Civil War - Macoupin County IL Men At The
Battle of Shiloh
�Transcription 1998-2008 Lisa Hunt Guinan
Carlinville Free Democrat, April 24, 1862
#1. The Killed and
Wounded
"Killed and wounded!" How
many hearts have been made sad by this
mournful
caption! And how many homes have been made
desolate! We weep, and well we
may. It was our
loved father who was murdered in cold blood!
It was our dear
brother who lay mangled, and writhing in his
own blood
upon the gory battle-field. It
is our son who lies in the dreary hospital
suffering
agonizing pain, or returns to us
maimed for life, while yet in the bloom of
youth! But the subject is too
heart-sickening
to dwell upon.
Such is war. The bravest and most
dearly beloved must sometimes
fall. Our friends
cannot always escape. They enlisted to
defend the flag of our
Country, and preserve unto us and hand down to
our
posterity the precious boon of
Liberty.
They met the perjured foe!
They bared their breasts and nerved their
arms to stop the
rushing tide of treason!
Some of them fell, and their names are recorded among the
patriot heroes of the nation.
Others will live to win new laurels, and make
their name
immortal, or being upon themselves ignominious
disgrace!
We are able to furnish this week a list nearly
complete
of the volunteers from this
county who were killed or wounded in the great
battle of
Shiloh, or Pittsburgh. We
have also added, as far as we could get them,
the names
of the sick who were brought
down to the hospitals, or returned home with
the
wounded. The list is not a short
one.
Macoupin was well represented upon that bloody
field. Many of her sons have given
up their lives in defence of their country. All honor to
them. Let
their names be
cherished while patriotism has a place in the
heard of
freemen.
THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT
Col. John Logan, severely wounded.
Lt. Col. Ross, mortally wounded (since dead)
Co. A, 1st Lt. Joseph Rice, killed.
Co. B, Capt. Pierce, severely wounded.
Co. D, Cap. English, severely wounded.
Co. E, 1st Lt. Babbitt, wounded
Co. F, Capt. Jenks, dangerously wd; 1st Lt.
Tounsend,
dangerously wounded; 2d Lt.
Labtarous, killed.
Co. G, 1st Lt. Eames, killed
Co. H, 2d Lt. York sev'y w'd.
Co. I, 2d Lt. Ulm, mortally w'd.
The regiment went into action with 546 men, and
lost in
killed, 43, wounded 153,
missing 30.
Co. C--Phillips'--(killed and wounded reported
elsewhere).
Sick--John W. Taylor, G.W. Dugger, John Lowry
(died in
Carlinville), B.N. Stockton,
Elijah Locker, J.M. W. Gray, R.S. Platt, S.M.
Brown.
Co. I--Cummings', of Carlinville.
Killed--Sergt. W.S. Dew; privates McManus and I
Compton.
Wounded--Sergt. Robt Curry, Corp. T. Evans,
privates S.
Sirdsall, W. Fuller, J.A.
Calhoun, I fuller, Saml Fuller, I Gilmore,
Nathan Fuller,
TJ Kelain, P Shrader, WJ
Sims (since dead) Thos Rutherford, Wm Kelley.
Missing--I Matthews, P Ketchum
Co D--English's
Killed--Corp'l Reeves, Sam'l Brazier, E Clary,
E Kenting,
H Nicks, I McBride
Wounded--HC Boring, H Taylor, N Orear, John
Gayhard, T
Barnett, I Vanmeter, C
Lynch, P Leigh, CW Boring.
Missing--WB Piper
Co A--Davidson's
Killed, wounded and missing reported elsewhere.
Sick--TJ Hart, Silas Hughes, A Hinson, Walker
Wiley, A
McLaughlin, A Gilmartin, H
Mekins, CR Waters, NM Young, Thos Smith, FG
Hart.
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT
Co. C--Cornman's
Killed--Corp James Leigh, James Kitchell,
Serg't DK
Kitzmiller, Geo W Hall.
Wounded--Lt Hamilton; Sergeants Zimmerman, Wm
Cherry and
Rufus Mayfield;
privates RA McKinney, LC Corr, Wm Bainbridge
(since
died), John Riley, H
Moulder, JB Anderson, Thos W Jones, John Hall,
James
Morgan, Wm Bagby, W Bird,
VJ Patton, AF Neely, John O'Neal, Robt Jones.
