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COMPANY E.
Captain .- Joseph T. Lake.
First Lientenants .- William H. Conk, resigned, Octo- ber 31, 1862.
George S. Vanderhoof, second lieutenant, September 5, 1862; first lieutenant, rice Conk, resigned. Second Lieutenant .- Robert P. Miller. sergeant-major, September 20, 1862; second lieutenant, rice Van- derhoof, promoted.
First Sergeant .- William I. Sutphin.
Sergeants .- William H. Thompson.
(George II. Cottrell.
Stephen AA. Van Cleaf.
James H. Sodon.
Corporals .- Charles Sodon.
Parent Johnson.
Samuel Storms.
Cornelius M. Barkalow.
George V. Matthews.
Nelson .I. Schenck.
William H. Case.
James L. Rivally.
Musician .- George W. Horner.
Wagoner .- George Haggerty.
Privates.
Applegate, Daniel.
Baer, Frederick.
Barkalow, Garret.
Barkalow, Matthias A.
Bendy, Job.
Fielder, Alfred.
Garrabrant, Isaac.
Boice, John H.
Gibson, William.
Boice, Matthias A.
Gordon, John.
Amos T. Wood, corporal, September 1, 1862; sergeant, November 2, 1862.
Thomas J. Swannell, corporal, September 1, 1862; sergeant, March 1, 1863.
Corporals .- Joshua R. Hankins.
Charles E. Applegate.
William T. Guie.
William N. Little.
Connolly, Bernard, Jr. Creed, Dennis.
Hawkins, James M. Hohl, George. +
Hope, Cornelius.
Eldridge, Obadiahı.
Hulse, William C.
Layton, Nelson.
Lippincott, William H.
Longstreet, Aaron.
Mayer, Samuel.
Messler, Charles W.
Smith, Garret.
Mulckhey, John.
Smith, Robert.
Nivison, David.
Stillwell, Peter D.
Patterson, Lewis.
Van Cleaf, Ruliff S.
Quackenbush, Garret H. Reed, James N.
Van Doren, Garret V. Van Note, James.
Reed, William F.
West, Joseph B.
Riley, Thomas.
Wilkins, William.
Rose, William B. Wilson, Thomas F.
Sanford, Edgar N.
Wilson, William W.
Sherman, Edward. Woolley, Lemuel.
Sickels, James H.
Young, Thomas J.
Discharged.
Van Pelt, Peter .I., corporal, at Philadelphia, March 18, 1863; disability.
Patterson, Joseph F., musician, at Washington, D. C., January 8, 1863 ; disability.
Nivison, Abraham H., at Alexandria, Va., February 25, 1863; disability.
Nivison, Adam P., at Baltimore, Md., March 1, 1863; disability.
Shepherd, William, at Baltimore, Md., March 24, 1863; disability.
Woolley, William H., at Baltimore, Md., March 19, 1863 ; disability.
Died.
Combs, Adams P., corporal, of disease, Belle. Plain, Va., April 18, 1862.
Powelson, Samuel, of disease, Washington, D. C., November 25, 1862.
COMPANY F.
Captain .- Robert R. Mount.
First Lieutenant .- David S. Stevens.
Second Lieutenant .- Joseph P. Jones.
First Sergeant .- Burk C. Stout, promoted to sergeant- major, March 1, 1863.
Sergeants .- William J. Siekles, promoted to first ser- geant, March 1, 1863.
Daniel C. Van Doren.
John P. Elliott.
Boice, William.
Gravatt, Charles H.
Brewer, David.
Guilford. Thomas A.
Brewer, Jacob C.
Hadding, Joseph.
Campbell, James.
Hagerman, James H.
Carson, Roland A.
Clayton, Joseph.
Hardy, John H.
Combes, William.
Hayward, Edward H.
Barzillai Hendrickson.
John Baynton.
John Vanderbilt.
Elisha L. Walton.
Musician .- Philip H. Combs.
Emmons, George W.
Errickson, Charles S., pro- moted quartermaster- sergeant, March 1, 1863.
Bishop, John.
Hardy, Henry.
Douglas, Joseph W.
Ellison, Thomas.
Wagoner .- John Burr.
Sickels, Theodore. Sickels, Uriah N.
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Privatex.
Albert, Henry.
Allen, Charles N. Applegate, Daniel. Applegate, James MI. Aumack, Peter J.
Lefferson, Conover. Lippincott, Edmund C. Little, HIenry D.
Maladay, Christopher. McCormick, Michael. Mckeon, Arthur Morrissey, John M.
