I 
 
COMMANDING OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT. 
 
THE 
 
 One Hundred and Twentieth 
 
 REGIMENT 
 
 NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 A NARRATIVE OF ITS SERVICES IN THE WAR FOR THE 
 
 UNION. 
 
 BY 
 
 C. VAN SANTVOORD, D. D. 
 
 Ghaplqiit, U,, S. A.,*iS6*-j. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. REGIMENTAL UNION. 
 
 1894 : 
 PRESS OF THE KINGSTON FREEMAN, 
 
 RONDOUT, N. Y. 
 
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK, 
 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, 
 
 CAPITOL, 
 
 ALBANY, N. Y., February 25, 1904. 
 
 It is with profound sadness that the Department Com 
 mander announces to the Comrades of this Department the death of 
 Past Department Commander GEORGE H. TREADWELL, who died in 
 the City of Albany, January 2ist, 1904, after an extended illness. 
 
 Of distinguished ancestry, gifted, dignified, pleasant and courtly 
 in manners, prominent and highly respected as a citizen, gallant and 
 brave as a soldier, and devoted to the best interests of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, which he served with honor and zeal, his memory will 
 be cherished by his surviving Comrades, whose sympathies with those 
 of the Department Commander, are hereby tendered to his bereaved 
 family and friends. 
 
 The Department Commander with sincere regrets also announces 
 to the Department the recent death of that loyal friend to the veterans 
 and their families, Mrs. ELLEN M. PUTNAM, late Superintendent of the 
 Oxford Home, whose establishment and success were so largely owing 
 to the untiring labors, good judgment and zeal of Mrs. Putnam. 
 
 Widely known because of her devotion to the arduous duties 
 pertaining to her position, amiable in disposition and upright in char 
 acter, her untimely death is a great loss to her family and many friends 
 as well as to our noble auxiliary, the Woman s Relief Corps, whose 
 cause she served so long and so successfully. 
 
 JOHN S. KOSTER, 
 
 Department Commander. 
 
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK, 
 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, 
 
 CAPITOL, 
 
 ALBANY, N. Y., February ^5, 1904. 
 
 It is with profound sadness that the Department Com 
 mander announces to the Comrades of this Department the death of 
 Past Department Commander GEORGE H. TREADWELL, who died in 
 the City of Albany, January 2ist, 1904, after an extended illness. 
 
 Of distinguished ancestry, gifted, dignified, pleasant and courtly 
 in manners, prominent and highly respected as a citizen, gallant and 
 brave as a soldier, and devoted to the best interests of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, which he served with honor and zeal, his memory will 
 be cherished by his surviving Comrades, whose sympathies with those 
 of the Department Commander, are hereby tendered to his bereaved 
 family and friends. 
 
 The Department Commander with sincere regrets also announces 
 to the Department the recent death of that loyal friend to the veterans 
 and their families, Mrs. ELLEN M. PUTNAM, late Superintendent of the 
 Oxford Home, whose establishment and success were so largely owing 
 to the untiring labors, good judgment and zeal of Mrs. Putnam. 
 
 Widely known because of her devotion to the arduous duties 
 pertaining to her position, amiable in disposition and upright in char 
 acter, her untimely death is a great loss to her family and many friends 
 as well as to our noble auxiliary, the Woman s Relief Corps, whose 
 cause she served so long and so successfully. 
 
 JOHN S. KOSTER, 
 
 Department Commander. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. INTRODUCTORY War Spirit in Ulster County i 
 
 II. THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH ORGANIZED 
 
 DEPARTURE FOR THE FIELD 9 
 
 III. BETWEEN THE POTOMAC AND RAPPAHANNOCK . 22 
 
 IV. BURNSIDE AND FREDERICKSBURG 3 I 
 
 V. HOOKER IN COMMAND AND A NEW CAMPAIGN OPENED. . 37 
 
 VI. CHANCELLORSVILLE AND ITS STORY 48 
 
 VII. REBELLION RAMPANT AND THE INVASION OF THE NORTH 58 
 
 VIII. GETTYSBURG AND ITS ISSUES 68 
 
 IX. GENERAL GRANT IN CHIEF COMMAND CAMPAIGNING ON 
 
 THE RAPIDAN 78 
 
 X. ANDERSONVILLE A Veteran s Narrative 89 
 
 XI. THE WILDERNESS AND ITS TRIALS 1 06 
 
 XII. SPOTTSYLVANIA 117 
 
 XIII. COLD HARBOR 125 
 
 XIV. THE UNION ARMY ACROSS THE JAMES 135 
 
 XV. A REBEL STRONGHOLD INVESTED 147 
 
 XVI. THE FOLDS TIGHTENING AND THE END IN SIGHT 162 
 
 XVII. RICHMOND S FALL AND LEE S SURRENDER 173 
 
 XVIII. THE RETURN HOME AND JUBILANT RECEPTION 186 
 
 XIX. THE SOLDIERS IN CIVIL LIFE ; THE REGIMENTAL UNION 199 
 
 XX. GETTYSBURG MONUMENT AND ITS DEDICATION 211 
 
 APPENDIX ; ROSTER AND RECORD OF THE REGIMENT. 
 
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INSCRIPTION IN BRONZE 
 
 ON FACE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH 
 
 NEW YORK INFANTRY 
 
 HELD THIS PART OF THE LINE 
 
 ON THE SECOND DAY OF JULY, 1863. 
 
 PRESENT FOR DUTY, 
 30 OFFICERS, 397 MEN; TOTAL 427. 
 
 CASUALTIES 
 FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT: 
 
 KILLED IN BATTLE, 
 8 OFFICERS, 25 MEN. 
 
 WOUNDED, 
 
 10 OFFICERS, 144 MEN. 
 MISSING 17; TOTAL 204. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY. 
 THE WAR FOR THE UNION POPULAR ENTHUSIASM RESPONSES TO THE 
 
 NATION S CALL FOR HELP NEW YORK STATE IN THE FRONT RANK 
 ULSTER COUNTY S CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATION S DEFENDERS THE 
 USE AND VALUE OF REGIMENTAL HISTORIES. 
 
 The late war for the Union attested the strength of the 
 National Government. It attested as well the devoted 
 patriotism of the masses of loyal citizens, which needed 
 only a fitting occasion to call forth all its energy in the 
 nation s defense. Without patriotism of this lofty kind, 
 the strength to save the nation in a critical time, would 
 hardly have been possible. The arms lifted to rend 
 the Union asunder, would have been likely to gain 
 their object, had not the people with hearts aflame with 
 love of country, its government and institutions, risen 
 to the emergency, ready to dare all dangers and bear all 
 burdens to keep safe from harm, the priceless heritage 
 left them by the fathers. 
 
 When, therefore, the time came that an appeal to 
 this feeling was found necessary, there was no languor 
 or hesitation in responding to it. The whole nation 
 sprang to arms at the call of the government, for aid. 
 The West vied with the East and North in the alacrity 
 with which men were enlisted and sent forward to con 
 front the common danger. Regiment after regiment 
 
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 poured forth to take their places in the ranks of the 
 army on which the nation relied for the safety of its 
 institutions. No ties of kindred, or home, or business, 
 or property, were strong enough to withhold the aroused 
 masses from the grim, impending conflict which involved 
 the stability and very existence of the Union, under 
 which the people had lived prosperously and happily 
 for nearly a hundred years. These men, so hastily don 
 ning the soldier s uniform, understood well the urgency 
 of the crisis that required their services in the field ; and 
 they went forth ready to stake everything upon the altar 
 of a country, which conferring its benefits upon all, was 
 worthy to be loved and defended by all. They were 
 thus resolved, at all hazards, to maintain the Union 
 unbroken and unharmed, against any efforts to sunder or 
 injure it, and preserve our civil and religious liberties in 
 all their integrity for the generations following, 
 
 It proved to be a mighty task which they had under 
 taken to do. The full dimensions of it could not be 
 taken in till long afterwards. But mind, heart, con 
 science, all faculties and energies were devoted to the 
 work, whether great or little, and success they felt con 
 vinced, must come in the end, whatever it might cost to 
 achieve it. And as the work went forward its propor 
 tions seemed to grow ; its demand for larger supplies 
 all the time increased. The ranks depleted were steadily 
 filled up with fresh warriors as full of ardor and courage 
 and determination to conquer as those who had enlisted 
 before them. Thus while the great conflict was in prog 
 ress, a host of citizen-soldiers, such as the world had 
 never seen before, stood arrayed as the defenders of the 
 nation, till at length the end of their toils and sacrifices 
 
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 came in the success which the Union cause had won. 
 The gain well deserved all the price paid to secure it, 
 as the spectacle of the long and desperate struggle with 
 such vast interests at stake, and the complete and 
 glorious triumph for the Union crowning the issue, was 
 one of the most striking and impressive that the ages 
 ever saw. 
 
 New York was behind none of her sister States 
 in the promptness with which she responded to the 
 President s call, and in her large and free contributions 
 of troops to swell the armies of the Republic. Her 
 soldiers were found in every part of the widely-extended 
 field where their services were needed. They stood 
 shoulder to shoulder with comrades from other States, 
 cheerfully bearing whatever burdens their duty to the 
 country and love for the cause imposed upon them. 
 This State has a bright record for the number and 
 character of the troops she furnished during the war, 
 not less than for the amount of hard service they 
 rendered in defending the flag and securing success for 
 the national cause. 
 
 Of this great number sent forth by the State, Ulster 
 county contributed its full share. Few, if any counties 
 in the State, have displayed more alacrity than Ulster in 
 sending forth its sons in warrior harness to meet the 
 then present emergency. In the numbers, too, which 
 the county furnished from first to last, it bears favorable 
 comparison with the most patriotic counties throughout 
 the State. When rebel guns were turned against the 
 nation s flag at Fort Sumter, and the indignity set the 
 whole North into a blaze of patriotic ardor, a regiment 
 of three months men was swiftly organized in Ulster 
 
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 county, and under the command of Col. George W. 
 Pratt who fell at the head of his regiment at the second 
 Bull Run battle hurried forward to offer its services to 
 the government and breast the storm that seemed ready 
 to burst. The promptness with which this regiment 
 was enrolled and the zeal evinced by its officers and 
 men in hastening to the front to breast whatever perils 
 might await them in defending the nation s honor and 
 integrity, reflected high credit on the county as well as 
 those who thus worthily represented it. It returned 
 home after its term of service had expired, and within a 
 few months a new regiment, to serve for three years 
 or the war, made up largely from the material of the 
 returned regiment, stood ready to go forward to the 
 front. This was the Eightieth New York Volunteers, 
 as the name was entered in regular order of enlistment 
 on the State Register. The name, however, which its 
 members loved and clung to and were unwilling to sur 
 render, was one that antedated the war and cherished 
 through association, viz : the Twentieth New York State 
 Militia. Its strong peference for this name came to be 
 allowed, so that during the war, as now, the regiment 
 was best known by its chosen appellation of the -Old 
 Twentieth," which all its members were and are proud 
 to wear. 
 
 This regiment left for Washington, on October 25th, 
 1 86 1 ; continued in active service during all the war; 
 was engaged in some of its most severe battles, making 
 an honorable record throughout. The second regiment 
 enlisted for the war and sent out from Ulster county, 
 was the One Hundred and Twentieth. It left Kingston 
 for the seat of military operations, August 24, 1862 
 
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 Like the former regiment, its members were not wholly 
 composed of men residing in Ulster county. Three 
 companies of the One Hundred and Twentieth were 
 raised in Greene county, as one, at least, in the Twen 
 tieth N. Y. S. M., was drawn from the same region, 
 while a few individual recruits, were found in both regi 
 ments, from Dutchess county and neighboring localities. 
 Far the greater part of the recruits, however, belonged to 
 Ulster county, as was also the case with the next regi 
 ment, the One Hundred and Fifty-Sixth, recruited in 
 the summer and fall of 1862 and which, in command 
 of the late Col. Erastus Cooke, left Kingston for the 
 field in early December of that year, rendering active 
 and efficient service till the end of the war. 
 
 Thus three regiments, besides the three months 
 regiment, went forth from Ulster county, in response 
 to the nation s call to share in its defense. Few, if 
 any counties in the State, made a better showing than 
 this, or evinced more spirit and zeal in rushing to the 
 country s aid, when reckless hands were raised to strike 
 at its peace and unity. The men, too, who composed 
 these regiments, were not mere holiday soldiers, pompous 
 on parade and courageous in calm and sunshine, but they 
 were men of earnest purpose, with hearts resolved and 
 sinews strung to meet and bear whatever peril and 
 hardship might come from laborious campaigns and to 
 bear the country s flag unsullied through bloodiest fields. 
 Their history shows with what energy, resolution and 
 persistence they carried forward and finished the great 
 work which a confiding country had devolved upon 
 their hands. 
 
 The obligations conferred upon the whole country by 
 
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 what they suffered and wrought, are high and lasting. 
 It is fitting that these deeds should be remembered and 
 a record made of them, easily accessible, to such as in 
 coming years, may seek to know something in detail, 
 concerning kinsmen and friends who took part in the 
 war, and, it may be, shed their blood in the nation s 
 defense. It is not enough to speak of these deeds in a 
 general way, as having been performed by masses of 
 men forming a great army. The deeds of one regiment, 
 being so small a part of the whole, are, in such cases, 
 apt to be overlooked or passed by without special recog 
 nition. But each regiment has its own history, with 
 ample material often, for a distinct and interesting narra 
 tive. Many of these regimental histories have been 
 written, having for the surviving members of the 
 several regiments, their families and friends, far deeper 
 interest than those general accounts of battles or military 
 service in which the part performed by the single regi 
 ment received but perfunctory notice. All who have 
 been directly connected in some way with a regiment, 
 may be regarded as having a certain pride in its mem 
 bers as belonging to their own town, county or district, 
 and thus share the satisfaction which the soldiers them 
 selves feel in having its gallant deeds recorded. On 
 this account these histories have a value of their own 
 to a large number of citizens who find delight in reading 
 about the war experiences of kindred and friends who 
 /ere engaged in the sacred conflict for the Union. 
 Many who stood in the ranks are dead, it is true, but 
 their works do follow them. And those who knew them 
 wett and honored them, turn to the record of what they 
 did in the country s cause with unabating interest and 
 
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 pleasure. This record too, is one that does not fade 
 away with passing years. Children and childrens child 
 ren will continue to scan what their fathers were and 
 what they did in the dreadful time when the nation was 
 staggering under the blows dealt against it, and what 
 help these strong arms brought to avert those baleful 
 blows or prevent their doing fatal injury to the land they 
 loved. 
 
 Considerations, such as these will justify, if this indeed 
 be necessary, the narrative contained in the following 
 pages . The writer availing himself of materials placed in 
 his hands for the purpose mentioned materials gathered 
 with care and from trustworthy sources, may hope to 
 present a narrative of the military career of the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, that its members, at 
 least, will find just, adequate and fitting a narrative too, 
 that shall prove not unattractive to the many friends of 
 the regiment, who, admiring its general record, may 
 desire to see it spread out before them in greater detail. 
 The literature of the late war, indeed, is so vast in vol 
 ume as to seem to render superfluous anything added 
 to its bulk. Still, the strong hold which the great 
 subject has taken and continues to maintain, on the 
 national mind and heart, encourages the hope that 
 even this slight addition to what is already pub 
 lished, may find some measure of favor with readers 
 outside the little circle of surviving comrades, at 
 whose request and on whose special behalf, this me 
 morial is prepared. 
 
 In the preparation of this work, the writer has 
 received important assistance from several individuals 
 closely connected with the One Hundred and Twen- 
 
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 tieth Regiment. Among these he would particularly 
 mention Gen. George H. Sharpe, Col. C. D. West- 
 brook, Major J. H. Everett, Messrs. J. McD. VanWag- 
 onen, Wilbur L. Hale, Edward B. DuMond and Egbert 
 Lewis. To the last one of these gentlemen, he is 
 indebted for a full and carefully kept diary, covering 
 nearly all the period that the regiment was engaged in 
 active service, embracing memoranda and notes from 
 other parties, the most of whom were formerly connected 
 with the regiment and familiar with the matters they- 
 relate. The frequent and free citations from these 
 memoranda in the following pages, will show how 
 greatly helpful they have been in the work of preparing, 
 what is now with sincere diffidence, placed under the 
 eye of the reader. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH ORGANIZED COLONEL GEORGE H. 
 SHARPE IN COMMAND HIS EFFICIENT WORK IN RECRUITING THE RE 
 QUISITE ENLISTMENTS RAPIDLY SECURED LIST OF THE REGIMENT^ OF 
 FICERS READY TO TAKE THE FIELD FLAG PRESENTATION ADDRESSES 
 
 BY MR. BARNARD AND COLONEL SHARPE CROWDS CHEER THE REGIMENT 
 
 AS IT EMBARKS FOR NEW YORK LEAVES NEW YORK FOR PHILADELPHIA 
 
 HOW ENTERTAINED AT THE LATTER CITY ARRIVAL AND BIVOUAC AT 
 
 WASHINGTON ENCAMPMENT AT ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, New 
 York State Volunteers, was organized in response to 
 the call of President Lincoln, issued July 2d, 1862, for 
 three hundred thousand men. In compliance with this 
 call and for the efficient prosecution of the object in 
 view, Governor Morgan appointed committees composed 
 of residents in the several senatorial districts of the 
 State, a committee for each district. Their business 
 was to aid the work of recruiting and see that it was 
 carried forward properly and expeditiously. The work 
 of enlisting recruits at once began and was pressed for 
 ward so vigorously, that by the 2Oth of August, the 
 requisite number of men was nearly secured. The 
 people in those days were alive with patriotic ardor and 
 quick to respond to appeals for help which the Govern 
 ment, in the emergency then present, found it necessary 
 to make. The field for raising recruits was wide and 
 promising. The diligent reaper who wrought in it was 
 sure to be rewarded with abundance of sheaves. There 
 
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 was hardly a locality East, North or West, so benighted 
 concerning the issues of the war, or so indifferent to its 
 prosecution, as to require more light or urgent argument 
 before furnishing its contingent of soldiers in answer to 
 the nation s cry for help. 
 
 An important part of this work fell to the lot of Col. 
 George H. Sharpe, who, by the appointment of the 
 Governor of the State, was to command the regiment 
 about to be raised. Col. Sharpe had commanded a 
 company in the regiment of three months men, which 
 had gone forth from Kingston shortly after the fall of 
 Fort Sumter, and his experience in that campaign served 
 to adapt him more fully to the more responsible com 
 mand he was now called to assume. He entered active 
 ly and earnestly upon the task of recruiting, holding 
 meetings almost daily in the several sections of the 
 county and addressing large audiences drawn together 
 by interest in the country s cause. These meetings, 
 were at times addressed by other influential citizens of 
 the county, who placed country before party, and by the 
 fervor of their appeals, swelled rapidly the number of 
 recruits and raised to a higher pitch the loyal zeal and 
 ardor of the people. 
 
 An occasional exception was found to the enthusiasm 
 
 which these meetings stood ready to greet the 
 
 speakers who, throughout the county, came with appeals 
 
 more volunteers. One of these exceptions was at a 
 
 known village generally considered to be foremost 
 
 i patriotic action. The people there owing to certain 
 
 5 and influences, not easy to define or understand, 
 
 1 which soon passed away, seemed at first indifferent 
 
 the duty of contributing to the cause by personal 
 
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 enlistments. A meeting had been called to be held in 
 the evening, and Col. Sharpe upon arriving in the after 
 noon and consulting with the leading men of the locality 
 was informed that the meeting would undoubtedly be 
 well attended, but there was no prospect of any enlist 
 ments, and the attempt to get them there might as well 
 be abandoned. The meeting did prove to be a very 
 large one and the enthusiasm gradually rose to a very 
 high pitch. Col. Sharpe in the course of his speech 
 stated the result of the interview with the leading men 
 of the town in the afternoon. He said that he had been 
 given to understand that in the regiment to be raised, 
 that locality would be unrepresented. He had always 
 had a high opinion of the courage and enthusiasm of its 
 citizens, and rather than leave the town without rep 
 resentation in the regiment, he proposed to return to 
 Governor Morgan his commission as Colonel, and to 
 
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 enlist as a private for that locality in order that the 
 whole county might be represented. He was followed 
 by one or two strong addresses from prominent citizens, 
 and at the close of the meeting- seven young men came 
 
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 forward to enlist, and their example was soon followed 
 by a sufficient number to authorize the issuing of a 
 commission to a young man of the same town, who 
 finally fell at the head of his men on one of the most 
 memorable battle-fields of the war. 
 
 In this w r ay the filling up of the regiment made steady 
 and rapid progress, to the high credit of the county and 
 of those who took service as the nation s defenders. 
 Three of the ten companies composing the regiment, 
 were raised in Greene county, whose citizens were 
 inspired with a love for the cause, kindred to that shown 
 
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 throughout the State, and indeed, the entire North. 
 The volunteers as they were enlisted, repaired to Camp 
 Samson, where, on a spot well adapted to the purpose 
 for which it was selected, and which the Twentieth N. Y. 
 S. M., had occupied the previous year, the men were duly 
 enrolled and inducted into camp life. Lt. Col. West- 
 brook had his quarters here, superintending the enrolling 
 process, the arrangement of the various companies, 
 and their distribution into tents. The mustering into 
 the service of the country was done by Captain J. B. 
 Hagar, U. S. A., who completed his work on August 
 22d, the number of enlisted men then amounting to 
 nine hundred and six. 
 
 The following is a list of the field and staff officers of 
 the regiment, the captains of the several companies 
 with the number of men contained in each : 
 
 Colonel GEORGE H. SHARPE. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. WESTBROOK. 
 
 Major J. RUDOLPH TAPPEN. 
 
 Adjutant SELAH O. TUTHILL. 
 
 Quartermaster URIAH H. COFFIN. 
 
 Surgeon J. O. VANHOEVENBURGH. 
 
 First Assistant- Surgeon HENRY COLLIER. 
 
 Second Assistant- Surgeon W. A. VANRENSSELAER. 
 
 Chaplain FOSTER HARTWELL. 
 
 The following non-commissioned officers were also 
 connected with the regiment : 
 
 Sergeant- Major HOWARD COOKE. 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant GEO. P. BARBER. 
 Commissary W. J. COCKBURN. 
 Hospital-Steward J. D. KEYSER. 
 Drum- Major AUGUST GCELLER. 
 
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 The captains in command of the several companies 
 with the number in each company in their respective 
 order were : 
 
 Company A : Captain ABRAM L. LOCKWOOD, ninety- 
 seven men. 
 
 Company B : Captain SIMON S. WESTBROOK, eighty- 
 four men. 
 
 Company C : Captain JACOB L. SNYDER, eighty- 
 nine men. 
 
 Company D: Captain LANSING L. HOLLISTER, eighty- 
 three men. 
 
 Company E : Captain DANIEL GILLETT, eighty-six 
 men. 
 
 Company F : Captain THEO. F. OVERBAGH, ninety- 
 four men. 
 
 Company G : Captain WALTER F. SCOTT, eighty- 
 nine men. 
 
 Company H: Captain CHARLES H. McENTEE, ninety- 
 four men. 
 
 Company I : Captain FRANCIS W. REYNOLDS, ninety- 
 three men. 
 
 Company K : Captain JAMES M. PIERSON, ninety- 
 seven men. 
 
 The regiment being thus in readiness to start for the 
 field, lay in camp awaiting orders to move, which were 
 liable at any moment to arrive. During this interval the 
 kindred and friends of the soldiers, and people anxious 
 to witness the departure of the regiment, came pouring 
 into Kingston from Greene County as well as from all 
 parts of Ulster, on Saturday, the 23d of August. The 
 town had rarely beheld such crowds of visitors as were 
 attracted to it by the regiment just about to bid a long 
 
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 farewell to homes and friends in the North, and to set 
 forth upon an expedition from which many of them might 
 never return. 
 
 On this clay, which proved to be the one preceding 
 the departure of the regiment, and in presence of the 
 multitude gathered at the encampment, a very impres 
 sive ceremonial took place. This was the presentation 
 of two flags, which the regiment was to bear with it 
 wherever its presence might be demanded in the service 
 of the country. An account of the ceremonies, which 
 had no less interest for spectator than for soldier, is 
 taken from the KINGSTON JOURNAL, of August 2/th, 1862. 
 
 "On Saturday afternoon, at 4 o clock, the flags purchased by the 
 ladies of Ellenville and Kingston to be given to the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment (Washington Guard), were presented at Camp 
 Samson. A platform was erected at the flag staff. Upon this were 
 assembled as many of the officers of the regiment as could be de 
 tached from duty, and the clergy of the village. Prayer was offered 
 by Rev. B. C. Lippincott, of Hurley. Mr. Reuben Bernard, of this 
 village then advanced to the front of the platform and spoke as fol 
 lows : 
 
 1 Colonel George H. Sharpe of the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 Regiment, N. Y., State Volunteers : The Ladies of Ulster County 
 have honored me by selecting me, as their agent and mouthpiece, 
 in presenting to you our national standard and your regimental colors . 
 The ladies of the County feel that they have an interest in this regi 
 ment and in the contest in which you will be engaged. They 
 ish you to take and bear with you some token of their appre 
 ciation and remembrance, some symbol, which, by its constant 
 presence, will ever remind you that you are remembered in their 
 s and watched by loved ones at home. You, and the brave 
 ith you, will regard these flags, not only as an evidence of your 
 s greatness and glory, but also as having clustered about 
 ihe hallowed influence of home. Let these flags speak to 
 ith the voice of a wife, mother and sister, bidding you to deeds 
 of noble daring. 
 
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 " These colors are entrusted to the keeping of your regiment, with 
 a perfect confidence that you will preserve inviolate the honor of the 
 flags presented to you by the women of the County of Ulster. We 
 must not be discouraged by reverses. Ulster County suffered her full 
 share in that noble revolution which gave birth to this flag. Our 
 oldest citizens can remember the time when our neighboring village 
 fell a sacrifice to its love of liberty. The flames which destroyed 
 their property only served to purify and ennoble the patriotic ardor 
 with which they fought for freedom. So with you. Let every reverse 
 only strengthen your hearts and nerve your arms, to do and dare for 
 your country s cause, bearing with you the constant remembrance 
 that in every struggle, these flags will smile down on you the prayers 
 and the approval of the women you leave behind you. 
 
 " The flag which I present, has, for the last eighty years, been the 
 emblem of our country s greatness ; has protected us in the enjoyment 
 of all our rights. That flag is now endangered. A wicked, cause 
 less, monstrous rebellion is seeking to destroy it. Shall it, can it be 
 done? You, soldiers, going and about to go to the field, must 
 answer this great question. I think I know your answer. You say 
 to this rebellion, you say to the whole world, this flag has protected 
 us in times past and we will protect it now. 
 
 " And now, Col. Sharpe, allow me the pleasure of presenting you 
 these flags, knowing that you and the noble men with you, will do 
 your whole duty, and knowing that with the blessing of God crown 
 ing your efforts, this flag shall be preserved to the latest generation 
 without one stripe obliterated or one star dimmed. " 
 
 Colonel Sharpe, in behalf of the regiment, accepted 
 the flags in the following address : 
 
 " He said that he had been aware for some time that these flags 
 were to be presented to the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, 
 and that it was expected he should speak for the officers and men 
 who composed it ; yet he spoke but the simple truth when he assured 
 them that he was so overcome by the emotions that agitated his 
 heart, that he hardly had a word at his command. He could only 
 say, that he was wholly penetrated with emotions of gratitude to the 
 men of Ulster and Greene for their noble and self-sacrificing efforts to 
 raise, in the shortest possible space of time, the regiment with the 
 
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 command of which he had been honored. At a former moment, he 
 had thought he would write upon a slip of paper the names of the 
 men of Ulster and Greene, who had placed him under the deepest 
 obligations by their generous assistance, while he had been laboring 
 to raise the men then ready to go to the defense of their country, but 
 as he recollected one after another, he forbore to pen their names, as 
 the list itself would have made a speech. And now to the deeds of 
 the stout and brave men of Ulster and Greene, was added this expres 
 sion of interest and regard from lovely and patriotic women, thus 
 increasing the burden of his gratitude and the list of memories to 
 which he would ever revert with the deepest emotions of pleasure. It 
 was greatly to be regretted that on that occasion, the regiment could 
 not be drawn up before the assembled multitude in line of battle, but 
 the duties incident to their hurried departure in answer to the call of 
 the Governor, forbade this. He would not boast how the regiment 
 would bear these flags, or in what state it would bring them back, 
 nor, indeed, would he pledge it to bring them back at all ; but he felt 
 sure that the men who were going forth that day from among them, 
 would do all in their power to preserve these flags from dishonor, even 
 though they had to struggle until the last man should have the last 
 shred to bear back to the place from whence they had been received. 
 " And now they were going away. He knew something of the 
 extent of the pain which their departure caused. The character of 
 the men in the regiment gave unmistakable evidence, how keen were 
 the pangs of sorrow which wrung the hearts of friends there assembled. 
 Many of them he knew had been most tenderly brought up, and had 
 been the dearest objects of that care and love, which is found only in 
 the best homes in our land. Now they were going from their native 
 hills, and yet the better part of them would remain behind, and all 
 the scenes of home would be more truly with them than ever before. 
 But it was because they loved their homes that they went from them^ 
 and if they ever achieved deeds of bravery on the bloody battle-field, 
 it would be because of the inspiriting memories of home which would 
 
 II their minds. Yes, they were going and might he not hope that 
 their prayers would attend them ; not alone for the preservation of 
 the health of these loved ones, or for their being saved from the im 
 moralities of the camp, or the shot of the enemy, or for their pre 
 paration for sudden death, would he ask them to pray ; but while 
 they implored all this, he would beg of them to pray that they might 
 
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 be the means, with others who had joined the grand army of the 
 Union, of speedily crushing out this rebellion, and bringing all the 
 States to enjoy the full blessing of freedom, peace and prosperity 
 under our flag and constitution. " 
 
 "The flags thus presented consist of a national and regimental 
 color. Both are of silk. The body of the latter is blue, upon which 
 is worked with yellow and crimson silk, an eagle and shield. The 
 eagle bears in its beak a scroll, with the national motto E pluribus 
 unum/andin its talons a scroll containing the words One Hundred 
 and Twentieth Regiment, Washington Guard/" 
 
 During this day the expected orders came, directing 
 the regiment to start at 8 o clock on the following 
 morning. All in and about the camp became at once 
 bustle and activity. The day of the 24th of August, 
 which was Sunday, was bright and beautiful. The 
 crowds of the day before were swelled into a still 
 greater multitude on this eventful day of departure. 
 Early as the hour was, all places in the near vicinity of 
 the camp were filled with interested spectators, and with 
 the kindred and friends of the soldiers. Many of these 
 with trembling voices and tearful eyes gave parting 
 adieus to beloved relatives whose faces they might 
 never see again. These affecting separations however, 
 need not be dwelt upon, as similar scenes were exhib 
 ited wherever a new regiment left home for the seat ol 
 the war, and what is suffered in such parting may better 
 be imagined than paraded through inadequate descrip 
 tion on the printed page. 
 
 Promptly at the hour of eight, the regiment broke 
 camp and began its inarch for Rondout, followed by a 
 great crowd bent on seeing it embark. Cheers and 
 shouts attended it along its route to the wharf, where 
 
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 the good steamer Manhattan lay ready to receive and 
 convey the men to New York. While the boat lay at 
 the dock awaiting the signal to start, the final greetings 
 were exchanged and farewell words spoken, and then, 
 with a great outburst of cheers the vessel swung off 
 into the stream. All the way down the Hudson, from 
 every boat and landing passed, the same lively gratula- 
 tions were poured forth by hearty sympathizers with 
 the citizen -soldiers, who were devoting their lives to the 
 safety of the nation. As long as the declining day per 
 mitted sight of the Manhattan and her stalwart, living 
 freight, the cheering voices of people in vessels and on 
 shore, continued to salute them. Then, with night 
 came rest for the weary, and in the early morning the 
 vessel had reached her wharf in the metropolitan city. 
 The soldiers disembarked and were marched to the City 
 Hall Park. There the usual muskets were furnished, 
 though the regiment had to wait for complete equip 
 ments, including ammunition, till it reached Washing 
 ton, where, what was lacking, was in due form supplied. 
 On the same afternoon at four o clock, the regiment 
 resumed its journey, marching down to the Jersey City 
 ferry, crossing over to the other side and taking cars for 
 Philadelphia, which city it reached at 6.30 the following 
 morning. 
 
 Here an agreeable surprise awaited them. In an 
 ample hall near where the cars stopped, a sumptuous 
 breakfast was provided by the loyal and large hearted 
 citizens of Philadelphia, and all the regiment cordially 
 invited to partake. This was not an act of hospitality 
 tendered to one regiment, or to a few others at intervals 
 as circumstances might prescribe. But it was the rule, 
 
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 begun early in the war and continued to its close, to 
 furnish forth a meal to every regiment passing through 
 Philadelphia to the front. The whole country came, in 
 this way to know and honor the patriotic city for the 
 considerate and generous provision made for such great 
 numbers of soldiers, who were privileged to enjoy this 
 good cheer. As for the soldiers, every one was loud in 
 his praises of this graceful entertainment, whose value 
 was enhanced by the assiduous attentions bestowed 
 upon every guest at table, the memory of which 
 remained fresh and pleasant in all after years. The 
 writer had the good fortune to share these generous 
 attentions a year before when connected with another 
 regiment, the Twentieth N. Y. S. M., and put forth his 
 experiences in a printed letter, a paragraph of which, 
 as expressive of the cordial sentiments of all, who like 
 him have been guests at the same board, he will ven 
 ture to transcribe : 
 
 "As the troops left the ferry boat, they were marched into an 
 immense hall near the wharf, fitted up for the accommodation and 
 refreshment of the regiments constantly passing through to the seat of 
 the war. Six tables, stretching the whole length of the apartment, 
 and ample enough to enable an entire regiment to stand around them, 
 were loaded with refreshments, furnished by the hospitality of the city 
 of brotherly love, thus proving the name to be fittingly applied. And 
 such refreshments for tired and hungry men ! Excellent bread and 
 delicious butter, superb cold beef and ham, potatoes, coffee and tea, 
 pickles of various kinds, etc., urged upon all with a persistent hos 
 pitality, that seemed to receive rather than confer a favor. The min 
 istry of gentle hands was conspicuous, as it always is, in such a scene 
 as this. Your correspondent being conducted toward the head of the 
 bounteous board, one angel took his hat, another disrobed him of 
 overcoat, a third took charge of a package or two, a fourth led him to 
 a seat at the table, a fifth ministered to his wants while there, and all 
 
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 with a delicacy and warmth of kindness that brought forcibly to his 
 mind the Pilgrim of Bunyan in the Palace Beautiful, with the ministry 
 of the fair sisterhood there, refreshing and strengthening him for the 
 hardships and dangers of the way before him. No wonder that the 
 soldiers, exulting in this gxxxlly fare, broke forth, company after 
 company, into spontaneous cheers for the city of Philadelphia which 
 made the rafters of the building fairly ring again. Nor was this 
 ample cheer all. Here the sick soldiers are furnished with comfort 
 able quarters, and received assiduous medical care, until able to join 
 their regiment, or failing this, are sent home, without money and 
 without price. In addition to all, in a room overhead, writing 
 materials are furnished for those who desire, during the two or three 
 hours stay in the city, to write to their friends. I was urged there 
 several times to write home, which though much fatigued and the 
 hour being two o clock in the morning, I finally did, to show, at 
 least, how much I valued such attention and kindness. When the 
 letter was written and enclosed they refused even to let the writer pay 
 for the stamp. All hail to the city of Philadelphia for such princely 
 generosity, continued so long and yet rendered not only without 
 grudging or complaint, but rejoicingly. It will prove a noble and 
 lasting monument to her honor." 
 
 In looking back thirty years, this account does not 
 seem to the writer overstated, and he is quite sure that 
 a strong response to these eulogistic words will be given 
 by every surviving Union soldier, who when going 
 forward to encounter the perils and hardships of the 
 war, found his footsteps lightened and his heart and arm 
 strengthened by a sympathy and good will so heartily 
 expressed. 
 
 The regiment left Philadelphia in the morning taking 
 cars for Baltimore where it arrived at four p. M. March 
 ing across the city, without danger any longer of 
 molestation from any disloyal element, to the Washing 
 ton depot, it started at six p. M. for Washington, arriving 
 there on the 2;th, at midnight, the streets being a 
 
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 bivouac for the remainder of the night. Washington 
 at that time was little more than an armed camp. The 
 streets were filled with soldiers, army wagons, cavalry 
 squadrons, gun carriages and caissons, with kindred ob 
 jects sure to follow in the train of " glorious war," the 
 whole forming a very striking spectacle to those lately 
 parted from peaceful country homes. The stay here, 
 however,, was short, as at 10 o clock on the morning 
 after arrival, the ranks were formed and the regiment 
 crossed the Long Bridge, marching to Arlington Heights, 
 where its first camp on the sacred soil of Virginia was 
 pitched, the dome of the capitol looming up grandly at 
 the distance of seven miles. Those who knew the his 
 tory of Arlington, long the home of General Robert E. 
 Lee, then in command of the rebel armies, and saw how 
 the iron heel of war had stamped out its beauty, and 
 spread desolation around, would find a fruitful lesson 
 inspired by the spot where their first night in Virginia 
 was spent. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH 
 
 AIDING TO PROTECT WASHINGTON LIFE IN CAMP RELIGIOUS SERVICE 
 
 POPE S ROUTED ARMY RE-ORGANIZED BY MCCLELLAN UNION SUC 
 CESSES IN MARYLAND ARMY HOSPITALS PENINSULA VETERANS RE 
 VIEW OF TROOPS NEAR FAIRFAX SEMINARY UPTON S HILL ENCAMP 
 MENT A GRAND REVIEW NEAR ALEXANDRIA PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND 
 
 SECRETARIES, PRESENT REGIMENT ORDERED TO THE FRONT BURN- 
 SIDE SUPERSEDES MCCLELLAN ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BEFORE FRED- 
 
 ERICKSBURG. 
 
 The day following the regiment s first encampment 
 in Virginia, the second battle of Bull Run, August 28th, 
 may be said to have opened. General King s division 
 on its march from Warrenton to Centreville, ran into 
 the divisions of Ewell and Taliaferro, of Jackson s corps, 
 which was holding the region around Bull Run, after its 
 enterprising and successful raid upon Bristoe Station 
 and Manassas. Then ensued, as Taliaferro describes it, 
 14 one of the most terrific conflicts that can be conceived. 
 For two hours and a half, from late in the afternoon 
 till after dark, without an instant s cessation of the 
 most deadly discharges of musketry, round shot and 
 shell, both lines stood unmoved, neither advancing, and 
 neither broken nor yielding, until about nine o clock, " 
 when the conflict closed, with no decided advantage on 
 either side, but with heavy losses to both. Early on 
 the next morning the main battle began, continuing 
 through that day, the 2 9 th, and through the following 
 
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 one, the close of the latter witnessing the discomfiture 
 of Pope s army, and its retreat toward the defenses of 
 Washington. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth was not called upon 
 to take part in the severe fighting running through 
 these three August days, though the booming of the 
 cannon from this hotly contested field reached the men 
 in their Arlington encampment. 
 
 On the morning of the 2 9th however, they were 
 roused from their slumbers by the long roll. Cartridges 
 and rations were hastily furnished, and in fifteen minutes, 
 armed and equipped, they were standing ready to march. 
 Their route lay across the Potomac, through Georgetown 
 to Fort Ethan Allen, ten miles from their camp at Ar 
 lington. The regiment was one of a number of detach- 
 
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 ments sent from Washington and places adjacent, to 
 guard against any movement, should one be attempted, 
 on the part of Lee, to throw troops in Pope s rear, or 
 between him and Washington. No such attempt, how 
 ever, was made. The Union army fell back, when the 
 time came, without being seriously molested, though 
 much demoralized by its defeat, till it found itself within 
 the fortifications which made Washington secure against 
 any assaults from without. 
 
 The regiment remained in camp near Fort Ethan 
 Allen for more than a week. The spot where they 
 pitched their tents was a high side hill from which a fine 
 prospect opened, and where their surroundings were 
 such as to minister greatly to the mens comfort and 
 satisfaction. Not only were their rations good and 
 abundant, but occasional foraging, with purchases from 
 people coming into the camp to sell provisions, afforded 
 
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 such luxuries as pigs, chickens, ducks, hoe-cake, eggs, 
 cakes, pies, etc., a bill of fare, which however appetizing, 
 could only solace the men for a brief period, and sure to 
 be ere long exchanged for the plain army ration, which 
 knew but little variety, without being always at hand or 
 abundant. The good things mentioned, were however, 
 heartily enjoyed while they lasted, while as to their 
 future supplies, the men gave themselves no concern. 
 They were ready for hardships and privations should 
 they come, as belonging to the nature of their present 
 service. 
 
 Nor was the sense of dependence on the Great All- 
 Provider lost sight of, by a large part of the regiment 
 certainly, who failed not to express their obligations for 
 His bountiful gifts and for His guardianship in all their 
 way, and fervent thanksgivings went up daily from 
 those who had been taught to praise God for his good 
 ness. And on Sunday, the 3ist, in Captain Snyder s 
 tent, a large number gathered to hear the voice of 
 prayer and the Chaplain s earnest admonitions, which 
 met with attentive audience and warm response, making 
 all feel stronger for the work before them, in the aid and 
 benediction Divinely promised. There is no soldier, who 
 cannot do and suffer more, and fight better, in the con 
 sciousness, which everyone may have, that the Lord is 
 on his side, to guard the right cause, and strengthen 
 the arms that uphold it. 
 
 While the regiment lay encamped here, Pope s routed 
 army was pouring into Washington, and the men had 
 an opportunity to see many of these troops as they 
 hurried forward in their retreat. Many of the soldiers 
 escaping from this hard-fought, but disastrous field of 
 
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 Bull Run, had lost their arms, and with uniforms torn 
 and dust-covered, wore a melancholy and woe-begone 
 appearance. It might seem, looking at these straggling 
 crowds, that discipline lost, might not again be restored. 
 Yet this needed to be done and done promptly. And 
 in this emergency, the President turned at once to the 
 only man adequate, in his judgment, to do it. General 
 McClellan was urged to undertake it and consented. 
 And, with his rare organizing faculty and his popularity 
 with the troops which no reverses seemed to impair, 
 order very soon began to emerge out of this chaos. 
 Companies, regiments, brigades, divisions stood forth in 
 brief period, in compact and regular array, and on the 
 7th of September, a week after the Bull Run battle, 
 McClellan left Washington at the head of a large and 
 well appointed army to meet Lee who was crossing the 
 upper Potomac into Maryland. The battle of South 
 Mountain followed on the I4th with a brilliant success 
 for the Union arms, and three days after, on the i7th, 
 was fought the bloody battle of Antietam, which, if not 
 an overwhelming Union victory, as it might and should 
 have been, yet resulted in thwarting Lee s designs on 
 " My Maryland" and driving him back disappointed and 
 crippled, across the Potomac. 
 
 During these stirring operations, the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth remained in the vicinity of Washington 
 engaged in doing picket duty, the drilling of the men 
 going on from day to day, thus familiarizing them with 
 their required work and fitting them to act their part 
 well in the hour of trying service. They moved from 
 point to point for several weeks, keeping mostly near to 
 Washington and waiting for the time when they should 
 
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 be called to join the ranks standing in the forefront of 
 the battle. On September loth, they were at Fort 
 Lyon, on the I4th, at Fairfax Seminary, near Alex 
 andria, with the Potomac, bearing steamers and war 
 vessels on its bosom, in view, and Mount Vernon 
 occasionally seen from some neighboring elevation which 
 commanded a wide sweep of the river. Fairfax Sem 
 inary, a spacious and sightly structure, was now con 
 verted into a hospital for our sick and wounded soldiers, 
 the necessities of the war compelling the use of this and 
 similar commodious buildings in all places where our 
 armies held possession, and bloodshed as well as sick 
 ness abounded. Alexandria, near at hand, was full of 
 hospitals. Distributed among these were a number of 
 soldiers of the Twentieth N. Y. S. M., wounded at Bull 
 Run, whom acquaintances of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth were permitted occasionally to visit. Among 
 these wounded was the gallant Captain Pelatiah Ward. 
 He fell, as did his colonel, Geo. W. Pratt, while charg 
 ing the enemy s impregnable breastworks late in the 
 afternoon of the last day s battle. Captain Ward was 
 among the bravest men and best soldiers who, that day, 
 went into the desperate fight. He died within a fort 
 night after receiving his wound. The sights of wounded 
 and suffering men, witnessed by the soldiers of the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth in these hospitals, impressed 
 upon them a vivid idea of the horrors of war and taught 
 them what the future in this bitter contest, might have 
 in store for themselves. 
 
 Around the encampment of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, were thousands of McClellan s veterans 
 returned from the Peninsular campaign. Among these 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 2j 
 
 the soldiers of the regiment found many friends from 
 the North, whose accounts of the battles they had fought, 
 the hardships they had endured and the " moving acci 
 dents by flood and field " they had experienced, were 
 listened to by them with the liveliest interest. A grand 
 review, composed of these troops,, and others in the vicin 
 ity, was held on October 2d, in a large field about two 
 miles from Fairfax Seminary. Not fewer than fifteen 
 thousand soldiers formed the array, the various arms of 
 the service being all represented. The general officers 
 reviewing, were Heintzleman, Sickles and Carr. The 
 men at first, were formed in a single line of battle, then 
 in three lines, with artillery in the rear. The ceremonies 
 usual on these occasions were performed with full 
 knowledge of what was proper to each. The appear 
 ance of the battalions and of the whole array was 
 soldierly and imposing, and well deserved the commen 
 dations bestowed upon it, in which the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth Regiment had a merited share of honor. 
 In the new organization of the army under Burnside, 
 soon to take place, the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 Regiment was to form part of the Second (Excelsior) 
 brigade belonging to Sickles Second division, Colonel 
 George B. Hall being in command of the brigade. 
 
 Up to October nth, the regiment remained in the 
 same camping ground at the Seminary. The duties of 
 camp life were performed day by day with strict regu 
 larity, but the incidents and transactions of these days, 
 having so much in common, do not require a particular 
 detail. The regiment took up its march on the i ith of 
 October, toward Upton s Hill, not only leaving its 
 pleasant camping ground of the previous weeks, but 
 
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 with it many articles of personal comfort which had 
 solaced the soldiers - while continuing there. Both 
 officers and men were required to dispense with what 
 ever was unnecessary and retain no superfluous clothing 
 or baggage or utensils to cumber their movements in 
 the field. This looked like a speedy entering on an 
 aggressive campaign. 
 
 Their present encampment at Upton s Hill, was near 
 the spot where the Twentieth N. Y. S. M., had their 
 quarters the previous winter and within a short distance 
 of Falls Church, a quaint old edifice, with historic mem 
 ories, within whose grounds a number of the Twentieth s 
 deceased soldiers are interred. During the remaining 
 days of October, the regiment continued within the same 
 narrow bounds, moving its camp a few miles from time 
 to time, marching on the i;th from Upton s Hill and 
 again pitching its tents at Fairfax Seminary. Little 
 occurred of special interest except a grand review on 
 the 22d, of some twenty thousand troops near Alex 
 andria, at which President Lincoln, Secretaries Seward 
 and Stanton, Generals Banks and Sickles, and a large 
 number of other generals and government officials were 
 present. On the last day of October, orders were 
 received to be in readiness to march next morning. On 
 November ist, accordingly, the sick were sent to the 
 hospital and the whole division stood arrayed in march 
 ing order. Baggage, ammunition and supply trains, 
 artillery, ambulances, and long lines of troops with 
 their colors displayed were presently in motion. The 
 soldiers of the One Hundred and Twentieth, with their 
 shelter-tents strapped to their knapsacks, took their 
 position in the marching column. Their fortunes now 
 
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 and henceforth were to be joined to those of the Army 
 of the Potomac. Their faces were turned toward the 
 South where the enemy they proposed to meet were 
 known to be, nor were they to turn back from the task 
 undertaken, till the great conflict was fought through 
 and the victory won. 
 
 General McClellan, it is known, remained for weeks 
 near the battle field of Antietam and seemed to have 
 grown to the ground there, so long and persistently did 
 he cling to it. Repeated and urgent messages from 
 Washington to hasten his departure in pursuit of Lee 
 effected very little. He pleaded more time to recruit 
 his exhausted army after the late destructive battle, to 
 clothe, equip and provision his forces, to repair the 
 heavy losses he had sustained, and completely fit them for 
 the work they were expected to do. At length, on the 
 26th of October, nearly seven weeks after the Antietam 
 battle, the order was issued to pack up and get ready to 
 march. The direction was the Potomac, which the army 
 was to cross on pontoons. The process was slow and 
 the crossing was not completed till the 2d of Novem 
 ber. 
 
 Its position on reaching the " sacred soil "was east 
 of the Blue Ridge, along the line of which it moved 
 slowly southward, having advanced on the 7th of No 
 vember, to Warrenton. While encamped near this 
 place, an order arrived from Washington on this day 
 relieving General McClellan from the command of the 
 army and putting General Burnside in his place. It 
 seemed a hard measure to the man who had so promptly 
 and skilfully reorganized Pope s discomfited army, 
 achieved the victory of South Mountain and driven Lee 
 
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 out of Maryland, but the Washington authorities were 
 bent on rebuking, what they considered McClellan s tardi 
 ness of movement, and this was the result. They placed a 
 chief in command of whom they expected a more prompt 
 and aggressive action and more decisive results. How 
 far this expectation was to be verified, the events of a 
 few weeks were to determine. Meanwhile, Burnside 
 having submitted his plan of operations to the " powers " 
 at Washington and received assent to it, at once began 
 his march toward Fredericksburg, before which city by 
 the 1 9th of October, the three " grand divisions " of his 
 army, consisting of 127,574 officers and men had arrived. 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, as a part 
 of the Army of the Potomac, was guided by the move 
 ments of the whole. Sickles division, was the Second of 
 the Third Corps, which with the Fifth Corps, formed the 
 Centre Grand Division, commanded by General Joseph 
 Hooker. Parts of this force were already before Fred 
 ericksburg and its other subdivisions were steadily draw 
 ing together, to the same point. The One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, after marches to Centreville, Bull Run, Bris- 
 toe Station and other points, encamped on the icth of 
 November, at Manasses Junction, where they saw Gen 
 eral McClellan, on leaving the army, receive and return 
 the greeting of the troops. Thence their course was 
 toward the Rappahannock. They crossed Occoquan 
 Creek on the 25th ; passed through Dumfries on the 26th ; 
 Stafford on the 27th, and on the 28th, encamped within 
 two miles of Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg. The 
 army of Burnside was now concentrated, a narrow river 
 alone separating it from the foe it had marched hither to 
 encounter. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 BURNSIDE CROSSES THE RAPPAHANNOCK ASSAULTS THE ENEMY S DEFENSES 
 
 HIS DISASTROUS DEFEAT AND LOSSES THE ONE HUNDRED AND 
 
 TWENTIETH NOT IN THE MAIN ASSAULT UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME 
 
 MOVEMENTS AND SERVICES OF THE REGIMENT BEFORE AND AFTER THE 
 
 BATTLE AN ARMISTICE TO REMOVE THE WOUNDED AND BURY THE DEAD 
 
 UNION ARMY RECROSSES THE RIVER MORAL OF THE DEFEAT. 
 
 It is not my purpose to go into a detailed description 
 of the battle of Fredericksburg, that proved so disas 
 trous to the Union army. This narrative is concerned 
 chiefly with the One Hundred and Twentieth Regi 
 ment, and the part it played in the mighty drama, the 
 several acts cf which were now developing, one by one. 
 A sketch, however, of the several battles in which the 
 regiment shared, is necessary, in order that the situation 
 in which it was placed from time to time, the character 
 of the service it rendered and how this service was 
 performed, may appear in a distinct light. Burnside s 
 plan was an immediate crossing of the river as soon as 
 it could be reached, the occupying of Fredericksburg 
 while Lee s army was far away, and then a rapid and 
 direct movement upon Richmond. Halleck telegraphed 
 to Burnside the President s view of the plan in these 
 words, "he thinks it will succeed if you move rapidly, 
 otherwise not." Had Burnside been able to cross the 
 Rappahannock, on or about the igth of November, 
 when his forces were all collected and ready to pass 
 
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 over, he might have succeeded in his design. Certainly, 
 the history of the bloody days that soon followed would 
 have been very different. As it was, the pontoons 
 which were to have been at the river at the time the 
 General and his troops reached it, did not arrive until 
 the 25th. By this time a considerable force of the Con 
 federates had reached Fredericksburg, followed within a 
 short interval by their whole army, which was soon for 
 midably entrenched on the hills overlooking the city. 
 The crossing could now only be effected in the face of a 
 determined and powerful foe, ready to rain down de 
 struction upon all assailants and eager, in fact, to be 
 assailed in their chosen stronghold. A sagacious and 
 prudent commander would have paused long before 
 dooming his men to so desperate an undertaking. But, 
 excellent though General Burnside might be as a man, 
 and brave as a soldier and fitted to lead a division or 
 even a corps skillfully,- he lacked the ability, as some 
 stronger men than he, in the like position, also did, to 
 inspire and manage the combinations of a great army so 
 that the best results might be secured by the most suit 
 able means. Even Lee himself, whose ability to com 
 mand an entire army was not often questioned, commit- 
 mitted on the third day of Gettysburg, a blunder sim 
 ilar to that committed by Burnside, on the iz|.th of De 
 cember, when he hurled his devoted masses against the 
 redoubts and entrenchments of Marye s Hill, before 
 which they fell in frightful numbers by the hands of foes 
 whom no mortal valor could dislodge. The result was 
 such as might have been and should have been readily 
 foreseen. The repeated attempts to carry the enemy s 
 positions had failed signally. Our brave troops were 
 
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 repulsed at all points, and within a day or two the 
 shattered army recrossed the Rappahannock with their 
 numbers diminished by thirteen thousand, dead and 
 wounded, who formed the ghastly record of this terrible 
 day. 
 
 Not much of this loss, indeed, -fell upon the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment. Its position in this 
 battle, was such, as not to render it exposed to the 
 hottest fire of the enemy. The service it was called 
 upon to perform, however, from the time it encamped 
 near Falmouth,on November 28th, till the battle of the 
 1 3th of December closed, was arduous and efficient. 
 The cutting of wood, for the construction of corduroy 
 roads found necessary for the use of the army, occupied 
 many men, whose labors were sometimes continued 
 through the entire night. Detachments of the men 
 were posted along the Rappahannock day and night 
 doing picket duty, the pickets of the enemy being sta 
 tioned on the opposite bank. Incessant vigilance was 
 necessary in the immediate presence of an alert enemy, 
 and the getting in readiness to cross the river for the 
 coming attack, called for energetic and persistent work 
 from every department of the Union army. 
 
 The men of the One Hundred and Twentieth had 
 their full share of the toil, hardship and privation which 
 in the cold and sometimes stormy December days and 
 nights, befel the army on the eve of its grim encounter 
 with the enemy. On the night of the I2th the brigade 
 to which the One Hundred and Twentieth was attached, 
 marched five miles down the river and bivouaced in 
 the woods. On the I3th, the day of the battle, the 
 brigade moved to the hills near the Rappahannock, 
 
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 taking station in rear of our batteries on the heights. 
 General Sickles division, to which the brigade was 
 attached, was posted here as a reserve. This position 
 overlooked the city of Fredericksburg, the heights 
 beyond on which the rebel army was entrenched, and 
 the wide plain separating the two. They were thus 
 witnesses of the battle in all its furious progress. They 
 saw the repeated charges of our brave troops upon the 
 enemy s works ; how again and again the strong posi 
 tions were assailed with stubborn but unavailing valor, 
 while the cheers of our soldiers and the yells of the 
 enemy were mingled with the rattle of musketry and 
 the roar of artillery. General Sickles division was sent 
 to re-enforce the Left Centre under General Franklin, 
 whose command had crossed on the I2th, and now 
 needed whatever reserves could be brought to its sup 
 port. This division began to cross the river at about 
 3 p. M. of the 1 3th, the battle then raging, and took its 
 assigned position at the front. The One Hundred and 
 Twentieth got over the river about sunset, and joining 
 its brigade in the front line of battle, soon found what 
 that position meant by the shrieking of a shell which 
 passed over their heads, burying itself in the ground 
 behind them. Some one proposed three cheers a 
 bravado, by the way, which veteran troops would never 
 have displayed for the first shot which sternly saluted 
 the regiment, and the men were beginning to respond, 
 when the untimely outburst was checked, by fear of 
 attracting the notice of the enemy. The men however, 
 made themselves merry with an incident which pres 
 ently attracted their notice. One of the captains sent 
 his colored servant to bring in some cornstalks from a 
 
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 stack standing near. He had brought one armful, had 
 returned and loaded himself with a second, with which 
 he was just starting, when a solid shot struck the stack, 
 scattering its contents around. In a trice the doughty 
 African was flat on his back, with his armful of stalks 
 covering him in front like a shield and clasped tightly 
 to his breast, as though safety from rambling cannon 
 balls lay only in that. It was found hard enough to get 
 him to come out from his cover and stand erect, with 
 such perils compassing him around. 
 
 Shortly after dark a company was advanced as skirm 
 ishers, reaching a ditch running parallel with the line of 
 battle. The enemy s position could be seen from a hill 
 that rose just before them. Here the horrors of a 
 battle-field were visible all around them, the ground 
 they occupied having been fought over that day, being 
 strewn with dead, and having other signs that mark a 
 sanguinary struggle. When the morning dawned they 
 found themselves within range of the sharpshooters 
 rifles, and were ordered to fall back to a more sheltered 
 position. A lieutenant and ten men who were detailed 
 for special duty on the same night, got beyond the 
 picket line, and creeping on hands and knees among 
 the dead and wounded, were so near the enemy s lines 
 as to hear their soldiers in conversation. They re 
 mained in this position till after midnight, when they 
 crept back to their picket line, with only one of their 
 number wounded. 
 
 On Sunday the i4th, the regiment lay on their arms 
 in the front all day, under fire of the enemy s guns, 
 though the combat had virtually ceased, only occasional 
 missiles from musket and cannon being exchanged. 
 
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 On the 1 5th the same comparative quiet pervaded the 
 two armies, and at 2 r. M. a flag of truce brought about 
 a cessation of hostilities. This was done in order that 
 our wounded might be taken from the field and our dead 
 buried. While this sacred office was performing, the 
 pickets of the Union and rebel forces were seen in 
 neighborly, if not friendly intercourse, exchanging such 
 commodities as each party desired to obtain of the 
 other, " Yankee" sugar and coffee, for " Johnnie " hoe- 
 cake and tobacco, forming the staple articles in the 
 barter. There was now nothing more for the Uuion 
 army to do on the south side of the Rappahannock, 
 and all that remained for it at present, was to re -cross 
 the river. This was accomplished on the i6th, with 
 out molestation from the enemy, The bridges were 
 taken up, and the old camping ground before the 
 disastrous battle, was re-occupied. The ordeal through 
 which the army had passed since the I2th, had 
 been a terrible one, and it was small solace to the sur 
 vivors of the conflict, and to the hearts lacerated by 
 losses of kindred and friends, to be told, and to know, 
 that the bloody catastrophe might have been, and with 
 more wisdom at the helm, would have been avoided. 
 The lesson learned, had been a stern one to the Union 
 army, whose spirit never quailed under the worst 
 reverses, and which calmly and with good heart, abided 
 the time when Fortune would smile upon it and reward its 
 constancy and valor with deserved victory. That day 
 might be distant, indeed, and many a deadly struggle of 
 contending hosts must ensue before its dawn, but it was 
 surely coming. And the brave Union heart, true to the 
 right, and strong in its faith, was content to wait and see. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 SICKNESS AND DEATH IN CAMP THE FAMOUS "MUD MARCH " AND WHAT 
 
 CAME OF IT THE ARMY S NEW COMMANDER, GENERAL HOOKER 
 
 EFFECTS OF THE CHANGE ON THE TROOPS ARMY IN WINTER QUARTERS 
 
 COLONEL SHARPE GOES ON HOOKER S STAFF, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL 
 
 WESTBROOK IN COMMAND OF THE REGIMENT THE SOLDIERS CHEERED 
 
 BY TOKENS FROM HOME PRESIDENT LINCOLN S VISIT AND REVIEW OF 
 
 TROOPS INCIDENTS GETTING READY FOR A FORWARD MOVEMENT. 
 
 For several days after reaching their encampment on 
 the north bank of the Rappahannock, the soldiers of the 
 army enjoyed quiet and rest undisturbed. It was a 
 pleasant relief from the confusing noises which had late 
 ly stunned the ear, and from the toilsome days and 
 comfortless nights which the situation, the past week, 
 had imposed. The men of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, though shivering under their slight shelter 
 tents, in the cold December nights, shared, in common 
 with the army, the restful feeling, arising from release 
 for a season a brief one it might be from the exhaust 
 ing burdens attendant on their recent services in front 
 of the enemy s works. But all burdens were not taken 
 off, even now. For sickness, with heavy-pressing hand, 
 finds its way into the quietest camps, and death, with 
 his levelling stroke, comes to soldier and civilian alike. 
 
 Three members of the regiment, died on Sunday, the 
 2 ist, one of whom was the captain of company H, 
 Charles H. McEntee, a brave and meritorious soldier, 
 and an estimable man. The two others were private 
 
38 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 soldiers, Isaac E. Shultis, of company A and Matthew 
 Stokes, of company C. These two were buried here 
 with the usual military honors, while the captain s re 
 mains, escorted to the railroad station by the company 
 he had commanded, were forwarded to his late home 
 at Rondout. 
 
 When the year 1863 opened, and during the whole 
 of January, a considerable number of the regiment were 
 on the sick list. The hospital tents, fitted for their 
 accommodation, had many occupants who needed the 
 doctor s care, and from these, from time to time, com 
 rades who had succumbed to disease, were carried 
 forth to their burial. From the diary referred to in the 
 introductory chapter, this record of January i6th, is 
 taken : " Much sickness prevails. Almost every day 
 we heard the muffled drums, as one of our comrades 
 was carried to the grave. To-day, the regiment mus 
 ters only 400 men fit for duty." Life in the field, under 
 tents, in cold and often stormy weather, as the case 
 was now, so different from what the men had been 
 accustomed to at home, with privations and hardships 
 hitherto untried, tolcl strongly upon the health of many, 
 so that the losses in battle were found not to outnumber 
 those that the army sustained from other causes as the 
 war progressed. In fact, disease caused far greater 
 mortality than the bullet. :i: The shelter tent, indeed, so 
 unfitted to keep out cold, so provocative of chills, fevers, 
 lung diseases, rheumatism and other ailments, might be 
 
 * From a statement prepared in the Adjutant-General s office, it 
 appears, that during the war, 1861-65, the number of Union soldiers 
 illed in battle was 67,058 ; died of wounds, 43,012, total, 110,067. 
 Died of disease, 199,720. 
 
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 supplanted by log cabins, made tight and comfortable 
 by the craft of soldier workmen. If only sure of remain 
 ing in winter quarters there, this change would have 
 been made, and was, in fact, begun by the regiment as 
 early as January Qth. But Burnside was still in com 
 mand and yearned to regain the confidence of the army 
 by some bold stroke against the enemy, that would 
 measureably redeem the recent sore failure. With this 
 in view, plans w r ere buzzing through his brain, among 
 them one of re-crossing the Rappahannock a few miles 
 above Fredericksburg, and falling upon Lee s forces 
 when unprepared. This led to the issuing of orders to 
 his army to be prepared at any moment to march. And 
 so on the 2Oth of January, the march actually began 
 very slowly and toilfully, because of the roads con 
 tinuing only a mile and a half, that afternoon. It was 
 resumed early on the 2ist, amid a pouring rain which 
 had begun the evening before, continuing without ces 
 sation all night. The diary referred to, describes the 
 situation in these words : 
 
 "The pontoons, artillery and some of the wagon trains, were in 
 the advance, and the troops were slowly and sullenly moving through 
 the driving storm and deep, sticky mud. The wagons and artillery 
 sank to their axles, so that twelve horses could not move a small field 
 gun. At 3 P.M., we had gained about six miles. 
 We expected to cross the river early the next morning, and to be placed 
 in position to attack the enemy s lines, but the mud was so deep it was 
 impossible to move our trains. At 3 P. M., the regiment was ordered 
 out without arms to cut poles and make corduroy roads. We built the 
 road to a point from which we could see the enemy, across the river. 
 They seemed to be well-informed in regard to our movements, for 
 they had painted, on a large board, clearly legible from this side, 
 Burnside and his pontoons stuck in the mud move at i o clock, 
 three days rations in haversacks. " 
 
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 This was the famous " Mud March," which, by the 
 testimony of all whose lot it was to share it, rendered 
 every other that the faithful Army of the Potomac ever 
 made, as child s play, in comparison. Dead horses and 
 mules strewed all the road over which the men returned 
 to their camp. The expedition was at an end, and fortun 
 ate for the army that it was. General Franklin, in a letter 
 to Halleck written after the war pithily expressed it, 
 " So I looked upon the rain which stopped his (Burn- 
 side s) second attempt to cross the river, (the Mud 
 March), as a Providential interference in our behalf." 
 
 The control of the army was now to pass into other 
 hands. On the 25th of January, 1863, an order arrived 
 from Washington, relieving- General Burnside of the 
 command of the army, and appointing General Joseph 
 Hooker, in his place. Hooker was a soldier of ripe 
 experience, with a high record as brigade, division and 
 corps commander, having shown marked ability in the 
 management of these several commands. His brave 
 and fearless spirit, his readiness to fight the enemy 
 whenever a chance to win presented and even when that 
 chance seemed doubtful, and his bearing on the field as 
 a gallant soldier and chivalric leader, had gained for him 
 the name of " Fighting Joe Hooker," so expressive of 
 the sense the soldiers had of his heroic and aggressive 
 qualities. His popularity with the troops was undoubt 
 ed, and his advancement to the chief command, after 
 Fredericksburg, was hailed by them, at least, with lively 
 satisfaction. Whether the superior officers regarded 
 him as fully competent for his present high trust, is 
 another question. It is safe to say, that some of these 
 had doubts on this subject. He was soon to test, how- 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 4 I 
 
 ever, as his predecessor had done, his capacity for the 
 charge and direction of a great army, and had the best 
 wishes of all for his success. It is certain that under his 
 administration, a new vigor was soon infused into the 
 army. General Couch, speaking of what took place 
 after Hooker assumed command, says : " I have never 
 known men to change from a condition of lowest depres 
 sion to that of a healthy fighting state in so short a 
 time." The strength and spirits of the army both, were 
 well recruited by the rest, in winter quarters. Furloughs 
 were generously given during this period of inaction, 
 and with excellent results, those receiving them return 
 ing promptly to their posts when their leaves of absence 
 expired. In discipline, in fighting material, in courage, 
 in enthusiasm, a finer body of men than the army which 
 Hooker commanded when the spring of 1863 opened, 
 it would be hard indeed to find. Its numbers, too, 
 amounted to nearly, if not quite, 126,000 men, and what 
 achievements might not be effected for the Union 
 cause, when such an army should come in conflict with 
 its foes ! 
 
 During the months of February, March and April, 
 while the army lay in winter quarters before Fredericks- 
 burg, little occurred in the experience of the regiment, 
 requiring special mention. There were some deaths of 
 the members in hospital, a record of which will appear 
 in another place. Some changes, too, in officers, occurred 
 through transfer and resignations. Colonel Sharpe, much 
 to the regret of the regiment, received in February, an 
 appointment on the staff of General Hooker, which he 
 was induced to accept, devolving thus, the command of 
 the regiment, on Lieutenant-Colonel Westbrook, who 
 
42 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 continued in command till disabled by a wound, at 
 Gettysburg;. Adjutant Selah O. Tuthill, Captains Pier- 
 son and S. S. Westbrook, and Lieutenant Dumond 
 Elmenclorf resigned, and their places, as will appear 
 elsewhere, were duly filled. The army was well sup 
 plied with stores and provisions. Mails came regularly 
 with their welcome freight of letters from home, and 
 papers bringing news of what was passing in the world 
 without, and in the vicinity of the soldiers homes, 
 which interested them still more. Other remembrances 
 also came, in the shape of boxes and packages, containing 
 articles to minister to the comfort of the men in the 
 field, and these tokens came close home to the hearts of 
 the various recipients. For the men who honored reli 
 gion, and sought to practise its precepts amid the din of 
 arms and the hindrances interposed to Christian duty on 
 the tented field, the God-fearing officer s tent was 
 opened, where, while off camp duty, many like-minded 
 were glad to assemble and find comfort and strength in 
 the words of praise, prayer and exhortation heard with 
 in, and support in the great struggle going on, in an arm 
 mightier than man s. President Lincoln, whose reve 
 rent spirit led him habitually to look upward for help to 
 bear the grievous burdens pressing on him, was ever 
 the friend of the chaplains, and was pleased to have them 
 lead the soldiers to trust in that Supreme Protector 
 without whose guardianship of" the city, the watchman 
 waketh but in vain." 
 
 The President s great anxiety for the safety of the 
 country, and for the success of its armies, led him often 
 to the front when troops lay within easy reach from 
 Washington. It was no uncommon thing to see him at 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 43 
 
 reviews, mingling familiarly with officers, and express 
 ing sympathy with the troops in their sacrifices for the 
 common cause, and inspiring confidence by his hopeful 
 words and by his serene faith in the ultimate success of 
 the right. On the 6th of this month the whole cavalry 
 force of the Potomac army was reviewed by the Presi 
 dent and General Hooker, near Falmouth. Mrs. Lincoln 
 was with him on this occasion, and their little son "Tad," 
 the boy riding a pony and Mrs. Lincoln seated in a car 
 riage drawn by six horses. Many of the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth were spectators of the review, which 
 presented a more superb and imposing display than it 
 had ever been their privilege to see. On the 7th 4< the 
 boys " were out in force to see the President, as he 
 passed through their camp. His thoughtful, honest, 
 care-worn face, lit up at times with a smile while con 
 versing with those near him, impressed them deeply, 
 and many spoke what they felt, that he was indeed the 
 man for the crisis, and fitly chosen to pilot the ship of 
 state safely through the tempestuous seas. On April 
 8th the Third Corps, under General Sickles, was reviewed 
 by the President near the Lacey House, opposite Fred- 
 ericksburg. The Corps was arrayed in line of battle, 
 forty regiments in double column forming the right, a 
 number of batteries of artillery the left, while a hundred 
 yards in rear of the centre, the immense baggage, 
 ammunition and supply trains were located, with 2,000 
 mules attached to the multitudinous wagons of the trains. 
 Apropos of the mules, a stirring, and but for its sober 
 accompaniments, a ludicrous incident here occurred. 
 For as a battery suddenly opened in salute of the review 
 ing party, some of the long-eared quadrupeds, not yet 
 
44 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 hardened to the roar of cannon, were seized with a 
 panic, ensuing in a stampede of a large number. Mules 
 dashed against mules, and against and over all obstacles 
 that rose before them, producing a scene of the wildest 
 confusion and dismay. Nor did the scene pass without 
 harm resulting, for a number of men received hurts 
 more or less serious, and not a few mules had broken 
 legs and other injuries, making the killing of them 
 necessary. Notwithstanding this exciting episode, not 
 down in the bills, the review went along according 
 to the programme, and was in every respect a grand 
 military display, well deserving the encomiums it 
 received. 
 
 On April loth the regiment went with the whole 
 brigade to General Sickles headquarters to see the 
 President take leave of the army, on his return to Wash 
 ington. The troops lined both sides of the corduroy 
 road they had built, the lines extending from General 
 Hooker s headquarters to the railway station. The 
 President, Mrs. Lincoln and little son in a carriage pre 
 ceded Generals Hooker and Sickles and their staffs, 
 while cheers uprose from the troops, and strains of mar 
 tial music rent the air, proclaiming how the hearts of all 
 were affected toward their kind, wise ruler, and how 
 warmly they responded to his good wishes for triumphs 
 soon to come. 
 
 All indications now pointed to the speedy beginning 
 .of active work in the field. The last inspections were 
 held, requisite stores were supplied, articles not essen 
 tial to an army in marching and fighting trim, were laid 
 aside to be left behind, and all were awaiting the daily 
 expected summons to break camp and march forth 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 46 
 
 against the enemy. General Stoneman, in command of 
 the cavalry, had received his orders before the 1 3th of 
 April, to cross the Rappahannock at its upper fords and 
 sweep down upon, and cut off Lee s communications 
 with Richmond, with the design of forcing the latter to 
 fall back on his depots and give up Fredericksburg. 
 The crossing could not be effected, by reason of heavy 
 and continuous rains which made the river unfordable 
 for many days at the point he meant to cross, nor did he 
 get over till the main army had crossed, and the work 
 he was sent to do, even if possible then to be done, 
 ceased to be of any avail. By the 3Oth of April, the 
 principal part of the army had crossed the river, General 
 Hooker having reached Chancellorsville, at 6 p. M., of 
 that day, with four corps, besides that of General 
 Sickles, in reserve and near at hand. The crossing had 
 been effected skillfully and expeditiously, and it looked 
 as though Hooker s plan for enveloping and crushing 
 the hostile army, was in a fair way of successful ex 
 ecution. It was not owing to any misgiving on the part 
 of the General commanding, or want of perfect con 
 fidence in the success of his plans and manoeuvres, that 
 he did not succeed. His jubilant manifesto, issued at 
 Chancellorsville, and read by Colonel Westbrook, on 
 this same 3Oth of April before the regiment, which had 
 not yet crossed the river, proclaims how sanguine the 
 General felt of grasping a splendid victory, such a thing 
 as failure being judged by him quite out of the question. 
 It ran in these ambitious words, which remind one 
 strongly of Pope s grandiloquent address when he 
 assumed command of the army, a short time before Bull 
 Run : 
 
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 "It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding General 
 announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days 
 have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come 
 out from behind his entrenchments and give us battle on our own 
 ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of 
 the Fifth, Eleventh and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of 
 splendid achievements. 
 
 " By command of Major General Hooker." 
 
 The " achievements " of getting on the ground in so 
 alert and silent a way as to surprise Lee, still at Fredericks- 
 burg, were no doubt " splendid" enough, but they were 
 after all only preliminary, deciding nothing so long as the 
 remaining steps in the plan were not properly taken. 
 Hooker s plan in brief was, to have Sedgwick with three 
 corps cross the Rappahannock below Fredericksburg, 
 himself holding four corps under his own eye around Chan- 
 cellorsville, and then have the two wings move toward 
 each other, taking the enemy in flank and in reverse, 
 and thus effect his "certain destruction," as the order 
 expressed it. It was a very pretty plan, similar to 
 McClellan s plan at Antietam though this had bet 
 ter results and might have succeeded had it been 
 promptly and thoroughly carried out, and had nothing 
 unexpected occurred to disconcert and overthrow it. But 
 such unforeseen thing did occur in the shape of Stone 
 wall Jackson s little counter-move against Hooker s 
 Eleventh corps under Howard, lying far off to the 
 right, unguarded, unsuspicious of danger, in military 
 phrase "in the air," and thus presenting a tempting 
 prize to the eye of an enterprising adversary. The 
 attack, which fell like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, 
 suddenly turned Hooker s sunshine into black clouds! 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. <\J 
 
 and thenceforward he had all he could do to repel, with 
 out being himself overthrown, the fierce and repeated 
 onslaughts of the foe. What share the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth Regiment had in the progress of this 
 grim and sanguinary conflict, will appear in the follow 
 ing chapter. 
 
