Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1892, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. S SOLDIERS WITH TOGAS Many Veterans of the Union in the «Present Congress. WELI-KNOWN PUBLIC MEN. - The War Histories of Some of the Men Hon- ored by Their States— Brave Fighters Who, ‘Since the War, Have Made Froud Records ee Civilians. — COOD SIZED ARMY jeould be officered with | veterans without going outside of Congress for the military material There are few short of «hundred men in Con- gross who fought on the Union side during the war and, of course, « great many who fought against them anda few whosaw service in Mex- feo. Among the hard- Working members of the two Ilouses who co Modestly along in the even tenor of their way are men with the records of heroes, men who have performed during military service and who bear scars on their bodies. Obio has mors veterans of the Union army fm her delegation than bas any other state. Bine of the tw. v-three Obio statesmen iu the two houses of Congress have seen service, and | New York comes next with eight veteravs. | There are sfx soldiers in the delegation from Tinols, five each from Fennsvivania and Kan- eas, four each froma Michigan and Iowa, three each from California, Indiana, Minnesota and chairman of the republican state convention Towa, and in all these positions as presidiny officer baa ‘shown his ability to hold such s place with dignity, firmness, courage ani absolute fairness, He 1s now serving his fifth term in Congress, and is first on the republican side of the great ap ‘tions committee of the House, He is a man above the medium height and of striking appearance. He has strong and rugged features, with an expression of firm- ness, earnestness and frank good nature. His forehead is high and broad, and his head is crowned with a thick shock of brown bair which is growing gray. He wears no beard, but has abeary mustache, which softens the strong lines of a firm mouth, He is one of the best campaign speakers in the republican Party, and has a voice which canbe heard above the wildest tumult in the House. bi for SENATOR PRICE. Senator Brice of Ohio was ono of the young- ext soldiers of the war. When the call of the President came, young Brice, although but fifteen years of age, relinquished his studies, member of Capt. Dodd's univer- it ‘the tive and inciting the whole army to the brilliant -— ve Bret | deeds of that day,” and in the afte: oon he led . aul in April, 1851, took his Brst) oy attack on the second line of intrenchmenta leason in military discipline at Camp Jackson. | Wnty gahy murpsec ns ue Of intrenchments Columbus, In April, 1862, he was enrolled a member of company A, eighty-sixth Ohio! ich Pi tu consin, two each from Colorado, Massachu-| volunteer tnfuntry. of which Prof. RW. pe a obers 4 Washington. A number of | Mc¥ariand was captain, and served with the | t -_ = tw each of their | Fesiment duri ammer of that year in| Other states have one veteran wp each o} seine coe ES @eiogations. Nearly ali of them have performed distin- gvishing service in the war and most of them have been wounded, thongh there is now bat ‘one Union soldier im the House who has lost « im. This one fe Representative D. B. Henderson of Iows, who bas fought many a hard battle | with his political opponents in the House, and they know bim for a good fighter. He is « bold, coursgeons, whole-souled, generous fel- jow, and {would take s iong search among thowe who bave served with him in public life to find one whe does not like him. Noman ever accases him of taking an unfair advantage | ‘scomtest, No one accuses him of malignity. | however earnest he may be, and therefore be is one of the most popular men in the House, ae much so among democrats as among repub- aa He ranks among the military heroes of He has the sears of battle on his body and walks about the House on a wooden Jeg, but bis war experience is one of the last things in the world you can get him to about, and you woald never know that he had seen service if tt could be | telling. He went into the « raising # company, of w captaincy, an offer he declined b thought another might be better fisted f the piace. Ie ponsesses an indom: and anes two qualities he generally «uc undertakes, Col. Henderson was born Scotch, Dut has been christened an American in fire and has claim to be ason of the soil that has @runk bis biood. His parents came to this country and his father was a farmer in Illinois and then im Iowa. Col. Henderson as a boy ‘Worked on bis father's farm. Ho was boy in school at the Upper Iowa | shot was fired on He determined to go to the w Springing the muster roll on his fellow-students fim the chapel one evening after prayers, he Wade a rousing speech for the old flag and the Union. His enthusicsm en} eloquence swayed the hearts of his bearers and twenty recruits Fesponded, thus forming the nucleus of com- pany C, twelfth regiment lowa infantry. | Cot. D. BR HENDERSON. Young though he was he was anthorized to recruit for the company and regiment and he held war meetings daily, and in one week the company was filled Then he was nominated captain, but declined because he thought he ‘sas too young for so responsible a place. He acoepted, however, the first lieutenantey. given him nsnimously, in which position he per- formed the duties of commander most of the time. Among bis recruits he enlisted a strapping Foung fellow with about one-eighth of negro blood im his veins. This