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W. Boyce, George D. Acker, J. B. Pumphrey and V. R. Davis. Capt. Randolph made his escape, with a number of the offi- cers belonging to other states, in a wood-scow, down the Con- garee and Santee rivers, where they boarded the Union gun- boat Neipsic. The remaining officers of the One Hundred and Twenty-third made their way successfully to the Union lines in Tennessee. Colonel Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter, Captain Chamberlain, Lieutenants Schuyler, M. H. Smith, Frank A. Breckenridge and Charles H. Sowers were exchanged. Capt. Charles H. Riggs died in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 15th of September, 1864, of disease contracted in prison. Capt. William H. Bender also died at Columbia, South Carolina, of yellow fever. The privates of the regi- ment were exchanged within a few months, and sent to the parole camps at Annapolis, Maryland, and Camp Chase, Ohio.
Major Kellogg, who was wounded and made his escape from the enemy at Winchester, collected the stragglers of the regiment at Martinsburg, Virginia, where the paroled men of the regiment, after exchange, joined him, about the 1st of September, 1863. At this place the regiment was newly armed and equipped; but being deficient in officers, it was engaged mainly in provost and picket duty until March 1, 1864, when it was distributed as guards along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Harper's Ferry and Monocacy Junction.
About the 1st of March, however, the regiment was col- lected together at Martinsburg, and, with the Army of West Virginia, began one of the most remarkable campaigns, with- out adequate results, performed during the war of the re- bellion. First under General Sigel, and subsequently under General Hunter, this army was marched up and down the valleys, and from mountain range to mountain range through- out the northwest quarter of old Virginia. As pursuers or pursued, they visited, en route, Winchester, New Market (on the 15th of May, where, in a fight with Breckinridge, the regiment lost eighty men in killed and wounded), Woodstock, Port Republic, Staunton, Lexington, Buckhannon, Liberty, Lynchburg, Salem, Gauley Bridge, Camp Piatt, Charleston, Parkersburg, Cherry Run, Martinsburg, Harper's Ferry, and many other points. The regiment started on the Lynchburg raid with Hunter, with seven hundred men, and at the ex-
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piration of two months and a half it returned with two hun- dred and fifty present for duty.
However, a new era now dawned upon the Shenandoah valley. General Sheridan was placed in command of the Union troops assembled on the Upper Potomac, and with them he pressed forward to a round of victories. At Berry- ville, Winchester, Strasburg, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, the enemy were signally defeated, and ere the close of Octo- ber, 1864, the Shenandoah valley was cleared almost entirely of rebels in arms. This had not been accomplished without great loss of life, and in the One Hundred and Twenty-third alone about one hundred and fifty brave spirits had either. been killed or severely wounded.
In December, the regiment, with other troops, was ordered to report to General Butler, commanding on the north side of the James river near Bermuda Hundred, and attached to the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, General Ord commanding. It arrived at Deep Bottom on the 27th of December, 1864, where it remained until the 25th of March, 1865, at which time it broke camp and moved to the Chickahominy to aid Sheridan across that stream. The Twenty-fourth Corps was then sent to the south side of the James, to the extreme left of the Union lines, on Hatcher's Run. On the 30th of March, an advance was made on the rebel works, and skirmishing con- tinued until the morning of the 2d of April, when a general charge was made, and the rebel works were carried. The regiment during this time was for three days and nights on the skirmish line, without relief, and their rations had to be carried to them by Regimental Quartermaster, Lieutenant Brown-a most dangerous duty. The loss of the regiment was quite severe while engaged in this long skirmish. It captured two battle-flags and a number of prisoners. The rebels were followed toward Petersburg, their forts on the way being captured, excepting at one or two points, where a sturdy resistance was made. On the 3d of April, the whole Union army marched in pursuit of Lee's rebel army toward Danville, the regiment reaching Burke's Junction in the night of the 5th, at 12 o'clock. At this point, the One Hundred and Twenty-third was included in a force sent on an expedition to burn High Bridge, fifteen miles in the advance, on the South Side Railroad. Within half a mile of the bridge, just as the regiment was opening a fight with a brigade of rebel
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home guards, the rebel cavalry, in advance of Lee's army, came on in their rear, and, after a fight of three or four hours, duration, with heavy loss on both sides, the Union command, including the One Hundred and Twenty-third, was captured. Captain Randolph, of the regiment, was shot through the right lung in this fight, and General Reed, the commander of the expedition, was killed. The One Hundred and Twenty- third, being a second time prisoners of war, was marched along with Lee's army to Appomattox Court House. At that point, the rebel army surrendered to the Union forces under General Grant, and the prisoners were thus rescued.
