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" Thus the battle raged for about one and one-half hours, until our front lines were broken and the dead and wounded lay in heaps. The enemy lay behind a railway embank- ment, and so well protected that our men charged in vain upon them, sometimes upon the ditch, and fought hand-to- hand. Sykes' Brigade of regulars on our left was forced back, our two front lines were decimated and broken, and our (Patrick's) brigade badly cut to pieces. Col. Pratt, of the 20th New York State Militia, was killed and the regiment seattered and demoralized. The 21st was used up, and the left wing of the 35th decimated. These had all left the field and fallen baek.
" I had heard no order to retire, and remained in the
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woods some little time, my regiment being almost alone. I finally gave the order to retire (right of companies to the rear), and did so in as perfect order as on battalion drill. In this action I lost a number of men and officers wounded, but only a few killed. Providence has thus far seemed to favor us.
" On emerging from the woods I met Gen. Patrick, and saw at onee that the battle was going against us, as the enemy had turned our left, and the fighting was terrifie of musketry and artillery on that part of the field. Our bri- gade was got together (what was left ), and we took a position in rear of a battery, and the men were ordered to lie down.
" We lay in this position about half an hour, then were ordered towards the rear and left. As we moved over the field the enemy continued to throw shot and shell at us, but fortunately none of my regiment were hurt. As we came out upon the pike, Gen. McDowell rode up, his horse all covered with foam and dust, and he himself look- ing nearly exhausted with fatigue and excitement, and or- dered us towards Centreville. We continued the march, and soon learned that the army were on the retreat to Washington.
" We arrived at Centreville about ten P.M., worn out and exhausted. We lay down upon the ground so completely tired that we did not mind the rain that commenced, but slept soundly till morning and wet to the skin."
The following day was one of the deepest dejection to the Army of the Potomae. The army was in full retreat, surging back upon Washington, followed by the victorious arms of the Confederacy within thirty miles of the capital, and confidence in the generals gone.
Col. Crane farther on in his report says, " It was about nine A.M. when we received the news that Gen. Mcclellan was again in command of the Army of the Potomac. The effect was wonderful and thrilling. For miles along the lines of that battle-shattered and disheartened army cheer upon cheer rent the air, and the sound swelled and rolled along like a wave. Officers sprang into their saddles with a bound, soldiers grasped their muskets with eagerness and sprang to their places in the ranks, and, at the order for- ward, all moved as if invigorated with renewed life. We all felt that we were again a host, and could and would save our capital and country."
The regiment marched on towards Fairfax, where it re- mained overnight, and on the following morning procceded on in the direction of Centreville, finally meeting the balance of the brigade, and countermarched.
" About this time," says Col. Crane, " we learned that the enemy were about to make an attack at a point near Chantilly. Our brigade was moved in that direction, and the 35th, 21st, and 23d were placed in the old rebel rifle- pit to protect the right of our line of battle. About sun- down the enemy attacked our left, and the battle lasted until about nine P.M. The firing of musketry and artillery was incessant, and this with the terrific thunder and light- ning rendered the scene grand and terrific. The enemy were repulsed with considerable loss. We remained here until the following afternoon, when we were ordered to march to Upton's Hill. We set out immediately, and reached that place about midnight."
Thus ended the disastrous campaign elosing with the second battle of Bull Run.
The 23d remained at Upton's Hill four days, and then commeneed the march into Maryland; and September 14 finds them in the battle of South Mountain. In this en- gagement both officers and men behaved splendidly, and received many eneomiums of praise from their superior officers for their bravery and coolness. The regiment next participated in the battle of Antietam. In speaking of this battle, Col. Hoffman, in his official report, says, " The officers and men of my command who went into the action behaved most admirably, never deranging their alignment during the surgings backward and forward of the lines, obeying with promptitude every order, and all the time remaining firm, steady, and never moving until they had received the full order. Their conduet was all that I could wish. We had one field, one staff, thirteen line officers, and two hundred and twenty-three enlisted men. Our casualties were four killed and thirty-five wounded."
After various marches and skirmishes as well as changes of command and camps, November 25 finds the regiment in camp near Brooks' Station.
Here the 23d remained until December 9, when it broke eamp and moved forward. It went into the battle of Fred- ericksburg, and, by its courage, perseverance, and soldierly bearing, added fresh laurels to those already won on many a hard-contested field.
We append Col. Hoffman's official report of this battle :
" HEADQUARTERS 23D N. Y. VOLS., PRATT'S POINT, VA., " Jan. 2, 1863.
