COMMANDER GEORGE UPHAM MORRIS. U.S.N.

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COMMANDER GEORGE UPHAM MORRIS. U.S.N.
(deceased).

 

Commander George Upham Morris was born in Massachusetts, June 3, 1830, and died at the Jordan Alum Springs, in Virginia, in August, 1875. He was the son of Commodore Charles Morris, one of the best known and most respected of our older naval officers, both on account of personal character and professional ability.

Commander Morris entered the navy as midshipman in August, 1846; became lieutenant in September,1855;, and was promoted commander July 25, 1866.

When the iron-clad ram " Merrimac" came out from Norfolk, on the 8th of March, 1862, and attacked the " Congress" and " Cumberland" at Newport News, Morris, who was executive-officer of the last-named ship, was in temporal command, and distinguished himself in the highest degree by his conduct on that occasion. "As her guns approached the water's edge," said the Secretary of the Navy in his annual report, " her young commander, Lieutenant Morris, and the gallant crew stood firm at their posts and delivered a parting fire, and the good ship went down heroically, with her colors Flying."

It was but a very few minutes from the time the " Merrimac's" ram struck the vessel until she was at the bottom. A large number perished with the vessel, but m. in)- of the officers and men, Lieutenant Morris among them, managed to reach the shore, where they manned the batteries in the intienchnients, to resist Magrudcr's force, coming from Yorktown to cooperate with the " Merrimac."

In May, 1862, Commander Morris was ordered to the command of the steam gun-vessel " Port Royal." In her he had an engagement with a nine-gun battery on the James River, and was subsequently wounded during an engagement with Fort Darling.

In February, 1864, he was engaged with Fort Powell, at Grant's Pass, in the " Port Royal."

Commander Morris was retired less than a year before his death, the date of which is given above.

Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland.

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Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland.

Birth: 1825, Marcellus, Onondaga County, New York.
Death: 1905, Nunda, Livingston County, New York.
Benjamin had a son, George Kneeland.
Spouse: Harriet Niles Kneeland (1826 - 1910.)
Burial: Hunts Hollow Cemetery, Portage, Livingston County, New York.

BENJAMIN T—Age, 37 years. Enrolled, July 29, 1862, at Suffolk, Va.; mustered in as surgeon, July 29, 1862, to serve three years; mustered out, June 30, 1865, at Clouds Mills, Va.; commissioned surgeon, November 1, 1862, with rank from July 28, 1862, original.

A note from the regimental history.

None of us will ever forget our thorough medical examination by Surgeon Kneeland; how he stripped, pounded, pinched, and pulled us, examining every limb, bone, muscle, and tooth, tested our hearts and lungs, accepting only those he could pronounce " sound as a new silver dollar".

Colo. Freeman Conner, Battle Report.

Numbers 200. Reports of Lieut, Colonel Freeman Conner, Forty-fourth New York Infantry.

HDQRS. FORTY-FOURTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS, July 6, 1863.

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to submit the following report of the action taken by this regiment in the engagement on July 2: About 4 p. m. our regiment, Colonel J. C. Rice commanding, was placed in position on Round Top hill, with the Eighty-third Pennsylvania on our left and the Sixteenth Massachusetts on our right. Company B was immediately thrown out as skirmishers. When they had advanced about 200 yards, they met the enemy advancing in three lines of battle. Orders were immediately given by Captain L. S. Larrabee, commanding the company, to fall back upon the battalion. It was while executing this order that that faithful and brave officer was shot through the body and instantly killed, being the first officer that this regiment ever had killed in battle. The enemy continued to advance until the first line came within about 40 yards of our line. Upon their first appearance we opened a heavy fire upon them, which was continued until they were compelled to retreat. After they had disappeared in our immediate front, we turned our fire upon those who had advanced in the hollow to our right, and continued it until we were out of ammunition.

After we had been engaged about one hour, Colonel Vincent, commanding brigade, was wounded, and the command fell upon Colonel J. C. Rice, and the command of the regiment upon myself. We remained in our position until the next morning about 8 a. m., when we were relieved by Colonel Hayes, Eighteenth Massachusetts. We were then moved to the right about three-eights of a mile, and formed in line of battle, the Sixteenth Michigan on our left and the Twentieth Maine on our right. I regret to add that in addition to Captain Larrabee, whose death I have already noticed, the officers are called upon to mourn the loss of First Lieutenant Eugene L. Dunham, Company D, a brave and efficient officer, who was instantly killed during the heavy firing from the enemy in our front. Captain William R. Bourne, Company K; Captain Bennett Munger, Company C; Adjt. George B. Herendeen; First Lieutenant Charles H. Zeilman, commanding Company F, and Second Lieutenant Benjamin N. Thomas, Company K, were wounded, the latter, it is feared, mortally. It affords me great pleasure to be able to state that both officers and men behaved with the greatest coolness and bravery, not a single case of cowardice having come to my ear.

Most respectfully, your obedient servant,
FREEMAN CONNER,Lieutenant Colonel, Comdg. Forty-fourth New York Volunteers.

Names of those from the 44th., New York Infantry.

RICE, JAMES C—Age, 30 years. Enrolled, September 3, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as lieutenant-colonel, September 13, 1861; as colonel, July 4, 1862; discharged, August 23, 1863, for promotion to brigadier-general,
U. S. Vols.; commissioned lieutenant-colonel, September 3, 1861, with rank from same date, original; colonel, July 21,1862, with rank from July 4, 1862, vice S. W. Stryker, resigned.

CONNOR, ( Conner ) FREEMAN.—Age, 25 years. Enrolled, August 8, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as captain, Co. D, September 13, 1861; as major, July 4,1862; as lieutenant-colonel, July 14, 1862; wounded in action, December 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va.; discharged for wounds, April 3, 1863; reinstated and mustered in as lieutenant-colonel, May 12, 1863; wounded in action, May 8, 1864, at Laural Hill, Va.; mustered out with regiment, October 11, 1864, at Albany, N. Y.; prior service as first lieutenant, Co. D, Eleventh Infantry; commissioned captain, October 12, 1861, with rank from August 12, 1861, original; major, July 21, 1862, with rank from July 4, 1862, vice E. P. Chapin, promoted; lieutenant-colonel, September 9, 1862, with rank from July 14, 1862, vice E. P. Chapin, promoted colonel, One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment; commissioned colonel but not mustered, September 5, 1863, with rank from August 27, 1863, vice J. C. Rice, promoted.

DUNHAM, EUGENE L.—Age, 23 years. Enrolled, August 8, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant, Co. D, August 30, 1861; mustered in as second lieutenant, August 19, 1862; promoted first lieutenant, April 16, 1863; killed in action, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; commissioned second lieutenant, November 11, 1862, with rank from August 19, 1862, vice H. D. Burdick, resigned; first lieutenant. May 30, 1863, with rank from April 16, 1863, vice B. K.. Kimberley, promoted.

BOURNE, WILLIAM R.—Age, 26 years. Enrolled, August 20, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant, Go. K, September 5, 1861; mustered in as second lieutenant, May 14, 1862; as first lieutenant, December 18, 1862; as captain, January 11, 1863; wounded in action, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; discharged for disability, October 9, 1863, at Washington, D. C; commissioned second lieutenant, July 21, 1862, with rank from July 4, 1862, vice O. D. Gaskill, promoted; first lieutenant, January 14, 1863, with rank from December 18, 1862 vice 0. D. Gaskill, resigned; captain, February 25, 1863, with rank from January 11, 1863, vice 0. A. Woedworth, resigned.

MUNGER, BENNETT.—Age, 41 years. Enrolled, August 11, 1862, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as captain, Co. C, October 3, 1862; wounded in action, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; discharged on consolidation, October 11, 1864; commissioned captain, November 11, 1862, with rank from October 14, 1862, vice W. H. Revere, resigned,

HERENDEEN, GEORGE B.—Age, 27 yearn Enrolled, August 16, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. D, August 30,1861; promoted sergeant-major, October 6, 1861; mustered in as second lieutenant, Co. I, April 1, 1862; as first lieutenant, Co. B, August 19, 1862; as first lieutenant and adjutant, February 10, 1863; mustered out with regiment, October 11, 1864, at Albany, N. Y.; commissioned second lieutenant, April 19, 1862, with rank from April 3, 1862, vice E. D. Spencer, resigned; first lieutenant, January 14, 1863, with rank from August 19, 1862, vice C. E. Royce, promoted; first lieutenant and adjutant, February 25, 1863, with rank from December 18, 1862, vice H, Kelley, promoted.

