DANIEL LUDWICK, CO. A, 101st PA, RESCUED A COMRADE UNDER FIRE

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This Carte-de-Visite was removed from an album where it was identified. Ludwick is shown seated, full length, in a studio, with carpet and draped curtain visible. The tones, contrast and focus are excellent. He wears a forage cap with brim turned up so as not to cast a shadow, a regulation 4-button fatigue blouse buttoned just at the collar, showing a bowtie vest and watch chain. He wears regulation light (blue) trousers that come down over the legs of his boots. The reverse of the card shows glue stains and small collector notes.

Ludwick enlisted from Puckety Creek, PA, at age 24, listing himself as a millwright by occupation, and mustering into Co. A of the 101st PA as a private on 10/22/61. He does not appear to wear corporal chevrons or a stripe on his trousers, so the image likely dates before his promotion to that rank on 1/1/1863. He served in the regiment until discharged for disability 3/23/63, but made a reputation in the regiment for his rescue of a comrade under fire at Fair Oaks. The regimental history, which shows him and his comrade in civilian clothes, recounted the story: “An incident of the battle of Fair Oaks is worthy of record in the annals of the 101st Penna. Regiment. Company A. was on the extreme right of Casey's main line of battle. As the enemy was closing in on the right, Companies A and F changed front to protect the right flank. As they were changing position, Duncan McAlister, a private of Co. A, fell seriously wounded in advance of his company's new position, with the enemy rapidly closing in. Corporal Daniel Ludwick of Co. A saw McAlister fall, and when he realized he was not able to rise, he rushed back, lifted up his boy chum, as if he were but a mere child, and carried him to the rear for surgical treatment. When he saw that the enemy was finally closing in and the entire line would have to retire or be captured, he carried McAlister two miles to the rear.”

“Ludwick, familiarly called "Dan," by all the comrades of his company, although one of the finest types of the stalwart American Volunteer, aged 24 at the time of enlistment, contracted chronic diarrhea while in the swamps of the Peninsula, and was discharged from the service on Surgeon's certificate for disability. March 23, 1863. He died suddenly in Portland. Oregon, June 6. 1900.”

The 101st Pennsylvania organized at Pittsburgh on 12/1/1862 and served during the war in the 3rd and 4th Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign where it was in the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Williamsburg, and took serious casualties at Fair Oaks.  It was posted to Suffolk, VA, with the 7th Corps as part of the Dept. of Virginia, from Sept. to Dec. 1862, and then to the 18th Corps in the Dept. of North Carolina, was posted in New Bern and fought at Kinston, White Hall, and Goldsboro, and later was in the successful relief of Little Washington after the battle of Swift Creek. It was posted at Plymouth July 1863 to April 1864, took part in several expeditions, served at Roanoke briefly and was then sent back to Plymouth where it was caught up in the siege of the city and eventual surrender of the garrison, with the officers being sent to Macon and the enlisted men to Andersonville, where more than half died. The regimental organization was maintained, however, from those absent from the siege and a few exchanged prisoners and officially mustered out in June 1865.

The card is on an archival mount imitating an album page. We show the image of Ludwick used in the regimental history.  [sr][ph:L]

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