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On the twenty-eighth of November the regiment left its camp on Moccasin Point and encamped at the junction of Chattanooga Creek, with the Ten- nessee River one mile below Chattanooga. From that date until May 28, 1864, it was engaged in building railroad-bridges, storehouses, magazines, and saw-mills. It used to be said, if you want anything made, from a watch to a saw-mill, go to a Michigan regiment, and they will do it; and the Twenty-second was not an exception to the rule. It would require a long narrative to tell all that the regiment accomplished in that line. Suffice it
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to say that it was never idle, and that when it worked, no men accomplished more than the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry. On the six- teenth of January, 1864, the cars began to run from Bridgeport to Chattanooga, at which time the long season of short rations ended.
Through the efforts of a recruiting-party, sent home to Michigan under command of Captain Atkinson and Lieutenant Breidenbach, the regi- ment was filled up to something near its old quota during the months of March and April, 1864. May 19th it went into camp on Lookout Mountain, where it remained until May 26th, when it received orders to report to General Thomas in the field, and took up its line of march to the front. It pro- ceeded by rail as far as Kingston, Georgia, and from there marched three and a half miles on the Cassville road, and camped at sunset, May 28th. Just as the regiment was comfortably settled for the night, a dispatch was received from the post- commander at Kingston, stating that the regiment was on the wrong road, and in imminent danger of being attacked, and advising an immediate re- turn to Kingston. After a brief consultation it was decided to throw out pickets, and sleep or fight in that place. There was some good sleeping done that night, but no fighting.
May 29th it marched back in the direction of Kingston, crossed the Etowah River, four miles from that place, passed through the beautiful little town of Euharley, and at five P.M. camped at Altoona Creek. May 30th it crossed the Altoona Mount- ains, and camped that night on a creek four miles from Dallas, Georgia.
On the thirty-first of May it marched two miles to the right of Dallas and reported to General Thomas, who ordered the regiment to report to General Howard, who directed it to support a battery on its right. Here the recruits of the regiment first heard the whistle of bullets, and, as a rule, few ever forgot how they sounded the first time they were heard.
On the first of June, 1864, the regiment was assigned to the Reserve Brigade, Department of the Cumberland, Colonel Heber La Favour com- manding brigade, to report direct to General Thomas. It remained in this brigade until after the object of the campaign was accomplished, viz., the capture of Atlanta. From the time of the organization of the brigade until the fall of that place there was almost continuous battle. The days on which there were no battles were excep- tions to the rule. New Hope Church, Brown's Mill Creek, Morris Hill Church, Big Shanty, Pumpkin-Vine Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Mari- etta, Rough-and-Ready Station, Vining's, Chatta-
hoochie River, Peach-Tree Creek, the battles of July 22d and 28th in front of Atlanta, and Jones- boro', September Ist, will be remembered as the na mes given to some of the engagements at which the regiment was present, but, as the name of its brigade will indicate, it was held as a reserve. Fortunate it was for the regiment that the Union forces were successful, for when disaster comes any position in an army is preferable to that of re- serves,-a fact of which the Twenty-second was made fully aware at Chickamauga.
July 18th, the regiment was halted on the banks of the Chattahoochie River and ordered to build a bridge across it. The material for the bridge was growing on the margin of the river when it ar- rived, and sixty hours thereafter, when it marched away, those trees had been converted into a double- track bridge two hundred and eighty feet long, at an elevation of ten feet above the water, and of sufficient strength for the passage of heavy artil- lery. July 20th, the regiment built a bridge across Nancy Creek, two miles from the Chattahoochie. On the twenty-second of July, 1864, it went into camp too near to the enemy's works in front of Atlanta to render the camp a pleasant one. It remained in front of Atlanta until four A.M., August 25, 1864, when, with the rest of the army, it made the flank movement to the south of that place. The men carried four days' rations in haversacks, and the regimental transportation carried ten days' more. On the twenty-ninth of August it reached Red Oak, a small place on the Montgomery Rail- road. Early that morning the Twenty-second, with the rest of the army, proceeded to the destruc- tion of that road. In a few hours thirteen miles of railroad was destroyed, thus breaking another of the enemy's lines of communication with Atlanta.
On the thirty-first of August the regiment camped at Renfrew's, near Jonesboro', and on the first of September it stood to its arms in readiness to move at a moment's notice to take part in the battle of Jonesboro', which was won on that day by the Union forces. . .