fact never occurred to the sturdy Beotch-American liberty lover as a bar to his aeceptance as a soldier, especially to Sight in his ause. But many of the men of the company refused to serve with a negra. The tweifth Iowa was one of the regiments of the brigade selected to storm Fort Done om the left of the Union line. The charge was eaceessful, but Lieut, Henderson was severely Wounded in the throat while gn the rebel Works He resolately declined every offer of etistance to leave the captured works until the | Union forces were in indisputable end be had become so weak that b Douger stand His staying q farther exemplitied when cond time at the batt Union men were resist Price. By thie Bim bis life. b possession Bie brother t Be lett home. Bother said + from bor «he wrote w few yeare im army parlance, ( born ia “ist im bis pros sg & part of Inés and 1566 be of the board of ment, third serving bis cou when bis wounded | teted Lim for more a-uve be returned to the tieid. ever and he bad revurned 4 by reason ©: also asnietan' Mates disiriet attorney for the purthern ict of lowa, but again Resigued te give bw und vided aitention to his Practice. ip [500 be was chairman of tue lowa Geiegation to » Fey Lia: proc: and of worously of Kentuel commander of the Department of Llino's, | to | brilljant military record. He is one of the be: bec permaneus | himself placed ou his horse, and, accompanied ompleted the regul ed in June, 1863. Mr. eof one of the public ols of Lima, and while so engaged acted some time as deputy county auditor. He | had already formed the purpose of devoting himself to the profession of law, and made use of such spare time as he could command in until the spring of 1864. when the old impulse to make his power +ifective for the good of the Union caus: led him to again return to the field. He recruited a company, and went bac of company E, hundred and ¢ th Olio volunteer in and served in the first div course. » fe of de m 18 at M 8 cap ti try, | on of the twenty- | he third corps in . Georgia, and the | ™ Carolinas unt in the | }d he w: ‘one! for | fF meritoriou return | of peace h jer this commission. In of ab i i dis eexaToR After serving as a member of ths peace conference at Wash tor P bi received ninth Illinois infantry, battle of the and w: brigad ‘rom May, 1862, to the close of the war he was constantly at the front. In the Army of the Cumberland, as first organized, manded the first brigade, first division, of the twentieth army corps, from its formation until the Carney = the = spicuous in engagements of undor Gen. Rosecrans, With it he commenced the battle of Stone River, driving the enemy back several miles and capturing Leetown. fications, and served without, however, vieldin corps of the when Gen. Gi stroyed their whole army. Post stiacked Montgomery Hill, the most ad- fighting he again led an assault on Oveston’s Hill, the last stronghold of the enemy, the cup- Post fell at the head of his command, almost upon the breastwork of the enemy. field to the promotion, and directed his chief surgeon to goto him’ personally and do could to save his life. wound, which for twelve days the surgeons Freneh from under whom yonth to enter the Union army as a private. =~ his faithfal only bes Fo orem eel aynead ing all that time, On reac! St Louis the surgeon expressed his astonishment at such » trated that the arm tated in the fiel made with a gunshot wound which tered the bones of the arm and through the nine nehes, declaring rt to have been ampa- in the hospital at St, Louis he commission as colonel of the fifty- for gallantry at the Pea Ri Before he was able to pecans ving forwerd. to Corinth troop, then burrying forward to i once assigned to the command of « While ount hi |, he com- a brigade con- t army After the battle of Stone River he was ap- | ony on a commission to examine officers of 1 Army of the Cumberiand as to their quali- m it many months, ing the command of is brigade, During the Atlanta campaign he was transferred to Gen. Wood's division of the urth army corps, and when the latter was wounded at the battle of Lovejoy Station and carried from the field Gen. mand of thet division. from Atlanta to Tennessee, to oppose the pro- ost took com- With it he returned ‘eas of the enemy toward the north, =| that remarkable campaign in which « sma ce held tho entire confederate army in check Columbia and Franklin, while the scattered inion troops were being collected, 1H. Thomas attacked and de- On the morning of December 15, 1864, Gen. need fortification of the enemy, and carried atthe point of the bayonet, thus, to quote e language of Gen. Thomas, “taking initia- re of which resulted in the complete discom- jure of the entire confederate army. Gen. | Gen. Thomas telegraphed from the battle- veretary of War asking Gen. Post's | | erything he Agrape shot had crushed through the bones his hip, making a frightful and di ngerous eemed mortal, and, though it was four onths before he could leave his bed, in July, #65, he again reported for duty, There being that time a concentration of troops on the exican border he was appomted to the com- and of the western district of Texas, with his adquarters at San Antonio, sixteen regi- ents boing stationed at that point. Gen. Post reruained in command of this dis ict unul 1866, when the withdrawal of the Mexico removed all danger of that frontier. He d by the generals served, especially by Gen, H. Thomas and Gen. T. J. Wood. for pointment of colonel