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 Detroit Post No. 384, 
 
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 1896. 
 
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 The preparatiou of these iiieuioirs has been prompted 
 by a desire that all members might have a knowledge of 
 the personnel of the Tost that c-ould not in any other man- 
 ner be gained, and for the pni*pose of recording many in- 
 teresting facts and deeds in connection Avith onr service 
 in the War of the Kebellion that Avould not otherwise be 
 preserved. Some general information that was thonght 
 wonld be of interest, and found only in special publica- 
 tions not readily accessible to all, has also been included. 
 The w^riter is especially indebted to Fox's "Regimental 
 Losses" for much of this. 
 
 Necessarily only a brief sketch of the service of each 
 command is given, but there has been incorporated all the 
 prominent achievements of the different regiments, bat- 
 teries, etc., represented in onr membership so far as it 
 has been ])()ssible to collect them, and mention also made 
 of all the ]>('rs()nal experiences that wouhl be of general 
 interest which have been reported. While it is not ex- 
 pected that each member will be concerned in all that is 
 said, it is hoped that every one may find something that 
 he will learn with pride and satisfaction. 
 
 It is a gratification to know that Detroit Post may fairly 
 claim to have in its ranks survivors of some of the most 
 noted regiments in the army, those which met with some 
 of the hardest service of the civil war; and the subscriber 
 will feel amply repaid for his efforts in compiling these 
 facts if the knowledge that we have such heroes as associ- 
 ates is gained from reading these pages. 
 Fraternally yours, 
 
 L. IT. CHAM BERLIN. 
 
 Detroit, October, 1893. 
 
flftcinoivs of S)ctvoit post. 
 
 On tlie eveiiiiiii' of the 5th day of May, 1887, a prelimin- 
 ary ineetiuj'- was held in the parhn-s of the Michigan Ex- 
 change Hotel, for the purpose of forming a new G. A. R. 
 Post in this cit^, and a temporary organization was ef- 
 fected- Committees were appointed to prepare by-laws, 
 and to obtain additional signatures to an application for 
 a charter, 31 having already signed. 
 
 Pursuant to call, the next meeting was held on Thurs- 
 day evening. May 26th, at the Citizens' Association Rooms, 
 iu the Moffat block, at which time the organization was 
 perfected, by-laws were ado])ted, and officers elected. On 
 Friday evening. May 2Tth, at the Light Guard parlors, 
 in the Fireman's Hall building, the officers were duly in- 
 stalled by Department Commander L. G. Rutherford, there 
 being 62 charter members present, 49 of whom were al- 
 ready members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
 18 were mustered as recruits. 
 
 Three meetings were held at the same place during the 
 month of June, and on Friday evening, July 29th, the Post 
 met for the first time in its hall on the third floor of the 
 Cowie building, corner of Gratiot avenue and Farrar 
 street. Regular semi-monthly meetings were held during 
 the succeeding two years, on the first and third Friday 
 cA^enings for a time, and later on the first and third Wed- 
 nesdays. Tuesday evening, August loth, 1889, the Post 
 held its first meeting at (Mawson's Hall, No. 96 Miami 
 avenue, and this continued its abiding ])lace, with meet- 
 ings on the second and fonrtli Tuesday of eacli month, un- 
 lil llie fall of 1S9:;. 
 
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 It then acquired, in coujimctiou with the Michigan 
 Commandery, Loyal Legion, very desirable and commodi- 
 ous quarters at Nos. 58 and 60 West Congress street, and 
 on October 9th, 1893, occurred the "house warming" of 
 the new home, at Avhich many of the wives and lady 
 friends of the members were present. The buildiug is a 
 new one, centrally located and convenient to all the lead- 
 ing lines of street cars, making it easily accessible from 
 any section of the city. The rooms are all on the ground 
 floor, and consist of assembly room, parlor and library, 
 billiard room, locker room, lavatory, etc., all of which 
 have been fitted up in a handsome manner, and can be 
 enjoyed undisturbed. We are indebted to one of our 
 members for the entire furnishings of the billiard room, 
 including a handsome and costly carom table. 
 
 The membership of the Post is limited to 150, experi- 
 ence having shown that large numbers are not usually 
 conducive to harmony. It embraces ]n*incipally business 
 and professional men, nearly all of whom have a personal 
 acquaintance with each other, and the social feature is, 
 therefore, a prominent one. This was one of the objects 
 sought to be accomplished in its formation, and has re- 
 sulted in largely increasing the interest of its members 
 in the meetings, and proven eminently successful, as is 
 evidenced by the history of the Post. Every member is 
 not only a comrade but a friend of all the others, and the 
 spirit of dissension has yet to make its apjiearance. A 
 large number of original papers relating personal experi- 
 ences while in the service, and all of a highly entertaining 
 and instructive character, have been contrilnited by dif- 
 ferent members. 
 
 The uniform, or prescribed dress, when appearing as an 
 organization, is a distinctive one, and consists of black 
 Prince Albert coat, dark pants, white necktie, G. A. R. 
 hat with gold cord, buff gloves, and Post canes. Each 
 
member is provided witli a liaiidsome gold badge ou wliicli 
 the words "Detroit Post" are enameled in a circle at the 
 top and bottom, and the tignres "384" in open work in the 
 center, the badge being attaclied to a scarlet velvet rib- 
 bon forming a striking and liandsome backgronnd. The 
 elegant silk colors carried when on ])arade were provided 
 by the wives, daughters and sisters of the members, with- 
 out their knowledge, and i)res(Mited to the Post September 
 12th, 1888, the ])resentation and an entertainment for the 
 ladies being held in the parlors of the Detroit Light In- 
 fantry. 
 
 The first national encampment attended by the Post as 
 an organization, was the one held in Boston in 1890, where 
 it paraded on August 12th, with 10 men. At the Detroit 
 encampment in 1891, the Post kept "open house" during 
 the entire week, and entertained a large number of visit- 
 irg comrades from every section of the land. It led in 
 the annual parade of August 5th, serving as escort to the 
 Commander-in-Chief, with over 100 members in line. 
 
 The Post visited Washington in 1892, many of the com- 
 rades being accompanied with their wives, making the 
 trip in remarkably quick time by special train of Wagner 
 cars, which Avas one of the finest and best equipped that 
 ever left Detroit Headquarters in Washington Avere es- 
 tablished at the Arlington Hotel, wdiere a generous hos- 
 ])itality was dispensed to all visiting comrades and their 
 friends during the entire encampment. With four i)lat- 
 oons, color-guard, and a full complement of officers, headed 
 by a first-class band of music, it took a iiromineut part 
 in the eventful parade of September 20th, on Pennsyl- 
 vania avenue, acting as escort to tlie Department Com- 
 mander of Michigan. 
 
 In 1898 about 50 members of the Post, with I he band 
 of the Nineteenth Ignited States Infaulry and a large party 
 of friends, made an excursion by special train to Indian- 
 
a.polis, Ind., visiting the Soldiers' Home at Davtoii, Ohio, 
 while en ronte. On September 5th, the Post paraded 
 with the Department of Michigan, attracting nnich atten- 
 tion, and receiving high praise for its fine military bear- 
 ing and marching, and was spoken of as the best discip- 
 lined and most attractively nniformed Post in the entire 
 parade. 
 
 Since the organization of the Post the names of 165 
 comrades have been borne npon its roll. Of these 6 have 
 died, 7 have been transferred, and 5 dro]j])ed; leaving 147 
 members in good standing at the present time. 
 
 There were 62 charter members of the Post. Sixteen 
 joined in 1887; 16 in 1888; 22 in 1889; 9 in 1890; 21 in 1891; 
 18 in 1892, and 1 in 1893. Of the entire membership, 81 
 were mnstered in this Post as original members of the 
 G .A. K., and 84 have been received by transfer from other 
 Posts. 
 
 Of the present membership 117 comrades were native 
 born and hail from twelve different states, while 30 are 
 of foreign birth and come from eight different conntries, 
 as follows: Michigan, 43, (of which 17 were born in De- 
 troit); New York, 38; Ohio, 13; Maine, 5; Pennsylvania, 4; 
 Massachusetts and Connecticut, 3 each; New Hampshire, 
 New Jersey and Indiana, 2 each; Illinois and Virginia, 1 
 each; Germany, 10; Canada, 7; England, 6; France and 
 Switzerland, 2 each; Scotland, Ireland and Prussia, 
 ] each. 
 
 The present average age of the members, as shown by the 
 descriptive book, is a trifle over fifty and one-half years, 
 the youngest being forty-two, and the eldest sixty-three. 
 This would indicate that the average age at the time of 
 enlistment was about twenty-one years. From the army 
 muster rolls of over 1,000,000 recorded ages, it appears 
 that the mean age of all the soldiers in the civil war was 
 Iwentv-five vears. 
 
All of the 14:7 members served as volunteers, 69 enter- 
 ing the service in 1861, 53 in 1862, 9 in 1863, 13 in 1864, 
 and 1 in 1865 — the latter as a musician at the age of four- 
 teen. One member entered tlie United States Naval Acad- 
 emy in 1856, and one the Military Academy at West Point 
 in 1860, and after graduation both continued in the ser- 
 vice during the war. Twenty-one of tliose enlisting in 
 1861 did so in the first month of the war, one of whom vol- 
 unteered April 13th, the day succeeding the tiring on Fort 
 Sumter, in a three months' regiment, re-enlisted for three 
 years and again as a veteran, and was finally mustered out 
 in November, 1865, after four years and seven months al- 
 most continuous service. 
 
 We have also a member born in a foreign land, who, 
 being desirous of emigrating to this country in 1859, his 
 father was first compelled to purchase a substitute for 
 him in the German anuy. April, 1861, finds him a volun- 
 teer in the regiment from Michigan, first mustered for 
 three 3'ears, fighting under the United States flag. 
 
 Eighty-eight different regiments or organizations are 
 represented in our present membership, 78 of which were 
 mustered for three years' service; 5 for one year, 1 for nine 
 months, 1 for one hundred days and 3 for three months. 
 Of these Michigan claims 31; New York, 14; Ohio, 12; 
 Illinois, 7; Massachusetts, 5; Connecticut, New Hamp- 
 sliire and New Jersey, 2 each; Rhode Island, Vermont, In- 
 diana, Iowa, Kansas and Arkansas, 1 each; United States 
 regular army, 2; United States colored troops, (officers of), 
 2, and United States na^^^, 7. This does not embrace the 
 additional regiments represented by 15 members wlio 
 served in more than one command and were finally mus- 
 tered out in those enumerated above. 
 
 The different arms of the service were represented as 
 follows: Infantry, by 92 members; cavalry by 28; light 
 
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 artillery, 12; heavy artillery, 3; engineers, 3; sharpshoot- 
 ers, 2, and the navy 7. 
 
 We have 16 members who served a term of less than one 
 year each; 22 who served for one jear and less than two; 
 45 serving for two years and less than three; 49 for three 
 years and less than four; 9 for four years and less than 
 five; and 3 served for five years or more. The average 
 term of service of 144 members was a trifle over two years 
 and seven months, the shortest being three months and 
 the longest five years and nine months. This does not 
 embrace three members who served an aggregate of 47 
 years in the regular army or navy, during the rebellion 
 and either prior or subsequent thereto. 
 
 Sixty-six commissioned oflicers gave orders which 31 
 non-commissioned officers and 50 i:>rivates and seamen ex- 
 ecuted. The detail of rank, inclvTding brevet, is as fol- 
 lows: In the army — major-general, 1; colonels, 3; lieu- 
 tenant-colonels, 2; majors, 6; captains, 22; first lieuten- 
 ants, 14; first lieutenant and adjutant, 0; first lieutenant 
 and quartermaster, 1; second lieutenants, 0; surgeon, 1; 
 assistant surgeon, 1; cha]>lain, 1; sergeant majors, 2; quar- 
 termaster sergeants, 2; commissary sergeant, 1; hospital 
 steward, 1; first sergeants, 3; sergeants, 11; corporals, 10; 
 musicians, 7; privates, 39. In the navy — Lieutenant-com- 
 mander, 1; acting master, 1; acting ensign, 1; paymaster's 
 clerk, 1; seamen, 2; landsman, 1. 
 
 The causes of discharge from the service as reported, 
 are as follows; Close of war, S5; expiration of term of en- 
 listment, 26; wounds, 15; disability, S; resigned, 5; special 
 orders, 3; retired, 1; act of Congress, 1; promotion in civil 
 service, 1; now in service, 2. 
 
 Colonel Fox, in his book, "Regimental Losses in tlie 
 American Civil War," — an acknowledged authority — 
 states there were 2,047 regiments in the Union army, and 
 that in all there were 1,882 general engagements, battles, 
 
skirmishes or aflaii-s iu which at least one regiment was 
 engaged. Gettysburg was the greatest battle of the war, 
 the loss of life exceeding that of any other battlefield. 
 Autietam was the bloodiest, more men being killed on 
 that day than any other one day of the war. At Gettys- 
 burg, Chaucellorsyille and Spottsylyania, the fighting cov- 
 ered three days or more. At the Wilderness, ('old Harbor, 
 Shiloh, Stone's Iliyer, Chickamauga and Atlanta the losses 
 were divided between two days of fighting, but at Antie- 
 tam the bloody work commenced at sunrise and by four 
 c'clock that afternoon it was over. 
 
 As regards loss in the Tnion armies the greatest battles 
 of the war were: 
 
 Date. Battle. Killed. Wounded. Mi.'tsing. Aggregate. 
 
 July 1-3, 1863. Gettysburg 3,070 14,497 5,434 23,001 
 
 May 8-18, 1864, Spottsylvania 2.72.j 13,416 2.258 18,399 
 
 May 5-7, 1864, AVilderness 2.246 12.037 3,383 17,666 
 
 Sept. 17, 1S62. (1) Autietam 2.108 9,540 753 12,410 
 
 ^[ay 1-3. 1863, ChaueelloTsville .... 1.60«i 9.762 5.919 17,287 
 
 Sept. 19-20. 1S63. Chickauiausa 1,656 9.749 4.774 16,179 
 
 June 1-4, 1864, Cold Harbor 1.844 9.077 1,816 12,737 
 
 Dec. 11-14, 1862, Fredericksburj; . ... 1.284 9.600 1,769 12,653 
 
 Aug-. 28-30, 1862. (2) :\rauassas 1.747 8.452 4.263 14,462 
 
 Apr. 6-7, 1862, Sliiloh 1.754 8,468 2,885 13,047 
 
 Dee. 31, 1862, (3) Stoue's Kiver .. 1.730 7,802 3.717 13.249 
 
 June 15-19, 1864, Petersburg (assault) 1.688 8.513 1,185 11,386 
 
 The number here given as missing includes the cap- 
 tured; but the missing at Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor 
 may be fairly added to the killed and wounded, as it repre- 
 sents men who fell in an unsuccessful assault. 
 
 (1) Not including South Mountain or Cranipton's Gap. 
 
 (2) Includes Cliantilly, Kappabannock. Bristoe Station and Bull Run 
 Bridge. 
 
 (3) Including Knob Gaii, and losses on January 1st and 2d, 1863. 
 
The deaths in the Union army, from all causes, as offi- 
 cially classified, were as follows: 
 
 Cause. Officers. Enlisted Men. Aggregate. 
 
 Killed, or died of wounds G.SO.t 103.705 110,070 
 
 Died of disease 2,712 197.008 199,720 
 
 (1) lu Confederate prisons 83 24,783 24,8G6 
 
 Accidents 142 3,972 4,114 
 
 Drowning 106 4,838 4,944 
 
 Sunstrokes 5 308 313 
 
 Murdered 37 483 520 
 
 Killed after capture 14 90 104 
 
 Suicide 26 365 391 
 
 Military executions . . 267 267 
 
 Executed by the enemy 4 60 64 
 
 Causes known, but unclassified 62 1.972 2,034 
 
 Causes not stated 28 12,093 12,121 
 
 9,584 349,944 359,528 
 
 There were 112 battles in the war in which one side or 
 the other lost over 500 in killed and wounded. Eeo^iments 
 or commands represented in the membership of Detroit 
 Post participated in nearly all of these engagements, with 
 losses varying from 24 to 447 men. Our roster of battles 
 embraces almost every notable field of the war, and were 
 fought in seventeen different states. 
 
 Of the 97 different regiments or organizations repre- 
 sented by the members whose names have been borne upon 
 the rolls of the Post, all but 7 sustained losses in action 
 
 (1) In addition to this number, there Avere 5.290 who died wliile 
 prisoners, and who are included in the other items of this classifica- 
 tion. The total number of Union soldiers who died while in the hands 
 of the enemy according to this oflicial report was 30,156. The causes 
 of their deaths are classified as follows: From disease, 24,866; wounds, 
 2,072; sunstroke, 20; accidents, 7; drowning, 7; killed after capture, 104; 
 executed by the enemy, 64; causes known, but not classified, 319; causes 
 not stated, 2,097; total, 30,150. But. owing to the imperfect records 
 kept at some of the Confederate prisons, the deaths are not all included 
 in the foregoing statement. The mortality of Union prisoners, as 
 shown by the graves, has been estimated at 36,401. 
 
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 of killed or iiiortally wuiiuded; 83 losiiii;- uoL less tliau 25 
 lives; 66 losing not less than 50; 40 losing not less than 
 100; 17 losing not less than 150; and 10 losing 200 or over. 
 The total loss killed in action or died of wonnds in the 90 
 regiments was 9,121 men; died of disease and from other 
 causes, nearly 16,000. Included among the latter are 
 L606 death in Southern prisons, divided among 33 regi- 
 ments — the only ones from which returns are accessible. 
 
 Fox's table of "Maximum Losses in Killed" names 45 
 regiments which embraces every infantry regiment in the 
 Union armies that lost over 200 men killed or mortally 
 wounded in action during the war. Nine of these regi- 
 ments have survivors in Detroit Post, with an aggregate 
 loss of 2.154 lives — an average of 239. One of our regi- 
 ments (Fifth New Hampshire) heads the list with a loss 
 of 295; another (Fifth Michigan) takes fourth place with 
 a loss of 263; another (Sixty-ninth New York) sixth place 
 with a loss of 259; and another (Sixteenth Michigan) 
 eighth place with 247. This does not include one heavy 
 artillery regiment, (First Massachusetts), which is repre- 
 sented in the Post, in which the loss, killed or died of 
 wounds, was 241, and which was exceeded in only four 
 instances in similar organizations. We also claim mem- 
 bers of five cavalry regiments in his list of nine, which 
 lost the most men killed or fatally wounded in action. 
 Our five regiments (First Maine, First Michigan, Fifth 
 Michigan, Sixth Michigan and First New York Dragoons), 
 occupy first, second, third, fourth and sixth places in the 
 list; the greatest loss in any of the four regiments being 
 174 men, the least loss, 130 men. 
 
 We have representatives of three regiments in his list 
 of 22, whose Dercentage of killed or died of wounds was 15 
 or over, and who can fairly claim the honor of having 
 encounterer! the hardest fighting of the war. One of these 
 regiments sustained a loss of 17.1 per cent, (Sixty-ninth 
 
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 New York); another of 15.8 per cent., (Seventh Michigan), 
 and the third 15.2 per cent., (Twenty-fourth Michigan). 
 
 Fox gives a table of 200 regiments which embraces ev- 
 ery regiment in which the loss, killed or died of wounds, 
 exceeded 10 ner cent, of the total enrollment. Members 
 of Detroit Post represent 22 of these regiments, with an 
 average percentage of nearly 13. 
 
 He gives a table, "Maximum of Regimental Loss in Par- 
 ticular Engagements," and names over 200 regiments, 
 which includes eveiy regiment in the Union armies that 
 sustained, in any one battle, a loss in killed or mortally 
 wounded of 50 or more. Tw^enty-three of these regiments 
 have representatives in this Post, 3 of which appear twice 
 in the list. 
 
 We have two regiments (Fifth New Hampshire and Fifth 
 Michigan) in his list of 19, which embraces every infantry 
 regiment in the service that lost Ifi or more commissioned 
 officers during the war. We have also two regiments 
 (First Michigan and Twenty-fourth Michigan) in his list 
 of 11, which includes every infantry regiment that lost 8 
 or more officers in any one engagement. 
 
 His table, "Regimental Percentages of Killed in Par- 
 ticular Engagements" (including mortally wounded), em- 
 braces over 200 different commands. The minimum per- 
 centage given is 10, and the maximum 28, and fairly indi- 
 cates the extent of loss in killed to which a regiment is 
 liable in battle. Regiments of Detroit Post are found in 
 28 of these engagements, the highest percentage of loss 
 being 22, and the average nearly 15. 
 
 Sixty-nine different regiments are named in his table 
 of "Maximum Percentage of Casualties," (vrhich includes 
 killed, wounded and missing, the latter being mostly, if 
 not all, killed or wounded men), whose percentage was 50 
 or over in some one engagement. Nine of Detroit Post 
 regiments are found in this list as follows : 
 
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 111 the battle of Fort Doiielsoii, the Eleventh Illinois 
 lost 50.1 per cent. 
 
 lu the battle of Fredericksburg, the Sixty-ninth New 
 York lost 53.7 i)er cent. 
 
 In the battle of Chickamaui;a, the Fourteenth Ohio lost 
 51.5 per cent. 
 
 In the battle of Manassas, the First Michigan lost 55.6 
 per cent. 
 
 In the battle of Cedar Mountain, the Seventh Ohio lost 
 59.2 per cent. 
 
 In the battle of Antietain, the Sixty-ninth New York 
 lost G1.8 per cent. 
 
 In the battle of Shiloh, the Ninth Illinois lost 03.3 per 
 cent. 
 
 In the battle of Fredericksburg, the Fifth New Hamp- 
 shire lost 63.3 per cent. 
 
 In the battle of Gettysburg, the Twenty-fourth Michi- 
 gan lost 63.7 per cent. 
 
 In the last instance given, only the killed and wounded 
 are included by Fox. The historian of the regiment, iu a 
 book recently published, accounts by name for a loss in 
 killed and wounded alone which makes the percentage 61, 
 and a total loss including killed, wounded, prisoners, and 
 6 missing, Avliich raises the percentage to 80 per cent. 
 
 "Think of Avhat such extraordinary percentages imply. 
 Perhaps their significance will be better understood when 
 com])ared with some remarkable loss in foreign wars; 
 some well-known instance which may serve as a standai-<l 
 of measurement. Take the charge of the Light Brigade 
 at Balaklava. Its extraordinary loss has been made a 
 familiar feature of heroic verse and story in every land, 
 until the whole world has heard of the gallant Six Hun- 
 dred and their ride into the valley of death. Now, as the 
 Light Brigade acc(uii])lished nothing iu this action — 
 merelv executed an orchM- wliicli was a blunder — it must 
 
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 he that it was the danger aud its attendant luss which 
 inspired the interest in that historic ride. What was the 
 loss? The Light Brigade took 073 officers and men into 
 that charge; they lost 113 killed and 134 wounded; total 
 247, or 36.7 per cent. A comparison of this percentage 
 with those of the Union regiments in certain battles just 
 cited, will give some idea of the desperate character of the 
 fighting during the American civil war." 
 
 In his i)ublication Fox devotes one page each to "Three 
 Hundred Fighting Regiments," embracing every regiment 
 in the Union armies that sustained a h)ss of over 130 killed 
 and died of Avounds during the war. Detroit Post had rep- 
 resentatives in 32 of these regiments. 
 
 Included in our membershij) is one who served in the 
 First Maine Cavalry Regiment, mustered into the United 
 States service in October, ISGl, re-enlisted and served 
 through the war. This regiment was engaged in over 40 
 different battles where it lost one or more lives, and sus- 
 tained the greatest loss, killed in action, of nny cavalry 
 regiment in the entire army. It fought under Banks in 
 the Shenandoah Valle}^ at Middletown, May 24th, 18(12; 
 with Pope's army at Manassas, August 28th, and at South 
 Mountain, September 14th, under McOlellan. In April, 
 1863, the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac was organ- 
 ized into one command and Gen. Stoueman was placed at 
 its head. The regiment participated in the raid on the 
 enemy's rear during the Chancellorsville campaign, and 
 was engaged at Louisa Court House May 2d, with a loss 
 of 1 officer and 25 men killed, wounded and captured. In 
 the cavalry battle at Brandy Station, June 9th, under 
 Pleasanton, it fought in Gregg's division, with which com- 
 mand it continued to serve until the close of the war. At 
 Aldie, June 17th, while leading a successful charge, the 
 regiment lost 8 killed, including its colonel, and two days 
 later fought at Middleburg, losing 10 killed, 18 w^ounded. 
 
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 aud 12 missing. In tlie battle of Crettysburg, July 3d, it 
 was engaged with a small loss, and at Shepherdstown, 
 Va., July ICtli, lost 3 killed, 22 wounded and 8 missing. 
 In April, 1864, Sheridan was placed in command of the 
 Cavalry Corps, and the campaign of that year was marked 
 by hard fighting and great loss of life, for this arm of the 
 service. In March the regiment took part in the Dahl- 
 green raid to Kichmond, losing 10 men killed, and in the 
 iiction at Ashland, Va., May 11th — on the Sheridan-Rich- 
 mond raid — 9 more men were killed or mortally wounded. 
 At Cold Harbor, June 2d, its chaplain was killed, being 
 struck in the breast by a shell and "literally blown to 
 pieces." On the Trevilian raid, at St. Mary's Church, 
 June 24th, it made a desperate fight against great odds, 
 losing 10 officers and 56 men killed, wounded and missing, 
 out of 260 engaged. It lost 8 killed, 25 wounded, and 2 
 missing at Deep Bottom, August 14th. Another hard 
 fight occurred at the Boydton Road October 27th, where 
 it lost 9 killed, 56 wounded, and 12 missing. The regi- 
 ment sustained its severest loss at Dinwiddie Court House 
 March 31 st, 1865 — Gen. Crook commanding the division — 
 in which engagement it lost 20 killed, 55 wounded and 6 
 missing. In the final campaign it had 20 men killed at 
 Deatonsville and Sailors' Creek April 6th, Farmville April 
 7th and Appomattox April 9th. Its loss during its term 
 of service, killed in action or died of wounds, was 15 offi- 
 cers and 159 men. Like all cavalry commands, many 
 members of the regiment were captured while on outpost 
 duty, or while foraging within the enemy's lines. Of 
 these 145 died of disease while in Confederate prisons. 
 
 We have six survivors of the First Michigan Cavalry 
 Regiment, which entered the service in Sei)tember, 1861, 
 veteranized in December, 1863, and served through the 
 war. It participated in nearly 40 different engagements 
 in which it had' men killed, ;nid in mnnv others where it 
 
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 lost men wounded or captured, sustaining the second 
 greatest loss in battle, killed or fatally wounded, of any 
 cavalry regiment in the war. The regiment served with 
 Banks in the advance up the Shenandoah Valley in Marcli, 
 1862, and took a large share of the cavalry lighting in that 
 campaign lasting until June. At Winchester, May 24th, 
 it lost 10 killed and 20 wounded and missing. It then 
 marched with Banks' command to join Pope's army in the 
 vicinity of Culpeper, and took part in the battle of Cedar 
 Mountain August 9th. At that time the following inci- 
 dent occurred, as related by one of our members, then an 
 officer in this regiment : 
 
 "About a week after the battle of Cedar Mountain, my 
 regiment, with one other, was sent out on a cavalry recon- 
 noissance towards Louisa Court House. After an all 
 night's march, at about four o'clock a. m., I gave chase to 
 two horsemen, firing my revolver at them. The alarm 
 awoke a party of Confederate officers who had been pass- 
 ing the night at a farm house, one of whom, as was after- 
 wards proven, was Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. The officers es- 
 cai)ed to the woods in rear of the house, but in their 
 hasty departure left their personal effects behind. Among 
 the booty secured was found many valuable papers, in- 
 cluding an order from Gen. Lee assigning Stuart to the 
 command of his advance cavalry forces, and outlining the 
 ( ontemplated forward movement of his army which cul- 
 minated in the Maryland cam|)aign. It is believed that 
 this information, which was promi)tly forwarded by cour- 
 ier to Gen. Pope, caused him to withdraw his forces from 
 the line on the upper Rappahannock, and the authorities 
 to concentrate the army near Manassas, in the vicinity of 
 which was fought the series of battles that immediately 
 followed and saved Washington from capture." 
 
