Showing posts with label 2nd US Infantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2nd US Infantry. Show all posts

Thursday, January 23, 2014

2nd United States Infantry

In Kansas January, 1861. Companies "C" and "K" reached Washington, D.C., July, 1861. Attached to Porter's 1st Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, to August, 1861. Porter's City Guard, Washington, D.C., to March, 1862. Regiment concentrated at Washington, December, 1861, except Company "H" at Fort Larned, Kan. Attached to Syke's Regular Infantry Brigade, Army Potomac, March to May, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, to March, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, to June, 1864. Provost Guard, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, to October, 1864. Newport Barracks, Ky., to October, 1865.

SERVICE.--Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16-21, 1861 (Cos. "C," "K"). Battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21. Duty as City Guard at Washington, D.C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20. At Sharpsburg till October 29. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 29-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee, July 5-24. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Near Greenwich April 11, 1864 (Cos. "C," "H," "K"). Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania Court House May 8-21; North Anna River May 22-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12, Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16 to October, 1864. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30 (Reserve). Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm, September 29-October 2. Moved to Newport Barracks, Ky., October, 1864, and duty there till October, 1865. Company "B" moved from Kansas to St. Louis, Mo., February, 1861. Expedition to Booneville June 13-17. Capture of Jefferson City June 13. Action at Booneville June 17. Company "E" moved to St, Louis, Mo., July, 1861. Lyon's Springfield Campaign July-August. Companies "B" and "E" action at Dug Springs August 2. Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10, Joined Regiment in Washington, D.C., December, 1861. Company "H" at Fort Laramie till June, 1863. Joined Regiment at Benson's Mills, Va., June 13, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 88 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 58 Enlisted men by disease. Total 155.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1710

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Daniel Clarence McNeil

McNEIL, DANIEL CLARENCE, Osceola, Mo., born near Springfield, Sangamon co., Ill., Jan. 16th, 1825, of Scotch-Irish ancestry on his father's side; was educated at Monmouth, Ill.; read medicine with Dr. Samuel Webster of that place, and graduated from a college in Philadelphia, Pa., and commenced practice with Dr. Webster in 1845. In 1846 he went to Mexico and returned in 1847. He has [practiced] medicine at Cambridge and Henry, Ill.; at Winterset, Camanche, and DeWitt, Iowa, and is now settled at Osceola, in this State. He has been a member of the Clinton co. med. asso., Iowa; of the St. Clair co. med. asso., Mo.; and of the Iowa and Ill. States med. assos. He entered the Mexican war in 1846 in the 1st reg. Ill. vols., was subsequently appointed acting ass't surg., in charge of a hospital at San Antonio, Texas, and afterwards took part in the battle of Buena Vista in Feb., 1847, and was subsequently appointed ass't surg. 2d Ind. vols.—-wounded men. In 1861 he was commissioned captain of, and recruiting officer for, co. A, 1st reg. U. S. lancers; and in 1862 ass't surg. 16th Iowa vol. inf. He was afterwards in charge of negro brigade; with the 16th Iowa at the battle of Corinth; in charge of hosp. at La Grange, Tenn., and hosp. No. 1; was 1st ass't surg. 2d U. S. vols., district of Iowa; in charge of hosps. at Fort Ellsworth, Texas, and Fort Lamed, Kansas; was next attached to the 2d Colorado cavalry; then of post hosp. at Fort Limed; and then medical director 3d subdistrict, upper Arkansas. In Sept., 1865, he was appointed chief surgeon of Indiana commission to hold council with the Cheyennes and other Indian tribes; and was mustered out of service in Nov., 1865. In 1866 he was appointed examining surg. for pensions at DeWitt, Iowa; holds the same office for Osceola now; and was elected surg.-gen. of the G. A. R. at its organization in Indianapolis. He is examining surg. for the following insurance companies: Accident of Columbus, Ohio; Missouri mutual life, St. Louis; mutual life, New York; life association of America; St. Louis mutual life; AEtna life, Hartford, Conn.; Atlas mutual life, St. Louis; and National life, Philadelphia. He has been lecturer on "Joint Diseases;" has read essays on "Dislocations," "Fractures," "Quinine," surgical operations and cases treated by himself, etc., etc.; has been connected with a large number of beneficial and charitable societies, fraternities, etc., and has held offices in all; has been connected with political organizations, railroad corporations, etc., etc.; has edited two newspapers, and contributed, variously, over 3,000 articles; has been postmaster and coroner in Iowa, and has been three times in the drug business. In March, 1861, he was presented with a diploma "Pro causa Honoris" from the Pennsylvania medical college. In Dec, 1849, he married Elizabeth Ann Graham, a descendant of Sir John Graham, Duke of Montrose.