" LIEUT. II. P. TAYLOR, Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant-General 3d Brigade. Ist Division, Ist Army Corps :
" SIR,-In pursuance of orders, I have the honor to report the part taken by my command in the late action at Fredericksburg, Deeem- ber 12, 13, 14, and 15, to be as follows :
" On the morning of the 11th of December we moved with tho brigade from our bivouac near White Oak Church, on the Belle Plain road, with the intention, as I supposed, of crossing the Rappahan- nock. We marched but about one and a half miles when we were halted, and remained all that day and night, owing to the difficulty and delay in laying the bridges.
" That night ( ]Ith) the bridges were completed, and at early dawn we moved down to the northern bank of the river, at a point ahout one and a half miles below Fredericksburg, and near the lower bridges, where we remained while the rest of Gen. Franklin's left grand di- vision were crossing. The morning was very foggy until about noon. and we did not eross until about two p.M., we being about the last. Soon after the crossing was effected (which was without inter- ruption) we were massed, with other troops of the Ist Division, near the residence of Mr. Burnard, when the enemy for the first time opened upon us from a battery located on the hill opposite, the first shot striking and bursting in the ground in the flank of my regiment, wounding one man.
"They threw about twelve or fifteen shot and shell with remark- ably good range while in this position, which resulted in but trifling damage, owing to the fuses in their shell being cut either too short or too long.
" We soon moved, with the rest of the brigade and division, to a point directly in front of said Burnard's house, and deployed our line and stacked arms,
"Gien. Smith's Corps (6th) was deployed on our right, his line running parallel to the river, and fronting southwardly and from the river. The lines of our corps (Ist), after the deployment, fronted easterly and down the river, the line running perpendicular to the river, the left resting upon it, and the right joining the left of Geu. Smith's line, and forming a right angle thereto. In this position we lay behind our stacked arms all night.
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" The morning of the 13th was also foggy, but the fog lifted carly, and skirmishing commenced along the line, which grew into a general engagement with artillery and sinall-arms.
" We were moved in close-massed columns down the river under a heavy artillery fire from the enemy's batteries, some one and a half miles, when the enemy was found in our front, well posted in pine woods, and protected by natural rifle-pits.
" They were soon dislodged by our artillery, when we advanced with the rest of the division to within about one mile of Massaponix Creek. This position we held all day, amid a most terrible artillery fire. To- wards evening the enemy concentrated a very hot artillery fire upon us, with the evident intention of turning our flank.
" The position was maintained, however, although the brigade on our left, the commander of which misunderstood the order, fell back with his command, skirmishers and all, just before dark, whereas his order directed that he should withdraw his brigade a short distance as soon as the darkness would cover his movement from the view of the enemy, but to leave his skirmishers as they were as pickets. This movement being observed by the foe, and supposing they had accom- plished their design, and that we were falling back, they advanced their line so far that their batteries were within thirty or forty rods of our pickets, and poured a perfect shower of grape promisenously over the plain. until about one hour after dark.
" They finally hecame convinced of their error, ceased firing, with- drew their lines, and all was quiet until morning, except an occasional shot between pickets.
"Oo the 14th and 15th we held the same position without inter- ruption, except an vecasional round from their artillery and sharp picket firing, which was kept up most of the time, day and night, with great briskness.
" The picket lines were so close to our advanced position that many of their shots did execution in our ranks.
"On the night of the 15th we were withdrawn to the north side of the Rappahannock about midnight, leaving two companies (G and B) on the picket lines not informed (except their commanding officers) that we had retired.
"Companies G and B were placed on picket at dusk on the evening of the 15th, and by some misunderstanding or inadvertence on the part of the officer left in charge of the picket, were not informed to retire at the proper time and with the rest of the line, and remained about one hour after the rest had left, and at daylight they fell slowly back, keeping their deployment and stirring up many strag- glers and sick, who had sought refuge and resting-place around the hospital buildings, barns, stacks, river-bank, ete., and finally were the last tu cross the bridge, it being taken up immediately behind them.
" The steadiness and cooldess of the officers and men of my com- mand, with very few exceptions, were highly commendable through- out, especially those of Companies A and F, who were on picket during the night of the 13th, and Company I on the 14th, and Company D on the night of 14th and during the day of the 15th.
" Of the cool and deliberate bravery exhibited by the officers of the two companies G and B, under the peculiarly perilous circumstances in which they found themselves, I cannot in justice speak but iu terms of especial commendation.
