Past and present of Shiawassee County, Michigan, historically; with biographical sketches, Part 10

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Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Lansing, Mich. : Hist. Pub.
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Henry Deming (Sciota), Sergeant Evan Roberts (Antrim), Corporal . Laselle C Brewer, Corporal Benjamin F. Stevens, John Q. Adams, Edwin Botsford, Ebenezer Brewer, Benjamin Bagley, Jacob Burtch, John J. Barnes, Jacob Byerly, Leonard Black, Matthew Colf, George Clark, Levinus Colf, Marcus Colf, Ezra Dibble, Byron A. Dunn, Samuel C. Decker, William B. Dunbar, Jacob DeForest, Jesse Fleming, John Folf, William Goff, Jotham Hunt, Charles S. Harris, Nathaniel Hyde, William Hill, Wells J. Haynes, Albert C. Johnson, Valois H. Morse, Thomas Munger, Norman McLenithan, Peter McNelly, Husten Mahew, Nathan Monroe, William B. Monroe, Mason Phelps, Israel Parshall, Ira A. Polley, William Steen, John Seeveard, Daniel D. See, George Swimen, John W. Simpson, William Sargent, George W. Smith, Edward Sanford, Allen Templer, Charles Terwilliger, Dorr Tillotson, William Wiers, Everett Woodbury; Com- pany H,-Owen Miller; 'Company I,- Azariah Fitch, Caleb Hall; Company K,- Sergeant Thomas Crane (Owosso); John Buck, James E. Crane, Allen Davis, John G. Dellamater, Peter Garrison, Joseph Guyer, William Garrison, Richard Odell, William D. Platt, Andrew Scott, Oliver B. VanDoran, John W. Wester.


TWENTY-THIRD MICHIGAN INFANTRY


The Twenty -- third Regiment was organ- ized in the summer of 1862 under the Presi- dent's call for volunteers issued July 2d, im- mediately after the Seven Days' battle on the Virginia peninsula. Shiawassee county fur- nished for the Twenty-third a full company under command of Captain John Carland, of Corunna, and a few men in each of several


other companies of the regiment. Captain Carland was afterward major of the regi- ment and was in office in the regular army for many years after the close of the war.


The Twenty-third was mustcred into the United States service September 13, 1862, with eight hundred and eighty-three officers and men. It left the state by way of De- troit, going first to the neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, where it was assigned to General Dumont's brigade, Army of the Ohio. For nearly one year the regiment was stationed at different points in Kentucky and southern Ohio, engaged in guarding pub- lic property and in several expeditions in pursuit of the guerrilla chief, John Morgan, whose band was operating along the Ohio river. In August, 1863, it was incorporated with the Second Brigade, Second Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps. This divi- sion, in the latter half of August, made a long and wearisome march over the Cum- berland mountains into east Tennessee, where, during the autumn, it took 'part in some severe fighting, in the attempt to check Long- street's advance towards Knoxville. At Campbell's Station, the Twenty-third suf- fered a loss of thirty-one killed and wounded, November 16th. The following morning it arrived in Knoxville, before daylight, after a march of twenty-eight miles without rest or food.


Then followed the memorable siege of the city, which continued until the 5th of De- cember, when the enemy retreated, and in which the regiment took active and credit- able part. During most of the winter it remained in the vicinity of Knoxville, chiefly engaged in scouting, picket and outpost duty. April 25, 1864, orders were received for the


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troops in east Tennessee to join the forces of General Sherman in the forward move- ment which afterward became known as the campaign of Atlanta. In this campaign the Twenty-third took part in many bloody bat- tles in which it showed conspicuous gallantry. Of the regiment's record, General John Rob- ertson, years afterward, said : "Although the reliable and model regiment acquitted itself with much celebrity in every encounter with the enemy in which it was engaged, Campbell's Station, Resaca, Franklin and Nashville will always be recognized as prom- inent among its many hard-fought battles, and the memories of those fields will last while a soldier of that noble regiment lives."


