nths as Commander of the Department of Kentucky and of the Cumberland,
and was then obliged to leave the field in consequence of ill health. He
was retired from active service on the 27th of October, 1863, and died
at Nice, in France, on the 26th day of October, 1871.
Lastly, John G. Foster, after a brilliant career as commander of a
department and army corps, died at Nashua, New Hampshire, September 2d,
1874.
Each of us who survive became major-general during the rebellion, and
each now holds the same grade by brevet in the regular army.
Mr. Edward Moale, the citizen who remained with us, did excellent
service in the war. At present he is a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the
regular army.
This statement of events was completed at New York, April 14th, 1875, on
the fourteenth anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter.
APPENDIX.
_List of Officers and Enlisted Men present at the Bombardment of Fort
Sumter, April 12th and 13th, 1861._
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Major ROBERT ANDERSON, First United States Artillery.
Captain ABNER DOUBLEDAY, First United States Artillery.
Captain TRUMAN SEYMOUR, First United States Artillery.
First Lieutenant JEFFERSON C. DAVIS, First United States Artillery.
Second Lieutenant NORMAN J. HALL, First United States Artillery.
Captain J.G. FOSTER, United States Engineers.
Lieutenant G.W. SNYDER, United States Engineers.
Lieutenant R.K. MEADE, United States Engineers.
Assistant Surgeon S.W. CRAWFORD, United States Army.
ENLISTED MEN.
Ordnance-sergeant James Kearney, United States Army.
Quartermaster-sergeant William H. Hammer, First United States Artillery.
_Regimental Band, First Artillery._
Sergeant James E. Galway.
Corporal Andrew Smith.
Private Andrew Murphy.
Private Fedeschi Onoratti.
Private Peter Rice.
Private Henry Schmidt.
Private John Urquhart.
Private Andrew Wickstrom.
_Company E, First Artillery._
First Sergeant Eugene Scheibner.
Sergeant Thomas Kirnan.
Sergeant William A. Harn.
Sergeant James Chester.
Corporal Owen M'Guire.
Corporal Francis J. Oakes.
Corporal Charles Bringhurst.
Corporal Henry Ellerbrook.
Musician Charles Hall.
Private Philip Anderman.
Private John Emil Noack.
Private Cornelius Baker.
Private Thomas Carroll.
Private Patrick Clancy.
Private John Davis.
Private James Digdam.
Private George Fielding.
Private Edward Gallway.
Private James Gibbo
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