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Henry J. Brockway, Dundee; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Sergeant.
Henry J. Brockway. Dundee ; promoted first lieutenant.
Corporals.
Frank B. Reeves, Dundee; discharged September 18, 1863 ; wounds. William E. Tollhurst, Dundee : died at home October 21, 1862. Privates.
Daniel Brown, Dundee; discharged September 18, 1863; disability.
Albert M. Dunton. Dundee ; discharged October 27, 1864; wounds.
Josiah W. Goodwin, Dundee ; died of wounds received at Champion Hills, Mississippi, May 16, 1863.
Albert Gibbs, Dundee ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Milford G. Harris, Dundee : mustered out August 15, 1865.
Stephen A. Houghton. Dundee : discharged October 12, 1863; disability. Lorenzo C. Kelly, Geneva : discharged July 7. 1865. Joseph L. Satterlee. Aurora ; discharged June 5, 1865.
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Recruit.
James D. Brower. Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.
COMPANY E. Captains.
William B. Sigley, Aurora : resigned June 27, 1864.
Reese L. Merriman, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
First Lieutenants.
James H. Blackmore, Aurora : resigned July 24. 1863.
Reese L. Merriman. Aurora ; promoted.
William H. Anderson, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Second Lieutenant.
Osborn Willson, Aurora; resigned July 13, 1863.
First Sergeant.
Hiram J. Howland, Aurora; died May 3. 1863; wounds. Sergeants.
William H. Anderson, Aurora ; promoted first lieutenant.
Reese L. Merriman. Aurora ; promoted first lieutenant.
Corporals.
Homer J. Elliott, Aurora : sergeant : discharged October 9. 1863, for promotion in United States Colored Infantry.
Horace J. Hall, Aurora; sergeant ; discharged January 5, 1864, for pro- motion in United States Colored Infantry.
Robert B. Stephens, Aurora; died at Lagrange, Tennessee, December 5, 1862.
John Fairweather, Aurora; discharged August 14, 1863, for promotion in First United States C. H. A.
Jonathan Crosby, Aurora ; mustered out May 29, 1865, as private. Musician.
Frank Pinney, Aurora; discharged July 26, 1864, for promotion as hos- pital steward Third United States Colored Cavalry.
Wagoner. Fowler Irwin, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Privates.
Nelson P. Atwood, Aurora ; discharged October 21, 1862; disability.
Charles L. Cheeney. Aurora; died at Jackson. Tennessee, October 24, 1862.
Thomas D. Cuthbert, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Henry Dickson, Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal.
Silas W. Dunning, Aurora : mustered out June 14, 1865; was prisoner. Justus Dodge, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Marshall Dow, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Sylvester D. Elderkin, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Sebra Emerson. Aurora : deserted October 6, 1862.
Patrick M. Fitzgerald, Aurora: mustered out August 15. 1865, as ser- geant.
John H. French, Aurora : died Vicksburg November 14, 1864.
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Arthur M. Gurnsey, Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865.
William M. Hale, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865. Lanson Hinman, Aurora; discharged March 5, 1863 : disability. Charles Hartman, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865. Daniel Jenkins, Aurora : died Vicksburg January 11, 1864.
John Karney, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
James W. Lusk, Aurora ; mustered out June 1. 1865, as corporal.
Jacob L. Lantz, Aurora; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 26, 1863.
Herbert Lane, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865, as corporal.
John Martin, Aurora : killed at Raymond, Mississippi, May 12, 1863.
Edward McGlynn, Aurora ; died at Camp Douglas, Illinois, August 15, 1865.
Michael Maloney, Aurora; mustered out Baton Rouge, Louisiana. David S. Miller, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865.
Neil McGlaughlin, Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865.
Amos B. Morey, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865. William Mears, Aurora ; discharged September 17, 1864; disability.
Horace Mckay, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. Joseph R. Miller, Aurora : died Vicksburg July 28. 1863.
Horace Miner, Aurora : transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps June 30, 1864; mustered out July 5. 1865, as first sergeant.
Joseph D. Newman, Aurora : mustered out July 6, 1865.
Charles M. Plummer, Aurora: transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps April 2, 1864.
Harvey B. Powers, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865. as first sergeant, commissioned second lieutenant : not mustered.
Peter Rackmeyer. Aurora: died Memphis June 10. 1863.
Ezra D. Race, Aurora : corporal: transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 26, 1863.
Maurice C. Ryan. Aurora : discharged December 30. 1863. for promo- tion in Sixty-third United States Colored Infantry.
