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Major Charles L. Brown. After other operations in that vicinity the regiment found itself in its old camp at Harrison's Landing, where they remained until August 15, removing thence to Newport News, where they arrived on the 21st. The movements of the regiment from that time until the battle at Antietam were to Alexandria ; thence to a point near Fort Ethan Allen ; thence to Frederick City, South Mountain and Antietam. In that memorable battle the regiment was forced to the front, where it narrowly escaped destruction, and lost thirty-two killed, 109 wounded, and nine missing. From Antietam the regiment went to Harper's Ferry, and on the 11th of November was reviewed by Gen- eral McClellan for the last time. Next they marched to Falmonth, and on December 11 reached a point opposite Fredericksburg. Here in the engagement that followed they lost thirty- three killed and wounded. The regiment went into winter quarters near Falmouth January 26, 1863. Its term of service expired on the 8th of June and on that day they left for home. They were tendered a reception at Herkimer before being mustered out and were given a royal welcome on the 27th of June. The men were mustered out on the 30th of June, numbering only 400, as against 786 when the organization left for the front.
Passing by several organizations in which Herkimer county men en- listed, as noted further on, we come to the Ninty-seventh Regiment of infantry, in which a large part of five companies were from this county, the remainder being largely Oneida county men. The formation of this regiment was begun on the 16th of October, 1861, and was of- ficered as follows : Colonel, Charles Wheelock ; lieutenant-colonel, J. P. Spofford, of Brockett's Bridge, Herkimer county, promoted to colonel in February, 1865 ; major, Charles Northrup; adjutant, Charles Buck ; quartermaster, Joel T. Comstock; surgeon, N. D. Ferguson; assistant surgeon, Aaron Cornish; chaplain, James V. Ferguson. Colonel Whee- lock was one of the bravest and most efficient officers that left the State. He was captured by the enemy in one of the early engagements of the regiment, but made a daring escape. The hardships of army life were too severe for his physical frame, and he died at Washington January 21, 1865. His remains were brought home to his native town of Boon- ville where they received burial with military honors.
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The Ninety-seventh was mustered into service at Boonville on the 19th of February, 1862, and on the 12th day of March left for Wash- ington with a strength of 928 men. Companies C, D, E, F, and I were each about half made up of Herkimer county men, and officered as fol- lows by Herkimer county :
Company C .- First lieutenant, Francis Murphy ; second lieutenant, John T. Norton ; first sergeant, John G. C. Sproule ; sergeants, James McGurren, Hemy P. Fitzpatrick ; corporal, Charles McGurren, all of Herkimer village ; musician, Dennis T. IIall, Graves- ville ; wagoner, Horace Rice, Herkimer.
Company D. - Captain, Rouse P. Egleston, Brockett's Bridge ; first lieutenant, Dwight S. Faville, Brockett's Bridge ; first sergeant, James H. Stiles, Salisbury ; second sergeant, Frank Reed, Brockett's Bridge; fourth sergeant, William Dresber, Sahsbury ; fifth ser- geant, David Beverly, jr., Brockett's Bridge ; corporals, H. Alonzo Cool and Charles Doxtater, Brockett's Bridge; Abner K. Huntly, Frederick Munson, and Conrad Metz, Salisbury Center, and Morgan Hughs, Manheim; fifer, Ezra M. Huntly, Salisbury ; wagoner, John Kirchen, Salisbury Center.
Campany E .- Corporal, John Williams, Russia ; musician, John F. Morehouse, Graves- ville.
Company F .- Captain, Stephen G. Hutchinson ; first lieutenant, E. Gary Spencer, Brockett's Bridge ; first sergeant, William Ransom ; second sergeant, Delos D. Hall; third sergeant, Hiram Hildreth, and fourth sergeant, John Darling, Salisbury ; corporals, Augustus Johnson, William B. Judd, Brockett's Bridge, and George Terry, Salisbury.
Company H, commanded by Captain Anton Brendle, included musicians Addy and William Thompson, and three privates, from Ilerkimer village.
