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At the grand review the 50th had the right of the column; then, their labors done, there remained ouly a return home, a muster-out, and a resumption of those eivil duties whose steady pursuit had shown them not only approved soldiers, but industrious and excellent citizens.
The following is a list of the killed, and also of those who died of disease or wounds, in the 50th Engineers, taken from the muster-out rolls in the Adjutant-General's office at Albany :
Company A.
James N. Duram, died May 6, 1862. Riley Fliteles, died May 22, 1862.
George Beman, died June 23, 1862.
Thomas Desmore, died June 24, 1862. John S. Smith, died July 1, 1863. William T. Chrystoler, died Feb. 19, 1863. Jeremiah T. Ellis, died Mareh 28, 1864.
Robert M. Hathway, died April 7, 1864. James N. Curtis, died April 9, 1864. Philip Ward, died July 24, 1864. William H. Crossman, died June 15, 1864. Gilbert L. Brown, died Aug. 6, 1864. Theodore Bont, died Aug. 7, 1864. Charles S. Peirce, died Aug. 15, 1864. Gustavus S. Ames, died Sept. 10, 1864. Worden Cox, died Oct. 5, 1864.
Company B.
Levi Decker, died Sept. 28, 1864. John B. Lewis, died Sept. 25, 1864. Chester F. Harvey, died Oct. 27, 1864.
Frank Vandermark, died Nov. 12, 1864.
William S. Alger, dicd Nov. 1, 1864.
Charles H. Wanoman, died in the field, eause unknown, April 2, 1865.
Nathan Teiell, thrown from an ambulance and died Aug. 20,1862.
Tabez Renford, died June 8, 1862.
Chester B. Acker, died June 9, 1862.
Job L. Prouty, died June 9, 1862. James F. Richardson, died July 16, 1862.
Rodolphus Brown, died Jan. 26, 1863. Arthur B. Clark, drowned July 5, 1863. Israel Bishop, died of wounds June 3, 1864.
Charles Noxley, died July 19, 1864.
Amos Chapman, died Aug. 7, 1864.
Daniel Gill, died Aug. 22, 1864. John Case, died July 27, 1864.
Company C.
Biron R. Semons, died Oct. 22, 1861.
Edward D. L. Thornton, died Oct. 26, 1861.
Kimble S. Wood, died Nov. 3, 1861.
John T. Tyler, died Nov. 7, 1861.
Ervin L. Tickener, died Oet. 3, 1862. Lewis Wileox, died Dee. 11, 1862.
William Blakesley, died Dee. 11, 1862. William P. Butts, died Dee. 14, 1862. James Taylor, died Dee. 20, 1862. Samuel Doney, died June 9, 1862. George W. Goodspeed, died Nov. 12, 1863. Albert W. Walls, died March 20, 1864. . Richard Dolalley, died April 9, 1864. Oliver P. Wilson, died Aug. 29, 1864. David E. Norton, died Sept. 14, 1864. Willis Fenton, died Oct. 10, 1864. Philetus Vau Dyke, died Nov. 10, 186 4.
Company D.
Hiram Thorp, died Dee. 20, 1861.
Jaeob L. Dae, died June 8, 1862. Martin L. Clark, died Aug. 12, 1862. Alexander Cummings, died Dee. 2, 1862. Jolin Lamphere, died Jan. 30, 1863. William Mabie, died Mareh 7, 1864. Theodore Sellin, died April 14, 1864. Joseph Spaulding, died May 10, 1864. Jolın W. Pew, died July 24, 1864. Austin J. Aiken, killed Sept. 23, 1864. Ashley C. Eldred, died Aug. 18, 1864. Robert Brown, died Aug. 16, 1864. Nathan Muller, died March 17, 1864. Henry T. Singer, died March 17, 1864. David Blanchard, died Jan. 5, 1865. Thomas McNamara, died Feb. 26, 1865. Jaeob T. Allison, died Aug. 29, 1865.
Company E.
Ebenezer Rittsley, died Sept. 22, 1864. Philo Jump, died Sept. 23, 1864. Newmau P. Rigley, died Nov. 28, 1864.