John E. Roach, Aurora : discharged April 15. 1863 : disability.
Adam N. Roach, Aurora : died at Lake Providence, Louisiana. April 22. 1863.
William Smith. Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865. as corporal.
David D. Speer, Aurora : discharged September 17. 1864; disability.
Martin L. Stage, Aurora : discharged October 29, 1864: disability.
Napoleon J. Smith, Aurora : discharged August 1. 1863. for promotion in First Louisiana Colored Infantry.
John St. Martin, Aurora: absent: wounded at Vicksburg : unofficially reported transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
Joseph Thompson, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865.
Richard S. Thompson. Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865. as ser- geant.
William Vinter. Aurora : discharged December 18. 1862; disability.
Daniel Vinson, Aurora : mustered out .August 15. 1865.
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Henry Weber, Aurora ; deserted October 6, 1862.
John H. Ward, Aurora; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 26, 1863 ; mustered out June 25. 1865.
John Wilyne, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
David Weigler, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Job H. Yaggy, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal. Recruits.
Nelson W. Hinkston, Aurora; musician; discharged April 15, 1863; disability.
Alonzo V. Howard, Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.
COMPANY F. Recruits.
Henry Ankel. Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry. Joseph Allbee, Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois Infantry.
Adolph Nebring, Sugar Grove; transferred to Thirty-third Illinois In- fantry.
COMPANY H. Captain.
John W. Kendall, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865. First Lieutenants.
Justus D. Andrews, Aurora; resigned January 28, 1863.
Theodore Potter, Aurora; resigned January 26, 1864.
Greenville A. Spear, Aurora; died November 8. 1864.
Freeman L. Campbell, Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865.
Second Lieutenants.
Theodore Potter, Aurora ; promoted.
Joy Jay Tarble, Aurora ; declined commission.
Greenville A. Spear, Aurora : promoted.
George M. Cronk, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant. First Sergeant.
George S. Prindle, Aurora; private; discharged May 12, 1863, for pro- motion as hospital steward United States Army.
Sergeants.
Greenville A. Spear, Aurora ; promoted second lieutenant.
Joy Jay Tarble, Aurora ; promoted second lieutenant ; declined ; mustered out May 28, 1865. as private.
Melvin Tarble, Aurora : private : discharged August 31, 1863, for promo- tion as hospital steward United States Army.
Freeman L. Campbell, Aurora ; promoted first lieutenant.
Corporals.
George M. Cronk, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as first ser- geant ; commissioned second lieutenant ; not mustered.
Levi Morgan. Aurora ; discharged July 6. 1865, as sergeant.
Oliver D. Bonney, Aurora : sergeant ; discharged January 13, 1864, for promotion second lieutenant Sixty-sixth United States Colored Infantry.
Charles E. Otis, Aurora ; mustered out June 2. 1865, as private.
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Alvin A. Page, Aurora; died at Lagrange. Tennessee, November 23, 1862.
George R. Robinson, Aurora; private: transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January 15, 1864.
Russell Richardson, Aurora; mustered out May 28, 1865, as private.
Samuel Miner, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant.
Musicians.
Joseph E. Merrill, Aurora : promoted principal musician.
Xenophon Beher. Aurora; discharged January 19. 1864. for promotion chief bugler Third United States Colored Cavalry.
H'agoner.
Albert B. Albee, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865. Privates.
Orrin C. Allison, Aurora ; died Vicksburg August 16. 1863.
Merritt Allen, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865.
Charles B. Allaire, Aurora : promoted sergeant major.
Gustavus Alcott, Aurora : mustered out May 28. 1865.
Robert T. Anderson, Aurora : discharged November 21. 1863 : disability. Theodore Bammer. Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865.
Wallace W. Baker, Aurora ; mustered out May 31, 1865, as sergeant.
George H. Baker, Aurora; discharged March 29, 1863; disability.
Frank Bailey, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865. as corporal.
Samuel A. Campbell, Aurora : discharged January 4, 1864. for promotion as first sergeant Third United States Colored Cavalry.
John D. Church, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
William Cassalee, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865.
William Carpenter. Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
William H. Crosby. Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Florence M. Crosbh. Aurora : discharged January 10, 1864, for promotion as first sergeant Third United States Colored Cavalry.
James R. Chidester. Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Henry E. Daniels. Aurora; discharged December II, 1863, to enlist as hospital steward United States Army.