Arriving in front of Atlanta, the Twenty- third took part in the operations of the army which accomplished the capture of that stronghold. In October the regiment moved northward in pursuit of the Confederate General Hood, who was then marching his army toward Nashville. Early in November it again moved through Alabama into Ten- nessee. On the 30th it arrived at Franklin, where it erected temporary defenses and the same day assisted in repulsing a furious as- sault by the forces of General Hood. In that desperate struggle, the regiment, in command of Colonel O. L. Spaulding, made a brilliant counter-charge with the bayonet,-a charge which has been described as one of the most brilliant and effective in the entire history of the war. It again took an active part in the great battles of the 15th and 16th of De- cember, before Nashville, which resulted in the defeat and complete rout of Hood's army. A report of the first day of the battle says : "Colonel Spaulding with his regiment made a most daring and dashing charge in a posi-


tion occupied by a portion of the enemies' infantry, posted behind a heavy stone wall on the crest of a hill, which it carried in most brilliant style, capturing more prisoners than there were men in the line of the regi- ment."


Soon after the rout of Hood's army, the Twenty-third was ordered to Washington, where it arrived on the 29th of January, 1865. Shortly afterward it was sent into North Carolina, where it was in a number of serious engagements and where it finally co- operated with Sherman's army on its north- ward march from Savannah. On the 14th of April the regiment marched into the city of Raleigh, where it received the welcome news of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. It re- mained in North Carolina until June 28th, when it was mustered out, at Salisbury, from which point it began its homeward journey to Michigan. Arriving at Detroit July 7, 1865, the men were paid off and disbanded. and each went his way to resume the voca- tion of civil life.


Members of Twenty-third Infantry from Shiawassee county : Field and staff,-Major John Carland (Caledonia) ; Company A,- James Gay, Daniel R. Nicholson, Edwin A. Walter; Company B,-Alfred M. Burnett ; Company C,-Albert D. Livermore, Moses A. Norris; Company D,-Albert Guyer ; Company E,-Second Lieutenant James H. Anderson (Caledonia), Daniel R. Munger ; Company G,-Captain Benjamin F. Briscoe (Corunna), Sergeant Alonzo H. Crandall, Samuel Garow, Truman Husted, Orson Post, Daniel S. Post, James St. John, William Sterling, Edward Vining; Company H,- Second Lieutenant Marion Miller (Cale- donia), Second Lieutenant Calvin Smith (Cal-


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edonia), Sergeant William H. Jones (Caledo- nia), Sergeant James H. Anderson (Cale- donia), Sergeant Caleb Mead (Caledonia), Sergeant Isaac H. Post (Antrim), Ser- geant Luther Sawtell (Venice), Corporal Andrew. S. Parsons (Perry), Corporal David West (Caledonia), Corporal E. L. M. Ford (Caledonia), Corporal Jason S. Wiltse (Burns), Corporal Ossian W. Coon (Ben- nington), Corporal George Dippy (Antrim), Corporal Charles F. Beard (Antrim), Cor- poral John M. Calkins (Venice), Corporal William H. Baker (Burns), Corporal Charles E. Smith (Perry), Oliver M. Able, Uriah Ar- nold, Israel G. Atkins, William D. Bailey, Alvah D. Beach, James Boutee, Orestus Blake, Archibald Brown, George L. Bailey, Samuel Brown, Ebenezer Ball, Cyrus Brig- ham, Chauncey W. Barnes, William C. Baker, George Bentley, Henry P. Calkins, Sidney Coy, William H. Coburn, Daniel J. Clough, Asa F. Chalker, Calvin H. Card, Samuel Conklin, Nelson K. Calkins, George Ceraven, Charles Dean, Benjamin F. Dick- erson, John L. Dippy, Willett C. Day, Charles P. Day, Benjamin Defreese, Alfred Dunham, Henry B. Dibble, Daniel P. Eldridge, Frank Garabrand, Francis A. Hall, Jerome E. Har- ris, Merritt S. Harding, George Lytle, Sam- uel A. Lytle, Perrin S. Linge, Chester W. Lynds, Enos P. Melvin, Philander Murray, Marmon Moore, George N. Macomber, James W. McKnight, Frederick S. Mitts, Julius W. Piper, Francis Purdy, John F. Piper, William Plase, George F. Prentiss, Mosely W. Potter, James J. Peacock, Wil- liam H. Ream, David M. Richardson, Charles O. Russell, Charles P. Seal, Frederick Stick- ney, Thomas Shaw, Godfrey Shaoutz, John B. Swan, William H. Stickney, Hubert Shurt-


less, Guy J. Schofield, George H. Spaulding, Charles P. Stevens, William J. Shaw, Or- lando Titus, Edward A. Thompson, Austin Trowbridge, Paul Traynon, Edgar L. Tyler, William D. Voorhies, Horace Wakeman, John Walters,- Charles. P. Williams, William J. Warren, Alonzo Wallace, Charles Wilke- son ; Company K,-Walton Mitchell, Monroe Wolvey.


