. 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 . the bone removed. In theautumn of 1863 the Captain returned to his college studies. Graduating soonafter, he entered the law school, from which he graduated in March, 1863. Soonafter the fall of Richmond, and collapse of the man-owners confederacy, hesettled at Winchester, Va., where he now practices his profession
. 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 . the bone removed. In theautumn of 1863 the Captain returned to his college studies. Graduating soonafter, he entered the law school, from which he graduated in March, 1863. Soonafter the fall of Richmond, and collapse of the man-owners confederacy, hesettled at Winchester, Va., where he now practices his profession. CAPTAIN SAMUEL M. BYEAM, Son of Josiah and Rhoda Byram, was born at Virgil, Cortland county, N. Y., Au-gust thirteenth, 1837. His father commenced business in Virgil in 1825, asclothier, and before his death in 1842, became one of the first men of his was Colonel of a militia regiment, and filled many important positions. Hereared a numerous and respectable family of children, of whom the Captain wasthe eighth. The subject of this sketch enjoyed the benefits of a common and select schooleducation, in his native town, and an academical course at CortlandvilleAcademy. He taught district school for a number of winters; but hav- 3§2 The Seventy-sixth Regiment N. Y. ing a love and aptitude for mechan-ics, became a carpenter. He enlistedas private in Company A, Septemhernineteenth, 1861, but on the organi-zation of the company was madeFirst Sergeant. He was promoted toSecond Lieutenant March sixteenth,1S62; to First Lieutenant Septemberfirst, 1862, and to Captain of Com-pany D, December nineteenth, February, 1864, three-fourths ofhis company re-enlisted, and theCaptain remained as a veteran in the service, Captain Byramwas in the following engagements:—Rappahannock Station, Gainesville, Second Bull Bun, South Mountain, Antietam,Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna,Coal Harbor, Tolopotomoy, Petersburg. He
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