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men had only two or three cartridges left. The batteries in Atlanta threw shell upon the rear of the brigade, the enemy redoubled their fire in front and, placing a captured gun within fifty paces of the flank of the Twentieth, raked the regiment with cannister. Orders came to withdraw from the works and form a new line, and the Twentieth slowly retired, the men turning now and then to fire their last cartridge at the foe. In the new line the Twentieth was placed in reserve, with the ex- ception of a detachment of about one hundred, who were posted in the works on Force's hill, and fought desperately until the close of the battle. In this engagement the Twentieth lost forty-four killed, fifty-six wounded, and fifty-four missing. Instances of personal daring were numberless.
The following extract regarding this desperate conflict is from a letter written on the twenty- fourth, two days after the battle, by Captain B. A. F. Greer, of Mount Vernon, who was at the time in command of company B :
On the twenty-second instant a desperate battle was fought on the left of our army, caused by the enemy massing their forces and endeavoring to turn our flank. The Twentieth had the misfortune to be hotly engaged and lost heavily. The enemy are in possession of part of the ground fought over, so we cannot tell exactly what the loss is.
The regiment had built breastworks and began fighting from behind them, but soon the enemy came up in our rear, and obliged us to jump to the opposite side of our works. The enemy would charge front and rear at the same time, compel- ling us to meet and repulse a charge first in front then right about to the rear, and thus we continued to fight four hours, moving across our works no less than ten times. Often the op- posing lines would meet on top of the works, when the bayonet, sword, clubbed musket, and even the fist, were used with mur- derous effect. I cannot give a more detailed account of the fight. We held our own, only closing up to the right on our works, yielding about one hundred yards of them.
Generals Blair, Sherman and Leggett estimated the rebel dead lying around our works, upon the ground fought over by our regiment, at one thousand. General Sherman said that each man had made himself a hero, but that we had violated all the rules of civilized warfare by not surrendering when so com- pletely surrounded.
Captain Greer reports the following losses in the three Knox county companies in this battle:
Company A, Lieutenant Ed. Nutt commanding.
Killed .- D. B. James and Benjamin Wilson.
Wounded .- Corporal Levi Cassell and Privates G. W. Eber- sole, G. M. Moodie, P. H. Conner and A. Davis.
Missing .- M. F. Runyan, Samuel Taylor, E. Colony and C. W. Dalrymple.
Company E, Lieutenant E. R. Woodmancy commanding. Killed .- Sergeant John Canavan and Cornelius Russell.
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Wounded .- Lieutenant Woodmancy, Ed. Knox, J. McMa- hon, A. J. Patchen and William Rose.
Missing .- Corporal M. Long and Henry Linstead. Company G, Captain Nathan Bostwick commanding. Killed .- Corporal Charles Beardsley.
Wounded .- E. W. Case, D. B. Linstead and D. Pitkin. Missing .- Captain Nathan Bostwick, Corporal Fayette Bost- wick, Reason Brown, G. M. Cochran, B. F. Stilley, and Loyal G. Vance.
The following were the losses in company I, part of which was from this county-Captain W. L. Waddell commanding:
Killed .- E. Campbell, F. G. Ailes, H. Reed, W. Wickleam, B. Dodds, T. M. Govern and J. Van Fossen.
Wounded. - A. Williams, E. Fuller, O. Hupp, P. McBride and J. Sparling.
Missing .- Lieutenant William Rush, William Barrington, T. J. Watson, G. A. Irwin, E. M. Evans, N. Warfield, F. Crow F. Moore and B. Penman.
When it is considered that the ranks of the above companies had already been greatly thinned in pre- virus battles, these losses clearly indicate the des- perate character of the conflict. Among the noble young men whose lives went out in this battle none were more worthy, more highly respected, or gave greater promise than Corporal Charles Beardsley, an only son of Platt Beardsley, of Milford town- ship. It will be observed, also, that Sergeant John Canavan, who had been promoted from the ranks for gallantry on a previous occasion, went down in this battle.
