Andrew Chester, discharged July 3, 1865, hospital, Philadelphia.
Silas Cooke, 1st Corporal, discharged July 3, 1865, Cincinnati, O.
James Worstell, discharged July 5, 1865, Cincinnati, O.
Jesse J. Morris and Thomas L. Noble were mustered out with the Regiment. John F. Gardner and James L. Noah had final discharge when artillery mustered out. Geo. Reed, when the 53rd P.V. was mustered out. David McC. Pry, John W. Nickeson, Isaac Chisholm, Henry Dickson and Johnson Toppin were finally released when their Regiments in the Veteran Reserve Corps were disbanded.
On muster out Co. K, with the 140th, was ordered to Pittsburg, Pa., for final pay and discharge. Our feelings are readily recalled when we arrived at Pittsburg, where in '62 we had been mustered in. Oh, what changes wrought in three years! Then three commissioned officers and 93 enlisted men, and 5 recruits had joined us. Now only 37 present, 12 had been killed in action; 4 died of wounds; 10 died of sickness. Thirty-seven had been wounded. Many had been discharged on account of disability. Others had been transferred to other commands and service, some of whom had made good records for themselves. Many had gone out beardless boys, but now returned well trained men. All are eager now to quit the service and to return to their several avocations in a blessed reign of peace in a nation saved, a Union preserved. The songs of farewell are hastily sung, and Co. K becomes a thing of the past, each going his own way, some never again to look into each other's faces, but a tie of comradeship binding all hearts together that no period of time can break.
Sketches of Those Who Have Died Since the War.
And as the years have come and gone since the disbanding, Company K's survivors have ever done their part in the reunions and camp fires held by the Regiment. But so widely scattered have they become that only a few each year have been able to answer to their names on such occasions. In nearly a dozen states the present living are to be found.
We cast a look back to the time K was disbanded, and, when asked where are Co. K's 101 members? we find the numbering to be: 12 killed in action; 14 died in the service; 2 deserted and their names are lost to us; 31 have died since, and 42 are living yet. The killed and died in service have already been mentioned. And the names of the two deserters have passed from us.
So many years have passed with their burden of business, domestic and other duties and of engrossing anxieties; so much have memory's faculties yielded to the demands made upon them as that it has become difficult to recall details in experience in those crowded years of service, that the task of gathering data for presenting to the public a just and impartial record of each one of K's members has been found a very difficult one; and, despite the writer's most earnest and persistent efforts through many months of time in search of necessary information, he regrets his inability to secure such data as he in some cases longed for. But so far as was within his power he has given the records impartially, full and correct to the best of his information. Nothing would he not have done to serve his comrades, each one of whom was dear to him, and to each of whom he ever felt allied as to a brother. Gladly does he make mention of anything to the credit or honor of any one in a Company that sustained so worthy a record as did K, than which, he hesitates not to assert, no other was superior in point of excellence, in faithful, devoted, heroic service to our beloved country.