One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . t organi-zations, then being raised for the war. Before the Fencibles left for the front, their friends were sojiumerous and their interest in their comfort was such that theyleft nothing undone to add to their comfort. No body of menleft the city more substantially cared for than the Fencibles. Noone could have been more deeply absorbed in looking out for theircomfort than Mrs. Miller, th
One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . t organi-zations, then being raised for the war. Before the Fencibles left for the front, their friends were sojiumerous and their interest in their comfort was such that theyleft nothing undone to add to their comfort. No body of menleft the city more substantially cared for than the Fencibles. Noone could have been more deeply absorbed in looking out for theircomfort than Mrs. Miller, the Captains wife, and a number of herlady friends. She was untiring in her efforts and she was neverforgotten by the members of the Company. Many donations werereceived, one calls for mention from Charles Sidney Coxe, one ofthe original members of 1814. of $100. to be used for the needs ofthe members. A newspaper of the day said: The State old company, started in the War of 1812, still maintainsits organization, the few members remaining in the city, meetingat the Armory, for drill, every Tuesday evening. When the Presi-dent called for seventy-five thousand volunteers the Fencibles were. CAPTAIN . .MILLKK. 1861 MEMBERS IN SERVICE OF U. S. 137 mustered into the service of the United States by Captain Neill,of the army, and formed part of the Eighteenth Regiment ofPennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel William , Jr.; John Miller, Esq., was Captain; David T. , and A. Jackson Knorr, Second Lieutenants. A second com-pany of Fencibles was also formed out of the old one, and at-tached to the same regiment. Its oflicers were: Tlieodore Hesser,Captain; Thomas H. Marston, First, and Louis II. Plum, SecondLieutenants; all members of the old Corps, which body also fur-nislicd nearly all the non-commissioned officers for the two com-panies. Having served the full term of three months, and mostof them an extra period of ten days, at the request o
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