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THE CLEVELAND GRAYS.
For over twenty years this splendid company had won fame as an indepen- dent company and became the pride of the city. Now that war in earnest had come, how would they stand ?
They started for the defense of Washington, via Columbus, on April 16th, the next day after the president's first call for volunteers. Its first skirmish, on June 17th, was at Vienna, Virginia, while aboard train, the awkwardest posi- tion a regiment can be placed in. It was Company D, First Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. The regiment drove the enemy off and resumed its journey. It was in the first battle of Bull Run, July 2Ist, not having a very active part, but it covered a portion of the retreat in good and regular order, for which it was highly complimented. Its regiment soon after reorganized for three years and the Grays reenlisted for three years and became Company E, First Ohio Volun- teer Infantry. Before detailing its service, let us notice the patriotic influence it exerted at home. Although it had a company in the field, it always had mem- bers at home, and recruits ever rushed to its recruiting office. In 1862, the Grays raised two companies D and E for the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. In 1864 it raised five companies for the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and furnished nearly all the regimental officers. This regi- ment was practically a Cleveland command. The Grays also, first and last, furnished to the Civil war eighty commissioned officers.
SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY, 610 Cleveland men .- Colonel, Wm. R. Creighton ; lieutenant colonel Orrin J. Crane; surgeon, Curtis J. Bellows; assistant sur- geon, Henry K. Cushing; assistant surgeon, John C. Ferguson; adjutant, Morris Baxter ; adjutant, Louis G. DeForest; adjutant, Jos. B. Molyneaux ; chaplain, F. T. Brown; chaplain, Dean C. Wright; captain, Wm. A. Howe, Company A; captain, Geo. A. McKay, Company A; captain, Jos. B. Molyneaux, Company A; first lieutenant, Dwight H. Brown, Company A; second lieutenant, Dudley A. Kimball, Company A; captain, Mervin Clark, Company B; first lieutenant, Edward H. Bohm, Company B; first lieutenant, Henry Z. Eaton, Company B; first lieutenant, Thos. T. Sweeney, Company B; second lieutenant, Joseph Cryne, Company B; captain, Llewellyn R. Davis, Company C; second lieutenant, 'A'. J. Williams, Company D; captain, Albert C. Burgess, Company F; first lieuten- ant, Marcus S. Hopkins, Company F; captain, Christian Nesper, Company H; captain, Judson N. Cross, Company K; captain, John F. Schutte, Company K; first lieutenant, C. F. Nitschelm, Company K.
Battles : Cross Lanes, West Virginia, August 26, 1861 ; Winchester, Virginia, March 23, 1862 ; Port Republic, Virginia, June 9, 1862 ; Cedar Mountain, Virginia, August 9, 1862 ; Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862; Dumfries, Virginia, December 27, 1862 ; Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1-4, 1863; Gettysburg, Penn- sylvania, July 1-3, 1863; Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, November 24, 1863 ; Mis- sion Ridge, Tennessee, November 25, 1863; Ringgold, Georgia, November 27, 1863; Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia, May 5-9, 1864; Resaca, Georgia, May 13-16, 1864.
This regiment deserves especial notice, together with some others, because it was essentially a Cleveland regiment. Cleveland furnished three companies
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of it; Oberlin, one; Painesville, one; Warren, one; and it was all raised in and. - about this city. It was a representative regiment, the first to organize and start from here, and filled with the first patriotic and enthusiastic young men of the best families of northern Ohio. A regiment which went into a battle ("Cedar Mountain") with three hundred men and came out with only one hundred, war- rants comment; a regiment which lost, killed in battle ("Missionary Ridge") its colonel and lieutenant colonel inspires our admiration.
The Seventh began its field service in West Virginia. Its first battle was at "Cross Lanes" on August 24, 1861, where it lost one hundred and twenty men in killed, wounded and prisoners. This was the first serious blow to Cleve- land from war reverses.
Cross Lanes! Although a small battle, to the writer's boyish thought it was the greatest battle of modern times. Ah, the feverish haste at home to go to the wounded and the dead.