im the reguiar rhesi D. H. Patton, Representative from ndiana, whose proudest title, perhaps, is thut the hero of Jonesboro’ skirmish line,” pandoned the study of medicine while but a le served fi was astrous t under Scribner and Gr. one of the color guard. At the attle at Perryville the thirty-eighth whi served, took a conspicn- in the fi All of the color guard ot down except Patton and Sullivan, comrade, The commanding officer stated ors never got ou Patton's reach | Five of the color guards {led outright and one was dangerously i ‘as shot in two twice, ‘o shreds on that day. Their | ment was Stone River, | e pierced by thirty-one in distinguished | Seritner promoted | * participated im the cap- nd the m, Spero a aes th of | ture of Lookout mountain and the “batde in : | the clouds.” in which they again distinguished May. 1°61, as color fourteenth Illinois | themselven, Tegimeut served ‘in the eF B€R-| Atlanta cam participating in all the nded | Latiles till that city was taken, In the battle of . Pope in Phe ope against New , Mand No. 10 he Seong raber of 1862 he | Praise of his commanding officer, being styled marebed to Nashville and took part in the bat-| tle arfreesboro’, in Dec 1862. He | was promoted to m ated against the conf mmunded by He le of Chicka- of Lookout and com- ain and M ded the four aign, From Febr be commanded the He was the ary department rst department G. AR Representative Bros hard service a8 a ¢ during the war, and the conferred upon him after he was disabled for service. His experiences during the war are in part told by a pocket diary he ear- ried. The most vivid and stri in this diary was not written there, but was made by aconfederate bullet which was aimed at Brosius’ heart and was stupped br the book. 8 of Pennsslvania saw 1 and as a sergeant k of Leutenant waa | the “hero of Jonesboro’s «kirmish line.” To The torn cover and I ell the story, | fally understand the importance of the service | Brosius enlisted before he was ninete © rendered it must be understood that Jo went with Capt. Wayne in company K. Loro’ was the key to Atlanta, and that certain seventh regiment. He was with his ‘ampton, at Fort Royal, at Warsaw 5 | the key to Jonesboro’;and Carlin’s brigade was the bormsbardmer ort Pulaski ordered to take the works, Two regiments of Flor: hotion to sergeunt at | were ordered to attack, but were repulsed with Edist the storm: Fort heavy low. Two more were ordered to the Wagner and with Butler's forces at Gloucester | atrack and were also repulsed. but they had Point. It was at the disastrous fight with | sueceeded in getting close enough to the works Pickett's men at Green Plains that be nearly | to jearn that an abatis lay just in front of the lost his life. Three fved men charged | work that would have to be ‘orn away to mike across @ wheat field. 400 vards, upon the cou-| room for the assaulting column. Gen. Carlin ordered Lieut. Col. Grifin to take the thirty- eighth, as it was all there was left, and take the works. Col. Griflin ordering company G, Capt. H. P. Perry and company H, Lieut, ta; les in al vs fight. One ball was stopped over his heart by the diary in his breast pocket. Another shot crippled him ‘The charging party was within twenty- | five yards when the confederates opened a| wily fire. A retreat wns ordered. Brosius stopped to pick ups fellow comrade, aud as he stooped a ball struck him below the shoulder blade and passed up through hi shoulder, shattering the shoulder and render- ing hiwacripple for life. He wasin the hoe pi:al for six months and he was given a com- muumion as lieutenant before his discharge. Ox. P. & FOST. Gen, Philip Sidney Post of Dlinois bas a o vi known Grand Army men in the state. He has taken a great interest in the organization, and in 1886 was commander of the Department of Llinois, and at the St. Louis encampment was chairman of the committee on resolutions. always taken a lively interest *. and immediately after his om Europe was elected a member-at- | of ate central committee, upon | h he served until his election to Congress | “6. He is now serving his third term, and has again beom renomiuated for the third ti by acel n. To the citizens of Washington he t# particularly well known as a member of the committee on District of Columbia and ss an carnest friend of the capital, When the eivil war broke out he was ap- d a second lieutenant of the fifth Illinois . the same regiment of which eight months later he became colonel. He was rapidly oted. and after the first Missouri cam- » becaiae major and took command of the ment. At the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., «ling his men in that terrible conflict, hvescued from its perilous position the army that bad penetrated so far into the hos- ¥. Gen. Post was severely wounded. Totaily unditted for duty. he made an effort to Teach home, and although the neurest railway 1 hundred miles distant, and ihe country intervening (uli of guerrilla bands, be bired a conveyance to transport him thither, and when that proved too slow had vi works lying in front of ¢ David H. Patton, a8 skirmishers to take advan- evening, reserving their fire, to move noise- open away to carry the works, fe bravery of P. 336. [can but say that everything is due to their have a leader in the commander of Jonesboro's gallant skirmish line,” meaning Capt. Patton, went with Sherman to the sea; from Savaunah they marched into ) the battie of Bentonville, where the senior am command of