Immediately after the surrender, the regiment proceeded to City Point; thence it embarked on transport for Annapolis, Maryland, and finally was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where its members remained until June 12, 1865, when they were mustered out of service.
Following is an almost complete list of the Wyandot county men who served in this regiment:
Field and Staff .- Col. and Brevet Brig. Gen. William T. Wilson, mustered out with regiment.
Maj. John W. Chamberlain, mustered out with regiment as captain.
Surgeon Orrin Ferris, resigned November 10, 1864.
Assistant Surgeon J. H. Williams, resigned January 25, 1864.
Chaplain, Charles G. Ferris, resigned June 9, 1864.
Company A-Capt. J. W. Chamberlain.
First Lieut. J. B. Pumphrey.
Second Lieut. A. P. Ingerson.
Sergts. F. M. Anderson, J. H. Boroff, William F. Basom, J. P. Bear, Jac Clinger, D. D. Terry, Joseph Roll, H. S. Kaley, John Wentz.
Corps. D. L. Baker, W. S. Rifenberry, B. R. Reynolds, D. W. Nichols, S. A. Mckenzie, W. H. Egeston, L. M. Zeigler, J. H. Ellis, D. P. Demarest, F. Egeston, T. C. Thompson.
Musicians, John Emerson, R. W. Lundy; A. S. Thompson, teamster.
Privates-Jacob Switzer, David Thompson, O. R. Torrey, E. H. Van Buren, John Thompson, Byal Tracy, W. Walters, Silas Wood, A. Davis, L. L. Wilcox, George B. Smith, J. Suber, H. Stansberry, McKendree Smith, J. R. Cross, L. L. Wilson, Jacob Teal, John Davis, G. W. Davis, R. J. Craglow,
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E. P. Cozier, W. H. Crites, John Ellis, William Ellis, W. M. Ellis, R. J. Ewart, Elijah Emptage, George W. Finnell, R. L. Ewart, A. Corwin, C. B. Drum, D. E. Gibson, Eli Frost, A. Debaugh, Albert Frost, D. Gipson, David Gibson, F. M. Har- ris, James Haner, W. J. Hildreth, H. Hunter, Edgar Haner, G. P. Hoysington, James Gregg, E. G. Emptage, D. H. In- man, A. Ingerson, Welcome Inman, J. Inman, J. W. Kemp, I. B. Kemp, W. K. Humbert, H. W. Karr, J. O. Heckathorne, W. Inman, A Kennedy, C. M. King, H. P. King, Frank Leeper, S. C. Heckathorne, Hiram Long, J. W. Bower, Coonrod Huf- ford, David Mincer, H. M. McMillan, Isaac Michaels, H. Per- rin, S. M. Parsons, J. H. Niebel, B. O. Neal, T. A. Miller, I. Price, Henry Palmer, John Parlet, L. Rickenbach, N. L. Rob- inson, E. S. Rummell, R. V. Rummell Jedediah Sears, J. Shan- non, F. Robinson, R. W. Smith, J. C. Bear, Alexander Caroth- ers, S. C. Cole, J. S. Anderson, John S. Anderson.
Company F-Capts. Curtis Berry, Sr., resigned January 31, 1863; Alonzo Robbins, mustered out with regiment.
First Lieuts. M. W. Willoughby, mustered out with regi- ment; James H. Gilliam, died in service.
Sergts. A. N. Sawyer, Eli Maskey, M. F. Allison, W. G. White, B. F. Willoughby, Samuel Dunn, S. K. Cook.
Corps. F. Blond, Thomas Clark, W. R. Willoughby, Wil- liam K. Fry, John Keys, G. G. White, N. McFarland, A. L. McBride.
J. B. Willoughby, John Swinehart, Eli Smith, musicians; J. P. Dry, color bearer; J. Gephart, teamster; N. B. Brisbine, hospital steward.
