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If you Michigan gentlemen had not detained me forty minutes on the morning of the second day, I should have had Round Top and the battle of Gettysburg would have been ours.
It was a bloody contest below which is known as the Valley of Death. Next, Hancock's and Sedgwick's Corps made a counter charge and forced the enemy from the foot of Cemetery Ridge back to the position Sickles had taken in front. This action is known as the Wheatfield battle, from the fact of its occurrence in a large field of uncut wheat.
During this conflict, two divisions of the Twelfth Corps had been taken from Culp's Hill to assist on the left. Seeing this, Ewell assaulted the Union right, and Johnston's Division of his Corps lodged itself in the works from whence our troops had been taken to assist Sickles, thus greatly endangering the rear of the Union right, for it was near our reserve artillery and the Baltimore Pike. Upon the return of the two divisions of the Twelfth Corps, they were surprised to find the enemy in their works. Thus closed the second day's struggle with no material advantage to either army, except the possession of Round Top by the Union, and the lodgment of the enemy's division on Culp's Hill.
THIRD DAY'S BATTLE.
At daybreak on Friday, July 3, the Twelfth Corps opened their artillery into Johnston's division and at sunrise made an infantry attack, requiring seven hours and a terrible slaughter to dislodge them. Lee next attempted to break the Union center. Quiet had reigned
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most of the forenoon along the lines after the struggle over on Culp's Hill. But at one o'clock the great signal gun of the enemy heralded the most terrific cannonading ever known on earth, responded to by one hundred Federal cannon along Cemetery Ridge. Even the wild rabbits leaped into the men's bosoms for protection under their blouses. The scene is thus described by a New York correspondent :
The storm broke upon us so suddenly that soldiers and officers who leaped, as it began, from their tents or lazy siestas on the grass-were stricken in their rising with mortal wounds, and died, some with cigars between their teeth, some with pieces of food in their fingers. Horses fell writhing in hopeless agony. The boards of fences scattered by explosions, flew splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eyes of hurrying men; and through the branches of the trees and among the gravestones of the cemetery a shower of destruction crashed ceaselessly. As, with hundreds of others, I groped through this tempest of death for the shelter of the bluff, an old man, a private in the Twenty-fourth Michigan, was struck, scarcely ten feet away, by a cannon ball, which tore through him, extorting such a low, intense cry of mortal pain, as I pray God I may never again hear. The hill, which seemed alone devoted to this rain of death, was clear in nearly all its unsheltered places, within five minutes after the fire began.
After three hours of cannonading, in which the very hills trembled, the fire of the Union guns was slackened to allow them to cool, in the vicinity where the attack to follow was designed to be made by the enemy. They supposed the silence resulted from disabled batteries and believed the moment for the infantry assault had come.
PICKETT'S CHARGE.
Their storming party, mainly Pickett's Division, had been formed, many thousand strong, under cover of some woods on Seminary Ridge. General Pickett then rode up to Longstreet and (in the presence of Lee) saluting, said in a chivalrous manner : "Give me the order to advance, sir." Longstreet felt that the charge would be a mistake and had so expressed his mind to Lee, but without avail. Knowing it had to be, but unwilling to give the order, he turned his face away from Pickett who said: "I shall go forward with my command, sir." He spurred his horse back to the charging column. His Virginians hesitated to move. Knowing what was expected of them, by that wonderful discernment or intuition of the ranks which often occurs, they did not believe they would succeed. They had bidden each other farewell, had shaken hands in dying friendship, and naturally of one mind desired a moment longer of life. Presently
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someone cried out, "Oh, boys, do you want to live forever?" and with a yell away they started for glory and death.
Emerging from the woods, they disclosed column after column of grey in brigade length fronts, and began to cross the mile of interval between them and the Union lines. As they passed down the slope of Seminary Ridge, they swept along under the friendly fire of their own cannon to disconcert the Union lines in their front. Then they must pass half a mile over a level plain and still ascend the Cemetery Ridge. As they drew into view out of the woods, every battery from Round Top along Cemetery Ridge to Culp's Hill poured shell and canister among them. At this the Confederate guns turned their attention to the Union cannon which however paid no regard whatever to these more distant foes, but continued to send every shot into Pickett's advancing columns.
