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In 1837 Caryville, the principal village in Oakfield, changed its name to Plain Brook. Soon after the name was changed to Oakfield, under which name it was incorporated in 1858. August : of that year the first officers under the charter were elected, as follows: Trustees, An- drew Thompson, Virgil C. Calkins, Asa A. Woodruff, Abner C. Dodge, S. P. Champlin ; assessors. Rice Baldwin, Samuel Fellows, Horace R. Holt; clerk, Solomon H. Parmalee; treasurer, Cyrus Pond; collector, Thomas Brown; poundmaster, De Witt C. Colony; inspectors of elec- tion, Samuel March, A. A. Woodruff, S. P. Champlin.
Batavia experienced many changes during these two decades. In 1850 John Enger purchased the old stone church on West Main street, built by the Methodist society in 1822, which he converted into a brewery. In 1855 the Batavia Gas Light Company was organized with a capital of $32,500. In 1857 Eli Fish built large ale vanilts on the site of the old brewery built by Libbeus Fish in 1822.
In Le Roy prosperity was in evidence on all sides. But the place
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had been devastated by several fires in earlier years, and the inhab- itants were now awakening to the necessity of securing better protec- tion against the ravages of the destructive element. Consequently a fire department was organized February 8, 1851, with John W. Shedd as chief engineer, John G. Barber as first assistant chief, and A. O. Comstock as secretary. The department for many years consisted of a chemical company, a hose company and a hook and ladder company. For nearly thirty years Samuel F. Comstock was secretary of the de- partment. He died in 1892, since which time F. A. Steuben has served in that office. The Le Roy Chemical Engine Company was organized October 5, 1885, with these members: F. M. Comstock, W. C. Boak, F. L. B. Taft, T. W. Larkin, C. E. Curtiss, J. K. Boak, F. H. Morgan, S. D. Gilbert, W. F. Huyck, Hobart S. Kelsey, L. W. Steuben, Frank WV. Ball, Charles M. Rider, W. F. Mckenzie, Edward P. Freeman, John C. Ross, W. M. Chapman, Edward Priester, H. H. Falkner, S. H. Murdock, W. E. Humelbaugh and J. W. Olmsted. November 2, 1896, the village trustees engaged a steam engine of the Silsby Manufactur- ing Company of Seneca Falls, paying therefore twenty dollars per week, until the completion of the new waterworks system in that village. The chief engineers of the fire department have been as follows:
1851, Colonel John W. Shedd: 1852-1856, John G. Barber; 185;, Samuel T. Howard; 1858, records missing; 1859 -- 1861, John G. Barber ; 1862, Angus L. Tompkins: 1863, John G. Barber: 1864-1862, James Allison; 1868-1822, W. S. Brown: 1873-1844, A. S. Tryon; 1875, John G. Barber; 1876, Gideon Fordham (removed by the village trustees and W. S. Brown elected in 1867 to succeed him); 1878-1886, Angus L. Tompkins; 1887-1890, John Wiss; 1891-1892, Frank Siez: 1893- 1895, Sephrine D. Gilbert; 1896-1898, Stanley M. Smith.
The Le Roy Firemen's Benevolent Association was incorporated April 11, 1853, the first officers being: President, John J. J. Tompkins; vice-president, Abram D. Lampkins: secretary, John H. Lent: treas- urer, Charles Morgan; directors, John II. Stanley, Seaman T. Wright, Samuel T. Howard. The following is a list of the presidents of the association :
1853, John J. J. Tompkins: 1854, A. O. Comstock ; 1855, Solomon T. Wright; 1856-56, John II. Stanley; 1858-63, John J. J. Tompkins; 1864-76, John G. Barber: 1817, W. S. Brown; 18:5-79, Gideon Ford- ham; 1880, Angus L. Tompkins; 1881-85, Edwin L. Bishop; 1886-98, S. Perey Hooker.