Horace M. Drake. Aurora ; mustered out May 3. 1865.
Solomon S. Dennison, Aurora ; discharged December 13, 1863, for pro- motion as quartermaster sergeant Third United States Colored Cavalry.
Warren H. Ensign, Aurora ; mnstered out August 15, 1865.
James A. Egleston. Aurora : discharged August 26, 1863; disability.
Charles Edson, Aurora; discharged May 7. 1863; disability.
Henry H. Evans, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Henry Fransham. Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865. as sergeant.
William Ferrin, Aurora ; detached at muster out of regiment.
Jacob F. Fisher, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Theophilus Gaines, Aurora ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps April 2, 1864.
Theodore Golden, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Martin J. Gould. Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
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James R. Gillett. Aurora ; discharged January 3. 1863; disability. Willis A. Gardner, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Jason Gregory, Aurora ; mustercd out August 15. 1865, as corporal.
William Hurlbut, Aurora : mustered out August 15. 1865.
Austin P. Hatch, Aurora; discharged August 7. 1863 ; disability.
James A. Hurd, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal. Daniel Harris, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Ashael Judd, Aurora ; discharged January 2, 1864, for promotion quarter- master sergeant Fifth United States H. A. C.
Herman Kennedy, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Martin Lenox. Aurora; killed at Champion Hills, Mississippi, May 16, 1863.
William T. Murray. Aurora ; mustered out June 17, 1865.
Henry J. Morton, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
John Miles. Aurora ; died Chicago April 14, 1865.
John A. Miller, Aurora; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 28, 1863.
Orlando J. Mccollum, Aurora; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January 15. 1865.
George Ormes, Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Emerson Pinney, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865, as corporal.
David H. Parsons, Aurora ; corporal ; died at home July 23, 1864.
John J. Potter. Aurora ; died St. Louis August 12, 1863.
George W. Rake, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865. as corporal.
Alphonzo Rice. Aurora; killed at Champion Hills, Mississippi, May 16, 1863.
George W. Slate, Aurora; discharged October 8, 1864; disability. Albert Stickles, Aurora ; mustered out August 15. 1865.
George A. Snow, Aurora : killed at Champion Hills, Mississippi, May 16, 1863.
Charles H. Sneidecker. Aurora; mustered out August 15, 1865, as ser- geant.
Byron Snow, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865, as sergeant.
Harvey S. Seymore, Aurora; discharged April 2, 1864, for promotion quartermaster sergeant Fifth United States H. A. C.
Wilford A. Seymore, Aurora : mustered out June 7, 1865. as corporal on detached service.
Peter F. Shyler, Aurora; killed at Champion Hills. Mississippi, May 16, 1863
Leroy J. Smith, Aurora; drowned September 29, 1863. while trying to escape from burning steamer Campbell.
David Smith, Aurora; discharged April 25, 1864; wounds.
Joseph Sedgwick, Aurora; corporal; discharged December 15. 1863; promoted first sergeant in Third United States Colored Cavalry.
Martin J. Tarble, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865.
Charles Tittsworth, Aurora; died at Memphis June 23, 1863; wounds.
William Van Sickle, Aurora; discharged October 20, 1862; disability.
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George A. White, Aurora ; mustered out May 23, 1865.
John Waldvogel, Aurora; discharged November 18, 1862; disability.
William Wright, Aurora : mustered out August 15, 1865.
Wallace Wilder, Aurora; died at Annapolis, Maryland, March 16. 1865. John Woodward, Aurora; discharged August 26, 1863; disability.
Charles Woodward, Aurora ; mustered out August 15, 1865. Evans M. Waterman, Aurora ; discharged March 6, 1863; disability.
Albert A. Westever, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Harvey Woodcock, Aurora; mustered out August 15. 1865.
Henry Young, Aurora; discharged December 3. 1863; disability.
Recruit.
Henry Loomis, Aurora ; discharged February 26, 1863; disability.
HISTORY OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.
The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry was raised under the call of President Lincoln for five hundred thousand volunteers in the summer of 1862. Company A was recruited in Kendall county; Company B, in and around Chicago; Company C, at Elgin; Company D, in Grundy county ; Com- pany E, at St. Charles; Company F, at Plano; Company G, in Chicago; Com- pany H, about Lyons; Company I, at Elgin, and Company K, at Aurora and Big Rock. The regiment was mustered in this service at Camp Douglas September 6, 1862.
The regiment performed a considerable amount of guard duty in Camp Douglas, where the Harper's Ferry prisoners were sent in the fall of 1862.
