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SILAS WHITE, son of DANIEL and MARY ANN WHITE, was born at Preston Hollow, March 5, 1845. He enlisted in the Fifth Regiment, Company I, February 1, 1862, and died with the measles, at Baltimore, December 25, 1862. He is buried at Preston Hollow.
WILLIAM SHONESS, son of JOSHUA and ABBY TEN EYCK SHONESS, was born in Westerlo, June, 1844. He enlisted in the Sixty-first Regiment, Company E. He died in the service of the United States, near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
GEORGE SWARTWOUT, son of MINER C. and SUSANNA CORNISH SWARTWOUT, was born in Rensselaerville, June 14, 1844. He
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enlisted in October, 1862, at Albany. After going to the front, he lived three months and then was taken sick with typhoid fever. He died at Falmouth, Virginia, and was buried there.
ALFRED LAWPAUGH, of Westerlo, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 14, 1862. Died at Washington. His remains were brought to Westerlo and buried.
THOMAS WESTLEY BARKER, of Westerlo, enlisted in Company . D, Sixty-first Regiment, September 1, 1862. Died in the service.
JESSE DENNISON enlisted October, 1862. While on his way home with his regiment, he died at Rochester, New York.
JOHN RIDER enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, at Westerlo, August 14, 1862. He was in the battles before Peters- burg, June 16 and 22, and was taken prisoner, after being wounded at the last named battle, and taken to Richmond. He died from the effects of his wound.
GEORGE C. WOOLLEY, of Westerlo, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 14, 1862. He was in all of the en- gagements of the Army of the Potomac, from May 15, 1864, until he was taken prisoner at Petersburg, June 16, 1864. He was confined at Andersonville prison, and died while there from the effects of starvation.
DAVID H. CRAWFORD, of Westerlo, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 14, 1862. He was killed in battle, at North Anna River, May 27, 1864.
MARCUS D. LOCKWOOD, of Westerlo, born in 1847, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Petersburg, June 17, 1864, and died a prisoner of war.
JOHN WRIGHT, of Westerlo, enlisted in the Forty-third Regi- ment. After serving twenty-one months, he re-enlisted in the same regiment. He was wounded soon after, and died at Wash- ington.
JOHN BOWIE, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 2, 1862. He was in all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac, from the crossing of the Rapidan to the battle of Petersburg, June 16, 1864. There he was taken prisoner, and confined in Andersonville prison, where he died from exposure and starvation.
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DAVID B. WILLSEY, of Westerlo, enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 14. 1862, and was in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, from May 16, 1864, till the 10th of June, 1864. He was taken prisoner near Petersburg. Died at Andersonville prison.
JAMES HOLMES was born in Westerlo, February 6, 1827, and - enlisted in Company K, Seventh Regiment, August 4, 1862. He was in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, from the crossing of the Rapidan to the assault of Petersburg, June 16, 1864. He was then taken prisoner and carried to Andersonville, where he died from exposure and starvation.
JOHN B. CRAFT, of Westerlo, born in Coeymans, April 14, 1845, enlisted in the Seventh Regiment May 5, 1862. After serving his term of enlistment, he again enlisted, for nine months, in the Tenth Militia Regiment, November, 1862, and again in the Seventh Heavy Artillery Regiment. He was taken prisoner June 16, 1864, and died at Millen prison, from exposure and starvation, November 2, 1864.
CHARLES C. BAKER, of Company E, Ninety-first Regiment, died at New Orleans, aged thirty-five years.
JOHN H. BRIGGS, of Company C, Seventy-Seventh Regiment, wounded at the battle of Winchester, died at TAYLOR's hospital, aged twenty-one years.
SAMUEL BURRISKILL, of Company C, Seventh Regiment, N. Y. S. V. died November 7, 1863, aged twenty-one years.
CHRISTOPHER G. BURNS, after passing through the dangers of fourteen battles, died of consumption, aged twenty-four years.
CHARLES BRICE was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, aged twenty-three years.
