Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.34

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History of Cambria County, V.2

34 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

mountains, during which, for want of food, maniacs were made of good soldiers. They escaped, and returned to the valley, where the 54th Regiment, under Col. Linton, were with Gen. Crook at Kearnstown, and with Sheridan at Opequon and Fisher's Hill. Another scene is brought from the west, where Company C is marching and fighting with Sherman in his triumphant campaign and capture of Atlanta in September, '64.
    During the last six months of the war Cambria county had thirteen companies with Gen. Grant, in and around Petersburg and Richmond. All of these were in active pursuit and took prominent parts in the capture of the retreating army. On the morning of April 6, the 54th Regiment had passed Lee's army and got in his front at High Bridge, while the main body of Grant's army was in the rear and on his flanks. The regiment was captured and the men were probably the last prisoners taken.
    On April 9 they were at Appomattox, or in close proximity. The last maneuver of Gen. Sheridan on that Palm Sunday morning was most brilliant and interesting. Capt. Stackhouse's company of infantry, and Capt. Hads, Black and Blough with their cavalry were in the line formed in the face of the enemy; the command was given to charge; the bayonets and sabers were glistening; the flags were flying and the horses prancing, the first step was about to be made, when the white flag of peace was unfurled. The line was halted, but it was so sudden that the enemy not in the immediate vicinity kept up firing. The surrender was made, and within a few hours Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee had concluded the terms. On the 11th the Fifth corps, including Maj. Stackhouse's 198th Pennsylvania, was delegated to received the formal surrender of all the troops and munitions of war in Lee's army. Then, with Gen. Johnston's surrender to Gen. Sherman, came the grand review in Washington City, May 23, 1865.
    Is this only history? Stand on Little Round Top where Warren stood, and where the blood of Weed and Hazlett flowed to death, and watch Col. Jackson's 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, then less than four hundred, making its charge down the rocky and craggy slope of that famous hill, breaking Longstreet's line and driving it back beyond thewheat-field, followed by other regiments of the Reserves. Look at Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, the division commander, who, riding up to them with hat in hand, saluting Col. Jackson, proclaimed on that gory field, where more than 25,000 men were dead and wounded at that hour:

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34	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
mountains, during which, for want of food, maniacs were made of good soldiers. They escaped, and returned to the valley, where the 54th Regiment, under Col. Linton, were with Gen. Crook at Kearnstown, and with Sheridan at Opequon and Fisher's Hill. Another scene is brought from the west, where Company C is marching and fighting with Sherman in his triumphant campaign and capture of Atlanta in September, '64. During the last six months of the war Cambria county had thirteen companies with Gen. Grant, in and around Petersburg and Richmond. All of these were in active pursuit and took prominent parts in the capture of the retreating army. On the morning of April 6, the 54th Regiment had passed Lee's army and got in his front at High Bridge, while the main body of Grant's army was in the rear and on his flanks. The regiment was captured and the men were probably the last prisoners taken. On April 9 they were at Appomattox, or in close proximity. The last maneuver of Gen. Sheridan on that Palm Sunday morning was most brilliant and interesting. Capt. Stackhouse's company of infantry, and Capt. Hads, Black and Blough with their cavalry were in the line formed in the face of the enemy; the command was given to charge; the bayonets and sabers were glistening; the flags were flying and the horses prancing, the first step was about to be made, when the white flag of peace was unfurled. The line was halted, but it was so sudden that the enemy not in the immediate vicinity kept up firing. The surrender was made, and within a few hours Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee had concluded the terms. On the 11th the Fifth corps, including Maj. Stackhouse's 198th Pennsylvania, was delegated to received the formal surrender of all the troops and munitions of war in Lee's army. Then, with Gen. Johnston's surrender to Gen. Sherman, came the grand review in Washington City, May 23, 1865. Is this only history? Stand on Little Round Top where Warren stood, and where the blood of Weed and Hazlett flowed to death, and watch Col. Jackson's 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, then less than four hundred, making its charge down the rocky and craggy slope of that famous hill, breaking Longstreet's line and driving it back beyond thewheat-field, followed by other regiments of the Reserves. Look at Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, the division commander, who, riding up to them with hat in hand, saluting Col. Jackson, proclaimed on that gory field, where more than 25,000 men were dead and wounded at that hour: