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1865
| On the 15th of December, Colouel Pierce was discharged, and
Captain Marcus A. Reno, of the First Regular Cavalry, was
commissioned to succeed him. The regiment was at that time engaged
in covering aud guarding the railroad, from Harper's Ferry to
Winchester, upon which duty it remained, having frequent skirmishes,
until near the middle of March. It was then sent as part of a force
under Colonel Reno, across the Blue Ridge, to break up certain
guerrilla bands known to infest that region. During the march, the
regiment was frequently engaged in skirmishing, and in the battle of
Harmony, on the 22d, lost one officer and five men killed, and two
officers and seventeen men wounded, Lieutenaut Deloss Chase being
among the killed. The instructions of the commanding general having
been finaly executed, the command retured to its former station. At
the opening of April, the regiment marched to Winchester, where it
was incorporated with the cavalry division of the Army of the
Shenandoah, to the command of which Colonel Reno was assigned. With
this force, the Colonel was ordered to make a reconnoissance as near
as Lynchburg, but after a skirmish with the rebels at Edinboro,
which was maintained on the Union side by the Twelfth, Unaided, it
was learned that Lee had surrendered, and had included in the
surrender, all the troops in the Valley of the Shenandoah. The
command was accordingly placed in camp near Mount Jackson, and
charged with stopping and paroling all soldiers of Lee's army
retuning through that part of the country. After executing this
duty, the Twelfth went into camp in the vicinity of Winchester,
where it remained until the 20th of July, when it was mustered out
of Service and retuned in a body to Philadelphia.
["History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-1865"]
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