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THE RECORD
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY,
1861-65.
BY
ALONZO
H. QUINT, ,
ITS
CHAPLAIN.
BOSTON: JAMES
P.
WALKER.
1867.
513 ."5
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,
BY JAMES In the Clerk
s Office of
P.
WALKER,
the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Cambridge
:
Press of
John Wilson and Son.
TO
S*r0nir gfesarjjusttis
Jnfanfrg
THE MEMORY OF ITS DEAD, AND
THE FUTURE OF
ITS
LIVING.
PREFACE.
COUNTING
it
the honor of
my
.
life
to
have been the
Second Massachusetts Infantry, the preparation of this record has been no less a work of Chaplain of the
love than of duty.
own
My
full notes,
compared with, and completed men, were
by, the note-books of officers and enlisted its basis.
rolls,
panies eral
I have also carefully studied
the various
all
books, and reports of the regiment and of ;
the full papers preserved by Brevet
Gordon
official
;
private letters,
and
letters in
com
Major-Gen
newspapers
reports of generals, the Report of the
;
Committee
on the Conduct of the War, and the State papers special histories of campaigns and biographies, as well ;
as rebel histories, biographies,
and
official
reports.
addition to the thanks due to Adjutant J. others of the regiment, I acknowledge
my
In
A. Fox and obligations
to the officials in the
kindest facilities
Adjutant-General s office, for the in the examination of their excellent
records.
The engraved nished by friends.
portraits
have, generally, been fur
PREFACE.
VI
movements only
I have described general
to specify the share of the Second.
sufficiently
I have not
criti
I was not a military man.
cised military operations.
I pretend to no
,
knowledge of strategy or
tactics.
If I have been silent as to the gallant deeds of par men, it was because I remembered the reply of a
ticular
1863, to a request for the names of Where all are meritorious, to men deserving medals do mention some is to injustice to the remainder."
commander,
in
"
:
This
"
"
as
is
regiment,"
known
to indulge in
wrote General Hooker, in 1864,
two armies, has no superior." Yet praise seemed to me not only needless, to
but contrary to that
spirit
names of
its
battles
upon
which refused to put the
colors.
I have been painfully convinced that to
men
to
a comrade
whom ;
for
every date
narrative
this record is
made
a scene, and every
name
But is
impossible
The
record the history of a regiment.
lacks the living experiences. for
it is
widows and orphans, and
for childless
Their experiences will fill up the outline. Myself sadly dissatisfied with the result of unsparing
parents.
labor, yet I trust that the
no one of whom,
men
of the Second
in the discharge of
my own
duties, did I ever receive a discourtesy ciate the purpose, this
work.
NEW
BEDFORD, MASS.
and be indulgent
will
from delicate
appre
to the defects, of
A. H. Q.
CONTENTS.
THE HISTORY. PAGE I.
II.
THE BEGINNING CAMP ANDREW
1
14
III.
PATTERSON
CAMPAIGN
33
IV.
WATCHING THE RIVER THE FIRST WINTER THE SPRING CAMPAIGN
43
V. VI. VII. VIII.
IX.
X. XI. XII.
S
60 .
.
.
BANKS S RETREAT
96
CEDAR MOUNTAIN
104
POPE S RETREAT
119
ANTIETAM
128
THE WINTER
143
CHANCELLORS VILLE
XIV.
FROM BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG
XVI. XVII. XVIII.
XIX.
XX. XXI. XXII.
80
GENERAL POPE
XIII.
XV.
67
.
JOURNEYINGS
156 .
.
.
175 185
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY HOME AND BACK FOR ATLANTA * To THE SEA THROUGH THE CAROLINAS NORTHWARD THE END .
195
204 219
244 256
275 288
CONTENTS.
Vlll
THE MEN. I.
THE ENLISTED MEN,
First
Term
295
Second Term ,,
,,
,,
431
Non-commissioned
Staff
.
.
472
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
475
III.
FIELD AND STAFF
509
IV.
THE COLORS AND THEIR BEARERS THE BAND
511
TABLES:
515
II.
V. VI.
513
Nativities
,,
Casualties in Action
,,
The
,,
Commissioned
,,
Summary
Enlisted
Men
517 .
.
.
520
Accounted For
.
.
522
Accounted For
Officers
522
523
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
....
INDEX.
525
ENGRAVINGS. GEORGE H. GORDON
opposite title-page.
EDWARD GARDINER ABBOTT GEORGE L. ANDREWS
opposite p. 14
84
RICHARD GARY
WILDER
1)
117
WIGHT
#
JAMES SAVAGE, JUN CHARLES REDINGTON MUDGE
WILLIAM COGSWELL
.
139
148 181 *
256
ALONZO HALL QUINT WILLIAM BLACKSTONE WILLIAMS
480
THOMAS BAYLEY Fox, JUN
501
488
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
HISTORY. I.
THE BEGINNING. t
ON
Saturday, the 13th day of April,
1861, tidings of the attack upon Fort Sumter came to Boston.
On
E. R. Mudge, R. S. Fay, jun., Greely A. B. Underwood, and others, were in con with George H. Gordon, an educated and
that day,
S. Curtis, sultation
must give up every thing said Major Gordon, addressing Mr. Under now," "and Get men ready. wood, prepare for the war. Go to drilling. Get yourself ready, and give up every experienced soldier.
thing
"You
else."
Major Gordon had already fully considered the sub He had early foreseen the great troubles which ject. were to come upon the nation, and advocated prepara tion.
His military knowledge had given him a promi
nent position in the consultations held at the State House. His advice had been sought, and largely fol lowed, in the organization of the militia for active service ; which enabled the governor to send, upon a few hours notice, the earliest regiments to the defence 1
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. His interest in the approaching had led him to address a meeting of the Suf struggle folk bar. He had already pledged himself to re-enter of the national capital.
the military service of the country, and had therefore
resigned the
command
of the
members of that
New-England Guards
;
it
as
a nursery of officers, rather than to attempt to take
it,
advising the
as
an organization, into the "
field.
Major Gordon to the battalion, upon command, "any son of Massachusetts can
Wherever,"
his
battalion to regard
said
resigning render the most efficient service to the State, there, in
my
judgment, should his efforts be given. Although, in the first outbreak of war, reliance must necessarily be placed upon our militia, in whose ranks are found men of the best classes in our community, yet, for prolonged and continuous service, a composition of forces like that constituting the army of the general government is indisputably the most efficient and ser a composition in which the character and intelli viceable,
gence of our best citizens must be used to organize and the bone and muscle of those
upon whom we must
drill
rely for
our armies.
Then we may, with a small body of well-instructed gentle men, impart information, raise into an organization and render efficient very many large bodies of men, all of whom will in time become soldiers rather than undisciplined mobs of raw militia.
in the present sudden emergency, any, even the capacity exists to impart information and efficiency to a company of privates, we cannot afford to waste precious
Wherever,
least,
material that
may
instruct
many
others,
by
calling
it
to
render
individual service as privates rather than officers. aim, as chief of the New-England Guards, has been
My
rather to impart to
my command
the necessary instruction
THE BEGINNING.
6
command
rather than to build up a pany to serve as privates during the fatigues of a long to enable
them
to
com cam
paign.
Massachusetts needs to-day military skill, science, and power to instruct. No man has a right to refuse his skill to drill
the body of the militia of our State, even though he ambition so near to a soldier s heart, to be the
sacrifices that first to
On
bleed for his
country."
Major Gordon was summoned
the 15th,
to advise regarding the
State House,
to the
forwarding of the
militia regiments that morning called for by the Presi dent of the United States. Upon returning from the
consultation, he said to
Mr. Underwood,
has told me, that,
when he
go with the next
regiment."
"The
gets these troops
governor
off,
I shall
That day, and the suc
ceeding, the gentlemen already mentioned, with others, discussed "for
the
measures necessary for raising troops
the
Underwood was ready
war."
to
go; so was
Curtis.
So were George L. Andrews, Wilder Dwight, and a thousand gallant men all over the State who, as yet without concert, were destined to make a name in ;
history for the
Second Massachusetts Infantry.
They
were soon brought together.
On
the 18th day of April,
the office of Major Gordon,
ber
of
the
New -England
said abruptly,
Gordon
"Will
replied,
"I
you
am
Wilder Dwight entered Dwight was a mem
Guards
battalion,
raise a regiment?"
already committed
and
Major to
that.
have spoken to the governor upon that subject and he has promised me the command of the first
I
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
4
regiment which leaves the State for the
D wight
war."
re repeated his question, in its precise language, and ceived the same reply. Major Gordon then explained
the difficulties in the
way
of raising a regiment
upon
such principles as seemed to him essential.
These
difficulties
depended upon the
fact, that, at that
time, no law authorized the reception of forces into the service of the militia,
Government otherwise than
and that only
of Massachusetts,
men, soldiers,
for a brief period.
all officers
as organized
the laws
By
were to be chosen by the
a system which Major Gordon, with
knew
Nor would follow the
all
other
to be destructive of proper discipline.
the clothing and equipment of the
army model, which
men
his foresight perceived to
and the opposite of which, a very short experience, by another regiment, proved to be absurd. These and other difficulties were discussed at length
be necessary
;
in the interview,
but without arriving at any
factory solution.
But, before they separated,
satis
D wight
suggested, as indispensable, the raising of a fund for
regimental purposes.
This was agreed upon, and the
following paper was immediately drawn up BOSTON, April
:
18, 1861.
proposed forthwith to raise, equip, and organize a regiment of men, to be drilled for efficient service in the defence of the Government wherever they may be
Whereas
it
is
needed; and whereas Major George H. Gordon has offered his services to superintend and aid in this purpose, and action has already been taken by the Governor to offer such a regi to the Government,
ment
The undersigned hereby agree
to contribute the
sums
set
THE BEGINNING.
5
names to pay the expense of such and equipment organization, and the support of the regiment until it can be received into the service and pay of the Gov
opposite their respective
ernment.
With
this paper,
D wight left
the office
:
in less than
an hour he brought it back, bearing subscriptions for In a few days, the sum was thousand dollars.
five
increased
to
nearly thirty thousand,
only
sixty-five
Of
per cent of which proved to be necessary.
D
Thomas wight was the treasurer. The of subscribers will be given in a subsequent page.
fund, Mr.
At
this list
same interview, the manner of addressing for that a regiment was to
this
was discussed
the public
;
be raised was a foregone conclusion, notwithstanding all difficulties. It was determined to issue bills adver tising the raising of a regiment
;
and, within a day or
two, these were printed, and posted in public places.
This notification,
it is believed, preceded the measures under which any other three-years regiment was raised. It was also soon settled, that George L. Andrews, of
Boston,
who had
also been in the councils at the State
House, ought to be lieutenant-colonel. It would have been difficult to find three men equally qualified for the work before them.
The
first,
after
graduating at
West
Point, in 1846,
had immediately entered upon active service. He had participated in every action of General Scott s cam paign, from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico severely
wounded
brevetted
"
after the fall of that city
for gallant
;
;
had been had been
and meritorious conduct
"
;
and
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
6
not until after nine years of service, sometimes as far away as Oregon, had he concluded to return to civil
Entering upon the practice of the law, he was rapidly making himself successful, when he again life.
brought to the service of the country the clear intellect, thorough knowledge, rapid decision, and power of exciting enthusiasm, which have been recognized
by
subsequent promotion, well-earned, and only too slowly given.
George L. Andrews had graduated 1851, at the head of his
at
West
Point,
duty as assistant to Colonel Thayer of the Engineers, he had been engaged for three years in the construction of Fort Warren, in Boston harbor had been ordered to West in
class.
Assigned
to
;
Point as Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Military Engineering, the Science of War, &c.,
where he
remained
a
year,
and resigned on
account of the absurd inadequacy of the (then) pay to support a family. Thoroughly acquainted with military science
from
its
broadest principles
to
its
slightest
a thorough disciplinarian, a man to whom duty was law, his merit has shown itself in higher stations details,
and important commands.
These
qualifications
he
brought to the Second, refusing the place of paymaster,
and also the colonelcy of a regiment of volunteers. Wilder D wight was a graduate of Harvard College,
and of its Law of high rank in the class of 1853, With a clear mind, high culture, indomita
School.
and persuasive powers, with the culture obtained by foreign travel and the discipline of study
ble will, genial
THE BEGINNING.
7
he had sprung with Caleb Gushing and Judge Hoar, at once into the higher ranks of his profession. He was not without some knowledge of military routine, ac
He
quired at a military school.
rank but for the
fatal
These men gave
their best
powers and most earnest
For
devotion to their country.
mined
to
make
would have seen high
day of Antietam. its
sake they deter
a regiment worthy of the cause.
far they succeeded is
now
How
historical.
Previous to
any overt act of rebellion, Greely S. had said to Major Gordon, this and I should like to war, I wish to go
Curtis, of Boston,
thing leads to
go under your
"If
;
command."
In the interviews alluded
Mr. Curtis again spoke of entering the service. He was promised a commission. He mentioned jthe
to,
names of
several of his friends
whom
he thought quali
among them were James Savage, jun., and Henry L. Higginson, of Boston. After some inquiries they
fied
;
were promised suitable positions. These gentlemen and others assisted in raising money, and in other methods. Their recommendation was justified.
On said
Thursday, April 25,
the
"Boston
Journal"
:
Recruiting offices for the new regiment under Major Gordon were opened yesterday at 22, Canal Street at Clin ton Street, corner of Merchants Row; and at 129, Federal Street. Another ... at No. 55, State Street, next to en "
;
.
.
.
trance to Merchants
At Canal
Street
Exchange."
was Mr. Curtis
Mr. A. D. Sawyer
;
at
;
at Clinton Street,
Federal Street, Mr. Under-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
8
at State Street, J. wood, and Richard S. Fay, jun. Parker Whitney, afterwards, Mr. Underwood, and, ;
still
later,
Some
Francis
of these
H. Tucker and T. L. Motley,
jun.
were temporarily suspended for the consideration was weighty
offices
few days that there was yet no authority to raise a regiment, and no evidence that one tendered would be accepted. It after a
was
;
determined,
directly to the
therefore,
War
to
Department.
apply
The
for
authority
State gave
sanction, and Messrs. Andrews and Dvvight were
its
se
to Washington. on the 25th of April. South of Boston They left Philadelphia, they began to find troops on the road
lected to
go
:
but, being bearers of despatches from Governor
Andrew,
they found no difficulty in getting to Perryville on the Susquehanna, where they were obliged to take a tug
boat for Annapolis
;
for this
was the time when the
road through Baltimore was in the hands of a brutal mob allowed to work its will by an inefficient Executive.
evening of the 26th, Messrs. Andrews and reached Annapolis. The buildings and grounds Dvvight of the Naval School were filled with three-months men ;
Late
in the
and, although there were the usual bustle and want of system of raw troops, it was pleasant to see that the
Government had
so far been spurred into
life.
Passes
were procured from General Butler for Washington and information that a train would start at some uncer;
tain time in the night,
uncertain, because the road had
Three days before, been damaged by Maryland rebels. a Massachusetts soldier, looking at a locomotive disabled
THE BEGINNING. by Annapolis people,
said,
made
"I
"
can put
it
again
together
;
this
engine
and I
;
and the Massachusetts
to Eighth and the New- York Seventh opened the way and But the road was again injured the junction. ;
when Messrs. Andrews and
D
wight, with Captain of the Ordnance Corps, a (since Colonel) Maynadier
loyal Virginian,
who had accompanied them from Perry-
night in the station-house, and getting in the morning a breakfast of the usual started on the train, they Southern hog and hominy, after
ville,
remaining
all
found frequent delays necessary for repairs. At Annapo Junction were trains filled with troops, and camps were near by. Pickets were stationed along the road to
lis
Washington
;
troops were in that city, and reconnoi-
sances were being made.
and Clingman were tained
loyal people were then
but Breckenridge, Mason, Wigfall, Hunter,
cheerful;
An
The
still
in
Washington.
interview with the Secretary of
War
was ob
Ord
the help of General Eipley, Chief of
by
Monday, April 29. The application did not The Secretary doubted his right to
nance, on
meet with favor.
authorize the raising of a three-years regiment. as
some time
it
later,
required
effort
to
Then,
obtain
the
The messengers from Massachusetts persisted. D wight thought he could draft a paper which would be satisfactory. Ap privilege of defending the country.
parently wearied with the importunity, the told
him
to
do
hesitation, signed. "
All right
:
It
so.
was done
D wight
go ahead
"
!
;
Secretary and, after a little
immediately telegraphed,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
10
In that paper, which pledged the Secretary to accept when it should be raised, the first author
the regiment
point of time, to raise a three-years regiment,
ity, in
was thus given to what became the SECOND REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. When the President issued his call,
May 4, 1861, for thirty-nine regiments of infantry and one of cavalry, for three years, this
and it was, regiment became one of the thirty-nine with all other volunteer regiments, subsequently a part ;
of the half-million of
men
authorized by Act of
Con
gress, July 22, 1861.
With home,
this permission,
still
by way
Andrews and
D wight
With
of Annapolis.
returned
this authority,
with the assurance of aid from the Governor, and with
promise that the commander should select his officers, and with funds in plenty, the work was pushed The recruiting offices were re vigorously forward.
his
Charles F. opened on the 29th, and others added. Morse opened an office in Salem James Savage, jun., in Fitchburg Marcus Charles R. Mudge, in Lynn ;
;
;
M. Hawes,
Lawrence Rufus Choate, in Springfield Richard Gary, Richard C. Goodwin, and others, in Boston while men were recruited in Easton, in Berk in
;
;
;
shire
County, and a few in other places, at the same
time.
The
control of the
methods were
left
funds
and the designation of
with the commander.
The
particu
rank to be given to Curtis, Savage, Higginson, Mudge, and others was, by common consent, undecided
lar
:
the simple assurance, that, at the proper time, a suitable
THE BEGINNING.
11
assignment of rank should be made, conforming to the impressions of the colonel as to fitness and capacity,
gave entire satisfaction and secured entire harmony. was The principal office headquarters in Boston
Gordon being there except during a temporary illness, when LieutenantColonel Andrews took charge. Charles Wheaton, jun., of Boston, was soon selected to aid, eventually becom opened
at 20, State Street, Colonel
His value is well remembered, as he ing adjutant. in that remained capacity, declining promotion, until he became, in 1862, commissary of subsistence, in which station he rose to a place on the staff of a R. Morris Copeland, in the latter corps commander. part of April, by advice of
James Savage, with whom
he had become acquainted in Salignac
s
drill-club,
plied for the place of regimental quartermaster
given him
;
and
his
made him
:
it
ap
was
and business
indefatigable zeal
a most valuable officer.
Energetic he afterwards was aid to Major-General Banks, and then assistant adjutant-general, with the ability
and
faithful,
rank of major.
Patriotic, able,
will
impulsive, he was finally sacrificed
pardon
it
to personal pique,
all
and brave, yet
who knew him
and on mere pretence. It was held as a principle, that the be
first
selected,
companies
;
felt
and not that the men
unjustly
officers
and they should recruit
he
should
their
own
elect their officers.
This principle was apparently varied from in two instan One was in the case of the ces, but only apparently. "Abbott
Grays."
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
12
On the This was a company raised in Lowell. morning succeeding the attack of the Baltimore rebels on Massachusetts troops, Edward G. Abbott, of ell,
commenced
was
filled
raising a
(in tain
name
Hon.
J.
compliment and four lieutenants,
sions
from the Governor.
Colonel
Gordon was
Abbott applied
the
"for
Organized under the
that day.
of the State, under the to
company
to
of the
It
war."
militia
"Abbott
laws
Grays"
had a cap who received their commis G. Abbott)
When
it
,
was known that
it
raising a regiment,
him
Low
to receive this
Hon. Mr.
company
as a
command.
After an interview with Captain Abbott, the manly qualities of that officer, and the
part of his
superior material in the ranks, satisfied the Colonel
;
and the company was received, with Edward G. Abbott as captain Harrison G. O. Wey mouth, for a few ;
then William D. Sedgwick, lieutenant; and James Francis, second lieutenant
weeks, first
lieutenant
first
;
:
Abbott, to fall at
Cedar Mountain
attain the rank of major,
ricksburg; Sedgwick, to
become a
of the
On
enemy the
to die at
field-officer, s
Antietam
but to bear for
at
Frede-
and Francis, ever the marks ;
bullets.
same day with the above, William Cogswell,
a lawyer in Salem,
commenced
company was soon
filled
Guard,"
Weymouth,
;
and to lose a limb
to
;
recruiting there.
named
while in State service
;
The
Andrew Light and went into camp the
"
on Winter Island, Salem Harbor, in "Camp Webb," about the 22d of April. Through the instrumentality of the
Governor,
it
was made a part of Colonel
THE BEGINNING. Gordon
s
1
with William Cogswell, captain,
regiment,
become brevet-brigadier-general
to
a former soldier in Mexico, battle
;
13
;
Edwin R.
Hill,
lieutenant, to fall in
first
and Robert B. Brown, second lieutenant, then
a law-student, but to leave the service senior captain in his regiment.
1
"
Major Gordon, of this
officer of great merit.
of
West
body tion,
of
Point.
men
as
city, is raising a
His second officer
regiment.
He
is
a West-Point
also a distinguished graduate
Perhaps you would find it agreeable to add so valuable a you offer, to his corps and I presume that your applica ;
under cover of
this letter,
his ranks are not already full,
nor Andrew,
is
May
6.
may
and his
invite his respectful consideration, if officers
selected."
Letter of Gover
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
1-1
II.
CAMP ANDREW.
BROOK FARM, known
a locality in
West Roxbury, once
well
an experiment on the community was owned, in 1861, by Rev. James Freeman system, Clarke, of Boston. When it became necessary to secure as the seat of
a site for a camp, this place occurred to as suitable.
The
"
"
patriotic
use without pay. 1
owner
freely
Mr. Copeland consented, and
was capacious and pleas gave ant, well watered, and had upon it some large build Its use was obtained on the 9th of May; and, ings. its
on the llth of May, CAMP
It
ANDREW
respect to the faithful, patriotic lished
by the
thenceforward
On
known
as "Company
May
named from was estab
Governor
coming of Captain Abbott
the afternoon of
company (C)
so
s
company,
A."
14, Captain
arrived in camp, seventy-five
Cogswell
s
men; and,
1 The liberal proposal of another gentleman, who had been inquired of If the State of Massachu regarding an estate of his, ought to be noticed. setts requires any such place for the accommodation of its soldiery, for one "
year, or for three years, or during the whole term of the war now in pro my estate in West Roxbury, at the end of Weld Street, and opposite
gress,
the Brook farm, is at its service, to be occupied by its artillery, cavalry, or free and gratis, and with infantry, without any expense to the State, John C. Gore $ Sons. out payment of rent or taxes."
CAMP ANDREW.
15
men from Fitchburg and vicinity, detachment of Company D, Captain Savage.
shortly after, forty-two
the
first
In the evening of the same day, Captain Whitney s Late at company (F), seventy-eight men, arrived. night
on the 15th, Captain Under
eleven o clock
wood brought Company I, eighty-two men. On the 20th, Company E, from Medway, eighty men, came to camp. chosen
This company had been raised in April, and had its
regiment,
own it
But, concluding to enter the
officers.
agreed, as the condition of acceptance, to
These
take the officers designated by Colonel Gordon.
were, Samuel
M. Quincy,
who came
captain,
colonel, but found his health so shattered
received at Cedar Mountain, and
by
to be
by wounds
rebel captivity,
that he could not endure the hardships of field service,
and became assistant inspector-general, with the rank and afterwards colonel of the
of lieutenant-colonel,
U.
Seventy-third
brigadier-general
be
;
;
and subsequently
William B. Williams,
a captain when he
ant, tain
S. C. T.,
fell
bravely
at
brevet-ted
first
lieuten
Cedar
Moun
and Ochran H. Howard, second lieutenant,
subsequently in
charge
to
of the signal corps of a
department. Captain
T.
(afterwards
Amory, United -
C.
J.
brigadier
-
general
of
States
Army
volunteers),
being
appointed mustering-officer, began his duty at
Andrew on F,
I,
the 18th, mustering in companies
and parts of other companies.
came, he mustered their first
date appears
regiment was
:
it
at last
men
in.
Camp A, C,
As detachments No record of the
was probably omitted because the mustered in as a whole.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
16
The companies not already mentioned came in detach as recruited. They were organized as follows
ments
:
Greely S. Curtis, captain, whom ill from the service, when he was
Company B,
in 1864, drove
health,
Charles F. major in the First Massachusetts Cavalry Morse, first lieutenant, who, after a faithful service ;
(once wounded in North Carolina)
ment
in
1865
;
and James M.
,
led
Ellis,
home
the regi
second lieutenant,
who subsequently became commissary of subsistence, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. James Savage,
Company D, lieutenant-colonel,
when, a true
he died of wounds received liam D. Sedgwick,
Company
A
first
at
jun.,
soldier
ill
major
a
and gentleman,
Cedar Mountain
Wil
;
lieutenant, but transferred to
before leaving camp, and succeeded
Henry L. Higginson, who remained until
captain,
in the
by
service
health forced him to resign the commission of
in the First Massachusetts Cavalry
promotion of Higginson) Fletcher lieutenant,
who was
Company
F
was
M.
and
;
(after the
Abbott, second
eventually disabled by disease. officered
by Charles R. Mudge,
captain (after a brief service by J. Parker Whitney), who met a soldier s death while leading the regiment in that gallant, fatal charge at
Shaw,
first
lieutenant,
who
Thomas R. Robeson, second
Gettysburg sleeps
at
lieutenant,
;
Robert G.
Wagner and who fell with ;
Mudge at Gettysburg. Company G was commanded by Richard
Gary, who sad 9th one after the of day August, 1862 lingered ;
Henry
S. Russell,
first
lieutenant, since colonel of the
CAMP ANDREW. Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry;
who
second lieutenant,
17
and Anson D. Sawyer, and so ably filled the
so long
post of quartermaster, until, in front health sent
of Atlanta,
ill
him home. Francis
Company H,
H. Tucker,
captain
;
Thomas
L. Motley, jun., first lieutenant, to be permanently dis abled by wounds while major in the First Massachu setts
Cavalry
;
and
(after a brief service of
Robert G.
Shaw) Stephen G. Perkins, second lieutenant, who was added to the list of dead at Cedar Mountain.
Company a
brigadier
Thirty- third
was maimed
I had -
Adin B. Underwood, for
captain,
made
of the
his
general gallant leading Massachusetts at Wauhatchie, where he
for life
Marcus M. Hawes,
;
first
lieuten
ant, afterwards assistant quartermaster in the
Depart ment of the Gulf; and Rufus Choate, second lieutenant, whose broken constitution and recent death were the price of his loyalty.
Company K was commanded by Richard C. Goodwin, who left an ambulance, at Cedar Mountain, to fall in George P. Bangs, first lieutenant, afterwards and Charles P. Horton, second prostrated by disease battle
:
;
lieutenant, afterwards an assistant adjutant-general.
The
staff,
in addition to the adjutant
and quarter
master already noticed, was composed as follows Lucius M. Sargent, jun., surgeon, who, after dis :
playing eminent ability in that post, entered the First Massachusetts Cavalry as captain, and fell, a lieutenantcolonel, near Bell Field, Va., in
1864; Lincoln R.
Stone, assistant-surgeon, eventually surgeon of volun2
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
18
teers
and, in June, Rev. Alonzo
;
whose church,
at
H. Quint,
chaplain,
Jamaica Plain, gave him two years
leave of absence, before their final separation.
The non-commissioned George
W.
in the Florida
staff
was made up as follows
:
Blake, a soldier in the regular service
and Mexican Wars, was appointed
geant-major, eventually disabled
by
disease
;
ser
James H.
quartermaster sergeant ; Erastus B. Car 11, had served five years in the Fourth United-States
Fletcher,
who
and earned promotion Nutting, hospital-steward, who served un Joseph til he died of disease Henry Kesselhuth, who had Artillery, commissary-sergeant,
;
W.
;
been a soldier (and wounded) in the Brunswick service in the revolutions of 1848, drum-major; and Charles Spiegel was band-leader until regimental bands were
That band, raised under the auspices of P. S. Gilmore, was a rare acquisition. discharged.
The these
first
sergeants of the
several companies were
:
Company A, Eben B. Whitten, killed at Cedar Mountain. Company B, Joseph C. Hill, who had served in India, and who became an officer on the staff of General Rosecrans.
George B. Cedar Mountain, and
Company C,
wounded
at
Browning, severely made an officer in the Invalid Corps. Company D, Theodore K. Parker, promoted for gallant conduct. William R. Parsons, afterwards dis Company E,
Sol Company F, charged for wounds at Antietam. omon Martin, killed at Antietam. Company G, George P. Southack, once a soldier in the United-
CAMP ANDREW.
19
States service, in Utah, disabled at
Charles
Company H,
W.
Everett
F.
Cedar Mountain.
Green.
Company
I,
Pattison, a graduate of Waterville College,
who became captain. Company K, William T. Mix, who soon died of disease contracted in the line of duty. Hans G. Christensen was color-sergeant, who, disabled by at *
disease, shed tears as he saw,
from the hospital tent
Darnestown, the colors carried out in battalion
That
have taken such care
flag that I
the chaplain,
"
I shall never carry
to a line of successors,
dishonored
the most of
;
in
"
of,
whose hands
whom
he said to
He
again."
it
drill.
left
it
was never
are sleeping in soldiers
graves.
Of
the other non-commissioned officers and the
names and deeds
their
will
men,
be recorded by and by.
They entered the service before the days of bounties. The pay they expected was eleven dollars a month.
Some had
seen service in India, before and behind the
works of Sebastopol, in the French
service,
in the
revolutions of 1848, in Florida, in Mexico, in Oregon,
and on the Plains
and these were ready to renew the hardships of march and bivouac and camp, of picket and reconnoissance, of skirmish and battle, of ambulance and full
To
hospital.
of
unknown
meet them brarer officers,
;
most, war was a mysterious thing, but these men were, ready to ;
terrors
for the country s sake.
men
left
gave
home than
the
these,
Massachusetts
No
nobler, truer,
who, led by such Second its noble
record.
The regiment was gradually
filled.
At
Colonel
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
20
ity.
head-quarters in Boston there was great activ The office was alive, day after day, with men,
who,
as accepted,
Gordon
s
were sent to
The
Camp Andrew.
general business was pressing, but easily despatched by one so well versed in all military details as Colonel
D
At camp,
assisted by such a -man as Major wight. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews soon appeared,
and took
his quarters.
Gordon, and
fell
mainly
The
drill
and
share of work.
to his
discipline there
Sergeant
Collins,
of the United-States Sappers and Miners, was obtained but he did not remain long, and Lieu as drill-master ;
Andrews himself
tenant-Colonel
drilled the officers,
and
had, as well as Colonel Gordon later, recitations daily.
In
own
with their
fact,
drill,
the drill of the
men,
attention to all roll-calls, guard-mounting, parade, and daily recitations in tactics, the officers call their
own.
show
:
"
this
4.45, A.M., Reveille
company drill
The hours of duty,
Surgeon
Signal for breakfast
;
s call,
by squads
as recorded, will
5.20, Inspection
;
and signal
time to
of quarters
;
7.45,
by
and squad-
for drill to cease
7.40, Inspection of guard detail by
sergeants of companies for drill
little
5.30, Roll call of companies,
officers;
6.45,
;
;
had
;
7,
first
Guard mounting 8.30, Signal by squads to cease, ;
10.30, Signal for drill
commissioned officers to assemble for practical instruc 11.30, Signal for non-commissioned officers to assemble
and
for
tion
;
for practical instruction, the sergeant-major will call the roll
12, M. Signal for
commissioned
officers to
retical instruction; 12.45, P.M., Recall,
and non-commissioned
Signal for dinner; 3.30, Signal for drill; drill to cease ; 6.30, Signal for companies to for Signal
officers 6,
;
assemble for theo
drill;
1,
CAMP ANDREW. assemble for
roll-call,
by
captains
supper;
to
and inspection by company
parade-ground
Tattoo; 9.30,
9,
When
the
Immediately after parade,
;
Taps."
commissions were issued at the
House, those of the field 24 of the surgeon, May 28 1
May 24
;
of the
first
second lieutenants,
The
;
colonel
lieutenants,
May
issued
commission, as follows
2 ;
May
of the captains,
25
;
and of the
28.
his
new
order under the
first
:
HEADQUARTERS SECOND REG. MASS. VOLS. CAMP ANDREW, WEST ROXBUEY, May GENERAL ORDERS, No.
May
of the assistant surgeon,
of the chaplain, June 20
;
State
1 officers were dated
;
June
officers;
companies to be marched
signal for
6.40, Adjutant s call,
21
27, 1861.
1.
1. The undersigned, having been duly invested with the proper authority, hereby assumes the command of the troops
at this
encampment.
1 On what principle the dates were assigned was never quite understood. The date of the colonel s commission, when the papers were made out, was
found to be May 24 that of the colonel of the First Regiment, May 22, which, by rule, gave that regiment a nominal priority. As a matter of fact, Colonel Cowdin had not been mustered in on the day that Colonel Gordon ;
was;
at least, Captain
Colonel Gordon after ten
wrong;
s
Amory, mustering
muster.
By the
rule, that
companies were mustered
for his tenth
in,
officer, so stated
on the day of
commissions could be given only
Colonel Cowdin
company was not mustered
s
date
was
clearly
until the 27th, according to
the reports of the adjutant-general, while the latest day possible to the Second was the 25th. In addition, the Adjutant-general s Report, issued Jan was mustered into the service of the uary, 1866, says the First Regiment "
was so, the question of priority is 15, Department decided on May 25 as the date of the Second. It is a matter of little moment, however both regiments honored themselves and Massachusetts. 2 This date should have been earlier the inadvertence or misunderstand United States, June
1861."
If this
settled, as the
;
;
ing of that
officer led to
an error not perceived until too
late to
remedy.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
22
The order
2.
of rank of the captains of the Second Regi
ment, having been designated by authority duly delegated from the War Department, is hereby promulgated for the benefit of all concerned
1st,
:
Francis H. Tucker
Curtis; 3d, James Savage, Abbott; 5th, Samuel M. Quincy;
ly S.
William Cogswell
Underwood;
;
8th, J.
tenure
was
Gree-
6th,
;
Goodwin.
GEORGE H. GORDON. CHARLES R. MUDGE, Acting Adjutant.
of Colonel
Power indeed had been had, its
4th,
2d,
;
Edward G.
Richard Gary; 7th, Parker Whitney 9th, Adin B.
10th, Richard C.
By command
jun.
;
rather
formal appointment,
it
but, until the muster-in,
From
baseless.
time
the
rested on firm foundations.
fact, the military authority asserted, perhaps,
of
In
its earliest
prerogative over citizens in Massachusetts at this camp. It was when a citizen had opened a place for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
It
was working mischief. So, squad was sent to the
after fruitless remonstrances, a
place, under an officer
;
and, although outside the camp,
unceremoniously emptied the liquors into the road, and so abated the nuisance.
For the
first six
ready cooked. vided
;
weeks, food was furnished to the
Suitable cooks and stewards
fit
men
men used to come to The system was changed, how
for actual service
;
and company cooks
worthy of record, that, under the system, although the groceries and some other food
were detailed. first
r
and, three times a day, the
the proper quarters. ever, to
men
w ere pro
It
is
were supplied by the same dealers as supplied the Tremont and the Revere, and the extravagance of the food was sharply commented upon, yet the average daily
CAMP ANDKEW. cost per
man was found
five cents
;
have been short of twentywhile contractors for some other troops had
The
forty cents.
to
difference
was
in
the oversight of
The regimental fund paid
Quartermaster Copeland. the
23
bills.
The
clothing
was procured, by contract, from Whit Bliss, of Boston, and was the best the
&
ing, Galloupe,
regiment ever had. Strong efforts were made to have and but Colonel Gordon was firm, gray adopted ; "
"
Andrews supported uniform must be had. Indeed, him, army when the militia was to be made ready to go to Wash
the opinion of Lieutenant-Colonel that the
whose presence was asked at a consultation, advised the army uniform. general He hoped never to see the Massachusetts soldier said, ington, Colonel Gordon,
A
"
clothed in the uniform of the regular army.
Such an
attempt had nearly caused a mutiny in a Massachusetts
regiment in "
don,
"
Mexico."
that the
and, as
the
start with,
it
war
is
troops
I
said Colonel
believe,"
to be one of
may wear
out
the
would be almost impossible
clothes for the
to supply a pair of Massachusetts trousers.
that saved the Massachusetts regiment in
they
Gover
nor of Massachusetts to follow each soldier to the
all
Gor
no short duration,
field
Besides,
Mexico
from returning in the uniform of the Georgia militia (shirt collar and pair of spurs) was due to the fact f
that they were supplied with United-States uniforms
which they wore
Colonel Gordon to as the regiment
The regimental fund enabled make his own selections, especially
home."
was
in an
anomalous position as to
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
24
But the State subsequently assumed
authority.
the cost
of the clothing. It
was with considerable
that
effort
rifled
muskets
the Enfield, were secured; but they were obtained, when the Enfield imported was a good piece. Gradu ally
it
was superseded by the same character.
Springfield, of substan
tially the
When,
after
weeks of preparation, the wagons were
twenty-seven in those luxurious brought to camp, and hundred the finely selected wagon-horses days,
were tethered
in the
well-nigh complete.
No
equipment was
limits, the
such was found anywhere in
and when, in after days, wagons were cut down number, and horses turned in, and at last mules re
service in
camp
;
rather the placed the horses, the wagoners sighed, for the under successive wagoner, twenty-five had, orders, dwindled to one.
Two first
flags
had been presented
was on the 26th of June.
Advertiser
"
to the regiment.
The
gave the following account
"Boston
The Daily
:
The regiment was drawn up in line of battle, and pre sented a fine and soldierly appearance. Their movements all indicated a high state of efficiency and drill. large
A
number
of spectators, including the donors and their friends, were present on the hill overlooking the parade-ground. At a
quarter-past five, Mr. E. Francis Bowditch advanced towards Colonel Gordon, before the line, unfolding the colors to the breeze.
The
playing the
battalion saluted
"
Star-Spangled
ordered to the
by presenting arms, the band
The
officers, having been around the colonel, group on behalf of Lothrop Motley,
Banner."
front,, gathered in a
and were addressed by Mr.
J.
the ladies presenting the flag, as follows
:
CAMP ANDREW. Colonel
Gordon,
Gentlemen,
25
and Ladies
:
Only three
hours ago, I was informed, to my utter surprise, that the honor had been conferred upon me of presenting this banner to your regiment. I wish that
some worthier and more experienced speaker
And yet I could not find could have performed this service. the it in heart to deep gratification of associ deny myself my ating my name, in however subordinate a degree, with this I implore noble regiment and this most interesting occasion. to for express the my inability adequately your forgiveness
emotions which are
filling all
our hearts.
You
will not value
the less this gift from the fair hands of your countrywomen, from those who are near and dear to you, because of my deficiency.
Never
in
my life
as on this occasion.
did I so covet the divine gift of eloquence And yet I am consoled for, had I the ;
tongue of angels, I could not hope to match the mute elo quence of those stars and those stripes.
Nearly a century ago, there beyond the green hills, in the and ancient town of Cambridge, the seat of the Muses,
fair
on the 1st of January, 1776, that banner of stripes was first unfurled to the breeze by the great hand of Washington. The Continental Congress, eighteen months later, added the cluster of stars.
more
to
set.
Then rose that glorious constellation, never The starry symbol of our Union, respected
abroad on land and
sea, and idolized at home, was never degraded or trailed in the dust till 1861, and never by the hands of foreigners. Never shall living man forget how
the hearts of
all loyal Americans, whether dwelling on this or the other side of the Atlantic, were thrilled, as by the sound of the trumpet, when we first caught the response to the call of the president for volunteers, the voice of twenty
millions
whose bosoms were one.
To your
hands, Colonel Gordon, to your tried valor, to your signal ability, to your fortunate military experience on
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
26
we gladly intrust these our most precious the bone and muscle of our ancient Common possessions, wealth, and the aspirations and the ardor of the youthful
the field of honor,
chivalry of our State. know that in your hands, and in those of your brave companions in arms, the welfare and honor of the whole
We
country are safe. Our hearts are too full for words. Our hopes, our prayers, our pride, every thing but our fears, go with you. In the name of your countrywomen, I present to you this flag. know that its folds will never be stained,
We
wave foremost among
that they will ever
duty and honor
As
I place
the foremost
where
call.
it
in
your hand, I
will only
add the brief and
simple phrase of the herald, in the early days of warfare and of chivalry, May God defend the Right "
"
!
Colonel Gordon then replied substantially as follows In the name of the Second Regiment of Massachu Sir, :
setts
Volunteers,
it
becomes
my
duty to receive
cent flag, and to respond as well as I may.
this magnifi I could wish that
some one more eloquent might answer for them. But this is not the hour or the place for words. When I look upon this long line of men, eager to fight for their country, and in the youthful but resolute faces of these
who surround me, I feel a deep sense of the responsi on which I have entered, and which, God willing, I will discharge. This flag of our country, which bears on its
officers bilities
war of the Revolution, of the war of 1812, and of another conquest of Mexico, has never been trailed in the dust before a foreign foe. It was left to our own countrymen to make the first record of its dishonor. But it still continues the flag of our country, and, God willing, none other shall wave defiantly before it. Never, till it was
folds the glorious record of the
we
be so truly the symbol of our accustomed to regard it in country greatness. times of peace as only a symbol of our prosperity ; but, now
struck down, did s
feel it to
We had been
CAMP ANDKEW. we
that the hour of trial has come,
after.
look to
it
as the
emblem of wave
It shall never cease to
our freedom and our power. over our whole country.
We
27
accept this flag, and will render our account of it here And, sir, borrowing the sentiment of that immortal
statesman,
we
will strive to defend
it
so that not a star shall
be removed nor a stripe erased.
At
the
of the colonel
conclusion
s
address, the officers
The color-guard advanced, received returned to their posts. the colors from Mr. Bowditch, and carried them to their posi tion in the line
;
and the battalion was then marched
column of platoons
to
parade-ground in front
the
off in
of the
encampment. The companies were then dismissed, and, half an hour later, returned for dress-parade. At the close of parade, the ladies and other friends of the officers were invited to head-quarters,
The
flag
the richest
is
where they found an abundant
an unusually
silk.
The
embroidered on a blue
fine one, six feet
by
collation.
nine,
made of
stars are of gold bullion, field.
The
solid silver eagle, heavily gilded,
staff is
and
is
very heavy, surmounted by a
decorated with gold
The flag does great credit to the and we feel assured has been placed in
tassels of great richness.
designers and donors the hands of those who will esteem ;
to carry
it
in the
seek their country
it
an inestimable privilege will never cease to
van of our army, and s
welfare at any personal sacrifice.
The donors of this
Mrs. Richard S. Fay, jun., Miss Bowditch, Mrs. P. Stevens, Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs. George M. Barnard, Miss Btirtlett, Miss Motley, Mrs. Eben Bacon, Miss S. F. Bradlee, flag
were
Miss Amory, Mrs. John G. Gushing, Mrs. James M. Codman, Miss Sargent, Mrs. J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Mrs. Mudge, Mrs. Alice Bowditch, Mrs. N. T. Bowditch.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
How gallantly this flag may
be seen in
The
its
was borne,
the battle-flag
remnants
at the State
House.
was presented on the 1st of July. It arms and motto, with the name of the regiment; on the other, the inscription, State flag
had upon one
side the State
bear the flag, and keep step to the music, of the Union," with the name of the regiment repeated. "We
The donors of
this flag were Miss Gary, Mrs. Mrs. Misses Jere. Abbott, Mrs. J. M. Bangs, Bangs,
Mrs. Rufus Choate, Mrs. J. E. Pratt, Mrs. Good win, Miss Bowditch, Mrs. Henry F. Durant, Miss Bartlett, Miss Adams, Miss A. Reynolds, Miss Amory,
Bell,
Misses Austen, Miss Horton, Miss Tyler, Miss Upton, Miss Thwing, Miss Gray, Miss Hall, Mrs. Whitmore,
Miss Lombard, Miss Blake, Mrs. J. B. Upham, Miss J. Whitney, Mrs. S. H. Walley, Miss Brewer, Mrs. John E. Lodge, Mrs. R. C. Mackay, Mrs. T. H. Perkins, Mrs. Samuel Hooper, Mrs. J. T. Coolidge,
Mrs. J. S. Coolidge, Mrs. H. Ritchie, Miss Curtis, Miss Abbott, Miss Higginson.
Hon. George
S. Hillard
made
tation, in behalf of the ladies
preserved, his
the address of presen
who gave
So
it.
remarks were as follows
far as
:
I have been requested to present this regiment under your command. It is the gift of some of our patriotic countrywomen, who, since the breaking-
Colonel Gordon,
flag to the
out of this war, have
shown
in so
have a peculiar value
in
your eyes.
ure in performing this duty.
their high-
many ways
souled devotion to the cause of their country. as well as for the ideas which it symbolizes, I
And
For
am
I have
their sake,
sure
much
it
will
pleas
I feel a special interest in the
CAMP ANDREW.
29
and fortunes of your regiment, from the fact that among your ranks are several of my friends and one dear kinsman. Upon this flag are displayed the arms of Massachusetts, a
fate
we love so well, and which so well deserves our But we love the Union none the less, but all the more,
State which love.
because of our local attachment to the particular spot in lot has been cast. The affections of the heart are
which our increased,
the
use. What should we say of should affirm that his love for his father was so
and not exhausted, by
man who
great that he had none left to
Such,
it
seems
to
me,
is
bestow upon his mother? who profess an
the attitude of those
allegiance to their State of such kind and degree as to be
incompatible with an affectionate loyalty to the Union. The flag has also as a motto or device the words,
"
We
and keep step to the music, of the Union." You know by what eloquent lips, now sealed in death, these words were spoken, words which have become proverbial and immortal, a part of the circulating wealth of the intellect
carry the
flag,
ual realm.
This expression
is
one of those
Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of "
Sparkle for
all
time
ever."
In the quarry of that rich and creative mind
many such
were elaborated, symmetrical, glittering, These words of the great orator, patriot, and
crystals of speech
translucent.
statesman, are with peculiar propriety borne upon this banner, because his kindred and the children of his blood have been largely instrumental in procuring
it,
and because
his only son
serving under your command. Assuredly, the is well this day. with it sees what spirit pleased
is
father
s
And here I might pause for that which I was desired to do I have done. But you and the officers and men under ;
your command will permit me to make for a few observations which I hope thereto.
this occasion the text
may
prove pertinent
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
30
Colonel Gordon replied appropriately, but the reply
was never written
The
out. "
"
Transcript
added
:
-
Both speeches were received with cheers and at the close the regiment was marched into the camp, and, after an inter val of rest, was drawn up for the evening dress-parade, the "
;
execution of which excited high praise. tion
was dispensed
at head-quarters
;
A
refreshing colla
and the company were
entertained by music from the well-trained band, until the shades of evening compelled them to beat an unwilling retreat."
No
regiment had warmer or kinder friends.
The
mere suggestion of any want brought immediate sup Money or time was not then, nor ever after, ply. Second with every thing that Evidence of this will thoughtful love could imagine. The Second appear in the course of this record. spared to
furnish the
repaid the kindness, on
many
a hard-fought
field.
Nearly two months passed away in steady prepara sometimes irksome Hard work, and severe
tion.
discipline, side.
made
Memory
entrance his post,
;
it
no holiday.
But
reproduces the spot.
had
it
its
The guard
bright at the
the head-quarters, with the sentinel walking
a strange sight;
the flagstaff where, from
and Stripes floated ; the hospital in the rear of head -quarters, where surgeon and
reveille to retreat, the Stars
assistant
surgeon faithfully ministered
the
winding road to the slope where the old tents were ranged in double lines with company-street between ; the cook houses on the left ; the line-officers tents crowning the ;
CAMP ANDREW. slope
;
31
the quarters of the excellent bcand
;
the river
where men bathed by companies the drill-ground the hollow where, on the sabbath, was public worship the level where, evening after evening, beauty and ;
;
;
generosity watched the strange and fascinating parade, all
are before the eye of such of the thousand
as the fate of
many
war has
left
;
a thinned band
and maimed,
that are left are scarred
now to
men
;
and
whom,
with other thousands, their country owes eternal grati tude.
Late in the evening of the 6th of July came communication
this
:
CAMP GORDON,
July
6,
8,
P.M.