 At Manassas, August 30th, the regiment lost 8 killed, 
 13 wounded and 97 captured. Its colonel fell mortallv 
 
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 wounded while leading; a charjie. After this battle, aud 
 diiriug the early ]>ait of 18(13, it was engaged in grand 
 guard duty in frcmt of the defenses of Washington. In 
 June, 18G3, the regiment was assigned to the Michigan 
 C'avalry Brigade, then comiMjsed of the Fifth, Sixth and 
 Seventh regiments, all of which have living representa- 
 tives in this Post. Oeu. Custer was shortly after placed 
 in command of the brigade, aud it at once became famous 
 for its memorable charge at Gettysburg July 3d, against 
 a superior force, aud which its general commanding pro- 
 nounced "uue<]ualed for brilliancy and gallantry in the 
 annals of warfare." It sustained the heaviest loss of any 
 cavalry brigade in that battle, the First regiment losing 
 10 killed, 13 wonuded aud 20 missing, out of 300 engaged; 
 the Fifth losing 8 killed, 30 wounded and 18 missing, and 
 the Seventh IG killed, 41 wounded and 21 prisoners or mis- 
 sing. At Falling Waters, Md., on July 11th, a squadi(ui 
 of the Sixth regiment made one of the most remarkable 
 and gallant cavalry charges of the war, attacking a Con- 
 federate division which was intrenched to cover the cross- 
 ing of troops over the Potomac. The outer line of works 
 was carried aud the men leaped their horses over the inner 
 line, but were obliged to retreat with a loss of 23 killed, 
 33 wounded and 23 missing; among the killed were the 
 nuijor commanding and two other officers. The brigade 
 also suffered severe losses at Summei'v^ille Ford, Va., Sep- 
 tember 16th, Brandy Station October 12th and Buckland's 
 Mills October 19th. After participating in the Kilpatrick- 
 Dahlgreen raid to Richmond in March, 18(51, the brigade 
 entered the spring campaign under Sheridan. Its losses 
 from May 1th to June 30th Avas 5 officers and 89 men 
 killed, 10 officers and 311 men wounded, and 1 olKicers and 
 275 men ca])tured or missing; many of the latter were 
 killed or wounded. At TIawe's Shop May 28th the brigade 
 fought dismouiiled; tlie Fifth losing 55 killed aud wonuded 
 
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 out of 151 engaged, and the Sixth 16 killed and 19 wounded 
 out of 140 taken into action. The Fifth Regiment met with 
 its heaviest loss in the cavalry affair at Trevilian Station 
 June lltli, where, in addition to the killed and wounded, 
 136 were taken prisoners — the regiment having charged 
 too far through an opening in the enemy's lines, and being- 
 cut off from the rest of the brigade was obliged to cut its 
 wa}' out. In this engagement the First Regiment lost 17 
 killed and mortally wounded; the Fifth 21, and the Sixth 
 18. While on the Sheridan "Richmond raid" the Seventh 
 lost at Yellow Tavern May 11th 13 killed, including the 
 Major commanding. In this engagement the rebel gen- 
 eral Stuart received his death wound from a shot fired by 
 a soldier of the Fifth. Early in August the brigade was 
 ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, where it participated 
 in the brilliant cavalry tighting that followed. During 
 the succeeding four months it was engaged in fourteen 
 different battles and affairs Avhich caused the loss in its 
 ranks of one or more lives; losing at Opequon September 
 19th and Cedar Creek October 19th 46 in killed or mortally 
 wounded. Upon Sheridan's return to Petersburg, the 
 brigade started on tlie final campaign of 1865, and took a 
 prominent and meritorious part in the operations which 
 culminated in the surrender of Lee's army. After the war 
 liad ended the brigade was ordered to the far west, where 
 it was engaged fighting Indians until November, 1865, 
 when it was mustered out of service. The recruits, previ- 
 ously consolidated into one regiment, were not discharged 
 until March, 1866. During their terms of service the First 
 Regiment lost in killed and died of wounds 14 officers and 
 150 men; the Fifth lost 6 officers and 135 men; the Sixth 
 lost 7 officers and 128 men; and the Seventh 4 officers and 
 81 men. The brigade sustained the highest percentage 
 of loss killed in action of an}- brigade in the mounted ser- 
 vice during the war. Three hundred and thirteen of its 
 
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 iiieiiibei's also died while eoiittiied in SouUieru prisous. 
 The First Regiment was recrnited at Detroit in August 
 and September, 18C1, and left the State September 29th, 
 with 1,144 officers and men on its rolls; the Fifth was or- 
 ganized at Detroit in August, 18G2, leaving the State De- 
 cember 4th, 1,144 strong; the Sixth Avas miistered into 
 the United States service at Grand Rapids October 13th, 
 1862, and left the State December 10th with a roster of 
 1,229; and the Scn'enth rendezvoused at Grand Rapids, the 
 first battalion leaving the State February 20th, 18G3, and 
 the remaining companies in May following. 
 
 Among our members are two who sensed in the Second 
 Michigan Cavahy, mustered in October 2d, 18(31, and in 
 March, 18G4, over 300 of the regiment re-enlisted as veter- 
 ans. It was actively employed, during its entire term of 
 service, fighting and scouting in the States of Missouri, 
 Mississippi, Kentucky, ^^irginia, Tennessee, Georgia and 
 Alabama. During the year 1864 it marched nearly 1,400 
 miles, exclusive of marches when on picket and outpost 
 duty. It first met the enemy in a skirmish at Point Pleas- 
 ant, Mo., March 9th, 1862, and its last encounter was at 
 Talladega, Ala., April 23d, 1865, where it lost two men 
 killed. It was under fire in nearly 70 different jJlaces, 
 including a si)irited fight at Boouville, Miss., July 1st, 
 1862, under Sheridan, then colonel of the regiment. It 
 ])articipated in the capture of Island No. 10, siege of Cor- 
 inth and battles of Perryville, Ky., Thompson's Station, 
 Tenn., Chickamauga, Ga., Franklin, Tenn., and Nashville, 
 Tenn. Its last service was in the cavalry raid of Wilson's 
 corps in Alabama and Georgia March 22d to April 24th, 
 1865, where it had several sharp confiicts with Forrest's 
 command and other rebel forces, and aided in the capture 
 (*f a large amount of war nuiterial and stores. This regi- 
 ment bore on its roster the names of four officers who were 
 afterwards among the most distinguished generals of the 
 
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 war. It lost, while iu the service, 2 officers aiKl 72 iiieit 
 killed in action or died of wounds. 
 
 We have those who belonged to the Third Regiment 
 Michigan Cavahy, that took the field in November, 1861,. 
 11 nd whose first service was in the movement ag-ainst New 
 Madrid, Mo., March 13th, 1862. After the capture of 
 Island No, 10 it joined in the advance on Corinth, Miss.,, 
 taking part in the action at Farmington, Miss., May 5th,. 
 and siege of Corinth until its evacuation May 2iyth. It 
 then entered on the campaign under Rosecrans, partici- 
 pating in the battles of luka September I9th, ami C^orinthr 
 October 3d and Ith. For the succeeding twelve months' 
 ii was employed in scouting and in various expeditions- 
 throughout Northern Mississippi and Western Tennesseev 
 and had frequent encounters with the enemy, including- 
 a sharp fight at Jackson, Tenn., July IStli, 1863; at Gren- 
 ada, Miss., August 14th, and at Wyatfs Ford October 
 13th. In January 1864, the regiment re-eiiFisted, and 
 upon the expiration of its veteran furlough was ordered to 
 Little Rock, Ark., and after being mounted August 1st 
 was engaged for some months scouting through that State-. 
 In March, 1865, it was transferred to the cammaud of Gen. 
 Canby at New Orleans, aud took part in the land opera- 
 tions against Mobile. After the fall of Mobile it was se- 
 lected as a part of Sheridan ^s forces for the expedition to* 
 Texas, and marched to San Antonio, where it was sta- 
 tioned until ordered home for muster out in Februarjv 
 1866. During its term of service the regiment lost 3 offi- 
 cers aud 27 men killed in acti<m or fatally wounded. 
 
 Our rostei" in-chides three members serving iu the Fourth 
 Cavalry Regiment from Michigan, organized in 1862, anJ 
 mustei'ed in August 29th, Avliich expei-ienced three ^'T'TITs 
 of arduous marching and fighting in Kentucky, Teinies- 
 see, Georgia and Alabama. During its term of siei'vice it 
 inetthe-eueirfv no less than 92 different times; ami nKii'died 
 
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 i: early 7,000 miles, lucluded iu its uuiuerous eucouuters 
 are the battles of Stone's River, Cliickamauga and Chat- 
 tanooga. It took an active part in the campaign preced- 
 ing the fall of Atlanta in 1864, sustaining severe losses at 
 Kinston, Ga., May 18th, and Lattiniore's Mill June 20th. 
 in the latter engagement it lost 11 killed, 25 wounded and 
 11 missing. In March, 1805, the regiment started with 
 Wilson's Cavahy Corps on the raid through Alabama and 
 Georgia, participating in the engagement at Selma, Ala., 
 April 2d, and ca])ture of a large number of prisoners, artil- 
 lerj, ammunition and stores. Its service ended with the 
 capture of Jeff Davis near Irwinsville, Ga., May 10th, 1865, 
 by which it gained a national reputation and a world-wide 
 notoriety. The officer who personally captured the ex- 
 rebel chieftain, and who first discovered him in the dis- 
 guise of a female attempting to escape from the camp 
 in which he waK found, is one of the three members of 
 this Post above referred to. He has published, for the 
 archives of the Loyal Legion, a detailed and very inter- 
 esting account of this dramatic episode. Three officers 
 and 48 men of the regiment were killed or mortally 
 wounded in battle during its term of service. 
 
 On our membershi]^ roll are those who served in the 
 Eighth Michigan Cavalry, mustered into the United 
 States service May 2d, 1863, and took an active part in the 
 pursuit of Morgan while on his famous raid in Kentucky, 
 Ohio and Indiana during July. While engaged in this 
 movement the regiment marched nearly 600 miles in 16 
 daj's, and had several skirmishes with Morgan's troopers. 
 The greater part of these raiders w^ere captured after a 
 sharp engagement at Buffington Island, Ohio, July 19th, 
 and the remaining force, with their leader, surrendered 
 .Inly 26th, near Salineville, Ohio. The regiment then 
 took part in the advance into East Tennessee, where it 
 had frequent encounters with the enemy. At Calhoun 
 
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 aud Athens September 26th and 27th, it lost 43 men killed, 
 Avounded and missing, and at Sweetwater, October 26th, 
 1 killed and 7 wounded. It participated in the fight at 
 Campbell's Station November 16th and in the si^ge of 
 Knoxville November 17th-December 4th. In June, 1864, 
 it joined the command of Gen. Stoneman, with which it 
 took part in the advance to Atlanta. In July it partici- 
 pated in the Macon raid, and in the engagement at Clin- 
 ton, Ga., on the 31st, where a large portion of the com- 
 mand were surrendered by Stoneman. This regiment, 
 with some other troops, succeeded in getting away, but 
 were finally overtaken near Athens, Ga., xiugust 3d, and 
 the majority captured. The regiment lost in killed, 
 wounded and prisoners 215 officers and men out of about 
 300 who went on the raid. In October it was ordered to 
 Nashville and attached to Thomas' army to repel Hood's 
 invasion of Tennessee. It took an active part in the fight- 
 ing near Columbia in November, sustaining severe losses 
 on the 23d, 24th and 28th, and was present at the battles 
 of Franklin on the 30th and of Nashville December 15th 
 and 16th. During its term of service the regiment lost 1 
 officer and 45 men killed in action or died of wounds. 
 
 Our membership includes those serving in the Tenth 
 Michigan Cavaliw, organized in October, 1863, and whose 
 principal field of action was in Tennessee during the year 
 1864. Its time was fully employed in scouting and fight- 
 ing, and it participated in upwards of 50 different engage- 
 ments and skirmishes with the enemy. The regiment at- 
 tained a notable achievement in the successful defense 
 of Strawberry Plains, East Tennessee, August 24th, 1864, 
 by only a small portion of the commaud, ag"-ainst an assault 
 of the entire rebel cavaliy corps, under Wheeler, number- 
 ing over 6,000 men and 6 pieces of artillery. It also suc- 
 cessfully repulsed Breckenridge's attack with infantry, 
 cavalry and artillery at the same place November 17th, 
 
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 with only about oiie-sixth the nuiuber of the jittackinjj;' 
 forces. In March, 1865, it joined the command of Gen. 
 Stoneman in the cavalry raid from East Tennessee into 
 Southwestern Yirj^inia and North Carolina, enjj^an^inj^ the 
 enemy in several places, and burning a large number of 
 railroad bridges and destroying a vast (luantity of sup- 
 plies. The regiment was then employed in aiding to pre- 
 vent tlie escape of Jeff Davis, and materially contributed 
 to his capture, which occurred soon after. During its term 
 of service the regiment lost 2 officers and 29 men killed in 
 battle or fatiilly wounded. 
 
 ^Ve have those who were members of the Eleventh 
 Michigan Cavalry, which took the field in January, 1864, 
 • with headquarters at Lexington, Ky. In May it started 
 with Gen. Burbridge's command in pursuit of Morgan, 
 then invading the State, encountering liis foi-cc^s at Mt. 
 Sterling June 9th, and again at Cynthiana on the 11th. 
 In Se])tember it i)articii)ated in the caA^alry raid into West- 
 ern Mrginia, and on October 2d, had a stubborn tight near 
 Saltville, Va., where its lieutenant-colonel commanding 
 vras killed. Returning to Lexington after a long and wear- 
 isome march, it was actively employed hunting guerillas, 
 scouting and foraging. On December 11th it moved Avith 
 the command of Gen. Stoneman on the raid from Bean's 
 Station, East Tennessee, to Saltville, Va., skirmishing 
 with the enemy in several places, and at Marion, Va., De- 
 cember lltli, had a sharp encounter with Breckenridge's 
 forces, losing 2 officers and 5 men killed. On the 20th 
 Saltville was captured and the salt works com]detely de- 
 stroyed, together witli a large amount of stores and sup- 
 plies. The regiment again returned to Lexington, where 
 it remained until March, 1865, when it joined (len. Stone- 
 man's cavalry corps at Knoxville, and took i)art in the 
 expedition through East Tennessee, North Carolina, South 
 Carolina au<l "GcMti-gia, to dismantle the railroads in that 
 
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 section. It had numerous encounters with the enemy 
 while on the campaign, and aided in the capture of a large 
 number of prisoners, and destroying a vast quantity of 
 war material and public property. It Avas then ordered 
 to join in the pursuit of Jeff Davis, and captured a portion 
 of his cavalry escort near Washington, Ga., May lltli. 
 The regiment lost, while in the service, 4 officers and 24 
 men killed or mortally wounded in action. 
 
 Our rolls bear the names of those who served in the 
 Third Massachusetts Cavalry, mustered into the United 
 States service August to November, 18(32, as the Forty- 
 first Massachusetts Infantrj^ On December 4tli, the regi- 
 ment sailed from New York City for New Orleans, and was 
 placed on dut}^ at Baton Kouge, La. With Grover's div- 
 ision. Nineteenth Corps, it took part in the "Teche cam- 
 paign," and in the actions at Fort Bisland, La., April 13th, 
 and Irish Bend April 14th. The investment of Port Hud- 
 son was accomplished in the following month, aud two 
 unsuccessful attempts were made to carry the enemj^'s 
 works by assault. On June ITtli the designation of the 
 regiment was changed to Third Massachusetts Cavalry. 
 After the surrender of Port Hudson, July 9th, the regi- 
 ment remained in that vicinity, engaged in scouting and 
 outpost duty until January, 18G4. It then returned to 
 New Orleans, aud on March 10th started with Banks' 
 command on the Red River expedition, participating with 
 the cavalry division in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, 
 La., April 8th, Pleasant Hill April 9th, Alexandria May 
 1st, and in several minor affairs while on the campaign. 
 After the failure of the expedition the regiment was or- 
 dered to Morganzia, La., and on June 25th was dismount- 
 ed and equipped as infantry. It then moved to New Or- 
 leans aud embarked for Fortress Monroe, Va., thence to 
 Washington. On August 4tli, it proceeded to Harper's 
 Ferry and joined Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah 
 
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 \'alley caiiipaij^u, iiud iu the battles of Opequou, Fisher's 
 Hill and Cedar Creek, encountered some of the hardest 
 fighting of its Avhole experience. At Opequon (Winches- 
 ter) September 19th— iu Grover's division — it lost 19 
 killed and 87 wounded; 40 of the latter afterwards died of 
 their wounds. The regiment was then ordered to Pleas- 
 ant Vallev, Md., where it remained in camp until Febru- 
 ary 24th, 1865, haviug been again mounted and equipped 
 as cavalry. In March it returned to the Shenandoah Val- 
 ley and was engaged in scouting and outpost duty until 
 April 20th, when it moved to Washington. After partici- 
 pating in the grand review May 23d it was ordered to St. 
 l.ouis. Mo., thence to Fort Leavenw^orth, Kan., and from 
 July 27th to August IGth marched to Fort Kearney, Neb., 
 and to Cottonwood Springs, Col. On August 29th it 
 started on the return via Fort Kearney to Fort Leaven- 
 worth, where it was mustered out September 28th. While 
 in the service the regiment sustained a loss of 5 officers and 
 101 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 
 
 We have those who saw service in the Second Missouri 
 Cavalry (Merri'ii Horse), organized at Benton Barracks, 
 St. Louis, Mo., September to December, 1861, a portion of 
 the regiment participating iu Fremont's Missouri cam- 
 j-aign from September to November before being thor- 
 oughly organized and equipped. It was placed on duty 
 in the district of Northeastern Missouri, and the Rolla 
 district until June, 1863, constantly employed operating 
 against guerillas, with organized bands of which it had 
 many sharj) conflicts. Included among these was a brisk 
 fight at Memphis, July 18th, 1862, where tlie regiment lost 
 30 men killed and 4 officers and 31 men Avounded. From 
 July to September, 1863, it was engaged in Davidson's 
 expedition to co-operate with Steele against Little Rock, 
 Ark., having numerous encounters with the enemy, and 
 taking a ])romiuont ])art iu the capture of Little Rock and 
 
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 pursuit of Price. In March, 1864, it joined the expedition 
 of Steele to Camden, Ark., skirmisliing- with the enemy in 
 a number of places, and particiiDating in the battles of 
 Mark's Mills April 25th, and Jenkin's Ferry April 30th. 
 In September the regiment was attached to Pleasanton's 
 cavalry command, with which it operated to repel the in- 
 vasion of Price into Missouri, and was engaged in the 
 actions at Boonville, Little Blue and Independence, Mo., 
 and several other minor affairs. In January, 1865, it was 
 ordered to the Department of the Tennessee, where it re- 
 mained on duty until September, when it was mustered out 
 of service. Its loss, killed in action and fatally wounded, 
 was 3 officers and 53 men. 
 
 Our roster includes those who were members of the 
 First New Hampshire Cavalrj-, four companies of which 
 were organized as a battalion in October, 1861, and at- 
 tached to another command. In January, 1864, this bat- 
 talion was ordered home as a nucleus for the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry. Seven companies of the reorganized 
 regiment were ordered to Washington April 23d, and at- 
 tached to Wilson's division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the 
 Potomac, joining the army in the field at Cold Harbor, 
 Va. The regiment participated in all the movements and 
 engagements of that command duriug June and July, and 
 in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign from August 
 to December, being engaged in the battles of Opequon and 
 Cedar Creek, and several minor affairs. In February, 
 1865, it started on Sheridan's Virginia raid from Kerns- 
 town, and in the action at Waynesboro March 2d, led in a 
 charge on the enemy's works, capturing with the sabre 
 1 ,500 prisoners, all the artillery and the flag of every regi- 
 ment engaged. It was then detailed to guard prisoners 
 back to Winchester, and after parti('i])ating in a few minor 
 engagements in that locality was on duty at AA'inchester 
 until mustered out in Juh^ The other five companies 
 
completed their orj^auizatioii iii July, 18G4, and were en- 
 gaged on guard and patrol dut^^ at Washington, and in 
 operations against Mosby's Guerillas until March, 1865, 
 when they joined the regiment in the Shenandoah Valley. 
 The regiment lost, during its term of service, 5 officers 
 and 28 men killed in action or died of wounds. 
 
 In our list of members are those serving in the First 
 New York Dragoons, organized in September, 1862, as 
 the One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry, and served as 
 such at Suffolk, Va., and in Keye's Peninsular campaign. 
 On July 28th, 1863, the regiment was transferred to the 
 mounted seiwice under the designation of the First New 
 York Dragoons. It made its first fight as such at Man- 
 assas Plains on the night of October 17th. The regiment 
 started on Grant's campaigu of May, 1861, with 400 car- 
 bines, and in the Wilderness, (at Todd's Tavern May 7th), 
 having dismounted, made a desperate fight, sustaining 
 there the heaviest loss of any cavalry regiment in any one 
 action during the war; its casualties amounted to 20 killed 
 36 wounded and 35 missing. At Cold Harbor, June 3d, the 
 wearied troopers were sleeping on the ground, bridle-rein 
 in hand, when thej' were awakened and ordered into the 
 bi'eastworks, which they gallantly defended while their 
 band played gaily during the tight. In this action the regi- 
 ment lost 8 killed and 26 wounded. At Trevilian Station, 
 June 11th, the remnant of the dragoons were actively en- 
 gaged, their casualties amounting to 16 killed, 61 wounded 
 and 8 missing. After fighting under Sheridan in his 
 famous Shenandoah campaign, and sharing in the glories 
 of Appomattox, the regiment was mustered out June 
 30th, 1865. The Dragoons ranked high in the estimation 
 (•f its various brigade and division generals, as a regi- 
 ment of superior <liscipline and efficiency. During all its 
 mounted service the regiment was in the First Cavalry 
 Division, Army of the Potomac. Its total loss killed or 
 
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 fatally wounded in battle was 4 officers and 120 men, and 
 exceeded by only five other regiments in tlie mounted 
 service. 
 
 One member of the Post served in the Eiglith New York 
 Cavahw Hegiment, which participated in every principal 
 battle of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, from 
 Winchester May 24th, 1802, to Appomattox April 9th, 
 1865, and was engaged in no less than forty different con- 
 flicts with the enemy in which it had men killed. During 
 the Antietam campaign it served in Pleasanton's Cavalry 
 Division, having previously distinguished itself by its 
 escape from Harper's Ferry, at the time of the surrender 
 of that place in September, 1862, by passing through the 
 besieging lines at night, and capturing from the enemy 
 while on the way an ammunition train of 100 wagons and 
 its escort of 000 men. It fought under Pleasanton in the 
 famous cavalry battle at Beverly Ford, Va., June 9tli, 
 1863, where it sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment 
 (m that field, its casualties amounting to 12 killed, 31 
 wounded, and 7 missing. Its Colonel was killed in a per- 
 sonal encounter in this action. At Gettysburg the regi- 
 ment fought in Gamble's Brigade (Buford's Division) — the 
 brigade which opened that historic battle on the morning 
 of July 1st, 1803. During Sheridan's raids and the Shen- 
 andoah campaign, in 1804, it served in Wilson's (Third) 
 Division. This division was commanded by Gen. Custer 
 in the final campaign of 1865. During its term of service 
 the regiment lost 14 officers and 91 men killed in battle 
 oi" died of wounds. 
 
 We have also one member of the Thirteenth Regiment, 
 New York Cavalry, which was organized by the consolida- 
 tion of several incomplete cavalry organizations June 
 20th, 1803, companies A to F leaving the State for Wash- 
 ington June 23d; companies G and H August 14th, and 
 companies I to M in the winter of 1863-4. During its entire 
 
term of service it was attached to the Twenty-second Corps, 
 organized for the defense of Washington, or to the cavalry 
 brigade of that corps. The first six companies of the regi- 
 ment served on patrol duty in rear of the Army of the 
 Potomac during the Gettysburg campaign in June and 
 July, 1803. (Companies G and II partici])ated in the New 
 York riots July 15th.) It was engaged in the battle of 
 Bristoe Station, Va., October 14th, and in numerous ac- 
 tions in Northern Virginia from October, 1863, to March, 
 1865. It was employed much of the time in operations 
 against Mosby and the bands of guerillas that infested 
 that section, and lost, while in the service, 31 men killed 
 or mortally w^ounded. 
 
 Included among our members is one who saw three 
 years' service in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, wdiich took the 
 field in March, 1862, and served until the close of the war 
 with the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalr^^ Corps 
 operating with that army. It took part in the battles of 
 vShiloh, Corinth and Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, 
 march to the sea, and campaign of the Carolinas. The 
 regiment participated in many cavalry raids and expedi- 
 tions, meeting the enemy in numerous engagements and 
 skirmishes, its encounters occurring in no less than seven 
 different Southern States. It lost one ofticer and 26 men 
 killed in action during its term of service. 
 
 Our membership embraces those serving in the Seventh 
 Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry, organized June 24th, 
 1862, for three months' service. Its first thirty days' duty 
 was in the defences of Washington, from whence it moved 
 to Winchester, Va., where it remained until September 
 3d. It participated in the defense of Harper's Ferry, and 
 on the night of September 14th, the regiment escaped with 
 other troops through the enemy's lines, and aided in the 
 capture of a portion of Longstreet's wagon train. Our 
 
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 member, with six others of the regiment, having- been de- 
 tailed for the night as hospital guard on Bolivar Heights, 
 was included in the surrender which took place on the 
 15th, and was paroled. with other prisoners. September 
 26th, the regiment was mustered out, on the expiration of 
 its term of service. 
 
 Among our members is one who served in the First 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, organized in 
 Jul}^, 1861, as an infantry regiment, and proceeded at once 
 to Washington, where it was placed on garrison duty in 
 the forts about there. In January, 1862, it was changed 
 lo hea\n>^ artillery and recruited to twelve companies of 
 150 men each. The First Battalion was ordered on active 
 field service at Maryland Heights and vicinity, but tlie 
 regiment proper did not go to the front until May, 1864. 
 It then served as an infantry command in Grant's Vir- 
 ginia campaign, joining the Army of the Potomac May 
 17th, having been assigned to Tyler's Division of Heavy 
 Artillery, Second Corps. Two days later it met the enemy 
 on the Fredericksburg Pike; it took 1,617 officers and men 
 into that action, sustaining a loss of 50 killed, 312 
 wounded, and 28 missing; a total of 390. Of the wounded, 
 70 afterwards died of their injuries. In the assault on 
 Petersburg— June 16-18— it lost 29 killed, 183 wounded 
 (25 fatally), and 6 missing; total, 218. Four days later, in 
 the affair of June 22d, it lost 9 killed, 46 wounded, and 185 
 missing; the latter were mostly captured men, of whom 
 over one-half died in confederate prisons. In the cam- 
 paign of 1865, the regiment was in Pierce's (Second) Bri- 
 gade, Mott's (Third) Division, Second Corps, with which 
 command it participated in "the closing battles of the war. 
 While in the servdce it sustained a loss of 9 officers and 232 
 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 
 
 Two of our members served in the noted Chicago Board 
 i)f Trade (Stoke's Independent) Battery, organized August 
 
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 1st, 18G2, and assis4ii('(l to duty iu tlie Army of the Ohio. 
 It took part iu BuelPs pursuit of Bra<;j^- in Kentucky, and 
 on October Sth was engaged in the action at Lawrence- 
 burg. It tlien moved to Bowling Green, thence to Nasli- 
 ville, Tenn., and participat<Ml in the advance on Murfrees- 
 boro. At the battle of Stone's Kiver, December 31st, it 
 was hotly engaged, and aided materially in repulsing the 
 repeated assaults of the enemv. In March, 1863, the bat- 
 tery Avas changed from mounted field to flying horse ar- 
 tillery — the only battery of flying artillery in the Western 
 Armies — and attached to the Second Cavalry Division, 
 Army of the Cumberland. In June the advance on Chat- 
 tanooga commenced, during Avhich the battery was en- 
 gaged in the action at Shelb3wille on the 2Tth. It accom- 
 panied Rosecrans across the Cumberland Mountains in his 
 pursuit of Bragg, and on September 18-20th, fought at 
 Chickamauga. The cavalry were then engaged in tln^ 
 Ijursuit of Wheeler into Middle Tennessee, after which the 
 battery was on dut^' in Nf>rthern Alabama and at Nash- 
 ville until the following spring. On February 21th, 1861, 
 it was re-fitted with 3-inch Parrott guns, and in May en- 
 tered on the Atlanta campaign. With the cavalry com- 
 mand it took part in much of the fighting in that cam- 
 paign, and after the fall of Atlanta joined in the pursuit 
 of Hood into Tennessee, and participated in the battle of 
 Nashville December 15th and 16th. In March, 1865, it 
 entered Alabama with Wilson's corps of troopers on the 
 Vaid to Macon, Ga., and there fought in the closing battles 
 of the war. During its term of service the battery lost 10 
 men killed in action or fatally wounded. 
 
 Included in our membership are those serving in the 
 Eleventh Massachusetts Battery, first (U-ganized August 
 25th, 18(52, for nine months' service, and employed on 
 garrison duty in and about the defences of Washington 
 until its muster out iu May, 1863. On January 2d, 1861, 
 
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 the battery was re-organized under a three years' enlist- 
 ment, and left for Washington February 5tli. It remained 
 on duty in the defences of that city until April 9th, when 
 it was assigned to Potter's (Second) Division, Ninth Corps, 
 and participated in all of the battles of that command in 
 the Rapidan campaign during May and June. In July it 
 was attached to the Artillery Brigade, Ninth Corps, with 
 which it served during the siege of Petersburg and assault 
 and capture April 2d, 1865. In May the battery moved to 
 Washington, where it took part in the grand review of the 
 23d, and on June IGth, was mustered out of service, having 
 lost 3 men killed in battle. 
 
 In the Post are two survivors of the famous Loomis' 
 (First) Michigan Battery, whicli was mustered into the 
 United States service May 28th, 18G1, for three years, and 
 in January, 1864, re-enlisted as veterans. It left the State 
 May 31st, fully equipped, and on July 11th, participated 
 in the action at Rich Mountain, W. Ya., ten days prior to 
 first Bull Run. It remained in West Virginia until De- 
 cember, and was engaged in the actions at Elkwater, Sep- 
 tember 11th and 12th, and Greenbrier, October 3d. On 
 December 16th, the battery was ordered to report to Gen. 
 Buell in Kentucky. It made a forced march on Bowling 
 Green February 14th, 1862, and with a few well-directed 
 shots, at long range, soon disabled a locomotive and pre- 
 vented the enemy from removing several trains loaded 
 with stores and provisions. In Rosseau's Division, Mc- 
 Cook's Corps, the battery took an important part in the 
 fighting at Perry ville October 8th, and is said to have 
 fired the first and last artilleiy shot of the battle. In this 
 action it lost 18 men killed and wounded, and had 33 
 horses killed or disabled. It was hotly engaged in tlie 
 bloody battle of Stone's River, December 31st, where it 
 lost heavily, but achieved a most noted distinction. Its 
 losses were 22 men killed and wounded, with nearly 40 
 
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 horses killed or disiibled. in that battle the corps — soou 
 after designated as the Fifteenth — M^as commanded by 
 Gen. Thomas. Ou the 24th of June, 1803, the battery 
 moved with the advance of the army under Rosecrans, and 
 on the 25th silenced the batteries of the enemy at Hoover's 
 Gap. At Chickamauga September 19th — Gen. Baird com- 
 manding the Division^the battery maintained its noble 
 record, but suffered nearly annihilation. In this battle it 
 lost 1 officer and 13 men killed or wounded, and 13 missing. 
 Its Lieutenant commanding was killed at his post, fight- 
 ing most heroically for the preserA'^ation of his guns. Hav- 
 ing lost over 50 horses killed or disabled, the guns could 
 not be moved, and all but one fell into the hands of the 
 enemy. On the same evening one of the guns was re- 
 covered, and in the second day's fighting two more were 
 recaptured. Another gun was retaken at the battle of 
 Missionary Ridge in November, and after the fall of At- 
 lanta in September, 1864, another was received, making 
 up the entire number captured at Chickamauga. When 
 ordered home for muster out in Juh^, 1865, the battery was 
 permitted to bring the guns to Michigan, where they now 
 are in possession of the State. 
 
