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The muster-in roll of Companies B, F, and I is as follows : Company B .- Hiram T. Hewitt, Captain; Hanford Stru- ble, First Lieutenant; George W. Waddell, Second Lieuten- ant; Randall G. Bacon, Orderly; James Monroe Shoemaker, Second Sergeant; George Beebe, Third Sergeant; Legrand Terry, Fourth Sergeant; Myers T. Webb, Fifth Sergeant; Anson A. Raplee, First Corporal; Byron Beam, Second Corporal; Charles Smith, Third Corporal; Leroy Green, Fourth Corporal; David Griswold, Fifth Corporal; Perry W. Danes,t Sixth Corporal; James H. Coons, Seventh Cor- poral; John DeBolt,# Eighth Corporal; Privates, Henry N. Armstrong,* Samuel P. Benhamn, Alfred Brown, Charles W. Bush, Andrew Bradley, Henry F. Buckley, Joseph Conklin, George W. Chamberlain, Daniel Cook, Foster P. Cook, Richard Chapman, Charles Chambers, William H. Cham- bers, Harmon O. Chambers, John Clark* George Coons, Joseph B. Clark,* Sanford B. Dickinson, Perry Dunton, Joseph A. Decker, William B. Davies, David Dunham,# James M. Egerton, Alvin B. Eaves, James S. Ellis, Charles H. Elwood, Michael Fitzgerald,+ James E. Foster, George G. Fulkerson, Lindla C. Foster, Benjamin Grace, Alfred Griswold, Charles W. Gabriel, Myron A. Guthrie, Samuel Headley, Albert Headley, Alexander P. Houghtailing, Ste- phen K. Halleck, Francis L. Hall, Freeman L. Hilliger,* John L. Headley, David Hughes, Volney S. Haff, John Kean, John H. Knapp, George Katterer,# Jerome B. La- fever, Thomas B. Little, Elisha Lackey,# George F. Mitchell,+ Warren McDuffee, John Morrison, Samuel Minard, Andrew Morrison, Adam S. Miller, Theodore J. Murray, Thomas E. Raplee, Charles F. Rentz, Ira H. Robinson, Charles Ross, Charles Shiltz,* Lyman A. Stoll, Peter G. Swarts, Charles M. Swarthout, James M. Smith, Thomas J. Strait, Squire V. Straway, Mason Spink, Edward A. Tennant, Samuel R. Ten-
* Killed. +Wounded. ¿ Died.
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nant,+, George R. Tulbs, t James Tuttle, John H. Tymerson, t Nelson E. Woodruff, James M. Witler, George M. Winans.
Company F .- Harvey R. Gardner,t Captain; Melvin D. Wilson, First Lieutenant; Aaron J. Cook,1 Second Lieuten- ant; William S. Vorce, Orderly; Nathaniel H. Green, Sec- ond Sergeant; Frank C. Fairchild, Third Sergeant; William H. Kelsey, Fourth Sergeant; Leroy J. Harkness, Fifth Ser- geant; Robert Mills, First Corporal; John Earl, Second Corporal; William S. Huie, Third Corporal; Charles W. Peters, Fourth Corporal; William N. Reddout, Fifth Cor- poral; James M. Gates, Sixth Corporal; Charles S. Van Ness, Seventh Corporal; David Crist, Eighth Corporal; Philip Walthers, Jr., Henry A. Sayre, Musicians; Ezra Prouty, Wagoner; Privates, James G. Ansley, George A. Ansley,# Jonas Austin, § William Blue, t George Broad- brooks,* Lansford O. Babbit, John W. Barnes, Hiram H. Barnes,* John H. Benedict, George W. Benedict,§ Lewis R. Carvey, Owen Conway,i John Conway, Albert W. Clark, William H. Cole, John J. Conley, William A. Carr, John S. Caton, William H. Crocker," Daniel Davis, Claudius C. Farr, George W. Fisher, George Ford, Joseph C. Foster, Jacob W. Fountain, William H. Fountain, William H. Fran- cisco, John C. Fox, Francis Farr, Frederick Green, Benjamin Gleason, Lyman Gray,# William Ginther," Nathan A. Goff,* Lyman D. Green, t Myron F. Hawley, William T. Hawley, Henry Hiltebidal," George W. Hall, John Hanlon,* Jerome S. Johnson,* Jacob Korb, John J. Lawton,} Alanson E. Lyon, William Lamereaux, Wilber Loomis, Daniel Mc- Ginniss, William Monagle, Ashley McDonald, George N. Miller,# Lawrence McCumber, Willis Nicholson, Martin W. Parsons, Ezra P. Pritchard,§ George H. Parsons, John Pierce, Jacob H. Radley, Josiah Reed, Barney C. Ross, Albert I. Sharp, Charles W. Stark, 1 Theodore M. Stearns, Samuel Salsbury, George Sherwood,§ Joseph Sprague, t John Shannon, John Slater,* Loyal C. Twitchell, Manlius L. Tay- lor, Franklin Thompson, Norman Taylor," Jonathan G. Twitchell, Robert Underhill,§ Abram Voorhees, William A. Wilson,+ William H. Wolvin, Levi Waters, Emory N. Wil-
* Killed. +Wounded. ¿ Died. ¿ Deserted.
