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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it -under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this -eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you are not -located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this ebook.</p> -<p>Title: The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1863</p> -<p>Author: John Gray Gammons</p> -<p>Release Date: September 4, 2020 [eBook #63115]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: UTF-8</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE THIRD MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT VOLUNTEER MILITIA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1861-1863***</p> -<p> </p> -<h4 class="pgx" title="">E-text prepared by John Campbell<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="https://archive.org">https://archive.org</a>)</h4> -<p> </p> -<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - Note: - </td> - <td> - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - <a href="https://archive.org/details/thirdmassachuset03gamm"> - https://archive.org/details/thirdmassachuset03gamm</a> - </td> - </tr> -</table> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> -<div class="transnote"> -<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> -<p>Changes to the text are noted at the <a href="#TN">end of the book.</a></p> -</div> -<hr class="pgx" /> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i002" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i002.jpg" alt="Frontispiece" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap"><ins class="corr" id="tn-i002" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'The Complier'"> -The Compiler</ins>, Rev. JOHN G. GAMMONS, Ph. D.</span></div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap pg-brk" /> - -<h1> -THE<br /> -<br /> -<span class="fs150">THIRD MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT</span><br /> -<br /> -VOLUNTEER MILITIA</h1> - -<p class="p2 pfs100 smcap">In the War of the Rebellion,</p> - -<p class="p1 pfs100">1861-1863.</p> - -<hr class="p2 r15" /> - -<p class="p2 pfs80">BY</p> - -<p class="p1 pfs120 smcap">Rev. JOHN G. GAMMONS, Ph. D.</p> - -<hr class="p4 r15" /> - -<p class="p4 pfs80 lsp">PROVIDENCE:<br /> -<span class="smcap">Snow & Farnham Co., Printers</span>.<br /> -1906.</p> - - -<hr class="chap pg-brk" /> - -<p class="p6 pfs90">DEDICATED</p> - -<p class="p1 pfs70">TO</p> - -<p class="pfs120">COLONEL SILAS P. RICHMOND</p> - -<p class="p2 pfs70">WHOSE PRUDENCE,<br /> -<br /> -DISCIPLINE, AND DEVOTION<br /> -<br /> -TO THE<br /> -<br /> -WELFARE OF THE MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND,<br /> -<br /> -WON THEIR LASTING ESTEEM<br /> -<br /> -AND AFFECTION.</p> - -<p class="p2 pfs90 right padr20pc"><em>By the Committee.</em></p> - - -<hr class="p4 chap" /> - -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[Pg iii]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PREFACE">PREFACE.</h2> -</div> - -<hr class="r10" /> - -<p>To pick up the thread after it has been dropped; -to supply the missing link after forty years; to step -into the shoes of a dead comrade are things to be -desired only by a conceited egotist, yet all these -things were forced upon me by a unanimous vote of -the Third Regimental Association at their annual -meeting at Dighton Rock, in August, 1904.</p> - -<p>The Rev. Charles Snow, the Association’s first -choice (and no one was better fitted than he to -write the history of the <ins class="corr" id="tn-iii" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Third Rgiment)'"> -Third Regiment)</ins>, having been its chaplain and therefore acquainted with all -the facts in the history of the field and staff officers, -as also with that of nearly all of the line officers, -both before and after the war, was the man of all -the officers in the regiment to compile the Regimental -History and publish the same. Moreover, he -was retired from active service and considered it a -privilege rather than a duty to recall the past and -again live over the days with the “boys in blue” with -whom he had marched and suffered; but God had -decreed otherwise, and so Chaplain Snow was called<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span> -to the great camping ground above. He died at -Taunton, Mass., Nov. 28, 1903, at the ripe age of -seventy-four years.</p> - -<p>Chaplain Snow had gathered much material and -many facts relating to the outlines of the history -of the regiment; he had written many letters and -had chronicled their answers; yet at the time of his -death only the history of Company A had been written. -Several of the comrades appointed to write -the history of their companies considered themselves -incompetent for the task, and those who have -written their company history had to be encouraged -to finish their “course with joy.” Hundreds, if not -thousands, of letters had to be written by the compiler -and the writers of company histories, and in -some instances it required all the elasticity of patience -in waiting for an answer. But why wonder -when we call to mind the many years since the close -of the war, and the scattered condition of the young -men who composed the rank and file of the Third -Regiment. Some of them are treading the snows -of Alaska and the ice flows of Point Barrows; some -are bringing gold and silver from the mountains of -Idaho, and oil from the valleys of Montana; some -are in France, England, China, and many have an<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span>swered -the last roll call. Long, patient, and persistent -has been the efforts of the writers of this -history, to give to the comrades a book worthy to -be placed in the libraries of every city and town in -Massachusetts, and to be read by every surviving -comrade and his descendants to the end of time.</p> - -<p>No one claims that the history is complete; no -doubt there are many interesting facts written in -diaries lying dust-covered, which would add great -interest could they be found; much valuable history -was long ago committed to the fire in house-cleaning -time as worthless. Yet notwithstanding all -these things your Committee believe that they have -given as full and complete a history as could be -written at this late date, and with the conscious belief -that they have done their duty to the best of -their ability, they submit this volume to the comrades -of the Third Regiment, their friends, and posterity.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indentq">“The cost of peace, Oh! who can tell its worth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The prosperity of a united South and North,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The stain of slavery from the Old Flag gone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Nation living happy, united, strong.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The compiler wishes to make mention of the great<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span> -assistance rendered by Col. S. P. Richmond, Capt. -William Mason, Lieutenant Lyle and Lieutenant -Wilber, George A. Grant, Morton V. Bonney, and the -writers of company histories, and corrected rosters -up to date. We more than thank all for their work -of patriotic effort with the one desire to serve the -members of the Third Regiment, who served in the -same from 1861 to 1863, and many of the same regiment -who served in the various regiments and unattached -companies until the close of the Rebellion. -The aim of the compiler has been to make each -chapter complete in its narrative and historical -record, without referring to other chapters.</p> - -<p class="pad15pc">The Compiler,</p> - -<p class="pad25pc smcap">Rev. Dr. John Gray Gammons.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS.</h2> -</div> - -<hr class="r10" /> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER I.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx"></td> -<td class="tdrb fs90 smcap">Page.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of the Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer<br />Militia, 1861—Three Months’ Service</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER II.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of the Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer<br />Militia—Nine Months’ Service in North Carolina,<br />1862-3</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER III.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">Historical Record of the Field and Non-Commissioned<br />Staff Officers</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER IV.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company A</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER V.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company B</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER VI.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company C</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_133">133</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span> - CHAPTER VII.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company D</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_150">150</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER VIII.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company E</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER IX.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company F</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_205">205</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER X.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company G</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_221">221</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER XI.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company H</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_230">230</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER XII.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company I</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_251">251</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER XIII.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Company K</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_272">272</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdcx">CHAPTER XIV.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlx">History of Third Regiment Massachusetts<br />Volunteer Association</td> -<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_306">306</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ix"></a>[ix]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ILLUSTRATIONS">ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> -</div> - -<hr class="r10" /> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Rev. Dr. John G. Gammons</td> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr" colspan="2"><a href="#i002">Frontispiece</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Col. Silas P. Richmond</td> -<td class="tdc" colspan="2">Opposite page</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i068">49</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Lieut.-Col. James Barton</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i074">53</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Major John Morrissey</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i077">54</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Adjutant Lucian L. Perkins</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i081">56</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Surgeon Alfred A. Stocker</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i085">58</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Chaplain Rev. Charles A. Snow</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i089">60</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. John W. Marble</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i097">66</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Elihu Grant</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i166">133</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Andrew R. Wright</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i185">150</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. John A. Hawes</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i222">185</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. George R. Hurlburt</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i244">205</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. William S. Cobb</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i264">221</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Otis A. Baker</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i275">230</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Barnabas Ewer, Jr.</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i298">251</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Samuel Bates</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i321">272</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Sergt. Patrick Cannavan</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i248">207</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Sketch of the Goldsboro Expedition</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdc">“</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#i042">26</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTORY">INTRODUCTORY.</h2> -</div> - -<hr class="r10" /> - -<p>At the annual reunion of the regimental association -held in East Bridgewater, Aug. 6, 1903, the -question of publishing the history of the Third Regiment -was enthusiastically discussed and approved. -Much valuable material had already been secured -by one of the members and the prospect was bright -and encouraging that an interesting and valuable -narrative could be produced. A committee of ten, -one from each company, was chosen to prepare histories -and rosters of their respective companies, to -aid in compiling the general history. It was unanimously -voted that the work of compiling and publishing -the history be committed to Chaplain Snow, -under the supervision of the Committee. Several -changes have since been found necessary to be made -in the construction of the Committee, as some of -the members first appointed were not able to do the -work assigned them. No great delay, however, has -been caused by these changes, and the preparation -of the volume has been made with reasonable diligence -and dispatch.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<p>In compiling this work the writer has acted as -annalist rather than author. This is usually the -fact in the narration of history, but particularly so -in the present case, since the work has been largely -to arrange materials, and in many portions in -nearly verbatim form, as they were furnished by -others. The labor has proved an agreeable pastime -and this is the only remuneration sought or desired. -Should the volume receive a gratified welcome from -the comrades who served with me in the old Third -Regiment this fact will be regarded as bonus in addition.</p> - -<p>The Third Regiment does not presume to claim, -in any special sense, the honors of a very eventful -career. Circumstances beyond its control made this -impossible. Equipped with unserviceable arms, -which were duly condemned but never exchanged -for better ones, and being assigned mainly to garrison -duty, the term of service of the Third Regiment -was completed without the gravest hardships. I -am sure, however, that the regiment had the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">esprit -de corps</i> requisite for the sternest military service -and sacrifice. It only lacked the opportunity to -prove itself. This proof has been given in a meas<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span>ure -at least, by those who re-enlisted and did noble -service in other regiments, particularly the Fifty-eighth.</p> - -<p>I have been greatly assisted in the collection of -materials, and in their verification, by many of my -comrades, and their interest has been to me a decided -stimulus. The names of the most prominent -ones are given in connection with the articles which -they have contributed.</p> - -<p>Besides the valuable aid rendered by the Committee, -especial commendation is due to Major A. S. -Cushman of East Orange, N. J., whose contributions -are of eminent value as matters of history.</p> - -<p class="right smcap padr4">Charles A. Snow,</p> - -<p class="right"><em>Chaplain,</em> 1862-’63.</p> - -<p class="p4 noindent">————</p> - -<p class="fs80"><span class="smcap">Notes.</span>—Cities and towns mentioned in this volume may be understood -as being in Massachusetts. Otherwise the states are designated in which -they are located.</p> - -<p class="fs80">The photos representing the field and staff officers, also the line officers, -were taken at about the time of enlistment in 1862.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="OUR_FLAG">OUR FLAG.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“’Twas eighteen hundred sixty one, April the twelfth at six,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old Sumter’s gates were firmly barred, and water filled the ditch;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the sentinel with martial tread, the relief expected soon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When upon the air so calm and still, there came a cannon boom.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Beat the long roll,” the Major cried, “bid every man fall in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Secession’s work so long delayed, the Rebels now begin;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But just as true as the Old Flag does from the flagstaff fly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We’ll show the Rebs true Yankee grit, we’ll whip them or we’ll die.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Boom! boom! the cannon loud did roar, the shot flew thick and fast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And many a shell of a hundred pounds close to Old Glory passed.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said Anderson, “My noble men, such things should never be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those stars of light, those bars of gold are emblems of the free.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“That flag, the glory of our land, should we but pull it down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would make our mothers weep for shame, and our sweethearts on us frown.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And every man he loud did shout, “Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No traitor’s hand shall touch that flag, or its glory ever mar!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Our dear Old Flag, in darkest days, inspired the old war song,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“We’re coming Father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when the mud of the Sacred Soil made weary soldiers lag,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then new strength came to march again as we beheld the flag.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When on the field of Winchester, in the thickest of the fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Stars and Stripes were seen aloft, it gave the soldiers might;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when we all were driven back and thought we’d lost the day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then daring Sheridan came up, and unto us did say:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Right about march, just follow me, I’m with you although late;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fix bayonets, charge the Rebel lines, and all the ground retake.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And every man, on foot, on horse, looked like a son of Mars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As he shouted “Down the Rebel flag.” “Hurrah! the Stripes and Stars!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At Gettysburg, our dear Old Flag was riddled by the shot</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And men had fallen by the score, by roadside and in lot.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For three long days we fought the Rebs, repelling Pickett’s charge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the victory of the Old, Old Flag, did every heart enlarge.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When in our country’s darkest hour, our Grant was heard to say:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Be true, my men, to the Old Flag, and you’ll shall see some day</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That victory like the morning sun, will rise and on us shine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For that Old Flag, so dear to me, I’ll fight upon this line.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At Appomattox, in sixty five, we charged the Rebel lines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then in silence, there we stood waiting for further signs</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Until we saw General Grant pass, in arm with General Lee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the Flag of Slavery had surrendered to the great Flag of the Free.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then wave, Old Flag, wave evermore, our fathers fought for thee;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy very presence make us glad, as thy Stars and Stripes we see.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou art the sign of liberty, the glory of our land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And long our institutions free, like bulwarks sure shall stand.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sentinel of old, stand at thy post, and from the flagstaff fly;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For thee, and for thy honor bright, our comrades dared to die.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Receive the honors due to thee, and may we all be true</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Stars and Stripes, our country’s flag: The Red, The White, The Blue.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent31"><span class="smcap">By the Compiler.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">History of the Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, 1861—Three Months’ -Service.</span></p></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indentq">“<span class="smcap">Pride</span> of New England! Soul of our fathers!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shrink we all craven-like, when the storm gathers?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What though the tempest be over us lowering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where’s the New Englander shamefully cowering?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Graves green and holy around us are lying,—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Free were the sleepers all, living and dying!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If we whispered the truth, whisper no longer;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speak as the tempest does, sterner and stronger;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Still be the tones of truth louder and firmer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Startling the haughty South with the deep murmur;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">God and our charter’s right, freedom forever!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Truce with oppression, never, O, never!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent25"><span class="smcap">J. G. Whittier</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p>The Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Infantry, as its number seems to indicate, claims -relationship with the earliest forces of the Commonwealth. -The claim is well sustained by the fact -that seven companies from Bristol and Plymouth -counties helped to compose the original regiment,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> -and became the nucleus of the Third Regiment -which served in the Civil War. These seven companies -were:</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company A, Halifax Light Infantry.</span></h3> - -<p>Organized in 1792, receiving its charter from John -Hancock, then Governor of Massachusetts. The officers -at that time were: Capt. Asa Thompson, -First Lieut. Cephus Washburn, Jr., Second Lieut. -Charles P. Lyon.</p> - -<p>Captain Thompson was a mighty man of valor, of -gigantic proportions, being six feet and seven inches -in height in normal condition, and eight feet with -his captain’s cap on. On parade and muster this -company attracted attention, not only by the Saul-like -appearance of its captain, but also by the large -bearskin caps worn by the officers and men. Tradition -says that when Captain Thompson marched -his army across South Boston bridge, throngs of -men, women, and children collected to see “the -giant” and his men, and not a few trembled with -fear lest the bridge should not be able to support -the captain and his great company.</p> - -<p>When called into service in 1861 this company<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> -was officered by Capt. Joseph S. Harlow, of Middleboro; -First Lieut. Cephus Washburn, Jr., of Kingston; -Second Lieut. Charles P. Lyon, of Halifax.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company B, Standish Guards, of Plymouth.</span></h3> - -<p>At the opening of the War this company was officered -by Capt. C. C. Doten, of Plymouth; First -Lieut. Otis Rogers, of Plymouth; Second Lieut. -William B. Alexander, of Boston. Officers and men, -69.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company C, Cambridge Light Infantry.</span></h3> - -<p>Capt. James P. Richardson; First Lieut. Samuel -E. Chamberlain; Second Lieut. Edward F. -Richardson. Officers and men, 97.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company G, Assonet Light Infantry, of Freetown.</span></h3> - -<p>Organized in 1850. Capt. John W. Marble; First -Lieut. Humphrey A. Francis; Second Lieut. John -M. Dean. Officers and men, 24.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company H, Samoset Guards, Plympton.</span></h3> - -<p>On entering the three months’ service this com<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span>pany -had as its officers: Capt. Lucian L. Perkins; -First Lieut. Oscar E. Washburn, of Plympton; -Second Lieut. Southworth, of Middleboro. Officers -and men, 56.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company K, Bay State Light Infantry.</span></h3> - -<p>Capt. William S. McFarlin, of South Carver; -First Lieut. John Dunham, of North Carver; Second -Lieut. John L. Porter, of New Bedford. Officers -and men, 62.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Company L, City Guards.</span></h3> - -<p>Organized in 1853. Capt. Timothy Ingraham, of -New Bedford; First Lieut. James Barton, of New -Bedford; Second Lieut. Austin S. Cushman, of New -Bedford. Officers and men, 78.</p> - - -<h3><span class="smcap">Third Regiment Infantry, Three Months’ Men.</span></h3> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Furnished by Major Cushman.</span>]</p> - -<p>This regiment was under the command of Col. -D. W. Wardrop, and was composed of troops residing -in localities more widely separated from their -commander’s headquarters and from Boston than<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> -any other regiment in the State, and therefore in -any comparisons which may be made with other -troops regarding the relative rapidity of their mobilization -in responding to the President’s call for -troops, this fact becomes important.</p> - -<p>It was on the afternoon of Monday, April 15th, -that Special Order, No. 14, was issued by Governor -Andrew and dispatched by mail, and a special messenger -sent to the respective colonels of the Third, -Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Regiments. The -colonel of the Third resided in New Bedford, a distance -of fifty-six miles from Boston; that of the -Fourth in Quincy, eleven miles; that of the Fifth in -Medford, five miles; that of the Sixth in Pepperell, -about thirty-seven miles, and that of the Eighth in -Lynn, eleven miles. The order was received by Colonel -Wardrop the same evening, and at once promulgated -to Company L, and some members of his staff -were dispatched to convey his orders to the other -companies. Horace Scott, President of the Fairhaven -Railroad, gratuitously tendered a special -train as far as Tremont for the messengers going to -Halifax, Carver, Plympton, and Plymouth. The last -named place was fifty-eight miles from New Bed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span>ford, -not accessible at that time of night by railroad, -nor were the other places above named, yet -Company A received its orders at two <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, April -16th, and Company B received its orders at three -<span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, April 16th, and both companies reported in -Boston at noon of the same day. It has not been -possible to ascertain when Company G at Freetown -received its orders, but it is credited with having -reported for duty “promptly.” The same may be -said of Company H, of Plympton, and Company K, -of Carver. The Freetown company had to travel -forty-eight miles by rail, the Plympton and Carver -companies thirty miles, and the Halifax company -twenty-eight miles, after leaving their homes scattered -miles apart and distant from the stations. It -is surprising that with the limited railroad facilities -of those days and without modern means of intercommunication -by telegraph or telephone, in the -midst of a cold spring northeaster, over roads almost -impassible with mud and thawing snow, that -the orders should have been so rapidly transmitted -and so promptly obeyed.</p> - -<p>Col. David W. Wardrop was proficient in military -tactics. He had first served as lance corporal in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> -the old Boston Fusileers, and afterwards belonged -to the City Guards of New Bedford. Some credited -him with having a West Point education. At all -events, he was in his element when performing any -military duty, and inspired his men with confidence -in his military ability. He was prompt, courageous, -and energetic, but his regiment was small -and widely scattered over two counties. At the -time of promulgating Special Orders, No. 14, it consisted -of but six companies, yet he strove with the -governor for the honor of being the first regiment -to leave the State.</p> - -<p>Captain Richardson’s company from Cambridge -was attached to the regiment April 16th as Company -C, and on May 9th at Fortress Monroe Captain -Chipman’s company from Sandwich, Capt. -Charles C. Doten’s company from Plymouth, Capt. -W. D. Chamberlain’s company from Lynn, and -Capt. J. K. Tyler’s company from Boston, all three -years’ companies, were temporarily assigned to the -Third Regiment, and designated as Companies D, -E, I, and M, respectively.</p> - -<p>The original companies, including Company C, -embarked on the steamer <i>S. R. Spaulding</i> April<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> -17th, from Central Wharf, in the early evening and -dropped down the harbor to await supplies. She -sailed under sealed orders the next forenoon, to find -when nine miles out that her destination was Fortress -Monroe, which was reached at eleven <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, -Saturday, April 20th, after a voyage of forty-seven -and one-half hours.</p> - -<p>That afternoon the regiment embarked on the -gunboat <i>Pawnee</i>, and at five o’clock proceeded to -Gosport Navy Yard under orders from Washington -to destroy the dry dock construction houses and all -vessels and munitions of war which could not be -secured against seizure by the rebels. As they approached -their destination in the darkness the vessels -there were uncertain whether the unexpected -troops were friends or foes of the Union, and so the -<i>Pawnee</i> and all on board were for a while exposed -to imminent peril of instant destruction by a broadside -from the <i>Pennsylvania</i> and a raking fire from -the <i>Cumberland</i>, whose crews and some of whose -officers remained loyal to the Union, and stood with -shotted guns and lanyards in hand breathlessly -awaiting some sign by which the character of the -mission of the approaching troops could be assured.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> -Finally the repeated hail of the <i>Pawnee’s</i> boatswain -convinced the loyal sailors that loyal troops had -come to their support, and then the night air re-echoed -with enthusiastic shouts and added volume -to the inspiring strains of the “Star Spangled Banner,” -which was played by the splendid band on the -quarter-deck of the <i>Pennsylvania</i>.</p> - -<p>Time has satisfied the public that the place could -have been held and the enormous loss avoided, -which resulted from the attempt at destruction. It -speaks well for the Third that its colonel was of -that opinion at the time and volunteered to hold it -with his small force until re-enforced. Commodore -Paulding, however, felt compelled by his orders to -decide otherwise, and soon buildings and ships were -aflame as the various details proceeded with their -several tasks. Even the detail taken from Company -B to assist in mining the dry dock were driven -from their work before its entire accomplishment -by the extreme heat. Two companies, A and B, -were on guard as a reserve, as it was known that -two rebel companies were at Norfolk. Other details -threw cutlasses, sabres, shot and shell into the -river, and every man worked energetically at his al<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span>lotted -task in the light of the great conflagration -until he was aboard the <i>Pawnee</i> for return to Fortress -Monroe, where she arrived Sunday, April 21st, -at six <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> Thus the Third had been the first -northern volunteer troop to land aggressively on -Southern soil.</p> - -<p>The duties at Fortress Monroe were very arduous -and fatiguing, and consisted in strengthening its -defences and unloading, handling, and storing the -enormous amount of provisions and other supplies -for troops, which it was foreseen must be concentrated -there and in that vicinity. The regiment -won the favor of the regulars, both officers and men, -by its excellent discipline, strict attention paid to -the details of guard duty and its precision in infantry -drill. Colonel Dimick, the commandant, -complimented Colonel Wardrop on commanding -such a regiment, though the guard at sea battery -had fired at the boat in which Colonel Dimick was -returning from the <i>Minnesota</i> and wounded the coxswain -near whom Colonel Dimick was seated, for -not answering his hail the night before.</p> - -<p>As soon as contrabands came into our lines in -sufficient numbers (and Company G has the honor<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> -of turning in the first three, who applied for protection -to Charles R. Haskins, of Myricksville, while -on picket), they were assigned to the heavier labors -of the quartermaster’s department. The regiment -was thus enabled to pay more attention to its ordinary -military duties. May 13th two companies and -a fieldpiece held Hampton bridge, and May 24th -Companies B and M <ins class="corr" id="tn-16" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'made a reconnoisance'"> -made a reconnoissance</ins> with General Butler and took two prisoners. June 8th -Companies B and C with loaded muskets suppressed -insubordination in the Naval Brigade. They were -finally relieved by Company E June 17th.</p> - -<p>July 1st the regiment was ordered to occupy -Hampton during the remainder of its term, and -Companies A, B, and C, constituted the main guard. -Here during the remainder of its term it gained experience -in entrenching with the thermometer at 114 -degrees, and scouting with the thermometer one degree -higher. On one occasion (July 5th) Companies -L, B, and E, with a howitzer battery, were -stationed on picket all night and an attack was expected. -July 14th a private of Company E was -shot and beaten, but not killed, when outside our -lines. On July 16th the regiment marched to For<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span>tress -Monroe and embarked on the steamer <i>Cambridge</i> -for Boston. On the 19th touched at Long -Wharf and was ordered into camp at Long Island. -On the 22d the regiment was mustered out of the -service of the United States. The next day it -landed at Boston, marched to the Common amid -great enthusiasm, and was dismissed. It had -never failed to discharge its duty.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">History of the Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia—Nine Months’ Service in -North Carolina, 1862-3.</span></p></div> - - -<p>This Regiment was, in fact, what its name represents, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; not one -drafted man was in its ranks. It was made up almost -entirely of men from Bristol and Plymouth -counties; young men who were raised in good -homes and educated in the schools of Massachusetts. -Quite a number were attending either high -schools, seminaries, or colleges, or were graduates -of the same. When the call was made for three -hundred thousand men they left home, not for what -they would get, but for what they would save; they -went not for pay, but from principle; they went not -because they were spoiling for a fight, but to save -the country which they believed would be spoiled -should they stay at home. It should be remembered -that at this time there was no large bounties paid -to recruits; indeed, few towns paid but a small<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> -bounty, and many towns paid no bounty to induce -men to go to war; therefore, those who enlisted in -1862 enlisted from patriotic principles.</p> - -<p>It is fair to say that the Third Regiment was composed -of as good men as ever shouldered a musket -or wore a sword. Many of the officers had seen service -in the three months’ regiments and in the State -militia, and therefore were the better prepared to -do efficient service in the nine months’ campaign. -Both officers and men were loyal soldiers, true patriots, -ever ready to serve their country and defend -Old Glory. So far as known each officer and private -always responded to orders, and faithfully performed -the duties confided to him, whether pleasant -and easy, or hazardous and hard. Each went -when and where ordered, and did his duties without -grumbling or “showing the white feather.” If -at any time one was afraid he had the good sense -to keep it to himself. If any one felt that he was selected -to fill a position of unusual danger, he was -wise enough to keep his own counsel, do his duty to -the best of his ability, and acquit himself like a -man.</p> - -<p>This regiment was recruited in the months of -August and September, 1862, and as soon as each<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> -company was filled it went into Camp Joe Hooker. -This camp, situated in the town of Lakeville, some -three miles south of the village of Middleboro, occupied -a large field near a beautiful pond, which -was accessible to all who wished to enjoy the luxury -of a daily bath. The camp was ample for forty -companies to drill at one time. Here the companies -were drilled in the setting-up drill, company -movements, and practical guard duty. On the 23d -of September the companies were mustered into the -United States service by a regular army officer, and -soon after were furloughed for one week, that they -might visit their friends before going to the front. -All but two men returned within the time of their -furlough, one of whom deserted the service; the -other was returned by the provost guard after the -regiment reached Newbern, N. C.</p> - -<p>October 22d the regiment left Camp Joe Hooker -and marched to the Lakeville depot, where they -took cars for Boston. Marching to Long Wharf the -right wing embarked on the steam transport <i>Merrimac</i>, -and the left on the steamer <i>Mississippi</i>, for -Newbern. Each of these steamers had on board -one other full regiment, so that each steamer was -taking out fifteen hundred men. One has only to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> -imagine the crowded condition of the ships, when -nearly the whole number were on deck at the same -time, yet during the voyage there were no rows, no -curse words, and no <ins class="corr" id="tn-21" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'swaggering braggadocia'"> -swaggering braggadocio</ins>. The sail down Boston Bay and around Cape Cod was -anything but agreeable; many of the boys unwillingly -paid their respects to Old Neptune. The remainder -of the voyage was over a sea as smooth as -a mill pond.</p> - -<p>Captain Baxter, of Hyannis, captain of the <i>Merrimac</i>, -was the right man for the place he occupied. -A born commander, he easily controlled not only his -own officers and crew, but all on shipboard. There -was no want that he could not supply. Was there -contention as to which companies should first be -served with cooked rations? He could determine -to the satisfaction of all. Was there a clamor for -fresh water? He would say, “Boys, I am condensing -sixteen hundred gallons of water for you every -twenty-four hours, and here you are shouting as if -you were in an old-fashioned Methodist meeting,” -and the boys would answer, “Yes, captain, but the -water is too hot to drink,” and he would reply, “I -have on board fourteen hundred barrels of pure Cochituate -water, which I brought for you, call one of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> -your officers and break out as much as you please.” -Then taking his violin he would play and sing some -home song which would pacify every discordant element -and make everyone feel happy.</p> - -<p>Early on the morning of October 22d the shores -of North Carolina were seen like a cloud rising -from the ocean, and Captain Baxter remarked, -“There is the land I expected to make at six -o’clock this morning.” When within three miles -of Beaufort harbor we encountered a strong southeast -gale and it was with difficulty that the pilot -boarded our ship. As it was his boat was smashed -into pieces. When entering the harbor we were -shown Fort Macon, which General Burnside in his -early campaign had taken, and which Federal -troops now occupied. At Morehead City we embarked -on flat open cars for Newbern, and were -shown the early battle grounds where General -Burnside contested his right to enter and hold Newbern.</p> - -<p>Leaving the cars at the depot the Third Regiment -marched to its camping ground on the east bank of -the Neuse River, and near the city of Newbern. -Here the regiment was given a hearty welcome by -Captain Hart, of the Twenty-third Regiment,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. This officer had -erected tents and put the camp in fine order for the -Third Regiment. Colonel Lee, also of the Twenty-seventh, -extended greetings. Later on the Third -was for a short time attached to his brigade, until -transferred to the brigade of Col. J. Jourdan, where -it continued during its term of service.</p> - -<p>Camp equipage and arms were received in a short -time and the regiment was drilled several hours -daily. Nearly all the drilling was the manual of -arms, battalion and brigade movements. The arms -distributed to the Third were not up to the standard. -They were said to be Austrian rifle muskets -captured from a blockade runner. Great improvements -were made on them by the regimental and -company armorers; yet the Confederate loss promised -little gain to the Union forces, except in the -moral force of showing that the regiment had arms -and was prepared to use them at close quarters, at -least when occasion required. These arms were -duly condemned by an inspecting officer and efforts -made to exchange them for serviceable ones, but -without success.</p> - -<p>A variety of duties attested the intelligence and -endurance of the regiment as a whole, and of its<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> -companies on detached service. October 30th Companies -A and B were detached for picket duty at -Newport Barracks, where they remained for more -than a month, during which time they with a platoon -of cavalry and a battery made an expedition -to Peltier’s Mills, and for the first time learned the -superiority of army shoes on the march in contrast -to stylish boots.</p> - -<p>Picket duty taught the boys how to find their own -beef and pork, and occasionally honey, which -abounded in that part of North Carolina. In garrison -duty, reconnoissances, engineering work, exhausting -marches sometimes with the thermometer -ranging over one hundred in the shade and the dust -inches deep, and on the field of battle, the skill and -bravery of the regiment was well displayed. One -company sent to build a bridge over Bachelor’s -Creek were so efficient in construction work that -they finished their work and returned to camp in -two days, notwithstanding it was supposed to take -one company a month to accomplish the job. Many -of the men of that company were bridge builders -before the war.</p> - -<p>Thirty men sent to do picket duty at Creek No. 1 -held that station for three months, although they<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> -were constantly in fear of being surprised, and -nearly all the time slept with their muskets beside -them.</p> - -<p>November 11th our pickets at Deep Gully <ins class="corr" id="tn-25" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'were atacked and'"> -were attacked and</ins> the Third Regiment were under arms -all night. November 30th Company I was detailed -for duty at Plymouth and Elizabeth City, N. C., -where it did garrison duty five months, and suffered -special casualties during a siege by the Confederates, -losing in killed, wounded, and prisoners -nearly thirty men. (See <a href="#CHAPTER_XII">history of Company I</a>.) -At different times nearly every company in the regiment -were detailed for picket or special duty. (See -Company history.) During the month of December, -1862, the Third Regiment rendered good service in -connection with the expedition made by General -Foster into the interior of North Carolina, the object -being to cut the Confederate means of supplies -by the Wilmington and Goldsboro railroad.</p> - -<p>The following is a verbatim report of General -Foster to the War Department. The accompanying -sketch will help the reader to understand the -march of the expedition and the battles fought.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i042" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i042.jpg" alt="" /> - <a href="images/i042-large.jpg"> - <span class="screenonly fs60 center">click here for larger image.</span></a> - <div class="caption">D.<br /> -SKETCH<br /> -showing route pursued in the advance to<br /> -GOLDSBORO, N. C. in Dec. 1862.<br /> -</div> -</div> - -<p>From the report of Maj.-Gen. J. G. Foster, to the -Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> -the War. Copied from the report of that Committee, -printed by the Government, supplement, part -2, page 11, of General Foster’s report:</p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p class="center smcap">“Expedition to Goldsboro, North Carolina, -in December, 1862.”</p> - -<p>“General Burnside having moved the army of the -Potomac towards the Rappahannock with the intention -of crossing, I was ordered by Major-General -Halleck, general-in-chief of the armies of the United -States, to advance with my whole available force -and destroy the railroad bridge at Goldsboro, and -as much of the track as possible; the movement to -be made simultaneous with the crossing at Fredericksburg. -Accordingly, having been reinforced by -one brigade from Major-General Dix’s corps at Fortress -Monroe, I advanced from Newbern on the 12th -of December, 1862, with four brigades and forty -pieces of artillery, in all about twelve thousand -men. After removing the obstructions placed in -the roads of the retreating rebels, I pushed a cavalry -force directly toward Kinston, which surprised -the main picket guard of the enemy and drove it in. -Under cover of this feint the main body was moved -rapidly by the left so as to strike Southwest Creek<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> -at the most westerly of the four bridges that cross it. -As anticipated this bridge was found weakly guarded. -While occupying this guard in front a regiment -was thrown across the creek on a milldam, which -by a vigorous and unexpected charge captured the -artillery guarding the bridge, and thus opened it to -our advance. This was late at night. At daylight -on the following morning we advanced upon Kinston. -The enemy was encountered in a chosen position -on the south side of the Neuse River, where the -road crossed a swamp closely filled with thick undergrowth. -The enemy occupied a ridge just beyond -the swamp. For over two hours our attack -failed to dislodge the enemy. Finally, after strong -demonstrations on both flanks, a decisive effort was -made in the centre, in which one of my best regiments, -the Tenth Connecticut Volunteers, gallantly -charged through the enemy’s line and seized and -held the bridge over the Neuse, in the rear. The enemy -then broke. A part retreated rapidly up the -south bank of the Neuse; the remainder were captured. -We crossed the river at once and occupied -Kinston. General Evans rapidly retreated, with -the garrison of the defences of the town, up the -north bank of the river, closely pursued by our cav<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span>alry. -We captured during the day seven hundred -prisoners, nine pieces of artillery, four heavy guns, -and a large quantity of ammunition, which being -stored in houses in the town, we could only partially -destroy without destroying the town. The information -obtained at Kinston went to show that General -Burnside had been repulsed at Fredericksburg; -that General Lee had telegraphed Gen. G. W. -Smith, at Goldsboro; that he could send him thirty -thousand men, if necessary, to resist our advance; -and that strong defences had been constructed at -Mosely Hall and other points where the road -crosses difficult streams. Believing, however, that -by deceiving the enemy and rapid marching, the object -of the expedition could be attained, I determined -to go on. As a feint, the army was pushed -out a few miles on the Goldsboro road and encamped. -At daylight it retraced its steps, crossed -the river, burnt the bridge behind it, and rapidly -marched up the south bank. At Whitehall a sharp -affair took place. A rebel gunboat was being built -at that point and a considerable force was there to -defend it and prevent our crossing. Every attempt -to cross infantry to burn the boat failed. All the -artillery was then opened and soon completely rid<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span>dled -the vessel. It served also to give the impression -that an attempt to force a crossing was made. -Leaving a few men to keep up that impression, the -main body marched rapidly up the river and -reached the railroad bridge as the smoke was seen -ascending from the Mount Olive station, which the -cavalry had destroyed. The enemy was not -prepared for us; their force was scattered; large -numbers had been detached towards Whitehall and -Kinston. The brigade on the south side at the -bridge was soon whipped and driven from the field. -The bridge was burned despite the efforts of the -force collecting on the north bank; and before any -considerable concentration could be made to disturb -us, we had destroyed several miles of the track. -As the column moved off on its return, having accomplished -its purpose, a brigade made an attack -on our rear guard, which repulsed it with severe -loss. After that no attack was made and the column -returned quietly to Newbern. The force in the -department of North Carolina was now increased -and constituted by the President, the Eighteenth -Army Corps, under my command.”</p> -</div> - -<p>While General Foster’s report is a most excellent<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> -one, still it must be remembered that it is a report -made from the standpoint of the whole expedition, -and deals little with particulars only as seen in battles. -It remains for the writer of the Third Regiment -to state the part taken by that regiment in -the expedition.</p> - -<p>On Dec. 11, 1862, at six <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, in a dense fog, the -Third Regiment formed line on the left of General -Lee’s brigade, the third brigade in the column. No -secrets were withheld from the boys. Everyone -knew that a march was before them, that fighting -was expected and hardships were anticipated, yet -every officer and man cheerfully responded to the -order, “March!”</p> - -<p>The obstacles mentioned by General Foster in his -report were great trees felled across the road for -several hundred yards, and it was impossible to -pass until such obstacles were removed. This was -soon accomplished by our “Black Pioneer Brigade.” -Another obstacle was that nearly every bridge -which crossed creeks and rivers was guarded by -rebel pickets, who fired the bridges just before they -retreated, making it impossible for either infantry -or artillery to pass until the bridges were rebuilt, -save in a few instances where the rivers were ford<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span>able. -Over some parts of the march great turpentine -trees were on fire, which falling across the road -made marching that way quite dangerous; yet -through fire and water the expedition made twelve -miles the first day, notwithstanding our skirmishers -were in constant action with the rebel pickets. -Never were men more glad than the Third Regiment -when ordered to bivouac for the night, and -never was mattress or feather bed more acceptable -than “Mother Earth” to the boys that night. Both -fires and loud talking were forbidden. All save the -men on picket duty slept; slept like tired children.</p> - -<p>Friday the Third was detailed to guard the baggage -train, which it faithfully did until twelve at -night. All this day our advance were face to face -with the rebel pickets, which in some instances -showed stubborn resistance; in others but a semblance -of resistance, but always burned the bridges -they were defending before retiring towards Kinston. -These men seemed to be possessed more with -the spirit of burning than with the spirit of patriotism.</p> - -<p>Consulting the sketch map you will find that -when the column had passed Muscleshell Creek and -Resolution Bayou the army had taken the Trent<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> -road (the most direct road from Newbern to Kinston) -until near Bear Creek. It was from this point -that General Foster “pushed a cavalry force directly -toward Kinston, which surprised the main -picket guard of the enemy and drove it in, into its -fortified position south of Kinston. Under cover -of this feint the main body was moved rapidly by -the left so as to strike Southwest Creek at the most -westerly of the four bridges that cross it. As anticipated -this bridge was found weakly guarded. -While occupying this guard in front a regiment -was thrown across the creek on a milldam, which -by a vigorous and unexpected charge captured the -artillery guarding the bridge, and thus opened it to -our advance.” It has been learned on good authority -that the regiment which made the above mentioned -charge was the Ninth New Jersey. This -bit of information can be found in the Adjutant-General’s -report of Massachusetts in the report of -the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment and -reads like this: “The Ninth New Jersey crossed -through the old mill, charged the enemy, captured -two pieces of artillery, and the rebels retreated.” -General Foster says, “this was late at night.” “At -daylight the following morning (Sunday) we ad<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span>vanced -upon Kinston.” It should be remembered -that the column after passing Wine Creek abandoned -the main road leading to Kinston, took an -unfrequented turpentine road through the woods, -and came upon the right flank of the Confederate -army, which was in line on the opposite side of the -swamp, where their batteries were posted to resist -our advance on Kinston. The road through this -swamp was as straight as an arrow and covered -with water nearly a foot deep. The position of the -Third Regiment on the opposite side of the swamp -was near the hospital and the sight of the dead and -wounded was anything but reassuring, as they were -carried to the rear; yet when the order was given -“Forward!” not a man flinched, and the Third Regiment -went through the swamp on the double-quick. -The first brigade having turned the rebels’ right, -and captured a battery and several hundred prisoners -there was little left for the Third to do but to -join in the shout of victory, view the prisoners, -sympathize with the wounded in the Old Baptist -Church, view the dead in the woods, and march into -Kinston. As we marched over the beautiful bridge -which spans the Neuse River, we saw the wise gen<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span>eralship -of General Foster in coming upon Kinston -through the swamp instead of the main road, where -the rebels had erected earthworks and mounted -guns, which would command the road for more than -two miles.</p> - -<p>Our place of bivouac in Kinston was on the park, -which was enclosed by a rail fence, five rails high. -Captain Grant, of Company C, Third Regiment, being -officer of the day, gave strict orders that only -the topmost rails should be taken. This order was -so strictly obeyed that in the morning not a vestige -of the fence remained; each man had taken only the -top rail.