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CHAPTER XLIII.
BANDS .
· 498
Helmsmuller employed as leader, and organizes band September, 1861, 489 ; two drummers also attached to each company. Helms- muller's band becomes celebrated, 498; he composes regimental march, 439 ; band taken to Harper's Ferry at expense of officers and sent home in July, 490 ; want of military knowledge of musi- cians, 499 : band meets returning regiment at Philadelphia, 500 ; taken to Pennsylvania but left at Harrisburg, 500 : Dodsworth appointed band leader July 11, 1866, and organizes Dodsworth band, 500 ; fifers replaced by drummers January 12. 1867, 501 ; Rehm appointed band leader in Is71, and resigns-in 1973. 501 ; Gilmore appointed, 501 ; organizes Gilmore's band, which attains a national reputation. Popularity of Gilmore, 502 ; his death in 1892 deeply deplored in regiment, 562 ; Reeves appointed band leader and resigns in 1893, 503 ; Victor Herbert then appointed, 503.
CHAPTER ALIV.
ORDERED TO BUFFALO
. 504
Switchman's strike breaks out in Buffalo, 504: incendiary fires started August 13. 1503, 504 ; on the requisition of the sheriff, Gen. Doyle orders Buffalo regiments under arms. 505 : August 16th, Fourth brigade ordered out, 500 ; Governor orders out the Twenty- second and most of New York and Brooklyn regiments and separate companies on August 13th, 209; call wholly unexpected. 500 ; at 5 p. m. on August 15th, Col. King receives telegram to assemble regi- ment immediately, 502 , 400 men ready in the armory at o o'clock, sos ; regiment excused until the i-th, 50 ; failure of many of the
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men to make adequate preparation for field service, 509 : regiment starts for Buffalo August 18th, at 11:15 a. in. by Central Railroad, 510 ; joined by the Fourth and Twenty-third, separate company, 510 : lunch at Poughkeepsie, 511 ; passes Twelfth regiment at Al- bany, 511 ; grumbling at the Commissary Department, 511 ; men too excited and crowded to sleep, 512 ; men left behind formed iuto a battalion under Major Bartlett, 512; it follows regiment in the Limited Express and passes it at Syracuse, 512 ; passes freight yards guarded by sentries, 512 ; declines breakfast before the arrival of the regiment, 513 ; regiment obliged to march without breakfast, 514 ; strength of the regiment at Buffalo, 514 ; officers present, 514 : animosity shown by the striking switchmen, 516 ; regiment ordered to Tift farm, 516.
CHAPTER XLV.
MAJOR BARTLETT'S BATTALION
.
517
Companies A, B, H and Fourth separate company detached to guard elevators of the Erie Railroad, 517 ; organizes a camp, 517 ; superintendent's chickens, 5IS ; detachment sent to forage, 521 : food sent by the commissary departinent, 522 ; battalion re-enforced, 522 ; men construct shanties and bunks, 522 ; the cold wind and the rats, 523 ; tents erected on 21st, but found too cold, 523 ; dampness in the evening and alarm at night, 523 ; the guard duty, 524; men contribute to purchase provisions, 525 ; construct camp cooking stoves, 526 ; the food, 526 ; hospitality of the people on the out- skirts, 527 ; construction of store house, 527 : the arrest of Daniel Moran, 528 ; the shooting of Michael Broderick, 530; the strikers and police cause indictment of Lieut. Cassidy, 533 ; Attorney Gen- eral intervenes and proceedings dismissed, 534; law passed to pro- tect national guadsmen in similar cases, 535 ; attempt to capture the Morning Starr, 535 ; Fourth separate company entertained, 536.
CHAPTER XLVI.
