. History of the Fortieth (Mozart) regiment, New York Volunteers, which was composed of four companies from New York, four companies from Massachusetts and two companies from Pennsylvania . ordered forward the 4th Maine Regiment, and it gallantly advanced andwas soon in active conflict. I successively took forward the 101st New York and 3dMaine, 40th New York and 1st New York. These regiments held the enemy and sus-tained unflinchingly the most murderous fire from a superior force. The 40th held theenemy in check until our line could be reestabUshed, and it received my highest praise. On the n
. History of the Fortieth (Mozart) regiment, New York Volunteers, which was composed of four companies from New York, four companies from Massachusetts and two companies from Pennsylvania . ordered forward the 4th Maine Regiment, and it gallantly advanced andwas soon in active conflict. I successively took forward the 101st New York and 3dMaine, 40th New York and 1st New York. These regiments held the enemy and sus-tained unflinchingly the most murderous fire from a superior force. The 40th held theenemy in check until our line could be reestabUshed, and it received my highest praise. On the next day an order relative to Gen. Kearnys death was promulgatedand read to each regiment simultaneously, directing the officers to wearcrape on the left arm for 30 days, and that the colors and drums be placed inmourning for 60 days. The following is from the report of Gen. Pope. The Fortieth New YorkRegiment rendered the most distinguished and gallant service under mycommand, in the battles of Bull Run and Chantilly. Gen. Birney succeeded permanently to the command of the Di\ision,which in the recent encounters sustained such immense losses. Our regi- Inl .l^f yORKJ PUBLIC LiBRARyj. END OF THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN, 179 mental losses in the battles of Groveton, Bull Run and Chantilly, and theseveral skirmishes in which we participated, were 147 killed and Company sustained a loss of 2 killed and 9 wounded. The killed wereSergt. John B. Wiley and Corpl. James F. Burns. The wounded were , Sergt. Durgin, Sergt. Fletcher, Corpl. Hanna, Privates Booth, Jackson,Meehan, McCarthy and McLean. Lieut. Gould was badly wounded in theknee and he was not able to return to the Regiment. In fact, the wound wasfatal although he Hved a dozen years, but the autopsy disclosed that thebullet was embedded in his knee, and could not have been extracted. It hadnot encysted and caused death by blood poisoning. Sergt. Fletcher andPrivate Booth each lost a leg, but the others recovere
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