History of Henry County, Indiana, Part 30

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Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago: Inter-State Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 996


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made Company H thereof. Soon afterward it moved into Texas with the old Fourth Corps, and late in 1865 was mustered out of service.


Colonel Grose (whose distinguished services will be further men- tioned elsewhere) was made a Brigadier-General in August, 1864, and Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver H. P. Carey was commissioned his successor. Prior to this appointment Colonel Grose had com- manded a brigade for nearly two years.


Lieutenant Fenstress was killed at New Hope Church; Lieuten- ants. Hendricks and Bowman, before Kenesaw; and Lieutenant Willard was mortally wounded in front of Atlanta.


FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENT-THIRD CAVALRY.


With this organization served a number of Henry County vol- unteers, among whom were one entire company-Company I, offi- cered as follows: Captains, Wm. C. Moreau, Angus D. Vanorsdal, Charles Hedrick; First Lieutenants, Tighlman Fish, Thomas B. Wilkinson; Second Lieutenants, Oliver Childs, Charles Hedrick (promoted Captain).


Companies G, H, I and K constituted the left wing of the Third Cavalry. They were organized at Madison and transferred to Kentucky in October, 1861. During a period of over a year the companies were separated, performing duty with different com- mands. On their arrival in Kentucky the companies encamped at Camp Wickliffe, where they remained until the movement toward Nashville began. In this they joined. They moved to Corinth after the battle of Shiloh, and from Corinth into Northern Ala- bama and Southern Tennessee. Marching with various divisions during the Buell and Bragg campaign, they returned to Nashville in November, and encamped near Edgefield Junction.


The battalion went with Rosecrans's army toward Murfreesboro, and was in the campaigns of the winter of 1862, and of the spring, summer and fall of 1863. The battle of Missionary Ridge con- cluded the campaign of the year. Under command of Lieutenant- Colonel Robert Klein the battalion moved into Eastern Tennessee, and was there engaged in scouting and skirmishing duty until the opening of the Atlanta campaign. Then joining Sherman's army it proceeded to Atlanta, participating in all the cavalry operations of that eventful campaign. While "marching through Georgia " the battalion accompanied Sherman's cavalry. At Savannah, by order of General Sherman, the remaining veterans and recruits


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were transferred, becoming consolidated with the Eighth Indiana Cavalry. The detachment served with the Eighth Cavalry through- out the remainder of the movements of that organization, and was mustered out with it at Lexington, N. C., July 20, 1865.


FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.


There were several volunteers from this county who served with the above regiment ( Colonel James R. Slacks). Among the officers were Adjutant David M. Stockman and Quartermaster Warren F. Ballard, of Knightstown. The regiment was organized at Ander- son, Oct. 10, 1862, and discharged at Indianapolis, Nov. 2, 1865. Its campaigns were Kentucky, 1862; Mississippi River, 1862; Ar- kansas, 1862-'3; against Vicksburg, 1863; West Louisiana, 1863; Red River, 1864; against Mobile, 1865; West Louisiana; 1865.


FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT-THREE YEARS' SERVICE.


Among the officers and soldiers of this regiment were several residents of Henry County. Part of Company A consisted of Knightstown men. There were also citizens of the county in other companies. George W. Lennard, of New Castle, was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of this regiment Dec. 2, 1862, and commis- sioned Colonel July 28, 1863. He died of wounds received at Re- saca, Ga., May 15, 1864. Surgeon Henry M. Crouse, of Knights- town; Captain Robert Allison, of Company A; First Lieutenants Thomas M. Grubbs and Mark M. Morris; Second Lieutenants Wm. H. Leonard, Thomas J. Owens and John E. Deck, of Company A; Captains William S. Bradford and John H. Rent, of Company F; First Lieutenant Chas. W. T. Minesinger, of Company F; Second Lieutenant Richmond Wisehart, of Company F; Second Lieutenant Leonidas Fox, of Company K, were also from Henry County.