The battle of Jonesboro', fought twenty-five miles south of Atlanta, gave to the Union forces the key to the Confederacy, and on the third of September the regiment began to retrace its steps to the latter place. On the morning of September 8, 1864, the brigade of which the Twenty-second was a part marched into the city of Atlanta with light hearts, colors flying, and bands playing. The prize that had been fought for, inch by inch, for four months, was won at last. It was one, too, at a time when the people of the North were dis- heartened and despondent. A shout of joy went up throughout the North, and none knew how
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great was the reason for rejoicing better than did the Union soldiers.
On the fourteenth of October, while the team- sters of the regiment were grazing their animals just outside the picket-line at Atlanta, a squad of rebel cavalry dashed down upon them and cap- tured six men, five horses, and twenty-nine mules. One of the men who made his escape reported that "all the mules are captured but me." A detach- ment was immediately sent in pursuit, but the enemy made good his escape with prisoners and booty.
The regiment left Atlanta, on its return to Chat- tanooga, October 31, 1864, and arrived at that place at noon, November 6th, having accomplished a march of one hundred and forty miles in six and a half days, through a rain-storm which made the roads horrible. On the night of November 6th the regiment lay down to rest in the mud and rain without shelter. . .
The regiment remained at Chattanooga until June 21, 1865. While it remained at that place it cut, rafted, and sawed lumber sufficient to erect twenty-five buildings, of sufficient capacity to quarter one thousand officers and men. These buildings were erected by the regiment, and occu- pied by it at the time the order for its muster out of service was received. In obedience to this order, it proceeded to Nashville by railroad, where it arrived July 22, 1865. On the twenty-sixth of that month, the muster-out rolls being perfect, it was ordered to Detroit for final payment and dis- charge, and on Tuesday morning, July 27, 1865, it left Nashville by rail homeward bound.
The men of the regiment whose terms of service did not expire on or before October 1, 1865, were transferred to the Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry, in which regiment they served until its final mus- ter out. Although they had joined the Twenty- second after it had been in the field some time, by their cheerful discharge of duty and rapidly- acquired soldierly bearing, they had endeared themselves to the older members of the regiment, and it was with feelings of regret that they were left at Nashville.
On the arrival of the regiment at Indianapolis it was detained twenty-four hours for want of cars. Many will remember the hearty cheers. that went up as the train of coaches (not cattle-cars), bearing the familiar letters M. C. R. R., ran down to the Soldiers' Home in Indianapolis, where the regiment was quartered while in the city. It quickly got on board the cars, and was soon speeding away for Michigan, comfortably seated in passenger-coaches for the first time in three years. At Marshall the citizens had dinner ready when the train arrived,
and, although it was not intended to stop there, they would not take no for an answer, and the regiment did such justice to the many good things spread before it as only old soldiers know how to do. At Jackson, also, there was a dinner awaiting the regiment ; but when it was known that it was to go to Detroit to be paid off, the then mayor of that city said that unless the regiment was paid off at Jackson it could not eat the dinner. The men had two days' rations of bacon and hard-tack in their haversacks, and thought they could live on that until they reached Detroit. The regiment went on board its train without tasting the dinner, in justice be it said, much to the regret and mortification of the citizens of Jackson. It arrived in Detroit at a quarter past eight P.M., was marched to the supper-room in the Michigan Central Railroad Depot, where so many of the returning regiments were the recipients of the hospitality of the City of the Straits. The welcoming speeches were made; the cow-bell that had seen three years' service was rung for the last time; the log-chain which Joseph Le Bot found in Southern Georgia, and carried through all his marches because he thought it would be handy on his farm was exhibited; and the regiment sat down to the last supper that it ever ate as a regi- ment. It slept that night on the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad wharf, and the next day nominally went into camp at the barracks on Clinton Street. July 10, 1865, it was paid off, and the Twenty- second Michigan Infantry no longer had an exist- ance. From the day of its organization to its muster out there were fifteen hundred and forty men mustered into its ranks; their average height was five feet eight and a quarter inches, their aver- age age twenty-three years and nine months. Nine hundred and ninety-eight were born in the United States, two hundred and forty-three in Canada, eighty-one in Ireland, fifteen in France, one hundred and eighteen in Germany, two in Wales, one in Peru, and nineteen in Scotland. From the time the regiment left the State until it returned it marched two thousand two hundred and forty miles.
MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY FROM LIVINGSTON COUNTY.