Capt. Littlefield's Co. of Jerseyville.
Wounded--Lt T Simmons, Brighton; WN Darr;
Shipman
SEVENTH REGIMENT
Major R. Rowett, wounded in left breast,
returned home.
Co. K--Hunter's
Killed--Corporal John Nixon
Wounded--1st Sergeant William C Gillson,
slightly in leg;
Sergeant Sanders, slightly;
Sergeant S.C. Leatherman, slightly in foot;
John
Anderson, severely in the arm;
Michael Connerty, slightly in the hand, Geo.
Ernest,
severely in the left shoulder; S.J.
Grant, slightly in foot; Jacob Horn, severely
in the left
breast and right thigh; G.B.
Johnson, severely in the head; Geo. Reimer, slightly in the leg;
Winfrey
Mitchell,
slightly; Joseph White, slightly; Thos. W.
Herrington,
slightly.
Missing--Julius Wolve.
Co. F.--Cummings' of Bunker Hill.
Killed--J. Britton, John P. Hall
Wounded--John A. Larkin, J Jackson, James
Close, CP
Laing, Wallace Partridge,
Hugh Porter, Jas Herrington, John Dell.
#2. War
Correspondence
From the 32d Regiment
Camp Sherman, Tenn, at Pittsburgh Landing,
April 9th.
Feel confident that new from the 32d Ills.
Regiment would
not be deemed
uninteresting by your many readers, after a
long silence
I again venture to address you.
Of our location you are doubtless acquainted,
as the
entire army of the south-west has
for some time past been concentrating at this
point
preparatory to a grand and
overpowering forward movement through Alabama
and
Mississippi. And of the battle
which was fought here, commencing on the 6th,
you are
already advised, therefore I
will continue myself to a statement of the part
which the
32d Reg. Here in the glorious
yet bloody conflict.
On Sunday morning, the 6th inst., the Long Roll
was
beaten, and our Regiment
immediately formed an proceeded tot he scope of
action. We were placed on the left
wing of the army, across a large plain, which
afforded
not the slightest cover to our
men. This plan was
skirted on one side by a heavy growth of timber and brushwood,
and from this favorable position the enemy
opened upon us
a deadly fire of shot and
shell. We
maintained
our position, with slight loss, until a battery of our artillery had
formed in our rear.
We then fell back, and our batter shelled them out most
effectually. The
enemy being worsted in this part of the field, we were ordered to
another point, to support another Regiment. We took position in a
ravine, which we
entered by another ravine, joining the first at
a right
angle. Here it was that many of
our brave fellows fell never to rise again. The enemy occupied a
more elevated
position within pistol range of us, and from
which point
they galled us severely. After
maintaining their tire--and after thinning
their ranks
considerably, too--for considerably
over half an hour, our ammunition running out
and the
enemy outnumbering us, we
were obliged to retreat.
Had we stood our ground three minutes longer
the enemy
would have thanked us, and
we would either have been cut to pieces for
taken
prisoners. The officers and men
displayed great coolness and bravery. They did their duty.
What
more can we say?
Our loss is severe.
The Regiment went into action with 546 men and left of the field
44 killed, 152 wounded and 38 missing:
Regimental Officers--Col. John Logan, wounded
in side;
Lieut Col. J. W. Ross, in leg,
thigh and head, mortally (since died); Maj.
Hunter thrown
from his horse, and injured
so as to disable him for present duty; Serg't
Maj.
Vanwinkle, in leg severely.
Killed and wounded in Cap. Phillips's Co.,
Lieut. A.D.
Keller commanding: killed 4,
wounded 12.
Killed--Serg. Jas A. Vanarsdale, in breast;
Corp. I.R.
Hardcastle, head; J.W. Deck, in
breast; Thos. Wilson, in head.
Wounded--Corp. W. F. Thayer, in arm; Corp. W.T.
Brown in
leg; Corp. Rusher in
back, Corp. Rodgers in neck, Wm. Sinclair in
thigh; Pat.
Mangen in thigh, Geo. W.
Brown in hip, Tip Richardson in head and
shoulder, Geo.
