CHAPTER XXXVI.

REGIMENTAL SKETCHES.

THE SIXTEENTH INFANTRY-ATTACK ON EDGEFIELD-THE NINETEENTH-THE "BIG MUDDY CAMPAIGN "-ORGANIZATION-RAILROAD ACCIDENT-ALABAMA CAMPAIGNSTONE RIVER-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER W. RAFFEN-MUSTER-OUT ROSTER~~ THE TWENTY-SIXTH-KENESAW MOUNTAIN-"GOPHER HOLES "-COLONEL ROBERT A. GILLMORE THE TWENTY-EIGHTH-FIGHT AT LITTLE BETHEL-SERVICE IN TEXAS— THE SIXTY-SECOND-HOLLY SPRINGS-RE-ENLISTMENT-THE SEVENTY-THIRD—THE "PREACHERS' REGIMENT"-THE ONE HUNDREDTH-STONE RIVER AND CHICKAMAUGA— THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN--MUSTER-OUT ROSTER-STATISTICS-THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH-FROM COVINGTON TO CHICKAMAUGA-FROM ATLANTA TO THE SEA-GENERAL KIMBALL'S FAREWELL Order-BrigaDIER-GENERAL JESSE HAILE MOORE-THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH-ITS RECORD-THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH -PORT GIBSON-VICKSBURG-SERVICE IN TEXAS-BATTLE of Mansfield-CONSO LIDATION-COLONEL NATHANIEL NILES-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES H. MATHENYMAJOR JOHN B. REID-ADJUTANT JOHN B. HAY.

THE

SIXTEENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

Sixteenthy, Infantry w

HE Sixteenth Infantry was organized at Quincy, and mustered into the service on the 24th of May, 1861. The following is the original roster:

Colonel, Robert F. Smith; Lieutenant-Colonel, Samuel Wilson; Major, Samuel M. Hays; Adjutant, Charles D. Kerr; Quartermaster, Thomas J. Coulter; Surgeon, Louis Watson; 1st Assistant Surgeon, A. L. Ritchey; Chaplain, Richard Haney.

Co. A—Captain, Virgil Y. Ralston; 1st Lieutenant, Benjamin F. Pinckley; 2d Lieutenant, H. M. Bartholemew.

Co. B-Captain, David P. Wells; 1st Lieutenant, William L. Broadus; 2d Lieutenant, Abram Rowe.

Co. C-Captain, George W. Patrick; 1st Lieutenant, James P. Taylor; 2d Lieutenant, Edwin Moore.

Co. D-Captain, James B. Cahill; 1st Lieutenant, Francis Sample; 2d Lieutenant, Wesley Clowse.

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Co. E-Captain, Samuel E. Taylor; 1st Lieutenant, Calvin H. Wilson; 2d Lieu. tenant, Jefferson Burton,

Co. F-Captain, James Fritz; 1st Lieutenant, John W. Herbert; 2d Lieutenant, James G. Stewart.

Co. G-Captain, William H. McAllister; 1st Lieutenant, William G. Ritchey; 2d Lieutenant, M. D. L. Manlove.

Co. H-Captain, Charles Petrie; 1st Lieutenant, Theodore Weber; 2d Lieutenant, Charles Delabar.

Co. I—Captain, Smith Johnson; 1st Lieutenant, Stedman Hatch; 2d Lieutenant, Robert Patterson.

Co. K-Captain, George D. Stewart; 1st Lieutenant, James Hedger; 2d Lieutenant, Richard B. Higgins.