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son,§ George Wright,* Isaac Wilkins, Thomas F. Wells, Charles E. Wells, Abraham Youngs.
Company I .- Martin S. Hicks,+ Captain; John Cooley, t First Lieutenant; Morgan D. Tracy, 2d, Second Lieutenant ; Edward Cole, Orderly; Charles C. Miller, t Leonard M. Bo- hall, Caleb G. Jackson,* Oliver F. Long,+ Luther S. Meeker, Sergeants; J. Harvey Randall, Richard M. Jones, John L. Potter," Lawrence Cooney, Jr., t Walter W. Becker, George Schofield, Samuel P. Strong, William Welcher,t Corporals; Privates, George B. Alvord, Robert D. Brown, Lucius B. Bennett, Franklin D. Becker,# Isaac D. Blood, Martin Bnt- ler, Isaac Benson,# William P. Blouin, John Carr, t James B. Crouch,# Stephen Coon, William Cornell, Lorenzo D. Capell, Peter S. Conklin," Clark Castner, Ward Campbell,¿ Albert E. Dean, S. Decker, William A. Dunning,* Patrick Duffy,“ Henry M. Dunbar," Jordan Davis, t James H. Eckerson,"Wil- liam H. Fries, 1 Peter Finger,# Oliver M. Finger,t George D. Feagles," William D. Frye," William Gallagher,f Edward L. Granger, George S. Gardner, Charles Gray, James German, Abraham Houghtailing, Henry Hurlbert,f Isaac Haunsond, Sidney House,# William Huber,# Benjamin F. Hood, Robert Holmes, Jr., George Hillier, Luther S. Hayes, John J. Jackson,t John Keating, Stephen H. Kitch,# Dennis Lewis, t Simeon Lackey, Damon Lay,# William Matthews, t H. R. Meade,t Abraham Miller, Lewis B. Moon, Seely E. Palmatier, John D. Pool,+ Lorenzo N. Pettit,# Oliver Press- ler,1 Andrew J. Phelps, Willis E. Pierce,; Otis B. Ryall,} George Robertson, Aaron D. Robertson, t Jarvis W. Randall, Lewis B. Randall, Charles H. Reno, Frank Smith,t Gideon C. Spink, Isaac Spink, Luther Sisson, Alonzo Spears,t David Sands,# Edward H. Sine, t Philip L. Shaw,+ Daniel S. Shaw,§ J. H. VanBenthuysen,* Augustus Whitaker, David P. Wilcox, William Wright,{ J. J. Wright,t Charles E. Willis,* Charles W. Wheeler, Lemuel Wheat, Alva H. Wheat, t John C. Youngs.S
Company E .- Ezra Fenner, Private.
Company G .- Privates, Bennett Bogardus, Benjamin Miles.
* Killed. +Wounded. ¿ Died. ¿ Deserted.
CHAPTER IX.
The First Independent Battery-Battery B (Third Light Artillery)-The Fourteenth and Sixteenth Heavy Artillery.
THE FIRST INDEPENDENT BATTERY.
T THE First Independent Battery of Light Artillery was organized and mustered into service at Auburn, Nov. 23, 1861. It served in the Fourth Corps of the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsular Campaign, and in the Sixth Corps during the Gettysburg and Wilderness campaigns. It also served in the Shenandoah Valley and in the contests before Petersburg in the Twenty-second Corps, and again in the Sixth Corps to the close of the war. Commanded by Captain Andrew Cowan, it was honorably discharged and mustered out June 22, 1865, at Syracuse, N. Y.
