WAR HISTORY
DALLAS COUNTY WAR RECORD.
IF there is anyone
thing more than another of which the people of the
North have reason to be proud, it is the record
they made during the dark and bloody days of the
"War of the Rebellion." When the war was
forced upon the country the people were pursuing
the even tenor of' their ways, doing what ever their
hands found to do; working the mines, making farms,
or cultivating those already made, erecting homes,
founding cities and towns, building shops and manufactories;
in short the country was alive with industry and
hopes for the future. The people were just recovering
from the depression and losses incident to the financial
panic of 1857. The future looked bright and promising,
and the industrious and patriotic sons and daughters
of the free States were buoyant with hope—looking
forward to the perfecting of new plans for the ensurement
of comfort and competence in their declining years.
They little heeded the mutterings and threatening
of treason's children in the slave States of the
South. True sons and descendants of the heroes of
the "times that tried men's souls"—the
struggle for American independence—they never
dreamed that there was even one so base as to dare
attempt the destruction of the Union of their fathers—a
government baptized with the best blood the world
ever knew.
While immediately
surrounded with peace and tranquility, they paid
but little attention to the rumored plots and plans
of those who lived and grew rich from the sweat
and toil, blood and flesh, of others; aye, even
trafficked in the offspring of their own loins.
Nevertheless, the war came with all its attendant
horrors. April 12, 1861, Fort Sumpter, at Charleston,
South Carolina, Major Anderson, U. S. A., commandant,
was fired upon by rebels in arms. Although basest
treason, this first act in the bloody reality that
followed was looked upon as a mere bravado of a
few hot-heads—the act of a few fire-eaters
whose sectional bias and freedom hatred was crazed
by the excessive indulgence in intoxicating potations.
When a day later the news was borne along the telegraph
wires that Major Anderson had been forced to surrender
to what had at first been regarded as a drunken
mob, the patriotic people of the North were startled
from their dreams of the future from undertakings
half complete—and made to realize that behind
that mob there was a dark, deep and well organized
plan to destroy the government, and rend the Union
in twain, and out of its ruins erect a slave oligarchy,
wherein no one would dare question their rights
to hold in bondage the sons and daughters of men
whose skins were black, or who, perchance, through
practices of lustful natures, were half or quarter
removed from the color God for his own purpose had
given them.
But they reckoned
without their host. Their dreams of the future-their
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plans for the establishment of an
independent Confederacy--were doomed from their
inception to sad and bitter disappointment. Immediately
upon the surrender of Fort Sumpter, Abraham Lincoln,
America's martyr President—who but a few short
weeks before had taken the oath of office as the
nation's chief executive-issued the following proclamation
April 15, 1861:
WHEREAS,
the laws of the United States have been, and now
are opposed in several States by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed in an ordinary way, I,
therefore, call upon the militia of the several
States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000
to suppress said combination and execute the laws.
I appeal to all loyal citizens for State aid in
this effort to maintain the laws, integrity, National
Union, perpetuity of popular government, and redress
wrongs long enough endured.
The first service asigned [assigned] forces will
probably be to re-possess forts, places, and property
which have been seized from the Union. The utmost
care should be taken consistent with our object
to avoid devastation, destruction and interference
with the property of peaceful citizens in any part
of the country, and I hereby command persons commanding
the aforesaid combinations to disperse within twenty
days from date.
I hereby convene both Houses
of Congress for the 4th day of July next, to determine
upon
measures for the public safety as its interests
may demand.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States.
By W. H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
The last words
of that proclamation had scarcely been taken from
the electric wires before the call was filled. The
people who loved their whole government could not
give enough.
Patriotism thrilled,
vibrated, and pulsated through every heart. Every
calling offered its best men, their lives and fortunes
in defense of the government's honor and unity.
Party ties were, for the time, ignored. Bitter words,
spoken in moments of political heat, were forgotten
and forgiven, and joining hands in a common cause,
they repeated the oath of America's soldier and
statesman, "By the Great Eternal, the Union
must and shall be preserved."
Seventy-five
thousand men were not enough to subdue the rebellion,
nor were ten times that number. Call followed call.