 At this stage of the war, the crossing of the Rappa- 
 hannock by the Union army seemed the certain presage 
 of defeat and disaster. After two gallant attempts to 
 win victory beyond this river, resulting in failure, further 
 effort in this direction, as the faint-hearted would be 
 ready to say, might as well be abandoned. But the 
 faint-hearted did not control the national counsels, nor 
 pervade the armies in the field, as would be shown ere 
 long by the locality where the great final triumphs of 
 the war were achieved. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CROSSING THE RAPPAHANNOCK HOOKER AND HIS ARMY AT CHANCELLORS- 
 
 VILLE STONEWALL JACKSON S ATTACK ON HOWARD STAMPEDE OF THE 
 
 ELEVENTH CORPS CONFEDERATE ADVANCE ARRESTED ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 THE BATTLE AND THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH S PART IN IT. 
 COLONEL WESTBROOK S MEMORANDA MR. LEWIS DIARY GENERAL 
 DOUBLEDAY S HISTORY DEATH OF GENERALS BERRY AND WHIPPLE 
 ARMY RECROSSES THE RAPPAHANNOCK LOSSES AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. 
 
 On the afternoon of April 28th, the regiment began 
 its march toward the Rappahannock, not reluctant to 
 bid farewell to the rude log- huts in which they had been 
 " cabin d, cribbed, confined," for four months. Advanc 
 ing four miles, the Excelsior brigade encamped in a 
 wood not far from the river-bank above Fredericks- 
 burg. It remained here till the 3Oth, the troops cheered 
 by the paymaster s presence, whom they had not seen 
 for several months, and who now cancelled all arrears. 
 This did the "heart good, like a medicine," infusing 
 fresh strength for the heat and burden of the coming 
 days. 
 
 Resuming their march at noon, they held on their 
 way till midnight ; making a detour to avoid the enemy s 
 observation, the brigade bivouacking in an open field 
 within four miles of United States Ford. On May ist 
 at noon they crossed the river, and making a rapid 
 march of five miles, were stationed in support of a bat 
 tery. The position occupied was nearly in the rear of 
 the centre of the Union line, and of General Hooker s 
 
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 headquarters, at the Chancellors ville House. The 
 division of General Berry, to which the brigade belonged, 
 was held as a reserve. 
 
 While the division lay at this point, and toward the 
 close of the following day, May 2d, Jackson s famous 
 attack was made on Howard s Eleventh Corps, lying on 
 the extreme right of the Union lines. The effect of 
 this attack, as is well known, was overwhelming. The 
 troops of Howard, taken by surprise, as nearly all can 
 did authorities agree, many of them away from their 
 arms, some preparing or taking their evening meal, 
 had little time to form line or make effective resistance 
 against the sudden storm which burst upon them. With 
 some gallant, though unavailing attempts, on the part 
 of a brigade or two, to stand firm, the whole corps was 
 thrown into confusion and became, in a brief space, a 
 disorganized, flying crowd, that streamed in wild disorder 
 to the rear, past Hooker s headquarters. Men, wildly- 
 seeking their own safety, horses, with and without riders, 
 army wagons and ambulances, pack mules, beef cattle 
 bellowing as they ran, formed a scene such as bedlam 
 broke loose might fitly represent. The enemy, yelling 
 and firing, pressed fast on the heels of the panic-stricken 
 throng. There was ground for fear, that other troops 
 stationed in the route of these fugitives, might not escape 
 the contagion of fright, or might not be able to make 
 successful head against the furious onslaughts of a foe, 
 elated by success, and dashing forward to grasp larger 
 and more decisive advantages. 
 
 Resistance, however, to the rebel advance, was prompt 
 ly made, and so effectually, that a check for a time at 
 least, was put upon it. General Berry s division, held 
 
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 in reserve, as before stated, was now brought into 
 requisition, and bore an important part in staying the 
 rushing tide that threatened to sweep away everything 
 before it. Doubleday, says of this division : " they were 
 true and tried men and went forward at once to the res 
 cue. Berry was directed to form across the Plank 
 Road, drive the rebels back and retake the lost 
 entrenchments an order easy to give but very difficult 
 to execute. The most he could do under the circum 
 stances, was to form his line in the valley opposite 
 Fairview, and hold his position there, the enemy already 
 having possession of the higher ground beyond." 
 
 This force, with several batteries formed across the 
 Plank Road, whose fire was very destructive, largely 
 contributed to arrest the farther advance of the enemy 
 
 The commander of the One Hundred and Twentieth, 
 Colonel C. D. Westbrook, has furnished some interest 
 ing memoranda relating to the situation and action of 
 his regiment and of the troops associated with it, grow 
 ing out of Jackson s attack and the rout of the Eleventh 
 Corps. What effective part these troops took in arrest 
 ing the furious progress of Jackson s forces, will appear 
 from the following statement : 
 
 " Massed in close column by division, our brigade lay under arms 
 until about 5 p. M., May 2, when we were sent forward on double- 
 quick about half a mile on the Plank Road. Here we met General 
 Berry, who sent two or three regiments ahead to the left, and ordered 
 the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment into the thick woods on 
 our right. On the officer in command asking, how am I to get 
 there, in view of a ditch, overflowed swamp and densest thicket in 
 front, the reply was, I don t know, but get there you must and form 
 line to the front to stop this panic. The officer put spurs to his 
 horse, cleared the ditch, floundered through the swamp and landed 
 
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 on a firm piece of ground, being quickly followed by the regiment. 
 Bayonets were fixed, a charge made to the front, other regiments 
 coming up and extending the movement to the right. The sound of 
 confused orders reached us from the thickets just beyond, indicating 
 the close proximity of the enemy, when the regiment was stopped till 
 the line, reaching about half a mile in the woods, was fully formed. 
 Quickly came the rattle of musketry, mingled with heavy cannonading 
 from our rear, the shells flying over head, lighting up the thickening 
 darkness of the woods. The din was kept up till near midnight, 
 while hastily constructed barricades of brush and logs were thrown 
 up for such protection as they might afford. 
 
 "The First and Third divisions of our Corps, had been sent 
 away early in the afternoon to watch certain columns of the enemy 
 which had been seen marching toward the southwest in the direction 
 of Howard s command. These divisions had attacked the rear of 
 the marching column, and had captured a Georgia regiment, shortly 
 after which, Jackson s attack fell upon Howard s Corps. After this cap 
 ture, the two divisions marched back still on the left of the Plank 
 Road, reaching a position, where, with our division on the right of 
 the road and Howard s in front, they formed together three sides of 
 a triangle. Jackson s forces having swept away Howard s, were now 
 the side of the triangle in front of us on the right of the Plank Road. 
 Being mingled together, in their hot pursuit through the thick 
 woods and darkness, and arrested by the charge of our troops, they 
 struggled in vain to reform their disordered lines. The leading 
 division was therefore withdrawn to Dowdall s Tavern, to reform, and 
 A. P. Hill s division sent to occupy their places in the front. While 
 this was going on, Jackson, with a few of his aids, went forward to 
 reconnoitre, with a view to continuing his aggresive operations, 
 charging his pickets to beware of firing upon him, on his return. He 
 was struck down, as he could hardly fail to be, in that seething fur 
 nace of shot and shell, lighting up the darkness on every side, but 
 whether his own men, or the enemy, fired the fatal shots, is not cer 
 tainly known. His death it may be, saved the Union army from 
 complete overthrow. It is certain, that had he lived to direct the 
 fiery energies of his troops, it would have resulted in much greatei 
 disaster to the army opposed to him. As it was, the arrest of Jack 
 son s forces by Berry s division, with the co-operation of troops and 
 artillery, brought up by Pleasanton, just at the critical juncture, saved 
 
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 the Fifth Corps, lying in their front, from being flanked, and with it, 
 probably, the routing of Hooker s army at Chancellorsville. On the 
 other hand, had Reynolds and Meade s corps, together 37,000 strong, 
 both of whom for inexplicable reasons had taken no part in the 
 battle, made an attack on the flank of Jackson s forces, while the 
 fierce struggle about Hazel Grove was going on, as their command 
 ers wished, but were not allowed to do, the tables would have been 
 turned and Chancellorsville would have been won to the Union arms. 
 But it is useless to speculate on what might or would have been 
 under other conditions. 
 
 "The brunt of the battle had fallen on the Third Corps. Their 
 loss was 3,439 killed and wounded, and 600 missing, the latter loss 
 consisting mostly of men burned in the woods, where a conflagration 
 kindled by the combat, licked up the wounded and the dead. " 
 
 To the foregoing account, some notes from Mr. Lewis 
 diary, are subjoined, relating mainly to operations on 
 the day following Jackson s attack : 
 
 "There was heavy firing all night in many places along the line, 
 while ever and anon, the Union cheer or rebel yell, told us of a fierce 
 charge. Sunday, May 3d, at about 6 A. M., our pickets were driven 
 in, and the enemy, in large force, fell upon us with terrible fury. 
 Soon we were pouring into his advancing columns, a terrific fire of 
 musketry, with which was mingled, the roar of forty cannon, while 
 the air seemed filled with minie-balls, shot and shell. The enemy 
 came rushing on till they were checked within twenty-five feet of our 
 breastworks. We held our position two hours, until our lines were 
 broken a short distance to the left of our regiment. As the enemy 
 came up on our flank, company by company fell back and formed a 
 line of battle a short distance to the rear, which position we easily 
 held. The officer in command of our brigade of the division also, 
 since General Berry s death and the wounding of General Mott 
 General Joseph W. Revere, then led us back nearly to the river where 
 we remained during the rest of ths day." 
 
 General Doubleday, in his history of the battle, 
 explains the position and service of Berry s division 
 here referred to, as follows : 
 
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 "The last line of our works was finally taken by the enemy, who, 
 having succeeded in driving off the Third Maryland, of the Twelfth 
 Corps, on Berry s left, entered near the road and enfiladed the line 
 to the right and left. Sickles sent Ward s brigade, to take the place 
 of the Third Maryland, but it did not reach the position assigned it 
 in time, the enemy being already in possession. In attempting to 
 remedy this disorder, Berry was killed, and his successor, General 
 Mott, was wounded. The command then devolved upon General 
 Revere, who, probably considering further contest hopeless, led his 
 men out of the action without authority an offense for which he 
 was subsequently tried and dismissed the service."* 
 
 The fighting from the early morning of May 3d, till 
 the Union troops were forced back from the third line, 
 was of the most furious character. Our lines, under 
 Hancock, Sickles, Slocum, Couch and Humphreys, were 
 formed in front and around the Chancellorsville House, 
 with nearly the whole rebel army, under A. P. Hill, 
 McLaws, Anderson and Stuart, (in place of " Stonewall " 
 Jackson, disabled the night before,) determined at all 
 hazards, to break through and overwhelm their tena 
 cious enemy. Frequent and desperate attacks were 
 made upon the Union positions, which were defended 
 with equal energy and resolution. The contest about 
 Hazel Grove and Fairview, was hottest. The possession 
 of the hill at the former point, was vital to the success 
 of the Confederates, and when after tremendous efforts, 
 they gained the height and crowned it with artillery, 
 they became virtually masters of the situation. Nothing 
 was left for the Union forces to do, but to fall back, 
 step by step, which was clone in perfect order, every 
 foot of the ground being contested with unabated spirit 
 
 * The sentence, however, being subsequently set aside through 
 President Lincoln s interposition. 
 
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 and constancy, and no position abandoned till it became 
 untenable. Sickles Corps, on which the main force of 
 the attack fell, and which had a large share in prevent 
 ing our ranks from falling into confusion, behaved 
 throughout with conspicuous coolness and gallantry. 
 Birney s and Berry s two divisions of this corps, were 
 posted on the Plank Road, running from Chancellors- 
 ville through the centre of the Union line. General 
 Birney, was on the left of the road, and Berry, under 
 whom the Excelsior Brigade fought, occupied the right. 
 They were both exposed to the full sweep of the enemy s 
 onset, and held fast their respective positions unflinch 
 ingly, to the last moment that resistance could avail. 
 
 General Berry, after stemming with his division the 
 night before, the torrent of pursuing enemies, flushed 
 with success, and on this 3d of May, having done all 
 that a brave and energetic leader could, to inspire his 
 troops and keep their ranks unbroken, yielded up his 
 heroic life, a victim to his devotion. No braver soldier 
 in the Union army, laid his last supreme offering this 
 day on the altar of his country, as none had a higher 
 place in the confidence and affections of his comrades. 
 His death was a sore loss to his command, and indeed, 
 to the Union army, of which he formed one of the props 
 and ornaments. 
 
 A kindred tribute is due to General A. W. Whipple, 
 who was in command of the Third division of Sickles 
 Corps. This division, with Birney s, after their engage 
 ment with Jackson s rear column, as before noticed, 
 had returned in time to confront, on the evening of 
 the 2d, the advance of Jackson s troops, who were near- 
 ing the Chancellorsville House. These divisions, with 
 
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 artillery under Captain J. F. Huntingdon, hastily placed 
 in position, baffled the last assault of the enemy that 
 night. General Whipple s services on May 3d, his 
 position being in rear of Berry and near Fairview, were 
 equally efficient in the fierce contest there progressing, 
 which ended, as noticed, in the falling back of the 
 division. On the morning of May 4th, while attempt 
 ing to silence some guns, which by Anderson s orders, 
 had opened on some wagon trains of the Twelfth Corps, 
 he was picked off by a sharpshooter and killed, adding 
 thus another lustrous name to the long list of devoted 
 men, who, in those trying days, poured out their life- 
 blood for their country. The death of two division 
 commanders, of the same corps, on the same field, 
 though on two successive days, is an event, which the 
 history of the four years conflict has rarely found it 
 necessary to record. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, was 
 left encamped, on the evening of the 3d, near the 
 Rappahannock, the severe fighting of the day being 
 ended. The conflict was not renewed on the following 
 day, nor was there any purpose on the Union side to 
 renew it. General Hooker, had on the 3d, been stunned 
 and rendered unconscious for a time, by a shot striking 
 a pillar against which he was leaning, of the Chancellors- 
 ville House, and the effect had been to impair the 
 activity and strength in action which the crisis needed, 
 and to incline him to turn his thoughts to re-crossing 
 the river, as a measure of prudence, if not of necessity. 
 Accordingly, a council of war was called on the evening 
 of the 4th, at which the situation was discussed, a 
 decision being arrived at, and an order issued to recross. 
 
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 This was carried into effect, and within a brief period, 
 the several corps, forming the bulk of the army, found 
 themselves on the north bank of the Rappahannock, 
 whence they had hopefully issued a few days before, and 
 minus the victory they had confidently expected to 
 seize. General Sedgwick, with the Sixth Corps, con 
 taining 26,000 men, had barely been able to hold his 
 own against the forces confronting him, and after various 
 successes and reverses, whose detail is not a necessary 
 part of this narrative, found it expedient also to retire 
 across the river. The much needed help promised him 
 from Hooker s wing of the army, had not been sent, and 
 perhaps could not be sent, because not able to be spared 
 from a body struggling for its own life, and bent on 
 securing a safe retreat. When this last had been 
 effected, nothing remained for the gallant Sixth Corps, 
 in its critical position in front of Lee s whole army, but 
 to do as the other wing had done and place the Rap 
 pahannock between itself and its vaunting enemy. And 
 so the Army of the Potomac was re-united once more 
 on the north bank of the little historic river which divided 
 it, as it had done the past winter, from the foe it had 
 not yet been able to overcome. 
 
 The losses in the Chancellorsville campaign, were 
 larger than those at Fredericksburgh, heavy as the latter 
 were. The fearful total was upwads of 17,000 men, of 
 which number, 12,000, in round numbers, formed the 
 aggregate i n Billed and wounded. The Confederate 
 loss, as reported, was some 2,000 less, the whole number 
 on both sides being 22,000 a figure about equalling 
 the entire present population, men, women and children, 
 of the city of Kingston. The comparison will help to 
 
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 give a proper conception of what a great battle, which 
 mows down more than a score of thousands of men, 
 really means. War is a costly business to life and limb, 
 besides the manifold evils of other kinds which mark its 
 desolating footsteps. Happy day for the world, when 
 the prophetic turning of the sword into the ploughshare, 
 shall find its fulfillment among the nations, in the cessa 
 tion of all wars, and the establishment of universal peace. 
 The number of casualties in the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, according to the Adjutant s report, showed 
 nine killed, 46 wounded, including one commissioned 
 officer, Captain Frank W. Reynolds, and 18 missing, 
 total 72. A more severe ordeal was awaiting the regi 
 ment in the coming days. The discipline and trials thus 
 far, were simply preparative. The men were not 
 querulous nor disheartened at what they had gone 
 through, nor disposed to shrink at the prospect which 
 opened before them. But true to the. cause they had 
 espoused, and to their own convictions that complete 
 triumph must come in the end to the right, they stood 
 manfully in their lot, ready to do and suffer all that duty 
 to their country demanded. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 LEE S INVASION OF THE NORTH WHY UNDERTAKEN ^CONDITION OF CON 
 FEDERATE ARMY ADVANCES THROUGH SHENANDOAH VALLEY CROSSES 
 
 THE POTOMAC OPERATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA HOOKER S MOVEMENTS 
 
 AND PLANS RESIGNS COMMAND OF UNION ARMY GENERAL MEADE 
 
 APPOINTED TO THE CHIEF COMMAND MOVEMENTS OF THE ONE HUNDRED 
 AND TWENTIETH, AFTER CHANCELLORSVILLE. 
 
 The outcome of Hooker s repulse at Chancellorsville, 
 following after an interval of a few months the repulse 
 of Burnside at Fredericksburg, was the invasion of the 
 North by the Confederate army. Such an invasion had 
 long been a cherished idea on the part of the secession 
 leaders. Their two successes at the points above men 
 tioned, put the Confederates in high spirits. They came 
 to regard themselves as adequate to all military achieve 
 ments they might choose to undertake, and in a trial at 
 arms, practically invincible. 
 
 The crossing of the Potomac into Maryland after the 
 second battle of Bull Run, was in accordance with their 
 favorite idea of invasion. The battle of Antietam, 
 baffled, for a time, the purpose which Lee and his gov 
 ernment were longing to execute, viz., to retaliate upon 
 the North, the inflictions of the war, which had hith 
 erto mainly fallen upon southern soil. It would be a 
 delightful change, to have Confederate armies encamped 
 on northern fields and quartered in northern cities, with 
 ample supplies exacted from both. The prospect was a 
 captivating one and grew more alluring after Chancel- 
 
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 lorsville. The time seemed now to have come, for the 
 Confederate forces to pass over and take possession of 
 the land. They felt themselves quite strong enough to 
 go up and subdue it, as they were eager to enjoy the 
 fruits of their anticipated conquest. The had only to 
 put away doubt and misgiving and throw their energies 
 into the inviting enterprise, and the result aimed at, was, 
 to their fancy, surely attained. 
 
 As a reward of their heroism, zeal and constancy, the 
 Confederate government, they believed, would be firmly 
 established. It would be recognized as a government, 
 by foreign nations, and this they had labored for and 
 were specially anxious to bring about. They had their 
 agents abroad to promote this object, and all possible 
 means were employed to accomplish it, though their 
 best efforts thus far, had met with but indifferent success. 
 They regarded England and France, and with good 
 reason, as secretly favoring the South, and as willing to 
 grant such recognition the moment the Confederate 
 cause had attained a fitting measure of success. This 
 
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 would be, it was believed, when the southern armies had 
 taken possession of the great cities and strongholds of 
 the North, maintaining their hold in spite of all opposi 
 tion. In the flush of their recent successes on the Rap- 
 pahannock, they laughed at all obstacles that might rise 
 up to prevent the realizing of a dream so enchanting. 
 They had only to go forward, resolute to brave all, and 
 overcome all that opposed them, and their staunch, 
 irresistible army would settle the matter exactly in the 
 way they designed. 
 
 This, no doubt, was the strong inducement that led 
 General Lee to recross the Potomac, and try his for- 
 
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 tunes a second time on northern territory. There were 
 other things which had their weight, such as reports, 
 constantly forwarded by rebel spies and sympathizers in 
 the North, to the effect that friends of the southern 
 cause residing there, were only waiting for the advance 
 of Lee s armies to declare themselves, put an end to the 
 hated war by siding with the invaders and thus secure 
 to the South an independent government thenceforth. 
 But the copperhead element, with the bluster and assump 
 tion it at times put on, was, when the spirit of the loyal 
 masses fairly awoke, but as the chaff which the wind 
 driveth away. The South put more trust in it than 
 sensible people should, and had really no reason to 
 wonder, when it proved a broken reed for those who 
 leaned upon it, 
 
 General Lee s decision, however reached, was made 
 at last, and preparations for his invasion at once began. 
 His army, during May, was strengthened by two 
 divisions of Longstreet, and a large number of new 
 recruits, the whole amounting on May 3ist, to 88,000 
 men in round numbers, of whom 68,000 were ready for 
 active service. The recent battles had not diminished 
 his effective force, while the morale of his troops was 
 higher than ever. A finer army in numbers, in equip 
 ment, in discipline, in spirit, courage and confidence, had 
 at no time taken the field under the Confederate flae. 
 
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 The army, divided into three corps, commanded respect 
 ively by A. P. Hill, Longstreet and Ewell, was ready at 
 the opening of June, to begin its famous invasion. 
 
 Its rendezvous was Culpeper, for which place two 
 of Longstreet s divisions set out on the 3d of June, 
 followed on the 4th, by Ewell s corps. A reconnoisance 
 
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 by Pleasanton, in command of the Union cavalry, on 
 the 7th, toward Culpeper, resulted in a sharp engage 
 ment with the enemy s cavalry, under Stuart, near 
 Brandy Station, without effecting much for either side. 
 To get rid of serious obstructions to crossing the 
 Potomac, Lee found it important to free the Shenandoah 
 valley from Union troops, a considerable body of whom, 
 under Milroy, held it, and with no intention to relinquish 
 possession, unless forced to do it. This forcing process 
 was resorted to by General Ewell, who, on the i3th of 
 June, marched upon Winchester, where Milroy was rest 
 ing in fancied security, and whence he was driven out 
 by overpowering numbers and obliged to retreat beyond 
 the Potomac. His losses in this operation were heavy, 
 but the Confederates gained their end in clearing the 
 valley of all Union troops and thus opening an unob 
 structed highway through the valley of the Shenandoah 
 for all the troops desiring to take that route. 
 
 Jenkins, at the head of 2,000 cavalry, crossed the 
 river at Williamsport, June i5th, reaching Chambers- 
 burg, the same day. He exacted contributions of horses, 
 grain, etc., from the farmers, as he advanced, striking 
 terror into the hearts of the inhabitants of the region, 
 who, looking upon his force as simply the forerunner of 
 hosts to follow, trembled to think what was to befall 
 them when the main army should appear. In fact, 
 Ewell s Corps, was not long in following the lead of its 
 cavalry, and on the 22d, it had crossed the Potomac, 
 the divisions of Rodes and Johnson reaching Chambers- 
 burg, on the 23d. On the 27th, these divisions had ad 
 vanced to Carlisle, while Jenkins, with his cavalry, pushed 
 forward to Kingston, only thirteen miles from Har- 
 
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 risburg. This daring" cavalry leader, approached within 
 four miles of Harrisburg, skirmishing and seeking to 
 find out the most favorable points for attacking the city. 
 With Ewell s infantry to back him, the fate of the Penn 
 sylvania capitol seemed to be trembling in the balance. 
 
 Numbers of the citizens, dreading the impending 
 danger, made a hasty flight. But events were occurring 
 elsewhere, which made Ewell s recall necessary, and 
 relieved Harrisburg from the presence of a threatening 
 enemy at its gates. 
 
 The corps of Longstreet and Hill, had crossed the 
 Potomac on the 24th, and united the next day at Hagers- 
 tovvn. On the 2/th, they were at Chambersburg, Hill s 
 Corps, advancing to Fayettsville, where it was encamped, 
 on the 29th, with Heth s division thrown forward on 
 that clay to Cashtown, distant eight miles from Gettys 
 burg. There Hill s Corps was within striking distance 
 of Gettysburg, on the west, Longstreet being close 
 behind him, with Ewell s Corps on the north of this 
 town and but a few miles off, all indicating that Gettys 
 burg was the point toward which the rebel forces were 
 converging, and where it was determined to abide the 
 issue of a pitched battle. This outline to the Confed 
 erate army s movements is given with some detail, in 
 order that the operations of the Union forces, before the 
 great battle of Gettysburg, so momentous in its results, 
 may be more clearly seen and understood. 
 
 For some weeks after the battle of Chancellorsville, 
 tire Army of the Potomac lay quietly in its encampments 
 near the Rappahannock. General Hooker was not long 
 in learning that the enemy was projecting some move 
 ment, though what its character or direction was, he had 
 
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 no certain knowledge. A change in the encampment 
 on the other side of the river met his eye, and General 
 Sedgwick was directed to send troops across to recon 
 noitre and ascertain whether the main body of Lee s 
 army remained there. A division was accordingly sent 
 over, which was soon confronted by Hill s Corps, which 
 still retained its position near Fredericksburg. The 
 division sent by Sedgwick, returned, reporting that Lee s 
 army had not moved, though, in fact, Longstreet s and 
 Ewell s corps, were then some distance on their way to 
 Culpeper. Hill, with his corps, followed the others as 
 soon as he found the force sent by Hooker withdrawn 
 from the Fredericksburg side of the river and Sedgwick 
 gone from his front, and then the whole of Lee s army 
 was moving forward on its northern expedition. 
 
 General Hooker remained opposite Fredericksburg, 
 till the 1 3th of June, when, hearing of Ewell s advance 
 on Winchester, he started north toward Washington. 
 On the 1 5th, three of his seven corps were grouped 
 around Centreville, one was at Manasses, the others at 
 Fairfax Court House, with Pleasanton and his cavalry 
 force at Warrenton. 
 
 The Union army was now on the alert, the purpose of 
 the enemy being ascertained, and proper preparation 
 was made to repel the invasion from whatever quarter 
 it might come. When the rebel forces were capturing 
 towns in Pennsylvania and threatening Harrisburg itself, 
 urgent appeals were forwarded to Hooker to hasten to 
 the rescue. But his plan was, while he kept his army 
 interposed between Lee and Washington, so as to guard 
 the Capitol, to advance on a line parallel with Lee s 
 army, ready to strike it whenever opportunity presented. 
 
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 With this view, his army advanced cautiously, step by 
 step, in the direction taken by the enemy, a part of it 
 crossing the Potomac on the 25th, the corps of Reynolds, 
 Sickles and Howard, being that night at Middletown 
 and extending as far as Boonsboro. On the 26th, the 
 Second, Fifth and Sixth corps, were advanced to Fred 
 erick, and by the 28th, the greater part of the army was 
 drawn together at this point as a rendezvous. 
 
 Another change in Union commanders now took 
 place. Certain measures which Hooker desired to effect 
 for the advantage of the army, as he believed, were not 
 approved by the Washington authorities, and feeling 
 that he was hampered, if not thwarted, by this failure to 
 comply with his requests, he resigned his command. 
 His resignation was accepted and General George G. 
 Meade, was at once appointed to fill his place. A 
 change so important, on the verge of a great battle 
 that might occur at any moment, might seem a very 
 dangerous tiling to do But the new commander, though 
 
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 untried in a position so high and responsible, was well 
 known as a soldier of experience and skill a brave, 
 capable and efficient officer, who would be sure to devote 
 his best energies to carrying out successfully, the great 
 work that had devolved upon him. 
 
 He found the army true, loyal and prompt, as it had 
 always been, and ready for whatever service its com 
 mander might direct. Only three days would elapse 
 before its spirit and endurance would be tested in one 
 of the greatest battles in our history. It was a brief 
 time for a commander to adjust himself to his position, 
 and for the troops to know and confide in their leader. 
 Yet when the trying time came, both leader and soldiers 
 
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 showed that their short connections with each other, 
 had wrought no harm to the cause, and abated nothing 
 from the ardor, energy and devotion to duty, which 
 made their struggle victorious. 
 
 From Frederick, where the army was on the 28th of 
 June, General Meade moved nearer the Susquehanna, 
 and to the enemy clustered around Gettysburg. On 
 the 3Oth, the left of his army, the First Corps, was at 
 Marsh Creek, the Eleventh Corps, at Emmetsburg, a 
 few miles from Gettysburg. The other corps were 
 located at different points south of the latter town, but 
 near enough to each other to operate promptly, should 
 battle occur at or near Gettysburg. Thus situated, with 
 Gettysburg as a central point, and the two armies the 
 circle around it, both awaited, on the 3Oth of June, such 
 developements as another day might bring forth. 
 
 Little has been said in this chapter about the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment. Its movements and 
 history during the two months after Chancellorsville, are 
 embraced in those of the whole army whose preparations 
 to meet the invasion of Lee, have been described. Not 
 much of special interest occurred requiring distinct 
 notice. Drilling and reviews, marching and counter 
 marching, picket duty and guarding wagon trains, with 
 routine service in camp, occupied the time, till the sev 
 eral corps began to move toward the north. On the 
 25th of June, the regiment crossed the Potomac at 
 Edwards Ferry, marching along the Chesapeake and 
 Ohio canal, to Monocacy aqueduct. On the next day, 
 it advanced to the Point of Rocks, and on the 27th, went 
 into camp thirteen miles beyond, in the vicinity of Mid- 
 dletown. On the 28th, a march of 16 miles, took the 
 
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 regiment through Frederick and several small villages 
 in Maryland, to Walkersville, and on the 29th, it 
 advanced to Taneytown, where part of the Union forces 
 were encamped, awaiting the order that should send 
 them forward to the field on which the issues of the 
 battle, so near at hand, were to be decided. 
 
 As an evidence of the Union feeling that existed in 
 Maryland, when the regiment passed through it, and 
 how the hearts of the people warmed to the old flag- 
 though many regarded them as having strong southern 
 sympathies an extract from the memoranda of Mr. 
 Lewis, will be found of interest : 
 
 "Our march since we reached Maryland, has been through a 
 beautiful section. Evidences of thrift were on every hand. It was 
 pleasant to look upon the comfortable homes, the fine orchards 
 loaded with fruit, and the large fields of waving grain. The people 
 with whom we conversed, were outspoken in their loyalty to the 
 Union, and we felt that we were among our friends. The ladies in 
 many cities and villages through which we passed, were wild with joy 
 at the sight of the Union army, and welcomed us with patriotic 
 songs and waving flags. Our men who visited houses along the line 
 of march, found plenty of bread, pies, cakes, biscuits, milk, fruit, and 
 vegatables, which were given to them or purchased at very low 
 prices. Some of these loyal people did not keep enough for them 
 selves to eat. In some of the towns and villages, ladies, with their 
 servants, stood in front of their houses eagerly passing pure cold 
 water to our thirsty soldiers." 
 
 We have seen other accounts of Maryland, during 
 the war, giving a far less favorable view of the people s 
 loyalty there, especially just after the rebellion broke 
 out. But, in this third year of the conflict, the people 
 had found time for reflection, and this, it is pleasant to 
 believe, had led those who had wavered, to abhor seces- 
 
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 sion and disunion and cling to the old flag, and extend 
 cordial greetings to the men who were bearing and 
 defending it. The invasion of Maryland the year before 
 and the battle of Antietam, had done much to open the 
 eyes of wavering Marylanders, and to revive love for 
 the Union, in hearts, where it had begun to languish. 
 The lesson then learned, was soon to be repeated at 
 Gettysburg, and with more emphasis, and wider benefits 
 to the Union cause. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 ON THE FIELD OF GETTYSBURG BATTLE OF THE FIRST DAY, JULY 1ST 
 
 UNION FORCES WITHDRAW TO CEMETERY HILL SECOND DAY S BATTLE 
 
 ATTACK ON SICKLES CORPS THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH IN 
 
 THE HOTTEST OF THE CONFLICT ITS GALLANT DEFENSE AND RECORD- 
 ITS HEAVY LOSSES IN KILLED AND WOUNDED SAD SCENES ON THE 
 BATTLE-FIELD PICKETT s CHARGE AND REPULSE ON THE THIRD DAY 
 RETREAT OF LEE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNION VICTORY. 
 
 The opposing armies which had been gathering around 
 Gettysburg, were, on the jOth of June, near to each 
 other and gradually drawing nearer, so that a speedy 
 collision could not long be avoided. That collision took 
 place at 9 A. M., of July ist. Heth s division of Hill s 
 Corps, advancing from the west on the Chambersburg 
 road, struck the cavalry division under Buford, which 
 had been thrown forward and was holding the ridges to 
 the west of Gettysburg. Buford was determined to pre 
 vent, if possible, the Confederates from entering the 
 town, knowing that if he could maintain his ground, he 
 would soon have the support of the First Corps, then 
 hastening forward to join him. 
 
 In spite of all that skill, gallantry and the most stub 
 born resistance could do, Buford was forced back slowly 
 before overwhelming numbers, till at length, one division 
 of the First Corps, with General Reynolds himself, 
 appeared upon the field and at once joined in the struggle 
 to repel the advancing host. The remainder of the 
 First Corps, reached the field about 1 1 A. M., but before 
 
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 it arrived, some of the fiercest fighting of this opening 
 day had taken place. The most of the fighting during 
 this day, was on the ridges on each side of Willoughby 
 Run, a small stream a few rods west of Seminary Ridge, 
 along which the Confederate line of battle stretched on 
 the second and third days of July. A piece of woods 
 between Willoughby Run and Seminary Ridge, 
 possessed such advantages, that both sides were eager 
 to seize and hold it, and the fight for the mastery of this 
 coveted shelter, was furious and prolonged. It was at 
 the eastern entrance to this woods, that General Rey 
 nolds, the pride of the army, one of the brightest names 
 on the roll of the nation s leaders and heroes, fell dead 
 from the bullet of a sharpshooter. A monument now 
 marks the spot where his noble life ended. 
 
 Energetic and stubborn, as the resistance was to the 
 rebel advance, it was not sufficient to prevent the num 
 bers that came pouring on from the west, from gaining 
 ground. The Eleventh Corps, under Howard, came up 
 about one o clock, to the support of the First, and formed 
 line along Seminary Ridge, on the right of Doubleday, 
 then in command of the First Corps. But now Swell s 
 troops were advancing from the north, and Howard was 
 obliged to face his line in that direction to meet their 
 attack, and was unable to render much aid to the First 
 Corps, in their desperate struggle against Hill. With 
 out describing in detail the movements of the several 
 
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 bodies now engaged, it must suffice to say that the 
 Eleventh Corps, was no more able to hold its position 
 against the mighty odds brought against it than the First 
 Corps had been. Both corps, in short, were gradually 
 forced back, before overpowering numbers. The First 
 
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 Corps, having held its ground much longer than pru 
 dence dictated, only retreated, when, to remain longer, 
 must have resulted in its capture or utter destruction. 
 As it was, the losses in it were appalling. " Half of its 
 numbers," as its heroic commander, Doubleday , reported, 
 " lay dead and wounded on the field, and hardly a field 
 officer had escaped." Among the regiments sharing this 
 loss and which for hours had, in the front line, withstood 
 these furious attacks of the foe, was the Twentieth N. 
 Y. S. M., a monument to whose dead soldiers stands on 
 the spot, consecrated by their valor and sacrifices. 
 
 The falling back of the First Corps, which had, from 
 morning till late in the afternoon, borne the main brunt 
 of the attack, was not in disorder, much less in panic. 
 Broken and defeated, it was not dismayed, and slowly, 
 firmly, contesting every foot of the ground as it retired, 
 its wearied ranks reached at last, Cemetery Hill, and 
 were freed for a time, from further pursuit. This hill, 
 or Ridge, as it is commonly called, since famous, had 
 been designated before the battle, by General Reynolds, 
 as a suitable position upon which his force could rally if 
 driven back. The hill was not only well adapted for 
 this exigency, but for the line of battle which was 
 stretched along its top during the memorable days of 
 July second and third. One division of the Eleventh 
 Corps, under Steinwehr, had occupied it as a reserve, 
 while the other two divisions had gone forward to engage 
 in the battle then pending. And now as the bloody day 
 was closing, the soldiers of both corps were collected on 
 these formidable heights, Waclsworth s division, of the 
 First Corps, occupying Culps Hill. The men rested on 
 their arms in readiness for an attack, should one be 
 
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 made, and knowing- well that the battle, suspended for 
 a time, would certainly be renewed on the following 
 day. 
 
 It was now decided by General Meade, to concen 
 trate his army on Cemetery Ridge, and to await battle 
 on this strong position. The several corps accordingly 
 soon began to arrive, the Third and the Twelfth the 
 same evening, the others coming up the next day, the 
 Sixth, under Sedgwick, after a march of thirty-four 
 miles, not reaching the field till late in the afternoon. 
 From Gulp s Hill, to Little Round Top, a distance of 
 two miles, the Union lines extended, and were prepared, 
 at all points, to meet the enemy s advance. In this 
 advantageous position, they awaited the movements of 
 Lee s army, which, stretched along Seminary Ridge, a 
 mile to the west, might at any moment, receive and obey 
 the order to attack. 
 
 The attack did not really begin till about half-past 
 three in the afternoon, and then it \vas provoked by 
 Sickles Corps, which had taken an advanced position 
 three quarters of a mile beyond the main Union line on 
 Cemetery Ridge. This corps, indeed, bore the brunt 
 of the opening attack by Longstreet s troops, who 
 s\varmed out of the \voods and over the ridges in front 
 of the corps, and rushed into the conflict with the utmost 
 impetuosity. Sickles Corps, served as a breakwater to 
 the mighty oncoming flood of the enemy, and but for 
 the gallant work they did in checking the assault and 
 weakening its force, it might have gone hard, Sickles 
 claims, and others agree, with the Union army that day. 
 Be this as it may, the blow fell with tremendous force 
 upon Sickles soldiers, who, after doing all that men 
 
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 could to resist it, were forced in the end, to yield ground 
 which was no longer tenable. The One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment, as a part of this corps, bore its full 
 share of the burden, suffering and loss which rested 
 upon all, and its sharp experience in this fierce and san 
 guinary conflict, now demands particular notice. 
 
 The regiment left Taneytown, on the 3Oth of June, 
 and on July ist, reached Emmettsburg, from which it 
 advanced 10 miles to Gettysburg, arriving on the battle 
 field at 2 A. M. of July 2d. It came upon the field 
 between the Union and rebel lines, and for a longdis 
 tance through the valley and upon the hills, could trace 
 the two lines by the light of their fires. The battle of 
 the day before had been fought, and the marshaling of 
 the Union lines during the night and on the morning of 
 this day, indicated that a deadly grapple of the giants was 
 near at hand. The regiment moved with its corps to the 
 place assigned to it in the line on the Ridcre. The 
 
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 position of the corps, was on the left of the Union line, 
 next to Hancock s Second Corps, and with Little Round 
 Top in its rear, to the left. Sickles left this position not 
 regarding it as suitable, and with the tacit assent of 
 General Meade, advanced, as has been noticed, to one 
 he judged more favorable. In the new position chosen, 
 the centre of his corps was at the famous Peach Orchard, 
 distant, about a mile from Little Round Top ; his right 
 wing, under Humphrey, extended along the Emmets- 
 burg road, and his left, under Birney, making a right 
 angle at the Peach Orchard, with the other part of the 
 line. This left the two sides of the angle exposed to an 
 enfilading fire from batteries stationed in front of the 
 apex of the angle, and when so situated, a sufficient 
 
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 force assails both sides of the angle at once, as the troops 
 of Barksdale and Kershaw did in this case, it is hardly 
 possible for the defenders to maintain their ground suc 
 cessfully.* 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth was in Birney s 
 division on the left, and on the heads of his stanch 
 battalions, the storm of the opening battle burst in all 
 its fury. I am not describing the battle in detail, f but 
 simply giving an outline, so that the general features of 
 it may be made apparent, with the view of having the 
 service and record of the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 better understood. And as the sharp experience of 
 that regiment is given, in the diary hitherto quoted 
 from, by one who passed through the raging fires of the 
 conflict, we will listen to the story, as he tells it, in a 
 terse and straightforward way : 
 
 "Almost from the first of our advance, we had been under fire 
 from the enemy s batteries, stationed just in the rear of their front 
 line of battle. Some of our artillery was stationed on the brow of 
 the hill, just in front of us, and sent an occasional reply to the fire 
 from the enemy s guns. 
 
 "At about 4 o clock in the afternoon, the enemy s batteries, on 
 Seminary Ridge, opened on us a terrific fire, and our artillery, after 
 passing to our front, replied. Soon their long line of infantry were 
 seen advancing toward us under a rapid fire from our batteries. 
 When the advance had got within rifle range of the artillery on the 
 brow of the slope in front of us, so many of the gunners were killed 
 or wounded, and so many of the horses had been shot, it was with 
 the greatest difficulty that all of the pieces were drawn to the rear. J 
 
 * General Doubleday s History of Gettysburg Battle. 
 
 t See General Sharpe s minute account of the second day s battle in the twentieth 
 chapter of this volume. 
 
 I While the Union batteries were falling back, Bigelow s battery was directed to 
 hold its position at all hazards, till another line of artillery could be formed beyond 
 Plum Run. The order was obeyed, the end was accomplished, but the battery 
 
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 By the time they were safely behind us, the enemy were within range 
 of our fire. The regiment being now alone in the reserve, the men 
 were lying down with orders not to rise till they received the word of 
 command. The enemy s advance line having reached the base of the 
 slope behind which we were lying, and moving forward rapidly, the 
 order came and the whole line rose as a man and poured into their 
 ranks such a terrible fire of musketry, as to bring them to a standstill 
 when within a few rods of us. Then for an hour or more, the dread 
 ful crash of battle resounded ; the rattle of musketry, the bursting of 
 shells, the roar of cannons, mingled with the cries of the wounded, 
 and with the cheers and yells of the determined foemen. All at once, 
 our line was swept by an enfilading fire, under which no troops 
 could remain and live, and it became necessary to fall back without 
 the range of the deadly hail. We were losing very heavily in our 
 regiment, but fell back in good order, contesting stubbornly every 
 inch of the ground. Soon other troops from the Second and Fifth 
 corps came forward protecting our flanks, and enabling our whole 
 line to advance. The enemy were driven back before us, until we 
 had retaken nearly all the ground we had just lost. 
 
 Nearly all the men lost by our regiment during the battle of three 
 days, were lost on this day. Out of 440 present for duty when the 
 battle commenced, 203 were numbered among the killed and wounded, 
 at its close. General Sickles, our corps commander, was wounded 
 by a minie-ball and carried from the field, David W. Hommel, a 
 member of our regiment, with others, assisting in this service.* 
 Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Westbrook, in command of the regiment, 
 fell, severely wounded, and was carried to the rear by Alonzo Lewis 
 and John Myers, of company I, and Charles Yates, of company H, 
 just in time to save him from falling into the hands of the enemy. 
 Yates, while aiding in lifting the Colonel from the ground, was 
 
 was well-nigh annihilated. Of the four battery officers, one was killed, another 
 mortally wounded, and Captain Bigelow himself wounded severely. Two sergeants 
 were killed, and four wounded out of seven, the killed and wounded privates being 
 in like proportion, while of the horses, eighty out of eighty-eight were killed or 
 disabled. The battery sacrificed itself to the safety of the line, making an immortal 
 record, a monument in honor of which appears at Gettysburg, on the spot where 
 the battery was posted. 
 
 * General Sickles was wounded, near the Trostle House, about six o clock, 
 losing a leg as the effect of his wound. 
 
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 severely wounded in three places, requiring himself, the help he was 
 offering to his commander. While we were lying down, before the 
 infantry engagement, Captain Lockwood, of company A had just 
 warned Lieutenant Ketcham, not to expose himself more than was 
 necessary, the latter replying, "a dead man is better than a living 
 coward," when, just as the words passed his lips, he was instantly 
 killed. Captain L. Hollister, of company D, had his haversack 
 taken from his side by a solid shot. A second shot came along and 
 killed him while he was talking to some friends about the first. 
 Captain Barker, of company K, Lieutenant Burhans, of company I, 
 Lieutenant Freileweh, of company E, Lieutenant Carle, of company 
 G, and Lieutenant Creighton, of company H, were also among the 
 killed. Captain Overbagh, Adjutant E. M. C. Russell, Lieutenants 
 E. S. Turner, Gray, Wilkinson, Pettit, Cockburn, Austin and Everett, 
 were wounded. Of these, Lieutenants Gray and Turner, each lost an 
 arm, while Lieutenant Cockburn, a young man of noble qualities and 
 excellent promise, soon after died of his wounds. 
 
 After the fighting had ceased for the day, some of the men visi 
 ted the corps hospital, which had been established about half a mile 
 to the rear, in search of wounded comrades. They found a house 
 and yard filled with wounded, and in a grove near by, the ground 
 was literally covered with them, while stretcher-bearers were con 
 tinually arriving with their loads. Surgeons were passing to and fro 
 among them, or standing about the amputating tables. Some were 
 appealing for help and many were calling for water, and others lay 
 suffering and dying without uttering a groan or word of complaint. 
 
 " The night was calm and beautiful. The full moon rose early 
 in the evening. Several of the regiment visited that part of the field 
 over which we had fought twice during the day, to search among 
 the dead and wounded for missing comrades. They went from one 
 to the other, turning their faces up to the light of the moon, to see if 
 they could recognize them. Strewn all over the field, and lying side 
 by side, were the blue and gray. The wounded were calling for 
 water, or pleading to be helped from the field. The doctors were 
 passing from one to another, giving temporary relief, while stretcher- 
 bearers and ambulances, were bearing them to the hospitals as fast as 
 possible. Our position was on the left of our line of battle, and sleep 
 during the night, could not be obtained, on account of the artillery 
 firing and volleys of musketry in different places along the lines." 
 
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 This account will give the reader who knows nothing 
 of a battle-field, except from report, a distinct idea of the 
 perils, sufferings and horrors which are inseperable from 
 a sanguinary conflict like the one described. Only a 
 small part of the picture is here disclosed to view, but 
 the whole canvass was filled with scenes, equally sombre 
 and harrowing, as the night ended the struggle on that 
 hard- fought field. The soldiers of the Third Corps, had 
 done their duty manfully, holding their ground against 
 superior numbers, to the last extremity, and falling back 
 to Cemetery Hill, only when successful resistance to the 
 outflanking hosts of the enemy, was no longer possible. 
 As it was, the desperate struggle at this point in the long 
 line, was for a time ended, and the battle remained still 
 undecided. Another day of conflict remained, and on 
 the issue of that coming day, the fate of the struggling 
 antagonists depended. 
 
 The battle of July 3d, was, as everybody knows, " short, 
 sharp, and decisive." It consisted mainly in Pickett s 
 celebrated charge against the Union centre, where the 
 Second Corps, under Hancock, was posted, and its 
 overwhelming repulse by the Union forces. The charge 
 was preceded by the tremendous roar of a hundred 
 cannons from Seminary Ridge, and the thundering reply 
 from nearly an equal number on the Union side. When 
 these mighty earth-shaking voices had subsided, after 
 an hour or two, the infantry, under Pickett, moved for 
 ward to their deadly and desperate work. It was a work 
 hardly more hopeful of successful result than Burnside s 
 assault against the rocky defences of Marye s Heights. 
 One wonders how so astute a leader as Lee could commit 
 what every one sees to have been a blunder, and which, 
 
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 had he heeded Longstreet s advice, to move around the 
 Union left, and assail it in flank and rear, would never 
 have occurred. Pickett s devoted division, with gallantry 
 worthy of a better cause, could only dash itself to pieces 
 against the rocks of the Union battalions, which stood 
 in grim array before it, and in a short time nothing 
 remained of it but shattered fragments, which the refluent 
 tide bore back to the point whence the body had set 
 forth a little while before, unbroken and buoyant. This 
 dreadful repulse ended the battle, and with it ended all 
 northern invasions, and indeed, all hopes, in reasonable 
 minds, of success to the rebel cause. At Gettysburg, a 
 death blow was dealt to the rebellion, and none knew 
 this better than the Confederate leaders. 1 " The struggle 
 might go on for some time to come, with an army not 
 destroyed arid able to effect its retreat into Virginia. 
 But the struggle was henceforth to be for preservation 
 alone, with no resources in prospect to make good 
 present losses or ward off the collapse that was drawing 
 slowly, but inevitably nearer. Thus the Gettysburg 
 battle was the turning point in the mighty conflict, and 
 the victors on that immortal field might cheer themselves 
 with the assurance that the triumph now won was the 
 pledge of the total triumph at no distant day, of the 
 cause for which so many lives had been sacrificed, and 
 such unimaginable suffering inflicted upon the households 
 of the land. 
 
 * Longstreet, in his account of the battle, in the CENTURY of Febru 
 ary, 1887, says : " For myself, I felt that our last hope was gone, 
 and that it was now only a question of time with us." 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 BETWEEN GETTYSBURG AND THE RAPIDAN GENERAL GRANT IN COMMAND 
 OF THE UNION ARMIES PREPARING FOR A SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN 
 MOVEMENTS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH AFTER GETTYS 
 BURG LIEUTENANT-COLONEL TAPPEN IN COMMAND OF THE REGIMENT 
 INCIDENTS IN CAMP A MILITARY EXECUTION SODIERS RECREA 
 TIONS AFFAIRS AT JAMES CITY MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT CAP 
 TURED. 
 
 The victory at Gettysburg, with the utter failure of 
 Lee s designs upon the North, did not result in the dis 
 persion, capture and ruin of the rebel army. Such 
 decisive overthrow, many have insisted, ought to have 
 been effected, and would have been, with the proper 
 promptness and energy in following up at once the 
 grand triumph which the Union army had achieved. 
 Some of the principal commanders in the beaten army, 
 notably General Longstreet, expected an instant and 
 unrelaxing pursuit, and have expressed, since the war, 
 their surprise than an immediate advance against their 
 demoralized ranks was not ordered. The prudent Union 
 commander, however, was unwilling to take any risks, 
 and preferred, as the part of discretion, to cling to his 
 commanding Ridge, without molesting the enemy in his 
 preparations for retreat. He regarded the army opposed 
 to him, as too formidable still to be assailed with success, 
 and that his own army, depleted by the heavy losses of 
 the three days battle, might, if attacking, be repulsed in 
 turn, which would counteract the solid advantages now 
 obtained. 
 
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 Perhaps his course was a wise one, though there are 
 commanders that could be named, who, if in the same 
 position, would have pursued a more energetic course. 
 As it was, Lee, with his army, was suffered to win his 
 way back toward the Potomac without serious interrup 
 tion from his adversary, and on the morning of the i5th, 
 twelve days after the great battle, his army stood once 
 more on Virginia soil, where, with such recruited num 
 bers and strength as it might gain, it was enabled to 
 prolong the struggle for nearly two years. 
 
 The whole interval between the Gettysburg battle 
 and the spring of 1864, when the army, under General 
 Grant, began its march southward, was given to prepa 
 ration for the great work that lay before it. On the Qth 
 of March, 1864, Grant received his commission as Lieu 
 tenant- General a grade which Congress had a short 
 time before revived and the command of all the Union 
 armies passed under his control. He was selected as 
 the man pre-eminently fitted for the position, his con 
 nection with the capture of Fort Donelson, Nashville, 
 Vicksburg, and with other brilliant successes, led the 
 government and people to believe, that the Army of 
 the Potomac, had found at last, the man who should 
 lead it to victory. 
 
 That gallant army, so often unfortunate in its com 
 manders, longed for, and richly deserved, to have the 
 leader capable of directing its fiery energies aright, and 
 making the blows they were ever ready to strike, tell 
 with decisive effect upon the enemy. Such a leader, it 
 was believed, had now been given to them, and the spirit 
 and enthusiasm of the troops rose in proportion. They 
 knew what a bitter contest was opening before them, 
 
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 and what the expectations of the country were, and they 
 stood ready for the toil and sacrifice demanded by the 
 one, in order to fulfill the other, in the utter overthrow 
 and stamping out of the rebellion, 
 
 General Grant visited the Army of the Potomac, on 
 March loth, the day after his appointment to command. 
 He made his headquarters with Meade at Brandy Sta 
 tion, some 70 miles from Washington. A re-organiza 
 tion of the army, recommended by General Meade 
 who retained his command under Grant was effected, 
 by means of which, three army corps were formed in 
 place of the six corps which had operated at Gettysburg. 
 These consolidated corps, were the Second, Fifth and 
 Sixth. The Second Corps was composed of two divis 
 ions of the old Second Corps and two divisions of the old 
 Third Corps the command being assigned to Gen 
 eral Hancock. The Fifth Corps, was commanded 
 by General Warren ; the Sixth by General Sedgwick. 
 By this arrangement, the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 Regiment, became connected with the Second Corps, 
 under Hancock. The division it belonged to, was the 
 Fourth, commanded by Brigadier General Mott, its 
 brigade being the Second, whose commanding officer 
 was Colonel W. R. Brewster. The number of regi 
 ments to a brigade, was increaed by the new organiza 
 tion, there being nine in the First brigade and eight in 
 the Second. The re-organization being completed, the 
 Army of the Potomac was ready to enter on the open 
 ing campaign. 
 
 It was a grand and powerful army, its total number of 
 officers and enlisted men, of all arms and branches of 
 the service, present and equipped for duty, on the 3Oth 
 
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 of April, 1864, being 99,438,* or, in round numbers, 
 100,000 men. The Army of Northern Virginia, which 
 they were going forth to oppose and vanquish, if it 
 might be, had hardly two-thirds of this number, as its 
 aggregate of officers and enlisted men. But the Con 
 federate troops were on their own soil and familiar with 
 the country through whose fields and forests the course 
 of the coming conflicts lay and these were advantages 
 that fully compensated for any shortcoming in the mat 
 ter of numbers. The Union army was sure at least, to 
 encounter " foemen worthy of their steel." And when 
 the Rapidan should be crossed and "the wilderness" 
 fairly entered on, our soldiers knew perfectly that the 
 utmost energies of an enemy, whose prowess had often 
 been tried, would be put forth to withstand their advance, 
 and if possible, drive them back, baffled at all points. 
 
 Leaving the army for a time encamped along the 
 banks of the Rapidan, we turn back to trace the history 
 of the regiment with whose fortunes this narrative is 
 principally concerned. It has been seen with what self- 
 sacrificing bravery the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 performed its part in the Gettysburg battle, and at what 
 great personal cost, it attested its fidelity and devotion 
 to duty. Colonel VVestbrook, having been disabled by 
 his wound, the command of the regiment devolved on 
 Major J. Rudolph Tappen, Captain A. L. Lockwood, 
 becoming Lieutenant-Colonel. During the remainder 
 of the summer, after the opening days of July, nothing of 
 sufficient moment occurred in the experience of the regi 
 ment to require special comment. Though relieved 
 
 * Humphrey s " Virginia Campaign, of 64 and 65." 
 
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 from the urgencies of the battle-field, the season of 
 respite was not marked by inaction, for a great amount 
 of marching, from point to point, was done during July 
 and August, while drills and reviews, guard and picket 
 duty, made the days, as they went by, anything but idle 
 or leisure days. The face of the army was turned 
 toward the south once more, where the field of its future 
 operations lay, and was moving slowly to the line it pro 
 posed to take up, between the Rappahannock and Rapi- 
 dan rivers, till ready for a general advance. The 
 regiment in its journeyings, visited localities and battle 
 fields which the rebellion has made historic Manassas 
 Junction, Bristoe Station, Harper s Ferry, Bull Run, 
 Sharpsburg and Antietam, being of the number. The 
 ranks of the regiment had grown greatly depleted 
 through the losses of the Gettysburg campaign, and its 
 one crying need now, was a fresh supply of men. This 
 need, indeed, it shared with nearly all the army. 
 Accordingly, efforts were at once put forth to supply 
 this demand. A detail of officers and men was sent 
 North to obtain what was so urgently required. The 
 several rendezvous of drafted men were resorted to, to 
 secure the necessary supply, it being found that volun 
 tary enlistments were insufficient, and then the process 
 of filling up the regiments went on with more or less 
 rapidity. To what extent the thinning out in the regi 
 ment had gone and its consequent need to be recruited, 
 will appear from this statement in the diary before 
 referred to : 
 
 "Our ranks had already been thinned by battle and sickness. 
 Several companies that left Kingston with nearly one hundred men, 
 now had less than twenty ; and it was noticed, that at one of our 
 brigade drills, the regiment numbered only eighty-three men." 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS 8 \ 
 
 o 
 
 This was about three months after Gettysburg. And 
 though this was far from being the whole number then 
 composing the regiment, many being absent from parade 
 on detached duty or in hospital or for other sufficient 
 cause, it yet shows how reduced the numbers actually were, 
 and what absolute necessity there was for bringing in 
 men to fill the gaps. Fortunately, we had the state of 
 New York, and in fact, the North itself, to draw upon, 
 and its resources were still large and not likely soon to 
 be exhausted. 
 
 Army discipline must be maintained, as without it, no 
 body of troops in the field can be held together or made 
 to render efficient service. To secure this, punishment 
 for the violation of military rules must sometimes be 
 severe, and to appearance, even harsh and cruel. The 
 punishment of death, for desertion, may seem dispropor- 
 tioned to the offence, but there are circumstances under 
 which such punishment may be warranted and even 
 demanded. The court-martial that tries the culprits, is 
 the judge of these, and from its decision, at times, no 
 appeal avails. A decision of this kind, had adjudged 
 five deserters from the Fifth Corps, to be shot on the 
 3<Dth of August, about half a mile from Beverly Ford, 
 where the One Hundred and Twentieth was then 
 encamped. The diary from which we take the incident 
 gives the following animated account : 
 
 "About 10,000 men witnessed the solemn scene. Five graves 
 were dug in line and five coffins were placed beside them. The 
 whole corps was drawn up in solid column, on a rise of ground, 
 enabling all to have a good view. The five men were neatly dressed 
 in white shirts and blue pants. The band played solemn music for 
 about an hour, while the assembled crowd appeared deeply impressed 
 
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 with the sadness of the occasion. The men, who were fine looking, 
 were led to their graves where each was seated on the end of his 
 coffin with hands fastened behind his back. Sixty soldiers, with 
 loaded muskets, were drawn up in line in front of them. One of the 
 unfortunate men was so overcome that he had to be assisted to his 
 place. The right and left men met and kissed each other and were 
 again placed upon their coffins. After the chaplain had spoken a 
 few words, the order came to fire, when sixty muskets flashed, and 
 the men lay dead upon their coffins." 
 
 A story of this kind moves our sympathies deeply, 
 and we think of the stricken hearts of the kindred of 
 these unfortunate men who sent them forth with their 
 benedictions and prayers to battle in their country s 
 defense, little anticipating such a catastrophe as this, com 
 pared with which death on the battle-field, would have 
 been to them, a boon and blessing. It is pleasant to 
 know, that very few, indeed, of the multitudes that went 
 forth from northern homes to join in defending the flag, 
 were brought to their death in a way so dreadful and 
 ignominious. 
 
 In contrast to this, the soldiers in camp had seasons 
 of relaxation and amusement, which they enjoyed heart 
 ily. The monotony of camp life was relieved at times 
 by such aesthetic sports as climbing a greased pole, 
 catching a pig by the caudal end, greased also, leaping 
 over bars or hurdles, tossing small " contrabands," as 
 General Butler termed them, in blankets, alternating 
 with an occasional foot race or horse race. Apropos of 
 the latter, one of the surgeons offered a small wager that 
 he could run his horse a hundred yards, turn round a 
 post and get back to the starting point sooner than a 
 man on foot could perform the same distance. One of 
 the captains accepted the wager ; the parties set out on 
 
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 the race ; the doctor reached the post first, but the time 
 taken in slowing his horse and turning around the post, 
 brought the captain half way back on the home stretch 
 and he reached the goal before he was overtaken and 
 won the race amid the acclamations of the delighted 
 spectators. This is one of the more pleasing aspects of 
 the soldier s life, and we like to see him get all the 
 innocent amusement he can, for his service in the field, 
 is at best, one of hardship and discomfort. But I must 
 hasten to notice a mishap, which about this time, befell 
 a part of the regiment, and which had very serious con 
 sequences for those on whom the misfortune fell. This 
 was the capture by the enemy of no fewer than 1 1 3 men 
 and two officers, with the almost certain result of their 
 being shut up in Southern prisons, the very name of 
 which struck horror to the soul of a Northern soldier. 
 To understand how this disaster occurred, some account 
 is necessary of the situation and movements of the two 
 armies. 
 
 In the early part of September, Longstreet s Corps, 
 was detached from Lee s army and sent to join Bragg s 
 army before Chattanooga. The defeat of Rosecrans at 
 Chicamauga, on the 2Oth of September was the result ; 
 in consequence of which, the Eleventh and Twelfth 
 corps of the Union army, were sent west, under Hooker, 
 to strengthen the army of Rosecrans. What remained 
 of Lee s and M cade s armies, soon began active opera 
 tions against each other, the cavalry of each army 
 playing an important part. The Union cavalry, in three 
 divisions, under Buford, Kilpatrick and Gregg, by a 
 series of aggressive movements, had got possession of 
 the whole country between the Rappahannock and the 
 
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 Rapidan. The enemy s cavalry, under Stuart, in two 
 strong divisions, commanded respectively by Generals 
 Fitz Hugh Lee and Wade Hampton, were on the watch 
 for opportunities to assail their adversaries to advantage 
 and regain possession of the ground lost. Meade s 
 army was concentrated in the neighborhood of Cul- 
 peper Court House, and Lee was manceuvering his 
 forces with a view to bring his adversary to an engage 
 ment on favorable ground, calculating in this case to 
 defeat him. Stuart had posted Hampton s division at 
 Madison Court House, a few miles south of Robertson 
 river, a small affluent of the Rapidan, while Kilpatrick s 
 command was north of the stream, and a few miles south 
 of James City. Several miles north of this place, at 
 Griffinsburg, a division of the Third Corps, under Gen 
 eral Prince was encamped. 
 
 The Confederate army, on October 9th, crossed the 
 Rapidan and advanced by slow marches toward Madison 
 Court House, being posted on the loth, so as easily to 
 outflank the Union right. The cavalry being in the 
 advance, detachments from Hampton s division, crossed 
 the Robertson river on the evening of October Qth, 
 driving in the Union outposts toward James City. 
 General Meade regarded this movement only as a feint 
 to cover the retreat of the Confederate army. Lee s 
 subsequent movements, however, show that he had no 
 purpose to retreat, but was aiming to surprise and defeat 
 the Union army. In carrying out this design, the Con 
 federate cavalry took the initiative, and performed an 
 efficient part. This is well described by the subjoined 
 paragraph from the Comte de Paris History of the 
 Civil War," which, as embracing the disaster to the One 
 
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 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, makes it accord with 
 the aim and course of our narrative : 
 
 "At daybreak on the loth, Stuart crossed Robertson s river with 
 the whole of Hampton s division, his right moving forward against 
 Custer, who, being ordered not to open the battle, gradually falls 
 back before it. The main body of the division follows the James 
 City road, which ascends the northern extremity of Thoroughfare 
 Mountain. Kilpatrick awaits the enemy in this position with his 
 Second brigade, which Colonel Davis commands, since the death of 
 Farnsworth. General Prince, who, with a division of the Third 
 Corps, is encamped between Griffinsburg and James City, sends him 
 the One Hundred and Twentieth, New York.* But this reinforce 
 ment of less than 300 men, is not sufficient to enable Kilpatrick to 
 cope with the forces of the Confederates. The Union troopers have 
 dismounted and formed as skirmishers, with the infantry on the slopes 
 of the hill. While Stuart makes Gordon s brigade, also on foot, con 
 front them, he places himself at the head of Young s cavalry, makes 
 a detour and arrives on their flank at a gallop. The soldiers of the 
 One Hundred and Twentieth are the first exposed to his blows, 
 almost all the regiment falls into his hands. The Union cavalry 
 rapidly retreats to James City, closely pursued by Stuart. Kilpatrick, 
 to retard the pursuit, brings forward his reserves, and a charge of the 
 Fifth New York and Fifth Michigan, succeeds in setting free a large 
 number of prisoners. Despite a new reinforcement brought by 
 Prince, the Federals are overmatched. Pleasanton orders Kilpatrick 
 to cover Prince s retreat, by falling back slowly on the Second and 
 Third Corps, stationed on the west of Culpeper. and orders Custer 
 to join him at James City." 
 
 * The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment was not sent forward in support 
 of Kilpatrick on the loth of October, as implied in the Comte de Paris statement. 
 It moved from James City on the afternoon of the 8th, as appears from this memo 
 randum in the diary: " October 8th, marched with division at 4 A. M., twelve 
 miles, halting at 10 A. M., near James City. At 3:30 p. M., the regiment was 
 chosen as a cavalry support, and went four miles toward Madison Court House, 
 halting at a school house one mile from Russell s Ford on Robertson s 
 River." 
 
 It remained here through the gih and till Stuart s attack on the loth. 
 
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 Without extending this account, it is enough to say 
 that Lee was baffled in his purpose to force an engage 
 ment upon the Union army, which, re-crossing the Rap- 
 pahannock, was in a position to choose its own time for 
 continuing the conflict. 
 
 The result of the foregoing action to the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth, was, as before noticed, the cap 
 ture of 1 1 5 men, including Surgeons Miller and Hogan. 
 These two officers were not held in captivity long, but 
 being paroled, they rejoined their regiment December 
 1 8th, when it lay in winter quarters at Brandy Station, 
 For the others, the only fate that stared them in the 
 face, was the southern prison, with all the indignity, 
 suffering and woe, which that term implied. It is fitting 
 before taking leave of this subject, that some account 
 should be given of the frightful experiences of these 
 unfortunate men in the places of torture, in which for 
 weary months they were confined by their unrelenting 
 captors. An account of this kind has been put forth in 
 a printed paper, by Wilbur L. Hale, a member of the 
 regiment, who himself saw and shared all the horrors 
 he describes. As the story told by him, is a clear, 
 graphic and striking one, needing no additions to com 
 plete the picture, it will be spread out before the reader 
 in its main particulars in the chapter ensuing. If it 
 anticipates a little the general course of the narrative, it 
 will prove at least, no hindrance to the fuller under 
 standing of all matters of interest relating to the fortunes 
 of the regiment. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 WILBUR L. MALE S NARRATIVE OF A Y-EAR S EXPERIENCE IN SOUTHERN 
 PRISONS HOW THE MEN WERE MADE PRISONERS CONVEYED TO RICH 
 MOND TREATMENT BY THE WAY HOW PRISONERS FARED IN LIBBY 
 
 PRISON AND BELLE ISLAND REMOVED TO ANDERSONVILLE AN ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THIS HORRIBLE PRISON AND THE SUFFERINGS OF UNION SOLDIERS 
 CONFINED THEREIN. 
 
 The narrative of Mr. Hale, which forms the subject 
 of the present chapter, treats of his experience and that 
 of his comrades during a year s confinement in the 
 Libby, Belle Island and Andersonville prisons. His 
 account, as written, is contained in two newspaper arti 
 cles, each of considerable length, the first being con 
 cerned with the Libby and Belle Isle prisons, the last 
 with Andersonville. Interesting as are the details in 
 the first article, they cannot be given in full without 
 curtailing the second article, or extending the present 
 transcript to an inordinate length. This is the less 
 necessary, as the account of Andersonville, the most 
 notorious of the southern prisons, embraces all of priva 
 tion and suffering that belonged to the other two. 
 What was endured at Libby and Belle Isle, was endured 
 at Andersonville, and in greater degree. The account 
 of this last, associated as it is in northern minds with 
 unimaginable horrors, will be given entire. The main 
 points of interest in the first article will be presented, 
 so as to give the reader the substance of what the writer 
 would convey, and preserve the connection between the 
 several parts of his narrative. 
 
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 The circumstances under which the members of the 
 One Hundred and Twentieth were captured, are set 
 forth in the following opening paragraphs : 
 
 "It could hardly be expected of a regiment that was so continually 
 at the front, and whose whole term of service was along the danger 
 line taking part in all the battles, skirmishes, marchings, and severer 
 duties of a soldier in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged, 
 should escape losing more or less of its members, as prisoners of war. 
 The regiment fought well at Chancellorsville, holding its line until 
 the line was completely wiped out by the victorious rebels, who turned 
 our left flank, and, except the good runners, rolled us up into a ball 
 just the condition for the capture of prisoners, but were not able 
 to avail themselves of the opportunity, thanks to the brisk shelling they 
 received. 
 
 "At Gettysburg, where the fight was so hot that we lost more than 
 three-fifths of our strength in about three hours, with the lines so 
 close together that on three occasions, at least, the conflict was a hand- 
 to-hand fight, the charges of the enemy were so quickly and thoroughly 
 broken that the opportunity for capture of prisoners did not occur. 
 
 " It is possible our previous exemption from capture had banished 
 all thought of that event from our minds, for certain it is the rank and 
 file saw and appreciated the danger, as, formed in line of battle, on 
 the roth of October, 1863, near James City, Va., we endeavored to 
 stop the onward progress of Lee s whole army, imperative orders being 
 given that our position be held, and though we saw clearly the cavalry 
 closing in on both flanks, the regiment held its ground until the order 
 was reluctantly given to fall back. 
 
 ;t The order was deferred too long, however, and in the disorder 
 consequent upon it, the rebel cavalry rode through our numbers in all 
 directions, with their cries of surrender. Instances of personal 
 bravery and persistent refusal to surrender were very common and 
 marked, but we were overwhelmed by numbers, and under the per 
 suasive argument of from two to half a dozen loaded carbines, most 
 of us thought discretion the better part of valor, and one after another 
 threw down his arms and gave up the fight. 
 
 "On being brought together in the rear of our victorious enemy, it 
 was made apparent the regiment had suffered severely in regard to 
 
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 prisoners, and before our march to the rear, toward Gordonsville, was 
 commenced, a count showed one hundred and thirteen men, includ 
 ing our hospital steward, surgeons Hogan and Miller. 
 
 After their capture, the men were taken to Gordons 
 ville, under charge of a detail from the Fifth Virginia 
 cavalry. The march was wearisome and painful, one of 
 its chief hardships, being a deficiency of food. Their 
 own rations were exhausted and their captors were no 
 better furnished, in this respect, than themselves, though 
 ready to share such provisions as they had, with the 
 men placed under their charge. It is pleasant to see 
 soldiers compassionate and kind to enemies in captivity 
 and misfortune, and rendering as far as in their power, 
 friendly offices to adversaries lately arrayed in arms 
 against them, but now in need of aid and cheer. Such 
 a spectacle is presented in this passage of Mr. Male s 
 narrative : 
 
 "The morning of our capture was to have been the time of our 
 relief from picket duty, and our rations were exhausted, but few of 
 the men having enough in their haversacks to last them through the 
 day. An appeal was made to the guard for breakfast, but the asking 
 was barren of results. Indeed, our captors were themselves on short 
 rations, and told us plainly that their hopes and expectations were a 
 strike on our trains. Our guard were veterans several of them 
 having been prisoners themselves, and whether from their own 
 experience, or the deeper, purer feeling of pity that brave men dare to 
 feel and show, not a blanket, tent, knapsack or any of our furniture 
 was taken, and though their own rations consisted of but little beside 
 parched corn, they offered that freely to those that were without food, 
 and halted at noon as long as they dared, to give us an opportunity 
 to roast some corn we plucked from a field by the wayside. It was 
 rather hard feed for us, but it was all our captors had themselves, and 
 I am sure that through all that long and weary march we saw no meat 
 rations but those in possession of the prisoners. 
 
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 li We reached Gordonsville about midnight and were turned over 
 to the provost-guard at that place. We here found, as on several occa 
 sions afterward, that the severest, strictest and most cruel guard that 
 prisoners of war could ever have, were not the brave boys that dared 
 to meet us in open fight. They fought hard too hard for us at 
 times but with the battle over, were always kind and generous. 
 Indeed, while in camp or on picket our men often strove to be as 
 near the enemy as possible. The horrid custom of picket firing had 
 ceased by the time our regiment reached the front, and no Johnnie 
 ever appealed to us for bread or Yank asked for the golden weed, 
 without being supplied, though I have known our boys to go on half 
 rations to feed the hungry enemy." 
 
 No such spectacle as this was seen, or perhaps was 
 possible, in the prisons where our soldiers were confined. 
 In these, the rule was unmitigated severity. The men 
 on guard were under the eye and control, if they did 
 not always share the spirit, of a stern, cruel and inex 
 orable officer in charge. This made pity or mercy for 
 prisoners, or care for their comfort, or the alleviation of 
 their misery, words without meaning. The words were 
 not found in the prison vocabulary, and all that remained 
 for the sufferers was an unvarying repetition of woes 
 that seemed to great for human beings to endure. 
 
 Packed into filthy cars, the men were carried from 
 Gordonsville to Richmond, where their first prison 
 experience began, as thus related : 
 
 " This was the celebrated Libby Prison. It was situated between 
 Carey street and the canal, and except in the matter of food, we could 
 have gotten along there very pleasantly. On the following Wednesday, 
 October I4th, however, we were removed to another building. This 
 had been occupied as a tobacco warehouse, and except for the fact 
 that we had a shelter over us and a dry floor to sleep on, was the 
 worst accommodations we had in the Confederacy. No water, or but 
 very little, was furnished ; the water closet arrangements were so 
 
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 deficient, that portions, at least, -of our room were covered with 
 excrement and filth that reeked and smelled until men grew ill from 
 the fearful stench, and without knowing where we were to be taken, 
 men never removed their quarters more cheerfully than did we, when 
 on November i6th, we were transferred to the Pemberton building, 
 opposite, or nearly opposite, our original quarters in Libby. 
 
 "This building certainly was a wonderful improvement over any 
 quarters in which we had been confined in Richmond. Water and 
 other accommodations were good, and to our great joy, we discovered 
 in cutting through a brick wall that separated us from an adjoining 
 building a large supply of tobacco stems and a number of sheets ot 
 tin. The most of us understood at once the value of tobacco, but it 
 remained for John R. Jones, a member of company I, and a tinker, 
 to see any particular value, or anything to be desired in the plates ot 
 tin. He did see it, however, and appropriated it all to his benefit. 
 He was very kind, however, and made pails for us that held about 
 three quarts, that he sold as fast as he could make for five dollars 
 each, Confederate money. The price was wonderfully large in 
 appearance. It was only in appearance, however, for with that 
 money 20 to i for United States greenbacks, the price in our money 
 to those that had it, was but 25 cents, which was certainly cheap, 
 and as Jones put it, could not be afforded only that I stole all the 
 material, and do the work to keep out of mischief/ 
 
 "While in this building, our regular rations, when they were any 
 thing like regular, were one-half pound of corn bread a day, beef 
 occasionally, rice more frequently, though not often, and occasionally 
 something that those professing to know, called mule or horse, and 
 that was certainly dark and coarse and tough, was added. What 
 added to our certainty that it was one or the other was, we were 
 more likely to get it after a fight at the front. 
 
