On for the _redoubt_ over the rampart they go, Not a rifle was fired, not a shot at the foe, By the weight of the column the _redoubt_ is theirs, And the enemy routed, the chivalry scattered everywhere Victorious shouts the empyrean ring in repay, Following Butler to New Market heights that day.
In the track of the brigade lay the loyal dead, Afric"s hecatomb, her lineage"s pyre to liberty wed, Their upturned countenances to the burning sun, Were appeals to Mars for their race"s freedom won, Five hundred lives on the patriotic alter lay, Following Butler to New Market heights that day.
No marble shaft or granate pile mark the spot Where they fell--their bones lay harvested from sun-rot, In the Nation"s cities of the dead. Hannibal led No braver than they through Alpine snow, nor wed To freedom were Greece"s phalanx more, who o"er gory clay Followed Butler to New Market heights that day.
[A] (Author in the N. Y. _Globe_.)
[B] (Author in "_Voice of a New Race_.")
[33] See report of 29th Regiment Connecticut Colored Volunteers in appendix.
CHAPTER XII.
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following enlisted men of the Black Phalanx received medals of honor from the United States Government for heroic conduct on the field of battle:
Sergeant-Major C. A. FLEETWOOD, 4th Regiment.
Color-Sergeant ALFRED B. HILTON, 4th Regiment.
Private CHARLES VEAL, 4th Regiment.
1st Sergeant JAMES BROWNSON, 5th Regiment.
Sergeant-Major MILTON M. HOLLAND, 5th Regiment.
1st Sergeant, ROBERT PINN, 5th Regiment.
1st Sergeant POWHATAN BEATY, 5th Regiment.
1st Sergeant ALEX. KELLEY, 6th Regiment.
Sergeant SAMUEL GILCHRIST, 36th Regiment.
Sergeant WILLIAM DAVIS, 36th Regiment.
Corporal MILES JAMES, 36th Regiment.
Private JAMES GARDNER, 36th Regiment.
1st Sergeant EDWARD RATCLIFF, 38th Regiment.
Private WILLIAM BARNES, 38th Regiment.
CHAPTER XIII.
ROSTER OF THE BLACK PHALANX
CAVALRY.
1st Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Seip.--Organized at Camp Hamilton, Va., December, 1863. Battles: Bermuda Hundreds, Smithfield, Wilson"s Landing, Fort Pocahontas, Cabin Point, Powhatan. Mustered out February, 1866.
2nd Regiment, Colonel G. W. Cole.--Organized at Ft. Monroe, December, 1863. Battles: Suffolk, Drewry"s Bluff, May 10, 16th and 20th, 1864.
Point of Rocks, Deep Bottom, Chapin Farm, Richmond. Mustered out February, 1866.
3d Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Cook.--Organized at Vicksburg, October 9th, 1863. Battles: Haines Bluff, Shipwith"s Landing, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., Bayou Boeuf, Yazoo Expedition, Rolling Fork, Vicksburg, Jackson, Fort Adams, Franklin, Roache"s Plantation, Yazoo City. Mustered out January, 1866.
4th Regiment, (1st _Corps d"Afrique_), Lieutenant-Colonel N. C.
Mitch.e.l.l.--Organized September, 1863, at New Orleans, La. Battle: Clinton. Mustered out March, 1866.
5th Regiment, Colonel L. Henry Carpenter.--Organized at Camp Nelson, Ky., October, 1864. Battles: Saltville, Hopkinsville, Harrodsburg, Simpsonville. Mustered out March, 1866.
5th Regiment, Ma.s.sachusetts, Colonel S. E. Chamberlin.--Organized at Readville, Ma.s.s., May, 1864. Battle: Petersburg. Mustered out October, 1865.
6th Regiment, Colonel James F. Wade.--Organized at Camp Nelson, Ky., Nov., 1864. Battles: Saltville, Marion, Smithfield. Mustered out April, 1866.
HEAVY ARTILLERY.
1st Regiment, Colonel John E. McGowan.--Organized at Knoxville, Tenn., February, 1864. Battle: Decatur.
3rd Regiment, Colonel Ignatz G. Kappner.--Organized at Memphis, Tenn., and Fort Pickering, Tenn., June, 1863, as 1st Regiment Tennessee Heavy Artillery. Its designation was changed to 2nd Regiment and to 3rd, April, 1864. Mustered out April, 1864.
4th Regiment, Major Wm. N. Lansing.--Organized at Columbus, Ky., June, 1863, as 2nd Regiment Tennessee. Its designation was changed March, 1864, to the 3rd Regiment, and to the 4th, April, 1864. Battles: Fort Donelson. Mustered out February, 1866.
5th Regiment, Colonel Herman Leib.--Organized at Vicksburg, Miss., August, 1863, as the 9th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers. Its designation was changed to 1st Regiment, Mississippi, September, 1863, and to the 4th, March, 1864. Battles: Milliken"s Bend, June 6th, 7th and 25th, 1863, Vicksburg. Mustered out May, 1866.
6th Regiment, Colonel Hubert A. McCaleb.--Organized at Natchez, Miss., September, 1863, as 2nd Regiment, Miss. Its designation was changed to the 5th Regiment, March, 1864, and to the 6th, April, 1864. Battles: Vidalia, Concordia Bayou, Black River. Mustered out May, 1866.
For 7th Regiment see 11th Infantry.
8th Regiment, Colonel Henry W. Barry.--Organized at Paducah, Ky., April, 1864. Battle: Fort Anderson. Mustered out February, 1866.
9th Regiment, Major Edward Grosskoff.--Organized at Clarksville, Nashville, Tenn., October, 1864; broken up May, 1865; officers and enlisted men transferred to other organizations.
10th Regiment, Colonel C. A. Hartwell, (regular army).--Organized at New Orleans, La., November, 1862, as 1st Regiment Louisiana. Its designation was changed to 1st Regiment _Corps d"Afrique_, November, 1863, and to the 7th Regiment United States, April, 1864; to the 10th, May, 1864. The 77th Regiment Infantry was consolidated with it October, 1865. Mustered out February, 1867. Battle: Pa.s.s-Manchae.
11th Regiment, Colonel J. Hale Sypher.--Organized at Providence, R. I., August, 1863, as the 14th Regiment, R. I. Its designation was changed to the 8th Regiment United States, April, 1864, and to the 11th, May, 1864.
Battle: Indian Village. Mustered out October, 1865.