. History and personal sketches of Company I, 103 , 1862-1864. me time after sent Northand never again returned to the regiment. On the 13th day of May, 1S62, Companv 1 was or-dered on outpost picket duty. Captain Crosbv being sickin camp tlie command devolved on 1st Lieut. George , whose record here follows: On Thursday, May 13th, 1S62. I vvas del ailed as officerof the guard, but atter guard mount an order wasreceived from General Na-jjle, commanding our company T to relieve Capt. Bender of our regiment,who was on picket duty at Evans Mills, about six orcigiit Tni
. History and personal sketches of Company I, 103 , 1862-1864. me time after sent Northand never again returned to the regiment. On the 13th day of May, 1S62, Companv 1 was or-dered on outpost picket duty. Captain Crosbv being sickin camp tlie command devolved on 1st Lieut. George , whose record here follows: On Thursday, May 13th, 1S62. I vvas del ailed as officerof the guard, but atter guard mount an order wasreceived from General Na-jjle, commanding our company T to relieve Capt. Bender of our regiment,who was on picket duty at Evans Mills, about six orcigiit ; fri) he was to remain iji eriinp. I rc] orttd ordci--. ;ni(l after (iiiii^er. with sixiy-niTic men, took uj)the line of marcli across the railroad bridge for our desti-nation, .-ind atier a hot and du<iy inarch reached there :8. GEORGE J. SIMSON. about six oclock p. m. Second Lieut. William L. Dudleyhad returned to New York to be mustered into the ser-vice, as Maj. A. T. Lee, mustering officer at Elmira, hadrefused to muster him before leaving there. This will ex-plain why I was the only commissioned officer on dutywith our company at the time, With Orderly SergeantWilbur, I took up my quarters in a shed near the bridgecrossing the race, on the banks of a large sycamore^wamp, the water of which was black, brackish and fullof malaria. Manv of us learned this to our sorrow, asthe hospital records of Hatteras Island show. The boysfound shelter in an unfinished frame building which wasevidentlv meant for a storehouse. The mill was a onestory shed building with two or three run of stone forgrinding corn, and. I think, wheat. In our front was aditch about four to six feet deep and ten or twelve feetwide running from the swamp on our left to the swampand race on our right. The swamp on our left extendednearly to the
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