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" Company I .- W. A. Croot. thigh : Thomas MeTigue, arm; G. Feredenburgh, back.
" Company K .- Sergt. G. Merring, leg; T. F. Ferrand, leg ; J. W. Barber, head : W. Lanning, band : L. Medbury, hand.
" The above are all the killed an l woundel in the regiment at this time. Lieut .- Col. Laosing was hit on the leg by a spent ball, and a ball passed through Major Stafford's hat, producing ne injury to either.
" May 9, the $6th was on skirmish-line, having been sent out the night previous. They came in at twelve M. Capts. Todd, Harrower, Stone, Phinney, and Wood have been in command of their companies during this protracted battle, and are well. Lieut. Jerry Ryan com- manded Co. A.
" May 10, sharp fighting all day in the vicinity of the court- house. The 86th was engaged towards night. Ilave not heard of any casualties in our regiment. Just before dark a charge was made on the enemy's works, and our forces earried them. The musketry was the heaviest I ever heard. All so far goes finely.
" Yours, in our country's cause, "D. F. Bnowy, Q .- M."
" IN THE FIELD, May 12, 1864.
" DEAR SIR,-I wrote you on the 10th inst., aod gave you a list of casualties in the 86th up to that time. There was a severe engage- ment on the 10th, in which our regiment participated. The battle continued all day, and a little before dark a charge was made on the enemy's works. The 86th Regiment led the charge, having a hand-to- hand fight. The following are the names of the killed aod wounded, so far as I have been able to ascertain :
" Company A, Syracuse .- William Feller, back ; Sergt. Sam, Ing- ham, arm; George Lawson, shoulder; James White, thigh ; Dau. Palmer, leg : John Brown.
" Company B, Addison. - Charles B. Jordan, chest; Sergt. N. Reynolds, thigh.
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" Company C. Coroing .- Henry Lanning. leg; Charles Comfort, arm and abdomen; Sergt. W. MeIntosh, knee: Edwin llarridan, shoulder ; Samuel Stevens, killed; Corp. Sam. Merring, killed ; Mar- tin Mahr, killed ; Corp. F. E. Clark, band ; Jacob Rarrick, both legs ; Cyrus A. llurd, missing; Asa Carner, missing ; Perry Washburn, missing.
" Company D, Hornellsville .- Capt. N. 11. Vincent, arm and thigh, severe ; Samuel Banta, shoulder, severe; Sergt. John McIntosh, foot ; L. llazeltine, arm and thigh ; Chas. Hough, slight ; A. Silsbee, ab- domen, severe.
" Company E, Elmira .- Charles Ilart, arm ; Sergt. W. H. Andrews, leg ; Thos. Weaver, finger : Jacob Hanick, thigh.
" Company F, Lindley .- Joshua Vankuran, arm ; Lewis Clark, band : Osear Monroe, missing : Sergt. J. J. Talbot, missing.
"Company G, Canisteo .- Corp. G. Delat, slight ; Luther Mattison, arm ; John Fulton, pelvis, severe.
" Company HI, Troupshurg .- Capt. Samuel F. Stone, killed ; J. C. Fairbanks, finger ; Sergt. Philip Bartle, face ; Corp. Jerry Williams, finger ; Geo. Cummings, arm : Alphouzo Rowley, arm ; W. Stevens, arm ; John Fletcher.
" Company I, Cooper's Plains .- Color Sergt. Daniel Carson, knee. severe ; William Bettis, chest: Corp. Clark Spicer, head; Charles Cobb, back ; J. D. Thompson, leg.
" Company K, Woodhull .- Charles Fisk, thigh ; Ben. Miller, finger ; Capt. John Phinney, leg and arm : Ilugh Clark, killed ; Sergt. James Crowl, killed ; Lient. J. B. Spencer, wounded.
