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History of the 104th Pennsylvania regiment, from August 22nd, 1861, to ...

 By William Watts Hart Davis
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By William Watts Hart
Davis
Published 1866
J. B. Rogers, printer
United States
356 pages
Original from the New York Public Library
Digitized Jan 22, 2008
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Contents

GENERAL HENRY M NAGLEE Frontispiece
85
Heintzelman, Savage's station, divisions of Casey
LIEUTENANT EDWARD S MCDOWELL
109
Morris island, Folly island, Bottom's bridge
CAMP ON MORRIS ISLAND
257
Morris island, Doylestown, Pottsville
LIEUTENANT PHILIP BURKE
360
CHAPTER I
9
Doylestown, Bucks county, Hartsville
CHAPTER II
22
Kalorama, typhoid fever, Washington
In WINTER QUARTERS
35
Mound City, Fortress Monroe, commissioned officers
CHAPTER IV
47
Warwick river, Yorktown, Heintzelman
ENEMY PURSUED FROM YORKTOWN
60
fort Magruder, Williamsburg, immediate pursuit
CHAPTER VI
72
Williamsburg, Seven Pines, West Point
CHAPTER VII
85
divisions of Casey, Nine Mile road, Williamsburg road
CHAPTER VIII
99
line of battle, chaplain Gries, major Gries
CHAPTER IX
113
Stonewall Jackson, waist deep, cavalry
CHAPTER X
126
Harrison's landing, Malvern hill, second lieutenant
CHAPTER XI
140
Gloucester point, Saulsbury, Eagle point
CHAPTER XII
153
Mobjack bay, outside the line, Harrisburg
CHAPTER XIII
166
Cahawba, pork barrels, North Carolina
ARRIVE AT PORT ROYAL
178
Saint Helena island, Port Royal harbor, Hilton Head island
IRONCLAD ATTACK ON SUMTKR
192
Charleston, Sumter, Ironsides
CHAPTER XVI
206
Saint Helena, Weehawken, Port Royal
CHAPTER XVII
218
Campbell house, Secessionville, James island
CHAPTER XVIII
231
battery Wagner, Pawnee, fort Wagner
CHAPTER XIX
244
Black island, howitzers, batteries
CHAPTER XX
257
eastern beach, land batteries, barbette
FORT WAGNER TAKEN
271
Sullivan's island, Weehawken, fort Moultrie
CHAPTER XXII
283
Eastburn, Mount Pleasant, outer harbor
CHAPTER XXIII
296
fort Johnson, secretary of war, Helena sound
CHAPTER XXIV
310
North Edisto, bivouac, Port Royal
CHAPTER XXV
323
Pottsville, Bridgeton, Quakertown

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Doylestown - Page 29
Captain Harvey hearing of him sent an officer there, who arrested and brought him to Doylestown. He escaped on his way to Harrisburg and returned to ...
more pages: 11 18 22 34 330
Sumter - Page 240
In addition to these the barbette guns of Sumter commanded battery Wagner, and not only could throw plunging shot into it but down the island a mile ...
more pages: 198 200 222 268 302
Quakertown - Page 267
wished distributed among the poor of Quakertown borough, where he formerly resided. lie was a foreign German, and without relatives in this country. ...
more pages: 344 345
Charleston - Page 284
The fatigue and other duties performed by the army during the active operations against Charleston were enormous and no other troops worked harder at ...
more pages: 179 181 197 300
Gloucester - Page 143
General McClellan ordered a force sent over to Gloucester point to hold that place, which would give us the control of the Peninsula between the York ...
more pages: 147 149 161 167
Philadelphia - Page 332
The regiment reached Philadelphia in the night and was sent out to camp Cadwallader, where no preparations had been made to.
more pages: 12 19 87 298
Savannah - Page 179
A city may yet spring up somewhere on these waters that will absorb both Charleston and Savannah. The island of Saint Helena affords an admirable site ...
more pages: 181 184 212 315
Harrisburg - Page 29
He was again arrested and sent to Harrisburg under guard. Before he reached the regiment he deserted the third time, and was gone several months ...
more pages: 158 162
Newport News - Page 50
The regiments on the Constitution were transferred to small steamers, and taken up to Newport News and disembarked, whence they marched about two ...
more pages: 137 142
New York - Page 298
Sixteen escaped from the cars between Philadelphia and New York and were not apprehended. One concealed himself on board the steamer and could not be ...
more pages: 156 168 174 327
Scarborough - Page 286
A party of deserters, the first since the fall of Wagner, came in and gave themselves up to lieutenant Scarborough, who was on duty at Cumming's point ...
more pages: 162 290 331 334
Atlanta - Page 327
Mean while the enemy telegraphed for troops to oppose us, and we lay there doing nothing until a brigade was brought from Atlanta, Georgia, with which ...
