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Aug. 26, '61, 3
Harvey, Robert .do Ang. 26, '61, 3 Harnett, James T. .do Aug. 19, '61, 3
National Cemetery, City Point, sec. F, div. 1. grave, 116. Mustered out with company, Ang. 13, 1865. Discharged by General Order, June 6, 1865. Deserted August 24, 1862.
3 1 1 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. 3 1 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Discharged by General Order, June 6, 1865. Discharged by General Order, June 15, 1865.
3 Wounded in action, June 19, 1863-discharged Aug. 30. 1864-expiration of term.
Disch. Oct. 7, to date Aug. 30, '64-exp. of term. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Sept. 28, 64. Transferred to Vet. Res. Corps, June 15, 1864- discharged June 28. 1865.
Captured at Flat Creek Bridge, Va., May 14, 1864-died at Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 2, '64 -- grave. 7,775.
Deserted August 27. 1861.
Deserted July 5, 1863.
Wounded in action, June 25, 1864-mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865.
1 Absent, sick, at muster out.
Mustered out with company, Ang. 13, 1865.
3 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
3 Discharged by General Order, Juue 6. 1805.
3 Discharged Aug. 30, 1864-expiration of term. Discharged Ang 30. 1864-expiration of terni. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 26. 62. Captured at Ream's Station. Va., June 29, '64- died at Millen- Ga., November 16, 1864. Mustered out with company, Aug. 15, 1865. Prisoner from Oct. 7. 1864, to March 25. 1865- uinstered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865. Wounded near Amelia C. H .. Va., April 5, '65- mustered ont with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Prisoner from June 29, to Dec .. 1864-mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865.
Mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Discharged Aug. 18, 1864-expiration of term. Discharged Aug. 30. 1864-expiration of term. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Oct. 15, '62. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Transferred to Vet. Res. Corps. Nov. 11. 1863. Discharged by General Order, July 19, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug 13, 1865. Mustered ont with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Captured May 4, 1863-discharged Aug. 26, '64-
Aug. 19, '61, 3 expiration of term.
Sept. 27, '61. 3 3 Deserted January 10, 1865. -
Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
Discharged Aug. 18, 1864-expiration of term.
3 3 Killed at Flat Creek Bridge, Va., May 14. 1864. Mustered out with company, Ang. 13, 1865.
Wounded in action, June 26, 1863-prisoner from June 11, to Dec., 1864-discharged Mar. 22, '65- to date expiration of term.
Discharged Dec. 3. 1864-expiration of terni. Promoted to Hospital Steward, Sept. 14, 1862.
TERM-YRARS. CO
Died near Point of Rocks, Va., June 13. 1864- bu. record, died Jan. 1, 1864-bu.
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Transferred to Vet. Res. Corps, Nov. 1. 1863. Killed near Norfolk, Va. Feb. 10, 1863.
Bromfield. Frank.
· Brink, Perley R
.. uo
Brown. John.
do
Corcoran, James B .. .. do
Jan. 27, '64,
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951
THREE YEARS' SERVICE.
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NAME.
RANE.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SEE VICE.
REMARKS.
Harding, Richard ...
Private
Aug. 19, '61, 3 3
Johnston, Anderson
do
Mar. 26, '64,
·
Jackson, Thomas ... Johnson, Alph's W
.do
Mar. 18, '64,
Jones, Harry. do
Aug. 19, '61, Feb. 28, '64,
3 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
Klare. William. do
April 10, '65.
1! Mustered out with company, Aug. 15. 1865.
Kinstry. William do
April 11, '65.
1 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
Kesler, Andrew
do
Aug. 2, '64,
Knopky, Lewis
do
Aug.
2, '64,
1
Kingery, Albert.
do
Jan. 5, 64,
Keller, James W do
Lee, Parmenas.
do
Aug. 19, '61, April 3, '65, 3 1 3
Miller, Alex'r E .. do
Mar. 15, '64,
Morse, Merritt. do
Feb. 27, '64. 3
Mier, Francis do
Aug. 1, '64, 1
Moore, William A ..
do
Miller, William A ..
do
Feb. 17, '64,
Minahan, Owen. .do
Matchett, John W .. do
Feb. 12, '64.
