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was killed. Captain D. B. Logan of Company H, who succeeded him, also fell severely wounded, and four men who were taking him to the rear were all shot down before they could reach a place of safety and Captain Logan killed. Captain Andrew H. Ackerman, of Company C, then assumed command and he, too, soon fell dead. The regiment was being cut up at a frightful rate, and began falling back. To check this movement Corporal Thomas Johnson. of Company I, was ordered to take the colors-two color-bearers had already been shot-and plant them twenty paces to the front. He did so and remained there kneeling until ordered back, when the regiment moved with the line of battle to a position some distance to the rear, where it halted behind a hedge.
The casualties in the Eleventh were heavy-over fifty per cent. of the number who went into action. They were as follows :
FIELD AND STAFF.
Wounded-Colonel Robert McAllister, Major Philip J. Kearney (died August 9, 1863), Adjutant John Schoonover.
COMPANY A.
Wounded-Corporal Tyler L. Haring (died July 4), First Sergeant Joseph Burns, Corporal George H. Johnson, Emmet Burke, Christopher Snyder, Robert E. Mayo, William H. Weaver, Nathan E. Wappen- stein, Archibald Patten, Isaac Harlow, Daniel L. Snider, Henry McMahon.
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COMPANY B.
Wounded - First Lieutenant William S. Provost, First Sergeant William Hand, Corporal Charles A. Voorhees (loss of both eyes), Corporal Thaddeus Doane, Corporal Andrew Webster, John H. Rue (died July 19), Benjamin F. Jackson (died July 7), Albert Oss, William H. Smith, Fidelle Haase, J. A. Lowther, Samuel Stacker, Jacob Van Pelt (died July 9), John Voorhees.
COMPANY C.
Killed - Captain Andrew H. Ackerman, Sergeant Corum Righter, Joseph Cheston, John Clark, Jr.
Wounded-First Lieutenant John B. Fassett, Color- Sergeant David Schafer, Corporal Amos Rockhill, John Lindsey, Franklin Armstrong, Richard Howell, James K. Webb, John Crane, Charles Stevenson, Peter Cogill.
Missing-Charles Purdan.
COMPANY D.
Killed-Captain Luther Martin, Corporal Isaac A. Hendershot, Randolph Merriman.
Wounded-Lieutenant Sidney M. Layton, Corporal Manuel Runyon, Richard Burtrone, Edward Spell- man, Theodore Waller, David C. Keve.
Missing-Edward B. Nelson, James Beattie (reported died July 2), Frederick C. Tuers (reported died July 3).
COMPANY E.
Killed-Thomas Tinney.
Wounded-Second Lieutenant Silas W. Volk, So- 16
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geant Eliphalet Sturdevant (died July 13), Corporal Absalom Talmadge, Corporal Elisha F. Rose, Corporal Edward J. Kinney, Charles Bowman, James F. Gibson, Benjamin H. Joinier, James King, Samuel W. Morse, Thomas Scattergood, John H. Wilson, Jacob Miller (also missing), Joseph W. Walton.
Missing-David Daley.
COMPANY F.
Killed-John L. Cozzins.
Wounded -Captain William H. Lloyd, First Lieu- tenant Edwin R. Good, First Sergeant Benjamin F. Morehouse, Sergeant Thomas D. White, Sergeant James C. White, Sergeant John F. Bartine, Corporal George W. Morton, Corporal Charles Dilks, Corporal Edward White, Corporal William H. Terhune, Edward Powers, James Thompson, Ephraim Robbins, William Collins, Miller H. Lewis.
COMPANY G.
Killed-George S. Bird, George H. Bunting, Henry Elbertson, Michael Goff, Stewart Parent, Peter Robins.
Wounded-Sergeant O. F. Holloway, Sergeant Ferdi- nand W. Krug, Corporal George Holloway, Corporal Israel Nixon, Corporal Smith H. Eldredge, Charles A. Koenig, Thomas Lowry, George A. McGuire, George F. Sever, Chapman Marcellus, William Emmons (priso- ner of war), Thomas Foutch, Abijah Thompson, John Lloyd, Joseph Fowler, Thomas Kelly (also missing).
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COMPANY H.
Killed-Captain Dorastus B. Logan, Edward Barber. Wounded - Second Lieutenant William E. Axtell, Sergeant J. V. Lanterman, Joshua Barber, Joseph L. Decker, Bartley Owen, John C. Nutt, John J. Sites, Timothy K. Pruden, Patrick King, William Halsey.