WILLIAM H. BARLOW, Company E, Tenth Regiment, died at Bonnet Carré, La.
JOIIN A. CHRISTOPHER, aged eighteen, was killed in an engage- ment near Rappahannock station, Virginia.
WILLIAM F. CAMPION, killed at the battle of Antietam, was buried from the residence of his father. He was a member of Company B, Eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and was twenty- three years of age.
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HENRY MONTRAVILLE was also killed in the above action and was buried in Albany, 22d January, 1865.
JOHN MCDONALD, of the Thirtieth Regiment, New York State Volunteers, was instantly killed in action on the 30th of August. He died as a true Albany boy, with his back to the field and his face to the foe, young, handsome and brave; all who knew him lamented his death. Hardly fifteen years of age in April, 1861, he marched with the Twenty-fifth to Washington, and upon its return enlisted in the D'Epineul Zouaves, and uncomplainingly shared their privations and mishaps in the voyage to Hatteras, and when disbanded joined the Thirtieth Regiment, in whose ranks he bravely battled and nobly died.
SIMEON H. MANN, of Co. G, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, was killed in the charge in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, while on the top of the enemy's breastworks.
GEORGE MARTIN, after he had passed through all the battles of the Peninsula with Gen. MCCLELLAN's army, at last at the battle of Crampton Gap was shot through the heart, and leaves a wife and child, and a large circle of friends to mourn the loss.
THOMAS L. HARTNESS was a brave soldier and devoted Sab- bath School teacher, and died for his country.
CHARLES A. HASKELL died at Bonnet Carré of typhoid fever, aged eighteen.
MICHAEL HARRIGAN died at Baton Rouge, aged eighteen ; member of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Regiment.
F. S. HURD died at Port Hudson; son of the late J. N. M. HURD. He was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Regiment.
JOHN B. CARTER was killed at the battle of Winchester, Va., and was buried at Albany January 5, 1865.
THOMAS EDWARD CARY was instantly killed, and left a father and brother in the army.
CHARLES B. CHAPMAN died, aged twenty-seven. He was a printer, attached to the Ellsworth Regiment. He received a wound in the breast in one of the battles before Richmond.
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JAMES DE LACEY, whose affection, as the son of a widowed mother, was equal to his courage upon the battle field, fell at the slaughter at Antietam.
W.M. T. O'BRIEN died at Newbern, N. C. He was a member of the Twenty-third New York battery.
ABRAHAM S. THORNTON, of the Seventh Artillery, who died at Washington, was buried from the Hudson Street Baptist Church.
THOMAS SMITH, Jr., Company B, Berdan's Sharpshooters, died at City Point Hospital, Virginia, aged twenty-one. He was wounded in a skirmish before Petersburg, on the sixteenth.
CLARENCE H. STEPHENS, a brave boy of nineteen years, fell before the deadly fire of the rebel artillery.
JOHN SHAFFER, a young man of superior worth, after braving many battles, died in 1863, and the last words upon his lips were, " My mother."
CHRISTOPHER SCHEIDLER died, aged twenty-six. He was one of the first volunteers in the war, and served in the Virginia campaign in the Twenty-fifth Regiment.
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
ASTOR, LONAS TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
Erected 1861 by the 25 Regiment N.YS.M FORT ALBANY at ARLINGTON HEIGHTS
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BRIEF HISTORIES OF THE REGIMENTS THAT WERE RAISED IN THE COUNTY OF ALBANY. THEY ARE ARRANGED HIERE, MAINLY IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY LEFT OUR CITY FOR THE SEAT OF WAR.
TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT N. Y. S. M.
By Adjutant J. M. KIMBALL.
HEAD QUARTERS (N. G. S. N. Y.) 25TH REGIMENT 3
N. Y. S. M., ALBANY, October 1, 1866. Rev. R. W. CLARK, D. D .:
Dear Sir-In accordance with your request, I send you an account of the Twenty-fifth Regiment N. Y. S. M.
