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Mooney. John A
.do
July 9, '61,
Myers, George ..
do
July 11. '63,
Mehan, Charles
.do
Jan. 29, '64,
3
Captured-died at Annapolis, Md., March 25, 1865-Vet.
Magee, Patrick
.do
Jan. 29, '64,
Deserted April 2. 1864-Vet.
Miller. Charles W.
do
Nov. 18, '61,
3 Not on muster-out roll.
Morrison. William
.do
Nov. 19. '61,
Not on muster-out roll.
Mason, John S. E ..
.do
Nov. 22, '61,
Not on muster-out roll.
Moore, John ..
.. do
Nov. 27, '61,
Not on muster-out roil.
Miller, David
do
Dec. 27, '61, 3
M'Bride, John ..
do
Jan. 4, '64,
3
M'Carron, Edward
.. do
May 28, '61,
M'Kibbins, Samuel
do
May 20, '61,
M'Ilhenny, Samuel
.do
Mar. 11, '64,
M'Cormick, Wm ...
do .. do
Jan.
4, '64,
M'Evoy, John.
.. do
Sept. 23, '61,
3
Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, '62-bu. rec., Dec. 23, '62-bu. in Mil. Asy. Cem., D. C. Not on muster-out roll.
M'Aleer, John P .... M'Mullin, Charles ..
do
Oct.
16, '61,
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M'Gowan. Samuel.
.. do
Nov. 6, '61,
M'Avoy, James ..
.. do
M'Allister, John ...
.. do
Dec. 26, '61,
O' Brien, John.
.. do
Jan. 4, '64,
3
Prosser. John
do
.do
Mar. 15, '65,
3
Retherser, William
do
Aug. 20, '65.
3
Robinson, Geo. W
.do
April 14, '64, Aug. 19, 63,
3 3
Roth, John
.do
Mar. 15, '65, Feb. 24. '65, 1
3
Reedy. George H.
do
July 18. '63, S
Ramesburg, J. H.
.. do
July 16, '63,
Rafter, Frank
do
Dec. 23, '63,
S
Riley, Daniel
do
Aug. 20. '63. 9
1
Ralev, Daniel.
.. do
Mar. 14. '65,
Roberts, David
.. do
Oct. 15. '61, Nov. 21, '61,
Not on muster-out roil.
Rothchild, Lewis
.do
Nov. 25, 61,
Sample, Andrew
.do
May 31, 61.
Simuies, John ..
.do
Jan. 4, 64,
Squibb, David C. Shane, George J.
do .do
June 1, '61, June 1, '61, 3
Wounden in action, Nov. 7, 1804-aosent, sick, at muster out-Vet.
Steiner, Jacob
.do
Mar. 21, '65, 1
Drafted - deserted - returned - wd. at Sailor's Creek. Va . April 6, 1865- mustered out with company, July 1. 1865.
Drafted-mustered out with Co .. July 1, 1865.
Sterner, Levi
.. do
Smith, Godfrey
.do
Mar. 21, '05. Sept. 16. '62. Aug. 9, '01,
Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa .. July 2, 1563 - tr. to Vet. Reserve Corps, March 16, 1864.
Smith, John M
.. do
Smith, John P
3
Seesholtz, Isaac II.
do
Shilling, John
.. do
Dec. 23, '65, Oct. 12. '61, Nov. 12. '61. Nov. 15. 61,
Transferred to company H-date unknown. Not on muster-ont roil.
Snyder, Frank.
.. 00
Nov. 21, '61,
3
Myers. Andrew ..... .do
Feb. 27, '65,
1
Marshall, An.l'w J. .do
June 13, '61,
Martin, Lawrence ..
do
July 9, '61,
3
3 Transferred to Vet. Res. Corps, March 16. 1864. 3' Tr. to Co. K, 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19, 1864.
Not on muster-out roll.
Accidentally wounded, May 10, 1863-mustered out with company, July 1. 1865-Vet.
Absent, sick. at muster ont-Vet.
Discharged October 3. 1864-expiration of term.
Wounded at Petersburg, Va., Sent. 30, 1861- disch. on Surgeon's certificate, May 29, 1865.
Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps, Jan. 5, 1864. Wounded at Petersburg, June 24, 1864-died at City Point, Va., April 1, 1855 -- Vet.
Transferred to company H-date unknown. Not on muster-out roll.