On the 12th of June, 1861, the 16th left camp at Quincy, and entered upon a campaign in Missouri. On the 9th of July, Companies F and H, with three companies of the 3d Iowa, all under Colonel Smith of the 16th Illinois, marched from Monroe Station to attack a rebel force encamped in "Hager's Woods." The rebels retreated, and Colonel Smith returned with his force to Monroe. On the following day our forces were attacked by about 1,500 rebels, who were held at bay until reinforcements arrived, when they fled. [Vide Vol. I., p. 169.] It continued the campaign in Missouri until January 27, 1862, when it was sent to Bird's Point, Mo., where it remained until March 3d. On the 13th, it was engaged in the battle of New Madrid, after which it pursued the retreating rebels, and was among the regiments which captured a large number of prisoners and vast quantities of arms and ammunition. The regiment was next engaged at the siege of Corinth, and in the battle of Farmington. On the 30th of May, it entered Corinth, and afterward pursued the rebels as far as Booneville, having frequent and severe skirmishes. On the 15th of September, it arrived at Nashville. It was then stationed at Edgefield, guarding railroad bridges. On the 5th of November, the garrison at Edgefield was attacked by John Morgan, who was repulsed, with considerable loss. It remained in the vicinity of Nashville until the 19th of July, 1863, when it began the march to Chattanooga. At Bridgeport, Alabama, nearly all the tents of the regiment were destroyed by the explosion of a powder magazine. After the conclusion of the Chattanooga campaign it took part in the famous march to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville. At the beginning of the new year, 1864,

the regiment re-enlisted in the veteran service. On its return from veteran furlough it was joined with the 10th and 60th Illinois and 10th Michigan infantry, when the body of troops was denominated "Morgan's Veteran Brigade." On the 1st of June the 17th began the Atlanta campaign. It took part in nearly or quite all the battles of this campaign, acquitting itself with great credit. It next began the grand march to the sea, participating in its perils, privations and toils. After the national review at Washington, it proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was mustered out of the service on the 8th of July, 1865. Two days later, it arrived at Springfield, where it was paid off and discharged.

The career of the 16th regiment was a most creditable one, deserving a far better record than the imperfect one we have been able to give. Such particulars as we have given were mostly procured from the records of other regiments, with which it was brigaded.

NINETEENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

The formation of the 19th regiment really dates from the opening of the war and the issue of President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, though its organization was not completed until three months later. Companies A, K and D began their actual service on the 19th of April, 1861, and soon after they proceeded with General Swift to Cairo and took possession of that point. [Vol. I., Chap. 5.] They were distributed at Cairo and various points northward on the Illinois Central Railroad, guarding the river and the railroad bridges. The "Big Muddy Campaign" was of much importance to "the boys," as giving them their first lessons in actual war. Companies A, K and D, which were raised in Chicago, were joined by Company E, from Chicago; Company G, Cook County; Company B, Stark County; Company F, Cass County; Company G, Chicago; Company H, Moline; Company I, Galena. The regimental organization was completed at Chicago, where the regiment was mustered into service on the 17th of June, 1861. The following is the original roster:

Colonel, John B. Turchin; Lieutenant-Colonel, Joseph R. Scott; Major, Frederick Harding; Adjutant, Chauncey Miller; Quartermaster, Robert W. Wetherell; Surgeon, Samuel C. Blake; 1st Assistant Surgeon, Preston H. Bailhache; Chaplain, Augustus H. Conant.

Co. A-Captain, James R. Hayden; 1st Lieutenant, Clifton T. Wharton; 2d Lieutenant, John C. Long.

Co. B-Captain, Charles Stewart; 1st Lieutenant, Stephen M. Hill; 2d Lieutenant, Alexander Murchison, jr.

Co. C-Captain, James V. Guthrie; 1st Lieutenant, William Inness ; 2d Lieutenant, Leavens J. Keeler.

Co. D-Captain, Charles A. Colby; 1st Lieutenant, James R. Faulkner; 2d Lieu tenant, David A. Cunningham.

Co. E-Captain, Alexander W. Raffen; 1st Lieutenant, David F. Bremner; 2d Lieutenant John Young.

Co. F-Captain, Luther S. Allard; 1st Lieutenant, Knowlton H. Chandler; 2d Lieutenant, James G. Campbell.

Co. G-Captain, Charles D. C. Williams; 1st Lieutenant, Lyman Bridges; 2d Lieutenant, Charles H. Rowland.