The following artillerymen in the First Independent Bat- tery were from Yates County: Privates, John B. Cornell, John Lyon,* James Moon, Elijalr Townsend.
BATTERY B (THIRD LIGHT ARTILLERY).
On the 17th of December, 1861, a new company, under Captain Joseph J. Morrison, t recruited in part in Penn Yan, was mustered into the United States service for three years at New York. The company remained in garrison at Palace Garden in that city until the following March, when orders were received to go to the front. The company went from New York to Arlington Heights, and after being stationed in Fort Corcoran, Fort Ethan Allen, and Fort DeKalb, was sent by transport to New Berne, N. C. At this place it was converted (in May, 1862) into a light battery, and was desig- nated as Battery B, of the Third Light Artillery. This bat- tery served in the artillery brigade of the Eighteenth Corps in the expedition from New Berne to Goldsboro (Dec. 11 to 17, 1862), and participated in engagements at Little Wash-
* Wounded.
tAfterwards Colonel of the 16th Heavy Artillery.
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ington, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Hamilton, Southport Creek, and Wall's Mills. Battery B then served during 1863 and the greater part of 1864 on St. Helena Island, near Port Royal, S. C., and on Seabrook Island, Folly Island, Morris Island, Cole's Island, John's Island, James Island, and Sul- livan's Island, in and about Charleston Harbor, taking part in the seige of and assault upon Fort Wagner, and the bom- bardment of Fort Sumter and of Charleston.
In the last of November, 1864, General Foster, command- ing on the above mentioned sea islands, was directed by General Halleck to make a demonstration inland in behalf of General Sherman, who was then on his triumphant march across the State of Georgia. General Foster, taking five thousand men, ascended Broad River (in South Carolina) on steamboats, landing at Devaux Neck. The advance under General Hatch (in which Battery B was included) having been sent forward to seize the Charleston and Savannah railroad, encountered (Nov. 30th) a strong Confederate force entrenched on Honey Hill, covering the railroad. A sharp conflict ensued, which lasted till nightfall .* The Union troops were repulsed, but they succeeded in cutting the rail- road and in firing and destroying the railroad bridge over the Coosawatchie River. Battery B was afterward stationed, for about three weeks, at Fort Pocotaligo, there meeting Sherman's army, which had taken Savannah, and was on the march northward. At the fall of Charleston, Battery B was among the forces that occupied the city. It then moved to Orangeburg, then to Branchville, then to Columbia, and then back again to Charleston, embarking at that place for New York, and was mustered out July 13, 1865, at Syracuse, un- der Captain Thomas J. Mersereau.
The following soldiers from Yates County served in Bat-
* Private James H. Greening, of Battery B, was mortally wounded in this battle, and died at Hilton Head, S. C., on Christmas Day. The Yates County Chronicle mentioned him as follows : "James H. Green- ing died at Hilton Head, Dec. 25th, aged 28 years. He was wounded at the battle of Honey Hill, Nov. 30th. His father, Jacob Greening, died a soldier in this war, having served in the 105th N. Y. Vols. We learn that James proved himself a good soldier, and that he also evinced hin- self a kind and dutiful son by sending his wages to his mother."
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tery B, Third Light Artillery : George C. Breck, Second Lieu- tenant; Delos C. Hubbard, Drill Sergeant ; Privates, Lee Bookstaver, Warren Brenenstull, James H. Eckerson, Wil- liam F. Edgett, Nelson Elliott, Michael Farrell, David Finger,t, Harlow Finger, James H. Greening, George J. Greening, Sylvester Griswold, Aaron Griswold, Johnson Henries,t Albert Henries, John Hughes, Patrick Lahan, Edward M. Lester, John Light, Andrew J. Matthews, Darius Matthews, Stephen Matthews, Vosburgh McGlaugh- lin, George H. McGlaughlin,t Warren Miller,t William H. Miller,+ John S. Phelps, Charles A. Rector, John F. Rob- inson, James H. Smith, Albert Travis, Edward A. Travis, John Travis, Robert H. Wilson. Battery E, Charles Ham- mond, private.