TWENTY-SEVENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY


About a score of men from Shiawassee county served with the Twenty-seventh Mich- igan Infantry, part of that number in the "Independent Company of Sharpshooters" which was attached to the regiment. Their first service was as a part of the Ninth Army Corps, in Kentucky and the Vicksburg cam- paign. After participating in the siege of Knoxville by Longstreet, the regiment, with its corps, was sent east to reinforce the Army of the Potomac. There it fought in the battle of the Wilderness, losing eighty-nine killed and wounded; and also at Spottsyl- vania, where it sustained a loss of one hun- dred and seventy-five killed and wounded and twelve missing.


After a number of minor engagements it arrived in front of Petersburg, where, with the brigade, it took part in the charges on the enemy's works, June 17th. Its loss in that month was again nearly one hundred and seventy-five. From that time the Twenty- seventh was on duty in the investing lines around Petersburg until its final evacuation by the forces of Lee, but its changes of posi- tion were too numerous to mention in detail. The most brilliant exploit in the record of the regiment was the assault and capture of Fort Mahon, just preceding the evacuation


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of Petersburg. The number of men en- gaged in this assault was only one hundred and twenty-three, but they took one hundred and fifty-nine prisoners, and six pieces of artillery and held the captured work during the day, against repeated. attempts of the enemy to retake it. The Twenty-seventh took part in the great review of the army on the 23d of May and was mustered out July 26, 1865.


Members of Twenty-seventh Infantry from Shiawassee county: Company C,-Walter E. Norton; Company E,-Henry Van Vleit ; Company H,-Charles D. Beach; Company I,-Corporal Charles VanDeusen (Fairfield), E. Andrews, William Brown, Charles Cole, Reuben Davis, Samuel Davis, Thaddeus Graves, Samuel Isbell, Jackson N. Voorhees, Truman A. VanDeusen; First Independent Company of Sharpshooters attached to Twen- ty-seventh Infantry,-Herman Ford, Charles H. Hammond, J. J. Kenney, Aaron Munsel, John W. Parker, Horace Tibbetts.


TWENTY-NINTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.


Nearly one hundred men from Shiawassee county served with the Twenty-ninth Michi- gan Infantry in the war of the Rebellion, one of its companies (E) being raised almost en- tirely in this county, under Captain A. J. Patterson and First Lieutenant Sidney G. Main, of Owosso, and Second Lieutenant William F. Close, of Byron. This regiment was mustered into the service at Saginaw, October 3, 1864, under Colonel Thomas M. Taylor. Three days later it left for Nash- ville, Tennessee, where it arrived October 12th, and soon afterward moved to Decatur, Alabama.


On the day of its arrival at Decatur that


place was attacked by the Confederate Gen- eral Hood, and the Twenty-ninth was ordered to move to the front and occupy a line of rifle-pits and a small defensive work. In obedience to the order the regiment moved forward bravely and steadily, though under a severe fire of artillery and musketry, and held the position until dark, notwithstanding that the enemy made several determined ef- forts to carry it. The Confederate force during that day's fight had outnumbered the Union troops nearly ten to one, but during the night the latter received reinforcements. For three days the enemy continued assault- ing with great determination, but the Union forces, having been increased to about five thousand men, were finally able to compel the assaulters to withdraw, with severe loss, and the defense of the place was made en- tirely successful.


The part taken by the Twenty-ninth in the fight at Decatur was highly creditable to the regiment, as its men were fresh from the camp of instruction, and had never be- fore smelled the smoke of battle. The ad- jutant general of Michigan in his report of this affair said: "The exemplary conduct, the vigorous and splendid fighting of Colonel Taylor's regiment and his officers, although less than a month in the field, could scarcely have been excelled by long-tried veterans."