Field and Staff.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry S. Dean, Green Oak, June 7, 1864; mustered out June 26, 1865; major, January 5, 1863 ; captain, July 31, 1862.
Assistant Surgeon Wells B. Fox, Hartland, August 21, 1862 ; pro- moted to surgeon Sth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, March 6, 1863; mustered out June 24, 1865.
Company A.
Gustavus Baetcke, Genoa, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865, re
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John Dellenbaugh, Genoa, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Joel H. Dykes, Genoa, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Robert Boylan, Genoa, enlisted March 17, 1865; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Henry Baker, Brighton, enlisted March 17, 1865; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Samuel J. Harwood, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1864; trans- . ferred to 29th Infantry ; died of disease, July 4, 1865.
Jeremiah Carpenter, Genoa, enlisted March 15, 1865 ; transferred to 29th Infantry.
Alden G. Carpenter, Genoa, enlisted March 15, 1865 ; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Lewis H. Westphall, Genoa, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Godfrey Westphall, Genoa, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mu tered out September 6, 1865.
Jeptha Tucker, Oceola, enlisted September 20, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Company B.
Orrin S. Arnold, Unadilla, enlisted March 2, 1865; mustered out July 26, 1865.
William McWithey, Genoa, enlisted September 2, 1864; died of disease, May 27, 1865.
Jay Sweet, Marion, enlisted September 12, 1864; mustered out July 17, 1865.
Company G.
Rollin R. Bell, Unadilla, enlisted January 1, 1864 ; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Iliram Debar, Unadilla, enlisted January 1, 1864; died of dis- ease at Louisville, February 14, 1865.
John Debar, Unadilla, enlisted January 1, 1864; mustered out July 27, 1865.
Company II.
Captain Henry S. Dean, Green Oak, July 31, 1862; promoted to major, January 5, 1863.
Captain William A. Smith, Marion, January 5, 1863; died of wounds, October 11, 1863, received at battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
First Lieutenant William A. Smith, Marion, July 31, 1862; pro- moted to captain, January 5, 1863.
First Lieutenant Lewis Brown, Howell, January 5, 1863; pro- moted to captain, Company K, April 1, 1865.
Second Lieutenant Lewis Brown, Howell, July 31, 1862; pro- moted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieutenant Alfred R. Barrett, Marion, January 5, 1863; resigned November 10, 1863, for disability.
Sergeant Alfred R. Barrett, Marion, enlisted August 6, 1862 ; pro- moted to second lieutenant.
Sergeant Edward C. Silsby, Conway, enlisted August 6, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Sergeant Oscar M. Bentley, Green Oak, enlisted August 1, 1862 ; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Corporal Henry F. Lake, Marion, enlisted August 9, 1862; mus- tered out June 9, 1865.
Corporal John G. Ferguson, Unadilla, enlisted August 5, 1862; discharged for disability, May 8, 1863.
Corporal Richard A. Stansell, Green Oak, enlisted August 8, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Corporal Mark S. Smock, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862; mus- tered out June 26, 1865.
Corporal . Frank Griggs, Conway, enlisted August 14, 1862; dis- charged for disability, July 27, 1863.
Corporal Junius S. Smith, Marion, enlisted August 11, 1862 ; mus- tered out June 26, 1865.
Privates.
Milo M. Abbott, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Felix Andrews, Green Oak, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Francis M. Albro, Green Oak, enlisted August 11, 1862; died in Andersonville prison, July 20, 1864.
Giles T. Brown, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1862; discharged for disability, December 6, 1862.
George Bush, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Jacob Billings, Conway, enlisted August 13, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
George L. Bennett, Green Oak, enlisted August 1, 1862; mus- tered out June 26, 1865.
Samuel Brigham, Oceola, enlisted August 11, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Charles Brigham, Oceola, enlisted August 14, 1862 ; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Leonard Clark, Green Oak, enlisted August 9, 1862; died of dis- ease at Lexington, Kentucky, April 14, 1863.
IIenry Craft, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Charles H. Clark, Conway, enlisted August 14, 1862; missing in action at Chickamauga.
Thomas Craft, Green Oak, enlisted July 26, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Michael D. Day, Marion, enlisted August 11, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps; mustered out June 29, 1863.
George W. Day, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862; died in An- dersonville prison, September 30, 1864.
Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862; died of disease at Nashville, March 12, 1864.