 " The bread served us was of corn, ground cob and all, never 
 sifted nor salted, but mixed with water and baked. The beans and 
 rice, the former especially, being wormy, were very bad, and were 
 prepared for the prisoners in a wretched manner, being boiled or 
 partly boiled in 4o-gallon kettles, that being half full, were filled with 
 cold water, which was dipped off and served to us as soup. It 
 certainly was economical, as a kettle half full was, by the addition of 
 a sufficient quantity of water, made to do duty as soup for a thousand 
 men. 
 
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 These supplies bordering on starvation, were largely 
 owing, the writer thinks, to the Confederate Commis 
 sariat, and to the enormous price at which provisions 
 and all necessaries of life were selling at Richmand, their 
 money value rising higher every month. He quotes 
 from a Richmond paper the following market report for 
 December 29th, 1863 : 
 
 Flour, $110 to $220 per barrel. 
 Beans, $28 per bushel. 
 Wheat, $20 per bushel. 
 Apples, $60 to $70 per barrel. 
 Nails, $110 to $130 per keg. 
 Corn, $12 per bushel, very scarce. 
 Peas, $25 per bushel, very scarce. 
 Whisky, $85 per gallon. 
 Rum, $80 per gallon. 
 Brandy, $55 to $58 per gallon. 
 
 This, too, when the papers of the city, no doubt taking the cue 
 from the government, possibly doing it by rebel orders, were filled 
 with boastings of the strength of the Confederacy and their ability to 
 continue the war indefinitely. 
 
 A supply of rations from the North for the Union 
 prisoners arrived in Richmond about the middle of 
 November. They were distributed among the proper 
 recipients, and for the six weeks that the provisions 
 lasted, they ministered greatly to the comfort and refresh 
 ment of the men whose bodily vigor was giving way 
 under scanty and unwholesome diet. Amid all their 
 privations, they did not lose sight of their religious 
 obligations, nor the need of Heavenly succor in their 
 trials, nor the soothing and strengthening influence of 
 the meeting for praise and prayer, and this is told in the 
 following words : 
 
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 " So the days passed on. They were frightfully long, and every 
 means conceivable were brought into requisition to employ our minds 
 and bodies. Immediately on our confinement some of ihe One Hun 
 dred and Twentieth, that were accustomed to hold prayer meetings 
 in the regiment, re-opened them. The first attendance was but a 
 half dozen, but the interest grew until hundreds attended nightly. It 
 was a strange thought and a stranger sight, that in that building, amid 
 the jest and scoff of some of our comrades, and often of all the dis 
 turbance the guard could raise, that men would thus meet for prayer 
 and praise. That it was good, the writer knows full well, for amid 
 our surroundings many whose thoughts for possibly the first time since 
 they left home, were led in that direction, came to the Great burden 
 bearer, and afterward in their lives showed the change, and many of 
 them died strong in the new found hope and precious peace." 
 
 On January 2ist, 1864, their then place of confine 
 ment was vacated and the prisoners transferred to Belle 
 Isle. How the men were tempted to forswear their 
 allegiance, and find freedom, employment and good sup 
 port by joining the Confederacy, and how the overture 
 was rejected, the following paragraph will show : 
 
 " Here again rebel officers came with offers of quarters, food and 
 clothing to those who would take the oath of allegiance and accept 
 employment in the Tredagar Iron Works, and other places. But 
 few, very, very few accepted ; still, it was a fearful temptation to 
 many. The picture was made as complete as words could paint it. 
 Our government had forsaken us. They would never consent to a 
 parole for fear the rebels would not observe it, (had I been a rebel I 
 never would have used that argument,) and knowing one mail on 
 the defensive was as good as two or more in an aggressive fight, they 
 our government had concluded to let us die. We were openly 
 told of the opportunities we would have to desert them and escape 
 North, but no, they stood and swore allegiance to the stars and stripes 
 while stand they could, and then bravely, calmly, nobly laid down to 
 die, and die they did rather than stain their souls with treason, and 
 their lips with such a lie, and among the things longest to be remem- 
 
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 bered were the last words of some dying comrade, as feeling the icy 
 fingers of death groping for their heart strings they would draw a 
 comrade s ear down to their fast stiffening lips and whisper, tell 
 father, mother, wife, children and friends, I did not desert/ Those 
 deaths were glorious. " 
 
 The removal to Belle Isle did not add to the comfort 
 of the imprisoned, as appears from the following 
 extract : 
 
 " Rations were smaller, if possible, on the island than in the city, 
 .and without clothing or tents and an exceptionally hard winter, and 
 a necessity for greater exercise to keep warm, men suffered very 
 much. Many walked the whole night through, and overcome by 
 fatigue and weakness, some lay down and froze. At any rate they 
 died, and were found next morning stiff in death. At one time some 
 of our guard were accompanied by dogs, but after several had been 
 coaxed over the line and killed and eaten, the practice was discon 
 tinued." 
 
 This prison life on the Isle, ended March 4th, on 
 which day they were taken back to Richmond and hopes 
 of parole were held out to the men languishing for 
 release from their fearful captivity. These hopes were 
 destined soon to be destroyed. For entering cars the 
 next day, the prisoners were carried to Petersburg, 
 where some fancied the paroling process might be per 
 formed in their favor. Instead of this, they soon learned 
 to their horror, that their destination was Andersonville, 
 toward which the train was now making its way. This 
 was appalling information to the unfortunate captives, 
 several of whom in their distress and in the face of all 
 hazards, flung themselves from the train hoping to 
 escape, but were shot down by the vigilant guards who 
 lined the tops of the cars. The train on reaching 
 
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 Charlotte, North Carolina, stopped a short time for sup 
 plies, and the wearied prisoners were allowed to leave 
 the cars for sorely needed rest and refreshment. When 
 the journey was resumed, several of their comrades, too 
 ill to go farther, were left behind, to find such kindness 
 as the people of the country might show them. At 
 length, after eight days travel, on the i2th of March, 
 they reached the end of their journey, and the grim 
 palisades of the Andersonville prison rose before them, 
 within which they were to dwell, how long, no one 
 could say, and quite likely to find unless all accounts 
 were false a release only through the grave. 
 
 THE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE. 
 
 If there is in all the world, certainly to those who suffered there 
 as prisoners of war, any single name or word that stands as a synonym 
 for inhumanity, brutality and suffering, that word is Andersonville. 
 Wirz might be coupled with it by the people of the North, but to 
 those who suffered, Andersonville includes all, as without the one 
 there could never have been the other. 
 
 Andersonville is a small village, credited by the census of 1880 
 with a population of 308, in Sumter County, on the line of the Cen 
 tral Railroad, about 75 miles southwest of Macon, and about 50 
 miles from the Alabama line. It was so far in the interior as to be 
 out of reach of any raiding parties of Union men, though we did 
 think sometimes that a small, well" mounted and well armed force of 
 cavalry might have reached us from the south. They never came, how 
 ever. It is possible they never could have reached us, or, having 
 reached us, and encumbered with such a load as we would have 
 made, could never have escaped the force that would certainly have 
 been sent after them. 
 
 In many respects the place might have been made a great improve 
 ment over Richmond and Belle Isle. The place selected for us was 
 on the bank of a considerable stream, and heavily wooded. 
 
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 These advantages, however, were all nullified by the rebels, who 
 cut down every tree on the ground to build a stockade. This was 
 done by cutting the trees into lengths of about twenty-five feet, hewing 
 two sides to make a close fit, and standing them closely together in a 
 trench about five feet deep. This made a tight fence of about twenty 
 feet in height around an enclosure of from eight to ten acres. There 
 were two entrances on the north side of the prison, one on each side 
 of a stream that ran through it, dividing it nearly in halves, with the 
 larger half on the east side of the stream. The gates were massive 
 enough, in appearance to us at least, to have withstood a battery of 
 six-pounders, and as we neared them a comrade said : "Whoever 
 enters here leaves hope behind." I told him we had lived in Rich 
 mond five months without hope, except in God, and this could be 
 no worse. 
 
 During the greater portion of the time in Richmond, I had acted 
 as sergeant of the floor, the duty being to distribute rations as they 
 were issued to us, receiving therefor an extra ration a day, when there 
 was any issued. The same good fortune followed me in Anderson- 
 ville, where I was chosen as sergeant of a squad of three hundred, 
 with the same pay. 
 
 It seemed as we walked into the stockade that it was an improve 
 ment on Belle Island. In addition to poor rations there we suffered 
 from neglect, prisoners being turned out of buildings in the city in 
 the midst of winter with insufficient clothing, and without tents to 
 shelter them from the wind and cold of the dreary desert of that place. 
 
 Andersonville was warmer. It was also new, the ground being 
 not yet filled with the filth and death of the Island. As summer 
 heat came on, however, we wished ourselves north again. No pro 
 tection of any kind was provided from the sun. Men grew sick and 
 died from contact with the almost torrid glare. At first we crouched 
 along the stockade as a means of protection, but that was stopped by 
 a line erected a rod inside the stockade, to pass beyond which was 
 sure and certain death. At first we were well supplied with pure 
 water for drinking purposes and to cook our scanty dole of corn or 
 rice and beans, but later on a cook-house was established on the up 
 stream side of the stockade, and next above that a camp was estab 
 lished for our guard. The establishment of cook-house and bakery 
 was a benefit, as wood was decidedly scarce, as were also cooking 
 utensils, but while the building subserved that interest for us the filth 
 
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 from the cook-house and the sinks of the guard above us, added to 
 that of the horses of the cavalry and battery, that all floated down 
 the stream, made it so foul it could no longer be used for drinking 
 purposes or bathing. Providence was kinder to us then than were 
 our captors or Wirz, for during a heavy shower about that time a new 
 and living spring of clear water burst forth from the hillside in the 
 stockade, that continued to run during all the time of our confine 
 ment there, and, I am assured by a friend who visited the place a few 
 years ago, that though the timbers had fallen away in many places, 
 that spring, with its pure and limpid water, continued to flow. 
 
 As the stockade filled up, however, other sources of supply were 
 found necessary, and as wells were dug some of them being dry, 
 the idea of a tunnel out of our prison was suggested. Many of them 
 were dug. The men would get as near the stockade as possible, 
 taking care to shield themselves from the eye of the guard, who, 
 placed on a runway two or three feet below the top and outside the 
 stockade, kept their eyes upon us, and between their cry of "Post 
 number one," two, or twenty, as the case might be, "all is well," 
 would carry out their haversacks full of sand and dump it in the 
 swift-flowing run or stream below us. In this way the shafts were 
 sunk twenty feet deep or more, when taking a course parallel with the 
 surface the tunnel would be run one, two or three hundred feet 
 beyond the stockade. Unfortunately much of this work was done a 
 short time before the rain that opened our spring, occurred, and still 
 more unfortunately one or two of the tunnels, on the south side were 
 dug so shallow that as the rain made its way into the soil the support 
 of the piles gave way, and sections of them fell. The full guard was 
 called out, and the battery with grape and canister was trained on us, 
 and our courage gave way. 
 
 Tunneling was tried later on, but Wirz, had taken the hint, and 
 by means of spies that were sent in with detachments of prisoners, 
 our plans in that direction were all discovered and foiled. One of 
 the spies came to grief, however, for being himself discovered, he 
 was pressed so hard he ran beyond the dead line, and was instantly 
 killed by a bullet from the guard. 
 
 Here, as in Richmond, rebel agents, ministers, or professed 
 ministers, included, were sent or came into the prison to persuade 
 men to take the oath of allegiance to the rebel government. Good 
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 line of march the Union army might take, we would never be seen or 
 captured by them. I myself was offered a position as superintendent 
 of a mill, for I was a miller, and was promised all the colored men 
 needed to do the laborious part of the work, if I would go out and 
 grind grain for the guard. I agreed to go if the product of the 
 mill could go into the stockades and hospital, but that being declined 
 I refused, though threatened with solitary confinement. 
 
 In many respects Andersonville was much worse than either 
 Libby Prison or Belle Island. To be sure it was not so cold as 
 farther north, but with no protection from the elements, every change 
 of the weather resulted in a higher death rate. If hot or cold or wet, 
 the result was all the same and meant more death for us. There was 
 never more than 30,000 prisoners there at any one time, tho first and 
 last nearly or quite double that number were sent to that horrible 
 place, and until June ist, the number did not exced 15,000, still 
 from March ist to October ist, the number of dead men reached the 
 enormous figure of 36,912. Mark the number. It is more than the 
 population at any one time, and yet I assert it did not tell the whole 
 story, for being in a position to know the number of prisoners at 
 times, and also to know the number of daily dead, I figured out that 
 a like proportion of deaths would carry off the last man in the stock 
 ade in 165 days just five and one-half months. The above number, 
 36,912, however, is rebel record, and they lied to make their record 
 seem less heinous. 
 
 Indeed, the policy of some of the officers at least was to kill or 
 permit the prisoners to die. In the early spring I found Richard 
 Johnston, a member of my company and an old acquaintance from 
 the town of my residence, suffering severely from diarrhoea. I 
 applied to Dr. McVeigh, of Salem, Va., for permission to go outside 
 and get pine boughs to make a bed and raise him from the ground. 
 His cool deliberate reply was: "Damn the Yankees, let them 
 die ! Each one that dies is one less without any risk for us to kill 
 him." 
 
 I held the position of master of the gangrene ward, in the prison. 
 As is known, this is a mortification of the part affected, resulting from 
 poverty of the blood and system, and under the very best of circum 
 stances where food and anti-scorbutics are plenty and of the best 
 and most nourishing character, is a very stubborn disease, if such it 
 may be called, while in such a place as that, where strength and vigor 
 
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 was as completely gone as was ours, its appearance was the sure pre 
 cursor of speedy death. 
 
 Dr. McVeigh used to say it was an excellent place to learn sur 
 gery, and would cut and haggle at the limbs of the poor wretches, 
 though he knew the conditions of their system was such, that in 
 thirty-six hours at the farthest, gangrene would almost certainly be at 
 its fearful work, and with their greatly enfeebled strength the patients 
 were sure candidates for the trench, where in rows of fifty, the dead 
 were laid. 
 
 For a very large proportion of the spring and all summer, the 
 accommodations at the hospital were wofully deficient in tents and 
 number of beds, hearing of which and thinking their chances of care 
 among their own comrades of company or regiment was better than 
 with entire strangers, many of the sick preferred the stockade and 
 were not brought out to the hospital, until the very last stages. 
 
 On that account and also because all illnesses at Andersonville 
 seemed to impair the mind and memory of the diseased, a very large 
 proportion of those received were unable to give their names. Add 
 to this cause the fact that labels containing name, rank and regiment 
 were only pinned on the clothing of the dead, and that other fact that 
 many of the dead were carried naked to burial, and the only wonder 
 is the list of unknown dead is no larger than it is. 
 
 It is shocking to think of men carried naked to their graves. It 
 was not so at first, for one and another comrade would give this, that 
 or the other portion of clothing to cover the naked ones, until some 
 of our own men, detailed to bury the dead, sent surreptitious word 
 into the hospital that men decently clothed were stripped by the rebels, 
 and to prevent this as well as protect ourselves, all good clothing was 
 taken from the dead to cover the living. Indeed, but for that fact, we 
 would have been an army of nude men. 
 
 It is no wonder that with death staring continually in our face, 
 the temptation to lawlessness and disorder should not at times at least 
 be yielded to. It was to an extent, in Richmond, though nothing in 
 comparison to that at Andersonville, where robbery and murder even 
 became so frequent that in self defence a prisoner called Big Pete, a 
 corporal of Company G, Second Massachusetts, H. A., took the case in 
 hand, and, organizing a police force, made the arrest of one called^ 
 Mosby by our men, from being chief raider, and several of his men. 
 With the consent of Captain Wirz, a jury was impanneled, and a 
 
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 prosecuting attorney appointed from the prisoners, with a rebel law 
 yer for defence. The men were fairly tried, six of them found guilty 
 and hanged. The records of the trial were preserved and brought 
 to Washington, where the findings of the court were preserved and to 
 day are on file in the War Department, as part of their records. 
 
 This action gave us peace from that quarter, though in no other 
 manner did it at all affect our interests or add at all to our comfort. 
 It stopped the raiding of lawless men in our midst, but had no effect 
 whatever on the continual raid made on our health and strength by 
 the terrible heat, ruthless hunger, and unnecessary privation. 
 
 The talk of exchange or parole broke out again in July or Aug 
 ust. It was started from Wirz headquarters, and had a short run 
 when, as if to purposely deaden our hopes and fill us with despair 
 again, a detail of carpenters was called for from the prisoners, and 
 the work of erecting barracks in the stockade was commenced and 
 continued until about four buildings of about 20x50 feet had been 
 erected, when the work was as suddenly stopped. The work was 
 commenced with the ostensible purpose of contributing to our com 
 fort during the coming fall and winter. Our idea was, the rebels were 
 becoming alarmed at the approach of the Union army through Ten 
 nessee and into Georgia, for almost simultaneously with the cessation 
 of work on the buildings inside the stockade, carpenters and laborers 
 were withdrawn from the prison and sent north. It took us a long 
 time to discover their destination, but it was subsequently revealed 
 that Florence, S. C, was their objective point. That was a small 
 village in Darlington county, about 75 miles east of Columbia, at the 
 junction of the North Eastern Railroad, running north from Charles 
 ton, distant about 125 miles, and about the same distance west of 
 Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 I never reached that place, but was told what could have been 
 expected, that being farther from food supplies, the condition of the 
 prisoners was, if possible, rather worse than Andersonville. The 
 stockade was not completed when the prisoners reached that point, 
 and in consequence guard rule was more rigid and severe, and 
 rations less. 
 
 I was in hopes the move meant something better, for me, at least, 
 though what it was, or the direction from which the hoped-for relief 
 would come, was altogether an unknown equation until about Sep 
 tember 2Oth, when, tired and weary from a long vigil at the bedside 
 
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 of a member of Company I, my own company, who I thought could 
 not live through the night, I had lain down under a piece of cotton 
 cloth, confiscated from the Confederacy, and which I afterward 
 brought home, my sleep was disturbed by a comrade trying to pull 
 me out into the moonlight. We were never surprised at anything, in 
 those days. I quietly opened my eyes and saw Richard L. Tinker, 
 one of my nurses, who, warning me to make no noise, told me to 
 come out into the bright moonlight. He then said Wirz had sent 
 for him in the early evening and told him to notify and enroll all 
 sailors, preparatory to being sent north to Charleston for parole, and 
 thinking of a comrade that had succumbed to the cruel treatment of 
 his captors he had entered me on the roll as Frederick A. James, car 
 penter s mate of the gunboat Housatonic, though before he told me 
 that, he made me swear never to reveal the source from which I had 
 received the name, in case I could not pull through on that line. 
 I, of course, was willing to give any pledge in return for the prospect 
 of getting away from the city of death, in which I had been confined 
 since March previous ; and until the dawning of the morning he 
 kindly sat with me and posted me on points that might be necessary 
 for me to know. 
 
 I was weak in body and enfeebled in mind, but the waiting lasted 
 through a long and dreary week until September 27th, when Wirz 
 directed Tinker to get his men together and report at his headquar 
 ters. I was placed in the rear rank so Wirz would not notice me. 
 He spied me out, however, and threatened to send all soldiers back to 
 the stockade. He, however, was as anxious to get rid of us as were 
 we to leave his inhospitable board, and telling us to speak good 
 words for him, we were all led to the depot, in waiting for a train for 
 Charleston. 
 
 There had been but little confidence placed in Wirz word, still 
 the excitement was so great among those whose names were enrolled, 
 we hardly grew hungry or ate, though carefully drawing all the 
 rations doled out. It was well they were kept, as none were issued 
 to us when we left or until night when Macon was reached, where one 
 day s rations and an all night rest was given. The next morning we 
 started again and reached Augusta, where another rest, but no rations 
 was given, and early next morning we arrived in Charleston. The 
 transports with prisoners had not reached the harbor, and the city 
 was being shelled for fair. A large shell passing over the city drop- 
 
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 ped on an engine, with steam up and just ready to pull out, that 
 exploding just at the proper moment and in conjunction with a full 
 head of steam blew engine, engineer and fireman into a hundred 
 fragments, and killed, wounded and scalded several in the depot. 
 The officer in charge of our train was frightened and with or without 
 orders he directed the engineer of our train to pull out and head for 
 Richmond. 
 
 The next day, September 30, we reached Columbia, S. C. Here 
 we were given a long rest and two days rations. We were permitted 
 to leave the train and wander for a short distance into the city. I 
 thought it was one of the finest places I ever saw. The place was 
 old, the streets well cared for, and shade abundant. It looked as 
 though the scourge of war had visited it very slightly, if at all, and 
 showed none of the devastation and misery a visit made later, revealed. 
 
 With two days rations we were again started northward, arriving 
 at Greenboro, N. C., next day, October i. From that point north 
 east to Petersburg, the railroad had been torn up by Grant s army, 
 and we were switched off on a new line toward Danville, Va. The 
 distance was but 48 miles, but it required a whole day of twenty-four 
 hours to make the distance slower railroad time than we had pre 
 viously required on a pinch for the same distance on foot, when in 
 good marching order. It was reached at last, however, and better 
 time was promised to Richmond. It was better, still we did not 
 arrive there until the 4th, having traveled since September 30, on two- 
 days rations, or from September 27, on three. 
 
 That we were hungry and faint, goes without the saying. Indeed, 
 a few, seven, I believe, died on the train from Andersonville, literally 
 starved to death. 
 
 Life in Richmond was hard, though better than on the road, and 
 for two weeks we lived a life of fear and anxiety. Ross, the infamous 
 adjutant of General Winder, was still in charge of the prisoners in 
 and about the city, and he took special pains every day to tell us of 
 the waning hopes and efforts of Grant s army, and the great victories 
 daily won by the Confederates, and to those he recognized, and unfor 
 tunately I was one, he daily swore that we should be sent south by the 
 very next train. Our stay there was caused by a hitch in the delivery, 
 as we undoubtedly should have been delivered to the Federal authori 
 ties at Charleston. 
 
 Of all men I knew in the South, I think Ross would rather lie 
 
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 for nothing than tell the truth for good wages. He never admitted 
 we were intended for parole, and even up to the evening of the day 
 before we left Libby, he insisted we were to be returned south. On 
 the 1 8th, however, we were ordered out in the early morning. At 
 first our direction was toward the depot, but we soon filed off down 
 another street toward a steamer plying down the river, and were soon 
 on our way down the James. Colonel Mulford had not been advised 
 of our coming, and a long delay of hours occurred at Aiken s Land 
 ing. Colonel Mulford came at last, however, at breakneck speed, 
 down to the landing, and hurriedly receipting for us, we were marched 
 ashore, and our year and ten days of imprisonment was ended. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE WILDERNESS ARMY CROSSES THE RAPIDAN CHARACTER OF THE 
 
 COUNTRY TRAVERSED SWINGING ROUND LEE s RIGHT FIERCE ATTACKS 
 
 ON THE UNION FLANK TWO DAY S CONFLICT IN THE WILDERNESS A 
 
 CONFEDERATE GENERAL^ ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE DEATHS OF 
 
 GENERALS HAYES AND WADSWORTH THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWEN 
 TIETH S SHARE IN THE BATTLE ITS LOSSES BURNING WOODS PREY 
 
 UPON THE WOUNDED. 
 
 From the loth of October, on which the capture by 
 the enemy of the men of the One Hundred and Twen 
 tieth took place, till the following Spring, no events of 
 extraordinary importance occurred in the experience of 
 the regiment, nor indeed, in the history of the army. 
 There was considerable movement and manceuvering 
 on the part of the two armies, and some engagements 
 between the opposing cavalry forces, but no severe bat 
 tle. An assault on Lee s forces, intrenched in a favora 
 ble position behind Mine Run, on the last day of 
 November, was intended, and indeed, ordered by Gen 
 eral Meade. But the Confederate position was so strong 
 and formidable, that Warren, in command of one wing, 
 declined to give the order he had received to attack. 
 When Meade had come over to survey the enemy s 
 position at Warren s request, he agreed with the latter s 
 view, that an attack should not be made, and it was 
 abandoned accordingly, much to the relief of the soldiers, 
 who had stood in line for several hours in readiness to 
 go forward, with an ordeal like that at Fredricksburg, 
 
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 before them.* A day or two before, however, on the 
 27th of November, a brisk attack had been made on the 
 Third division of the Third Corps, which, in the advance, 
 was moving forward towards the enemy s position. In 
 this engagement, which lasted but a short time, the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth took part, losing 1 1 men, three 
 of the number being killed. The enemy was repulsed ; 
 the division resumed its march and united with the main 
 army before Mine Run. The army then fell back 
 toward the Rapidan, which it crossed December ist, 
 and on the 2d, reached its old quarters around Brandy 
 Station. Winter quarters were now established, and 
 all active operations ceased for some months to come. 
 When the spring opened, preparations for the 
 approaching campaign, whose purpose was a stroke at 
 
 * That the Union soldiers in line before the enemy s entrenched 
 position at Mine Run, waiting the order to attack, had Marye s 
 Heights before them, with no chance of success, and death likely in 
 store for the assailants, appears from the following reference to this 
 proposed attack taken from the Comte de Paris History of the War : 
 "Almost all have witnessed Fredericksburgh and Gettysburg ; they 
 know by a double experience that a bloody defeat is reserved to the 
 one of the two armies which takes the offensive It is said that most 
 of them on the morning of the 3oth, took care to pin to their coats 
 pieces of paper bearing their names. They wished that their names 
 might be placed over the fresh earth which was to cover them in their 
 everlasting sleep. No hope of glory was occupying their minds at 
 that supreme hour, but they were anxious to secure on that distant 
 soil the modest epitaph which allows the soldier s family to distin 
 guish his remains, instead of having to kneel at the grave of the un 
 known. It was in this manner it is related, that they silently showed 
 the conviction, that they were going to be asked for a useless sacri 
 fice. If it is only a legend for legends are sometimes easily made 
 it is worth being quoted, for it perfectly describes the character of 
 the Army of the Potomac." Vol. Ill, p. 810. 
 
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 the heart of the Confederacy, were pressed forward vig 
 orously. By the ist of May, all was in readiness for 
 the expected advance. Orders were accordingly issued 
 on the 2d of May, 1864, for the movement of the sev 
 eral corps to begin on the 4th of May, preceded by the 
 cavalry, under Sheridan, which began its march at mid 
 night of the 3d, crossing the Rapidan in advance of the 
 infantry. Five bridges had been thrown over the 
 stream at Germanna Ford, Culpeper Mine Ford and 
 Ely s Ford. The Second Corps crossed at Ely s Ford ; 
 the Fifth and Sixth at Germanna Ford, the former 
 moving forward to Chancellorsville, and the latter to 
 Wilderness Tavern. The Fifth Corps reached its des 
 ignated halting-place by two o clock, having marched 
 twenty miles, the Second Corps having arrived at Chan 
 cellorsville at an earlier hour. General Grant regarded 
 the safe crossing of his army, with its immense trains, 
 and his first day s march into the Wilderness, as a very 
 propitious opening of the campaign. " And he might 
 well feel gratified at the result," remarks General Humph 
 reys, " for it was a good day s work, in such a country, 
 for so large an army, with its artillery and fighting 
 trains, to march twenty miles, crossing a river on five 
 bridges of its own building, without a single mishap, 
 interruption or delay." 
 
 The reference to "such a country," means no doubt, 
 " the Wilderness," through which the route of the army 
 lay, and in which the first battles in this memorable 
 campaign were fought. This is one of the names which 
 the war has made famous, and linked to this " Wilder 
 ness," are poignant memories of toils and sufferings, that 
 words are feeble to express, on the part of those who 
 
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 struggled through it, encountering foemen at every step. 
 The tract known by this name, stretches south of the 
 Rapidan fifteen or twenty miles in extent is covered 
 with a dense forest growth of scrub oak, dwarf pines 
 and other varieties of wood " almost impenetrable by 
 troops in line of battle, where manceuvering was an 
 operation of extreme difficulty and uncertainty. The 
 undergrowth was so heavy that it was scarely possible 
 to see more than one hundred paces in any direction. 
 The movements of the enemy could not be observed 
 until the lines were almost in collision. Only the roar of 
 musketry disclosed the position of the combatants to 
 those who were at any distance, and my knowledge of 
 what was transpiring on the field, except in my imme 
 diate presence, was limited, and was necessarily derived 
 from the reports of subordinate commanders."* 
 
 Into these dreary and tangled thickets Grant flung his 
 brave battalions, with the view of swinging past the 
 right of Lee s army, which lay in front of it at no great 
 distance, watching its enemy s operations and ready to 
 pounce upon him at the first opportunity. The attempt 
 of Grant to pass the Confederate army and interpose 
 between it and Richmond, was sure to be fiercely 
 resisted. Lee s plan was to strike the flank of the Union 
 army with his whole force as soon as practicable, after 
 the former had crossed the Rapidan and entered on its 
 march southward. From Orange Court House, where 
 Lee s headquarters were, two roads lead toward Fred- 
 ericksburg. They run in the direction of the Rapidan, 
 nearly parallel to each other, the one nearest the river 
 being the " Old turnpike," the other, the " Plank road," a 
 
 * General Hancock. 
 
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 short distance south of it. The route of the Union army 
 lay directly across these roads along the western bor 
 ders of the wilderness. Ewell s Corps began to move 
 about noon, on May 4th, along the Orange turnpike, 
 while A. P. Hill, with two divisions, moved along the 
 Plank road, parallel with Ewell, General Longstret 
 being directed to bring forward his corps from Gordons- 
 ville and follow rapidly on the same road. Ewell first 
 struck the Union column while it was crossing the 
 Orange turnpike, and the battle of the Wilderness 
 opened with this attack. 
 
 I do not undertake to describe this battle in detail, 
 but design, as in other cases, to present certain outlines 
 necessary to connect the work of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment, with the operations of the army of 
 which it formed a part. The details of this and of other 
 great battles of the war, are given in the histories 
 specially devoted to them, and the plan of this narrative, 
 as well as the limits assigned to it, precludes full and 
 extended accounts of battle-fields. I hope to make the 
 general features of these sanguinary encounters clear to 
 the reader and aim at doing little beyond this in the 
 descriptions given. 
 
 During the 5th and 6th of May, the battle now begun, 
 raged with varying success. The difficulties of this war 
 fare in the woods, were immensely trying, and at times, 
 bewildering. Hill s troops, on the Plank road, soon 
 struck their foes, as Ewell s had done on the Orange 
 turnpike, and impetuous and fierce as their attack 
 was, the resistance they met with, was as resolute and 
 unyielding. The troops that were crossing the turnpike 
 when Ewell assaulted them, belonged to Warren s Fifth 
 
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 Corps, and these bore the brunt of the attack. They 
 were joined later in the day by those of Sedgwick s 
 Sixth Corps, who together maintained, till night put an 
 end to the conflict, the ground they held against the 
 most desperate efforts of the enemy. On the morning 
 of the next day, the battle was resumed, Longstreet, 
 having by a night march, come up to the support of 
 Hill, and putting his veteran troops at once into the hot 
 test of the fight. Thus, the whole of Lee s army was 
 engaged in the struggle to arrest the advance of the 
 Union army and drive it back bafflled toward the Rapi- 
 dan. Hancock, also, had joined his corps with those of 
 Warren and Sedgwick, so that in these two terrible 
 days of conflict in the Wilderness, the main forces of 
 both armies were arrayed against each other. The 
 character of this strange battle and the scenes which it 
 presented, are well set forth in these words of one of 
 the Confederate leaders who was present : 
 
 " It was a desperate struggle between the infantry of the two armies, 
 on a field, whose physical aspects were as grim and forbidding as the 
 struggle itself. It was a battle of brigades and regiments, rather than 
 that of corps and divisions. Officers could not see the whole length 
 of their commands, and could only tell whether the troops on their 
 right and left were driving or being driven, by the sound of the firing. 
 It was a fight at close quarters too, for as night came on in those 
 tangled thickets of stunted pine, sweet-gum, scrub oak and cedar, the 
 approach of the opposing lines could only be discerned by the noise 
 of their passage through the underbrush, or the flashing of their guns. 
 The usually silent wilderness had suddenly become alive. The angry 
 flashing of the musketry and its heavy roar, mingled with the yells of 
 the combatants as they swayed to and fro in the gloomy thickets, 
 realized to the full the poetic battle picture of Beale an Duine, 
 
 " As all the fiends from heaven that fell 
 Had pealed the banner cry of hell." 
 
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 " Death was busy and reaped more laurels than either Lee or 
 Grant. General Alexander Hays, of Hancock s Corps, was killed."* 
 
 General Hays commanded the Second brigade of 
 Birney s division, and was an officer of distinguished 
 gallantry, whose loss was a serious one to the army. 
 He fell on the first day of the battle. On the second 
 day, the 6th, General James S. Wadsworth, received a 
 mortal wound of which he died within two days. He 
 commanded a division in the old First Corps, and ren 
 dered conspicuous service at Chancellorsville and Get 
 tysburg. In the army re-organization, his command 
 was the Fourth division of the Fifth Corps. He was 
 one of the most heroic figures of the war, brave as the 
 bravest, and present where danger most threatened and 
 the fight was the hottest. His patriotism was devoted, 
 and in his love for the Union cause, he gladly made all 
 sacrifices of wealth, ease, social position, and the supreme 
 one of life itself, his death in the service of his country, 
 enshrining his name among those who loved her most 
 and served her best. Among the losses of the battle, 
 Generals Shaler and Seymour, with a considerable num 
 ber of their commands, were captured near the close of 
 the second day, in an unexpected and successful attack 
 made upon the right flank of the Sixth Corps. The 
 whole loss sustained by the Army of the Potomac in 
 these two days of battle in the Wilderness, amounted, 
 according to General Humphreys, to 2,265 killed, 
 10,220 wounded and 2,902 missing. Total, 15,387. 
 These figures show the severe and fearful character of 
 this battle, and in the extent of its casualties, rank it 
 
 * General E. M. Law, in June CENTURY, 1887. 
 
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 among the most destructive, though not to us, disastrous 
 battles of the war. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, whose 
 history in connection with this battle must now be sur 
 veyed, bore a direct and honorable part in the severe 
 conflicts of these two days. The regiment crossed the 
 Rapidan at early morning on May 4th, and marched 
 with its brigade to Chancellorsville, encamping for the 
 night on the old battle-field, where, a year before, the 
 Union and Confederate hosts had met and struggled for 
 the mastery. The men had painful reminders of the 
 havoc wrought by the battle, in seeing the bones of their 
 fallen comrades scattered over the field, some of them 
 protruding from the shallow graves in which they had been 
 hastily interred. They saw a number of weather-beaten 
 caps lying around, on several of which was inscribed, 
 " One Hundred and Twentieth N. Y. V.," indicating that 
 the wearers had belonged to their own regiment and 
 had probably died near that spot, defending the flag. 
 These relics showed the kind of welcome given by the 
 Southern soldiers to their Union visitors the former 
 year, and reminded the latter that a similar welcome 
 might be in store for themselves, within a few hours. 
 However this might be, they were ready for the greet 
 ing, and at early dawn on the morning of the 5th, their 
 march southward was resumed and continued till 3 p. M. 
 Then they halted along the Brock road, which runs 
 through the wilderness, and separated by several hun 
 dred yards from Hill s force, then engaged, as already 
 noticed, on the Plank road. Here the regiment threw 
 up breastworks, which served as partial protection 
 against sudden assault, or the enemy s missiles, and were 
 
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 a means of defense constantly resorted to by the troops. 
 This work was barely finished when the hour arrived 
 for the regiment to take part in the action in progress. 
 What that part was, will appear from an extract from 
 the diary : 
 
 " We were ordered to advance over our breastworks and to move 
 forward through the woods and thick brush, in line of battle. . We 
 went forward in this way, toiling and crashing through the bushes for 
 perhaps six hundred yards, where we halted near a small stream. An 
 officer in United States uniform came riding toward us from the front 
 saying that we were supporting a line of our own troops just ahead, 
 and that our guns should not be loaded. Thus we were moving for 
 ward through the woods without a skirmish line in front, and with 
 unloaded weapons, when suddenly a murderous fire of musketry was 
 poured into the ranks by an unseen foe. We at once commenced 
 loading and firing, some of us taking our position behind the large 
 trees, a few of which were near, or lying on the ground, so that many 
 of the enemy s bullets would pass over our heads. In this position 
 we could do just as effective work as standing up. Our line soon 
 seemed to be enveloped in fire and smoke. The air was filled with 
 minie-balls which were tearing among bushes and trees, riddling 
 them as they flew, and striking down men who fell dead or wounded 
 on every side. There Sergeant James Krom was shot through the 
 body and fell dead. The bullets soon began to come from our left. 
 Our line was broken, and we fell back toward our breastworks ; con 
 testing the ground all the way. We rallied, and formed a line behind 
 the works, and from this position easily checked the enemy s advance. 
 In this engagement, Lieutenant John J. Lockwood was killed. At 
 about dark we were relieved from the front line, and moved back to 
 our defenses. Our first day s battle under Grant had been fought. 
 
 At an early hour next morning we were again placed in the front 
 line, and during the forenoon advanced over the same ground as 
 yesterday. The battle had been raging along different portions of 
 the line at our right, since early morning, the woods resounding with 
 the crash of musketry, and the cheers and yells of the Union and Con 
 federate forces. The Union dead lay thick on the ground over which 
 we advanced. Shortly after we crossed the small stream, suddenly 
 
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 there was a loud crash in our front, and the woods were again filled 
 with the messengers of death. Captain Krom was among the first to 
 fall, severely wounded. Our line was soon broken by the terrible 
 fire, and we again fell back in about the same manner as the day 
 before, and formed behind the breastworks, and again checked the 
 enemy s advance. During the two engagements, the regiment lost in 
 killed, wounded and missing, 61 men, about one fifth of the entire 
 number present on the morning of May 5th. Company I entered the 
 battle with 18 men, and had but six left for duty, after this engage 
 ment." 
 
 According to this account, the number of the regi 
 ment could not much have exceeded 300 men when it 
 crossed the Rapidan on its march southward. Though 
 their ranks had grown thinner, their hearts had become 
 stouter and their sinews more firmly strung, through 
 experience of the every day labors exacted of soldiers 
 in the field. The narrative above given shows the 
 character of the warfare in which they were now acting 
 an uncomplaining part, and among perils and hardships 
 falling to the soldiers lot, none could well be greater 
 than those encountered in the battles in the wilderness. 
 Among these, not mentioned in the foregoing extract, 
 though the writer speaks of it in his record, is the firing 
 of the woods by cannon or musketry during the battle, 
 and the wounded perishing in the flames, their com 
 rades often unable to reach and rescue them. Many 
 helpless wounded died horribly in this way in the wil 
 derness, as they did also at Chancellorsville. In his his 
 tory of this latter battle, General Doubleday says : 
 1 The woods on each side of the plank road had been 
 set on fire by the artillery, and the wounded and dying 
 were burning in the flames without a possibility of res 
 cuing them. Let us draw a veil over this scene, for it 
 
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 is pitiful to dwell upon it." We echo these words of 
 the gallant Doubleday, and would fain shut out from 
 view those tortures of comrades, slowly perishing beyond 
 reach of aid, in circumstances so appalling. But imagi 
 nation will pierce the veil and picture scenes behind it, 
 too dreadful for speech adequately to describe. And 
 as we add this phase of suffering to others endured by 
 the brave, self-denying men, who dared all hazards and 
 bore all burdens to win triumph for their country, the 
 debt which that country saved by such sacrifices, owes 
 to them, swells into a magnitude that is hardly rep 
 resented by the warmest words of appreciation that we 
 can utter! 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 ADVANCE TO SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE DEATH OF GENERAL SEDGWICK 
 SEVERE ENGAGEMENTS ON THE IOTH MOVEMENTS OF THE ONE 
 
 HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH HANCOCK S BRILLIANT ATTACK ON THE 
 
 ENEMY S ENTRENCHMENTS ON THE I2TH GENERAL JOHNSON AND HIS 
 
 DIVISION CAPTURED DESPERATE FIGHTING WITHIN THE SALIENT 
 
 ACCOUNT BY A CONFEDERATE OFFICER A UNION OFFICER S ACCOUNT 
 
 RESULT OF THE CONFLICT. 
 
 The battle of the Wilderness, closed without the 
 advantages to the Confederates, that Lee had hoped 
 to secure. His object in attacking on the 5th was, to 
 strike the head of Grant s column as it crossed the 
 Plank road, so crushing- a blow as to force the army 
 back on its tracks, and over the Rapidan, thus repeat 
 ing the story of Chancellorsville. He failed in his 
 design. He found the army opposed to him, led 
 by a General constituted of sterner stuff" than to be 
 turned aside from the object he meant to pursue, by 
 obstacles that courage, energy and perseverance, were 
 able to surmount. That commander, who had the full 
 est confidence of his army, was bent on reaching Rich 
 mond, and intended, in his own famous words, " to 
 fight it out on that line, if it took all summer." Accord 
 ingly, he resumed his southward march, as soon almost 
 as the smoke of the recent battle had cleared away. 
 The three days following the battle, were uneventful, 
 the several corps of the Union Army moving in the 
 direction of Spottsylvania Court House, where the 
 forces of the enemy were concentrating, to oppose with 
 
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 all resources at their command, the Union advance. 
 The two enemies moved on paralled lines with only a 
 short interval between them, the possession of Spott- 
 sylvania being the objective of both. The strategic 
 advantages of the position made both desirous to secure 
 it, and each put forth strenuous efforts to arrive first and 
 gain the desired vantage-ground. The Confederates 
 succeded in the race. Longstreet s Corps after march 
 ing all night reached Spottsylvania at eight o clock on 
 the morning of the 8th, and though some Union troops, 
 chiefly cavalry, in advance of the main column of War 
 ren, were found at the Court House when the enemy 
 arrived, they prudently retired, and left the ground to 
 the large opposing force. 
 
 Longstreet s Corps now commanded by R. H. Ander 
 son, was soon joined by Ewell s, as Warren s Fifth 
 Corps which had the advance, was joined by the Sixth, 
 under Sedgvvick. The several positions they held were 
 as usual, intrenched, a battle on this ground being im 
 minent in prospect, and in fact, unavoidable. No 
 engagement took place on the gth, the day being occu 
 pied with the work of intrenching, and various prepar 
 ations for the expected encounter. Though not much 
 fighting took place on the 9th, the Union army sus 
 tained a great loss that day in the death of General Sedg- 
 wick, who was killed by a sharp-shooter, close to the 
 intrenchments, at the right of his corps. His record 
 was high as a gallant, judicious and experienced officer, 
 whose services had been of highest value to the Union, 
 and whose frank bearing and manly qualities greatly 
 endeared him to his associates. General Wright suc 
 ceeded him in command of the corps. 
 
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 On the loth, severe engagements occurred at various 
 points in our lines, from early in the day till late in the 
 afternoon, resulting in heavy loss of life, with no material 
 advantage gained on either side. Hancock s Corps 
 had crossed the Po early in the morning, threatening 
 the enemy s rear, and his army trains. The movement 
 was resisted by Mahone s and Heth s divisions, with so 
 much spirit and vehemence that Hancocks advance was 
 not only checked, but his troops forced to re-cross the 
 river. The turning movement, as first designed, was 
 changed into a front attack on Longstreet s and Ewell s 
 Corps, the purpose being to break through the enemy s 
 lines. These several attacks were made during the day, 
 the last near sunset, against the Confederate intrench- 
 ments, and though these attacks were marked by 
 wonderful daring, vigor and persistence, the very works 
 of the enemy being scaled at points, and three or four 
 hundred prisoners captured, of Dole s brigade, the Union 
 troops fell back at last to their own lines, without having 
 attained their object. The severity of the several con 
 flicts this day is seen in the losses sustained, which 
 numbered 4,100 in killed and wounded, among the for 
 mer being Brigadier General Rice, of the Fifth Corps, 
 and Stevenson, of Burnside s Corps, both gallant and 
 meritorious officers. These engagements, on the loth, 
 though sharp and sanguinary, were only preliminary to 
 those of the i2th, which, for fierce, desperate, hand- 
 to-hand fighting, had few parallels during all the war. 
 A day of exemption from actual conflict, the eleventh, 
 separated these two days of battle, and we will employ 
 this interval in tracing the fortunes of the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth Regiment, since the close of the battle of 
 the Wilderness. 
 
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 Till the afternoon of the 7th, the regiment lay quietly 
 in the rear of the corps, the frequent firing on the skir 
 mish line telling them what was going on between the 
 advanced pickets. Then they were marched to the 
 right and placed in the front, behind the breastworks. 
 Shortly after dark a loud cheer suddenly uprose on the 
 right, and was taken up by regiment after regiment, as 
 Generals Grant and Meade, with their staffs, moved 
 toward the left in the direction of Spottsylvania Court 
 House. Warren s Fifth Corps, leading the advance, 
 moved past shortly afterwards, followed, on the morning 
 of the 8th, by the Sixth Corps. The regiment marched 
 the same day with the Second Corps, about four miles 
 to the vicinity of Todd s tavern, where it halted, and a 
 detail from it was sent out on picket. The booming of 
 cannon from the direction of the Court House announced 
 that Warren and Sedgwick had there found the enemy. 
 On the morning of the Qth, the first three divisions of 
 the Second Corps moved forward, and took position on 
 the right of the Fifth Corps. On the loth, the Fourth 
 division, the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, 
 with its brigade, being in the advance, moved to near 
 SpottsylvaniaCourt House, its position being about three- 
 quarters of a mile north of the famous salient, which was 
 the theatre of the tremendous conflicts of the I2th, to 
 be presently noticed. The division was on the left of 
 the Sixth Corps, now commanded by General Wright. 
 An open space in front of the position permitted a view 
 of the enemy s fortified position, which the Union troops 
 were expecting soon to charge. At four p. M., came the 
 order to advance, and the troops moved forward through 
 a tempest of shot and shell, driving back the enemy s 
 
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 skirmish line, approaching nearer their works, where 
 musketry aided cannon in thinning the assaulting ranks, 
 making the operation deadlier and less promising of 
 success at every step. In the end the object was not 
 attained, and the troops, for the time, had to give it over 
 and fall back to their own intrenchments. 
 
 The grand attack on the enemy s works was made on 
 the 1 2th, Grant s order directing it, being issued on the 
 afternoon of the nth. Hancock s Second Corps, with 
 Burnside s Ninth Corps co-operating, was ordered to 
 open the assault at four o clock in the morning, while 
 the Fifth and Sixth Corps were to be held as close to 
 the enemy as possible, in order to take advantage of 
 any opportunity that might present itself, for breaking 
 into the enemy s lines. The object of attack was a 
 salient or projecting angle, situated some distance in 
 front of the enemy s main intrenched lines, and elevated 
 somewhat above them. The apex of this angle was 
 held by Johnson s division, who, apprehending an attack, 
 had strengthened his position in every way possible, 
 making it, in fact, a very formidable one. Barlow s and 
 Birney s divisions led the assault, which was participated 
 in afterwards by the divisions of Mott and Webb, so 
 that Hancock s whole corps was really engaged in the 
 desperate struggle which ensued, for the possession of 
 the salient. The first attack was a brilliant success. A 
 heavy fog delayed the hour of attack till toward five 
 o clock, when Birney s troops, with Barlow s and Mott s 
 in close support, ascended the slope toward the enemy s 
 intrenchments, burst into a cheer as the goal rose into 
 view, rushed forward, passed through the abattis and 
 over the intrenchments, fell upon Johnson s troops with 
 
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 such suddenness and impetuous force that they captured 
 nearly the whole division, about 4,000 men, according 
 to Hancock, including General Johnson himself and 
 General G. H. Stewart, who commanded one of his 
 brigades. In addition to this, twenty pieces of artillery, 
 several thousand stands of arms, and upward of thirty 
 colors, were the trophies of this brilliant exploit* 
 
 This signal success was achieved before six in the 
 morning. It seemed to promise similar or greater suc 
 cess, as rapidly won, for the rest of the day, and then, 
 the apex gained, the whole angle would soon fall into 
 our hands. The result disappointed the hope. Through 
 all that dreadful day the most terrific conflict of the war 
 raged within the confines of that angle, well called "the 
 Bloody Angle." The Confederates, aware how much 
 depended on keeping their general line whole, tasked 
 all their energies to maintain it against the powerful 
 and repeated attempts to break through. The enemy 
 brought up their choicest troops under their most trusted 
 leaders, to confront the Union masses that were bent 
 on completing the work of the morning by seizing and 
 keeping possession of the enemy s position. So the 
 battle swayed, to and fro at different sides of the salient, 
 all day long, now one party, then another gaining some 
 advantage, only to lose it as fresh troops were thrown in 
 to take the places of exhausted ones. To describe the 
 struggle in detail, and the detachments of troops on both 
 side, that were specially engaged, would require several 
 pages of this narative, and I can give, for reasons before 
 mentioned, but a general outline. Perhaps the follow- 
 
 * Humphrey s Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865. 
 
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 ing extract, from a Confederate officer s account of the 
 conflict, in which he bore a part, will give as distinct an 
 idea of the murderous strife within the salient, as a more 
 lengthened description : 
 
 " The Federals still held the greater part of the salient, and though 
 the Confederates were unable to drive them out, they could get no 
 farther. Hancock s Corps which had made the attack, had been 
 re-enforced by Upton s division of the Sixth Corps, and one half of 
 Warren s Corps as the battle progressed, artillery had been brought 
 up on both sides, the Confederates using every piece that could be 
 made available upon the salient. Before ten o clock, General Lee 
 has put in every man that could be spared, for the restoration of his 
 broken centre. It then became a matter of endurance for the men 
 themselves. All day long, and far into the night, the battle raged 
 with unceasing fury in the space covered by the salient and the 
 adjacent works. Every attempt to advance on either side was met, 
 and repelled on the other. The hostile battle flags waved over the 
 different portions of the same works, while the men fought like fiends 
 for their possession. It was war to the knife, and the knife to the 
 hilt. The very mouth of hell seemed to have opened, and death was 
 rioting in its sulphurous fumes."* 
 
 Lest this account should seem too highly colored, I 
 will supplement it with a Union officer s account, Briga 
 dier General L. A. Grant, who commanded a Vermont 
 brigade in the Second Corps, and who was also a par 
 ticipant in the bloody fray : 
 
 " It was not only a desperate struggle, but it was literally a hand- 
 to-hand fight. Nothing but piled up logs or breastworks separated 
 the combatants. Our men would reach over the logs and fire in the 
 faces of the enemy, would stab over, with their baynets. Many were 
 shot and stabbed through the crevices and holes between the logs. 
 Men mounted the works, and with muskets rapidly handed them, kept 
 
 * General E. M. Law, in CENTURY, June, 1887. 
 
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 up a continuous fire till they were shot down, when others would 
 take their place and continue the deadly work. Several times during 
 the day the rebels would show a white flag about the works, and when 
 our fire slackened, jump over and surrender, and others were crowded 
 down to fill their places. * * * It was there that the somewhat 
 elebrated tree was cut off by bullets, * * * there that the brush 
 and logs were cut to pieces and whipped into basket stuff, * * * 
 there that the rebel ditches and cross sections were filled with dead 
 men, several deep. I was at the angle next day. The sight was 
 terrible and sickening, much worse than at Bloody Lane (Antietam). 
 There a great many dead men were lying in the road and across the 
 rails of the torn down fences, but they were not piled up several deep, 
 and their flesh was not so torn and mangled as at the angle. " 
 
 The losses of this terrible day were in full proportion 
 to the severity and long continuance of the conflict. 
 The killed and wounded on the i2th, including those of 
 Burnside s Ninth Corps, which did not at that time form 
 part of the Army of the Potomac, amounted to 6,020. 
 In addition, there were 800 missing, making the whole 
 loss 6,820. The Confederate loss, though the figures 
 are not officially given, could not have been very much 
 less. After such labors and such mortality and havoc 
 wrought in one day, a period of cessation from hostilities 
 would seem to be a necessity, and such accordingly 
 ensued. The Confederates withdrew late in the day, to 
 a new line of defenses constructed near the base of the 
 salient while the fight was yet pending, and for several 
 days, at least, the noises of the battle-field ceased to 
 stun the ear. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE ARMY STILL ADVANCING THE SOLDIERS* TRIALS BY THE WAY 
 
 SPIRITS ELASTIC UNDER ALL CROSSING THE PAMUNKEY AND NORTH 
 
 ANNA NEARING THE CHICKAHOMINY RECORD OF THE ONE HUNDRED 
 
 AND TWENTIETH APPROACH TO COLD HARBOR AN ATTACK IN FORCE 
 
 ON THE ENEMY S WORKS A SANGUINARY CONFLICT AND UNION REPULSE 
 GENERAL LAW S ACCOUNT OF IT UNION LOSSES FROM THE WILDER 
 NESS TO COLD HARBOR REFLECTIONS. 
 
 For several days after the terrific struggle of the 1 2th, 
 narrated in the last chapter, the weaned troops enjoyed 
 a short season of well-deserved and sorely-needed rest. 
 It was rest, not absolute, but as compared with the ten 
 sion of nerves and hard-tasked energies, inseparable 
 from a sternly contested field of battle. The time 
 between the I2th and 2Oth of May, on which latter day 
 the march toward the South was resumed, was passed, 
 not in ease or listlessness, but in repairing, as far as 
 might be, the heavy damages sustained in the conflict 
 and in getting ready for the serious work which the sol 
 diers of the army well knew still lay before them. 
 
 Some changes were made by the consolidation of 
 regiments and brigades, whose ranks had dwindled 
 through battle, sickness or expiration of term of enlist 
 ment. The First and Second brigades of General Mott s 
 Fourth division, were consolidated into one brigade 
 known as the Fourth brigade of the Third division, 
 commanded by General D. B. Birney. The One Hun 
 dred and Twentieth Regiment, became, by this change, 
 
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 enrolled in this brigade, as thus constituted, the soldiers 
 of which, were soon to share in all the activities of the 
 pending campaign. 
 
 In the early morning of the I4th, the regiment, with 
 the brigade, was ordered to take position at the front, 
 where, though behind entrenchments, the ear was con 
 stantly saluted with the crack of musketry from picket 
 and skirmish line, with the cannon s deep basso, striking 
 in from time to time, by way of accompaniment. These 
 familiar sounds were the soldiers music by day and 
 their lullaby to soothe them into slumber by night. The 
 diary we have drawn from, gives the following pictures 
 of the experience of the soldiers in these trying days : 
 
 v< We were kept ever on the alert to resist any attack that might 
 be made. Every day since May 5th written on the i6th we were 
 more or less under the enemy s artillery fire, while the sound of sing 
 ing minies rarely ceased to fall upon our ears, and the dead and 
 wounded in a steady stream were borne to the rear. If you would 
 know of the hardships of those times, ask not the officers alone, but 
 the men who carried rifles and stood in the front of our fiery lines, 
 or slept in the rain and mud behind the intrenchments. The memo 
 ry of those days is indelibly stamped on our minds, yet spite of all 
 hardship and suffering, the army was in fine spirits and none doubted 
 our ultimate success." 
 
 The close of this extract is significant, as showing how 
 animated and ardent the soldiers continued under all 
 the burdens laid upon them, and how hopeful and con 
 fident they felt, that the trusted leader they were fol 
 lowing with alacrity, would conduct them to certain 
 triumph, though the road to it might be long and the 
 difficulties to be overcome, many and formidable. 
 Indeed, it was a rare thing to find the Union soldier 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 2 J 
 
 despondent, or ready to give over the contest in despair. 
 And it was this buoyancy of spirit, pervading the ranks, 
 growing out of the conviction that his cause was right 
 and must prevail, that gave strength to his blows, 
 endurance to his efforts, and was the pledge of final 
 victory. Thus, at the close of some bloody day, when 
 the troops had tasked their utmost energies to carry 
 some strong position or win some hard-contested field 
 and had failed an experience so familiar to the Army 
 of the Potomac the spirits of the soldiers remained 
 elastic ; they were ready and anxious to try the fate of 
 battle again, and by renewed and stronger efforts to 
 force victory to decide in their favor. So it had been 
 almost uniformly in the campaigns which marked the past 
 three years of the war, and so it proved to be after the Rapi- 
 dan was crossed and the march to the James had been 
 entered on, during which, skirmishing, bloody collisions 
 and battle alarums," were an almost daily experience. 
 The struggle of one day ended, whether favorable or 
 not, the Union soldier, not disheartened, was ready for 
 another struggle, if necessary, on the next. And we 
 find this hopeful, buoyant feeling nerving his heart and 
 arm during all the trying and perilous days of the army s 
 passage through the Wilderness and southern Virginia to 
 its designated position on the banks of the James. 
 
 The Union army began its forward movement on the 
 2Oth, Hancock s Corps taking the lead, the route 
 through Bowling Green, being in the direction of Han- 
 overtown, on the Pamunkey river, near which town, the 
 army was directed to cross. The several corps reached 
 the vicinity of the Pamunkey on the 27th, and on the 
 28th, the crossing of the river was accomplished. War- 
 
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 ren s Corps, the Fifth, was posted with its right on the 
 road to Richmond, with its left near the Totopotomy, a 
 small stream emptying into the Pamunkey, about two 
 miles below Hanovertown. This town was only seven 
 teen miles from Richmond, the possession of which, by 
 the Union forces, had been looked upon from the first, as 
 virtually ending the war. With this goal in view, the 
 most strenuous, though hitherto abortive, efforts had been 
 made to capture the Confederate Capital. And now 
 another effort was in progress to compass the same 
 great object, and the country was watching with deepest 
 anxiety to see whether success or another failure was to 
 attend the present expedition. Richmond lay within 
 less than a day s march. The Army of the Potomac 
 was again near the famed Chicahominy, on whose banks 
 the fierce battles of 1862 had been unavailingly fought. 
 And while the troops were inspired to heroic deeds by 
 the recollection of what their fellow-soldiers, under 
 McClellan, had braved and suffered on this very ground, 
 they were sanguine in expecting a more fortunate 
 issue than fell to the lot of the former. They were 
 unfaltering in the purpose, that Richmond, this time, 
 should no longer evade capture, but should be made to 
 own the might and majesty of a government she had so 
 long defied, and the rebellion thus perish with the over 
 throw of its citadel. It will be seen presently, how fully 
 these confident anticipations came to be fulfilled. 
 
 But the road to the triumph was neither short nor 
 easy. Months were to intervene before the end was 
 fairly reached, and these months were to be marked by 
 frequent and bitter conflicts, and a sturdy, step by step, 
 vanquishing of obstacles that lay in the way of final 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 2 9 
 
 victory. But the army was adequate to the work it had 
 undertaken to do, and without underestimating its mao-- 
 
 o t> 
 
 nitude, went forward with single purpose, firm step and 
 unswerving constancy to accomplish it. 
 
 Its first collision with the enemy after crossing the 
 Pamunkey, was near the Totopotomy streamlet, on the 
 south side of which Lee s intrenched lines were posted, 
 to bar the progress of the Union troops. An attack- 
 was made on their lines by Barlow s division, in the 
 lead, supported by Birney s and Gibbon s divisions, 
 Burnside s Corps, crossing the Tctopotomy late in the 
 day and forming on Hancock s left. Warren s and 
 Wright s corps, also took part in the engagements of 
 the 2Qth and 3Oth, with parts of Lee s army, the whole 
 of which lay in front, prepared to contest the Union 
 advance. In spite of this array, Grant s army urged its 
 way inexorably, swinging round the enemy s lines 
 where his intrenched positions were too strong to break 
 through in front, and compelling the Confederates to 
 fall back to other lines and construct other defenses. 
 This time, Lee s intrenched position was at Cold Har 
 bor, near the theatre of McClellan s battles, and almost 
 in sight of Richmond. This position, for reasons deemed 
 sufficient, General Grant was determined to assail, with 
 the result of one of the hardest-fought and bloodiest 
 conflicts of this whole campaign, so marked by terrible 
 fighting almost from the first day after crossing the 
 Rapidan. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth had its full share 
 of the burdens borne every day by the whole army, in 
 forcing its way, in spite of all opposition, into the heart 
 of the enemy s country. Each regiment had its own 
 
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 experience of exposure to danger, of toil, hardship and 
 suffering, and the history of one day was virtually a 
 repetition, in its main features, of the trying days pre 
 ceding it. This will appear from the carefully written 
 accounts of what befell the regiment for several days 
 before the third of June, on which the assault was made 
 on Cold Harbor. On May 28th, the regiment was 
 within a mile of the North Anna river, and with its 
 brigade, formed in line of battle, with an open field in 
 front, stretching to the bank of the river, crossed by a 
 bridge, at that point. The division began to cross the 
 river at 8 A. M. ; the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 crossing in the afternoon, shot and shell flying thickly 
 around them, coming from the heights beyond, held by 
 the enemy. After dark the brigade was placed in the 
 front line. A member of the regiment gives the follow 
 ing account of the experience and spirit of the men : 
 
 "In line of battle across the North Anna river. We are having a 
 rough time. I reckon the world never heard of such fighting. Since 
 May 5th we have been under fire of the enemy nearly every day. All 
 confidence is placed in General Grant, and- all earnestly hope for suc 
 cess. We are working night and day building line after line of 
 intrenchments. Although worn with fatigue, the men cheerfully obey 
 every order." 
 
 On the 29th, the regiment advanced two miles and 
 another line of works was thrown up, and in the even 
 ing, another advance was made nearer to the enemy s 
 fortified position. This move was in support of Bar 
 low s division, which had dislodged the enemy from his 
 rifle-pits, and at night, a detail from the regiment was 
 placed on picket duty, the enemy all the while being 
 directly in front. " The picket lines were but a short 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 3 I 
 
 distance apart, and all night, and on the 3oth and 3ist, 
 the outposts kept up a constant firing, while every now 
 and then, a furious cannonading would commence and 
 continue for a short time ; and sharpshooters stationed 
 on the surrounding heights, were picking off the men 
 who exposed themselves. During these days, though 
 we were not in any heavy engagement, quite a number 
 was added to the list of our killed and wounded." 
 
 The attack on the enemy s position at Cold Harbor, 
 was made on the 3d of June, by Barlow s and Gibbon s 
 divisions of the Second Corps, Birney s division sup 
 porting them, the three divisions forming the extreme 
 left of the Union line. Barlow s movement against the 
 enemy s works began at sunrise. After a severe strug 
 gle, he succeeded in effecting a lodgement in the hostile 
 works, and in pressing back the enemy into their main 
 defenses, capturing some 300 prisoners, one stand of 
 colors and three guns, which were turned against the 
 enemy in their retreat. But this encouraging success 
 was only short-lived, for our troops were soon subjected 
 to a sharp enfilading fire of artillery, which forced them 
 to fall back about fifty paces, where they threw up slight 
 intrenchments that gave them partial protection. Gib 
 bon s division, following Barlow s, fared no better, 
 though his troops pushing close up to the enemy s 
 works, carried on the contest with the utmost gallantry. 
 They were forced back, as the others had been, after 
 the most strenuous efforts made to hold their ground, 
 suffering severely, both in officers and men. The loss 
 of both divisions this day in killed and wounded, 
 amounted to 2,217 officers and men. The losses suf 
 fered by the other two corps, the Fifth and Sixth, and 
 
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 Burnside s troops, were also severe. The Eighteenth 
 Corps, under General W. F. Smith, which had recently 
 come from the Army of the James, and had now joined 
 the Potomac army, was heavily engaged in this battle. 
 The losses of this corps in killed and wounded, was 
 about i ,000 men ; The Sixth Corps lost 800 ; the Fifth, 
 400, and Burnside s Ninth Corps, about 800. The total 
 casualties, including killed, wounded and missing, result 
 ing from the engagements of the first and third of June, 
 at Cold Harbor, according to General Humphrey s 
 estimates, were 1 2 ,97 o.* This shows the fearful severity 
 of the fighting in those early days of June. General 
 Law s account of the battle of Cold Harbor, in the 
 CENTURY MAGAZINE, for June, 1887, presents a stirring 
 picture of the assault and repulse of Smith s Eighteenth 
 Corps, in the center of the Union line. It may be too 
 highly colored, as Confederate accounts, treating of 
 Union losses in battle, are apt to be, but as the account 
 of an eye-witness and actor in the bloody drama he 
 undertakes to describe, there should be, as there no 
 doubt is, substantial truth in his statements : 
 
 " Meanwhile the enemy was evidently concentrating in the woods 
 in front, and every indication pointed to an early attack. Nothing 
 could be done upon the contemplated line during the day, and we 
 waited anxiously the coming of night. The day passed (the 2d of 
 June) without an attack. I was as well satisfied that it would come 
 at dawn the next morning as if I had seen General Meade s order 
 directing it. * * * * Our troops were under arms and waiting, 
 when, with the misty light of early morning, the scattering fire of our 
 pickets, who now occupied the abandoned works in the angle, 
 announced the beginning of the attack. As the assaulting column 
 swept over the old works, a loud cheer was given, and it rushed on 
 
 * Humphrey s "Virginia Campaign of 64 and 65, p. 191. 
 
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 into the miry ground in the angle. Its front covered little more than 
 the line of my own brigade of less than a thousand men ; but line 
 followed line, until the space enclosed by the old salient became a 
 mass of writhing humanity, upon which our artillery and musketry 
 played with cruel effect. * * * On reaching the trenches, I found 
 the men in fine spirits, laughing and talking as they fired. There, 
 too, I could see more plainly the terrible havoc made in the ranks of 
 the assaulting column. I had seen the dreadful carnage in front of 
 Marye s Hill, at Fredericksburg, and on the old railroad cut, which 
 Jackson s men held at the Second Manassas, but I had seen nothing 
 to exceed this. It was not war ; it was murder. When the fight 
 ended, more than a thousand men lay in front of our works, either 
 killed or too badly wounded to leave the field. While we were busy 
 with the Eighteenth Corps on the center of the general line, the sounds 
 of battle could be heard both on the right and left, and we knew 
 from long use what that meant. It was general a advance of Grant s 
 whole army. Early s Corps, below Bethesda church, was attacked 
 without success. On our right, where the line extended toward the 
 Chickahominy, it was broken at one point, but at once restored by 
 Finnegan s (Florida) brigade, with heavy loss to Hancock s troops, 
 who were attacking there. The result of the action in the centre, 
 which has been described, presents a fair picture of the result along 
 the whole line a grand advance, a desperate struggle, a bloody and 
 crushing repulse. Before 8 o clock A. M., on the $d of June, the 
 battle of Cold Harbor was over. " 
 
 The battle of Cold Harbor virtually ended the " over 
 land campaign/ and no more severe fighting marked 
 the progress of the Union army to the James river, 
 which it was soon to cross. The campaign, thus far, 
 had lasted but a month, and almost every day had been 
 one of conflict, several of which, had risen into the 
 dimensions of great battles with the sacrifice and havoc 
 necessarily attendant upon them. From the Wilder 
 ness to Cold Harbor, according to revised tables pre 
 pared by reliable authority, the total losses of the Union 
 army in killed, wounded and missing, amounted to 
 
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 54,929, a figure that represents alone a numerous and 
 powerful army in the field. Had success in the end not 
 crowned the great efforts and sacrifices of the Union 
 army, the country would have shown little mercy 
 in its criticism and denunciation of the General com 
 manding, through whom those sacrifices were made. 
 But the complete success, which was to come, and did 
 come, made all the difference in the world in the senti 
 ments of the people toward the great leader who 
 attained the object for which all loyal hearts were yearn 
 ing. In the glory of the achievement and the universal 
 joy it occasioned, all harsh voices were hushed, and 
 only those heard which extolled the Captain of the 
 host, who succeeded, where others had failed, and his 
 gallant soldiers, without whose self-sacrificing labors, 
 there had been no triumph to record. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE UNION ARMY NEAR THE CHICAHOMINY DISCOMFORTS AND SUFFERINGS 
 OF THE TROOPS SUCCESSFUL CROSSING OF THE JAMES RIVER THE 
 
 ADVANCE TO PETERSBURG INVESTMENT OF THE CITY ASSAULTS ON 
 
 THE ENEMY S INTRENCHED LINES LEE STRENGTHENS THE CITY S 
 
 DEFENSIVE FORCE HARDSHIPS AND PERILS OF THE SOLDIERS BESIEGING 
 
 A DESCRIPTION, BY ONE OF THE NUMBER ABORTIVE MINE EXPLOSION. 
 
 From the third of June, the day after the last battle 
 at Cold Harbor, till the i4th, on which latter day, the 
 One Hundred and Twentieth crossed the James river 
 no events occurred out of the usual round of army 
 experiences. Guard and picket duties, with occasional 
 short marches by day, with now and then a nightly 
 bivouac under a summer sky, occupied the interval. 
 The two armies being close together, the work of the 
 sharpshooters was naturally kept up pretty actively at 
 times, resulting in some casualties on either side. 
 Though the brigade to which the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth belonged, was in the second line at Cold 
 Harbor, and thus escaped much damage in that destruct 
 ive battle, its losses from daily exposure and hardship 
 were large, sickness as well as the bullet adding to the 
 chasms made in the ranks since the campaign opened. 
 One of the regiment, putting down his experiences 
 shortly after Cold Harbor, writes : 
 
 "All day there has been heavy artillery firing, and the shot and 
 shell tearing through the air, or lodging in the trunks of large trees 
 standing near, are constant reminders that a hostile army is just 
 
IS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 before us. The sharpshooters of both armies are continually at 
 work, and wherever a head comes in sight it at once becomes a tar 
 get. Quite a number of officers and men in the different corps were 
 the victims of this day s work. As we looked back over the past 
 month, crowded with great events, and thought of the many dangers 
 through which a kind Providence had brought us safely, so many 
 being taken while we were left, we could not but feel deeply thankful 
 for our preservation. Our regiment had borne its part nobly, every 
 man seeming to feel what duty he owed to his country and his God, 
 and to conduct himself accordingly. We are now near the sickly 
 swamps of the Chicahominy, where the army of General McClellan, 
 two years ago, had its repeated encounters with the enemy. The 
 rays of the sun poured down upon us with unsparing fierceness, the 
 water was poor, and sickness began to tell upon our ranks, as battle 
 had done. The rebel army lay between us and their capital, now 
 only nine miles distant." 
 
 That army lying between the Union forces and Rich 
 mond, proved a stubborn obstruction to the capture of 
 the capital, the sound of whose church bells almost 
 reached the combatants, so near was their approach to 
 it. It might be disappointing to many to have a speedy 
 assault and the hoped-for capture delayed, and to see 
 the army turn its back upon Richmond when the prize 
 seemed almost within its grasp. But the plan deliber 
 ately fixed upon was, to get farther away from the capi 
 tal first, and then in due time, by gradual approaches, to 
 get within it, through the weakening and dispersion of 
 the army which had so long guarded but would be no 
 longer able to save it. This plan involved the crossing 
 of the James river, preparations for which went forward 
 rapidly after the Cold Harbor conflict, the object being 
 to destroy the lines of supply leading to Richmond*, 
 south of the river, and as close to the city as practicable, 
 to capture Petersburg, sever all railroad communication 
 
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 with the Confederate capital, which Lee s army must 
 then of necessity abandon. 
 
 The crossing of the James river, with an opposing 
 army within gunshot, watching every opportunity to 
 obstruct the progress of the invading enemy, was a deli 
 cate and difficult operation. It was necessary to con 
 ceal the movements of the Union army as much as 
 possible, and especially the point at which it was 
 designed to cross, and this was done so effectually, that 
 the passage of the river was accomplished without 
 molestation or mishap. The preparations for the move 
 ment of the army to the James river, and for crossing it, 
 were so carefully and skilfully made, that the several 
 corps, each in the order marked out, traversed the 
 distance between Cold Harbor and the James, without 
 interruption. Crossing the Chicahominy by the several 
 bridges designated, and passing through the swamps 
 that separated it from the James, they reached the banks 
 of the river between the I3th and i5th, Hancock s 
 Corps arriving on the former day. This corps crossed 
 the river on the I4th, a part on pontoons, but mostly 
 in vessels, furnished largely by General Butler, then at 
 Bermuda Hundred. The One Hundred and Twentieth, 
 which formed part of the Second Corps, was surprised 
 and delighted to see among the vessels there, the 
 Thomas Powell, of Rondout, which seemed to the sol 
 diers like the face of an old friend, bringing strong 
 reminders of home. The point of crossing was from 
 Wilcox s Landing, to Windmill Point, the river here 
 being 2,100 feet wide, and in mid-channel, from twelve 
 to fifteen fathoms deep, with a strong tidal current, all 
 of which would seem to forbid the construction of a 
 
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 pontoon bridge. Such bridge, however, was actually in 
 progress for the passage of the other corps, and was fin 
 ished at midnight of the i4th. The crossing at once 
 commenced of the Ninth, Fifth and Sixth corps, and by 
 midnight of the i6th, the whole army, with its artillery 
 and trains, was over the James, General Wright cover 
 ing the operation and being the last to reach the right 
 bank.* This movement, so successfully made, proved 
 to be one of the highest importance in its results, was 
 in fact, a long step forward in the road that led to the 
 downfall and ruin of the Confederate cause. 
 
 On the morning of the i5th of June, the Second 
 Corps started on its march toward Petersburg, the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, with its brigade, 
 falling into line about 1 1:30 A. M., and marching rapidly 
 a distance of twenty miles, arrived at nightfall within 
 three miles of the city. The tents were pitched for the 
 night, the brigade occupying the front line among the 
 Union troops intrenched before Petersburg and about 
 to have their first experience of besieging a strongly 
 fortified town. Heavy lines of breastworks stretched 
 from the Appomattox river, round the eastern and 
 southern sides of the city, and behind these extended 
 and strong defenses, were battalions of Lee s veterans, 
 ready to hold their ground against all assailants, or to 
 sally iorth, as opportunity might offer, and grapple with 
 their enemy in the open field. 
 