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James L. Russell, died Dee. 22, 1864. Erastus Krath, died Oet. 10, 1864. John S. Newcomb, dicd Sept. 22, 1861. Stephen Matteson, died Dee. 3, 1861. William Goodrich, died July 5, 1862. Henry Blunt, died Aug. 21, 1862. Luke Hammond, died June 27, 1863. Lemuel Stoddard, died July 12, 1862. William Askin, died Aug. 21, 1863. George Rice, died March 21, 1864. John S. Vernan, died March 27, 1864. Franeis L. Knickerbocker, died March 28, 1864. Silas Hasbrouk, died April 13, 1864. David Mosher, died July 15, 1864. Frederick Miller, died Sept. 1, 1864. John E. Covert, died Aug. 15, 1864. Levi Howard, died April 28, 1864.
Company F.
Daniel Carpenter, died Nov. 16, 1861. Willianı Corvill, died Oet. 19, 1862. Aaron B. Hull, died May 14, 1862. John A. Dodge, died Nov. 10, 1862. Datus E. Busk, died Nov. 27, 1862. Charles Mccluskey, died Dee. 5, 1862. Philip M. Comfort, killed Dee. 11, 1862. Charles R. E. Berswiek, killed Dec. 11, 1862. Robert Bettie, died Dee. 15, 1862. Abram Rollison, died Jan. 12, 1863. Isaae F. Bradshaw, died Feb. 2, 1863. Maurice Spalone, died May 25, 1863. John F. Sturgiss, killed June 5, 1863. Isaac Crage, died Nov. 12, 1863. Edward W. Johnson, died May 8, 1864. Samuel K. Canfield, died Aug. 13, 1864. William Loomis, died Sept. 2, 1864. Abram B. Symonds, died Nov. 17, 1864. S. Fletcher Brees, died Dee. 21, 1863. . William Manning, died Jan. 29, 1865. Iliram II. Danwich, died April 13, 1865. James H. Oakley, died May 12, 1865. James Grotan, drowned May 25, 1865.
Company G.
Andrew Cady, died Jan. 22, 1862. Bernard Riley, died Jan. 28, 1862. William Stott, died May 9, 1862. Merril Denson, died July 15, 1862. Michacl Door, died May 30, 1862. John Boyee, died June 9, 1862. Abraham Wolverton, died Jan. 7, 1863. John R. Sterns, died Feb. 9, 1863. John G. Herron, died March 11, 1863. Eli J. Beardsley, died Nov. 19, 1863. Mopton Davenport, died Feb. 21, 1864. Daniel S. Wheaton, died March 11, 1864. Dewitt Johnson, died April 11, 1864. John Gunn, died Aug. 7, 1864. Saul C. Houf, died Aug. 12, 1864. James Brooks, died Aug. 16, 1864. 6
> William Landon, died Sept. 3, 1864.
Jolin D. Milspaugh, died of wounds, Sept. 23, 1864. Dyer T. Gibbs, died Oct. 28, 1864. George Burnop, died Nov. 3, 1864. Sterling Taylor, died Nov. 26, 1864. Ambrose Ponel, died Nov. 12, 1864.
Company II.
Allen Reseom, died Feb. 4, 1862. John Gray, died May 17, 1862. Isaac N. Brokan, died June 27, 1862. John Barber, killed Dee. 11, 1862. Stephen Fraser, died Feb. 23, 1863. Jolin Hazzard, died March 12, 1863. Asa W. Sweet, died March 16, 1863. William W. Jennison, died March 26, 1863. John S. Riley, died Aug. 5, 1863. Martin H. Dillenbeek, died Sept. 18, 1863.
John D. Meacham, died Nov. 15, 1863. Jonas R. Mate, died May 20, 1863. Sulye D. Gregory, died Oet. 11, 1863. Egbert IJ. Lathrop, died Nov. 30, 1863.
Clarion D. Cummings, died Sept. 28, 1863.
Company I.
Captain Augustus S. Perkins, killed Dec. 11, 1862. Second Licutenant Henry Yates, died May 23, 1862.
George W. Algro, died March 25, 1862. John T. Egan, died May 16, 1862. Edwin Kipp, died June 19, 1862. Garrison R. Franklin, died Aug. 5, 1862. John Malone, died Sept. 13, 1862.