They wavered not, but closed up their ranks gallantly, crossed the Emmitsburg road in proud array and swept on up the gradual ascent. Pickett, as if to mislead the Union generals, halted his column, as he neared the Union lines, and wheeled his front to the left to strike the Union line at an unexpected point, leaving the rest of his column to move directly forward. Meanwhile, the work of death from the Union guns was perceptible in their decimated ranks. The Union infantry moved upon both flanks of one of their storming columns unexpectedly, and thus it was double flanked and getting grape and canister from front. Their other column moved straight forward to the Union lines. As they approached on up the gentle slope of the Ridge, General Gibbon ordered his infantry to fall back to the rear of his batteries, which double-shotted with grape at thirty paces, swept down the foe like a cyclone. For a few moments a hand to hand contest was waged. They had pierced the Union line and planted their flag even at the clump of trees, their objective point, but for a moment only. Their General Armistead was taken from his horse mortally wounded, and the Federals from all sides drove the foe down the slope when our artillery again played upon them, as fresh troops were seen coming to their aid. Many threw themselves upon the ground in token of surrender and crawled up to the guns, without their arms, under the belching fire, and gave themselves up. But a remnant of Pickett's men returned to their lines. The battle was ended and no shout went up in the Southern Confederacy from that hour. The bloody water-mark of the rebellion here reached its highest ebb, and the Southern cause waned from that hour.
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European nations had little confidence in the success of the Southern cause henceforth.
It was the design to have Stuart's Cavalry of the enemy come through from the opposite side at the time of Pickett's charge, but unknown to the Confederate Generals, when Pickett set out on his death march, the Union cavalry had met and utterly defeated and routed this branch of the Confederate service. In this engagement the Michigan Cavalry Brigade took an important part and won honorable distinction.
COMPARATIVE LOSSES.
A comparison of the commands which sustained the heaviest losses, on both sides, will be interesting. By Corps the losses were as follows :
UNION CORPS.
CONFEDERATE CORPS.
First, 8 Brigades, . 6,052
First, 13 Brigades, . 7,354
Second, II Brigades,
4,35I
Second, 14 Brigades, 6,912
Third, 7 Brigades, .
4,198
Third, 15 Brigades, 6,649
Fifth, 9 Brigades, 2,186
Cavalry and revised losses, 6,610
Sixth, 10 Brigades,
242
Eleventh, 7 Brigades,
3,80I
Twelfth, 7 Brigades,
1,082
Artillery Reserve,
242
Cavalry, etc., 849
Total, 23,003
The above figures include killed, wounded and captured, or missing. The killed and wounded in both armies amounted to 40,261. The brigades that suffered the most were as follows:
Armistead's, Confederate. 1,19I
Iron Brigade, Union, 1,153
Pettigrews's, Confederate, 1,105
, Union, 1,04I
Cutler's (Wadsworth's Division), Union,
1,002
As to regiments, the following sustained the greatest losses :
Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Confederate, 702
Twenty-fourth Michigan, Union, 397
One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvania, Union, 337 One Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania, Union, 336
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York, Union, 307
The highest per cent of loss in numbers were :
Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Confederate, 88.5 per cent.
First Minnesota, Union, 86
Twenty-fourth Michigan, Union, 80
And each of the regiments above more than 70
Total,
27,525
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Though larger forces had contended in battle, Gettysburg has few parallels in history. At Leipsic-"The Battle of the Nations"- the numbers were far greater, the Allies having 330,000 and Bonaparte, 175,000. Borodino was the bloodiest battle since the introduction of gunpowder in war. There the killed and wounded were numerically greater than at Gettysburg or Waterloo, yet the per cent of loss was much less. The two great battles of this century were Waterloo and Gettysburg, and a striking comparison exists between these engagements:
At Gettysburg the Unionists had 82,000 men and 300 guns.
Confederates had 70,000 men and 250 guns.
Union loss was 23,003 men.
.. Confederate loss was 27,525 men.
At Waterloo the French had 80,000 men and 252 guns.
Allies had 72,000 men and 186 guns.
.. Bonaparte's loss was 26,300 men.
66 Wellington's loss was 23, 185 men.
After Pickett's charge, both armies seemed to be dazed at the terrible struggle. Immediately Lee began to make arrangements for retreat, and at dark it began. By the next morning his whole army was fairly on the road for the South except a few pickets left for effect. For this escape there was no little criticism. After accomplishing this great victory, after an one hundred and sixty mile march from the Rappahannock, whereby the life of the nation was saved; our army was saved; Washington, Philadelphia and New York were saved from the invading foe, and he was soundly threshed and hastening away-after all this in a three days' battle at such an awful cost of life and wounded, the ever dissatisfied critics who never did anything themselves towards putting down the rebellion, found fault because Meade and his wearied army did not do more-did not in fact capture or annihilate Lee's army. We have no language to express the supreme meanness and shallowness of any such expectation. The shattered brigades and regiments had suffered too much, on both sides, for either army to surround or subdue the other. Their numerical forces were yet too nearly alike. However, it is impossible to say what might have been, had these critics been in the ranks at the time to assist.
