"Of my journey back there is no need to speak; suffice it to say that two or three weeks thereafter, one night as the sun was setting, I stood with beating heart on the levee, outside of Simsport on the Red River, waiting for the coming of the regiment on its march down from Alexandria. Column after column passed and still I waited. But suddenly I caught the roll of drums and there came a dimness over my eyes, for I recognized familiar forms. The colonel riding at the head, the little drum major, the colors and each well known face. As they came up I saluted, someone recognized me, and called my name. Instantly the cry, 'Lieutenant Goodell has come!' swept down the line, and with one mighty shout, the boys welcomed back the bearer of their pay. That night I went from camp-fire to camp-fire and gave to each orderly sergeant the receipts for his company. Of all that money, only one envelope went astray, and the express company made good the loss."
ROSTER.
The following gives as near a complete list of those who served with my regiment:
| COMPANY A. | |
| Captains. | |
| Macon C. Weld, | Charles L. Norton. |
| First Lieutenants. | |
| Leander Waterman, | William H. Parmlee. |
| Second Lieutenants. | |
| Daniel P. Dewey, | Henry C. Ward, |
| George W. Hugg, | George H. Goodwin. |
| Sergeants. | |
| Daniel Calahan, | Albert H. Olmsted, |
| Aaron Cook, | Samuel L. Otis, |
| William S. Hubbell, | Harris B. Wildman. |
| Corporals. | |
| George H. Forbes, | Joseph F. Lincoln, |
| James W. Gates, | William H. Smith, |
| William H. Hawley, | Albert F. Thompson, |
| Edgar B. Hills, | Gurdon Trumbull, Jr., |
| Martin B. Hillis, | Charles L. Ulrich, |
| William B. Keyes, | Edwin A. Woodbridge. |
| Musicians. | |
| Samuel S. Folwell, | Henry Sipel, |
| George D. Stewart. | |
| Privates. | |
| Charles R. Arnold, | Thomas Costello, |
| George A. Avery, | Philip E. Cowles, |
| Ira A. Baldwin, | Henry H. Deming, |
| Merritt W. Baldwin, | Philip H. Demings, |
| Newton H. Baldwin, | William H. Faxon, |
| Henry W. Barber, | Michael Flaherty, |
| Emerson W. Belden, | George S. Gage, |
| Franklyn D. Brewster, | Albert Gates, |
| Frank E. Brockway, | Thomas Gorman, |
| James L. Brockway, | John Harger, |
| James B. Chapman, | Everett S. Hayden, |
| John Collins, | Hugh Heath, |
| John Holt, | Clayton P. Holcomb, |
| William W. House, | Williard Hent, |
| Harvey C. Hurlbut, | Franklyn E. Kilby, |
| Wyllys Kilby, | George W. King, |
| James Lanan, | Charles W. Lathrop, |
| John Lawrence, | Charles Loveland, |
| Eldred C. Mitchel, | John C. Moose, |
| Emery A. Mosman, | Francis W. Munn, |
| John O'Conner, | William Phippeny, |
| Lucien Rice, | Charles W. Risley, |
| John Robinson, | Dennis Ryan, |
| Henry Sage, | Oliver L. Steele, |
| Anthony Stokes, | Joseph P. Sumner, |
| Henry C. Taylor, | Leonard Thompson, |
| Archibald Wilson. | |
| COMPANY B. | |
| Captain. | |
| Arthur T. Hinckley. | |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Henry A. Darling. | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |
| Daniel V. Marshall, | William A. Oliver, |
| Frederick W. White. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| Henry W. Caye, | William Sewart, |
| Samuel W. Steele, | William Taylor. |
| Corporals. | |
