Arise!, let our banner be flung to the skies! See, the northern battalions are roused to the fight! The echoing mountains shall wake to our cries; Our country and liberty! God and the right! The 2d Infantry was recruited and called into service as a three months’ regiment, and was rendezvoused as such under the [...]
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By order of the Commander+in+Chief, JNO. ROBERTSON, Adjutant General. With the exception of the Kalamazoo (No. 2) and Niles, the regiment was made up of the uniformed militia companies, and all were recruited and organized at the places named. On the receipt of his appointment, Colonel Richardson promptly issued the following order: Headquareters 2d Reg’t [...]
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Extract from Colonel Richardson’s Battalion Order No. 4, dated at Cantonment Blair, May 1st, 1861: The different companies composing this regiment will take their positions in line of battle from right to left in the following order, and will be known hereafter by the annexed letters: Scott Guard, known as Company A. Hudson Artillery, known [...]
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I. Captain, Dwight May, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, William J. Handy, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, John M. Norvell, Detroit. K. Captain, Charles S. May, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, George W. Park, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, Harry C. Church, Kalamazoo. The regiment moved from its rendezvous at Fort Wayne, June 6th, for the field in Virginia, arriving in Washington on [...]
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Beauregard, who had been informed of all of McDowell’s movements by spies and traitors, was there, and had ordered up from Manassas some North Carolina and Louisiana troops, who had just arrived there on their way to Winchester. The woods were so thick that his forces were mostly concealed, as well as his batteries, excepting [...]
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The regiment, although not actually engaged at Bull Run, had the honor, together with the Third Michigan, of covering the retreat from that disastrous field. The correspondent of the New York Tribune, in writing regarding the stampede from Bull Run, says: I was told that a few regiments, beside the three faithful ones of Blenker’s [...]
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on Monday, the 22d, and went into camp, having moved in rear of all other regiments and batteries. At Fairfax we were so far in rear that no troops (of our own forces) were in eight. Will you do my brigade the credit of this correction. I. B. RICHARDSON, Captain James B. Fry, ‘ Colonel. [...]
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At Williamsburg, May 5th, at Fair Oaks, May 31st, at Charles City Cross Roads, June 30th, and on July 1st at Malvern Hill; its casualties at Williamsburg being seventeen killed, thirty+eight wounded, and five missing; at Fair Oaks ten killed and forty+seven wounded, and in the actions of June 30th and July 1st, two killed [...]
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It, was at this time, and while giving Captain Morse his instructions, that he fell severely wounded. At about 5 P. M. the companies which had been actively engaged from the first, grew short of ammunition, when I threw forward the four companies of the reserve which had not been engaged. These four companies did [...]
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Second Regiment Infantry The regiment took into action three hundred. The loss is as follows: Killed, 17 wounded, 38; missing, 5, supposed to be prisoners; total, 60. During the action Lieutenant Colonel Williams commanded upon the right of the road, Major Dillman upon the left, while I exercised in person general supervision over the whole [...]
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