Company I .- Captain, James P. Leslie : first lieutenant, Romeyn Roof ; second lieu- tenant, Lewis H. Carpenter ; first sergeant, George Chase, and sergeant, Henry A. Way, all of Little Falls ; sergeant, Joseph W. Harrison, Van Hornesville ; sergeant, Hartley Youker, Little Falls ; corporals, John Campbell, George J. Keller, Ansel L. Snow, Will- iam H. Gray, and Michael Tighe, Little Falls; Clinton Ackerman, Newville; James Kenna, and Roswell Clark, jr., Little Falls ; musicians, Charles A. Barrett and Fred- erick V. Laurent, Little Falls.
Following is a list of the battles in which this regiment bore a con- spicuous part : Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Freder- icksburg (two engagements), Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Raccoon Ford, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna, Tolopotomoy, Bethesda Church, White Oak Swamp, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Hicks Ford, Hatcher's Run, Quaker Road, White Oak Road, Five Forks, Appomattox. It is no more than
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justice to this splendid organization to give it credit for being one of the bravest and hardest fought regiments in the army, as the following sta- tistics will show :
Of the color bearers two were killed and three wounded, as follows: Sergeant James Brown, killed July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg; Sergeant Sylvester Riley, killed May 5, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness. Sergeant John King, wounded severely May 18. near Spottsylvania Court-house; John D. Conlon, wounded May 5, 1864, near Spottsylvania Court-house ; Joseph Curtis, wounded February 6, 1862.
Of the original officers only three returned with the regiment, viz .. Colonel J. P. Spofford, Lieutenant-Colonel Rouse P. Egleston, and Captain Isaac Ilall.
The commissioned officers who were killed, or died of wounds received in action, were: Captain Richard Jones, August 30, 1862; First Lieutenant Dwight S. Faville, August 30, 1862 ; Second Lientenant Louis Dallarini, September 17, 1862; First Lieu- tenant Rush P. Cady, July 1, 1863; Second Lieutenant James H. Stiles, July 1, 1863; Second Lieutenant William J. Morrin, July 1, 1863; First Lieutenant Frank T. Bren- nan, May 6, 1864 ; Second Lieutenant William G. Dresher, May 6, 1864; Second Lieu- tenant John Koch, June 3, 1863 ; Second Lieutenant Henry P. Fitzpatrick, August 4, 1864 ; Captain William B. Judd, February 6, 1864. Thirty-two commissioned officers and 836 enlisted men were wounded. The total number of commissioned officers ever belonging to the regiment was ninety-four.
Of the enlisted men in the regiment there were killed or mortally wounded, 203 ; died of disease, 122; discharged, 690; transferred, 534; mustered out-present-322; mms- tered out-absent -- 205; total, 2,081. There were twenty-two hundred names on the muster toll of the regiment during its service ; when mustered out there were just 25 officers and 322 men left, Company D mustered out but twenty-six men.
The regiment was in Duryea's Brigade and Rickett's Division of the First Corps at the battle of Antietam, where it suffered more severely than in any other battle. Here more than one-half of the regiment was killed and wounded in less than an hour after the engagement commenced ; yet it is said men never displayed more coolness and de- termination. Not a man was captured, and when relieved, though under a galling fire, they retired in good order.
At Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and all subsequent battles-more than twenty in number-the Ninety-seventh sustained the reputation it had gloriously acquired at hard-fought Antietam, At Gettysburg the loss of the regiment was great, particularly in officers eleven of whom (out of twenty-four) were killed or wounded. The regi- ment went into this battle with only 236 ritles ; and after being engaged several hours and losing heavily it made a successful charge upon the Twentieth North Carolina regiment, capturing 382 men and their colors. Colonel Spofford (then lieutenant- colonel) led this charge, and in it nearly one-half of his hat was carried away by a piece of shell. His horse was shot in the head, and Colonel Spofford subsequently taken prisoner, and he was afterwards nearly a year and a half in Southern prisons.
On the 7th of June, 1864, the Eighty-third New York volunteers (Ninth militia) were consolidated with the Ninety-seventh. Prior to this consolidation the Twenty-
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sixth New York had been jomed to the Eighty-third, and the Ninety-seventh there- fore received the remnants of two regiments when the consolidation took place.