EXPLANATION OF MAP.
The top of the map is due north. Gettysburg is 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Penn. Population, 3,000, Cemetery Hill is half a mile south of the town. Cemetery Ridge extends three miles further south to the Round Tops.
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Nearly parallel with and nearly a mile west of Cemetery Ridge, runs Seminary Ridge, taking its name from the Lutheran Seminary half a mile west of the town. McPherson's woods are less than half a mile west of the Seminary. On west towards Willoughby Run a short distance, was the Twenty-Fourth Michigan's first line of battle in the woods. Culp's Hill is half a mile east of Cemetery Hill. The " Wheatfield" is about half way on a direct line as you look from Little Round Top to the Peach Orchard. Looking down, a little southwest, is seen " Devil's Run," and a little distance beyond is the "Loop." North of the town is Pennsylvania College. Beyond and to the left is Oak Hill. The Tarrytown road south, runs over and just east of Cemetery Ridge. The "Clump of Trees," the end of Pickett's charge, is a mile and a half south of the town, on the west side of Cemetery Ridge and near to it is the " Bloody Angle." One mile south of town, on the Emmitsburg Road, is the Cordori Farm where the Iron Brigade filed off towards McPherson's woods to capture Archer and his brigade.
THERE HAS BEEN A BATTLE.
There has been a battle, as the words along the lines come thrilling, The mighty East and West and North, with the giant echo filling ; And all along the busy street, amid the rush and rattle,
The hurrying men pause as they meet, to say, "There has been a battle."
Sitting in idle quiet here, in my low chamber lonely,
Their eager voices meet my ear, but not their voices only,
The loitering breezes o'er and o'er are telling me the story,
Of faces that shall come no more, and battlefields all gory.
Of brave men in the carnage killed, still on the red ground lying, And hospitals whose wards are filled with true hearts slowly dying ; And forms the noblest of the North, who fought and faltered never, That must from those dear wards go forth as crippled forms forever.
And lightly borne across the moor, by the low south wind sweeping, There comes to me from many a door, the voice of many weeping ; Weeping above their battle dead, in hopeless, helpless sorrow;
Refusing to be comforted through faith in any morrow.
-By M. W. Edgar.
LOSSES OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN AT GETTYSBURG.
KILLED. Officers.
Capt. WILLIAM J. SPEED, D. MALACHI J. O'DONNELL, E.
Ist Lieut. WALTER H. WALLACE, K. WINFIELD S. SAFFORD, C.
NEWELL GRACE, H.
2d Lieut. REUBEN H. HUMPHREYVILLE, K. 66 LUCIUS L. SHATTUCK, C.
Color Guard. Sergt. Abel G. Peck, C. Corp. Charles Bellore, E. William Ziegler, A. Private Augustus Ernest, K.
William Kelly, E. Unknown Boy, grasping flag. Non-Commissioned. Ist Sergt. Andrew J. Price, B.
GILBERT A. DICKEY, G. Charles Bucklin, F.
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Ist Sergt. William H. Luce, G. Sergt. George Cline, B.
Joseph Eberly, D.
George O. Colburn, G.
66 John Powell, H.
Corp. William Carroll, B.
John H. Pardington, B.
66 Otis Southworth, C.
.. David E. Rounds, D.
66 James Sterling, D. Iltid W. Evans, F.
Jerome P. Fayles, G.
John W. Welsh, G.
George N. Bentley, I.
James B. Myers, I.
Jerome P. Lefevre, K.
Privates.
Joseph Carroll, A.
Garrett Chase, A.
John Dingwall, A.
Augustus Jencks, A.
Michael Tiernay, A.
Mathew Duncan, B.
John M. Walls, E.
George L. Cogswell, C.
Oliver C. Kelley, C.
John S. Rider, B. Arm amputated.
John E. Ryder, C.
William Williams, B. Leg amputated.
John Dwyer, D.
Mason Palmer, D. Arm amputated ..
John Groth, D.
Henry C. McDonald, B.
William H. Houston, D.
Edward M. Corey, C.
