History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines . e brigade to which the 85th Regiment had belongedduring the Peninsular Campaign and Goldsboro expedition, surrendered to anover-whelming force of the enemy at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864. He wasparoled on August 3, 1864; was appointed Inspector and Commissary Generalof Prisoners with headquarters at Washington, D. C, on November 11, 1864;was brevetted brigadier-general of the regular army on March 13, 1865;
History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines . e brigade to which the 85th Regiment had belongedduring the Peninsular Campaign and Goldsboro expedition, surrendered to anover-whelming force of the enemy at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864. He wasparoled on August 3, 1864; was appointed Inspector and Commissary Generalof Prisoners with headquarters at Washington, D. C, on November 11, 1864;was brevetted brigadier-general of the regular army on March 13, 1865; retiredfrom the service January 1, 1871; died January 12, 1889, lacking but a fewweeks of being an octogenarian. Maj. Stackpole, who had no acquaintancewhatever with Gen. Wessells, has passed his opinion of the generals official records of the navy department give the recorded opinion of one ofthe bravest naval commanders who fell during the Civil War, Lieutenant-Commander Charles W Flusser, who had an intimate acquaintance with In an official communication to his superior commander, ActingRear-Admiral Lee, dated April 6, 1864, Flusser says:. BRIG. GEN. HENRY W. WESSELLS. 1862-63 THE GOLDSBORO EXPEDITION 225 I have the information * * * from Gen. Wessells. Where he obtained it I do notknow, but he deems it reliable, and he, I think, is always correct. He certainly possessesthe art, in a greater degree than any one else I know, of sifting evidence, reconciling orrejecting conflicting stories, and seizing the truth and the importance from out of a wordymass of seeming irrelevant talk. [O. R., N. W., Series 1, Vol. 9, p. 587.] Gen. Pecks testimony as to the conduct of Gen. Wessells, while in chargeof the rear guard of the Army of the Potomac, during a most crucial period inthe history of that army will bear repetition here: Gen. Wessells has labored most faithfully night and day since I joined the division,and displayed the greatest interest
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