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Horace Greeley Stone Bro. Stone was born 29 May 1849 at Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana. He enlisted as a private in Company F, 133rd Infantry*, Indiana Volunteers, 9 May 1864, being discharged 5 Sep 1864. He moved to Syracuse in 1868, and in 1871 established himself in the dry goods business which he continued until his death, being at that time the oldest merchant continuously doing business under his own name. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church during his residence in Syracuse. He was listed at 410 University Avenue in 1917. * Following is almost the entire regimental history of the Indiana 133rd Infantry according to Dyer: "Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in 17 May 1864. Ordered to Tennessee and assigned to duty at Bridgeport, Ala., and as Railroad Guard, Dept. of the Cumberland, till September. Mustered out 5 Sep 1864." http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CIVIL-WAR/1998-01/0885414378 Masonic Record: 27 Jun 1877 Master Mason in Syracuse Lodge No. 501; served as JD 1896; SW 1908-09; Master in 1910-11. Member No. 486. 1911 Grand Sword Bearer 1888 Central City Chapter No. 70, RAM; Master of the Second Veil, 1893-94; Captain of the Host, 1896-97; Scribe, 1898. 19 Jun 1889 Central City Council No. 13, R&SM; Captain of the Guard, 1888-98; Principal Conductor, 1894; Deputy Master 1895-01. 15 Feb 1889 Central City Commandery No. 25, KT; First Guard, 1890-91; Standard Bearer, 1892; Captain General, 1893-94; Generalissimo, 1895-96; Eminent Commander, 1897-98. 1902-04 Representative of the Grand Commandery of Colorado, near the Grand Commandery of New York 21 Jan 1889 Degrees of the Scottish Rite in Central City Lodge of Perfection; JGW, 1890-91; SGW, 1892; Thrice Potent Master, 1893-95 11 Feb 1889 Central City Council of Princes of Jerusalem; JGW, 1892-95 18 Feb 1889 Central City Chapter of Rose Croix; JW, 1890-92; SW, 1893-95; Most Wise Master, 1896 29 Mar 1889 Central City Consistory; 2nd Lt. Commander; 1893-95; 1st Lt. Com., 1896-98; Commander-in-Chief, 1899-01. 1895 Council of Deliberation of New York; 1st Lt. Commander 17 Sep 1895 Crowned an Honorary Member, 33o, Supreme Council, AASR, NMJ, at Buffalo, NY 27 Sep 1898 Admitted a member of the Masonic Veterans Association of Central New York He entered into rest on 30 Jan 1920 after a severe illness of several years, but his mental faculties were alert until a few days before his death. Family and siblings of Bro. Stone: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=1416046&frompage=99 William Robinson STONE Father of Bro. Horace G. Stone Born: 17 Jan 1817 Mercer City, KY; Died: 1 Jul 1889 Poland, Clay, IN Married: 3 Nov 1841Poland, Clay, IN Father: Enoch STONE; Mother: Mary ‘Polly’ Thomas DENNY Wife: Lucinda Ann DUCKWORTH Born: 1 Aug 1823 Washington City, IN; Died: 24 May 1901Poland, Clay, IN; Buried: 26 May 1901 Poland, Clay, IN; Married: 3 Nov 1841Poland, Clay, IN; Father: John R. DUCKWORTH; Mother: Sarah SELLARS Children: 1. Lucinda STONE Born: 1843 Putnam, IN 2. Sarah Elizabeth STONE Born: 3 Jan 1851 Manhattan, Putnam, IN; Died: 25 May 1902 Poland, Clay, Indiana 3. Mary Sophronia STONE Born: 5 Oct 1856 Manhattan, Putnam, IN; Died: 12 Aug 1919 Fort Wayne, Allen, IN Buried: 14 Aug 1919 Poland, Clay, IN 4. Marvin Cowgill STONE Born: 1 Apr 1842 Manhattan, Putnam, IN 5. Horace Greeley STONE Born: 22 May 1849 Manhattan, Putnam, IN 6. Louis Preston STONE Born: 1 Dec 1844 Manhattan, Putnam, IN; Died: 1 Jan 1921 7. Emily Jane STONE Born: 23 Dec 1846 Manhattan, Putnam, IN; Died: 30 Jun 1906 Grandfather: Enoch Stone (b. 20 Jun 1787, Mercer Co., KY; d. 6 Jun 1871, Putnam Co., IN) who married Mary Thomas Denny, 20 Sep 1810. Mary "Polly" Thomas DENNY was born on 21 Jan 1795 in Mercer, KY. She Died on 2 Jul 1832 in Putnam Co., IN. Buried on 5 Jul 1832 in Enoch Stone Cemetery. She married Enoch STONE on 21 Sep 1810 in Mercer County, KY. Enoch STONE was born on 20 Sep 1787 in Mercer County, KY. Ref: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/DENNEY/1998-02/0887860170 Died on 6 Jun 1871 in Putnam County, IN. They had the following children: i. Rachel Thomas STONE ii. William Robinson STONE iii. Mary Jane STONE iv. Sara Denny STONE Gr Grandfather: James Stone (b. ca 1755-60, Fauquier, VA; d. 1826, Mercer, KY) and Jane Ellis (m. 25 Dec 1781) Horace m. Married Ella Finnell (Ellen Fennell) “Encyclopedia of Biography of New York,” by Charles Elliott Fitch. 1916. page 41-42. http://books.google.com/books?id=8CoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=%22Henry+Alexander+MacGruer%22&source=web&ots=MtW5Nu20Nd&sig=3Pry8Ytm2S_J35_2ZaEWlMW8aqo&hl=en#PPA42,M1 Walter R. Stone, (son of Horace Greeley Stone) - Merchant, Public Official. The November elections, 1915, put Walter R. Stone into the mayor's chair by the largest majority ever recorded for a candidate in any municipal election held in the city of Syracuse. This honor came to Mr. Stone, not as a partisan, but in recognition of his twenty years' active interest and useful cooperation in the public and semi-public affairs of the city to which he was brought an infant. His record as president of the park commission included the establishment of playgrounds and a vast improvement as well as extension of the park system ; as a purveyor to the amusements of the people he aided in the organizations of the "Mystique Krewe," served as its first treasurer and still continues his active interest, and was one of the kings of the carnival ; to the business interests of the city he had contributed fifteen years of active work in the Chamber of Commerce, while to the voters-at-large he was known as a Republican, but one with strong independent tendencies, not as a politician. To this and his sterling manly qualities he adds a personality most pleasing, and with such an equipment he went forth to contest for election to the chief executive office in his city. The response was most gratifying to him, and as he is yet but hardly in life's prime, it is not the culmination of a career, but an incident. Mayor Stone was not born in Syracuse, but his parents were residents of the city, at that time but temporarily absent. They returned to Syracuse when their son was six weeks old and from that time his years, forty-four, have been spent in the city of which he is now the executive head. He is an enthusiast where Syracuse and her interests are concerned and in his duties as mayor he renders a correspondingly devoted service.
