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THIRTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.
The Thirty-fifth Ohio was organized at Hamilton in August and September of 1861. Its members were
mainly young and intelligent men. At the beginning it numbered, all told, less than nine hundred men. The Thirty-fifth participated in some of the skirmishes dur- ing the siege of Corinth, and was among the first to en- ter the works at that place. Shortly after commenced the race between Buell and Bragg, the goal being Louis- ville. In the movement on Bragg, the fight at Perry- ville, and the pursuit to Crab Orchard, they bore an honorable part. All through the campaign which began at Murfreesborough and closed at Chattanooga, this regi- ment was in the front of the marching and fighting. In July of 1863, Major Boynton was promoted to fill the place of colonel, left vacant by resignation, and from this time the regiment was under Colonel Boynton's command when he was able for duty. In the two days' fight at Chickamauga, the Thirty-fifth lost just fifty per cent. of those engaged. Scarcely one was taken by the enemy-they were killed or wounded. Colonel Boyn- ton was conspicuous during the whole fight for his gallantry and skill, and the regiment was highly com- mended in the reports of that action. During the autumn of 1863, the Thirty-fifth lay with other regi- ments at Chattanooga and engaged in frequent skir- mishes before that place. They were on the front line at Mission Ridge. In February, 1864, this regiment was in the first battle of the Atlanta campaign, at Buz- zard's Roost. It was with Sherman from the initiation of his Atlanta campaign till the expiration of its term of service, while lying before Atlanta. They were en- gaged at Dalton, Resaca, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw, Peachtree Creek, and in several other of the fights of that bloody contest. The mustering out occurred in August, 1864, at Chattanooga. During the three years of service, its gallant men could say that they had never been driven from a field.
COMPANY E. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain David M. Gaus. First Lieutenant Edward Cottingham.
Second Lieutenant Levi P. Thompson.
PRIVATES.
Marcus M. Austin, Philip Bladner, Volney M. Braffett, William Bowles, Martin L. Bowner, Joseph M. Brown, Reuben Bridge, Daniel I. Beaver, John Caughey, George Clatterbuck, Crittenden A. Cox, John W. Cottingham, Levi Craine, Asbury Dinkins, Uriah Bowler, Frederick Ewalt, David Everts, Walter C. Fleming, John Evans, Don- nell C. Folkner, Isaac L. Fisher, James K. P. Garver, Henry Gard- ner, Charles C. Gavin, Hiram B. Hyde, Francis M. Hyde, Thomas F. Harriman, David Jackson, William D. Jones, Polk King, Benjamin F. Kemp, Tunis W. Kettle, Joseph Larrison, Thompson Ligit, Wilham Mclaughlin, John Miller, John A. Miller, Isaac MeDivitt, William Morrow, Samuel D. Macky, William A. Marshall, William A. Morri- son, William B. Miksell, David A. Miksell, David McFadden, David P. Ogden, Benjamin F. Pippin, John W. Porterfield, Frederick W. G. Ridgely, Frederick Rosenbush, Levi A. Sliver, Isaac Shumaker, Wil- liam Shumaker, Solomon A. Spellman, William Shires, Isaiah Surface, James Shumaker, George M. Showalter, John H. Spiles, Andrew J. Slakebake, Henry II. Slakebake, John Sindall, Samuel Sands, Henry Shields, Jesse Thompson, Charles H. Thompson, Isaiah Tracey, Moses Thompson, Benjamin Warner, John Wilt, William S. Ware, William Wilson, Moses I. Whetzel, John A. Wheaker, Daniel Venetia .- Wag- oner, Albert Ince.
COMPANY G. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Samuel L. L'Hommedieu. First Lieutenant William H. C. Steele.
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First Lieutenant Levi P. Thompson. Second Lieutenant George T. Earhart.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant William A. Boner.
First Sergeant John H. Hitber. First Sergeant James Clancy. Sergeant George M. Gover. Sergeant Ephraim A. Day. Sergeant James M. Wyrick.
Corporal Lewis W. Byers. Corporal Lester Shaw.
Corporal Calvin Livingood. Corporal Thomas Conklin.
Musician Charles C. Seteranim.