</p> - -<p>Words fail to describe the things seen on that -park the next morning, feather and straw beds, mattresses, -pillows, sheets, and bed clothes of nearly all -kinds and description, china tea-sets, bottles of perfumery, -and almost everything in the housekeeping -line. Tobacco and cigars could be had without the -asking. Feathers were seen all over the ground, -indicating that someone had been engaged in the -poultry business on an immense scale during the -night.</p> - -<p>The bugle sounded very early and the command -recrossed the bridge and resumed the march to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span>wards -Goldsboro. An old colored woman standing -by the roadside raised her hands as we were passing -and shouted, “You honeys of Lincoln’s army -need fear nothing from nobody between here and -Richmond! De good Lawd bless you all!”</p> - -<p>At Whitehall we again encountered the Confederate -forces, which General Foster handsomely outwitted. -He gave them the impression that his -whole force was engaged, while the fact was that -only a few regiments with nearly all his batteries -were in action; the bulk of the command were pushing -on toward Goldsboro. Failing to find any way -for the infantry to cross the river and burn the gunboat -in the process of building, orders were given -for all the batteries to concentrate their fire on the -gunboat, which was soon destroyed. A few men -were left to keep up the impression that it was General -Foster’s purpose to cross the river, the main -army marching rapidly on toward Goldsboro.</p> - -<p>At Everettsville we again came upon the rebel -pickets, who fled without firing a gun. Shells from -our battery hastened their retreat toward the railroad -bridge. This they crossed and joined the main -force, which so far as we could learn were in the -woods near the railroad. After shelling the woods<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span> -for nearly three hours, the Third Regiment was ordered -to take position near the Wilmington railroad -and parallel with it. Here it remained until a -railroad monitor was destroyed by our batteries -and the railroad bridge burned; then we were ordered -to stack arms and proceed to tear up the -track and burn the ties. This order was executed -with such vigor that in less than one hour three -miles of ties were on fire. Had the rebels not lost -their heads they could have captured the Third -Regiment, for it was without arms. As it was, -Captain Marble, of Company A, barely escaped being -captured by a rebel picket post in the woods, -not a hundred yards from the railroad.</p> - -<p>After executing its orders the regiment was ordered -to its arms and marched back over the hill. -While here it was reported that the enemy was advancing -with a flag of truce and a company of cavalry -went to receive it. Judge our surprise when -it was fired upon by a rebel brigade, ambushed on -the opposite side of the railroad. Immediately the -brigade crossed the railroad and charged on Morrison’s -and Belger’s batteries. At this time the -writer was standing near Captain Belger and heard -that officer say, “There they come, now we will have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> -some fun,” and, without waiting for orders from -General Lee, the commander of the only brigade -then on the field (the so-called rear guard), Captain -Belger gave the order, “Action front, double shotted -canister! Load! Aim! Fire!” At this time the enemy -were within two hundred yards of his guns and -the Third Regiment was supporting this and Morrison’s -Battery, with their two batteries firing upon -the advancing brigade. I need not say that they -were long in wiping it out. Two other brigades -which charged on the left centre of our brigade -were soon driven back in disorder.</p> - -<p>It is supposed that seeing Morrison’s and Belger’s -batteries still on the field, they thought it a -fine thing to capture those two popular batteries; -it being quite dark they did not notice that these -batteries were supported by infantry. Moreover, -they had opened a mill gate, which created a torrent -through which the batteries must pass in going -from the field, but they were too badly punished -to follow out their plans. When the Third came to -the stream they found it a roaring torrent; yet -through the icy cold water they went, and when -the whole brigade with the batteries were over, we -were only too glad to be told that we would have to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> -march ten miles before bivouacking for the night. -At nine o’clock we reached the main army and laid -down in our frozen clothes until the following -morning, when we began our march toward Newbern. -We reached Newbern without molestation -on the twenty-first day of December, having been -absent eleven days, and having marched over one -hundred and fifty miles.</p> - -<p>In the engagements had the only casualties suffered -by the Third as reported, were six wounded. -By special order of General Foster the names of -“Kinston,” “Whitehall,” and “Goldsboro” were inscribed -upon the regimental flag.</p> - -<p>December 30th the Third Regiment was attached -to General Heckman’s brigade in anticipation of going -further south, but when inspected by Captain -Abel, of General Heckman’s staff, the arms were -found to be of such poor quality that they were for -the second time condemned, and failing to get them -replaced by good arms, General Heckman sent the -following communication to Colonel Richmond:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquot fs80"> - -<p><em>To</em> <span class="smcap">Colonel S. P. Richmond</span>, <em>Commanding Third Regiment, -M. V. M., Headquarters First Brigade, Nagle’s Division, -Newbern, N. C., Jan. 12, 1863.</em></p></div> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Colonel</span>: In the report of my Assistant Adjutant-General -who inspected your regiment last muster, the arms you now -have were condemned. I have made every effort since to have -the arms changed to retain you in my brigade, but time would -not permit and another regiment has been assigned.</p> - -<p>Accept my regrets that your regiment was not in condition -to remain (as regards equipments). The soldierly appearance -and conduct of your officers have made a favorable impression, -and I part with you with regret.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr20pc">Very respectfully yours,</span><br /> -<span class="padr10pc">C. A. HECKMAN,</span><br /> -<span class="padr10pc"><em>Brigadier-General Commanding First Brigade,</em></span><br /> -<em>Nagle’s Division, Eighteenth Army Corps.</em></p></div> - -<p>General Foster says, “The Third Regiment always -obeys orders and performs all its duties promptly -and without grumbling.” General Prince says, -“The Third Massachusetts Regiment and its commander -can be trusted with important duties with -a certainty that they will be performed promptly -and well.” Colonel Jourdan says, “The Third Regiment -is always ready for duty.”</p> - -<p>On January 28th the regiment moved to Camp<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> -Jourdan, near Fort Totten. This location was not -a desirable one; neither was the ground in a condition -for the dwelling place of men. It was considered -a very unhealthy locality, but it was one of the -most important points in the defences of Newbern. -The first thing done was the removal of more than -five hundred cords of the refuse from stables, -dumped there. Many ditches were made, the camp -graded and trees planted until the medical director -pronounced it one of the cleanest, prettiest, and -most healthy camps near Newbern, and he also -made a report to that effect, complimenting the regimental -commander and medical staff highly.</p> - -<p>March 6th the regiment was ordered to go with -General Prince’s division on an expedition into -Jones and Onslow counties, where they remained -five days. The Third with other troops under command -of Colonel Richmond was twice detailed for -important detached service, and received the thanks -of General Prince for the able manner in which the -duty was performed. Several hundred prisoners -were taken and brought to Newbern. While the -men were quite affable, the officers were very sullen -and did not care to talk with “Yankee mudsills.”</p> - -<p>In the attack at Deep Gully, March 14th, and also<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span> -on Fort Anderson, on the opposite side of the -Neuse, the Third were under marching orders until -the next day at one <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span>, and then went <ins class="corr" id="tn-41" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'on a reconnoisance'"> -on a reconnoissance</ins> -to Pollocksville, returning to camp on the -evening of the 16th in the rain, with the mud more -than a foot deep. So muddy were the roads that -the regiment was eight hours marching ten miles.</p> - -<p>On the 17th Companies A, B, K, and H were ordered -to march to Deep Gully for picket duty, -where they remained eight days. They were relieved -by the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth New -York Regiment, and marched back to Newbern.</p> - -<p>From April 2d on until the time of leaving this -department (except when on expeditions), the -Third Regiment furnished a detail of one hundred -and fifty men daily for intrenchment work.</p> - -<p>April 5th orders were received to march to Foster’s -Wharf with three days’ rations. The regiment -was there on time, expecting to go to Washington, -N. C., but at six <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span>, orders were received from -General Foster to go back to camp.</p> - -<p>April 7th at six <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> orders were received to -march immediately with three days’ rations, and -the regiment proceeded to Foster’s Wharf, were -transported across the Neuse River, and bivouacked<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span> -for the night. The next day we joined a column -commanded by General Spinola, and made a forced -march to Blount’s Creek, rear of Washington, to attempt -to break the siege and relieve General Foster, -who was there at the time. At the point of attack -it was found that the rebels occupied a strong position -on a hill, the only approach being a narrow defile -with heavy woods on either side. These conditions -at the outset forbade hope of success. An engagement -was made, the Third taking part in the -movement, but they were met by so fierce a fire from -the rebel batteries on the hill that it was thought -expedient to retire. Captain Belger’s horse was -shot under him, and he was severely wounded, yet -as he passed Colonel Richmond he said, “Give it to -them, Colonel, we’ll pay them off for this.” Later -we were informed that the rebels, believing that the -Yankees would play some Yankee trick on them, left -their position from fear of a flank movement. Of -one thing we were assured, the siege of Washington -was raised, and General <ins class="corr" id="tn-42" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Foster returnd'"> -Foster returned</ins> to Newbern. -This expedition was regarded as the most -adventurous and exhausting of any in which the -Third participated during its term of service. More -than thirty miles were covered by a hurried march<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span> -and the battle fought on the same day. So exhausted -were the men that several had to be assisted -to the place of bivouac for the night.</p> - -<p>April 13th Company D was sent on an expedition -by steamer, forty miles down the Neuse River, to explore -the opposite shore. On leaving, General Foster -said, “I want you to go down the river on a -pleasure trip; it may be, however, that you will find -other than pleasure somewhere.” The company -obeyed orders, but finding no rebels, it returned the -following night.</p> - -<p>April 16th the Third Regiment received orders to -march with a column under General Prince to Core -Creek, where it remained six days, and was engaged -in several skirmishes with the enemy. It was this -movement combined with another column on the opposite -side of the Neuse River, which caused the -rebels to evacuate their positions in front of Washington, -North Carolina, thereby relieving the Forty-fourth -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia from their -uncomfortable position.</p> - -<p>May 11th four companies were detailed for picket -duty at Deep Gully, where they remained ten days.</p> - -<p>May 23d orders were received at eight <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> to -march immediately to a certain point near Batchel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span>der’s -Creek, and await orders. Arriving at the -point indicated they rested on arms. This hurried -movement was made in consequence of our pickets -being driven in, and Colonel Jones, commander of -the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania, being killed during -the engagement. The enemy having retired during -the night, the regiment was ordered back to Newbern. -This march was made through the dust six -inches deep, and with the thermometer one hundred -and ten degrees in the shade. We arrived in -Newbern at twelve o’clock, a tired, besmeared, dust -covered lot of soldiers.</p> - -<p>May 31st four companies marched to Deep Gully -for picket duty, but being relieved by a detachment -from Lee’s brigade, they returned to Newbern the -same evening.</p> - -<p>Newbern was twice threatened with assault, apparently -for the purpose of retaking the city. The -first occurred on the evening of Nov. 11, 1862, while -the main army was absent on a reconnoitring -march to Tarboro, in the northern part of the state, -leaving the Third almost alone in the defence of the -city. The regiment was under arms all night, and -re-enforcements were brought up from Newport. The -alarm was caused by a fierce attack made upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span> -pickets at Deep Gully, a few miles out on the Trent -road, one man being killed and several wounded. -The regiments that had been absent for nearly two -weeks were now returning and the rebels withdrew -the following day.</p> - -<p>The second assault was made on March 14, 1863, -operating from different directions; one by the way -of the Trent road, the other approaching from -across the Neuse River. The latter division was -vigorously handled by the garrison at Fort Anderson, -on the north bank of the river, and by gunboats, -and finally repulsed. Many shells were -thrown into the city, some of which tore up the -ground occupied by the Third Regiment but a little -time before as their camp. A flag of truce was -sent asking the surrender of the city, but General -Foster’s answer was, “If you want Newbern, come -and take it.” These assaults seemed to be more -like “feelers” of the Union strength than any serious -menace to Newbern.</p> - -<p>Various places were garrisoned and much picket -duty done by the Third Regiment, besides the services -already mentioned, which proved the fidelity -of both officers and men, and the readiness of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span> -regiment to measure up at all times to the trusts -committed to its keeping.</p> - -<p>Being ordered to Boston, Mass., the regiment left -Newbern June 11, 1863. As they marched from -their camp to the place of taking train and boat, -they were escorted by the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth -New York Volunteers, preceded by the band -of the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, General -Foster and Colonel Jourdan honoring the column -by a standing review. The Forty-fifth and -Forty-first Massachusetts Regiments were in line -on the other side of the Trent River, and cheered -us with music and voice on our homeward journey. -Seven companies went by rail to Morehead and embarked -on the steamer <i>S. R. Spaulding</i>. Three -companies with the sick went on board the steamer -<i>Tillie</i>, at Newbern, and sailed by the way of Roanoake -Sound. The voyage for the most part was -rough and most of the officers were seasick until we -rounded the shores of Cape Cod, when the sea became -smooth, and new life was imparted to all.</p> - -<p>Landing in Boston we received a very enthusiastic -reception by her citizens and were escorted to the -Common by the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Rifle -Club. The Governor being absent, Adjutant-Gen<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span>eral -Schouler reviewed the column from the State -House steps, after which the regiment marched to -Beach Street barracks and partook of a collation. -At one <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> the regiment took the cars for Camp -Joe Hooker, but being furloughed on the train and -ordered to report in camp on the 22d, each man -turned his face toward the old home and the dear -ones he had left there when he went to serve his -country.</p> - -<p>June 22d the regiment reported at camp, where it -remained until the 26th and was mustered out of -the service by Capt. J. K. Lawrence, being dismissed -by a complimentary and affecting speech from Colonel -Richmond. The men dispersed quietly, maintaining -their excellent character and discipline to -the last. Many of these men showed their patriotism -by re-enlisting, some going the third and fourth -time.</p> - -<p>During the campaign the regiment was transported -by steamer and railroad more than two thousand -miles, and marched more than four hundred -miles over the swampy roads of North Carolina, -most of this being done during the inclement season. -It bivouacked upon the ground without shelter -when the water froze in canteens, and also<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span> -marched when the thermometer ranged at one hundred -and twelve degrees in the shade. During the -most of the time more than two hundred men were -furnished for extra duty, as mechanics, and quite a -number were detailed as overseers of contrabands -and other duties of a governmental nature. The -regiment which left home with a roster of one thousand -and fifteen men returned with nine hundred -and twenty-seven.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indentq">“Oh Life! Oh Death! Oh World! Oh Time!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Oh Grave, where all things flow!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis yours to make our lot sublime,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With your great weight of woe.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Through sharpest anguish hearts may wring,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Though bosoms torn may be;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet suffering is a holy thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Without it, what were we!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Historical Record of the Field and Non-Commissioned -Staff Officers of the Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.</span></p></div> - - -<h3><em>FIELD AND STAFF.</em></h3> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Col. Silas P. Richmond.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Silas Peirce Richmond</span>, son of Isaac and Lucinda -(Peirce) Richmond, was born in Freetown, -June 19, 1831, on the Richmond homestead, which -has been owned in the family continuously since -1775. His grandfather, Samuel Richmond, was a -soldier in the War of the Revolution, and his father, -Isaac Richmond, was a soldier in the War of 1812-15. -Silas P. Richmond was educated in the public -schools of Freetown and at Peirce Academy, Middleboro.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i068" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i068.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Col.</span> SILAS P. RICHMOND.</div> -</div> - -<p>He was engaged in farming and lumber business -early in life. He was the first man to enlist in Company -G, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia, in May, 1850. He was appointed corporal -in April, 1851; commissioned fourth lieutenant of -same company in August, 1851; third lieutenant in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span> -August, 1853; first lieutenant in May, 1854; captain -in May, 1855; major and inspector, Second Brigade, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, July 29, -1856. He was in Kansas in 1858-9, and served with -John Brown in repelling the “Border Ruffians” and -was badly wounded in the knee at the battle near -Lawrence, Kansas. He returned to Massachusetts -and was appointed captain <ins class="corr" id="tn-50" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'and aid-de-camp'"> -and aide-de-camp</ins>, Second Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Sept. -15, 1859, and in that capacity responded to the call -of the “Minute Men,” April 15, 1861, serving at Fortress -Monroe and Hampton, Virginia, and taking -part in the battle of Big Bethel, June 10, 1861. At -the end of the campaign he returned to Massachusetts -and was honorably discharged. On the 8th -of May, 1862, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, -Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, -and as such responded to the call to re-enforce -the Army of the Potomac at the time of General -Bank’s retreat in the Shenandoah Valley. In July, -1862, he was ordered by Governor Andrew to reorganize -and recruit the Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, to the maximum for service -in the field. He completed that work and the regiment -was mustered into the United States service,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span> -one thousand and forty strong, Sept. 15, 1862. He -was commissioned colonel of the Third Regiment -Oct. 7, 1862, and, on Oct. 22, 1862, he proceeded with -the regiment by steamer to Newbern, North Carolina. -During that campaign he participated in the -battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Deep -Gully, Blount’s Creek, and in repelling the bombardment -of Newbern. During a part of that time -he commanded a brigade. At the end of this term -of service he returned to Massachusetts. On the -28th of September, 1863, he was commissioned colonel -of the Fifty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteers, and proceeded to recruit that regiment. -On Nov. 21, 1863, he was appointed superintendent -of recruiting in Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, -and Dukes counties, and as such continued -the recruiting of the Fifty-eighth Regiment, until -it was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac, -April 28, 1864; but as the Fifty-eighth had only -eight companies at that time, he could not be mustered -into the United States service as colonel of it, -and so resigned. On July 19, 1864, he was appointed -assistant provost marshal of the Department -of the South, with the rank of colonel, and -served as such at Beaufort, North Carolina, Hilton<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span> -Head, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South -Carolina. He was on the first steamer that reached -Savannah when it was taken, and on the first -steamer that landed at Charleston when that city -was captured. He was honorably mustered out of -service in September, 1865.</p> - -<p>He engaged in the lumber and grain business in -Indiana and Michigan in 1867-9, and lost a nice -property by fire in Michigan in 1869. He returned -to Massachusetts in 1870. Colonel Richmond has -been a justice of peace for more than forty years, -and is also a notary public. He was for ten years -chairman of the board of selectmen of Freetown. As -auditor in 1854 he prepared the first printed report -ever made of the finances of Freetown. He has also -served as assessor, town clerk, school committee, -and overseer of the poor of Freetown. He served -eighteen years as moderator at annual town meetings. -He served two terms as United States census -taker, and two terms as state census taker. He was -chairman of the trustees of the First Christian -Church in Assonet for several Years. He was a representative -in the legislature from the sixth Bristol -district in 1892, and served as chairman of the taxation -committee. He was a delegate to the National<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span> -Republican Convention in 1892; a turnkey in Massachusetts -State Prison, 1871-9; deputy keeper in -the Bristol County House of Correction, 1879-82; -general traveling agent for the C. C. G. Co., 1882-89; -president of Bristol County Agricultural Society -1889-91; charter member of Post No. 1, Massachusetts -G. A. R., and member of the Loyal Legion -of the United States. He is a Mason and Knight -Templar since 1865. On Jan. 1, 1896, he was appointed -deputy sheriff and court crier of the Supreme -and Superior Courts in Bristol County, and -now holds that position. His address is Richmond -Road, Assonet, Mass.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Lieut.-Col. James Barton.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i074" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i074.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Lieut.-Col.</span> JAMES BARTON.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lieut.-Col. James Barton</span> came from a military -family. Among his ancestors was Gen. William -Barton, of Revolutionary fame, who captured the -English General Prescott <ins class="corr" id="tn-53" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'and his aid-de-camp'"> -and his aide-de-camp</ins> in the town of Portsmouth, R. I., for which act Congress -presented him with a beautiful sword as an acknowledgment -of his hazardous and successful -achievement. In his early years Colonel Barton resided -in Newport, R. I., and was a member of the -Newport Artillery, which was chartered in 1741.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span> -He accompanied this organization to Providence at -the time of the Dorr War. In 1853 he removed to -New Bedford and carried on the business of a marine -blacksmith, and this he continued after as well -as before the war. The breaking out of the war in -1861 found him holding the position of first lieutenant -in the New Bedford Guards (minute men), afterwards -Company E, Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. With this company he -served twice, first as first lieutenant of the company, -and second as lieutenant-colonel of the regiment -of which the company made a part, and served -with the regiment through its campaign in North -Carolina. He was a good, conscientious officer, -faithfully performing every duty, and always in his -place on battalion drill, on the march, and in battle. -He was one of the earliest members of William Logan -Rodman Post, No. 1, G. A. R., New Bedford, -Mass. He died March 5, 1887.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Maj. John Morrissey.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i077" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i077.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Major</span> JOHN <ins class="corr" id="tn-i077" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'MORRESSEY'"> -MORRISSEY</ins>.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Major Morrissey</span> was forty-five years of age -when he entered the service of his country in the -Third Regiment. He was a native of Plymouth,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span> -where he resided at the time of his commission. -His position as sergeant-at-arms in the State House, -Boston, shows that he went to war for pure patriotic -principles. He was well liked by all the regiment, -and never failed to do his duty on drill, on -the march, and in camp. After the war he was -given his former position, which office he filled acceptably -until his death. He died in his own town, -beloved and highly respected by all who knew him. -His force of character was more in good acts than -in many words.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Adj’t. Lucian L. Perkins.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i081" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i081.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Adj’t.</span> LUCIAN L. PERKINS.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Adjutant Perkins</span> was born in Plympton, Mass., -July 1, 1835. At the age of eighteen he joined Company -H, Third Regiment of Plympton Rifles. He -served in different positions in this company, and -at the time of President Lincoln’s call for seventy-five -thousand troops he was first lieutenant. He -went to Fortress Monroe in command of his company, -and was there elected captain. He served -through the three months’ service and was discharged -at the expiration of enlistment.</p> - -<p>He served as adjutant of the Third Regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span> -nine months’ service, and was discharged at the expiration -of the same. He will ever be remembered -as the soldier, the gentleman, and the officer, who -faithfully performed every duty assigned to him. -On dress parade and battalion drill he knew his -place and filled it to the satisfaction of every officer -and man.</p> - -<p>After the close of the war, he, with his brother -Charles A. S. Perkins, went to Newbern, N. C., purchased -several acres of land there, and was engaged -successfully in the cotton business at the corner of -Broad and Middle Streets.</p> - -<p>He died in Newbern, N. C., in October, 1864, of -yellow fever, and his remains were afterwards -brought to Plympton for burial.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Quartermaster Bethuel Penniman.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bethuel Penniman</span> was commissioned Oct. 10, -1862, being forty-three years old and a resident of -New Bedford. He was a successful business man, -and because he was such was commissioned to look -after and care for the supplies of the regiment. He -remained with the regiment and was mustered June -26, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p> - -<p>After the war he was active in mining, manufactures, -and real estate business. Of his own life he -says, “There has been nothing eventful in my life,” -and yet at eighty-six, we find him hale and hearty -and ready to beat the boys in a good, profitable, -straight bargain.</p> - -<p>His welcome was always cordial, especially to -any member of the Third Regiment. He represented -New Bedford in the legislature, and served -one term on the Board of Aldermen in 1862. He -was also a member of the New Bedford Protecting -Society, and of the organization of firemen, and was -for five years attached to the old hand engine, Veteran, -No. 1. He was an attendant and member of -the Unitarian Church and belonged to the Wamsutta -Club. He was a charter member of Post No. -190 G. A. R., and a member of the Loyal Legion.</p> - -<p>He visited Washington, D. C, and witnessed the -inaugural ceremonies of President Roosevelt. On -returning to his home in New Bedford he was taken -sick and died April 15, 1905, being eighty-seven -years old.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Surgeon Alfred Augustus Stocker.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i085" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i085.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Surgeon</span> ALFRED A. STOCKER.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alfred Stocker</span> was forty-three years of age when -commissioned and a resident of Cambridge. He -graduated at Harvard University with the degree of -M. D. in the class of 1853. In 1861 he assisted in -raising the Twelfth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia. He was nominated by Colonel Webster -major-surgeon, but unavoidable circumstances -compelled him to decline. By request of Governor -Andrew in May, 1862, he went to the front in Virginia, -and joined the “Army of the Potomac.” Arriving -at the White House on the Pamunkey River -he was placed in charge of a division of the great -field hospital then established there. On the breaking -up of the hospital he was assigned to the Thirty-first -Pennsylvania as acting surgeon, July 20th to -October 1st, passing through the whole Peninsula -campaign. He was at South Mountain and Antietam. -He was commissioned surgeon of the Third -Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Oct. 16, -1862, serving in North Carolina until mustered out -with the regiment, and during the winter of 1863-4 -he was at Readville on the staff of General Pierce, -serving as special inspector of recruits. Oct. 16,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span> -1863, he was commissioned major-surgeon of the -Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Veterans in -the Ninth Army Corps with General Burnside. He -was with General Grant from the Wilderness to -Petersburg, Va. On account of physical debility -contracted in the service, he resigned Aug. 1, 1864, -and was honorably discharged. He has now retired -from professional practice on account of age and -growing disability and resides in Cambridge, Mass.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Asst. Surgeon Woodbridge R. Howes.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Woodbridge R. Howes</span> was commissioned Oct. 21, -1862, being forty-five years old and residing in Mattapoisett. -He was in the service of the United States -from Nov. 13, 1862, and with the regiment until it -was mustered out. He practiced professionally in -Hanover until his death, and served on the school -committee of Hanover. He was a member of the -Joseph Wilder Post, No. 83, G. A. R., and at one -time commander; member of North River Lodge, -I. O. of O. F., holding various offices, and censor for -several years of the Massachusetts Medical Society. -He died in Hanover, Feb. 4, 1898, and was buried in -the cemetery of that town. He left one son, Clar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span>ence -L. Howes, M. D., practicing in Hanover, and -one daughter, Mary W., wife of J. W. Beal, architect -in Hanover.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Chaplain Charles Andrew Snow.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i089" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i089.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Chaplain Rev.</span> CHARLES A. SNOW.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chaplain Snow</span> was thirty-three years of age -when commissioned, and resided in Fall River. He -was appointed chaplain Oct. 10, 1862; commissioned -October 16th, and sworn into the United States -service October 22d. He was on duty with the regiment -until it was mustered out. Since that time he -had been in professional service as pastor of -churches in Fall River, Providence, R. I., South Abington -(now Whitman), New Bedford, and West -Harwich. In 1898 he retired from full ministerial -service on account of ill-health. He is the author -of many miscellaneous papers, essays, sermons, important -historical sketches, etc. He was a life -member of the Old Colony Historical Society. He -died in Taunton, Nov. 28, 1903.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - - -<h3><em>NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.</em></h3> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Sergt.-Maj. Joseph E. Nye.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joseph E. Nye</span> was commissioned at the age of -twenty-four, while residing in New Bedford. He -was promoted from Company E, May 29, 1863, vice -Robbins having been discharged to enable him to -accept a lieutenancy in the Heavy Artillery. Sergeant-Major -Nye was a most faithful officer, and -performed his duty to the entire satisfaction of his -superior officers. He was always on time and always -kept good time when on dress parade and when -marching in review.</p> - -<p>After the war he was engaged in the livery business -in Fall River, and died there about twelve years -ago.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Quartermaster Sergt. Theodore A. Barton.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Quartermaster Sergeant Barton</span> was twenty-one -years old when commissioned and a resident of -New Bedford. He was the youngest son of Lieut.-Col. -James and Mary Barton, and came from a renowned -military family. He was born in 1842 and -received a private and public school education. His -parents moved from Newport to New Bedford when<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span> -young Barton was eleven years old. He was a member -of the High School in New Bedford, and graduated -from the same near the beginning of the war. -He enlisted in the Third Regiment and was appointed -quartermaster-sergeant, in which office he -served during the nine months’ campaign in North -Carolina, and was mustered out with the regiment. -He re-enlisted in the Fifty-eighth Regiment and was -appointed quartermaster with the rank of first lieutenant. -He was at one time the youngest regimental -quartermaster (and one of the best) in the Army -of the Potomac. He served faithfully to the close -of the war and was mustered out with his regiment.</p> - -<p>Soon after the war he took up his residence in -Providence and engaged in the hardware business -with Freeman P. Little, forming the firm of Little -& Barton. The governor of Rhode Island selected -him as one of the staff officers with the rank of colonel, -in which office he served with honor, and was -distinguished for his soldierly bearing. Subsequently -he removed to Ashton and became bookkeeper -in one of the Goddard’s mills. In 1868 he -entered the employ of the Gorham Company and -was their confidential clerk and bookkeeper, remaining -in that position until failing health compelled<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span> -him to take a long rest. When the new State House -was being constructed he was chosen assistant to -E. K. Glezen, secretary of the commission, and -when it was completed and a new commission -formed he was elected its secretary, in which office -he remained until his death, Jan. 24, 1905. He was -prominent in G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans circles -and was department commander of Rhode Island -in 1886. In 1894 he was elected senior vice-commander-in-chief -of the national body of Sons of Veterans, -and was the first man to receive that honor -from Rhode Island. A widow and daughter survive -him, residing in their beautiful home in Providence.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Commissary Sergt. Arthur Hooper.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Commissary Sergt. Arthur Hooper</span> was born in -Bridgewater, May 18, 1843, and was nineteen years -old when he enlisted in Company K, Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, for nine -months. He was promoted to regimental commissary -sergeant, Oct. 28, 1862, and discharged with -the regiment June 26, 1863. He re-enlisted Dec. 11, -1863, in Company A, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -Third Veteran Regiment for three years, and was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> -detailed regimental commissary sergeant. The regiment -left Readville, Mass., April 28, 1864, and was -assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, -Ninth Army Corps, Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside commanding. -Sergeant Hooper was with the regiment -in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, -North Anna River, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Welden -Railroad, and Poplar Grove Church. He was -furloughed Dec. 11, 1864, and was ordered to report -to the commissary department of the United States -General Hospital at Readville, Mass. He was mustered -out June 13, 1865.</p> - -<p>He lived in Bridgewater until June, 1882, when -he went to work as salesman for Carter & Company, -paper dealers in Boston. He was elected to the legislature -from the districts of Bridgewater and East -Bridgewater in 1880. He has been secretary of the -Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Regimental Association -since 1888. He joined the G. A. R. in 1868, and for -the past four years has been quartermaster of E. W. -Kinsley Post, Boston. He was the compiler of a -history of Bridgewater during the Rebellion, which -was published in 1880, a work that reflects honor on -the author and is of great value to the town. His -place of business is No. 100 Federal Street, Boston,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span> -where he is a clerk and director of the firm, respected, -trusted, and honored.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Hospital Steward Eugene Whittemore.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hospital Steward Eugene Whittemore</span> was -commissioned at the age of twenty and resided in -Boston. He served with the regiment and was mustered -out with the same. He is now letter carrier -in South Boston.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><span class="smcap">Sergt.-Maj. Edward L. Robbins.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sergt.-Maj. Edward L. Robbins</span> was twenty-seven -years of age when commissioned, and a resident of -Plymouth. He was discharged May 29, 1863, to enable -him to accept a lieutenancy in the heavy artillery. -He was a good, faithful officer, and enjoyed -the good-will of all the officers and men in the regiment. -He now resides in Wollaston, Mass. (Lincoln -Avenue).</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company A, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by Corporal John G. Gammons.</span>]</p> - - -<p>The early history of this company is of such importance -and interest as to claim more than a passing -notice.</p> - -<p>Company A, known as Halifax Light Infantry, -was organized in 1792 when George Washington was -President of the United States and John Hancock -Governor of Massachusetts. It was one of the first -companies in the State to receive its charter from -Governor Hancock, and therefore takes rank as one -of the oldest among the militia companies in the -State at that time.</p> - -<p>It was well armed, equipped and drilled and was -in active service in the war with England in 1812-14, -being on duty at Boston, Mass., where for faithful -service rendered, it received the thanks of Governor -Hancock and the commendation of the citizens of -Boston.</p> - -<p>It was commanded by Capt. Asa Thompson of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span> -Halifax, a “mighty man of valor” of gigantic proportions, -being six feet seven inches in normal condition, -and eight feet tall with his captain’s hat on. -On parade and at musters this company attracted -attention, not only by the Saul-like appearance of -its captain, but also by the large black bearskin caps -worn by its officers and men. Tradition says that -when Captain Thompson marched his company -across South Boston bridge throngs of men, women -and children would collect to see “the giant” and -his men, and not a few would tremble with fear that -the bridge would not be able to support the captain -and his great company.</p> - -<p>When President Lincoln issued his first proclamation -for troops, Company A (as minute men) reported -for duty April 16, 1861, being commanded by -Capt. Joseph Harlow of Halifax, whose height was -six feet two inches. This zealous and patriotic officer -rode all night through the towns in which the -members of the company resided, summoning them -to meet on Boston Common the next day, by order -of Governor John A. Andrew. This midnight ride -has been fittingly compared to that of Paul Revere.</p> - -<p>Company A was assigned to the Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteers, three months’ men, Col.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span> -David S. Wardrop commanding, and was ordered to -Virginia, where it did its full share in destroying -Gosport Navy Yard. It afterward served there -under Major-General Butler and was doing guard -duty when the slaves coming into our lines were declared -“contraband of war” by that officer.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i097" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i097.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> JOHN W. MARBLE.</div> -</div> - -<p>Sept. 18, 1862, Company A, having united with -Company G, of Assonet, went into camp at Lakeville, -Mass., known as Camp Joe Hooker. John W. -Marble, of Assonet, receiving eighty-seven votes, -was declared elected captain of the company; -Charles P. Lyon of Halifax was elected first lieutenant, -and Nathaniel Morton of the same town was -elected second lieutenant; each of these officers receiving -the same number of votes as Captain Marble. -Never was there a more democratic election and -never were men better pleased with their officers.</p> - -<p>Captain Marble proved a kind-hearted man, caring -for his men and giving them his best in military -drill, discipline, clothing and rations. He also kept -an eye on his men when on the march and in battle. -He was never known to fall out on the march, or to -be taken suddenly sick on the eve of a battle, or ride -in an ambulance on the long and weary forced -marches. His men had confidence in him and were<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span> -always ready to obey his commands without asking -questions; and, although not a graduate of West -Point, no battalion or brigade movement ever puzzled -him to know where to place his company, either -on drill or in the evolution of field movements.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Lyon was not only a good officer, he -was a good man. No day was so hot or stormy, and -no night was so dark or cold, that he did not fulfill -his duty beyond the letter of the law, whether that -duty was in camp, on picket, or on the march. His -interest in the company is reciprocated by “The Old -Boys” to this day, and will continue as long as one -of the company is left to tell of war events and our -reunions are characterized by fraternal greeting -rather than “paying off old scores.”</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Morton had, and still continues to -have, a large place in the esteem of the company. -He was always ready to serve when and where his -service was wanted and needed. He was the gentleman, -the officer, the friend of every man in the company. -Always at his post of duty, on the march, -everywhere; and in everything he proved himself -worthy of the confidence of his superiors, equals, -and inferiors. In battle he had no fear of all the -rebels “this side of perdition.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span></p> - -<p>Like the commissioned officers, the non-commissioned -officers were men of worth and usefulness. -No company could boast of a better orderly sergeant -than Company A. For proficiency in drill, promptness -at guard mount and discipline, Orderly Sergt. -James H. Hathaway stood number one. Danger to -him was a thing unknown. Duty before pleasure, -and obedience to his superior officers was his slogan.</p> - -<p>Sergt. William A. Lyon was always ready to go -when and where ordered and do as ordered. He -was a well drilled man, a true soldier, beloved and -honored by the whole company.</p> - -<p>Sergt. Stephen Hathaway was known as “The -man of money,” yet he never allowed money to become -his stepping stone to preferment. He was as -ready as any one to do his duty with the company, -regardless of toil, deprivation or danger, when not -on detached duty.</p> - -<p>Sergt. Morton V. Bonney could outlift any man in -camp. I once saw him stand astride a full barrel -of pork which others could not lift, and, taking it -by the chimbs, raise it clear from the ground, saying, -“There, I have lifted your darned old barrel of -pork.” In drill he was accurate, and on dress parade -the perfect soldier; and, like Israel’s second<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span> -king, he “behaved so wisely” that every one respected -and loved him.</p> - -<p>Ordnance Sergt. Frederick Thayer was not only a -master of his trade, but prompt in every detail of -his work. Every weapon was always ready when -wanted for guard mount, dress parade or for the -march, and not one of Company A was ever sent to -quarters because of a rusty or dirty gun.</p> - -<p>Corporals Uriel Haskins, Ephraim Haskins, -Thomas Gurney, James E. Arnold, Soranus Thompson, -David B. Hill, and John G. Gammons, were always -ready and faithful in the discharge of every -duty assigned to them.</p> - -<p>Asa Kilbreth could blow “The Flowers of Michigan” -through a fife as no other musician in the regiment, -if in the world. His time was so perfect that -every one could keep step when marching in review. -John G. Bonney was as good with his drum as -“Uncle” Kilbreth with his fife, and when these two -musicians sounded reveille every man was ready for -roll call. The whole company was made up of exceptionally -good and true men, “soldiers from the -word go.”</p> - -<p>Company A could truthfully boast of more musical -talent than any other company in the regiment.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span> -Singing could always be had for the asking, without -money and without price. Stringed instruments -were in evidence. A double quartette was -always ready and willing to entertain and enliven -what otherwise would have been dull hours of camp -life. Miller Briggs was a knight of the bow, and -he could make the “old campaign fiddle” talk, sing, -weep or shout, as occasion required or his fancy dictated. -Al. Ashley was always ready to make a -speech, play a game of euchre, go on guard or go -into a fight. Pearly Haven was born with a thirst -that water had no power to quench. Pearly was -always weak when near anything strong.</p> - -<p>Edward H. Rennis went to “his own place” when -he went into the cook-house. His boiled dinners -and his baked beans remain as things joyfully to be -remembered. Few were the cooks who could deal -out better rations than Rennis.</p> - -<p>Die Mason, while a good company clerk, would -stand before a heated stove and burn the whole -front of his uniform, absolutely oblivious of what -was going on. In the battle of Goldsboro, he filled -his musket with cartridges from breech to muzzle -and returned to Newbern with it full. When ap<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span>prised -of the fact, he simply said, “I marched two -hundred miles to snap at the rebels.”</p> - -<p>Corp. Thomas Gurney was a most painstaking -and <ins class="corr" id="tn-73" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'accurate diarian'"> -accurate diarist</ins>. Benjamin H. Bearse -could roast a fowl or a pig to perfection. John -Boyce was so squint-eyed that he could see “the -rebels” on either flank and in front of him. Henry -Cook, notwithstanding he had lost his voice, would -not ask to be discharged, whispering, “If I cannot -speak with my voice, I can speak to the rebels with -my musket.” John Drayton could provide fun for -the whole company. Herculese Dean was the staid -gentleman; Timothy French the man of affairs. -Bradford G. Hathaway was known as the “big man -with curly hair.” Daniel L. Hathaway would not -shake hands with a rebel prisoner, who, recognizing -him as a fellow workman in the Live Oak Swamps, -extended his hand. Dan declared he never would -shake hands with a d——d rebel.</p> - -<p>Shubael G. Howland will be remembered as the -man who carried six rebel muskets seventy miles on -his shoulder and sent them home to make sure that -the rebels would never get them again.</p> - -<p>Aaron D. Hathaway could bring a mule team out -of the mud when every one else had given up in de<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span>spair. -He performed this feat by pushing the -mules’ heads under the mud and keeping them there -until they were glad to jump out to breathe.</p> - -<p>Alamanzer Osborne had queer notions about sardines.</p> - -<p>Isaiah Stetson could scent a battle afar off.</p> - -<p>James H. Petty, while never perfect in the manual -of arms on dress parade, in battle could shoot -as straight as any one. He was never known to -fall out on the march because of sore feet and was -in his glory when in a battle.</p> - -<p>Jacob P. Hill was known as “the tall man;” William -T. Marston as the man who grew so corpulent -that Uncle Sam had no uniform that would fit -him. Francis Briggs, when “in trim,” could outrun -any deer and yell louder than an Ute Indian. -Horatio N. Hood never got stuck in the mud with -his team.</p> - -<p>The first night in Camp Joe Hooker was a -sweater to many, a conundrum to a few, and a go-as-you-please -to all. Every one kept good-natured -for the most pessimistic knew that all things that -have a beginning have an end; and so it came to -pass that, before reveille, the silence was broken<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span> -only by the tremendous snoring of the tired merrymakers.</p> - -<p>The first day in camp was one of laborious duty. -How many tons of stones were buried by Company -A no one will ever know, for it is safe to say no one -will ever resurrect them; but when the job was completed -Company A had as level and as smooth a -street as any company in camp. Some amusing -things occurred on the guard line. Some of the officers -detailed for guard duty would give one set of -orders and some another set, and it was hard for -the guards to tell which was right and which was -wrong. Some of the guards would not be relieved -at “arms aport” but would persist in standing at -a “charge.” One such was left to enjoy his “charge -bayonet” until the next relief: the two hours taught -him a lesson which he never forgot. Occasionally -some of the guards would fix their muskets firmly -in the ground, and, putting coat and hat on the -same, go off on a “lark,” returning in time to come -in with the relief; but such things were not considered -as a grave offense, since we were not mustered -into service.</p> - -<p>In a few days an inspecting officer came and we -were mustered into the service of Uncle Sam. Soon<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span> -we were uniformed and began the role of soldiers. -It took us less time to get used to our rations than -to get used to our beds, which at that time consisted -of the soft side of a hemlock board, quite different -from those beds we had left at our homes.</p> - -<p>One afternoon just after recall the boys took umbrage -at something the sutler had said or done, -and, magic-like, the two regiments in camp gathered -with the avowed purpose of demolishing his -place of business. I waited with bated breath to -see what a few officers would do with two thousand -enraged men. Just at the critical moment I saw -the stalwart form of Colonel Richmond standing -on a box, and with a voice like that “of many -waters” and of mighty thunders, he proclaimed, -“There will be a roll call in each company’s barracks -within five minutes and every one not present -will be marked.” Company A was in line in less -than two minutes. The roll was called and every -member answered “Here.” That little incident has -always remained with me as an exhibition of the -ready wit and good sense of our beloved Col. S. P. -Richmond.</p> - -<p>Our stay in camp was of short duration for we -were wanted for active service and were ordered to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span> -prepare for the South Land. The morning of our -last day in camp brought many of the wives, mothers, -fathers, sisters, and sweethearts to say the last -good-bye to the boys who were to defend the Old -Flag on southern battlefields. Alas! that some of -the boys who marched away that day, suppressing -their tears in a manly way, were never again to -look on the dear faces which tearfully said good-bye, -silently praying God that they might return -again to the old home and to their loved ones.</p> - -<p>At Lakeville station we took the train for Boston, -where we received an ovation through the city. -The right wing of the regiment was assigned to the -<i>Mississippi</i>, the left wing went on board the <i>Merrimac</i>. -The bell rang, the whistle sounded, and we -found ourselves going down the river, our destination -being Newbern, N. C. With the exception of -nearly running down two schooners and breaking -our foreyard arm into three pieces in contact with -a vessel going through the “Narrows,” our voyage -was uneventful. Company A did her full share of -duty, notwithstanding that the rough water in Boston -Bay gave to many of the boys all the business -they could manage on their own private account.</p> - -<p>Our ship, after rounding Cape Cod, anchored in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span> -Vineyard Haven. Seeing our consort pass in the -early dawn of the following morning, we prepared -to follow, and, just as the steam was applied, a -large schooner came across our bow. The engines -were reversed and we barely escaped a collision. -Captain Baxter hailed with this sarcastic remark, -“I believe some captains would run all night for -the sake of running across a ship’s bow and being -run down.” When we overtook the <i>Merrimac</i> we -were hailed with, “How did you break your foreyard -arm?” and Captain Baxter replied, “Carrying -sail, sir.”</p> - -<p>Our run to North Carolina was over a sea as -smooth as a mill-pond. The voyage could have -been made in safety in a canoe; but when within -five miles of the harbor, we encountered a southeast -gale, which drove thousands of porpoises into the -harbor. Our pilot, either through ignorance or -carelessness, ran our ship upon the bar. I was -standing beside the Captain when the thing happened, -and Captain Baxter, quietly drawing his revolver -and placing it close to the pilot’s head, soberly -remarked: “I have a good mind to put a little -light into your stupid rebel brain.” I need not -tell you that that pilot trembled like a whipped<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span> -dog. With the rising tide and the assistance of a -tug, we were soon off the bar; and, as we headed for -the wharf, I heard Captain Baxter say, “I did not -care half as much for getting stuck on that bar, as -I do for having the captain of the <i>Merrimac</i> get -alongside the wharf before the <i>Mississippi</i>, for I -shall never hear the last of it.” At Morehead City -we took train for Newbern and camped on the banks -of the Neuse River. Here for the first time, we -were drilled in the evolutions of the brigade, preparatory -to going on the march and into battle.