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Following is a roster of the soldiers, arranged by townships, who went into the Eleventh from St. Joseph county :
Nottawa township-Company A: Captain David Oakes, Jr., died at Murfreesboro, January, 1862; First Lieutenant Henry S. Fisher, captain (Jan. 10, 1863), resigned; Commissary Sergeant Elva F. Peirce, veteran reserve corps; Musician George D. Clarke, mustered out August 22, 1862; Sergeant Walter A. Johnson, died at Centerville, January 12, 1862; Sergeant James F. Lovett, killed at Chickamauga; Sergeant Hiram G. Platt, discharged at expiration of service; Corporal John W. Hall, discharged for disability ; Cor- poral Abner V. Wilcox, killed at Chattanooga; Corporal Melvin D. Hazzard, discharged at expiration of service; Musician George W. Kent, discharged for disability ; Musician W. H. H. Platt, sergeant major, discharged at expiration of service; Robert Baker, Cyrus E.
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Pierce, William R. Thrasher, James A. Todd, and Aristus O. Bishop, discharged for disability ; George W. Dickinson, Charles W. Don- kin, Rollin O. Eaton, Charles Fisher, Henry Hall, William C. Id- dings, Francisco Klady, Hiram D. Westcott, Cyrus A. Bowers, John Fisher, George L. Clark, Andrew Knapp, Almerna O. Currier, John Savage, George Savage, all discharged at expiration of service; Jay Dickinson, died at Louisville, Ky .; Martin V. Wilcox and William Frankish, promoted and mustered out; Festus E. Eaton, James Ennis, David Shafer, John Dickinson, Jacob Gruber, John Salmon and Edward Smith, mustered out; James Findlay, enlisted in regu- lar army and disappeared; Duncan Stewart, died at Columbia, Tennessee, June 30, 1862; and Ephraim A. Austin, died at Nash- ville, Tennessee.
White Pigeon township-Colonel William J. May, resigned April 1, 1862; Surgeon W. N. Elliott, mustered out with regiment; Quartermaster's Sergeant John Underwood, first lieutenant and quartermaster, mustered out; Musicians Henry H. Hackenburg and Henry F. Clifell, both mustered out August 22, 1862. Com- pany A : Martin V. B. Clark, discharged at expiration of service. Company C: James F. Bicklin, Warren F. Barnes, discharged at expiration of service; Charles E. Barnes, died at Chattanooga, De- cember, 1863; John Fisher, killed at Stone River, December, 1862; Lorenzo H. Griffin, discharged at expiration of service; Perry Let- son, discharged for disability. Company D: Sergeant William Rob- inson, discharged; Thomas R. Hodgkins, killed near Dallas, Geor- gia. Company E: Charles H. Dalton and Christ Welgamwood, mus- tered out; William E. Raymond, promoted and mustered out. Company G : Peter O. Dowd, discharged at expiration of service.
Lockport township-Adjutant Samuel Chadwick, resigned; Drum Major Charles E. Franklin, discharged February 6, 1862; Principal Musician Hiram M. Wheeler, mustered out August 22, 1862, with Musicians Horatio G. Taggart, Jason Clarke, Charles Rice and James A. Knevels; Musicians Alfred Lantz and John B. Silliman, discharged for disability.
Company A-Charles Francisco, and Elias Ward, discharged for disability; Loriston Fulkerson, died at Bardstown, Kentucky ; Henry Hale, George S. Sheffield; Anson Spencer, Milo L. G. Wheeler, Thomas V. Woodhouse, discharged at expiration of serv- ice; John A. Mills, veteran relief corps. Company B: Dexter
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Avery and Samuel Pugh, discharged. Company C: Eliott S. Gray, discharged.
Company E: Captain Henry N. Spencer, resigned; First Lieu- tenant Thomas Flynn, captain, killed at Stone River; Sergeant John Graham; Sergeant Edward M. Frost, discharged at expira- tion of service; Sergeant George Nyce, discharged for disability ; Corporal John W. Banter, discharged at expiration of service; Corporal Harvey Lockwood, discharged at expiration of service; Corporal Lot T. Woodworth, discharged for disability; Corporal Ezra Spencer, died at Stone River; Corporal James T. Elliott, dis- charged for promotion. Privates: Frank M. Bauter, Hiram L. Brewster, Edwin Craig, Michael Fellinger, Henry Hix, discharged; George S. Baum, George Drescher, Charles David, John Eggels- hoffer, Augustus Ennis, Alexander Ennis, Phillip Jones, Samuel Quaco and George W. Spencer, discharged at expiration of service; Arthur M. Bush, and John Ramsey, discharged for disability; Cor- nelius J. Fonda, died at Nashville, Tennessee, August 10, 1862; Caleb W. Elmer, died at Louisville, Kentucky, August 10, 1862; Joseph Malalivly, died at Tullahoma, Tennessee, July 12, 1863; James Graham, died at Charleston, Tennessee; William S. Wood- head, Dwight Cummings, Edward W. Franklin, William Oswalt, Charles E. Quace, Adrian Van Ordstrand and Reuben Truxler, mustered out.
