. 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 . rly life of this lamented officer, though attendedwith few incidents of marked significance, was still fraught with characteristicswhich, developed, constituted him a devoted, fearless soldier, a strict disciplina-rian as an officer, aud a charitable superior. At the residence of his father, atEtna, Tompkins county
. 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 . rly life of this lamented officer, though attendedwith few incidents of marked significance, was still fraught with characteristicswhich, developed, constituted him a devoted, fearless soldier, a strict disciplina-rian as an officer, aud a charitable superior. At the residence of his father, atEtna, Tompkins county, N. Y., he enjoyed a liberal English education, adoptingthe occupation of a moulder and machinist. September twenty-sixth, 1860, hemarried Miss Mary L. Houtz, of the above place, which union gave him no chil-dren. Generous, but just, in the scale of humanity, the impending war foundhim with no tie too precious to be laid upon the altar of his bleeding energetic and intensely muscular, of little more than medium height, andexcellent proportions, without an excess of flesh, his erect, manly form, dark eye,dark brown hair, and light complexion, with an easy carriage and ever-buoyantair, placed him early among the most active and gallant officers of our patriotic. Captain Norman G. Bartholomew. :>.» army. Enlisting November eighth,1861, as a private in the Seventy-sixth Regiment, at Cortland, N. Y.,he passed speedily through everygrade of promotion, for meritoriousconduct, to the flattering positionwhich he honored, and in which hefell. He fought, unharmed, the sev-eral battles at Rappahannock Station,Gainesville, Second Bull Run, Fred-ericksburg, Chancellorsvillr, andGettysburg successively. The dis-tinguishing events in the militarylife of Captain B. occurred at thebattle near Gainesville, at Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. At the hard-fought,but unsuccessful, contest, near Gainesville, in August, 1862, when the enemymassed their columns upon the worn-out Corp
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