</p> - -<p>After a few days of camp life, Company A and -Company B were detailed for picket duty at Newport -Barracks, one mile distant from Newport -City, which consisted of three houses, two barns -and a five-by-ten store. Newport City was the trading -mart for that section, and many times have I -seen a barrel of pitch sold for thirty dollars and a -barrel of tar sold for twenty dollars.</p> - -<p>Our camp consisted of two companies of infantry, -a battery of four guns and a platoon of cavalry. -A detail from Company A went every day to a post -called Havelock, and the boys from there kept the -company well supplied with fresh beef and pork. -One night one of Company A being on picket,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span> -thought he saw some one stealthily approaching the -post. “Who goes there?” rang out on the still -night. Receiving no answer, he fired. Alas! his -aim was only too sure, for, on inspection, there in -the throes of death lay a large black cow. I believe -that was the only rebel that Company A ever -roasted and ate.</p> - -<p>Some of Company A will never forget David B. -Hill and the hive of bees and honey he brought into -camp one night. The following morning, when his -namesake came to inquire after his missing hive, -Dave met him on the parade ground, and, passing -himself off as commandant of the camp, solemnly -declared that he had no men who would be guilty -of stealing; but said he: “If I find that one of my -command has done so mean an act, I will have the -offender punished severely.” This satisfied Mr. -Hill, and he was never seen in camp after such positive -assurance of the honesty of the soldiers.</p> - -<p>Our first march taught Company A the superiority -of army shoes over fashionable boots to march -in, for the first ten miles found many of the men, -as well as the officers, with their boots slung over -their shoulders, their feet without stockings, and -their heels raw to the quick. The lesson was never<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span> -forgotten. At Peltier’s Mills the fortunate ones -luxuriated on a supper of bread and bacon. The -less fortunate were allowed to pass the night in a -hog field, where the fleas were thicker than the stars -in the “Milky Way.” “Pollocksville Express” -marked another episode in our marching history, -and we learned that being a soldier did not mean -“flowery beds of ease.” Some of these marches -were attended with rain, not like the gentle rains -at the North, but downpours, mud ankle-deep, baggage -wagons with the wheel-hubs rolling on the surface, -horses balking, teamers saying everything but -their prayers. But we were being hardened for -more active and laborious service.</p> - -<p>Our first real march began Dec. 11, 1862, at six -<span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> In a dense fog our line was formed and soon -the march began. There were twelve thousand, -all told, infantry, artillery, and cavalry. These, -with one hundred and sixty wagons occupied four -miles, for we were moving in single column. Just -at sunset our skirmishers captured one captain and -two privates. This we believed to be a good omen, -and some of the boys were heard to say, “We shall -capture every rebel we find.” At eleven <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> we<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span> -stacked arms and laid down near them for the -night; and no one had to resort to opiates to sleep. -The next morning a sorer and more jaded set of -men could not be found than Company A. Every -belt, every strap had chafed to the quick, and water -was not to be had to bathe the inflamed parts. But -for all this, Company A did not flinch nor cry, “I -have seen all the marching I want to see; I want to -go home.”</p> - -<p>The second day Company A, with the other companies -of the Third, was detailed as baggage guard, -and vigilantly did we perform our duty from early -dawn to twelve at night, when we again halted and -were allowed to sleep “on our arms.” We were getting -into that part of the country where our enemy -might pounce on us at any moment; and we soon -learned that it was wiser to build no fires, than to -illuminate the sky and thus show “the rebs” our -position. As a little recompense for our hard -march the previous day, we were allowed to kill -quite a number of fat hogs; and in this, Company -A was always ready and willing to do her full share.</p> - -<p>I recall a little ruse I played on a soldier of a -New York regiment. Finding a dead hog still -warm, with its hams and shoulders gone, I deter<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span>mined -to secure a piece to roast; but, to my chagrin, -I found that I had left my knife in my haversack. -Then came to me the old conundrum: If -you had a bottle of water, how would you get the -water without drawing the cork or breaking the -bottle? and, knowing the answer, I said, “Push in -the cork.” Then taking the initiative, I called to -a soldier, saying, “I have a good fat hog here, and -if you will loan me your knife to cut out a roast, I -will give you all you want.” This he gladly did, -so I got my pork and it made a fine roast.</p> - -<p>Sunday, December 14th, at twelve o’clock, near -Kinston, the Third Regiment went into her first -real fight in North Carolina. Being the second -regiment in the First Brigade, we had not long to -wait before being ordered to take position on the -opposite side of a swamp through which was a -straight road with water a foot deep. The rebel -batteries on the opposite side made it dangerous for -passers that way; but through we went in good order. -Then the rebels, learning that the Third with -Company A were after them, limbered their guns -and ran for their lives. Before going into battle, -we saw the wounded brought past us, and further -on we saw many a brave fellow lying dead at our<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span> -feet; but each soldier was careful to step aside and -not tread on our dead comrades. Our forces captured -five hundred prisoners, nine guns which the -rebels had spiked, and saved the beautiful and -costly bridge over the Neuse River which the rebels -had set on fire. The adjutant-general reports two -hundred and ten killed and wounded; but to know, -one had to see the dead on the field and in the wood, -and the wounded in the old Baptist Church. Some -were so severely wounded that they begged their -officers to end their misery by a shot from a revolver. -As Company A was marching past the prisoners, -one was heard to say, “Oh! here goes the -Third Massachusetts Regiment. They are all -drafted men.” This was too much for Corp. Uriel -Haskins, and, turning like an enraged lion, he said -to the man, “Say that again and I will knock every -tooth in your lying jaw down your throat.” The -fellow did not repeat his words, for <ins class="corr" id="tn-84" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'had he, Urial'"> -had he, Uriel</ins> would have been as good as his word. What a -scene the Common presented the following morning. -The nice rail fence had strangely disappeared. -Beds, crockery, and even ladies’ silk -dresses were strewed over the ground; and I suspect -that many a fowl that went “crowing to bed”<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span> -never saw the sun rise. The morning saw us again -on the march. We were as glad to be gone as the -people were to have us go; our blood was up and we -were ready to go into another battle.</p> - -<p>Our second battle at Whitehall was an artillery -duel, forty battery guns being in action; and, although -the Third did not take position on the field, -the shot and shell from the rebel batteries were -quite as thick as we cared to have them for comfort. -Yet not a man of Company A was seen to -dodge or try to gain cover. During the battle Colonel -Richmond sat on his horse as calm and straight -as if on inspection. I saw General Foster walking -along the line of fire with the reins of his horse on -his arm occasionally giving orders to the officers -commanding the batteries. I saw the dead and -wounded horses lying on the ground. I saw one -batteryman load his gun with canister, and, aiming -it at a tree in which were thirty sharpshooters doing -deadly work, bring them down as apples fall to -the ground; and they didn’t come down because -they wanted to. But few of our soldiers were killed -or wounded.</p> - -<p>Again we proceeded on our march, and, after -marching ten miles, we halted at six <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> and pre<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span>pared -for the night. We were allowed to build -fires, make coffee and enjoy a good warm supper. -To reach and cut communications between Wilmington -and Goldsboro was our objective point, so -that the rebels could not send re-enforcements, while -General Dix attacked the rebels at Blackwater.</p> - -<p>December 16th we resumed our march, reaching -Everettsville about twelve o’clock, where we encountered -quite a strong picket force. These men -escaping to the woods our batteries shelled the -same. The Third Regiment was ordered to take position -near the railroad and on a line parallel with -it. Here we remained until an iron-clad car with -a battery was demolished and the bridge across the -river was fired. At one time I counted nine shells -fusing within two hundred feet of Company A, yet -no one sought shelter behind the many great stumps -of trees where we were lying (according to orders) -on the ground. The main army retiring, our brigade -was ordered to remain on the field to make -sure that no <ins class="corr" id="tn-86" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'rebels would harrass'"> -rebels would harass</ins> our rear.</p> - -<p>After the demolition of the iron-clad, the Third -Regiment was ordered to stack arms, overturn the -railroad track and set the ties on fire. This was so -expeditiously done that in half an hour the ties were<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span> -on fire as far as one could see. A mill also did not -escape the flames. During this time General Magruder, -coming from Wilmington on the cars with -ten thousand men and finding the railroad on fire, -disembarked his men and batteries, and marched -them to the scene of action, on a road parallel to -the railroad and on the opposite side of it. We did -not know this then as well as we did one hour later. -The Third Regiment, having done as ordered, -marched to the rear just over the brow of the rising -ground. Hardly had we gained this position when -we were told that the rebels were advancing with a -flag of truce, and a battalion of cavalry went to receive -it. When near the railroad, which was six -feet high at this point, a brigade of rebel infantry -fired a volley without hitting either man or horse. -The cavalry returned the fire and then returned to -cover.</p> - -<p>At this time I was standing near Colonel Richmond -and Captain Belger. The rebel brigade lost -no time in getting over the railroad, and with -charged bayonets they came up the slope on a double-quick. -“Action front!” shouted Captain Belger, -“Double canister! Load!” Never did soldiers -present better alignment than that rebel brigade;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span> -but when they saw that Belger’s battery was supported -by infantry, they made the fatal mistake of -making a right half wheel. “Aim! fire!” commanded -Captain Belger, when the rebel bayonets -were not more than two hundred yards from his -battery. As the battery sent forth its deadly contents -great gaps were made in the rebel ranks. -Three times the colors were shot down and three -times they were raised; but the fourth time they -remained on the ground for want of any one to -raise them. Some fifty of the men who had taken -refuge behind a stack of fodder were served with -grape and solid shot. It took but a moment to send -both stack and men flying towards the woods; fifty -men becoming entangled by a fence were treated to -spherical case, which bursting in their midst killed -many of them.</p> - -<p>During all this time the rebel batteries on the opposite -side of the railroad were raining shot and -shell at us, the most of which passed harmlessly -over our heads, enough, however, falling short to -give us a sprinkling of “the sacred soil” of the -South. We were ordered to lie down, and this order -was so effectively obeyed that no daylight could -penetrate between us and “Mother Earth.” Look<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span>ing -to the left, I saw three other brigades approaching -our left center. These were about one hundred -yards in the rear of each other. The Twenty-seventh -Regiment lay as quiet as death until the first -brigade showed breast high, when rising they -poured such a withering volley into the rebel ranks -that those who could turned and ran, reaching the -second brigade; that turned and ran; and these two -brigades reaching the third brigade, that turned -and ran. Neither Belger’s nor a thirty-two-pounder -brass battery of six guns allowed them to -run without helping them to run faster. Darkness -drawing its mantle over the scene we were ordered -to march back to the main army. The rebels left -their dead and dying on the field.</p> - -<p>The brook over which we had come dry shod was -now a roaring torrent, and we, for the first time, -saw the trap the rebels had set for us by opening -the gate at the mill-pond. In their charge they no -doubt expected to drive us into the brook, and there -slaughter us at their own sweet will and pleasure; -but we had punished them so severely that they -thought it best to let the Yankees alone. But -through the brook we had to go; and those who -were sure-footed went, with the water up to their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span> -arm-pits. These, both officers and men, did heroic -service in rescuing those who were carried down -with the raging current. With all our cartridges -wet and our clothing frozen, we had to stand and -patiently wait for the whole brigade to cross the -flood before we were ordered to march, and were -only too glad when told that we would have to -march several miles before we would bivouac for -the night. Being ordered to build no fires, we -stretched ourselves on the frozen ground, slept like -tired, healthy children and arose at daylight, our -clothes steaming, and commenced the weary homeward -march.</p> - -<p>No one but a soldier can tell how mean it makes -one feel to be in an enemy’s country without ammunition -to defend oneself with should an attack be -made; but we neither saw nor heard any rebels on -the homeward march. On this march Company A -was three days without food. Toward evening of -the third day, the writer, leaving the marching column, -marched straight for a sweet potato mound, -and, taking all he could carry, hastened to his company. -This was no easy matter as the column was -marching nearly as fast as himself. But fortune -favoring the brave, he regained his place at dark.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span> -Nearly all the potatoes were divided among the -boys, and I can say that the best thing I ever tasted -in my life was a sweet potato, skin, dirt and all. -After dark I secured two hogs’ heads, and these -with the sweet potatoes made an excellent stew for -several of the men, including the commissioned officers -of Company A.</p> - -<p>Nothing special occurred on our return march. -The footsore boys left at Kinston were ready to resume -the homeward march. The last night of the -march we slept on the ground where the water in -the ditches made ice one inch thick. As often as -we awoke shivering with the cold, we would up and -run until bodily heat would allow us to sleep again. -We arrived in Newbern at 12.30, Dec. 21, 1862. Not -long after our return, Company A with another -company of the Third Regiment, were ordered on -picket duty at Deep Gully, where the rebels had -made an attack. Here we stayed two weeks, when -we were relieved by the other companies sent from -Newbern.</p> - -<p>On Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1863, our regiment was -moved from our first place of encampment to Fort -Totten. Here we were protected by an embankment -twelve feet high and forty feet wide at the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span> -base. Our marches from this place to various -points, especially that to Swansboro over almost -impassible roads, will never be forgotten by Company -A. When, in the language of Colonel Richmond, -“eight men make a company,” Company A -was always sure to exceed that number, notwithstanding -that the mud was so deep that we made -but five miles in ten hours.</p> - -<p>Wednesday, April 8th, we crossed the Neuse -River and commenced our march to Blount’s Creek, -where we encountered quite a body of the enemy; -but after an artillery demonstration for one hour, -both armies began a retreat at the same time, and -neither knew why the other retreated, unless it be -that the rebels caught sight of General Spinola -(our commanding general) with his high red shirt -collar, and, mistaking him for Sitting Bull, imagined -retreat the better part of valor. I remember -his saying to Colonel Richmond, “Colonel, your men -stand as straight in battle as old veterans of the -regular army.” In this battle Captain Belger had -his horse shot from under him and he himself was -badly wounded; but as he was being led past the -Third, he said, “Give it to them, colonel, we will pay -them for this.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span></p> - -<p>While the march to Blount’s Creek was a hard -one, the going to Core Creek was as easy as a train -of cars could make it. Here we stayed two days -and took two hundred rebel prisoners. Two incidents -still remain fresh in my memory: one was, -that when going out, some break about the engine -caused a stop and the engineer, finding it beyond -his power to mend it, asked if there was any man -on the cars who knew how to fix it up. Hardly -were the words out of his mouth when a man -stepped forward saying, “I guess I can fix this machine. -I helped make it.” The other incident was -that of a very young soldier, in fact, the youngest -soldier I ever saw in the army. Speaking to me -about the killed, he innocently said, “I think I killed -one of them, for the hole in his head was made by a -very small bullet, and you see I have a musket -smaller than the others.”</p> - -<p>Our last march was to Batchelder’s Creek, where -the rebels attacked our men, and Colonel Jones, -commanding the post, was killed. May 23, 1863, at -eight <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span>, we commenced our march and when -within a safe distance, learning that the rebels -were two brigades strong with a battery of six guns, -we halted for the night. The following morning<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span> -Company A was sent one mile in advance of the -regiment, and the writer with six men was sent one -mile in advance of the company. But at nine <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, -word being received that the rebels learning of our -coming had politely retired, we were ordered to join -our regiment. As I was sitting beside Captain -Marble, Captain Hawes and Lieutenant Mason being -present, Corp. Uriel Haskins came up, and, -saluting Captain Marble, asked permission to go -foraging, saying, “We have nothing to eat.” “No,” -said Captain Marble with a frown, “Not one of -you shall go. I brought a minister with me and -when I want any stealing done I will send him. It -is no harm for a minister to steal.”</p> - -<p>The return march to Newbern was exceedingly -hot and the road was so dusty that at times it -seemed impossible to breathe. We reached our -camp at one <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span>, a tired, dust-covered and sweat-stained -set of soldiers.</p> - -<p>June 10, 1863, was our last day on southern soil. -Several of the non-commissioned officers being on -the sick list, I was ordered to act as orderly sergeant -in detailing and marching the last detail from -Company A to guard mount in North Carolina. -And so I have this honor. The next morning found<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span> -us on the train for Morehead City, where seven companies -embarked on the steamer <i>S. R. Spaulding</i>. -The other three companies went on board the -steamer <i>Tilley</i> at Newbern.</p> - -<p>Our passage home was for the most part of the voyage -rough, so much so that a majority of both officers -and men were seasick. One morning the adjutant -of the regiment came to me and asked, “Will -you take the guard to-day?” remarking at the same -time, “I know you have done double duty, but the -fact is, about all the officers are so seasick that they -cannot take care of themselves, much less take -charge of the guard.” My reply was, “Yes, adjutant, -I will do it.” As I left Company A’s quarters, -I heard several saying, “Is there anything that -<ins class="corr" id="tn-95" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Corporal Gamons'"> -Corporal Gammons</ins> cannot and will not do, when -emergency so requires?” and I remember answering, -“It is a pretty poor soldier who would not prefer -to do double duty than to be seasick.”</p> - -<p>How good the shores of Cape Cod looked to us; -even the sand on the tail-end of grand old Massachusetts -looked far more glorious to us than all the -magnolia swamps of North Carolina; and the surf, -as it broke on the beach, seemed to say, “This is the -land of the free, the loyal, the brave North.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span></p> - -<p>Tuesday, June 16, 1863, we again marched the -streets of Boston with the glad consciousness of -having done our duty as soldiers when our services -were needed. We had proved ourselves worthy of -the country of which we were citizens, and of the -Old Flag we had defended; and of our record we -were not a little proud.</p> - -<p>Our march through Boston was one continued -ovation from the start to finish. Often we heard -the people saying, “This is the Old Third Regiment;” -and from doors, balconies, and windows came the -glad “Welcome home again to our <ins class="corr" id="tn-96" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'brave Massachusets'"> -brave Massachusetts</ins> soldiers.” Many times our ranks were broken -by the hand-shaking of fathers, the embraces of -mothers, and the kisses of sweethearts. And because -the officers were equally served with the rank and -file, no one said anything about perfect alignment -or perfect marching. To be home again and see our -own, who had come fifty miles to welcome home the -war-stained boys, who had served nine months in -Uncle Sam’s army, correcting their mistaken and -misled brothers, was more than anything else, -more than everything else.</p> - -<p>On all the marches, both trying and dangerous, -in battle, on picket and guard duty, Company A<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span> -acted the part of brave, true and patriotic soldiers; -worthy the name of “sons of noble sires” and of the -grand old State of Massachusetts; and with the -other companies of the Old Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, takes its place on the -roll of honor. I do not recall of one instance of a -member of Company A being punished for disobedience -to orders, overstaying a pass, “standing on a -barrel,” “riding the wooden horse,” or “carrying -dirt on their heads in a mess pan.” Company A -escaped all such punishment for two reasons; first, -because the men willed to be soldiers; and second, -the officers knew how to use men.</p> - -<p>After the close of the war Company A continued -its organization and was well uniformed, well officered, -and well drilled until July 6, 1876, when by -order of Governor Rice, it was disbanded to reduce -the expenses of the volunteer militia of the State, -the six companies being reduced to two, those of -Brockton and Plymouth remaining.</p> - -<p>Company A, which was usually full, has been commanded -since the close of the war by Capt. Cephus -Washburn, of Halifax; Capt. Charles P. Lyon, of -Halifax; Capt. Morton V. Bonney, of West Han<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span>over; -and Capt. George H. Bonney, of Kingston. -These men are still alive and are honored and beloved -by all their fellow-citizens.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">A Corrected Roster of Company A, Living and Dead, -to October 1, 1903.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment. As the whole company -were Massachusetts men, the towns only will be mentioned. Mustered -out June 26, 1863, will be considered the time, unless otherwise indicated. -A star (*) before the name stands for service in the three months’ regiment.]</p></div> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">John W. Marble</span>, Captain; Freetown; 36. For -many years foreman of Anthony and Swift’s -Slaughter House, Assonet. Ex-member of Legislature. -A man of staunch qualities. Died June 18, -1900.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Charles P. Lyon</span>, First Lieutenant; Halifax; -36. A great admirer of and worker for the interests -of Company A; has held nearly every office in -the company from corporal to captain. He rendered -such timely assistance to Captain Harlow in -notifying the members of the company to report on -Boston Common, that, notwithstanding the order -was received at night, the following morning saw -Halifax “Minute Men” on the early train armed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span> -and equipped, according to the call of the “War Governor” -and President Lincoln, with every man present. -For years after the war he served as captain -of the company. His town honored him and itself -in sending him to the Legislature, where his voice -and his vote was always on the right side. By -trade a bootmaker, his work stood first-class. Born -and always residing in Halifax, <ins class="corr" id="tn-99" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'he has alwas'"> -he has always</ins> enjoyed the confidence and good-will of his fellow-citizens; -and now in the sunshine of a grand and -fully rounded out life, he awaits orders to the -higher and better life, honored and loved by all his -associates, including every member of Company A.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Nathaniel Morton</span>, Second Lieutenant; Halifax; -21. The gentleman, the scholar, the officer, -the soldier, “The modest man,” who proudly wears -the “Minute Men’s Medal,” presented to him by the -commonwealth for meritorious service. He participated -in the burning of Gosport Navy Yard and -assisted Captain Lyon in recruiting the company in -1862. Has held all the higher offices in the towns -of Halifax and Pembroke for the last twenty-seven -years; prominent in probate business; honored and -respected by his townsmen. He resides in Bryant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span>ville, -Mass., where, with his accomplished wife, he -cordially welcomes all his friends.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">James H. Hathaway</span>, First Sergeant; Freetown; -25. Mustered out with regiment. For many -years foreman in factory at Walpole, Mass. Employee -Consolidated Railroad. Resides at East -Walpole, Mass.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">William A. Lyon</span>, Sergeant; Halifax; 25. Respected -and beloved by the whole company. For -several years <ins class="corr" id="tn-100" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'an employe of'"> -an employee of</ins> the Old Colony Railroad. -Killed by the cars. A widow living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen Hathaway</span>, Sergeant; Freetown; 24. -Died in Illinois. Widow, son, and daughter.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Morton V. Bonney</span>, Sergeant; Hanson; 21. A -leading business man in his town. Ex-member of -Legislature, trusted and honored by his fellow-citizens; -an influential member of the Third Regiment -Association. Resides at West Hanover, Mass.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Frederick Thayer</span>, Ordnance Sergeant; Freetown; -22. A boss workman in Mason’s Machine -Shop, Taunton. In Soldiers Home, Togus, Maine.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Uriel Haskins</span>, Corporal; Freetown; 19; tack-maker. -Ex-member of City Government; honored -by all his associates. Resides in Taunton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ephraim H. Haskins</span>, Corporal; Freetown; 18. -He enlisted in Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry; -commissioned second lieutenant in same. -Killed at battle of Weldon Railroad, Sept. 30, 1864. -Widow and one daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas Gurney</span>, Corporal; Hanson; 28. He -enlisted in the Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers; -mustered out at close of war. A successful -merchant; member of school board. Past Master -of Atlantic Lodge, A. F. & A. M. A man of sterling -worth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James E. Arnold</span>, Corporal; Berkley; 29. A -good, faithful soldier, a zealous patriot. Nothing -of his history since the war known.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soranus Thompson</span>, Corporal; Hanson; 25. -Died and was buried with G. A. R. honors at Brockton, -Mass. Left a family.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">William W. Hood</span>, Corporal; Hanson; 28. Discharged -for disability, April 22, 1863. Boot and -shoemaker. An honest and respected citizen. -Member of Post No. 127. G. A. R. Has a family. -Resides in Hanson, Mass.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">David B. Hill</span>, Corporal; Freetown; 26. A genius, -a good soldier, an aspirant for shoulder straps.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102"></a>[102]</span> -Was a member of Company G, Freetown “Minute -Men,” Third Regiment, three months’ men, and was -corporal of the guard in Virginia, when the first -three slaves coming into our lines were declared -“contraband of war” by Gen. Benjamin Butler.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John G. Gammons</span>, Corporal; Westport; 26. Recruiting -officer for Fifty-eighth Regiment. Re-enlisted -in Company F, Third Massachusetts Heavy -Artillery. (Sergeant.) Commissioned second lieutenant -in Fifty-eighth Regiment (never mustered). -Commissioned second lieutenant in Eighteenth Unattached -Company Massachusetts Volunteers. Mustered -out at close of war. Taught military school -one year. Graduated from Taylor University, receiving -degree of Ph. D. Pastor of several Methodist -Episcopal churches; president of several corporations; -writer of local histories; pastor of Arnold’s -Mills Methodist Episcopal Church. Resides -at Arnold’s Mills, R. I.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Asa Kilbreth</span>, Musician; Pembroke; 62. A -splendid musician; a great friend of all the boys; -never “fell out on the march.” Respected by his -townsmen. Died and buried at Pembroke, Mass. -Left a widow and son.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John G. Bonney</span>, Drummer; Pembroke; 29. -Punctual to duty. A favorite of the company, and -highly respected by his fellow-citizens. Died at -Pembroke, Mass. Left a widow and daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horatio N. Hood</span>, Wagoner; Hanson; 30. Never -got stuck in the mud; was proud of his team, using -his horses with humanitarian consideration. Died -at Greene, Maine, April 15, 1900. Buried in Maine. -Left widow and four sons.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Anthoney, Nicholas B.</span>, Westport; 40. First -officer of ship. A man of high moral character, a -true soldier and a respected citizen. Died at Westport, -Mass., 1868. Two daughters living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ashley, Albert B.</span>, Freetown; 24. A natural -orator, with great magnetic powers. Shipped in -United States Navy May, 1861. Served on United -States Frigate <i>Mississippi</i>, Gulf Squadron, Lieutenant -Dewey (now Rear Admiral), executive officer. -Participated in capture of New Orleans. Discharged -from Navy, June, 1862. Enlisted in Company -A, Third Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. -Mustered out with regiment. Re-enlisted. Orderly -sergeant, Company B, Fourth Massachusetts Cav<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104"></a>[104]</span>alry -from August, 1863, to March, 1865. Commissioned -lieutenant in Twenty-first United States Colored -Troops, March, 1865. Mustered out May, 1866. -Went West, 1869. Manager of several coal mines -and coal companies for twenty-two years. Grand -Lecturer, State of Illinois, for sixteen years. Owner -and manager of Ashley Heights since 1892. A man -of wealth and influence. Popular with the mystic -orders. Post Office (Summers). <ins class="corr" id="tn-104" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Ashley Hights'"> -Ashley Heights,</ins> Lake Huron, Mich. (Winters), La Grange, Ill.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beal, Bernard C.</span>, Hanson; 29. A man of noble -character. Chairman of Selectmen. For many -years quartermaster of Post No. 127, G. A. R. Farmer -and poultry raiser.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bearse, Benjamin H.</span>, Hanson; 40. A giant in -stature, large-hearted, a favorite of all the company, -respected by all his fellow-citizens. Died at -South Hanson, Feb. 12, 1903. Widow and son.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bonney, Allen F.</span>, Hanover; 42. A man of noble -character. Died at West Hanover, July 5, 1885. -Buried at Hanover. Widow and daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bourne, Thomas W.</span>, Hanson; 28. An esteemed -citizen. Farmer and road builder. Post Office, -South Hanson, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105"></a>[105]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Boyce, John</span>, Berkley; 42. A man of strong -moral character. A pronounced Prohibitionist. Respected -by his townsmen. Died at Berkley April 9, -1893. Buried at Assonet, Mass. Several children -living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Francis G.</span>, Freetown; 25. A hustler. -Lived in Assonet. Wife, two sons and two daughters. -A gentleman of leisure. Died in Assonet, July -27, 1905, age, sixty-eight years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Seth M.</span>, Hanson; 25. An excellent violinist. -Printer, Town Auditor. A grand good fellow, -highly esteemed by his many friends. Member -of T. L. Bonney Post, G. A. R. Resides at South -Hanson, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Broadbent, Samuel S.</span>, Westport; 18. A ready -speaker. Member of G. A. R. Janitor of school -building in New Bedford, Mass. Resides in New -Bedford, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brooks, Thomas J.</span>, Westport; 39. A faithful -soldier. Nothing of his history known since the -close of the war.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Burgess, Theophilus J.</span>, Rochester; 23. History -since muster out unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106"></a>[106]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, Franklin J.</span>, Freetown; 18; Remembered -as a faithful soldier. History since war unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chipman, Sumner J.</span>, Freetown; 21. Resides in -Pelham, N. H. No family.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cook, Henry</span>, Hanson; 34. A man of sound principles. -Member of G. A. R. Retired. Post office, -Plymouth, Mass. Has a family.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dean, Hercules</span>, Berkley; 27. A gentleman and -soldier. Strong temperance man. Respected by his -many friends. Died Oct. 21, 1890. One daughter, -postmistress, Assonet, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Drayton, John</span>, Hanson; 40. An agreeable comrade, -a ready wit, full of mirthfulness. An esteemed -citizen, beloved by a large circle of friends. Died -at South Hanson May 11, 1898. Widow and children.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Drew, George</span>, 3d, Halifax; 21. Re-enlisted. -Killed in battle. A good brave soldier.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Duffee, George</span>, Freetown; 21. A good honest -man, a faithful soldier. Employed in Census Bureau, -Washington. Resides in Washington, D. C.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Foster, Calvin</span>, Pembroke; 37. Reported living -at Pembroke. Has a family. Remembered as a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107"></a>[107]</span> -faithful soldier, ready and willing to do every duty -assigned him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">French, Timothy E.</span>, Berkley; 34. A man of -strong moral character with pronounced temperance -principles. No storm was cold enough, no -rain wet enough, no march so exhausting that cold -water was not the most refreshing beverage for him. -Died in Berkley, Mass., Dec. 7, 1899.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Fuller, Eldridge G.</span>, Hanson; 41. A “good soldier.” -Died October, 1867.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fuller, Frederick E.</span>, Halifax; 18. Died in -Newbern, N. C., Dec. 1, 1862. This being the first -death in Company A and Fred being so young, it -made a lasting impression on the company. We -buried him under a tree near our camp.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hambley, Andrew T.</span>, Freetown; 21. Died March -10, 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Aaron D.</span>, Freetown; 19. A successful -lumber dealer in the west. Acquired wealth. -Died in California in 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Andrew J.</span>, Freetown; 21. Died at -Dighton, Mass., June 15, 1903. Widow, son, and -daughter living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Bradford G.</span>, Berkley; 39. For many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[108]</span> -years on the police force in Providence, R. I. A -farmer and poultry fancier. Died in Berkley, -March 30, 1887.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Daniel L.</span>, Berkley; 30. As brave a -soldier as ever fought in battle. Died in Taunton, -Mass. Left several children.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Lynde</span>, Freetown; 43. A faithful, -bold and true soldier. Died at Assonet, Mass., Jan. -22, 1887. Sons and daughters living.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Haskell, James H.</span>, Freetown; 28. Died Sept. -10, 1880.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Haskell, Otis</span>, Lakeville; 33. A soldier true to -orders. Lives in Taunton, Mass. Several children -living.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Haskins, George H.</span>, Freetown; 38. A good soldier; -an honest farmer. Resides in Freetown, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Haven, Perley</span>, Halifax; 25. Farmer. Resides -at Thomastown. Post office, Middleboro, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayward, Luther W.</span>, Halifax; 23. Died at Halifax, -July 6, 1863. Buried at Hanson, Mass. Unmarried.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayward, Lysander W.</span>, Halifax; 18. A brave -soldier, a trusted citizen. Farmer and coal dealer. -Has a family. Post office, Halifax, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[109]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hill, Jacob P.</span>, Hanson; 39. One of the “Minute -Men” of 1861, known in Company A as the -“tall man on the right.” A genial comrade and -companion. Member of A. C. Monroe Post, No. 212, -G. A. R. Died suddenly at his home in East Bridgewater, -Aug. 9, 1903. Left a family. Buried with -military honors at East Bridgewater, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Martin L.</span>, Halifax; 18. Boot and shoemaker. -An honored citizen, industrious and frugal. -Has a wife. Post office, Rockland, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horr, Andrew J.</span>, Freetown; 26. Lives in East -Freetown. Farmer. Widower. One daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howland, Alonzo</span>; Hanover; 23. Boot and shoemaker. -Respected by his many friends. Member of -Post 74, G. A. R. Post office, Rockland, Mass. Wife -and four children.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howland, Shubael G.</span>, Freetown; 44. A man of -strong will powers, of great endurance; respected -by his townsmen. Died in 1901. A widow living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Keen, Thatcher</span>, Hanson; 23. He never disappointed -his friends nor helped his enemies. A -worthy citizen. Died at Abington, Mass., June 3, -1868. Buried at Rockland, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lambert, Francis M.</span>, Bridgewater; 24. Dis<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[110]</span>charged -for disability. May 27, 1863. Died in Brockton. -Mass., Nov. 6, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lambert, Zaccheus</span>, Bridgewater; 40. Discharged -for disability, May 27, 1863. Died at -Brockton, Mass., Nov. 1, 1882.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Marston, William T.</span>, Halifax; 27. Discharged -for disability, May 27, 1863. A good, faithful soldier. -Reported living in Bridgewater, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mason, Darius B.</span>, Pembroke; 26. Company -clerk, mirthful and sunny, ready to go anywhere -and do anything ordered to do. A good citizen. -Died and buried in Whitman, Mass. Widow and -son living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murtaugh, Thomas W.</span>, Freetown; 24. A faithful -and true soldier. Superintendent of the culinary -department in Fall River Hospital. Resides -in Fall River, Mass. Son and daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Niles, Truman E.</span>, Hanover; 35. A good soldier -and honored citizen. Died in Middleboro, Mass., -Oct. 31, 1902. Widow and children living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Osborne, Alamanzer</span>, Bridgewater; 21. A faithful -soldier, a respected citizen, a successful trader. -Resides in Brockton, Mass. Member of Post No. -13, G. A. R. Has a family.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[111]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, Horace F.</span>, Halifax; 20. A soldier -“who needeth not to be ashamed.” Resides in -Brockton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paine, George A.</span>, Freetown; 28. A man of -splendid habits, a true soldier. Died about 1873. -Widow, son, and daughter living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perry, Marcus T.</span>, Pembroke; 32. Died in South -Hanson, Oct. 24, 1894. Buried in Pembroke, Mass. -Left widow and daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peterson, Algeron A.</span>, Hanson; 30. Migrated -west. Present history unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Petty, James H.</span>, Westport; 52. A soldier who -never feared to go into a battle and never fell out -on the march. Died in Westport, Mass., Aug. 2, -1893. Four sons and one daughter living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Phillips, Samuel W.</span>, Berkley; 41. Never was -known to shirk duty. Died in Taunton Insane Asylum, -April 1, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Porter, Oliver C.</span>, Halifax; 35. A good all-round -soldier. Died Feb. 18, 1873. Buried in Halifax, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Record, Charles</span>, Berkley; 22. A faithful soldier. -Veterinary Surgeon. Excellent character. -Resides in Fall River, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112"></a>[112]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rennis, Edwin H.</span>, Freetown. A most excellent -company cook, a brave man in battle, a good citizen. -Died in Dartmouth, Mass., about 1885. A widow -living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Richmond, Joseph S. W.</span>, Halifax; 18. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rounseville, Edwin S.</span>, Freetown; 24. A faithful -soldier; a thrifty farmer. Resides in Freetown. -Has a wife and daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rounseville, Simon D.</span>, Freetown; 24. Died in -Freetown on returning from the war, June 20, 1863. -Buried with military honors.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sampson, Augustus M.</span>, Hanson; 36. A brave -soldier. A clean cut temperance man and a highly -respected citizen. A boot and shoemaker.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soule, Charles W.</span>, Halifax; 18. Died in Hospital, -Newbern, Dec. 2, 1862. Buried near our camp. -Body sent home and buried in family cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Spooner, Asa J.</span>, Freetown; 30. Was mustered -in, went home sick and never reported to the company -for duty. Lives in East Freetown, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stetson, Charles H.</span>, Hanson; 20. Discharged -for disability, March 27, 1863. Superintendent of -almshouse. Member of Post No. 127, G. A. R. Post -office, South Hanson, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113"></a>[113]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stetson, Isaiah</span>, Hanson; 44. Died in Hanson, -September, 1889. Left a family.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Stetson, William F.</span>, Hanson; 30. Discharged -for disability, March 13, 1863. Dealer in stoves, etc. -Son and four daughters. Post office, West Hanson, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stowell, Richard P.</span>, New Bedford; 18. Lives -in New Bedford, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Studley, Judson</span>, Hanover; 31. Farmer and poultry -raiser. An honored citizen. Has a family. -Post office, West Hanover, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thayer, Charles H.</span>, Kingston; 18. A good soldier. -Believed to have died fifteen years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thompson, James H.</span>, Kingston; 25. A good soldier -and a good citizen. Died, leaving a family.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thompson, Morton</span>, Halifax; 18. Teacher. Died -in Halifax, Mass. Left a family.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Torrey, Leander</span>, Hanover; 24. Faithful to every -duty, a true and staunch patriot, respected wherever -known. Died at Rockland, Mass., April 8, -1879. A widow, son, and daughter living at Brockton, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Vinal, Joseph</span>, Hanover; 37. Farmer. A good,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114"></a>[114]</span> -quiet citizen. Wife and children. Post office, West -Hanson, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whitney, Abel H.</span>, Hanover; 19. Died in West -Hanover, July 19, 1863. Buried in Hanover. Unmarried.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whitney, Charles T.</span>, Halifax; 27. Discharged -for disability, March 4, 1863. Boot and shoemaker. -A respected citizen. Has a family. Post office, Halifax, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whitney, Oren T.</span>, Hanover; 28. Re-enlisted in -Company E, First Battalion, Heavy Artillery. -Mustered out at close of war. Farmer and wood -dealer. Past Commander Post No. 83, G. A. R. -Post office, West Hanover, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilcox, George F.</span>, Freetown; 20. As good a soldier -as ever marched with a company. Died in -Providence, R. I., February, 1897. Widow living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilcox, Marcenah B.</span>, Freetown; 18. A good -soldier and a successful business man. Married. -Lives in New York.</p> - -<p>*<span class="smcap">Winslow, Benedict A.</span>, Freetown; 19. For -many years ticket agent, Old Colony Railroad. -Lighthouse keeper. Cook in City Hospital, Fall -River, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wood, Cyrus</span>, Halifax; 40. Died and was buried -in Halifax. One son living.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115"></a>[115]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p class="center smcap">Company B, Third Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by Sergt. Benjamin S. Atwood.</span>]</p> - - -<p>This company was formed by consolidation of -three companies of the Third Regiment Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Company K from Carver -furnished captain and forty-six enlisted men; Company -B, of Plymouth, furnished first lieutenant and -thirty-one enlisted men, and Company H, from -Plympton, furnished second lieutenant and twenty-one -enlisted men, making a total of one hundred -and one.</p> - -<p>These three companies served under Col. David -A. Wardrop the first three months of the war at -Fortress Monroe and Hampton, Va. The Third -Regiment was detailed immediately upon its arrival -at Fortress Monroe for service on United States -gunboat <i>Pawnee</i>, which went up to Gosport Navy -Yard, there helped destroy the Navy Yard, sink the -ships and pulled the <i>Cumberland</i> out, when they re<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116"></a>[116]</span>turned -to Hampton Roads. At that time the Third -Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers were the -only troops in the enemy’s country, and were the -first troops to invade the same, being at that time -the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, not having -been sworn into the United States service.</p> - -<p>Company B formed of the three companies aforementioned, -reported for duty at Camp Joe Hooker -and organized as follows:</p> - -<div class="pad2"> -Capt. Thomas W. Griffith, from Co. K.<br /> -First Lieut. Charles A. S. Perkins, from Co. B.<br /> -Second Lieut. William S. Briggs, from Co. H.<br /> -First Sergt. Asa Shaw, from Co. K.<br /> -Second Sergt. Charles W. Griffith, from Co. K.<br /> -Third Sergt. Job B. Oldham, from Co. B.<br /> -Fourth Sergt. Benjamin S. Atwood, from Co. H.<br /> -Fifth Sergt. James R. Robbins, from Co. B.<br /> -Corp. George A. Shaw, from Co. K.<br /> -Corp. John M. Cobb, from Co. K.<br /> -Corp. Hosea S. Bumpus, from Co. K.<br /> -Corp. Andrew T. DeMerritt, from Co. K.<br /> -Corp. Amasa M. Bartlett, from Co. B.<br /> -Corp. Charles M. Perry, from Co. B.<br /> -Corp. William S. White, from Co. H.<br /> -Corp. Gideon Shurtleff, from Co. H.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117"></a>[117]</span><br /> -Musician John Murdock, from Co. K.<br /> -Wagoner Lorenzo N. Shaw, from Co. K.<br /> -</div> - -<p>The members of the company were recruited from -seven different towns as follows: Carver, 30; Plymouth, -29; Middleboro, 11; Plympton, 10; Wareham, -12; Rochester, 3; Kingston, 5; East Bridgewater, 1.</p> - -<p>The ages of the company were as follows: 22, -less than 20 years old; 29, from 20 to 24 years inclusive; -16, from 25 to 29 years inclusive; 18, from -30 to 34 years inclusive; 8, from 35 to 39 years inclusive; -8, from 40 to 44 years inclusive. Average -age, 26 years, 9 months.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company B.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city or town, the place -of enlistment.]</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas B. Griffith</span>, Captain. Born in Carver, -May 17, 1823. When three months old his parents -moved to Middleboro. When seventeen years old he -went on a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. On -his return he clerked for the Ellis Foundry Company -several years, and was postmaster at South -Carver at the same time. In 1853 he with Jesse<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118"></a>[118]</span> -Murdock and Matthias Ellis, formed a partnership -called the Murdock Parlor Grate Company, in -South Carver. He was interested in that business -while he was in the service. He was connected with -the Massachusetts militia for a number of years before -the war. Also after the war he served as major -in the Third Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. -His business after the war was in connection with -the Murdock Parlor Grate Company. He was one -of the pioneers in importing bananas from Jamaica. -He held a large amount of the stock of the company -at the time of his death. He was also interested in -real estate at Onset, and one of the original cottage -owners at Onset. He died in Roxbury, February, -1897, and was placed in the tomb at South Carver.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles A. S. Perkins</span>, First Lieutenant. Born -in Plympton, Mass., June, 1828. When a young -man he went to Plymouth and learned the printer’s -trade. During President Buchanan’s administration -he served as postmaster in the town of Plymouth. -He was for many years publisher and editor -of the <cite>Plymouth Rock</cite>, a publication quite extensively -circulated throughout Plymouth County. -He was commissioned first lieutenant of Company -B, and served with the regiment through its nine<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119"></a>[119]</span> -months’ service. After being mustered out he together -with his brother Lucian, adjutant of the regiment, -purchased a business enterprise at the corner -of Broad and Middle Streets, Newbern, N. C., -where he died of yellow fever, October, 1864. Afterwards -his remains were brought to Plymouth for -burial.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William S. Briggs</span>, Second Lieutenant. Born in -Middleboro and was twenty-eight years old when -he enlisted. At the time of the consolidation of the -three companies he was second lieutenant of Company -H. He was quite an extensive dealer in fast -horses before and at the time of his service. He -continued the same after being mustered out. He -located at Providence, R. I. He bought a large -farm in Raynham, Mass., and died there Aug. 27, -1897, at the age of seventy years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Asa Shaw</span>, First Sergeant; 29. Born in Carver. -Died April 25, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles W. Griffith</span>, Second Sergeant; 27. -Born in Carver. Died Dec. 31, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Job B. Oldham</span>, Third Sergeant; 29. Served with -Company B in the three months’ service. Died in -Plymouth, Feb. 8, 1879. Buried in Vine Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120"></a>[120]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benjamin S. Atwood</span>, Fourth Sergeant; 29. Born -in Carver, June 25, 1840. He lived in Plympton at -the time of the first call and went as private in -Company H, Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia, Plympton Rifles. He served full term -and was discharged with the regiment. Soon after -his discharge he was commissioned first lieutenant -in Company H. On consolidation of Company H -with B and K he was appointed fourth sergeant; -served his time as such and was mustered out with -the regiment. After the close of the war he settled -in Abington, and has been a manufacturer of -wooden boxes in Whitman (formerly South Abington) -for many years, where he now resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James H. Robbins</span>, Fifth Sergeant; 31. Born in -Plymouth. Died in Plymouth, Jan 1, 1901. Buried -in Vine Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George H. Shaw</span>, Corporal; 28. “The Tall Corporal -on the Right.” Carver. Resides at 205 Centre -St., Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John M. Cobb</span>, Corporal; 18. Born in Carver. -Resides in Carver.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hosea C. Bumpus</span>, Corporal; 24. Born in Wareham. -Died at Wareham. Buried in Centre Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121"></a>[121]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Amasa M. Bartlett</span>, Corporal; 23. Born in Plymouth. -Has lived in the Old Colony since the war. -Now lives in the vicinity of Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrew DeMerritt</span>, Corporal; 29. Born in Carver. -Lives in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles M. Perry</span>, Corporal; 19. Born in Plymouth. -A bright, smart young man. Died soon after -being mustered out.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gideon Shurtleff</span>, Corporal; 38. Born in Middleboro. -While in the service Gid’s laugh was as -good as an extra ration of whiskey. After being -mustered out he lived in Duxbury. Died in North -Duxbury, Mass., in 1897; age, seventy-two years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William S. White</span>, Corporal; 44. Born in -Plympton. Served many years with the Massachusetts -militia before his enlistment. Died in Brockton, -May 3, 1897, and was buried in Plympton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John Murdock</span>, Musician; 38. Born in Carver. -Died in Carver, Feb. 22, 1886.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lorenzo M. Shaw</span>, Wagoner; 39. Born in Carver. -Died in Carver in 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122"></a>[122]</span></p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atwood, Stephen</span>; 19. Born in Carver. Died in -Middleboro, Sept. 15, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atwood, Ebenezer E.</span>; 25. Born in Carver. Resides -in Kingston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atwood, Josiah W.</span>; 19. Born in Carver. Resides -in Carver.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bumpus, Hiram W.</span>; 33. Born in Wareham, June -24, 1829. He lived in Wareham a few years after -being mustered out, and then went to Pennsylvania -for about twenty years. He returned to Wareham, -where he now lives.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bryant, Charles E.