Then came that
well remembered lull in the conflict, when sanguine
men grew more hopeful, and the desponding less in
despair; a time when it was hoped the war would
soon end, and once more would be "beaten the
swords into ploughshares, and the spears into pruning
hooks." But soon was the spirit of the North
again aroused, and the blood of chivalry of Dallas
was sent leaping in boiling currents through veins
swollen with righteous wrath, as the terrible news
of Shiloh, of thousands slain and sons in Southern
prisons, came to fathers, brothers and friends of
those who had gone to the front.
The call
of President Lincoln, for three hundred thousand
men, met a most liberal response from Dallas. From
the plow, from the workshop and counting-house,
leaving the school-room, the desk, the bar, the
pulpit, the press, men of every rank of life, of
all ages, grey-bearded and youth, those who showed
themselves the bravest of the brave, came forth
and enrolled their names among those who were ready
to face the cannon's mouth.
It began to look
as if there would not be men in all the free States
to crush out and subdue the monstrous war traitors
had inaugurated. But to every-call for either men
or money there was a willing and ready response;
and it is a boast of the people that had the supply
of men fallen short, there were women brave enough,
daring enough, patriotic enough, to have offered
themselves as sacrifices on their country's altar.
Such were the impulses, motives and actions of the
patriotic men of the North, among whom the
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sons of Dallas county made a conspicuous
and praiseworthy record. Two companies were enrolled
for a single regiment, besides large enlistments
in other companies of the same regiment, the gallant
Thirty-ninth. Those who were kept at home by age,
infirmity, or sex, did noble service, too. They
assisted with their hands, their money, and their
words of cheer. Ethically considered, to the wives
and mothers who gave up their husbands and sons,
their natural protectors, and with a passive self-sacrifice,
suffered them to go to the field of carnage, an
even greater debt of gratitude is due than to those
brave men who then actively, and with less self-denial
rendered their service, and suffered like hardships,
in the preservation of that other mother-life, the
nation itself:
Of the number
drafted in Dallas county, we have not been able
to secure a complete list. In fact, we are quite
unwillingly driven to an apology for the meagreness
[meagerness] of parts of our war history. Newspaper
files could not be found covering the war period,
a most important era in the history of the county,
and we have been obliged to depend very considerably
upon the frail memory of mortals in regard to facts
whose occurrence is removed by years.
Having thus hurriedly
sketched in general terms the history of Dallas
in the war, there yet remains another duty for our
pen. That is, to collect the names so far as possible,
of those brave men who left their homes at their
country's call; and to place on imperishable record,
the enlistments, promotions, and casualties of the
humblest knight in Dallasian chivalry. This is a
duty we gladly perform, not alone for those yet
living, but for the memory of those whose blood
was made to fatten Southern battle-fields, whose
loss a multitude of widows and orphans have mourned
with a bitterness which no pension can ever sweeten,
nor crown of glory drive away. When another generation
has passed, we trust an occasional gray haired veteran,
bowed with the infirmity of years, will point to
these pages with the commendable pride of a volunteer
of 1812, in this day; while the orphans of the slain
and their children, will look upon this brief epitaph
of their forefathers, as an undying witness that
the blood of their loyal ancestry, not only pulsated
with a patriot's devotion, but fatally left its
living fountain upon the nation's battle-field.
"All hail to
our gallant defenders, all hail!
Our noblest, our bravest, our best;
Proud peers of the world's worshiped heroes ye stand,
By freedom's dear attributes blest.
Ah, the voice of the past to your heart and ours,
It brings in its eloquent breath
The wild tones of victory, softened and blest,
With the low mystic cadence of death.
But the angel of faith with her magical wand,
Lifts the veil from our grief, and behold!
The invisible arm of a pitying God
Hath gathered them into the fold. "
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The following is compiled
in part, from the Adjutant General's Report:
FOURTH INFANTRY.
Dallas' contribution
to this regiment was composed of squads in Cos.
A, C and E.
The regiment went into camp at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo., Aug. 12, 1861.
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Aug. 24 the regiment took the cars
for Rolla, Mo., being at that time the furthest
military post south in that department, where it
arrived the same evening, and the following: day
went into Camp Lyon, two miles southeast of the
town of Rolla. Here commenced the military training
which gave that confidence to the men, to enable
them to perform the perilous duties of a soldier's
life.
On the 22d of
September the regiment received its first clothing,
and on the 28th of September broke camp and marched
toward Springfield, but, after two days marching,
were ordered back to Rolla, where they remained
until Nov. 1, 1862. On the morning of January 23,
1862, it broke camp for the last time at Rolla,
and became a part of the "Army of the southwest."
