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Pr.to Cor., Sept. 1,'64-mus.out with Co., May 28,'65. Pr. to Cor., Sept. 1, 1804-wd. at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864-mus. out with Co., May 23, 1865.
William C. Brown .. .do
...
Samuel Conklin ...... .. do
Pr. to Cor., Sept. 1. 1864-wd. at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863, and at Boydton Plank Road, Va., Oct. 27, '64-mustered out with eompany, May 23, '65. Discharged on Surgeon's certifieate, Feb. 14, 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 26, 1864. Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Mar. 1, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon's certifieate, Feb. 14, 1863. Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- transferred to Vet. Res. Corps-date unknown. Killed at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Killed at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12, 1864- buried in Burial Grounds Wilderness.
Capt'd at Spotsylvania C. H., Va., May 12, 1864- died at Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 13, 1864. Mustercd out with company, May 28, 1865. Discharged by General Order, June 14, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865.
Beebe Gerould
462
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTIY-FIRST REGIMENT,
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Bedford, Edmund ..
Private
Aug. 27, '62,
Bubb, David.
.do
Aug. 23, '64,
Burnside, James C
.. do ...
Aug. 6, '64,
Burlingame, H. A ..
.. do
Aug. 26, '62,
Burehard, Albert P
.. do ...
Aug. 26, '62,
Baumgartner, G. J
.. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Bently, Ira
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Bedford, Tillman E .do
Aug. 27, '62,
Burlingame, Jas. H
.do
Mar. 11, '64,
Chamberlain, Cal. C .do Coleman, Charles E .do
Aug. 26, '62,
Aug. 26, '62,
Child, Rufus W ...
.do
Aug. 26, '62,
Chilson, Lyman D ..
do
Aug. 23, '62,
Converse, Chas. W
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Crowl, William ...... .. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Dessew, John
do
Aug. 26, '62,
Dent, Thomas A
.. do
Aug.
5, '64,
Dunham, Benj. M .. .. do
Epler, Henry.
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Fosburg, Porter.
.do
Aug. 26, '62,
Fraley, Christopher
... do
Aug. 26, '62,
Forest, Abner W . ...
.. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Gavett, Wm. A ......
.. do
Aug. 26, '62,
Gregory, Harvey .do
Gates, Salmon H ..
.do
Aug. 27, '62, Aug. 26, '62, Aug. 27, '62,
Prisoner from Sept. 15, 1863, to April 28, 1865-dis- charged June 20, to date June 9, 1865.
Gorton, George
.. do
Aug. 26, '62,
Gower, John ..
.do
Grange, Charles W
.. do
Aug. 27, '62, Aug. 27, '62, Aug. 6, '64,
Hill, Franeis M.
do
Hoose, Frederick ...
.. do
Aug. 6, '64, Ang. 26, '62,
Kisner, Hiram.
... do
Aug. 27, '62,
Kniekboeker, W.H
... do
Aug. 26, '62,
King, Oliver G .. ....
... do
Larah, William
do
Aug. 27, '62, Aug. 23, '64,
Longhead, John W
.. do
Aug. 6, '64,
Miller, Peter.
do
Molynaux, Joel L
do
Aug. 29, '62, Aug. 29, '62, Aug. 26, '62,
Mitehell, Joseph .. .do
Mosier, Peter C ... .do
Margerum, W. S. .. do
Molyneux, Samuel .. do
M'Cally, James ..
.do
Pardoe, James H ...
.. do
Phelps, Charles H ..
.do
Phillips, George T ..
... do
Phelps, Albert.
... do
Aug. 26, '62,
Place, John H.
do
Pieree, Byron ....
do
Quick, Henry. ...
.do
Quick, Oliver .do
Aug. 26, '62. Aug. 26, '62, Aug. 26, '62, Aug. 26, '62,
Rogers, Oliver. do
Aug. 23, '64,
Simmons, Davis S .. .. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-diseh. by General Order, May 27, 1865.
Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- transferred to 12th reg. V. R. C., Feb. 6, 1864- discharged by General Order, June 23, 1865.
Killed at Petersburg, Va., Sept. 27, '64-buried in Poplar Grove Nat. Cem., div. D, sec. C, grave,32. Killed at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.
Captured at North Anna River, Va., May 23, '64- died at Andersonville, Ga., August 11, 1864. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Discharged Jan. 7, 1864, for wds. received at Chan- eellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.
Discharged on Surgeon's ecrtificate, Mar. 15, '63. Died near Falmouth, Va., May 12, 1863 Died at Falmouth, Va .. Mar. 3, 1863.
Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-buried in National Cemetery, section E, grave, 41. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Killed at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- tr. to Co. B, 22d reg. V. R. C., Nov. 16, 1863-dis- charged by General Order, July 3, 1865.
Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- transferred to V. R. C .- date unknown.
Died June 29, of wounds received at Willderness, Va., May 6, 1864.
Wounded at Auburn, Va., Oct. 12, '63-discharged by General Order, May 20, 1865.
Mustered out with company, May 28, 1365. Disch. on Surgeon's certificate-date unknown.
Grecn, Wm. H. D.
.. do
Huffinaster, Joseph
... do
Moore, Albert .do
July 12, '64, Aug. 27, '62, Sept. 14, '64, Aug. 27, '62, Aug. 26, '62, Aug. 29, '62, Aug. 26, '62, Aug. 27, '62,
Deserted June 27, 1863-returned April 15, 1865- tr. to Co. H, 57th regiment P. V., May 28, 1865. Died near Falmouth, Va., Dec. 2, 1862. Died near Falmouth, Va., June 11, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1365. Killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Transferred to Co. C, 6th reg. V. R. C., Jan. 25, '64- discharged by General Order, July 5, 1865. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-buried in National Cemetery, seetion A, grave, 76. Killed at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23. 1865. Died at Washington, D. C., May 7, 1865-buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863- transferred to V. R. C., Jan. 15, 1864. Transferred to 57th reg. P. V .- date unknown. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Killed at Boydton Plank Road, Va., Oet. 27, 1864. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Mustered out with company, May 23, 1865. Pr. to Hospital Steward U. S. A., July 2, 1863. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-trans- ferred to Ist regiment V. R. C., Feb. 11, '64-dis- charged by General Order, July 14, 1865. Killed at Hatcher's Run, Va., Feb. 5, 1865-buried in Poplar Grove Nat. Cemetery, division D, sec- tion C, grave, 314.
Died near Falmouth, Va., Dee. 17, 1863. Mis. in ae., at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12, '64. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Dee. 50, '62. Died at Washington, D. C., Dec. 25, 1862-buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.
Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865.
Aug. 27, '62,
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THREE YEARS' SERVICE.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
Stahl, Henry
Privatc
Aug. 27, '62,
Sperry, Dorson M.
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Smith, Alvin
.. do
Aug. 26, '62,
Stevenson, Jacob S.
.. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Smith, Horace K
.do
....
Aug. 27, '62,
Sperry, James
do
Aug. 27, '62,
Taylor, Daniel ..
.. do
Aug. 27, '62,
Taylor, Clark S
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Tracy, Alanson L ...
do
Aug. 26, '62,
Williams, H. H.
.do
Aug. 6, '64,
Weed, William
.do
Aug. 26, '62,
Wilson, William do
Aug. 27, '62,
Warren, William
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Webster, Charles ...
.do
Aug. 27, '62,
Wheeler, Lyman P. ...
do
Wheeler, W. W. do
.....
.... Aug. 11, '64, Aug. 26, '62,
Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Mustered out with company, May 28, 1865. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-trans- ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 15, 1864. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863-trans- ferred to 162d company, 2d battalion Veteran Re- serve Corps, April 23, 1864-Vet.
Died near Warrenton, Va., Nov. 18, 1862-burial record, Nov. 23, 1863-buried in National Come- tery, Arlington, block 2, sec. E, row 7, grave, 83. Killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Discharged by General Order, May 24, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Discharged by General Order, July 7, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, May 11, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon's certificatc, Feb. 11, 1863. Died July 30, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.
Died at Washington, D. C., July 25-burial record, June 22, 1864-of wounds rec. at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864-buried at Alexandria, grave, 2,213. Died at Washington, D. C., December, 1864. Missing October 9, 1863.
UNASSIGNED MEN.
Boz, William .
Private
Goodenough, Mich'l
.. do
...
July 24, '65, Feb. 4, '65, April 12, '64,
Not accounted for. Not accounted for. Not accounted for.,
Heinson, Henry
do
Harris, John D .. do ...
Sept. 7, '64, July 24, '65,
Not accounted for: Not accounted for ..
Kenny, Stephen ... .do
...
.do
...
April 13, '64,
Not accounted for.
Marschall, Robert .. ....
do
...
April 13, '64,
Not accounted for.
Vankuren, C. S. M. .. do ... .....
Aug. 26, '64,
Not accounted for.
Vanderpool, Moses ... do ......
Mar. 31, '64,
Not accounted for;
....
M'Laughlin, Wm ... ....