Matthias, Geo. W. W .do
July 16, '64, 1
Mackey. David G ... .do
Feb. 1, '64. 3 Deserted March 25. 1865.
M'Cafferty, Barney .do
Aug. 30, '61, Feb. 12, '64,
3
M' Kelvey, John .. do
Jan. 1S, '64.
M'Coy, Charles E .. do
April 11, '65.
M'Kinney. Henry ... do
April 11, '65,
M'Cormick, Heze'h .do
Aug. 30, '61,
3
Nimbleton, Henry .. .do
do
April 10, '65, April 10, '65, Aug. 30, 61, Jan. 5, '64,
1 1 3
O' Dea, Patrick do
Rapp, David H. do
Robins, George. ...
do do do
1 3 Mar. 30, '65, Aug. 19, '61, Sept. 27, '61, 3
3
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 26,'62. Not on muster-out rol !.
Ryan, Thomas .. do
Sept. 4, '61. April 4, '65, Feb. 19, '64,
1
Stein. Henry. do
Schofield, George L do Schwitzer, Stephen .do
April 5, '65, April 5, '65, April 10, '65,
3 1 1 1
Stroud, Hugh Schlafer, Philip P. Spangler, Henry C .. Shotts, Daniel M.
do do do
Aug. 2, '64, Aug. 19. '61,
1 3
3
Seaman, Albert F .. do
3
Swarther. Charles C do
Aug. 30, '61,
Still, William H.
do
Aug. 19, '61, Feb. 17, '64. 3 : Deserted February 15, 1865.
Taylor, Elias K
... do
Feb. 27, '64, 3
Trenthart, John.
do
Aug. 30, '61.
3 | Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, '65-Vet.
Trumpour, Win.
do
Dec. 31, :63. Dec. 31. '63. 3 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
Taylor, John M ..
do
Aug. 26, '61, 3
Trumphour, Daniel
.do
Feb. 26, '64, 3
Vanlien, Jacob H do
Dec. 16, :63.
Ward, Joseph. do
Walker. Warren do
White, Alvah E. do
Williams, Joshua do
Wortham, Chas. L .. Ward, Cornelius do
do
Ward, Hartzel do
Wish, John do
Williamson, John M .do Wilson, Joseph W .. do Worst, Josiah P .. do
Aug. 26. '61, Feb. 18, '64. Feb. 18, '64, April 3, '65, Mar. 28, '65. Aug. 30, '62, Aug. 30, '62, Aug. 19, '61, Aug. 26, '61, Sept. 29, '61, Sept. 29, '61,
Died near Ball's Cross Roads, Va., Nov. 6, 1861. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865. Dishonorably discharged, June 1. 1863.
3 Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps, Feb. 1, '65- discharged July 29. 1865.
3 Deserted July 15, 1863.
1 Discharged by General Order, June 6, 1865. Discharged by General Order, June 8, 1865.
3 Discharged June 16. for wounds received near Appouiattox Court House, Va .. April 9, 1865. Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps, Oct. 21, 1863. Dischargeu by General Order, May 19, 1865. Mustered out with company, Ang. 13, 1565. Wounded near Amelia C. H., Va., April 5, '65- discharged by General Order, July 17, 1865. Prisoner from March 17, to 26, 1865-discharged to date April 30, 1865.
Discharged Aug. 18. 1864-expiration of term. Wounded at Ream's Station. Va., Aug. 25. '64- discharged by General Order, June 16, 1865.
Transferred to company L. Dec. 15. 1863-Vet. Died at Hampton, Va., June 25, 1864. Deserted May 1, 1865.
3 Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, '65-Vet. Mustered out with company, Aug. 15, 1865. 3 1 1 Mustered out with company, Aug. 15, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865.
Prisoner from June 29, 1864, to March, '65-mus- tered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865-Vet. Mustered out with company. Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Mar. 19, '63. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1565. Discharged Aug. 18, 1864-expiration of term. Discharged October 7, 1864-Vet.
Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13. 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Dischargeu by General Order. July 7, 1865. Discharged Aug. 18, 1864-expiration of term. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, March 9, '64. Promoted to Blacksmith Co. G, Oct. 19, 1864.
