Includes:
The regimental history of the 12th West Virginia Infantry,
originally published in 1892
The Story of Andersonville and Florence by James N. Miller
A complete regimental roster and index
An Excerpt:
The attack on Fort Gregg, Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865:
...when within 50 yards of the fort, Sergt. Emanuel M. Adams of
Company D, color-bearer, fell wounded. The colors were picked up
and bravely carried forward by Private Joseph R. Logsden of Company
C, as the brigade charged on over the dead and wounded of the First
Division. After our men had got into the ditch surrounding the
fort, they remained there perhaps twenty minutes before they made
an entrance. In the meantime the Rebels were throwing dirt, stones
and various kinds of missiles upon them.
At length as a movement toward entering the fort, the gallant
Logsden undertook to plant the flag of the Twelfth upon the
parapet, and was killed, falling back into the ditch. The colors
were then seized by Lieut. Joseph Caldwell of Company A, who leaped
upon the parapet, and in attempting to plant the colors there was
killed, falling also into the ditch. The flag fell inside of the
fort. Then the brave boys of the Twelfth rushed to the parapet to
recover their flag. They were joined by comrades of the rest of the
brigade. Pouring a volley into the Rebels, the boys of the Twelfth
leaped into the fort and planted their flag on the parapet - the
first colors on the Rebel works.
Private Joseph McCauslin, Company D, and two comrades of the
12th received the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous
gallantry in the assault on Fort Gregg.
General
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