Amasa Bartlett, age 21, enlisted at Saratoga Springs, NY, on 12 Aug 1862, to serve a 3-year tour. He was mustered in as private to G Co, 115th INF REG (NY VOL) on 19 Aug 1862. The regiment rendezvoused in Fulton, NY, and on 29 Aug he took trains to Sandy Hook, MD, to join the Army of the Potomac.
Two weeks later, on 15 Sept 1862, the regiment faced the Confederates at Harpers Ferry, VA, and while historians disagree as to the reason, General Miles surrendered all 11,000 men to General Sherman. Due to their sheer numbers, they were paroled the following day and allowed to leave in peace but without rations or supplies.
On 20 Feb 1864 the 115th was in the worst battle of the war; it lost over half its men. Amasa was one of them. He was shot, and his commander stated that he saw him crawling back to the line and believes that he died shortly thereafter.
The dead were buried in a shallow grave, and a few years later animals had ravished the site, and bones were scattered about. The remains were all reburied, and the site was turned into a Historic Park in
May 1867. Amasa's mother, Emily Bartlett, applied for a pension. She was 67, and his father, Eber Bartlett, was 87 on 25 Dec 1866. He was extremely feeble. His parents lived in Bennington, VT.
NOTE ABOUT BURIALS In 1866, a U.S. Army unit under Lieutenant Frederick E. Grossman was dispatched to Olustee to inspect the resting places of the over 200 Union men who had fallen there two years prior. Many of the remains, which had been buried hastily in shallow graves after the battle, had become exposed by animals and the elements. Grossman's men reburied the remains of 125 soldiers in a more permanent mass grave, which they marked with large wooden cross and fencing. By the 1870s this had deteriorated, and the grave site was lost by the time Confederate organizations started campaigning to preserve the battlefield. In 1991, the Sons of Union Veterans placed a granite cross where the Union mass grave is thought to lie. It bears the same inscriptions from the original wooden memorial, invoking "Unity and Peace" and "Our County." It is located in a poorly maintained cemetery outside Olustee Battlefield State Park property. It is the only memorial to Union soldiers in the area, though the Sons of Union Veterans and other groups have pushed for a fuller Union monument near the Confederate one. This proposal has met with resistance from pro-Confederate locals and state inaction.
Two weeks later, on 15 Sept 1862, the regiment faced the Confederates at Harpers Ferry, VA, and while historians disagree as to the reason, General Miles surrendered all 11,000 men to General Sherman. Due to their sheer numbers, they were paroled the following day and allowed to leave in peace but without rations or supplies.
On 20 Feb 1864 the 115th was in the worst battle of the war; it lost over half its men. Amasa was one of them. He was shot, and his commander stated that he saw him crawling back to the line and believes that he died shortly thereafter.
The dead were buried in a shallow grave, and a few years later animals had ravished the site, and bones were scattered about. The remains were all reburied, and the site was turned into a Historic Park in
May 1867. Amasa's mother, Emily Bartlett, applied for a pension. She was 67, and his father, Eber Bartlett, was 87 on 25 Dec 1866. He was extremely feeble. His parents lived in Bennington, VT.
NOTE ABOUT BURIALS In 1866, a U.S. Army unit under Lieutenant Frederick E. Grossman was dispatched to Olustee to inspect the resting places of the over 200 Union men who had fallen there two years prior. Many of the remains, which had been buried hastily in shallow graves after the battle, had become exposed by animals and the elements. Grossman's men reburied the remains of 125 soldiers in a more permanent mass grave, which they marked with large wooden cross and fencing. By the 1870s this had deteriorated, and the grave site was lost by the time Confederate organizations started campaigning to preserve the battlefield. In 1991, the Sons of Union Veterans placed a granite cross where the Union mass grave is thought to lie. It bears the same inscriptions from the original wooden memorial, invoking "Unity and Peace" and "Our County." It is located in a poorly maintained cemetery outside Olustee Battlefield State Park property. It is the only memorial to Union soldiers in the area, though the Sons of Union Veterans and other groups have pushed for a fuller Union monument near the Confederate one. This proposal has met with resistance from pro-Confederate locals and state inaction.