COL. CAMP'S BATTALION AND THE GENERAL SITUATION
Regiment stationed at camp 2 on the Tift farm. 537; ground crossed between the freight yard and the swamp, 533; Companies C and F detached under command of Lieut. Col. King, 538 ; Sixteenth separate company joins regiment. 538 ; Companies D. E. G, and K and Sixteenth separate company compose battalion under Col. Camp, 539 ; their station and duties, 539 ; area of disturbances, 540 ; how the yards were connected, 540 ; all the tracks crowded with cars, 540 ; duty of the soldiers, 543 ; riotous crowds hanging around the yards, and attacking switchmen, 543 ; missiles thrown at national guardsmen, 544; gentle treatment of strikers not appreciated, 545 ; police worse than ineffective, 545 ; arrest of rioters, 546 ; orders to fire, 546 ; the soot and cinders, 547 ; inadequacy of the commissary and quartermaster's departments, 547 ; their improvement one of the beneficial results of this campaign, 547 ; how the rations were distributed, 548 ; attempt to supply cooked food a failure, 548 ; it is refused by Twenty-second, which draws and cooks its own rations, 548 ; the sleeping accommodations, 548; location of the
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camps occupied by the different regiments and separate companies, 548 ; services held on August 21st, 550 ; unauthorized order of Col. Austin to the Fourth separate company. to report to him, complied with but countermanded by Gen. Doyle, 551 ; little sickness in the regiment, 551 ; efficiency of the officers, 551.
CHAPTER XLVII.
LIEUT. COL. KING'S BATTALION . 555
Companies C and F form battalion with headquarters near Buffalo Creek, 555 ; it arranges its camp. 555 ; the search for breakfast, 555 ; arrival of Captain Smith of F Company, 555 ; box cars used for sleeping quarters, 555 ; arduous work of the detachment, 556 ; mes- sengers employed. 557 ; supplies arrived from regimental headquar- ters, 558 ; amusements in the camp, 555 ; curious underwear pur- chased, 558 ; rumors in the camp, 558 ; the guard duty, 559; assaults on the sentries, 559; vigilance of officers, 560; the shooting of Jerry Manahan, 551 ; brutal attack on a switchman, 561 ; Jerry Manahan shot by the guard and his associates captured, 561 ; Lieut. Austin holds the prisoners in the face of a riotious crowd. 561 ; Lieut. Austin arrested by the police, 561 ; Gen. Doyle orders General Camp to re- lease him by force. 562; indignation against the police created among the different regiments, 563 ; armed tramps arrested on the way to Buffalo, 563 ; regimental commissary loses his supplies in the camp of Company E, 564 ; unfounded insinuations that that company was responsible, 564 ; heavy rain on August 26, 565.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE RETURN FROM BUFFALO · 566
Strike declared off on August 24th, 566; joy of the troops, 566 ; Fourth separate company departs, 566 ; switchmen return to work on August 26th, 569 ; battalions join the regiment which breaks camp, and takes cars, 560 ; it stops at Niagara Falls, 569 ; sleeping in the cars on the homeward trip, 570; the regiment arrives in Grand Central Depot on August 27th, 570; their unkempt appearance, 571 ; breakfast in the armory. 571 ; the men wash, shave and sleep, 571 ; recollections of the campaign, 572.
CHAPTER XLIX.
THE BROOKLYN TROLLEY WAR
573
On January 14th, 1395, a dispute between the employees and the trolley companies of Brooklyn causes a strike, 573 ; places of the employees are filled, 573: cars then interfered with, and scabs assaulted, 574 : Brooklyn police fail to cope with the situation, 574 ; city authorities weak and timid. 575 ; the railroad companies call upon them for protection. 575; They apply to Gen. McLeer for military forces, 575 : Second brigade called out January 18th, 575; Mayor Schieren appeals to Gov. Morton for additional forces, 575 ; at 6 p. m. on January 20th, Gen. Fitzgerald orders out First brigade. 575 ; Col. King orders members of the Twenty second to report,
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576 : men and officers arrive at armory during all the night, 576 ; the inclemency of the weather and shortness of the notice causes hardship. 