August, Monday 18, 1862

By Cedar Mountain, Culpeper Va.

General mustering by orders of the war ministry to report all the missing soldiers and officers. Company C is fifty-eight men strong including those assigned to special duties, plus three officers = sixty-one. After that officers meeting. Lieutenant Dros elevated to captaincy Company J. (Vice Hochleiter resigns.) Different elevations to Lieutenants and Brevet Lieutenants which encounters unpleasant reactions. Scene between Major Dobke and Captain Dessauer who accuses the first of drunkeness. INTRIGUES ----which are to be resolve by General Sigel.

About three-thirty o'clock marching orders. All tents are being dismantled. Rations are allotted for three days. It is said that our wagons are returning. The newspapers reported several days ago Gordonsville was taken by ours. Also the recruiting party which was scheduled to leave tomorrow morning for New York, immediately after payment by the paymaster, must go with the regiment. Ordnance Sergeant Lomler is elevated to second Lieutenant assigned to our Company C. Brevet Lieutenant Koblanz now First Lieutenant transferred to Company A.

In the evening the marchorder is set for one o'clock in the morning. The night is cool and since our baggage is on the wagons and the blankets rolled in with it, our quarters for the night are quite cold.

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DESSAUER, FRANCIS.-Age, 28 years. Enrolled, September 4, 1861, to serve three years, and mustered in as a first lieutenant, Co. I, September 9, 1861; as captain, Co. B, March 10, 1862; killed in action, May 2, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Va.; commissioned first lieutenant, November 4, 1861, with rank from September 4, 1861, original; captain, not mustered, December 23, 1861, with rank from November 28, 1861, vice Jacob Mattern, resigned; recommissioned, April 5, 1862, with rank from March 10, 1862, vice himself, resigned; resignation revoked.

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DOBKE, ADOLPHUS.-Age 40 years. Enrolled September 2, 1861 at New York city, to serve three years; mustered in as captain, Co. D, September 24, 1861; as major, June 15, 1862; as lieutenant-colonel, May 19, 1863; transferred to Fifty-eighth Infantry, June 30, 1865; commissioned captain, November 4, 1861, with rank from September 2, 1861, original; major, August 28, 1862, with rank from June 15, 1862, vice Charles Semsey, resigned; lieutenant-colonel, August 7, 1863, with rank from May 11, 1863, vice E.C. Wratislaw, resigned; colonel, not mustered, March 16, 1864, with rank from January 22, 1864, vice G. Von Amsberg, discharged.

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LOMLER, ERNEST.-Age 24 years. Enrolled August 29, 1861, at New York city, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co. C, September 9, 1861; promoted ordnance sergeant, September 12, 1861; mustered in as second lieutenant, Co. C, October 27, 1862; discharged, February 2, 1863; commissioned second lieutenant, November 4, 1862, with rank from August 31, 1862, vice H. Dietz, promoted.

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No reference found to a Lieutenant Keblanz/Koblanz or anything comparable in the Roster.