Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-02
From the Wisconsin Sharnshe0ters.

CAMP MAR Sulphur SPRINGS, Va.l
August 18th, 1868.
Your correspondent having been absent
from his company and regiment, on account
of i'll health, was therefore unable To give
you at the time an account of the part taken
by the Sharpshooters during the severe bat
tie of Gettysburg and the fight at Wrapping
Heights. But hoping it is not too late now,
| send the following report:
The regiment left the old WORKOUT camp
near Falmouth June 18th, and commenced q
long and tedious march over a dusty road,
the weather hot" l shall not undertake a
description of that tiresome campaign into
Pennsylyania, considering it sufficient TO state
that forced marches were the order of the
day, and night too as well that instances of
soldiers from our army falling down PROSTATE
from heat, some dying therefrom, were COM
mon, and but for some wet Jays when the
rain poured down 8 soakingly," the number
of cases of sunstroke would have been verv
much greater no doubt. The day we left the
old camping ground our regiment was trans
ferred TO the lst Division, (Gen. Birnev's,) Sd
Army Corps, the 3D. Division breaking up on
account of decrease in numbers Several
members of Co. G were sent off to Washing
ton, being unable to travel, when the com
pany left Falmouth; among them the LIST
Lieutenant. The % Lieutenant, however,
was ordered back to his company from the
Ambulance Corps when the old Division was
broken up. While passing through MARYLAND
to the Pennsylvania borders, the BOYS were
well treated by the inhabitants, getting most
anything they called for from the farmers
who in very many instances refused to take
pay for what they so literally furnished.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
The Sd Corps crossed the Pennsylvania
line, between Emmettsburg and Gettysburg,
about p. NJ. July LIST, and reached the latter
place after dark, the first days fight being
over.
Early on the morning of the second day
July 2d) the Wisconsin Sharpshooters aJ-
vanced forward and took their position on
the extreme picket line in front, to the left
of the centre of Gen. Meade's entire line of
battle The Badgers reached their position
behind fence about \. NJ, and there re
NAMED until about 2. NJ. During this time
the Sd Corps were holly engaged to our left
where were also other companies of Sharp
shooters acting as skirmishers. This line
consisting of 100 sSharpshooters and 100
Maine infantry, headed by Col. Berdan on
horseback, sent out TO reconnoitrc, were
charged forward III the forenoon on to a
double skirmish line of Greybacks. The
rebels were quickly driven through their line
of battle into the timber beyond, where the
Sharpshooters became exposed to terrible
| fire of musketry, which caused them 10 fall
! back they being at one time hanled
| During the afternoon the Wisconsin com
! pany became engaged with the enemy in
! front, and one line of skirmishers of about 125
men having approached in plain view within
about 300 yards, were scattered like chaf,
most of them going down. One poor fellow
'treed," and succeeded in lodging balls until
| he had put in three shots, when he fell like a
| log The tree was "barked' all around the
size of a man. Finally, towards shutdown, a
| strong force approached, and the Sharp shoot
! ers fell back, short of ammunition not how
| ever, until ordered three different times. 1t
was at this time that the Sd Corps were driv-
en- in, but the enemy paid dearly for it, the
| I'd Corps lying in wait for them, and driving
| them back in a hurry. Our company had
been exposed to three fires, principally mus
kerry, the bullets flying around with a terri
| bic carelessness. Company G was command
ed by Capt Marble, ably seconded by I'd
Lieut.. Judkins, who stood at his post with the
left of the company, until escape seemed i'm
possible.
The loss in company G is as follows:
! KiHed-Wm. H. Woodruff. and Eli j.
Fitch, both shot through the head,
Wou1,ded-Sergt Henry Lye, mortally, in
right breast, (died next day j John D. Lem
mon, in back, by force of passing shell; Eli
s. b. Vincent, mortally, in shoulder,--died
July 18th; Orris D. Hawley, in arm Levi
Ingalsbee, in arm and back; John c. Haux-
hurst, left thumb Abner johnson, two fin
gers.
In regard to those who lost their lives,
would remark that young Woodruff enlisted
into the company from Fox Lake in October
1861, and had been through the Peninsular
cdlil pdl1l, the 1afNidnA campaign, at GfeAcG-
icksburg and thus far in the Pennsylvania
campaign. At Charlottesville he had a mar
| row escape by ball grazing his forehead,
and knocking him over, inficting however,
no greater injury than a headache. He was
noted for his kind and good-natured DISPOSE
ton to those around him
Fitch had been with Us but a short time,
but evinced a determined spirit, and fired
away with will. He was said to be a good
marksman, and understood well how to use
his piece. He was hit while falling back
Sergt. Lye enlisted in the original compa-
ny, in September, 1861, from near Madison
He was born ii England, was about q years
of age, and went from Canada, where his
mother resides, to Wisconsin, when quite
young. He was one of our IiveIcst and most
humorous members. He pulled off his KNAPP
sack and belt IN instant when struck, and
walked a part of the way to the rear He
died hero, in every sense of the word
Eli Vincent was a fearless and determined
soldier, and one of the best marksmen in the
two regiments of Sharp shooters. When he