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Company D .- Privates, John W. Brayman, Robert B. Brayman, William Brown, Samuel C. Kerrick.
Company E .- Privates, Zenas G. Bullock, Isaac C. Bailey, Newton Colegrove, Ebenezer B. Clark, Andrew A. Granger, William F. Harkness, Henry Pitt, Charles H. Spencer.
Company F .- Privates Albert Van Dusen, Norman Wyant.
Company G .- Privates, James Burley, Percival A. Con- klin, Cornelius Demorest, Charles S. Dailey, Alexander Eastman, William W. French, Mark Hazen, Decatur Hedges, William W. Hoyt, William F. Kelsey, Uzal Mar- latt, Philip McGinnis, David S. Miller, Philip Packhard, Reuben Rockwell, Daniel Rockwell, John H. Simmons, James Soles, John T. Smith, Ira M. Smith, Robert Shedden, Luther Smith, Joseph Scott, Elijah Scott, John Scott, Ezra Tyler, Ozro Thomas Towner, William Wolverton, George Wooden, Horace H. Watrous.
Company H .- John Eckler, private.
Company K .- Danford Ellsworth, private.
THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOURTH REGIMENT,
Colonel Joseph W. Corning (formerly of the Thirty-third New York Volunteers) received authority, Jan. 27, 1865, to recruit a regiment of infantry, to be known as the One Hun- dred and Ninety-fourth New York Volunteers. In this reg- iment Company D, otherwise known as the Ninth Indepen- dent Company, was raised in Yates County, and was mus- tered at Elmira into the United States service for two years, April 16, 1865. By reason of the cessation of hostilities the One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Regiment was not called
* Killed. + Wounded. ¿ Died.
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into active service, and the several companies composing the command were mustered out and honorably discharged at Elmira May 3 and 10, 1865. Seven enlisted men belong- ing to the regiment died during its stay in that city.
Muster-in roll of Company D, of the One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Regiment :
Richard B. Mahar, Captain; Charles Stark, First Lieu- tenant; Theodore G. Ross, Second Lieutenant; Delos C. Hubbard, Orderly Sergeant; Privates, Henry J. Ackley, Henry M. Ashby, George W. Austin, George S. Ackley, James A. Briggs, Hugh Bulger, George H. Beamish, Charles Britton, John F. Beebe, Coradon H. Beebe, Abram Brown, Eli Barrett, John W. Booth, John Baker, Wolcott Cole, Lewis Clark, Lester Crandall, Edward Courtney, Edwin L. Corey, Thomas Creed, Jerome H. Carey, Edgar D. Carey, George A. Dur- liam, Dwight W. Dickinson, George Davis, Charles A. Darrow, Roderick Dingham, Timothy Driscoll, Leonard E. Durfur, Lucas Enos, David H. Fitzwater, Elijah Fowler, Patrick Gill, Mordecai Goodwin, Moses R. Gage, William A. Gray, Mortimer Hotchkiss, Daniel Houghtailing, Lewis Halstead, Jabez F. Hobart, Joseph Ham, Thomas Harlan, Thomas Hackett, John Homer, William H. Hand, George Hennery, John Hall, James Houghtailing, Henry Jero, Lyman P. Johnson, Frank M. Lacy, Josiah B. Lyon, John Lenhart, Michael McAlpine, William Mitchell, John H. Parsons, Orrin W. Place, Whitfield H. Peck, Wallace Palm- ateer, John H. Ryall, John R. Southerby, Joseph Steele, James Steele, Albert W. Small, Philip Slater, Richard Sutfin, Edward W. Salsbury, Simeon Spink, Thomas Tunney, John Theis, Henry Tomyon, Smith Tupper, David O. Tears, Charles G. Watkins, Cornelius Webber, John P. Williams, Charles Wright, Bertram A. Whitmore, Samuel C. Wales. Company B .- George W. Randall, private.
Company C .- George B. Barden, Corporal.
Company E .- Samuel C. Moxcey, Corporal; Cornelius Plaisted, private.
THE GRAND REVIEW.
