Consolidated morning report, 91st PA, 7 May 1863

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CONSOLIDATED MORNING REPORT of Ninety First Regiment of [illegibly light] commanded by Colonel Edgar M. Gregory.

NOTE.--Regimental and Battalion Staff Officers, when belonging to companies, will be reported in such companies as "on detached service," and be accounted for in "Field and Staff." They will, however, be dropped from aggregate of "Present and Absent" in Field and Staff, and be accounted for in the aggregate of their respective companies.

Date May 7th 1863.
Companies			Field, Staff, and Band	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	Unas- signed	Total
Present
For duty		Field Officers	2												2
		Assistant Surgeon
		Regimental Staff Officers	2												2
		Battalion Staff Officers
		Captains		1	1			1		1			1		[5]
		First Lieutenants		1					1		1				[3]
		Second Lieutenants			1	1			1	1		1			[5]
		Regt'l Non-comm'd Staff	2												[2]
		Batt'n Non-Comm'd Staff
		Hospital Stewards	1												[1]
		First Sergeants		1	1	1					1				[4]
		Company Q.M. Sergeants
		Sergeants		3	1		2	2	2		3	2	4		[19]
		[Co.C has a crossed-out '1'.]
		Corporals		1		3	4	6	3	2	1		2		[22]
		[The co.D entry is written over another number]
		Saddlers
		Wagoners
		Field Music		2	1	1	1	2		2	2	1	2		[14]
		Artificers & Blacksmiths		2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	2		[17]
		[some reports, including 25 March's, have 'Artificers & Blacksmiths' crossed out, and 'Pioneers' written in]
		Privates		27	14	23	19	22	18	17	15	9	6		[170]
		[The co.D and F entries are written over other numbers.]
		Recruits
Special duty		Commissioned Officers
Extra and daily duty		Non-commissioned Officers						1							[1]
		Privates		2		1	1		1	3	2	2	1		[13]
		The co.G entry is written over another number.]
Sick		Commissioned Officers	1				1								[2]
		Non-commissioned Officers				1	2								[3]
		Field Music
		Artificers, Blacksmiths, Saddlers &c.
		[some morning reports, including 10 March 1863's, have "In Hospital"]
		Privates								1					[1]
		[co.F has a crossed-out '1'. some morning reports, including 10 March 1863's, add "in quarters"]
In arrest or confinement		Commissioned Officers
		Non-commissioned Officers
		Field Music
		Artificers, Blacksmiths, Saddlers and Wagoners
		Privates		1											[1]
Horses		Serviceable
Horses		Unserviceable
Total commissioned			5	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1		19
Total enlisted			3	39	19	32	30	35	26	27	25	15	17		268
[The co.E entry is written over another number]

Absent			Field, Staff, and Band	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	Unas- signed	Total
On detached service		Commissioned Officers	1				1								[2]
On detached service		Enlisted Men		9	2	13	5	11	2	2	6		3		[53]
With leave		Commissioned Officers
With leave		Enlisted Men		1									1		[2]
Without leave		Commissioned Officers
		Enlisted Men		2		1	1				7	1			[12]
		[Mayberry Warntz (H)]
Sick		Commissioned Officers				2		1		1	1				[5]
		Enlisted Men	1	8	8	13	13	13	18	17	11	7	15		[124]
		[The co.F entry is written over another number.]
In hands of civil authority		Commissioned Officers
In hands of civil authority		Enlisted Men
In arrest or confinement		Commissioned Officers
		Enlisted Men			2		1					1			[4]
		[probably Henry Cooker (I)]
Horses		Serviceable
Horses		Unserviceable
Total commissioned			1			2	1	1		1	1				[7]
Total enlisted			1	20	12	27	20	24	20	19	24	9	19		[195]
[the co.F and co.H entries are written over other numbers]

Present & absent			Field, Staff, and Band	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	Unas- signed	Total
Commmissioned officers			6	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	1	1		26
Total enlisted			4	59	31	59	50	59	46	46	49	24	36		463
[The co.A and co.F entries are written over other numbers, and the total is hard to read.]
Aggregate			10	61	33	62	52	61	48	49	51	25	37		489
[The co.F entry is written over another number; it looks like '46' not '48'. The total is hard to read]
Aggregate last report			10	65	36	70	55	67	52	50	52	26	41		524
[These numbers come from the 27 April report.]
Total of horses