more pages: 199 206 211 314
Annapolis - Page 48
General McClellan had already ordered the transportation from Annapolis to Alexandria. The retreat of the enemy had caused the evacuation of the ...
more pages: 152
Baltimore - Page 23
We reached Baltimore before daylight, and marched through the streets of the monumental city while its inhabitants slumbered. ...
more pages: 78 79 81 158
Allentown - Page 29
He escaped on his way to Harrisburg and returned to Allentown. He was again arrested and sent to Harrisburg under guard. ...
more pages: 353
Beaufort, SC - Page 176
were left behind to await the first opportunity to send them down. They did not rejoin us until some time in May, while encamped at Beaufort, SC.
Allentown, New Jersey - Page 29
Watching his opportunity, he deserted and went to Allentown, New Jersey, where he located himself as a school teacher. ...
Beaufort, North Carolina - Page 169
Twenty miles outside of the capes the sealed orders were opened, when it was found that our destination was the harbor of Beaufort, North Carolina. ...
Scranton - Page 348
do do Pottsville, do do do Frankford, do Philadelphia, do Scranton, do do do do do do do Pottsville, do.
more pages: 350 352 353 355
Orem - Page 28
But two officers, captain Orem and lieutenant Kephart, took the disease, but both recovered. The typhoid fever was of an equally mild character, ...
Pottsville, Pa - Page 353
E., Scranton, do Pottsville, Pa. do do do do Scranton, do Pottsville, do Philadelphia, do do do Scranton, do Pottsville, do Scranton, ...
more pages: 345 346
Boston - Page 40
with a party of ladies from Boston. We also had a visit from Miss Kate Dean, who visited the army of the Potomac on a joint mission of patriotism and ...
more pages: 224
New Orleans - Page 174
She ran between New York and New Orleans, and was in the latter city when the troubles broke out. While lying at the dock she wag seized by a party of ...
more pages: 152
Fredericksburg - Page 49
She was but twelve miles from Fredericksburg, where rebel troops were stationed ; and there was just cause of alarm that the enemy might run a battery ...
Arlington Heights - Page 37
After the usual forms had been gone through with, he was conducted to the quarters of general McDowell, at Arlington Heights. ...
Lambertville, New Jersey - Page 184
I was agreeably surprised to meet, at this place, captain Ingham Coryell. of Lambertville, New Jersey, but now assistant quartermaster, ...
Salem, Massachusetts - Page 40
From the church the remains were escorted through the city to the Baltimore depot, where they were put on board the cars for Salem, Massachusetts, ...
Wilmington, North Carolina - Page 175
of the troops on board each transport was furnished with sealed instructions which were not to be opened until off Wilmington, North Carolina. ...
Roanoke - Page 171
tuck sound to Roanoke island, thence up Albemarle sound to New Berne, and down by railroad. A few sick men were left behind at Yorktown, and assistant ...
Suffolk, Virginia - Page 172
About the time of our arrival in North Carolina general Ferry arrived at New Berne, with his brigade, from Suffolk, Virginia. ...
Jacksonville - Page 328
The regiment was stretched along the rail road guarding it from Jacksonville to Baldwin, where three companies were stationed. ...
Winchester, Virginia - Page 40
The funeral obsequies of general Lander, who died at Winchester, Virginia, the 1st of March, were celebrated in Washington on the 6th instant. ...
Harrisonburg - Page 331
with a brigade of four thousand men, started to escort a train of six hundred wagons to general Sheridan's army at Harrisonburg. ...
Georgetown - Page 23
The return of daylight enabled us to determine our location — just back of Georgetown, and before the war one of the loveliest spots in the vicinity ...
Northampton - Page 10
The one which was holden near Addisville, in Northampton township, was the largest and most enthusiastic of the series. ...
more pages: 347 354
Cairo, Illinois - Page 37
The regiment also furnished two commissioned officers, lieutenants Kcphart and Groff, to assist in conducting the entire detail to Cairo, Illinois, ...
Paris - Page 174
The enemy removed the Fresnel, which the government had purchased in Paris, but left the machinery uninjured. Our transport was a fine steamer of ...
York - Page 68
At this point, the Peninsula is quite narrow, and with gunboats in the James and York rivers, our shells would have overlapped this neck of land, ...
Slidell - Page 315
The 144th New York, colonel Slidell, was sent forward four miles to seize the bridge at Haulover cut, which separates Seabrook's island from John's. ...
Galway - Page 306
On the 1st of April Morris island was visited by lieutenant-colonel Galway and captain Alderson, of the British army, and captain Goodnough, ...
Nashville - Page 190
At the same time the iron clads were watching the steamer Nashville, a famous blockade runner, which was loaded with cotton and ready to put to sea. ...