Musician Peter Livingood.
PRIVATES.
Joseph Durkell, Joshua Davis, Martin Dayhoff, William R. Flack, Samuel Grosch, Christ Gugel, Harry Howell, Charles M. Kissinger, Albert Lane, Christ R. Moser, William Mudford, Levi Noll, Calvin I. Schmutz, George Schadwick, Louis P. Snyder, Christ Sherer, William Mckean, Isaac Andrew, Lewis A. Byers, John Foster, David Regel, William H. Watts, John Dorse, Joseph Ray. Emberson McGriff, Je- rome B. Jessup, David D. Samsell, Charles S. Weston, William O. Creager, Charles Dexter, John B. Focht, Charles Krebs, John I. Mike- sell, Francis Quin, Newton Thompson, Thomas C. Sheldon, Elias Barbe, John H. Bowman, Christ Ayer, Benjamin Anderson, John Albright, John Beng, Martin Betts, George Bate, John A. Berry, James Caug- hill, Daniel Cooper, Hezekiah Campbell, Peter H. Capp, John M. Davis, William Darrah, John Rutter, Goolely Fort, John Flanegan, Joseph Fitch, Matthew Fitch, Chas. Fitch, David Hanes, George Henis, Andrew J. Hall, Franklin Kumler, Joseph Robinson, Thomas St. John, Martin Soam, Isaac A. Shaffer, Henry S. Snively, William C. Smith, George H. Shearer.
THIRTY-NINTH OHIO INFANTRY-COMPANY D.
PRIVATE.
Nathan W. Clayton.
FORTY-SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY.
This regiment was one of the first supplied by the Buckeye State. Its organization was completed at Camp Dennison, August 13, 1861. Thirteen nationalities were represented in it, and Frederick Poschner, jr., a native of Hungary, formerly an officer in the Prussian army, was elected its colonel. General Rosecrans was com- manding in West Virginia then, and the Forty-seventh was here made ready for war. September 24, the bri- gade advanced on Big Sewell mountain, encamping on an opposite peak to the rebel fortifications. While here the soldiers suffered almost beyond description. The heavy and continuous rains swept away bridges and rendered roads impassable, so that the supplies were nearly all cut off. On quarter rations, without clothes and tents, their earlier experiences of warfare were pain- ful in the extreme. On the thirtieth of December, 1862, the regiment embarked on steamers for Louisville and Memphis. Here they became a part of the expedition against Vicksburgh. In the march that ended at Walnut Hills, behind Vicksburgh, May 18, 1863, many prisoners were captured from General Loring's forces. On the nineteenth and again on the twenty-second, Colonel Perry led an impetuous assault on Cemetery Hill. Each time he gained a footing close under the works, and held it for a time. The loss, however, was severe. Soon after the Forty-seventh was dispatched after Johnston's forces. It had a part in the attack and capture of Jack- son. Colonel A. C. Perry was made provost marshal, and his regiment destroyed the rebel fortifications and the railroad track about the city. Afterward we hear of
it honorably, in Vicksburgh, Memphis, Germantown, Corinth, Iuka, and Tuscumbia.
October 21, 1863, the regiment arrived opposite Chat- tanooga, and three days after the whole army advanced and opened the battle of Chickamauga. Following this battle the Forty-seventh was made a part of the force sent to General Burnside's relief at Knoxville, and on January 30, 1864, joined an expedition against Rome, Georgia. March sixth of the same year, three-fourths of the men re-enlisted, and on the twenty-fifth of April, after a month's furlough, they re-assembled, to a man, at Camp Dennison, and on the third of the following month were again in the army at Stevenson, Alabama. In the Atlanta campaign that followed, this regiment bore no inferior part. November 15th saw them off with Sherman's army in its memorable "march to the sea." On Monday, December 13th, the assault on Fort McAllister was made, the Forty-seventh in the advance. At the successful issue, it was found that the colors of this regiment were the first planted upon the fort. On Christmas, Savannah was occupied. Shortly after followed a march through the rebel capital to Washington, which ended in a participation in the grand review.