The regiment was in the engagement at Pea Ridge,
Chiskasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post. From there, the
regiment went to Young's Point, accompanying the
army to Grand Gulf, crossing the river and reaching
Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1863. From there they marched
toward Vicksburg, and were engaged in the skirmishing
with the enemy. The regiment participated in the
second Jackson campaign, which was made in the middle
of summer, and their suffering for want of water
was intense. After their return to Vicksburg, they
remained in camp at Black river until Sep. 23, when
they broke camp, took cars for Vicksburg, and there
embarked for Memphis, and from there took cars for
Corinth. Oct. 9, were on the march for Chattanooga;
Oct. 24, met the enemy under Forrest and Roddy,
and for four days kept up a constant skirmish and
putting them to route. They were engaged on Lookout
Mountain with Hooker, "above the clouds,"
and were the first Union soldiers on Missouri Ridge.
It was with Sherman in his "March to the Sea,"
and in the battles of Columbia, S. C., and Goldsboro,
N. C. It participated in the grand review at Washington,
and from there it was sent to Louisville, Ky., and
were detained as Provost Guard, which duty it performed
until July 23, 1865, when it was mustered out at
Davenport, Iowa, Sep. 3, 1865.
COMPANY A.
Fife Major Wm. H. Binns, enlisted June 26, 1861,
in Co. 0, and was promoted January 1, 1862. Reduced
to ranks July 1, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Goodale, Lucius P., enlisted November
30, 1862.
Hughs, John, enlisted October 22, 1862, died at
Helena, Ark., September 25, 1862.
Hoeye, .John, enlisted March 18, 1862.
Teal, John W., enlisted March 9, 1862.
COMPANY C.
James M. Loomis, enlisted June 26,
1861, Fifth Sargent, discharged November 18, 1862,
at Helena, Ark., for promotion.
Wm. H. Binns, enlisted as private June 26, 1861;
promoted Fife Major January 1, 1862; re-enlisted
in Fourth Vet. Inft., January 1, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Hubbard, Lewis W., enlisted June 26,
1861, discharged October 16, 1861, for disability.
Mouray, Abram, enlisted June 26, 1861, wounded at
Pea Ridge, March 1, 1862.
Stiles, Joshua L., enlisted June 26, 1861.
Stram, John S., enlisted ______, discharged on account
of wounds received at Pea Ridge.
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ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
PRIVATES.
Hays, Garrison, enlisted April 7,
1862, discharged December 1, 1862.
Lamb, Wilson B., enlisted December 20, 1861, re-enlisted
January 1, 1864.
Lamb, William R., enlisted December 20, 1861, discharged
on account of wounds received. at Vicksburg, May
11, 1863.
Blakemore, John W., enlisted April 6, 1862, discharged
for disability September 8, 1863.
Howell, Joshua W., enlisted April 6, 1862, wounded
at Chickasaw Bayou December 29, 1862, died January
23, 1863.
COMPANY E.
Daniel Rhoads, Second Corporal, enlisted July 15,
1861, promoted Second Corporal September 20, 1862,
died at Paducah, Ky., January 28, 1863.
Binnie, William S., enlisted July 15, 1861.
Gates, Alfred, enlisted July 15, 1861, re-enlisted
January 1, 1864.
Pacy, William, enlisted July 15, 1861, died December
30, 1862, at St. Louis, ,Mo.
Palmer, Walter W., enlisted July 15, 1861.
ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
Baffrey, John P., enlisted March 25,
1862.
Camery, Benjamin F:, enlisted March 26, 1862.
Clark, Wm. F., enlisted March 26, 1862.
Moffat, Robert H., enlisted April 6, 1862. Moore,
Jacob, enlisted April 6, 1862.
Reasoner, Hiram D., enlisted April 6, 1862.
Winslow, Nathan, enlisted April 6, 1862.
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TENTH INFANTRY.
This regiment
was organized at Camp Fremont; Iowa City, in August,
1861. On the 24th of September the regiment embarked
at Davenport on board of transports for St. Louis,
arriving there on the 27th, and was mustered into
the service December 6, 1861. The regiment was clothed
and equipped with all possible dispatch, and from
here went to Cape Girardeau, where it remained until
November 12, when orders came to remove to Bird's
Point; and they were among the expeditions sent
out from time to time in quest of rebel bands, who
were sustaining the rebel cause and annoying our
troops, and performed a fun share of this duty.