James Doyle, E.
Lucius W. Chubb, C.
Thomas S. Orton, E.
Eliphalet Carleton, D.
William S. Bronson, F.
Charles Ruff, D.
. James Hubbard, F.
Charles Paton, E.
Ernest F. Argelbeim, G. .
John McNish, F.
Elias B. Browning, G.
Josiah P. Turner, F.
Charles Coombs, G.
Henry Crothine, G.
George A. Codwise, G.
Myron Demary, H.
Patrick Hefferman, G.
John Dubois, I.
John Martin, G.
Nelson Harris, I.
George H. Pettinger, G.
Hiram A. Williams, I.
OTHER WOUNDED.
Col. HENRY A. MORROW, in head, and prisoner, Field Officer. Lieut .- Col. MARK FLANIGAN, leg amputated, Field Officer. Major EDWIN B. WIGHT, sight of right eye lost, Field Officer. Capt. WILLIAM W. WIGHT, wounded slightly, K. WILLIAM H. REXFORD, hip and thigh, B.
CHARLES A. HOYT, ankle and arm, C.
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, thigh and groin, G.
RICHARD S. DILLON, wounded four times, A.
John Shoane, G. Albert Wasso, G.
Dr. Robert R. Herrman, H.
Edward B. Harrison, H.
James Mooney, I.
Adolphus Shephard, I.
Henry Viele, I.
Peter Case, K.
David F. Delaney, K.
Conrad Gundlack. K.
Lewis Harland, K.
Henry W. Jamieson, K.
Elijah P. Osborne, K.
Andrew Smith, K.
MORTALLY WOUNDED. On Color Guard. Ist. Sergt. William J. Nagle, A. Corp. Thomas Suggett, G. Private Thomas B. Ballou, C.
Rank and File.
Corp. Edward Dwyer, B.
Charles E. Crarey, H.
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Ist Lieut. JOHN M. FARLAND, in groin by fall, I).
FREDERICK A. BUHL, in leg badly, B. EDWIN E. NORTON, arm, E. 2d Lieut. MICHAEL DEMPSEY, hip, E.
WILLIAM R. DODSLEY, shoulder, H. ABRAHAM EARNSHAW, breast, I.
Sergt .- Major Andrew J. Connor, shoulders, N. C. S. Color-Corp. Andrew Wagner, lungs, F.
Ist Sergt. Asa Joy, leg amputated, C.
Sergt. Edgar O. Durfee, arm amputated, C.
John W. McMillan, leg amputated, G. John Happe, foot amputated, A. William Smith, arm amputated, B.
John W. Babbitt, leg amputated, C.
Patrick Tunney, leg amputated, E. Eugene Sims, arm amputated, F. William A. Armstrong, arm amputated, G.
Patrick Clarey, leg amputated, I.
Richard M. Fish, leg amputated, I.
Samuel T. Lautenschlager, in both legs, G. Van Rensselaer W. Lemm, in arm, H.
Sergeants.
(Ist) George W. Haigh, knee, D.
" Joseph R. Boyle, ribs, E.
Benjamin W. Hendricks, thigh, G.
Albert E. Bigelow, leg, I. " George W. Fox, arm, K.
Hugh F. Vanderlip, thigh, A. George H. Pinkney, side, B. John M. Reed, neck, B. Samuel Joy, hip and arm, C. Augustus Pomeroy, foot, C. John Blackwell, three times, E.
James D. Shearer, ankle, F. George H. Canfield, bowels, I. William D. Murray, arm, I. Samuel F. Smith, shoulder, K.
Corporals. :
John S. Coy, wounded five times, A. Lewis E. Johnson, nose, A. James S. Booth, thigh, B. Samuel W. Church, neck, B. Nathaniel A. Halstead, twice, B. Clark Eddy, hip, C. Daniel McPherson, hand, C. Clarles Pinkerton, breast, C. Roswell L. Root, foot, C. William H. Whallon, three times, C. Jabez Walker, arm, D.
John W. Fletcher, twice, E. James S. Murphy, face, E. William Powers, twice, E. Eugene Smith, twice, E. George W. Chilson, body, F. Levi S. Freeman, body, F.
Erastus W. Hine, body, F. William Kalsow, hip, F. Abel P. Turner, shoulder, F. Augustus Hussey, leg, H. Fred E. Welton, arm, H. David S. Sears, groin, I. Thomas D. Dushane, K. Jacob M. Van Riper, K.
Privates.
