Rice County, Minnesota
Civil War
Second Regiment Infantry

This regiment was organized in July, 1861. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., in October 1861, and assigned to the Army of Ohio. It was engaged in the following marches, battles, skirmishes and sieges:


  • Mill Spring, January 19, 1862
  • siege of Corinth, April 1862
  • Transferred to the Army of Tennesee
  • Bragg's Raid, Perryville, October 8, 1862
  • Skirmishes of the Tullahoma campain, Chicamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863
  • Mission Ridge, November 23, 1863
  • Veteranized in January, 1864 and participated in the battles and skirmishes of the Atlanta campain
  • Resaca, June 14, 15 and 16, 1864
  • Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864
  • Jonesboro; Sherman's March through the Georgia and the Carolinas
  • Bentonville, March 19, 1865
  • Mustered out at Louisville, Ky.
  • Discharged at Fort Snelling, July 11, 1865

  • This regiment covered itself with laurels at the battle of Mission Ridge, It was known as the "Bloody Second".


    Company A.
    Private

    Owen, Appoles

    Company B.
    Privates

    Bradley, James
    Childs, Stephan R.
    McStotts, William
    Whitehouse, George

    Company C.
    Privates

    Newell, George B.
    Wood, Edwin H.

    Company D.
    Privates

    Kelcher, Martin
    Kartack, Joseph
    Mills, William

    Company F.
    Private

    Lachapell, Gabriel

    Company G.
    Private

    Clute, Joseph

    Company H.
    Privates

    Capron, Joseph
    Hodgen, Charles

    Company I.
    Privates

    Halladay, Ira
    Kellogg, Edward
    Snyder, Frank
    Swain, Hiram

    Company K.
    Cloverdale, David S. Corporal, promoted to Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, and Captian

    Privates
    Adams, Thomas
    Bondurant, Cyrus S.
    Emery, Andrew L.
    Gould, John W.
    Gould, Samuel
    Phillbrook, Riley J.
    Poe, Johnathan
    Schofield, Francis


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