Theodore B. Gibbs.
Gilbert J. Crawford. John S. Holmes. John H. Crawford. Musician .- Augustus Abbott. Wagoner .- William White.
Privates.
Bennett, Henry.
Martz, Joseph.
Bennett. Renwiek.
McCormick, James.
Bennett, William II.
Miller, Alfred Il.
Bowman, Francis E.
Miller, Dodson.
Miller, Frederick.
Conk, George.
Dangler, Russell.
Dennis, Joseph H.
Denise, Samuel T.
Skidmore, Walter D.
Costigan, Caran.
O'Connor, John.
Dougherty, Patrick. Doughty, Benjamin. Edwards, George. Fox, Thomas.
Garvey, John O.
Gilbert, George.
Gill, Henry E.
Golden, Garret C.
Vanderveer, William.
Groat, Frederick.
Van Dyke, William II. Wagoner, Jacob.
Groat, Henry.
Hildebrand, Augustus.
White, Patrick.
Jeffrey, Bartine .A.
Wood, Joshua.
Julius, William.
Kane, Peter.
Wood, William G. Wyckoff. Smith E.
Discharged.
Gray. Edward. at Baltimore, Md., March 2, 1863; dis- ability
Mount, John C., at Washington, D. C .. May 7, 1863; disability.
Dird.
Atkinson, Joseph L., of disease, at Potomac Creek, Va., December 21, 1862.
Dennis, William, of disease, near Tenallytown, Md., November 10, 1862. Hankins, George, of disease, at Tinton Falls, N. J., October 29, 1862.
Newman, George, of disease, near Tenallytown, Md., November 2, 1862.
COMPANY G.
Captain .- John H. Hyer. First Lieutenant .- James H. Magee. Serund Lieutenant .- Charles S. Vanmater. First Sergeant .- Alfred D. Van Doren. Sergeants .- John H. Stillwagon. Charles Curtis. William H. Yates. John H. Sickels. Corporals .- Amariah H. Stewart. Theodore Franeis. William H. Sutphin. Samuel Suyster.
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Crawford, Charles, at Washington, D. C., January 24, 1863 ; disability.
Stillwell, William I., at Washington, D. C., May 15, 1863 : disability.
Van Kirk, Peter, at Washington, D. C., February 26, 1863; disability.
Died.
Beers, Samuel, of disease, at Washington, D. C., Janu- ary 30, 1863. Kipp, James H., of disease, at Washington, D. C., January 21, 1863.
Barry, Edward.
Bennett, Charles E. Brant, Edward MI.
Murphy, John.
Brannan, Patrick.
Murphy, Robert.
Brogan, Thomas.
Nestor, Stephen.
Reemy, John.
Rooney, James.
Seeley, Leonard T. Sheen, Daniel.
Carhart, John C. Carter, John E. Clayton, Ezekiel.
Morris, Peter.
Morris, William W.
Covert, James.
Covert, William.
Pope, Edgar L. Randolph, Nathaniel F.
Riddle, Garret.
Crawford, George.
Crawford, James G.
Schenck, John P., Jr.
Schmidt, Caspar.
Scofield, John.
Scott, Henry D.
Shafts, James A.
Smith, William.
Smock, Nelson.
Snyder, Charles. Sparling, Joseph I.
Stillwell, Albert A.
Stillwell, Shepherd.
Heyer, James K.
Heyer, John A.
Stryker, James S.
Heyer, Peter.
Stryker, James.
Holenbake, Ruthven.
Sntphin, David.
Holmes, Jonathan Jarvis.
HIunter, Andrew E.
Irwin. Daniel.
Vanderveer, Joseph E.
Irwin, William.
Van Doren, Charles L.
Irwin, William 1.
Wainwright, Daniel W.
King, William.
Warnaker, John.
Lang, George. Weeks, William C.
Latham, Andrew J.
Weiderhold, John.
Lawrence, John H. Layton, Ephraim.
Wilson, Charles J.
Eifert, Valentine.
Elgrim, William.
Elgrim, William H.
Fenton, Charles.
Flashshaw, George.
Francis, Charles.
Golden, Joseph A.
Gray, James H.
Hartsgrove, George.
Riddle, James Il.
Stillwell, Joseph H.
Stratton, Garret L.
Stryker. James M.
Vanderveer, Joseph W.
Sherman, William H.
Smith, Charles MI.
Smith, Frederick.
Smith, John W.
Crawford, Edward S.
Eifert, George.
Chandler, Lewis O. Coleman, Abel.