ZEILMAN, CHARLES H.—Age, 24 years. Enrolled at Albany, to serve three years, and mustered in as first sergeant, Co. F, August 8, 1861; as second lieutenant, July 25, 1862; as first lieutenant, December 25, 1862; •wounded in action,
July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa., and May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Ya.; mustered out with company, October 11, 1864, at Albany, N. Y.; commissioned second lieutenant, October 28, 1862, with rank from July 25, 1862, vice J. B.Webber, appointed adjutant, One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry; first lieutenant, January 14, 1863, with rank from December 21, 1862, vice 0. W. Gibbs, promoted; captain, not mustered, January 27, 1864, with rank from September 20, 1863, vice G. E. Royce, appointed lieutenant-colonel of colored troops.

THOMAS, BENJAMIN N.—Age, 19 years. Enrolled, August 20, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. C, October 5, 1861; promoted corporal, January 1, 1862; sergeant, May 1, 1862; first sergeant, August 1, 1862; transferred to Co. K, October 26, 1862; mustered in as second lieutenant, December 27,1862; wounded in action, July 2,1863; died of his wounds, July 8, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; commissioned second lieutenant, January 11, 1863, with rank from December 27,1862, vice W. R. Bourne, promoted.

LARRABEE, LUCIUS S.—Age, 24 years. Enrolled, August 8, 1861, at Albany, to serve three years; mustered in as first
lieutenant, Co. B, August 10, 1861; as captain, September 19, 1861; wounded in action, August 30, 1862, at Groveton, Va.; killed in action, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; prior service as first lieutenant in Co. F, Eleventh Infantry; commissioned first lieutenant, October 12, 1861, with rank from August 8, 1861, 'Original; captain, October 12, 1861, with rank from September 31, 1861, vice S. W. Stryker, promoted.

Update 12-9-2012.

The following information is given by Linda Mott.

Col. Conner, S W. Stryker, and Capt. Lucius S. Larrabee were all former members of the Chicago Cadets, a militia group formed during the late 1850’s in Chicago, IL. The group was led by Col. Elmer Ellsworth and utilized French military tactics called “Zouave.” The Chicago Cadets of 1859 aka Chicago Zouave Cadets were so successful with their displays that the group went on a whirlwind tour across 21 US cities, principally, New York City, Boston and West Point the summer of 1860. Ellsworth, resigned from the group shortly after the tour, but would later remember his cadets when war was declared. He asked Conner, Stryker, Larrabee and Ed Knox (also there’s about 6 more Chicago Cadets) to help train his NYC firemen recruits the (11^th NYVI) after war was declared in April of 1861. These 4 men and the other 6 were given positions of 1^st LT in the 10 companies formed. Ellsworth appointed the fire chiefs who had signed on as the Company Captains. Not all of the men Ellsworth asked to help would stay with the 11^th NYVI. However Conner, Larrabee and Knox remained through the 1^st Battle of Bull Run in July 21, 1861, later resigning not long after. They again appear with the 44^th NYVI formed in Aug. of 1861. The rest you’ve posted with the exception of Ed Knox who isn’t mentioned in the Battle Report.

The Battle Report about the action at Gettysburg must have been difficult for Col. Conner to write. He and Lucius Larrabee had been together since the late 1850’s in Chicago, IL.

Linda Mott.

Philip Coombs Mason.

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LIEUTENANT PHILIP COOMBS MASONS .

Philip Coombs Mason was bom in the old seaport town of Newburyport, Mass., March 5, 1834. He was the youngest son of WiUiam S. and Abigail (Jackman) Mason, there being two older sons and a daughter in the family. His father and grandfather (William Mason) fought in the war of 1812, and his grandfather was captured and confined in Dartmoor prison, in England, as a prisoner of war. All of his ancestry were of the typical New England stock.

The coat-of-arms in the possession of the family bears the emblems of the Scottish and English. It is known that the Masons were among the first settlers of Newburyport. Both grandfathers of Philip were seafaring men, and William S. Mason, his father, was for many years captain of the trading ship "Nikola" of Newburyport, and did an extensive business with Russia and other foreign countries.

Lieutenant Mason received his education in the Newburyport schools. After leaving high school, he learned the photograph business of Mr. John McArthur. When the Civil War broke out he was one of the first volunteers to go from Newburyport in Company A of the Seventeenth Regiment. By faithful and meritorious service he rose from first sergeant in the old company to second and first lieutenant which latter promotion came to him on July 8, 1863.

He participated in all the engagements of the old regiment and was mustered out with it in 1864. After serving his time in the war. Lieutenant Mason took up the photograph business in Newbern, N. C, where he remained until a serious illness compelled him to return North. In 1867, he married Sarah L., daughter of Benjamin French of Salisbury, Mass. She, too, came of old New England parentage, whose ancestors came to this country in 1640. Both paternal and maternal grandfathers distinguished themselves in the Revolutionary War.

During President Grant's administration, Lieutenant Mason was appointed United States Gauger of Internal Revenue under Mr. Charles C. Dame, collector of Newburyport. He remained in the service twelve years, when, through change of administration, he lost his position. After a lapse of twelve years, however, he was reinstated in his old position, where he remained until November, 1903, when illness compelled him to give it up in order to regain his health.

Lieutenant Mason was a member of Post 49, G. A. R., of Newburyport, and one of its past commanders, but he has resided in Somerville for nearly twenty-five years.

(A brother officer of the Seventeenth contributes the following more full account of Lieutenant Mason's war service.)

"At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, Lieutenant Mason joined the company known as the 'City Grays,' and after having helped to organize and drill the company for several weeks, he was appointed first sergeant of it. As first sergeant he went to the seat of war in Company A of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the company being commanded by CaptainDavidF. Brown of Newburyport and Captain Henry Splaine of Haverhill.

"He was promoted second Heutenant September 25, 1862, and first lieutenant July 8, 1863. At the expiration of his term of  enUstment, he was mustered out of service August 3, 1864, at Lynnfield, Mass. During his three years of service he never lost a day on accoimt of sickness. He was an ideal first sergeant, was an intrepid and gallant lieutenant, a good drillmaster, a judicious manager, and never neglected to look after the interests of Company A and the others with whom it was his privilege to serve. He was on every march, and in every fight that his regiment took part in during his term of service.

"Many first sergeants, it may be said were not as fortunate as Mason for with him, when everything else failed, an appeal to the Hibernian tent was invariably successful. No matter whether they were tired or hungry, these men were always ready to help Sergeant Mason out of a difficulty. All he had to say was, 'Boys, I must have two men for special duty. I know it isn't your turn. but, then, what am I going to do?' At that announcement all would spring to their feet and say; 'Sure, Mr. Mason, we will do am^thing in the world for you.'

These conditions and doings, as may be judged, brought about a feeling of mutual regard and respect between Mason and his Hibernian friends. A treaty of reciprocity was established between them, and Mason kept his end of the treaty as sacredly as the others did theirs. He did many acts of kindness for them, saved some of them from getting into trouble, and when it did happen that one of them did get into trouble. Mason would be the first one at headquarters to make a special plea in his behalf. It often appeared to the writer that Mason, like the Geraldines of old, was more Irish than the Hibernians themselves, and that the Hibernians were more Yankee than Phil Mason himself.

"Many of the officers and sergeants joked Mason about the happy and handy relations existing between him and his Irish friends; but at that early stage of their lives they evidently had not studied environment and its effect upon human conduct.

"The friendship thus formed between Phil and his comrades, it may be added, was continued into the private life of both succeeding their war service, and both parties never tired of telling of instances illustrative of their mutual service and good will. So much did these influences attend Phil Mason for years after his army service that one day be became father of a beautiful boy, and, behold, the child was born on St. Patrick's day. Served him right.  So much for environment association." Of Lieutenant Mason's three children, two of them are alive at this writing, and are most usefuland respected members of the community: Miss Abbie Daniels Mason and Mr. Arthur French Mason.

Henry A. Merchant, 23th., Pennsylvania Infantry.

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Henry A. Marchant, First Lieutenant company H., transferred to company F., May 1, 1862.

Henry A.Marchant, first Lietutenant, company F., mustered in August 2, 1861, for 3 years.  Promted to Captain of company I., January 1863.

Henry A. Marchant, Captain, company I., transferred from company F., Killed ay Cold Harbor June 1, 1864.

The following came from the 23rd., regimental history.

CAPTAIN MARCHANT, Twenty-third Pennsylvania, in 1861, gave the men of his company special instructions as to the use of the turnaque in case of a wound to stop the flow of blood until given aid by the surgeon. He was killed at Cold Harbor, and when found, he had first been wounded in the thigh and had applied the turnaque with his twisted pocket handkerchief, but was afterwards riddled with balls. He was a most gallant soldier and a true gentleman, highly respected by all.

Major Robert G. Rider, 85th., Illinois Infantry.