COLONEL GORDON, Second Regiment, M.Y. Sir,
The
following despatch
was received
ters this afternoon, at four o clock
at head-quar
:
WAR
DEPARTMENT, July
6,
1861
ADJUTANT-GENERAL, MASS.
Governor Andrew has been requested [by] telegraph to New York, to order Colonel Gordon s
the Brevoort House,
regiment to proceed as rapidly as possible to Williamsport, via Chambersburg, and report to Major-General Patterson.
WINFIELD SCOTT. In the absence of His Excellency, I communicate the
Inasmuch as they knew, at "Washington, that to leave on Monday, the fact of General Scott sending the message makes it apparent that he wished and we shall endeavor to make ar you to leave before message.
your
command was
;
rangements
to enable
your regiment
to leave for
New
York,
to-morrow, P.M.
WM. SCHOULER,
Adjutant-General.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
32
for the next after Arrangements were not completed noon but, on the morning of the 8th of July, tents were struck quarters aban baggage was packed :
;
doned
ward
; "
!
;
men formed in column; "route and CAMP ANDREW ceased to be.
the
step, for
PATTERSON
33
CAMPAIGN.
S
III.
PATTERSON
WHEN,
at ten o clock
CAMPAIGN.
S
on the morning of the 8th of
1861, Camp Andrew was abandoned,
July,
never
the regiment marched to be occupied by troops , a mile and a half to West-Roxbury station, on the
more
Dedham Branch,
to take cars for Boston.
It
was an
intensely hot day, never surpassed in severity in any
At
campaigns in Virginia or Georgia.
Boston, the in
tended line of march through the principal streets was to the disappointment of
wisely abandoned, although
many
friends
who had provided
The regiment, under
points.
was taken only from the Park, and Beacon Streets, Beacon-street
Mall,
on
refreshments at various
the escort of the Cadets,
through Tremont,
station,
to the
the
loaded with luxuries awaited
southern end of the
Common, where
tables
Partings were ended by and by and, through the densest of crowded throngs, the waving of flags, and the cheers of thousands, the it.
;
regiment entered the Providence station.
Wagons,
horses, baggage, and wagoners, who had come direct thousand ly to Boston, had their own train.
A
and
thirty-five
men
occupied theirs 3
;
and, late in the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
34
afternoon, the journey of years began,
1
with welcome
along the waters, which glittered in the evening moonlight ; upon the steamer at Groton, with but one accident, the stepping of an officer into at every station,
over the
the water, from which he emerged safely;
Sound through the night, and in the waters of NewYork Bay in the morning ; landing, and a rest in CityHall Park, with food for the men, while a breakfast at the Astor exhibited the generous love of the host for to be repeated
the Second,
again
its
in
camp
1863
when
same spot was
that
an ovation in the
;
streets
;
steamboat to Elizabethport ; hours of waiting there, with new kindnesses and, at eleven o clock at night, ;
on the
train of the
Then
there
New-Jersey
Central.
was a long journey
sweeping through central Pennsylvania fires
;
Jersey
;
meeting the
dawn
of the iron-furnaces at the gray of
hands and bathing
New
across
dipping
;
faces, at a short halt, in the beauti
Lehigh Valley ; dashing down the mag across wheat-fields of the Cumberland Valley
ful river of the
nificent
;
the lovely Susquehanna, at Harrisburg
Hagerstown past midnight, "
the peremptory
"Halt
!
;
and entering
to meet, for the first time,
of the sentinel, before finding
rest in the churches of that
town
;
on the next afternoon,
marching
to Williamsport, there to pitch the
ley tents
on the
level beside the
few guns on the bluff above l
On
the
Common, one man
and
left.
"
;
The
Metcalf, J.S.J.C.
"
The body was
"
alive.
Sib-
five
next morning,
sheriffs of
our several counties
at
their respective deputies found the bod} of ringham, in the county of Berkshire, a minor," "
new
Potomac, under the
George H. Sweet, of Ty-
by
direction of
"Theron
PATTERSON S CAMPAIGN. July 12, fording the
35
and entering that Virginia
river,
destined to furnish the grave of
many
a hero.
and knapsacks were heavy but, in the afternoon, that place was The last mile was lined with lively men, the reached.
was
It
thirteen miles to Martinsburg, ;
three-months
who were amazed
soldiers,
see
to
men
and when, passing through the march with knapsacks town, and turning to the left, the regiment halted on a ;
pleasant height,
Patterson
s
it
pitched
among
that
viz.,
camps of
the
Here we obtained
eighteen thousand men.
much news;
"Johnston
is
falling
back,"
so chagrined at his position that he that two companies of rebels drunk ; continually "
that
Johnston
is
"
"
is
tents
its
have deserted to our
On
information.
and other equally valuable was assigned
side,"
the 14th, the regiment
to the sixth brigade, Colonel
General Patterson,
war
Abercrombie.
who had been
a captain in the
of 1812, and had served with credit in Mexico, was
a Pennsylvanian, of the three-months
His
service.
Chamber sburg, where he took command on the 2d of June, and his first object
forces
was
had been collected
to
When,
dislodge after
the
at
enemy from
Harper s
Ferry.
overcoming various obstacles, he advanced
which he reached on the 15th, the rebel Johnston abandoned Harper s Ferry, and fell back to Williamsport,
to four miles eral Patterson
below Charlestown.
had
and
foot,
the 16th,
partially crossed the river,
received a despatch,
ton."
On
"
Send
all
Gen
when he
the regular troops, horse
and the Ehode-Island Regiment to Washing
Thus
left
without a single piece of
artillery,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
36
and but one
of cavalry, and sadly weakened
"
"
troop
of regulars, he was obliged to recross. by After vexatious trials as to requests for re-enforcements the
loss
and as
on the 2d of
transportation, he recrossed,
to
July, with less than eleven thousand men, and with one sharp skirmish at Falling battery of smooth bores.
A
Waters hardly impeded day,
he
progress
;
and, the next
When the Second Martinsburg. other with re-enforcements, his force made,
entered it
arrived,
his
The enemy eighteen thousand and two hundred men. in some force at Bunker Hill, twelve miles from
was
Martinsburg
and had
;
fortified
Winchester, nine miles
south of Bunker Hill.
General Patterson was
now
directed to detain
ston in the valley, while operations from
were directed against the enemy plan of transferring his curing Harper supplies
,
Ferry
and being
;
McDowell ranted)
s
;
command
Washington
Manassas.
at
John
His own
Leesburg, thus se
to
opening a shorter line for his either
in position
or to strike Johnston
should that general
to
his (if
re-enforce force
war
move towards Manassas,
had not met with approval
at the
War
Department,
although afterwards declared by General Halleck the General Patterson was thus left to do proper course. the impossible thing of keeping at Winchester an
which could
opposite side, to
On
move out
army
it, on exactly the re-enforce the enemy s main army.
at liberty
the llth of July, he
of
was warned from Washing when they had
ton, that the rebels intended to attack,
drawn him
"
sufficiently far
back from the river [that
is,
PATTERSON
S
CAMPAIGN.
37
towards Winchester] to render impossible his retreat
A
council called by it on being vanquished." General Patterson (of whose members five afterwards
across
became general
including Major-General
officers,
Thom
as) unanimously opposed an advance on Winchester. But, as a demonstration was wanted to be made at the
same time with McDowell s
made
move forward
to
intention of afterwards
Sunday rations
attack,
as far as
moving
preparations were
Bunker
Hill, with the
to Charlestown.
On
evening, the 14th, orders were issued to cook
;
and the camp-fires lighted
hills
and
valleys.
That afternoon, the Second had held its first public and the same afternoon religious worship in the field ;
One
the sick were sent back to Williamsport.
of that
number, Hibbard, of Company A, was the first who left home it was on the
died after the regiment had
:
5th of August.
March
The army was on two par morning. allel roads. Arrived at the dirty hamlet of Bunker Hill in the afternoon. Pickets thrown out till they in the
encountered Johnston
s.
Bivouacked that night.
gentle shower rather impaired
a
its effect,
A
new expe
rience then.
The next day, General Scott.
Johnston was
was the day designated by The battle was supposed to be fought. the 16th,
.
on the 17th, the army moved to Charlestown, where it would be as well situated in reference to Winchester, and decidedly better as to
still
itself.
at
Winchester;
so,
The Second was
A.M., and moved at eleven.
in
column
at three
Those were the days of
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
38 trains
miles
:
when
off,
the head had reached Charlestown, eight
three miles of the column had yet to start
At Middleway,
!
people scowled at the flag; at At eleven Charlestown, the women scowled and spit. the Second bivouacked just westward of the at the
night,
town.
haven
"We
next
people
"since
day,
John Brown was were curious.
had such a
t
the
John Brown was
hung."
and the
soldiers
their standard topic
They
said
crowd,"
;
carried off, in small bits, a timber
Perhaps they never discovered but as to the place that they had got the wrong stick of execution, which thousands visited, there was no of the gallows frame.
;
mistake.
When
General Patterson found that the battle had
not been fought, he issued orders for
and
in
was
and to prepare to march imme but his men s time This was on the 18th
haversacks
diately."
to
;
:
out, or nearly so
He
the enemy. vain.
cooked,
"rations
;
move towards
they would not
entreated and expostulated,
All he could do, therefore, was to
Harper
s
Ferry.
When
Johnston
but in
fall
actually
back left
Winchester, Patterson telegraphed the fact to General Scott.
On
the
18th,
in
the
ordered alone to Harper superintendent
s
grounds
s
Ferry. that
the 21st, General Patterson
The Second moved
On
the 23d, Colonel
the
afternoon,
It
camped
in
the
On
night.
came with
Second was
his
Sunday, whole force.
across the road, and bivouacked. in
command
as temporary
garrison."
Gordon was placed
of the post, with the Second
"
PATTERSON
Among
S
39
CAMPAIGN.
other incidents, thirteen fugitive slaves had ac
companied the army to Harper s Ferry. Their owners came for them and General Patterson ordered that the ;
masters have
back battle
The
all assistance.
fugitives
were sent
That same week, the of Bull Kun was fought; and the owners of
to
their
owners.
rebel
some of those very
were in the rebel army that
slaves
day.
General Patterson long suffered under public censure but the simple facts were for his military conduct ;
he was long delayed, before entering Virginia,
these,
his by somebody s failure to supply transportation best troops and all his artillery were taken away ; when he was supplied and though inadequately :
armed,
he necessitated
evacuation
the
of
Harper
s
to go to LeesFerry by the enemy ; his chosen plan in front of Win was refused placed absurdly burg ;
chester, his strength
who had
inferior to that of the
enemy,
To
advantage of fortifications.
also the
tack was suicidal
was
;
at
and he was even cautioned, from
Washington, enemy was trying to draw him on. He was directed to detain Johnston at Winchester, that the
lest
he should re-enforce the enemy at Manassas
;
when
the road to Manassas lay directly on the opposite side of Winchester, and entirely beyond the least possibility
A
day was assigned by General work would be consummated; and on that day Johnston was still at Winchester. Patterson s men were going out of service and went im of being disturbed. Scott
on which
this
;
mediately, in spite of his entreaties.
And,
in his
whole
40
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
movement, he had then, George H. Thomas^
1864, the approval of
as in
then on his
whose opinion is decisive. eral, a reason for the failure at Bull
staff,
now major-gen
The people demanded
Eun
and stupidity in Eastern Virginia threw the blame on General Pat ;
terson.
A
flag
was presented
The
the
to
Second, at Harper s
women
of that town had secretly Ferry. loyal made a flag, to be given to the first national regiment
which should enter Harper This traitor
s
Ferry.
town by the keeping to Fred
flag, during the occupation of the
army, was secretly sent for
erick City, Maryland.
It
safe
was brought back,
after the
occupation of Harper s Ferry by the Massachusetts Second. The occasion of the presentation was one of unusual interest. The citizens assembled in the square,
on the evening of July 24
;
and Colonel
Gordon,
accompanied by the officers of the regiment, the band, and the color-bearer, went down from head-quarters to receive the flag. It was presented to the color-bearer, and saluted, while the band played the Star Spangled Banner. One of the ladies, Miss Annie Marlatt, then as
spoke
follows
:
Soldiers of the Union
Thankful that you have come here firesides, and in view of your kind and manly bearing toward us, we, the ladies of Harper s
to protect our
:
homes and our
the Ferry, take pleasure in presenting you this banner, Stars and Stripes which our forefathers, our Washington, and
our kinsmen, both North and South, fought under. Take it, and may you preserve it unblemished ; and may it be a beacon
PATTERSON of protection to float
life,
You may
!
liberty,
S
CAMPAIGN.
41
and happiness, wherever
it
may
then rely upon the prayers, blessings, and
good wishes of the ladies of Harper s Ferry.
Colonel Gordon then replied as follows
We
:
are proud, ladies of Harper s Ferry, to receive from The this emblem of our unbroken nationality.
your hands
presentation of our nation s color on Virginia soil, by Virgini ans, to a regiment of patriotic, Union-loving soldiers from It is an appeal, by men and is significant. of Virginia, to Massachusetts soldiers, to protect them in their constitutional rights and privileges against the treas
Massachusetts,
women
onable efforts of rebels, who are represented by that despicable secession-rag that dares to flaunt its accursed folds upon our nation
s soil.
Ladies of Virginia, bilities that it brings.
we accept this color with the responsi Our fathers and your fathers fought
together to establish the government which the old Starspangled Banner represents ; and, so long as life shall linger in a single Northern heart, so long we swear to uphold this flag ; and accord to you the protection it is able to offer ,
!
Let the old our country
;
flag float to the breeze,
insuring protection to
and wave
life,
liberty,
under the Constitution of the United States
for ever over
and property,
!
Company I, Captain Underwood, was temporarily detached the day after reaching Harper s Ferry. It was sent off, on canal-boats, to the mouth of the Monocacy, where
it
did vigilant service in capturing contra
band
supplies. Although repeatedly destroyed (by rumor), it returned, a few weeks afterwards, entirely unharmed.
On
the
command.
25th of July, Major-General Banks took On the 28th, he took the whole force
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
42
Second, which was to remain) over the Three companies of The force then was
(except the
"
Potomac.
:
New York, New York, 21st
cavalry, 19th
York, 5th Battery," "
the
and
"
New
28th
York, 12th
Pennsylvania, Ehode-Island s brigade." The next day,
Colonel Stone
Volun
three companies of the 2d Massachusetts
teers, will
New
be stationed as a garrison in Harper
s
Ferry,
and the detachment of the 2d Cavalry [20 men] now there, the whole under the command of LieutenantColonel Andrews, 2d Massachusetts Regiment.
The
remaining companies of that regiment, and three guns of the Ehode-Island Battery, will be stationed under the
command
of Colonel
Gordon of
the 2d
Massachu
the plateau on the
setts
Volunteers, upon Maryland west of the Maryland Heights. The troops on the plateau will be provided with tents, and the necessary side,
remaining there permanently." The station The but the tents did not appear. was occupied, outfit for
"
"
trains were, with the rest of the division, in Pleasant
Valley.
The Second passed one night
when
a
half-destroyed
worship there, near rolled up from near a
It held public
arsenal building. night,
in
"Old
Hundred"
thousand voices, under the crash of a mighty thunder storm. When it crossed, the next day, it was by an old ford, re-opened,
which had been used by the Virginia
troops in 1775.
The campaign was ended. ley
and Manassas.
The enemy held
the val
43
WATCHING THE KIVER.
IV.
WATCHING THE RIVER.
GENERAL BANKS S
division
was camped,
in the early
in Pleasant Valley,
part of August, mainly
which lay
On a ridge there, looking behind Maryland Heights. eastward across the Potomac, were the general s head quarters
general)
;
and near by was Doubleday (afterwards one thirty-two pounder his guns,
with
among them, whose shots used to startle the citizens of London County. Doubleday left on the 26th of August. The three-months men went, and the threeyears
men came.
Massachusetts sent the 12th and
13th.
But the Second was
stationed on the plateau over
looking Harper s Ferry ; without wagons or tents, on From account of the exposed position of the place. the road under the heights (the road by which Lieu tenant Jones had
moved
off after firing the arsenals), a
crooked path led up the tiful
spring, to Tinsel
s
hill
a mile or so, by the beau
house,
gate
JOHN BROWN had
floor
John Brown had hid
the house at whose
stopped to make inquiries. Half a mile beyond was the schoolhouse under whose his arms.
Here were three weeks of bivouac, hard work, plenty
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
44
of rain, and scanty bacon-sides of a very poor quality. The hard fare was the fault of nobody in the regiment.
Every effort was made to secure don had early taught his officers,
Colonel Gor
better.
"Your first
duty
is
not
to see that your quarters are ready, but your men s ; not to get your supper, but to see that your men have But when quarters were shelters of boughs, theirs."
and nobody had any supper, little could be done. The only decent shelter was the ingenious contrivance of the band.
The
hospital
was
1
established in the
little
which stood by the canal-lock under the
men
not of Massachusetts
full,
brick house It
cliff.
was
only, but from the
remnants of the three-months men.
was
in charge
;
Surgeon Sargent was on de Stone Assistant-Surgeon
tached service at Hagerstown. a brick remains.
Colonel Gordon
Ferry
;
still
Of
commanded
that building, not
the post of Harper
s
and Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews occupied the
Armory grounds, and G.
over the ford, with companies
A, C,
and the brightest polish ever on was the brass, possible daily business. Rebel prison ers were kept in the engine-house which John Brown Picket-duty,
had made
drill,
his fortress, in
pierced for his muskets
whose walls the holes he had
still
remained.
had destroyed the other buildings had touched.
Was
it
The
fire
left this
which
one un
prophetic?
The regiment was a
part of the second brigade, Colonel (afterwards General) Abercrombie, Department of the Shenandoah. Brigade head-quarters were five miles
off,
behind the
hills.
WATCHING THE EIVER.
45
There were various alarms, and once a sharp skirmish Second hurt. Noth
across the river, with none of the
ing more than picket, guard,
drill,
battery on the crest, and the
first
and supporting the
coming of the pay
until the 17th of August, when the whole master, The first force was to be restationed along the river.
disposition of
18)
:
was
it
as follows
(by order dated Aug.
Colonel Kenly at Williamsport, Colonel Leonard
Sharpsburg, Colonel Gordon at Sandy Hook, Col onel Geary at Point of Rocks, Colonel Donnelly at at
Thomas
Urbana, General Hamilton at Buckeystown, Colonel Abercrombie at Hyattstown. But some of these were soon changed. The Second, Berlin, Colonel
at
on the evening of the 17th, was moved around the As Heights, to Sandy Hook, to remain a few days. the companies were to be withdrawn from
Harper s
Ferry, Herr
A
were destroyed. great quantity of flour was sent off, and forty or fifty thou sand bushels of wheat and offal destroyed to prevent flour-mills
s
"
"
its
use by the enemy.
On
the 19th, there
are inarching on
Colonel Gordon
and sent "
Don t
for
was
that the rebels
Ferry, six thousand strong." preparations with his regiment,
Harper
made
"information,
s
two pieces of
artillery,
as
authorized.
without making your enemy feel Colonel Gordon Fitz-John Porter. you," telegraphed who to leave WilliamsColonel was requested retire entirely
,
port for
Hook,
Buckystovvn, to
as there "
replied,
It
come by the way of Sandy
was prospect of a
fight
would be out of the way
;
to
but the Colonel
go so
far
down
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
46 the
river."
The commander of
the Twenty-eighth
New
York, however, who had sent information, sent word also, you have a good strong show for a fight, let us "If
know
we
;
will
come up with what little force we can But nothing came of shoeless"
muster that are not the matter.
Relieved by Colonel
Twenty-eighth
Geary, the Second and the
New York
proceeded to join their brig
ades at Hyattstown, camping the
first
night at Jefferson,
the second at Buckeystown, and on the third
being drenched by a pouring rain ers swear their teams out of a seeing a liquor shop emptied
Hall
s
day, hearing driv
difficult
by order
Field, which was very wet.
slough,
and
turned into
Pitched tents there
proved, to stay for nearly two months. from the well was ten cents a bucket, till General
next day,
Water Banks
all
after
as
it
From
August to the 6th of September, Colonel Gordon commanded the brigade, interfered.
the 25th of
which consisted of the Second, the 12th Massachusetts (Colonel Fletcher Webster), 12th and 16th Indiana,
and (from the 15th of September) the
1st Pennsylvania
Battery.
On
13th of September, General McClellan s order said, Commanders of divisions, brigades, and the
"
regiments are directed to give their personal attention All to prepare their commands to take the field.
unnecessary baggage will be disposed "Hall prepared, and took the field,
of."
s
The Second
Field
;"
also, the
well from which water had been sold to the soldiers at ten cents a bucket.
WATCHING THE RIVER
47
.
General Banks commanded from Tenallytown to He near Pools ville, where General Stone was met.
!
had
watch the
to
river, so the usual picketing
was done.
There was
drill three times a day (with knapsacks, of order General Banks, on the 23d of Septem by
bie s order of Sept.
in
(which General Abercrom23 extended to the other regiments
recitations
Officers
ber).
brigade) were
the
On
regularly had.
the
25th,
a re-organization of General Banks s force took place. First brigade, General Abercrombie 12th Massachu :
setts,
16th Indiana,
c
aia, 1st
12th Indiana, 30th Pennsylva-
Pennsylvania Battery, the
Cavalry, and,
subsequently, the
Van Alen (N.Y.) 66th Pennsylvania.
9th New-York Second brigade, General Hamilton State Militia, 3d Wisconsin, 13th Massachusetts, 4th Connecticut, 29th Pennsylvania, and Best s Battery :
(4th United-States Artillery).
Gordon:
2d Massachusetts,
Third brigade, Colonel 28th New York, 19th
New York
(afterwards changed into 3d New- York Artillery), 5th Connecticut, 46th Pennsylvania, and, afterwards, Rhode-Island Battery
day,
the
quarter-master of the
made
was
Copeland, General Banks dier-General brigade.
s staff.
A.
For
On
On
Second,
the
same
R. Morris
adjutant-general
on
the 15th of October, Briga
S. Williams
was assigned to the third was in his com
three years the Second
mand, and he kept experienced in
assistant
A.
their respect.
Brave, cool, genial, If not, he
Mexico, he was a favorite.
would never have got the pet ened by and by into "Pap."
title
of
When
"Papa,"
short
the men, in after
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
48
years, used to say
"Here
matters would go on right lieved in the Second.
Around Hall sheds were
s
filled
comes ;
and
"
Pap,
they "
"
Pap
felt
that
knew and be
1
Barns and Field gathered traders. with various kinds of merchandise.
Butter, eggs, and milk were sold at prices wonderful to Tobacco was a staple and cooked
the old farmers.
;
handsomely. And a sergeant of the the Second got married to a Massachusetts woman,
eatables
sold
chaplain officiating, of course. division was put into good shape, in of the non-commissioned officers a? some doing which, It the Second were detailed to drill new regiments.
The whole
was
in this vicinity, that a colonel
was sadly annoyed
The colonel formally complained to the colonel of an adjoining regiment, that the men of the latter so dis turbed him, on the night before, that he could not sleep. once.
"
I
ll
punish
do?"
them,"
"Why, r
calling out,
said the latter
"
;
but what did they
there was one of your sentries
Corporal of the guard, post four
!
who kept At last,
ALPHEUS STARKEY WILLIAMS, born at Saybrook, Conn., Sept. 20, His father died in 1810, son of Ezra and Hepzibah (Starkey) Williams. 1818. Alpheus graduated at Yale College in 1831 was in Europe from 1834 i
;
was a lawyer, judge Advertiser," and edited it; in to 1836;
of probate, &c.; 1847, was in the
bought the
"Detroit
Daily
Mexican war as lieutenant-
colonel, First Michigan Volunteer Infantry; returned, July, 1848; post master at Detroit, 1848 to 1852; in mercantile business until 1861; was
appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, 17th May, 1861, and had charge of Camp of Instruction at Detroit until September, 1861, when he reported to General Banks; was assigned to command of division, 20th March, 1862;
commanded the corps at Antietam after General Mansfield s fall; was breveted major-general in 1864; was in Sherman s campaigns to Atlanta, Savannah, and Virginia.
WATCHING THE RIVER. I went out to stop his noise; "What
if
did you say to
but without
him?"
"I
this
after
stared
;
friend,
why don t s
sleep
colonel of the disturbing regiment
but, finding the other serious, gave emphatic
utterance "fool."
My
four,
him, instead of disturbing people
The
way ?
effect."
said,
you want corporal of the guard, post
you go
49
two words, the second of which was Such were some of the early officers. in
There were reviews occasionally and, on the 26th of September, Fast Day, the whole division met for :
public worship,
when
half a dozen chaplains officiated
(the chaplain of the Second preaching,
the major-general)
sung
as
On
;
and Holmes
he never heard
s
by choice of Army Hymn was
it.
the 27th, Captain Abbott
was
sent to Boston to
obtain recruits, and succeeded very well
:
he returned
the latter part of October.
Here Surgeon Sargent devotion tents
were
to duty, filled
left
the regiment.
night and day,
with typhoid cases,
broke his health.
for
Unflagging the
hospital
saved lives
;
but
He
left, with the regrets of all : a skilful surgeon, a generous man, of cultivated powers ; too easily affected by sympathy, though it never made
it
hand tremble, The regiment he was a loss. him and the old men of the remembered always
his
;
Second were sad when he cavalry
fell
then lieutenant-colonel of
in battle, in 1864.
For a
short period
(Dr. Stone being at Hagerstown on hospital duty), Assistant-Surgeon William R. Bennett, of the Fifth Connecticut, was with the regiment, being 4
assigned
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
50
He was
Sept. 24.
and afterwards, one of the
then,
men
best surgeons and truest
Assist
in the army.
ant-Surgeon McLellan served, also, a short time, with Soon, Francis Leland, of Milford, Mass., acceptance.
came out
to be
as surgeon,
wounded
at
Moun
Cedar
from pros
tain, and, after a faithful service, to leave,
tration of health.
On
Gordon
the 15th of October, Colonel
order regarding gambling. its results
individual
upon
"A
issued an
vice so pernicious in
character,"
he said,
"
cannot
be indulged in without depraving the man, and un
him
fitting
for the discharge of the sacred duty
That which
which he has entered.
A
crime anywhere. like
fight
patriots.
or
money
regiment of gamblers cannot All gambling, of any kind, for
valuables, is
implements,
upon
a
recognized should be, to New-England men, a
home
crime at
is
with
hereafter
or
cards
by any other in
prohibited
strictly
this
regiment."
On
the 13th of October, General
Banks
said,
"This
may be called upon to move at any time within the next twenty-four hours." It was not, how
division
ever.
On
the
21st, an
official
thought you would like to
and ing."
his
wrote to the colonel,
know
"I
that General Stone
but very slight fight army should have liked to know it ; but we did are at Leesburg,
We
not.
That evening came an order
and,
at
eight
wagons, and
"
o clock,
move
another
to
at once, without
to
cook rations
leave
tents
baggage
;
;
and
leave a
WATCHING THE RIVER.
51
guard to come on with tents and baggage, rations, &c. Take what rations you can in haversacks." The regi
ment was on the road immediately, at the head of the column. At Pools ville, met stragglers. By the road were
tired soldiers,
by
resting
learned of the disaster at Ball
fires,
whom we
from
At
Bluff.
s
3J, A.M,
Ferry reported to Gen and was stationed Hamilton, up and down the river. Across the river was the bluff, sixty feet high,
the regiment
was
at
Conrad
s
;
eral
where
gallant
men had been
where Colonel Baker had
sacrificed
uselessly "Had
said,
I two
Massachusetts regiments, I could beat them
;
more
yet."
He
had two splendid ones, the Fifteenth and Twentieth. From Harrison s Island the wounded were coming.
Men
of the
Second crossed the river in
skiffs,
and
brought back fugitives, then hiding under the bank. The next day McClellan came.
On
the 23d, "
Ferry
:
came an order
to
The enemy threaten us
move
in force
your regiments, especially the Second
So
the regiment
marched
On
the 26th, the division
Most of
camped
to Colonel
pioneers.
;
and, the
to
Darnes-
The Second,
Abercrombie
that night at Dawsonville
;
the division
was ordered back
Major D wight led with
on that day assigned
send two of
;
Massachusetts."
six miles that night
same night, marched back again. were at Edwards s Ferry. town.
to Edvvards s
s
brigade,
the next, at Seneca
Creek, three miles from Darnestown, for duty on the and changed camp in November, in a fallacious
river
;
hope of getting out of the malaria of the
river.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
52
Thanksgiving
Day came
while
there
and Major
;
command (Colonel Gordon was and Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews severely sick)
Dwight, then in
order, in which, after
this
order, he said
"
Pursuant
absent, ,
issued
General Banks
reciting
s
:
to the foregoing suggestions
and authority, the
be dispensed with to-morrow and there will be a religious service, at ten o clock, to-morrow morning, to be followed by the usual Thanksgiving dinner. It is to be hoped usual
drills will
;
that the officers and
men
of this regiment will unite in revi
the memories and associations which belong to the ving time-honored home-festival of New England ; and in public thanksgiving and praise for all the blessings which have all
followed,
them
since they left the
homes which
this festival
recalls."
So the company down by the river s bank was relieved by Indiana men, and came back to camp. Public wor and the Proclamation was ship was held at ten o clock ;
"
read, ending, chusetts
"
!
God
And
save the
there
nine
Commonwealth of Massa
was a dinner.
Ninety-four
and
seventy-three
hundred
turkeys,
weighing
pounds
seventy-six geese, weighing six hundred and
;
pounds seventy-three chickens, weighing one all cooked in the hundred and seventy-six pounds, sixty-six
;
were followed by hundred ninety-five plum puddings, weighing eleven and seventy-nine pounds; with apples, nuts, figs, and stone
ovens built by the men,
raisins.
In the afternoon, there was prize-shooting,
and games of ball and, in the evening, dancing, to And a mail, bringing six hunthe music of the band. ;
WATCHING THE RIVER. dred and two
And
letters
was
at taps all
Rumors
and nearly
hundred papers.
five
quiet.
The bad
of removal were welcomed.
the river was telling severely
men.
53
The
hospital
Andrews was
seriously
was
of
upon the health of the Lieutenant-Colonel
full.
We
ill.
air
had changed camp, on
November, for the sake of health. When orders came to $end the sick away, by canal, march the 12th of
ing orders were known to be near. On the thirtieth day of November, the first party left for Alexandria. Over of the formed of the two hundred Second twenty part
assembled,
according to
before
orders,
noon.
The
wind swept bitingly down the valley, and the sick men shivered. No boat came until near night. Some from the Second
built fires
under the lee of a great
rock, to the injury of a growling sutler
s
pie-boxes
;
and tea was made, and beef-tea. Just before dark, a boat came from the next lock. Put it was wet. few cornstalks were got but sentries stopped that
A
;
in behalf of the rebel owner,
who was
in prison
on a
Those were the days of love The men were lowered into the wet boat,
charge of treason. enemies.
for all
huddled so closely that the last man out had barely Some died that miserable night. No standing room.
Government provision was made boat was coming) at Alexandria tary was
there,
its
officers
(for ;
nobody knew the
but the noble Sani
having been written to by
the chaplain of the Second in behalf of his
The whole
was a case of the grossest mis attempt was made to have it inves-
transaction
management.
An
own men.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
54
tigated
but
;
The surgeon
was smothered.
it
Second had done
of
the
his duty, however.
The second party went up
the river two days after
Assistant-Surgeon Stone had charge ; and every thing But one of the Second died next perfectly.
was done day
at Frederick
and Wisconsin men
;
fired the volleys
over his grave. It
has
warmer it
already been
kinder
or
with their
gifts
said
the field.
regiment had
"no
Those
friends."
to
that
friends
followed
In October, 1861,
began a series of supplies which never ceased. following note refers to a gift received that month.
The
BOSTON, 22d October, 1861.
I send you, my dear sir, one thousand pairs of socks, col lected in ten days, for your regiment, with my very best wishes for its prosperity
yourself,
and success
am,
and, with
;
EVANS HOUSE.
E.
The kindness of Mrs. remembered
number
for
my
kind regards to
Sincerely your friend,
Otis continued.
that this regiment
which
HENDERSON
this lady
When
OTIS.
it
is
was but one of the large
devoted her time, her labor,
and her means, gratitude appreciates the additional lustre given to the historic
name
she bears.
In the same month, the following ceived
letter
was re
:
COLONEL GEORGE H. GORDON, ton, interested, as
every one
is,
Several ladies in Bos
in the comfort
and welfare of
our soldiers, are desirous to do something to add to the pro vision made by the Government for the Massachusetts Second
WATCHING THE RIVER. Regiment
and, in order that their
;
work and
55
supplies
may be
really useful, they venture to ask Colonel Gordon to send a list of articles, constantly important to the comfort of the men, all, or in insufficient quantities, by Govern is now most imperatively needed, and what ment, indicating at what intervals particular articles will need renewing. The more promptly this information can be given, the sooner arti
not supplied at
cles will
be forwarded.
An
association
which
efforts will
of ladies in Boston will be formed, by be made to supply the Second Regiment
regularly with clothing, or other things necessary for its com knowledge of their wants is necessary before any thing will be done, and therefore an immediate answer will be
A
fort.
gladly received.
Address Mrs.
GEORGE H. TICKNOR, Park
Street, Boston.
Colonel Gordon will oblige the ladies by giving an exact address, if possible, and the safest mode of transport. Oct.
To
7,
1861.
that
"very
kind and considerate
proposition,"
Colonel Gordon replied on the 10th, advising that their gifts should take the form of woollen undershirts, draw ers, socks,
and
articles of that substantial kind, rather
than that of supplies of a more perishable kind, or which
would only incumber a said he, find
"
soldier.
"
them
thin, flimsy things, poorly
against inclemency of the season "
expressing offer,
Upon
examination,"
of flannel undershirts furnished Government, I
"
;
adapted to guard
at the
same time,
heartfelt gratitude for the kindness of the
and leaving the
ladies,
set forth, to act as in their
and intimating
that,
after
under the circumstances
judgment may seem wise, an engagement with the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
56
rebels, there
may
arise necessities
not
now
in
exist
ence."
The
Regimental Aid Association (for the Second) was soon formed. It included the following ladies Mrs. J. G. Abbott, Mrs. Jere. Abbott, Mrs. G. P. "
"
:
Bangs, Mrs. Joseph M. Bell, Miss Bowditch, Mrs. W. S. Bullard, Mrs. Richard Gary, Miss Gary, Mrs. James
Codman, Mrs. B. R. Curtis, Mrs. C. P. Curtis, Mrs. A. Davis and Miss S. Davis, Mrs.
J. F. Curtis, Miss
William Dwight, Mrs. William Endicott, jun., Mrs. G. Goodwin, Mrs. William Gray, Mrs. S. E. Guild, Miss
E. Q. Guild, Mrs. G. W. Holmes, Miss H. E. Hovey, Mrs. G. R. Kendall, Mrs. W. S. Lewis, Mrs. C. G. Loring, Miss I. Loring, Mrs. S. T. Morse, Miss A. Motley and Miss E. Motley, Mrs. E. R. Mudge and
Miss Mudge, Mrs. F. Parkman, Mrs. S. Parkman, Miss E. T. Parker, Miss A. Patterson, Mrs. Edward 1ST.
Perkins, Mrs. George
H.
Peters, Mrs. J. E. Pratt,
Mrs. A. S. Putnam, Mrs. J. Quincy, Miss Sarah Read, Mrs. William Robeson, Mrs. W. B. Rogers, Mrs. C. F. Shimmin, Mrs. W. H. Swift, Mrs. Ticknor and Miss Ticknor, Miss S. E. Thacher, Mrs. Nat. Thayer, Mrs. P. R. Walbach, Mrs. Charles E. Ware, Mrs. J. S. Warren, Mrs. W. F. Whitney, Miss M.
Wigglesworth and Miss A. Wigglesworth, Mrs. Elijah Williams, Miss S. D. Williams.
From come.
this
Many
association,
of the
box
soldiers
after
box continued to
of the Second, in the
were picket or guard duty of the winters, enclose a the kind gifts of those ladies. "I
warmer list,"
for
wrote
WATCHING THE KIVEK. the
secretary,
of the
in
association
February, 1862,
whose
liberality
57
"of
members
the
and energy have
provided these comforts, wishing the men to know that I am only an agent of many of their friends. .
take feel
.
.
We
much pride in the reputation of the regiment, and how trying this long inaction is to both officers and
men in this inclement we find it so difficult
season, since in our quiet to
wait."
That
list is
homes
inserted,
Second may know to whose That a more particular kindness they were, indebted. account of their donations is not inserted is due to the that the soldiers of the
delicacy which requested
it.
Other friends were ready to help.
The chaplain was make known any
requested by friends at home to wants he might find. Earely was he without the
means, while in Virginia or Maryland, to
assist the sur
geons in procuring food for the hospital, when such food could be found ; and many were the gifts which came from various sources.
Some companies had
special friends.
The men of D
experienced particular kindness from the parish of Rev. J. F. Clarke, of Boston; E, from the people of Medway.
But worthy of particular mention was the Soldiers Aid Association," of Lowell, the home of Company A. This was one of the two earliest, if not the earli "
est organization of the kind in the country.
It
was
formed, with a large subscription fund, immediately after the fall of Sumter, with a view of supplying every soldier from Lowell with all that was needed for his comfort, efficiency, and health.
Their work was excel-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
58
lently done
especially valuable in the days
;
supply departments of the
when
the
Government had not expand
ed to the needs of a vast and suddenly raised army.
Of
Judge Crosby was the president. "As shared in its bounty. Chairman of
this association,
Company
A
the Committee on Correspondence and Forwarding, for
nearly two
years,"
says Mr. William
G. Wise,
in communication with Captain Abbott, of
was
"I
Company A,
of your regiment, and can truly say that no officer with whom I corresponded evinced so deep solicitude for the comfort and welfare of his men, and so intelligently anticipated tain
their
Abbott was
wants. 1
A
few days before Cap
killed, I received a letter from him,
stating his need of fifteen
men
to recruit his company. and other gentlemen, we mayor procured the men, who left Lowell to join Company It was through Mr. Wise s effi the day he was shot."
With
the aid of the
A
ciency that
army
Company
to sign
an
A
was the
first
company
"
official "allotment
roll.
in the
He went
to
Washington, found that no rolls had been printed, although a form was in type prevailed on a staff officer ;
and give him an order on the public took those copies to printer to print a few copies
to cut red tape,
;
company with Mr. Coffin (Carleton) ; followed on to Harrison s Landing, and started the roll Poolsville, in
in
charge of Lieutenant Francis, The money allotted faithfully attended to
Company A,
"who
left in
it."
1 It for few knew it, that ought to be mentioned, Second repeatedly paid, from their own pockets, for supplies when not furnished by Government.
officers
of the
for their
men
WATCHING THE RIVER.
59
was made payable to G. W. Stickney, Esq., President 1 Mr. Wise afterwards of the Kailroad Bank, Lowell. entered the
army
himself.
1 The former chaplain may be pardoned for stating the fact, that his memoranda show an account rising one hundred thousand dollars which passed through his hands, as sent home by express; for each individual package of which he took the receipt of the express company. He would
be ashamed to say that his agency did not cost a soldier a single cent, were it not that a percentage was demanded and paid for such service in some regiments. its
Of this amount, only one package, of forty dollars, failed to reach which the express company immediately made good. Henry
destination
;
A. Rice, Esq. (Denny, Rice, banks all moneys sent him until called for.
&
Co.), of Boston, kindly deposited in savings
for that purpose,
and preserved the bank-books
60
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
V.
THE FIRST WINTER.
ON
the 4th of December, 1861, the brigade started
The first At dawn, just as
for Frederick.
night, a cold one, at Barnes-
ville.
old Sugar-Loaf
himself, the regiment his base.
A
Frederick, to
went down
into the mists around
march brought the regiment to near wait three hours and a half in a bleak
brisk
wind, until the responsible
officer
in front of a nice coal fire in his
to tell
hotel,
where
to
could be discovered,
chamber
at a Frederick
Then,
after retracing
camp.
steps for a mile or two, pitched tents at the Junction.
bridge
;
was showing
The next day,
marched four or
five miles
by the Monocacy,
crossed on a light ;
stacked arms in a
pleasant wood, four miles east of Frederick by the Baltimore pike, and stayed there three months.
Winter-quarters were not allowed ; but eventually men were permitted to make themselves comfort
the
able,
1 though under canvas the whole winter.
The
1 As a matter of interest, the savings of flour by the regiment, in three months, are given: October, 38 bbls., 139 Ibs. November, 34 bbls., 174 Ibs.; December, 23 bbls., 173 Ibs. Different rations these from the seven hard ;
bread per day of 1864-5.
THE FIRST WINTER.
61
magnificent Sanitary Commission met the wants of the On the 6th, an order of General Abercromhospital. bie established the title of
was on the west
;
"
Camp
Hicks."
The Second
then the 16th Indiana, the
30th
The 12th Pennsylvania, and the 12th Massachusetts. Indiana was substituted for the 30th Pennsylvania. Of the four regimental commanders, Lucas, of the 12th Indiana, Hackleman, of the 16th Indiana, and Webster,
of the 12th Massachusetts, have fallen in battle.
The
3d Wisconsin was doing provost-duty in Frederick. A brigade was three or four miles south of General Abercrombie
and
s,
other
troops
several
miles
west
of
Frederick.
All winter the usual routine went on, parade,
drill, recitations.
to Frederick, of officers
there
guard-duty,
These were varied by visits, and men in turn. Invitations
by the bands of the Second and receptions by General Banks, and some
concerts
;
Twelfth
;
hospitalities
by the people.
An
army lodge of Freema
sons, located in the regiment, also helped those inclined 1 that way. *
It
was
called
at this
up
camp, that an
what I ordered, about, &c., &c. 1
officer, in
a sergeant, and inquired,
This lodge,
"Bunker-Hill
Army
"
Why
great wrath,
didn
"Had
?"
Lodge, No.
5,"
t
you do
no orders,
worked under a
dis
pensation signed by William J. Coolidge, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Its first officers were George H. Gordon (colonel),
Alonzo H. Quint (chaplain), Senior Warden; Wilder D wight Warden; Francis Leland (surgeon), Treasurer; Edward G. Abbott (captain), Secretary; Adin B. Underwood (captain), Senior Deacon; Anson D. Sawyer (lieutenant), Junior Deacon; Francis H. Tucker (captain), Master;
(major), Junior
Tyler.
Of
these,
Major
D wight was
killed at
Antietam; Surgeon Leland,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
62
sir."
"Why,
didn
t
I send you a written order, such
a day ? Oh was that an order ? I thought it was and I have a standing pass to go to Frederick ; and The captain been in three times on that paper." "
"
!
(he has earned high rank since) concluded, that, while to blame anybody.
It
the
it
where, in obedience to orders from
Seneca?
if
was hardly worth or was it at was here
sentries could not read the paper,
Washing
ton that company-commanders read certain articles of
war every Sunday morning, one of them, men, these are
Now,
there
is
he was
after the reading, said,
a thorough soldier too, articles of
"
Now,
war, and ought to be obeyed.
one of them too
that against profane swearing.
much There
It is
violated. is
too
much
of
company, from the commander (I own it) down. Now, it has got to be stopped. When I say And I a thing, you know it has got to be done.
it
in this
say this shan t
shall
A
"
!
remembrance
be
obeyed, and I
ll
be d
gentle smile in the line brought "
;
and,
Sergeant, march
was the order of the
in the
d
if
him
it
to "
company discomfited captain, who was !
never discomfited in action.
wounded at Cedar Mountain; Captain Abbott, killed at Cedar Mountain; Captain Underwood, maimed at Wauhatchie. Of others connected with this lodge, Mudge fell at Gettysburg; Surgeon Heath died from excessive of Atlanta; Major Francis, Captain George, Captain Parker, and Captain Sawyer, all w.ere wounded. This lodge was a centre of interest at that camp, and in Tennessee. St. John s Day, in December, lS&l r it took part in a celebration at Freder ick, when a great number of Masons participated; and where an address was given in the Lutheran Church, by the chaplain of the Second Massa Masonry and the State." chusetts, on toil in front
"
THE FIEST WINTER. Here,
63
A
were religious observances. all needed help,
too,
Catholic priest came, and had
&c.
to minister to the
,
two hundred men of
suasion, while the usual services
A good library,
too, the gift of
went on
tent, his per
in
harmony. some unknown friend,
was of great use all winter. There was intemperance sometimes. filled
good
Frederick was
General Banks issued an or
with liquor shops.
der, on the 10th of February, about the alarming in crease of intemperance," and how ill-disposed persons "
"
were
selling liquor
the detriment and discredit of
"to
the service, the injury of the
and he declared
"
public this
;
command
at
day
in
and make
Dutchman wrath:
did speel
all
men, and the danger of the
the
"
duty of every
officer in
;
so effective, that the liquor-
just across the road
"Your
my
Provosts were to shut up arrests. Colonel Gordon did
evil."
take effective measures selling
it
once to take the most effective meas
ures to suppress this certain places,
"
leetel
officer
come
to
came over one
my
"Served
beer."
house, and
you
right
,"
And
was the
he was provided forthwith with reply. a barrel overcoat, and marched round to the tune of the "Kogue
s March."
There was some chagrin
at
idleness.
The men
shouted over the victories at Henry and Donelson, and the sturdy Indianians echoed the cheers until the in fection
was
universal.
But nothing was done, save
that
men
(the quota of the Second) were sent, out of scores of old sailors volunteering, to man the gunboats
fifteen
on the Mississippi.
Captain Cary commanded the de-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
64
which
tachment,
men
The
on the 16th of February.
left
never came back.
Several
The
new
first
officers
came
break in the
Andrew had
occurred
list
at this
camp.
of officers which
on the
16th
left
Camp
of
September. Lieutenant Sedgwick, then Division ordnance officer, was appointed assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, and assigned to duty on the staff of General He was still serving with that gallant offi Sedgwick. cer
when he
fell at
Antietam.
In October, Captain Curtis and Lieutenant HigginThe former was appointed left the regiment.
son
lieutenant-colonel,
the
Massachusetts Cavalry. ley
a
latter
captain, in the First
In December, Lieutenant
was appointed captain
in the
In November, Lieutenant
Mot
same regiment. who had been de
Ellis,
on the 8th of September to the commissary department of the brigade, was appointed commissary He served of subsistence, with the rank of captain. tailed
for a long time
on the
staff of
General HartsufF, where
he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Lieutenant Copeland, then an aid to General Banks, assistant adjutant-general, with the rank
was appointed
of major, on the 27th of November.
In December, Captain Tucker resigned. wards entered the civil service in the West. ant Hill also resigned. service,
and
fell
He
He
after
Lieuten
subsequently re-entered the
in battle, Dec.
9,
1864, while
first
lieutenant in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts.
These various vacancies caused promotions, and also
THE FIKST WINTER.
65
From
the appointment of second lieutenants.
civil life
almost the last selections outside the ranks
who was
taken J. Ingersoll Grafton, lant
and meritorious
service, at
E. Shelton, by and by a ed
;
were
to fall, after gal
Averysborough Eugene and to be wound ;
staff officer,
Daniel Oakey, afterwards wounded
;
John A. Fox
and true) adjutant, in every action from Chanthe end of the war Henry B. Scott, afterwards assistant adjutant-general, wounded at Chan(faithful
,
cellorsville to
;
and major in the Fourth Massachusetts
cellorsville,
r
Cavalry; Francis TV
Crowninshield, who, four times home senior captain in 1865 to come was wounded, and then to die. Everett Pattison, first sergeant .
;
"YY.
of
Company
I,
was promoted
for general meritorious conduct
to be second lieutenant,
as well as Quartermas F. Browning, who was speedily ter-sergeant George disabled in battle, and found a place in the Invalid ;
Corps.
There were rumors of war occasionally. On the 5th of January, 1862, orders came to the whole force There were troubles up near The Third Brigade went off but, with the
to be ready to
Hancock.
march.
;
Second, there resulted only an accumulation of cold victuals.
march
in
On
on the upper
20th
the
one hour
s
we were "
notice
Potomac."
;
"
the
But the
to
be
enemy
"ready
is
to
in force
principal business
still
continued to be, preserving the secessionists wood-
lots,
according to orders. that winter was exceedingly valuable, not only
But
in the renovation of health impaired in the 5
Potomac
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
66
malaria, but in the steady acquiring of knowledge
by
the officers in study, (both by old officers and in the infant department and the thorough drill in which "
!