COMPANY I.
Killed-Corporal James P. Stryker, Silas D. Clark. Wounded -- Sergeant Thomas J. Thompson, Corporal Richard J. Merrill, Corporal E. M. Robinson, Corporal John W. Joline (died August 17, 1863), Corporal Michael Cooney, Francis Wassimer, William H. Luce, James Finnons, Stacey Babcock, John M. Errickson, Alfred Barcalo, Daniel J. Buckley, George Cham- berlin, Henry L. Molleson, Jacob L. Chevalier.
Missing-John Desbrow, Hugh Downey (died at Andersonville, September 19, 1864.)
COMPANY K.
Killed-Corporal Jeremiah O'Brien, Corporal W. H. Morgan, Martin Bekie, Henry Kring.
Wounded-First Sergeant Charles C. Reilley, Ser- geant Edward Appleton, Corporal Amon J. Foote, John Ardner, William Carson, Jr., Frederick Soldner, John A. Labort, Gersham J. Froate.
RECAPITULATION.
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General Joseph B. Carr, commanding the First Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps, in his report calls the attention of the General commanding the division to the gallant and meritorious conduct of Colonel Robert McAllister, commanding Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers, Major Philip J. Kearney, seriously wounded (since dead), Adjutant John Schoon- over, who was twice wounded, but remained in com- mand of his regiment, and to Lieutenant John Older- shaw, acting aide-de-camp, to whom his sincere thanks are extended for valuable services rendered.
The fighting had been furious. Ward, on the left at the Devil's Den, had borne the heaviest part of it for nearly two hours, and the onslaught of Benning with Anderson's brigade finally forced him back with the loss of three guns of Smith's battery, and a casualty list of frightful proportions. The attack on De Tro- briand had caused his line to recede. His ranks were frightfully decimated. The artillery also fell back a short distance to get out of the way of the advancing enemy, and if Kershaw had been able to press a little stronger success would have crowned his efforts. But just at this moment, when defeat seemed certain Cald- well's splendid division of the Second Corps arrived on the field, and Ayres' Regulars of the Fifth Corps followed in front of Little Round Top. Another effort to preserve the line was to be made. Ayres detached Weed's brigade-to which the One Hundred and Fortieth New York belonged-to reinforce the exhausted band on Little Round Top, where he
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arrived just in time to learn that the gallant Vincent and the brave O'Rorke had both been killed, and their troops menaced by another assault from Hood's persistent veterans. Moving to the right Hood sought to turn the flank of the Twentieth Maine. He opened a sharp fire along the whole line, and Weed, who was standing near Hazlett's battery encouraging his men, received a mortal wound, while Hazlett in stooping down to hear his dying words, was - struck by the bullet C.r.o.29 Rd of a sharp-shooter and fell upon the dead body of his ROAD 146th ROUND friend a corpse. The 91PA enemy moved to the 140 NY HOO right to get in Cham- 16 MICH. .3W.07 D'S 44 NY! berlain's rear, and in TANEY TOWN REBEL - - - so doing was com- D 1 v13 93PA CROSS ROAD pelled to weaken his UNION - -- line. Chamberlain The Fight for LITTLE ROUND TOP on JULY 2. 1863. noticing the fact boldly charged upon the attacking force capturing over three hundred of them and before they could recover from their surprise at this seeming piece of audacity, Chamberlain, at the point of the bayonet forced the remainder down the mountain side. It was a glorious achievement, but only one of many of like nature which characterized the battle of Gettysburg.
While this conflict for Little Round Top was going
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on, Caldwell's division was advancing to meet the victorious troops of Anderson and Kershaw, who had driven back but had not penetrated the line of Birney and Barnes. The "Irish Brigade" commanded by Colonel Kelley, formed amid the dreadful sounds of the conflict, and before going into action, the chaplain, a Catholic priest, ascended a rocky bowlder and pro- nounced a general absolution for the whole brigade. At the word of command they dashed impetuously upon Anderson's line and brought his troops to a halt. Cross and Zook and Burke's brigades in turn assailed the enemy, but a movement by Wofford, who boldly dashed into the line in his eagerness to aid Barksdale, who had advanced in two lines of battle against the Peach Orchard, compelled Birney, Humphreys, Barnes and Caldwell's divisions to re-form on the main line, and relinquish the Emmetsburg road and the whole of the ground back to Little Round Top, to the enemy.