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MAJOR ROBERT G. RIDER was born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, March 14, 1831, attended Jefferson college at Cannonsburg, and studied medicine at Washington college, Washington, Pa. He removed to Illinois in 1855 and the following winter attended a course of lectures at a medical college, Dubuque, Iowa. He began the practice of his profession at Mobile, Ala., but returned to Illinois some three years later, and at the beginning of the War of the Rebellion was practicing medicine at Havana, in Mason county.

He enrolled Company K and was elected captain of that company at its organization, commanded the company at the battle of Perryville, through the Kentucky and Murfreesboro campaigns, and was promoted to be major of the regiment April 6, 1863. He was appointed provost marshal when the brigade was assigned to garrison duty at Murfreesboro, Tenn., but returned to duty with the regiment when the brigade was ordered to Nashville to prepare for an active campaign at the front. When In the assault on Kennesaw mountain .Colonel Dilworth was called to command the brigade, the command of the Eighty-fifth devolved upon Major Rider. He retained command of the regiment until disabled by a gun shot wound in the head at the assault upon the enemy's lines at Jonesboro, Ga. Recovering, at least partially, from his wound he resumed command of the regiment, which he led in the march to the sea. He resigned at Savannah, Ga., December 19, 1864.

Returning to Havana he resumed the practice of medicine, which he continued until 1880, when he removed to Mount Ayr, Iowa. In 1884 he retired from the active practice of his profession, but resided in Mount Ayr to the time of his death, which occurred on November 14, 1899.

Name: RIDER, ROBERT G. Rank; CPT. Company; K. Unit; 85 IL US INF. Age: 32. Joined When: JUL 18, 1862. Joined Where; MASON CO, IL. Period; 3 YRS. Muster In; AUG 27, 1862. Muster In Where; PEORIA, IL. Remarks: PROMOTED MAJOR MAY 30, 1863.

Name; RIDER, ROBERT G. Rank: MAJ. Company; HQ. Unit; 85 IL US INF. age: 32 joined When: MAY 30, 1863. Joined Where: BRENTWOOD, TN. Joined By Whom; GOV OF ILL. Period: 3 YRS. Muster In: MAY 30, 1863. Muster In Where; NASHVILLE, TN. Remarks: RESIGNED DEC 19, 1864.

George A. Blanchard, 85th., Illinois.

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CAPTAIN GEORGE A. BLANCHARD was born in Henderson, Jefferson county, New York, May 14, 1833, and with his parents, Aaron and Anna Blanchard, removed to Illinois and settled in St. Charles in Kane county, in 1838. He served for a time as deputy sheriff and circuit clerk of Kane county, married Amanda Walker, March 17, 1857, and removed to Havana, in Mason county, where he engaged in general merchandise. He assisted in recruiting Company C, and at the organization of the company was elected first lieutenant. He was promoted to be captain February 7, 1863, and commanded the company until captured at the battle of Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 19, 1864. He was held in various rebel prisons until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged May 15, 1865. Upon his return to Havana he was appointed master in chancery for Mason county, holding the position until 1868, when he was elected circuit clerk. At the close of a four-years term he became the secretary of the Springfield and Northwestern railway, and was serving in that capacity when he died May 4, 1875.

Name: BLANCHARD, GEORGE A. Rank: 1LT. Company: C. Unit: 85 IL US INF. Personal Characteristics. Residence: HAVANA, MASON CO, IL. Age: 29. Height: 5' 5. Hair: BROWN. Eyes: BLUE. Complexion: LIGHT. Marital Status: MARRIED. Occupation: ROUST ABOUT. Nativity: WATERTOWN, JEFFERSON CO, N. Y. Service Record. Joined When: JUL 23, 1862. Joined Where: MASON CO, IL. Joined By Whom: CPT BLACK. Period: 3 YRS. Muster In: AUG 27, 1862. Muster In Where: PEORIA, IL. Remarks: PROMOTED CAPTAIN.

Name: BLANCHARD, GEORGE A. Rank: CPT. Company: C. Unit: 85 IL US INF. Personal Characteristics. Residence: HAVANA, MASON CO, IL. Age: 29. Height: 5' 5. Hair: BROWN. Eyes: BLUE. Complexion: LIGHT. Marital Status: MARRIED. Occupation: ROUST ABOUT. Nativity: WATERTOWN, JEFFERSON CO, N. Y. Service Record. Joined When: MAR 7, 1863. Joined Where: NASHVILLE, TN. Joined By Whom: GOV OF ILL Period: 3 YRS. Muster In: MAR 30, 1863. Muster In Where: NASHVILLE, TN. Remarks: HONORABLY DISCHARGED MAY 15, 1865.

Thomas J. Haddock, Indiana

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Thomas J. Haddock, Was mustered in December, 1861, and served three years. He is now (1895) living in Lowndes, Wayne county, Missouri.

Name: Thomas J. Haddock.
Age: 20.
Date Enrolled: 1861/12/21.
Where Enrolled: Princeton, Indiana.
Regiment: 58.
Company: K.
Discharge Date: 1864/12/03.
Notes: Wounded & taken prisoner at Chicamauga.
Authors note.  More can be found on him and his family, at the siye of ( Find a Grave.)

Monroe Key Indiana.

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Monroe Key.
Birth: Sep. 4, 1841.
Death: Feb. 16, 1932.
Wife: Eliza Somers Key (1847 - 1936)
Children: Nellie Key (1874 - 1961) Anna T Key (1879 - 1934 Carrie Key (1884 - 1886)
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Patoka, Gibson County, Indiana.

Monroe Key was mustered in at Camp Gibson as Sergeant of Company C; was promoted to 2d Lieutenant of that Company, October i, 1864, and was with the Regiment until its muster out. Since leaving the army, Lieutenant Key has made his home in Gibson county. He was elected Sheriff of the county in 1888, and re-elected in 1890, serving four years altogether. He then retired to his farm near Patoka, where he now resides.

Name: Monroe. Age: 19. Date Enrolled: 1861/10/01. Where Enrolled: Princeton, Indiana. Regiment: 58. Company: C. Discharge Date: 1865/07/25. Notes: Sgt.; 2nd Lt., December 19, 1864. Veteran Volunteer, February 14, 1864.

Colonel Robert Henry Lee.

Col. R. H. Lee, whose picture in his Confederate uniform looks so much like "old times." is a grandson of Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, who, on June 7. 1776. moved in the Continental Congress that "These united colonies are and of right ought to be free." He is a nephew of "Light Horse" Harry Lee, who in Congress prepared the resolutions on the death of Washington, which contained the memorable sentiment. " First iii war. first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen and he was a first cousin tn General Robert E. Lee. He has a daughter in Nashville, wife of Rev. .1. R. Winchester. Colonel I.ee was selected to read the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1876, where it will he remembered Hon, Wm. M. Evarts was orator of the day ami Henry V. Longfellow read the poem. In politics Colonel l.ee was always "an old line Whig," and opposed disunion, when hut Virginia seceded he promptly joined the Southern army, and was made lieutenant in the Second Virginia Infantry, which was a part of the glorious old Stonewall brigade. He was seriously wounded and captured at Kernstown in March, 1862, and was for months at Johnson's Island. In that engagement his color-bearer was shot down, when he caught up the flag and carried it through the thickest of the light. When he fell wounded Colonel Allen, commanding the regiment, bore it successfully through the charge.

James Humphrey, First Kentucky Cavalry.

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1st Lieutenant James Humphrey. Enlisted July 27, 1861.  Appointed Sergeant at Company organization. Promoted 1st Lieutenant, November 28, 1862. Mortally wounded in action near Hillsborough, Georgia, July 31, 1864, and died 14 days afterward.

The following was taken from the regimental history.

Page 364.  We lay still until about 1 o'clock, when the enemy advanced upon us, shelling us very rapidly. We fell back and commenced forming at another place, still within range of their cannon. We had Companies A and B, and a few others formed. The shells were flying all about us. I was near Company A, and a shell burst in the midst of it. I heard a groan, and when the smoke and dust cleared away, I saw that Lieut. Humphrey had his leg shot off. Capt. Wolford and some others dismounted to help him, when here came another shell in the same place. After it burst we looked, and oh, what a sight! Capt. Wolford was lying on the ground, his head nearly torn off by a piece of shell He was killed so quick that he hardly knew what hurt him. Just then the Rebels charged and we gave way.

Page 372.  The leg of Lieut. James Humphrey was nearly shot off  by the enemy's Artillery, and some of his comrades dismounted and hastily bandaged it in order to stop the flow of  blood, but were compelled to leave him. He then fell into the hands of t the enemy, and was taken to a citizen's house near by where the wounded limb was amputated. Fourteen days afterward, it being found necessary to again amputate the leg above the knee, he died under the operation. Lieut. Humphrey was a gallant and popular young officer, and was universally lamented by his comrades in arms, and the community in which he resided.

