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

920 SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIIENT. 1863
the town with the remnants of the First Corps, and took position on Cemetery
Hill. Colonel Mahler was wounled in the leg simultaneously with his horse,
which fell upon him. Extricating himself he proceeded, though suffering severely, to the left of the regiment, which was then exposed to an enfilading'
fire, and here while bravely cheering on his men, and urging them to stand
firm against the advancing rebel lines, he was again wounded, and now mortally. He was immediately removed to the Corps Field Hospital, where he died
on the morning of the 5th. The regiment retained its position on Cemetery
Hill, under fire of the enemy's artillery, during the two following days, and
suffered some loss from his shells. Sergeant Frederick Wendler, of company
D, received a wound from which he died on the 4th. Among the killed during
these three days' conflict, were Lieutenants Henry Hauschild and Louis Mahler.
Lieutenant William J. Sill was severely wounded in the leg, which was amputated; but he died on the 21st. The loss of the regiment was thirty-one officers
and men killed, one hundred wounded, and six taken prisoners.
After a long, weary march in pursuit of the retreating enemy, passing
through Emmittsburg, Turner's Gap, and Middletown, the advance encountered
and skirmished with the enemy's rear-guard at Boonsboro', on the 8th, reached
M1agerstown on the 12th, and Williamsport on the 14th, to find that Lee's army
had escaped across the Potomac. On the 15th the command returned to Hagerstown. As it moved through the town cheer upon cheer was given by the
emergency militia, as the thinned ranks of the veteran army passed by. Having marched and countermarched, during an almost constant storm of rain, it
crossed the Potomac, at Berlin, on the 19th, passed through Lovettsville, and
encamped near Waterford. It moved thence through White Plains, and New
Baltimore, reaching Warrenton Junction on the 25th, where, with an occasional
change of camp, it remained, doing picket and guard duty, until the 24th of
September, when the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were ordered to Tennessee.
The regiment left Washington on the 25th of September, and arrived at
Bridgeport, Alabama, on the morning of the 2d of October. On the evening
of the 19th it was ordered to join the Third Brigade, Colonel Hecker, Third
Division, which was composed of the Seventy-fifth, the Eighty-second Illinois,
Eighty-second Ohio, and Sixty-eighth New York. On the following morning
the regiment reported to its new commander, and was ordered to picket and
patrol duty along the mountain ridge. It proceeded on the 27th to guard the
pontoon bridge across the Tennessee, during the passage of the Eleventh, and
part of the Twelfth Corps, and at evening went into bivouack at Shellmound.
The brigade moved, on the following day, towards Chattanooga, and participated in the operations for the relief of the half famished army of the Cumberland. At a little past midnight the regiment was aroused, and sent to the
support of General Geary, who was engaged in a desperate midnight struggle
with the veterans of Longstreet's Corps. It lay, protected by the railroad
bank, under continuous fire, while the First Brigade was briskly engaged.
With all the advantages in favor of the assailants-familiarity with the country, and the effects of a night surprise-the foe was repulsed and retired, leaving his killed and wounded on the field.
Crossing the Tennessee, at Chattanooga, on the 22d of November, the regiment moved through the town, and bivouacked near Fort Wood. It participated in all the movements and fighting ofr the division around Chattanooga,
culminating, on the 25th, in carrying Missionary Ridge, and the complete rout