Page:History of Goodhue County, Minnesota.djvu/592

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512 EISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY ment May 4, 1864. Goodhue county had ninety-five soldiers in ( 'ompany F and one in Company G. SECOND INFANTRY. The 2nd Infantry was organized in July, 1861. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., October, 1861, and assigned to the Army of the Ohio. The following embraces a sketch of the marches, battles and skirmishes in which this regiment participated : Mill Spring, January 19, 1862 ; Siege of Corinth, April, 1862 ; transferred to the Army of the Tennessee. Bragg 's Raid; Perryville, October 8, 1862 ; skirmishes of the Tullahoma campaign ; Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863 ; Mission Eidge. November 25, 1863. Veteranized January, 1864. Battles and skirmishes of the At- lanta campaign, viz.: Resaea, June 14, 15 and 16, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Jonesboro; Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas; Bentonville, March 19, 1865. Dis- charged at Fort Snelling July 11, 1865. The commissioned officers from Goodhue county wore : Assistant surgeon, William Brown, commissioned September 5, 1862; promoted surgeon September 5, 1862; no record. Company I, Captain John Foot, mustered in July 30, 1861; resigned March 9, 1862. First Lieu- tenant William S. Grow, mustered in July 30, 1861; appointed quartermaster. Lieutenant William W. Wilson, enrolled June 26, 1861; promoted second lieutenant April 1, 1862, and first lieu- tenant July 19, 1862; resigned September 12, 1864. Goodhue county had twenty soldiers in Company I, eight in Company K, i wo in < lompany B, six in ( lompany ( ', one in Company F, and one in Company G. THIRD INFANTRY. The 3rd Infantry was organized in October, 1861. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn.. March. 1862. Captured and "paroled at Mur- freesboro July, 1862. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., thence to Min- nesota. Engaged in the Indian expedition of 1862. Participated in the battle of Wood Lake, September, 1862. Ordered to Little Rock. Ark., November. 1863. Veteranized January, 1864. En- gaged in battle of Fitzhugh's Woods, March 30, 1864. Ordered to Pine Bluff, Ark., April, 1864, and from there to Duval] 's Bluff, September 2. 1865. Discharged at Fort Snelling. The commis- sioned officers from Goodhue county were: Company D, Colonel Hans Mattson, commissioned captain Company D October 22, 1861; promoted major May 29, 1862; promoted lieutenant colonel July 15, 1863, and colonel April 15, 1864; discharged with the regiment September 2. 1865. First Lieutenant Lars K. Aakers, commissioned October 3. 1861; resigned March 30, 1862. Second