Edward A. Flint.

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Edward a. Flint.

Grad. Harvard, 1851. Returned from South America to serve in war.
2d Lieut. 1st Mass. Cav. M. Nov. 14, 1862, age 30 [Boston]. 1st Lieut. Mar. 21, 1863. Capt. Feb. 16, 1864. Maj. July 2, 1864 (not M.). On detached ser. with Cos. C and D, at Gen. Meade's hdqrs, 1864-65. Bvt. Col. U. S. V. April 9, 1865, " for gallant and meritorious service during the war." Exp. June 26, 1865.

Notes from Massachusetts First Cavalry, regimental history.

Page 90.  2d Lieutenant Edward A. Flint joined the regiment with his commission from Massachusetts, November 18.

Page 170-1.  The first shot a solid one struck in the bed of a small stream, throwing up a spray of water, and bounding along struck the hilt of Lieutenant Flint's sabre, took the bit out the bugler's horse mouth in the next squadron, and took off the leg of Quartermaster-Sergeant Read of  company A., September, 1863.

George Stone Kimball, Maine.

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 First Maine Cavalry.

Company C.

KIMBALL, GEORGE S. Age 27; res. Gardiner; mus. Oct. 20, '61, Augusta, as 2d lieut. ; pro. capt. '63; killed in action at Middleburg, Va., June 19, '63. 

Capt. George Stoxe Kimball, who descended from excellent stock, was boi-n at Gardiner, Me., Jan. 2, 1833. His father was Capt. Nathaniel Kimball, a native of Kennebec County, one of Maine's most skilful and successful sea captains, and the pioneer of steamboat navigation between Boston and the Kennebec River. His mother was a daughter of Col. John Stone, of Gardiner, who in his day was well known in the Kennebec valley, and highly esteemed for his many sterling virtues. Capt. Kimball graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853, and studied law in the office of Hon. Henry Ingalls, Wiscasset. After his legal course he went to Stillwater, Minn., and opened an office, where he practised law for a while; but not liking that then new country, he returned to his native city shortly before the opening of the war of the rebellion. Upon the call for troops, he was one of the first to resjiond, enlisting in the First Maine Cavalry, Sept. 20, 1861, and was soon after appointed second lieutenant; was promoted captain, April 13, 1863, and was killed in action at the head of his command, leading a charge at Middleburg, Va., June 19, 1863.

Before leaving Augusta, Me., the members of his company presented him with a sword and belt, which fell into the hands of the enemy, who held the ground sufficiently long to rifle the dead ; but when they were finally driven from the field, his body was recovered, embalmed, brought to Gardiner, and interred with apjiropriate and imposing public ceremonies.

He will be remembered by those who knew him for his many excellent qualities, as always courteous, kind, generous to a fault, full of jollity and life, and in earlier life always the foremost and most expert in all manly sports and games.

He was one of, if not the most, popular of the students in his college class, and the same traits of character were shown in his army life, making his companionship a source of pleasure. He was a gentleman honored and beloved by officers and soldiers, the thought of himself finding little place in his sympathetic and impulsive nature. He was married early in life, and left one child, a daughter, about eight years of age.

Notes from the regimental history.

George S. Kimball, made a charge up the pike, in which they were driven back and Lieut. Kimball was killed ; but the rest of the regiment came up and drove the enemy back. Col. Smith's horse was shot during the day.

Lieut. Kimball was killed beyond the enemy's first line, and in tlie few minutes intervening between the first and second charge, his body had been partially stripped and robbed.

The main body of the regiment attacked, and after a most spirited contest, the enemy in superior force retired. In connection with this fight, it is my purpose to speak more particularly of the charge made by Lieut. Kimball with Co. C. He dashed up the pike, ran the gauntlet of stone walls lined with dismounted men, penetrated a large body of mounted men posted just beyond the woods, and was killed when he had nearly gained their rear. Many of us knew him well. He was amiable, genial, unguarded, and he fell like a warrior. When I consider the superior forces encountered, the peculiar dangers of the situation, and the resistance actually overcome, I think that charge is not surpassed in gallantry by any other within my knowdedge. True, they were not " six hundred " ; there were hardly sixty, and Tennyson has not immortalized them; but when I recall the charge as I saw it, Kimball followed by his company of sorrels, compact and steady, and all moving like an arrow's Hight, swiftly and unerringly "into the jaws of death," I fail to see in what respect of heroism it is inferior even to the immortal " Charge of the Light Brigade."

CAPTAIN JAMES W. HERVEY.

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CAPTAIN JAMES W. HERVEY.

Captain J. W. Hervey was born in New Bedford, Mass., February 2, 1838. He was educated in the schools of his native city. Passing through the grammar and high school, he fitted for college at the Friends Acad emy, and in 1856 entered Yale, where he remained until 1860. Before he went to the war, he was employed in the Mechanics Bank, and was a member of the Home Guard during the first year of the war. Enlisting as a private in Company A of the Forty-first Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers, August 23, 1862, he was mustered as First Lieutenant, August 31, 1862 ; commissioned Captain, February 8, 1863, and was honor ably discharged March 5, 1864, on surgeon s certificate of disability. Captain 1 ; Hervey was seriously injured while on picket in Louisiana.

After the war, he held a position in the Mechanics National Bank, for many years. He is now agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wis.

A CONCERT AT BATON ROUGE.

REPORTED BY CAPTAIN HERVEY.

THE Forty-first boys got up a concert one evening. Wishing the use of a piano, half a dozen of us, one rainy day, called at a house in the city, and asked permission of the lady of the house to use the piano.  She said she had strong objections. The boys said I must be spokesman ; so I asked her what they were.

Well," she said, spitefully, " you Yankees won t allow my daughter to sing our national songs, and I am not willing that you should sing yours in my house."

Said I : " The sentiments of the songs we sing are such as you are in duty bound to respect."

In reply, she said: "Our songs are as dear to us as yours are to you."

I said You have no right to have any national songs."

" My heart," says she is with the Confederacy. I love it. I am all bound up in it ; and why should I not be ? for my brother fell at Murfreesboro, and my husband is still in the field."

I told her I pitied her, and that she was an unfortunate woman to be so bound up in such an unrighteous Confederacy ; but that we did not come there to discuss those matters. We assured her we were gentlemen ; that we intended her, or her property, no harm.

" Well," says she, " if you will come in, I can t help it, for I am a defenceless, unarmed woman." And, turning abruptly, she left us.

THE following letter, written by Captain Hervey, will be read with much interest by many comrades of the regiment. It throws much light on the kind of service the regiment was called upon to render during the fall of
1862 and 63 :

CAMP AT PORT HUDSON, LA.,
Dec. ist, 1863.

MY DEAR WIFE This first day of December, and more particularly the 3Oth ult, will always be remembered as among the saddest of our experience as soldiers. Again had the wires been cut, and a force of thirty men, under command of Lieutenant Twitchell, had been sent to repair the difficulty. On the day of their return, the Colonel, fearing they might meet with trouble, ordered a detail of fifty men, under command of Captain Muzzey and Lieutenants W. A. Gove and Geo.W. Howland, to proceed toward Baton Rouge, to meet them. About two miles from the fortifications, an ambuscade had been carefully planned for the Baton Rouge squad ; but as luck would have it, the relieving force fell into it.  Now, see how nicely they had planned it. They had cut the wires, a few miles below, knowing that the force from Baton Rouge would be delayed till nearly dark in repairing it. The force sent out at i o clock, P.M., had divided into three squads. Lieutenant Gove had the advance ; Captain Muzzey the main force, and Lieutenant Howland the rear guard.

The latter was sent around by the right following a Cut-off. The others proceeded along the Baton Rouge road, and, when about half a mile belowPlains Store,the advance guard received a volley from a force of 150 rebels in ambush. The vol ley was accompanied by unearthly yells, which frightened the horses, rendering them quite unmanageable. This occurred in a bend of the road, and the advance at the time was concealed from the rest of the force. Hearing the volley, the main body galloped forward, but saw neither the advance (who had scattered to the woods), nor the rebels ; and the first intimation they had of a concealed force was another volley. Captain Muzzey tried to rally his men ; but as the rebs now rushed out of the woods in overwhelming numbers, and endeavored to surround them (who numbered scarcely thirty men), they took to the woods, when the corps fell in with Lieutenant Howland, who was coming to its assistance with all haste. He had but seven men. We lost two killed, and three mortally wounded; (and these latter have since died;) one Lieutenant wounded and taken prisoner, to gether with four privates. Several were wounded, but not seriously. I lost two from my company Private Charles R. Booth and Charles B. Douglass. Company C also lost two killed, one of whom was a New Bedford boy  Franklyn Nye enlisted by J. F. Vinal.

