Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-28


tomac and the Army of the Shenan
doah We're engaged, and served undel
/ Generals Mcclellan, Pope, Burnside
Hooker, Sedgewick, Mead, Sheridan
and Grant TO the end of the war, and
/ has credit for four and one quarter
| years service, having re-enlisted.
/ He was detailed for and did specia
duty on many occasions and served
as provost marshal on the staff OF
General Joseph Hamblin, command
ing the second brigade, first division
sixth army corps: Some of the bat
ties in which he participated are
here enumerated: Yorktown, May 8
1862; Williamsburg, May 5; Fair
Oaks, of Seven Pines, June and 2;
Savage Station, June 20; Malvern
Hill, July 1; Second Bull Run, Aug.
l3G; Champions Gap and South Noun
tain, Sept, IA and Is; Antietam,
Sept. II; Fredericksburg, Dec. IL,
1852 to April, 1863; Maryie's
Heights, April rs, 1885, Salem
Church, April 80; Gettysburg, July
and 81 Brandy Station, Wilderness,
May 5, 1864; Spottsylvania Court
House, May to IL; Cold Harbor,
May 20; Fort Totten, Washington,
D. c., July IL; Winchester, Septem-
ber; Fishers Hill, Oct. z; Cedar
Creek, Oct. 19; around Petersburg,
June Is to %; Fort Gregg, April 2,
1865; Fort elahone, April 3; sur
render of Petersburg, April 81 Sail
or's Creek and capture of Ewell's
corps, April 6, 1866; surrender of
General Robert e. Lee and the Army
of Northern Virginia at Appomatox
Court House, April 8, 1865.
There were many reconnoissances,
skirmishes, etc, supporting cavalry
movements for which the sixth army
corps was famous in the Shenandoah
valley and those resulting In the cap
ture of Lees army in which the 65th
and 9th volunteers took part.
Then follow the "reminiscences:
The Sixty-fifth and Sixty-seventh
Regiments, New York Volunteers, be-
ing in the same brigade, were under
many baptisms of fire. At Fair Oake
on May 81, 1862, the Sixty-seventh
lost 100 men, killed and wounded.
Five different times they were forced
to rally around their colors to pre-
vent them from falling into the hands
of the enemy, and bguorth
of the enemy and brought them out
of battle, completely riddled with bull
let holes, tattered and torn with but
few shreds left on the staff These
colors are now stored in care of the
Long Island Historical Society in
Brooklyn. The left of the battalion
rested on the famous Seven Pines,
the key point in this battle. They
supported Miller's famous battery of
artillery from Philadelphia, who
stood nobly by their guns under the
most severe hail storm of deadly mis-
siles, and did most effective service
although greatly outnumbered. The
9th New York Volunteers and Tenth
Massachusetts Volunteers, on the left
flank, with Miller's battery in the cen
ter, at the Seven Pines, checked the
hordes under General Joseph e.
Johnston. AT Augusta, Ga, in 1869,
when war scenes were fresh in our
minds, | met General Johnston and
we rehearsed this battle. He said
that little brigade at Seven Pines, on
May 81, 1862, kept up the hottest and
most continuous fire he experienced
during the war. | corrected him and
told him that the fragments of two
regiments only-the 9th New York
, and Tenth Massachusetts, supported
! Millers battery. He expressed him
self surprised at the information,
turned to his historical notebook and
made a memorandum to that effect
and thanked me profusely.
The explanation how such a small
body of troops could keep up such
rapid fire was due to this fact. Just
few days before the battle our old
paper cartridges were exchanged for
johnson & Dow's patent cartridges