"The above are all I have been able to find. There are doubtless others wounded on the 10th. We lost in the charge one hundred and sixteen in killed and wounded and missing. Capt. Stone was in- stantly killed by a shell, and Capt. Vincent severely wounded by the same shell. They were both excellent officers, and their loss, with that of Capt. P'hinney, will be severely felt. Lieut. James Cherry, adjutant, was severely wounded in the thigh.
" Col. Lansing, Maj. Stafford, Capt. Harrower, Capt. Todd and Wood are not hurt. The men are in good spirits. All looks favorable.
" Yours, etc., " D. F. BRows, Q .- M."
" IN THE FIELD NEAR PETERSBURG, VA., June 27, 1864.
" DEAR SIR,-I suppose you have heard through Maj. Stafford of the casualties in the regiment since the battle of the North Anda on the 12th. We left onr lines at Cold Harbor, and on the 15th we crossed the Chickahominy, and on the 16th crossed the James at Wil- cox Landing, near Powhatan. It was a magnificent spectacle to witness the crossing of the James River by our army. A large num- ber of steamboats, and numerous other waler-craft. rendered the scene the gayest and liveliest of anything you can imagine, and as each boat moved from the shore laden with its living freight, eheer after cheer from thousands of brave hearts rang out upon the air, remind- ing one of a picnic on a grand scale. The constant booming of can- noo, however, in the direction of Petersburg, broke the enchantment of the scene, and reminded us that we were making no pleasure trip, but woald soon be grappling with the huge monster of secession on another bloody field. On the afternoon of the 16th, while our divi- sion was massed behind one of the earthworks just taken from the enemy, Lieut. A. B. Stanton was hit by a piece of shell, and died a short time after. Lieut. Stanton came out with the regiment, and had been in every engagement through which it had passed. Ilis last words were, ' I have served my country faithfully. I must now die for it.' On the same day, G. Blaekman, Co. E. was wounded in the shoulder ; Ilenry MeFall, wounded in shoulder.
"Jane 18, our regiment made a charge, and after a sharp contest was repulsed. The loss was as follows : Lieut. Charles S. Carr, Co. I, wounded in wrist ; Sergt. Steven Chase, color-bearer, Co. Il, head; Edward Schofield, Co. F, haod; E Allington, Co. F. wounded in ab- domen, since died ; Oliver Campbell, Co. G, arm ; Milo Tucker, Co. D, hand.
"June 22, 1864. the veterans of the 70th Regiment, N. Y. Vols., one hundred and thirty in all, were transferred to the 86th. The regiment now numbers two hundred and forty inen present.
"June 27, Maj. Stafford still unhurt, and is in corruand of the regiment.
" Yours in the cause of liberty,
"D. F. BROWN, Q .- M."
Milioane
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" IN THE FIELD BEFORE PETERSBURG, VA., Oct. 7, 1864.
" DEAR Sin,-Having received our ballots to-day, we are reminded that the time has arrived for ns to discharge the sacred duty of voting. We are thankful that, through the liberal policy of our noble State, the soldier is permitted to vote. They say but little about politics, but they think and feel much.
"Our regiment numbers now about three hundred present for daty. The men are in good health and spirits. Col. Lansing is in com- mand, and although there is no forward movement since the affair at Deep Bottom, yet he has found enough to occupy his attention. Our regiment has been in the rifle-pits in the extreme front, within speak- ing distance of the enemy, for several weeks past, exposed to the fire of the sharpshooters. For two weeks past the 86th held Forts Michael and Scott, which constitute a portion of our front line of works. An attack was made several nights ago en our pickets, a little to our left, which resulted in a repulse of the enemy, with a loss of several killed and wounded, and aboat one hundred prisoners. Capt. Har- rower was in command of the picket line on that occasion, and for his prudent and brave conduct received a flattering compliment, in a general order from our corps commander.
" Yours, etc.,
" D. F. BROWN, Q .- M."
GEN. NIROM M. CRANE.