Brewer, Thompson.
Miller, Robert J.
Discharged.
Sutphin, Koertinius. Van Arsdale, Stephen D.
Stryker, Holmes.
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Sickles, Leonard, of disease, at Belle Plain, Va., March Cottrell, Thomas J., near Belle Plain, Va., February 7, 1863. 22, 1863; disability.
COMPANY I.
Captain .- Jeremiah V. Spader.
First Lieutenant .- Charles Smith, discharged February 9, 1863.
John N. Cottrell, second lieutenant, September 6, 1862; first lieutenant, vice Smith, resigned.
Second Lieutenant .- Jacob R. Schenck, quartermaster- sergeant, September 20, 1862; second lieutenant, vice Cottrell, promoted. First Sergeant .- John Fitzgibbon.
Sergeants .- Samuel Hughes.
Edward C. Page.
Beekman Nowland.
William L. Atkinson.
Corporals .- Andrew Kniffen.
Edward Van Clief.
David M. Newman.
James T. Chasey.
Joseph Walker.
William Miers.
Benjamin Lufburrow.
Patrick McMahon.
Musician .- Richard Hays.
l'ugoner .- Alexander Brown.
Privates.
Bastedo, Thomas.
Isleton, Jeremiah.
Bradley, James.
Kane, James.
Buckalew, George H.
Keating, Miles.
Carney, Patrick.
Lippincott, Joseph M. MeCordal, Hugh.
Carr, Thomas.
McC'oert, Michacl.
Cloyd, Charles H.
McGuire, Edward.
Coffee, Patrick.
MeQuade, William.
Conners, John.
Mensker, Oliver.
Conover, Garret W.
Miers, Theodore.
Cooper, Benjamin.
Morgan, Clarkson.
Cottrell, Orsemus. Morris, William H.
Cottrell, Sylvanus.
Pierce, John.
Crawford, James.
Piper, William H.
Cuniff, James.
Prink, James.
Desmond, Patrick.
Shiener, George.
Doud, Thomas.
Spader, John W.
Emmons, Moses.
Sweeney, Dennis.
Fitz Henry, William.
Thompson, John G.
Gandley, Bernard. Tully, Peter.
Giblin, Michael.
Van Brockle, James.
Glennan, John.
Van Brockle, Richard.
Harbonrn, William.
Van Pelt, Aaron.
Hays, Patrick.
Wymbs, Joseph.
Hiers, George H.
Discharged.
Bridgewater, Theodore, near Belle Plain, Va., March 31, 1863; disability.
Clark, Edward, near Belle Plain, Va., March 31, 1863; disability.
Duffy, Patrick, at Newark, N. J., February 2, 1863 ; disability.
Floh, Charles W., at Washington, D. C., April 10, 1863; disability.
Gordon, Hendrick C., near Belle Plain, Va., February 22, 1863; disability.
Hiers, James L., at Alexandria, Va., February 9, 1863 : disability.
Jackson, Benjamin L .. at Alexandria, Va., February 9, 1863 ; disability.
Kelly, Daniel, at Tenallytown, Md., November 4. 1862; disability.
Died.
Herbert, Derrick A., musician, of disease, Washing- ton, January 18, 1863.
Chasey, John II., at Middletown Point, N. J., October 26, 1862.
Coffee, Hugh, of disease, near Belle Plain, Va., March 31, 1863.
Morgan, Joseph, of disease, near Belle Plain, Va., March 25, 1863.
Tice, Robert, of disease, at Potomac Creek, Va., De- cember 24, 1862.
List of seven deserters omitted. COMPANY K.
Captain .- Joseph G. Stanton. First Lieutenant .- Joseph L. Allen. Second Lieutenant .- David W. Emmons.
First Sergeant .- John HI. Hagerman.
Sergeants .- Elias C. Conover.
Walter C. Mooney.
Henry Cottrell.
Jacob Garrison.
Corporals .- James T. Dillentush.
Daniel Hagerman.
George W. Longstreet.
Thomas Bordan.
William H. H. Layton.
Harrison Hyer.
Abram Osborn. Musician .- Thomas B. Haight.
Wagoner .- Joseph M. Clayton.
Privates.
Allgor, Benjamin S. Cottrell, Thomas.
Allgor, Thomas. Cottrell, William J.
Applegate, James H.
Curtis, David N.
Ayers, Isaiah. Dillentush, Joseph. Ellmer. William J.
Bordan, Daniel S.
Bordan. John A.
Estell, John B.