As a fitting close to this long and terrible struggle which the country had passed through, a grand review of the two
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armies of Grant and Sherman took place in the National Capital on the 23d and 24th of May, in the presence of the President and his Cabinet and foreign ministers. New York has the honor of having furnished more troops for the war than any other State, and her sons were well represented in this magnificent parade. Among these were a large number from Yates County, who had served in different organizations in both armies, and in the former (which should be properly called the ever-renowned Army of the Potomac) were notably those belonging to the One Hundred and Twenty- sixth," the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth, the One Hun- dred and Eighty-eighth, and to other regiments of infantry, besides artillery and cavalry. As the bronzed and proud veterans marched up Pennsylvania Avenue, the heavens re- sounded with the acclamations of the multitude, and the air was filled with the bouquets of flowers that were rained on the noble leaders. The Duke of Wellington said, when 50,000 troops were reviewed in the Champs Elysées, after the occupation of Paris by the Allies, that it was "a sight but once seen in a life time," but here nearly two hundred thousand marched, in an apparently endless stream, past the Presidential mansion, not conscripts forced into the ranks, but citizens who had voluntarily taken up arms to defend not a monarch's rights, but their own. .
Yet, sublime as was this spectacle, it sank into insignifi- cance before the grandeur of the one presented a few days after, when this army, strong enough to conquer a hemis- phere, melted suddenly away into the mass of the people and was seen no more. Its deeds of renown had filled the eivilized world, and European statesmen looked on and wondered what disposition could be made of it, and where it would choose to go, or what it would do. It was one of the grandest armies that ever bore on its bayonet points the destinies of a king or a nation-a consolidation and embod- iment of power seldom witnessed; and yet, while the gaze of the world was fixed upon it, it disappeared like a vision, and when one looked for it he saw only peaceful citizens
* The 126th Regiment, when it participated in the Grand Review, had but 67 men in its ranks. The 50th Engineers were given, as a special place of honor, the right of the line.
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engaged in their usual occupations. The Major-General, whose martial achievements had been repeated in almost every language under the sun, was seen among his papers in his old law office, which he had left at the call of his country ; the brave Colonel, who had led many a gallant charge, was in his counting house, acting as though he had been absent only a few days on business, while the veterans of the rank and file, whose battle shout had rung over scores of bloody fields, could only be found by name, as one bent over his saw and plane, and another swung his scythe in the harvest field or plied his humble toil along the streets. It was a marvellous sight-the grandest the world ever saw. It had been the people's war-the people had carried it on, and having finished their own work, quietly laid aside the instruments with which they had accom- plished it and again took up those of peaceful industry. Never did a government on earth exhibit such stability and assert its superiority over all other forms as did this repub- lican government of ours in the way its armies disappeared when the struggle was over .*
Reuben E. Fenton, Governor of New York, issued a con- gratulatory address to the returned veterans of his State on the 5th of June. The sentiments therein contained found an echo in the heart of every patriotic citizen. The people of Yates County, especially, were in unison with Governor Fenton in affectionate regard for their kinsmen who had " borne the battle," and their real feelings can be best ex- pressed in the words of the closing paragraph of the Gover- nor's address : "We will treasure your legends, your brave exploits, and the glorified memory of your dead comrades in records more impressive than the monuments of the past, and enduring as the liberties you have secured. The people will regard, with jealous pride, your welfare and honor, not forgetting the widow, the fatherless, and those who were de- pendent upon the fallen hero. The fame and glory you have won for the State and Nation shall be transmitted to our children as a most precious legacy, lovingly to be cherished and reverently to be preserved."
* Headley's History of the Great Rebellion, Vol. 2.
CHAPTER XII.
Citizens of Yates County in Other Commands-Colored Soldiers-The Confederate Service-The United States Navy.
CITIZENS OF YATES COUNTY IN OTHER COMMANDS.
IN writing the Military History of Yates County thus far, mention has been made of those of our soldiers who served in the various regiments in which this county was to any extent represented. There were, however, soldiers in other commands, who, in a certain sense, belong to our county, and whose names might be given .* To give a complete list would not be possible, inasmuch as some of these were born in Yates County, and enlisted from another county or from a distant State, and others now residing within our county's borders have become residents since the close of the war. The names of certain ones belonging to this class, which have come to the knowledge of the writer, are given as fol- lows :
Valentine Allen, private, Co. E, 11th Pa. Cav .; Albert Am- idon, private, Co. G, 8th N. Y. Inf .; Wesley P. Andrews, Captain, Co. I, 42d Ill. Inf .; Charles P. Babcock, Colonel, - Mich. Cav .; Sherwood S. Ball, musician, 19th N. Y. V .; William Bellis, Sergeant, Co. B, 5th Mich. Inf., and Cap-
* In connection with this chapter may be mentioned certain persons by whom, in a military sense, Yates County has been represented. The West Point cadets from our county have been: Walter Stevens, who graduated in 1845. He served in after years in the Confederate army and in Mexico, and is probably not now living. Henry C. Danes, who grad- uated in 1867, and is now stationed at Key West Barracks, Key West, Fla., with the rank of Captain in the 3d U. S. Artillery, commanding Battery I. Ralph W. Hoyt, who gradnated in 1872, and is now stationed at Fort Apache, Ariz., with the rank of Captain of Co. F, IIth Reg't, U. S. In- fantry. John Conklin, Jr., who graduated in 1884, and is now stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., with the rank of First Lieutenant in the 2d U. S. Artillery. Samuel Stewart Ellsworth, Esq., of Penn Yan, served in 1875 and 1876 as Quartermaster General of the State of New York on the staff of Governor Samuel J. Tilden, from which position he acquired the title of General, by which he was commonly known.
