Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 45626-h.htm or 45626-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45626/45626-h/45626-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45626/45626-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyofcompany00powe Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). HISTORY OF COMPANY K OF THE 140TH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. (1862-'65.) by B. F. POWELSON, (First Sergeant for Over Two Years.) Under the Direction of BREVET CAPT. ALECK SWEENEY And with the Co-operation of Others of the Company. Steubenville, Ohio: The Carnahan Printing Company. 1906. DEDICATION. This little volume is, with loving remembrances and in truest affection, dedicated to the memory of Company K's dead and living, whose worth as volunteer soldiers, whose courage, devotion, fidelity, sacrifice, valor and efficiency were proven in many a long and difficult march, and in many a hard-fought battle, as well as by their return, when the glorious work of preserving the Union had been accomplished, to the pursuit of commendable avocations in days of peace and prosperity, worthy indeed of the honor a grateful nation accords them, as an integral part of the color-guard of its patriotism. [Illustration: Late Photo of B. F. POWELSON The Company Historian] PREFACE. The bulk of what is contained in this book was written with a view to its forming a part of a book of the History of the 140th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the annual reunion of this regiment at Beaver, Pa., in 1903, it was decided to issue such a book of history under a regimental historian, with each company furnishing its individual part thereto, in such facts as pertained to any separate part as played in that dreadful war drama by a company, part of a company, or by an individual therein. This was in accord with an expressed demand for the placing of the regiment's heroic deeds and illustrious works in heroic record, so that the soldier's friends and successors may ever have these before them, an inspiration and incentive to the continued progress of their country, through a faithful, devoted, loyal citizenship.