The most vigilant guard and picket duty was performed
by the regiment up to the time of its departure
to New Madrid, March 4, 1862, and was one of the
regiments instrumental in the capture of between
5,000 and 6,000 prisoners, who were formerly stationed
on Island No. 10. They afterward went to Pitts burg
Landing, and took their place in the line investing
that position. Were engaged with Rosecrans at the
battle of Iuka, also at Corinth. They .were with
the campaign commencing at Milliken's Bend and terminating
with the capture of Vicksburg, and in the battles
of Raymond, Jackson, and Champion Hills. Afterward
it was ordered to Chattanooga to reinforce the army
of the Cumberland, and was in the engagement at
Missouri Ridge, and from there to the sea. Were
the
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heroes of eighteen engagements, beside
skirmishes of less note, and were mustered out.
COMPANY A.
Robbins, James M. C., enlisted August
21, 1861, re-enlisted February 1, 1864.
Zigler, William H., enlisted August 21, 1861, discharged
August 13, 1862.
Leming, Elisha, wagoner, enlisted August 21, 1861,
discharged February 28, 1863, on account of disability.
PRIVATES.
Palmer, Lewis H., enlisted February 1, 1864.
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FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.
The place of rendezvous
for volunteers in the Fifteenth Infantry was at
Keokuk, where the first companies of the regiment
appeared in autumn, 1861. Not until the latter part
of February, 1862, were all the companies mustered
in. In marked contrast with the enlistment of the
Seventh Regiment, from the same place, the Fifteenth
had had weeks of military drill, and few companies
ever went out of the State better prepared for the
field than those of this regiment. After several
days spent at St. Louis in Benton Barracks, on the
first day of April the regiment eagerly embarked
on steamer for the department of the Tennessee.
The regiment reached Pittsburg Landing on that memorable
Sunday, the 6th of April, when the contest had already
been raging for some hours. Immediately ordered
to the front, on that and the following day the
regiment won the praise of the commanders for its
bravery and desperate fighting. The maiden sacrifice
of the Fifteenth was one hundred and eighty-eight
in killed, wounded and missing. The regiment assisted
in the siege of Corinth without serious loss. In
reconnoitering, about Bolivar, in a march to Corinth,
and thence to Iuka, where the regiment was not ordered
into action, the time was spent until the battle
of Corinth, in which the Fifteenth took a gallant
part. The loss in this battle from the regiment
in wounded, killed and missing, was eighty-five.
November 2 the
regiment was ordered to Grand Junction, and for
several weeks was engaged in drill with other troops.
The command engaged in the unsuccessful campaign
against Vicksburg, and in January, 1863, went into
camp at Memphis. In a few days the regiment was
transported to Milliken's Bend, thence to Lake Providence,
and back to Milliken's Bend in April. In the spring
campaign against Vicksburg the regiment had the
remarkable experience of frequent engagements and
several weeks in rifle pits, without a single casualty
during the entire siege. A share was taken in the
movement against Jackson, immediately following.
The command took
part in the luckless expedition to Monroe, Louisiana,
and also in the famous Meridian raid. It had in
the meantime become a veteran organization, and
was furloughed in March, 1864. The first important
campaign participated in after furlough was that
of Atlanta. Even before the battle it had lost in
heavy skirmishing nearly one hundred officers and
men. Most desperate fighting was done by the regiment
in the battle of July 22, the total casualties for
that day being one hundred
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and thirty-two. The Fifteenth was
engaged in the battle of Ezra Church, but with small
loss.
With undiminished
bravery and fortitude the Fifteenth engaged in the
"Siege of Atlanta" and the "March
to the Sea." Savannah to Goldsboro, Goldsboro
to Raleigh, and thence to Washington City, by way
of Petersburg and the evacuated Southern capital.
The regiment next went to Louisville for muster
out, and to Davenport for discharge, an aggregate
travel of 8,518 miles. The Fifteenth Iowa suffered
a greater number of casualties than any other regiment
ever sent out from the State. Of one thousand, seven
hundred and sixty-three men who had been members
of
the regiment, one thousand and fifty-one were absent
at the muster out.
