1862 CIVIL War Signed Brigadier General Joseph Fisher Gettysburg Battle Hero Doc

  

This document is dated August 7th, 1862 ordering replacement weapons and uniformed for casualties. It is signed by Gettysburg war hero from the Pennsylvania Vols of the 5th Regiment aka Pennslvania 34th Infantry Regiment. You will receive see photos for all that is included. The original signed Colonel Fisher (later promoted to Brigadier General after Gettysburg) dated August 7, 1862 showing orders for more uniforms and weapons (see pics). The piece is also signed off by Captain Harry Paxton who fought side by side with Colonel Fisher and mustered out with him in 1865.

Recruited in Lycoming and Northumberland Counties. Date of Muster into Service. Promoted from Corporal to 2d Lt. January 17, 1862; to 1st Lt. September 21, 1862; to Captain, March 5, 1863; mustered out with Company, June 11, 1864. I will send along a full military bio of Brigadier Fisher showing a copy of the Brady photo (copy only). Brigadier General Joseph Washington Fisher.

Regiment Vols (1814 - 1900). When war broke out and the Pennsylvania Reserves were organized, Fisher became lieutenant colonel of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves.

He was promoted to the rank of colonel on July 1, 1862, after Col. Simmons was killed in action at the Battle of Glendale. Fisher led the 5th Reserves at the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Fredericksburg in the Reserves Division under the command of Maj. At the latter battle, Fisher succeeded to command of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division of the I Corps, when Brig. Conrad Feger Jackson was killed during Meade's assault on the Confederate right flank. The Reserves were removed from the field to recover from hard service in 1862, and Fisher commanded the brigade in the XXII Corps, Department of Washington. Crawford, Colonels Fisher and William McCandless led these units in the V Corps. They fought at the Battle of Gettysburg on the left flank of the army. Fisher's Brigade were sent to occupy Big Round Top late on July 2, 1863. He credits the 20th Maine with leading as the skirmish line because of better weapons. Fisher continued in command of his brigade well into 1864. He fought in the Battle of the Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

His last action as brigade commander was the Battle of Cold Harbor. Fisher was mustered out with his regiment on June 15, 1864.

He later served as colonel of the 195th Pennsylvania Infantry. Fisher was mustered out with that regiment on January 31, 1866. Promotion to the rank of brigadier general on November 4, 1865. After the war, Fisher resumed his legal career. He was elected to serve in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 17th district from 1867 to 1868.

Later, he moved to the Wyoming Territory and served as chief justice of the territorial courts from 1871 to 1879. (34th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment). The 5th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves lost 14 officers and 127 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 68 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a.

Monument on Big Round Top at Gettysburg. Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel Seneca G. Ordered to point on State line opposite Cumberland, Md. Then moved into West Virginia in support of Lew Wallace. 1st Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division, Army of the Potomac.

At Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va. Expedition to Grinnell's Farm. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. McDowell's advance on Falmouth.

1st Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac.

Battle of Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale. Promoted to colonel, Major Dare to lieutenant colonel and Captain Frank Zentmeyer of Company I to major. Movement to Join Pope and attached to.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia. Second Battle of Bull Run. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.

The regiment lost one man killed and nineteen wounded. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Fisher. It lost 2 men killed and 8 wounded. There are two War Department markers for Seymour's Brigade on the Antietam battlefield.

Marker is on Mansfield Avenue. Seymour's Briade of Meade's Division, after its engagement with the enemy of September 16, 1862, bivouacked on either side of the road at this point, with pickets thrown forward in the east woods. Marker is on Smoketown Road. Seymour's Brigade became engaged at daybreak, and advanced on either side of this road into the East Woods, where it became heavily engaged with the enemy.

At the western edge of the East Woods its advance was checked by the enemy, and its ammunition having been exhausted, it was relieved about 7 A. By Ricketts' Division, and withdrawn to the ridge in the rear of Joseph Poffenberger's. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. Major Zentmeyer was killed on December 13 (although his burial record shows him as dying in Richmond on December 31).

For duty in the Defenses of Washington and Alexandria. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept.

Harvey Larimer of Company E promoted to major. Joined Army of Potomac in the field.

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Dare while Colonel Fisher commanded the brigade.

From the monument on Big Round Top. Present at Gettysburg 24 officers and 310 men. Advance to line of the Rappahannock. Major Larimer killed at Bistoe Station.

Captain Alfred Smith of Company C promoted to major. Lieutenant Colonel Dare was killed on May 6. Major Smith was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Captain James A. McPherran of Company F to major. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.