The regiment, after this battle, garrisoned Decatur until the 24th of November when it marched to Murfreesboro, and, reaching there on the 26th, composed a part of the defending force at that point during the siege of Nashville and Murfreesboro by Hood, being engaged with a part of the enemy's forces at Overall Creek, December 7th. Having been sent out to escort a rail-


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way train on the 13th, it was attacked at Winsted Church by a superior force of the enemy, and in the severe action which en- sued, it sustained a loss of seventeen in killed, wounded and missing. The track was relaid under a brisk fire, and the regiment brought the train safely back to Murfrees- boro by hand, the locomotive having been disabled by a shell. Later it was assigned to the duty of guarding the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, and it remained on this and garrison duty until September 6, 1865, when it was mustered out of the serv- ice, being disbanded at Detroit, about the 13th of that month.


Members of Twenty-ninth Infantry from Shiawassee county : Company A,-David M. Black, Charles A. Funda, Thomas Graham, Jasper Johnson, James C. Luce, Jacob Layer, William B: Ormsbee, David Struble; Com- pany C,-Robert McFarland, Ebenezer Thus- good; Company E,-Captain Andrew J. Patterson (Owosso), First Lieutenant Sid- ney G. Main (Owosso), Second Lieutenant John Q. Adams (Owosso), Sergeant A. M. Parmenter (Vernon), Sergeant J. C. Wood- man (Shiawassee), Sergeant Charles C. Row- ell (Bennington), Sergeant Cyrenus Thomas (Owosso), Sergeant Orrin Drown (Owosso), Sergeant Philetus Waldron (Bennington), Sergeant George F. Brownell (Benning- ton), Sergeant William G. Merrill (Burns), Sergeant Theodore Creque (Shiawassee), Ser- geant William J. Wiswell (Bennington), Ser- geant Edward H. Jones (Antrim), Corporal James M. Freeman (Woodhull), Corporal John Huffman (Woodhull), Corporal Rich- ard Chenell (Woodhull), John M. Ar- thur, William M. Batchelor, Nathan Borem, David Brown, William W. Bennett, William


Budds, Jeremiah Carson, Benjamin Codwell, Leonard Crouse, Christopher Cook, George E. Cole, David W. Dunn, John A. Drew, David Dwight, Ladock Gillett, Richard Ger- man, William P. Harer, John W. Hagerman, Charles E. Harris, George Hoag, William B. Hendee, Newell Kellogg, Charles N. Kil- ridge, John Klingensmith, William H. La- very, Werton W. Lamunyon, Henry Lamun- yon, George Lindner, Oscar M. Morse, Jacob Mason, Enos Osgood, Charles E. Perkins, Austin Phillips, Hiram Platner, Leroy Regua, William Sanderson, Sherman Stevenson, An- drew Vandusen, John E. Watson, Seth N. Walter, Stephen L. Woliver, Edward D. Woolcot, Dennis Watkins;' Company F,- Godfrey Armaugher, George Aldrich, Noah G. Berg, Thomas Graham, Jacob Muffly, David Martindale, David Muffly; Company H,-Isaac Cassada, Charles Hempsted, Alon- zo Hunt, Charles Long, Leonard Robinson, William E. Vanpatten, Eli Woodward; Com- pany K,-First Lieutenant William F. Close (Byron), Vorden H. Worden.


THIRTIETH MICHIGAN INFANTRY


On account of the numerous attempts made by the Confederates to organize in Canada plundering raids against our northern bor- der, authority was given by the war depart- ment to the governor of Michigan, in the autumn of 1864, to raise a regiment of in- fantry for one year's service, and especially designed to guard the Michigan frontier. Its formation, under the name of the Thirti- eth Michigan Infantry, was completed, at Detroit, January 9, 1865. To this regiment Shiawassee county furnished one-third of a company, the greater part of whom served in the ranks of Company K.


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When the organization was completed the regiment was stationed in companies at vari- ous points, one being placed at Fort Gratiot, one at St. Clair, one at Wyandotte, one at Jackson, one at Fenton, three at Detroit Bar- racks, and one on duty in the city. But the speedy collapse of the rebellion put an end to Canadian raids, and the regiment had no active service to perform. It remained on duty until June 30, 1865, and was then mus- tered out.