I am pained to inform you of the death of Chas. A. Lucas, formerly a Sergeant in Company A. I had forwarded his discharge papers, but he died before they could avail him. It is a sad day for me ; but such is War. God grant a speedy termination of the strife Poor Gove, a prisoner ! He was shot, and his horse, stumbling, threw him and stunned him, and he was easily captured.

It is now Monday, the 7th of December. As I write, a flag of truce has been to Jackson The party found Lieutenant Gove comfortable. Every attention was shown him, and, upon his word of honor that he would not attempt to escape, he was allowed the freedom of the town.

Their Watches.

CAMP SUMTER, Andersonville, Ga.

Received from R. B. Winder, assistant quartermaster, this 1st day of July, 1864, the following lot of property belonging to Federal prisoners, to wit:

Silver watch, Numbers 12252, R. W. Kelly. 
silver watch, Numbers 11697, N. R. Leaver.
brass watch, Numbers 37, J. Champuny [?].
silver watch, Numbers 13039, N. J. Smith.
silver watch, Numbers 26326, J. B. Blocke.
silver watch, Numbers 23956, J. D. Wolfe.
silver watch, Numbers 8991, D. Bilman.
silver watch, Numbers 546, F. Foster.
silver watch, Numbers 161, Jacob Metsger.
silver watch, Numbers 14554, H. Mansfield.
brass watch and pencil, Nothingham.
H. WIRZ,
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Colonel LIVINGTON:

SIR: I send Captain Mankin, under flag of truce, with a watch belonging to Captain Castle, of the Eleventh Missouri Regiment, U. S. troops, now under your command. Captain Castle was mortally wounded in an encounter between your forces and those under my command yesterday, and thought he would die. He requested me to send his effects to his wife, who lives near Saint Joseph, Mo. His horse was to captured, but ran off or was killed in action. His watch and pencil-case were taken from him, the latter of which I have not succeeded in obtaining, but if I ever get it will send it to you, will confer a favor by forwarding it to his family. Captain Castle captured my brother and treated him gentlemanly, and I feel under obligations to him. He requested me to inform his wife that he died as brave men only die. I captured 42 of your men, and would like to exchange all but those who are deserters from the C. S. Army, which I am ordered to retina and send to headquarters, which I will do. If you will exchange please inform me. I wish to exchange for my brother, James rutherford, who is a regular soldier of the C. S. Army, and if you have not sent him off you will confer an especial favor by retaining him. Your dead were left on the field unburied, as I had no tools to bury with. A burial party sent out under a flag of truce will not be molested.Respectfully,G. W. RUTHERFORD, Captain, Commanding First Arkansas Cavalry.P. S.-Since writing the above I have procured Captain Castle's pen and case, which will be handed you by Captain Mankin.G. W. R.
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General John Morgan watch.

Sergeant Moon took the watch of General John Morgan to a jeweler's in Columbus to be repaired on the day of his escape (November 27), and did not ask for permission to do so, as was required by orders. He called for the watch on the evening of the same day, but it had not been repaired then; he called for it several times the next day, when Colonel Wallace, hearing of it, took possession of the watch himself. This circumstances shows at least the sergeant held improper intercourse with John Morgan.
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A. D. Vallade

Second Lieutenant A. D. Vallade, Company I, Eighty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry, commanding outposts, was serious wounded in the right breast, and died in a few hours. This excellent young officer met his fate gallantly and was brutally robbed by the rebels of his watch, money, and clothes even to his shirt.
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Colonel Rrown.

Colonel Brown. He was killed outright in the handsome cavalry charge executed by your troops yesterday afternoon. His body was taken to a neighboring house and cared for. He will be interred to-day, and doubtless in the vicinity. His watch was taken charge of by an officer of rank in our service, and I will make it appoint to have it forwarded to you. I am not now informed whether there was any other valuables on the person of Colonel Brown.
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Colonel J. C. KELTON,

The conduct of this command since it came in this vicinity has been such that it makes one feel ashamed of the volunteer service of the U. S. Army. Complaints come to me of their having robbed the farmers of all their stock and in some cases of their watches and money. I have arrested a corporal of Company F of that regiment who went into a farmer's house and broke open his trunks and stole from them a watch and some money, and will send him to you as soon as I get the testimony in his case.
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Provost-Marshal-General, Department of Virginia:

COLONEL: I have the honor to herewith forward a true copy of state ment of R. B. Winder, assistant quartermaster (late Confederate States), in regard to watches, &c., belonging to Federal prisoners which were confined in Andersonville Prison, Ga.; also copies of receipts from W. H. Hatch, agent of exchange, and H. Wirz, captain, commanding prison. On the 10th of the present month my assistant and chief detective found in the possession of George T. Garrison (citizen) a box containing thirty-four old watches, which he (Mr. Garrison) states that he received from Mr. Winder. The original receipt states that there were thirty-nine watches, but only thirty-four can be found. Mr. Garrison lives on the Eastern Shore, and claims to be counsed for the defense of Mr. Winder, who is now confined in the Old Capitol Prison.
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Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, Commanding U. S. Ship Ino.

NOTE. -From Mr. Tunstall I took $55 in Spanish gold and a revolver; from Mr. Myers $45 in gold, together with four pieces of Moorish coin, value of 25 cents, and a Spanish real; also a good watch and chain and a small piece of iron. The watch is Numbers 17901, D. B. Nichols, maker, of Geneva work. On the watch chain was an American half dime.
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HYMAN ROBBERY.

Hyman if he had any pursue. Hyman gave him a small purse with ten gold dollars and some paper money, when the man said to him that he had a belts, and while he was trying to get off one without showing the other was knocked down and robbed of about $6,000 in gold (chiefly twenty-dollar pieces), a silver watch, a great coat (invisible green with yellow silk sleeve linings), in the pocket of which was a fur collar and a small Hebrew prayer-book. There was taken from young Ezekiel a lady's gold watch and a belt containing a number of silver coins and medals.

It appears from the letter of Colonel Carrington, provost-marshal at Richmond, that soon after the robbery General Winder sent two detectives to the valley to investigate the matter, at the request of the father of Ezekiel. These detectives reported that they were convinced that Cherry and some other men committed the robbery; that they determined to arrest Cherry, and were piloted by a negro 6 miles beyond Strasburg in search of him. Fearing foul play they turned back, but on searching the negro found on him the watch stolen from young Ezekiel, which was subsequently identified by his father. They did not bring off the negro because they said they were afraid to encumber themselves with him. It should be mentioned that the detective got Mr. Williams' letter from General Early before they went down the valley.

Fighting With Bayonets.

HDQRS. FOURTH BRIGADE, LONGSTREET'S DIVISION, July 21, 1862.

Captain W. C. Y. Parker had two successive encounters with Federal officers, both of whom he felled with his sword, and beset by others of the enemy he was severely wounded, having received two bayonet wounds in the breast and one in his side and a musket wound breaking his left thigh.

Lieutenant Michie had a hand-to-hand collision with an officer, and having just dealt a severe blow upon his adversary he fell, cut over the head with a saber-bayonet from behind, and had afterward three bayonet wounds in the face and two in the breast, all severe wounds, which he survived,
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Report of Captain Sylvester H. Gray, Seventh Connecticut Infantry.

Private Lyon, Company K, jumped upon the parapet, thrust his bayonet into the head of the chief of a gun (whom I have since ascertained was a captain, and was killed) that was about to be fired, and fired his gun at the same time.

Corporal [Giles] James, of Company I, thrust his bayonet into the head of one of the gunners, and broke it off in endeavoring to pull it out.
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"THE GREAT GALLANTRY OF THE NEGRO TROOPS AT MILLIKEN'S BEND.

"We publish below a very interesting letter of Captain, M. M. Miller, of this city, of the Ninth Louisiana (colored) Regiment. Captain M. is a son of W. H. Miller, esq., for many years a citizens of Galena. At the time of the breaking out of the rebellion he was a student in Yale College, and had nearly completed his course. He left studies, however, and returned home; enlisted as a private in the celebrated Washborne Lead Mine Regiment, from whence he was taken and made captain of a colored company. His statement can be relied on a liter ally true, and we venture to say the history of the world shown no more desperate fighting than that by his company at Milliken's Bend. Every maned but one in his company was either killed or wounded, and many of them in a hand-to-hand bayonet struggle:

MILLKEN'S BEND, June 10, 1863.