3 Killed near Suffolk. Va., April 15. 1863. 3 | Died at Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1861.
Saylor, Peter S. .. do
Prisoner from March 17, to 26. 1865- mustered out with company, Aug. 15, 1865.
3 Absent, in hospital, at muster out.
Trumpour, George .. do
Discharged Dec. IS. for wounds, with loss of arm, rec. at Ream's Station, Va., Aug. 25, 1864-Vet. Captured at Ream's Station, Va .. June 29, 1864- died at Millen. Ga .. November 5. 1864.
3 Died at Hampton, Va., June 17, 1804.
3. Mustered out with courpany, Aug. 15, '65-Vet. 3| Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. Mustered out with company, Aug. 13, 1865. 1 | Mustered out with company, Aug. 15. 1865. 1 | Mustered out with company, Aug. 15, 1855. 3| Discharged by General Order, May 16, 1865. 3 Discharged by General Order, Jnne 6, 1865. 3 Discharged Aug. 18, 1864-expiration of term. 3 | Discharged Aug. 25. 1864-expiration of terin. 3 Discharged Sept. 28. 1864-expiration of term. 3 | Discharged September, 1864-Vet.
do
Sept. 3, '61.
31
Knapp, John C. do
Aug. 19, '61, 3 3
Aug. 30, '61. 3 3
M'Kelvey, David .do
Newton. Richard.
3
Ringle, John.
Renzenberger, Thos Rosette. Francis E .. do
do
Aug. 30, '61, Feb. 24. '64.
TERM -YEARS.
952
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH-ELEVENTH CAVALRY.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARK3.
Wheeler, Harvey ...
Private Aug. 19, '61,
3
Whitehead. Jos. D .. do
Jan. 5, '64,
3
Whipple, William .. do
Aug. 50, 61,
3
Wilcox. William R do
Aug. 19, '61, 3
Tager. Henry ........
... do
Aug. 30, 61. 13;
Deserted September 1, 1861.
UNASSIGNED MEN.
Able. Wilson
Private
Feb. 27, '64,
3 . Not accounted for.
Butler, Frank ...
.do
Mar. 8, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Bloomfield, H. E. do
Aug. 30, '64,
1 Not accounted for.
Rush, Lewis ... do Mar. 8, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Brink, Leonard.
.do
Aug. 13, '64, 1 Not accounted for.
Budd, James
do
Mar. 17, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Baumboch. Adolph Bush, Philip. Bradley, John.
.do
Jan.
5, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
. Cassulav, Rich'd W
.do
Jan. 18, '64.
3 Not accounted for.
Clune, Thomas Campbell, Thomas .. do
do
April 16, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Daunel, Sauruel .do
Aug. 12. '64.
1 | Not accounted for.
Emigh, Albert. do
Nov. 23, '65,
3 Not accounted for.
1 Discharged by General Order, May 4, 1S65.
Francis, William. .do
April 2, '63,
Grible, Morland .do
April 11. '65,
1 Discharged by General Order, May 4, 1865.
Geran, Juel .. do
Jan. 6, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Hetrick. Dennis do
Sept. 3. '64,
1 Not accounted for.
Harbough. James H .do
Mar. 16, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Kline. John. .do Mar. 17, '64.
3 Not accounted for.
Koegel, William. .. do
Feb. 3, '64, 3 Not accounted for.
Kennedy, Patrick. do
Sept. 9, '64,
1 Not accounted for.
Lucas. Job M
do
Mar. 7, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Leach, Isaac ... do
April 12. '65,
1 Discharged by General Order, June 23, 1865.
Martel. Charles .. do
Feb. 24. '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Margeson. Lewis do
Aug. 19. '64,
3
Not accounted for.
M.Carty, Michael A .. do
April 15, '64,
3
Not accounted for.
M'Garry, Aug's M. .do
July 28. '64,
1
Not accounted for.
M Naly, Patrick do
Sept. 15, '64.
L Not accounted for.
M'Cullough, Hugb do Sept. 15, '64,
1 Not accounted for.
Nicholson, Edward do Mar. 14. 64, 3 Not accounted for.