Solomon S. Benster, lungs, A.
Francis Brobacker, body, A.
Oscar N. Castle, body, A.
William Dusick, thigh, A. Patrick Gorman leg, A. Walter S. Niles, bowels, A. Abraham Schneider, thigh, A. Victor Sutter, Jr., w'd twice, A. David Wagg, thigh, A.
Philip Weitz, groin, A. George Zulch, w'd four times, A.
Andrew J. Arnold, w'd three times, B. Willett Brown, w'd three times, B.
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John Black, arm and leg, B. Richard Conners, thigh, B.
Edward B. Chope, leg, B.
James Laird, w'd twice, E.
John McDermott, body, E.
Henry Moynahan, body, E. Charles Patten, body, E. Frank Schneider, knee, E. Edward Tracey, w'd twice, E.
Anton Krapohl, body, B.
Arthur Macy, w'd twice, B.
Patrick Connelly, foot, F.
Terrence Mccullough, leg, B.
Charles Gochy, knee, F.
Charles E. Hale, thigh, F.
James McIlhenny, neck, B.
Thomas Nixon, leg, B.
John B. Moores, body, F.
Patrick Shannon, w'd twice, B.
Daniel Sullivan, finger off, B.
Lafayette Veo, w'd three times, B.
Henry Wallace, w'd twice, B.
Elisha Wheeler, shoulder, B.
Benjamin F. Brigham, thigh, C.
Alfred Courtrite, thigh, C.
Ammi R. Collins, arm, C.
Charles D. Durfee, foot, C.
Robert Everson, arm, C.
Alvah S. Hill, leg, C.
George W. Kynoch, shoulder, C.
Samuel W. Phillips, foot, C.
William H. Quance, body, C.
Ambrose Roe, body, C.
Christian Stockfleth, ankle, C.
Joseph A. Safford, body, C.
Alfred C. Willis, hand, C. Peter C. Bird, thigh, D. Robert C Bird, arm, D.
Henry Babcock, hand, D.
James N. Bartlett, scalp, D.
Anthony Eberts, body, D.
Charles G. Malley, breast, G. Jeremiah Sullivan, thigh, G. William H. Southworth, face, G. George E. Walker, face, G. Robert E. Bolger, leg, H.
Anthony Brabeau, mouth, H.
Michael Cunningham, arm, H.
James F. Clegg, arm, H.
Michael Donavan, w'd twice, H.
Evi French, arm, H. Theodore Grover, leg, H.
Richard Palmer, body, D.
John Renton, both legs, D.
William W. Sands, leg, D. Peter Stack, thigh, D. Jesse R. Welch, hand, D.
Thomas Brennan, both legs, E.
Stephen Delorme, hand, E. Martin Devine, body, E. William Floyd, side, E. John Frank, thigh, E.
Richard A. Riley, leg, H. Joseph Schunck, w'd twice, H.
Frederick Uebelhoer, thigh, II.
Abner D. Austin, hand, I. Ralph Archibald, leg, I. Hiram Bentley, side, I.
Frederick Delosh, arm, B. William H. Fowler, thigh, B. Henry M. Fielding, ankle, B.
Franz Koch, neck, B.
Solomon R. Niles, three times w'd, F .. George F. Neef, foot, F.
Edwin Plass, w'd twice, F.
Peter P. Rivard, w'd twice, F.
Frank T. Shier, w'd twice, F.
John Stoffold, head, F.
Mordaunt Williams, twice w'd, F.
Amos Andrews, thigh, G.
Charles F. Allyn, w'd twice, G.
Michael Brabeau, head, G.
Theodore Bach, mouth, G.
Lyman W. Blakeley, body, G.
John Cole, head, G.
James Ford, knee, G. George Hinmonger, knee, G.
William Harvey, w'd twice, G.
Enoch F. Langs, w'd twice, G.
Charles W. Langs, w'd twice, G.
James H. Johnson, leg, D.
Samuel R. Kingsley, Jr., foot, D. Oliver M. Moon, leg, D. John Moody, hand, D. John Orth, w'd and prisoner, D.
James D. Jackson, hand, E. Frank Kendrick, w'd twice, E.
Morris L. IIoople, side, H.
Charles M. Knapp, hand, H.
Dennis Mahoney, foot, H.
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Seymour L. Burns, leg, I. Jacob H. Canfield, thigh, I.
William Charlesworth, arm, I.
George L. Carey, arm, I.
Ephraim D. Cooper, w'd twice, I.