FIRST ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS


The Michigan Regiment of Engineers and Mechanics was organized in the autumn of 1861. It was the intention in raising this regiment that it should be largely composed of men skilled in mechanical trades, and that upon entering the field they should be principally employed in the work with which they were acquainted, a great amount of which is always required in the operations and movements of large armies. They were expected to enact the part of fighting men when occasion demanded, and for this pur- pose they were regularly armed and accoutred as infantry. It can be said of them with truth that they always proved themselves as brave and steadfast in battle as they were skilled and efficient in their own peculiar field of labor, though it was in the latter that their services were by far the more val- uable to the government.


The Engineers and Mechanics' organiza- tion was composed of men from almost every county in the central and southern part of the peninsula, Shiawassee being represented in ten of its companies. though by only a few men in any one. The regiment was in the service from December 6, 1861, to October,


1865. The battles and skirmishes which, by general orders, it was entitled to have in- scribed upon its colors, were those of Mill Springs, Kentucky, January 19, 1862; Farm- ington, Mississippi, May 9, 1862; siege of Corinth, Mississippi, May 10 to 31, 1862; Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862; La- vergne, Tennessee, January 1, 1863; Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, October 8, 1863 ; siege of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 to September 2, 1864; Savannah, Georgia, December 11 to 23, 1864; Bentonville, North Carolina, March 19, 1865.


Members of Thirtieth Infantry from Shia- wassee county : Field and staff,-First Lieu- tenant and Adjutant Jerome W. Turner (Owosso) ; Company C,-Corporal James A. Hoyt (Rush) ; Company F,-Jerome R. Fairbanks, James Rummer, Johnson Taylor, Charles W. Williams, Alfred B. Williams; Company I,-John F. Cartwright; Company K,-Corporal Ora C. Waugh (Owosso), Corporal Robert Upton (Owosso), Corporal Oscar Bailey (Owosso), Corporal Elnathan Beebe (Caledonia), Leonard Alger, Leander A. Bush, Robert F. Buck, Henry Boslaw, Edward Bright, Ebenezer Childs, John Crane, Andrew Case, T. Fancheon, John Gannon, Lyman E. Hill, George Johnson, Robert Smith, Charles N. Wetmore.


Members Regiment of Engineers and Me- chanics : Company B,-Nathan Colby, Alex- ander Kellas; Company C,-Newell E. Cady, Andrew Kinney; Company D, -- Second Lieu- tenant Herman W. Perkins (Corunna), Daniel F. Case ; Company E,-Isaiah Slayter, William B. Staner; Company F,-William E. Delbridge; Company G,-Second Lieu- tenant Rodney Mann (Owosso), John Berk- ley, Joseph Gest, William Stone, Charles W.


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Smith; Company H,-Harrison Hackett ; Company I,-Oliver Hopkins, James H. Marble; Company K,-Charles E. Rowell; Company M,-Lewis M. Dickinson.


FIRST MICHIGAN CAVALRY


In the First Michigan Cavalry, Shiawassee county was represented by men in four com- panies, principally in Company D. The regi- ment was mustered into the United States service in September, 1861, eleven hundred and forty-four strong, and went immediately to Washington. During the early part of its term of service it was actively employed in the upper Potomac and in the passes of the Blue Ridge mountains. In the spring of 1862 it took part in the two battles at Win- chester and several other of the hard-fought engagements in that vicinity, also in a num- ber of other actions in July and August.


During the following winter and spring it was employed in grand guard duty along the Potomac river. This duty, besides being of the most arduous kind, was one which called for the exercise of almost sleepless vigilance in guarding against the attacks of the guerrilla bands of Mosley and Stuart. When General Lee invaded Maryland and Pennsylvania in June, 1863, and the Army of the Potomac marched northward to meet him, the First Michigan moved with the other cavalry regiments on the campaign of Gettysburg, and during fifteen days fought in sixteen battles and skirmishes, being al- most constantly in the saddle. General Cus- ter, in his report of the operations of the cavalry at Gettysburg, paid the First Michi- gan a glowing tribute, and concluded with these words: "I cannot find a language to express my high appreciation of the gal- 1


lantry and daring displayed by the officers and men of the First Michigan Cavalry. They advanced to the charge of a vastly superior force with as much order and pre- cision as if going upon parade, and I chal- lenge the annals of warfare to produce a more brilliant or successful charge of cav- alry than the one just recounted."