" In the action we had engaged one field officer, one acting staff officer (adjutant), fourteen line officers, and nine (9) companies, em- bracing 276 enlisted men.
" Company ( was detached. We took three (3) prisoners. We bad three (3) stragglers.
" II. C. HOFFMAN, Colonel Commanding."
On the 17th the 23d moved down near the bank of the river, and went into camp, where it remained until the 20th, when it receiving marching orders, and proceeded to Belle Plain and went into winter quarters. This march closed the active campaign that commeneed at Fairfax Court- House, Mareh 10, and ended at Belle Plain, Dec. 20.
The regiment remained in eamp here during the winter and spring of 1863. April 20 the army moved, and the 23d was assigned to the defenses of Aquia, and was there in the fortifications during the battle of Chancellorsville.
A member of the regiment says, " At the sound of boom- ing cannon and the blaze of battle, which could be distinctly heard and seen, the spirit of the 23d was aroused, and many longed to go and help their noble comrades fight out the battle which all were sanguine must result in a great victory to our arms."
The term of enlistment of the 23d having now expired, arrangements were made for the homeward trip, and on the 11th of May the battle-searred regiment left the sacred soil of old Virginia, and on the evening of the 13th came within view of the " welcome spires and green shade-trees of Elmira." A sad accident occurred while en route near Marysville. Capt. Clark, of Company H, was instantly killed while in the act of climbing on the rear ear just as the train was passing under a bridge. His head struck the bridge, and he was knocked off the car, his body falling on the rocks by the side of the track. When found, a few moments after, life was extinct.
Upon the arrival of the regiment in Elmira it formed in line in front of the Delevan House, and an address of wel- eome was delivered by Mayor Spaulding, which was briefly responded to by Col. Hoffman, after which they marched to the old barracks of the 23d, where a bounteous repast was prepared by the ladies of Elmira.
In the language of the Elmira Advertiser, " It was a magnificent reception and worthy the patriotic people of Elmira, and gladdened the hearts of the men to honor whom the demonstration was made; but it gladdened far more when they were allowed to throw off their knapsacks and war-gear and go home to their own firesides, to their fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, and sweet- hearts. Wednesday, the 13th of May, will be ever green in the memory of the soldiers of the 23d and their friends."
It was, indeed, a fitting reception of the battle-scarred regiment of the Southern Tier, the first from the Twenty- seventh Congressional District.
The following is a list of the killed and missing, and also of those who died from wounds or disease in the 23d :
Jeremiah V. Bogart, killed in second battle of Bull Run, Ang. 30, 1862. Eli Decker, died of fever, Dee. 3, 1861.
David Farron, killed at. Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
William March, killed at Fredericksburg, Va., May 25, 1862.
John M. Mowers, died of fever, Dec. 31, 1861.
Herkimer Shults, died of fever, Dec. 18, 1861.
S. Williams, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Christopher Brennan, died at Falmonth, July 4, 1862.
Henry Brown, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Thomas Carroll, killed at Ball's Cross-Roads, Aug. 17. 1861.
Charles W. Tice, died Aug. 5, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam.
Alexander J. Jaynes, died Dec. 15, 1861.
llarlow Arms, died March 24, 1863.
David J. Perene, supposed to have been killed at Rappahannock Station, Aug. 21, 1862.
Jerome Gorton, supposed to have been killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Henry E. Gilbert, died Dec. 1, 1862.
George C. Ames, died Oct. 7, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Richard B. Hurd, killed at Fredericksburg, Dce. 13, 1862.
Thomas Van Ilora, died Dec. 21, 1861.
Israel Marquart, died Nov. 18, 1861.
James Pease, died Ang. 16, 1861.
Edmund Campbell, died in November, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
William Decker, died Dec. 16, 1861.
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Elias Dodge, died in January, 1863.
Hamilton Squires, died Dec. 4, 1861.
Henry C. Cooper, died Dec. 1, 1861.
F. B. Tiffany, died Dec. 12, 1861. A. M. Taylor, died Dec. 29, 1861.
Samuel W. Kelly, died Jan. 15, 1863, of wounds received at Freder- icksburg, Dee. 13, 1862.
J. F. Bosworth, died Sept. 29, 1861.
J. W. Parmatin, died Oct. 2, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam.
R. W. Steele, died Dec 7, 1861.
L. L. Bacon, died Sept. 6, 1861.
J. W. Burke, died of consumption after his discharge, Oct. 1, 1861.
A. D. Griffen, died in February, 1862.
J. E. B. Maxson, died Feb. 17, 1862, of wounds received from acei- dental discharge of a pistol.
James Simmons, killed at Fredericksburg, Dee. 13, 1862.