")
became experienced. the Second took the
The
all
when
result was, that,
the
in
field
spring,
it
was
Winchester, Cedar Mountain, thoroughly prepared and Antietam, all of which were to come that year. for
This inaction, every one knew, could not continue.
So
the day after
Washington
s
birthday,
celebrated
by a great review in Frederick, and a prayer which was an insult to the army and the country, there came orders
:
Be ready
"
at
one hour
s
notice, with three days
cooked rations," and cartridge-boxes filled." The wag ons went off immediately, and the victuals were eaten. "
"The
artillery,
leave this
pontoons, and the Second
have
all left
evening."
But
the brigadier,
"
that the pontoons, floated
were too wide
"we"
to
become a
said
we
will
by
did not.
It
proved
canal from Washington,
for the canal-locks at
and could not get into the in the mist of
Brigade,"
in all probability,
;
morning,
river.
Camp
settled village.
Harper s Ferry, But on the 27th,
Hicks was abandoned,
THE SPEING CAMPAIGN.
67
VI. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN.
ON
the
morning of the 27th of February, 1862,
four o clock, the regiment passed,
for the last
through the quagmire which separated
and marched into Frederick.
Hook
evening, at Sandy
at
time,
camp and road,
Then, railway cars
;
at
over the pontoon bridge
;
and a night in the emptied houses of Harper
s
;
Ferry,
where the regiment was quartered in the abandoned houses on Shenandoah Street, and the field and staff took turns at supper in using the
solitary fork
and
F
was put on provost duty, single spoon. Company and Lieutenant-Colonel Andre ws was made provost-
And
marshal.
the spring campaign
A reconnoissance was
ordered towards Charlestown
The Second,
the next day.
was begun.
the 3d Wisconsin, five
squadrons of Michigan cavalry, and two sections of artil lery, were put on the road, under command of Colonel
The
Gordon.
head, drove in
Charlestown at
music of
"
cavalry,
the full
good
s
videttes,
and dashed into
The regiment entered
speed.
John Brown
his battery (a
with Colonel Gordon at the
rebel
body."
soldier
to the
Captain Best posted
was Captain Best)
,
and the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
68
infantry
was
stationed
and suddenly General
chicken-feathers filled the air
;
MCLELLAN appeared,
the reconnoissance into an occupation. sight of that general
;
It
;
and turned
was the
first
and, as his glance took in the
drawn up to receive him, he won their hearts. The Court-house was tenanted by companies of the
line
was a strange event, when, on the follow ing sabbath, the Second worshipped God in the Court house where John Brown was sentenced, and its chap Second.
It
which the judge had sat Massachusetts ideas were on
lain occupied the very chair in
memorable
in that
their successful
On Banks
march.
the 5th of March, s
force
the remainder of General
having arrived, the Second went into
unluckily, in the grounds of a
camp,
who
trial.
could not endure the vicinity of
"
Union
"Union"
"
family troops,
and had to move next day a mile out of Charlestown. On the 7th of March, news came that Colonel Mauls-
Maryland Regiment had been cut to pieces at Cabletown. So Colonel Gordon was sent out with the
by
"
"
s
Second, the Sixteenth Indiana, two squadrons of caval Let not a moment be ry, and two sections of artillery "
:
Not a moment was
lost."
had seen any enemy,
to find that
lost,
to kindle
huge back in the morning. Winchester was the object aimed at. at
Charlestown;
fires,
nobody and come
We
had troops
a brigade at Smithfield;
and, further
s division (formerly the lamented Lan and, at Leesburg, Colonel Geary. On the 9th,
west, Shields
der s)
;
General Abercrombie was told
"
:
Information has been
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. received that the
enemy has abandoned
the lower Potomac, and nassas.
You
69
the batteries on
preparing to abandon
is
Ma-
are therefore ordered, pursuant to directions
received from Washington, to put your
move
command
in
con
It
was done,
three days cooked rations in haversacks.
General
dition to
at seven A.M., to-morrow."
Gorman moved
towards Berry ville, but sent back for re-enforcements. So our brigade (General Aberfirst
crombie s) hastened on, and reached Berry ville about sundown. The only action which had taken place was with- a battery of the enemy, which a few shots sent off
The battery subsequently proved to have been a threshing-machine, worked by three laborers, and superintended by a farmer on horseback.
in a hurry.
That night was a bivouac,
with a savagely cold But the sun rose warm,
storm to usher in a cold night.
and wagons came on, and night.
The next day,
"
were pitched for one the rebel Jackson had marched tents
to the rear of our force at Winchester,
seven thousand men,
the fight
still
and captured Cheers going on."
In twenty-five minutes the regiment was in the road. Mile after mile was hurried over. Massachusetts men passed others in followed the order to
"fall
in."
camp, and cheered tremendously. enlivened the road. But Dixie," messenger did
it
for a joke
noon, camped a few rods Winchester.
"
;
off,
"I
wish I was in
at midnight,
"The
and bivouac again.
At
a couple of miles from
Jackson had deliberately evacuated Winchester, carrying off
all his stores,
such private property as he
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
70
and
pleased,
left
We had kindly
the naked defences.
waited a fortnight to
let
him do
it.
A
There the Second remained ten days. re-arrange ment of regiments was made, on the 10th of March. First brigade, General Williams
:
28th
New York,
28th
1st Maryland, and 5th Connecticut. 9th New- York Second brigade, General Abercrombie
Pennsylvania,
:
State Militia, 13th Massachusetts, 12th Massachusetts,
Third brigade, Colonel Gordon 2d Massachusetts, 29th Pennsylvania, 3d Wisconsin, and
and 16th Indiana.
27th Indiana.
:
Here and then the Second became
asso
whom
ciated with that gallant Third Wisconsin with
it
stood side by side in sworn brotherhood for three years
and with the Twenty-seventh Indiana, hardly and found true. tried,
less to
;
be
Here, too, General Banks formally assumed com mand (on the 26th of March) of the "Fifth Corps," his own, now under Briga comprising two divisions, dier-General A. S. Williams ; and another, under
Brigadier-General Shields. Troops were to be sent into Eastern Virginia.
on the 20th, orders came first
day, to
Creek
;
the
moved on
Gum
Snicker
s
third,
to
Ferry;
Gum
the second, to
The
Spring.
the 22d, and reached Snicker
So,
march
for three days
:
the
Goose Second
but Ferry near two years. s
;
Spring was not to be seen for General Abercrombie s brigade had crossed at Snicker
s
Ferry when the pontoons broke down. It took all day to mend them, and the brigade camped. That broken bridge changed the destiny of the Second.
THE SPUING CAMPAIGN.
71
While waiting, Lieutenant-Colonel Crane, of the Third Wisconsin, sent a despatch regarding the wagontrain which was coming up in his charge, and added, "
We
have heard cannon
they seem
to
be
24th
:
now
The cannon were
south-west."
On
Kernstown, near Winchester. "
hear them
at intervals,
;
at
the morning of the
Colonel, you will proceed at once to Berry ville
;
if, you hear the sound of large guns, giving an indication of an action in prog
on your
and
ress, ter."
you
arrival there,
push on by a forced march to Winches and by "Major General Banks directs,
will
By
:
.
under
.
.
command
of Berryville brigade Colonel Gordon be ordered immediately to Winches
that
ter."
the
at
Soon
"
:
Send back the ordnance "
possible
despatch."
Again:
chester] your battery with
all
train with all
Send forward
possible
[to
despatch."
Win The
Second, after a fifteen-mile march, entered Winchester,
and were quartered
in the railway buildings
eral is pleased with
your
Jackson, who
"
:
The gen
speed."
after his evacuation of
Winchester had
kept within a moderate distance of that place, had been misled by rebel women of Winchester into believing that the force
which he knew to be moving to Snicker s
Ferry comprised all but a provost guard; while a whole division really lay behind the hills. So, returning to occupy Winchester, some cavalry drove in the pickets
on the 22d
was supposed
be nothing more than Ashby s lively troops, with a couple of guns. General Shields (commanding in absence of General Banks) :
it
got his arm broken by a shell
;
to
and Colonel Kimball, of
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
72
command.
Indiana, took
Desultory fighting took place all Sunday, until in the afternoon it was found that Jackson s whole force was present, and- our whole
The enemy was handsomely
strength was sent out.
whipped,
but was far from being routed, although
compelled to leave the wounded along the road, and 1 losing two pieces of artillery.
But Jackson had accomplished
his object
which was
;
keep the forces still in the valley, and thus prevent them from strengthening McDowell for the movement to
expected towards Richmond.
There was but one man of the Second in
this affair.
was private Alexander, who had just arrived at Win Company Gr was on provost duty)
It
chester (where our
from a Southern prison. He borrowed a musket, went out, and fought where he saw a chance.
The Court-house, were
and the other buildings,
hotel,
with wounded, rebel and loyal alike. They were treated alike ; but the rebel women of Winchester filled
showed
"
Yes,"
didn
their usual devilish
was asked,
soldier
he answered, as "
t
you expect "
us."
so."
1
it ?
One poor
Union
wondering
- No, "
was
confederate treatment?"
at
it.
"Why,
I thought you would
think so
"
"
?
fellow of sixteen years,
Esten Cooke, of Stuart
that the
if
What made you
One
spirit.
you have kind
"Do
We
whose mother
s staff, in his life of "Stonewall Jackson,"
was
kill
were told
says
than 7,000 by official record. He says that the rebel infantry force engaged was 2,742 but prisoners were taken from eleven regiments of their infantry. He says that the Union killed was admitted to be 418 it was officially reported at 103. He says that the force
11,000:
it
less
;
:
rebel killed were 80
;
but they
left
270 dead, found upon the
field.
THE SPKING CAMPAIGN.
73
had made him volunteer, wanted to take the oath of I did." should die easier," he said, allegiance. "if
"I
The oath was
administered, and he
felt
the band leading off with
son,
happier.
the regiment started after Jack
The next evening,
wish I was in
"I
bivouac by the road ; side about one o clock, five miles above Strasburg, It
Dixie."
when
was a cold night
morning, forded Cedar Creek, a rapid and beautiful stream, where a fine bridge had just been destroyed halted in a rough pine wood, suffered
fences
;
in the
:
just north of Strasburg
next day to four or
camp and park
there line,
"having
chosen
for
were sent on by a scare and miles below Strasburg
"
"
;
five
;
trains in rear of
General Sullivan
s
reference to the defensibility of the place
encampment and concealment from the
enemy."
March 31 Sullivan,
orders to corps.
:
"Messengers
the
"report
enemy
move without Jackson
on
said General
outposts,"
advancing."
Jackson, seven or eight miles
from Cothran Then, steadily.
Mount
Colonel Gordon
off.
s
fine
skirmishers
The
rebel
New-York
of the Second
tells
;
s
Two shots
them
off.
and flankers
out, pressed on with two rear-guard, pieces of
and the
Then
rebels, as
village, swore savagely about rifles."
A few
battery sent
artillery, stop at suitable points.
Yankee
at
and the Second was in the advance.
brigade miles on, rebels and guns were in sight. led,
the whole
tents or baggage,
headquarters were then
s
April 1:
"
them
At Woodstock,
the steadiness
we
their
learned in a
long-range shot whizzed
74
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Colonel Gordon has his guns in position and the rebels fly. At the "Narrow Pass," instantly, the bridge is on fire quick hands of the Second extin suddenly.
:
guish the flames, while Cothran
s
shots
and the enemy
s
At Edenburg, the bridge is past but the struggle is for the place where it had The guns dash through fences, over ditches, up
are lively overhead.
hope
;
been.
a height
;
the Second presses on at double-quick
few minutes, the point is gained. ordered. On that day the Second had its
after a
Bonney, of Company
wounded,
Pennsylvania men er turned to rain,
horses
I.
rebuild the bridge.
Pet
heads.
Logs support a doubtful
fire in
and
,
Camp is first man
The next day, Pleasant weath The
a cold, dismal rain.
droop their
;
dogs
forlorn inside.
keep
front of the open tents.
Dismal Dripping individuals solemnly chop wood. sentinels pace steadily. Off on picket is a shelterless company.
Wet
comfort
that the enemy, in sight on the opposite
is
The only
soaks up inside the tents.
ridge, are just as wet. "Hard
the major. at
"Yes,
home with
and
that, but John."
"Yes,
here,
sir, this
business,
John."
their
good
soldiering," "It
fires
s
aisy for
them
"It
and try to
would do them good
warm
to
as sits
to read of this victory
hard for them as has to do
it s
John
says
to
it,
sir."
come out
themselves by a hole in the
"Yes, John." ground, There was delay, at Edenburg, to get provisions and but on the 17th of April in motion again. shoes General Shields had moved in the night. At four, the sir."
;
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN.
75
Crossed the creek in the dense fog and, as the sun came out, saw the mountain ranges on
Second moved.
;
either side, the undulating lands,
wooded
or in cultiva
green winter- wheat and hyacinths by the heard the robins and swallows, and the artil roadsides,
tion,
the
was waking up the enemy on Found every bridge burning, but was little where the and reached Mount Jackson
lery with which Shields
ahead.
delayed rebels
;
had
built fine hospitals,
and buried scores of
to find the railway depot
diers
still
sol
in flames.
After some hours
waiting, General Shields is to on the main road, and Colonel Gordon s
advance
brigade, with some regiments of Donelly
a flank
movement
to the right,
a wadable stream,
on a
s,
to
make
road; crossed
dirt
and came opposite Rood s Hill, Passed through Forestleft.
which the rebels speedily ville, so called
stream
because barren of trees
;
crossed another
ascended and descended ledges
;
artillery stuck fast
and
;
;
waited for
at half-past eight turned into
a wood, and cooked and slept.
The knowledge of some of these people was remarka ble.
At
Forestville,
a group were astonished at the
instruments of the band.
"What
is
that?"
inquired
an alarmed woman, in respect to the largest instrument. "
That,
ma am,
is
the bell-teezer, a
throwing grape, and
new instrument
for
terribly destructive at short distan
Nobody ventured near the terrible weapon. The next morning, forded the north fork of the Shenandoah. The water was high, and the current
ces."
very rapid.
Men
and horses went down.
It
took ten
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
76
horses to get one caisson across the river.
Passing through Newmarket, to camp two miles south, the loyal but it was black. population was out in joy,
Here came a message
:
To MAJOR GENERAL BANKS To you :
and the forces un
der your command, this Department returns thanks for the brilliant and successful operations of this day.
EDWIN M. STANTON, That was
for driving
Secretary of War.
Jackson up the valley. Rails and straw made a
That camp was mud.
little
the wagons being left a few miles behind for Rain was incessant, and cold severe. The men days. christened it Camp Misery," and officers and men fared shelter,
"
Only one
alike.
seemed water-proof: who found they had been moved
pair of boots
they were the major
s,
in the night into position to catch water
two-thirds
On row."
cases,
:
"Ready
to
march
at ten, A.M.,
To-morrow came, but no march.
the General
men
and they were
without a sign of a leak.
full,
the 21st
;
said,"
It has
On
to-mor
the 22d,
been represented, that, in
many
reported absent, sick, are in reality detained,
performing various duties at the hospital to which they have been sent, without detail from competent author long after recovery." That was true enough, but General Banks could not help himself, although he sent officers after them.
ity,
On
the 25th,
raw day
On
;
moved on
to near Harrisonburg,
but, for a wonder,
it
did not rain.
the 27th, ordered out on, a
mean
kind, and very
mean
of
"dirt
its
road"
kind.
a
Camped. of a very
Jackson was
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. "
within three miles
"
:
but
we went on
77
eleven miles with
the ^Twenty-seventh Indiana, and somebody s battery, and somebody s cavalry, and discovered nobody but
Colonel Donelly,
who was camped
out there
;
and came
back again, making Sunday. Jackson was on the other side of the middle twenty miles of useful service that
at the
Shenandoah,
end of a bridge piled with combus
Somebody got over
tibles.
there afterwards, decidedly
to his discomfort.
Cut down baggage again,
On
also the
the evening of the 4th of
number of wagons.
May,
struck tents, and
moved a
mile towards Harrisonburg, to sleep in a field which was accomplished with a view to take a fair ;
start in the
Strasburg
;
morning.
The next morning,
started for
stopping, after eighteen miles of
march, at
Newmarket
that evening, and going into camp, to be roused up and move at midnight across the Massanutten range to help General Sullivan, whom the signal-lights
on the
hills said
was threatened
twelve thousand men.
Columbia Bridge) by Found troops and fires lining (at
the splendid road sunrise,
when
the
up the hill; magnificent scenery at top was reached pleasant information, ;
General Sullivan was surprised to find us there, as he had seen no enemy; and bivouacked two nights near Berner s Mills. Climbed at the other base, that
the
hill
back again,
with wild cherry in blossom, red-
and the genuine New-England Mayflower, and the woods on fire, and got back to camp, where Colonel Ticehurst had bud, columbine,
iris,
wood-violets,
"
had dress-parade.
"
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
78
On
the 10th of
May,
were struck,
tents
to be
to have a couple of shelterless nights, with the
ready
wagons
on the 12th, made fourteen miles on the piles of leaves for beds
half a mile off:
northward, and had
:
the dirtiest, meanest
13th, to Strasburg,
town of
all
the dirty, shiftless villages of the valley.
At
Strasburg, the newspapers were read.
that the corps also, that
was
at Stanton,
aiming
for
Learned
Eichmond
;
Jackson had evacuated the valley. All true, we had fallen back to Strasburg, and that
except that
Jackson was
Here
still
on hand with twelve thousand men.
fortifications
fortunately Shields
s
were building
commanded by
division
;
first-rate,
higher ground.
It
General
was detached, and crossed over
Eastern Virginia. It was a surprise to everybody,
movement.
only un
was supposed
that
this
into
retrograde
Banks and Fremont
were to unite farther up the valley, and put an end to which was perfectly feasible. Jackson s operations, But, at Harrisonburg, peremptory orders came to fall back to Strasburg, fortify and hold that place. It was
one of the
"gates
then learned that the place to .
in front of
They had not defend Washington was
of Washington."
Eichmond.
But, to the chagrin of every body, the summer was to be passed at Strasburg. is hard," said the commander to a friend, regard "It
ing the complete overthrow of the intended campaign, to be the only man in the division that must not com "
plain."
He
did not complain.
was exemplified then
as since,
His admirable patience
when he endured misrep-
THE SPKING CAMPAIGN. reservation
No
in
silence
truer patriot
lest
79
service should suffer.
the
than N. P. Banks has taken part
in
nor any man who had wiser foresight, from the time when he said to the President, on the first call
this
war
;
for seventy-five thousand
million
"
men,
President, call out a
"
!
But we were
to stay at Strasburg.
80
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
VII. BANKS
THE War Department
S
RETREAT.
said that General
Banks was
remain at Strasburg during the summer.
to
But Jackson
had a habit of overruling the decisions of the
War
Department. General Banks did the best that could be done with his inadequate force.
He
had but one
division, that of
General A. S. Williams, including two brigades, under Colonels Gordon and Donelly. finish the fortifications,
He
He
set
to
work
to
keeping most of his troops at
stationed the First
Maryland (Colonel Strasburg. Kenly), a suitable proportion of cavalry, and a few guns, at Front Royal, ten miles off, which was the head of the eastern sub-valley, as Strasburg was of the two into which the Massanutten
the western,
range divided, for fifty miles, the Shenandoah Valley. The Manassas railway was speedily opened to Strasburg and Kenly guarded it at his station, at the same time ;
doing outpost duty.
Vigilant picket service was kept
up, and daily reconnoissances were made from Stras often twelve miles out. But the force had been burg, fatally
weakened by the removal of Shields
s
Division.
BA2sT KS S
RETREAT.
81
Despatches to Washington, representing the danger, met with no good result. At last, a special messenger
was
sent.
"Jackson
has returned into
General Banks telegraphed "
this is
But
the
valley,"
the 21st of
May
:
confirmed by information from different sour about eight miles from Harrison-
"Jackson is
ces."
burg
him on
to
Ewell,
;
still
the messenger
The
ous rebuff.
Cooper was too
On came
Gap,"
rebuff,
Jackson was
said the General.
almost contemptu at Washington did
at all to be
dreaded."
induced a promise to forward General But the promise Brigade from Baltimore.
Continued s
Swift-Run
met with
responsible official
believe that
"not
at
effort
late.
the afternoon of the
23d of May, information
Strasburg, that an overwhelming force of the had attacked and was driving Kenly. It was enemy Swell s, which had made forced marches northward on to
the eastern side of Massanutten.
Colonel
Kenly had
Maryland, two
of the
eight
29th
companies
of the
1st
Pennsylvania, two
the Ira Harris Cavalry, two pieces of Captain
of
Knipe
Battery, and Captain Mapes s pioneer corps of six men. With this force, it afterwards
s
fifty-
appeared, he
had kept up the
enemy
Kenly
some hours an intermittent struggle, and moving cautiously, but steadily
for
;
endeavoring to save his
command,
retreating
gradually to meet the hoped-for re-enforcements. But, in the afternoon, his little force was flanked on either side
;
Colonel Kenly was wounded, and his
routed. 6
command
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
82
Upon
of the
receiving tidings
disaster,
but while
ignorant of its completeness, General Banks sent out the Third Wisconsin (Colonel Ruger), some cavalry, and a section of artillery. But, between eight and nine o clock, orders were sent to Colonel
"
Ruger
to halt
;
if
beyond Buckton, to fall back, if necessary, to a position where he would not run any risk of being cut
off."
Fugitives in the evening had brought tidings of Kenly s utter rout, and information that the enemy were moving
towards Winchester, which was eighteen miles north of Strasburg and on the direct road to the Potomac.
In the night, therefore, the wagons were loaded, and the men put under arms ; while experienced officers explored the roads leading from Front Royal to Win These parties found that the enemy held each chester.
and was evidently hastening to Winchester to The trains, about cut off and capture the whole force.
road,
three, A.M., "
ing
:
were started
Information
to the rear.
received
this
But
in the
morning,"
morn
said
an
shows that the enemy returned to Front Royal and will not, now at least, attempt our rear.
"
order,
last night,
Our
force will remain in Strasburg, therefore,
ther orders. tary of will
War
be
.
till
fur
The Secretary and Assistant-Secre
.
.
both telegraph that ample re-enforcements Possibly the promised re-enforcements
sent."
are referred to in the despatch of the President, of that
General McDowell, who was then opposite General Fremont has been ordered Fredericksburg date,
to
"
:
by telegraph
to
move from Franklin on Harrisonburg,
to relieve General
Banks.
.
.
.
You
are instructed, lay-
BANKS
RETREAT.
S
ing aside for the present the
83
movement on Richmond,
twenty thousand men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line, or in advance of the
to put
line,
of the Manassas-Gap
railroad."
To
McDowell, while obeying, replied,
ral
beyond
helping distance of General Banks.
take a
week
or ten days to get to the
Hardly had General Banks
s
Gene
which,
"I
am
entirely
...
It will
valley."
order to remain been
received at brigade headquarters, and before General
McDowell could have ment, when another
started
on
his ten
order followed,
"to
move
days
move
at
once
towards Middletown, taking such steps to oppose the enemy (reported to be on the road between Front Royal
and Middletown) as proper .... Cothran awaiting your orders.
to s "
General Williams
Battery
is
on the
hill
The re-enforcements
had been recalled; the advance-guard called in and about ten o clock, A.M., ;
may seem behind us, to
Kenly
(southward)
May
24, the
column was on the road, endeavoring to reach Win chester before the enemy, who was on the road from Front Royal to that place. Colonel Donelly
had a strong guard
s :
Brigade followed the wagons, which Colonel Gordon s was next and ;
General Hatch, with most of the cavalry and six pieces of artillery, was to protect the rear, and destroy prop The wagon-train erty which could not be brought off.
was miles left
in length behind by Shields
and hundreds of disabled men
;
s
Division, encumbered the road.
The column, excepting the rear-guard, had passed Cedar Creek, when the enemy attacked the train, then
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
84
mainly in front, and held the road to Middletown. The troops then hastened forward, and Colonel Donelly
who were
attacked the enemy, lantly drove
passed much
The troops of the train, the danger appearing to be in
them two miles from the road.
General Hatch was at
front.
and gal
in strong force,
its
rear.
About a mile and a half above Newtown, report came that the enemy had cut the train in the rear. General Hatch found
it
impossible to pass through, and
was temporarily separated from the column. Colonel Gordon went back with the Second Massachusetts (with that, the 27th Indiana, 28th New York, and a section of Best s Battery) to relieve the train. The 27th
Indiana was already in line when he reached Newtown. Colonel The 28th New York was halted in reserve.
Gordon, commanding the brigade, ordered LieutenantColonel Andrews,
"The
enemy,"
s
and
C
it
until further
says the rebel officer Cooke,
"ad
orders."
"turned
sav
Colonel Andrews advanced, with a section of
agely."
Best
the Second, to
commanding
vance, take the town, and hold
Battery also
;
Companies
(Captain Cogswell)
mishers.
The enemy s
A
(Captain Abbott)
being deployed as skir
artillery
was posted
in front, in
The street, and threw shot along its length. and took were driven out of town, speedily enemy The colors were dis position on the heights beyond.
the
main
played from the highest house, as a signal to Hatch. Four guns from Best s and Cothran s batteries were
immediately posted, and the Confederate
"opened "
batteries."
a furious
fire
Jackson hastened
upon to the
BOAJHEEFJ.
(E[ffi<E D..
ARDHIEEWS,
BANKS S RETREAT. but the loyal force
front,"
ther advance until
dark."
85
1
check his fur
to
"continued
*
Jackson was
profoundly
enraged."
The
disabled wagons, about
fifty
number, could
in
not be brought off for want of horses
and, by order
;
of Colonel Gordon after sending in vain for horses,
they were burned.
was
It
when he ordered
twilight
Companies A and were flankers.
C
B
were
A
his force
in the rear,
on again.
and the men of
distance beyond the burning
little
wagons, the enemy s cavalry appeared. part of placed on the left of the soad ;
Part of
C
A was
on the right
;
and platoons from the two, under Lieutenant Grafton, Jackson was with his cavalry. Charge them charge them said he. They advanced but, "
in the road.
"
!
when
!
within
;
fifty or sixty yards, the
companies poured in their and fled. Cowards !
"
Shameful
"
said
!
Jackson.
could be
there before returning to
cavalry came on
:
Company
heard shouted.
2
A little farther on, at Barton s lieved A and C, that they might left
of the three
and the rebels turned
fire,
"
"
men
Mills,
Company
I re
take their knapsacks,
Newtown.
I opened
Again the
fire
1
:
again the
Rev. Professor Dabney, in his Life of Jackson, says Upon approach ing Newtown, the General was disappointed to find his artillery arrested The enemy showed a determined front. ... It was sunset be-,, "
:
.
.
.
.
.
.
were dislodged, and the pursuit resumed." Between these two biographers of Jackson is this difference Cooke gives as fair a story as possible, considering his exalted views of South ern men nor does he exhibit an ugly spirit. Dabney is perfectly malig nant; and, apparently from principle, never tells the truth if he can avoid it.
fore they
:
;
2
Dabney.
86
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. "
cavalry
fled.
So severe a
"
fire,"
says Dabney,
that
precipitately out of it, carrying the General and his attendants along with them, and riding down several cannoneers who had
advance
the cavalry
retired
been brought up to their infantry appeared.
wall
Brigade,"
says Cooke,
the
s
enemy
regiments of the Stone
"were
thrown
forward,"
who
with great gallantry and heavy firing ensued." So pertinacious was the stand of the Federalists here,"
"attacked "
Then
support."
"Three
;
says Dabney,
"the
27th, 2d,
and 5th Virginia regi
and the affair grew to the ments were brought up dimensions of a night combat before they gave way." ;
was a combat between three regiments of the famous Stonewall Brigade, and Company I, with D as flankers,
It
B
re-enforced on the sides of the road by Companies
and C, the whole under Major
D wight
of the Second
The regiment accomplished and moved on.
Massachusetts. of the halt,
the object .
Near Kernstown, a halt was ordered for rest, and to Ambulances were arrange to send on the wounded. sent for, but did not appear
;
and the wounded were put
Half an hour passed again the enemy the darkness, and opened fire, which was
into a house.
crept
up
in
:
promptly returned. stampeded.
ment
But
the cavalry, which had joined,
The macadamized road brought
the regi
enemy were hidden in the and the The order was given to move on
into relief, while the
fields.
enemy
;
did not immediately follow.
with the wounded of the enemy.
men
in
Surgeon Leland, the house, fell into the hands
87
At two
o clock, A.M., the regiment reached the vicini
ty of Winchester, and lay
down
to
Com
But
rest.
was a company from each regiment, was pany C, sent out on outpost duty, and were skirmishing steadily. as
They maintained
but suc
their position with difficulty,
cessfully.
Early in the morning, Colonels Gordon and Donelly placed their brigades in position.
On
the right of the
the road, looking southward, was Colonel Gordon, Second on the right, then the 3d Wisconsin, the 27th
Indiana, and the 29th Pennsylvania.
Battery
New-York
M,
First
Artillery (Lieutenant Peabody) consisting of six six-pound Parrotts, was posted on the ridge. In front of the line was a gulley, running at an angle ,
with the road; and beyond, another height.
Donelly
posted his
few regiments on the
Colonel
left
of the
road.
At
five,
A.M., the skirmishers were driven in by the
Stonewall Brigade, "
a
under General Winder, making
sharp and resolute
leys."
tery to
resistance,
firing
heavy vol
Colonel Gordon immediately directed his bat open fire on the columns of the enemy moving
into position. "
Carpenter
s
"
To
dislodge these
and Cutshaw
s
guns,"
says Cooke,
batteries with
two Par-
guns from the Rockbridge Artillery, were rapidly placed in position, and opened fire. The battle speedily
rott
commenced
in good earnest." Donelly s guns and in were on the left, and a dan heard fantry quickly gerous enfilade fire was poured on the Southern lines." "
i
Cooke.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INTANTRY.
88
Two to
companies of the Second were thrown forward D, Captain Savage and annoy the enemy s guns, ;
They took shelter behind a stone a opened galling and destructive fire on the
G, Captain Cary. wall,
and
"
cannoneers and horses attached to the Confederate bat
The
was so sharp that some of the enemy s The skir guns withdrew, and some were silenced. with a precision which mishers continued their fire
teries."
fire
"
was galling and dangerous in the extreme. ~No one could mount to the crest of the hill without hearing O the sudden report of their excellent long-range guns, suc ceeded by the whistling of balls near his person. To drive out these persistent and accurate marksmen," the rebel
Poague threw
"
but,
around still
in
spite
of
solid
the
missiles "
them,"
says Cooke,
gallantly held their
But
shot at
their
;
and crashing stones
the line of sharpshooters
position."
rebel regiments were
moving
in
swarms around
the right, under the rebel General Taylor.
being flanked, Colonel
stone wall
Gordon moved
To
prevent
the Twenty-ninth
Pennsylvania and Twenty-seventh Indiana to the right. The Federal commander," says Cooke, of this move "
ment,
making preparations to assail Jackson s force. All was ready at last and suddenly
"was
position in the Federal infantry was seen to the [rebel] left,
;
moving
in
heavy columns
with the evident intention of gaining
possession of the ridge to the north and west of the town." Against Taylor s men and the Stonewall
Brigade on the flank, and the still steady fire in front, Colonel Gordon s four regiments were, of course, of
89 little avail.
They poured
heard the order to
fall
in a destructive fire,
and then
The Second moved down
back.
the Third of companies to the rear, by a or but two of of battle in line ; Wisconsin, company
the
left
hill,
The to pour one destructive volley. whose rebel with were now troops, heights swarming The regiments kept in fire went principally overhead. each
halted
order
entered Winchester
;
;
and the Second, turning
into a cross street, re-arranged the order of companies,
The enemy and formed by the usual alignment. appeared on the main streets, and opened fire. Through Winchester (with shots from houses until forbearance ceased
l
)
,
by the burning buildings
;
on the road to
the rear of that portion of the force
Martinsburg, which took that road. placed
The enemy s guns were quickly an old work, and opened fire. Cavalry
in
But the regiment kept steadily on. Some of the force in the advance were getting into disorder.
threatened.
General Banks, knowing that any disorder would become 1 On this matter, testimony was afterwards taken, by order from Division Headquarters. In addition to abundant proof, that citizens fired from houses, was evidence that women fired upon the soldiers. I make a
few extracts from different statements: came out on the west street. I saw two women shoot from a window. They used guns." saw a woman standing in the window with a pistol in her hand. I saw her shoot, and saw a man saw a woman shoot a pistol from a window." [Five wit nesses to the scene.] saw a woman fire, from a house, a revolver. This was near the centre of the town. saw two women. One discharged a pistol; the ball passing over my head, and entering a wall on the opposite side of the street." On Main Street, a woman came to the door, and fired what I thought to be a revolver." When it is remembered, that, during our "I
"I
fall."
"I
"I
"
"I
"
occupation of Winchester, women were as safe from insult in the streets of Winchester as in Boston, the infamous conduct of that population is evi dent.
It
needed purifying by
fire.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
90
a rout, placed himself in front, and restored discipline.
Thirty-two miles
march, without a
to
There the enemy ceased to follow. the crackers," and fed
Martinsburg.
The quartermaster procured
halt,
it
"
Thirteen miles more, with a throng of Union
men.
and
children
people,
adults,
and Williamsport was
The trains, save the wagons Second became rear-guard, were safe. The camp-fires blazed on the hillside.
reached.
by the deep ford ferry
brought
;
the
;
men
lost before the
A
trains crossed
the ammunition wagons,
forded
;
all
thousand
by the
single
were over before noon
next day, except that four companies of the Second, sworn friends and the same of the Third Wisconsin,
from that day, were left for duty on the Virginia shore. 1 The Second had marched, in thirty-three hours, fifty-six miles, fighting in one pitched battle and in the skirmishes as rear-guard.
The conduct
of the Second on this occasion put
its
reputation, before the country, on that basis for which
thorough discipline, accomplished drill, and personal Its own State was proud bravery had been fitting it. its
of
it
;
and that pride only grew with succeeding years. satisfied with itself; and officers and
The regiment was
men from
that
day understood each
only this baptism of
fire
other, taught as
could teach.
1 Dabney says, When the last of the cavalry drove the last of the fugi tives across the Potomac, a multitude of helpless blacks were found," etc. "
There was no annoyance whatever beyond Martinsburg. The troops were Nor did the infantry all cross until next day; and then, without a sign of the enemy. General Banks replaced the infantry south of the river
in order.
with cavalry,
who occupied
the road for miles out.
91
But Major Dwight
was miss
brave and beloved
Surgeon Leland, who had remained with the wounded at Kernstown, and Assistant-Surgeon Stone, ing.
who would
not abandon the hospital in his charge at
Winchester, were prisoners. Captain Mudge and Sec ond Lieutenant Crowninshield were wounded, Mudge, carried for miles in the arms of a few of his
separated from the
men, who, command, succeeded in taking him to Emerson and Staples, of C Lakin,
Harper s Ferry. of D Dane and Peck, of Gr were killed in Higgins, of I, ;
of
B
of
F;
;
;
;
Colvin, of
D
O Connell, action.
H;
of
and
Stephens (A.),
Churchill, Vose, and Williams,
;
were mortally wounded. And, Forty-one others were wounded. besides seventeen of the wounded, seventy-seven were Bickford and Bosmore, of
Of
1
prisoners. ville
;
the dead, Higgins
I,
was buried
at Bartons-
the others, on the field near Winchester.
Jackson
s
had been accomplished. Not in which he ought to
object
destroying or capturing the division,
have done
but in effectually breaking up the plans of
;
the general-in-chief,
usual, into the securing
which
1
"
to
Pollard, in his
sand
"the
defence of
Washington,"
The
mere advance accomplished.
his
were never
authorities, as
by frightening the
prisoners."
"
uncover
Southern
Washington."
troops
McDowell was
says that Jackson took four thou brigades, the brilliancy of "
History,"
As General Banks had but two
this statement is evident.
It is
a sample of Pollard.
He
is
not worth refer
ring to again.
The
"English
Combatant s Battle-fields of the South" makes Banks s men, and says that Winchester was strongly forti
force twenty thousand fied."
English!
"
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
92
not to re-enforoe McClellan for the capture of Richmond. "The President s order," said McDowell just before this affair,
have
all
Banks
a crushing blow
"
is
our large masses
paralyzed."
... we
;
shall
They were and in May, had :
weakened early
command, fatally met with a crushing disaster. s
left
Banks,
with less
than eight thousand men, had been overpowered by a force admitted to be over twenty thousand.
Crossing the river to Williamsport, camp was estab back of the town, and continued
lished half a mile
Here Major Dwight suddenly Various accounts had insisted that he was
until the 10th of June.
returned.
But he had yielded a moment, in Winchester, wounded man to place him in a
dead.
to the solicitations of a
house.
It
was a momentary
out, the rebels
were there.
cer asked him,
are very
"
Receiving
Have you no
particular,"
stop, but
when he came
his
other arms
replied the major,
"
arms, an "
"
?
here
is
offi
If you a pen
He was
treated kindly ; and after considerable succeeded in getting paroled, and reached our lines. As he came to camp, a shout went up, "The knife."
effort
"
All order seemed to vanish as the men rushed major towards him, took hold of his clothes, cheered; and !
escorted the happy, laughing man into camp. He was not exchanged until after Cedar Mountain. Surgeon Leland was paroled, and left with wounded at Winchester
when
the rebels quitted.
Assistant- Surgeon Stone
was
paroled ; the parole to be a free release, if at Washing ton he could secure an agreement that surgeons should
be not
liable to capture,
which was accomplished.
BANKS
A change
of
S
RETREAT.
command took
93
place.
Two
brigadiers
had been sent from Washington, and had arrived ; but were not assigned, at Strasburg. On the 28th of May, Brigadier-General George L. Greene took command of the Third Brigade.
but an angel
have
Gordon lent.
an
if
satisfied the
He was
a good and brave soldier
after their experience of
felt
the harshness of removing
who had rendered such
always been so
efficient
Colonel
A sense of injustice was preva
in the retreat.
General Banks
officer
could not
a military angel exists
men,
;
;
service,
and who had
but he was powerless.
sued, however, an order in which he
He
is
expressed his
Unqualified approval of the manner in which Colonel George H. Gordon has discharged the duties of brigadeIn organization, discipline, instruction, and cormnander. "
equipment, he has maintained and elevated the standard of command. In the execution of orders, often, from
his
the extreme necessities of our position and the great reduc
and difficult, he has been prompt and successful, exhibiting on all occasions the qualities of an The commanding accomplished and experienced officer.
tion of our force, sudden
officer
the
has also the pleasure of expressing his approval of
manner
in
which the Third Brigade and
its
commander
discharged their most important duties in the march from and, in the affair with the Strasburg, on the 24th instant enemy, as rear-guard of the column, in the evening of ;
same day, which contributed so much to the safety of the and, in the engagement of the 25th, at Win Va. He has the strongest confidence that its chester, character and reputation will be maintained distinguished
the
command
;
hereafter."
But
this
removal resulted
in the
immediate promotion
94
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
He
of Colonel Gordon.
mended
had been unanimously recom
appointment of brigadier, by the Con gressional delegation from Massachusetts, in August, 1861. The personal opposition of a Massachusetts for the
had prevented it ; but General Banks knew his worth, and had regularly arranged his brigades to place him at the head of his own. The glaring injustice now official
overrode personal influence ; and his promotion for his conduct in the retreat, was made June 12, 1862. "He
has got his promotion," wrote one could not help it he earned :
"I
official to
The
it."
another.
scene,
when
he took leave of
his old regiment, with the reply of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews, was affecting.
General Greene continued in command, and Lieu tenant-Colonel Andrews was promoted colonel Ser geant Miller, of Company D, was promoted to be :
second
by and by,
lieutenant,
to
be disabled by
wounds.
Of General Fremont s movements from Western Vir ginia (on which he started
of Jackson
s
May
25) into the valley;
sudden evacuation of Winchester, necessi of the pursuit, and of the battles of
tated thereby
;
Cross Keys and Port Republic in consequence, it is out of the province of this account to speak. But the valley
was cleared
for the time.
At Williamsport came ter
from the
line
knew
officers
War (if
a paper of a private charac
At
Department.
the
lieutenant
-
Strasburg, the
colonel
commanding
he kept silence) , terribly chagrined that a regiment of such material, and made by so much labor, of
it,
BANKS S RETREAT. should be kept in
95
inaction at Strasburg, while other
troops were to win glory in Eastern Virginia, had ven
tured to address a letter to the Secretary, stating their
and asking, if the good of the service would per The mit, to be put where they could do something. answer was kind and appreciative but the exigencies case,
"
:
of the service required that the regiment should stay at Strasburg."
This answer was received at Williams-
port, and was thought, under the circumstances, to be rather a good joke. There was to be glory enough by and by.
96
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
VIII. GENERAL, POPE.
On
the 7th of June, General* Greene told the bri
in readiness to move across the river gade to be at an hour s notice and that neither officers or "
"
"
;
men
will be
permitted to leave the
camp."
On
the
day previous, General Banks had issued an order, that General Williams s Division was to march through the "
city of
and
Winchester, in close order, with drums beating
;
no case whatever will any soldier be permitted to leave the ranks." This was to prevent that salutary in
vengeance which the incensed soldiers would have ta ken on all houses from which men and women had fired
on our
soldiers in the retreat.
that infamous
Perhaps
town never met
its
it
was
deserts.
best, but
Luckily,
Satan will get his own some day. Furious rains had prevented a crossing for four or five
days
;
but, on the 10th,
the troops crossed the
band of the Second playing Carry me back Bivouacked that night near Falling Virginny." "
river, the
to ole
Waters
;
the next,
camped
at
Bunker
Hill.
The next
day approached Winchester halted an hour outside the town ; marched through in the manner designated, find;
GENEKAL POPE.
Corps, which had been sent Ferry, on the usual principle of
ing there General Sigel across from
Harper
s
s
The
doing every thing too late. in
quet
moved
to
colonel got a bou
Winchester, which proved
woman
one decent for a mile
97
in that
below town
;
and camped.
So
there
was
Kept on some hours, and then
ungodly town.
rested for
Bartonsville,
that
six
far into
miles
below Winchester,
Virginia,
everybody had
scrupulously abstained, according to orders of the brig adier,
body
s
from even getting a drop of water from any well, which seemed rather hard in that villainous
country, and was very discouraging to a chaplain in re gard to the increase of swearing.
At
Bartonsville, where the bullets of the
visible in the bridge-posts, the
enemy were
regiment remained six
Soldiers even had to re Discipline was strict. build a fence whose rails had been taken for firewood,
days.
the secession owner complaining about those were but profanity increased.
Fine times
it.
:
Here came
to the regiment
William H. Heath, as
volunteer surgeon. When it was known in Boston, that both the medical officers of the Second were pris oners, Surgeon-General Dale sent a despatch to Dr. He went Heath, to come in to Boston.
immediately.
"Will "
Yes
:
you go
when ?
had time only
to the "
Second
for
temporary service?" This afternoon ? Yes. He "
to purchase a valise
and a
"
"
suit of clothing
;
and, sending a "good-by"to his wife, whom there was not time to see, left for Virginia. When he arrived, he
was persuaded
to accept a
commission 7
;
and he did not
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
98 see his
home again
until
He was
J864.
to be recog
nized as one of the best surgeons and truest corps, before he died, -of disease caused
duty
men
in the
by devotion
to
in the trenches before Atlanta.
On
the 18th,
mained there
moved
to near
Front Eoyal, and re General Fremont
until the 6th of July.
was then holding Strasburg; and the two commands were separated, for fifty miles, by a line in the road, which tended to unity of plan, of course. On the 25th, General Gordon was replaced in com
mand
He was joyfully welcomed
of the brigade.
back.
General Greene had secured respect, and deserved
it
;
and when he was afterwards severely wounded, the bri but General Gordon they gade sincerely mourned :
knew. It
was a hot Sunday,
Ready the
"
to
move
forward
"
early
;
that
of the
6th
of July.
but not until eleven o clock was
A few miles
heard.
on, at the junction
of the north fork and main stream of the Shenandoah,
waited in an open plain in tlje blazing sun for hours, Crossed the tem while the trains got out of the way. s over passed Kenly battle-ground and porary bridge ;
,
saw plenty of old iron went through the pretty village of Front Royal, and camped a mile south; men fell down, entirely exhausted by the heat, on reaching the ;
camp-ground,
but
many found comfort
in
a cooling
On the 7th, re bath in the brawling brook near by. veille at three, A.M. ; at six, on the road for the Blue Ridge.
Passed up Chester Gap, where the cooling
breeze refreshingly tempered the
powerful heat;
de-
GENERAL POPE. scended, and thanked
Made
valley at last.
rested in a beautiful
God
that
99
we were
out of the
twelve miles before eleven o clock
wood
just before Flint Hill
;
;
and,
towards night, had orders to camp, and a delightful shower blessed the camp. Some kind of a local magistrate dropped into camp in
the afternoon, while the grapes were being eaten,
His coolness was refreshing. O
to discuss matters. insisted that
we had no
constitutional right to
He
"
iuvade"
gave no right to carry on a war outside of the United States. Virginia had
Virginia, for the Constitution
seceded; Further,
war
ergo,
we ought
in Virginia
to
restore
was unconstitutional. slaves, for the
fugitive
But," said the Fugitive-Slave law said so. General, of is one the United States? was No," Virginia "
"
"
"
Then what have you got to do with the Fugitive-Slave law, or the Constitution of the
the prompt reply.
United States ?
"
"
Rear-guard next day. time to eat the cherries.
men
ate cherries
;
Slow business Waiting
;
but
it
for the trains,
picked cherries to eat
gave the
on the road
;
cut limbs full of cherries to carry along. Providence had evidently made those cherries for that occasion ;
and yet the secession owners had the impudence and Five impiety to object to the ways of Providence !
miles beyond the cherry-trees, halted;
and here recovered divers stolen horses. Gaines
s
Cross-roads.
On
the
then It
llth, eight
camped, was near miles to
near Warrenton.
On the
12th
:
"Orders
having been received from
Ma-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
100
jor-General Pope, commanding the Army of Virginia, to have this command in constant readiness for a move ment,"
&c. &c.
else
On
!
as if
had been doing any thing Zouaves d Afrique,"
it
the same day, the
"
good men under an absurd title and in an absurd dress, were assigned to duty, under Colonel Andrews, where they will receive proper instruction and dis "
They
cipline."
certainly got
it
and they proved
;
their
Cedar Mountain. 1
at
bravery On the 26th day of General Pope was in command. the of order President, he had been June, by special
three separate to be
commands
"
3d, of the
Fremont,
it
Banks
in
McDowell s,
under one head,
the 1st Corps;
was a good thing that one department were now
It
assigned to this position.
s,
the 2d
Army of Virginia,"
;
to be
known
and Fremont
s,
as
the
by order of August 12.
remembered, refused to serve under but Banks made no objection.
will be
a junior in rank ; On the 14th of July (General Crawford was in tem command of the division that day), General
porary
issued his address.
Pope
received. "
"I
It
was by no means well
have come from the
West,"
he said,
where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." hear constantly," he his by and by.
The enemy saw "
said,
"I
of taking strong positions, and holding them
[
if
An English Com This company had been General Banks s guard. a work full of lies Battle-Fields of the South," in his work, batant," from beginning to end, in referring to a mention of these Zouaves, says, My reader will not fail to observe from the above, that General Banks s "
1
"
"
body-guard English.
is
composed of
negroes."
The
writer need not hare said he
was
GENERAL POPE. he had held
101
would have been better
his, it
for
Massa
of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. chusetts] Let us discard such ideas." The latter were discarded ;
when
came down
supplies
to green corn
the former
;
were not, when they led inside the fortifications of Washington. It was not the way to talk to soldiers who had proved their daring against overwhelming
The papers
powers.
said that General
Pope
s
"head
quarters were to be in the saddle." They ought to have said, a good many saddles, and wagons enough for a division," as appeared when five weeks after "in
his assignment to
command
the General
was received
by the Second Corps.
Another order was sensible
Hereafter no guards
"
:
will be placed over private houses
of
any description whatever.
or private property
Commanding
officers
are responsible for the conduct of the troops
under
their command."
