Chapter XXXV · VICTORY AND HOME. (continued 2)

173d NEW YORK. Pvt. Alexander Hendrickson, Company C

174th NEW YORK. Company Lt. Edward Marrenee I Lt. Latham A. Fish E Lt. Eugene E. Ennson C Lt. Charles Emerson (3) I Sgt. Samuel Wilson (2) A Sgt. Morris Lancaster A Cpl. Louis Hageman A Pvt. William Coopere A Pvt. John Cullen A Pvt. John Maloney A Cpl. George Anderson B Sgt. John Gray C Pvt. John Kuhfuss C Pvt. Gustavus Heller (2) C Pvt. George W. Jones (2) C Pvt. William McElroy (2) C Pvt. Ernst Schmidt C Sgt. John Kenney E Cpl. Joseph H. Murphy E Pvt. Thomas Williams E Pvt. Thomas Fletcher G Pvt. Henry D. Lasher G Pvt. Charles N. Thompson G Sgt. Charles Gardner H Pvt. Thomas Carroll H Pvt. William Johnson H Pvt. Henry Jones H Pvt. Cornelius Mohoney H Pvt. Joseph Messmer I Pvt. Henry Pooler I Pvt. Richard Schottler I Sgt. Charles Draner K Pvt. Frederick Bandka K Pvt. William Heinrichs K Pvt. Edward Kuhlman K Pvt. Julius Ladiges K Pvt. Frederick Nilsen K

175th NEW YORK. Company Lt. Seigmund Sternberg I Sgt.-Maj. Abraham Loes Pvt. Frank Markham A Cpl. Timothy Allen B Pvt. Otto Dornback C Pvt. Richard O'Gorham C Pvt. Patrick Manering D Sgt. William O'Callaghan E Sgt. James Hillis (3) E Sgt. James H. Callor (2) E Pvt. John O'Conner E Cpl. Philip Daub (3) K

177th NEW YORK. Company Sgt. John D. Brooks A Cpl. Percy B. S. Cole A Pvt. Seymour D. Carpenter A Pvt. John J. Gallup A Pvt. Thomas J. Garvey A Pvt. William Hemstreet A Pvt. John Housen A Pvt. Barney Lavary A Pvt. Richard C. Main A Pvt. Adam Milliman A Pvt. Henry von Lehman A Pvt. Willard Loundsbery (2) A Cpl. George A. McCormick B Pvt. Eben Halley B Pvt. David N, Kirk B Pvt. Charles M. Smith B Pvt. Samuel H. Stevens, Jr. B Pvt. John Gorman C Pvt. Moses De Coster D Pvt. Charles W. Lape E Cpl. Alonzo G. Luddes G Pvt. S. W. Meisden (3) G Pvt. Elias Nashold G Pvt. Jeddiah Tompkins G Pvt. Russell W. Cooneys H Pvt. George Merinus I

8th VERMONT. Company Capt. John L. Barstow (2, 3), Acting Assitant Adjutant-General Pvt. John Adams (2) C Pvt. James K. Bennett C Pvt. Francis C. Cushman (2) C Pvt. T. E. Harriman (2) C Pvt. Frank Lamarsh (2) C Pvt. Jovite Pinard (2) C Sgt. George G. Hutchins (2) E Cpl. N. H. Hibbard (2) E Cpl. Benjamin F. Bowman (2) E Pvt. Thomas F. Ferrin (2) E Pvt. Thomas Holland (2) E Sgt. Byron J. Hurlburt F Cpl. Edward Saltus (3) F Pvt. George N. Faneuf F Pvt. David Larock, Jr. F Pvt. Abner Niles F Cpl. Abner N. Flint G Pvt. Seymour N. Coles G Pvt. Lyman P. Luck G Pvt. Andrew B. Morgan H Pvt. Patrick Bloan I Pvt. D. Martin (2) I

2d U. S. ARTILLERY. Pvt. J. D. Hickley (2), Company C

4th WISCONSIN. Company Lt. Isaac N. Earl C Cpl. L. C. Bartlett C Pvt. Patrick Pigeon (2) A

Note.—On the 28th of June, 1863, Birge reported to Headquarters, 2 battalions of stormers, of 8 companies each, present for duty—67 officers, 826 men, total 893. His duplicate roll, evidently of later date than June 28th and not later than July 7th, accounts for 10 companies with 71 officers and 865 men, total 936. The list here printed gives 1,230 names, probably representing 1,228 persons.

(1) The original roll of the storming party was made up in duplicate. After the siege, one copy was retained by General Birge, the other being turned in to the Adjutant-General's Office, Department of the Gulf, by Captain, afterward Brevet Brigadier-General Duncan S. Walker, Assistant Adjutant-General. The latter copy has not been found among the documents turned over to the War Department in 1865. All Birge's papers and records were captured by the Confederates and among them his copy of the roll was lost. In 1886, from one of his officers he obtained a book containing a third copy of the roll, described by him as "complete and perfect," and placed it in the hands of Captain Charles L. Norton, 25th Connecticut (Colonel 29th Connecticut), himself one of the stomers, by whom the volume was delivered to Colonel D. P. Mussey, President, and Captain C. W. C. Rhoades, Secretary, of the Forlorn Hope Association. The list here printed is made up by collating with this roll the detached and obviously incomplete memoranda gathered into the XXVIth volume of the "Official Records." So many mistakes in names have been found in the certified copy of Birge's list as furnished by the author, that others are likely to exist among the names marked (2), that could not be compared with the records. For example, it is found that Privates F. L. Scampmouse and Levi Scapmouse, Company C, 156th New York, are the same man and, Seven Soepson, same regiment, is Sven Svenson.