O'Brien. Dennis do Feb. 17. '64. 3 Not accounted for.
Phillips, Fred'k M do Feb. 29, '64, 3 Not accounted for.
Smith. George do
Mar. 17, '64,
3
Not accounted for.
Stafford, Wilson ... do
Sept. 19. 64.
1 Not accounted for.
Sherman, Lean'r P do Aug. 23, '64,
1 Not accounted for.
Simpson. David. do Sept. 9. 764.
1 Not accounted for.
Smith. Alfred H. .do Sept. 13. '64, 1 Not accounted for.
Strothers, Lewis do Aug. 12, '64, 1 Not accounted for.
Thomas. Amos W do
April 2, '63, 3 Not accounted for.
Weiss, Elias. do Mar. 14, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Ward, George .. .do Jan. 5. '64,
3 .Not accounted for.
Wolf. Samuel .. do
Sept. 23, 64.
1 : Not accounted for.
Wallace, James L .. .do April 11, '65,
1 . Not accounted for.
Walter, William S .. .. do Sept. 3, '64, 1 Not accounted for.
Willey. Asa M. .do April 11, '65,
I Discharged by General Order, May 4, 1865.
do
Mar. 15, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
do
Jan.
5, '64,
3 Not accounted for.
Sept. 14, '64.
1 Not accounted for.
Easter. John H .do
April 11, '65,
3 Not accounted for.
Tobee, Thomas .do
Sept. 9. '64,
1
Not accounted for.
TERM-YEARS.
.
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 26. '62. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Jan. 12, '65. Killed at Flat Creek Bridge, Va., May 14, 1864. Deserted April 8, 1864-Vet.
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ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH REGIMENT.
E ARLY in December, 1861, recruiting for this regiment was commenced, under the direction of Henry J. Stainrook, a citizen of Chester county. Headquarters and barracks were established on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, opposite the State House, and with the exception of two companies, the regi- ment was recruited in that city. It was organized with the following field offi- cers, their commissions dating from November Sth, 1861 : Henry J. Stainrook, Colonel ; Charles M. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel; William A. Gray, Major. On the 28th of March, 1862, it went into camp at Oxford Park, and eight days there- after removed to Nicetown. On the 9th of May a set of colors was presented at the hands of ex-Governor Pollock, and on the following day it proceeded to Washington. The State arms were here exchanged for Belgian rifles, and drill and discipline were studiously prosecuted. On the 24th of May, the enemy Caving gained the battle of M'Dowell a few days previous, and now concen- trating in the upper Shenandoah Valley, the regiment was ordered to Harper's Ferry, to the support of Banks, and was posted on Bolivar Heights, pickets being thrown out as far as the village of Halltown. Stragglers from the front soon made their appearance, followed by the trains and entire force of Banks, set upon and closely pursued by Jackson in vastly superior numbers. On the 29th the enemy made his appearance on the regiment's front, and the first hos- tile shots were heard, the roar of artillery awakening echoes across the mountain streams. At night the regiment was withdrawn from the Virginia shore.
Without crossing the Potomac, or pausing on reaching it, Jackson rapidly retraced his steps and made the best of his way to join Lee before Richmond. Banks followed, and finding that his adversary had escaped, crossed the Blue Ridge, into the valley of Virginia. In the meantime, the One Hundred and Ninth had been assigned to the Second Brigade,* Second Division, of Banks' Corps, subsequently the Second of the army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Pope.
At the opening of the battle of Cedar Mountain, on the 9th of August, where Jackson, with the advance of the rebel army after his return from the Richmond front, attacked the corps of Banks, the One Hundred and Ninth was near Culpepper Court House, marching towards the field, to the sound of
* Organization of Prince's Brigade, Augur's Division, Banks' Corps. Battalions of Eighth and Tenth Regulars, Captain Pritchard; One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel M. Schlaudecker; Third Regiment Maryland Volunteers, Colonel Stephen W. Downey; One Hundred and Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Henry J. Stainrook.
