History of the First Reg't Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

Organization of E Company, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

Company E was principally recruited in Centre county, Pennsylvania, by Captain Jonathan Wolf, with some few recruits from Clinton and Clearfield counties.

Was organized on the 19th day of March, 1861, and left for Harrisburg on the 25th day of July, 1861, and arrived at Washington, D.C., August the 18th, where it was attached to the regiment.

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Organization of F Company, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

Company F was enlisted by Captain J.M. Harper, about the latter part of July and beginning of August, 1861, at Carmichael's, Green county, Pennsylvania.

Started for Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, on the 15th day of August, was organized on the 17th, and sworn into the United States service on the 24th, by Captain Hastings, and attached to the regiment.

Leaving Camp Curtin, the company arrived at Camp Jones, on the 27th day of August, 1861.

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Organization of G Company, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

The formation of Company G was commenced by Captain Jacob Higgins, at Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, from a volunteer company called the Blair County Dragoons.

About the middle of August, 1861, having collected a few men as a nucleus, he proceeded with them to Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, where with part of a company from Lisburn, Cumberland county, and recruits collected while in camp, the company was filled and its organization completed, by the election of Jacob Higgins, captain, David Gardner, first lieutenant, and H.S. Thomas, second lieutenant.

This company having been principally recruited at Harrisburg, during the return of the three months men, was collected from all parts of the State, and among its members has representatives from thirty two different counties.

The company was mustered into the State service, August the 22d, and into the United States service, August the 28th, 1861, when it was assigned to the First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry.

It arrived in Washington, August the 29th, where it joined the regiment.

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Organization of H Company, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

Company H was organized in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, by Captain James B. Davidson, some two or three years previous to the commencement of the rebellion, and was known as the Dunlap Creek Cavalry.

Shortly after the First Bull Run battle, the company tendered its services to the United States, and was accepted. On the first day of August, 1861, it left for Camp Wilkins, at Pittsburg, and on the fourth day of August was sworn into the United States service.

On the twenty-seventh day of August, the company left Camp Wilkins for Washington, D.C., where it arrived on the twenty-ninth; and on the sixth day of September was mustered into the United States' service, and joined to the regiment.

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