Church, of the Citizens' Club and Masonic Temple, having attained the thirty-third degree in the Masonic order. He married, 4 Oct 1868, at Greencastle, Indiana, Ellen Fennell, who bore him two children: Walter R. and Mabel E. Walter R. Stone obtained his early and preparatory education in the public schools of Syracuse, completing courses of study at the Madison School and graduating from high school. He then entered Amherst College in the class of 1895. On completing his college course the young man became associated with his father, Horace G. Stone, in the dry goods business, and has so continued. During the years since 1895 he has not only been diligent in business and a worthy, energetic man of affairs, but has manifested a public spirit that has impelled him to active participation in public affairs. For several years he was a member of the Syracuse Park Commission and served in that body as secretary, later as president. When first appointed to the commission there was little sentiment in favor of public playgrounds, but Mr. Stone brought the subject prominently before the body of which he was a member and was one of the strongest advocates among the pioneers in a movement now so popular For fifteen years Mr. Stone has been an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, ranking with the "workers" of that organization. For several years he has been a member of the board of directors, also filling the office of treasurer for several years. He has given liberally of his time to the work of the Chamber and as chairman and member of important committees rendered efficient and valuable service. During the winter of 1913- 14, he was appointed by Mayor Will a member of the committee on unemployment, a work to which he devoted himself most unselfishly. In political faith Mr. Stone has been consistently Republican, but extremely independent in political thought and action. He was one of the incorporators of the Syracuse Escort, a famous Republican club founded in 1864 and incorporated about 1902. For two terms Mr. Stone was president of the "Escort" and has long been a member of its board of directors. He served as a member of the Republican county committee from the seventeenth ward, and for two years was treasurer of the committee. Until his canvass for the mayoralty in 1915 he never sought a public office, those he had held were by appointment, without solicitation, and carried no salary. Louis Will, the Progressive candidate, was elected mayor of Syracuse in 1913 in a triangular contest, but in 1915 Republicans and Progressives united, the Progressive city committee endorsing the candidate of the Republican convention, Walter R. Stone. His victory at the polls was most complete, the returns showing majorities in every ward in the city and in eighty-three out of eighty-six election districts. Mr. Stone's plurality was nine thousand six hundred and ten, he receiving eighteen thousand and seventy-four votes against eight thousand four hundred and sixty-four for his Democratic opponent. Mayor Stone is identified with many social and fraternal organizations; is a past commander of Merriman Camp, Sons of Veterans; was a trustee of the First Baptist Church, belongs to the Citizens' and Rotary clubs, and is interested in the philanthropy of his city. Walter R. Stone married Alice M. Palmer, of Syracuse, daughter of Manning C. Palmer, and has two daughters: Alice and Ellen. Stone, Lyman S., x, Bunting, 655 b. 1845, d. 12 Jul 1912; bur. Kensico Cemetery; lived 3410 West 131st Street; m. Anna ____; member of Alexander Hamilton Post No. 182, G.A.R.; President of New York City Christian Endeavor Union. Stone, Robert, x, Jerusalem Temple, 721 Stone, Samuel F., (Capt.) 86th Infantry Steuben's Rangers, Union, 95 Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia, page 184. www.nps.gov/frsp/upload/Roster--Revised.doc (2003) Stone, Samuel F. Captain. Co. H, 86 NY. Age - 24. Prior service in 3 U.S. Art. Enlisted at Fort McHenry, MD for three years. Mustered in as a Sergeant 10 Nov., 1861. Mustered in as a First Lieutenant 31 Dec, 1863 and as Captain 15 Feb., 1864. Killed in action 10 May, 1864 at the Po River (SR). Originally buried at McCoull's Farm, Spotsylvania. http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/86thInf/86thInfHistSketch.htm The survivors who participated in the trials and hardships of those eventful days will remember the desperate fighting at the Brock Road and Po River, in which our regiment had a fierce encounter with the enemy at close quarters, hand-to-hand. We lost 32 men killed, and had a large number wounded. In that engagement every member of our color guard was either killed or wounded, and it was the good fortune of the writer to be able to carry the colors from the field and to save them from capture by the Rebels. The regiment went into the engagement with 300 men, of which number 150 were numbered among the killed, wounded, or missing . . . Capt. Samuel Stone was killed the same day at Alsop's Farm, where Capt. Vincent was severely wounded. Stoneman, G. A., (Sergt.), Urania, 810 .Stout, Charles W., x, City, 408 Stout, Isaac H., Engineer Corps, Lodi, 345 http://books.google.com/books?id=bKMAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262&dq=%22Isaac+H.+stout%22&lr= page 262. 
“American Education,” by Boston University School of Education, 1903. page 229. http://books.google.com/books?id=KggCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&dq=%22Isaac+H.+stout%22 THE recent death of Dr. Isaac H. Stout cast a gloom over the State Department of Public Instruction in whose service he had been a faithful and progressive worker since 1887. His popularity extended throughout the State, into every county where the duties of his office called him. His influence was felt wherever he went , as his geniality, kindly spirit, and helpful sympathy endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and in the teaching profession perhaps none was more universally beloved. As an indication of the love with which he was regarded by his associates, memorial exercises were held at the office of the state department, Nov. 23. Superintendent Skinner presiding. Speeches in eulogy of Dr. Stout were made by Henry R. Sanford of Penn Yan, the institute conductor longest in the service of the state, and Charles H. Howell of Riverhead, Suffolk county, the oldest school commissioner of the state in point of service. The following made brief remarks: Deputy Superintendent Ainsworth, Miss Anna E. Friedman of Buffalo, institute instructor: Percy I. Bugbee, A. M., D. Sc., principal of the Oneonta Normal school, and Miss Gracia L. Rice, supervisor of drawing of the Teachers' Institute and daughter of former State Superintendent Rice. Letters and telegrams were received from Dr. M. B. Reinick of Geneva, pastor of Dr. Stout's church; Andrew S. Draper, president of the Illinois state college, and from the president and faculty of Hobart college. During the exercises Superintendent Skinner delivered an impressive tribute, manifesting his warm personal regard for Dr. Stout, concluding as follows: "Close association with him gave a new meaning to friendship. He was so genuine, so loyal, so strong, so brave; always so ready to receive everybody and to give abundantly of his ripe counsel, founded upon long experience, and that helpful sympathy which goes so far to make life useful and happy. It is hard to lose such a friend. He was so well-fitted to live, and work and help ! In the faithful performance of his duty he carried out the impulse of his heart. He often told his associates that it was one's duty always to help the weak; that the strong could better take care of themselves. "The educational work of the state has lost one of its most generous, diligent and faithful laborers, against whom I have never known an unkind word to be said. We who knew him so well have met with a loss which others cannot understand. He lived such a beautiful life, may we not feel that when he left this life of activity and usefulness for that other world which awaits us all his influence illumined not only the life he left, but also the glorious one into which he has entered." Dr. Stout was born in Geneva, in 1845. He was educated at the Geneva Classical and Union school, going from there to Groton seminary. His teaching experience began at Lodi, where he remained until the outbreak of the civil war when he went to the front, serving in the engineering corps. After the war he became a surveyor in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad company. Later he again became a teacher. He was principal of Dundee academy for several years, leaving that place to accept a similar position in the high school at Farmer. While principal of that school he was elected school commissioner of Seneca county. He resigned the office of school commissioner in 1887 at the time of his appointment by State Superintendent Draper as an institute conductor in the state department of public instruction. From the time of his appointment in 1887 until 1898 he served as an institute conductor and at once became recognized as one of the strongest men engaged in the public school work of the state. In 1898 he was appointed supervisor of teachers' institutes in the state department of public instruction, which position he held at the time of his death. Both Hamilton college and Hobart college conferred upon him the degree of master of arts, and from Alfred university he received the degree of LL.D. Stout, Hiram, 1st NY Artillery, Lodi, 345 b. 29 Jun 1834; d. 14 May 1914 in Lodi, Seneca Co., NY Served as a private in the Civil War with the 148th NY Volunteers, Company E.