The One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment .- This was the next organization which contained a large proportion of Herkimer county men, most of the remainder being from Otsego county, and was raised in response to the president's call for 300,000 volunteers in August, 1862. The camp of the regiment was situated on the grounds of H. J. Schuyler, in the town of German Flats, about a mile and a half from Herkimer, and was called Camp Schuyler. A list of the Herkimer county men in the regiment was published in the Herkimer Democrat of August 27, 1862, and shows that companies A, B, C, D, and H were almost wholly from this county, the figures being respectively in the order named, 98, 102, 101, 102, and 66. These companies were officered as follows :
Company A .- Captain, 1I. M. Galpin, Little Falls; first lieutenant. J. Burrill, Salis- bury ; second lieutenant, George W. Davis, Little Falls; sergeants-Joseph H. Heath, Little Falls; Lester Baum, Danube; David T. King, Salisbury ; George Hewittson, Danube ; and Frank Burt, Little Falls; corporals-George H Snell, Little Falls ; John Wormonth, Danube ; Albert II. Clark. Little Falls, Henry Timmerman, Little Falls; Isaac Darling, Salisbury ; Hallet Mattison, Salisbury ; Jamies Hendrix, Danube; and Peter Fletcher, Little Falls; musician, Murton Timmerman, Little Falls.
Company B .- Captain, Irving Holcomb, Litchfield; first lieutenant, H. C. Keith, German Flats ; second lieutenant, George A. May, German Flats; sergeants-Levi S. Jones, Winfield; Dennis A. Dewey, Plainfield; Samuel Miller, Litchfield ; Gilbert T. Broadway, German Flats; Reuben C. Holmes, Little Falls; corporals -F. McCarron, Litelifield; A. C. Potter, Winfield; G. W. Warren, Litchfield ; William II. Widrick, German Flats ; Joseph B. Rounds, Winfield ; Dewitt Beckwith, German Flats; Asahel Davis, Winfield ; William Thornton, Columbia ; musicians, J. M. Underwood, Litch- field ; Rosell Jackson, Columbia.
Company C .- Captain, Clinton A. Moon, Herkimer ; first lieutenant, Thomas S. Arnold, Herkimer; second lieutenant, Angus Cameron, Fairfield ; sergeants-E. P. Johnson, Russia; D. W. Greene, A. Clark Rice and F. E. Ford, Fairfield ; G. W. Col- hns, Russia; corporals-W. Ward Rice, Fairfield ; Joshua W. Storr, Russia; Calvin G. Carpenter, Fairfield; Crosby J. Graves, I. N. Bassett and Julius A. Jones, Russia; Wilbur F. Lamberson and Leander Swartout, Fairfield.
Company D .- Captain, John D. Fish, Frankfort ; first lieutenant, Delos M. Kenyon, Frankfort; second lieutenant, Charles E. Staring, Schuyler; sergeants-James W. Bascom, Willard H. Howard, James Johnson, Mellville D. Merry, Frankfort; Roselle Warren, Warren ; corporals-Darius Brown, James H. Smith, Frankfort; Nathan B. Faville, Manheim; Nathaniel Warren, Amos Lepper, Frankfort; Aaron D. Miller, Schuyler ; Francis N. Piper, Ralph T. Pierson, Frankfort.
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Company H. - Captain, John Ramsay, Little Falls; first lieutenant, - - Double- day, Otsego county ; second lieutenant, M. R. Casler, Little Falls; sergeants-W. D. Turner, Little Falls; S. Wolverton, Thomas M. Keuna, Little Falls; R. C. Firman, Otsego county ; Levi Sherry, Little Falls; corporals, M. I. Gage, Little Falls; James Reddy, Little Falls ; J. A. Burgess, Otsego county ; William II. Hayes, Little Falls ; H. C. Winslow, Little Falls.
The regimental officers were as follows: Colonel, Richard Franchot ; lieutenant-col- onel, C. H. Clark ; Major, Egbert Oleott ; adjutant, Alonzo Ferguson; surgeon, D. W. Bassett; assistant surgeons, S. B Valentine, D M. llolt; quartermaster, Albert Story ; chaplain, J. R. Sage.
This regiment left its camp on the 31st of August, marched to the Herkimer station, where a large crowd witnessed the affecting depart- ure. After a short stay in camp at Washington, the regiment went on picket duty beyond Georgetown. Sickness and death became prevalent in the various companies and by October 26, 1862, more than one hundred were sick and six had died, one of them a commissioned officer. After various minor movements, the regiment participated honorably in the battle of Fredericksburg, though its loss was small -- four killed and twelve wounded. The winter was spent in camp, and the regiment suffered much from desertions. At the second battle of Fredericksburg, on the 3d of May, 1863, the organization lost forty- one killed, and 235 wounded and missing. In the three days of fighting at Gettysburg the regiment participated, but its duty was such that it did not suffer material loss. November 7, 1863, the regiment participated in the engagement at Rappahannock Station, where it won brilliant laurels, aiding in capturing many prisoners and battle flags, and receiving honorable mention from General Meade. The loss was four killed and twenty-one wounded.
During the winter of 1863-4 the regiment was in camp at Brandy Station. In the spring campaign of 1864 the One Hundred Twenty- First performed the most arduous service. A member writing home said : " We have been fighting like fury for fourteen days, watching nights and fighting daytimes, and are now nearly worn out, as you may well imagine. We have captured many prisoners and stands of colors and many pieces of artillery. Out of fifteen officers only four are left. We have 144 men fit for duty. We started out with four hundred men and twenty officers. Six officers were killed, nine
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wounded and one missing. Twenty-five enlisted men were killed, 144 wounded, and sixty-six missing." This letter was dated May 20.
In the battle of Cold Harbor the regiment did its share of fighting and had a number of men wounded. The other engagements .in which it shared were Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Petersburg, and finally Cedar Creek. In the last battle it lost nine killed and forty wounded. The regiment was mustered out on June 25, 1865, and on the succeeding 4th of July was given a hearty reception at Little Falls, when twelve thousand people were present. Of 1,076 men who left Herki- mer in the One Hundred Twenty-First, only 445 returned. The loss in the field was 250 and in wounded between 600 and 700.
The One Hundred and Fifty . Second Regiment .- This regiment was formed in Herkimer and Otsego counties, about 360 men being drawn from Herkimer besides the following company officers :
Company A .- Captain, Timothy O'Brien, Mohawk ; first lieutenant, Peleg G. Thomas ; second lieutenant, John M. Smith, Mohawk ; first sergeant, Frederick A. Gray, Herki- mer ; sergeants-Alonzo C. Holmes, Litte Falls ; Thomas McGlone, Manheim ; Welford E. Casler, Little Falls; and Simon Lepper, Herkimer ; corporals-William H. Cornell, Little Falls; Charles II. Dygert and Moses C. Holden, Herkimer; James P. Burns, Manheim; Thomas Ellis, Little Falls; Frederick Harter, Herkimer; Moses C. Roof, Little Falls ; and William W. Wilson, Herkimer; musicians, Jeremiah Carroll, jr., Lit- tle Falls, and John Smart, Herkimer; wagoner, William P. Casler, Little Falls.
Company B .- Captain, William S. Burt; first lieutenant, Silas T. Bebee, and second lieutenant, H. Dwight Smith, Mohawk ; first sergeant, Henry A. Hydorn, Little Falls ; sergeants-John McIntosh, Wilmurt ; Dennis T. Hurtly, Warren ; Albert Hall and Truman F. Phelps, Ohio; corporals-Francis Bennett, Ohio ; D. McIntosh, Russia ; William B. Coffin, Olno ; Herman Delong, Stark ; John Paul, Wilmurt; Hurlburt Norton, Newport ; musicians, Granville Palmer, Newport, and Paul Crego, Norway ; wagoner, George Bennett, Olio.
Company C .- Captain, James E. Curtiss; first lieutenant, Francis E. Leonard, and second lieutenant, Lansing Swift, Mohawk; sergeants-John Thrall and Daniel Steele, Mohawk ; corporals - Jolm Freeman, Hiatt Coe, Elijah Colburn, Jonathan Joyce, George W. Manchester and Edward F. Passen, Mohawk; musician, Frank Doxtater, Mohawk; wagoner, Peter Doxtater, Mohawk.
