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From Our Own Correspondent.

Washington, Sunday, July 3, 1864. 

The Sixty-second New-York Volunteers, Col. Nevin, reached Washington this morning from the front, by the mail-boat, in route for New-York, its term of service having expired as a three years' regiment

The regiment now numbers, of those going home, eighty enlisted men, under the following officers: Col. Nevin, Lieut.-Col. T. P. Hamilton, Surgeon F. G. Grinner [F. S. Grimes], Assistant-Surgeon J. Reagles, Jr., Adjt. Samuel C. Thwait, Quartermaster Wm. Brady, Chaplain Jno. Harvey, Captain. Wm. Ackerman, Capt. Wm. Davis, Capt. George H. Eddy, Capt. Wm. H. Baker, Lieut. E. H. Morris, Lieut. W. W. Sherman, Lieut. Jno. T. Cumming, Lieut. Wm. Barnet, Lieut. Samuels, Lieut. Sanford J. Dockstader, and Lieut. Wm. Milligan.

The regiment leaves eighty-seven reenlisted veterans in the field, who will be used exclusively as skirmishers and sharpshooters on detached service.

This regiment retires from the field with laurels second to none among those of our veteran organizations which have numerous battles inscribed on their banness. The following are the general engagements in which the Sixty-second has taken part: "Williamsburgh," "Fair Oaks," "Turkey Bend," "Malvern Hill." "South Mountain," "Anteitam," "First" and "Second Fredericksburgh," "Rappahannock Station," "Wilderness," "Spottsylvania," "Cold Harbor," and "Petersburgh."

During its term of service the regiment has lost six hundred and fifty men, embracing killed and wounded.

Gen. Getty, commanding Second Division, Sixth Division, Sixth Corps, wounded at the Wilderness Battle, returned to his command on the 29th ultimo… 

New York Times, July 8, 1864, Page 8. 

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