James J. Holmes, Oceola, enlisted August 5, 1862; died in An- dersonville prison, August 15, 1864.
John Hugheston, Green Oak, enlisted August 14, 1862; died October 9, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga.
David Hiscott, Howell, enlisted August 14, 1862 ; died October 11, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga.
Charles Hooker, Green Oak, enlisted August 9, 1862; died of disease at Nashville, November 18, 1863.
John J. Hooper, Green Oak, enlisted August 10, 1862; died March 1, 1864, of wounds at Chickamauga.
Eustace Kincaid, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1862; died of disease at Lexington, March 20, 1863.
Charles M. Kenyon, Iosco, enlisted August 2, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
William Loomis, Green Oak, enlisted August 11, 1862.
Harlow B. Lanning, Green Oak, enlisted August 11, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Isaac T. Lockwood, Marion, enlisted March 14, 1862; died of disease at Lexington, February 18, 1863.
David W. Lyons, Marion, enlisted March 11, 1862; died of dis- ease at Lexington, January 18, 1863.
Amasa Lampman, Oceola, enlisted March 11, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps, March 22, 1864.
Felix McCabe, Green Oak, enlisted March 15, 1862; died in An- dersonville prison, August 15, 1864.
Stephen P. Mills, Conway, enlisted March 14, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Edward Mckinley, Marion, enlisted March 15, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps; mustered out June 30, 1865.
Norton M. Monroe, Howell, enlisted March 14, 1862; died December 8, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga.
John Osborn, Green Oak, enlisted March 11, 1862; died of dis- ease at Chattanooga, November 5, 1863.
John Ohlke, Green Oak, enlisted March 11, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Thomas H. Pier, Green Oak, enlisted March 9, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
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John Purdy, Green Oak, enlisted March 1, 1862; died of disease at Lexington, April 6, 1863.
Jedde O. B. Pier, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1862; died of wounds, October 17, 1863, Chickamauga.
Richard Pier, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1862; mustered out July 1, 1865.
William H. Robinson, Green Oak, enlisted August 8, 1862; died in Andersonville prison, May 5, 1864.
Peter A. Rohrabacher, Cohoctah, enlisted August 20, 1862; mus- tered out June 26, 1865.
Edwin M. Switzer, Marion, enlisted August 9, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Job S. Sherman, Handy, enlisted August 14, 1862; discharged for disability, December 26, 1862.
Eben A. Springstein, Deerfield, enlisted August 13, 1862; dis- charged for disability, January 1, 1863.
Joseph Southard, Handy, enlisted August 9, 1862 ; died of disease at Lexington, March 23, 1863.
William B. Taylor, Conway, enlisted August 15, 1862; killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Orson W. Tock, Green Oak, enlisted August 9, 1862; mustered out June 13, 1865.
Henry Turrell, Green Oak, enlisted August 9, 1862; died in An- dersonville prison, May 31, 1864.
Samuel Van Dyke, Conway, enlisted August 9, 1862; died of dis- ease at Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1863.
George W. White, Handy, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
William Washburn, Green Oak, enlisted August 11, 1862 ; died of disease at Chattanooga, April 3, 1864.
John Woll, Marion, enlisted August 14, 1862 ; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Gustavus M. Washburn, Green Oak, enlisted August 1, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps, July 29, 1863.
Jacob Ward, Iosco, enlisted August 14, 1862; died of disease, June 16, 1863.
Peter O. Walker, Conway, enlisted August 9, 1862; died of dis- ease at Lexington, Kentucky, November 10, 1862.
And. J. Wickman, Conway, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Amos Dexter, Tyrone, enlisted January 12, 1864; died of disease at Kingston, Georgia, August 25, 1864.
Jerome Clark, Green Oak, enlisted March 30, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry.
Lawrence A. Flansberg, Genoa, enlisted September 14, 1864; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Samuel S. Howard, Green Oak, enlisted August 15, 1864.
Company I.
Captain Frederick W. Kimbark, Brighton, July 31, 1862 ; resigned December 8, 1863.
Sergeant Myron G. Hodges, enlisted August 6, 1862; died in Andersonville prison, September 25, 1864.
Musician Joseph Burch, enlisted August 12, 1862; mustered out May 31, 1865.
William Abrams, Brighton, enlisted August 11, 1862; killed at battle of Chickamauga.