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Gen. Nirom M. Crane was born in Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1828. The family of Crane is of English descent, and the ancestor of the family, Henry Crane,-born 1635,-came to America about the year 1660, as record is found of his descent as son of John Crane, of Norfolk, England. Gen. Crane traces his descent from Capt. John Crane, son of Henry Crane, who was born in 1664, and commanded a company in an expedition against Canada, in 1711, and died in New York, as the result of hardship and exposure in that campaign.
His grandfather, Daniel Crane,-born 1756,-was a sol- dier during the Revolutionary war. He, with others, being at church when the news of the battle of Concord came, at once enlisted in the service of his country.
About the year 1806 he removed from Connecticut with his family, and settled in Yates Co., N. Y., in what is now the town of Benton,-then a wilderness. Hence he was a pioncer in that county, and there spent the remainder of his life as a farmer, dying at about the age of seventy.
Gen. Crane's father, Nirom Crane, one of nine children, was a volunteer and ranked as second lientenant of a rifle company in the war of 1812; was engaged in the battle of Queenstown Heights, Canada. He led a quiet life as a farmer, and died, at the age of sixty-one, in the year 1845, leaving two sons and five daughters who reached maturity, of whom the subject of this notice was the youngest.
At the age of fifteen he became a clerk in a general merchandise store in Wayne, this county, and continued as such, in that place and Penn Yan, during the remainder of his minority.
In the year 1849 he established himself in business as a merchant at Wayne, which he continued successfully for three years, and removed to Hornellsville, where he carried on mercantile business until 1856, when, being chosen vice-president of the Bank of Hornellsville (the first bank established there), he remained in connection with the busi- ness of that bank until it was closed, in 1859. Hc at once started a private bank, the business of which he car- ried on until the breaking ont of the war of the Rebellion.
In April, 1861, inspired with that patriotism and loyalty
to country so characteristic of his ancestors, he raised a company of volunteers, and in May following, as lientenant- colonel of the 23d New York Volunteers (called the South- ern Tier Rifles), hastened to the capital, reaching Arlington Heights the next morning after the battle of Bull Run.
As lieutenant-colonel he commanded the regiment through Pope's campaign, and led it successively in the more im- portant battles of Rappahannock, Groveton, Bull Run (second), Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam.
After the latter battle he was detailed as acting in- spector-general on the staff of the 1st Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj .- Gen. John F. Reynolds, where he remained until after the close of the battle of Fredericksburg, and on which he officiated as aide-de-camp to Gen. Reynolds, and was complimented in general orders for gallantry on the battle-field by him. Subsequently he was assigned assistant provost-marshal- general on the staff of Gen. Hooker, in the Army of the Potomac, where he remained until the expiration of his term of service of two years, when, after only two weeks' respite at home he returned to his regiment as colonel of the 107th New York Volunteers, joined the regiment at Leesburg, Va., then on the march to Gettysburg. In the battle of Gettysburg he had command of the regiment in the thick- est of the fight, yet losing only a few men.
His corps (the 20th) was then sent, under command of Gen. Hooker, to join Sherman at Chattanooga. To fol- low his career through "Sherman's march to the sea" would be to give an outline sketch of the victories, priva- tions, marches, etc., of that renowned campaign, the princi- pal of which were Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, Peach-Tree Creek, and Atlanta, and the taking of Savannah, followed by the march through the Carolinas, and the capture and surrender of Johnston's army.
During the campaign in South Carolina, for gallant and meritorious conduct, he was brevetted brigadier-general with rank from March, 1865.
Gen. Crane was mustered out of the service in June, 1865, and returned home.
In the fall of the same year he opened a private bank, under the name of N. M. Crane & Co., which he continues to carry on.
In 1869 he was chosen county clerk, which office he held one term.
Upon the organization of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, at Bath, N. Y., Gen. Crane was appointed by Governor Robinson as one of the nine trustees, and is also the treas- urer of that institution.
Gen. Crane has been identified with the Republican party since its organization, although not in any sense of the term a professional politician.