Here baggage was cut down again, July 16 valise to
an
officer
;
one
:
three officers to a tent (which
was
luxury compared to subsequent days) ; a. "shelter tent The Sibleys de [tent d abri] to each two privates." and were seen no more. Ten parted, days rations to
be kept on hand
;
a hundred and fifty rounds of
man to be kept in the wagons. How we came to Warrenton was a blunder.
ammu
nition per
stupid
had written
official
"
"
Washington,
the
Little
So, on the 16th, marched to it,
"Warrenton,"
"
"
Washington
Hedgeman
s
Some
instead
of
westward.
River, crossed
and camped in a sharp thunder-storm.
The next
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
102
through the forlorn village of Amissville, to Gaines s Cross-roads and, turning westward, travelled in another thunder-storm to a steep hillside overlooking
day,
;
the
little
prettily
went
village of Little
under
into
instruction
its
Washington, which nestled
but proved a sham
trees,
when one
Here military exercises went on, of men and officers in sighting, aiming,
it.
calculating distances, and so on.
On
the 25th,
moved a mile below
the village, where
to follow camp was laid out on regulation distances, which would take half a State for a respectable army.
a
Here was a great review and sham fights and cavalry Here it was learned that General Pope had charges. and here he soon appeared. On got to Warrenton ;
was formally received, on the which was Sunday; but, own selection,
the 3d of August, he
day of
when
his
General Banks was to have Sunday observed by twenty minutes of public worship, General at the close
Pope galloped
off in a hurry.
Various changes took place in the July.
roll of officers in
Captain Underwood was appointed major
Thirty-third Massachusetts.
in the
Lieutenant Horton, then
s staff, was appointed Lieutenant assistant adjutant-general; Wheaton, then on General Gordon s staff, commissary of subsistence ;
detailed
on
General
Greene
on General Gordon
Lieutenant Hawes, also assistant-quartermaster also
on the same
staff,
s
staff,
and Second Lieutenant Scott,
;
assistant adjutant-general, each
with the rank of captain. in the second lieutenancies
Two were
of the vacancies filled in
July,
made by the
GENERAL POPE.
103
promotion of Albert W. Powers, first sergeant of G, neither and Edward A. Phalen, first sergeant of C, commission arriving until after each had been wounded at
Cedar Mountain.
The
line of the
army ran through Warrenton,
Little
while in the Washington, Sperryville, and Luray was rather valley somebody holding, shakingly, that Sodom named Winchester and the rebels were gather ;
;
ing,
up
the valley, the rich crops which a general order,
early in the season,
had told the people
was now
to raise,
The
the old plan of feeding the enemy.
left
on
of the
be swung forward so that the whole army should be on the road from Culpeper to Sperry ville while cavalry, well forward, covered its front,
line
to
;
from the Blue Eidge to the forks of the Rappahannock. General Banks was to move to Hazel River.
The Second
left
Little
Washington, August 6th
;
bivouacked at passed General Sigel at Sperryville Woodville that night, and at Hazel River the next ;
:
fifty or
drews in the
more
recruits joined here,
the indefatigable
morning.
man
and Colonel
had a
An
battalion-drill
104
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
IX. CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
THE enemy was
crossing -the Kapidan. Culpeper was about the 4th of occupied August, by Crawford s Brigade, of Banks s Corps and on the 7th, Ricketts s ;
McDowell s Corps,
arrived. Bayard s Cav was near alry Rapidan Station, and Buford s at Barnett s Ford. The enemy made a feint of sending off a column
Division,
by way of Madison Court-house
;
but his object was
On
the morning of the 8th, Bayard was back while Buford reported the enemy pressed slowly Crawford s Brigade was sent advancing on Madison.
Culpeper.
;
out towards Cedar Mountain to support Bayard, and
General Banks was ordered up from Hazel River.
The Second bivouacked
that night (or
what was
the night), just on the north of Culpeper. the old opponent, was busy again. 1
On to
the morning
camp
;
to fall in
of the 9th, directions again.
General Banks, with an order.
An It
officer
left
of
Jackson,
to fall in
;
rode up to
was given
verbally,
1 Learning that only a portion of General Pope s army was at Culpeper Court-house, General Jackson resolved to attack it before the arrival of the "
remainder."
Lee
s
Reports.
105
CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
but reduced to writing by General Banks s assistant and read to the offi adjutant-general, Colonel Pelouze ;
who brought
cer
was
this
who pronounced
it,
:
"
"
General Banks
command
It
correct.
it
will
CULPEPER,
move
9.45, A.M.,
to the front
of all the forces in the front
Aug.
9,
1862.
immediately assume ;
deploy his skirmishers,
;
enemy approaches and attack him immediately, as soon and be re-enforced from here." 1 as he approaches
if
the
;
;
On
who was
the road, then, to support Crawford,
Through Culpeper, on a
the enemy.
being pressed by south-west course.
It
Carey, of F,
man,
was an intensely hot day. One died from exhaustion, and was
buried by the roadside
he was a recruit, who had
:
Two
joined but a few days before.
or three miles out
of Culpeper, a whole division (Ricketts s) was passed, destined to chafe uselessly in sound of every shot of
Now
and then, the dull, heavy sound of Five miles from Culpeper, left single shots was heard.
that day.
the road at the run, followed
ward
half a mile, and
steep hill,
saw Cedar Mountain,
on which was Brown
put
in line
s
;
in
the low ground,
assent of General Roberts,
General Pope, in his it
tall,
passed up the
it,
Gordon
General Pope
official report, says,
"
in a
com had
and received the
I regret that
expedient to depart from my instructions." to reconcile this statement with his order.
thought
a
house, and the brigade was
on the wooded crest beyond position, to which General
pointed, while
1
rough course west
overlooking the low ground
hill
manding
its
s
chief of
General Banks
It is useless to
try
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
106
who soon rode up and approved it. The other when they were brigades were not then in position
staff,
;
was
it
stationed,
extreme right,
so that the Third Brigade thus had the
an angle with Crawford s, and, in fact, next to Crawford were Geary, totally disconnected and Crawford s Brigade Greene, Prince, in order. at
:
was
wood
in a
which was
slightly rolling,
Gordon
west.
A mile
the other three, in the open ground,
;
s
and
their line ran east
and
was never attacked.
original position
and a half south of the
line,
Cedar Mountain
towered up over the plain. Up that mount, the enemy placed batteries ; and there stood Jackson able to see ,
movement of every regiment of ours. His line, gradually developed, came to be about parallel to ours
the
of the four brigades, his left hid in the woods like our right, and crossing the open ground to the hill.
The enemy numbered, one of fifteen
"about
thousand
their
(Cooke) mentions ten brigades
accounts
The same
men."
;
and
says,
authority
their official list of
this, specifying losses from of forty-two regiments infantry, one regiment of cav
casualties
and
alry,
Banks
1
agrees with
four
s five
Cooke
Banks
men
s,
brigades numbered
"
says,
larger than his Sigel
s,
"battalions,"
The Federal
own."
He
besides less
the
batteries.
than eight thousand
force opposed to him was undoubtedly much it at thirty-two thousand, including
estimates
and a division of McDowell
were within miles of the
s.
battle-field, as
In fact, none but Banks s he might have known from
Dabney says. The Federalists, according to their own had thirty-two thousand men engaged in this battle." Cooke is honestly mistaken; Dabney, dishonestly. the
official reports.
returns,
"
107
CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
Standing on the height in front of Brown s house, General Gordon s Brigade was almost in one s rear. across
Looking southward,
a
was a wooded
run,
an eighth of a mile through, on the southern swell edge of the wood, was Crawford an open field, rather more than two hundred yards across, separated him ;
:
Crawford s wood from a wood occupied by the rebels. There was General Banks in ran eastward to a point. near
person,
Geary.
Next beyond could be seen Cedar Mountain is full in
Greene, and then Prince.
Early in the afternoon, General Banks
view.
s
skir
The enemy presses mishers are seen pushing forward. them. General Banks with his left and centre meet the enemy.
1
There
a rattling
is
The enemy have
fire.
their troops are mainly out of sight, ; in the valley behind the wood in front of Crawford,
not developed yet
But they
west of the mountain.
press harder soon.
The guns up Cedar Mountain open. shot plough the ground
our
line.
replies.
woods
:
Their plunging occasionally, shell burst in
Our artillery, stationed on slight elevations, The enemy open with guns from behind the
in front of
our General
becomes rapid on both
;
and the
artillery fire
The moving of guns,
sides.
the shifting of cavalry, the slight changes in line, are visible.
It does not yet
enemy.
It
is
appear in what force are the
two hours before the
place to the rattle of
musketry
to
artillery
much
play gives
extent.
1 This is all which General bears upon General Pope s statement, that Banks had left the strong position which he had taken up, and had advanced two miles to meet the enemy." "
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
108
Then, the battery behind the point of woods is so annoying on our centre, that General Banks orders
Crawford to move across the open woods, and attack the battery, while on
at the
The order
same time.
field,
moves
his centre
is
the
pierce
gallantly obeyed.
His brigade moves on, increased by five companies of the Third Wisconsin, of Gordon s Brigade, as skir mishers steadily thinned by a terrible fire from the ,
concealed foe, and by a flank
which comes from
fire
the thicket on the west of the field, in which the
have been hidden,
both Crawford
s
companies of our Third Wisconsin.
lant
Officers are
men keep
York,
shot from the thicket.
lieutenant-colonel
dead.
mortally
Crane, the gal
off in every regiment.
swept
wood
on, pierce the
is
Third Wisconsin,
of the
;
five
Donelly, the brave
New
colonel of the Twenty-eighth
wounded by a
enemy
Brigade, and
falls
The
but, not far within
it,
the line has melted away. 1
Looking backward from Brown the Third Brigade (five
:
the
s
Second,
house,
companies), and the 27th Indiana,
ments true as
steel.
The Second only
still
remains
3d Wisconsin
the
is
three regi visible
:
some
1 It must be in reference to this, and to the movement of the centre, that Lee s Keport says, The main body of the Federal infantry, under cover of a wood and the undulations of the field, gained the left of Jackson s Divis ion, now commanded by General Taliaferro, and poured a destructive fire into its flank and rear. Campbell s Brigade fell back in confusion, exposing the flank of Taliaferro s, which also gave way, as did the left of "
Early
s.
The
rest of his brigade,
however, firmly held
its
ground.
Wind
er s Brigade, with Branch s (of A. P. Hill s Division) on its right, advanced promptly to the support of Jackson s Division; and, after a sanguinary
struggle, the
enemy was
repulsed with
loss."
CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
men
of the
some
are
asleep
;
some
109
are
making coffee The ambulances ;
are looking at the battle-field.
are .grouped in the road cutting the wood.
Gordon stands watching, to his eye
so soon
for
;
move, he
will
glass
is
him
;
"
come, but, impatient,
man
his feet.
attack.
house,
on
The
rattle of the
and he watches for the
It does not is
steadily
sent for the Third Brigade to
wave a handkerchief.
musketry chafes
General
almost
General Williams has told him, that,
an order
as"
his
Fall in
signal.
"
!
Every
Waiting through Crawford s Past the "Forward, double-quick all
At last, down the slope,
"
!
over the run, up into Crawford
s
woods, past the wounded, and to re-enforce Crawford. But Crawford s Brigade is, for the time, annihilated and Gordon s takes its place, gathering up, also, the ;
Wisconsin companies which had assisted Crawford. Formed at the edge of the open field (Captain Abbott five
with A,
behaving gallantly), they are received with a keen, well-aimed fire. Colonel Andrews skirmishers,
spoke a few words to his skirmishers, upon their duty,
and passed along the Second firing by file. "The
officers
day seemed
lost,"
The brigade open fire, the Soon the musketry ceased to be
line.
says Cooke.
"In
vain did the Confederate
men
steady. ... At that moment of disaster the clouds of smoke, his voice was heard rising
attempt to hold the
and impending ruin, amid above the uproar and the thunder of the guns. His exertions to rally the men were crowned with success. The old Stonewall Brigade and Branch s Brigade advanced at a double-quick." These extracts show how near, against a vastly superior force, the battle of Cedar Mountain was to being a victory. The single division lying back, in sound of the guns, impatient for orders, had it been on hand, would have turned the scale. But Pope, who had ordered Banks to attack, did .
.
.
not send the promised re-enforcernents.
.
.
.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
110 a rattle
it
:
For
silent.
was an unbroken roar, the artillery all Colonel thirty minutes it was steady.
Andrews s horse is shot under him. is Savage C5 wounded, and Quincy, and two-thirds of the officers. The
line is thinning fast.
But
enemy advance
the
with a savage
in line.
They
are received
and never get nearer than
fire,
fifty
yards.
There brigade
a heavy force on our right, into which our
is
is
They
firing.
"
are in blue.
I
think,"
said
Colonel Col grove, "we are firing on our own men." General Gordon rode forward, and was met by a savage fire.
A
Then
heavy
bullets
that force advanced, through the bushes.
comes down on the right
fire
come
like hail.
The
question of annihilation or retreat.
The
The
flank.
line shrivels up.
force
It
is
a
moving
on three regiments was made up of Winder s, Branch s, Fender s, and Archer s Brigades. The General ordered the line to
fall
back
;
were pressed by Ewell,
by Brown
s
and, while the centre and it
fell
back to
its
left
old position
house, just as the darkness was deepening.
The enemy has the wood, but does not pursue. General Banks establishes a line about a mile to the rear of his and the troops who would have saved the day, if they had been ordered up to the support of General Banks, come to the support and General Pope, too. former
;
;
The losses terrible Captains Abbott, Cary, Williams, and Goodwin, and Lieutenant dead Major Savage, Perkins, mortally wounded, and a prisoner Captain Quincy and Lieutenant Miller, of the Second had been
;
;
:
CEDAR MOUNTAIN. wounded and
prisoners
Ill
Surgeon Leland (early in
;
the action), Lieutenants Oakey, Browning, Grafton, a prisoner. wounded; Captain Russell, Robeson,
men
Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of B ; Brown (F. H.) , ; Enlisted
:
A
Frames,
Cochrane,
C
and Corporal Wilcox, of
D
E
Grey,
Corporal
Stonehall, and Williston, of
Hines,
Jewell,
Bickford, Corporal Fay,
;
;
Ide and Sparrow, of
Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey,
:
G
of
;
H;
Corporal Cahill, Corporal Sergeant Willis, of I;
De Weale, and Duffy,
and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and Watson, of K, killed; Corporal Buxton, Gilman, and Spalding, of
of
A;
B; Donovan, of C; Daniels, of E; Moore, of F; Dillingham, Greene (M.), Smith, and First-Sergeant Williston, of G; Sylvester, Stephens (J.), of
of I; and Hauboldt, of
Ninety-nine others were
were mortally wounded. K, wounded and fourteen men, ;
besides four of the wounded, were prisoners.
twenty-three
officers
who went upon
only came back unhurt
regiment, as engaged,
company had the
;
and
Of
the field,
the
seven
thirty-five per cent of the
were killed or wounded.
The
of Zouaves, which, the colonel officially said,
honorably and creditably discharged their duty on lost one commissioned officer, Lieutenant field,"
"
Heirvack,
missing;
and privates,
killed,
four
non-commissioned
and seven,
officers
missing.
momentary absence of Colonel An drews to see the wounded, the next in rank was sought
When,
in the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
112 it
for,
was the junior captain, whose commission had
arrived a few days before.
Well might General Pope say behaved with especial heaviest
in his official report,
regiments [there was but
Massachusetts
"The
gallantry,
and
the
l
losses." "
Equally well did General Pope speak of the 2 guished gallantry ... of General Gordon." Equally well did he say, corps was beyond
And
one]
sustained
all
The conduct of
"
distin
the whole
praise."
cannot speak too highly of the ceaseless intrepidity of General Banks himself, during the whole engagement. He exposed himself as equally well,
"I
.
freely as
went has
any one under
his
.
.
command
far to secure that gallant
made
Some
his corps
famous."
and his example and noble conduct which ;
3
time after, there came the following order
:
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF VIRGINIA, NEAR CEDAR MOUNTAIN, VA., Aug. 16, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS, No.
21.
The
following despatch has been received from the Gen eral-in-Chief of the Army, and, with this order, will be published at the head of every regiment and detachment in this
command
:
1 No official record Of General Gordon s
missing.
wounded, 2
"
General Lee
of the losses of the corps has met the Avriter s eye. less than 1500 men, 466 were killed, wounded, or s
Report makes the Confederate
loss,
229 killed, 1,047
total, 1,276.
Colonel Andrews, Colonel Ruger, Colonel conduct." General Gordon.
Colgrove
deserving Captain H. B. Scott, A A.G., Captain Charles Wheaton, and Lieutenant Robert G. Shaw, rendered me especial service. I owe them many thanks for their labors praise for gallant
"
My
.
.
.
Staff,
and coolness under this terrific General Gordon. 3 I make no criticism upon the conduct of this battle, because qualified. Recording events only, much of which I saw, military know what was wrong. fire."
am men
I
not will
CEDAR MOUNTAIN. WAR
113
DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Aug.
14, 1862.
Your telegram of last evening MAJOR-GENERAL POPE, most satisfactory and I congratulate you and your army, and particularly General Banks and his corps, on your hardearned but brilliant success against vastly superior numbers.
is
;
and Your troops have covered themselves with glory Cedar Mountain will be known in history as one of the great ;
H.
war.
battle-fields of the
W. HALLECK, General-in- Chief.
The Major-General commanding has
add
to
little
the It is
to this despatch.
of Virginia a feeble expression
Army
of his feelings, to say that he was delighted and astonished at the gallant and intrepid conduct of his command, and 1 Success and glory are sure especially of the Second Corps. to
accompany such conduct
Cedar Mountain
make
shall
draw very officer
and
the
is
only the
;
and
first
it
safe to predict, that
is
of a series of victories which
of Virginia famous in the land, and
Army
close to the hearts of their
soldier
who
belongs to
countrymen every
it.
JOHN POPE, Major- General Commanding.
The on the
men
was merited. But were the congratulations brilliant success and victory, a burlesque ? Our
praise
felt
that they could well spare such victories
as
being driven from the field by vastly superior numbers, leaving their
wounded
in the
hands of the enemy, bury
ing their dead afterwards by permission of the enemy ; while the arms captured by the rebels, lay in huge piles.
But
that
was the way they used
to write history.
The evening after the battle, the Second, in its brig ade, was placed in the centre of the new army line, 1
General Banks
8
s.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
114
and close up to the enemy tries
(Harrington, of
finesse, a
;
so close, that one of
Company E)
its
captured, by a
sen little
up by mistake. Here it was injured, and General Pope near
party that rode
that General
Banks was
General Pope refusing to believe General that the enemy were but a few
capture,
Gordon s statement off.
yards
Brown s house was
the
hospital
for the brigade
while a mile and a half to the rear was another, brick house near the Culpeper road.
wounded were got
Over
fifty
;
a
of our
by the untir ing efforts of the regimental band, which persisted until two of its number, Rawson and Smeath, were
Our wounded were at Brown s includ Surgeon Leland, who, though wounded in the head,
made ing
off the field, principally
prisoners.
;
could hardly be persuaded to leave their care to others. Colonel Andrews could not bear to leave his
wounded without an
officer and, as Surgeon Leland was wounded, Assistant-Surgeon Stone in Maryland on duty, and Assistant-Surgeon Heath sick with typhoid
fever,
was the
it
;
privilege of the chaplain to remain.
Doctor Chappel, the efficient and faithful medical and Surgeon Bennett, of the Fifth Connecti director than whom no truer man ever wore the green cut, ;
sash,
remained
also,
with the comforting assurance
enemy would immediately occupy this impor tant height. But, though they pushed up on the central that the
plain past the house, and lay there, two hundred and left the place untouched. Within fifty yards off, they
the house
and without were hundreds of wounded.
CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
115
All night, in the moonlight, when the fleecy clouds permitted it, and by candles otherwise, under the trees
were the men cared for barrels of the
At
a wood.
and
enemy
;
while, for hours, the musket-
the edge of
s sentries glittered in
a report,
a flash,
eleven o clock,
a whizzing shell flew screaming into the
woods
just
then over the hospital, and another, and our and then up the plain artillery replied as furi ously, their thunder continuous and unceasing, lightning
north and east
;
;
flashing from the muzzles.
Who
ceased.
but the enemy
Half an hour, and
it
had
had driven, the hospital did not know muskets were still glittering. Early in ;
s
the night, a brigade filed quietly in between the hospital
and the enemy
;
thirty yards off,
so quietly, that their very presence, not
was not known
leaped in the breast
;
at first.
for Massachusetts
the Twelfth and the Thirteenth. the
But hope
men were there,
Before morning,
enemy drew back.
A
few ambulances were there. The chaplain had learned of a circuitous path through the woods, to the rear of the line,
the direct road being in the
enemy
s
Doctor Chappel authorized an attempt to possession. remove the wounded. Patiently the work went on, sometimes interrupted by rebel shell. At three o clock morning, General McDowell sent word that that
in the
spot
was untenable.
man was
When not
Patience
still
;
and
at six, the last
gone. the gray of
sent off,
morning came,
the
wounded
looking southward, near a mile off, were the rebels drawn up in a long line of battle, but all
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
116
Even
motionless.
On
guns.
the north, our brigades were
moving into But all
gave promise of a fierce day.
It
position.
the gunners could be seen at their
Sunday they lay grimly watching each other, while not a shot broke the stillness. Brown s house was left ; that
and
in
it
a beautiful boy of eighteen months, who, on
the day before, had slept through the heavy artillery-
thunder, while his mother always stood between her child
and the guns
though her body could
as
shelter
him.
At
night
came a rumor
wounded men were pickets
had
fallen
to the regiment that the
on the
still
field,
and that the rebel
back to the wood which Crawford had
A
party was detailed by the colonel, of our with consent general, to attempt their help.
tried to pierce.
Lieutenant Abbott commanded
it,
and Wisconsin men
were added, and the chaplain of the Second obtained Three miles on, and half permission to accompany it. a mile from the ground, General Sigel refused the risk of losing the
party.
"to
allow
was midnight, and
It
At nothing remained but to sleep at the picket line. early gray, Lieutenant Abbott tried again for permis While he was seeking
sion.
Second ventured was,
it is fair
to
getting
the chaplain
of the
elude the pickets, and go on.
(It
to say, his only breach of military disci
three years.) pline in
wounded
it,
soldier
who
confirmation
Crossing the run, finding a had crawled down there, and of
the
facts
;
passing up
and
through the wood, it was his privilege to be the first to Men comfort the wounded with the assurance of help.
^TTo 08
OC MAKE)
CEDAR MOUNTAIN. wept with joy.
A rebel
"
117
We thought you were never coming
sentry was opposite
;
and, at the waving of a
handkerchief, waved a cap, and nodded. There were the dead, one, whose "fall
in,"
the Saturday before,
"
!
still
clear,
ringing
sounded on the ear;
who in reply to the question (as he left an ambu Are you strong enough to go ? had answered lance) with a smile, and cannot stay when my men had been almost carried by two of his men one, lying there with a miniature, who had said a little before, If one,
"
"
"I
go,"
;
"
and any thing should happen to me, it would kill near him, still alive to watch his commander, Sergeant Williston, whose entreaties had saved the picture, "
;
alas
!
himself to die soon
;
one, with the crisp hair, of
which a single lock should go home, as the last of the and many an one whose homes frank, brave, true man ;
mourned
that sad
day for Massachusetts. Truce was established and rebel and loyal rode ;
around the neutral ground. Ambulances came, and car ried away the wounded. Parties came to bury the dead. There was Crane, lieutenant-colonel of the Third Wis consin,
the Second
of the same, diers
who
mourned him
and
too,
lay there and died there.
O
Brien
Rebel
had sheltered some with blankets or boughs O
;
sol
had
brought water, and sometimes biscuits and apples. But the dead had been stripped of every thing valuable, even to outer clothing. It took till past mid-day to bury the dead. Not all were laid there. Abbott and Gary and Goodwin
and Williams sleep with
their kindred
;
and Perkins,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
118
wounded, died at But when the trenches were dug,
Alexandria.
at
Savage,
Charlottesville.
twice
and the Massachusetts dead were
laid in
them, green lest the earth should them over were placed boughs Christian burial were press too rudely ; and not without they to
left to sleep,
dust."
"earth
Around
with three deep
to earth, ashes to ashes, dust
the two trenches were trees
marked
cuts each, that, while the trees stand,
And there was carried the place should be known. which had drop relic kept as a sacred away a leaf the ped from the hand of a dying man, on which words glance had fallen on these
first
:
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the godliness. of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dis "
Seeing then that
all
day
solved,
and the elements
Never new heavens
shall melt with fervent heat.
theless, we, according to his promise, look for
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness."
119
X. POPE
ON
S
RETREAT.
the night after the battle of Cedar Mountain, the
Second was
in the centre of the
new
line,
within a few
hundred paces of the exultant but cautious enemy. In the course of the following forenoon, the corps was drawn back into the second line, on the plain still in ;
sight of the mountain, and between the road and the
The wounded were
brick-house hospital.
still
moving
from that house to Culpeper, where a hotel, churches, and shops were used as hospitals. At noon, the corps was- so cut up and worn down with fatigue," that "
General Pope
"
did not consider
capable of rendering and sent any efficient service for several days ; it
"
ijfc
about a mile and a half to the
where, in a wood,
The main body
it
of the
they
a sufficient
;
lay a few days.
towards the Kapidan. left
left,
and nearer Culpeper
enemy fell back, on the 10th, But this was not known and
show of
;
force to hold the battle
ground, take off their wounded, bury their dead, and
up the muskets, where they lay on Monday when the truce was in force. pile
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
120
A few ward
days afterwards, General Pope pushed for but General Banks s Corps was on the 12th
;
sent back to Culpeper.
There the Second remained
only (Lieutenant Brown asked to be relieved from duty at General immediately
with six line
six clays,
Banks
s
and returned), with but one
headquarters,
field officer,
and with a
and chaplain.
ter,
officers
staff of adjutant,
At Culpeper,
quartermas
Charles J. Mills
(appointed second-lieutenant) joined for duty, and was wounded severely at Antie; assigned to Company
D
tam
;
and subsequently killed in action.
Ware came
Dr. Robert
out, also, to render temporary service,
noble man, who,
when surgeon
Massachusetts, died at Washington, N.C., to his fidelity to
came
a
of the Forty-fourth victim
"a
Friends from Massachusetts
duty."
saddened camp. During this interval, General Pope was operating with his cavalry down towards the Rapidan, again also
to the
occupying the line from Raccoon Ford to the Blue But he soon learned by the re-enforcements Ridge.
coming
enemy, relieved from the
to Jackson, that the
Richmond by the withdrawal of McClellan, was Then sending its entire force against General Pope. care of
began the
effort to delay the
the Peninsula, coming
with the
Army
up
enemy,
until the
army from
the Potomac, could unite
of Virginia.
On
the 14th of August,
came General Reno, with eight thousand men of the forces which had arrived at Falmouth under Burnside :
and Pope pushed forward eral
Banks
s
his
whole force (except
Corps) towards the Rapidan.
But
it
Gen soon
POPE became evident that
advanced
this
121 line could not
be
and, on the 18th, the whole army were motion back to the Rappahannock, which was to
maintained in
RETREAT.
S
;
put be held as long as possible, to embarrass and delay the
enemy.
1
The
trains
moved
first,
and the whole force
General Banks s rapidly and handsomely. Corps, on the evening of the 18th, moved a mile north of Culpeper, to have a fair start in the morning
retired
;
while, at Culpeper, railway trains were loading,
and
sutlers in despair.
moving
off,
Brandy
Station, and across the
On
wagons
the 19th,
by
to
be
Rappahannock,
stationed (the Second) a few rods south of the bridge.
The 12th and 13th Massachusetts, ell s
Corps, were near neighbors.
in
General It
McDow
was a pleasant
when ninety good-looking recruits under Sergeant Stone, 2 and their roll was called by the light of a candle. They were wanted.
sight, that evening, filed
in,
The next morning,
the
pickets on the other
enemy
side,
s
cavalry drove in the
and everybody watched a
pretty cavalry skirmish on the opposite plain. Nothing came of it. But, the next day, there commenced
movings up and down.
All the trains had been sent to
the rear, and were safe.
In the evening, the Second moved down the river a mile, and bivouacked in a shower.
Waked by
cannonade in the morning, and moved up the river (suffering for water in that miserable 1 General Reno, to move by way of Stevensburg to either Kelley s or Barnet s Ford; General Banks and General McDowell, to Rappahannock railway crossing; General Sigel, through Jefferson, to Sulphur Springs. 2
Now
professor in
Kenyon
College.
122
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTEY.
country) six miles to Beverly Ford, to relieve a regi ment of General SigeFs ; witnessed a lively fight about sunset, in a brilliant thunder-storm ; and bivouacked in the wet.
General Gordon had been ordered to hold that ford. He^ posted Cothran s battery and the brigade, and waited sleeplessly. In the gray of the wet morning, he heard, with Colonel Kuger, a familiar sound it was :
Soon the shot waked
the noise of battery wheels.
the men, and knocked over the regiment
Colonel Andrews moved
a
it
little
s
rail fence.
to the right
;
and
General Gordon ordered the battery to open fire. The fog lifted a little, and Cothran knocked the enemy s
guns to pieces; a second one shared the same fate, wheels breaking, guns falling. The enemy brought on a line of infantry, to get off their guns. Cothran s broke them, too
canister
;
having, himself, no
man
seriously hurt.
The men of the rain
;
artillery,
the regiment
made and drank
coffee, in
moved up the river ten miles to the sound of and bivouacked in a wet hollow a little before
"fires low." Next day, up by Sulphur round shot and shell cut the limbs overhead. Springs, The last two days, a diet of green corn, hard bread,
midnight, with
fifty
cents a piece,
and rapidly rising, and a little men from bones left by another
a few
meat scraped by corps. Sheep were discovered skirmish, they surrendered.
;
and, after a lively
The next day, up to near to help Sigel, who was fight
Waterloo Bridge, by orders ing got there, and saw some .fighting ;
;
but Sigel
"didn
t
POPE want"
the corps, relying on his
which were unfortunately
123
RETREAT.
S
lost.
"jackass
batterees,"
Back a mile
or two, and
then easterly, to near Warrenton ; cannonade, and the sight, in the evening, of the Next day, to near burning hotel at Sulphur Springs. stayed until next day
;
the next, Bealeton Station, by way of Fayetteville to near Catlett s ; the next, the 28th, to Kettle Eun ; ;
and the next day was the
first
day of the second battle
of Manassas.
moving was about, of course men in a regiment could not know. Nor did people at home
What
know much ited
this
all
for
Pope had, at Rappahannock, prohib mails and despatches. The troops knew, however, ;
that the enemy, while keeping us
awake
was moving
up the
his
forces
steadily
at every ford, river.
Their
columns could sometimes be seen. first
to
General Pope at Then he determined, on the 22d,
held the river.
mass
his force at
cross the river,
and
"
and near Rappahannock Station, fall on the flank and rear of the
long column of the enemy
"
moving up the
that night the rain swept off the bridges,
the fords impassable.
river
;
but
and made
Then, on the 23d, Sigel, sup
ported by Banks and Reno, moved to attack a force rumored to have crossed near Sulphur Springs the ;
small force encountered at Great
Run, two miles below
Sulphur Springs, was driven across ; and General Mc Dowell was at Warrenton. On the night of the 22d, a force of the enemy s cavalry had crossed at Water through Warrenton, and destroyed some of the wagons of General .Pope s own headquarter train
loo, passed
;
124
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTHY.
Sigel and
were
Banks keeping on
The enemy
Waterloo.
to
moving northward Jackson passed through Thoroughfare Gap, and was in the rear. Then Pope still
:
determined
Manassas of the
:
to
crush
here a brisk engagement on the evening
28th,
between King
Corps, and Jackson his ground.
and moved towards
Jackson,
An
s
s
McDowell s
Division, in
advance,
which each held
attempt to hold
Thoroughfare Gap, And, keep Jackson isolated ; but it was a failure. on the 29th, the attack on Jackson, which ought to have succeeded ; but did not, why, is matter of history.
to
Then
the battle of the
re-enforced Jackson
;
30th,
and
its
when
the
enemy had
result.
During these battles, the Second, as did General Banks s Corps, lay idle, in hearing of the fire. Al though forming the extreme left, it was not brought into action.
Banks that
s
Corps was
flank.
trains
Why, nobody
could
But General
tell.
in the position necessary to
He was
then
ordered
to
guard the
protect
from Warrenton Junction to Manassas,
also.
T
The very important duty devolved upon MajorGeneral Banks, the Major-General commanding the
Army
of Virginia
feels
assured
that
he will
dis
charge with intelligence, courage, and fidelity." Of course he would. He was to protect wagon-trains, railway-trains, see to rebuilding bridges, get the sick safely
away from Warrenton,
etc.
;
and burn
trains
and
if necessary. So, after hearing the sound of the fighting on the 29th, the Second that evening
locomotives,
moved
a mile, and bivouacked under the lee of a grave-
POPE was thought
It
yard.
On
direction.
that
S
RETREAT.
125
army was threatened in 30th, moved four miles on,
that the
the
toward the high ground on the north bank of the Broad Run, and bivouacked in a rain-storm. Then, on the
and even ambu
31st, after orders to destroy baggage,
which were saved on condition they should not recrossed the run, saw delay the march a moment, a long line of cars in flames, from which the men lances,
few things, where quantities of saddles, stationery, clothing, and muskets, went to the flames, saved
a
mus
orders allowing nothing to be taken, not even the
of which
kets
apiece
our
musketless
recruits
needed
one
passed through Brentsville, forded the rapidly and at noon had safely reached Bull ;
;
rising
Occoquan
Run,
after
a detour
of twenty miles
to accomplish without a halt, for the Second led. At
four direct,
the end of the twenty miles,
saw men
over the four miles, from which no
coming had been enemy leisurely
visible.
But
the army, .shattered and pursued
by a victorious was not to remain at Centreville. The Second, enemy, with its corps, moved on the next to near Fairfax day the old Braddock Road. Court-house, by In the even The enemy were en ing, it was again under fire. turn
deavoring to
The
right,
near
Chantilly.
was fought in a severe thunder-storm. in which was the Second, were in line,
battle
division,
Hooker s
Reno
The to the
and the enemy s fire passed overhead. The enemy was repulsed; but Kearney and Stevens
rear of
fell.
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
126
The brigade was afterwards ordered back to Fairfax, The order, not dated, to assist in bringing off stores. was undoubtedly intended for an earlier period. The was apparent But the order had
uselessness of the attempt are there in
Back some
force."
miles,
commander of fax."
"Look
"Where
are
you
"
:
the
enemy
to be obeyed.
going?"
said the
To Fair the rear guard of the army. There was the rebel army; there!" "
and, to reach Fairfax, the brigade would have to cut for miles, as everybody knew before it started.
its
way
and on the 3d, to The daily movements from
So, on the 2d, to near Alexandria the
shadow of Fort Albany.
;
Culpeper to the defences of Washington had become General Banks s conduct had been marked history. "
by great
coolness, intrepidity,
with a small .rior forces
army,"
and
zeal."
says General Pope,
"To
confront
"vastly
to fight battles without
supe-
of victory,
hope but only to gain time, and to embarrass, and delay the forward movement of the enemy, is of all duties ;
the most hazardous and the most difficult which can be
... imposed upon any general and any army.
It
was
incessant watchfulness,
only by constant movement, by and hazardous skirmishes and battles, that the forces
my command
were not overwhelmed; while, at the same time, the enemy was embarrassed, and delayed in his advance upon Washington, until the forces from under
the peninsula were at length assembled for the defence
of the
This
city."
tells
campaign.
the whole story, as to the object of the
The Army of Virginia had,
in securing
POPE this
object,
S
met with a
responsible for
RETREAT.
127
series of disasters.
them belongs
Who
to general history.
is
There
Heroism has fault in the men of that army. never been displayed more brilliant than that of the officers and men. Greater endurance, more patriotic was no
But
sacrifice, or a loftier patriotism, is
not to be found.
the
useless to ignore the
it
commanding general
is
never had the confidence of his men.
fact
on the 2d of September, "Major General McClellan will have command of the fortifica
When,
tions
therefore,
of Washington,
defence of the the army.
and
and of
Capital,"
The
a
all
thrill
dispirited troops
the troops for the
of joy went through
became
columns were again invincible. of Virginia had ceased to exist. their
enthusiastic,
The Army
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
128
XI. ANTIETAM.
ON
2d of September, General McClellan took The army was in front of Washington, on the south side of the Potomac. On the 3d, the enemy the
command.
had disappeared.
The General was
rebels intended to cross the upper
satisfied that the
Potomac,
into
Mary
and he ordered, that day, the Second and Twelfth Corps (Banks s Corps under a new numbering, officially announced on September 12th) to Tenallytown, above
land
:
Washington
;
Washington
;
ville.
the Ninth Corps to Seventh Street road,
and sent cavalry to the fords near Poolswho had not recovered from his
General Banks,
injury received at Cedar Mountain, at
was
left in
command
Washington.
So, on the 4th of September, the Second, passing over the bridge at Georgetown, left Virginia for the
and camped a mile or two above Tenally The next day moved to a brook a mile and a
third time,
town.
half above Eockville. ral
There the corps, Brigadier-Gene Williams in command, was attached to General
Sumner s
force.
Here
the troops were in line of battle,
and were there four days.
Sumner, commanding the
ANTIETAM.
129
BurnSecond and Twelfth Corps, formed the centre First and on the our and with Ninth, side, right ;
;
Couch, the
left,
was necessary
It
was known it
was
"It
on the
may
move with
to
to be in force in
for a
Halleck,
river.
Maryland, but whether
movement on Baltimore was unknown.
be the enemy "to
The enemy
caution.
draw
s
off the
telegraphed General
object,"
mass of our
and then
forces,
attempt to attack from the Virginia side of the Poto "Positive information that the line is cut,
mac."
.
corroborates the idea that the Potomac,"
enemy
s
.
recrossing the Until you know more
south
force
is
enemy "
said the President.
certainly the
.
of the
Potomac,"
telegraphed General Halleck on the 13th, in thus
wrong
that
opinion
uncovering the capital.
the
enemy
will
I
are
"you
am
send a small
of the
column
towards Pennsylvania to draw your forces in that direction, then suddenly move on Washington with the forces south of the over."
when
Against
Potomac, and those he may cross
this
pressure,
however, McClellan,
enemy was in front, moved forward. A few days had re-organized the army, and its renewed and confidence had been partially supplies satisfied
that
the
;
established.
On
the 9th, the whole
Burnside, on the right, to Brook ville centre,
the
to
left,
moved
to
army moved, ;
Sumner,
Damascus and Clarksburg; Barnesville
and Poolsville.
in the
Franklin, on
The
troops
Twelfth Corps being in The Second was at Middle brook,
in great parallels, the
three such columns.
the night of the 9th
;
near Damascus, the next 9
;
still
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
130
nearer on the llth
half a mile from Ijamsville, on the
;
Baltimore and Ohio Kailway, on the 12th; and on the 13th, after fording our old acquaintance, the Monocacy,
camped
that day, an order of into
fell
Lee
s, fully disclosing his plans,
the hands of General McClellan.
Corps was
sary to force the line of the
Burnside
s
Hooker
s
Frederick, and Sumner s and Sykes s had been thought that it would be neces
at It
Division.
On
half a mile south of Fredericktovvn.
command had
Monocacy, but a portion of entered Frederick, after
a
he was now at sharp skirmish, the day before ; and Middletown, having carried the Catoctin range on the other side of Frederick. in Frederick,
The enemy, who had swarmed
held the Blue Kidge beyond, with
his
force which
was
army near Boonsborough, except the
General McClellan
s
Ferry. operating against Harper and for a orders vigorous forward rapid gave "
move
ment."
On
the 14th, General McClellan ordered,
"In
the
event of an engagement with the enemy, no man will be permitted to leave the ranks to take wounded to the Wounded men will be borne off the field by rear. hospital attendants
made no change
On a
and ambulance men
only."
This
in the Second.
Sunday, the 14th, on the road
slow movement,
getting
at 8,
through
A.M.
It
was
the well-known
streets of Frederick, while the sabbath bells were ring
ing,
and
flags
were gaily
flying.
Division after division
went through the town, with endless batteries, and Beyond town, there were long halts in long trains.
ANTIETAM. tiresome
through
Columns
places.
abreast,
Obstacles from trains.
fields.
down
the Catoctin, and
in
On
war ever
woods,
laid
or
and across
Up
into the beautiful
as lovely a spot as
valley,
131
Middletown hands upon.
halt before sunset on a by-roads and no roads pleasant slope, and coffee just cooking, when orders ;
started all
Middletown was on our
on again.
left.
By
every point of the compass in turn, to find a way.
Through
cornfields, in the dark,
where one could not
touch the top of the stalks by standing in the stirrups. Through brooks, and by and by, the rapid Catoctin ;
Men
and stockings but Forward said the colonel, and on the regiment went. An hour on the damp bank, while, in the night
then over. "
were taking
off shoes
;
"
!
mist, hundreds of fires were blazing dull.
midnight, on again
;
by a road to the
Then, near
left into
a hollow
;
and, tired with sixteen hours on the road, dinnerless and supperless, cross
and
cold, lay
down
to
rest
on the
slope of South Mountain, at the old Sharpsburg road in
position to
support,
if
necessary,
the
centre
;
and
left.
All day
we had heard
the sound of artillery, forward.
Sometimes
gun
;
it was the dull, heavy booming of a single and again, the swelling roar of batteries. Far
off to the southwest, in the afternoon, Franklin s
guns were at work to carry Crampton s Pass, which was and which would have relieved Harper s accomplished ;
Ferry, but for
morning.
its
disgraceful surrender early the next
Directly in front was the brilliant fight for
the possession of Turner
s
Gap.
Through
that
Gap
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
132
ran the National Eoad mile north of
it
"
:
"
there old
About a
was Gibbon.
Hagerstown Road
"
:
there
Half a mile south of the National Road
was Hooker.
was the
was the
old Sharpsburg
the right and
left
was the
Road firing
:"
there
we
was Reno.
On
heard, joined at the
After sunset, proper time by that in the centre. the flashes of the guns along the crests, with puffs of It was ten o clock at night before smoke, were visible. the the
They had been long silent when Second bivouacked. The pass had been virtually flashes
ceased.
But
gained.
it
was known
that at 3, A.M., the Twelfth
Corps were to be under arms to But they were not wanted.
when
men awoke.
the
down.
Burnside
finish the
work.
was broad sunlight Orderlies were passing up and It
came by,
the victorious, that day
and received the spontaneous The enemy had hurried off from
of the troops.
cheers
their last position, in
A
hurried visit up the road found their the night. dead, who, behind the stone wall, lay piled on each other as they had fallen under the
who had
gallantly
worked
their
fire
of the infantry the
way up
was a victory but Reno was dead. That morning General Mansfield
hill.
It
;
command
of the Twelfth Corps.
It
arrived,
and took
was not without
regret that the Corps thus finally parted with General
historic
had been made a corps, it had won its Faithful, sagacious, and glory, under him.
kind,
they
Banks.
It
wished
him
brave, conscientious veteran
well.
who
The
white-haired,
succeeded, had, alas
but three days of further service, before he
fell.
!
133
ANTIETAM.
The brigade had some changes. The new troops of the raising of that summer had been distributed, and were assigned, at Rockville, the 13th New Jersey, and the 107th New York. They were to have a rough introduction, but they endured it well to the brigade
;
and were to stand bravely with the Second, and its comrades of Wisconsin and Indiana, for more than two years.
General
Gordon aid
as
temporary service
still commanded, and for came Charles R. Train, a
He
Massachusetts Congressman.
plunged at once into
the hardships of veterans, and bore well his trial of at
fire
Antietam.
On
moved
the morning after South Mountain,
on.
Passing northward through the fields, came upon the National Road, and went through the Gap. On the As the column road, suddenly McClellan appeared.
moved
to the side of the road, caps flew in the air,
shouts and cheers rolled believed in McClellan.
and turning to the miles south. "You
field.
On
up
as
from one man.
Tuesday morning, orders
are going immediately into
But he was mistaken.
A
battle,"
hill.
somewhere.
"Don
It
you want
t
said
was a
men
The sound of
fields.
to
Permission
is
and up on a second
had ;
:
Mans
closely
firing
to ride
off,
beautiful
massed
comes from
forward?"
the colonel after an hour or two of waiting. sir."
move.
mile and a half
sight to see scores of thousands of
broad
They
Passing through Boonsborough, out of town, bivouacked a few
left
halted under the crest of a
in the
and
asks
r?
Yes,
over one crest and valley,
there are batteries.
Now
and
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
134
then an occasional shot, and returned
ment probably.
:
!
comes from a sharpshooter behind that sol down in front and another, from another
it
itary tree
;
The
tree.
colonel
at all
rather
;
"Don t
last,
fall
back
;
and
his field-glass,
lifts
leisurely
At
takes a survey.
Not
amuse "
the rebel guns, bullet
just for
;
Over edge of that wood, are a but no infantry visible. "Whiz at the
you want
to
look?
but afraid to say so, and
the Butternuts are inspected.
Movements were going on what for?
Certainly not
that day, but
men
who knew Trains
in a regiment.
were hurrying along. Ammunition was distributed. Troops were slowly moved hither and thither. At
But about ten
night the Second went to sleep.
o clock,
P.M., came low, quiet orders to make ready to move Not ten minutes afterwards, General Mans instantly.
came along. "Keady now,
"
field
sir."
When will "You
are the only brigade
you
are
you be ready? !
Well, I
ready."
"
said he.
like that
"Fall
:
but
The
in."
regiment soon reached a macadamized road, or what seemed like it went through a village guessed to be ;
Keedysville, and across the Antietam the
in
down
rain
;
;
got a
little
wet
somebody s field, and lay on the border of the bloody
turned into
in the darkness,
ground which was the next day
to be immortalized as
ANTIETAM. It fire
was
just gray
dawn, and misty, when the
rattling
of skirmishers broke the last slumbers of thousands.
Then came
the dull sound of a heavy gun.
roar of artillery.
Hooker was
at
Then
work, just in
a
front.
135
ANTIETAM.
How
he kept at work, drove Jackson from his first line and dealt heavy blows at his second, crossed the pike
road and came near the church, belongs to general history.
When
the Second
the opening
it
fire,
was roused from found
itself
A
regiments of the right wing. dwelling house, Hoffman
slumbers by
its
midst of the
the
in
few yards off was a
An
hour passed, possibly, while Hooker s who could estimate time then ?
was
battle
of
closed
battalions
ground, bearing a the slope,
it
little
mass, moved
orders
came
to
over
towards the right.
the
low
Partly up
not somebody cornfield, and the men soon began to
in
s
the cornfield of the battle,
make
to
Brigade, formed in columns
s
in
was halted
build fires and
when
Then came an order
fiercely raging.
General Gordon
move.
s.
The
coffee.
move
was not ready Hooker was near the
on.
church, but was severely met.
coffee
"Tell
Mansfield to send
up a division." Williams Division was put in motion, Crawford s Brigade, the right Gordon s, the left. s
;
Greene liams
s
Division also advanced, on the
Up
s.
left
of
Wil
the slope, over high ground and across
lower ground to a thin belt of woods. Here, hit by w%^^9ft a luiiidolfMwiIlet, Mansfield fell and Williams led the ;
corps.
An
aide
came with
possible despatch.
directions to
The sound of The
approaching. General enemy were heard. steadily
regiments,
27th Indiana,
the
cheers
move with
all
musketry was
of the
exultant
Gordon moved
three
the Second, the 3d Wisconsin, and the
by the
flank, at double-quick, gradually
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
136
The 13th New Jersey, gaining deployment distance. Colonel Carman, was in reserve and the 107th New ;
York, Colonel Van Valkenburg, was in reserve in a piece of woods at the left, detached from the line.
The
three regiments were put in line.
was about was a
east
from Miller s house.
Their position
the left and front
piece of woods, before reaching the pike road
a cornfield,
the cornfield.
Wisconsin
;
;
in front of that
and
was
Nearly on their right, the Third and then, the Second. then, a battery
the Twenty-seventh Indiana
To
To
;
;
the right and front of the battery,
was the orchard
:
ran directly forward from a point to the of the just right battery, and about thirty yards onward turned, almost at a right angle, to the right a fence surrounding
again.
it
Following the
line of that fence,
of the orchard, was the Second its left
was
;
its line
and in the edge turning, so that
at right angles with the brigade line, its right
facing the pike.
The
battery opened
furiously.
The musketry was
and the savage fire of the brigade The tide was stayed. But the as held their The Second was enemy yet ground. but the brave men of Wisconsin and hardly injured, instantly at work,
checked the
foe.