DEAR AUNT: We were attacked here on June 7, about 3 o"clock in the morning by a brigade of Texas troops, about 2,500 in number. We had about 600 men to withstand them, 500 of them negroes. I commanded Company I, Ninth Louisiana. We went into the fight with 33 men. IU had 16 killed and 11 badly wounded. 4 slightly. I was wounded slightly on the head, near the right eye, with a bayonet, and had a bayonet run thought my right hand near the forefinger; that will account for this miserable style of penmanship.
Authors note.  This is just part of the letter, you can requst the full letter.
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6th., Maine.

Private George Brown, Company K., bayoneted two of the enemy in succession, and then, as the resistance was obstinate, he brained a third with the butt of his musket.
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Captain Theodore Gregg, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.

 A large rebel officer, who appeared to be in command of the force, rushed upon me, and catching me by the throat, ordered me to surrender, at the same time bringing his revolver to my head. I succeeded in taking his revolver from him, and after a sharp struggle left him dead on the spot. A rebel soldier who had come to the rescue of his officer attempted to run me through with his bayonet, but was killed by Sergeant Bacon, of Company G.
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Hand to Hand.

Lieutenant, James Johnston, of the One hundred and Twenty-first New York, received a bayonet wound through the thigh. Private O'Donnell, Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was pinned to the parapet, but was rescued by his comrades. A private of the Fifth Maine, having bayoneted a rebel, was fired at by the captain, who, missing his aim, in turn shared the same fate. The brave man fell by a shot from the rebel lieutenant. The struggle lasted but a few seconds.
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Testimony of Ransom Anderson (colored), private in Company B, Sixth, U. S. Heavy Artillery:

I do hereby certify that I am a member of Company B, Sixth U. S. Heavy Artillery, and that I was in the battle of Fort Pillow on the 12th day of April, A. d. 1864, and that I was severely wounded during the progress of the engagement. When the surrender occurred I was taken prisoner. I also certify that while a prisoner and wounded I was further wounded by being cut in the head and hands by one Lieutenant Williams, C. S. Army. I also certify that I saw John Pritchard, of Company B, Sixth U. S. Heavy Artillery, shot while a prisoner and while lying by my side upon the ground. I also certify that I saw Coolie Pride, of the same regiment and the same company, stabbed by a rebel soldier with a bayonet and the and the bayonet broken off in his body, after the said Coolie Pride had been taken prisoner by the Confederates. On the morning of the 13th day of April, A. D. 1864, after he had been taken prisoner, I saw Daniel Lester shot dead by a rebel soldier.
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10th., Mississippi, Chickamauga, 1863.

Private Barney McCabe, died within reach of his bayonet.
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31st., Georgia.

I desire to state that one of the enemy, after surrendering, leveled his gun to fire at our passing line, but a bayonet thrust from the hands of Captain W. D. Wood, of the Thirty-first Georgia, prevented the intend barbarism.
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11th., Massachusetts.

 Private John Lawler, of Company D, stove in the skull of one rebel with the butt of his musket and killed another with his bayonet.
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Sixtieth Virginia Infantry.

Private Christian, in the bayonet charge of the 30th, was assailed by no less than four of the enemy at the same instant. He succeeded in killing three of them with his own hands, though wounded in several places by bayonet-thrusts, and his brother, Eli W. Christian, going to his aid, dispatched the fourth.

Those Killed Or Wounded In Action

27th., New York, Battery, Light Artillery.

June 17, Corpl. George Shoop, wounded in action before Petersburg, died at First Division hospital June 20, 1864.

SHOOP, GEORGE.—Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 15, 1862, at Buifalo; mustered in as private, September 15, 1862, to serve three years; deserted, November 13, 1862; served with Second Rhode Island Infantry from November 14, 1862, to April, 1863; returned from desertion, April 6, 1863; promoted corporal, March 6, 1864; died, June 20, 1864, at Petersburg, Va., of wounds received in action before Petersburg, June 17, 1864.

June 17, Private James Hull, wounded in action before Petersburg, died and Columbia Hospital, Washington, July 2, 1864.

HULL, JAMES.—Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 30, 1862, at Buffalo; mustered in as private, December 17, 1862, to serve three years; promoted corporal, date not stated; died, July 2, 1864, at Washington, D. C, of wounds received in action before Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864.

June 17, 1864. Private Patrick Dorsey, wounded in action before Petersburg.

DORSEY, PATRICK.—Age, 23 years. Enlisted; November 3, 1862, at Buffalo; mustered in as private, December 17, 1862, to serve three years; wounded, June 17, 1864; mustered out with battery, June 22, 1865, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, N. Y.
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1863, Major Horatio N. Whitbeck, though wounded in action, remained in command of the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteers.
Enlisted October 2, 1861, for 3 years,  Promoted to Major from Captain, Company E., October 7, 1862; wounded December 31, 1862, in battle of Stone River, Tenn., Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, March 22, 1863: wounded September 19, 1863 in battle of Chickamauga, Ga., and June 27, 1864, in battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.  Discharged August 16, 1865, for wounds.
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 Captain George W. Hill, Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864.
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Names of Forts named after those killed in action.

Fort Horton, after Captain M. C. Horton, One hundred and fourth Ohio Infantry, killed in action in front of Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.

Fort McPherson, after Major General James B. McPherson, brigadier-general, U. S. Army, killed in action before Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864.

Fort Philpot, after Captain J. T. Philpot, One hundred and third Ohio Infantry, killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Fort Saint Clair Morton, after Major James St. Clair Morton, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, killed in an assault on Petesburg, Va., June 17, 1864.

Fort Karnasch, after Second Lieutenant Julius E. Karnasch, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, topographical engineer on the staff of Major-General Schofield, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 8 [4], 1864.

Fort clark, after Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Clark, One hundred and eighty-third Ohio Infantry, killed in battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.

Fort Southworth, after Captain A. J. Southworth, One hundred and fourth Ohio Infantry, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 16, 1864.

Fort Elstner, after Lieutenant Colonel George R. Elstner, Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, killed in action near Utoy Creek, Ga., August 8, 1865.

Fort Engle, after Captain Archibald H. Engle, aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General Schofield, and captain Thirteenth U. S. Infantry, killed in battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Fort Saunders, after Captain E. D. Saunders, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, killed in action in front of Dallas, Ga., June 2, 1864.

Fort Hill, after Captain George W. Hill, Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., Augusta 6, 1864.
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Major James G. C. Dodge, Sixty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious services in leading his regiment on the 2nd instant against the enemy's works (the regiment being left in front.) This officer has been twice wounded in action and, although a cripple, has insisted upon remaining in the service, notwithstanding advice to the from his physicians. His character upon the occasion referred to was of the most conspicuous character. The conduct of the three officers above-mentioned came under my immediate observation and I can safely say had great influence upon our success.
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Captain Archibald H. Engle, aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General Schofield and captain Thirteenth U. S. Infantry, killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Captain E. D. Saunders, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, killed in action in front of Dallas, Ga., June 2, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel George R. Elstner, Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, killed in action near Utoy Creek, Ga., August 8, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Clark, One hundred and eighty-third Ohio Infantry, killed in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.

Captain M. C. Horton, One hundred and fourth Ohio Infantry, killed in action in front of Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.

Captain A. J. Southworth, One hundred and fourth Ohio Infantry, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 16, 1864.

Captain George W. Hill, Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, killed in action in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864.

Captain William Bishop, One hundredth Ohio Infantry, mortally wounded in action in front of Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.

Captain J. T. Philpot, One hundred and third Ohio Infantry, killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Captain W. W. Hutchinson, One hundred and third Ohio Infantry, killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Captain R. J. Showers, Eightieth Indiana Infantry, killed in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.

Captain Edgar Camp, One hundred and seventh Illinois Infantry, killed in action at Lost Mountain, Ga., June 16, 1864.

Captain G. A. Gallup, Thirteenth Kentucky Infantry, killed in action near Lovejoy's Station, Ga., September 1, 1864.

Second Lieutenant Julius E. Karnasch, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, topographical engineer on the staff of Major-General Schofield, killed in action near Atlanta, Ga., August 4, 1864.

First Lieutenant James Coughlan, Twenty-fourth Kentucky Infantry, aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General Schofield, killed in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.

Private Henry W. Rowe, Company I, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, was wounded in action July 30, 1864, and is now in Douglas U. S. Hospital, Washington D. C.
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Colonel James McFerran, First Cavalry Missouri State Militia.
The casualties in the campaign, while under my command, are as follows:

In action October 6, 1864, on the Osage, below Jefferson City.

Private Wright J. Hill, Company D, killed.

Private Samuel Howard, Company D, mortally wounded.

Sergt. James C. Triplett, Company D, slightly wounded.

Private Warren Mitchell, Company D, severely wounded.

Private George Tyler, Company H, killed.