COMPANY B.
Sixth Corporal David King, enlisted as private November
3, 1861, promoted November 1, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Houston, Lafayette, enlisted January
31, 1862, died in hospital at Keokuk, March 8, 1862.
Waterman, Ford, enlisted October 18, 1861.
Gardiner, James, enlisted January 5, 1864.
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SEVENTEENTH
INFANTRY.
This regiment
rendezvoused at Keokuk and mustered into the service
with Jno. W. Rankin as Colonel, April 16, 1862.
Proceeding to St. Louis to receive equipage the
new volunteers reached Mississippi in time to assist
at the siege of Corinth. The part taken by the Seventeenth
in the battle of Iuka received, probably unjustly,
the censure of Rosecrans. Smarting under this, the
command went into the battle of Corinth with the
determination to wipe out the stain cast upon its
reputation. Its success is best told by the following
general order, No. 145:
"The General
commanding cannot forbear to give pleasure to many,
besides the brave men immediately concerned, by
announcing in advance of the regular order, that
the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, by its gallantry
in the battle of Corinth, on the fourth of October,
charging the enemy, and capturing the flag of the
Fortieth Mississippi, has amply atoned for its misfortune
at Iuka, and stands among the honored regiments
of his command. Long may they wear with unceasing
brightness the honors they have won.
"By order of Major General,
W. S. Rosecrans.
"C. GODDARD,
"A. A. A. G."
Notwithstanding,
the whole number of casualties was but twenty-five,
of whom only two were killed.
Before Vicksburg,
at Chattanooga, and in the defense of Tilton, these
troops fought with a bravery unrivaled. In the defense
of Tilton the garrison was compelled to surrender,
and the entire regiment, with the exception of forty
or fifty men,were carried away prisoners. Those
who remained were furloughed and were a sorry looking
band when compared with
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the stout nine hundred and fifty-six,
who had left Iowa two and a half years before.
The regiment was
mustered out at Louisville, July 25, 1865.
COMPANY G.
Third Sergeant George G. Clark, enlisted March 15,
1862, reduced to ranks.
Fourth Corporal Jacob Ollum, enlisted as private
March 12, 1862, discharged June 16, 1R63, for disability.
Eighth Corporal John S. Willis, enlisted March 14,
1862, discharged October 14, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Bryant, Wm. C., enlisted March 12,
1862, discharged at Jackson October 12, 1862.
Drake, James C., enlisted March 21, 1862, discharged
at Keokuk September 21, 1862.
Kimery, Geo. W., enlisted March 18, 1862.
Lee, Jesse, enlisted March 25, 1862, wounded at
Iuka, captured at Trenton Tenn., December 18, 1862,
discharged February 7, 1863, for disability.
Lee, Anderson, enlisted March 25, 1862, re-enlisted
March 22, 1864.
Noel, William T., enlisted March 17, 1862, died
May 16, 1862.
Parish, Linus, enlisted March 12, 1862.
Parish, Lewis F., enlisted March 14, 1864.
Richmond, Allen R., enlisted March 12, 1862, killed
in battle at Iuka, Miss., September 19, 1862.
Vaughan, John, enlisted March 12, 1862, transferred
to Invalid Corps September 1, 1863.
Willis, Espy D., enlisted March 15, 1862, re-enlisted
March 28, 1864.
West, Elias F., enlisted March 13, 1862, wounded
at Missouri Ridge.
West, Wm. A., enlisted March 19, 1862, died of wounds
April 7, 1863.
Wilmot, Edgar E., enlisted March 14, 1862, discharged
for disability January 3, 1863.
Yard, Samuel, enlisted March 12, 1862, re-enlisted
March 28, 1864.
Yard, Marion, enlisted March 12, ., 1862, discharged
December 18, 1862.
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EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY.
The men enlisting
in this regiment were mustered in at Clinton, the
place of rendezvous, in the early part of August,
1862, with John Edwards, of Lucas county, Colonel.
The regiment was almost immediately ordered into
the service in the Army of the Southwest, where,
after a wearisome campaign, it was made a part of
the garrison at Springfield, Mo., during the winter
of 1862-3. It had a taste of real war in the battle
of Springfield, in January, 1863, in which a loss
of fifty-six was incurred in killed and wounded.
The irksome duties of the garrison continued until
the fall of 1863. After a vain chase in pursuit
of Shelby, the regiment was again placed on garrison
duty, at Ft. Smith. Arkansas.
Disastrous campaigning
and some brilliant skirmishing at Prairie D' Anne,
and about Camden, tried the energies of the Eighteenth
until their brilliant struggle, April 17, near Poison
Spring, in defense of a forage train, where, for
a considerable time, the regiment "kept at
bay" a force of five to one of its number.
At Jenkin's Ferry it was used as a reserve force,
and was not brought into action.
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From this time
the regiment was on garrison duty at Ft. Smith most
of the time until the date of its muster out-often
enduring hardships, poor rations and heavy labor.
This regiment
mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas, July 20,
1865.
PRIVATES.
Lambert, Benjamin F., enlisted July
9, 1862.
Wilson, Josiah, enlisted July 17, 1862, died at
Springfield, Mo., December 3, 1862.
Conley, Lorenzo, enlisted July 13, 1862.
Hill, James D., enlisted July 7, 1862.
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TWENTY-THIRD INFANTRY.
The Twenty-third
Iowa Infantry Volunteers was organized at Des Moines
during the fall of 1862, under the direction of
Col. William Dewey. It was mustered into' the United
States service September 19, 1862. On the 20th a
portion of this regiment left for Keokuk, and on
the 26th the remainder arrived at that place. On
the 28th it embarked for St. Louis, where it arrived
the 30th, and reported to Gen. Curtis, who ordered
the regiment to Schofield Barracks, where it was
quartered and kept on provost duty in the city until
October 7, when it was ordered to Pilot Knob, Mo.,
where it remained encamped until the 15th, when
it was sent to Patterson. While encamped at this
place the regiment suffered severely with numerous
camp diseases, and was engaged in several successful
expeditions. December 1 the members were called
upon to mourn the loss of their leader, 001. Dewey.
December 20, it broke camp and started for Van Buren,
Mo.; and January 14, 1863, started for West Plains,
Mo., where they arrived after much difficulty, on
account of cold and rain. February 25, 1863, it
returned to Pilot Knob, where it remained in camp
until March 9, and then started for Ste. Genevieve,
and from there to New Madrid, Mo., and remained
here until, March 20, and then embarked for Milliken's
Bend, La. On the 11th of April, broke camp and proceeded,
via Richmond, La., to a point opposite Grand Gulf,
Miss., and witnessed the bombardment of that place
by gunboats, and the next morning crossed the Mississippi
river, below Grand Gulf, and continued the march
until after midnight, when the advance was fired
on by the enemy's pickets. At 8 o'clock, May 1,
the regiment was ordered to advance and charge down
a hill on the enemy, who were partially concealed
in a dense canebrake. Into this they went with fixed
bayonets and drove them from it. They were under
fire until 3 o'clock, when they made another charge
and drove them back in such confusion that they
could not make another stand that day. The regiment
was held in reserve at Champion Hills until the
afternoon, when they were deployed as skirmishers.
May 17 it started for Black River Bridge, where
the enemy had a line of entrenchments three miles
long with a deep bayou in front of them. Here the
regiment signal1y distinguished itself by charging
the enemy's works and taking 2,500 prisoners. This
result was not obtained without a heavy sacrifice.
The colonel and one captain were mortally wounded
and four other officers wounded, and 134 enlisted
men killed and wounded. The regiment was then detailed
to guard prisoners to Memphis, and on their return
were stopped at Milliken's Bend to defend the place
against attack. Here they were attacked by 2,500
Texans and had one of the most sangui-
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nary struggles of the war, and of
the most desperate character; the conflict was hand
to hand, and the losses frightful. July 20 they
returned to the rear of Vicksburg, and remained
in the trenches until its surrender. July 5, started
in pursuit of Gen. Johnston, capturing Jackson,
Miss., driving the enemy across the Pearl river.
The excessive heat and arduous duty told heavily
on the regiment and they returned to Vicksburg with
120 men for duty. August 13 it was, transferred
to the Department of the Gulf and proceeded to New
Orleans. September 4, started with Gen. Banks' Teche
expedition as far as Opelousas, and returned to
New Orleans. November 16, in connection with other
forces, embarked for the coast of Texas, and captured
Fort Esperanza, on Matagorda Island. January 16,
the regiment went to Indianola, and remained there
on post duty until March 14, when it returned to
Matagorda Island, and April 26 embarked for New
Orleans, and was ordered to reinforce Gen. Banks
at Alexandria, La. It formed a junction with him
at Morganza, La. July 13, were ordered to proceed
to St. Charles, Ark, and establish a post there.