A wounded soldier from Cross Lanes was a hero par excellence and drew out sentiments of both sorrow and pride wherever he went.
After Cross Lanes, the Seventh was practically a veteran regiment. Being one of the first in the field and well drilled and now having gone through a severe battle, it was naturally chosen for difficult tasks and put in places of great honor and of great hazard-of honor, because of great hazard. Hence we find it suffering great losses. The Seventh Ohio must be there, because that point must be held or that hill taken at all hazards. It is very honorable but very costly in lives and limbs.
The regiment served in the Shenandoah valley under General Landic, and General Shields, fought against Stonewall Jackson, fought heroically at the first battle of Winchester, were at Fredericksburg under McDowell, fought at Port Republic under General Tyler, on the peninsula under General Mcclellan, at Cedar Mountain under General Banks, where the regiment lost over half its men, in the battle of Antietam, at Bolivar Heights, at Chancellorsville, at Gettys- burg, where it was moved from point to point where danger was greatest, was at New York to help quell the draft riots, joined General Joe Hooker and helped win Lookout Mountain, at Mission Ridge, in which every commissioned officer except one was wounded or killed. Its two colonels were killed here. It fought at Rocky Face Ridge and at Resaca, its last battle. In most of these battles victory was won; sometimes not, but the struggle-the fighting-went on just the same. Eighteen hundred men had, first and last, belonged to the regiment ; it mustered out only two hundred and forty able bodied men, on July 8, 1864, who brought home its unsullied colors riddled by the shot and shell of all these battles.
The Seventh Ohio Infantry performed an important part in the war. It served more than three years-its time was out, and as a regiment it served no longer ; but many of its members found their way back again to pork and hard- tack and hardship; to the allurements of a soldier's life whichever attracts the veteran.
TWENTY-THIRD OHIO INFANTRY .- 341 Cleveland men. (Presidents Ruth- erford B. Hayes and William McKinley were both members of this regi- ment.) Major, James P. McIlrath; major, Harry Thompson ; captain, Eugene
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Clark, Company A ; first lieutenant, Wm. P. Chamberlain, Company A : first lieu- tenant, Benjamin Killam, Company A, first lieutenant, John F. Wall, Company A: second lieutenant, Charles A. Willard, Company A; captain, Charles H. Morgan. Company B; first lieutenant, Benjamin W. Jackson ; Company C; captain, Howard S. Lovejoy, Company D; first lieutenant, Geo. W. Hicks, Company D; first lieu- tenant, John T. Ogden, Company D; first lieutenant, Frederick Thompson, Com- pany E; captain, Edward A. Abbott, Company F; first lieutenant, Chas. P. Con- ant, Company F ; captain, Henry M. Haven, Company G ; captain, Henry G. Hood, Company G; captain, Waltis J. Woodward, Company G; captain, Leander H. Lane, Company I; captain, Abraham A. Hunter, Company K. .
In battles of Carnifaf Ferry, West Virginia, September 10, 1861; South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862; Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862; Cloyds Mountain, Virginia, May 9, 1864; New River Bridge, Virginia, May 10, 1864; Lexington, West Virginia, June 10-II, 1864; Otter Creek, Vir- ginia, June 16, 1864 ; Bufords Gap, Virginia, June 21, 1864 ; Berryville, Virginia, September 3-4, 1864 ; Opequan, Virginia, September 19, 1864 ; Cedar Creek, Vir- ginia, October 19, 1864; and eight other important battles.
Company A, Captain Clark, was a Cleveland company; Company D, Cap- tain Lovejoy, was largely, and Company I, Captain Lane, was about half re- ·cruited at Cleveland; and in all, the regiment had three hundred and forty-one men from Cleveland.
This regiment may be characterized as the "Charging Regiment." It is be- lieved that no regiment in the army, or very few, made more charges with the bayonet. This was largely due to its whilom old commander, Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward president of United States, whose favorite maneuver was the charge. At the great battle of Cedar Creek, after his horse had been shot under him and he was suffering from his fall, General Hayes asked, with spirit, why our troops did not charge them instead of waiting for them to charge us.