THE FOURTEENTH ARTILLERY ( HEAVY ).
The Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, Colonel Elisha G. Marshall commanding, was organized at Rochester and numbered among its members many who had previously seen two years' military service. Companies G and L, each recruited in part in Yates County, were, respectively on the 7th of December, 1863, and on the 8th of January, 1864, mustered at Rochester into the United States service for three years. The two companies were then ordered to re- port for duty in New York Harbor. Company G was sta- tioned at Fort Richmond and Company L at Sandy Hook, together with Company M, in which commanded George Brennan, of Yates County, as First Lieutenant, afterward promoted to Captain. These three companies, with the rest of the regiment, remained serving as heavy artillery and infantry in New York harbor until April, 1864, when orders were received to join the Army of the Potomac. The regi- ment, going by transport, united with this army at Wash- ington and became part of the Third Brigade of the First Division of the Ninth Corps.# In the Wilderness campaign (May 5 to June 2, 1864) it was actively engaged, taking part in the following battles: The Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
* Killed. +Wounded.
¿The Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery was at this time formed into three battalions.
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North Anna, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, and Cold Har- bor. The regiment lost in this last engagement Captain Luther Kieffer and Lieutenant Elisha Bently, killed and one hundred and nineteen enlisted men killed, wounded, and missing. In assaults on the enemy's works in front of Petersburg the Fourteenth Heavy Artillery lost heavily in killed and wounded, among the former being Major Job C. Hedges, Captain Nimrod Underhill, Jr., and Lieutenant Andrew Gossin. At the Mine Explosion on the morning of July 30, 1864, the regiment was the first of the charging column to enter the Crater .* It here lost Lieutenant Ezra T. Hartley and nine enlisted men killed, and five officers and one hundred and eight enlisted men wounded and miss- ing. It then participated at the taking of the Weldon Rail- roadt (Aug. 18th to 21st), and in engagements at Pegram Farm (Sept. 30th) and Hatcher's Run (Oct. 27th).
On the 25th of March, 1865, an attempt was made by Lee to break through Grant's lines, and a vigorous assault was made by the Confederates upon Fort Steadman. The as- sault was made at daybreak by two divisions under General Gordon, the Fourteenth Louisiana Tigers taking the lead, and the fort and two morter batteries adjoining it were taken.
* A crater, a hundred feet long and fifty feet wide, and twenty feet deep appeared where the six-gun fort had been, over which hung a cloud of mingled dust and smoke like a great pall. The next moment came the roar of a gun, and then another and another, till a hundred cannon along our line were playing upon the rebel batteries. The bugles rang out, the drums beat, and in dashed Ledlie's division, Marshall's brigade leading the advance. Though taken wholly by surprise, the rebels rallied with wonderful quickness and in a short time, from right and left, their ar- tillery was in full play on the storming party, that, with loud cheers, charged on a run over the intervening space. The Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery first entered the gap, followed by Marshall's second bri- gade, which went pellmell into the smoking crater, from the bottom of which protruded half buried limbs and mangled bodies of men .- Head- ley's History of the Great Rebellion, Vol. 2.
+ Horace Greeley, in describing the taking of the Weldon Railroad (The American Conflict, Vol. 2), says: "After a pause he [Gen. Warren] moved on, and was soon struck on his left flank-the enemy advancing by a road wholly unknown to our officers-and 200 of the Maryland bri- gade captured. The brigade, falling back under the wing of the 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery (now serving as infantry), that regiment stood its ground, and by rapid and deadly volleys repelled the enemy,
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Here the triumph of the enemy ended. The assault on Fort Haskell, to the left of Fort Steadman, though determinedly made, was promptly repulsed. Companies G and H and six other companies belonging to the Fourteenth Heavy Ar- tillery were, at the time of this attack, stationed in a redoubt to the right of Fort Steadman, and Companies L and M were stationed in Fort Haskell. The regiment,§ though surprised, fought bravely and grandly aided in repulsing the enemy, and also took a leading part in the counter-assault by which a portion of the Confederate outer works were captured. The Fourteenth Heavy Artillery further distin- guished itself in the capture of and entry into Petersburg on the 2d of April. The regiment, still commanded by Colonel Marshall, was honorably discharged and mustered out Aug. 26, 1865, at Washington, D. C.
