History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.

1864 SERVICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 897
of battle of the two succeeding days, losing one officer and eight men killed,
and one officer and fifteen men wounded, a total loss in the entire battle of one
hundred and thirty-six.
About two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, the regiment re-crossed the
Potomac at Berlin, and marched to Warrenton Junction, where it was on duty
for a short time on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. On the 7th of August
General Schimmelfennig's Division, now commanded by General Gordon, was
ordered to Folly Island, South Carolina, where it arrived on the 14th. The
Seventy-fourth was assigned to duty on Coles' and Kiowa's Islands. It was
sent on expeditions to the neighboring islands on several occasions, and encountered the enemy, losing some men. In conjunction with the crew of the
gunboat Pawnee it proceeded to James Island on Christmas morning, where
it captured two guns. In February, 1864, the brigade was sent to John's Island,
near the North Edisto River, where on the 9th, 1lth, and 11th it skirmished
with the enemy, capturing several of his cavalry with horses and equipments.
Early in July the regiment, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Von Mitzel, who had made his escape from Libby Prison, was again sent to James Island,
where, in the grand movement to capture Charleston, it was for several days
engaged. Company G was detailed to duty with a Rocket Battery; company
B, with heavy artillery, and was stationed at Fort Mahon, upon the southern
extremity of Folly Island, and afterwards at a fort on Coles' Island; Captain
John Zeh, of company K, was detailed, with a body of picked men, to raise
torpedoes, avery delicate undertaking. Twenty-four of these villainous engines
were removed without injury.
On the 17th of August it was ordered to return to Washington, and upon
its arrival was stationed at Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy, where it performed
duty as heavy artillery. In September the men, whose terms of service had
expired, to the number of one hundred and thirty, were mustered out of service.
Shortly afterwards the regiment was ordered to West Virginia, and while on.the way companies G and K, with a part of the field and staff, were also mustered out. Upon its arrival at Grafton a considerable number of the men reenlisted, and its strength was increased by the addition of recruits and drafted
men. Captain Gottleib Hoburg was in command, and it was engaged in guard
and garrison duty on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In March, 1865, seven
new companies were assigned to it. On the 30th of March, a passenger train
was wrecked at a point about five miles from Green Spring, the headquarters
of the regiment, by a party of bushwackers, and the passengers robbed, and
subjected to the grossest indignities. They seized every thing of value, even
to the clothing of the passengers, including about fifty thousand dollars in
money, and escaped before the guards in force could be concentrated.
From Green Spring the regiment proceeded by rail to Webster, and thence'
marched to Beverly, arriving on the 8th of April. It remained here, engaged
in picket and guard duty, until the 12th of May, when it was ordered to Clarks,
burg, where were deposited large quantities of government stores, from which
the troops in Western Virginia were supplied. The headquarters were established here, and subsequently at Parkersburg, and the regiment was detailed,
by squads and companies, for guard duty along the Parkersburg branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Road. It was mustered out of service on the 29th of August, 1865, at Clarksburg, and immediately returned to Pittsburg, where it was
finally disbanded.
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