The command drew a full complement of English Enfield rifles in the beginning of November, 1862, and on the 9th of that month departed over the Illinois Central railway for Cairo, where it went on board the steamer Emer- ald, and landed at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 13th. Went into camp near the city and was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, then a part of the right wing of the Army of the Tennessee.
On the 26th of November departed on the expedition under General W. T. Sherman in pursuit of Generals Price and Van Dorn. Marched to the neighborhood of Oxford. Mississippi, where the command was reviewed by General Grant, and returned without encountering the enemy, to Memphis. on the 13th of December.
On the 20th of that month embarked on the Mississippi river as a part of the expedition under General Sherman, destined to operate against Vicks- burg. Reached the Yazoo December 25 and was engaged in the operations on the Chickasaw Bayou from December 26 to January 1. during which its losses were one man killed ( William Elmy, of Company H) and seven wounded. A number of men soon after died of malignant measles.
The regiment was with the expedition under General McClernand, which captured Arkansas Post. January 11, 1863, and was one of the first to plant its colors on the enemy's works. Its losses in the assault were two killed. twenty wounded and nine missing.
Following this expedition the army encamped at Young's Point, and on the peninsula opposite Vicksburg. where the One Hundred and Twenty-
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seventh performed picket and fatigue duty, working on the famous "canal" begun by General Butler, and during the next three months having a great amount of sickness in its ranks, and losing a large number of men by disease. At times the regiment could report scarcely a hundred men for duty.
The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in the expedition to Steele's and Black Bayous in March, but, though suffering great hardships, returned without loss.
It was engaged in the movements to Grand Gulf, and in the rear of Vicksburg in May, and, when General Grant's army closed upon the doomed city on the 18th of the month it formed a part of the line of battle of the Fifteenth Corps, on the right of the army.
It was in the bloody assaults upon the Vicksburg lines, May 19 and 22, on the first day planting its colors on the glacis of the rebel works, and main- taining its position until nightfall, when the troops were withdrawn. The losses of the regiment in the two engagements were about fifteen killed and sixty wounded.
During the siege of Vicksburg the regiment was on detached duty at the Chickasaw Bayou until within a few days of the surrender, when it re- turned to the trenches, and was present at the surrender of the rebel stronghold July 4, 1863.
On the night following the surrender all the men fit for duty, less than fifty in number, under Major Curtiss, marched with General Sherman's com- mand, which drove General Joe Johnston from Jackson a few days later. Dur- ing these operations the remnant of the regiment was under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richmond, of Company E.
Following the defeat of Johnston, the Fifteenth Corps went into camp near Black river, about fifteen miles east of Vicksburg, where it remained until ordered, in September, to Chattanooga.
After the return of the Fifteenth Corps from Jackson, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was granted about twenty-five furloughs and leaves of absence. When the regiment went into camp at Black river it had less than one hundred men fit for duty, about four hundred being in the hospital on Walnut Hills, in the rear of Vicksburg.
On the 22d of September the Fifteenth Army Corps, under orders from General Grant, broke camp on Black river, and, marching to Vicksburg, took steamers for Memphis, from which point the troops marched overland, three hundred miles, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where they began to arrive about the 15th of November. There was considerable fighting at Collierville, on the line of the Memphis and Charleston Railway, and in the neighborhood of Tuscumbia, Alabama, but, in spite of all opposition, the corps arrived in splen- did fighting trim in front of General Bragg's army at Chattanooga, and took part in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, November 22 to 25, which ended in the total discomfiture of the rebel forces with heavy loss.
During the march through the mountains between Bridgeport and Chatta- nooga the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was on detached service guarding trains. Following the defeat of Bragg it formed a part of General Sherman's expedition for the relief of General Burnside, lesieged in Knoxville. Tennes-
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see, by the rebel General Longstreet, marching to within a few miles of that place and returning to Bridgeport about the 18th of December.
In January. 1864. the Fifteenth Corps was cantoned along the Memphis and Charleston Railway, the divisions occupying Huntsville, Woodville, Larkinsville and Scottsboro, in northern Alabama, the Second Division. to which the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh belonged, being stationed at Larkinsville.
During the latter part of January and the beginning of February, the regiment took part in the forward movement of the corps, which crossed the Tennessee river near its southern bend, and made a demonstration in favor of General W. T. Sherman. then engaged in his famous raid from Vicksburg toward Meridian, Mississippi, at the head of the Seventeenth Army Corps.
