father and uncle, Colonel George Hambright, serving during the War of 1812 and after- ward. Henry was made a First Lieutenant during the Mexican War. Later, dur- ing the Civil War, he commanded the 79th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volun- teers as a colonel, and upon the mustering out of the 79th, he was

near the foot of Missionary Ridge. The Eleventh Army Corps marched out and attacked them. And the artillery opened on them from most all our forts and there is a good many of them about here. They poured the shot and shell into the rebel lines until dark, then all ceased for that day. That night the