STOWELL, MERRICK.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, May 1, 1861, at Oswego, to serve two years; mustered in as private, Co. B, May 17, 1861; promoted corporal, December 15, 1861; first sergeant, January 1, 1863; mustered out with company, May 29, 1863, at Elmira, N. Y. Oswego County Judge, 1899; delegate to New York state constitutional convention 35th District, 1915.
Merrick Stowell. County Judge of Oswego county, was born in the town of Scriba on 3 Oct 1838. His father was Shubael W. STOWELL, a native of Jefferson county, NY. Merrick STOWELL, at the age of thirteen, commenced to earn his own livelihood by working as a boatman upon the New York State canals, which occupation he followed continuously for seven years – the first three as a canal driver, the remaining four in other positions. His principal ambition at that early age was to acquire a liberal education. He attended the country district schools winters; afterward the district schools of Oswego, and the excellent High School of the city, where by his naturally studious habits and retentive memory he fitted himself for a teacher. He had already spent two years in this vocation before graduating from the High School in 1860, thus securing the necessary means to carry out his cherished plan of going through college. But the outbreak of the great civil war, which changed the current of so many men’s lives, found a ready response in the young man’s breast, and he shouldered a musket as a private in the gallant Twenty-fourth Regiment, gave his country two years of faithful service and returned with the rank of sergeant. The record of the Twenty-fourth Regiment is elsewhere given in this work, and in its varied struggles Mr. Stowell bore his honorable part. Returning to Oswego at the close of his term of service, he resumed teaching for two years, regretfully abandoning his desire for a collegiate education. The following six years were passed by him as bookkeeper in the Lake Ontario Bank, succeeded by six years in the same capacity for a large lumber firm. Finding himself now in circumstances that justified his engaging in business on his own account, he joined with Charles W. SMITH to form the firm of Smith & Stowell, lumber dealers, which connection continued three years to 1876. Leaving the lumber business Mr. Stowell became associated with Messrs. Cheney AMES and Coman C. AMES in the grain and milling industry, which continued three years, which brought to a close his connection with trade and manufacturing. In politics he has always been an earnest Republican, and before the year last named had become well known in the local councils of the party, where his knowledge of the field and grasp of the situation when important issues were at stake, gave him deserved prominence. His official life began with three terms as school commissioner. In the fall of 1879 he was given the nomination for the office of county clerk, was elected by a handsome majority and served three years, 1880-82. Meanwhile in consonance with his natural liking and his more recent associations, he began studying law in 1878 with B. F. CHASE, now of the city of Chicago. In the spring of 1883 he was admitted to the bar at Rochester and opened an office in Oswego. His practice was commensurate in extent with his expectations and his success gratifying to himself and his friends. In the fall of 1887 he was nominated and elected district attorney, in which office he served three years to the satisfaction of the bar and the people of the county; receiving a renomination, he was, in the uncertainty that often prevails in local politics, defeated. Resuming his practice he continued until the fall of 1892 when he was further honored by his fellow citizens with the nomination and election to the office of county judge, in which he is now serving his third year, with marked favor. The professional career of Judge Stowell is one of the seldom occurring examples of success following the beginning of an entirely new calling in middle life. He was forty years old when he began the study of the law, and it was five years later before he was admitted to practice. Within the succeeding ten years he had risen to the highest county judicial office. While this result may, perhaps, be creditable to some extent to the fact of his having rendered valuable military and political services, it is nevertheless true that it is far more largely due to his exceptional fitness for the office; the qualifications acquired through the most energetic, persistent, and unflagging study, with such other fitting attributes as are his by nature. If he is not classed among the more brilliant lawyers whose greatest success is attained through eloquence before court and jury, Judge Stowell is accorded the confidence of his professional associates in his knowledge of the law, his fairness and impartiality as a judge, while as a man he is esteemed by the entire community. He is a member of the Congregational church of Oswego, and is ever found ready to turn his hand to good works. Judge Stowell married in 1863 Melinda W. EVERTS, of Mexico, daughter of Frederick EVERTS. They have four children, one son and three daughters, all of whom are living. Stowell, Rufus R., 148th Infantry Union, 95 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~twintiers/sket10.html Rufus R. Stowell born in Elmira NY, May 18, 1838, was educated in the Elmira Academy. Mr. Stowell was in the mercantile pursuits, and conducted a first class grocery on the south side. August l6, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and forty eighth Infantry New York Volunteers. He was several times wounded, once in the battle of Cold Harbor, and in the left knee at Gaines' Farm, June 2d and 3d, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. December 20 1868, he married Mary Ann Breese, youngest daughter of John and Mary Breese of Horseheads. They had six children John S., Harry C., Mary Elizabeth, Edgar S., Ralph C., and Grace A. Mr. Stowells father, Abel was born in Worcester, Mass, in 1806, and married Elizabeth Stronger. They came to Binghamton about 1830. They had nine children of whom these were living: Charles. M., Rachel R., Rufus R, William H. John E., and Henry C.