Private John Harvey, Company H, mortally wounded.

Private Jacob Evans, Company H, mortally wounded.

Private William Collier, Company H, mortally wounded.

In action on the move west of Jefferson City, October 8, 1864.

Sergt. William L. Powell, Company A, slightly wounded.

At Sedalia, Mo., October 15, 1864.

George Sparks, private, Company D, killed.

At Georgetown, Mo., October 14, 1864. 

Lieutenant Triplett, Company D, was severely wounded by pistol-shot, accidentally.

In action at Independence, October 22, 1864.

First Lieutenant John D. Mullins, Company F, mortally wounded.

Private William H. Royston, Company A, severely wounded.

Private Richard Owings, Company G, severely wounded.

Corpl. James C. Wood, Company K, slightly wounded.
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Report of Lieutenant Jacob H. Lamb, Battery C, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, of operations July 12-30.

Private Thomas Lamphier killed in action June 3.

Private John Pfaffle wounded in action May 31.

Three Color Bearers Of, 126th., Ohio Infantry.

There seems to be some confusion in the records.  The official record states one thing, while the regimental roster states another.  It will be up to you to decide for yourselves all I can do is give the fates.
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Numbers 14. Report of Lieutenant Colonel Aaron W. Ebright, One hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, of battle of the Monocacy.

HDQRS. 126TH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,
August 27, 1864.

On the 6th of July the division was ordered to Baltimore, Md., at which city we arrived on the morning of the 8th, per steam transports, and at once took the train for Monocacy Junction, on which point the enemy was reported moving. My regiment arrived at Monocacy bridge in the evening and camped near it during the night. On the morning of the 9th the forces here under Major-General Wallace were formed into line of battle, my regiment stationed near the turnpike bridge. At noon this bridge was burnt, and at 3 p. m. my regiment was double-quicked to the left to support the line there that was being severely pressed by the enemy. The regiment advanced beyond our line of battle, driving the enemy behind the crest of a hill, and having been engaged abut one hour, was ordered to fall back. The enemy followed us some miles, annoying us with shot and shell. My loss in this engagement was 3 enlisted men killed, 3 officers and 40 enlisted men wounded, 28 enlisted men missing, and 29th enlisted men known to be prisoners.

In all the engagements of the campaign the officers and men, with a few exceptions, behaved most gallantly; to mention all who have merited remark would extend this report beyond reasonable limits.

Among the many who deserve special mention are First Lieutenant Thomas J Hyatt, acting adjutant, and Sgt. Major James W. Moffat, for their bravery and gallant conduct on the field of battle, both of whom have since been promoted; also First Sergt. John M. Russell, Company D, killed; Private Alvin V. Brashier, Company C, killed; and here I cannot refrain from special mention of the gallant color bearers of this regiment, Corpl. D. W. Welch, Company C, killed; Sergt. J. J. Bricker, Company H, Captured, and Sergt. Abram Colgrove, Company K, wounded, while gallantly standing by their colors in line of battle.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. W. EBRIGHT, Lieutenant-Colonel 126th Ohio Vols., Commanding Regiment.

Daniel W. Welch, Corporal, Age 23, Enlisted August 20, 1862, for 3 years.  Killed May 30, 1863, in the Battle of the Wilderness.

John J. Bricker, Sergeant, Age 30, Enlisted August 15, 1862, for 3 years.  Appointer from Corporal, January 1, 1863.  Captured May 6, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia.  Died October 28, 1864, in a rebel prison at Andersville Georgia.

Abram Colgrove, Sergeant, Age 25, Enlisted  August 23, 1862, for 3 years.  Appointed Corporal March 1, 1863; Sergeant July 1, 1864.  Wounded July 9, 1864, in the battle of Monocacy Maryland.  Transferred to company H., 21st., regiment, Veteran Rescrve Corps., March 1, 1865.  Mustered out July 20, 1865, at Trenton N. J., by order of the War Department.

Frist Name Jacob, Civil War..

All the men named here has the first name of Jacob.  This page is to help you learn someting about your ancestor that you may not have known.  Many of the names here will have add information, to find out just drop me a line, and I will see what I can find.
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Members of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry (or more familiarly known as the "( Anderson Cavalry"), who went to the front and were engaged in the battle of Murfreesborough.

Company I.

Jacob H. Isett, private, mustered in October 3, 1853.  Transfrred to Company K., date unknown. Company K., Sergeant, pomoted to Corporal, October 30, 1862, to Sergeant February 5, 1865.  Mustered out with company June 21, 1865.

Jacob B. Garber Jr., private, mustered in October 3, 1862.  Transfrred to Company C., date unknown.  Company C.., Corporal, mustered in August 22, 1862.  Promoted to Corporal, March 11, 1865.  Mustered out with company June 21, 1865.

Jacob W. Miller, private, mustered in October 10, 1862.  Transfrred to company K., date unknown.  Company K., Corporal, mustered in October 10, 1862.  Promoted to Corporal, March 15, 1865.  Mustered out with company June 21, 1865.

Company K.

Jacob R. Hewitt, Captain, mustered in November 30, 1863.  Promted from private, Anderson Troop, October 10, 1862.  Resigned February 27,1863.

Jacob Hewitt, private, mustered in August 30, 1862.  Transfrred to Company F., date unknown.  Company F., Bugler, mustered in August 30, 1862.  Mustered out with company June 3, 1865.

Company L.

Jacob E. Esbenshade, private, mustered in October 10, 1862.  Transfrred to Company C., date unknown.  Company C.  Mustered out with company June 21, 1865.

Jacob R. Moore, private, mustered in October 3, 1862.  Transfrred to Company K., date unknown.  Company K. Transfrred to Signal Corps., October 27, 1863.
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The following men took the oath of allegiance and were allowed to volunteer and were trun over to Colonel Baldwin of the Fifty-Second Virginia, volunteers.

Jacob Quick
Jacob F. Semmes
Jacob Sinter
Jacob Wanger.
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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 19.
Fort Monroe, Va., September 25, 1862.

I. Before a general court-martial, of which Major General John J. Peck is president, convened at Yorktown, Va., pursuant to Paragraph III, Special Orders, Numbers 97, current series, from these headquarters, of September 11, 1862, was arraigned and tried-

Major JACOB P. WILSON, Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, upon the following charges and specifications:

Charge I.- Misbehavior before the enemy.

Specification.-In this: That he, Jacob P. Wilson, a major in the Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, in the service of the United States, while on duty with his regiment at or near Williamsburg, Va., did misbehaved himself before the enemy, and did shamefully abandon his post and command and run away. This at or near said Williamsburg, and between said Williamsburg and Yorktown, VA., on or about the 9th day of September, 1862.

CHARGE II.- Speaking words inducing others to misbehave themselves before the enemy and to run away and to shamefully abandon the post which he or they were commanded to defend.

Specification.- In this: That he, said Jacob P. Wilson, major as aforesaid, being stationed with his regiment at or near said Williamsburg, which post he and they were commanded to defend, did speak words induced members of his regiment, or some of them, to misbehave themselves before the enemy, to shamefully abandon said post, and to run away. This at or near Williamsburg, on or about September 9, 1862.

CHARGE III.- Cowardice.

Specification.- In this: That said Jacob P. Wilson, major as aforesaid, while stationed with his regiment at or near said Williamsburg, and before the enemy, did, in a cowardly manner, misbehave, abandon his post and command, and run away. This at or near Williamsburg, Va., on or about the 9th day of September, 1862.

PLEA.- Not guilty.

FINDING OF THE COURT.

I. Upon careful consideration the court finds the accused, Major Jacob P. Wilson, Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, "Not guilty," of each and all of the charges and specifications, and thereupon acquits him.

II. The proceedings and finding of the court are approved. Major Wilson will resume his sword and return to duty.

The encounter at Williamsburg, on which the charges against Major Wilson are founded, was, under all its aspects, most disgraceful to the regiment to which he belonged. The force of the enemy was certainly not superior to ours. The commanding officer had full notice of the intended attack and chose his own ground. The men behaved with becoming gallantry, the regiment broke, most of them ran away, some of the, as far as Yorktown, 13 miles from their camp. The colonel, 6 other officers, and nearly 60 enlisted men were taken prisoners; the camp was partially destroyed; they were not rallied until the enemy had retired; and the whole affair exhibited a want of organization and discipline utterly discreditable to the principal officers, who are responsible for the condition of the regiment. It can never regain its standing until this stain on its character is effaced by worthier conduct in the face of the enemy.

While the commanding general approves the finding of the court in acquitting Major Wilson of the charge of cowardice, the testimony shows that he might with propriety be brought before another court, on less serious charges of misconduct, and, if it is not though advisable to do so, it is only for the reason that so many others are as deeply involved as himself in the general delinquency.