 We have those who served in the Eighth Michigan Bat- 
 tery, mustered into the United States service March 6th, 
 1862, and first encountered the enemy at Thompson's 
 Hill, Miss., May 1st, 1863, on the Vicksburg campaign, 
 serving in Logan's (Third) Division, Seventeenth Corps. 
 At Raymond, May 12th, it received much favorable com- 
 ment on its rapid and effective fire. It participated in the 
 battle of Champion's Hill, May 16th, and was actively en- 
 gaged in the siege of Vicksburg, where its Captain com- 
 manding received a wound which caused his death, and 7 
 men were wounded. After tlie surrender, the battery re- 
 mained at Vicksburg and vicinity until the spring of 1864, 
 
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 liaviug, meantime, re-enlisted as veterans. In June it en- 
 tered on the Atlanta campaign, the Division then being 
 commanded by Gen. Leggett. The battery was engaged 
 in the battles of Big Shanty June 4th, Kenesaw Mountain 
 June 27th, Nickajack Creek July 5th, and siege of Atlanta 
 July 22d to August 25th; also battles of Jonesboro August 
 81st, and Lovejoy Station September 1st. In November it 
 was ordered back to Nashvilh^ where it remained until 
 February, 18G5, and was then placed on duty at Chat- 
 tanooga until July, when it proceeded honn^ for muster 
 out. During its term of service 2 officers and 3 enlisted 
 ijien of the battery were killed in action or died of wounds. 
 
 One of our members served in the Ninth Michigan Bat- 
 tery, recruited in 1862, arriving in Washington December 
 11th, and entering at once on service with the Army of the 
 Potomac. It first met the enemy at Aldie, Va., April 27th, 
 1863, but without loss. It participated in the summer cam- 
 paign in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was hotly en- 
 gaged in the battle of Gettysburg, occupying a critical 
 point at the angle on Cemetery Ridge, in the third day's 
 fight on tliat field, and losing 6 men killed and wounded. 
 In October, the battery was ordered to the Department of 
 the Cumberland, and arrived at Nashville, Teun., Novem- 
 ber 12tli. In April, 1864, it was assigned to the Third Di- 
 vision, Twentieth Corps, and participated, with that com- 
 mand, in the events of the ensuing Georgia campaign. It 
 was engaged in many of the battles of the succeeding four 
 months, losing 8 men killed and wounded. Upon the fall 
 of Atlanta it was the first Union Artillery to enter that 
 city. In November the battery was ordered back to Chat- 
 tanooga, where it remained until early in July, 1865, an<l 
 then proceeded home for muster out. 
 
 We have those who were members of the Tenth Michi- 
 gan Battery, which was mustered into service February 
 20th, 1863, and ordered to report at Washington. It was 
 
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 i)U duty iu the defeuces of that city until October 28tli, 
 when it was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. 
 Arriving at Nashville November 12th, it remained there as 
 a i)art of tlie reserve artillery until March 6th, 1864, when 
 ;t marched to Chattanooga. A ])()rtion of the battery was 
 placed in one of the fortihcations of that city, and four 
 detachments were detailed during the summer and fall 
 of 1864 for service on gunboats and transports, and with 
 other batteries. It remained iu the vicinity of Chat- 
 tanooga until ordered home for muster out in July, 1865. 
 During its term of service the battery was principally 
 engaged on duty in fortificatious, and on gunboats and 
 transports, and saw mucli hard service. It lost 3 men 
 killed in action or died of wounds. 
 
 Among our members are two who served in the Twelfth 
 Michigan Battery, which completed its organization June 
 30th, 1863, and was at once ordered to Indianapolis and 
 thence to Cincinnati, to join in the pursuit of Morgan, 
 then on his raid into Indiana and Ohio. Its services not 
 being required it soon after proceeded to the field in Ken- 
 tucky. It joined Burnside's advance into East Tennessee, 
 rnd participated in the engagements at Blue Springs 
 Oct(dier lOtli, Walker's Ford December 2d, and Tazewell 
 January 21st, 1864. It then occupi<Ml the fortifications at 
 Cumberland Gap, where it remained during the year, 
 lakingpart in frequent scouts and expeditions into South- 
 western Virginia during the winter of 1864, and the fol- 
 lowing spring. In May, 1865, it marched to Knoxville, 
 thence t(^ Strawberry Plains, Tenn., remaining there until 
 July 7th, when it started for home to be mustered out. 
 AVhile in the service the battery lost 3 men killed in action. 
 
 Our membershii) includes those serving in the Thir- 
 teenth Battery, Michigan Light Artillery, organized Janu- 
 ary 20th, 1864, and reported for duty at Washington, D. 
 C, February Ttli. It remained iu cam]) m*nr tluit city and 
 
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 was ou duty in fortifications in the vicinity of Washington 
 during the year 1864. On Juh' lltli and 12th, the battery 
 materially aided in the defense of Fort Stevens, D. C, 
 against the attack of Early's forces then threatening 
 Washington. One of our members, in commnnd of the fort 
 at that time, was personally complimented by the Major- 
 General commanding the defenses, in his official report of 
 the battle, ''as deserving great credit for the skill displa3'ed 
 in directing the artillery of Fort Stevens." The battery 
 remained on garrison duty until February 27th, 1865, 
 ^\dien it was mounted as cavalry, and detailed for service 
 Avith the Thirteenth New York Cavalrj- in suppressing 
 guerillas and otherwise maintaining peace in that section. 
 Immediately after the assassination of President Lincoln 
 it was on duty with the regiment referred to, in Mar^dand 
 and Pennsylvania, following up the parties who had been 
 engaged in the conspiracw against the President and his 
 Cabinet, and assisted in arresting two of the conspirators. 
 June 16th, the battery was dismounted and ordered home 
 for muster out. 
 
 We have those who served in the Ninth Ohio Independ- 
 ent Battery, organized in October, 1861, for three years' 
 seiwice, and re-enlisted and served throughout the war. 
 It was engaged in the battle of Mill Springs, Ky., January 
 19tli, 1862, in which it took an active part. In March it 
 participated with the Seventh Division, Army of the Ohio, 
 in the advance on, and occu^tation of, Cumberland Gap. 
 The batter}' was engaged in the oijerations in that vicinity 
 until September, when, it started on the retreat to the Ohio 
 River. It then moved to Lexington, thence to Danville, 
 Ky., where it remained until January 31st, 1863, when it 
 was ordered to Nashville, Tenn. It was on duty there 
 imtil March, when it moved to Franklin, Tenn., and took 
 inirt in the pursuit of Van Dorn to Columbia. Returning 
 to Franklin, it participated in the repulse of an attack on 
 
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 that place April lOtb, aud was engaged iu tlie action at 
 Triune, Tenn., June lllli. The battery then moved to 
 Murfreesboro and was on duty there and at Tullahonia 
 until the spring of 1864. In April it marched to Bridge- 
 port, Ala., where it remained until mustered out in July, 
 1865. 
 
 Our roster embraces those serving in the First Michigan 
 Engineers and Mechanics, that was the best known and 
 one of the most efficient of the Michigan regiments in the 
 west. It was composed almost entirely of mechanics and 
 engineers. "In repairing the damaged railroads along the 
 lines of communication, these men built bridges and 
 trestles whose combined length could be measured b}' the 
 mile, and erected block-houses by the score. The con- 
 struction of some of these bridges, their size and height, 
 and the marvelous quickness Avith which they were re- 
 built, constituted some of the most wonderful feats of 
 military" engineering. The regiment could tight also, as 
 well as do other duty, and a detachment under its Colonel 
 won further distinction by its brilliant and successful de- 
 fense of the army trains which were attacked by Wheeler's 
 Cavalrj', during the battle of Stone's River." The regi- 
 ment was mustered into the United States service to date 
 from October 29th, 18G1, and in 1864 a portion re-enlisted. 
 These, with the recruits, preserved the organization 
 throughout the war, the regiment not being disbanded 
 until October 1st, 1865. 
 
 Among our members are those who served in the First 
 New York Engineers, which entered the service in Sep- 
 tember, 1861; veteranized and served through the war. It 
 formed a part of Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's expedition 
 to Port Royal, S, C, in October, and participated in the 
 capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal 
 Harbor, in November, and caplnrc of Fori Pulaski, Ga., 
 
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 April lltli and 12th, 1862. It tlieu joined tlie expedition 
 to James Island, S. C, and took part in the nnsnccessful 
 attack on Secessionyille June 16th. In July, 1863, it was 
 engaged in the operations against Morris Island and 
 Charleston, under Gillmore, and capture of Forts Wagner 
 and Gregg September 7th. In April, 1864, the regiment 
 proceeded with the Tenth Corps to Virginia, joining the 
 Army of the James in the campaign against Richmond 
 and Petersburg. During the siege it was employed in the 
 construction of Fort Hell before Petersburg in September, 
 and of the Dutch Gap Canal, October to December. It 
 entered Eichmond, with the Engineer Brigade, April 3d, 
 1865, and was employed rebuilding Mayo's bridge between 
 Eichmond and Manchester in June. On June 30th, the 
 regiment was mustered out, liaAing lost 2 officers and 25 
 men killed or fatally wounded while in the service. 
 
 We have two representatives of the First Regiment, 
 Michigan Sharpshooters, six companies of ^which were 
 mustered in July 7th, 1863, and were immediately ordered 
 to Indiana, where they took an active part in checking the 
 advance of Morgan's Eaid in that State. After being 
 fully recruited, it served for some months as guard over 
 (confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111. It 
 joined the Army of the Potomac in March, 1861, at Ann- 
 apolis, Md., and was assigned to Christ's (Second) Brigade, 
 Willcox's (Third) Division, Ninth Corps. The regiment 
 encountered hard fighting at Spottsylvania, its losses in 
 the action of May 12th amounting to 34 killed, 117 
 wounded and 3 missing. Another bloody contest occurred 
 at the assault on Petersburg June 17th, where the regi- 
 ment took a prominent and meritorious part. Its losses 
 in that battle were 75 killed and wounded, besides 81 
 missing, many of whom were killed or disabled ; the Major 
 commanding was among the killed. The regiment was 
 
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 theu trausferred to the Fi^^st Divisiou, in wliicli it after- 
 wards remained. Upon the fall of Petersburg, the regi- 
 ment — then in Ely's Brigade — w;is the first to enter the 
 city, its flag appearing on the Court House April 3d, 1865, 
 at 4:28 a. m. A few minutes later the cohu's of the Second 
 Michigan Infantry, of the same brigade, were unfurled 
 from the Custom House. During its term of service the 
 regiment sustained a loss of officers and 131 men killed 
 or mortally wounded in action. 
 
 Our membership embraces those Avho saw three years 
 and three months' service in the Eighth Connecticut In- 
 fantry, organized in September, 1861, re-enlisted as vet- 
 erans in December, 1863, and whose death roll includes 8 
 officers and 120 men killed in battle or fatally wounded. 
 Its first battle was at New Berne, N. C, March 14th, 1862, 
 under Burnside, where it lost 2 killed and 4 wounded. 
 After the siege and capture of Fort Macon, it moved wiih 
 the Xintli Corps to Virginia, thence into Maryland. At 
 Antietam, September 17th, it fought in Kodman's Division, 
 and sustained the severest loss of any of its battles, its 
 casualties being 34 killed, 139 wounded, and 21 missing. 
 At Fredericksburg, December 13th, its loss was light — 1 
 killed and 2 wounded. In February, 1863, the corps pro- 
 ceeded to Newxjort News, and the following month the di- 
 vision (now Getty's) was ordered to Suffolk, and incor- 
 porated in the Seventh Corps. After participating in the 
 siege of Suffolk, the regiment remained in the vicinity of 
 Portsmouth until January-, 1864, when it went home on 
 veteran furlough. Returning to the field in March, it was 
 soon after ordered to Yorktown and attached to the Eigh- 
 teenth Cor j)s, with which it moved in Buth^r's .Vrmy up the 
 James River. At Walthall Junction, May 7th, it was en- 
 gaged with a loss of 3 killed, 69 wounded, and 8 missing; 
 Jind at Drewrv's Bluff on the l()tli, lost 7 killed, 31 
 
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 wounded, and 26 missing. It took part in the assault on 
 Cold Harbor June 1st, losing 8 killed and 30 wounded; and 
 in the attack on the works at Petersburg June 15th, with 
 a loss of 2 killed and 17 wounded. It lost 20 in killed and 
 wounded in the trenches within the next thirty days, its 
 location being on the extreme right of the line where the 
 contending armies were nearest each other. On Septem- 
 ber 26th, it was ordered to the north bank of the James, 
 and on the 29th, participated in the successful assault on 
 Fort Harrison at Chaffin's Fanu, losing 8 killed and 65 
 wounded. In December, the Eighteenth Corps was dis- 
 continued, and the regiment became a part of Deven's 
 Division, Twenty-fourth Corps. It remained in front of 
 Richmond on the north bank of the James, entering the 
 city April 3d, under command of Weitzel. After the close 
 of the war the regiment went to Lynchburg, Va., where it 
 remained until its muster out, December 12th, 1865. 
 
 It includes the names of those who served in the Twen- 
 tieth Connecticut Infantry, organized in September, 1862, 
 and assigned to the Twelfth Corps — ^the corps that never 
 lost a color or a gun. After participating with Williams^ 
 (First) Division, in the battles of Chancellorsville and 
 Gettysburg, it accompanied the corps, in September, 1863, 
 to Tennessee, as a reinforcement to Rosecrans, and Wil- 
 liams' Division was stationed along the railroad from 
 Murfreesboro to Bridgeport. In April, 1864, the designa- 
 tion of the corps was changed to that of the Twentieth^ 
 and the regiment became a part of Butterfield's (Third) 
 Division. With this command it took part in tlie hard 
 fighting of the Atlanta campaign, sustaining severe lossev< 
 in the battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, and Peach 
 Tree Creek. In November it started on the grand march 
 through Georgia to the sea. Gen. Ward commanding- the 
 division. After the siege and evacuation of Savannah, it 
 
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 marched uortlnvanl tlirougli the Candiuas, aud was en- 
 gaged in the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville. Dnr- 
 ing its term of service the regiment lost 4 officers and 7G 
 men killed or mortally wonnded in battle. 
 
 .We have those serving in the Ninth Illinois Infantry, 
 which lost 5 officers and 211 men killed in action or died of 
 wounds, being the greatest loss of any regiment from that 
 State. After serving a term of three months, the regi- 
 ment enlisted for three years, leaving Cairo September 
 oth, 1861. It proceeded to Padncah, Ky., where it was 
 stationed until February, 1802, when it moved with 
 Grant's Army to Fort Donelson, Tenn. It was then in 
 McArthur's Brigade of C. F. Smith's Division; its loss in 
 that battle, February 15th, was 36 killed, 165 wounded, 
 and 9 missing; total, 210. At Shiloh, April Gtli and Tth, 
 it sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment in that 
 battle. It fought there in W. II. Wallace's Division, en- 
 countering a severe tire, but holding its ground until 
 ordered to retire, which it did in good order. The per- 
 sistence with which it withstood the attack of the enemy 
 occasioned its unusual loss, its casualties amounting to 
 61 killed, 300 wounded, and 5 missing; a total of 366 out 
 of 578 "present for duty." This was the greatest loss in 
 killed and wounded sustained by any infantry regiment 
 during the war. At the battle of Corinth, October 4th, it 
 lost 11 killed, 82 Avounded, and 55 missing, out of 359 
 present in action, as officially reported; many of the miss- 
 ing were killed. The regiment was then in Oglesby's 
 (Second) Brigade, Davies' (Second) Division, Army of the 
 Tennessee. In March, 1863, the regiment was changed to 
 mounted infantry, and served as such with the Sixteenth 
 Cor])s during that year. In 1864 it was engaged on the 
 Atlanta (•ami>aign until August 20tli, when it was mus- 
 tered out of service. The recruits remaining in the field 
 were consolidated into a battalion of seven companies. 
 
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 and attached to the Seventeeuth Corps, with which it 
 marclied on Hhei'man's famous campaign through Georgia 
 and the Carolinas. 
 
 In our membershij) are those who belonged to the 
 Eleventh Regiment, Illinois Infantry, originally mustered 
 into the United States service in April, 18G1, as a three 
 months' regiment, and re-mustered at Bird's Point, Mo., 
 for three years, on July 13th, 1861, one-third of the men 
 remaining in the service. The regiment performed garri- 
 son duty in Missouri until February, 1862, when it em- 
 barked on the campaign against Forts Henry and Donc^l- 
 son. In the storming of Fort Donelson, February 15th, it 
 sustained the greatest loss of any regiment engaged there 
 — losing 70 killed, 181 wounded, and 88 missing; a total 
 of 339 out of about 500 present; many of the missing were 
 killed or wounded. The regiment was then in W. H. 
 ATallace's Brigade of McClernand's Division. At Shiloh, 
 April 6th and 7th, it fought in Marsh's (Second) Brigade 
 of the same division, taking 239 officers and 
 men into action, and losing 17 killed, 69 wounded, 
 and 17 missing; total, 103. During the Vicks- 
 burg campaign it was in Ransom's (Second) Brig- 
 ade, McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps. In 
 the assault on Vicksburg, May 22d, 1863, it lost 3 killed 
 — including the Colonel — 30 wounded, and 9 missing. At 
 Liverpool Heights, Miss., March 5th, 9 killed, 24 wounded, 
 and 12 missing. In July it marched with Gen. Slocum's 
 expedition against Jackson, Miss., and on the 7th was 
 engaged at Jackson and Clinton with a loss of 7 killed and 
 several wounded. On July 29th, it moved to Morganzia, 
 La., and in March, 1865, took part in the siege operations 
 about Mobile, and in the fighting at Fort Blakely. On 
 Jul}' 14th, 1865, the regiment was mustered out, having 
 lost, during its term of service, 7 othcers and 179 men 
 killed or mortally wounded in battle. 
 
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 Two members of the Post eticli saw three years' service 
 in the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, which was organized 
 in May, 18G1, and was one of the first A'olunteer regiments 
 mustered into the United States service for tliree years. 
 This regiment led in the assault at Chickasaw Bayou, 
 Miss., December 29th, 18()2, aud Avas conqdimented by 
 Gen, Sherman for gallantry in that action. By his general 
 order the regiment afterwards bore on its flag the inscrip- 
 tion, "actually first at Chickasaw Bayou." Its loss in this 
 engagement was 27 killed, 107 wounded, and 39 missing; 
 its Colonel was among the killed. Gen. Hooker also com- 
 plimented the regiment for distinguished gallantry in the 
 action at Ringgold Gap, November 27th, 1863, where it 
 lost one-third of the number engaged. By a remarkable 
 accident the flag of this regiment was the first Union 
 colors to float over Libby Prison after the fall of Richmond. 
 Its flag had been captured by the enemy, in battle, the 
 previous year, and was hanging, at this time, in the oflflce 
 of the commander of the jn-ison. When our troops occu- 
 jjied Richmond on the morning of April 3d, 1865, a Massa- 
 chusetts soldier, confined in Libby as a prisoner of war, 
 seized the flag and hoisted it over the building. While in 
 the service the regiment had officers and 61 men killed 
 in battle or fatally wounded. 
 
 On our rolls are the names of those who served in the 
 Sixteenth Illinois Infantry, organized May 24th, 1861, and 
 participated in several minor actions in Northwestern 
 Missouri July to September. In March, 1862, it took part 
 in the siege of New Madrid and capture of Island No. 10. 
 It marched in Ajiril in the advance on and siege of Cor- 
 inth, and was engaged in the affair at Farming-ton, Miss., 
 May 9th. In September the regiment was attached to the 
 Army of the Cumberland, and stationed at Nashville until 
 July, 1863, when it was orrlerefl to Mui-freesboro, and in 
 
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 August took part iu the forward movement ou Chat- 
 tanooga. In October it was assigned to the Fourteenth 
 Corps, and remained in the vicinity of Chattanooga until 
 January, 1864. Having re-enlisted, the regiment returned 
 to the army from veteran furlough in February, and was 
 on duty at Eossville, Ga., until May, when it entered on 
 the Atlanta campaign with the Fourteenth Coi^ds, which 
 took part in the opening battle at Kesaca, and was promi- 
 nently engaged in the final victory at Jonesboro. During 
 the intervening four months it was actively engaged in the 
 continuous marching and fighting which was so character- 
 istic of that brilliant campaign. After a brief rest at 
 Atlanta, and a short campaign in pursuit of Hood, the 
 corps moved with Sherman's Army, November IStli, on its 
 march to the sea. In February, 1865, it entered on the 
 campaign of the Carolinas, participating in the hard- 
 fought battle of Bentonville, N. C, March 19th, and was 
 present at the surrender of Johnston and his anny near 
 Ealeigh, April 26th. The regiment lost, while in the ser- 
 vice, 3 officers and 54 men killed or mortally wounded in 
 battle. 
 
 We have those who saw service in the Twenty-fourth 
 Illinois Infantry, mustered in July 8th, 1861, and assigned 
 to the Department of Missouri. On September 15th, the 
 regiment was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac, 
 and moved from Pilot Knob, Mo., to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 where the order was rescinded. It was then attached to 
 the Army of the Ohio, and placed on duty in the vicinity 
 of Louisville, Ky. In February, 1862, it took part with 
 Buell's Army in the advance to Bowling Green, thence to 
 Nashville and Murfreesboro, and to Huntsville, Ala. In 
 September, upon Bragg's advance into Kentucky, the army 
 fell back to Louisville, and on October 8th, the regiment 
 was in the thickest of the fighting at Chaplin Hills, near 
 
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 Perry ville, Ky. It was then serving in Rosseau's Di- 
 vision, McCook's Corps, whicli bore the bi'imt of the battle. 
 Out of twenty-three brigades present on that field, the 
 three constituting this division sustained over 50 per cent 
 of the entire loss in killed ajid wounded. In December 
 the regiment marched in the advance on Nashville and 
 Murfreesboro, and fonght in tlie battle of Stone's River 
 December 30th and 31st. It remained at Mnrfreesboro 
 until June, 1SG3, when it took part, with the Fourteenth 
 Corps, in the Tullahoma campaign and action at Hoover's 
 Gap June 24th. In August it entered on the Chattanooga 
 campaign, and was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga 
 September 18-20th, and Chattanooga November 25th. In 
 February, 1804, it took part in the recouuoissance to 
 Dalton, and in the actions at Rocky Face Ridge and Buz- 
 zard's Roost, Ga. It started in May on the Atlanta cam- 
 paign, participating in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, 
 Dallas, and operations against Kenesaw Mountain. On 
 June 29th, its term of service having expired, the regi- 
 ment was ordered home for muster out. During its three 
 years' ser^'ice its loss, killed in action or died of wounds, 
 was 3 officers and 86 men. 
 
 Included in our membership are those who served in 
 the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, known as 
 the "Second Board of Trade." It was organized in August, 
 18()2, and served in the noted "Steedman's" (First) Bri- 
 gade, Stanley's (Second) Division, Fourth Corps. Among 
 the many engagements in which this regiment partici- 
 l)ated, are the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chicka- 
 niauga, and Missionary Ridge. After this battle the corps 
 marched to the relief of Knoxville, a campaign memor- 
 able for the suffering, hunger and hardships endured by 
 the men. In May, 18(34, it entered on the Atlanta cam- 
 paign, and participated in much of tlie hard fighting of 
 the succeeding four mouJlis. It suslaiiied lieavy losst^s in 
 
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 the battles of Resaca, Dallas, and iu the iiusuccessful as- 
 sault on Kenesaw Mountain. After the evacuation of 
 Atlanta, it accompanied the corps on its march northward 
 to confront Hood's forces, fighting in the bloody engage- 
 ment at Franklin, November 30th. In this battle the 
 brigade achieved a brilliant success, capturing ten flags, 
 and rendered efficient aid at a critical period of the fight. 
 The regiment fought its last battle at Nashville December 
 15th and 16tli, 18G4. It lost, during its term of service, 
 5 officers and 98 men killed in battle or fatally wounded, 
 being 11 per cent of its total enrollment. 
 
 One of our members served in the Eiglity-ninth Illinois 
 Infantrj", or "Railroad Regiment," organized at Chicago 
 in August, 18G2, by the railroad companies in the State of 
 Illinois. At Stone's River, December 31st, its first battle, 
 it fought in Wallich's (First) Brigade, Jolinson's (Second) 
 Division, McCook's Corps, its loss being 10 killed, 40 
 Vv'Ounded, and 94 captured or missing. At Liberty Gap, 
 Tenn., June 2r)th, 1803, it lost 3 killed and 10 wounded, 
 and at Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 14 killed, 
 88 wounded, and 30 missing. In the latter engagement 
 the Lieutenant-Colonel, who was in command, and 4 line 
 officers were killed. Upon the reorganization of tlie Army 
 of the Cumberland, in October, Willich's Brigade was 
 placed in '^A\)od's (Third) Division, Fourth Corps, in which 
 it fought at Missionary Ridge November 25th, the regi- 
 ment losing in tliat battle 4 killed and 30 wounded. While 
 on the Atlanta campaign in 1804, this brigade took the 
 lead in the bloody assault at Pickett's Mills, May 27th, in 
 which the regiment sustained a loss of 24 killed, 102 
 wounded, and 28 missing; total, 154. Upon the evacua- 
 tion of Atlanta, Sherman and the main army marched un- 
 molested through Georgia, while the Fourth and IVenty- 
 third Corps were engaged in a bloody campaign with 
 Hood in Middle Tennessee. The regiment f)articipated iu 
 
this tiglitiiig, its loss at Nashville, December 15th and 
 16th, being heavy in proportion to the small number en- 
 gaged. Ou June 10th, 18G5, it was mustered out of ser- 
 vice, having lost a total of 12 officers and 121 men killed 
 in battle or died of wounds. 
 
 We have those who were members of the Ninth Regi- 
 ment of Indiana Infantry, that went out in 1861, in the 
 three months' service, and participated in the engagements 
 iit Phillippi, W. Va., June 3d, Laurel Hill July 8th, and 
 Carrick's Ford July 11th. Upon its return home it reor- 
 ganized under a three years' enlistment, and in September 
 proceeded to West Virginia. It was engaged in the battles 
 of Green Brier October 3d, and Camp Allegheny, Decem- 
 ber 13th, meeting with some sharp fighting in the latter 
 engagement, and losing 8 killed and 13 wounded. In 
 February, 1862, it was ordered to join Buell's Army in 
 Kentucky, where it was assigned to Hazen's Brigade of 
 Nelson's Division, with which it marched to Shiloh. Its 
 losses in that battle were 17 killed and 153 wounded. The 
 year of 1862 was one of arduous campaigns and long mar- 
 ches, ending, with the year, in Rosecrans' hard-fought bat- 
 tle of Stone's River. The regiment was then in Palmer's 
 (Second) Division of Crittenden's Corps, its casualties on 
 that field amounting to 11 killed, 87 wounded and 11 miss- 
 ing. At Chickamauga it lost 13 killed, 91 wounded and 22 
 missing. It fought at Lookout Mountain and Missionary 
 Ridge November 24th and 25th, in Grose's (Third) Brigade, 
 Cruft's (First) Division, Fourth Corps. In December, 1863, 
 nearly 300 of the regiment re-enlisted, thus preserving its 
 organization during the war. In May, 1861, it entered on 
 the Atlanta campaign with Gen. Stanley commanding 
 the division. The regiment shared in much of the hard 
 fighting of that campaign, beginning M'ith the battle of 
 Rocky Face Ridge May 7th, and ending with Lovejoy's 
 Station September 2d, and meeting witli severe losses at 
 
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 Kenesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek. After tlie fall 
 of Atlanta, it marclied northward with the Fourth Corps, 
 and was engaged in the battles of Franklin and Nash- 
 ville. In that campaign the division was commanded by 
 Gen. Kimball, Gen. Stanley having been promoted to the 
 command of the corps. After Thomas' victory over Hood 
 at Nashville, December 15th, 1SG4, the regiment marched 
 into East Tennessee; from there it moved to Texas, where 
 it remained with the Army of Occupation until September, 
 1865, when it was mustered out and returned home. 
 Its loss in battle, killed and mortally wounded, was 11 
 officers and 120 men. 
 
 Our roster includes those serving in the Twentieth Iowa 
 Infantry, organized August 25th, 1862, and assigned to 
 duty in Totten's (Second) Division, Army of the Frontier, 
 at Springfield, Mo. It participated in the advance to 
 Fayetteville, Ark., in October, and in December marched 
 to the relief of Gen. Blunt, being engaged on the 7th in 
 the battle of Prairie Grove. After taking part in the ex- 
 pedition to Van Buren the same month, it marched to 
 Iluntsville, and on January 2d, 1SG3, was ordered to St. 
 Louis, Mo., where it remained guarding the Arsenal until 
 June. The regiment then proceeded to Vicksburg and took 
 part in the siege of that place until the surrender. After 
 sharing in the Yazoo City expedition in July, it moved to 
 Port Hudson, and then to Carrollton, La. In September 
 it joined the expedition to Morganzia, La., and participated 
 in the action near that place on the 29th. In October it 
 formed a part of the expedition to Rio Grande, Texas, and 
 to Mustang Island, and was on duty at Brownsville and 
 in extreme Southern Texas until August, 1864. The regi- 
 ment then proceeded to New Orleans, then to Mobile Bay, 
 where it participated in the operations against Fort 
 Blakely, August 9th-23d. In September it moved to Mor- 
 ganzia, La., thence to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., and remained 
 
on duty iu that vioiuity until Januuiy, 18()5. It was then 
 ordered via New Orleans to Pensacola, Fla., and on April 
 2d started on the march for Fort Blakely, where it took 
 part in the assault of April Dtli, the last General engage- 
 ment of the war. The loss of the regiment during its term 
 of service, killed in action or fatally wonnded, was 1 
 officer and 13 men. 
 
 We have one who was a member of the Second Kansas 
 Infantiw, organized at Lawrence, June 20th, 1861, and 
 mustered into the United States service for three months. 
 On June 2Gth it reported for duty at Clinton, Mo., and was 
 attached to Lyon's Army of the Missouri, with which it 
 marched in the advance on Springfield, June 29th to July. 
 5th. The regiment participated in the actions at For- 
 sythe, Mo., July 22d, Dug Springs August 2d, and the 
 battle of Wilson's Creek August 10th. It then marched 
 to Rolla, and from there to St. Louis, where it was ordered 
 home for muster out. While en route for Kansas it took 
 part in Hulbert's Northern Missouri campaign, and in 
 some minor actions from September 2d to lltli. It was 
 mustered out on October 31st, and lost, during its short 
 term of service, 1 olhcer and 12 men killed or fatally 
 wounded in battle. 
 