 The number of Confederate troops in the fortifications 
 at Petersburg, was small when the advance of the 
 Union army arrived before the city. It hardly exceeded 
 2,5oo men. Lee s main force was held for the pro- 
 
 * Humphrey s Virginia Campaign. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 39 
 
 tection of Richmond, which place he supposed General 
 Grant intended first of all to assail. General Beaure- 
 gard, on the other hand, rightly divining that Peters 
 burg would be the main point of attack to the Union 
 army, urged General Lee to send troops enough to 
 defend it, while he held his own lines in front of Gen 
 eral Butler. This request Lee did not at once comply 
 with for the reason stated, and hence Petersburg was 
 left for a time, with very inadequate numbers for its 
 proper protection, inviting, in fact, the assaults which 
 soon followed the appearance of the Union army before 
 the city. Had these assaults been made more promptly, 
 and with more concert on the part of Hancock s and 
 Smith s corps, they would have resulted, most probably, 
 in the capture of Petersburg, with all the advantages 
 resulting from its posession, to the Union arms. As it 
 was, the assaults were made with great resolution and 
 gallantry, and with marked success, so far as the cap 
 ture of redans, with many prisoners, was concerned. 
 The Petersburg intrenchments encircled the city at the 
 distance of two miles from it, and these consisted of a 
 series of strong batteries connected by infantry parapets, 
 with ditches in front. Several of these redans or bat 
 teries, were carried by Smith s vigorous attacks upon 
 them, and the enemy driven to positions nearer the 
 city. Other assaults were made on the morning of the 
 1 8th, by the Fifth, Ninth and Second corps, but no 
 material advantages were gained, as the enemy had now 
 become largely re-enforced, besides pressing closer up 
 to the adversary s lines, the ground taken there being 
 at once intrenched. These positions, the two opposing 
 lines continued substantially to hold, during all the 
 months the war lasted. 
 
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 The attacks on Petersburg, from the i5th to the i8th 
 of June, inclusive, though they failed in their main object, 
 were attended with severe Union losses, the number in 
 killed and wounded in the Second, Fifth and Ninth 
 corps, amounting to 7,450. Though the troops were 
 exempted, after Cold Harbor, from the casualties pro 
 duced by a pitched battle, their experience before 
 Petersburg served to show, that a siege may be almost 
 as fatal to life and limb as a battle! 
 
 When the several corps of the Union army had taken 
 their positions before and around Petersburg and Rich 
 mond, the fate of these two cities became the. absorbing 
 
 o 
 
 question of interest among all classes. The capture of 
 the former, involved that of the latter, and the fall of both, 
 was well understood to mean the end of the struo-o-le 
 
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 for the Confederates. Petersburg once taken, Rich 
 mond s defense could not long be maintained with all 
 communications from the South and West cut off, and 
 therefore, the earnest and persistent efforts made to cap 
 ture Petersburg, as leading inevitably to the final 
 triumph of the Union arms. 
 
 Well knowing the vital importance of holding Peters 
 burg, General Lee had strengthened it by concentrating 
 there all the troops he could possibly spare from his 
 lines around Richmond. The city thus became very 
 formidable in its defenses, and proved able to withstand 
 for many months, the utmost efforts of the investing 
 forces. Lee s army, indeed, was held as in a vice, all 
 its energies being absorbed in the one great object of 
 saving Richmond from falling into the clutches of the 
 enemy. Thus the months of the summer and autumn, 
 and the winter following, slowly passed, one by one, 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y, S. l- OLS. I 4 I 
 
 in efforts made by the Northern army to break down 
 the defenses which obstructed their entrance into these 
 cities, and by the other, to foil all attempts made against 
 them. The details of the movements and operations to 
 compass these ends, were varied and some of them 
 striking and picturesque. We can do no more, how 
 ever, than glance at these, or dwell upon them only so 
 far as is necessary to the proper illustration of the sub 
 ject of this narrative. 
 
 To the troops in intrenchments before a beleaguered 
 city, which has strength to baffle for many months, all 
 efforts to take it, there must be much monotony in the 
 service rendered, day by clay. Short marches from one 
 position to another the occasional shifting of positions 
 and the throwing up of new intrenchments ; the digging 
 of wells for providing a supply of water ; guard and 
 picket duty, performed with never failing regularity ; an 
 occasional assault made on some exposed point in the 
 enemy s defenses, or a sortie of the besieged, needing 
 to be met and repelled these are among the daily 
 experiences of soldiers engaged in a long siege, such as 
 that of Petersburg. Some of these experiences have an 
 interest of their own, marked as they often were, by 
 incidents of personal adventure, suffering; and patient 
 endurance on the part of the soldiers, who, lying within 
 striking distance of the guns of the enemy, were hardly 
 at any time, out of danger of being struck down by shot 
 or shell. But the men gre\v indifferent to personal 
 risks by being constantly exposed to them, and per 
 formed their daily tasks without heeding the perils 
 which lay in wait for them on every side. The One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment had its own share 
 
142 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 of these perils, and the record of what it did and suffered 
 during the months preceding- the fall of Richmond, 
 would, if it were spread out in detail, show it well 
 entitled to an honorable place among the battalions 
 that served the country most faithfully. A few extracts 
 from this record, written by the trustworthy pen, whose 
 aid has so many times been resorted to, will set forth 
 some of the doings and experiences of his comrades of 
 the regiment, for a part of the period mentioned. These 
 extracts, drawn from a carefully kept record of each 
 day s operations and field services, will give an idea of 
 the character and requirements of the work which 
 devolved upon the troops while the siege of Petersburg 
 was in progress : 
 
 July i Qth. " We were quiet in our works, while the skirmishers in 
 front, kept up a constant firing." 
 
 July 20th. "Bullets are singing over our heads or striking the 
 works behind which we are safely sheltered, all day. There has 
 been heavy skirmishing since daylight. After dark, we were relieved 
 by a portion of Burnside s Ninth Corps, and we marched nearly all 
 night." 
 
 July 22d. "This morning we moved into the front line of works. 
 Barlow s division moved over them to establish a new line, but were 
 soon assailed by a superior force of the enemy, and hurled back, 
 losing four guns and over a thousand prisoners." 
 
 July 23d. "The regiment remained quietly behind the breast 
 works all day, a large detail being on the skirmish line. The term 
 of enlistment of two regiments of our brigade had expired, and the 
 recruits and veterans of one of them, the Seventy-second N. Y., were 
 transferred to our regiment. Some of our boys who were on the 
 skirmish line, will remember how they saw Colonel William Blais- 
 dell, of the Eleventh Massachusetts, killed, while trying to advance 
 our skirmishers under a galling fire from the enemy s pickets and 
 sharpshooters." 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 143 
 
 The regiment had been without a chaplain for several 
 months, the Rev. F. Hartwell, having resigned, the 
 previous winter. On the 9th of June, a new chaplain 
 joined the regiment, in the person of Rev. H. H. 
 Hopkins, a son of Dr. Mark Hopkins, for many years the 
 honored president of Williams College, a young man of 
 high character and gifts, and full of ardor, both patriotic 
 and religious. He readily identified himself with all the 
 interests of the regiment, cheerfully sharing the hard 
 ships and clangers of the men, to whose bodily, not less 
 than spiritual needs, he sedulously ministered, and soon 
 winning a high place in their esteem, confidence and 
 affection. In the following extract, reference is made to 
 him and to a service he conducted with the regiment, 
 amid a pause in the harsh battle noises which stunned 
 the ear throughout each day, and often reached far 
 into the night : 
 
 June 24th. "It was quiet in our front. Heavy firing was heard on 
 our right early in the morning, which continued the greater part of 
 the day, with short cessations. When night came, firing along dif 
 ferent portions of the line ceased, and it was as quiet as a New 
 England Sabbath. For three consecutive evenings, our chaplain had 
 tried to hold meetings. This evening he succeeded. Nearly the 
 whole regiment came together at the centre of the line, keeping near 
 the works so as to be able to spring to arms at a moment s notice. 
 Seated on the ground, officers and all seemed rejoiced, thus together 
 to worship God. Within full hearing of the enemy, we sang the 
 old hymns, and some regiment down the line, echoed them back to 
 us. One of the captains and two of the men led in prayer, and all 
 listened attentively to the earnest words of the chaplain. Captain A. 
 Lockwood, was mustered as major of the regiment to-day. The 
 intrenchments behind which we were holding the front line, were 
 built of logs and earth, and were very strong, and the army asked 
 nothing belter than to have the enemy hurl their forces against them. 
 
144 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 The men were calm and confident when there were real indications 
 of an attack and scarcely noticed the famiiiar whizzing sound of the 
 minies from the opposing skirmish line." 
 
 The above picture furnishes a strong contrast, as it is 
 a pleasant relief to the dark and stormy scenes of con 
 flict and bloodshed through which so much of the 
 regiment s way had lain hitherto, and it is honoring to 
 the soldiers, to see them amid their grim, warlike sur 
 roundings, doing honor and homage to Him, through 
 whom alone, all good and perfect gifts are bestowed, 
 among them, prospectively being, triumph to our arms 
 in the prolonged struggle, in whose final and complete 
 success, the nation s integrity, freedom and very life 
 were involved. 
 
 The heat of the weather, in these midsummer days, 
 was at times, almost insupportable, and the suffering of 
 the soldiers in marching and in the daily services they 
 were called upon to perform, such as levelling the 
 enemy s abandoned works, digging wells, etc., was very 
 severe. Every change of position made it necessary to 
 open new wells, for no water could be obtained, fit for 
 use, without this constantly imposed labor. The follow 
 ing from the diary of July i2th, sets these matters forth 
 in strong light : 
 
 "Near daylight, all the intrenchments in front of us had been 
 levelled, when we marched about two miles to the left and rear. We 
 halted in an open field, while an army, with its artillery, passed by 
 us, among them being 5,000 colored troops. No word or look of 
 disrespect escaped any of our men, most of whom looked upon 
 colored troops for the first time, and would probably have jeered and 
 derided the same troops, a few months before. Now, however, they 
 had proved themselves good soldiers, worthy to wear the blue and 
 stand in the ranks of freedom. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 " July i3th. Our task of levelling breastworks was completed this 
 morning at 10 o clock. It was about the hottest day we had ever 
 experienced. The sun seemed fairly to wither us. The digging 
 done, we at once started forward, and after two sleepless nights, one of 
 them passed in hard labor, marched at a very rapid pace for about five 
 miles through dust, that rose in a long, heavy cloud. Four men in 
 the regiment directly behind us, dropped dead. Some of our men 
 were overcome with the heat and fell out, within half a mile of camp. 
 The entire regiment showed signs of utter exhaustion. The color 
 bearer, fell from sun-stroke after reaching camp. Many complained 
 of giddiness, and scores lay panting in the woods. 
 
 "Before recovering breath, General Mott, unaware, seemingly, of 
 any unusual suffering in the ranks, issued an order to dig wells and 
 lay out a camp. In half an hour from the time we halted, the men 
 who could walk, were busily engaged in digging wells and in prepa 
 rations for the night s encampment. At about six p. M , of the i4th, 
 we were ordered with the division to the front, to tear down old 
 works left by the enemy. All night, with pick and spade, we were 
 at work to level old Confederate fortifications, completing our task 
 the next day, by laboring at it from four p. M., till an hour before 
 midnight. The works torn down, had formed a strong position, and 
 were now occupied by the Eighteenth Corps and the colored troops. 
 From the ridge they occupied, the spires of Petersburg churches 
 seemed close by, while to the right, a plain stretched to the Appo- 
 mattox, visible at intervals, through the trees. Across this plain, 
 extended the opposing lines." 
 
 The arduous character of the service rendered by the 
 regiment, while the siege of Petersburg was in progress, 
 appears from the foregoing extracts. This service did not 
 greatly vary during the summer months. The men 
 bore the burdens, of whatever kind, which rested on 
 them clay by clay, with .unmurmuring constancy, while 
 they looked forward hopefully to the end of their toils, 
 which they foresaw could not be very long delayed. 
 On the 30th of July, occurred the explosion of the 
 Petersburg mine, to vary the uniformity of the opera- 
 
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 tions, having the capture of the city in view. It was a 
 carefully contrived plan to compass the surrender of 
 the city, and had its execution corresponded fully with 
 the prearranged details, Petersburg would then have 
 been lost to the Confederacy. But the plan miscarried, 
 as many another, not less important or skillfully devised, 
 has done. The eight tons of gunpowder, were, indeed, 
 duly exploded ; a part of the enemy s works, with 300 
 troops manning them, was blown up ; a huge fissure was 
 made in the ground, through which columns advanced, 
 to what was meant and expected to be, a triumphant 
 assault. But troops were hastily rallied to the defense, 
 with a combined power of resistance, which baffled all 
 efforts of the assailants. The result is told in the 
 graphic words of General Grant, himself : The effort 
 was a stupendous failure. It cost us 4,000 men, mostly 
 however, captured, and all clue to inefficiency on the 
 part of the corps commander, who was sent to lead the 
 assault." * 
 
 * General Grant s "Personal Memoirs." Vol. II, p. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 STEADY PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE DANGERS FROM SHASPSHOOTERS 
 
 RESULTING CASUALTIES HOW THE REGIMENT SERVED AND SUFFERED 
 
 GENERAL BARTLETT s ACCOUNT OF SOLDIER-LIFE BEFORE PETERS 
 BURG CONSTANT PERIL TO LIFE AND LIMB THE LIVING SOLDIERS NOT 
 
 LESS DESERVING THAN THE DEAD RALPH WALDO EMERSON^S REMARK 
 
 MARCH TO WELDON RAILROAD BOYDTON PLANK ROAD THE ONE 
 
 HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH CAPTURES INTRENCHMENTS AND PRISONERS 
 
 SWORD PRESENTATION HONORING OUR SOLDIERS GRAVES CHAPLAIN 
 
 HOPKINS LETTER AND GENERAL DOUBLEDAY s RESPONSE. 
 
 The failure to capture Petersburg, through the 
 explosion of the mine, was followed by several weeks of 
 comparative inaction. The effect of the operation had 
 been, to draw heavy bodies of Lee s troops to the 
 defense of the city, against which such daring attempts 
 were making by the Union army, so that a large part 
 of his forces were now posted behind the fortifications 
 of Petersburg. It was shown by this, how much 
 
 o * 
 
 importance the Confederate leader attached to the hold 
 ing of the city, and that he regarded its fall, as a calamity 
 that might foreshadow speedy ruin to his cause. The 
 extensive lines of defense were therefore strength 
 ened in every way possible, and the task of the 
 besiegers to break through, had become more difficult 
 than before the explosion of the mine. 
 
 The siege, however, was not to be abandoned. The 
 Union troops had come to stay. No difficulties which 
 opposed them, could turn them aside from their pur 
 pose. This purpose was to have Petersburg at all 
 
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 hazards, and with it Richmond, though it should require 
 months to accomplish it. To this end, their own lines 
 were not only made stronger, but extended from time 
 to time and brought nearer to those of the enemy, and 
 new and more commanding positions taken, to harass 
 their stubborn adversary, as occasion offered ; to con 
 fine him within narrower limits and gradually weaken 
 his power of resistance. 
 
 Thus the besieging forces lay before and around 
 Petersburg, seeking what advantage they could, and 
 
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 hopeful still of a favorable issue, while the weeks of the 
 autumn slowly succeeded each other. They were con 
 stantly within reach of shot and shell from the opposite 
 defenses, though the shelter of breastworks and bomb- 
 proofs protected them in some measure against deadly 
 missiles. The greatest caution was necessary to guard 
 against the keen -eyed sharpshooter, especially on the 
 skirmish or picket line, and any movement by parties 
 outside of the works, was liable to be attended by 
 serious, sometimes fatal, casualties. Some instances of 
 the latter, will be given in an account of several clays 
 experiences in the progress of the siege, and these will 
 serve to exhibit the nature of the work the besiegers 
 were called upon to do clay after clay, and the perils to 
 which they were exposed, in performing it. The 
 account is from the diary from which I have drawn so 
 freely, whose full and carefully compiled details, furnish 
 the best information attainable on matters of principal 
 concern to the regiment. The following extracts will 
 
 o o 
 
 serve as a sample of the kind of service, with its attend 
 ant trials, required of the regiment during many weeks 
 that the siege was going forward : 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 49 
 
 "September 9th. In the evening, a detail fiom our regiment, 
 among others, was sent to strengthen the picket line, while the Twen 
 tieth Indiana, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania and the Second U. S. 
 Sharpshooters, were to capture the enemy s rifle pits, which were near 
 one of our forts, on the Jerusalem Road. We were first taken to the 
 fort and then moved silently forward to the picket line, where we 
 found the regiments named, ready and waiting to move. 
 
 "At one o clock, A. M., of the roth, the moon having just set, the 
 attacking party crept forward through the darkness and soon reached 
 the rifle pits, surprising the videttes, and after a few shots, the lines 
 were ours. Many of the enemy came running back, were taken in 
 charge and sent to the fort by our picket line. Two captains and 
 96 prisoners were taken in this affair. Lieutenant Colonel Meikel, of 
 the Twentieth Indiana and Lieutenant G. W. Ellsler, of the Ninety- 
 ninth Pennsylvania, lost their lives in the assault." 
 
 The picket line was advanced and the captured works 
 were manned with Union soldiers, while every gun in 
 front opened against the successful assailants, shot and 
 shell flying over the heads of the sheltered troops and 
 plowing up the ground in their front ; the cannonade 
 continuing till two o clock in the morning. At three 
 o clock, another portion of the lines was assailed by the 
 enemy s cannon , with such a furious outburst, that the regi 
 ment was called out to confront any danger that might be 
 impending. Later in the morning, an attack on our 
 picket line, resulted in the capture of some 25 Union 
 soldiers, who were guarding it. Constant firing was 
 kept up between the opposing picket lines, and this often 
 resulted, in the parties engaged, being struck down by 
 shots, that sometimes proved fatal. Some of these 
 casualties which befell the One Hundred and Twentieth, 
 apart from their interest as individual incidents, 
 will show the hazards attending the siege of a 
 strongly defended city, even when the besieging forces 
 
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 exercise becoming caution and care in their own pro 
 tection. 
 
 "September i6th. Our regiment lay between forts Warren and 
 Crawford, in the front line, and about 100 yards to the left of the 
 Jerusalem plank road. At night, could be seen the flashes of rifles 
 all along the opposing lines, while the blaze from mortars and the 
 fiery curves described by the shells, presented a very picturesque 
 spectacle. 
 
 "September 2Oth. The news of Sheridan s victory in the Shenandoah 
 Valley yesterday, reached us and caused great rejoicing in the army. 
 Wherever there were Union soldiers, whether in camp, in the rear, or 
 along the picket line, there was cheering all day. In the evening, 
 Lieutenant Dederick, a brave and promising young office r of our 
 regiment, who had been rejoicing with us over the victory, was sent 
 out with the pickets. While on the reserve, arranging the details, a 
 minie-ball passed through his heart, coming out of his leftside. He 
 simply uttered the words, I am dead, carry me to the bomb-proof, 
 and lived but a few moments, when his lifeless body was borne to 
 the camp which he had left just before in happiest mood. Lieutenant 
 L. A. DuBois, of company I, who had placed some boxes in front 
 of his tent bed for his protection against stray minies, and which 
 sheltered all but his feet, was wounded in his foot by a bullet passing 
 through his tent during his sleep this night." 
 
 "September 24th. Bullets were striking about our camp and 
 headquarters thicker than ever, passing through the officers mess- 
 tent and throwing up the dirt in front of their quarters. At night, 
 we were sometimes awakened by the hum and thud of minies, which 
 for a moment, caused a chilly sensation to pass over us. Head 
 quarters were changed in consequence of the annoyance to which 
 they were thus subjected. 
 
 "September 26th. Private Brown, an old member of Captain 
 Gillett s company, was shot through the head on the picket line this 
 morning, and killed. 
 
 "On the morning of the 3Oth, one of our men, who was walking 
 carelessly along with no thought of danger near, was struck by a 
 minie and fell dead without speech or motion. 
 
 " September 3Oth. At night, a detail from the regiment was sent 
 out on picket. One of the pits, occupied by four or five men of 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 5 I 
 
 company I, among whom were Jacob Clapper and N. Servoss, was 
 located at an angle in the line. A short distance to the left was a pit 
 containing a Confederate sharpshooter. It was dark and we were look 
 ing at the flashes of the enemy s guns, when a bullet from the sharpshoot 
 er s rifle passed through Clapper s head, killing him instantly, wounding 
 Servoss in the shoulder and hit a third man standing near. All had 
 been watching the enemy s fire, to see the direction of their picket 
 line and position of their pits, when the missile struck them, causing 
 the three to fall at once/ 
 
 The foregoing accounts show what constant peril to 
 life. and limb lay in wait for those who were patiently 
 urging the siege of Petersburg. The intrenchments and 
 breastworks built for their protection, did not afford 
 absolute safety against shot and shell. The men may 
 almost be said to have been under fire all the time, and 
 whether sleeping or waking, were liable to be struck by 
 the enemy s bullets, searching every part of our lines 
 for victims. An interesting and graphic account of the 
 situation before Petersburg and of what dangers 
 environed the troops, is given by General F. W. Bart- 
 lett, commanding the First Massachusetts brigade of 
 Leslie s division, ordered to assault the enemy s works 
 right after the mine explosion. General Bartlett, who 
 had lost a leg in the Peninsular campaign and had a 
 fine record as a gallant and chivalrous soldier, led his 
 brigade promptly at the word of command into the 
 crater opened by the explosion, where, fighting to the 
 last extremity, he was captured, with many of his com 
 panions in arms. In a letter to his mother before this 
 mishap, he thus recounts an experience which was com 
 mon to the besieging army : 
 
 "The brigade is in two lines of breastworks, 100 yards apart, in 
 the front of the enemy s works and within 200 yards, in some places. 
 
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 Brigade headquarters are 250 yards in rear of second line. Division 
 headquarters, 200 yards in rear of brigade, so you see all are in easy 
 musket range of the enemy. We are in pine woods, the trees not 
 very thick. The headquarters have to be protected by a stockade of 
 logs, against bullets which are constantly coming through here. 
 Four officers of the Fifty-seventh (Massachusetts,) have been hit 
 since I got here, one killed, three very badly wounded, in the sec 
 ond line. Our stockade does not protect us against shells, which 
 fall in front and rear of us, but have not hit the headquarters yet. 
 Some fall way in the rear of division headquarters, and some near 
 corps headquarters, which are about one-fourth of a mile in rear of 
 division. A bullet goes whizzing over my tent every few minutes as 
 I write, and goes thud, into one of the trees near, with a sound, that 
 makes you think what a headache that would have given you, if your 
 head had been where the tree was. The bullets patter like rain at 
 times against the outside of this stockade of logs, the inside of which, 
 my elbow touches, as I write. It is a continual rattle of musketry, 
 sometimes swelling into a roar along the line, and varied with the 
 artillery and mortars. So you see, we are liable at any moment to 
 be struck, even while reading a paper or eating dinner. A bullet 
 went through Dr. Anderson s table, as he was eating breakfast this 
 morning. You must be prepared to hear the worst of me at any 
 time. It is wearing to body and mind, this being constantly under 
 fire. People at the North, who are enjoying themselves and thinking 
 of nothing but making money, little appreciate what this brave army 
 is enduring every day and every hour for them, and how much more 
 cheerful and hopeful they are than people at home." * 
 
 On October ist, the regiment moved with its brigade 
 to the Weldon railroad, taking up a position at the 
 extreme left of the Union lines. Here they remained 
 several days, engaged in skirmishing with the enemy, 
 one or two of whose slightly defended lines they suc 
 ceeded in occupying, the One Hundred and Twentieth, 
 capturing a small fort at the right of the Confederate 
 
 * Palfrey s "Life of Bartlett," p. 112, 113. 
 
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 position, which was afterward named, Fort Tappan, in 
 honor of its commanding officer.* 
 
 All day of October 2d, the regiment lay within two 
 or three hundred yards of the Confederate works, with 
 no other protection than a few trees and certain ridges 
 on the surface of the ground. "Eight men were 
 wounded while in this position, among them, Captain 
 Snyder, of company C, always prompt and reliable, who 
 received a severe wound while trying to extend the 
 skirmish line across an open space. William O Neal, 
 another stanch and tried soldier, who had been in the 
 field more than three years without hurt, had his right 
 arm taken off by a solid shot. James Kenyon, another 
 veteran, while aiming his piece, got a bullet up his sleeve 
 which ploughed a furrow nearly the length of his arm." 
 
 On the 5th, the regiment returned to its former 
 position in the trenches before Petersburg. The fol 
 lowing extracts from the diary will explain the situation 
 of the regiment and some matters of particular interest 
 connected with it during the early days of October : 
 
 " October 6th. Colonel Tappan led us into a beautiful camp, 
 which had been the headquarters of General Gibbon. Here, at the 
 left of Fort Davis, we were kept till October 24th, for the purpose of 
 being available to reinforce any portion of the line which might be 
 menaced. 
 
 " October 8th. In the evening, there came to the regiment, 109 
 recruits, entirely unexpected by any one. This brought us up to the 
 number of a full regiment, on paper, although we only drew rations 
 for 540. Many of our men were absent on account of sickness and 
 wounds ; a number were prisoners of war, and some were rendering 
 faithful service in various detachments. The chaplain mentioned, 
 
 * See General Sharpe s "Memorial Address in Honor of Colonel 
 Tappan," p. 15. 
 
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 that since the last pay day, he had sent $21,000 home for the men, 
 while $10,000, making in all, four-fifths of the entire sum received, 
 had been sent in other ways. This was certainly an excellent 
 record. 
 
 October yth. Colonel Sharpe, from City Point, with a friend, 
 visited the regiment. Religious services were held, officers and men, 
 nearly all were present, and combined to carry on the singing well. 
 The band assisted at the beginning, and altogether, the service was a 
 very satisfactory one. 
 
 "October loth. The weather was very cold In the morning, the 
 ice was so thick, that a whole piece, taken from a wash basin, could 
 be held up without breaking. Most of the men had neither over 
 coats nor blankets, and yet there was no complaint. 
 
 "October i3th. Four of our best men were wounded on the 
 murderous picket line. One of them, a brave, ingenuous boy of 18, 
 was shot through the body and died at night. Another young man, 
 had a great furrow ploughed through the right side of his brain by a 
 minie. He expressed great anxiety to live, not because afraid of 
 death, but that he might care for and comfort his mother, who was 
 largely dependent on him. His anxiety, however, did not aveit a 
 fatal termination,, and he was soon numbered with the nation s dead 
 soldiers. 
 
 " How many similar affecting cases occurred throughout the 
 extended field during the war, and how greatly do they add to the 
 distresses inflicted by the grim conflict ! 
 
 11 But. one of the saddest cases of blighted hopes just on the point 
 of being realized, was that of Sergeant Melville Hunt, who for three 
 years and four months, had shared all the fortunes of the old Army 
 of the Potomac, having been in every battle but one, from the 
 beginning of McClellan s campaign in the Peninsula, and excepting 
 a ten days leave, never absent from his regiment. Now, for sufficient 
 reasons, he was about to return home, having received an honorable 
 discharge. On the eve of his departure from camp and comrades, 
 he had a desire to look once more upon the Confederate fortifications 
 and the spires of Petersburg, and with this view, strolled out to Fort 
 Sedgwick. Here, standing near an embrasure, which sheltered him, 
 as he supposed, from the enemy s observation, a sharpshooter s bullet 
 passed through his heart, killing him instantly." 
 
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 Thus, with home and its endearments waiting to cheer 
 him in a day or two, after being long parted from them, 
 while doing faithful service for the country he loved, 
 the unexpected messenger comes to him, quenching 
 every bright earthly prospect, in his life-blood. Not 
 only as a brave soldier who had done his duty, but as a 
 Christian man, the swift summons found him ready for 
 it, but the incident is none the less affecting and impres 
 sive. 
 
 This incident has been dwelt upon somewhat, not 
 because it is wholly singular in its type and surround 
 ings, for other cases nearly similar, marked the progress 
 of the long conflict, but to show what risks to life, con 
 stantly beset, the soldiers who were fighting for the 
 flag, not one of whom could count upon absolute 
 immunity from the shots that were ever hurtling through 
 the air, seeking for victims. We speak of those who 
 laid down their lives for the cause and hold their names 
 in abiding honor for the supreme sacrifice they made in 
 its behalf; but those who cheerfully exposed their lives 
 for the country, though they passed unscathed through 
 the flames of war, are well worthy to share the honor 
 accorded to their comrades who fell. A common spirit 
 and devotion animated both, and to both belongs a 
 rescued nation s meed of gratitude and praise. 
 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, well expresses what is due 
 from the country to the soldiers who lived through the 
 conflict, as well as to those who died in it : 
 
 "The obelisk/ he says, " records only the names of the dead. 
 There is something partial in this distribution of honor. Those who 
 went through those dreadful fields and returned not, deserve much 
 more than all the honor we can pay. But those also, who went 
 
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 through the same fields and returned alive, put just as much at haz 
 ard, as those who died, and, in other countries, would wear distinct 
 ive badges of honor, as long as they lived. I hope the disuse of such 
 medals or badges in this country, only signifies, that everybody 
 knows these men, and carries their deed in such lively remembrance, 
 that they require no badge or reminder." * 
 
 The regiment moved on October 27th to the Weldon 
 railroad, bivouacking near the Yellow House. On the 
 27th it marched to the Boydton plank road, a short dis 
 tance south of Hatcher s Run. Here it joined its 
 brigade, now commanded by Colonel Robert MacAllis- 
 ter, of the Eleventh New Jersey. The brigade was 
 placed in an open field east of the Boydton road, in 
 support of General Egan s division, which was prepar 
 ing to take the high ground across the stream. As 
 these movements were preliminary to the battle of 
 Boydton Plank Road, in which the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment bore a prominent part, we will 
 have recourse to the diary for the details of this affair, 
 as related by one who participated in it, and is well 
 fitted to describe it : 
 
 "While in this position the one above named we were start 
 led first by the rattle of musketry at our right, and then nearly in 
 our rear. A sudden and furious attack had been made on General 
 Pierce s brigade, who, thus assailed unexpectedly by an overwhelm 
 ing force, fell back in disorder, leaving two cannon to fall into the 
 enemy s hands. Egan abandoned the projected assault against the 
 heights, faced about, and, assisted by our brigade and some other 
 troops, made a countercharge, retaking the guns General Pierce had 
 lost, and capturing about one thousand prisoners from the enemy. 
 We soon found ourselves facing about south, in the direction from 
 which we had marched. A rain was falling, and without breast- 
 
 * Emerson s Address at Ded. Soldiers Monument in Concord, April iQth, 1867. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. lj 
 
 works we were subjected to a severe fire of artillery, which caused 
 serious results to the regiment. We moved forward a short distance 
 to the woods, where, with our hands and tin plates, we dug in the 
 ground to protect ourselves from the enemy s bullets, which seemed 
 to come from every direction. We were surrounded by the foe, and 
 the prospect was anything but agreeable. Late in the afternoon our 
 regiment and the Eleventh Massachusetts were ordered to charge the 
 enemy in front of us. We moved forward, capturing a number of 
 the pickets and driving their skirmish line before us. After getting 
 through the swamp we could see the enemy s forces rallying, and 
 they were soon advancing and pouring into our ranks such a stream 
 of musketry as to force us back to our position in the edge of the 
 woods, from which our volleys held them at bay. Captain James 
 Chambers and seven enlisted men were killed during the day, and 
 thirty-three members of the regiment were wounded and sixteen 
 missing. Lieutenant-Colonel Tappen s horse was killed by a solid 
 shot or shell as he stood by it, waiting for orders. About dusk we 
 heard a Union cheer in front of us. The enemy had been attacked 
 from the rear, and were soon compelled to withdraw, losing a num 
 ber of prisoners. The bullets from the attacking columns whistled 
 over our heads, and we soon joined in the loud cheers that followed. 
 Our part in the battle of Boydton Plank Road, or the " Bull Ring," 
 as it was called, was ended, and after da k, through the cold rain 
 and the mud, we commenced our march back toward the front of 
 Petersburg, and on October 315! we arrived once more at our old 
 quarters, the bomb-proof camp near Fort Morton." 
 
 On the night of November 6th, the regiment was 
 roused from its sleep by a furions outburst of artillery 
 and musketry, seeming to come from their near vicinity. 
 Quickly forming into line, the men learned that the 
 enemy had taken a portion of the Union picket trenches, 
 near the Halifax Plank road, and that we were to go 
 forward and re-capture them. The shells were bursting 
 over their heads, the darkhess lighted up with their 
 flashes, while mortars and cannon mingled, contributed 
 
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 with their mighty roar, to make night hideous with dis 
 cordant sounds. 
 
 "The regiment moved rapidly forward and soon reached the 
 works in which the enemy were sheltered. Companies C, E and B. 
 sprang over the intrenchments, and wiih bayonets and clubbed 
 maskets, forced about 50 of the Confederates to surrender, who were 
 sent to the rear as prisoners. Two of our number were killed and 
 seven wounded, in performing this energetic and skilful exploit, for 
 which, corps, division and brigade commanders, were pleased to 
 compliment the regiment." 
 
 The routine of camp experiences was pleasantly 
 varied on the gth of November by the presentation of 
 a sword to Lieutenant Alonzo R. Cole by the company 
 with which he was associated. A similar mark of 
 regard was shown on the iQth by the members of com 
 pany B for their Captain, Rodney B. Newkirk, who 
 became the recipient of an elegant sword. The pre 
 sentation in both cases was made by Lieutenant-Colo 
 nel Tappen in brief and appropriate terms, to which 
 the recipients of the swords made fitting replies. The 
 soldiers were much interested in the ceremonies, 
 expressing their good wishes for the officers thus hon 
 ored, whose merits and character had commended them 
 as deserving of this distinction. 
 
 To have the remains of the soldiers dying in the 
 service of the country properly interred, and their 
 graves secured against desecration or against the neg 
 lect that left them without mark or distinction of any 
 sort, is a matter in which every true heart feels a warm 
 interest. Wherever operations were carried on against 
 the enemy, valuable lives were laid down by men fight 
 ing under the national flag. These men had gone forth 
 
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 from Northern homes, leaving kindred behind them, 
 who, while yielding them up at their country s call, 
 followed them into the field with yearning for their safe 
 return, and with constant solicitude for their escape 
 from surrounding dangers. When tidings of the death 
 of these loved ones reached home, the stricken hearts 
 bowed to the stroke with what fortitude they might, but 
 the consolation was theirs that the life laid down was 
 in the service of the country, and this was a soothing 
 reflection. If to this were added the knowledge that 
 the dead kinsman s remains, instead of being thrown 
 aside as a worthless thing, were tenderly cared for, 
 received a soldier s burial with fitting respect, and with 
 a suitable memorial over the grave, it would solace 
 bereaved homes more than words can express. With 
 the view of having provision made for a suitable place 
 of burial for the Union deceased soldiers before and 
 around Petersburg, and for due honor to be paid to 
 their remains, Chaplain Hopkins, whose attention to 
 the interests and needs of the soldiers was unremitting, 
 addressed to the proper authorities a letter from which 
 we extract the following : 
 
 " HEADQUARTERS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. VOLS., ) 
 
 "November 18, 1864. ) 
 
 "ADJUTANT: I beg leave respectfully to call attention to the fol 
 lowing facts : 
 
 "Since the arrival of the army before Petersburg there have been 
 no places assigned for the burial of the dead, and there has been no 
 system followed in marking, numbering or recording the position of 
 the graves of the fallen. We accordingly find that the dead are scat 
 tered here and there, buried in dooryards and gardens, along road 
 sides, by water-courses and in the woods wherever the lines of the 
 army have reached. From very many graves the slight head-boards 
 
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 originally set up have been removed, and from many of the remain 
 ing boards the lettering is wholly obliterated, while upon all of them 
 it is growing every day fainter. The storms of the coming winter 
 will render nameless nearly all the graves of the soldiers of the Union 
 who have fallen in front of Petersburg, thus putting it forever out of 
 the power of their friends to recover their remains, or of their coun 
 try to mark their resting place." 
 
 After stating that a similar neglect in regard to 
 burial and to the preserving of inscriptions on tablets, 
 prevailed also about hospitals, so many of whose 
 inmates were constantly borne to the grave, the chap 
 lain adds : 
 
 " I therefore have the honor to ask that the attention of the proper 
 authorities be called to this whole subject, and I would respectfully 
 suggest that the sites for one or more cemeteries be at once selected ; 
 that the bodies of all United States soldiers who have been killed, or 
 who have died since the occupation of the present line, be removed 
 to such place or places as shall be chosen, and that hereafter, during 
 the present military operations, it be ordered that no intermems of 
 bodies of soldiers be made elsewhere. " 
 
 This application, sent through Adjutant Russell, 
 received a few days after, a favorable reply, in a circular 
 order, from Major General Doubleday, the commander 
 of the corps, a part of which is in these words : 
 
 "Commanding officers within the corps are directed to have all 
 burial grounds strongly fenced in, the topmost rail to be mortised or 
 pinioned. Inscriptions upon the head-boards will show distinctly 
 the name, rank, company, regiment, and date of death of the 
 deceased. * * * Application will be made to the commander 
 of the army for authority to disinter the isolated bodies of deceased 
 soldiers of the command, in order that they may be reinterred in the 
 burial ground of the division to which they belonged, and that 
 proper head-boards and inscriptions may be placed over their graves." 
 
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 This shows becoming respect, not only for our dead 
 soldiers, but for the sentiment of the country in regard 
 to the reverential treatment of the remains of those who 
 fell in its defense. This sentiment has found beautiful 
 expression and on a large scale, in the erection of 
 national cemeteries all over the land, where battles 
 were fought and Union soldiers laid down their lives. 
 The government has taken these cemeteries under its 
 
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 own care, gathering into them the remains of its brave 
 defenders, wherever they could be found, and by the 
 tender and assiduous guardianship which it continues 
 to exercise over them, showing how highly it honors 
 the dust of the men whose strong arms saved it from 
 overthrow and ruin. 
 
 11 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 GENERALS HANCOCK AND HUMPHREYS THE MURDEROUS PICKET-LINE 
 
 INCESSANT FIRING COLONEL TAPPEN TAKES LEAVE OF THE REGIMENT 
 
 AFFECTING ADIEU THE WELDON RAID INCIDENTS OF IT BY PARTIES 
 
 WHO WERE THERE EXCESSES BY SOLDIERS IN AN ENEMY S COUNTRY 
 
 NOT ALWAYS AVOIDABLE WHAT GENERAL SHERMAN SAYS CHAPLAIN 
 
 HOPKINS REPORT THE AFFAIR AT HATCHER S RUN HUMPHREY S 
 
 EXPERIENCE BEFORE PETERSBURG WINTER QUARTERS. 
 
 On the 26th of November, General Hancock resigned 
 the command of the Second Corps. He had been 
 selected to organize the First Army Corps of veterans, 
 making his headquarters at Washington, where, in the 
 prosecution of this work, he remained till February, 
 1 865. His military record during the war, illustrates 
 the history of the Union army. He was one of the 
 most prominent figures in all the great battles which 
 that army fought, notably that of Gettysburg, whose 
 successful result was largely due to his foresight, readi 
 ness to meet emergencies, skilful dispositions and 
 indomitable energy. The soldiers he had commanded, 
 found it hard to part with one so trusted and loved, and 
 who had stood by them so long and stanchly, in unto 
 ward, as in prosperous times. 
 
 The corps, however, was fortunate in having General 
 A. A. Humphreys succeed to the command. The 
 position he had held as chief of staff of the Army of the 
 Potomac, was due to his high character and military 
 ability. And since a change in commanders was 
 
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 necessary, the corps might well felicitate itself, that one 
 so skilful and experienced, and so well qualified for 
 the post, as General Humphreys, was to lead it hence 
 forth to victory. 
 
 The 2Qth of November, was the last day that the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth occupied its bomb-proof camp, 
 which, for so many weeks, had been a target for the 
 enemy s shower of missiles. That these lavish favors 
 were not received without acknowledgment, but met with 
 a return in kind, appears from the fact, that the picket 
 detail of one hundred men, had for weeks, expended each 
 day, ten thousand rounds of ammunition. This indicates 
 the spirited and almost constant firing kept up by the men 
 in this hazardous position, casualties in wounds received, 
 sometimes fatal, being no uncommon occurrence. Leav 
 ing this ground, the regiment moved toward the left, 
 via the " Yellow House," to a new camping ground 
 near Poplar Grove church, where preparations were 
 made for building tenements, which were to serve, it 
 was thought, as winter quarters. This expectation, as 
 events showed, was not fulfilled, the time for winter 
 quarters, implying cessation from aggressive field service, 
 being not yet come, but lying somewhere indefinitely in 
 the future. The regiment had work to do of an import 
 ant kind to the Union interests, and as usual, stood 
 prompt and ready at the word of command to do it. 
 The character of this work will presently appear. 
 
 Meanwhile Lieutenant Colonel Tappen, for control 
 ling personal reasons, resigned command of the regi 
 ment, to the great regret of its officers and men. On 
 December 3^, he met the men of his command, the 
 sharers in many a conflict and hardship, to bid them 
 
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 farewell. The scene must have been an affecting one, 
 as described by a member of the regiment : " We were 
 formed in line of battle to listen to his parting words. 
 Sorrow and regret were depicted on every face, for we 
 had felt the inspiration of his presence amid many 
 scenes of danger and suffering and on many a tiresome 
 march. His patriotism, ability and loyalty to duty, had 
 been tried in the fires of battle and had thoroughly 
 stood the test, and this day of his leave-taking, seemed 
 to us, a funeral day. Colonel Tappen attempted to 
 make an address, but could only say with a choking 
 
 voice, * I suppose you all understand good bye boys, 
 
 God bless you all, when, waving his hand, with a heart 
 too full for utterance, he hastily retreated to his tent." 
 In -an official letter of Chaplain Hopkins, concerning the 
 affairs of the regiment, written during this month, is the 
 following tribute to this respected officer. 
 
 " The opening of the month was signalized by the retirement of 
 Colonel J. R. Tappen, from the command of the regiment After 
 more than three years of faithful and distinguished service, he has 
 gone back to civil life. His departure was universally deplored, and 
 the scene of his leave-taking was one of tender and affecting interest, 
 such as can be enacted only, when a tried and loved commander is 
 finally separated from veteran soldiers, whose toils and dangers he 
 has shared." 
 
 The log houses which the members of the regiment 
 had completed on the 6th of December, for their winter 
 quarters, supposing that they were to find some rest and 
 comfort within them during the wintry months, it was 
 found necessary to abandon, just as their labors in con 
 structing them seemed happily ended. For at daybreak, 
 on the morning of the 7th, they set forth, under orders, 
 
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 on an expedition that was afterwards known as the 
 " Weldon Raid." The expedition was in command of 
 General Warren, and consisted of troops of the Fifth 
 Corps, with Mott s division of the Second and Gregg s 
 division of cavalry. Its object was to break up the 
 Weldon railroad, which was very important to the Con 
 federates, as an avenue for conveying supplies from the 
 country south, to Petersburg and Richmond. The regi 
 ment marched rapidly for a distance of twenty miles, 
 and bivouacked about four miles beyond the Nottoway 
 river. The men found the march a wearisome one, 
 laden as they were with blankets and clothing for the 
 winter, in addition to six days rations and ammunition, 
 the unusual burden, with the long march, causing many 
 men to fall out of the ranks. The march was continued 
 the next day, opening a new scene for the soldiers, and 
 marked by certain incidents, which are fittingly told in 
 the following extract from the diary. 
 
 "We passed many fine residences and plantations, the country 
 not having been devastated by the army. We went through the village 
 of Sussex Court House, halting for the night, within two miles of the 
 Weldon railroad. The country through which we marched offered 
 fine opportunities for foraging, and many of the men confiscated 
 sweet potatoes, poultry, pigs and lambs. Some discovered in the 
 farm houses, barrels of molasses, from which they filled their canteens 
 and others found, stowed away in the cellars, casks of apple brandy, 
 to which they helped themselves, and under its influence, forgot their 
 hardships and passed a merry night. We saw many white women 
 and children during the day, whose scornful glances told of the feel 
 ing they entertained toward Yankee soldiers, while the colored 
 people seemed pleased to see the Stars and Stripes, heralding the 
 better day coming to themselves. We arrived at Jarrett s Station, on 
 the afternoon of December 9th, and at once commenced tearing up 
 the tracks. Forming in line along the road, we took hold of the 
 
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 ties and rails, and with liftings and shouts, turned them upside down. 
 Great fires were built of the ties, and the rails were laid across them 
 and heated so that they would bend and twist and be wholly unfitted 
 for further service as rails. Three times we thus destroyed portions 
 of the road the length of our line. Late at night, having done all 
 that was required of us, we, with the Fifth Corps, after destroying 
 about twenty miles of railroad, commenced our return toward Peters 
 burg. On December loth, we passed three of our men who had 
 been murdered and stripped of clothing. The deed was supposed to 
 have been committed by people living along our line of march. In 
 accordance with General Warren s orders, every building near our 
 route was set on fire in retaliation. Smoke and flame could soon be 
 seen in every direction, and when night came, the scene was awfully 
 grand. 
 
 "Sunday, December nth. The march and the burning of 
 buildings continued. A church standing near the road met the 
 same fate as other structures, though some of the men protested and 
 did all they could to save it from the flames. We passed a bitter 
 cold night sleeping on the ground without tents. 
 
 " December i2th. We reached the Yellow House, having marched, 
 since we started on the raid, a distance of one hundred miles. We 
 were not allowed to occupy the quarters which we had built, and slept 
 in only one night, after being finished. 
 
 "We took lodgings, December i3th, on our new camping 
 ground, near the Halifax road, where we were only to make our 
 selves comfortable, a hint, that we were not expected to remain there 
 in winter quarters." 
 
 The foregoing depicts some of the horrors of war, in 
 pillaging, burning and destroying property, in an enemy s 
 country, a thing perpetrated on a wide scale over the 
 land while the conflict lasted. Some of the wasting and 
 destruction was wanton, but that is hardly avoidable, 
 when the " clogs of war," are fairly let loose. One is 
 reminded of General Sherman s words in his famous 
 letter to the Atlanta authorities, who besought him to 
 countermand his order sending away the citizens from 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. \6j 
 
 the place, after its possession by the Union army. 
 " War is cruelty," he says, "and you cannot refine it ; 
 and those who brought war into our country deserve all 
 the maledictions a people can pour out. You might as 
 well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these 
 terrible hardships of war ; they are inevitable * * * 
 We don t want your negroes, or your horses, or your 
 houses, or anything you have, but we do want, and will 
 have, a just obedience to the laws of the United States. 
 That we will have, and if it involves the destruction of 
 your improvements, we cannot help it." 
 
 The army of General Sherman, in its march through 
 Georgia, illustrated the unavoidable havoc and ruin 
 which attend upon the footsteps of war, the " destruction 
 of improvements," with the view of strengthening the 
 Union interests and weakening those of the adversary, 
 being one of its prominent factors, and justified by the 
 necessity of the case. Our soldiers in Virginia, in 
 breaking up railroads, acted simply as their comrades 
 did elsewhere, striking blows, wherever possible, to 
 injure the enemy and break down his power of resist 
 ance, and bring back peace by compelling obedience to 
 the government and laws. 
 
 In Chaplain Hopkins report for December, reference 
 is made to the operations of the regiment during this 
 raid upon the Welclon railroad, with some strictures 
 upon the conduct of those soldiers who manifested inor 
 dinate zeal in carrying on the work of destruction. 
 There are other matters in the report, of interest to the 
 regiment, relating to its numbers at this period, the 
 changes in it, the hardships and exposures of its mem 
 bers and its general condition, which warrant the inser 
 tion of some extracts that follow : 
 
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 4 Divine service was held on two Sabbaths of the month. On one 
 of the remaining, the weather rendered it impracticable, and dur 
 ing the others we were marching. Religious meetings of a social 
 character, have, on two or three occasions been held. The attend 
 ance on all was creditable, though a large class absent themselves 
 entirely. The morals of the regiment have deteriorated in some 
 respects, particularly manifested in irreverence toward religious things. 
 The day and the name of God are not honored as formerly. The 
 vice of profanity has become alarmingly and vulgarly prevalent." 
 
 The Chaplain s experience, is that of many others, 
 who, during the war, held similar relations to regiments 
 in the field. The nature of a soldier s work, the scenes, 
 surroundings and privations of camp life, the being shut 
 out for months from home society with its restraining 
 and elevating influences, are not favorable conditions 
 for awakening religious sentiments, or for strengthening 
 them where they existed, or even for keeping them 
 fresh and unalloyed. This forms another and a strong 
 count in the catalogue of evils growing out of wars, 
 from which every nation needs to pray for deliverance, 
 as from famine and pestilence, which are scarcely greater 
 calamities. The report goes on further to state : 
 
 There have been no deaths (during December,) with the regi 
 ment. Two have died from wounds and two from disease in hos 
 pitals. The whole number present for duty is 442, twenty-five held 
 by the enemy as prisoners, have been exchanged out of the i ic cap 
 tured, October i6th, 1863, at James City, Va. So far as we have 
 learned, 32 of the original number have died. 
 
 "There have been seven promotions during the month, three of 
 them from the ranks. " * 
 
 * The names of those promoted will be found in the Appendix with all changes 
 by promotion or otherwise, in the regiment, from the time of its leaving home till 
 the close of the war, together with the deaths or casualties which befel it, their time 
 and place, as far as can be ascertained. 
 
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 After recounting the setting forth of the regiment on 
 its expedition to break up the Weldon railroad, which 
 has been given above, the report continues : 
 
 "This expedition consumed six days full of hardship, and was 
 altogether an experience tending to destroy the discipline and morale 
 of an army. No special order having been issued against pillaging 
 and the devastation to private property, there was from the first much 
 straggling for these purposes, On the second and third day, this 
 was carried to a shameful extent, every house within sight and some 
 far beyond, being visited by both infantry and cavalry. Men who 
 had thrown away their knapsacks, appeared in the column, laden 
 with household furniture, chairs, clocks, china etc; and with other 
 stolen articles, not only of men s but of women s clothing, and 
 paraded them. Although the troops were amply provided with food, 
 houses were ransacked and stripped of everything eatable, while 
 women and children wept their protestation. " 
 
 On the return of the troops after accomplishing the 
 destruction of the railroad, as before mentioned, the 
 sight of their comrades lying murdered and stripped by 
 the roadside, so exasperated the soldiers, that they con 
 tinued to burn and devastate everything lying along the 
 track of their march. Referring to the murdered men, 
 who, straggling in the rear, had been set upon by the 
 inhabitants, the report remarks : 
 
 "Such savage atrocity cannot be too severely punished; but a 
 wholesale and terrible retaliation visited, for the most part, upon 
 the innocent and helpless, for acts, which, wicked as they were, 
 were incited by the wanton outrages of our own men, could not but 
 be a bad lesson in morals to the troops. " 
 
 Though the truth conveyed in this reflection, is such, 
 as no upright and humane person can well dispute, the 
 " powers " in command, were not quite satisfied with its 
 
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 expression under the circumstances. The report was 
 " respectfully returned " from headquarters, with an 
 admonition to the chaplain, to "confine his reports to 
 the moral condition and general history of the regi 
 ment," and not comment upon the operations, nor upon 
 the conduct of the troops. The corps commander, how 
 ever, marks his disapproval of the licenses committed by 
 the soldiers on their recent expedition, by adding this : 
 " If the statement that he makes concerning the con- 
 
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 duct of the regiment and the troops be correct, it is 
 greatly discreditable to them and especially to their 
 officers. If any case of pillaging or destruction of 
 property is known to the commanders, the offender 
 should be brought before a court." 
 
 The regiment having returned to the ground where 
 it had expected to pass the winter, in quarters adapted 
 to the requirements of the season, was soon busied, in 
 connection with the Eleventh New Jersey, in erecting a 
 log chapel, which they hoped to have completed by the 
 opening of the new year. The work \vas carried for 
 ward with spirit and energy, and finished a little later 
 than the time reckoned on, and duly opened for relig 
 ious uses. Considerate ladies from the North, furnished 
 it with books, maps, papers and magazines, calculated 
 not only to relieve the monotony of camp life, but to 
 minister to the moral and mental well-being of the sol 
 diers, whose leisure hours were thus agreeably and 
 profitably employed. The benefits flowing from this 
 source continued to be enjoyed without interruption till 
 February 4th, when an order to pack up and be ready 
 to march was received, another expedition being con 
 templated and on the verge of setting forth. The object 
 
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 this time, was to break up the Confederate route of sup 
 ply, by a movement on Dinwiddie Court House. 
 Gregg s cavalry led the movement, followed by the Fifth 
 Corps and two divisions of the Second Corps, com 
 manded by Generals Smyth and Mott, and marched to 
 the crossing of Vaughan Road, over Hatcher s Run and 
 to Crawford s Mill. Mott s division was put in position 
 on the south side of the run, and General Smyth s 
 established on the north side, at Armstrong s Mill, 
 communication being- maintained with Warren s Fifth 
 Corps, four miles distant. The intrenched lines of the 
 enemy were established a thousand yards in front, his 
 left covered by woods. The One Hundred and Twen 
 tieth New York and the Eighth New Jersey, formed 
 the extreme left of the Union line. The attack of the 
 enemy began about five p. M., the engagement lasting 
 upwards of two hours, and urged for a part of the time, 
 with great spirit and resolution. The attack was 
 repelled at all points, the enemy falling back to their 
 intrenchments, and the fighting on this part of the line 
 was over, no considerable losses on our part having 
 been sustained. Warren s Corps was more heavily 
 engaged, and in an attack made upon it, on the 6th, by 
 the enemy s whole line, consisting of parts of Hill s and 
 Gordon s Corps, in spite of the exertions of the leading 
 officers and the good conduct of many of the men, his 
 line gave way and fell back. He puts his total loss, 
 including the cavalry, at i,i65, killed and wounded, and 
 that of the Second Corps, at 138, showing that the 
 brunt of these several engagements fell upon his own 
 corps. Referring to the character of the service ren 
 dered by our troops while holding the lines before Rich- 
 
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 mond, with the desultory fighting often witnessed, Gen 
 eral Humphreys says : 
 
 "During the whole period of our partial investment of Petersburg 
 and Richmond, there were frequent affairs on the picket lines, 
 especially in front of the Petersburg intrenchments, where the affair, 
 sometimes, became of a serions character, drawing into it brigades, 
 sometimes a division. Some of these encounters occurred at points 
 where the lines were so close as to cause apprehension of a success 
 ful night attack, and hence, the effort to force back the pickets. 
 These attacks gave occasion for the exhibition of dexterity and daring 
 on both sides, but did not result in any appreciable modification of 
 the lines. The loss they entailed in killed and wounded, was by no 
 means trifling." * 
 
 But this kind of warfare, with the risks, uncertanties 
 and inevitable trials attendant upon it, was rapidly 
 approaching its end. The winter months were gliding 
 by, and the spring was near which was to witness the 
 final struggles and collapse of the Confederacy. By the 
 loth of February, the regiment had returned to its 
 former camping-ground, and soon found itself in snug 
 winter quarters, where it remained till the 25th of 
 March. During this interval, their new flag arrived at 
 headquarters, inscribed with the names of sixteen battles 
 in which the regiment had participated. When the sol 
 diers of the One Hundred ana Twentieth left their 
 quarters again, it was to follow in the track of Lee s 
 retreating army, witness its surrender and share in the 
 universal acclamations which that long-looked-for event 
 occasioned. 
 
 * Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE END DRAWING NIGH LEE PURPOSING A RETREAT GRANT S MEAS 
 URES FOR PURSUIT CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE OF FORT STEADMAN 
 
 WHITE OAK STATION AND DINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE FIVE FORKS AND 
 
 SHERIDAN LEE S RETREAT RICHMOND TAKEN PETERSBURG EVACU 
 ATED PURSUIT OF CONFEDERATE ARMY PART TAKEN IN IT BY THE ONE 
 
 HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH REGIMENT LEWIS MEMORANDA AN ARM 
 ISTICE PROPOSED MEETING OF GRANT AND LEE AT APPOMATTOX 
 
 GRANT S ACCOUNT OF IT TERMS OFFERED AND ACCEPTED INCIDENTS 
 OF THE SURRENDER THE SOLDIERS JUBILANT THE WAR ENDED. 
 
 The operations of the Union army before Petersburg 
 and Richmond were steadily nearing a successful issue. 
 Indications that Lee must soon abandon his intrench - 
 ments before these cities had become more and more 
 apparent as the folds of the besieging anaconda were 
 gradually tightening around them. Early in March, in 
 a conference between Lee and the Richmond authori 
 ties, it was determined that as soon as the roads would 
 permit, the Army of Northern Virginia should move to 
 Danville, and, uniting with that of Johnston, attack 
 Sherman, whom they hoped with their united forces, to 
 overthrow. General Grant, aware of this purpose of 
 the Confederate leader, took prompt measures to 
 thwart it by preparing his army for immediate pursuit 
 as soon as Lee should begin his retreat. Accordingly 
 he issued orders on the 24th of March for a movement 
 of the armies operating against Richmond, to begin on 
 the 29th. The movement was to be to the left, with a 
 
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 view to destroy the Danville and South Side railroad, 
 turn Lee s right, force him to abandon his intrench- 
 ments, and thus, with his army in flight, to pursue him 
 with a force that must speedily effect his defeat and cap 
 ture. 
 
 While these designs were maturing, Lee found it 
 desirable to make an assault against Fort Steadman, the 
 capture of which would facilitate his withdrawal, at the 
 proper time, from his present lines. At this fort the 
 opposing lines were only one hundred and fifty yards 
 apart, and to gain possession of it Lee conceived would 
 be of great advantage to him in his future operations. 
 The assault was accordingly made by General Gordon s 
 corps, with portions of Hill s and Longstreet s corps, 
 embracing nearly half of the Confederate army. The 
 attack took place at half-past 4 on the morning of the 
 25th, and was so sudden and vigorous that Fort Stead 
 man was captured, with most of its garrison, and 
 several batteries in its vicinity. 
 
 The enemy s possession of these works was, however, 
 short-lived. General Parke directed Wilcox, with the 
 aid of Hartranft, and Tidball s artillery, to recapture the 
 works, which was effected in the most gallant manner 
 by the troops under command of these officers. The 
 holding of this fort by the Union troops, after its com 
 ing back into their hands, was not likely again to be 
 contested, and Lee s hopes of benefit from its capture 
 were thus sorely disappointed. His loss in prisoners 
 by this Union success was nearly 2,000, including 71 
 officers, with nine stands of colors. In fact, every 
 movement made by the enemy, as every operation of 
 our forces against him, in these last days of the mighty 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I J 5 
 
 conflict, brought Confederate loss and disaster along 
 with it, and pointed to the rapidly waning strength of 
 the rebel army and the certainty of its speedy and utter 
 collapse. 
 
 At White Oak Station and at Dinwiddie Court 
 House, on the 3ist of March and April ist, actions 
 took place between the opposing forces, with success 
 for the Union troops, many prisoners being captured 
 from the enemy. At Five Forks, where the enemy 
 was strongly intrenched in force, a battle occurred on 
 April ist, a signal success being gained by the Union 
 forces under General Sheridan. He commanded, in 
 addition to his strong force of cavalry, the Fifth Corps, 
 and with these troops he carried the enemy s intrench- 
 ments, capturing 6,000 prisoners, besides artillery and 
 large quantities of small arms. The enemy fled and 
 scattered in all directions, and in the vigorous pursuit 
 which followed, other serious Confederate losses were 
 sustained. 
 
 Following closely in the wake of these important suc 
 cesses was the assault, on the 26. of April, by order of 
 Grant, upon Lee s intrenchments, which proved no 
 more able to withstand the mighty impact of the Union 
 forces than were those last carried at Five Forks. The 
 three divisions of General Wright s Sixth Corps 
 advanced at early dawn to the attack, broke over the 
 enemy s picket line, and, under a heavy artillery and 
 musketry fire, poured in masses over the main defenses. 
 Nothing was able to resist the momentum and impetu 
 osity of this assault, and in a brief time the works were 
 gained. 
 
 After his intrenchments were thus carried, Lee at 
 
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 once notified the Confederate authorities that he would 
 be compelled to abandon his lines during the following 
 night, his retreat involving, of course, the fall of Rich 
 mond. The defenses before Petersburg had been 
 assailed on the same day by troops under Generals 
 Ord, Humphreys and Parke, and with the same signal 
 success. The lines of the enemy were captured, includ 
 ing Forts Gregg and Whitworth the former after a 
 desperate resistance, involving much loss to the assail 
 ants and the result was the evacuation of Petersburg 
 on the night of the 2d, anticipating a bombardment of 
 the place which was ordered to commence at five o clock 
 the next morning. In a letter written to City Point by 
 General Grant on the 2d, just before the city was aban 
 doned, he speaks of the captures by the Union army 
 in this playful vein, not usual to him, but indicating his 
 satisfaction with what was then occurring : " The whole 
 captures since the army started out gunning will amount 
 to no less than 12,000 men and probably 5o pieces 
 of artillery." The capture of Richmond was almost 
 simultaneous with that of Petersburg. The Con 
 federate government left the former city about two 
 p. M. of the 2d, and at 8.1 5 on the morning of the 3d, 
 at the same time that Generals Grant and Meade 
 entered Petersburg, General Weitzel took possession of 
 Richmond. The Confederate capital, which had for so 
 long a time baffied all efforts to capture it, to the attain 
 ment of which end so many thousands of lives had been 
 sacrificed, was at last in Union hands, while the rem 
 nant of the gallant army which had stood for so many 
 months as the city s bulwark against all assailants was 
 in full retreat before its victorious adversary. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. V. S. VOLS. IJJ 
 
 While these operations, which were effecting such 
 significant changes in the situation and prospects of 
 the two armies, were in progress, the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth Regiment had its own part to perform in 
 the stirring events that every day was developing. 
 From the 25th of March, till the 2d of April, when 
 Richmond became ours, and for the days following, till 
 the surrender of Lee s army, the regiment had its full 
 share in helping forward the great work so soon to be 
 crowned with success. Some extracts from Mr. Lewis 
 notes referring to this period* and the service rendered 
 by the regiment during the closing days of the war, will 
 be read with interest. Referring to the severe struggle 
 -at Fort Steadman, resulting in its recapture by the 
 Union forces, on the 25th of March, the record thus 
 continues : 
 
 "From our position on the left, we heard the sounds of battle 
 about Fort Steadman, and at an early hour, received orders to 
 strike tents/ baggage to be sent to the rear. We formed in 
 front of the breastworks and advanced toward the enemy s intrench- 
 ments, the object being to feel their strength. We were soon sub 
 jected to a galling fire of both musketry and artillery, and the result 
 to our regiment, of the day s operations, was six killed, thirty-two 
 wounded and forty-six missing, total loss, eighty-four. Among the 
 severely wounded, and prisoners of the regiment, was Ellis H. Bishop, 
 of Rondout. He was struck in the eye by a minie, which came out 
 of the back of his head. His comrade, thinking him dead, left him 
 to fall into the hands of the enemy. We returned to our old quarters 
 at night. Received marching orders on the 28th, and on the 29th 
 marched to the left across Hatcher s Run, about three miles, and at 1 1 
 A. M. , formed in line of battle and still advancing, arrived about dusk, 
 at a line of the enemy s deserted entrenchments. 
 
 "March 3Oth. Advanced in line of battle, halting about noon, 
 and began constructing a new line of works opposite one of the 
 -enemy s batteries. In the night the regiment marched farther to the 
 
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 left and massed on the site of the historical Bull Ring, near the 
 scene of our engagement October 2yth, 1864. 
 
 " March 3ist. Firing was heard on our right. General Grant s 
 headquarters were near us. He rode over an open field close by, 
 and was cheered by the men and fired at by the Confederate artil 
 lery. Our corps commander, General Humphreys, tried the same 
 thing, and his Adjutant-General, who was right behind him, was- 
 killed by a solid shot from one of the enemy s guns. 
 
 " In the afternoon we were ordered to pile our knapsacks, and 
 then we moved forward, in line of battle. We advanced through the 
 woods to the brow of a hill, at whose base was Hatcher s Run, 
 beyond which, on a ridge, were the enemy s intrenchments, with a 
 ditch in their front. At the command Forward ! we made our 
 way down the hill, under a brisk fire of musketry, reached and 
 crossed the stream, charged up the ridge till we came to the ditch, 
 where we halted ; returned the enemy s fire, till a heavy enfilading fire 
 from the left and rear, necessitated the order to fall back. Our loss. 
 was one killed, 16 wounded and 32 prisoners. 
 
 "April 2d. Our brigade took possession of the enemy s intrench 
 ments in front of the division, and soon all the Confederate works 
 south of Hatcher s Run were occupied by the Second Corps. Their 
 line defending the South Side railroad was broken. The regiment 
 marched up the Boydton plank road and massed within three miles 
 of Petersburg, after which we took a new position, with the Appo- 
 mattox on our left and Petersburg in front. * * * 
 
 " April 3. Early in the morning word was received that Petersburg 
 was in possession of our troops, that Richmond was evacuated, and 
 Lee s army retreating. There was great rejoicing. We in a moment 
 forgot our privations and one continuous hurrah resounded along 
 our line. But there was little time for joyous demonstrations, and 
 we immediately started in pursuit of our fleeing foes. We crossed 
 the South Side railroad and met a battalion of Confederate prisoners. 
 We formed a junction with Sheridan s command, a body of whom 
 met us with bands playing lively airs. We soon continued our 
 march westward toward Burkesville, passing through the finest coun 
 try we had been in in Virginia. Prisoners were being picked up all 
 the way, and from time to time we would pass abandoned caissons, 
 wagons, etc. We continued our march till after 9 o clock, halting 
 in a field, for the night." 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 179 
 
 The regiment continued to advance in line of battle 
 in joint pursuit of Lee s retreating army, on the 4th, 
 5th and 6th days of April, meeting all along with 
 evidences of the demoralized condition of the enemy s 
 forces, all pointing to the hour of their surrender, as 
 being just at hand. On the 5th, they passed 700 Con 
 federate prisoners who had been captured by the Union 
 cavalry the night before. In the afternoon, the regi 
 ment approached Jetersville, a station on the Richmond 
 and Danville railroad, not far from Amelia Court House, 
 near which Lee s army was then supposed to have 
 arrived. 
 
 In their march on the 6th, the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth came in sight of a wagon train of the enemy, 
 which by dextrous management they succeeded in cap 
 turing, and then appropriating such of its contents as 
 the fancy or the needs of the soldiers led them to desire. 
 On their march on the 7th the regiment had the pleas 
 ure of greeting General Sheridan as he passed by. The 
 General was in excellent spirits, and had a pleasant 
 word for any who addressed him, saying how the 
 enemy had been and was being beaten, and what num 
 bers of prisoners, wagons and arms had been taken. 
 In the evening the regiment was well up with the 
 retreating army. The men were placed in line of bat 
 tle, and on the alert for any alarm that might come, or 
 order that might reach them to put forth further exer 
 tions. On their right a fight was in progress, the 
 sounds of which fell upon their ears, while the wounded 
 were borne past them to receive fitting shelter and 
 attention in the rear. Two days only remained before 
 the war should end in Lee s giving up the contest, and 
 
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 how these days were passed by the regiment may be 
 most suitably told in the words of the diary : 
 
 "April 8th. We found the Confederate works at Farmville evacu 
 ated, and continued the pursuit, but were soon halted to wait for 
 orders. With the column we moved again, and passed through a 
 small hamlet, when companies G and H were sent out on a foraging 
 expedition. They found plenty of ham, pork, flour and meal, 
 which were dealt out to the regiment. As the column was moving 
 a flag of truce was seen some distance ahead on the road, and at the 
 edge of a wood toward which we were advancing. We halted for a 
 rest, after which we marched until 3 o clock at night. 
 
 "Sunday, April 9th. We packed up at 7 o clock in the morning. 
 Musketry and artillery were heard on our left. After we were under 
 way we marched until near i o clock P. M., when we moved a short 
 distance from the road into an open field, where, with other large 
 bodies of troops, we were massed, and after stacking arms we were 
 told that there would be a suspension of hostilities for two hours. 
 We learned that Generals Grant and Meade, accompanied by their 
 staffs, had gone out to the front to meet General Lee. We all felt 
 that something unusual was about to happen, but yet could hardly 
 make ourselves believe that the end- of the war was so near. It was 
 about 4 o clock p. M. when General Meade was seen approaching, 
 with his face lit up with a smile as we had never seen it before. He 
 soon informed us that Lee had surrendered. No pen or tongue can 
 properly describe the scene that followed. Some wept for joy. 
 Speeches were made, flags waved, bands played, cannon boomed, 
 and for a long time the air was filled with knapsacks, canteens, coats, 
 caps, tin cups, coffee kettles and blankets, while mingled cheers set 
 tled into one long, continuous roar. We can never forget the joy 
 of that hour. Our many disappointments, long and wearisome 
 marches, exposures and sacrifices seemed all to shrink away into 
 nothingness in the blaze of the present triumph. The losses looked 
 trifling compared with the splendid gain now secured. The princi 
 ples for which we had fought and endured so many hardships had 
 prevailed at last. The war for the Union was virtually ended, and 
 God had given us the victory." 
 
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 We enter heartily into the raptures of the Union sol 
 diers as set forth in the foregoing lively description. 
 The great event which had taken place was fully ade 
 quate to produce such outbursts of joy. It meant for 
 the soldiers a final termination to all the hardships, 
 perils, sufferings of every kind, belonging to service in 
 the field. It meant a speedy return to their homes, and 
 to the loved ones who were yearning to greet them and 
 rejoice with them in a reunion long looked forward to 
 with hope, mingled with fears that it might never be 
 realized. It meant the restoration of peace to a dis 
 tracted country, which for four years had been agitated 
 from centre to circumference with the raging storms 
 that threatened its destruction, and seemed beyond all 
 human power to control. And more than all, it meant 
 safety to the Union, no part of which, long and obsti 
 nate as the conflict had been, had been torn away from 
 its firm fastenings, to mar its beauty and impair its 
 strength. All that the loyal heart loved in the country 
 and its institutions had been preserved intact, as the 
 precious fruit of these soldiers toils and sacrifices, with 
 the priceless gain added thereto of the blotting out for 
 ever of the stain of slavery from the nation s escutcheon, 
 thus making us a free nation in fact, as hitherto we had 
 been such only in name. Well might the soldiers 
 rejoice and make the welkin ring with their jubilant 
 acclamations, with such results, present and prospective, 
 secured to them by the announcement that Victory had 
 come and the war was ended ! 
 
 It needs not to trace in detail the movements of Lee s 
 army for each day from April 2d> when its retreat began, 
 till the 9th, when its surrender took place at Appomat- 
 
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 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 tox. Most readers are familiar with the story, which is 
 outlined with sufficient distinctness in the narrative 
 given above. The surrender, however, has such his 
 toric importance, and the circumstances attending it are 
 so interesting, that a brief reference to the closing nego 
 tiations, with the written terms offered by General 
 Grant and their acceptance by General Lee, will not be 
 deemed amiss by any reader who may have followed 
 the narrative to the present stage. As illustrating the 
 modest and generous nature of the illustrious leader 
 who had conducted the war to its triumphant close, the 
 record is specially attractive, and will lose none of its 
 charm by frequent perusal. 
 
 The two Generals met by agreement at the house of 
 Mr. McLean, on April Qth, with the view of completing 
 arrangements for the surrender of the Army of Vir 
 ginia. General Grant, in his " Personal Memoirs/ 
 gives the following account of the interview, with its 
 results : 
 
 "General Lee was dressed in a full uniform, which was entirely 
 new, and was wearing a sword of considerable value, very likely the 
 sword which had been presented by the State of Virginia ; at all 
 events it was an entirely different sword fiom the one that would 
 ordinarily be worn in the field. In my rough traveling suit, the uni 
 form of a private, with the straps of a lieutenant general, I must have 
 contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet 
 high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought 
 of till afterwards. 
 
 "We soon fell into conversation about old army times. He 
 remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army ; and I 
 told him that as a matter of course I remembered him perfectly, but 
 from the difference in our rank and years (there being about sixteen 
 years difference in our ages) I had thought it very likely I had not 
 attracted his attention sufficiently to be remembered by him after such 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. I 8 3 
 
 a long interval. Our conversation grew so pleasant that I almost 
 forgot the object of our meeting. After the conversation had run on 
 in this style for some time, General Lee called my attention to the 
 object of our meeting, and said that he had asked for this interview 
 for the purpose of getting from me the terms I proposed to give his 
 army. I said that I meant merely that his army should lay down 
 their arms, not to take them up again during the continuance of the 
 war unless duly and properly exchanged. He said that he had so 
 understood my letter." 
 
 Then after some further conversation, on topics not 
 connected with the business in hand, General Lee sug 
 gested that the terms proposed for the surrender should 
 be written out ; whereupon General Grant took up his 
 pen and wrote the following : 
 
 "AppoMATxox C. H., Va., April 9th, 1865. 
 "Gen. R. E. LEE, 
 
 Comdg C. 6". A. 
 
 " GEN. : In accordance with the substance of my letter to you, of 
 the 8th Inst. , I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of N. 
 Va. on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men 
 to be made in duplicate. One copy to be given to an officer desig 
 nated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as 
 you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not 
 to take up arms against the Government of the United States until 
 properly exchanged, and each company and regimental commander 
 to sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, 
 artillery and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned 
 over to the officer appointed by me to receive them. This will not 
 embrace the side arms of the officers, nor their private horses or bag 
 gage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to 
 their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long 
 as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may 
 
 reside. 
 
 "Very Respectfully, 
 
 "U. S. GRANT, 
 
 "Z/. Gen." 
 
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 These terms * metfwith the ready assent of General 
 Lee, as from their liberal character they could hardly 
 fail to do, and he seemed to have regarded them as 
 generous, from what appears in this statement by Gen 
 eral Grant : " When he read over that part of the terms 
 about side arms, horses and private property of officers, 
 he remarked, with some feeling, I thought, that this 
 would have a happy effect upon his army." But Gen 
 eral Grant s generosity did not end here. He made 
 another concession, which breathed the soul of kindli 
 ness and magnanimity toward the defeated, and which 
 might well touch, as it doubtless did, Lee s tender sen 
 sibilities, as it challenges the approval of every generous 
 heart. This concession is given in General Grant s 
 simple and expressive words : 
 
 " I then said to him that I thought this would be about the last 
 battle of the war I sincerely hoped so ; and I said further, I took 
 it that most of the men in the ranks were small farmers. The whole 
 country had been so raided by the two armies that it was doubtful 
 whether they would be able to put in a crop to carry themselves and 
 their families through the next Winter without the aid of the horses 
 they were then riding. The United States did not want them, and 
 I would, therefore, instruct the officers I left behind to receive the 
 parole of his troops, to let every man of the Confederate army who 
 claimed to own a horse or mule take the animal to his own home. 
 Lee remarked again that this would have a happy effect. He then 
 sat down and wrote out the following letter : 
 
 "HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, ) 
 
 "April pth, 1865. } 
 
 "GENERAL: I received your letter of this date, containing the 
 terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed 
 by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in 
 your letter of the 8th inst,, they are accepted. I will proceed to des 
 ignate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. 
 
 " R. E. LEE, General. 
 "Lieu. General U. S. GRANT." 
 