Bordan, William P.
Bonde, John H. Brahn, Edward T.
Fielder, John. Fogarty, John D. Gardner, James.
Brown, James. Hall, John T. S.
Ilaight, John T.
Brown, Tylee. Burdge, Merrick MI.
Hulett, Thomas.
Clayton, Cyrenus J.
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Huntsinger, Don Pedro.
Hurley, Clark.
Hurley, Joseph.
Pearce, Cornelius.
Jolly, John.
Justice, Timothy.
King, Job.
Quinn, Michael. Reed, Aaron E. Snider, Hendrick. Tuznew, John H.
Lafetra, Joseph.
Lane, David.
Van Dusen, Abraham D.
Lane, Samuel I1.
Van Hise, Samuel P.
Layton, Everett D.
White, Peter D.
Lewis, John S.
Liming, William.
Williams, Daniel D. Williams, Thomas E.
Lippincott, James M.
Woolley, Asher B.
Longstreet, Richard.
Woolley, David H.
Morris, William H. H.
Woolley, Jacob.
Morton, Lackwood F.
Woolley, James W.
Discharged.
Newman, Stewart, corporal. at Baltimore, Md., Febru- ary 13, 1863; disability.
Allgor, Zachariah, at Belle Plain, Va., February 24, , 1863; disability.
Clayton, Charles T., near Tenallytown, Md., Novem- ber 18, 1862; disability.
Estell. Joseph (2., at Washington, D. C., February 7. 1863; disability.
Gant. Zachariah, at Alexandria, Va .. January 14, 1863; disability.
Grant, John, at Alexandria, Va., February 14, 1863 : disability.
Hurley, Samuel. at Alexandria, Va., March 2. 1863 : disability.
Newman, John H., at Alexandria, Va .. February 9. 1863; disability.
Van Note, Nathaniel, at Baltimore, Md .. January 26. 1863; disability.
White, John S., at Washington, D. C., April 6, 1863 ; disability.
Died.
Tilton, James, musician. of fever, at Alexandria. Va .. December 28, 1862.
Huff, Theodore, of fever, at Camp Potomac, Va .. March 26, 1863.
Morton, Josephi .A., of fever at Camp Potomac, Va .. March 24, 1863.
Company II, of the Twenty-ninth, which organized under command of Colonel Moses N. was raised chiefly in Ocean County, as before ' Wisewell, at Camp Vredenburgh, near Free- stated, contained also a considerable number of hold, where, on the 22d of September, 1862, it men from Monmouth County. The commis- was mustered into the service of the United sioned officers of this company were Albert S. Cloke, captain ; Charles H. Kimball, first lieutenant ; and M. Perrine Gravatt, second lieutenant.
MONMOUTH MEN IN OTHER COMMANDS. Of Monmonth County soldiers enlisted and
serving in New Jersey regiments other than those already mentioned, a considerable number were found in the Tenth and Eleventh Reg- iments, Company I of the latter being largely made up of men from this county.
The Eleventh Regiment was organized at Camp Perrine, Trenton, in July and August, 1862, and was there mustered into the service of the United States for three years, on the 18th of the latter month. It left the State on the 25th, and proceeded to Washington, where it remained until the middle of November fol- lowing, when it joined the Army of the Potomac, and continued as a part of it until the close of the war, taking part in the engagements of Fredericksburg. Chancellor-ville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights (July 24, 1863, Kelly's Ford, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Barker's Mills, Petersburg Defense- (June 16 to 23, 1864), Deep Bottom, Mine Explosion, Ream'- Station, Fort Sedgwick, Poplar Spring Church, Boydton Plank Road (October 27. 1864. Fort Morton, Hatcher's Run, Capture of Petersburg (April 2, 1865), Amelia Spring-, Farmville, Va .. and the action immediately preceding the surrender at Ap- pomattox Court-House. The regiment was mustered out of service near Washington, D. C., June 6, 1865.
The Thirteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-eighth Regiments contained Mon- mouth men; Company A of the last-named regiment being largely compo-ed of soldiers from this county. Its original captain was Benjamin F. Lloyd, who died of fever in Jan- uary, 1863, and was succeeded in the captaincy by Wesley Stoney. The Twenty-eighth was
States for nine months. It left Freehold for the front on the 4th of October, reached Wash- ington on the 5th, and, after several changes of location and assignment, joined the Army of the Potomac at Falmouth, Va., on the Sth of December. Four days later it crossed the Rap- pahannock to the south shore, and on the 13th
Newman, James MI. Newman, William.