 Our membership embraces those who saw three 3'ears' 
 service in the Sixth Kentucky Infantry, mustered in De- 
 cember 24tli, 18G1, and was immediately assigned to duty 
 in the Department of the Cumberland. It was placed in 
 Ilazen's Brigade of Nelson's Division, in which command 
 it fought at Shiloh April 0th and Ttli, 1802, losing 10 killed 
 and 93 wounded, out of 150 in action. In that battle the 
 regiment made a gallant fight, capturing three jjieces of 
 artillery, its Colonel cutting down one of the cannoniers 
 with a bowie knife, just taken from a captured man. After 
 sharing in the siege operations about Corinth, it partici- 
 pated in the long, wearisome marches of Buell's Army in 
 
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 the summer and fall of 1862, aud after marcUing- through 
 Northern Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, was en- 
 gaged at the battle of Stone's River December 31st. It 
 was then in Palmer's Division, and its losses in that battle 
 amounted to 13 killed, 90 wounded, and 10 missing, its 
 Lieutenant-Colonel being among the killed. The regiment 
 encountered its hardest fighting and severest loss at 
 Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 1863, where, out 
 of a small number present, it lost 12 killed, 95 wounded, 
 nnd 11 missing. During the Atlanta campaign, it was in 
 Hazen's (vSecond) Brigade, T. J. Wood's (Third) Division, 
 Fourth Corps, and was prominently engaged in all the 
 battles of that command. On November 2d, 1864, it was 
 mustered out, its term of service having expired. Its roll 
 of dead included 10 officers and 105 men killed in battle, 
 being 12 j3er cent of its entire enrollment. 
 
 Among our members is one who served in the Twenty- 
 third Massachusetts Infantry, mustered in the United 
 States service in September, 1861, and afterwards re-en- 
 listing as veterans. It accompanied Burnside's expedition 
 to North Carolina in January, 1862, and participated in 
 the capture of Roanoke Island February 8th, and battle 
 of New Berne March 14th. It was engaged in the actions 
 at Kinston and Goldsboro in December, losing 12 killed 
 and 55 wounded. The regiment remained in North Caro- 
 lina — in the Eighteenth Corps — during the year 1863. In 
 the spring of 1864 the corps was concentrated at York- 
 town, Va., and took part in the campaign of the Army of 
 the James against Richmond and Petersburg. The regi- 
 ment served in the well-known "Star Brigade," partici- 
 pating in all the fighting of that command, including the 
 battles of Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. During its ' 
 term of service it lost a total of 84 officers and men killed 
 in action or mortally wounded. 
 
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 One who saw service iu the Tweuty-foiirth Kegiment, 
 Massachusetts Infantry, organized in November, 1861, re- 
 enlisted and served through the war. This regiment also 
 formed a part of the North Carolina expedition under 
 Burnside, and was actively engaged in the capture of 
 Roanoke Island February 8th, 18G2, and battle of New 
 Berne March 14th, also some minor affairs in that vicinity. 
 In September, 18C2, the regiment was attached to the 
 Tenth Corps, and took part, in the summer of 1863, under 
 Gillmore, in the capture of Morris Island and in various 
 operations about Charleston Harbor. In April, 1864, it 
 proceeded with the corps to Virginia, and was placed in 
 Butler's Army of the James. In the campaign of this 
 army against Richmond, the regiment took an active part 
 in the fighting of Terry's Division, sustaining a severe loss 
 at Drewry's Bluff May 16th. At Deep Bottom, August 
 16th, it lost 10 killed, 99 wounded, and 12 missing. Its 
 total loss while in the service, killed in battle and died of 
 wounds, was 7 officers and 90 men. 
 
 In our membership are survivors of both organizations 
 of the First Regiment, Michigan Infantry, recruited in 
 April, 1861, for the three months' service, and upon its 
 return home was reorganized under a three years' enlist- 
 ment. In February, 1864, a part of the regiment, 213 in 
 number, re-enlisted; these with the recruits preserved the 
 organization througliout the Avar. This regiment partici- 
 pated in all the campaigns and battles of the Army of the 
 Potomac from First Bull Run, where its dead were found 
 nearest the enemy's works, to Appomattox. It was the 
 first western regiment to reach Washington, arriving there 
 May 16th, 1861, being the first troops to pass through 
 Baltimore after the bloody assault on the Sixth Massa- 
 chusetts. To this regiment also belongs the honor of 
 being the first regiment armed and equipped for service, 
 to respond to tlie President's call. At 2 a. m., May 24th, it 
 
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 crossed the Potomac on the "Long Bridge," with three 
 other regiments, the first Union troops to enter the State 
 of Virginia. It entered Alexandria via the road simul- 
 taneously with the regiment of Ellsworth's Zouaves that 
 reached there by boat. At Bull Run, July 21st, it fought 
 in Willcox's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, and was 
 hotly engaed with a loss of 6 killed, 4 officers and 33 men 
 wounded, and 5 officers and 65 men missing, 52 of whom 
 Avere taken prisoners. Having re-enlisted and returned to 
 the seat of war in September, tlie regiment was encamped 
 at Annapolis Junction, Md., and employed guarding the 
 railroad during the winter of 1861-2. In March, 1862, it 
 moved to Fort Monroe and thence up the Peninsula with 
 Morell's (First) Division, Fifth Corps. At Gaines' Mill, 
 June 2Tth, the regiment did some hard fighting, losing 27 
 killed, 81 w^ounded, and 43 missing. Still liarder fighting, 
 with heavier losses, was encountered at Manassas (Grove- 
 ton, August 30th), where its casualties amounted to 33 
 killed, 114 wounded, and 31 missing; a total of 178 out of 
 20 officers and 320 men engaged, or nearly 56 per cent. In 
 this battle the Colonel, four Captains, and three Lieuten- 
 ants were killed, and eight line officers wounded. At 
 Fredericksburg the Brigade was commanded by Gen. 
 Barnes, and the Division by Gen. Griflfiu. The regiment 
 lost in that battle, December 13th, 1 officer and 7 men 
 killed, and 7 officers and 33 men wounded. At Chancel- 
 lorsville. May 5th, 1863, it lost 3 killed and 17 wounded. 
 It entered the battle of Gettysburg with only 125 muskets, 
 rnd fought near Little Round Top July 2d, losing 1 officer 
 and 4 men killed, 6 officers and 25 men wounded, and 8 
 men missing. In May, 1864, the regiment entered on 
 Grant's campaign numbering only 176 guns. It was tlien 
 in the Third Brigade (Bartlett's), with Gen Griffin still in 
 command of the division. The loss of the regiment in the 
 battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania was 2 officers 
 
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 aud G meu killed, 4 officers aud 02 men woiindetl, and 12 
 men missing. During the siege of Petersburg, and in the 
 battles of Peeble's Farm, September 30th, and Hatcher's 
 Run, Febrnar}' Gth, 1805, it lost 19 more killed or mortally 
 wounded. While in the service the regiment sustained a 
 loss in battle of 15 ofiflcers and 172 men killed, and 461 
 wounded. 
 
 We have five survivors of the Second Michigan Infantry, 
 mustered into the United States service May 25th, 1861, 
 being the first regiment from that State recruited for the 
 term of three years. It was engaged in the action at 
 Blackburn's Ford, Ya., July 18th, and three days later 
 covered the retreat of the army from the Bull Run battle- 
 field. In March, 1862, it moved with the army to the 
 Peninsula, serving in Berry's Brigade, Kearney's Division, 
 Third Corps. At Williamsburg, May 5th, the regiment 
 sustained a loss of IT killed, 38 wounded, and 5 missing. 
 The Colonel, in his official report of the battle, mentions 
 the fact that one of his men, a new recruit never having 
 had a musket until the day before, "was found dead beside 
 a dead foe, each transfixed with the other's bayonet." In 
 the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31st, the regiment lost 10 
 killed and 47 wounded ; at Charles City Cross Roads June 
 30th, and Malvern Hill July 1st, 2 killed and 19 wounded. 
 In November the regiment was transferred to Poe's (First) 
 Brigade, Burns' (First) Division, Ninth Corps, with which 
 corps it served until the close of the war. At Fredericks- 
 burg it was under artillery fire only, losing 1 killed and 1 
 wounded. In February, 1863, the Ninth Corps moved to 
 Newport News, Ya., and thence in March to Kentucky; it 
 remained there until June, when it joined Grant's Army at 
 Yicksburg. The regiment distinguished itself in a gallant 
 affair on the skirmish line at Jackson, Miss., eluly 11th, in 
 which it lost 9 killed, 40 wounded, and 10 missing. In 
 the fight at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November 16th, it 
 
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 lost 3 killed, 27 wounded, and 2 missing. During tlie siege 
 of Knoxville, on November 24th, the regiment, with a 
 gallantry unsurpassed, made a sortie from Fort Sanders, 
 in which the Major, Adjutant, two line officers and the 
 color-bearer were killed; 84 were killed or disabled, six 
 sergeants losing a leg each. Its total loss, killed or mor- 
 tally wounded, at Knoxville was 28, being nearl}^ 19 per 
 cent of the 150 present. As an instance of the hardships 
 endured by our troops at that time, the regimental his- 
 torian gives the following as the result of an inspection of 
 the regiment made subsequent to the raising of the siege, 
 and a few days after that first of Jiinuary which is here 
 spoken of as the "cold New Year's:" "One hundred 
 and eighty-six present for duty; some of these were with- 
 out blankets, overcoats and tents; 03 were shoeless; 99 
 had no socks; 31 no coats; 63 were without pantaloons, 
 and 70 were without underclothing. It was thus attired, 
 with scarce food enough to sustain life, in the depth of 
 that severe winter, you held the veterans of Longstreet at 
 bay, until defeated and disheartened he withdrew, leaving 
 only the dead behind. It was soon after this you showed 
 the temper of your patriotism by re-enlisting for the war." 
 In April, 1864, after the expiration of a veteran furlough, 
 the regiment rejoined the corps then in Virginia, and on 
 May 5th entered on Grant's campaign. During the suc- 
 ceeding thirty days it lost 28 killed and over 100 wounded 
 and missing, in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
 vania, North Anna and Bethesda Church. In the assault 
 on Petersburg, June 17th and 18th, it lost 21 killed, 170 
 wounded, and 13 missing; total, 204. During the attack 
 which followed the springing of the mine July 30th, it lost 
 6 killed, 14 wounded, and 37 missing; two officers being 
 among the killed. It also sustained heavy losses in the 
 Petersburg trenches, and battles of Weldon Railroad 
 
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 August 18tli-20tli, Teeble's Farm September 30tli, Boyd- 
 ton Boad October 27tli, and Fort Stedman March 25th, 
 18C5. The regiment was not only among the foremost in 
 the final assault on Petersburg April 2d, but its flag was 
 the first to wave over one of the public buildings in that 
 city. Its total loss, killed and wounded during its term 
 of service, was 806, of which 11 officers and 214 men were 
 killed in battle or died of wounds, being over 13 per cent 
 of the whole number borne upon its rolls. A female en- 
 listed in this regiment and served with it for nearly two 
 years in various campaigns and battles, as a soldier, often 
 employed as a spy and going within the enemy's lines, 
 without her sex being discovered. 
 
 One who served in the Fourth Michigan Infantry, 
 organized May Ifith, 1861, and took its departure from the 
 State on the 25th of June. Proceeding to Virginia, it 
 joined in the advance to First Bull Run, but w^as not en- 
 gaged there. Early in the following spring it moved to 
 the Peninsula with the main army, where it was assigned 
 to the Second Brigade (Griffin's), First Division (Morell's), 
 Fifth Corps, in which it remained, with occasional change 
 of commanders, during its entire service. It encountered 
 its first hard fighting at the battle of Gaines Mill, June 
 27th, 1862, where it lost 15 killed, 41 wounded, and 32 
 missing. At Malvern Hill, four days later, its casualties 
 were 41 killed, 100 wounded, and 23 missing — its Colonel 
 being among the killed. At Fredericksburg, December 
 13tli, it lost 9 killed, 41 wounded, and 1 missing; and on 
 May 3d, 1863, at Chancellorsville, 30 killed, wounded and 
 missing. At Gettysburg the division was commanded by 
 Gen. Barnes, and the brigade by Col. Sweitzer; the di- 
 vision fought there in the desperate contest in the wheat- 
 field, on the afternoon of July 2d, the regiment losing 25 
 killed, 64 wounded, and 76 missing. It met with some 
 close fighting in tliat battle; a Confederate officer who 
 
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 seized the flag of the Fourth was shot by the Colonel of the 
 regiment, who, in turn, was bayoneted b}^ a soldier and 
 fell clinging to his colors; the soldier who ran him through 
 went down, killed by a bullet from the revolver of the 
 Major of the regiment. At the Wilderness and Spottsyl- 
 vania in May, 1864, the casualties amounted to 10 killed 
 — including the Colonel mortally wounded — 62 wounded, 
 and 8 missing. Fourteen more were killed or died of 
 wounds, from North Anna to Petersburg, including the 
 assault of June 18th. On June 20tli the regiment was 
 ordered home for muster out, its term of service having ex- 
 pired. Its total loss, killed in battle or fatally wounded, 
 was 12 officers and 177 men — over 14 per cent of the 1,325 
 borne on its rolls. 
 
 In the Post are three members serving in the Fifth Regi- 
 ment, Michigan Infantrv^,' which was mustered in August 
 28th, 1861, and in December, 1863, re-enlisted as veterans. 
 This regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle, both 
 officers and men, of any Michigan regiment, and the fourth 
 largest loss of any infantry regiment in the entire army. 
 Its killed in action numbered 16 officers and 274 men; 
 wounded 755. Its first experience in battle was at Wil- 
 liamsburg, Va., May 5th, 1862, where the three Michigan 
 regiments in Beriy's Brigade won merited honors. Tho 
 loss of the Fifth in that battle amounted to 29 killed and 
 115 wounded. It was also hotly engaged at Fair Oaks, 
 May 31st, wiiere it lost 31 killer!, 105 wounded, and 19 
 missing, out of 330 taken into action. The regiment en- 
 tered the Seven Days' battles with only 216 men, of whom 
 59 were killed or wounded. At Glendale, June 30th, it 
 lost 5 killed, 28 w^ounded, and 18 missing; the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel commanding was mortally wounded. At Freder- 
 icksburg, December 13th, the Lieutenant-Colonel and 
 commanding officer was killed, the casualties amounting 
 to 10 killed and 73 wounded. Its succeeding commanding 
 
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 officer — the Lieutenant-Colonel — was killed in the next 
 battle, at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863; the total loss of 
 the regiment being 7 killed, 43 wounded, and 31 missing. 
 At Gettysburg it fought in De Trobriand's Brigade, Bir- 
 ney's Division, Third Corps, which command took a promi- 
 nent part in the battle of the second day. Although 
 forced to fall back from its untenable position on the Em- 
 mittsburg Road, it did not do so until it had exacted a fear- 
 ful price from its assailants. The regiment lost in that 
 battle, 19 killed, 80 wounded, and 1 missing. In August 
 the regiment was ordered to Troy, N. Y., Avhere it was held 
 a short time in reserve against a threatened outbreak, 
 during the draft then in progress. The Third Corps having 
 been discontinued, Birney's Division was transferred to 
 the Second Corps, and tlie regiment marched with this 
 ctunmand on the campaign of May, 18G1, numbering 365 
 men as officially reported. Its casualties a few days later 
 ai the Wilderness were 16 killed, 79 wounded, and 2 miss- 
 ing; total, 97. Of the small number remaining, 58 fell 
 the next week at Spottsylvania. In the assault on Peters- 
 burg, June 18tli, it lost 15 killed, 52 wounded, and 19 
 missing; and at the battle of Boydton Road, October 27tli, 
 killed, 52 wounded, and 43 missing. It participated in 
 the grand, final and successful assault on the fortifications 
 of Petersburg Ax>ril 2d, 1865, and hot pursuit of Lee's 
 retreating veterans, and was in the front in line of battle 
 at Appouiattox at the surrender. 
 
 Our membership includes those who saw service in the 
 Seventh Michigan Infantry, which led the forlorn hope 
 across the river at Fredericksburg December 11th, 1862. 
 The engineers had tried for hours to lay a pontoon bridge 
 under the fire of the sharpshooters who were safely posted 
 in the biuldings which lined the opposite bank. A heav}' 
 artillery- fire having failed to dislodge them, a call was 
 made for volunteers to cross in boats and drive awav the 
 
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 enemy's riflemen. In response, the men of this regiment 
 seized some empty pontoons, pushed them into the water, 
 and springing into tliem rowed rapidly across, driving the 
 enemy from the ritiepits and houses. The regiment had 
 previously encountered some hard fighting, having lost 45 
 killed or died of wounds in the battle of Fair Oaks, May 
 31st, 1802, and in the Seven Days' battles, June 25th-July 
 1st, on the Peninsula. At Antietam, September 17th — in 
 Sedgwick's Division — more than half its force engaged 
 was killed or disabled, its loss amounting to 39 killed — 
 including 1 officers — 178 Avouuded, and 1 missing; total, 
 221. At Gettysburg it fought in Gibbon's Division, which 
 took a prominent part in the defense of Cemetery Ridge, 
 Juh' 2d, and in the repulse of Pickett's charge on the 3d. 
 The regiment entered the battle with 11 officers and 151 
 men, losing in the two days' fighting 21 killed and 44 
 wounded. Its Lieutenant-Colonel commanding was killed 
 in this battle. In the sprilig campaign of 1864 it sustained 
 heavy losses, having 25 killed, 100 wounded, and 8 cap- 
 tured or missing, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 
 May 5th to June 4th. It also lost 21 killed or mortally 
 wounded in the Petersburg trenches, and in the battles of 
 Deep Bottom, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run, and in tlie 
 final campaign. The regiment entered the service in 
 August, 1801, re-enlisted in December, 1863, for another 
 term, and was mustered out July 7th, 1865. It served its 
 entire time in the Second Division, Second Corps, and sus- 
 tained a loss of 11 officersi and 197 men killed in battle or 
 fatally Avounded, and 521 other wounded. 
 
 On our roster are the names of two who were members 
 of the Eighth Michigan Infantry, the "Wandering Regi- 
 ment," whose dead lie buried in seven different States, and 
 whose loss, killed in action, is exceeded by only two other 
 regiments from that State. The regiment was organized 
 in August, 1861, arriving in Washington September 30tli. 
 
Five weeks later it went to Anuapolis, where it embarked 
 witli Sherman's exiiedition for Hilton Head, S. C. On 
 April IGth, 1862, while on a reconnoissance to Wilmington 
 Island, Ga., about 200 of the regiment repulsed an attack 
 of the enenn' over 800 strong, after a gallant fight, losing 
 11 killed and 34 wounded. In June following the regi- 
 ment signally distinguished itself in the assault on the 
 earthworks on James Island, S. C. It gained the parapet 
 of the works bv a daring and dashing charge, but was 
 (»bliged to relinquish its foothold Avitli a loss of 48 killed, 
 120 wounded, and 16 missing, out of 25 officers and 509 
 enlisted men engaged. In July, 1862, it moved to Fort 
 Monroe, where it joined the Ninth Corps, in which it fought 
 at Manassas and in all the subsequent battles of that 
 corps. Its casualties at Manassas, including Chantilly, 
 were 10 killed, 56 wounded, and 12 missing. Six weeks 
 later it was engaged in the battles of South Mountain and 
 Antietam, sustaining severe losses. In March, 1863, the 
 regiment accompanied the Ninth Corps in its occupation 
 of Kentucky, the siege of Vicksburg, and the East Ten-* 
 nessee campaign. In the action at Campbell's Station, 
 Tenn., November 16th, it lost 2 killed and 9 wounded. 
 During the siege of Knoxville, November ITth-December 
 4th, it endured many hardships and privations, suffering 
 especially from want of sufficient food and proper clothing. 
 In January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted as veteran vol- 
 unteers, and upon the expiration of a thirty-day furlough 
 rejoined the corps in Virginia, it having, meantime, re- 
 turned to the Army of the Potomac. At the Wilderness 
 it lost 11 killed, 80 wounded, and 14 missing, its Colonel 
 being among the killed. It; lost 49 in killed, wounded and 
 missing, in the assault May 12th, at Spotts3'lvania, and 
 52 — including the Major killed — at Bethesda Church, near 
 Cold Harbor, June 3d. In the assaults on Petersburg 
 
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 June 17th and 18th, it lost 49 in killed, wounded and pris- 
 oners. During the siege of Petersburg, at the Mine Ex- 
 plosion, battles of Weldon Railroad, Pojjlar Spring 
 Church, and general assault April 2d, 1865, 35 more were 
 killed or mortally wounded; including the Major at the 
 Weldon Railroad. During its term of service the regiment 
 sustained a loss, killed and wounded in battle, of 783, of 
 whom 11 officers and 212 men were killed or died of 
 wounds. 
 
 Among our members are four who served in the Ninth 
 Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United States ser- 
 vice October 15th, 1861, and was first employed in the 
 construction of extensive field works near West Point, Ky. 
 In March, 1862, it embarked for Nashville, and in May took 
 part with an expedition in pursuit of Morgan, then raid- 
 ing in Middle Tennessee. On July 13tli, six companies of 
 the regiment made a brilliant defense of Murfreesboro, 
 against an attack of a largely superior force under For- 
 rest. After a contest lasting over eight hours, the regi- 
 ment losing 11 killed and 89 wounded, they were forced to 
 surrender from the lack of proper support. In November 
 the regiment was stationed near Nashville, and entered 
 on the campaign of Gen. Rosecrans. Before the battle of 
 Stone's River, it was detailed as provost guard of the Army 
 of the Cumberland, and was attached to Gen. Thomas' 
 headquarters. It participated as such in the battles of 
 Stone's River December 31st, 1862, and Chickamauga 
 September 19th and 20th, 1863. In December the regi- 
 ment re-enlisted, and upon its return to the field from 
 veteran furlough, was again attached to the headquarters 
 department of the Cumberland. On May 3d, 1861, it 
 marched with the army on the Georgia campaign, and was 
 present at the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Kene- 
 saw, Chattahoochie, siege of Atlanta, and Jonesboro. It 
 entered Atlanta September 2d, and was engaged on 
 
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 provost duty until the city was evacuated by our forces in 
 November. On the Gth, the regiment returned to Chat- 
 tanooga, where it remained on guard and picket duty until 
 March, 1805, when it was orchned to Nashville, and did 
 duty guarding the military ])rison there until September 
 15th, the date of its muster out. 
 
 We have those who served in the Eleventh Michigan 
 Infantry, whose formation was completed September 24th, 
 1861, and which lost, during its three years' service, 5 
 officers and 107 men killed in action. It was stationed 
 during its first winter at Bardstown, Ivy., and in the 
 spring of 18(32 was employed guarding the Louisville and 
 Nashville Railroad. After participating in the chase of 
 Morgan's raiders through Kentucky in July, the regiment 
 Avas ordered to Nashville, Tenn., where it remained until 
 the forward movement of the army under Rosecrans in 
 December. In the battle of Stone's River on the 31st, it 
 fought in Negley's (Second) Division, Thomas' (Four- 
 teenth) Coii^s, and was heavily engaged, losing 32 killed, 
 79 wounded, and 29 missing. The regiment was then de- 
 tached as provost guard at Murfreesboro until June, 1863, 
 when it joined in the advance on TuUahoma. In Septem- 
 ber it marched with the army over the mountains into 
 Georgia, and fought in the battle of Chickamauga on the 
 19th and 20th, losing 6 killed, 46 wounded, and 23 missing. 
 At the battle of Missionary Ridge, or Chattanooga, No- 
 vember 25th, it took part in the main and victorious 
 charge, and was one of the first regiments to reach the 
 enemy's works on the extreme crest, losing 39 in killed and 
 v.'ounded. The regiment remained in the vicinity of Chat- 
 tanooga until May, 1864, when it entered on the Atlanta 
 cami^aign, and was engaged in the fighting at Resaca 
 May 14th, New Hope Church May 27th, Peach Tree Ci-eek 
 Julv 20th, and siege of Atlanta July 22d to August 27th, 
 
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 with Ji loss of G7 in Idlled aud wouuded. Its term of en- 
 listment having expired, it was ordered back to Chat- 
 tanooga, from whence it proceeded home for muster out. 
 
 Our roster of members includes two serving in the 
 Thirteenth Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United 
 States sei'vice in January, 1862, and in January, 1864, be- 
 came a veteran regiment. Arriving at Nashville, Tenn., in 
 February, it formed part of Wood's Division of Buell's 
 Army, which made a forced march to reinforce Grant at 
 Shiloh, but did not reach the battlefield until the close of 
 the second day's fight, April 7th. In June it accompanied 
 Buell's Army from Corinth to Stevenson, Ala., where it 
 remained until August 31st, when it joined in the cele- 
 brated race with Bragg for Louisville, Ky. In November 
 it marched with the army under Rosecrans on Murfrees- 
 boro, and at the battle of Stone's River, December 31st, 
 the regiment made a most gallant charge and recovered 
 two pieces of artillery which had been captured by the 
 enemy. It took into this action 225 oflftcers and men, and 
 the fierceness of the combat is shown in the killed and 
 wounded, which was tw^o-fifths of its entire strength. One 
 officer and 31 men were killed— being over 14 per cent of 
 the number engaged — and GO wouuded. In June, 1863, it 
 accompanied Rosecrans' Army — in the Twentieth Corps — 
 in the advance on Tullahoma., and x^nrsuit of Bragg across 
 the Cumberland Mountains. At Chickamauga, September 
 19th, the regiment entered the fight with 217 officers and 
 men, losing 3 officers and 23 men killed, 56 wounded, and 
 25 missing; the killed amounting to nearly 12 per cent, and 
 the total casualties 50 per cent of the number engaged. 
 In November the regiment was attached to the Engineer 
 Brigade, and assigned to duty at Chattanooga aud vicin- 
 ity. After re-enlisting and returning to the field from 
 veteran furlough in April, 1864, it was stationed on Look- 
 out Mountain engaged in the construction of military 
 
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 liospitals imtil late in September, when it was assigned 
 to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Corps. 
 With this command it participated in the "March to the 
 Sea," and cami)aign of the Carolinas. At the battle of 
 Bentonville, N. C, March 19th, 1865, it sustained the 
 greatest casualties of any regiment engaged there, losing 
 17 killed, 86 Avouuded, and 7 missing. Its Colonel was 
 among the killed on that held. During its term of service 
 the regiment lost 4 officers and 68 men killed in action or 
 died of wounds. 
 
 Included in our membership are those who served in the 
 Fourteenth Michigan Infantiy, which joined the army at 
 Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., in April, 1862. It took part 
 with Pope's command in the advance on Corinth, and siege 
 of that place, and was engaged in the action at Farming- 
 ton, Miss., May 9th. After the evacuation of Corinth it 
 moved with the army as far south as Tuscumbia, Ala., and 
 on September 1st started on the famous race of Buell and 
 Bragg for Louisville, but at Nashville the regiment was 
 halted, and was on duty there for the remainder of the 
 year. On the night of Januarj^ 2d, 1863, it made a forced 
 march of 30 miles to Stone's River, arriving on that field 
 after the battle had ended. It remained iu the vicinity of 
 Nashville until September, when the regiment was or- 
 dered to be mounted, and was employed in hunting 
 guerillas. In March, 1861, the regiment re-enlisted, and 
 upon its return from veteran furlough failed in being 
 remounted. It served with the Fourteenth Corps in the 
 Atlanta campaign, and participated in much of the fight- 
 ing from May to September. In the action at Chatta- 
 hoochie River, July 5th and 6th, it lost 9 killed and 35 
 wounded. In front of Atlanta, August 7th, it aided in 
 taking two lines of the enemy's works, suffering a loss of 
 8 killed and 27 wounded. At Jonesboro, September 1st, 
 tbe reoiment carried a line of the enemv's entrenchments. 
 
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 capturing four pieces of artillery, a set of regimental 
 colors, and 300 i^risoners. The regiment accompanied 
 Sherman's Army on its grand march to Savannah, and 
 was an active participant in the campaign of the Caro 
 linas, sustaining a loss at Averasboro, March ICth, of 22 
 killed and wounded, and at Bentonville, March 19th and 
 20th, lost 7 killed, 47 wounded, and 5 missing. In this en- 
 gagement it captured two stands of colors and a large 
 number of prisoners, including one general of&cer. The 
 regiment lost, while in the service, 1 officer and 58 meu 
 killed or fatally wounded in battle. 
 
 We have those who were members of the Fifteentb 
 Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United States ser- 
 vice March 20th, 1862, that fought with conspicuous gal- 
 Inntrv at the battle of Shiloh Ai)ril 6th, and having joined 
 Buell's Army only the day before the battle. It lost in thai 
 engagement 2 officers and 31 men killed, 64 wounded, and 
 7 missing. In the attack on Corinth, October 3d, it formed 
 the outposts of the Union Ann 3', and in the engagement 
 that followed sustained a loss of 13 killed, 32 wounded, 
 and 5 missing. It participated Vvdth the Ninth Corps in 
 the Vicksburg campaign, after which it was attached to 
 the Fifteenth Corps, which was ordered to reinforce the 
 Army of the Cumberland. During the winter of 1863-4, 
 the regiment was stationed in the vicinity of Chattanooga, 
 and in March, 1864, became a veteran organization. It 
 was engaged in much of the fighting of the Atlanta cam- 
 paign, capturing in the battle of Atlanta, July 22d, two 
 battle flags and nearly 200 prisoners. In the action at 
 Ezra Chapel, July 28th, the regiment sustained a loss of 
 33 killed and wounded. After the fall of Atlanta and a 
 short campaign in Northern Georgia and Alabama in 
 pursuit of Hood, it started with the Fifteenth Corps on the 
 march of Sherman's Army through Ge'orgia to the sea. 
 Savannah was evacuated December 21st, after a brief 
 
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 siege, aud in Februaij, 1805, it moved with the araiy on 
 the grand victorious niarcli throiigli the Carolinas. John- 
 ston's army having- surrendered April 2Gth, the corps con- 
 tinued its nortlnvard march via Richmond to Wasliington. 
 After participating in the grand review May 24th, the 
 cori)s proceeded to Louisville, Ky., tlience to Little Rock, 
 Ark., where the regiment served with the Army of Occu- 
 l>ation until ordered home August 21st for muster out. 
 During its term of service the regiment lost 3 officers and 
 00 men killed in action or mortally wounded. 
 
