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Sheldon E. Whipple, Geneva; mustered out October 6, 1862.
COMPANY I. Privates.
John Freeman. St. Charles; mustered out September 27, 1862.
SIXTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Months' Service.) COMPANY K. Privates.
Willard Algire, Sugar Grove : mustered out September 26, 1862. James D. Hughes, Sugar Grove ; mustered out September 26, 1862. Thomas Hamilton, Sugar Grove; mustered out September 26, 1862. Francis M. Meadows, Sugar Grove; mustered out September 26, 1862. James Stewart, Sugar Grove ; mustered out September 26, 1862.
HISTORY OF SIXTY-NINTH INFANTRY.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment was organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and was mustered into service June 14, 1862. It remained on duty at Camp Douglas, guarding the camp and rebel prisoners.
SIXTY-NINTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Months' Service. )
COMPANY B. Captain.
Jonathan Kimball, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. First Lieutenant.
Samuel H. Hunter, Elgin; nmistered out September 27, 1862. Second Lieutenant. Thomas W. Tefft. Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. First Sergeant. John Short. Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. Sergeants.
Michael J. Dunne. Dundee ; mustered out September 27. 1862. John Cockerton, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. John Megginson. Elgin : mustered out September 27. 1862. Calvin Loomis, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862.
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Corporals.
Henry T. Adams, Elgin ; mustered out September 27, 1862. John C. Russell, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. Sibeus Sweet, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Henry Wells, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Albert Kinney. Elgin ; mustered out September 27. 1862. Edgar Hoxie, Dundee ; mustered out September 27. 1862.
Privatcs.
S. Nathaniel Abbott, Elgin ; mustered out September 27. 1862. George Abbott, Elgin ; mustered out September 27, 1862. George Adams, Elgin ; mustered out September 27, 1862. Robert Adams, Elgin : mustered out September 27, 1862. John Augustine, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Alexander Cannon, Elgin : mustered out September 27, 1862. Thomas Cannon, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Charles Crane. Dundee; mustered out September 27, 1862. John Cambell. Dundee ; mustered out September 27, 1862. George W. Clark, Elgin; mustered out September 27. 1862. D. B. Caffee. Campton ; mustered out September 27, 1862. George Dunlap. Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Milton Earring, Elgin ; mustered out September 27. 1862. Robert K. Florence, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Daniel Flynn, Elgin ; mustered out September 27. 1862. Thomas Frazier, Plato: mustered out September 27, 1862. Joseph Flannery, St. Charles; mustered out "September 27, 1862. David Gifford, St. Charles ; mustered out September 27, 1862. Philander Gates, Campton ; mustered out September 27, 1862. Danford M. Jones, Elgin : mustered out September 27, 1862. Aaron Kribbs, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. Chester Kinney. Elgin ; mustered out September 27, 1862. Richard Keough, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. John McConnell, Aurora ; mustered out September 27, 1862. Peter Pocket, St. Charles : mustered out September 27. 1862. Henry Plaunty, Hampshire; mustered out September 27. 1862. Christopher Rose, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862. William H. Rowe, Plato; mustered out September 27, 1862. James Sheedy, Elgin ; mustered out September 27, 1862. William F. Todd, Elgin ; mustered out September 27. 1862. George A. Webster, Elgin : mustered out September 27, 1862. Benjamin Webster, Elgin: mustered out September 27. 1862. Albert Ward, Elgin : mustered out September 27, 1862. Peter Wolover, Dundee ; mustered out September 27, 1862.
Recruits. Phillip Brinnan. Dundee ; deserted June 24. 1862. James K. Elliott, St. Charles ; discharged by the surgeon. Stephen A. Houghton, Dundee : transferred to Miller's Battery.
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Hennezan Leverett, Elgin; transferred to Company E, Sixty-ninth Regiment.
Patrick Murreen, St. Charles ; discharged by the surgeon.
COMPANY C. Privates.
