Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses MUSICIANS. » C. Drake, Colonel of the One Hundred and Twelfth New York, an officer conspicuous for gallant and meritorious service on many occasions. A similar instance is found in the Con federate Army in the case of Bishop Polk, a corps-general, who fell while on the Atlanta campaign. The musicians formed a numerous class among the non combatants. Although their legitimate duty in time of hattle was confined to that of stretcher-bearers, they often partic ipated in the fighting. At Shiloh, the hand of the Forty-eighth Ohio laid aside their instru ments, procured rifles, and went into the fight, where two of their numl>er were killed.* Still, it must l>e confessed that the dead drummer-hoy was not so common a feature on the field as might be inferred from the work of hattle-field artists. The frequent loss of life among the stretcher-bearers attests the faithful work of the men employed in that duty, most of whom were musicians. At the battle of the Weldon Railroad, the ambulance train of the Fifth Corps lost 2 sergeants killed and 0 stretcher-men wounded : 8 horses were killed, and shells passed through two of the ambulances. This was not an uncommon experience. • Major John A. Bering: History of the Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteers. _02530