3 Not on mnster-out roll.
Transferred to Co. G-date unknown-Vet. Wounded at Boydton Plank Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864-absont, sick. at muster out-Vet.
Drafted-mustered out with Co., July 1, 1865. Substitute-discharged by G. O .. June 20. 1865. Discharged by General Order. May 30, 1865.
Drafted-prisoner from June 1, 1864. to April 29, 1865-discharged by G. O., June 29, 1865. Mustered out with company, Juiy 1. 1565. Drafted-absent, sick, at muster out.
Substitute-mustered out with Co., July 1, 1865. Drafted-discharged by G. O .. May 31. 1865.
Rice, Jonathan
do
Reiss, Stephen
.. do
Sept. 13, '62,
Wounded at Gettysburg, July 2. 1865-trans- ferred to Vet. Res. Corps, March 16. 1864. Drafted-tr. to Co. K. 105th reg. P. V .. Sept. 19.'64. Drafted -- tr. to Co. K. 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19.'64. Tr. to Co. K, 105en reg. P. V., Sept. 19. 1864-Vet. Drafted-died at Beverly, N. J., Nov. 3. 1864.
Drafted-died at Baily's Cross Roads, Va., May 13. IS65.
Drafted-deserted June 14, 1865. 1 3
Not on muster-out roil.
Russell, Andrew
.do
Not on muster-out roll.
Absent. sick. at muster-out-Vet.
Wounded at Wilderness. Va., May 5, 1864- mustered out with Co , July 1, 1865-Vet.
Absent. sick, at muster out-Vet.
Smith, Jacob
... do
Feb. 24, '65, 1
1163
1 Drafted-disch. on Surg. certificate. June 21. 65. Discharged by General Order, May 31. 1865.
Sanderson, Wm
... do
Tr. to Co. K, 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19, '64-Vet. Not on muster-out roll.
Transferred to company G-date unknown.
.
.
TERM-YEARS .!
Not on muster-out roll.
Mariner, John A
.do
July
9, '61,
M'Mahon, John ..
.do
Oct. 31, '61,
Feb. 27, '65, 1 1
Palmetier, Hiram C.
Prifold, George
do
Aug. 22, 62,
Rosenthal, Max W. .
.. do
1
Robinson, William
... do
Feb. 24, '65,
Dec. 26, '61,
Jan. 4, '64,
552
NINETY-NINTH REGIMENT.
NAME.
BANK.
DATE OF MESTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
.
Schain. Michael.
Private! Nov. 25, '61,
Not on muster-out roll.
Stockton, Rich'd L ... do ...
Nov. 27, '61,
3 Not on muster-out roll.
Stewart, Chas. A. .do
Dec. 2, '61,
3 Not on muster-out roll.
Sclarge, Wm. H. .do
Dec. 2, '61, 3 Not on muster-out roll.
Sclarge, Alberton .. do
Dec. 2, '61, 3 Not on muster-out roll.
Smith, Thomas .do
Dec. 13, '61,
3 Not on muster-out roll.
Smith, John J. .. do
Dec.
21, '61,
3
1 Not on muster-out roll.
Trump, George. .do
Feb. 23, '64,
Thompson. John J. .do
June 1, '61,
3
Deserted May 28. 1864-Vet.
Thatcher, Oliver N. .. do
Oct. 3, '61,
3|
Not on muster-out roll.
Thatcher, Alfred. do
Oct. 3, '61,
3
Not on muster-out roll.
Thompson, Jos. S. .do
Dec. 7, '61,
3 Not on muster-out roll.
Weller, Isaac do
Feb.
25, '6-1,
3 Mustered out with company, July 1, 1865.
Welsch, John do
Mar. 11, '64,
3 Mustered out with company, July 1, 1865.
Whirlow, Joseph do
Aug. 20, '65,
3 Drafted-mustered out with Co., July 1, 1865.
Walraven, Malachia .do
Sept.
5, '61,
3 Discharged Sept. 5, 1864-expiration of term.
Weller, Russell. do
Feb. 28, '64,
Walls, Alexander .. .do
Weller, John. .do
Whipple, Duic. .do
Feb. 21, '65,
1
Drafted -- died at Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., June 6, 1865.
Whipple, Will'd W ... do .....
Feb. 21, '65, 1
Drafted-died at Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., May 25, 1865.
Wilson, William ... do
Aug. 5, '61, 3 Deserted May 28, 1864-Vet.