Indiana were suffering severely. Colonel Ruger, of the Third Wisconsin, sent for relief to Colonel Andrews.
At
a glance that officer
saw the remedy.
cf his companies from the right to the
ing
front
slightly,
so
that
the
Moving some
and chang regimental line was left,
angles to the line of the brigade, Colonel Andrews ordered fire upon the enemy opposite
nearly at
right
137
ASTTIETAM.
Under
the Third Wisconsin.
terribly shattered, broke.
this cross fire, the
With
1
enemy,
cheers the whole line
followed, dashing after the fleeing rebels through the cornfield,
and over the wounded and dead there,
the Second capturing the flag of the llth Mississippi,
which was seized by Sergeant Wheat, of Co. E, and the Dunker church was in into the open ground ;
sight, over to the left.
peared in the
Then the
rebels
had disap
woods beyond the pike road, and the
line
halted.
The men of the Soon Sumner s Corps came on. Second lay down, while Sumner s men passed over them. That corps dashed on with cheers. 2 General to support him. The wnile the 3d Wisconsin and
Sumner ordered General Gordon brigade being divided,
27th Indiana, both of which had suffered severely, lay behind a slight ridge, and the 107th New Yo*rk was some distance yet to the
left,
the
Second and the 13th
New
left) moved up to the road, crossed the and formed behind the second one. fence, Cap
Jersey (on first
its
Morse, with company B, crossed the second fence.
tain
This was but a few rods above the church, at the open Sumner s corps was not visible. When ground. soldiers
doubt
appeared in the woods
who
they were.
w
opposite,
Show your
Colonel Andrews to the color-bearer.
there
colors
"
!
was said
Color-Sergeant
i The brunt of the battle," says Esten Cooke of the movement of which this was a ,part, was evidently here." The rebel troops engaged were E well s. Jackson would have been forced in a short time to retire, when his "
"
"
"i-
own re-enforcements reached
the
field."
Esten Cooke.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
138
Lundy waved
was greeted by a shower of Fire was then opened and continued. But, as
bullets.
the
smoke
On
the
left
his flag.
It
the small force found itself alone.
lifted,
on the right, the left, no troops were visible of the next corps had given way. The enemy were :
woods and behind rocks, and were in great They comprised Semmes s, Anderson s, and the
sheltered in force.
Stonewall Brigades, and portions of the divisions of
Barksdale and McLaws.
The
flagstaff
was broken,
away from the colorbearer s belt. The brave D wight was mortally wounded. fourth of the men had soon fallen, and they were the flag riddled, the socket shot
A
rapidly
dropping.
much more
Suffering
than the
enemy could, and unsupported, the order was given, and the regiment fell back to the woods behind, thus Cothran
uncovering the batteries.
s
and Woodruff s
guns opened beautifully, and the advancing
line of the
enemy hastily took shelter again. The One Hundred and Seventh New York was supporting Cothran s "
Battery.
This fine regiment, but just organized and
brought into the field, in this battle for the first time
under
fire,
moved with
and maintained to front fire
from
its
steadiness to
ground
its
from the enemy, and a
batteries in the
perilous position,
until recalled,
l rear."
though exposed over its head
fire
The Thirteenth New Jer
new regiment, was who was gallantly holding
sey, also a
sent to General Greene,
a position to the
and received from him high commendation.
1
General Gordon
s
Report.
left,
ANTIETAM.
The main work of done.
by and by
;
extreme
the
General
the
was moved a
It
139
Second, for the day, was
down
distance
little
and, while listening to Burnside took left, kindled fires, and
Crawford
having
Gordon commanded the
been
division
;
the slope battle
s
its
on
food.
wounded, General and Colonel Rugef,
Late in the afternoon, the brigade was in General Newton s Brigade
the -brigade.
line of battle in support of
of General
Franklin
s
In the evening, the
Corps.
brigade was moved to the support of a battery some 1 where, and there it passed the night.
During
this
and steadily
at
day, Surgeon Leland had been skilfully
work
at
one of the hospitals.
Assistant-
Surgeon Stone, near the regiment, had nobly won his The attendants had carried subsequent promotion. back the wounded tenderly. The line had been sadly shortened. losses
in
numbers
as at fatal
"
so great
Cedar Mountain.
Dwight was mortally wounded, generous, kind-hearted.
Not
But
the brilliant, brave,
Mind, I don
t
flinch a hair
"
!
i I owe especial thanks," says General Gordon, "to the Hon. Charles R. Train [M. C.], who volunteered his services on my staff at a time when fatiguing labor and most arduous service had deprived me of all my aides "
save one
officer.
down his life him from his
in his
This gentleman has also shown his willingness to lay country s cause. The invasion of the loyal North called
congressional duties and his home, at a moment s notice. No though excessive, no danger, though most perilous, detained him from moving forward whenever he could render assistance." To Captain Charles Wheaton, jun., my aide, I am again indebted." Of the Second, the 3d Wisconsin, and the 27th Indiana, he said, Veterans of Winchester and Cedar Mountain, they can add to their laurels the battle of Antietam Creek." "The 107th New York and the 13th New Jersey. fought like fatigues,
"
"
.
veterans."
.
.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
140
on a stretcher
said he, while lying
wounded lying around,
relieve the
to
geon
drum
corps to play
once more, next day
or telling
men
water to the thirsty
his attendants to give
the
sending the sur
;
;
calling
Star-spangled Banner" and asking to have the Flag waved
;
"The
dying in Christian peace, and to sleep with his kindred. Dillon, of B Bennett, of C Balcom and Isaac Childs, of D ; Richardson, again before his dying eyes,
;
;
and Treen, of
"\Vynn,
F Brown
E;
First Sergeant Martin, of
(Thomas) Donnovan, and Remick, of H, were dead. Dustin, of A Cady, of B Cheney and ;
,
;
of
Whyte,
wounded.
D
;
and Remick, of G, 1 Fifty more were wounded.
were mortally
;
D wight, three
only were wounded, Captain Francis, First Lieutenant Crowninshield, and First Lieutenant Mills ; the latter very severely,
Besides
officers
Of
while acting adjutant.
the less than three hundred
in action, twenty-five per cent
The
1
losses of the brigade
were
wounded.
killed or
were as follows: Wounded.
Killed.
2d Massachusetts 3d Wisconsin
27
173
27th Indiana
18
192
New York New Jersey
107th 13th
The
7
51
5
.7
75
21
losses of the corps were, according to General
as follows
Missing.
50
15
McClellan
s
Report,
:
ENLISTED MEN.
OFFICERS.
1st Division,
Williams
2d Division, Green Artillery
Total
s
s .
Wounded.
Killed.
Wounded.
Killed.
9
35
151
827
54
1076
6
26
107
481
30
650
1
15
1
17
259
1323
85
1743
.
.
15
61
Missing.
General McClellan gives the force of the corps at 10,126.
Aggregate
141
ANTIETAM.
But when
"
Carle ton
"
2
came along the next morning,
"All and asked, How are your men, colonel?" right. but time hard they feel yesterday, They had a pretty We expect to advance in a few moments." well. "
On
the morning of the 18th, the position of the
whole division was slightly changed, farther to the right supporting General Franklin. The morning sun looked ,
down
brightly on the dying and the dead.
Would
it
The
struggle of the day before had been the wrestling of two mighty ath letes, in which neither had actually overthrown the
witness a renewal of the fight?
But
other.
the fruits of the battle were undoubtedly
with McClellan.
He
had taken the army when
disgusted and dispirited
;
organized
it
;
it
supplied
was it
;
and by the magic of his presence made it invincible. He had attacked the enemy in his own position, and, with
many
of his regiments just hurried to the
field,
had stopped Lee s triumphant progress. The invasion of the North was finished, and Lee s "Maryland cam 2 Whether McClellan should risk paign was a failure." all had he losing gained, in the hope of destroying the
rebel army,
always
was a question that day. It probably But the Second Massachu-
will be a question.
2 I
acknowledge myself greatly indebted to Mr. Coffin s account of the thorough survey of the ground and study of the contest has enabled me to find the relative position of the Second towards other troops and movements. Indeed, so far as his letters covered ground familiar to me, I know of no correspondent or army historian battle of Antietam, for his
superior,
if
equal, to this writer, in comprehensiveness, general accuracy,
faithfulness, or vividness. 2 Pollard (II. p. 141),
who
occasionally
tells
the truth.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
142
had nothing to do but obey orders advance never came.
setts
to
But
during
that
day,
expected
;
and the orders
re-enforcements
Some of the more than six thousand men of Hooker, who should re-appear a few days afterwards, had begun to return to the six thousand who had arrived.
remained in the line of duty
;
and in other corps a
was beginning. Batteries which were out of ammunition were replenished. And, in
similar result totally
the evening, orders were given to renew the attack at daylight!
But when the morning came, the enemy had recrossed the river.
The army moved Ferry. battle,
What
to
the neighborhood of
operations
Harper
immediately followed
belong to other histories.
s
the
THE WINTER.
143
XII. THE WINTER.
THE ville
Second, two days after the battle, went to Browns
and on the 20th,
;
21st, to Pleasant Valley
land Heights, where
to ;
Maryland Heights and on the 22d, back
on the
;
to
Mary
camped near its old ground of The place did the preceding August, in Unsell s field. The land had been stripped of its not look natural. trees
it
and the old paths to the spring, and down to
;
Colonel Andrews
the river, were bald and shelterless.
was sent over the
river into
Loudon
Valley, to
command
a brigade.
What
the waiting
five
Hook
6th
supplies.
Station for the clothing
its
command
of the brigade.
of October, officers from
detailed to the
16th,
who can
for
the 25th of September, Colonel Ruger, of the
Third Wisconsin, was in the
for,
Washington said he had them. However it weeks after the battle, our wagons were still
going down to Sandy which did not come.
On
army was it was
at
People was,
of the
General McClellan said
decide?
On
the divisions were
new Ambulance Department
;
and on the
regimental ambulances were turned
in.
On
144
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
the
Major -General
15th,
assigned to the
command
W.
Henry
Slocum was
of the Twelfth Corps.
It is
needless to say that this gallant soldier obtained and 1 kept the hearty respect and confidence of the Second.
The army passed Lee
s
into Virginia, to correspond with
But a
movements.
division
or
more had
to
remain to guard the upper Potomac, and in the one chosen was the Second. So, on the 29th of October, it marched up the river to Antietam. Iron Works, and on the 30th, to Blackburn s Ford (that by which Lee had retreated), near Sharpsburg to remain, it proved, ;
five
The
or six weeks.
ford
was
diligently watched,
and some defences thrown up, overlooking
it.
General
Henry Wadsworth Slocum was born in Delphi, Onondaga, N.Y., Sept. 1827; son of Matthew B. and Mary (Ostrander) Slocum. His father was a native of Rhode Island ; his mother, of Albany, N. Y. He entered the Military Academy at West Point, in June, 1848, and graduated in 1852, 1
24,
seventh in the standing of his class. He was commissioned, July 1, 1852, brevet second lieutenant, and attached to the First Regiment of Artillery;
became second
lieutenant, in 1853,
and
first
lieutenant, in
March, 1855.
the 31st of October, 1856, he resigned his commission, settled at Syra On the breaking out of the war, cuse, and engaged in the practice of law.
On
he applied
for a
commission as captain of
artillery in the regular service,
but, failing to receive the appointment, accepted the colonelcy of the seventh New-York Volunteers; was in the battle of Bull Run;
Twentyand was
appointed brigadier-general of Volunteers, Aug. 9, 1861. Was in com the Peninsula, and was promoted to be a major-general from the 4th of July, 1862 was in the battles of South Mountain and
mand of a division on
;
Antietam, after which he was placed in
command
of the Twelfth Corps. and Gettysburg, and in^Tennessee. "When, in the fall of 1863, the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were consolidated as the Twentieth, under Hooker, General Slocum was ordered
He commanded
this corps at Chancellorsville
When General Hooker, disliking the promotion of Howard, General Slocum was placed in com quitted the army of the Cumberland, mand of the Twentieth Corps. In the great march to Savannah, he led the He left the army after the close of the war. left wing. modest, skilful,
to Vicksburg.
A
brave general
;
and a courteous gentleman.
THE WINTER. Morell
commanded
the division
;
145
and General Gordon
s
brigade had a long stretch of river to guard.
took a third of the regiment regularly for picket But the men made themselves as comfortable as duty. It
they could, and
a
"built
city."
broken only two or three times. eral
Slocum,
at
commanding
The
usual quiet was
Once was when Gen Harper
s
Ferry, sent
information, Nov. 14, that All the reports brought to these headquarters go to prove that Jackson returned to Winchester last Monday; that he "
that a portion of A. P. Hill s has a large force with him command also returned to a point between Winchester and Berry ville on Tuesday. If these reports are true, the enemy ;
probably contemplate another raid into Maryland at some point above your position, or an attack on your position. "
If an attack
is
made here
in strong force, I shall
endeavor
on Maryland Heights .... I am aware that you [General Gordon] are not under my command, and, of course, [I] have no authority to give any directions to to concentrate
you.
I
deem
my command
it
important,
Nothing came
of
enlivened the quiet.
however,"
But a
this.
The
&c.
guerilla,
little
expedition
Burke, had com
mitted a few murders, just to keep his hand
in.
His
last
exploit was to have some women, purporting to be refugees, come to the river s bank, and entice over a citizen, apparently to bring
them
went over, and Captain Burke
across. killed
The him.
citizen
On
a
November, Captain Cogswell, then command the Second, crossed cautiously with sixty men, and ing by a circuitous march entered Shepardstown just after night in
midnight.
The houses where Burke was accustomed 10
to
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
146
were found by the help of a guide, and were In one of them were Burke and five of his
visit
surrounded.
The
gang.
villain
was dressed and armed, and the
horses stood saddled, for a plundering expedition. the
men were
preparing to enter,
As
an inmate sprang from
a door, and attempted to escape. Captain Cogswell told a couple men him to and then ordered twice stop,
A ball
to fire.
entered the rebel
The
be Burke.
s
heart.
It
proved to
other five were captured, and horses,
The next arms, and important papers, brought away. with went over the same again day, Captain Cogswell
men and some some
men
cavalry, occupied the town, arrested
they were
traitors
in hospital, captured
after,
paroled
officers
and
some arms, and came back
leisurely.
On
the 27th of
November was Thanksgiving Day.
There were There was public worship, of course. of horses. and some "tried the and ball, speed" quoits There were turkeys, geese, chickens, and plum-pud Absent officers returned dings, all through the camp.
home
Some
to dine.
ladies, part of
Chambersburg, thirty-five miles the hospital
;
home-made bread,
pillows, and the
that night a sick
before I better
died,"
like.
"They
man
died.
said he,
"
off,
whom came brought
gifts for
butter, jellies, fruits,
have their "I
from
reward."
wanted
but I hope I
am
But
go home
to
going to a
home."
While
at this place,
Colonel Andrews
left
the regi
Appointed brigadier-general, Nov. 9, 1862, he The accompanied General Banks to New Orleans.
ment.
THE WINTER.
regiment was severe but it could not com He had been wonderfully efficient in the origi
loss to the
plain.
;
nal training of the regiment after
in
147
Jackson, in
Pope
bravely.
s
Banks s
retreat,
To
and
;
had led
it
in the valley
Cedar Mountain, Antietam, skilfully and
retreat, at
at
the last day of
service, the
its
showed the impression of the indomitable sense of duty, of Colonel Andrews.
Second
and rigid
will,
Captain Cogswell
Samuel M. Quincy, who was commissioned colonel (he was a captain when he
remained in command,
as
parted from the regiment at Cedar Mountain), was a prisoner, and, for quite a period, disabled by the
wounds received on
that melancholy day. Here Sur on account ill of Leland health, and resigned, geon Assistant Surgeon Stone received his well-merited pro
motion.
The
loss of officers at
Cedar Mountain had made
necessary the appointment of several lieutenants. continual
The
movements of the regiment, and some delay
in the forwarding of commissions, prevented the actual filling
of most of the vacancies until October.
The
promotions to second lieutenants, to date the
day fol Cedar Mountain, were these John F. George, lowing the gallant color-bearer at Cedar Mountain Nathan :
;
D. A. Sawyer, who had a Winchester, and was again
ball
through the body at
to be badly
wounded
in
Georgia; George L. Binney, the quartermaster ser geant, long an efficient officer on General Euger s Staff;
and James K. Stone, sergeant in C, afterwards dis abled in the line of duty. Second Lieutenant Gerald
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
148
Fitzgerald, from the Twelfth Massachusetts, where he
an accomplished soldier and was sergeant-major, had joined near Alexandria in Pope s
brave man, retreat
he was to be buried on the
:
battlefield
of
Messrs. Binney and Stone were not assigned to companies until November, near SharpsThe others had been assigned in October. At burg. Chancellorsville.
Sharpsburg, joined George A. Thayer, appointed from who was faithfully identified with the history civil life ;
regiment from that time end of the war.
of. the
till
return, or the
its
The deaths of Lieutenant-Colonels Dwight and Sav age made vacancies. In October, Commissary-Sergeant Erastus B. Carll, an experienced soldier who had served from 1850 to 1855 in the regular army
K. Parker,
first
sergeant
of
;
and Theodore
D, by and by to be
The were promoted second lieutenants. Choate of (rendered necessary by Captain resignation wounded, disease
contracted in the faithful discharge of duty,
disease against
which he long struggled, and which
made a vacancy, for which Henry N. Comey, sergeant in G, was promoted afterwards to be wounded; and, second lieutenant, on the appointment of Colonel Andrews as brigadier-
caused
his
death
general, Denis
in
1866)
Mehan, the brave
was promoted second wounded.
lieutenant,
first
sergeant of C,
by and by
to be
The months spent near Sharpsville were useful. The it could hardly discipline of the Second was sustained :
be improved.
The whole
of the brigade
was put
in a
THE WINTER. state of great
labored with
marked
for
efficiency,
the
which General Gordon
same energy and
them
to
become the veterans
which had
skill
The new regiments, manner to
Second.
his care of the
and particularly, were instructed fit
149
drilled in a
for
which time only was
the additional necessity.
Suddenly there came orders
to
The next
move.
day (Dec. 12), the regiment left its huts and cabins. They were good ; but the owners, being about to leave town, had no further use for them. of eight days on hand.
IronWorks,
at 9, A.M.
Ordered
There was a march
Antietam
to be at
At
were there at 8.50.
;
9.15,
a message, that noon would be early enough, because other regiments had miles to come.
was not
in
command
his health
:
(General Gordon
had
Waited
failed.)
and
in the cold until half-past one, studying pig-iron,
Bivouacked at night, piling cornstalks on
snowballing.
On
the snow, and topping off with pine-branches.
next day.
ice
Crossed the Potomac at Harper s Ferry ; Went round the north face of
and the Shenandoah.
Loudon Heights
;
up the
hill
waited five or six hours. fences,"
it
on the eastern
"Your
men
complained an excited owner.
hard for
me
to lose
my
fences
?"
sensible
commander.
regiment ice,
that
"
"
Yes."
"Yes
had got
cold,"
tired of waiting
and half-frozen brooks
but
;
my men to be Moved on by jerks
be a good deal harder for
;
and
side,
are taking
;
it
my
Isn
t
would
said our
followed a
through mud,
and bivouacked.
Thought
until after country was in a very bad way, Dec. 14, reveille at 3, A.M. ; waited till halfsupper.
the
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150
past one, P.M. orders to fall
;
"fall"
Went
in.
then orders to
fall in
;
in five minutes,
out; in five minutes more, orders to
through the pretty stone village of Short Hills."
Hillsborough, located in a cleft of the
Waited two hours
for
wagon captured by
some cavalry
who
guerillas,
foragers from the Second
"
to trot off after a
also captured
two
and bivouacked near Lees-
;
Next day,
bury, on the western slope of the Catoctin.
reveille at 4, A.M., and, in intense astonishment, actu
Went through Leesburg
ally started at half-past six.
and a and
little
beyond
slept luxuriously,
the rear.
Gum
;
Spring discovered straw, being driven off in
guerillas
Next day, ordered
to start at 5, A.M.,
and
actually discovered the regiment to lead did start. Entered Fairfax in the afternoon, and learned of the
Went
repulse at Fredericksburg.
to Fairfax Station,
over a corduroy road, and bivouacked in a pine wood,
where
and tangled
fallen
trees
put to
flight any ap issued. had rations having The next Flour had been given out for the march
proach to a regimental line
;
!
day
(17th), reveille at 5,
A.M.
;
rear regiment guarding
supply train ; roads the worst possible ; forded the Occoquan, climbed the hill still crowned with last win ter s
rebel
earth-works, and bivouacked;
and drenching, towards morning. worse than possible, in ten hours
;
Moved on
a sea of floating
three miles in five hours, and
rain,
mud
:
;
cold
roads
made
wagons the same distance
at noon, settled
down
in a thick,
warm
The next morning, turned pine-wood. rebel cavalry were threatening Fairfax because again,
northward
THE WINTER. The whole
Station.
squall
;
division
151
went back,
wishing that the folks at
winter campaign would come and try
and had word,
snow-
in a
home who wanted a it.
Halted near
your regiment into It was the wood, stack arms, and wait for orders." in the bitter shelterless nine and we waited done, days, the station,
cold
;
Grand Division under
part of the reserve
News came
"Put
Sigel.
enemy had taken Dumfries, three regiments, and two pieces of artillery. So, in move at to "ready any moment, light marchingorder,"
that -the
which we took as a hint
riences
to
after former expe next But, morning, on to then orderlies came. News true as
to bed.
go
Wolf-Run Shoals
;
enemy had not taken the nor any regiment nor any artillery. But they
to Dumfries, except that the
"
place
had occupied Fairfax Station, captured our camp and baggage, and paroled the guards." By and by, "the
enemy were bravely."
and,
if
but our guard was fighting
attacking,
Then,
"the
they did, our
enemy were going
men would have
to
to
attack,
fight."
Then,
enemy were not near the station at They went to Burke s Station, and telegraphed to Washing
"the
ton for water,
all."
"a
better lot of
solid
marched back
ice
in
to the
canteens
in.
the
Bivouacked,
mules."
the
morning
and
;
camp.
General Slocum took
command
of
the
good general,
to
corps
had been assigned a a brave, judicious, and able soldier.
which, as already noticed, he
;
Nothing happened here except the building of a beautiful log-camp, twelve houses to a company one :
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
152
the quartermaster imitated the sounds
thing besides,
of a locomotive so nicely that his horse ran
away with
Lieutenant-Colonel Cogswell was sick, and Major
him.
Mudge was
On
in
command.
the 19th of January, 1863, the regiment left
its
receiving afterwards a very polite note
elegant camp, from the officers of the regiment which inherited it. General Hooker had been appointed in place of General
command Jan.
Burnside, assuming \vhole
march of
horrible
enough
moved towards
force
five days,
26, 1863, and the
A
the Rappahannock.
of which
"
Dumfries
to freshen recollection, brought the
"
is
Second to
Stafford Court-house, a flourishing
town of two dwel
lings, a court-house, and a
Here the regiment
remained from Jan. 23
jail.
to April 27.
Here Colonel Quincy returned (March 6), though not fully recovered.
went on. "
Men
Drill,
returned,
Smoketown
and
officers
including
recitations,
many
of
Health
the
Fresh
Brigade." improved. bread and vegetables eventually came. General Hooker
put life into- the army. Inspections were frequent, and reviews occasional, one of which was before the President.
A
special examination
found only eleven regiments in
the ariny worthy of high commendation.
Of the
three were the First, Second, and Twentieth
eleven,
Massa
Lieutenants Browning and Miller had been discharged in December, never having recovered from chusetts.
the
severe
wounds received
at
Cedar Mountain, and
both went into the Invalid Corps (since
known
as the
THE WINTER.
153
Captain Russell left in Jan uary, to become colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Lieutenant Stone was disabled by disease, Cavalry.
Veteran Reserve Corps)
.
in January. Adjutant Shelton, who had in November, was ap Andrews with General gone
and resigned
pointed commissary of subsistence, in February. Lieu tenant Mills was discharged in March, never having fully recovered
from
his
wounds of Antietam.
Captain
Bangs was forced by malarious disease to resign in March. Captain Shaw left in April, to command the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts
and
;
to
sleep at
Wagner.
Surgeon Stone was transferred to the Fifty-fourth Mas So the list was passing away ; sachusetts, with Shaw. and with
it
the roll of enlisted
men.
Assistant-Surgeon Heath received
his merited
promo
to be surgeon, until he should die in front of
tion,
Atlanta.
James Wightman came from Massachusetts, to work himself man,
as assistant-surgeon, a faithful
to death in a
few weeks.
To
the second lieutenancies
were appointed William E. Perkins? a sergeant in the Forty-fourth
;
George
J.
wounded
afterwards
Massachusetts,
Chancellors ville
Thompson,
a
first
in the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts to be
and by was to
;
at
sergeant
wounded by
Henry Van Dyke Stone, sergeant in C, who fall at James W. Cook, first Gettysburg ;
sergeant of
A, wounded
at
Cedar Mountain
H. Lundy, color-sergeant, an who had gallantly borne the Charles
W.
Mann,
sergeant-major.
Thomas, sergeant
old
Francis
Crimean, soldier,
colors in
;
G;
at
Antietam
and Albert
;
W.
There were to be no more
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
154
appointed second lieutenants (save the complimentary promotions in 1865) ; the ranks were to be too thin to allow
it,
from Chancellors ville, which was close
at hand.
General Gordon, too poor in health to remain, was of the service.
transferred to other parts
recovering his health, Island, at Norfolk,
major-general.
Yet,
in
felt
and elsewhere
;
and was breveted
served until the close of the war.
command (once
higher
doubtless he
that he
of a
department),
had done no better work than
Second Massachusetts, and in the men sent from its ranks and its roll of officers to com
was seen it
He
Partially
he afterwards served at Folly
in the
mands elsewhere.
If he had done nothing else, his
what the Second was, and what it did. 1 Brigadier-General Ruger was assigned to the brigade.
record
is
in
As commander known
of the noble Third Wisconsin, he was
and hence the necessary change a General respected and beloved.
well
The
still
Sanitary Commission was a splendid thing.
Christian i
;
Commission was getting
Thomas Howard Ruger, bora
into
left
The
good working-
Lyman, N.Y., 2d April, 1833, son of West Point in 1854, third in his class; brevet second lieutenant, Engineers, July, 1854 was employed as assistant to Beauregard on the fortifications of Forts Jackson and Philip, near New Rev. Thomas
J.
Ruger; graduated
in
at
;
Orleans; resigned in April, 1855; studied law, in Wisconsin; admitted to Commissioned lieutenant-colonel practice in 1857, and settled in Janesville. of the Third Wisconsin (Colonel C. S. Hamilton), 27th April, 1861; colonel,
Appointed brigadier-general, 29th November, 1862; was of Third Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Army Corps, and Was in battles of Banks s retreat, Cedar Moun finally assigned as above. leading the noble Third Wisconsin; and, after promotion, tain, Antietam, 10th August, 1861.
in
command
and through Sherman and North Carolina campaigns. Brevetted major-general, and still The Second knew and respected General Ruger.
at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca,
s
Georgia
in service.
THE WINTEK.
155
snowed ; and the mud deep with Captain Morse, provostmarshal of the corps, with companies B, E, and at corps headquarters, and the other seven busy order.
It rained
ened and dried.
and
And
it
so,
G
with
drill,
away.
inspections, and guard, the winter passed
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
156
XIII. I
CHANCELLORSVILLE
.
STAFFOKD Court-house, so long the abode of the Sec ond, was about eight miles from Acquia Creek Landing, and the same from Falmouth.
Hooker s long and admirable preparations ended; and on the 27th of April, 1863, the Twelfth Corps quitted that spot for Never was an army
ever.
organized, better
better
equipped, or in better spirits.
The morning proved
Keveille sounded at 3, A.M.
Soon
beautiful.
after sunrise, the brigade
formed on
the parade ground in column of battalions, and had
Each man Then, on the road. carried eight days rations, and sixty cartridges. The Eleventh Corps, General Howard, followed the Twelfth excellent
music.
;
The three corps own General Slocum
and, later in the day, the Fifth Corps.
w ere under r
his
the
work was
command
of our
:
to cross the rivers, establish his forces at
Chancellors ville, and thus draw the
works
at Fredericksburg.
With
enemy out of
this
day
s
their
march, the
Chancellors ville campaign was begun.
A
mile from Hartwood Church, the regiment halted
at half past three, P.M.,
and there
it
bivouacked.
CHANCELLORSVILLE
The next morning,
the
men were
accordance with orders that no bugles sounded.
157
.
silently
waked, in
drums be beaten and no
The Eleventh
led,
and moved towards
Ford, on the Kappahannock, (about twenty Kelley miles above Falmouth), which it crossed on pontoons s
that night
;
the cavalry capturing
The Second,
the rear of the
some
First
rebel pickets.
Division, Twelfth
Corps, bivouacked two miles north of the ford. On Wednesday morning (the 29th), the 12th Corps crossed the river, followed by cavalry and the 5th Corps.
The 12th passed
the llth, the Second
chusetts in advance, flanked
Massa
by the 27th Indiana and
3d
the Wisconsin, on the right and left as skirmishers Second and the 27th Indiana by and by changed places. :
Through woods and underbrush they pressed on until close to Germanna Ford on the Rapidan, about twelve miles south of Kelley
s
Ford.
The
rebels
were build
ing a bridge, and had a small force on the other side,
with light breastworks. The Third Wisconsin moved to while the Second came out on the ford, straight
high ground, and wheeled to the
on the
cross fire
rebels,
which
left.
This brought a
killed a few,
and forced
the whole into their shelter, from which white flags soon fluttered
;
and a hundred and three men surrendered,
who were required to cross. The men then forded. The water was very high and swift, being above the and three men of the corps were drowned. The pioneers of our division built a bridge for the remainder waist,
of the forces
;
and ours bivouacked a mile and a half
south of the Eapidan.
The
Fifth Corps crossed the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
158
Eapidan at Ely s Ford, down the river. The three out corps numbered thirty-six thousand effective men, of forty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-one reported for duty, April 30, which included artillery and the detachments with trains.
On
Thursday (the 30th), a wet day, the Second Division, General Geary, led the Second Massachusetts :
was the
rear of the corps.
The Twelfth and Eleventh
Corps moved towards Fredericksburg, meeting l the Fifth Corps was near the river. opposition ;
little
The
Twelfth Corps soon struck the plank road, and an easterly march of twelve miles brought it to near Chan cellor sville.
Chancellorsville was a town of one house. Going westward from Fredericksburg on the old turnpike, five miles from the town, a plank road diverges to the left.
Both roads, the turnpike and the plank road, lead Chancellorsville,
or
five
six
miles
straight, the latter winding to avoid
of
"V.
Chancellor
"
off; hills.
the.
to
former
The house
stood in an intersection of these
was a large brick house, once used as a tavern, and a family was within it, until driven out by its taking
roads
:
it
l had meanwhile pressed on to Germanna The Federal columns. and Ely s Fords, where they succeeded in crossing, in spite of resistance from Captain Collins, of the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry. ... In front of Banks s and Ely s Fords, General Lee had two brigades of Anderson s Division, Posey s and Mahone s, and one battery; in all, about 8,000 men. Upon the approach of the enemy, this force was withdrawn, and concen trated at Chancellorsville; where it was joined upon the morning of the 30th by Wright s Brigade, which had been sent up to re-enforce it, the enemy still pressing on. ... General Anderson fell back from Chancellorsville to Tabernacle Church, on the plank road, five miles below [a little south of "
.
East]."
Esten Cooke.
.
CHANCELLOES VILLE fire
from the rebel
were open ness.
A
shells.
In
159
.
front, looking southward,
bordered by the forests of the Wilder clearing behind was bounded by the woods, fields,
through which ran the roads to Ely s and the UnitedWestward on the plank road, a mile States Fords.
and half or thereabouts, was Melzi Chancellor s house, and a little beyond, the Wilderness Church. Near this, the old pike road renewed
pike, at
Wilderness Tavern,
going straight on,
itself,
while the plank road bent to the
left.
five miles
Following the from Chancel-
was met the Germanna plank road coming in on the north, on which the Twelfth Corps had moved. as many The whole country was dreary and desolate,
lorsville,
May, 1863, and
a soldier learned in
afterwards in the
battles of the Wilderness.
When house, the
it
woods
the Second
was but a few rods from the
was turned
off the road, to the right, into
;
then to the right again, in a line parallel
with the road, some
and countermarched
little ;
distance
;
then to the right, at Fair-
and was put in position
Facing westwa rd, or perhaps south-westerly, the of the First Brigade of the Twelfth Corps rested right on the road. Our brigade touched its left, the Sec
view.
ond on the
right,
then the Thirteenth
New
Jersey.
Beyond the brigade, on the left, was Geary. The Eleventh Corps was considerably to the right of the Twelfth. The Second Corps crossed the Rappahannock that day, about a mile below the junction of that river
and the Rapidan,
at
United-States Ford, which had been
uncovered by the movement of the Fifth Corps.
A
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS IKFANTRY.
160
bridge was laid there that day. that evening to Chancellor
corps
General Hooker came
He
house.
s
had the four
mentioned
(the
Second, Fifth, Eleventh, and
or
near
Chancellors ville.
Twelfth),
at
The
First,
Third, and Sixth Corps had been moved to the brink of the Eappahannock, in the vicinity of Fredericksburg ;
bridges had been thrown over
;
and a portion of these
troops actually crossed to hold the
enemy
other troops had reached Chancellors ville.
were
still
in that vicinity, or
there until the
These corps
on the road.
At
half-past eight o clock that evening (Thursday) , while the Second was making ready for a wet biv
ouac, the following order was read, and the soldiers
cheered
:
t
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., April 30,
1863.
Commanding Gen
It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the
eral announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give
us battle on our
him.
The
own
ground, where certain destruction awaits
operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth
Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements.
By command S.
of
MAJOR GENERAL HOOKER.
WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant- General.
General Slocum
s
movement of
these three corps
had been boldly and skilfully executed. Friday, May 1, was a beautiful day. ter-day, that
half done
was
in
It being
mus
work was, of course, commenced. It was orders came to move the whole army
when
motion on various
:
roads.
"I
directed
an
CHANCELLORS VILLE. "
says Hooker,
advance,"
161
for the purpose, in the first
enemy away from Banks down the river, in order
instance, of driving the
s
which was six miles
that he
might be
in closer
communication with the
left
Ford,
wing of
The Twelfth Corps advanced on the plank towards road, Fredericksburg, to be followed by the Eleventh the Fifth Corps, on the river road, to be fol
the
army."
;
lowed by the Second Corps. The result was a march Then there was of a mile and a half or thereabouts. sharp musketry on the
and
left,
artillery shot flew
over
General Sykes, of the Fifth Corps, had met the Jackson, who had reached Taber
head.
rebel Anderson.
nacle Church that morning, with the divisions of Hill,
Anderson
he
s
Hill, and Trimble, sent four brigades to General Hooker was "satisfied," that, help.
the passage-way through the forest
"as
"
A. P.
D. H.
was narrow/
could not throw troops through it fast enough to advance of General Lee, and was apprehen
resist the
sive of being
whipped
in
detail."
troops to their former position.
1
He drew
back his
The enemy made some
demonstrations on the Twelfth and Fifth Corps, but Their object, doubtless, was to easily repulsed.
were
learn the position of the
The Third Corps had that morning, cellor
Jackson
s
and they succeeded.
General Hooker
s
Ford
in rear of the
east of Chancellors ville, General
arrived with other troops 1
;
Chan command bivouacked about
and were massed
House.
two miles
army
crossed at United-States
;
Lee having
and the Union forces were
Testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of
the War.
11
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
162
under arms
all
night, while plenty of picket-firing
went
on.
On
Saturday morning, the Second entrenched. It was the first time it had received such an order. Trees
constructed
and piled up breast-high and abattis were The whole army was behind in front.
defences.
The Eleventh Corps was on
were
felled,
;
the
right.
Third Corps was in the Birney morning placed between the Eleventh and Twelfth, occupying nearly a brigade front. The Twelfth Corps Division
s
of
the
The Fifth its position of the day before. on the to the was next General Twelfth, Meade, Corps, Behind the Fifth and Twelfth was the Second left.
was
in
The First Corps was on the Corps, General Couch. The Sixth was still on the north road from Falmouth. below Fredericksburg. position of General Hooker
side the river,
The
s
army was
too
strong to allow a direct attack, especially as he largely outnumbered the rebels ; but the enemy was busy that
Saturday.
At
eight o clock in the morning, they were
seen moving steadily across the front towards the right. They were on an old road bending to the south-west.
Word was
brought to General Slocum he went to a position where he clearly saw the enemy, and immedi It was not ately reported the fact to General Hooker. ;
until afternoon that permission
column.
was had
to attack this
General Birney went out with his division of s Brigade of the Eleventh
the Third Corps, with Barlow
which was the Thirty-third Massachusetts, Colonel Underwood) on his right, Whipple s Division of the (in
163
CHANCELLORS VILLE. Third, and, later, Williams
Massachusetts) oh his
two on, Jackson
s
s
left.
column
(in
which was the Second
They but
;
it
struck,
a mile
was only the
or
rear.
The Twenty-third Georgia was captured, almost to a man. But Jackson s column had passed. The trains were attacked, when of guns
(it
was about
five o clock) the roar
was heard on the extreme
right.
Jackson,
with twenty -two thousand men, had moved all day in front of his foe, separated himself from every possi bility
of help, and
least sixty
turned the flank of a force of at
thousand men.
General Slocum instantly ordered back Williams s When it had returned, it found that the
Division.
Eleventh had been utterly routed its own works were and confusion and dismay in the hands of the enemy :
;
were triumphant. All except in one spot. Pleasanton had stopped some artillery, turned it, and checked the rout. Slo
cum, of the Twelfth, with tain
Morse,
of the
his
single division
Second, was on his
did fine service), had changed front,
Williams
s.
1
and
(Cap and
staff,
called back
Best, chief of artillery to the Twelfth
Corps, had with wonderful energy brought his pieces into position, with some of the Third Corps ; and gathered up some of those of the Eleventh. Berry s of the Third Division, Corps, was in position, firm and
1
Slocum, by his bold and rapid change of front, saved the army from consequences that might have followed the rout of the Eleventh Corps." Bowman # Irwin s Sherman and his Campaigns," the
"
disastrous
"
p. 265.
164
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS
steadfast
against
the
who came on with
cheers,
and pushed down the
s twenty-two pieces opened with shell Williams s Division returning, cut across
canister.
part of which were in the
the works of their old line,
possession of the enemy, line,
and
on a
little
down
formed
at right angles to that
ridge.
The Second, with
its
s
the slope, in front of the batteries which threw
from Best
s
A hundred
shots a minute poured
sweeping away the constantly re enemy. The enemy failed. .The
pieces,
peated lines of the
was stemmed.
In the night, towards midnight, the "
opened again.
ly
guns were brigade, were
Best
partially facing the road.
their shot overhead.
tide
line of
Best
the road.
and
advancing tide of the enemy,
says Cooke,
ville,"
The
"resembled
vomiting forth fire
and
artillery
sudden
ridge in front of Chancellor sthe crater of a volcano,
iron.
A
hurricane
of shell
swept the roads as with the besom of destruction
;
and
the broken ranks, riderless horses, and wild confusion
made up stoutest
a scene of tumult which nerves."
It
shot, said the rebels,
was
was enough to try the Jackson had fallen,
just after
by a volley from
shot, said the First Massachusetts,
own The artillery
his
"
;
by a volley from
course, .
ceased, and Birney advanced with the
First Regiment saw the group of horsemen knowing that Stonewall Jackson was one of them, of and greeted them with a volley as soon as they came within Cudworth s "History of The whole group turned and fled."
The
soldiers of the
approaching, range. . . the First
own men
In either case, he was a hundred yards outside 1 lines, and considerably nearer the Union lines.
them.
1
their
not
Regiment."
CHANCELLORS VILLE. bayonet, drove back the
enemy
165
half a mile, recovered
guns and caissons, and re-established the line. But night the firing was going on, and all night the whippoorwills were never silent. all
When
the sun rose on
Sunday morning, the battle The enemy attacked, still in the same General Hooker s general direction of the plank road. was renewed.
line, as repaired,
crossed
was
this
United-States
:
the First Corps, which had
Ford, on the extreme right
;
then Meade, with the Fifth; then Sickles, across the
road west of the Chancellor house, pushed forward ; Berry s Division, north of the road, supported by Birney, on the south of the road, supported by Williams, of the Twelfth Corps, who was in
Whipple in part
;
the position of the night.
Geary
s
Division of
the
Twelfth Corps was still to the left of Williams and the Eleventh Corps, restored to order by Howard s almost ;
superhuman that Slocum cone
efforts,
formed the
left.
The
line so
ran
Corps, the Twelfth, was at the apex of a
s
part of the corps behind, when the battle opened, covered by Birney, who was farther up the road. ;
apex, to break
was the strength of enemy hurled, while other forces were assaulting this
Against the
it off,
other parts of the line. Hill,
Colston, and Kodes led their rebel divisions
against this
point, the
and Berry.
Following Jackson
came up
heavy columns, deployed suddenly, and Best had twenty-eight pieces in yells.
in
enemy attacking only Williams s
favorite method, they
rushed on with position.
As
the rebels approached, these guns hurled
166 a
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
tempest of missiles into them.
Their lines were
pierced and gashed ; yet still they came on. The infan try met them with a terribly destructive fire ; but the rebel lines were constantly renewed.
At
length, the
Third Corps, severely weakened, fell back and the Twelfth Corps bore the shock. Williams s Division ;
the veterans of this body Of the Third Brigade, General
stood at the critical point
knew
their
duty.
:
Ruger, were the Second, the Third Wisconsin, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana. Nothing that could be brought against the front of these steady old regiments could move them. Again, as the enemy advanced, did The muskets Best s guns plough through their ranks. of Williams
s
Division poured in the bullets.
successive times were
new
lines of the
Three
enemy brought
up against them each time, to be broken and repulsed. As they were broken, the line of the men of the division ;
pressed gradually forward.
In the third line of the
was a Palmetto regiment, as its flag enemy, showed. It chanced to come against the Second, Massachusetts and South Carolina. Gallantly did the there
three times its colors fell, Southern regiment fight but were instantly raised again. Three times did the of the bearers. Second Lieutenant-Colonel flag change :
Cogswell was wounded Lieutenant Fitzgerald, dead Captains Grafton and Powers, and Lieutenant Perkins, ;
were wounded.
At
;
Thirty-three per cent of the whole had
Palmettos suddenly retired. The regiment had cleared its front, and found itself in its old entrenchments. fallen.
last, the
167
CHANCELLOESVILLE. was out of ammunition. The reaiment O it
time,
had shot away
all
its
cartridges.
For
the
The
first
officers
had, during the fight, gathered up all the ammunition from the cartridge-boxes of the wounded and dead ; and, as the line gained -ground, taken that of the fallen
But
rebels.
for a supply
make men onets,
it
was
all
gone
was answered,
or
at
and the urgent request
in a high quarter,
ammunition."
and stood
;
So the brigade
"I
cannot
fixed
bay
for three-fourths of
"order arms"
Fortunately, the rebels had been so severely handled that their assaults were faint. While the two
an hour.
were bearing the whole rebel attack, General Slocum repeatedly sent staff-officers to General Hooker,
divisions
him
reporting the situation, and urging troops to take part in the battle.
to allow other
He saw him
in per
son also, and asked him to send another corps in on
Berry
s right,
so as to take the rebels in flank.
Other
corps commanders were present, and begged the privi lege,
and the
tle.
were eager to take part in the bat But General Hooker utterly refused. By and by soldiers
Berry was killed, the left of his line was overpowered, and the right of Williams s was eventually turned, which required him to fall back. The Second Massa chusetts, moving around the south of the Chancellor
While waiting, a round shot of two men of Company E. Later,
house, waited orders.
took off three legs the Second
was
sent back
nearer
the
United-States
Ford.
At
ten or eleven o clock, General
back his forces to a
Hooker had drawn
line traced earlier for that purpose,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
168
His covering the parting of the roads to the ferries. and left each rested now the river, and right upon Chancellor sville was
left to
in flames before he left
the terrified
The house was
the enemy.
it,
women, who had
on
set
fire
by
shells
;
and
sheltered themselves in the
were conducted out of the burning building to the ford. The woods were on fire, and the roaring and cellar,
crackling flames were running over helpless
men. the
so far as possible.
fire
wounded
enemy saved the wounded from
Doubtless, the
"
I
was suddenly
says one of the Second who had
seized,"
lost his sight,
"
and
dragged hurriedly along for some distance." doubtless to rescue him from the flames.
It
Against another had nothing to do.
Second
assault, in the afternoon, the
It
was not severe
:
was
Lee had some
thing else to do.
That morning, General Sedgwick, with the Sixth Corps, had crossed at Fredericksburg, carried the
enemy left
s
works, captured a portion of the few brigades
there
when Lee had moved on
Chancellorsville,
and
was now advancing up the road on the south of the river, to move on Lee s flank, and make a juncture with Lee heard
Hooker.
this in the afternoon.
He imme
diately detached a heavy force to the relief of Barks-
who were found at Salem Church, from Fredericksburg, vigorously pushed and retreating. The rebels stepped
dale and Wilcox,
about
five miles
by Sedgwick, Sedgwick army,
s
advance.
The Second, with
lay listening to the
ment was expected.
sound of the
battle.
the
whole
A move
Hooker would, of course (was
169
CHANCELLORS VILLE. the talk in the lines),
But
was not done.
it
on Lee, to help Sedgwick. Sedgwick was held in check till
fall
That evening,
Twelfth Corps was moved to the extreme left, resting on the river, in and was intermingled, for ob Sedgwick s direction night.
after dark, the
;
Breastworks
vious reasons, with the Eleventh Corps.
was a beautiful night and the change from the smoke of the smouldering fires to the Food cool air by the rippling waters was refreshing. were found there.
was had
It
;
also Quartermaster Sawyer, the indefati had man, gable brought boxes and bags, on the back of mules, from the trains which had been left across the :
The men were black with
river at United- States Ford.
smoke of powder or burning woods in which for two days they had been WTapped. Monday morning (May 4) the sound of Sedgwick s the
,
was renewed.
contest
Lee had gone there himself,
and
by and by drove Sedgwick over the river at Banks s Ford. Hooker gave him no help. "Reconnoissances were
made,"
says General Hooker,
from one end of the s
strength, and
enemy him successfully
but
;
line
to the
find a place it
"
other,
on the right, to
feel
the
and way to attack
was ascertained that
it
could
only be made on him behind his defences, and with slender columns, which I believed he could destroy as fast as they
were thrown on
able, that, in the
his
works."
It
is
remark
same country, the enemy found means number.
to assault a force twice their
The
hospital,
cellorsville
which had been removed from Chan-
during the
first
attack, to
a place nearer
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTEY.
170
the river, had been transferred to the north side of the Rappahannock, two-thirds of a mile back from the
No better hospital arrangements were possible than those of the Twelfth Corps, organized by the It was in charge medical director, Surgeon McNulty. river.
of Surgeon Casey, of the Twentieth Connecticut, a man admirably qualified by ability and education for his
Surgeon Try ford, of the Twenty-Seventh Indi ana, chief operator for the Third Brigade, did his work
place.
Surgeon Heath, of the Second, gave evidence skill which was to place him by and by among the first of the surgeons of the corps and
skilfully.
of the cool
;
Assistant-Surgeon
which
his
Wightman
speedy death cut
Second were collected there
and
gave promise of a success
wants supplied.
all their
course, on hand.
God
The wounded of
off. :
boughs were cut
The
bless the
"Sanitary"
memory
the
for beds,
of the
was, of "
Sani
"
tary
!
in the gray, suddenly shots
Monday morning,
The enemy
into the hospital.
just opposite the extreme left of
miles away, which threw
At
wagon-camp.
upon
the
its
first
Second.
The next
fell
through
fell
the
wounded
five.
and
from a tree
officers
of the
rebel prisoners,
For a few minutes,
One passed with the greatest rapidity. had been turned in by the
tent which
Second, and killed a
men began
line, several
shot, limbs fell
among some
killing one and wounding
the shots
Hooker s
balls into the hospital
the tent in which were the
fell
had planted a battery,
to
man just
rising up.
be hastily removed.
The wounded
There came near
171
CHANCELLOKSVILLE.
being a stampede of wagons, and the large ambulance train of the corps. Some drivers were in haste to leave.