Captain Nathan Bostwick and his son Fayette were both wounded and both fell into the hands of the enemy. The latter was taken to Andersonville prison pen, where he suffered all the horrors of that famous-or infamous-place. He succeeded in making his escape and paddling down the Ocomul- gee river reached the Federal gun-boats in safety.
Captain Bostwick was taken to Macon, Georgia, and subsequently to Charleston, South Carolina. After suffering all the horrors of prison life in vari- ous places, aggravated by wounds and disease, he finally made his escape Deeember 1, 1864; from Columbia, South Carolina; and after untold suffer- ing, hardship and hairbreadth escapes, reached the Federal lines at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 27, 1864.
The regiment was commanded in this battle by Lieutenant Colonel John C. Fry, who had entered the regiment in the spring of 1861, as a three months' volunteer.
After the fall of Atlanta the regiment was en- gaged in changing position and building works until the twenty-fourth of August, when it received or- ders to march as guard to the supply trains of the army of the Tennessee. Four days later the regi- ment joined its brigade at Fairburn, and assisted in destroying the railroads. In the battle of Jones- borough, on the thirty-first, the Twentieth was on the left of the Fifteenth corps, at right angles to the main line, as "refused flank," and in this posi- tion was greatly annoyed by a heavy artillery fire. On the second of September the regiment took po- sition on a hill near Lovejoy's station, where it re- mained several days, exposed to some annoyance from the enemy's sharp-shooters, and finally settled down in camp near Atlanta, on the East Point road. October 5th the regiment joined in the pur- suit of Hood, and, after following as far as Gales- ville, Alabama, returned and camped at Smyrna church, about twenty miles from Atlanta, Novem- ber 5th.
The regiment left Atlanta with Sherman's army, on the fifteenth of November, for Savannah. It participated in the destruction of the town of Mil- len, Georgia, and, on reaching Savannah, took po- sition on the right of the Seventeenth corps. De- cember 19th it was detached from the brigade, and sent to the Ogeechee, near King's bridge, where it was engaged in building wharves, on which to land supplies for the army. This work was cut short by the surrender of Savannah, and the regiment re- joined the brigade December 24th, in camp at the outskirts of the city.
January 5, 1865, the regiment embarked on the steamer Fanny for Beaufort, South Carolina, crossed Port Royal ferry and advanced until the en- emy was found entrenched beyond a rice swamp. The Twentieth deployed as skirmishers, charged the enemy's work in fine style, and the regimental colors were soon waving from the parapet. At dark the troops encamped before the fortifications of Pocotaligo, and, on the morning of January 13th, it was assigned camping ground beyond the rail- road station at Pocotaligo, where it remained until January 30th, when it started on the Carolina cam- paign.
The head of the column struck the enemy Feb- ruary 13th near the bridge across the North Edisto
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at Orangeburgh. Two companies were deployed as skirmishers, and soon the regiment advanced on double-quick, and drove the enemy back to their fortifications, which were concealed by a turn in the road, and from which the rebels opened fire. The regiment deployed as skirmishers, advanced through the swamp in water icy-cold and waist-deep, opened fire on the enemy on the opposite side, stood until late in the afternoon, and was relieved. The next day it crossed the river and engaged in destroying the railroad. In this affair the National loss was light. The regiment marched through the smok- ing ruins of Columbia, and destroyed the railroad as far as Winnsborough.
February 24th it was rear guard; reached Che- raw March 3d, and Bennettsville the 6th. On the twentieth it reached Bentonville, where it fortified on the twenty-first, expecting an attack, but the en- emy withdrew and on the twenty-fourth the regi- ment reached Goldsborough.
After two weeks rest the regiment pushed on to Raleigh, and April 15th moved toward Johnston's army. On the way it became known that Johnston had asked terms of surrender; the men seemed crazy with joy; they shouted, laughed, flung their hats in the air, threw their knapsacks at each other, hugged each other, stood on their heads in the mud, and were altogether worse than children let loose from school. Leaving Raleigh May Ist the regiment marched via Richmond to Washington; was in the grand review May 24th; thence was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and, July 18th, back to Columbus, where it was mustered out of service. Thus ended an organization which had made a record second perhaps to no other among the glo- rious records of the war.