During the encampment at Larkinsville a number of the officers of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh sent for their wives, who visited them in camp and remained several weeks.
A sad occurrence, and one which cast a gloom over the regiment greater than the loss of twenty men in battle, was the murder of Joseph E. Corby, of Company I, who was found dead in front of our camp on the morning of January 24. 1864.
The regiment broke camp at Larkinsville on the Ist day of May. 1864. and moved with its division toward Chattanooga, which place was reached on the 5th, and on the evening of the same day encamped on the Chickamauga battlefield with the Army of the Tennessee, then under command of General J. B. McPherson.
The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in the series of battles around Resaca, notably the one on the evening of May 14. when the brigade to which it was attached carried the fortified line along the slope of Conasine creek by a desperate assault with the bayonet, in which the regiment bore a conspicuous part and captured a number of prisoners. Immediately following this successful charge came the return assault of General Cleburne's rebel division, which made three furious charges upon our lines only to be bloodily repulsed. In the operations in front of Resaca the One Hundred and Twenty- seventh lost one man killed and three wounded.
In the sharp fighting among the Dallas Hills from the 26th of May to June I the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was almost constantly under fire, showing conspicuous gallantry in the actions of the 27th and 29th. Daniel T. Lane, of Company E. was seriously wounded on the 27th.
On the 4th of June the enemy abandoned his strong works at Dallas and fell back behind the still stronger position on and around Kenesaw Mountain and Pine Hill, where he maintained himself for nearly a month, during which period it rained almost incessantly, making active operations nearly impossible.
On the 27th of June occurred the desperate assault of the Fifteenth Corps upon Kenesaw Mountain, which frowned a thousand feet above the heads of our men, covered with rifle pits, strong parapets, and death-dealing batteries. In this marvelous affair the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh stood up grandly under the most terrible fire it had ever encountered.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE-LOOKING NORTHI-1860.
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On the 2d of July the enemy abandoned the defenses of Kenesaw and fell back to the Chattahoochee river. On the 6th our advance was in sight of Atlanta, and on the 12th and 13th the Army of the Tennessee was transferred by a rapid movement from the extreme right to the extreme left, and, follow- ing Garrard's cavalry column across the Chattahoochee near Rosswell, en- trenched itself and compelled the rebel commander to retreat across the river into liis Atlanta lines. The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh took part in all these movements.
The whole army now crossed the Chattahoochee, and the battle of Peach Tree Creek followed on the 20th of July. General John B. Hood had been placed in command of the rebel army on the 19th in place of General Joseph E. Johnston, relieved by Jefferson Davis, and fighting became desperate.
In the bloody engagement of the 22d of July, east of Atlanta, in which the lamented McPherson fell, the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh was in the thickest of the fray, the brigade to which it belonged being led into the fight by General Logan in person.
A few days later the Fifteenth Corps was transferred to the extreme right of the army, where, on the 28th of July, it was furiously assailed by a corps of Hood's army, which was repulsed with terrible loss, leaving no less than eight hundred and twenty-eight dead in front of our lines. The weight of the attack fell upon the Second Division of our corps. The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, forming the extreme right of the army, and, being mostly on the skirmish line, came very near being captured. The timely arrival of a brigade of the Fourteenth Corps, piloted upon the field by Robert Murphy, a drummer boy of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, saved the day. The losses of the regiment on this day were Corporal John T. Bennett and William Peterson, of Company D, and Alfred X. Murdock and William Pooley, of Company A, killed. and seventeen wounded and missing.
About this date Company G, Captain Sewell, was detailed at corps head- quarters as provost guard, a position which it held for several months. On the 31st of July the morning report of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh showed only ninety-two men fit for duty carrying guns.
On the 3d of Angust the regiment took part in an attack on the rebel skirmish line to the west of Atlanta, in which it displayed its usual gallantry and lost a number of men, among whom were Sergeant Ira B. Whitney, of Company B, killed, and five men, including Captain A. C. Little, wounded. Elias Smithers, of Company E, died a few days later of wounds received.
The regiment participated in the subsequent operations around Atlanta. including the great flanking movement of August 27, by which General Sher- man placed the bulk of his army in the rear of General Hood and compelled him to evacuate Atlanta on the 2d of September. During the withdrawal of the army from the lines on the night of August 26 Sergeant Major William W. Lawton, of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh, was mortally wounded and died the same night in the ambulance. This was the only casualty in the Army of the Tennessee during the movement.
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