The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-02-26

on foot T. was ip<these 'ce4arsh at
our comp any suffered so, as did the
whole Regiment. The Color Sergeant
was shot while in the thicket. but one
of Co.. 's men took the flag aud bore
it away few rods and being so weak
from a wound that he had received, he
gave the flag to Lieut.. Granger of Co,
| F; he did not carry the colors far be-
fore Corporal of his Company, took
them and bore them through the re-
mainder Of the fight. After we had
reiterated across the Six Mile Pike,
there was another Division; they
fought like heroes. A few rods from
this Division was quite a little emf
hence, here our gallant Col. Roberts
received his death wound. This little
knoll will long be remembered by many
a soldier, for all around it there was
some terrible fighting done; many a
brave officer and soldier fell there fight.
ing for his Country. We rallied sew
eral times after we left this little knoll
and gave them few shots, but our
Regiment ives cut up so bad that they
could not do such fighting that they
had done half an hour before, but
what were left were the bravest Of the
brave. In few minutes our Regi-
ment, (also our Brigade,) had to 60 to
the rear for ammunition, 0he most Of
our cartridge. boxes and guns being
empty The old AID did not have to
go very far before they found plenty of
ammunition. After filing our car
fridge boxes and taking an extra ten
rounds, we started off to the left and
halted for a few minutes, when we
were ordered to the front but did not
have to stay there long. At this time
there wasabout two minutes that one
could not hear the report of gun, the
first time fornearly nine hours. Wewere
then ordered back to the rear,
wheu we found that the old 42d
could not muster over 12O men,
officers and all. Now, perhaps, the
question will be asked, how did the
Cass Co. Guards come out of the
fight ? well I tell you, we went into the
fight with forty-two men, officers and
all, and came out of the fight with
twenty men, SO you can tell little
something by this that we were in a
pretty tough place, and we were too.
(rhere is one thing certain there is no
better Regiment to be found in the SER
vice than the 42d, and no Company in
the Regiment better than the .Cass Co.
Guards.) In the battle of the 31st we
lost the following, Killed, wounded,
prisoners and missing: 4 '-t''~ "A
Killed-Privates, Desire G. Arnold,
and Adonarim J. Northrop. Wound,
ed-Sergeant Jehiel Hall, in leg,
since died; Serg't Leonard Norton, in
shoulder; Corporal Christopher Her
man, in left arm; Corporal Conrad
Shrode in hand.
| Prisoners-Lieut. VIM. r. Town.
send; Corporals, Henry Lucas, woun-
ded in neck ; Oliver F, Momony, woun.
ded in right eye; Byron j. Dart,
wounded in thigh; William Suggett.
Privates-John G. Nevill, George w.
Clark, George G.. Spicer, Nighton
Wall and John Ryan, are all Prisoners,
also, privates Alva Mcdonald, John
d. Tillotson, George H. Henderson,
Hiram CASTOR and John Peters were
wounded and taken prisoners. =
Herbert II. Shenefelt is the only one
missing.
Below you will find the names of
those that came out of battle unburt:
Lieut.. Edward Hurson, had com
mand of the Company after Lieut..
Townsend was taken prisoner; and he
did nobly, as did Sergeant VIM.
II. Colburn and several others of the
Company, they were through the whole
engagement and in the hottest of the
fight and did not get hurt in the least.
Corporal VIM. H. Clark; privates-
Amasa p. r. Worden, Sidney Hits
man, William Leonard, WIN. Knapp,
James w. Riley, Peter Rummels, AL
bert H. Shencfelt, Chas. w. Vaughn,
Victor Wallace, Zimri Stevenson, Ben.
jamin Trenholm, Chas. Lucas, Uriah
Elliott, John Krisher, Jr., Albert Cal.
houn, John Smith, and John Hays
came out of the engagement all right,
and thus ends the 3lst of Dec. 1862.
As nothing of Importance was done
on the LIST, I'd, Sd, and 4th of Jan. '63,
i l will hasten on with my letter; but
i during these four days, our Regiment
1 was in the front line waiting for the
butternuts to come up within gun-shot
!, of us. We throwed up a sort of a
breastwork of rails, stones and logs to
defend ourselves, and there we lay ip
mud and rain until the 4th of January.
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