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The charter of Le Roy was amended by act of the Legislature passed April 6, 1857. By this instrument the boundaries of the village were defined as follows:
All that district of country hereafter described shall be known and distinguished by the name of the village of Le Roy, that is to say. all that part of the town of Le Roy, in the county of Genesee, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point in the centre of the Niagara road, on the west line of James R. Lynn farm; thence along said west line north, so far that a line running west drawn parallel with the Niagara road shall intersect Broekport street at George W. Blodgett's north line; thence west on said parallel line with the Niagara road, until it strikes a line run- ning north from the east line of land formerly known as the Benjamin Wilcox farm; thence south on said line to the east line of said Wilcox farm, on said Niagara road; thence continuing south on the east line of said Wilcox farm, so far as to intersect a line which, running due east, will meet the road crossing Allen's creek, near Has- kin's mill, where the same intersects the Bethany road; thence easterly along the said road crossing Allen's creek, to where said road intersects the Pavilion road, by the south side of land formerly owned by widow Munn; thence east on a parallel line with said Niagara road, so far as to intersect a line drawn due south from the place of beginning; thence north to the place of beginning.
The first trustees of the village under the new charter were A. P. Hascall, S. S. Bryant, S. Chamberlin, A. G. Carpenter and J. H. Stan- ley.
Le Roy has suffered from numerous destructive fires, one of the most disastrous of which, during the period under discussion, occurred at three o'clock on the morning of January 11, 1855. The flames origin- ated in an old wooden building occupied by the printing office of the Genesee Herald, owned by Mr. Grummon, and Mr. Pinney's tobacco store. Among those whose places of business were destroyed were Samson & Elmore, Foreman & Sons, Barton & Olmstead, James Annin, Browning & Kelsey, Hascall & Bangs, Mr. Olinsted and Mr. Adams. The total loss was about one hundred thousand dollars.
The Le Roy Gas Light Company was organized in July, 1860, with a paid-in capital of twenty-five thousand dollars. Lucins N. Bangs and Chauncey L. Olmstead were largely interested in establishing the company. The first officers were: President, Nathan Randall; treas- urer, Patrick H. Agan; secretary, superintendent and inspector, Charles M. Randall. The works, located at Allen's creek between the Central and Erie railroads, were opened in 1861. In 1890 the company added an electric light plant to its establishment, but the village now operates that plant under condemnation proceedings instituted in 1897. Nathan Randall served as president of the gas company until 1865, when he
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was succeeded by Chauncey L. Olmstead. General C. Fitch Bissell became president in 1874, and his son, D. Jackson Bissell in 1889, the latter still serving in that office.
Among the other industries established in Le Roy during this period were the broom factory of Jerome French, which was started in 1849 in the old Rockwell hotel, two and one half miles south of the village. In 1854 M. A. Ladd established a carriage shop in the village, erecting a stone building of two stories.
In Darien Henry L. Harlow, in 1844, began the manufacture of car- riages in a small way at Harlow's Corners. Soon after he admitted his younger brothers, Jefferson P. and Charles J. Harlow, into partner- ship. From time to time the business increased and the market was extended until at one time the firm employed thirty-five men and sold the product of its factory in seven or eight different States. The busi- ness was continued in Darien, and then in Lancaster, for a period of about forty years.
While Genesee county, in common with the country at large, was enjoying an era of prosperity following the financial panic of 1857, the country passed through the most important presidential campaign which had occurred since the formation of the Union. This was the campaign of 1860 -- the forerunner of the tremendous crisis in the affairs of state which terminated in the Civil war. There were four national tickets in the field, headed respectively by Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas. Of the three hun- dred and three electoral votes, Lincoln received one hundred and eighty, Breckinridge seventy.two, Bell thirty-nine, and Douglas twelve. The result produced great rejoicing in the triumphant Republican party in the Northern States, but with it was intermingled an ever- increasing volume of dissatisfaction and rage, which came up from the South like a tidal wave, culminating in open rebellion and the seces- sion of several of the Southern States. Before the country could real- ize the catastrophe which had overtaken it, Sumter had been fired upon and the nation was involved in all the horrors of what proved to be a sanguinary civil war, the greatest in the history of the world.