</span>; 34. Born in Plympton, -Oct. 27, 1827. Resides in Kingston. Farmer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, James W.</span>; 35. Born in Middleboro. -Moved to Plympton a few years after being mustered -out. Died in Plympton, Jan. 2, 1901, age, -seventy-four years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barnes, Benjamin F.</span>; 18. Born in Plymouth. -Nurse in a hospital while in service. Lives at 450 -Cottage St., New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bates, Nathaniel B.</span>; 24. Born in Carver. Died -in Carver, Sept. 27, 1882.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123"></a>[123]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bates, James H.</span>; 18. Born in Carver. Died in -Carver, July 15, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bryant, Zeneas Frank</span>; 29. Born in Plympton. -Acted as company clerk during the service. Died -at Chelmsford about ten years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bradford, Ebenezer N.</span>; 25. Born in Plymouth. -Killed on railroad at Cape Horn, Canada, Jan. 28, -1870. Buried at Burial Hill, Plymouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bartlett, John N.</span>; 29. Lived in Wareham, -where he died in 1894. Buried at Centre Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bradford, William H.</span>; 21. Born in Plympton. -Died in Middleboro, June 5, 1892; age, fifty-two -years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Burgess, Ebenezer</span>; 18. Born in Wareham. Resides -in Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chandler, John B.</span>; 32. Born in Carver. Killed -in railroad accident at Brockton, May 12, 1896. -Buried in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cobb, Charles S.</span>; 22. Born in Charlestown. Resides -in Kingston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chase, Charles H.</span>; 34. Born in North Carver, -April, 1828. Died in Boston, Oct. 4, 1897.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chapman, John F.</span>; 22. After being mustered<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124"></a>[124]</span> -out of the nine months’ service, he enlisted for one -hundred days and was stationed at Marblehead. He -was taken sick with consumption and was sent to -the hospital at Rainsford, Boston, where he died -November, 1866.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cobb, Sidney O.</span>; 18. Born in North Carver, Nov. -13, 1844. He enlisted in September, 1862, as a private, -served nine months and was mustered out -with his regiment June 26, 1863. After being mustered -out he lived in Carver and Plympton, and -finally settled in South Abington, now Whitman. -He served as constable and police officer for many -years, and more than twenty years as deputy sheriff -of Plymouth County. He died Jan. 19, 1899, and -was buried in Colebrook Cemetery, Whitman.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chandler, William B.</span>; 18. Born in Carver. Resides -in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cobb, Allen</span>; 44. Born in Middleboro. Died in -Middleboro, Aug. 10, 1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cobb, Joseph F.</span>; 26. Born in Carver. Died in -Middleboro, Dec. 30, 1878.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cornell, William H.</span>; 18. Born in Carver. Discharged -for disability, May 9, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125"></a>[125]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Doten, George H.</span>; 30. Born in Plymouth. Died -in Plymouth, Dec. 25, 1896. Buried in Vine Hill -Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Donnelley, James</span>; 31. Born in Kingston. Died -in Kingston, Oct. 16, 1877. Buried in Vine Hill -Cemetery, Plymouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Darling, George</span>; 34. Lived in Middleboro. Died -Mar. 3, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dempsey, Robert M.</span>; 23. Lived in Middleboro, -where he was employed by the Murdock Parlor -Grate Company. Died Dec. 22, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dunham, Henry A.</span>; 30. Born in Carver. Resides -in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dunham, Ellis D.</span>; 21. Born in Carver. Died -in Middleboro, Oct. 26, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ellis, Barzillai F.</span>; 44. Lived in East Bridgewater. -Died July 8, 1887.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gammons, Edward A.</span>; 20. Born in Wareham, -Jan. 15, 1842. After being mustered out of the service -he went into the employ of the Wareham Bank -and Wareham Savings Bank. In 1885 he was appointed -cashier of the Wareham Bank, now the -National Bank of Wareham. He was also appointed -treasurer of the Wareham Savings Bank,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126"></a>[126]</span> -which office he held until July, 1904, when he resigned. -He is still cashier of the Wareham National -Bank. Ned is evidently as young as when he -was out at Newbern, although he is a good deal -larger, and hasn’t as much hair on his head. He -sticks to business so close that he can’t get to the -reunion. He is very much interested in anything -that is for the benefit of the old soldiers.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gammons, John W.</span>; 22. Born Feb. 12, 1840, at -Wareham, Mass. After being mustered out of the -service he worked at his trade as a nailer in different -factories. He then went to sea, and took in several -passages around Cape Horn. He was captain -of several vessels. The last fifteen years of his life -was spent in the coasting trade, making passages to -the various ports on the Atlantic coast. Died and -was buried at Centre Cemetery, Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Griffin, Harvey B.</span>; 22. Born in North Plymouth. -Resides in North Cambridge.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hall, Sylvester S.</span>; 34. Born in Litchfield, Me. -He died April 26, 1877, at Wareham. He first enlisted -in Company G, Eighteenth Massachusetts Infantry. -He was discharged for disability, and re-<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127"></a>[127]</span>enlisted -in Company B, Third Massachusetts Infantry.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harlow, Martin L.</span>; 18. Plymouth. He served -the term of his regiment and was mustered out in -Lakeville, Mass., June 26, 1863. He lived in the different -towns around the Old Colony, and finally -settled in Whitman. He was appointed postmaster -by Grover Cleveland, and afterwards by President -McKinley. He died Aug. 12, 1899, and was -buried in Carver.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Nathaniel</span>; 27. Born in Plymouth. -Died in Plymouth, Jan. 21, 1887. Buried in Oak -Grove Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harlow, Ivory W.</span>; 23. Born in Plymouth, -where he now resides and works at his trade as a -carpenter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, George H.</span>; 21. Middleboro. Born in -Greenwich, R. I. Died in the Massachusetts Soldiers -Home at Chelsea, April 6, 1904. Buried at -Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Samuel N.</span>; 19. Plymouth. Discharged -for disability, May 4, 1863. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Isaac S.</span>; 43. Plymouth. Discharged -for disability, May 27, 1863. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128"></a>[128]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Irving, William</span>; 31. Born in Carver. Went -West soon after being mustered out, where he died -a number of years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, Benjamin S.</span>; 18. Born in Plymouth, -where he died Nov. 14, 1877.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Johnson, Charles W.</span>; 27. Resides in Plymouth. -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jackson, George F.</span>; 21. Born in Plymouth. -Died in Plymouth, Sept. 11, 1884. Buried in Vine -Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jefferson, Salem</span>; 44. Rochester. Born in -Douglas, Mass., Sept. 16, 1805. Died Aug 4, 1893, -in Rochester, Mass. Buried in East Rochester, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lucas, Adoniram B.</span>; 24. Middleboro. Born in -Carver. He served full time with the regiment and -was mustered out of same. He has always lived -in Plymouth County and still resides in Whitman.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Leach, Thomas M.</span>; 24. Born in Plympton. Died -at Crescent Grove, Minn.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lobdell, Isaac F.</span>; 27. Born in Plympton, where -he died Nov. 9, 1876.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mange, Winthrop H.</span>; 24. Born in Kingston, -where he now resides. Occupation, a slitter.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129"></a>[129]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Manter, John D.</span>; 36. Born in Wareham. Died -in Newbern, N. C., Feb. 6, 1863. Buried in Centre -Cemetery, Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murdock, John</span>; 36. Carver.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Neal, James</span>; 37. Born in Plymouth, where he -died Jan. 15, 1885. Buried in Vine Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nickerson, Joseph S.</span>; 18. Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Oldham, John R.</span>; 18. Born in Wareham. After -being mustered out he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth -Massachusetts. Killed at Petersburg, Va.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perkins, Henry F.</span>; 27. Born in Kingston. Died -in Plympton, March 22, 1877. Buried in Soldiers -Home Lot, Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Place, Charles C.</span>; 33. Plymouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Place, Isaac H.</span>; 37. Born in Plymouth. Died -at Plymouth, May, 1888. Buried at Vine Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Moses W</span>.; 19. Born in Rochester. Lives -in East Rochester, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Penniman, Prince E.</span>; 33. Cook for the officers -while in service. Lived in Middleboro. Died at Onset, -Mass., Aug. 17, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paulding, James S.</span>; 42. Born in Plymouth.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130"></a>[130]</span> -Died Oct. 19, 1880. Buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Raymond, Thomas W.</span>; 21. Born in Rochester. -Has lived recently in Brockton and Plympton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ramsdell, Cornelius</span>, Plympton. Resides in -Whitman.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robbins, Herbert</span>; 18. Born in Plymouth, where -he now resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Raymond, Samuel B.</span>; 34. Born in Plymouth. -Died in Plymouth and was buried in Burial Hill.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sherman, Leander L.</span> Born in Plymouth, where -he now resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Spooner, William F.</span>; 19. Born in Plymouth. -Died in Plymouth, Jan. 27, 1872.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Thomas</span>; 23. Born in Ireland. Died in -Plymouth, Mar. 30, 1894. Buried in Vine Hill Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sherman, James E.</span>; 22. Born in Plympton. He -resided in Plymouth after being mustered out, -where he kept a store. He died May 31, 1897, and -was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sears, James F.</span>; 21. Died in Lynn.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Alonzo D.</span>; 21. Born in Carver. Died at -Newbern, N. C., April 18, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131"></a>[131]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Edward W.</span>; 24. Born in Carver. Died -in Carver, Jan. 29, 1902.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Ezra</span>; 21. Born in Middleboro. Died in -Carver, Aug. 15, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Jesse M.</span>; 18. Born in Carver. Resides -in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Nathaniel Jr.</span>; 25. Born in Carver. After -being mustered out he kept a grocery store in -Plymouth. He died April 13, 1903.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stringer, Andrew</span>; 19. Born in Carver, where -he now resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sampson, John</span>; 42. Born in Wareham. Died -in 1880 and was buried in Centre Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shurtliff, Benjamin, Jr.</span>; 22. Born in Middleboro. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tillson, George W.</span>; 18. Born in Carver. Died -in Middleboro, May 13, 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, Philip M.</span>; 23. Born in Kingston. -Resides in Somerville. By occupation, a carpenter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, Joseph G.</span>; 21. Born in Carver. Resides -in Maine.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ward, Ansel B.</span>; 19. Born in Carver. After being -discharged from Company B he re-enlisted in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132"></a>[132]</span> -Company M, of the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, -Feb. 16, 1864, and was taken prisoner Nov. 1, 1864, -and confined in Libby Prison. He was paroled Mar. -3, 1865. He died in Carver, November, 1878.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Willis, Marcus M.</span>; 34. Born in Middleboro. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wrightington, Henry</span>; 23. Lived in Brockton. -Died Dec. 8, 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wright, Edward S.</span>; 40. Born in Plympton, -where he always lived. He served many years with -the Massachusetts militia. He died in Plympton, -May 19, 1901.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133"></a>[133]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company C, Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by James B. Smith, Member of the Company.</span>]</p> - - -<p>The raising of Company C was unique, and in a -sense highly sensational and dramatic. The President’s -call for three hundred thousand men made it -necessary for Fall River to furnish two hundred recruits; -this in a manufacturing city of fifteen thousand -with the cotton business booming was not an -easy task. The question was asked, “How are we -to persuade men to leave their lucrative employment -and become soldiers?” But the “Fathers of -the City,” rising to the occasion, called a mass meeting -in City Hall, Aug. 13, 1862, where inspiring and -patriotic speeches were made by several of the leading -men of the city, among whom was Elihu Grant.</p> - -<p>After the speech-making a call was made for volunteers. -A great silence pervaded the meeting, and -no one moved until a young man ascended the platform, -and throwing his hat vehemently upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134"></a>[134]</span> -floor shouted, “I will volunteer to go to war.” This -so electrified the people that before the close of the -meeting more than enough for one company had -put their names on the roll of volunteers. The -young man who said “I will volunteer to go to war” -(according to the best authority at hand) was William -Deplitch, the first man wounded in battle. So -high ran the fever of enlistment that another company -was started and raised in a few days. These -two companies are known in local and military history -as Companies C and D, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia, Nine Months’ Men. They were attached -to the Third Regiment, and served with the -same in North Carolina during its campaign.</p> - -<p>At the election of officers for Company C (as was -anticipated) Elihu Grant was elected captain, and, -being a West Point graduate, he was eminently -fitted for that position. Benjamin A. Shaw was -elected first lieutenant, and Charles D. Copeland -second lieutenant. The choice of officers was well -made, and the company were pleased with their selection. -Be it remembered that at this time the -Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Andrews, instead -of appointing the officers left it to the company -to elect their own officers. Captain Grant was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135"></a>[135]</span> -a kind-hearted, considerate man, with high ideas of -military discipline; those men who obeyed the letter -and spirit of the law were treated accordingly, -and those who disobeyed were punished according -to military law and usages. Captain Grant could -not look with any degree of leniency on disobedience -to orders. He was the pronounced enemy of -liquor drinking in any form or by any one; so the -transgressors on these lines received condign punishment. -No doubt that the captain’s zeal like -David of old, sometimes “eat him up;” but he was -a true friend to every man in his company and -sought their well being. No man of Company C -could say that he did not have his full share of rations -in food and clothing.</p> - -<p>Lieutenants Shaw and Copeland were God’s noblemen. -They were true and kind to the men, and -were greatly beloved by both officers and men in the -regiment. They were always in their places with -the company on the march and in battle. They -took a great interest in the company, visiting the -sick in tent and hospital.</p> - -<p>The non-commissioned officers were a good set of -fellows from the orderly sergeant to the eighth corporal. -Indeed, the whole company was made up of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136"></a>[136]</span> -good men who were ever ready to obey orders, to -go anywhere and to do anything reasonable; but, -like all other men, they liked a little fun when not -on duty. I never knew one of them to shirk duty, -or fall out just before going into battle.</p> - -<p>At a meeting for drill in Fall River on the 17th -of September, 1862, an order was read for Company -C to report for duty at Camp Joe Hooker, and the -following day the company went into camp at Lakeville, -Mass., as a part of the Third Regiment. The -company was assigned to a barrack on the extreme -right of the regiment, and, like all the other companies -coming into camp, they did their part to -make the first night in camp memorable by songs -and speech-making until early the next morning, -when tired nature asserted her right and there was -silence until reveille.</p> - -<p>September 23d, Company C with the other companies -of the regiment, were mustered into the service -of the United States for nine months. On Saturday, -the 27th, the whole company was given a -furlough until the following Monday, when it returned -to camp. The men were then uniformed -and at once commenced the various duties of camp<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137"></a>[137]</span> -life to prepare themselves for the more serious duties -of soldiers on Southern soil.</p> - -<p>Company C, like all the other companies, was -from time to time on special detached service; with -these exceptions the history of the company is the -history of the regiment.</p> - -<p>At the expiration of the service Company C, with -Company D, returned to Fall River, where they received -an ovation, and all were glad that they had -served their country in her time of need and were -at home again with their friends. As the corrected -history will indicate, quite a number re-enlisted -for the second, and some for the third time.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company C.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city and town, the -place from which the recruits came, or are credited as belonging.]</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Note.</span>—It should be remembered that several of the men from Westport -were citizens of Fall River credited to the quota of Westport, the town of -Westport paying them a bounty.</p></div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i166" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i166.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> ELIHU GRANT.</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elihu Grant</span>, Captain; 42; Fall River. The -preacher; the soldier; the man of affairs. A Westerner -by birth, an Easterner by practice. He was -first known in Fall River as a popular preacher, -where he ably served several churches. Later he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span> -became one of the firm of Flint, Grant & Nichols. -Tin, Crockery and Furniture Dealers. He graduated -from West Point and also from one of the -Western colleges. He was a bookkeeper, agent for -soldiers and sailors, probation officer for the Second -District Court, a member of the School Board, -and a member of the G. A. R. He was a Free Mason -and belonged to several other mystic orders. -He married Amanda Gifford, of Westport, for his -first wife, and Mary Read, of the same town, for his -second wife. His death occurred at New Bedford, -March 13, 1897, at the ripe age of seventy-five years, -and was caused by his being thrown from his carriage -at Westport Harbor, Mass. One daughter -and three sons, fifteen grand and eight great grandchildren -survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benjamin A. Shaw</span>, First Lieutenant; 30; Fall -River. He served his full term of enlistment and -was mustered out with the regiment. He was commissioned -in the Second Heavy Artillery, went with -the company to Portsmouth, Va., and died there -July 26, 1864. His grandfather was in the Revolutionary -War, and his father was a soldier in the -War of 1812.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139"></a>[139]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles D. Copeland</span>, Second Lieutenant; 33; -Fall River. A patriotic soldier; a model officer. -His son is a doctor of medicine and resides in -Bridgewater, Mass. He has one son and two daughters -living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alphonso Borden</span>, First Sergeant; 30; Fall -River. He was discharged for disability March 27, -1863. He died in Fall River, being run over by a -fire engine. A widow survives him, living on Rock -Street, Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles G. Remington</span>, Sergeant; 25; Fall -River. He was mustered out with the regiment, -came home, and after a while went West. Nothing -can be learned of his present residence. He is supposed -to be living in the West.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Isaac L. Hart</span>, Sergeant; 41; Fall River. He was -for years a prominent manufacturer. He was superintendent -of Seaconnet Mills for many years. -He died Dec. 20, 1886. Two sons survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">J. E. Cunneene</span>, Sergeant; 30; Fall River. A -prominent manufacturer; superintendent of cotton -mills in Fall River; a good soldier; a good citizen, -and a good friend.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lester Lamson</span>, Sergeant; 22; Fall River. He<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140"></a>[140]</span> -resides in Paris, France, where he acts as an artist -in portrait painting and practices medicine as occasion -may require.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">E. F. Manchester</span>, Sergeant; 20; Westport. A -soldier, a patriot, a true man in everything and -everywhere. He was engaged in business in Fall -River several years. He moved to Portsmouth, -R. I., where he died after a lingering sickness. A -widow and several children survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas Wiseman</span>, Corporal; 25; Fall River. He -re-enlisted in Fifth Unattached Company, Heavy -Artillery. He resides in Fall River and is janitor -of the post office and custom house in that city.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nathaniel Ford</span>, Corporal; 23; Fall River. A -contractor and builder. Resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robert C. Negus</span>, Corporal; 32; Fall River. Both -before the War and after he followed a seafaring -life in a whaling ship. He died in Fall River several -years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robert Fielden</span>, Corporal; 26; Fall River. For -several years he was engaged in the mill business. -He retired from active business and lives in Swansea.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frederick A. Norton</span>, Corporal; 18; Fall River.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141"></a>[141]</span> -He resides in Fall River and is clerk in the city -office, street department.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel F. Durfee</span>, Corporal; 28; Fall River. -He resides in Fall River. He carries on the teaming -business and is janitor of the G. A. R. Hall.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James McGuire</span>, Corporal; 31; Fall River. Died -several years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George G. Grush</span>, Corporal; 20; Fall River. In -the employ of the Bell Telephone Company (long -distance). A very busy man when on duty; a genial -companion when off duty. He resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles S. Weaver</span>, Wagoner; 20; Fall River. -He went West; since then nothing has been heard -of him.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Althan, George</span>; 18; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrews, Thomas</span>; 44; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Austin, Francis S.</span>; 30; Fall River. He resides -in Fall River, where for many years he was boss machinist. -He retired from business in good circumstances. -He has two sons and three daughters living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Borden, Stephen B.</span>; 23; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142"></a>[142]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Butler, James</span>; 32; Fall River. Died at Soldiers -Home, Togus, Maine, July 10, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Baker, Abram H.</span>; 18; Westport. He went to -California and is supposed to be living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bucklin, George W.</span>; 37; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brayton, Stephen F.</span>; 21; Fall River. Resides -in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bowers, Joseph</span>; 21; Fall River. A machinist -for M. C. D. Borden.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bohan, James</span>; 22; Fall River. Resides in Providence, -R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Borden, John A.</span>; 21; Fall River. Nothing -known of him since the war.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bradbury, William</span>; 18; Fall River. Resides in -Providence, R. I. He is an efficient member of the -police force of that city. Is a comrade of Slocum -Post, No. 10, G. A. R., and past grand of Westminster -Lodge, No. 27, I. O. O. F. A fluent speaker -and earnest worker in the Order.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brow, Frank E.</span>; 16; Fall River. He went to -Los Angeles, Cal., where he is supposed to be living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clark, Henry</span>; 36; Fall River. Died a long time -ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clarkson, Edwin</span>; 18; Fall River. Resides in -Central Falls, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143"></a>[143]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Coggeshall, Edward D.</span>; 25; Fall River. A blacksmith, -Jamestown, N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caswell, Thomas N.</span>; 32; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cook, Charles H.</span>; 25; Fall River. He resides -in Fall River and is janitor of the Veteran Firemen’s -Building.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chase, George N.</span>; 23; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crapo, Francis H.</span>; 22; Fall River. Died in Chicago -years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caldwell, William</span>; 30; Fall River. A farmer, -living just out of Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cameron, John A.</span>; 18; Fall River. Resides in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cash, William</span>; 35; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River. He was company bugler.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crowley, Patrick</span>; 40; Westport. Resides in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crighton, Thomas J.</span>; 18. He re-enlisted Aug. -17, 1864, and was discharged July 27, 1865. He was -on detached service as aid to surgeon-general. He -resides in Fall River and is foreman of a brass foundry -there.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144"></a>[144]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davol, John</span>; 40; Fall River. Fife major of regiment. -Died in Taunton, April 20, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davol, John N.</span>; 18; Fall River. Drum major of -regiment. John N. was the son of John Davol. -There is a story current that one day there was a -little difference between father and son, the son -saying that being drum major, he outranked him -(the father), whereupon the father retorted that he -was his father and would give him (the son) a -sound licking, which he did, after which harmony -reigned between father and son.</p> - -<p>For many years after the war John Davol was in -the clothing business in Fall River and John N., his -son, was in company with him. The last named -died in the Soldiers Home, Togus, Maine, Oct. 24, -1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Delmage, James L.</span>; 29; Fall River. He lives on -a farm in Swansea, where he is spending his remaining -days in the quiet of a well-earned rest.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dixon, James</span>; 30; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dolman, Joseph</span>; 43; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Darling, John A.</span>; 29; Fall River. He was for -years a sailor on a coasting vessel, then a carpenter, -and later a grocer. He was a member of the G. A.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145"></a>[145]</span> -R. He died in January, 1896, leaving a widow, one -daughter and three sons.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, John R</span>.; 19; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Deplitch, William</span>; 35; Fall River. He was -discharged May 27, 1863, on account of wounds received -in the Battle of Goldsboro, N. C., Dec. 17, -1862. For years he held a good position in Washington -in one of the Government Buildings, receiving -a good salary. He died in Fall River, Nov. 14, -1882.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Eaton, Josiah J.</span>; 24; Westport. He died in -1902 or 3, leaving a widow and one daughter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fiske, Benjamin S.</span>; 21; Fall River. Nothing -known of him since he was mustered out.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fitzgibbons, Thomas</span>; 43; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Graham, William</span>; 26; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gilbert, Thomas</span>; 26; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Twenty-first Unattached Company. He died Oct. -7, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Grant, George A.</span>; 20; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Company D, Sixtieth Massachusetts. He resides -in Brockton, a prominent man of the city, chair<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146"></a>[146]</span>man -of the board of assessors for several years, a -man of affairs with an honorable record.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Green, Dennis</span>; 18; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horsman, John</span>; 22; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horsman, Francis</span>; 44; Fall River. He was for -many years a gardener and a mill hand. He resides -in Fall River and is hale and hearty at the age of -eighty-seven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hill, Joseph</span>; 38; Fall River. Died in Bristol, -R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Irving, Eli</span>; 22; Fall River. A painter. Resides -in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jennings, Thomas J.</span>; 21; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jennings, Cornelius D.</span>; 35; Fall River. Supposed -to be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kenney, Thomas</span>; 27; Fall River. For many -years a mill hand; now retired.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lawrence, James</span>; 27; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Twenty-first Unattached Company Heavy Artillery. -He resides in Fall River and is a collector -for the Singer Sewing Machine Company.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lawton, David</span>; 26; Fall River. Agent for the -Providence Steamboat Company for many years. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147"></a>[147]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lewis, William H.</span>; 34; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lord, George</span>; 27; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lock, John B.</span>; 18; Fall River. Supposed to be -living out West.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Monroe, Albert F</span>.; 18; Fall River. A popular -artist of Fall River. Residence, 181 Elm St.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McKinnon, Thomas</span>; 28; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murphy, Dennis B.</span>; 36; Fall River. Resides in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Malone, Henry</span>; 21; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mallison, John</span>; 30; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Martin, George</span>; 40; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Martin, Peter</span>; 26; Westport. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mars, Reuben</span>; 19; Fall River. Fell from a team -in New York and was killed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nary, James</span>; 28; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Newman, William</span>; 28; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peckham, William W.</span>; 22; Fall River. Re-enlisted -and was killed in the Battle of Cold Harbor, -Virginia.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148"></a>[148]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peckham, Peleg H.</span>; 29; Fall River. Boss -painter in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Phelan, John</span>; 25; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pell, Jabish</span>; 25; Fall River. Died in New Bedford, -1903.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, William H.</span>; 26; Fall River. He carried -on the blacksmithing business in Fall River -for many years. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Platt, Edward</span>; 35; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Read, John P.</span>; 19; Fall River. Died of typhoid -fever in 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Regan, Timothy</span>; 18; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Regan, Morty</span>; 23; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smithson, John</span>; 18; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Lafayette</span>; 27; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sharples, Lawrence</span>; 20; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sidley, John P.</span>; 25; Fall River. Re-enlisted in -Fifty-eighth Regiment. Resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, James B.</span>; 23; Fall River. A stirring busi<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149"></a>[149]</span>ness -man; writer of history of Company C. Resides -in Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Terry, Edward P.</span>; 21; Fall River. Resides in -Somerset, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thackray, William</span>; 38; Fall River. Re-enlisted -in Fifth Unattached Company, Heavy Artillery. -Retired from all business and resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tracy, William</span>; 38; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River. He believes he can outrun any boy of his -age. He is now 82 years old.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taylor, John</span>; 36; Fall River. Discharged for -disability, March 2, 1863. Died in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Walker, James</span>; 18; Fall River. Driver for Fire -Engine, No. 7. Resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wallace, Richard D.</span>; 28; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Waite, Ishmael</span>; 36; Fall River. Painter. Resides -in Fall River.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150"></a>[150]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company D, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="negin2 fs80">[The following historical sketch of Company D, Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (a nine months’ campaign during the -War of the Rebellion), was prepared by Capt. <span class="smcap">Andrew R. Wright</span>, -and read by him at the reunion of the Third Regiment, held at Lincoln -Park, Mass.]</p> - - -<p>In the month of August, 1862, a call was made by -the President of the United States for three hundred -thousand troops to aid in suppressing the rebellion -then still existing, and to serve for a term -of nine months, or during the war. In compliance -with that call the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -proceeded to mobilize the militia of the State, by -reorganizing the old regiments not then in the field, -and by forming a number of new regiments for service -under that call. Among the old regiments included -in that call was the Third, which was located -in the Old Colony district. Company D of -this regiment was recruited up to the maximum, -one hundred and one men, as required at that time -by the laws of the United States governing the service -in time of war. The company was composed of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151"></a>[151]</span> -men enlisted from Fall River and Westport. When -nearly the full number had been recruited, an election -of officers was held in the City Hall in Fall -River, at which election Col. Silas P. Richmond presided. -The election resulted in the choice of Andrew -R. Wright as captain, Thomas McFarland as -first lieutenant, and George Reynolds as second -lieutenant. In a few days afterwards the ranks -having reached the required number, the company -was ordered to proceed to the camp of instruction -at Lakeville, which had been prepared by the State -for such instruction to the raw troops as might be -given to them previous to being called into active -service at the front, and also to issue necessary -clothing and equipments. The camp was known as -“Camp Joe Hooker.” While there the company was -drilled in the setting-up drill and company movements, -also practical instruction in guard duty.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i185" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i185.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> ANDREW R. WRIGHT.</div> -</div> - -<p>On the 23d of September, 1862, the company was -mustered into the United States service by a regular -army officer; the company was paraded in two -ranks, the ranks were opened and the front rank -faced the rear; the mustering officer, having the -muster roll, passed between the ranks from left to -right critically examining each man as he came be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152"></a>[152]</span>fore -him. Not one was rejected. After the identification -and inspection the men collectively were required -to remove their caps, hold up their right -hands and take the oath to support the laws and -constitution of the United States. The parade was -then dismissed, and the company was then truly a -portion of Uncle Sam’s army for the defence of the -Union. The non-commissioned officers were appointed -as follows:</p> - -<p>Sergeants: Samuel B. Hinckley, First; Francis -McGraw, Almanzor S. Elsbree, James Holt, Thomas -A. Austin.</p> - -<p>Corporals: Ashael M. Borden, Cornelius Kelley, -Jr., Philip Chase, Charles E. Slade, William H. -Wright, William H. Monroe, Sierra L. Braley, -Charles F. Tripp.</p> - -<p>After the muster the company was furloughed -for one week that they might make a last visit to -friends before leaving for the front. At the expiration -of the furlough all returned to camp except -two; one of whom deserted the service, the other -was returned to the company by the provost guard -after they reached Newbern. After all preparations -had been made the company had orders to -break camp and proceed to Newbern, N. C., via Bos<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153"></a>[153]</span>ton, -and thence by steamer to point of destination. -On the morning of departure from Camp Joe -Hooker, the regimental line was formed for the first -time, Company D being upon the extreme left of -the line. The company with the rest of the regiment -marched from the camp to the railroad station -at Lakeville on the line of the Old Colony road -and embarked upon cars and were transported to -Boston, marched through the city and went on -board the steamer <i>Mississippi</i> that was to convey -the whole of the Fifth and half of the Third Regiments -to North Carolina. To say that the steamer -was full conveys but a faint idea of the crowded -condition of the vessel, and many of the men realized -for the first time the discomforts and privations -of campaigning; and this was but the beginning -of hardships they endured during their nine -months’ campaign in the swamps and pine barrens -of the old “North State.” After an uneventful voyage -by steamer, the company arrived at Morehead -City and disembarked, then were transported on -flat, uncovered freight cars to Newbern; arriving -there they were marched to the first camp occupied -by the regiment in Dixie. In honor of the colonel -it was named Camp Richmond. It was located on<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154"></a>[154]</span> -the banks of the Neuse River and on the left of the -Forty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia, who had preceded the Third a few days. -During all this time neither the regiment nor the -company had been supplied with arms, and were -not so supplied until some days after the arrival, -when early one evening the long roll was sounded -and report came in from the front, some six miles -away, that our pickets had been driven in and the -enemy was then marching upon Newbern. Then -the arms and ammunition were issued to the regiment -and as soon as possible the company was paraded -in the company street, anxiously awaiting -the call to form regimental line; but the alarm -proved false and the company was dismissed to -quarters, and the camp quieted down for the night. -Subsequently, upon critical examination of the arms -that had been issued, they proved to be a lot of Austrian -rifles, and were nearly worthless. The men -were very much discouraged, as the springs in the -locks of some of the rifles were so weak that it was -impossible to explode a percussion cap with the -hammers; but by the skill of Sergeant Austin and -the use of tools procured from the ordnance officers -of the department the guns of the company were got<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155"></a>[155]</span> -into quite serviceable condition, but were far from -satisfactory at any time during the company’s term -of service.</p> - -<p>From this time forward until early in the month -of December, 1862, the company was engaged in the -regular camp and garrison duty, among which were -company, battalion, and brigade drills. To vary -the monotony of camp life somewhat, the company -with Company C were detailed for picket duty on -the railroad between Newbern and Beaufort, occupying -a deserted rebel cavalry camp. The company -remained there two weeks and then returned to -Newbern.</p> - -<p>On the evening of December 10, 1862, after dress -parade, the colonel commanding gave orders to prepare -three days’ cooked rations, and, upon the following -day, to issue the same to the men, and also -to see that they were provided with serviceable -shoes and two pairs of new socks for each man, -that forty rounds of ammunition be supplied each -cartridge box, that the trunks of all officers and the -knapsacks of enlisted men be packed with all necessary -articles and made ready for the wagoners who -would take them on the following afternoon. All -these unusual orders could mean but one thing, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156"></a>[156]</span> -that was an expedition into the enemy’s country; -and, acting upon these orders, Company D made requisitions -upon the quartermaster and commissary -for the requisite amount of supplies to comply -with the order. The camp was stripped of everything -not absolutely necessary for use by the men. -Before daylight on the morning of the 11th, the -regimental line was formed and troops marched out -into the Neuse road that ran from Newbern out -into the enemy’s country. Very little apparent -progress was made that day, much time being consumed -straightening out the column, and it was late -when the company went into bivouac, passing under -a magnificent arch of fire formed by the blazing -trunks of turpentine trees that lined either side of -the road and almost as far as the eye could reach on -the right and left of the column. The next day the -regiment was detailed to guard the baggage train -and slow progress was made.</p> - -<p>On the 14th occurred the battle of Kinston, and -the company being in line of battle for the first -time, it was attached to the brigade commanded by -Colonel Lee of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts -Regiment, and was on the extreme left of the line, -it being in close proximity to a field hospital. The<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157"></a>[157]</span> -sight of the wounded and dying being brought from -the front and through the lines to the hospital was -not a cheerful prospect, nor one calculated to enliven -the spirits of the men while expecting at any -moment to receive the order to advance into the -circle of fire, but no man flinched and all were ready -for whatever duty might be required of them. The -brigade being in the rear line of battle was not actively -engaged with the enemy. The enemy was defeated -and the Union column entered Kinston early -in the evening of that day and went into bivouac in -a large field or common in front of the town. There -they remained until the following morning. After -going into bivouac strict orders were promulgated -from general headquarters forbidding foraging in -the town, but sometime in the middle of the night -the company was mysteriously supplied with a most -bountiful supply of all needful provisions and many -of the luxuries of life in the shape of canned jellies, -fruits, and preserves, and for once at least the company -reveled in a grand banquet.</p> - -<p>The next morning the company with the rest of -the troops evacuated the town and took up the line -of march toward Whitehall, which was reached the -following day in the afternoon. Here a fierce ar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158"></a>[158]</span>tillery -fight took place, the right brigade of the column -and most, if not all of the artillery, being engaged -with the enemy.</p> - -<p>The brigade to which the Third Massachusetts -Regiment and Company D was attached, passed -around the base of a hill in the rear of the line of -battle (but well within range of the enemy’s sharpshooters, -as the singing of their rifle bullets passing -just above the heads of the company so eloquently -testified) to the right of the position held -by the enemy, and which they evacuated that night. -The company bivouacked the same night upon a -sandy plain on the edge of a forest, with hungry -stomachs and empty haversacks; but they were very -fortunate in finding the commissary wagons that -night and securing a fifty-pound box of hardtack -and a few pounds of mixed coffee and sugar, which -proved a very welcome supper.</p> - -<p>On the next day, the 17th of December, the company -met the enemy; the brigade to which the regiment -was attached being upon the right of the column, -found itself in the immediate vicinity of the -enemy early in the forenoon, the skirmishers driving -in their pickets and developing their position -near a bridge on the Wilmington and Welden Rail<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159"></a>[159]</span>road -that crosses the Neuse River near the town of -Goldsboro. After a sharp engagement the enemy -retired; the Union Infantry Regiments were -marched to a position near the railroad, stacked -arms, and commenced to destroy the road, which -was effectively accomplished for a number of miles. -At the same time the bridge was fired and destroyed, -thus for the time crippling the road, which -was supposed to be one of the leading lines of communication -of the Confederate army of Northern -Virginia with the southern portion of the Confederacy.</p> - -<p>When preparing to leave the field an alarm was -made that the enemy had rallied, reformed their -lines, and were about to make an attack. The -alarm proved to be correct, our lines were hastily -reformed to resist such attack. It was at this time -that the company first met the enemy face to face, -as they came down the railroad embankment like a -swarm of immense gray ants. They formed line -of battle in the open fields as on parade, and started -with a yell to make a charge upon the Union lines -some three hundred yards in their front. These -lines were composed of troops of which Company D<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160"></a>[160]</span> -of the Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia -formed a part.</p> - -<p>Sections of the New York Artillery and Belger’s -Rhode Island battery of Parrott guns were rapidly -placed in position <ins class="corr" id="tn-160" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'in the immdiate'"> -in the immediate</ins> front of the infantry -lines formed to resist the charge of the enemy, -and hurled such terrible charges of grape and -canister into the faces of the enemy that no human -courage could withstand, and, before more than half -the distance that separated the contending lines -had been traversed, the enemy’s lines were broken, -and those of the enemy who were able to do so -sought shelter in the thick woods on their left, followed -by showers of bullets from the rifles of the -infantry. While this scene was terribly exciting, -so far as known not a man left the ranks of Company -D, with the exception of one man slightly -wounded by a fragment of an exploded shell.</p> - -<p>This action ended the active hostilities of this expedition -of the Eighteenth Army Corps into the enemy’s -country. It failed of its co-operative purpose, -as the Army of the Potomac had been disastrously -defeated at Fredericksburg a short time previous, -thus enabling the commander of the Confederate -forces to reinforce at any point. The expe<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161"></a>[161]</span>dition -returned to Newbern without incident, and -shortly after were ordered to inscribe upon their -colors the words “Kinston,” “Whitehall,” and -“Goldsboro,” to commemorate the battles that were -fought at the locations indicated.</p> - -<p>An inspiring sight gladdened the hearts of the -company when approaching Newbern on the return -from the expedition, in the appearance of the Stars -and Stripes floating in the air from the flagstaff on -Fort Totten; it seemed to welcome the column home -from the dangers and hardships it had endured in -its defence.</p> - -<p>The company went into its old quarters at Camp -Richmond, and the regular routine of camp duty -commenced. The trunks and knapsacks were again -returned by the wagoners, and the company were -housekeeping comfortably once more. Nothing of -great interest occurred until early in the year of -1863, the company in the meantime participating -with the regiment in two or three marches into the -enemy’s country, but with no apparent results. In -the late winter or early spring of 1863 the enemy -made a reconnoissance in force along the whole line -of the department, and seemed determined to make -an assault upon Newbern from the left flank of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162"></a>[162]</span> -Neuse River and directly opposite of the town, but -they were held at bay by a comparatively small -force, when, with the assistance of the gunboats, -they were compelled to retire. A strong demonstration -was made upon the lines immediately in -front of Newbern, strong reinforcements, among -whom were the Third Regiment with Company D -attached, were hurried to the front, remaining under -arms all night, and momentarily expecting an -attack, but no assault came and the enemy withdrew. -They seemed more determined upon the extreme -right of the lines of the department, as they -erected batteries upon the river bluff opposite the -town of Little Washington, thus cutting off communication -with the troops occupying that position, -and the rest of the department, also holding the -general commanding the department at the time the -enemy closed the river. To relieve this condition -of affairs, a column was formed of all the available -troops then in Newbern, among whom was the regiment -to which Company D was attached, and an attempt -was made to reach the rear of the enemy’s -position in front of Little Washington by way of a -road crossing Blount’s Creek in the rear of the position -held by the enemy; but the attempt failed, al<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163"></a>[163]</span>though -the artillery attached to the column and the -right of the brigade to which the company was attached, -were actively engaged with the enemy perhaps -for a half hour. Yet, for some unexplained -reason, the order was given to retreat on Newbern, -which the column reached without molestation by -the enemy, and the troops in a dispirited frame of -mind, as they could not understand the grand strategy -exhibited upon this expedition.</p> - -<p>About this time a number of regiments returned -to the department from South Carolina, where they -had been sent some months before to re-enforce General -Hunter in his operations against the rebel position -in and about Fort Sumter and the approaches -to Charleston. About the time that these -troops returned to the department General Foster -bravely succeeded in running the blockade at Little -Washington, and suddenly appeared at Newbern. -Affairs quickly assumed a different aspect. He immediately -organized two expeditions, one to reach -the rear of the rebel position that was besieging -Little Washington, the other to make a demonstration -on Kinston. Company D was attached to the -latter column, and with the rest of the troops was -transported by train to Batchelder’s Creek, the ex<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164"></a>[164]</span>treme -front line of the department. The company -remained here a few days, and with the rest of the -regiment and other troops, made threatening demonstrations -upon the enemy’s position in front of -Kinston. No decisive action was had, but the demonstrations -there and at Little Washington had the -effect of raising the siege of that place, and the enemy -retreated from his threatening positions before -the whole line, and quiet reigned again.</p> - -<p>In the early spring an order was received by the -commanding officer of Company D from regimental -headquarters to report to General Wessels, then in -temporary command of the department, for instruction -in some special duty. The officer so ordered -immediately reported, and, in the interview with -the general, the officer was told that information -had been received that the enemy were preparing -to erect fortifications at a locality some twelve or -fourteen miles below Newbern, on the northerly -bank of the Neuse river, and known as Wilkinson’s -Point, for the purpose of blockading the river, thus -closing this very important line of water communication -by which the department received a very -large part of its supplies of all kinds. He then -gave the following order, “You will take with your<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165"></a>[165]</span>self -your first lieutenant, two or three non-commissioned -officers and fifty privates; see that they are -provided with three days’ cooked rations in their -haversacks and forty rounds of ammunition in their -cartridge boxes. You will leave camp at five o’clock -in the morning, march to the government wharf in -the rear of general headquarters and go on board a -steamer which you will find awaiting you there. -A topographical engineer will be taken on board -from the surveying steamer lying in the stream; -you will then proceed down the river, being convoyed -by one of the gunboats, the commanding officer -of which has been given his instructions. Arriving -near the point, your steamer will come to anchor, -and you will observe closely whether signs of -the enemy can be seen from the steamer; if there -are indications that the enemy are in force then the -gunboat will shell the place vigorously to drive -them back from the point, when you will land your -command under cover of the fire of the gunboat, -and make a thorough inspection of the work that -has been done by the enemy, and effectually destroy -any fortifications that may have been begun. The -engineer will land with you and make such plans -and drawings as he may think proper. If upon<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166"></a>[166]</span> -your arrival at the point no signs of the enemy are -apparent, you will land half of your command and -endeavor to ascertain whether any unusual number -of people, either soldiers or civilians, have visited -or made surveys of the point; thoroughly examine -the location one or two miles back from the -point and upon either side of it, and make report to -these headquarters through your regimental commander.”