Nelson Abrams, Brighton, enlisted February 25, 1864 ; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
James Abrams, Brighton, enlisted August 11, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Medad Blaisdell, Brighton, enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered out June 22, 1865.
Henry Davis, Brighton, enlisted August 11, 1862; discharged for disability, February 20, 1865.
Thomas Moneypenny, Hartland, enlisted August 9, 1862; mus- tered out June 26, 1865. ยท
Robert Park, Hamburg, enlisted August 12, 1862; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Richard C. Smith, Hartland, enlisted August 13, 1862 ; mustered out June 26, 1865.
Richard M. Toncray, Green Oak, enlisted January 25, 1864; transferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865. Edward E. Woodruff, Brighton, enlisted February 25, 1864; trans-
ferred to 29th Infantry ; mustered out September 6, 1865.
Charles Phelps, died of disease at Lexington, Kentucky, November 26, 1863.
Company K. Captain Lewis Brown, April 1, 1865.
CHAPTER x.
TWENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
Recruiting for the Twenty-sixth in Livingston County-Muster at Jackson-Presentation of Colors-Departure of the Regiment, and arrival in Virginia-Provost Duty at Alexandria-" Our Camp Journal"-Death of Lieutenant Burch at Alexandria- Movement to Suffolk, Virginia-Fight at Windsor and Death of Captain Culver-Movement from Suffolk to the Peninsula, and thence to New York-Pleasant Camping at Tarrytown-Return to the Army of the Potomac-Mine Run-Winter Quarters- Campaign of the Wilderness-Charge at Spottsylvania-North Anna, Tolopotomoy, and Cold Harbor-Crossing of the James- Operations in front of Petersburg-Campaign of 1865 to Close of the War-March to Washington and Grand Review-Muster Out and Return Home-Experience of a Soldier of the Twenty- sixth at Andersonville-Livingston County Members of the Twenty-sixth.
Two companies of the Twenty-sixth Infantry were raised almost entirely in Livingston County. In the summer of 1862 recruiting for a company was commenced by Stephen B. Burch and Wash- ington W. Burch, of Pinckney, and Lucius H. Ives, of Unadilla, and the work of enlistment progressed so rapidly that the company was sufficiently filled for acceptance in August. The men of this com- pany were largely from the south part of the county.
The other Livingston company which joined the Twenty-sixth was raised principally in the north part of the county, the three men most interested in recruiting it being John C. Culver, of Hamburg ; Edwin Hadley, now of Adrian; and Charles E. Grisson, of Hamburg. Mr. Hadley commenced enlisting men at Howell in the latter part of July or first part of August ; the expectation being that the company when filled would join the Twenty- second Regiment, then in process of organization at Pontiac. The ranks were filled with comparative ease, and on the twentieth of August the company moved by way of Fentonville to the regimental rendezvous at Pontiac. Nine companies of the Twenty-second were already organized and mus- tered in, and there was room for but one more company,-a place which the men from Livingston fully expected to take, but were much disappointed to find that a company from another county had already secured it, and that they must therefore be debarred from joining the regiment of their choice.
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The only alternative then presented was to join the Twenty-sixth Infantry, then organizing at Jackson, and this was finally decided on after some days of deliberation and inquiry.
On the fourth of September the company left Pontiac and proceeded to Jackson, where, on the tenth of September, it was mustered and desig- nated as E Company of the Twenty-sixth. Its first commissioned officers were
John C. Culver, Captain.
Edwin Hadley, First Lieutenant. Charles E. Grisson, Second Lieutenant. Their rank dated from September Ist.
In the mean time the other Livingston company had preceded this to Jackson, and was mustered and designated as B Company of the Twenty-sixth ; its commissioned officers (dating also from Sep- tember Ist) being
Stephen B. Burch, Captain. Washington W. Burch, First Lieutenant.
Lucius H. Ives, Second Lieutenant.
The Twenty-sixth was mustered as a regiment by Captain Mizner, U. S. A., with the following- named field and staff officers, viz. :
Judson S. Farrar, Colonel. Henry H. Wells, Lieutenant-Colonel.
William O'Donnell, Major.
Ennis Church, Surgeon. Mahlon H. Raymond, Assistant Surgeon.
Charles D. Fox, Adjutant.
Charles E. Crane, Jr., Quartermaster.
Jonathan Blanchard, Chaplain.
The ceremony of a presentation of colors to the regiment, while preparing for departure for the front, is thus described by General John Robertson in his " Flags of Michigan :"
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