Company F: Alex. Detwiler, mustered out. Company G : Dan- iel Harwood, Eli Mann and Foster Drake, discharged at expiration of service. Company H : Charles H. Stamp and Adam Oswalt, mus- tered out. Company K: George W. Barton, discharged at expira- tion of service.
Colon township-Chaplain Holmes A. Pattison, mustered out with regiment; John Downey, non-commissioned staff, mustered out.
Company A: Corporal Philo Hoit, died at Nashville, Decem- ber 24, 1862; William Davis, Bert Knickerbocker, Robert Renner and William T. Renner, discharged at expiration of service; Hugh McCormick, discharged for disability; Dudley C. Marvin, died at Murfreesboro, March 4, 1863; Jared M. Taylor, missing at Chick- amauga, died at Andersonville; Wallace Washburn, died at Bards- town, Kentucky; Charles E. Powers and Isaac Knapp, wounded and mustered out. Company C: Solomon Burchard, died of small pox, February 6, 1862; Company D: Sergeants Edwin P. Wellesley
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and John H. Montgomery, discharged; Corporal Simeon D. Long, discharged at expiration of service; Corporals Homer F. Romine and Narcelus A. Bronson, discharged for disability. Privates: Dan- iel B. Adams, James Everhard, Abram H. Wyant, discharged for disability ; Ira R. Adams, lost arm at Lookout Mountain, dis- charged; Byron C. Brunson, died May 16, 1862; Stephen W. Chap- man, discharged at Louisville, August 19, 1862; George S. Gillett, killed at Chattanooga, November 25, 1863; Byron I. Liddle, re-en- listed and killed near Marietta, Georgia; Martin V. Lytle, died Jan- uary 13, 1862; Thomas Smith, John H. Spittler, Joseph Wixon and Thomas A. White, discharged at expiration of service; Stillman Robinson, died January 2, 1862; William H. Wyant, discharged at Nashville; Charles A. White, died April 20, 1862; William E. Thornton, Isaac Lowder, Isaac Kriberlin and Joseph P. Farrand, mustered out.
Company E: Jacob Bower, died at Bardstown, Kentucky, Feb- ruary 22, 1862; George L. Bower and Benjamin Clubine, dis- charged at expiration of service.
Company F: Henry M. Davis, died June 22, 1864; John S. Taylor, William H. Howard, John Long and James Kammerling, mustered out.
Company G: Sergeant Thomas H. Smith, discharged at ex- piration of service; Cyrus Gilbert, killed at Stone River, December 31, 1862; Isaac B. Lyon, discharged at expiration of service. Com- pany I: William L. Thornton, mustered out.
Leonidas township-Company A: First Lieutenant Charles Haight, died at Bardstown, Kentucky, February 5, 1862; Sergeant Stephen P. Marsh, discharged at expiration of service; Sergeant Charles Coddington, captain, mustered out; Corporal Lemuel P. Pierce, discharged for disability; Eugene Carpenter and Olney Bishop, discharged for disability; Charles W. Baird, Byron V. Barker (second lieutenant), Richard F. Huxley, discharged; Henry C. Damon, escaped from Andersonville, pursued by blood hounds ; discharged at expiration of service; Sidney A. Durfee, Barzillai M. Earl, James Overton, John L. Gould, Julius H. Thompkins, Al- bert O. Watkins, Elmer Surdam and Royal M. Taylor, discharged at expiration of service; Sylvanus Gould, died at Bardstown, Ken- tucky; William S. Lemunyon, died of wounds received at Atlanta, his bowels having been shot away; Charles B. Purchase, died at Lavergne, Tennessee, September 15, 1862; Byron Thomas, Harri-
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son Surdam, Richard Hemingway, James Benedict, Jonas N. Barker, Henry C. Barker, A. E. Farnham, George W. Cramer, Jo- seph A. Franklin, Charles Millard, William E. Morgan, Hiram Vought and W. W. Truslee, mustered out; William P. Thomas, died at Rossville, Georgia ; William J. Barker, veteran reserve corps.
