Dates of final settlement unknown; but the resignations were in the following order:

SUMMARY OF LOSSES UP TO FEB. 20TH, 1863.

STRENGTH OF REGIMENT, FEBRUARY 20TH, 1863.

Colonel, Abel Godard. [Commissioned Dec. 30th, 1862, but not mustered into service nor reported for duty.] Lieutenant-Colonel, John C. O. Redington.

Major, Winslow M. Thomas.

Quartermaster, Edwin A. Merritt.

First Assistant-Surgeon, William B. Chambers.
Second Assistant-Surgeon, Charles H. Burbeck.
Sergeant-Major, Henry Farrell.

Quartermaster-Sergeant, Byron T. Bordwell.

Commissary-Sergeant, Lyman Barber.

Hospital Steward, George G. Cornish.

Captains, James Young, V. N. Carter, Thos. Elliott, Hugh Smith, Jesse H. Jones, A. B. Shipman.

First Lieutenants, Thomas Hobart, P. S. Sinclair, John Delany, O. Foot, D. M. Robertson, E. A. Rich, M. L. Fitch. Second Lieutenants, C. H. Houghton, G. M. Eastman, S. Adams, M. Nolan, J. Dundon, J. E. Kelsey, J. Ingram. Officers detached-Lieutenants Greene and Diven.

Aggregate strength of the Regiment, including Officers. and Non-Commissioned Staff, .

Total, present for duty,

Absent, (detailed, deserted or in hospital,) .

589

347

242

XVII.

CHANCELLORSVILLE AND GETTYSBURG.

WISHING a more full and reliable account of the subsequent movements and vicissitudes of the regiment than I could obtain from mere reports in newspaper paragraphs, I wrote to Quartermaster Merritt to furnish me with the necessary data, and his response I publish as received, believing it more acceptable in this form than if I should attempt to glean from it:

DEAR CHAPLAIN :

In compliance with your wishes, I have collected some facts and incidents pertaining to the 60th Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols., besides those which came under my own observation, from the time of your leaving, up to the 31st of August, 1863. I am largely indebted to Adjutant Lester S. Willson, and Commissary-Sergeant E. R. Follett, for many facts and incidents, especially during the march to and at the battle of Chancellorsville. Although not in any official form, and principally from recollection after the battle, I am satisfied they are mainly correct.

The general good feeling and sympathy existing between yourself and the regiment, made your loss to us a sore disappointment. Expressions of regret at your absence were general among the men as well as officers. We had mutually borne the hardships and sufferings of active service in the field during the storms and exposures of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and the sickness of the spring and

autumn. You had comforted the sick by watchfulness and care, and administered to the dying the consolations of religion. You had stimulated the men by conversations and eloquence to patient endurance of the hardships and fatigues of a soldier's life, for the grand and patriotic purpose of putting down this unnatural rebellion; and also by your example in sharing with them the hardships which you asked them to endure with patience. Do not wonder then that we missed you, when we called to remembrance the last summer's campaign-from Baltimore, by Harper's Ferry, up the Shenandoah Valley; thence to Little Washington, Warrenton, Sulphur Springs, Pope's Retreat, the battle of Antietam, the occupation of Loudon Heights; the subsequent march in the winter to Dumfries; back to Fairfax; thence to Stafford Court House, and finally, to Acquia Creek-and earnestly desired your return. We felt, however, that, though absent, you still remembered us, and prayed for our welfare, as well as for the success of the cause for which we were sacrificing and enduring so much. We now rely upon you still as a friend, and that you will, by your voice, on all proper occasions, sustain us and the Government we all so dearly love. The people, our friends at home, need encouragement, as well as the army in the field. Stimulate them to do their duty despite cold-blooded patriots and rebel sympathizers!

We remained at our old camp, at Acquia Creek, until the 27th of April, doing guard duty most of the time at the landing and on the railroad toward Falmouth.

On the 10th, the regiment was marched with the Division to Stafford Court House, where the 12th Corps v...s reviewed by the President and General Hooker. Although it was a long march up and back in one day, everything passed off well. After returning, and on the same day, a general muster took place, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of absentees, whether on detachéd service, in hospital, or deserted, to be reported to the Provost Marshal General.