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tain, Co. B, 30th Mich. Inf .: William D. Benedict, private, Co. D, 15th N. Y. Cav .; David S. Blauvelt, Corporal, Co. E, 86th N. Y. Inf. (Steuben Rangers); Sweet Brayton, Cor- poral, Co. K, 107th N. Y. Inf .; Samuel B. Briggs, farrier, 2d Mich. Cav .; Robert P. Bush, Captain, Co. E, 185th N. Y. Inf., Major, 185th Inf .; Elliott N. Bush,* Captain, Co. G, 95th Ill. Inf .; Henry M. Bush, Lieutenant, Co. G, 95th Ill. Inf .; Ira Chubb, private, Co. D, 161st N. Y. Inf .; Edwin E. Cleve- land, private, Co. K, 136th N. Y. Inf .; George C. Coleman,* private, Co. A, 161st N. Y. Inf .; Elliott Cornelius, private, Co. M, 4th Pro. Cav .; Andrew J. Criss, private, Co. B, 122d N. Y. Inf .; Bradford Cronk, private, Co. H, 86th N. Y. Inf .; Charles B. Curtis, Captain, Co. A, 57th N. Y. Inf .; Stephen B. Dunton, private, Co. D, 1st Pa. Rifles; Joseph Eveland, private, Co. B, 141st N. Y. Inf .; Benjamin Fullagar, private, Co. A, 3d Wis. Cav., and Captain, Co. K, 3d Wis. Cav .; Robert H. Graham, Major, 8th Kansas Inf .; George M. Gris- wold, private, Co. G, 10th N. Y. Cav .; Charles O. Harring- ton, color-bearer, 3th Wis. Inf .; John Q. Heck, Corporal, Co. C, 166th Ohio National Guard; Henry Augustus Hicks, Lieutenant, 9th Wis. Battery; Foster A. Hixson, paymaster (with the rank of Major); Andrew B. Horton, private, Co. C, 22d Mich. Vols .; William W. Hull, private, Co. D, 120th N. Y. V .; William Hunter,* private, Co. G, 10th N. Y. Cav .; Daniel B. Hurley, Corporal, Co. A, 141st N. Y. Inf .; Robert G. Ingersoll, Colonel, 11th Ill. Cav .; Edward Kendall, pri- vate, Co. H, 107th N. Y. Inf., and Sergeant-Major, 107th N. Y. Inf .; Coates Kinney, Paymaster (with the rank of Major) ; William Kreutzer, Colonel, 98th N. Y. Inf .: George Lee, Colonel, - Mich. Inf., and Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff of General Sheridan; A. Oliver Lewis,* Sergeant- Major, 15th Mich. Inf .; Wilson A. Lewis,t private, Co. B, 20th Mich. Inf .; Eli Long, Colonel, 4th Ohio Cav., and Brig- adier-General U. S. Army (retired list) ; John S. McFarlane, Sergeant, Co. C, 144th N. Y. Inf .; Robert McGilliard, pri- vate, Co. A, 124th Ill. Vols .; Samuel H. Myers, private, Co. A, 19th Ill. Inf .; Hezekiah Newland, private, Co. H, 111th N. Y. Inf., and private, Co. E, 4th N. Y. Heavy Artillery ;
* Killed. + Died.