Olin L. Bennett, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Uriah F. Faurer, died at Fredericksburg, Aug. 7, 1862.
Charles Hathaway, died from wounds received al Antietam.
C. P'. Smith, died Aug. 26, 1861.
S. F. McGee, died Feb. 18, 1862.
Charles McOmber, killed at Fredericksburg, Dee. 12, 1862. William D. Monagle, drowned in the Rappahannock, May 10, 1862.
BATTERY E, FIRST NEW YORK ARTILLERY.
Among the organizations that went out from this county near the beginning of the rebellion was Battery E, Ist New York Light Artillery, organized at Bath, in the summer of 1861. The original officers of this battery were Capt. John Slocum, First Lieuts. Charles C. Wheeler and William Rumsey, and Second Lieut. Robert II. Gansevoort. Capt. Slocum resigned soon after the battery reached Washington, but soon re-entered the service in an infantry regiment, and did excellent service. Lieut. Wheeler was promoted to captain and E. H. Underhill to second lieutenant. Robert J. Parker, of St. Lawrence County, served as first lieu- tenant in the battery, but was never commissioned.
Under Capt. Wheeler the battery served on the Peninsula and down to and through the battle of Antietam. The first gun fired on the Peninsula as the Army of the Poto- mae advanced to Yorktown was fired by this battery.
The battery had inscribed on its guidons the names of the following battles in which it won distinction : Yorktown, Lec's Mills, Williamsburg, Mechanicsville, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Chancellorsville, Gettys- burg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Petersburg. It was finally mustered out of service June 16, 1865.
Lieut. Rumsey did not serve with the battery, being ad- jutant of the regiment, and as such served at its head- quarters in the field. At the battle of Fair Oaks he was severely wounded. At the same battle the colonel, G. D. Bailey, was killed, as was also Maj. D. H. Van Valken- burgh, who was a native of Steuben County.
Lieut. Rumsey was detached from the regiment iu De- cember, 1862, and ordered to duty with Gen. W. W. Averill, who was also a native of this county. He served with Gen. Averill as his adjutant-general in the Army of the Poto- mac, and in West Virginia in the numerous engagements and raids in which that gallant officer was engaged.
Lieut. Rumsey was promoted to major and assistant ad- jutant-general by President Lincoln, for gallant service at the engagement at Mooresfield, in which Gen. Averill with thirteen hundred men surprised and routed Gen. McCaus-
lin with three thousand five hundred. In this engagement Averill killed, wounded, and captured more of the enemy than there were men in his own command.
Maj. Rumsey was promoted by President Johnson to be brevet lieutenant-colonel for "distinguished services during the campaign of May, June, and July, 1864," and was afterwards promoted to brevet colonel by Governor Fenton.
Lieut. Underhill was with the battery during all of its service. Hle was noted for reckless daring to an extent re- markable even among daring soldiers. When the battery was mustered out of service he commanded it as captain.
Capt. Wheeler was not a native of Steuben County, but was living in the county when the war broke out, and entered the service in this battery. He was an excellent soldier, and under his command the battery won great distinction.
THE THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
This regiment was organized at Albany, N. Y., to serve two years. The companies of which it was composed were raised in the counties of Albany, Clinton, Essex, Herkimer, and Steuben. It was mustered into the service of the United States June 15, 1861, and mustered out at the ex- piration of its term of service, June 30, 1863. It was en- gaged in the battles of Fair Oaks, Glendale, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
Companies I and E of this regiment were from Steuben County. Company I was raised in Urbana and Pulteney, and organized at Hammondsport. William H. King, Cap- tain ; Alfred T. Atwood, First Lieutenant ; Monroe Brun- dage, Second Lieutenant ; Sergeants, Henry C. Lyon, John Finnegan, Lemuel C. Benham, Oren Emmitt, Eugene B. Larrowe; Corporals, James C. Harrington, Llewlyn MeCabe, George W. Williams, and A. C. Brundage.
Company E was raised at Addison and immediate vi- cinity. Henry Baldwin, Captain; James R. Carr, First Lieutenant ; Edwin F. Smith and Ilenry W. Sanford, Second Lieutenants. Edwin F. Smith was promoted to first lieutenant Dec. 23, 1861. Henry W. Sauford was promoted to first lieutenant April 12, 1862. George W. Wildrich, of Woodhull, promoted to second lieutenant Dec. 23, 1861; resigned April 10, 1862. Capt. Wil- liam H. King, Company 1, breveted lieutenant-colonel United States Volunteers. Monroe Brundage promoted to captain Feb. 10, 1863. (See biography of Captain Brun- dage in History of Bath.)
