he artillery of the division. All
active operations coming to an end with the final surrender of
Johnston on the 26th of April, about the 4th of May the division
went back to Savannah. On the 11th of May it marched to Augusta,
leaving Day with all his regiments except the 24th Iowa and the
128th New York to take care of Savannah.

Meanwhile, orders being issued by the government for disbanding
the regiments whose time was to expire before the 1st of November,
and the re-enlisted veterans of Dwight's division beginning to
arrive in Savannah on the 5th of June, Birge's brigade came down
from Augusta on the 7th and Day marched on the 9th to replace it.

From this time the work of disintegration went on rapidly, yet all
too slowly for the impatience of the soldiers, now thinking only
of home, and soon sickened by the weary routine of provost duty in
the first dull days of peace. What was left of the divisions of
Dwight and Grover continued to occupy Charleston, Savannah, and
Augusta, and the chief towns of Georgia and South Carolina.

When at last the final separation came, and little by little the
old corps fell apart, every man, as with inexpressible yearning he
turned his face homeward, bore with him, as the richest heritage
of his children and his children's children, the proud consciousness
of duty done.

(1) Beal's, of Dwight's division. Dudley, having rejoined November
2d, commanded it till November 14th, when Beal came back and relieved
him; again from November 18th to December 7th, when a dispute as
to relative and brevet rank was ended by Beal's receiving his
commission as a full brigadier-general.

APPENDIX.

ROSTERS.

I.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
As of March 22, 1862.

First Brigade:
Brig.-Gen. John W. Phelps
8th New Hampshire Col. Hawkes Fearing, Jr.
9th Connecticut Col. Thomas W. Cahill
7th Vermont Col. George T. Roberts
8th Vermont Col. Stephen Thomas
12th Connecticut Col. Henry C. Deming
13th Connecticut Col. Henry W. Birge
1st Vermont Battery Capt. George W. Duncan
2d Vermont Battery Capt. Pythagoras E. Holcomb
4th Massachusetts Battery Capt. Charles H. Manning (1)
Capt. George G. Trull
A 2d Battalion Massachusetts Cavalry Capt. S. Tyler Read

Second Brigade: