HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK.
Another moment and the CHAPTER XXXII. front line of the enemy had struck the telegraph wire, and as it went down and was crowded upon by the rear ranks, a simultaneous THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH NEW YORK was VOLUNTEERS. volley poured among them from all along the hitherto silent line of breastwork, and behind the dead and leaving tbe dying, the enemy fell back confusedly and regiment was mustered into the United This States service at New in full belief that a Geneva, heavy force many times the true number had arrested their on the 14th of September, 1862. Companies and part of D exultant advance. York, A, E, H, Holding this position until a new line of battle had been were recruited in Seneca. County, the remainder from Yates and Ontario formed in its being rear, the regiment, deploying as skirmishers, fell back and joined regiment left . on Counties. The Geneva the 22d of and arrived the main body. September, For their gallant conduct in this action they received much Washington three days at later, going immediately into camp on Capitol Hill. credit. From Washington the regiment was ordered to there On Suffolk, Virginia, arriving the 29th of May, the Eighteenth Army Corps having been ordered to join and until the of on the 29th, remaining 11th when it was ordered the of October, Army the Potomac, the One Hundred and Forty-eighth moved down to City and went into camp. was to Portsmouth, Virginia, Here commenced that from at Point its position Bermuda Hundred, and, embarking on transports, steamed thorough course of drill and instruction which afterwards gained for the regiment down the James and up the York, and from thence into the Pamunkey, finally dis its splendid reputation for discipline and effectiveness in action. From Ports embarking at White House Landing, and on the 1st of June marched to the old mouth the regiment was ordered to where it remained from the 12th of Norfolk, Coal Harbor battle-ground, going immediately into action on the right of the Sixth to October on garrison duty. While at a portion of the July 9, 1863, Norfolk, Army Corps. In the final charge at Coal Harbor, on June 3, the One Hundred regiment was detailed as a garrison for Fort while other detachments Norfolk, and Forty-eighth held the post of honor on Smith's Division, being placed at the
were -stationed at Cape and like important positions. Fre Kempsville, Henry, head of the storming column. This column was ordered to charge across an open quent expeditions were sent out to different points of the adjoining country, and space upon the inner angle formed by the convergence of two lines of the enemy's much effective work was accomplished the regiment. On the 9th of October by works. This objective point, perhaps the most impregnable in the entire line of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth was ordered to and there Yorktown, remained works, was defended by two full batteries, amply protected by some of the best in charge of the fortifications of that important point until the commencement of rebel regiments. The column formed under shelter of a piece of woods, and at active operations in the of 1864. of that year was spring During February made five o'clock on the morning of the memorable 3d of June emerged into the open the famous march to Bolton's Bridge on the Chickahominy, accomplishing one ground, and immediately received a tremendous volley from the enemy's rifle-pits. hundred and thirty-four miles in one hundred hours. While at in Yorktown, The quiet prevailing to this moment was further broken by the opening peal and a battalion of the of four hundred and November, 1863, regiment, consisting fifty steady roar of cannon. Volley followed volley in quick succession, and the rush of " Morse," with the gunboat was sent on an expedition men, into Matthews County, bullets was continuous ; grape and canister came in murderous blasts ; shells burst all on the eastern shore of Virginia. The command disembarked at Mobjack Bay, about, and the air seemed clouded with missiles. Never, perhaps, during the entire and, marching to Gwynn's Island, surprised and captured a battalion of coast war was so terrible a fire concentrated upon a column of assault as in this par guards with arms and supplies. ticular instance. Although men fell by scores, the ranks pressed forward, and as Yorktown was left with a column of under com In April, 1864, large troops the troops reached the breastwork the enemy redoubled their fire. -Never quail " Baldy" mand of General Smith ; they went into camp on the old Williamsburg ing, the One Hundred and Forty-eighth here exhibited the perfection of splendid Thirty-third* had* battle-field, where the gallant New York had so nobly distinguished and invincible bravery. Two-thirds of the field already been crossed in the itself in 1862. Here the column was organized and equipped for active service, face of this deadly rain of shot and shell, when the rear of the column, impeded and on the 5th of May^embarked on transports and moved up the James River in its advance by the hundreds of the dead and dying who had fallen iu its front, to City Point, where the One Hundred and Forty-eighth was brigaded with the wavered for an instant, and directly the main body began to. fall back. Not so, Second and Twelfth New Hampshire and Eleventh Connecticut volunteers. On however, with the gallant but rapidly-decreasing band which led the attack. "The think the 12th the advance on Fort Darling at Drury's Bluff commenced, followed by . men of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth were too near the prize to for the sharp engagement at Clover Hill, which resulted in the enemy being driven a moment of retreat, but finding themselves deserted by their comrades, with steadily back to his strongly-intrenched line eight miles from Richmond. On numbers too sadly decimated to hope to.carry the works, right there in the open the morning of the 16th, the line of battle was as follows: Heckman's Brigade field, under the concentrated fire of the enemy, threw themselves upon the ground, cups began to throw was drawn up just below Fort Darling, with its right resting on the James. and with their bayonets, tin plates, and from their haversacks, a protection. in an almost short space of Next in order came Wistar's Brigade, with the.One .Hundred and Forty-eighth up the sand in front as Thus, incredibly of their and now began an on its right, and joining Heckman's left. Belger's Battery came next, and the time, they were screened from the bullets foes, annoying works. This position was held the untU rest of the troops were in line extending stUl farther to the left. During the fire upon the Confederate by tools been obtained from the previous night the One Hundred and Forty-eighth had erected a hastily-constructed the coming of night, when, intrenching having rear, strengthened and so that before daylight next breastwork of timber', and covered its immediate front. A quantity of wire from the line already begun was enlarged, brought the Une was established. the Richmond and Petersburg telegraph line had also been cut from the poles morning, with fresh troops forward, permanently engagement the One Hundred and Forty-eighth lost one hundred and and securely fastened among the stumps, about thirty yards in advance. As During this nine men in kUled and wounded. On the 1 1th of the regiment moved out of morning dawned, a dense fog had arisen, and at an early hour an overwhelming June, where it had remained under fire for eight back Confederate force was suddenly thrown with great fury upon Hickmau, driving the trenches, days, and, marching White the entire corps again on the the regiment his line in great confusion. Again forming in column, and taking a new position, to House, embarked, and, 14th, weeks' campaign with once more landed at Point. Thus ended their two the the entire rebel force was hurled upon the brigade to the left of Wistar, throwing City on of the Potomac. When the movement against commenced, it into disorder, forcing it to the rear, and capturing one of Belger]s guns. Seizing Army Petersburg was with of 15th of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth the advance, this gun, the enemy opened a flank fire upon Wistar's Brigade, compelling three the .June, regiment at a point under General and the 18th of that month found the his regiments to retire, thus leaving the One Hundred and Forty-eighth alone and Smith, more than a mile from the city. A of Confederates was unprotected to face a Confederate force flushed with success and outnumbering it but little strong body advance check. posted on the crest of a and for a time'held the Federal in twenty to one. The enemy immediately opened a severe fire of. artillery and Mil, ordered charge the although of Two regiments had been to position, but, musketry from his front, whUe the captured gun was sending rapid discharges successively great had both been repulsed. At this juncture the One Hun grape and canister from its position on the left. And now, as the fog began to displaying bravery, the position. through yards dred and Forty-eighth was directed to carry Rapidly moving lift, a dense column of the enemy.was massed about two hundred and fifty deployed in the open field at the foot of the with a and Forty-eighth. the it ascent, and, in front, and thrown like an ocean bUlow upon the One Hundred underbrush, rushed the slope on the tho from arms the attack. cheer, up double-quick, driving enemy Calmly, to outward appearance, the men lay upon their awaiting ringing gunners from their works. over from the reali his intrenched positions and his Passing rapidly Strong men grew pale, but they were no cravens. It was simply hard after the the the One Hundred and Forty-eighth followed retreating zation brought home to their minds that within the next few moments would MU, the pursuit until main rebel prisoners, aud continuing be decided not their own but perhaps that of the little behind line, capturing many only fate, army of^Petersburg" "siege was begun. From line of defense was reached, and the them. The moments of suspense passed on while the gray masses came sweep regiment was in the with un behind which this time on the constantly trenches, enduring ing over the cleared space between it and 'the slight breastwork lay hardships entaUed the position. Always under with grape-shot fortitude the by fire, the expectant One Hundred and Forty-eighth. From the left came flinching exposed to the sun and with batteries posted Httle for rest, constantly burning by day Confederate opportunity by' and along the line, while from the hurtling humming the regiment remained in protection the Virginia dews night, of the fort on tbe no from heavy in rear of the column of assault, and from tbe heavy guns this time it suffered much from this position for more than two months. During right, a rapid discbarge was maintained upon the sUent Une of tbe regiment. 72 HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK,
the' detaining' great, of rain from the 2d of June to 19th fell fighting. Their accomplished the scarcity water, no having fallen heroism its purpose, our army Petersburg.' long of July, and, as a consequence, the air was constantly fiUed with clouds of fine. enough to allow Lee to. get out of The One Hundred and Forty- sand, which at times became almost unendurable. eighth lay on their arms till the morning ofthe 3d, when it was found that Lee's First" On the 29th of September, the regiment having been transferred to the army had started towards Barksville Junction. The Twenty-fourth Army and Corps were Corps started to head them well to rebel Brigade, Second Division, .the. entire Eighteenth Sixteenth Army off, keeping the left flank, and now ordered to cross the James, and at one o'clock on the morning of. that day the One. the result became a question of endurance between the two armies. Four days Landing,- Hundred and Forty-eighth marched, over the ponton bridge at Aiken's the two divisions led the corps, and the One Hundred and Forty-eighth was in and was soon in action, driving the enemy back to his strong fortifications at Chapin's tbe van most of that time. Near night the enemy were 'struck, and a short. Harrison,' Farm, and taking an active part in the storming and capture of Fort a engagement resulted in a loss to the regiment of one killed and "four wounded. formidable earthwork in the outer line of the Richmond defenses. The 26th of Darkness came on, and Lee kept upon the road to. Lynchburg. The race was Sheridan- October found the One Hundred and Forty-eighth attached to the First Brigade, renewed near High Bridge. now passed the infantry, and began to Second Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, and in occupation of Fort Harrison, harass the rebel advance. On the morning of the 9th, about eight o'clock, a halt Appomattox' where since. of this formidable defense. This was the. was at it had been the taking for ah hour made Station; the advance was then renewed, lines' nearest point to Richmond occupied, by our forces. On the evening of October and our swung around to the.rebel front, the One Hundred and Forty-eighth
26, orders came to move out to the rear of the fort, and join the Eighth Bri being on the extreme left of .theline. It. was thought, that Lee would undertake gade,of the division. Next morning the force moved around to the right, towards to break through on the left, and the. men were, ordered to be ready, and with Fair Oaks, which point was reached about nine A.M. The command struck the uncommon spirit the line drew up. and moved forward.. Iri passing through the WUliamsburg Pike near the Old Hospital grounds^ occupied by McClellan in 1862, woods in front of the rebel position, a shell from one of their batteries exploded and moved Hundred and Forty- directly up thepike towards Richmond, the One in the centre of the regiment, wounded one man, tore off several knapsacks, and ' eighth in the advance. When within eight hundred yards of the hostile lines, the damaged several guns. It was the last shot fired from Lee's army, for before
pieces' enemy opened with a battery that commanded the pike, and the regiment, on the they could reload their they were captured and the men dispersed. While on south side of road. Eleventh Ver run, formed in line of battle the the The re-forming to follow up the advantage, loud cheers came from the right; and soon " !" ' mont, a regiment one thousand strong, forme.d and took the advance, with the the cry came down to them, Lee has surrendered Such a glad shout as went
express design of but order charge directed ,to the veterans was never leading the assault, the to being up from those battle-scarred before heard this continent. One Hundred and Forty-eighth;that regiment had the honor of making an advance Guns were discharged in. the air and thrown on the ground, Men laughed, wherein the loss, compared with the number engaged, is almost unparalleled. Two shouted, and embraced, so exuberant was their joy. The regiment remained at
hundred and fifteen men went . into this charge, and but ninety-eight returned. Appomattox until the surrender was accomplished, and the.debris of the rebel and cut down,- or and fifteen captured. One hundred two had been killed, wounded, army cleared away ; then returned to Richmond, where it remained till June 28,, and of bravest and Among the killed was the lieutenant-colonel, many the best when they were mustered out, conveyed to Elmira, and paid -off July 3. On the- men of the command. The charge was unsuccessful, from a. failure to promptly July 4 men arrived at Seneca Falls, and met a royal welcome. send forward the supports. During this engagement, the major of the One Hun Little need be said in reference to either the bravery or patriotism of the One dred and Forty-eighth, in command of the sharpshooters, had.pushed forward Hundred and Forty-eighth. Its noble record as a regiment has become a matter close upon the rebel line; when the fire became so severe that an order was given of history. The regiment was composed of able, intelligent, and influential men, to take cover. The major, together with a score of his men, found shelter behind who had left farm, office, and business, not for pay or bounty, but from a feeling a wood-pile. To retire over the ridge in such close quarters was almost sure death ; that the country needed their services, and that the time had arrived when home to remain was capture. The rebels called on them to come in. The major in attractions became of secondary importance. The battle-roll of the regiment quired the terms, and the sight of the telescopic rifles with which the men were enumerated eleven actions, namely, Swift Cr.eek, on May 9, 1864; Clover Hill, armed caused a profusion of promises. A woman at a house close offered to Drury's Port 26 Coal June by May 15; Bluff, May 16; Walthall, .May ; Harbor, " come and escort the major to the rebel lines, saying, We'uns won't fire on 15 ; Rowlett's House, same as last-; Siege of Petersburg, June 1 to August 25 ;
you." you'uns whUe I am with When the old lady reached the wood-pUe, she Fort Harrison, September 29 ; Fair Oaks, October 27 ; Hatcher's Run, March was seized gallant her between himself and the by the major, who, interposing 31, 1865 ; and Appomattox Court-House, April 9. enemy, called on the men to retire, and began his own retreat. The rebels set up The lists of casualties are found as appendix to the various histories of towns, a but not open amid the cheers and laughter of our the Forty- yell, did fire, and, men, and are so many silent witnesses to the devotion of the One Hundred and major and his escort reached our lines. eighth to their country. The night of the 27th the regiment returned to Fort Harrison, where they The Fifteenth United States Regulars had in its ranks a number of men from remained a few when were together with a few other from days, they selected, regi: Seneca County. -They were recruited by Captain Peterson, principally the general to New York to aid in ments, to accompany commanding keeping Varick and Romulus, and fought gallantly through the battles of the war. Space peace in that city during the Presidential election. This duty done, the One Hun: wUl not permit a record here of this regiment. A glimpse is seen of them at the dred and Forty-eighth again returned to the front, and was stationed on the right battle of MiU Spring, Kentucky; and as a part of General Buell's Division we of our at Bottom the winter of 1864-65. Here the men were into- line Deep during see theria aid. in. converting defeat victory in the second day's fight at Pitts engaged picket until March when moved with the corps under regulars in duty 27, they burg Landing. Fortunate in this battle in meeting no loss, the Seneca was' Ord to Hatcher's Run. The regiment immediately placed in charge of the comported themselves so as to win credit and reflect honor upon the men in the division, picket line, with instructions to be ready at any moment to advance upon regular service. the Confederate picket line. On the morning of March 31 the men, responding promptly to orders, advanced and captured three hundred and ten men, which was an excess over their own force. On the morning of April 2 the One Hun dred and Forty-eighth broke through the rebel lines simultaneously with the advance of Sixth On the in the One the Army Corps, entering trenched, lines, CHAPTER XXXIIL left,- Hundred and Forty-eighth swung round to the crossed Hatcher's Run, and captured one general officer, several officers of the line, and three hundred and THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. fifty men. The regiment also captured a full battery of Whitworth guns, horses, three-years' and camp- and garrison- and was a regiment. and equipage complete, together with three battle-flags one The . One Hundred Sixtieth New York Infantry 1862. flag. The One Hundred and Forty-eighth then faced about and marched towards It-was organized in New York City, and mustered into service November 1, Petersburg. Company E of this regiment was partly, raised in Seneca County, and was organized the- at on of officers . and were and the regiment 3d 1862. The . At Forts Baldwin Gregg the enemy engaged, took Geneva, Ontario County, September, company McDon- and Nicholas part in the capture of the former. These forts had been manned by picked men were Henry Moore, Captain ; James Gray, First Lieutenant; were pre from the best of Lee's army, and. the orders were to hold them at all hazards, to ough, Second Lieutenant. Previous to their arrival at the city, colors of- expedition sailed from New York enable the Confederates to escape with a part. their supplies. It may be said sented by the ladies of Auburn. General Banks's For twenty- that at no. place during the war did. the rebels .fight with greater desperation than under sealed orders, and. with it was the One Hundred and Sixtieth. saw the wide in "these, strongholds. The plain :in;front of the former fort.was literally strewn one days the experience of an ocean voyage was had by many who and at expanse of water for. .the Hundred Sixtieth with : the kiUed and wounded of the Union ahriy,;and in the fort lay two hundred first time. The One landed, passed several weeks ..or but. six and. .seventy-fiverebels, lulled badly wounded. They did not surrender, Carrolton, miles above New Orleans, and, going into camp, PILATE HH
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Residence o Col. John.Y Manning", Ovid HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK. 73 in and perfecting a discipline which later stood them in good service. drilling CHAPTER XXXIV. Christmas was memorable by a dinner of mush and molasses, and the serving out
the first ammunition to the whose health and spirits were excellent. CAVALRY.' of men, THE FIRST NEW YORK About the 1st of January, the regiment was ordered to report to General Weitzel, from that time the One Hundred and Sixtieth were identified with the The First and New York Cavalry, also called Lincoln Cavalry, and later, as indi the various engagements participated in the brigade. We Seventy-fifth, in by cative of their character, Veteran Cavalry, was organized from to Seventy-fifth' July 16, 1861, of the the valor displayed in and have seen in the history action, August 31, to serve for three years. In 1864 it reorganized as a veteran regi in line and part with did the One Hundred and none the less, being taking them, ment, and was mustered out on June 27, 1865. On November, 1861, during comrades in arms. General a gal Sixtieth approve themselves worthy Weitzel, a reeonnoissanee in Virginia, a party of little more than a dozen men left in tbe
lant' said of the One Hundred and "An excel and discriminating officer, Sixtieth, rear on the return of the expedition was ambuscaded, and a Seneca soldier, a officers and men material of the highest " lent fighting regiment, embracing among member of the band, wrote afterwards, My horse was shot in the nose, and a concerned." as character and intelligence are The list of actions upon baU order as far striking the clasp of my sword-belt, flattened there and stunned me. My various its roll is wellnigh a score in number. In trying times the One Hun horse went against a fence and threw me over it. I fired twice and brought acquitted themselves with a valor which won admiration from day." Self- dred and Sixtieth down one rebel, then took to the woods and came into camp next and contributed to the tide of threatened disaster. other regiments, materially stay reliance and genuine bravery are shown in the individual instances of personal 13 and near Their first action was on January 14, 1863, Pattersonville, Louisiana, adventure. On December 15, 1861, the name First New York Cavalry was " Cotton" attack upon the gunboat and Fort Bisland. in connection with the The taken. Passing over the interval of arduous and honorable service to the period trench in the the vigor of the rebel advance from trench to cane-field, resistance, of re-enlistment, we find fhe organization, known as the Veteran Cavalry, raiding excitement all new and strange men from peaceful the mad of war, to pursuits, up the Shenandoah, and with them, as Company K, a fair representation of Seneca impressed a lesson which deepened resolve and taught the power of unity. For County soldiers. On March 10, 1864, a band of Moseby's guerUlas, one hundred picket and expeditions occupied the regiment and several months camp drilling, duty, fifty strong, dashed in upon a post held by forty men'of Companies L and M.