CHAPTER XXIV.
MILITARY HISTORY-(Continued).
Steuben in the War of the Rebellion (Continued)-The Eighty-Sixth Regiment.
THE 86th New York Volunteers (Steuben Rangers ) was organized in the summer and fall of 1861, in Elmira, N. Y., by Col. B. P. Bailey, and was composed of eight com- panies from Steuben County, one from Chemung, and one from Onondaga. The following is the roster of the field, line, and staff on the departure from that place :
Photo. by Evans, Corning.
GENERAL JACOB H. LANSING was born in the city of Albany, N. Y., March 9, 1824. Ilis paternal ancestor came to this country from Holland about the year 1620, with the Van Rensselaers and many other prominent families who became the first settlers in the vicinity of Albany.
His great-grandfathers, on both sides, were officers in the war for independence, and his grandfather, Jacob Lansing, was a captain in the State troops in the war of 1812.
His father, James Lansing, was a merchant, lived most of his life in Albany, and died at the residence of his son in Corning, in 1869, aged seventy. His mother, Saralı McMurrey, died in Albany in 1828, at the age of about twenty-seven.
Their children were two sons, the youngest, Charles Edward, dying while young. Mr. Lansing apprenticed himself to learn the watch-making trade at the age of fif- tecn, serving out a term of six years.
Upon reaching his majority he for two years worked as journeyman, and in the year 1847 went to Rochester, and soon after to Syracuse, and in 1848, in March, settled in Cor- ning, and established business for himself, which he eou- tinued until 1858. From that time until the beginning of the Rebellion he carried on business for William Walker, of Corning.
In August, 1861, he volunteered in the service of his country as a private of Company C, and upon the organi- zation of the 86th Regiment New York Volunteers, Col. B. P. Bailey commanding, was elected captain of his com- pany, with rank from August, 1861. After and including the battle of second Bull Run the regiment was attached to the 2d and 3d Corps of the Army of the Potomac, where
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it remained until the elose of the war. While with the 2d Corps, the old 3d Corps proper was known as " Birney's Division of the 2d Corps."
After the battle of Chancellorsville, on account of the loss of superior officers, and for meritorious services, Capt. Lan- sing was promoted to major, May 3, 1863; and after the battle of Gettysburg he was made lieutenant-colonel, with commission dated June 12, 1863. In April, 1864, at Brandy Station, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and commissioned June 25, 1864. Colonel Lansing re- mained in the service until November, 1864, and was dis- charged on account of wounds and disabilities, upon his own application, in front of Petersburg, Nov. 13, 1864, and came home and was not connected with the service any more du- ring the war of the Rebellion. In 1866 he was made briga- dier-general N. G. S. N. Y., commanding 20th Brigade, com- prising the counties of Steuben, Chemung, and Schuyler. Hc remained in connuand until 1877, when the brigade was dis- banded, under orders from general headquarters at Albany.
On his arrival in Corning in 1865 he started the jewelry business on Market Street, which he still continues. Gen- eral Lansing has ever been a member of the Democratie party, and was always interested in the growth and prosper- ity of the village of Corning. In 1858 and 1859 he was president of the village of Corning; was one of the orig- inators of the fire department in 1851, and for many years connected with the same officially. He is P. M. of Painted Post Lodge, No. 117, F. and A. M.
In 1847, Oct. 26, he married Sarah A., daughter of William H. Oliver, of Argyle, Washington Co., N. Y. They have an ouly daughter, Mrs. Alexander L. Ewing, of Elmira, N. Y.
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Field and Staff .- Colonel, Benajah P. Bailey, Corning ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Barna J. Chapin, Dansville ; Major, Seymour G. Rhinevault, Woodhull ; Adjutant, Charles W. Gillet, Addison ; Regimental Quartermaster, Byron Spenee, Starkey ; Surgeon, John S. Jameson, Hornellsville ; Assist- ant Surgeon, Farand Wylie, Bath; Chaplain, Jonathan Watts, Corning; Sergeant-Major, Henry W. Fuller, Corn- ing; Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, Samuel Leavitt, Elmira ; Regimental Commissary-Sergeant, George P. Baker, Corning ; Ilospital Steward, William Sayer.
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