Company B: Addison R. Noble, Madison Watkins and Charles Woods, mustered out.
Company C: Corporal Martin W. Gilbert, discharged for dis- ability ; Corporal Ezra Warren, died April 12, 1862; Daniel B. Wat- kins, discharged at expiration of service; Levi Wilcox, died at Mur- freesboro, June 28, 1863.
Company D: Rawdon Keyes, discharged as captain; W. H. Overton, Anson T. Gilbert and Melvin J. Lyon, discharged; W. H. Taylor, died January 29, 1862; Paul H. Orcutt, mustered out.
Company F: First Lieutenant J. L. Thompson, mustered out; Edward White, killed before Atlanta; R. R. Barnes, wounded be- fore Atlanta, mustered out; Judson E. Hall, Milton Greenwood, Charles H. Farnham, James C. Arnold, James L. Haines, Albert C. Lowther, Felix Baldery, John Etheridge, Henry Etheridge, Daniel Forbes, E. J. Covey and Wilson R. Lowther, mustered out.
Company F: First Lieutenant Myron A. Benedict, lost his right arm before Atlanta, discharged; First Lieutenant J. L. Thomas, mustered out.
Company G: Corporal Darius C. Dickinson, discharged at expiration of service; also Augustus Dickinson and Henry Warren; Samuel C. Dickinson, mustered out.
Company I: A. C. Shafer, shot three times before Atlanta, mustered out; Walter S. Terry, William Miller, Snyder Tute- wiler, M. Wilder, D. Brockway, Jacob Leginger, Leander Porter, Frederick Roberts, Charles Smithe and William Snooks, mus- tered out.
Company K: Edward W. Watkins, discharged at the close of the war.
Flowerfield township-Company B: Musician John Ludwig, mustered out August 22, 1862; Oliver Stebbins, died at Chat- tanooga; Samuel P. Beck, Henry Parker, William Parker and Samuel Spiegelmoyer, mustered out.
Company C: Aaron Hackenburgh, re-enlisted and mustered out.
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Company E: Corporal John I. Bloom, discharged at ex- piration of service; Musician William H. Seekel, died at Nash- ville, October 20, 1862; Musician James W. Seekel, discharged. Privates : Richard Brayman, James W. Beck, George Eggleson, Bradley L. Lane and Albert Osmer, discharged at expiration of service; Alva P. Dailey, died at White Pigeon, December 19, 1861; John T. Hale, died at Bardstown, Kentucky, January 26, 1862; John McIlvaune, died at Stone River, December 31, 1862; John C. Smith, discharged September 26, 1862; Joseph E. Thompson, cut his throat while home on a furlough; Reuben G. Weinburg, re-enlisted in Company C, Fifteenth regiment; William H. Wein- burg and Edward Mosser, killed near Atlanta; John B. Alcock, died at Nashville; Daniel Frees, Henry T. Frees, Joel Lee, Daniel Motter, Horace Smith, W. C. T. Sampsell and Charles P. Ludwig, mustered out.
Company G: Sergeant Orlando Williams, died January 30, 1862; Sergeant James Bouton, discharged at expiration of service ; Corporal George Straw; Corporal Laban Pierce, died February 5, 1862; Oscar Angle, killed at Stone River, December 31, 1862; Joel Pierce, died January 8, 1862; Thomas Straw, died February 11, 1862; Myron C. Palmer, died at Jeffersonville, Indiana, March, 1862; Daniel Condick, mustered out; James Walker and Charles D. Seekel, discharged at expiration of service.
Fabius township-Company A: Drum Major Abishai Hois- ington, discharged; Corporal Benjamin F. Wells, discharged at expiration of service; James W. King; Edward Timm, died of wounds at Murfreesboro; Lewis Timm, discharged at expiration of service; Frederick Timm, discharged for disability; August M. Wellman, mustered out.
Company E: Sergeant Wallace W. Hoisington, died at Nash- ville, September 21, 1861; Sergeant Borden M. Hicks, captain, mustered out; Henry Close, John Salter and Nathan H. Legg, discharged at expiration of service; Reuben Manley died at White Pigeon, December, 1862; David Reish, mustered out.
