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Company A. - Captain, Joseph R. Seaman, brevet major U. S. V .; first lieutenant, J. W. Treadway, brevet captain N. Y. V., from Company E.
Company B. - Captain, George H. Campbell, brevet major N. Y. V:, from Company C; first lieutenant, James A. Garrett, brevet captain N. Y. V., from Company A; second lieutenant, Merril Perry, brevet captain N. Y. V., from Company A.
Company C. - Captain, C. W. Wells, brevet major N. Y. V., from Com- pany K ; first lieutenant, L. S. Bryant ; second lieutenant, N. H. Arnold, from Company E.
Company D .- Captain, John W. Angell, from Company E; second lieu- tenant, Philip V. N. McLean, from Company K.
Company E .- Captain, Henry S. Graves, from Company I; first lieuten-
1 Mr. Watson acknowledges assistance in preparing this sketch to a series of articles in the Glens Falls Republican, to several officers of the regiment and to official documents. In our work we must give credit for valuable aid to Captain Livingston, of Elizabethtown, and Colonel J. L. Cunningham, of Glens Falls.
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ant, George H. Potter, from Company A; second lieutenant, William T. Bid- well, late hospital steward.
Company F .- Captain, Robert W. Livingstone, brevet major N. Y. V .; first lieutenant, Daniel O'Connor, assistant hospital steward; second lieuten- ant, Charles A. Grace, from Company A.
Company G .- First lieutenant, James H. Pitt, from Company H.
Company H .- Captain, David F. Dobie, brevet major N. Y. V .; first lieutenant, F. Saunders.
Company I .- Captain, Martin V. B. Stetson, major N. Y. V .; first lieu- tenant, Nelson J. Gibbs, brevet captain N. Y. V., from Company F.
Company K .- Captain, John Brydon, brevet major N. Y. V. ; first lieu- tenant, John W. Calkins, from Company K; second lieutenant, George Vau- ghan, from Company I.
In this connection we deem it most important to append the following chronological record of the movements of the One Hundred and Eighteenth, as furnishing ready means of reference, which has been kindly transcribed for us by Colonel Cunningham : -
September Ist, 1862, left Plattsburg. 3d, in New York. 4th, reached Baltimore. 5th to 12th, at Camp Hall, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Elkridge, Md. To October 23d, Camp Wool, near Relay House, Md. Octo- ber 24th to February 12th, 1863, camp near Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia. Feb- ruary 12th to April 20th, Camp Adirondack, near Findley Hospital, north of the capitol, Washington. April 20th to 22d, en route to defense of Suffolk, Va. 22d to 29th, Camp Nansemond, Suffolk defenses. 29th to May Ist, camp near Fort McClellan, Suffolk defenses. May Ist to 14th, camp near Fort Union, Suffolk defenses. 14th to June 18th, camp near Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, Suffolk defenses. While in this camp the following expe- ditions were participated in : May 20th to 26th Blackwater raid and destruc- tion of railroad, and June 12th to 17th reconnaissance toward Petersburg, Va. June 18th, 19th, en route for Yorktown, Va., by railroad and transport. 19th to 26th, camp at Yorktown. 26th, en route by transport to White House, Va. 26th, 27th, camp at White House. 27th to July Ist, beyond Pamunky River in detachments as advance pickets on different roads. July Ist to 4th, on the march with General Dix's expedition to the north of Richmond, sometimes called the "Blackberry Raid." 4th, battle of South Anna. July 5th to 10th, on return march to Yorktown. 10th to 13th, camp at Yorktown. 13th to October 2d, in garrison at Fort Keyes, Gloucester Point, Va. 2d, 3d, en route for Norfolk, Va., by transport. 3d, in Camp Barnes, near Norfolk. 11th, Companies E, G, I and K ordered to Portsmouth, Va. November 6th, Com- panies C and H joined the Portsmouth detachment, and A, B, D and F went into the entrenched camp about two miles from Norfolk. November 4th to December 12th, whole regiment quartered at Portsmouth. December 12th to