Wilber F. Higgins, Geneva ; mustered out September 27, 1862. William LeBarren, Geneva ; mustered out September 27, 1862. James C. Long, Geneva ; mustered out September 27, 1862.
George Steurcr, St. Charles; mustercd out September 27, 1862.
COMPANY D. Sergeant.
Theodore F. Barnes, Aurora ; mustered out October 6, 1862.
COMPANY E. Musician.
Hannigan Loverett, Elgin; mustered out September 27, 1862.
COMPANY F. Privates.
James E. Hollenback, Aurora ; mustered out October 6, 1862. Hiram Kenneday, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862.
Alexander Saunders, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862.
Peter Stuckey, Aurora; mustered out October 6, 1862.
SEVENTY-FIRST INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Months' Service. )
COMPANY F. Privates.
Samuel Baxter, Aurora ; died, Mound City, October 19, 1862. Amasa Trask, Aurora; mustered out October 29, 1862.
HISTORY OF THE SEVENTY-SECOND INFANTRY.
The Seventy-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers was organized at Chicago as the First Regiment of the Chicago Board of Trade. Its first bills were put out for one company, calling itself the "Hancock Guards," on July 23, 1862, and exactly one month afterwards (August 23, 1862) the entire regiment was complete and mustered into the service of the United States for three years, or during the war. The very day of their muster they were started off for Cairo, where they arrived on the 24th. Their strength at that time was thirty-seven (37) officers and nine hundred and thirty men.
On the 6th day of September they were ordered out to Paducah, Ken- tucky, where they went on post duty until the 17th, when they were sent down to Columbus, Kentucky, at which point they did guard and picket duty mainly, until November 21. They were not, however, idle in this time, but in addition to the thorough and constant drilling, which has since made them one of the finest organizations in the army, found time for two expeditions, one to Clarkson, Missouri, on October 6, when they dispersed a rebel camp and cap- tured a number of prisoners, horses, etc., and the other, on October 21, to
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New Madrid, which was not so eventful. On November 21 they were ordered to join General Quimby's command, Seventh Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, at Moscow, Tennessee, and with that command they arrived on December 1, 1862, at Lumpkin's Mills, Mississippi, whence they accompanied Grant's army as far as the Yaconapatafa river. Owing to the supplies being cut off at Holly Springs, the army was forced to return, after penetrating as far as the point mentioned, and the Seventy-second was sent as guard to the wagon train to Memphis, Tennessee. There, at a distance of about eight miles from the city, on the line of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, they went into camp and remained until January 19, 1863, when they were sent into the city and quartered at the navy yard to do provost guard duty. While making Memphis their headquarters the regiment went out on an expedition to Horn Lake Creek, where they dispersed a gang of Blythe's rebel guerrillas, capturing quite a number of them.
On March I the division, of which the Seventy-second formed a part, started down the Yazoo Pass, but finding Fort Pemberton in their way and not being able to take it just then, went back. April 23 they landed at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, and from there marched up with Grant's army to Vicksburg. On May 16 they arrived at Champion Hill, just in time to turn the enemy's left, and by that movement decided the fate of the day. That was their first battle and, fortunately for them, their share in it, although a most important one, was not very severe. On May 17 they found themselves at Big Black, in the rear of Vicksburg, and on the 19th this regiment was the first to open the attack on the rebel stronghold. In the desperate charge of the 22d they participated with the highest honor to themselves, losing some one hundred and thirty of their number killed, wounded and missing, but fighting as bravely as men could fight until the last. From that time until July 4, when the rebels capitulated, the Seventy-second did its duty among the foremost in the siege, and on the capitulation were among the first to enter the city.
On July 12 the Seventy-second embarked for Natchez, Mississippi, where they landed the succeeding day, taking possession of the town, capturing a large number of prisoners, pieces of artillery, confederate government stores, and five thousand head of Texas cattle. Here they remained until October 17. doing provost duty, with the exception of a couple of skirmishes at St. Catherine's Creek, Mississippi, September I, and at Cross Bayou, Louisiana, on September 23.