movement upon Taylor at Fort Bisland upon April 13 and 14. soon and the were off. until the in force Help came, desperadoes driven Up to this time K had well and received the One Hundred and Sixtieth in suffered no loss. On the of were The enemy were intrenched, 8th April the First Veterans transferred to its advance with a terrible fire, which was borne unflinchingly. Ordered to take General Averill's command, and set out in a pitiless storm for Martinsburg. Ten and Sixtieth were picked whom were part in the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the One Hundred days later, three hundred men, among thirty from K, joined and and were in the trenches on command for a raid through Western Virginia. On the in action on May 27, June 11 14, when, July 8, Averill's the 29th, the tidings of surrender afforded relief and gratification. Within a week the Army of the Shenandoah advanced up the valley. On May 9, the Veterans and then came an interval of quietude. reached Cedar the scene of Banks's discomfiture Jackson. action of Donaldsonville was fought, Creek, before The and at Veterans advanced upon then in possession of the and drove Present at the fiasco at Sabine Pass, September 8 ; Carrion Crow Bayou, Woodstock, enemy, of town. them on the also became possessed of October 3, the regiment closed its battle record for the year. In the spring them from the Pursuing 13th; they the Mount Jackson. force under John C.Breckenridgebegan to move down the 1864, the historic advance and defeat ofBanks, upon the Red River, illustrated A valley, Inibo- not us other than and General who desired to prevent their junction with the troops of fruitlessness of valor when managed by incompetence. It is for Sigel, when assailed den and hastened to attack and rout the latter ere Breckenridge could briefly to animadvert upon the position of Banks's army by the Gilmore, Cross-Roads. the road for miles, corps beyond come up. This he failed to do and at New when, on the of enemy at Sabine Strung along many ; Market, morning combined wagon-trains close upon the it was the in Sigel deployed his columns and posted his artillery, the forces supporting distance, advance, only by May 15, saved from of the over eleven thousand veteran took vincible determination of the soldiery that the entire army was cap enemy, embracing infantry, promptly up gage of and the inevitable engagement opened with and ture. On April 9, at the commencement of the retreat, and at Pleasant Hill, the battle, skirmishing practice. The Union troops battled but fruitlessly. All the in the One Hundred and Sixtieth contributed to check the rebel advance. On April artillery bravely and batteries were supported cavalry. at Manassas the regiment was engaged. were placed in the Company 24, at Cane River, and May 16, Plains, fantry line, by Vir was divided. under Captain were placed on the extreme left The brigade was now ordered north, and were engaged at Snicker's Ford, K Half, Brett, rest on the extreme right of the line of battle. These posi near September Fisher's in advance, and the ginia, July 19; Opequan Creek, Winchester, 10; Hill, were held the without loss. The rebel with accurate September 22; New Market, September 24; New Town, October 12; and Cedar tions during day batteries, a the ranks of the and ceased their fire. active services in the bayous of made in infantry, finally Creek, October 19. . For its long and Louisiana, aim, many gap rebel advanced in three magnificent Hundred and Sixtieth deserve a The finale was reached when the infantry and the Valley ofthe Shenandoah,, the One hoped that its veteran lines of battle upon our position. Our infantry broke and fled disorderly, while better history than we have been able to procure, and it is part brought off the and covered the retreat. record a fair and full account of their in the cavalry artillery survivors may be able to place upon of whUe Captain Brett with a of eighty-five men was conduct at the battle of Pleasant On the 29th May, party restoring the Union. For distinguished Hill, with medical stores General thanks of Major- a train of sixteen wagons laden for Hunter's Louisiana, the One Hundred and Sixtieth received the special escorting at Newtown a of one hundred and of The regiment was he was assailed by body fifty General Banks, General Franklin, and General Emory. headquarters, came . of November 1865. The Gilmore's cavalry, who were carrying the day, when a force infantry up mustered out of service at Savannah, Georgia, on 1, was while and turned the scale in our favor. In this action Captain Brett killed soldiers in the regiment : Thomas Brophy, following is the record of Seneca was sent home to Waterloo for interment. Retreat Peter was division his men, and his body Patrick Coif, John Foley, and Thomas Safe deserted. Crelly leading who faced the men about and Crull and down the valley, Sigel was relieved by Hunter, wagon-master, First Division Nineteenth Army Corps; Anthony ing march the Shenandoah. June 3 the had advanced to at brigade headquarters. began a By cavalry William are both the latter was guard up Crelly dead, two-hours' the command of Imboden was and Florence after a skirmish, William Durnin, Joseph McCall, Patrick Ryan, Harrison Raymond, Harrisonburg, where, through town to a fortified position. Next Colonel Platner moved on April 1864 held in driven morning Sullivan were taken prisoners at Sabine Cross-Roads, 8, ; right attacked the on his left October 1864. The last the regiment seven nines to the and enemy flank, prison at Ford, Tyler, Texas, and exchanged 22, Camp trains and past his gained Ryan died in and drew his attention whUe our troops, moving right, three had been wounded in action at Port Hudson, in June, 1863; and caused the evacuation of the position. Georgia. Thomas Flanagan was the road to Port Hudson, Advancing hospital September 28, 1865, at Hawkinsville, the ground was disputed who fell back to was but on the morrow, by Imboden, gradually transferred to the First United States Cavalry. John Hart discharged, where he was joined General with and artillery York and died Mount Hope, by Jones, infantry re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth New Volunteers, and our at Richmond. The Union Une moved forward, artillery re-enlisted in the Third from the army at Georgia. Thomas Kennedy, discharged, and Augusta, Mount Hope. Preluded a vicious fire of a couple September at opened the battle of by artiUery New York since dead. John Keegan, killed 19, 1864, ArtUlery ; advanced in three splendid lines upon the June of our infantry were enemy, Virginia. William twice wounded before Port Hudson, hours, Winchester, Lane, a gentle The contest was severe and a posted in a of woods upon engagement with his company. Thomas long strip 1863. Patrick Mackin was in every 14, fortune in the. with a cheer, heard loud above the roar wounded at Cedar hung scale, when, 1864. James mortally varying discharged 16, McGee, position. Mangan, May our lines swept and gained the A lull prevaiUng, action at of cannon, forward, October 1864. McGraw, killed in October died 21, Barney upon our to recover their Creek, 9, were seen for a grand charge right, the former since the enemy massing April 1863. Patrick and Felix McCabe, dead, Fort Bisland, 9, dismounted aud thrown into the woods to strengthen New lost oround. The cavalry were was transferred to the Third were members of the company. Edward cry, Murphy with that once heard never for- Cedar Creek the Une of infantry ; and soon, shrill, yelping York Artillery. Thomas Second Sergeant, was captured at O'Heran, the rank moved to the attack, but were turned back in confusion ; North Carolina. Edward pp^n gray a prisoner at October 19, 1864, and Salisbury, down the centre whUe the Virginia, a Union charge the infantry moving cavalry, at Port Hudson. foUowed, CreUy, Fourth Sergeant, was slightly wounded May 27, 74 HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK.
with cheers and drawn galloped upon the flanks. The gave was with advance. sabres, enemy way, York Cavalry honored the Marching rapidly, they reached and began a retreat the upon their who ; cavalry followed hard rear-guard, threw Germania Ford at midnight, and, resting till daylight, charged across thestream a rain of leaden sleet in the faces of our and then blended their and set out regiments of men, giving way, for Chancellorsville, followed by infantry. Eight miles numbers with those of the main and hastened the retreat. The loss the regiment went and body, to from the river the into camp, early on May 5 were on the Veterans was twenty-three forty-four and twenty-seven missing. march towards Orange where a division of killed, wounded, Court-House, Stuart's Cavalry, was met ! Total loss, ninety-four. Staunton was occupied, then the railroad was destroyed, and a sharp engagement ensued. Captain H. B. Compson charged, the. division and Crooks's and Averill's commands joined Hunter. The First Veterans and the with a squadron of the Eighth, drove back the enemy, and rescued some two Twenty-eighth Ohio Infantry were sent, on June 1, across the mountains, in hundred of our infantry which had been surrounded. As the army moved into " gray-backs," charge of twelve hundred and a motley crowd of our men accom line the cavalry kept up skirmishing with the enemy until the 9th of May, when panied the force. The distance, one hundred and ten miles to Beverly, was made orders came to move at one o'clock towards Fredericksburg. Thence they formed in four days, thence the journey lay some forty or fifty miles along the raUroad. part of a force detailed to make a raid upon Richmond in the rear of Lee. The prisoners were left in charge of at Webster and night on the infantry station, the Camping at tbe banks of the North Anna, they crossed on'the morning cavalry were taken by rail to Martinsburg. of the 10th, proceeded to Beaver Dam Station on the Orange and Richmond of an On the 25th with .cars June, immense wagon-train, loaded suppHes, set out for Railroad, where they captured two trains of loaded with rations for the rebel Hunter's under miUions' army strong guard. In tbe advance of this train was the First army, destroyed three worth of property, tore up railroad, and cut the
front.- was' ' under Platner. Cavalry, Tidings came of. trouble in Hunter reported wires ; then, striking across to the South Anna, went into camp for the night. to have been unable to hold his position. soon'the report was The train halted; On the 11th they burned the bridge, and, advancing within twelve miles of the confirmed that the was Veterans- army retreating, and.the train returned. The rebel capital, destroyed the railroad and cut the wires. Here an attack was made were ordered to while raided upon the Baltimore and Ohio of and a fight resulted a retreat Smithfield, Moseby by the cavalry Stuart, sharp in of the enemy ' Railroad and escaped pursuit. The whole Union line had fallen back by June 29 with a loss of three field-pieces and one hundred and fifty prisoners. The advance to within seven miles of Martinsburg, while the cavalry lay some distance in their was resumed, and bivouac was made for the night within six miles of Richmond. front. On the 2d of rebel July, the advance opened suddenly on the pickets of Moving forward at daylight, the command was surprised to find itself within the the First Brigade. The men were- soon in the saddle, and within two hours had Richmond.fortifications. Striking the rebel picket line a mile and a half from driven the three miles. About ten a force of two thousand men of* enemy a.m., the city, a part them was captured, and-until eleven o'clock A.M. it drove every advanced upon the about seven hundred. fell arrival Veterans, numbering The latter back thing before it till the of two infantry brigades, when, at twelve M., the front when sturdily, showing pressed, to Martinsburg, where they found that our force began to retire over the Chickahominy, thence through MechanicsviUe to forces had retreated. The then retired a position on east cavalry to the side of Gaines's Mills, where camp for the night was made. The march was. then resumed Maryland Heights. The came Bolivar occu enemy on, and, capturing Heights, to Malvern Hill, and the expedition set out on its return, having marched in six. pied Harper's Ferry.. with the the were kept active Skirmishing rebels, cavalry days one hundred and fifty miles, much of the distance within the lines of the dollars' till when all became quiet in Pleasant Valley. In October the regiment July 9, enemy, destroyed four million worth of property, captured four hundred are found in quarters at West. the salt-works of Camp Piatt, Virginia, guarding and fifty prisoners, and recaptured, while on their way to Southern prisons, three and Kanawha, the remainder of their term is connected with the monotonous and hundred of our men. more peaceful duties of the camp. Several hundred recruits here joined the regi On June 22 the command took up a line of march down to R.eam's Station, and saw little of service. On the 8th of the regiment is found ment, January, and, exchanging shots with a small force which fled at their advance, burned the in at at the headwaters of Kanawha River. K had lost in camp Gauley Bridge, station, cut the telegraph, and tore up the railway track for miles. Moving to and 1864, by death, four; missing, one; discharged, two; deserted, four; total, Ford's Station, two trains were taken and destroyed, and the track torn up a and had received eighteen recruits. on April we find eleven; Again, 8,1865, distance of twenty miles to Black and White Station. A division ofthe enemy's the First Veteran at West Virginia at June 8 Cavalry Loup Creek, ; Kanawha, ; cavalry coming up, a battle ensued, and our forces were victorious, with a loss of and about the last of returned to the and were mustered out. July they State, eight killed, twenty-four wounded, and seven missing. Proceeding thence to Manassas Station, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, the road was followed and destroyed to Staunton River, where the enemy once more attempted to hold them in check, and the command set out on its return. Expedition was now necessary, as the enemy had gathered and taken position to intercept their return. Reaching Stony Creek Station at night, June 28, the enemy were found in force, CHAPTER XXXV. outnumbering the raiders fully five to one, and strongly posted. Fighting began, and continued during the night, and with morning, the brigade containing the