At the battle of Opequan, they charged and helped capture; at North Moun - tain, they charged and captured eight battle flags; at Winchester, they charged and lost one hundred and fifty-three men, ten of whom were commissioned officers ; at Cloyd Mountain, they charged and captured two field pieces of ar- tillery ; at South Mountain, they charged and lost five officers and two hundred men ; at two other places, they charged and lost two commissioned officers in each. The regiment lost so heavily that it seemed as though its commanders gave it breathing spells purposely during the last of 1863 and first part of 1864; but its arduous service in marching here and there during time gave them little rest. One day they drank their morning coffee in Pennsylvania, their dinner coffee in Maryland, and their evening coffee in Virginia; and another portion of nine days they spent in marching one hundred and eighty miles with half a dozen skirmishes interspersed, with nothing to eat and in a state of utter exhaustion. Does not this regiment need special mention? Another remarkable thing about this regiment is the number of prominent men it furnished the country; two presidents of the United States (R. B. Hayes and Wm. Mckinley), one supreme judge of the United States, Stanley Matthews, and five generals to the Union army: James M. Comly, Russell Hastings, R. B. Hayes, E. P. Scammon and Wm. S. Rosecrans.
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It was one of the most famous regiments of the war, and deserved all the fame it has acquired.
THIRTY-SEVENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY .- 152 Cleveland men. Colonel Edward Siber; major, Charles Ankele; surgeon, Julius C. Schenck; as- sistant surgeon, A. W. Billhardt; captain, Louis F. Enedenfeld, Com- pany A ; second lieutenant, C. Hambrock, Company A; second lieutenant, Christian Pfahl, Company A; second lieutenant, H. J. Votteler, Company A; captain, Chas. Moritz, Company B; second lieutenant, F. Ambrosius, Company B; captain, Theo- dore Voges, Company D; captain, Fred H. Rehwinkle, Company E; captain, Adolph C. Van Kissinger, Company E; captain, Paul Wittrich, Company E; sec- ond lieutenant, Julius Scheldt, Company E; captain, Geo. Boehm, Company F; captain Louis Sebastian, Company F; captain, Anton Vallendar, Company F ; first lieutenant, H. Burkhardt, Company F; first lieutenant, Arthur Stoppel, Com- pany F; captain, Louis E. Lambert, Company G; captain, Charles Messner, Company H; first lieutenant, Louis Ritter, Company H; first lieutenant, John H. Frerichs, Company I.
Battles : Princeton, West Virginia ; Fayetteville ; Vicksburg; Missionary Ridge; Dallas; Atlanta (3) ; Bentonville, North Carolina; Wyoming C. H .; Cotton Hill; Jackson; Resaca; Kenesaw Mountain (2) ; Jonesboro.
The Thirty-seventh Ohio Infantry was a German regiment, well officered, performing severe and serious duty, in the Kanawha valley, Virginia, and in widely diverse localities. A glance at the engagements in which it took part shows the honorable part it took. The Thirty-seventh was one of three German regiments raised in the state; all made good records, none better than this com- mand.
FORTY-FIRST OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 407 Cleveland men-Colonel, Eph- raim S. Holloway ; lieutenant colonel, George S. Mygatt ; lieutenant, John J. Wise- man ; surgeon, Thomas G. Cleveland; surgeon, Albert G. Harb; adjutant, Geo. J. A. Thompson; quartermaster, Walter Blythe; quartermaster, W. S. Chamber- lain; chaplain, Osman A. Lyman; second lieutenant, Charles W. Hills, Com- pany A; first lieutenant, Wm. E. Booth, Company B; captain, James H. Cole, Company D; captain, Harvey E. Proctor, Company D; first lieutenant, Charles Hammond, Company D; second lieutenant, George C. Dodge, Company D; cap- tain, Frank E. Stone, Company E; first lieutenant, Truman C. Cutler, Company E; first lieutenant, Harry W. Jones, Company E; second lieutenant, Fred A. Mckay, Company E; captain, Daniel S. Leslie, Company F; first lieutenant, P. A. Beardsley, Company F; captain, Robert A. Gault, Company G; first lieu- tenant, Lloyd Fisher, Company G; first lieutenant, Peter Heriff, Company G; captain, William J. Morgan, Company H; first lieutenant, Albert Whittlesey, Company H; captain, James McMahon, Company I; captain, William Hausard, Company K; first lieutenant, Charles D. Gaylord, Company K; second lieuten- ant, Henry Coon, Company K.