</p> - -<p>The officer, after receiving these instructions, was -dismissed by the general with the significant remark -that “this duty may be a pleasant excursion, -or it may prove to be a very serious matter. Let -us hope that it will turn out to be the former.”</p> - -<p>The captain immediately returned to the regimental -camp and the detachment was fully prepared -that night. It was off bright and early the next -morning; the point was reached in due time, but -no signs of the enemy were seen. A detail of -twenty-five men and sergeants, under the command -of Lieutenant McFarland, was landed from the -steamer and spent several hours seeking for knowledge -of the enemy, but none was obtained and the -detail was re-embarked and the steamer and detachment -returned to Newbern the same day, the detail<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167"></a>[167]</span> -reaching camp about dusk, much pleased with this -pleasant tour of duty.</p> - -<p>Sometime in the month of May Company D with -E and F companies was detailed for a tour of two -weeks’ picket duty at Deep Gully, at the extreme -front of this department. Nothing of moment occurred -during the time occupied in this duty. At -the expiration of two weeks the detail returned to -camp at Newbern.</p> - -<p>The term of service was now drawing near its -close. Quite naturally the members of the company -were impatient to return to the dear friends at -home. In due time the order came to break camp -and proceed to Boston. All camp and garrison -equipage was collected and turned over to an officer -detailed from general headquarters to receive it. All -articles belonging to the company not otherwise -needed was distributed to the comrades of other -regiments in the department.</p> - -<p>Early in June the regiment paraded in heavy -marching order and marched out of the camp, -where, upon the whole, so many pleasant days had -been passed, and lasting friendships had been -formed. The regiment marched through the town -and gayly gave a marching salute to the brigade<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_168"></a>[168]</span> -commander as it passed his headquarters. The colonel, -staff, colors and right wing of the regiment -marched to the railroad station in Newbern and was -transported to Morehead City, thence took the -steamer <i>S. R. Spaulding</i> to Boston. The left wing, -to which Company D was attached, proceeded to -the wharf in rear of general headquarters and went -on board the steamer <i>Tillie</i> and sailed down the -river to Hatteras Inlet, remaining inside the bar -until the following morning, then proceeded to sea -and reached Boston in due time. Escorted by the -Forty-fourth Regiment, the Third marched to the -Old Colony railway station, saluting the Governor -of the Commonwealth when passing the State -House. Company D with the rest of the regiment -was furloughed for one week with orders to report -at Camp Joe Hooker, Lakeville, at that time, there -to be mustered out of the United States service. -Companies C and D were transported to Fall River, -where a very cordial reception awaited them by the -city government. Upon the expiration of the furlough -the company returned to Camp Joe Hooker, -and, on June 26, 1863, was mustered out of service -and returned to their several homes; and it is to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_169"></a>[169]</span> -believed none regretted the duty which he had been -able to perform for the country in its time of need.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company D.</span></h3> - -<p class="pfs80 smcap">[Written by Comrade Vernon Wade.]</p> - -<p class="pfs80">[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city and town, the place -of enlistment.]</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrew R. Wright</span>, Captain; 30; Fall River. Attended -Fall River schools. Learned the trade of a -machinist. In 1853 went to California, where he -remained four years. On his return to Fall River -worked at his trade. A man of staunch character. -Organized Company D, which was attached to -Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, -and was with his company during the North Carolina -campaign; participated in all the battles of the -regiment and was mustered out of the same. Returned -to Fall River. Worked four years at his -trade in Providence, again returned to Fall River, -and was associated with A. G. Thurston in mechanical -business. Was City Marshal of Fall River nine -years. Was elected high sheriff of Bristol County, -which office he held eighteen years. Keeper also of -Taunton jail. Died in Fall River, July 3, 1899, leaving -a widow and two children. Was a member of -Mount Hope Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Richard Borden<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_170"></a>[170]</span> -Post, G. A. R., the Unitarian Society, and Fall -River Board of Trade. Highly respected by all, as -a citizen, soldier, and business gentleman, he lived -beloved, and died lamented by his company and his -large circle of friends.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas McFarland</span>, First Lieutenant; 36; Fall -River. Born in Scotland, 1826. Came to Fall River -and worked in one of the cotton mills. Enlisted in -Company D, and was elected first lieutenant in -same, served with his company through the nine -months’ campaign. Re-enlisted and was promoted -captain of Company G, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -Infantry. Killed at battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, -1864, leaving a widow and two children.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George Reynolds, Jr.</span>, Second Lieutenant; 24; -Fall River. He was a faithful officer and a true -friend to every man in the Company. He is engaged -in the wholesale fish business in Fall River -and lives in Tiverton, R. I. He is a great admirer of -horses and but few can tell all the points of a good -blooded horse better than George.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel B. Hinckly</span>, First Sergeant; 30; Fall -River. He re-enlisted and was promoted captain of -Company G, Fifty-eighth Regiment, where he proved -himself a brave, discreet officer, who won the con<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_171"></a>[171]</span>fidence -of all his men in battle by his cool courage, -devotion to his country, and his unlimited patriotism -for country and the Old Flag. Soon after the -war he went to Riverside, California, where he now -has an orange grove of ten acres. Samuel always -has on hand a treat for all who visit him, and an -extra box of the best fruit for any member of the -old Third.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Almanza S. Elsbree</span>, Sergeant; 28; Fall River. -For many years after the war he had charge of a -stationary engine. He died Dec. 26, 1893, respected -by a large circle of friends, leaving a widow and -two children.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank McGraw</span>, Sergeant; 30; Fall River. He -was born in Ireland and came to America a strong, -vigorous youth. He enlisted in Company D, Sept. -23, 1862; served in the nine months’ campaign, and -was mustered out with the regiment. He re-enlisted -in 1864 and was detailed in the signal corps with -Sherman, marching with him to the sea. After the -war for many years he was in business in Fall -River, where he was highly respected. He was appointed -inspector of the Fall River police force. He -died in Fall River, May 26, 1892, leaving three children. -By request Rev. J. G. Gammons conducted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_172"></a>[172]</span> -the funeral service. Gen. O. O. Howard was present -and made complimentary remarks on the soldierly -character of Comrade McGraw. A large concourse -of people were present including Richard -Borden Post, G. A. R., of which he was an honored -and an active member. He was buried with military -honors in the beautiful Oak Grove Cemetery, -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James Holt</span>, Sergeant; 24; Fall River. He was -taken sick with typhoid fever in Newbern and carried -to the hospital, from which he was discharged -and returned to the company. He died April 30, -1869. A widow and two sons survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas Austin</span>; age, 26; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ashiel M. Borden</span>, Corporal; 24; Fall River. He -was a good, true soldier, served his time of enlistment, -and was discharged with the regiment. He -died Aug. 9, 1871, leaving a widow and four children. -The widow was burned to death several years -ago; two children are now living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cornelius Kelley, Jr.</span>, Corporal; 31; Fall River. -Died several years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Philip Chase</span>, Corporal; 28; Fall River. He was -a member of the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_173"></a>[173]</span> -Militia, June 15, 1861. He enlisted in the Third -Regiment Sept. 23, 1862. He enlisted in the Thirteenth -Regiment, Company K, Sept. 1, 1864. He -was mustered out Nov. 23. 1865. He is now a hotel -clerk.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles E. Slade</span>, Corporal; 26; Fall River. He -was taken sick and sent to the Stanley Hospital, -Newbern, soon after he arrived there. When sufficiently -recovered he was detailed as nurse. He returned -home with the regiment and mustered out -with the same. After the war he went into business. -He was elected superintendent of Grant Mill in Fall -River, a position which he filled to the satisfaction -of the corporation. He died Feb. 8, 1895. He left -a son who resides in Providence, R. I., and a daughter -who is the wife of George W. Bliss, a grocer in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William H. Wright</span>, Corporal; 26; Westport. -He re-enlisted in Company G, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -Volunteers. He wore a medal which had -been presented to him by Queen Victoria. He was -a prisoner of war and was confined in Salisbury -Prison, North Carolina, Jan. 23, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William H. Monroe</span>, Corporal; 22; Fall River. -He was also lieutenant in the Sixtieth Massachu<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_174"></a>[174]</span>setts -Volunteer Regiment. On returning home he -engaged in the painting, decorating, and paper -hanging business. He resides in San Pedro, California, -and has one son living in Trinidad, Colorado.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sierra L. Braley</span>, Corporal; 19; Fall River. He -re-enlisted Dec. 11, 1863, as sergeant, Battery L, -Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to second lieutenant, -April 16, 1865. He was lieutenant United -States Colored Troops, June 3, 1865. He was first -lieutenant of Company D, State Militia in 1866, -and captain in 1868. He was quartermaster of the -Third Battery, Sept. 1, 1876. He was captain of -Company M, Dec. 17, 1878, and resigned Jan. 1, -1879. He was bookkeeper for George E. Hoar until -his death, which occurred Feb. 27, 1901, in Fall -River. A widow and one daughter survive him, living -in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles P. Tripp</span>, Corporal; 21; Westport. He -is by trade a carpenter. He served during the nine -months’ campaign. He was badly injured while -tearing up the railroad track at the battle of Goldsboro. -He came home and was mustered out with -the regiment. He was a contractor and builder for -many years in Fall River. He served five terms as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_175"></a>[175]</span> -councilman in the City Government. He was a -member of several mystic orders, G. A. R., and Red -Men. He died April 29, 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Edwin J. Dyer</span>, Musician; 18; Fall River. He re-enlisted -twice and was for a time in the commissary -department. After muster out he went into -the machinery business. He was a clothier, a mercantile -agent, and is now president of a life insurance -company. He is a member of Post No. 2, G. -A. R., Boston. He resides in Dorchester, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles C. Borden</span>, Musician; 17; Fall River. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Valentine Perry</span>, Wagoner; 39; Fall River. -Died Jan. 19, 1901.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ash, Thomas</span>; 20; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Baker, Jeremiah D.</span>; 40; Fall River. At the time -of enlistment he was a nailer. He re-enlisted in -Company G, Corporal, Fifty-eighth Regiment, -March 26th and was mustered out July 14, 1865. -He went into the quarry business. He died leaving -a widow, now eighty-five years old, and three children.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_176"></a>[176]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brightman, William B.</span>; 21; Fall River. A fisherman -in Alaskan waters.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brightman, James</span>; 20; Fall River. Re-enlisted -in Company I, Second Regiment Heavy Artillery -as Corporal, Sept. 3, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brown, Samuel</span>; 22; Westport. He re-enlisted in -Company G, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts. He died -of wounds May 12, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Borden, Isaac S.</span>; 23; Westport. He re-enlisted -in Fifty-eighth Regiment, March 12, 1864. He was -wounded in battle and discharged July 14, 1865. -He is a grocer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bradbury, Robert</span>; 37; Westport. Discharged -May 12, 1863. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Coogan, James</span>; 40; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clarkson, Thomas</span>; 27; Fall River. Wounded -in the battle of Goldsboro. Died Jan. 6, 1897.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cannady, William J.</span>; 18; Fall River; Moulder. -Resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Curren, James</span>; 19; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Casey, Michael</span>; 23; Westport. Re-enlisted in -Company F, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment. -Mustered out July 16, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cordingly, Thomas R.</span>; 36; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cutler, Israel</span>; 26; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_177"></a>[177]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, John P.</span>; 44; Fall River. Known as company’s -poet. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dacy, Timothy</span>; 40; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Demaranville, Stephen E.</span>; 21; Westport. Supposed -to be living in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Donovan, Edward M.</span>; 25; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Company G, Fifty-eighth Regiment. He -was wounded and taken prisoner Sept. 31, 1864. He -died in Petersburg.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Daval, Henry S.</span>; 23; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dwyer, William</span>; 27; Westport. He re-enlisted -in Company G, Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. -He was wounded June 18, 1864. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dolan, Andrew</span>; 36; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dillon, John</span>; 22; Westport. Deserted Sept. 25, -1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dyer, Stephen K.</span>; 18; Westport. Died in Newbern, -June 6, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Earl, Andrew R.</span>; 23; Westport. Known as the -“large man” (265 pounds), had his suits made to -order—“the baby of Company D.” A brave and -fearless soldier, who was faithful to every duty and -was never scared. Resides at Soldiers Home, Santa -Monica, Cal. Fell down an elevator well and broke -his legs while at work in San Francisco.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_178"></a>[178]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Folger, David J.</span>; 23; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Company M, Second Massachusetts Cavalry. He -was a prisoner in Libby and Andersonville nine -months with twenty of his comrades who were taken -at the same time, and was the only one to survive -the hardships of prison life. He was a carriage -manufacturer and continued in that business until -his death, June 4, 1901. A widow and one daughter -living in Amesbury, Mass., survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Francis, William</span>; 19; Fall River. Died in Fall -River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frawley, Patrick</span>; 32; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Freelove, Richmond D.</span>; 24; Fall River. Died in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fay, Edward</span>; 23; Westport. Farmer, grocer, -business man; lives with his son in Bolton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Flaherty, John</span>; 33; Fall River. Died in Fall -River, Dec. 15, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Grush, Frederick A.</span>; 22; Fall River. He re-enlisted -as First Sergeant in Company G, Fifty-eighth -Massachusetts Infantry. He was taken prisoner at -the battle of Crater July 30th, and died at Annapolis, -Md., October, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hackley, John</span>; 40; Westport. Died in 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_179"></a>[179]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayston, Thomas</span>; 31; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hanson, George</span>; 18; Fall River. Re-enlisted -July 21, 1864, in Sixtieth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Oil merchant.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harrington, Timothy</span>; 23; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harrington, Daniel</span>; 19; Westport. Lives in -Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harrington, John</span>; 18; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hoolhen, Michael</span>; 21; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jorden, James</span>; 18; Fall River. Discharged June -10, 1863. Transferred; did not return with the regiment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kidd, Thomas</span>; 40; Fall River. Resides in Fall -River. Clerk.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kaylor, William</span>; 24; Westport. Known as -“Lawyer Kaylor;” very active in learning and expounding -army regulations, services to be rendered -and rations due each man. Died Feb. 8, 1898.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Leadwith, James</span>; 20; Fall River. He re-enlisted -in Company H, Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment. -He was discharged at the end of the war. -He is a painter and lives in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Levally, Benjamin W.</span>; 18; Fall River. He re-enlisted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_180"></a>[180]</span> -in Captain Hurlburt’s company of cavalry. -He died in Fall River, Aug. 17, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Leary, James</span>; 18; Fall River. He re-enlisted in -Company G, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. -He was wounded May 12th and taken prisoner Sept. -30, 1864. He was killed on railroad crossing at Fall -River, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Manchester, Gilbert</span>; 19; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murphy, Jeremiah E.</span>; 21; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miller, George</span>; 34; Westport. Supposed to be -dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marshall, John</span>; 24; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murphy, Timothy</span>; 32; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Morton, Charles H.</span>; 21; Fall River. Commissioned -second lieutenant, October, 1863; assigned -to duty as adjutant of recruiting, and was on duty -at Readville, Mass. Mustered first lieutenant of -Company G, Fifty-eighth Regiment and was with -the regiment through the battles of the Wilderness, -Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and in the march -across the James; in engagements June 16th, 17th, -18th, in front of Petersburg and the Battles of the -Mine, July 30th; taken prisoner September 30th at<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_181"></a>[181]</span> -Poplar Grove fight. In prison at Libby and Danielsonville, -Va., and Salisbury, N. C. Exchanged -Feb. 22, 1865. Went to oil fields, Pennsylvania. -Proprietor of a store in New Bedford; in the real -estate business in Boston; deputy state constabulary -from 1866 to 1870. On account of poor health -retired from all business until 1873, when he was -appointed postmaster of Fair Haven, which position -he held fourteen years. Director of National -Bank of Fair Haven, and its president from 1881 -until July 1, 1904. Treasurer of Fair Haven Institution -for Savings since 1886. Chairman of -School Board.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mowry, William I.</span>; 18; Fall River. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry, Aug. 20, 1863. Discharged at -Richmond, Va., Nov. 14, 1865. Boss carpenter at -Tecumseh Mills. Lives in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Millerick, John</span>; 25; Fall River. Re-enlisted in -Company F, Fifty-eighth Regiment, and was in all -the battles of the regiment; wounded in battle; captured -and had his arm amputated in a Rebel prison; -paroled Aug. 10, 1864, and mustered out July 13, -1865. Night watchman for several years. Died -Mar. 31, 1878, leaving a widow and seven children.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_182"></a>[182]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mellor, Charles H.</span>; 18; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McKenny, Felix. Jr.</span>; 21; Fall River. He was -wounded at Blount’s Creek by the falling of the -limb of a tree, which was cut off by a Rebel shell. -A barber in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McDermott, Thomas</span>; 28; Fall River. Re-enlisted -March 12, 1864. Died of wounds July 5, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McPhee, Thomas</span>; 40; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McDonald, Daniel</span>; 28; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McNaughton, Charles</span>; 38; Westport. Died -Feb. 11, 1894.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McGuinness, Edward</span>; 37; Fall River. Died Jan. -3, 1900. A widow and several children survive him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McGowan, John</span>; 30; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ogden, Henry</span>; 25; Fall River. Died in 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Page, Hathaway B.</span>; 20; Fall River. Re-enlisted -in Sixtieth Infantry. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pool, John</span>; 44; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peters, John</span>; 29; Fall River. Re-enlisted March -12, 1864, in Company F, Fifty-eighth Regiment. -Died in Salisbury prison, North Carolina, Jan. 15, -1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Platt, Charles</span>; 19; Fall River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_183"></a>[183]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Petty, Hiram S.</span>; 30; Westport. Re-enlisted in -Second Heavy Artillery, Company I. Mustered out -Sept. 3, 1865, at the expiration of his term of service. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pickles, James</span>; 26; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ryan, Jeremiah</span>; 44; Westport. Believed to be -dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robotham, James</span>; 18; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shehan, Daniel</span>; 25; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sherman, William H.</span>; 25; Fall River. Lives at -the Soldiers Home, Togus, Maine, and has charge of -the steam in connection with the Home.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shay, Michael W.</span>; 19; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sargent, John</span>; 23; Fall River. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sanford, Sylvester</span>; 22; Fall River. Re-enlisted -in Company G, Fifty-eighth Regiment. Works at -carpentering and stone work in South Westport, -Mass., where he resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soule, Robert F.</span>; 18; Westport. Lives in Bakerville, -Dartmouth. Farmer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Charles</span>; 42; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Robert</span>; 35; Westport. Supposed to be -dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_184"></a>[184]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Allen H.</span>; 25; Westport. Died in Providence, -R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wise, Whitlock</span>; 27; Westport. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wade, Vernon</span>; 28; Fall River. Re-enlisted, sergeant -in Sixtieth Massachusetts Regiment. A faithful -soldier, a true patriot, a successful business -man, trusted and respected by all. Resides in Fall -River, where he carries on a grocery business.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Woodcock, Jonas</span>; 36; Fall River. Dead.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_185"></a>[185]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VIII">CHAPTER VIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company E, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">By Frederick F. Maxfield.</span>]</p> - - -<p>This company was made up of New Bedford men -with three exceptions, Capt. John A. Hawes, of -Fairhaven; Daniel H. Tripp, of Westport; and -Albert M. Allen, of Westport. For the greater part -the company was composed of young men and men -in the prime of life. It is well for us to remember -that New Bedford has an unique history, among -the military companies of the State. First, the -New Bedford Guards were organized in 1842. They -were disbanded, and out of that organization came -many who served as officers during the War of the -Rebellion. At the present time there are two of -the New Bedford Guards living; viz., James E. -Blake, druggist, corner of Second and Middle -Streets, New Bedford; William Balis, grain -dealer, foot of Middle Street. In 1853 the City -Guards were organized and drilled. This company, -known in history as Company L and City -Guards continued in commission, answered to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_186"></a>[186]</span> -call of President Lincoln, and served three months -in the Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia. On its return to New Bedford all its commissioned -officers resigned, and William E. Mason, -sergeant of the company, was in command. When -the call was made for three hundred thousand men, -Sergeant Mason recruited the company to its maximum -number, but, being a modest man, and knowing -that John A. Hawes was an adept in military -matters, he asked Mr. Hawes to be captain of the -company, which being agreed to by all, Sergeant Mason -was made first lieutenant, and James L. Sharp -second lieutenant.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i222" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i222.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> JOHN A. HAWES.</div> -</div> - -<p>Captain Hawes was a man eminently fitted for -the commander of the company. Born in a home -of wealth, educated in the schools of his own town, -and in Harvard Law College, and having practiced -law, he was well prepared to deal with all the difficult -questions of military and army life; yet notwithstanding -his wealth, he never asked his company -to go where he would not lead, nor to suffer -hardships which he would not share with them. He -went to war not for pay, but for the honor of the -old flag, which he loved more than wealth, more -than ease, more than honors. That his services<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_187"></a>[187]</span> -were appreciated by his superior officers will be seen -by the following:</p> - -<div class="blockquot fs80"> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">“Headquarters Second Brigade, Fifth Division,<br /> -<span class="padr20pc">Eighteenth Army Corps,</span><br /> -Newbern, N. C.</span>, May 6, 1863.</p></div> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p class="noindent smcap">Captain John A. Hawes:</p> - -<p>It is with much pleasure and I may say pride, inasmuch as -your splendid company is part of my brigade, that I congratulate -you on the remarkable good condition of your company, -both in reference to drill, discipline, and soldierly -bearing. To command such a fine company must certainly -be an honor of which you may well feel proud.</p> - -<p>I have the honor to be, Captain,</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr10pc">Very respectfully your obedient servant,</span><br /> -<span class="padr10pc">J. JOURDAN, <span class="smcap">Colonel</span>,</span><br /> -<em>Commanding Brigade</em>.”</p></div> - -<p>Captain Hawes looked after the rights and well -being of his men, in camp and on the march. He -never allowed one of his company to do a dare-devil -act just for the notoriety of the thing, neither did -he allow any one to shirk his duty. Each man must -do his duty, and each man must be given his rights -in rations, in recreations, and in social enjoyments. -On the march he took always the left side of his -company, and, if for any good reason, one of his boys<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_188"></a>[188]</span> -became unable to continue the march from sickness, -he always found a place for him in an ambulance, -instead of leaving him by the roadside to care for -himself. He has been heard to say, “Mrs. —— intrusted -her boy to me, and I must so care for him, -that should we live to go home, when I meet her I -can look her in the face with the consciousness that -I did my duty.” Such was Captain Hawes as an -officer of the army.</p> - -<p>On returning home he took up his citizen life -quietly, and enjoyed the comfort of his luxurious -home. For several years he was president of the -Bristol County Agricultural Society at Myricks, -where his good judgment and kindly acts will long -be remembered. A little incident explains his character. -One morning a representative from the -church in Myricks went to him and suggested that -a rope be put across one of the driveways on the -Agricultural Society grounds, as some of the people -of Myricks were nearly run over by the careless driving -on the previous day. Turning to one of his officials, -he said, “Mr. —— says a rope should be put -across the road to prevent people from being run -over.” “If he wants a rope across the road, let him -put it there,” said the official. Turning to the offi<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_189"></a>[189]</span>cial -he said, “This is my friend, you see that a rope -is put across the road,” and the proud official had -to obey orders. For years he was commodore of the -New Bedford Yacht Fleet, where by his gentlemanly -courtesies to his superiors, inferiors, and equals, he -endeared himself to all. After a well-rounded out -life, with his loved ones around him, he quietly -passed from works to reward, lamented by a large -circle of friends, who to this day regard him as a -model man, a good officer, and a true friend to all -with whom he had to do.</p> - -<p>The same that is said of Captain Hawes can be -said of First Lieutenant Mason, who will be remembered -by every man in the company and regiment, -also, as a man of high moral character, and a true -officer. Modest, yet firm in discipline; gentle, yet -insisting that every man must do his duty; bold, -when duty called; careful, when care became the -better part of valor, he would not allow himself, nor -the men under his command, to imperil life just for -the name of being called bold; but when duty called -no braver man could be found and no one who could -be trusted better with an important duty. True -to himself, he was true to his men. On the march -Lieutenant Mason was always at the head of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_190"></a>[190]</span> -company. He never ordered his men to go where -he would not lead. He served his company and his -country as a man who believed that shoulder straps -are honorable only when honored by the wearer. -His slogan was that every man has rights, which -must be respected by all regardless of rank or position, -and he should be protected in those rights.</p> - -<p>After serving his nine months in the Third Regiment -and being mustered out, he recruited Company -G, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, -being second lieutenant Sept. 18, 1863, and -captain in the same company Jan. 22, 1864. Here -the same good traits as an officer continued. At -the battle of Cold Harbor he was severely wounded, -and again at the battle of Crater the same year, -and for his bravery in these and other battles he -was invested major. He was mustered out in 1865, -returned home, and was made inspector in the Custom -House, Boston, where he remained until failing -health compelled him to resign. In his home in -New Bedford, in the calm and serene beauty of a -life of seventy-eight years well and conscientiously -spent, he died May 27, 1905, beloved and honored.</p> - -<p>Second Lieut. James L. Sharp was a good officer, -who readily responded to every duty. Before the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_191"></a>[191]</span> -war he carried on the business of a tinsmith in New -Bedford and was very successful; after the war he -went to New York and continued in the same business. -He is known as the patentee of the celebrated -Gas Burner Stove. He died several years ago.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">History of Company L, Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, afterwards Company E.</span></h3> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">By Major Cushman.</span>]</p> - -<p>Company L was generally known as the “New -Bedford City Guards.” The first meeting for its -organization was held July 22, 1852, and, on the -31st of August following, George A. Bourne was -commissioned its captain. He had previously been -commissioned captain of Company K, in the Third -Light Infantry, Second Brigade, First Division, -which existed in New Bedford and was known as -the “City Guards.” Captain Bourne resigned Jan. -19, 1847, and the company was disbanded Aug. 8, -1849. Captain Bourne commanded the “New Bedford -City Guards” till 1854, when he resigned, and -was succeeded by Captain Timothy Ingraham, who -was in command at the time of the receipt of Spe<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_192"></a>[192]</span>cial -Order, No. 14, dated April 15, 1861, which ordered -the company to report immediately in Boston.</p> - -<p>The New Bedford City Guards under Captain Ingraham -soon became noted for proficiency in drill. -His son was a cadet at West Point and the company -not only adopted the complete uniform of the -cadets, but excelled in the new tactics afterwards -promulgated by the War Department as <em>Hardee’s -Tactics</em>, which formed a part of the instruction at -West Point. As a part of their fatigue dress the -Guards wore a unique scarlet jacket, from which -they were jocularly termed when in exercise drills, -the lobster backs. Besides their complement of -company officers they had an independent staff and -a full band. They drilled as a battalion as well as -a company. They acquired many of the improvements -which characterized the noted Ellsworth -Zouaves, and prided themselves upon excellence in -skirmishing drills, the “silent manual” bayonet exercise, -and guard duty.</p> - -<p>When Governor Andrew issued his preparatory -order of Jan. 16, 1861, almost the entire company -volunteered to respond to any call for duty without -the borders of the state, so that when Special Or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_193"></a>[193]</span>der, -No. 14, was promulgated late that Monday -evening, April 15th, they flocked to their armory as -the news spread, to learn of the arrangements for -their departure. There was little sleep that night -in the homes of the Guards. What might be their -ultimate destination none could decide. An ominous -darkness shrouded the immediate future into -which they were being ushered, trusting in Providence -and confident in their acquired military -knowledge. The few short hours before their departure -were devoted to hasty arrangements to provide -for their families and business while absent. -Early the next morning they responded to the call -and at eight o’clock left the armory. Meanwhile -the citizens had organized a fitting public demonstration -of patriotic feeling to bid them God-speed, -so they were not permitted to leave until the city’s -great heart found expression by a popular clergyman’s -craving Divine protection for its gallant -youth, and Ex-Governor John Henry Clifford had -eloquently bade a final farewell with thrilling assurances -of civic pride and neighborly love, pledging -the united support of the entire community. -Then to the inspiring music of its own band the -company marched to Fairhaven ferry, accompanied<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_194"></a>[194]</span> -by such an enthusiastic crowd as never before had -been seen in the city. Owing to the extraordinary -duties imposed upon the railroads which interfered -somewhat with the regular schedules, the company -did not reach Boston until noon. It was quartered -temporarily near the Old Colony depot, and that -night through the courtesy of the New England -Guards, slept in their quarters over the Boylston -Market. Lieutenant Porter then returned to New -Bedford.</p> - -<p>The next day (Wednesday, the 17th) Lieutenant -Barton joined the company in Boston. In the afternoon -Company L marched to the State House, received -its colors, and was addressed by Governor -John A. Andrew, and then amid the most enthusiastic -demonstrations of the excited populace, proceeded -to Long Wharf, where it embarked on the -steamship <i>S. R. Spaulding</i>, which dropped down -the harbor awaiting supplies. While at anchor -down the bay on the 18th of April, a boat came -alongside and a young man climbed over the side, -who stated that he wanted to enlist. He was recognized -instantly by Lieutenant Cushman as Edward -L. Pierce, a former college mate, and was at -once enrolled in Company L. At Fortress Monroe,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_195"></a>[195]</span> -as soon as “contrabands” came flocking around the -fort for protection, he was assigned to the congenial -duty of caring for their welfare, and proved a -most useful acquisition. At the end of his duty at -Fortress Monroe he was appointed to perform similar -service at Port Royal, South Carolina, and during -the war aided materially in developing the former -slaves of the South into defenders of the Union -and useful citizens.</p> - -<p>On arrival at Fortress Monroe Company L efficiently -performed every duty to which it was assigned, -although its costly uniforms were quickly -ruined by the mounting of heavy guns, and the -handling of immense quantities of quartermaster’s -supplies, besides the ordinary routine of military -duty. From the company many were detailed for -duty at post headquarters, scouting, and unusual -guard duty. Captain Ingraham, who had been compelled -by sickness to return on the tug-boat, April -18th, and Lieutenant Porter, accompanied by several -recruits reached Fortress Monroe on May 5th, -the former resumed command, but Lieutenant Porter -(the fourth lieutenant), being supernumerary -under the army regulations, was with the recruits -mustered into Company K. July 22d the regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_196"></a>[196]</span> -was mustered out of the service of the United -States.</p> - -<p>On the return of the company to New Bedford at -the end of its tour of service, it received a popular -ovation, and was heartily welcomed home. Many of -its members served subsequently as officers in regiments -which were formed during the war. The -state finally reimbursed the Guards for their ruined -uniforms.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company E to March 31, 1905.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city and town, the -place of enlistment.]</p></div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">John A. Hawes</span>, Captain; 29; Fairhaven. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William E. Mason</span>, First Lieutenant; 35; New -Bedford. Resides at 118 Acushnet Ave., New Bedford. -Died May 24, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James L. Sharp</span>, Second Lieutenant; 33; New -Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">David A. Butler</span>, First Sergeant; 25; New Bedford. -Carpenter for many years. Chief of New -Bedford police force. Elected colonel First Regiment -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1888; resigned. -Died in New Bedford, Feb. 6, 1906. Widow -and adopted child living.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_197"></a>[197]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles H. Tobey</span>, Sergeant; 23; New Bedford. -Captain in Fifty-eighth Regiment. Superintendent -of Star Mills, Middleboro, for many years. Shipper -in Leonard’s Shoe Factory. Resides in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James C. Hitch</span>, Sergeant; 25; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Isaac H. Jennings</span>, Sergeant; 27; New Bedford. -Commissioned captain after nine months’ service. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joseph E. Nye</span>, Sergeant; 24; New Bedford. Promoted -to sergeant-major. May 29, 1863. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John H. M. Babcock</span>, Corporal; 30; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Francis Herley</span>, Corporal; 33; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George R. Paddock</span>, Corporal; 27; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alexander M. Brownell</span>, Corporal; 20; New -Bedford. Detective in Richmond, Va.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank H. Kempton</span>, Corporal; 19; New Bedford. -Captain in Fifty-eighth Regiment. Clerk in Providence. -Resides in Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry H. Potter</span>, Corporal; 21; New Bedford. -Captain of New Bedford City Guards. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_198"></a>[198]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Franklin K. S. Nye</span>, Corporal; 23; New Bedford. -Residence, Soldiers Home, Hampton, Va.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sylvester C. Spooner</span>, Corporal; 23; New Bedford. -In the clothing business, Millbury, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen P. Sawyer</span>, Musician; 34; New Bedford. -In the fine ware business in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles G. Allen</span>, Musician; 14; New Bedford. -Motorman on electric cars in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry C. Baker</span>, Wagoner; 25; New Bedford. -Baker. Resides in Fall River.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, Thomas L.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Steward. -Astor House, New York.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, Albert M.</span>; 20; Westport. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Angell, William H.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bly, William L.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Retired -merchant. Returned to New Bedford at the close -of the war. Resides in Medford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Charles H.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Clerk in -a furniture store.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brayton, Charles F.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Invalid, -lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brown, Jacob</span>; 36; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barker, William T.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_199"></a>[199]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bullard, Amasa</span>; 45; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Leonard</span>; 33; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Coggshall, George</span>; 19; New Bedford. Clerk. -Lives in New York.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crapo, Philip M.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Sailor. -Died in Iowa.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Christian, Stephen E.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Killed -in battle June 18, 1864, while in action in the Fifty-eighth -Regiment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chadwick, Isaac</span>; 47; New Bedford. Retired -whaling master. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Covell, Benjamin B., Jr.</span>; 24; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cushman, Frederick E.</span>; 19; New Bedford. -Served in the Fifty-eighth Regiment. Attorney-at-law. -Resides in Austin, Texas.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chapman, Edward T.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Served -in the Fifty-eighth Regiment and lost his arm June -2, 1864, while on skirmish duty. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crane, Charles F.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Died in -Newbern, North Carolina, Jan. 29, 1863. Was complimented -by General Foster during inspection for -soldierly bearing and neatness.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, Luke</span>; 30; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, George H.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_200"></a>[200]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dedrick, Charles M.</span>; 29; New Bedford. Lives -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, Thomas D.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Carriage -painter in Mattapoisett.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Forbes, Charles H.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Folger, Reuben C.</span>; 21; New Bedford; Mason. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Grinnell, Enoch N.</span>; 22; Policeman in Lowell, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Thomas J.</span>; 22; New Bedford; Plumber. -Lives in New Bedford. Re-enlisted in ninety -days’ service.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howe, William W.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hitch, Alfred G.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Haffords, Joseph T.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Savory C.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, James S.</span>; 30; New Bedford. Carriage -manufacturer in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hargraves, John</span>; 36; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hanover, Walter</span>; 28; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hiller, Alfred</span>; 19; New Bedford. Lawyer. -Lives in Nebraska.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hussey, Thomas</span>; 19; New Bedford. Workman -in a shoe factory in New Bedford, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howard, Abner L.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_201"></a>[201]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hatch, William W.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Served -in the Fifty-eighth Regiment. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Handy, George F.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Resides in -Rutland, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hall, Gilbert N.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Retired -merchant. Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howland, Nicholas E.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Company C, Fifty-eighth Regiment; -wounded and discharged. Expressman in New -Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howland, Charles H.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Lives -near Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hudson, Jack</span>; 22; New Bedford. Blacksmith in -Chicago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, George W.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -as sergeant in the Fifty-eighth Regiment and -wounded in battle June 16, 1864. Lives in Malden, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jackson, William M.</span>; 32; New Bedford. Deserted -Oct. 20, 1862, immediately after bounty was -received.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kelley, Joseph H. A.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Leach, William H. H.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Drummer. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lawrence, William</span>; 43; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_202"></a>[202]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lovejoy, Amos F.</span>; 43; New Bedford. Discharged -for disability April 24, 1863. Carpenter. Lives in -New Bedford (Wamsutta Mills).</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mann, William M.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mann, John E.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Works in a -shoe factory, Brockton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Munroe, Joseph V. G.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mendall, Charles W.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maxfield, Frederick F.</span>; 22; Clerk. Lives in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Manchester, John B.</span>; 28; New Bedford. -Keeper of the police station, New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mosher, John M.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Lives in -Natick, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Negus, Charles H.</span>; 28; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Company E, Fifty-eighth Regiment. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paiser, Jacob</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Potter, Simeon W.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Purrington, Philip B.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, John W.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Discharged -for disability, March 12, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rigby, Samuel</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robbins, Thomas C.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Letter -carrier, New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_203"></a>[203]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rice, Adoniram J.</span>; 28; New Bedford. Blacksmith -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reynolds, William F.</span>; New Bedford. Workman. -Lives in Bourne, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Richards, William D.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Keeps -a livery stable in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soule, Rufus A.</span>; 24; New Bedford. Member of -the legislature. Speaker of the Senate. Senior -partner of the firm of Hathaway, Soule & Harrington, -shoe manufacturers in New Bedford and Middleboro. -A man of staunch character and influence -in New Bedford, where he resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Spooner, Samuel H.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Simmons, Charles H.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Bookkeeper -in Express Office, New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Saddler, William G.</span>; 28; New Bedford. Invalid, -lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Swift, Leander</span>; 24; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tabor, Lyman G.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tophams, Philip M.</span>; 24; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Thomas G. C.</span>; 30; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Daniel H.</span>; 30; Westport. Blacksmith. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Edwin C.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_204"></a>[204]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tuckerman, Robert, Jr.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Discharged -for disability, Oct. 28, 1862. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilkinson, William</span>; 32; New Bedford. Lives -in Alabama.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilcox, Henry P.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Lives in -Indianapolis, Ind.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, William H.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Died -in New Bedford, Feb. 14, 1906.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wood, Thomas F.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Member -of the firm of Wood, Brightman & Co., New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Watson, Samuel J.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -as second lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth Regiment -and taken prisoner in the Battle of the Crater, -July 30, 1864. Died on parole in New Bedford.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_205"></a>[205]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_IX">CHAPTER IX.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company F, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by F. P. Vincent, Edgartown.</span>]</p> - - -<p>This company, which was recruited in New Bedford, -was composed of men from New Bedford, -Dartmouth, Edgartown, Westport, and Acushnet. -Several of the men from New Bedford were sailors, -and after returning from their nine months’ service -either enlisted in the navy or went to sea. Several -such never returned again to America; they were -what are known as “roving characters.” We would -say, however, that many of this company re-enlisted -and served until the end of the war.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i244" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i244.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> GEORGE R. HURLBURT.</div> -</div> - -<p>Captain Hurlburt and his lieutenants recruited -the company, and were elected as its commissioned -officers. No one ever had cause to regret the choice -made. They were bold, true officers, and the non-commissioned -officers also were as true and faithful -as any company could wish. Captain Hurlburt, -whether seen on horse or on foot, was an officer of -which no company need be ashamed. He was of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_206"></a>[206]</span> -good build, and quick to learn the evolutions of the -company, whether on company, battalion, or brigade -drill. His men believed in him, and I think -would have followed him anywhere he might lead. -In evidence of his standing as a military officer, I -have only to refer to an order from his brigade commander, -just before leaving for home.</p> - -<div class="blockquot fs80"> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Headquarters Jourdan’s Brigade,<br /> -Eighteenth Army Corps,<br /> -Newbern, N. C.</span>, June 10, 1863.</p></div> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Captain</span>: Inasmuch as the term of enlistment of the Third -Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia is about to expire, -I cannot permit you to go to your home and its endearment -without some slight recognition of your valuable services as a -commanding officer, and it is with pleasure that I call the -attention of your friends at home and abroad to your splendid -company, for there is the proof of your ability as an officer.</p> - -<p>With kind regards for your future happiness, believe me to be,</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr20pc">Respectfully, your obedient servant,</span><br /> -<span class="padr10pc">J. JOURDAN,</span><br /> -<em>Colonel Commanding Brigade</em>.</p></div> - -<p>Before the war Captain Hurlburt pursued the -business of a ship carpenter in New Bedford, was -for some time deputy sheriff of Bristol County, in -which latter position he remained four years. Af<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_207"></a>[207]</span>ter -being mustered out he raised a company of cavalry -and was captain of the same. After the war -he was manager of a hotel in Hartford for seventeen -years. Failing health caused him to seek the -quiet of a home at the Vineyard, where he died in -1900, at the age of eighty-two years.</p> - -<p>First Lieut. William H. Allen was in the harness -making business for years, and later was known in -New Bedford as the popular “piano tuner and repairer.” -He died in New Bedford in 1892, and was -buried with military honors.</p> - -<p>Second Lieut. Jonathan W. Davis was detailed -for signal corps service during his nine months’ -campaign. He returned with his company and for -many years was bookkeeper at the Parker House, -New Bedford. He died in New Bedford, in 1898, -and was buried in the family cemetery.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i248" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i248.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Sergt.</span> PATRICK CANNAVAN.