The citizens of Yates County in Companies G, H, L, and M, were as follows :
Company G .- Privates, James E. Almy,t Samuel An- drews, George H. Blakesley, Dewitt C. Bassett, Levi R. Bassett, John A. Bailey,t Lee Bookstaver, Robert Bell, George W. Carr, Daniel Dailey," George Davis, James A. Dayton, Andrew J. Dunn, Llewellyn Dunn, George B. Dunn, William Fowler,t George N. Ford, Adelbert Haight, Michael Halloran, James Hunter, Mason Lang, Amos Mc- Glaughlin, Michael Mahar,t John M. Mahan, Matthew Maddox, Charles L. Paris, Patrick Queenan, Benjamin Rhodes, George Reynolds, George F. Sprague, Charles Shuter, Eugene L. Smith, Martin Schiem, Seymour H. Shultz, Jeremiah E. Sprague,t (promoted to Sergeant, after- wards to Second Lieutenant,) Lee Thomas, John Tuell, Oliver Wyman, Hazard Wheeler. Company H-Adelbert Dorman, James Peckins. Company L-Privates, Nathaniel S. Briggs,
¿ The loss sustained by the 14th N. Y. Heavy Artillery in this action was nine officers and 265 enlisted men killed, wounded, and taken pris- oners. Major Charles H. Houghton, who was in command of the bat- talion at Fort Haskel!, and through whose bravery the men were enabled to liold the fort until help arrived, was wounded and lost his leg. Ser- geants Stanford J. Bigelow and Thomas Hunter, both of Yates County, were here killed.
* Killed. +Wounded.
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Stanford J. Bigelow,* (promoted to Sergeant), Dewitt C. Bell, Patrick Barrett, Henry O. Briggs, Isaiah D. Brockway,} John S. Constantine, John Covert,t Henry Carey, Charles E. Downing, Andrew J. Dunn, John B. Dunn, George Hunter,t Thomas Hunter,* (promoted to Sergeant), George A. Jennison, Darwin King, John Killeullen, Robert B. Lewis, George MeDonald," George D. Moore, John Moxcey, Jr., Melvin Perry, John C. St. John,# Gideon C. Spink, William D. Seamans, t Samuel O. Wheaton, John W. Wood- ruff,* Joseph Woolf. Company M-George Brennan, First Lieutenant (promoted afterward to Captain), William H. Gladding, Private (transferred to the Norfolk Post Band).
THE SIXTEENTH ARTILLERY (HEAVY.)
The Sixteenth Regiment, Artillery, New York, Colonel Joseph J. Morrison commanding, was organized in the year 1863 at New York City, and as rapidly as batteries were re- cruited and organized they were sent on to the South, locating at Yorktown and at Gloucester Point, Va. At the latter named place they went into winter quarters, remaining there until the spring of '64. At that time a portion of the regiment was sent to Williamsburg and Fort Magruder on the Penin- sula above Yorktown, and another portion to Yorktown, the rest remaining at Gloucester Point.
In the latter part of the spring or early summer of the same year Companies A, B, C, F, G, and K, comprising a battalion under command of Major Frederick W. Prince, were ordered to Bermuda Hundred and served as infantry, and in this battalion Company (or Battery) G was com- manded by Captain Morris F. Sheppard, of Yates County. When General Butler, in July, called for volunteers to com- mence the digging of the Dutch Gap Canal, these six com- panies responded to the call and were the first to engage in that work. Later they were attached to the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Tenth Army Corps, under Gen- eral Terry, in the trenches in front of Petersburg, and while there were for many weeks under continuous fire by day and night.
*Killed. +Wounded. į Died.