576; improvement in the equipment of the men in the quartermaster and commissary departments, 576 ; breakfast supplied at half past 3 a. m. on 21st. 577; Twenty-second leaves armory 5 a. m. on January 21st, and proceeds by way of East River bridge to 23d regiment armory in Brooklyn, 577 ; companies of this regiment on duty at various points in Brooklyn, 577; Twenty- second ordered by telephone to protect Bergen street and adjoining territory, 578 ; Col. King divides regiment into two battalions, 578 ; officers of First battalion 578 ; This battalion is at once posted in Bergen street, 581 ; officers of Second battalion, 581 ; other officers of the regiment, 581 ; Col. Camp joins regiment and assumes command, 5SI ; strength of the regiment during campaign, 582 ; vague direc- tions from general headquarters, 582 ; use of armory of 23d granted regiment by Col. Smith, 583 ; Second battalion makes itself comfort- able in armory, 583 ; men wet and chilled by waiting in the street, 584 ; efficient manner in which First brigade was mobilized, 584 ; whole of Brooklyn covered early on January 21st by strong military force, 584. First battalion finds Bergen street car tracks covered with trucks. kegs, ash barrels and boulders, 585 ; runs through tenement house district in which many strikers lived, 585 ; strict orders enforced to prevent crowds and keep people moving, 585 ; residents friendly to soldiers, 585 ; men of 22d as gentle as possible and were received in a friendly spirit, 586 ; not a gun loaded by a member of the regiment during the campaign, 586 ; guards build picket fires along the street and buy rubbers and gloves from pedlers, 586 ; batallions relieved every three hours until seven o'clock, 587 ; working party arrives at Bergen street in the afternoon, 587 ; Jewish cloakmakers on strike, take places of Brooklyn motormen, 587 ; no resistance offered to the working party, 587 ; psychological effect of crowds in inducing vio- lence, 587 ; in case of riots, streets should be entirely cleared, 589 ; inadequate arrangements for cooking in armory of 23d. 589 ; lavatory arrangements insufficient and basins stopped up with grease, 590 ; men sleep on floor of drill room and officers in library, 590: hospi- tality of Union League Club. 59 ; officers present club with a bronze Russian bear, 591 ; correspondence with club, 592 ; Twenty-second much more comfortable than other organizations, 592 ; first camp- aign of National Guard in cold weather. 593 ; picket fires in streets a strange sight, 593; buildings in which other regiments were sta- tioned, cold, wet and destitute of cooking facilities, 594 ; regiments purchase and cook their own rations, 594 ; 22d not disturbed during eight days of campaign, 594; squads sent as guards to patrol wagons, 594 ; not disturbed except by epithets, 595 ; citizens' committee pre- sent soldiers with pipes, tobacco, overshoes and gloves, 595 ; mys- terious effects of arctics. 595 ; ungracious treatment received by regi- ments from railroad subordinates, 596 ; how the evenings were spent, 599 ; Chaplain Dunnell holds service on Sunday, 599 ; alarm of fire in officers' room, 600; practical joke on Capt. Smith, 600 ; 200 men sent to Myrtle Avenue to open that street, 601 ; 22d held in armory after Friday but drills daily in Bedford Avenue, 601 ; Company G sent out in patrol wagons, 601 : wisdom of drilling men in the streets, 601 : armory besieged by visitors, 602 : expedients invented to pass the time, 602 ; orders received to return, 605 ; the march back, 605 ; health of regiment excellent, 606 ; feeling of National Guard not kindly towards trolly companies, 606.
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APPENDIX 1 .- OFFICERS OF TWENTY-SECOND FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO 1895.
Colonels (p. 611): Lieutenant-Colonels (o. 611); Majors (p. 611); Adju- tants (p. 612); Engineers (p. 912); Paymasters (p. 612); Commissaries (p. 612); Quartermasters (p. 613): Surgeons (p. 613); Assistant Surgeons (p. 613); Chap- lains (p. 614): Inspectors of Rifle Practice (p. 614); Assistant Inspectors of Rifle Practice (p. 614).
Officers of Company A (p. 614); Captains (p. 614); First Lieutenants (p. 614); Second Lieutenants (p. 615).
Company B, Captains (p. 615); First Lieutenants (p. 616); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 616).
Company C, Captains (p. 616); First Lieutenants (p. 617); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 617).
Company D. Captains (p. 617); First Lieutenants (p. 618); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 618).
Company E, Captains (p. 618); First Lieutenants (p. 619); Second Lieu- tenants ( p. 619).
Company F, Captains (p. 619); First Lieutenants (p. 620); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 620).
Company G, Captains (p. 620); First Lieutenants (p. 621); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 621).
Company H, Captains (pp. 621-622); First Lieutenants (p. 622); Second Lieutenants (pp. 622-623).
Company I, Captains (p. 623); First Lieutenants (p. 623); Second Lieu- tenants (pp. 623-624).
Company K, Captains (p. 624); First Lieutenants (p. 624); Second Lieu- tenants (p. 624).
APPENDIX 2 .- ROLL OF REGIMENT IN SERVICE IN 1862.
Field staff and Non-commissioned staff (p. 625); Officers and members of Company A (p. 626); of Company B (p. 627); of Company C (p. 628); of Com- pany D (p. 629); of Company E (p. 630); of Company F (p. 631); of Company G (p. 632); of Company II (p. 634); of Company I (p. 635); of Band (p. 636).
