. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Bath, Oct. 27, 1836. His ancestors on his father's side were from Wales, his moth- er's, English, and were among the early settlers of this county. Young Brundage received the usual school training of a country boy, attending school during the winter months, and working on the farm in summer. He finished his education at Starkey Seminary in 1854.
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Bath, Oct. 27, 1836. His ancestors on his father's side were from Wales, his moth- er's, English, and were among the early settlers of this county. Young Brundage received the usual school training of a country boy, attending school during the winter months, and working on the farm in summer. He finished his education at Starkey Seminary in 1854. He then returned to the practical labors of the farm. He was a boy noted for doing with certainty and completeness the work he had in hand; as a man, who never knew what fear was. In the spring of 1861 he promptly responded to the call of the President for volunteers to suppress the war of the Rebellion. He enlisted on the 22d of April, 1861, at Hammondsport, as a private in what was afterwards Company I, 34th Regiment, New York Volunteers. W. H. King went out as captain of the company. It was put into a regiment mainly enlisted in Herkimer County. Company I left Hammondsport for Albany on the 28th of May. On the 10th of June, Monroe Brundage was elected by unanimous vote of his company second lieutenant. The regiment was mustered into the United States service on the 15th of June, reported at Washington on the 5th of July, and went into camp at Kalorama Heights. On the 21st of October his regiment was engaged skirmishing at Edwards' Ferry, operating on the ene- my's flank, to draw their attention from our forces operating at Ball's Bluff. The 34th soon went to Camp McClellan, near Poolsville, where they remained until Feb. 25, 1862, when camp was broken, and the regi- ment was engaged in skirmishing around Berryville, Winchester, and Harper's Ferry. Then Sedgwick's division, to which the 34th be- longed, was ordered to Washington, where it remained until the 24th of March, wh
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