 Among the members of the Post are four survivors of 
 the Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, organized originally as 
 "Stockton's Independent Regiment," which left the State 
 <»n September IGth, 1801, with ten companies. IVo com- 
 Ijanies of sharpshooters were afterwards attached to the 
 regiment, one joining in 1802 and the other in 1804. The 
 regiment went into winter quarters at Hall's Ilill, Ya., 
 aud in March, 1802, moved to the Peninsula, where it was 
 assigned to the Third Brigade (Buttertield's), First Di- 
 vision (Morell's), Fiftli Corps." The Sixteenth suffered the 
 heaviest loss of its entire service at the battle of Gaines' 
 Mill, June 27th, 1802, where its casualties amounted to 3 
 officers and 40 men killed, officers and 110 men wounded, 
 and 2 officers and 53 men missing; many of the latter were 
 l;ill(Hl or M'oundetl. Four days later, at Malvern Hill, it 
 lost 2 killed, 37 wounded, and 3 missing. It was hotly en- 
 gaged at Manassas August 30th, losing 3 officers and 13 
 men killed, 4 officers and 00 men wounded, and 10 missing, 
 out of 290 engaged. At Fredericksburg, December 13th, 
 it lost 3 killed, 30 wounded, and 8 missing, and at Chan 
 cellorsville. May 2d-5th, 1803, lost 1 killed and wounded. 
 In the action at Middleburg June 21st, the regiment cap- 
 tured a ])iece of artillery aud a number of prisoners, sus- 
 taining a loss of 1 officer killed and 8 men wounded. At 
 Gettysburg it took a prominent ])art in the historic contest 
 
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 of Vincent's Brigade for the possession of Little Round 
 Top in the second day's fight, helping materiall}^ to save 
 the fortunes of the day. It lost in that battle 4 oflflcers 
 and 21 men killed, 34 wounded, and 2 missing. In De- 
 cember the regiment re-enlisted, and after the expiration 
 of a veteran furlough rejoined its old brigade near Cul- 
 peper Court House, Va. On May 4th, 1864, it crossed 
 the Rapidan on the Wilderness campaign, losing during 
 the month 31 killed or mortally wounded; its Major com- 
 manding was killed at the Totopotomy, May 30tli. Dur- 
 ing the siege of Petersburg and in the fighting which 
 followed the extension of the army lines on the left, it 
 sustained severe losses. In the assault at Peeble's Farm, 
 September 30th, it lost 10 killed and 42 wounded. In this 
 action the Colonel was killed on the parapet of a redoubt, 
 which he was the first to scale. The regiment was also 
 engaged in the battle of Five Forks, April 1st, and in much 
 of the fighting that occurred while pursuing Lee's Army 
 until the surrender. The total loss of the regiment, killed 
 and wounded in battle, was 870. Of these, 12 officers and 
 235 men were killed or died of wounds; the greatest loss of 
 any regiment but one from Michigan. It served its entire 
 term in the same brigade, division, army corps and army. 
 One of the regiments of this brigade sustained a loss, 
 killed in action, that was exceeded by only one other regi- 
 ment in the entire Union Army. 
 
 Two of our members served in the Seventeenth Michigan 
 Infantry, the famous "Stonewall Regiment," that left 
 Detroit August 27th, 1862, and upon arrival at Washing- 
 ton was ordered immediately into Maryland. It there 
 joined the Army of the Potomac, then on its way to meet 
 Lee, and was assigned to the First Brigade (Christ's), First 
 Division (Willcox's), Ninth Corps. Only a little more than 
 two weeks after leaving the State it was engaged in the 
 
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 battle of South Mimntain, where it altaiiied much ceU^b- 
 rity bv gallautly charging- over the stone walls with shouts 
 of triumph, its effective services being acknowledged by 
 the division General and also by the (leneral commanding 
 the army. Its loss in that action was 26 killed and 100 
 wounded; no iiii.ssiii;/. It fought again, three days later, 
 at Antietam, losing there 18 killed and 89 wounded. It 
 crossed the Rappahannock with the army at Fredericks- 
 burg in December, but did not participate in the battle 
 that ensued. In March, 1803, the Ninth Corps was 
 ordered to Kentucky, thence to Alcksburg, and then to 
 East Tennessee. The Seventeenth was engaged in a sharp 
 fight at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November ICth, in 
 which it lost 7 killed, 51 wounded, and 15 missing. It was 
 in Knoxville during the besiegement by Longstreet, and 
 made a brilliant sortie from Fort Sanders on the night of 
 November 20th, driving back the enemy's advanced posts 
 and burning the buildings in which tliey had gained cover. 
 In the fighting which occurred there the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel commanding the regiment was killed. The Knox- 
 ville campaign was unequalled during the war for the 
 privations and hardshii)s undergone by the troops. Re- 
 turning to Virginia with the corps in April, 1861, the regi- 
 ment participated in the bloody fighting of Grant's cam- 
 paigns. At the battle of the Wilderness it lost 5 killed and 
 37 wounded; and on May 12th, in a charge on the enemy's 
 works at Spottsylvania, it lost 23 killed, 73 wounded, and 
 93 captured or missing, out of 226 engaged. The regiment 
 was soon after detailed to serve as division engineers and 
 provost guard, on which duty it continued the most of its 
 remaining term of service. During the siege of Peters- 
 burg it lost 2 killed and 8 wounded. In the attack of the 
 enemy on Fort Stedman, March 25tli, 1865, the regiment 
 was advanced as skirmishers, capturing 65 i>i'isouers, sus- 
 taining a loss of 1 killed and 2 wounded. On April 3(1, it 
 
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 moved with its divisiou iuto Petersburg, and soou after 
 proceeded via City Point to Washington, in the vicinity 
 of which it remained until ordered liome, and on June 7th 
 was paid off at Detroit and discharged. Its loss, killed 
 in battle or died of wounds, was 7 officers and 128 men. 
 
 Our membership includes those serving in the Twentieth 
 Regiment, Michigan Infantry, which left the State Sep- 
 tember 1st, 1862, and after a short stay at Alexandria, Va., 
 joined the Army of the Potomac at Sharpsburg, Md., a few 
 days after the battle of Antietam. It was placed in the 
 Mnth Corps, with which it marched to Fredericksburg, 
 where it was under fire with a sliglit loss in wounded men. 
 It was then in the First Brigade (Poe's), First Division 
 (Burns'). In March, 1863, the regiment acconii)anied the 
 Ninth Corps to Kentucky, and on May lOtli had a brisk 
 fight at Horse Shoe Bend, on the Cumberland River, where 
 it was attacked by Gen, John Morgan, losing 5 killed, 19 
 w^ounded, and 5 missing. Its gallant defence, after being 
 summoned to surrender by a vastly suj^erior force, made 
 this fight a notable one among the minor actions of the 
 war. It participated in the Vicksburg campaign, and then 
 in the fighting in East Tennessee. In the affair at Camp- 
 bell's Station, November 16th, it lost 33 killed and 
 wounded, its Lieutenant-Colonel and commanding officer 
 being among the killed. The regiment shared in the hard- 
 ships and privations of the Knoxville campaign, and dur- 
 ing the siege occupied a position on the most exposed part 
 of the line. On November 29th. it assisted in repelling the 
 desi)erate assault on Fort Sanders, losing 2 killed and 8 
 wounded. In the spring of 1861 the regiment returned to 
 Aarginia, where it took part in all of the battles of the 
 Ninth Corps during 1861-5. It entered the Wilderness 
 campaign in the Second Brigade, Third Division, and at 
 Si)ottsylvania, May 12th, it was engaged in the hardest 
 fighting of its whole experience. It lost on that day 17 
 
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 killed, 108 woiiuded, aud 19 missing; total, 144. On June 
 ISth, it participated in the assault of the Ninth Corps at 
 Petersburg, losing 14 killed and 55 wounded — over one- 
 half the number engaged. Its Major in command fell 
 mortally wounded. After this battle the regiment num- 
 bered only 106 muskets. At the Mine Explosion, July 
 30th, it took part with Willcox's Division in the charge at 
 the Crater, losing 52 out of 110 men who advanced to the 
 assault, 8 being killed. It also lost 3 officers and 15 men 
 killed in the Petersburg trenches, in the battle of Peeble's 
 Farm September 30th, and in the Confederate sortie at 
 Fort Stedman March 25th, 1865. During its term of ser- 
 vice it sustained a loss of 13 officers and 111 men, killed 
 in action or fatalh- wounded. 
 
 We have one who was a member of the Twenty-second 
 Michigan Infantry, so distinguished at the battle of Chick- 
 amauga September 20th, 1863, for one of the most dashing 
 and desperate bayonet charges of the war. It fought there 
 in Whittaker's (1st) Brigade, Steedman's (1st) Division, of 
 the Reserve Corps, commanded by General Gordon 
 Granger, the man who marched his troops to the battle- 
 field with no other orders or direction than "the sound of 
 the enemy's cannon.'' The casualties of the regiment 
 were 58 killed, 261 ^^ounded, aud 70 missing, out of 584 
 engaged; the greatest loss of any regiment on that field. 
 Many of the missing were doubtless killed or wounded as 
 the enemy held possession of the field. After this battle 
 the regiment was attached to the engineer brigade, and 
 until the close of the war was principally^ employed lay- 
 ing pontoon bridges, repairing railroads, and performing 
 l)rovost and guard duty. It was mustered in August 
 29th, 1862, and disbanded at Detroit July 11th, 1865. 
 While in the service it lost 3 officers and 86 men killed 
 in battle or died of wounds. One hundred and twenty- 
 two members of the I'egiment died in Confederate prisons. 
 
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 Also members of the Twenty-third Regiment, Michigan 
 Infantry, organized in September, 1862, whose first field 
 service was in Kentucky under llosecrans, being stationed 
 for some months at Bowling Green and vicinity. In July, 
 1863, it took part in the pursuit of Morgan, then on his 
 famous raid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, after 
 which it was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Di- 
 vision, Twenty-third Corps, and served with that command 
 tliroughout the war. In August the regiment partici- 
 pated in the advance into East Tennessee, and was en- 
 gaged with Long-street's forces at Campbell's Station 
 November 16th, with a loss of 8 killed, 23 wounded, and 
 8 missing. It aided in the defense of Knoxville until the 
 siege was raised, and with the other troops on that cam- 
 paign suffered great privations and hardships. After 
 passing the winter in East Tennessee, it entered on the 
 Atlanta campaign in May, 1861, and participated in much 
 of the fighting that followed. At Resaca, May lltli, the 
 regiment was in the assaulting column, and lost in a few 
 minutes 62 men killed or wounded. After the fall of 
 Atlanta, September 2nd, it marched with the corps in pur- 
 suit of Hood, who was then moving northward. It took 
 an active part in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 
 30th, and at Nashville, December 15th, made a brilliant 
 charge, capturing more prisoners than there were men 
 in the line of the regiment. In January, 1865, it moved 
 with the Twenty-third Corps from Nashville, via Wash- 
 ington, to North Carolina, landing at Fort Fisher at the 
 mouth of the Cape Fear River February 9th. Moving up 
 the river, the corps fought at Fort Anderson February 
 ISth, and at Wilmington on tlie 21st, ca^jturing the latter 
 place. Proceeding up the Coast, the regiment reachetl 
 Kinston just at the close of the action at that poinr. On 
 March 21st, Goldsboro was occupied and a junction nade 
 
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 with Slu'iiiiairs Army on the 23rd. April lltb, the regi- 
 iin'iit moved with the army on Raleij"!!, where it . emaiued 
 until the surrender of Johnston's Army on the 2(>tli. 
 During- its term of service 3 officers and 70 men of tiie 
 regiment were killed or fatally w<iunded in battle. 
 
 We have IG survivors, and all oi-igiual members of Hie 
 Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, mustered into the 
 T'^nited States service August 15, 1802, that was recruited 
 in twenty days, and left Detroit for the seat of war, fully 
 armed and equipped, within forty days from the date of 
 its first enlistment. It might have been called a regiment 
 of relatives, 135 of its members having brothers in it, and 
 there were several cases of three brothers of one family 
 in its ranks. There were also several cases of father and 
 son, and one company had a father and two sons. It had 
 one member barely thirteen years of age, who served as a 
 di-umnier throughout the war, and is now a regular at- 
 tendant at our Post meetings. In its tirst battle — Fred- 
 ericksburg, December 13th, 1862 — the regiment fought in 
 Meredith's (4th) Brigade, Doubleday's (1st) Division, 
 Reynold's (1st) Corps, losing 7 killed, 18 wounded, and 
 taken prisoners. At Chancellorsville — General Wads- 
 worth commanding the Division— it took part in the 
 movement on the extreme left, and attained a most daring 
 achievement in crossing the Rappahannock River some 
 three miles below Fredericksburg, at Fitzhugh Crossing. 
 At daybreak on tlie morning of A])ril 29th, 18(>3, the 
 ])ontoon train Avas run down to the river bank, but the first 
 attempt to unload the wagons drew the fire of the enemy 
 from the ()])posite bank and forced the engineers and train 
 guard to fall back. After repeated attempts to ixf^t the 
 boats in tlu^ water and lay the bridge, all of which were 
 unsuccessful, a storming ])arty was organiz(^d to cross the 
 river and drive the enemy out of their intnMiched position. 
 
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 The force consisted of the 24th Michigan aucl three com- 
 panies of another regiment in the same brigade. The 
 crossing was made in open boats, under a terrific fire, the 
 enemy completely routed and over 100 prisoners captured. 
 The attempt seemed more of a forlorn hope than the 
 famous crossing of the 7tli Michigan at Fredericksburg 
 the previous December; the rifie-pits on the heights 
 opposite being manned with more troops, the river at this 
 point being wider, the bank to be charged up was steeper 
 with a thick undergrowtli, and the enemy had formed an 
 abatis by felling trees with the tops down the hill. The 
 loss was also greater.* 
 
 At Gettysburg the regiment fought in the battle of 
 July 1st, sustaining its entire loss on that day. The only 
 infantry troops engaged in the first day's fighting were 
 those of the First and Eleventh Corjjs, and the First Corps 
 Is here credited with having done some of the best fighting 
 of the war. Although driven from the field by a superior 
 force, it succeeded in capturing, at different times and at 
 different points on the field, the greater portions of three 
 brigades of the enemy, taking them in open field fighting, 
 where there were none of the usual accessories of breast- 
 works or intrenchments. It "fought that day with no 
 other protection than the flannel blouses that covered 
 their stout hearts." Gen. Reynolds having been killed 
 at the very opening- of the battle. Gen. Doubleday suc- 
 ceeded to the command, and liandled the corps in a re- 
 markably able manner. The brigade in which the 
 Twenty-fourth was serving was at that time, numerically, 
 the first brigade in the army, and was among the first 
 infantry troops engaged. To this regiment belongs the 
 melancholy honor of having suffered the gTeatest number 
 of casualties of any of the 400 Union regiments on that 
 
 ♦History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan and Iron Brigade. 
 
immortal field. It entered the battle with 28 officers and 
 468 men. It lost 8 officers and 82 men killed, 14 officers 
 and 218 men wounded, 3 officers and 66 men prisoners, and 
 6 men missing; total, 397 — or over 80 per cent of the nmn- 
 ber engaged. The killed amonuted to over 18 per cent — 
 an unusually high percentage. In addition to the above, 
 9 men belonging to the regiment were wounded while 
 serving with a battery attached to the brigade, and into 
 which they had been detailed for duty some months prev- 
 ious. Of the 232 wounded 17 fell into the hands of the 
 enemy as prisoners of war, and were paroled on the field 
 or taken South. In that battle its flag was borne by no 
 less than ten different persons, 5 of whom were killed and 
 2 wounded. On the Mine Run campaign, November 26th- 
 30th, the corps was commanded by Gen. Newton, who 
 had been appointed to the position and assumed command 
 during the second day's battle at Gettysburg. In March, 
 1864, the First Cor|)s was discontinued, Wadsworth's 
 Division becoming the Fourth Division of the Fifth 
 Corps, commanded by Gen. Warren. The regiment 
 crossed the Rapidan Ma}' 4th with 17 officers and 
 303 men, Gen. Cutler in command of the brigade. At 
 the battle of the Wilderness, May 5th, the regiment cap- 
 tured the colors of the 48th Virginia, losing on that and 
 the succeeding day 19 killed, 49 wounded, and 39 taken 
 jn'isoners; total, 107, out of 320 taken into action. Its 
 Colonel was severely wounded in the first day's fight. 
 Gen. Wadsworth having been mortally wounded, the com- 
 mand of the division devolved upon Gen. Cutler, and Col. 
 Robinson assumed command of the brigade. The next 
 Aveek, at Spottsylvania, the regiment lost 24 killed and 41 
 wounded. Of the small number left 9 were killed and 21 
 wounded at North Anna May 23rd-26th, and at Cold Har- 
 bor June 2nd-4th. It became so reduced by losses that 
 it mustered onlv 120 men for the Petersburg assault of 
 
June 18th, where it lost 11 killed and 38 wounded. In 
 this battle and all subsequent actions the brigade was 
 commanded bj Gen. E. S. Bragg. During the Siege of 
 Petersburg, battles of Weldon Railroad, xlugust 18th-21st, 
 {lud Dabney's Mill, February 6th and 7th, 1865, the regi- 
 ment had 12 killed, 23 wounded, and 22 taken prisoners. 
 At the Weldon Railroad it captured the colors of the 12th 
 Mississippi. On February 11th it was withdrawn from 
 the field and ordered to Springfield, 111., for duty at the 
 State rendezvous, and to recruit. On May 4th, 1865, it 
 formed the military escort at the funeral of President 
 Lincoln. It was mustered out at Detroit June 30th, hav- 
 ing sustained a loss, during its term of service, of 12 
 officers and 177 men killed in battle or mortally wounded. 
 Its entire field service was in the famous "Iron Brigade," 
 which, in proportion to its numbers, sustained the greatest 
 loss, killed and died of wounds, of any brigade in the war. 
 One of the five regiments composing this brigade sus- 
 tained the largest percentage of loss, killed in battle, of 
 any regiment in the entire Union Army; and another 
 regiment of the brigade takes third place in the greatest 
 number killed in action among all the infantry regiments 
 in the service. Attached to the brigade and participating 
 in all its battles was a four-gun battery of the Regular 
 Army (B, 4th U. S. Artillery), which sustained the greatest 
 loss, killed and wounded, of any light battery in the war. 
 
 In our membership are those who saw service in the 
 Twenty-fifth Regiment, Michigan Infantry, mustered in 
 September 22nd, 1862, a battalion of which especially dis- 
 tinguished itself on July 4th, 1863, near Green River 
 Bridge, Ky., by refusing to surrender to an over- 
 whelming cavalry force under Gen. John IT. Morgan. 
 Upon a demand being made for its surrender, the 
 Colonel returned the famous reply that "the Fourth 
 
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 of July was not a i^ood da}' on which to surren- 
 der." After inflieting upon the enemy a loss in 
 Idlh^l of a number equal to one-fourth their own little 
 band, and woundin<>: a number ecpial to their own, the 
 assailants withdrew, leavinji i\wiv killed and wounded on 
 the field. The regiment i)articipated the following year 
 in the summer campaign in Georgia, and fought with the 
 Twenty-third Corps in many of the battles from Tunnel 
 Mill, May 7th, to Jonesboro, September 4th. After the 
 capture of Atlanta it joined Thomas' Army in the Ten- 
 nessee campaign against Hood, and was actively engaged 
 in the battle of Franklin, November 30th, and of Nash- 
 ville, December 15th and Kjth. In January, 18G5, it ac- 
 companied the corps to North Carolina, where it partici- 
 pated in the movements of Schofield's Army, and on June 
 24th was mustered out of service. The loss of the regi- 
 ment, killed in action and mortally wounded, was 1 officer 
 and 34 men. 
 
 Our roster includes those serving in the Fifth New 
 Hampshire Eegiment of Infantry, which was organized in 
 (October, 1801, re-enlisted and served throughout the war 
 in the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps. This 
 regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle of any 
 infantry or cavalry regiment in the whole Union Army; 
 losing a total, killed and wounded, of 1,051, of which 18 
 officers and 295 men were killed in action or died of 
 wounds. Known to the corps and division commanders 
 as a reliable regiment, it was the more often called upon 
 to face the enemy's fire, or assigned to the post of danger. 
 Its first engagement was the battle of Fair Oaks, Va., 
 May 31st, 1802, where it lost 20 killed, 147 wounded, and 7 
 missing. It sustained severe losses in tlic Soven Days' 
 fighting in front of Richmond, June 25th to July 1st, and 
 was engaged in the battle of Antietam, Se])tember 17th, 
 witli a loss of 13 killed or mortallv wounded. At 
 
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 Fredericksburg the regiment lost 20 killed, 154 wounded, 
 and 19 missing; total, 193, out of 303 present — over 63 
 per cent. At Gettysburg it fought near Devil's Den, and 
 suffered a loss of 27 killed and 53 wounded, out of 12 
 officers and 165 men engaged; its Colonel, in command of 
 the brigade, was among the killed. Its greatest loss, 
 numerically, occurred at Cold Harbor, June 3rd, 1864, 
 vrhere the regiment entered the enemy's works, but for 
 the lack of suport was forced to relinquish its position. 
 It took 577 men into that action, of whom 202 were killed 
 or wounded. In the Petersburg assault of June 18th it 
 lost 15 killed. It also sustained severe losses during the 
 siege of Petersburg, and in the final cami^aign in Vir- 
 ginia. At Farmville, April 7th, 1865, two days prior to 
 the surrender of Lee's Army, it Avas heavily engaged with 
 a loss of 13 killed and 97 wounded. 
 
 It includes those who were members of the Sixth New 
 Jersey Infantry, organized August 19th, 1861, that took 
 the field in April, 1862, having been assigned to the Second 
 Jersey Brigade, in the Third Corps. The brigade was in 
 the thick of the fight at AMlliamsburg, May 5th, and the 
 "Jerse}' Blues" won a place in history that day. The 
 losses of the regiment in this battle were 39 killed, 74 
 wounded, and 26 missing. Among the killed was the 
 Lieutenant-Colonel commanding. In August following it 
 lost at Manassas 21 killed and mortally wounded. The 
 brigade also distinguished itself at Chancellorsville by 
 the persistency with which it held its ground and repulsed 
 the repeated assaults of the enemy, the regiment losing' 
 there 6 killed, 53 wounded, and 8 missing. It was engaged 
 in the battle of Gettysburg with a loss of 5 killed. It also 
 encountered some hard fighting in the Wilderness cam- 
 paign, and in the assault on Petersburg, its losses during 
 the months of May and June being 15 killed, 99 wounded, 
 and 6 missing. In August, 1864, it was; ordered home for 
 
muster out, luiviiij; sustained a loss of 3 officers and 124 
 men, killed in battle or died of wounds, during its three 
 years' service. 
 
 We have those who served in the Fortieth New Jersey 
 Infantry, organized at Trenton by companies, from Octo- 
 ber 24th, 1864, to March 10th, 1865, for one year, each 
 company leaving for the front as soon as mustered in the 
 United States service. It was attached to the First 
 Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps, and participated in 
 the Siege of Petersburg, December, 1864, to April, 1865, 
 storming of Petersburg April 2nd, pursuit of Lee April 
 3rd-9th, including the action at Sailor's Ci-eek April 6th, 
 and surrender of Lee's Army at Appomattox Court House 
 April 9th. 
 
 Our membership embraces those serving in the Thirty- 
 fifth New York Infantry, mustered in June 11th, 1861, for 
 two years' ser\'ice. It was on duty in the defences of Wash- 
 ington until March, 1862, jDarticipatiug meantime in the 
 action at Ball's Cross Roads August 2Tth and 28tli, 1861, 
 and skirmish at Munson's Hill August 31st. It formed a 
 part of McDowell's Corps in the advance on Manassas in 
 March, 1862, on Falmouth in April, and demonstration 
 against Richmond in May. After participating in the 
 operations against Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, 
 June lst-21st, it returned to Falmouth, and on August 6th 
 was engaged in the action at Mattapony. August 16th to 
 September 2nd it took part in Pope's Virginia campaign, 
 including the actions at Rappahannock Station and Sul- 
 ]»hur Springs, and battles near Manassas. While on the 
 jFaryland campaign it served in the First Corps, com- 
 manded by Gen. Hooker, and was prominently engaged at 
 South Mountain September 141 h, and at Antietam Sep- 
 tember 17th, where this command opened the battle. The 
 regiment also participated in the battle of Fredericksburg 
 
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 December 13th, and in tbe "Mud March" January 20th- 
 24th, 1863, after which it was employed on provost duty at 
 Belle Plain, Va., until mustered out in June. It lost dur- 
 ing its term of service 1 officer and 40 men killed in action 
 or fatally wounded. 
 
 Among our members are those who served in the well- 
 known Sixty-ninth Xew York Infantry, that volunteered 
 promptly at the outbreak of the war for three months, 
 and fought at First Bull Run July 21st, 1861, where its 
 Colonel was wounded and cai)tured and the Lieutenant- 
 Colonel was killed. The regiment lost there 38 killed, 59 
 wounded, and 95 missing; being the greatest loss, with 
 one exception, killed and wounded, of any Union regiment 
 in that battle. Upon its return home it formed the 
 nucleus for another regiment bearing the same number, 
 which was enrolled in September, 1861, under a three 
 years' enlistment. It served throughout the war in the 
 famous Irish Brigade, whose gallantry on so many fields 
 attested anew the fidelity and courage of the Irish soldier. 
 It lost over 4,000 men killed and wounded, being more 
 men than belonged to the brigade at any one time. It 
 fought on the Peninsula in Richardson's (1st) Division, 
 Second Corps, sustaining severe losses in the battles be- 
 fore Richmond, the Sixty-ninth losing at Malvern Hill, 
 July 1st, 17 killed, 110 wounded, and 28 missing. At 
 Antietam, September 17th, the regiment fought at the 
 Bloody Lane, sustaining a loss of 44 killed and 152 
 wounded, nearly 62 per cent of the number engaged. In 
 that battle it had eight color-bearers successively shot 
 down. Gen. Hancock commanded the Division at 
 Fredericksburg, where the regiment took part in the 
 gallant but unsuccessful assault on Marye's Heights, 
 December 13tli, losing 16 officers and 112 men killed and 
 wounded, out of 18 officers and 210 men engaged — nearly 
 54 per cent. The Color-Sergeant M'as found dead, with 
 
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 his Hag L-oiieealed and wrapped around his body, a bullet 
 having pierced the flag and his heart. At Ohancellors- 
 Yille it lost 3 killed and 7 wounded. Shortly before the 
 battle of Gettysburg the regiment, having become reduced 
 by losses, was consolidated into two companies. It was 
 engaged there— in Caldwell's Division— in the contest at 
 the wheat-field on the second day, losing 5 killed, 14 
 wounded, and G missing. Having re-enlisted, it fought in 
 all the battles of Grant's Virginia campaign— Gen. Bar- 
 low commanding the Division— and lost, in the thirty days 
 from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 30 killed, 152 
 wounded, and 39 missing. In the Petersburg assault, 
 June 16th-18th, and during the siege, it lost 14 killed, 48 
 wounded, and 20 missing. At Hatcher's Run, March 25th, 
 1865, it had 7 killed and 33 wounded. In this battle and 
 while on the Appomattox campaign, the division was 
 commanded by Gen. Miles. During its term of service 
 the regiment sustained a loss of 13 officers and 24G men 
 killed or mortally wounded in battle. It lost the most 
 men in action, killed and wounded, of any infantry regi- 
 ment from the State of New York, and its number of killed 
 or died of wounds was exceeded by only five other infantry 
 regiments in the entire army. 
 
 Our list of members includes those serving in the Sev- 
 enty-first New Yoi'k Infantry, organized in August, 1861, 
 that formed a part of the noted Excelsior (Sickles) Brigade, 
 and fought in all the battles of that command until its 
 muster out in 1864. At Williamsburg, May 5th, 1862— 
 its first battle— the brigade was serving in Hooker's Divi- 
 sion of the Third Corps. This battle was fought almost 
 entirely by Hooker's and Kearney's Divisions of the Third 
 Corps, and four-fiftlis of the casualties of the corps were 
 sustained by the Excelsior, Jersey and Berry's Brigades. 
 The regiment also participated in the battle of Fair Oaks, 
 
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 May 31st, and in the Seven Days' flgliting before Kicli- 
 mond, with heavy losses. At Manassas, August 27th-31st, 
 it had 37 lulled or mortally wouuded, being over 14 per 
 cent of the 250 engaged. The Corps was then ordered into 
 the defences of Washington, where it remained during the 
 Marjdand campaign. The regiment was present at the 
 battle of Fredericksburg December 13th, but sustained 
 only a slight loss. It was actively engaged, with severe 
 losses, at Chancellorsville May 2nd-4th, 1863, a battle in 
 which the brunt of the fighting fell on the Third and 
 Twelfth Corps. Gen. Berry, commanding the Division, 
 was killed in this battle. At Gett^^sburg — in Hum- 
 phrey's (2d) Division — it became involved in the disaster 
 of the second day's battle, but, like the rest of the Third 
 Coi-ps, it fell back in good order to the second line, fight- 
 ing as it went. In March, 1864, the Third Corps was dis- 
 continued, and the Second Division, under command of 
 Gen. Mott, was transferred to the Second Corps. The 
 regiment took part during May, 1864, in the campaign 
 against Richmond, losing heavily in the battles of the 
 Wilderness, Spottsylvauia and Cold Harbor. It was soon 
 after ordered home for muster out, its term having ex- 
 I)ired. During its three years' service it lost 5 officers 
 and 83 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 
 
 One member of the Post served in the Seventy-fifth New 
 York Infantry Regiment, that was recruited in September, 
 1861, re-enlisted and served through the war. Its earlier 
 service was in the Department of the Gulf, and it partici- 
 pated in 1863, with the Ninteenth Corps, in all of Banks', 
 Franklin's and Emorj^'s campaigns, including the siege 
 and capture of Port Hudson and the Red River Expedi- 
 tion. In July, 1864, it proceeded with Grover's (2d) 
 Division to New Orleans, and embarked for Virginia. On 
 arriving at Washington the division was ordered into 
 Marjdand to confront Earlj^'s invasion, after which it 
 
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 served in tlie Slieiiaiuloali N'alley in Sheridan's Aum}'. 
 The regiment took part in the battles of Opequon, Fisher's 
 Hill and Cedar Creek, losing- heavily in each of these 
 engagements. The fighting in the valley' having ended, 
 the Second Division Avas ordered, in January, 1865, to 
 Savannah, Ga., and n])()n arrival there (len. Grover was 
 assigned to the command of the district, and Gen. Birge 
 to the command of the division. In March the division 
 l)roceeded to North Carolina, where it was temporarily 
 attached to the Tenth Corps, but returned to SaA'aunah 
 in May, the regiment remaining in that vicinity until its 
 muster out in August. During its term of service 4 
 officers and 91 of its men were killed or mortally wounded 
 in action. The regiment returned home in command of 
 a Captain, now a member of this Post, who had entered 
 its ranks in 18G1 as a private soldier. 
 
