“Truly, the State of Michigan has reason to be proud of the troops she has sent out to defend the government and the Union."

The regiment had lost during the year 1862: 51 died in action or of wounds, 66 by disease, and had met the enemy at the following points:

Shiloh, Tenn., April 7. Farmington, Miss., May 9. Owl Creek, Miss., May 17. Corinth, Miss., May 27. Siege of Corinth, Miss., May 10 to 31. Stevenson, Ala, August 31. Munfordsville, Ky., September 14. Perryville, Ky., October 8. Danville, Ky., October 17. Gallatin, Tenn., December 5. Mill Creek, Tenn., December 15. Lavergne, Tenn., December 27. Stewart's Creek, Tenn., December 29. Stone River, Tenn., December 29, 31, and January 2, 3, 1863.

After the occupation of Murfreesboro the regiment was engaged in building fortifications at that place, and in scouting until the 24th of June, when in command of Col. J. B. Culver, it advanced with the army on Tallahoma, being in the 1st brigade, 1st division, 20th corps, and after the evacuation of that place by the enemy under Bragg, followed in pursuit as far as Pelham, at the base of the Cumberland Mountains, whence it returned to Hillsboro, Tenn., and went into camp at that place. It left Hillsboro on the 16th of August, when the army advanced into Georgia. On the 20th the regiment, with its division, arrrived in the valley of the Sequacheo, after a march of sixty miles over the Cumberland Mountains. Two days had been occupied in reaching the summit of the mountains, which here rise to the height of 3,000 feet, the roads being so steep and difficult that the guns, baggage and ammunition trains had to be hauled up by hand. The division having crossed the Tennessee at Shell Mound, moved on Chattanooga, and on the morning of the 8th of September that town was taken, the Thirteenth being among the first to enter the city. It participated in the engagements of the 19th and 20th of September at Chicamauga, where going into action with 217 officers and men, it lost in killed 14, wounded 68 (of whom 11 died), and 25 missing-total loss 107. Among the killed were Captains Daniel B. Hosmer, Clark D. Fox and Lieutenant Charles D. Hall.

The report of Colonel J. B. Culver commanding regiment says:

"On the afternoon of the 18th the regiment was ordered to deploy as skirmishers along the Chicamauga to the right of Lee and Gordon's Mills, where we were warmly engaged by the enemy's skirmishers who were supported by a section of artillery. We held this position until about 12 M., when we were recallled to join our brigade and division that had been moved about one mile to the left of Lee and Gordon's mills. We executed the movement on the double quick, with the thermometer 90° above. The battle was raging furiously on our front and flank; we formed our line under the enemy's fire and were immediately ordered to charge the exultant rebels who were forcing back a part of the brigade. The charge was executed in a handsome manner, and checked their advance, but at a fearful sacrifice of life, and notwithstanding the enemy made several determined efforts to dislodge us, we held the position until night."

During the month of October, 1863, the regiment was on duty in the trenches before Chattanooga. It had lost during the year 51 died in action or of wounds, 66 died of disease, and had met the enemy at Eagleville, Tenn., Jan. 20. Pelham, Tenn., July 2. Lookout Valley, Tenn., Sept. 7. Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Sept. 10. Chicamauga, Tenn., Sept. 12, 18, 19. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 6. Mission Ridge, Tenn., Nov. 26.

On the 5th of November, the regiment, with the Twenty-first and Twentysecond Michigan Infantry, and the 18th Ohio Infantry, was organized into a Brigade of Engineers, and assigned to duty at Chattanooga, being attached to

the headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland. The regiment participated, on the 22d, 24th, and 25th, in the battle of Chattanooga (or Mission Ridge). During the months of December and January, it was stationed on the Chicamauga, engaged in picket duty and cutting logs for building warehouses at Chattanooga. Having reënlisted 173 on the 17th January, it became a veteran regiment, and received orders on the 5th of February to proceed to Michigan, and on the 12th arrived at Kalamazoo. Its members here received a furlough for thirty days, at the expiration of which the regiment again went into rendezvous, and on the 26th took its departure for the field, having received, while in the State, over 400 recruits. It arrived at Chattanooga on the 20th of April, and during the following months of May, June, July, August, and until the 25th of September, it was stationed on Lookout Mountain, engaged in the construction of Military Hospitals. On the latter date the regiment was relieved from duty as Engineers, and was assigned to the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Corps, but before joining its brigade, participated in the pursuit of the rebels under Forrest and Roddy, in North Alabama. Returning to Chattanooga on the 17th of October, it remained there a few days, and thence proceeded to join its brigade, which it reached at Rome, Ga., on 1st of November, 1864, and on the 3d was at Tilton, when it received orders to proceed to Rome, where it remained until the 7th, when it joined the army of General Sherman, at Kingston, and was assigned to 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Corps, and formed a part of the general army that "marched down to the sea. The regiment, with its brigade, reached Savannah on the 16th of December, and was on duty in the trenches before that city until the 21st, when the enemy evacuated the place. On Jan. 17th, 1865, the regiment moved forward with the army on the march through the Carolinas, and was engaged at Catawba River, S. C., February 28th, and at Averysboro, N. C., March 16th, and again at Bentonville on the 19th, where it fought the enemy the entire day, sustaining a loss of one hundred and ten killed, wounded, and missing. Amongst the killed was its commanding officer, Col. W. G. Eaton. After the death of Colonel Eaton Colonel Culver was recommissioned and assumed command of the regiment.