Quartermaster Sawyer, of the Second, was present, with "The first man that leaves without pistol in hand,
Order was restored, and preparations
"
orders dies
!
hastened.
But the
fire
The
it off.
Banks
roar of fight to the eastward, at
ceased about noon on cellorsville
The
Monday.
A
was ended.
The men of
speedily ceased.
the Twelfth Corps, in the line, drove
s
Ford,
battle of
Chan-
hundred thousand men,
thoroughly organized, admirably equipped, in high brave men, and most of them experienced spirits,
had been
soldiers,
have been half their
Monday
by a number. baffled
night was quiet.
force
now known
to
Tuesday morning, the
was to be moved. But, while a good locality was being sought, orders came to put it and the wagon trains on the road for the old camp. This was signifi hospital
In
cant of retreat.
fact, at a council
night, General
Monday
of generals held
Hooker had decided
the river, and return to his old position.
noon, while trains were far on, ously.
The Eappahannock
it
to recross
In the
began to rain
after furi
rose rapidly, and the three
Or pontoon bridges were necessarily reduced to two. ders came to the Second to move that night but they ;
were countermanded, and trenches.
it
lay that wet night in the
Wednesday morning,
the regiment
moved
Ford, where the army lay crowded to a few hours and then recrossed the river,
to United-States
gether for with more
;
men
in the ranks
who had
not fired a shot, or
172
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
been brought into the presence of the enemy, than Lee had in his entire army.
That rainy day, the Second made twenty-three miles, and, late at night, took possession of their old and roof less huts at Stafford
them ten days before
Better not have
Court-house. :
too
many
left
huts were tenantless.
In the fighting of these days, one Lieutenant Gerald Fitzgerald, a
officer
fine
was
killed,
scholar,
a
brave soldier (he was buried on the field) ; and four Lieutenant - Colonel Cogswell, wounded, Captain Grafton, Captain Powers, and Lieutenant W. E. Per
Of
kins.
of
A;
of
B;
enlisted
killed were,
Nutter,
Bickford, Christie, Foss, and Stevens (Jesse), Manning (2d), of C; Houghton (A. C.) and
UfFenheimer, of of
cell,
men, the
G
E
;
Bedell, Fitch, Kittredge, and Pur-
Burke (J.)
;
and Hannigan, of
H;
Davis,
Hanscom (C. G.), Martin, McKenny, and Webb of I
;
(J.),
and Bortchy, Bunning, and Rathburn, of K.
Mortally wounded, Corporal Page, of A; Manning, of B ; Hoyt and Sullivan, of C ; Barrell and Fer-
six
men
H
and Cameron and Sawyer, of I. Eightywounded, not mortally and eight prisoners (the
nald, of
;
;
left in
the 2d of
The
the works, in charge of the knapsacks, on
May)
.
division,
The
losses
were thirty-three per cent.
General Williams
lost
s,
1,659 men;
the Twelfth Corps, 3,143, out of between nine and ten
thousand men.
For the
loss of these
brave men,
it
lation to hear the order in -which the "
commanding
tendered to the
was poor conso "
Major-General "
army
his congratula-
173
CHANCELLOKSVILLE. on
tions "
We
the
its
of the last
achievements
have made long marches,
enemy
in his
superior forces,
days."
But, with vastly
intrenchments."
we had
seven
crossed rivers, surprised
failed of our purpose.
have taken from the enemy
five
"We
thousand prisoners and
colors, captured seven pieces of artillery, and placed hors du combat eighteen thousand of our foe s chosen troops." But, of the prisoners in the hands of fifteen
the enemy, of the artillery lost, and of the faithful, noble
men wounded Second had honorable
Jackson
s
or
that
this consolation,
fame,
was
order
dead, the
it
The
silent.
had increased
its
manfully, and driven boldly and that its dead had fallen like
stood
best troops
;
brave men.
Colonel Quincy resigned his colonelcy the last of
May, being discharged June the
wounds received
the hardships of
at
Eichmond
of the Chancellorsville tantly, that he
2.
He was
suffering
from
Cedar Mountain, as well as from prisons.
The experience
movement convinced him,
was unequal
to active field-duty.
reluc
He
accordingly received a commission as lieutenant-colonel
of the Seventy-Third United-States Colored Troops,
and afterwards a colonel, to be employed as assistant inspector-general in Louisiana, and eventually to be bre vetted brigadier-general.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cogs
well was promoted to the colonelcy, which he had nobly earned.
Colonel
In his absence, being wounded, Lieutenant-
Mudge was
Assistant-Surgeon
in
command.
Wightman was
put on duty in
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
174
the corps hospital at Acquia Landing.
himself to his duty with so
soon
fell
sick
;
much
He
devoted
earnestness, that he
and he died, on the 15th of June, at He was a faithful man, and bid fair to
Washington. be a most efficient
officer.
William Nichols, jun., of
Boston, joined as assistant surgeon, having already had valuable experience in front of Washington. He was eventually promoted surgeon but preferred the ;
Third Massachusetts Artillery, and served to the close of the war.
same
A
position in the
new camp was 27.
laid out,
near the old one, and
The weather was
occupied May and wood-ticks and snakes nourished.
intensely hot,
BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG.
175
XIV. FROM BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG. #
ON
the 6th of June, 1863, the regiment
marching
on
order
Hooker having learned
a
secret
moved
expedition.
in light
General
enemy had massed his near cavalry Culpeper, despatched General Pleasanton that the
A
to attack him.
large force of cavalry, with picked of regiments infantry, and some artillery, crossed by
The Second, and the Kelley s and Beverly Fords. Third Wisconsin, were of the number selected, and were in that column which was to cross at Beverly They left camp, train, sick, &c., in the even
Ford. ing
:
a heavy thunder-shower, soon after starting, laid
the dust.
The regiment marched
that night to near
Spott Tavern, fifteen miles, arriving at 2, A.M. ; starting at 10, A.M., reached Bealeton Station about 6, P.M.,
where detachments from other corps were met, all under General Ames kept out of sight a day in the woods, ;
and then moved rapidly to Beverly Ford, and crossed on the morning of the 9th, cavalry first, then the Third Wisconsin, then the Second.
Colonel Davis,
and over, a barri
commanding cavalry, charged up to, cade. The infantry moved up, and drove
the enemy,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
17(3
The
after sharp firing, several miles.
heard, bringing
re-enforcements, at
much
be
Station.
The
and then the
left;
Brandy
rebels tried to turn, first the right,
but without success, and with
trains could
loss
both in killed
and prisoners. Firing was soon heard in the rebel General Gregg, who had crossed at Kelley s Ford, had moved to Brandy Station, drove Stewart, and cap rear.
tured his headquarters, finding papers which indicated
Lee
s
alry,
movement
to Pennsylvania.
The enemy
s
cav
then about to move, were badly shattered, and
their value greatly diminished all the
Gregg came
burg.
in
on the
left,
way
to
Gettys
and the whole force
fell
back, and recrossed about 6, P.M.
had
lost
The Second
D
one mortally wounded, and Nutting, of In this affair, twenty men of Company ;
two wounded.
D, with seventy from
the Third- Wisconsin, all under
Captain Oakey, captured more than their whole number of men.
On
the morning of the 10th, the regiment marched
back to Bealeton, where
The whole army was
in
it
remained until the 14th.
motion
;
and the Second, re
maining one night just above Warrenton Junction, rejoined the corps on the
there the
men
left
16th, at Fairfax, meeting behind at Stafford Court-house, who
had come on with the wagons, baggage, &c., by way The of Dumfries, under command of Major Morse.
army was on the road to Gettysburg. Lee was moving towards Pennsylvania. moving on "
covering
Hooker was
parallel roads, observing the enemy, and Washington."
BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG.
177
The Twelfth Corps moved by way of Fairfax, LeesOn the day burg, Edwards s Ferry, and Frederick. after the Second rejoined its corps, it moved on from Fairfax, and struck the Leesburg and Alexandria turn pike,
On
a few miles south-east of Drainsville.
the
18th, passed through Drainsville, forded Goose Creek (in a hard hail-storm), passed through Leesburg,
camped
and
Good for There was no movement until when the regiment crossed the
under the old rebel Fort Johnston.
aging in that vicinity. 26th, a wet day,
the
Potomac,
at
Edwards
s
Ferry, on pontoons
;
met some
of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry near Poolsville
and encamped about
Monocacy, following
On
the
4, P.M., near the
river roads
27th, crossing the
;
mouth of the
and the canal bank.
Monocacy on
the culvert,
went up to Point of Rocks. Some miles farther on, and on, to a went through a tunnel under the canal ;
mile beyond Petersville.
On
the 28th, back to Peters-
and, through Jefferson, to near Frederick, and camped a mile south of the familiar river. That day, The im General Meade took command of the army.
ville,
mediate occasion of General Hooker
s
request to be
relieved was, that he desired to take the force at
Har
per Ferry, and unite it with the Twelfth Corps, throw them rapidly in rear of General Lee s army, cut his communications, destroy the bridges, and cap s
"
ture his trains, and then re-unite with the
Had
this
main
1
army."
been done, the history of the Second would
1
General Butterfi eld
12
s
statement.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
178
have been
was overruled by General
It
different.
Hooker had brought
Halleck.
marches, face to
army, by brilliant face with the enemy, and was then
command by
driven from
his
a general in Washington,
on a point which that general immediately conceded to
Hooker s
On
the
successor.
29th,
a rainy
day,
the
regiment passed
through Waterville, to within a mile of Bruceville
;
on
the 30th, through Taneytown, to half a mile beyond
on the 1st of July, slowly, four or five miles, to near Two Taverns, where it halted. Heavy
Littleston
;
and continuous
firing
in the
command.
direction
of Gettysburg
was ordered forward, took position about two miles south of the town, on the The firing was from right, and threw out skirmishers. soon startled the
Reynold
s
Howard s all
his
P.M.,
It
attack (on the other side of the town) , and support, which ended in the latter s placing
forces
on Cemetery Ridge.
when Slocum placed
Sickles, the Third,
on the
his corps left
its
It
was about
7,
on the right; and
of the Eleventh.
The
position in the evening.
regiment slightly changed The enemy, who had been floating about in Pennsyl vania pretty much at will, had found it necessary to concentrate,
and were
General Meade
gathering near Gettysburg. determined to give battle at that place.
But, of that battle in general,
it
is
not in the purpose
of this record to speak. On the morning of the 2d, there was some skirmish
ing by the regiment
;
then another slight change was making a slight detour to the
made, the whole corps
BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG. left,
taking position, the right resting on
at a point
where
it
179
Eock Creek,
crossed the Baltimore pike.
This
was the extreme right of the line of the whole army. Breastworks were immediately thrown up. Late in the afternoon, the enemy made a heavy upon the extreme left of the line. The First
assault
Division of the Twelfth Corps was ordered to
its assist
was immediately exposed Arriving there, but the Second lost but one man, artillery fire ance.
it
to
;
Scarcely was this
wounded.
movement completed,
when, the enemy being repulsed, the ordered back to its old defences.
Coming near Colonel
;
was
circumstances led Lieutenant-
to suspect that the
Mudge
the ground
there,
division
enemy had occupied
and he sent Company F, as skirmishers, to Meanwhile the regi
ascertain the state of the case.
ment was promptly placed
in line of battle,
angles to its old line, in the
edge of the woods, on the
opposite side of a
meadow from which
the
at rio-ht
enemy might
be expected.
The night was dark, with an occasional gleam of With the exception of occasional shots moonlight. from distant skirmishers,
all
was
still.
Company F
returned, and reported a rebel line of battle at about four hundred yards distance, which had
not only got into our works, but had formed their line directly across
them
who confirmed
the statement.
;
and brought in some prisoners The report was not sat
isfactory to higher authorities,
Mudge
sent out
Company K.
and Lieutenant-Colonel
That company, under the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
180
Capt. Thomas B. Fox, cau tiously advanced within ten feet of the enemy s line, cap tured twenty prisoners, drew a volley of musketry, and
brave and
skilful lead of
men wounded, and two There was no question now as to the prisoners. s enemy position. The new line was strengthened by returned
with the loss of two
;
and logs, skirmishers pushed well forward, and
rails
Two
daylight soberly waited for.
batteries
(Parrott
and Napoleon guns) were posted so as to command the wood. Swell s Corps formed the enemy s left.
On two it
the morning of the memorable 3d of July, the
batteries
up
opened a rapid and severe
But
for over an hour.
it
fire,
and kept
failed to dislodge the
enemy, who were favored by the nature of the ground, which was steep and rocky, and covered with dense
The
woods.
ceased, and the
batteries
sharpshooters
of the enemy, posted in trees, became annoying.
At about
7 o clock, orders
came
to the Second,
and
one other regiment, to advance over the meadow, and carry the enemy s position. So strange an order
The regiments were
excited astonishment.
against the mass of
regard Colonel that
is
to
Mudge
the
murder
:
opposite, even without
it s
"Yes."
the order. "
Forward, double-quick
!
"Well,"
any
Lieutenant-
position.
questioned the messenger,
order?"
but
enemy
formidable
their
a handful
"Are
you sure
said he,
"it
is
Up, men, over the works With a cheer, with bayonets !
unfixed, without firing a shot, the line sprang forward The brave as fast as the swampy ground would allow.
young leader
fell
dead in the middle of the
field, as
on
BEVERLY FORD TO GETTYSBURG. foot,
men
;
181
and waving his sword, he was cheering on the and Major Morse took command. Three color-
bearers were shot in going two hundred yards, but the
Into the
colors kept on.
works
;
enemy
s line
;
up
to the breast
and the regiment held its old position The Second was rebel fire was still terrible. !
But the
The regiment on The troops melted back.
alone.
From
its right, its
in support
single help,
had
were motionless.
behind every tree and rock, the enemy poured an
overwhelming fire.; three brigades (a prisoner after wards said) were at that point. Another color-bearer fell
dead, waving the colors.
No
supports came.
Ten
officers
had
The
rebels
fell
back, re-crossed the
fallen.
were flanking the regi ment, when the order was given to retire. Slowly and sullenly the
Second
field
of
death, and, taking position behind a ruined stone wall,
opened
fire
on the enemy whenever they showed them
selves. "I
see
never saw a finer
that
regiment,
meadow,, face about
sight,"
said a general,
"than
to
coming back over that terrible and form in line as steady as if on
but of the 22 officers and 294 men, Steady, 134 lay on the field. The lieutenant-colonel com manding was dead. "Our brave young color-bearer" parade."
was left.
and of the color-guard but a remnant was Forty-four men in every hundred had fallen, but
killed,
the honor of the Second
was untainted.
The brave, young Mudge, the true-hearted Van were dead. Robeson, impetuous, dar Dyke Stone, and able Thomas B. Fox, who added the ing, ;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
182
noblest scholarly culture to a faithful, devoted heart,
were mortally wounded. Captain Crowninshield, and Lieutenants Gelray (arm amputated), Parker, were Mehan, Comey, and N. D. A. Sawyer
wounded.
Of
the enlisted
men, the dead were Bas-
com, Bullard, Durgin (color-bearer), Foster (S. P.), Hall, and Heoy, of Whittier, of B Marshall, of
A
;
;
C; Derr, Maynard, Nelson, and colors), of
G
D
Sadler (carrying the Furber, Peck (P. H.), and Wilson, of
;
and Bailey, Cady (carrying the colors) Joy, and Trayner, of I. Mortally wounded were Ball, Briggs ;
,
Conlan, of of
D
;
ton, of
B
;
Chase and Goetz, of
F
C
;
;
Alton and
Blunt and Ela,
Babcock, Burdett, and FarringBrown, Butters, Edmunds, and Parker, of
Kiernan, of
H;
A
(W.), and Prouty, of
(J.), Foster
;
and Jewett and Wade, of K. Eighty-four enlisted men were wounded, not mortally (among them Hobbs, of I, while carrying the colors) and six were prisoners. I
;
;
The dead of
the enlisted
men were
buried at Gettys
burg. "Lamenting the "
heroic
dead,"
said Colonel Cogswell,
our beloved
lieutenant-colonel, our respected and cherished officers, our brave and noble men, who left
on that bloody but victorious field, let us imitate their example, and make ourselves worthy to their lives
have been their comrades After returning, defences, and the effect.
An
in
arms
"
!
regiment went into its log artillery opened again with good the
was made by a part of the Second enemy s flank and rear and after seven
attack
Division on the
;
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183
hard fighting, including the time in which the
hours
was
Second
engaged,
About 3, P.M. and cared
,
enemy were
the
the regiment occupied
for its
its
dislodged.
original ground,
Some
dead and wounded.
of these
were brought off under the fire of sharpshooters, and some under cover of the night. Surgeon Heath and Assistant-Surgeon Nichols did fine service. It was about
enemy made his attack upon which was so gallantly repelled. The
P.M., that the
1,
Cemetery
Hill,
Eleventh Corps had redeemed
its
honor.
In that con
was the Thirty-third Massachusetts, Colonel Under wood, which had never lost its honor. In the evening,
test
the message
was passed along the line, from General enemy had been repulsed at all points.
that the
Meade,
During the night, the regiment lay in its works, kept awake by skirmishing fire and volleys of musketry. In
enemy had disappeared. The Second, and some other regiments, were sent on a reconnoissance of a couple of miles, and found that the rebel army had the morning the
retreated.
On
returning, the day was spent in caring
wounded, and burying the dead. In the "movement of the army after Lee, the Sec ond left on the 5th, and reached Littleston on the 6th,
for the
;
a few miles below that place
on the 7th (in the rain) to within three miles of Frederick on the 8th, through ;
,
;
Frederick, Middleton, and Burketsville, to Crampton
Gap
;
on the 9th, to Rohrersville
;
on the 10th,
s it
crossed the old battle-ground of Antietam, every step recalling recollections of that stubborn fight,
and bivou
acked at
north-west
its
right;
on the llth,
to
a
little
184
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
of Fairplay; on the 12th, to near Williamsport, and threw up breastworks. Here Colonel Cogswell, nearly
recovered from his wound, rejoined the regiment, and
took command.
On
the
14th, the
strong rebel works were
found
Lee had made good his escape across the That day river, losing only some of his rear-guard. the regiment marched eighteen miles on the 15th, deserted.
;
three miles below Antietam Iron it
Works
tinsel s house again,
passed by
Sandy Hook
on the 19th,
;
it
;
on the 16th,
and over the
hills to
crossed the river, and
over the Shenandoah, and bivouacked a
little
west of
on the 20th, to Snickers ville, towards the
Hillsborough Gap ; on the 23d and 24th, a continuous march ;
of-
twenty-eight miles through Troy, Oakhill, and Upperto
ville,
White
Plains,
where
Major
Morse
and
Lieutenants George and Sawyer, with a squad of non
commissioned
back 25th,
officers, left for
none of
^conscripts,"
moved
to
ren ton Junction visited
Haymarket
;
Massachusetts, to bring ever came. On the
whom
on the 26th,
to near
War
where, on the 27th, General Gordon the regiment, and was warmly received. On the ;
31st, the regiment moved by road east of Bealeton to near Kelley s Ford, on the Eappahannock ; on the 1st of August, crossed to support a cavalry advance, the
Second and the Twenty-seventh Indiana thrown forward as skirmishers on the 2d, in the evening, returned, and ;
went after
into
camp. fighting two
and four miles.
It
had come back to the old
battles,
river,
and marching four hundred
JOURNEYINGS.
185
XV. JOURNEYINGS.
THE
On the regiment lay in camp until Aug. 16. 15th (Saturday), came orders to be ready, and in
morning the regiment was on the road. But there was something odd about it: the -Third Wisconsin and the
Twenty-seventh Indiana were on the road too, but the remainder of the brigade was left. Eight other
the
regiments were added, ral
Ruger.
It
all
under command of our Gene
was learned that
certain sturdy regiments
had been picked for particular service, but what that service was, was a profound mystery. Six miles up the river was Rappahannock Station. There, leaving horses to come by another train, and superfluous baggage to stay behind, the regiments were
put on long railway trains, and that night found them selves at Alexandria.
On
a miserable field in the edge of the
the troops, after
had
to
be passed here.
with very pint.
some delays, sent
mean
eatables.
to bivouac.
town were
Two
days Peddlers overrun the camp, Ice cream
was eaten by the
Shoe-blacks appeared, and the privates exhibited them to brush equipments.
great dignity in employing
186
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Whiskey showed
itself
but
somewhat,
not
much.
Everybody wondered what the movement meant and nobody knew. The theory most favored was, that we ;
were going down the coast. But towards night, "Fall in
town took us "
Merrimack."
by, the
"
!
A mile
or two through
wharf where lay the iron steamer on board but by and
to a
It took time to get
;
Second, the Third Wisconsin, the Twenty-
seventh Indiana, and the hundred and something Ohio,
were snugly (very) stowed away.
Other boats were
Once on board, made known
near, and other troops embarking.
the proposals of the purser as to board to the officers that
About
we were bound
for
New
York.
6, A.M., the boat started.
below, but delightful for
be on deck.
The
trip
Abominably close those who had the fortune to
down
the
the
river,
beautiful
moonlight by and by, the cool, salt air, so sweet to men from the sultry Rappahannock, were charming; that is, on deck.
The next day,
having passed by night the junction of the Chesapeake with the ocean, no land was in sight walked by the "Erricson," a sister transport; and kept ;
on
when, nearing New York, the officers breakfast table, and boots were blacked,
until Saturday,
appeared at and white collars were displayed. Then at anchor off and General Ruger reported to Governor s Island General Canby and orders came and we were landed ;
;
at the foot of
the
;
Canal Street, North-River
"Merrimack,"
1,991^ tons, with
engines, and seventy-four
life
its
side,
and
left
two low-pressure
preservers,
commanded
187
JOUENEYINGS.
a gentle by Captain Sampson, of Dedham, Mass., man. Then marched without music to Broadway, and to
City-Hall Park ; and entered it by the same gate as on the 9th of July, 1861, and stacked arms on the same
But ah the ten hundred and
spot.
forty
!
The men were put in the barracks on the line of Broadway. The officers had tents. The Third Wis
A battery was
consin was close at hand.
beyond
General Ruger
the guard.
stationed east,
tents
s
were pitched
the other side of the path running front of the City
The Twenty-seventh Indiana was down
Hall.
Battery.
was just
It
ernor
at the
All the squares bristled with muskets.
by Gov The Government was
at the close of the "
Seymour
s
friends."
famous
riots
determined that the draft should proceed, and so
it
put
an overwhelming force into the city and the draft did That day everybody was in camp, and the proceed. were guns ready. ;
Indeed they always were. Orders were extremely Never out of sound of the drum in the half"
strict
"
1
;
hour leaves, sparingly given. But the evening parade became an institution, and drew great crowds. Wives
came on
Public worship was held in on a mess-hall, Sunday, by the Second, and the Third Wisconsin. Benevolent people came, and
the
to see husbands.
men s
people not benevolent.
A
fortnight
wore away
in the
din and
hubbub of Broadway. Then suddenly, "Ready to move at a moment s notice Then to move at 3, P.M., and nobody to leave "
!
camp.
But the
line
was formed;
wives hurried to
188
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
say good- by
the
;
drum corps gave the music, and down Broadway, just at dark,
the regiment marched
and the
to the Battery,
and were most "
Mississippi,"
lighters took
men and
horses
to the iron propeller night about it on which the Second, the Third Wiscon all
and the Twenty-seventh Indiana, found themselves steaming down New- York Bay when they awoke on the sin,
morning of the 6th of September. The trip back again to Alexandria was on, only the
men were
not so crowded.
like the trip
The weather was
beautiful, and bivouac on deck was a novelty yet Staten Island and the below, the men found it close. ;
Sandy Hook,
fortifications,
all
the
low,
silver-fringed
When
Tuesday s day Charles appeared also, and then light appeared, Cape Cape Henry and at evening, the light at Point Look Jersey shore,
disappeared.
;
out, and there
we anchored
until daylight.
By two, P.M.
,
on Wednesday, we were opposite Alexandria, and before sunset the regiment was on its abominable old field again.
The mack,"
"Mississippi"
made on
was twin
sister to the "Mem-
the same plans, and had a capital
mander, Captain Baxter, of Hyannis, Mass.
Sampson, who
;
com
and Purser
Speaking of pursers, the officers were boarded for a dollar a meal, or five dollars did finely.
the trip, at their option.
Going on, one of ours chose
the latter, but, being sea-sick, took only one meal at
Eeturning he was wiser, and chose the arrangement, but not being sick, paid ten
five dollars.
former
dollars for his meals.
The
wisest
make
mistakes.
189
JOUKNEYINGS.
Expectations of being forwarded by rail, as other troops of the expedition had been, were disappointed.
The day
three regiments
after arrival, at 2, P.M., the
were put on the road. Out of Alexandria, the country inhabitants all gone, lines obliterated, was desolate ;
houses destroyed,
two houses, and a beyond that place.
except at Annandale, a village of fine lot of chimnies.
At
6, A.M.,
Camped
a mile
on the road, which was
a great lot of fresh horses, going to the terribly dusty army ; wagon trains, with whose escort our men got a long train of sutlers wagons into a necessary fight ;
;
was unpleasant. Passing desolate Fairfax, half a mile from Centreville found friends in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, and coming up under escort
went on
to
:
altogether,
Bull Run.
it
There being plenty of water
there, and no water farther on, and no haste, and seventeen miles having been made that day, the order
was of course, after a rest, Fall in The regiments went on three miles to Manassas Junction, and camped "
"
!
without
water.
Eeveille
at
4,
A.M.
Chimnies
all
At Bristow, the fine band of the along the road. Massachusetts There last Thirty-third played for us. year we saw half a mile of cars burned one house WAS gone. At Kettle Run,
the
;
(then)
we had
wait
ed idly all day in sound of the disastrous battle of Manassas. From that point there was no water, in the intense heat, until Catlett
found a
little
s
half a mile from the intended
by
was reached, where was halted the column
moist dirt to drink
a thunder-shower.
;
camp, so as
The next morning
to get
wet
to Bealeton
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
190
camp by Kelley s Ford, where the Thir teenth New Jersey was drawn up in line, and welcomed and then on
us
all
to
back, with cheers, to the stout old Third Brigade,
in the sound of cannonade.
On
the 15th, changed camp ; but could not change the water, a cupful of which would catch a thousand
On
wio-o-lers. ot?
The water on
the 16th, moved.
road tasted dead-cat-ish, but
it
was
the
clearer.
Crossing Ford, following the well-remembered road several miles in the misty morning, the regiment turned at Kelley s
eastward to
Stephensburg,
miles east of
Brandy
a
little
hill
From
and camped.
Station,
knoll back of camp, the outlines of a distant
were familiar
On
a decayed village four
:
it
was Cedar Mountain.
the 17th, early on the road
to the left in Stephensburg,
:
the regiment turned
and made a five-mile march,
which had to be very crooked to keep in cover of the The enemy there had a signal-station on the woods. other side of the Rapidan.
of battle
;
and the
fall
Halts were frequent, in line
flowers were in their glory.
one of the halts,
came up a savage thunder-storm
as soon as the
men were
given to go into camp.
;
At and,
thoroughly wet, orders were It rained severely all night,
and the morning disclosed- as thoroughly soaked a set as was possible. Changed camp two days after ; but An equinoctial is not bad the equinoctial continued. at
home; but
in the woods, with canvas
strained the rain, with a
of the enemy) at every
,
little
smouldering
which only
fire
(because
and the noise of guns throwing canister
change of pickets by the ford,
it is
not quite
JOURNEYINGS.
On
so comfortable. tion
but,
;
shelters
191
the 20th, orders to change loca
waiting four hours, orders put
after
up again.
of the line of the
The brigade was
army
and the Second and the Third
;
Wisconsin were kept
the
the extreme left
the ford,
at
and ate
"
White-
was very active. Landing" bread, which Picket-firing was ordered to cease ; and the rebels
House
A
stopped theirs.
way from camp,
little
their
men
were in plain sight, with some ugly-looking earth-works on the bluff. They were polite enough to turn out their guard one day, and salute our officer commanding the picket.
A painful episode
occurred here.
It
was the execu
tion of a deserter, a soldier of the Third
Maryland, which the whole division had to witness, and with whom the chaplain of the Second had to be until the last
moment.
The Second was picketing Eaccoon Ford, on Kapidan. around our
On
Saturday, September 19,
first
autumn
fire,
were kept on hand,
rations
kept low.
we
the
gathered
Eight days
enough, that
is,
for four
Suddenly, the Second was to leave Vir no more to see it until by Sherman s victorious
days eating. ginia,
inarch the
it
was moved from
its
its
north line, on
orders
came on the
south to
way home.
But nobody knew
that,
when
24th to be ready to move, and a few hours after, the
troops
brigade
did
wound
move. its
way
Silently
and circuitously the
out, found the other brigades
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
192
and the other
Brandy
passed a
division,
relieve the Twelfth,
Station,
coming
corps
to
passed through Stephensburg to which looked like railroading,
"turned all wagons, &c. Then was surmised they wanted us in Tennessee, where Chickamauga had just been fought.
and, after dark,
in"
it
We
bivouacked at Brandy Station
master (Major
M.
J. Stone, to
where the pay
;
whom we owe many
We
and worked
all night. kindnesses) appeared, saw another man shot for desertion (with whom the Second s chaplain, by request, passed most of the
criminal
s last
night)
We shivered
.
And
in the cold.
on the 26th, marched to Bealeton shivered another Heard that was to command the Elev Hooper night. ;
enth and Twelfth, that General Slocum had asked to
be relieved, and that General Butterfield was to
mand
com
Twefth Corps, all of .which made more shiv than the cold did, though only the first item ering was to be realized. On the 27th, took the cars for the
westward, forty
We
left
men
to
meet
it
the section
left
Virginia,
been pressed by our dead heroes,
many weary left
and
to a car, save field
the noble
feet,
whose roads had
left
army
staff.
the graves of
of Virginia, not
again until the triumphal days of review in
Washington.
Through Alexandria at
Relay
;
in the
;
through Washington
morning
scenery in the river mists
had
coffee at
autumn,
at
at Berlin,
Martinsburg
recognizing the
crossed at Harper
;
;
Hancock $ crossed
saw the rivers
at night
;
first
s
Ferry
;
red leaves of
and pierced tunnels
;
JOURNE YIXGS
193
.
and on Tuesday the crossed the Ohio on at were Benwood; 29th, dropped pontoons, and on the river s pebbly bank made coffee were cheered at Cumberland;
and munched hard bread (the Western hard bread) In cars on the Central Ohio Road, at midnight.
at 2,
near Cambridge in the morning ; breakfast at Zanesville ; a couple hours at Columbus ; by the Co
A.M.
;
lumbus and Xenia Road
to the latter place,
the evening suddenly appeared a crowd of
where
in
women and
with great quantities of meat, potatoes, eggs, milk, pies, cake, and the like, which they dealt out to girls,
the soldiers lavishly.
we
are not
"
What
to
is
"
pay
Vallandigham people.
"
?
The
"
Nothing
:
soldiers left
with rousing cheers for the frank, warm-hearted, and
handsome Xenia
Passing Dayton, at noon next day were at Indianapolis ; left at 6, P.M., on the Jeffer son ville Railway, and reached the Ohio at half-past 5, girls.
on a queer and aged ferry-boat ; in found Sol Louisville, bread, meat, and coffee, at the
A.M.
;
crossed
"
diers
Rest,"
where
reached out one of
the its
Sanitary
long arms
Commission had hurried
through Kentucky, and reached Nashville half an hour after midnight on Saturday morning ; wound round the knoll ;
on which the marble Capitol was shining light
;
southward;
in the
moon moved
after a couple of hours in
changing trains, were near Stone-River battle-ground
at
daybreak; and half an hour after midnight, Sunday morning, were tumbled out of the cars on a plain
between the
hills, at Stevenson and, after seven days continuous journey, and a passage of eleven hundred ;
13
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
194
and seventy-eight miles, bivouacked on the
soil
of
Alabama.
The Second had won East
:
it
was henceforth
armies of the West.
its
to
fame in the armies of the
make
itself
a
name
in the
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY.
195
XVI. UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY. IN Alabama.
The Eleventh Corps,
on the
Twelfth
road, was
Twelfth, or part of
it,
about
before
just
the
the Bridgeport Both were under ;
at Stevenson.
General Hooker. Notwithstanding the disasters of the battle of Chickamauga, saved by the indomitable sturdiness of General
Thomas, General Rosecrans had object as to less
occupy Chattanooga.
than that of the enemy.
so
far
But
He was
attained his
his
force
was
closely confined
Ridge on and Lookout Mountain on the west. His
in Chattanooga, the rebels holding Mission
the river off.
east,
and road communication with Bridgeport was cut His wagons had to come over a long and hard
mountain road, and across the river. The railway from Nashville to Bridgeport, by which all his supplies must come, was exceedingly insecure. Therefore the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps found themselves under Rosecrans. It
was on Sunday morning, Oct.
Second,
the station,
was
4, 1863, that the few hours sleep in the low ground near shook off the heavy dew. At ten o clock, it
after a
called to the station again.
The enemy had come
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up through the mountain passes, and cut the road over which the Second had passed. At the station, a saw an orderly coming
sentinel
ment
in
advance of the regi
the star (the badge of the corps) attracted his
:
and he presented arms. As others, servants and the like, came on, he continued to salute. The attention,
regiment came stars,
and the
;
sentinel, seeing that all
brought down his piece in disgust.
said he. brigadier-generals,"
new to The
the
"They
wore
are all
Corps-badges were then
Western armies.
brigade was going back to open the road ; and by railway to Decherd. It was thirty miles to that The road was a curiosity. Leading through a place.
was built with considerable contempt took three engines (one coming out of a siding to help) to get up one steep hill, and much time There were deep cuts to get the three to pull together. range of
hills, it
of levels.
It
in the blue limestone, a tunnel of
2,228
feet in length,
and one grade of 127 feet to the mile. The stone often seemed ready, by the great cracks, to tumble into the In the dark tunnel, "Never mind, boys," cuts. shouted one,
"there
At Decherd,
it
s
daylight
ahead."
was learned that the
rebels, ten thou
a sand strong, had occupied McMinnville, end of a branch ten miles off, at the railway.
little
town
The next
was moved by rail to Alisonia, a town of one house. at the crossing of Elk River, Learned that the rebels had cut the railway above, and afternoon, the regiment
that
they were eighteen
rations,
hundred
strong.
Out of
and the men got some from the regiments near
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY. There was a difference
by.
Middle regiments soldiers drove a brisk trade with the hungry
States
men
;
here,
think
and
197
when
the Michigan
:
men were
offered pay,
was the indignant
stranger,"
we re mean enough
On
pork?"
in
to take
reply,
pay
"Look
you
"do
for a little
bread
Tuesday, the expected cars did not
come, and the regiments marched to Tullahoma, eight As the train with the horses was on the miles above. upper side of the break,
and men were alike on
officers
At Tullahoma,
foot. the Second had settled down, when, about ten, P.M., a train came along in which there was room for half a regiment more. Some
General on the train ordered half of the Second
Most of
in.
came oh to rain. The conductor, brakeman, &c., went into their part of the cars, and went to bed. The General went in, too. the cars were platforms, and
They waked up about
four, A.M.
;
it
and the train went on
on a branch of Duck River, which Then it was learned that the put a stop to progress.
to near a burnt bridge,
rebels
numbered
fifteen
thousand, with eighteen pieces
of artillery.
was necessary to clean out the road by troops The Second (excepting the moving on each side. It
under Major Francis near Tullahoma) was started on the left, and went first to Shelbyville, to companies
left
catch rebel cavalry which had before the regiment
The road was oak,
town,
cedar,
the
left
was ordered
that
town ten hours
to begin its
march.
often through magnificent groves of beech,
or walnut.
From
Shelbyville,
a pretty
road soon became a partly-built pike,
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some of
it, swamp ; some, with heaps of broken stone with the stone levelled off; and, at last, a foursome, ;
foot tumble in the dark,
where they meant
to build a
At last, the troops were turned into bridge some day. a wood, candles were lighted, arms stacked, and shelters
At
after eighteen miles
in the rain,
pitched
Oct.
A.M.,
five,
8,
moved
Bellbuckle, a railway station tiana,
another station
Bellbuckle, cut
;
on
marching.
two
and ten more
;
miles
to
to Chris
having drawn part rations at
down by General Rosecrans,
of neces
sity.
At The
Christiana, facts dispersed the- previous rumors.
had actually numbered four thousand men, or seven pieces of artillery. They had cut
rebels
with six
the road at Grierson
s
Creek (a mile below Wartrace)
,
and near Murfreesborough. Our pursuing had cavalry captured two guns and two hundred
at Christiana,
prisoners.
On
Friday evening, Oct. 9, the road broken on Monday had been repaired, and three bridges built .
;
and the
trains
came through amidst
cheers.
So, early Saturday morning, the regiment started back towards Tullahoma. At evening, it was tangled up with a brook called
Crooked Eun.
times,
turned being marched twenty-three miles, field. the road next and On went day, sorghum
into a
through Crooked
wound up out
Run
After going through
sixteen times
more before
of the valley mists at
reached Tullahoma
;
and then
it
last,
to Alisonia the
to get ready for a powerful rain-storm.
eleven
sunrise
;
and soon
same day,
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY. Twelve
guarding
passed,
clays
199
Elk-river
Bridge
with the Third Wisconsin, a colored regiment (which
was a trusty one) and a something New York. Across the river was Estell Springs, so named from Doctor ,
Estell,
who owned some
springs,
and
Dut
laid
on
lots
which Southern people built board shanties, and used to live in
awhile in -the summer.
for their
to
ther time
shet o
git
one
They purtended
said a solitary resident.
health,"
git shet o
"
and they didn
;
ther
"
kollee-by-it
The
money."
"
;
and
thr.ee
within two feet of each other,
t
"But
else
it
it
was
was
to
know how
springs remained, others welling
out
sulphur, lime, and pure
water.
On
19th
the
relieved
from
of October, General Kosecrans
command,
and
Thomas, an old acquaintance took
command
General
in Patterson s
Comfortable huts had been
Campaign,
built.
But
the regiment
That
is,
to clean out the south side of the
nessee, from Bridgeport to the western base of
He was
Mountain.
H.
of the Department of the Cumberland.
went beechnutting, down to Anderson. was the result.
Hooker was
George
was
that
Ten
Lookout
ordered to concentrate the Eleventh
Corps and one division of the Twelfth, at Bridgeport. On the 23d, the regiment reached Decherd ; on the 24th, Tantallon
and on the 25th, Anderson. Ander Mr. Anderson lived
;
son was a station, but no town. there,
who owned
mountains
five or six miles of valley
was
and several
Big Crow-creek Valley, which bore excellent corn, the horses (they had got along) ;
it
200
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Bivouacked in a beautiful beech wood, and Saw brooks gathered nuts from crops inexhaustible. out of and walked into caves. It was the hills, coming thought.
Big Crow was a big Indian." A variety of orders came it took some time to untangle the snarl, but it was at last settled that there old Creek country.
"
:
were too many troops, and our brigade was sent back. on, and took part in the
The Second Division went *
beautiful
clearing-Tip
of the south bank of the Ten
nessee, in which, on the 28th, occurred the in
which
battle
of
Colonel
Underwood, of the was so Thirty-third Massachusetts, severely wounded. re-crossed the So, on the 26th, faced northward Wauhatchie,
;
mountain by the same abominable road, which a native said had not been used since the railway was opened it was a succession of sharp ledges. Camped at Cowan :
twenty minutes. take the train
;
Then
orders
came by telegraph to march
orders, half an hour later, to
instead, but fortunately the promptness of the
had got ahead of the orders. gave out; coming."
about two, A.M.,
At
Second
Bellbuckle, the engine
"Another
engine is just The Second was too old to be caught that
way, made its coffee, lay down to sleep by the road, and waked in the morning to find that the other engine
was
Marched on, horses back coming. and reached Christiana before the engine "
still
"just
at
Cowan, which was
"just
4
coming."
There was a remarkably mean camp there, which some slovenly regiment had left. The Second tore it all
down, and
built a
new
one.
They
tore
down
a house
or
two
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY.
201
them up.
Company
besides, without building
C, Captain Brown, was stationed a few miles up the So soon as road, with Assistant-surgeon Nichols. camp was comfortably finished, somebody concluded to shift
the troops round
"
to bring into juxtaposition the
which they might some brigade, scattered parts of have thought of a fortnight before, and so saved seventy "
miles of marching.
On
regiment moved
a fine
;
left
the
6th of November, the
camp
to a set of as
substitutes for a regiment as could be found
mean
stopped one night, and below Normandy another and on the 8th were back at Elk River to find the old ;
at Bellbuckle
;
huts gone, and to ransack the neighboring territory for materials for more.
The
search proved successful, and
huts were built by the side of the fortifications
command
ing Elk-river Bridge, which the guns of the Second
Kentucky Battery occupied. Company C, Captain Brown, was across the river, in one of the block-houses which were now built ville to
at points
on the road from Nash
Chattanooga, and Companies I and E, Captain
Grafton, and Lieut. Perkins, were afterwards stationed
near
Company C.
Thanksgiving Day came round, Nov. 26. Fifty men, under Quartermaster Sawyer, went out earlier and, at ;
a
distance
of fifteen
miles,
necessaries of that day.
procured
The men
s
plenty
of the
dinner was in this
every hundred men, fourteen geese, four and turkeys, forty chickens, besides a few quails, a pig, and some plum puddings. The brigade band (embrac ratio,
to
ing part of the old regimental band which
left
Sept. 8,
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202
1862, discharged by act of Congress) waiting
the
for
footed
train,
it
home
got tired to the
of
Second
over eight miles of road, and furnished beautiful music. Public worship was held as usual. The officers of the
Second, and those of the Second Kentucky Battery, fraternized in the evening.
In December, 1863, the proposal of re-enlistment
came before the regiment.
Many men
response. too
much
met with a favorable
It
enfeebled by the hardships of war; to which,
the age of
some added another
objection.
no longer with reason leave sufficient
Some were
could not re-enlist.
number
their
Some
families.
could
But a
re-enlisted to secure the continuance
of the Second.
Towards
this
end, the valuable assistance of Rev.
Thomas B. Fox, Andrew,
of Boston, contributed.
Governor
solicitous for the comfort of the Massachusetts
soldiers, sent this gentleman, as a special agent in behalf
of the State, to
and
its
regiments in Tennessee and Georgia, had been before done to the
soldiers in hospitals, as
regiments
in
the
He
East.
reached the camp
On
the Second on the 28th of December, 1863.
of the
next day but one, he addressed the regiment, which was drawn up on three sides of a square. In an address of wonderful beauty, completeness, and eloquence, he the
brought
assurance
of
remembrance
at
home.
When he who had given three sons to the army alluded to the one who had fallen in the line of the Second
at
Gettysburg, tears wet the cheeks of the hardy
UP AND DOWN THE RAILWAY. Going on
soldiery.
to Chattanooga, 1 he
203
was able
to
materially expedite the arrangements by which the Sec
ond was
to
to be sent
be continued, and
home
for the
and telegraphed the
its
re-enlisted
promised thirty days
men were furlough
result to Colonel Cogswell.
re-enlistments dated from Dec. 31
;
;
The
and the Second
was henceforth the SECOND EEGIMENT OF MASSACHU SETTS
VETERAN VOLUNTEERS.
It
had earned the
title.
At Lookout Mountain, Mr. Fox met a soldier of the Twelfth Wiscon In conversation, he asked him if he knew the Third Wisconsin. Yes, one of our officers came from that regiment." Perhaps, then, you heard of the Second Massachusetts." "Heard of it? Yes. That and the Third Wisconsin make one regiment, and every man in them is fit to 1
sin. "
command
"
the
whole."
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
204
XVII. HOME AND BACK.
Ox
came to go The men who remained behind were
the 9th of January, 1864, the orders
to Massachusetts.
moved
to
Tullahoma.
The
re-enlisted
men, temporarily Janu
consolidated into five companies, on the 10th of
ary took cars at Estell Springs, and reached Nashville on a cold night about eleven o clock. The men were placed in Zollicoffer building, a dirty and disgusting place
and the
;
even
shelter
and
field
the
for
staff
found
it
hard to get any
Possibly some
night.
of
the
remember the Donegana. Further trans not provided until the 13th, when in was portation had the usual delays the morning the trains started officers will
;
;
reached Louisville at
Albany
to Jeffersonville to
at nine, P.M.
go
there waited,
;
the
;
reached Henryville at eleven, P.M., and
Hudson on
;
;
to Cleveland
o clock, Jan.
;
by reason of some stupid blunderer, until to Crest went on to Indianapolis
the next forenoon line
marched by way of New be ready at two, P.M., and to
dawn
;
to Buffalo
to
;
Albany
;
crossed
the ice, and reached Boston about five
19th.
Crowded throngs were waiting
;
but at that late hour
HOME AND BACK. reception was
the the
men
to the barracks in
Among the old
upon furlough,
we
and cheers accompanied Beach Street.
deferred,
That morning, the "
205
"
Boston
Advertiser"
had said
:
regiments re-enlisting, and returning home learn that the Second Massachusetts may
be expected to arrive,
perhaps to-day.
It will
be with thin
ranks, that this regiment will return to our streets, through
which we saw
it
march
thirty
months ago with
full
numbers,
But what a the brilliancy of a holiday parade. inscribed has meanwhile been upon its colors glorious history The Second Massachusetts was the first volunteer regiment and with
all
!
"
The gentlemen who raised raised for the three years service. it, prominent among whom was the lamented Dwight, secured the permission, during the dark days which followed the attack upon Surater ; and the regiment marched on the 8th of July Its first opportunity to show its quality was in covering the retreat of General Banks from his advanced position in the Shenandoah Valley, in May, 1862; when the
following.
good discipline and steady conduct of
this
regiment was from over
chiefly instrumental in saving the retreating force
whelming disaster. Seventeen killed, forty-seven wounded, and eighty-four missing, was the price then laid down by this devoted corps for the safety of the army. battle of
Cedar Mountain,
met the brunt of the
in
fight,
At
the unfortunate
August following, this regiment and lost thirty-four killed, one
hundred and twenty wounded, and thirty-one missing; the killed including six officers,
his mortal
wound,
the noble Savage there meeting eight, out of twenty-two offi
and only
At the turning of the tide of war at Antietam, in September, the regiment bore a distinguished part, losing thirteen killed, fifty-four wounded, and but two
cers, returning unhurt.
missing.
Here the
gallant
Dwight
laid
down
his life cheer
and nobly. At Chancellorsville, the determined gallan and solid discipline of the regiment gained for it the try commendation of General Hooker in General Orders, twen-
fully
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFAKTEY.
206
At Gettysburg, it regiment to meet the enemy at one of the turning-points of the war. Five color-bearers were laid low, one after the other of two hundred and fifty ty-five killed telling the story of its conduct.
was once more the fortune of
this
:
men, twenty-one (including four officers, among whom was the and many wounded, youthful but heroic Mudge) were killed ;
and few missing, again regiment now
told the tale
belongs to the
army
of steady valor.
The
of Grant.
Such a story is common-place enough upon paper, but it is nevertheless a remarkable chapter in the annals of military "
and
patriotic devotion.
Of
thirty-six officers
who
with the regiment, but six will return with
it.
left
Boston
D wight,
Savage, Abbott, Mudge, Gary, Goodwin, Williams, Robeson, and Perkins, with Fitzgerald, Fox, and Stone, have fallen nobly at the head of their men while Sedgwick and Shaw, who were among those who first marched forth with the regi one at Antietam, and the ment to the field, have also fallen, ;
other on the parapet of Wagner. And, of the unnamed heroes of the ranks, what nobler record can there be than that of Antietam
and Gettysburg, where, with a
frightful loss
and wounded, but an insignificant fraction is set down missing ? These are the men who are shot down in their
in killed
as
places, but
who
neither surrender as prisoners, nor straggle.
no invidious detraction from the honor of other regi ments to say, that, with perhaps one exception, the Second It is
has been unequalled
among
the Massachusetts regiments for
and steady conduct under the hottest fire. We hope that when this gallant band marches through our streets, the citizens of Boston will give them a hearty wel
its
cool endurance
"
come.
Let the same enthusiasm which encouraged them at welcome and cheer the returning veterans
their departure
!
which they bear have been bathed in the blood of the sons of Massachusetts time and again, but never, dishon The staff has been shot away in the hands of the ored.
The
colors
standard-bearer, but the ensign has never trailed in disgrace.