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
THE troops comprising this regiment, rendezvoused at Camp Curtin during the month of August, 1862, where they were mustered into service as they arrived, and on the 1st of September effected a regimental organization, by the choice of the following field offieers: Robert P. Cummins, of Somerset county, Colonel ; Alfred B. M'Calmont, of Venango county, Lieutenant Colonel ; John Bradley, of Luzerne county, Major. Companies C, D, and F, were from Somerset county, company A, from Mercer, B, from Westmoreland, E, from Union, G, from Monroe, H, from Fayette, I, from Venango, and K, from Lu- zerne. On the day following its organization, it was ordered to Washington, and upon its arrival, was employed upon the construction of Fort Massachusetts, afterwards Fort Stevens, and in digging rifle-pits and cutting down the forest in its front. After completing this work, upon which it was engaged until past the middle of the month, it moved to Frederiek, Maryland, where it was engaged in guarding the town, ereeting hospital tents, and in earing for the wounded, from the bloody fields of South Mountain and Antietam.
Early in October, the regiment was ordered to report to General Meade, in command of the Pennsylvania Reserves, which then formed the Third Di- vision of the First Corps, and was by him assigned to the Second Brigade, commanded by. Colonel Albert L. Magilton, in which it was associated with the Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth regiments. Colonel Magilton was an experienced offieer, and was assiduous in his attention to the drill and diseip- line of the regiment.
With the division it moved to Warrenton, where a change occurred in the commanding general of the army, and in conformity with the new plan of campaign, marehed to Brooks' Station, on the Aequia Creek Railroad. On the 9th of December, the division joined in the general movement of the army, to cross the Rappahannock and offer battle. The Reserves formed part of Franklin's Grand Division, and at noon of the 12th, erossed on the pontoon bridge which had been previously laid, taking up a position for the night along the river bank. Early on the following morning, and while the fog hung heavy over all the valley, the division crossed the ravine, which euts the plain nearly parallel with the river, and was formed in battle line. Colonel Cummins had been in hospital at Washington, but learning that a battle was imminent, though not yet recovered from a severe siekness, proceeded to the front, and arrived upon the field just as the Lieutenant Colonel was addressing to the men a few words of advice and encouragement, before going into battle, and
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expressing his regret at the absence of their leader. The regiment was at first formed in rear of the division, but was soon afterwards deployed on the left of it, in support of a battery. As the mist eleared away, the action opened with artillery along the whole line. Away to the left, the enemy had several batteries most advantageously posted, which completely enfiladed the Union lines, to which could be offered but feeble resistance. General Reynolds, who commanded the corps, and who was near Colonel Cummins, remarked to him that his regiment was too much exposed. At that instant one of the enemy's caissons on the heights exploded, and a charge of the whole line was immediately ordered. With a shout the regiment went forward, until three companies forming its left had erossed the railroad, when it was met by a terrifie and most galling fire from the enemy's rifle-pits, at the edge of the woods in front. The space between was elear, and the first line of the Union column, which here consisted of but a few skirmishers, was driven baek, when the regiment opened a rapid fire. The brigade commander, supposing he had a line in front, sent orders to eease firing. This was a moment of great peril. Exposed to a destruetive fire, from which the rest of the brigade was shielded, it could only await destruction, without the privilege of returning it, and with no prospeet of gaining an advantage; but with a nerve which veterans might envy, it heroieally maintained its position until ordered to retire. Out of five hundred and fifty men who stood in well ordered ranks in the morning, two hundred and fifty, in one brief hour, were strieken down. Colonel Cummins had his horse shot under him, and Major Bradley was terribly mangled, re- eeiving a mortal hurt.
After this disastrous charge, the division fell baek to the position west of the ravine, which it had occupied on the previous day, where it remained, until, with the army, it re-erossed the river on the night of the 15th, and two days thereafter, went into winter-quarters near Belle Plain Landing. With the ex- eeption of the Mud Mareh, in January, 1863, in the hardships of which, with the entire army, it participated, it was undisturbed, and few changes oeeurred until the middle of February, when General Hooker took command of the army, and a complete re-organization was made. The Reserves, having suf- fered greatly by incessant activity, and by battle, were withdrawn to the de- fenses of Washington, and fresh troops were substituted. By these changes,. the One Hundred and Forty-second became associated with the One Hundred. and Thirty-fifth, One Hundred and Fifty-first, and the One Hundred and. Twenty-first Pennsylvania regiments, which constituted the First Brigade of the Third Division. It was temporarily commanded by Colonel Porter, of the- One Hundred and Thirty-fifth, but eventually by General Thomas A. Rowley ..