Miller in head, Thos.
Patterson in leg, Samuel Jacksen in hip, J.W.
Dugger in
head.
The killed and wounded in Captain Davidson's
Company were
Killed--1st Lieut. J.S. Rice, Corp'l F.M.
Fiffe, C.
Gifford, Jas. W. Steidley, Naylor
Smith, Charles Alvord--6.
Wounded--Serg't H.G. Keplinger, slightly, T.J.
Davidson
in head and shoulder, Albert
Davidson in legs and head, John Davidson
slightly, John
M. Gibson in arm badly,
Milton F. Harris dangerously, Phillip Shaw
dangerously,
D.A. Good, Isaac Massey,
E.A. Rice in thigh, F.M. Kirby in hip, G.T.
Prouty in
knee, J.H. White in arm, J.Y.
Hussey in hand, J.T. Gooch in side, John Yates
in leg,
J.W. Steidley dangerously, S.J.
Delaplain in neck, D.H. Frazer, in head, F.W.
Mouse in
arm, P.R. Cox in arm, Ed.
Scott in shoulder, H.C. Hussey in leg,
slightly--23.
Many of our wounded were left on the field
Sunday night,
in midst of an awful storm.
The rebels fought like devils.
Many of the prisoners brought in, had in
their canteens a
miserable decoction of whisky and gunpowder,
from which
they imbibed freely.
Fearing lest I weary you, I will close,
Yours truly,
Volunteer
#3. The following
is an excerpt from a private letter written by a Carlinville boy in
Capt. Phillips' Co., to his parents:
"After an awful battle of two days, in which
victory
for a long time perched upon the
banner of the confederates, we have at last
conquered. It is said to have been the
most
severe battle ever fought upon American soil. Yesterday morning
the Long roll was
beaten and our men were placed in line, with
arms and 40
rounds of ammunition, and
without any clothing except that on our backs. Since midnight
previous tremendous
artillery firing was heard, some two miles
southeast of
our camp on the road from
Corinth. We were
double-quicked to the scene of action, and immediately formed in
line of battle across a large plan, which had
not a tree
or bush which would afford the
least shelter. We
advanced from the centre of this field to within 150 yards of the
brush on one side, when a deadly fire of cannon
and
musketry swept our lines. The
rebel line could not be discovered save by the
firing which
proceeded from it. Many
brave fellows here laid down their lives. One poor lad close to
me, say three feet, was
struck by a grape-shot immediately over the
right eye,
tearing the entire top of his skill
off. After holding
our ground 15 minutes, we were ordered to the rear and a battery
of artillery took our station, covered by our
artillery. The rebels having got our
range,
gave us a heavy supply of grape, shell and
cannister. It was awful.
I can easily tell you
how I felt in this fight.
For the first ten minutes I prayed, and after that felt
perfectly
cool, and could trace the course of a shell as
calmly
as--well, I have no comparison
ready.
After standing this fire for an hour or more
the rebels
gave way at this point, so that
the battery was ordered to another position,
and our work
here was done. We were
immediately sent to another point.
We were marched down a ravine which joined
the
first at right angle.
We would load our guns, run up to the top of the hill and fire
down on the secesh who were in the next ravine. They maneuvered
in the same
manner, and our loss was fearful.
We kept our position here for nearly an hour
when a
retreat was ordered, and it was here that our
loss was
heaviest. The secesh came up to
the top of the hill and fired at us as we
retreated, at a
range of thirty yards. I can not
see how it is that I escaped, but thank God I
did
although the bullets whistled around
in most aggravating style.
On the retreat the regiment scattered
terribly. The rebels
took our camp, and we were compelled to stay in
the open
air under an awful rain
storm, which lasted all night, without
overcoat, blanket
or oil-cloth. This morning we
renewed the battle�Large reinforcements came in
during
the night under Gen. Buell.
After a desperate fight of all day the enemy is
conquered, and our army victorious
army, that is the cavalry, are in hot pursuit. In consequence of
the rebels taking our
camp, we were without food from 6 yesterday
morning until
9 today. We now have
possession of our camp again, but the secesh
have taken
all our private property.
Their arms are scattered all around, being
mostly old
U.S. muskets."
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