Privates, Isaac Van Doran, J. A. Smith, A. B. Smith, N. D. Young, Ezra Snyder, C. Washburn, Joseph Williams, L. P. Willoughby, J. Whinnery, Levi Woodling, John Snyder, N. Cowgill, C. Cooper, R. B. Craig, J. Cook, E. L. Dunn, D. W. Dougherty, M. M. Gipson, David Galbreath, W. H. Fisher, David Hall, W. A. Gipson, Joel W. Gibson, Samuel Henley, W. H. Hefflebower, S. Hoffman, A. D. Hesser, Jacob Hay- man, E. B. Holly, H. Hough, G. W. Hufford, Simon Huffman, Robert Irvin, C. H. Kiehl, J. A. Hefflebower, LaFayette Lee, Benjamin Kriechbaum, Peter J. Lott, John Mackey, W. I .. Maurice, Lewis Corfman, George Mackey, E. W. McJenkins R. N. McConnell, M. O. McClain, A. H. McClain, David Mc- Clain, S. R. Cook, John H. Miller, J. L. Milum, William Mitchell, D. McClain, J. G. Norton, Levi Noll, A. P. Reardon,
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H. B. Ragon, C. E. M. Oliver, J. B. Oliver, M. P. H. Oberlin, B. C. Rummell, I. H. Cathright, George Seager, O. J. Scott, J. S. Barclay, H. L. Simmons, Nelson F. Bowsher, R. Bulun, David Bowsher, N. Chambers, R. Cathright, A. Caylor, Peter Altvater, David Stalter, Charles Bolyard, Lewis Blond, Reuben Berleen.
Company D-Sergt. Thomas Parkin.
Corp. H. H. Pennington; Elias Osborn, musician.
Privates, C. C. Roberts, James Kenan, Isaac C. Stalter, Pitt Stevens, Peter Swartz, George Hatfield, B. Delapline, J. A. Heckman, B. L. Hoover, B. Kinney, W. A. Mitten, G. W. Naugle, D. C. Moron, Henry Reynolds, J. G. Reynolds, Gilbert Richmond, B. W. Moore, A. Folkner.
Company E-Privates, LaFayette Dunn, John Halsey, Calvin Dunn, Isaac Holden; John Loder, corporal.
Company H-Capt. V. R. Davis, mustered out with regi- ment.
Privates, James Culver, Conrad Haas, G. W. Eyestone, W. L. Foy, J. C. Andrews, Charles Hotelling, Lewis Foy, Lewis Rank.
Company K-Privates, P. Hennessy, A. L. Ragon, Wil- liam Montee, Isaac Nutter, G. R. Marvin, Thomas Irvin, Ben- jamin Spittle, W. Costoloe, W. Straub, Leonard Zent, Jacob Switzer, C. Simmon.
Other Companies:
First Lieut. R. D. Ferris, resigned March 12, 1863; T. C. Burnet, Samuel Hayman, William Hoover, J. H. Dunlap.
Brevet Brig. Gen. William T. Wilson, who served through- out its term of service as colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, was one of the most prominent residents of Upper Sandusky during what has been mildly termed "the late unpleasantness." He was also known both before and subsequent to that period as the publisher and editor of the Wyandot Pioneer, a republican newspaper.
In April, 1861, he was commissioned captain, and led into the field one of the three Wyandot county companies, which served in the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry during its first term of three months. Soon after its muster out, the same regi- ment was re-organized to serve for a period of three years. Many of the original members of the old organization re- turned to the front with the new, and among them was the Upper Sandusky editor, now the second officer in rank in the
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regiment. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel, August 7, 1861, and served with credit until August 11, 1862, when he resigned and returned home. Like his townsman, General Kirby, however, he could not remain in the rear while his country needed his services, and on the 26th day of Septen- ber, 1862, he was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, with which regiment he served until it was mustered out June 12, 1865. Toward the close of his term he was commissioned brevet brigadier general, to take rank from March 13, 1865. He now resides in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOURTH OHIO NATIONAL GUARDS
This regiment was formed by the consolidation of the Nineteenth Battalion Ohio National Guard, of Wyandot county, and the Sixty-fourth Battalion Ohio National Guard, of Wood county, at Camp Chase, on the 11th of May, 1864. The regiment was ordered to report without delay to General Wallace, at Baltimore, Maryland.