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John M. Oliver, Lieutenant, Co. A, 4th Mich. Inf., Captain Co. A, 4th Mich. Inf., Colonel, 15th Mich. Inf., Brigadier- General, 3d Brigade, 2d Divison, 15th Army Corps, Major General U. S. Army; George T. Orr, private, Co. G, 54th N. Y. Inf .; Walter L. Orr, private, Co. B, 128th N. Y. Inf .; Erastus N. Owen, Adjutant, 20th Ohio, and Colonel, 5th U. S. Colored Artillery (Heavy); Henry Albert Potter, Captain, Co. A, 4th Mich. Cav., Brevet-Major, 4th Mich. Cav .; Abel Rarick, private, Co. A, 161st N. Y. Inf .; Rila Razey, pri- vate, Co. G, 189th N. Y. Inf .; Jere S. Reed, private, Co. C, 105th N. Y. Inf., and Lieutenant, Co. A, 94th N. Y. Inf .; John Sanderson, private, Co. F, 161st N. Y. Inf., and Ser- geant-Major, 161st N. Y. Inf .; Reuben A. Scofield, private, Co. C, 21st N. Y. Inf., and First Lieutenant, Co. H, 4th U. S. Colored Troops, and Brevet Major U. S. Vols .; Martin V. Sentt, private, Co. H, 68th N. Y. Inf., and private, Co. F, 161st N. Y. Inf .; J. Dorman Steele, Cap- tain, Co. K, 81st N. Y. Inf .; George B. Stewart, Sergeant, Co. F, 205th Pa. Vols .; Harlan P. Sturdevant, private, Co. E, 101st N. Y. Inf., and private, Co. K, 40th N. Y. Inf .; George W. Thornton, private, Co. B, 64th N. Y. Inf .; George Titus, Lieutenant, Co. K, 5th Conn. Vols .; Leroy Tobey, pri- vate, Co. G, 26th N. Y. Inf .; Homer M. Townsend, musician, 89th N. Y. Inf .; George B. Tyler,* Lieutenant, 3d Mich. Battery; Joseph Le VanBender, Lieutenant, Co. B, 52d Pa. Vols., and Lieutenant, Co. D, 168th Pa. Vols .; Jesse R. Welch, private, Co. D, 24 Mich. Vols .; Samuel M. Whitbeck, private, Co. H, 18th N. Y. Vols., and private, Co. M, 6th N. Y. Cav., Sergeant, 2d Pro. Reg't, N. Y. Mounted Rifles; Wil- liam H. Whitfield, private, Co. G, 149th N. Y. Inf .; J. Au- gustus Winans, t private, Co. A, 18th Wis. Inf .; Erastus B. Wolcott, Surgeon-General, State of Wisconsin.
COLORED SOLDIERS.
Among the residents of Yates County, who served in the war, were the following colored soldiers :
Company A, 26th New York Infantry .- Privates, Sidney Babcock, Stephen Jolın Beames, John Butler, William John- son, Amos Riggs, George Steadman, Samuel Steadman.
* Killed. t Died.
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Henry Hamilton, private, Company E, 54th Massachusetts Infantry; Nelson Jones, private, Company K, 20th New York Infantry; William Maxfield, private, Company I, 6th United States Colored Troops; Frank Suzey, private, Com- pany K, 14th Rhode Island Infantry; Thomas Jefferson Van Houter, private, Company E, 14th Rhode Island Infan- try ; Henry Hale, wagoner.
THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE.
Several persons who were born in Yates County, and others who became residents since the war, were, either by inclination or force of circumstances, in the Confederate service. Those of our citizens, who were on the Confederate side, were as follows:
David E. Dewey, (conscripted into the Confederate ser- vice, but afterwards served in the Union army.) James A. Henderson, (performed railroad service under military authority.) Stanley M. Warner Nevins, (taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, while serving in the Confederate army.) Hopestill R. Phillips, Lieutenant, Company K, Tenth Vir- ginia Cavalry, (captured at Gettysburg by the Union forces, and held on Johnson's Island till the close of the war.) Walter Stevens (educated at West Point, served in the Con- federate army through the war, and, after the war, served for a time in Mexico on the staff of the Emperor Maximilian.) Walter Wolcott, Jr., Lieutenant, Company A, Vicksburg Volunteer Southrons, (killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 .* )
THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
Yates County, though remote from the seaboard, was rep- resented to some extent in the United States Navy. The
* Walter Wolcott, Jr., the third son of Dr. Wolcott, was born in Starkey in 1827. He was educated at the common schools and at Starkey Semin- ary, and was afterwards a book-keeper in Rochester, N. Y., and St. Louis, Mo., and a merchant at Rodney and at Vicksburg, Miss. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the rebel army, and held the rank of Lieutenant in the "Vicksburg Volunteer Southrons." In Longstreet's terrible charge at Gettysburg he was slain. All accounts describe him as a brave man, leading his men with undaunted courage on that bloody field. He was remarkable as a mathematical student, and as an accom- plished violin player .- Cleveland's History of Yates County, Vol. 2.