Capt. Patton, who brought it to Jonesboro’ Lieut. Patton rvice to his country, and re ed vignal ed the hij col. D. M. PATTON, lin's brigade was ze of the smoke and gathering shades of ssly as possible, tear away the abatis and Capt. Perry ! early in the advanee, but Lieut. Patton aud ers cleared away the abatis and the Y-cighth carried the works, To the ton on that occasion Col. Grftin, Lis farcwell address to the regiment (page diana’s Roll of Honor, vol, 2), feelingly ludes, wheu he says: “To the brave boys I slor on the field, and remember that now you After the fall of ‘Atlanta the thirty-eighth rth Carolina and fought r. Capt. Lowe. fell, leaving the regiment ictory. After the battle of Bentonville he was chosen colonel, SENATOR PEFVER. Senator Peffer was farmer when the war roke out and he left his crops in 1862 to enlist as a private in company P, eighty-third Ilinois infantry. In August of the samo year he was promoted to sergeant, and he was with his reg- iment at Fort Donelson. He was a good tac- tician and he was detailed to instract his com- pany in the manual of arms and in field drill. Bemg careful and vigilant, he was put in charge f quartermaster and stores under the direction of Lieut. 8. 8. Rockwood of the thirteenth Wisconsin volunteers, Rioted to second leutonant detailed to act as adjutant of the regiment He went He was 1868, and was a, Clarkesville, Tenn., in the summer adjutant there a commission. ville to take block house defenses within the ju- ‘sherward copelated. depot quarter: was soon uarter- the enginesr’ department ef Nach- lle, in which position he remained until was mustered out, June 26, 1865. Hi in the battle of Fort Donelson, ag took part the wiscksd by Forrest 1863, when the camp was 7 Forr Wheeler and Wharton "The Union foress com sisted of nine companies of the eight-third Il- Minois, averaging sixty effective men to the company, with one battery of six six-pounder (600 men in all. and the rebel forces num- Bored 8,000, The Union maintained their ‘until darkness of night relieved them: fore midnight gunboats arrived and sa the little army from capture next morning. He was present at the battle of Nashville, Decem- ber 15 and 16, 1864, but was not actively en- a. During his entire service he was not rloughed at any time and was never absent without leave. ‘M08 3, CUMMINGS, Amos J. Cummings participated in the heavy fighting at Fredericksburg, and saw hard ser- ice throughéut the Burnside campaign, He was one of those who shouted, “Come back to us, McClellan,"when that general was removed. He was sergeant major of the twenty-sixth New York regiment, which served in the old Ver- mont brigade commanded by Gen. Lonis A. Grant, at present assistant secretary of war. Atthe battle of Fredericksburg he was offi- cially mentioned for gallantry on the field. He Was one of the “boy soldiers” who kuew no fear. SENATOR SQUIRE. Senator Squire was reading law when the war broke out. After the firing on Sumter he responded to the first call of President Lincoln for volunteers. He enlisted as a private sol- | dier in the volunteer service and went to the front, He was promoted to be first lientenant of company F, nineteenth New York infantry, in which regiment he served on the upper Potomac until the fall of 1861, when he was honorably discharged. Kesuming the study of law, he ated at the Cleveland, Ohio, Law S: tted to practice in June that the war was proio the or any other human and, with this end k corps of sharp- ly captain of the dependent company of Ohio sharp- shooters,” but wax soon proniotec, by grades, to a coloneley, and co nded the “first bat talion of Olio sharpshooters. ¢ partici- pated in all the operations of the mn Cumberiand,” including the battles o : amuuga, Chattanooga and Nashville, ing the latter portion of his term of serview he wus judge advocate of the district of Tennessee and served on the staff of Maj. Gen. Rousseau, He was also, for a short time, on the staif of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, ‘The surrender of Lee terminated his service, and, having justly won his several promotions by meritorious services and by bravery on the | share in the work of 5 officers and men. Hull was wounded and sent north. He rej the regiment to August it until it was sent to Texas, when on account of wounds and sickness he re- GEN, THOMAS 3. HENDERSON. Gen. Thomas J, Henderson of Illinois was a lawyer and a member of the Illinois state legi lature when the the war opened. He was one of the southern-born men who served, being a native of Tennessee, He left Tennessee while aemall boy, however, so that hia associations | were all with Illinois, He entered the federal | army in 1862, when he was elected colonel of | the one hundred and twelfth regiment, re- cruited in the counties of Stark and Henry, and served through the war with distinction. al- though he had received no military educetion prior to entering the army. He reported for duty to Gen. Wright at Cincinnati, when not yet equipped, and crossed to Covington. Ky., | Whence 1m Oc of that rear they mov to Lexington, Ky., and remained at the latter Place till the following March. The regiment was mounted in the spring of 1863, and'spent most of the summer scouting with the forces under Col, Sanders and Col, Frank Wolford through, Kentucky and ion: nessee. ‘The command went with Burnside to East Tennessee in August and wasat the sieze of Knoxville, where on November 19 it suffered heavy