Co. H-Captain, Peachy A. Garriott; 1st Lieutenant, DeWitt C. Marshall; 2d Lieutenant, Alvah Mansur.

Co. I-Captain, Bushrod B. Howard; 1st Lieutenant, Thaddeus G. Drum; 2d Lieutenant, John R. Maddison.

Co. K-Captain, Presley N. Guthrie; 1st Lieutenant, Charles H. Shepley; 2d Lieutenant, Cornelius V. Lamberson.

The regiment left Chicago on the 5th of July, 1881, and proceeded to Palmyra, Missouri, and remained campaigning in the State until September, when it was ordered to a point fifteen miles below Cairo. On the 15th of the same month it was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac. While en route for Washington, a bridge which the train was crossing, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, eighty-four miles from Cincinnati, gave way, precipitating six passenger coaches, filled with soldiers, into the river below. The number killed by this accident was as great as the loss sustained by the regiment in any one battle, thirty being killed and one hun dred wounded. Detained by this accident, the 19th joined Sherman's command in Kentucky, where it remained until after the fall of Fort Donelson. It then proceeded to Nashville, via Bowling Green. While Grant and Buell were moving toward Shiloh, the 19th (in Mitchell's Division) moved south via Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, &c., and was at Fayetteville, Tennessee, when it received the news of the victory at Shiloh. It then participated in the surprise of Huntsville, Alabama. It continued campaigning in Alabama until General Buell began his retreat northward. It was then sent to Nashville, where it remained during the time that city was cut off from communication with the North, and where it was

placed in General Negley's command. It remained in the 14th Corps until discharged from the service.

We next find the 19th moving south with Rosecrans' army. On the 31st of December, 1862, and 1st and 2d of January, 1863, occurred the battle of Stone River, when the 19th immortalized itself by its famous charge upon the rebels, "saving the left” and retrieving the fortunes of the day. [Vide Vol. I., p. 358.] It was while leading this charge that the lamented Colonel Scott received his death wound.

After skirmishes at Bradyville and Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, in command of Colonel Raffen, the army began another movement upon Bragg, June 24th, which, after a slight engagement at Tullahoma, resulted in the rebel General's escape across the Cumberland Mountains. The 19th then gradually moved south, crossing the Tennessee River, September 1, 1863, near Stevenson, and pushing on over Sand Mountain and the Lookout range for Chattanooga, and having a brief engagement with the enemy at Dug Gap September 11th. Thus it approached the battle field of Chickamauga, where, on the 19th and 20th of September, it was in the thickest of the fight, suf fering terribly and writing its record, as at Stone River, in blood.

The regiment retired with the army to Chattanooga, where it shared short rations and severe duty until November 24th, when it bore an active part in the battle of Mission Ridge where it was the first regiment of the division to plant its colors on the hight, which was done by Captain D. F. Bremner, of Company E.

It was with the 14th Corps at the battle of Resaca and until the battle of Dallas, when, its, term of service having expired, it went to Chicago, and was mustered out on the 9th of July, 1864. The following is the muster-out roster:

Lieutenant-Colonel, Alexander W. Raffen; Major, James V. Guthrie; Surgeon, Roswell G. Bogue; Assistant Surgeon, Charles F. Little; Adjutant, Lester G. Bangs; Regimental Quartermaster, Robert W. Wetherell; Sergeant Major, McDowell; Quartermaster Sergeant, Hiller A. Downs; Commissary Sergeant, Hiram Bush; Hospital Steward, Henry C. Mattison.

Co. A-Captain, James R. Hayden; 1st Lieutenant, Clifton T. Wharton; 2d Lieutenant, Thomas M. Beaty.

Co. B-Captain, Alexander Murchison; 1st Lieutenant, William Jackson; 2d Lieutenant, John T. Thornton.

Co. C-2d Lieutenant, Cyrus E. Keith.

Co. D-Captain, William A. Calhoun; 1st Lieutenant, Oliver E. Eames.