General Meade had sent for reinforcements from all parts of the battle-field, and troops from the First, Sixth and Twelfth Corps were promptly moving to the scene. Hill had begun a lively cannonade on the position of Cemetery Hill to which the batteries there responded vigorously and effectively. Meade in his great desire to preserve the left had stripped the right of his line, by ordering the whole of the Twelfth Corps to the support of Sickles, but to this movement General Slocum warmly protested. At his earnest solicitation Green's brigade of Geary's division was permitted to remain on Culp's Hill, and
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by extending his several regiments in a thin line along the works was able to occupy a good portion of them, but not all. At half-past seven o'clock Ruger's divi- sion took up position in line with Doubleday's division of the First Corps and Birney's of the Third Corps, forming in two lines of battle, Colgrove's brigade in front, and McDougall in rear. Lockwood's brigade, which had arrived earlier, was led by General Meade into the very jaws of the enemy, and by their suc- cessful charge, enabled 2 . B, PIKE. the new line to become more firmly established. DOUBLEDA This movement brought the Thirteenth New Jersey Regiment, Col. POWERS HIRE Ezra A. Carman, to the RUGER. CROSS ROAD to B. PIKE scene of conflict. The ROBINSON. + ++ Thirteenth had been +122 massed on the south- easterly slope of Culp's TANEYTOWN ROAD BIR NEY Hill at an early hour in GARNES the morning, when Meade's orders to charge Ewell's line had been given, and on the abandonment of that scheme, relieved the Third Wisconsin Regiment in McAllister's wood to the south of Spangler's Run. The Twelftha.Corps had thrown up a line of small breastworks along the crest of Culp's Hill, and in McAllister's woods, and when ordered to the left vacated them all except that part of the line held by Green's brigade of Geary's division on the summit of Culp's Hill.
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Meade had called upon every corps in the army, during the day, except the Eleventh, for reinforce- ments to Sickles' line, and they all moved promptly to the left, where they were put in at every exposed point. The wounding of Sickles, put Birney in tem- porary command of the Third Corps, but by order of General Meade, Hancock was placed in command of the corps in addition to his own. Hancock performed herculean service. His watchful eye detected every weak spot in the line and he promptly protected it. The attack culminated by the effort of Wilcox, Perry and Wright's brigades to break through Humphreys' line, and Wright succeeded in piercing the centre of the Federal position by the capture of four guns. Wilcox was almost in a line with him, but General Newton sent forward Doubleday's division of the First Corps who reached Webb's line in time to see Wright falling back, but they pursued him sharply and recaptured six guns which had been in the enemy's possession. By Hancock's own order the First Minne- sota Regiment bravely attacked Wilcox, and drove him back as far as the Emmetsburg road, but with a loss of half its men.
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was deliberately sacrificed, the men firing canister until they could no longer load owing to the close approach of the enemy. Clark's battery ( "B" First New Jersey) was in the very thickest of all this car- nage. When Kershaw's line penetrated into the Peach Orchard a South Carolina regiment moved boldly up to Clark's pieces. A Pennsylvania regiment lying in the "sunken road " concealed, rose up and poured a deadly volley into their faces which caused them to retire in confusion. From 2 p. m. until 6.30 Clark's battery was in continual action, and when at the retiring of the infantry column, it was compelled to fall back, one caisson and one caisson-body were left on the field there being no horses to draw them off. The loss in the battery was 2 men killed, 15 wounded, 3 missing, 2 of whom were taken prisoners. Seventeen horses were killed and five so badly disabled that they were abandoned. The casualties were as follows :
Killed-Thomas N. Post, Jr., Rensallaer Cassel- man .- 2.
Wounded-Sergeant Leander McChesney, Privates Richard S. Price, Joseph M. Morris, 1 Hiram A. Grover, 2 Hiram Tierney, 3 Edson E. Sheppard, Patrick F. Castello, William Riley, Robert Stuart, 4 John Truly, Anthony Collier, Joseph Baker, Chileon D. Richards, Leopold Smally, 5 Stephen McGowan .- 15.
1 Hiram A. Grover, 2 Hiram Tierney, of the Second Michigan Volunteers ; 3 Edson E. Sheppard, 4 John Truly, of the Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers ; and 5 Stephen McGowan of the Ninety- ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, were temporarily attached to the battery, and were not members of it.
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Missing-Privates Henry C. Buffum, Henry E. Davis, Daniel W. Laws-all prisoners of war .- 3.