The regiment may inscribe upon its banners the following summary of engagements: Fort Donel- son, Shiloh, Bolivar, Matamora, Mississippi, Central Expedition, Thompson's Hills, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Siege of Vicksburgh, Meridian Raid, Big Shanty, Kenesaw, Nickojack, Atlanta, Siege of Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, Pursuit of Hood, March to the Sea, Pocotaligo, Orangeburgh, and Bentonville. It lost nearly four hundred men in battle.
Nine medals are known to have been awarded for special gallantry, viz: to Lieutenant Colonel
Harry Wilson, Captain L. N. Ayres, Captain Charles Stevenson, Captain Ed .! E. Nutt, Sergeant William Blackburn, Sergeant John]_ Rinehart,§ Sergeant Robbins, and Privates John Alexander and M. El- liott.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONTINUED.
COMPANY A, THIRTIETH REGIMENT-COMPANY C, THIRTY- SECOND REGIMENT-COMPANY K, AND FRACTIONS OF OTHER COMPANIES FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT-COMPANIES A AND F, SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
IN the summer of 1861, Emory W. Muenscher, of Mt. Vernon, was commissioned and began recruiting a company. He succeeded in raising about sixty men and left Mt. Vernon about the last of July for Camp Chase, Columbus. His was the third company recruited in Knox county for the three years' service, and became company A, of the Thirtieth regiment. Mr. Muenscher was commis- sioned first lieutenant of this company August 15, 1861; was promoted to captain June 28, 1862, and to lieutenant colonel of the regiment January 6, 1865. He, however, declined to accept this last promotion and was mustered out as captain.
Captain Muenscher having been appointed adju- tant of the regiment in the beginning of his service, his name does not appear on the following muster- roll of this company.
Muster-roll of Company A, Thirtieth Ohio regi- ment, mustered into the service August 14, 1861.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain William W. Reilly, August 2, I861.
First Lieutenant Thomas Hayes, August 2,
Second Lieutenant Jeremiah Hall, August 2,
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Henry McIntire, August 2, I861.
Sergeant Henry F. Wolff, August 2,
Sergeant Fred D. James, July 30,
Sergeant George T. Davy, July 30,
Sergeant Gilbert D. Walt, August 21,
Corporal Walker Mustain, August 21,
Corporal Benjamin T. Warner, July 30,
Corporal Eberly Martin, August 2, Corporal John H. Peck,
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Corporal John Hey, August 2,
I861.
Corporal John H. Sharkey, “
Corporal Thomas B. Gaston, "
Sowers, George,
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Corporal Robert Vealons, "
Musician Charles O. Lloyd, "
Musician Wm. H. Cochran, “
Wagoner Thomas Milward, "
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PRIVATES.
Anderson, David, August 2,
1861.
Bartholomew, William H., August 2,
Brook, John, August 14,
Brock, Robert, August 2,
Brock, Thomas, August 14,
Baker, John J., August 14,
Butler, Charles E., July 30,
Buchanan, William,
Bryant, George W.,
Boyles, William,
Casaford, David,
Callahan, Michael, August 14,
Dawm, Joseph, August 2,
Dawson, Jacob, August 2,
Dunfraimit, Edward A., July 30,
Elmore, Thomas D., August 2,
Eikenberger, George, August 2,
Furlong, Myron C., July 30,
Hassey, John, August 2,
Huddleson, Powell, "
Huddleson, Joseph, “
Howard, Henry,
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Ireland, William, July 30,
Jacobs, Wayne J., August 2,
Jones, Dudley,
Jones, John M., -
Kirner, Joseph
King, Eli, =
Kingora, James, July 30,
Kingston, James R., August 2, Lee, Henry,
Lewis, John,
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Larkin, James L., =
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Lane, James A.,
Livery, Constant,
Linderback, James, August 21, 11
Lesley, William, August 14,
Martin, James, August 2,
Martin, Syrus, -
McJugin, Franklin, August 30,
Nagler, Leonard, August 2,
O'Brien, Michael, August 14,
Piatt, Thomas H., August 2,
Purdy, Jesse,
Pond, William H., August 30,
Reyburn, Stephen, August 2,
Redding, George W., “
Smith, Jacob, -
Smith, Benedict, August 30,
Smith, John H., August 2,
Smith, M. N., July 30, Steamshoon, Henry, August 2,
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Swigler, Martin,
August 2, 1861.