Upon its arrival in that city, Companies G and K were detached for duty in the fortifications, and the remainder of the regiment reported to General Morris at Fort McHenry. From there, Company E was ordered to Wilmington, Dela- ware; Company B, to Camp Parole, near Annapolis, Mary- land, and Company I to Fort Dix, at the Relay House. On the 18th of May, the regiment was relieved from duty at Fort McHenry, and was ordered to the Relay House, where it en- joyed comparative quiet until the 1st of July, when the rebel General Early came down the Shenandoah, threaten- ing Baltimore and Washington. Companies B, G and I were in the engagement at Monocacy Junction, and suffered se- verely, losing in killed, wounded and prisoners about fifty men. On the 13th of July, the regiment was ordered to Wash- ington, D. C., and from there moved toward Winchester, Vir- ginia, passing through Leesburg. It was halted at Snicker's Gap, and after a day's delay was moved back toward Wash- ington; but it was again faced toward the Shenandoah val- ley, moving via Harper's Ferry, under the command of Major General Wright.
At daylight on the 13th of August, a portion of the regi- ment, while guarding a train near Berryville, Virginia, was attacked by Moseby's command, with two pieces of artillery. Some confusion was caused by the first fire, but the men soon
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rallied, drove back the enemy and saved the train. The de- tachment lost five killed, six wounded and sixty captured. The men of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth were much fatigued and worn by the arduous service performed, but they never complained.
On the 31st of August, 1864, the regiment was mustered out of service, having lost during its term of a little more than one hundred days, about one hundred and twenty-five men killed, wounded and captured. Many of those taken prisoners were intentionally starved to death at Anderson- ville and other rebel prison pens.
The Wyandot county men who served in the regiment were as follows:
Field and Staff-Col. Samuel H. Hunt.
Adjt., Jonathan Ayers.
Chaplain, J. G. Baughman.
Company A-Capt., Henry H. Ragon.
First Lieuts., William McFee, James S. Leith.
Second Lieut., E. B. Ragon.
Sergts., Levi Shults, J. S. Bowers, H. J. Pool.
Corps., E. Pool, Benjamin Morris.
Privates, Fred Kinley, William Kurtz, Isaac Blackburn, John Blackburn, Hugh Mason, Isaac Ayers, John Gatchell, Jesse Smalley, H. J. Hunt, Leonard Cole, Charles Copler, A. R. Hunt, D. J. Hale, J. M. Pool, Henry Brown, H. C. Bowen, V. L. Obenchain, George Hayman, William Parker, E. Stans- berry, John Walton.
Company C-First Sergt., H. M. Cunningham.
Company D-Capt., Asa Brayton.
First Lieut., F. R. Baumgardner.
Second Lieut. Amos Stetler.
Sergts., D. S. Nye, A. E. Gibbs, Byron Kear, W. H. Grin- dle, John W. Lime.
Corps., Oliver Brayton, Amos Bixby, Amos Nye, David Lindsay.
Privates, W. Plott, William Berry, John Battenfield, J. Barnhiser, J. S. Foster, J. J. Brunning, E. Goodman, W. Low- ery, James McGarvey, Henry Kimmerly, Harrison Kimball, James Clark, M. A. Clark, A. A. Carothers, A. Carothers, A. S. Gear, S. J. Keeler, Lewis Bacher, J. A. J. Lang, W. Hurd, W. B. Hurd, J. W. Conn, Thomas Bliss, Gibson Busch, W. H. Davis, J. Duddleson, John Deardoff, Alonzo Ellison, James
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Myers, C. Humphrey, H. H. Hoysington, A. H. Hoysington, M. D. Grossell, W. H. Karr, L. D. Karr, J. H. Karr, J. C. Ish, J. E. Jones, C. L. Parker, J. W. Crum, C. R. McKenzie, E. H. Sage, James Ritchie, O. P. Robinson, D. Sipes, Landline Smith, W. K. Nye, L. E. Nye, George A. Nye, A. Harshberger, J. D. Shireman, Elkanah Sherman, E. Sherman, E. H. Shell- house, D. Shell, Joseph Shane, Wellington Nesbaum, S. C. Williams, S. Y. Williams, H. Straham, Luther Stone, S. Harp- ster, O. Whipple, J. W. Harpster, B. F. Swartz, W. H. Straw, W. H. H. Williams, G. F. Wonder, D. Wonder, A. J. Wonder, S. R. Wohlgamuth, S. Wohlgamuth, S. A. Wisner, Asa Wis- ner.