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
On the morning of April 15, 1861, the daily newspapers which reached Batavia bore the sorrowful tidings of the bombardment of Fort Sumter on the 12th and 13th of the month. On that day business of all kinds, public and private, was neglected for the discussion of the portentous event. War was the sole topic of conversation; but even yet it was believed by most men of intelligence and judgment that the moment that the powerful arm of the government was uplifted against the offenders they would abandon their treasonable outbreak and bow in submission to the federal authority. Many months elapsed, how- ever, blood was shed in the border States, and millions of treasure were expended before even the highest government officials realized that a long and desolating war had begun.
April 15, the day of the evacuation of Fort Sumter, President Lin- coln issued a proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand militia for three months' service. This call in itself was sufficient evidence of the general belief at the national capital that the war would prove to be no more than a summer-long conflict. The quota of New York State un. der this call was 13,280, and it was more than filled. May 3 another call for troops was issued, under which, and acts approved July 22, half a million men were required. No sooner was the first call for troops made public than Genesee county was plunged into a fever of martial enthusiasm. Flags were unfurled to the breeze from hundreds of windows, and an intensely war-like spirit pervaded the atmosphere everywhere. An enthusiastic meeting was held immediately at Batavia, when twenty volunteers were enrolled. The same evening a meeting was held at Le Roy, and others in the various towns of the county fol- lowed.
April 18, the county authorities received official information that five hundred men would be needed from Genesee county. In accord- ance with this demand public meetings were held on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, April 20, at Concert hall, in Batavia, at which
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forty-eight young men were enrolled. On that occasion Trumbull Cary, John Fisher, Junius A. Smith, Seth Wakeman and James M. Willett were named as a committee to solicit subseriptions to a fund for the support of the families of those who enlisted. For a similar pur- pose a committee of three was appointed in each town, as follows:
Alabama,-Chauncey Williams, George H. Potter, Edward Halsey. Alexander .-- Heman Blodgett, Earl Kidder, E. G. Moulton. Bethany .- Lemuel F. Lincoln, A. G. Torrey, Carlos Huggins.
Bergen .- Horatio N. Reed, Samuel Richmond, Josiah Pierson. Byron .- J. T. Boynton, Loren Green, Addison Ferry. Darien .- J. W. Hyde. Colonel A. Jefferson, T. C. Peters. Elba. - Alva U. Wilhs. A. Hulett, C. H. Monell. Le Roy .-- Hon. A. S. Upham, Walter Gustin, A. O. Comstock.
Oakfield .-- Charles HI. Chamberlin, John C. Gardner, William Dunlap.
Pavilion .- Oswald Bond, Warren Fay, George Tomlinson.
Pembroke .- G. W. Wright. D. N. Wells, R F. Thomson.
From the beginning of the work, local recruiting progressed rapidly. April 29 the formation of the first company in the county was com- pleted, and under the command of Captain Augustus I. Root it left the county to become part of the Twelfth Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Inf. May 1 l a second company, in command of Captain James R. Mitchell, left to join its regiment. The third company, commanded by Captain Will- iam L. Cowan, followed May 15.
While these military companies were being formed, the patriotic women of Genesee county began the organization of associations for providing for the soldiers in the field comforts, and even luxuries, which the government did not furnish -- such as flannels, havelocks, articles of clothing, medicines, etc. These things were supplied in liberal quantities, and accomplished much toward the amelioration of the far from pleasant condition of the men who had gone to the front for the preservation and maintenance of the American Union. Among those who were leaders and most active workers in this noble and gracious cause, were Mrs. Gad B. Worthington, Mrs. Richard Cotes, Mrs. John Fisher, Mrs. George H. Holden, Mrs. Alva Smith, Mrs. E. R. Pratt, Mrs. Levi Jackson, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. N. G. Clark, Mrs. Putnam, Mrs. Thomas Yates, Mrs. John Wood, Mrs. Seth Wakeman, Mrs. Levant B. Cotes, Mrs. S. C. Holden, Mrs. Junius A. Smith, Mrs. Dean Rich- mond, Mrs. H. U. Howard, Mrs. Macy, Miss M. Mallory, Miss Parsons, Miss Carrie Pringle and many others.