Mendon township-Company A: Sergeant Cuthbert Dixon, discharged at expiration of service; Corporals Aaron B. White and Edwin D. White, discharged at expiration of service; Leonard F. Carknard, died at Stevenson, Alabama, October 15, 1863; Nicholas C. Carknard, discharged; Thelismar A. Church, John R.
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Hamlin, William F. Patterson, David Rockwell and Daniel D. V. Rose, discharged at expiration of service; Ephraim Gibson, died at Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Thomas A. White, discharged for disability ; Henry A. Key, Martin H. Glover, James K. Woodward and Richard H. Welch, mustered out.
Company C: Harrison Auten, died May 2, 1862; Nelson Bacon and William F. Y. Bournes, discharged at expiration of service; William H. Auten, veteran reserve corps.
Company E: Anthony Worthington, discharged at expira- tion of service.
Company G: Thomas Crow, discharged November 30, 1861; Harvey Bates, mustered out.
Company I: General V. Bland, mustered out.
Sherman township-Company A: Royal M. Carlisle, died at Bardstown, Kentucky, January 2, 1862.
Company B: George W. Wetmore, mustered out; Charles V. Forbes and Jerome Morehouse, discharged at expiration of service.
Company C: Eugene P. Willard and Edward P. Willard, discharged at expiration of service.
Company E: W. H. Fress, Peter Fress, Robert H. Ives and Reuben Walls, mustered out.
Company G: Stephen Gilkerson, mustered out.
Fawn River township-Company C: Second Lieutenant Loren H. Howard, promoted to first lieutenant and captain, and mustered out at close of war; Sergeant Smith A. Benedict, dis- charged; Sergeant Alonzo H. Merrick, killed at Chattanooga; Sergeant Harrison Graves, enlisted in 1862, mustered out at close of war; Corporal Samuel L. Graves, enlisted in 1862, discharged for disability ; Lewis Wheeler, discharged at expiration of service and died at home from disease contracted in the service.
Company G: Andrew Kershner, discharged at expiration of service.
Park township-Company B: Charles Carter, mustered out. Company C; Henry M. Woodward, died of typhoid fever, April 16, 1862.
Company E: Corporal John M. Day, killed at Chattanooga; David Clingman and Solomon Shirley, discharged at expiration of service; Hiram I. Evart, died at Stone River; Aaron Wilhelm
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discharged by Colonel May, September, 1861; Robert S. Day, James Slote, Manasseh Clingeman and Joseph S. Brown, mustered out.
HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH.
The Nineteenth Michigan Infantry was organized by Colonel Henry C. Gilbert, who was killed at the battle of Resaca while leading his regiment upon a rebel battery. There were two full companies in its ranks : Company D, Captain Hazen W. Brown, afterward commanded by Captain Frank D. Baldwin, and Com- pany E, Captain John J. Baker; all of whom were promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of the regiment, the last named holding that rank when discharged. Lieutenant David J. Easton, also of Company E, was major of the regiment when he received his honorable discharge.
The Nineteenth gave a consistent and soldierly account of itself throughout its career, but none better than at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, when, with two Indiana and one Wisconsin regiment, with a portion of an Ohio infantry command, and de- tachments of cavalry and artillery, it faced the entire cavalry of Bragg's army, eighteen thousand strong. This was in com- mand of General Van Dorn, its six brigades being led by Generals Forrest, Wheeler, French, Armstrong, Jackson, Martin and Crosby. The left of the Union line was held by the Nineteenth Michigan and the Twenty-second Wisconsin, which repelled the charges of the enemy for some time. Through some misunder- standing of orders, the Union artillery and a portion of the cavalry which were supporting this part of the Federal forces, left the field, as did also three companies of the Wisconsin regiment, which left the brunt of the affray on the shoulders of the Nineteenth. Discovering this predicament, two brigades of the Confederates charged fiercely and gallantly from opposite directions, but were three times repulsed.
