Organization
The 205th was recruited during the late summer of 1864, mostly in south central Pennsylvania. Companies A, C, and I were raised in Blair County, companies J, B, E, and H in Berks County, companies F and K in Mifflin County, company D in Huntingdon County, and company G in Blair, Dauphin, and Franklin Counties. The regiment was organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on September 2, 1864. Joseph A. Mathews was selected to be colonel, William F. Walter lieutenant colonel and B. Mortimer Morrow major. Many of the officers and men, including all three field officers, had previously fought in the war.
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