SOURCE: William Biddle Atkinson, editor, The physicians and surgeons of the United States,  p. 704

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Major D. C. McNeil

Major D. C. McNEIL, Surgeon-General, was born in Springfield, Illinois, January 16, 1825. He served in the Mexican War. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he was Captain of an independent company at De Witt, Iowa, and was afterwards appointed Captain 1st United States Lancers. Was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 15th Iowa, August 19, 1862, and resigned in May, 1863. In February, 1865, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 2d United States Volunteer Infantry, and afterward Surgeon; mustered-out November 6, 1865. Is now at Osceola, Missouri.

SOURCE: Robert Burns Beath, History of the Grand Army of the Republic, p. 75

Monday, December 29, 2008

Col. Thomas W. Sweeny

The gallant Col. Thomas W. Sweeny, who, from the news just received, has again been wounded at the recent great battle at Pittsburg in the defence [sic] of his country’s flag and in the maintenance of its laws, was born in Ireland, and came to this country with his parents when about ten years of age. On the passage across the Atlantic he was washed overboard, but in the providence of God was saved. At an early aged he went to Patterson, N. J., where he was apprenticed to the printing business. He afterward came to this city, and was engaged as a compositor till the war with Mexico was declared. He was among the first to volunteer in the service of his adopted country in the capacity of Second Lieutenant. He was at the storming of Vera Cruz, and was twice wounded in the battle at the taking of the City of Mexico, losing his right arm. On Col. Sweeny’s return to this city he received the commission of Second Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment U. S. Infantry, and was soon ordered to California, where he performed many arduous duties, from which he never faltered; among the first of which was the taking a detachment of recruits in a state of disorganization across the desert, from San Diego to the interior, without losing a man. He was afterwards assigned to Fort Yumah, on the Colorado, with a command of ten men; and shut off for ten months from all communications with the settlements, and surrounded by a large band of hostile Indians, but for this watchfulness and indefatigable intrepidity would have been massacred before being relieved. From California he, with a portion of his regiment, was ordered to Fort Pierre, in Northern Nebraska, where he served as Aid to Gen. Harney; and when arduous duty was required he was always at his post. At the commencement of the rebellion Col. Sweeny was on the recruiting service, but was ordered to Newport Barracks, and soon afterward to the command of St. Louis Arsenal. This was previous to the time when Gen. Lyon took the command. He was second in command at the surrender of the notorious rebel Claib. Jackson, when Gen. Lyon being disabled by a kick from his horse, the negotiations were conducted by Col. Sweeny. He was afterward appointed Brigadier General of the Three months Missouri volunteers. Previous to the battle of Wilson’s Creek, when it was decided not to attack the Rebel General Price, Gen. Sweeny was so impressed that a retreat would be worse than a defeat, that he prevailed on Gen. Lyon to make the attack. In that battle he was again wounded and still carries the ball in his leg. At the close of the battle, when Gen. Sturgis assumed command, Gen. Sweeny was urgent in following up the retreating rebels, believing that had it been done, they would have been compelled to surrender. Gen. Sweeny is as noble and generous as he is gentlemanly and brave. Devoted entirely to his adopted country, when the rebellion broke out he expressed himself in a letter to a friend: “I will, through flood and flame, sacrifice, if necessary, any remaining limb in defence of my country’s flag.” Such merit as his is not likely to be overlooked by the Government. – {Tribune.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Tuesday, April 15, 1862