. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . Gillispie was mustered out ofservice,—term expired. On the 31st of May Corporal W H. Harrison, Nathan , Ferdinand Truell, *Edwin M. Truell, James , Robert Bond, Samuel D. Burhans, Oran M. Wharry, *Ed. Truell had been brevetted First Lieutenant to date from July 21,64, the day he was wounded. Also by resolution of Congress, he wasawarded a medal of honor for g
. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . Gillispie was mustered out ofservice,—term expired. On the 31st of May Corporal W H. Harrison, Nathan , Ferdinand Truell, *Edwin M. Truell, James , Robert Bond, Samuel D. Burhans, Oran M. Wharry, *Ed. Truell had been brevetted First Lieutenant to date from July 21,64, the day he was wounded. Also by resolution of Congress, he wasawarded a medal of honor for gallantry in action on that day. Thoughmustered out on the same date as the others, he had not of course beenable to be with us since he was wounded. A cut of the medal grantedComrade Truell may be found on page 315 of this book. 453 Elias L. Stevens, Henry Banker, Batheson Bender, CarverClary, Stephen D. Fairchild, Christian Gastmeyer andReinert Larson were mustered out because of expiration ofterm of service; for the same reason, James Price was mus-tered out on the 22d of May, and George Adams June 7. George W Bailey died of disease at Kilbourn City on the20th of May, and Ethelbert Barton at Washington, May CHAPTER XXVII. We Go to Louisville. t^-fl was on the 7th dav of June that we began our last jour-* I ney in the South—from Washington to Louisville, Kv.^-s We went by way of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. toParkersburg, on the Ohio river in West Virginia, thence bysteamboat to Louisville. This was a pleasant change from our long marches. TheBaltimore & Ohio is notable for the picturesque countrythrough which it extends, and we greatly enjoyed the beautifulmountain scenery along the road. We crossed to the southside of the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, and from there weascended the valley of that river to its headwaters at the topof the highest ridge of the Alleghany Mountains. We passedthrough Harpers Ferry in the night, so we could not get agood look at the place where O
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