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Battles : Shiloh, Woodbury, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Cassville, Picketts Mills ; Chattahoochee River, Lovejoy Station, Nashville, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Browns Ferry, Orchard Knob, Rocky Face Ridge, Adairsville, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin.
This regiment was formed by a spontaneous movement of Cleveland men soon after the first battle of Bull Run. Captain Wm. B. Hazen of the regular army was made its colonel, and soon became a prominent gen- eral of the war. The officers of the regiment contained an unusual num- ber of prominent Clevelanders. It would be hard to find any regiment put into more severe and frequent places of peril in the thick of battle, and therefore places of honor. It suffered severely, especially at Stone River, and Pittsburg Landing and Chickamauga. Out of 373 men at Shiloh, 141 were killed or wounded in half an hour. Wherever heavy fighting was going on, there was General Hazen and the Forty-first Ohio. When "The Rock of Chickamauga," General Thomas was still fighting alone, General Hazen took his brigade to General Thomas in time to help repulse the last rebel charge at that exposed place.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 461 Cleveland men- Colonel, Philip C. Hayes; lieutenant colonel, H. S. Pickands ; lieutenant colonel, James F. Sterling; assistant surgeon, George O. Butler; adjutant, Gilbert S. Judd; adjutant, John S. White; chaplain, George A. Hubbard; captain, Norris P. Stockwell, Company A; captain, Isaac C. Vail, Company A; first lieutenant, James Allen, Company A; second lieutenant, J. M. McWilliams, Company A; captain, Wm. W. Hutchinson, Company B; captain, Franklin B. Smith, Com- pany B; captain, Albert H. Spencer, Company B; captain and assistant adjutant general, Sherwood H. Stilson, Company B; first lieutenant, Hermes Burt, Com- pany B; first lieutenant, Corwin M. Holt, Company B; captain, John L. Semple, Company C; captain, Francis M. Thomas, Company C; first lieutenant, Joseph P. Card, Company C; first lieutenant, Ed B. Reynolds, Company C; captain, Charles E. Morgan, Company D; captain, John T. Philpot, Company D; first lieutenant, Henry C. Bacon, Company D; first lieutenant, H. D. Dickey, Com- pany D; first lieutenant, L. J. Neville, Company D; second lieutenant, W. M. Sturtevant, Company D; captain, Charles E. Sargent, Company E; captain, Levi T. Scofield, Company E; first lieutenant, John E. Vought, Company E; first lieutenant, Constantine Eddy, Company F; captain, Lewis S. Dilley, Com- pany G; captain, Moses L. M. Piexotto, Company G; first lieutenant, William Hall, Company G; second lieutenant, Henry C. Seymour, Company G; captain, Charles D. Rhodes, Company H; first lieutenant, Michael Duncan, Company H; first lieutenant, DeWitt C. Hotchkiss, Company H.
Battles : Blue Springs, Tennessee, October 5, 1863 ; Knoxville, Tennessee, No- vember 17-December 4, 1863 ; Dandridge, Tennessee, January 16-18, 1864 ; Resaca, Georgia, May 13-16, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 9-30, 1864; At- lanta, Georgia, July 28 to September 2, 1864; Spring Hill, Tennessee, Novem- ber 29, 1864.