| John Brown, | James Jordon, |
| William C. Bruce, | Henry A. Spalding, |
| William W. Chappell, | Franklyn E. Wallace, |
| Hiram Craw, | William J. Warren, |
| Andrew F. Williams. | |
| Musician. | |
| Elizuer S. Reed. | |
| Privates. | |
| William Anderson, | David Lamdon, |
| Joseph Baily, | Robert Lindsey, |
| Levi Baily, | John Martin, |
| Steven T. Bartlett, | Robert Mitchell, |
| Sylvester Bartram, | Steven Murphy, |
| Levi Benson, | David W. Nodine, |
| Joseph Barnard, | Rowland Perry, |
| William Blake, | George O. Pettibone, |
| Austin Booth, | Chauncey Rodgers, |
| Avery Brown, | Ferdinal Sage, |
| Thomas F. Bunce, | John Silcox, |
| James Burns, | Davis D. Stevens, |
| Albert Cady, | Henry D. Stevens, |
| Richard Craw, | Charles Taylor, |
| George Dean, | Charles C. Taylor, |
| William Dewolf, | Edwin M. Thorne, |
| Alexandra Dorr, | Patrick J. Tracy, |
| Horace Driggs, | William H. Tuttle, |
| Adney B. Gladding, | George J. Vanloon, |
| Azriah Gladding, | William Wait, |
| Robert Hen, | William A. Waters, |
| Henry N. Hobart, | Aralzia Westland, |
| Edward Holdham, | Martin Whaples, |
| Eli Hull, | Henry B. Whitford, |
| James Hunt, | George Wicks, |
| George Jenks, | George Wilson, |
| Jeremiah Jennings, | Joseph Williams, |
| Patrick Kennedy, | Loren Wright. |
| COMPANY C. | |
| Captains. | |
| Samuel S. Hayden, | Richard W. Roberts. |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Alfred W. Converse. | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |
| Gurdon Trumburm, | Benjamin F. Turner. |
| Sergeants. | |
| Addison F. Lamphear, | George H. Snow, |
| William C. Anderson, | Jacob A. Turner, |
| Levi G. Hayden, | Gardner Wilmarth. |
| Corporals. | |
| Ira B. Addis, | Cyrus Root, |
| Joseph Fisher, | Elisha H. Skinner, |
| Robert Morrison, | George H. Smith, |
| Edward Newport, | William W. Strickland, |
| Benjamin F. Wilcox. | |
| Musicians. | |
| Norman Fassett, | James E. Lacey. |
| Privates. | |
| Jason Smith, | William K. Hardie, |
| William H. Baldwin, | Chester M. Hills, |
| Daniel B. Barnard, | James L. Hodge, |
| Alfred Beers, | Willington Jackson, |
| Noble H. Bennett, | Ora B. Kibbe, |
| John Brandley, | Ferdinand Kramer, |
| Charles Burgess, | Arthur P. Moors, |
| Jerome K. Button, | Michael Moran, |
| Leander W. Button, | James Murray, |
| William Button, | George H. Nelson, |
| John Cahill, | Henry S. Persons, |
| Horace L. Carter, | Abraham Phelps, |
| Chester Casey, | William Porter, |
| Daniel B. Chalker, | Charles O. Risley, |
| James A. Chadwick, | Eugene Risley, |
| John N. Clemings, | John Sarsfield, |
| Charles A. Cobb, | William H. Sann, |
| George C. Denley, | Leonard Schaeffer, |
| James Dixon, | Henry Shaw, |
| Chauncey F. Doane, | James N. Skinner, |
| Henry H. Doyle, | John C. Smith, |
| Thomas H. Eaton, | James W. Smith, |
| John I. Fowler, | Osborne Smith, |
| Oliver Giddings, | John Terhune, |
| Albert Graham, | Henry Waters, |
| Francis A. Graham, | Charles Weeks, |
| Martin Haley, | John Williams, |
| Thomas C. Hancock, | George W. Whittlesey, |
| Edmond D. Wilmarth. | |
| COMPANY D. | |
| Captain. | |
| George H. Foskit. | |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Oscar W. Sanford. | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |
| George Brennan, | Ephraim Taft. |
| Sergeants. | |
| Michael Noland, | George Root, |
| Francis Patten, | Franklyn D. Winters. |
| Corporals. | |
| James D. Fenton, | Marvin A. Shearer, |
| Alonzo L. Howard, | Daniel Webster, |
| Ralph Lull, | Albro Weir, |
| Francis R. Munsell, | Henry Whiton. |
| Musicians. | |
| Emery Carpenter, | Henry Hotchkiss. |
| Privates. | |
| James H. Adams, | George A. Frinke, |
| John R. Aldrich, | Dexter S. Goodrich, |
| Francis A. Allen, | John Grey, |
| Joseph Allen, | Zebular Grey, |
| Samuel Bartlett, | Jeremiah Guiney, |
| David Belcher, | John Halthouszer, |
| James M. Blanchard, | Samson Hulett, |
| John Brennan, | Elam Hyde, |
| Abner S. Brooks, | Henry K. Knapp, |
| John Bumstead, | Dwight Leonard, |
| James Clark, | Homer A. Lord, |
| Paine Cleveland, | Freeman Marcy, |
| Frederick A. Close, | Gustin B. Marble, |
| Timothy Collins, | Henry McKinney, |
| Aaron Converse, | Theodore P. Needham, |
| Andrew A. Converse, | David E. Norris, |
| Sumner Converse, | George Patten, |
| John Corcoran, | Albert C. Pinney, |
| Nathaniel Cushman, | Julius Pinney, |
| Erwin O. Dimock, | Lucius Pinney, |
| William H. Dudley, | Calvin Porter, |
| Leander Duncan, | David W. Putney, |
| Sereno E. Dwight, | William Rodgers, Jr., |
| Penuel Eddy, | Dwight Scripture, |
| William G. Faulkner, | James N. Sibley, |
| Truman P. Fenton, | Ira P. Sisson, |
| George Ferry, | Abraham H. Vanshaack, |
| Adorno P. Fisk, | Joseph A. Washburn, |
| John Foskitt, | Madison C. Willis, |
| William A. Francis, | John Wood, |
| Giles Woodworth. | |
| COMPANY E. | |
| Captains. | |
| Newton P. Johnson, | Leander Waterman. |
| First Lieutenants. | |
| Almon C. Banning, | Robert T. Duncan. |
| Second Lieutenant. | |
| Edward Pinney. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| George B. Thurston, | Miletus H. Carrier, |
| Eugene C. Alderman, | Marcillus C. Clark, |
| Miles H. Barnard, | Henry W. Davis. |
| Corporals. | |
| James Boyle, | Alexandria Patterson, |
| Wilbur B. Case, | Edward D. Prindle, |
| William W. Clark, | Morton Sandford, |
| Emery M. Griffin, | Julius Weed, |
| Andrew N. Moore, | George L. Wells. |
| Musicians. | |
| Ezra Smart, | William H. Wallin. |
| Privates. | |
| Owen Bacon, | Frederick Kramer, |
| Elbert I. Barning, | Charles H. Lamphear, |
| William Barton, | Webster B. Latham, |
| Lyman J. Barden, | Samuel A. Lawton, |
| Eugene Brown, | William Maher, |
| Phelps Church, | Francis Mann, |
| Franklyn Clark, | Lucius F. Marks, |
| George H. Clark, | Patric McAuliffee, |
| Miles C. Clark, | John McAuley, |
| Dewitt Coe, | Francis Messinger, |
| Leverett H. Coe, | Harlow Messenger, |
| Sylvester T. Cook, | Lorenzo Messenger, |
| Theron Cowdry, | Richard Moore, |
| Leavett Emmons, | Marcus Moses, |
| Luther W. Eno, | Alfred A. Phelps, |
| Patrick Farley, | Nelson W. Pierce, |
| Thomas Farley, | James Reynolds, |
| James McGoodrich, | George M. Searles, |
| Edwin J. Gower, | John Shaughnessy, |
| Sparling J. Gower, | Edward Sperry, |
| Henry E. Griffin, | Hiram F. Squire, |
| James Harvey, | John Lydenham, |
| Gilbert Hayes, | Charles W. Tallmadge, |
| Elizah T. Holcomb, | Lewis C. Tallmadge, |
| Tryon Holcomb, | George Taylor, |
| Steven A. Hollister, | Leroy Tuller, |