Having been Adjutant of that regiment for the last four years, and a member of it for more than twelve years, I have the means of giving you an accurate account of its services, in the late civil war.
On or about the 19th day of April, 1861, Col. MICHAEL K. BRYAN, then commander of the Twenty-fifth Regiment N. Y. S. M., (then a part of the uniformed militia of the State,) received orders from Gov. MORGAN to hold his regiment in readiness to move at a moment's notice.
On the evening of April 21, 1861, the order came from Gov. MORGAN to move the next morning, at nine A. M., to Washington, D. C. The order was obeyed by the regiment with all possible alacrity, and on the morning of the 22d of April, 1861, the regi- ment, under command of Col. BRYAN, proceeded by the Hudson River railroad to New York, and from that city took the steamer Parkersburgh for Annapolis, Md., where they landed on the morning of the 26th of April, and the Colonel reported to Gen. BUTLER, who was then in command of that post. On the mor- ning of the 29th, the regiment arrived in Washington, D. C., the fifth regiment that reached there in defence of the Capital, at that critical hour of our Nation's history.
Upon arriving in Washington, the regiment was quartered in a large building, near the Capitol. There it was drilled by the Colonel, assisted by United States officers of the regular army, for several hours in the forenoon and afternoon, until it became
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one of the best drilled militia regiments in Washington. The commander of the regiment reported, on the arrival in Washing- ton, directly to Maj. Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT, who ordered the Colonel to report with his command to Brig. Gen. MANSFIELD. The regiment remained under Gen. MANSFIELD'S orders till the 23d of May, 1861, when the command came to cross that night, at two A. M., the Long Bridge from Washington to Virginia. This regiment was the second that reached the Virginia side, the Twelfth, Col. BUTTERFIELD'S, being the first.
The Twelfth New York Militia, Col. BUTTERFIELD, upon cross- ing over the bridge, turned off to the left hand, and Col. BRYAN moved on with his command to Arlington Heights, where Fort Albany now stands. The regiment, after taking two of the rebel piekets, with their horses and equipments, prisoners, (which I think were the first prisoners taken in Virginia after the com- mencement of the war,) encamped at four A. M. on the 24th of May, 1861. Soon after they commenced the erection of Fort Albany, which was mostly built by the labor of this command; besides, some twenty acres of timber and wood were ent down by them for military purposes. The fort was named Fort Albany, in honor of the city from which the regiment came, by the men to whom it was left by the military authorities at Washington, at Col. BRYAN's suggestion.
At the battle of Bull Run, the regiment was left in charge of the fort they had built, and which was one of the barriers that, after the disaster of Bull Run, on the 21st of July, 1861, saved the Capital from the advance of the rebels, as appears by the reports of the Generals of the enemy.
After the battle and defeat of the 21st, under McDOWELL, on the night of that day, Col. BRYAN was placed in command of the fort, and several other regiments and batteries, to make a stand in case the rebels advanced or pursued our flying columns from that unfortunate field of battle. This certainly showed the con- fidence of the Government in Col. BRYAN and his men. But the enemy did not advance. They feared the strength of Fort Albany, and the other works erected beyond the Potomac.
Had it not been for these forts, erected on the south side of the Potomac by Gen. RUNYON's Brigade of New Jersey men, and by the Twenty-fifth and Sixty-ninth Regiments New York, under Col. BRYAN and Col. CORCORAN, the city of Washington would doubtless have been taken by the rebels after the first Bull Run battle. The Twenty-fifth Regiment bestowed an immense amount of labor on these forts, and the importance of that service ap- peared very clearly at that time.
This regiment was ever ready to obey every order, and faith- fully performed every duty required of it by the Government. It
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justly received the thanks of its superior officers. They were not mustered into the service till the 4th of May, 1861, at Wash- ington, and their term of service was three months from that time.
With the loss of three men by sickness, who died at Washing- ton, D. C., the regiment returned to Albany by railroad on the 1st of August, numbering five hundred and seventy-five men and officers, and were mustered out at Albany on the 4th of August, 1861.