loss, Col. Henderson's regiment continued active, partictpating in the affairs at Strawberry Plains, Blaino’s Crossroads and other skirmishes Under Wolford at Kelly's Ford in January, 1864, it lost 19 killed, In March, 1864, the regiment was sent back to Kentucky and’ dismounted and then turned south again to join Sherman's army in the campaign against Atlanta, They arriv don the field and went into line of battle at baz- | zard’s Roost. From that timo till the fail of Atlanta they kept marching and fighting with the rest o/ the army, being’ under Schofield What was ofivially known as the Army of Ohio, At the battle of Resaca Col, Hende badiy wounded, but rejoined his regime: 28 while still untit for Gacy. Ou his way buck to the frout he met the party in charge of Gen. McPherson's remains at Nushv Upon his return a brigude was organized for bir and de: ed third brig , third divis- ion, twenty-third corps. It was composed of his own regiment—the one hundred aud tweitth ¥-third, one hundred and iwen- done bundred and twenty-viglith Indi- Subsequently the nd one bundred y-righth Ludiana were teken from it | and the one hundred and fortiety Indiana added. Henderson's brigude wa Practically for mouths. under fire every e battle of Jonesbor ‘this cutting of tie last commu- used Hood to evacuate 4 and under wa nication ¢ that nigh munition stores Wil ued tivod to j left th formed the t day. ander bad been si « for of fever and a: from his bed at the first sound Went into the thickest of the battle. Gen. J. in his contribution to Scribner's War . entitled "Iie March to th Nashville,” sare of the circumstances: “Hendersou, who bad been for sume days ill, i | the command of de secoud brizade, & | sion, tenth army corps. J } teen days later was i and corps battlefield, he was in August, 1565, honorably mustered out of the servi After the war he was ington Co. of Ilion, ture and «i rms, the business and t ed with the Rem- + in the manat quiring an interest in ma men © of the removed of ington, and din various enterprises. outed by President Arthur governor of the territory, and in iss? was elected United States Seuator trom Washinsy ton when it was admitted to statghood. lie has since been re-clected for a term of six om 1802. r Squire is a consistant Grand Army man and is 4 member of Johu F. Milter lost of Seattle, Wash, Representative Elijah A. Morse, M.C., of Massachusetts, a member of Revere Post. 94, of Canton, Maa., enlisted at the age of nineteen in company A, fourth Massachusetts regiment, at the breaking out of the civil war, and served three months under Gen. Butler in Virginia, and was located at Fortress Monroe, Hampton and Newport News, The regiment returning home, Mr, Morse re-enlisted and served his wee- ond term in Banks’ expedition in Louisiana, ‘There were ninety-five men in company A, in which he served. Of this number twenty-two were killed or died of wounds or disease dur- ing the year’s service in Louisiana. Cougress- man Morse was detailed at Braschier City, La., to have charge of ex-slaves and their employed on the government fortifications, and he and his charge were captnred on the surren der of that place in June, 1863, Representative John A. ‘T. Hull of Towa en- listed inthe twenty-third Iowa infantry July, 1862; was elected first licutentant and mustered in with the regiment September 19,1962. He was elected captain in November, 1862, and served in southeast Missouri under Davidson until the spring of 1863. He was transferred to Vicksburg and served in Lawler's brigade, Carr's division, thirteenth A. C, His regiment was in advance in croasing the Mississippi river, April 80, and d his bri de. and both he ® fir which, swe along the ground, mowed down all before q Itis but 5 having only taken the bricade by a verb: or two before ¢ was mentioned for “cor spicuous in the battle in genora! | orders, and h Cox and se u quently recomfended him to the ut for promotion or this ground ter the battle of Nasiiville the brigade was A ope: ast Joe John en the sun Febraary 6, 1365, President Lineco!n ap- pointed Col, He: on a brevet brigadier gen- eral of volunteers for gallantry. REPRESENTATIVE W. MITA “SW. I. Harries of Minnesota served through- out the war and was shot through the | Antietam. He enlisted as « private in the | second Wisconsin volunteers in April, 1861, and | rose through the grades of non-comm ssioned officers to a lien‘enantey of then, iu 1864 was appointed ca A ‘ran volunteers, cock’s corps, He was discharged in 18 REPRESENTA! VE JOSEPH D, TAYLOR, Representative Joseph D. Taylor of Ohio was a lawyer-soldier. He was practicing law at Cambridge, Ohio, when the war opened, and about that time engaged in a newspaper enter- prise, purchasing a haif interest ina newspaper in his section and entering upon the manage- second to twenty-first Iowa when the battle of Port Gibson opened May 1. He was with his regiment at Raymond and Champion Hills and ment of it. His military career began in 1863, when he joined the United States servico as captain of the eighty-eighth Ohio volunteer in- fantry. His service in the field was brief, and he won his chief distinction in the legal branch of the military service. Soon after entered the army he was detached from his regiment and was appointed judge advocate. He tried caves in nati and Columbus, and pending the Bowles-Milligan trial for treason at Indian- polis in 1864 he was appointed judge advocate for the state of Indiana, In 1865 he was de- tailed