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 On the afternoon of this day the government at 
 Washington received from General Grant a message 
 announcing Lee s surrender. Lee had lost, during the 
 movements of his army, from March 26th to April 9th> 
 about 14,000 men, killed and wounded, and 25,ooo 
 made prisoners. The number of men paroled was about 
 26,000, of whom not more than 9,000 were found in 
 arms, while i5o cannon and 71 colors were among the 
 trophies obtained by the Union army. As the great 
 tidings were proclaimed, the whole nation became 
 sharers in the joy of the soldiers in the field that the 
 long agony was over, and Peace had come to cheer all 
 homes with its presence, and its promises of restored 
 and abiding prosperity. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 ALL CONFEDERATE ARMIES YIELD AFTER APPOMATTOX SOLDIERS LOOKING 
 
 HOMEWARD THE PRESIDENT S ASSASSINATION A NATION S SORROW 
 
 AND DISMAY VETERANS TAKE SOBER AND SENSIBLE VIEWS OF THE SIT 
 UATION THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH MOVES SLOWLY TOWARD 
 
 WASHINGTON SHARES IN THE GRAND REVIEW OF GRANT S AND SHER- 
 
 MAN S ARMIES, ON THE 230 AND 24TH OF MAY THE MAGNIFICENT 
 
 SPECTACLE, AS SHERMAN RELATES IT THE REGIMENT EN ROUTE, AGAIN 
 
 ENTERTAINED AT PHILADELPHIA REACHES NEW YORK AND ARRIVES AT 
 
 KINGSTON ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION HONORABLE T. R. WESTBROOK s 
 
 ADDRESS OF WELCOME RESPONDED TO BY COLONEL SHARPE SWORD 
 
 PRESENTED TO COLONEL LOCKWOOD. 
 
 The surrender of Lee and his army at Appomattox, 
 followed by that of Johnston a few days after, virtually 
 ended the war for the Union. Such bodies of Confed 
 erates as were in arms in other parts of the country, 
 ceased one by one their hostility to the United States 
 government, and gave in their submission to it on the 
 terms substantially granted to the. Confederate Com- 
 mander-in-Chief. The great work which the Union 
 army had gone forth to do was fully accomplished, in 
 the thorough putting down of all armed resistance to 
 the national authority, and in enforcing obedience to 
 the laws over every foot of the national territory. The 
 soldiers occupation, therefore, as soldiers was thence 
 forth gone. What remained for them was to return to 
 the homes they had left, resume their citizen s garb, and 
 with Peace smiling upon the land, engage again in the 
 various industries of civil life, which, in their case, the 
 
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 long- contest had interrupted. The happy change which 
 they had longed for was now near at hand, and the joy 
 which they felt and expressed with such heartiness at 
 the ending of the war, was all the livelier by reason of 
 the prospect of soon mingling again in the peaceful 
 scenes and occupations of home-life. 
 
 But this wide-spread joy was speedily displaced by a 
 grief and gloom no less profound and extended. Fol 
 lowing closely in the wake of Lee s surrender, came the 
 appalling event of the President s assassination. The 
 country lifted one day to the loftiest height of triumphal 
 exultation, was plunged on the next, as it were, into the 
 deepest gulf of dejection and sorrow. Such sudden 
 extremes, the circumstances attendant on each con 
 sidered, have hardly a parallel in the history of nations. 
 The pall spread over the land by the assassin s deed, 
 made everything look gloomy. The public mind was 
 oppressed with a sense of uncertainty and foreboding. 
 How if this bloody act, which made a nation mourn, 
 should represent the spirit and thought of the defeated 
 section ; of what use then to grant terms of peace, 
 to those whose submission to the government meant 
 nothing beyond enforced obedience to a hated authority ? 
 But such dark view, if held at all, soon gave place to 
 brighter and more hopeful ones. The atrocious deed 
 came to be looked upon as that of an individual, aided 
 by a few like-minded accomplices, maddened by his 
 passions of hatred and revenge and as such deserving 
 only the execration and abhorrence of every upright 
 mind. No honest Confederate failed to see and express, 
 that in Mr. Lincoln s death, the South lost a friend 
 whose gentle nature and kindly-wise counsels, would, 
 
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 if he had lived, have been of inestimable benefit to them 
 in the future shaping of their interests. Our returning 
 soldiers soon became possessed of liberal and generous 
 sentiments in regard to their late foes, whom, having 
 met face to face in open combat, they were disposed 
 now, that their fighting was over, to befriend by kindly 
 words and offices, as General Grant had set them the 
 example. Thus the fevered public pulse gradually 
 recovered its tranquil beat. The wheels of the govern 
 ment, often sorely tested before, suffered no clog from 
 the dreadful blow which struck down the nation s Chief 
 Magistrate in a critical time. And the disbanding of 
 the army, consequent upon the close of the war, went 
 on as though nothing had occurred to disturb it. 
 
 The soldiers of the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 Regiment, after April the 9th, realizing that their ser 
 vices in the field were no longer needed, turned their 
 faces thenceforth homeward, where their expected arri 
 val at an early day was awakening much pleasurable 
 excitement. A couple of months, however, were to 
 intervene before expectant " lovers and friends" would 
 grasp the hand of their " boys in blue," giving them a 
 "welcome home" with a warmth and heartiness that 
 would make the day of return an ever-fragrant mem 
 ory. This, however, will appear in its proper place. 
 Meanwhile the regiment, after several days of rest, fol 
 lowing Lee s surrender, began to take its way by slow 
 marches toward Washington, en route to its Northern 
 home, reaching Manchester, near Richmond, in the 
 early part of May. It passed by the late Confederate 
 capital without entering it, which was a great disap 
 pointment to the men, who naturally had a strong desire 
 
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 to visit it, and moved forward toward Fredericksburo-. 
 
 & 
 
 Thence, by quiet and comfortable marches of about 
 fifteen miles a day, it reached Alexandria, within sight 
 of the national capital. The regiment lay in camp here 
 awaiting the day appointed for a great review in Wash 
 ington, in which it was to share, of the veterans of 
 Grant and Sherman, soon to be discharged from the 
 service of the country. Preparations were now making 
 for this grand military display, which was to take place 
 on the 23d and 24th days of May. On the former of 
 these days the Army of the Potomac, headed by Gen 
 eral Meade, was to parade through the principal street 
 of Washington, while on the 24th General Sherman 
 and his army were to march along the same broad 
 avenue, the most magnificent in America. The expected 
 event had been heralded through the press of the coun 
 try, and immense numbers of people from all parts 
 came thronging into Washington to witness the extra 
 ordinary spectacle, the like of which the eyes of the 
 American people had never gazed upon before. 
 
 General Sherman, in his " Personal Memoirs," has 
 given a lively account of the superb pageant, some 
 extracts from which, for their intrinsic as well as historic 
 interest, may fittingly be inserted in the present narra 
 tive. The notice bestowed on the Army of the Poto 
 mac is not so full as the members of that noble army 
 might like to see. But the General was most concerned 
 with the record of his own army, which he had led in 
 triumph from Atlanta to the sea, and thence to Wash 
 ington, and it was quite natural that these veterans 
 should occupy the main part of his description. What 
 he says of the appearance, marching and soldierly qual- 
 
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 ities of his bronzed and war-worn legions, will apply 
 just as well to the gallant veterans who had fought and 
 conquered under Grant s immediate command, and 
 therefore the whole account of Sherman is given as 
 equally applicable to all the heroic men who, on both 
 days of the parade through Washington, were greeted 
 with the applauding shouts of the uncounted multitudes 
 which had gathered there to gaze upon them. 
 Says General Sherman : 
 
 On the 1 9th, I received a copy of War Department Special 
 Order, No. 239, Adjutant General s office, of May i8th, ordering a 
 grand review, by the President and cabinet, of all the armies then near 
 Washington ; General Meade s to occur on Tuesday, May 23d, mine 
 on Wednesday, the 24th. 
 
 " By invitation I was on the reviewing stand, and witnessed the 
 review of the Army of the Potomac, (on the 23d,) commanded by 
 General Meade in person. The day was beautiful and the pageant 
 was superb. Washington was full of strangers, who filled the streets, 
 in holiday-dress, and every house was decorated with flags. The 
 army marched by division in close column around the Capitol, down 
 Pennsylvania avenue, past the President and cabinet, who occupied 
 a large stand, prepared for the occasion, directly in front of the White 
 House. During the afternoon and night of the 23d, the Fifteenth, 
 Seventeenth and Twentieth corps, crossed the long bridge, bivouacked 
 in the streets about the Capitol, and the Fourteenth Corps closed up 
 to the bridge. 
 
 The morning of the 24th was extremely beautiful, and the ground 
 was in splendid order for our review. The streets were filled with 
 people to see the pageant, armed with bouquets of flowers for their 
 favorite regiments or heroes, and everything was propitious. 
 Punctually at nine A. M., the signal-gun was fired, when, in person, 
 attended by General Howard and all my staff, I rode slowly down 
 Pennsylvania avenue, the crowds of men, women and children, 
 densely lining the side-walks and almost obstructing the way. We 
 were followed closely by General Logan and the head of the Fifteenth 
 Corps. When I reached the treasury building and looked back, the 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N, Y. S. VOLS. I Q I 
 
 sight was simply magnificent. The column was compact, and the 
 glittering muskets looked like a solid mass of steel, moving with the 
 regularity of a pendulum. We passed the treasury building, in front 
 of which and the White House, was an immense throng of people, 
 for whom extensive stands had been prepared on both sides of the 
 avenue. As I neared the brick house, opposite the lower corner of 
 Lafayette Square, some one asked me to notice Mr. Seward, who, 
 still feeble and bandaged for his wounds, had been removed there 
 that he might behold the troops. I moved in that direction and took 
 off my hat to Mr. Seward, who sat in an upper window. He 
 recognized the salute, returned it, and then we rode on steadily past 
 the President, saluting with our swords. All on his stand arose and 
 acknowledged the salute. We left our horses with orderlies, went 
 upon the stand, where I shook hands with the President, General 
 Grant and each member of the cabinet. I then took my post on the 
 left of the President, and for six hours and a half stood, while the 
 army passed in the order of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth 
 and Fourteenth corps. It was, in my judgment, the most mag 
 nificent army in existence sixty-five thousand men, in splendid 
 physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand 
 miles in a hostile country, in good drill, and who realized that they 
 were being closely scrutinized by thousands of their fellow-country 
 men and by foreigners. Division after division passed, each com 
 mander of army corps or division coming on the stand, during the 
 passage of his command, to be presented to the President, cabinet 
 and spectators. The steadiness and firmness of the tread, the careful 
 dress on the guides, the uniform intervals between the companies, 
 all eyes directly to the front, and the tattered and bullet-riven flags, 
 festooned with flowers, all attracted universal notice. Many good 
 people, up to that time, had looked upon our Western army as a 
 sort of mob ; but the world then saw and recognized the fact, that it 
 was an army in the proper sense, well organized, well commanded 
 and disciplined, and it was no wonder that it had swept through the 
 South like a tornado. For six hours and a half, that strong tread of 
 the Army of the West, resounded through Pennsylvania avenue ; not 
 a soul of that vast crowd of spectators left his place ; and, when the 
 rear of the column had passed by, thousands of the spectators still 
 lingered to express their sense of confidence in the strength of a gov 
 ernment which could claim such an army." 
 
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 The regiment remained in the vicinity of Washing 
 ton several days after the " grand review," awaiting 
 transportation to the North, which, on account of the 
 great bodies of troops also traveling homeward, and 
 waiting to be transported, could not be furnished with 
 out some delay. At length, on the 4th of June, in the 
 words of an officer of the regiment, " only after great 
 trouble, at six o clock in the evening, with the men 
 packed like cattle in box cars," the regiment rolled 
 away from Washington, and reached Philadelphia the 
 next morning. Here they found a repetition of the old 
 hospitality which had cheered them, and tens of thou 
 sands of their comrades, nearly three years before, 
 when on their way to the front. The doors of the 
 Union Soldiers House of Entertainment, known and 
 extolled through all the land, were thrown open to 
 them, and they were bidden to enter and partake of 
 the bountiful breakfast spread before them by the same 
 generous hosts, whose kindness to the defenders of the 
 nation seemed to know neither stint nor weariness. An 
 account in a former chapter* of the character and degree 
 of Philadelphia s hospitable offices to the soldiers, ren 
 ders further detail in this place unnecessary, as the sol 
 diers hearty and grateful appreciation of these timely 
 courtesies, thus repeated, needs no further description 
 to body it forth. 
 
 Leaving Philadelphia, the regiment arrived at New 
 York in the evening, its progress from city to city being 
 a continual ovation. Gratitude to the soldiers on their 
 return, bearing as they did the marks of the battle-fields 
 
 * See Chapter Second. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 193 
 
 through which they had passed to the crowning tri 
 umph, effervesced in the popular heart, and found 
 -expression in spontaneous shouts and cheers. On 
 arriving at New York the regiment was entertained by 
 the State, Colonel Vincent Colyer representing the 
 commonwealth, as host. An account of its leaving New 
 York, of its passage to Kingston and its reception there 
 is given by Chaplain Hopkins, who accompanied it, and 
 who thus pleasantly describes what he saw and shared : 
 
 "We were delayed till noon at this place (New York), but at last 
 we got away and marched triumphantly down Broadway. Our 
 band had been increased by sixteen pieces from the division band, 
 and played splendidly. Our flags, one tattered and small, and the 
 other a new one, covered with the names of our battles, were cheered 
 again and again. We cleared the omnibuses out of the street and 
 marched with company front. The men marched splendidly, and 
 Broadway quieted its bustle for a moment to look and applaud as 
 we passed along. To our immense disgust we were obliged to go to 
 Hart s Island, twenty miles up the East river. The regiment did not 
 .get away from there until the next noon. We came up the Hudson 
 on the Thomas Cornell, an elegant boat, and were delightfully enter 
 tained on board. It was a moonlight night, and all were happy as 
 we passed the familiar headlands. Our reception at Rondout, the 
 following day, two miles from Kingston, was glorious. The town 
 was out to greet the returning heroes. We were crowned with 
 flowers; every. soldier had a bouquet in the muzzle of his gun, and 
 the officers were loaded down. The fire companies paraded, every 
 bell in town was rung, cannon were fired, and every possible demon 
 stration of joy was indulged in. There was one grand triumphal 
 arch with inscriptions of praise and welcome, over which a live eagle 
 flapped his wings, and many smaller decorations. The hotels, stores 
 and private houses vied with each other in the profusion of their 
 patriotic adornments. At the Academy green a banquet was pro 
 vided, songs of welcome were sung, an oration of welcome pro 
 nounced and a fitting response made by General Sharpe." 
 
 This brief account conveys the regiment to Academy 
 
 13 
 
I 94 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 green, without detail of some local circumstances which 
 stamp a special interest upon the day and the ceremo 
 nies that crowned it, and which deserve a fuller 
 description, even though it repeat a little what has been 
 said before. 
 
 The citizens of Kingston had for several weeks, since 
 the war ended, been looking forward with lively inter 
 est to the return of the One Hundred and Twentieth. 
 A meeting had been called to make preparations for a 
 suitable reception of the regiment. The meeting was 
 large and enthusiastic. Colonel T. B. Gates, of the old 
 Twentieth, was chosen chairman, and P. Harlow and J. 
 R. Poland secretaries. A committee of some forty was 
 appointed to carry out the wishes of the meeting. It 
 says, among other things : " We are advised by tele 
 gram that the One Hundred and Twentieth left Wash 
 ington on Sunday morning. The noble boys are 
 entitled to a magnificent welcome, in consideration of 
 the battles they have fought, the trials they have 
 endured, the heroic achievements they have won. Let 
 every one in town and county make ready to cheer the 
 brave hearts of those who have stood up so manfully 
 and zealously in defense of our national life and liber 
 ties. They deserve all the honors we can bestow upon 
 them, as some small indication at least, of our gratitude 
 and sense of patriotic obligation." 
 
 The officers of the day appointed for the reception 
 were Hon. William S. Kenyon, President ; George F. 
 VonBeck, L. A. Sykes, Jansen Hasbrouck, Marius 
 Schoonmaker, W. H. Romeyn and H. G. Crouch, Vice- 
 Presidents ; Colonel T. B. Gates, Marshal. A proces 
 sion was arranged, consisting of the Kingston Fire 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 1C) 5 
 
 Department, civic societies, schools, etc., General Sam 
 son and staff with company L, Twentieth New York 
 State Militia, and citizens. In Rondout, Hiram Schoon- 
 maker and John Derrenbacher, aids to the Marshal, had 
 charge of the line. 
 
 The regiment landed from the steamer Thomas Cor 
 nell, Friday morning, June Qth. It was saluted by the 
 Union gun squad and the cheers of a large concourse 
 of citizens, while bouquets were showered upon the 
 veterans like rain. Tears trickled down many a cheek, 
 and a thousand voices uttering " God bless you " went 
 forth from overflowing hearts. 
 
 A procession being formed, marched to the upper 
 part of the town, through Rondout (now Union) avenue 
 to St. James street. Here a massive arch, trimmed 
 with evergreens and flowers, had been erected, and on 
 the top of the arch was a Temple of Liberty, on which 
 sat a live eagle. On one side were names of the prin 
 cipal battles in which the regiment had been engaged, 
 with the words " Heroes of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, Welcome," while on the other side were the 
 words " Union, Victory, Peace." The order of march was 
 then continued through Kingston, finally halting at the 
 Academy green, where a stand had been erected for 
 the speakers, and a table, filled to overflowing with sub 
 stantial viands, had been spread out. The regiment 
 was formed in a circle around the stand, and the Presi 
 dent, Hon. W. S. Kenyon, announced the opening of 
 the exercises. The first exercise was a song entitled 
 " Victory at Last," sung by a class of children. Prayer 
 was then offered by the Rev. John Lillie, D. D., after 
 which the Hon. Theodoric R. Westbrook was intro 
 duced, who made the following 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 General Sharpe, Colonel Lockwoo d, officers and soldiers of the One 
 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, New York State Volunteers : 
 
 To me has been confided, by the citizens of the Thirteenth Con 
 gressional District of New York, the pleasant task of bidding you 
 welcome to your homes. In discharging the duty, I confess at the 
 outset, the poverty of language adequately to express their feeling 
 and mine. We remember this day, the high and holy cause which, 
 nearly three years ago, caused you to leave your homes and to endure 
 the dangers and privations of a hundred battle fields. We remember 
 that that cause was not one of conquest, nor of unholy ambition, 
 but that it was the cause of our country of the preservation of our 
 constitution, the precious legacy of our fathers, and of republican 
 government. The obligation which you then took, freely and vol 
 untarily, to serve your country well and faithfully, we bear you wit 
 ness this day has been most faithfully and honestly discharged. In 
 proof of our testimony, we point a world to every principal battle 
 in which the Army of the Potomac participated, from that of Fred- 
 ericksburg, in which your valor was first formally tested, to the grand 
 consummation of the surrender of Lee and the capture of Richmond. 
 With sorrow, and yet with pride, we look to your thinned ranks, and 
 remember that those who once stood side by side with you sleep in 
 honored graves, stretching all the way from Gettysburg to Burksville. 
 Hallowed be the ground where those, our dead soldiers, sleep ! By 
 them we will kneel in future days and place thereon the wreath of 
 immortelles. We point also to those colors, weatherbeaten, tattered 
 and torn by shot and shell, but never yet lowered, and never surren 
 dered, and brought home with you this day as proud and triumphant 
 trophies of your valor and prowess. 
 
 Brothers and friends, we welcome you as conquerors ! No armed 
 traitor foe to-day treads the soil of the great republic. The old flag 
 again floats from the walls of Sumter, where for the first time in its 
 history it was compelled to be lowered ; and over every inch of 
 national territory, from the lakes to the Gulf, from the waters of the 
 stormy and boisterous Atlantic to those of the mild and gentle Pacific. 
 And as we gaze upon its folds, as the flag floats out upon the breezes 
 of heaven, we see every star shining brightly thereon as in days of 
 yore, and every stripe untarnished and undimmed. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. IQ7 
 
 We welcome you as heroes ! Yes, even as our fathers in the 
 olden time greeted their brethren from the fields of Lexington and 
 Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown, so do we greet you. They 
 fought to establish this government ; you to maintain and preserve 
 it. Their names are inscribed high up upon the roll of fame ; yours 
 are written side by side with theirs, and are equally dear to us. 
 Hereafter, when the virtues arid patriotism of our children need to 
 be quickened, we shall point them to your noble and heroic deeds, 
 and ask them to imitate you. A higher example than this could 
 not be given, and the world s history will never furnish a purer or 
 better. 
 
 We welcome you as our sons, brothers and kinsmen ! We are 
 not only proud but happy this day at your return to us. The old 
 seat at the family table, and the old chair around the family fireside, 
 shall, thank God, be again occupied. Sit down, weary ones, who 
 have borne the heat and burden of these days of battle and carnage, 
 under your own vine and fig tree, and repeat to us the history of the 
 thrilling events in which you so nobly shared. The tear of gratified 
 affection will start unbidden from the eye, as you rehearse to us how, 
 with numbers inferior to his, you met the invading foe at Gettysburg, 
 sending him reeling and broken back to Virginia, thus contributing 
 to make the fourth day of July, 1863, ever memorable in history. Tell 
 us of these terrible battles in the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, and at 
 Cold Harbor, and in the trenches around Petersburg and Richmond, 
 and as we hear your loud shouts of victory re-shouted, we will fold 
 you in our arms of love, remembering that we are honored in you, 
 who are "bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh." Freely disclose 
 to us the proud feeling of duty faithfully discharged you experienced 
 when, a few days ago, you marched in triumph through the national 
 capital, your soldierly bearing witnessed with admiration by the 
 President, your commanding General -and thousands of your fellow 
 countrymen. Tell us how you felt, with the sunshine of victory 
 lighting up your bronzed features, as you gazed upon the representa 
 tives of emperors and kings, looking in dismay upon these republican 
 bayonets which had carried victory over half a continent, and crushed 
 out treason forever with the strong arm of loyal citizen-soldiers. 
 Fear not that we shall weary with the recital, for as the General 
 whose name you have made immortal looked with an eye of pride 
 upon your soldier tread, and saw reflected in yours the same bright 
 
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 light of triumphant feeling, our hearts beat in sympathy with yours, 
 for it was kindred blood coursing there. 
 
 Finally, we welcome you to share our last acre, and our last loaf. 
 That we possess them is owing to your bravery and fidelity. Vou 
 stood between us and the traitor foe. Your bodies were the ram 
 parts which sheltered us and our loved ones on the day of battle and 
 of death. Peace, blessed peace, thank God ! lights up our mountain 
 tops, and its bright rays are reflected in our valleys and glitter upon 
 our lakes and our rivers. In presence of these assembled thousands, 
 we acknowledge you as the instruments of that kind Providence, 
 which have produced this grand result, and saved republican liberty 
 for an oppressed world. Rest, brethren, kinsmen, friends, from your 
 labors, and may the Great Supreme make the remainder of your days 
 as peaceful and as happy, as your past days have been glorious and 
 sublime. 
 
 This address, which was listened to with deep atten 
 tion by the assembled multitude, was appropriately 
 responded to in behalf of the regiment, by General 
 Sharpe, who then, by request, presented an elegant 
 sword, the gift of the citizens of Kingston, to Colonel 
 Abram L. Lockwood, who had been in command of the 
 regiment since the resignation of Colonel Tappen, 
 before Petersburg. Colonel Lockwood, in fitting terms, 
 expressed his grateful acknowledgements. Alter this, 
 a prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Osborne, and the 
 ceremonies of a day, fraught with interest and pleasure, 
 alike to soldiers and citizens, were brought to a close. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 AFTER THE WAR SOLDIERS CHANGED INTO CIVILIANS CAMP HABITS AS 
 AFFECTING CHARACTER AND LIFE AT HOME FEARS OF EVIL FROM THIS 
 SOURCE NOT REALIZED UNION VETERANS CREDITABLE RECORD IN 
 
 PEACE AS IN WAR REGIMENTAL UNION FORMED BY THE VETERANS OF 
 
 THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH ANNUAL REUNIONS HELD 
 ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY NOTED GENERALS AND CIVILIANS LETTER 
 OF GENERAL SHERMAN THE REGIMENTAL UNION AIDS IN CONTRI 
 BUTIONS FOR SOLDIERS BENEFIT MEMORIAL OBSERVANCE IN HONOR OF 
 
 COLONEL TAPPEN TRIBUTES BY GENERALS GEORGE W. SHARPE AND 
 
 THEODORE B. GATES. 
 
 The change from soldier to civilian, on the part of 
 the hosts who had for several years formed the army of 
 the Union, marked a sharp transition. It was a change 
 easily accomplished. It brought joy to the soldier s 
 heart, and to the heart of a nation wearied with the 
 war and yearning for peace. It seemed full of promise 
 for the future well-being and interests of the various 
 localities from which the soldiers had been drawn, and 
 to which their return would impart fresh animation, 
 .activity and strength. 
 
 All this was a reasonable presumption. Yet fears 
 were entertained by some that the disbanded soldiers 
 distributed among the communities of the land, might 
 not prove an unmitigated benefit. The life in camp 
 and field had been widely different from that which the 
 men .had led before enlistment. Tastes and habits 
 might have been acquired in several years campaigning, 
 
2OO ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N, Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 not to be laid aside as easily as the soldier s uniform. 
 These tastes and habits might be such as to unfit men 
 for the sturdy, every-day employments of industrial life. 
 The noise, bustle excitement and frequent moving to 
 and fro, attendant on soldier life, might have a factitious 
 and unsettling influence, and serve to render the quiet, 
 steady and fixed occupations of home-life, distasteful if 
 not irksome. 
 
 The soldier s daily maintenance in the field, more 
 over, being provided without toil or forethought on his 
 own part, a strong stimulant to personal exertion for 
 support, is taken away. The condition of getting sup 
 plies from the government without personal concern or 
 effort on the soldier s part to provide them, may be 
 difficult to break or change on a return to the ordinary 
 tasks of civil life. Hard service in the field, with hard 
 and sometimes precarious fare, has tempted soldiers to 
 pillage and to take an enemy s property with the strong 
 hand when opportunity offered, regarding this as right, 
 or at least, not a grievous wrong. This propensity may 
 cling to a man after the soldier s harness has been laid 
 aside, making him a not very desirable member of 
 society. Shut out for years from the refinements of 
 home and female society, daily conversant with wounds, 
 bloodshed and death on a large scale, hearing irreve 
 rent, vulgar and profane language tend all of them, to 
 make men long exposed to such influences, coarse and 
 rude in their manners, steeled against human suffering 
 and regardless of moral restraints. And should habits 
 of this kind have been formed, and carried into order- 
 loving and God-fearing communities, the effect for evil 
 might prove very deleterious. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2OI 
 
 These unhappy consequences of long wars have fre 
 quently been pointed out as constituting not the least 
 of the tremendous evils growing out of them, and such 
 results have certainly marked many of the great wars of 
 the past. And the prediction of many thoughtful 
 people seemed warranted, that similar results would be 
 witnessed again at the close of our recent great conflict. 
 
 But the fact has not verified the prediction. The 
 great mass of our soldiers, when their services in the 
 field were over, resumed, with good will and resolute pur 
 pose, the various pursuits of peaceful industry which 
 opened to them, and which many had simply laid aside, 
 for a time, while they obeyed the call to take up arms 
 in the country s defense. Whether the sacred cause in 
 which they had enlisted so elevated their sentiments 
 and whole course, or the high character of the citizen- 
 soldier volunteers forming the bulk of the nation s 
 superb army, so guarded them against depraving seduc 
 tions, or whether their previous education or home-sur 
 roundings had made them " steadfast and immovable" 
 in the right path whether each or all of these produced 
 the result, it is certain that the soldiers of the war, for 
 the most part, returned from it as they went into it, not 
 simply loyal and true to the country, this was a matter 
 of course, but as brave, honest, high-minded, self- 
 respecting men, ready to take their places among the 
 toilers of the land, to promote, in common with all good 
 citizens, the highest good of community. 
 
 There may be, and no doubt are, exceptions to this 
 pleasing representation, but the rule is as I have 
 described it. And for an illustration of this statement, 
 it needs only to look upon the veterans of the One 
 
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 Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, as they gather year 
 after year, on the 22cl day of February, at their annual 
 reunion, to be convinced how faithfully and successfully 
 the various offices of civil life have been performed by 
 the men, who, a few years ago, stood in the ranks among 
 the country s armed hosts. And what is true of the 
 regiment referred to, is true of the representatives of the 
 thousand regiments which are wont to assemble periodi 
 cally, all over the North and West, to celebrate a strug 
 gle and a triumph in which all bore a part. 
 
 This Regimental Union referred to, deserves to 
 occupy a little space in the present narrative. It was 
 not formed directly on the close of the war, but a few 
 years afterwards. The propriety of forming such Union , 
 had been considered from time to time, and an earnest 
 desire expressed by former members of the regiment to 
 effect it, and at length, as a result of a published call, a 
 meeting of a number of its late officers was held on 
 December 26th, 1868, at Hauver s Hotel, Kingston. 
 The chairman of the meeting, Colonel George H. 
 Sharpe, stated the object of it to be, the formation of a 
 regimental association ; whereupon, on motion of Colonel 
 Tappen, it was resolved that the name for the associa 
 tion should be, " The One Hundred and Twentieth 
 New York Regimental Union." On farther motion 
 of Colonel Tappen, it was " ordered, that all persons 
 who have held commissions in the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment, and have been honorably dis 
 charged therefrom, are eligible for membership in this 
 temporary organization." A farther resolution offered 
 by Major Everett and carried, provided, that " all men 
 who were at any time honorably discharged from the 
 
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 service of the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, 
 New York Volunteers, shall be eligible for membership 
 in the One Hundred and Twentieth New York Regi 
 mental Union." 
 
 To effect a permanent organization, a committee, con 
 sisting of Major Everett, Colonel Tappen and Lieu 
 tenant Lockwood, was appointed to make nominations 
 for officers. 
 
 The committee reported and the following officers 
 were chosen and the organization completed : 
 
 President General Sharpe. 
 
 Chaplain H. H. Hopkins. 
 
 Corresponding Sec y Lieutenant J. H. Lockwood. 
 
 Recording Sec y Adjutant Russell. 
 
 Treasurer Colonel Tappen. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Colonel Lockwood, Colonel Westbrook, Colonel 
 Scott, Captain Snyder, Captain Holmes, Lieutenant 
 Greene, Lieutenant Rosa, Lieutenant Drake and 
 Major Thomas. 
 
 A committee, consisting of General Sharpe, Colonel 
 Westbrook and Colonel Lockwood, was appointed to 
 draft a Constitution and By-laws, to be reported at the 
 next meeting of the association. 
 
 The next meeting was held at Music Hall, Kingston, 
 December I4th, 1869, at which the Vice-President. 
 Colonel Westbrook, presided, who opened its proceed 
 ings with prayer. The committee appointed at a former 
 meeting to draft a Constitution and By-laws for the 
 association reported. The work of the committee was 
 
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 approved, and a series of laws and regulations for the 
 government of the members adopted, which the asso 
 ciation found, and has continued to find, adapted to all 
 the purposes for which the organization was formed. 
 
 The Regimental Union has held regular annual 
 meetings from the time of its formation till the present. 
 These meetings have been uniformly well attended, and 
 have proved reunions of great interest and pleasure to 
 the veterans, many of whom living widely apart, have 
 found these seasons the only opportunity of the year for 
 greeting comrades, having so many memories in com 
 mon of the eventful past. The appointed time for the 
 annual meeting was at first, the i3th of December, the 
 day of the Fredericksburg battle. This was afterwards 
 changed to February the 22d, Washington s birth-day 
 anniversary, which, for several years past has been the 
 day of the gathering. Several of these occasions have 
 been marked by the presence of prominent actors in the 
 war, or men distinguished in other walks of life, by 
 whom addresses were given, to the delight of the vet 
 erans as well as of the audience composed of citizens from 
 without, brought together to hear them. Thus, at the 
 meeting in 1868, the Rev. H. H. Hopkins, the former 
 honored chaplain of the regiment, delivered an address, 
 followed by the redoubtable warrior, General Hooker, 
 who was present as a guest on the occasion. In 1871, 
 the annual meeting was addressed by the dashing and 
 renowned cavalry leader, General Judson Kilpatrick. 
 At the next reunion in 1872, which was held at Catskill, 
 the gallant soldier and commander, General Stewart L. 
 Woodford, pronounced the oration. In 1876, the 
 reunion took place at Rondout, the members being 
 
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 welcomed by Mayor Lindsley, and the eloquent lec 
 turer and divine, the Rev. E. H. Chapin,D. D., deliver 
 ing a lecture on John Hampden. On the next year, 
 1877, at Kingston, the famous John B. Gough, lectured 
 before the association, At the annual meeting, Feb 
 ruary 22d, 1888, a public entertainment was given by 
 the Regimental Union, at the Armory, an admission 
 fee for a patriotic object being asked. The orator of the 
 evening, was General Stewart L. Woodford, followed 
 by an address from the illustrious leader of the " March 
 to the Sea," General W. Tecumseh Sherman, whose 
 presence and speech aroused much enthusiasm. His 
 letter in reply to the invitation to visit Kingston 
 and address the veterans of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth, at their annual reunion, is so characteristic, 
 and interesting in itself and its association with the 
 writer s great name, that every reader will thank the 
 courtesy that has furnished it for publication, as it now 
 appears for the first time : 
 
 " FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, N. Y., ) 
 January I5th, Sunday. ) 
 
 " DEAR GENERAL SHARPE : 
 
 " I have your most kind letter of yesterday, and assure you that 
 with reasonable care for my personal comfort, I am more than willing 
 to do all a veteran should for the comrades of earlier and better 
 days. 
 
 "On examining my book of engagements, which resembles that 
 of a dentist, I find that on February 2ist, I am promised to attend 
 the Association of Harvard Graduates, at Delmonico s ; that I am 
 not committed for the night of February 22d, a most appropriate 
 day for you at Kingston ; therefore, put me down for the chances. 
 
 " Don t dwell so much on the pretty girls. I have had my day, 
 and must surrender them to younger fellows, but count on me 
 
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 because of love for you and other comrades which grows in strength 
 with years. 
 
 "It is just to you, however, to state that I have my share of family 
 troubles unknown to the world. Mrs. Sherman is not well ; is now 
 with my daughter Rachael on a visit to our married daughter, Mrs. 
 Fitch, at Pittsburgh, intending to be back here February ist. Her 
 illness alarms me at times and may compel me to keep near her. 
 
 "Also my sister s husband, Colonel Moulton, is now at the Arno 
 House, critically ill, keeping us in a nervous state. 
 
 " But if able, I will come to Kingston by the West Shore line, on 
 the train which leaves Weehawken at 11:45 A - M -> an d arrives at 
 Kingston, at 2:35 p. M., after which I shall depend on you to send 
 me back to Weehawken the next day, ice and the acts of God always 
 excepted. 
 
 " Inasmuch as I was born in February, I cannot reproach George 
 Washington for appearing at such an inhospitable period of the year 
 in northern latitudes, subjecting his admirers to such contingencies, 
 but the probabilities are I shall be on time." 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 W. T. SHERMAN. 
 
 The audience drawn together on this occasion, was, 
 it need hardly be said, as large as it was enthusiastic. 
 The proceeds of the meeting, amounting to $25o, were 
 given to the Ulster County Soldiers Monument Asso 
 ciation, for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a 
 monument in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the 
 county. The work was then in progress, and has since 
 been completed, the monument, an ornament to the 
 city and a credit to the county, standing in front of the 
 city hall. 
 
 The members of the regimental Union, in addition to 
 their annual winter meeting, have been wont to enjoy 
 a summer picnic, since 18/9, on the 22d of August of 
 which year, the first one was held at Binnewater, and 
 was addressed by General George H. Sharpe. These 
 
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 meetings in the open air, cheered by the sights and 
 sounds, with which prodigal Nature regales those who 
 seek and love her society, have proved so enjoyable 
 that none have wished to discontinue them. 
 
 The meeting of the Union, on February 22cl, i88i> 
 was held at the Armory, at the invitation of Pratt Post, 
 which was holding at that time, an Army Fair, the avails 
 of which were to be devoted to the interests of the Post, 
 and to the benevolent objects which the Post was 
 organized to promote. The membership of Pratt Post, 
 one of the largest and most efficient Posts in the state, 
 is composed, to a considerable extent, of the veterans 
 who formerly served in the regiments that went forth 
 from Ulster County. The members of the One Hun 
 dred and Twentieth Regimental Union, therefore, took 
 a lively interest in the success of the Pratt Post Army 
 Fair, responding cordially to the invitation to be pres 
 ent, and co-operate in carrying out the worthy object it 
 was seeking to promote. The fair was a successful 
 one, bringing twenty -five hundred dollars into the 
 treasury of the Post, showing how warmly the sympathy 
 and good will of the public were enlisted in its favor. 
 
 At the meeting of the Association, in 1889, a paper 
 on Gettysburg, at the request of the Union made at a 
 former meeting, was read by Colonel C. D. Westbrook, 
 who commanded the regiment on July 2d, 1863. The 
 paper was a carefully prepared, discriminating and 
 accurate account of whatever pertained to the position, 
 action and surroundings of the regiment, in its engage 
 ment on that celebrated field. It was listened to with 
 marked attention and interest by the members of the 
 Association ; and, at the dedication of the monument to 
 
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 the One Hundred and Twentieth, at Gettysburg, in 
 1889, to be noticed hereafter, the orator of the day, 
 General Sharpe, speaks of his having availed himself 
 freely of Colonel Westbrook s statements as reliable 
 authority for many of his own descriptions of the battle. 
 
 The first annual meeting of the Association, .held 
 after the time of meeting was changed to February 2?d, 
 was in 1875, at which time, the proceedings were of 
 peculiar interest, embracing a memorial observance in 
 honor of Colonel J. Rudolph Tappen, then recently 
 deceased, and for a long time, the honored and 
 beloved commander of the One Hundred and Twen 
 tieth Regiment. Appropriate and touching tributes 
 were paid to his merits and memory, by Generals 
 Sharpe and Gates, and Honorable T. R. Westbrook. 
 The report of Judge Westbrook s remarks has not been 
 preserved. From the published address of General 
 Sharpe and from that of General Gates, a brief extract 
 from each, all that our limits will allow, is subjoined in 
 honor of one whose life was so beautiful and death so 
 widely deplored, and these short notices will form an 
 appropriate close to the present chapter. 
 
 After portraying in fitting and felicitous words the 
 military career of Colonel Tappen, till he resigned his 
 command of the regiment, General Sharpe adds : 
 
 " Probably no better field officer left the army that day, or any other 
 day during the war. He was admirably fitted to command a brigade 
 and would have made his mark where so many failed. * 
 Colonel Tappen returned home to succeed in winning in civil life, 
 the same love and admiration which he had excited among his com 
 rades. Soon after his marriage, he was induced by gentle influences 
 to connect himself with a church which had not been the church of 
 his fathers, and to it he gave the loyalty that he displayed in the 
 
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 interest of all his undertakings. From that time to the day of his 
 death, his story is as well known to all of you as it is to myself. 
 
 11 Honored and respected in his business relations, his word the 
 strongest obligation that he could make, every action distinguished by 
 truth and honor, choosing the best side of every question that was 
 presented, engaging in every good work, firm in his convictions, and 
 yet amiable in all his social relations, he leaves the record of a char 
 acter singularly spotless and well-balanced. He was always able to 
 correct those who were under him, without leaving a sting to follow 
 the reproof, and his army recollections were continually flowing out 
 in graceful tributes to his comrades. Soon struck down by disease, 
 the seeds of which he had brought from the army, he began that man 
 ful contest of four years, during which he contested every inch of the 
 ground with the enemy. In his last hours, he said to me, in a faint 
 voice, there is not much left of me, but I mean to fight it out to the 
 last minute/ 
 
 " His disease sometimes overpowered him to such an extent as to 
 cause his mind to wander, and then his memories all reverted to the 
 old Army of the Potomac. How many times he fought over some 
 of the battle-fields ! so often, indeed, that the one who was nearest 
 in attendance upon him, is as familiar with these fights as if she had 
 personally participated in them. But waking or in dreams, his words 
 were full of trust in God and affection for his comrades." 
 
 General Gates, who on Colonel Pratt s death, suc 
 ceeded to the command of the " Ulster Guard," the 
 Twentieth N. Y. S. M., a company in which regiment 
 Colonel Tappen had commanded, pays this warm and 
 graceful tribute to the worth of his former associate : 
 
 " His disposition was social and genial, and it was pleasant to see 
 his handsome and intelligent face in tent or by bivouac fire, on the 
 march or picket line. It gave or took a welcome with a smile almost 
 womanly in its sweetness. And yet, that face could on occasion, 
 express the sternest resolution, the severest rebuke and the most 
 determined courage. 
 
 " I do not think Colonel Tappen was ever affected by the senti 
 ment of fear. He appreciated, as other intelligent men did, the dan- 
 
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 gers of the battle-field, but never with a sense of timidity. If, knowing 
 the danger, and yet calmly confronting it, and exercising in the 
 midst of it, every faculty of the mind, and improving every circum 
 stance, the shifting scenes of the conflict may present to gain a vantage 
 point against your foe, and by your demeanor to inspire your men 
 with confidence, be the highest type of courage ; this Colonel 
 Tappen had, in a marked degree. He never lost his mental 
 equilibrium, never got flurried under fire, or showed signs of con 
 scious danger or apprehension of defeat. In all the qualities of mind 
 that constitute a man, a courage inspiring, discreet and reliable 
 officer on the battle-field, Colonel Tappen was unusually well 
 equipped. 
 
 " In the pride of his strength and unimpaired manhood, he met 
 and discharged every duty faithfully, intelligently, conscientiously. 
 In these later years, when suffering and decrepitude had stripped 
 him of his vigor, and made him less than a child in weakness and 
 dependence, he was patient, submissive, uncomplaining. Thus, 
 having been honorable and just in all his relations as a man, brave 
 and loyal as a soldier, gentle and affectionate as a husband and a 
 father, he ennobled and beautified the closing years of his life by a 
 devoted and consistent service in the ranks of that great army whose 
 weapons are not carnal, and whose Captain is the Lord, 
 

 BATTLE MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 
 GETTYSBURG AND ITS MONUMENTS THE GREAT BATTLE-FIELD GROWING 
 
 IN THE NATION S REGARD THE NATIONAL CEMETERY THE UNION 
 
 SOLDIERS BURIED THERE THEIR GRAVES HONORED AND CHERISHED 
 
 MONUMENT TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE I 2OTH WHO FELL AT GETTYSBURG 
 SURVIVING COMRADES REVISIT THE FIELD DEDICATION OF THE 
 MONUMENT GENERAL SHARPED ORATION WILL CARLETON s POEM. 
 
 The field of Gettysburg can never lose the interest 
 which attracts to it, by an overpowering magnetism, 
 every patriotic heart throughout the country. The 
 battle fought there was the greatest in our history, in 
 the numbers engaged, in the length and desperate char 
 acter of the conflict, and in the losses, whose effect 
 reached out to nearly every household in the land. 
 Great as these last were, the issues decided on that his 
 toric field were greater and more momentous still. The 
 invasion of the North, involving in its complete success 
 the direst disasters to the nation, was decisively checked 
 and rolled back. The hopes of the Southern Confeder 
 acy to secure a separate government with the nations 
 to recognize it, as the result of a great victory won there, 
 were irretrievably blasted. The continuance of a nation, 
 one and indivisible, growing in strength and prosperity 
 through its unity, as opposed to two nations subjected 
 to constant discords and collisions, with decay and ruin 
 in the end for both, was here virtually decided. On 
 this ground the cause of the Free Institutions was sig 
 nally vindicated, the knell of slavery throughout the 
 
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 land was rung, and the Union of all the States under 
 one Government, as essential to the life and welfare of 
 the whole, were all proclaimed, and made sure for the 
 coming generations. Such gains as these secured by 
 the gigantic struggle running through the first, second 
 and third days of July, 1863, well deserve to lift Gettys 
 burg into the preeminence it occupies among those 
 historic places, which most strongly rivet upon them 
 the craze of the world. 
 
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 Such world-renowned places are wont to be distin 
 guished by suitable memorials, as Bunker Hill by the 
 imposing granite shaft which surmounts the spot hal 
 lowed by the Revolutionary struggle there, Saratoga 
 and Bennington by the noble monuments which record 
 the achievements of the patriotic fathers, and so of many 
 fields celebrated for kindred deeds. The commanding 
 place which Gettysburg holds in the national regard, is 
 attested by the multitude of monuments spread all over 
 the ground, trampled by the combatants in those terri 
 ble clays that the great conflict raged, as if the whole 
 nation, rescued from its perils, turned its eyes instinc 
 tively to the one spot where the decisive blow that 
 secured triumph to the Union cause, was struck, and 
 where honors should be paid in some proportion, at 
 least, to the benefits conferred. This seemed to be the 
 sentiment and feeling of the country. And according 
 ly, soon after the war closed the work of monument- 
 building began. Representatives of all the loyal States 
 participated in it, as all these States had soldiers in the 
 ranks in the great battle, many of whom returned no 
 more to the homes from which they had gone forth to 
 the war. The work went on from year to year until 
 
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 the whole ground on which the three days battles were 
 fought, came to be studded with monuments. From 
 the points where the first day s attacks were made, west 
 and north of Gettysburg, all along Cemetery Ridge to 
 the Round Tops, including the tk Peach Orchard," 
 " Wheat Field " and " Devil s Den " at their front, em 
 bracing a circumference of eight or ten miles, monu 
 ments mark the spots where Union regiments, brigades, 
 cavalry squadrons, batteries, etc., engaged in the con 
 flict, or where some noted leader laid down his life for 
 the country. These monuments erected by the sur 
 vivors and friends of the various commands, sometimes 
 by the counties or States whence the soldiers were 
 drawn, present a wondrous variety of design and ap 
 pearance. Many of them are elaborate and costly, 
 though for the most part, in proper keeping with the 
 sacred surroundings, while the inscriptions upon them, 
 telling what service was done there, by the sons of what 
 State, and how many died there in rendering it, are of 
 profound and affecting interest. When the writer vis 
 ited Gettysburg in 1888, there were two hundred of 
 these monuments erected, and on a second visit in 
 1892, there were three hundred and sixty, and others 
 still in progress so that the Gettysburg field has 
 become a great National Mausoleum, with special 
 attraction for every State having sons interred there, 
 who died in maintaining an undivided Union. 
 
 The remains of those who fell on these sanguinary 
 days, lie in the common burial place on Cemetery Hill, 
 near Gettysburg. Here a superb monument, erected 
 by the Government, stands on the very spot where in 
 1 86^, President Lincoln s momorable address was deliv- 
 
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 ered, at the dedication of the National cemetery, in which 
 he uttered the striking 1 words, "The world will little note 
 nor long remember what we say here, but will never 
 forget what they did here." Another monument not 
 far from this, and hardly less imposing, was recently 
 erected by the State of New York, at a cost of $65,ooo, 
 in honor of her many gallant sons who died here in the 
 country s defense. A fine monument also stands here 
 to General John Reynolds, the Bayard of the Union 
 Army, killed just west of the Seminary on the first 
 day of the battle. A smaller monument marks the spot 
 where he fell. Spread over the ample area of the 
 cemetery grounds, are the neat marble head-stones of 
 several thousand dead soldiers, inscribed with the name, 
 company, regiment and state belonging to each. The 
 dead from each state are interred in a section of the 
 ground separate from the others. Sixteen hundred of 
 these stones, standing apart from the rest, bear the 
 simple and sad inscription, "Unknown," indicating that 
 those sleeping beneath, had, when buried, no marks to 
 distinguish either name or associations. This is a 
 marked feature in all the national cemeteries, and the 
 reflections it awakens touch the heart very sensibly. 
 The nation has taken these cemeteries under its own 
 care, and guards the dust of those who sacrificed all to 
 save it with the utmost vigilance and tenderness. 
 Everthing is kept in perfect order, no vandal hand is 
 suffered to mar or deface marble or tree or sward, 
 and taste, skill and constant attention continue to make 
 the grounds where these patriots lie, attractive and beau 
 tiful. It is so over all the Gettysburg field which is 
 owned by the Monument Association, who will not be 
 
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 likely to neglect their trust. The crowds of patriotic 
 visitors constantly coming to view the field, will be sure 
 to keep it free, if instinctive reverence for the dead did 
 not, from any injury or desecration. 
 
 A monument in honor of the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment, though not appearing on the 
 Gettysburg field as early as many of the others, was 
 sure to be erected there within a reasonable time. 
 The surviving members of the regiment long enter 
 tained and continued to cherish the subject of hon 
 oring in this way the memory of their dead com 
 rades, and waited only the fitting time to carry 
 their purpose into effect. At the annual meeting of the 
 Regimental Union held at Kingston, Feb. 22, 1888, 
 the matter of the monument was brought formally to 
 the attention of the members. After a full discussion 
 it was determined that the work of procuring a suitable 
 monument should begin at once, and should be com 
 pleted and ready for dedication by June of the fol 
 lowing year. To this end a special committee of ten, 
 one from each company, was appointed to obtain 
 designs for the monument, ascertain its cost, and pre 
 pare the way for its completion. This committee, of 
 which General Sharpe was the Chairman, was to act in 
 conjunction with the Executive Committee of the Asso 
 ciation ; their joint report to be presented at a subse 
 quent meeting to be called, at an early day for the 
 purpose. 
 
 In accordance with this provision, a special meeting 
 of members of the Association was held Dec. 8th, 1888, 
 when the Committee on the monument reported in 
 part. From several designs which had been submitted 
 
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 to them, they gave the preference to those of Frederick 
 and Field of Ouincy, Mass., and recommended the 
 adoption of the plans and specifications for the proposed 
 monument, presented by this firm. The recommenda 
 tion was approved by the meeting, and it was voted to 
 make a contract with the said firm, to construct a monu 
 ment according to the specified designs, and erect it on 
 the field at Gettysburg, at a cost of twenty-five hun 
 dred dollars. The State appropriation for each New 
 York regiment putting up a monument at Gettysburg, 
 covered $ i ,5oo of this amount, leaving $ i ,000 to be sup 
 plied by the surviving members. This latter sum was 
 distributed among the ten companies, at the rate of $100 
 each, all of them cheerfully assuming their several parts, 
 thus guaranteeing the full discharge of the regiment s 
 financial obligation. At the regular annual meeting of 
 the Association on February 22d, 1889, the Chairman of 
 the Committee before mentioned, stated that the 
 construction of the monument had been duly begun, 
 and carried on according to authorized directions, and 
 that it would be completed by May ist, next following. 
 He proposed that the members of the Union visit 
 Gettysburg for the purpose of dedicating this monu 
 ment in the ensuing month of June, the precise day 
 being left for the Executive Committee to decide. 
 
 This Committee moreover, were to make all the 
 arrangements connected with the proposed excursion to 
 Gettysburg. In discharging this duty, the committee 
 fixed upon the 25th of June, 1889, as the day on which 
 the monument would be dedicated. General George H. 
 Sharpe, was chosen by the Association as the orator of 
 the day, at the dedication services. A special train of 
 
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 cars was chartered to convey the members of the 
 Union, and friends of the regiment to Gettysburg, 
 leaving Kingston on the morning on the 24th, of which 
 due notification had been made. On the early 
 morning of this day accordingly, a large number of the 
 veterans of the regiment, with their friends set out on 
 their sacred mission, and reached Gettysburg on the 
 afternoon of the same day, and took quarters at the 
 commodious Spring Hotel, situated a few rods west of 
 the historic Willoughby Run. On the next morning 
 they explored the great battlefield, examining with deep 
 interest the spots made memorable by the struggles of 
 the mighty antagonists thereon in July, twenty-six years 
 before. The monument was to be dedicated on the 
 afternoon of this day, and with its presence for an 
 inspiration, standing as it does on the very ground 
 hallowed by the blood so freely shed of the regiment 
 there on July 2nd, 1863. The rain unfortunately, which 
 had begun to fall fast, interfered with this arrangement, 
 making it necessary to have the dedicatory services con 
 ducted within doors, the hotel furnishing ample accom 
 modation for the purpose. Here, accordingly, the 
 regimental gathering took place. After being opened 
 with the usual formalities, and a prayer offered by the 
 Rev. Andrew Schriver, the orator, General Sharpe, 
 proceeded to deliver the following address, the interest 
 and value of which, in its graphic details of the 
 great battle of the war, and especially the part taken 
 in it by the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, 
 make it eminently fitting, as a close to the present 
 narrative, to spread it out in full before the eye of the 
 reader : 
 
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 Comrades, Relatives and Friends of the One Hundred and Twen 
 tieth : 
 
 When the invitation, made with unanimity, and heartily pressed 
 upon me, to make the address upon this occasion, was accepted, 
 I felt that it could not have met my concurrence, had I been in actual 
 command of the regiment on this eventful field. But my duties 
 elsewhere with the Commanding General, and from points of 
 observation enabling me to overlook, at different stages, the whole 
 conflict of the two last days, permit me to render this service ; and to 
 try to do justice to the valor of those with whom I was so intimately 
 associated, officially, territorially, and by ties of blood, affection and 
 friendship. 
 
 Comrades, you are here to discharge a final tribute to the gallantry 
 and fame of an organization, which reached the very highest standard 
 in the resplendent galaxy of the historic Army of the Potomac an 
 army that was criticised for not moving enough, but never for not 
 dying enough. 
 
 Your lines to-day appear, to the outward sense, as thin as on the 
 -evening of that second day of July, 1863, when for hours you stood 
 the storm of a conflict nearly unparalleled in modern warfare. But 
 your lines are fuller than they seem to mortal vision. There are 
 comrades with us who may not audibly answer to the roll call, but I 
 feel they are here ! They are trooping here from yonder Cemetery 
 Hill ; from many a field in Virginia made sacred soil by their blood ; 
 from the ranges of the Catskills ; from the valleys of the Esopus ; 
 -and from the banks of the Wallkill and the Hudson. Oh ! brothers ! 
 we greet you ! 
 
 My living brethren, you are here not only to hold communion with 
 those to whom you once gave the touch of the elbow, but once again 
 you are associated with a nation s heroes whom it is your right to 
 claim as comrades. The thoughtful form of Meade is yonder on 
 the ridge ; the quick eye of Warren is penetrating beyond the 
 Emmettsburg road ; Hunt will clear away the murderous artillery 
 that decimates your ranks ; Brewster and Burns are here to answer 
 Graham s call ; Humphreys attests by his presence that the point you 
 hold is vital to the safety of the army ; and Hancock will take care at 
 the supreme moment that your sacrifice is not in vain. 
 
 It is our duty and pleasure to welcome these our friends who come 
 
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 to rites recalling so much sadness and so much glory, to give us the 
 companionship of sympathetic kinsmen and neighbors. They were 
 bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh, my friends, the men who here 
 won imperishable renown ! The sturdy qualities, that enabled them 
 to brave the blinding storm, were inheritances which you and they 
 shared alike. We are proud of you, as you are proud of them ; and 
 to-day your kindly presence refreshes our hearts, and seems to rep 
 resent the generous feelings of our countrymen. By the ties of family 
 and friendship you are entitled to take part in this ceremonial, and 
 beside the satisfaction of kindly offices to your brethren, you shall 
 have other compensations. The local emotions excited on this spot 
 .are of the most elevated kind, unsurpassed in the world, except on 
 the sacred spots of Palestine. Here the greatest deeds have been 
 wrought, and here the most eloquent words have been spoken ; for 
 here on these heights of Gettysburg, contemporaneously with Vicks- 
 burg, were the crucial hours of that stupendous conflict, when it was 
 settled, not for a day, but for all time, that government of the 
 people, for the people and by the people should not perish from the 
 earth. 
 
 And here, too, when time had assuaged the bitterness of the 
 .strife ; when twenty-five years had rolled by, since these hills had 
 groaned and rocked under the thunder of five hundred guns, sur 
 vivors of the Army of Northern Virginia came, by official invitation, 
 to meet survivors of the Army of the Potomac, headed by two of 
 Robert E. Lee s most illustrious commanders. On behalf of their 
 comrades, who marched and fought under the Southern Cross, they 
 came to accept the arbitrament and issues of the conflict; and if 
 there was joy in heaven that day, it was in the heart of Abraham 
 Lincoln as he looked down upon that field of Gettysburg ! 
 
 The State of New York the proud mother of us all has recog 
 nized the fitness of decorating this immortal ground. It would be a 
 base nation indeed, that would contemplate the spectacle of her vic 
 torious sons erecting monuments to their comrades and themselves. 
 In the grim hour of trial those who were concerned in vast national 
 and commercial interests trembled for the issue, and were profuse in 
 their promises of reward to those who put life and limb in the bal 
 ance. We will not seek to inquire whether these feelings have 
 changed whether the sordid love of money has resumed its sway, 
 and frames excuses for broken pledges ; certain it is, that the com- 
 
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 rades of the heroes of the war lead the way in the commemoration of 
 their deeds. Our great commonwealth provides a mimimum sum of 
 money to enable each regiment to at least mark its place in the line, 
 and this is supplemented by the free-will offerings of those who still 
 remember the sacrifices of the soldiers. We have appealed, and 
 generally not in vain, for assistance in this fraternal obligation, and 
 the result is shown in the impressive monument which stands before 
 you. To all those who gave us aid out of their abundance, or out 
 of their frugal competence, we here tender our sincere thanks. 
 
 The Pennsylvania campaign was a necessity to the Confederate 
 army in Virginia. While its opponent had been beaten in two great 
 battles within the preceding six months, the power of the North 
 seemed to grow with its reverses, and the material resources of the 
 South visibly declined. The inability of the insurgent section to 
 repair and construct railroads, was strikingly apparent. The mechani 
 cal energies and aptitudes of the North, which had been made the 
 occasion of Southern taunt and sneer, were now coming forward to 
 torment the insurgents, and the intelligent mechanics of the latter 
 section, generally by birth Northern men, were the first to appreciate 
 the coming dissolution of the slave power. It was rarely possible 
 for General Lee to provide more than four days rations ahead, even 
 when his army was lying at Fredericksburg, and the helpless failure 
 of the Confederate Commissariat was already prefiguring the collapse 
 which attended the break-up of Lee s lines about Petersburg and 
 Richmond. One by one the Southern ports were closed by our gal 
 lant navy to the introduction of foreign supplies. Would that the 
 same gallantry and genius, animating our trained sailors of to-day, 
 were provided with adequate means to compel respect for the nation 
 whose flag Farragut bore at his masthead ! 
 
 The English people under the leadership of John Bright, revered 
 name ! gave their unflagging support to the Northern cause, but the 
 aristocracy sympathized with the slave owners, while the miserable 
 harlequin who masqueraded on the throne of France, in the vest 
 ments of his supposititious uncle, was intriguing for the recognition 
 of the Confederate States, if the concurrence of the British govern 
 ment could be obtained, and that government was mainly in the 
 hands of the aristocracy. 
 
 It was believed that a successful invasion of the North would lead 
 to cooperation by the French and English cabinets. 
 
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 But a greater need was pressing at Richmond. Their people had 
 been told that Vicksburg was an impregnable fortress, and it was cer 
 tain that it was the last important point by which the rebel govern 
 ment sought to control the father of waters, and maintain communi 
 cation with the vast trans-Mississippi department. The Confederate 
 people were still fed upon lies, but the administration knew that the 
 genius and persistence of Grant were nearing an overwhelming suc 
 cess, and that the days could be numbered when- the Mississippi 
 would go unvexed to the sea. 
 
 A great diversion was required, and if the Army of the Potomac 
 which was the breastplate of the nation, could be shattered, the 
 veterans of Grant and Sherman would be required to repair the dis 
 aster. If Baltimore or Philadelphia were taken before Grant s army 
 could be transferred, the war might be expected to end in a com 
 promise ; and if Washington were captured, the rebel cabinet would 
 occupy the public buildings of the Capitol, always the accepted 
 evidence of ultimate authority in civil wars in Europe, and would be 
 recognized as the government de facto of the United States of 
 America. 
 
 So when the battle of the first day at Gettysburg was brought on 
 by the collision of a large and overwhelming part of Lee s army with 
 the inferior forces at the disposal of Reynolds, the same reasons com 
 pelled Lee to fight at a point farther from his base than he originally 
 intended, provided Meade accepted the wager of battle. Lee could 
 not go farther without giving his opponent a staggering blow, as he 
 would then be more than one day s march from the South Moun 
 tains, through whose defiles he had a secure retreat, with the power 
 to protect his columns and trains by small detachments if he failed 
 in complete success, as, in any event, he must substantially save his 
 army. 
 
 If he retired through Maryland into Virginia, he fell back again 
 upon his scanty supplies ; foreign recognition was abandoned, and 
 Vicksburg was left to her fate. 
 
 Nor had Meade designed or desired to fight at Gettysburg. The 
 line of Pipe Creek between Middleburg and Manchester was better 
 adapted to cover Baltimore and Washington, and his depot, West 
 minster, would be in the direct rear of his centre. 
 
 The rank and file of Lee s army, no matter what he and Long- 
 street thought, believed profoundly in their power to whip their 
 
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 great antagonist to the point of disintegration. They had repulsed 
 the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, after an obstinacy that 
 seemed to admit of no denial, for the charge on Marye s heights was 
 equal in gallantry and devotion to that of Pickett s division within 
 our view, and they had driven the same army across the Rappahan- 
 nock when Fighting Joe " Hooker, for inexplicable reasons, failed 
 to fight his army. 
 
 Looking to great, and perhaps decisive results, every nerve had 
 been strained to convert the Army of Northern Virginia into the most 
 powerful weapon the Confederacy could forge. Its ranks comprised 
 as good fighting material as the world has ever produced, in a good 
 cause or in a bad cause. The reputation of Lee, so considerable in 
 Mexico and afterwards, that he was considered the legitimate suc 
 cessor of Winfield Scott, had grown on the Peninsula, immeasurably 
 advanced at the second Manassas, had reached a dazzling altitude at. 
 Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and he was thought to be 
 invincible. 
 
 His three great infantry corps, each counting far more than any of 
 ours, were severally equalized to the number of 25,000 men ; and his 
 three lieutenant generals and nine division commanders were 
 the product of West Point, veterans in service, and excepting two or 
 three names, without professional rivals in the Confederacy. 
 
 They were already hailed with the prophecy of victory. The Con 
 federate historian of the Lost Cause says : 
 
 On the plains near Culpepper were the preparations made for 
 the great campaign. It was the beautiful month of May. All was 
 bustle and activity ; the freshness of the air and the glow of expecta 
 tion animated the busy scene. Trains were hurried up, filled with 
 munitions of war; new and splendid batteries of artillery were added 
 to the army ; the troops, as far as possible, were newly equipped ; 
 and ordnance trains were filled to their utmost capacity. 
 
 "The cavalry, 15,000 strong, were reviewed at Brandy Station;, 
 crowds attended the display ; and General Stuart, the gallant com 
 mander, whose only weakness was military foppery and an inordinate 
 desire of female admiration, rode along the lines on a horse almost 
 covered with bouquets. Nearly a week was consumed in reviewing 
 cavalry, infantry and artillery. By the first of June, all was in readi 
 ness, and the advance was ordered." 
 
 J. E. B. Stuart, the Confederate Murat, fought on many another 
 
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 field untill he fell mortally wounded in his disastrous combat with- 
 Sheridan, at Yellow Tavern ; 
 
 " In the lost battle, borne down by the flying, 
 
 Where mingles war s rattle with groans of the dying." 
 
 Lieutenant General Longstreet continued to be a tower of strength 
 to Lee, until he was named by the latter as one of the Commission 
 ers to carry out the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern 
 Virginia. Lieutenant General Ewell was captured with five other 
 general officers, and the rank and file of his corps, by Sheridan at the 
 desperate battle of Sailor s Creek, and Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, 
 sustained his great reputation on every battle field until shot through 
 the heart on the last day the Confederate lines were held before 
 Richmond, when his body was carried to his home in Petersburg, a 
 resting place to be occupied on the following morning by another 
 Lieutenant General, commanding the armies of the United States ! 
 
 The Confederate advance had been ordered on the first of June, 
 and on the evening of the first of July, this host stood mostly on the 
 ground now within our view, with hopes high advanced by successes 
 in the valley, and by the defeat of the corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac, commanded by Reynolds. But Reynolds, although 
 greatly outnumbered, had fought with a skill and obstinacy that per 
 suaded the enemy to believe the greater part of the Army of the 
 Potomac was here, and Lee paused when perhaps he could have 
 seized those heights, to await his divisions in the rear. 
 
 In the afternoon Meade sent Hancock to replace the lifeless 
 Reynolds and report upon the propriety of accepting this as a battle 
 field, while whatever preparation he had made, looked to the line of 
 Pipe Creek, for the reasons I have stated. I was lying on the ground 
 in a corner of General Meade s tent at Taneytown, when Hancock s 
 reply came, partially approving this line. The advantages of Pipe 
 Creek were thought to be counter-balanced by the moral effect of 
 joining our brave comrades who had fought here, instead of with 
 drawing them, and giving the impression of a retreat. 
 
 Meade boldly decided to advance his converging corps, and as 
 soon as the orders could be written and forwarded, he mounted, 
 and with his staff rode rapidly to the front. It was a moonlight 
 night. We started before midnight and covered the distance of four- 
 
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 teen miles by one o clock in the morning. And I recall with distint- 
 >ness the solemnity of our reflections and discussions ! 
 
 The issue was now joined. Had Meade retired to Pipe Creek, 
 Lee, after the success of the first day, might perhaps have withdrawn 
 to his base with his prisoners and spoils, and without vital loss of 
 prestige. But when Meade daringly accepted the gage, Lee must 
 fight here, and he must fight at once, for every day that he was com 
 pelled to lie in order of battle, his further accumulation of booty was 
 stopped, and his supplies were diminished ; and you and I know, 
 comrades, that other things being considered, an army fights upon 
 its belly. 
 
 Content with presenting these general considerations, I shall now 
 confine myself briefly to the part enacted by our regiment in this con 
 test of giants, using unsparingly the careful paper lately prepared by 
 Colonel Westbrook, with the consent of that accomplished officer. 
 His professional education had eminently prepared him for a topo 
 graphical study, and his intelligent command at Chancellorsville, and 
 on this field, up to the time he was permanently disabled by his 
 second wound, give entire assurance of his accuracy and discrimi 
 nation. 
 
 General Lee s left wing held the town of Gettysburg, and Ewell 
 hoped to effect a lodgment on the right and rear of the Union line 
 along the slopes, and at the base of Gulp s Hill. His plan of battle 
 was a co-operating movement of his right and left wings, with men 
 acing demonstrations on our centre, to prevent the troops therefrom 
 reenforcing in front of his more serious attacks. Had his plans 
 succeeded, Longstreet s and E well s corps would have met each 
 other, on or near the Taneytown road, in the rear of General Meade s 
 headquarters and of the centre of his army ; in the vicinity of our 
 reserves of artillery and ammunition ; in reach of all our trains ; and 
 .we should not have been here to dedicate a monument on the field 
 of Gettysburg. 
 
 Longstreet s prescribed order of battle, in which he did not agree, 
 was on taking position with his magnificent corps on our left, to 
 sweep up the Emmettsburg road, under cover of his batteries, and 
 roll up our lines in the direction of Cemetery Hill. It was to be an 
 oblique order of battle, in which the attacking line formed obli 
 quely to its opponent, marches directly forward constantly break 
 ing in the end of his enemy s line, and joining his rear. 
 
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 The Third Corps formation, in its second position, considerably 
 thrown out in advance of the general line from Cemetery Hill to the 
 Round Tops, with an angle at the Peach Orchard, favored the exe 
 cution of such an order of battle. But, if in the progress of the 
 attacking column, any physical or material obstacle is met, that can 
 not be overcome by the attacking column, the oblique order of bat 
 tle fails, as would any other ; and in the providence of God, it was 
 given to this regiment to make such an obstacle, for successive and 
 bloody hours ; melting away, but holding the line until other posi 
 tions were sufficiently relieved, to permit Hancock to prevent its 
 complete sacrifice. 
 
 It was at four o clock in the afternoon that the bugle sounded, for 
 the advance of the Third Corps, from the general line of battle of our 
 army ; and as Longstreet s dispositions had just been completed for 
 his oblique order of battle, the terrific attack made by his corps 
 seemed to be in response to the invitation of that bugle call. I shall 
 not here attempt a detailed description of one of the most desperate 
 assaults made by that great soldier, in all the history of the redoubt 
 able army of Northern Virginia. Our corps was struck at the 
 southern base of Devil s Den, as if with the malignity of demons 
 issuing from their fastnesses, uncl the attack then rolled up to the 
 Peach Orchard and along the Emmettsbuig road to Codori s. 
 
 The oblique order of battle was forging its way ! 
 
 To support Graham at the Peach Orchard, Burling s brigade of our 
 division, and every regiment of our brigade except our own, was 
 removed ; the last withdrawn being Burns with the Fourth Excelsior, 
 who charged the enemy with ringing cheers, following the lines of 
 Graham, whose angle was broken about six o clock. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twentieth was left stark alone. Advanc 
 ing some fifty feet at this hour, to gain the partial proteciotn of a 
 stone wall, the regiment laid down, and here some gallant spirits 
 lost their lives while standing up to brave the fire and examine the 
 movements of the enemy. Barksdale and Wofford having broken 
 the lines of Graham, the former next proceeded to get our regiment 
 out of his way, that the oblique order of battle might not be disturbed. 
 But Barksdale could not get the One Hundred and Twentieth out of 
 his way in time to make the combined movement a succcessful one 
 in the two hours of daylight left. Though less than one hundred of 
 our men came unharmed out of that murderous fire, this regiment 
 
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 held the line until after seven o clock, when another regiment took its 
 place, enabling the One Hundred and Twentieth to retire with Carr s- 
 brigade, and it was while the two wings were being side-stepped to 
 unmask the relieving force that Colonel Westbrook received his sec 
 ond wound and was carried from the field. He was succeeded in 
 command by that fearless soldier, John Rudolph Tappen, who left 
 the army near the close of the war with a reputation for courage and 
 capacity second to no other field officer in the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 At the ridge, to which our regiment retired with Carr s brigade, it 
 was confronted by the brigades of Wilcox, Perry and White ; our 
 own men being opposite to Perry. 
 
 Wright pierced our line on the right, and as this was the main line, 
 the peril was extreme. But he was not supported ; Wilcox leaves- 
 500 of his i, 600 men on Carr s front ; Pender hurrying up to the 
 right to restore the attack, is mortally wounded, Wright is hurled 
 back by Webb and Stannard of the Second Corps ; the hour is 7:45 ; 
 darkness is approaching, and the oblique order of bailie has failed. 
 
 In explanation of this failure no accounts of the battle tell us 
 what Barksdale was doing between the hours of 6:30 and 7:15. Dur 
 ing this time Barksdale disappears from history to reappear again at 
 7.30 in front of \Villard, after marching a distance of 500 yards, 
 over open fields encountering nothing but stragglers. 
 
 During all the time the regiment was subjected to this fearful 
 experience, there was but one movement and this was a refusal of 
 the left. Doubleday says that when Birney assumed command of 
 the Third Corps, after the wounding of Sickles, he ordered Hum 
 phreys to move his left wing back, to form a new oblique line to the 
 ridge in connection with his own (Birney s) division, and that he 
 (Humphreys) was obliged, while executing the difficult manoeuvre of 
 a change of front to rear, to contend with Barksdale s brigade ; and 
 Humphreys was there, in the rear of our regiment and with ours 
 only. 
 
 General Hunt, Chief of Artillery, says that the angle of the Peach 
 Orchard was broken towards six o clock, with great loss on both 
 sides, that three of Anderson s brigades were advancing on Hum 
 phreys, who received orders from Birney to throw back his left, form 
 an oblique line in his rear, and connect with the right of Birney s 
 division then retiring. Our regiment alone executed that manoeu- 
 ver, and Humphreys and Brewster, our brigade commander, at 
 
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 once took positions personally in the rear of our lines, Humphreys 
 being mounted and Brewster on foot. 
 
 DeTrobriand, writing lately, and after he had been able to examine 
 all the other authorities, says that Humphreys position was gravely 
 compromised after Graham had been dislodged from the Peach 
 Orchard. The rebels outflanked his left, and they were moving to 
 attack his front at the same time. Then with splendid coolness, and 
 under a terrible fire, he effected a change of front without ceasing to 
 carry on the combat. His right held on to the Emmettsburgh road 
 (that was Carr s brigade), and his left extended towards Round Top 
 in the direction where Birney wished to form a new line, and this 
 undaunted left was the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment. And 
 DeTrobriand adds that this dangerous movement could not have 
 been carried out, except with troops extremely firm, and at the cost 
 of great sacrifices. 
 
 Bravo ! DeTrobriand ! 
 
 Did our regiment have any assistance in this trying hour ? From 
 the shattered commands of Graham, there came a few who took 
 position in our ranks, and some also with Brewster came to stand 
 side by side with "the men who held the line." But if any other 
 regiment, or battalion, or organized body did take part in this hold 
 ing of the line, or in this change of front, so applauded by the his 
 torians, let the claim be made, and, on fair proof, the One Hundred 
 and Twentieth will ungrudgingly consent to share its laurels. We 
 know something of Humphreys, and the country knows something 
 of that great soldier when he afterwards became Chief of Staff, and 
 succeeded Hancock in the command of the Second Corps. When, 
 in the general confusion of the field, he placed himself in the rear 
 of our ranks, standing alone on a line which had been stripped for 
 the salvation of others, he proclaimed in the most affirmative manner 
 that this was then the vital point ; and while he was powerless to 
 afford relief except by his presence and example ; while death stared 
 him in the face, and it did not seem possible to those who watched 
 him slowly riding-in the rear of our formation, that he should escape, 
 he chose to take his part with " the men that held the line." 
 
 I can now add few incidents to illustrate the story. It is splendid 
 in its simplicity ; and it was a square stand-up fight from first to 
 last. As Wellington said at Waterloo, "Hard pounding, this, 
 gentlemen ; but we will pound the longest/ The eye could not be 
 
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 turned in any direction along our line without seeing men fall at 
 every moment. All the details to these colors that we bring with us 
 to-day, were successively shot down, yet none shrank from the 
 honor of carrying them. They went down from time to time, to be 
 immediately raised in defiance, and were sometimes borne by offi 
 cers, as in the case of Everett, until another detail could be made. 
 The national color was last committed by Major Tappen to the 
 hands of Sergeant John I. Spoor, who carried it throughout the 
 remaining conflict, and was recommended for promotion for con 
 spicuous gallantry, immediately after the battle. When the staff was 
 broken by a shot, Spoor placed one hand above the fracture, and 
 thus held the color erect. 
 