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January 2Ist, 1864, in camp at Newport News, Va. 2Ist to 23d, on march to Williamsburgh, Va. 23d to February 6th, in camp near Fort Magruder, Williamsburgh. 6th to 9th, on the expedition against Richmond, via Bot- tom's Bridge and the Chickahominy. 9th to 13th, camp near Union Cemetery, Williamsburgh. 13th to 15th, marched to Newport News, thence by trans- port and railroad to Getty's Station, Va. 15th to March 12th, in camp near Getty's Station. While here, March Ist to 9th, on expedition to Deep Creek to resist raid of the enemy and pursuing raiders to Ballyhack, on the Dismal Swamp Canal. Part of the time while here, Companies B, H and K were stationed at Magnolia Station. March 12th to April 19th, camp at Bowers's Hill, Va., near Dismal Swamp. From this camp several expeditions and raids were made; the most important, April 13th, 14th, across the Nansemond, through the Chucatuck country. April 19th to 21st, en route by transport to Newport News, and march via Big Bethel to Yorktown, Va. 2Ist to May 4th, in camp at Yorktown. May 4th to 6th, on transport up the James River. May 6th, landed at Bermuda Hundred, Va., and marched to near Point of Rocks on the Appomattox. 7th, 8th, engaged with enemy near Richmond and Petersburg Pike and Railroad. 9th, 10th, skirmishing and destroying railroad; battle of Swift Creek on 9th. 11th, resting in entrenchment near Point of Rocks. 12th to 14th, fighting and skirmishing along the Richmond and Petersburg Pike and in action at Warebolton Church and Proctor's Creek. 15th, holding captured works near Drury's Bluff. 16th, battle of Drury's Bluff. 17th to 19th, slashing timber, entrenching, skirmishing and meeting attacks at various points along the Bermuda front. 29th, 30th, on transports via James, York and Pamunkey Rivers to White House, Va. 30th and June Ist, on march to Cold Harbor. June Ist to 1Ith, battle of Cold Harbor and in trenches and advanced rifle-pits there. 12th, marched to White House. 13th, 14th, on transports back to Bermuda Hundred. 15th, crossed the Ap- pomattox ; battle of Petersburg Heights; Major Pruyn killed. 15th to Au- gust 27th, in and about the trenches and rifle-pits in the siege of Petersburg, variously stationed near corps headquarters, near Beasley House, among the pines, near Mortar Battery (called the "Petersburg Express"), in ravine, at the battle of the Mine, etc. August 27th to September 28th, on Bermuda front, near south bank of the James. September 28th, marched at night across the James River and received new armament, the Spencer repeating rifle. 29th, battle of Chapin's Farm and capture of Fort Harrison ; brigade commander, General Burnham, killed. 30th, battle of holding the fort against three charges of the enemy. 30th to October 27th, in vicinity (and in en- trenchments) of the captured fort, now called Fort Burnham. October 27th, marched to Seven Pines. 28th, battle of Second Fair Oaks. 29th to Novem- 3d, in vicinity of Fort Burnham, in trenches. November 3d, marched to Aikens's Landing, following orders which were revoked there. November 4th
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to 7th, in reserve near Fort Burnham. 7th, marched to Deep Bottom against expected attack. 8th to April 3d, 1865, in camp in vicinity of the New Market Road at the front. April 3d, entered Richmond. 4th to June 14th, in camp near Manchester, Va. June 14th, down the James en route for home. 17th, in New York city. 19th, reached Plattsburg. June 16th, mustered out.
The foregoing pages of military history embrace the record of the services of all the full companies that went from Warren county ; but it falls far short of comprehending all of the enlistments in the county, statistics of which, as far as available, will be found a little further on. The county was most hon- orably represented by numerous enlistments, besides those already noted, in the Ninety-first, Ninety-third, Thirtieth, One Hundred and Fifteenth, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth and One Hundred and Nine- ty-second regiments, and the Second Veteran Cavalry, the Sixteenth Heavy and the Twenty-third Light Artillery, while many other organizations con- tained scattering recruits from here. It is impossible at this time to give even statistical details of all these enlistments, the records in existence not being perfect by any means, and the space at our disposal being entirely inadequate in which to cover so broad a ground. The Thirtieth regiment, organized at Albany to serve for two years, was raised in the counties of Columbia, Duch- ess, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington and Warren, containing a considerable number of recruits from the latter. It was mustered into the service June Ist, 1861, and was honorably engaged at Gainesville, Groveton, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. It was associated with the Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth and Eighty-fourth regiments, forming the honorable "Iron Brigade," a title which it won in the first advance upon Fredericksburg in the spring of 1862. At the expiration of its term of service most of the men re- enlisted for three years and were transferred to the Seventy-sixth New York Regiment. Dr. Francis L. R. Chapin, now of Glens Falls, was surgeon of this regiment.
