Mustering Out Joy Sparks Pennsylvania Regiment Camp Meade News
At Camp Meade Middletown Pa September first the Twelfth Pennsylvania regiments joy at news of mustering out spreads through the Blue arranged camp as they prepare for a thirty day furlough and discharge at Williamsport. The Fifteenth Pennsylvania and the First Maryland arrive while the Thirteenth regiment faces split duties and furloughs amid tensions over two dogs and various guard assignments.
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Twelfth Pennsylvania
Thirteenth Regiment
Camp Meade
Middletown
Wyvon
Pennsylvania
Mount Gretna
Lattimer
Williamsport
Scranton
Wilkes- Barre
Flest Maryland
Eighth
Harrisburg
Keystone State
Third Brigade
Sweet Arrow River
Pleasant Uttle
Hummelstown
Hummerstown
Thirteenth
Keller
Diviston Hospital No. 2
Lancaster Hospital
Charles Shoemaker
Rozelle
Hamilton
Division
Quartermaster’s Department
Company GB
McLane
Afernoon
Excursion plans and camp life details reach Harrisburg
Letters discuss a Scranton to Camp Meade excursion via Clifton and Harrisburg, reducing travel time to ten to fifteen minutes. The report lists officers and guards, hospital transfers, furloughs, and visits by officials including Secretary Alger. It notes generals Shafter and Graham praising the camp, with plans for barracks debated and a future corps command change hinted.
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Scranton
Camp Meade
the Tribune
Harrisburg
Here
Harrishire
Philadelphia
Reading
Clifton
Sweet Arrow
Thirteenth
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regiment Leaves Washington for Middletown
The Fifteenth Pennsylvania regiment departed Washington at 9:45 PM tonight by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bound for Middletown Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pennsylvania Regiment
Baltimore and Ohio
Middletown
Shafter and Alger Visit Camp Meade on Tour
Secretary of War Alger and General Shafter visited Camp Meade for a troop review and camp tour attended by twenty thousand men. They held private talks, denied friction with General Miles, and Shafter spoke of preparing his Santiago campaign report while Alger continued to Detroit.
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Hecker
Hopkins
Aldex
Graham
Almer
Shafter
Alger
Burgeon Girard
Detroit
Cincinnati
Lexington
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Jacksoville
War Department
Camn Meade
Miles
Washington
Santiago
Spain
Twenty-second Kansas
Fort Leavenworth
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Fort Sheridan
Virginia
Commonwealth Hotel
Harrisburg
Middletown
Congress
Samuel M. Sumner
Second Army Corps
Secretary of War
General Shafter
Camp Meade
General Alger
General Shatter
Fred Alger
Miley
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Regimenta
Company D
Company C
Conway
The
Tribune
Hobson
D Company
C Company
Courgen
Hoffman
Royal
Burkhouse
Roberts
Lorenzo Bishee
Robert Armstrong
Jacob Featherman
Lewis Carter
C. W. Hines
Keith
Helriegel
Hitchcock
D. Bellershimer
Conrad
Gawlus
Grace Barber
van Buskirk
Marysville
Clarence Seward
H. B. Cox
Walter Gunster
Charles Musted
Geary
Walsh and Ives
John Beerman
Division Hospital
Dunn Loring
John T. Williams
Corporal Palmer Williams
Richard J. Bourke
Hood
Shafter and
Teresa Caine
Tuons
Wits van OF Or
Crticona Koar
Mit
Bae
Lackawanna Avenue
Pilsner
Cali
Zonnollyara Wallace
Mill and
Custom House
Connolly & Wallace
Washington Avenue
Lacka. Ave
the Scranton Electrical Works
Lackawanna Lumber CO
Cross Fork
Potter Co
Buffalo and Susqueshanna
Mina
Potter County
Coudersport
Fort Allegany
General Office—Board of Trade
Scranton, PA
Moosic and
Rushdale Works
Laplin & Rand Powder CO
Repauno Chemical Co
Bollera
Morgan
Melophous
Third National Bank
WM. Connell
Henry Belin, Jr
William HL. Peck
Holmes’ Electric
Spruce
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