Resinger, Adam,
Stephens, Joseph,
Sword, John C.,
Swartz, John J.,
Stebe, John V.,
Showberty, Peter,
Slattirly, Charles, =
Shipley, Horatio T., July 30,
Tipton, Charles W., August 2,
Thompson, John H., August 14,
Thomas, Samuel O., July 30,
Taker, William, August 14,
Wittuch, Ernest, August 2,
Walter, Charles,
Whitehead, Samuel, “
The Thirtieth Ohio regiment was organized at Camp Chase August 28, 1861, and on the thirtieth was ordered to the field in Virginia. During the fall it was engaged mostly in guard duty in separ- ate detachments at various places, and was not re-united until December 25th, when it held its first dress parade. It was again scattered during the winter, doing guard duty and working on fortifi- cations.
A portion of the regiment was engaged in the battle of Centerville under General Pope in the latter part of August, 1862, and the regiment was re-united on the thirty-first of that month. On the ninth of September it engaged the enemy at Fred- erick city, being placed on the skirmish line; but its first hard fight was at South Mountain, where it lost eighteen men killed and forty-eight wounded. Two days later it was engaged in the great battle of Antietam, where it was compelled to fall back under the weight of General A. P. Hill's division and lost heavily; its loss being two commissioned offices killed and two wounded, and eight men killed and thirty-seven wounded. Its colors were torn in fourteen places by the enemy's balls, and two of the color bearers shot dead on the field.
During the winter of 1862-3, it was transferred to the Western department, and placed in the Sec- ond brigade, Second division, Fifteenth corps. In the spring of 1863, it participated in General Grant's movement to the rear of Vicksburgh, and on the twenty-fifth of May participated in a dem- onstration in favor of an assault made on the left. In three hours the regiment fired forty-five thou- sand rounds of cartridges. On the twenty-second
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of May it led the assault on the works in General Sherman's front. The flag of the regiment was planted on the rebel works and guarded there until night enabled the troops to retire. The three leading companies of the Fifteenth suffered severe- ly, losing forty-seven men killed and wounded. It was engaged during the siege of Vicksburgh, losing during that time, one commissioned officer killed and six wounded; and six men killed and forty- eight wounded.
On the twenty-fourth of November, 1863, it was in front of Mission Ridge, and the next day, with a detachment of the Fourth Virginia, assault- ed and carried the outer line of the enemy's works. Later in the day the Thirtieth and Thirty-seventh Ohio made two unsuccessful assaults on the works at Tunnel Hill; the Thirtieth losing thirty-nine men killed and wounded.
In January, 1864, a sufficient number of the men re-enlisted to make it a veteran regiment, and in April the men came home on veteran furlough. On the ninth of May the regiment reassembled at Columbus, and on the tenth started south, arriving at Kingston, Georgia, May 20th. On the twenty- third it was on the march with Sherman's army, moving through Dallas and Acworth to Kenesaw Mountain, where it was engaged on the twenty- sixth, losing thirty-five men killed and wounded. In the severe battle before Atlanta on the twenty- third of July, it lost twenty-seven men killed, wounded and prisoners; and in the battle of the twenty-eighth it was heavily engaged, losing thirty men killed and wounded. The enemy abandoned a stand of colors under the fire of the regiment, and one hundred and five dead rebels were picked up in its immediate front. -
The regiment was transferred to the First bri- gade on the fifth of August, and on the twenty- ninth those who were not veterans were mustered out by reason of expiration of term of service.