When the Forty-seventh entered the field, it numbered eight hundred and thirty men; at the end of the Atlanta campaign only one hundred and twenty remained. It was subsequently reinforced by four hundred drafted men and substitutes. It served as a part of the "army of occupation" till August 24th, when the men were paid off and discharged, having served four years two months and nine days, and in all the slave States except Texas, Florida and Missouri.
FIELD AND STAFF.
Lieutenant Colonel John Wallace. Assistant Surgeon Gilmore.
COMPANY D. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain John Wallace. Second Lieutenant Joseph L. Pinkerton.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Edward N. Bernard.
Sergeant Henry N. VanDyke.
Sergeant William H. McWhinney.
Corporal Ebenezer B. Elliott.
Corporal Joseph G. Sloan.
Corporal Israel Brown.
Corporal William F. Ramsey.
Corporal James B. Wilson.
Drummer John Pierson.
Wagoner William Marshall.
PRIVATES.
John H. Bistick, James L. Brown, William J. Brown, Joseph Bedell, Jacob Ballinger, William M. Bushman, Thomas M. Cook, John Cook, Asa Cook, Samuel F. Goldsmith, Elias Dinkelbeyer, William A. Doug- las, Stephen Fay, William Fleming, Benjamin F. Graham, John Gor- den, William R. Hamilton, Jerome Hill, John Hoffman, William Highland, James Marshall, Philander McQuiston, Samuel McCracken, James McClanahan, James C. Magee, William J. McBurney, Theoph- olus M. Magaw, William M. Miner, John C. McQuiston, Andrew J. Parker, James B. Porter, Robert Potts, Joseph Ramsey, Andrew B. Park, James B. Ramsey, William H. Smith, George S. Sayres, Isaac - U. Sliver, Augustus I. Troth, Solomon C. Wilson, Jonathan P. Weed.
FIFTIETH OHIO INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Camp Dennison, and mustered into the service August 27, 1862. It num
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bered an aggregate of nine hundred and sixty-four men, gathered from the State at large. The Fiftieth was assigned to the Thirty-fourth brigade, Tenth division, McCook's corps. On the first of October it moved out of Louisville, and on the eighth went into the battle of Perryville. In this engagement a loss was sustained of two officers killed and one mortally wounded, and one 'hundred and sixty-two men killed and wounded.
During the army's advance on Nashville, the regiment was at Lebanon-then the base of supplies. We after- wards hear of it in pursuit of John Morgan, and still farther, in the building of Forts Boyle, Sands, and Mc- Allister. On Christmas day, 1863, it was ordered to Knoxville, Tennessee. The route lay eastward to Som- erset, Kentucky, and thence southward, crossing the Cumberland river at Point Isabelle. On the first day of the year 1864, movement began across the mountains. In the severest winter weather, the men dragged the artillery and wagons over the mountains by hand, slept on the frozen ground in rain and snow without shelter, and subsisted on parched corn. Soon atter arriving at Knoxville, it received orders to join General Sherman's army at Kingston, Georgia.
From the twenty-sixth of May until after the siege of Atlanta, the regiment was almost constantly in line of battle. It shared in all the movements of the campaign, and participated in the actions at Pumpkin-vine Creek, Dallas, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Pine Moun- tain, Kenesaw Mountain, Culp's Farm, Nicajack Creek, Chattahoochie River, Howard House, Atlanta, and Jonesborough. During this campaign the ranks of the regiment were sadly thinned. Following the battle of Jonesborough, in pursuit of Hood's army, the regiment passed through Marietta, Kingston, Rome, and at last halted for a few days on the Coosa river, at Cedar Bluffs. On the thirtieth of November it arrived at Franklin, Tennessee. It went into the battle that followed, with two hundred and twenty-five men, and came out with one hundred and twelve. It fell back with the army to Nashville, and in the engagements that occurred there on the fifteenth and sixteenth of December, lost several more of its men. The regiment followed the retreating rebels as far as Columbia, Tennessee, where it was con- solidated with the Ninety-ninth infantry, the name of the Fiftieth being retained.
We now hear of the newly consolidated regiment in Clifton, Tennessee, at Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Kings- ton, Goldsborough, Raleigh, Greensborough, and at last in Salisbury, North Carolina, where it was mustered out on the twenty-sixth of June, 1865. On the seventeenth of July, the regiment reached Camp Dennison, Ohio, where the men were all paid and discharged.