The Second Veteran Cavalry .- This organization was recruited largely from the " Iron Brigade," to which allusion has been made, some three hun- dred or more of its members being from Warren county. The brave Captain Duncan Cameron, who went out in the Twenty-second regiment and lost an arm, raised a company mostly in Glens Falls, and William H. Arlin, then of Glens Falls, raised the greater part of another company. The regiment was organized at Saratoga, to serve for three years, and was recruited in the coun- ties of Saratoga, Schenectady, Montgomery, Clinton, Essex, Warren, Albany, Rensselaer and Columbia. It was mustered into the service from August 16th, to December 30th, 1863, and mustered out November 8th, 1865. It went out commanded by Colonel Morgan H. Chrysler, with Asa L. Gurney, of Queens-
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bury, as lieutenant-colonel; Duncan Cameron, of Glens Falls, as major ; John S. Fassett, of Glens Falls, who was instrumental in recruiting for the organi- zation, was also commissioned major, and both he and Major Cameron were brevetted lieutenant-colonel ; adjutants, Michael A. Stearns, Henry W. Heartt, and Robert Barber, the latter of Glens Falls. Among the captains of this organ- ization from Warren county were Smith J. Gurney, of Queensbury ; William H. Arlin, of Glens Falls; Mason W. Covell, of Queensbury ; and Israel Litno, of Horicon. Thomas Ledwick, Augustus Higby, Miles T. Bliven and Mason W. Covell, all of Glens Falls, held commissions as first lieutenant. Thomas Ledwick, Enoch H. Gurney, Albert W. Thompson, Harrison P. Kingsley, Henry M. Bailey, W. Scott Whitney, and Albert Case held commissions as second lieutenants.
This regiment performed noble service and bears an honorable record. It made its first rendezvous after leaving the State, at Giesborough, Md., and thence went by transport to New Orleans in February, 1864, to join Banks's army of the Red River, Department of the Gulf. It was next transferred to Brashear City and thence to Alexandria, La., being engaged in skirmishes and other active field service on the way. It then accompanied General Banks's army to Pleasant Hill, participating in the engagement at that point, and oth- ers at Grande Cour and Cane River Crossing, the latter a severe engagement. The regiment was then transferred to Canby's command and stationed at Mor- ganzia, La., during the winter of 1864; its principal duty was in quelling guerilla raids and in opposition raiding on its own part. After the somewhat noted Mississippi raid, it crossed the river at Baton Rouge and proceeded into Mississippi to distract the enemy from possible opposition to Sherman's march to the sea. A detachment of the regiment was sent out fifty miles in advance to destroy the trestle work and tear up the track of the Mobile and Ohio rail- road. The enemy was encountered at McLeod's Mills, a short distance from the railroad, about a thousand strong ; the force was charged, a number killed and several prisoners captured. This event occurred December 10th, 1864, and the force was commanded by Colonel A. L. Gurney. The detachment numbered two hundred and fifty. Lieutenant Harrison P. Kingsley was wounded, taken prisoner and afterward died from his injuries. The raid was entirely successful. The regiment was with Canby and participated honorably in the capture of Fort Blakeley and Mobile. After these events it was ordered to Talladega, Ala., where it was mustered out.
Statistics. - The following valuable and interesting records were furnished to the Bureau of Military Statistics by Frederick A. Johnson, of Glens Falls, county correspondent of the bureau, under date of January Ist, 1864 : -
Up to the date named Warren county had furnished one thousand two hundred and twenty-five men for the war, of whom two hundred and seventy were enlisted for two years and the remainder for three years. Of the latter
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three hundred and thirty men enlisted between July Ist, 1863, and January Ist, 1864. The regiments into which these men entered were as follows : - Twenty-second (two years), from Washington, Warren, Clinton, Essex and Rensselaer counties. Colonel Walter Philips, jr., two entire companies from Warren county, viz. : Company E, Captain George Clendon, jr., one hundred and forty men ; Company F, Captain A. W. Holden, one hundred and fifty men.
Seventy-seventh Regiment, chiefly from Saratoga county, known as the "Bemis Heights Regiment," in companies not known, twenty-five men.
Ninety-third Regiment, from Washington, Warren, Essex and Clinton counties, three companies from Warren county : Company A, Captain Orville L. Colvin, one hundred men ; Company H, Captain Hiram S. Wilson, one hundred men; Lieutenant P. P. Eldridge, twenty-five men.
One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, from Clinton, Essex, Warren and Franklin (chiefly from Sixteenth Senatorial District). Company A, Captain J. H. Norris, one hundred and ten men. (The reader has learned of the two other companies which went out in this regiment, but which do not appear in Mr. Johnson's report.)
One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment, raised chiefly in the Twelfth Senatorial District. Company A, Captain George B. Warren, fifty men; Cap- tain Coleman, fifty men.