William Bostwick, died Sept. 9, 1862. Hanson G. Champlice, killed Dee. 11, 1862. John Cousan, died Oct. 25, 1862. John L. Murphy, died Dee. 20, 1862. William H. Maslan, died Nov. 25, 1863. Hughson Gardner, died Nov. 10, 1863. Justus E. Barton, died March 31, 1864. William H. Kipp, died April 10, 1864. Aaron Frily, died April 13, 1864. George Dunn, died July 21, 1864. Squire A. Kimber, died July 27, 186 4. Charles Stratton, died Aug. 5, 1864. Landon A. Brown, died Aug. 16, 1864. James Randall, died July 30, 1864. James H. Perkins, died Oet. 6, 1864. Manlius Hulee, died Oct. 10, 1864.
Charles Hollenbeck, died Oet. 13, 1864. James Jones, died Oct. 21, 1864. Chauncey Cranford, died Nov. 14, 1864. Charles Howard, died Nov. 15, 1864. Charles S. Gardner, died Oet. 13, 1864. Welcome Bartlett, died Dee. 19, 1864. William F. Bradley, died Jan. 6, 1865. Andrew Fosburg, died Feb. 24, 1865. Frank Short, died May 10, 1865.
Company K.
Charles Savage, died Aug. 5, 1862. Freeman D. Amidon, died Nov. 17, 1863.
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Isaac Burrell, died May 21, 1862.
Virgilius P. Crilcord, died June 30, 1862.
Henry P. Myers, died Feb. 23, 1862.
William H. Randall, died June 14, 1862. William H. Rogers, died July 12, 1863. Andrew J. Rosenburgh, died Aug. 25, 1862. Thomas Welsh, died Nov. 23, 1863.
Albert Kisingher, drowned May 24, 1862. Allen Beach, died May 15, 1864.
William W. Bowman, died Oct. 3, 1863.
Newman Storing, died Dec. 22, 1864. Jonahan W. Dawson, died Jan. 13, 1865. John I. Westfall, died May 16, 1864.
Brees Ezaa, died Aug. 4, 1864. Francis Turner, died Sept. 20, 1864. John Harvey, died of wounds July 5, 1864.
Constance White, died May 21, 1865.
Company L.
James Lennard, died March 8, 1864. Daniel H. Johnson, died July 20, 1864.
William H. Whitehead, died Aug. 16, 1864.
Frank A. Handy, died Aug. 15, 1864. John A. Stafford, died Aug. 25, 1864. John H. Miller, died Nov. 8, 1864. Albert M. Buell, died Nov. 19, 186-1. Samuel Howes, died Dec. 11, 1864.
Company M.
John E. Bennett, died Aug. 3, 1864. Lewis Borron, dicd Aug. 20, 1864. James S. Cole, died April 5, 1865.
Garrett C. Dodge, died Oct. 3, 1864.
Harvey Daniels, died Oct. 2, 1864. William De Marvanville, died May 18, 1864.
Peter L. Houck, Jr., died of wounds Sept. 30, 1864.
Jeremiah Klock, died Nov. 7, 1864.
Charles A. Langdon, died July 2, 1864.
William Orr, died Sept. 23, 1864. . James Post, died July 13, 1864.
Edgar D. Perry, died June 13, 1864.
Jacob D. Smith, died April 12, 1864.
George W. Sayre, died Aug. 26, 1864. Alfred T. Williams, died July 19, 1864.
CHAPTER IX.
MILITARY HISTORY-(Continued).
THE SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.
THE 76th Regiment, N. Y. S. V., was organized during 1861 and 1862, and the companies composing it were raised chiefly in the counties of Tompkins, Cortland, and Otsego.
The following were the field and staff officers: Colonel, N. W. Green ; Lieutenant-Colonel, John D. Shaul ; Major,
Charles E. Livingstone ; Adjutant, Herman F. Robinson ; Surgeon, J. C. Nelson ; Assistant, George W. Metcalf; Chaplain, H. Stone Richardson; Quartermaster, A. P. Smith ; Quartermaster-Sergeant, A. J. Jarvis ; Commissary- Sergeant, William Storrs.
Jan. 16, 1862,-the regiment then at Albany,-orders were received to be ready to march on the following day. On the afternoon of the 17th they inarched to the capitol, where a beautiful stand of colors were presented to the regiment by S. R. Campbell, Esq., in behalf of his mother, Mrs. Samuel Campbell, of New York Mills.