Williamson, D. W .. .do
Sept. 23, '61, 3
Not on muster-out roll.
Worrell, Charles .... .do
Oct. 8, '61, 3 Not on muster-out roll.
Weaver, John .. do
Nov. 27, '61, 3 Not on muster.out roll.
Young, John W. .. do
May 27, '61, 3
Zinner. Casper.
.do
Aug. 19, '63, 3
Mustered out with company, July 1, 1865-Vet. Absent, sick, at muster out.
UNASSIGNED MEN.
Briley, Edward
Private
Mar. 8, '64, 3
Not accounted for.
Hower, Charles B ...
.do
Mar. 4, '65,
1
Discharged by General Order, June 27, 1865.
Johnson. Henry. .do
July 25, '64,
3 Substitute-discharged by G. O., Sept. 20, 1865.
Lynn, Michael do
Aug. 2, '64, 3 Not accounted for.
Mellen, William S .. .do
Mar. 17, '65, 1 Discharged by General Order, Sept. 6, 1865. Discharged by General Order, Sept. 16, 1865.
Smeltz, Robert C ... do
Mar. 13, '65, 1
Substitute-discharged by G. O., July 26, 1865.
Tully, Patrick. .do
July 20, '64, 3
Substitute-discharged by G. O., Sept. 7, 1865.
Wagner, Henry .do
Feb. 26, '64,
3 | Not accounted for.
...
Mar. 21, '65,
1 Drafted-discharged by G. O., July 19, 1865.
Wolverten, Mahlon .do
Aug. 9, '61,
3 Discharged Aug. 9, 1864-expiration of term. 3 Tr. to Co. K, 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19.1864-Vet.
3 Died at Alexandria, Va., Mar. 5, '64-grave, 1,440. Not on muster-out roll.
Scoles, Frederick .do
Dec. 19, '61,
Spilbeck, Charles .. do
Jan. 26, '65,
TERM-YEARS .!
3 Wounded at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12. 1884-disch. on Surg. certificate, June 18, 1865.
Warner, William ... do
July 18, '63, 3 Drafted-tr. to Co. K, 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19,'64. Mar. 7, '64, 3 Tr. to Co. K, 105th reg. P. V., Sept. 19, 1864.
Smith, Henry C. do
July 23, '64, 3
ยท
ONE HUNDREDTH REGIMENT.
NHE One Hundredth, or as it was more commonly known, the Round Head Regiment, was recruited in the south-western counties of the State, origi- nally settled by the Round Heads of the English Revolution, and by Scotch Irish, Covenanters. Daniel Leasure, a citizen of New Castle, who had since 1832 been connected either as private or an officer with the State militia, and who, during the three months' campaign, had served as Captain and Adjutant of the Twelfth Regiment, received authority from the Secretary of War, under date of August 6, 1861, to recruit a regiment of infantry from among the de- scendants of the Covenanters and of the men who had followed Cromwell, whose leading characteristics had been a devotion to the principles of liberty of person and of conscience.
On the 2d of September the regiment, which had been recruited to the number of twelve companies, was ordered to Washington, whither it at once proceeded, and upon its arrival encamped on Kalorama Heights. A formal organization was soon after effected, and the following field officers were se- lected and commissioned : Daniel Leasure, Colonel ; Captain James Arm- strong, Lieutenant Colonel; Captain David A. Leckey, Major. Just previous to the organization, General Casey, in command of provisional brigades at Washington, issued an order transferring companies L and M to the One Hun- dred and Fifth Regiment. Company L was accordingly thus transferred, and Captain Dick, its commander, became Major of that regiment; but upon the representation of Captain Leckey that his men had been specially recruited for the Round Head Regiment, company M was permitted to remain. It was brigaded on the 7th of October with the Eighth Michigan, Colonel Fenton, and the Fiftieth Pennsylvania, Colonel Christ. As the ranking officer, Colonel Leasure was placed in command of the brigade, and was ordered to proceed with it to Annapolis, there to join the command of General T. W. Sherman, destined to the coast of South Carolina. Soon after its arrival, Colonel Lea- sure sent a request to the Secretary of War, in behalf of the Round Heads, that the Highlanders, Seventy-Ninth New York, might be associated with thein in the same brigade. This request was granted, and on the 12th General Isaac I. Stevens was assigned to its command. On the 19th the fleet sailed from Annapolis and rendezvoused at Fortress Monroe, whence on the 29th it set sail with sealed orders.
