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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTS, NEW YORK. 



Elias Dodge, died in January, 1863. 



Hamilton Squires, died Dec. 4, 1861. 



Henry C. Cooper, died Dec. 4, 1861. 



F. B. Tiffany, died Dec. 12, 1861. 



A. M. Taylor, died Dec. 29, 1861. 



Samuel W. Kelly, died Jan. 15, 1863, of wounds received at Freder- 

 icksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 



J. F. Bosworth, died Sept. 29, 1861. 



J. W. Parmatin, died Oct. 2, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam. 



R. W. Steele, died Dec. 7, 1861. 



L. L. Bacon, died Sept. 6, 1861. 



J. W. Burke, died of consumption after his discharge, Oct. 1, 1861. 



A. D. Griffen, died in February, 1862. 



J. E. B. Maxson, died Feb. 17, 1862, of wounds received from acci- 

 dental discharge of a pistol. 



James Simmons, killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 



Olin L. Bennett, killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. 



Uriah F. Faurer, died at Fredericksburg, Aug. 7, 1862. 



Charles Hathaway, died from wounds, received at Antietam. 



C. P. Smith, died Aug. 26, 1861. 



S. F. McGee, died Feb. 18, 1862. 



Charles McOmber, killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 12, 1862. 



William D. Monagle, drowned in the Rappahannock, May 10, 1862. 



BATTERY E, FIRST NEW YORK ARTILLERY. 



Among the organizations that went out from this county 

 near the beginning of the rebellion was Battery E, 1st New 

 York Liglit Artillery, organized at Bath, in the summer of 

 1861. The original officers of this battery were Capt. John 

 Slocum, First Lieuts. Charles C. Wheeler and William 

 Rumsey, and Second Lieut. Robert H. Gansevoort. Capt. 

 Slocum resigned soon after the battery reached Washin<non, 

 but soon re-entered the service in an infantry regiment, and 

 did excellent service. Lieut. Wheeler was promoted to 

 captain and E. H. Underbill to second lieutenant. Robert 

 J. Parker, of St. Lawrence County, served as first lieu- 

 tenant in the battery, but was never commissioned. 



Under Capt. Wheeler the battery served on the Peninsula 

 and down to and through the battle of Antietam. The 

 first gun fired on the Peninsula as the Army of the Poto- 

 mac advanced to Yorktown was fired by this battery. 



The battery had inscribed on its guidons the names of the 

 following battles in which it won distinction : Yorktown, 

 Lee's Mills, Williamsburg, Mechanicsville, Savage Station, 

 White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 

 burg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, 

 Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Petersburg. It was finally 

 mustered out of service June 16, 1865. 



Lieut. Rumsey did not serve with the battery, being ad- 

 jutant of the regiment, and as such served at its head- 

 quarters in the field. At the battle of Fair Oaks he was 

 severely wounded. At the same battle the colonel, G. D. 

 Bailey, was killed, as was also Maj. D. H. Van Valken- 

 burgh, who was a native of Steuben County. 



Lieut. Rumsey was detached from the regiment in De- 

 cember, 1862, and ordered to duty with Gen. W. W. Averill 

 who was also a native of this county. He served with Gen. 

 Averill as his adjutant-general in the Army of the Poto- 

 mac, and in West Virginia in the numerous engagements 

 and raids in which that gallant officer was engaged. 



Lieut. Rumsey was promoted to major and assistant ad- 

 jutant-general by President Lincoln, for gallant service at 

 the engagement at Mooresfield, in which Gen. Averill with 

 thirteen hundred men surprised and routed Gen. McCaus- 



lin with three thousand five hundred. In this engagement 

 Averill killed, wounded, and captured more of the enemy 

 than there were men in his own command. 



Maj. Rumsey was promoted by President Johnson to 

 be brevet lieutenant-colonel for " distinguished services 

 during the campaign of May, June, and July, 1864," and 

 was afterwards promoted to brevet colonel by Governor 

 Fenton. 



Lieut. Underbill was with the battery during all of its 

 service. He was noted for reckless daring to an extent re- 

 markable even among daring soldiers. When the battery 

 was mustered out of service he commanded it as captain. 



Capt. Wheeler was not a native of Steuben County, but 

 was living in the county when the war broke out, and 

 entered the service in this battery. He was an excellent 

 soldier, and under his command the battery won great 

 distinction. 



THE THIRTY-FOURTH REGIxMENT. 



This regiment was organized at Albany, N. Y., to serve 

 two years. The companies of which it was composed were 

 raised in the counties of Albany, Clinton, Essex, Herkimer, 

 and Steuben. It was mustered into the service of the 

 United States June 15, 1861, and mustered out at the ex- 

 piration of its term of service, June 30, 1863. It was en- 

 gaged in the battles of Fair Oaks, Glendale, Antietam, and 

 Fred eric ksburii:. 



Companies I and E of this regiment were from Steuben 

 County. Company I was raised in Urbana and Pulteney, 

 and organized at Hammondsport. William H. King, Cap- 

 tain ; Alfred T. Atwood, First Lieutenant ; Monroe Brun- 

 dage. Second Lieutenant ; Sergeants, Henry C. Lyon, John 

 Finnegan, Lemuel C. Benhara, Oren P^mmitt, Eugene B. 

 Larrowe; Corporals, James C. Harrington, Llewlyn McCabe, 

 George W. Williams, and A. C. Brundage. 



Company E was raised at Addison and immediate vi- 

 cinity. Henry Baldwin, Captain; James R. Carr, First 

 Lieutenant; Edwin F. Smith and Henry W. Sanford, 

 Second Lieutenants. Edwin F. Smith was promoted to 

 first lieutenant Dec. 23, 1861. Henry W. Sanford was 

 promoted to first lieutenant April 12, 1862. George W. 

 Wildrich, of Woodhull, promoted to second lieute«ant 

 Dec. 23, 1861; resigned April 10, 1862. Capt. Wil- 

 liam H. King, Company I, breveted lieutenant-colonel 

 United States Volunteers. Monroe Brundage promoted to 

 captain Feb. 10, 1863. (See biography of Captain Brun- 

 dage in History of Bath.) 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



MILITAKY HISTORY-(Continued). 



Steuben in the War of the Rebellion (Continued) — The Eighty-Sixth 



Regiment. 



The 86th New York Volunteers (Steuben Rangers) was 

 organized in the' summer and fall of 1861, in Elmira, 

 N. Y., by Col. B. P. Bailey, and was composed of eight com- 

 panies from Steuben County, one from Chemung, and one 

 from Onondaga. The following is the roster of the field, 

 line, and stafi* on the departure from that place : 