 In our membership are those who saw service in the 
 Eighty-first New York Infantry, that was organized in 
 December, 1861, and was mustered out August 31st, 
 1865. Upon its arrival in Washington in Febru- 
 ary, 1862, it was assigned to Palmer's Brigade, 
 Casey's Division, Third Corps. The regiment fought 
 well at Fair Oaks, May 31st, where its Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel commanding Avas wounded, and Major 
 killed. It lost in that battle 25 killed, 92 wounded, and 
 20 missing. Upon the AvithdraAval of the army from the 
 Peninsula the Eighty-first Avas retained at YorktoAvn, 
 Avitli Gen. Keyes in command. In December the regiment 
 AAas ordered to join Gen. Foster's troops in North 
 Carolina, Avhere it remained on duty in the vicinity of 
 Beaufort and Morehead for several months. In NoAeni- 
 ber, 1863, it Avas stationed on outpost duty along the 
 Dismal Swamp Canal, \i\. Having re-enlisted, the 
 regiment went home on a thirtA' days' furlough in March, 
 1864, and u])on its return to the front was ordered to 
 
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 Yorktowu and assij^iied to the Eigliteeutli Corps. It 
 accomf>anied Butler's Army to Bermuda Hundred, and 
 fought at Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, in Marston's (1st) 
 Brigade, Brook's (1st) Division, losing 2 killed, IT 
 wounded, and 4 missing. At Cold Harbor, June 1st, the 
 regiment distinguished itself in the assault, where it led 
 the brigade in a charge, but with a loss of half its number. 
 In this battle it lost 40 killed, 159 wounded— 26 of whom 
 afterwards died of their injuries — and 10 missing, being 
 the heaviest loss of any infantry regiment on the field. 
 Larger losses occurred in some of the heavy artillery regi- 
 ments engaged there, but they had three times as many 
 men in line. In July Gen. Stannard succeeded to the 
 command of the First Division, and led it in the victorious 
 assault on Fort Harrison (Chaflfin's Farm) September 29th, 
 the regiment losing 9 killed and 50 wounded. At the 
 battle of Darbytown Eoad (Fair Oaks), October 27th, the 
 Corps was commanded by Gen. Weitzel, the regiment sus- 
 taining a small loss in wounded men. When the Eigh- 
 teenth Corj^s was discontinued, December 3d, the regi- 
 ment was transferred to Riijley's Brigade, Deven's 
 Division, of the newly-formed Twenty-fourth Corps. Upon 
 the fall of Petersburg this division, with the Twenty-fifth 
 Corps, under command of Gen. Weitzel, marched on 
 Richmond, and, encountering little or no opposition, 
 entered the city on the 3rd of April, 1865. During its 
 term of service the regiment sustained a loss of 13 officers 
 and 129 men, killed or mortally wounded in battle. 
 
 We have one representative of the Ninety-second New 
 York Infantr}^, mustered into the United States service in 
 January, 1862, which participated with Casey's Division, 
 Fourth Corps, in the fighting on the Peninsula under Mc- 
 Clellan. At Fair Oaks, May 31st, the regiment sustained 
 a severe loss, the full force of the Confedei'ate attack being 
 
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 directed iipou an advance position held b}^ Casey's Divi- 
 sion. When the army abandoned its position before 
 Richmond in Aiignst the KSecond Division, then com- 
 manded by Gen. Peck, remained on the Peninsula. In 
 December the regiment was ordered to North Carolina, 
 and took part in the actions at Kinston and Goldsboro 
 December 14 and 17th. On March 14th, 1863, a gaiTison 
 of 300 men of this regiment in Fort Anderson, opposite 
 New Berne, successfully repulsed an attack of Pet- 
 tigrew with a division of infantry and 17 guns. It 
 remained in North Carolina — in the Eighteenth Corps — 
 until the spring of 18G4, when the corps was concen- 
 trated at Yorktown under Gen. Butler, and on 
 May 6th — ^the same day Grant was fighting in the 
 "Wilderness — landed at Bermuda Hundred. A series of 
 bloody battles followed, the regiment suffering a severe 
 loss in the one at Drewry's Bluff May 16th, fighting in 
 Brook's Division, The corps was then ordered to re-in- 
 force the Army of the Potomac, and made a gallant but 
 unsuccessful attack on the intrenchments at Cold Harbor 
 June 1st, sustaining a heavy loss. On September 29th 
 the regiment participated in tlie brilliant and successful 
 assault on Fort Harrison, at Chaffin's Farm, and was also 
 engaged in the battle of Fair Oaks October 27th, which 
 was fought on the old battlefield of 1862. January 7th, 
 1865, the regiment was mustered out by reason of expira- 
 tion of term. Its loss while in the sers'ice, killed in action 
 and died of wounds, was 1 officer and 67 men. 
 
 Among our members are those serving in the One Hun- 
 dred and Fifteenth Regiment, New York Infantry, known 
 as the "Iron Hearts," that was recruited in July 
 and August, 1862. It arrived at Sandy Hook, Md., 
 August 31st, where arms and equipments were 
 furnished. Two weeks later the entire regiment 
 was captured in the surrender of Harper's Ferry, 
 
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 and after beiug paroled it was ordered to Chicago 
 to await exchange. During 1SG3 the regiment was 
 stationed at Hilton Head and Beaufort, S. C, and thence, 
 on February 5th, 1864, sailed for Florida. At the battle 
 of Olustee Fla., February 20th, the regiment made a 
 gallant fight, losing 33 killed, 241 wounded, and 22 mis- 
 sing. In April it sailed with the Tenth Corps for Virginia 
 and joined Gen. Butler's Army of the James at Yorktown. 
 It served in Barton's (2d) Brigade, Turner's (2d) Division, 
 Tenth Corps, and in the actions around Drewry's Bluff 
 and Bermuda Ilundred, May Gth-lGth, it lost 6 killed, 87 
 wounded, and 7 missing. It fought at Cold Harbor June 
 1st, while temporarily attached to the Eighteenth Corps, 
 losing G killed and several v.ounded. Returning to the 
 James, it rejoined the Tenth Corps and went into position 
 before Petersburg. Re-crossing the James, the regiment 
 was engaged at Deep Bottom August 14th, where it lost 
 5 killed, 44 wounded, and 24 missing. At the battle of 
 Chaffin's Farm, September 29th, the regiment was in the 
 fight at Fort Gilmer, where it lost half its number present 
 in action. On October 27tli it joined in the advance on 
 Richmond on the Darbytown Road, in which affair it sus- 
 tained considerable loss from a volley fired into them, 
 through mistake, b}' another Union regiment. The Tenth 
 Corps having been discontinued, the regiment was trans- 
 ferred to Ames' Division of the newly-formed Twenty- 
 fourth Corps, and in December embarked for North Caro- 
 lina. It formed a part of both the Butler and Terry 
 expeditions for the capture of Fort Fisher, the first prov- 
 ing a failure, but our troops winning a famous victory un- 
 der the latter officer on January 15th, 18G5. The casual- 
 ties of the regiment in that engagement — including some 
 lives lost at the explosion of the magazine the day after 
 the fort was taken — were 11 killed, 32 wounded, and 1 
 missing. The regiment lost 7 officers and 128 men, killed 
 
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 or mortally wounded in battle, during its term of service. 
 Our membership embraces those who served in the 
 One Hundred and Twenty-second New York Infantry, 
 organized in August, 1802, and assigned to Newton's 
 (3d) Division, Sixth Corps, with which corps it served 
 continuously until the close of the war. At Fred- 
 ericksburg, December 13th, it Avas under a severe 
 artillery fire, but not actively engaged. At the 
 battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863, on the same field, 
 it took part in tlie assault on Marye's Heights, and that 
 strong position was carried at the point of the bayonet. 
 At Gettysburg the Sixtli Corps was held in reserve, ex- 
 cepting Shaler's Brigade, which was sent as a support to 
 the Twelfth C()r])s on the morning of July 3d. The regi- 
 ment went into action with 320 men, losing 10 killed and 
 35 wounded. November Tth it participated in the unsuc- 
 4"essful assault on the enemy's entrenchments at 
 Rappahannock Station, sustaining a severe loss. The 
 regiment crossed the Kapidan May 1th, 18r)l, with 426 
 officers and men, and after the battles of the Wilderness 
 and Spottsylvania could muster only about 200 muskets 
 for the assault on Cold Harbor June 1st, where it had 10 
 killed and 57 wounded. On July 10th it embarked Avith 
 the division at City Point for Washington, to aid in check- 
 ing Early's forces then advancing through Maryland. 
 On the 12th it took part in the battle of Fort Stevens, 
 within the city limits, sustaining a loss of 7 killed and J 9 
 wounded. Bidwell's (3d) Brigade, Second Division, Sixth 
 Corps — of which the 122d formed a part — lost in that 
 battle 52 killed and 03 wounded; total, 115. The entire 
 loss of the Union Army on the 11th and 12th was 51 killcvl 
 and :>10 wound*-!; total, 373. The corps followed in i)ur- 
 suit of Early through Maryland, into Virginia, and up 
 the Shenandoah Valley. Then came the memorable cam- 
 paign under Sheridan, and tlie victoiios at Opequon, 
 
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 Fisher's Hill and (Vdar Creek, in all of wliicli tlie regi- 
 ment participated. It took 220 men into the battle of 
 Opeqnon, and in that engagement and the affair at 
 Fisher's Hill, lost 8 killed and 38 wounded. In December 
 the regiment returned to the Petersburg trenches, and 
 on the 2d day of April, 1865, occurred the grand and suc- 
 cessful assault on tlie fortifications of Petersburg, 
 followed by the hot pursuit of Lee's retreating veterans, 
 during which the regiment fought at Sailor's Creek April 
 Gtli. While in the service it lost officers and 85 men, 
 liilled or mortally wounded in battle. 
 
 We have those serving in the One Hundred and 
 Fortieth Regiment, New York Infantry, mustered 
 into service September 13th, 1862, leaving the 
 state on September 20th. It joined the Army of 
 the Potomac in November, aud was assigned to 
 Warren's (3d) Brigade, Syke's (2d) Division, Fifth Corps. 
 It was present with this command at Fredericksburg, 
 where it was under fire for the first time, a few of the men 
 being wounded there, and at Chancellorsville was engaged 
 with a small loss. In the battle of Gettysburg the brigade 
 was commanded by Gen. Weed, and was detached by Gen. 
 AVarren, then Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 
 to occupy and hold Little Round Top, on the afternoon of 
 July 2d, and their prompt action aided largely in seizing 
 that important position at a critical moment. The loss 
 of the regiment was 26 killed, 89 wounded, and 18 miss- 
 ing; its Colonel was among the number killed. In March, 
 1864, it was placed in the brigade with the regulars under 
 command of Gen. Ayres, but in June was transferred to 
 the First Brigade of Ayres' (2d) Division. The regiment 
 was in the hottest of the fighting at the Wilderness, and 
 suffeied severely there, losing 23 killed, 118 wounded — of 
 which 22 after^Tka^ds died of their injuries — and 114 cap- 
 tured or missing. Three days later — on May 8th — it was 
 
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 euiiiiiied ill the first of the series of battles at Spottsyl- 
 vania, in wliich action its Coloiiel and Major were killed. 
 The casualties of the re<j;inient at Spottsylvania were 12 
 killed and 48 wounded. During the siege of Petersburg 
 it was engaged, August lOth, in the battle at the Weldou 
 Railroad, losing 4 killed, 19 wounded, and 51 captured 
 or missing. It lost 20 killed or fatally wounded in the 
 Petersburg trenches, and at Hatcher's llun October 27th, 
 White Oak Koad, March 31st, 18G5, and Five Forks 
 April 1st. The regiment was composed of exceptionally 
 good material; the men were a neat, clean lot, and in 
 their handsome Zouave costume attracted favorable at- 
 tention wherever they ai)peared. It sustained a loss, 
 during its term of service, of 8 officers and 111 men, killed 
 in action or died of wounds; 77 members of the regiment 
 died while confined in Southern prisons. 
 
 Included among our members is one who served in the 
 One Hundred and Forty-eighth New York Infantry, 
 organized in September, 18f!2, and assigned to the 
 Seventh Corps, Department of Mrginia under com- 
 mand of Gen. John A. Dix, at Fort Monroe. In 
 the spring of 1803 the regiment was stationed 
 at Suffolk, Ya., and aided in the defense of that place 
 against Longstreet's besieging army. After the raising 
 of the siege — on May 4th — the regiment remained at 
 Suffolk and Norfolk during the remainder of 1863, doing 
 garrison and picket duty. In April, 1864, the Eighteenth 
 Corps — to which a ixution of the Seventh had been prev- 
 iously transferred — was concentrated at Yorktown, 
 pre])aratory to the spring campaign of the Army of the 
 James. All the hard fighting in the history of this regi- 
 ment was encountered in the engageinents which fol- 
 lowed during the succeeding twelve months. It partici- 
 pated in the battles of Drewry's Bluff May 16th, and Port 
 Walthall :\Iay 2(;th. The Eighteenth Corps was then 
 
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 ordered to re-iuf orce the Army of the Potomac, and moved 
 b}'^ transports down the James and up the York River 
 to White House Landing, from whence it marched to Cold 
 Harbor. The regiment took part in the unsuccessful 
 assault at that place on June 3d, losing 20 killed, 100 
 wounded, and 4 missing. Returning to Bermuda 
 Hundred on the 14th, it advanced with the corps the fol- 
 lowing day on Petersburg and assaulted the works that 
 evening, sustaining a loss of IG killed, 74 wounded, and 
 26 missing. In September it moved to the north bank of 
 the James, and was engaged in the victorious assault on 
 Fort Harrison, at Chaffin's Farm, on the 29th, and in the 
 battle at Darbytown Road October 27th, fought on the 
 old battlefield of Fair Oaks in 1862. In December the 
 regiment was transferred to the Twenty-fourth Corps, 
 and in March, 1865, crossed with Foster's Division to the 
 south bank of the James and Appomattox Rivers, and 
 joined the main army at Hatcher's Run. In the general 
 assault on Petersburg, April 2d, it participated in the 
 brilliant and successful attack at Fort Gregg. It was 
 engaged in a sharp fight at Rice's Station, or High Bridge, 
 on the 6th. In the forenoon of April 9th, the day of Lee's 
 surrender, the corps was briskly engaged near Appo- 
 mattox Court House, and had the honor of making the 
 last infantry fight of that campaign and of the war. The 
 regiment lost, while in the service, 4 officers and 112 men 
 killed or mortally wounded — nearly 11 per cent of its 
 enrollment. 
 
 We have those who were members of the One Hundred 
 and Eighty-eighth New York Infantry, organized in 
 October, 1864, for two years' service, and joined 
 the Army of the Potomac and was attached to 
 the Second Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps. 
 It participated in the siege of Petersburg from 
 October, 1864, to April, 1865, and actions at Hatcher's 
 
Kim October 27tli and 28tli, 1804, and the Hicksford Kaid 
 December Tth-lltli. It was also engaged in the battle of 
 Dabney's Mill February 5th-Tth, 1865; Gravelly Eun 
 March 29th, White Oak Road March 30th and 31st, and 
 Five Forks April 1st. During its five months' field ser- 
 vice it lost 1 officer and 30 men killed or mortally 
 wounded in action. 
 
 One of our members served in the Second Ohio Regiment 
 of Infantry, recruited in August, 1801, that furnished four 
 of the tweutj^-two volunteers who captured a locomotive 
 at Big Shanty, Ga., and made the famous raid along the 
 line of the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad in April, 
 1862. After an exciting chase, lasting several hours, all 
 were captured. Being in citizens' dress within an 
 enemy's lines, the whole party were held as spies. A 
 court-martial was convened, and the leader and seven 
 others were condemned and executed. Of the remaining 
 fourteen, eight succeeded, by a bold effort — attacking 
 their guard in broad daylight — in making their escape 
 from Atlanta, Ga., and ultimately in reaching the North. 
 The other six, who shared in this effort, but were re- 
 captured, remained prisoners until the latter part of 
 March, 1863, when they were exchanged through a special 
 arrangement made by Secretary Stanton. "It was a 
 daring deed, and without an equal in its thrilling story 
 of danger, intrepidity, heroic suffering and death."* The 
 regiment fought at Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 1862, in 
 Rousseau's Division, McCook's Corps, Army of the Ohio. 
 Over three-fourths of the casualties in that battle oc- 
 curred in McCook's Corps. In the battle of Stone's River, 
 December 31st, it was engaged with a severe loss, its 
 Lieutenant-Colonel being among the number killed. The 
 
 *"D;irinfi- and Rnfferinp:." by Rev. Wm. Pittinger (2d Ohio). 
 
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 regiment participated iu the campaign from Murfrees- 
 boro in June, 1863, and fought in Baird's Division, Four- 
 teenth Corps, at Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 
 and in Johnson's Division at Missionary Ridge November 
 25th. At Chicl^aniauga it sustained a heavy loss, 
 including the Lieutenant-Colonel wounded and Major 
 wounded and captured. In May, 18C4, it moved with 
 Sherman's Army on the advance which was to culminate 
 in the possession of Atlanta. It took part in all the fight- 
 ing of the division until July 27th, when it was ordered 
 back to Chattanooga for muster out. The regiment lost, 
 during its three years' service, 9 officers and 96 men killed 
 in action or died of wounds. 
 
 Our roster includes those serving in the Seventh Ohio 
 Infantry, which is credited vvith being one of the finest 
 regiments in the service. It was raised in Northern Ohio, 
 with rendezvous at Cleveland, and was composed of ex- 
 ceptionall}' good material. Its ranks included men of 
 culture and good social position — clergymen, students, 
 teachers, farmers and mechanics. They enlisted 
 promptly at the first news of the war, organizing in April, 
 1861, for the three months' service, but entered the three 
 years' service, almost to a man, when the second call for 
 troops was made. It left the State June 26th, and pro- 
 ceeded to West Virginia. While encamped by itself at 
 Cross Lanes, W. Va., it was attacked, August 26th, by a 
 large force under Gen. Floyd; the regiment made an 
 obstinate defense, but was driven from the field with a 
 severe loss, many of the men being captured. It fought 
 in the Shenandoah Valley campaigns, in Shield's Division, 
 losing at Kernstown, March 23d, 20 killed, 55 wounded, 
 and 10 missing. The battle of Cedar Mountain, August 
 9th, was fought hj the troops which afterwards consti- 
 tuted the Twelfth Corps. The regiment was engaged there 
 in Geary's Brigade, Augur's (Second) Division, sustaining 
 
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 a lt>s8 of 31 killfd, 140 woiuulcd, and 2 iiiissiuj;', out of 307 
 present; nearly (>0 per cent. In addition 1o the killed, 24 
 afterwards died of th(4r wonnds, niakini^- the total deaths 
 in this engagement 55 — nearly IS per cent. tJen. Greene 
 commanded the division at Antietam, Sei)tenil)ei' 17th, 
 where the regiment lost 5 killed ami 33 wounded. At 
 Chancellorsville, May lst-4th, it lost 16 killed, G2 wounded, 
 and 21 missing. In that battle and all its subsequent en- 
 iiajiements the division was commanded bv (Jen. Gearv. 
 After participating in the battle of Gettysburg with a 
 slight loss, the regiment was ordered with the Twelfth 
 Corps, in September, to Tennessee, as a reinforcement to 
 Rosecrans. Geary's Division effected a junction with the 
 beleagured army at Chattanooga, and on November 24th 
 came the brilliant victory at Lookout Mountain, where the 
 "AYhite Star" Division fought its famous battle above the 
 clouds. At the battle of Ringgold, Cra., November 27tli, 
 the regiment lost IG killed and 58 wounded, out of 20() 
 present. In this engagement the Coh)nel, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel, "VAdju tan t and two Lieutenants were kilh^l, while 
 the remaining ofticers, with one exception, were all 
 wounded. In April, 1804, the designation of the corps was 
 changed to that of the Twentieth. The regiment partici- 
 pated in the battles of Resaca May 14th and 15th, and New 
 Hope Church May 25th, on the Atlanta campaign, and on 
 -lune 24th was ordered home for muster out, its ttnin of 
 service having exjjired. Its entire loss in battle, killed and 
 mortally wounded,- was 10 officers and 174 men — 13 per 
 cent of the total enrollment. 
 
 In the Post are those who served in the Thirteenth Ohio 
 Infantry Regiment, that was recruited in June, 18G1, for 
 three years, re-enlisted in December, 18G3, and served 
 through the war. It took an active part in the battle of 
 Sliiloh, April 7tli, 18G2, in Crittenden's Division, Army of 
 the Ohio, and of Stone's River, December 31st, in Palmer's 
 
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 Division, sustaining severe losses in both engagements. 
 Its Colonel was killed in the fight at Stone's RiA^er. At 
 Chiekamauga, September 19th and 20th, it was again 
 heavilj' engaged, serving in Van Cleave's (Third) Division, 
 Crittenden's (Twenty-first) Corps, and where its Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel commanding was killed. At Orchard Knob 
 November 23d, and Missionary Ridge November 25tli, it 
 fought in Beatty's (Third) Brigade, Wood's (Third) Di- 
 vision, Granger's (Fourth) Corps. In 1864 it took part, 
 with the same command, in the struggle for Atlanta, and 
 from May until September was activel}' engagcnl in the 
 continuous marching and fighting which was so character- 
 istic of that brilliant campaign. After the fall of Atlanta 
 the corps joined Thomas' Army in the Tennessee campaign 
 against Hood, particii)ating in the bloody repulse of the 
 enemy at Franklin, and the decisive victory at Nashville. 
 The total loss of the regiment, killed in action and died of 
 wounds, numbered 8 officers and 109 men. 
 
 Among our members ar(^ those who saw service in the 
 Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, that was recruited in April, 
 18G1, in resi)onse to the first call for troops for three 
 months' service. It served its term in West Virginia, dur- 
 ing which it fought in the minor engagements of Phillippi 
 June 3d, Laurel Hill July 8th, and Carrick's Ford July 
 14th, all prior to the battle of first Bull Run. A member 
 of Ihe Post then serving in this regiment was wounded 
 at ("arrick's Ford. Upon its return home it re-assembled 
 after a short furlougli and volunteered for three j'ears, 
 with but little change in its organization. In August, 
 1861, it proceeded to Kentucky, where it was assigned to 
 Manson's Brigade, and w^as engaged for several months 
 in the various movements against the Confederate forces. 
 It moved with BuelTs Army in March, 1862, to reinforce 
 Grant, but did not arrive at Shiloh until the fighting was 
 over. After participating in the siege of Corinth, it 
 
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 iiiaicht'd with the Army of the Ohio ou its arduous cam- 
 paigus iu Tennessee and Kentucky. At Perryville it was 
 in Fry's Brigade of Schoepf's Division, but was not en- 
 gaged, after which it went into winter quarters at Gal- 
 latin, Teun. It fought at Chickaniauga September 19th 
 and 20tli, 1SG3, in C'roxton's (Second) Brigade, Brannan's 
 (Third) Division, Fourteenth Corps, losing 35 killed, 167 
 wounded, and 13 missing; total 215, out of 119 engaged. 
 Of the wounded 10 afterwards died, making the total 
 deaths iu that engagement 81 — over 18 per cent During 
 the Atlanta campaign from May to September, 1861, it 
 served in Este's (Third) Brigade, Baird's (Third) Division, 
 Fourteenth Corps. This brigade distinguished itself, par- 
 ticularly', at Jouesboro, August 31st, where it carried the 
 enemy's works by assault, losing one-third of its number 
 within a few minutes. The loss of the regiment in this 
 engagement was 10 killed and 71 wounded. Among the 
 killed were several meu whose term of service had expired 
 but who v(dunteered to go into this action. The regi- 
 ment having re-onlisted, it remained in the Fourteenth 
 Corps until the close of the war, and with that command 
 luirticipated in the march to the sea, and campaign of the 
 Carolinas. It lost during its term of service, 5 officers 
 and 111 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 
 
 Our membersliip iucludes one who saw four years' 
 campaigning with the Twenty-seventh Ohio Infantry, that 
 was mustered into the United States service in July, 
 1861, and nearly every effective man re-enlisted as vet- 
 erans in 1801. After participating in the capture of New 
 Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, in March, 1862, it took 
 part, in April and May, with Pope's Army of the Missis- 
 sippi, in the advance upon Corinth and siege of that place. 
 It was engaged in the battel of luka. Miss., September 
 19th, in Stanley's Division, and at the battle of Corinth, 
 October 1th, made a gallant charge, sustaining a severe 
 
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 loss in killed and woimded. The regiment remained at 
 Corinth until November, 18C3, when it moved with Sher- 
 man's Army to the relief of Chattanooga, marching to 
 Pulaski, Tenu., where it was left to guard the Xashville 
 & Decatur Kailroad. With Fuller's Division, Sixteenth 
 Corps, it participated in the Atlanta campaign from May 
 to September, 1864, and at the bloody battle of Atlanta, 
 July 22d — Hood's second sortie — was in the thickest of 
 the fighting, and sustained a heavy loss. After the fall 
 of Atlanta it accompanied Sherman's Army — in MoTver's 
 Division, Seventeenth Corps — on the march to the sea. 
 Little or no fighting was encountered by the corps on the 
 march through Georgia, but its advance through the 
 Carolinas was marked by several minor engagements, 
 culminating in the battle of Bentonville, March 19th, 
 18G5. There were long, toilsome marches, also, with wide 
 rivers to cross ajid swamps to wade, many of which were 
 forded under the enemy's fire. The regiment lost 6 officers 
 and 80 men, killed or mortally wounded in action, during 
 its term of service. 
 
 It embraces one who served for three years in the Fifty- 
 ninth Ohio Infantry, organized October 1st, 18G1, and 
 entered immediately upon Nelson's campaign in Eastern 
 Kentucky, meeting the enemy in several minor affairs 
 during October and November. On February 15th, 18G2, 
 it marched with the Army of the Ohio on Bowling Green 
 and Nashville, thence to Savannah, Tenn., participating 
 in the battle of Shiloh April fith and 7th, in Crittenden's 
 (Fifth) Division. After sharing in the siege operations 
 about Corinth, the regiment marched with Buell's troops 
 in pursuit of Bragg, through Northern Alabama, Ten- 
 nessee and Kentucky. After the battle of Perryville, 
 October 8th, it took part with the Second Brigade of Van 
 Cleve's Division, Crittenden's Corps, in the forward move- 
 ment to Nashville and Murfreesboro, and was engaged 
 
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 iu the hard-foiiglit battle of Stone's Kiver, Tenn., Decem- 
 ber 30tli and 31st. The army lay at Murfreesboro during 
 the ensuing six months, and then started on its advance 
 to Chattanooga, and on September 19th and 20th, 1863, 
 the battle of Chickamanga was fought. Soon after this 
 battle the Twentieth and Twenty-first Corps were con- 
 solidated, forming the Fourth Corps, and the regiment 
 Avas assigned to Beatty's (Third) Brigade, of Wood's 
 (Third) Division. With this command it participated in 
 the action at Orchard Knob November 23d, and in the 
 brilliant and successful charge up the heights at Mission- 
 ary Kidge November 25th. Immediately after this battle 
 it marched with the Fourth Corps to the relief of Knox- 
 ville, and then passed the winter in East Tennessee. On 
 the Atlanta campaign in 1864 the corps encountered some 
 hard fighting at Pickett's Mills May 2Tth, and in the un- 
 successful assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27th. 
 After the fall of Atlanta the regiment Avas ordered back 
 to Nashville, and on October 31st w^as mustered out, its 
 term of service having expired. Its loss in battle, killed 
 or died of wounds, was 2 officers and 45 men. 
 
 We have those who went out in August, 1862, with the 
 Xinety-third Regiment, Ohio Infantry, that started on the 
 date of its muster into the United States service for the 
 seat of war in Kentucky, and w^as assigned to McCook's 
 Corps. On October 1st it advanced with the army from 
 Louisville, and on the Sth the Second Division was en- 
 gaged in the action at Lawrenceburg, and did not reach 
 Perry ville in time to take part iu that battle. At Stone's 
 Biver, December 31st, the regiment sustained a severe 
 loss, and again at Chickamauga, September 19th and 
 20th, 1863, its Colonel being mortally wounded in the 
 latter battle. Upon the reorganization of the army in 
 October the regiment became a part of Ilazeu's (Second) 
 Brigade, Wood's (Third) Division, Fourth Corps. In the 
 
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 successful charge on Orchard Knob, November 23d, and 
 storming of the heights of Missionary Kidge on the 25th, 
 the regiment lost 19 killed and G9 wounded; among the 
 killed was the Major commanding. After that battle the 
 corps started at once for Knoxville, for the relief of Burn- 
 side, and then remained in that vicinity until the follow- 
 ing spring. In May, 1SG4, the regiment moved on the 
 Atlanta campaign and was engaged in all the battles of 
 the corps, its hardest fighting occurring at Pickett's Mills 
 May 27th, and Kenesaw Mountain June 23d and 27th. 
 After the evacaation of Atlanta it marched northward, 
 with the Fourth Corps, to confront Hood's forces, and 
 took part in the bloody engagement at Franklin, Tenn., 
 November 30th, and in the last battle — the last victory of 
 the corps at Nashville, December 15th and 16th. During 
 its term of service the regiment sustained a loss of 4 
 officers and 106 men killed in action or fatally wounded, 
 being 10.5 per cent of its total enrollment. 
 
 One of our members enlisted in the One Hundred and 
 Ninety-second "Regiment, Ohio Infantry, organized March 
 9th, 1865, for one year, and mustered out September 1st. 
 Its field of operations was in the Shenandoah Valley, and 
 during its brief service before the surrender of the rebel 
 armies was not engaged in any battles or arduous cam- 
 paigns. It can, however, claim having in its ranks the 
 shortest man, for whom the record is satisfactorily veri- 
 fied, among over 1,000,000 soldiers in the Union Army 
 whose heights are recorded. At the time of enlistment 
 this soldier was 21 years of age and measured 40 inches in 
 height. The average height of the American soldiers, as 
 shown hj the records of the recruiting officers, was 5 feet 
 8^ inches. The tallest man, for whose stature the testi- 
 mony is complete and unimpeachable, was full 82| inches, 
 without his shoes. 
 
