The following are the casualties of the regiment from the time it left
Savannah until its muster out:
Recruits 6
Resigned 2
Transferred 5
Discharged 12
Ordinary deaths 4
Killed in action 3
Died of wounds 5
Missing in action 8
Wounded in action 20
Wounded, accidental 1
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Aggregate 66
Immediately upon the arrival of Sherman's army at Washington City,
General Grant issued orders for the review of the Grand Army of the
Potomac to take place on the 23rd, and that known as Sherman's army to
take place on the 24th. Thousands of people flocked from all parts of
the country to witness the grand pageant. The most ample preparations
had been made for the occasion. The President was seated on an elevated
stand, surrounded by his Cabinet officers, foreign ministers and
distinguished strangers. Pennsylvania Avenue was lined on both sides
from end to end with admiring people; every window presented its
tableau of fair spectators; and the occasion was such as had never
before been witnessed on the American continent. The daily papers all
over the land soon flourished lively descriptions of the great and
grand review; and according to them and the judgment of most of the
spectators, the Army of the West bore off the palm; they described it
as more graceful, more stalwart and more intelligent than the Grand
Army of the Potomac.
On the occasion of this grand review of Sherman's army, a certain New
York paper, the _Independent_, paid our division a very high
compliment. It said:
"The finest looking set of men in either army--they were also said
to be the best drilled--was the 2nd division of the 14th Corps,
composed of Western troops, and commanded by General James D.
Morgan, of Quincy, Illinois, one of the bravest of the brave, the
idol of his soldiers, and called by them 'Our Jimmy Morgan.'"
But as for the soldiers themselves, grand pageantry in the line of
reviews had "played out." What was charming to the assembled multitude
was no joyous affair to them. Their good time came, however, when the
attention of officials was turned to mustering out.
On the morning of the review of Sherman's army, our division led out of
its camp at an early hour, and by a slow and tiresome march it arrived
at Washington and passed before the admiring c
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