Pending the negotiations attending the surrender of Johnson's army the regiment was stationed on the Cape Fear river, twenty-six miles south of Raleigh, and on the 30th of April it started with the army homeward, reaching Richmond on the 7th of May, and Washington on the 19th, and on the 24th participated in the grand review of General Sherman's Army at the National Capital. The regiment remained in camp near Washington until the 9th of June, when it proceeded via Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Louisville, Ky., arriving there on the 15th. It was mustered out of service on the 25th of July, and on the 27th arrived at Jackson, Mich., where it was paid off and disbanded. The engagements of the Thirteenth were at Shiloh, Tenn., April 7, 1862. Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862. Owl Creek, Miss., May 17, 1862. Corinth, Miss., May 27, 1862. Siege of Corinth, Miss., May 10 to 31, 1862. Stevenson, Ala., August 31, 1862. Munfordsville, Ky., September 14, 1862. Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. Danville, Ky., October 17, 1862. Gallatin, Tenn., December 5, 1862. Mill Creek, Tenn., December 15, 1862. Lavergne, Tenn., December 27, 1862. Stewart's Creek, Tenn., December 29, 1862. Stone River, Tenn., December 29, 31, 1862, January 2, 3, 1863. Eagleville, Tenn., January 20, 1863. Pelham, Tenn., July 2, 1863. Lookout Valley, Tenn., September 7, 1863. Lookout Mountain, Tenn., September 10, 1863.

Chickamauga, Tenn., September 12, 18, 19, 1863. Chattanooga, Tenn., October 6, 1863. Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 26, 1863. Florence, Ala., October 8, 1864. Savannah, Ga., December 17, 18, 20, 21, 1864. Catawba River, S. C., February 28, 1865. Averysboro, N. C., March 16, 1865. Bentonville, N. C., March 19, 1865.

The regiment had borne on its rolls 2,084, and had lost 390, being made up as follows: killed in action, 3 officers and 40 men; 1 officer and 30 men died of wounds, and 2 officers and 314 men of disease.

"Oft may the tear the green sod steep,

And sacred be the heroes' sleep,

Till time shall cease to run."

FOURTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.

"We will rally for our country,
And for human freedom too;
And bravely meet the traitors,

'Neath the old Red, White, and Blue."

The Fourteenth Regiment was organized and rendezvoused at Ypsilanti, under the direction of Colonel Robert P. Sinclair of Grand Rapids.

The muster-in of the regiment was accomplished on the 13th of February, 1862, having on its rolls 925 officers and men.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Robert P. Sinclair, Colonel, Grand Rapids; Robert W. Davis, Lieutenant Colonel, Pontiac; M. W. Quackenbush, Major, Owosso; Edward Batwell, Surgeon, Detroit; Frederick W. Sparling, Assistant Surgeon, Detroit; David B. Harbaugh, Adjutant, Detroit; William M. Ferry, Jr., Quartermaster, Grand Haven; Thomas B. Dooley, Chaplain, Corunna,

"A." Captain, Morgan L. Gage, East Saginaw; First Lieutenant, Joseph Schefnicker, Saginaw; Second Lieutenant, John C. Lind, East Saginaw.

"B." Captain, Thomas C. Fitzgibbon, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Patrick Walsh, Grand Rapids; Second Lieutenant, Nicholas Devereaux, Marshall.

"C." Captain, James Mackey, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Arthur E. Magill, Grand Rapids; Second Lieutenant, John Van Stan, Detroit.

"D." Captain, James J. Jeffries, Lansing; First Lieutenant, Gillman J. McClintock, Owosso; Second Lieutenant, Cyrus F. Jackson, Owosso.

