THE PART TAKEN BY THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH
REGIMENT IN THE BATTLE, AND LIST OF CASUALTIES.
The following account we received from a member of Com-
pany E:

CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., May 7, 1863. EDITORS MINERS' JOURNAL: Your readers may perhaps feel an interest in hearing some account of the part the One Hundred and Twentyninth Regiment, P. V., took in the late great battle. We left camp on

Monday, April 27th, and marched to Kelley's Ford, about twenty miles above here, where we crossed the Rappahannock on a pontoon bridge. From here we made a rapid march to the Rapidan, which river we forded, and proceeded, with scarcely a halt, until on Friday, May 10, we encountered the "gray-backs" at Chancellorsville. This was one of the hardest marches this Regiment ever has made, we being on foot, at one time, for forty consecutive hours; but regardless alike of burning suns and drenching rains, the boys pressed on, and "straggling" was a thing unthought of-for where Colonels Frick and Armstrong, and General Tyler lead, the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth will follow.

Arrived at Chancellorsville, our Corps was ordered out a road leading towards Fredericksburg, to feel the rebs. We proceeded about three miles, made the reconnoissance, drew out the rebs, and returned in safety to Chancellorsville, where we lay behind the batteries, while the First Division (Sykes's), of our Corps, opened the ball, by engaging the force which we had drawn out, and handling them severely. Our division, the third of the Fifth Corps, was now assigned a position on the extreme left of the line, upon a hill covered with timber, where we were to support a Massachusetts battery. We proceeded to cut the trees and throw up breast works, and were just congratulating ourselves upon the fine position we had, when early on Sunday morning our corps was ordered to the centre, to take the place of the Eleventh, which had skedaddled, it was said at the first fire. We were 66 double-quicked" a couple of miles toward the right, and then our brigade (Tyler's) was ordered into a wood, in front of a battery of brass pieces, to draw out the rebs. We "double-quicked" some half mile, down a road, and then filed into the wood, to the left of the road. We had not proceeded far through the wood, before we encountered the "gray-backs" drawn up in line to receive us. We opened fire on them, and for some three hours, I suppose, we gave them as warm a time as they had ever had. Three different times they charged on us, and each time they were driven back with great slaughter. I am proud to say that the boys behaved with the coolness of veterans-firing by company, by wing and by volley, as the Colonel gave the commands. The Colonel took his position on the left of our Company, directly by the colors, and his cool bravery inspired the whole command. It made the boys "feel good," as they expressed it, to see him occasionally take a rifle and try his hand. Adjutant Green at length came down from his position on the right, and told the Colonel that the rebels had outflanked us on the right, and that the right of the line was falling back. (Our position was on the extreme left of the brigade.) Colonel Frick replied that he had no orders to fall back, and that he would hold his ground; but, looking up, and seeing that the whole line was in retreat, that we were far outflanked, and must be cut off, he found it a necessity to retire, and accordingly gave orders to that effect. We had some hard hand-to-hand fighting in the woods for our colors, the rebs making a desperate effort to capture them. But the boys defended them bravely, and brought them out, together with some of their would-be captors. Lieut.-Colonel Armstrong came near being taken. He was surrounded by about twenty "gray-backs," ordered to surrender, and even laid hold on, but he broke away and ran, and although his pursuers poured a volley after him, he made his escape. We drew the rebs out into the open field, where the brass battery I have spoken of, opened on them with grape and canister, and made awful. havoc. The rebs skedaddled back to the woods, where the battery finished the work with shell, while our regiment reformed behind the

breast works. We were soon ordered about half a mile further to the left, to support Sykes's Division in the trenches. Here we remained until Wednesday morning, about 2 o'clock, when Sedgwick having been overwhelmed and driven back from Fredericksburg, the army began to fall back. We recrossed the Rappahannock at United States Ford, our division supporting the batteries which covered the crossing of our corps, and made directly for our old camp, where we arrived about 6 o'clock the same evening, after a hard march of about fifteen miles, over roads which my feeble pen cannot describe, and through a drenching rain. Sunday was a very hot day, and when the boys "double-quicked" it into the fight, they threw away their shelter-tents, blankets, and overcoats; and, as the weather has been wet and raw since, they have been pretty badly situated. Our loss in killed and wounded is 42. Major Anthony was badly wounded in the shoulder. He has the sympathy of the whole regiment, for he has always shown himself a gentleman and a brave and gallant soldier.

COLONEL FRICK'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

HEADQUARTERS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH REG., P. V.,

Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 8, 1863. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report in compliance with Special Orders, No. 77, issued from Brigade Headquarters, of May 7, 1863, that my command, the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, P. V., with the other regiments of the brigade, was ordered to the support of the Third Corps about 5 o'clock, A. M.. Sunday, May 3. At 9 o'clock, A. M., the brigade at a "double-quick" entered the works in front of our batteries and rifle-pits in the centre, at Chancellorsville, Va., left in front, which threw my regiment in the advance. Line of battle was formed under a severe and damaging fire, about fifty yards in advance of the Twenty-eighth New Jersey, attached to the division of General French, and in an undergrowth that, from its density, made the movement peculiarly difficult. In the engagement, that lasted until 11 o'clock, A. M., officers and men behaved with the same coolness and gallantry that characterized their conduct in other fields since they have been in the service of their country. The fire was delivered with steadiness and precision. Not hearing the order to retire, the regiment remained in line after the regiments upon its right had given way. Seeing that there was imminent danger of being cut off by a large force of the enemy moving upon our right flank, the regiment under my orders faced by the rear rank, retiring in good order under a heavy fire and reformed in the rear of the batteries. While retiring a severe struggle took place for the regimental colors. The bearers, Sergeants Boner, Company E, and Miller of Company F, clung to them as manfully, however, as they had borne them during the fight. One of the rebels who had seized them was killed, another captured, and the rest driven back. The rebels advanced in force to the edge of the woods, and so closely upon the flank of the regiment, that the retreat of some upon its right was intercepted by their advancing ranks, and they escaped capture by the confusion into which the rebels were thrown from the active fire of the batteries.

To Lieut.-Colonel Armstrong, Major Anthony, who I regret to say was seriously wounded, and Adjutant Green, I must again tender my thanks for valuable assistance in the field. They performed their several duties with the utmost coolness and determination, evincing a steadiness of purpose worthy of emulation.

John Holman,

Major Anthony.

The regiment sustained a loss of four killed, thirty-one wounded, and six missing, enlisted men, and one officer, Major Anthony, seriously wounded. I am, Captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JACOB G. FRICK,

Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Penn. Volunteers. To H. C. Ranney, A. A. G., Tyler's Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Corps.

James Brennan, Company A.
Thomas Probert,

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B.

Sergt. Chas. F. Falls, Company A. Corp'l Wm. H. Haldeman,"

A. James Oswald,

Company D.

E.

John Alexander,

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Very respectfully,

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JACOB G. FRICK,

Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Reg., P. V.

Captain II. C. RANNEY, A. A. G.

ACCOUNT OF THE PART TAKEN BY THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT, P. V., IN THE BATTLE UNDER GEN. HOOKER.

The following statement was furnished by Major William Lessig to a friend, who kindly gave us a copy, for use in the "Memorial:"

We left camp at about 2 o'clock, P. M., on Tuesday, the 28th day of April. It was raining, and a day calculated to make everybody uncomfortable. We made for the river at nearly the same place that we crossed