. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . n,Sergt. Major, A. F. Ziegler. Captain, Geo. W. Burchell, B. John Witherspoon, C. George Hutton, E. Edwin E. Norton, H. Wm. R. Dodsley, Lieut., Michael Dempsey, A. Geo. a. Ross, B. W. B. Hutchinson, C. Geo. W. Haigh, D. Benj. W. Hendricks, F. E. B. Welton, G. E. B. Wilkie, I. Geo. H. Pinkney, K. 228 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. Captain Richard S. Dillon of A was Acting Assistant Inspec-tor-General, and Lieutenant Andrew J. Connor of E was ActingAide, on the Iron Brig
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . n,Sergt. Major, A. F. Ziegler. Captain, Geo. W. Burchell, B. John Witherspoon, C. George Hutton, E. Edwin E. Norton, H. Wm. R. Dodsley, Lieut., Michael Dempsey, A. Geo. a. Ross, B. W. B. Hutchinson, C. Geo. W. Haigh, D. Benj. W. Hendricks, F. E. B. Welton, G. E. B. Wilkie, I. Geo. H. Pinkney, K. 228 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. Captain Richard S. Dillon of A was Acting Assistant Inspec-tor-General, and Lieutenant Andrew J. Connor of E was ActingAide, on the Iron Brigade staff. Both had been appointed to suchduties January 6, 1864. Captain John M. Farland of D had been inthe hospital in Washington for treatment since March 20, William Hutchinson of G was in Michigan on recruitingservice. Of the thirty-nine commissioned ofificers originally with theregiment, including the surgeons and chaplain, but ten were left atthis time, besides three who were held in Southern prisons: CaptainGordon of I, First Lieutenant Sprague of F, and Second LieutenantWhitinsf of THE OLD FLAG. CHAPTER XII. Grants Campaign-1864. BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS. MAY I, 1864, the Army of the Potomac lay along the northside of the Rapidan, and Lees army was well intrencheda few miles south of that stream. Grant had 99,000 menand 274 guns; Lee had 62,000 men and 224 guns. Granthad the most men and reserves from the North to fill up his depletedranks. Lee had no such reserve from the South to draw on. Boysof seventeen and old men of fifty-five had been gathered into hisranks and the last successful levy had been made. But Lee had theadvantage in defensive and inner positions, the country being betteradapted to a defensive than offensive campaign. At midnightof Tuesday, May 3, the bugle once more sounded the fall-in call, andthe army began its march on the great forward movement to exhaustthe military resources of the rebellion.
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