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 luchuled ill our imMubersliip iire those serving in the 
 Tenth liegiment, A^riuont Infantry, organized in August, 
 18G2, whose death roll includes 9 officers and 140 men 
 kiHed in battle or mortally wounded, being over 11 per 
 cent of the total number borne upon its rolls. After nearly 
 a year's service in Maryland doing guard duty, it joined 
 the Army of the Potomac in July, 1863, and was assigned 
 to Morris' (First) Brigade, Carr's (Second) Division, Third 
 C'orps. The regiment first encountered the enemy at 
 Locust Grove (Mine TUiu), November 27th, in which ac- 
 tion it took a commendable part, losing 11 killed, 56 
 wounded, and 2 missing. In March, 1861, the Third Corps 
 having been discontinued, the division was transferred 
 to the Sixth Corps. The division, under command of Gen. 
 Ricketts, took a prominent part in the storming of Cold 
 Harbor, June 1st. The regiment suffered severely in this 
 unsuccessful assault, its casualties amounting to 28 killed, 
 131 wounded — of which 26 afterwards died from their 
 injuries — and 3 missing. In July it was ordered, with 
 the Sixth Corps, to Baltimore and Washington to confront 
 Early and his forces then invading Maryland. On the 
 Otli the regiment took part in the battle of Monocacy, 
 Md., losing 5 killed and a number wounded. After pur- 
 suing Eaily into Virginia, the cori)s came under Sheri- 
 dan's command, in the Army of the Shenandoah, with 
 which it participated in the memorable victories of Ope- 
 (juon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. In the latter battle 
 occurred the famous incident of Sheridan's Ride from 
 Winchester. At the battle of the ()pe<iuon, September 
 19th, the regiment lost 12 killed and 53 wounded. It took 
 17 officers and 260 uk^u into action at Cedar Creek, Octo- 
 ber 19th, losing there 16 killed, 65 wounded, and 1 miss- 
 ing. The cMuipaign in the Shenan(h»ah ^"alley having 
 been successfully ended, the Sixth Cori)s returned to 
 Petersburg in DecemlxM-. The regiuu'ut was engaged in 
 
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 the graud, victorious assault ou the lines about Peters- 
 burg, April 2nd, 1865, with a loss of 44 killed and 
 wouuded, and was the first regiment in the division to 
 plant its colors inside the enemy's works. 
 
 We have representatives of the Eighteenth Regiment, 
 United States Infantry, which sustained the heaviest loss 
 in action of any regiment of the Regular Army during 
 the war, having 9 ofiicers and 209 men killed in battle or 
 died of Avounds. It was recruited under the President's 
 proclamation of May 3d, 1861, headquarters being located 
 at Columbus, Ohio, the recruits coming principally from 
 Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The organization was to have 
 contained three battalions of eight companies each, but 
 the Third Battalion was never fully organized, and its 
 companies were attached to the other battalions. In De- 
 cember, 1861, twelve companies took the field, four more 
 companies joining this detachment in March, 1862; eight 
 more companies joined during the year. At the battle of 
 Stone's River, December 31st, 1862, where the regiment 
 encountered its hardest fighting, it served in the Regular 
 Brigade, Rousseau's (First) Division, Fourteenth Corps. 
 It took 603 officers and men into that engagement, 48 per 
 cent of whom were killed or wounded. Its casualties 
 were 60 killed, 224 wounded, and 7 missing — the greatest 
 number killed and wouuded of any regiment on that field. 
 Forty-two of the wounded afterwards died of their in- 
 juries. At Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 1863, 
 it lost 33 killed, 152 mounded, and 118 captured or miss- 
 ing. The regiment also sustained severe losses on the 
 Atlanta campaign, having 22 killed at New Hope Church 
 May 25th, 14 at Utoy Creek August 5th and 6th, and 12 
 at Jonesboro August 31st, 1864. The First Division was 
 commanded, at Chickamauga, by Gen. Baird, and on the 
 Atlanta campaign by Gen. Johnson; the Regular Brigade 
 (Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps) 
 
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 was under coimiiaiul of (Ten. John H. King. After the 
 Athmta campaign, in October, 18G4, the regiment was 
 consolidated into one battalion, and was withdrawn from 
 active service in the field. 
 
 Among our members is one who first served in an In- 
 diana Regiment, and in 1803 was commissioned as Cap- 
 tain in the Second Regiment, United States Colored 
 Infantry. Almost the entire loss, in action, of this regi- 
 ment, occurred in one engagement — Natural Bridge, Fla., 
 March (ith, 18(55, where it lost 14 killed, 44 wounded, and 
 12 missing. Eleven officers of the regiment, including the 
 Colonel and Chaplain, died from yellow fever in the sum- 
 mer of 18r)4, while it was stationed at Fort Taylor, Key 
 West, Fla. It was the first colored regiment to visit New 
 York City, occupying City Hall Park during all of 
 Thanksgiving Day in 1803, while awaiting transporta- 
 tion to New Orleans. 
 
 We also have a member who was graduated from West 
 Point in 1804, commissioned in the Engineer Corps, U. S. 
 A., and immediately assigned to duty as Chief Engineer, 
 Twentieth Army Corps. He took part as such in the At- 
 lanta campaign, and served as Chief Engineer, Left 
 Wing, Sherman's Army, on the march to the sea, siege of 
 Savannah, and campaign of the Carolinas. He was an 
 active i)articipant in the famous defence of Allatoona 
 Pass, Ga., October 5th, 1804, where the small garrison 
 of less than 2,000 men successfully repulsed the repeated 
 assaults of an entire Confederate division, after a struggle 
 histing the entire day, but with a loss of one-third the 
 comnmnd. It was during this engagement that Gen. 
 Sherman, from the top of Kenesaw Mountain, signaled 
 over the lunids of the enemy the message on which was 
 leased the poi)ular hymn, "Hold the Fort." After the 
 batth^ was ended, Gen. Corse, in command at Allatoona, 
 
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 signaled to Sherman, "I am short a cheekbone and an ear, 
 but am able to whip all h — 1 yet." 
 
 Our membership includes one who saw three years' 
 active service in the Navy, most of which was on the gun- 
 boat Tyler, that took part in the battle of Belmont, Mo., 
 November 7th, 1801, capture of Forts Henry and Donel- 
 son in February, 1SG2, and rendered effective aid to the 
 army at the battle of Shiloh April 6th and 7th. The 
 Tyler was hotly engaged in the fight with the Confederate 
 ram Arkansas near the mouth of the Yazoo River, July 
 15th, and formed a part of the fleet which successfully 
 ran the batteries at Yicksburg, April 16th, 1863. It par- 
 ticipated in the attack on Grand Gulf April 29th, two 
 assaults on Yicksburg, and in numerous other encounters 
 which eventuated in the opening of the Mississippi. 
 
 We have another member who was graduated from the 
 Naval Academy in 1860, and assigned to duty on the brig- 
 Perry, that captured the Rebel privateer ^^avannah in 
 1861. He served on the gunboat Scioto, West Gulf 
 Squadron, in 1862-3, participating in the bombardment 
 and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, and capture 
 of New Orleans April 25th, 1862. On July 9th, 1863, while 
 on an inland expedition on the coast of Texas, he lost an 
 arm in an engagement with guerillas. 
 
 We have in our membership one of the three survivors 
 of a crew of sixty-nine persons who were on the gunboat 
 Tulip, of the Potomac Flotilla, when her boiler exploded 
 November 11th, 1864 All but ten of the crew were killed 
 by the explosion, or drowne<l in the Potomac River. Of 
 the number rescued, seven died within a few hours from 
 being scalded, or from exposure, having remained in the 
 water nearly two hours before being picked up. 
 
 Among the membei's of the Post is one who saw 35 
 months' consecutive sea service in the gunboats Wyan- 
 dotte and Aries, on the North Atlantic Squadron, Wil- 
 
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 iiiiugtoii Blockade, East Gulf Squadron and West Indies; 
 one Avlio cruised in 1SG2-4 on the North Atlantic Station 
 after the Eebel Privateer Florida; another who served 
 in the United States steamer Montgomery of the West 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, and on detached service 
 scouring the Gulf for blockade runners, several of which 
 were captured. The following episode is related by the 
 comrade then serving on this ship: "One fine morning in 
 October, 1862, the Montgomery, only a few hours out 
 from Havana, Cuba, en route to Pensacola, Fla., discov- 
 ered the blockade runner Gen. Rusk steaming down the 
 coast between the reefs and the main land. Chase was 
 promptly given and, as the Rusk refused to stop, a fifteen- 
 inch Dahlgreen gun was trained on her. Altogether 16 
 shots were fired at the Rebel craft, eight of which did 
 more or less execution, and the others either fell short or 
 went over her and into the real estate of the island. Find- 
 ing that resistence was useless, the Rusk was run ashore, 
 and her crew saturated her cargo with inflammable fluids 
 and applied the torch with such effect that in less than 
 two hours she was burned to the water's edge. It was 
 subsequently ascertained that her cargo, with which she 
 had escaped out of Galveston, Texas, consisted of 500 
 bales of cotton. Had she been captured the prize would 
 have been of great value. The firing into this vessel, 
 within a marine league of foreign soil, gave rise to inter- 
 national complications, and reparation being demanded 
 by Spain, the Commander of the Montgomery was ordered 
 under arrest, and was afterwards tried by court-martial 
 at Charlestown Navy Yard and dismissed from the ser- 
 vice. Later, however, he was restored to duty and ren- 
 dered valuable service.'' 
 
 Fifty-nine of the present members of the Post bear 
 honorable scars from wounds received in action, 39 of 
 whom were wounded once each; 12 twice each; 6 three 
 
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 times and 2 four times. Of these wounds, 48 were of a 
 severe nature and 41 slight. We have one member who 
 received two severe wounds in the same battle, one 
 musket ball entering his left hip and lodging in the right 
 groin, and the other shot resulting in the loss of his left 
 arm. We have five members who received a severe and 
 slight wound each in the same engagement. We have 
 one member who received, at Gettj^sburg, a distressing 
 wound in the left leg; recovering and returning to duty 
 he was again severely wounded in almost the same place, 
 at the battle of the Wilderness. Five different members 
 carry scars from saber cuts, one of whom received at the 
 same time a musket ball through the right shoulder. 
 One member was bayoneted by a rebel guard while a 
 prisoner of war at Salisbury, ^". C. One member had a 
 musket ball pass entirely through his body from the left 
 to right side, and one Avas shot through the body .on the 
 right side. Six members each lost an eye while in the 
 service, one of whom had his jaw broken by the same ball, 
 which also passed through his tongue and roof of his 
 mouth. Three lost an arm each. One instance is known 
 of a member of the Post severely wounded at the battle of 
 Gaines' Mill, June 27th, 1862, through the shoulder and 
 back and rendered entirely helpless, remaining on the 
 field six days and nights before being succored by the 
 enemy into Avhose hands our wounded had tallen. For 
 fourteen months he was unable to bear the weight of his 
 body on his lower limbs. Intelligence of the battle having 
 reported him being among the killed, public funeral ser- 
 vices were held in this city and the family w^ent into 
 mourning over his supposed death. Numerous instances 
 are recorded of clothing and blankets being perforated 
 with musket balls, and one member is the pt ssessor of a 
 highly-prized Avar relic in a pocket knife Avhich was 
 broken into pieces but stopped a rebel bullet and saved 
 
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 him from a serious if not fatal wouud. The front was not 
 always the place of danger, as an instance is reported of 
 one non-combatant member whose duty it was to look 
 after the spiritual welfare of his regiment, who was 
 kicked by a horse, and for a year thereafter could get 
 about only with the aid of crutches. We have several 
 members who apparently bore a charmed life in battle, 
 who served for three and four years in regiments noted 
 for having experienced some of the hardest fighting of 
 the war, and who passed through all unscathed, and were 
 never sick or absent a day from their commands. In this 
 connection it is on record that a member of this Po&t 
 while serving as Surgeon of his regiment, attended on the 
 field at the battle of Blackburn's Ford, Ya., July 18th, 
 18G1, the first Michigan soldier wounded in the war, and 
 that he amputated the arm of a Michigan soldier at Bull 
 Run, Va., July 21st, ISGl, the first amputation in a Michi- 
 gan regiment in tlie war. He also had the distinction of 
 attending at Clover Hill, Appomattox Co., Ya., April 9, 
 1865, the last wounded Michigan soldier of the war.* 
 
 Thirty-six members of the Tost have been prisoners of 
 war, two of whom were captured twice, and one was 
 taken three different times. Of the total number cap- 
 tured, two were rescued by our own troops immediately 
 thereafter; twelve were paroled at the time of capture, or 
 soon after— one of whom has never, to his knowledge, 
 been exchanged— and seven escaped within twenty-four 
 hours after being taken. One captured while scouting 
 under orders, after being detained four hours induced 
 his captors, the entire picket-post, consisting of a Ser- 
 geant and five private soldiers, to enter our lines with 
 him, under promise that they should be cared for and 
 sent north. Seventeen served terms in southern prisons, 
 being finally paroled or exchanged, as follows: One cap- 
 
 * Michigan in thp Wfir. 
 
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 tured at Clitmt'ellor.sville jjassed fifteen days at Libby 
 Prison, Eichmond; two captured at Gaines' Mill, both 
 severely wounded, were also guests at Libby for thirty 
 days; one taken at Chiekamauga was first confined at 
 Libby but was finally removed to Belle Isle, fiom whence 
 he made his escape, and after five days' sufferings and 
 thrilling adventures reached our lines near Williams- 
 burg, his term of imprisonment being three months; one 
 was severely wounded and captured at Spottsylvania 
 and remained four months in a Richmond hospital; one 
 taken by Mosby while reconnoitering near the North 
 Anna Elver and sojourned for five months in Anderson- 
 ville, Gordonsville, Salisbury and Millen prisons; one 
 who fell into the enemy's hands on the coast of Texas 
 spent over seven months at Houston and Camp Ford 
 Tyler, Texas, and was finally exchanged at the mouth of 
 the Eed Eiver, La.; one captured at Cold Harbor passed 
 seven months and eleven daj^s at Andersonville, Millen 
 and Salisbury; one wounded and a prisoner at the Wilder- 
 ness, was taken to Andersonville to remain seven and 
 one-half months; one severely wounded and captured at 
 the battle of the Wilderness was confined at Anderson- 
 ville for seven months and at Florence two months; one 
 who was a prisoner at First Bull Eun, and divided the 
 succeeding ten mouths between a Eichmond Tobacco 
 Factor}^, Castle Pinckney, Charleston Jail, Columbia Jail 
 and Libby; one who charged too near the enemy's lines 
 in the cavalry fight at Yellow Tavern, and paid the pen- 
 alty bv taking an enforced excursion south and remained 
 for the following ten months and eleven days in the 
 prisons of Libby, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and 
 Columbia ; one who was enveloped within the Confederate 
 lines in the first charge at Petersburg, and passed the 
 succeeding ten months and two days resting at Anderson- 
 
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 \ille, Milan, Savannah, Hhukshire, Thoinasville, and 
 again at Anderson ville; one who was twice severely 
 wounded in a cavalry skirmish near Upperville, Va., and 
 left for dead upon the field, had one year and ten days in 
 which to lament his hard fate whiling away the time at 
 Libby, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and 
 Columbia; another who was one of five different members 
 of this Tost who fell into the hands of the enemy at 
 Chickamauga, and sojourned for three months at Elch- 
 mond, five months at Danville, and four months at An- 
 dersouville. While being removed from there with a 
 large number of other ])rison(n's, he made his escape as 
 the train halted at Macon, and after twenty-one days and 
 nights of most trying hardshijis and several narrow 
 escapes from recai)ture, finally reached the Union lines 
 near Atlanta. Starting from there a few days later to 
 rejoin his regiment, then near Chattanooga, the train on 
 which he had taken ])assage was fired into, tiirown from 
 the track and burned near Marietta by a scouting force 
 of rebels. Fourteen on the train were killed, and all but 
 six of the balance were captured. After an exciting 
 chase he finally eluded his pursuers and found his way 
 to a stockade occu])ied by Union troops, and three daj^s 
 later reached his regiment. While making his w^ay 
 within the enemy's lines from Macon to Atlanta, and in 
 hiding near the latter place, he witnessed the crossing of 
 Hood's Army to the nortli side of the Chattahoochie 
 River on a pontoon bridge. Reaching our lines on tte 
 morning of the second day thereafter, he at once reported 
 the fact to Gen. Kilpatrick, and believes that it was this 
 positive information of the northward movement of Hood 
 that caused Cren, Sherman to order the reinforcement of 
 the small garrison at Allatoona Pass, and which arrived 
 just in time to successfully defend the place against the 
 vigorous assaults of a division of the enemy, and save the 
 
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 three million rations stored there. What would have be- 
 come of the "March to the Sea" had Allatoona been lost, 
 with the Confederate Army in Sherman's rear and de- 
 stroying the only railroad over which a fresh store of 
 provisions could be accumulated? Another member 
 was captured at the evacuation of Harrison's Landing, 
 and a second time became a prisoner of w^ar at the battle 
 of the Wilderness. Eighteen months of his term of en- 
 listment Avas passed in prisons at Petersburg, Salisbury, 
 Richmond, Lynchburg, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, 
 Charleston, and Florence; still another was cap- 
 tured during the first day's fighting at Chicka- 
 mauga, and suffered the horrors of many southern 
 prisons during the succeeding year and a half. 
 He was first confined on Belle Isle and in "Number 
 Four Prison,'' Richmond, Va. In December he was trans- 
 ferred to Danville, Va., and soon after arrival there was 
 attacked with small-pox and removed Avith other prisoners 
 to an old stable where many died from the disease and 
 exposure. In the spring of 1864 he Avas shipped to An- 
 dersonville, Ga., and in the ensuing fall was sent to Flor- 
 ence, S. C. He remained in the stockade at that place 
 until March, 1865, Avhen he Avas placed AA'ith a large num- 
 ber of other prisoners in freight cars bound for Salisbury, 
 N. C. Escaping from the train Avhile en route, he took 
 refuge in a SAvamp, and finally succeeded in reaching the 
 Union pickets near Wilmington, N. C. While confined at 
 Danville and again at Florence he attempted to escape, 
 but in each instance was recaptured. 
 
 Onr membership includes past officers in the Grand 
 Army of the Republic as folloAvs: One Senior Vice Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, one National Adjutant-General, one 
 Assistant Adjutant-General, Iavo Department Com- 
 manders, one Department Quartermaster-General, and 
 fourteen Post Commanders. It embraces also one mem- 
 ber of Congress, two Judges of the State Supreme Court, 
 
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 an ex-Secretary of State, and the State Adjutant-General. 
 The city government is represented in the Mayor, an ex- 
 Mayor, an ex-President of the Common Council, one Al- 
 derman and three ex-Aldermen, a member of the Board 
 of Public Works, two members of the Water Commission, 
 a member of the Board of Inspectors of the House of 
 Correction, two members of the Poor Commission, one 
 Park and Boulevard Commissioner, the Secretary of the 
 Board of Education, the Secretary of the Board of Water 
 Commissioners and the Chief Engineer of the Water 
 Works, City Engineer, Fire Marshal, City Accountant, 
 Secretary of the Police Commission, Superintendent of 
 Police, one Captain and one Sergeant of Police, one De- 
 tective, also an ex-Prosecuting Attorney of the county. 
 We have one United States Army Engineer Officer, one 
 United States Naval Officer and Lighthouse Inspector, 
 one United States Marine Hospital Surgeon, one United 
 States Harbor Superintendent, one United States Col- 
 lector of Customs, three Deputy Collectors, one Special 
 Agent United States Treasury, and one Deputy United 
 States Marshal. The occupation of other members is as 
 follows: MerchantSj^ 26; manufacturers, 24; salesmen 
 and clerks, 14; bookkeepers, accountants and stenog- 
 raphers, 5; lawyers, 8; physicians, 3; dentists, 1; drug- 
 gists, 2; journalists, editors and publishers, 5; engravers 
 and printers, 3; civil engineers and surveyors, 2; railroad 
 superintendents, paymasters, and passenger agents, 5; ex- 
 press messengers, 1; bank cashiers, 2; trustee, 1; brokers, 
 2; president life insurance company, 1; insurance general 
 agents, 7; pine land and real estate dealers, 4; builders, 
 contractors and pavers, 4; painters and decorators, 2; 
 stock breeder, 1; laundrymen, 1; and last, but not least, 
 one cemetery superintendent to provide for each of us a 
 suitable resting place when "the drum with muffled beat 
 shall sound the Inst tattoo." 
 
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 OFFICERS 189G. 
 
 Commander Charles Dupont. 
 
 Senior Vice-Commander Charles B. Foote. 
 
 Junior Vice-Commander William H. Baxter. 
 
 Adjutant James T. Beadle. 
 
 Quartermaster Jacoh Bristol. 
 
 Surgeon Wm. H. H. Hutton. 
 
 Chaplain John W. Andrews. 
 
 Oflacer of the Day Charles G. Hampton. 
 
 Officer of the Guard Thomas P. Jones. 
 
 Sergeant Major Nicholas Woods. 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant Charles C. Snedeker. 
 
 PAST OFFICERS OF THE POS'I'. 
 
 1887. 1888. 
 
 Commander, Henry M. Duffleld. Commander, Henry M. Diiffield. 
 
 S. V. Oom'dr, George H. Hopkins. S. V. Com'dr, George H. Hopkins. 
 
 J. V. Com'dr, Hazen S. Pingree. J. V. Com'dr, William S. Green. 
 
 1889. 1890 and 1891. 
 
 Commander, George H. Hopkins. Commander, William S. Green. 
 
 S. V. Com'dr, William S. Green. S. V. Com'dr, Leverette N. Case. 
 
 J. V. Com'dr, Leverette N. Case. J. V. Com'dr, James T. Sterling. 
 
 1892. 1893. 
 
 Commander, Lewis H. Chamberlin. Commander, Everard B. Welton. 
 
 S. V. Com'dr, Ziba B. Graham. S. V. Com'dr, Thomas S. McGraw. 
 
 J. V. Com'dr, Oscar R. Looker. J. V. Com'dr, Frank C. Trowibiidge. 
 
 1894. 1895. 
 
 Commander, Thos. A. Wadsworth. Commander, Leverette N. Case. 
 
 S. V. Com'dr, Chas. C. Chad wick. S. V. Com'dr, James T. Sterling. 
 
 J. V. Com'dr, George T. Jack. J. V. Com'dr, Albert E. Bigelow. 
 
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 KOS'I'Kli OF MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 Con-eec-tecl tu December, 1895. 
 
 Abbott Horace R 1st L't & Adj't. . 180th Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Alexander George W Captain 1st Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Anderson Fred'k P 1st Dieut 181st Ohio Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Andrews John W Captain 2nd U. S. C. Infantry. 
 
 Avery William Private Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 
 
 Bassett Heber L Corporal 8th Conn. Infantry. 
 
 Baxter William H Seaman U. S. Navy. 
 
 Beach Rodney W 1st Dieut 10th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Beadle James T Sergeant 1st Mich. Battery. 
 
 Bigelow Albert E Sergeant 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Blain Alexander W Private 92nd N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Brand Charles R 1st Lieut 9th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Brandon Calvin K Captain 14th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Briscoe Benj. F Captain 23rd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Bristol Jacoib 1st Dieut 5th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Capt. U. S. V. 
 
 Brown Robert H Private 132nd Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Buehler John Private 5th Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 Burlage Gottlieb Q. M. Sergt 10th Mich. Battery. 
 
 Burroughs Samuel W. . . Sergeant 15th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Candler Edwin A Sergt.-Major ... 8th Mich. Battery. 
 
 Case Leverette N Captain 1st Mich. S. S. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Chadwick Charles C Captain 27th Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Chamberlin Lewis H.. . . 1st L't & Adj't. . 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Chandler George W Captain 8th Mich. Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Chope Charles H 2nd Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Clark Alexander M Captain 72nd N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Clark Ransom B Private 9th Ohio Battery. 
 
 Coleman Silas B Acting Master. . U. S. Navy. 
 
 Creusere Charles Private 1st N. Y. Engineers. 
 
 Daly James W Corporal Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 
 
 Davenport Francis O Lieut. Com U. S. Navy. 
 
 Davidson Edward R 1st Lieut 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Denier John Private 14th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Devendorf Chas. A Surgeon 48th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Dickinson Julian G 1st L't & Adj't. . 4th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Dingwall George 2nd Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Dixon Sidney B Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Dodsley William R Captain 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Dufneld Henry M 1st L't & Adj't. . 9th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Dupont Charles Captain 13th Mich. Battery. 
 
108 
 
 Edwards Albert M. .... .Lieut-Colonel.. 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Evarts Charles R Corporal 148th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Farnum Herbert C Private 4th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Fenton Eben B 2nd Lieut 20th Conn. Infantry. 
 
 Fisher Gksorge W Corporal 9th Mich. Battery. 
 
 Foote Charles E 1st Lieut 22nd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Fi-ancois Theophile Private 74t.h N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Gage William T Private 7th R. I. Cavalry. 
 
 Gibbons Benjamin J Seaman U. S. Navy. 
 
 Gibbons Robert Sergeant 24ith Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Gilman George E 1st Lieut 1st N. H. Cavalry. 
 
 Goebel Angust Captain 2nd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Goodale Silas W Sergeant 188th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Gould Uriah Musician 15th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Graham Ziba B lat Lieut 16th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Grant Claudius B Lieut.-Colonel.. 20th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Green William S Private 11th Mass. Battery. 
 
 Gridley William H Sergeant 16th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Griffin Levi T Cajptain 4th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Guthard Jacob Private 9th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Hampton Charles G. . . . Captain 15th N. Y. Cavalry. 
 
 Hardy John C 1st Lieut 2nd Mich. Inf. & Bvt. Capt. U. S. V. 
 
 Havens Cassius M Sergeant 1st N. Y. Dragoons. 
 
 Heazlit William M Captain 1st Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Hill George W 1st Lieut 7th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Hoenighausen Theo Private 16th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Hopkins George H Private 17th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Hopper George C Major 1st Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Howard Wilbur Sergeant 2nd Berdan's S. S. 
 
 Hudson Henry B Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Hull Charles B Captain 67th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Hurlburt Spencer N Private 3rd Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Hutton Wm. H. H Sergeant 104th 111. Infantry. 
 
 Jack George T Sergeant 1st Mich. Battery. 
 
 Jarves Deming 2nd Lieut 24th Mass. Infantry. 
 
 Johnson Louis E Corporal 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Jones Thomas P Sergeant 2nd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Keen Joseph S Sergeant 13th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Kemberling Isaac O Private 11th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 LeBeau McCurdy C Private 192nd Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Letts Charles E Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Lockwood Benj. C 2nd Lieut 54th Ky. Inf. & Capt. U. S. A. 
 
 Long Charles D Private 8th Mioh. Infantry. 
 
109 
 
 Looker Oscar R Private 18th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Lord Wm A 1st Lieut 13th Mo. Cavalry. 
 
 Lowrie William C. D... 1st Lieut Slh Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Ludden Henry D Captain 13th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 McCarty Robert A Private 14th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 McEwan William W Com. Sergt 1st U. S. Infantry. 
 
 McGraw Thomas S Corporal 16th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Maynard Charles W lat Lieut.; 20th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Meserve Lincoln R Paym'r's Cl'k. .. U. S. Navy. 
 
 Metzger Ernst F Corporal 24th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Miller Robert 1st Lieut 89th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Mitchell Wm H Private 17th Vt. Infantry. 
 
 Moore Edward C Private 59th Ohio Infantry.. 
 
 Murphy James S Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Nadolleck Geo. L Corporal 15th N. Y. Artillery. 
 
 Osmun Gilbert R Private 69th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Patton Joseph T Caiptain 93rd Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Pingi-ee Hazen S Private 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Polk Ralph L Musician 40th New Jersey Infantry. 
 
 Potts James A Private 6th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Preston Marvin Pi'ivate 1st Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Rentz Alfred Sergeant 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Reynolds Charles W. . . . Private 5th New Hampshire Infantry. 
 
 Rhines James Captain 88th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Ring Francis S Corporal 182nd Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Ritter Charles H 1st L't & Ad j't . . 5th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Roberts Thomas R Captain 13th Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Robinson Eugene Sergt.-Major ... 1st Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Rogers Fordyce H 1st L't & Adj't. .1st Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Rogers J. Sumner Captain 31st Maine Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 Rohns Herman Sergeant 2nd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Ruehle John V., Jr Captain 2nd Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Schwinden Frank T. . . . Q. M. Sergt 12th Mich. Battery. 
 
 Scranton James P Private 1st Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 See Byron Private 20th N. Y. Cavalry. 
 
 Seymour Arba M Captain 75th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Sheley George A 2nd Lieut 12th Mich. Battery. 
 
 Sidey James G Private 140th N. Y. Inf. 
 
 Smith Gus F 1st Lieut lUth Ohio Infantry. 
 
 Smith Wright D Private 1st Mich. Sharpshooters. 
 
 Snedeker Charles C Private 122nd New York Infantry. 
 
 Spitzley Joseph Private 2nd Kansas Infantry. 
 
 Starkweather Chris. C . . Captain 9th Mich. Infantry. 
 
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110 
 
 sterling James T Lieut.-Colonel.. 103rd Ohio Inf. & Bvt. Col. U. S. V. 
 
 Stevenson Greorge E Musician 2nd Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Swail William H Private 10th Vermont Infantry. 
 
 Thompson Charles H. . .Captain 1st U. S. C. Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Thompson William G. . .1st liieut 6th New Jersey Infantry. 
 
 Thorp Darius D 2nd Lieut 25th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Tracy D. Burnham Chaplain 1st Mich. Eng. & Mech. 
 
 Trowbridge Frank C. . . Private 13th N. Y. Cavalry. 
 
 Trowbridge Luther S. . . Colonel 10th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj.-Gen. 
 
 U.S. V. 
 
 Tucker Phineas J Private 5th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Tuttle Jonathan B Captain 102nd U. S. C. Infantry. 
 
 Wadsworth Thomas S. . Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Wagstaff Robert M Act'g Ensign. . . U. S. Navy. 
 
 Webb Reuben C Corporal 13th 111. Cavalry. 
 
 Welton Everard B lat Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Wendell John H Hosp'l Stew'rd.. 115th N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Wethenbee George C Captain 23rd Mass. Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 
 
 White Amos H Colonel 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 
 
 Winslow George A 1st Lieut 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. 
 
 Wipfler Charles W Landsman U. S. Navy. 
 
 Woods Nicholas Corporal 13th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Yeomans Arthur Sergeant 81st N. Y. Infantry. 
 
 Young William Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 
 
 Young William H Corporal 11th Mich. Cavalry. 
 