In the spring of 1864 the regiment joined General Sheridan's cavalry corps and made a brilliant record in the campaigns of the following year. Immediately after the close of the war it was sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, whence it was ordered across the plains, eventually going to Fort Bridger and to Camp Douglas, near Salt Lake City. The regiment garrisoned those two stations until March, 1866, when it was mustered out, paid off, and disbanded.


Members of the First Cavalry from Shia- wassee county : Company C,-Charles Bogue, George L. Foster, William D. Jew- ell, Joseph Naracon; Company D,-First Sergeant Frank Shepard (Owosso), Cor- poral George P. Guilford (Owosso), Cor- poral Joseph O. Hathaway (Middlebury), Lemuel W. Bogue, John Brooks, Bradley W. Bennett, Henry N. Curtis, Jacob Color, Wil- liam Haukinson, William Hyatt, Egbert Maton, Henry C. McCarty, Charles W. Mosher, Willard Ryan, Samuel R. Smith, Aaron L. Tubbs; Company F,-Gustavus Brenner; Company G,-William Everst, Al- vah Laing, William Mabeen, Alexander Ma- been.


SECOND MICHIGAN CAVALRY


The Second Michigan Cavalry was mus- tered into the service October 2, 1861. Nearly every company of which it was com-


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posed had a few men from Shiawassee. In November the regiment left Grand Rapids for St. Louis, Missouri, and remained in the neighborhood of that city until the following spring. In May, 1862, it moved to Corinth, Mississippi, and was occupied throughout that summer in cavalry duty in that state and western Tennessee. Its colonel was then Philip H. Sheridan, who had been detailed from duty as a captain in the regular army to receive the colonelcy vacated by the pro- motion of General Gordon Granger.


Early in the autumn, however Colonel Sheridan was made a brigadier general of volunteers and transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, and about the same time the Second Cavalry was sent to Kentucky. Afterward it moved into Tennessee, and for several months had its headquarters at Mur- freesboro, while it was engaged in scoutings and raids through that region. In the au- tumn it was engaged in scouting around Chattanooga, at one time being part of a force which chased General Wheeler's cav- alry one hundred and ninety-six miles in six days.


In the spring of 1864 part of the regiment went home on veteran furlough, the remain- der accompanying General Sherman in his Atlanta campaign. After being reunited, in July, it was busily engaged in marching through middle Tennessee, fighting with the horsemen of Forrest and other rebel gen- erals, and assisting in Hood's final retreat from the state. The Second remained mostly in middle Tennessee until March, 1865, when it set out on a long raid through Alabama and Georgia, arriving at Macon the 1st of May. After remaining in Georgia on gar- rison duty until the 17th of August the regi-


ment was mustered out and sent home, reaching Jackson on the 25th of August, and being there disbanded.


Members of Second Cavalry from Shia- wassee county: Company B,-David Bar- num, Henry Badder, Abel Cronson, Holland Hart, John Jackson, James H. Lyman ; Com- pany C,-Dean Cutler, James A. Farr; Com- pany D,-John Hicks, Warren L. Woolman ; Company E,-John Bowman, Thomas Con- nor, James I. May, Joseph Marber; Com- pany F,-Charles Bradford, Andrew Call, George Hilma, Alonzo Mattison, Sidney M. Shelley; Company G,-John Codger, Wil- liam Jacobs, George Jewett, Daniel E. Lem- onyon, George Laflin, Charles Lemonyon, Archibald McHenry; Company H,-An- drew Kinney, Emmett Mullett, Silas New- man, Owen Otto; Company I,-Sergeant Abram Jones (Byron), James C. Graham ; Company K,-Martin Spencer, George Schultz; Company L,-Azariah Martin, Ly- man S. Thrasher, Charles VanAlstin; Com- pany M,-Harry D. Wardwell, Henry Wil- son.




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