October 18, 1863, they went on provost guard duty at Vicksburg, Missis- sippi, where they remained until October 30, 1864. During this year of com- parative inaction they only went on two expeditions. The first of these was to Benton, Mississippi, on May 7, 1864, where they had a short but pretty severe fight with a body of rebels; and the second was to Grand Gulf. Mississippi, on July 18.
October 30, 1864, they were ordered to report to Major General Howard, commanding Army and Department of the Tennessee, then with Sherman's army, and in pursuance of this order arrived at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 13. They there found themselves too late to join Sherman in his
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great "march to the sea," and were ordered to Columbia, Tennessee, to join Major General Schofield's command, which they did on November 21, when Hood crossed the Tennessee river and seemed coming down "like a wolf on the fold." Schofield's army found it convenient to retire towards Nashville. On November 29 they evacuated Columbia, and the Seventy-second was in a severe skirmish with the enemy at Spring Hill, on the road between Columbia and Franklin. On the succeeding day they arrived at Franklin and hastily threw up some light earth works. About 4 o'clock that afternoon Hood attacked them and the battle raged from that hour until midnight with terrific fury. In that fight the Seventy-second lost nine officers out of sixteen engaged and one hundred and fifty-two men, who were either killed or severely wounded. That night they left their works and retreated towards Nashville. which they reached on December I, and here the Seventy-second was thrown on the extreme right of the Federal lines inclosing Nashville, under command of General A. J. Smith. On December 15 the whole Union army was moved outside its works to give battle to Hood. and on that and the succeeding day the great battle of Nashville took place, resulting in the complete whipping of the "Rebs." From that time until January 3, 1865, they were engaged in the pursuit of Hood's army, following it up closely as far as Clifton, but Hood managed to escape across the Tennessee river. From Clifton the regiment went by boat up the Tennessee river to Eastport, Mississippi, arriving there January 13, 1865, and there remaining in quarters until February 9, making in that time but one expedition, and that a fruitless one, to Iuka and Corinth, Mississippi.
February 9 they started for New Orleans, where they arrived February 21. Until March 21 they remained in camp eight miles below the city and then they were embarked and taken across the gulf to Dauphin Island. Alabama, where they arrived on March 17. The next day the brigade. which included the Seventy-second. crossed over to the main land on the western shore of Mobile bay. Here they remained a few days, skirmishing with the enemy, when, having accomplished the object of the expedition, which was merely a feint on Mobile from that direction. they rejoined the army at Fish river, near Smith's Mills, Alabama.
On March 26 the corps to which they were attached moved, and on the morning of the 27th appeared in front of Spanish Fort. From that time until the night of April 8 the regiment was actively engaged in the siege. At 5 o'clock on the evening of the 8th the Union troops were ordered up into the first line of their works. The attack began and at near midnight the First Brigade (including the Seventy-second) and the Third Brigade. Sixteenth Army Corps, charged on the enemy's works and carried them, capturing the fort. The next morning they moved out on the road to Blakely, when their division was held in support of the other divisions charging the enemy's works at that place. The place having been taken, the command went into camp here until the 14th, on which date they moved forward on the road to Mont- gomery. Alabama, marching over the two hundred miles to that place in exactly eleven days. At Montgomery they remained in camp until May 23. when they were ordered to Union Springs, Alabama, forty-five miles from
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Montgomery. There they remained, doing post duty, until July 19, when they started on their homeward journey.
On August 6 they were mustered out of the service at Vicksburg and thence marched directly home to Chicago.
During their term of service they received some four hundred and fifty recruits, and when ordered home they transferred two hundred and seventy of these to the Thirty-third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteers at Meridian, Mississippi. They brought home twenty-two officers and three hundred and ten men.
In an attack upon some of the regiment by a gang of drunken rebels at Yerger's Landing, on their way home, private Levi Derby, of Company E, was killed, and Sergeant Major Blake was so seriously injured by a pistol shot that his life was endangered.