APPENDIX 3 .- ROLL OF REGIMENT IN SERVICE IN 1863.
Field staff and Non-commissioned staff (p. 637): Officers and members of Company A (p. 637): of Company B (p. 638); of Company C (p. 640); of Com- pany D (p. 641); of Company E (p. 642); of Company F (p. 643); of Company G (p. 644); of Company H (p. 645); of Company I (p. 646); of Company K (p. 647); of Band (p. 647).
APPENDIX 4 .- MEMBERS OF REGIMENT WHO SERVED IN OTHER ORGANIZA- TIONS DURING THE WAR.
From Field staff and Non-commissioned staff (p. 640). From Company A (p. 649); Company B (p. 651); Company C (p. 651); Company D (p. 651 ); Com- pany E (p. 652): Company F (p. 652); Company G (p. 652); Company H (p. 653); Company I (p. 654); Company K (p. 654).
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APPENDIX 5 .- ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF HARPER'S FERRY BY COLONEL JOHN WARD, 12 N. G. (p. 655).
APPENDIX 6 .- ROLL OF REGIMENT IN SERVICE AT BUFFALO, 1893.
Field staff and Non-commissioned staff (p. 659); officers and members of Company A (p. 659); Company B (p. 660); Company C (p. 661): Company D (p. 663); Company E (p. 664); Company F (p. 665); Company G (p. 666); Com- pany H (667); Company K (p. 668).
APPENDIX 7 .- ROLL OF REGIMENT IN SERVICE IN BROOKLYN, 1895.
Field staff and Non-commissioned staff (p. 670); officers and members of Company A (p. 670); Company B (p. 671); Company C (p. 672); Company D (p. 673); Company E (p. 674); Company F (p. 676); Company G (p. 677); Com- pany H (p. 678); Company I (p. 679); Company K (p. 679).
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Portrait of Adj .- Gen. Porter (from the painting by C. G. Turner), . Frontispiece Portrait of Col. James Monroe, 7
Officers' Uniform, Union Grays (from photograph, Capt. D. S. Brown), IO Sergeants' Uniform, Union Grays (from photograph, Wm. Man). . 20 Privates' Uniform, Union Grays (from photograph, Isaac L. Doughty), 22 Burned Arsenal, Harper's Ferry (from author's sketch), 56
John Brown's Engine House (from author's sketch), 57
Examining Passes (from author's sketch), 62
Regimental Officers at Harper's Ferry (from photograph by Brady), 65
Harper's Ferry (from photograph), 69
The Happy Family, Co. A-Homans, Van Brunt, Brewer, Robbins. Schenck and Goldschmidt (photograph), 77
Q. M. White, Surgeons Lee and Gallatin, and Chaplain White (photograph), Col. Monroe's Monument (photograph), .
79
Servants of our Company, Harper's Ferry (photograph),
85
Captain and Sergeants, Co. F (photograph), . 87
Non-commissioned Staff (photograph), .
. 91
Company A, Officers and Men (photograph), 93
Capt. and Mrs. Cox, Capt. Post and Lieut. H. C. Oakley (photograph), 97
Adjt. W. J. A. McGrath (photograph), 97 .
Company E, Officers and Men (photograph).
. 99
Fugitive Slaves Passing Picket (from author's sketch), . 100
Twenty second at Inspection, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . IOI
Twenty second in Square, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . IOI
Guard Mount, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . IOI
Non-commissioned Officers, Co. C, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . 105
Mistaken Identity (author's sketch), . . 107
Private off Picket (tin type of author).