The first engagement participated in by any company sent to the
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front by Genesee county occurred on Monday, July 18, 1861. On that day the Twelfth Regt. N. Y. Vol. Inf., of which Company K was or- ganized in Batavia, took a leading part in the sharp skirmish at Bull Run Creek, Va., the preliminary movement in the memorable battle of Bull Run, which occurred three days later. About ? p. M. Richardson's Brigade of Tyler's Division, consisting of the First Massachusetts, Sec- ond Michigan, Third Michigan and Twelfth New York Regiments of Infantry, with the New York Regiment in advance, arrived at Centre- ville after a long and weary march from Vienna, and turned to the left from Centreville Heights towards Bull Run. The division had ad- vanced to a point about a mile and a half south from Centreville, when the rebels opened fire upon it with artillery. Company K, commanded by Captain A. I. Root, being on the left flank, was nearest the rebel battery and was among the first to feel the effects of its fire. The New York regiment was immediately formed in line of battle in an open field and two companies, deployed as skirmishers, at once advanced toward a thicket of small pines where the rebels were supposed to be in force. They were followed and supported by the remaining eight companies of the regiment, and these were followed and supported by the balance of the brigade. As the skirmishers approached the woods they were received with a heavy fire from the enemy's advance posted there, but were promptly and nobly sustained by the regiment. The order was:
" Twelfth New York, tix bayonets and clear the woods! "
Bayonets were fixed, an intervening fence was scaled, and the regi- ment rushed double quick into the woods ten or twelve rods with bay- onets at charge, when the boys were met with a sudden and fierce fire from Longstreet's entire division of the rebel army. The bullets fell like hailstones. Fortunately the rebels were not experienced fighters and the bullets flew high. The rattle of the balls against the trees was terrifie, and branches and leaves fell like grass before the mower. The regiment was thrown into confusion and compelled to retire to form in line again, and it fell back to the other side of the field over which it had just charged In this charge the regiment suffered a loss of over four hundred men in killed, wounded and prisoners. Company K, of Batavia, lost Privates Lathrop, mortally wounded; Grimes, severely wounded; and Charles Durant and Johnson, taken prisoners.
While the regiment was being re-formed a youthful lieutenant, fresh from West Point, and on that day acting as aid to General Tyler, rode up and said :
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"I know some of those boys. They are from Batavia. Let me lead their regiment down through this ravine and attack the rebel flank."
The desired permission was not granted, however, though the opin- ion has been expressed, by several who participated in that action, that it could have been a wise and successful one. That young lieutenant was a Batavia boy, Emory Upton, afterwards Major General!
There was no more fighting that day. The division fell back to Cen- treville Heights, where it remained until it advanced to participate in the bloody battle of Bull Run of July 21.
The action of July 18 was Company K's first " baptism of fire." But the members of this company afterwards participated in many of the battles of the war. Its captain attained the rank of colonel and died at the head of his regiment-the Fifteenth New York Cavalry-in one of the closing battles of the war. Its orderly sergeant became major- Major S. D. Ludden. Its second sergeant became captain-Captain Charles F. Rand. Private John B. Foote became a lieutenant. This company, the first to organize in Genesee county, and the first to depart from Batavia for the scene of the conflict, had the following officers :
Captain, Augustus I. Root; lieutenant, William P. Town; ensign, Lucius Smith ; sergeants, Samuel D. Ladden, Charles F. Rand, James F. Taylor, Thomas Tanzey ; corporals, Samuel McChesney, William P. Jones, James P. Taylor, Joseph L. Hunt ; musicians, Albert A. Mead, Francis M. Lincoln.