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following persons, belonging to this county, served in the navy during the late war: Charles Asa Babcock, Lieutenant, afterward promoted to Captain and then to Commander of the U. S. Ironclad Canonicus; Russell H. Carr, U. S. Steam- ship Connecticut; Thomas M. Dunham, U. S. S. North Car- olina; Delos C. Hubbard, paymaster steward, U. S. S. Savannah; George Madden, marine service; Martin Mann, North Atlantic Squadron; Henry H. McIntyre, U. S. S. Salona, Southern Blockade Squadron; Albert R. Rice, Sur- geon ; D. Clinton Robinson, U. S. Steamship Rhode Island, also in the South Atlantic Squadron; Alvin R. Stone, U. S. S. Gertrude, West Gulf Squadron.
Since the war Yates County has been represented in the Navy as follows: Jerome B. House, who entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1864. Graduated in 1868. Promoted to the rank of Ensign in 1869. Promoted to the rank of Master in 1870. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1873. Died January 9, 1881. George K. Powell, wlio was attached to the U. S. War Steamer Wateree, and was at the earthquake at Arica, Peru, in 1868. Frank H. Schofield, who entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1886. Graduated in 1891. Now attached to the U. S. Man-of-war Marblehead, of the White Squadron.
CHAPTER XIII.
Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic in Yates County-J. Barnet Sloan Post, No. 93, at Penn Yan-Decoration Day Observances at Penn Yan in 1869 and 1870-Memorial Volume Presentation-William H. Long Post, No. 486, at Penn Yan-Edwin and Foster P. Cook Post, No. 71, at Dundee-Hays Post, No. 115, at Potter-Scott Post, No. 319, at Rushville-The Woman's Relief Corps-The Ladies of the Grand Arıny of the Republic.
SLOAN POST AT PENN YAN.
O N the evening of April 22, 1869, Commander G. Fred Potter, of Post Baldwin, No. 6, of Elmira, having been specially detailed from Headquarters, Grand Army of the Re- public, Department of New York, reported for duty at Penn Yan, with his assistants, Comrades D. G. Beckwith and W. H. Davis, of the same post, and proceeded to organize Post No. 93 at this place. The following constituted the charter members: Martin S. Hicks, Ab. W. Shearman, Jere S. Reed, George Titus, S. Harvey Ackley, Hanford Struble, Truman N. Burrill, J. Loren Robbins, Cassius N. McFarren, and Josiah C. Baker. The first officers were as follows: Martin S. Hicks, Commander; Ab. W. Shearman, Senior Vice Commander; Jere S. Reed, Junior Vice Commander ; Charles B. Turner, Adjutant; Hanford Struble, Chaplain ; S. Harvey Ackley, Quartermaster; Truman N. Burrill, Offi- cer of the Day; J. Loren Robbins, Officer of the Guard. At the time of organization, Post No. 93 was named in honor of Major J. Barnet Sloan, of the One Hundred and Seventy- ninth Regiment of New York Volunteers, who was mortally wounded in front of Petersburg, June 17, 1864.
Decoration Day was first observed in Penn Yan on the 29tlı of May of the same year. At three o'clock in the after- noon of that day, the people having assembled in the Penn Yan Cemetery, a procession was formed at the cemetery entrance, and conducted by Major John Cooley, as Marshal, and Majors Truman N. Burrill and George W. Waddell and Captains George Brennan and Morris F. Sheppard, as As- sistants. The procession was formed in the following order:
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Marshal and Aids. Frank J. Gifford's Band of Music. The Clergy. Soldiers' Committee,* Representing Ten Different Regiments. Decorating Committee of Twelve Young Ladies, Preceded by Major Han- ford Struble, as President of the Day, and by the Orator and Poet of the Occasion. Ladies' Committee of Arrangements. t Penn Yan Amateur Glee Club. Soldiers of the Late War. Citizens Generally.