III. The general court-martial, of which Major General John J. Peck is president, is dissolved.
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Jacob Thompson was a rebel and was doing raids from Canada into the United States.
Note.  There is a lot more on him.
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Numbers 2. Report of Lieutenant Jacob Van Antwerp, Eleventh Kansas Cavalry.

HEADQUARTERS, Salina, August 17, 1864.

SIR: Six men left this place yesterday morning belonging to Company H, Seventh Iowa, for Fort Ellsworth. They got to Elm Creek about 4 p. m., when they were attacked by from 100 to 300 Indians, 4 of whom were killed, the other two got away. The messenger sent from here arrived at Woodward's ranch and returned with two men, coming in from the battle-field. I have just sent a detachment of ten men, under Lieutenant Booth, up the Republican, which took all the horses fit for duty, but I will send the dispatches through as soon as possible. Lieutenant Helliwell has not arrived here yet. As soon as he gets here I shall go out with all the available forces, as there is undoubtedly a large body of Indians between the Smoky Hill and Saline Rivers.
Yours, truly,
JACOB VAN ANTWERP,
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Fourth New Jersey Infantry, Company C.
For bravery and galltntry in rallying their men.

Corporal, Jacob Van Marter.
Private, Jacob L. Bozier.
Private, Jacob Mundin.
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Jacob S. Dyer, in close confinement at Alton or Saint Louis, it was not known which.
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The following-named officers and enlisted men of the U. S. Army have been duly exchanged as prisoners of war. 
At Port Royal Ferry, S. C., August 16, 1864.

Jacob Harbauer, Company A., Fourteenth Ohio, Infantry.
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CAMP SUMTER, Andersonville, Ga.

Received from R. B. Winder, assistant quartermaster, this 1st day of July, 1864, the following lot of property belonging to Federal prisoners, to wit: Numbers 161, Jacob Metsger; silver watch, Numbers 14554.
H. WIRZ, Captain, Commanding Prison.
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Robbing a Post Office.

Jacob Varner, who was tried by a U. S. court in Western Virginia and sentenced to imprisonment for robbing a post-office, and to request that you will submit the cases of this last-named man to the President with a view to his being pardoned by him as a necessary preliminary to his being exchanged for Captain Gramm and Lieutenant Wade.
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Bridge burners captured in Georgia.

Jacob Parrott, 33rd., Regiment, Ohio, Volunteers, infantry, now in Hardin, Ohio.
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Fifth Ohio, Infantry, wounded at the skirmish at Mud Creek.

Private, Jacob Fos, wounded in right shoulder, Co. I.
Private, Jacob Wittman, wounded with buckshot, in side, Co. K.
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First Missouri, State Militia Cavalry.

Jacob Evans, Company H., wounded in face mortally.
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27th., New York Battery.

July 4, 1864, private Jacob Shick, died at Columbia Hospital, Washington, of disease.
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Twentieth Ohio, infantry.

Private [Jacob] Cauter, of Company A, seeing a good opportunity for a shot after the regiment with which that company was serving was ordered to cease firing, asked permission; Lieutenant Weatherby, walking the length of the regiment, obtained permission, and Cauter fired his shot, the only one fired by the company until order was given to resume.
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Fourth Michigan, cavalry in the capture of Jefferson Davis.

Private Jacob E. Nunn.
Sergeant Jacob N. Trask.
Private Jacob D. Newth.
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147th., Pennsylvania, Veteran Volunteers.

Captain Jacob P. Kreider for their coolness and cheering influence with the men at a time when, to judge from the mass of disorganized men rushing to the rear
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Numbers 132. Report of Captain Jacob Miller, Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

HDQRS. SIXTEENTH KENTUCKY VETERAN VOL. INFANTRY,
Spring Hill, Tenn., December 22, 1864.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report of the part my regiment took in the movement of the army on the 15th and 16th instant:

On the 16th [15th] instant, at 6.30 a.m., we moved from our camp in rear of our works, on the right of the Franklin pike, and formed column, by division, en masse with the brigade. Soon after orders were received, and we moved to the right of our line, where our regiment again formed line of battle, the One hundred and fourth Ohio and Twelfth Kentucky resting in our front. At 12 m. it was evident that a move was being made to the right. At 1 p.m. orders were again received, and we continued our movement slowly to the right. At 4 p.m. we again formed line of battle for the purpose of supporting the Third Brigade of the Second Division, which at the time was advancing a short distance to the right and about 100 yards to the front. Soon the rattle of musketry was heard, and we were ordered forward on double-quick to form on their right and rear, their right having become hotly pressed. Night coming on the Third Brigade, Second Division, was withdrawn and we moved forward and took position on the line they had occupied, with our right resting on the Twelfth Kentucky and left on the One hundredth Ohio.

By direction of Colonel Doolittle, commanding brigade, we constructed a line of earth-works during the night to protect our front. During the whole time we were constructing our works the enemy's sharpshooters, a few hundred yards in our front, and immediately in front of works they were at the same time constructing, kept up a constant firing. On the morning of the 16th no change on the part of the enemy in our front was visible, only that they had finished their works, some 400 yards distant, which looked very formidable. The sharpshooters continued their firing, at 8.30 o'clock one man of Company D, while coming from the rear of the works, was struck in the left hip, causing a severe flesh wound. We remained in this position until 3 p.m., when we were ordered to charge and occupy the enemy's works in our immediate front, which we did, driving the enemy's skirmishers before us and their artillerists from their guns, who were just in the act of charging them with canister. Night coming on, we encamped some 200 yards to the left and rear of the enemy's works, constructing a line of earth-works.
I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JACOB MILLER,Captain, Commanding Sixteenth Kentucky Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
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Tenth Virginia Infantry.

Captain Jacob H. Kibler, Company F., killed May 2, 1863.
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Two Hundred Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Major Jacob Rehrer, Two hundred Pennsylvania Volunteers, as brevet lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meritorious services in the assault upon the enemy's lines in front of Fort Sedgwick April 2, 1865.
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Numbers 34. Report of Major Jacob Glass, Thirty-second Indiana Infantry.

CAMP NEAR MANCHESTER, June 30, 1863. GENERAL: I have the honor to report to you about the engagements my regiment had with the enemy.I left Camp Drake with my regiment at about 7 a.m., June 24, 1863, with the rest of the brigade, taking the road leading toward Liberty Gap. On the arrival of the brigade in the gap, about 2 p.m., I was ordered to send Companies A and B, of my regiment, out as skirmishers, to lengthen the lines of the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and to connect with the left wing of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which I did, and sent Captain W. G. Mank, of Company A, to take command of those two companies. Those two companies were advancing on the enemy in double-quick time, driving the rebels before them, and took possession of the first steep hill, before occupied by the enemy. Both parties kept up a lively fire until Companies A and B were out of ammunition, at about 4 p.m., when I sent Companies G, H, I, and K to the front, to relieve the former. Those four companies, G, H, I, and K, deployed in strong skirmish line, and rapidly advanced toward the enemy, who were falling back, leaving their camp equipage behind. The rest of the regiment was lying in reserve, in the center of the brigade.

The loss of the regiment, in killed and wounded, was as follows on the 24th day of June: Company A, 1 enlisted man killed and 5 wounded; Company B, 1 enlisted man killed and 3 wounded.

At nightfall I was ordered to rally my regiment and march into camp. Next morning, on the 25th day of June, at 6.30 a.m., I relieved the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers on picket. From about 9 a.m. my whole line of pickets was annoyed by rebel sharpshooters, to which I paid but little attention until about 2 p.m., when the fire of the enemy became stronger on the right wing, occupied by Companies I and K, and the center, occupied by Companies F, G, and H, of the regiment. I doubled my line. At about 3 p.m. the enemy made a charge on the right wing of my command, but was checked by Companies I and K, and I ordered them to advance toward the enemy in a left wheel, which they executed gallantly, by which movement the enemy was compelled to fall back, as those two companies brought their fire right on the left flank of the enemy, which was covered by a house, from which position my center had to suffer a great deal. During that time the whole of my regiment was engaged until about 6 p.m., when some companies of my regiment were out of ammunition, and at which time the Fifteenth Regiment came up to relieve my regiment. I came out with my regiment with a loss as follows, on the 25th of June, 1863; Company A, 1 enlisted man wounded; Company G, 1 enlisted man wounded; Company I, 3 enlisted men killed and 7 wounded, and Company K, 2 enlisted men killed and 2 wounded.

It would be wrong for me to mention any man for his bravery, as all the officers and men behaved themselves very gallantly, and every one has done his duty as a soldier.
JACOB GLASS, Major, Commanding Thirty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers.