In Lieu of a Draft: A History of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment documents the daily chores of camp life and the long hours spent waiting to engage the enemy, Historian James I. Robertson, Jr. has noted that soldiers spent "more time in camp than on marches and in battle combined." This book presents the uncensored story and explores the deep political divisions within the regiment. William R. Kiefer, the regiment's historian, admitted that many incidents recorded in diaries had to be omitted, because they dealt with "certain personal matters," offensive to some of the survivors, but which admittedly "would otherwise have added relish to the stories." Kiefer also had to exclude material he felt was "heavily tainted with odium cast upon certain officers" and "written in such partisan style" that the reader would find it unacceptable. The battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg are retold through the eyes of the 153rd volunteers as only they could have seen and experienced them. Every effort has been made to present this story as a chronological narrative of their service. In Lieu of a Draft A History of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment By Lochard H. Lovenstein AuthorHouse Copyright © 2012 Lochard H. Lovenstein All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4685-3680-5 Contents Preface..............................................................................xiIntroduction.........................................................................xiiiChapter 1 Three Month Men............................................................1Chapter 2 A Cluster of Companies.....................................................13Chapter 3 Regiment of Greenhorns.....................................................45Chapter 4 Some Bad Walking...........................................................73Chapter 5 The Steady Decimation of the Ranks.........................................93Chapter 6 Most Fearfully Frightened..................................................139Chapter 7 Treated Like Dogs..........................................................169Chapter 8 Dogberry and the Road to Gettysburg........................................183Chapter 9 The Johnnies Were Among Us.................................................201Epilogue.............................................................................241Abbreviations Used In Notes..........................................................253Notes................................................................................255Alphabetical Roster of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment.....................283 Chapter One Three Month Men Charles Glanz A photograph, taken of Charles Glanz while colonel of the 153rd Pennsylvania Regiment, reveals a self-confident man, totally at ease with himself. He is seen holding a kepi in his right hand, the hat lightly pressed against his side, his left hand resting upon the hilt of his sword. His mustache is full, but trimmed, and a long beard rests gently upon the top buttons of his frock coat. This is the image of a confident self-made man, an Easton brewer and saloon keeper, who on May 3, 1863, would find himself in a humiliating position at Chancellorsville. Glanz immigrated to America from Germany in 1845, when he was twenty two years old, with the intention of establishing his own brewery business. His father, Henrich Christian Glanz, was the Registrar and Postmaster for Walkenreid, a respectable position that paid well, allowing Charles to be privately schooled at home. When Charles reached the age of thirteen, he attended Brandenburg College for two years. When he was twenty one, he was appointed a "superintendent of the government domain," responsible for 3,400 acres. But Charles wanted to be a brewer in America, so he decided to leave his hometown of Walkenreid, in the Duchy of Brunswick, for Philadelphia, where breweries were abundant. From Philadelphia, Glanz journeyed to Pottsville, the site of the Eagle Brewery (the present day Yuengling Brewery), before finally settling in Easton. In 1848, he married Elizabeth Evans of Williamsburg. Willabald Kuebler, a German immigrant from Baden, arrived in Easton in 1852. A year later, Glanz formed a partnership with Kuebler to open a brewery. The Glanz and Kuebler Brewery was erected in Easton in 1854. Glanz also owned and operated a saloon. At its peak, the brewery produced between seven and eight thousand barrels of beer a year. By 1857 Glanz had become a successful businessman and an ardent Democrat in a predominantly Democratic town and county. His political activities attracted the attention of prominent men in the Buchanan Administration, which led to a presidential appointment as Consul to Stettin on the Baltic. After the Senate confirmed his appointment on January 11, 1858, Glanz departed for his native Germany, but soon was compelled to return, due to the financial downturn historians would label as the P