CAVALRY Eighth was ordered to hold the and permit the division to cross the stream THE EIGHTH NEW YORK THE FIRST BATTERY, NEW YORK LIGHT enemy in their rear. The forward ARTILLERY. enemy, perceiving the movement, immediately threw their whole force and completely environed the whole brigade, which, facing about,. The Eighth New York Cavalry, called the Rochester Regiment, was organized charged to the rear to gain their horses. Some succeeded, others were kflled or at Rochester, New York, from November 28, 1861, to October 4, 1862, to serve wounded, and those straggling were captured. A party of one hundred men, three years. The original niernbers were mustered out as their term of service with Major Moore and Captain H. B. Compsen, failing to reach their horses and expired. The veterans and recruits were retained in service till June 27, 1865, cut off from their command, betook themselves to the woods, closely followed and and then discharged. In the first months of the term, the regiment was spoken repeatedly attacked by the enemy, whom they were able to repulse. Left alone, of by the name of its colonel, Crooks. A company from Seneca County, mostly the situation was reviewed. They were fifty niUes from the Union lines, and for raised from the village of Seneca Falls and vicinity, was known as G company, two days had known no refreshment but that derived from cups of coffee. Freedom and officered by B. F. Sisson, Captain, Frank 0. Chamberlain, First Lieutenant, was worth an effort, and the little band starting ih a northwest direction stumbled and S. E. Sturdevant, Second Lieutenant. Organized October 3, 1861, it was upon a rebel camp, whose occupants, like angry hornets, swarming out, charged the fifth company starting from Seneca Falls, was mainly composed of hardy upon and captured thirty-five men and five officers of their number. The jest, young farmers accustomed to horses, and of men who made the best of soldiers. hiding till dark, then set out, under guidance of a negro, to the Nottawa River,. In February, 1862, the company was stationed at Camp Seldon, near Washing which was forded, and once more our lines gladdened their sight. They were ton, District of Columbia. In September, when the imbecile commander of taken in wagons to where their regiment had encamped, at Light-House Point, Harper's Ferry, ordering the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York from Virginia. During this raid the Eighth lost one hundred and twenty-nine men in their vantage ground on Maryland Heights, held a large body of our troops in kUled, wounded, and missing.. To follow the various movements and detaU readiness to surrender whenever Jackson should send his summons, the Rochester engagements of the regiment would require more space than is ours to give, and
the" regiment, asking permission to cut their way out and being refused, took we must be content to give an instance, as one of many, where brave men, ably matter into their own hands, and not only made their way through the rebel led, won reputation, and contributed to our ultimate success.. Unes to Pennsylvania, but took with them a rebel train arid a large number On the 8th of March, 1865, Major H. B. Compsen, then in command of the of prisoners. Captain Sisson, a brave and meritorious officer, died February, Eighth Cavalry, was assigned the duty of charging upon a battery belonging to 1863, in hospital at Fredericksburg, and was a loss to the service of which General Early's force, three pieces of which battery commanded the road and be was proud to have been a member. On the night of May 3, 1863, the obstructed our advance. y.'Majpr Compsen was given bis regiment, and the Grand Army of the Potomac was under way for the Rapidan. The Eighth New Twenty-second New York Cavalry, the latter of which he placed upon the right FLA3LTE X X II il II
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Hon. Samuel Birdsall.
at I of 1837-39 in Hon. Samuel Birdsall was born on the 14th of May, 1791, Hillsdale, Congress, ; Counsellor the United States Supreme Court, 1838 Columbia County, N. Y. Having acquired a thorough classical and English education, District Attorney of Seneca County, 1846 ; Postmaster for ten years. He died he commenced at an early age the February 8, 1872, leaving 7--- ~:aa~ |r^"->;^:^^^w* ^ >-;-;-;a
with ability and integrity. Fearless, prudence, outlived three State Con incorruptible, working earnestly for the stitutions, was associate, in the State, of Jordan,Wil- best interest of the State and his con Van Buren, Butler, Root, stituency, untainted with the slightest liams, Marcy, and Spencer, and in the suspicion of selfishness or desire for County, of Knox, Maynard, Stevens, self-aggrandizement, and with a knowl Thompson, the Clarks, and others, in edge of men and an insight into mo the days Avhen there were giants in tives which seemed intuition, he never our courts and at the bar, connecting during all that period lost or forfeited in his experience the lawyers of the his character or reputation for distin present day with more than two gen forpro- guished ability and honesty, and erations that have passed away, always full of fessional and political fidelity, sagacity, courteous to the young, and and prudence. His intercourse with reminiscence and anecdotes of an early from our his constituents and clients, as politi day. We shall miss him cian or counsellor, was always marked circle more and more as the chasm shall by the utmost cordiality, frankness, between the present and the past and candor. In his private and social deepen and widen. Therefore, " death of the relations, like the leading men in the Resolved, That in the members days of his early manhood, he was a Hon. Samuel Birdsall the the gentleman of the old school, hospi of the bar of this County and of table, dignified, and courtly. With a the State have sustained a loss which the powerful intellect, and an understand cannot be supplied. A lawyer of gentle ing quick and comprehensive, he old school, a statesman and a him grasped with a master's hand and ana ((OjwwJA) man, it can be truthfully said of VVMMO wise lyzed at will any question presented to that he was eminent in learning, de his mind. in counsel, able in argument and conscientious in the Among the many honorable positions creditably filled by Mr. Birdsall were the bate, courteous and kind in his intercourse with his associates, following: Master in Chancery, 1815; Division Judge-Advocate, with the rank of discharge of his public and professional duties, and the worthy peer and cotempbrary arc Colonel, 1819 ; Counsellor in the Supreme Court of N. Y., and Solicitor in Chancery, of the good and great lawyers of the County and State, whose names and memories
respect." 1823; Surrogate of Seneca County, 1827-37; Bank Commissioner, 1832; Member linked with his, and which together we shall cherish and HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK. 7 0
and chose the post of in the for himself and the Eighth. equipped with and left, honor, eentre, sixty ten-inch columbiads, and, second only to Monroe and Sumter, " Sergeant. who carried the to bis he was Calling Keboe, flag, side, said, Sergeant, a prize eagerly desired by General Parke. It was garrisoned four hundred !" by we'U lose the this or more flags back with us At the and under command of .flag tiine, bring along fifty men, Colonel Moses J. White, and was situated at regiments charged down tbe full the face of the battery. the north word the -furiously road, in. end of Bogue Island, a long, narrow island, extending a score of miles volleys discbarge ere the was upon them the Twice only did its deadly cavalry ; along the coast. The plan of General Parke was to erect batteries in the rear on taken,' five battle-flags and the with tbe loss the while guns were captured, enemy routed, island, the navy co-operated from the front. Battery I crossed the and five men -wounded. sound on of Sergeant Carr kUled, flat-boats on April 13, and received the fire of the fort to the number of On June 27, 1865, the regiment bad reached Rochester, direct from Washington, sixty shells, not one of which did harm. and welcomed the where it was received by Mayor and Board of Aldermen. On the night of the 14th the company marched to a position fourteen hundred in it was reorganized yards Organized primarily October, 1861, in October, 1864. The from the front, and just to the rear of a sand-hill, where they began at once rcnment served with great distinction, while its battle-flag is inscribed with the to erect a straight, embrasureless parapet, eight feet high, and held in place by bags sixty-four battles. The one of tbe commissioned officers who of filled with sand and wired names of only re carpet, together. For days later twenty men, com turned with it was- Colonel Pope, who went out as captain. The regiment left manded by Lieutenants Kelvey and Thomas, began a breastwork for an eight-inch Rochester nine hundred and forty strong ; received thirteen hundred to fourteen mortar battery, one hundred yards to the right and front of this position. Through hundred recruits, and on its muster out had eight hundred and fifty enlisted inen, ten hot days and seven nights the men continued their work, and, assisted by teams and were of went at brought each arduous of whom only one hundred ninety those who out with it. night, up their mortars, four to battery. While this First Battery. In October, 1861, Captain, Terence J. Kennedy was engaged work was in progress, under occasional fire from the fort, a third battery was built yards advance of or ten-inch mortar battery. in recruiting for tbe First Battery, New York Light ArtiUery, six guns. A three hundred in the first, opened at resulted enlistment This work mounted four Parrott and the 24th the armament was com recruiting office Seneca FaUs in the of a number of pieces, by
was organized at and the men the order begin. Summoned to and . good soldiers. The battery Auburn, New York, November 23, plete, waiting to surrender, 1861, to serve "three years. Ori the expiration of their term the veterans and refusing, General Parke ordered in the fleet to assist, and, at daylight of the 25th, on the men of I were in their forts to open fire. An regiment was recruits were retained, and finally discharged June 23, 1865. Upon nineteen ready infantry battle-fields their presence contributed to lessen disaster or contribute to success. sent to strengthen the picket line away to. the front, to repel sortie, or make assaults. showed of a single gun from the Their bolts were thrown into the trenches of Yorktown, and shell from their pieces As the time-piece the hour five a.m., Parrott aroused the garrison. Captain behind the parapet of the aided to defeat the enemy at Williamsburg. Their fire made more deadly the battery Ammon, mortar second and from all the bloody fields of Gaines's Mills, White Oak Swamp, and Compton's Gap. Their ten-inch battery, fired the gun, then, batteries, amid tongues of fire and clouds of twelve huge shells rose in the air and notes were heard in the great battle of Antietam, they augmented the horrid din smoke, descended upon the fort. One fired Captain struck within the at Fredericksburg, and their discharges were felt among the men in gray at Marye's shell, by Ammon,
water killed a terrified sentinel near. . For a time and Salem's Heights. The batterymen stood to their guns in the decisive battle battery, and, exploding, standing the fort was silent. First a thirty-two pound shot came with a rush into the sand of Gettysburg, were active in the contest at Rappahannock Station, and found then others within three hours from the first Macon had position in the thickets of the Wilderness. To the survivors, the names Spottsyl hills, followed, till, shot, shot and shell at redoubt and batteries. Coal and call a train of reminiscences whose expres eighteen guns at work, pouring vania, Harbor, Petersburg .up heavy Meanwhile the mortars had been brought to and shell sion would be a valuable contribution to history well worthy of their patience and steadily range, nearly every reached its mark. Twelve Union guns were answered eighteen and one their time. Sharing iri the tumult of defeat, they have known the exultation of by rebel, ofthesewas a one-hundred-and-twenty-cight pounder. About nine o'clock victory, and while gun answered gun at Fisher's Hill, they aided to turn reverse columbiad, of gunboats gave assistance to the but the roughness of to success in the memorable engagement at Cedar Creek. the fire four besiegers, the water compelled them to retire. Ammon's redoubt became the focus of great
