From "History of Pennsylvania Volunteers by Bates, Vol. III"
Early in the summer of 1861 J. Y. James, a citizen of Warren, received authority from the War Department to recruit a brigade, to consist of three regiments. Recruiting was commenced on the 23d of August, and on the 1st of September, a camp of rendezvous and instruction was organized near Huntington, in the central part of the State. About the 1st of December, the troops occupying this camp, were transferred to Cam Curtin, the arrangement for a brigade was broken up, and independent regiments were organized from them.....The One Hundred and Tenth was organized by the selection of the following field officers: William Lewis, Jr., of Philadelphia, Colonel; James Crowther, of Blair County, Lieutenant Colonel; John C. Johnson of Philadelphia, Major.
James Crowther, Colonel of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, was born on the 16th of January, 1818 in Centre County. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel on the 23d of December 1861 and at once took the field with his command. He was engaged in the campaign of 1862 in West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, under Lander. Shields and Banks. When General Pope took command of all the forces before Washington, Ricketts' division, to which this regiment was attached sent to Thoroughfare Gap where a stubborn resistance was made to Longstreet's advance and afterwards upon the plains of Manassas it fought with determined courage against vastly superior numbers. Soon after the battle of Fredericksburg, Lieutenant Colonel Crowther was promoted to Colonel. In the disastrous battle of Chancellorsville, while he was leading his regiment in the fierce fighting which heralded in the morning of the 3d May, 1863, he was killed and nearly half of his regiment was stricken down by his side."
1850 Census James Crowther 32 Stage Agent (Clearfield) Sarah 35 Emily E. 8 William E. 4 George W. 2
1860 Census (June 2) James Crowther 43 Liveryman (Blair Co.) Sarah 45 Emma 19 (Emily) William E. 15 Teamster George W. 12 Alice 6
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