Towards the elose of April, after months of severe weather, the spring. campaign opened. On the 27th the regiment moved from eamp, and proceeded with the eorps to a point on the Rappahannock opposite Franklin's lower f bridge, near the mouth of the little stream which turns Polloek's Mill. This movement was made for a diversion in favor of Hooker, who, with three corps. of bis army, had moved above, and crossing the Rappahannock and Rapidan,. had advanced to Chancellorsville, though the eorps was kept under orders to eross and attack the enemy, and was held near the river bank, under a heavy artillery fire from the enemy on the opposing heights. On the morning of the 2d of. May, under orders from Hooker, the eorps withdrew, and marehed to join the main army., The enemy plied his guns with renewed zeal as he saw 59 .-- VOL. IV ..
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the columns put in motion, and Colonel Cummins had his horse shot under him while at the head of his regiment, and while in the act of giving the order to march. All day long the mareh was continued, and at night, just as the troops were preparing to bivouae, having crossed the river at United States Ford, orders came for the eorps to move immediately to the front, a great dis- aster having befallen the army that evening, in the rout of the Eleventlı Corps. Foot-sore and weary, the men sprang to arms, and were led on through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness-the heavy booming of cannon, and the faint rattle of small arms, telling that the deadly struggle was still raging-to a position on the right of the line. Heavy breast-works were thrown up, and every preparation was made to hold the ground. But the heavy fighting did not reach that part of the line, and three days thereafter, with the rest of the army, the corps re-erossed the river and returned to its old camping ground.
Here it remained until the march commeneed which ended at Gettysburg. Soon after the assignment of General Meade to the command of the army, General Reynolds was directed to take command of the right wing, composed of the First and Eleventh corps, General Doubleday succeeding to the eom- mand of the First Corps, General Rowley to that of the Third Division, and Colonel Biddle, of the One Hundred and Twenty-first, of the First Brigade. Upon the arrival of the brigade upon the field, it was formed in line in the open ground, to the left of the wood where General Reynolds fell, and soon became the target of the enemy's batteries in front and right flank. Its position was frequently shifted to avoid the fire, but it stubbornly held its ground. Finally, just previous to the general advance of the enemy along the whole front, from beyond the Millersburg Road on his right, to the Alms House on his left, a part of the brigade was ordered to the support of General Stone's Brigade, which had been hard pressed by infantry. But at that mo- ment the enemy was descried advancing in double lines, from a wood three- quarters of a mile to the left and front of the ground where the brigade was posted, and it was immediately wheeled into position to meet it, the One Hun- dred and Forty-second holding the right of the line, until joined, a fow minutes later, by the One Hundred and Fifty-first, which was moved up by order of General Rowley, to fill a gap existing between this and the Iron Brigade, fur- ther to the right. For some time the brigade maintained its position against a vastly superior force. The enemy not only poured in a rapid fire in front, but moved a body of his troops along the road to the left, and completely flanked the position. With ranks terribly thinned, the brigade could hold its ground no longer, and the left of the line began to erumble. The One Hun- dred and Forty-second fell back slowly. The One Hundred and Fifty-first, on its right, held its ground a few minutes longer. Colonel Biddle, seizing a stand of colors, gallantly rode forward, and the line instinetively about wheeled and followed him. The horse of Colonel Biddle was shot. Colonel Cummins fell mortally wounded. His horse had been killed a few minutes previously. Near him fell the Aeting Adjutant, Lieutenant Tueker. The regiment again fell baek slowly towards the Seminary. Here it joined a mass of men from various brigades and divisions, in some confusion, who were holding and con= tinued to hold the position until the batteries had been withdrawn, and until the enemy, moving along the road south of the Seminary, had completely flanked the position .. As the troops retired through the town, they; were sub,
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jeeted to a severe fire from a flanking column, which was sheltered by fenees and buildings.
