194th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

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The 194th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was created for 100 days emergency service in response to General Early’s raids into the North in the summer of 1864. It lost 2 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
July The194th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was organized at Harrisburg for 100 days service under the command of Colonel James Nagle, Lt. Colonel Richard McMichael, Major Oscar Jenkins and Adjutant John H. Schall.Colonel Nagle had been the Colonel of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and a Brigadier General in the Army of the Potomac until health problems forced him to resign in 1863. Lieutenant Colonel McMichael had been Lieutenant Colonel of the 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment until he was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate in May of 1864.

Organization of the regiment
  • Company A – Lycoming County – Captain George H. Jones
  • Company B – Montour and Dauphin Counties – Captain John A. Winner
  • Company C – Schuylkill County – Captain Zacur P. Pott
  • Company D – Dauphin County – Captain George F. Ross
  • Company E – Schuylkill and Dauphin Counties – Captain Henry J. Dintinger
  • Company F – Cabria and Mifflin Counties – Captain William R. Jones
  • Company G – Dauphin County – Captain John Bell
  • Company H – Dauphin and Schuylkill Counties- Captain George W. Staats
  • Company I – Bedford, Beaver, and Berks Counties – Captain Henry E. Quimby
  • Company K – Dauphin, Schuylkill, and Luzerne Counties – Captain Clarence Updegrafft
July 22 Moved to Baltimore, Md. and went into camp at Mankin’s woods. Assigned to provost duty there attached to 3rd Separate Brigade. 8th Corps, Middle Department.The regiment was stationed at a number of posts around the city, with detachments continually being created as escorts and guards for Confederate prisoners and new recruits that were passing through Baltimore to the front.
August Company K was detached from the regiment and sent to the eastern shore of Maryland for provost duty.
September 1 Moved to Camp Caroll, southwest of the city along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
October 10 Captain William R. Jones of Company F transferred to the 97th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment along with a number of enlisted men. First Lieutenant Edward B. Purcell was promoted to Captain as his replacement.
November 6 The 194th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment mustered out at Harrisburg.