August 6, returned to Morganza. After this it was
at Duvall's Bluffs, Brownsville, and in 1865 embarked
for Kennville, La. They afterward distinguished
themselves in the operations around Mobile, where
they were ever in the front. After the fall of Mobile
it accompanied the Federal forces to Texas, and
was mustered out at Harrisburg, July 26, 1865.
Assistant Surgeon
Smith V. Campbell, commissioned August 20, 1862,
resigned July 26, 1863.
Assistant Surgeon
Timothy J. Caldwell, commissioned January 17, 1864.
COMPANY A.
First Lieutenant John W. Mattox, enlisted
as a First Corporal July 28, 1862, and commissioned
First Lieutenant April 12, 1864.
Second Sergeant Thomas H. Yarnell, enlisted July
28, 1862.
Third Sergeant Wm. S. Russell, enlisted July 28,
1862.
First Corporal John F. Slaughter, enlisted July
28, 1862, died at Arcadia November 30, 1862.
Musician David O. Hale, enlisted August 2, 1862,
discharged October 23, 1863, for disability.
Musician Wm. T. Clayton, enlisted August 1, 1862.
PRIVATES.
Broyhill, Geo. C., enlisted July 20,
1862, died May 13, 1864.
Burgett, Francis M., enlisted August 4, 1862, killed
in battle of Black River Bridge, Mississippi, May
17, 1863.
Carnes, John E., enlisted August 4,
1862, died from gastritis, at St. Louis, October
2, 1862.
Clayton, John D., enlisted August 8, 1862.
Corliss, Ariel G., enlisted August 4, 1862, died
July 10, 1863.
Crowl, Henry B., enlisted July 29, 1862, died July
24, 1863.
Fletcher, Lewis, enlisted July 20, 1862.
Fisher, Lewis W., enlisted August 8, 1862, died
at Camp Patterson, Mo., November 11, 1862.
Forster, John W., enlisted August 2, 1862.
Haines, John C., enlisted August 15, 1862, wounded
at Black River Bridge.
Hutchins, Francis M., enlisted August 15, 1862.
Johnson, Calvin, enlisted August 4, 1862, killed
at Anderson Hill, Miss., May 1, 1863.
Loomis, Geo. W., enlisted July 28, 1862.
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Mead, John 0., enlisted August 4,
1862.
Mills, Orin, enlisted August 4, 1862, died November
8, 1863, at New Orleans.
Moor, Charles R., enlisted August 2, 1862, died
of wounds received at Black River Bridge.
McKean, Wm. J., enlisted July 27, 1862, died at
Camp Patterson, Mo., November 8, 1862.
Noland, Joseph, enlisted July 27, 1862.
Stanfield, Thomas J., enlisted August 9, 1862, discharged
April 12, 1863, for disability.
Trindle, Aaron, enlisted August 14, 1862.
Thornton, Nathaniel, enlisted July 28, 1862, died
July 5, 1863.
Vestal, Henry C., enlisted August 2, 1862.
COMPANY B.
Gattrell, Zerah B., enlisted August 4, 1862, promoted
Corporal, wounded at Black River Bridge, May 17,
1863.
COMPANY C.
PRIVATES.
Morgan, James H., enlisted August 9, 1862.
COMPANY E.
PRIVATES.
Elliott, Henry B., enlisted August
13, 1862, died at Camp Patterson, November 21, 1862.
Swallow, Harrison T., enlisted August 12, 1862.
Trindle, Alexander, enlisted August 12, 1862, discharged
November 10, 1863, for disability.
Wilkins, Wm. M., enlisted July 28, 1862, died July
10. 1863.
COMPANY G.
PRIVATES.
Richmond, Rufus R., enlisted August
22, 1862.
Richmond, Cas. M. C., enlisted August 22, 1862_
died August 15,
1863.
Russell, John H., enlisted August 22, 1862, died
of measles at Arcadia, Mo., October 23, 1862.
ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS.
COMPANY H.
Parman, William H., enlisted December
30, 1863.
Hutson, J. W., enlisted December 28, 1863.
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