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After Gettysburg the regiment participated in the pursuit of Lee's retreating army, and with its corps returned to Virginia. In Sep- tember (1863) the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were ordered to Tennessee to relieve General Rosecrans' army which was then shut up in Chattanooga without any line of supplies. Arriving in Tennessee the regiment was placed on guard duty along the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, between Anderson and Tantalon. On October 26th it was relieved, and rejoined the brigade at Bridgeport. On the 28th it was engaged in the famous midnight battle at Wauhatchie, where the brigade marched to the relief of Geary's Division of the Twelfth Corps, but encountered the enemy on the way, the Confed- erate brigade of General Law-Hood's Division, Longstreet's Corps -having occupied a high hill that commanded the road. Under orders from General Steinwehr, three regiments of Smith's Brigade, numbering in all about 700 muskets, charged up the steep declivity in
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the darkness. They had received orders not to fire, but to use the bayonet only. The five Confederate regiments under Law, about 1,800 strong, abandoned the crest of the hill after a brief resistance, leaving the line of their retreat strewn with rifles, swords, hats, caps and haversacks.
In the following month, on November 23d, the regiment was en- gaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tenn., in which Lieut. Charles F. Tresser was mortally wounded. It then marched with the Eleventh Corps to the relief of Burnside's army which was besieged at Knoxville, Tenn. This was a long march, during which the men suffered for lack of tents and blankets, and were obliged to forage on the country through which they passed for rations and subsistence. One man died from exposure. The corps returned to Chattanooga on December 17th, and the men reoccupied their former camp on Lookout Valley, where they remained during the winter.
In April, 1864, the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were consolidated, forming a new corps, the Twentieth, the command of which was given to Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker. Under this arrangement the regiment was placed in the Third Brigade, Third Division. The brigade, which was commanded by Colonel Wood, of the One hundred and thirty-sixth was composed of the following additional commands:
20th Connecticut, 33d Massachusetts,
Col. Samuel Ross,
Lieut. Col. Godfrey Rider,
55th Ohio, Col. Charles B. Gambee,
73d Ohio, Maj. Samuel H. Hurst,
26th Wisconsin,
Lieut. Col. Fred C. Winkler.
The Division was commanded by Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, formerly Chief of Staff, Army of the Potomac.
Breaking camp on May 1, 1864, the regiment started with Sher- man's army on the Atlanta campaign. With faces turned southward the men commenced the long victorious march on which there was to be no retracing of their footsteps. The enemy's forces were first en- countered at Buzzard Roost and Rocky Face, Ga. They were driven from their position, an action in which the One hundred and thirty- sixth participated, with but slight loss.
On May 15, 1864, the regiment was actively engaged at the battle of Resaca, Ga., in which it sustained a loss of eighty-one in killed
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and wounded. In this battle Butterfield's Division captured a bat- - tery of four brass Napoleon guns,-twelve-pounders. After daily skirmishes, the principal ones occurring at Cassville, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Knob, Lost Mountain and other localities, in some of which the fighting involved the whole regi- ment, the division found itself in position July 20th, at Peach Tree Creek. Here the line of the Twentieth Corps was attacked by the Confederate army under General Hood, which made repeated and desperate assaults on the Union position only to be repulsed with terrible loss. The men of the One hundred and thirty-sixth bore an honorable part in this battle, during which one of their number, Priv. Dennis Buckley, of Company G, captured the battle flag of the Thirty- first Mississippi, knocking down the Confederate color bearer with the butt of his musket and wrenching the colors from his grasp. While Buckley was waving the captured flag defiantly at the ranks of the enemy a bullet fired at him struck the flagstaff, glanced, and hit him in the forehead, killing him instantly. A year or more after the war closed the War Department gave a Medal of Honor to be delivered to' the mother of Dennis Buckley, in recognition of his heroism at the battle of Peach Tree Creek and the capture by him of one of the enemy's flags.
On the morning of July 22d the brigade advanced within two miles of Atlanta, where it occupied various positions during the siege that followed. For six weeks the One hundred and thirty-sixth lay in the trenches before the city under fire daily, many of the men being killed or wounded while in the works, which, towards the close of the siege, were advanced to within close range of the enemy's lines. The Confederate troops evacuated Atlanta during the night on September 1st, and the Twentieth Corps, now under command of General Slocum, entered the city and took possession. "Atlanta was ours, and fairly won."
With the occupation of the city came a period of rest and quiet for ten weeks, a grateful respite from the privations and dangers of the previous campaign. On November 15, 1864, refreshed and strength- ened by its stay at Atlanta, the regiment started with Sherman's army on the March to the Sea. The corps was under the command of Gen. A. S. Williams, General Slocum having been placed in command of the left wing, which, composed of the Fourteenth and Twentieth
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Corps, was designated the Army of Georgia. The division was com- manded by Gen. William T. Ward, who had succeeded General Butterfield while on the Atlanta campaign; the regiment was under Lieutenant Colonel Faulkner.
The army arrived in Savannah December 11, 1864, and immediately laid siege to the city, which was evacuated on the 21st. After a month's stay in Savannah the army started northward Jan- uary 16, 1864, on the campaign of the Carolinas, arriving at Golds- borough, N. C., on March 24th, after a march of 454 miles, part of which was made over difficult roads and over many rivers and swamps, some of which had to be waded. In crossing the Edisto River the men waded half a mile in water from twelve to thirty-six inches deep. Skirmishing with the enemy was a frequent occurrence, while a general engagement with Johnston's army occurred at Aver- asborough, N. C., March 16, 1865, and at Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21, 1865. In the fighting at Bentonville Lieut. Col. H. L. Arnold who was in command of the regiment was very severely wounded. During the campaign in the Carolinas the brigade was commanded by Gen. William Cogswell, formerly colonel of the Second Massachusetts, an able and fearless officer.
Leaving its camp near Goldsborough N. C., on April 10th, the regi- ment started on its last homeward march. Passing through Rich- mond, Va., May 11th, and then the battlefields of Chancellorsville and Spottsylvania, it arrived at Alexandria on the 19th. On the 24th it marched proudly in the final Grand Review at Washington, and thence out the Bladensburg Pike, where it encamped while waiting for its muster out.1
FOURTEENTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY.
Recruiting for the 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery began in June, 1863, with headquarters at Rochester, N. Y. The regiment was raised prin- cipally from the Counties of Yates, St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Mon- roe, although every part of the State was represented. The organiza- tion was completed January 4, 1864, with the following officers, field and staff: Col. E. G. Marshall; Lieut .- Col., C. H. Corning ; Major, W.
1. The sketch of this regiment above given prepared by Hon. Kidder M. Scott of Geneseo, and Major J. J. Bailey of Dansville, is from the published volume, "New York at Gettysburg."
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H. Reynolds; Major, Job C. Hedges; Major, W. W. Trowbridge; Surgeon, I. V. Mullen ; Ass't Surgeon, Luther Philips; Ass't Surgeon, James M. Oliver ; R'g't Q. M., Adolph Shubert; Adj't, C. H. Van Brackle.
The regiment was employed in garrisoning the harbor of New York, at Fort Richmond-headquarters of the regiment-Sandy Hook, Fort Schuyler, Willett's Point, and Fort Hamilton. It remained there until April 22, 1864, when it was ordered to the defense of Washington, where it was assigned to the Ninth Corps, Gen. Burnside com- manding, and joined the corps at Warrenton Junction, Va. Here it was made a part of the Provisional Brigade under command of Col. Marshall.
May 2 it marched for the Rapidan, and after halting at Brandy Station till the last train was sent over that road to Alexandria, it pushed forward, and crossed the Rapidan about 2 o'clock a. m., May 6, and was assigned to the duty of holding the ford.
About noon of that day it was sent forward, and arrived at the battle ground of the Wilderness early in the afternoon. Line of battle was formed and advanced to a suitable position for intrenching. This position was occupied till the night of May 7, when it was evacuated and the regiment arrived at the Ny River on May 11, and took an active part in that fight and in the battle of Spottsylvania C. H., May 14, 15, 16, 17.
It marched to the left with the army, forded the North Anna River May 24, and threw up works just in season to check the enemy after he had suceeded in driving in Gen. Leslie's brigade.
The regiment occupied an advanced position on Tolopotomy Creek, and on June 2 constituted the rear-guard of the army as it swung away to Cold Harbor. The army was attacked in the rear at about 5 p. m., and the 14th wheeled into position at the edge of the wood; a brigade giving way on its left exposed it to a severe enfilading fire of both musketry and artillery; three times it was driven, and each time it rallied and retook its position; and only when the darkness of night concealed every movement did it give up its advanced, unsup- ported position and join the rest of the army.
In this fight the regiment lost heavily. Lieut. Bently was mortally wounded and died that evening. Lieut. Tolman was wounded, Capt. Kiefer was killed, and Lieuts. Lemmon and Wentworth were captured.
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The 14th supported the 5th Mass. Battery at Bethesda Church, June 3, and held the flank of the army at Cold Harbor, June 5, 6, and 7, where Lieut .- Col. Corning was accidentally shot by his servant.