The procession passed over the grounds, visiting each sol- dier's grave, which was decorated with flowers, as the name, rank, and regiment of the deceased soldier was announced by the President of the Day. When this memorial service was concluded the exercises began by a prayer by the Rev. N. Judson Clark, followed by singing by the Amateur Glee Club of the "Decoration Hymn." An introductory address was then delivered by Major Hanford Struble, after which came the regular address by Major Robert P. Bush. A Memorial Poem,# which was prepared by the reader for the
* The Soldiers' Committee on this first Decoration Day ceremony con- prised the following veterans: John T. Andrews, 2d, David A. Bradley, George Brennan, Truman N. Burrill, Robert P. Bush, John Cooley, Mar- tin S. Hicks, H. Augustus Hicks, Charles Kelly, Richard B. Mahar, J. Loren Robbins, Morris F. Sheppard, Newton B. Spencer, Hanford Stru- ble, George W. Waddel !.
t The Ladies' Committee of Arrangements that year were as follows : Mrs. Janet Lee Fish, Mrs. Jane O. Lewis, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Long, Mrs. Judith Ogden, and Mrs. Caroline M. Stark.
#The last two verses of the Memorial Poem read on this occasion are here re-produced :
All of our patriotic dead Lie not among these mounds, For many sleep within the soil Of distant battle-grounds. In conflicts desperate and hot Some comrades fell and died,
And strangers gave rude burial The rebel foe beside.
FARWELL and BROWN, BELL, WOLCOTT, BEACH, And others sleep to-day Where Southward, armed battalions fought, In fierce and bloody fray.
But Memory reaches ont to them, As unto otliers here,
Guarding their fame with solemn trust, And holds thei ever dear.
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occasion, was then read by Newton B. Spencer. After the reading of the poem, the patriotic anthem, "America," sung by the Amateur Glee Club, and the benediction, pronounced by the Rev. David Magie, closed the exercises of the day.
On the 30th of May of the following year (1870) Decora- tion Day was observed more directly under the auspices of the Post. The members met at 2 p. m. at the Post Room, and marched to the front of Bush's Hall, on Main Street, where a line of march was formed, under the direction of Charles C. Hicks, as Marshal, in the following order:
Martial Band. Choir. Delegation of Knights Templar. Clergy. Speakers and Poet. Ladies' Committee of Arrangements. Decorative Committee. Floral Committee. Post Sloan and Soldiers. Good Templars. Citizens.
The procession marched to the Penn Yan Cemetery, where the graves of the deceased soldiers who were at that time interred in this cemetery were decorated by the Floral Committee. At each grave a short sketch of the life of the soldier there buried was given by the Commander of the Post. The names of the soldiers whose graves were then decorated were as follows: George E. Brazee, Co. A, 50th N. Y. Eng .; Damon Lay, Co. I, 33d N. Y. Inf .; Lyman Gray, Co. F, 148th N. Y. Inf .; Augustus F. Murdock, Co. I, 33d N. Y. Inf .; Willis E. Pierce, Co. I, 148th N. Y. Inf .; John A. Holmes, Co. I, 33d N. Y. Inf .; Stanford J. Bigelow, Co. L, 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery; William T. Clark, Co. B,
In all our annals glorified Illustriously bright, Their laurel wreaths shall never fade In blank Oblivion's night; But while Our Banner's Stars remain The symbols of our power, The fruitage of their daring deeds Will richer grow each hour. In future storm or while our peace Glows golden as the sun, As sacred as "The Heart of Bruce," We'll keep what we have won.
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179th N. Y. Inf .: Lieutenant A. Oliver Lewis, 15th Mich. Inf .. Sergeant William Riker, Co. I, 33d N. Y. Inf .; Lieu- tenant-Colonel George C. Lee, United States Army ; Sergeant H. M. Dunbar, Co. I, 148th N. Y. Inf .; William F. Pierce, Co. I, 33d N. Y. Inf .; Sergeant Thomas Hunter, Co. L, 14tlı N. Y. Heavy Artillery; J. Henry Olmstead, Co. A, 22d N. Y. Cav .; John B. Ingles, Co. G, 85th N. Y. Inf .; Colonel J. Smith Brown, 126th N. Y. Inf .; Major J. Barnet Sloan, 179th N. Y. Inf .; John Alcooke, the Soldiers' Friend; Cap- tain Samuel Wilson, 39th United States Colored Troops; John Moxcey, Jr., Co. L, 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery. A general decoration was also given in honor of all dead sol- diers belonging to the county who are elsewhere buried.
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