b. 7 Sep 1840 at South Oxford, N.Y; carriage maker; son of William Frink Stratton and Maria Symonds; m. 30 Apr 1867 Margaret Sheffer. 4 children. http://books.google.com/books?ct=result&id=mBRWAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Whitman+stratton%22&ots=d75Xzv9can&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&q=1328#PPA115,M1 William served three years in Company E, 89th NY Infantry; Private, enlisted 16, Sept. 1861, discharged as Sergeant, 6 Oct 1864 at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Took part in over 20 battles and skirmishes Antietam, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. His brother Avery b. Mar. 31, 1844; m. Louisa A. Wood, Aug. 27, 1864. Served in Navy, 1862-3, on U. S. Frigate Potomac, and other vessels at Pensacola and Arkansas Pass, and took part in battle of Galveston; discharged on account of health, Aug. 26, 1863; d. Sept. 3, 1865. Streeter, Buel G., Medical Director Army of the Shenandoah, Senate, 456 Dr. Buel G. Streeter was graduated at the Medical College at Castleton, Vt., in 1853, and located at Granville, Washington county, NY. He took an active part in the Rebellion, and filled a number of prominent medical and surgical positions. After the war he came to Glens Falls. He died 24 Jul 1900, Glens Falls, NY, age 68. Examining Surgeon for Pensioners 1885-1900. History of Warren County, H. P. Smith, Chapter XXIII: The Medical Profession http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywarren/countyhistory/smith/xxiii.htm#Buel_Goodset_Streeter page 324-327. Buel Goodset Streeter was born 25th July, 1832, at Warsaw, Wyoming, NY. His father's name was Joab Streeter. His mother's name was Sophia Wheat. His father was a Methodist preacher. He was one of Bishop Philip Embury's first class of converts in Hampton, Washington county. He began preaching when he was about twenty years of age; first at home as a local preacher, from which he moved to the tract called "The Holland Purchase," about the year 1828, and filled the position of traveling preacher until the time of his death which occurred in 1868, at Carlton, Orleans, NY, aged 72. The subject of this sketch at the time of his mother's death, which occurred when he was nine years old, was thrown as a waif upon the mercies of a heartless world - thenceforth destined to carve out his own career, working as a chore-boy wherever he could get a job of work and receiving such chance advantages as were to be obtained by an irregular attendance upon the public schools until he was sixteen years of age, when for two winters he became a teacher himself. He all this time lived in and about Warsaw. When eighteen years of age (1850) he moved to West Poultney, Vt., where he entered the Troy Conference Academy, where he remained for a year, and at the same time commenced and prosecuted the study of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. Wm. H. Miller, a young physician of promise and ability, who had then but recently settled there, and who afterward completed his life work at Sandy Hill, NY, where he died about the year 1873. In 1852 he entered Castleton Medical College, from whence he graduated at the end of a second term, 4 Nov 1853. He was married soon after to Lizana Hotchkiss, daughter of Captain Hiram Hotchkiss, of Hampton, Washington county. He embarked in the practice of medicine in Hampton, where he remained until about the year 1858 when he moved to Granville (Bishop's Corners), and resumed the general practice of his profession. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, moved by the same patriotic impulses which actuated so many of the brave and daring spirits of the North, he tendered his services and was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Ninth NY Cavalry, 25 Jun 1862. His command was attached to Siegel's celebrated corps, then operating in front of the defenses of Washington, and was in action at the battle of Cedar Mountain and the second battle of Bull Run. The ensuing fall Siegel's command was turned over to the Army of the Potomac, and constituted the Eleventh Corps under the command of General O. O. Howard. During this period, preceding Burnside's famous "mud march," the Ninth Cavalry was detached and incorporated with other regiments of that arm of the service into the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac under the command of Major General George Stoneman. During this period the battle of Chancellorsville occurred, in which this brigade was a participant, acting as provost guard, the remainder of the corps being detached on a raid to the rear of the rebel lines. General Stoneman was superseded soon afterward by Major General Alfred Pleasanton, under whose leadership the subject of this sketch was promoted to the position of surgeon, and transferred to the Fourth NY Cavalry in the same brigade. On 9 Jun 1863, the entire corps was ordered to make a reconnaissance in force across the Rappahannock from the vicinity of Stafford C. H., and in discharging that duty struck the right flank of the rebel army under General Lee at Brandy Station, where a severe all-day action occurred, resulting in being driven back across the Rappahannock, two heavy skirmishes having taken place previously at Beverly's and Kelly's Fords. From opposite Brandy Station - the two armies moving in parallel lines down the Shenandoah Valley, and a spur of the Blue Ridge - the corps was ordered to make a reconnaissance through Ashby's Gap to determine the enemy's strength and location; here at Aldie on the 17th the corps encountered a division of Jeb Stuart's cavalry and had a severe engagement in which the colonel, Louis P. Di Cesnola, was wounded and taken prisoner. The rebels were driven through and beyond Middleburg on the Little Valley Pike where they remained until the 19th, the interval being devoted to bringing up the supplies and caring for the wounded; then moving forward encountered the enemy again a little beyond the town where another severe action took place, resulting in again driving the enemy. On the 21st another encounter took place at Upperville, which resulted in the dispersion of the enemy in the direction of their main army. During these various actions, casualties to the number of several hundred occurred which kept the medical force in general, and Dr. Streeter in particular, in active employment, engaged in amputations and superintending the removal of the wounded. Here it was definitely ascertained that the enemy had determined upon invading the Union territory, and the cavalry corps, acting as an army of observation, retired slowly before the enemy's advance until the famous battle-field of Gettysburg was reached, when the division of General Gregg, in which the Fourth NY Cavalry was included, was stationed to guard the right flank of the Union army and protect the immense trains of supplies and stores in the rear. After the defeat of the rebels at Gettysburg this division was dispatched in pursuit of the retreating army, with the rear guard of which they had an active engagement at Falling Waters. From this time forth Dr. Streeter's regiment participated in all the active movements of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac until the close of the campaign and then went into winter quarters at Culpepper Court House. In the following May, 1864, the Army of the Potomac, being under the leadership of General Grant, and the command of the cavalry having been transferred to General Sheridan, this force crossed the Rapidan at Germania Ford and participated in the series of engagements known in history as the battle of the Wilderness. After the action of Todd's Tavern (one of the series), Dr. Streeter was ordered to take a large ambulance train of wounded and medical supplies and establish a hospital for the care of the wounded and sick of the cavalry corps, numbering about 2,000. Of this he had charge from two to three weeks, his time being fully occupied in the cares and duties devolving upon so important a responsibility. At the end of this period the hospital was broken up and the sick and wounded placed on transports and sent to Washington, the doctor being ordered to rejoin his regiment, which he found stationed at Whitehouse Landing. Crossing the James River with his regiment, he remained with the Army of the Potomac until Washington was again threatened by the invasion of Early from the valley, when two divisions of the cavalry (including the doctor's brigade) were dispatched to the relief of the national capital, under the command of General Sheridan, whose name is now a household word in every hamlet of the North. The enemy speedily retired up the valley followed sharply by Sheridan's troopers, and in a sanguinary engagement at Newton, something like 200 men being wounded, the doctor was ordered to remove the disabled and wounded to Winchester and thence to Washington so soon as the railroad, which had been torn up by the vicissitudes of war, was reconstructed, he was afterward ordered to rejoin his regiment. In this attempt, after having discharged the duty assigned him, he was captured by Mosby's guerilla band near Kernstown, four miles above Winchester. He was sent to Richmond and confined in Libby prison for twelve days, and was finally released through the kindness and intervention of Captain Semple, of the rebel army and inspector of rebel prisons, who had previously, when wounded and a prisoner, received many kindnesses and