The following little table of statistics is furnished by the adjutant of the regiment and gives some idea of what their service has been :
Number of officers belonging to regiment at date of muster in. 37
Number of enlisted men belonging to regiment at date of muster in . 930
Total 967
Number of officers returning with regiment .
22
Number of enlisted men returning with regiment. 310
Total
332
Number of officers killed in service. 7
Number of men killed in service. 78
Number of officers died of disease. 3
Number of men died of disease. I30
Number of officers wounded I20
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Number of men wounded.
Number of officers taken prisoners
3
Number of men taken prisoners
76
Total 427
Number of battles fought
7
Number of skirmishes II
Total 18
Number of miles traveled since entering service .9,280
Number of days under the enemy's fire. 145
SEVENTY-SECOND INFANTRY REGIMENT.
(Three Years' Service. )
First Assistant Surgeon.
Charles A. Bucher, Batavia ; mustered out August 7, 1865.
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COMPANY A. Privates.
Oscar S. Ingersoll. St. Charles; discharged January 20, 1863; disability. David Lorrioux, Rutland; discharged December 3, 1864.
COMPANY B. Private.
Isaac B. Dorr, Geneva : mustered out August 7. 1865. as corporal.
Recruits.
Paul E. Gros, Rutland; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry. David Larreaux, Rutland: transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.
COMPANY E. Privates.
Lewis O. Lyon, Geneva; mustered out August 7. 1865. as corporal. Thomas S. Seacord. Geneva : died, Memphis, January 28, 1863.
COMPANY F. Privates.
Alexander Archibald, Dundee; mustered out August 7. 1865.
Alfred Booth, Dundee ; mustered out August 7, 1865.
Edward Oertell. Dundee; promoted first lieutenant from first sergeant.
COMPANY G. Second Lieutenant.
Benjamin F. Leonard. Aurora : commission cancelled.
First Sergeant.
Benjamin F. Leonard. Aurora: severly wounded : discharged July 30, 1863 ; disability.
Privates.
Ebenezer Denny. Aurora : discharged August 30, 1863, for promotion in Fiftieth U. S. C. I.
James T. Fox, Aurora ; discharged for promotion February 16, 1863.
Barnett Payne, Aurora; mustered out August 7. 1863, as corporal.
David Peabody. Aurora : mustered out August 7. 1863. as corporal.
Jacob H. Staley. Aurora; killed at Franklin, Tennessee. November 30, 1864.
James VanSickles, Sugar Grove : mustered out August 7. 1865.
COMPANY H. Private.
Charles Deiter, Aurora; died, Memphis, June 10. 1863.
COMPANY K. Corporal.
Edward G. Stevens, Aurora : mustered out August 7. 1865. as private. Recruit.
John Murray. Aurora; deserted September 27.
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SEVENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service. ) COMPANY B. Privates.
Joseph B. Crawford, Sugar Grove; mustered out July 22, 1865.
John A. Crawford, Sugar Grove ; discharged October 25, 1864; disability. Stephen Gibson, Sugar Grove; mustered out July 22, 1865, as corporal.
William I. Hayes, Sugar Grove; died, Memphis, July 6, 1863.
Unassigned Recruit.
George Nelson, Aurora ; discharged July 2, 1864.
SEVENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service. ) COMPANY D. Corporal.
James Scoon, Rutland ; mustered out June 17, 1865.
Private.
John Scoon, Rutland; mustered out July 10, 1865.
EIGHTY-SECOND INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service.)
COMPANY II. Sergeant.
Peter Steven, Aurora ; mustered out June 9, 1865, as private.
Corporal.
Carl Schulze, Aurora; mustered out June 9, 1865, as sergeant.
Musician. Joseph Diller, Aurora : mustered out June 9, 1865. Privates.
Johann Beetenschlag, Aurora; died July 26, 1864; wounds.
Christian Holz, Aurora; died at Aurora, Illinois, March 1, 1864, as corporal.