In the year 1852, Oct. 19, he married Marie Louise, second daughter of Matthew MacDowell, of Wayne, Steu- ben Co., a lady of rare culture, and descended from English ancestry on the maternal, and Scotch ancestry on the pater- nal side.
Their children are Sidney H., Marion Louise, and Guy MacDowell.
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CHAPTER XXV.
MILITARY HISTORY-(Continued).
Steuben in the War of the Rebellion-(Continued).
THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH REGIMENT.
THIS regiment was organized during the dark hours of 1862, when the novelty of military life had ceased, and fieree war with all its horrors stood out in awful vision be- fore the people of this country. The disastrous battles of 1861, and the unsuccessful Peninsula campaign of the Army of the Potomae, had east a gloom over the North, and served to add additional vigor to the already victorious arms of the Confederacy. It was during this hour, when the pall of despondeney seemed to be settling down upon the North, that President Lincoln issued a call, July 1, for three hundred thousand more men.
Gen. A. S. Diven was at that time member of Congress from the Twenty-seventh District. Near midnight, on one sultry summer night in July, he was called upon at his residence in Washington by Gen. Van Valkenburgh, of Steuben, and Mr. Pomeroy, of Auburn, both members of Congress from New York, with the message that Secretary Seward wished to see him immediately. Ile immediately answered the summons, and the secretary, addressing him abruptly, said, " Will you go home and raise a regiment in your distriet ? Pomeroy is going, Van Valkenburgh is going, and you must go. I mean to invite every member of Congress to do so, and thus raise regiments by distriets." Geu. Diven was prompt to answer " yes," and on the fol- lowing morning left Washington for Elmira. Although at first meeting with much discouragement, able meu soon rallied to his support. It is said of Rev. Thomas K. Beecher that he laid aside his elerieal duties, and with Gen. Diven traversed Sehuyler, Chemung, Steuben, and Allegany Counties, holding two meetings every day.
Recruiting was rapid. The first company was mustered into the United States service in July, and on the evening of August 13 the 107th Regiment New York State Vol- unteers left Elmira en route to Washington.
The regiment was mustered into the service from July 31 to August 31, 1862. It was the first regiment organ- ized under the eall for the three hundred thousand men, and received a banner from the State in recognition of that fact.
The following were the field and staff offieers: Colonel, Robert B. Van Valkenburgh ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Alexan- der S. Diven ; Major, Gabriel L. Smith ; Adjutant, Hull Fanton; Quartermaster, E. P. Graves; Quartermaster- Sergeant, L. B. Chidsay ; Chaplain, Ezra F. Crane; Sur- geon, Patrick H. Flood ; Assistant Surgeon, James D. Hewitt; Sergeant-Major, John R. Lindsay ; Commissary- Sergeant, Henry Inscho; Hospital Steward, John M. Flood.
Five companies of this regiment were raised in the fol- lowing towns of Steuben County : Company C at Painted Post, Company F at Addison, Company G at Bath, Com- pany I at Corning, and Company K at Hornellsville. The companies of the regiment were organized as follows :
Company A .- Captain, Ezra F. Crane; First Lieutenant, Melville C. Wilkiusou ; Second Lieutenant, John M. Losie.
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Company B .- Captain, Lathrop Baldwin ; First Lieu- tenant, Martin V. B. Bachman ; Second Lieutenant, George Swain.
Company C .- Captain, William F. Fox; First Lieu- tenant, Charles J. Fox ; Second Lieutenant, Irving Bron- son.
Company D .- Captain, Heetor M. Stoeum ; First Lieu- tenant, Samuel A. Benediet ; Seeond Lieutenant, Odell D. Reynolds.
Company E .- Captain, William L. Morgan ; First Lieu- tenant, William L. Morgan, Jr. ; Seeond Lieutenant, Har- low Atwood.