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Patrick McGrew. First Lieutenant David A. Ireland. Second Lieutenant William O'Hara.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Charles D. Whitridge. Sergeant Albert Hawley. Sergeant Abram V. Thompson.
Sergeant Thomas M. Gray.
Sergeant Samuel A. Winkle.
Corporal Charles H. Richey.
Corporal Thornton P. Thomas. Corporal David B. Austin.
Corporal John W. Achey. Corporal Aaron M. Atren. Corporal John G. Harvey. Corporal James C. Watt. Corporal Samuel Kesler. Musician George W. Richey.
PRIVATES.
Austin Colwell, John Aldridge, Samuel Bealman, William Billy, William A. Batten, John Bronley, Philip Carr, Adam Cobleus, John F. Curry, Albert Cook, William Collins, George Cook, Theo. H. Cook, George Conover, David Deardoff, John Dcardoff, Andrew Dunham, John F. Irwin, John Elliott, Clinton A. Fleming, James M. Foster, Theo. P. Fleming, Charles Graham, Henry I. Gephart, Thomas Gar- rison, Henry Horton, George H. Hildebrand, John T. Hazeltine, John Hattersley, John Hagarman, William D. Jaynes, Joseph Kincaid, Uris Kizer, William L. Karshmer, Daniel Leeks, Benton Lee, William Mil's, James Manzy, Enos Marshall, Matthew McCawley, George March, Henry Miller, Samuel C. Mackey, John H. Manzy, Alfred B. Murray, Henry Mullholland, Alfred K. Miller, James M. Pittman, Cyrus Pence, Hugh S. Rogers, Christopher Ray, John Rayburn. Jos. D. Stephenson, George W. Severer, Andrew J. Simms, James K. Sample, John Sample, James Sullivan, James Kimball, Thomas M. Tenell, John B. Thompson, William A. Tenell, John Vanzant, James Wooston, Samuel Werts, David Werts, John N. Williams, James Walker.
FIFTY-FOURTH OHIO INFANTRY.
Recruiting for this regiment began late in the sum- mer of 1861. It was organized at Camp Dennison, where it remained for drill the following fall and winter. It went into the field the seventeenth of the following February, with an aggregate number of eight hundred and fifty men. The first engagement was in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, April 6, 1862. At the end of the two days' fighting a loss was sustained of one hun- dred and ninety-eight men killed, wounded and missing.
On the twenty-ninth of April, movement was made upon Corinth. On the morning of the evacuation, the Fifty-fourth was among the first to enter the town. It was afterwards designated to perform provost duty, the commanding officer of the regiment being ap- pointed commandant of the post of Corinth.
During the summer there were several short expedi- tions. At Chickasaw Bayou, December 28th and 29th, in an assault on the rebel works, there was a loss of twenty men killed and wounded. The first of the year 1863 we hear of the Fifty-fourth in the capture of Ar- kansas Post.
On the sixth of May the regiment began its march toward Vicksburgh, engaging in the battles of Cham- pion Hills and Big Black Ridge on its way. In a gen- eral assault on the enemy's works, on the nineteenth and twenty-second of June, it met with a loss of forty- . seven in killed and wounded men. During the entire siege of Vicksburgh, this regiment was continually em- ployed in skirmishing and fatigue duty, except six days consumed in a march of observation toward Jackson, Mississippi.
It was engaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 26th, and the following day marched to the relief of the garrison at Knoxville, Tennessee.
The regiment was mustered into service as a veteran
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organization January 22d, and at once started to Ohio on furlough. In April it returned to camp with two hundred recruits, and at once entered on the Atlanta campaign. It participated in a general engagement at Resaca and Dallas, and in a severe skirmish at New Hope Church. In the general assault upon Kenesaw Mountain, June 27th, there was a loss of twenty-eight killed and wounded, at Nicajack Creek thirteen killed and wounded, and in the battle east of Atlanta, July 2 Ist and 22d, ninety-four killed, wounded and missing.