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112 
 
 LOSSES BY BATTLES. 
 
 (From "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War," Albany Pub- 
 lishing Comipany, Albany, N. Y., by permission.) 
 
 The Wouuiled iiicUides the Mortally Woiuuled, and the Missiuji' includes 
 
 the Captured. 
 
 Cate. Knsageiiients. Kil'd. W'ded. Mis'K. Ae'te. 
 
 1861. 
 
 June 10. Big Bethel, Va 18 53 5 76 
 
 July 5. Carthage, Mo 13 31 . . 44 
 
 11. Rich Mountain, W. Va 12 49 .. 61 
 
 18. Blackburn's Ford, Va . 19 38 26 83 
 
 21. First Bull Run, Va 470 1,071 1,793 3,334 
 
 Aug. 10. Wilson's Creek, Mo 223 721 291 1,235 
 
 Sept. 10. Carnif ex Ferry, W. Va 17 141 .. 158 
 
 Oct. 3. Greenbrier River, W. Va 8 35 .. 43 
 
 21. Ball's Bluff, Va 49 158 714 921 
 
 Nov. 7. Belmont, Mo 80 322 99 501 
 
 Dec. 13. Camp Alleghany, W. Va 20 107 10 137 
 
 20. iDrainsville. Va 7 61 .. 68 
 
 1862. 
 
 Jan. 19. Mill Springs, Ky 39 207 . . 246 
 
 Feb. 8. Roanoke Island. N. C 37 214 13 264 
 
 15. Fort Donelson, Tenn 500 2,108 224 2,832 
 
 Mar. 1-14. New Madrid. Mo 8 21 3 .32 
 
 6-8. Pea Ridge, Mo 203 980 201 1,384 
 
 14. New Berne, N. C 90 380 1 471 
 
 23. Kernstown, Va 118 450 22 590 
 
 Apl. 6-7. (l)Shiloh, Tenn 1,754 8,408 2,885 13.047 
 
 19. Camden, S. C. (South Mills) 13 101 13 127 
 
 May 9. Farmington, Miss 16 148 14 178 
 
 5. Williamsburg. Va 456 1,410 373 2,239 
 
 7. West Point, Va 48 110 28 186 
 
 8. McDowell, Va 26 227 3 256 
 
 " 16-17. Princeton, W. Va 23 69 21 113 
 
 17. Russell House, Miss 10 31 . . 41 
 
 23. Lewisburg, W. Va 13 53 7 73 
 
 " 23-25. Front Royal and Winchester, Va.. 62 243 1,714 2,019 
 
 27. Hanover Court House, Va 62 223 70 355 
 
 31. Fair Oaks, Va. (Seven Pines) 790 3,594 647 5,031 
 
 June 8. Cross Keys, Va 114 443 127 684 
 
 9. Port Republic, Va 67 393 558 1,018 
 
 16. Secessionville, SC. (James I'd).. .. 107 487 89 683 
 
 25. Oak Grove Seven Days' . . 67 504 55 626 
 
 26. Mechanicsville Battle, Va.... 49 207 105 361 
 
 27. Gaines' Mill Killed, 1,734 . . 894 3,107 2,83B 6,837 
 
 28. (2)Golding's Farm..Wd'd, 8,062.. 37 227 104 368 
 
 29. (3)Savage Station... Mis'g. 6,053.. 80 412 1.098 1.590 
 
 30. (4) Glendale .. 210 1.513 1,130 2 853 
 
 July 1. Malvern Hill Total, 15,849.. 397 2,092 725 3,214 
 
 7. Bayou Cache, Ark 6 57 . . 63 
 
 13. Murfreesboro, Tenn 19 120 (5) 46 185 
 
 Aug. 5. Baton Rouge, La 84 266 33 383 
 
 9. Cedar Mountain, Va 314 1,445 622 2,381 
 
 (1) Pittsburg Landing. 
 
 (2) Includes loss at Garnett's Farm on the previous day. 
 
 (3) Includes loss at Peach Orchard (or Allen's Farm) on same day. 
 
 (4) Includes loss at White Oak Swamp, and Charles City Cross 
 Roads. 
 
 (5) Not including men surrendered in the capitulation. 
 
113 
 
 Date. 
 1862. 
 
 Aug. 16-31. 
 
 30. 
 
 Sept. 10-11. 
 
 " 12-15. 
 
 14. 
 
 14. 
 
 " 14-16. 
 
 17. 
 
 19. 
 
 " 19-20. 
 
 3-4. 
 
 5. 
 
 8-9. 
 22. 
 
 27. 
 
 5. 
 
 7. 
 
 7. 
 
 12-17. 
 
 13. 
 
 28-29. 
 
 30. 
 
 31. 
 
 Engagements. 
 
 KilcJ. W'Ued. Mls'g. Ag'te. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Feb. 
 Mar. 
 
 Apl. 
 
 May 
 
 1863. 
 Jan. 7-8. 
 
 11. 
 
 11. 
 
 30. 
 ■ 3. 
 
 4-5. 
 
 17. 
 
 13. 
 
 14. 
 
 11-30. 
 
 1. 
 
 1-4. 
 
 12. 
 
 14. 
 
 16. 
 
 17. 
 
 19. 
 
 22. 
 " 23Jul4. 
 
 21. 
 
 27. 
 June 14. 
 My26Jul9. 
 June 5. 
 
 6-8. 
 
 (1) Manassas, Va 1,747 
 
 Richmond, Ky 206 
 
 Fayetteville, W; Va 25 
 
 Harper's Ferry, Va 44 
 
 Crampton's Gap, Md 113 
 
 South Mountain, Md 325 
 
 Munfordsville, Ky 15 
 
 Antietam, Md 2,108 
 
 luka, Miss 141 
 
 Shepardstown Ford, Va 71 
 
 Corinth, Miss 355 
 
 Hatchie Bridge, Miss 46 
 
 (2) Chaplin Hills, Ky 845 
 
 Lawrenceburg, Ky. (Dog Walk) ... 8 
 
 Pocotaligo, S. C 43 
 
 Georgia Landing, ba 18 
 
 Coffeeville, Miss • • 10 
 
 Hartsville, Tenn • . 58 
 
 Prairie Grove, Ark 175 
 
 Kinston ; Goldsboro, N. C • • 92 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va 1,284 
 
 Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss •• 208 
 
 Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn • ■ 27 
 
 (3)Stone's River, Tenn ..1,730 
 
 Springfield, Mo. . ; 14 
 
 Hartsville, Mo • • 7 
 
 Arkansas Post, Ark ■ ■ 134 
 
 Deserted House, Va • • 23 
 
 Fort Donelson, Tenn 14 
 
 Thompson's Station, Tenn •. 48 
 
 Kelly's Ford, Va 9 
 
 Fort Bisland, La 40 
 
 Irish Bend, La . 49 
 
 Siege of Suffolk, Va • • 41 
 
 (4)Magnolia Hills, Miss • . 131 
 
 (5) Chancellorsville, Va • .1,606 
 
 Raymond, Miss • . 66 
 
 Jackson, Miss • ■ 42 
 
 Champion's Hill, Miss •• 410 
 
 Black River Bridge, Miss •• 39 
 
 Assault on Vicksburg, Miss •• 157 
 
 Assault on Vicksburg. Miss • • 502 
 
 Vicksburg Trenches, Miss • • 147 
 
 Plain's Store, La • • 15 
 
 Assault on Port Hudson, La • • 293 
 
 Assault on Port Hudson, La • • 203 
 
 Port Hudson Trenches. La •• 211 
 
 Franklin's Crossing, Va •• 9 
 
 Milliken's Bend, La 118 
 
 8,452 
 
 4,263 
 
 14,462 
 
 844 
 
 4,303 
 
 5,353 
 
 95 
 
 190 
 
 310 
 
 173 
 
 12,520 
 
 12,737 
 
 418 
 
 2 
 
 533 
 
 1,403 
 
 85 
 
 1,813 
 
 57 
 
 4,076 
 
 4,148 
 
 9,549 
 
 753 
 
 12,410 
 
 613 
 
 . 36 
 
 790 
 
 161 
 
 131 
 
 363 
 
 1,841 
 
 324 
 
 2,520 
 
 493 
 
 31 
 
 570 
 
 2,851 
 
 515 
 
 4,211 
 
 20 
 
 13 
 
 41 
 
 294 
 
 3 
 
 340 
 
 74 
 
 5 
 
 97 
 
 63 
 
 41 
 
 114 
 
 204 
 
 1,834 
 
 2,096 
 
 813 
 
 263 
 
 1,251 
 
 487 
 
 12 
 
 591 
 
 9,600 
 
 1,769 
 
 12,653 
 
 1,005 
 
 563 
 
 1,776 
 
 140 
 
 70 
 
 237 
 
 7,802 
 
 3,717 
 
 13,249 
 
 146 
 
 5 
 
 165 
 
 64 
 
 2 
 
 73 
 
 898 
 
 29 
 
 1.061 
 
 108 
 
 12 
 
 143 
 
 54 
 
 10 
 
 78 
 
 247 
 
 1,151 
 
 1,446 
 
 35 
 
 40 
 
 84 
 
 184 
 
 
 224 
 
 274 
 
 30 
 
 353 
 
 223 
 
 2 
 
 266 
 
 719 
 
 25 
 
 875 
 
 9,762 
 
 5,919 
 
 17,287 
 
 339 
 
 37 
 
 442 
 
 251 
 
 7 
 
 300 
 
 1,844 
 
 187 
 
 2,441 
 
 237 
 
 3 
 
 279 
 
 777 
 
 8 
 
 942 
 
 2,550 
 
 147 
 
 3,199 
 
 613 
 
 9 
 
 769 
 
 71 
 
 14 
 
 100 
 
 1,545 
 
 157 
 
 1,995 
 
 1,401 
 
 162 
 
 1,766 
 
 390 
 
 
 601 
 
 48 
 
 
 57 
 
 310 
 
 
 428 
 
 (1) Includes Bristoe Station, Groveton, Gainesville, Chantilly and 
 the Rappahannock. 
 
 (2) Known also as Perryville. 
 
 (3) Includes loss at Knob Gap December 26th, and at Jefferson 
 December 30th: also losses January 1-2, 1863. 
 
 (4) Port Gibson, Miss. 
 
 (5) Includes loss at Marye's Heights and Salem Church, viz: 493 
 killed, 2,710 wounded, 1,497 missing. Also lost at Fitzhugh Crossing. 
 
Date. Engagements. Kll'd. WJed. Mis'g. Ag'te. 
 
 1863. 
 
 June 9. (*) Beverly Ford, Va 81 403 
 
 " 13-15. Winchester, Va 95 348 
 
 17. (*) Aldie, Va 50 131 
 
 19. (*) Middleburg, Va 16 46 
 
 21. (*) Upperville, Va 12 130 
 
 21. La Fourche Crossing, La 8 40 
 
 22. Hill's Plantation, Miss 10 9 
 
 " 24. Hoover's Gap, Tenn 27 177 
 
 25. Liberty Gap, Tenn. 42 232 
 
 27. (1) Shelby ville, Tenn 15 64 
 
 July 2-26. Morgan's Raid, Ky 19 47 
 
 4. Helena, Ark 57 146 
 
 9-16. Jackson, Miss 129 762 
 
 30. (*) Hanover, Pa 19 73 
 
 1-3. Gettysburg, Pa 3,070 14,497 
 
 6. (*)Hager&town, Md 19 50 
 
 6. (*)Williamsport, Md 14 37 
 
 7-9. (*) Boonsborough, Md 8 54 
 
 11. (*) Hagerstown, Md 5 31 
 
 12. Funkstown, Md . 14 77 
 
 14. (*) Falling Waters, Md . 31 58 
 
 16. (*) Shepardstown. Va 8 72 
 
 11. Assault on Fort Wagner, S. C... .. 49 123 
 
 18. Assault on Fort Wagner, S. C... 246 880 
 — . Siege of Fort Wagner, S. C ■ • 71 278 
 
 13. Donaldsonville, La 56 223 
 
 21. (*) Manassas Gap, Va 9 12 
 
 23. Wapping Heights, Va 20 83 
 
 Aug. 1. (*) Brandy Station, Va 21 104 
 
 " 26-27. (*) White Sulphur Springs, Va.. .. 26 125 
 
 Sept. 19-20. Chickamauga, Ga • • 1,656 9,749 
 
 29. Morganzia, La •• 16 45 
 
 Oct. 14. Bristoe Station, Va • • 50 335 
 
 20. Philadelphia, Tenn • ■ 7 25 
 
 27. Wauhatchie, Tenn • • 75 300 
 
 Nov. 3. Grand Coteau, La •• 25 129 
 
 6. Droop Mountain, W. Va •• 30 88 
 
 " 7. Rappahannock Station, Va •• 83 328 
 
 7. Kelly's Ford, Va • • 6 39 
 
 16. Campbell's Station, Tenn •• 31 211 
 
 — . Siege of Knoxville, Tenn •■ 92 393 
 
 " 23-25. (2) Chattanooga. Tenn • • 687 4,346 
 
 27. Ringgold; Graysville, Ga •• 65 367 
 
 " 26-30. Mine Run Campaign, Va •• 173 1,099 
 
 Dec. 2. Walker's Ford, W. Va • • 9 43 
 
 14. Bean's Station, Tenn • • 16 51 
 
 29. Mossy Creek, Tenn • • 18 86 
 
 1864. 
 
 Feb. 1-3. Bachelor's Creek. N. C •• 16 50 
 
 6. Morton's Ford, Va • • 10 208 
 
 20. Olustee, Fla 193 1,175 
 
 27. Buzzard's Roost, Ga •• 17 272 
 
 Mar. 5. Yazoo City, Miss • • 21 89 
 
 (*) Cavalry engagements. 
 
 (1) Includes losses at Guy's Gap and Middleton. 
 
 (2) Or Missionary Ridge; includes Orchard Knob, November 23d 
 (loss about 200), and Lookout Mountain, November 24th (500). 
 
 383 
 
 866 
 
 4,000 
 
 4,443 
 
 124 
 
 305 
 
 37 
 
 99 
 
 67 
 
 209 
 
 
 48 
 
 28 
 
 47 
 
 2 
 
 206 
 
 1 
 
 275 
 
 10 
 
 89 
 
 8 
 
 74 
 
 36 
 
 239 
 
 231 
 
 1,122 
 
 123 
 
 215 
 
 5.434 
 
 23,001 
 
 194 
 
 263 
 
 69 
 
 120 
 
 18 
 
 80 
 
 13 
 
 49 
 
 6 
 
 97 
 
 32 
 
 121 
 
 24 
 
 104 
 
 167 
 
 339 
 
 389 
 
 1,515 
 
 9 
 
 358 
 
 186 
 
 465 
 
 8 
 
 29 
 
 
 103 
 
 20 
 
 145 
 
 67 
 
 218 
 
 4,774 
 
 16,179 
 
 453 
 
 514 
 
 161 
 
 546 
 
 447 
 
 479 
 
 8 
 
 383 
 
 562 
 
 716 
 
 1 
 
 119 
 
 6 
 
 417 
 
 
 -15 
 
 74 
 
 316 
 
 202 
 
 687 
 
 349 
 
 5,382 
 
 
 432 
 
 381 
 
 1,653 
 
 12 
 
 64 
 
 48 
 
 115 
 
 5 
 
 109 
 
 280 
 
 346 
 
 42 
 
 262 
 
 460 
 
 1,828 
 
 
 289 
 
 21 
 
 131 
 
113 
 
 Eng-agements. Kll'd. Wded. Mis'g. Ag'te. 
 
 Okolona, Ark 16 74 
 
 Sabine Cross Roads, La 200 900 
 
 Pleasant Hill, La 100 700 
 
 Plymouth, N. C 20 80 
 
 Cane River, La 40 160 
 
 "Mark's Mills, Ark 100 250 
 
 Jenkins' Ferry, Ark 64 378 
 
 Alexandria, La 23 67 
 
 (1) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,458 7,436 
 
 (2) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,125 5,740 
 
 (3) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,110 5,915 
 
 (4) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 453 2,318 
 
 (5) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 277 1,413 
 
 Wilderness, Va 2,246 12,037 
 
 (6) Spottsylvania, Va 2,725 13,416 
 
 Port Walthall: Chester Sta., Va. . . 48 256 
 
 Arro-wfield Church, Va 36 188 
 
 Drewry's Bluff, Va • • 390 2,380 
 
 (7) Ware Bottom Church, Va 103 796 
 
 Bermuda Hundred, Va 18 89 
 
 (*) Kautz's Cavalry Raid, Va 14 60 
 
 Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va • . 126 585 
 
 (*) Yellow Tavern, Va 35 142 
 
 (*) Meadow Bridges, Va • - 15 128 
 
 Newmarket. Va 93 482 
 
 Bayou Glaize, La • • 60 300 
 
 North Anna, Va 186 942 
 
 Totopotomoy. Va 101 518 
 
 (*) Sheridan's Cavalry, Va. (Hawe's 
 
 Shop, Hanover, etc.) - • HO 450 
 
 Bethesda Church, Va 194 824 
 
 (8) Cold Harbor, Va 1,844 9,077 
 
 (*) Cavalry engagements. 
 
 (1) Includes Rocky Face Ridge, May 5-9 (loss about 900); Resaca, 
 May 13-15 (3,000): New Hope Church, May 25 (1,000); Dallas. May 28-31 
 (1,800); Pickett's Mills, May 27 (1,900); Adairsville, Cassville, Rome Cross 
 Roads, etc. 
 
 (2) Includes Dallas, June 1-4 (900); Pine Mountain. June 14-19 (1,- 
 100); Gulp's House, June 27 (700); Kenesaw Mountain, June 20-30 (1,200); 
 Assault on Kenesaw, June 27 (3,000); Lattimore's Mill, Powder Springs, 
 etc. 
 
 (3) Includes Nickajack Creek, July 25 (450): Chattahoochie, July 6- 
 10 (850); Peach Tree Creek, July 20 (2,200); Atlanta, July 21-22 (4.200); 
 Ezra Chapel, July 28 (850); and others. 
 
 (4) Includes Utoy Creek, August 5-6 (800); and Siege of Atlanta. 
 
 (5) Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. 
 
 (6) Includes Alscp's Farm. May 8 (loss about 1,800); Po River, Lau- 
 rel Hill, and Upton's Charge, May 10 (5,000); Hancock's Assault, The 
 "Angle," and general attack of May 12 (8.500); Spottsylvania, May 18 
 (800); Fredericksburg Pike, May 19 (1,400); Todd's Tavern, Corbin's 
 Bridge, Ny River, Guiena Station, etc. 
 
 (7) Bermuda Hundi-ed. 
 
 (8) Includes assault of Sixth and Eighteenth Corps, June 1; also 
 losses of Fifth and Ninth Corps at Bethesda Church on June 2d and sub- 
 sequently; also Cavalry Corps at Cold Harbor, May 31 and June 1; also 
 losses in the trenches at Cold Harbor. June 4-14. 
 
 Date. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Apl. 
 
 3. 
 
 " 
 
 8. 
 
 " 
 
 9. 
 
 " 
 
 17-20. 
 
 " 
 
 23. 
 
 " 
 
 25. 
 
 " 
 
 30. 
 
 May 
 
 1. 
 
 " 
 
 5-31. 
 
 June 
 
 1-30. 
 
 July 
 
 1-31. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1-31. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1. 
 
 May 
 
 5-7. 
 
 " 
 
 8-21. 
 
 " 
 
 6-7. 
 
 " 
 
 9-10. 
 
 " 
 
 12-16. 
 
 " 
 
 18-20. 
 
 " 
 
 21-31. 
 
 " 
 
 7-16. 
 
 " 
 
 9-10. 
 
 " 
 
 11. 
 
 " 
 
 12. 
 
 " 
 
 15. 
 
 " 
 
 18. 
 
 " 
 
 23-27. 
 
 " 
 
 28-31. 
 
 " 
 
 25-30. 
 
 June 
 
 1. 
 
 " 
 
 2-4. 
 
 
 90 
 
 1,800 
 
 2.900 
 
 300 
 
 1,100 
 
 1,500 
 
 1,600 
 
 
 200 
 
 100 
 
 450 
 
 86 
 
 528 
 
 21 
 
 111 
 
 405 
 
 9,299 
 
 665 
 
 7,530 
 
 2,694 
 
 9,719 
 
 466 
 
 3,237 
 
 212 
 
 1,902 
 
 3,383 
 
 17,666 
 
 2.258 
 
 18,399 
 
 70 
 
 374 
 
 19 
 
 243 
 
 1,390 
 
 4,160 
 
 49 
 
 948 
 
 21 
 
 128 
 
 31 
 
 105 
 
 34 
 
 745 
 
 82 
 
 259 
 
 27 
 
 170 
 
 256 
 
 831 
 
 
 360 
 
 165 
 
 1,293 
 
 52 
 
 671 
 
 96 
 
 656 
 
 348 
 
 1,366 
 
 1,816 
 
 12,737 
 
116 
 
 Date. Engagements. Kil'd. 
 
 1864, 
 
 June 1-14. Bermuda Hundred, Va 25 
 
 " 5. Piedmont, Va 130 
 
 " 10. Brice's Cross Roads, Miss 223 
 
 " 17-18. Lynchburg, Va 100 
 
 " 11-12. (*) Trevilian Station, Va 102 
 
 21. (*) White House, Va 10 
 
 24. (*) St. Mary's Church, Va 29 
 
 " 15-19. Petersburg Assault, Va 1,688 
 
 22. (1) Jerusalem Road, Va 142 
 
 " 22-29. (*) Wilson's Raid, Va 71 
 
 " 20-30. Petersburg Trenches, Va 112 
 
 July 2. Fort Johnson, S. C 19 
 
 5-7. John's Island, S. C 16 
 
 " 9. Monocacy, Md 98 
 
 12. Fort Stevens, D. C 54 
 
 13. Tupelo, Miss 85 
 
 18. Island Ford, Va 65 
 
 20. Carter's Farm, Va 37 
 
 24. Winchester, Va 134 
 
 " 26-29. Strawberry Plains, Va 62 
 
 30. Petersburg Mine, Va 504 
 
 1-31. Petersburg Trenches, Va 349 
 
 Aug. 11. (*) White Post, Va 30 
 
 " 14-16. Deep Bottom, Va 327 
 
 " 18-20. Weldon Railroad, Va 251 
 
 24. Halltown, Va 9 
 
 25. Ream's Station, Va 140 
 
 25. (*) Smithfield, Va 20 
 
 26. Halltown, Va 30 
 
 29. (*) Smithfield, Va 10 
 
 1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 158 
 
 Sept. 3. Berryville, Va 30 
 
 19. Opequon, Va. (Winchester) 697 
 
 22. Fisher's Hill, Va 52 
 
 26. (*) Fort Davidson, Mo 28 
 
 28. (3) Chaffin's Farm, Va 383 
 
 30. (4) Poplar Spring Church, Va 187 
 
 1-30. (5) Petersburg Trenches, Va 74 
 
 Oct. 2. (*) Saltville, Va 54 
 
 " 5. Allatoona Pass, Ga 142 
 
 " 7. Darbytown Road, Va 49 
 
 9. (*) Tom's Brook; Woodstock, Va... 9 
 
 13. (*) Strasburg, Va 30 
 
 13. Darbytown Road, Va 36 
 
 19. Cedar Creek, Va 644 
 
 21. (*) Little Blue, Mo 18 
 
 " 22. (*) Independence, Mo 14 
 
 26. (*) Decatur, Ala 10 
 
 W'ded. 
 
 Mis'g. 
 
 Ag'te. 
 
 134 
 
 98 
 
 257 
 
 650 
 
 
 780 
 
 394 
 
 1,623 
 
 2,240 
 
 500 
 
 100 
 
 700 
 
 470 
 
 435 
 
 1,007 
 
 51 
 
 22 
 
 83 
 
 188 
 
 122 
 
 339 
 
 8,513 
 
 1,185 
 
 11,386 
 
 654 
 
 2,166 
 
 2,962 
 
 262 
 
 1,119 
 
 1,452 
 
 506 
 
 151 
 
 769 
 
 97 
 
 135 
 
 251 
 
 82 
 
 12 
 
 110 
 
 579 
 
 1,282 
 
 1,959 
 
 319 
 
 
 373 
 
 563 
 
 29 
 
 677 
 
 301 
 
 56 
 
 422 
 
 175 
 
 30 
 
 242 
 
 678 
 
 391 
 
 1,203 
 
 340 
 
 86 
 
 488 
 
 1,881 
 
 1,413 
 
 3,798 
 
 1,587 
 
 145 
 
 2,081 
 
 70 
 
 200 
 
 300 
 
 1,851 
 
 721 
 
 2,899 
 
 1,148 
 
 2,879 
 
 4,278 
 
 37 
 
 16 
 
 62 
 
 529 
 
 2,073 
 
 2,742 
 
 61 
 
 10 
 
 181 
 
 141 
 
 
 171 
 
 90 
 
 
 100 
 
 623 
 
 296 
 
 1,077 
 
 182 
 
 100 
 
 312 
 
 3,983 
 
 338 
 
 5.018 
 
 457 
 
 19 
 
 528 
 
 56 
 
 100 
 
 184 
 
 2.299 
 
 645 
 
 3.327 
 
 900 
 
 1.802 
 
 2,889 
 
 304 
 
 424 
 
 802 
 
 190 
 
 104 
 
 348 
 
 352 
 
 212 
 
 706 
 
 253 
 
 156 
 
 458 
 
 67 
 
 
 76 
 
 144 
 
 40 
 
 214 
 
 358 
 
 43 
 
 437 
 
 3,430 
 
 1,591 
 
 5,665 
 
 83 
 
 14 
 
 115 
 
 58 
 
 11 
 
 83 
 
 45 
 
 100 
 
 155 
 
 (*) Cavalry Engagements. 
 
 (1) Known, also, as Weldon Railroad and Williams' Farm. 
 
 (2) Includes operations on the north side of the James. 
 
 (3) Known, also, as Peeble's Farm. 
 
 (4) Known, also, as Peeble's Farm and Pegram's Farm. 
 
 (5) Includes operation s on the north side of the James. 
 
Ill 
 
 Date. EnsageiiiculK. Kil'd. W'ded. Mis'g. Ag'te. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Oct. 27. (1) Boydton Road, Va 166 
 
 27. Darbytown Road; Fair Oaks, Va. . . 118 
 1-31. (2) Petersburg Trenches, Va 159 
 
 Nov. 22. (*) Rood's Hill, Va . 18 
 
 22. Griswoldville, Ga . 10 
 
 30. Honey Hill, S. C . 66 
 
 30. Franklin, Tenn 189 
 
 1-30. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va '>7 
 
 Dec. 5. Murfreesboro, Tenn 30 
 
 6-9. Deveaux's Neck, S. C 39 
 
 13. Fort McAllister, Ga 24 
 
 15-16. Nashville, Tenn 387 
 
 18. Marion, Va 18 
 
 28. (*) Egypt Station, Miss 23 
 
 1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 66 
 
 1865. 
 
 Jan. 15. Fort Fisher, N. C 184 
 
 1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 51 
 
 Feb. 3-9. River's Bridge, S. C 18 
 
 5-7. (3) Dabney's Mills, Va 232 
 
 10. James Island, S. C 20 
 
 11. Sugar Loaf Battery, N. C 14 
 
 20. Town Creek, N. C 30 
 
 1-28. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 43 
 
 Mar. 6. National Bridge, Fla 22 
 
 10. Wilcox's Bridge, N. C 80 
 
 " 10. Monroe's Cross Roads, N. C 19 
 
 16. Averasboro, N. C 77 
 
 19. Bentonville. N. C 191 
 
 25. Fort Stedman, Va 68 
 
 25. Petersburg, Va 103 
 
 29. Gravelly Run, Va 55 
 
 31. White Oak Road, Va 177 
 
 31. (*) Dinwiddle Court House, Va. . . . 67 
 
 1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 58 
 
 Apl. 1. Five Forks, Va 124 
 
 2. (*) Selma, Ala 42 
 
 2. Fall of Petersburg, Va 296 
 
 3. (*) Namozin Church, Va 10 
 
 5. (*) Amelia Springs, Va 20 
 
 6. Sailor's Creek, Va 166 
 
 7. Farmville, Va 58 
 
 8. Spanish Fort, Ala 100 
 
 9. Fort Blakely, Ala 113 
 
 16. (*) Columbus; West Point, Ga 13 
 
 1.028 
 
 564 
 
 1,758 
 
 787 
 
 698 
 
 1,603 
 
 520 
 
 633 
 
 1,312 
 
 52 
 
 10 
 
 80 
 
 52 
 
 
 G2 
 
 645 
 
 
 711 
 
 1,033 
 
 1,104 
 
 2,326 
 
 258 
 
 108 
 
 423 
 
 175 
 
 
 205 
 
 390 
 
 200 
 
 629 
 
 110 
 
 
 134 
 
 2,-558 
 
 112 
 
 3,057 
 
 58 
 
 
 76 
 
 88 
 
 7 
 
 118 
 
 278 
 
 269 
 
 613 
 
 749 
 
 22 
 
 955 
 
 269 
 
 81 
 
 401 
 
 70 
 
 4 
 
 92 
 
 1,062 
 
 186 
 
 1,480 
 
 76 
 
 
 96 
 
 114 
 
 
 128 
 
 154 
 
 
 184 
 
 257 
 
 72 
 
 372 
 
 46 
 
 13 
 
 81 
 
 421 
 
 600 
 
 1,101 
 
 61 
 
 103 
 
 183 
 
 477 
 
 
 554 
 
 1,168 
 
 287 
 
 1,646 
 
 337 
 
 506 
 
 911 
 
 864 
 
 209 
 
 1.176 
 
 306 
 
 22 
 
 383 
 
 1,134 
 
 556 
 
 1.867 
 
 354 
 
 
 421 
 
 272 
 
 98 
 
 43^: 
 
 706 
 
 54 
 
 884 
 
 270 
 
 7 
 
 319 
 
 2,565 
 
 500 
 
 3,361 
 
 85 
 
 
 95 
 
 96 
 
 
 116 
 
 1,014 
 
 
 1,180 
 
 504 
 
 9 
 
 571 
 
 695 
 
 /. . 
 
 795 
 
 516 
 
 
 62^^ 
 
 53 
 
 
 66 
 
 (*) Cavalry engagements. 
 
 (1) Known, also, as Hatcher's Run. 
 
 (2) Includes operations on the north side of the James. 
 
 (3) Known, also, as Hatcher's Run. 
 
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