FREDERICK GLASS Cranberry Township

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FREDERICK GLASS Cranberry Township
at Gettysburg

VENANGO CITIZEN'S PRESS - January 20, 1910

Interesting Persons Series - Mini-Biography

FREDERICK GLASS Cranberry Township

On March 1st 1841 there was born to Andrew and Elizabeth Glass, of Pinegrove township, a son, whom they named Frederick. A short sketch of whose life is here given. The early home recollections of this boy were a humble habitation set in a small clearing, and during the growing season it was his duty to help keep the deer and wild turkeys from destroying their crops while the head of the family was engaged in other pursuits.

When Frederick was 15 years of age the family removed to Ten-Mile Bottom, Cranberry township. Where he was engaged in helping his father at farming when there came the call for troops to preserve the Union. Seventy-five thousand men went forth to battle, but it was found that this number was inadequate to cope with the situation. The South meant business. The flag had been insulted and all over the North companies were being raised, and when the 121st Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, left for the front in August 1862, the enrollment book contained the name of Frederick Glass. The regiment's baptism of fire was at Fredericksburg on December 16th 1862. The battle of Fredericksburg, which occurred on Saturday, although disastrous to the Union arms, was one of the noteworthy engagements of the Civil War and fully demonstrated the inability of General Burnside as an army commander, but it also proved the unswerving bravery of Mead's Pennsylvanians, who marched that day with unfaltering union into the very jaws of death to be mowed down like grass in an attempt, insanely conceived, to accomplish a purpose simple unattainable. Following the fortunes of Mr. Glass's regiment, we find it facing the rebel columns at Gettysburg. One can have some idea of the terrible punishment endured by the few who answered to the roll-call at the close of the battle. During this engagement Mr. Glass found that his uniform had been pierced by thirteen balls. Stricken down by sunstroke at Chancellorsville, he was dragged to one side out of the way of the marching column and left for dead, but by 2 o'clock at night he was again able to join his regiment and take part in an engagement with the enemy the following morning. Mr. Glass was discharged from the service June 6th 1865 having passed through the four years of fratricidal war without a wound. On his return home he wedded Miss Eva Mattern, of Cranberry township, the couple moving onto the farm where they now reside.
Contributor: Larry Paul Glass
lpglass@cox.net

FREDERICK GLASS Cranberry Townshipat Gettysburg

FREDERICK GLASS Cranberry Township
at Gettysburg