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olonel Patrick Kelly, 88th New York, Irish Brigade. Petersburg. Colonel William Blaisdell, 11th Massachusetts, Petersburg. Colonel Simon H. Mix, 3d New York Cavalry, Petersburg. Colonel Calvin A. Craig, 105th Pennsylvania, Deep Bottom. Colonel Nathan T. Dushane, 1st Maryland, Weldon Railroad. Colonel Joseph Thoburn, Thoburn commanded a division during the entire Shenandoah campaign, and was in command of it at the time of his death. 1st West Virginia, Cedar Creek. Colonel Louis Bell, 4th New Hampshire, Fort Fisher. In each regiment there were officers whose duties did not require that they should go into action — the Chaplain, the Quartermaster, and the Surgeons. Although they had no tactical position in the line of battle, there was a loss of life among their number which entitles them to some other place in the records of the war than that of mere non-combatants. Many of them waived their exemption front danger, and gallantly volunteered for service in t
ey fired into them, through mistake, by the Ninth Maine. In December, 1864, the Tenth Corps was discontinued, and the regiment was transferred to Ames's (2d) Division of the newly-formed Twenty-fourth Corps. At Fort Fisher the regiment fought in Bell's (3d) Brigade, Ames's Division, many of the lives lost there occurring at the explosion of the magazine the day after the Fort was taken. Mustered out June I 7, 1865. One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Infantry. Curtis's Brigade — Turnematurely discovered by the enemy, and thereby drew upon themselves a severe fire, which not only frustrated the plan, but cost the regiment many lives. The regiment was one of those selected for the expedition against Fort Fisher; it was then in Bell's (3d) Brigade, Ames's Division, Tenth Corps, and took part in the desperate but victorious assault on that stronghold. A large proportion of its losses there, however, occurred at the explosion of the magazine, after the fort had been captured.