The Albany Evening Journal of that day, speaking of the 76th, said, " This regiment is composed of as fine- appearing and intelligent body of men as have been gath- ered together since the breaking out of the Rebellion."
The regiment left Albany at seven o'clock, and at noon next day arrived at New York. They were quartered at City-Hall barracks until January 21, when they were taken to Riker's Island, up the East River, from the Battery. While here they received their first pay from the Govern- ment, and it is stated that probably $40,000 was sent home at this time.
The regiment proceeded from this place to Washington via Philadelphia and Baltimore. It remained two days at the " Soldier's Retreat," when they were ordered into camp at Meridian Hill. While here the first death occurred,- that of William B. Potter, of Company A. Hc died Feb. 19, 1862.
February 14 the regiment moved from Meridian Hill, and occupied Forts De Russey, Massachusetts, Totten, and Slemmer, with headquarters at Fort Totten.
Judge A. P. Smith, of Cortland, the historian of the 76th, says,-
" A serious difficulty had arisen in the regiment, and it was considered by the military authorities to be in an unfit condition to take the field. The officers, with few exeep- tions, had preferred charges against Colonel Green, and those charges were being investigated by a military eommis- sion then convened at Washington. This placed Lieuten- ant-Colonel Shaul in command of the regiment. After a somewhat protraeted hearing, Colonel Green was ordered to Washington, and thence to his home in Cortland, N. Y., where he was afterwards, by order of the Secretary of War, dismissed from the service. The controversy growing out of the trial of Colonel Green for a time nearly paralyzed the regiment and destroyed its usefulness."
" March 20 the headquarters of the regiment were cstab- lished at Brightwood, Fort Massachusetts. Here they re- mained until May 1, when orders were received to move to Fredericksburg, where they went into camp.
" July 2, Colonel William P. Wainwright, having been assigned to the 76th, assumed command, and immediately instituted a thorough system of discipline. He was con- sidered by many to be unusually and unnecessarily severe in regimental drill, but the battles in which they subse- quently participated, when they saw other and poorer drilled regiments waver and break, while the 76th remained firm, openly thanked the officer who had forced them to a drill so beneficial.
" The 73d at this time was in the Second Brigade, under
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command of the intrepid General Doubleday, First Division, Major-General Rufus King, and First Army Corps. August 9, the regiment was ordered to Chancellorsville to reinforee Banks, who was hotly engaged with Stonewall Jackson. At six o'clock they reached Ely's Ford, where a halt was made until early on the following morning, when the march was continued. Towards night orders were received for a foreed march, and on the soldiers rushed. But as morning dawned eame the intelligence that the battle of Cedar Mountain had been fought, and Jackson was falling back.
" On the 21st of August the 76th first came under fire, being shelled by the enemy's batteries, but lost no men. The regiment soon after marched to Warrenton, which the enemy evacuated upon their approach. Here they halted for a few hours, and then took up the line of march for Sulphur Springs. They participated in the battle of War- renton Springs, but none of the regiment were killed, and but few wounded.
" The following morning eame the order to right-about- face, and off went the column through Warrenton. As the army moved on towards Washington evidences multi- plied that a erisis was imminent.
" After passing Gainesville a mile or two, as the brigade, and more particularly that part formed by the 76th, was moving over a level traet of half a mile in extent, with a wood in their front and a hill at their left, they were nearly paralyzed for a moment by a terrible discharge of artillery from the hill on the left, and so near that the flash from the guns dazzled their eyes.
" Not the most interesting feature of the position was the faet that this was a rebel battery which had not until that moment been discovered. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, of heroes as well as eowards; and the first im- pulse at this sudden introduction to the minions of Jeffer- son Davis was to obey the injunction, ' every man for him- self.' Some dropped down, others rushed forward upon those in advance, while others still were inelined to turn baek. Never was the example of a cool and courageous man more opportunely set thau by Colonel Wainwright at this critical juneture. Riding at the head of his regiment, he instantly turned his horse, and eoolly riding back towards the rear of the column, between it and the batteries, as well by his easy and unconcerned manner as by his words allayed the excitement, and brought every man to his place. He shouted, 'Oh, my boys, don't run ! don't run! Think a moment how it would sonnd, " The 76th ran !"'