Peter Schmidt, Aurora; mustered out June 9, 1865.
COMPANY I. Private.
Bent Stevenson, Blackberry; mustered out June 9, 1865.
EIGHTY-SIXTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service.) COMPANY A. Private.
James A. Allison, Montgomery; transferred to V. R. C. September I, 1863.
HISTORY OF EIGHTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY.
The Eighty-eighth Infantry Illinois Volunteers was organized in Chicago, Illinois, in September, 1862, by Colonel Francis T. Sherman, and was known
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as the "Second Board of Trade Regiment." It was mustered in September 4. 1862.
Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky. September 4, and went into camp below Jeffersonville. Received arms on the 11th. Moved to Covington, Kentucky, 12th. On the 15th was brigaded with Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and Second and Fifteenth Missouri, Colonel Greasel's ( First) Brigade, Granger's Division. Army of the Ohio. On the 21st moved to Louisville and was brigaded with Twenty-first Michigan, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and Thirty-sixth Illinois, Colonel Greasel commanding. Thirty-seventh Brigade, Eleventh Division, Brigadier General P. H. Sheridan commanding.
October 1, 1862, marched in pursuit of Bragg. Engaged in the battle of Perryville, October 8, losing four killed, five mortally wounded, and thirty-six wounded. Marched to Crab Orchard and thence to Lebanon and Bowling Green. Kentucky, arriving October 30. 1862. Moved toward Nashville. arriving at Edgefield November 7. Moved November 17 six miles south of Nashville, on Nolensville pike.
November 20, 1862, brigaded in First Brigade, Second Division, under Major General P. H. Sheridan, of the right wing, Army of the Cumberland.
December 26, 1862. marched in the advance upon Murfreesboro.
December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863. engaged in the battle of Stone River.
January, 1863, to June, 1863. encamped at Murfreesboro, with the excep- tion of a scout to Columbia, Tennessee, in pursuit of Van Horn.
June, 1863. to July. 1863 brigaded in First Brigade. Second Division, Twentieth Army Corps. Engaged in the advance in movement against and pursuit of Bragg from middle Tennessee.
August, 1863. encamped at Bridgeport, Alabama.
September. 1863. joined in the Chickamauga campaign and advanced to Alpine, Georgia.
September 19 and 20, 1863, engaged in the battle of Chickamauga.
October. 1863. encamped at Chattanooga. Brigaded in First Brigade. Second Division. Fourth Army Corps.
November 23 to 25. 1863. engaged in the battle of Mission Ridge. Formed part of the assaulting column upon the left center of the enemy's position, and was among the first to place its colors upon the enemy's works.
December. 1863. to February, 1864, engaged in scouting through east Tennessee, when it encamped at Loudon, where it remained until April. 1864.
April. 1864. moved to Cleveland. Tennessee.
May. 1864. joined in the advance upon the Atlanta campaign. It con- tinned with the advance as part of the Fourth Corps, commanded by Major General Howard, throughout the whole of that campaign. up to and including the capture of Atlanta, participating in the following principal battles and skirmishes : Rocky Face Ridge. Resaca. Adairsville. New Hope Church. Pine Mountain. Mud Creek. Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camp Ground. Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. Its services in the advance movements were continuous and constant from May to September. 1864.
FIAT.M. ECHURCH
FIRST M. E. CHURCH, ELGIN.
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September, 1864, was ordered to Chattanooga and was engaged during the month in duty at that place and Whiteside and Bridgeport.
October, 1864, moved to Gaylesville, Alabama, and returned to Chattanooga.
November, 1864, moved to Pulaski, Tennessee, and thence, upon the advance of Hood, to Columbia, Franklin and Nashville. It was engaged in skirmishes at Columbia and Spring Hill, and in the battle of Franklin, upon the right center, the main point of attack of the enemy.
December 15 and 16, 1864, engaged in the battle of Nashville.
December 16, 1864, to January, 1865, joined in the pursuit of Hood from Tennessee.