The Fifty-seventh Regiment was mustered into service at Rich- mond, Ind., Nov. 18, 1861, and moved to Indianapolis, Dec. 10. It went to Kentucky the same month, remained there until March, when it reached Nashville. The regiment was in the second day's fight at Shiloh, April 7. It was actively employed in the siege of Corinth. Thence it marched into Alabama and Tennessee re- maining in the latter until September. It joined the pursuit of Bragg in Kentucky and was in the battle of Chapin Hills, or Perry- ville. About the 1st of December the Fifty-seventh reached Nashville.


The regiment had a distinguished part in the battle of Stone


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River. About 350 of its men were engaged, seventy-five of whom were lost. During the Tennessee campaign, including the capture of Chattanooga and the battle of Chickamauga, the Fifty-seventh was attached to Warner's brigade, operating on the north side of the Tennessee River, opposite Chattanooga. The brigade crossed the river and occupied the town after its evacuation.


After the battle of Chickamanga the Army of the Cumberland was reorganized and the Fifty-seventh Regiment assigned to Sheri- dan's division of the Fourth Corps. It participated in the winter campaign in East Tennessee in 1863'-4, and had its full share of hardships. Most of the regiment re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864, and in March had veteran furloughs. The Fifty-seventh was actively en- gaged at Rocky Face Ridge, near Dalton, Ga., May 9; at Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope Church and Kenesaw. It was employed in the campaign against Atlanta and in the pursuit of Hood; and at the battle of Nashville, in December. Moving to Huntsville, Ala., thence to Nashville, it was transferred to Texas in July, 1865; finally mustered out in the fall of 1865.


SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT.


The Sixty-ninth Regiment, at first commanded by Colonel Wm. A. Bickle, afterward by Colonel Thos. W. Bennett, contained two companies ( H and I) of Henry County soldiers. The officers of Company H were: Captains, Frederick Hoover and David Yount; First Lieutenants, David Yount ( promoted), De Witt C. Hoover and Charles C. Shedron; Second Lientenants, Hiram B. Brattain, Charles C. Shedron ( promoted). Officers of Company I: Captain Robert K. Collins; First Lientenants, Andrew J. Slinger, John Goodnoe; Second Lieutenant, John H. Foster,


The regiment was organized at Richmond, Ind., Aug. 19, 1862. The next day it left for Lexington, Ky., and upon arriving there proceeded to Richmond in the same State. On the 30th of the month, in the battle with Kirby Smith's rebel forces, the regiment lost 218 men and officers, killed and wounded. The troops fought nobly, but were overpowered by the disciplined force of the enemy and the regiment was captured almost en masse. Those captured were at once paroled and sent to the parole camp at Indianapolis.


After being exchanged the regiment was re-organized at Indian- apolis, and on Nov. 27, 1862, left for Memphis in command of Colo- nel Bennett. It was assigned to Sheldon's brigade ( Morgan's division of Sherman's wing of Grant's army) and on Dec. 20 pro-


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ceeded down the Mississippi on the expedition to Vicksburg. The Sixty-ninth was engaged in the assault upon the Confederate works at Chickasaw Bluffs, but suffered only a slight loss. From this point the regiment moved to Arkansas Post and there was engaged Jan. 11, 1863. After the capture of the post the regiment moved to Young's Point. Here it was overtaken by disaster, losing over a 100 men from disease. Late in February the Sixty-ninth moved to Milliken's Bend. On the morning of March 30 it marched as the advance regiment of Grant's army in the Vicksburg expedition. At Roundaway Bayou, opposite Richmond, La., a rebel force was encountered and dislodged. The regiment crossed to Richmond in boats then assisted in constructing bridges for the passage of the main army. In three days 2,000 feet of bridging was constructed thus completing a military road across the peninsula from the river above Vicksburg to the river forty miles below. The entire army then moved rapidly over the road.