</div> -</div> - -<p>But few, if any company in the Third Regiment, -could boast of so proficient an orderly sergeant as -Sergeant Cannavan, of Company F. From 1855 to -1860 he was in her Majesty Queen Victoria’s army; -he saw much hard fighting in the Crimean War and -was honored with two medals for his bravery at -that time. After his return from his nine months’ -service for Uncle Sam, like a true soldier he en<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_208"></a>[208]</span>gaged -in such business as he could command. He -recruited for the army and drilled both men and -officers. At one time it looked as though he would -receive a commission in the heavy artillery with -Captain James L. Wilber, with whom he had spent -several weeks of recruiting, <ins class="corr" id="tn-208" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'but Captain Wilbur'"> -but Captain Wilber</ins> was ordered to consolidate his company with a portion -of a company near Boston. Sergeant Cannavan -was offered the sergeancy in the company but -declined. Being determined to see more active service, -he went with his former captain, George R. -Hurlburt in Company B, Fourth Massachusetts -Cavalry. This time he enlisted as a private, all the -sergeants’ places being filled. Soon he was made -sergeant and sent with a company to Hilton Head, -Florida, where he was ordered to drill officers, both -commissioned and non-commissioned. On the -morning following Sergeant Cannavan’s promotion, -First Sergeant Ashley went to the hospital, and, as -he never returned to the company, Sergeant Cannavan -performed the duties of that officer.</p> - -<p>Sergeant Cannavan distinguished himself during -an engagement at Gainesville, Florida, on the 17th -of August, 1864. In the absence of his superior officer -he led his company in a desperate sabre charge,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_209"></a>[209]</span> -thus saving his comrades in the rear from capture -by the rebel cavalry, who outnumbered his cavalry -two to one. For this act of bravery he was commissioned -Second Lieutenant in Company A, Fourth -Cavalry. In this engagement he was unhorsed, his -carbine shot away by a rebel bullet which destroyed -the hook holding the carbine to the belt, and he received -a slight wound. Seven days later Sergeant -Cannavan with a few of his men reached the main -command, and when they rode into camp the company -thought these men must have come from the -dead. Two months after this battle he was promoted -to First Lieutenant Fourth Cavalry, Company -B. After the surrender of Lee Lieutenant -Cannavan was detailed to flag all trains going from -Richmond to see if there were any deserters on -board. He also had the supervision of families going -from Richmond to their old plantations, sometimes -going as many as forty miles into the interior.</p> - -<p>Returning home in the latter part of November, -1865, he engaged in the grocery business. In 1875 -Mr. Cannavan was appointed assistant city marshal, -which office he occupied for two years. In -1878 he was for the second time appointed on the -police force, in which capacity he has served the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_210"></a>[210]</span> -City of New Bedford continuously since that time, -viz., thirty years. During all these years he has -never met the man whom he could not handle alone, -and in some instances he has had some pretty hard -cases with crazy drunks, but in no instance has he -cracked a skull or broken flesh with his policeman’s -club. He is honored and respected by all the citizens -of New Bedford. Even the rough classes yield -when Cannavan is known to be after them. Now -in the sixty-eighth year of his age he is hale and -happy. He has never indulged in the ardent and -never used tobacco. He spends his spare time with -his family reading instructive books. He is held in -high esteem by all the children of his patrol, for he -always carries strings for tops, and marbles in his -pockets for the little ones.</p> - -<p>The city honored him in 1905 by making him -chief marshal on Memorial Day. Taking all in all -we believe we make no mistake in writing so extended -a history of this remarkable man, of whom -in our long acquaintance we have heard only good -things. In the near future he expects to receive a -medal of honor from this government for meritorious -service rendered during the War of the Rebel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_211"></a>[211]</span>lion. -His address is 427 North Chauncy Street, -New Bedford, Mass.</p> - -<p>These officers are but samples of the whole company. -They were good fighters because they were -well drilled; they were good soldiers because they -were well disciplined; they are (those still living) -good citizens, because they were good patriots; they -have succeeded and made their mark in the world -because the spirit of success is in them. Good officers -make good soldiers, good soldiers make good -citizens, and good citizens make a good country. -Is it asked, “Where are the men who made the rank -and file of Company F?” the answer comes, “Many -have joined the great majority, who as young men -responded to their country’s call in the hour of -need.” They did their work well; peace to their -ashes. A great and mighty Nation is reaping the -fruits of their toil, and the haughty South has been -brought back, not the raging maniac she was in ’61, -but, cured of the past, she sits at the feet of Uncle -Sam, “clothed and in her right mind.”</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indentq">“God of the nations, be with us yet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Lest we forget, lest we forget.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest we forget what war has cost,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When we our greatness loudly boast.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest we forget our noble sons,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who died to hold our nation one.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_212"></a>[212]</span></p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company F, New Bedford.</span></h3> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">By F. P. Vincent and Sergt. Patrick Cannavan.</span>]</p> - -<p class="pfs80">[The first figures indicate the age at enlistment: the city and town, -the place of enlistment.]</p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">George H. Hurlburt</span>, Captain; 38; New Bedford. -Died in 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William H. Allen</span>, First Lieutenant; 25; New -Bedford. Died in 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jonathan W. Davis</span>, Second Lieutenant; 25; -New Bedford. Died in 1898.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Patrick Cannavan</span>, First Sergeant; 25; New -Bedford. Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James H. Williams</span>, Sergeant; 26; Dartmouth. -Photographer, Nantucket Beach.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frederick A. Plummer</span>, Sergeant; 29; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joseph C. Brotherson</span>, Sergeant; 21; New Bedford. -Re-enlisted in Company B, Fourth Massachusetts -Cavalry. Promoted captain of Company D, -April, 1865. Died with the United States Civil Engineers -out West in 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles H. Walker</span>, Sergeant; 40; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles A. Gould</span>, Corporal; 27; New Bedford. -In the New York Custom House, New York.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_213"></a>[213]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James Smith</span>, Corporal; 31; Edgartown. Mason -by trade. Contractor in Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Zacheus H. Wright</span>, Corporal; 32; Acushnet. -Carpenter. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrew Dexter</span>, Corporal; 28; New Bedford. -Lives in Ohio.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John H. Ricketson</span>, Corporal; 26; Dartmouth. -Re-enlisted in Company B, Fourth Cavalry. Died -in Dartmouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frederick Hoffman</span>, Corporal; 26; New Bedford. -Went to California and died in San Francisco.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles W. Cleveland</span>, Corporal; 32; Edgartown. -Went to sea; mate of whaling vessel. Died -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry Kohn</span>, Corporal; 19; New Bedford. Lives -in New York City.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Francis P. Vincent</span>, Chief Bugler; 30; Edgartown. -Postmaster, Cottage City, Mass. One of the -leading men of the town.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James Western</span>, Wagoner; 27; New Bedford. -Died in 1867.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Booth, Nathaniel A.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Died -in New Bedford in 1870.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_214"></a>[214]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Burns, James A.</span>; 35; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bessie, George A.</span>; 19; Dartmouth. Sailor. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brightman, John H.</span>; 40; Westport. Fisherman. -Died in Westport, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Burke, William</span>; 30; New Bedford. Weaver. -Lives in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brannan, Patrick</span>; 18; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Buswell, James E.</span>; 28; Edgartown. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barrett, John</span>; 29; New Bedford. Supposed to -be living in New Hampshire. Farmer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beatle, Edward E.</span>; 22; Edgartown. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clark, Patrick</span>; 31; New Bedford. Went to Fall -River. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Card, Benjamin F.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Died in -New Bedford, February, 1905. Painter and storekeeper -until he died.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chase, Alvah H.</span>; 23; Dartmouth. Farmer. -Lives in Middleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clark, Henry E.</span>; 27; Dartmouth. Dead. Leaves -a widow living in Hicksville.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cushing, William B.</span>; 18; Acushnet. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cornell, Solomon</span>; 32; Dartmouth. Lives in -South Dartmouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cameron, John</span>; 21; Berkley. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_215"></a>[215]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Durfee, George L.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Carpenter. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Donovan, James</span>; 20; New Bedford. Inspector -of cars. Killed on railroad.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">DeKay, Richard</span>; 21; Dartmouth. Deserted -Oct. 3, 1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, George W.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company -F. Carpenter. Lives in North Dartmouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fisher, John P.</span>; 20; Edgartown. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Foster, Daniel O.</span>; 26; Warren, R. I. Re-enlisted -as sergeant in Fourth Cavalry. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, James B.</span>; 21; Westport.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Abram</span>; 18; Westport. Re-enlisted in -ninety days’ regiment. Carpenter and surveyor. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Levi K.</span>; 22; Dartmouth. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gordon, John</span>; 22; New Bedford. Discharged -March 21, 1863, for disability. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gammons, Charles W.</span>; 18; Dartmouth. Discharged -March 24, 1863, for disability. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Graves, Perry</span>; 33; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Capt. Allen’s Company Heavy Artillery stationed -at New Bedford and Washington, D. C. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hammond, Henry</span>; 38; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_216"></a>[216]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Samuel B.</span>; 30; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, George W.</span>; 28; New Bedford. Died -in New Bedford, Nov. 14, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hoffman, William</span>; 29; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry. Died in Boston, 1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Joseph B.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -and was commissioned second lieutenant in -a colored regiment. Sash and blind manufacturer. -Lives in Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howland, Abram H.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Lives -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hamer, William</span>; 35; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, George</span>; 25; New Bedford. Went to -California. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Janney, William A.</span>; 36; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -as sergeant in Fourth Cavalry. Died in New -Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kenner, Henry G.</span>; 27; Dartmouth. Supposed -to be living in Maryland.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Luscomb, Abram R.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lakey, Thomas</span>; 20; New Bedford. Drummer. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lawton, Joseph M.</span>; 33; Dartmouth; Painter. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lewis, Henry S.</span>; 23; Dartmouth. For many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_217"></a>[217]</span> -years overseer in a cotton mill in New Bedford. -Died in 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mitchell, John S.</span>; 39; New Bedford. Died at -sea.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mason, Humphrey S.</span>; 27; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macomber, Lyman A.</span>; 18; Dartmouth. Lives in -Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macomber, Alden T.</span>; 30; Dartmouth. Died -April 21, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mosher, Frederick P.</span>; 28; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Muspratt, John</span>; 20; New Bedford. Lives in -New Bedford on Sixth Street.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Oliver, Horatio G., Jr.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -as sergeant in Fourth Cavalry, was -wounded and captured. Died in prison.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Oliver, Charles H.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry as sergeant. Died in Salisbury -Prison.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Orne, George</span>; 42; New Bedford. Died in Boston -Hospital, Jan. 3, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Plummer, Horace M.</span>; 22; New Bedford. In -post office, New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peckham, Samuel G.</span>; 29; Dartmouth. Died in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_218"></a>[218]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peck, William B.</span>; Dartmouth. Died at Smith -Mills, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Alexander O.</span>; 26; Acushnet. Painter. -Died Dec. 20, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peckham, John B.</span>; 21; Dartmouth. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Potter, Thomas, Jr.</span>; 40; Acushnet. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Quick, James S.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Went to -Michigan. Supposed to be living.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rodman, Samuel J.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Carpenter. -Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ryan, Edward</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ryder, David</span>; 44; Dartmouth. Re-enlisted in -Fourth Cavalry, captured and died in a rebel -prison.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ripley, Joseph A.</span>; 21; Edgartown. Contractor -in Providence, R. I. Member of Prescott Post, No. -1, G. A. R.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stowell, Columbus</span>; 44; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry, taken prisoner and died -in rebel prison.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soule, Edwin P.</span>; 24; New Bedford. Special police -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, John W.</span>; 18; New Bedford. After the -war went to Illinois. Resides in Chicago.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_219"></a>[219]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stiles, James</span>; 26; New Bedford. Lives in Nantucket.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sanford, Leonard M.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Lives -in Westport, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shea, Matthew</span>; 26; New Bedford. Soldier of -Crimean War. Supposed to be living in Attleboro.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Charles H.</span>; 30; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephens, William H.</span>; 22; Dartmouth. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry. Died in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Spooner, Joseph S.</span>; 36; Acushnet. Supposed to -be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Philip M.</span>; 23; New Bedford. In the jobbing -business. Died June 29, 1906.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachman, Sidney M.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Webb, William H.</span>; 24; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilson, James</span>; 31; New Bedford. Resided many -years in New Bedford on Ash Street. Died March -5, 1906.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Welch, William H.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Heavy Artillery. Died in hospital, Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wady, William I.</span>; 19; Dartmouth. Went to sea. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_220"></a>[220]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wordell, Andrew L.</span>; 19; Dartmouth. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry. Died in prison in South -Carolina.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Worth, Jethro</span>; 25; Edgartown. Went into -Navy; officer. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilbur, Joseph H.</span>; 19; Edgartown. Painter. -Vineyard Haven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wood, George H.</span>; 19; Dartmouth. Went to sea; -returned, and is now living on a farm in Westport -with his twin brother. Both are bachelors and possess -quite a handsome property.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_221"></a>[221]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_X">CHAPTER X.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company G, Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - - -<p>This company was recruited by its captain, William -S. Cobb; first lieutenant, Henry W. Briggs; -and second lieutenant, James L. Wilber. In the -days of 1862 in passing City Hall, New Bedford, -one might notice four tents on the north side of the -hall. In these four tents companies were being recruited, -viz., Companies E, F, and G, and another -company which was being recruited by Major Cushman. -In six weeks the recruiting was accomplished, -and Companies E, F, and G, went into -Camp Joe Hooker, Lakeville, Mass., and were made -a part of the Third Regiment. To say that there -was no rivalry in this recruiting would be far from -the truth, but as each man had his choice of the -four companies the officer who could show the -greatest advantages succeeded soonest in getting -his company filled.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i264" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i264.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt</span>. WILLIAM S. COBB.</div> -</div> - -<p>William Cobb who went as captain of Company -G was for several years in the outfitting business -in New Bedford and was well known by a large circle -of admiring friends, and, being at one time city -marshal, he enjoyed the right of way in recruiting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_222"></a>[222]</span> -his company. He never lost his hold on his men, -nor his popularity as commanding officer. His men -never failed of getting their rations of every sort. -He was a kind, considerate officer, and loved his -men as though they were his own sons. After the -war he was for many years high sheriff of Bristol -County, in which place he performed his duties acceptably, -without fear or trembling, neither was he -a slave to any political party. His shibboleth was -duty before pleasure.</p> - -<p>First Lieut. Henry W. Briggs was a faithful officer -during his term of service, and after the war -was a contractor and builder in New Bedford for -a number of years. He was a good, honest man, -and those who intrusted their interests to him had -no cause to regret or to find fault with the work.</p> - -<p>Second Lieut. James L. Wilber was not only a -faithful officer, but after serving nine months in the -Third he recruited part of a company for the Heavy -Artillery, was commissioned captain of the same, -and went to North Carolina, where he did good service. -After the close of the war Captain Wilber -was elected on the police force, in which position he -served as deputy of the day force. He was an able -officer, and was respected by all the citizens of New -Bedford where he resided. After thirty-two years<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_223"></a>[223]</span> -a police officer he died July 23, 1905, and was buried -with G. A. R. honors.</p> - -<p>The make up of Company G were mechanics, and, -on returning home, their services were in such demand -that but few of them comparatively re-enlisted -for the second time. They were nearly all -New Bedford and Dartmouth men, and as the world -goes they were a fine set of fellows. Like all others -of the companies of the Third Regiment, more than -fifty per cent. of this company have answered the -last roll call, while their relatives are reaping the -benefits of their sacrifice and toil in the Southland. -Some of those still living have gone to distant parts -never to return. So far as known they have all -been good citizens, while many of them have made -their mark in the world of finance, and are well to -do business men.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company G, New Bedford.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p>[The first figures indicate the age at enlistment: the city and town, the -place of enlistment.]</p> - -<p class="center">[<span class="smcap">Corrected by Capt. James L. Wilber, Samuel S. Broadbent, -and Lieut. Patrick Cannavan.</span>]</p></div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">William S. Cobb</span>, Captain; 43; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_224"></a>[224]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry W. Briggs</span>, First Lieutenant; 33; New -Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James L. Wilber</span>, Second Lieutenant; 28; New -Bedford. Died in New Bedford, July 23, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles West</span>, First Sergeant; 30; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William F. Chace</span>, Sergeant; 28; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John W. Look</span>, Sergeant; 30; New Bedford. Carpenter. -Lives in Marion.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Abel Soule</span>, Jr., Sergeant; 34; New Bedford. -Ship Carpenter. Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Roland W. Snow</span>, Sergeant; 29; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Simeon Webb</span>, Corporal; 36; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas F. Hammond</span>, Corporal; 21; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William G. Dunham</span>; Corporal; 28; New Bedford. -Letter Carrier, New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrew Porter</span>, Corporal; 29; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">William Eldridge</span>, Corporal; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John L. Flynn</span>, Corporal; 32; New Bedford. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_225"></a>[225]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George W. Perry</span>, Corporal; 33; New Bedford. -Carpenter. Resides in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ira P. Tripp</span>, Corporal; 34; New Bedford. Salesman -in store corner of Union and Sixth Streets, -New Bedford.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, Joseph H.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Supposed -to be living in Brockton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, George F.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alger, Charles, Jr.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Re-enlisted. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atchison, Martin</span>; 18; New Bedford. Re-enlisted -in Fourth Cavalry. Lives in Colorado.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Albro, Alfred</span>; 21; Dartmouth. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Akin, Charles R.</span>; 37; New Bedford. Served in -Fourth Cavalry. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atwood, Luther</span>; 38; New Bedford. Deserted -Oct. 22, 1862. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bacon, David B.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bearse, Zachariah S.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Besse, Daniel</span>; 34; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bowman, Joseph B.</span>; 42; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Boling, John M.</span>; 27; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_226"></a>[226]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bliss, Charles</span>; 36; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bolles, James C.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Lives in -California.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Burdick, Benjamin F.</span>; 27; New Bedford. Lives -at Nantucket.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bradley, David</span>; 28; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carroll, James N.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Collins, James</span>; 21; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chase, Collins</span>; 30; New Bedford. Wheelwright. -Lives in New Brunswick.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cobb, William S., Jr.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connolly, James</span>; 30; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chase, William H.</span>; 40; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Croy, William D.</span>; 22; Dartmouth. Discharged -May 30, 1863, to re-enlist. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Clark, James</span>; 26; New Bedford. Discharged -May 30, 1863, to re-enlist. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, James A.</span>; 26; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dunham, Thomas S.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Durpee, Benjamin</span>; 18; New Bedford. Went to -California. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, Ezra F.</span>; 43; New Bedford. Lives near -Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Edwards, John</span>; 29; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Flahaven, John</span>; 28; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_227"></a>[227]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">French, John F.</span>; 27; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fleet, James</span>; 33; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Freeman, Josiah</span>; 23; New Bedford. Lives at -Nantucket.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, William F.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Samuel T.</span>; 30; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Charles C.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Sergeant -of the police. Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Garlick, Reuben A.</span>; 19; Dartmouth. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hazard, John F.</span>; 27; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Haskins, William A.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, Frederick A.</span>; 18; New Bedford. -Sailmaker. Lives in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harrington, Daniel</span>; 23; New Bedford. Deserted -Oct. 21, 1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenny, Sanford, Jr.</span>; 23; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joseph, William R.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">King, Isaac</span>; 44; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Keene, Ebenezer S.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">King, Alfred C.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Linehan, John</span>; 37; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lewis, Benjamin F.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Look, Gilbert A.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Long, George R.</span>; 34; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_228"></a>[228]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lyng, William</span>; 18; New Bedford. Laborer. -Lives in New Brunswick.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mack, Andrew N.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mosher, Folder B.</span>; 36; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mosher, Caleb P.</span>; 34; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Matthews, Barak E.</span>; 41; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McCann, Edward</span>; 35; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maxfield, Charles H.</span>; 18; New Bedford. In -clothing store. Lives in Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Moltram, John</span>; 29; New Bedford. Resides in -Providence, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Minor, Barney</span>; 35; New Bedford. Deserted and -discharged for disability.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Norton, Francis</span>; 35; Edgartown. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paine, Henry K.</span>; 25; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, George F.</span>; 31; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Parker, George W.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perry, Lyman C.</span>; 42; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Charles C.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Charles H.</span>; 18; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Parsons, Lewis G.</span>; 22; New Bedford. Discharged -March 3, 1863, for disability.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_229"></a>[229]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pratt, Henry B.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Discharged -March 19, 1863, for disability.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Richards, Silas N.</span>; 20; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Salisbury, Robert</span>; 31; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Samuel D.</span>; 43; New Bedford. Supposed -to be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, John S.</span>; 44; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sisson, George F.</span>; 41; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Slocum, William</span>; 19; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Spooner, Samuel K.</span>; 44; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taber, Cornelius G.</span>; 32; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taber, Theodore A.</span>; 21; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taber, Daniel G.</span>; 41; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taylor, William W.</span>; 24; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tighe, James D.</span>; 19; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Sylvanus A.</span>; 41; New Bedford. Supposed -to be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, George H. W.</span>; 26; New Bedford. Discharged -April 30, 1863, for disability. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tillinghast, William A.</span>; 19; New Bedford. -Fire Engine Driver. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilkie, David</span>; 20; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whitehead, Thomas</span>; 41; New Bedford. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilbur, Henry C.</span>; 21; Edgartown. Unknown.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_230"></a>[230]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_XI">CHAPTER XI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company H, Third Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p class="center">[<span class="smcap">Written by William H. Luther, Member of Company H.</span>]</p> - -<p>[This is not claimed to be a perfect history, but it is believed to be as -perfect a record as can be secured at this late date. When not otherwise -indicated, the person is supposed to have been mustered out with his -regiment.]</p></div> - - -<p>The immediate cause for the raising of Company -H was the call of President Lincoln for three hundred -thousand men to put down the Rebellion, and -the incentive was a bounty of two hundred dollars -offered to every man who enlisted. The formation -of a company from the towns of Rehoboth, Somerset, -Dighton, and Swansea, was a happy thought, -as the quota called for from these four towns would -make a full company. Meetings were held in each -of these places and recruiting offices were opened. -Nathaniel B. Horton was the recruiting officer for -Rehoboth, Noah Chase for Dighton, William P. -Hood for Somerset, and Allen Mason for Swansea. -These four officers with their towns seemed to vie -with each other in raising the required number, and -so great was the enthusiasm that within a very<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_231"></a>[231]</span> -short time the company was full. Then came the -question of a captain and two lieutenants. Somerset -having the largest number, was supposed to -have the first choice to the captaincy, and the other -three towns were to select the lieutenants and non-commissioned -officers according to their best judgment. -A Mr. Davis, of Somerset, was mentioned -for captain, and it was graciously accorded to him, -while the first lieutenancy was accorded to Otis A. -Baker, of Rehoboth; but on the day of organization -Mr. Davis declined his position and the way was -left clear for the election of Otis A. Baker. No -records can now be found giving the date of election -of officers. The best that can be learned is that -it was held on a very hot Saturday afternoon in the -old Hornbine Church in Southeast Rehoboth, about -the last of August or the first of September, 1862. -Otis A. Baker was unanimously elected captain; -Robert Crossman, 2d, of Dighton, first lieutenant; -and Joseph Gibbs, of Somerset, second lieutenant. -Swansea was accorded her full share of the non-commissioned -officers.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i275" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i275.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> OTIS A. BAKER.</div> -</div> - -<p>The choice of Captain Baker was a happy one. -His father, Ira S. Baker, was one of the foremost -men of Rehoboth, having held the first offices of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_232"></a>[232]</span> -town for years. He was also a member of the House -of Representatives in Boston. After graduating -from the public schools of Rehoboth Captain Baker -learned the trade of a mason, in which business he -was very successful; notwithstanding, when the war -broke out he left his remunerative business in Providence, -R. I., and enlisted in Company A, First -Rhode Island Detached Militia, for three months. -He served his full term, being engaged with his regiment -at the battle of Bull Run, where he received -a wound in his arm. Having been discharged and -having recovered from his wound, he re-enlisted as -first sergeant in Company A, Fourth Rhode Island -Infantry, September, 1861, and was promoted to -second lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1861. He was with his -regiment in the well remembered Burnside Expedition, -taking part in the capture of Roanoke Island -and the battle of Newbern, and remaining with his -regiment until Aug. 11, 1862, when he resigned his -commission. The cause of his resignation, together -with over half of the commissioned officers of the -regiment, was the action of Governor Sprague in -taking an officer from another regiment and giving -him a place over them as one of the field officers.</p> - -<p>Soon after his arrival home I met Lieutenant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_233"></a>[233]</span> -Baker in Providence and invited him to go with -Company H as first lieutenant, it being understood -then that the captaincy was settled; his answer was -that he intended to see the war through and was -ready for anything that might offer. Lieutenant -Baker at that time was twenty-four years old; he -was indeed a giant, standing six feet four in his -stockings, straight as an arrow, well versed in military -tactics; and, although the youngest of the -captains in the Third Regiment, his ability as officer -was never questioned, nor had the company any -reason to regret its choice of him as their captain. -Resolute by nature, kind in heart, he was a man -who did things; always doing his duty regardless -of consequences to himself. He exacted from every -man of his company a strict and impartial obedience -to himself and to all officers with whom they -were to render duty. At the battle of Kinston, N. -C., as we were formed into line of battle, expecting -momentarily to be ordered to the front to take a -more active part, Captain Baker made this little -speech, “In a few moments we shall be where we -shall see more active and more dangerous work, but -no matter what we may meet let not a man of you -run until I run, but when you see me run then let<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_234"></a>[234]</span> -every man run like the devil.” Suffice it to say, no -man was seen running.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Crossman was highly esteemed by the -whole company. His quiet, unassuming manner -caused every one to love him and to confide in him; -he was a true man and a true soldier. He demonstrated -his patriotism by re-enlisting in the Fifty-eighth -Regiment, in which he was elected captain, -and was with his company at the battle of Cold -Harbor, where he was wounded terribly in the -shoulder; an injury from which he never recovered. -There can be little doubt that this shortened his -life many years. He died at Taunton, July 25, -1876.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Gibbs was a whole-hearted, first-class -man, against whom there was never heard a word -of censure, nor was there one spot on his splendid -character. Being detached early for signal service, -he was with us but a short time, almost all of his -term of nine months being spent in Charleston Harbor, -S. C., where he rendered very satisfactory service -to his commanding officer.</p> - -<p>But a few days elapsed after our organization before -we were ordered to go into camp at Lakeville, -Mass. We were to meet at Somerset village, from<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_235"></a>[235]</span> -which place we were to be conveyed across the river -in rowboats to take the cars for camp. Arriving -there late in the afternoon, we found the most of -the regiment in barracks, and were assigned our -place among the other companies for the night. -Such a night. The boys were full of sport and determined -to have a good time, which they did to -their heart’s content. It is safe to say no one slept -that night within a radius of a quarter of a mile. -There was every kind of a noise imaginable, and -some that were never heard before nor since. -Speeches were made, songs sung, hens cackling, -roosters crowing, turkeys gobbling, ducks quacking, -<ins class="corr" id="tn-235" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'pigs squeeling and'"> -pigs squealing and</ins> bulls bellowing; but all this was -due to leaving home, and still having home with us. -What could be expected of a hundred men just -leaving home, and as yet having no military restraint -put on them? The following night some of -us were put on guard, with a four-foot cord stick -as our weapon of defense; what great things we declared -we would do should the Rebs come down on -us suddenly; but we were getting ready for the -hard and dangerous work before us, upon which we -were soon to enter.</p> - -<p>In a few days the mustering officer came and we<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_236"></a>[236]</span> -were inspected and mustered into the service of -Uncle Sam. Some of our men were beyond the -forty-five year limit, but all passed except one, Samuel -H. Vial, who had in the company a son George, -and who upon being asked his age gave it honestly -as forty-nine. Of course he was rejected. The oldest -man in the company was Peleg Swift of Somerset, -a giant in size and strength, but gray-haired. -Upon being asked his age, he replied, “Forty-four.” -“Is that all?” asked the mustering officer. “That is -what my good mother called me,” replied Peleg. -He was accepted, although fourteen years beyond -the law limit. No better soldier ever carried a musket, -and no one ever knew of his dropping out on -the tiresome marches. He was killed at Petersburg -by a rebel shell.</p> - -<p>The material composing Company H were worthy, -steady farmers’ boys, with the addition of several -iron workers from Somerset and Dighton. Many -of the men were old neighbors at home, several of -them being from the same families. For instance, -there were four pairs of brothers, and when one -heard from home all the others were interested to -hear the news. No more rugged or better men than -Company H ever enlisted. Accustomed from early<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_237"></a>[237]</span> -life to hard work, plain, and good fare, and the -best of health, they were already fitted for the hardships -of the march and the privations of soldier -life. They were an honest set of men, and anything -left in their tents was sure to be found where -it was left.</p> - -<p>Of the military experiences of Company H I will -say nothing, as the history of the company is the -history of the regiment. It was never on detached -or detailed duty, and wherever the regiment went -there went Company H. There are no tragic events -to record. The company has the unique distinction -of bringing home every man that went out with it. -It is the only company of which I have any knowledge -that served so long a period in the war and -never lost a man, either by sickness or by bullet. I -believe this is due largely to the early life and temperate -habits of the men of this company; but we -cannot close our eyes to the fact that since the close -of the war more than fifty-two per cent. have answered -the last call.</p> - -<p>In conclusion, let me extend my thanks to those -comrades who so ably assisted me in gathering -facts, especially to Captain Baker, Comrade -Walker, of Dighton, and Samuel L. Buffington of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_238"></a>[238]</span> -Swansea. Those men, together with the record of -the company in 1862, and notes and facts preserved -in diaries, has made it possible at this late date -to write such a correct history of the company. We -are growing old, our ranks are fast thinning, our -roll calls are growing shorter and shorter, it behooves -us to quit ourselves like men. Like all other -men I have done many things for which I am sorry, -and some things for which I am ashamed, but there -is one incident in my life of which I am neither -sorry nor ashamed, and that is the fact that I enlisted -and served in Company H, Third Regiment -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company H, Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city and town, the -place of enlistment.]</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Otis A. Baker</span>, Captain; 24; Rehoboth. Enlisted -as a private in Company A, First Rhode Island Detached -Militia, April 16, 1861. Wounded at battle -of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. Discharged. Re-enlisted -in September, 1861, first sergeant of Company -A, Fourth Rhode Island Infantry. Promoted -second lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1861. Resigned, Aug.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_239"></a>[239]</span> -11, 1862. Re-enlisted Sept. 18, 1862. Chosen captain -of Company H, Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Mustered out June 26, -1863. Re-enlisted Aug. 1, 1864; captain of the -Eighteenth Unattached Company. Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Re-enlisted -Dec. 10, 1864; captain of Eighteenth Unattached -Company for one year, or until the close -of the war. Mustered out May 12, 1865. Resides -in Rehoboth, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robert Crossman</span>, 2d, First Lieutenant; 34; -Dighton. Mustered out with regiment, June 26, -1863. Re-enlisted and was chosen captain in the -Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. Wounded at -battle of Cold Harbor. Discharged for disability, -Oct. 11, 1864. For many years one of the State -Constabulary. Died in Taunton, July 25, 1876.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joseph Gibbs</span>, Second Lieutenant; 35; Somerset. -Detached Nov. 21, 1862, for signal corps service. -On duty at Port Royal and at Charleston Harbor, -during the bombardment of Charleston. Died Apr. -7, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Arnold D. Brown</span>, First Sergeant; 24; Rehoboth. -Enlisted May 26, 1862, as a private in Co. B, Tenth -Rhode Island Infantry. Discharged Sept. 1, 1862.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_240"></a>[240]</span> -Re-enlisted in Company H, Third Massachusetts -Volunteers. Discharged June 26, 1863. Re-enlisted -sergeant-major Third Rhode Island Cavalry, Aug. -7, 1863. Promoted second lieutenant Feb. 6, 1864. -Discharged 1865. Died Oct. 26, 1874.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George F. M. Forrester</span>, Sergeant; 38; Somerset. -Farmer; for many years a resident of Somerset. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Edwin Haskins</span>, Sergeant; 24; Dighton. -Moulder. Resides in North Dighton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jonathan W. Thurber</span>, Sergeant; 23; Swansea. -Re-enlisted. Sergeant of Eighteenth Unattached -Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Aug. 1, -1864. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Died in Seekonk, -January, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel W. Gibbs</span>, Sergeant; 23; Somerset. Farmer. -Resides in Somerset.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry H. Lothrop</span>, Corporal; 24; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -in navy. Lost at sea from a United States -Transport in 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sylvanus D. Jones</span>, Corporal; 34; Dighton. Re-enlisted -Dec. 10, 1864; corporal in Eighteenth Unattached -Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. -Discharged May 12, 1865. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James McNeil</span>, Corporal; 34; Swansea. Detailed -corporal of Pioneer Corps. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_241"></a>[241]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Isaiah B. Case</span>, Corporal; 20; Seekonk. Lives in -Philadelphia, Penn. Proprietor of a restaurant.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Josiah L. Horton</span>, Corporal; 21; Dighton. Died -Dec. 28, 1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles B. Peckham</span>, Corporal; 36; Somerset. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Daniel Briggs</span>, Corporal; 21; Dighton. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horace L. Horton</span>, Corporal; 19; Swansea. Farmer. -Resides in Rehoboth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James M. Evans</span>, Musician; 25; Dighton. For -many years a grain dealer in Taunton; also connected -with the Nickel Plate Works. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen B. Luther</span>, Musician; 20; Rehoboth. Died -Oct. 13, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mark P. Chase</span>, Wagoner; 19; Somerset. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jason W. Fuller</span>, Wagoner; 37; Rehoboth. Discharged -for disability, Nov. 27, 1863. Died May 30, -1896.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bliss, Joshua S.</span>; 21; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted as -first sergeant in Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Aug. 1, 1864. Discharged -Nov. 14, 1864. Re-enlisted in Eighteenth<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_242"></a>[242]</span> -Unattached Company, Dec. 10, 1864. Discharged -May 12, 1865. A lumber dealer in Buffington, N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Buffington, Samuel L.</span>; 18; Swansea. Mustered -out with regiment. Supposed to be living in Swansea.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Buffington, George O.</span>; 18; Swansea. Re-enlisted -in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged -Nov. 14, 1864. Farmer. Resides in Swansea.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Babbitt, Nathaniel M.</span>; 39; Dighton. Farmer. -Resides in Dighton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Oliver H.</span>; 28; Dighton. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Discharged Nov. -14, 1864. Re-enlisted Dec. 10, 1864. Discharged -May 12, 1865. Sutler. Resides in Washington, D. C.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Belden, William H.</span>; 22; Dighton. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864, and made a corporal. Discharged -Nov. 14, 1864. Resides in Fall River.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bullock, Gilbert D.</span>; 34; Rehoboth. Farmer. -Died in Hebronville, Mass., Dec. 25, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, George F.</span>; 18; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, George A.</span>; 18; Somerset. Treasurer of -Chace Corporation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_243"></a>[243]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, Benjamin F.</span>; 28; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, William P.</span>; 32; Swansea. Resided in -Somerset for years. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, Edwin</span>; 19; Dighton. Resided in Dighton -for years. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, Baylies R.</span>; 20; Somerset. On detached -duty at Plymouth, N. C. Originally a member of -the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts. Discharged for -disability. Inspector in Providence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chace, Herbert A.</span>; 20; Dighton. Discharged -for disability Mar. 27, 1863. Re-enlisted Aug. 10, -1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Died June, 30, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carmichael, John B.</span>; 19; Somerset. Residence, -unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Curtis, George E.</span>; 23; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -Dec. 10, 1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Discharged May -12, 1865. Resides in East Providence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carroll, Michael</span>; 26; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, Nathan S.</span>; 33; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Farrell, Dominick</span>; 45; Rehoboth. Resided in -Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Francis, Darius P.</span>; 22; Rehoboth. Died in Attleboro, -Apr. 12, 1891.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_244"></a>[244]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Francis, David W.</span>; 21; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Farmer. -Resides in Rehoboth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Goff, Henry N.</span>; 39; Dighton. Detailed in Pioneer -Corps. Re-enlisted Aug. 10, 1864, in Eighteenth -Unattached Company, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Died in -Dighton, Mar. 8, 1889.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Goff, Andrew J.</span>; 22; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Died -Nov. 25, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Green, George</span>; 36; Rehoboth. Died in East -Providence, Jan. 7, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hood, David B.</span>; 18; Somerset. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harrington, Daniel</span>; 33; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -in Company C, Third Rhode Island Cavalry, Oct. -13, 1863. Discharged Nov. 29, 1865. Died in Warren, -R. I., Apr. 12, 1891.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hathaway, George W.</span>; 39; Somerset. Detailed -in Pioneer Corps. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hatten, John R.</span>; 25; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holten, Michael</span>; 29; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horton, Alfred A.</span>; 20; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864, in Eighteenth Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. -Farmer. Resides in Dighton.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_245"></a>[245]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hicks, John F.</span>; 24; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted Aug. -10, 1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, -1864. Resides in East Providence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hardy, Samuel</span>; 39; Dighton. Died Aug. 31, 1881.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hall, William H.</span>; 22; Somerset. Residence unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hill, Thomas</span>; 44; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted Dec. -10, 1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Discharged May 10, -1865. Died Nov. 10, 1897.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Handley, Edward</span>; 19; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted in -Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged Nov. -14, 1864. Farmer. Resides in East Providence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Handley, Andrew A.</span>; 18; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -in Third Rhode Island Cavalry, Sept. 15, 1863. Discharged -Nov. 29, 1865. Died Apr. 21, 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kingsley, Amos N.</span>; 18; Swansea. Re-enlisted. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kent, Alva B.</span>; 19; Rehoboth. Died in Providence, -August, 1871.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Luther, William H.</span>; 22; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -as corporal of Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Aug. 10, 1864.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_246"></a>[246]</span> -Discharged Nov. 10, 1864. Re-enlisted as sergeant -of Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, Dec. 10, 1864. Discharged May -12, 1865. Town Clerk of Rehoboth for eighteen -years. Bookkeeper in Pawtucket. Resides at 132 -Grove Ave., East Providence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Luther, Hale S.</span>; 32; Rehoboth. Detached in -Signal Corps, Nov. 14 1862, with Lieutenant Gibbs. -One of the selectmen of Rehoboth. Elected to General -Court, 1875. Died Apr. 22, 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lincoln, Alvin C.</span>; 20; Dighton. In Alaska -when last heard from.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lahne, Peter F.</span>; 23; Somerset. Lived and died -in Somerset.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lampson, John R.</span>; 20; Somerset. Resides in -Maine.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marble, George W.</span>; 24; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marble, Alexander H.</span>; 21; Somerset. Oysterman. -Resides in Somerset.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mosher, Edward F.</span>; 28; Somerset. Believed to -be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Martin, Albert F.</span>; 20; Swansea. Re-enlisted -Dec. 10, 1864. Discharged May 10, 1865. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Moulton, James F.</span>; 22; Rehoboth. Died May 4, -1883.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_247"></a>[247]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maker, William H.</span>; 25; Swansea. On detached -service at Plymouth, N. C. Discharged for -disability Nov. 13, 1863. Resides in Warren, R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Abraham</span>; 31; Rehoboth. Died Dec. 1, -1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Ezra V. B.</span>; 21; Swansea. Farmer. Resides -in Rehoboth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, William C.</span>; 39; Somerset. Discharged -for disability, Mar. 2, 1863. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Padelford, Silas M.</span>; 28; Somerset. Resides in -Dighton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Purington, Samuel C.