William W. Coon, w'd twice, I.
Francis C. Hodgman, groin, I.
Francis Hynds, body, I.
James Magooghan, body, I.
Charles Robinson, body, I.
Gilbert Rhoades, body, I.
Henry Schindehette, leg, I.
Wesley A. Tinkham, back, I.
Theodore B. Thomas, arm, I,
John R. Bruce, body, K.
Andrew Bruthaumpt, knee, K.
Joseph Ferstell, hip, K.
Patrick Gaffney, thigh, K.
David J. Kellar, back, K.
James Leslie, arm, K.
William D. Lyon, body, K.
Barney J. Litogot, arm, K.
Daniel W. Lossee, knee, K.
Eugene R. Mills, body, K.
Charles E. Miller, leg, K.
Francis E. Miller, hip, K.
Andrew J. Nowland, head, K.
Sherman Rice, shoulder, K.
Thomas Saunders, leg. K.
Jerome B. Stockham, body, K.
Enoch A. Whipple, body, K.
Gurdon L. Wight, leg, K.
PRISONERS OF TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN TAKEN SOUTH.
Capt. GEORGE C. GORDON, I. Ist Lieut. ARA W. SPRAGUE, F. 2d Lieut. H. REES WHITING, A. Sergt. Charles A. King, D. William H. Iloffman, H.
John R. King, H. B. Ross Finlayson, K. Ira W. Fletcher, w'd, K. Corp. John C. Sherwood, C. James Gillespie, C. John M. Andres, w'd, D. Thomas G. Norton, E.
Henry L. Honk, w'd, I. 16 Orville W. Stringer, I.
Privates.
Max Couture, A,
Peter N. Girardin, w'd, A.
Augustus R. Sink, w'd, A.
Oscar A. Eckliff, B.
Charles D. Minckler, B.
Morris Troutt, B. D. Leroy Adams, C.
John A. Bartlett, C.
William A. Herrendeen, C.
Joshua Minthorn, C.
John C. Marshall, C.
Charles W. Root, C.
James S. Seeley, C.
Robert Towers, C.
Almon J. Houston, D.
Merritt B. Heath, D.
George H. Lang, D.
Melvin H. Storms, w'd, D.
Moses Amo, E.
Dennis Dryden, E.
James Donavan, E.
Lewis Grant, E.
Robert Gaunt, w'd, F.
Patrick J. Kinney, E.
Nelson Pelon, E.
Frederick Stotte, E.
Abraham Akey, F. John G. Klink, F.
Antoine LaBlanc, F.
Joseph P. Rivard, w'd, F.
William R. Shier, F.
Henry Bierkamp, G. Philip T. Dunroe, H.
Marquis L. Lapaugh, H.
Frederick Bosardis, I.
William A. Flynn, I.
Peter Jackson, I. Alphseus Johnson, I.
August Lahser, w'd, I.
David W. Tillman, I.
Franklin A. Blanchard, K
Charles S. Hosmer, K.
John J. Post, K.
PRISONERS OF TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN PAROLED ON FIELD AND MARCH.
Sergt. John Hogan, E. John Roach, E.
E. Ben Fischer, D.
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Corp. Fred A. Hanstine, A.
Lewis L. Wadsworth, A.
William Bruskie, D.
Privates.
Harrison Baker, A.
Jonathan D. Chase, A.
John Chandler, A. William Rousseau, A.
Elisha C. Reed, F.
Charles Willaird, A.
John Broombar, wounded, G.
Robert Wortley, A.
John Butler, G.
Amander G. Barns, wounded, B.
John Cavanaugh, G.
George F. Higbee, B.
Charles A. Wilson, G.
William H. Ingersoll, B.
Thomas Fitzgibbons, H.
Richard Maloney, wounded, B.
John H. Fryer, K.
John Mccutcheon, wounded, B. Jeston R. Warner, B.
Missing.
George P. Hubbell, C.
Corp. Bela C. Ide, C.
Draugott Haberstrite, D.
Herman Schultz, G.
Conrad Kocher, D.
Nicholas Ruby, H.
Henry H. Ladd, wounded, D. James Renton, D.
Joseph Ruby, H.
Conrad Springer, K.
SUMMARY.
The following is a summary of the casualties and losses of the Twenty-fourth Mich- igan Infantry at Gettysburg, as given above :
I. Killed and Died of Wounds-Officers, 8 ; non-commissioned officers, 26 ; privates, 56. Total, 90.
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