"E." Captain Alpheus M. Beebe, Lansing; First Lieutenant C. C. Goodale, Owosso; Second Lieutenant, Daniel Wait, Owosso.

"F." Captain, Edward S. Nixon, Grand Rapids; First Lieutenant, Casper Ernst, Nunica; Lecond Lieutenant, Calvin C. Porter, Grand Rapids.

"G." Captain, John L. Donnelly, Monroe; First Lieutenant, John T. Donahugh, Second Lieutenant, Charles R. Bush, Lansing.

"H." Captain, Richard Beahan, Ypsilanti; First Lieutenant, Thomas Higgins, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Campbell Montgomery, Detroit.

“I." Captain, Frank Powell, Pontiac; First Lieutenant, John P. Foster, Pontiac; Second Lieutenant, Alfred A. Parker, Pontiac.

"K." Captain, John Kelley, St. Johns; First_Lieutenant, Charles B. Rose, Westphalia; Second Lieutenant, Tobias J. Sherlock, Detroit.

The ladies of Ypsilanti gave a Flag to the regiment a short time before it left the State. On one side a figure of justice, by its side an eagle holding in its beak an American Flag, the folds of which were gracefully thrown around the figure. On a scroll is written in gold letters, "We came not to war on opinions but to suppress treason."

The affair occurred at a review of the regiment by Governor Blair and staff. Professor J. M. B. Sill, on behalf of the ladies, in a characteristic speech, delivered the Flag, to which Colonel Robert P. Sinclair made an appropriate

reply. In 1864 it was returned to the ladies by a committee of officers, selected by the regiment for that purpose.

The Fourteenth in command of Colonel Sinclair, moved from Ypsilanti on the 17th of April following, having been detained in the State on account of delay by the U. S. in payment of the regiment.

It was ordered to the Western Army, and took up its line of march via St. Louis, joining the army at Pittsburg Landing soon after the engagement at that point.

It was in General Pope's army in the advance on Corinth, Miss., and during part of April and the entire month of May participated in the Siege of that place, and on May 9th was engaged with the enemy at Farmington.

Colonel R. P. Sinclair:

CAMP FARMINGTON MISS.,
May 11, 1862.

I deem it no breach of military etiquette or discipline, that I call to your notice a brave and gallant officer of your command. My excuse therefore is, that having fought on the 9th of May detached from his command, with the eye of no superior officer of your command upon him to give him credit due his courage and ability. I refer to Capt. Thomas C. Fitzgibbon, Company "B," Fourteeth Michigan Infantry. Near the close of the fight on the 9th inst., in an hour of severe trial, he fought his way to our lines, and reported to me for orders. He had his company perfectly under control, cool and in good order, showing them brave men relying with confidence on a brave officer. Approaching us he said he “wished to fight as loug as any man fought," asking to be assigned to position. His courage and self-control in that trying scene I refer to was splended and won my heart.

Very respectfully,

JOHN MASON LOOMIS, Col. Commanding 26th Ill. Infantry. CAMP NEAR FARMINGTON, MISS., May 16, 1862.

Colonel Loomis, of the 26th Illinois regiment, having reported to me the gallant conduct of Capt. Thomas C. Fitzgibbon in the battle of the 9th instant, and deeming it my duty to reward courage and bravery on the battle field, it is ordered that the subjoined letter be published to the regiment as a trubute to the bravery, courage and ability of Captain Fitzgibbon, company "B," and placed upon the records. ROBERT P. SINCLAIR, Colonel Com'dg 14th Mich. Infantry.

After the evacuation of Corinth the regiment moved with Buell's army along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. It was afterwards stationed at Tuscumbia, Ala., and on the 1st of September joined in the famous race of Buell and Bragg for Louisville, Ky. The regiment was however halted at Nashville to aid in holding that important point. On the 1st of November following it participated in an engagement with the enemy at Lavergne, capturing a fort, routing the 32d Alabama infantry and taking a hundred prisoners. During the same month Nashville was threatened and the regiment was ordered outside the town, where it had a severe but successful engagement with infantry and cavalry. Afterwards and in the same month it met the enemy at Brentwood, having a severe engagement.

In October it had been assigned to the 1st brigade, 2d division (Jeff C. Davis'), 14th corps, in which it served during the entire war.

The regiment, then commanded by Lieut. Col. Quackenbush, Col. Sinclair and Lieut. Col. Davis both having resigned on account of ill-health, was stationed at Stone River, Tenn., in November and part of December. On January 3, 1863, it participated in the battle at that place, having marched through mud and in rain from Nashville, 30 miles, the night previous.