One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, Washington, Saratoga, Warren and Hamilton counties (Fifteenth Senatorial District). Company K, Captain F. J. P. Chitty, fifty men. (The muster rolls and the enrollment papers fur- nished us by Colonel Chitty and herein given, report but thirty-three men.)
One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Regiment, chiefly from Twelfth Senatorial District. James Brice fifty men.
In Independent Cavalry, William H. Orton, fifty men cnlisted since July Ist, 1863. For Second Veteran Cavalry, Company A, Captain Duncan Came- ron, one hundred men; Company F, Captain J. S. Fassett, one hundred men ; Company K, Captain William H. Arlin, one hundred men, and fifty in other companies.
Supplementary to this report, we find a statement, evidently made up with care, which gave the number of volunteers from ten towns, which reported (exclusive of Caldwell, which did not report) as two hundred and twenty-eight to the first thirty-eight regiments organized in the State ; five hundred and twenty-three between the last of those regiments to which Warren county contributed and the president's call for six hundred thousand troops, and un- der that call, five hundred and seventy, making a total of one thousand four hundred and twenty-one men. The same statement gives the amount of money raised in the country to promote enlistments as $30,082, and the amount raised by individual subscription as $15,575. The amount of money
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raised by Warren county for bounties to her soldiers, in the respective years 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864, was as follows: -
The distribution of the above totals among the towns of the county is shown in the following table : -
RATE.
1862.
RATE.
1863.
RATE.
1864.
TOTAL.
Bolton
$ 50
$ 50.00 106.00
$300 250 350
3,900.00 800.00
1,000 400 800
48,039.22
48,839.22
Hague
8,293.56
8,293.56
Horicon
600 } 800
28,645.62
28,645.62
Johnsburgh
50
1,200.00
300
11,000.00
28,802.00
41,002.00
Luzerne
225.00
130.7I
16,185.00
16,540.71
Queensbury
50
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8,292.00
100 300
8,804.02
300 } 800
116,360.09
133,456.1I
Stony Creek 1
Thurman
50
500.00
300
5,000.00
800
20,000.00
25,500.00
Warrensburgh
50
900.00
300
800
21,700.00
23,400.00
Total
$II,273.00
$34.134.73
$327,925.49 $373,333.22
$4,500.00 $644
$21,900.00
$26,450.00
Caldwell
53
18,000.00
22,006.00
Chester
IOO
From the for going pages, imperfect as the record undoubtedly is, the reader will have correctly inferred that the county of Warren was in no re- spect behind any other locality in her promptness of action, liberality in the expenditure of money, and patriotism in enlistments. As the various calls of the president for troops in the closing years of the Rebellion were issued, and the State Legislature made it possible for counties to pay generous bounties for the more rapid filling of the different quotas, the Board of Supervisors of Warren county held numerous special meetings, the representatives of the sev- eral towns being fully authorized by their constituents, and bounties propor- tionate with those paid in other localities were promptly offered and enlist- ments were made as required to fill the quotas. In the succeeding history of the town of Queensbury, the reader will find still further details of the action in that town throughout the Rebellion, as given in Dr. Holden's valuable history.
1 No bounties paid.
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CHAPTER XIX.
COUNTY BUILDINGS, SOCIETIES, ETC.
Where Early Public Business was Transacted -The County Seat - The First County Courts - First Steps Towards Erecting County Buildings - The First Buildings - Changes in Court Terms - Burning of the County Buildings -'Erection of New Ones - Attempts to remove the County Seat - Reconstruction of Buildings - The County Almshouse - Warren County Agricultural Society.
C OURT-HOUSE, Jail, and County Clerk's Office. - From the earliest re- corded date the public business of the county, the supervisors' meetings, sessions of courts, accumulation of title deeds and involuntary congregation of convicted criminals, have been respectively transacted, held and permitted to take place in the village of Caldwell in the town of the same name, at the head of Lake George. This was the county seat when the old county of Washing- ton was divided and Warren county formed in 1813. An act passed March 12th of that year did not mention the place, but established a Court of Com- mon Pleas and General Sessions to meet three times a year, the terms com- mencing as follows : on the second Tuesday in September, 1813, the third Tuesday of January, 1814, and the second Tuesday in May, 1814. These original courts, as well as the annual meetings of the supervisors, were held at the old Lake George Coffee House on the site of the present Lake House, until 1817. On July 7th, 1815, a committee appointed by Governor Tomp- kins to find a suitable site for the' erection of county buildings and composed of Salmon Child, Alexander Sheldon, and Charles E. Dudley, reported as fol- lows: "Having examined and explored said county do agree and determine that the most suitable and proper place for said buildings is in the town of Caldwell at the head of Lake George, on a piece of ground north of the Lake George Coffee House, lying between the highway and said lake, and within fifteen rods of a great white oak tree standing between said Coffee House and the church."