The privates were as follows:
William B. Aird, George W. Baars, John W. Bartlett, John C. Beach, Almon G. Bentley, Franklyn Billings, James Brayley, John Briggs, Henry R. Casler, James Clifton, Zelotus R. Colby, James Conway, James E. Cross, Charles F. Davenport, Robert Dearlove, Michael Delano, Charles Durant, William Enwright, Harrison Ferguson, John B. Foote, Daniel W. Ford, Alvin Fox, Patrick Garrity, John G. Gartner, Jasper Gibbs, John Glansbroth, William Graham, Jacob Heiber, Charles A. Hickox, William Johnson, Barney Karker, George Keem, William Lathrop, William HI. Leonard, Peter Mischlin, Frank Murphy, William H. Nickols, Robert Peard, Cornelius W. Post, George W. Reynolds. Michael Roach, Michael Ryan, Frank Seamons, James Shepard, George Smith, Hiram W. Smith, Parmemis Skinner, Albert P. Stage. John Stone, William Thompson, Timothy Tierney, Horace F. Tracy. William Wheeler.
The Twelfth Regiment, of which Captain Root's company formed a part, was commanded by Col. Ezra L. Walrath and was mustered into the service May 13, 1861.
The Twenty eighth Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Infantry, was organized at Albany to serve two years. The companies of which it was com-
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posed were raised in the counties of Genesee, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans and Sullivan. The members of the regiment left Batavia May 13, 1861, and on May 22 the organization was mustered into the service of the United States at Albany. The Genesee county company, organized by Captain James R. Mitchell, afterwards major, was in command of Cap- tain Charles H. Fenn. Its other officers were:
First lieutenant, William W. Rowley; second lieutenant, George M. Ellicott; ser- geants, Lucien R. Bailey. Charles D. Searles, George W. Sherwood, Edward J. Watts; corporals, Leander Hamilton, Chandler Gillam, Robert E. Whitney, Darwin Fel- lows; musicians, John Prost, Silas Bragg.
The following persons went out with the company as privates:
Calvin Annis, George H. Allen, William F. Albro, Edmund Bragdon, Byron Brinkerhoff, James F. Bennett, Riley Blount, George Barnard, Lafayette Baker, Oscar Barnes, Philip Bettinger, George H. Bolton, Henry Baldwin, John S. Barber, William H. Colburn, Roswell Coddington, Robert Chappell, Henry Close, Charles H. Crandell, Alexander Comyns, Henry Dykeman, Joshua C. Davis, Melvin Dodge, Decatur Doty, Irvin H. Ewell, Kirkland Ewell, Theodore Eldridge, Joseph Ennis, George Griffin, Cleveland Gillett, Joseph Gibson, Peter Howland, William Howland, Porter Howard, Truman M. Hawley, George M. Hamilton, Isaac Hotchkiss, James G. Lawton, Charles G. Liscomb, Joseph Luce, John Moran, Barnard Murray, Lyman B. Miner, William MeCracken, Richard Outhardt, Charles A. Perkins, Flavius Per- kins, Edward C. Peck, Erastus Peck, Franklin Peck, Michael Quirk, Charles B. Kapp, Harlow M. Reynolds, Michael Ryan, Howard M. Snell. Henry Scott, William B. Simmons, Stephen Tayler, Robert Thompson, Milton Tripp, George Thayer, John Van Buren, Francis M. Weatherlow.
The regiment of which this company formed a part remained at Camp Morgan, Albany, about three weeks, and was then ordered to Washington. The next orders carried them to Martinsburg, Va. Soon after, at Harper's Ferry, it was attached to the Third Brigade, Ninth Army Corps, under command of General George H. Thomas, and spent the summer and fall in doing picket duty along the Potomac. Early in the winter the regiment went into quarters at Frederick. Md. January 1, 1862, it moved to Hancock, Md., where it remained two months. March 1, the day designated for the grand move of the Army of the Potomac, the Twenty eighth proceeded to Virginia, pass- ing the summer in the Shenandoah Valley. In the fall it marched to Martinsburg again. thence to Culpepper Court House. In this place and vicinity a month was passed. After the battle of Chancellorsville it proceeded to Washington, and soon afterward left for the North. It was mustered out of the service of the United States at Lockport, June 2, 1863.
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The regiment participated in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Antie- tam and Chancellorsville. At the battle of Cedar Mountain Colonel Donnelly, commanding the regiment, received wounds which resulted in his death August 15, 1862: Lieutenant Colonel Edwin F. Brown had an arm shot off: Major Elliott W. Cook was made a prisoner; Adjutant Charles B. Sprout was killed in action, and Lieutenant Bailey of Com- pany F was wounded. The regiment lost heavily in this engagement. The record of the officers of this regiment who went from Genesee county follows:
Major .- James R. Mitchell, commissioned June 20, 1861; resigned September 30, 1501.