On reaching the Cemetery, whither it had been ordered, the remnant, of the regiment was collected, and less than a hundred were in rank. About forty, who had become separated from the rest in the retreat, re-joined them before morning. The appearance of General Siekles, riding into the in- closure where the men were resting, with his staff and corps ensign, was hailed with cheers, as the first assurance that the remainder of the army was not far off. In reply to a question, the General said pleasantly that his boys were ' there, and were anxious for a fight. In the action of the 2d, the regiment was not involved, but was held in reserve just baek of the Cemetery, on the Taney- town Road. On the morning of the 3d, together with the One Hundred and Twenty-first, it was moved to the left, half a mile, and posted on the right of Stone's Brigade, mid-way between the Cemetery and Round Top. In the terrible artillery duel, which opened at a little after noon, it was exposed, in open ground, to the full effect of the deadly missiles. Almost the entire field was in full view from the position it occupied. The rebel fire was unusually aeeu- rate. Caisson after eaisson on the Union side was exploded, and guns were disabled. But new caissons were speedily brought up, and fresh batteries were hurried forward to take the places of those lost, preserving an unbroken front. The grand charge of the infantry which followed, struck with its main foree to the right of the line where the regiment stood, and it consequently suffered littleloss, and easily held its position. Captain Charles H. Flagg, serving on the staff of General Rowley, was killed, near the elose of the day, one of the last officers of the Union army who laid down his life on the Gettysburg field. The loss to the regiment in the entire battle, was fifteen killed, one hun- dred and twenty-six wounded, and eighty-four missing and prisoners; an aggregate of two hundred and twenty-five. Colonel Cummins, Captain Flagg, and Lieutenants Andrew Grogg Tueker, and Edward Hurst, were of the killed, and Captains Adam Grimm, Charles R. Evans, William Hasson, and J. M. Dushane, and Lieutenants Frank M. Powell, J. Robert Walter, Samuel S. Swank, Cyrus P. Heffley, Charles E. Huston, and Jeremiah Hoffman, and Wil- liam L. Wilson, Acting Adjutant General of the brigade, were of the wounded.
After the battle, the two armies moved southward, and by the elose of July, were facing each other on the opposite banks of the Rappahannock. Here, nearly two months of fine summer weather were spent in comparative inactivity. Two months more of manœuvering and hard marching followed, ending in the abandonment of the campaign at Mine Run, without fighting a general battle, and in the retirement of the army to winter-quarters around Culpepper. About Christmas, the One Hundred and Forty-second, and the One Hundred and Twenty-first were consolidated with Stone's Brigade, eom- posed of the One Hundred and Forty-third, One Hundred and Forty-ninth, and One Hundred and Fiftieth, which subsequently, upon the breaking up of the First Corps, became part of the Fifth Corps. Early in April, 1864, Lieuten- ant Colonel M'Calmont was detailed on special duty, and in September fol- lowing, was commissioned Colonel of the Two Hundred and Eighth, when he resigned his commission in this regiment. Major Horatio N. Warren, who had succeeded Major Bradley, from this time forward had command, and in Sep- tember following was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and finally to Colonel.
On the morning of the 4th of May, the regiment moved from camp on the
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ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT,
Wilderness Campaign. At noon of the 5th, while making its way toilsomely through the mazes of the Wilderness, it came suddenly upon the enemy, lying in wait, and a fierce struggle commenced. The nature of the ground preeluded the use of artillery, and the two opposing lines eame to close quarters. The losses in the regiment were heavy, but the ground was suecess- fully held until near the elose of the day, when it was forced to retire. Lieu- tenant George H. Collins was among the killed, in this tieree encounter. On the morning of the 6th, the brigade having been transferred temporarily to the Sec- ond Corps, it advanced with it to a most sanguinary conflict, wherein the enemy was driven, and in turn drove the Union forees. Finally, the enemy made a determined onslaught upon a portion of the works along the Gordonsville Road, and succeeded in planting his eolors upon them. The brigade was at that time in reserve, but seeing the peril to which the line was exposed by this sudden break, the order to advance to the reseue was given. Instantly re- sponding, this gallant brigade dashed forward, and soon recovered the eap- tured works, sending the enemy flying in confusion. On the 7th, the regi- ment was led with the brigade to the rear, where it rested until evening, when it marehed, and arrived on the following morning on the enemy's front, at Laurel Hill, relieving a portion of the Fifth Corps. Breast-works were thrown up, and with varying sueeess, but without material advantage, the ground was held until the 13th, when the command moved on to a position in front of Spottsylvania Court House, where it remained for a week, throw- ing up breast-works in the meantime, and being subjected to a heavy artillery fire. On the 21st it again moved on, and at North Anna, Bethesda Church, and Tolopotomy Creek, was at the fore front, and by its gallantry, won from General Cutler a most flattering recognition.
On the 6th of June the brigade arrived at Cold Harbor, where it was trans- ferred to the First Division, General Chamberlain commanding. At the swamps of the Chickahominy it was again set to digging, and here the bri- gade remained nearly a week, at the end of which the mareh was again taken up, and on the 14th arrived at the James River, erossing on the 16th. Advane- ing towards Petersburg, the old enemy was found in position, and on the 18th the division charged, driving in his skirmishers, and suffering severely in front of his main works, but holding the ground and fortifying it.
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