In one of these charges the Nineteenth Michigan captured the colors of the Fourth Mississippi regiment. But the enemy finally gained possession of a hill to the east of the main Union line, whence they were able to hurl their death-dealing grape and canister into the ranks of the northern forces. To add to the desperate situation, the ammunition of the Union troops was get- ting short, and the Confederate, Forrest, had pushed himself be-
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tween them and the relieving Union column which was advancing from the north. A new line was then formed by Colonel Coburn, the Union commander, to meet the new line of advance. Forrest was met and held in check until the last round of ammunition was fired. The gallant little band then fixed bayonets to charge and break through the enemy's line, but as they were about to charge, it was discovered that the Confederates had still another line in reserve, and a battery began to open fire from a new position. Escape was therefore hopeless and, to avoid useless loss of life, the Nineteenth surrendered, having lost one hundred and thirteen killed and wounded. Colonel Gilbert had his horse shot under him in the early part of the engagement and behaved most gal- lantly. When he offered his sword to the Confederate commander, the latter declined to receive it, saying that an officer who was so brave in battle "deserved to retain his arms." At Resaca the Nineteenth was desperately engaged, as a part of the First brigade, Fourth division and Twentieth corps, and while gallantly charg- ing a Confederate battery, which it captured and held. Colonel Gilbert, still in command, was mortally wounded, dying at Chat- tanooga, on the 24th of that month (May, 1864). At Peach Tree Creek the regiment was commanded by Major John J. Baker, he being wounded in the engagement, with about thirty privates. It was with Sherman in his march to the sea and through the Caro- linas, Captain Leonard Gibbon and Lieutenant Charles G. Purcell being killed in the fierce assault of the Union forces upon the enemy's works and artillery at Averyboro, North Carolina.
Lieutenant Baldwin, of Company D, was the hero of a re- markable defense at a stockade on the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad at Stone river. While occupying it with fifty men of his company, he was attacked by two divisions of cavalry and twelve pieces of artillery under General Wheeler. With his musketry fire he held the fort for an hour and a half, or until his stockade had been knocked into kindling wood, and surrendered. Strange to say, his loss was but six wounded, while the enemy lost two killed and eight wounded.
The entire loss of the regiment during its term of service was seven officers and ninety-one men killed or died of wounds, and one hundred and thirty-five men died of disease.
The chief quotas to the Nineteenth, credited to the townships of the county, were as follows:
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Sturgis township-Company A: Martin Stuckman, George Stuckman, mustered out; Peter Nash, discharged at expiration of service. Company D: Peter Dyer and William Poppins, mus- tered out.
Company E: Captain John J. Baker, major (June 27, 1864), lieutenant colonel (October 28, 1864), wounded at Lookout Moun- tain and discharged; First Lieutenant David J. Easton, captain (May 2, 1864), major and mustered out; Second Lieutenant John F. Clarke, first lieutenant (May 1, 1863), captain and mustered out; Sergeant Edmund S. Amidon, discharged for disability ; Sergeant John J. Coblentz, second lieutenant and resigned; Ser- geant William J. Smith, killed at Resaca, May 14, 1864; Sergeant Andrew J. Lamb, mustered out; Sergeant Wesley Locke, second lieutenant and mustered out; Corporal George Dawes, died at Annapolis, April 20, 1863; Corporals C. B. Rodabaugh, John H. Popino, Isaac B. Turner, mustered out; Musician John W. Howk, mustered out; Wagoner John C. Davis, mustered out. Privates: William H. Allen, George H. Chandler, Robert Fox, Edmund S. Smith, all discharged; Thomas Adams, Pulaski C. Crapo, William A. Culver, Clinton S. Compton, Charles B. Ford, Elon C. Green- man, Charles S. Harper, Franklin Hause, Henry D. Lester, Daniel H. Morrison, Franklin G. Rice, Charles E. Stowe, Daniel Thurs- ton, Eliah J. Mugg, Hamilton A. Coe, John R. Miller, Oliver P. Hanks, Delos Lake, Henry H. Pullman and Ephraim Warner, mustered out; Alonzo I. Bacon, killed at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, March 5, 1863; Thomas W. Barr, killed at Resaca; William H. Ashley, died at Annapolis, April 11, 1863; Frederick Doss, veteran reserve corps and mustered out; De Witt C. Green- man, killed at Thompson's Station, March 5, 1863; Valentine Musteck, died at Nashville, February 25, 1863; Charles B. McAboy, deserted at Dowagiac; John Walker, died at Annapolis, May 8, 1863; William G. Mugg, died of wounds May 30, 1864; John W. Anderson, died at McMinnville; John Thurston, transferred to Tenth regiment and mustered out; James Hoffstader, died at Annapolis, April 24, 1863.
White Pigeon township-Company D: William Eastwood, Thomas Franklin and George Hudson, mustered out.
Company E: Corporal William Haines, mustered out; George W. Antis, James Griffith and George Shultice, discharged; Adam Bear and Isaac Green, died of wounds received at Thompson's
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Station; Moses B. Tice, discharged for disability ; Lewis A. Laba- die, promoted to first lieutenant, mustered out; Henry Holder- man, died at Atlanta; William Haines, William Bachman, Mathew, Daniels, Charles L. Ellis, John Pratt, James A. Prouty, John H. Pierce, William Snooks, Sol. B. Stephenson, William F. Whit- comb and George Wagner, mustered out.