Company A in Line, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . 109
Co. G in Line, Harper's Ferry (photograph), . 109
Plan of Breastworks on Camp Hill (from author's sketch), . . III
Right Flank of Camp, inside Breastwork (from author's sketch), . 112
Col. D. S. Miles (photograph), . 113
C. J. Bulkley, N. H. Babcock. W. Il. Sheldon, C. and \. Foster (photo- graph), . 114
Officers and Non-commissioned Officers, Co. G (photograph). . 115
Company H at Harper's Ferry (photograph), . 119
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Company D at Harper's Ferry (photograph), '. 121
Company F at Harper's Ferry (photograph), . 121
Company G in Column, Harper's Ferry (photograph), 121
Q. M. White and Surgeon Lee (photograph),
125
Col. Lloyd Aspinwall (photograph), 137
Fourteenth Street Armory in Blizzard of 1888 (photograph), 139
Maj .. Gen. Chas. W. Sandford (from caricature by Thos. Nast), 151
Gen. W. F. (Baldy) Smith (photograph), 153
Capt. II. D. Landis and Lieut. Perkins (photograph), 160
R. W. Gilder (photograph), 161
Fortifying Round House at Bridgeport, Pa. (from author's sketch), . ISO
Inside of Round House (author's sketch),
Regimental Headquarters under Railroad Bridge opposite Harrisburgh (author's sketch), . 183
Landis' Battery in Action at Oyster Point, IS3
Bombardment of Carlisle (from painting in Philadelphia), . 211
Shelling N. Y. N. G. in Carlisle (from Harper's Weekly), . 217
Twenty-second and Landis' Battery at Carlisle (from Powell's painting), . 231
Crossing Yellow Breeches Creek (author's sketch). . 262
Landis' Battery ascending South Mountain (from Harper's Weekly), . 267
Judge Henry E. Davies, 271
Marching through the Mud (cut), . 290
Making a Fire at Funkstown (author's sketch),
292
Camp in the Wood (author's sketch). . 293
Cleaning the Rifles (author's sketch), . . 298
Bough Shelter (author's sketch), · 302
Reville in the Field (Harper's Weekly), · 303
Lieuts. Camp and Ascough, Sergts. Wildey and Pearsall and Private Bogart (photograph), . 306
Marching through Maryland (author's sketch), . 321
Drumming out a thief at Monacacy Junction (author's sketch), . 324
Col. James F. Cox (photograph), . 352
Col. Geo. B. Post (photograph), . 353
Adjt. Wm. J. Harding (photograph). . 355
Col. Wm. W. Remmey (photograph), . 360
Chasseur Fatigue Uniform (photograph of statuette), . 376
Col. Porter, Field and Staff, in " Swallow-tailed " Dress Uniform (photo- graph), · 377
"Swallow tailed " Dress Uniform (photograph of statuette), . 3SI
Col. Remmey, Capt. Wingate, Lieut. Freeland and detail in Chasseur Uni- form (photograph). . 383
Firing Standing (cut), . . 386
Wingate's Target (from Blunt's Manual. . 3SS
Firing Kneeling (cut), . . 339
Firing Lying Prone (cut), . 391
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Gen. Geo. W. Wingate, Gen. Inspector Rifle Practice (photograph), 393
Regimental Rifle Team of 1873 (photograph), . 397
Shaler Badge (cut), 399
Army and Navy Journal Cup (cut)
. 400
Certificate presented Twenty-seecond Rifle Team,
. 401
Rathbone Badge (cut),
. 402
Entrance to Creedmoor (photograph),
. 403 . 403
State Prize (cut),
· 405 . 407
300 Yards Firing at Creedmoor (photograph),
· 407
Twenty-second at Philadelphia Centennial, 1876 (photograph), Twenty-second on Parade, Union Square (photograph),
· 439
Col. John T. Camp (photograph), .
. 445 · 449
Striking Tents, State Camp (photograph),
. 465
Guard Mount, State Camp (photograph),
. 466
The Guard, State Camp (photograph),
. 468
The March to Peekskill (+ photographs),
. 475
Present Regimental Armory (photograph),
· 493
Geo. Brown (photograph),
· 499
Patrick S. Gilmore (photograph),
. 502
Major Bartlett (photograph),
. 504
Wrecker Car at Buffalo (cut),
. 505
Lieut. Col. Wm. V. King (photograph),
. 507
Sentries at Buffalo (cut),
. 513
Types of Buffalo Rioters (cut),
. 515
Marching into Position at Buffalo (cut),
. 516
Co. A under Del. & H. Trestle (photograph),
Camp Bartlett (2 photographs).
. 519
. 521
Attack on Sentries (cut),
. 425
Co. A. in Action at Buffalo (photograph).