The regiment was commanded by MICHAEL K. BRYAN as Colonel. JAMES SWIFT was Lieutenant Colonel, and DAVID FREED- LANDER, Major. Company A, was commanded by Captain JACOB FREDENDALL; Company B, by Captain TIMOTHY MCDERMOTT; Company C, was commanded by Captain JOHN GRAY; Company D, was commanded by Captain FRANK MARSHALL; Company E, by Captain J. J. HUBER; Company G, was commanded by Capt. HENRY MULHOLLAND; Company H, by Captain GODEFREY; Com- pany L, by Captain FREDERICK NEWDORF; Company R, by Capt. HALE KINGSLEY.
The regiment was again, on the 31st of May, 1862, mustered into the United States service at Albany, N. Y., by order of the Government for three months, and on this occasion was ordered to Suffolk, Virginia, where they remained till the 1st day of September, 1862. Then they took passage, at Norfolk, on the 2d of September, on the steamer Baltie, for New York, where they arrived after a stormy passage, on the 6th of September. During this campaign the regiment was encamped at Suffolk, Virginia, where they were in the brigade of General MAX WEBER, commanding, which was composed of the Third New York Vol- unteers; the Fourth New York Volunteers; the Thirteenth New York Militia, and the Twenty-fifth Regiment, New York Militia.
The regiment attained great proficiency in drill while at Suf- folk, and nine days after this regiment was mustered out of ser- vice, the brigade of General WEBER was ordered into the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded, and General MANSFIELD who was the commander of the post at Suffolk, was killed.
The regiment returned with five hundred men, having lost but one man, who was accidentally drowned. Though they fought no battles, they were ever ready to do so if required, while in the field; and hundreds of the officers and men that first served in the late civil war, in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, after it re- turned to Albany and was mustered out, joined with their Colonel, MICHAEL K. BRYAN, other regiments of volunteers, and fought many battles. Many of them laid down their lives in the field, among whom was Colonel BRYAN, who fell at the head of his
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regiment at Port Hudson. Others who have nobly served through the war, have returned, and now reside with us.
During its term of service in 1862, at Suffolk, Colonel BRYAN commanded. JAMES SWIFT was Lieutenant Colonel, and DAVID FRIEDLANDER Major. Company A, was commanded by JJACOB FREDANDOLL; Company B, by TIMOTHY MCDERMOTT; Company C, by Captain JOHN GRAY; Company F, by Captain MICHAEL KENNALLY; Company G, by JAMES M. CARLIN, and Company K, by Captain HALE KINGSLEY.
Permit me to say all did their duty; and if ever the country shall again need the services of her sons, the Twenty-fifth Regi- ment which is now in a most efficient condition in regard to drill, discipline and numbers, under its present able and zealous officers, most of whom have faced the foe in the fight, will be among the first to rally round the flag, and to defend the Ameri- can Republic against every foe.
Respectfully yours, J. M. KIMBALL, Adjt. 25th Regt. N. Y. S. N. G.
* THIRD REGIMENT INFANTRY, N. Y. S. V.
THE Third Regiment Infantry, N. Y. S. V., or " First Albany Regiment," was organized at Albany. It was composed of com- panies recruited and accepted as follows, viz:
Co.
Where recruited.
By whom recruited.
Date of aceeplanee.
A .
Williamsburgh, L. I. ..
Capt. Abel Smith, jr. .
B .. Newburgh, N. Y.
Capt. S. W. Fullerton, jr.
C . Albany, N. Y.
Capt. Elbridge G. Floyd.
D. Syracuse, N. Y.
Capt. John G. Butler ...
E .!
Albany, N. Y.
Capt. Justus W. Blanchard
F . G .
do
Capt. Henry S. Hulbert .
do
Capt. J. H. Ten Eyek, jr.
H . Owego, N. Y.
Capt. Isaae S. Catlin ..
I ..
Albany, N. Y.
Capt. Edward S. Jenny
K.