Alterations since last report
G a i n	Commis'd officers	By Promotion or Appoint
	Commis'd officers	By Transfer									1				1
	Enlisted men	Recruits from Depots
		Enlisted in the Regiment
		Re-enlisted
		By Transfer
		From Missing In Action
		From Desertion										1			1
L o s s	Commis'd officers	Resigned or Disbanded							1		1				2
		Dismissed
		Transferred										1			1
		Missing In Action
		Died in action or of wounds received there
		Died of Disease &c.
	Enlisted men	Discharged Expiration of service
		Discharged For Disability
		Discharged By Sentence G.C.M.
		Discharged By Order
		Discharged By Civil Authority
		Transferred
		Died In action or of wounds received there			2	1	2	2	1	1		1			10
		Died Of Disease, &c.
		Missing In Action		4	1	7	1	4	2		1		4		24
		[The co.D entry is written over another number.]
		Deserted
Memoranda		Wounded In Action	1	2		8	3	4		9	4	4	5		40
		No. of Recruits required		39	67	39	48	39	52	52		74			[410]
		No. of Horses required

Remarks (Alterations since last Report to be accounted for by name.)

[Field staff and band] Col. E. M. Gregory wounded at Battle of Chancellorvi[lle]
May 3rd 1863

[co.A] Corpl. [Samuel W] Wilson Privates [Johnson] Agnew, [William] Kintzler, + [Rudolph] Maidle [?] missing. [William] Stettler + [Joseph] Mills wounded in the Battle of Chancellorville May 3rd [?] 1863 [Maidre and Wilson were killed; Mills died 17 June of wounds received in action]

[co.B] Corpls [Jacob] Lynn + [Sebastian] Badini [?] killed in Battle of Chancellorville May 3rd /63 [Thomas] Patterson missing in action of May 3rd /63 [Patterson was killed]

[co.C] Sergt [John] Bisbing [?] killed at Battle of Chancellorville May 3rd /63 Corpl [Andrew] Brown + Simpson [According to Bates, Samuel Simpson was wounded at Chancellorsville, but was a private when he mustered out; the only Corporal Simpson (C) Bates lists is William H Simpson.] Privates [John] Banning
[William] Hoover [?] [This could be William Hooven, but Bates lists Hoover, and not Hooven, as wounded at Chancellorsville] [Albert] Morgan [?] [George] Ott [John] Worl missing in action of the 3rd inst [Banning was killed] Capt [Theodore] Parsons Sergt [Joseph] Gilbert Pri [William] Beale
[Charles] Coats [Henry] Chitlick [?] [William] Carpenter, Oneill [?] [either John O'Neill or Thomas O'Neill], [Joseph E] Smith + [Alexander] Kealy [?] wounded

[co.D] [Robert] Stewart [??] + Steele [This could only be Samuel Steel (D), who died at Fredericksburg in 1862, according to Bates] missing in action Joseph Johnson Joseph Kesler [?] killed

[co.E] Wm Bryson + Francis McMakin killed in battle May 3rd /63 Corpl. [William] Jeffries Privates
[Martin] Blake Wm McCartney Robert R. Miller missing

[co.F] Sergt [Joseph] Gebler killed in action Privates [James] Smith + [George] Stroup missing
Capt [John] Weeks discharged on surgeons certificate of [illegible word; presumably intended to be 'disability']

[co.G] Private [Israel] Barnes killed Sergts [Frederick] Henry [Amos] Truman [?] [John] Evans Pri [Reuben] Auman [?]
[William] Cox [Frederick] Lehman [George] Pilkington [Alexander] Scott + [Samuel] Williamson wounded

[co.H] Lieut [Morris] Kayser assigned to duty from co. "I" Private [John] Sommers missing
Capt [Charles] Henry discharged for disability

[co.I] Corpl [John] Cooker killed Corpls [Alexander] Mallack [George] Leaf + [Henry] Erdman Pri Calahan [The only Callahan in co.I in Bates is John Callahan, who was transferred to co.E in 1862, according to Bates] [illegible word, probably 'wounded', since the "memoranda" list 4 wounded, and no men from co.I were dropped as missing in action]
Lieut [Morris] Kayser transferred to co. "H"

[co.K] Michael Connelly, Eugene Chambers, Wm R Cooper, Louis Lammy

B. J. Tayman
Adjutant.

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Commanding the Regiment

Consolidated morning report, 7 May 1863