Beschreibung
SUBTITLED: Containing a perfect record of its services, embracing all its marches, campaigns, battles, sieges and sea-voyages, with a biographical sketch of each officer, and a complete register of the regiment, wherein appears the name of every officer and enlisted man who has ever belonged to the same, with full remarks relating thereto, and several illustrations. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, xi, 406 pgs., Unit roster (381)-403. With two albumen photographs of Colonels Smith and Lee mounted on paper sheets bound in at the front. Original embossed and stamped brown cloth, gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Well rubbed and worn on edges and spine; spine gilt faded. Interior endpapers soiled and foxed, with pencil name of former owner and unit member, Wallace F. Potter (Private, Co. F), Oxford, NY. The mounted photographs are very good. Else pages are age-toned and foxed; else solid. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 114th NY Infantry recruited in Chenango and Madison Counties and mustered into the U.S. service for three years, Sept. 3, 1862. Three days later it started for the front proceeding to Baltimore. In November it sailed for New Orleans as part of Banks' expedition, and on its arrival, was assigned to Weitzel's (2nd) brigade, Augur's (1st) division, 19th corps. It was first engaged at Fort Bisland, where it had 11 men wounded, 3 mortally. It did not participate in the Bayou Teche campaign, but joined its corps before Port Hudson, May 30, 1863, where it was actively engaged for 40 days in the siege and suffered severely in the grand assault of June 14. In March, 1864, in Dwight's (1st) brigade, Emory's (1st) division, 19th corps, it moved on Banks' Red River campaign, engaging at Sabine cross-roads, at Pleasant Hill, Cane river crossing, and Mansura. On July 15, it was, along with its Brigade, ordered to Virginia. On its arrival, it marched through Maryland, and joined in Sheridan's famous Shenandoah campaign against Early. The regiment fought with the utmost gallantry at the battle of the Opequan, where it was subjected to a murderous fire, losing 188 killed and wounded. It was present at Fisher's Hill and Woodstock, and again at Cedar creek, with a loss of 21 killed, 86 wounded, and 8 missing. The regiment was mustered out June 8, 1865, at Bladensburg, Md. It is recognized as one of the FOX 300 Fighting Regiments. Unusual to see original photographs used as illustrations. REFERENCES: DORN NY# 479; NEVINS I pg.143: "Based for the most part on Pellet's wartime journals; a fresh memoir of Federal service in Louisiana and the Valley of Virginia." MULLINS / REED #175. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0124096
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