The advance crossed the river at Hard Times Landing, April 30, and disembarked on the opposite bank. Thence it marched to Port Gibson, where, on the next day, the battle of Thompson's Hill was fought. Here the Sixty-ninth lost seventy-one killed and wounded. An engagement followed at Champion Hills, May 16, and May 17 the enemy's works at Black River Bridge were assaulted. The regiment then moved to the rear of the rebel works at Vicksburg, taking part in the siege, also in the assault of May 22. On the 23d, with Osterhaus's division, it proceeded to Black River Bridge, where it was on duty, holding Johnson in check, while the siege lasted. The regiment served with the above- named division (which opened all the engagements prior to the investment of Vicksburg) during all of the operations on the east side of the Mississippi.


On the 6th of July the division began a movement toward Jack- son-it was the advance and did all the skirmishing. The Sixty- ninth took part in the six days' siege of Jackson. On Aug. 3, it returned to Vicksburg, whence it was sent with the Thirteenth Army Corps to Port Hudson. It was afterward transferred to the department of the Gulf and sent to New Orleans. In Septem- ber the Sixty-ninth moved to Berwick City, where it joined General Franklin's Teche expedition. On returning the regiment was sent to Algiers where it arrived in November. Then taking a steamer for Texas, as a part of General Banks's coast expedition, it reached De Crow's Point, Matagorda Bay, Dec. 1. Feb. 13, 1864, it


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sailed for Indianola which place it evacuated March 13, then started for Matagorda Island. While crossing to the island, twenty men and two officers were drowned by the sinking of a boat.


The regiment left Matagorda Island in April for New Orleans. Thence it was sent to Alexandria, arriving April 27. Banks's retreating army was here met. The regiment was engaged in the fight near Alexandria, and during the retreat from thence to the Mississippi, supported the cavalry brigade of Colonel Lucas, cov- ering the retreat of the army. Encamping at Morganza, the regi- ment remained until December, 1864, meantime taking part in various expeditions sent out from that place. Dec. 7 it was sent to Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay. Dec. 14 it joined the Pascagoula expedition of General Granger-a strategic movement to divert the attention of the enemy from other troops. During this expedition the regiment moved to Grand Bay and approached within twenty-two miles of Mobile. It returned to Pascagoula, Jan. 1, 1865.


The regiment was consolidated into a battalion of four companies on the 23d of January, 1865. Lieutenant-Colonel Oran Perry was made the commander. The battalion departed for Florida, Jan. 31, and served in that State and Southern Alabama until April. On the 1st of April, moving then with Steele's expedition, it arrived in the rear of Blakely. The regiment was engaged in the assault upon Blakely, April 9. On the 3d of May it departed from Selma, Ala., for Mobile, where, on July 5, 1865, it was mus- tered out of the service. In the battalion there remained at this time sixteen officers and 284 men. It was present at Indianapolis at a public reception of troops addressed by Governor Morton, on the 18th of July.


EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.


In the Eighty-fourth Regiment, Companies F and G, and part of Company I, were from Henry County. Commissioned officers from this county were: Adjutant Lycurgus L. Boblett; Captain Robert M. Grubbs, of Company F (promoted Major), Captain Joshua T. C. Welborn, Company F .; First Lieutenants, Valen- tine Steiner, J. T. C. Welborn (promoted), Wm. M. Cameron, of Company F; Second Lieutenants, Jerome B. Mason, Alpheus Green, of Company F. Officers of Company G: Captain, Hiram B. Vanneman; First Lieutenants, John M. Moore, Jacob W. Yost, George H. Cain. Of Company I: Captains, James W. Fellows,


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Shipley S. Wilson; First Lieutenants, S. S. Wilson (promoted), Ira Caldwell; Second Lieutenant, Leonidas Fox.