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1862
the enemy's guns, having been until after midnight upon the mareh. The firing had died away as it neared the battle ground, and upon emerging from the wood which skirts the road, filed suddenly to the left into the open fields. On the brow of a hill, three hundred yards in front, Knap's Battery was stationed, and towards this the regiment was rapidly led and was posted a few paees in its rear. As the men came into line they were ordered to lie down. Seareely had the last man got his place when the enemy opened with heavy artillery, planted upon the breast of Slaughter Mountain, nearly a mile away. Knap's Battery was the target at which he aimed. At first the enemy's shells passed over and struek in the woods beyond, but soon he got the range and the ter- rible missiles began to burst in the very midst of the artillerists and their sup- ports. At this juneture the word "forward" was given, and springing to. their feet the command moved rapidly but in well dressed lines to the brow of the hill. In front was an open field, and beyond, tall corn, in which the enemy's infantry was concealed. Breasting the fire of infantry and artillery, now fairly direeted upon it, the regiment dashed down aeross the open ground, scaled the fenee which skirted it, and entered the corn. It now opened fire, and its rapid volleys told fearfully upon the masses of the foe in its front. For two' hours the battle raged with unabated fury, but finally, just as night was closing in, the enemy was able to bring up fresh forees in overwhelming numbers, out- flanking and forcing baek the Union line. The regiment held its position until it received a volley from its right flank, which told too plainly that the enemy was gaining its rear, when the order to retire was given. It entered the en- gagement with about three hundred and fifty, rank and file, and of these nearly one-half were either killed, captured, or wounded. Colonel Stainrook was among the wounded. "The brigades of Generals Geary and General Prinee," says an eye witness, "fought with the most desperate eourage. There was no running, shirking, or skulking whatever. I saw them as they went into the battle, and saw their ranks, thinned and bleeding, return. Truly has the spot . where lie so many dead and wounded been called Slaughter Mountain."*
At evening Sigel's Corps eame upon the field, but during the night the enemy withdrew. Pope, however, soon discovered that the whole body of the rebel army was eoneentrating in his front, and he aeeordingly fell back aeross the Rappahannock, and at the fords posted strong guards, which for several days successfully disputed the passage, the fire of artillery from the opposite banks being almost continuous and very heavy. But the enemy, moving on up the stream, turned Pope's right flank, Jaekson marehing around by Tho- roughfare Gap and coming in upon his rear at Manassas Junetion, compelling him to fall back rapidly. In this movement the impedimenta of the entire army were committed to the eare of Banks' Corps, and while the battles at Bull Run were being fought, his troops were busy in saving the immense trains, and in destroying sueh of the stores as could not be got away. This duty required the utmost vigilance, and night and day the weary troops were kept at their posts and goaded to watchfulness. By the 1st of September the command had reached the fortifications at Alexandria. Resting here until the 5th, the bri- gade, now under command of Colonel Stainrook, Captain Seymour leading the regiment, marehed through Washington and entered on the Maryland cam- paign, reaching Frederiek on the 13th. In the battles of South Mountain and
* Moore's Rebellion Record, Vol. V, page 327, Docs.
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CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
1862
Antietam the One Hundred and Ninth did not actively engage, being still held for duty with the trains.
Immediately after the withdrawal of the rebel army, the division, to the command of which General Geary had been assigned, crossed to Loudon Heights, where it went into camp, and with the exception of an expedition to Leesburg, on the 21st of October, and an occasional reconnoissance, it remained here until the movement of the army into Virginia. After the death of Gen- eral Mansfield, who fell at Antictam, the Second Corps, which he had com- manded, was re-organized, and from part of it the Twelfth Corps was formed, to the command of which General Slocum was assigned, the One Hundred and Ninth forming part of Grcene's Brigade of Geary's Division. When M'Clellan, with the main body, moved sonth, through Virginia, the Twelfth Corps was left to garrison Harper's Ferry, and Geary's Division was moved across the Shenandoah River and encamped on Bolivar Heights. On the 2d of December the division moved upon Winchester, and met and defeated the enemy under Jones.
