. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . F, July eleventh, was subsequently brevetted Major by Governor Fenton. He was in all thebattles with the Regiment, except the Wilderness, which was fought while hewas home on a leave of absence. Returning on the twelfth of May, he assumedcommand of the Regiment, which position he held until the third of Jun
. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . F, July eleventh, was subsequently brevetted Major by Governor Fenton. He was in all thebattles with the Regiment, except the Wilderness, which was fought while hewas home on a leave of absence. Returning on the twelfth of May, he assumedcommand of the Regiment, which position he held until the third of June, 1864,when he was wounded and came home. He was honorably discharged Augusteighteenth, 1864, on account of his wound. During his service he was severaltimes wounded, the last time by a piece of shell, which cut his face open, andcame very near proving fatal. Soon after his discharge he was married to MissFannie Twentyman, and has now settled down to a farmers life in Truxton. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WALLACE GREEN. The subject of this notice was born at Mixville, Allegany county, N. Y., Au-gust fifteenth, 1843. His father, Benjamin T. Green was brought up a merchant,and removed to Jersey City in 1856, the better to accommodate himself to his Lieutenant William Wallace Green. 395. business in New York, which liewished his son to follow. The boywas sent, for a time, to the Penning-ton Seminary, N. J., and when Cherebellion burst apon the astonished country, his father bad tmt liim to business in New from the firing upon Fort Sum-ter, dry goods, accounts and trademarks had no further attractions forhim. Commerce was tame whenglory was to be won. Eeal onceembraced every opportunity for mil-itary drill, which he seemed to mas-ter with an intuition that markedhim a natural soldier; and when the crushing news of the Bull Run disaster of1861 shook the public heart, young Green would no longer delay. He was of rev-olutionary blood, and although scarcely eighteen years o
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