Colonel McGilvery, who commanded the First Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, describes the artillery fighting at this part of the line :
"A New Jersey battery (Clark's " B" First New Jersey Artillery) immediately on the right of the two Massachusetts batteries, was receiving the most of the fire of two or more rebel batteries. Hart's Fifteenth New York Independent Battery reporting at that time I placed it in position in a peach orchard on the right and a little to the front of the New Jersey battery. The four batteries already mentioned presented a front at nearly right angles with the position occupied by our troops, facing toward our left, the fire of which I concentrated on single rebel batteries, and five or more were driven in succession from their positions.
" At about a quarter to six the enemy's infantry gained possession of the woods immediately on the left of my line of batteries and our infantry fell back both on the right and left, when great disorder ensued on both flanks of the line of batteries. At this period of the action all of the batteries were exposed to a warm infantry fire from both flanks and front, whereupon 1 ordered them to retire two hundred and fifty yards and renew their fire. The New Jersey battery was relieved, being out of ammunition, and retired to the rear. Captain Bigelow retired by prolonge, firing canister, and with Phillips and Thompson on the right.
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in their new position checked the enemy for a short time."
During the fighting on Sickles' front the enemy's skirmishers kept up an annoying fire upon the Second Corps' line. Their reserves occupied an old building, known as the Bliss barn, which also commanded the line, and about five o'clock in the afternoon General Hayes directed Colonel Smyth, commanding the Sec- ond Brigade, to dislodge them. Colonel Smyth called upon the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment, whereupon the whole regiment arose to volunteer, when he indi- cated that a detachment of four companies would be sufficient. for the work in hand. The barn mentioned was of brick, was five hundred and eighty-seven yards from the line, and it and the line of the Twelfth's advance were so completely covered by the fire of the enemy's skirmishers and artillery, that it was known that serious loss must result from the attack. Major John T. Hill detached for this service compa- nies B, H, E and G, under command of Captain Samuel B. Jobes, the ranking officer.
The column moved out by the flank to the right of the Bryan barn; then, formed by company into line. As the rear cleared the wall the movement came under the eyes of the whole brigade and of part of Gibbons' division, and of Robinson's division of the First Corps upon the right, and now in close formation the Twelfth begins its march. The artillery of Hill's Corps opened upon the line at once, the enemy's skirm- ishers poured in an annoying fire, his reserve from the
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the shelter of the barn thinned its ranks, Jobes was wounded, Captain Horsfalls, of Company E, was killed, and 40 men out of the 200 were stricken down ; but there was no wavering in that brave column of Jerseymen.
Bringing their arms to the right shoulder, and taking the double quick, with ringing cheers they burst through the enemy's skirmish line with the might of a giant, and in one bold mass closed down upon, surrounded and captured the Bliss barn, with the enemy's picket reserve of ninety-two men and seven officers, and bringing their prisoners with them, regained our lines.
No bolder attack was made upon that well-contested field, and it deservedly gave the regiment a reputa- tion for gallantry which it never lost.
The battle on the left had been a bloody one. Long- street's men, nerved to their work by the belief that victory would surely follow their assault and this be followed by the speedy ending of the war, fought with a valor and heroism unsurpassed; but they had not only the physical force of the Union army to contend
against. Every man in it who handled a musket or wielded a sabre felt that Lee's army was in their power, and never once thought of defeat. This battle ground meant defeat for one side or the other, and no man in the Army of the Potomac believed defeat possible for them. The driving in of the First and Eleventh Corps the day before had not disheartened them ; but as the news of the rout at the first battle of Bull Run created a feeling throughout the North
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COMPANY B.
Wounded - First Lieutenant William S. Provost, First Sergeant William Hand, Corporal Charles A. Voorhees (loss of both eyes), Corporal Thaddeus Doane, Corporal Andrew Webster, John H. Rue (died July 19), Benjamin F. Jackson (died July 7), Albert Oss, William H. Smith, Fidelle Haase, J. A. Lowther, Samuel Stacker, Jacob Van Pelt (died July 9), John Voorhees.
COMPANY C.
Killed - Captain Andrew H. Ackerman, Sergeant Corum Righter, Joseph Cheston, John Clark, Jr.
Wounded-First Lieutenant John B. Fassett, Color- Sergeant David Schafer, Corporal Amos Rockhill, John Lindsey, Franklin Armstrong, Richard Howell, James K. Webb, John Crane, Charles Stevenson, Peter Cogill.
Missing-Charles Purdan.
COMPANY D.
Killed-Captain Luther Martin, Corporal Isaac A. Hendershot, Randolph Merriman.
