The Homeward March.; ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF THE FOURTH NEWHAMPSHIRE AND TENTH CONNECTICUT REGIMENTS.
Published: August 30, 1865
The Fourth New-Hampshire Veteran Volunteers, numbering 292 men and 25 officers, under command of Lieut-Col. F.W. PARKER, arrived at a late hour on Monday night, and were quartered all night at the Battery Barracks, leaving for Concord, N.H., in the steamer Cossack.
The Fourth New-Hampshire was organized in the Summer of 1861, and was mustered into the service of the United States in September. They proceeded to Washington, and thence to Annapolis, where they joined SHERMAN's expedition to Hilton Head. Afterward the regiment was divided, and one battalion was stationed at Beaufort, S.C., and the other was sent to Augustine, Fla., where they did post duty and took part in a number of raids. In the Fall of 1862 the regiment joined the Department of the South under Gen. GILLMORE, and was assigned to the Tenth Corps, in which it remained until the early part of last year, and was then detached and assigned to the Eighteenth Army Corps.
The Fourth New-Hampshire was engaged in the battle of Pocotaligo, S.C., in 1863; the siege and taking of Fort Wagner, on Morris Island, where they remained until the Spring of 1864, doing picket duty, and then joined the Army of the James under Gen. BUTLER; in the battle of Drury's Bluff they lost in killed, wounded and missing about 120 men. Their division was then detached from the Tenth Corps and assigned to the Eighteenth Corps, and took part in the battles of Cold Harbor, on the 2d and 3d of June, 1864, and lost severely. They were then ordered back in front of Petersburgh, and took part in the battle of the Mine, and a few days afterward accompanied the advance on Deep Bottom, and in that engagement lost one officer killed, several wounded, and quite a number of men.
In the Fall of that year, in the charge on Fort Gillmore, north of the James River, the regiment lost about 50 men. In December they accompanied Gen. BUTLER on the first, and Gen. TERRY on the second, expedition against Fort Fisher, at which time their commander, Col. BELL, who was in command of the Third Brigade, Second Division and Tenth Army Corps, was killed. They remained at Fort Fisher until toward last Spring, when they advanced upon Wilmington; and they then accompanied the pursuit of Gen. JOHNSTON until he surrendered at Raleigh, N.C., where they remained until recently mustered out of the service.
The following is a list of officers:
Field and Staff -- Lieut-Col. F.W. PARKER, in command; Adjutant, F.W. Challice; Quartermaster, Lieut. W.K. Norton; Assistant Surgeon, H.W. Wardwell.
Line Officers -- Co. A, Capt. M. Adams; Co. B, First Lieut. L.A. Gay; Co. C, Capt. L.D. McHussy; Co. D. Capt. John H. Roberts; Co. E, Capt. _____ Sarsons; Co. F, First Lieut. L.D. Huntress; Co. G, Capt. E. Whitford; Co. H, Capt A.L. Knowlton; Co. I, Capt. G.F. Quimby; Co. K, Capt. Geo. W. Hawkins.
Some unauthorized person misled the morning press a day or two since, by stating that this regiment had arrived and departed in the night. Col. HOWE was duly credited (as usual) with attending to their wants.
THE TENTH CONNECTICUT
arrived yesterday morning, by the Jersey Railroad, having come via Baltimore by steamer from Richmond. The regiment was duly dined by Mr. BAKER, at the Battery Barracks, and, as usual, the men were properly provided with cooked rations for their homeward journey. Col. ALMY secured for the regiment some twenty crates of peaches, and otherwise attended to their wants.
The Tenth Connecticut was raised at Hartford in 1861, and rendezvoused at Annapolis; in the Fall of that year, joined the Burnside expedition, and participated with him in all the engagements through that campaign. Subsequently, they served under FOSTER in North Carolina, and in South Carolina with GILLMORE and HUNTER. When the Army of the James was organized in the Spring of 1864, the Tenth was assigned to the Tenth Army Corps, and in the month of December, the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps were consolidated, and the Tenth Connecticut became a component part of the Twenty-fourth Corps, under Gen. ORD. With that command the regiment remained until finally discharged.
The following is the roster of the regiment:
Field and Staff. -- Col. E.S. Greely; Major, F.G. Nickerson; Surgeon, C.R. Hart; First Assistant Surgeon, N.H. Wright: Second Assistant Surgeon, H.A. Page; Chaplain, H.C. Trumbull; Regimental Quartermaster, H.K. Parsons: Adjutant, Wm. A. Robbins.
Captains -- H.A. Peck, J.H. Linsley, Robt. W. Adam, Daniel W. Boardman, J.S. Bartlett.
First Lieutenants -- A.F. Slate, J.W. Hawxhurst, Julius Neidhart, T.J. Stillman, W.P. Hovey, G.R. Turnbull.
Second Lieutenants -- Joseph Griswell, J.B. Newell, A.F. Jones, E.L. Smith, O.S. Goft, T.B. Fowler.
The following were the engagements of the Tenth Connecticut:
Burnside -- Roanoke Island, N.C., Feb. 8; Newbern, N.C., March 14; Core Creek, N.C. April 7.
Foster -- Trenton, N.C., July 21; Williamston, N.C., Nov. 3; Southwest Creek, N.C., Dec. 13; Kinston, N.C., Dec. 14; Whitehall, N.C., Dec. 16; Goldsboro, N.C., Dec. 17.
Hunter -- Seabrook Island, S.C., March 25 and June 12.
Gillmore -- James Island, 2d, S.C., July 16; Fort Wagner, 2d, S.C., July 18; siege of Charleston, S.C., July, August and September; St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 30.
Butler -- Walthall Junction, Va., May 7; Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 13, 14, and 16; Petersburgh Pike, Va., May 17; Bermuda Hundred, Va., May and June; Richmond and Petersburgh Railroad, Va., June 16; Deep Bottom, Va., June 21, 25, and July 28; Dutch Gap, Va., June 21; Strawberry Plains, Va., July 26 and 27; Deep Bottom, Second, Va., Aug. 14; Deep Run, Va., Aug. 16; Siege of Petersburgh, Va., August and September; New-Market Heights, Va., Sept. 29; Laurel Hill Church, Va., Oct. 1; New-Market Road, Va., Oct. 7; Darby town Road, Oct 13, 27 and 29.
Ord -- Hatcher's Run, Va., March 30 and 31, and April 1; Fort Gregg, Va., April 2; Appomattox Court-house, Va., April 9.