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In October they marched across the Peninsula with But- ler's army to Deep Bottom, and succeeded in reaching closer to Richmond than any other troops prior to this time. In fact they could distinctly hear the fire alarm bells, by which the residents called out the reserve. During this period they took part in a number of engagements, namely: West Point, Va., Dutch Gap Canal, Deep Bottom, Cox's Landing, James River, Petersburg Entrenchments, Signal Hill, Cha- pin's Farm, Laurel Hill," Darbytown Road and Charles City Road, Fort Fisher, Cape Fear River Entrenchments, Fort Anderson, Wilmington, and Northeast Branch of Cape Fear River, N. C. They were especially selected by General Terry to accompany his .expedition, which succeeded in the
*The New York Sunday Mercury of November 6, 1864, contained a letter from a member of the Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery relating the part taken by that regiment in this engagement that had recently occurred in front of Richmond. From this letter the following extract is taken : "Officers were endeavoring with threats and blows to rally the men, and finally succeeded in forming a line of battle, with the First Di- vision of the Tenth Army Corps. The Second Brigade, called par excel- lence the fighting brigade, stood comparatively cali, awaiting the exultant Johnnys, who, after cautiously surveying the line, chose our regiments' position as the most salient point to attack, hoping we would give way, when the day would be their own, and our army forced back over the James or be annihilated. But they were mistaken. Our men never fired a gun till they approached within fifteen yards, when a rebel Cap- tain, planting his colors in the ground, shouted, 'Now, you damned Yankees, there is our flag; we will fight for it.' These were his last words on this earth-a ball entering his eye sent him to settle accounts with his Maker. The blaze from the musketry was terrific. Not a man flinched. Major Frederick W. Prince cooly cheered his men ; and, without his order, no wounded man was borne to the rear. When one dropped another immediately stepped into his place, and after three-quarters of an hour of as fierce fighting as old veterans declared they had ever witnessed, the Johnnys were glad to retire. The men were anxious to charge after the flag, but it was not permitted, as it was presumed the Rebs would not have displayed so much bravado if they were not well supported by artil- lery. Being in close line, individual bravery had no opportunity of ex- hibiting itself, but the conduct of Captains Green, Beach, and Sheppard, and Lieutenants Cook, Lawrence, Smart, Hall, and Foster deserves praise. Majors Prince and Pearce acquitted themselves very creditably, and the boys of the Sixteenth have shown themselves worthy of the good opinion always entertained of them by their Colonel, J. J. Morrison, and are entitled to his gratitude. General Terry complimented the regiment twice during the day.
JACKSON."
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capture of Fort Fisher, and the brigade of which they formed a part were the troops to which the Fort surrendered. Gen- eral Terry expressed his appreciation of the part taken by this regiment by selecting Captain Sheppard, with a large detachment, to conduct the prisoners taken at Fort Fisher, Smithville, and other points in and about the Cape Fear River, to the North. Later, a portion of the regiment, with the rest of the troops under General Terry, captured Wil- mington (February 22, 1865), and a large number of Union prisoners from Salisbury, Raleigh, and Columbia were at this time transferred into the Federal lines. After Wilming- ton and that part of the Carolinas had been practically abandoned by the Confederates, this regiment was detailed to positions of responsibility in and about the mouth of Cape Fear River. A portion, under Major Prince, was sta- tioned at Fort Fisher, and two companies at Smithville, un- der Captain Sheppard, who was also Provost-Marshal for that part of the State, a position, at that time, of great re- sponsibility. Later, in the summer of 1865, the several com- panies composing the regiment united near Alexandria, Va., and remained together until the latter part of August, when they were sent to Hart's Island and there mustered out.
The citizens of Yates County in Battery G.were: . Morris F. Sheppard, Captain; Putnam Demming, Orderly Sergeant ; Privates, Cassius N. McFarren, Addison R. Shultz, Andrew E. Ten Broek.
CHAPTER X.
The One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment of Infantry.
A MONG the many regiments which, during the war, were furnished by the Empire State, the One Hun- dred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteers is entitled to prominence for the bravery and patriotism that this com- mand in several engagements displayed. The ten companies of infantry, composing the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth, were raised in the following places: Company A, in Horse- heads; Company B, in Elmira; Company C, in Hornells- ville; Company D, in Dunkirk; Company E, in Buffalo; Company F, in Penn Yan; Company G, in Buffalo; Com- pany H, in Elmira; Company I, in Newfield; and Company K, in Binghamton. The following were the field and staff officers of the regiment at the time of its organization on the 5th of April, 1864: Colonel, William M. Gregg; Lieutenant- Colonel, Franklin B. Doty; Major, J. Barnet Sloan; Adju- tant, George W. Cook; Quartermaster, Nathaniel P. T. Finch; Surgeon, Joseph W. Robinson; Assistant-Surgeon, William C. Bailey; Chaplain, Edwin A. Taft.
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