Nottawa township-Assistant Surgeon John Bennett, surgeon (July 18, 1863), mustered out. Company D: Sergeants Ira S. Carpenter and E. E. E. Bacon, mustered out; Corporals Henry Vivian and Charles H. Connor, mustered out; Wagoner William B. English, mustered out; George W. Adams, died at Annapolis, July 22, 1863; Chauncey Rose, died at Danville, Kentucky; John A. Sutton, died at McMinnville, Tennessee; Charles Adams, Pem- broke S. Beckwith, Oliver Craft, Joseph Goodwin, Andrew Shaver, John L. Thomas, Frederick A. Thieabeaud, George W. Wynkoop and John C. Whittaker, mustered out. Company G : George Grub- ber, transferred to the Tenth and mustered out. Company H: George Henry Clark, mustered out.
Constantine township-Company C: Francis C. Doty and Perry Holmes, mustered out.
Company D: First Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, captain (January 22, 1864), lieutenant colonel and mustered out; Sergeant Charles W. Mandeville, died in action at Dallas woods; Sergeant James Harris, died after muster-out; Musician Charles M. Chit- tenden, discharged for disability ; Musician Charles Whitting, died at Nashville, May 9, 1863. Privates: Timothy Bailey, William Melvin, John Melvin, and Hiram Ray, discharged; John Lawler, veterani reserve corps; Leman W. Bristol, Samuel Curtis, Shepherd Curtis, Charles H. Caswell, George Hate, David D. Knapp, Jacob Lintz, Benjamin F. Thomas, Aaron Thomas, C. F. Thomas, William J. Thomas, George D. Ward, Martin L. Ward, Marvin C. Hutchins, Almon Woodworth, Eben Odell, Joseph Shival and John Draper, mustered out; Peter Moyer, died at Gravel Pit, Ohio, October 5, 1862; Obadiah M. Wright, died at Lexington, Kentucky.
Company E: Austin Mereness and Matthias Hullen, mus- tered out. Company F: Daniel Christian, died at Chattanooga; Marion Braden, mustered out. Company F: Perry Holmes, mus- tered out.
Sherman township-Company D: Julius N. Carlisle, veteran reserve corps, mustered out; Isaac Driese, William G. Oakes, Al-
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bert C. Wilson and H. Hackstaff, mustered out; Charles LaClear, killed at Chattanooga.
Company E: Moses Hibberlee, Washington Sprague and James K. Sackett, mustered out; Robert H. Hermance, discharged; James Robertson, killed at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, March 24, 1863.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.
The two companies from St. Joseph county represented in the Twenty-fifth infantry were D, first commanded by Captain Julius C. Cross, of Three Rivers, and afterward by Lieutenant Henry McCrary, of Leonidas, and G, Captain William Fulkerson, of Lock- port, who was succeeded by Lieutenant John B. Handy, of Three Rivers. The regiment was in command of Colonel O. H. Moore, of Kalamazoo, where it was recruited and organized. Its most note- worthy achievements were in Kentucky, July 4, 1863, when it un- doubtedly saved Louisville from a division of Morgan's men, and at Resaca, on Christmas day of the same year, when it participated in the famous charge of Judah's Union division, which saved the day for Sherman.
About July 1st, Colonel Moore was stationed with five com- panies of his regiment on the north side of Green river, on the main road from Columbia to Lebanon, Kentucky, and on the following day was advised that the dashing and brave Confederate, John H. Morgan, was about to cross the Cumberland river with a cavalry force of some four thousand men and invade the state, his objective point being evidently Louisville. As there was no Union force within thirty miles, Colonel Moore decided that it was his patriotic duty to oppose this overwhelming force, if only to gain a little time to be joined by his supporting column. He therefore crossed the river with his five companies of three hundred men, and selected a battlefield about two miles from that stream, in a bend of the river, commanded by high bluffs and through which the road ran along which the enemy was to advance. On the evening of July 3d Mor- gan's force encamped three miles away. By this time the little Union band had felled some trees along the first battle line to serve as a check to cavalry, and nearer the river a temporary earth work on a rise of ground which Colonel Moore conjectured would be se- lected by Morgan as a vantage ground for his batteries of artillery.
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