. 531
Keeping back Rioters at Buffalo (cut),
· 533
Col. King Sleeping (cut),
536
Capt. Demarest at Buffalo (photograph),
539
Regimental Headquarters at Tifft Farm (3 photographs), Guards on Train (cut),
. 541
Chaplain Wm. N. Dunnell (photograph)
. 550
Camp King, Buffalo (photograph),
. 553
Box Cars, used for Quarters (photograph),
. 555
Guards on Locomotives (photograph),
556
Delivering Supplies (cut), 557
Major Geo. E. B. Hart (photograph),
562
. 517 5IS
Commissary Department, Tifft Farm (photograph), Camp at Trestle (cut),
. 526
. 543
200 Yards Firing at Creedmoor (photograph),
500 Yards Firing at Creedmoor (photograph),
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Regimental Officers at Buffalo, IS93, .
. 567
Regiment at Niagara Falls (cut)
. 569
On Duty at Brooklyn, 1895 (cut),
. 578
The Triumph (cut), . 607
Colonel and Field and Staff Officers (photograph),
opposite 658
Non-commissioned Staff (photograph),
opposite 660
Company C (photograph),
opposite 662
Company G (photograph),
opposite 654 : opposite 666
Company K (photograph),
opposite 66S
Colonel, Field, Staff and Line Officers, State Camp, 1895 (photo- graph), opposite 670
Company A and B (photographs) 2 pages,
opposite 672
Company D (photograph),
-opposite 674
Company F (photograph),
opposite 676
Company H (photograph),
opposite 678
Company I (photograph),
opposite 6So
Company E (photograph),
STATE HISTORIAN'S OFFICE, ALBANY, N. Y.
PREFACE.
I "HIS History has been written at the request of the Board of
Officers of the Twenty-second Regiment. While its com- position has been a labor of love, it has not the less been a diffi- cult and engrossing task. There are many important omissions in the records, caused, to some extent, by the fire in the armory of the Regiment, but more by the loose way in which books and papers were, prior to 1868, kept in the National Guard, and particularly at Brigade and Division Headquarters in New York City. The lapse of time has also clouded the memories of those who participated in what took place more than thirty years ago.
The author has sought to correct his own recollections, to reconcile the often conflicting statements made to him, and to supply the missing information by an examination of the Re- bellion Records (which contain the official orders and corre- spondence of both the North and South in the War of the Re- bellion) as well as of old letters, diaries and newspapers, to- gether with the files of orders, minutes of the Board of Officers, reports of the Adjutant-General's Department of the State, and by correspondence with many persons. This has occupied his leisure hours for the last three years. While many important facts have unquestionably been omitted, those that are given, it is believed, may be relied upon as being accurate.
. The author is under great obligations to many officers and members of the Regiment, and to others from whom he has received assistance which has added much to the value of the work. Col. William J. Harding, in particular, besides writing a part of the chapter on the "Orange Riots," has placed at his disposal many important memoranda, files of orders which
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were not in the possession of the Regiment, newspaper clip pings and other information, which have been of the greatest assistance and have added largely to the historical value of the book. Capt. Jos. P. Jardine has supplied much other valuable information. The chapter "A Fight for an Armory" is almost entirely, and that on the "Brooklyn Strike" is very largely, written by him. The chapters upon the " Buffalo Cam- paign " are based upon accounts received from Lieut .- Col. Wm. V. King, Adjt. Henry H. Treadwell, Sergts. Henry C. Vance and Charles P. Shinn and Mr. R. H. Wevill. Mr. Wevill has also taken charge of the work of preparing the illustra- tions, and has been of the greatest help in supervising the mechanical portion of the book. In addition to these, Col. James F. Cox, Col. Rufus King, U. S. A., Capt. Henry E. Howland and Capt. Samuel Carey (acting Assistant Adjutant- General on General "Baldy " Smith's staff in 1863), and many others, including Chaplain William H. Dunnell, have revised the manuscript and made many valuable suggestions. Mr. C. G. Turner has kindly permitted the use of his portrait of General Porter, which constitutes the frontispiece.
The author is fully conscious of the many imperfections of his book. He would have preferred that it should be less of a personal character, but this was unavoidable, where, as here, personal recollections had, of necessity, to be so largely drawn upon. He is also painfully aware that he is not an artist, and only reproduces his rough sketches made in the field for want of anything better.
He submits the work to his old comrades, with whom he served during so many of the most pleasant years of his life. and to those who have succeeded him and them in the Twenty- second, in the hope that its defects will be excused in view of the difficulties against which he has had to contend, and for "auld lang syne."
NEW YORK, October 1, 1895.
STATE HISTORIAN'S OFFICE ALBANY, N. Y.
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