. . h of May the Sixty-fifth bade farewell to one ofits most esteemed officers, Captain L,ucien B, Eaton. At the or-ganization he was first lieutenant of Company I. In December,1862, he was called by Colonel Harker to duty on the brigadestaff as topographical engineer. He was soon-afterward promotedto captain but was retained on the staff as brigade inspector, whichposition he continued to fill most acceptably for nearly a year, promotions that did not prom< S&1 when, at his own request, lit- was relieved and returned to theregime
. . h of May the Sixty-fifth bade farewell to one ofits most esteemed officers, Captain L,ucien B, Eaton. At the or-ganization he was first lieutenant of Company I. In December,1862, he was called by Colonel Harker to duty on the brigadestaff as topographical engineer. He was soon-afterward promotedto captain but was retained on the staff as brigade inspector, whichposition he continued to fill most acceptably for nearly a year, promotions that did not prom< S&1 when, at his own request, lit- was relieved and returned to theregiment. Having passed, with high credit, an examination for aposition in a colored regiment, he was, in March, 1804, commis-sioned lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-ninth United States ColoredTroops. He continued on duty with the Sixty-fifth until the dayfirst above mentioned, when he said good-bye and left to enterupon his new field of usefulness. He supervised the recruitmentof his regiment and subsequently became it^ colonel. He servedas Inspector of Freedmen. for the Department of Ar-kansas, and was honorablydischarged May iSth, 1866. In June Lieutenant-colo-nel Robert C. Browm, of theSixty-tonrth, was com-missioned colonel, to fill thevacanc\ ■-ned by the death of Colonel MellvnimA t the same time Major Sam -uel L. Coulter was commis-sioned lieutenant-colonel. ither officer could, however, be mustered in theadvanced grade, the numer-ical strength of the regi-ment not being sufficient toentitle it to the full com-plement of field officers. The following incidentof the campaign is relatedby Adjutant Woodruff, of the Sixty-fourth : One day, afteihad got well into the interior of Georgia, when the column haltedfor a short noon rest, our regiment was near a farmhouse thatshowed some evidence of former prosperity. A little way in rearof the house, which stood near the road, was an old fashionedsweep, with a bucket suspended over a well. Collecting half adozen canteens, I went to it,
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