of one year. Col. Gallupe was
formerly major in the 8th reserve regiment and Lieut.-Col. Browne was
major of the 102nd Pa. infantry. Shortly after its organization it left
the state for Washington, where it did duty in the forts north of the
capitol until Sept. 28, when it was posted along the line of the
Manassas Gap railroad, then being opened up as a line of supply for
Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley. It was frequently engaged with
Mosby's command while employed in this work, a number of the men being
wounded and 22 cut off and captured at Salem on Oct. 8. A few weeks
later, while at Piedmont, a detachment of the command with a squadron of
the 13th N. Y. cavalry moved into the mountains and captured 4 guns and
caissons of Mosby's artillery and a number of prisoners. About the end
of October it returned to the forts of Washington for a few days and
then returned to Virginia, being posted for the winter by detachments,
at Prospect hill, Vienna and Fairfax Court House. It was employed during
this time in picket and guard duty and in building large stockades and
block-houses. In the spring of 1865 detachments were sent to the Bull
Run battlefield and decently buried some 2,000 dead, whose bodies had
remained improperly cared for since the second battle there. In June it
was ordered to Pittsburg, where it was received with public
dmonstrations, and finally mustered out on June 30, 1865. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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