Havana, N. Y
Capt. John E. Mulford
Order 13, April 20, 1861. Order 15, April 20, 1861. Order 14, April 20, 1861. Order 69, April 21, 1861. Order 41, April 20, 1861. Order 98, April 22, 1861. Order 148, April 23, 1861. Order 158, April 24, 1861. Order 179, April 27, 1861. Order 232, April 25, 1861.
On the 24th of April, Captains SMITH, FULLERTON, FLOYD, BLANCHARD, HULBERT, TEN EYCK and BUTLER were directed to meet and elect field officers, and, on the 25th, the election of FREDERICK TOWNSEND as Colonel, and SAMUEL M. ALFORD as Lieutenant Colonel, was confirmed. These proceedings, however,
* For this and most of the other histories of the regiments, we are indebted to the reports of Col. DOTY, Chief of the Bureau of Military Record.
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were set aside. At a meeting of the State Military Board, held May 7th, it was, on motion of the Treasurer, "Resolved, That the ten companies, commanded by the following Captains, to wit: S. W. FULLERTON, Jr., ABEL SMITH, Jr., E. G. FLOYD, JOHN G. BUTLER, JUSTUS W. BLANCHARD, HENRY S. HULBERT, ISAAC S. CATLIN, JACOB HI. TEN EYCK, Jr., E. S. JENNY and JOHN E. MUL- FORD, be and they are hereby accepted and organized into a regi- ment, to be designated as regiment No. 3, and that the officers of said companies be authorized to hold an election to elect the field officers for said regiment." Under this resolution the elec- tion was held by Brig. Gen. RATHBONE, on the 8th, at which FREDERICK TOWNSEND was elected Colonel, S. M. ALFORD, Lieu- tenant Colonel, and GEORGE D. BAYARD, Major. The State Board confirmed the selections made, with date from the 8th. On the 14th of May the regiment was mustered into the service of the United States by Capt. FRANK WHEATON, U. S. A., and on the 16th (Special Orders No. 192) Col. TOWNSEND was directed " to proceed with his regiment to New York, May 18, and report for duty to Gen. DIx. Arms and equipments to be issued upon their arrival at New York."
The regiment left Albany for New York on the 18th May, and arrived in that city on the 19th, and took quarters in the Park barracks. It was armed with seven hundred and twenty mus- kets, pattern of 1842, caliber sixty-nine (May 27), which were changed (May 29) for Enfield rifles, caliber fifty-seven. Equip- ments were also furnished, and (May 28-30) one hundred com- mon and twenty-four wall tents issued to it by the State. On the 31st of May it left New York for Fortress Monroe. The expenditures by the State in behalf of the regiment up to August 15th, exclusive of subsistence and quarters, was fifty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-one cents.
The regiment reached Fortress Monroe on the 3d of June. On the 9th it was ordered to move in support of the Fifth Regiment, in an attack on Little Bethel. The First, Second and Seventh Regiments were also ordered to join in this movement. While the Third was en route it passed in the vicinity of the Seventh, and the latter, mistaking it for a force of the enemy, opened with artillery and musketry upon Col. TOWNSEND's column. The fire was irregularly returned by the Third, and fearing that it had fallen into an ambuscade, it immediately retreated to an emi- nence near by. The true state of facts having been ascertained, the regiments effected a junction, and resumed the line of march. Little Bethel was found to have been evacuated by the enemy, and the command moved forward to Big Bethel, where, after a short engagement, a retreat was ordered. In this movement the Third lost two men killed and twenty-seven wounded.
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The regiment returned to Fortress Monroe, and from thence (July 30th) to Baltimore, where it remained in camp, at Fort Mellenry, until April 1st, 1862, when it was sent to Fort Federal Hill. From Federal Hill it was transferred to Suffolk, Va., where it remained until September 12th. It then returned to Fortress Monroe, where it performed guard duty until the expiration of its term of service.
On leaving the service it received the following complimen- tary order:
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, 1 7TH ARMY CORPS, FORTRESS MONROE, VA., } May 12 1863.