HOME AND BACK.
207
The men who
return are the companions of those whose counted among the dearest of our treasures they are themselves scarred and worn from a hundred gallant is
memory fights
:
and yet they come
;
to us, not to lay
down
their arms,
as they might with honor, but to prepare for a return to their country s service for a new term, and for other fields yet to
come, in which they will preserve the lustre of their past renown undimmed. Let our streets ring with cheers, let the and let us prove to national colors stream out once more ;
who are ready to knows how to be grateful
these men, and all this
city
how
to
reception took place
upon the next day.
showed, that the words of the the popular heart. 1 1
for patriotic service,
honor a gallant and persistent devotion to duty
The
Among
citizens
imitate their deeds, that
"Advertiser"
and
"
!
It fully
represented
Leaving Beach-street Barracks
at
the tokens of the estimation of the regiment in one class of It was not carried far, because meeting with
was the following.
universal approval. "
to give the Second Regiment a hearty our stores between the hours of 11.30, A.M., and 1,
We, the undersigned, wishing
welcome, agree P.M., to-day
to close
:
DENNY, RICE, & Co. GARDNER, DEXTER, & Co. F. SKINNER & Co.
FROTHINGHAM &
GAY. RANDALL, & Co. PARKER, WILDER, & Co. Co. BARNES, MEKKIAM,
Co.
DRESSER, STEVENS,
&
HOWE & Co. CHAS. AMORY & Co.
BURR BROTHERS &
Co.
FAULKNER, KIMBALL, & Co. WASHBURN, WELCH, & CARR. J. C. CONVERSE & Co.
ORDWAY, TEBBETTS, & Co. WOODMAN, HORSWELL, & Co.
J.
C.
Co.
WELLINGTON BKOTHERS & Co. MACKINTOSH, GREEN, & HORTON. STONE, WOOD, & Co. BURRAGE BROTHERS & Co. E. ALLEN & Co. RICHARDS. PIERCE BROTHERS & Co. EDWARDS, NICHOLS,
WILSON, HAMILTON, J. C.
&
Co.
BURRAGE & Co.
SMITH. JORDAN, MARSH, & Co. ANDERSON, HEATH, & Co. BLODGETT. SWEETSER, SWAN,
ALLEN, LANE, & Co. E. 0. TUFTS & Co. WILKINSON, LAMB, & Co. GROSS, DANIELS, & Co!
DALE BROTHERS
Co.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
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nine, A.M., under the escort of the Cadets, the regiment
The passed through dense and enthusiastic throngs. route led to Washington Street, Boylston, Arlington, Beacon, Court, and State Streets to Faneuil Hall. Balconies and win Flags were displayed everywhere. Tumultuous cheers dows were filled with ladies.
In State accompanied the men the whole distance. Street, the dense mass of warm-hearted citizens ren almost impassable. Said the Boston Post
dered
it
"
"
:
The reception of the regiment yesterday was all that ad The huzzas that greeted miration and gratitude could inspire. the appearance of the veterans were no unmeaning vocife "
rations, but heartfelt, ejaculations.
passed
;
and
from many
"
God
lips.
bless you, brave
Citizens of
all
Hats were raised as they were words uttered
men
classes
"
!
and ages were eager
to express their joy at the sight of the noble soldiers
have participated
in so
many
who
deadly strifes, battling for their
country."
Of
the greeting at Faneuil Hall, the
gave the following account
A
"Advertiser"
:
grand reception by the State and City authorities and our
was given, Wednesday, to the gallant veterans of the Second Regiment, which arrived in this city on Tuesday
citizens
night.
Faneuil Hall was rather more decorated than on Sunday handsome addition on each side of the clock, con
:
there was a
sisting of the State
arms and shield
As
:
the galleries were also
Governor and staff, accom Burnside and several invited guests, panied by Major-General Hail to the chief the band On the entered, performed
trimmed with streamers.
the
"
"
!
platform was the
Mayor and many
distinguished gentlemen.
HOME AND BACK. Mayor Lincoln
and by
presided,
209
invitation
his
Rev. Dr.
Lothrop asked the divine blessing upon the assembly. Mayor Lincoln then said, that, without asking permission of the com mander, he would order the veterans to relieve the tables of their
load,
an order which was immediately carried into
execution.
After the dinner was over, the follows "
Mayor
and spoke as
rose,
:
Mr. Commander and
Soldiers, Veterans of the
Second
one of the happiest circumstances Regiment, of my official career, that I have the privilege of welcoming you and your honored command to-day to Faneuil Hall. The I consider
it
City Council of Boston, appreciating your past services in behalf of the national cause, have desired, by the entertain
ment which has been prepared of the feeling of our people
an expression
for you, to give
now
that
you have returned
to
your homes. The reputation which you have already acquired claims our admiration but the welcome which you received ;
not confined to personal acquaintances or neighbors, but is shared, I can assure you, by the whole community. Starting
is
from Boston as one of the earliest regiments of the war, our citizens have always watched your career with interest, taking a part, the
first,
Army
in the fortunes of the
of the
Potomac
;
Army of Virginia
and recently
in the
;
then, with
Department of
the West. "
You have always
sachusetts,
and she
sustained the
name and
will never forget
your
fair
fame of Mas
services.
I
must
confess to you, that some of us, who have remained at home when the country needed our services, have a little feeling of
envy at the noble position which you have won for yourselves. Too many of us have come far short of the true stature of a
man the
in this crisis of
homage due
our nation
to those
s history,
who have
we do not forget the full measure all
but
filled to
the requirements which every citizen owes to his country. It does not become me at this time to recount the number of 14
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
210
your engagements, or to speak of the fields where your valor has been tested but my duty is simply to introduce to you His Excellency the Governor, who will formally, in behalf of our ;
honored Commonwealth, tender you that welcome which your merits and patriotic services deserve."
Governor Andrew stepped forward, and was greeted with He spoke as follows great applause and cheers. Mr. Commander, Officers, and Men of the veteran and gal :
"
Second Massachusetts, Many a time and oft have the of Boston reverberated the shouts and the plaudits of the people of Massachusetts. Many a time and oft, during in which the long and great history of the Commonwealth, lant airs
Boston has always borne a part, grand and conspicuous, have the arches of this venerable hall re-echoed the shouts of freemen
;
but never on an occasion more
touching to the heart,
more
of American citizens.
How
human speech
an occasion
all
for
full
of pathos,
more
inspiring to the hopeful patriotism
inadequate, Mr. like this
!
Commander,
is
A hundred thou
sand voices, speaking from the heart of a million of people, have already welcomed these veteran soldiers of our Union cause.
How
little
it is
years has perilled his for the sacrifice
;
that
life
to say to the soldier
for his country, that
we are
who for three we thank him
grateful for the proffered offering
chose to accept it ; that we prize his life, for ever praise his patriotic valor and will heroism, If words were deeds, and deeds of men were the acts of of his
if
God
!
"
Titans or demigods, they would be
all too
weak
for such a
Two
hundred and twenty-two Massachusetts day men, officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment of Volun teers, after nearly three years of constant, active, and devoted as this.
in all there is of peril, of exposure, and of valiant participation in the field, return to resume, for a few days only, the daring of their homes, in order that with refreshed hearts
occupation
and re-invigorated frames and recruited ranks they may march once more to the final crushing of the rebellion.
HOME AND BACK. "
Mr. Commander and the
your fame
is
Men
of
211
Second, the record of On the 18th
the delineation of your character.
day of July, 1861, you marched from this very city of Boston, bound for the fields of war, one thousand and forty -six strong. To-day, you march through the streets of Boston two
hundred and twenty-two men, who, almost all of them of the original one thousand and forty-six who marched at the begin ning,
have re-enlisted themselves anew for the war.
Men may
praise the nobleness of the act, but only God To know how can adequately bless the patriotic offering. bravely and how well your work has been done, one needs to "
peruse the records of your carpp life, beginning in Roxbury, to follow your course along the upper Potomac, down the
and
valley of Virginia, back to Fredericksburg, over to Antietam,
and down
to
"
Kentucky and Tennessee
;
for,
wherever you
a record of your glory behind you. While history has a page, there shall be preserved,
marched, you
left
to
be
read of Americans during the great and long hereafter, the story of the Massachusetts Second covering the retreat of the army as they passed up the valley of Virginia in the actions of Winchester. "
Men
can never cease to remember the action of the Second
lUlassachusetts in that trial battle of Gettysburg,
where
this
sacred flag [the national ensign was here taken hold of and waved by the speaker amid vociferous cheers], now torn to rags by shot and shell, was the ensign you followed, and never deserted, but carried on to victory. "
The noble standard-bearer who bore
it fell
by the bullet
of the enemy. He kissed his mother earth in death; but the flag of your country still waved aloft, was snatched
from the dying soldier s hand by a comrade, who in his turn bit the dust by the bullet of a foe. Again the flag, transferred without touching the earth, was passed to the hand of another Massachusetts boy; and five standard-bearers in succession bore this symbol of our cause on the
field
of Gettysburg.
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212
And
need I say,
whenever
that,
this
regiment has faced a
foe,
you have marched with victory upon your banner and death
At Chancellorsville, not less than at upon your bayonets. was the Second Antietam, distinguished among the brave
;
was specially General Orders of the then
and, with the First and Second Massachusetts,
it
designated for commendation in Commander of the Army of the Potomac. "
The
old soldiers of the
Second
will notice, that I
have not
spoken as yet of the action of Slaughter Mountain. During all the conflicts of the war, there has been no braver conduct than yours on that terrible day. Your hearts will bear record for ever to the value of your comrades who fell that day.
Your
tears this morning, soldiers of the
Second,
shed for
Savage and his noble compatriots, whose blood that day moistened the soil of Virginia and made it sacred, are a fitting tribute, "
such as no words of mine can imitate.
Of the men who marched from Massachusetts
as
members
of the Second, already twelve officers have fallen in battle, and One hundred and fifty-three enlisted men sleep in death.
have accompanied their officers to the grand review three hundred and seventy-three have been discharged, invalided :
twenty-two officers, and three hundred men, have fallen by wounds not mortal. So distinguished has been the conduct of the regiment, and the
since the
and
war began
:
forty-five
members who composed officers
it,
that not less than thirty-nine of
and men have been translated from the Second
your to be commissioned, either by the President or myself, in other commands. "
Your
first
colonel
borne distinguished
and lieutenant-colonel have long since and performed with admirable
titles,
of brigadier-generals in the Unitedof Volunteers ; and both of them are to-day in of divisions. One of your officers and forty-two of
distinction the duties
States
Army
command
your men, in the ordinary course of the dispensations of Provi dence, without
wound
in battle or material injury in the service,
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213
by natural causes, have passed away. Some of your comrades some of them, on detached
are left behind in the hospitals service, could not be reached
:
to ascertain
their
purpose?
be discharged at the end of their term. whatever But, original may be the decision of those there is no Massachusetts heart, no citizen of our com men,
whether
mon
to enlist again, or
country,
who can
fail to
declare
;
nor can I
fail,
as the
representative of the Commonwealth, now and for ever to declare, that all that men could dare, and all that men official
could do, for the cause of their country imperilled, on the field, the Second Massachusetts has dared and has done.
And
now, fellow-citizens, civilians of Massachusetts, thank noble regiment by recruiting its ranks, and marching by side. Fill up to the original one thousand and forty-six,
"
this its
Let at least during this brief furlough, their wasted ranks. five hundred men from Massachusetts return with these two
hundred and twenty-two to the field of war. Thus will we thank the noble and brave for what they have already achieved:
thus
have elected
may we
to remain,
attest
and
our gratitude to those
fight
anew
who
for that standard, so
long as the American flag shall float above the American soil. "
Now, Mr. Commander and
Soldiers of the Second, I have
not attempted by words to declare how deep is the gratitude of the Massachusetts heart toward the living, how sacred our remembrance for the memory of the dead. Brave and true men, lean not on the speech, rely not on the assurance of the lips. Soldiers, you know that from the bottom of her heart, Massachusetts admires, reveres,
and loves you
Colonel Cogswell responded as follows Your Excellency, I cannot find words
all."
:
"
fit
for
my feelings
To
use an expression of your own, no poor power of speech of mine can adequately express my feelings of thankful ness and gratitude to our kind friends that have received us to-day.
here to-day.
But the mind
will
go back to thirty-two months
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SECOXD MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
ago, when this regiment, of which that before you is but a fragment, entered the service of their country. Thirty-two
months ago! and Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, and Gettysburg Thirty-two months ago and Dwight and Savage and Mudge, and that !
!
long, sad
When I say to with the men, experience they with the hardships, sufferings, and dangers that
list
which I
Your Excellency, have had
;
will not recall to-day
!
that these
they have seen and dared,
have
re-enlisted, I
have said
a lifetime in their praise. Let me also say, that, while the Government of our common country has ever been before our eyes, we have ever been mindful of the per
enough
for
sonal kindness, interest, and affection of the Chief Magistrate of our own native State and let me add one more word, and ;
that
is,
Your Excellency, with our ranks
forth again as readily as ever to finish the
filled up we will go work which we have
and which we think, thank God
left unfinished,
!
will soon be
done."
The Governor then thanked
the First Battery, Captain
for their services in firing the salutes
McCartney, and yesterday
;
on Sunday
and complimented them as being one of the
best artillery organizations that has served during the war. The Governor also read a despatch from Captain Adams of the First Cavalry, stating that most
of his
company had
and would soon be home on their furlough. announcement was received with cheers.
enlisted,
re-
This
General Burnside, who had joined the column in House, and had been greeted with an
front of the State
enthusiastic welcome,
was introduced by the Governor,
and received with nine cheers.
He
spoke as follows
:
If I were ever Ladies and Gentlemen and Comrades, an like this of addressing assembly to-day, I should be capable "
unable to do so now, from the fact that my head is almost turned with the kindness I have received since I left the
HOME AND BACK. Governor
room
s
this
My
morning.
215
heart has been
made
proud at witnessing the reception you have had at the hands I am the more happy because you of your friends at home. I am glad to know that the dark, hard so well deserve it. scenes through which you have passed are remembered by your fellow-citizens ; and that there is a recompense of grati
tude and kind feelings in store for all of us who have served I have had the honor of com in the field, when we return.
manding
this
regiment, not immediately in the presence of the when I had command distinct occasions,
enemy, but on two
of the left wing of the
at
army
Harper s Ferry, and once
when you formed a "
portion of the Army of the Potomac. I have followed your history with very great pride and
with very great admiration. You were commanded first by a college mate of mine. passed some three years together I became, at West Point, he being one year my senior.
We
during that association, very much attached to him and neces The sarily followed his regiment with very deep interest. ;
scenes through which you have passed since have necessarily my attention and admiration. Lately we have been
attracted
laboring in the
been
fully
same
field
and we ought
;
recompensed by
to feel that
we have
the success that has attended our
labors in East Tennessee. I,
like you, comrades,
and have been ordered
have come home
to recruit the
to see
my
friends
;
ranks of the regiments
command, to the number of fifty That I propose to try to do. I, like you, return at the proper time to fight again. Let us
that I have the honor to
thousand men.
propose to go determined to sustain, support, and fight flag [pointing to the flag of the
that grand old
for,
regiment] until
we
shall
wave
over every inch of territory that belongs to the Government of the United States. I know that you are as .fixed on that
it
purpose as you can be, and I hope that I tinue in the "
My
same
may
resolution until this rebellion
friends, I cannot find
words
to
be able to con is
crushed.
thank you for the man-
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216
ner in which you have received me. You may be assured that my heart turns kindly toward Massachusetts as well as Massachusetts soldiers.
men
I have had more Massachusetts
proportionately, than men from any other State in the Union. I have always found the men loyal, gal lant soldiers ; and have never called upon them to perform a
under
my command,
duty which they had not willingly and efficiently done.
I
have never seen a Massachusetts regiment turn its back upon the enemy. I have never seen the soldiers or officers of a Massachusetts regiment waver or shake under any has been brought to bear upon them."
trial that
General Burnside then spoke at some length upon At the close, the regiment fell in, and general issues.
marched
to
arms and
Coolidge Block, Court Street, where the equipments were deposited, and the men
were, furloughed for their thirty days.
noble
"The
ovation,"
said the
"awarded by a Second Regiment, Faneuil Hall so unusual "Post,"
yesterday to the
grateful community was characterized by a scene in as to make a marked occasion, even place.
The
galleries
well represented
a
brilliant
:
for that
were crowded, the
fair
renowned sex being
the military occupied the floor
official
cortege
filled
the
;
and All
platform.
around, in festoons, were bright national ensigns that
had seen but peaceful service. By the side of the plat form was the dingy regimental flag which the veterans had borne through the smoke and carnage of tles.
It never fell
bearer, another
and so
it
!
their bat
For, as the death-shot struck one
would rush
to seize
it
as
it
was
was ever borne up and ever borne on.
falling,
It
was
the silent, eloquent, powerful orator of the occasion,
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217
a touching witness of the valor of the dead and of the
The words
living.
were listened
uttered were brief and direct, and
to, as the
solemn silence and
honored dead were named, in
in tears
;
or, as the
heroism was
remembered, they met electric responses. The fervent the brief welcome of the prayer of Dr. Lothrop ;
work done by the and the regiment, by grateful and soldier were feeling and like acknowledgment of the colonel, and their fine escort Then the veterans impressive. mayor
;
the felicitous recital of the the governor
.
left
.
;
.
Their healthy, robust look
the hall.
;
their jaunty
marching and military bearing, indicative of high disci won warm encomiums. There have been pline,
many
occasions of deep interest, but none with
more of
the moral and the sublime than the touching and inspir off of a just
ing rounding
ovation
Massachusetts Regiment in Faneuil
to
the
Second
Hall."
was ardently hoped that the regiment might be recruited to its maximum. The officers were ready to It
enter into the
work
;
and the assurance was given by all moneys needed should
noble and liberal friends that
But
be furnished.
it
was immediately found
orders of the
War
Hancock had
control of enlistments, to
Department
that the
were such, that General fill
up the corps
he was raising. This put an effectual block in the way, which no efforts at the proper quarters could remove. It was a sad result to the regiments but matters were ;
put in such train, that recruits were subsequently raised and forwarded. This effort will be noticed further on.
On Monday
(the
22d), the regiment reported
at
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218
Beach-street barracks.
P.M.,
it left
Boston.
On
Tuesday,
At Albany
Buffalo at half-past eleven, P.M.
left at nine,
;
;
at Louisville
left at
left
Saturday morning,
Monday,
at
Friday, and
at Nashville, seven, A.M.,
half-past four,
left
Cleveland at nine,
at Indianapolis at ten, A.M.,
P.M.
at half-past four;
and
left
morning;
reached Galion at noon, and
A.M., Thursday; half-past three
;
at half-past four,
in the
left
Sunday,
P.M., in execrable
through whose roofs the rain poured steadily ; reached Tullahoma at half-past two, Tuesday morning, and in a drenching rain met the officers of the detach cars
ment
men
left
behind,
who by
the light of lanterns led the
to shelter.
On
men went into camp with who had been moved from
that day the returned
the companies remaining,
Elk Eiver
to
headquarters
;
Tullahoma. also
Here was General Slocum
General Williams
s
s
and General
corps, division, and brigade. Colonel Cogs Ruger s, well was made post-commandant, and (LieutenantColonel Morse being on the staff of General Slocum)
Major Francis commanded the regiment.
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219
XVIII. I
FOR ATLANTA. LIFE was uniform
at
guard-mounting,
was provost
Usual duty went on, and parade. Captain Parker
Tullahoma.
drill,
Quartermaster Sawyer, post quarter Adjutant Fox, post adjutant. Divers dances, several excursions to cave and waterfall, and such like,
master
;
;
varied the
new-comer
monotony
;
while the prisoners tossed each
in a blanket.
The
Christian Commission
meetings were well attended. Everybody got vac because the was cinated, smallpox raging in the post The soldier s graveyard was put in hospital near by. order by the chaplain, by direction of Colonel Cogs well
;
although none of the Second lay there.
a sawmill.
Boards
had conscripted Guerillas made a raid a few miles off,
were tolerably plenty
after the colonel
and tore up the railroad, and shot a few prisoners they had taken. General Slocum had a reception or two.
The Twenty-seventh Indiana came
to
Tullahoma, the up and
other regiments of the brigade being scattered
down.
Colonel Cogswell remained post commandant, when Colonel Colgrove succeeded.
until April llth,
General Grant was in
command
of the Departments
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio, which he had
assumed on the 19th of October, 1863
H. Thomas commanding
the
Army
;
General George
of the Cumberland
(in which was the Twelfth Corps), relieving General Rosecrans. General Thomas, whom the country
the Second
knows,
Army
had seen while under General
General Sherman commanded the
Patterson in 1861.
of the Tennessee.
On
the 12th of March, Lieu-
tenant-General Grant was assigned to the command of the armies of the United States ; and General Wm. T.
Sherman succeeded General Grant in command of the Armies of Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, McPherson was assigned. the 4th of April, the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps
to the last of which, General
On
The order gave
were consolidated.
of
"Twentieth."
command.
the
number
"First"
was soon changed to that General Hooker was assigned to its o
to the corps thus formed, but
it
The corps badge of
the Twelfth
that of
a five-pointed star
was adopted as that of the new on the corps, generous suggestion of officers of the Eleventh. Generals Howard (of the Eleventh) and
Slocum
(of the Twelfth)
were
command, and were assigned
Howard
to the
to
divisions of the Twentieth
General A. S. TV illiams
ment
relieved
to other duty,
from
General
Fourth, in place of Gordon Granger;
and General Slocum
Geary The
thus
The report at Yicksburg. were commanded thus First, Second, General John W. :
;
Third, General Daniel Butterfield.
;
Slocum was a disappoint They had proved his ability.
relieving of General to
his
corps.
FOR ATLANTA. Before his leaving, the
officers
221
of the Second, and of
the other regiments at the post, called upon him to The in the evening of April 7. their respects,
pay
Slocum, who
eral
Gen
band of the brigade gave the music.
excellent
resided in the
summer
residence of
house delightfully situated on the brow soon appeared at overlooking the creek, addressed Colonel Cogswell him, and ex
Judge Catron, of the
hill
the door.
number of
pressed the feelings of the large well, as follows
officers
:
"
The officers of my own regiment, as of those at this post, have desired me to act
General Slocum
well as
many
:
as their representative in expressing to
your retiring from the command of their representative
occasion,
it
is
to
and unpleasant.
gives
me
great
you
this
their feelings
corps.
To
on
act as
pleasure, but, on this
perform a duty which is indeed most sad I cannot tell you with how much regret we
have heard the order that takes you from us as our com mander. An officer who has shown himself so much a soldier in the
camp and on the
field,
and so much a gentleman in
his
command without the bitter and heartfelt regrets of every officer and man in it and I assure you, that, wherever you may go, you cannot go where their blessing will not follow you as long as you live. To bid quarters, as
you have, cannot leave his
;
good bye to you, sir, is to bid good bye to one for whom we have feelings of the highest respect, in whom we have the 1
l
most perfect confidence, and whom we believe to be our tru est and best friend. Words are useless. Your own con sciousness
of having
at
all
times
done your whole
duty
teaches you, that you have won our highest admiration and esteem, and that you cannot leave us without our sincerest regrets
have
;
and our presence here to-night shows you, that we your manly and soldierly qualities.
tried to appreciate
222
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY. good bye, we ask that you
In bidding you
for us our old corps-badge. well,
we
ask that
God s
And, again,
blessing
in
will try to secure
bidding you fare with you."
may always be
Every word was true. The General replied, but it was impossible to reduce to writing the kind response, it was so broken with emotion. Some could see, as the lights flashed
among
the trees, the tears on the
cheek of the brave and beloved leader. the officers
was
all into his
quarters, where the
He
invited
entire evening
socially spent.
A
review took place on Friday, at which the general addressed a few words of parting to the men whom he
had always been proud of
many
hard
the bronzed veterans
to lead,
battlefields.
The departure of General Slocum returned Lieu tenant-Colonel Morse to the regiment.
On
the 27th of April,
row."
two
"Five
days
came orders
to
move
"to-mor
rations, three in haversacks,
and
And
also sixty rounds of cartridges, wagons. and twenty in wagons. The General will be sounded at eight, A.M., to-morrow, and the in
forty in boxes
Assembly stood at
89,
at
nine."
but
came, and with
That noon, the thermometer
it
rained in the night.
it
a regiment to relieve the Second.
"To-morrow"
The regiment broke camp, and at nine, A.M., was on The movement to Atlanta was begun. the road.
Camped that evening at Decherd rain down Moved next day north-easterly ;
;
in the night. in
the
low
ground, and over the rough Breakfield Hill, through maple, hickory, and black oak; halted awhile at the
FOR ATLANTA. site
of the famous unbuilt
223
"University
of the
South,"
and inspected the shattered corner-stone camped a mile or two onward, where Sheridan lay the summer before and experienced a flooding thunder-storm in the ;
;
night.
On the
30th,
moved
early
;
down
a long descent,
a long ascent, and
rained at eleven o clock,
up and steepest roughest of attempted had to be let down by ropes where the w roads, agons then into the beautiful valley of Battle Creek, and it
then
down
the
T
;
camped near the creek, about Mustered for payment port. day,
little
more than
that evening.
The next
three miles brought the troops in
sight of the Tennessee, and, built
eight miles above Bridge
on an apparently partly-
the
regiment followed its course to crossed the Tennessee ; drew rations on
railway,
Bridgeport ; the south bank
kept on until after dark, and camped near Nickajack Cave, which was inspected next morning. ;
McPherson was
at
reached Whiteside.
Bridgeport that day. Assistant
On
the 2d,
Surgeon Nichols was
detailed to the Twenty-seventh Indiana.
On
the 3d,
went by way of Wauhatchie, around the north of Lookout, on a new and roughly macadamized army-
.
road, to three miles south of Chattanooga. On the 4th, passing by the house where John Ross was born,
and resting on the battle-ground of Chickamauga at noon, camped by Gordon s Mills, on the Chicka
mauga Creek.
Our Third Brigade had joined
the 5th, left at half-past six, A.M.
Peavine Church
;
us.
five miles
On found
passed Leet s Mills, and bivouacked, in position, back of Taylor s Tunnel Hill was Eidge. ;
224
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
four miles
the
other
of the
side
hundred men, from the
First
ridge
and seven
;
that
Division,
night
was disputed ground. How ard, Fourth Corps, was moving out towards Tunnel Hill on our left. We were getting near the enemy. On the
picketed the ridge, which
morning of the
Red
6th, the
of the Ohio
Army
Clay, directly north of Dalton
Cumberland
;
the
w as T
Army
near
of the
the Army of Ringgold and westward Tennessee, near and beyond Gordon s Mills.
the
at
;
Sherman had brought
the scattered corps of his
army
together for his great campaign.
The army numbered 98,797 men and 254 guns. The army of the Cumberland, Major-General Thomas, included the Fourth Corps, General teenth, General
John M. Palmer; and
General Hooker; cavalry,
3,828;
Howard
infantry,
the
Four
the Twentieth,
54,568; artillery, 2,377; and 130 guns. The
60,773,
total,
of the Tennessee, Major-General
Army
;
McPherson,
included the Fifteenth Corps General Logan ; part of the Sixteenth, General Dodge ; and part of the Seven ,
teenth,
General Blair;
1,404;
cavalry, 624;
Of
the
;
On
22,437;
artillery,
24,465, and 96 guns.
of the Ohio, was only the Twenty- third
Army
Corps, General Schofield
679
infantry, total,
cavalry, 1,697
the 6th of
;
May,
;
11,183; artillery, 1 13,559, and 28 guns.
infantry,
total,
transportation
was cut down
to
one wagon to each regiment. The original twentyleft five, which home, had, by successive reductions,
1
Sherman and Ms Campaigns,
p. 181.
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225
to the last point, to the great
advantage of cam
paigning.
On the
6th, lay quiet
on the creek,
Faught
s
Creek.
General Hooker was General Thomas came along. himself at Leet s Mills in the morning. On the 7th, A.M.
left at five,
;
took the Alabama
Road
to
Nickajack Taylor s Ridge, and west the advance meeting a slight
trace, then followed that over
to
Trickum
Post-office,
opposition, and
making some
noise with their musketry.
The
in this order
from
corps were
4th, 14th, 20th,
was out
in front.
and McPherson.
left to
right,
Kilpatrick
Rocky Face Ridge, which
by Buzzard
s
23d,
Cavalry
the rebels
Roost Gap, was in sight. (the 8th) public worship was held in the morning, afternoon, and evening. At other hours, the men idly watched the puffs of smoke from the held, cleft
On Sunday
enemy
s
artillery
on
s
,
guns at Buzzard s Roost as they replied to on our left. On Monday, heard heavy firing
both right
and
Newton
left.
s
Division
of the
Fourth Corps carried the ridge, but found the crest too narrow to reach the gorge Geary made a bold push for the summit, but found it too strongly held, and his ;
wounded went along by us. Meanwhile amusing the enemy in front, General Sherman had sent, on that day, McPherson through Snake-creek
Gap upon Resaca
the 9th, but did not occupy.
;
which he came near on
He
fell
back to the Gap,
and the Twentieth Corps was ordered to join him, to be followed by the Fourteenth Corps and Schofield. The Second moved half an hour after midnight, in the 15
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
226
morning of the 10th the gap
;
followed a road in the valleys to
halted in the rain
;
in the afternoon
;
nearly through the gap, and camped.
At
severe rain-storm flooded the valley.
Eemained
went
nine, P.M., a in the
same place on the llth, the remainder of the army the Fourth Corps, which was left in front of (except Dalton) coming through the gap. of
men
A
steady stream
passed on, as they did all the next day.
enemy were moving out of Dalton, and
The
their trains
could be seen from the ridge.
On
the
Second, officer
Captain Howard,
llth,
into
dropped
formerly
He was
camp.
of the
chief signal
of McPherson.
On the
13th, broke
two or three miles.
camp at six, A.M., and moved out The whole army was in the plain
between Snake-creek
Howard
Gap and
Eesaca.
Heard the
was pressing the rebel guns rear above and through Dalton. Firing was also heard noise of
s
as he
That day, went some miles towards Eesaca, and the troops were in position. About five o clock, on the morning of the 14th, there on the
right.
was considerable
firing.
in front all the forenoon.
Brisk skirmishing was kept up
The
rebel
army was
in posi
Camp Creek, and occupying strong works previously built for such an emergency, their left resting on the Austanaula a little west of Eesaca, and their line tion behind
curving again to the river, which makes here a sharp At one o clock, the fire grew furious, and so bend. continued for two hours. McPherson, on the right, was driving Folk s Corps from the hills that commanded
FOR ATLANTA. the
pressing the fire
and
railroad
trestle
bridges,
enemy along
the creek.
At
re-opened with severity.
but McPherson kept the
227 while
At
Thomas was
four o clock, the
sunset
it
was heavy,
The Second,
hills.
in
the
morning, had spent some time in changing position in the afternoon, it had thrown up works, according to ;
orders
;
but
it
was not engaged.
In the early part of
was moved a couple of miles towards the of the line, where the Fourth Corps had been
the night, left
it
Schofield (Twenty-third Corps) had
heavily engaged.
come
in
on the
Corps was next
left,
towards the river
;
the Twentieth
then Howard, with the Fourth Corps then Fourteenth ; and then McPherson. ;
The night was
tolerably quiet
;
;
but the battle-field
was annoying, that indescriba odor in marshy land, after a battle in hot days. The morning of the 15th was also quiet. But in the smell in the low ground
ble
forenoon came an order to send a regiment on reconnoissance. The rebel works were so hidden and complica ted in the position.
woods
For
as to render
it
difficult to
this delicate service, in
the Second Massachusetts
was
know
broad daylight,
selected.
There was a dead silence when the regiment
down knapsacks, and went
their
off into the
laid
woods, double
column on the
centre. Colonel Cogswell put out skir mishers and flankers, and some engineers were with the
They proceeded three-quarters of a mile; discovered what they were sent to ascertain, whether a particular hill was held in force by the enemy, as it
regiment.
was
;
encountered the rebel
s
entrenched outposts, and
SECOXD MASSACHUSETTS IXFANTRY.
228 drew
their fire.
Its result
The
was heard by the brigade. Soon the painful suspense.
volley
was awaited
in
regiment emerged, with two wounded. Butterfield s Division was immediately
ward.
It
was an hour before the
moved
for
The
battle opened.
key-point had been found, a height crowned with a Soon Williams s strong work, and held by artillery. Division was
moved on at The
left
of Butterfield.
the
hill.
on the
Of Williams
right, the
s
double-quick, and joined the attack of the latter was
upon
Division, the 1st Brigade was
2d next, the 3d on the
curved round the base of the
hill.
The
left.
On
line
the left of the
3d Brigade was cavalry, soon replaced by a brigade of 23d Corps. Of the 3d Brigade, the regiments ran 27th Indiana, Second Massa from left to right, thus the
:
chusetts, 3d Wisconsin, 150th New York, 13th New The line was formed, but soon moved on an Jersey.
eighth of a mile to the front edge of a wood,
a field
Connections were kept with standing wheat before it. with Butterfield who was busy on the right, and the brigade again
moved
across the field,
which covered an ascending slope. soon went forward to the skirmish the
enemy pouring out of
their
immediately led his regiment
by the
Second.
fire.
It
The was
rebels
little
met both
into a
wood
Colonel Colgrove line, and discerned
works in
force.
He
the slope, accompanied
The regiments on
forward also, wheeling a the road.
up
and
the
to the right,
lines,
so furious that they
fell
left
moved
and across
and an unexpected back in disorder,
followed by the brigade, and were driven into their
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The brigade again took its position. Twice enemy came out in force; and
works.
at intervals, the
more,
both times were met on the crest, and driven back with slaughter,, leaving their
The
were comparatively few in number, but No officers were killed or illy be spared.
losses
they could
Of
wounded.
was
dead and wounded.
killed
Eowe, of
the
enlisted
Greenough, of
;
C
;
Leary, of
D
;
B
A. (
)
;
and Cronin and Pierson,
Wounded
of I, were mortally wounded.
Morse
men, Morrissey, of F, Aborn and Corporal
and Minor,
of
A
;
not mortally,
Lovejoy and
Kenny (M.), of B; Murray, of C; Leary, Corporal King (O. M.), Pierce (H. S.), Corporal Priest, and Sergeant Thompson, of
(G. O;), of
D
;
Greenwood and Metcalf
E; Bohman and Lawson,
phy (John 1st) and Smith (Wm.), of of I and Springer, of K.
G; Mur
of
H
;
Pierson,
;
That night the Second rested under the slope. The six hundred wounded of the First Division were back the
in
division
hospital,
others of the division
were there
also,
where Surgeon Heath and all night. Kebel wounded
worked
and received the same care as the men
of the division.
In the night there was a sudden outbreak of artillery, it soon ceased. In the morning, it was found that
but
One of Sherman s flanking across the river operations, below, had necessitated their
the rebels had evacuated.
The whole army immediately followed. The moved by different roads, and crossed at different
removal. corps
places.
The Second Massachusetts,
after a blunder of
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
somebody above, who led the division wrong, bent east ward, and crossed the river by a temporary bridge about due east of Eesaca went on to the Coosawattee, and on its northern bank. On the 17th, crossed the camped ;
and marched eight miles towards CassFighting was heard off on the right it was that
river in the rain, ville.
of
:
Xewton
s
Division near Adairsville.
roused at three, A.M.
;
moved
On
at nine o clock
the 18th, ;
halted on
ordered on again, and, by hill, and prepared to camp crooked roads, finished twenty miles, camping north a
;
east of Kingston,
and not
The enemy was
from Cassville.
far
strongly fortified at Cassville, and
Johnston had determined to
occupied that place in force.
risk a battle there, and had ordered all the inhabitants
out of the village.
On
the 19th,
General Schofield was on the Corps, and McPherson
Kingston.
left,
it
was approached.
then the Twentieth
supporting distance near After marching three or four miles through in
woods, the corps suddenly emerged into open ground in front of a range of successive hills and, formed in line ;
of battle, front,
moved forward.
and there was a
Skirmishers were busy in
slight artillery fire.
The corps
pressed on, and drove the rebels out of two or three suc cessive lines of breastworks set,
the troops
came out
among
the hills.
After sun
into a plain in front of the
The village, just back of which were the rebel works. the and those of the Second enemy occupied village, which chanced to be directly in front of the town pressed up to within a few yards of an orchard in which the rebel skirmishers lay.
Firing took place, and on the
left
the
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231
blaze of musketry was decidedly lively, while soldiers were ringing the bell of a deserted seminary just at the Works of rails were hastily thrown edge of the town.
up, and the
men were under
arms.
But, when the sun rose, the rebels had
left
the town.
Johnston, reliably stated, could not depend on his corps commanders, who declared they could hold it is
So he
neither flank.
left in
the night.
General Sherman here gave his army a few days rest, and opportunity to get some supplies. The Second remained at Cassville.
Here the men not
re-enlisting, with seven officers, left
It was a scene of deep emotion comrades separated. Regarding the men leaving, General Williams issued the following
for the North.
caup
wl.en the brave
order
:
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION TWENTIETH CORPS, CASSVILLE, GA.,
SPICIAL ORDERS, No.
May
22, 1864.
21.
[Extract.]
The
officers
and
enlisted
men
of Second Maasaclu:-
Volunteer Infantry whose term of service expires on. the 22d inet. being about to leave the division, the brigadier -^vneraj conmanding embraces the occasion to acknowledge, in an form, the
oficial
superior discipline,
characterized
marked
gallantry, uniform
and constant
good conduct, which have
fidelity to duty,
them during the long period they have been
urder his confmand.
He parts from then} with the deepest regret, and with the nDst cordial wishes for the future prosperity and happiness of eich individual.
The tleir
and sufferings, of and heroic endurance, and of the many great
recollections of their severe trials
patient
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
232
which they have borne a distinguished part during three years of active duty in the field, will prove, he ventures to hope, not only a source of honest pride, but an
battles in
the
endearing incentive to a future life of pure and devoted patriotism, of honorable personal conduct, worthy of the dis tinguished name they have so faithfully won in the cause of union.
By command
of
BRIGADIER-GENERAL A.
S. WILLIAMS, Commanding Division.
S. E.
PITTMAN, Captain and A. A, G.
For was
the few days of rest, General
and about Cassville
at
Cassville Station,
and
and Howard
McPherson
General
miles east of Cassville
had got
Rome
with
;
Thomas s army
General Schofield
;
at
s
s
at
Etowah Bridge
;
Kingston, about eight while General J. C. DaTis
its forts,
at
mills,
and foundries.
The enemy held Alatoona Pass, a formidable positbn on the railway, southward. Sherman determined to turn
it
by a
circuit to the right,
that
is,
westward. He
loaded the wagons with forage and subsistence
for
twenty days, and left the railway on the 23d of Map. General Thomas s army was to go by way of Euharbe
and Burnt Hickory, being the central of the
three
columns.
The Second in
command
left
Cassville
at four, A.M.,
May
2J,
of Lieutenant-Colonel Mors$, and mate
about ten miles in a very hot and dusty day, hearing It crossed the Etowah aboit cannonade.
distant
noon,
on pontoons.
guard
to
the
division
Marched
all
the next day,
ae
ordnance trains, passing ova-
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south side
and lay all night in the rain, on the of Eaccoon Creek, some distance in rear of
the corps.
Started at daylight on the 25th, in the cold
the Alatoona Hills
and wet
;
;
rejoined the brigade
Creek, and went
the division faced about,
the
crossed Pumpkin-vine
;
to within three miles of Dallas,
creek, and moved
marched the
to
where
to the rear, re-crossed
left
to the support of
General Geary. Hooker, with Geary s Division, had encountered the enemy on a parallel road, and had a severe encounter.
He
got his other divisions up from
the other roads, about four P.M., and,
by Sherman
s
made a bold push to secure possession of Newwhere three roads, from Ackworth, Mari Church, Hope hard battle was fought with etta, and Dallas, meet." "
order,
A
Stewart
s
Division of
Hood s
A
Corps, but the enemy was stormy and dark night set in,
covered by earthworks. and Hooker was unable to accomplish his purpose. The Second was not engaged. When it re-crossed
Pumpkin-vine Creek, it was left with a battery, by special detail from General Hooker, to destroy the bridge just crossed, and hold the position against the possible
passage of any of the enemy by that road,
from Dallas.
It
was thus prevented from participating which its division
in the bloody battle of that day, in
suffered severely.
On
the 26th, 27th, and 28th, the regiment remained
same position at the crossing. On the morning of the 27th, it heard heavy firing on the left. Four
in the
teen
recruits
arrived
These were the
first
from Massachusetts
that
day.
instalment of recruits raised by
234
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. In connec
special efforts of friends in Massachusetts.
tion with this effort, in T !N
ew York, warmly
which
paper should
names of only a
records the
it
portion of the subscribers the
F. Oakey, Esq., of
assisted, the following
be preserved, although
To
Wm.
:
Friends of the Second Regiment.
The Massachusetts Second
Infantry Regiment was raised and with the co-operation
in April, 1861, at the suggestion,
of very
many
of our prominent citizens.
It
is
now
the oldest
volunteer organization in the United-States service. Its repu tation for thorough discipline, patient endurance, heroic gal lantry,
and entire
never been
efficiency,
was early acquired, and has
lost.
its great labors and services already ren the dered, regiment has re-enlisted for another term of three years but, in May, when the first term expires, it will have
Notwithstanding
;
only about two hundred
however brisk
it
special stimulus,
may fill its
calls of the President,
as this,
may
officers
and men.
Now,
volunteering,
be in general, will not, without some
The
ranks.
and yet
receive very
little
State
may meet
benefit.
all
the
and others such
this regiment,
This
is
the universal
The organ experience of those acquainted with recruiting. ization and efficiency of this regiment cannot, therefore, be Will not the preserved, without the aid of private enterprise. its history, the dear memories of the brave hearts of glory that have fallen fighting under
its flag, its
value to the service,
has always gained for the State, stimulate its To this should be added the special friends to this work ?
and the credit
it
consideration, that the regiment
is
now with
the
Army
of the
Cumberland, and the only Massachusetts regiment in the The Western regiments, with whom it Twelfth Corps. and it becomes, in some serves, have been recruited largely ;
a matter of State pride, that this representative organiza tion from Massachusetts, should also be recruited. sort,
235
FOR ATLANTA. The most
efficient
way
of accomplishing this work,
is
to
which to pay a small premium, varying in amount, from time to time, but averaging about $20 for each Two hundred recruit, in addition to the regular bounties. raise a fund, with
and
fifty
men
a valuable addition to the regiment would, Shall not that sum, at least,
at this rate, cost about $5,000.
be raised
?
The Treasurer has already
received,
and herewith acknowl
edges, the following contributions, and is happy to state that twenty-five recruits, obtained in the manner set forth, are now in
camp. Contributions
may be sent to ROBERT M. MORSE, Barrister
BOSTON, April Mar.
12,
1,
Beck,
.
.
.
....
S100
.
Wm. F. Oakey,
.
50
24, G. C.
.
25
26,
Ward, L. Tuckerman,
.
.
50
28,
Mrs. G. R. Russell,
.
.
50
29, VV. F.
.
16,
George Ticknor, William Dwight, William Perkins,
.
100
17,
Samuel Frothingham,
25
19,
Wm.
25
On the
Shaw, N.Y. N.Y.
19, F. G. 23,
.
Mountford,
Mar.
50
Joseph Coolidge, S. Frothingham, jr. 15,
JR.
Hall, 7, Court Square, Boston.
1864.
James Savage,
14, Fred.
s
.
.
Gary, N.Y.
Mrs. Gary,
Apr.
1,
Dan
l
.
$50
.
100
.
100
.
100
.
50
.
100
....
G. Bacon, N.Y.
100
100
28th, heavy firing along nearly the whole line.
The regiment was surrounded by
the
wounded of
the
Fifteenth Corps.
On
the 29th, pursuant to orders from division head
quarters, the regiment started back for escort to a train of a
laden
with
Kingston, as
hundred and seventeen wagons, the Twentieth Corps.
wounded men of
After a tedious march over the Allatoona Mountains, reached Kingston at noon on the 31st.
The regiment
remained in camp there until June 4th, when, the wagon-trains of the whole army having been refilled
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
236
with supplies, the Second, with many other regiments, started to guard them back to their commands. On
march back, Captain Crowninshield was wounded by guerrillas, June 6th, at Eaccoon Creek: it was his fourth wound. The regiment reached its brigade on
this
the 8th, which
found in front of the enemy s strong it brought back sixty
it
position on Lost Mountain
:
recruits.
During the absence of the Second, General Sherman s operations, working to the left continually, had turned Allatoona Pass
;
the
enemy, on the 4th, had abandoned New-Hope Church, and moved
their entrenchments at
back
to
Lost Mountain
;
General Sherman had occupied
Ackworth, and reached railway, south of the pass, on the 6th had determined to fortify and garrison the ;
pass as
a secondary base.
Etowah was
the
rebuilding,
The railway bridge over and supplies soon came by
rail.
The army was
mountain chain held by the enemy, in which they covered Marietta. Pine Mountain formed the apex, and Kenesaw and Lost in front of the
Mountains the base of a
enemy had signal
On
each peak, the
the 9th of June,
Sherman moved forward,
ral
On
triangle.
stations.
McPherson
Gene
towards
on the railway Thomas on Kenesaw and Pine Mountains ; and Schofield off towards Lost
Marietta, his right
Mountain,
and In
McCook
this
cavalry on the
;
left,
and cavalry on the right, and communications.
looking to the rear
movement, the Second found
confronting Pine Mountain.
It
itself
formed
on the llth
its
line in the
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woods,
built
heavy breastworks
directly
enemy s batteries, who opened fire. So it was on the 12th. Rained day.
It
the
all
under
was a rainy The night.
ground was a mere swamp. On the 14th, the mud dried somewhat. Firing O from near General Thomas s In the sharp cannonading from Hooker s On and Howard s right, the rebel Polk was killed.
headquarters. left
The enemy left their position on Thomas and Schofield advanced, and
the 15th, steady firing.
Pine Mountain.
found them strongly entrenched on the line of rugged hills connecting Kenesaw and Lost Mountains. At two, P.M.
the Second
,
moved
to
and advanced
the right,
;
but the division (the First) was in reserve, though it had a few wounded, while the Second Division was heavily engaged.
Operations were pushed on the IGth
;
and infantry the lines (includ those of the ing Second) were pushed close to the firing of artillery
heavy
enemy
s
works.
The
;
rebel shells
fell
into the hospital,
and the wounded were sheltered behind the breastworks.
The ence
firing
had hardly ever been equalled in the experi The rebels were forced to regiment.
of the
evacuate on the morning of the 17th. The skirmishers of the Second (with the other forces) advanced, and
drove the enemy into their next line, where the Second halted, and threw up new works. It rained all the 18th :
the Fourth Corps
was
firing,
but there was no general
engagement, and the wounded of the Twentieth Corps were being sent back. It rained all night, and the roads were in a horrible condition. the 19th, had fallen back,
The enemy, on
their centre
(Loring
s)
on
238
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Kenesaw
;
their
(Hood
right
covering Marietta,
s)
their left resting on the Marietta and Canton Road (Hardee s) across the Lost Mountain and Marietta ;
Road, behind Nose s Creek. The Second was moved in doing up, and threw up new works on the 19th, which, First Lieutenant Lord, a young and gallant
was mortally wounded. The position of the Heavy firing on regiment was south of Kenesaw. officer,
The brigade moved about
the 20th, and steady rain.
the
rain
21st,
new works
the
:
On
built.
movement had been
forward,
slightly
fire
just
made fell
and on a division of Schofield on
but,
;
severe repulse, and
and prisoners.
to the
and
right
upon
the division,
He
drove in the
s.
nearing the lines,
fell
About
of artillery and infantry.
when Hood suddenly
skirmishers
changed, and
the 22d, firing as usual.
three, P.M., a very severe
A
was
line
On
works again.
three miles to the right, and built
received
a
back, leaving dead, wounded,
The Second, though
in the first line,
was not engaged, the attack extending not quite far to the right, but it had two men wounded
so in
B; and another. Du ring the 23d, 24th, and 25th, the regiment was undis Gould, of
the skirmish line,
turbed. left,
On
the 26th,
Was
and entrenched.
was a luxury.
On
moved
the 27th, the
of the unsuccessful assault
ment,
having moved in
heavy artillery fire back to yesterday
all s
a short distance to the
near a brook, and bathing
men were
spectators
upon Kenesaw. The regi the morning, was under a
day, but laid low
position.