attentions at the hands of the doctor, and through his agency and instrumentality the latter was released unconditionally and sent forward to the Union lines, reaching his regiment at Charleston Heights on 12 Sep 1864. Here the doctor resigned his commission as regimental surgeon to accept the position of acting staff-surgeon of the U. S. army, having a commission from the general government, and was at once assigned to duty as surgeon-in-chief of Powell's Division of Cavalry, in the cavalry corps of the Shenandoah Valley. On the 15 Nov 1864 he was assigned to duty as medical director of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Shenandoah; on 10 Jan following he was assigned to duty as medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah, in which capacity he served until 1 Jul, 1865, when he with the army was mustered out by general orders, and he returned to his home at Granville, where he remained in practice until 1 Apr 1867, when he removed to Glens Falls. He was elected coroner two terms, and served as trustee of School District No. 2 from 1872 to 1881, when, upon the consolidation of five of the village districts into the Union Free School No. 1, of Glens Falls, he was elected one of the board of directors. The doctor felt justly proud of his relations to our public schools, and had, during his extended term of service, proved an energetic, faithful, and efficient officer. Upon the organization in January last, in Glens Falls, of a board for the examination of pension claimants, he was appointed a member and elected treasurer of the same. In his profession, the doctor earned a wide-spread reputation as a skillful surgeon and successful practitioner of medicine. He was in the prime and vigor of an active manhood, and gave promise of many coming years of activity and usefulness. Stringham, Irving A., Lt., Windsor, 442 b. 20 Jul 1839; d. 7 Jul 1901 Strong, Josiah C., 6th Cavalry (Artillery), Candor, 411 STRONG, JOSIAH C.— Age, 36 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1864, at Candor; mustered in as private, unassigned, September 3, 1864, to serve one year; no further record. Struble, Hanford, (Lieut.) 148th NY Inf Vols, Dundee, 123 http://books.google.com/books?id=OYoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=%22Hanford+struble%22&source=web&ots=zt5heh9lQp&sig=tgKFWiOdQkyQCPqSoWgSH3OuZQY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA292,M1 page 292. also: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/yates/biofam/biotreeS.htm Mr. STRUBLE is an able and prominent lawyer of Yates county, and a young man of more than ordinary ability. He is also a gentlemen of fine presence, and few would meet him casually without bestowing upon him an involuntary second glance. Physically, he is a fine specimen of manhood. Deep-set and piercing black eyes, an ample moustache and a wealth of flowing black hair, serve to adorn a remarkably well-shaped head, every characteristic of which denotes force of character and a high degree of intellectual power. As an orator, Mr. STRUBLE has few, if any, superiors on the floor of the Assembly. To a deliberate and impressive style of delivery and a happy facility in the choice of language is united a deep and musical voice, whose tones penetrate every corner of the chamber, enabling him to command the attention of all within hearing. He does not often address the House, but when he does, his words are worthy of attention. Mr. STRUBLE was born in Milo, Yates county, on the 14th of May, 1842, the eldest of three children born to Levi and Mary (MISNER) STRUBLE. He was also the grandchild of Adam and Mary (DEAN) STRUBLE, pioneers of Milo. The young life of our subject was spent on the farm, and in the common schools of the town. He received his preliminary education in Starkey seminary from 1853 to 1857. Afterward he entered Genesee college, from which he graduated with honor in the class of 1861. For some time subsequently he followed teaching, being, in 1861 and 1862, principal of Dundee academy. After the war closed he studied law, and in 1867 received a diploma from the Albany Law school, and was duly admitted to the bar. From that time to the present, he has practiced the legal profession with a good degree of success. In September, 1862, he entered the army as first lieutenant of company B, 148th New York Volunteers. Early in 1 863, he was appointed on the staff of General EGBERT VIELE, and for nearly a year subsequently, he was Provost Marshal of Portsmouth, Va. He then served with honor on the staffs, successively, of Generals WILD, POTTER and VOGDES, and so highly was he regarded by his superiors; that in January, 1864, he received from Secretary STANTON an appointment as permanent Aid on the staff of General GEO. F. SHEPLEY. In February of the following year he was assigned to duty before Richmond, under General WEITZEL, and he entered that city with the victorious army on the 3d of April ensuing. At the close of the war, he held the rank of brevet-major, and he received his honorable discharge from the service in July, 1865. Major STRUBLE performed long and arduous service for the Union cause during the war, and his record as a soldier is without a blot. Politically, Mr. STRUBLE has always been fully identified with the Republican party, and his activity and zeal have been of great advantage to the Republicans of Yates county. He is recognized as occupying a leading position, and his counsel is sought by men much older in politics than himself. During two terms he has held the office of District-Attorney of Yates county, being elected in 1868 and 1871, and he discharged the duties of the office with signal ability. He is making an excellent record during the present session of the Assembly, and, though in the minority, he is influential in shaping much important legislation. Early in the session he attracted attention by introducing a pro rata freight bill, and he has been quite persistent in his efforts to secure its passage, despite adverse influence. He is a wide-awake minority member of the Judiciary Committee, and because of his agreeable personal traits, is very popular among members of both parties. He married in 1868, Laura J. Backus of Canandaigua, daughter of Clinton C. Backus. They had a son, Clinton B. Harrison Struble (b. 1874?) and Henry Albert (b. 1878?), both were single. Hanford died October 30, 1903. Strunk, Joseph, (Major) 2d Vet. Cavalry, St. George's, 6 STRUNK, JOSEPH.— Age, 19 years. Enrolled, August 26, 1863, at Saratoga; mustered in as first lieutenant, Co. B, August 26, 1863, to serve three years; as captain, December 19, 1863; mustered out with company, November 8, 1865, at Talladega, Ala.; not commissioned first lieutenant; commissioned captain, December 14, 1863, with rank from December 5, 1863. He was made a brevet major at the close of the war with the New York Volunteers. .Stryker, Daniel, 34th Vols, Onondaga, 802 Stuart, Russell Redfield, (Corpl.), Syracuse, 501 Civil Engineer; b. 23 Mar 1847, Hamburgh, NY; d. 17 Jan 1912; Raised 28 Jan 1892 in Fraternal Lodge No. 625, Hamburgh, NY; Affiliated with Syracuse Lodge No 501 on 5 Sep 1895; Mbr No. 924
.Sturtzkober, Gustav A., 5th N. G, Fessier, 576 .Sullivan, Florence, (Lieut.) 23d Infantry, Union, 95
There are veterans' grave markers on this hill surrounding the monument in concentric circles. Moses Summers Quartermaster http://www.149th-nysv.org/Roster/Field/summers_moses.htm http://www.149th-nysv.org/Roster/Field/summers_moses_pic.htm " 
Moses Summers was born in Wexford, Ireland, on 1 Jan 1820, migrating to New York State with his parents in infancy. His father worked as a stone mason during the construction of the Erie Canal, the family residing variously at Utica, Rochester, Lockport, and Buffalo. Following completion of the canal, the Summers settled in Oswego where Moses received his preliminary education. After the death of his father from cholera in 1832, he became an apprentice printer to Richard Oliphant, publisher of the “Free Press.” He concluded his services as a journeyman printer with John Carpenter, who published the Oswego “Palladium.” Bro. Summers then moved to Syracuse in 1841, entering the office of he Onondaga Standard with A. L. Smith and Marcellus Farmer, later becoming foreman. He was present at the gunpowder explosion in Syracuse on 20 Aug 1841, and was a member of the rescue squad. Summers bought Smith’s interest in the newspaper in 1848 and formed a partnership, Agan and Summers, with the editor, Patrick H. Agan, a fearless and independent writer. The Standard had absorbed the Syracuse Reveille in 1850. In the ante-bellum period, Summers had been an active abolitionist and was one of the prime instigators of the widely publicized “Jerry Rescue” slave case in Syracuse on 3 Oct 1851. He was prosecuted with other participants by the United States authorities for the alleged offense, but the case was abandoned after several years of litigation: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/loguen/loguen.html Instead of taking Jerry out of the city, the rescuers took him to the densest part of it, and set him down at the front door of the Syracuse House, in Salina Street, where the Judges of the Supreme Court and its officers, surrounded by fastidious politicians, were huddled together to look at him. Though it is impossible to name all the persons who took part in carrying Jerry in this imperial procession, special notice is due one of them.
