Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-02-24

- OAeeT ~ the Mouse with REGARD -
AinA hin,
AssuFy +. Haynes, Messenger Of the
House, enlisted August IA, 1861. WIEN u
years old, in Co. c. 9TH N. Infantry, (Col.
AarshalD. The regiment vent to Baltimore
and built fort. naming it for Col. Marshall.
VINO died At Baltimore Went to Camp Grif.
nm, in front Of Washington, early in the fall.
remaining there until March, 1862 then vent
20 fortress Monroe, advancing from thence
IN skirmlsh line to yorktown, LAYING seise to
u. AT Williamsburg the regiment was COM
piimented by Gen. Mcclellan, who gave il the
credit OF saving the Union army from defeat
zen. Mcclellan was criticised BY the English
press Tor claiming that regiment of less than
7. thousand men, should prove the salvation
oi an army Of one hundred thousand men.
The regiment then participated in the seige AT
Of Richmond. Haynes was with it on the
seven days retreat to Harrison's Landing.
under Lieut. Col. Selden Conner; was soon
after taken sick, and after long sickness was
discharged from the 9Th Regiment, in jan
nary 1868, having passed through all of Nc
Cieiians campaign before Richmond Was
drafted in August 1863, and went into Co. F.
80 Me. Inf, Col. Lakeman. Went to Mine Run
IN the Fall and then returned to caI,p where
he remained until Nav Sd 1864. when he went
into the Wilderness battles Four men were
Killed and two wounded, who stood side by
side with him. and he was knocked senseless
tor few minutes by ball striking him on
the head. His regiment lost in killed and
wounded more than one half its entire num-
Der, on the 9TH and 9th Of May. On the 10th
OF May at O'Clock in the evening. the Bri-
gade charged rebel fort, and lost several of
heat in fho of
was in the first line of battle in the charge on
Spottsylvania, where 1900 prisoners were
taken, and four guns ami thirty pieces of
artillery captured. Charlie Churd and him.
self turned one Of the rebel guns on the
retreating rebels. A few days after Churd
was killed by 4 cannon ball while standing
at Haynes side. when they with others had
volunteered to go into an open field and throw
up breastwOrks in front of a rebel battery.
At North Anna Bridge, his regiment and 18th
Me. charged a fort that commanded the
bridge, and took it on the first assault. 4
few days after. his regiment relieved the 18th
Maine after dark, marching over the dead
bodies of rebels, and continuing the fight
the most of the night At Cold Harbor Haynes
was transferred to the 18th Me-, Col. Mat
tocks. After the Cold IIarbOr fight. went
across the James river and marched on Peters,
burss fighting constantly for almost week,
and then settled down to the seige OF Peters
burg and Richmond. On the Both of Sept
was wounded in the right shoulder by piece
of she'll combining him in the hospital seven
weeks. being the only time he was absent
from his regiment in two wears. Was on the
Weldon Railroad raid to North Carolina, de-
stroying railroads, late in the fall of 1864.
In April of IS, broke Lees line at Peters
burg and Five Forks, and caused him to
retreat. On the 9Th of April, three days be-
fore Lees surrender, during severe charge,
Haynes captured flag of the 2lst n orth Carroll
ma Regiment, and wrapped it around his body.
He was among the first to enter the enemy's
rifle pits, and inspired his comrades by his in
domitable courage. The entire regiment was
Was soon after transferred to the
18th Me-, and was promoted from eth corporal
to LIST Sergeant Of Co. II, by recommends
ton of commanding officer. Was mustered
out of service on the llth of September 1865,
having been connected with the army three
and half years.