Jeremiah Clinton Drake

  COL. DRAKE, OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH
         NEW-YORK VOLUNTEERS.
 Col. DRAKE, of the One Hundred and Twelfth
New-York Volunteers, who was killed in the action
at Cold Harbor on June 2, was about 38 years of age,
and was born and brought up in Herkimer Co., N.
Y., whence he removed to Wisconsin and was for
sometime engaged in mercatile pursuits, Subse-
quent to this he removed to Rochester, N.Y., and
commenced the prearatory studied for a colliegiate
course. He entered the Madison University at the      
beginning of the Academic year in 1849, under the
chancellorship of Hon. Ira Harris, L.L.D., now a
Senator of the United States. Col. Drake, after
an academic course, was admitted to the degree of
A.B., at the University in 1852. He then mastered
a thorough course in theology, and at the outbreak 
of the rebellion was occupying the pulpit of the
Baptist Church, at Westfield, in this county, but he
volunteered in the Forty-ninth Regiment New-York
Volunteers, and was elected Captain. He served
about one year in the Forty-ninth, being with Mc-
CLELLAN in the disasters of the Peninsular campaign,
and was frequently temporarily in command of the
regiment. Upon the organization of the One Hundred 
and Twelfth New-York, accepted the colonelcy of
the regiment. In the command of this regiment he
served with credit in the long seige of Suffolk, in
1863-63, in the seige of Charleston, under Gen. GILL-
MORE; in the recent Florida campaign, and when
the One Hundred and Twelfth with other regiments,
was ordered to Butler's Department, Fort Monroe.