. 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 . Regiment should have the best officers,commissioned and non-commissioned, and be in the best state of drill and disci-pline, sometimes induced the men to believe him unnecessarily strict; but as. ew into soldiers, and witnessed their steady ranks as they rushed into thejaws of death, whUe other regiments of equally
. 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 . Regiment should have the best officers,commissioned and non-commissioned, and be in the best state of drill and disci-pline, sometimes induced the men to believe him unnecessarily strict; but as. ew into soldiers, and witnessed their steady ranks as they rushed into thejaws of death, whUe other regiments of equally good material, from want of dis-cipline, broke and fled, they united in one voice of praise of the ColoneL At the battle of South Mountain, the Colonel was wounded in the arm, and hishocae killed under him. He rejoined the Regiment near Warrenton, and remainedin command at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; but on the march to theNorth in June, 1SC3, his health becoming impaired, he was obliged toWe have failed of our object if, in the preceding pages, we have not shown thatColonel Wainwright was an accomplished christian gentleman and officer. He has resumed his residence in New York City. i * cL 350 The Seventy-sixth Kegiment N. Y. Y. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN D. SHAUL.*. Was bornin the town of Stark, Her-kimer county, New York, December18th, 1814. In 1839 he removed toSpringfield, where he has since re-sided. He was elected Colonel ofthe Thirty-ninth New York StateMilitia in 1850, of which he was incommand at the breaking out of therebellion. When the war had actu-ally commenced, he used every en-deavor to get the consent of hisRegiment and the permission of theGovernor to take it out as an organ-ization. On the first of October,1861, he received an order to place his men in camp at Cherry Valley, and com-mence recruiting at that place. This order was promptly and cheerfully compliedwith by the Colonel, and the companies first organized were soon after musteredinto the Unit
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