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Virginia, July 2, 1961, and was discharged July 30, 1861. He assisted to recruit a company for the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania volunteers, with a view of becoming a commissioned officer in that regiment, but prior to the organization of it, enlisted October 25, 1861, in the Nineteenth regiment of United States infantry, and was appointed first sergeant, to date from enlistment. He was on duty in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, several weeks drilling a detachment of his regiment, and at the headquarters of the regiment in Indianapolis, Indiana, was engaged as drill-sergeant, until the organization of companies G and H, of the first battery of this regiment, when he went into the field in the Army of the Potomac, as first sergeant of company G., and served with it at Harrison's landing. His regiment acted as guard for General McClelland from there, and was in the campaign through Maryland, took part in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, and subsequently at the battle of Fredericksburg, at which time it was attached to the Seventeenth infantry, and was actively engaged during all that battle. In March, 1863, company G was transferred to the army of the Cumberland, and joined to the first battalion, Nineteenth infantry. At Murfreesboro, Tennessee, June 1, 1863, he was appointed a second lieutenant, and assigned to company A, Nineteenth infantry; served with it until the battle of Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, when he was placed in command of company G of the same regiment, led it in the charge of the regular brigade against a division of the confederate forces, and was brevetted first lieutenant for “gallant and meritorious service” in action upon this occasion. He was returned to company A, First battalion, Nineteenth infantry, just prior to the battle of Chickamauga, in which battle he was wounded on September
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20, 1863, and made a prisoner of war, and was taken to Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia. While there, the famous tunnel was being constructed to provide for the escape of prisoners, and Captain E. I. Smith, Lieutenant M.C. Causten and Major Gageby were told by Colonel Rose, chief of the tunnel party, to consider themselves as belonging to his party, and while they were not permitted work in the tunnel, on account of the prejudice of some of the volunteer officers, they were charged with preventing, the discovery of the tunnel while it was being constructed.
Major Gageby escaped through this tunnel February 9, 1864, but was re-captured February 11 near Charles City X Roads, Virginia, and returned to the prison, and placed in the middle dungeon during eight days, when he was removed to Danville, Virginia, thence to Charlotte, North Carolina, Macon, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, where he was for several days under the fire of the Federal artillery: Columbia, South Carolina; thence again back to Charlotte, North Carolina, and later to Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Wilmington where he was released on parole, March 1, 1863, after an imprisonment of seventeen months and ten days. He then returned to duty as first lieutenant of the Nineteenth infantry, on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in May, 1865. He was on duty with his regiment in Arkansas and the Cherokee Nation in 1865 and 1866. He was brevetted captain September 20, 1863. He was ordered on recruiting service in September, 1866, until March, 1868; was appointed a captain in the Thirty-seventh infantry, and passed his examination for that office in Louisville, Kentucky, then joined the Thirty-seventh infantry at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, in March, 1868, and was engaged in several unimportant scouts and ex-
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