. 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 . nt, which position he filled until December fifteenth, 1864. He waspromoted to First Lieutenant in October, 1864. He was in all the battlesfrom September fourteenth, 1862, to the Hicksford Raid in December, 1864. Onthe night of June first, 1864, while lying in line of battle, he received a gunshotwound in the head,
. 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 . nt, which position he filled until December fifteenth, 1864. He waspromoted to First Lieutenant in October, 1864. He was in all the battlesfrom September fourteenth, 1862, to the Hicksford Raid in December, 1864. Onthe night of June first, 1864, while lying in line of battle, he received a gunshotwound in the head, and went back to the hospital, but returned and took com-mand of his company, June fourth. At the battle of the Wilderness, Va., May-fifth, 1864, Company H was nearly surrounded, but cut its way through the line,capturing a rebel lieutenant and six men. The night before his discharge, he re-ceived a commission as Captain, but was never mustered upon it. Since hisdischarge he has vindicated that other Union, and is now settled at Bath,Steuben county, N. Y. LIEUTENANT RALPH W. CARRIER, Son of Harley and Lavinia S. Carrier, was born in Hamilton, Madison county,N. Y., in 1829. He received a common school education, and is a harness maker, 406 The Seventy-sixth Regtment N. T. He enlisted in the State militia in1847, and arose to the position ofMajor, which commission he re-signed in 1866. In the summer of1861, Major-General S. S. Burnside,commanding a Division of militia,tendered his Division for active ser-vice, on ten days notice. ColonelJ. B. Wheeler, commanding theForty-third Regiment, tendered thesubject of this sketch an Adjutantscommission. This was waiting until November with noprospect of the Regiment seeingactive service, Lieutenant Carrier,with M. B. Cleaveland, a Methodist minister, attempted to raise a company forthe Thirty-ninth Regiment, then recruiting in Cherry Valley. They had enlistedbut about thirty men, when they were ordered to join the Regime
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