Monroe County Had Eight Medal of Honor Recipients-- Part 2

**  Private Frederick Ballen, of the 47th Ohio (Monroe County is right by the Michigan-Ohio border) volunteered to serve on a barge loaded with supplies that ran past Confederate batteries on the Mississippi River.

**  Sergeant Daniel  McGall was a member of Detroit's 17th Michigan Infantry.  At Spotsylvania, Virginia, on May 12, 1864,  he captured Confederate Colonel Barker and rescued a Union officer.

**  Private Henry Peters of the 47th Ohio Infantry served in the same action as Frederick Ballen.

**  While serving with the 5th New York Cavalry, Julius Rhodes had his horse shot out from under him at Thoroughfare Gap.  He then voluntarily joined the 105th New York and fought with them at Second Manassas, Virginia, serving gallantly.

**   Private Charles Sancrainte of the 15th Michigan Infantry captured the flag of the 5th Texas Infantry at the  Battle of Atlanta.

**  Peter Sype of the 47th Ohio was in the same action as Ballen and Peters.

--Old Secesh

MCCWRT Meeting: Henry Haupt-- Part 2: The Railroad Guy

**  Henry Haupt was Lincoln's railroad man.

**  He was appointed to the USMA at West Point at age 14 and graduated at age 18.  He graduated in July and resigned his commission in September.

**  At the Second Battle of Manassas, Union General Pope needed troops.  But the question was, where were those troops.  These troops were with General Samuel Davis Sturgiss.  He kept 10,000 troops out of the action.

**  Haupt knew how to use railroads in a wartime sitiation.  The United States Military Rail Road was formed to make sure the railroads could help the war effort.

**  He rose to prominence during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

**  He was especially good at building bridges, including the 400 foot long, 100 foot-high trestle over the Potomac Creek in Virginia.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia-- Part 3: Seven Days, Second Manassas and Antietam

June 25 to July 1, 1862  Seven Days Battles

June 25:  King's School House (Oak Grove)   The regiment lost ten men killed and 77 wounded.

July 1:  Battle of Malvern Hill   Colonel Harris was again wounded.  Lieutenant Samuel Smythe of Company A and Lieutenant Alexander Campbell of Company C were killed.

August 28-30:  Second Battle of  Manassas (Bull Run):  The regiment lost 13 killed and 50 wounded.  Captain Joseph T. Albert of Company K was killed.  Lieutenant  S.B. Treadaway of Company G was mortally wounded.

September 12-15   Siege of Harpers Ferry

September 17:  The Battle of Antietam   The regiment crossed the Potomac River at Blackford's Ford and marched north through the fields to the west of the town of Sharpsburg and took position on the far eastern flank of the Sunken Road.  The regiment may have had only 60 men on the field due to casualties and straggling.

Colonel Robert H. Jones took over the brigade as senior officer when General Wright was wounded, but was shot in the stomach and lung.  Major Lawrence D. Lallerstedt took over the regiment, but was himself wounded.  Neither Jones not Lallerstedt would return to command.

Captain W.F. Jones of Company  G was mortally wounded and captured.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry

This was Lt. William H. Nesbit and Private Albert C. Nesbit's regiment.

 From research online.

This regiment was formed from Schley, Glascock, Bartow, Lincoln,  Washington, Dawson and Henry counties.  Company E, to which they belonged, was formed from Forsyth and Milton counties.

The regiment lost 10 killed and 77 wounded at Oak Grove,

6 killed and 32 wounded and 18 wounded at Malvern Hill,

13 killed and 50 wounded at Second Manassas.

There were 400 engaged at Gettysburg and more than 40% were disabled, including William Nesbit.

It sustained  25 casualties  in the retreat from Pennsylvania and 50 at Manassas Gap.

It surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865 with nine officers and 197 men.

This regiment was in the thick of it.

--Old Secesh

This Month in the Civil War: Mobile Bay, Wilson's Creek, Fort Sumter, Quantrill's Raid and Second Manassas

From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.

AUGUST 5, 1864

**  Battle of Mobile Bay

AUGUST 9, 1862

**  Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia

AUGUST 10, 1861

**  Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri

AUGUST 17, 1863

**  Federals begin the great bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolna.

AUGUST 21, 1863

**  Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas

AUGUST 25, 1862

**  Second Battle of Reams Station, Virginia

AUGUST 28, 1862

**  Second Battle of Manassas, Virginia, begins.

AUGUST 29, 1862

**  Battle of Richmond, Kentucky begins.

--Old Secesh

Lawson Botts, Col. of 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment

From Civil War Scholars.com.  2nd Va. Inf. Regt..

Born 7/25/25 at Fredericksburg.

Attended V.M.I. 1841.  Lawyer in Charles Town.  Married Sarah Elizabeth Bibb Ranson, 1851.