It crossed the James River carly in the morning of June 15, and about 5 p. m. of June 17 charged the enemy's works in front of Petersburg, meeting stubborn resistance, and captured the works; but the ammunition failing, it was driven out with great loss. Maj. Job C. Hedges, than whom no braver or gallant officer ever lived, was instantly killed while leading his battalion in that charge; Col. Marshall, Capt. Underhill, Lieuts. Russell and Spencer were wounded. Maj. Reynolds, Capts, Pemberton and Jones, Lieuts. J. H. Thomp- son, Coylan, Pifford, Snyder and Norton were taken prisoners. The loss of enlisted men was 113.
After this the regiment lay in the trenches before Petersburg, con- tinually under a heavy fire from sharpshooters and artillery, till July 30, when it had the honor to lead the assaults upon the Crater, being the first regiment to plant its colors on the enemy's works there, cap- turing a stand of rebel colors.
Here Col. Marshall and Lieuts. Faass and Wing were captured; Lieut. Hartley was killed; Lieuts. Curtis and Service were wounded, and there was a loss of 37 enlisted men. Capt. Underhill was killed June 20; Lieuts. Piggott and Morrow were wounded July 29.
Maj. Geo. M. Randall assumed command of the regiment, Aug. 18. On Aug. 15 it had moved to the left and occupied the line in front of Fort Hell. Aug. 19 it moved to the Weldon Railroad, and took an active part in the engagements of that day, and Aug. 21 Major Randall, Capt. L. I. Jones and Lieuts. Shubert and Jewett were wounded. In the engagement of Aug. 19 the colors fell five times, the bearers being shot, and cach time they were promptly seized and carried forward. The loss in enlisted men was 45. It intrenched, and remained until Sept. 30, when it took part in the battle of Poplar Grove Church, where Lieuts. Backus and Eddy were wounded and 20 enlisted men were lost.
It engaged in the battle of Pegram Farm Oct. 2; took part in the reconnaissance of Oct. S on the Boydton Plankroad; returned to camp Oct. 9, and remained until Oct. 26, when it moved forward in line of battle, as far as Hatcher's Run, and supported Crawford's Division of the Fifth Corps. In this engagement the regiment sustained no loss.
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The object of this movement having been accomplished, the regi- ment fell back with the army, to the position occupied previous to the movement. It remained there until December 2, when the corps re- lieved the Second Corps on Petersburg front, the regiment occupying Forts Stedman and Haskell, where it remained until March 25, 1865, suffering meanwhile daily losses from the enemy's sharpshooters and artillery.
The day of March 25 had not yet dawned when the enemy, having massed heavily in silence in the night, broke through the lines to the right and left of Fort Stedman, and when discovered had already passed the line. Beset on all sides and hemmed in, the regiment fought desperately an enemy whose whereabouts could only be de- termined by the flash of their muskets. In less than an hour the fort was completely surrounded, and the enemy came swarming in at every possible place, and over the breastworks. Still the gallant 14th did not yield; from one bomb-proof to another they contested hotly every inch of ground. It was yet so dark that in the fort it was impossible to distinguish features, and to calls for officers and comrades the enemy answered. It almost hailed musket balls, and in hand-to-hand fights the butt of the musket and the bayonet were freely used; still the regiment held its ground; and only when over- whelmed and completely overpowered, when success was plainly im- possible, did the remnant of the garrison cut their way through and rejoin the remainder of the regiment in Fort Haskell. Again and again did the enemy's infantry attempt to capture Fort Haskell, but each time they were repulsed with heavy loss. After having been thus en- gaged for over five hours, the regiment, supported by the 57th Mass. and 3d Md., charged upon the works captured by the enemy, driv- ing them out of Batteries 10 and 11 and recapturing Fort Sted- man, with many prisoners, and the colors of the 26th S. C. Capt. Houghton and Lieut. Piggott were wounded. Capt. Foote, Ass't Surgeon Morse, Lieuts. McCall, Lockbraner M. Backus, White and Kelsey were taken prisoners. Loss in enlisted men, 229.
The regiment remained in the works until April 3, when it moved forward at 5 a. m. and occupied the city of Petersburg; crossed the Appomattox and encamped; broke camp April 5; recrossed the Appomattox River; marched through the city of Petersburg, and en- camped two miles out. Broke camp April 7 and marched to Wilson's
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Station on the Southside Railroad, and remained until about April 22, when it marched to City Point and embarked for Alexandria. Soon after arriving there it was ordered to Tennallytown, D. C., June 17 it was detached from the Ninth Corps and ordered to the defense of Washington, occupying Forts Reno. Kearney, DeRussey, Bayard. Simmons, Mansfield and Sumner.