When Jerry came down the steps, his head and one of his shoulders were delivered to Moses Summers, one of the editors of the Daily Standard, then the democratic organ of the city. Mr. Summers did not quit that position, but as after stated, until Jerry entered the carriage that took him off. As the procession was passing the Townsend Block, it was assaulted by B. L. Higgins, one of the democratic Aldermen of the city, at the point where Summers was engaged. Summers instantly quit his hold, and laid the officious Alderman in the gutter, and again took his position. Higgins got up out of the dirt, and followed by the side of the procession, and again stepped in front of it and commanded the liberators to lay Jerry down and obey the laws. Full of the spirit of the occasion, Summers gave his place to Peter Reed, a colored man, and turned upon the meddling Alderman and knocked him down. This quieted the officious Alderman, and Summers returned to his place again.” -------- “From the door of the Syracuse House Jerry was taken and deposited at the Rail Road Depot -- but the mass was so dense that the carriages to take him off could not come to him -- and still the tumult was so great that but few knew where Jerry was.
When in prison, it was an object to collect the people--now it was important to disperse them, that he might find a place, unknown to his enemies, where his chains could be broken, and he could refresh his bruised and broken body with food, medicine and slumber. Several rescuers now ran in opposite directions through the crowd, crying "Fire! fire! Fire!" This was a successful ruse de guerre. The masses, wild with excitement, ran every way, crying "Fire! fire! fire!" -- some, doubtless, scenting the stratagem, and others falling into it. In a short time Jerry was left alone with James Davis, Jason S. Hoyt, Moses Summers, and a few other brave and stalwart men, who lifted him, groaning with pain into a carriage, and he was taken, by a circuitous route, to a colored man's house in the eastern part of the city. A proposition to call at Doctor Hoyt's office. and have his wounds dressed, was overruled in regard to prudence. As the carriage rolled away, the Liberators sent up a "Hurrah!" at the top of their voices, which drew up the sympathizing voices of thousands in all directions, and the heavens vibrated with delight.
Without delay, Jason S. Hoyt brought his cutting bar -- a powerful instrument -- and cut Jerry's shackles apart, leaving each of his limbs free, but bruised and bleeding, and encumbered by the dissevered irons. Not daring to leave Jerry with the colored man, he was disguised in female attire, and led from house to house among the colored people, who were willing to receive him, but who, nevertheless, those who had him in charge, to wit, Jason S. Hoyt, James Davis, &c., feared to trust, because of a possible lack of prudence or discretion. Therefore they led him to the house of Caleb Davis, on Genesee Street -- a man whose heart was big with the love of liberty, and whose mind they knew to be charged with qualities fitting their purpose. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/loguen/loguen.html Quartermaster Moses Summers was mustered into service at Albany, NY on 28 Aug 1862, under a commission as Quartermaster dated 18 Apr 1862, rank 28 Aug 1862. He enlisted in the 149th Regiment, New York State Volunteers, in Aug 1862, and began active duty 18 Sep 1862 as Lieutenant and Quartermaster under Colonel Henry A. Barnum. He was detached for duty as A. A. Q. M. on the staff of Colonel Ireland, command the 3rd Brigade at Stevenson, Alabama, 22 Apr 1864. He was subsequently discharged 1 Jul 1864 to accept a commission as Captain and A. A. Q. M. of US Volunteers in the same staff. Captain Summers, from the time of his appointment on the staff of Colonel Ireland, continued to serve at Brigade H.Q. until the close of the war. He also acted as scribe throughout the various fortunes of the regiment until it was mustered out of service 12 Jun 1865. He reported regularly to his newspaper, “The Standard,” under the caption, “The Sword and the Pen.” Following his pithy messages, the notes were signed: “Yours for the Union, and against secession,” or “Yours for the Union and against traitors wherever they are,” etc. Many interesting and amusing anecdotes have survived, such as speaking of the first night in Virginia he said, “That was the dreariest night I ever experienced, and I never or expect to see another.” The old saying, “misery loves company” was certainly true the same night on bivouac. Lieutenant Collins was purloined of his valise by itinerant nocturnal predators. Lieutenant Summers, Wheeler, Westcott, and Stevens were simultaneously relieved by the visiting Washington “gentlemen.” But all things have their compensation. “Thing of those new boots, what pain and suffering they were saved by their loss.” He was an intelligent and efficient officer, and performed the duties assigned to him in a creditable manner. Bro. Sommers fought with the men at Lookout Mountain, 14 Nov 1863; Missionary Ridge, 25 Nov 1863; and Ringgold, 27 Nov 1863. During Sherman’s Campaign in Georgia, 2 May to 13 Dec 1864, he was commissioned a Captain, his unit being attached to the 2nd Brigade of the 20th Corps. Summers was among the first of the troops of Sherman’s Corps on its famous “March to the Sea” to enter Savannah. By order of Major-General John W. Geary, he seized all the printing equipment of the city and collected it in one office. The first issue of the new publication, “The Loyal Georgian,” appeared the next day, much to the surprise of all. Summers continued his editorship for several months, the newspapers attracting wide attention. He was also the author of the articles appearing from time to time in the Syracuse Daily Standard entitled "The Sword and Pen". He then continued with his command to Raleigh, where the rebellion ended with the surrender of Johnston. The unit participated in the post-war Grand Review at Washington, where he was brevetted a Major. He returned home overland with a number of animals and property purchased from the government. He later held a commission of Lieutenant Colonel and Quartermaster in the Sixth Division of the New York State National Guard on the staff of Major-General D. P. Wood. Moses Summers returned home in 1865 and continued at the head of the paper until May 9, 1866, when Charles E. Fitch, a gifted writer, acquired an interest in the establishment. On July 23 of the same year the firm of Summers & Company was formed, consisting of the Summers Brothers, Charles E. Fitch and Henry A. Barnum, with whom he served in the 149th Regiment. Mr. Fitch, Moses Summers, and F. A. Marsh (the later acting as city editor) acted as editors of the paper, while William Summers was business manager. A more vigorous and aggressive policy was adopted, the paper was made a nine-column sheet and it soon advanced to a leading position among the journals of the State. Summers was elected Alderman of the Sixth Ward in 1861, serving on the Board of Supervisors for two years, and was Treasurer in 1866. His main interest was in the political field, and in 1869 he was elected Member of Assembly from Onondaga County’s Second District and was the recipient of political preferment on several occasions, but never received the full recognition due him for his merits and great services rendered in behalf of the country, owing to partisan jealousies engendered against him as on the leaders of the party in the county of Onondaga. As an officer he was meritorious and efficient, as a citizen and as a friend he was faithful and loyal. He retired from the profession in 1  875 and was made Warden of the Port of New York, and his untimely death on 15 Jun 1882, caused by an accident while serving