The Eighty-fourth Regiment, organized at Richmond, Ind., was mustered into the service Sept. 3, 1862, Nelson Trusler, Colonel. On the 8th it left for Kentucky, where, upon arriving, it was assigned to the defenses of Covington and Cincinnati, which places the rebels under General Kirby Smith were then threaten- ing. After Buell had driven the invaders back, the regiment proceeded by rail to Point Pleasant, W. Va., Oct. 1. From this place it moved to Guyandotte, where it remained, occasionally doing scouting duty, from Oct. 17 until Nov. 14. Then moving to Catlettsburg, Ky., and shortly after to Cassville, it remained at the latter place until Feb. 7, 1863. Proceeding to Louisville by boat from Catlettsburg, it arrived there on the 17th, and was assigned to the Third Division of the Army of Kentucky. Proceed- ing to Nashville on the 5th of March, it left that place for Frank- lin, where it remained encamped until June 3, and then marched to Triune, Tenn. June 8 it was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Reserve Corps, commanded by Major-General Granger. In an attack made by the enemy upon Triune, on the 11th, the rebels were repulsed, the Eighty-fourth taking part in the fight.


June 23 the regiment joined the pursuit of Bragg, marching to Middleton, thence to Shelbyville, thence to Wartrace, where it encamped until Ang. 12. Here General Whitaker was assigned to the command of the brigade. Marching to Estell Springs, Tullahoma, Stevenson and Bridgeport successively, the Eighty- fourth reached Chattanooga Sept. 13. It encamped at Rossville, five miles from Chattanooga, until the 18th. It then moved to the front and took a position on the left of the line of the Army of the Cumberland. Sept. 19 and 20, in the battle of Chickamauga, the division was commanded by General James B. Steadman. On the afternoon of the 19th his division held the extreme left of the Union line, and the key to Rosecrans's retreat. All attempts of the enemy to gain this position were repulsed. The next day the massed troops of the enemy made a furious attack upon Thomas; the First Division hastened to the relief of the Army of the Cum- berland, and materially aided Thomas in preserving his army. In this battle the Eighty-fourth lost 125 in killed, wounded and miss- ing. On the night of the 20th the regiment left the battle-field and returned to its old camp. The next morning it crossed the


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Tennessee River, and went on picket duty opposite Lookout Mountain. There it remained nine days and nights, skirmishing with the enemy across the river all the time. After ,this the Eighty-fourth was encamped at Shell Mound, then at Moccasin Point until Jan. 26, 1864. The army, meantime, had been organ- ized, and the Eighty-fourth assigned to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps. Leaving Shell Mound, Jan. 26, the regiment marched to Cleveland, arriving Feb. 6. On the 22d it started with a reconnoitering force to Buzzard's Roost, where it was engaged in battle on the 25th. From this time until the 3d of May the regiment was encamped at Cleveland. Then began the Atlanta campaign, during which the Eighty-fourth was engaged in action at the following places: Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Dal- ton, Resaca, Kingston, Pumpkin-Vine Creek, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Culp's Farm, Peach Tree Creek, in front of Atlanta, Shoal's Creek, Jonesboro, and Lovejoy's Station. With this noble record the regiment marched with the army into At- lanta. Meantime the Eighty-fourth was transferred to the Second Brigade, Third Division (General Grose's).


From Atlanta the regiment departed Oct. 3, and arrived at Chattanooga on the 30th. The regiment was assigned with the Fourth Corps, to General Thomas about this time. The next movement was by rail to Athens, Ga., thence to Pulaski, Tenn., where it was from Nov. 4 to Nov. 23. It marched from Pulaski to Columbia on the 23d, reached Franklin on the 30th, and took part in the battle at that place. On the 1st of December the regiment reached Nashville. During the first day's fight at that place (Dec. 15) the Eighty-fourth was not engaged. The second day it was in the thickest of the fight, losing twenty-three killed and wounded. Then joining Hood's pursuers the Eighty-fourth crossed the Ten- nessee River, and being ordered to Huntsville, Ala., arrived there Jan. 5, 1865. The next move was made to Knoxville, March 13, thence to Strawberry Plains, Bell's Gap, and Shields's Mills. April 18 the regiment moved to Nashville, arriving April 23.