by Gen. Hooker ‘to try the murderers of Provost Marshal Cook at Cambridge, Ohio, In the trial of this celebrated case, which re- sulted in the conviction and subsequent execu- tion of the accused, Mr. Taylor distinguished himself by the adjudication of certain novel le | Was so near to it that Lieut, His enceaa a judge advocate was ox- Pet of cameo not esta fat ett bis death of Representative J. F. Updegraff. He wan re-elected to the Forty-eigihix Piftiets Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, Senator Charles F. Manderson of Nebraska ‘was one of the young colonels of the Union army. He was practicing law in Ohio when the war opened. He was full of energy, en- thusiasm, courage and patriotism. On the day that the news of the firing on Fort Sumter was received he enlisted. Very soon afterward he raised a company of infantry and was chosen lieutenant. With that rank he entered upon active service and he rose rapidly through the grades to colonel. He was a daring. whole- souled feliow, with the same amiable qualities which make him so popular today. and his Presence or his name always aroused the en- busiasm of his men, He was their hero and his conduct on all occasions warranted his reputation for courage. He is one nfan who got an honorable wound in the back, It was atthe battle of Lovejoy’s Station, His men were wavering in the face of a galling fire and he rushed,in front of the line between them and the enemy, and, facing hie men, be was waving his sword in the air and cheering them on when a shot struck him to the right of the spine. The bravery of his conduct was such 8 to inspire his men. and it was some time after he was stot before he would permit him- self to be carried from the field. _ The company in which Gen. Manderson en- listed was the Canton Zouaves, under Capt. Wallace. In May. 1561, the captain of the in- fautry company of wich he was then lieuten- ant having been promoted to co onel of the nineteenth Ohio infantry, Manderson became captain of company A. He took his company into West Virginia with MeCleilau's army and participated in the first field battle of the war, Rich Mountain, in July, 156i. During three Years’ service he rose rapidiy to the grade of major, lieutnent colonel and colonel of the n neteenth Chio infantry. On January 1, 1854, | over 400 of his regiment re-enlisted as veteran volunteers, He was in command of his regi- ment after the battle of Shiloh, being fre- queutly mentioned favorably in official reports, and participated in all the cazupaigns of the middie west, including Shiloh, Stone Kiver, ATOR CHAS. F, MANDED Tullab ™ Atlantic e lead ng his upon the en serious nature, that h however. ral of continued and me g tue war of the rebellion, Gen, © has one of the} philanthropic sand 1 mankind, and as fighters of the m friend- throughout fered many sev dispos one of the most He is a man wh ar. t than thar of f personal risk aud were fight battie I served fre untit th > war, Winn ndship of the by ns con- duct at Richmond had won their resi as he He was plowing wher rebel gun a tied, il, 161 be began tue torn t was atthe front in @ On the 7th of May. 4 captain m the sixteenth fie was in the the tight with from August, promotion mude in 1363. The s: promoted colonel of the ove hu econd New York intantry ed and forty- He was assigned to ri on the fild of b: ap isional brivra neral for gal- «in th © of kort ser, | soon after he was brevet major gem al for callant a tious servies and ned gs tite! 0 Y of diaj. Gen. Ord, and GEN, N. M. CURTIS, formed extraor, Fisher, In the Fe sher he comm. division, twenty-fo Wien tured a battle flag whieh ha been down from the parapets, A ba’ n 0 confederates was also cuptared and the officers becieved that the tort could bave been taken then if Gen, But- ler had not withdrawn the forees. Gea, Curtis Was xo positive on this point that Gen, Grant was largely influenced by him in deciding to make another attempt. Gen, Curtis led the assault in the second and successful expedition against Fort Fisuer with marked gallantry aud wou a medal of houor in the battle. While con- ducting the advance from traverse to traverse, in which the capture of cacu was the result of hard fizhting aud au assault, a shell killed and wounded all of the party with him except four. He wes himself suffering from four separate wounds, To maintain the volume of fire un- til reinforcements could be brought up before acounter movement could be made by the enemy he discharged the yas of the killed and seriously wounded as rapidiy as he could ick them up. This did much toward check- [ag tho enemy and aided in maintaining the sition until reimtorcements came forward. je Was shot in the eye after fighting until sun- down. His eye was destroyed and it was sup- ored he was dead. Some time later he was if ly dragged by the heels from the bat- pposed corpse. He recovered con- sciousuess while among the dead five or six hours later. At Drury’s Furm on the 16:h of May, 1864, he was directed to maintain the right of the line until the division could be withdrawn and then to get away the best he could or sur- render. He held the position until a columa had passed down his right and im rear of his center, nearly surrounding him on three sides, The enemy ceased firing about the time the jast Union regiment retired from the line. bav- ing no idea that he would attempt to escape, having but afew men and being thus almost surrounded. There had been # consultation a1 