commotion. The rebel projectiles tore through the parapet, and the jar of the mortars crumbled the rampart. By eleven the men were uncovered, and the battery temporarily silenced. Soon the work was repaired,. and the battery opened again accurately and steadily. One by one the rebel guns, mounted en barbette, were and three p.m. the one-hundred-and-twenty-eight CHAPTER XXXVI. dismounted and deserted, by later a of truce came and at pounder only returned our fire. An hour flag out, next Fort Macon was the second United States fort THE THIRD NEW YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. nine A.M. day won, recaptured, Fort Pulaski having fallen into the hands of General Gillmore two weeks before. range-stake his Wm. of Ammon's was killed while driving a for The Third New York Volunteer Artillery was first united as such February Dart, battery, and shells into ninety- mortar. the assault I threw five hundred and embraced a total of twelve batteries and one thousand and During Battery sixty 22, 1862, " the fort. Ammon's command was taken for an artillery garrison, and Fort Macon, one men. So far as batteries are considered as part of the regiment, the general 1862," was ordered Burnside to be inscribed on their colors. The and the earlier 26th by history wiU be outUned, but our interest centres in Batteries B I in April, enthusiasm the as this was the success of I was received with by regiment, years of the war, and with D at a later date in addition. Battery B was organ first for the Third Artillery. Battery I remained till December in the ized at New York by Captain Joseph J. Morrison. A large portion of the men victory reached Newbern December to join a pro and to orders, 3, were from Seneca County, and had seen service in the old Nineteenth. The fort, then, responding posed expedition. Lieutenants were S. Clark Day, Edward A. Wildt, George C. Breck, and J. W. of The second detail from the regiment was the company Ashcroft, Battery C, Hees. At the barracks at Palace Garden the battery was uniformed, armed with went with the armed with two iron field-pieces taken from the enemy, arid drilled as infantry. At Washington it was joined with other batteries, which, rifles, guard* Massachusetts nine miles from the to a bridge. About artillery. The Twenty-third city all under Colonel Ledlie, and thoroughly drilled in the handling of Trent and Neuse and went April 15 the regiment moved camp between the roads, nucleus of this regiment was the former Nineteenth Volunteers. The Third Three and became its to work and constructed Fort Totten. companies, D, G, K, ArtiUery was sent to Burnside, then in North Carolina, and, arriving at Newbern, armed with twenty-eight captured two o*arrison in May. This fort was cannon, April was a welcome reinforcement to that gallant commander, who 5, 1862, over one-hundred-pound pieces. Its eight feet high and of which were parapet, observed the numbers and discipline of the organization with satisfaction. The constructed with five faces. The twelve inclosed seven acres, and was main of the regiment for some time in camp, and. acted as infantry, taking thick, body lay Colonel Ledlie some The' Totten was completed June. obtaining be detailed armament of Fort by part in expeditions and waiting for orders. first company to battle of gave two to B and two to and ofthe brass pieces taken in the Newbern, F, for active service was that, of I, commanded by Captain Amnion, and Battery and Jenny. The third detail was of driU began under Captains Morrison Battery in its ranks a number of Seneca soldiers. General Burnside required a having N. on the Tar. June Captain to garrison a fort at Washington, C, 10, at request Colo Wall, to take part in the siege of.Fort and Amnion's G, company Macon, across the Trent. June was organized and sent to General Rend 28, went K nel Ledlie detailed his company, and.on April 10, eighty-five strong, they Battery sent Fort on Roanoke and then to Roanoke Price," M was first to Rend, Island, ori board the "Alice Foster's flag-ship, and were landed at the mouth of Battery Fort Hatteras. B and F received a fuU armament on 1. their Island to garrison July Slocum's eighteen miles below Newbern. for the night, Creek, Bivouacking two twelve-pound guns The former had two brass twenty-four-pound howitzers, march next through the the railroad a distance of day swamps, along highways, rifled while and two twelve-pound Wiard's iron and pieces, in com ofthe same character, brought them near the coast. Reporting to General Parke, twenty miles, baggage teams of Massachusetts regiments. About horses were obtained from the mand of the forces/to operate against the were ordered to cross Bogue fort, they twenty-pound and B six twelve-pound brass - December 1 I received four Parrott, point. Macon was Sound next.day, and join the troops operating from that heavily 76 HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK.
and halted three miles from the railroad bridge over the Napoleons.- Fortifications were built and strengthened during the summer ; and, heavy woods, Neuse. of The returned at for the first tiine -interrupted mail although in a malarial climate, general health was good. While the Army the cavalry midnight, havirig and telegraphic communication between Virginia and the cities south. The Potomac advanced on Fredericksburg, Foster, in command of North Carolina, railroad gun bridge was two hundred feet had taken a year to and was a organized an expedition to cut the Weldon Railroad, and destroy two rebel long, build, handsome wood structure. The concentrated for its defense. The boats buUdirig at WUliamston. Major Kennedy, in command of the artillery -enemy infantry engaged and set a force defeated and approached.the bridge.. Batteries force, had a number of batteries, among which were B, F, H, K. Foster under Clingman, them, B, and I took and silenced a rebel battery; A train out, November 1, with ten thousand men, in the direction of WiUiamston. Occar E, H, arriving, position, 'laden under General and sional shots grew to a constant discharge. At Old Ford seven hundred with reinforcements, Pettigrew, approached, Was sheUed with infantry trial' at a cross effect. An effort to burn the bridge failed a second volunteer ended in and a section of artillery barred progress. They were driven to works ; other attempts were until the object was attained ing caUed Rawle's Mills. Batteries B and K opened fire at these works, while failure ; unsuccessful, by Lieu-.
* and tenant G. W. the post fires supplied While tbe infantry, extinguishing the fire at the bridge, began to cross the stream, Graham, being by Battery Br the to' bridge burned a fire was opened upon it to prevent, an attempt at a late hour the rebels disappeared. The bridge was repaired, and by morning by artillery, save it. Rebel reinforcements began to come in until their forces far ex the advance was resumed. Progress was made, with brief stands at crossings by rapidly, and passed. ceeded the of at three in the began a return to New the enemy, during the day, and by midnight WiUiamston was reached army Foster, who, afternoon, A brigade under and B under remained on the field. A Four gunboats, co-operating, moved up the Roanoke in line with the army. bern. Lee, Morrison, were seen on the railroad Finding no iron-clads at WUliamston, Foster advanced to and through Hamilton, party of rebels standing bank, and, being approached sped out of sight. Two guns were and several exciting a panic among the people, and causing the concentration of a large force by Morrison, unlimbered, shells beyond the embankment there was no and the guns rejoined in his front. The raid ended, and the batteries of the Third Artillery were dis thrown ; reply, the battery. three rebel regiments upon the embankment in posed on the roads converging on Plymouth, and, with the Twenty-seventh Immediately sprang line and moved upon the battery. With the six Massachusetts, constituted its garrison. November 22, Sergeant L. S. Bradley, of battle, quickly celerity Napoleons placed in and loaded with canister and spherical Corporal Edward Richardson, and three men of Battery B, were captured while "were battery, unlimbered, case. rods' succeeded and still the came on. At foraging, and afterwards exchanged. Volley volley, enemy forty distance the discharged double loads of canister. It was beyond The assault upon Fredericksburg was planned for December, 1862, and Foster, battery endurance; they and ran for the while shell swept them as with four full brigades of infantry, two of which were from Massachusetts, and a broke embankment, pursuing among as one was in sight. The flags in sight on the and three hundred brigade of artillery having forty guns, manned by one thousand men, was ordered long lay field, wounded attested Morrison's accuracy. from Newbern to advance upon: Goldsboro', North Carolina, and divert forces to dead and withering return to Newbern was accomplished the 20 and the won that quarter. The force, twelve thousand strong, set out in the early morning of The by th, artillery official commendation. In Lee sent D. H. with thou December 11, and, advancing rapidly fourteen miles, reached Deep Grdjy, a tribu March, 1863, Hill, twenty sand drive Foster from the State. On March 13 an attack was made tary to the Trent, where the advance scattered a rebel picket, and where the force men, to failed-' on and Four days Hill advanced on garrisoned went into camp for the night. The road for a mile was obstructed by felled trees, Newbern, later, Washington, and the 29th place. which a force of black pioneers rapidly cleared with their axes. Various strategic by twenty-two hundred men, by beleaguered the Foster movements accompanied the advance made on the 12th, the fortified positions of threw himself into the place before the place was entirely invested, and arranged HU1 demanded a but did not assault on the enemy were avoided, and by night the army was four miles beyond Beaver skillfully for defense. surrender, being began a siege which lasted seventeen Creek. At nine o'clock of the 13th, after a smart skirmish, reached Southwest refused, but erecting batteries, days. Creek, nine miles from Kinston, at a point where one of four bridges crosses the The time ofthe original Third ArtUlery expired in May, 1863, and they were
stream. The stream was unfordable, the ravine deep and wooded, but the crossing assembled at Newbern, where they set sail in steamers for.home. A .formal and. was defended by but four hundred men and a section of artillery posted in a grand reception met the battalion at Auburn, and an address was made them, by men were mustered out on disbanded redoubt. Lieutenant Day's section of Battery B was with the advance, and was Secretary Seward. The June 2. The posted on the bluff commanding the rebel work. Depressing the pieces, the second soldiers of Cayuga and Seneca Counties wore called together, to aid in defense of shot disabled one rebel gun, and the other was soon silenced. The other sections New York City during the riot, and quickly responded, but before they could be two-years' of the battery shelled the woods farther to the right. The infantry, crossing on. a organized the danger had passed. The discharge ofthe men reduced the mill-dam above the bridge, flanked and won the redoubt, a six-pound gun, and ranks of the Third Artillery to eight hundred and eighty-nine men. A, C, D, and some prisoners. The rest in camp was taken without stopping to prepare coffee, K were transferred to E, K, and I, and twelve batteries were reduced to eight, one so weary were the men, and after a hurried meal, taken at five next morning, the of which, known as the First New York Independent, was with the Army of the command advanced straight upon Kinston. TheNinth New Jersey Cavalry and Potomac, and was known ori the rolls as Battery L. Many ofthe men mustered Day's section of Battery B were in advance. Across the road, at a distance of out of the Third went into a new regiment, known as the Sixteenth Artillery, and two miles from Kinston bridge, our forces came upon the enemy, six thousand did excellent service. strong, under General Evans. His forces were in line of battle on a hill crossing Foster's army, known as the Eighteenth Army Corps, assembled at Beaufort the road. In front was a swamp, to the west woods, and the Kinston road led to to take Wilmington. No help being practicable from the navy, the corps was the centre ofthe rebel position. The infantry came up, deployed, and opened fire. directed to proceed to Charleston and assist DuPont in an assault upon that city. Under personal direction of General Foster, Batteries B, F, and I, of the Third The Third Artillery was disembarked at St. Helena. DuPont was not ready, and New York, were placed by the road a half-mile in rear of the line of attack. two months passed idly away. On April 1 the troops to make the. attack on The infantry advanced through the swamp, and fought their way towards the hill, Charleston were embarked. On the 7th the assault was made by the iron-clads, from whose crest the rebel artillery vainly sought to make the woods untenable. and was bravely continued for three hours. During the attack Hunter landed An opportunity to cut off a rebel force retreating on our light was lost by dilatory four thousand men on Folly Island, with Batteries B and F, and after the faUure of movement. The rebels slowly gave way, but persistently held the heights. attack the force was strengthened with four