Wounded-Lieutenant Sidney M. Layton, Corporal Manuel Runyon, Richard Burtrone, Edward Spell- man, Theodore Waller, David C. Keve.
Missing-Edward B. Nelson, James Beattie (reported died July 2), Frederick C. Tuers (reported died July 3).
COMPANY E.
Killed-Thomas Tinney.
Wounded-Second Lieutenant Silas W. Volk, Ser- 16
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geant Eliphalet Sturdevant (died July 13), Corporal Absalom Talmadge, Corporal Elisha F. Rose, Corporal Edward J. Kinney, Charles Bowman, James F. Gibson, Benjamin H. Joinier, James King, Samuel W. Morse, Thomas Scattergood, John H. Wilson, Jacob Miller (also missing), Joseph W. Walton.
Missing-David Daley.
COMPANY F.
Killed-John L. Cozzins.
Wounded -Captain William H. Lloyd, First Lieu- tenant Edwin R. Good, First Sergeant Benjamin F. Morehouse, Sergeant Thomas D. White, Sergeant James C. White, Sergeant John F. Bartine, Corporal George W. Morton, Corporal Charles Dilks, Corporal Edward White, Corporal William H. Terhune, Edward Powers, James Thompson, Ephraim Robbins, William Collins, Miller H. Lewis.
COMPANY G.
Killed-George S. Bird, George H. Bunting, Henry Elbertson, Michael Goff, Stewart Parent, Peter Robins.
Wounded-Sergeant O. F. Holloway, Sergeant Ferdi- nand W. Krug, Corporal George Holloway, Corporal Israel Nixon, Corporal Smith H. Eldredge, Charles A. Koenig, Thomas Lowry, George A. McGuire, George F. Sever, Chapman Marcellus, William Emmons (priso- ner of war), Thomas Foutch, Abijah Thompson, John Lloyd, Joseph Fowler, Thomas Kelly (also missing).
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COMPANY H.
Killed-Captain Dorastus B. Logan, Edward Barber. Wounded - Second Lieutenant William E. Axtell, Sergeant J. V. Lanterman, Joshua Barber, Joseph L. Decker, Bartley Owen, John C. Nutt, John J. Sites, Timothy K. Pruden, Patrick King, William Halsey.
COMPANY I.
Killed-Corporal James P. Stryker, Silas D. Clark. Wounded -- Sergeant Thomas J. Thompson, Corporal Richard J. Merrill, Corporal E. M. Robinson, Corporal John W. Joline (died August 17, 1863), Corporal Michael Cooney, Francis Wassimer, William H. Luce, James Finnons, Stacey Babcock, John M. Errickson, Alfred Barcalo, Daniel J. Buckley, George Cham- berlin, Henry L. Molleson, Jacob L. Chevalier.
Missing-John Desbrow, Hugh Downey (died at Andersonville, September 19, 1864.)
COMPANY K.
Killed-Corporal Jeremiah O'Brien, Corporal W. H. Morgan, Martin Bekie, Henry Kring.
Wounded-First Sergeant Charles C. Reilley, Ser- geant Edward Appleton, Corporal Amon J. Foote. John Ardner, William Carson, Jr., Frederick Soldner, John A. Labort, Gersham J. Froate.
RECAPITULATION.
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10
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20
113
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123
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General Joseph B. Carr, commanding the First Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps, in his report calls the attention of the General commanding the division to the gallant and meritorious conduct of Colonel Robert McAllister, commanding Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers, Major Philip J. Kearney, seriously wounded (since dead), Adjutant John Schoon- over, who was twice wounded, but remained in com- mand of his regiment, and to Lieutenant John Older- shaw, acting aide-de-camp, to whom his sincere thanks are extended for valuable services rendered.
The fighting had been furious. Ward, on the left at the Devil's Den, had borne the heaviest part of it for nearly two hours, and the onslaught of Benning with Anderson's brigade finally forced him back with the loss of three guns of Smith's battery, and a casualty list of frightful proportions. The attack on De Tro- briand had caused his line to recede. His ranks were frightfully decimated. The artillery also fell back a short distance to get out of the way of the advancing enemy, and if Kershaw had been able to press a little stronger success would have crowned his efforts. But just at this moment, when defeat seemed certain Cald- well's splendid division of the Second Corps arrived on the field, and Ayres' Regulars of the Fifth Corps followed in front of Little Round Top. Another effort to preserve the line was to be made. Ayres detached Weed's brigade-to which the One Hundred and Fortieth New York belonged-to reinforce the exhausted band on Little Round Top, where he
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