DALLAS MARTIN VERNON -- 93rd and 142nd INFANTRYONLY ONE RETURNED -- Byron Vernon and his younger brother, Dallas Martin Vernon, enlisted in September 1864. Dallas enlisted on September 1st, and Byron enlisted on September 19th. They were part of a contingent of badly-needed replacements troops for the 142nd Infantry. Dallas had previously been in the 93rd Infantry for 11 months and was discharged to disability from a hospital in Philadelphia on December 12, 1862.Between May and October 1864, when they finally joined their regiment in the field, the 142nd had sustained 292 casualties. The brothers arrived from their home in Bolton, NY, after the Battle of Chaffin's Farm at the end of September where the 142nd had 67 casualties. Their first battle was at the end of October at Darbytown Road, VA. Byron was wounded in action there on October 27th and died of his wounds on November 20, 1864, in hospital in Virginia.Dallas remained with Company E, the company the brothers shared, until the end of the war. After Darbytown Road, the regiment went to North Carolina, assaulted Fort Fisher twice and received 100 more casualties. For the rest of the war, they had no more casualties and ended their service in the Campaign of the Carolinas at the Bennett House where General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman.Dallas returned to Warren County, married Mary, and in 1900, we find him working as a bartender in Wisconsin.
