SPECIAL ORDERS No. 8.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY
CORPS,
Mouth of Antietam
Creek, Md., September 28, 1862.
The following officers and enlisted men of this command have
been honorably mentioned in the official reports of the engagement on the 17th
instant, and their names are hereby published as a testimony to their gallant
and meritorious conduct in the field and for efficiency in their departments:
First Division — Capt. Robert A. Hutchins, assistant adjutant-general;
Lieutenants Brackett, James W. Romeyn, and Dearborn, aides-de-camp on General
Willcox's personal staff; Cols. B.C. Christ and Thomas Welsh, for the able
manner in which they handled their brigades; Capt. William T. Lusk, acting
assistant adjutant-general, of Colonel Christ's brigade; Lieut. Samuel N.
Benjamin, commanding Battery E, Second U. S. Artillery; Lieut. John N. Coffin
and Sergts. William Davis and Newall B. Allen, of the Eighth Massachusetts Battery.
Second Division — Capt. H. R. Mighels, assistant adjutant-general; Capt. C. H.
Hale, aide, and Capt. W. C. Rawolle, aide-decamp and ordnance officer, all of
General Sturgis' staff, for personal gallantry. Also Capt. N. Plato, assistant
quartermaster; Capt. F. E. Berier, commissary of subsistence, and Brigade Surg.
A. T. Watson, of General Sturgis' staff, for efficiency in their departments;
Captain Clark, Battery E, Fourth Artillery; Lieutenant Hinkle, aide-de-camp to
General Nagle, for activity and gallantry; Surgeon Reber, for devotion to his
duty; Orderly Sergt. C. F. Merkle, Company E, Fourth Artillery, for gallant
conduct and able handling of the battery after all the commissioned officers
were disabled. Third Division — Lieutenant-Colonel Kimball, commanding Ninth
New York Volunteers; Major Jardine, commanding Eighty-ninth New York
Volunteers, and Major Ringold, One hundred and third New York Volunteers, for
gallant conduct and able management of their commands. Kanawha Division-Lieuts.
R. P. Kennedy, acting assistant adjutant-general, and J. L. Botsford, acting
aide-de-camp, of Colonel Scammon's staff, for coolness and efficiency; Cols.
George Crook, commanding Second Brigade, and Hugh Ewing, commanding First
Brigade, for energy and skillful bravery; Lieutenants Furbay and Duffield,
Thirtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, acting as aides to Colonel Ewing,
and who were both killed; Lieut. Col. A. H. Coleman, commanding Eleventh
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, killed while gallantly leading his men;
Lieut. Col. J. D. Hines, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Color
Sergeants White and Carter, [Thirtieth Ohio Volunteers,] who were both killed,
and Corporals Howerth, Company D, and Buchanan, of Company C, of the same
regiment, for rescuing their regimental colors when the color-sergeants were
shot. The general commanding takes this opportunity to mention the gallant and
meritorious conduct of Capt. G. M. Bascom, assistant adjutant-general; Lieuts.
S. L. Christie, J. W. Conine, and Theodore Cox, aides-de-camp on his personal
staff; Brigade Surg. W. W. Holmes, for his thorough attention to the duties of
the medical department, in the prompt organization of hospitals and systematic
provision for the wounded; Surgeon Cutter, late medical director on General
Reno's staff, for energetic attention during the action to the disposal of the
wounded in the field; also to thank Capt. E. P. Fitch, assistant quartermaster
and acting commissary of subsistence, for unwearied labor, by night as well as
by day, in bringing forward supplies to the command under circumstances of
great difficulty; also to thank Mr. F. Cuthbert, a civilian and employé in the
quartermaster's department, for gallantry displayed in carrying dispatches and
orders upon the field. The ability and gallantry displayed by the division
commanders has already been noticed in the official report of the engagement.*
J. D. COX,
Brigadier-General,
Commanding.
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* See Vol. XIX, Part I, p. 423
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
51, Part 1 (Serial No. 107), p. 870-1
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