The Round Head Regiment and five companies of the Fiftieth Pennsyl- vania were embarked together on the Ocean Queen. On the second day out the fleet was overtaken by a violent storm, which raged with unabated fury for thirty-six hours. On the morning of the 3d of November, all the other vessels of the fleet being out of sight, Colonel Leasure opened his orders and read, " Sail for Port Royal Entrance," which was the first intimation to any
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one on board of its destination. On the 5th of November the fleet arrived off Port Royal Entrance, and the gun-boats proceeded to make soundings of the channel. On the morning of the 7th the transports stood in for the en- trance, and the gun-boats advanced to the attack of Forts Walker and Beau- regard, on the opposite points of Hilton Head and Lady's islands. The troops, meantime, were held in readiness to debark and attack by land ; but at three o'clock P. M. the enemy was driven from his works by the terrible broadsides of Dupont's powerful vessels, and fled to the main land or adjacent islands. On the same evening the troops landed and took possession of the forts and islands. Strong fortifications were at once begun. for which heavy details were made on the troops of General Stevens' Brigade, who soon experienced much sickness from fatigue, and the process of acclimation to the delightful but malarious climate of a southern coast. One month later General Sher- man resolved to occupy a point farther inland, upon the net work of islands which the capture of Port Royal Entrance, on the 7th of November, had made accessible to the Union gun-boats. General Stevens was detailed with his brigade for this purpose. The pleasant town of Beaufort was taken posses- sion of, and occupied as headquarters. The chief military duty of the troops, for the next five or six months, consisted in picketing Barnwell's and Port Royal islands, on the Coosaw, across which on the main land, upon the " Shell Road" leading to Charleston, a Rebel force was stationed, covering the ap- proaches to the railroad connecting Charleston and Savannah. The town of Beaufort, with Port Royal and all the adjacent islands, had been deserted by the white population since the battle of November 7th. To repress the boldness of the enemy in his hostile demonstrations at Port Royal Ferry, on the morning of the 1st of January, 1862, General Stevens, with a force of in- fantry and artillery, aeting in conjunction with two gun boats, crossed the Coosaw, drove the enemy from his unfinished carthworks, and returned on the following day to the ferry without loss. During the occupancy of Beaufort and while at Hilton Head, many siekened, and some died, among them Lieu- tenant James L. Banks, of company F.
General Hunter, who had now relieved General Sherman in command of the Department, undertook the reduction of Charleston. On the 1st of June General Stevens, with the Round Heads, Highlanders, and the Eighth Michi- gan, proceeded through Stono Inlet to James Island, effecting a landing near Legareville. Five companies, A, F, D, I, and H, of the Round Heads, were on the advance vessel with General Stevens, the six remaining companies, under Colonel Leasure, following immediately after. Companies D and H seized the village, while the remaining forces moved up the island. The enemy was driven from his works and all his shore batteries captured. Two heavy guns were subsequently taken in the interior of the island by companies A, F, and I, and brought in. The regiment lost in this engagement about twenty killed and wounded. Captain Cline, of company F, and fifteen men, were captured while skirmishing without proper supports. Until the 15th, the regiment was en- gaged in erecting forts and in performing guard duty, and was almost con- stantly under fire from the enemy's forts, lying in the meanwhile under shelter tents in a low marsh, barely above tide water, and in constant expectation of being attacked.