On the 9th, upon the eve of the battle of Fredericksburg, the corps moved by forced marches towards the front, and on the 17th, after great suffering from the inclemency of the weather and in crossing swollen streams, reached Dumfries. Here intelligence of the army, broken and dispirited from the gory field of Fredericksburg, was received, and the corps immediately turned back to Fairfax, where it went into camp. As soon as settled, General Greene, who was a strict disciplinarian, commenced in earnest, brigade drill, and daily, when the weather would permit, officers labored industriously to bring their com- mands to a high state of efficiency. On the 20th of January, 1863, the regi- ment again moved in hostile array, on Burnside's second campaign, but bc- yond experiencing great suffering from the inclemency of weather, it met no enemy, and on its return proceeded to Acquia Landing, the base of supply of the army, where it was employed on severe fatigue duty.
General Hooker succeeded General Burnside in command of the army, and in the re-organization which he effected the One Hundred and Ninth was as- signed to a brigade in which were the Twenty-ninth, One Hundred and Elev- entb, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania regiments, General Kane-rendered famous by his command of the Bucktails-being assigned to its Icadership. On the 27th of April the regiment broke camp at the Landing, and moved with the brigade on the Chan- cellorsville campaign, crossing the Rappahannock at Kelly's, and the Rapidan at Germania Ford, mecting the skirmishers of the rebel General Anderson's command as it wended its way through the low tangled woods, and arriving at the open ground about the Chancellor Honse at four on the afternoon of the 30th. The proper disposition of the troops was at once made, the division , being posted in the young forest in front of the mansion, and facing south. At dark the advance of the enemy arrived in front and opened a skirmish fire.
Early on the morning of the 1st of May the division was put in motion, Kane's Brigade moving south a mile on the United States Ford Road, where it made a sharp turn to the right, and leaving knapsacks, was quickly formed and advanced into the woods to the south of the road. In the meantime, the battle had been raging on the left, and towards evening orders were received for the brigade to retire. Moving back to the road in its rear, it again went into position behind a pile of cord wood stretching along the way. The order
956
ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH REGIMENT.
1863
to retire to the position of the morning was repeated, and as it went back the enemy came in upon its right flank, endangering, for the moment, its way of retrcat. It received several volleys, but succeeded in reaching its position in line. At evening skirmishers were thrown out, and all night long was heard the sound of marching troops on their front, moving from left to right. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2d the division was ordered to advance, and leaping the breast-works, crossed the open ground in front. As it approached the wood beyond it was suddenly assailed by a hot fire of mus- ketry and artillery, the enemy being well established in breast-works upon the crest but fifty yards distant. Taking position along the edge of the woods his fire was returned, and for half an hour the unequal contest was maintained, when it was again re-called to the breast-works. A strong line of skirmishers was kept well out in front, which was sorely annoyed by a battery which the enemy brought up and posted so as to rake the skirmish ground. The night was one of wild commotion, the roar of battle rising at times to a perfect tor- nado. Early in the evening Stonewall Jackson had fallen upon the right flank of the Eleventh Corps, driving it in rout, and had only been checked by dou- ble shotted charges of artillery, delivered from forty pieces most favorably and opportunely massed in a field a little to the right of where the regiment lay, and later in the night Berry's Brigade of the Third Corps had routed the enemy from breast-works, lost in the evening. At nine P. M. the brigade was moved from the position which it had held for fifty hours, farther to the right, facing the west. Until noon of the 3d the men hugged the breast-works, kept in ner- vous excitement in the momentary expectation of an attack, the fire of artil- lery and of the sharp-shooters being constant. At a little past noon the enemy began to press upon the left flank, endangering the integrity of the command, pressing at the same time upon the front. The order was accordingly given to retire, but at that instant a rebel sharp-shooter, not twenty paces distant, shot and instantly killed Colonel Stainrook. Lieutenant Kidney, of Company G, who had witnessed the act, seizing a musket and skilfully awaiting his op- portunity, sent a bullet in reply which effectually silenced the sharp-shooter's fire. Retiring along the trenches to the rear of the artillery, under a murder- ous fire, the brigade took position on the left of the new line, facing to the east, where it was at once set to work building breast-works, and where, with slight changes, it remained to the close of the battle. On the night of the 6th the army retired from the contest, and the brigade returned to its camp at Ac- quia Landing. In addition to the Colonel killed, Lieutenant Charles W. Nor- ris was mortally wounded, the regiment suffering otherwise severely.
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