</span>; 21; Somerset. Re-enlisted -as sergeant in Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Discharged -Nov. 14, 1864. Residence unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Read, James O.</span>; 18; Dighton. Re-enlisted in -Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, Aug. 6, 1864. Discharged June -10, 1865. Superintendent of City Asylum, Pawtucket, -R. I.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reynolds, William</span>; 30; Swansea. Re-enlisted -Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Died -1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Roach, James</span>; 29; Rehoboth. Died in Coventry, -R. I., 1868.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_248"></a>[248]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ryan, William</span>; 37; Somerset. Discharged for -disability, May 27, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shove, Charles H.</span>; 25; Swansea. Believed to -be living; residence unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Slade, Alfred L.</span>; 21; Swansea. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Swift, Daniel E.</span>; 18; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Swift, Peleg</span>; 44; Somerset. Re-enlisted in Eighteenth -Unattached Company, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Re-enlisted -and was killed before Petersburg.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Stephen N.</span>; 26; Dighton. Re-enlisted in -Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia. Discharged Nov. 14, 1864. Died -Oct. 7, 1894.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Leprilet C</span>; 28; Dighton. Died Nov. 25, -1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sullivan, Jeremiah</span>; 18; Somerset. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Simmons, Oliver</span>; 35; Somerset. Re-enlisted -Dec. 10, 1864, in Eighteenth Unattached Company, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Discharged May -12, 1865. Died.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sherman, Ira M.</span>; 35; Somerset. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thurber, Jeremiah</span>; 22; Rehoboth. Farmer. -Resides in Swansea.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, John E.</span>; 19; Swansea. Re-enlisted Aug.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_249"></a>[249]</span> -5, 1864, in Company G, Second Regiment, Massachusetts -Heavy Artillery. Discharged Sept. 3, 1865. -Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, George A.</span>; 32; Rehoboth. Dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talbot, Charles H.</span>; 20; Dighton. Farmer. Resides -in Somerset.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Vial, George H.</span>; 24; Rehoboth. Died in Barrington, -R. I., 1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Walker, Nathan O.</span>; 23; Dighton. Farmer. Resides -in Dighton.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Walker, George A.</span>; 32; Dighton. Died in Dighton, -July, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wink, Adam</span>; 24; Dighton. Detailed in Pioneer -Corps. Re-enlisted Dec. 10, 1864. Discharged May -12, 1865. Residence unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Welch, John W.</span>; 37; Somerset. Residence unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Westcott, Henry N.</span>; 29; Dighton. Detailed as -corporal of carpenters, Oct. 30, 1862. Re-enlisted -in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, and promoted to second lieutenant. -Died Sept. 13, 1888.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Williams, Henry A.</span>; 30; Dighton. Re-enlisted -in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia, Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_250"></a>[250]</span> -sergeant Nov. 14, 1864. Selectman in Dighton for -many years. Died July 3, 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Williams, Caleb</span>; 41; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted -Jan. 21, 1864, in Company B, Third Rhode Island -Heavy Artillery. Died May, 1903.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Williams, Edmund</span>; 25; Rochester. Believed to -be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Welden, Silas H.</span>; 23; Swansea. On detached -service at Plymouth, N. C. Discharged for disability -Nov. 2, 1863. Re-enlisted in Company D, Sixtieth -Massachusetts. Farmer. Resides in Dighton.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_251"></a>[251]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_XII">CHAPTER XII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company I, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by Lieut. Jabez M. Lyle.</span>]</p> - - -<p>The signal service rendered by Company I, and -the casualties suffered by it, make it quite proper -to give a somewhat detailed history of its formation -and of the general character of the men composing -it. The following account is taken from an -interesting paper written by Lieutenant J. M. Lyle, -and is given in almost his own words:</p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>“In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln, notwithstanding -the prophesies of the wise men by -whom he was surrounded,—that the rebellion would -be crushed in a very short time,—found that the -Civil War had lasted more than a year, and that it -was necessary to use more extreme measures if the -war was to be closed in favor of the North, so he -called for three hundred thousand men; but still -having in mind the idea that the war must soon be -brought to a close, he offered to take a large part of -this vast number as volunteers for nine months.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_252"></a>[252]</span></p> - -<p>“The Third Regiment of Militia which had already -served one term at the front and been honorably -discharged again volunteered, and Col. Silas -P. Richmond was authorized to recruit the regiment -to the full standard to serve nine months.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i298" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i298.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt. BARNABAS EWER, JR.</span></div> -</div> - -<p>“Capt. Barnabas Ewer, Jr., obtained authority -to recruit a company from Fairhaven and adjoining -towns, to be known as Company I, Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. I think it -was in the month of August when Captain Ewer -opened an office in Centre Street, under the old -Town Hall, and invited volunteers to come forward -and sign their names on the company roll. After -a time of more or less discouragement a company of -one hundred and one officers and men was raised, -of which number forty-two were from Fairhaven, -twenty from Mattapoisett, fourteen from Rochester, -twelve from Lakeville, five from Marion, two from -Falmouth, two from New Bedford, and one each -from Acushnet, Wareham, and Litchfield, Me.</p> - -<p>“The company officers were at first, Barnabas -Ewer, Jr., captain; Solomon K. Eaton, first lieutenant; -and Jabez M. Lyle, second lieutenant. Feb. -23, 1863, Lieutenant Eaton resigned on account of -ill-health, and, on April 8, 1863, Lieutenant Lyle<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_253"></a>[253]</span> -was commissioned first lieutenant, and Joshua H. -Wilkey was commissioned second lieutenant.</p> - -<p>“This company was composed of men from many -different walks in life, farmers, mechanics, business -men, clerks, students in college, and teachers. -Their ages as given ranged from eighteen to forty-five -years. Too many troublesome questions along -this line were not asked. With one exception they -were American born; this one exception, poor fellow, -was the first one killed. No one was discharged -before the expiration of the term of service, -and no one was punished for misbehavior. Since -their muster out, the men, so far as I have been able -to learn, have proved themselves of no mean order, -filling their different stations with honor from humble -citizens of toil to judge upon the bench of the -Supreme Court.</p> - -<p>“Sept. 22, 1862, the company reported at Camp -Joe Hooker, in Lakeville, where it remained until -October 22d, when the regiment broke camp and -proceeded to Boston with orders to report to Major-General -Foster, at Newbern, North Carolina.</p> - -<p>“November 30th we were detached from the regiment, -and, with about thirty men from the different -companies who were found unable to do full duty,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_254"></a>[254]</span> -we started at night on board steamer <i>Northern -Light</i>, for Plymouth, N. C. We reached there December -1st, relieving a large body of infantry, artillery, -and cavalry, who returned to Newbern. Here -our numbers were increased by a small company of -infantry and thirty cavalry recruited from the natives -in that vicinity, and known by us under the -title of “Buffaloes.” Lying in the waters, of the Roanoke, -there were rarely less than three or four, -sometimes many more gunboats. Commander Flusser, -of a first-class reputation as a fighting man, was -in command of the naval force. We found our -duty to be patrol, guard, and picket. The arrangement -between the land and naval forces was that -the land force was to give immediate alarm to the -naval force of the approach of the enemy, and then -at once retire to the Custom House on the bank of -the river, when the gunboats would shell the woods, -and, if need be, the town; and in this manner keep -the rebels from entering the place.</p> - -<p>“On the 10th of December at 5.30 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, a most -beautiful moonlight morning, an alarm was sounded -by the picket, and soon we heard the patrol calling, -‘The rebels are coming.’ Lieutenant Eaton was off -duty sick; so Captain Ewer ordered me to go to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_255"></a>[255]</span> -company headquarters and get the men in line, -while he visited the other companies and notified -the gunboat. I was quickly at the quarters of the -company and found the men already in line in -charge of Sergeant Wilkey. We waited in this position, -hearing nothing more of the rebels. Presently -Captain Ewer came to the company and asked -if anything new had occurred; I told him everything -was as quiet as death. At this point it is well to -state that the evening before all the gunboats save -one, which had just arrived and was a very large -one with a full complement of men and a very heavy -armament, had gone down the river to coal. In a -few minutes Captain Ewer ordered me to take an -escort and visit a picket about half a mile from -where we were, and on a road parallel to the one -where the alarm had been given, and see if anything -could be heard of the cause of the alarm. Calling -for volunteers, Corporal Mendell, Albert Wilcox, -and Elisha Dexter came forward. We visited the -picket named, and could learn only that a sound of -moving wagons had been heard some time previous, -but as nothing further had been heard the noise -must have been made by wagons going up the country -outside of our lines. As we started to return<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_256"></a>[256]</span> -to the company, we heard the rebels coming down -the road at the foot of which Company I was posted. -This force of the enemy was composed of the Sixteenth -Regiment of North Carolina Infantry with -two pieces of artillery, and one hundred and five -cavalrymen under Colonel Lamb. The cavalry -charged on Company I, yelling like demons. As -they were about to strike the company, Sergeant -Wilkey ordered the men to make a half wheel to the -right and fire. This was done and they retired to -the Custom House. Before the company had time -to start, the cavalry had run across the line, taken -fourteen prisoners, and wounded a number of others. -On reaching the Custom House the balance of the -garrison were found already there. Up to this time -the gunboat had done nothing. The enemy located -one piece of artillery on the bank of the river and -opened fire on her. The first shot went through her -smokestack and the second into her steam chest; -when the cry came that her boiler had burst, upon -which her captain ordered her cable slipped, and she -was soon drifting down the river, meanwhile firing -into the town as she slowly drifted away. On reaching -the Custom House our men at once occupied the -windows, and when the cavalry attempted to pass<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_257"></a>[257]</span> -a little later, they found it too hot for them and retired. -The rebel infantry on entering the village, -picketed each cross street to prevent anyone escaping, -and also set fire to the houses. A piece of artillery -located on a rise of ground where it had the -range of the Custom House, sent nine shots into the -upper corner, one which fatally wounded young -Francis Stoddard. At this time the rebels suddenly -retreated. In this action the company lost two men -killed, Sullivan and Stoddard, several wounded, -fourteen taken prisoners; a number of citizens were -drowned or killed.</p> - -<p>“After this we had a quiet time, engaged in picket -and guard duty, but somewhat apprehensive of a -visit from a ram, christened by the boys “Roanoke -Sheep,” that we knew was only a few miles up the -river waiting for a chance to visit us. This ram -did come down later, clearing all before it until Lieutenant -Cushing succeeded in blowing it up.</p> - -<p>“We had a large number of contrabands, horses -and mules to look after, and as Captain Ewer did -not feel authorized to feed them with government rations -we did considerable foraging outside the lines. -Three foraging expeditions fell to my lot to conduct. -One of these occasions is worth relating. We<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_258"></a>[258]</span> -started early in the morning with a number of wagons -and volunteers from Company I to go several -miles outside of our lines to a barn where there was -a large lot of corn that we wanted. After we had -proceeded some distance beyond the picket line we -saw a man coming on the run waving his hands and -acting very much excited. We halted until he -reached us and gave us the information that the rebels -were at the barn where we were going, and were -loading up the corn to carry up the country, and -that the best thing for us to do was to go back to -camp. After carefully considering the matter, we -concluded to go on and see what we could discover. -On reaching the vicinity of the barn we dismounted -and so arranged the men as to surround the premises, -and if possible capture all hands. Our attempt -proved a grand success. We took some thirteen -wagons of all descriptions, with all hands connected -with them. After finishing the loading of the captured -wagons and our own, we started on our return. -While still outside our picket line, we saw a -body of horsemen coming on the gallop toward us. -We halted, and formed our wagons and men in the -best shape we could to care for ourselves. They -proved, however, to be a body of our own cavalry<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_259"></a>[259]</span> -who were coming to look for us. The contraband -whom we had met earlier in the day had worked his -way into the town and told his story to Captain -Ewer, and he had become anxious about us. We -soon formed line again and took up our camp campwards. -After entering within the lines we met the -infantry coming out to see where we were: these so -increased our numbers that when we reached Plymouth -we had a large column of cavalry, infantry, -rebels, with our train of wagons, and as we passed -headquarters received a royal welcome from the men -from the gunboats and citizens who were gathered -on the street.</p> - -<p>“One other expedition we will mention, caused by -our guide, a man named Giles, having been shot -while he and Corporal Mendell were entering the -gate leading to the guide’s house. Giles was a native -and his home was outside our lines. Corporal -Mendell reported the incident to Captain Ewer, and -it was not known for a certainty whether or not the -guide was dead. I was ordered to take a boat and -crew from Company I, in which were a number of -sailors, and visit the home of the guide to render -him any needed aid and bring him to town if possible. -We started early in the morning, were all day<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_260"></a>[260]</span> -until ten o’clock at night. On reaching the house -we found the guide dead, and that there was nothing -we could do.</p> - -<p>“In these ways we spent our time until one day in -March we saw a steamer coming up the river carrying -a general’s flag at the fore. When the boat was -made fast Company I was ordered to get ready to go -somewhere, we did not know where. It seems, however, -that General Palmer wanted to visit some of -the outposts. One of these was Edenton, and the -men were allowed here to go ashore. On returning -to the steamer, some of the citizens reported to the -general that some silver was missing. The company -was ordered to fall in line on the wharf; knapsacks -were unslung and carefully inspected, but no -silver was found. On swinging off, the steamer -headed for Elizabeth City. Here the company disembarked -and spent about two months in garrison -duties, similar to those performed at Plymouth. The -major of the Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia -had command of the post. Foraging became a -part of our duty. One expedition in this line is -worthy of mention, showing how the innocent may -suffer imposition. We started one day under command -of an officer of some North Carolina troops.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_261"></a>[261]</span> -The expedition was made up of a detail from the -Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, -and Company I. We were absent two days and a -night, and the object was to procure rations as our -commissary was getting short. We were successful -in finding corn, bacon, and some very nice hams. -These last were found by Company I. As we were -about to go ashore on our return, we noticed that -the men of the Eighth Regiment had on their overcoats, -but in our innocence thought it not strange, -presuming they thought that the better way of carrying -them. The next day when we applied to the -commissary for a share of the hams, he informed us -that none were turned in. It seems that the men -with overcoats had carried them away under their -capes.</p> - -<p>“We formed a part of an expedition sent one day -to break up a camp of guerillas, located some distance -up the Dismal Swamp canal. We used a little -noisy steamer which gave a decided notice of our -coming, and, as might be expected, the guerillas took -the hint and left. All we could do was to burn the -camp, which we did, and then returned in safety.</p> - -<p>“After about five months of garrison duty in Plymouth -and Elizabeth City, Company I was ordered<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_262"></a>[262]</span> -to report at Newbern, when its services became again -a part of the regimental history.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company I, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia.</span></h3> - -<div class="blockquotx fs80"> - -<p class="center">[<span class="smcap">Written by Corporal James F. Tripp and Comrade Henry P. -Crowell.</span>]</p> - -<p>[The first figures indicate age at enlistment: the city or town, the place -of enlistment.]</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barnabas Ewer, Jr.</span>, Captain; 50; Fairhaven. -For years before the war he was in the outfitting -business. He raised Company I, and was its captain -during its nine months’ campaign in North -Carolina. He assisted in raising the Fifty-eighth -Regiment and was commissioned major of the same. -He went with the regiment to the front and was -killed in action at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Solomon R. Eaton</span>, First Lieutenant; 55; Mattapoisett. -For many years he was engaged in the architectural -business, where he gained success and -renown. He resigned his office as first lieutenant -February 23d, on account of failing health, and died -at Mattapoisett, Oct. 9, 1872.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jabez M. Lyle</span>, Second Lieutenant; 30; Fairhaven. -He was promoted to first lieutenant, Apr. 3, 1863,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_263"></a>[263]</span> -and afterwards to captain in the Twenty-third Unattached -Company, One Hundred Days’ Men. After -muster out he taught school in Fairhaven. He was -for quite awhile in the oil business; then engaged in -the real estate and insurance business, which he still -continues in New York City successfully. His address -is 1550 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Of -Company I he says, “The men of this company were -quite the equal of any company in the Old Third. -Many of them were college graduates, and others -were pursuing their studies in college, which for -the time they ceased to take up again after they were -mustered out of service. Since the war many of -these men became doctors, lawyers, one a judge in -the courts of Massachusetts, one the honored principal -of the Friends Academy in New Bedford; many -have made their mark in business; and not one has -ever disgraced himself by misbehavior. A large -number re-enlisted and went to the front. All the -officers save Lieutenant Eaton went the second time, -and some the third time into the service.”</p> - -<p>As captain, Lieutenant Lyle recruited Company I -to its fullest strength. During his service he was -acting adjutant for one month in camp at Lakeville, -acting quartermaster, commissary, ordnance officer<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_264"></a>[264]</span> -at Plymouth, N. C., and lastly he commanded two -companies at Readville, Mass., at the time of the -second election of President Lincoln.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Joshua M. Wilkey</span>, Second Lieutenant; 26; Fairhaven. -He was promoted from first sergeant to second -lieutenant, Apr. 3, 1863. He was promoted first -lieutenant in the Twenty-third Unattached Company; -also promoted captain in a company raised -for one year. He died in Fairhaven, Nov. 12, 1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jirah Kinney, Jr.</span>; First Sergeant; 26; Mattapoisett. -He was in the First Rhode Island Detached -Militia and took part in the battle of Bull Run. After -the war he returned to Mattapoisett, where he -lived until he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., his present -residence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lawrence R. Rankin</span>, Sergeant; 23; Rochester. -Believed to have been killed in the battle of Cold -Harbor, June 3, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas H. Bowen</span>, Sergeant; 21; Fairhaven. -Died in Fairhaven, Apr. 30, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nelson I. Sweet</span>, Sergeant; 21; Fairhaven. After -muster out he worked for the Standard Oil Company -until pensioned and retired by the same. He -resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elisha Copeland</span>, Sergeant; 26; Fairhaven. Died -in Fairhaven, Apr. 3, 1886.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_265"></a>[265]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George, F. Rogers</span>, Sergeant; 21; Fairhaven. Died -in Newbern, N. C., June 2, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sylvanus D. Waterman</span>, Corporal; 21; Litchfield, -Me. Died in Kentucky several years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Horace P. Tripp</span>, Corporal; 24; Fairhaven. Died -in Fairhaven, Apr. 29, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jessie A. Warner</span>, Corporal; 44; Fairhaven. Died -in Fairhaven, June 13, 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nathan H. Mendall</span>, Corporal; 30; Marion. Believed -to be living in Rochester, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benjamin H. Strowbridge</span>, Corporal; 40; Lakeville. -Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James N. Cox</span>, Corporal; 18; Fairhaven. Re-enlisted -in Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia -as sergeant. Wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness. -Resides in Calmut, Mich.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benjamin F. Robinson</span>, Corporal; 20; Mattapoisett. -Employed at State Farm, Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James F. Tripp</span>, Corporal; 28; Fairhaven. <ins class="corr" id="tn-265" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Promnent in town'"> -Prominent in town</ins> affairs. Real estate agent. One of the -officials at Dry Dock, Fairhaven. Resides on Walnut -Street, Fairhaven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benjamin Burt</span>, Musician; 18; Fairhaven. Resides -in New Brunswick, N. J.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_266"></a>[266]</span></p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates.</em></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, William F.</span>; 21; Fairhaven. Engaged in -the life insurance business in New York. Resides in -Omaha Menger, N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Allen, Charles A.</span>; 19; Marion. Resides in -Marion.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Baker, Benjamin T.</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Resides in -Whitinsville, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barrows, Alpheus</span>; 21; Mattapoisett. Resides in -Mattapoisett. Re-enlisted in Second Heavy Artillery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benton, Charles H.</span>; 18; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bowen, Martin</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Died in Franklin, -Pa., Aug. 25, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Braley, Charles G.</span>; 22; Fairhaven. Living in -Fairhaven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, George P.</span>; 20; Fairhaven. Resides in -Cottage City.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Butts, Joseph A.</span>; 20; Mattapoisett. Resides in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Benton, William H.</span>; 41; Lakeville. Supposed -to be dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Braley, George B.</span>; 23; Fairhaven. Died in -Marion, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Blankenship, James W.</span>; 19; Marion. Nothing -known of his history since muster out.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_267"></a>[267]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bishop, Israel S.</span>; 43; Rochester. According to -best information he died several years ago.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bourne, Sylvanus, Jr.</span>; 22; Falmouth. Believed -to be living in Falmouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bourne, Thomas B.</span>; 19; Rochester. So far as -known he still lives in Rochester.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bishop, Micah S.</span>; 27; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crowell, Thomas C.</span>; 27; Fairhaven. Died in -Fairhaven, March 26, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crowell, Henry P.</span>; 21; Fairhaven. An honored -and respected citizen of Fairhaven, where he still resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carson, Reuben</span>; 22; Fairhaven. Died in Hyde -Park, in 1904. Buried in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cole, Charles G.</span>; 38; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crapo, Henry E.</span>; 23; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cole, Theodore W.</span>; 24; Rochester. Resides in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cole, Albert L.</span>; 44; Lakeville. Believed to be -dead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cole, Nelson F.</span>; 43; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carver, Gilbert</span>; 24; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crapo, Francis N.</span>; 21; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caswell, William F.</span>; Fairhaven. Resides in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crosby, Edward F.</span>; 18; Mattapoisett. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_268"></a>[268]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Damon, Edward F.</span>; 21; Fairhaven. Died in Fairhaven, -March 23, 1866.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davis, Alden</span>; 32; Fairhaven. Died in Fairhaven, -Sept. 13, 1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dean, William</span>; 36; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, Albert M.</span>; 25; Mattapoisett. Died July -25, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, Elisha L.</span>; 28; Mattapoisett. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dexter, James W.</span>; 44; Mattapoisett. Died in -1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dodge, Gilbert A.</span>; 26; Marion. Resides in Orleans, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dillingham, Edward H.</span>; 37; Fairhaven. Re-enlisted -in Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers. -Died in Petersburg, Va., March 8, 1865, and -was buried in Virginia.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dunham, George</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ellis, Daniel S.</span>; 21; Mattapoisett. Died in Mattapoisett, -Mar. 21, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ellis, William T.</span>; 20; Rochester. Died soon after -muster out.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ellis, John</span>; 42; Acushnet. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Freeborn, John P.</span>; 22; Fairhaven. Resides in -Newport.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gillett, Albert D.</span>; 21; Fairhaven. Lives in Soldiers -Home, Chelsea.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_269"></a>[269]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gillett, Charles W.</span>; 24; Fairhaven. Resides in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, Charles H.</span>; 23; Fairhaven. Died in -Fairhaven, Jan. 20, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gifford, William C.</span>; 18; Mattapoisett. Re-enlisted -in Third Heavy Artillery. Resides in Fairhaven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hitch, Frederick H.</span>; 22; Fairhaven. Resides in -New York.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, Heman G.</span>; 25; Mattapoisett. Master’s -Mate at close of the war. Member of school committee -in Mattapoisett, where he still resides.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hiller, Eben R.</span>; 31; Mattapoisett. Died in Mattapoisett, -May 1, 1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hammond, John W.</span>; 24; Mattapoisett. One of -the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. -Resides in Cambridge, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hammond, Rowland</span>; 20; Mattapoisett. Died in -Campello, July 8, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ingraham, William H.</span>; 35; Wareham. Died in -Wareham.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ingraham, Andrew</span>; 20; New Bedford. Resides -in Cambridge, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, William</span>; 22; Falmouth. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Luce, Leander</span>; 24; New Bedford. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lobie, Franklin A.</span>; 44; Mattapoisett. Died in -Newbern, N. C., Jan. 19, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_270"></a>[270]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marvell, Samuel M.</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Re-enlisted -in Fifty-eighth Regiment. Promoted sergeant. -Taken prisoner and died in Salisbury Prison, N. C., -Dec. 29, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nye, John L.</span>; 27; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Potter, William H.</span>; 30; Marion. Resides in -Marion.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pierce, Lucius</span>; 30; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paull, Roger</span>; 23; Lakeville. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paris, Caleb</span>; 27; Lakeville. Died in Myricksville, -Feb. 19, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Purrington, William B.</span>; 19; Fairhaven. Died -in Fairhaven, Apr. 1, 1865.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Purrington, John A.</span>; 44; Mattapoisett. Died in -New Bedford, Dec. 14, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ryder, Madison N.</span>; 18; Rochester. Unknown.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Randall, Fayette E.</span>; 18; Mattapoisett. Resides -in Mattapoisett.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Randall, George W.</span>; 26; Mattapoisett. Resides -in New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sampson, Zabdiel S.</span>; 20; Fairhaven. Died in -New York, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smith, Roland</span>; 24; Fairhaven. Resides in Rock -Station, Middleboro, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sears, Stephen C.</span>; 23; Rochester. Resides in -Somerville, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_271"></a>[271]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sullivan, Michael</span>; 26; Lakeville. Killed in action -at Plymouth, N. C., Dec. 10, 1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stoddard, Francis M.</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Died in -Plymouth, N. C., December 16th, from wounds received -in action Dec. 10, 1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tinkham, Charles H.</span>; 20; Mattapoisett. Died -in Newbern, Nov. 30, 1862.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Taber, Loring P.</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Died of wounds -in Washington, D. C., June 23, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Toby, John A.</span>; 23; Falmouth. Town Clerk of -Falmouth.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tripp, Handel J.</span>; 43; Rochester. Died in Foxboro, -1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilber, Isaiah T.</span>; 27; Rochester. Died in Mansfield, -Mass., Feb. 9, 1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Westgate, Stephen</span>; 18; Fairhaven. Resides in -New Bedford.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wrightinton, Thomas W.</span>; 25; Fairhaven. Resides -in Fairhaven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Westgate, Andrew</span>; 33; Fairhaven. Died in Fairhaven, -Feb. 16, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilcox, Albert M.</span>; 30; Fairhaven. Resides in -Fairhaven.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wood, Lemuel C., Jr.</span>; 33; Fairhaven. Died in -New Bedford in 1897.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Winslow, Leander</span>; 27; Lakeville. Died in 1904.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_272"></a>[272]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_XIII">CHAPTER XIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">Company K, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer -Militia.</p></div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="pfs80">[<span class="smcap">Written by Corporal Henry Manley, Member of the Company.</span>]</p></div> - - -<p>Company K was a new company recruited for the -purpose of filling the quota of the towns of East -Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, and Bridgewater. -It was not connected with the Third Regiment of -Massachusetts Militia either before or after its term -of service.</p> - -<p>In the call for 300,000 three years’ men early in -the summer of 1862, the combined quota of the -above-named towns was 102, and taking it for -granted that about the same number would be required -under the call of August 4th, for 300,000 men -for nine months, concerted action was taken in town -meetings in each of those towns.</p> - -<p>A very enthusiastic war meeting was held on the -evening of Aug. 18, 1862, in the town hall in East -Bridgewater, at which Joseph Chamberlain was -president and Sergt. Morton D. Mitchell was secretary. -It was voted that it is expedient that East<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_273"></a>[273]</span> -Bridgewater, together with Bridgewater and West -Bridgewater, should endeavor to raise by voluntary -enlistment a company to enter into the United -States service for nine months.</p> - -<p><em>Voted</em>, That Messrs. James Mitchell, Benjamin -W. Harris and George Bryant be a committee to -wait upon the governor and request him to appoint -some person or persons, to engage in the enlistment -of such volunteers.</p> - -<p><em>Voted</em>, That Messrs. Richard M. Smith and William -Allen be a committee to consult with the citizens -of Bridgewater and West Bridgewater in relation -to a meeting of the three towns for the purpose -of forming a military company.</p> - -<p>It is probable that similar meetings were held in -each of the other towns, but no record of them has -been found.</p> - -<p>In West Bridgewater a town meeting was held on -Aug. 22, 1862. It was voted that a bounty of -$150 be paid to volunteers for nine months’ service, -and it was recommended that the volunteers unite -with Bridgewater and East Bridgewater to form a -company. It was also recommended that the whole -town attend a meeting to be held at Agricultural -Hall in Bridgewater on the following Wednesday<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_274"></a>[274]</span> -(August 26th) for the purpose of forwarding the -formation of a military company. A committee -had been chosen at a previous meeting to take -charge of recruiting, consisting of the Selectmen -(James Howard, Albert Copeland and George T. -Ryder), together with one man from each school -district, as follows: William O. Alger, J. Q. Hartwell, -Nahum Snell, Samuel N. Howard, Charles E. -Howard, Galen K. Richards, Thomas Ames, Leavitt -T. Howard.</p> - -<p>In East Bridgewater at a town meeting held on -Aug. 23, 1862, it was voted to pay a bounty of $100 -to volunteers for nine months’ service, and a committee -of three was chosen to procure enlistments. -The committee consisted of Samuel Bates, John B. -Fisher, and George Bryant. The meeting also recommended -to such of its inhabitants as may enlist -for nine months’ service that they unite with the -volunteers from the towns of Bridgewater and West -Bridgewater in forming a company.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i321" style="max-width: 50em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i321.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Capt.</span> SAMUEL BATES.</div> -</div> - -<p>A town meeting was held in Bridgewater on Aug. -26, 1862, to raise volunteers under the call for men -to serve nine months. It was voted that a committee -of seven be chosen by the town to take in charge -the business of raising the number of volunteers<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_275"></a>[275]</span> -necessary, also to pay a bounty of $150 to each volunteer -who shall enlist to the credit of the town for -nine months’ service. The committee chosen at this -meeting were F. B. King, Edward W. Bassett, Nathan -Fobes, Almansor Osborne, Lewis Holmes, and -Holden W. Keith.</p> - -<p>Shortly after this time a number of men from -North Bridgewater and Easton who had arranged -to join the Fourth Regiment, learning that this company -was nearly full, and that the regiment was -nearly ready to leave for the seat of war, joined the -company, completely filling its ranks.</p> - -<p>The mass meeting alluded to in the town meeting -in West Bridgewater was held in Agricultural Hall, -Bridgewater, on the evening of August 26th. The -presiding officer was B. W. Harris, Esq., of East -Bridgewater. The vice-presidents were Hon. Artemas -Hale, Col. Samuel Leonard, Hon. J. H. Mitchell, -Samuel G. Alden, James Howard, and Capt. -Joseph Kingman. The meeting is represented as of -an enthusiastic character, but no account of the addresses -has been discovered.</p> - -<p>The company thus recruited was assigned to the -Third Massachusetts Infantry and named “Company -K.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_276"></a>[276]</span></p> - -<p>It went into Camp in Lakeville, Mass., on Sept. -16, 1862, and was the second company of the regiment -to arrive at the camp. It was given a patriotic -and affectionate send-off by the people of the -Bridgewaters, and was escorted to the train and -from the train at Haskins Station to Camp Joe -Hooker by the Bridgewater Cornet Band.</p> - -<p>The barracks at Camp Joe Hooker were new. The -main buildings, twenty in number, were each about -70 × 25 feet on the floor and nine feet high in the -walls. They were built of matched boards, planed -on the inside, with good tight floors, and shingled -roofs. The bunks were built double “like two sinks, -one above the other,” and each accommodated four -men, two in the upper and two in the lower berth. -Each barrack held one hundred men, or a company. -They were well ventilated and comfortable. The -barracks, cook-houses, officers’ quarters, stables, etc., -fifty buildings in all, were built in one week.</p> - -<p>The company consisted of one hundred and one -men, exactly the legal maximum for an infantry -company. The towns furnishing the men were as -follows: Bridgewater, thirty-four; East Bridgewater, -twenty-four; West Bridgewater, twenty-five; -North Bridgewater, eleven; Easton, four; Middle<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_277"></a>[277]</span>boro, -one; Boston, one; Gloucester, one; total, one -hundred and one. It will be seen from the above -that the members of the company were from contiguous -territory with only two exceptions; First -Sergt. Winter was imported from Gloucester as a -trained and drilled man and was almost the only -man in the company with military experience even -in the militia, and he had never been in the United -States service. With him came his friend “Natty” -Ackerman who hailed from Boston. The remainder -of the company was recruited amongst friends and -neighbors. Nearly all were of American parentage, -and most of them were men of standing in the community -both before and since the war. They were -“men of their hands,” too, and there are few things -that could not be built, or machines that could not -be run by members of the company.</p> - -<p>The occupations of the recruits were given as follows: -Boot and shoe workers in some form, forty-six; -farmers, seventeen; moulders, seven; machinists, -four; laborers, four; carpenters, three; salesmen, -three; students, three; bookbinders, two; druggist, -one; “railroader,” one; civil engineer, one; surveyor, -one; butcher, one; nailer, one; wheelwright, -one; painters, two; box maker, one; stone cutter, -one; teacher, one.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_278"></a>[278]</span></p> - -<p>The officers were as ignorant of military usages -as the men, and, as may be supposed, the discipline -at first was not of the most rigid character. But -the members of the company as a rule were disposed -to do the right thing, and perhaps enjoyed themselves -better and did just as good service as they -would have done under more severe officers. The -men of the company owe a debt of gratitude to their -officers who were all kind-hearted men and devoted -to the welfare of the company, and whose mildly -used authority was much better adapted to a company -of intelligent men of pronounced Yankee blood -than would have been that of military martinets.</p> - -<p>Fifty-two members of the company were married -and forty-nine were single.</p> - -<p>The average age was between twenty-eight and -twenty-nine years. Twenty were twenty years old -and under, twenty-four were between twenty and -twenty-five, nineteen were between twenty-five and -thirty, twenty-two were between thirty and forty, -and sixteen were more than forty.</p> - -<p>Company K was the color company throughout its -service, and its position was therefore on the right -centre when the regiment was in line of battle.</p> - -<p>The record of the company in the service is not a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_279"></a>[279]</span> -bloody one. No one was killed, wounded, taken -prisoner, or missing, and no one deserted. Two -men died from disease in the service and six men -were discharged for disability before the regiment -was mustered out. The story of the regiment as a -whole will be given elsewhere, and that part of the -company’s history which also means the regimental -history, has been omitted in this account. Company -K followed the fortunes of the regiment closely. -The only time that it was on detached duty, except -for picket, or service of that nature, was early in its -service after it arrived in Newbern and before the -arms had been distributed, when it was ordered to -some mythical point to build a bridge. After groping -around outside the picket line, entirely unarmed, -for two days, the company returned, having -found the bridge nearly completed.</p> - -<p>The members of the company had an exceptional -opportunity to see the details of warfare. At the -Battle of Kinston the company with the regiment -was in reserve, and, while under fire, was unharmed. -After the action they had an opportunity, from the -view point of the victors, to examine a well-fought -field with many killed, wounded and prisoners, and -also to explore the captured town of Kinston.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_280"></a>[280]</span></p> - -<p>At Whitehall the company was again under fire, -and, as was reported, the inferior character of its -arms saved it from a more intimate acquaintance -with the enemy.</p> - -<p>At Goldsboro the company had an opportunity of -seeing a charge repelled under sensational circumstances -and with severe loss to the enemy, a sight -which many soldiers of longer service have never -seen. The circumstances of this charge have been -traditional in the company and the results have -been much exaggerated, the enemy’s loss being set -all the way from five hundred to fifteen hundred. -The unadorned facts are that after the burning of -the bridge and during the withdrawal of the Union -forces, by a blunder of the enemy a charge was -made by two regiments of General Clingman’s brigade -against a much superior force, and it was the -fortune of Company K as a part of the regiment, to -act as guard to Belger’s Rhode Island battery, -which with another light battery had a fair chance -to destroy the attacking force as it charged up a -long slope. The Third Regiment lay on the ground -in front of the battery (which was firing over the -regiment), and Company K had an unobstructed -view of the premises, and nothing to do but look on.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_281"></a>[281]</span> -The writer in a letter written at the time estimated -that the nearest rebel came within fifty rods of the -regiment. The attacking force consisted of the Fifty-second -North Carolina Regiment, Colonel Marshall, -and the Fifty-first North Carolina, Colonel -Allen. These regiments, with two others which did -not participate in the charge, made the brigade commanded -by Gen. Thomas E. Clingman. His report, -printed in the “Official Records of the Union and -Confederate Armies,” First Series, Vol. XVIII, -page 117, gives the losses as follows:</p> - -<table class="autotable fs80" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdc">Killed</td> -<td class="tdc">Wounded</td> -<td class="tdc">Missing</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl" colspan="2">Marshall’s Regiment</td> -<td class="tdrx">11</td> -<td class="tdrx">58</td> -<td class="tdrx">10</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Allen’s</td> -<td class="tdl pad2">“</td> -<td class="tdrx">6</td> -<td class="tdrx">43</td> -<td class="tdrx">8</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdrx">——</td> -<td class="tdrx">——</td> -<td class="tdrx">——</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad4" colspan="2">Total,</td> -<td class="tdrx">17</td> -<td class="tdrx">101</td> -<td class="tdrx">18</td> -<td class="tdl">making</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p class="noindent">a total loss of 136. The writer has not succeeded -in learning the total strength of the two regiments -at the time of the charge.</p> - -<p>The company’s most potent enemies during its -service were the severe marches to which it was subjected -and the malarious climate. The effects of -both of these are still felt by many of the survivors.</p> - -<p>On the return of the regiment a public reception -was given to Company K on Saturday, June 20th, -at the Agricultural Hall by citizens of Bridgewater,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_282"></a>[282]</span> -East and West Bridgewater. The company met at -the town hall, Bridgewater, and was escorted to the -Fair grounds by the Bridgewater Cornet Band under -the marshalship of Dr. Asa Millett, where twelve -or fifteen hundred people had assembled to receive -it. For the gratification of their friends the soldiers -spent about half an hour in drilling. At about -half past two o’clock, after stacking arms the company -was drawn up in front of the judges’ stand on -the track to listen to the speech of welcome. The -president of the day, James Howard, Esq., of West -Bridgewater, after stating the object of the meeting, -introduced Hon. B. W. Harris, of East Bridgewater, -who, in an appropriate speech in behalf of the citizens, -welcomed the soldiers on their return home. -A procession was then formed which marched to the -hall to partake of a collation which had been prepared -by the ladies of the several towns. After the -repast the company adjourned to the upper hall to -listen to the speeches. This hall as well as the -lower was tastefully decorated with flags and pendants. -The soldiers occupied seats directly in front -of the speakers and were here presented each with -a bouquet of flowers by the school children, the presentation -speech having been made by one of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_283"></a>[283]</span> -young ladies. Speeches were made by Hon. John A. -Shaw, Hon. Benjamin W. Harris, and others. -Later in the afternoon, Major Morrissey entered the -hall, and, taking his seat on the platform, was received -with great applause, Company K giving him -three hearty cheers. He was then introduced and -addressed the soldiers. The entertainment was -closed by singing “America” by the whole audience -under the direction of Mr. Wilde.</p> - -<p>After the arrival home of the company and before -it was mustered out came the death of one of its -members, Mr. James Henry Packard, of North -Bridgewater (now Brockton). He was buried in -the Marshall’s Corner Cemetery with military honors -from his comrades.</p> - -<p>Twenty members of the company entered the military -service after being mustered out of Company -K. Ten of this number joined Company D, Fifty-eighth -Massachusetts Infantry, three of them forming -the commissioned officers of the company. Of -these ten, one was killed in action, five were -wounded, seven were taken prisoners, of whom two -died in rebel prisons. All but one of the ten is included -in one or more of the above categories, and -whether the tenth man was taken prisoner or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_284"></a>[284]</span> -wounded the writer has not been able to learn. The -remaining ten enlisted in various organizations, but -none of them lost their lives in the service.</p> - -<p>In June, 1906, thirty-six members of Company -K were known to be living. One has not been heard -from by his relatives for about twenty years, and -the remaining sixty-four are known to be dead. The -commissioned officers are all dead. Of the non-commissioned -officers, two corporals survive. Fourteen -of the surviving men of the company are past labor -by reason of age or infirmities, or both. Twenty -are “still in the ring” pursuing their usual avocations; -one has retired, and one is in the Soldiers -Home, in Togus, Maine.</p> - -<p>The company was mustered into the United -States service on Sept. 23, 1862, and was mustered -out on June 26, 1863. The members of Company K -were mustered on the above dates unless otherwise -noted.</p> - - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Corrected Roster of Company K.</span></h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel Bates</span>, Captain; born in East Bridgewater, -June 3, 1828. Boot-cutter; married; commissioned -Sept. 3, 1862; died in Whitman, Mass., -Sept. 26, 1879. After the war, Capt. Bates passed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_285"></a>[285]</span> -several years in the employ of the interior department -in Washington, ending in September, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nathan Fobes</span>, First Lieutenant; salesman; -twenty-two; single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. -Commissioned Sept. 3, 1862; died in East Orange, -N. J., Oct. 14, 1899. Lieutenant Fobes was a traveling -salesman for Boston and New York merchants.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charles E. Churchill</span>, Second Lieutenant; thirty-eight; -married; shoe-cutter. Enlisted from West -Bridgewater. Commissioned Sept. 3, 1862. Lieutenant -Churchill served as aid on the staff of Brig.-Gen. -J. Jourdan from Feb. 26, 1863, until the return -of the regiment. Lieutenant Churchill entered the -service the second time and served as captain of -Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. -He was wounded and taken prisoner Sept. 3, 1864, -and discharged for disability, Feb. 10, 1865. Lieutenant -Churchill lived in West Bridgewater, and -died there on Feb. 4, 1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George F. Winter</span>, First Sergeant; twenty-nine; -bookbinder; married. Enlisted from Gloucester; -died in Gloucester of heart disease Jan. 9, 1886. He -was a bookbinder by occupation.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John B. Fisher</span>, Sergeant; twenty-one; law student; -single. Enlisted from East Bridgewater;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_286"></a>[286]</span> -died June 13, 1882, in East Bridgewater. He also -served in the Thirty-sixth United States Colored -Troops, known as the Second North Carolina Regiment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Linus E. Hayward</span>, Sergeant; forty; married; -farmer. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Enlisted -a second time in the Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -as first lieutenant and was promoted captain. -Was wounded and taken prisoner. Was -exchanged and returned home with the regiment. -Died in West Bridgewater, July 16, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel E. Hawes</span>, Sergeant; salesman; twenty-five; -single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Died in -Brockton, Feb. 9, 1886.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Josephus L. Freeman</span>, Sergeant; thirty-five; shoe-cutter; -married. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. -Lived in Brockton and followed the occupation of -a mechanic in the shoe manufacturing shops of that -city. Died in Brockton, March 18, 1892.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nahum Washburn, Jr.</span>, Corporal; twenty-three; -single; druggist. Was proprietor of a drug store -in Bridgewater, and died there Oct. 14, 1893.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alfred H. Perkins</span>, Corporal; moulder; thirty-one; -married. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Promoted -regimental wagoner Dec. 9, 1862. Died in -Bridgewater, March 8, 1902.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_287"></a>[287]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas P. Ripley</span>, Corporal; twenty-one; single; -farmer. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Carried -on the business of manufacturing boots and -shoes in Cocheset, West Bridgewater. Died Aug. -23, 1891, in West Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elijah Hinkley</span>, Corporal; “railroader;” forty-four; -married. Enlisted from East Bridgewater; -was a shoemaker, and later a gate tender for the -Old Colony Railroad Company and its successors, -until his death, on Dec. 16, 1893, in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">George M. Keith</span>, Corporal; thirty-one; married; -shoemaker. Enlisted from East Bridgewater; was -foreman in shoeshops for seventeen years; superintendent -of Bridgewater Water Company for ten -years, ending in 1900, and since then president of -the East Bridgewater Savings Bank. Mr. Keith is -still living in the house in which he was born in -East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marcellus G. Howard</span>, Corporal; student; twenty-five; -single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Corporal -Howard was detailed as a member of the color -guard and as such carried the State colors. He carried -on the market business in Bridgewater; died of -consumption in Palatka, Fla., Dec. 24, 1881.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_288"></a>[288]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Seth B. Edson</span>, Corporal; surveyor; twenty-seven; -single. Enlisted from East Bridgewater. -Mr. Edson lived in East Bridgewater, where he carried -on the nursery and farming business. Died -Feb. 21, 1905, in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henry Manley</span>, Corporal; teacher; twenty-one; -single. Enlisted from North Bridgewater. He is -a civil engineer, assistant engineer engineering department -city of Boston. Member American Society -of Civil Engineers. Lives in West Roxbury -(Boston), Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">David P. Reynolds</span>, Private, promoted Corporal, -Dec. 9, 1862; shoemaker; twenty; single. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Died Sept. 6, 1867, of consumption, -in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alfred Gurney</span>, Company Wagoner; farmer; -forty-four. Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Was -a farmer in East Bridgewater, and died there Feb. -28, 1901.</p> - - -<p class="p1 center"><em>Privates</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alden, Caleb</span>, 42; single; farmer. Enlisted from -Bridgewater. Died in Soldiers Home, in Togus, -Me., on Jan. 3, 1899. Buried in Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alden, Isaac R.</span>, painter; 18; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Was the company drummer;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_289"></a>[289]</span> -enlisted a second time and served as drummer in -Company F, Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry; -has carried on the business of grocer in Bridgewater -since the war.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alden, Lucius F.</span>, 18; single; shoemaker. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Carried on the business -of shoe manufacturing in Brockton, as a member -of the firm of Churchill & Alden for many years. -Died in Brockton, Dec. 28, 1903.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alden, William S., Jr.</span>, farmer; 18; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Went to California many -years ago. His relatives have not heard from him -for about twenty years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Andrews, Manassah Lloyd</span>, machinist; 18; single. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Lives in East -Bridgewater (Elmwood), in good health, and busily -employed at his trade.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ackerman, Nathaniel</span>, bookbinder; 38; married. -Enlisted from Boston. Discharged for disability, -March 1, 1863. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Barney, Hial</span>, farmer; single; 26. Enlisted from -Bridgewater. He carried on the meat business in -Wareham, Mass., for twenty-five years. Was selectman, -assessor, and overseer of the poor in Ware<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_290"></a>[290]</span>ham -for six years. Retired from business in 1891. -Lives in Manchester, N. H. Address, 708 Pine St.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bartlett, Ezekiel R.</span>, shoe stitcher; 22; single. -Enlisted from West Bridgewater; absent sick when -company was mustered out. Honorably discharged -June 26, 1863. Enlisted and served in Company C, -Sixtieth Regiment, 100 days’ service; followed business -of workman in shoe factory. Lives in East -Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beals, Charles T.</span>, shoemaker; 18; single. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Has been a carriage -painter for thirty-six years; has lived in Massachusetts, -Ohio, and California. Is now living at No. 17 -West Second St., Mansfield, Ohio, in poor health, -his lower limbs being paralyzed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beaton, James W.</span>, shoemaker; 22; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Lives in Boston -(Dorchester); has been a teamster and stage driver. -Is in the employ of the New York and New Haven -Railroad Company as gate-tender.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bird, Henry W.</span>, shoemaker; single; 19. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater, lives in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Blackman, Andrew G.</span>, carpenter; 29; married. -Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Has worked in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_291"></a>[291]</span> -a shoeshop for twenty-five years. Lives in East -Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brainard, John M.</span>, <ins class="corr" id="tn-291" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '39; shoemaker;'"> -shoemaker; 39;</ins> married. -Enlisted from West Bridgewater. He was drowned -in the stream near his residence in East Bridgewater, -on Oct. 23, 1878.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, George D.</span>, shoemaker; 19; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Also served as corporal -in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts -Infantry; one year’s service. Has been foreman in -shoe factory and is now janitor of The Union Trust -Building, Brockton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briggs, Walter C.</span>, salesman; 18; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Served in Twentieth -Unattached Company for one year, and in -Eleventh United States Infantry. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caldwell, George</span>, shoe cutter; 43; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Died in the service -from disease in the Foster Hospital, Newbern, N. -C., on June 7, 1863.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caldwell, Charles H.</span>, shoemaker; 20; married. -Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Lives in West -Bridgewater, near Westdale Station.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Caldwell, Melvin</span>, shoe cutter; 18; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Died in West -Bridgewater, May 25, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_292"></a>[292]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Conant, Seth W.</span>, farmer; 40; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Enlisted and was mustered into -United States service as private in Company D, Fifty-eighth -Regiment, March 12, 1864, and was killed -in action in front of Petersburg, July 30, 1864.</p> - -<p>In <cite>Bridgewater in the Rebellion</cite>, a book written -and published by Arthur Hooper, a member of Company -K, it is related that after the Battle of Spottsylvania, -May 12, 1864, Conant was detailed with -others to bury the dead. The first one found was -his son Lucius, a private in the same company.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Copeland, Ezra S.</span>, farmer; 27; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. He was a member of the -Pioneer Corps. Died March 2, 1874.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Copeland, John</span>, butcher; 43; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Lived on his farm in West -Bridgewater and died there on June 3, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Coughlin, Bartholomew</span>, laborer; 29; married. -Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Died in Bridgewater -Mar. 12, 1871.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Coughlin, George T.</span>, farmer; 18; single. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Lives in Brockton; -has carried on a real estate business and is a special -police officer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Crafts, Francis T.</span>, machinist; 21; single. En<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_293"></a>[293]</span>listed -from Bridgewater. Has been a teacher and -farmer; is a clerk in the office of the Secretary of -State, State House, Boston. Resides in Quincy, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cushman, Newell F.</span>, carpenter; 38; married. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Enlisted and served in -Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. -Is an inmate of the Soldiers Home, Togus, Maine.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davenport, Augustus H.</span>, bootmaker; 21; married. -Enlisted from North Bridgewater. Lives in -Brockton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Davenport, Nathaniel M.</span>, shoemaker; 26; married. -Enlisted from North Bridgewater; also -served as corporal in Company C, Sixtieth Massachusetts -Regiment, 100 days’ service. Proprietor of -Hillside Farm (hotel), Jefferson, N. H. Post office -address, Standing, N. H.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Delano, Henry H.</span>, shoemaker; 22; single. Enlisted -from Easton. Was at home in Easton sick -when the regiment was mustered out. Is a box and -trunkmaker. Lives at 226 B Washington St., Malden, -Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dyson, William A.</span>, shoemaker; 28; married. -Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Lived in East -Bridgewater and was well known in all nearby lo<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_294"></a>[294]</span>calities -as a tin peddler. Died in East Bridgewater -May 31, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ellis, Waterman J.</span>, shoemaker; 36; married. -Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Died in Pembroke, -Mass., Apr. 3, 1891.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">French, Albert W.</span>, moulder; 40; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. He was popularly -known as “Old Hockomock” from the name of the -extensive meadows near his home in West Bridgewater. -He was a heavy and strong man and was a -member of the Pioneer Corps. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">French, George H.</span>, moulder; 18; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Died in West -Bridgewater, Sept. 13, 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fryes, James</span>, laborer; 42; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Absent sick when the -company was mustered out. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hancock, Elijah</span>, farmer; 42; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Was superintendent of -the Town Farm in West Bridgewater for twenty-five -years, and also superintendent of the Town -Farm of Sandwich, Mass., for fifteen years. Died -in Brockton, Mass., April 7, 1906.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hardin, Luther</span>, shoemaker; 37; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Lived in East -Bridgewater and died there Mar. 7, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_295"></a>[295]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayward, Beza</span>, 44; nailer; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. He was a farmer and died in -West Bridgewater, Nov. 7, 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayward, Edwin</span>, machinist; 22; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Died at Soldiers Home, Togus, -Me., Nov. 21, 1900, and his remains were sent to -Bridgewater for interment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hinsman, William Van Buren</span>, shoemaker; 43; -married. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Was the -company officers’ cook. Has lived mostly in Boston -since the war, serving as house agent and janitor. -Present address, 15 Pierce Street, Norfolk Downs, -Quincy, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Holmes, John</span>, shoemaker; 38; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. He was living in Bridgewater, -in his own house, in July, 1905, but made his home -with a daughter in Whitman, Mass. He was the -company cook, and performed his duties as such to -the entire satisfaction of the company, and his cook -house was always a model for the company cooks of -the regiment. <ins class="corr" id="tn-295" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Died in Brigewater'"> -Died in Bridgewater</ins> March 17, 1906, -age eighty-one years and five months.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hooper, Arthur</span>, painter; 19; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Promoted Regimental Commissary -Sergeant, Oct. 27, 1862. Enlisted and served<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_296"></a>[296]</span> -as Commissary Sergeant in Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -Regiment from Jan. 14, 1864, to June 14, 1865. -Lives in Dorchester (Boston), Mass. Clerk and director -of John Carter & Co. (incorporated), dealers -in paper, 100 Federal St., Boston.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Howard, Cyrus S.</span>, shoemaker; 27; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Has lived in -Easton; at present living in Middleboro, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jones, Samuel</span>, farmer; 38; single. Enlisted -from Middleboro. Died in Newbern (in Foster -Hospital), of measles, May 26, 1863. Buried at -Hillside Cemetery, Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kane, John</span>, farmer; 21; single. Enlisted from -West Bridgewater. Lives in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Keith, Edgar D.</span>, shoemaker; 36; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Died Jan. 9, 1896, in -Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Keith, George T.</span>, civil engineer; 19; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Is a civil engineer living -in Olean, N. Y. Member American Society Civil -Engineers. Is resident engineer Barge Canal, Gates, -Monroe County, N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">King, Francis D.</span>, wheelwright; 39; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Kept a public stable in -Bridgewater and was a deputy sheriff. Died in -Bridgewater, July 10, 1896.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_297"></a>[297]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kingman, Hosea</span>, 19; student; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Was detailed on the Signal -Corps and served thereon from Nov. 26, 1862, to -June 25, 1863. Mr. Kingman was an eminent lawyer -and was easily the leader of the Plymouth -County bar. He was a member of the Metropolitan -Sewerage Commission at the time of his death. -Died in Bridgewater, March 29, 1900.</p> - -<p>A memorial tablet on the walls of the building of -the Old Bridgewater Historical Society in West -Bridgewater, reads as follows: “Hosea Kingman, -Born in Bridgewater, April 11, 1843, enlisted in -State Volunteers, 1862; mustered out of service -1863; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1864. Admitted -to the bar 1866, appointed judge 1878. Died -in Bridgewater, 1900. He inherited patriotism -from his ancestors and served his country in the -field before his majority. A faithful and devoted -friend, a good citizen, affable, free in manner and -absorbed in his profession. He was a discreet and -wise counsellor, a powerful advocate with keen -judgment. Towns, counties, and states, sought his -services.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lackey, George A.</span>, painter; 23; married. Enlisted -from Easton. He also served as private in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_298"></a>[298]</span> -Company H, Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, and -as sergeant in Company D., Fifty-eighth Regiment. -In the Battle of Spottsylvania Court House, May -4, 1864, Sergeant Lackey was severely wounded, losing -his left leg. He was discharged for disability -March 11, 1865. Has lived in Easton since the war, -was representative in the Massachusetts Legislature -in 1883, and has been a member of the Board -of Registration of Voters in Easton since 1884. Is -proprietor of a general store and janitor of school. -Address, South Easton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lincoln, Isaac H.</span>, shoemaker; 21; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. He was absent sick -at East Bridgewater when the company was mustered -out. He also served in the band of the Twentieth -Massachusetts Regiment, and in the Fourth -Heavy Artillery. Shoemaker and carpenter; lives -in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marshall, Albert L.</span>, farmer; 19; single. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater; also served as private -in Fourteenth Massachusetts Battery from -Feb. 27, 1864, to June 16, 1865. He is a patient in -the State Insane Asylum, Taunton, Mass.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mitchell, Henry M.</span>, carpenter; 27; married. -Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Died in Oakland, -California, June 13, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_299"></a>[299]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Morse, Luther M.</span>, bootmaker; 26; married. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. Died in Lynn, -Mass., Oct. 13, 1894.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Murphy, William T.</span>, farmer; 19; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Also served in Company -D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry; was taken -prisoner in battle in front of Petersburg, July 30, -1864. Died a prisoner of war at Danville, Va., -Nov. 27, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Norton, Joseph C.</span>, farmer; 43; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. He was the company -fifer, also served as fifer in Company C, Fifty-sixth -Massachusetts Infantry, where his name is recorded -as “Naughton.” Died in Bridgewater, Aug. 3, 1887.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">O’Neil, John</span>, moulder; 27; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Osborne, Isaac P.</span>, bootmaker; 37; married. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. He was detailed -in command of a gang of forty negroes and built a -blockhouse and numerous corduroy roads near Newbern. -Isaac, as he was always called, was a great -dancer, and, with the weight of eighty years, is still -light enough on his feet to be the envy of many a -young man. Lives in Brockton, and has been a -member of the Common Council in that city.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_300"></a>[300]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, Bradford</span>, farmer; 44; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Lived and died on -his farm in West Bridgewater. Died Aug. 26, 1884.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, James H.</span>, bootmaker; 27; married. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. Discharged for -disability, March 12, 1863, and died in North -Bridgewater, June 23, 1863. His death occurred -during the few days’ interval between the arrival of -the regiment in Massachusetts and before it was -mustered out. He was buried with military honors -in the Marshall’s Corner Cemetery.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Packard, Nathan F.</span>, farmer; 24; single. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. Lived in North Bridgewater, -and died there of consumption, Oct. 1, 1873.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Phelan, George</span>, bootmaker; 27; married. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater; died in Raynham, -Mass., June 16, 1903.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Quigley, Patrick</span>, laborer; 36; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. He also served in -Company E, Fifty-eighth Regiment. Died in East -Bridgewater, June 30, 1894.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reed, John N.</span>, boxmaker; 20; single. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Lives in Brockton and is -employed in the insurance business.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reynolds, Josiah E.</span>, shoemaker; 19; single. En<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_301"></a>[301]</span>listed -from East Bridgewater. Died in East Bridgewater -of consumption, Oct. 4, 1879. Also served in -Company O, Sixtieth Regiment, 100 days.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reynolds, Elisha</span>, laborer; 44; married. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. Discharged for -disability March 27, 1863. Died —.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ripley, Edward H.</span>, moulder; 23; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Died in Soldiers Home -in Togus, Me., June 5, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sampson, Ezra F.</span>, shoemaker; 34; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Discharged for disability, -May 9, 1863. Lives at East Bridgewater; -was a member of the “Pioneer Corps.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sharpe, Edward O.</span>, shoemaker; 34; married. Enlisted -from East Bridgewater. Died June 3, 1889, -in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, Asa T.</span>, shoemaker; 29; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Also enlisted in Company -B, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts, and died a -prisoner of war at Salisbury, N. C., Dec. 22, 1864.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shaw, George T.</span>, shoemaker; 26; married. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Lives at Cocheset, -in West Bridgewater. Is proprietor of a grocery -store.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shipman, John</span>, moulder; 34; single. Enlisted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_302"></a>[302]</span> -from West Bridgewater. Shipman was the company -armorer. The quality of the rifles furnished -were such as to make his office no sinecure, and a -large amount of work was necessary to put the -arms in condition to be used at all. He was, however, -equal to the occasion, as he was a trained man, -and, if necessary, could make any part of a rifle. -He enlisted in Company D, Fifty-eighth Regiment, -was wounded in both legs in the Battle <ins class="corr" id="tn-302" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'of the Willerness'"> -of the Wilderness</ins>, and was taken prisoner on May 12, 1864. -He was a prisoner in Andersonville and other prisons -for six months and nineteen days, and when exchanged -weighed only eighty pounds. He was a large -man and his usual weight was 200 pounds. He died -in West Bridgewater, Dec. 3, 1905.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Snell, Issacher K.</span>, shoemaker; 22; married. -Enlisted from Easton. Discharged March 12, 1863, -for disability. Lived in Brockton and Boston, and -died in Boston, Oct. 11, 1902; buried in Cocheset, -West Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sturtevant, Dexter M.</span>, farmer; 39; married. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Absent sick when the -company was mustered out. Honorably discharged -June 23, 1863. Lives in Bridgewater; has always -been a farmer there and has kept the grocery store<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_303"></a>[303]</span> -at “Sturtevant’s Corners,” Bridgewater. When the -writer called on him in the last days of June, 1905, -he found him engaged in mowing with a scythe.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sturtevant, Zenas W.</span>, shoemaker; 39; married. -Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Absent sick at -East Bridgewater when the company was mustered -out. Lived in East Bridgewater, and died there -Aug. 21, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Townsend, John P.</span>; machinist; 26; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Was commissioned second -lieutenant in Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts -Infantry, Mar. 2, 1864; promoted first lieutenant, -Aug. 8, 1864, and captain, May 3, 1865. Was -taken prisoner in battle near Poplar Spring Church, -Sept. 30, 1864; was confined in Petersburg, Libby -Prison, Salisbury, N. C., and Danville, Va. Released -Feb. 22, 1865; came home on furlough, returned -to the regiment Apr. 9, 1865, and was mustered -out of the service July 18, 1865. Mr. Townsend -is foreman of a large machine shop and foundry -in Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, John M.</span>, shoemaker; 19; single. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Has been in business -mostly in the west; now with the American Clock -Company, Chicago. Lives in Chicago; address, -2885 North 46th Street, Jefferson Station.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_304"></a>[304]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, Nathan H.</span>, stonecutter; 26; single. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Lives in Brockton, -“Campello.” Has been employed in various capacities -in shoe factories since the war.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Washburn, Selden M.</span>, cutter; 26; single. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Has been employed -in shoe factory. Died in Bridgewater, Feb. 8, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Winslow, John A.</span>, moulder; 27; married. Enlisted -from Bridgewater. Enlisted in Company D, -Fifty-eighth Regiment. Arthur Hooper in <cite>Bridgewater -in the Rebellion</cite> gives the following account -of his service: “Wounded in the head in the battle -of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; returned to his regiment -and served faithfully until he was taken prisoner -Sept. 30, 1864, in battle near Poplar Spring -Church. Was taken to Richmond, Va., and from -there to Salisbury, N. C., where he was confined -about four months; returned to Richmond and was -released Feb. 22, 1865, and went to Annapolis, Md. -Winslow was a man six feet, four inches tall, and -weighed 165 pounds at the time of his capture, but -was reduced to seventy-five pounds while in rebel -prisons. He remained at Annapolis about a month -when he was able to come home on a furlough -where he remained until Apr. 9, 1865; returning to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_305"></a>[305]</span> -his regiment he remained until the regiment was -ordered home and mustered out of service July 14, -1865, as corporal. He lived in Bridgewater and -died there on Apr. 11, 1887.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wentworth, Horace</span>, shoemaker; 45; married. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. He was John Holmes’s -efficient assistant in the cook house. His two sons, -Horace E. and Lucian, were soldiers in the same -company. Died in Bridgewater, Mar. 3, 1896.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wentworth, Horace E.</span>, shoemaker; 19; single. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Died Sept. 11, 1876, -in East Bridgewater.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wentworth, Lucian T.</span>, shoemaker; 18; single. -Enlisted from Bridgewater. Died at Caspar, Wyoming, -Feb. 8, 1904.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilbur, Shepard B.</span>, shoemaker; 22; single. Enlisted -from North Bridgewater. Died in Brockton, -July 3, 1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Whitman, Joseph M.</span>, shoemaker; 22. Enlisted -from West Bridgewater. Lives in East Bridgewater. -His was the last name shouted at roll call, -and as he was the shortest man in the company his -post was on the extreme left, the last in the ranks.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="p4 chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_306"></a>[306]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_XIV">CHAPTER XIV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="center smcap">History of the Third Regiment, Massachusetts -Volunteer Militia Association.</p></div> - - -<p>The surviving members of the Third Regiment, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia met at Dighton -Rock, Simmons Grove, August, 1890. Invitations -had been sent to all the comrades and a goodly number -were present, the object of the meeting being the -formation of an association to perpetuate past -events, and to hold together the members of the Association -until they should answer the last roll call.</p> - -<p>Col. S. P. Richmond was chosen temporary chairman -and George F. Coughlin, clerk. N. P. Norton, -B. S. Atwood, E. Grant, William Mason, Patrick -Cannavan, B. F. Lewis, Otis A. Baker, J. M. Lyle -and L. F. Alden were chosen a committee to nominate -officers for a permanent organization. They reported -as follows: President—Col. Silas P. Richmond; -Vice-Presidents—Capt. Andrew R. Wright, -Maj. Thomas B. Griffith, Maj. William E. Mason; -Secretary—Chaplain Charles A. Snow; Treasurer—Sergt. -James C. Hitch.</p> - -<p>The report was adopted and the officers nominated -were declared elected by the temporary chairman, -Col. S. P. Richmond.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_307"></a>[307]</span></p> - -<p>The following were chosen an Executive Committee: -C. P. Lyon, C. D. Copeland, R. A. Soule, J. L. -Wilber, J. W. Hammond, B. S. Atwood, F. M. McGraw, -P. Cannavan, J. Gibbs, C. E. Churchill.</p> - -<p>The Fruit Growers Association of Bristol County -served a bountiful clam dinner, which was highly -appreciated by the comrades. At the afternoon session -it was voted that the Executive Committee secure -some design for an Association badge. After -voting that the time and place of the next meeting -be left with the Executive Committee, the meeting -adjourned and the comrades expressed their joy at -being granted once more the privilege of meeting -each other.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">C. A. Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The second meeting of the Association was held -at Fort Phœnix, Fairhaven, July 30, 1891.</p> - -<p>The address of the President, Col. S. P. Richmond, -was most hearty, cheering and encouraging. He exhorted -the boys to continue the Association meetings -so long as two were able to meet together.</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee asked for more time to -complete arrangements for Association badge. Comrades -George A. Grant, of Brockton; Chase, of Fall<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_308"></a>[308]</span> -River; and B. F. Atwood, of Whitman, were appointed -a special committee to secure badge.</p> - -<p>It was voted to secure a record book. It was voted -that the Executive Committee consider the feasibility -of an excursion to and over the old battlefields in -North Carolina, and report at the next meeting. It -was voted that the present board of officers continue -for another year and that the several companies -elect a secretary to aid the secretary of the Association, -and that the last named officer be allowed a -salary of $25. The treasurer’s report showed a balance -on hand of $22.45. It was voted that the expenses -incurred by the secretary for printing, etc., -be paid from the funds of the treasury.</p> - -<p>After dinner the members present with their families -to the number of over four hundred listened to -an excellent address by Professor Andrew Ingraham, -of Company I.</p> - -<p>The meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the -Executive Committee.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The third meeting of the Association was held at -Onset, July 28, 1892.</p> - -<p>The business session opened at 11.30 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, Col.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_309"></a>[309]</span> -S. P. Richmond in the chair. His address of welcome -was received with applause. The records of -the last meeting were read and approved. A letter -from Treasurer Hitch regretting his inability to be -present, and declining re-election was received. His -report showed $35.70 in the treasury. The report -was accepted and placed on file. The committee on -badge reported that they had secured a badge. This -was adopted by the Association, and members gave -orders for badges to the committee. The Executive -Committee reported the changes during the year by -reason of resignations and deaths.</p> - -<p>After enjoying a splendid shore dinner, two hundred -and twenty-five persons being present, the Association -was called to order at 2.30 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> It was -voted that the expenses for printing be paid from -the treasury funds. Lieutenants Gibbs and Lyon, -who were appointed by the president to collect -funds, reported having received $15.36. It was -voted that the present board of officers be elected -to serve another year. The resignation of Sergeant -Hitch was unanimously rejected. Sergeant Hitch -positively declining, the Executive Committee were -authorized to fill all vacancies which may occur during -the year from any cause. It was voted that the -next Association meeting be held in Brockton. The<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_310"></a>[310]</span> -committee on badges were ordered to contract for -two hundred badges. The President and comrades -Ingraham, Taber, and Alden, were elected a committee -to prepare memorials of those members who -have died during the year.</p> - -<p>The meeting adjourned at 3.15 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span></p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Snow</span>, <em>Chaplain and Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Third Regimental Association met at Brockton, -July 27, 1893. They were received royally by -Fletcher Webster Post, G. A. R., who entertained -them in their Post Hall, presenting each with a neat -white badge bearing the inscription, “Brockton, -Third Massachusetts Regimental Association, -1893.”</p> - -<p>After the exchange of greetings, quite a number -meeting their comrades for the first time since the -mustering out of the regiment thirty years ago, the -members of the Association took the electrics to -Highland Park, where the business of the day was -transacted.</p> - -<p>At 11 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> the meeting was called to order by the -president, who in his address emphasized the necessity -and the duty of the living to stand firm and exhibit -the spirit of fraternity, loyalty, and charity,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_311"></a>[311]</span> -ever keeping in mind those noble principles of patriotism -which prompted them to enlist in the service -of our country.</p> - -<p>The report of the last meeting was read and -adopted. The treasurer reported cash on hand at -the beginning of the present year, $37.40; paid out -$6.25; balance on hand, $31.15. The report was -adopted. Comrade Atwood reported that two hundred -badges had been procured, and fifty were still -on hand for members who wished to purchase. His -report was accepted. It was voted that the names -of deceased members be placed on the Roll of Honor, -and that notice of the same be sent to the family of -each. It was voted that the present officers be continued -another year. They are as follows: President—Col. -Silas P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Capt. -A. R. Wright, Maj. T. B. Griffith, Maj. W. E. -Mason; Treasurer—J. C. Hitch; Secretary and -Chaplain—C. A. Snow. Capt. A. R. Wright was -added to the Executive Committee. Executive -Committee—C. P. Lyon, B. S. Atwood, S. F. Brayton, -R. A. Soule, P. Cannavan, J. L. Wilber, J. -Gibbs, A. Ingraham, C. E. Churchill, G. A. Grant, -T. B. Griffith, A. R. Wright, C. C. Doten and A. S. -Cushman.</p> - -<p>Comrades Gibbs and Lyon were appointed to so<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_312"></a>[312]</span>licit -funds from the members, and they succeeded -to the amount of $45. It was voted that the next -meeting be held in Plymouth on the last Thursday -in July, 1894.</p> - -<p>Business being ended the Association adjourned -at 12.15 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span>, and the comrades sat down to tables -in the grove, where a splendid dinner had been prepared -by the Fletcher Webster Women’s Relief -Corps, No. 7. The comrades will long remember the -cordial greetings of the G. A. R. Post and the W. R. -C. of Brockton.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Plymouth</span>, July 26, 1894.</p> - -<p>The place and time for the Association Meeting -was all that comrades could desire. The hot wave -was softened by a refreshing breeze from the bay; -every one seemed happy. Members of the Association -and their friends to the number of two hundred -were present. The hall of Collingwood Post, G. A. -R., was tendered as headquarters for the Association.</p> - -<p>The business session was called at 11 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> Brief -but cheerful remarks were made by the president, -and his youngest son Mark Harrison was unani<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_313"></a>[313]</span>mously -voted an honorary member of the Association. -The records of the last meeting were read -and approved. The treasurer’s report showed all -bills paid and $12.64 in the treasury. The committee -to solicit funds reported $23.43, with all expenses -paid. The present board of officers were re-elected -for the ensuing year. It was voted that our -next meeting be held in Bridgewater on the last -Thursday in July, 1894. The usual vote of thanks -was given to Collingwood Post, G. A. R., for the use -of their hall. The meeting <ins class="corr" id="tn-313" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'adjourned at 12 M.'"> -adjourned at 12 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span></ins></p> - -<p>After enjoying an excellent dinner the comrades -visited Pilgrim Hall, by invitation from C. C. Doten, -and other places of historic interest in Old Plymouth -received their share of attention.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Bridgewater</span>, July 25, 1895.</p> - -<p>The annual reunion of the Third Regiment Association -was held in Bridgewater with Post 205, G. -A. R., in its hall. In the absence of the president -and vice-presidents, Lieut. Charles P. Lyon was -chosen president <em>pro tem</em>. Vernon Wade, E. T. Chapman -and B. S. Atwood were appointed to arrange -for the reunion in 1896. Sergt. B. S. Atwood was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_314"></a>[314]</span> -chosen secretary <em>pro tem</em>, and Maj. Thomas B. Griffith -was chosen treasurer <em>pro tem</em>. Sergt. M. Bonney -was elected on the committee for reunion of -1896. Resolutions of sympathy to the family of -our late treasurer, Sergt. J. C. Hitch, were ordered -sent to New Bedford. The usual G. A. R. collation -was served to the comrades by the entertaining -Post. Mr. King, son of Comrade King, of the Association, -invited the comrades to ride through the -town in barges provided by him. A vote of thanks -was given to Mr. King, also to Mr. Vaughn for collation -and to Post 205 for use of its hall. Mr. -Vaughn was voted an honorary member of the Association.</p> - -<p>Owing to the heavy rain in the morning the attendance -was small. No action was taken to re-elect -officers as the By-laws of the Association required -the old officers to retain their positions until -others were elected to fill their places.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">B. S. Atwood</span>, <em>Secretary pro tem</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Lincoln Park</span>, July 29, 1896.</p> - -<p>The Association met to-day in this attractive resort. -The order of the day was called at 11.30 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, -Col. S. P. Richmond in the chair. In his address of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_315"></a>[315]</span> -welcome he admonished every comrade to maintain -the existence of the Association by attending its -meetings. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Snow. -The records of the two previous meetings were read -and approved. It was voted that a Roster of the -Association be printed and a copy be sent to each -company secretary for distribution. It was voted -that we meet next year at Dighton Rock Park. The -treasurer’s report showed all bills paid and a balance -of $14.06 on hand. Comrades Gibbs and Lyon -reported that they had solicited $19.45, making the -amount now in the treasury $33.51.</p> - -<p>The election of officers as follows: President—Silas -P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Capt. A. R. -Wright, Maj. T. B. Griffith, Maj. William E. Mason; -Treasurer—Lieutenant Joseph Gibbs; Secretary -and Chaplain—C. A. Snow; Executive Committee—Charles -P. Lyon, B. S. Atwood, S. F. Brayton, Rufus -Soule, Patrick Cannavan, J. L. Wilber, Joseph -Gibbs, Andrew Ingraham, George M. Keith, Geo. A. -Grant, A. R. Wright, C. C. Doten, A. S. Cushman -and T. B. Griffith.</p> - -<p>A good dinner was served. The History of Company -A was read by Lieut. C. P. Lyon; Company D, -by Capt. A. R. Wright; Company E, by Maj. W. E. -Mason. The meeting adjourned.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_316"></a>[316]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Dighton Rock</span>, July 29, 1897.</p> - -<p>The Association met at Dighton Rock Park this -day. Owing to the rain only thirty were present. -The order of the day was called at 12.15. Prayer, -by Chaplain Snow. The welcome words of the -president were timely and to the point. It was -voted that the funds in the treasury did not warrant -the publication of Association Roster. Treasurer -Gibbs reported having received $33.50; paid -out, $10.73; balance on hand, $22.77. Dighton -Rock Park was suggested to the Executive Committee -as the place of our next meeting. A splendid -shore dinner was enjoyed by the members of the Association -and others.</p> - -<p>At the two <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> meeting the old board of officers -were re-elected. The afternoon was bright, and the -comrades expressed their appreciation of the place, -and the satisfaction of meeting again.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Charles Snow</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Third Regiment Association held its annual -meeting at Dighton Rock Park, July 28, 1898. The -order of business was called at 10.30 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, President -Richmond in the chair. Capt. A. R. Wright -was chosen assistant secretary. Prayer, by Chap<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_317"></a>[317]</span>lain -Snow. Words of welcome by the president. -The treasurer reported $8.88 on hand; all bills paid -to date. The old board of officers were re-elected -with the exception of Maj. T. B. Griffith, who died -during the year. Capt. O. A. Baker was chosen to -fill the vacancy. George A. Grant was chosen secretary -<em>pro tem</em> and George M. Keith was added to -the Executive Committee. Captain Baker and Lieutenant -Lyon were chosen a committee to solicit -funds. They reported $21.51 contributed. <ins class="corr" id="tn-317" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'At 12 M.'"> -At 12 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span></ins> the President declared a recess until 1.30 <span class="allsmcap">P. M.</span> -Full justice was done to the ample dinner by the -comrades and their friends.</p> - -<p>At the appointed hour the Association reassembled. -The place of the next meeting was left with -the Executive Committee. A vote of thanks was -tendered to the officers for their services. It was -voted that an expression be made of the respect and -esteem of the character and efficient service of the -late David W. Wardrop, colonel of the Third Massachusetts -three months’ men. Remarks were made -by Major Cushman and Colonel Richmond. The -meeting adjourned at 2.30.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary pro tem</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_318"></a>[318]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Association met in Brockton, July 27, 1899. -They were given a royal welcome. Business session -at 10.45. The President, in his address, referring -to the soldiers of the Spanish war, while complimenting -them for their patriotism and courage, -said, “But they are hardly to be compared with the -rank and file of the soldiers of ’61 to ’65.”</p> - -<p>The records of the last meeting were read and -adopted. The treasurer reported $10.57 on hand. -A list of the members who have died during the past -year was read. Secretary Snow, declining further -service on account of increasing infirmities, George -A. Grant was chosen secretary.</p> - -<p>The election of officers was as follows: President—Col. -S. P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Maj. -William E. Mason, Capt. O. A. Baker, Capt. Linus -Hayward; Chaplain—C. A. Snow; Treasurer—Lieutenant -Joseph Gibbs; Secretary—George A. Grant.</p> - -<p>Executive Committee—Same as last year with -the exception of the election of George A. Lackey, -to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Capt. A. -R. Wright.</p> - -<p>Communications from Quartermaster Penniman -and Honorable Philip M. Crapo expressing their regrets -at being unable to be present were received. -The meeting adjourned.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_319"></a>[319]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Third Regiment Association held its meeting -this year in Fall River, July 26, 1900. They were -the guests of Richard Borden Post, G. A. R. Fall -River is the home of Companies C and D. The -morning rain made it hard for many to attend.</p> - -<p>Order was called at 11 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> The president’s -speech was full of tenderness. Invocation by Chaplain -Snow. The treasurer reported $28.03 on hand. -The comrades stood at attention with uncovered -heads while the secretary read the names of those -who have passed away during the year.</p> - -<p>The old board of officers was elected to serve another -year, with the exception of G. A. Grant, who -was elected treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by -the death of Lieut. Joseph Gibbs. It was voted that -our next reunion be held in Middleboro on the last -Thursday in July, 1901. Mrs. Jennie Gibbs was -voted an honorary member of this Association. The -treasurer reported $29 in the treasury.</p> - -<p>The meeting adjourned to partake of an excellent -dinner prepared by the Women’s Relief Corps of -Richard Borden Post.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>According to vote at our previous meeting, the -Association met at Middleboro, July 25, 1901. The<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_320"></a>[320]</span> -weather was stormy. The meeting was opened by -the president at 11 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> Prayer by the chaplain. -Remarks by the president. The records of the last -meeting were read and approved. The treasurer reported -$16.68 on hand after paying the expenses of -last year.</p> - -<p>The election of officers was as follows: President—Col. -Silas P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Maj. -W. E. Mason, Capt. O. A. Baker, Capt. Linus -Hayward; Chaplain Emeritus—C. A. Snow; Chaplain—John -Gray Gammons; Secretary and Treasurer—G. -A. Grant; Executive Committee—C. P. -Lyon, B. S. Atwood, James B. Smith, Vernon Wade, -Fred T. Maxfield, P. Cannavan, Leander Wilber, Edwin -Haskins, Ezra F. Sampson, Uriel Haskins.</p> - -<p>A collection was taken amounting to $16.08. A -vote of thanks was tendered to the Y. M. C. A. for -the use of their hall for the day. Maj. C. S. Allen -of Whitman, and Thomas Waring of Fall River, -were voted honorary members of the Association. -It was voted that we hold our next reunion at Whitman. -The meeting adjourned for dinner.</p> - -<p>After dinner an electric car ride to our first Camp -Joe Hooker had been planned, where the comrades -reviewed the experiences of thirty-nine years ago.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_321"></a>[321]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The reunion of the Third Regiment Association -was held in Whitman, July 31, 1902. This being -the home of our genial comrade, B. S. Atwood, nothing -was wanting to make the day all that could be -desired by the boys.</p> - -<p>Order was called at 10.30 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span>, Col. Silas P. Richmond -in the chair. His earnest greeting was received -with the old-time applause. A hearty welcome -was given to all the comrades by Sergt. B. S. -Atwood. Prayer by the chaplain. The records of -the last meeting were read and approved. The -treasurer’s report showed $17.77 on hand. Comrade -Ezra F. Sampson extended a cordial invitation to -the Association to meet at East Bridgewater in -1902. This was accepted. The board of officers for -the last year were re-elected. James S. Tripp and -J. P. Hill were added to the Executive Committee. -A collection of $9.09 was taken.</p> - -<p>The Women’s Relief Corps of Whitman furnished -an excellent dinner. The remainder of the day was -given to speech-making by several comrades. The -reunion in Whitman passes into history as a very -pleasant one, long to be remembered.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_322"></a>[322]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Association met in East Bridgewater, Aug. -5, 1903. The day was rainy and the call to order -by the President at 10.10 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> found but fifty-six -members present. The records of the last meeting -were read and approved. The treasurer’s report -showed $10.11 on hand, with all bills paid. The -publication of the regimental history received the -sanction of all members present. It was voted that -a member from each company be elected to write its -company history.</p> - -<p>The following were elected: Company A, John -G. Gammons; Company B, B. S. Atwood; Company -C, James B. Smith; Company D, Vernon Wade; -Company E, Fred T. Maxfield; Company F, Benjamin -Card; Company G, Ira B. Tripp; Company H, -William H. Luther; Company I, Jabez M. Lyle; -Company K, Henry Manley.</p> - -<p>Chaplain Snow was elected to prepare the history -of the field and staff, also the history of the regiment, -and publish the same in book form.</p> - -<p>The comrades stood at attention while the secretary -read the names of those who had died during -the past year. Greetings were ordered sent to Capt. -Otis Baker (the only living captain), now in the -distant West.</p> - -<p>The following is the list of officers for the year:<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_323"></a>[323]</span> -President—Col. Silas P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Maj. -W. E. Mason, Capt. O. A. Baker, Capt. Linus -Hayward; Chaplain—John Gray Gammons; Musician—Seth -Miller Briggs; Executive Committee—C. -P. Lyon, B. S. Atwood, James B. Smith, Vernon -Wade, F. T. Maxfield, P. Cannavan, Leander Wilber, -Edwin Haskins, Ezra F. Sampson.</p> - -<p>It was voted that we hold our reunion next year -at Dighton Rock Park, July 21, 1904.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Association held its fifteenth annual reunion -at Dighton Rock Park, July 21, 1904. The day -was fine and the transportation by electrics easy. -The order of the day was called by the president at -11.05 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> The greeting of the president indicated -that he was not growing old, infirm, or forgetful of -his boys who marched at his command through the -mud of North Carolina forty-three years ago. The -records of the last meeting were read and approved. -It was voted that the thanks of the Association be -tendered to the family of our late Chaplain Snow -for the work done by him on Regimental History. -It was voted that all the historical manuscript be -forwarded to Chaplain J. G. Gammons to enable<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_324"></a>[324]</span> -him to complete the work with such assistance as he -may desire in compiling the history. A collection -of $20.42 was taken. After the reading of the list -of those who died last year, the president spoke -with much feeling on the death of Chaplain Snow, -referring to his many good qualities as an officer -and a man. The old board of officers were re-elected -to serve another year with the exception of -Stephen P. Sawyer who was chosen in place of -Linus Hayward, deceased. The Executive Committee -is the same as last year. Sergt. B. S. Atwood -suggested that an entertainment after the business -session and dinner would be of interest to the comrades, -and it was left with him to provide what he -thought best in such line for our reunion in 1905. -It was voted that we hold our next reunion at Dighton -Rock Park. The treasurer’s report showed -$13.26 on hand with all bills paid.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary and Treasurer</em>.</p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>The Third Regiment Association held its reunion -at Dighton Rock Park, July 20, 1905. The meeting -was called at 11.20 <span class="allsmcap">A. M.</span> The greetings of the -president were as fraternal and cordial as ever; -years seem to make no impression on either his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_325"></a>[325]</span> -health, voice, or memory. His recital of the war -days so thrill the boys that they all seem young -again, and should war demand their services, they -would follow their old leader anywhere he asked -them to go. The records of the last meeting were -read and approved. The treasurer reported $44.36 -in the treasury. The names of those who died during -the year were read by the secretary. Chaplain -Gammons reported that the Regimental History -was nearly completed. A letter from Surgeon A. -A. Stocker, now in his eighty-sixth year, was read -regretting his inability to be at the reunion, and -sending his kind regards to Colonel Richmond and -all the other members of the Association. With -the exception of William E. Mason the old board of -officers were re-elected. Sergt. B. S. Atwood was -chosen vice-president. It was voted to hold our reunion -next year at Fort Phœnix, Fairhaven.</p> - -<p>The dinner was fine, and the entertainment which -followed it was very pleasing. Masters Ralph and -Benjamin Atwood and Miss Blanche Atwood, grandchildren -of Sergeant Atwood; also Miss Clara A. -Goodwin, did themselves great credit in the rendering -of their parts, which were pleasing to all who -heard them.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">George A. Grant</span>, <em>Secretary and Treasurer</em>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_326"></a>[326]</span></p> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>Since the organization of the Association one hundred -and ninety have answered the last roll call. -Their names and the dates of deaths will be found -in the History of the Field and Staff, and the corrected -history of the several companies.</p> - -<p>During the meetings of the Association no liquors -have been used at dinner, neither sold nor used by -the comrades, nor has any one been seen under the -influence of liquor. All the meetings have been -characterized by unanimity and cordial greetings.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">The Compiler.</span></p> - -<p> </p> -<hr class="chap" /> -<p> </p> - -<div class="p4 transnote pg-brk"> -<a name="TN" id="TN"></a> -<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> - -<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been -corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within -the text and consultation of external sources.</p> - -<p>Some portrait illustrations have been moved closer to the relevant -biographical information for that person.</p> - -<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, -and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.</p> - -<p> -<a href="#tn-i002">Frontispiece caption</a>: ‘The Complier’ replaced by ‘The Compiler’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-iii">Pg iii</a>: ‘Third Rgiment)’ replaced by ‘Third Regiment)’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-16">Pg 16</a>: ‘made a reconnoisance’ replaced by ‘made a reconnoissance’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-21">Pg 21</a>: ‘swaggering braggadocia’ replaced by ‘swaggering braggadocio’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-25">Pg 25</a>: ‘were atacked and’ replaced by ‘were atacked and’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-41">Pg 41</a>: ‘on a reconnoisance’ replaced by ‘on a reconnoissance’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-42">Pg 42</a>: ‘Foster returnd’ replaced by ‘Foster returned’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-50">Pg 50</a>: ‘and aid-de-camp,’ replaced by ‘and aide-de-camp,’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-53">Pg 53</a>: ‘and his aid-de-camp’ replaced by ‘and his aide-de-camp’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-i077">Pg 54</a>, illustration caption: ‘MORRESSEY’ replaced by ‘MORRISSEY’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-73">Pg 73</a>: ‘accurate diarian’ replaced by ‘accurate diarist’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-84">Pg 84</a>: ‘had he, Urial’ replaced by ‘had he, Uriel’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-86">Pg 86</a>: ‘rebels would harrass’ replaced by ‘rebels would harass’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-95">Pg 95</a>: ‘Corporal Gamons’ replaced by ‘Corporal Gammons’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-96">Pg 96</a>: ‘brave Massachusets’ replaced by ‘brave Massachusetts’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-99">Pg 99</a>: ‘he has alwas’ replaced by ‘he has always’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-100">Pg 100</a>: ‘an employe of’ replaced by ‘an employee of’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-104">Pg 104</a>: ‘Ashley Hights,’ replaced by ‘Ashley Heights,’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-160">Pg 160</a>: ‘in the immdiate’ replaced by ‘in the immediate’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-208">Pg 208</a>: ‘but Captain Wilbur’ replaced by ‘but Captain Wilber’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-235">Pg 235</a>: ‘pigs squeeling and’ replaced by ‘pigs squealing and’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-265">Pg 265</a>: ‘Promnent in town’ replaced by ‘Prominent in town’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-291">Pg 291</a>: ‘39; shoemaker;’ replaced by ‘shoemaker; 39;’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-295">Pg 295</a>: ‘Died in Brigewater’ replaced by ‘Died in Bridgewater’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-302">Pg 302</a>: ‘of the Willerness’ replaced by ‘of the Wilderness’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-313">Pg 313</a>: ‘adjourned at 12 <span class="allsmcap">M.</span>’ replaced by ‘adjourned at 12 <span class="allsmcap">P. 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