August 16 it received orders to be mustered out. The regiment had connected with it nearly 2,800 men and returned with about 600.
THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The 13th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry was organized at Rochester, N. Y., by Colonel Isaac F. Quinby, accepted by the State May 8th, 1861, and mustered into the United States Service at Elmira, N. Y., May 14th. The companies were recruited principally at Rochester, Dansville' and Brockport.
The Dansville Company became Company B of the regiment and was composed of the following officers and enlisted men :
Captain-Carl Stephan,
Dansville ١٠
First Lieutenant-George Hyland Jr.,
Ensign-Ralph T. Wood
First Sergeant-Henry R. Curtis
Second -George W. Hasler ..
Third -Mark J. Bunnell ..
Fourth -Duane D. Stillwell
First Corporal-George B. Dippy
Second -George M. Morris
Conesus,
Third -Wm. H. Drehmer
Fourth -A. J. Hartman
Dansville
Adams, James, Wayland Brownell, Hiram, Rogersville
Allen, Samuel, Dansville Carpenter, A. W., Dansville
Alverson, Edward C., Dansville Conklin, Munroe, Conesus Arwin, Charles A., South Dansville Conrad, Philip, Perkinsville Ash, Jacob, Cook, Daniel, Haskinville 66
Avery, Charles F., Wayland
Cook, Orrin H., Dansville
Bean, Charles Y., Groveland
Corbin, A., Wayland
I. Several companies were afterward recruited at Dansville which became attached to the 13th regiment.
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DeForrest, George, Dansville Deiter, John T., Dansville
Moose, Merrit, Sparta Morris, Joseph,
Demerit, Charles, South Dansville Morris, Lester B., Sparta Dipple, C. W., Dansville
Opp, Jacob, Dansville
Dutcher, C. Wellington, Dansville Phelps, Lester, Easterbrook, Stephen, Wayland Eldridge, John, Springwater
Prentice, Charles,
Prentice, Warren,
Fenstermacher, Endress, Dansville Richardson, A.,
Fitch, M. Harlo,
Roberts, F. M., 66
France, William, Ossian
Roberts, Sidney E., Sparta
Freed, Solomon, Sparta
Root, Charles, South Dansville
Galbraith, Pat, Groveland
Scott, Henry C., Dansville
Goodwin, William, Dansville
Seyler, Charles, Jr., Dansville Shafer, Samuel,
Hatch, David G., Conesus Johnson, John. West Sparta Jones, Edward, Dansville
Slate, John, Snyder, James F., Springwater
Jones, John R., Sparta
Stanley, Geo. B., Dansville
Jones, Thomas, Dansville
Steffy, Joseph, Sparta
Kemp, George O., Dansville
Steffy, William, Byersville
Ketchum, George E., Rogersville Stout, Charles, Dansville
Ketchum, Richard,
Tiffany, W. C., יי
Kinney, A., Sparta
Toles, George C.,
Lauterborn, M., Dansville
Wellington, E., South Dansville
Lerts. F. G., Groveland
Werth, J., Springwater
Lookins, George, Dansville
Westerman, Louis, Wayland
Lozier, D. P.,
Wilson, George, South Dansville
Maginley, Henry, Sparta
Wright, Miles O., Dansville
Mitchell, N. A., Springwater
Wright, N., Ossian
This company left Dansville for Elmira May 3. 1861.
The regiment left the State May 30th, 1861, and served at Wash- ington, D. C., from May 31st, 1861; in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Northeastern Virginia from July 16th, 1861; at Fort Cor- coran, D. C., from August 4th, 1861; in Martindale's Brigade, Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac, from October 15th, 1861; in the same Brigade and Division, 3d Corps, A. P., from March 13th, 1862; in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps A. P., from May, 1862; Companies "H" and "K" as Provost Guard from May, 1863; and on May 14th, 1863, under command of Lieut. Colonel Francis A. Schoeffel, the regiment was mus- tered out at Rochester, having lost during its service in killed, wounded and missing a total of 405. It participated in the following battles, viz: Blackburn's Ford, Va., July 18th, 1861; Bull Run, Va.,
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July 21st, 1861; Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5th to May 4th, 1862, including Warwick and Yorktown Roads April 5th; Hanover Court House May 21st and 27th; Seven Days' Battles inchiding Mechanicsville June 26th; Gaines's Mills or Cold Harbor and Chicka- hominy June 27; Peach Orchard and Savage Station June 29th ; White Oak Swamp, Glendale or Charles City Cross Roads and Malvern Cliff June 30th; Malvern Hill July 1st; Pope's Campaign including Manassas Junction August 29th and Second Battle of Bull Run. August 30th, 1862; Maryland Campaign including South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14th, Antietam, Md., Sept., 17th and- Sheperdstown, Md., Sept. 20th, 1862; Hartwood Church, Va., Dec. 1st, 1862; Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 11th to 15th, 1862, the main battle being fought on the 13th; Richard's Ford, Va., Dec. 30th and 31st, 1862; Chan- cellorsville, Va., May 1st to 5th, 1863.