(2) Not on the roll as printed in the Official Records, vol. xxvi., part I., pp. 57-68.

(3) Not on Birge's duplicate roll.

(4) The names of the Battalion Field and Staff Officers appear again under their proper regiments.

(5) Probably Krug, or Kramer.

(6) Not on muster roll.

(7) Jeremiah, Co. B, James, I., or Michael, F.?

ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION (1)

Proposed between the commissioners on the part of the garrison of Port Hudson, La., and the forces of the United States before said place, July 8, 1863.

Article I. Maj.-Gen. F. Gardner surrenders to the United States forces under Major-General Banks the place of Port Hudson and its dependencies, with its garrison, armament, munitions, public funds, and material of war, in the condition, as nearly as may be, in which they were at the hour of cessation of hostilities, viz., 6 A.M., July 8, 1863.

Art. II. The surrender stipulated in Article I. is qualified by no condition, save that the officers and enlisted men comprising the garrison shall receive the treatment due to prisoners of war, according to the usages of civilized warfare.

Art. III. All private property of officers and enlisted men shall be respected and left to their respective owners.

Art. IV. The position of Port Hudson shall be occupied to-morrow at 7 A.M. by the forces of the United States, and its garrison received as prisoners of war by such general officer of the United States service as may be designated by Major-General Banks, with the ordinary formalities of rendition. The Confederate troops will be drawn up in line, officers in their positions, the right of the line resting on the edge of the prairie south of the railroad dept, the left extending in the direction of the village of Port Hudson. The arms and colors will be piled conveniently, and will be received by the officers of the United States.

Art. V. The sick and wounded of the garrison will be cared for by the authorities of the United States, assisted, if desired by either party, by the medical officers of the garrison.

(1) See ante p. 231 and Official Records, vol. xxvi., part I., pp. 52-54.

NOTE ON EARLY'S STRENGTH. By Brevet Brigadier-General E. C. Dawes, U.S.V.

The return of the Army of Northern Virginia for October 31, 1864, gives the "present for duty" in the Second Army Corps commanded by General Early, in the infantry divisions of Ramseur (Early's old division), Rodes, Gordon, Wharton, Kershaw, and the artillery as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,516

The cavalry division of General Lomax, by its return of September 10th, numbered for duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,605

The cavalry brigade of General Rosser (1) about . . . 1,300

The cavalry division of General Fitz Lee (2) . . . . . 1,600

The casualties of the army at Cedar Creek were . . . . 3,100

Total force engaged at the battle of Cedar Creek . . . 22,121

Lomax's division probably lost 500 men in the different actions prior to Cedar Creek after its return of September 10th. To offset this no account is made of the "Valley Reserves" (men over and boys under conscript age) and "detailed men" (those subject to conscription who were permitted to remain at home to do necessary work), who joined the army after its defeat at Fisher's Hill. General Lee wrote General Early 27th September: "All the reserves in the Valley have been ordered to you." That the order was obeyed appears from the following extracts, from the diary of Mr. J. A. Waddell of Staunton, Virginia, printed in the "Annals of Augusta County, Va.," page 325 et seq.

"Saturday, September 24 [1864]: A dispatch from General Early this morning assured the people of Staunton that they were in no danger, that his army was safe and receiving reinforcements. He however ordered the detailed men to be called out. . . . October 15: Nothing talked of except the recent order calling into service the detailed men. . . . The recent order takes millers from their grinding, but men sent from the army undertake in some cases to run the machinery. Farmers are ordered from their fields and barns and soldiers are detailed to thresh the wheat. All men engaged in making horseshoes are ordered off so that our cavalry and artillery horses will have to go barefooted."

The return of the Army of Northern Virginia for 30th November, 1864, confirms the figures given above. It shows "present for duty" in the infantry divisions of Ramseur, Rodes, Gordon, Wharton, and Kershaw, and the Second Corps artillery . . . . . 15,070

In the cavalry divisions of Fitz Lee and Lomax (2 brigades, Payne's and Rosser's, not reporting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,625

Add for Rosser's and Payne's brigades . . . . . . . . 2,000

Total of Gen. Early's army, November 30th . . . . . . 20,695

Kershaw had returned to Richmond, but the above figures include the organizations present at Cedar Creek.

Cincinnati, August 24, 1890.

(1) Rosser's brigade belonged to Hampton's old division. This division, with Rosser's brigade, numbered for duty September 10, 1864, 2,942. On October 31st, without Rosser's brigade, 1.547. It is fair to assume the difference as Rosser's strength.

(2) Fitz Lee's division on return of August 31st numbered for duty 1,683; on 30th November, 1,524.

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