thousand more. The rest,of the Third A bayonet charge broke the lines, and Evans was defeated. Retreating with Artillery was posted partly at Beaufort, and a part at St. Helena. On April 23 the main body to Kinston, he ordered the bridge fired, and the sendee was per it was sent to Newbern, leaving behind its guns. A few days after landing at formed. An attempt to save the 'bridge was successful. While this was in Folly Island, Battery B was taken to Seabrook Island to strengthen the forces took" progress B and K engaged a five-gun battery across the stream in a redoubt, and there. In June it was ordered to Morris Island. Gillmore command in soon silenced Forty-four prisoners were its fire. taken by these batteries. The June, and energetically labored at planting batteries, and by July 9 was ready to enemy were prevented from removing valuable supplies by the fire from the long- open. July 10 was passed in heavy bombardment, and the hitherto dominant range guns of E and I. News of Burnside's repulse came, and Lee telegraphed rebel artillery began to find themselves put on the defensive. Unsuccessful Goldsboro' Foster' Smith at he could have thirty thousand men if wanted. re-. attempts were made to carry Fort Wagner, and a siege was inaugurated.. Batteries solved to advance on Goldsboro'. Recrossing the bridge, he marched swiftly up B and F, ordered up from Folly Island, took position near the extreme right, and, the south bank of the river, and bivouacked near Whitehall. The cavalry were while a guard against sortie, managed to restrain the fire of the rebel sharpshooters sent to make a dash at Mount OUve Station, while the army engaged and diverted from the fort. Lieutenant Day was ordered to make a breastwork on the beach the at the river. The Ught batteries were planted at of sand enemy the base of a slope, during the night; B responded, and, using an old boat for a basis, a pUe the heavier guns of E and I near the crest. From thirty cannon on our side a was raised upon it. Wooden boxes, used in transporting heavy shells, were plenty, discharge was opened and maintained. work re heavy The enemy replied with ten guns, and, filled with sand, answered for bags. Morning came, and the riew which were silenced. Feints of crossing were made ; then, leaving a force of sharp ceived its baptism in a round from a carronade of six four-pound balls. shooters to keep up a semblance, Foster resumed his march on Goldsboro', through August 22, Battery B was placed in garrison in Fort Shaw. Fort Wagner HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK. / /
our bands September and F retired with its guns to camp. The and Lieutenant fell into 6, open, Crocker, with a section of B, from the only available ground '
yards' bombardment of Sumter, constantly kept up, reduced the work to ruin. In at forks of the road, opened fire at six hundred distance. Cheering, three Lieutenant of was promoted to captain of F. This colored regiments November, Day, B, battery charged, but were repulsed, and the rebels charged in return, and in an expedition to S. several was engaged, in February, 1864, John's Island, C. De times some of them crossed the bridge. Captain Mercereau's section of B
within half a mUe of the Captain had the good came and the four guns their part serted by infantry enemy, Day up, did in repelling the enemy. Lieutenant in and on 22 was taken steamer fortune to withdraw his battery safety, April by Crocker received a musket-baU in the right eye, but fought Iris guns for an hour to Beaufort, and there encamped. after. Seven men were wounded. B, completely exhausted, with guns too hot to fire, expedition John's Island was made in 1864. Batteries B was then relieved which A second to July, by F, worked its guns rapidly and encouraged the infantry which was quite heavy. with considerable in their attacks. Night and and F were with the force, Advance, came, Foster, relinquishing the attack, retired from the made towards the in force as of the last leave. Wildt died after amputation opposition, was Charleston, enemy augmenting they field, Clark, F, being to shortly the the head of the column was checked a four-gun of his leg. On renewed attempts retired. On the 7th of July by December 6, Foster his on the railroad, and redoubt. The charged upon it five F was engaged to good a single spherical case-shot battery planted in a Twenty-sixth, colored, Battery purpose, laying low ten each time lost a total of ninety-seven kiUed and men. From Foster's position on the 8th the railroad was-within range. successive times, and, repulsed, The in and the next and timber was and train ran gauntlet of wounded. F Battery took position, silenced, battery morning, tervening slashed, every the the battery. spires of Charleston were discernible. crossed an The position of Foster held six thousand men in his and Sherman came out irom this point the A creek, by front, covered with and the batteries withdrawn and upon the coast with but fifteen under to back his veterans open plank bridge, was men, trained thousand, Hardie, keep of was up. from Savannah. Foster brought B and A of the Third Rhode Island to bear upon it, while a line breastworks thrown At half-past five in Battery rebels made their from Boyd's to reUeve F. The railroad was now rendered the morning, in the midst of a dense fog, the expected attack, Landing impassable, on and Hardee hastened to evacuate and retreat into South Carolina. and the One Hundred and Forty-fourth New York, picket, were driven in dis Co-operating with the advance of B and F were a portion of the forces sent Foster order before their lines, many captured, and the rest crowded over the bridge. Sherman, by to amuse and attract his attention. After them came the rebels, rushing for the bridge. Blast after blast of canister, the enemy On was and first Union occu from the double-shotted guns of B, strewed the ground with dead, while F on the Februaiy 17 Charleston evacuated, its artillery pants were a detachment of B in garrison at Fort Shaw in charge of equipage. right and the infantry poured in a deadly fire. Routed, the rebels received rein Batteries B and F were ordered to from the to the forcements and tried it again, with a like result. The gray ranks betook them trenches, running Ashley and in for some time. selves to the tree-tops to pick off the gunners. B raised the muzzles of her Cooper, lay camp On April amid national salutes fired and the harbor cannon and riddled the tree-tops, turning the guns to rake with canister. And 14, 1865, by B, F, forts, the same hauled down four years before was raised again on battered Sum this was a faUure to the rebels, who, opening fire with a single gun, it was dis flag yards' ter ours again ! mounted at three hundred distance by a solid shot from B, the gun having When Sherman set out from Savannah for the old Twenty-third been sighted by Lieutenant Crocker. The rebel loss was two hundred and fifty. Goldsboro', Corps of twenty-one thousand came from Tennessee and To the regret of the men, orders were given to withdraw, and the batteries re Army Schofield, strong, at WUmington been J. D. Cox's Division turned to their fomier positions. landed Fort Fisher. having captured, sent Newbern to an advance towards the objective point. In March, 1864, the Third Artillery was reinforced by the arrival of four was to preparatory On March 1 Cox formed two each six thousand one under hundred and fifty-nine recruits, from whom two batteries were formed, and known divisions, strong ; was Captain was the other under S. P. Carter. In the first D, as D and G. Battery. D, commanded by Captain Van Heusen, composed Palmer, Battery one section left and were now sent to Van and in the four guns, being almost entirely of Seneca County men. Batteries E K Heusen; second, Battery I, at Newbern. The advance began March and the 7th the troops were at Virginia, where H and M had gone the previous fall. John J. Peck, command 3, by at angles to the Union advance. Here the signs of a rebel attack upon his Southwest which ran right ing the army in North Carolina, saw indicative Creek, skirmishers the banks of the creek opened a as possible. April were in force. Our along positions, and placed himself on guard as far On 20, Hoke, enemy fire of while a section of under Lieutenant Stevenson, with seven thousand men and three batteries, captured Plymouth, with General sharp musketry, D, "Albemarle" threw shell into a rebel redoubt on the other and drew a reply. At dark, Wessels and two thousand prisoners. The rebel ram assisted in bank, the fired a hundred drew back and took position on. the the result. Peck was called to Virginia. I. N. Palmer was his successor. He section, having shots, six guns. extreme joined the other sections, it had The ordered Washington evacuated, and Hoke now felt sure of Newbern, which place right, where, being by section was supplied in a position retired from summoned Newbern to place of Stevenson's by Battery I, he approached on May 4, and on the morning of the 6th Albemarle' ' works were thrown and a '' that of B. To guard against attack, up, heavy starting surrender. But the was met at the entrance ofAlbemarle Sound, and 8th General Carter of timber made the night. On the morning of the driven back by our boats, and Hoke on receipt of this intelligence retreated. In during with them was Seymour's section of sent a force to reconnoitre the bridge, and September the yellow fever entered Newbern, and thirty-seven men. of Battery D, When within one thousand yards of the the guns were put of October the dis I. bridge, alone, feU a prey to this scourge. With the coming frost, 9, Battery occasional was kept in and shelled the bridge. For three hours firing ease was checked.. During this month the regiment was recruited to twenty-five position, around. General Hoke had when in a moment the din of battle raged hundred men and eleven fuU batteries. Battery A, from Cayuga, a soldierly body up, Upham's force and the Union works. As About brought around three brigades between of men, arrived on the and became the garrison of Fort Anderson. 20th, and started for Seymour heard the rebel yells and sputtering fire, he limbered up November 1864, Foster was ordered to collect all available forces to move 15, rebel and reached the works. the rear. One piece thundered through the lines, upon and a portion of the Savannah and Charleston Raiboad as a prelim destroy go a dozen rods the horses were shot The other was and before it could to aid who had set out from Atlanta on his march to the sea. delayed, inary Sherman, and James the gun taken. Some of the men escaped, but John Hart, and the down and Five thousand veteran soldiers were gathered, and with them were B F, captured but few of J. C. A. J. Hawks, and A. Kellaborn were ; Up former with Captain the latter with Lieutenant Titus in command. The Langham, Mercereau, crush before the other division men escaped. Hoke now attempted to Cox of November on the ton's force, after various experiences, were found at daylight 30, our line his veterans tried to break through of Couch should arrive. All along march down the Savannah Turnpike. The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh New carried the skirmish line of and but in vain. The enemy corner of the the abattis, in the engaged the rebel and nearing the slashing York, advance, picket, was and hard for the main line. Here D our rifle-pits at the centre, triei Battery straight GrahamviUe a section of twelve-pound cannon opened on Road, held to their work unflinchingly. Lieutenants with four guns; and, under severe fire, they and the rank vegetation was fired. A section of B, under column, centre. The were with a division and formed the enemy rebels Ruger arrived along Wildt and took and a score of well-aimed shots sent the 'Crocker, position, Schofield and Hoke and the rifle-pits retaken. On the 9th arrived, over two the driven back, to the right-about. the enemy towards GrahamviUe, miles, Driving and musketry. The breastworks the stUl kept a fire of artillery crossing rebel made a brief stand and was routed B. this artiUery up artillery by During at right angles and ran parallel on the left flank turned to the left rushed on Kinston Pike duel a soUd twelve-pound shot struck Lieutenant Wildt in the groin, which Couch was expected. Here a half-mUe to the road and the to the pike for by and killed a horse and an soldier. A stretcher was brought; .infantry Michigan were stationed. The breastworks of Batteries G and I and the Sixth brave was taken a church in the rear. With fresh forces the enemy feUow to of tin plates. which dirt was thrown the use were made of over by miles from GrahamviUe. I logs, now made a determined stand at HiU, three Honey where a division of Union troops was expected, On the morning of the 10th, Here was a position and strong. In front was a swamp, naturally artificially was forward. In a moment men in in dense columns, moving which nine a corps of gray, through which a crossed a wooden upon flowed creek, by bridge, stiU'the surged had opened a murderous fire, yet enemy trenches on our cannon" ;and musketry cannon the crest of the hill was a and were trained. Upon redoubt, the sent shot piece of on the pike, commanding crossing, was made onward. A Battery I, either flanfe were manned two thousand men. A heroic charge by until when were but by succession the butternut after shot in rapid into ranks, they vain. The artillery. was now ordered to the Fifty-fifth, colored, and proved in 78 HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK.