in that capacity, in the full vigor of his manhood, was universally regretted. At the close of the war he received the brevetted rank of Major. Obituary of Moses Summers from The N.Y. Times, June 16, 1882, p. 5 http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/genweb/summers_obit.html Col. Moses Summers, of No. 21 Delancey Street, New York, the Port Warden, while walking on the beams fell into the hold of the bark Prince Albert, at the foot of Amity street, Brooklyn, on Saturday, June 3, died at the Long Island College Hospital last evening. His spine was both dislocated and fractured by the fall. Col. Summers was born in Wexford County, Ireland, on the 1st of January, 1819, and was brought to this country by his parents when only 1 year old. They settled in Oswego, and here young Summers learned the trade of printer. In 1841 he went to Syracuse, and was employed as journeyman printer on the Syracuse Standard. That year, when Jerry, the escaped negro slave from Missouri, was arrested and brought into court in Syracuse, Col. Summers was one of the party that rescued the fugitive. He was indicted for the offense, but his trial never came off. He worked as a printer on the Standard until 1848, when he purchased a half interest in that paper and assumed editorial management. He was a great friend of Gen. Henry A. Barnum, and when that gentleman took the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment into the field he appointed Col. Summers Quartermaster. Col. Summers at once left his position, abandoned his property and marched out to defend the Union. This was in 1862. He served with the regiment in the Army of the Potomac until after the battles of Gettysburg, when the command was transferred to the Department of the Cumberland in the West. In the early part of 1864, upon the recommendation of the Hon. Thomas T. Davis, then member of Congress from Onondaga District, President Lincoln appointed Summers Captain and Assistant Quartermaster in the Army, and he was assigned to duty in the brigade commanded by Gen. Barnum in the Twentieth Army Corps. He served in this position until the close of the war, being present at the battles of Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga, and making the campaigns with Sherman of Atlanta, Savannah, and the Carolinas, and his large property accounts with the Government were found to be absolutely correct, and were promptly settled. For his efficient services in the field he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers. After the war he was appointed Quartermaster on the staff of the Major-General commanding the Sixth Division of the National Guard of this State, and held this position until his death. He resumed editorial charge of the Syracuse Standard in 1865. Two years ago he was appointed Port Warden in the City, and one year ago he resigned the editorial management of his paper. He was an enthusiastic Republican, and was regarded as a man of keen judgment and great foresight in political affairs, and his advice was often sought by the leaders of the party. http://home.earthlink.net/~dahoude/from_the_archives.htm 4TH REGIMENT. - Quartermaster Summers arrived home from New York on Sunday morning. The supplies of clothing, &c., were very scarce, owing to the rapidity which regiments are coming in. He succeeded in procuring the blankets, and it is expected the uniforms will be shipped before many days. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 2 Sep 1862) CLOTHING FOR THE NEW REGIMENT. We learn that a full supply of army blankets, of good quality, has been received by Quartermaster Summers, for the Fourth Onondaga Regiment, and they will be served out to the men as fast as they are ready to take up quarters in Camp. It is impossible at the present time to obtain uniforms and other necessary articles of clothing, but they will be forthcoming at an early day. Since the appointment of our “local” friend Moses, of the Standard, to the position of Quarter-Master of the new, or Fourth Onondaga Regiment, he has been very active in seeing to the wants of the men, and has displayed the same agility and untiring perseverance which has at all times characterized his connection with the press, as an able and industrious local editor. We are not apprised as to who will be his successor in the local Chair, but whoever he may be, with all due deference to whatever talent he may bring to his aid, we are quite sure that the readers of the Standard will miss the pungent pen of our former cotemporary, while we shall be relieved from many a sharp poke in the ribs. But notwithstanding all this, which to his reader, like the fable of the boy and the frogs was “fun to them but death to us,” we, too, shall miss his genial, every day association, and the frank, generous and courteous manner in which he has always treated us, personally. Ever willing to impart any information to us within his knowledge, which might be of service to us, we found him accommodating and communicative to an extent that perhaps we had no right to expect. But what his former readers will loose through his absence as local editor, they will gain it in the service of interesting letters that he will be able to send his paper from time to time, from the seat of war. As Quarter-Master of the regiment, the gallant boys will find in our old friend Moses, one ever alive to their best interests, and who will be constantly on the alert to supply their every want in time of need. In taking leave of him as one of our most genial and clever city cotemporaries, our regards shall follow him upon the tented field, coupled with hopes for his personal safety and future prosperity and when, at the end of the war he shall return home, conscious of having performed his whole duty to our common country, none will be more rejoiced at the opportunity of extending to him a warm greeting and the right hand of editorial fellowship than his humble servant the “local” of the Courier and Union. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 3 Sep 1862) CONSOLIDATION OF THE FOURTH ONONDAGA REGIMENT. This regiment was consolidated on Wednesday under the designation of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth (149th) Regiment, when all the Captains and most of the Lieutenants were appointed. We like the number designating the regiment. It sounds strong, and looks invincible. Quarter-Master Summers furnishes his paper with some items of interest in regard to camp matters, which we subjoin : The Camp of the 4th Regiment has been named Camp White in honor of Ald. White, the well known and popular commander of Co. D, of the 51st regiment. Major Cook is in command of the camp, and strict military discipline is enforced. Captain Townsend and some fifty men went into camp this morning before breakfast, and took possession of one of the barracks. There are now five companies Capts. Light, Lynch, Townsend, Graves and the Pompey company, in camp, and others will go there to-day and to-morrow. The Manlius Company, Captain Graves marched to town this morning, and went into camp. The march of eight miles must have been a tiresome one, but the boys bore the fatigue like heroes. Capt. Lindsay and his company will be in camp this afternoon. It is understood that 950 men have enlisted in the Regiment, but probably all will not pass muster. However, it is safe to say that the Regiment will soon be filled to the maximum. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 5 Sep 1862) http://home.earthlink.net/~dahoude/archives_page_2.htm LAST CALL. All persons having claims against the 149th Regiment must present their bills this forenoon to the Quartermaster or his Sergeant. The regiment will march immediately, and the bills require the approval of the Colonel and Quartermaster to make them valid. MOSES SUMMERS, QUARTERMASTER. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 22 Sep 1862) DEPARTURE OF THE FOURTH ONONDAGA REGIMENT. The 149th regiment has received positive orders to leave Camp White today for the seat of war. The exact time for its departure has not come to our knowledge, but preparations were being made yesterday for the breaking up of camp at an early hour this morning. Nearly all the men were out on furlough yesterday, making a last visit to their friends, and enjoying themselves as they pleased. The regiment will go to Washington via Elmira, by the New York and Erie road. Noncommissioned officers were detailed to gather in the stragglers yesterday, and a large number were picked up in various parts of the city. The livery stables reaped a rich harvest, as everything in the shape of horse flesh was engaged by the soldiers at high prices. The soldiers having received their bounty monies were quite flush, and it changed hands rapidly. The Daguerrean artists got their share of it, while the boys exchanged daguerreotypes with their lady-loves. Groups of soldiers could be seen upon the corners of the streets, exhibiting to each other the likenesses of dear friends, wives, sweethearts, sisters and brothers. We have not seen the streets so crowded in a long while as they were on Saturday, caused by an influx to the city of the friends and relatives of the soldiers, whom they were anxious to spend a few more hours with before their departure, many of them, perhaps, never to return. Trying scenes will be enacted today when the regiment takes its departure, of such a mournful character that we should prefer not to witness. P.S. Since the above was put in type, we have later intelligence in regard to the movement of the regiment. Quarter-Master Summers returned from New York at 4 A.M. yesterday, bringing with him a full supply of haversacks, canteens, and every other needful article, which were distributed to the men at Camp White yesterday. He has been quite active and untiring in his exertions to provide the men of his regiment with a complete outfit, and this he has finally accomplished at the expense of much hard labor and considerable outlay upon his part, to the entire satisfaction of the members of the regiment. “Moses” looks “ripe peaches” in his uniform, and will make a “bully” officer. Col. Barnum is expected home early this morning, to direct the movements of his regiment. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 22 Sep 1862) LAST DAY OF THE 149TH REGIMENT. The announcement made in the daily papers that the regiment would leave for Washington yesterday, drew a large concourse of the friends and relatives to the city, who loitered about the depot for many hours, expecting to see the regiment off and bid the boys “God speed.” They were much disappointed at the delay, particularly upon learning that the regiment would not leave until 7 o’clock this morning. They expected to see them off at 6 o’clock last evening, but their departure was postponed until 7 A.M., today. The route is by Geneva and Seneca Lake to Elmira, and thence via Harrisburg and Baltimore to Washington. The National Colors ordered by the Salt Company, was presented to the regiment at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon at the camp grounds. The Citizens Corps acted as an escort, and Col. Barnum received the flag in behalf of his regiment, which was drawn up in line. The stand of regimental colors being prepared by the Israelite ladies of the Seventh Ward, are not yet ready, and will be formally presented the regiment through the Mayor, who will follow them on Friday next. Lieut. Savage, of Capt. Lynch’s company, was presented with a sword and pistol on the camp ground Sunday afternoon, by a party of his friends. The presentation address was made by John Molloy, Esq., in his usual felicitous style, and responded to by Robt. F. Trowbridge, Esq., on the part of Lieut. Savage. Matthew J. Dolphin was called upon, and in response made a very effective speech. Capt. Lynch, himself, was the recipient of an elegant and costly sword, a tribute of respect from Lieut. F. D. Murray, and M. E. Lynch, Esq. This was an informal presentation and done so quietly that we had no opportunity to notice it heretofore. A handsome sword, sash and belt were presented to Capt. Grumbach by the Board of Supervisors on Saturday. Col. Barnum is to receive a valuable sword before the regiment leaves, and we understand it was to be presented yesterday afternoon, at the same time with the flag presentation. A number of the friends of Quartermaster Summers presented him with a horse and equipments at the camp ground yesterday morning, at nine o’clock. The presentation was made by Mr. Samuel Rooney, to which “Moses” responded in his usual “gilt edged” style. Alexander McKinstry, ex-Inspector, now orderly Sergeant of Co. E, 149th, was on Saturday evening made the recipient of an ivory-handled, silver-mounted Colt’s Revolver and a sash, by his recent co-laborers in the Canal office. Lieut. Col. John M. Strong received the gift of a valuable war charger, on Saturday last, from his friends in Onondaga. The horse was purchased by Sanford D. Evans and Earl B. Alvord, who were appointed a committee for that purpose by a meeting of citizens, at a cost of $200. The ceremony took place at Col. Eaton’s new hotel at Onondaga Hill, when R. H. Gardner, Esq., of this city, made a neat presentation speech in behalf of the donors, to which the Lieut. Col. responded in an able and patriotic manner. Speeches were also made by Jas. Johnson and H. Case, Esq., and the occasion passed off with great éclat. Capt. J. Forman Wilkinson is to be complimented with a splendid sword, elaborately finished and appropriately engraved, before he takes his departure with the regiment. It will be the gift of his former railroad employees, which is sufficient to guarantee that it will be a costly and elegant affair. A number of the friends of Lieut. Ahio. L. Palmer, Co. H, 149th regiment, presented him with a splendid sword and sash, on Saturday evening last. The affair came off in the parlor of the Sherman House, and everything connected with it passed off in the most happy manner. Lieut. Palmer leaves with the regiment this morning, and carries with him the best wishes of all our citizens. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 23 Sep 1862) THE QUARTERMASTER OF THE 149TH REGIMENT. Editor Courier. There are some points made in the letters published by you on Monday morning from the 149th regiment, which justice demands that attention should be called to, as there are utterly groundless causes of complaint against the Quartermaster, however much somebody higher in authority and beyond his regiment may be at fault. 1st. The Quartermaster must issue the kind or quality of food that is issued to him by the Brigade Quartermaster, with the privilege however of having spoiled food condemned by Board of Survey and returned - drawing other rations in its stead. The lack of vegetables and the kind and quality of rations is therefore no fault of the Quartermaster, unless in the latter case he refuses to have them condemned and returned. 2d. That "thinking more of his pocket than of the good of his men" has any bearing, I cannot see, as no opportunity occurs for him to convert the rations into money, and the Sergeant drawing the company rations ought to be sharp enough to know whether he gets his weight and measure or not. 3d. The lack of full or any rations is at times entirely beyond the control of the Quartermaster, and is only one of the many "sufferings" incident to a soldier's life. Particularly is this true when troops are moving from place to place, which it seems has been the chief occupation of the 149th since its departure from home. I make these remarks for the benefit of the men who complain to their friends at home as well as that of the Quartermaster. A new regiment, with officers who have not seen service has much rough usage which experience will enable them to avoid, and the most experienced officers, serving as Quartermaster, cannot fail at times to be censured for errors not his own, though it is sometimes difficult to make those who suffer to believe that the fault can exist beyond the officers of their own regiment. I ask you to publish these comments with the hope that they may allay some of the fears of the friends of both the Quartermaster and the complaining men. Respectfully yours. H. A. BARNUM. (Syracuse Daily Courier and Union 22 Oct 1862) .Sutherland, Clark E., x, St. Johnsville, 611 Sutphin, John, 3d Vol. Cavalry, Monroe, 173 .Suttie, Geo. 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