Following these, it was in the heavy skirmish at Jones- borough, and acted a part in the pursuit of Hood, till the march for Savannah was begun. Its last battle was at Bentonville, North Carolina, March 21, 1865.
Moving by way of Richmond, the regiment arrived in Washington city, where it took part in the grand re- view. In August it was mustered out. The aggregate strength of the regiment at that time was twenty-four officers and two hundred and thirty-one men.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Williams, jr. Adjutant George W. Wilson.
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Robert Williams, jr.
First Lieutenant Granville M. White.
Second Lieutenant John Bell.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant David A. Rees.
Sergeant Miles W. Elliott.
Sergeant James M. Dimpsey.
Sergeant Peter J. Gasnell.
Sergeant William H. Elliott.
Carporal Henry B. Neff. Corporal Carlisle Leeds.
Corporal Dillon H. James.
Corporal Cyrus Pattenger.
Corporal Adam C. Neff.
Corporal John W. Kelley.
Corporal James M. Anderson. Corporal David F. Price. Musician Leonard W. Brown.
Musician David R. Stephenson.
Wagoner Henry Spreng.
PRIVATES.
Frank B. Adams, Elijah Athey, James W. Armstrong, Jacob Barber, Alexander W. Boyer, Cyrus Ballard, Thomas J. Brown, Nicholas Bar- ber, Christian W. Baker, John M. Breeder, Charles K. Bennett, Thomas Bennett, Jacob Campbell, James Cavener, Christopher H. Cook, Samuel Cook, Andrew J. Clark, James M. Casselman, Henry W. Carroll, William G. Cochran, John H. Cochran, Albert G. Coch- ran, Thomas Davin, Jackson B. Ford, John Frazier, Samuel Glunt, Jesse Glunt, John Glunt, George W. Gordon, Peter Haines, John Hawk, Joseph Huffman, George Haughn, Lewis Huffman, Nathan H. Henderson, Francis V. Hale, Joseph Haines, Henry D. King, Alonzo D. Kimball, Allen H. Lowe, Thomas J. Mitchell, Nathan D. Mitchell, George W. Miller, Henry Marshland, William H. Moravy, John W. Neff, Milton U. Neff, Albert S. Robinson, William H. Rob- inson, James H. Robinson, William H. Runyan, Hiram Seas, Samuel Smiley, William F. Smiley, John Speilman, Joseph Scott, Joseph Tip- ton, John W. Thompson, Elias Vanatta, George W. Wilson, Richard C. White, Lyndon Walker, Joseph Wright, John Wingler, James Wingler, William C. Wilson, Franklin W. Whiteside.
COMPANY G. PRIVATES.
Henry C. Fornshell, Lusten D. Fornshell, Calloway King, Elisha M. Hancock.
SIXTY-NINTH OHIO INFANTRY.
The organization of this regiment took effect early in the year 1862. April 19th it was ordered to report for duty at Nashville, Tennessee, where it arrived five days after.
The first action was with Morgan's men near the town of Gallatin. Here one man was killed. When Bragg's army attempted a flank movement toward Louisville, the Sixty-ninth was left at Nashville as a part of the garrison for the city. On the thirty-first of December, the first day of the battle of Stone River, the regiment with its brigade was engaged with the enemy, taking position in the advance line of General George H. Thomas' Four- teenth corps. It became involved in the disaster on the right, and was compelled to fight its way back, suffering severely in killed and wounded.
January 2d the Sixty-ninth was in the brilliant but des- perate charge across Stone river, in which the rebels were driven back with heavy loss. On June 24, 1863, the Tullahoma campaign began. It was also in the battle of Mission Ridge, and was among the first to reach the top of the mountain. Major J. J. Hanna, then in command, received much commendation for his efficient and brave conduct.
The re-enlistment of the regiment and its succeeding furlough of thirty days but gave new inspiration for work, and on May 14th occurred the engagement with the en- emy near Resaca. Between this time and the fight at Jonesborough we read of several engagements and many killed and wounded. This battle caused the evacuation of Atlanta, and the National forces occupied that city.