Company F .- Captain, James H Miles; First Lieuten- ant, J. Milton Roe; Second Lieutenant, John F. Knox.
Company G .- Captain, John J. Lamon ; First Lieuten- ant, G. 11. Brigham ; Second Lieutenant, Ezra Gleason.
Company II .- Captain, Erastus C. Clark ; First Lieu- tenant, Henry D. Donnelly ; Second Lieutenant, Lewis O. Sayler.
Company I .- Captain, Newton T. Colby; First Lieu- tenant, Benjamin C. Wilson; Second Lieutenant, Nathaniel E. Rutter.
Company K .- Captain, Allen N. Sill ; First Lieutenant, John M. Goodrich; Second Lieutenant, Alonzo B. Howard.
On the 15th the regiment arrived at Washington, and after a review by President Lincoln went into eamp on Ar- lington Heights, where, August 19, they were first in bat- talion drill. August 22 marching orders were received, and on the following day the regiment moved to Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Va.
The 107th was brigaded Sept. 1, 1862, with the 35th Massachusetts and two Pennsylvania regiments, forming the 5th Brigade of Whipple's Division, Reserve Corps, Colonel Van Valkenburgh commanding.
Sept. 6 orders were received to join Gen. MeClellan's army, moving northward to repel Gen. Lee's invasion of Maryland, and at seven P.M. they were in line of march.
In speaking of this movement Gen. Diven said, " How glorious the August moon looked down upon us as we broke eamp at Arlington, and with songs of triumph crossed the Potomae to join the army for the defense of Washington ! How from our eamp at Frederick City we saw the smoke of battle and heard the roar of dread artillery, and marked the strife in which we were soon to mingle! how after a night of fatiguing march we eneamped at daybreak on the scene of an ensanguined battle of a day before! how all day with cautious march we advanced in the track of the brave vietors of South Mountain ! how eagerly we burned to be sharers in the strife that was making heroes of our friends in other regiments! how we envied the glory that sur- rounded the 23d !" Ah! this gallant regiment had not long to wait. The night of the 17th of September they lay on their arms, and ere the " gray-eyed morn smiled ou the frowning night" was heard the rattle of musketry, and the ominous booming of artillery, reverberated over the army, told only too well that the battle of Antietam had opened. As Gen. Diven remarked in an address delivered at the regimental association in 1873, " Comrades, you re- member the rest of that day."
Yes, the surviving members of the 107th will not soon
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forget the horrors of that September day. It was an all- day's contest, and almost a hand-to-hand struggle. Night put an end to the contest, and ninety of those brave men who marched out to meet the enemy in the morning, at night lay upon the field, killed and wounded. This was the 107th's baptism of fire, and nobly did it pass through the deadly contest.
Gen. Gordon, in his official report of the battle, bestowed many encomiums of praise upon this regiment for its bravery and soldierly bearing. He says, " The 107th New York Regiment, Col. Van Valkenburgh, I held in reserve, throw- ing them into the edge of a piece of woods on the left, which, I was informed by an aid of Gen. Ilooker, who met me advancing, must be held at all hazards." Again, in the saure report, he says, " The rebel lines again advancing, I threw forward a portion of my brigade to support those nearly in front, while the 107th New York was directed to support Capt. Cotheran's battery on the left. This fine regiment, but just organized and brought into the field, in this battle for the first time under fire, moved with steadi- ness to its perilous position. and maintained its ground until recalled, though exposed to a front fire from the enemy, and a fire over its head from batteries in its rear." HIe adds, " I have no word ; but those of praise for their con- duct."
Capt. Cotheran, whose battery the regiment supported, pays it the following tribute in his official report: " The 107th Regiment, New York Volunteers, Col. R. B. Vau Valkenburgh, is entitled to great credit for both coolness and courage, and the admirable manner in which it supported my battery during the fight. This being the first time this regiment was under fire, I most cheerfully bear testimony to the excellent bearing of hoth officers and men, while occupying the uneomfortable position of being the recipi- ents of the enemy's fire while they were unable to return it. "
Not one moment elapsed, from the beginning to the close of this sanguinary struggle, that the 107th was not under fire.