To the Third New York Volunteers (Infantry):
The Major General commanding cannot withhold the expres- sion of his deep regret that the term of service, for which a large number of the men of the Third New York Volunteers enlisted is about to expire, and that he is compelled to part with them.
In discipline, good conduct, and a faithful discharge of their duties, under all circumstances in which they have been placed, he ventures to say that they are not surpassed by any other regiment in the service.
Through the care, vigilance and fidelity of their officers and their able commander, and through their own just sense of all their obligations, under the military laws by which they have been governed, they have earned a most enviable reputation.
To those who have re-entered the service, with an unshaken determination to uphold the cause of their country against its faithless enemies, he tenders his sincere thanks; and if those who are about to return to their families and friends for a while, should rejoin their comrades whom they leave behind, they will receive as warm a welcome as that which awaits them at home.
JOHN A. DIX, Major-General Commanding.
Official: WILSON BARSTOW, Aid-de-Cump.
The regiment took the field with seven hundred and ninety-six officers and men. During its period of service it received one hundred and sixty-two recruits, who, with about two hundred re-enlisted men, and the re-enlisted men and recruits of the Ninth Regiment New York Volunteers, who were consolidated with it, remained in the field and continued its organization under Col. ALFORD, who had been promoted to the command of the regiment, on the resignation of Col. TOWNSEND (July 2d, 1861). It commenced its service, as a veteran command, with
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about eight hundred men, and subsequently received seven hundred conseripts and about two hundred recruits, as well as a number of men by the consolidation with it of the One Hundred and Twelfth New York Volunteers.
The re-organized regiment was sent to Folly Island, where it participated in the siege of Fort Wagner and Charleston. In April, 1864, it visited Gloucester Point and West Point, and made a reconnoissanee to within a few miles of King William Court House. It then moved up the James River, under Gen. BUTLER, as a part of the First Brigade (Col. S. M. ALFORD), Second Division (Brig. Gen. J. H. TURNER), Tenth Corps (Maj. Gen. Q. A. GILMORE.) It was actively engaged and suffered severely in the advance made by Gen. BUTLER, May 12th, 14th and 16th, and lost fifty wounded, five killed and seven missing, out of about two hundred and eighty-five engaged. About the 31st of May it was temporarily assigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, and moved to Coal Harbor, where it remained until the 12th of June, when it returned to Bermuda Hundred. On the 15th it started for Petersburg, and reached a point within about two miles of the city, where it encountered the enemy, charged his works, eap- tured two hundred and fifty men of WISE's Brigade, the battle- flag of the Twenty-sixth Virginia, and some nine or ten pieces of artillery. It fell back on the 12th and resumed its old posi- tion in the Tenth Corps. It was subsequently in action at Bermuda Hundred, in front of Petersburg, Petersburg Mine, Fort Gilmer, Chapin's Farm, Darbytown Road, first and second Fort Fisher, and Wilmington, N. C. At Fort Fisher, the State color which it carried was the first Regimental color which was hoisted on the enemy's works. It was mustered out of service in August, 1865.
FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
THE Forty-third Regiment was recruited in the counties of Albany, Washington and Otsego, and in New York city. It left Albany September 16, 1861, under command of Colonel (after -. wards Brigadier General) FRANCIS L. VINTON. Arrived in the field September 21, 1861, and from that time until it was mustered out, was constantly in the face of the enemy.
It went out with seven hundred and six men, and, with the recruits which it subsequently received, (including five companies which were recruited for it at the close of the Peninsula cam- paign in 1862) had a roll of two thousand three hundred and twenty-seven. It returned with two hundred and ninety men
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and thirteen officers. It was first assigned to General HANCOCK'S Brigade, in which it served until February. 1863, when it was selected as one of five regiments, distinguished for dash and courage, to form a Light Division of the Sixth Army Corps. It served in this division at Marye's Heights, Salem Church and Banks' Ford, and was the first regiment that planted its colors on the enemy's works on Marye's Heights.
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