Company D .- Captain, William R. Wall, first lieutenant, Elias Young, and second lieutenant, John Land jr., Mohawk.
Company E .-- Captain, Simeon L. Coe, first lieutenant, Washington W. Hulser, and second lieutenant, Delancy Stafford, Mohawk; sergeants-Horatio Nichols, Litchfield ; William Porter, Winfield ; Daniel Van Allen, Danube, and James McGowan, Litchfield ; corporals-William Luckey, jr., Bridgewater ; Jacob Nell, Litchfield; William Z. Ball,
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Alonzo P. Miller and Isaac McLoughlin, Winfield : James Barnes, Litchfield; John A. Carrier, Winfield, and Charles Brown, Schuyler ; musicians, Thomas Fox, Danube, and William S. Babcock, Litchfield ; Wagoner, Peter W. Tallman, Schuyler.
Company F .- Captain, Daniel A. West. Mohawk : first lieutenant, David Hill, Mo- hawk ; second lieutenant, James B. Eysaman, Mohawk ; first sergeant, John W. Quim- by, Fairfield ; second, O. M. Cronkhite, Little Falls ; third, Seymour A. Smith, Fair- field ; fourth, William Il. Lewis, Little Falls; fifth, Edward (. Townsend, Fairfield ; first corporal, Alfred R. Quaiffe, Little Falls ; second, Matthew McCann, Fairfield ; third, Julius L. Townsend, Newport; fourth, Delevan Hewitt, Manbeim; fifth, Thomas R. Petrie, Fairfield: sixth, John W. Allen, Manheim; musicians, Lyman Snell, Man- heim, and James D. Wiswell, Little Falls; wagoner, David Flint, Little Falls.
Company K. - Captain, Lambert Ifensler, Mohawk : first lieutenant, Lewis A. Camp- bell, Mohawk; second lientenant, Jacob G. Bellinger, Mohawk; first sergeant, Peter B. Dykeman, Little Falls ; sergeants, Englehart Diefenbocker, Adrian Lee, Sanford A. Ilager and David Small, Frankfort ; first corporal. Andrew Bridenbecker, second, Ed- ward Haver, third, Michael Conlon, fourth, Lewis H. Gray, and fifth, Winfield S. Forel- man, Frankfort ; sixth, Cornelius W. Hardendorf, Cherry Valley : seventh, William J. Gray, Warren; eighth, Seth B. Holdridge, Schuyler; musicians, Eugene Casey, German Flats, and Garrett Vischer, Frankfort; wagoner, George Sterling, Frankfort.
Company G .- Captain, Edmund C. Gilbert, Mohawk ; first lieutenant, Josiah Hinds, Mohawk.
Company Il .-- Captain, Uriah B. Kendall ; first lieutenant, William R. Patrick ; sec- ond lieutenant, William L. Hopkins, all of Mohawk.
Company I .- Captain, Alonzo A. Bingham ; first lieutenant, Charles Hamilton ; sec- ond lieutenant, Edward W. Butler, all of Mohawk.
Following are the field and staff officers: Colonel, Leonard Boyer ; lieutenant colonel, Alonzo Ferguson ; major, George R Spalding; adjutant, Cleveland J. Camp- bell ; quartermaster, George W. Ernst, jr .; surgeon, Silas A. Ingham ; assistant sur- geons, Eli Small, Harmon MI. Blood.
The One Hundred Fifty- second Regiment was formed in the fall of 1862, and reached Washington on the 23d of October, where it re- mained in Camp Marcy until February, 1863, when it was stationed in the city for guard and provost duty. After three weeks at Suffolk, in Eastern Virginia, the regiment again returned to Washington, and on the 14th of July was ordered to New York. This movement was occasioned by the fear of riots caused by the draft. After about a month in New York the regiment proceeded to Schenectady, for guard duty during the draft; their services were not needed. Returning to New York the regiment remained there until the middle of October, 1863, when it re- joined the Army of the Potomac, and was assigned to the First Brigade,
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Second Division, Second Corps, reporting at headquarters near Center- ville. After sharing in Meade's eight days' campaign across the Rapi- dan, the regiment went into winter quarters near Brandy Station.