a few yards away the mass halted, hesitated, and then fled to the sheltering woods. The first physician, who located in Seneca County was Dr. Silas Halsey, The rebel advance from the woods was greeted by a severe and continued fire as who was born in Southampton, Long Island, October 6, 1743. He studied med it came nearer and reached the abattis ; here it halted and opened a rapid, steady icine at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and in about the year 1764 he was licensed fire. came minutes rebels a medical when Reinforcements to the Union line, and within ten the by board, he returned to his native county and began the practice 1776." gave way. As fell our men cheered and a force placed of his where he remained until they back, loudly; large profession, Being a rebel, he became very British,* by Hoke opposite our centre, taking this as tbe signal of success, charged forward obnoxious to the and was compelled to. seek shelter in Killingsford, Con and met severe repulse. Again the rebels charged on the left, and were repulsed. necticut, remaining there until the close of the war. After the close ofthe Rev A third charge was made with some of struggle with desperation ; the abattis was crossed, and olutionary he, together several others, started westward in a skiff, the more daring were struck down almost at the muzzles of the guns. The main and finally landed at what is now known as Lodi Landing, where he struck his force finaUy fell back, and nearly a thousand caught by the abattis were captured. tent and called it home. He removed his family to Lodi Landing in the follow The battle had lasted but half an hour, and the rebels had lost two thousand ing spring, and there remained an honored and respected citizen until his death,
men . kUled and wounded, and two thousand prisoners. Hood was satisfied to which occurred October 1, 1832. retire upon his works. Schofield's second division arrived at dark; and he found Dr. Jared Sandford was the next physician. He was born in Southampton, himself in command of twenty thousand exultant men. Hoke now retreated, February 19, 1774, and studied medicine under the instruction of his brother, burning bridges and evacuating powerful and extensive intrenchments, while James Sandford, of Huntington, Long Island. He graduated at Columbia Medical Schofield pushed forward and occupied Kinston. The rebels in light force skirm College in the winter of 1793-4, and during the latter year located about two ished with Schofield's force, while Hoke had gone to assist Johnson in an attack miles south . of the present village of Ovid, on premises now owned by a Mr. upon Sherman. The battle of Bentonville was a final effort, and soon the army Eastman. Dr. Sandford was a man of abUity in his profession, and was evidently of Schofield was joined to their old comrades of the West, and while preparing appreciated by the people aside from bis professional services. He was the first for a grand and final move the tidings of Lee's surrender electrified the camp. County Judge of Seneca County, in 1803, and the first wUl was admitted to pro Hard after Johnson the army pushed on to and through Raleigh. There the bate before him in 1804. He was also the first Postmaster in the County. He " New York batteries took part in a grand review, and won especial notice from was a skillful practitioner, and, as an old gentleman remarked, to get Dr. Sand
well." Sherman. June 19, orders to return home were received. Transportation was ford to doctor you was to get He was stricken down amidst a life of use furnished to Syracuse, New York, whence the men went to their homes. The fulness, August 18, 1817. regiment numbered twenty-two hundred men when discharged, and had received Dr. Ethan Watson was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, January 11, 1780.
a total of forty-four hundred and eight. It lost by disease two hundred and He studied his profession with Dr. Woodward, of Torringford, . Connecticut, and forty-seven men ; kUled in battle, fifteen ; wounded, two hundred and thirty- was licensed to practice by a Medical Board, in 1801. In 1801 he located at what three; prisoners, seventy; deserters (bounty-jumpers), three hundred and forty- is now called Frelie's Landing, in the town of Romulus, a.nd in the spring of 1807 seven. Ten guns were lost by capture, one by bursting. The services of this he removed to Romulusville, where he remained in active practice, highly organization in the various fields was conducive in many instances to turn a esteemed as a physician, until a few years previous to his death, which occurred threatened disaster into victory ; its fire was deadly, and its batteries, as we have May 28, 1858. He, with Dr. Sandford, organized the first Medical Board, about seen, without support, have contended heroically with charging masses, and have the year 1814-15. Dr. Watson was a relative and namesake of Ethan Afkn, of given ground only when further stay would.be madness. Revolutionary fame, and was imbued with many of the characteristics of that A of men large number from Seneca County were in these companies, and so illustrious chieftain. far as possible an attempt has been made to speak particularly of the batteries Dr. Humphrey C. Watson, a nephew and student of Dr. Ethan Watson, manned by them. While they had approved themselves good soldiers, they have graduated at Albany in 1842 ; settled in Romulus, and succeeded his uncle in in years shown these succeeding themselves good citizens, and many of them may practice. He moved West in 1852. be found to-day active in honored and useful positions, and rightfully proud of Dr. E. Dorchester, a graduate of Geneva Medical College, located in Ovid service in of their the ranks the Third New York Artillery. in 1849, and upon the removal of Dr. Watson he located in Romulus, where he remained until 1867, when he removed to Geneva, New York. Dr, Richard Dey succeeded Dr. Dorchester in Romulus, where he is still practicing. Dr. John L. Eastman, a native of Massachusetts, located in Ovid in 1817, and in the following year moved to the residence of the late Dr. Sandford in Lodi, CHAPTER XXXVII. and subsequently married the widow of Dr. Sandford. He died in Lodi in 1857. Dr. Claudius C. Coan was borri in 1794, and studied medicine with Dr. SUN EGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FIRST PHYSICIAN IN SENECA COUNTY Duncan, of Canandaigua. He was licensed to practice, and in 1816 located at BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PROFESSION IN THE COUNTY. Townsendville. and was highly esteemed as a practitioner. He is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. A County medical existed in Seneca at an but the organ society early period, Dr. Peter a native of New located in Ovid in and Covert, Jersey, .1818, ization was abandoned in about the year 1840. Unfortunately, all the records of practiced medicine there many years, and died in 1868. this pioneer association are lost. The transactions of the State Medical Society Dr. N. W. Folwell, a graduate of Fairfield Medical College and student of show that at its in Dr. Oliver C. Comstock meeting Albany, February 6, 1810, Dr. Coan, located in Lodi as a partner of the latter in 1830. He has aban presented his credentials from and Seneca took his seat in that body. He doned the active County practice of his profession, and is residing in Romulus. was a prominent citizen, and represented this in the Legislature in Dr. County 1810, Alfred Bolter was born in Massachusetts, studied medicine with Dr. and two years afterward was appointed Judge of the County. Coan, graduated at the Geneva Medical College in 1837 or 1838, and soon after In 1829 the State Medical acknowledges the receipt of two dollars located in the Society village of Ovid, where he still resides, a successful surgeon. from the Seneca through Society, Dr. Caleb its and his Dr. P. with County Loring, secretary, H. Flood was born in Pennsylvania in 1814, studied medicine name appears in the State transactions for the years as that 1830-31, secretary, Dr. Gearhart, of Washingtonville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, graduated at the only office reported. Geneva being Medical College in 1841, and the same year located at Lodi Centre. He a period of about twenty-five After years, August 1, the present moved to Elmira in One 1865, society 1854. In 1862 he entered the army as Surgeon ofthe and was organized, the officers chosen : Dr. Gardner Welles Hundred and following President, Seventh Regiment New York State Volunteers, and remained in Dr. Alfred Bolter Vice-President, ; Secretary, Dr. F. B. Seelye Dr. the service until suc ; Treasurer, 1865. He was elected Mayor of the city of Elmira two 0. S. Patterson ; Censors, Drs. James W. W. E. J. Schoon cessive a Flood, Wheeler, years, 1871-72. Dr. Flood still resides in Elmira, and has become that period maker. Since the society has been well sustained, and has proved a celebrated surgeon. useful and important Organization. The present officers are as follows: Pres Dr. James Flood was born in Pennsylvania in 1826. He studied with his Dr. S. R. Welles ; Dr. Elias Lester Dr. E. J. ident, Vice-President, ; Secretary, brother, Dr. P. H. Flood, and in 1850 graduated at the Geneva Medical College. J. Drs.- Schoonmaker; Treasurer, Dr. A. E. J. after, until Dennison; Censors, Bolter, Immediately graduating he located at Lodi Centre, where he remained arid W. W- Wheeler. Schoonmaker, 1870, when he moved to the village of Geneva. The extracts and biographical sketches are an following from address delivered Dr. a the James Kennedy, student of Dr. James Flood, and a graduate of before the Seneca Medical in Dr. A. County Society July last, by J. Allemao, of Buffalo Medical College, located in Lodi Centre in 1868. Died in May, 1873. Varick. Dr. William Livingstone, a student of Dr. P. H. Flood, graduated at the HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK. 79
Geneva Medical CoUege, and located at Townsendville in 1848, where he remained Waterloo. After a successful career of about eighteen years, he moved to Mar two years. shall, Michigan, locating there in 1844, where he was twice elected to the office of Dr. Lewis Post, a native of Seneca County, located in Lodi Village in 1834, Mayor. In the fall of 1854 he moved to Chicago, where he practiced his pro practice of medicine to the present time. He served two and also served six years as two years as and has continued the fession, Alderman, City Physician, tbe represented this in the and was President of the Chicago Board of Health at the time of which years in the army during late RebeUion, County Leg his.death, islature in 1864, and is the present Member of Assembly. occurred October 25, 1875. Dr. J. Dunn is a native of New Jersey, graduated at Geneva Medical Col Drs. Parker and Taylor located in Scauyes in an early day, but little is where still known of their lege in 1847, and during the same year located in Lodi ViUage, he history. " Kingdom." a pioneer practitioner at remained but continues in active practice. Dr. Pitney was the He
