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one company. William E. Shannon, of Bath, at once vol- 

 unteered to raise the A company. In a very brief space of 

 time Shannon had enlisted the full complement, and the 

 company was organized by the election of William E. Shan- 

 non, captain ; Henry Magee, first lieutenant, and Palmer V. 

 Hulett, second lieutenant ; J. C. Van Loren, first sergeant, 

 H. D. Alden, second sergeant. Nelson Boch, third, and J. 

 E. Crandall, fourth ; James Williams, first corporal, J. S. 

 Vincent, second corporal, S. H. Lamb, third, and Z. R. 

 Lovelace fourth corporal. 



Privates. — William H. Skinn, David J. Harmon, Henry 

 Peckham, Charles S. Phillips, James Aldrich, William H. 

 Van Loren, Henry Magee, Joseph Evans, Francis S. Schoc- 

 key. Comfort Bennett, Jeremiah Van Kuren, Bascom Groit, 

 Charles Whitehead, Emery Stickley, Anthony D. Jones, 

 Ezra Whitehead, Cyrus Wallace, Calvin Bennett, Henry 

 M. Osgood, A. J. Ward, David W. Bunco, Hiram Chase, 

 Josiah Wood, Peter Gary, Jesse S. Cooper, Oliver J. Coit, 

 Walter B. Mapes, Edgar M. Barum, Philander Paine, Cor- 

 nelius Rosenkrantz, Elijah Witherell, James Perrine, Mar- 

 tin S. Goit, Robert B. Given, David P. Graves, Matha 

 Sharp, Elijah M. Smith, John C. Emerson, Erastus F. 

 Morris, Isaac Whittam, George W. Mapes, Denin D. Mur- 

 phy, James A. Mapes, Horace Mapes, Joseph Craple, Ben- 

 jamin Magee, Morris Coon, Finley M. Pawling, Henry Hop- 

 kins, Calvin Hitt, William M. Gibbs, James M. Vail, Sid 

 Abrun, Lyman Smith, D. H. Carpenter, John B. Lock, 

 John E. Truesdale, Philander Van Aukee, Wm. J. Brown, 

 Warren S. Hodgman, H. S. Biles, G. E. McAllister, Wm. 

 Baker, J. Syke Baldwin, Caleb Hendy, Ira Johnson, Na- 

 thaniel Simonson, George W. Sloan, Lamon Reno, John 

 Magee, Lawrence Ackley, D. J. Thompson. 



On the 1st day of August, 1846, the company left Bath, 

 with the warm congratulations of its citizens, for the city 

 of New York, where the regiment was to rendezvous. On 

 its arrival it was accepted and mustered into service as Com- 

 pany '' I," and went into camp on Governor's Island. 

 While on the way and before sailing quite a number of the 

 volunteers grew homesick and deserted, but their places 

 were speedily supplied with new recruits. The regiment 

 was a number of weeks in camp. Company I, with D, G, 

 and E, on the 26th of September, 1846, embarked on board 

 the good ship Susan Drew, and sailed for their destination. 

 After a prosperous voyage of some six months, with brief 

 calls at Rio and Valparaiso, on the 20th of March, 1847, 

 the ship entered the Golden Horn, and cast anchor in the 

 beautiful bay of San Francisco. On the 1st day of April, 

 of that year. Company I, with D, E, and G, were taken on 

 board the United States ship Lexington, and landed at 

 Monterey on the 29th of the same month, and remained 

 there some ten months. Company I was then ordered 

 to San Diego, and took passage on a coasting vessel for San 

 Pedro, and from that place marched overland to the quaint 

 old town. 



The company remained there until mustered out of ser- 

 vice, on the 25th day of September, 1848, just two years 

 from its departure from New York City. Capt. Shannon 

 died of cholera in Sacramento City, Nov. 3, 1850. Lieuts. 

 Hulett and Magee are now living in California. A few of 

 the privates of that company still survive, — John C. Emer- 

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son, of Bath, Joseph Evans, of Newark, N. J., Elijah M. 

 Smith, of San Francisco, Calvin Hitt, of Minnesota, are the 

 only ones from the vicinity of Bath that are now known to 



be living. 



CHAPTER XXIIL 



MILITARY HISTORY— (Continued). 



Steuben in the War of the Rebellion — Summary of Regiments sent to 

 the Field— The 23d New York Infantry— Battery E of the 1st New 

 York Light Artillery — 34th Regiment. 



The late civil war which had been threatened by the 

 South was precipitated by an attack upon Fort Sumter on 

 Sunday, April 14, 1861. On Monday following, Abraham 

 Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers to aid in 

 suppressing the Rebellion. Under this call Steuben County, 

 acting promptly with Chemung, sent forth in June, 1861, 

 the 23d New York Infantry, which was the first regiment 

 mustered into the service from the Seventh Congressional 

 District. 



Early in the same summer, Capt. John Slocum, of Bath, 

 raised and commanded a company which was organized as 

 Battery E of the 1st New York Light Artillery, and mus- 

 tered into the United States Service at P]lmira. The 34th 

 New York Infantry, containing two companies from Steu- 

 ben County, was mustered at Elmira, June 5, 1861. The 

 86th New York Volunteers (Steuben Rangers) was organ- 

 ized and sent to the front in the fall of 1861. The 50th 

 Engineers, mustered Sept. 18, 1861, was partly made up 

 of Steuben County men, and also the 104th New York 

 Infantry, mustered during the winter of 1861-62. Then 

 came the 107th New York Infantry, chiefly a Steuben 

 regiment, mustered in August, 1862 ; the 141st Infantry, 

 mustered during the same month ; the 161st Infantry, sent 

 forward in October, 1862; the 179th Infantry, which was 

 made up partially from this county, mustered from July, 

 1863, to August, 1864; the 188th and 189th Infantry, 

 mustered in October, 1864. 



Thus it will be seen that from the beginning to the end 

 of the memorable four years' struggle for the national ex- 

 istence, Steuben was constantly sending her sons into the 

 service. Most of them made glorious records in the prin- 

 cipal campaigns and battles of the war, participated in the 

 last great conflict with the Rebellion, when its power was 

 finally broken in front of Richmond, in 1865, and rejoiced 

 in the surrender of Lee and Johnston, and the final triumph 

 of the Union cause. 



We give in several following chapters the histories of the 

 regiments and parts of regiments, so far as we have been 

 able to obtain data, and at the end of the respective town 

 histories the roster or military record of each town. 



THE TWENTY-THIRD NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. 



The 23d Regiment New York State Volunteers was 



organized at Elmira, and on the 6th day of July, 1861, 



was mustered into the United States service. This was the 



first regiment from the Twenty -seventh Congressional Dis- 



I trict. 