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All honor to the brave men who first, in 1861, entered the Union army to defend the Union and maintain the honor of "The Stars and Stripes," risking life, if need be, in the struggle. But the men who went out in '62 and '63 could count the cost, and then knowing that "war was hell" went out nevertheless into the face of all this danger and toil and suffering. The experienced soldier knows that any regiment which buffeted a soldier's fate in Kentucky, the Cumberland river, Monticello, Kirby Smith, the Cumberland mountains, and then Knoxville, with its siege and starvation, was serving faithfully. And when he sees the One Hundred and Third Ohio charging Reseca on May 14, 1864, and carrying the enemy's two lines, and losing one third of its effective force including two captain's, he knows that the whole regiment- effective, and disabled and dead- is covered over with heroic glory. This regiment has hosts of friends in Cleve- land and a large sprinkling of surviving soldiers.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 567 Cleve- land men-Colonel, Oliver H. Payne; lieutenant colonel, James Pickands; major, James B. Hampson ; surgeon, Dewitt C. Patterson; adjutant, Charles D. Ham- mer ; adjutant, Charles E. Warren ; quartermaster, Albert H. Lewis ; quartermas- ter, Wm. Treat ; chaplain, Seth D. Bowker ; captain, Haskell F. Proctor, Company A; captain, William Wilson, Company A; first lieutenant, A. C. Caskey, Company A; second lieutenant, Geo. Doubleday, Company A; captain, John B. Irwin, Com- pany C; captain, Jas. T. McGinness, Company C; captain, Daniel Stratton, Com- pany C; captain, Robert Wallace, Company C; first lieutenant, Sam D. Payne, Company C; second lieutenant, John P. Lamb, Company C; second lieutenant, John O'Brien, Company C; captain, Cleveland Van Dorn, Company D; captain, John W. Bullock, Company E; first lieutenant, Thos. J. Carran, Company E; first lieutenant, T. A. Dempsey, Company E; captain Horace E. Dakin, Company F; captain, Sherburn B. Eaton, Company F; captain, John C. Smith, Company F; first lieutenant, A. J. Moulton, Company F; first lieutenant, John S. Nimmons, Company F; second lieutenant, Oliver P. McIlrath, Company F; captain, Wm. A. Powell, Company G; first lieutenant, James Brennan, Company G; captain, John Stevens, Company H; captain, Samuel P. Fulton, Company I; first lieu- tenant, Charles E. Wyman, Company I; captain, Wm. R. Waldo, Company K; first lieutenant, Alfred Wilson, Company K; second lieutenant, F. Hagendobler, Company K.
Battles engaged in: Thompsons Station, Tennessee, March 4-5, 1863; Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863; Lookout Mountain, Tennes- see, November 24, 1863; Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, November 25, 1863; Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia, May 5-9, 1864; Resaca, Georgia, May 13-16, 1864; Picketts Mills, Georgia, May 27, 1864; Browns Ferry, Tennessee, October 27, 1864; Nashville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864.
This regiment raised in the fall and early winter of 1862, knew full well in vol- unteering that it undertook to toil and suffer with scanty rations and shoddy cloth- ing, and to obey orders whether given by competent or incompetent officers, and perhaps to give up their lives; yet they went. Who shall be so bold as to dis- criminate against any regiment or any man who undertook all this, at any time from 1861 to 1865, both inclusive, with such an official list of battles to their credit. The best soldiers never criticise other commands. Citizens are more given to it.
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Southern citizens, especially, reveled in revilings of Yankee soldiers in 1865, while the soldiers of the Confederacy were fraternizing with the soldiers of the Union. The regiment lost one hundred and forty men at Chickamauga including Colonel Payne wounded ; glory enough for any one regiment. But this regiment won honors on Missionary Ridge, when it partook of the voluntary enthusiasm kindled by Phil Sheridan, and without orders captured the ridge. The One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio captured seven pieces of artillery and eighty stands of arms.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 291 Cleve- land men-Lieutenant colonel, Edward A. Scovill; lieutenant colonel, Thomas H. Linnell; major, Junius R. Sanford; assistant surgeon, Porter Yates; quarter- master, Charles C. Starr; captain, Orlin S. Hayes, Company A; second lieu- tenant, Edward E. Young, Company B; first lieutenant, Eugene O. Mitchell, Company C; captain, Leroy W. Bailey, Company D; second lieutenant, George Hutchinson, Company D; captain, Henry A. Smith, Company E; second lieu- tenant, Lewis R. Ranney, 'Company E; captain, Alfred N. Mead, Company F; first lieutenant, John M. Harrington, Company F; second lieutenant, Hobart Corning, Company F; captain, John J. Manor, Company G; second lieutenant, Samuel H. Young, Company H; first lieutenant, Samuel D. McIlroy, Company I.
