Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-02
The SharpshoOters.
HEApQuARBRs Sd. Div, I'd ARMY CORPS, !
Feb, l6, 1865,
GENERAL ORDER No. l2.

GENERAL ORDER No. Il,
The U, S. Sharpshooters, including
the lst and I'd consolidated battalions,
being about to be broken up as dis
tinet organization, in compliance with
orders from the War Department the
Bngadier General commanding the divi-
sion will not take leave Of them without
acknowledging their good and efficient
service during about three years in the
field.
The u S. Sharpshooters leave behind
them glorious record in the Army of
the Potomac, Since the first operations
against Yorktown, in 1862, up to the
last moments of the army on Hatchers
Run, and few are the battles or engage
ments where they did not make their
mark.
The Brigadier General Commanding,
who had them under his command dur
ing most of the campaigns of 1863 and
1864, would be the last to forget their
brave deeds during that period, and he
feels assured that in the different organ
izations to which they belong severally,
officers and men will show themselves
worthy of their old reputation. With
them the past will answer for the future.
By command Of Brigadier General r.
De Trobiand.
(Signed) WIN. R. DRIVER,
A. A. G
Co, F, 1sT REoMENT U. S. S. S.-LIsT OF
MEN KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING
IN THB CAMPAIGN OF 1864.
May 5th-Paul NJ. Thompson, sergt.
prisoner.
June 22-Lymsn D. Grover, sergt.
wounded
May On. Cunningham, wounded
David W. French, corp, mortally would
ed; Edward D, Trask, corp, mortally
wounded
June 2O,-Edward Lyman, corp, NOR
tally wounded.
Sept, lie. L. Mead, corp, wounded.
June 17.-Chas. B. Mead, corporal,
killed
May 12.-Henry E. Mattox, corporal,
mortally wounded
Sept, l2,-Artemas W. Bemis, corp,
wounded.
May 5.-S. NJ. Butler, wounded.
May dustin Beraw, wounded.
May l2,-Thomas H. Brown, killed;
J. B. Bowen, mortally wounded.
June 3.-Alvin Babcock, mortslly
wounded.
Oct. 27,-B, D. Bessie, killed.
June 4.-Joseph S. Biokford mortally
wounded.
June l7.-Henry E. Barnum, mortally
wounded.
May 5.--A. c. Cross, mortally wound
ded.
May 12,-J. c. Chase, wounded.
June 22.-David Clark, wounded.
May 5,--Wm. j. Domag, killed.
Oct, 27.-John Dureat, killed Geo.
Danford, wounded and missing; Samuel
Drago, wounded.
! May 6,--Jas. FL, Guthrie, missing.
May Edwin A. Giddings killed.
Jane l1.-Almond D. Griffin, wounded,
June 18.-Silas Giddings, wouded-
Oct. 27.-Jas. Gillens, wounded and
missing.
May Joseph Hagen, killed.
Oct. 27.-Voney W. jerks, missing.
June 15-Wm. c. Kent, wounded.
June l6.-Casper Kent. killed.
May 6.-Jacob Lacoy, killed.
June 22,-Barney Leddy, killed; Peter
Latin, killed.
May 5.--Wm. McKewer, wounded
June 22.-Watson P. Morgan, prison.
er,
May John c. Page, wounded.
Oct. 27.-Alanson A. Powers, wound
ed.
Oct. 27.-J. S. Percy, missing.
June l7.-John Quinlan, wounded.
May 12.-Amos H. Smith, wounded.
May 5.-Wm. W. Wilson, mortally
wounded; spafford A. Wright, wounded.
May 8,-Wm. W. Well, missing.
Nov. LIST. - Fend Weeks, mortally
wounded.
Editor Rutland Hc1ara We have had
a rough road to travel and have lost
many brave boys, and as the good peo-
pie Of Vermont hardly know that we
have any sharpshooters, l thought I
would send you an address of our Gen
eral to US, and list of names of Co. F.
Co. +, of the lst Sharpshooters was per
manently transferred to Cos. f, and Fl
of the I'd U. S. Sharpshooters on Jan.
lst 1865, and now we are to be trans
ferred to our own State troops. We ex-
pect and hope to go to the Vermont
brigade. Co. +, 1st Sharpshooters. start
ed from Brandy Station with forty
seven men, five came back from the hos
pital and in October we had nineteen
recruits, so we kept few Vermont bows
in the regiment
Yours, &c. SIS
sl3We invite attention to the card
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