. 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 . r retreating and ad-vancing twice, and while on the third retreat, he received a gunshot wound in theleft hip, from which the ball has never yet been extracted. He was taken toWashington and Baltimore, where he was examined by the medical board, anddischarged January thirtieth, 1864. He resides at Sherburne, Chenan
. 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 . r retreating and ad-vancing twice, and while on the third retreat, he received a gunshot wound in theleft hip, from which the ball has never yet been extracted. He was taken toWashington and Baltimore, where he was examined by the medical board, anddischarged January thirtieth, 1864. He resides at Sherburne, Chenango county,New York. LIEUTENANT MARTIN EDGCOMB Was born in Groton, Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1836. His grandsires wereboth in the Revolutionary war, When the war broke out, Lieutenant Edgcombwas engaged with his brother Isaac in the harness business, in Cortland. He,however, left his business and enlisted in Company A, as Sergeant, under hisminister, Captain Grover. He was promoted to First Sergeant, and on the firstof December, 1864, to Second Lieutenant, and in January, 1865, to First Lieuten-ant and assigned to Company H, which company he commanded about fivemonths. He was with his Regiment to the battle of Second Bull Run, at which Lieutenant Richard Williams. 47. he was taken prisoner. Paroledupon the field, he was sent withother paroled prisoners to CampChase, near Columbus, Ohio, and didnot return to the Regiment untilafter the battle of Gettysburg. Soonafter the battle he joined his 1;ment and remained with it and thej different Regiments with which itJ was consolidated, until the close ofthe war by the surrender of Lee atAppomattox. After rejoining hisRegiment, he participated in everybattle in which his Regiment wasengaged—a long, glorious career. In January, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran,and served successively in the Seventy-sixth, One Hundred and Forty-seventhand was transferred to the Ninety-first New York Volunteers, but there being novacancy of his grade,
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