. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . hey fight equal to the best troops in the world. Thisremark so elated Hooker that he mounted his horse and dashed away without hisorders. After the battle, I saw Hooker at the Mountain House near where the Brigadefought. He sang out, Now General, what do you think of the Iron Brigade? Eversince that time I gave them the cognomen of Iron Brigade. The Twentv-fourthMichigan did not join us until after all this, but I am proud to say they provedthemselves to contain as much iron as any
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . hey fight equal to the best troops in the world. Thisremark so elated Hooker that he mounted his horse and dashed away without hisorders. After the battle, I saw Hooker at the Mountain House near where the Brigadefought. He sang out, Now General, what do you think of the Iron Brigade? Eversince that time I gave them the cognomen of Iron Brigade. The Twentv-fourthMichigan did not join us until after all this, but I am proud to say they provedthemselves to contain as much iron as any regiment in the Brigade. Thus it received its honorable title on the field of battle from theCommander-in-Chief of the Army — a distinction it excusably may be (452) THE IRON BRIGADE. 453 proud to boast and a heritage its posterity will highly prize. TheIron Brigade was composed of the Second, Sixth and SeventhWisconsin, Nineteenth Indiana and Twenty-fourth Michigan regimentsof Infantry Volunteers. From time to time some other troops weretemporarily attached to it, but the above five regiments constituted. turners gap, south mountain, where the ironbrigade won its name. the Iron Brigade of the West. Gladly would we give a full historyof each of these regiments but such would be wholly beyond thescope of this volume. A brief reference to each must suffice. The Second WISCONSIN was enrolled under President Lincolnsfirst call for 75,000 three months troops. It rendezvoused at Madison,Wis., during the first week of May, 1861, where its organization wasperfected under Colonel S. Park Coon. On May 16, the men allenlisted for three years except one company whose place was at oncesupplied by the Wisconsin Rifles of Milwaukee. The regiment wasmustered June 11, 1861, and on the 20th of that month left forWashington, with the following roster: 454 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. Colonel—S. Park Coon; Lieutenant-Colonel—Henry P. Peck; Major—DuncanMcDonald; Adjutant—E. M. H
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