At evening on the 15th of June, the troops upon the island were ordered to be in readiness early on the following morning to attack the enemy's works
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at the Tower Fort, near Secessionville, a strong earthwork held by the Rebel Colonel Lamar with a strong force, and commanding the approaches to Charles- ton. by the James Island causeway. General Stevens was to attack, and Gen- eral Wright to support on the left, and if need be, assault the work on tho north. Colonel Leasure was placed in command of a brigade composed of his own, the Seventy-ninth and Forty-sixth New York. At two o'clock on the morning of the 16th the troops moved out for the attack. An unaccountable delay occurred, and the attacking party was not formed until broad daylight. Colonel Fenton's Brigade, which led the assaulting column, was swept and broken by a destructivo fire, and Colonel Leasure's, which supported it, was soon in the forefront. After a severe contest, lasting nearly an hour, during which a number of both the Highlander and the Round Head regiments forced their way into the fort, Colonel Benham, in chief command, ordered a retreat. The narrow neck of ground over which the troops must advance was barely sufficient to deploy one regiment, and this was swept by the guns of the fort and from the rite-pits and defences in the rear. Of the four hundred and twenty-one officers and men of the regiment who went into the fight, one offi- cer, Lieutenant Samuel J. Morrow, and eight enlisted men were killed, two , officers and thirty men wounded, and six missing. General Stevens, in his official report, says : "Colonel Fenton, in command of the First Brigade, used every cxertion to throw the Eighth Michigan as far to the right as possible, and to bring on, in support, the Seventh Connecticut, and the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts; but the terrible fire of grape and musketry from the enemy's works cut the two former regiments in two, the right going to the right and the left to the left, whither, finally, the whole of the Twenty-eighth Massa- chusetts took its position, and where they were joined, with scarcely an interval of time, by the One Hundredth Pennsylvania and the Forty-sixth New York, of Leasure's Brigade. These regiments had been brought up with great premptness and energy by Colonel Leasure, and the right of the One Hundredth had pushed up to, and joined the Seventy-ninth in the charge. It was during this brief period, of less than one-half hour-from five to half- past five o'clock-that the greater portion of the casualties occurred. * # I must express my profound sense of the intrepid bearing and soldierly con- duet of my brigade commanders, Colonels Leasure and Fenton, who did every- thing that commanders could do to lead their respective brigades to the at- tack; and it is mainly due to their exertions that their lines of battle were maintained throughout the action."* Lieutenant Jefferson Justice, serving upon the staff of General Stevens, and Lieutenant S. G. Leasure, Assistant Adjutant General to the brigade, were commended for their gallantry. After the battle, the hospitals, crowded with the wounded, stood in urgent need of immediate surgical aid. Colonel Leasure, whose profession was that of medi- cine and surgery, at once volunteered, and rendered most valuable assistance to the young surgeons in charge.
Operations against Charlesten having been suspended, an evacuation of the island was ordered, and on the 4th of July the brigade returned to Hil- ton Ilcad, where, among the accumulated mails, were the commissions for the officers, from Governor Curtin, and an order declaring the Round Head Regi- ment the One Hundredth of the line. Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong, who
" Moore's Rebellion Record, Vol. V, p. 212, Docs.
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had been in a feeble state of health from disease contracted in the service in Mexico, aggravated by a semi-tropical climate, was forced to resign, and was succeeded by Major Leckey, Captain Matthew A. Dawson being promoted to Major. On the 13th, the brigade returned to Beaufort, and soon after its ar- rival there was ordered to Virginia, whither it proceeded on the ocean steamer Merrimac, then on her trial trip. It went into camp at Newport News, where it was visited by a messenger from Governor Curtin, bearing the State colors, which were presented to the regiment by General Stevens, and were received in a patriotic speech by Colonel Leasure. On the 4th of August, the regiment was moved by transport to Acquia Creek, and thence by rail to Fredericks- burg, where the troops under General Stevens from South Carolina, and those from North Carolina, under General Burnside, were united, and were placed under the command of General Reno, subsequently known as the Ninth Corps. Pope's army of Northern Virginia, consisting of the corps of Banks, Sigel, and M'Dowell, holding the left bank of the Rapidan, was threatened by the concentrated rebel army, and all available forces were being pushed on to his assistance. On the 13th, Stevens moved forward, and at Raccoon Ford was brought to a stand to dispute the passage of the enemy. After holding the position for three days, General Reno, who had now come up with the balance of his corps, having discovered that the enemy, in greatly superior numbers, was in his front, decided to withdraw, and at mid-night of the 19th, leaving the ford heavily picketed, retired to the line of the Rappahannock, crossing at Ely's Ford.
Then commenced a series of marches and counter-marches, disputing the passage of the fords of the Rappahannock, which continued until Stonewall Jackson made his famous move to Manassas Junction, in the rear of the Union army, when Reno's Corps started in pursuit, being joined on the way by the division of Kearny. From Greenwich the command followed to the old Bull Run battle ground, where it encamped on the evening of the 28th. At four o'clock on the following morning it moved forward, and after passing through rocky and wooded by-ways, forded Bull Run and debouched into the open ground to the south of Centreville. Here, about two hundred Union soldiers, captured and paroled by Jackson, were met, who gave information of the prox- imity of the rebel force. At eight o'clock, Stevens' Division was divided, one brigade, under Colonel Christ, being sent to the support of Kearny, one under Colonel Farnsworth, to support Milroy, and the third, under Colonel Leasure, to the assistance of Sigel. General Stevens remained with Colonel Leasure, remarking that " it would be the fighting brigade that day." It was composed of the One Hundredth, under Colonel Leckey, and four companies of the For- ty-sixth New York, under Colonel Rosa, the remaining five companies of this regiment being detached for train guards.