The regiment was mustered out at Nashville, June 14, 1865, and reached Indianapolis and was publicly received there in the latter part of the month. The remaining recruits were transferred to the Fifty-seventh Indiana Veterans, and served in Texas until mustered out in November, 1865. A brave regiment was the Eighty-fourth.


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NINETIETH REGIMENT-FIFTH CAVALRY.


In this organization served a small number of Henry County soldiers, chiefly in Company B. The regiment was organized in Indianapolis in 1862. Four companies were mustered into the service in August, five in September, and three in October. The campaigns of the Fifth Cavalry were on Indiana border, 1862-'63; Kentucky, 1863; pursuit of Morgan, 1863; East Tennessee, 1863- '64; against Atlanta, 1864; Stoneman's raid in Georgia, 1864; Tennessee, 1864; Kentucky and Tennessee, 1865. Mustered out in September, 1865.


THE "MINUTE MEN."


"Late on the evening of July 8, 1863," says Adjutant-General Terrell in his report, "intelligence was received at Indianapolis that a rebel force, estimated to be 6,000 cavalry, with four pieces of artillery, under command of General John H. Morgan, had crossed the Ohio River near Mauckport, and was moving on Corydon, Ind. Governor Morton at once issued a patriotic call upon the citizens of the State, to leave their various occupations and organize for defense. Under this call, within the short space of forty eight hours, 65,000 men had tendered their services. Of this force thirteen regiments and one battalion were organized specially for this emergency, and the regiments designated numerically from One Hundred and Second to One Hundred and Fourteenth, inclu- sive, the battalion being assigned to the One Hundred and Sev- enth Regiment."


The " emergency " was soon past and the troops mustered out of service, very few of them having seen any rebels.


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH REGIMENT-MINUTE MEN.


Mustered into service July 10, 1863; mustered out July 18, 1863. Company A-Captain Henry Hatch's-and Company C, were from Henry County. The Lieutenant Colonel, John M. Hartley, was from Knightstown.


ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH REGIMENT-MINUTE MEN.


Company C-Captain Frederick Tykle's-was a Henry County organization. Mustered into service July 10, 1863; mustered out July 17, 1863.


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ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH REGIMENT-MINUTE MEN.


Company A, Captain Andrew J. Slinger, and Company B, Cap- tain George Burton, were from this county. The former was mustered into service July 11, 1863, and mustered out July 14, 1863; the latter, mustered in July 11, 1863; out, July 17, 1863.


ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT-NINTH CAVALRY.


Company E, of the Ninthi Cavalry, was mainly made up of Henry County mnen. There were also citizens of the county in other companies of this organization. The officers of Company E were as follows: Captain, Volney Hobson, killed in action at Franklin, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1864; First Lieutenant, Caleb H. Cooper (promoted from Second Lieutenant); Second Lieutenant, Madison Grose. In Company F was First Lieutenant Daniel W. Comstock, afterward promoted Captain of Company C.


The regiment was organized at Indianapolis, March 1, 1864, with George W. Jackson as Colonel. It remained in the State, under drill, until May 3, then departed for Tennessee. At Pulaski it was on post duty until Nov. 23, meantime participating in skir- mishes. A portion of the regiment, commanded by Major Lilly. took part in an engagement with Forrest at Sulphur Branch Tres- tle, Ala., where it lost 120 men, killed, wounded and missing.


When Hood's campaign opened, the Ninth Cavalry fell back from Pulaski to Nashville, and was at once mounted and sent to the front. Dec. 17, at Franklin, fighting Forrest's cavalry, it lost twenty-six men and officers, killed, wounded and captured. After Hood was defeated and left the State, winter quarters for the regi- ment were established at Gravelly Springs, Ala., and here it re- mained from Jan. 16 to Feb. 6, 1865, when it was ordered to New Orleans. Arriving there March 10, the brigade was broken up, and the Ninth Cavalry, turning over its horses, took steamer or Vicksburg and reached that place March 25. It was on post duty ยท here until May 3, then was again mounted and sent by detach- ments into the interior of Mississippi, there to perform garrison duty.


