HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



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Capt. Rice, Aug. 22, 1864. Upon the organization of the 

 company in Bath, he was chosen orderly-sergeant, and rose 

 to the lieutenancy in due course upon the captaincy being 

 vacated by the death of Capt. Rice. 



Company Gr was recruited in the towns of Cohocton, Avoca, 

 and Wayland, in this county. In this section the feeling 

 was the same as everywhere prevailed under the last call for 

 men. The large bounties, the coming draft, and the love 

 of country urged the necessity of filling the quota. The 

 maximum number of the company was raised by the per- 

 severance and address of William Washburn, Esq., assisted 

 by Mr. E. A. Draper, and was mustered in September, 

 1864. Mr. Washburn was chosen captain ; Mr. Draper, 

 first lieutenant, and Mr. A. J. Alden, second lieutenant. 

 These gentlemen accompanied the regiment to the field, and 

 shared its fortunes in the final campaign which successfully 

 crushed the great rebellion. 



Capt. Washburn, born and brought up in Cohocton, was 

 a remarkably exemplary young man. For a number of 

 years he was engaged in teaching and farming in Wisconsin, 

 and returned to Cohocton in 1851, and was subsequently, 

 till the breaking out of the war, in the employ of the 

 Rochester, Corning, and New York and Erie Railroad 

 Companies. 1st Lieut. Edwin A. Draper was also a native 

 of Cohocton, where he always lived till entering the service. 

 He first enlisted Oct. 1, 1862, as second lieutenant, in Com- 

 pany I of the 161st New York, and served faithfully two 

 years with General Banks in Louisiana. He re-enlisted as 

 a private, Aug. 31, 1864, and enlisting twenty-seven men 

 for his company, upon its organization it promoted him by 

 vote to the first lieutenancy. He was a neat and skillful 

 officer, and a real military man, whom the adjutant would 

 always designate to perform his duties when he was 

 absent. 



Second Lieutenant Andrew J. Alden, although not a 

 native of Steuben County, married and became a resident of 

 Avoca,* where he established himself in business in 1846. 

 He enlisted Aug. 22, 1864 ; he was made second lieutenant 

 in Company G, 189th New York, but disability interrupted 

 considerably his duties with his company. 



Company H, of this regiment, was chiefly raised in the 

 town of Bath, Steuben Co. In the fall of 1864, after 

 Captains John Stocum and Burrage Rice had each raised 

 a company of men, the quota of the town of Bath not yet 

 being full for the call for five hundred thousand, Hon. D. B. 

 Bryan, of Sonora, John T.. Allen and others, of Bath, 

 proposed to Supervisor John L. Smith that authority be 

 obtained for Prof. N. Crosby to recruit a company of in- 

 fantry. The professor, for five years connected with the 

 Sonora Academy, was designated, by his influence with the 

 best class of young men, as the proper leader of another 

 recruiting campaign. Duly authorized from Albany, and 

 assisted by Lieuts. H. F. Scofield and L. G. Rutherford, 

 and Sergts. D. Crosby, R. McCann, and S. P. Teachman, 

 he succeeded so well that in five days were mustered at 

 Elmira, on the 13th of September, over seventy men for 

 this company, who thereupon received furloughs home until 

 the 26th. Punctually they returned, and enough others 

 came to fill the company's complement, and about one hun- 

 dred besides. Capt. N. Crosby and his lieutenants were 



mustered on the 19th, and Company H awaited in Barracks 

 No. 1, at Elmira, orders to move to the front. 



Capt. Crosby was a graduate of the University of Mich- 

 igan, and previous to entering the service had been principal 

 of the Sonora Academy over two years, and had also studied 

 law with Hon. David Rumsey, at Bath. 



First Lieutenant Hiram F. Scofield enlisted in August, 

 1862, in Capt. Biles' company, then organizing for the 161st 

 New York, and was at once promoted to sergeant. He was 

 subsequently made second lieutenant of a colored regiment 

 organized at New Orleans, and held the position till, with 

 other officers, he was mustered out, on account of consoli- 

 dation, in the fall of 1863, and returned home. He re- 

 mained but a short time, however, when he was called to 

 the position of first lieutenant of Company H, of the 189th 

 New York. He was acting quartermaster of the regiment 

 for some time after its oriranization, and one of its most 

 active and efficient officers. 



Second Lieutenant L. G. Rutherford was born in Bath, 

 N. Y., Jan. 2, 1840, and received a good education at Pratts- 

 burgh and Sonora Academies. He studied law with C. F. 

 Kingsley, Esq., of Bath, and was about being admitted at 

 the New York bar when he joined the 78th New York 

 Regiment, under the first call for three hundred thousand 

 troops. He served in the Shenandoah Valley, under Gens. 

 Siegel and Banks, but severe illness compelled him to re- 

 turn home, where he partially regained his health, and re- 

 enlisted and engaged in recruiting with great enthusiasm 

 in the fall of 1864. He was made second lieutenant by 

 the unanimous voice of his company, and was a brave and 

 reliable officer in all the vicissitudes of the service. 



The companies of Capts. Bernan, Washburn, Hill, and 

 Pond were sent forward before the regimental organization 

 was completed, and, arriving at City Point, encamped near 

 the depot of the United States Mail Railroad, and engaged 

 in guard and drilling duty under Gen. Patrick. Capt. Pond 

 had broke faith with his regiment and joined the engineer 

 corps. On Monday, October 24, the remaining six com- 

 panies arrived from Washington. The first movement of 

 consequence was to Warren Station, fifteen miles, Novem- 

 ber 1, Col. Hayt having been ordered to report to Gen. 

 Warren, commanding the 5th Corps, in front of Peters- 

 burg. Arrived here, the regiment was placed in Gen. E. 

 M. Gregory's (2d) Brigade, Griffin's (1st) Division, 5th 

 Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, Gen. Meade, command- 

 ing. 



The following few days were mainly spent in building 

 tents, policing streets, and fitting up the camp in comfortable 

 military style. On the 5th, Col. Hayt went down to City 

 Point, leaving the regiment in command of Capt. Stocum, 

 and while there, on the 12th of November, died suddenly of 

 congestion of the brain. When this sad news reached his 

 command at Warren Station, the commissioned officers of 

 the regiment were convened by order of Lieut.-Col. Allen 

 L. Burr. After mutual consultation, by request, the com- 

 manding officer appointed Capt. Burrage Rice, Chaplain 

 Wm. H. Rogers, and Capt. Wm. H. Withey a committee 

 to draft resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the regi- 

 ment. These resolutions, embodying the regiment's high 

 appreciation of the character of Col. Hoyt and its deep 