 Of the officers Ketcham first fell, refusing to take cover and brav 
 ing the enemy s fire. Then Barker came from the left to report 
 Barksdale s advance, and returning to his company had no sooner 
 ordered his men up, and to fire, than he was killed by the return fire 
 of the Mississippians. Then came the crisis of fate for Creighton, 
 and Hollister, and Freileweh, and Burhans, and Carle, chivalric 
 specimens of the best native, and adopted blood of Ulster and 
 Greene. Of the last named, Carle, it is mournful to add that he 
 was found two days later in a position where assistance had failed to 
 reach him, still alive, but insensible ; and so he passed to rejoin his 
 companions. The last officer killed was our much loved Willie 
 Cockburn. He had been wounded, and was being helped from the 
 field by his tentmate, when another ball struck him, and he informed 
 his companion gravely, but with a touch of the old vivacity, that the 
 hurt was mortal. 
 
 In many cases wounds were concealed, and one officer was de 
 tailed to assist General Sickles, who had himself been injured, and 
 was fit for no duty except to encourage his men. When the regi 
 ment retired at dark Captain Snyder and Lieutenant Turner, together, 
 were with those bringing off the colors when Turner lost his arm, 
 and Snyder became commander of the improvised color guard. On 
 reaching the point where the remains of the five Excelsior regiments 
 had gathered, Colonel Farnum was found in command, giving loud 
 expression to the admiration of himself and comrades of that veteran 
 brigade for the conspicuous gallantry and stubbornness of " the men 
 who held the line," calling for the name of each officer and man for 
 official recognition. The killed and wounded. 203 in number, of 
 
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 course made no answer, and of the rest some had gone in attend 
 ance upon wounded comrades, and others may have been looking 
 for tentmateson the field, but the names of those present were taken, 
 and Major Tappen, Captain Snyder and Lieutenants Everett, and 
 Simpkins, with eighteen men, made up the roll. 
 
 I would that I could name them all ; all of those 203. who out of 
 a total of 356 armed men and 27 officers, make a proportionate loss 
 nearly unequaled on this immortal field. 
 
 But since this cannot be, we dedicate this monument to-day to 
 their everlasting memory. We dedicate it also to their comrades 
 who joined them from other fields of victory and defeat ; to the 
 memory of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville ; of James City and 
 Mine Run ; of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania ; of the North 
 Anna and the Totopotomoy ; of Cold Harbor and Petersburg ; of 
 Strawberry Plains and Deep Bottom ; of Poplar Spring Church and 
 the Boydton Plank Road ; of Hatcher s Run and Tucker s House ; 
 of the White Oak Road and Amelia Springs ; of Farmville and 
 Appomattox Court House to them and to their glories, forever. 
 
 How rich are treasures of the One Hundred and Twentieth in the 
 clear upper sky! 
 
 O, Brothers, whose valour is the occasion of this solemnity, bend 
 an ear from the peaceful fields which are now your home and par 
 don these last efforts of a voice which was not unknown to you! 
 
 And we, who remain, shall draw from your example fresh lessons 
 of virtue and self-denial, and patriotic endeavor. 
 
 At the close of the oration, the following poem, writ 
 ten for the occasion was read, in the absence of its 
 author, by Mr. Egbert Lewis. Its patriotic sentiment 
 and animated expression, instinct with the bright, yet 
 tender memories of the late struggle and victory found, 
 as the oration had clone, an echo in the heart of every 
 listener. General H. W. Slocum, whose brilliant record 
 as one of the prominent leaders in the war all the coun 
 try knows, accepted the monument on behalf of the 
 State of New York, in a brief and felicitous address, 
 which does not appear here only for the reason that no 
 
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 report of it has been preserved. The monument itself, 
 as designed and completed, is a " castellated tower of 
 Ouincy granite, 28 feet high, surmounted by the Third 
 Corps badge, and bearing also in bronze the arms of 
 the State of New York, and inscriptions setting forth 
 the record of the regiment in the battle, its strength and 
 losses and the names of the twenty-two battles in which 
 it was engaged." 
 
 o o 
 
 The Rev. B. C. Lippincott closed, with the benedic 
 tion, the impressive ceremonies of the clay. 
 
 THE POEM. 
 
 THE MEN WHO HELD THE LINE. 
 
 BY WILL CARLETON. 
 
 Right brave the clash of the cavalry s dash, 
 
 As it sweeps o er hill and plain, 
 While bugles sing, and banners fling 
 
 Their smiles to the glorious slain ; 
 With footsteps solemn the serried column 
 
 May grandly cross the field, 
 While red gaps made by the ball s round blade, 
 
 By heroes are swiftly healed ; 
 The charge s story is full of glory, 
 
 In history- wreaths to shine ; 
 But bravest of all, we still must call 
 
 The men who hold the line ! 
 
 Tis brave to rush, in the onset s flush, 
 With pride in the praise-strewn air, 
 
 And woo the smile of the great guns, while 
 You capture your rivals there ; 
 
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 The death-steep blade of the barricade 
 
 To climb, on steps blood-bought, 
 And raise to the sight rich colors bright, 
 
 That tender hands have wrought ; 
 Tis grand to ride on the battle s tide, 
 
 And follow Victory s sign ; 
 But bravest of all to fight or fall 
 
 And steadily hold the line ! 
 
 O men out there in the July glare, 
 
 Who redden the green grass leaves ! 
 This harvest-field gives bloody yield ; 
 
 And dead men are the sheaves ! 
 Your flags are dim in the smoke-clouds grim 
 
 Or gleam with a costly stain ; 
 At each gun s call, your brothers fall, 
 
 And die, with a moan of pain. 
 Ah, many a grief, past all relief, 
 
 Must e en with victory twine ; 
 But you who stand in that station grand, 
 
 For God s sake, hold the line ! 
 
 You fight, tis plain, with hand and brain, 
 
 You strike with vision keen ; 
 With every blow you feel and know 
 
 What tis that you stand between ! 
 Grim malice and rage your homes engage ; 
 
 Destruction looms in view ; 
 And all that you prize beneath the skies, 
 
 May now depend on you ! 
 For Heaven you fight, and defend the right ; 
 
 Your blows are all divine ; 
 O men that stand by the Union land 
 
 For God s sake, hold the line ! 
 
 They pray for you on hill-sides blue ; 
 
 By the river s sweet cold tide ; 
 They hover by ; and their hearts come nigh, 
 
 And fight here by your side ! 
 
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 Friends far away see you to-day 
 
 The dead are looking on ; 
 Angels are near ; and Heaven will hear 
 
 By whom was this battle won. 
 To-day will our land more firmly stand, 
 
 Or sink toward decline ; 
 A fame that endures forever is yours, 
 
 If you but hold the line ! 
 
 The battle is done ; the smoke-veiled sun 
 
 Creeps low to a misty west ; 
 Fair Victory s crown sweeps grandly down 
 
 On those who have fought the best. 
 Once more the tide of the foernan s pride 
 
 Is rolled, like a torrent, back ; 
 Rebellion s way, from this very day, 
 
 Will creep on a downward track. 
 Lift proud the head O living and dead ! 
 
 You have compassed Heaven s design ! 
 In every zone you shall e er be known 
 
 As the men who held the line ! 
 
ROSTER AND RECORD 
 
 OF THE 
 
 One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment 
 
 NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 1862-1865. 
 
CONCERNING THE ROSTER AND RECORD. 
 
 The following is a "Roster" of all the names borne upon the 
 Muster-rolls of the Regiment, with a brief record of each, giving par 
 ticulars in order, as follows : Name ; Age ; Date of Enlistment ; 
 Place of Residence or Enlistment ; Transfer ; Date and Cause of 
 Discharge ; Muster out ; Remarks. Such additions have also been 
 made to the records and history of the men, as it has been found 
 possible to obtain. 
 
ROSTER AND RECORD 
 
 OF 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. V. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 COLONEL. 
 
 Sharpe, George H. Had been a Captain in the 2Oth N. Y. S. M., in the three 
 months service. In the Spring of 1863, he was ordered upon the general staff 
 of the Army of the Potomac, where he continued during the command of that 
 army by General Hooker and General Meade. After the battle of Chancellors- 
 ville he succeeded in making a cartel with the Confederates for the imme 
 diate delivery to the U. S. authorities of the wounded left by the Army of the 
 Potomac on the Chancellorsville battlefield. When Lieutenant General 
 Grant came east and assumed the personal direction of the Army of the 
 Potomac, Colonel Sharpe was assigned to duty on his staff, being detailed to 
 headquarters of the armies operating against Richmond. He served person 
 ally with General Grant in all the final operations of the war and until he was 
 mustered out in June, 1865. Under the terms of surrender at Appomattox 
 Court House, Virginia, he was designated to parole General Lee s Army of 
 Northern Virginia. He was Brevetted Brigadier General U. S. V. in 1864, 
 and Major General U. S. V. in 1865. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Westbrook, C. D. Had been a Captain in the 2oth N. Y. S. M. and served as 
 Adjutant of the i2Oth during the organization of the Regiment. Being twice 
 wounded at Gettysburg, he was honorably discharged in February, 1864. 
 
 Tappen, Major John Rudolph. Had been a Captain in the 2oth N. Y. S. M. 
 Was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and succeeded Col. Westbrook upon the 
 latter s muster out. He had been wounded in the second battle of Bull Run, 
 and was mustered out at the expiration of his full term of service in December, 
 
 1864. Soon after his death, which occurred January 20, 1875, a memorial ser 
 vice commemorative of his life and character was held in Kingston, of which a 
 full account was published. Was a Captain in the 2Oth N. Y. S. M., serving 
 with them in the field, and was Commissioned Major in the !2Oth, and joined 
 it shortly after its arrival in Virginia. 
 
 Lockwood, Abram L. 25. June 15, 1862. Kingston. Mustered out with the 
 regiment at Kingston June 3, 1865. Was promoted to Major, to Lieutenant 
 Colonel and Brevetted Colonel of U. S. V. Was in command of the Regi 
 ment during the latter part of its service, and was for a time assigned to the 
 command of the 74th N. Y. V., and was also for a time in command of the 
 nth Mass. Vols. Now living in New York City. 
 
 MAJOR. 
 
 Scott, Walter F. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Major February 4, 
 
 1865. Died at Chapultepec, Mexico, October 8, iSSi. 
 
236 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. V. S. VOLS. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF-Continued. 
 
 ADJUTANT. 
 
 Tuthill, Selah O. Resigned shortly after the battle of Fredericksburg, and was 
 succeeded by Adjutant Russell, who continued as such until the end of the war. 
 
 QUARTERMASTER. 
 
 Coffin, Uriah H. Held the same position throughout the entire term of service 
 with the Regiment. 
 
 SURGEONS. 
 
 Van Hoevenhurgh, James O. Resigned shortly after the battle of Fredericksburg. 
 Van Steenburgh, Warner. Was appointed Surgeon March 12, 1863, and mustered 
 out with the Regiment. Died at Troy. 
 
 Brown, Edward A. Was mustered January 9, 1863, and resigned February 23, 
 1863. 
 
 ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 
 
 Collier, Henry A. Died in January, 1863 from the effects of exposure and unre- 
 mitting labor and devotion to the men, and Assistant Surgeon Van Rensselaer 
 was never mustered as such, preferring to remain a line officer in the 2Oth N. 
 Y. S. M. 
 
 Hogan, Edward K. Was mustered March 31, 1863, and was discharged August 
 n, 1864. 
 
 Miller, John N. Mustered September 10, 1862. Promoted to Surgeon 8ist Re<n- 
 ment March 15, 1865. Died at Poughkeepsie. 
 
 Ackley, Gustavus J. Mustered March 30, 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment 
 
 June 2, 1865. 
 
 CHAPLAIN. 
 
 Hartwell, Foster. Was discharged in December, 1863 on account of disability, 
 and was succeeded by Chaplain Henry Hopkins, who completed the term of 
 service of the Regiment. 
 
 NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. 
 
 QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT. 
 
 Barber, George P. Catskill August 22, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieutenant Co. K 
 March 17, 1863. 
 
 COMMISSARY SERGEANT. 
 
 Cockburn, William J. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to 2cl Lieutenant. 
 HOSPITAL STEWARD. 
 
 Keyser, Joseph D. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Captured October 10, 1863. 
 Was a prisoner at Andersonville prison for many months. Mustered out with 
 the Regiment. Died at Kingston August 13, 1875. 
 
 DRUM MAJOR. 
 Goeller, August. August 22, 1862. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Company A was organized at Kingston, N. Y., in July and 
 August, 1862. The company was recruited by Captain Abram L. 
 Lockwood, First Lieutenant James H. Lockwood, and Second Lieu 
 tenant Edward H. Ketchum. The men were mostly from Kingston, 
 Hurley, and Marl borough, and a few from other towns in Ulster 
 County. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Captain Lockwood was 
 assigned to field duty, and Lieutenant Lockwood served as Aide-de- 
 Camp to General Mott. Lieutenant Ketchum having been killed in 
 that battle, the company was without a commissioned officer, present 
 for duty. The First Sergeant was also killed, and the Second Ser 
 geant badly wounded. First Lieutenant John B. Krom, of Com 
 pany C, was assigned to the command of the company about the 
 1 5th of July, 1863, and served with the company until about the ist 
 of November, 1863. Captain Krom was much respected by the 
 company for his soldierly qualities and gentlemanly bearing. First 
 Lieutenant James A. Hyde, of Company G, was transferred to this 
 company and promoted to captain, and commanded it during the 
 last year of its service, with marked ability. The company partici 
 pated in all the services and engagements of the regiment, and suffered 
 severely from the fever which prevailed during the first winter of its 
 service, while encamped near Falmouth, Va. Besides the wounds 
 which proved fatal, seventeen others received wounds. On October 
 10, 1863, seventeen men were taken prisoners by the enemy, in the 
 engagement at James City, Va. This company was deployed some 
 four or five hundred yards in advance of the regiment, which accounts 
 for its heavy loss. The original company consisted of: 
 
 Commissioned officers 3 
 
 Enlisted men 96 
 
 Received by transfer, officers i 100 
 
 Of whom there were killed in action and died of 
 wounds, commissioned officers i 
 
 Enlisted men i o 
 
 ii 
 
 Carried forward i l 
 
238 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 Brought forward 1 1 
 
 Died in rebel prisons 7 
 
 Died of disease in camp and hospital 1 1 1 8 
 
 Total deaths in service 
 
 2t> 
 
 Discharged on account of wounds and disability ; 
 
 Commissioned officers i 
 
 Enlisted men 1 6 
 
 Discharged for promotion, commissioned officers. . 2 
 
 Discharged for other causes, enlisted men 10 
 
 29 
 
 Transferred : 
 
 Enlisted men to Veteran Reserve Corps 4 
 
 Enlisted men to Company E i 
 
 5 
 
 Deserted 4 
 
 Mustered out at Kingston at end of war : 
 
 Commissioned officers 2 
 
 Enlisted men 3 1 33 
 
 ICO 
 
 Transferred from yist and 72d Regiments, N. Y. V. 30 
 
 Of whom there was killed in action 2 
 
 Discharged for disability by general order 4 
 
 Discharged for expiration of term of service 2 
 
 Discharged as supernumerary non-commiss. officers 3 
 
 Transferred to Navy i 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps i 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment, N. Y. V 14 
 
 Deserted before transfer to this company 3 
 
 3 
 The company received as recruits during winter of 
 
 1863 and 1864 17 
 
 Of whom there died in hospital i 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment, N. Y. V 16 17 
 
 Total enrollment 147 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 239 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Lockwood, Abram L. 25. June 15, 1862. Kingston. Mustered out with the 
 regiment at Kingston June 3, 1865. Was promoted to Major, to Lieutenant 
 Colonel and Brevetted Colonel of U. S. V. Was in command of the Regi 
 ment during the latter part of its service, and was for a time assigned to the 
 command of the 74th N. Y. V., and was also for a time in command of the 
 nth Mass. Vols. Now living in New York City. 
 
 Hyde, James A. July, 1862. Marlborough. Mustered out with the company 
 at Kingston June 3, 1865. Promoted from First Lieutenant of Company G 
 on June 4, 1864 and assigned to the command of Company A. Wounded 
 May 31, 1864. Living at Milton, N. Y. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Lockwood, James H. July 15, 1862. Kingston. Discharged January 30, 1865 
 on account of disability from wounds. Was wounded October 27, 1864, while 
 serving as Aide-de-Camp on staff of General Mott. Living in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Ketcham, Edward H. July 15, 1862. Marlborough. Killed at Gettysburg July 
 2, 1863. 
 
 Brooks, Thaddeus C. 21. July 18, 1862 as Sergeant. Was promoted to Second 
 Lieutenant and to First Lieutenant February 4, 1865, and transferred to 
 Company I. Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Prisoner from October 
 lo, 1863 to April, 1864. Living in Jackson, Mich. 
 
 Rosa, Levi. 29. August n, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Entered service as private. Promoted to Corporal August 22, 1862 : to Ser 
 geant January nth, 1863 ; to First Sergeant January 23, 1864 ; Second Lieu 
 tenant February 4, 1865 ; First Lieutenant May 17, 1865. Prisoner at Libby, 
 Belle Isle, Andersonville, etc., from October IO, 1863 to November 20, 
 1864. Living at Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 FIRST SERGEANTS. 
 
 Snyder, John S. 38. August 4, 1862. Kingston. Killed at Gettysburg July 
 
 2, 1863. 
 Markle, Alexander. 30. July 26. Hurley. Died April 2, 1865 of wounds 
 
 received in action March 25, 1865. 
 Robinson, George. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Discharged October 15, 
 
 1864 as supernumerary. 
 Kittle, Hiram D. 21. August 13, 1862. Hurley. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Promoted to Sergeant January I, 1865 ; to First Sergeant April 3, 1865. 
 
 Living at Glenford, N. Y. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Burger, Henry. 22. July 25, 1862. Kingston. Taken prisoner October 10, 
 
 1863, and died at Andersonville June 6, 1864. 
 Markle, John W. 18. July 28, 1862. Hurley. Died of fever January 11, 1863 
 
 near Falmouth, Va. 
 Temple, Truman. 21. July 18, 1862. Hurley. Discharged G. O. No. 77, A. 
 
 G. O. April 28, 1865. Promoted to Sergeant. Wounded July 2, 1863. 
 
 Taken prisoner March 25, 1865. 
 
24O ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Cowdrey, Clinton. 25. July 21, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Corporal. 
 
 Wounded July 2, 1863. Promoted to Sergeant April 3, 1865. Living at 
 
 Kingston, Sawkill P. O. 
 Cudney, Joseph H. 22. August 4, 1862. Hurley. Wounded May 10, 1864. 
 
 Promoted to Sergeant March I, 1865. 
 McGinnis, James. Transferred from 72d N. Y. Y. Discharged October 15, 1864 
 
 as supernumerary. 
 Marsh, William H. 22. December 22, 1863. Transferred from ;2d N. Y. V. 
 
 and transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. June I, 1865. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Dubois, Charles D. 22. August 15, 1862. Olive. Discharged from hospital by 
 G. O., No. 77, A. G. O. May 16, 1865. Wounded May 5, 1864. Living 
 at Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Dumond, Charles. 22. August 1 1, 1862. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 1865. 
 Prisoner from October 10, 1863 till close of the war. Living at Hurley. 
 
 Jones, Lucius. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V., and transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 June I, 1865. 
 
 Ketcham, Charles E. 19. August 7, 1862. Maryborough. Died in field hospital 
 February 3, 1863 of fever, near Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Maines, Fraley. 23. July 19, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Corporal. Pris 
 oner from October 10, 1863 until May, 1864. Again taken prisoner March 31, 
 1865. Exchanged and discharged at Kingston June 3, 1865. Died 1886. 
 
 Mogel, Frederick. 22. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V., and transferred to 73d 
 N. Y. V. V.June I, 1865. 
 
 Moscrip, Jehial. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Killed in action March 31, 
 1865. 
 
 Palen, Jonathan. 23. July 31, 1862. Olive. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 
 1865. Promoted to Corporal April 3, 1865. Wounded at Gettysburg July 
 2, 1863. Died at Samsonville, N. Y. February 3, 1892. 
 
 Rowe, Frederick P. 21. July 21, 1862. Hurley. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Promoted to Corporal March I, 1865. Prisoner from July 2, 
 1863 to September 20, 1863. Living at Kingston. 
 
 Rowe, Chauncey H. 21. August 4, 1862. Hurley. Discharged from Camp 
 Parole, G. O. No. 77 April 28, 1865. Promoted to Corporal. Taken pris 
 oner March 31, 1865. Died in Kingston March 13, 1892. 
 
 Simmons, John A. 39. July 21, 1862. Kingston. Died in field hospital 
 December 21, 1864. 
 
 Weed, George W. 35. August 4, 1862. Hurley. Discharged March 2, 1863 
 . for disability. Living at West Hurley. 
 
 Williams, George. 35. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Discharged as super 
 numerary. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Ealfe, Frank. 17. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Taken home while sick and 
 afterwards enlisted and served in another regiment, and was honorably dis 
 charged. Died December 7, 1889. Belonged to G. A. R., and was buried 
 with the honors of the order. 
 
 Reinhart, Richard M. J. 16. August 4, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at King 
 ston June 3, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2/J.I 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Arnold, Aming W. 31. April 12,1865. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 Boice, Samuel. 21. August 13, 1862. Olive. Wounded at Chancellorsville 
 
 May 3, 1863, and died from the wounds at 3d Corps hospital May 30, 1863. 
 Beadle, Jesse. 18. July 19, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 
 
 3,1865. Wounded July 2, 1863. Living at Kingston. 
 Baldwin, John II. 32. July 18, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 
 
 3, 1865. Died since. 
 Brodhead, James D. 19. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. 
 
 Corps. Wounded May 3, 1863 at Chancellorsville. 
 Badgley, George W. 27. August, 13, 1862. Olive. Disappeared June 28, 1863, 
 
 while on march to Gettysburg. Never since heard from. 
 Bundy, David A. 41. August 13, 1862. Hurley. Discharged January 5, 1863, 
 
 on account of physical disability. 
 Burger, Hiram. 35. December 28, 1863. Hurley. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 V. Living at West Hurley. 
 
 Buley, Wesley. 21. January 11, 1864. Olive. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 Bernard, Fritz. 20. Transferred from yistN. Y. V,; transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 Boggs, George A. 27. October 28, 1861, Delhi. Transferred from 7 1st N.Y. 
 
 V. Discharged November 7, 1864 by reason of expiration of service. Living 
 
 at Stamford, N. Y. 
 Conlon, Patrick. 21. August 4, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 
 Tune 3, 1865. Served with Battery K, 4th U. S. Artillery. Was wounded. 
 
 Was accidentally killed October 8, 1888. Was a member of the G. A. R., 
 
 and was buried with the honors of the order. 
 Countryman, Robert H. 26. August 18, 1862. Warwarsing. Died at Ander- 
 
 sonville August 5, 1864. 
 
 Christiana, George. 35. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Died in hospital Sep 
 tember 25, 1863, of wounds received in action July 2, 1863. 
 Cobbett, John. 22. Transferred from ;ist N. Y. V. Discharged October 19, 
 
 1864 by reason of expiration of term of service. 
 
 Duncan, William H. 22. August 5, 1862. Marlborough. Discharged at Kings 
 ton June 3, 1865. Wounded October 14, 1864. 
 Dumond, Edward B. 19. August 6, 1862. Hurley. Discharged December 26, 
 
 1864. Disabled by loss of left arm at siege of Petersburg, Va. Living at 
 Fishkill, X. Y. 
 
 Dumond, Conrad W. 24. August 4, 1862. Hurley. Taken prisoner October 
 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville Prison August 14, 1864. 
 
 Dumond, Philander W. 21. August 6, 1862. Hurley. Died July 31, 1863 of 
 wounds received in action July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg. 
 
 Dumond, William C. 28. August 4, 1862. Hurley. Died February 14. 1863, 
 of chronic diarrhoea. 
 
 Doyle. Abram II . 40. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Died since. 
 
 DuBois, John T. 24. August II, 1862. Olive. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 
 
 1865. Living at Olive. 
 
 Delamater, William R. 30. July 22, 1862. Kingston. Discharged January 5, 
 1863 from hospital on account of physical disability. 
 
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242 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Davis, Isaac. 20. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 11, 1864. 
 
 Disabled by wounds. 
 Davis, David. 34. August 4, 1862. Maryborough. Discharged at Kingston 
 
 June 3, 1865. 
 Davis, Daniel. 22. August 6, 1862. Marlborough. Taken prisoner October I o r 
 
 1863. Died in prison, at Belle Isle, March I, 1864. 
 
 Davis, Ferris G. 21. August 6, 1862. Marlborough. Discharged January 5*. 
 
 1864. Disabled by wounds. 
 
 Devoe, George. 35. Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 
 Drew, Philip. 40. September 29, 1862. New York. Transferred to Navy- 
 August 27, 1864, by order War Department. 
 Ellsworth, William H. 44. July 22, 1862. Hurley. Discharged at Kingston 
 
 June 3, 1865. Living at Hurley. 
 
 Ennist, James. 18. April 12, 1865. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 Freer, John J. 27. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Discharged by G. O., No. 77, A. 
 
 G. O. April 28, 1*865. Wounded May 5, 1864. Living at Stone Ridge. 
 Farrington, Thomas H. 30. Transferred from 7 1st N. Y. V. Never reported 
 
 for duty. Discharged by G. O., No. 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. 
 Fox, Joseph. 22. April 12, 1865. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V* 
 Gridley, William. 21. December 10, 1863. \Voodstock. Transferred to 73d N, 
 
 Y. V. V. Living at Woodstock. 
 Gerhardt, Jacob. 55. Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Y. V. V. 
 Herron, Charles. 19. August 5, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 
 June 3, 1865. Prisoner from October 10, 1863 to November 20, 1864. 
 Hughes, John R. 18. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action May 5, 
 
 1864. 
 Hockrin. Nicholas. 43. Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Y. V. V. 
 
 Hughes, George. 19. July 2, 1864. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 Hughes, Daniel. 20. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Discharged for disability 
 
 by order War Department. 
 Ingraham, Gilbert. 30. Transferred from 720! N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Y. V. V. 
 
 Joy, Peter Jr. 25. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 
 3/1865. Was wounded. 
 
 Kittle, John E. 20. August 13, 1862. Hurley. Killed in action May 31, 1864. 
 Knapp, Jerome B. 28. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Discharged by G. O., No. 
 
 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Prisoner from October IO, 1863 to end of war. 
 
 Died July 22, 1885. 4 Was a member of the G. A. R., and was buried with 
 
 the honors of the order. 
 Kimbark, John H. 21. August 7, 1862. Marlborough. Died in hospital April 
 
 5, 1863 of fever. 
 Keator, Alfred L. 27. January 1 8, 1864. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. Was wounded April 6, 1865. 
 Loncoy, George. 19. July 31, 1862. Kingston. Discharged by G. O., No. 77,. 
 
 A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Prisoner from October 10, 1863, to end of war. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 243 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 r R iv AT ES Continued. 
 
 ^led in action May 3, 
 
 Lockwood, John W. 35. July 25, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Died September, 1888. Was a member of the G. -A. R and 
 was buried with the honors of the order. 
 
 27 Transferred from 7 2nd N - Y - V - Transferred to V. R. 
 
 ric!:. 21. Transferred 
 
 No. 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. 
 Laon, James. 24. Transferred from 72nd N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 Moe, Ezra L. 21. August 6, 1862. Olive. Discharged from hospital by G O 
 
 No. 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. 
 
 Moe George W. 22. August 7, 1862. Olive. Discharged from hospital bv G 
 
 O., No. 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Wounded July 2, 1863. 
 Moe, William H. 22. August 5, 1862. Olive. Discharged at Kingston June 
 
 3, 1865. Served in Battery K, 4 th U. S. Artillery. Living at Olive. 
 Mains Abram. 19. July 18, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 7 
 
 1865. Prisoner from October 10, 1863 to May, 1864. Died at Kingston. 
 Masten, Hezekiah. 21. August 1 1, 1862. Marlborough. Transferred to V. R 
 
 Corps, for disability. 
 
 Mackey, John H. 18. August 12, 1862. Marlborough. Died in hospital near 
 falmouth, Va. January 5, 1863 of fever. 
 
 Margenson, John. 21. August 7, 1862. Marlborough. Discharged at Kingston 
 
 June 3, 1865. Wounded May 10, 1864. 
 Miller, Henry. 30. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Discharged by G. O. No 
 
 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Wounded November, 1862. 
 Myers, Henry. 35. Transferred from jist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 
 McNamara, Michael. 37. Transferred from 7ist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73(5 
 Osterhoudt, Peter V. 24. July 31, 1862. Olive. Discharged at Kingston June 
 
 Offerman. John. 33. Attica. 
 
 Flass, Abram H. 31. July 19, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 
 
 3,1865. Living at Amsterdam, N. Y. 
 P!asc"t, John. 23. Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. Wounded, August, 1864. 
 Oailiy, James. 23. Transferred from 7ist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 Rhodes, William II. July 30, 1862. Kingston. Discharged by G. O., No. 77, 
 A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Prisoner from October 10, 1863 to November 20, 
 1864. Wounded, March 31, 1865. 
 
 Ryan, James. 18. July 29, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 
 
 1865. Wounded July 2, 1863. Living at Kingston. 
 
 Rice, Julian D. 26. August II, 1862. Kingston. Prisoner October 10,1863, 
 and died in Andersonville prison March, 1864. 
 
244 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Rosepaugh, Dubois. 18. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Prisoner October 10, 
 
 1863, and died in Andersonville prison July 4, 1864. 
 
 Roe, William \V. 24. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action at Chancel- 
 
 iorsville May 3, 1863. 
 Rose, George M. August 13, 1862. Olive. Died of fever January 17, 1863 near 
 
 Falrnouth, Va. 
 Snyder, William. 34. August 5, 1862. Hurley. Discharged January 5, 1863 
 
 on account of physical disability. Living at West Hurley. 
 
 Schryver, Richard P. 44. August 12, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kings 
 ton June 3, 1865. Prisoner from October IO, 1863 to March 6, 1864. 
 Shultis, Isaac E. 34. August 12, 1862. Woodstock. Died of fever December 
 
 20, 1862 near Falmouth, Va. 
 Sickler, Gilbert D. 18. July 19, 1862. Kingston. Discharged January 19, 1863 
 
 on account of physical disability. Living at Rondout, N. Y. 
 Sears, Orrin D. 19. July 18, 1862. Shandaken. Lost near " Point of Rocks," 
 
 Md. June 28, 1863, while on march to Gettysburg. Never heard from to this 
 
 time. 
 Simmons, David A. 21. January 4, 1864. Hurley. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. Living at West Hurley. 
 Smith, Philip. 21. January 4, 1864. Hurley. Died in Hospital August 10, 1864 
 
 of chronic diarrhoea. 
 Smith. William. 84. July 18, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Smith, John. 32. Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 Schrader, Jacob. 18. Transferred from 7ist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 Spencer, Edwin. 24. January u, 1864. Kingston. Transferred to 730! N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 Temple, Alexander. 21. January 4, 1864. Hurley. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 
 V. V. 
 Terwilliger, Elmore. 18. August I, 1862. Marlborough. Killed in action 
 
 October 27, 1864. 
 Terwilliger, Jeremiah. 18. August 7, 1862. Marlborough. Discharged at 
 
 Kingston June 3, 1865. Prisoner from October 10, 1863 to November 20, 
 
 1864. Living in New York City. 
 
 Terbush, Isaac. 40. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. Corps. 
 Died at Kingston April, 1887. 
 
 Toth, Franklin. 23. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Died November 3, 1862 of 
 fever. 
 
 VanTassel, Elijah. 18. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Veteran Re 
 serve Corps. Wounded, May 3, 1863. Living at Saugerties. 
 
 VanTassel, David. 27. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Dead. 
 
 Van Leuven, John A. 43. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Died, May 10, 1865 of 
 congestion. 
 
 Van Velsen, Jacob W. 22. August 7, 1862. Kingston. \Vounded and taken 
 prisoner October 10, 1863, and died in Andersonville prison March 20, 1864. 
 
 Vill, Michael. 26. Transferee! from 7ist N. Y. V. Killed in action July 27, 1864. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 COMPANY A-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Wolven, Andrew. 29. August 5, 1862. Hurley. Discharged at Kin -ston 
 June 3, 1865. Wounded July 2, 1*63 and May 10, 1864. Died at West 
 Hurley, November 10, 1890. Was a member of the G. A. K., and was buried 
 with the honors of the order. 
 
 Wolven, Moses. 26. August 12, 1862. Hurley. Discharged at Kingston June 
 3, 1865. Living at West Hurley. 
 
 Wolven, Nathan. 24. August 6, 1862. Hurley. Discharged at Kingston Tune 
 3, 1865. Living at West Hurley. 
 
 Warren, Austin I. 34. August 13, 1862. Olive. Discharged at Kingston June 
 3, 1865. Dead. 
 
 Warren, Washington. 25. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Discharged from hos 
 pital by G. O. No. 77, A. G. O. April 28, 1865. Wounded May 5,1864. 
 
 W T hite, William. 32. August II, 1862. Kingston. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Prisoner from July 2, 1863 to September 20, 1863. Wounded 
 November 29, 1863. Died at Kingston January 4, 1892. 
 
 Winchell, Gilbert D. 18. March 7, 1864. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 V. V. Living in Illinois. 
 
 Wade, John C. 24. January 24, 1864. Olive. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. V. 
 
 Warren, Henry, 21. January 25, 1864. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 V. V. 
 
 Wands, George R. 18. December 14, 1863. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Y. V. V. Wounded May 5, 1864. Living. 
 Ware, John A. 29. July 31, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Company E, i2Oth 
 
 York, William. 30. August u, 1862. Marlborough. Discharged at Kingston 
 June 3, 1865. Wounded July 2, 1863. Living at Milton. 
 
 The following deserted from the Company : David A. Martin, James H. Dela- 
 mater, Win. H. Lane, Win. D. Myers. 
 
 The following were transferred to the Company, as deserters from the 7ist Regi 
 ment, N. Y. V. : Patrick Dunn, Michael ilaverty, Chas. Partenheimer. 
 
246 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. V. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 Company B was recruited by Captain Simon S. Westbrook, First 
 Lieutenant Rodney B. Newkirk, and Second Lieutenant Dumond 
 Elmendorf. Captain Westbrook and Lieutenant Elmendorf were 
 discharged for physical disability, and Lieutenant Newkirk was pro 
 moted to Captain, and remained in command of the company until 
 the close of the war. Second Lieutenant William A. Norton, of 
 Company C, was promoted to First Lieutenant of the company, but 
 did not serve with it, and was discharged for physical disability, 
 August 28, 1863. First Sergeant Edgar Simpkins was promoted to 
 Second Lieutenant, and to First Lieutenant. Ambrose M. Barber, 
 Sergeant Major, was promoted to Second Lieutenant of this company, 
 August 16, 1864, and to Captain of Company I, February 4, 1865. 
 Albert Carr was promoted to Sergeant Major, August 22, 1862. 
 Albert Rider was promoted Second Lieutenant, Company I, in Novem 
 ber, 1863. The company entered the service with : 
 
 Commissioned officers . _ . 3 
 
 Enlisted men 94 97 
 
 Of the number, there were killed in action or died 
 
 from wounds 1 1 
 
 Died from disease and accident 13 
 
 Total deaths in service 24 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 13 
 
 Discharged for physical disability 13 
 
 Transferred for promotion 4 
 
 Reported as deserted 8 
 
 Mustered out with regiment, and by general orders. 35 73 
 
 97 
 Joined by transfer officer i 
 
 In the later part of the year 1864, a number of recruits were received, 
 and the re-enlisted men of the 7ist and 72d Regiments, N. Y. V., 
 were transferred. Company B had an addition, in this way, of 66 
 men to its company roll, making the total number on the roll 164, 
 although not more than one-half actually served with the company. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 
 
 The missing in action, deserters, sick and detailed men, of the yist 
 and 72d, being taken up on the company s rolls. In all these com 
 pany records the list of deserters is larger than it should be, as many of 
 those reported as deserters on the rolls, fell out of the ranks, sick, and 
 were sent to hospital, or taken prisoners by the enemy, and to this 
 day the fate of many of them is unknown to those who should have 
 heard from them if they were living, at the close of the war. Of the 
 transferred men, there were : 
 
 Killed in action ............................... 3 
 
 Died of disease ............................... 2 
 
 The following is a copy of the muster out roll of Company B, to 
 which is added such other personal history as is available : 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 "Westbrook, Simon S. 40. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Discharged April 13, 
 1863 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. In 1864 he was elected Sheriff 
 of Ulster county. He afterward held the offices of City Assessor and Justice 
 of the Peace. He died December 29, 1891, aged 70 years. 
 
 Newkirk, Rodney B. 24. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 
 1865. First Lieutenant, promoted to Captain April 13, 1863. Wounded 
 March 25, 1865. Died in 1868, unmarried. The One Hundred and Twen 
 tieth Regimental Union erected a Monument at his grave in the Sharpe burial 
 grounds, in Kingston. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Norton, William A. August 22, 1862. New York. Discharged August 28, 1863 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. Promoted from Second Lieutenant, 
 Company C April 13, 1863. Now living in New York city. 
 
 Simpkins, Edgar. 24. July 22, 1862. Kingston. Promoted from First Ser 
 geant to Second Lieutenant April 13, 1863; First Lieutenant July 5, 1864. 
 Detailed to draft rendezvous at Riker s Island, N. Y. in July, 1863. He 
 remained on detached service till he lost his life by the burning at sea of the 
 U. S. Transport General Lyon March 31, 1865. 
 
 Elmendorf, Dumond. 37. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Discharged April I, 
 1863 on Surgeons certificate of disability, and died at Kingston, 1876. 
 
 Barber, Ambrose M. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Discharged February 4, 
 1865. Promoted from private to Sergeant November I, 1863 ; to Sergeant- 
 Major May 5, 1864 ; Second Lieutenant August 16, 1864 ; to Captain. Com 
 pany I, February 4, 1865. Wounded May 5, 1864. Present address, Brook 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 "Wood, James N. 18. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Trans 
 ferred to 73d ; not mustered. Discharged June 3, 1865. W 7 as promoted from 
 Sergeant to First Lieutenant January, 1865. Wounded October 2, 1864. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Folant, William H. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Promoted from Sergeant to First Sergeant November I, 1863. Commissi 
 Second Lieutenant ; not nmsterea. Wounded at Poplar Grove Church, and in 
 front of Petersburg. Residence Kingston, N. Y. 
 
248 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 SERGE ANTS Continued. 
 
 Philips, Stephen H. 32. July 28, 1862. Samsonville. Deserted from General 
 hospital May 18, 1863. 
 
 Elmendorf, Benjamin. 26. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Discharged February 
 19, 1863 on account of disability. Present residence Hurley, N. Y. 
 
 Gossoo, Ambrose S. 25. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Discharged February 13,. 
 1865 on account of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1862. Pres 
 ent residence Pine Hill, N. Y. 
 
 Atkins, Alfred. 23. July 26, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Corporal March I, 
 1863 ; to Sergeant November I, 1863. Killed in action October 27, 1864. 
 
 VanEtten, Mortimer. 36. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Promoted from Corporal 
 to Sergeant March I, 1863. Died in general hospital June 5, 1863, from, 
 wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 
 Lawffer, Jacob. 18. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged June 20, 1864 by G. CL 
 No. 76 War Department 1863. 
 
 Burke, John. 37. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d Regiment June 20, 1864. Promoted from Corporal to Sergeant 
 March 7, 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment N. Y. V. 
 
 Menger, Frederick. 31. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. June 20, 1864. Promoted from 
 Corporal to Sergeant May 20, 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment N. Y.V. 
 
 O Brien, William. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Promoted from Corporal to Sergeant November I, 1863. Wounded at Get 
 tysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Dean, James. 23. August 22, 1862. New York. Discharged June 3,1865. 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. June 20, 1864, as Corporal pro 
 moted to Sergeant February 13, 1865. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Smith, Henry. 41. August 4, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Ranson, Albert H. 19. Augnst 3, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Absent sick. Taken prisoner May 5, 1864. 
 
 Bray, Hilan. 24. July 29, 1862. Kingston. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2,. 
 1863. 
 
 Bishop, Barnett. 21. July 29, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action at Chancellors 
 ville May 3, 1863. 
 
 Merritt, Peter. 23. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Absent sick. Died at Kingston December 4, 1886. 
 
 Barham, John. 28. August 2. 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. C. Aug 
 ust 10, 1864. 
 
 Mallon, Thomas. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. June 20, 1864; transferred to 73d N.. 
 Y. V. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Eck, Andrew. 33. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred to 73d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Laid, John. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. Transferred to 730! Regiment N. Y. V. 
 Discharged June 3, 1865. Taken prisoner November 6, 1864. 
 
 Berrand, Adam. 26. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. Promoted to Corporal March 7 
 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 249 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 CORPORALS Continued. 
 
 Gleason, Michael. 28. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged by G. O. 86, War 
 
 Department. 
 Loderhose, George. 22. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 720! Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged by G. O. 86, War 
 
 Department. 
 
 Dean, Henry W. 18. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Piomoted to Corporal February 13, 
 1865. 
 
 Mann, Peter. 32. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged by G. O. 86, War Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Chase, Clarke. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 12, 1864. 
 Promoted to Corporal March I, 1864. Died from wounds received in action 
 May 31, 1864. 
 
 Shirter, Richard G. 20. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from yist Regiment N. Y. V. July 7, 1864. Mustered out by G. 
 O. 77, War Department. Taken prisoner March 25, 1865. Wounded No 
 vember 5, 1864. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 McClung, William B. 19. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Died at Brandy Station,. 
 Virginia March 4, 1864. 
 
 Terwilliger, Aaron B. 30. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. 
 C. April, 1864. Residence Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 Dorse, John. 17. September I, 1862. New York. Transferred from 7ist N. 
 Y. Y. July 7, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 King, Julius. 16. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d Regiment N. Y. V. June 20, 1864 transferred to 73d Regi 
 ment N. Y. V. June, 1865. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Deyo, James. 40. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865, 
 Residence Lexington, N. Y. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Armstrong, Orrin A. 28. August 1.2, 1862. Kingston. Mustered out by G. O. 
 77, War Department. Wounded May 31, 1864. Died October 1870. 
 
 Avery, Sniffin. 24. August 20, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Avery, George H. 22. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from General 
 hospital April, 1863. 
 
 Brink, James D. 43. Tuly 28, 1862. Kingston. December I, 1863 transferred 
 to V. R. C. 
 
 Bannon, John. 27. July 26, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Buleye, William. 32. August II, 1862. Kingston. Died in general hospital 
 December I, 1862. 
 
 Burger, Peter M. 37. July 25, 1862. Samsonville. September I 1863 trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
25O ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Bundy, James. 31. December 28, 1863. Kingston. Mustered out by G. O. 
 
 77, War Department. Recruit. Taken prisoner Novemter 6, 1864. 
 Botz, John. 19. October 29, 1862. New York. June 20, 1864 transferred from 
 
 72d N. Y. V. Absent sick. Mustered out by G. O. 77, War Department. 
 Barber, William H. 18. January 5, 1864. Kingston. Recruit, transferred to 
 
 73d Regiment N. Y. V. Discharged June 3, ^1865. 
 
 Bragg, Seneca S. 56. January 30, 1864. Recruit, transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Bailey, Oscar O. 16. January 16, 1864. Delhi, N. Y. Recruit, sick, general 
 
 hospital. M. O. G. O. 77, War Department. 
 Beach, August. 35. April 6, 1864. New York. Recruit, transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Bowers, Christian. 45. December 26, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Brennen, James. 35. December 26, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Y. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72d, transferred to 73d N. Y. V. Wounded. March 21, 
 
 J 865, general hospital. 
 
 Brockleman, Ernest. 28. December 26, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. Sick in general 
 hospital. 
 
 Carson, Alonzo. 18. December 28, 186^5. Kingston. Recruit. Transferred to 
 7 3 d N. Y. V. 
 
 Cochran, Thomas. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from yist N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Carson, George P. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged May 17, 1865. 
 
 Wounded September 24, 1864. Discharged from general hospital May 17, 
 
 1 865 . Lost an arm . 
 
 Crook, Alfred. 23. August 1 1, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Member Metropolitan Police in New York city. 
 Carr, Albert. 21. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Sergeant-major 
 
 August 22, 1862. 
 
 Cole, Alfred C. 22. August n, 1862. Kingston. Discharged January 5, 1863 
 
 on account of disability. 
 Comvay, Peter P. 21. July 23, 1863. Kingston. Discharged November 27, 
 
 1862 on account of disability. Present residence Kingston. 
 Clansman, Henry. 39. August n, 1862. New York. Transferred from 72d 
 
 N. Y. V. June 20, 1864. Discharged April 4, 1865. 
 Coddington, William. 26. August 13. 1862. Kingston, Transferred to V. R. 
 
 C. Discharged March 15, 1864. Wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 Clifford, Jeremiah. 35. July 26, 1862. Deserted from regiment June 24, 1863. 
 
 Returned to regiment and sentenced by G. C. M. to forfeit all pay then due, 
 
 and to make good all time lost by desertion, and forfeit one-half monthly pay 
 
 for the balance of his term of enlistment. Deserted from hospital February 
 
 13, 1865. 
 
 Delamater, Lewis. 18. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Dean, Allen G. 22. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Wounded at Gettysburg 
 
 July 2, 1863. Taken prisoner May 10, 1864. In general hospital Baltimore, 
 
 Md. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Dicker, Daniel D. 33. August 12, 1862. Kingston. June, 1863. Transferred to 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 25 I 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 P R I v ATES Continued. 
 
 Dates Henry. 44 July 24, 1862. Kingston. March 31, 1864 transferred to 
 
 V. K. C. Died at Kingston July 2, 1890. 
 Delisle, Daniel. 44. November 18, 1861. St. Clairville. Transferred from 72d 
 
 N. Y. V. Transferred to V. R. C. February 15, 1864. 
 Donovan, John. 38. August 2, 1862. Kingston. February 13, 1865 transferred 
 
 Dawoldt, Daniel. 18. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y 
 V. Deserted June 28, 1863. Surrendered March II, 1865, under President s 
 proclamation. 
 
 Dougherty, Bernard J. 28. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V 
 V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Decker, James W. 28. July 29, 1862. Kingston. Discharged February 14, 
 1863 on account of disability. 
 
 Ellsworth, James P. D. 21. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Y. R. 
 
 C. March 15, 1864. Wounded May 3, 1863. Residence Hurley, N. Y. 
 Ellsworth, Cornelius. 20. August 16, 1862. Kingston. Discharged Tune ^ 
 
 1865. Residence Hurley, N. Y. 
 
 Elmendorf, Philip H. 42. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Discharged Tune v 
 1865. Died at Hurley, N. Y. 
 
 Engalls, John. 19. August 26, 1862. New York. Transferred from 72d N. Y. 
 V. June 20, 1864. Sick at general hospital. 
 
 Ennist, Stephen B. 37. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to 73d N. Y. 
 V. to serve out time lost by desertion. 
 
 Edmonds, Albert. 32. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Y. V. 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. June 20, 1864, as absent without leave. Trans 
 ferred to 73d Regiment N. Y. V. 
 
 France, Howard A. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Fahey, Martin. 23. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Wounded. March 25, 1865. at general hospi 
 tal. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Foster, Thomas. 23. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 7ist N. Y. V. as a deserter. Transferred to 731! N. Y. Y. 
 
 Grant, William P. 25. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from division 
 hospital April, 1863. 
 
 Hommell, Egbert. 21. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Haver, John W. 43. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Wounded May 31, 1864. 
 
 Huson, Lewis. 24. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hand, William. 33. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hawser, Andrew. 21. September 27, 1862. Transferred from 720 
 
 N. Y. V. Sick general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Hampton, Joseph. 35. September 26, 1862. New York. Transferred from 
 72d N. Y. V. Sick general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Healy, William. 29. September 15, 1864. Substitute. Sick general hospital. 
 M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Hammond, David. 30. December 13, 1861. Delhi, N. Y. Transferred from 
 72d N. Y. V. Discharged at expiration of service. Taken prisoner November 
 6, 1864. 
 
 Hennes. John. 27. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Y. Y. Trans 
 ferred from 7istN. Y. V. Discharged by G. O. No. 86, July 7, 1864. 
 
252 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 P R I V ATES Continued. 
 
 Haver, George. 21. August 8, 1862. Samsonville. Transferred to V. R. C., 
 September 30, 1863. 
 
 Hansleifer, Conrad. 24. December 14, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia, V, V. 
 Transferred from 72d N. V. V. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Haight, David P. 22. July 31, 1862. Kingston. Killed at Chancellorsville 
 May 3, 1863. 
 
 Hager, Austin. 24. March 16, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d N. V. V. June 20, 1864. Died February n, 1865. 
 
 Hornbeek, Johannis D. 23. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Accidentally killed at 
 
 Elmira, N. Y. February 17, 1865. 
 
 . Ingraham, William. 19. December 26, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. Sick in general hospital. Transferred to 73d 
 
 Jones. Stephen P. 32. August 6, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Joy, William. 27. August n, 1862. Kingston. January 30, 1863; discharged 
 
 on account disability. Residence Kingston, N. Y. 
 Johnston, William. 22. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. V. June 20, 1864. Supposed to have been killed 
 
 in action October 27, 1864. 
 
 Joy, John B. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Died of disease January 6, 1863. 
 Kelly, Jr., John. 22. August n, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Kelly, Edward. 19. August 1 1, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Wounded at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Krom, William H. 19. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Wounded at Chancellors 
 ville May 3, 1863. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Kearney, Patrick. 44. July 28, 1862. Samsonville. April 28, 1864 discharged 
 account disability. 
 
 Karcher, John. 21. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72d N. Y. V. Sick general hospital; transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Kennicutt, Ambrose. 33. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Deserted July 8, 1863. 
 
 Lassell, Richard. 43. December I, 1861. St. Clairsville. Transferred from 72d 
 N. Y. V. Transferred to V. R. C. March 15, 1864. 
 
 Martin, Hugh. 35. July 30, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 Markle, Martin. 20. July 28, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Samsonville. 
 
 Maidell, Joseph. 23. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. June 3, 1865. Trans- 
 ferred from 7 1st N. Y. V. 
 
 McKinley, Thomas. 24. August 30, 1862. New York. Transferred from 72d 
 N. Y. V. Sick general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Masten, Richard. 44. August 4, 1862. Kingston. February 19, 1863 dis 
 charged on account disability. 
 
 Markle, Cornelius D. 44. July 29, 1862. Samsonville. Honorably discharged 
 August, 1863. 
 
 Mayer, Edward. 24. July 4, 1861. New York. Transferred from 72d N. Y. 
 
 V. Discharged at expiration of service July 4, 1864. 
 Muller, Frederick. 28. March 28, 1865. New York. Recruit; transferred to- 
 
 73d N. Y. V. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2$\ 
 
 \J 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 McBride, Lawrence. 31. September 5, 1864. Hartland, N. Y. Substitute 
 Sick general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Motz, David. 27. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V Trans 
 
 ferred from 72d N. Y. Y. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Markle, Peter B. 19. January 14, 1864. Kingston. Recruit. Transferred to 
 
 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Miller, Solomon S. 37. July 28, 1862. Samsonville. Died January 5, 1863. 
 Myers, Jacob. 28. August 12, 1862. Kingston. Died April 16, 1863. 
 
 Middagh, George M. 31. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. C 
 September I, 1863. 
 
 North, David. 23. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Deserted September n, 1862 
 Deserted July 2, 1863. Sentenced by G. C. M. to hard labor. Delivered to 
 Provost Marshal. 
 
 Osborn, William. 28. December i, 1861. New York. Transferred from 72d 
 N. Y. V. Discharged at expiration of term of service. 
 
 Peck, John. 35. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Discharged on account disability 
 April, 1864. 
 
 Rowe, Abram T. 23. August 6, 1862. Kingston. Taken prisoner at James 
 
 City October 10, 1863. At Vicksburg discharged G. O. 77. Died 1879. 
 Rappleyea, Isaac. 24. July 30, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Ray, Daniel A. 18. September 3, 1864. Pembroke. June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 Rider, Albert E. 17. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Company I by 
 
 promotion November, 1863. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 Rudd, Harley A. 18. September 2, 1864. Lockport. Transferred from 72d 
 
 N. Y. V. Discharged on account disability May 16. 1865. 
 Rafferty, Peter. 22. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station. Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 720! N. Y. V. Wounded Septe mber 18, 1864. Transferred 
 
 to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Rowe, William S. 22. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Taken prisoner October 
 27, 1863. Died June 13, 1864 at Andersonville. 
 
 Roosa, John J. 20. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Killed November 6, 1864 be 
 fore Petersburg!!. 
 
 Roff, Joseph . 27. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 7 1st N. Y. V. July 7, 1864. First Sergeant until July 7, 1864. 
 Died February 20, 1865 of wounds received June 12, 1864. 
 
 Roff, John. 37. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 7ist N. Y. V. Taken prisoner June 2, 1864. 
 
 Rowe. John H. 18. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Missing in action October 27, 
 1864. 
 
 Smith, William II. 19. July 26, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 May 24, 1864. In general hospital at Alexandria, Va. 
 
 Snyder, Abram. 43. July 25, 1862. Kingston. Sick in general hospital. M. 
 O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Storms, Isaac. 23. August 2, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. C. March, 
 1864. 
 
 Shurter, John P. 19. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 March 19, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Leonard S. 22. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Killed at Chancellorsville 
 May 3 , 1863. 
 
204 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY B-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Stroyer, John. 25. August 27, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 721! N. V. V. 
 October 30, 1864. Died in general hospital December 14, 1864. 
 
 Sutton, James O. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Died March 5, 1863. 
 
 Scofield, Moses. 20. February 9, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 7 ist N. Y. V. July 7, 1864 as a deserter. Transferred to 73d N. 
 
 Thompson, John. 44. August 9, 1862. Samsonville. June 3, 1865. Adju 
 tant s Clerk. Died March 28, 1891. 
 
 Thomson, William H. 23. December 26, 1863. Jamestown. Recruit- trans 
 ferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Thomson, John G. 21. December 26, 1863. Ellytown. Recruit; transferred to 
 
 73 d N. Y. V. 
 Timmins, John. 29. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72d N. Y. N. Transferred to 73^! N. Y. V. 
 Terwilliger, Tellarun L. G. 36. July 28, 1862. Samsonville. Died May 26, 
 
 1864 from wounds received May 5, 1864. 
 Traver, John. 23. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Wounded at Chancellorsville 
 
 June 28, 1863. No discharge. 
 
 Van Bramer, Wm. II. 22. July 23, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence West Hurley. 
 
 Van Nostrand, Edwin H. 19. July 25, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence Kingston. 
 
 Van Kleck, David. 23. August 1 1, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Samsonville. 
 
 Van Hoesen, Daniel. 45. January 27, 1864. Poughkeepsie. Recruit. Sick at 
 general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Van Denmark. Josiah. 18. August II, 1862. Kingston. Killed at Gettysburg 
 July 2, 1863. 
 
 Vanderburgh, Peter. 24. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Died January 12, 1863. 
 Wineright, John. 24. August I, 1862. Kingston. Detailed with Battery K, 
 
 4th Artillery. Sick in general hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 Wright, George. 44. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Sick in general hospital. M. 
 
 O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Wolf, Frederick. 40. September 8, 1862. New York. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72d N. Y. V. June 26, 1864. 
 
 Wardwell, William \\. 20. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. 
 V. Transferred from 7 1st N. Y. V. July 7, 1864. Missing in action October 
 27, 1864. 
 
 Willett, Percy. 2$. February 2,1864. New York. Recruit; transferred from 
 7 ist N. Y. V. July 7, 1864. Taken prisoner March 31, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 255 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 Was recruited at High Falls by Captain J. L. Snyder and Lieuten 
 ant John B. Krom. It was mustered into United States service August 
 22, 1862, with three commissioned officers and eighty-nine enlisted 
 men. It was the Color Company of the Regiment. 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action or died of wounds received in action 5 
 
 Died prisoners of war 5 
 
 Died of disease 5 
 
 Total deaths in service x ~ 
 
 Discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Officers 2 
 
 Enlisted men _ () 
 
 Total 
 
 In the summer of 1864, it received by transfer from 
 the yist and ;2d regimeiv.s 42 men and by enlistment at 
 various times 18 recruits 
 Of the additional members of the Company : 
 
 Trure were killed in action and died of wounds. . . 4 
 
 Died prisoners of war. i 
 
 Died of disease i 
 
 Discharged by expiration of enlistment, etc 8 
 
 Transferred to V. R. Corps 2 
 
 Transferred to 73d regiment to serve out enlistment 29 
 Mustered out with regiment 15 
 
 i : 
 
 Discharged for promotion, enlisted men 3 
 
 Transferred for promotion, officers i 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. , enlisted men 12 
 
 Deserted, enlisted men 7 
 
 Mustered out with regiment and by General Orders. 41 64 
 
 Total.. 60 
 
 Total enrollment 152 
 
256 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Snyder, Jacob L. 32. August 22, 1862. Kingston. February 8, 1865. Dis 
 charged on account of wounds received in action October 2, 1864. Residence, 
 High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Clark, Richard W. 18. December 2, 1861. New York city. June 3, 1865. 
 Transferred from 72d regiment. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant September 17, 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant January 27, 1865 ; to Captain February 8,1865. 
 Transferred to 73d regiment. Mustered out with regiment June 29, 1865. 
 Residence, Toledo, O. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Krom, John B. 25. August 22, 1862. Kingston. January 9, 1864. Promoted 
 to Captain Co. I. 
 
 Norton, William A. 25. August 22, 1862. Kingston. August 28, 1863. Pro 
 moted from 2nd Lieutenant April 13, 1863. Discharged tor physical disabili 
 ty August 28, 1863. Residence, New York city. 
 
 Van Wagenen, Louis B. 22. August n, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from Corporal to Sergeant April 13, 1863 ; to 2nd Lieutenant January 
 16, 1865 ; to 1st Lieutenant February 8, 1865. Residence, Rondout, N. Y. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANT. 
 
 Wilkinson, Joseph. 35. August 6, 1862. High Falls. August 10, 1864. Pro 
 moted from Sergeant April 13,1863. Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Wounded May 5, 1864. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Snyder, Andrew. 24. August u, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from Corporal October 15, 1862. Wounded severely at Gettysburg 
 July 2, 1863. Promoted to Lieutenant. Not mustered. Died at Stone 
 Ridge December 29, 1879. 
 
 De Puy, Eli. 32. August 7, 1862. High Falls. June 3, 1865. Postmaster at 
 
 Rosendale, N. Y. 
 Wager, Henry G. 26. July 24, 1862. High Falls. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 
 from Corporal May 6, 1864. Wounded at Gettysburg and at Wilderness. 
 
 Residence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Hill, William H. 20. August, n, 1862. High Falls. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from Corporal January 20, 1865. Dead. 
 Brown, Henry Lee F. 23. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. 
 
 January 20, 1865. Discharged to accept promotion. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 regiment. 
 Sullivan, Daniel. 23. August 18, 1862. High Falls. July 17, 1864. Severely 
 
 wounded at Gettysburg. Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, Lefevre Falls, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Krom, James. 20. August 13, 1862. High Falls. May 5, 1864. Killed in 
 
 action at the Wilderness. 
 Masterson, Michael. 22. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. March 
 
 1 6, 1865. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 San ford, Giles H. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 3, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 730!. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Devoejohn. 24. August 4, 1862. High Falls. November 10, 1862. Died at 
 
 Dunbarton U. S. hospital, Georgetown. 
 Stalls, Egbert. 26. August 7, 1862. High Falls. June 3, 1865. Wounded at 
 
 Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Residence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 Auchmoody, Silas S. 18. August 15, 1862. Rosendale. May 2, 1865. Pro- 
 
 moted to Corporal October 15, 1862. Discharged from hospital. Residence 
 
 Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Davis, Simon J. 19. July 28, 1862. Rochester. Wounded at Gettysburg July 
 2, 1862. Absent in hospital. Residence, Greenwich, Conn. 
 
 Tcrwilliger, Nelson. 24. August 6, 1862. Marbletown. Promoted November 
 6, 1862. Captured October 10, 1863. Absent, paroled prisoner. Residence 
 Ellenville, N. Y. 
 
 Brodhead, John. 18. August 4, 1862. High Falls. July 8, 1865. Promoted 
 
 February 4, 1865. Severely wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 and at 
 
 Boydton Plank Road March 31, 1865. Residence, Kingston, N. Y. 
 Ayers, Alfred N. 29. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June i, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd June 22, 1864. Transferred to 73d! 
 
 Residence, Jamestown, N. Y. 
 Stoddard^Hiram D. 25. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Young, James. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. Residence, 
 
 Jamestown, N. Y. 
 
 Thompson, Isaac L. 18. August 14, 1862. High Falls. July 18, 1863. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Died at McKimm hospital, Baltimore. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Davis, Charles A. 18. July 25, 1862. Olive. June 3, 1865. 
 Haines, Storm. 24. August 14, 1862. Rochester. June 3, 1865. Died at 
 Rosendale. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Addis, Daniel. 25. August 13, 1862. Wawarsing. Captured October 10, 1863. 
 
 Absent, paroled prisoner. 
 Alvord, Leonard. 18. September 12, 1864. Genesee Falls. February 12, 1865. 
 
 Recruit. Wounded October 27, 1864. Died at Annapolis general hospital. 
 Avery, John S. 33. August 4, 1862. Marbletown. May 9, 1864. Deserted. 
 Bodley Hiram. 20. August 11, 1862. Marbletown. Captured October 10, 
 
 1863. Died a prisoner of war at Richmond. 
 
 Baker, George B. 19. August 8, 1862. Marbletown. July I, 1863. Died o 
 typhoid fever at Roosevelt hospital. 
 
 Brink, Edward O. 21. December 30, 1863. Kingston. June 17, 1864. Re 
 cruit. Died of wounds received in action. 
 
 Bunton, Jacob E. 33. August 12, 1862. Rochester. Missing in action May 5, 
 
 1864. Never heard from. 
 
 Burns, Rufus A. 24. July 23, 1861. Jamestown. July 23, 1864. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. 
 Burns, Charles. 26. December 26, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. May 3, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 17 
 
258 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 PR I V ATES Continued. 
 
 Benjamin, John A. 26. August 12, 1862. Marbletown. February 3, 1865. 
 Wounded. Discharged from Satterlee hospital. 
 
 Barber, Edward B. 27. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd June 22, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Binnson, James. 22. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Carney, David. 18. January I, 1864. Kingston. August 24, 1864. Died at 
 Harwood general hospital from wounds. 
 
 Carney, Richard S. 30. August 6, 1862. Marbletown. October I, 1863. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, High Falls. 
 
 Carney, William. 40. February 13, 1864. Kingston. November 10, 1864. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Carney, Sylvester. 18. February 22, 1864. Kingston. June I, 1865. Wound 
 ed ; absent in hospital. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Charles, John. 18. August 14, 1862. High Falls. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Kingston. 
 
 Charles, George W. 26. August 6, 1862. High Falls. October 2, 1864. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg. Transferred to V. R. C. Died at High Falls Sep 
 tember, 1882. 
 
 Carman, Henry C. 18. August 13, 1862. High Falls. Absent in hospital. 
 Died April 8, 1887. 
 
 Chase, William H. 21. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. Absent in hospital. 
 Residence, Kysenke, N. Y. 
 
 Crane, William. 18. July 31, 1862. Jamestown. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Constable, Cornelius B. 22. August 1 1, 1862. Marbletown. December i8 r 
 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. Wounded. 
 
 Countryman, Jacob. 30. August II, 1862. High Falls. October I o, 1863. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Christiana, Jacob. 20. January 27, 1864. Kingston. June I, 1865. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. Residence, Kripplebush, N. Y. 
 
 Dingee, Enoch. 23. August 13, 1862. Gardiner. July 10, 1863. Residence^ 
 Gardiner, N. Y. 
 
 Davenport, John J. 22. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. September 22, 1863. 
 Residence, Kyserike, N. Y. 
 
 Davis, George C. 19. August 21, 1862. Marbletown. October 10, 1863. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Davis, Simon. 27. August 18, 1862. Gardiner. November 25, 1862. De 
 serted. 
 
 Durham, Abram E. 24. August 4, 1862. High Falls. May 23, 1864. Cap 
 tured October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Duffy, Owen. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June i r 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Devoe, Clinton C. 
 
 Enderly, Isaac A. 23. August 11, 1862. Gardiner. February I, 1863. Died 
 of disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Embree, Matthias. 18. August 11, 1862. Marbletown. June 6, 1865. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 
 Eckholm, Adolph. 18. January 28, 1864. Carroll. June I, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 25$ 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Flood, Terrence. 19. May i, 1861. New York. August 3, 1864. 
 Cast, Cornelius. 19. February 22, 1864. Kingston. June i, 186?. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. 
 
 Garrison, Peter. 41. August 6, 1862. Marbletown. January 7, 1863. Died of 
 
 Garrison, Isaac L. 23. July 28, 1862. Marbletown. July i, 1863. Discharged 
 
 for physical disability. Residence, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 Garrison, George W. 18. March 22, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Absent 
 
 sick. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Gunsalus, Jacob R. 23. August 8, 1862. Rochester. Detailed to N. Y. Draft 
 Rendezvous July, 1863. Residence, Tuthill, N. Y. 
 
 Hill, Joseph D. C. 23. July 25, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Wallkill, N. Y. 
 
 Harrigan. Thomas. 22. July 21, 1861. Jamestown. July 23, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Hendricks, William H. 20. August 12, 1862. Marbletown. July 2, 186^. 
 Died of wounds. 
 
 Hornbeck, Jacob. 21. January 13, 1864. Albany. June i, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Hard ford, Matthew. 24. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1865. Transferred from 72nd July 3, 1^864. Transferred to 73d. 
 Moos, Cyrus S. 18. March 22, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Transferred 
 
 to 73d. 
 
 Kelder, Felter. 38. August 8, 1862. Rochester. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Accord, N. Y. 
 
 Krom, Lorenzo. 19. August 8, 1862. Marlbletown. June 3, 1865. Kripple- 
 bush, N. Y. 
 
 Krom, William H. 23. August II, 1862. Marbletown. September 21, 1863. 
 Discharged for physical disability. Died May 26, 1869. 
 
 Krom, James. 34. July 24, 1862. Marbletown. July I, 1863. Wounded at 
 Chancellorsville. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Krom, Isaac B. 23. July 24, 1862. Marbletown. September 26, 1863. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Kellott, John. 26. August 19, 1862. New York. May 24, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Lil lie, Hasbrouck. 17. August 21, 1862. Kingston. September 22, 1862. 
 Discharged on account of appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy. 
 
 Latimore, Peter. 19. July 24, 1862. Marbletown. October 10, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 
 Mclntyre, Robert. 42. August 12, 1862. Jamestown. July 22, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Died from wounds received May 2, 1864. 
 
 Meeham, Thomas. 43. August i, 1862. Marbletown. July 7, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Munson, Erastus H. 18. August 15, 1862. Rochester. Deserted July i, 1863. 
 
 Markle, Louis S. 24. August 6, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted to Sergeant-Major September i, 1864. 
 
 McGinness, Charles. 20. August 14, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Res 
 idence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
26O ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 McGinness, James \V. 24. August n, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Residence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 McKenna, John. 26. August 31, 1862. New York. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 McKenny, Benjamin D. 44. August 6, 1862. Marbletown. Absent, sick. 
 Moore, Nathaniel C. 18. September 3, 1864. New York. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Substitute prior to draft. 
 Monroe, Dorr. 18. August 14, 1862. Marbletown. May 15, 1865. Residence, 
 
 High Falls, N. Y. 
 Marlor, James O. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June i, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Munson, John E. 18. December 3, 1863. Kingston. June 7, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 McCauley, Patrick. 25. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 i, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7 1st. Absent, wounded. Transferred to 
 
 73d- 
 Mullen, John. 20. December 25. 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June i, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7ist. Transferred to 73d. 
 Mee, James. 28. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June i, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7ist. Transferred to 73d. 
 Mathews, John. 19. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7 1 st. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Newkirk, John. 36. August 15, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, Binnewater, N. Y. 
 Osterhoudt, John H. 22. August 5, 1862. Marbletown. Deserted February 
 
 6, 1863. 
 Osterhoudt, Simon P. 21. August 9, 1862. Marbletown. November 6, 1864. 
 
 Killed in action before Petersburg. 
 Osterhoudt, Benjamin S. 31. August 3, 1862. Marbletown. July i, 1864. 
 
 Died a prisoner of war at Andersonville. 
 Osterhoudt, Abram. 30. August 13, 1862. Marbletown. September 10, 1863. 
 
 Discharged for physical disability. Died September 25, 1863. 
 O Connell, Thomas. 18. August 28, 1862. Jamestown. July 18, 1864. Died 
 
 a prisoner of war at Andersonville. 
 O Donnell, Bernard. 19. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1862. V. V. Transferred from 7ist. Transferred to 73d. 
 Otts, Philip. 25. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 1,1865. 
 
 V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Oaks, David. 33. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 1865. 
 
 V. V. Transferred from 7ist. Transferred to 73d. 
 Platner, DeWitt N. 18. December 21, 1863. Ellington. June I, 1865. 
 
 Wounded at Cold Harbor. Transferred to 73d. 
 Purhamus, Cyrus D. B. 24. August 9, 1862. New Paltz. Severely wounded 
 
 at Wilderness May 5, 1864. Residence, Rifton Glen, N. Y\ 
 
 Pierce, George H. 19. August 4, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 Pickard, James II. 18. July 9, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 26 I 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Quick, Sylvanus V. 22. August 13, 1862. Marbletown. Tune 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Quick, Henry. 27. August n, 1862. Marbletown. Deserted November 23, 
 1862. 
 
 Quinn, Michael. 28. August 8, 1862. Rosendale. Deserted October 10, 1863. 
 
 Rosekrans, Cyrus. 33. August 13, 1862. Rochester. February 10, 1864. 
 Died a prisoner of war at Richmond. 
 
 Robinson, Calvin H. 19. August 4, 1862. Marbletown. Absent, sick. Died 
 August 13, 1865. 
 
 Richardson, Moses. 18. September 3, 1864. Newfane. June 3, 1865. Substi 
 tute prior to draft. 
 
 Rockwell, George. 27. August 20, 1862. Marbletown. July 20, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 
 Roosa, Isaiah. 25. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. June 20, 1864. Discharged 
 for physical disability. 
 
 Rhinehart, Charles W. 25. August 13, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Res 
 idence, Rifton Glen, N. Y. 
 
 Swift, Gordon B. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. Transferred from 72nd. Wounded May 10, 1863. Transferred to 
 73^- 
 
 Simmons, Lewis. 34. December 24, 1862. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Seabolt, John. 18. August 27, 1864. Wadsworth. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73^. 
 
 Southwick, Levi. 26. August 12, 1862. Jamestown. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Southwick, David. 18. August 12, 1862. Jamestown. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72110!. 
 
 Sixberry, Joseph. 19. August 25, 1864. Varrick. Substitute prior to draft. 
 Absent, sick. 
 
 Schoonmaker, Abram. 21. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. 
 Residence, Rosendale, N. Y. 
 
 Strong, Gilbert. 34. August 22, 1862. Dunkirk. May 20, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Stokes, James M. 43. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Stokes, Aaron D. 26. August 22, 1862. Rochester. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Fly Mountain, N. Y. 
 
 Stokes, Abram. 20. August 19, 1862. Marbletown. March 3, 1865. Died of 
 disease at United States hospital. 
 
 Stokes, Matthew. 21. August 12, 1862. Marbletown. December 21, 1863. 
 Died of disease at camp near Falmouth. 
 
 Smith, Daniel D. 22. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, Kripple Bush, N. Y. 
 
 Smith, John W. 24. August 8, 1862. Marbletown. March 1 8, 1865. Died 
 March 27, 1865. 
 
 Smith, William. 39. August n, 1862. Marbletown. December I, i86j. 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Tindall, Benjamin O. 18. August 25, 1864. Wadsworth. June 3, 1865. Sub- 
 stitute prior to draft. 
 
262 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. I OLS. 
 
 COMPANY C-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Tindall, Francis. 44. December 23, 1863. Rush. June 23, 1864. Died at 
 Emory hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Thompson, Rufus. 26. August 3, 1862. Marbletovvn. July 2, 1863. Killed 
 in action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Tonnan, John. 44. December 31, 1863. Chatauqua. October 27, 1864. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Discharged tor disability. 
 
 Van Wagonen, James M. 23. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. April 4, 1865. 
 Wounded May 29, 1864. Residence, Highland, N. Y. 
 
 Van Wagonen, John B. 34. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. July I, 1863. 
 Wounded at Chancellorsville. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Resi 
 dence, Binnevvater, N. Y. 
 
 Van Wagonen, Jacob A. 25. August 7, 1862. Marbletown. Sick in general 
 hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Van Dem ark, John W. 30. August 1 1, 1862. Marbletown. Wounded at Get 
 tysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Van Demark, Andries E. 25. August 18, 1862. Marbletown. November 13, 
 1863. Wounded at Gettysburg. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Van Leuven, John D. 23. August n, 1862. Gardiner. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, Gardiner, N. Y. 
 
 Veasy, Carlos. 21. October 16, 1861. Elmira. October 16, 1864. Transferred 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Wymon, Albert P. 33. August 26, 1862. Sheridan. May 10, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Wounded. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Ward, Bernard. 35. August 9, 1862. New York. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Watson, George. 29. August 25, 1862. New York. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Wells, David L. 18. August 12, 1862. Rochester. Paroled prisoner, captured 
 October 10, 1863. Residence, High Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Waite. Loreys. 28. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Young, Robert. 17. July 30, 1862. Jamestown. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Paroled prisoner. 
 
 Yeaple, Jacob. 44. August 3, 1862. Marbletown. Died at Richmond, Vir 
 ginia, a prisoner. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 263 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 Company D was recruited by Captain" Lansing Hollister and First 
 Lieutenant Minor H. Greene at Coxsackie, and Second Lieutenant 
 Emory S. Turner at Ashland and Prattsville, Greene Co. It was 
 mustered into the United States service with the regiment, with the 
 above named officers and eighty-six enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action, officers i 
 
 Killed in action, men 7 
 
 Died prisoners of war 6 
 
 Died by accident and disease 3 
 
 Total deaths in service 17 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Officers 2 
 
 Enlisted men. . 8 
 
 10 
 
 Discharged for promotion, enlisted men i 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 1 1 
 
 Deserters 3 
 
 Mustered out with regiment and by general orders. 47 61 
 
 89 
 
 It received by transfer from other companies, 4 
 officers, and by transfer from the 72nd Regiment, 4 en 
 listed men ; and also received 39 recruits. 
 