Amasa Bartlett, age 21, enlisted at Saratoga Springs, NY, on 12 Aug 1862, to serve a 3-year tour. He was mustered in as private to G Co, 115th INF REG (NY VOL) on 19 Aug 1862. The regiment rendezvoused in Fulton, NY, and on 29 Aug he took trains to Sandy Hook, MD, to join the Army of the Potomac.
Two weeks later, on 15 Sept 1862, the regiment faced the Confederates at Harpers Ferry, VA, and while historians disagree as to the reason, General Miles surrendered all 11,000 men to General Sherman. Due to their sheer numbers, they were paroled the following day and allowed to leave in peace but without rations or supplies.
On 20 Feb 1864 the 115th was in the worst battle of the war; it lost over half its men. Amasa was one of them. He was shot, and his commander stated that he saw him crawling back to the line and believes that he died shortly thereafter.
The dead were buried in a shallow grave, and a few years later animals had ravished the site, and bones were scattered about. The remains were all reburied, and the site was turned into a Historic Park in
May 1867. Amasa's mother, Emily Bartlett, applied for a pension. She was 67, and his father, Eber Bartlett, was 87 on 25 Dec 1866. He was extremely feeble. His parents lived in Bennington, VT.
NOTE ABOUT BURIALS In 1866, a U.S. Army unit under Lieutenant Frederick E. Grossman was dispatched to Olustee to inspect the resting places of the over 200 Union men who had fallen there two years prior. Many of the remains, which had been buried hastily in shallow graves after the battle, had become exposed by animals and the elements. Grossman's men reburied the remains of 125 soldiers in a more permanent mass grave, which they marked with large wooden cross and fencing. By the 1870s this had deteriorated, and the grave site was lost by the time Confederate organizations started campaigning to preserve the battlefield. In 1991, the Sons of Union Veterans placed a granite cross where the Union mass grave is thought to lie. It bears the same inscriptions from the original wooden memorial, invoking "Unity and Peace" and "Our County." It is located in a poorly maintained cemetery outside Olustee Battlefield State Park property. It is the only memorial to Union soldiers in the area, though the Sons of Union Veterans and other groups have pushed for a fuller Union monument near the Confederate one. This proposal has met with resistance from pro-Confederate locals and state inaction.
Two weeks later, on 15 Sept 1862, the regiment faced the Confederates at Harpers Ferry, VA, and while historians disagree as to the reason, General Miles surrendered all 11,000 men to General Sherman. Due to their sheer numbers, they were paroled the following day and allowed to leave in peace but without rations or supplies.
On 20 Feb 1864 the 115th was in the worst battle of the war; it lost over half its men. Amasa was one of them. He was shot, and his commander stated that he saw him crawling back to the line and believes that he died shortly thereafter.
The dead were buried in a shallow grave, and a few years later animals had ravished the site, and bones were scattered about. The remains were all reburied, and the site was turned into a Historic Park in
May 1867. Amasa's mother, Emily Bartlett, applied for a pension. She was 67, and his father, Eber Bartlett, was 87 on 25 Dec 1866. He was extremely feeble. His parents lived in Bennington, VT.
NOTE ABOUT BURIALS In 1866, a U.S. Army unit under Lieutenant Frederick E. Grossman was dispatched to Olustee to inspect the resting places of the over 200 Union men who had fallen there two years prior. Many of the remains, which had been buried hastily in shallow graves after the battle, had become exposed by animals and the elements. Grossman's men reburied the remains of 125 soldiers in a more permanent mass grave, which they marked with large wooden cross and fencing. By the 1870s this had deteriorated, and the grave site was lost by the time Confederate organizations started campaigning to preserve the battlefield. In 1991, the Sons of Union Veterans placed a granite cross where the Union mass grave is thought to lie. It bears the same inscriptions from the original wooden memorial, invoking "Unity and Peace" and "Our County." It is located in a poorly maintained cemetery outside Olustee Battlefield State Park property. It is the only memorial to Union soldiers in the area, though the Sons of Union Veterans and other groups have pushed for a fuller Union monument near the Confederate one. This proposal has met with resistance from pro-Confederate locals and state inaction.
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