JEFFERSON COUNTY NEW YORK
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS' BIOGRAPHIES
Lemuel Munroe Taber
Union Soldier - Distinguished Service
Lemuel Munroe Taber enlisted at Lorraine NY on 2 Dec 1861 (claiming to be 18 years of age). He was mustered on 10 Mar 1862, a Private in Company C of the 94th NY Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Lemuel was wounded in action on 13 Dec 1862 at the Battle of Fredericksburg, a day infamous for "the most useless slaughter" of the Civil War, when General Ambrose Burnside "with insane stupidity" repeatedly ordered his Union troops to make frontal attacks across open ground toward the heights where entrenched Rebel forces could rain artillery and rifle fire down and repel each attack, "leaving thousands of killed and wounded lying literally in heaps."
Lemuel served in many of the bloodiest campaigns of the War, until honorably discharged on 18 Jul 1865. He was born in 1843, the son of George W. Taber and Abigail Hart. After the war he married Esther Reed. He died in 1903.
Sources
History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 656.
Jefferson County NYGenWeb, US Civil War Service Records, "Electronic," for Lemuel Taber, www.Rootsweb