 Of the additions to the Company ; 
 
 Killed in action, officers i 
 
 Killed in action, men 2 
 
 Discharged and transferred to 73rd Regiment 23 
 
 Mustered out with regiment and by general orders. 21 47 
 
 Total enrollment 136 
 
2 64 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Hollister, Lansing. 25. August 22, 1862. Coxsackie. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Chambers, James W. Mustered out of service as Captain with yist Regiment. 
 July 30, 1864 commissioned Captain in the i2Oth and joined regiment October 
 25, 1864. Killed in action October 27, 1864 at Boydton Plank Road. 
 
 Thomas, Arthur W. 30. December 22, 1864. Petersburg, Virginia. June 3, 
 1865. Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Company F. Died at Catskill Novem 
 ber 15, 1884. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Greene, Minor H. 25. August 22, 1862. Coxsackie. October 15, 1863. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. Residence, Coxsackie, N. Y. 
 Oakley, Joseph. December 9, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. October 10, 
 
 1864. Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant Company F. Dismissed by order gen 
 eral court martial. 
 
 Spoor, John I. 21. August I, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from Private to Sergeant July i, 1863; to 2nd Lieutenant October 12, 1864; 
 to 1st Lieutenant December 24, 1864. In command of Company till mustered 
 out. Residence, Philmont, N. Y. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANT. 
 
 Turner, Emory S. 20. August 22, 1862. Kingston. January 8, 1864. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Arm amputated. Residence, Cortez, 
 Colorado. 
 
 Deyo, Silas W. 18. August 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted from 
 ist Sergeant Company G December 24, 1864. Died at Highland November, 
 1889. 
 
 FIRST SERGEANTS. 
 
 Beattie, William H. H. 20. August 4, 1862. Coxsackie. Discharged for disa 
 bility. 
 
 Wound- 
 city. 
 
 Hale, Charles K. 19. July 23, 1862. Kingston. May 6, 1864. Killed in ac 
 tion in the Wilderness. 
 
 Hilton, Robert. 29. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. October 27, 1864. 
 Promoted from Corporal October 12, 1864. Killed at Boydton Plank Road. 
 
 Drake, Marcus M. 27. August 2, 1862. Sheridan. January 30, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from Company H, 72nd N. Y. V. October 29, 1864. Promoted to 1st 
 Lieutenant Company H. Residence, Buffalo. 
 
 Benjamin, William H. 21. August II, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from Corporal January I, 1865. Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Wounded at Wilderness May 5, 1864. Captured March 215, 1865. Residence, 
 Ashland, N. Y. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Wright, John. 27. August I, 1862. Coxsackie. March 16, 1864. Wounded 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Resi 
 dence, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 Knox, James P. 19. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. Transferred from Company H, 72nd October 29, 1864. V. V. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. 
 
 Tompkins, Charles W. 21. August 6, 1862. Ashland. June 3, 1865. 
 ed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, New York city. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 265 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Carey, William C. 22. August 9, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from private January i, 1865. Residence, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Mead, Stephen S. 21. August 18, 1862. ,,New Baltimore. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from private January I, 1865. Residence, Soldiers Home, Bath. 
 
 Durfee, William J. 25. August 24, 1862. Sheridan. Transferred from Com 
 pany H, 72nd October 9, 1864. Absent in hospital. M. O. G. O., No. 77. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Vandeberg, William H. 21. August 2, 1862. Coxsackie. March 1 6, 1864. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Groat, Pratt. 21. August 19, 1862. Kingston. March 25, 1865. Wounded at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Killed at Hatcher s Run. 
 
 North, Hadley S. 18. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 3, 
 1865. Transferred from Company H 72nd October 29, 1864. V. V. 
 
 Van Wie, John B. 21. July 30, 1862. Coxsackie. March 16, 1864. Wound 
 ed at Gettysburg June 2,^863. Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, Cox 
 sackie. 
 
 Jaycox, David. 23. August 7, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Coxsackie. 
 
 Lake, Roderick. 21. August I, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 New Castle, Colorado. 
 
 Hiserd, William H. 23. August 4, 1862. Coxsackie. Captured at James City 
 October 10, 1864. M. O. G. O. Residence, Tully, N. Y. 
 
 Wright, John F. 32. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. Promoted January I, 
 1865. Absent, sick. Died October 6, 1886. 
 
 Hallenbeck, Barnett. 26. August 6, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Vanderberg, Jacob. 18. August 8, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 February I, 1865. Residence, New York city. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Smith, William T. 16. August 19, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Alberti, Gideon H. 35. August n, 1862. Prattsville. Absent, sick July 2, 
 1863. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Akens, John W. 44. August I, 1862. Coxsackie. March 26, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Alexander, Robert. 19. September 9, 1864. Humphrey. June I, 1865. Sub. 
 stitute prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Briggs, Silas W. 19. August 7, 1862. Athens. June 3, 1865. Detailed in 
 Battery K, 4th U. S. Artillery. Residence, Athens. 
 
 Beattie, Arthur W. 27. August 5, 1862. Coxsackie. Captured March 25, 1865. 
 M. O. G. O. 77. Now dead. 
 
 Bell, Theodore F. 18. August 8, 1862. Coxsackie. Wounded at Chancellors- 
 ville May 3, 1863. Captured October 10, 1863. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Bell, Henry C. 18. August 22, 1862. Coxsackie. October 15, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
266 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 PR i v ATES Continued. 
 
 Butler, James. 24. August n, 1862. Prattsville. March 4, 1863. Discharged 
 for disability. 
 
 Bcsley, Jacob. 34. August 13, 1862. New Baltimore. March ic. 1864. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Blight, Gilbert. 21. August 22, 1862. Kingston. March 16, 1864. Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Boy, Henry. 40. September 6, 1864. Niagara. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 
 prior to draft. Captured March 31, 1865. Transferred to 730!. 
 Brant, Adam. 24. September 9, 1864. Rochester. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 730. 
 
 Bunto, Frederick. 18. September 2, 1864. Syracuse. March 25, 1865. Sub 
 stitute. Killed at Hatcher s Run. 
 Bogarclus, Anthony. 19. August I, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Detailed 
 
 in Battery K, 4th U. S. Artillery. Residence, Newport, N. J. 
 Bellows, Reuben. 22. August 20, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 
 Pittsfield, Mass. 
 Ballard, John. 33. August II, 1862. Prattsville. June 3, 1865. Wounded at 
 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, Prattsville. 
 Baker, Marion. 18. September 13, 1864. Linden. June 3, 1865. Substitute 
 
 prior to draft. 
 
 Clough, Abram. 21. August 1 8, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Coxsackie. 
 
 Collier, Edwin. 29. August II, 1864. Albany. Wounded October 7, 1864. 
 
 Absent in hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 Currie, William. 18. August n, 1862. Ashland. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 
 November, 1864. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Currie, William H. 21. August 15, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
 Conroy, Gilbert C. 28. August 12, 1862. Coxsackie. January 22, 1864. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, Oak Hill. 
 Carr, John. 45. August 6, 1862. Prattsville. January I, 1865. Wounded 
 
 May 6, 1864. Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, Red Falls. 
 Carter, Frazer. 18. July 30, 1864. Lockport. June I, 1865. Substitute prior 
 
 to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 Calkins, Stephen V. 23. August 7, 1862. Coxsackie. September 25, 1864. 
 
 Captured October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Curtis, Edward. 32. August 18, 1862. Coxsackie. Deserted August 30, 1862. 
 Dougherty, James. 24. August 15, 1862. Ashland. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, Shandaken. 
 Dibble, Smith B. 18. August 14, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. 
 Dedrick, Herman C. 22. August 12, 1862. New Baltimore. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Wounded October 27, 1864. Residence, Fishkill. 
 Deuble, Charles. 32. August 8, 1862. New Baltimore. January 22, 1864. 
 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Devine, William. 25. April 7, 1865. Albany. June I, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Transferred to 730!. 
 
 Dutcher, Henry. 24. August 8, 1862. Prattsville. December 28, 1863. Died 
 while at home on furlough. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 26 J 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Dedrick, Francis W, 18. August 8, 1862. Coxsackie. July 2, 1863. Killed 
 
 at Gettysburg. 
 
 Every, John A. 22. August 9, 1862. Prattsville. Tune 3, 1865. 
 Exter, John. 19. August 8, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 
 South Bethlehem. 
 
 Toy, Edward. 33. August 30, 1864. Avon. Substitute prior to draft. 
 Wounded October 27, 1864. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Finch, Henry. 27. August 1 1, 1862. Ashland. December 15, 1862. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Fish, John B. 18. August 8, 1862. Coxsackie. Captured October 10, 1863. 
 Died at Richmond March 31, 1864. 
 
 Gould, Lyman. 18. September 13, 1864. Freedom. Substitute prior to draft. 
 Captured March 25, 1865. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Gates, Henry C. 18. September 3, 1864. Rochester. June 3, 1865. Substi 
 tute prior to draft. 
 
 Hiserd, John. 28. August 9, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Detailed as 
 sharpshooter. Residence, West Coxsackie. 
 
 Hoffman, Albert T. 32. August 6, 1862. Coxsacksie. Absent, sick. M. O. 
 G. O. 77. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Hoffman, David H. 19. August 4, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Wound 
 ed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Hill, Fenton. 25. August I, 1862. Prattsville. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 March 31, 1865. 
 
 Hill, Clark. 18. July 27, 1864. Schenectady. March 26, 1865. Recruit. 
 Killed in action at Hatcher s Run. 
 
 Hill, Thomas A. 30. September 8, 1864. Alexandria. February 22, 1865. 
 Recruit. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Hull, William W. 21. August 5, 1862. Ashland. February 15, 1864. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Hattle, John. 27. September 2, 1864. Alexandria. June 3, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. 
 
 Hosford, William H. 18. - August 7, 1862. Coxsackie. May 31, 1864. Killed 
 in action at Cold Harbor. 
 
 Hann, Stephen. 22. August 9, 1862. Prattsville. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Ilartwell, Dwight. 19. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. October 27, 1864. 
 Killed in action at Boydton Plank Road. 
 
 Houghtaling, Martin A. 18. August 12, 1862. Coxsackie. August 18, 1864. 
 Captured October IO, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 House, Herman. 30. September 12, 1864. Porter. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to dratt. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Henry, John. 22. September 9, 1864. New Albion. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Jerome, Jacob. 30. August 2, 1862. Coxsackie. Absent, sick. M. O. G. O. 
 77- 
 
 King, Van Rensselaer. 19. September 3, 1864. Yorkshire. Substitute prior to 
 draft. \Vounded October 27, 1864. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Langin, John. 33. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. June 3, 1865. Died 
 February 20, 1873. 
 
268 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Lee, John H. 16. August 20, 1862. Athens. June 27, 1865. Captured Octo 
 ber 10, 1863. Exchanged November 19, 1864. Residence, New York city. 
 
 Miller, John. 21. August 20, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Troy. 
 
 Miller, Christian. 42. September 3, 1864. Wheatfield. Substitute prior to 
 
 draft. Wounded. October 27, 1864; in hospital. 
 Melville, William. 38. August 8, 1864. Rochester. Substitute prior to draft. 
 
 Absent in hospital, broke his leg while on duty. 
 
 Murphy, John M. August n, 1862. Prattsville. May 24, 1864. Died in gen 
 eral hospital, Davids Island, N. Y. 
 
 Newman, Preston. 20. August 6, 1864. Pike. June I, 1865. Substitute prior 
 
 to draft. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Parslow, Gilbert. 18. August 18, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Residence, Prattsville. 
 Proper, John. 29. September 10, 1864. Albany. Captured March 25, 1865. 
 
 M. O. G. O. 77- 
 
 Proper, Harrison. 34. August 9, 1862. Prattsville. June 3, 1865. Residence 
 Prattsville. 
 
 Plass, Moses A. 18. September 6, 1864. Carroll. Substitute prior to draft 
 M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Pettit, Henry C. 19. September 3, 1864. Linden. June 3, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. 
 
 Pettit, Charles E. 18. September 3, 1864. Ellington. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 October 27, 1864. Exchanged. 
 
 Plucker, John C. 18. August 29, 1864. Freedom. June i, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Purdy, Thomas. 20. August 24, 1864. Syracuse. Substitute prior to draft. 
 
 Captured March 31, 1865. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 Rourque, David. 19. September 10, 1864. Avon. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 Rourque, Michael. 27. September 16, 1864. Elmira. Recruit. Wounded 
 
 March 31, 1865. Absent in hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Rusher, Gilbert. 18. August 31, 1864. Richford. June 3, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. 
 
 Rogers, John. 22. August 9, 1862. Prattsville. Deserted while on furlough 
 from hospital. 
 
 Reed, Frederick. 41. September I, 1864. Rome. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Absent, sick. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Shaw, William. 22. August 4, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Abram. 24. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. June 3, 1865. Wound 
 ed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Captured December 8, 1864. Residence 
 Athens. 
 
 Schermerhorn, Abram P. 22. August 11, 1862. Prattsville. Tune 3, 1865. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Simpkins, Solomon M. August 13, 1862. Coxsackie. Wounded May 5, 1864 
 
 In hospital. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Sutton, William R. 21. August 9, 1862. Prattsville. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 Sodar, Gustave. 32. August 31, 1864. Utica. Captured March 2<;, i86<; 
 
 Substitute prior to draft. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 269 
 
 COMPANY D-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Shoudy, Lyman. 18. September 2, 1864. Syracuse. Substitute prior to draft. 
 
 M. O. G. O. 77- 
 Spaunburg, George C. 23. August 18, 1862. Coxsackie. March 3, 1863. 
 
 Discharged for disability. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 Sitzer, Peter. 42. August 19, 1862. Kingston. March 24, 1863. Discharged 
 
 for disability. 
 
 Smith, Joseph P. 27. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. February K i86d 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Snyder, Joseph. 26. September I, 1864. Avon. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Smith, Henry. 23. September 30, 1864. Sodas. June I, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Smith, John C. 37. August II, 1862. Ashland. Sent to hospital November 
 1 8, 1862. Body found in Potomac river, near Alexandria April 5, 1863. 
 
 Sickler, Alonzo. 21. August 6, 1862. Coxsackie. July 12, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Tucker, Lewis. 25. August 5, 1862. Coxsackie. July 10, 1864. Captured at 
 James City October 10, 1864. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Thompson, Jeremiah S. 19. August 13, 1862. Rondout. Captured October 
 10, 1863. M. O. G. O. 77. Residence, New York city. 
 
 Vanderberg, Robert. 25. August 11, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Van Schaack, Derrick. 27. August 4, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. Cap 
 tured May 6, 1864. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Van Schaack, Peter G. 28. August 6, 1862. Coxsackie. December 9, 1863. 
 Wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of 
 disability. Residence, Cobbleskill, N. Y. 
 
 Van Loan, Dennis. 23. August 16, 1862. Kingston. Deserted June 24, 1863. 
 
 Wilkinson, Clarence. 18. September 3, 1864. Troopsburg. February 22, 
 1865. Recruit. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Wagner, Frederick. 33. August 2, 1862. Coxsackie. February I, 1865. 
 Wounded July 25, 1864. Transferred to V. R. C. Residence, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Wilson, Thomas. 38. September 8, 1864. Alexandria. Substitute prior to 
 draft. Captured March 31, 1865. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Winegar, Joseph. 36. August 31, 1864. New Hartford. June I, 1865. Sub 
 stitute prior to draft. Absent, sick. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Wixson, Caleb. 21. August 19, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Whitbeck, Richard. 27. August II, 1862. Coxsackie. June 3, 1865. 
 Wounded May 31, 1864. Residence, Coxsackie. 
 
 Wolf, Tunis P. 42. August 2, 1862. New Baltimore. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 dence, New Baltimore, N. Y. 
 
 Wolf, Philip F. 22. August 9, 1862. New Baltimore. Wounded March 31, 
 1865. M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 Wyman, William. 19. September I, 1864. Carroll. Substitute prior to draft. 
 M. O. G. O. 77. 
 
 \Vhite, Silas. 18. September 5, 1864. Andover. June 3, 1865. Substitute 
 prior to draft. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 Company E was organized at Ellenville by Captain Daniel Gillett, 
 First Lieutenant Oliver B. Gray and Second Lieutenant Frederick 
 Freileweh, and was mustered into the regiment August 22, 1862, with 
 the above named commissioned officers and eighty-five enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action, commissioned officers. i 
 
 Killed in action, enlisted men _ . . . i o 
 
 Died while prisoners of war ^ 
 
 Died of disease.. 8 
 
 Total deaths in service 22 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Commissioned officers i 
 
 Enlisted men 20 
 
 2 i 
 
 Discharged for promotion, enlisted men 4 
 
 Transferred, etc. : 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, officers i 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, enlisted men 5 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment, enlisted men i 
 
 Deserted, enlisted men 5 
 
 Mustered out at the close of the war 29 41 
 
 88 
 Two officers were promoted from the ranks and two 
 
 officers joined from other companies. In the summer of 
 1864, the company received 19 recruits, and 55 veterans 
 transferred from the yist and y2nd Regiments. 
 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Killed in action 2 
 
 Died of disease i 
 
 Missing in action i 
 
 Mustered out with company, officers 2 
 
 Carried forward 6 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2 / I 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 Brought forward 5 
 
 Mustered out with company, men I4 
 
 Discharged before mustered out 6 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment 39 
 
 Transferred on rolls as deserters, who never joined 
 
 company 6 
 
 Total enrollment 
 
 . CAPTAINS. 
 
 Gilllett, Daniel. August 22, 1862. Denning. Nov. 25, 1864. Discharged by 
 S. O., No. 419 W. D. for disability. Died in Denning. 
 
 Cole, Alonzo R. 21. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from ist Sergeant to 2nd Sergeant January 15, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Au 
 gust 17, 1864; to Captain Januury 16, 1865. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Gray, Oliver B. August 22, 1862. Ellenville. October 9, 1863. Lost an arm 
 at Gettysburg. Transferred to V. K. C. Died in Florida March, 1870. 
 
 Funck, Henry. 30. June 3, 1864. New York city. Transferred from yist to 
 Company K, as Sergeant. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant Company K. Pro 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant and transferred to Company E, January 16, 1865. 
 Resided in New York city after the war. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Freilevveh, Frederick. August 22, 1862. Ellenville. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Dubois, Lewis A. 23. August 18, 1862. January 10, 1865. Promoted from 
 Sergeant Company I, May 5, 1864. Wounded September 20, 1864. Dis 
 charged for disability. Died. 
 
 Holmes, William J. 25. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1865. Cap 
 tured October 10, 1863. Exchanged November 20, 1864. Promoted from 
 Sergeant January 16, 1865. 
 
 FIRST SERGEANTS. 
 
 Stevens, Frederick L. 23. December 24, 1863. May 25, 1865. Discharged 
 
 on account of wound received in action October 27, 1864. Leg amputated. 
 
 V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Pomeroy, John S. 21. August 13, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 
 at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 
 Vail, Theron. 21. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. August 9, 1864. Wounded 
 
 in action May 10, 1864. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Ely, Frederick. 29. December 25, 1863. June I, 1865. V. V. Transferred 
 
 from 7 ist, promoted to Sergeant August 9, i86_|. ist Sergeant May 25, 
 
 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
272 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Wild, Samuel. 23. August 2, 1862. Ellenville. September 5, 1864. Sergeant 
 August 22, 1862 to June 23, 1864. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Goss, Charles. 21. February 24, 1864. June I, 1865. V. V. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Grogan, Dennis. 25. December 24, 1863. June i, 1865. V. V. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. Paroled prisoner. 
 Morris, Bernard. 25. December 24, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 7nd. 
 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Larcom, Thomas. 36. August 12, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Exchanged November 20, 1864. Wounded March 25, 
 1865. 
 
 Bennett, Charles E. 21. August 9, 1862. Ellenville. Wounded May 6, 1864. 
 Captured March 25, 1865. 
 
 Dean, George. 38. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 February 17, 1863. Captured October 10, 1863. Exchanged November 20, 
 1864. Wounded March 25, 1865. 
 
 Pride, Moses H. 21. August n, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 February 17, 1863. Captured July 2, 1863. Paroled August 6, 1863. Cap 
 tured March 25, 1865. Residence, Mount Holly, N. C. 
 
 Many, Leartes W. 16. August 14, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 July I, 1864. Captured March 31, 1865. 
 
 Freer, Stephen A. 25. August n, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 November I, 1864. Wounded March 25, 1865. 
 
 Chalmers, Daniel. 40. August T, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 72nd. Captured March 25, 1865. 
 
 Anderson, Joseph B. 42. August 14, 1862. Denning. February 17, 1863. 
 Discharged for disability. 
 
 McKnight, John. 23. August 9, 1892. Ellenville. April 18, 1864. Dis 
 charged on account of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Unkenholtz, Frederick. 21. August 13, 1863. Ellenville. May 15, 1864. 
 Wounded May 3, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Derickenson, Isaac D. 25. August 2, 1862. Wawarsing. September 9, 1863. 
 Died at camp, near Beverly Ford, Va. 
 
 Dewitt, Stephen C. 30. August 15, 1862. Denning. July 3, 1864. Captured 
 May 5, 1864. Died a prisoner of war. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Palmer, Nathan W. 15. August 22, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 McLaughlin, Patrick. 16. December 25, 1863. Re-enlisted. Transferred from 
 72nd. Transferred to 73d June I, 1863. 
 
 linger, Phillip. 19. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d to serve four 
 teen months from January 12, 1865. To forfeit all pay to that date, and pay 
 the expense of his arrest from desertion. 
 
 Barber, John. 18. December 25, 1863. Re-enlisted. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Deserted May 12, 1864, while on furlough. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2j $ 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Austin, Samuel J. 35. August I, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Ackroid, William. 22. September 5, 1864. Wheatfield. May 10, 1865. Re 
 cruit. Discharged from general hospital. 
 
 Augur, Andrew. 36. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Absent, sick. 
 
 Brown, Edson B. 27. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. January 15, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Brooks, John. 27. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. December 23, 1863. Dis 
 charged for wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 
 Brennan, Thomas. 23. July I, 1861. Newark, N. J. August 3, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Barnes, Hiram. 32. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. November, 1863. Trans 
 ferred toV. R. C. 
 
 Brown, Calvin. 19. July 29, 1862. Wawarsing. September 27, 1864. Killed 
 on picket in front of Petersburg. 
 
 Brown, John K. 22. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. September 15, 1862. 
 Died in camp near Mount Vernon, Va. 
 
 Broderick, Patrick. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Deserted April I, 1864, while on Vet. furlough. 
 
 Blake, Nicholas. 35. December 31, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Deserted August 29, 1864. 
 
 Collins, Thomas H. 24. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Cassle, Michael. 23. August 18, 1862. Dunkirk. i>ansferred from 72nd. 
 Absent, sick. 
 
 Crawford, Solomon. 26. July 31, 1862. Denning. January 27, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Cozine, Benjamin. 24. May 5, 1861. New York city* November 27, 1864. 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Cockburn, William J. 27. August 20, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Com 
 missary-Sergeant August 22, 1862. 
 
 Clark, Francis W. 21. July 26, 1862. December 15, 1862. Died in general 
 hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Curry, Daniel D. 26. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Cornuker, Patrick. 21. August 13, 1863. Deserted August 19, 1863 from gen 
 eral hospital. 
 
 Clark. Michael. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Absent, sick. 
 
 Conklin, Matthew R. 22. December 25, 1863. V. V. from 72nd. 
 
 Carney, Timothy. 19. September 5, 1864. Deerfield. Recruit. Paroled pris 
 oner. 
 
 Durlaf, George. 30. August 14, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 May 6, 1864. 
 
 Dunagan, Michael. 27. August 13, 1862. Lackawack. Captured March 25, 
 1865. Paroled prisoner. 
 
 Donovan, Timothy. 20. September 4, 1864. Vernon. June 3, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Dolovvay, James H. 24. July 31, 1862. Denning. February 23, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 18 
 
274 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 PR I VAXES Continued. 
 
 Donnelly, Bernard. 28. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Janu- 
 ary i5, 1865. V. V. from 72nd. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Devine, James. 24. December 30, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. trom 
 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Dayton, Sydney. 18. April 9, 1864. New York city. Recruit. Transferred 
 to 73d. June I, 1865. 
 
 Dolan, John. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. from 
 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Donovan, Thomas. 29. September 5, 1864. Rochester. Recruit. Transferred 
 to 73d. 
 
 Davenport, Thomas. 22. August 14, 1862. Denning. Deserted November 
 25, 1862. 
 
 Dorcy, James. 22. February 14, 1862. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Deserted May 10, 1864, while on Vet. furlough. 
 
 Devany, James. 30. September 8, 1864. Avon. Killed October 27, 1864 in 
 action. Recruit. 
 
 Evans, James S. 42. August 14, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 March 6, 1865. 
 
 Easman, William. 21. August 13, 1862. Lackawack. Absent in hospital. 
 Wounded June 27, 1864. 
 
 Easman, Charles. 25. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 at James City October 10, 1863. 
 
 Easman, Peter. 28. August 14, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. Captured at 
 James City October 10, 1863. 
 
 Evans, Cornelius. 36. August 13, 1862. Denning. November 5, 1863. Dis 
 charged for wounds received in action May 3, 1863. 
 
 Flannery, John. 24. December 3, 1864. Dryden. Wounded in action October 
 27/1864. Absent in hospital. 
 
 Frear, Zachariah. 27. August n, 1862. Ellenville. October n, 1862. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Frear, Hiram D. 20. August 14, 1862. Esopus. September II, 1863. Dis 
 charged to accept promotion U. S. C. T. 
 
 Fitch, Gilbert A. 18. December 25, 1863. V. V. from 72nd. Absent. 
 Wounded in action March 25, 1865. 
 
 Furman, James. 26. August 16, 1862. Kingston. October I, 1864. Killed 
 on picket in front of Petersburg. 
 
 Faulkner, Thomas. 33. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Octo 
 ber 27, 1864. V. V. from 72nd. Killed in action on Boydton Plank Road. 
 
 Fox, John. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. from 
 72nd. Deserted January 18, 1864, from general hospital. 
 
 Furrey, Patrick. 23. May I, 1861. Newark, N. J. V. V. from 72nd. May 3, 
 1864. 
 
 Graham, David P. 19. August 6, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Gilfilian, William. 18. September 8, 1864. Elmira. Recruit. Absent, sick. 
 
 Graham, Frederick. 44. July 30, 1862. Denning. February 17, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Graham, Henry. 23. August 8, 1862. Lackawack. March 14, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Groitsmyer, John. 44. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. February 23, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Genivan, William. 22. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Paroled prisoner. 
 
 Gillespie, Patrick. 38. September i, 1864. Avon. Recruit. Transferred to 
 
 73<*. 
 
 Gray, Tobias. 25. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1864. Killed in 
 
 action at Cold Harbor. 
 Gregory, David D. L. 21. August 13, 1862. Ellenville. September 2, 1864. 
 
 Captured October 10, 1862. Died a prisoner of war. 
 
 Garrity, Thomas. 28. February 12, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Deserted May 10, 1864, while on Vet. furlough. 
 
 Hoffman, Robert S. 39. August 8, 1862. Wawarsing. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hook, Charles A. 28. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. October 17, 1863. Dis 
 charged for wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 
 Hornbeck, James. 39. August 7, 1862. Wawarsing. February 15, 1864. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Hannan, Thomas. 35. August 13, 1862. Ellenville. March 13, 1864. 
 Wounded and captured October 10, 1863. Died a prisoner of war. 
 
 Heroy, William II. 18. August 2, 1862. Wawarsing. April 18, 1864. Died 
 at United States general hospital, Baltimore. Disease contracted while pris 
 oner of war. 
 
 Howard, Frank. 32. February 13, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Deserted May 10, 1864, while on Vet. furlough. 
 
 Irvin, John D. 27. August 8, 1862. Lackawack. October 17, 1863. Dis 
 charged on account of wounds received at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 
 Knight, Burgoyn. 25. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. March 8, 1865. Dis 
 charged. Wounded in action June 17, 1864. 
 
 Kraus, Ernst. 19. August 6, 1864. Avon. Recruit. Wounded in action Oc 
 tober 25, 1864. Absent, sick in hospital. 
 
 Koinsdorfer, Adolph. 23. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. 
 V. from 72nd. Paroled prisoner. 
 
 Kearns, James. 38. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Absent. 
 
 Lyman, William. 22. February 28, 1865. Rome. Recruit. Absent. 
 
 Loomis, James M. 23. August 9, 1862. Wawarsing. Deserted May I, 1863. 
 
 Lewis, John. 25. August 4, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Misner, Henry. 31. August 22, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. 
 
 Miller, Henry. 19. August 13, 1864. Binghamton. June 3, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Many, Artemus D, 27. August 15, 1862. Denning. January 22, 1864. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 McCurdy, James. 22. September 6, 1863. Rochester. Recruit. Transferred 
 to 73d. 
 
 McGuire, Michael T. 25. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. 
 V. Paroled prisoner. 
 
 Maxam, Wesley D. 29. August 6, 1862. Wawarsing. Transferred to 73d to 
 serve 14 months over his original term of service and to forfeit one-half of his 
 monthly pay. 
 
276 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Miller, Frederick. 29. January 215, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. August 
 12, 1864. V. V. from 72nd. Died at Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 McGreal, Patrick. 18. September 12, 1864. Lockport. June 2, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Nickerson, Alexander. 18. August 27, 1864. Ithaca. June 2, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Nickerson, David. 25. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. Died at Lincoln gen 
 eral hospital, Washington, October 13, 1864. 
 
 Oswell, George M. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 O Neil, Joseph. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72d. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 O Donnell, Michael. 35. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 O Brien, Owen. 33. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. from 
 72d. Wounded March 26, 1865. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Powers, John, Jr. 19. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Pomeroy, William E. 19. August 13, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Pierce, Josiah D. 18. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg. 
 
 Polhamus, Albert. 18. August 4, 1862. Wawarsing. Absent, wounded. 
 
 Peck, William. 21. August II, 1862. Wawarsing. May 24, 1863. Died at 
 Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Pendergast, Daniel. 21. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 from 72nd. Deserted while on Vet. furlough, May 10, 1864. 
 
 Powers, John, Sr. 40. September 3, 1864. Lockport. Recruit. Missing in 
 action October 27, 1864. 
 
 Rose, Samuel. 18. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Absent in general hospital 
 since October 15, 1863. 
 
 Robertson, William. 28. September 8, 1864. Lewiston. Recruit. Absent. 
 Paroled prisoner. Captured October 27, 1864. 
 
 Ryan, John. 24. April 21, 1864. New York city. Transferred from 72nd to 
 serve 12 months over original enlistment by order G. C. M. 
 
 Richerson, Harvey. 21. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. July, 1863. Dis 
 charged on certificate of disability. 
 
 Roby, James H. 31. July I, 1861. New York city. July 20, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Robinson, John. 22. September 9, 1864. China. Recruit. Transferred to 
 73d- 
 
 Roberts, Charles.- 21. December 14, 1864. New York city. Recruit. Paroled 
 prisoner. 
 
 Sharpe, Albert. 18. August 3, 1862. Lackawack. Absent, in general hos 
 pital, wounded. April 2, 1865. 
 
 Shortman, Lewis. 32. August 13, 1862. Denning. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Sharpe, Nathan J. 18. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. Wounded and captured 
 October 27, 1864. 
 
 Sheeley, Charles. 22. August II, 1862. Ellenville. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Silcox, Henry. 40. December 2, 1864. Utica. June 3, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Sheeley, John V. 35. August 7, 1862. Ellenville. February 3, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 277 
 
 COMPANY E-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Searles, Edward. 25. August 4, 1862. Wawarsing. December 9, 1864. Dis 
 charged from wound received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Smith, Peter. 20. February 13, 1864. V. V. from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Staub, Frederick. 20. December 24, 1863. V. V. from 72nd. Transferred 
 
 to 73d. 
 
 Spell, Benjamin. 44. August n, 1864. Utica. Recruit. Transferred to 73d. 
 Sharpe, John. 21. August 9, 1862. Wawarsing. April 5, 1863. Died at 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., while on furlough. 
 Sparks, Theodore W. 33. August 8, 1862. Ellenville. April 14, 1863. Died 
 
 at Falmouth, Va. 
 Sheeley, William. 22. August 11, 1862. Ellenville. July 7, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 Sheeley, Edward. 19. August- 8, 1862. Lackawack. May 3, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 Schwab, Anthony H. 21. August 13, 1862. Denning. March 25, 1865. Died 
 
 of wounds received in action at Hatcher s Run. 
 Sawyer, James. 24. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. Deserted May 30, 1863, 
 
 while on furlough. 
 Tilton, Remson. 22. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 from 72nd. Paroled prisoner. Transferred to 73d. 
 Troomey, David D. 22. October 31, 1861. New York city. V. V. from 72nd 
 
 to serve over time for desertion by sentence C. M. Transferred to 73d. 
 Vansse, Walter. 29. August 14, 1862. Denning. Captured at Chancellors 
 ville May 3, 1863. 
 Wall, Edward. 36. February 13, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. from 
 
 72nd. Wounded in action March 25, 1865. Transferred to 73d. 
 Williams, Joseph. 26. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Ware, John A. 29. July 31, 1862. Kingston. May 3, 1863. Killed in action 
 
 at Chancellorsville May 2, 1863. 
 Whitcomb, Rush M. 18. August 3, 1862. Denning. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 Whiler, John. 43. August 20, 1862. Kingston. Deserted August 24, 1862, at 
 
 Kingston. Received $25 advanced bounty and clothing valued at $27. 
 Ward, John. 41. September 15, 1861. New York city. Deserted June, 1863. 
 Williamson, James. 32. December 24. 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 from 72nd. Deserted March 25, 1865, while on furlough. 
 York, Morris. 21. August 2, 1862. Wawarsing. August 8, 1863. Died of 
 
 wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 York, Jacob A. 29. August 14, 1862. Wawarsing. Discharged December 24, 
 
 186$, for disability. 
 
 York, Abram. 24. August 14, 1862. Ellenville. October 7, 1864. Dis 
 charged from wound received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Zepkie, August. 32. September 9, 1864. Corning. June 3, 1865. Recruit. 
 
278 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 Company F was one of the three companies raised in Greene 
 county. The men were enlisted by Captain Theodore F. Overbaugh, 
 of Catskill, Lieutenant Gilbert Pettit, of Lexington, and Lieutenant 
 Joseph S. Oakley, of Catskill. The company was mustered into the 
 regiment with these officers and ninety-three enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds 5 
 
 Died prisoners of war 2 
 
 Died of disease. . 10 
 
 Total deaths in service ........................ 17 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Officers ........... . ......................... i 
 
 Enlisted men ................................ 14 
 
 Transferred, etc. : 
 
 Transferred by promotion ...................... 4 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. ... ......... 14 
 
 Transferred to New York Cavalry ................ i 
 
 Deserted .................................... 1 1 
 
 Mustered out at close of the war ................ 34 64 
 
 One officer was received by promotion from another 
 company, 55 men were received from the yist and 72nd 
 Regiments, and 28 recruits joined. 
 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds 3 
 
 Died of disease 4 
 
 Deserted before transfer 4 
 
 Discharged 19 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment 21 
 
 Mustered out 33 84 
 
 Total enrollment. . 180 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y, S. VOLS. 2/9 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Overbaugh, Theodore F. 30. August 22, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Discharged 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability August 10, 1863. Died of disease at 
 Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 Pettit, Gilbert. 39. August 22, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Mustered as First 
 Lieutenant August 22, 1862. Promoted Captain January 15, 1864. Was 
 taken prisoner June I, 1864. Was prisoner 9 months. Discharged June 3, 
 1865. Present residence, Macon, Ga. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Plimley, William. 26. August 12, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted Second 
 Lieutenant August 22, 1864. First Lieutenant December 22, 1864, A. D. C. 
 brigade, headquarters (see Company K). Present address, New York city. 
 
 Dickerman, Putnam B. 24. August I, 1862. Jewett. August 22, as Sergeant. 
 Promoted First Sergeant January 19, 1864. Second Lieutenant December 22, 
 
 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865, at Kingston, N. Y. Was with regiment on 
 every march and in every battle in which the regiment participated until Feb 
 ruary 5, 1865. Present residence, New Milford, 111. 
 
 Thomas, Arthur W. 30. August 19, 1862. Catskill. Mustered as Sergeant at 
 
 Kingston August 22, 1862. Promoted First Sergeant April I, 1863. First 
 
 Lieutenant June 17, 1864. Captain Company D December 22, 1864. 
 
 Wounded severely at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged at Kingston, N. 
 
 Y., June 3, 1865. Died in Catskill November 15, 1884. 
 Oakley, Joseph S. 38. August 22, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered as Second 
 
 Lieutenant August 22, 1862, at Kingston, N. Y. Promoted First Lieutenant 
 
 Company D August 9, 1864. 
 Moffatt, John S. 20. August 6, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered as Corporal 
 
 August 22, 1862, at Kingston, N. Y. Promoted to Sergeant July 24, 1864. 
 
 First Lieutenant January 16, 1865. Transferred by promotion February 4, 
 
 1865, to Company G. Discharged at Kingston June 3, 1865. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 W T right, Oliver. 40. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Mustered at Kings 
 ton, N. Y., August 22, 1862, as private. Promoted Sergeant February 17, 
 1863. First Sergeant December 22, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. Died 
 at Durham, N. Y., 1889, of disease. 
 
 Rider, John. 34. July 26, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered August 22, 1862, 
 at Kingston, N. Y., as Sergeant. Wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 Mustered out under General Orders No. 77. 
 
 Greene, Nelson O. 23. July 26, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Mustered at Kingston, 
 August 22, 1862, as private. Promoted to Sergeant December 22, 1864. Dis 
 charged June 3, 1865. Present residence, Hunter, N. Y. 
 
 Shantz, John G. 20. July 26, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Mustered at Kingston, 
 N. Y,, August 22, 1862. Promoted to Corporal November I, 1864. To 
 Sergeant February 4, 1865. Discharged June 3, 1865. Present residence, 
 New York city. 
 
 Carrington, Sidney. 30. August 12, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Mustered at New 
 York city August 12, 1862. Transferred from Company H, yist N. \. V., 
 July 7, 1864. Promoted from private to Sergeant January I, 1865. 
 charged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Greene, Samuel W. 42. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N Y. Discharged on 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability August 6, 1863. Died at Wallkill, Is. \ ., 
 June 4, 1877. 
 
28O ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Dumphy, Peter. 25 July 17, ,861. Newark, N. J. Transferred from Com 
 pany F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration 
 of term of service July 23, 1864. 
 
 Cole, Charles. 28. August 15, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. August 22, 1862. Pro 
 moted Corporal August 15, 1862. Sergeant April i, 1863. Wounded Novem 
 ber 27, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1864. 
 
 Heavy, James. 30. November 25, 1861. New York city. Transferred from 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged October 14 1864 
 by reason of Special Orders No. 254, dated September 14, 1864. 
 
 McDonough, Philip. 21. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Pro 
 moted Sergeant November 8, 1864. Sergeant-Major January i, 1865 Trans 
 ferred to Non-Commissioned Staff. Transferred from Company H, yist N. 
 
 Skillen John. 40. August 28, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Killed November 7 
 I8&4, front of Petersburg!!. Transferred from Company H, 7ist N Y V 
 July 7, 1864. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Graham Alfred R. 24. July 26, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Promoted to Corporal 
 April i 1863 Severely wounded May 6, 1864. Discharged June 27, i86c, 
 from Fmlay hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Graham, Albert S. 24. July 26, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Promoted to Corporal 
 July 24, 1864. Wounded July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa., also in front of 
 Petersburg!! November 7, 1864. Discharged June 27, 1865, from Finlay <ren- 
 eral hospital, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Frank, Levi D. 29. August 9, 1862. Sheridan, N. Y. Transferred from Com- 
 pany H, 72nd N. Y. V., October 30, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Walsh, James S. 29. August 9, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Dunham Francis J 26. August 6, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted to Cor 
 poral July i, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 Van Leuyen John W. 23. July 26, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted to Cor 
 poral February 5, 1865. Discharged June 3, 1865. Present residence, Cats- 
 kii], JN V 
 
 Brown John T. 23 August 29, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Promoted 
 to Corporal March 10, 1865. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 
 Rice, George E. 18. August i, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Allan. Benjamin F. 21. August 29. 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 Company H, 7 1st N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Wounded November 2, 1864. 
 
 Leg off. Discharged from general hospital under General Orders No. 77. 
 Benjamin, John W. 25. July 29, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Captured at Tames 
 
 City, Va., October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville July, 1864. 
 Brandow, George. 29. August 8, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Discharged Tune 3 
 
 1865. Present address, Catskill, N. Y. 
 Balser, Henry. 24. August 5, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Detached to Battery K 
 
 4th U. S. A., May 4, 1863. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 28 I 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 PR I VAXES Continued. 
 
 Ma; 6 s6 ? l r ngSt n N< Y * Wounded ^ 2 > 
 
 May o, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865 
 
 862 , Lexil ^ ton N. Y. Taken prisoner at 
 10, 1863, and was in the following prisons Libby 
 
 ai,moh TT n ! Bdl ! Islam1 Ande rsonville fnd Savanna m 
 
 all 13 months, 9 days. Discharged June 31, 1865. 
 
 Bloomier, Daniel. 35. August n, 1862. Dutchess County, N. Y. Transferred 
 
 from Company H 7 ist N. Y V., July 7, 1864. Wounded Septembei I 
 
 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Bates John W^ 28. August 12, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 
 Company H, 7 ist N Y. V., July 7, 1864. Provost Marshal s c5?Dfo 
 
 headquarters. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Brannigan Robert F. 20. August 30, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred 
 
 from Company H, 7 ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged June 3, ,865 
 irownjohn E. 20. August 11, 1862. , Lexington, N. Y. Discharged June 3, 
 
 Brower, Charles W. 25. August 22, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. 
 Brock, Lewis J. 22. August 26, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. 
 Bornt, Lyman. 18. August 23, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. 
 Bement, Edward P 18. September 2, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Dis 
 charged under General Orders No. 77. 
 
 Cline, Emery D. 23. August 9, 1862. Hunter, N. V. Wounded at Spottsyl- 
 
 vania. Discharged under General Orders No. 77, A. G. O. 
 Clinton, Michael. 43. August 14, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered out June 3, 
 
 Coyle, John. 29. August 14, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 Cronin, Thomas. 23. August 10, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 
 Company H, 7 ist Regiment, N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Wounded October 
 
 27, 1864, at Boydton Plank Road. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Corbin, Newell. 18. September 3, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Dis 
 
 charged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Daly, James. 27. September I, 1862. Brooklyn. Transferred from Company 
 
 H, 7 1st Regiment, N. Y. V. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Eignor, Jackson H. 34. August 1 1, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Wounded March 
 
 25, 1865. Leg off. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Ford, Edwin. 21. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Discharged under 
 
 General Orders No. 77. Taken prisoner at Mine Run, 1864. Wounded July 
 
 2, 1862. Exchanged in November, 1864. Present residence and P. O. 
 
 address, Lexington, N. Y. 
 
 Griffin, Uriah P. 28. August 10, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Discharged under 
 General Orders No. 77 June 27, 1865, at New York. Taken prisoner October 
 10, 1863, at James City, Va., and was in the following prisons: Libby, Pem- 
 berton, Belle Island, Andersonville, Savannah and Mellen. Served in these 
 prisons 18 months, 20 days. Present residence, Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y. 
 
 Howard, Jonathan. 35. August 8, 1862. Jewett. Discharged June 3, 1865. 
 Present residence, Lexington, Greene Co., N. Y. 
 
 Hager, Theodore. 18. August 25, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Mus 
 tered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hovencamp, Joshua. 18. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Discharged under General 
 Orders No. 77. No discharge furnished. 
 
282 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 PR I VAXES Continued. 
 
 Hall,^Elbert O. 24. August 5, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Wounded at Battle of 
 Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Taken prisoner May 3, 1863. Discharged 
 under General Orders No. 77. Present residence, Windham, Greene Co., N. Y. 
 
 Ingalls, Frederick. 29. August 9, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Wounded in left leg 
 in front of Petersburg August 22, 1864. Was taken prisoner at Battle of the 
 Wilderness. Discharged June 2, 1865. 
 
 Keller, John C. 27. August 28, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Discharged June 3, 
 1865. Present residence, Hunter, N. Y. 
 
 Lang, Adam. 28. August 29, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 Company H, 7ist N. Y. V. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Lyle, William R. 45. August 27, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 Company H, 7 ist N. Y. V. Detached to Brig Pioneer Corps. Discharged 
 June 3, 1865. 
 
 Lashier, Adalbert. 18. August 29, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Mus 
 tered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Lintz, Andrew. 29. August 1 1, 1862. New York city. Transferred from Com 
 pany F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 McGinnis, Hugh. 23. August 1 5, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 Company H, jisl N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Absent, sick, never been heard 
 from. 
 
 McCoon, James. 35. August 1 1, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Discharged June 2, 
 1865. 
 
 Parsons, Henry S. 31. August 12, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 22, 1864. Detached at Division head 
 quarters. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Preston, Henry. 18. August 22, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Mustered 
 out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Quick, Charles II. 18. August 31, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Wounded March 25, 
 1865. Arm off. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. Substitute. 
 
 Russell, William L. 35. August 8, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Mustered out June 
 3, 1865. 
 
 Rivenburgh, David. 23. August 15, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Wounded at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Riddell, Richard W. 18. August 31, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Dis 
 charged under General Orders No. 77, A. G. O. 
 
 Scutt, Abram. 40. August 13, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Detached at 2nd Corps 
 hospital August 5, 1864. Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
 Stillwell, Benjamin F. 18. August 29, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Dis 
 charged under General Orders No. 77, A. G. O. No discharge. 
 
 Schantz, Jacob. 18. September 25, 1864. Schenectady, N. Y. Recruit. Mus 
 tered out June 3, 1865. Present residence, Maplewood, N. Y. 
 
 Ten Broeck, Theodore. 34. August 13, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863 ; the Wilderness, May 5, 1864; Mine Run, Novem 
 ber 27, 1863. Discharged under General Oraers No. 77, A. G. O. Present 
 residence, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Traphagen, Kimber. 39. August 13, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Died at Glens 
 Falls, N. Y., February 15, 1893. 
 
 Thornton, Joshua. 18. August 30, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Dis 
 charged under General Orders No. 77, A. G. O. t 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N, Y. S. VOLS. 283 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued, 
 
 Wilcox, Peter. 20. August 2, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Wounded at Boydton 
 
 Plank Road October 27, 1864, in right arm at elbow. Discharged June 13, 
 
 1865. Residence, Hunter, N. Y. 
 Wagner, John. 41. August 30, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 
 Company H, yist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged under General Orders 
 
 No. 77, A. G. O. 
 Williams, Jeremiah. 1 8. August 30, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Mus 
 
 tered out June 3, 1865. 
 Wheeler, James C. 18. August 25, 1864. Owego, N. Y. Substitute. Wounded 
 
 March 25, 1865. Discharged under General Orders No. 77, A. G. O. 
 
 DISCHARGED PRIVATES. 
 Cole, Edward. 25. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Discharged on Sur 
 
 geon s certificate of disability May I, 1864. Wounded in right leg. Leg off 
 
 July 2, 1863. Discharged April 28, 1864, at Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Conner William. 23. July 2, 1861. Newark, N. J. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged July 23, 1864, by reason 
 
 of expiration of term of service. 
 Curtis Frederick. 28. May 12, 1861. Clean, N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged July 20, 1864, by reason 
 
 of expiration of term of service. 
 Clark John 34. September 8, 1861. New York city. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged September 9, 1864, by 
 
 reason of expiration of term of service. 
 Cronin, James. 23. March 17, 1862. New York city. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged March 17, 1865, by reason 
 
 of expiration of term of service. 
 Costello Tames. 29. September 25, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon s ce 
 
 tificate of disability March 2, 1865. 
 Estes, Elijah H. 29. May 12, 1861. Olean, N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged by reason of term ol 
 
 expiration of service July 20, 1864. 
 Ford, Francis. 23. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Discharged on Si 
 
 geon s certificate of disability April II, 1863. 
 Furnia Martin. 26. June 10, 1861. Olean, N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 
 pany H, 7 ist N. Y. V., July 7 , 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration of 
 
 term of service July 20, 1864. 
 Goodsell Emory T 26. August 14, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Discharged on Sur 
 
 geon s T certifil-ate of disability April 18, 1863. Died at Wnulham, Greene 
 county, N. Y., October 15, 1872. 
 
 Greenman, Silas S. 28. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia, frans. 
 ferred from Company H, 7 ist Regiment, N. \. V July 7, 1864. 
 on Sun/eon s certificate of disability February 13, 1865. 
 
 term of service July 20, 1864. 
 
284 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. F. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 DISCHARGED PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Linsley, James. 20. August 14, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Wounded at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability January 
 5, 1864. Present residence, Hunter, Greene county, N. Y. 
 
 Majilton, Timothy. 25. August n, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded in neck 
 severely at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate ot 
 disability December 18, i 863- Present address, Lare Viero, Lake county, 
 Oregon. 
 
 McTaigue, Patrick. 32. July 20, 1861. Newark, N. J. Transferred from 
 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged for expiration of 
 
 term of service July 23, 1864. 
 Mullagan, Bartholemew. 26. August 4, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded 
 
 severely at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of 
 
 disability December I, 1864. 
 
 O Mara, Patrick. 32. September 8, 1861. Newark, N. J. Transferred from 
 72nd June 20, 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration of term of service. 
 
 Reynolds, Elijah. 29. August 18, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Discharged on 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability December 13, 1862. Died at Phoenicia, 
 Ulster county, N. Y., of disease. 
 
 Robbins, Charles P. 21. May 12, 1861. Olean, N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 pany F. 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration of 
 term of service July 20, 1864. 
 
 Reitmiller, George. 36. August 12, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon s cer 
 tificate of disability August 12, 1865. 
 
 Ruger, Charles. 31. August 6, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted to Corporal 
 February n, 1863. Wounded in right hand at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability March 10, 1865. Died at 
 Ward s Island, N. Y., 1877. 
 
 Streight, Joshua. 28. August 11, 1862. Shandaken, N. Y. Discharged on 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability March 14, 1863. 
 
 Trowbridge, James. 38. August 8, 1862.. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded in ankle 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability 
 June 20, 1865. Died in New York city August, 1873. 
 
 VanLeuven, Ambrose A. 27. August II, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability 
 June 2, 1864. Died December 14, 1880, at Jersey City. 
 
 Varrew, Lewis. 49. July 16, 1861. New York city. Transferred from Com 
 pany F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration 
 of term of service July 23, 1861. 
 
 VanSise, Robert. 28. June I, 1861. Olean. N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 pany H, 7 ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged by reason of Surgeon s 
 certificate of disability July 20, 1864. 
 
 Willard, Emmett F. 24. August 6, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Discharged on Sur 
 geon s certificate of disability November 20, 1862. 
 
 Wright, Frederick. 47. May 17, 1861. Olean, N. Y. Transferred from Com 
 pany H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Discharged by reason of expiration of 
 term of service July 20, 1864. 
 
 Deeney, Edward. 28. December 21, 1863. V. V. Transferred from Company 
 F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 24, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of 
 disability April 25, 1865. 
 
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 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 TRANSFERRED. 
 
 Ashley, John J Jr. 20. August 7, 1862. Catskill, N. V. Transferred to 1st 
 U. S. C. January 19, 1863. 
 
 Benjamin Horatio. 30 August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Promoted Cor- 
 poral December I, 1862. Wounded May 3, 1863. Transferred to V R C 
 March 15, 1864, by order Secretary of War. 
 
 .Brown , William H. 24. August 1 1, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Transferred to Vet 
 K. C. Promoted Corporal August n, 1862. 
 
 Hoes Aaron. 27. August 8, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Wounded Mav <, 1864 
 Transferred to V. R. C. February 6, 1865, by order Secretary War. Resi 
 dence, Rondout, N. Y. 
 
 Jones, Milo A. 22. August 9, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Wounded July 2, 1867 
 Transferred to V. R. C. March 15, 1864, by order Secretary of War. Present 
 residence, New Milford, 111. 
 
 Joesbury, Joseph F. 21. August 22, 1862. Catskill. Transferred by promo 
 tion as Quartermaster-Sergeant to Non-Commissioned Staff September i 
 1864. Discharged June I, 1869, as Quarter-Master Sergeant, Headquarters 
 Third Division L. A. P., by reason of war ended. Died at Catskill. 
 
 Kline, Charles A. 30. August 5, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded July 2, 
 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. by order of Secretary of War. 
 
 Lackey, Peter. 26. August 6, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded July 2, 1863. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1863, by ortle i Secretary War. Pres 
 ent residence, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Marshall, James. 27. August 18, 1862. New York city. Transferred to V. R. 
 C. February 15, 1864, by order Secretary War ; from Company F, 72nd N. 
 Y. V., June 20, 1864. 
 
 Mackey, Isaac. 22. August 3, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Date not known. 
 
 Mastling, John M. 27. August I, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Wounded July 2, 
 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. November 19, 1864, by order Secretary War, 
 Present residence, McCoy, Polk Co., Oregon. 
 
 Rider, Alexander W. 22. August i, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Transferred to V. 
 R. C. September I, 1863, by order Secretary W r ar. Present residence, Wood 
 land, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
 
 Sutton, Francis T. 34. August u, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Wounded May 3, 
 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1863, by order Secretary War. 
 Present residence, Schodack, Columbia Co., N. Y. 
 
 Smalling, Lucius K. 23. August 2, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Wounded May 3, 
 
 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. November 15, 1863, by order Secretary War. 
 Present residence, Cohoes, N. Y. 
 
 Taylor, Thomas G. 23. August 13, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Transferred to V. 
 R. C. November 15, 1863, by order Secretary War. Present residence, New 
 York city. 
 
 Whittaker, Francis. 27. August 4, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Transferred to Y. R. 
 C. by order Secretary War. 
 
 Begley, Peter. 28. February 16, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd June 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Bullock, George W. 34. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Decem 
 ber 30, 1863. V. V. Transferred from Company H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 
 
 1864. Detached in Ambulance Corps. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 Boyer, William H. 18. September 6, 1864. Niagara, N. Y. Substitute. Trans 
 ferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
286 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 TRANSFERRED Continued. 
 
 Doremus, Thomas J. 33. February 14, 1864, Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 
 73d Regiment. 
 
 Farrell, Patrick. 37. December 10, 1863. New York city. Transferred from 
 Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Hurley, Isaac. 30. September 2, 1864. Pike, N. Y. V. V. Promoted to 
 Corporal January 1st, 1865. Transferred from 72nd N. Y. V. June 20, 1864. 
 Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Hugue, Thomas. 40. March 14, 1865. New York city. Recruit. Transferred 
 to 73d. 
 
 Murphy, John. 30. December 21, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72djune 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d June 3, 1865. 
 
 McGimty, Michael. 45. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72d June 20, 1869. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 McEnroe, Nicholas. 28. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment, N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Platz, Peter. 17. March 12, 1864. New York city. Recruit. Transferred 
 from Company H, 7 1st N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Spenbeck, Benjamin. 23. November 30, 1863. New York city. - Recruit. 
 Transferred from Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 
 73<*. 
 
 Sheridan, John. 26. December 4, 1863. New York city. Recruit. Trans 
 ferred from Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Searle, Milton. 29. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 7151 N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Detached at Army head 
 quarters. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Torphey, Thomas. 26. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 December 25, 1863. Promoted to Corporal January I, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72d N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Woodward, Henry C. 25. March 16, 1864. V. V. Transferred from Com 
 pany H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Rogers, George W. Musician. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Va. 
 V. V. Transferred from Company H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. 
 
 Gorgas, William H. Musician. 20. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Va. 
 V. V. Transferred from Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. 
 
 DIED. 
 
 Burgess, Addison P. 25. August 5, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Died at camp near 
 Falmouth, Virginia, January 17, 1863. 
 
 Brizie, William D. 42. August 19, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Died at camp 
 near Falmouth April n, 1863. 
 
 Bell, William H. 21. August 13, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Killed at Gettysburg 
 July 2, 1863. 
 
 Bray, Milo. 24. August I, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Died at general hospital 
 Georgetown, D. C. 
 
 Chesley, William W. 18. August 30, 1864. Hector, N. Y. Owego, N. Y. 
 Died at Harewood hospital, Washington, D. C., February 16, 1865. Substi 
 tute. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N, Y.S. VOLS. 287 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 DIED Continued. 
 
 DurkinJohnH. 35 December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Decem 
 ber 24, 1863. V. V. Wounded March 31, 1865. Died at Armory Square 
 hospital, Washington, D. C., April 25, 1865. Transferred from Company F 
 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. 
 
 Edwards James. 31. August 13, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted Corporal 
 October 13. 1862. Died at camp near Falmouth, Va., January 28, I86" 1 . 
 
 Eignor, Abram. 42. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Died while home on 
 sick furlough at Shandaken, N. Y., June 2, 1863. 
 
 Hotchkiss, Orrin W. 19. August 14, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Killed at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Hall, John \V. 18. January 26, 1864. Cieremont, N. Y. Died at David s 
 
 Island hospital October 3, 1864. Recruit. 
 Hyde, George E. 18. September 3, 1864. Croton, N. Y. Died at City Point, 
 
 Va., December i, 1864. Substitute. 
 Irving, James. 21. August 29, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Died near Petersburg, 
 
 Va., from wounds September 27, 1864. Transferred from Company H, fist 
 
 N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. 
 
 Johnson, David. 20. January 26, 1864. Jewett, N. Y. Died at camp near 
 
 Falmouth, Va., January 8, 1863. 
 Longyear, David. 20. January 26, 1864. Cieremont, N. Y. Died at DeCamp 
 
 general hospital August 25, 1864. 
 
 Ostrander, John H. 28. August I, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Died at Anderson- 
 
 ville, Ga., March 23, 1864. 
 Peck, Tennant Jr. 44. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Died at camp 
 
 near Falmouth, Va., December i, 1862. 
 Pond, Dorlin J. 18. August 9, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Killed at James City, 
 
 Va., October 16, 1863. 
 Peck, Lyman P. 24. August 8, 1862. Jewett, N. Y. Promoted Corporal 
 
 August 8, 1862. Died at camp near Falmouth, Va., January 14, 1863. 
 Predmore, Frelinghuysen. 18. August 25, 1864. Hector, N. Y. Killed 
 
 March 26, 1865. Substitute. 
 Pampherin, William. 31. January 23, 1864. New York city. Transferred 
 
 from Company H, 7ist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Died at Andersonville, Ga., 
 
 August 17, 1864. 
 Rhodes, William. 38. August 15, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Died at camp near 
 
 Falmouth, Va., March, 1863. 
 Kose, William H. 27. July 26, 1862. Promoted to Corporal July 26, 1862. 
 
 Killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Schermerhorn, William H. 23. August 14, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Died at 
 
 Andersonville, Ga., July 12, 1864. 
 Van Loan, George. 18. August u, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Killed at Chancel- 
 
 lorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. 
 Van Dyke, John. Musician. 21. August 18, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Died at 
 
 Culpepper, Va., September 27, 1863. 
 
 DESERTED. 
 
 Brizze, Levi. 32. August 19, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Deserted from camp 
 
 near Fairfax Seminary, Va., October 9, 1862. 
 Beach, Asa. 24. August 9, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Deserted from camp near 
 
 Falmouth, Va., December 25, 1862. 
 
250 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY F-Continued. 
 
 DESERTED Continued. 
 
 Benjamin, George W. 19. August 12, 1862. Hunter, N. Y. Deserted from 
 Tilton general hospital, Wilmington, Del., July 5, 1864. 
 
 Downey, William. 20. August 28, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Transferred from 
 Company H, yist N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Deserted in the Wilderness, Va., 
 May 5, 1864. 
 
 Faulkner, George W. 24. August 8, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Promoted Corporal 
 August 8, 1862. Deserted from camp near Fairfax Seminary, Va., September 
 16/1862. 
 
 Garrity, John W. 28. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Trans 
 ferred from Company F, 72nd N. Y. V., June 20, 1864. Deserted near Spottsyl- 
 vania, Va., May 10, 1864. 
 
 Ham, William. 33. August 1 1, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Deserted while home 
 on furlough March 15, 1863. 
 
 Lake, Richard. 30. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Deserted from camp 
 near Fairfax Seminary October 9, 1862. 
 
 McCue, Patrick. 36. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Trans 
 ferred from Company H, 7 1st N. Y. V., July 7, 1864. Deserted near 
 Spottsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864. 
 
 Nagel, John. 18. August 5, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Deserted from DeCamp 
 *" general hospital December 5, 1862. 
 
 Powell, James D. 18. August 14, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Deserted from 
 camp near Fairfax Seminary, Va., September 17, 1862. 
 
 Steward, Robert. 39. August 19, 1862. Kingston, N. Y. Deserted in New 
 York city August 25, 1862. 
 
 Tresch, Louis. 18. August 29, 1862. Brooklyn, N. Y. Deserted from 
 DeCamp general hospital December 10, 1864. 
 
 Van Valkenburg, William S. 21. August 16, 1862. Lexington, N. Y. Deserted 
 near Wolf Run Shoals, Va., November 24, 1862. 
 
 Wiltsee, Joseph T. 22. July 29, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. Deserted near Gettys 
 burg July 5, 1863. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 289 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Company G was recruited in Saugerties by Captain Scott and Lieu 
 tenant Russell, and was filled up by the recruits enlisted by Lieuten 
 ant Hyde in the town of Lloyd. It left Kingston with the above 
 named officers and eighty-five enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds, officers i 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds, men 15 
 
 Died prisoners of war 6 
 
 Died of disease. 3 
 
 Total deaths in service 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Enlisted men J 2 
 
 12 
 
 Discharged for promotion 
 
 Transferred, etc, : 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 7 
 
 Deserted 3 
 
 Mnstered out with regiment and by general orders. 40 50 
 
 It received by transfer from other companies 2 officers, 
 recruits 5, and 50 veterans from the y2nd Regiment. 
 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds. . 
 
 Discharged 
 
 Transferred 
 
 Mustered out and discharged by general orders. . 
 
 Total enrollment 
 
 19 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Scott, Walter F. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Major February 4, 
 
 1865. Died at Chapaultepec, Mexico, October 8, 1881. 
 
 Swart, Ira. 26. July 28, 1862, as private. Promoted to Corporal August 31,, 
 1862; to Sergeant, February 3, 1863; to First Sergeant, July I, 1863; to Sec 
 ond Lieutenant, June 24, 1864; to First Lieutenant, December 31, 1864; to 
 Captain, February 4, 1865. Living in Saugerties, N. Y. 
 
 t 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Russel!, Edmund Me C. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Appointed Adjutant May 1, 
 1863; Brevet Captain, U. S. V. Died January 14, 1874. 
 
 Kimble, Warren. August II, 1862. Kingston. Private, Company H. Pro 
 moted to Corporal August 22, 1862; to Sergeant, February 20, 1863; to Sec 
 ond Lieutenant. December I, 1864; to First Lieutenant, Company G, Febru 
 ary 4, 1865. Wounded on leg and scalp October 27, 1804. Living in Sauger 
 ties, N. Y. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Hyde, James A. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to First Lieutenant 
 May I, 1863; to Captain, Company A, May 21, 1864. Wounded. Living at 
 Marlborough, N. Y. 
 
 Carle, Jason. 24. Promoted from First Sergeant to Seqond Lieutenant May I, 
 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Penn., July 2, 1863. 
 
 Moffat, John S. 18. Promoted from Sergeant of Company F to Second Lieuten 
 ant of Company C February 4, 1865. 
 
 FIRST SERGEANTS. 
 
 Deyo, Silas W. 18. August 7, 1862. Lloyd. Discharged to receive promotion 
 
 to Second Lieutenant, Company D, December 31, 1864. Dead. 
 Smith, George L. 21. July 28, 1862. Saugerties. Promoted to First Sergeant 
 
 May i, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. 
 Syrne, Samuel. 34. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Promoted 
 
 to First Sergeant December 25, 1864. Killed at Hatcher s Run, Va., March 
 
 25, 1865. 
 
 Wygant, Marcelus. 21. August 14, 1862. Lloyd. Promoted from Corporal to 
 Sergeant July I, 1863. Taken prisoner at James City, Va., October 10, 1863. 
 Wounded in hip March 31, 1865. Promoted to First Sergeant April 1, 1865. 
 Living in Saugerties. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Deyo, Hackaliah B. 21. August 7, 1862. Lloyd. Promoted to Sergeant April 
 
 1, 1865. Dead. 
 
 Edwards, John H. 21. August 8, 1862. Saugerties. Killed June 2, 1864. 
 
 Reynolds, Joseph. 18. August 7, 1862. Lloyd. Wounded at Gettysburg July 
 
 2, 1862. Wounded May 6, 1864. Promoted from Corporal. Died of 
 wounds received February 5, 1865. 
 
 Tate, George. 23. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to Non-Commissioned Staff. 
 Lyon, Jacob. 20. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Wounded March 31, 1865. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Bailey, Milo V. 22. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Detailed as Clerk at division headquarters. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. 6*. VOLS. 2 Q I 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Reynolds, Henry. 24. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Wounded 
 in action March 25, 1865. Mustered out in accordance with General Order 
 No. 77, from War Department, A. G. O., April 28, 1865. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Teetsell, Jeremiah. 21. August 21, 1862. Saugerties. Promoted to Corporal 
 
 February 25, 1863. Living at Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Smith, William H. 20. August 21, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 72nd N. Y. V. Dead. 
 Howley, Patrick. 21. August 21, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 72nd N. Y. V. Brooklyn. 
 Wolven, John C. 25. August 14, 1862. Saugerties. Promoted to Corporal 
 
 April I, 1865. Wounded June 16, 1864, near Petersburg. Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Hommel, David W. 19. August 19, 1862. .Saugerties. Promoted to Corporal 
 
 April i, 1865. Taken prisoner March I, 1865. Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Wolven, Ethan. 21. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Promoted to Corporal 
 
 April i, 1865. Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Teetsel, Paul S. 20. August 7, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner near James 
 
 City, Va., October 10, 1863. 
 Bowman, Abram V. 19. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Discharged from U. S. general hospital on Surgeon s certificate of disability 
 
 May 1 8, 1865. 
 Walker, James K . 26. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability February 10, 1863. New York city. 
 Schmidt, George. 37. August 13, 1862. Sau<rerties. W T ounded at Gettysburg 
 
 July 2, 1863. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps March 16, 1864. 
 
 Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Pelton, Dennis. 18. August 14, 1862. Saugerties. Killed at Gettysburg July 
 
 2, 1862. 
 
 FIFER. 
 Straub, Albert. 31. July 31, 1862. Saugerties. Living at Hunter, N. Y. 
 
 DRUMMER. 
 
 Van Hoesen, George W. 18. August 15, 1862. Saugerties. Living at Brook 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 Adams, Hoxie. 21. August II, 1862. Lloyd, N. Y. Transferred to V.jR. C. 
 
 April 6, 1864. 
 Bleeker, Stephen. 26. August 14, 1862- Lloyd. Wounded in hand in Wilder- 
 
 ness May 5, 1864. Taken prisoner March 31, 1865. 
 Bevier, Lewis C. 18. August 18, 1862. Lloyd. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 Burritt, Francis J. 22. August 22, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded in hip at 
 
 Chancellorsville, Va., and in foot at Games Mill May 31, 1864. Saugerties. 
 Barritt Sylvester. 18. August 4, 1862. Saugerties. Highwoods, Ulster county, 
 
 N. Y. 
 Barrows, Frank. 19. August 19, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Fort Scott, Kansas. 
 
2Q2 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Bovven, John. 23. August n, 1862. Dunkirk. On detached service in division 
 
 supply train. Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 
 Barber, Isaac W. 19. August 9, 1862. Saugerties. Killed at Mine Run No 
 vember 27, 1863. 
 Bugbee, Alfred P. 18. December 28, 1863. Dunkirk. Died December 19, 
 
 1864, of wounds received October 18, 1864. 
 
 Barrett, William. 18. August 16, 1862. Lloyd, N. Y. Taken prisoner Octo 
 ber 10, 1863. 
 Bovvyer, Edward. 19. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 
 Burleigh, Philip. 24. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Missing 
 in action October 27, 1864. To be mustered out in accordance with General 
 
 Order No. 77 from War Department A. G. O. April 28, 1865. 
 Cullen, Lawrence. 23. August 18, 1862. Lloyd. Dead. 
 Calhoun, Archibald. 22. August 9, 1862. Lloyd. Taken prisoner October 10, 
 
 1863. Highland, N. Y. 
 Carnwright, George E. 21. August 14, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner 
 
 October 10, 1863. Wounded in right arm March 25, 1865. Saugerties. 
 Chapman, Edwin. 18. August 25, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Prisoner March 31, 1865. 
 Carle, Lawrence. 21. August 4, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner October 10, 
 
 1863. Died at Anderson ville, Ga., August 13, 1864. 
 Coe, Lewis. 23. August 12, 1862. Lloyd. Discharged from U. S. general 
 
 hospital on Surgeon s certificate of disability May 10, 1865. 
 Cole, George W. 18. August 6, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged from U. S. 
 
 general hospital on Surgeon s certificate of disability January , 1863. West 
 
 Saugerties. 
 
 Dillon, Lewis M. 29. August 7, 1862. Lloyd. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 Dunagan, John H. 32. August 5, 1862. Saugerties. Shokan, N. Y. 
 Dunn, William. 20. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. April 6, 1864. 
 Deswald, Patrick. 30. December 31, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Duryea, John F. 21. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Dillon, William. 42. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd N. Y. V. Killed in action October 27, 1864. 
 DuBois, Charles W. 18. August 8, 1862. Lloyd. Missing in action at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. (Ezekiel H. Winter of Company G, i2Oth, said he helped 
 
 bury C. W. DuBois at Gettysburg.) 
 Errien, Gottlieb. 22. August 27, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72110! N. 
 
 Y. V. 
 Frazine, Charles E. 27. August 29, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 N. Y. V. 
 Flesher, George. 19. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Fisher, Henry. 35. August 16, 1862. Lloyd. Transferred to V. R. C. April 
 
 6, 1864. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2Q3 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Fiero, Frederick L. 21. August 13, 1862. Saugerties. Deserted from U. S. 
 
 hospital in 1863. 
 Gatchell, Orin L. 31. August 12, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. 
 
 Griffin, George W. 21. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Shandaken, N. Y. 
 Goetcheus, Albert E. 20. August 19, 1862. Lloyd. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. April 6, 1864. 
 
 Hassenger, Philip. 37. August 13, 1862. Saugerties. Saugerties, N. Y. 
 Horton, Samuel M. 18. August 14, 1862. Lloyd, N. Y. 
 Harris, Francis E. 33. August 23, 1863. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Detailed as guard at 2nd division hospital. 
 Holt, William I. 22. August 18, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Hornellsville, N. Y. 
 Horn, George. 24. Angust 15, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. Y. 
 
 V. Taken prisoner March 31, 1865. 
 
 Howe, Ralph P. 21. August 27, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 Y. V. Wounded June ^o, 1864. Leg amputated. Discharged January 7, 
 1865. 
 
 Hallenbeck, John H. 36. August 13, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at 
 James City, Va , October 10, 1863. Died in Andersonville prison June 10, 
 1864. 
 
 Hanks, Cyrus. 18. August 6, 1862. Saugerties. Killed in action October 5,1864. 
 Hussey, Edward. 38. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Killed 
 
 in action October 27, 1864. 
 Hornbeck, Cornelius C. 35. August 6, 1862. Saugerties. Deserted at Wolf 
 
 Run Shoals, Va., November 22, 1862. 
 
 Johnson, Charles. 18. August 8, 1862. Lloyd. Wounded at Mine Run Novem 
 ber 28, 1863, and November 6, 1864. 
 Tohnson, William. 28. August 25, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. 
 Tohnson George. 25. August 25, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. 
 Jones, Thomas C. 23. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Detailed as butcher at division headquarters. Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 Johnson, William II . 24. August 14, 1862. Lloyd. Killed at Gettysburg July 
 
 2, 1863. 
 Kernan, James. 18. February 10, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V, 
 
 Wounded October 2, 1864. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Kelly, Edward. 35. August 8, 1862. Saugerties, N. Y. Killed at Gettysburg 
 
 July 2, 1863. 
 Lewis, Chauncey. 18. August 8, 1862. Saugerties, N. Y. Discharged on 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability December 16, 1862. 
 Laughlin, Joseph. 40. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Lutze, Philip. 25. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 Moe, Joseph. 39. August 18, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded at Batth 
 Anna May 24, 1864. Dead. 
 
294 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 PR 1 v ATES Continued. 
 
 Muller, Walter P. 19. August 13, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Detailed as Clerk at 2nd division hospital. Corner Canal and Seventh 
 
 street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 Mower, Christopher C. 19. July 30, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at 
 
 James City October 10, 1863. 
 Mullin, Peter. 41. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded at Gettysburg 
 
 July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. December 12, 1864. 
 Motto, Simon. 39. December 22, 1863. Saugerties. Recruit. Wounded in 
 
 Wilderness May 5, 1864. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. Dead. 
 McGuire, Hugh. 35. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Wounded October 27, 1864. Leg amputated. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Minard, William C. 19. August 1 1, 1862. Lloyd. Died at Falmouth, Va., 
 
 February 28, 1863. 
 Neil, Lewis. 18. August 11, 1862. Lloyd. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate 
 
 of disability November 21, 1863. 
 Noonan, Patrick. 32. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Newkirk, Manassa. 26. August u, 1862. Saugerties, N. Y. Killed at 
 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Neil, Adam H. 21. August II, 1862. Lloyd. Killed at Mine Run November 
 
 27, 1863. 
 O Durrel, George. 32. August II, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 N. Y. V. on Military railroad, General Orders No. 43. Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 O Neil, William. 25. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Lost right arm in action October 2, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate 
 
 of disability March 27, 1865. 
 Palmateer, Joseph C. 21. August 9, 1862. Lloyd. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability February 14, 1864. 
 Purdy, George E. 23. August 12, 1862. Lloyd. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability January 16, 1863. 
 Plass, Herman. 44. August 5, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner, James City, 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died in Andersonville, Ga., April 30, 1864. 
 Quinlan, Peter. 40. August I, 1862. Kingston. Taken prisoner at James City 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville, Ga., April 30, 1864. 
 Rease, David. 25. August 7, 1862. Lloyd. Detailed as Provost Guard, 
 
 division headquarters. 
 
 Rose, Marquis D. L. 18. August 11, 1862. Lloyd. Highland, N. Y. 
 Rose, John H. 19. February 18, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. Missing in 
 
 action March 25, 1865. To be mustered out in accordance with General 
 
 Orders No. 77, from \Var Department, A. G. O., April 28, 1865. 
 Richardson, Frank L. 24. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 N. Y. V. 
 Richardson, Charles P. 20. January 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. 
 