The regiment participated in the subsequent chase after Hood, after which it returned to Atlanta and joined Sherman's march to the sea. The last battle in which it had a part occurred near Goldsborough, North Carolina, March 19, 1865. Then came the march through Rich- mond, the grand review at Washington, the transfer at Louisville, and lastly the muster out of service, on the seventeenth of July, 1865.
COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Second Lieutenant Ross J. Hazletine.
NON-COMMISIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant William R. Windsor. Corporal William B. Bowman. Corporal William Austin.
PRIVATES.
Abram Baker, John C. Caskey, Harrison Darland, Benjamin F. Dar- land, William Y. Hahn, William H. Harvey, Henry Hildebrand, Stiles C. Ireland, John A. Irwin, William G. Jordan, Jerome Jordan, James R. McGill.
COMPANY E. PRIVATE.
James Marshall.
SEVENTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.
The organization of this regiment was completed at . Camp John McLean, near Cincinnati, December 18, 1861. By the first day of spring a prolonged march in West Virginia fairly initated the men into the hardships of a soldier's life.
On the twelfth of April, at Monterey Court House,
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they received a spirited attack from the enemy. The Seventy-fifth, being in the advance, stood its ground manfully, and the enemy finally gave way. Shortly after this, in an attempt to guard the stores accumulated at McDowell, a little village at the foot of Bull Pasture mountain, a severe battle occurred with the rebel General Jackson. At the close, so severe was the loss of the enemy, that he reported it as "the bloodiest of the war for the number engaged." No prisoners were taken on either side. The Seventy-fifth gained especial laurels to its name under the immediate eye of General Milroy, who warmly congratulated Colonel McLean on the gal- lantry of his regiment.
Following a number of engagements which our space will not permit us to describe, came the relieving of General Fremont, when Major General Pope took com- mand; and the next affair in which the Seventy-fifth faced the enemy was at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, on the eighth of August, 1862. During the week that fol- lowed, there were frequent engagements, and at Free- man's Ford there was a heavy loss.
Jackson finally flanked Pope, got in his rear, burnt his wagon-trains and three trains of cars, and was again at- tacked by General Pope at Groveton, near the old Bull Run battle-field, August 28, 1862. For a time the fight- ing was bloody in the extreme, and the Seventy-fifth lost one hundred and fifteen in killed and wounded. It was observed, as an evidence of the severity of the fire, that ninety shots took effect on the colors of this one regi- ment, during the battle.
Nothing of importance now occurred in the history of the regiment until the second of May, 1863, at Chancel- lorsville. The history of that battle is well known. The Eleventh corps, surprised and overwhelmed by the im- petuous rebels, fell back in almost complete demoraliza- tion. Yet McLean's Ohio brigade, a part of that corps, merited the highest praise for the cool, steady manner in which it received the enemy under the most trying cir- cumstances. In the short space of one-half hour, one hundred and fifty men were killed or wounded.
After this battle, the Seventy-fifth returned to its old camp near Brook's station, when it became a part of the force that confronted the enemy at Gettysburgh, on the first of July, 1863. The regiment was under fire every day of the battle until its termination. Of sixteen of- ficers that went into the engagement, three were killed, seven dangerously or fatally wounded, and four taken prisoners. Of two hundred and ninety-two enlisted men, sixty-three were killed, one hundred and six wounded, and thirty-four taken prisoners.
On the sixth of August, Colonel McLean, with the Ohio brigade, consisting of the Fifty-fifth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fifth, and Eighty-second infantry regiments, was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and on the eighteenth went into the trenches on Morris Island. The duty here was severe in the extreme, owing to the intense heat and the impossibility of getting even temporary relief. More men died from disease than were killed by the enemy's shells
Early in the year 1864, the regiment was mounted,
and was afterward known as the Seventy-fifth mounted infantry, performing all the duties of a regular cavalry regiment. Immediately after this, we hear of it, broken into sections, being sent in different directions to hinder blockade-running, to bring cattle needed by the National army that had been driven away by their owners, to pro- tect the Unionists from rebel persecutions, and to repel threatened attacks. Frequent skirmishing with the Second Florida cavalry was ended, on the tenth of Au- gust, 1864, by General Birney being relieved of his com- mand by General Hatch. The expedition that followed, into the interior of Florida, ended disastrously in the capture of about half the command.
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