. . STEAMER SULTANA — EXPLOOEn AND BURN M K ON H*E MORNING OF APRIL 27. Nearly Fifteen Huncir- Soldiers, !• \i War, Perished From a Photograph Taken the Previous J>ay at Helena, Arkansas,) THE AVERAGE to the number of the regiment. Matthias Gessford, iA Company H, Sixty-fifth, was a good sec-at sixty-One. Major Wil-liam McLaughlin, of the Squad-ron, was fifty-nine. The oldestman in the Sixty-fourth was Jos-eph F ert, of Companywho was fifty-three. The average age of the 3157men who have been consideredin these calculations w
. . STEAMER SULTANA — EXPLOOEn AND BURN M K ON H*E MORNING OF APRIL 27. Nearly Fifteen Huncir- Soldiers, !• \i War, Perished From a Photograph Taken the Previous J>ay at Helena, Arkansas,) THE AVERAGE to the number of the regiment. Matthias Gessford, iA Company H, Sixty-fifth, was a good sec-at sixty-One. Major Wil-liam McLaughlin, of the Squad-ron, was fifty-nine. The oldestman in the Sixty-fourth was Jos-eph F ert, of Companywho was fifty-three. The average age of the 3157men who have been consideredin these calculations was a frac-tion under twenty-four average age of the draftedmen was considerably higherthan that of the volunteers; for, IACOB C. MILI .1 r as the figures show, the young GEANT, COMPA* _ , sixty-fifth men enllstea- much more freely ii the older ones, leavingreater proportion of thelatter from whom drafuwere made. With a fewexceptions, it was theyoung men who fought therebellion to its above the age offorty did not lack in zeal orcourage, but they could notendure the toil, hardshipand exposure, and within ayear fully three-fourths ofthem had disappeared fromour ranks—died from dis-ease or discharged for disability. It was th
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