Hanover - Page 117
On the 18th of June two squadrons of regular cavalry, stationed at Hanover old church, were overpowered by 1500 of the enemy's cavalry, under general ...
Cheltenham - Page 22
A little after 7 o'clock the great locomotive Cheltenham stretched its traces and the train moved off amid the plaudits of the multitude. ...
New Hope, Pa - Page 343
Clayton, Philadelphia, do Frederick Smith, Buckingham, do New Hope, Pa. Richboro, do Samuel P. Ryan, Doylestown, Pa. Henry Hooven, Philadelphia ...
more pages: 340
Pittsburgh - Page 333
captain Fredrick, from Armstrong; captain Kantner, from Schuylkill; captain Rankin, from Dauphin; and captain McCanna, from Pittsburgh. ...
Omaha - Page 322
The next day I was sent to Beaufort in the revenue cutter Omaha, and placed in the officers' hospital, where my wound was most carefully attended by ...
Reading, Pa - Page 350
Reading, Pa. do do do do Joel Setley, George M. Groff, Pottsville, Pa. Philada., do Pottsville, do Scranton, do Pottsville, do Scranton, do Bridgeton, ...
New Britain, Pa - Page 353
Yardleyville, do Moore, Charles, Hilltown, do Osborne, Charles, Nockamixon, do Park, John, Philadelphia, do Roher, William, New Britain, Pa, Roberts, ...
Line Lexington, Pa - Page 345
Henry, Steinsburg, do Smith, Robert, Buffalo, NY Stillwagen, H., Line Lexington, Pa, Traumbower, Hilary, Quakert'n, do Thomas, Silas, Line 'Lexington, ...
Lancaster - Page 350
Scranton, Pa. do do do do do do do do Pottsville, do do do do do Scranton, do Lancaster, do Scranton, do Lancaster, do Tinicum, do Hartley, Vincent, ...
Frenchtown, NJ - Page 348
do do Eastburn, Chas., Bensalem do Erwin, James, Southampt'n do Guie, George Q., Falls do Grimes, James, Frenchtown, NJ Hoff, Theodore, North'pton Pa. ...
Utica, NY - Page 341
Utica, NY Pennsylvania. Baltimore, Md. Prussia. Scotland. Pennsylvania. New York. Germany. Prussia. Ireland. do Pennsylvania, do Long, Patrick, ...
Warrington - Page 341
Nelson McGraudy, Warrington, do Wittingham Livezey, Doylest'n, do AndrewJ.Connard.Buckingham, do MUSICIANS. Michael Corcoran, New York. ...
more pages: 342
Morristown, NJ - Page 340
H., Morristown, NJ Nice, Daniel, Bucks Co., Pa. Nice, John, do do Parsons, Robert, do do Raisner, William A., do do Reamer, Joseph, New York. ...
Warwick - Page 342
William, Southampton, do White Jarvis, Doylestown, do Wilkinson, John S., Warwick, do Worthington.Wm. B., Buck'ghm, do Worthing! on, Jeremiah, ...
Bristol - Page 352
Benl, Joseph, Carver, Henry, Carter, David, Devins, George, Doylestown, do do do Carversville, do Bristol do Nockamixon, do Deitz, Anuisa, Michigan. ...
Dublin - Page 345
do do Miller, Evan, do do Mussleman, William, Steinsburg, do Mussleman, John B., do do Martin, Jonas B., Dublin, do McNamee, Peter, Pennsylvania. ...
Burlington, NJ - Page 341
Stokes, John L., Burlington, NJ Terry, Andrew J., Philadelphia, Pa. Titus. William, Bucks Co., Pa. Torpy, Patrick, Ireland. Wall, WilUs, Bucks Co., ...
Washington, DC - Page 346
Hooper, James B Hawkins, .lames, Kane, Michael, Henry, John, Koch, John, King, Robert, Kyle, Thomas, Mullen, John, Myers, Thomas, Washington, DC ...
Halifax, NS - Page 354
Wildonger, John, Pa. do do do Worthington, Theo., do do Witham, John E., Halifax, NS Wiley, William, Bucks Co., Pa. ...
Buffalo, NY - Page 345
Henry, Steinsburg, do Smith, Robert, Buffalo, NY Stillwagen, H., Line Lexington, Pa, Traumbower, Hilary, Quakert'n, do Thomas, Silas, Line 'Lexington, ...
Wellington - Page 234
How we listened to catch the deep- toned notes of the Pawnee's guns, and we longed as anxionsly to hear them as did Wellington wish that night or ...
Warsaw - Page 178
As we stood in, we passed the monitor iron-clad Passaie, in tow of a gunboat, going down to Warsaw sound to assist the monitor Montauk in her attack ...