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"Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Captain and commander of Company C, 1st Pennsylvania (Three Month) Infantry, and as Lieutenant Colonel of the 129th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry."
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry. - Col., Jacob G.
Frick; ; Lieut.-Col., W. H. Armstrong; Maj., Joseph Anthony.
Volunteers from Schuylkill, Northampton and Montgomery counties
rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, and were mustered into
the U. S. service on Aug. 15, 1862, for a nine months' term,
forming the 129th infantry. The regiment was ordered to Washington the next day, one detachment of two companies was posted
at Bull Run, across which it was to rebuild and guard a bridge,
and the remainder acted as escort to an ammunition train as far
as Centerville. On its return the regiment was assigned to the
1st brigade, 3d division, 5th corps, which on Sept. 14, started
for Antietam, but arrived after the battle had been fought. At
Fredericksburg, the first battle of the regiment, the men
joined bravely in a gallant but futile charge upon the heights
and were highly praised by Gen. Tyler. In this action the
129th lost 142 in killed and wounded, many of its dead lying
close to the impregnable stone wall. Winter quarters were es-
tablished near Falmouth, which were occupied until the battle
of Chancellorsville except during the "Mud March." On May 3,
the regiment was closely engaged at Chancellorsville and the
loss was heavy. Gen. Tyler said of the 129th in this battle
that "No one ever saw cooler work on field drill than was done
by this regiment." It returned to Harrisburg soon after and
was there mustered out of the service on May 18, 1863.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 1