The strength of the regiment, at Manassas (Bull Run) was 600, loss 12 killed, 26 wounded. 27 missing.
On August 4th, 1861, Colonel Quinby having resigned, Colonel John Pickell of Frostburg, Md., assumed command. On the first of October, 1861, 'the regiment was detailed on special guard duty at the aqueduct and ferries opposite Georgetown, and relieved on the 8th of March, 1862. March 10th, under General Fitz John Porter commanding the Division, the troops joined in the second advance on Manassas. Lieut. Colonel Stephan was in command of the regiment, Colonel Pickell having been honorably discharged.
While at Fairfax C. H., the plan of campaign was changed, and on the 21st of March the regiment embarked with the Army of the Potomac, under General McClellan, at Alexandria for Fortress Monroe.
The regiment arrived at Ilampton village March 24th, thence to New Market and there encamped until April 4th, furnishing regular picket details.
Arrived in front of Yorktown April 5th, and immediately went into action as skirmishers and as a support to the batteries engaged.
April 7th the entire regiment was ordered to do picket duty, the de- ployments effected under cover of darkness and in a cold and severe storm. Then followed the siege of Yorktown. It was while before Yorktown that Colonel Marshall assumed command of the regiment. During the thirty days of the siege it furnished over twenty details
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for pickets, several for fatigue and a number of scouting parties. Special details were made by General Fitz John Porter, who frequent- ly commended the regiment for the efficient character of its service.
Embarked at Yorktown May 8th, and arrived at West Point on the York river on the 9th; thence to within 18 miles of Richmond via Cumberland, White House and Tunstall's station.
While near Richmond, the regiment was detached for special duty by command of General Porter, the main army moving forward along the Chickahominy.
The important and delicate military nature of this special duty and the high compliment again paid the regiment, will be seen from the following extracts from a letter received by Colonel Marshall:
"Head Quarters Fifth Provisional Army Corps, Camp at Cold Harbor, Va., May 22, 1862.
Colonel Marshall, Commanding New York Volunteers:
Colonel :- The Commanding General directs you, in compliance with orders from general headquarters, to move to-morrow morning with your regiment to Old Church, on the road to Hanover . The object of your command is to secure the army from attacks in rear or flank by parties of the enemy passing down this branch of the river, and to patrol the country between the turnpike and river, and for this purpose the Commanding General relies on your vigilance and that of the officers and men under you. You will keep him informed of everything about you and communicate often with him: you will obtain all information of the enemy possible at Newcastle and Han- over, and what force, if any, is beyond the river. You are authorized to employ guides."
The battle of Hanover C. H., was fought on the 27th of May; the Thirteenth being in advance of the detached brigade and supporting Griffin's battery, was one of the first regiments in the fight, this com- mand alone taking 91 prisoners, 84 stands of arms, 55 sets of accoutre- ments and 3 chests of medical stores; with a loss of only seven wound- ed, one mortally
On the 29th of May the regiment returned to Old Church and on the 31st joined the army on the Chickahominy. Here it encamped at Gaines's House, doing picket and fatigue duties until the 26th of June, when, at the battle of Mechanicsville. the Thirteenth occupied the position on the extreme right.
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On the next day the regiment was early in position at Gaines's Mills. Twice the enemy advancing in heavy column were splendidly repulsed by the well directed and murderous fire of the Thirteenth. The regiment captured a stand of colors from the Seventh Tennessee Batallion. The strength of the Thirteenth at the battle of Gaines's Mills was 400; of these 97 were killed, wounded and taken prisoners.
It is gratifying to know that in the archives at Albany, the follow- ing words of Col. Marshall are recorded :
"I must here speak of the coolness and gallantry during this en- gagement of Major Frank A. Schoeffel; Captain George Hyland; Captain Jerry A. Sullivan; Captain Charles Savage, and of the brav- ery and efficiency of Adjutant Job C. Hedges." Major Schoeffel was subsequently promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel.
Forced marches brought the regiment to the James at Scotches Neck, and on the 30th of June it was ordered out as a reserve in the battle of Turkey Bend, the prelude of Malvern. Standing to arms all night at Malvern Hill, in the morning the regiment fell back to the support of batteries, taking position and holding it during the day on the immediate heights.
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