The "Hoffman Battalion" will be long remembered for its excellence of drill and splendid appearance on duty. Out of this battalion grew this regi- ment. Its duties were mainly guarding Confederate officers, as prisoners, on Johnson's Island. About 3,000 were there in the winter of 1863 and 1864. A plot among Canadian refugees and the prisoners, to free them, was discovered and frustrated in November, 1863 and the winter following by reinforcing the guards on Johnson's Island with three or four regiments. Fortune kept this regiment mainly from the front, but still on important service, and it performed that service with efficiency and fidelity. Drill and discipline, which latter means implicit obedience of orders, are the prime qualifications of a good soldier; and those of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth had these.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 801 Cleveland men -Lieutenant colonel, John N. Frazee; major, J. Dwight Palmer; surgeon, James W. Smith; assistant surgeon, James F. Armstrong; assistant surgeon, Charles F. Dutton ; adjutant, Thomas Goodwillie; quartermaster, H. M. Chapin ; captain, Wm. R. Nevins, Company B; first lieutenant, Thomas S. Lindsey, Com- pany B; second lieutenant, Henry E. Chubb, Company B; captain, Louis G. DeForest, Company C; first lieutenant, Marcus A. Hanna, Company C; second lieutenant, E. B. Thomas, Company C; first lieutenant, Jason Canfield, Company D; second lieutenant, Geo. W. Whitehead, Company D; first lieutenant, John G. Parsons, Company E; second lieutenant, Thomas A. Stowe, Company E; first lieutenant, Edwin C. Rouse, Company F; second lieutenant, Chas. J. Mc- Dowell, Company F; captain, John Nevins, Company G; first lieutenant, John C. Bull, Company G; second lieutenant, Arthur H. Barrett, Company G; cap- tain, Samuel H. Baird, Company H; first lieutenant, Frank Dutton, Company H; second lieutenant, Edward Dennison, Company H; captain, Edwin Farr, Company I; first lieutenant, Jonas F. Rice, Company I; second lieutenant, John G. Fitch, Company I.
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This regiment was made up of veterans, who had already been in service, and such few men as had become old enough to enlist. Although sworn in to serve only one hundred days, they served the important mission of manning the defenses of Washington, relieving many veteran regi- ments just then earnestly needed by General Grant before Richmond. They took the same oath, binding over life and death, as all others took. With full experience of what it meant, they volunteered again. They were in one battle at Washington against General Early's corps, July 10-II, 1864. Was it at Balaklava that an officer turned pale when ordered to charge, a staff officer questioned his courage, and Napoleon replied that that was the highest type of valor-to see your danger and dare to perform your duty. The regiment was in the engagement against General Early's corps, and lost one killed and four wounded.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 399 Cleve- land men-Colonel, Arthur T. Wilcox; lieutenant colonel, W. H. Zimmerman ; major, Ernest J. Krieger ; surgeon, Sylvester S. Burrows ; assistant surgeon, W. A. Bivens; assistant surgeon, Richard Edwards; adjutant, Geo. B. Huston; adju- tant, Geo. C. Ketchum; quartermaster, J. W. Raymond; chaplain, Henry V. Hitchcock; captain, Wm. C. Turner, Company A; first lieutenant, Henry J. Virgil, Company A; second lieutenant, A. J. Hamilton, Company A; captain, Isaac N. Rogers, Company B; first lieutenant, Julian H. Gates, Company B; captain, Chas. J. McDowell, Company F; first lieutenant, Henry J. Rice, Com- pany F; second lieutenant, Wilder B. Dow, Company F; captain, Samuel J. Tracey, Company H; first lieutenant, Edwin W. Poole, Company H; second lieutenant Balthaser B. Tremelin, Company H; captain Geo. B. Squire, Company I; first lieutenant, Theodore B. Wise, Company I; second lieutenant, Silas H. Kent, Company I.
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