. 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 . now-ing the Chaplain of the Seventy-sixth, Walcott enlisted a number ofhis young comrades and joined thatRegiment. Possessed of fine per-sonal appearance, well bred and educated, he was immediately commissioned Sec-ond Lieutenant in Company B. He remained with the Regiment, continuallygaining friends, until the sum
. 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 . now-ing the Chaplain of the Seventy-sixth, Walcott enlisted a number ofhis young comrades and joined thatRegiment. Possessed of fine per-sonal appearance, well bred and educated, he was immediately commissioned Sec-ond Lieutenant in Company B. He remained with the Regiment, continuallygaining friends, until the summer of 1862, while at Fredericksburg, Va., he wasattacked with camp or typhoid fever. After a severe illness of five months, thesurgeon giving no encouragements for renewed health for at least a year, andbeing unwilling to deprive the company of the services of an officer they so muchneeded, he reluctantly resigned, and was honorably discharged October thirtieth,1862. The merits of many an officer and men are measured, not by what theydid, but what they wished to do. Had Lieutenant Walcotts health permitted, noone knowing him will doubt that his career would have been brilliant. He is at present engaged with his father in manufacturing, at New York Mills,Oneida county, N. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM CAHILL, Son of Thomas I. Cahill, late of Solon, Cortland county, N. Y., was born in thecity of New York, whence his father moved to Solon, when the Lieutenant wasyet young. He enlisted in Company B at its organization, as a private, havingbeen injured about the time the war broke out, so that he was unable to enter theservice before, as he desired. Ever present for duty, and prompt to peform it hedid not long remain in the ranks. When the Regiment left Fredericksburg forCulpepper, he was sick and so emaciated that the surgeon directed him to betaken to a hospital in Washington, and sent an ambulance to his tent to conveyhim to the cars. But determined to accompany the Regiment and share
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