January, 1865, to March, 1865, encamped at Huntsville, Alabama.
March, 1865, moved to Bull's Gap, east Tennessee. May, 1865, moved to Nashville, where it remained until its muster out.
During the period of its service the regiment was always in the front. It was never upon garrison duty. Its losses in the engagements in which it participated aggregate two-thirds of its number; and its conduct in every battle was such as to merit and receive the commendation of its brigade, division and corps commanders. For its conduct at Stone River, Mission Ridge and Franklin it was made the subject of special mention.
The regiment was mustered out June 9, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee, and arrived at Chicago June 13, 1865, where it received final pay and discharge June 22, 1865.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service. )
COMPANY A. Privates.
William Dade, Kane county; deserted October 29, 1862.
William J. Russell, Geneva ; mustered out June 9, 1865, as sergeant.
Otis B. Skinner, Elgin; deserted September 9, 1864.
COMPANY B. Private.
Frederick A. Shull, Rutland; mustered out June 9, 1865.
COMPANY C. Privates.
William Buzzell, Hampshire ; discharged May 13, 1865.
Israel Brooks, St. Charles; deserted Septemer 19, 1862.
Oscar Humphrey, Hampshire; corporal ; died December 2, 1864; wounds.
COMPANY H. Private.
Benjamin S. Cool, Elgin ; killed at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1863.
COMPANY I. Private. John Liddel, Aurora ; deserted November 29, 1862.
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COMPANY K.
Privates.
Leonard D. Brisbane, Virgil ; captured at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30. 1864.
Phillip Flood, Virgil; mustered out June 9, 1865, as corporal.
Michael Grady. Virgil ; transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1864.
John Stockwell, Virgil; discharged December 18, 1862; disability.
John Wilcox. Virgil; first sergeant; killed at Chickamauga, Tennessee, September 20. 1863.
HISTORY OF EIGHTY-NINTH INFANTRY.
The "Rail Road Regiment" was organized by the railroad companies of Illinois, at Chicago, in August. 1862. Captain John Christopher, Sixteenth United States Infantry, was appointed colonel, and Charles T. Hotchkiss, lieutenant colonel. It was mustered into the United States service August 27.
Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky. September 4. and was assigned, by Major General Wright, commanding Department of Ohio, to Third Brigade, Colonel Woodruff : Second Division, General Cruft; AArmy of Kentucky, General Nelson. Assigned October I to Sixth Brigade, General Willich; Second Division, General Sill; McCook's Corps of Buell's Army.
The regiment, on leaving Louisville, started in pursuit of the rebel forces under General Bragg, and, after a fruitless and wearisome march of a month, reached Bowling Green, Kentucky. At this point the tenth company. F. joined the regiment. When in the service but about four months, it took an active part in the memorable battle of Stone River, where, by its gallant con- duct, the men soon became classified among the old. tried soldiers. It did well, and among the heroes who that day died in liberty's cause was Captain Henry S. Willett, of Company H.
On the 7th of January. 1863. Colonel Christopher, who had never joined the regiment, resigned. The line of promotion then ensuing made Captain William D. Williams, of Company F. major.
At Liberty Gap another loss was sustained : Captain Herbert M. Blake, Company K. a truly brave and efficient officer, fell mortally wounded. Chicka- mauga seemed to affix the seal of its devotion. There fell Lieutenant Colonel Duncan J. Hall, Captains Rice, Spink and Whiting, and Lieutenant Ellis, besides the scores of brave men who fought with noble heroism, and who (ared to "do and die" in defense of the "old flag."
Upon the reorganization of the Army of the Cumberland the regiment was transferred, with Willich's command, to its new position in the First Brigade. Third Division, Fourth Army Corps. At Missionary Ridge it again encountered the foe, scaling the enemy's entrenchiments and driving him from them. In this charge fell those gallant officers, Lieutenant E. O. Young, Com- pany A, and Captain Henry L. Rowell, Company C.
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