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Home Town Born: Liverpool Township, Perry County, PA
Frederick Augustus Reen
36th Regiment, Company B
Seventh Reserve, Perry County, PA 1861-1863 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
and 188th Regiment, Company B,
Pennsylvania Volunteers 1864-1865 Grand Army of the Republic
Frederick A. REEN, Born: May 13, 1839. Pennsylvania Deutsch.
First enlistment: Served 3 years with the Pennsylvania 36th Regiment, Company B (Seventh Reserve), May 4, 1861.
Wounded at 2d Bull Run; discharged on Surgeon's Certificate, April 30, 1863 (As was his brother C.C. Reen).
Second enlistment: Private, February 20, 1864, 152d Regiment. Promoted to 2d Lt., Company B, 188th Regiment P. V., March 31, 1864 Promoted to 1st Lt., July 22, 1864 At Fort Harrison, VA, Sept. 29, 1864, he was wounded (a second time) Promoted to Captain, December 14, 1864
Commissioned Major, November 26, 1865
Mustered out with Company, December 14, 1865
He was well known in the Masonic fraternity. He was made a Mason Feb. 21, 1866, in Adams Lodge, No. 319, F. & A.M., of New Bloomfield, Pa., and on March 22, 1871, transferred his membership to Watsontown Lodge, No. 401, of which he became secretary in 1873, serving also in 1874; he was again elected to that office in 1904.
He was a member of Warrior Run Chapter, No. 264, R.A.M., and also served as secretary of that body. A member of the G.A.R. he belongs to Bryson Post No. 225, of Watsontown, and as a founding member he became its first commander Sept. 30, 1881.
Major Reen married Sarah E. Knight in 1866. They had no children.
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CIVIL WAR HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
Three Years' Service - Thirty-sixth Regiment, Company B (Seventh Reserve)
The Thirty-Sixth Regiment of the Union Army included Company B of Perry Countians, as well as a considerable number in Companies Q and H. The regiment was organized in the early summer of '61, under command of Colonel Elisha B. Harvey, of Wilkes-Barre. It was mustered at Camp Wayne, near West Chester. The state uniformed and equipped it. Company B was mustered in on May 4th. It was assigned to duty in the Second Brigade, commanded by General Meade. This company, as a part of the Seventh Reserve Regiment, participated in a skirmish at Great Falls on the Potomac, and in engagements at Gains Mill, Charles City Crossroads, the Seven Days' Fight on the Peninsula, Groveton, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and the Wilderness. In the latter engagement, April 5, 1864, part of the regiment (272 officers and men) were taken prisoners and not released till the close of the war. They had become separated from supporting troops in the tangled wilderness. The private soldiers were sent to Andersonville prison, where sixty-seven died. The remnant of Company B was mustered out on June 16, 1864. The roll includes FREDERICK and his brother Christopher C. Reen of Liverpool Township, PA.
188th Pennsylvania Infantry
Regimental History
One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Infantry. -- Cols., George K. Bowen, John G. Gregg, Samuel I. Givin; Lieut. -Cols., George K. Bowen, Francis H. Reichard, John G. Gregg, Samuel I. Givin, James Geiser; Majs., Francis H. Reichard, John G. Gregg, James Geiser, Frederick A. Reen. This regiment was organized at Camp Hamilton, near Fortress Monroe, during the first two weeks of April, 1864, from the surplus recruits of the 3d artillery. Within a short time about 900 men were mustered into the U. S. service for a three years' term. Both Col. Bowen and Lieut.-Col Reichard and most of the line officers were promoted from the 3d artillery. More than 300 of the men had served in the reserve corps before entering the 3d artillery and many others had served in other organizations. On April 25 the regiment moved to Yorktown and was assigned to the 3d brigade, 1st division, 18th corps. On May 4, it moved by transport to Bermuda Hundred and suffered a loss of 2 killed at Proctor's creek a few days later. It lost 11 killed and 60 wounded at Drewry's bluff, or Fort Darling, and on June 1 joined the army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor, where it went into action immediately after getting into position on the right of the 6th corps. In the desperate fighting there the regiment lost 24 killed, and a large number wounded and missing. Capt. Moeller was among the killed, and Capt. Breel was mortally wounded. It shared in the first fighting before Petersburg, and remained for nearly two months on the right of the line, fronting Fort Clifton. During this time, by reason of its exposed position, it suffered a loss of 80 killed and wounded, while many more died of disease. On July 5, it was joined by Co. F, which had been on detached service at Drewry's bluff, and late in August it was moved to a position on the Bermuda Front, remaining there until the close of September. In the fierce assaults on Forts Harrison and Gilmer the regiment lost about 60 killed, and 100 wounded. Among the former was the gallant Capt. Dickson, who had led the regiment through the fiery ordeal. About this time, the regiment was assigned to 3d brigade, 3d division, 24th corps, and received about 400 new recruits. The command remained in winter quarters near Fort Harrison until the following April, the monotony of camp life being only once disturbed, when it participated in an expedition to Fredericksburg in March, 1865, and effected the destruction of vast amounts of stores and property collected for the use of the enemy. On April 3 it moved without opposition to Richmond and assisted in subduing the fires which were raging in the Confederate capital. Soon afterward it encamped at Manchester, across the river from Richmond. On June 28 the recruits of the 199th Pa. infantry were transferred to this regiment. It served by detachments on guard and provost duty at various points in Virginia until Dec. 14, 1865, when it was assembled at City Point, Va., and was there mustered out.
1881, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Pennsylvania Department (Recorder) (Pennsylvania)
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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Post Office Box 1865 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
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A member of the G.A.R. he belongs to Bryson Post No. 225, of Watsontown, and became its first commander Sept. 30, 1881.
G.A.R.
BRYSON POST # 225, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Bryson Post, No. 225 Department of PA, Grand Army of the Republic was organized September 29, 1881 by Capt. John F. Parker, then Commander of Henry Wilson Post, No. 129, Milton, assisted by a large delegation from that Post. The officers installed were: Frederick A. Reen, Commander; Jacob M. Follmer, Senior Vice Commander; Edward W. Fosnot, Junior Vice Commander; Thomas G. Caldwell, Officer of the Day; Joel R. Messinger, Officer of the Guard; George P. Straub, Quartermaster; Thomas H. Kisner, Surgeon; Rev. David Kennedy, Chaplain; Ambrose Lamm, Adjutant; Sergeant Major, Lewis C. Fosnot.
The Post rented the hall in the Hogue Building, now the property of the Farmer's National Bank, and over its history mustered into its ranks 188 members. The Post met every Friday evening. The post would hold services in eight cemeteries, decorating the graves of over 200 deceased comrades. During the first quarter of the new century, the handful of surviving comrades realized that their organization would soon be numbered with the things of the past, and that in a very few years they must relinquish the work to the hands of their sons and daughters, and future generations to maintain and perpetuate the patriotic duty and remembrance of those who served their country in preserving the Union during the Civil War. When the Union Veterans of the Civil War organized into the Grand Army of the Republic in 1866 membership was limited to those individuals who had served the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue Cutler Service during the Civil War, thereby limiting the life span of the G.A.R. The last soldier died in 1956. The organization's focus was social in nature but became a political force that would influence the nation for more than six decades.