On the night of the thirtieth of August the regi- ment went on picket within one mile of Jones- boro; and the next day the rebels attacked the line of the First brigade, but were repulsed. In this engagement the regiment lost thirty-five killed and wounded. On the second of September the rebels evacuated Jonesboro, and the regiment pur- sued to Lovejoy station. It marched with Sher-
man to the sea, and was in the assault on Fort McAllister under Hazen, and engaged there in a hand to hand conflict with the enemy. It was es- pecially mentioned by General Hazen in his report.
The regiment accompanied Sherman's army through the Carolinas, and was sharply engaged with the enemy at Shilling's Bridge and Harper's Farm. Moving with the army it participated in the grand review at Washington, May 24th. It was mustered out and discharged at Columbus, Ohio, August 22, 1865, having, as a regiment, travelled during the war a distance of thirteen thousand two hundred miles.
THE THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT
Company C, Thirty-second Ohio volunteer in- fantry was recruited in July, 1861, in Mt. Vernon, the officers elected being Captain James Black- stone Banning, First Lieutenant Anthony B. Ray- mond, and Second Lieutenant Charles B. Church. Captain Banning conducted his company to Mans- field, Ohio, August 10th, where it went into Camp Buckingham, and became a part of Colonel Thomas H. Ford's regiment (the Thirty-second) then forming at that place.
Muster-roll of company C, Thirty-second Ohio regiment, mustered into service .August 31, 1861 :
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain James B. Banning, July 20, 1861. First Lieutenant Anthony B. Raymond, July 20, 1861. Second Lieutenant Charles B. Church, ..
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant William E. Doty, July 20, 1861.
Sergeant Leander Reed,
Sergeant William L. Harrod,
Sergeant David G. Gardner,
Corporal George W. Smith,
Corporal Elias P. Irwin,
Corporal Richard Blackstone,
Corporal George W. O'Daniel,
PRIVATES.
Alberson, Byram, July 20, 1861.
Ashton, Joseph,
Barnehard, Hugh D.,
Bushfield, Josiah C.,
Boyd, John C.,
Barber, George, Boone, Elry,
Bigbee, Wilson,
Beach, William,
Cutter, William,
Critchfield, James H.,
Critchfield, Samuel C.,
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Clayton, Samuel, Camp, Lucius, Coil, Peter, Carpenter, Johnson, Counts, Squire,
July 20, 186r.
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Davis, George W.,
Duncan, Alexander, Dawson, Kobert T., Elliott, Orange H., Euers, David R., Ervine, David, ..
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Eaton, Gustavus A., Fowler, Harrison H., Gleeson, Jeremiah, Glassaway, Henry C ..
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Garce, John, Goodwin, Hiram B., Gold, Adam,
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Gow, William, Helt, George,
Hawking, David,
Huvler, Jacob,
Harris, Calvin C., Hardin, Martin V.,
Hunter, John, Harter, Andrew J., Harter, William,
Harter, Richard M., Hatfield, Henry C., Lewis, Washington J., Lewis, Friendly,
Lewis, Benjamin W., Leonard, William, Latty, Milton, Laugh, Philip, Longworth, Solomon, Moyer, William, McMahon, Joseph, Masters, Wilson, Murphy, James, McCollister, Noah, O'Donell Morris, Oram, David, Porter, Orrin C., Porter, David, Post, Isaac B., Rowley, George, Rigdon, William, Rusler, George A., Stevens, Euriel, Shock, Nathaniel,
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Sinking, Nathan, Simpson, John, Soverner, Aaron J., Sharp, Morris, Simons, George W., Stout, Christian, Toms, George W., Taylor, William, Underwood, Eli, Underwood, Delano C., Utter, George W.,
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Vance, John, July 20, 1861. Wright. Charles, Wesevell, Wilson, Wirt, Joseph,
Weitseman, William H. .. Walton, Lewis L., .. Winans, John H.,
Briefly, this regiment participated in the West Virginia campaign, and was in the battles of Green- brier, Alleghany, Monterey, McDowell, Cross Keys, Franklin, Maryland Heights, and Harper's Ferry. The regiment was surrendered at the latter place by Colonel Miles, parolled and sent to Chi- cago, Illinois. After remaining there without pay several months, nearly all the men took "French" leave and came home. Remaining at home about three months they were ordered to rendezvous at Cleveland, where they nearly all reported, were paid, and received a twenty days' furlough.