Captains .-- William W. Rowley, commissioned November 10, 1862; mustered out with regiment. James R. Mitchell, commissioned ---; promoted to major June 20, 1861. Charles II. Fenn, commissioned July 4, 1861 ; mustered out with regiment.
First Lieutenants -Charles II. Fenn, commissioned -; promoted to captain May 19, 1861. William W. Rowley, commissioned July 4, 1861 ; promoted to captain No- vember 10, 1862. George M. Ellicott, commissioned November 10, 1862; mustered out with regiment.
Second Lieutenants .- William W. Rowley, commissioned -; promoted to first lieutenant May 19, 1801. George M. Ellicott, commissioned July 4, 1861 ; promoted to first lieutenant November 10, 1862. Lucien R. Bailey, commissioned February 7, 1-63; mustered out with regiment.
Capt. William L. Cowan's company (Company D) of the Fourteenth Regiment, New York Volunteer Militia, was recruited in Genesee county, organized at Batavia, inspected May 8, 1861, and mustered into the service of the United States May 17, 1861, for two years. Captain Cowan was a resident of Darien. The other officers commanding the company were :
First lieutenant, Robert H. Foote, of Batavia; second lieutenant. George E. Gee of Darien; sergeants, Thomas R. Hardwick of Pembroke, Almon C. Barnard, Jesse R. Decker of Batavia. Irwin H. Crosman of Alexander; corporals, David W. Manning, Harry Parsons, Hiram H. Van Dake, Thomas L. Ostrom ; musicians, James B. Pot- ter and Gregory Shaver.
The following were mustered as privates:
Oriando Aldrich, Charles Archer, Charles Averill, Lucius F. Brown, James Bailey, Freeman F. Barber, William H. Barnett, Martin W. Bliton, Thomas Bowie, John H. Brown, Warren P. Burr, Austin A. Bagley, George Carpenter, George Chamberlin, Daniel Chamberlin, Martin Coon, Ira S. Cross, William E. Crissey, Ellery L. Delano, James Derick, George Drain, Stephen Eums, Henry Farnham, George Fisher, De- metreus Glenn, Clark E. Gould, Abram Haner, Bruce Herington, Henry Hike, Na- than B. Hopkins, Lowell Howe, Nelson Jenkins, Damel Johns, Phillip Lapp, An- drew Lee, James A. Lewis, John Lyon, Artemas Maxon, Richard P. Merrill, James
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MeDermit, Arthur O'Niel, Martin Pilgrim, William H. Randall, Almon Secord, Rob- ert Scovell, Joseph Shaw, Wilham Shaw, William Smith, Francis D. Smith, Andrew Seiber, Andrew Strobel, Paddock L. Tucker, Charles H. Tessey, Carmel D. Townsend, Edward Tibbits, Randolph Tubbs, Arthur Tumalty, Peter Van Valkenburg, Charles B. Vickery, Ira Woodin, Benjamin Winans, Amos B. Wyman, Millard D. York, Menden Younge.
As the quota of New York State was filled when Captain Cowan or- ganized his company, when he left Batavia for Albany with his com- mand, May 15, 1861, he acted entirely upon his own responsibility. Upon arriving at Albany, however, he succeeded in having his com- pany assigned to the Fourteenth Regiment, commanded by Colonel James McQuade. Soon afterward the regiment proceeded to the front, being first stationed at Camp Douglas, where it received its arms and equipments. Upon leaving Camp Douglas, it proceeded to Miner's Hill, Va., where for some time it performed picket duty. March 16, 1862, it joined Mcclellan's army. It participated in several of the most important battles of the war. The complete list is as follows: Gaines's Mill, Turkey Bend, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Big Bethel, Chan- cellorsville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, White Oak Swamp, Fredericksburg, Siege of Yorktown, Warrenton Junction, Snicker's Gap and Williamsburg.
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