mounted confederates only about forty distant, two of whom rode up to demand a surrender. Without waiting for the invitation pow — —_ id Bact = rear gd start jouble quick throt © space left Unguarded to a nvm about twenty rods dis- tant, through which they marched a short dis tance and up on the opposite or friendly side and jomed the division with a loss of 119 men from the cross fire opened upon them by the ES later, after the surrender, when Gen. was chief of staff, Army of the James, ‘stationed at Richmond, be with Ridge, | wiry feats of bravery at Fort | ig of the matter, not knowing that Gen. ti ae ee net the regi- men’ cr through his fingers, | He gave all the details of, the Sitar ving i was the most extraordinary thing he OEN, CURTIS DURING THE WAR, heard of, and wound np by asking Gon, Curtis ifhe knew where the rash offi nated his daring caree tting the number informed him North Carolina, and had been frequently increased by recruits, and that the officer had not t terminated bis career, but was none other than him-elf. Gen. Cartis made many friends among the southern people by his friendly course after the capture of Richmond. He got to Rich- mond after the surrender of Lee and bec chief of staff of Gen. Ord. His philanthrop and «ytapathetic d mat once xhowe itvelf in many acts of kinducss toward. t vanquished people. Representative Cutting of California twice enlisted in the service of his count: during At the outbreak of the war he lor’s Chicaze batters. He saw | considerable service in the field from uatil July 20. 1862. when he was charged for dienbility re-uiting from serv the field. On his recovery he re enliste ing the Chicago Mercantile Representative E. F, served with the Army of th of the regin that it was then | } | ’ California | Potomac and with paign in the se e of the war. oniy fi.teen years old when he enlisted in the California cavalry battalion. which formed & part of the second Massachusetts eavalr He is one of th» privates o. the civil war wh have been honored with au eicction to the douse. Representative W. W. Bowers of Califor served asa private during the war. He wa company 1, first Wisconsin cavalry, from e clove’ of the pe Girardeau, | { Townsend of Co! 2 the Ohio cavairy in d to heutenant, and served he resigned on account of dis- | aw distinction the army as | nt in Apr ing been gadicr aud brevet of Idcho was en- the duty durin enusted im Bi r. t. During th was engagr e Rocky m New Mex ats ed rive this ty was then had been Colorado re but was retai ating e base of U Was ordered to Fort Uni ea was ke a in May ational the 1863; im IN64 was « i convention to pare a consti at ois served in oughout the war, enter- Private and coming out with the title t brigadier general, tive H.W, Snow of I! im the one hundred ond and ros i Minois en- rty-ninsh | He helped to orgay neve ath Ti nois, bee . and was jamtry at ij A. N. Martin of Indiana en- ft n, un the fifty- volunteers, n, Jon T. White of Iowa enlisted infuniry in the winter of ~il, Dut was rejected on account of his youth. » February, isv2, he enlisted im the thirteenth jowa, in which be served unul the close of the war. eiguths cpresentatives T. J. P. Flick and G. D. Perkeus of lowa served a3 private soldiers throughout the war, Case Lroderick of Kansas served as a private soldier in the second Kansas battery from 1562 unul August, 1865, Perkins of Kansas served in the war x of the sixieeuth years, Jerry Simpson served in the twelfth TMlinoi for a ume. and was discharged for disabili J. G@. Otis of Kansas to. k an active part in recruiting the first colored regiment of Kansas in 1562, aud was a private in a company of iu- «second regiment of volunteers at » time of the Price raid. ts Kansas served from 1861 utenaut of the sixteenth Ohio bat- He entered as sergeant in the nois infantry, and was captain U.S. colored infantry for two ine was acting assist- S. navy from April 19, i4, to November 4, 1565, A. Boutelle of Maine, on his return from a mvoyace in the spring of i862, volun- tecred in the navy and was appointed acting master, He served in the north and | south Atlantic and west gaif squadrons, and | | took part in the biockade of Charle: nd | Wilmugton, the Pocotaligo expedition, the capture of St. Jobn's bluff and occupation of Jacksonville, Fla, While an officer of U.S. 5. Sassacus he was promoted to liettenant “for gallant conduct in the engagement with the rebel irouclad Alvemarl x 5, 1868 | Afterward, in command of United States steamer Nyanza, participated in the capture | ot Mobile and in re ving surrender of the confederate fleet, and was assigned to com- | mand of naval forces in Mississippi sound, and honorably discharged at bis own request Jau- uary 14, 1866. BEPRESENTATIVE W. 4. STOXE. Representative W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania served in the war as second lieutenant of com- pany A. one hundred aud eighty-seveath Penn- aylvania volunteers, and after the was licuten- ant colonel in the National Guard of Penusyl- vania. He made s good record in the war. Wm. Cogswell of Massachusetts went out in 1861 as of the second Massachusetts and rove to be colonel nud tnetet beigndice commanding = | sa member of Lafayeite J.C. Burrows of Michigan served from 1863 to IM as captain in a Michigam regiment, Charles F. Belknap of Michigan bad quite 4 distinguished career in the for » young man. He left school 186; the twenty Michogan infantry, as prom « enteen. and he has been recently wm: he is entitled to a medal of bm ing. with his own bans, on two occasions, stands of colors from the enemy. He served until June, 1865, with the Army of the Cum. berland and was wounded seven times HH. Wheeler of Michigan served from the fall of 1861 until theclose of the war, He en. listed axa private in company ©. tenth regi. Ment, Michigan volunteer infantry; in June, 1862. wan promoted to second liemtenant, same Company. and im April, 186. was promoted to frat 1 company E, #ame regiment wax promoted to capttht, com me regiment, was wounded at Buz. Roost Gap, Kenesaw mountain and Joncsboro’. Ga.. durin Atianta campaign Senator ©. K. Davis of Minnesote served tm the federal army from 1862 to 1964, and was Leutenant of the twenty-eighth Wisconsia im. try. Kittel Halvorson of Minnesota served in the Union army from asa privat 62 in the fir | the end of the war regiment of Wisconsin *. Sanders of Montana recruited battery im 1862, a nthe fall of that aT was 5 om ge > sixty-fourth Obio, atenant in the nse stant ad- Jatent general on the « @ of G n. James W, og 7 rs = Lord ed in the constrac. Nashville. — 4 W. A. McKeighan of Nebradka scrved throngh the war as a private in the eleventh ol tier in nat the anded in a0, boat 1 his rogtiment nts in which Ar saged until the surre der wt Aj yltther PF. MeKioney. known as Parson Mckinney of New Hampshire, was sergeant the first Ohio cavalry. — ine E. F. MeDo ney enlinted Was sev werved ' MeCleilai — Joseph of New York was corporal, serzeant and first lieutenant in the seventy- first regiment New York, durmg the war, and New York city. H, Ketcham ef New York went ines nel of the one hundred and fiftieth New nd became brigadier general and brevet major general tered the sixteen and served im the berland and the Army of Ray of New York th Now York + of ch rved asa private LH, Rockwell of New York served es Privace in the twenty-tinrd New York, hn Hauunes of New York was capt ei nd sorved A Carolina, ’ w York was captain on the staf of his father, Gen, Wade- worth f of Now York en om inted nd wa om c iment Maxnac 4 colonel the { under Gen, Lanks am the served in the Union enlisted with that nandoah REPRESENTATIVE TAYLON AS A SOLDIER, Vincent A, Taylor of Ohio » is one of the few privates He enusted in a » aud later in the one enth Ohio and served war, erved in the signal ito the headquarters of yy and of . Sheridan. - |. Enochs of Ohio served through thes as private and rising step by and brevet brigadier general. Pattison of Ohio was entirely too young to euter the army when the war broke out, but im 864. having reached the mature aze of sixteen, he enlisted and served to the close of the war. Irvine Dungan of Ohio was a private in the nineteenth fowa during the war, and was com fined for ten months in prison, James W. Owens of Ohio was a private in the twentieth Ohio and captain in the eighty-sixth J. Pearson of Ohio served in the one bun- d cighty-sixth Obi the until the close of D. D, Hare o {Penasylvania ts a He was » lientenant vania reserves. colonel of the one hundred aud thirty-fourth Pennayl- vania and lieutenant colonel and assistant commissary general, Henry H. Bingham of Pennsylvania wae lieutenant in the one hundred and fortieth Pennavivanie; was wounded at Gettysburg, ud Farmville, and left the sere as brevet brigadier general, John W. Life of the fourteenth Pennsylvanis district served im the one Lundred aud ninet; fourth Peausylvania regiment; Simon P. Wol- Verton of the seventeenth district raised a com- pany of emergency men in '62, and was a tain in the eighteenth Pennsylvania and in tuirty-axth Pennsvivenia; [. E. Atkinson of the eightecnti district Was assistant surgeon of the tirst Pennsylvania cavalry. surveon of the ove hundred and eighty-cigith Peonsrlvania, and received grave dinatil he still suffers, and Wi the twenty- Rant in the one hundred nayivania, Oscar Lapham of Khode Island wasa first lieuteuant, and promoted to captain in the twelfth Rhode Island volunteers, served in Virginia and Kentucky and with the Army of the Potomac aud the department of Ohio. Chas H. Page of Rhode Island was a private im the tweifth Rhode Island voluutoers at the age of ninctee Represent: Joun L. Jolly of South Da- kota enlisted in the twenty-third Wisconsim and was mustered out a second lieutenant. John A. Pickler of the same state served a year iw the third Iowa cavairy, was mustered out as captain and for six ths wax major of the one hundred and thirty-cighth U.S colored troops. Renator Redfield Proctor of Vermont went out as lieutenant in the third Vermont, was major of the fitth and colouel of the fifteenth Vermont. Kepresentative Grout of Vermont was leu- tenant colonel of the fifteenth Vermont, aod brigadier genorai of Vermont militia at the time of the St. Albans raid im 1564. Senator Allen of Washington was « private soldier in the one hundred and thirty-fifth regiment, Indians voluntecrs, during the war, Senator Vilas of Wisconsin was and cater lieutenant colonel of the twenty- Wisconsin volunteers, A. K Bushnell, of the third district, Wiseon- gin, was captain in the seventh Wisconsin entil 1863, when failing heaith compelled nation. J. L. Mitchell of the fourth served in the twenty-fourth Wisconsin. Senator Warren of Wyoming served ase vate and non-commimiourd officer im the forty-niuth Massachusetts regiment, —_—_-e-___—_ First Step to Consciousness Prom the New York Herald. Bridges—‘I always thought Van Wycks ap utter fool till last night.”