 V. Wounded March 8, 1865. Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Rider, John W. 18. August 29, 1862. Dunkirk. Killed at Hatcher s Run 
 
 March 25, 1865. 
 Snyder, Paul. 22. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at James 
 
 City October 10, 1863. West Saugerties. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2 96 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 PR I VAXES Continued. 
 
 Shader Abram. 22 August 22, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded May n, 1864, 
 and March 31, 1865. Hurley, N. Y. 
 
 Shader, John. 19. August. 4, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded May 5, 1864 and 
 March 25, 1865. New York city. 
 
 Sickles, Robert W 32. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at 
 James City October 10, 1863. Saugerties. 
 
 Smith George E. 19. August 19, 1862. Saugerties. Detailed to Battery K, 
 4th U. b. Artillery. 
 
 Schoonmaker, David W. 21. August 12, 1862. Lloyd. Dead. 
 
 Skidmore, Charles. 20. August 13, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 N. Y. V. Detailed to Military R. R., General Orders No. 43. 
 Stillman,_ Henry C. 19. July 19, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Detailed as Clerk to Medical Department, division headquarters. 
 Snyder, Charles. 27. August 12, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability February 9, 1863. 
 
 Shaw, Levi. 25. December 30, 1863. Saugerties. Recruit. Transferred to 
 73d N. Y. V. Saugerties, N. Y. 
 
 Smith, Jacob. 27. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Taylor, Lorenzo. 27. August 9, 1862. Saugerties. Detailed in Battery K, 
 
 4th U. S. Artillery. Virginia. 
 Teetsell, Jeremiah H. 28. August 8, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded in hand. 
 
 Quarry ville, Ulster Co., N. V. 
 Tobias, Abram. 25. August 8, 1862. Lloyd. Taken prisoner at James City, 
 
 Va., October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville, Ga., August 18, 1864. 
 Teetsell, Peter W. 19. August 9, 1862. Saugerties. Died in camp near Fal- 
 
 mouth, Va., April 5, 1863. 
 
 Teetsell, Solomon. 20. August n, 1862. Saugerties. Killed at Gettysburg 
 July 2, 1863. 
 
 Teetsell, James H. 25. August 13, 1862. Saugerties. Died in hospital Decem 
 ber 24, 1864, of wounds received October 27, 1864. 
 
 Teetsell, Peter J. 35. August i, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded May 31, 1864. 
 Thompson, Frank L. 29. August 26, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 Trask, Henry V. 25. August 16, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Wounded March 25, 1865. 
 Turk, Abram. 21. August 6, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged by order of 
 
 Judge J. H. McGunn April 4, 1863. Re-enlisted in Company M, 2nd N. Y. 
 
 M. V. December 29, 1863. Taken prisoner June 6, 1864. 
 Teetsell, James W. 18. January 2, 1864. Saugerties. Recruit. Transferred 
 
 to 73d N. Y. V. . New York city. 
 Van Aken, Elijah. 20. August 4, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded at Gettysburg 
 
 Julv 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. April 6, 1864. Saugerties. 
 Vandervoort, James H. 23. August II, 1862. Lloyd. Deserted from U. S. 
 
 general hospital in 1864. 
 "Wilson, Charles. 27. September 2, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd N. 
 
 Y. V. Detailed as nurse in U. S. general hospital to Sidney Wilson. 
 Wilson, Sidney. 18. September I, 1862. Dunkirk. \Vounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Both legs amputated. 
 
296 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY G-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Wilbur, Samuel G. 19. August 9, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at James 
 
 City, Va., October 10, 1863. Shandaken, N. Y. 
 Walker, James R. 27. January 4, 1864. Saugerties. Recruit. Wounded May 
 
 5, 1864. Missing in action October 27, 1864. 
 Winter, William H. 24. August 9, 1862. Saugerties. Wounded November 
 
 27, 1863. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability April 30, 1864. 
 
 Died February, 1870. 
 Winter, Ezekiel. 18. August 19, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability March 12, 1863. 
 Willis, Percival. 42. August 13, 1862. Saugerties. Discharged on Surgeon s 
 
 certificate of disability January 16, 1863. 
 Winans, James W. 18. August II, 1862. Saugerties. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 January 16, 1864. New York city. 
 Ward, Patrick. 30. February 14, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V.. 
 
 Transferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 Whitaker, Sheldon B. 22. August 14, 1862. Saugerties. Died in hospital in 
 
 Alexandria July 4, 1864, of wounds received June 2, 1864. 
 Youngs, John V. B. 21. August 5, 1862. Saugerties. Detailed as Wagoner 
 
 Brigade supply train. West Saugerties. 
 Youngs, George E. 28. August 7, 1862. Saugerties. Taken prisoner at James 
 
 City, Va., October 10, 1863. Dead. 
 Youngs, Peter W. 18. August 5, 1862. Saugerties. Died in hospital at 
 
 Brandy Station, Va., April 5, 1864, of typhoid fever. 
 
 NOTE. When date of discharge is not given in this Company, the soldiers were- 
 discharged with the Regiment, June 3, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2Q7 
 
 COMPANY H. 
 
 Company H was raised by Captain Charles H. McEntee and Lieu 
 tenants James K. Holmes and Michael E. Creighton. It was mus 
 tered with the regiment August 22 nd, 1862, with the above named 
 officers and eighty-six enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds, officers 4 
 
 Killed in action and died of wounds, men 6 
 
 Died prisoners of war 4 
 
 Died of disease, officers ! 
 
 Died of disease, men 5 
 
 Total deaths in service 21 
 
 Tliere were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Discharged for disability 1 1 
 
 ii 
 Discharged for promotion i 
 
 Transferred, etc. : 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 1 1 
 
 Deserted g 
 
 Served to close of war, officers i 
 
 Served to close of war, men 37 58 
 
 89 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Received by promotion, other companies, officers. . 2 
 
 Recruits in 1 864 1 6 
 
 Transferred from yist and y2nd Regiments 45 63 
 
 Total enrollment 152 
 
 Many of the transferred men never joined the company, and quite 
 a number that did join it were soon discharged by expiration of 
 term of service. Of the additional number of men received three 
 died in service. 
 
298 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 McEntee, Charles H. 20. August 18, 1862. Kingston. December 21, 1862. 
 
 A gallant and promising young officer stricken with brain fever and died at 
 
 the beginning of his military career on December 21, 1862, at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 His remains lie in Montrepose Cemetery, Rondout, where loving parents have 
 
 erected a broken colum to mark his resting place. 
 Holmes, James K. 30. August 22, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 
 from First Lieutenant December 21, 1862. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Creighton, Michael E. 27. August 22, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Pro 
 moted to First Lieutenant December 21, 1862. Fell mortally wounded at the 
 battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863, while bravely cheering his men 
 against the charge of Barksdale s Mississippi Brigade. He died during the 
 night and was buried on the field. His remains were a few days afterward 
 removed by his brother and re-interred at Hawley, Pa. 
 
 Lockwood, John J. 21. August 22, 1862. Kingston. May 5, 1864. Mustered 
 as Sergeant. Promoted to First Sergeant October 6, 1862. To First Lieu 
 tenant January 16, 1864. Killed at the Battle of the Wilderness while in com 
 mand of Company K and buried on the field. 
 
 Carr, Albert. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. November 25, 1864. Promoted 
 from Sergeant-Major May 5, 1864. Discharged for disability. Residence, 
 Kingston. 
 
 Drake, Marquis M. 30. January 30, 1865. Dimwiddie, Va. V. V. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd N. Y. V. as Sergeant to Company D. Promoted to First 
 Lieutenant Company H. Residence, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Cockburn, William J. 29. August 22, 1862. Kingston. July 22, 1863. Mus 
 tered in as Commissary-Sergeant. Promoted to Second Lieutenant December 
 21, 1862. Died at Harrisburgh of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 
 1862. 
 
 Dederick, William H. 23. August 22, 1862. Kingston. September 20, 1864. 
 Mustered as Sergeant. Promoted Second Lieutenant August 16, 1864. Killed 
 on picket line in front of Petersburg. His remains were sent home and now 
 lie in the Reformed Church yard at Kaatsban, N. Y. A braver soldier or 
 truer patriot was not in the service. 
 
 Kemble, Warren. 21. August, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Sergeant from 
 Corporal February n, 1863. To. First Sergeant August 16, 1864. To Second 
 Lieutenant December I, 1864. To First Lieutenant February 4, 1865, and 
 transferred to Company G, i2Oth N. Y. V. Residence, Saugerties, N. Y. 
 
 Hayes, Eugene F. Second Lieutenant. Mustered February 4, 1865. Mustered 
 into service as private August 22, 1862. Promoted to Commissary-Sergeant 
 February 11, 1863. Promoted to Second Lieutenant February 4, 1865. Resi 
 dence, New York city. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Conway, Andrew J. 38. July 28, 1862. Kingston. October 6, 1862. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Maxwell, John W. 27. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Captured October 10, 1863. 
 Exchanged prisoner. Discharged General Order 77. 
 
 De La Mater, Charles K. 23. August 6, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 2 99 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Whittaker, James 30. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Promoted to Sergeant Sep 
 tember 20 1862. Captured October 10, 1863. Wounded December 13, 1862. 
 Discharged General Order No. 77, 1865. 
 
 Myers, Bartholomew T. 19. August 26, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. June 3 1865 
 i ransferred from 72nd Regiment June 20, 1864. Promoted to Sergeant Jan 
 uary I, 1865. 
 
 Torrey Edwin H. 28. December 23, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. 1865. 
 o c rransferred from 7 2n d Regiment. Promoted to First Sergeant March 
 
 I, 1865. Captured March 25, 1865. Discharged General Order No. 77. 
 Ross, Orville A. 21. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. February 
 
 3,1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd Regiment June 20, 1864. Promoted 
 
 to Second Lieutenant Company K. 
 
 Weaver, Jacob. 23. August n, 1862. Kingston. January 12, 1863. Pro 
 moted from Corporal October 20, 1862. Died at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Reisenberger, George C. 18. August 12, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Promoted to Corporal January I, 1865. To Sergeant February 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, George B. 21. August 9, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 186;. Promoted 
 to Sergeant May I, 1865. 
 
 Tappen, Hiram R. 22. August 15, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted to Sergeant June 16, 1864. To Commissary- Sergeant February 4, 
 1865. 
 
 Cram, Augustus. 26. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. March 
 26, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Discharged on Surgeon s certfi- 
 cate. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Fox, William. 21. August 7, 1862. Kingston. February 6, 1864. Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 DeWitt, Andrew N. 38. August 2, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed at 
 
 Gettysburg. 
 
 Goetcheus, Benjamin F. 22. July 23, 1862. Kingston. February 13, 1864. 
 Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Conklin, Elijah. 35. August 14, 1862. Promoted to Corporal February 1 1, 
 1863. Captured October 10, 1863. Exchanged prisoner at Vicksburg. Dis 
 charged General Order 77. 
 
 Snyder, Peter. 18. August 6, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted to 
 Corporal February 4, 1865. 
 
 Jones, Charles W. 23. August 13, 1862. Kingston. March 16, 1864. Trans 
 ferred, to V. R. C. 
 
 Garrison, Malachi. 26. August II, 1862. Kingston. August 29, 1863. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Maloney, Patrick. 23. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. Transferred from 
 72nd Regiment. Wounded March 25, 1865. In hospital. Discharged Gen 
 eral Order No. 77. 
 
 Pickard, Melvine E. 18. August 9, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. June 3, 1865. 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 
 Boy ne, John. 19. February 1 6, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 1865. 
 V. V. Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Wounded November 5, 1864. 
 Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
3OO ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 CORPORALS Continued. 
 
 Bundy, James E. 19. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7 1st Regiment. Prompted to Corporal 
 
 April i, 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 Homer, Eugene L. 22. December 24, 1865. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 Stafford, Austin. 24. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Captured March 25, 1865. Exchanged 
 
 prisoner at Annapolis, Md. 
 Lacey, John. 25. August 13, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from hospital at 
 
 Philadelphia August 31, 1863. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Kelly, Richard. 14. November I, 1862. Alexandria, Va. Transferred from 
 
 7ist Regiment. Discharged General Order 77. 
 Barber, George. 19. August 5, 1862. Kingston. April 16, 1863. Discharged 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Zincke, Charles. 18. August 12, 1861. New York city. August 12, 1864. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 Stienringer, George, 18. August 12, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Non- 
 
 Commissioned Staff May I, 1864. 
 Fairbanks, John W. 16. February 16, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Arrold, Jacob J. 25. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Served two 
 years in Battery K, 4th N. Y. Artillery. Residence, Glasco, N. Y. 
 
 Abernethy, James. 39. January 18, 1865. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. April 16, 
 1865. Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Ashford, John (,). 40. September 3, 1864. Rochester, N. Y. June 3. Cap- 
 tured March 25, 1865. Exchanged. 
 
 Borley, John. 25. July 24, 1862. Kingston. October 28, 1865. Discharged 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Brown, Lewis T. L. 20. February 24, 1864. Ashford, N. Y. June I, 1865. 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Bunton, Andrew N. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. January I, 1864. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Brophy,^ Patrick. 30. July 23, 1862. Kingston. April 20, 1863. Discharged 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Baker, Henry. 24. Dacember 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Transferred to 73d Regi 
 ment. 
 
 Brown, William H. 18. September 5, 1864. Rochester, N. Y. June I, 1865. 
 Wounded March 25, 1865. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Burns, John. 27. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 1865. 
 V. V. Transferred from 7 1st. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 ^igg s James. 26. January 24, 1864. New York city. June I, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 7ist July 7, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Brown, Daniel E. 24. July 31, 1862. Kingston. September 28, 1864. Died 
 at City Point, Va. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 30 I 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 PR I v ATES Continued. 
 
 Bundy, North. 18. February i, 1865. Kingston. Tune I, 1865. Transferred 
 to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Butterfield, Joseph W. 18. February 4, 1864. Ashford, N. Y. December 17 
 
 1864. Transferred from 72nd Regiment June 20, 1864. Wounded October 
 16, 1864. Died at Washington, D. C., of wound. 
 
 Casey, John. 18. August 2, 1862. Kingston. November 3, 1864. Died at 
 
 City Point, Va., November 3, 1864. 
 Cogswell, John. 30. August 18, 1862. Kingston. Captnred October 10, 1863. 
 
 Exchanged prisoner at Annapolis, Md. 
 Cockfair, Charles E. 36. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Received furlough 
 
 February 21, 1863. Never returned to regiment. 
 Cogswell, William H. 22. August 9, 1862. Kingston. May 3, 1863. Killed 
 
 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. 
 Conklin, Arcs J. 27. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Captured May 6, 1864. 
 
 Exchanged prisoner. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Christiana, Matthew. 19. August 6, 1862. Kingston. November 27, 1863. 
 
 Killed at the Battle of Payne s Farm. 
 
 Crook, James. 19. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Deserted January 25, 1863. 
 Doyle, James. 30. August 14, 1862. Kingston. August 5, 1864. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville, Ga. 
 Dewey, Ira. 22. August 6, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Wounded before 
 
 Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864. 
 Downs, Patrick. 18. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. June 3, 1865. Trans- 
 
 ferred from 72nd Regiment June 20, 1864. 
 DuPuy, Ira. 24. February 28, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 3, 1863. 
 
 V. V. Transferred from 7ist. Captured October 26, 1865. Exchanged. 
 Dougherty, Thomas. 26. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 3,1865. V. V. Transferred from 7 1 st. 
 DuBois, Peter D. 19. October 20, 1861. New York city. October 20, 1864. 
 
 Transferred from 87th Regiment September 12, 1862. Expiration term of 
 
 service. 
 DuBois. Robert. 18. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 3, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7 1st. * 
 
 Eighmey, Peter. 21. August 12, 1862. Kingston. Deserted May 6, 1864. 
 
 Ennist, Wilson. 23. August 12, 1862. Kingston. Deserted September 1 1, 1862. 
 
 Edwards, Morris. 19. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 7ist Regiment July 7, 1864. 
 
 Fountain, Jeremiah. 30. August 26, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd June 20, 1864. 
 
 Fox, John. 22. August 7, 1862. Kingston. April 28, 1863. Transferred to 
 V. R. C. 
 
 Farr, William C. 21. August 6, 1862. Kingston. March 6, 1863. Died at 
 Fal mouth, Va. 
 
 Ferris, Samuel. 32. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd as absent, sick; never returned. 
 
 Frisch, William. 36. September 13, 1864. Avon. Exchanged prisoner of war. 
 
 Garrison, Weyant. 21. August II, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Harris, Edward H. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Injured by falling tree 
 February 8, 1865. In hospital. 
 
jO2 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Hazzard, Henry. 34. August 5, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hicks, Egbert. 33. August 7, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hanley,John. 22. August 22, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Hall, Edmund. 25. August 12, 1862. Kingston. April 8, 1864. Discharged 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Hayes, Joel N. 18. July 28, 1862. Kingston. March 15, 1864. Transferred 
 to V. R. C. Died November 4, 1892, at Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 Hobart, William. 1 8. December 29, 1863. Harmony. June i, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Transferred to 730!. 
 
 Hoskins, Everitt L. 18. December 22, 1863. Harmony. June I, 1865. Trans 
 ferred to 73d. 
 
 Hall, Jacob. September 9, 1864. Transferred from 71 st July 7, 1864. Died at 
 David s Island. 
 
 Harris, Morgan L. 22. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Deserted July 2, 1862. 
 
 Hertinstein, Christian. 27. July 16, 1861. Dunkirk. July 16, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd Regiment June 20, 1864. Expiration term of service. 
 
 Hess, George. 23. August 5, 1861. Kingston. August 5, 1864. Transferred 
 from 7 1st Regiment July 2, 1864. Expiration time of service. 
 
 Haffy, Cornelius. 30. May 2, 1861. Kingston. January 21, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 7 1st Regiment. Sentenced by general court martial to six months 
 and four days service lost by desertion. Discharged by expiration of term. 
 
 Imhoff, Adam. 20. July 25, 1862. Kingston. March 15, 1864. Transferred 
 to V. R. C. 
 
 Johnson, James B. 25. December 25. Brandy Station, Virginia. January 10, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Johnson, Allen H. 22. August 27. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd Regiment October 31, 1864. 
 
 Jenkins, James. 18. August 30. Avon. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Jennings, Elijah. 35. August 1 1, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed at 
 the Battle of Gettysburg. 
 
 Kniffin, William H. 21. July 29, 1862. Kingston. Wounded May 31, 1864. 
 
 In general hospital. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Keegan, Thomas E. 38. September 3, 1862. New York city. Transferred 
 
 from 7 1st. Absent since transfer. 
 
 Kerr, John. 26. July 28, 1862. Kingston. Deserted July 2, 1863. 
 Lown, John W. 18. July 31, 1862. Kingston. Wounded May 31, 1864, and 
 
 March 25, 1865. In hospital. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. 
 Lewis, Jeremiah. 23. August 6, 1862. Kingston. July 5, 1863. Died at 
 
 Alexandria, Va. 
 
 Lawler, John. 22. August 25, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd Regiment. 
 
 Lyhan, John. 42. July 4, 1864. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred from 
 72nd Regiment. Wounded April 6, 1865. 
 
 Lindsley, Nelson E. 20. August 6, 1862. Kingston. October 16, 1864. Dis 
 charged to accept promotion. 
 
 McLoud, Francis. 33. August n, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 at the Battle of Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. 
 
 McNamara, George. 18. August 25, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N, Y.S. VOLS. 30^ 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 McAlear Charles. 18. August 9, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3. 1865 Trans 
 ferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 
 , :86 4 . 
 
 McDonald, Edward. 31. February 4, 1864. Kingston. 
 McKenna, Niel. 32. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Deserted. July 2 186- 
 Myers^William M. 18. August 5, 1862. Deserted from hospital January iS, 
 
 Moul, Ira. 18. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Deserted June 15, 1863. 
 Miller, Peter. 23. September 3, 1864. Alexandria, N. Y. June i 186=; 
 1 ransferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 More, James. 32. February 25, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Transferred 
 to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Myers, Edgar C. 24. August 18, 1862. Kingston. May 12, 1863. Died at 
 Potomac Cieek, Va. 
 
 Maloney, Cornelius. 20. August 7, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3 1865. Trans 
 
 ferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 Murphy, Timothy. 28. August 15, 1862. Kingston. April 30, 1863. Returned 
 
 to 7 1st Regiment as a deserter from that regiment. 
 
 Member, George S. 40. August 9, 1862. Kingston. September I 186^5 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Near, Sylvester. 38. July 23, 1862. Kingston. May i, 1864. Transferred to 
 
 O Reilly, John. 19. December 25, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 7ist Regiment. Transferred to 73d Regi 
 ment. 
 
 Porter, George. 32. January 5, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Absent, sick. 
 
 Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 Perkins, Pizarro. 23. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. Taken prisoner March 25, 1865, at 
 
 Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 Reddenberry, William. 27. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Attached to Battery K, 4th N. Y. Artillery. 
 
 Ruton, Cornelius. 36. September 3, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Transferred from 7 1st. 
 Randall, Uriah S. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. 
 Robinson, Charles A. 32. August 14, 1862. Kingston. September 12, 1863. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Rowan, Henry. 27. February 10, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Trans 
 
 ferred to 73d Regiment. 
 Rodamer, Chauncey F. 43. August 18, 1862. Kingston. October 10, 1863. 
 
 Captured October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 Roots, William F. 21. August 4, 1862. Kingston. July 7, 1864. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 Rodgers, Orville P. 18. August 29, 1864. Avon. November 9, 1864. Sub 
 
 stitute. Killed in action front of Petersburg. 
 
3O4 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Slater, William. 32. July 28, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed in action 
 at Gettysburg. 
 
 Slater, John. 38. August 16, 1862. Kingston. April 23, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Smith, Leonard. 24. August 18, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from hospital 
 August 31, 1864. 
 
 Schivykardt, Philip. 34. August 30, 1864. Avon. June I, 1865. Substitute. 
 Wounded October 26, 1864. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Struse, Frederick. 24. February 2, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Trans 
 ferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Sickler, Victor S. 30. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Sentenced by general 
 court martial to serve until October 24, 1866, on one-half pay to make good 
 time lost by desertion. Transferred to 73d Regiment. 
 
 Story, Lewis M. 18. December 22, 1863. Ellington. Transferred from 72nd 
 Regiment. In general hospital, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Snyder, Henry. 21. August 6, 1862. Kingston. February 15, 1864. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Sickler, Cyrus. 24. August 4, 1862. Kingston. February 27, 1863. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Sickler, Ezra. 21. August 18, 1862. Kingston. September I, 1864. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Snooks, Emery W. 26. August 12, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Smith, James. 32. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Slauson, Ira M. 31. August 26, 1864. Avon. June 3, 1865. Substitute for 
 one year. 
 
 Sheeley, George W. 18. September 3, 1864. Rochester. June 3, 1865. Sub 
 stitute one year. 
 
 Trudden, John. 20. August 12, 1862, Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Taylor, George. 20. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Deserted July 2, 1863. 
 
 Thayer, Ruben E. 19. February 3, 1864. Ellicott. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 73d Regiment. 
 
 Toner, Frederick. 35. December 31, 1864. Chautauqua. June 3, 1865. 
 Transferred from 72nd Regiment. 
 
 Todd, Edward. 40. December 29, 1863. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 Regiment. Sick at general hospital. 
 
 Terwilliger, James H. 20. January 15, 1864. Transferred from 87th Regiment. 
 Wounded July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Van Wart, Frederick. 21. August 6, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Van Buren, Hiram. 27. August 7, 1862. Kingston. Wounded May 31, 1864. 
 In hospital. Discharged under General Order 77. 
 
 Van Aiken, Christopher C. 24. August 13, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Wounded May 5, and November 29, 1864. 
 
 Vetter, David. 21. August 22, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Wood, William S. 21. August 8, 1862. Kingston. Captured October lo, 
 1863, at Annapolis. Prisoner. Exchanged. 
 
 Wirtner, Baldas. 38. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd June 20, 1864. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 30 5 
 
 COMPANY H-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Winter, Theodore. 39. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd 
 Regiment. Absent, wounded. 
 
 Wirtner, Martin. 40. August 22, 1862. Dunkirk. October 19, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Williams, David. 30. August n, 1862. Kingston. April 20, 1863. Dis 
 charged on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Wonder, George H. 21. August 12, 1862. Kingston. January n, 1864. 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Yates, Charles M. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. January II, 1864. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
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3O6 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Company I was recruited in Kingston by Francis W. Reynolds, 
 and was known as the Havelock Company. Its first officers were : 
 Captain Francis W. Reynolds, First Lieutenant Alexander Austin, 
 and Second Lieutenant John S. Burhans. Captain Reynolds was 
 wounded at Chancellorsville so severely that he was unable to remain 
 in the service. Lieutenant John B. Krom of Company C was pro 
 moted to Captain and had command until disabled by a wound. 
 Lieutenant A. M. Barber, formerly of Company B, was promoted to- 
 Captain and commanded it until its muster out. First Lieutenant 
 Austin was discharged for physical disability and Second Lieutenant 
 Burhans was killed at Gettysburg, Pa. The Company was mustered 
 in United States service with three commissioned officers, and ninety- 
 one enlisted men. 
 
 Its losses from the original membees were : 
 
 Killed in action and died from wounds, officers . i 
 
 Killed in action and died from wounds, men 12 
 
 Died prisoners of war, enlisted men 7 
 
 Died of disease 7 
 
 Total deaths in service 27 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Officers 2 
 
 Men 13 
 
 1 5 
 Discharged for promotion, enlisted men 2 
 
 Transferred, etc. : 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 7 
 
 Transferred to Signal Corps i 
 
 Deserted : 7 
 
 Mustered out by general orders 35 50 
 
 Carried forward 94 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 Brought forward 94 
 
 It received by traasfer from other companies 4 officers. 
 On the muster out of the yist and 72nd Regiments in 
 Jnly, 1864, the men of those regiments whose terms of 
 enlistment had not expired were transferred to the i2Oth 
 Regiment. Company I received 42, and also received 
 19 recruits. Many of the transferred men never joined 
 the company, being absent sick or on detached service. 
 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Killed in action and died from wounds 5 
 
 Died of disease 3 
 
 Discharged for physical disability, officers 2 
 
 Discharged for physical disability, men. 8 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps i 
 
 Transferred to 73rd Regiment, .N. Y. Y 24 
 
 Deserted i 
 
 Mustered out by general orders, officers i 
 
 Mustered out bv general orders, men 18 63 
 
 Total enrollment 157 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Reynolds, Francis W. 24. August 22, 1862. Kingston. October 14, 1863. 
 Discharged on Surgeon s certificate of disability from wounds received at 
 Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Died at Kingston April 20, 1870. 
 
 Krum, John B. 22. . August 22, 1862. Kingston. October 19, 1864. Pro 
 moted from First Lieutenant Company C. Discharged by special order 354 
 War Department for wounds received in action. Residence, High lalls, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Barber, Ambrose M. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from private Company B to Sergeant November I, 1863. To Sergeant- 
 Major May 5, 1864. Second Lieutenant Company B August 16, 1864. lo 
 Captain Company I February 4, 1865. Residence, Brooklyn, N. \ . 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Austin, Alexander. 24. August 22, 1862. Kingston. October 7, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Brooks, Thaddeus C. 22. July 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Pro 
 moted from Sergeant Company A to Second Lieutenant June 24, 1804, in 
 Company A. To First Lieutenant Company I. 
 
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 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Burhans,John R. 25. August 22, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. Buried at Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 Rider, Albert E. 20. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Promoted from Corporal Co. 
 B. Discharged October 8, 1864, Special Order No. 338, A. G. O., Wai- 
 Department. Residence, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Cook, Philander. 25. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 3, 
 1865. Transferred from Company G, 82nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864, as 
 Corporal. Promoted to Second Lieutenant February 20, 1865. 
 
 FIRST SERGEANTS. 
 
 Johnston. Eugene C. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Captured at James 
 City Octobdr 10, 1863. Promoted to Second Lieutenant. Not mustered. 
 Discharged, under General Orders No. 77. Residence, Albany. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Jackson, James G. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. March 7, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. Residence, Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 DuBois, Lewis A. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Discharged August 16, 
 1864, to receive commission in Company E. 
 
 Bussimer, Louis. 30. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 Fisk, Charles W. 26. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Hale, Wilbur L. 22. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from Corporal March 7, 1863. Was wounded in right hand, right cheek bone 
 and left hip at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Captured at James City October 
 10, 1863. Exchanged October 20, 1864. Acting Sergeant-Major from May 
 15, 1865, until return and muster out of regiment. Residence, Rondout, N. Y. 
 
 Edson, Henry W. 29. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. Transferred to 
 73d N. Y. V. June i, 1865. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Delanoy, James M. 25. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Myer, Gilbert. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. i Killed in action at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Barnes, Josiah D. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Killed in action at Gettys 
 burg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Delamater, William P. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Died in Division hos 
 pital, Falmouth, Va., January 28, 1863, of typhoid fever. 
 
 Mead, Edgar H. 21. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Lewis, Egbert. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Promoted to 
 Corporal August 25, 1864. Residence, Rondout, N. Y. 
 
 Roosa, John P. 24. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. \Vounded 
 May 3, 1863, and May 5, 1864, and March 31, 1865. Residence, Hurley, N. Y. 
 
 Bishop, Ellis H. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Severely wounded March 
 25, 1865. Died at Rondout, N. Y. 
 
 Hart, Griffin A. 21. August 14, 1862. Kingston. \Vounded at Chancellors- 
 ville May 3, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. March 16, 1864. Residence, 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 39 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 CORPORALS Continued. 
 
 Weaver, George W. 21. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Promoted January 10, 
 
 1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
 May 31, 1864. Died at Kingston July 14, 1883. 
 Carle, Ezra. 21. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Detailed to Ambulance Corps 
 
 February, 1863. Taken prisoner at Mine Run, Va. Discharged under Gen 
 
 eral Orders No. 77. 
 Servoss, Norman W. 22. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk, N. Y. Transferred from 
 
 Company G, 72nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. Promoted March I, 1865. 
 
 Wounded and in general hospital. 
 Barrows, Alvin E. 20. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. Transferred to 
 
 73d Regiment, N. Y. V., June I, 1865. 
 Hanchett, James H. 23. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d IS. V . V. 
 
 Died at Waverly, Iowa, 1890. 
 Hough John M. 26. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V. Absent, wounded. Trans 
 
 ferred to 73d N. Y. V. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 McClung, Richard. 15. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Resi 
 
 dence, Kingston, N. Y. 
 Smith, George E. 16. August 14, 1862. Kingston. February 5, 1863. Dis 
 
 charged for physical disability. 
 Grimes, Thomas. 17. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia V.V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 7 2nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. 1 ransferred to 
 
 73nd N. Y. V. June I, 1865. 
 Hay, Alexander. 18. December 10, 1863. Dunkirk N. Y. Recruit. Trans 
 
 ferred from Company G, 7 2nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. Transferred to 73 d 
 
 N. Y. V. June i, 1865. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 Adams, James L. 18. September 2, 1864. Rushford, N. Y. June 3, 1865. 
 
 One year substitute. 
 Anglewood, John. 37. September 3, 1862. Buffalo, N. Y. June 3, I 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72110!., July 24, 1864. 
 Ambler, George W. 30. September 8, 1862 Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 
 from 72nd N. Y. V. Detailed on U. S. Military R. R. 
 Burgess. William D. 18. August 19, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Wound* 
 
 July 2, 1863. Residence, Rondout, N. \ . 
 Benson, Clinton M. 37. September II, 1862 Dunkirk, June 3, 1865. Trans- 
 
 ferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V., July 24, 1864. 
 
 eon. 25. December 21, 1863. Transferred from Company G, 7 2nd N. 
 Y. V. Transferred to 73d June I, 1865. 
 
 Burns, William. 24. August 15, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed m ac 
 tion at Gettysburg, Pa. 
 
3IO ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 PR i v ATES Continued. 
 Bogard, Theodore. 21. August 14, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Gettysburg, Pa. 
 Burhans, Abram. 27. August 14, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Gettysburg, Pa. 
 Bacon, Milton S. 22. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N.Y. V. July 24, 1864. Killed May 23, 
 
 1864. 
 Burke, William H. 19. August 9, 1862. Kingston. Taken prisoner, July 14, 
 
 1863. Died in Military prison, May 19, 1864. 
 
 Brockett, Jerry. 38. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V. Transferred to 73d N Y. V. 
 
 June i, 1865. 
 Dallas, Berry. 21. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from Company G, 72nd N. Y. V. July 24, 1864. Transferred to 
 
 73d N. Y. V.June i, 1865. 
 
 Carle, Uriah. 26. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Carle, Peter. 31. July 5, 1864. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Drafted. 
 Chichester, E. W. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Detailed 
 
 to Battery K, 4th Artillery. Residence, New York City. 
 
 Casper, Conrad H. 23. August 18. 1862. Kingston. October, 1863. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. Captain in Regular Army. 
 Chichester, John H. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. November 6, 1863. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Cornelius, Alonzo G. 24. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to Signal 
 
 Corps, Army Potomac, Order General Meade. Residence, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 
 Clapper, Jacob. 18. August 20, 1862. Kingston. September 30, 1864. Killed 
 
 on picket in front of Petersburg, Va. 
 Campbell, Henry M. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Deserted January 21, 
 
 1863. 
 Currie, Daniel II. 21. August 21, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from general 
 
 hospital. 
 Clark, Myrick. 19. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Wounded May 3, 1864, at 
 
 the Wilderness, Virginia. Went to hospital. Never returned to regiment. 
 Delamater, William. 24. August 8, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Detailed 
 
 at Corps headquarters. 
 Drautz, Louis. 18. August n, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Died at Ron- 
 
 dout, 1892. 
 Pavis, John W. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Sick in general hospital. 
 
 Discharged. General Order 77. Taken prisoner at Spottsylvania. 
 Davis, Green L. 20. August 15, 1862. Kingston. November 6, 1863. Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. Wounded, May 3, 1863. Residence, Marbletown, N. Y. 
 Davis, Clark. 27. August 16, 1862. Kingston. March 15, 1864. Transferred 
 
 to V. R. C. 
 Dwyer, Edmond. 26. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Eckert, David. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 Eltinge, John H. 18. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Sick in general hospital. 
 Eltinge, David R. 33. August, 1862. Kingston. April 9, 1864. Wounded at 
 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863." Discharged by order General Dix, New York. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. J OLS. 3 I I 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Eighmey, Miles M. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. 
 Gettysburg. 
 
 Everett, John. 18. August 14, 1862. Kingston. 
 
 Fuller, Lyman. 21. August 24, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Captured October 25, 1864, at Camp Parole. 
 
 Fox, Charles A. 22. August I, 1861. Westfield. August 7, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Fout, Michael. 18. February 13, 1865. Kingston. June I, 1865. Recruit. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 France, James N. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. May 5, 1864. Killed in 
 
 action at the Wilderness. 
 Garry, Michael. 19. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd July 24, 1864. Deserted August 9, 1864. 
 Goeler, William E. 27. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 730!. 
 Gibson, DewittJ. 19. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Gagan, Henry. 19. December 16, 1863. Dunkirk. June I, 1865. Recruit. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Gridley, Joseph. 21. August 14, 1862. Kingston. February 23, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 Hagan, Francis. 45. August 3, 1861. New York. November 15, 1864. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 Hoyt, Lewis. 29. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Hulbert, Jasper. 21. August, 1862. Kingston. August 14, 1863. Died from 
 
 wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 Hunt, Melvin H. 25. February 13, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. October 
 
 14,1864. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Killed in front of Petersburg. 
 Hoar, Henry J. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. October 30, 1864. Cap 
 tured October 10, 1864. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Joy, Albert E. 19. August 22, 1864. Colesville. March 21, 1865. Substi 
 tute. Died in general hospital. 
 
 Johnston, Richard A. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. May 16, 1864. Cap 
 tured October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 Jones, John R. 19. August 18, 1862. Kingston. Captured October 10, 1863. 
 
 Died 1872. 
 Jago, Thomas. 17. November 5, 1861. New York. November 15, 1864, 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 Keyes, George. 20. August 20, 1862. Kingston. May 15, 1863. Discharged 
 
 for physical disability. 
 Luckenbach, Frederick. 20. July 23, 1862. Kingston. Captured July 15, 
 
 1863. Exchanged. 
 Lacy, Sherman. 20. August 23, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Lunger, Munroe. 20. August 30, 1864. Catharine. June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 Louden, Samuel B. 23. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Wounded February 5, 1865. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
312 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Longyear, Aaron. 22. August 14, 1862. Kingston. January 15, 1865. Died 
 at Auger general hospital. 
 
 Lewis, Alonzo. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. March 6, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1863. Died in Richmond hospital. 
 
 Mitchell, John. 19. August 21, 1862. Kingston. September 28, 1864. Cap 
 tured October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Mawlin, Robert. 18. September I, 1864. Perry ville. March 25, 1865. Sub 
 stitute. Killed in charge in front of Petersburg. 
 
 Mahar, Michael. 36. August 27, 1864. Galen. March 25, 1865. Substitute. 
 Killed in charge in front of Petersburg. 
 
 Marshall, George. 18. August 26, 1864. Colesville. January 26, 1865. Died 
 in hospital of typhoid fever. 
 
 Moe, John J. 35. August 18, 1862. Kingston. January 25, 1864. Captured 
 October 10, 1864. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 McMurdy, Egbert. 25. August 15, 1862. Kingston. Wounded September,. 
 
 1864. Discharged under General Orders No. 77. Dead. 
 
 Myer, Andrew. 18. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Wounded. Discharged 
 under General Orders No. 77. 
 
 Maguill, Robert. 32. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1863. 
 
 Myers, John H. 24. August 21, 1862. Kingston. May 28, 1865. Died in 
 division hospital. 
 
 McGregor, Duncan. 32. September 10, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Morley, Harry D. 24. August 3, 1861. Westfield. August 7, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Expiration of term. 
 
 Mason, Charles. 18. August 3, 1861. Westfield. August 7, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Morris, Jonathan. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. February 14, 1863. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 
 McKenna, Francis. 29. February 10, 1865. New York. June I, 1865. Recruit. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 McGuire, Thomas. 33. February 12, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I,. 
 
 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Northrup, Calvin. 24. August 19, 1863. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Recruit. 
 Northrup, Austin. 21 December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 i, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Osterhoudt, William. 34. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from furlough 
 
 January, 1863. 
 
 Osgood, Joshua. 22. August 3, 1861. Westfield. September 23, 1864. Dis 
 charged for physical disability. 
 Pettis, Williard. 18. August 26, 1864. Colesville. Substitute. Wounded 
 
 March 25. Died April 16, 1865. 
 Peck, George W. 19. August 19, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Residence, 
 
 Kingston. 
 Parr, James. 20. August 15, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd, 
 Riseley, Aaron N. 18. August 14, 1862. Woodstock. Taken prisoner October 
 
 10, 1863. Exchanged, at Camp Parole. Residence, Woodstock. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 3 I 3 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Reynolds Ezra L 18 August 22, 1864. Coleville. Substitute captured No- 
 vember 6, 1864, at Camp Parole. 
 
 h 72nd! 8 AUgUSt 3 l86l< Westfield - Au S us t 7 , 1864. Transferred 
 
 Russell Jacob. 43 August 13, 1862. Kingston. September 13, 1863. Died 
 of disease at N. Y. general hospital. 
 
 Shore, Lewis M. 18. September 3, 1864. Grottus. September 17, 1864. Died 
 
 of typhoid fever at division hospital. 
 Slater, John H. 22. August 20, 1862. Kingston. January 14, 1864. Died of 
 
 typhoid fever at general hospital. 
 
 Smith, Andrew. 32. August 19, 1862. Kingston. April 11, 1863. Died of 
 heart disease at at regiment hospital. 
 
 Schepmoes, Samuel H. 20. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1864. 
 Wounded September 20, 1864. Died at Kingston, 1893. 
 
 Sutton, Andrew. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Sick at general hospital. 
 Mustered out General Order No. 77. 
 
 Shultis, Daniel. 29. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Streeter, Harvey H. 18. August 26, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Detailed to 4th N. Y. A. 
 
 Skeets, Samuel. 23. September 5, 1864. China. Substitute. Captured March 
 31, 1865. 
 
 Stow, Theodore H. C. 18. August 14, 1862. Kingston. Tanuary 7, 1863. 
 Discharged for physical disability. 
 
 Smith, John J. 43. August 14, 1862. Kingston. September 12, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Shader, Christopher T. 19. August 16, 1862. Kingston. July 18, 1864. Dis 
 charged for wounds received at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Residence, Kings 
 ton. 
 
 Smedus, Nathanial B. 27. August 18,1862. Kingston. May 16,1865. Wounded 
 
 September 15, 1864. Residence, Kingston. 
 Schaffner, Frederick. 24. December 24, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. May 
 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72110!. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Schnader, Charles. 36. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 
 I, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Turner, Hugh. 24. December 21, 1863. Brandy Station, Virginia. June I, 
 
 1865. V. V. Transfsrred from 72nd. Transferred to 73d. 
 Taylor, David L. 25. August 20, 1862. Kingston. Deserted January 21, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Terwilliger, Jacob R. 23. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Trempbour, John C. 28. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Van Keuren, Bruyn. 18. August 14, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. Died 
 1873- 
 
 Vanderbogert, John J. 24. August 18, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Vandeveer, Brodhead W. 19. August 8, 1862. Kingston. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Van Nostrand, Marenus. 18. August 18, 1862. Kingston. November 21, 
 1864. Wounded May 5, 1864. Discharged for physical disability. Resi 
 dence, New York. 
 
 Volgstead, Francis. 32. December 4, 1863. Dunkirk. June I, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Transferred to 7jd. 
 
3 I 4 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY I-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Vanderbogert, Philip. 19. August 18, 1862. Kingston. January 22, 1863. 
 
 Died of typhoid fever at division hospital. 
 Van Aiken, Jeremiah. 26. August 19, 1862. Kingston. February 5, 1863. 
 
 Died of typhoid fever at division hospital. 
 Vandemark, William E. 24. August 18, 1862. Kingston. September 28, 1864. 
 
 Killed in charge on Fort Davis, Petersburg, Virginia. 
 Van Gaasbeck, John T. 18. Augest 18, 1862. Kingston. Captured October 10, 
 
 1863. Died at Richmond, Va. 
 Warner, Justus. 26. August 11, 1862. Kingston. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 
 battle of Gettysburg. 
 Walker, George W. 20. February 1 6, 1864. New York. June I, 1865. Taken 
 
 prisoner May 5, 1864, in Wilderness. Recruit. Transferred to 73d. 
 Willis, Charles. 19. August 4, 1862. Kingston. Deserted from general hos 
 pital. 
 
 Whittier, Joseph. 25. February 13, 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Captured October 27, 1864. 
 
 Warren, Samuel. 18. September 2, 1864. Andover. June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 
 Webster, William C. 22. February 13. 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. June 
 3, 1865. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Captured March 25, 1865. 
 
 Willing, John C. 20. August 3, 1861. Westfield. August 7, 1864. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Expiration term, enlistment. 
 
 Webber, William B. 33. August 12, 1862. Kinsgton. December 26, 1862. 
 Discharged for disability. 
 
 Winfield, Jacob H. 19. August 14, 1862. Kingston. December 23, 1864. 
 Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 2Oth N. Y. M. Residence, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Young, Jeremiah. 18. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Wounded May 6, 1864. 
 Lost a leg. Residence, Accord, N. Y. 
 
 Youse, Frederick P. 27. August 19, 1862. Kingston. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 1 I 5 
 
 \J 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 Company K was raised in the towns of Cairo, Greenville, Dur 
 ham and Windham, Greene County. Durham raised by voluntary 
 subscriptions through the efforts of A. H. Hayes, Supervisor of the 
 town, a bounty of fifty dollars for each recruit from that town, in ad 
 dition to the State bounty of fifty dollars, and the United States 
 bounty of one hundred dollars. The first enlistment for this Com 
 pany was on July 3ist, and inside of twenty days it was in camp at 
 Kingston with full ranks. It was mustered into the United States 
 service with the regiment August 22nd, 1862, and was a part of the 
 regiment during its whole term of service. The first winter at Fal- 
 mouth, Va., it suffered severely from sickness by April ist, 1863, 
 thirteen of its number had died from disease and exposure. At 
 Chancellorsville it had one man mortally wounded and three severely 
 wounded. At Gettysburg it lost one officer and five men killed and 
 mortally wounded, and one officer and fifteen men wounded out of 
 forty men engaged in action. At James City eleven men were cap 
 tured, six of whom died at Andersonville, the other captured men 
 were prisoners from twelve to eighteen months. In the Wilderness 
 campaign, Lieutenant John I. Lockwood was killed while temporar 
 ily in command of the Company. 
 Its losses from the original members were : 
 
 Killed and mortally wounded in action, officers. .. i 
 
 Killed and mortally wounded in action, men 8 
 
 Died at Andersonville 6 
 
 Died of disease and exposure 1 8 
 
 Total deaths in service 33 
 
 There were discharged for physical disability : 
 
 Officers i 
 
 Men 9 
 
 10 
 
 Transferred, etc. : 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, men 9 
 
 Transferred by promotion and to other regiments. . 2 
 
 Carried forward - i r 43 
 
I 6 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S.-VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 Brought forward n 43 
 
 Mustered out with regiment and by general orders. 39 
 Deserted 7 57 
 
 100 
 
 Of the additions to the Company : 
 
 Received by promotion from other companies, officers 2 
 
 Recruits in 1 864 6 
 
 Transferred from 7ist and 72nd Regiments, July, 
 
 1864.- . 58 66 
 
 Total enrollment 1 66 
 
 Of these transferred men only sixteen joined the Company, the 
 others being absent, sick, detailed, missing in action, deserters, etc. 
 One of these men was killed in action and one died of disease. The 
 others were mustered out with the regiment and by general orders or 
 transferred to the 73d Regiment. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Pierson, James M. 32. August 22, 1862. Cairo. March 17, 1863. Discharged 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. Re-entered the service as Captain I5th 
 N. Y. Eng. Served to close of the war. Married. Living in New York 
 city. 
 
 Barker, Ayers G. 30. August 22, 1862. Greenville. July 2, 1863. First 
 Lieutenant Company A, 2Oth N. Y. M. Three months service. Promoted 
 from First Lieutenant March 17, 1863. Killed in action at Gettysburg. Left 
 a family. 
 
 Everett, James H. 25. August 22, 1863. Durham. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from Second Lieutenant to rank from July 2, 1863. Detailed to Draft Ren 
 dezvous N. Y., July 27, 1863. Returned to regiment August 7, 1864. 
 Slightly wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1862. Severely on picket line in 
 front of Fort Sedgvvick September 12, 1864. Breveted Major N. Y. V. 
 Located in Kingston August I, 1866. Married. Engaged in the wholesale 
 flour, feed and provision trade. Was first Commander of Pratt Post, No. 127, 
 G. A. R. Has been President and Treasurer of the !2Oth Regimental Union. 
 Was elected to the New York Assembly of 1890 from the First District of 
 Ulster County. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Barber, George P. 25. August 22, 1862. Catskill. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 from Quartermaster-Sergeant May I, 1863. For 18 years Mr. Barber was one 
 of the City Editors of the Pittsburg Dispatch, and later was employed on the 
 Times in the same capacity. Died in Pittsburg, Pa., May 4, 1888. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 3 I / 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Funck, Henry. Transferred from yist Regiment as First Sergeant. Promoted to 
 Second Lieutenant October 12, 1864. Promoted to First Lieutenant Company 
 E, February 4, 1865. 
 
 Ross, Orville A. 18, June, 1861. Jamestown. June 3, 1865. Transferred from 
 72nd Regiment as Sergeant October, 1864. Was in all the battles of the Ex 
 celsior Brigade, including Spottsylvania Court House, where he was severely 
 wounded in left thigh, and was in hospital five months. V. V. First Ser 
 geant January I, 1865. Second Lieutenant February 4, 1865. Occupation 
 salesman. Address, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Richtmyer, James H. 23. July 31, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1863. Returned to 
 ranks June 7, 1864. Service with Pioneer Corps. 
 
 Ebersole, Charles. 23. December 22, 1863. April 28, 1865. Transferred 
 from 72nd August 20, 1863, Corporal. First Sergeant October 12, 1864. 
 Discharged by General Order 77. 
 
 Lake, Philetus. 21. August 19, 1862. Greenville. June 3, 1865. First Ser 
 geant April I, 1865. Wounded in hip and shoulder in front of Petersburg 
 June 16, 1864. Residence, Oneonta, N. Y. 
 
 Woolhiser, Charles P. 20. August 2, 1862. Windham. Wounded in leg at 
 Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Discharged by General Order W. D. No. 77. 
 
 Jones, Daniel S. 22. August 15, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865. Detailed to 
 Division Ambulance Corps May I, 1863. Present occupation, farmer. Resi 
 dence, East Durham. Has been Justice of the Peace the past 12 years. 
 
 Craft, Albert. 22. August 13, 1862. Ashland. June 8, 1865. Promoted from 
 Corporal November I, 1864. Wounded in right hand March 25, 1865. Dis 
 charged under General Order No. 77 from Lincoln general hospital, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. His father and six of his father s brothers were in the war for 
 the Union. His grandfather was a Captain in the war of 1812. Is now 
 engaged in farming at Hobart, Delaware county, N. Y. 
 
 Sheffield, Mil o. 21. August 2, 1862. Windham. September 12, 1862. De 
 serted from camp near Washington. 
 
 Grannis, Charles O. 20. July 31, 1862. Cairo. Promoted from Corporal 
 March I, 1865. Wounded at Chancellorsville. Taken prisoner at James 
 City, confined in Libby, Belle Island and Andersonville 14 months. 3 months 
 service in 1861 with 2Oth N. Y. M. Discharged from Annapolis Junction, Md. 
 by General Order No. 77. Has been a letter carrier in New York city since 
 September 13, 1870. 
 
 McWilliams, John B. 21. August 15, 1862. Cairo. December 11, 1862. Died 
 of disease at Fairfax Seminary hospital. 
 
 Walters, Nelson. 27. August 1 1, 1862. Cairo. June 2, 1864. Captured at James 
 City, October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Plimley, William. 23. August 12, 1862. Catskill, N. Y. June 3, 1865 Pro 
 moted to Corporal Sergeant, Second and First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain 
 U S V Served as aid on staff of Brigadier-General, McAllister. Ap 
 pointed clerk in New York city Post Office in 1865. Promoted to General 
 Superintendent of the Money Order Department. A position he still holds. 
 
 Hannah, James D. 23. December 23, 1863. October 18, 1864. V. V. Trans- 
 ferred from 72nd. Discharged as supernumary. 
 
 Rice George B. 42. December 22, 1863. October 18, 1864. V. V. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Discharged as supernumary. 
 
i8 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY K-Continuecl. 
 
 SERGEANTS Continued. 
 
 Rice, William H. 28.^ August 12, 1862. October 18, 1864. Transferred from 
 
 72nd. Discharged as supernumary. 
 Wilson, Edward. 36. December 23, 1863. October 18, 1864. V. V Trans 
 
 ferred from 7 1st. Discharged as supernumary. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Cornwall, George W. 22. August 5, 1862. Cairo. Wounded at Gettysburg, 
 
 July 2, 1863. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Smith Henry. 27 August 9, 1862. Durham. April 10, 1864. Transferred to 
 
 V. 1\. v^ JL)C3,C1 
 
 Johnson, William. 35. August 11, 1862. Greenville. February 18 1864 
 Discharged for disability. 
 
 Layman, Chauncey. 35. August 1 1, 1862. Durham. August 18 1864 Can 
 tured at James City, October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Brooks, Isaac N. 22. August 18, 1862. Greenville. April 7 186? Died of 
 disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Belts, John H. 24. July 31 1862. Cairo. May 12, 1865. Severely wounded 
 in neck at Gettysburg. Mustered out by General Order No. 77. Died 1884 
 
 Tibbals, George H. 19. August 2, 1862. Windham. July 2, 1867. Killed in 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 
 Banks, Sherwood. 22. August 15, 1862. Durham. January 10, 1864 Trans 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Bennett, Lemuel L. 19. August 4, 1862. Cairo. Promoted May i 1861 
 Present residence, Catskill. J 
 
 White, George E. 19. August 6, 1862. Ashland. June 5, 1865 Captured 
 October 10 1863 Paroled November 20, 1864. Discharged from Annapolis 
 Junction, Md. Present occupation, painter. Residence, Pulaski, N. Y. 
 
 Howard, Isaac S. 22 August 19 1862. Cairo. June 29, 1865. Promoted 
 Nov. I, 1864. Wounded March 25, 1865. Occupation, carpenter. Resi 
 dence, Cairo, N. Y. 
 
 Crane Charles H 18 August 15, 1862. Durham. Tune 3, 1865. Wounded 
 at Gettysburg!!, July 2, 1863. Promoted Nov. i, 1864. Manufacturer. De 
 posit, N. Y. 
 
 Walters, Stephen. 19. August 19, 1862. Greenville. June 3, 1865. Promoted 
 March i, 1865. Married. Three children at Bon Homme, South Dakota. 
 
 Hammond, William. 41. August 5, 1862. New York city. April 28 186? 
 Transferred from 72nd. Wounded July 30, 1864. 
 
 Manck, John. 24. August 24, 1862. Sheridan. June 3, 186,-. Transferred 
 from 72nd. 
 
 Morris, Thomas II. 26. August 16, 1862. Cairo. 1862. Deserted from 
 hospital. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Spencer, Luther H. 18. August 12, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865. Cabinet 
 maker. Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 DeFrate, Edsell. 22. August n, 1862. Durham. Transferred to 2oth Regi 
 ment V. R. C. Re-enlisted in Regulars. Died at Fort Maginnes, Montana, 
 February 24, 1886. 
 
 McDonald, Michael. 24. December 25, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 7ist. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Gore, William T. 17. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 7ist. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 3 I 9 
 
 PRIVATES. COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 Augustus, Nathan. 22 .August 14, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865 Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg. Died at Oak Hill, N. Y., 1886. 
 Abbott William M. 25 September 26, 1862. Transferred from 7 2nd Clerk 
 
 at Camp Parole. Discharged under General Orders No. 77 
 Ammerman, George P. 21. August n, 1862. New York city. Time- i86<. 
 
 Iransferred from 72nu July 21, 1864. y J J 5 
 
 Arnold, Jacob 30. August i, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, i86c Transfer^ 
 from 72nd October 30, 1864. 
 
 Austin, William M. 42. August 4, 1862. Greenville. April 26 1864 Dis 
 charged by order Major-General Hancock. 
 
 Abrams, Epinetus. 38 August 5, 1862. Greenville. May 26, 1863 Died of 
 wounds received at Chancellorsville. 
 
 Abrams, William 40. August 5, 1862. Greenville. July 2, 1863. Brother of 
 
 above. Killed in action at Gettysburg. 
 Babcock, Minard .28. August 22, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 Dakotl 2 3 l864 RCSideS at Burbank Clay County?iouth 
 
 Berry, Joseph. 18. August 26, 1864. Oswego. June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 
 Bullard David H. 23. August 15, 1862. Windham. June 3, i86c. Wounded 
 
 y Urg ^ iU WdSt at MinC Run> Ham smaker Pratts 
 
 N A Y., 2 i 3 88o AUgUSt 4> l862 Windham " J une 3> 1865. Died at 
 
 Burgess Allan D. 23. August 5, 1862. Greenville. November 21, 1862 Died 
 
 oi disease at St. Aloysing hospital, Washington. 
 Brown, Warren. 19. August 14, 1862. Durham. April 14, 1864. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1862. Died at Andersonville. 
 
 Blaisdell, John. 28. August 10, 1862. Greenville. June 25, 1863. Deserted- 
 Barnes, John. 36. August 25, 1862. New York city. November 7 1864 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. Died of wounds near Petersburg, Va. 
 Craw, Lucius. 23. August 9, 1862. Greenville. June 25, 1863. Deserted. 
 Curry, Ebenezer. 36. August 8, 1862. Transferred from 72nd. Deserted 
 
 while on furlough May 17, 1864. 
 
 Core, Thomas. 38. August 12, 1861. New York city. Transferred from 72nd 
 
 July 21, 1864. Deserted from Signal Corps. 
 Butcher, John. 20. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Missing in action May 10, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 Chappel, Lewis. 23. August 14, 1862. Cairo. April 28, 1865. Discharged 
 
 under General Orders No. 27, W. D. 
 
 Conway. Isaac. 39. August 19, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Cudbirth, Thomas. 18. August 25, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 Carson, Robert. 37. September 13, 1861. New York city. September 14, 
 
 1864. Transferred from 72nd. Discharged on expiration of term. 
 Cunningham, Patrick. 27. December 22, 1864. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Cornell, Leonard B. 17. August 11, 1862. Windham. August 19, 1865. 
 Wounded in thigh and arm; bone splintered in both. Transferred to V. R. 
 C. Lawyer, Catskill, until 1885. Receiver, etc., U. S. Land Office at 
 Spokane Falls, W. T. 
 
32O ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH X. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Cornell, Isaac N. 55. August n, 1862. Windham. July 2, 1863. Father of 
 
 above missing at Gettysburg. Undoubtedly killed. 
 Crandell, John F. 21. August n, 1862. Windham. July 9, 1864. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 Dobler, George. 27. December 25, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Absent, wounded. Transferred to 73d. 
 Donaldson, Frederick. 22. September 10, 1861. Boston, Mass. September 10, 
 
 1864. Transferred from 72nd. Discharged. Expiration of term. 
 Eldrige, Theodore. 25. August 10, 1862. Greenville. June 3, 1863. Died of 
 
 disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 Fry, Joseph H. 23. August 27, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. Teamster. Died at Buffalo. 
 Felt, Alvin B. 23. August II, 1862. Cairo. April 12, 1865. In all the 
 
 engagements of the Regiment to Battle of the Wilderness inclusive, where he 
 
 was severely wounded. Transferred to V. R. C. and discharged thereupon 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. Has since resided in Philadelphia and 
 
 Rich Hill, Pa. Occupation, agent and farmer. 
 Fitzgibbon, Patrick. 40. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Transferred to V. R. C. March 19, 1865. 
 Fitzsimmons, Thomas. 42. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Missing in action May 10, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 Germain, Irving T. 18. August 15, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865. Wounded 
 
 June 27, 1864. 
 Golder, George W. 34. August 21, 1862. New York city. April } 1865. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. Discharged by General Orders No. 77. 
 Gorslin, James M. 21. August 12, 1862. Cairo. February 12, 1863. Died of 
 
 disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 Griffin, Charles B. 18. August n, 1862. February 3, 1863. Died of disease at 
 
 Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Green, John. 25. September I, 1864. Howard. Substitute. Transferred to 73d. 
 Hemsley, Grove. 18. August 31, 1864. Dryden. Substitute. Captured March 
 
 25, 1865. Discharged by General Orders No. 77. 
 Hallo well t John. 21. September 22, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 72nd. Wounded in right hand. Discharged by General Order 77. 
 Hannah, George. 39. August 19, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 72nd. Captured March 25, 1865. Discharged by General Order 77. 
 Hopkins, William W. 36. August 7, 1862. Windham. Discharged by Gen - 
 
 eral Order 77. Died at Windam August 6, 1865. 
 
 Hardick, John. 44. August, 1862. Windam. June 3, 1865. Dead. 
 Hallenbeck, William. 23. August, 1862. Durham. April 28, 1865. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1863. At Andersonville, till near the close of the war. Discharged 
 
 at Annapolis, Md., General Order 77. Resides at Oak Hill. Occupation, 
 
 moulder. 
 Hollohan, Robert. 33. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Wounded May 6, 1864. Transferred to 73d. 
 Iligley, John R. 24. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 Halley, Patrick. 21. November 7? 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 
 72nd. Ex-prisoner. Discharged by General Order 77. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y.S. VOLS. 321 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Hotchkiss, Lewis. 23. August, 1862. Durham. June n, 186-?. Died at Wash 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 Ilapeman, Robert 18. August 4, 1862. Windham. February 7, 1863. Died 
 of disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Holmes, Charles. 28. August 13, 1862. Windham. February i, 1863. Died 
 of disease at Annapolis, Md. 
 
 I lollenbeck, Edward. 27. August n, 1862. Durham. November 30, 1862 
 Deserted. 
 
 Jameson, Samuel. 36. August 16, 1862. New York city. June 3 i86c 
 Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Johnson, Frank. 18. August 23, 1862. Oswego, June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 
 Johnson, John. 40. September 13, 1862. New York city. December 8, 1864. 
 Transferred from 72nd. Discharged for disability. 
 
 Judd, Ezekiel K. 16. August 4, 1862. Windham. May 12, 1864. Discharged 
 for disability. Living at Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 Jennie, John F. 18. August 4, 1862. Windham. Transferred to V. R. C. 
 Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 215 Pennsylvania Volunteers. Mustered out 
 August 11, 1865. Secretary of Hudson Insurance Company of Jersey City, 
 from 1868 to 1880. Appointed United States Consul at Neuvie Laredo, 
 Mexico, January, 1880. Transferred to Simcoe, Canada, September, 1882. 
 Died there of consumption April 22, 1883. 
 
 Kiser, Frank M. 18. September I, 1864. Dryden. June 3, 1865. Substitute. 
 
 Kinch, Harvey. 40. August 24, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Knapp, Ambrose. 21. August n, 1862. Greenville. June 3, 1865. Detailed 
 to Battery K. 4th U. S. Artillery. Quarryman, \Vilton, Greene County, N. Y. 
 
 Koch, Herman. 20. December 24, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Kipp, Henry C. 20. August 19, 1862. Greenville. March 13, 1863. Died of 
 disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Keating, Thomas. 39. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd as 
 missing in action, May 10, 1864. 
 
 Lee, Robert. 18. August I, 1862. Cairo. June 22, 1865. Detailed to Battery 
 K, 4th U. S. Artillery. Accidently injured October, 1864, and transferred to 
 V. R. C. Teamster, Cairo, N. Y. 
 
 Lee, Stewart. 25. August I, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. Regimental team, 
 ster. Teamster, \Vest Hurley. 
 
 Lennon, Lewis B. 23. August u, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. Died at Cairo, 
 1889. 
 
 Lindsley, Charles L. 22. August 1 1, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. 
 
 Layman, Alexander. 18. August 15, 1862. Durham. June 3,^1865. Wounded 
 at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 
 
 McGuire, John. 20. August 25, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Discharged by General Orders No. 77. 
 
 McGuire, Michael. 26. September I, 1862. New York city. Transferred from 
 72nd. Captured March 31, 1865. Ex-prisoner at Annapolis, Md. 
 
 Murphy, John. 24. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. Ab 
 sent. Sick. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 21 
 
322 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 PR IV ATES Continued. 
 
 Maynard, Ililand. 26. August 13, 1862. Windham. January 29, 1863. Died 
 of disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 McCloskey, Dennis. 30. August 15, 1862. Durham. July 2, 1863. Killed in 
 
 action at Gettysburg. 
 Marshall, Joseph. 20. August 16, 1862. Windham. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Missing in action, May 5, 1864. Never heard from. 
 Missell, John. 40. August 12, 1862. New York city. October 12, 1864. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. Died of disease at Beverly, N. J. 
 Nolen, Thomas. 40. December 2, 1 86 1. New York city. December 2, 1864. 
 
 Transferred frcm 72nd. Discharged expiration enlistment. 
 Olmstead, Willis. 20. August 12, 1862. Windham. Sick in general hospital. 
 
 Mustered out General Order 77. 
 
 O Brien, Patrick. 28. December 25, 1863. Transferred from ;ist as deserted 
 from furlough April I, 1864. 
 
 Preston, David S. 24. August 12, 1862. Windham. June 3, 1865. Living at 
 Catskill. 
 
 Post; Ezra R. 29. August 15, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865. Wounded in 
 thigh at Gettysburg. In hospital seven months. Pension $2 per month. 
 Living at Lansingburg, N. Y. 
 
 Palmer, John. 35. August 2, 1862. New York city. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Pipp, John. 41. August 27, 1862. Dunkirk. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Wounded March 25, 1865. Mustered out General Order No. 77. 
 
 Pepper, Jasper W. 18. August 31, 1864. Reading. June 3, 1865. Substi 
 tute. 
 
 Paul, James D. 42. August 12, 1861. New York city. August 12, 186^. 
 
 Transferred from 72110!. Mustered out expiration term. 
 Porter, Orin. 22. August 8, 1862. Durham. November 28, 1862. Discharged 
 
 for disability February, 1864. Enlisted in I5th N. Y. Eng. Mustered out 
 
 with regiment. Farmer, Sandage, Kansas. 
 Perkins, John. 41. December 22, 1863. April 28, 1865. V. V. Captured 
 
 March 25, 1865. Discharged General Order 77. 
 Payne, Charles R. 27. August u, 1862. Windham. May 5, 1864. Killed in 
 
 action at battle of the Wilderness. 
 
 Quinn, Christopher. 26. December 22, 1862. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Robinson, Samuel. 30. August 26, 1862. Sheridan. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 ferred from 72nd. Teamster division supply team. 
 
 Rockafellow, Hiram. 22. August 18, 1862. Durham. July 10, 1863. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Rearadon, John 40. December 22, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Wounded March 25, 1865. Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Richardson, William. 25. December 24, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Transferred to 73d. 
 
 Russell, Peter. 27. August 13, 1862. Greenville. May 10, 1863. Died of 
 disease at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Rood, Almeran. 21. August 18, 1862. Durham. January 26, 1864. Died of 
 disease at Brandy Station, Virginia. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 323 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES - Continued. 
 
 Reynolds, Ira S 15. August 4, 1862. Windham. August 10, 1864 Wounded 
 in thigh at Gettysburg. Transferred to 2 oth Regiment, V. R. C Discha med 
 
 
 
 Poso. A R. amier aiK SC tCaCer Wmdham. Pas 
 Stoddard, Lorenzo F. 19. August 15, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. 
 Silvernail, David. 19. August 16, 1862. Cairo. Absent, sick. Discharged 
 
 General Order 77 April 28, 1865. 
 Spencer, William H. 24. August 16, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 
 October TO, 1863. In Libby, Belle Island and Andersonville until April 6 
 
 1865. Farmer. Acra, N. Y. 
 
 Shortman, John II 19. August 14, 1862. Durham. June 3, 1865. Captured 
 jort N Y A pds ner l8 montns > l8 da ys- Paper-maker. Stock- 
 
 Smith, Allen T. 19. August 12, 1862. Durham. [111163,1865. 
 
 . Wounded 
 
 Sutherland, Walter. 20. August 15, 1862. Durham. December 6 1862. Dis 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Scutt, Robert. 38. August 4, 1862. Cairo. June 12, 1863. Discharged for 
 
 disability. Living at Catskill. 
 Stevenson, Robert A. 21. August 21, 1861. New York city. August 12, 1864. 
 
 Transferred from 72nd. Discharged. Expiration of term. 
 Smith, Origen A. 24. August u, 1862. Durham. September I, 1867. Trans 
 
 ferred to V. R. C. 
 
 Smith, Henry A. 26. August n, 1862. Durham. September I, 1862. Claimed 
 
 as a deserter from 4th N. Y. A. 
 Smith, Charles. 19. December 31, 1863. V. V. Transferred from 72nd. 
 
 Absent, sick. Transferred to 73d. 
 Snyder, M. L. Demerest. 18. August u, 1862. Durham. March 10, 186?. 
 
 Died at Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Snyder, Edward. 32. August 13, 1862. Windham. March 27, 1863. Died at 
 Falmouth, Va. 
 
 Slater, Smith. 20. August u, 1862. Windham. March 8, 1863. Died at Fal 
 mouth, Va. 
 
 Strawbinger, Andrew. 41. August 19, 1862. Cairo. October 15, 1863. Died 
 
 at Fairfax Seminary Hospital. 
 Sleigle, John R. 42. August I, 1862, Durham. Wounded at Gettysburg. 
 
 Captured October lo, 1863. Died at Andersonville. 
 Talcot, Charles H. 25. September 30, 1862. Brooklyn. June 3, 1865. Trans 
 
 ferred from 72nd. 
 
 Taylor, George. 34. August 20, 1862. Transferred from 72nd. Wounded in 
 Wilderness. Captured March 25, 1865. Discharged under General Orders 
 
 No. 77. 
 
 Thomas, William A. 26. August 8, 1862. Cairo. September 12, 1862. 
 
 Deserted. 
 Vining, William II. 18. August n, 1862. Cairo. March 4, 1864. Wounded 
 
 at Gettysburg. Discharged for disability. 
 
324 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 COMPANY K-Continued. 
 
 PRIVATES Continued. 
 
 Van Aiken, Giles. 25. August 12, 1862. Windliam. November 8, 1863. 
 Wounded. Transferred to V. R. C. Discharged July 13, 1865. Living at 
 Margaretville, N. Y. 
 
 Wiltsie, George. 24. August II, 1862. Cairo. June 3, 1865. Regimental 
 
 teamster. Died 1884. 
 Waterman, Alfred. 49. August 8, 1862. Ashland. December 14, 1862. Died 
 
 at general hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Wheeler, Truman H. 32. August n, 1862. Durham. October 8, 1863. 
 
 W T ounded at Gettysburg. Died from effect at hospital in Baltimore. 
 Wilbur Esseck G. 22. August 11, 1862. September 15, 1864. Captured 
 
 October 10, 1863. Died at Andersonville. Extracts from his prison diary are 
 
 published in the Regimental History. 
 Williams, John II. 39. September 19, 1861. New York city. September 24, 
 
 1864. Transferred from 72nd. 
 Walters, Moses. 18. August 7, 1862. Cairo. October 14, 1864. Wounded at 
 
 Gettysburg, resulting in loss of foot. Light House Keeper, Coxsackie, N. V . 
 Whitman, Lawrence D. 18. August n, 1862. Cairo. June 25, 1863. Deserted. 
 Yerger, Mathias. 32. August 22, 1862. Dunkirk. June 3, 1865. Transferred 
 
 from 72nd. 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 SUMMARY OF LOSS BY DEATH FROM THE 
 FOREGOING COMPANY RECORDS. 
 
 COMPANIES. 
 
 KILLED AND DIED OF WOUNDS 
 
 DIED OF DISEASE, IN PRISON ,&c 
 
 Total 
 
 
 Officers. 
 
 Men. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Officers. 
 
 Men. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Enroll 
 ment. 
 
 Field and Staff. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Company A... 
 
 I 
 
 12 
 
 3 
 
 
 9 
 
 ; 9 
 
 17 
 144 
 
 
 - 
 
 !4 
 
 14 
 
 I 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 164 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 . 
 
 H 
 
 14 
 
 152 
 
 E.__ 
 F... 
 
 2 
 I 
 
 9 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 1 1 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 I 3 6 
 
 53 
 
 176 
 
 H... 
 I... 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 
 20 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 18 
 
 I 
 
 9 
 3 
 
 J 7 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 152 
 
 K... 
 
 I 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 
 25 
 
 25 
 
 1 66 
 
 Totals. 
 
 II 
 
 117 
 
 128 
 
 3 
 
 148 
 
 ,5- 
 
 1,562 
 
 
 Total deaths in service, 279 ; Total wounded in action, as by 
 Regimental Adjutant s report, 394 ; Total captured at James City 
 (112) and at other places as by Adjutant s report (131), 243. 
 
 There were over two thousand regiments in the Union Army. 
 Fox s "Regimental Losses" gives the One Hundred and Twentieth 
 Regiment a place in his list of " three hundred fighting regiments," 
 and also in his list of eleven regiments that includes every infantry 
 regiment in the service which lost eight or more officers killed in any 
 one engagement. 
 
 He gives the killed and died of wounds at 151 ; died of disease in 
 prison, etc., 182 ; a total of deaths in the service, 333. This differ 
 ence ma\ be accounted for from the fact that the foregoing summary 
 
326 ON/-: HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. 
 
 of losses is made from the muster out rolls at the close of the war, 
 while Fox s tables, published in 1889, are compiled largely from state 
 records, after the fate of many men borne on the muster out rolls as 
 "missing in action"/ had been ascertained. 
 
 The following list of Battles of the One Hundred and Twentieth, 
 and the number of killed and mortally wounded in each, with the 
 notes following, is an extract from "Regimental Losses in The 
 American Civil War," by William F. Fox, Lt. Col., U. S. V. : 
 
 BATTLES. KILLED AND MORTALLY WOUNDED. 
 
 Chancellorsville, Va 13 
 
 Gettysburg, Pa 54 
 
 James City, Va 3 
 
 Mine Run, Va 4 
 
 Wilderness, Va 1 1 
 
 Spottsylvania, Va 3 
 
 North Anna, Va i 
 
 Totopotomoy, Va 3 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va 2 
 
 Siege of Petersburg, Va 25 
 
 Strawberry Plains, Va i 
 
 Poplar Spring Church, Va i 
 
 Boy d ton Road, Va 13 
 
 Hatcher s Run, Va. (March 25, 1865) 12 
 
 White Oak Road, Va 4 
 
 Picket Line, Va . i 
 
 Present, also, at Fredericksburg ; Wapping Heights ; Kelly s Ford ; 
 Po River ; Deep Bottom ; Sailor s Creek ; Farmville ; Appomattox. 
 
 NOTES. Recruited in Ulster and Greene counties (Tenth Senatorial 
 District), and organized at Kingston, N. Y. It was mustered into 
 service on August 22, 1862, with 900 men, and was ordered imme 
 diately to Washington, where it went into camp near the Chain Bridge. 
 It was attached, soon after, to the famous Excelsior Brigade, in which 
 command it was under fire at Fredericksburg, where a few of the men 
 were wounded. The regiment was actively engaged at Chancellors 
 ville then in Berry s Division exhibiting a commendable steadiness 
 and efficiency. Its loss in that battle was 4 killed, 49 wounded, and 
 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH N. Y. S. VOLS. $2*] 
 
 13 missing. At Gettysburg in Humphrey s Division it became 
 involved in the disaster of the second day s battle, but like the rest of 
 the Third Corps, it fell back in good order to the second line, fighting 
 as it \ven f . Its casualties in this battle aggregated 30 killed, 1 54 
 wounded, and 19 missing ; total, 203. Eight officers were killed 
 and 9 wounded in that battle. The Third Corps having been merged 
 into the Second, the One Hundred and Twentieth was placed in 
 Brewster s Brigade of Mott s Division, and from that time fought under 
 the Second Corps flags, the men, however, retaining their old Third 
 Corps badge. Mott s division having been discontinued, the Excelsior 
 Brigade was placed in Birney s (3d) Division, becoming the Fourth 
 Brigade. General Mott succeeded eventually to the command of this 
 division, and Colonel McAllister to that of the brigade. At the 
 Wilderness the regiment lost 5 killed, 48 wounded, and 8 missing ; 
 at the battle on the Boydton Road, 8 killed, 30 wounded, and 21 
 missing ; at Hatchers Run, 6 killed, 32 wounded, and 46 missing. 
 Mustered out June 3, 1865. 
 
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