This was undoubtedly a description of the site of the present county build- ings, and was the initial step towards the erection of the first buildings for county purposes. On the first of March, 1816, a law was passed providing that the county clerk's office was to be kept within one-half mile of the Lake George Coffee House, and the mileage to be computed from there, in this way attesting that whatever the progress of the building of the new structures, the public business was still transacted in said Coffee House. The court-house was certainly ready for use soon after, for the annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors for 1817 was held in the new court-house It was not, however, entirely completed, for during that very session the supervisors passed a reso- lution that $1,050 be raised "to finish the court-house and gaol." Notwith-
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standing these effectual measures, the need was felt of a safer and more com- modious clerk's office. In April, 1818, another act was passed directing the supervisors of Warren county to raise the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars (with five cents on the dollar for collector's fees), to build a fire-proof clerk's office on a part of the lot occupied by the court-house, and the clerk was di- rected to remove all the books, records and documents to the new office as soon as it was completed. The necessary measures were at once adopted and the office ready for occupancy in the following year. Everything began to take its proper place, and business became routine until April 8th, 1824, when the January term of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions was abolished, and two terms only appointed to be held, viz .: commencing respectively on the third Tues- day in April and the third Tuesday in October of each year. This is evidence that the litigation of the new county did not assume the enormous proportions expected. On January 24th, 1827, the Legislature further changed the time of holding the October term of court from the third to the first Tuesday of Octo- ber in each year. In 1828 this last act was repealed. In 1829 the October term was abolished and the third Tuesday of each September constituted the opening day of the succeeding fall terms. This was evidently the tentative pe- riod of the courts. In April, 1833, the April terms were changed to the sec- ond Tuesday and the September terms to the second Tuesday of that month in each year, and additional terms established to commence the second Tuesday of February and the last Tuesday of June. On January 23d, 1838, the sum- mer terms of the Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer, which had theretofore been held on and after the third Monday in June, were changed to the third Tuesday in May; and on the 27th of the same month the beginning of the spring terms of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions was changed from the second to the third Tuesday in April. In April, 1842, the December term of the Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer was abolished and an October term established in its place. These perpetual alter- ations of terms of courts are undoubtedly more or less indicative of correspond- ing changes in the business of the county, an increase of the terms following an increase of the litigation and other court business, and vice versa.
The county buildings having been finished by 1819, nothing was left ex- cepting to keep them in repairs until the exigencies consequent upon the growth of the county, and the accumulation of business, should necessitate the construction of new and larger buildings in their place. Accordingly, we find, in 1835, that three hundred dollars were ordered raised to repair the county clerk's office, and John Richards, Thomas Archibald and Timothy Bowen, of Caldwell, were appointed commissioners to superintend the work. On the 26th day of October, 1843, the court-house and clerk's office were destroyed by fire. The ' loss to the county was very great, although most of the records were saved. In the following year the supervisors appointed Roswell Judson and John Tracy,
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of Chenango county, and F. B. Jewett, of Onondaga county, commissioners to locate the site for new buildings. They selected the old site, and the work of erecting the buildings was immediately begun, and completed in 1845. These structures served the purpose of their erection until 1862, when material alter- ations were made on the upper floor of the court-house. At a supervisors' meeting held in 1868 a committee consisting of George P. Wait, F. B. Hub- bell, and Alphonso Brown was appointed to procure plans and specifications for the building of cells, and otherwise repairing, enlarging and improving the court-house and jail. E. Boyden & Son, of Worcester, Mass., who were then at work on the Fort William Henry Hotel, made two plans; No. I providing for building an addition to the present court-house, in front, thirty by seventy feet, and two stories in height, and lengthening the court-room twelve feet; No. 2 providing for building the same addition in front, raising the existing court-house another story, and using a portion of the court-room for cells, and the rest for the jailor's family, the court-room to be on the second floor, and the front room on the first floor to be left for the clerk's office. At an evening session of the same meeting a resolution was offered that the county treasurer be authorized to secure a loan of the comptroller for $11,900 for the purpose of repairing the court-house, jail and clerk's office, payments to be made in three equal annual installments, interest payable annually ; that a committed of three be appointed to build according to plan No. 2; and that proposals be advertised for, and contracts made with the lowest bidder at a consideration not exceeding $12,000. This was adopted, and Jerome Lapham, George P. Wait, and F. B. Hubbell were appointed the building committee. They were subsequently restricted to $20,000, and instructed to find the cost of widening the court-room and rear building eight feet.
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