| Elizah Hyer, | Charles E. Tyning, |
| Alonzo S. Jones, | Hiram L. Warner, |
| William H. Kempton, | Charles Wilcox, |
| William Wilson. | |
| COMPANY F. | |
| Captain. | |
| George H. Napheys. | |
| First Lieutenants. | |
| Henry Kimball, | Henry H. Goodale. |
| Sergeants. | |
| Jonas G. Holden, | Charles D. Grover, |
| vHenry R. Pease, | Augustus S. Lancaster, |
| William O. Bissell, | Carlos W. Thrall. |
| Corporals. | |
| Charles K. Belknap, | Harlow Spencer, |
| Orville F. Belknap, | Wallace S. Talcott, |
| Arthur A. Hyde, | John Thompson, |
| Samuel A. Smith, | Alva T. Thrall, |
| Carlos Thumb. | |
| Musicians. | |
| Horton Pease, | George Warner. |
| Privates. | |
| Horatio R. Baker, | Timothy Conner, |
| Roger G. Beebe, | Martin Connins, |
| William H. Bennet, | Patrick Duffy, |
| Norton M. Braman, | William Finney, |
| Patrick Brannen, | Henry M. Fowler, |
| Oliver Burke, | Enoch C. Haskings, |
| Charles Cavanaugh, | William Hatter, |
| John A. Chism, | Francis Hoffman, |
| Harvey E. Kibbee, | John M. Royce, |
| Michael Long, | Samuel Schlesinger, |
| Francis Morgan, | Edward Shears, |
| John Nick, | Charles P. Smith, |
| Alonzo Nobles, | Daniel Sullivan, |
| Mark Nobles, | Francis M. Taft, |
| Andrew Palmer, | Jason Thrall, |
| Byron W. Pease, | Erskine Wallace, |
| John Porus, | Henry Weller, |
| William Reed, | Jonas E. Wilson, |
| George R. Robinson, | James W. Wright, |
| Jerome H. Mather. | |
| COMPANY G. | |
| Captain. | |
| Charles H. Talcott. | |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Hezekiah Bissell. | |
| Second Lieutenant. | |
| Charles Avery. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| Benjamin F. Turner, | Lemuel R. Lord, |
| Samuel C. Harding, | John C. Rockwell, |
| Nathan Willey, | Elijah Ward. |
| Corporals. | |
| Charles H. Barber, | Edwin D. Farnham, |
| Charles H. Bartholemew, | John M. Lee, |
| John Brown, | Walter T. Lord, |
| Erastus Cowles, | John Roe, |
| Wm. H. Ellsworth, | John H. Skillman. |
| Musicians. | |
| Daniel L. Talcott, | Elihu Wattress. |
| Wagoner. | |
| Lucius Crane. | |
| Privates. | |
| Seth S. Allen, | Burgess S. Hale, |
| Henry Avery, | William H. Haling, |
| George W. Ayers, | Samuel Hamilton, |
| Ransford Baker, | John L. Harper, |
| Samuel Barrows, | Julius Hays, |
| Elam Belknap, | Waldo Hayes, |
| Joseph Belknap, | Orrin G. Hollister, |
| Alfred M. Bissell, | Henry C. House, |
| Carlos Bissell, | Dewitt C. House, |
| Samuel T. Bissell, | Elisha E. House, |
| Lavalette Blodgett, | Horace P. Kingsbury, |
| William Brown, | James H. McKee, |
| Albert Covill, | Robert McNorton, |
| James M. Crane, | William Moffitt, |
| Samuel K. Ellis, | Horace H. Newbury, |
| Chauncey B. Ellsworth, | Elihu S. Olcott, |
| John Ellsworth, | Charles Parker, |
| Theodore Ellsworth, | Philander Phiney, |
| Francis O. Fish, | Thomas Rabeth, |
| John F. Fitts, | Maro Robinson, |
| Michael Flinn, | Franklyn Sadd, |
| James F. Fox, | Eugene S. Samson, |
| Charles E. Gage, | Henry M. Sexton, |
| Nathan C. Gibbert, | Henry M. Shipman, |
| Ezra Goodale, | Welles G. Skinner, |
| William M. Goodrich, | Richard Smith, |
| Edward Gowdy, | Nelson H. Staples, |
| Richard C. Green, | Fred W. Ticknor, |
| William W. Green, | William A. Ticknor, |
| Jesse Griffith, | Michael Ward, |
| Gerald Welles. | |
| COMPANY H. | |
| Captain. | |
| William W. Abbey. | |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Dwight Ensworth. | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |
| Bononi E. Buck, | Charles Clapp, |
| John M. Brown. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| Arthur W. Andross, | William M. Hollister, |
| Charles F. Bevins, | Aaron Kinne, |
| Thomas A. Davis, | Sumner Payne, |
| William Holden, | Thomas H. Robins. |
| Corporals. | |
| Daniel W. Dimock, | Theron I. Neff, |
| George D. Fuller, | Willington C. Graves, |
| Oliver Hale, | Julius H. Smith, |
| John H. Hunt, | Justus R. Stevens. |
| Musicians. | |
| William Hempstead, | George Robinson. |
| Privates. | |
| Burton P. Buell, | Charles M. Parmelee, |
| Edward L. Barber, | Franklyn Parmelee, |
| George E. Belden, | William H. Pelton, |
| George F. Belden, | Thomas G. Porter, |
| Lyman P. Bemont, | Ambrose Reynolds, |
| Horace E. Brown, | Charles E. Rich, |
| Egbert Chapman, | Joseph A. Richardson, |
| George A. Chapman, | Benjamin Rogers, |
| George B. Clark, | William Rook, |
| Andrew Conly, | John Ryan, |
| Nicholas W. Cotter, | George W. Simson, |
| Wm. Daley, | Sylvester Skinner, |
| Joseph Dunbar, | Edward Spencer, |
| John Eley, | George W. Spencer, |
| John C. Foote, | Wm. W. Stebins, |
| Truman Foote, | Albert E. Taylor, |
| Joseph Gould, | Evelyn C. Taylor, |
| Joseph R. Gould, | Christopher Walker, |
| William G. Green, | Horace F. Walker, |
| Francis Hale, | James Wallen, |
| Frederick A. Hale, | Marshall J. Warner, |
| Carey Holmes, | Henry W. Webb, |
| Henry C. Holmes, | Francis Wells, |
| Samuel T. Holmes, | George Whitman, |
| Andrew Hollister, | Norman Whitman, |
| David W. Huntington, | Charles Wilson, |
| Newton B. Jacobs, | Wm. Wilson, |
| William W. Kellogg, | John Williams, |
| Charles Kolb, | Lewis F. Wright. |
| COMPANY I. | |
| Captains. | |
| Burritt Darcow, | Hiram W. Harkness. |
| First Lieutenant. | |
| Isaac W. Beach. | |
| Second Lieutenant. | |
| William E. Symonds. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| J. Fayette Douglas, | Charles W. Brown, |
| Charles H. Allspress, | George H. Grant, |
| John C. Mack. | |
| Corporals. | |
| Elbridge Belding, | John M. Francis, |
| Wm. E. Bunnell, | Viette D. Hills, |
| Henry W. Buys, | Merritt Hubbell, |
| Wm. Cocking, | Edgar A. Norton, |
| Charles S. Cook, | George Schubert, |
| Orrin Tuttle. | |
| Musicians. | |
| Andrew J. Davis, | Cornelius A. Day, |
| Oliver A. Hitchcock. | |
| Privates. | |
| Daniel S. Abbot, | John Jacobs, |
| Henry Adams, | Richard Jennings, |
| Solomon Adkins, | Harry W. Judd, |
| John F. Bacon, | Niles M. Keeney, |
| Wm. C. Bancroft, | Theron D. Lewis, |
| Samuel Barton, | Henry Low, |
| Amon L. Bradley, | Charles Morris, |
| Samuel Bradley, | Wm. Morris, |
| Lucian C. Bunnell, | Seereno S. Nichols, |
| Alvinsa H. Case, | Frederick Nightingale, |
| John Conklin, | Patrick Nolan, |
| Frederick A. Cowles, | John Nolan, |
| Silas E. Coye, | Silas Parde, |
| Vitruvius D. Coye, | Albert C. Peck, |
| Charles Crittenden, | Noble Peck, |
| Ambrose A. Curtiss, | Richard L. Peck, |
| John Day, | Edward Pettibone, |
| Jules Dechamp, | Lucinen Philps, |
| Isaac Dozvier, | Henry W. Porter, |
