The Twenty Eighty Regiment on Its Final Parade
rooklyn Argus 21 February 1878 Nearly Fifty Per Cent of the Men Absent Trouble about the State Property What was Said and Done Origin and War Record of the Regiment. Mustered Out The Twenty-eighth Regiment received its quietus last night by being publicly mustered out of the State service. The event took place at the Stagg street armory. The cause of the disbandment of the command has already been fully stated in this paper. Whatever honorable reputation the regiment earned during the war, it tried hard subsequently to destroy, till finally it became a mere rabble. To say that there were no good men in the command would be to assert that which is not a fact, for there were many. Its weakness was in its officers. As a military gentleman of distinction remarked a few days ago: "The officers killed the regiment.". The final extinguisher came when the commanding officer failed to promulgate the orders for disbandment, and fell back on politics to hold the regiment. The Muster Out. There was a large and somewhat rough crowd of visitors at the armory, and notwithstanding the orders conspicuously posted on the walls, "No Smoking Allowed," nearly everybody smoked. Even while Captain J. Henry STOREY, the mustering officer, was calling the rolls, some of the members stood with dirty black pipes in their mouths. No attempt was made by the officers of the Twenty-eighth to keep back the crowd, so that the companies were nearly surrounded, and the mustering officer had scarcely room to move his elbow. Some of the members were inclined to be noisy, but on the whole, there was not much to complain of in that respect. Very few of the men saluted the mustering officer when they stepped out to receive their discharges. Capt. STOREY exercised great caution in giving out the discharges, taking care to identify the men in order to prevent the documents falling into the hands of improper persons. The following are the OFFICIAL FIGURES of the muster out. Totals by Column 1.#Mustered Out Rolls 2.#,% and Received disch’s 3.Absent Field 1 1 0 Staff 0 4 0 Sen Commission Staff 7 5 12 Musicians 19 18 21 Company A ? 12 29 Company B 40 32 17 Company E 71 43 28 Company G _8 28 45 Company H 56 38 20 Company I 51 21 93 Total 113 22 293 [I couldn’t read a lot of these #’s, so the totals don’t add up-now] The officers absent were F irst Lieut. Wm. H. TREYZ, commanding Company A; Second Lieut. John BAUMGARTNER, Company E; Capt John E. MARTENS, Second Lieut. James G. LAUDERS of Company G, Capt John A. OSTERMANN of Company I. Back To MILITARY Main Back To BROOKLYN Main