" The words of the gallant colonel aeted like magie upon the demoralized regiment ; the column beeame steady, and, although the shot and shell fell thieker and faster, and with more destructive aim, the men pressed on until the wood was reached.
" Upou entering the wood an officer shouted, 'Come on ! come on ! Quick ! quiek !' And on the regiment rushed, while the bullets and shells were whistling and screaming, carrying death and destruction in their train. It was the work of but a few moments, and they had passed the woods and rnshed into an open field beyond where the contest was raging in all its fury, and the gallant members of the eele- brated ' Iron Brigade' were being slaughtered in a man-
ner terrible to behold. The 76th arrived just in time to save the intrepid brigade from total annihilation, as the enemy were preparing to charge with an overwhelming foree, when the 76th, together with the 56th Pennsyl- vania, formed in line, and the anticipated onslaught was averted. Night put an end to an important battle, in which a small foree, in its first experience, stood up coolly and bravely against the flower of the rebel army. The 76th lost 10 killed, 72 wounded, and 18 missing.
" At one o'clock on the following morning marching orders were received, and the 76th proceeded to Manassas June- tion, ten miles distant, where, after a halt of a few hours, the mareh was resumed to Bull Run, which they had hardly reached when they were ordered in line and to advance on a double-quiek to the brow of a hill to cheek the advancing enemy. On the gallant regiment dashed. They passed General MeDowell, who shouted, --
"' What regiment is that ?' .
"' The 76th New York !' was the reply.
"' Hurrah for the 76th New York ! Give it to them, boys ! Give it to them ! They are on the run ! Push 'em like h-1!'
" An answering eheer rose to their lips as on they rushed. The 76th was in the thickest of the fight during the day, but at night were driven baek by the victorious foe. The retreat or repulse of the Union forees at the elose of the day's carnage was terrible. No member of the 76th who participated in the retreat will soon forget the confusion of that night : Union and Confederate were mingled together in one wild mass. On the following day, August 30, the fighting and retreating continued. In this battle the 76th lost, in killed and wounded, 9 officers and 89 men, with 1 officer and 48 men missing."
Sept. 2, 1862, found the regiment within the defenses at Washington, where it was hoped it might remain suffi- ciently long to be recruited. It had been under fire in five different battles, and with nearly 1000 with which it left New York it now numbered only about 225, and of the 30 line officers only 6 remained.
General Lee having abandoned the attempt to capture Washington from the south eommeneed a flank movement into Maryland, and September 6 the 76th received mareh- ing orders, and on the 14th they passed through Frederick City.
The Union forees came upon Lee at the mountains where was fought the memorable battle known as Sonth Moun- tain. Judge Smith says, "The 76th was probably never engaged in a more severe and deadly fight than at South Mountain. During the whole battle the rauge was so short, and both sides fired with such precision, that the volleys told with awful effect. Colonel Wainwright coolly rode along the line and directed the men to fire low, and never was powder and ball rammed into guns with greater energy, or discharged with greater rapidity or more dam- aging effect."
The 76th received many compliments for its soldierly bearing during this severe contest. No regiment in the field stood higher in soldierly qualities, or was commanded by a more brave or efficient officer than Colonel Wain- wright.
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The vietorious army followed the retreating foe, and finally was fought the decisive battle of Antictam. Al- though the 76th participated in this battle, they were not under infantry fire.
The regiment was next engaged in the battle of Fred- cricksburg, where 11 were killed and wounded. It went into this battle with only 112 men.
The 76th moved with Burnside on his celebrated " mud march." Judge Smith, speaking of this, says, "If it rained on the south side of the Rappahannock as upon the north, the facctious rebel was not without good reason for writing the sign and placing it in sight of our troops,
" BURNSIDE STUCK IN THE MUD!"
The advance was abandoned, and the enemy slowly waded back to camp.
The regiment was next in the battle of Chancellorsville, and May 13 finds it in camp at Falmouth, dwindled to a mere skeleton of its former self.
June 12 marching orders were received, and the regi- ment moved towards Warrenton, finally reaching Gettys- burg.