At half-past ten A. M., when Sigel, who had borne the brunt of battle since early morn, was nearly outflanked, and the enemy was preparing a new at- tack against his centre, Kearny's and Stevens' divisions came to his aid. By direction of General Stevens, Lientenant Benjamin's Battery of twenty-pounder Parrott's relieved Captain Dilger's Battery, on the crest of a hill, immediately on the left of the Warrenton Turnpike, and simultaneously Colonel Leasure's two regiments were deployed in line of battle for its support. The enemy was checked, and companies A, F, D, I, and M, of the One Hundredth were sent forward as skirmishers, taking position in the valley a quarter of a mile in
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1862
BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
advance, and keeping up a galling fire, Benjamin's guns in the meantime throwing shot and shell over their heads. The enemy seemed determined to carry that position, and at one time five batteries were concentrating their fire upon it. But Benjamin steadily held his ground until his ammunition began to fail him. In taking position, one of his caissons, well filled, had been accidentally overturned and abandoned, at a point about two hundred yards to the left and front of his present position, much exposed to the ene- my's fire. Company G, Captain S. H. Brown, was ordered to bring it up. With intrepid daring it was led under the enemy's fire, and brought the heavily laden caisson, now sorely needed, safely off. Benjamin now increased his fire, and soon silenced a number of the enemy's guns. But one of his own had been struck by a solid shot and rendered useless, and another, by the prema- ture explosion of a shell, had been disabled, and still another had lost nearly all its men. But until his ammunition was all spent, the remaining guns were kept in play. They were then withdrawn, and soon after the only remaining di- vision of Sigel, on the left, fell back. Stevens was then ordered to retire. In the face of a terrible fire, now re-doubled, it was with difficulty that the skir- mishers could be withdrawn, but was successfully accomplished under the di- rection of Lieutenant Gilleland. The enemy, now no longer deterred by the bat- tery's fire, moved heavy masses of infantry obliquely in front of its late position. across the Warrenton Turnpike, and gained a most important position in a piece of wood, where the heaviest fighting occurred in the after part of the day, in which, with other troops, the One Hundredth suffered fearful loss. Leasure's Brigade had not retired a quarter of a mile, when it was ordered to the support of Roemer's Battery, on the north side of the turnpike, in an or- chard somewhat to the rear of the former position. It was now nearly night, and the troops had suffered severely. They had scarcely reached their posi- tion, when an order came from Reno directing Stevens to support Kearny, who was enveloped in the woods to the right, on the line of the abandoned track of the Gap Railroad. Stevens had but this small brigade, the rest of his division having been ordered from him early in the day; but no time was to be lost, and moving off by the right flank at double quick, Colonel Lea- sure put his command in position for a charge. At that instant General Kearny came dashing up and demanded of Stevens where his troops were. Stevens pointed to the barely five hundred that stood about him. In his ab- rupt way, Kearny asked if they would fight. "Yes," said Stevens, with an oath, " these are my Round Heads." Dropping his bridle rein, with an im- petuous gesture, in the direction of the enemy, with his only arm, he said to Colonel Leasure, " Sweep everything before you." Companies A and B of the One Hundredth were thrown forward as skirmishers, and the line quickly put in motion towards the low wooded ground where the enemy lay concealed. As they advanced, artillery and infantry were opened upon them, which told fearfully on their already shattered ranks. As the line approached, a well directed fire was poured upon the enemy, before which he recoiled. At this juncture an aid from General Kearny came up, and informed Colonel Leasure that the enemy was occupying a cut in the old Gap Road a short distance to the front, and to the left of the position he then held. Obliquing to the left, the line charged, and as the enemy scrambled up the opposite bank of the cut, it poured in a destructive fire and seized the abandoned position. Soon the enemy opened a heavy fire. General Stevens' horse and that of his orderly
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