Company E-Private, E. Young.
Company F-Privates, Jacob Baldwin, Robert Lindsay, Miles Bowsher, William Bowsher, Andrew Baldwin.
Company G-Capt., William Frank.
First Lieut. Howard Kennedy.
Second Lieut., S. H. White.
Corps., G. W. Clark, John Shrank, Allen Parker, R. L. Willard; - -, bugler.
Privates, Thomas Emptage, James Emptage, S. B. Cook, Irvine Straw, J. W. Atkinson, J. W. Bowers, Theodore Kel- logg, - McGha, Jerry O'Neal, John J. Inglehart, Orrin Long, John Runels, T. B. Mount, Marshall Cozier, S. D. Hol- land, R. Parks, E. L. Parker, Joseph Worthington, Jacob Williams, Theodore Uncapher, D. H. Walker, W. A. Butler, John Campbell, D. D. Hildreth, William Hildreth, Robert Mitchell.
Company H-Capt., James A. Gibson.
Sergts., Samuel Phillips, T. B. Armstrong.
Privates, Clay Miller, John Milligan, J. W. Little, A. C. Hunt, J. W. Stinchcomb, W. H. Case, Alfred McCauley, Noble Emerson, G. W. Horrick, George H. Heistand, J. W. Shaffer, James Hibbins, Alva Bunn, T. A. VanGundy, G. W. Bald- win, Lewis Lupton, George Wilson, Benjamin Pontius, W. L. Clingman, J. O. Welty, H. C. Welty, T. C. Wood, C. C. Pancoast.
Company K-Corp., W. D. Cook; private, Joseph Seager.
Company not reported-Jeremiah Kitchen, captain; Aaron Kennedy, Sergeant; John Woessner, P. B. Oliver, Henry Karr, J. F. Myers, Ashford Nail, N. K. Eyestone, Vin- cent J. Flack, Warner Osborne, W. O. Phillips, W. J. Wilcox, Vol. 1-15
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P. P. Wilcox, C. Henry, William Hoffman, T. J. Frazer, L. Bloom, Aaron Price, J. R. Willson, Levi Willson, D. Shafer, John Midlam, J. Puffenberger.
ELEVENTH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY
The men who composed this battery were enlisted at Cin- cinnati, and from Athens, Butler, Hamilton, Vinton and Wy- andot counties, in August and September, 1861, and rendez- voused at St. Louis Arsenal, Missouri, where they were mus- tered into service on the 27th day of October, 1861, with one hundred and fifty-one men, rank and file.
The battery consisted of two six-pounder rifled guns; two six-pounder smooth-bore guns, and two twelve-pounder field- howitzers, with gun carriages and caissons complete, and battery-wagon and blacksmith shop. The uniforms for the men were made to order, from actual measurement, of the best material, and each man was furnished with a pair of superior buck gauntlets in addition to the regular uniform. The non-commissioned officers, in addition to their regulation saber, were armed with Beal's patent revolvers, and the pri- vates with saber-bayonets.
On the 26th of October, the battery marched to depart- ment headquarters, and was reviewed by Major General Fre- mont, then commanding the western department, and was there presented by Mrs. Fremont with an elegant silk guidon. A few days later, the battery proceeded to Tipton, Missouri. Subsequently it marched to Otterville, where a few weeks were passed; thence to Boonville and St. Charles. From there it was taken on transports to Commerce, Missouri, where it joined a portion of General Pope's Army of the Mississippi, then organizing for operations against New Madrid and Is- land No. Ten. It participated in the Union victories at those points, and then moved with General Pope's command to the re-enforcement of Grant's and Halleck's forces in front of Corinth, Mississippi. During the siege, and in the battles and skirmishes resulting in the occupation of Corinth the battery bore its full share.