The following vivid summary of this battle, in which the 107th took so conspicuous a position, is given by Gen. Gordon : " From sunrise to sunset the waves of battle ebbed and flowed. Men wrestled with each other in lines of regi- ments, brigades, and divisions, while regiments, brigades, and divisions faded away under a terrible fire, leaving long lines of dead to mark where stood the living. Fields of corn were trampled into shreds, forests were battered and scathed, huge limbs went crashing to earth, sent by shell and round shot. Grape and canister mingled their hissing scream in this hellish carnival; yet within all this, and throughout it all, the patriots of the North wrestled with hearts strong and unshaken ; wrestled with the rebel horde that thronged and pressed upon them, never yielding, though sometimes halting to gather up their strength, then with one mighty bound, throwing themselves upon their foes, to drive them into their protecting forests beyond. We indeed at night slept upon the bloody field of our vic- tory." The regiment was at this time in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, of the 12th Corps.
On the day following the battle the regiment lay upon 16
the field, and on the 19th marching orders were received, and they started in pursuit of the vanquished foe. They moved to Maryland Heights, and went into camp, Septem- ber 23. While here the ranks were greatly decimated by fever, which raged to such an extent that at the review by President Lincoln, October 2, not three hundred men were able to report for duty. The hospitals were filled with vic- tims of the disease, and their camp at Maryland Heights was indeed a sorrowful one, where so many of the brave men, who had passed the fire of battle, sank before this destroyer, and were buried in the winding-sheet, for no coffins, not even of the rudest manufacture, could at one time be obtained. The first death in this camp was that of Corp. Joseph Couse, of Company H, and he was buried in a rough box, made by Sergt. Abram White, of' old fence- boards.
The 107th remained at Maryland Heights until late in October, when they moved to Antietam Ford. IFere they remained a few weeks, and on the 10th of December moved into Virginia, passing through Harper's Ferry, thence across the Shenandoah, and down the Leesburg Valley to Fairfax Station. The regiment halted here for a short time and then proceeded towards Fredericksburg; subsequently went into camp at a place called Hope Landing, on Aquia Creek.
An official report forwarded to the War Department about this time says, "The 107th remained in camp at Fairfax Station, Va., until the morning of the 19th of January, when it broke camp and commenced marching southward towards Stafford Court-House, together with the 12th Army Corps (Maj .- Gen. H. W. Slocum). The march was continued from day to day for five days during the worst possible storm imaginable, fording the swollen streams and making our way along seemingly impassable roads. The evening of Friday arrived at Stafford Court- House. Here the regiment was paid up to the 31st of October, 1862, which was the first pay received. Re- mained in bivouac near Stafford until Tuesday, January 27, when we marched to Hope Landing, on the Aquia Creek ; remained in bivouac there for a few days, and then moved to a camp nearer the creek and commenced building winter quarters for the fourth time. February 13 finds the regiment still here. Sickness is alarmingly ou the in- crease, and regimentally matters looked gloomy. Only some four hundred men left for duty, the balance of the ten hundred and nineteen of six months ago dead, wounded, or absent sick."
Camp life at Hope Landing had been pleasant and duty easy, and but for the sickness that prevailed, caused by the winter, fatigue, and exposure, this camp might have been left with regret. But not so. The regiment had been greatly thinned by disease, and on April 27 they cheerfully broke camp and marched, under the command of gallant, fighting Joe Hooker, towards the Rappahannock. The order of march was gladly hailed, and Gen. Diven re- marked, "Never prisoner left a dungeon more eagerly than we our camp when we marched forth under the proud banner of the 12th Army Corps."
The spring campaign was active as it was disastrous. Not one week had elapsed after leaving the camp at Hope Landing ere the 107th participated in the terrible battle
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