In the terrible battles of the Wilderness in the spring of 1864, the One Hundred Fifty-Second performed an honorable part and suffered severely. A letter written on May 13 thus speaks of that battle :
I am still sound after eight days' hard fighting. We have lost heavily. Our gallant old leader, General John Sedgwick, of the " bloody Sixth Corps," is killed, and our noble Colonel Olcott is also no more. Major Galpin is wounded in the eye, and is at Freder- icksburg hospital. We went into the fight with 446 men and fifteen officers, and came out to-day with four officers and not a hundred men. I have just taken the "census," and find we have just ninety-four men to- day, May 13. Out of fifty-six men in Com- pany A there are just seven left. When we charged we took 3,000 prisoners, and the next day the Second Corps took Johnson's whole division, 9,000 strong, seventeen pieces of artillery, and some twenty stands of colors. The report has just come in that the rebels have left the front. The loss to our army in killed, wounded and missing must be at the least calculation from 18,000 to 25,000. This has been the greatest bat- tle ever fought on this continent. Captain Fish is killed.
It was in the Wilderness battle that the famous charge was made in which this regiment participated, and which has gone upon the records of history. It was just before daybreak, and in its front were three lines of rifle pits, and in the rear of them two formidable lines of log ramparts ; these were about five feet thick at the base and six feet high, each at the rear commanding the one in front. As soon as it was light enough to see, the signal was given and the entire corps pressed forward. As the attacking force dashed over the first and second lines of rifle pits and captured the swarms of soldiers in them, a wild yell burst forth from the Union lines, which was responded to by a withering fire of cannon and musketry. Still undaunted they pushed on, Sergeant Hul- burt Norton a little in advance with the colors. His right hand was shot away at the staff, but he quickly raised the colors with his left hand and pushed on. The next instant a bullet pierced his brain. The color guard being now wholly wiped ont and the staff of the State flag cut in two, the men hesitated at the third line. Captain David Hill caught up the flag and with a shout jumped into a section of the pit in front and alone sent thirty bewildered rebels to the rear. Another moment and we were pouring over the works, the colors still carried by Captain Hill, but he was soon forced to drop them, as he received a
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painful wound. The State flag was then caught up by Sergeant Fitch and turned over to another who carried it through the remainder of the engagement. The works were carried and about 6,000 prisoners cap- tured, with forty-two guns, and many horses, etc. The One Hundred Fifty-Second alone took three stands of colors, and covered itself with glory. Nor did it suffer its well earned honors to decline during the remainder of its term. In the battles of North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Reams Station and on the Boydton Road, it bore an honorable part, and was mustered out at the close of the war July 13, 1865.
Other organizations in which Herkimer county soldiers served were, first, the Fourteenth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the First Oneida Regiment, which was organized at Utica in April, 1861, with James McQuade as colonel. It was mustered into the service at Albany on the 17th of May and left for Washington on the 14th of June, where it arrived and went into camp on Meridian Hill. The regi- ment bore an honorable part in a minor engagement at Ball's Cross Roads on the 14th of September ; was in the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Hanover Court House, at Gaines Mill (June 27, 1862), at Mal- vern Hill July 1, losing 9 killed, 79 wounded, and 29 missing ; entered the Seven Days fight with 500 men and lost 34 killed, 177 wounded and 15 missing ; took part in the succeeding Maryland campaign, and left the field at Falmoth November 12, 1863. It was mustered out at Utica on the 20th of that month.
Second, the Twenty-sixth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the Third Oneida, which was mustered in at Elmira May 21, 1861, for three months ; but most of its number re-enlisted at the expiration of the term, under special order. The regiment participated in the battle of Cedar Mountain, in the four days' skirmishing at Rappahannock Sta- tion ; in the second battle of Bull Run, where Captains Casselmen and G. S. Jennings were killed ; at Chantilly September 1, 1861 ; at South Mountain, and at Antietam. It went into the battle of Fredericksburg with about 300 officers and men, and suffered severely, losing some 15 officers killed and wounded, with a total loss of 30 killed, and 120 wounded. It also participated in the action at Chancellorsville. The organization was mustered out May, 1863.
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