Jannary 1, 1863, the regiment was exchanged and sent to the front, being attached to the Seven- teenth corps. It was in the Vicksburgh campaign ; re-enlisted in 1864, and was with Sherman in all his marches through Georgia and the Carolinas; was at the surrender of Johnston and in the grand review at Washington in May, 1865.
The following is the history of this regiment, more in detail from Ohio in the War.
On the fifteenth of September, 1861, the regiment left Camp Dennison for West Virginia. As was the case with most, if not all, of the first regiments from Ohio, they were poorly equipped, and armed with the almost useless old smooth-bore musket of by-gone days. The regiment was moved by railroad, and ar- rived at Grafton September 18, and marched the next day for Beverly, West Virginia, where it arrived on the twenty-second.
At this point Colonel Ford reported for orders to Brigadier General Reynolds, then commanding the district of Cheat Mountain, with headquarters at Huttonsville, and was assigned to the command then stationed on Cheat Mountain summit, with Colonel Nathan Kimball, of the Fourteenth Indiana volun- teers, commanding the post ..
The Thirty-second had been hurried to the field without dis- cipline of any kind, in fact, it was hardly organized. Here, upon the rugged heights of Cheat Mountain, amid the wild scenery of the Alleghanies, the regiment received its first lesson in the art of war. On the third of October, 1861, the Thirty-second, under orders, made a forward movement and led the advance of the army against Greenbrier, Virginia, through the mountains and pines of that region by midnight. The regiment remained at Greenbrier during the fall of 1861, en- gaged in watching the movements of the enemy, then com- manded by the afterward renowned rebel, General R. E. Lee.
On the thirteenth of December, part of the Thirty-second, under command of Captain Hamilton, accompanied General Milroy in his advance on Camp Alleghany. In his report Gen-
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eral Milroy complimented the regiment very highly on its gal- lantry and good conduct in its charge into the camp of the enemy. The loss of the regiment in this affair was four killed and fourteen wounded, some severely. On its return from this expedition, it was ordered to Beverly, where it remained the rest of that severe winter. The time was profitably spent in still further disciplining and organizing the regiment, which made necessary some changes in the roster. The following- named officers retired, and their places were filled by promotion from the ranks: Captain J. A. Lacy, company A; W. M. Stanley, company K, and J. Dyer, of Company I; Chaplain Nickerson ; First Lieutenants C. C. Brandt, J. W. McLaugh- lin, Albert J. Spaulding, and C. C. Nichols; Second Lieuten- ants John Vanmeter, H. H. Fickel, B. F. Guck, R. F. Jackson (adjutant), George F. Jack, W. H. H. Case and D. Stambaugh. Surgeon John N. Mowry also retired and was succeeded by Dr. James G. Buchanan, of Wellsville, Ohio.
Still retained in General Milroy's command, the regiment took the advance of the expedition under that officer, which resulted n the capture of Camp Alleghany, Huntsville, Monterey and McDowell. About the first of May, a further advance was made to near Buffalo Gap, seven miles from Staunton, Va. The enemy was met at this point, and after some severe fighting the National forces fell back to the main army, camped at Mc- Dowell, in the Bull Pasture valley, where Generals Schenck and Milroy had united their forces, numbering about seven thousand men.
The rebel general, Stonewall "Jackson, advanced against the National force on the eighth day of May, and was met on the side of Bull Pasture mountain. A severe battle ensued, which lasted from two P. M. until dark, with varied success on each side. The National forces fell back to Franklin, West Vir- ginia, closely followed by the rebel army. In this battle, the Thirty-second lost six killed and fifty-three wounded, some mortally. It was the last regiment to leave the field. Lieuten- ant C. Fugate, of company E, a young officer of fine promise, was among the mortally wounded; he died at Franklin five days after the battle.
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