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it took part in the assault of the impregnable place on the 1st of November in the same year. Confederate position on the heights of Freder- icksburg, losing one hundred and sixty-one in killed and wounded, and twenty-nine missing; -total, one hundred and ninety. The regiment was again engaged at Chancellorsville, sustain- ing a loss of about thirty in killed, wounded and missing. At the expiration of its term of serviee it returned to New Jersey, arriving, ou the 20th of June, at Freehold, where it was mustered out of service on the 6th of July, 1863.
In the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Regi- ments there was a considerable number of Mon- and remained there as a part of Sheridan's mouth men, and in the Thirty-eighth, one com- pany, A, was chiefly of Monmouth. Its commis- sioned officers were Captain Thomas J. Swan- nel, First Lieutenant Joseph E. Jones, Second Lieutenant John Grant, The Thirty-eighth was commanded by Colonel William J. Sewell, now a United States Senator of New Jersey. It was organized at Camp Bayard, Trenton, and there mustered into the United States ser- vier for one year in September, 1864. During its term of service it was on duty with the Army of the James, and stationed chiefly at Fort Powhatan, on the James River, and at City Point, where it was mustered out of ser- vice June 30, 1865.
In the Second and Third Cavalry Regiments there were a large number of men from Mon- mouth County, embraced principally in con- panies F, II and I of the Second, and companies B and K of the Third. The Second was organ- ized at Camp Parker, near Trenton, in August and September, 1863, and left the State for the front in October. It was first assigned to duty in General Stoneman's Cavalry division of the Army of the Potomac, and remained in the vicinity of Alexandria, Va., until the 9th of November, 1863, when it moved under orders to Eastport, Miss., where it became a part of the Army of the Southwest. It remained in the Department of the Missis- sippi until after the close of the war, and dur- ing that time took part in nearly forty battles and skirmishes. A part of the regiment was mustered out of service at Vicksburg, Miss., June 29, 1865, and the remainder at the same
The Third Cavalry was raised and organized at Camp Bayard, Trenton, in the early part of 1864, and left the State on the 5th of April in that year, proceeding by overland march to Annapolis, Md. Soon afterwards it joined the Cavalry corps of the Army of the Poto- mac, at Alexandria, Va. It continned in active service during the remainder of the war, taking part in ten engagements and skir- mishes in the Wilderness and Petersburg cam- paigns until the latter part of July, 1864, when it was moved to the Shenandoah Valley, army until March, 1865, when it moved baek to the Petersburg line of operations, and was present at the surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox. Its companies were mustered out of service in June and August, 1865, at Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D. C. The whole number of battles and skir- mishes in which the Third was engaged during its terms of service was thirty-five, embracing the actions at United States Ford, Hawes' Shop, Winchester, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Five Forks, Appomattox and others of the severest cavalry conflicts of the war.
In the artillery service, in Batteries A (Hexa- mer's), B (Beam's) and D (Woodbury's), Mon- month County men were quite numerous, par- ticularly in Battery D, which was raised and organized in the summer of 1863, and mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Perrine, Trenton, on the 16th of September in that year, its total strength being one hundred and forty-four officers and privates. It left the State on the 29th of September, and proceeded to Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., where it received its outfit of guns, horses and equip- ments, and remained through the winter. On the 23d of April, 1864, it left the camp and moved to the tront, where it was assigned to the Tenth Army Corps. It took part in the operations of the campaign of 1864 before Petersburg until November 4th, when it was ordered, with other troops, to New York City, to be ready to quell the riots which were ex- pected to oceur during the Presidential election,
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It returned to the Petersburg lines on the 21st of November, and continued on the front during the remainder of the war. It was mustered out of the service at Richmond, Va., June 17, 1865. The battle record of Battery D embraces ten engagements, in which it took part from May 10, 1864, to April 3, 1865.
During the War of the Rebellion more than three thousand men of New Jersey served in the United States navy. Of this large number, the ocean-bordered county of Monmouth furnished many more than her full quota, on a population basis. It is, however, impracticable to give here a list of their names or a record of their services, for they were scattered and distributed among more than half the vessels of the navy serving on the Atlantic and Gulf blockades, in gunboat fleets which patroled the rivers of the west and south.
the different cruising squadrons and on the ! to the common canse in the regiments of another
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The Grand Army of the Republic, of which Henry M. Nevius is the department comman- der in the Department of New Jersey, has in Monmouth County the following-named posts, composed of members who were officers or en- listed men in the military service of the United States in the War of the Rebellion :
Captain J. W. Conover Post, No. 63, at Free- hold, instituted January 16, 1881; members, sixty-six. Captain Company D, Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers, died of wounds received in action at battle of Monocacy, Md.