| Wm. C. Elton, | Edward J. Pratt, |
| Harcey R. Fellons, | Francis J. Rathburn, |
| Paul Corini, | Gilbert S. Richmond, |
| Henry O. Hampe, | Burton C. Richardson, |
| Wm. Hart, | Henry Riley, |
| Wm. W. Hubbard, | Henry E. Rockwell, |
| Henry D. Hunt, | Herman D. Saul, |
| Charles W. Hurlburt, | Charles B. Scoville, |
| Joel F. Shepard, | Edward W. Warner, |
| Philo Stevens, | Wm. Webster, |
| Samuel Stocking, | John Wilson, |
| Ira Taft, | James Williams, |
| John Tracy, | Charles Winterfeldt, |
| Henry D. Wright. | |
| COMPANY K. | |
| Captain. | |
| William F. Silloway. | |
| Second Lieutenant. | |
| Senica Gorham. | |
| Sergeants. | |
| James E. Hamilton, | Charles W. Clark, |
| Watson H. Bliss, | John Scantlin, |
| Robert Buckley, | George E. Terry. |
| Corporals. | |
| Ezra C. Ayer, | Robert Mason, |
| Frank Bolles, | Charles E. Puffer, |
| John W. Longdon, | Emerson B. Thomas, |
| James E. Lusk, | Stanley N. Wadsworth. |
| Musicians. | |
| Charles Malona, | Charles Stone. |
| Privates. | |
| Eugene Adam, | Edward W. Case, |
| George W. Arnold, | Horace O. Case, |
| Henry W. Ball, | Marshal W. Case, |
| Hudson W. Ball, | Wm. Case, |
| Cyrus C. Barber, | David Clark, |
| George W. Barren, | Edward Collins, |
| John W. Beach, | John A. Currey, |
| Abel P. Beers, | Joseph W. Curtis, |
| Enos S. Belden, | Franklyn Dart, |
| Walter J. Bliss, | Frederick W. Dart, |
| George D. Buck, | Franklyn B. Davis, |
| Edgar W. Burnham, | Jabez Ferris, |
| Wm. H. Butler, | Henry Forsch, |
| Christopher Carney, | Franklyn B. Fuller, |
| John Carter, | Seth H. Fuller, |
| Wm. Graham, | Israel C. Peck, |
| Alfred D. Hart, | Joseph S. Pember, |
| Isaac Y. Hartson, | Wm. Porter, |
| John B. Hills, | Charles L. Rice, |
| Alphonso J. Hinckley, | Orrin Robbins, |
| Byron W. Hurd, | Richard E. Rose, |
| Thomas G. Jefferson, | Wm. W. Simons, |
| Richard D. Johns, | Wm. K. Spencer, |
| Frederick Keeney, | Wm. K. Strickland, |
| Edwin H. Lathrop, | Sylvester Symonds, |
| David Lewis, | Webster D. Thomas, |
| George V. Lusk, | George W. Thompson, |
| John Mack, | Horace A. Thompson, |
| David A. Malory, | Wm. E. Tucker, |
| Wm. C. Manwarring, | Charles Upson, |
| Emery F. Messenger, | Lucius F. Wadsworth, |
| Eldridge Messenger, | Lynas E. Webster, |
| Obed Messenger, | Henry M. Weed, |
| Lucius Morse, | Freeman Wilcox, |
| Newton H. Morley, | Augustus W. Williams, |
| Wm. E. Morgan, | Wm. L. Winship, |
| Andrew T. Nickols, | Alson T. Woodruff, |
| Charles E. Olmstead, | Asahel Woodford, |
| Norton T. Parsons, | Charles G. Wright. |
The following are friends of S. K. Ellis who served with him in the Twenty-fifth Regiment:
Company G.
Lieutenant Charles Avery, Sergeant Benjamin F. Turner, Sergeant Samuel C. Harding, L. R. Lord, Charles H. Barber, Charles H. Bartholomew, John M. Lee, Daniel L. Tolcott, Elam Belknap, Albert Covill, John F. Fitts, Charles E. Gage, Orrin G. Hollister, Horace P. Kingsbury, Wells G. Skinner, Jerad Wells, Chauncy Ellsworth.
Company B.
First Lieutenant Henry H. Goodale, Charles B. Grover, Arthur A. Hyde, Samuel A. Smith, John Thompson, George R. Warner, Henry W. Coye, William C. Bruce, William W. Chappell, Hiram Craw, Joseph Bailey, Levi Bailey, Avery Brown, Loren Wright, George Wicks, John Silcox.