The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-01

COLONEL HUGH II. JANEwAY, KILLED APRIL
5, 1865
ner rode forward the third time With
cheer the skirmish line responded to the
call and dashed upon the startled, strag
Cling enemy.
The supports drawn to the scene now
formed respectable column, and with one
accord the entire line, headed by Dalziel's
flag and the Jersey skirmishers, swept over
the ground, scattering Rosser's squadrons
riding down his platoons and swarming
over the barricades where the cannon and
dismounted carbineers had thrice put a
stop to the Jerseymens wild career. 1t
cost the Jerseys 81 dead and 90 wounded in
the three squadrons engaged to rally on the
flag that day, but Stuart was driven off,
and Hancock marched on to the Wilderness
Dalziel won promotion by his gallantry.
The Wilderness cavalry fight known as
Todd's Tavern was the eleventh pitched
battle after Harri sonburg where the First
Jersey lost men shot dead out of the sad
die. Among these were Cedar Mountain,
where it charged under the knghtly Bay
ard; Brandy Station, where it attacked one
of Stuart's brigades and captured his head
quarters, dispatches and all; Sulphur
Springs, where eight We're killed outright
and Mountain Run, where the dead num-
bered IL.
Three days after the combat at the Will
derness the regiment started with Sheri-
dams 900 on the notable raid to Rich
mond. The principal battle was at Hawe's
Shop, near Richmond, on the 2Sth of May.
The regiment went in there in two battal-
ions-one under Colonel Kester, the other
led by Major Hugh II. Janeway. Their an
tagonists were u fresh brigade of South
| Carolinians, under General Butler, and
were armed with Enfield rifles. The fight
| ing was terrific. Janeway's battalion bur
| led 12S of the enemy on it's narrow front
and Kester's battalion 60. Besides, there
| were many Confederate wounded taken
from the field. The Jerseys lost 60 killed
and wounded, II of them officers. The
killed numbered 81, the same as at the
Wilderness.
The regiment continued to march and
| fight with Sheridan until it was trans
ferred to the Shenandoah valley. In Sep
TENDER, 1864, the term of service expired
and many of the original members were
mustered out. Among these was Colonel
Kester and Major Janeway, who entered
the service in 1861 at the foot of the ladder,
stepped to the front as colonel. The di-
vision in which the Jerseys served re-
NAMED with the army at Petersburg and
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the lines until Sheridan returned there
with his whole command in March, 1865.
| Janeway was if possible holder than his
predecessors. In the battle of Belleield,
Dec. TO- he led a charge upon Confederate
| rifle pits, and having captured them val
| iantly offered to charge upon some Confed-
crate batteries lying beyond which swept
the works his men occupied with murder
Gus fire. The commanding general refused
| to sanction the project. Colonel Janeway
was wounded in February in fierce battle
at Hatchers Run, but he recovered III time
to ride out at the head of his men in Sheri-
dams last campaign. In the first encounter
| Major Hart, one of the Wilderness heroes,
| was shot dead from the saddle while lead
ing his battalion in forlorn charge such
| as turned the tide at the Wilderness. Five
days later Colonel Janeway led the whole
| regiment in u mounted charge where two
| Union regiments had met with bloody
| repulse. He was shot through the head as
he rode forward-the last officer ..illed in
| the regiment and the only colonel to die at
the head of 1t.
Four field officers, II line officers and 116
men were killed in the ranks of this regi-
ment. The grand total of killed and wound
ed was 457. The colors were Haunted in the
teeth of the enemy for the last time at APP
pomattox Court House on April 0. The regi-
ment was in the front line of cavalry that
headed off Lees reSeating columns, and the
men were reforming ranks aftera successful
charge in support of the skirmishers, then
briskly engaged with the enemy who want
ed to cut their way through, when the sig,
nal was given that ended hostilties forever
The real cavalry fighting of tue war IL
said to have begun at Brandy Station june
8. 1868, where the First Jersey helped give
Jeb Stuart his first defeat 1t ended at
AppomattoX. The Jerseys missed no con.
iict that came between worthy the name
of battle, and wherever they rode the same
old flag led them. GEORGE l.. KILMER.