J. G. Shackelton, Post No. 83, at Matawan, instituted November 21, 1883 ; sixty-five mem- bers. Named after Dr. J. G. Shackelton, as- sistant surgeon Twenty-ninth New Jersey Vol- unteers.
AArrowsmith Post, No. 61, Red Bank, institu- ted Der. 6, 1881 ; one hundred and one members. Named after George Arrowsmith, lieutenant- colonel One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, killed July 1, 1863, in the battle of Gettysburg.
GEORGE ARROWSMITH rendered his services State, but the glory pertaining to his name belongs to New Jersey. He was born in the township of Middletown, Monmouth County, April 18, 1839, and was the fourth son of Major Thomas Arrowsmith, who has recently gone to his grave at a ripe age. Having re- ceived such advantages as the schools in his father's neighborhood afforded, he repaired to Hamilton, New York, and after a brief course in the grammar school, entered Madison Uni- versity in 1855, graduating with great credit in 1859, being then but little over twenty years of age. His scholarship made the faculty desire to keep him in connection with the university as a tutor, and he spent some time in that capacity, and shortly after conjoined with it the study of the law. He had just received his license to practice when the war broke out. 1
C. K. Hall Post, No. 41, at Asbury Park, N. J., instituted February 11, 1880. Member- ship, forty. The post was named after Cakl- well K. Hall, who was adjutant of the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers from August 28, 1861, until 1862, when he was promoted to lieu- I tenant-colonel of the Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers ; was brevetted colonel for merito- predilection for military life, seconded by an I rious services at Cold Harbor, Va., and brevet ardent patriotism, led him to volunteer for the brigadier-general for gallantry at Monocacy, Md. defense of his country. A company was raised
at Hamilton, to which, with a number of the
James B. Morris Post, No. 46, instituted July 1 15, 1880, at Long Branch ; one hundred mem- students of the university, he joined himself, bers. Named after James B. Morris, first lieu- , and was immediately selected as captain. The , tenant Battery D, First Regiment New Jersey . company was mustered into service May 26, , Artillery.
1861, and made part of the Twenty-sixth Reg- Vredenburgh, Post No. 47, Manasquan, with iment New York Volunteers. On reaching thirty-one members, instituted July 26, 1880. Virginia the Twenty-sixth was assigned to Named after Peter Vredenburgh, Jr., major Brigadier-General MeDowell's division. In a Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers, killed in short time his intrepidity gained for him the action at Opequan, Va.
sobriquet of the " Young Lion." The Twenty-
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sixth was engaged in the battle of Culpepper, and Captain Arrowsmith's gallantry caused his promotion by General Powers to be as- sistant adjutant-general of his brigade. In the second battle of Bull Run he distinguished himself, and when General Powers was wounded, led his command. At one time, not recognizing the rank of General Schenck, he rallied and led two regiments into the fight amid a shower of grape and canister. His services in this battle gained marked encomiums from General McDowell, and one of the general's staff wrote: "Arrowsmith has covered himself with glory." Although not wounded, his cap and clothes bore evidences of his narrow escape, and his health having suffered by hardship and exposure, he was compelled to accept a furlough. The news of his bravery and skill had justified the proph- ecies of his friends in Madison County, and a new regiment being raised,-the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh, New York Volunteers-he was urged to accept the coloneley. Ile, however, preferred that Professor Brown, with whom in his college career he had formed a strong friendship, should take the first place, and he became lieutenant-colonel. This regiment was, unfortunately, attached to Gen- eral Sehurz's command, and was the only American regiment in the division. The Germans, owing to dissatisfaction arising from Sigel's removal, behaved badly at Chan- cellorsville, but the One Hundred and Fifty- seventh was complimented in general orders and the brave bearing of Arrowsmith greatly praised everywhere. At the battle of Gettys- burg our lieutenant-colonel took an active part. With his hat in one hand and his sword in the other, he went forward, exclaiming, " Come, boys, follow me!" Suddenly Colonel Brown found his lieutenant missing, and, moving to the right, discovered him lying on his back, badly wounded in the head, evidently insensible and near his end. So terrible had been the exposure to which he had led his men that only eighty came out of the fight out of the four hundred and twenty who went in, and but eight officers out of twenty-six remained. Ow- ing to the hot fire of the enemy, it was impossi-
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