On the eve of this battle the 76th was mustered for pay by Major Grover, but it being late before it was completed, and one company being on piekct duty, the certificates of muster were not signed that night by that offieer ; indeed, they were never signed by him, for before another sun had set Major Grover, with nearly one-third of the noble men who answered to their names at this muster, were mustered into that great army from the roll-call of which none will be absent.
" Comrades, at roll-call when I shall be sought,
Say I fought till I fell, and fell where I fought, Wounded and faint. " Oh, that last charge !
Right through that dread lead-storm of shrapnel and shell, Through without faltering, elear through with a yell, Right in their midst in the turmoil and gloom, Like heroes they dashed at the mandate of doom ! Oh, that last charge !
" They are mustered out !
Oh, God of our fathers, our freedom prolong, And tread down rebellion, oppression, and wrong ! Oh, land of earth's hopes, on the blood-reddened sod, They died for the nation, the Union, and God ! They are mustered out."
The battle of Gettysburg was one of the most terrible battles ever fought, and in the heat of the strife was the 76th, with the lamented Grover in command. He was killed in the first day's battle.
The regiment suffered severely in this conflict, and added fresh laurels to those already won on many a hard-eontested field. From the battle of Gettysburg until January, 1864, the history of the 76th is a record of long and weary marches and eountermarches, through broiling suns and dusty roads ; then sleet and rains, with muddy wadings ; then severe frosts and ehilling night marches.
The regiment went into winter quarters at Culpepper, and on the 6th of the following February broke camp and marched to Raccoon Ford, on the Rapidan, where a sharp engagement took place.
The 76th participated in the memorable battle of the Wilderness, and soon after at Spottsylvania, where they re- ceived many encomiums of praise for their conduct on this field. Next came the battle of Weldon Railroad, and the last in which the regiment was engaged was Hatcher's Run. December 31, 1864, the term of enlistment had expired, but a large number having re-enlisted, two companies yet remained, under the command of W. E. Evans. This remnant of the gallant 76th was consolidated with the 147th Regiment, and subsequently participated in the battles of Second Hatcher's Run and Five Forks, and was mustered out of the service June 5, 1865. The other members were mustered out in December, 1864.
The following battles in which this regiment participated are reported by the adjutant-general : Rappahannock Sta- tion, Warrenton, Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Upperville, Fredericksburg, Chancel- lorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run.
The following is a list of the killed and missing, and also of those who died of discase or wounds in the two companies from Tompkins County, viz. :
Company C.
Moscs P. Marsh, Sept. 26, 1862.
Henry A. Snow, June 15, 1864.
Henry Knettles, in 1864.
Hallett Main.
Chas. Howard, killed at Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
Daniel Bradley, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Henry S. Fulkerson, killed at Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862.
Tappan Howell, died of wounds, Sept. 28, 1862.
Hannibal Howell, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Chas. R. Harvey, July, 1862.
Daniel McGregor, died from wounds received at Gaines- ville.
Wm. D. Norton, in December, 1861.
Stiles Peck, died in Andersonville.
Geo. W. Stout, died of wounds, in 1863.
Geo. R. Thompson, killed at Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862. Wm. A. Wood, dicd of wounds.
John A. White, August, 1862.
Henry D. Weaver, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Company F.
Lawrence M. Banker, killed at Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862.
Orrin H. Ellis, in 1862.
Wm. H. Barton, died of wounds, Feb. 18, 1863.
Danicl Dunbar, April, 1862.
Thos. H. Hoffman.
Benj. F. Holden, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Jas. Johnson, killed at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864. T. T. Jones, Oct. 2, 1862.
John Lindsey, June 27, 1862.
Henry McFall, killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
Franklin Miller, killed at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862.
David Mattison, died in Andersonville.
Adolphus Morse, died at Fort Jefferson. Hiram Morse, died in Andersonville.
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Wesley Norwood, died at home. .
William H. Persons, killed on the gunboat " Mound City."
Abner B. Randall, died in Andersonville, Sept. 20, 1864.
Eugene Sheldon, March, 1862.
Geo. F. Weiler, killed at Fredericksburg, Dee. 13, 1862. Franeis Wood, killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Elon G. Warren, died in Andersonville.
CHAPTER X.
MILITARY HISTORY-(Continued).
THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH REGIMENT.
THIS regiment was organized during the dark hours of 1862, when the novelty of military life had eeased 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 eall, July 1, for 300,000.
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