Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Ream's Station, and Boydton Road.

To this list should be added Auburn, Locust Grove, Po River, Morton's Ford, Strawberry Plains, Hatcher's Run, High Bridge, and Lee's Surrender. The first six battles mentioned in official orders are accredited to the First Delaware by reason of the consolidation with it, July 1, 1864, of a portion of the Second Delaware Regiment, which bore an honorable share in those engagements.

Sergeant John B. Mayberry, of Company F, received a medal of honor from the War Department for gallant and meritorious service.

To those who feel an interest in the first organization that went from Delaware to support and defend the Government, and which furnished so many valuable officers to other regiments from the State, all of which won for themselves a high reputation for patriotism and bravery, the following tables showing the number of commissioned officers borne on the muster-in rolls who were killed, died of disease, resigned, were discharged or transferred, and promoted, and the number that remained to the close of the war; and the number of enlisted men of each company whose names were on the muster-in rolls who were commissioned, killed, died, were reported missing, deserted, or were transferred or discharged; and of those who served until mustered out, will be of great value in disclosing the fate of a thousand men who entered upon a career of such unusual hardship and peril.

These tables are compiled from the muster-out rolls, and it will be readily seen that, in most of the companies, all the men who marched from Wilmington with the regiment have not been accounted for, and their fate is not shown. In these statistics none of the men who joined the regiment by transfer, or as recruits, substitutes, or conscripts, have been taken into account, the object being to show

only what became of the officers and men of the organization as it was mustered in.

The story of the achievements and sacrifices of the First Regiment Delaware Volunteers in the great war of the Rebellion is now told, briefly and imperfectly, since the limits of a historical sketch are too narrow to permit the glorious deeds these heroic men have carved upon the tablets of our national history to be recited in the glowing word-pictures they so eminently deserve.

Let us hope that coming generations, when they assemble to congratulate themselves on the liberty, happiness, and prosperity they enjoy, will not fail to honor the memories of the daring men who paused not to consider selfish interests, who hesitated over no personal sacrifices, with nothing mercenary to tempt them in the form of large bounty, no State military laws, even, on which to depend for clothing, shelter, and subsistence while organizing; yet, when powerful and thoroughly-organized treason clutched the throat of the nation, and it cried out in its agony, "Save me or I die!" they sprang to the front, seized their weapons, fought the traitors to the death, aided in the delivery of their country, and when the enemy was stretched out exhausted and harmless, they laid down their arms and returned modestly to their former stations of industrious and law-abiding citizens.

INDEX.

"A" Company, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 26,
35, 51, 53, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 73, 82, 88,
89, 90, 94, 104, 108, 116, 121, 133, 134,
148, 151, 153.

Abel, John C., 60.
Aberdeen, Md., 16.
Active operations, 40.

Adams, Benjamin E., 27, 44.
Adams, Napoleon, 60.

Advance-guard duty, 99, 100.

Alarm in the camp at Bush River, 16.
Albright, Charles, 58, 59, 67, 68, 69, 71,
73, 76, 77.

Alderdice, W. Hill, 17.

Back River, 19, 21.
Bakersville, Md., 91.

Ball given by the regiment, 32.
Ball of the Second Army Corps, 104.
Baltimore, Md., 28, 33.

Band organized, A, 18.

Band mustered out, The, 44.

Bank's Ford, Va., 69, 74.

Banquet to the regiment, 103.
Barbour, James H., 72, 134.

Barlow, Francis C., 115, 117, 128, 140.
Barnesville, Md., 79.

Barney, John W., 65, 122, 133, 139, 149.
Barr, Joseph M., 12, 15, 18.

Alexander, Ezekiel C., 18, 27, 33, 37, 40, Batchelder, J. B., 88.

65, 133.

Alexander, Samuel, 116.

Algier, William, 148.

Ames' battery, 66, 74, 130.

Amity, Va., 109.

Anderson, William, 71, 72.

Anderson's Mills, Va., 111, 123, 132.
Andrews, John W., 13, 14, 15, 18, 25, 26,
28, 30, 42, 45, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59,
64.

Annapolis, Md., 13, 19.
Antietam, The battle of, 45.

Mentioned, 46, 50, 70, 72, 73, 90,
152.

Appomattox Court-House, Va., 144, 147,
148.

Appomattox River, The, 128, 138, 140,
145, 146.

Appomattox Station, Va., 143, 145, 146.
Armstrong's Mills, Va., 135.
Arnold's battery, 88.

Artillery captured, 95, 110, 118.
Ashby's Gap, Va., 92.

Attack on the camp with stones, 14.
Aut Lurn, Va., 95, 152.
Aurt Bisto, Joshua C., 108.

"B"

E

EiCompany, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 26,
En44, 51, 53, 60, 61, 63, 72, 77, 90, 94,
10 EW 108, 115, 116, 121, 122, 133, 134.
104. Exe148, 149, 150, 151, 153.

139.-

Battalion's return to Wilmington, The,

24.

Battle-flags captured, 86.

Baxter, Alexander, 52.

Bayonet charges, 50, 83, 84, 85, 89, 107,

109, 110, 118, 120, 132, 137, 140.
Bealton Station, Va., 95.

Beggs, William H., 60.

Bell Men," The, II.
Belle Plain, Va., 55.
Bendix, John E., 58.
Berdan's Sharpshooters, 127.
Berwagner, John, 109.
Birch, William D., 72.
Bird, Charles, 15.

Birney, David B., 106, 119.
Birney, William, 71, 72.

Birney, William J., 116, 122, 149, 150.
Black, John S., 90.
Blades, Major G., 52.
Bloomfield, Va., 92.
Bolivar Heights, 53.
Boonsborough, Md., 46.

Booth, Joseph E., 133, 134, 151.
Boothenian Dramatic Association, The,
33.

Bowling Green, Va., 112, 123.
Boydton Plank Road, The battle of, 131.
Mentioned, 152.
Boyle, Sr., Manus, 51.
Boyle, Jr., Manus, 60.