and became a dis Dr. 0. R. Keyes, a student of Dr. James Flood, graduated at Detroit Medical a short time, and located in Auburn, New York, subsequently College, Michigan, and located in Lodi in 1875. tinguished surgeon. " Kingdom." Dr. Elliott was Dr. successor at the Dr. Rose was the first physician in Farmer Village, locating in 1797. Pitney's Dr. R. S. Bowen came to this village in 1816. Dr. Stewart was the first physician that located at Waterloo. He kept a and afterwards sold to Dr. Dr. Almy located in the following year, 1817. drug store in part of Swift's mercantile establishment, Loring.- Dr. William Kidder settled in the village soon after Dr. Almy. Caleb In 1817 there were practicing in Waterloo, Drs. Stewart, Fifield, still Michigan Fifield Dr..Wheeler graduated at Fairfield Medical College in 1829, and soon after Welles, and Loring. Stewart is residing in Kalamazoo, ; died a few years since died in and Welles in 1872. located at Farmer Village; where for many years he bad a large and lucrative ; Loring 1865, in and remained until 1830. practice. He died in 1861. Dr. Elder located 1820, Dr. H. C. Skinner located here after Dr. Wheeler. Dr. Norman Eddy from 1835 to 1836. 1845. Dr. R- F. Coleman was also a practicing physician in this village. Dr. Perrine from 1840 to to when he died. Dr. W. W. Wheeler graduated ,at the Geneva Medical College in 1861, and Dr. Landon Welles from 1845 1868, erected a in Scauyes in which was the same year began the practice of his profession, which he still continues. Dr. O. S. Patterson dwelling 1840, is- occupied J. H. and A. A. Alleman. Dr. C. C. Wheeler graduated at the Buffalo Medical College in 1848, and successively by Drs. J. E. Smith, Sternburg, " Mansion," Dr. Patterson removed to the Williams and continued now practicing in Farmer. subsequently of profession until his which occurred in 1869. Dr. J. Dennison located at Hayt's Corners in 1866, and is still practicing his the practice his death, settled in Waterloo in and practiced until his profession at that place. Dr. Abijah Hubbard 1806, Dr. Gardner Welles was born in the town of GUead, Tolland County, Con death, in 1826. village studied profession with Joseph Dr. Frisbie was in this in 1815. necticut, August 26, 1784. He his White, M.D., practicing Dr. Wirts located in Waterloo in 1830 is now dead. the celebrated physician and surgeon of Cherry Valley, New York. Dr. Welles ; Drs. S. R. J. H. J. W. and Wm. Wachter are was licensed to practice medicine November 1, 1809, and in the following year Welles, Sternberg, Day, the resident practitioners. settled in Junius, and in 1816 located in Waterloo, where he resided until his Dr. Lewis located in West Fayette. Dr. Daniel Hudson also death, which occurred February 18, 1872. Oakley early in West Fayette in and remained fifteen years. Dr. O. S. Patterson Dr. Linus Ely was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, January 26, 1786. located 1820, also located here. In Drs. Childs, Sutherland, De He studied medicine with Dr. Crane, of Warren, Herkimer County, New York. Bearytown, Hahn, Emmons, Drs. Patterson in with Frank H. Flood. In 1815, He soon after located in Junius, and subsequently formed a copartnership Groff, Sayer, Flickinger, Canoga, Frank Hahn and H. L. in 1839. moved in Aaron Davis in 1817, Eddy Dr. Welles. They continued in business until 1816, when Dr. Welles to Chitsey 1816, and Rogers. until the. winter In other portions of the Drs. Hunt, Roice, Harkness, Sayer, Waterloo. Dr. Ely remained in Junius practicing his profession town, and Alleman. remainder of In Drs. Vantyne, Goss, Glauner, of 1852-53, when he removed to Clyde, where he passed the his Varick, Leman, Franklin was the first physician he located in and died 1864. In Seneca Dr. Lang ; 1807, life pleasantly surrounded by his family friends. He May 1, Falls, located in 1810 Dr. Bellows in and for a practiced in Junius : and died in 1830. Dr. Keeler ; 1812, Aside from Drs. Welles and -Ely, the following physicians place. was succeeded his time was the principal physician in the He by son, Puffer, Randolph Welles, Coppt, Shelden, and Horace Smith. long and 1864. Dr. T. James who commenced practicing in 1847, died in Dr. E. J. Schoonmaker was born in the town of Rochester, in the county Bellows, in located in Seneca Falls in H. was born in Yorkshire, England, 1817, of Ulster, in the year 1824. At the age of twelve years his parents moved to Swaby Clark located in and remained until Corners. 1840 and died in 1843 ; Dr. John S. 1843, Seneca County, and located on a farm in the town of Tyre, Magee's M. Carson in died in 1852 Dr. W. A. located completed his academic 1856 Dr. L. 1850, ; Swaby His early school days were spent in Waterloo, where he ; still Dr. S. S. Covert in and remained medicine under the in and is practicing ; 1852, course. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of 1862, Dunham in Dr. Howe in Dr. Davis in 1853; continued his office for two one Dr. 1858; 1851; instruction of Dr. Jacob Hasbrouck, of Tyre, and in year; 1865 Dr. White in and Dr. in Waterloo. Dr. Seelye in Dr. Lester in ; 1866, Purdy years. The third year he was in the office of Dr. Landon Welles, of 1864; gradu 1869. He attended three courses of lectures at the Geneva Medical College, and pro ated at the same place in the year 1848.- He commenced the practice of his
and has continued in the fession in the spring of 1848, in Tyre, Magee's Corners, the same place ever since. He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace in spring of 1857, and has held the office ever since. Dr. Jacob Hasbrouck was born April 2, 1800, in the town of Marbletown, completed his academic course at Kings in the county of Ulster, New York. He at the same place ton, Ulster County, entered Union College in 1815, and graduated medicine in the office and under the in CHAPTER XXXVIII. in 1819. He commenced the study of graduated at the struction of Dr. Henry Hornbeck, of Walkill, Ulster County, and CONCLUSION. in the year 1822. Com CoUege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, Ulster New menced the practice of medicine in tbe -town of Rochester, present permanence County,^ and from settlement to the of in the Our task is done, early where remained three years. Moved to the town Marbletown, York, he have been studi of towns and villages of Seneca then moved to varied interests the County same and was in active practice for seventeen years. He county, settler upon the the miUwright considered. have seen the clearing, practice of his We town of and continued in the ously Seneca located in tbe Tyre, their wayside County, upon the the landlords in taverns, of the miUs stream, many which relinquished the practice erecting .profession six or seven after he for years, at times under the open the and the preacher December 1862. the teachers in log school-houses, and devoted his time to agriculture. He died 26, medicine, woods have been peopled the of the sky. Again the wild by Indian, Corners in 1816 or and for many canopy Dr. T. C. Magee located at Magee's 1817, some have seen through the clearings. While and the deer have been leaping profession. years was a substantial member of the more than families yet more numerous have moved in and 1804. migrated farther west, Dr. was born in Berks Pennsylvania, May 16, James A. Hahn County, been apportioned to the to cultivate, fined their places. Large farms have abiUty Professor of in the Penn He studied medicine with Professor Gibson, Surgery inteUigence. We have noted the organi agriculture has been conducted was and by and graduated there in 1824. He sylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, and notable incidents the origin and growth of manufactures, located in this in zation of towns, resident physician in College Hospital. He County crowded Blockley Again Cayuga bridge is and the old turnpike is in of the early day. built, 1826, first in Fayette, then Canoga, afterward Bearytown, and subsequently 80 HISTOBY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YOBK. with team, train, troops, and travelers. Again the taverns are crowded with desirable as a home or place of business, has no paltry showing in comparison lodgers, Mynderse conducts the business of tbe Bayard Company at Seneca Falls, with others. Her history teaches the value of persistence in carving homes from and Swift and WiUiams develop the resources of Waterloo. Desirous only of a the native forest, tbe prosperity resulting from liberality in the use of natural complete history of Seneca County, every source has b'een made available arid advantages, the influence of highways in directing the tide of travel, the power editors and others of in school and church in a every assistance thankfuUy received. Pioneers, clergymen, early training implanting patriotism and love of have contributed valuable materials in such numbers as to prevent other than order which halts at no obstacle and hesitates at no sacrifice. The press is general hearty acknowledgments. The history of the Fiftieth Engineers is the vigilant and active, high-toned and well supported. The banks are stable and handiwork of one of its most efficient officers, Colonel McDonald, and that of the accommodating, conducted by experienced financiers and well supplied with
One Hundred and Forty-eighth the joint production of Generals Guion. and capital. Churches have advanced to a front rank and entered upon an era of Murray, approved soldiers in command of that excellent regiment. The record promise. Schools are being elevated to a higher plane, and attract much interest. of other regiments has been taken from the press and from volumes of regimental Manufacture experiences the vicissitudes of tbe times, yet tbe large establishments history. Organizations not given are omitted only on the ground of want of continue to prosper. Trade is remunerative, and agriculture, losing in one direc and a would a recovers ground another. space, history in detail constitute Ubrary. tion, in All in all, tbe past and present augur .well for Seneca County, bounded by beautiful lakes, small in area, favored in position, tbe -future. PLATE 117
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