Defense attorney for John Brown during the early stages of Brown's trial.Commissioned captain of Bott's Greys, prewar militia Co. from Charles Town, 11/4/1859.

Captain Co. G. 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry 5/31/1861. (This was William Beall's company.)

To Major 6/12/1861.  To Lt.Col. 9/11/61.  To Colonel 6/27/1862.

Provost Marshall at Winchester, Nov.-Dec. 1861.

Mortally Wounded In Action (MSIA) at 2nd Manassas 8/28/1862.  William Beall also captured here.

Died 9/16/62 at Middleburg.

Buried Zion Episcopal  Cemetery, Charles Town, West Virginia.

--Old Secesh

George E. Albee-- Part 1: A Long and Varied Military Career and Medal of Honor Recipient

From Wikipedia.  After the last two days' posts, I decided to look up George Albee to see if there was anything else about him.  There was.  He was the one who took it upon himself to mark the position of his company of Berdan's Sharpshooters at the Second Battle of Bull Run, or do you say Manassas?

GEORGE EMERSON ALBEE  January 27, 1845 to March 24, 1918.

Officer in the U.S. Army who received a Medal of Honor for his actions in the Indian Wars.  During the Civil war, he fought with Berdan's Sharpshooters, the Wisconsin Light Artillery, the U.S. Colored Troops and the Regular U.S. Army.

George Albee was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, on January 27, 1845, and died March 24, 1918, in Laurel, Maryland and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 2, Lot  850.  His wife, Mary Hawes Albee(848-1907) is buried with him

Albee enlisted in Co. G (Wisconsin) of Berdan's sharpshooters in June 1862.  After two months in the field, he was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run and discharged for disability while he was convalescing.

But, His Military Career Wasn't Over Yet.  Not By A Long Shot.  --Old Secesh

Marking His Spot-- Part 2: What His Sign Said

These are the words on George Albee's sign:

"THE WISCONSIN COMPANY
1st REGIMENT of BERDANS
U.S. SHARPSHOOTERS

used many cartridges on this
spot, August 30, 1862-losing
1 man killed and 8 wounded.

Position marked by Geo. E. Albee, a private of the company."

An early history marker.

--Old Secesh

Marking His Spot-- Part 1: Hot Fight at Second Battle of Bull Run

From the July 2019 America's Civil War "One Shot, One Kill" by Doug Wicklund and Michael G. William.  It was one man's need to mark his spot at the Second Battle of Bull Run that led to a sign on that battlefield that still exists.

At the battle, Berdan's Sharpshooters rushed into an open field ahead of the main assault on Stonewall Jackson's troops at the Deep Cut.  They managed to repel skirmishers, which caused Jackson's men to open fire from the trace of an unfinished railroad.

George Albee of Company G, 1st Regt.of Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters was wounded during this action, but returned after the war to place a signboard on a tall cedar post to mark his company's location during the fight.  That pole has been replaced  several times over the years, but a sign still occupies the same spot at the Manassas National Battlefield Park.

--Old Secesh

William Beall-- Part 2: Captured At 2nd Manassas

Co. G, 2nd Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade, Johnson's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA.

Enlisted 6/8/1861 at Bolivar Heights, Virginia.  On 9/8/1861 he mustered in as a private in Co. G., 2nd Virginia.

Absent sick 10/3/1861.

POW 8/27/1862 in 2nd Battle of Manassas, Va.;  Exchanged 11/20/1862; granted Medical Furlough.

--Old Secesh

Timeline: Saving Civil War Battlefields-- Part 1: Two Wins

From the Fall 2012 Preservation Magazine by Laura Wainman.

1994: Walt Disney Company ends the "Third Manassas" battle by withdrawing its proposal to build a $650 million history-themed park. Disney's America, less than four miles from Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

1996: More than 100 years after the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War, the race to turn the land where it was waged into a Formula One race track ends, leaving Brandy Station, Virginia, intact.

--Old Secesh

The 21st Georgia Infantry-- Part 1

From the e-enactment group's website.

Since I have been writing about Confederate Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Glover and his wife, Elizabeth Camp Glover, who is credited for having the very first Confederate reunion in 1867. Her husband served in the 21st Georgia and it was their reunion. I was unfamiliar with this regiment and quite impressed with what I found out about them. This was one of the Confederacy's best fighting groups.

The 21st Georgia was mustered into Confederate service from June to August 1861 and came from counties surrounding Atlanta westward to the Alabama border. They were transported to Virginia and took part in Stonewall Jackson's famous Valley Campaign in 1862. In June they were back at Richmond and were in the Seven Days' Battles under Robert E. Lee.

At Second Manassas, they captured the Union depot and at one point ran out of ammunition and resoted to throwing rocks. They suffered 76% casualties at this battle.

More to Come. --Old Secesh