With other troops, it remained in the vicinity of Corinth throughout the spring and summer of 1862, participating in the Ripley expedition under General Rosecrans meanwhile. It was during this summer that the following incident oc-
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curred as narrated in a letter written by Lieut. Cyrus Sears at "Camp three miles beyond Corinth, Mississippi, July 2, 1862," to his brother, John D. Sears, Esq., of Upper San- dusky. * * Early Saturday morning last, Charles Rhodes and Robert Swegle, privates of our battery, were walking through the abandoned rebel camp, when having strayed incautiously too far, they suddenly came upon a couple of 'Secesh' sentinels armed with loaded double-barreled shot guns. Our men being unarmed were very unceremoniously taken prisoners and marched off toward the enemy's camp. Their captors proving very incautious, or mistaking the char- acter of their prisoners, soon allowed them to get close along side. No sooner did they do this, than little Charley called out to Swegle to 'go in,' and suiting his actions to the words he grappled the gun of his man with one hand and, giving him a right-hander with the other, floored him. Meanwhile, Swegle, who is a big fellow, served his man in the same style, and disarmed him in short meter, and came to the rescue of Charley, who was having it rough and tumble, with his cus- tomer, among the bushes. The tables were now turned, and the 'Butternuts' were marched into camp and turned over to Generals Buford and Hamilton, who declared that it was the best and bravest incident that had come under their notice, and that it should be properly mentioned. *
About the 1st of August, the battery with General Ham- ilton's division moved to Jacinto, Mississippi, where it re- mained until 3 o'clock A. M., of the 16th of September, when it moved forward with the forces of General Rosecrans, for the purpose of co-operating with General Grant against the rebel General Price at Iuka. General Grant, with Ord's di- vision, did not arrive in time. As a result, General Rose- crans' command of about eight thousand men, after a march of nineteen miles, met Price, who had 12,000 men posted on a densely wooded hill just southwest of the town of Iuka, at 4 o'clock P. M., of the 19th of September, and fought him sin- gle-handed. This battle, for the numbers engaged, was one of the most hotly-contested and sanguinary fought during the war. The steady blaze and roar of musketry, as the oppos- ing forces struggled to obtain and hold the crest of the hill, continued unceasingly until 9 o'clock P. M. During the re- mainder of the night, Rosecrans was engaged making his dis- positions to seize some adjacent heights at daybreak for his
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artillery, and replenishing his ammunition. He had the men called to arms at 3 o'clock, and at daylight was moving. But meantime, Price had learned of the proximity of Ord's col- umn of 6,000 men, and had hastily retreated, leaving his dead unburied, and his wounded either on the field or in hotel buildings, churches and dwellings in the town. The enemy's loss in this engagement was 1,078 prisoners, dead and wounded, left on the field, with 350 more wounded estimated to have been carried away. The Union loss was 782 killed, wounded and missing.
The Eleventh Ohio battery went into this action 102 strong (three commissioned officers and ninety-nine enlisted men), under the command of First Lieut. Cyrus Sears. Dur- ing the engagement, it was charged on three different times, suffering a loss of two officers and fifty-five men killed or wounded, eighteen being killed on the field and others dying afterward. Not a man flinched and numbers were killed or wounded after the rebels, in their advance, had passed the muzzles of the guns, some of them nobly dying in the attempt to spike their pieces. More than sixty of the horses belong- ing to the battery were killed or disabled during the action, with the entire loss of harness and equipments. The assault- ing rebel column suffered terribly, having received over a hundred rounds of canister and other shot, while moving for- ward less than a hundred yards. They (the rebels) made sev- eral attempts to drag off the guns by hand, but were thwarted each time by the hot fire of musketry poured in upon them by the Union regiments.
Although the battery suffered severely in the battle at Iuka, in the loss of men and equipments, it was, in a very short time again ready for the field and took a prominent part in the battle of Corinth on the third and fourth days of Octo- ber following (a battle in which eighteen thousand Union troops, under Rosecrans, signally defeated more than twice their number of rebels) nobly maintaining its reputation for efficiency and gallantry. On the 4th, after the first line in the center had given way, and when the rebels flushed with tem- porary success were pressing the second line with exultant shouts the battery poured a destructive and continuous fire upon the advancing rebels, who, although coming within fifty yards, could no longer withstand the murderous discharge of canister from scores of Union guns, but broke and fled.
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