. 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 . distant relative. In Boston he learnedthe trade of machinist and locksmith, and the manufacture of philosophical andchemical apparatus and models. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Uticaand engaged in a BilverBmith and jewelry establishment. In 1840 he removed toCherry Valley, where he has since resided. In 18
. 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 . distant relative. In Boston he learnedthe trade of machinist and locksmith, and the manufacture of philosophical andchemical apparatus and models. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Uticaand engaged in a BilverBmith and jewelry establishment. In 1840 he removed toCherry Valley, where he has since resided. In 1842 he married the daughter ofJ. K. Forrester. Since that time he has become extensively known as a manu-facturer of melodeons, in which business he is still engaged at Cherry Valley. When the rebellion broke out,Colonel Swan was in command oftlie Union Guards, and as such vol-unteered t>> join the army. At theconsolidation he was the tenth inrank, as regarded the date of hiscommission, so that all the otherCaptains stood above him in theline of promotion. He remained inthe Regiment, until from the tenthlie became first in rank among theline Officers of the Regiment, lie was often in command of the Regi-ment, and ever ready for duty Itwas generally remarked in the Reg-. ■in ■ im. 358 The Seventy-sixth Regiment N. Y. Y. iment, that Captain Swan was always in a fight, and always wounded. Hereceived five different wounds in the service. At the battle of Gainesville, Au-gust twenty-eighth, 1862, he received a severe wound in the hip. At Fredericks-burg he was wounded by the bursting of a rebel shell so near him that the powderis still to be seen in his face. At second Fredericksburg, he was wounded by afragment of a shell in the thigh, and at Gettysburg, in July, 1863, he waswounded twice, in the breast and right arm, by Minnie balls. Notwithstandingall these wounds, he was only absent from his Regiment four months duringnearly three years service. After the campaign of 1S
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