May 22 the regiment departed for Vicksburg for the purpose of being mustered out. It was not finally mustered out, however, until Aug. 28, 1865. Arriving at Indianapolis, Aug. 5, it was ten- dered a public reception the next day.


On entering the service the regiment had 1,150 men. It re-


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turned with 386. Fifty-five were lost by the explosion of the steamer Sultana, on the Mississippi, April 26, 1865.


ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.


Scattered through the various companies of this regiment were upward of thirty citizens of Henry County. The regiment was formed by consolidating three companies raised for the One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, and seven companies of recruits. The regiment rendezvoused at Richmond, Ind., and was mustered into service March 10, 1864, with James Burgess as Colonel. It was mustered out of service at Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 31, 1865, having seen much hard service. It participated in the campaign against Atlanta, and the pursuit of Hood, 1864, and in North Carolina, 1865.


ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT -- ONE HUNDRED DAYS' SERVICE.


This regiment was organized at Indianapolis, June 8, 1864, with George Humphrey, of Fort Wayne, as Colonel, and John M. Hart- ley, of Knightstown, Lieutenant-Colonel. Two companies were from this county-E, raised at Knightstown, and G, at New Castle. Officers of Company E: Captain, John W. Fort; First Lieutenant, Thomas M. Swain; Second Lieutenant, William H. Bowman. Officers of Company G: Captain, Cornelius M. Moore; First Lieu- tenant, William T. Shelby ; Second Lieutenant, Isaiah B. Ander- son.


The regiment proceeded to Tennessee soon after organization, and did duty at various places along the lines of the Nashville & Chattanooga and Memphis & Charleston railroads. It was kept constantly engaged in guarding these lines until the latter part of August, 1864. The lines were important, being used by Sherman in transporting supplies for his army, which was then advancing toward Atlanta. Serving beyond the term of 100 days, the regi-' ment returned to Indianapolis, where it was finally discharged.


ONE HUNDRED AND FORTIETH REGIMENT.


Company H, of this regiment, was mainly composed of Henry County soldiers. The officers of this company were: Captain, George W. Shane; First Lieutenant, P. Dickinson; Second Lieu- tenants, Robert C. McConnell, John M. Thornburg.


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year's service, under the President's call for 500,000. It was formed at Indianapolis by the consolidation of parts of two regi- ments, the One Hundred and Fortieth and One Hundred and Forty-first, and mustered into service Oct. 24, 1864, Thomas J. Brady, Colonel. Nov. 15 the regiment left Indianapolis for Nash- ville, where, the day after its arrival, orders were received from General Thomas, and the regiment hurried off to Murfreesboro. It arrived there Nov. 23, and was placed on duty in Fortress Rose- crans, where it remained during the continuance of Hood's Nash- ville operations, and took part in all the battles and skirmishes in the vicinity of Murfreesboro. The regiment having been perma- nently assigned to the Twenty-third Corps, after Hood's defeat, it. marched from Murfreesboro, Dec. 24, and reached Columbia, where the corps was halted Dec. 28. Here it was assigned to the Third Brigade of the Third Division of the Twenty-third Corps.


Jan. 2, 1865, it moved across the country to the Tennessee River, thence by steamer down that river and up the Ohio to Cin- cinnati, whence it proceeded by rail to Washington, D. C. From Alexandria, Feb. 3, the regiment took a steamer for Wilmington, N. C., with the expedition against Fort Fisher. Landing on the 8th near the fort, the regiment participated in several attempts made to cross the bayou above the fort. Then proceeding up Cape Fear River and crossing to Smithville, it started toward Wilming- ton on the 17th. During the attack on Fort Anderson the regi- ment was exposed to a severe fire from the Union gun-boats. The rebels were overtaken at Town-Creek Bridge, routed and captured. The One Hundred and Fortieth took part, two of its companies being the first troops to enter the enemy's works. The regiment arrived in front of Wilmington on the 21st, marched through the town and encamped near it on the 23d.




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