HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YOEK. 



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Field and Staff. — Colonel, Benajah P. Bailey, Corning; 

 Lieutenant-Colonel, Barna J. Chapin, Dansville ; Major, 

 Seymour Gr. Rliinevault, WoodhuU ; Adjutant, Charles W. 

 GiUet, Addison ; Regimental Quartermaster, Byron Spence, 

 Stark ey ; Surgeon, John S. Jameson, Hornellsville ; Assist- 

 ant Surgeon, Farand Wylie, Bath; Chaplain, Jonathan 

 Watts, Corning ; Sergeant-Major, Henry W. Fuller, Corn- 

 ing; Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, Samuel Leavitt, 

 Ehnira ; Regimental Commissary-Sergeant, George P. 

 Baker, Corning ; Hospital Steward, William Sayer. 



Band. — Horatio G. K. Anderson (leader), John J. 

 Bowen, Reuben E. Stetson, Geo. E. Gray, Mortimore W. 

 Rose, Isaac L. Kress, Walter W. Slingerland, John M. 

 Tenny, James A. Wilkie, Geo. Bridgden, William G. 

 Wright, Estes T. Sturtevant, Geo. J. Benjamin, Rankin B. 

 Rose. 



Company A. Syracuse. — Captain, Benjamin L. Higgins ; 

 First Lieutenant, William H. Gault ; Second Lieutenant, 

 Prentice Holmes; and eighty-three non-commissioned 

 officers and privates. 



Company B, Addison. — Captain, William B. Angle ; 

 First Lieutenant, Charles W. Gillet (promoted to adjutant 

 by order of Col. Bailey); Second Lieutenant, Hiram J. 

 Blanchard ; and ninety-five non-commissioned officers and 

 privates. 



Company C, Corning. — Captain, Jacob H. Lansing; 

 First Lieutenant, Leonard Scott ; Second Lieutenant, Jo- 

 seph H. Tull, Pennsylvania ; and ninety-two non-commis- 

 sioned officers and privates. 



Company />, Hornellsville. — Captain, Daniel S. Ells- 

 worth ; First Lieutenant, Arthur S. Baker ; Second Lieu- 

 tenant, Lemi H. Crary; and eighty-nine non-commissioned 

 officers and privates. 



Company E^ Elmira. — Captain, Thomas F. Shoemaker; 

 First Lieutenant, John G. Coply; Second Lieutenant, Geo. 

 A. Packer ; and ninety-five non-commissioned officers and 

 privates. 



Company F, Lindley. — Captain, Henry G. Harrower, 

 Lindley ; First Lieutenant, Samuel Maurice Morgan, Lind- 

 ley ; Second Lieutenant, Michael B. Stafford, Albany ; and 

 ninety-one non-commissioned officers and privates. 



Company G, Canisteo. — Captain, James Bennett, Can- 

 isteo; First Lieutenant, Nathan S. Baker, Canisteo; Second 

 Lieutenant, John Fulton, Canisteo ; and eighty-four non- 

 commissioned officers and privates. 



Company II, Steuben County. — Captain, William Ten- 

 broeck ; First Lieutenant, Wm. G. Raymond ; Second 

 Lieutenant, James Carpenter, Jr. ; and ninety-five non- 

 commissioned officers and privates. 



Company /, Cooper's Plains, Steuben Co. — Captain, 

 Amos W. Sherwood, Cooper's Plains; First Lieutenant, 

 Jackson A. W^oodward, Cooper's Plains; Second Lieuten- 

 ant, Foster P. Wood, Addison ; and eighty non-commis- 

 sioned officers and privates. 



Company K, Woodhull, Steuben Co. — Captain, Seymour 

 G. Rhinevault, Woodhull ; promoted to major Nov. 22, 

 18G1 ; First Lieutenant, Chas. H. Wombough, Addison; 

 promoted to captain Nov. 22, 1861 ; Second Lieutenant, 

 John N. Warner, Woodhull ; and ninety-six non-commis- 

 sioned officers and privates. 



The regiment had a number of recruits before leaving 

 Elmira, which took place about the 1st of December, 1861, 

 going by the way of Williamsport and Baltimore, arriving 

 at the latter place late in the afternoon. Marching through 

 the city from depot to depot by company front, with guns 

 loaded and bayonets fixed, they reached Washington early 

 next morning. Camped first on Kendall Green, thence 

 moved to Bladensburg, remained there about one week, 

 and then crossed the eastern branch of the Potomac, and 

 pitched camp on Good Hope Hill^ Md. The regiment re- 

 mained at this place most of the time until March, 1862. 

 Once during that time having received orders to join the 

 Army of the Potomac at Camp Griffin, Ya., the regiment 

 remained there about two weeks. About the 1st of March 

 it was broken into detachments, and did guard duty in and 

 around Washington : Capt. Higgins with two companies 

 at Old Capitol prison, Capt. Lansing with three companies 

 at Georgetown, Capt. Wombough with one company on 

 Nineteenth Street, Capt. Sherwood with one company at 

 the Central Guard- House, Capt. Bennett with one company 

 at the Long Bridge, and Lieut. Stafford with a detachment 

 at the Seventh Street wharf. The field officers did duty 

 as officers of the day for the district. During this time 

 there was a change in the line and staff of the regiment. 

 Quartermaster Spence resigned, and D. F. Brown, who had 

 been commissioned by Governor E. D. Morgan first lieu- 

 tenant in the 86th Regiment, Aug. 10, 1862, was appointed 

 quartermaster in his place. Lieut. Morgan, of Company F, 

 was detached from his company and placed on the staff of 

 Gen. Robinson. Lieuts. John G. Copley and Arthur S. 

 Baker were detailed for duty in the provost-marshal's office 

 at Washington by order of Col. Doster, provost-marshal 

 for the District of Columbia. Capt. Bennett, of Company 

 G, died while on duty here. The regimental band was also 

 mustered out of service here by orders from headquarters 

 of the army. 



The regiment remained in Washington until the 23d 

 day of August, when it joined the Army of the Potomac, 

 under Gen. Pope. It reached Alexandria the same day 

 and moved to Cloud's Mills, and was placed in the brigade 

 of Brig. -Gen. A. Saunders Piatt, Gen. Sturges command- 

 ing division, and from that time moved with the army of 

 Gen. Pope, arriving on the battle-field of Bull Run on the 

 afternoon of the 29th, where it was immediately formed 

 for a charge by Gen. McDowell in person. The regiment 

 made a gallant charge, led by Col. Bailey, losing many 

 men and one officer. Lieut. Joseph H. Tull, of Company 

 C, was badly wounded, and remained on the field six days, 

 when he was brought to Washington, and was under medi- 

 cal treatment for over eight months. He was finally dis- 

 charged, and is now living in that city. This was the regi- 

 ment's first experience in battle, and it gave them a name 

 for a fighting regiment which they nobly sustained during 

 the war. After the battle it fell back to Centreville, and 

 participated in all the skirmishing that took place on that 

 retreat. It was in reserve on the march, and during the 

 battle of Antietam under Gen. McClellan. It moved with 

 the army after the retreating enemy until they reached 

 Manassas Junction, when, by orders of Gen. McClellan, 

 Piatt's Brigade, consisting of the 86th and 124th New 