On
;
at night
the next
went
two days,
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;
but the rebels made an unsuccessful
attack on the Fourth Corps.
There was occasional
firing
of July, Colonel Cogswell,
May
on the 30th.
On
the 1st
who had been away
since
23, returned with near a hundred recruits, and took
command which Lieutenant-Colonel Morse had skil The regiment was in front of fully held in his absence. the
Marietta.
The enemy s
had been turned by McPherson.
left
To
prevent losing communication with Atlanta, the rebels abandoned Kenesaw, and fell back on the 2d ;
and, on the 3d,
Thomas
s
Army
was moved towards the
railway, and turned south towards the Chattahoochie.
The Second moved Marietta
;
rapidly on to three miles beyond
the pickets of the division, under Lieutenant-
Colonel Morse, being pushed forward as skirmishers,
had some brisk fighting position in front of the
During the
;
and, on the 4th,
enemy
the night of the 4th,
enemy
fell
back
s lines
at
moved
into
Smyrna Church.
and morning of the 5th,
five miles to still
another line of
defences, with his flanks resting on the Chattahoochie. The Twentieth Corps advanced (in front of the point
where the railway crossed the river) on the 6th the Second moving over rough roads, and through powerful works deserted by the enemy, and camping in the ;
woods that night. On the * 7th, moved to the left. The weather came on hot. Insects were savage. But Atlanta was in sight.
There was
firing
along the lines on the 9th.
night, Johnston, finding that Sherman had
That secured
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
240
good places of crossing the river, crossed the and left its north bank to the national
three
Chattahoochie
;
whose pickets advanced to the banks. The troops needed rest, and it was allowed.
troops,
berries
Black
Changed camp on the 13th.
were plenty.
But, on the 17th, the Second crossed on pontoons, five Advanced on the miles north of the railway bridge. 18th, through a heavily wooded and hilly country, to near Buckhead, within seven miles of Atlanta, and due
On
north.
the 19th,
the 20th, crossed
marched
it,
under
to Peach-tree
artillery fire,
mile and a half, and went into position,
C, wounded.
All the armies had closed
Creek; on advanced a
Tenney, of
in,
converging
towards Atlanta.
In the afternoon of the 20th, about four o clock, was the bloody battle
from
sallied
his
centre
right
of the
Howard, Williams Williams
s
of Peach-tree
works
s
fell
upon the
of army, comprising of Hooker s, and one of Palmer s. a
severe action, drove the
ments,
and
Division was without cover;
losing five
The enemy
Creek.
in great force,
enemy back
hundred
killed
division
but, after a
to his entrench
The
and wounded.
Second was not engaged, being in the second line but had one officer, Captain N. D. A. Sawyer, severely wounded, and one enlisted man wounded, in the skir ;
it
mish
line.
On
morning of the 22d, it was found that the enemy had abandoned the line of Peach-tree Creek, and fallen back to the line of redoubts which formed the the
immediate defence
of
Atlanta.
The
army crossed
FOR ATLANTA. the creek, and closed in
upon the town,
The Second
the right.
241
Thomas on
built breastworks close to the
Cothran, of A, was enemy, and under his fire. wounded. That day, the enemy attacked the left in force,
and McPherson
fell.
The regiment remained trees occasionally,
in its
works.
Officers climbed
and took a look into Atlanta.
New
the 27th, the Thirteenth
Jersey did a
On
handsome
thing in front of the picket line, capturing prisoners,
and burning buildings. left
of
He
the corps.
Howard
to
felt
On
the 28th, General
Hooker
aggrieved by the appointment
succeed McPherson.
General A.
S.
Williams took command of the corps, to serve until General Slocum, the corps old commander, should
who was immediately summoned from Vicks-
return,
burg.
At daybreak, on the morning of July 30, LieutenantColonel Morse, field officer of the day, surprised the enemy
s
pickets in his front,
and captured seventy-two
to support.
The Second was immediately ordered The regiment moved rapidly forward, occu
pied the
which had just been taken from the enemy,
in their rifle-pits.
hill
and hastily erected breastworks.
This position brought
the regiment within two hundred yards of one of the
enemy
s
forts,
from which a close and hot
fire
was
immediately opened from
artillery, infantry, and sharp shooters. Repeated attempts were made to retake the hill, but the enemy were effectually and steadily
repulsed.
The regiment held the
effectually to the fire.
position, replying After six hours of successful 16
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
242
and
service,
two hundred rounds per man, the
firing
New
Second was relieved by the Thirteenth returned to
its
men
and
killed,
own works,
wounded.
five
It Jersey. of but three
with a loss
Goodwin, of C; Rhoux, of
In these works,
killed,
E; and Lennon,
of I.
Sergeant Reed, of E.
Wounded, Mortally wounded, not mortally, Caffrey, Munson, and Corporal McCawand Sergeant McCaffrey, of I. On the 1st of ley, of E ;
August, Benson, of
I,
was mortally wounded
;
Dillon,
on the 3d, Moran, of C, wounded (by shell) was wounded and on the 14th, Burgess, of H. In of F,
;
;
these works the regiment remained under
Recruits
night, until the 25th.
fire,
came August
day and
9th.
On
the 13th, a large fire in Atlanta.
While become
in
sick
Surgeon Heath, who had indefatigable service, was sent back
these works,
by
his
Faithful to the last, he
to Chattanooga.
worked when
His disease proved fatal, and One Chattanooga on, the 28th of August.
he should have rested. he died
at
of the best surgeons in the army,
"a
faithful, conscien
of superior qualifications," said his country s he wore himself out
tious, efficient officer, "
the official report, service.
in"
The regiment has met with no
its experience."
His
sick in front of Atlanta, says,
other officers
men
came
heavier loss in
made while
last entry in his diary,
to see
me
Cogswell and he died,
"Colonel
to-day."
When
of the Second, hardy and true, shed tears.
On
the 25th of August, in the course of
operations
on the
Corps moved back
Atlanta
railways,
the
to the Chattahoochie
:
Sherman s Twentieth
the Second
FOR ATLANTA. was stationed on that
On
in a fort
243
which covered the railway bridge
river.
the 26th, General
command
of
along the
Slocum reached the corps,
in
which he had been
lines,
Riding replaced. he was received with the greatest
enthusiasm.
Thirty recruits came on the 31st.
About midnight,
on the 1st of September, explosions were heard in Atlanta. Whether it was an attack or an evacuation
was unknown. the
latter.
Keconnoissance discovered that
The Second Division entered
the morning.
And
setts
with
city
entered,
it
was
the city in
about dark the Second Massachu
music
playing;
camped
in
the
park, and Colonel Cogswell was appointed post-
commandant of Atlanta.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
244
XIX. TO THE SEA.
THE
Second found
In
rest in Atlanta.
this brilliant
campaign, possibly Sherman s greatest, the army had encountered an active enemy, led by the greatest General of the rebel armies
had found
;
fortifications all
way from Chattanooga had been in an enemy s country, at an immense distance from any possible
the
;
and had experienced the severest hardships and The Second had been in a continuous exposures.
help
;
movement of a hundred and twenty-nine had been under the enemy s fire and had acquitted itself in a
days.
It
for successive weeks,
way
suited
to
its
record.
Colonel Cogswell was post-commandant at Atlanta, and acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the com 1 Lieutenant-Colonel Morse was manding General. returned by General Slocum, to the position of provost-
marshal, and Lieutenant
Major Francis was ral Williams.
1
Me Alpine
was
his assistant.
inspector, on the staff of Gene Adjutant Fox was post-adjutant. The still
Conversation of the writer with General Sherman.
TO THE SEA.
245
command
of the regiment devolved upon Captain and was in good Hands. Brown, The regiment was provost-guard. Its duties were to arrest all offenders patrol the streets, enforce order, all
guard
;
public and private property, seize property and in general to do all the duties ;
contraband of war
The
of such a work.
formed with alacrity and the
and
Ryder,
In these duties,
faithfulness.
Massachusetts,
Thirty-third
was per
labor, often arduous,
Lieutenant -Colonel
Lieutenant -Colonel Doane, and the One Hundred and Eleventh
afterwards
commanding
;
Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas M. Walker
commanding. "The
upon
colonel commanding," Sept. 3,
the individual honor of each
regiment in the prompt, soldierly, tory discharge
of
its
1864,
man
"calls
to assist the
faithful,
and
satisfac
The appeal was
duty."
well
answered.
General Sherman arrived on the 7th, and already foreshadowed his determination to order all the inhabi tants north or south.
Rough and Ready and
this necessary
Truce was established around
Station on the 12th, for ten days,
measure was accomplished.
Perfect order was speedily secured. the bells rang for church, and
day
A the
at
all
was
On
the llth,
as quiet as
Sun
home.
curious order
18th:
"No
was issued from higher powers on
lumber"
to
be
"brought
into
camp
from any buildings torn down without leave from proper authority."
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
246
On
the 20th, the First Division
General Slocum.
Sherman
as
The troops
they passed
Division was reviewed
was reviewed by
heartily cheered General
his
The Second
quarters.
on the 25th, and the Third
on the 26th. The exchanged officers from and Ready paid General Sherman a visit on the Rough 28th, accompanied by the band of the Thirty-third
Division
Massachusetts
and the General made a
;
characteristic
speech.
On
the 29th, Forrest
on the road
in the rear,
was reported as doing damage and troops were sent to look
him up.
General Sherman
army on
the
left
with the bulk of the
4th of October,
only the Twjentieth
Corps and scattered detachments remaining. Half of the corps was at that time at work on the new line of fortifications.
The regiment was
successfully photographed on the
19th of October and also the colors
;
the officers, also,
on the next day. And rumors kept coming of rebel operations on a small scale.
On
the
1st
notified that he
of November,
was
to
Colonel
Cogswell was
have charge of the destruction
buildings and works of any military importance. Lieutenant-Colonel Morse was to assist, with Lieutenant-
of
all
Colonels
Walker and Doane.
Inspections were
imme
Walls and chimnies were undermined, Powder bags were prepared by explosion.
diately made.
ready for Lieutenant-Colonel Morse,
who
cessful experiment with
small
a
tried a perfectly suc
house.
Operations,
however, were temporarily suspended, by order, on the
TO THE SEA.
On
6th.
247
the 7th, a communication
came from General
Slocum, that Captain Poe, chief engineer of the mili tary Division of Mississippi,
kept loading and leaving for days. the llth, there was decided excitement caused by
details.
On
Trains
fires set in all
by
On
Patrols were enlarged,
parts of the city.
The
and vigilance doubled. set
would have charge of the
Colonel Cogswell to furnish the necessary
destruction,
fires
were supposed
to
be
citizens.
Poe began the work of destruc down round houses, and tearing up the tion, knocking rails. The engineer regiments, Missouri and Michi did the Second patrolling. Most of the work, gan, the 12th, Captain
No
the buildings destroyed were battered down. that night.
On
The same work was continued on
the 14th, General
Sherman
arrived.
fires
the 13th.
The depots
and other buildings were fired in the afternoon. On the 15th, the Twentieth Corps moved out.
The
Fourteenth Corps came about noon. The business part of the town and many dwellings were in flames, "the sight
perfectly
started
magnificent."
on the 16th.
until all other troops
The
The Fourteenth Corps
brigade, which was
had gone,
noon (the Second Massachusetts being the which left Atlanta) in its ruins.
The campaign
to the sea
left
behind
the city in the after
left
last
regiment
had begun.
Changes had taken place. General Ruger had left the brigade on the 9th, being assigned to command of a Corps Lieutenant Binney In the regiment, in addition to the
division of the Twenty-third
accompanied him.
:
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248
line officers
who
left
on the 23d of May, Lieutenant
Lundy resigned, and Quartermaster Sawyer. To fill the vacancies, promotions had been made as follows, to lieutenancies (passing over the second lieutenancy), with the date of muster, which does not really tell when first
the officers had
begun
geant Howes mustered
their duties
:
Quartermaster-Ser
June 28
in as first lieutenant,
;
Sergeant-Major Eichardson, same date; Jesse Eichardson and Wm. T. Me Alpine, July 1 Jed. C. and Samuel Storrow, for Thompson, Aug. 11 ;
;
merly a lieutenant in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts, in Atlanta on the 25th of October. Eichard Pendergast, promoted,
Several
was absent wounded.
hundred enlisted men had been received.
They were but a fraction of the eight hundred and assigned
seventy-five
to
the
regiment,
the
others
Of the three hundred having deserted before joining. and forty actually received, more than a hundred had Some had gone to the These men doubtless never
deserted on the road to Atlanta.
enemy, some
to the rear.
intended to be sent to the front, but failing of oppor to escape on the road, deserted from the
tunities
regiment.
The
recruits,
majority of them Dutchmen, though
"a
desertions
were confined entirely to
of them were Americans and
New-York
Seven of the deserters were taken, but the sentence was death
to
;
tried,
City
many
ruffians."
and condemned
finally
commuted
to
imprisonment at Nashville.
Many of the recruits made faithful and brave soldiers. On the 8th of August, after the fightings, the colonel
TO THE SEA. had mentioned them in an order
249 "
:
The
colonel
com
manding takes this occasion to congratulate the regiment its cool and admirable behavior in the action of the
for
30th of July. Considering that there were many re . of were never under fire before, whom cruits, many .
.
the conduct of the recruits in that action shows that
and coolness
their bravery
is
satisfactory.
.
.
The
.
old
men
of the regiment need no congratulations." Colonel Hawley was in command, as yet, of the Third Wisconsin. Colonel Colgrove 1 was no longer
with
the
severely It is
Twenty-seventh
wounded
Indiana.
He
had
been
in front of Atlanta.
not the object of this record to repeat the history
That belongs to others. The move ments of the Second are all which it is proposed to of the campaign.
follow.
On Nov.
evening when
the Ifi,
it
the
Second
left
marched through Decatur and
Atlanta, five miles
beyond, and joined the rear of the Fourteenth Corps
The moonlight night. next day, passing through Latimer and Lithonia, it ten
at
1
o clock
of
a
fine
was born in Steuben Co., N.Y., May 24, 1816; son of Elizabeth (Smith) Colgrove. When twenty-one years of age, he went to Winchester, Indiana, and studied law; and was admitted to Silas Colgrove
Andrew and
Was in the lower house of the Indiana Legislature, three practice in 1839. terms (six years), and was prosecuting attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit five years. He entered the army in the three-months service as Lieu tenant-Colonel of the Eighth Indiana, and was in the battle of Rich Mountain. When the Twenty-seventh Indiana was raised, he was appointed His bravery and energy were established on colonel, Aug. 29, 1861.
many
battle-fields
:
he was severely wounded
brevetted brigadier-general.
in front of Atlanta.
He was
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
250
marched sixteen miles to Conyers. The railway was demolished by the engineers as the troops advanced. Cotton presses and houses were also destroyed. On sending Captain Brown, with the two right the regiment moved at nine, companies, out foraging, A.M. ; reached Yellow Eiver at three, P.M. crossed it on the 18th,
;
pontoons, and camped on the east side, guarding while the pontoons were taken up. The foragers came in with two days rations of sweet potatoes, a barrel of
The 19th was rainy. syrup, and considerable meat. The regiment marched through Covington, and crossed the Ulfofauchee- River, destroying the bridge behind;
waited for the Fourteenth Corps to get out of the way, and then went three miles to Newbern. On the 20th, the regiment leading the brigade, miles.
marched about sixteen
D
and G, were foraging, Captain Parker, with in at noon with a load of sweet potatoes.
and came
Serge ant-Maj or Miles was missing. He was taken prisoner at a time when the rebels were hanging prison ers, but he fortunately escaped in a few days, and returned to the regiment. On the 21st, a cold, rainy at the moved seven, A.M. ; left the Four day regiment ;
teenth Corps at Eatonton Factory, and crossed Little
River.
On
the 22d, passed through
Eaton ville Village,
crossed the Little River again on pontoons, and at
Meriw ether.
part of the
On
it
rejoined
its
camped
corps, which was
left
wing. the 23d, reached Milledgeville at eleven, A.M.
crossed the in
Here
camp.
;
Oconee River, and joined its own brigade Marched at daylight on the 24th, and
TO THE SEA. Hebron.
reached
"
"
Thanksgiving
251
Had Plenty of sweet potatoes. the evening, Colonels
festivities in
Carman, Hawley, and Stevenson, dining quarters of the Second.
On
at the
head
the 25th, the regiment
went out with a foraging party, but was stopped Buffalo Creek, and ordered back on account of er s Cavalry.
The
at
Wheel
troops crossed after a short skirmish,
and camped about three miles beyond. On the 26th, was in and the brigade skirmished into San advance, ders ville, driving the rebel cavalry before
town
into
obstacles.
in line of battle, tearing its
it.
Went
way through
In the afternoon, marched to
Serrill s
all
Sta
tion, and destroyed a mile or two of track. Marched, a the next to round-about Davisboro Sta road, by day on the Koad. Central were Sweet tion, Georgia potatoes
plenty, and a great deal of cotton
the 28th,
out
On
was destroyed. On to Spear s Turn
marched along the railway
the division destroyed the road for that distance.
:
the 29th, destroyed seven miles of railway,
On
burnt a large amount of bridge timber.
and
the 30th,
crossed the Ogeechee four or five miles south of Louis ville,
on an old wagon-bridge, and camped about three Joined the Third Division with the
miles beyond.
wagons. Kilpatrick was reported to have been forced back from Waynesboro The division moved about .
noon on the
1st of December, following the Second and marching eleven miles through some awful swamps and mud-holes reached camp at mid
Division,
;
night.
The Second was another hard day with
wagons, not reaching
camp
till
ten, P.M
;
the
passed through
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
252
some
fine plantations
near Birds ville
weather
;
warm
and pleasant as June.
On
the 3d, the brigade left about eleven, A.M.
ited the Millen prison-pen,
Eight
reported.
and found
men were found
it
as
;
dead, and unburied in
The regiment camped after a march of twelve miles. The regiment led the corps on
their huts.
or
4th
made about
;
vis
bad as ever
ten the
fourteen miles, crossing four or five
and camped near Hunter s Mills. Heard guns, which the citizens said were fired at Charleston, sev creeks
;
camp, on the 5th, until the Second and Third Divisions passing;
enty-five miles away. six, P.M.,
Lay
in
had a rough night, roads bad, and being behind the whole train, got into camp at half-past two, A.M.
Marched again
On
P.M.
swamp,
at nine o clock,
the 7th,
and camped
at seven,
went through several miles of pine
crossed Turkey Branch about eight, P.M., and
camped near
about eleven o clock.
Springfield
Day
rainy, and many of the wagons had to be pulled out of the mud by the men. On the 8th, all wagons were left in
charge of the Third Division, except ambulance Marched about ten miles,
and headquarter wagons.
the regiment in rear of division structed with trees felled
On
the 9th,
moved
the roads were ob
at seven, A.M.
sand road after a mile or two. inspection,
;
by the rebels. ;
struck a good
Halted, and had an
and renewed ammunition.
About
fifteen
came upon a rebel work mounting The two guns. brigade was sent to get on its flank and miles from Savannah,
rear
;
the position
was
carried,
and the regiment camped.
TO THE SEA.
Moved
on the 10th, meeting with no and struck the Charleston and Savannah rail
at seven, A.M.,
opposition
way
253
;
The brigade was
about ten miles from Savannah.
In the afternoon, put to work destroying the railway. Rebel batteries were en it was moved to the front. countered about four miles from Savannah, and the brig ade went into camp, in line of battle, about half a mile
from the enemy
s
works.
The next morning, and Seventh
New
the Second and the
York, under Colonel Cogswell, were
ordered on a reconnoissance in front. rebels in a line of
One Hundred
works on the other
They found
the
side of a flooded
The line was moved rice-swamp, and then returned. forward on the morning of the 12th. There was can left and right. Forage and rations were That morning, Battery I, First New- York Ar captured a gunboat on the Savannah River. The
nonade on the short. tillery,
next day, Fort McAlister was captured, and the was coming up. The army had found the sea.
On
the
cross to sin.
15th,
in
the
orders
afternoon,
fleet
came
to
Argyle Island, and join the Third Wiscon
Crossed with considerable difficulty on flatboats,
getting aground, and waiting for the tide
camp on the island about ten, P.M. remainder of the brigade crossed.
On
A
;
went
into
the 16th, the
battery on the
shore was
annoying, stopping the rice-mill, and forcing the troops to lie all day behind a dyke.
opposite
A
gunboat was shelling the huge mail was received.
On
line also.
The next day, a
the 19th, the brigade crossed the river at day-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
254
light,
the Third Wisconsin in
under Colonel Hawley,
advance.
A landing was
secured without loss of
The brigade advanced about
life.
three miles, securing
good and steadily driving the enemy. In the after noon, the rebels showed considerable force, and opened fire of shell from two guns. They charged, also, four positions,
companies of the One Hundred and Seventh New York, but were repulsed. The brigade had a section of a battery.
Before daylight of the 20th, it had This position seriously threat
thrown up breastworks.
ened the only rebel line of retreat from Savannah. There was heavy firing in front of Savannah and the ;
enemy appeared
to be evacuating the city,
by the ap
pearance of the wagons.
About
seven, A.M., Dec. 21, the regiment received
Savannah had surrendered.
orders to recross the river.
The regiment (excepting Companies C and A) and The the artillery crossed safely to Argyle Island. enemy then pressed
C
and
A)
the remainder of the brigade (with
so closely, that
were on the island.
A
it
was
ten, P.M., before all
heavy wind prevented any
The crossing from the island to the Georgia shore. Second attempted it, but was blown a mile down the river
upon Hutchinson s
in crossing the brigade.
Island.
About
The 22d was spent four, P.M., the cross
ing having been completed, the brigade marched until the right very near ten, P.M., and went into camp, the river.
The night was very
The next day, built.
a
camp was
Eations were scarce,
cold.
laid out,
which was soon
during the fortnight, re-
TO THE SEA. lieved
by a load of oysters,
31st, just after left,
the
"muster,"
but
"small,
orders
255
On
good."
came
to
move
the
to the
Third Division being ordered over into
South Carolina
:
a good
camp was
lost in
exchange for
a poor one.
On
was reviewed by The day was fine and
the 30th, the Twentieth Corps
General Sherman in Savannah.
warm.
Thus the year ended.
closed.
Cutting loose
The march
from
its
base
to the sea ;
had
traversing an
enemy s country over three hundred miles ; with less than half-rations of coffee, sugar, and salt, with but onesixth rations of bread,
making up
deficiencies
from the
sweet potatoes, syrup, corn meal, beef cattle, sheep, the poultry, and other provisions of the country, had won the honor of Sherman s army imperishable
march
to the sea.
The
losses of the
Second had been
only nine prisoners, and three wounded.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
256
XX. THROUGH THE CAROLINAS.
ON in
the 1st day of January, 1865, the regiment
camp
clear
a mile from Savannah.
and
On visited
But
cold.
the 14th,
it
was the
two former
was
still
The new year came last
enlisted
in
year of the war. men of the Second
camp, Major Nutt and Lieutenant Ellsworth, of They had proved their
the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts. training.
On
the 16th, Colonel Cogswell, brevetted brigadier-
general,
made
He
a parting address to the regiment.
had earned promotion, of which a brevet was a scanty From April, 1861, he had been in service and grade. ;
for
most of the time
after the battle of
Antietam had
commanded the regiment. He was assigned to com mand of the Third Brigade in the Third Division of the Corps.
Lieutenant Storrow went with him as aid.
General Cogswell
s
parting address was as follows SAVANNAH,
To
the Officers and Enlisted
Men
:
GA., Jan. 16, 1865.
of the Second Massachusetts Infantry.
In leaving the command of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, the undersigned takes this occasion to express his regrets at the separation.
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS.
257
been with you three years and eight months, most of the many campaigns that have added so through much glory and renown to your name and fame. We have shared together most of those severe battles that have cost I have
heroic lives, and have assisted so
us so
many brave and
much
in giving victory to our
you now
arms.
and I another post of duty cannot but feel, from the bottom of my heart, the deepest sorrow at parting from so old, brave, and well-tried a I leave
for
;
Your good command, and one that I love so much. name is known, and will be remembered whenever the Potomac, or the campaigns of Sherman, are
battles of the
read.
The
battles
from Winchester
patriotism and zeal
;
and the
to
Atlanta attest
your
forty graves of Gettysburg,
your unflinching bravery and heroic daring. No one who has been with you from the beginning, or who properly appreciates the honor of belonging to the regiment, can leave you but with sorrow from the fact that he is no longer to be one among you. By a careful and prompt obedience to orders, by your soldierly conduct and bearing, by your regular and sys
tematic discipline, by your bravery on the
your
field, and by have gained the confi you with whom and under whom you
faithful attention to duty,
dence and respect of all have served, and made for yourself a history that will be
remembered when we
all shall have passed away and remember, that it is by reason of your discipline and conduct, and attention to duty, that you have done this, and whatever you are or may hope to be in the future, is and will be attributable to this, and this alone. That the same name and record, as yet untarnished and unequalled, may attend you in the future that has
in the past, late
is
;
the best and most earnest wish of your
commander. 17
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
258
%
Whatever of do
best
my
faults are
for
mine,
at
have tried to
least I
your welfare and comfort, and for the
honor of your organization. Wherever I may be called, no greater honor can await me than that of having belonged to the Second Massa chusetts
and, wherever I am, my wishes and that in always be with you. I am
Infantry will
;
thoughts happy my successor you have an officer so eminently qualified to lead and command you on the field, so ably to care for
and instruct you
in
camp.
WILLIAM COGSWELL, Brevet Brigadier-General U.S. Vols.
Lieutenant
-
Colonel Morse took
command
of the
regiment which he was henceforth to lead until (save while disabled by wounds) the end of the war, wisely, bravely, and skilfully to close a line of commanders,
Colonel Hawley, the able leader of the Third Wisconsin, took command of the as satisfactorily as
The
it
opened.
was
by General Jackson, and Brigadier-General A. S. Williams commanded the The corps was in the left wing, under General corps.
brigade.
division
led
Slocum.
On
15th of January, some parts of the army
the
On
had moved.
the 17th, the Second, in
its
division,
crossed the Savannah on pontoons, and marched eight miles
up
the*
into the old
bank of the
river,
and went
for the night
camps of the Third Division.
The cam
paign northward was begun.
On the
18th, the regiment
Hardeeville. deeville,
On
moved seven
miles towards
the 19th, seven miles through
and camped
at
Purysburgh,
at the
Har-
steamboat
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. The steamer
landing on the river.
259
"Pontiac"
came up,
and two transports with rations. Heavy rain. Rain the roads and country for twenty miles on the 20th were under water rain on the 21st, and ditched camp :
;
;
On
rain on the 22d.
Maun
day Surgeon Curtis E.
that
joined the regiment, taking the place of the la
mented Heath,
Assistant-Surgeon Nichols declining promotion, to be surgeon in the Third Massachusetts
Surgeon Tracy, of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, had been assigned to duty with the On the 23d, rain, with a regiment for a few days.
Heavy
Artillery.
on the 24th, clear and cold on gleam of sunshine the 25th, cloudy and cold. In this period, from the ;
19th, the weather
;
was
severe.
The
river banks
were
many places camps were very wet, and the troops suffered much from exposure. overflowed in
On
the
:
and windy day, the regiment marched about four and a half miles up the river, on the 26th, a cold
the Sister s Ferry
On
Road.
the 27th, eleven miles, on
obstructions on the route not so
the Robertville Road,
Forage plenty. On the 28th, counter marched back to the cross roads, and about half a mile
numerous.
towards Sister
s
Found
Ferry.
the road impracticable.
Countermarched again, and went towards Robertville about five miles. The road was obstructed by felled trees, rail-barricades,
after ville,
&c.
exchanging shots. about five miles.
:
On
the
enemy
the 29th,
s
scouts retired
went
The brigade was
to
Robert
in advance,
and the Third Wisconsin drove a regiment of Wheeler s Cavalry out of town on the run, themselves losing three
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
2(50
Camped on Sister s Ferry Eoad in posi The 30th, fair and cold also the 31st. Forage
or four men. tion.
of
;
all
On
kinds plenty.
Feb.
1,
brigade
was had,
drill
under Colonel Hawley.
The army now marched
ment
cut loose from the river base, and
Robertville, Feb.
left
ing the
The
South Carolina.
for the heart of
at
2,
D
Company
ammunition-train,
regi
nine, A.M., guard
foraging
;
marched twelve miles and camped near Lawtonville. Plenty of potatoes, and some pork. On the 3d, moved in
at daylight, brigade
Seventh
New York
branch of
Duck
Men
dant.
advance,
leading
Creek.
filled their
and sweet potatoes.
;
One Hundred and
made about
Forage of
all
haversacks with
On
ten miles, to a
kinds was abun salt, fresh
pork,
the 4th, brigade in the rear,
guarding wagons over a bad road, changing by-and-by two miles of Allen-
to good, about ten miles, to within
dale Post-office
;
On
camping about nine, P.M.
the
off at seven, A.M., through and a cross-road to within two miles of Allendale, by Beaufort s Bridge roads good First Brigade in ad
up
5th,
at half-past five;
;
;
vance, Third following. the 6th,
moved
;
at
march of eleven cold
7th,
the
foragers missing.
at eight o clock, cold
wagons through a Salkehatchie
Some
swamp noon
and wet
left
the
moved
regiment the advance
guarded
a mile wide, and across the train,
and
finished a
miles, to near Duncanville.
and rainy;
;
On
On
the
at half-past six, A.M.,
of the corps
;
struck
the
Charleston and Augusta railway about half past four, On P.M. and camped on the north side of the road. ,
261
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. the 8th,
track;
moved
"quite
camped
up the
at half-past six, A.M., tearing
an interesting
operation,"
Graham s
at night at
says a diary
;
Station, in the woods,
having spoilt three miles of railway-track. The 9th was cold, with a snow-squall; inarched at eight, A.M., by road near railway, through Black well s Station, in
swampy ground, and made about
On
agers quite successful.
For
fifteen miles.
the 10th, marched at ten,
A.M., guard to brigade train, to near Williston s Station, and covering flank, while the rest of the brigade was
destroying railway
;
countermarched about three miles,
and camped near the railway. On the llth, went to work destroying railway marched at half-past nine, ;
branch of the Edisto
A.M., to a after
much
delay,
it
reaching
at
Duncan
s
Bridge; crossed
at three, P.M.,
and the adjacent swamps, and reached camp near the north side, about nine, P.M. Heard artillery firing it
somewhere.
On
days."
division
Three days rations issued, the 12th,
moved
wagon-train, ten
"
to last eight
at eleven, A.M., in rear of
miles,
to
near the north
branch of the Edisto River, camping two miles from s Bridge. on the 13th, Crossed the a Edi|to cold and marched about five miles towards fair, day,
Jones
Columbia. The enemy Foraging party successful. were numerous on the flanks, skirmishing with the for agers.
On
the 14th, cold, cloudy, and rain
after
noon
;
moved, about nine, A.M., a mile or two to cross-roads, where the brigade went into position to cover the road while the corps passed.
At
three, P.
M.,
fell
in at
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
262 the rear
moved on Lexington Court-house Road, and
;
camped
fire
Artillery
Augusta and Columbia Road. Enemy s cavalry close on
crossing of
at
on the
left.
the flanks, so that the foraging party did not get
much.
On the 15th, cloudy and cold; marched at noon, with the wagons roads bad, and bridges burnt by the enemy. Camped, about midnight, a mile from Lex ;
ington Court-house.
Foraging party got nothing that On the 16th, moved on the day, poor country. Columbia Road, about half-past seven, A. M., Third
Division in advance.
Heard
firing,
advance reach
ing Congaree River, and shelling the town to dislodge
Wheeler
camped about three miles from the On the river, having marched about seven miles. marched at 17th, eight, A.M., guarding wagons for two hours then lay all day in a muddy cornfield, s
Cavalry
;
;
and wagons, all massed ; at ten, P.M., crossed the Saluda on pontoons, and camped. Columbia was occupied by the right wing. Foraging artillery,
infantry,
party was permanently organized under Captain Brown. Procured one day s rations of potatoes, and fresh beef
was
issued.
On
all
day; moved
at four,
Di
P.M.,
passed burning buildings, woods on and the usual work of the advance in South Caro
with the wagons fire,
lina
the 18th, the Second and Third
were passing
visions
;
made seven
miles.
Foraging party got nothing no rations issued, and the regiment very short of food. ;
On A.M.
;
Alston
the 19th, a very fine day, left
camp
;
at eleven,
marched with wagons about four miles to near Received some meat Ferry, and camped.
s
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS.
263
from foraging party on the road, and at night the The men had had party brought in a day s rations. nothing to eat since the morning of the day before. The Fourteenth Corps being in advance, the country
On
was well eaten up. marched seven, A.M.
the 20th, left at half-past
Ferry, and crossed Broad River on pontoons, and made about six miles on The Fourteenth Corps had the Winnsborough Road.
Alston
to
;
s
Rolling country, better looking, and On the 21st, on the road at ten,
gone
to the left.
more
thickly settled.
Marched A.M., with wagons; division in the rear. about ten miles, through Winns borough camped two :
miles beyond the town. successful
agers
For
Good-looking country. days meat and one
four
;
day s marched
On 22d, cloudy and cold, with train, at ten, A.M., seventeen miles over hilly the
potatoes.
roads, to
Rocky Mount
Post-office,
Wateree River.
P.M., near branch of the
brought
at
at ten,
Foragers
The 23d was cloudy and
in plenty of meat.
Marched
cool.
and camped
six,
half-past
A.M.
;
crossed
the
main branch of the Wateree on pontoons, and marched three miles beyond. Passed General Sherman s head quarters.
On
Rained
all
night.
the 24th, rained
all
day.
Moved
went about a mile on the wrong road took
another
;
ran
into
Fifteenth
at seven, A.M.
;
turned back and
;
and
Seventeenth
Corps; and went into camp about eleven, A.M., in a hollow.
Lay
all
the rainy 25th in camp, waiting for
movements, of other troops.
Lieutenant J. C.
son put in charge of foraging party.
On
Thomp
the
26th,
264
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
ready to move at nine, A.M. P.M., in rear of
wagon
train.
did
;
Went
move about
five,
about seven miles
on very muddy roads, towards Hanging-rock Post-office, and camped at eleven, P.M. Foraging party did not
come
On
in.
the 27th, fair, with slight rain in the af
Marched
ternoon.
rock Post-office
at half-past six, A.M., to
crossed
Hangingand
Creek,
Hanging-rock camped, having made two miles and a half. Foragers On brought in two days rations of meal and bacon. the
w hich was
payment
;
with the wagons ; crossed Little made about eight miles of road, very
;
in spots.
March
1,
about
twelve
camped.
marched
rainy;
advance of division
On
for
at four, P.M.,
Lynch s Creek bad
rainy, mustered
T
28th,
marched
;
crossed
;
miles
over
at
Lynch
s
Creek
sandy mules and
in
the
made
;
roads,
level,
Foragers brought
in
seven, A.M.,
and
horses.
moved at seven, A.M., First Brigade Third Brigade next crossed Black Creek, and moved on Chesterfield Road to within three miles the 2d, rainy
;
in advance,
of that place.
;
The advance had
The regiment turned
ing.
to occupy a bridge over
quite heavy skirmish
off to the left of the
Thompson
s
town
Creek, which, after
some skirmishing with the enemy, was done by Captain Brown. Threw up rail breastworks, and held the position.
came the
in,
3d,
Had marched
twenty-one miles. Foragers with plenty of meal, flour, and bacon. On misty,
B
rainy
;
Captain Parker,
with
Com
and G, went out on reconnoissance, and The regiment captured bacon, fodder, and animals. panies
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. re-crossed the bridge,
ing a mile beyond.
265
and crossed the other, camp
Two men
of the Thirteenth
New
Marched Jersey were captured close by the pickets. crossed at three, P.M., through Chesterfield; Thomp son
s
Creek on the lower bridge
marched about a
;
Cheraw
mile further on the road leading to that
Cheraw had been taken by the
turned back,
and camped.
heard
wing
;
Discovered cotton and
On
corn buried in a family graveyard.
warmer; marched
right
;
at three, P.M.,
the 4th, rainy,
on Sneedsboro Road,
seven miles, to within two miles of Peedee River, over roads bad in places, and camped near the line between
North and South Carolina.
On
Wagons brought
in flour
camp had inspection of arms. Heard explosions at Cheraw. Massachu setts officer, escaped from rebel prisons, joined the and hams.
the 5th, in
;
A
On
the 6th, a fair, cool day moved at marched on a plank road to Cheraw, and about three, P.M., into town, in column by divisions, with music rested in the main street until half-past
regiment.
nine, A.M.
;
;
;
eight, P.M.
The
delays, caused by the breaking of the were improved by making fires and get ting supper, which left the town-pump without a fence, and Mrs. Lincoln s brother without a buggy another
bridge in part,
:
In the evening, the escaped officer came into camp. crossed the Peedee on a pontoon bridge, regiment marched five miles on the Fayetteville Road, and
camped an hour miles.
On
after
midnight, having made fifteen
the 7th, marched at seven, A.M. (Second
Division in advance, First following)
;
made about
fif-
266
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
teen miles, and camped near an unfinished railway, the Florence and Fayette. The sandy roads were
good, through a rolling country, wooded with pine. The foragers went to Rockingham ; with others, cap tured the place, and brought back bacon. The 8th
was very rainy
marched
;
at eight, A.M., First Division
advance (the brigade being in the rear with wagons) through pine woods, thirteen miles. The Fourteenth in
,
Corps was on the same road, which occasioned delays but got into camp about
On
six,
;
P.M.
moved with wagons at seven, and A.M., through pines, by rosin pits. The country was deluged with water. Crossed swamps and the the
9th, rainy
Lumber River in water,
and
;
;
corduroyed the road, up to the knees
in a pelting rain,
and helping the teams short of rations,
10th, rainy
made
;
all
after
marched
working
till
Camped
night.
seven miles
at eight, A.M.,
;
camped
On
march.
the
and corduroyed;
eight miles, with nothing to eat.
about two, P.M.
after dark,
at midnight,
at six, P.M.,
Sun came out and drew one
day s rations of meal and fresh beef. On the llth, cold and fair; started at half-past eleven, A.M., on a forced
march
for Fayetteville
;
the
first
nine miles of road were
the last bad, and encumbered by trains to be passed on a were made without a halt. When ten, plank road, ;
within two miles of Fayetteville, the
it
town had been occupied by the
little
was learned that
right
wing
past nine, P.M., the regiment camped.
;
and a
Foragers meal and some meat, and men were grinding more meal at a mill.
came
in with plenty of
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS,
On
the 12th, remained in camp.
A
267
tug-boat came
the Cape-Fear River, and communication
up
which had been suspended
established with the North, since Feb.
ville,
Had
a day
s
rations of hard bread,
and sugar.
coffee,
On
1.
was again
the 13th, the regiment passed through Fayette-
with music, in review before Generals Sherman
and Slocum.
Crossed the Cape-Fear River on pon toons, marched on plank road, and camped four miles
from the
mained
river.
in
On
camp
the 14th,
until
and the Thirteenth
a beautiful day,
re
about noon, when the Second
New
Jersey were sent out under
Lieutenant-Colonel Morse to get forage. The Third of in ad the Third distance some Division, Brigade
Colonel Morse sent vance, had some skirmishing. out parties twice on side roads ; started back about seven, P.M., and
made
the nine miles of return without
a halt, bringing in the wagons loaded with corn and fod der ; and Captain Parker put a mill in running order.
On
the 15th, a cloudy, rainy day;
marched about
ten miles on a plank road to a church, but not to use it.
Found
Kilpatrick
and went into camp
s
Cavalry occupying the road,
in a very ancient graveyard.
at eight, P.M., the brigade
ness and rain, to
was ordered
move on
But
out, in the dark
in support of the cavalry.
At
Kilpatrick s request, General Slocum had ordered out a brigade to hold a line of barricades. Went on, over execrable roads, five miles, and found the cavalry in position.
Relieved one brigade of these went into in face of the enemy and in mud.
position, and bivouacked
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INPANTRY.
268
Hardee,
retreating from Fayetteville,
"in
had halted
narrow swampy neck between Cape Fear and
in the
South Rivers in the. hope of holding Sherman there, in order to save time for the concentration of Johnson s armies at some point in his rear." * General Slocum was ordered to dislodge him, that the army might have the use of the Goldsborough Eoad. The Twentieth
Corps had the advance. right, and Ward s next
The
First Division
on the
:
of the Fourteenth Corps.
was on the
were two divisions
left,
The enemy were
in force,
and well posted, with defences. The share of the Second in the engagement of that The brigade (the Second on the left) day was this :
,
supported on the flanks by cavalry, moved forward at seven, A.M., with skirmishers well thrown out, and
The
advanced on the enemy. driven
rebel skirmishers were
a decided resistance
in, after
took position across the main
and the brigade
;
road
Cross-roads, near the edge of an open
Black-river
to
field, in
swampy, wooded ground, with skirmishers well advanced. The The most ad brigade was alone, except the cavalry. vanced part of the army was four miles back. The enemy threw superior forces on this point and, with ;
artillery
back the hours.
and infantry, repeatedly attempted All their
line.
In that
three enlisted
killed,
force
efforts failed, in attacks of
fight, the gallant Grafton
men
to
was
two
killed
;
and nine wounded.
Captain Grafton had gone out with two small com-
1
Sherman and
his
Campaigns,
p. 368.
THKOUGH THE CAKOLINAS.
269
The had gone out to relieve skirmishers. line. back the hard to Cap press enemy were striving tain Grafton was wounded in the leg, and started for
panies,
the rear
;
but,
still
anxious that the line be held, turned
He was
back to the skirmishers.
instantly struck in
the neck by a bullet, and staggered back to the line,
where he died immediately. The ammunition of the brigade being exhausted, General Cogswell s Brigade relieved it. He afterwards pushed the enemy a mile and a half, out of two lines of breastworks and into the third and last, fighting until dark
losing twice as
;
many men
as
any other brigade
in the corps.
While
was going on, the Third Brigade (in which was the Second) was transferred to the right this
;
and vigorously attacked, driving the enemy steadily for a mile, and into another line of works. The brigade suffered considerably at this point, but held
its
position
in front of the
enemy, until subsequently replaced by a of the Fourteenth Corps. It was in this fight portion that Lieutenant Storrow of the Second, aide to General Cogswell, was killed
;
and Lieutenant-Colonel Morse,
commanding the regiment, disabled by a serious wound in the shoulder. The command devolved upon Cap tain
Two more
Brown.
and seven wounded. were these killed listed
;
The
enlisted
men were
casualties during
killed,
the
day
Captain Grafton and Lieutenant Storrow, Lieutenant-Colonel Morse wounded. Of en :
Newman,
of
Corporal Murray and Corporal Parker, of F ; and Serjeant
Bearing, of
men,
C
;
B;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
270
I, were killed. Vitz, Mortally wounded, and Eegan (T.), of F; wounded, not mortally, Corporal Coethan, Smith (H.), and Moro, of A;
Wilson, of of
B
;
Peterson (A. S.), Smith (James), and Serjeant Reu-
B
ben Smith, of
E;
of
Gilbert
Hutchinson
Corporal McAuley, and Riley, of
and Johnson, of I
The Second, though
;
only one hundred had acted as be
sadly few,
"The
Story of the Great
Nichols, aide to General "
G;
and Corporal Mcln-
and forty-one carried into action, came its unsullied fame. Says
of
K.
of
tosh,
;
F; Frey and McNamara,
Sherman
March,"
by Major
:
Captain Grafton of this division (Second Massachu-
chusetts Regiment) was among the killed. He was a gal lant officer and a courteous gentleman. He could not have
found a nobler death, nor could u The Second and
we have
lost
a nobler soul.
Thirty-third Massachusetts Regiments are the only representatives of the glorious Bay State in our nobler record of heroic deeds may never be found army.
A
than in the History of the Second. On its roll of fame may be found, among the names of the dead in honorable battle,
Shaw, Dwight, Savage, Grafton, Storrow, and others
;
and,
to-day, the living heroes. are models of chivalric soldiers, the pride of their comrades."
Upon and
being relieved, the regiment moved to the right
and camped in close column by divisions. the 17th, orders were to be in readiness to move
rear,
On
at five, A.M., but at daylight
enemy had disappeared.
At
it
was found that the
eleven, A.M.
on the road, and lay by the roadside
,
moved out
until late in the after-
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. The Fourteenth Corps was
noon.
Slocum
271 General
passing.
also passed, stopping to speak with the men.
having made short of rations, but had an issue of
About dark, moved on three miles. fresh beef.
Men On the
;
and camped,
18th, a
wounded followed the
warm day
fair,
at seven, A.M., the brigade in
after
advance.
division.
;
The
marched train of
Forded Black River,
and crossed another considerable stream on a bridge.
Made about ten miles towards Goldsborough, pulling down fences, and crossing bogs. The foragers brought two days rations of meat and meal
in about
an
affair
and run
On
they had it,
it.
the 19th,
advance
:
with the rebels at a grist-mill, captured
;
moved
before daylight, the brigade in
the roads bad in spots,
a good deal of corduroying.
and the regimenf did
About noon, heard quick
A
division of the Fourteenth Corps artillery-firing. had encountered rebel cavalry, and driven them as usual. But the head of the column found its progress
impeded by infantry and artillery. The enemy attacked the advanced guard, and gained a temporary advantage. General Slocum found the enemy in great force. John ston had
moved with great
the troops at his
rapidity, concentrated all
command upon
the left flank, and
suddenly attacked furiously, in the hope of beating the advanced divisions before the other columns came up. Slocum then promptly deployed the two divisions of the
Fourteenth Corps, and ordered up the two divisions of the Twentieth. The first division was pushed rapidly forward, and
the
brigade was formed in rear of the
272
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Fourteenth Corps
moved
;
to the left,
and formed on the
The Second was on
tieth Corps.
facing northward
;
the left of the road,
several
times,
but finally
flank position, and completed the
and massed on the
lery,
Twen
of the
works
Kilpatrick came up at the sound of the
begun. the
its
left
and both divisions threw up works.
The brigade was moved returned to
was
with both divisions
but soon
artil
The enemy, comprising
Hardee, and Cheatham, under
of Hoke,
forces
left.
Johnston himself, made six
distinct assaults, but
were
This was the battle of Benton-
as steadily repulsed. ville.
It
was the
The
last action
foragers
came
in
of the Second Massachusetts. :
they had been in rear of the
enemy, and brought in ham and beans. had marched eight miles.
The night had
alarms.
On
The regiment
the 20th, remained cut
ting timber, and strengthening the
position.
Pickets
The corps of the other wing had some successful and, by after coming up, fighting noon, a complete and strong line of battle confronted were twice advanced.
;
the
enemy
s
and Johnston, instead army in detail, was again on the
intrenched position
of taking Sherman
s
;
defensive.
Three days rations of coffee, sugar, hard bread, and bacon, were worth recording.
On all
the 21st, there were various orders to move, but
countermanded.
in firing,
the
The Third Division
and raised a needless alarm.
swamp, and continued
pickets
Cut
came
trees in
to strengthen the position.
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. There was skirmishing from right to right,
some severe
left
273 and, on the
;
Sherman had no need of
fighting.
a battle, and pressed only with skirmishers, and some artillery, feeling the flanks which were covered by
swamps.
All the afternoon the rain
torrents.
That day, the wounded
including
Lieutenant-Colonel
Goldsborough
On
fell,
sometimes in
in the corps hospital,
were
Morse,
sent
to
.
the 22d, at one, A.M.,
animals were ordered to
all
wagons and pack-
Cox s Bridge, under
escort of
One Hundred and Second New York, and the but, after troops were to move at half past five, A.M % the
;
daylight,
enemy were discovered
the
have
to
left.
Johnston had crossed Mill Creek, and burnt the bridges. The Second left its works at nine, A.M., and moved by cross-roads to
Cox s Bridge
;
roads were bad, and
much
corduroying was necessary. After dark, marched rapid ly, and camped about ten, P.M., in a sandy field near a creek, where the wagons were waiting, but the pack-
Had made
mules had mostly crossed.
On
the 23d,
moved
at nine, A.M.
;
thirteen miles.
road bad, halted
on the banks of the Neuse, crossed on two pontoon bridges ; had made thirteen miles, when camped two miles from the bridge, towards Goldsbor several hours
ough.
At
Enemy s
cavalry on
left flank.
about one, A.M., on the 24th,
pack-animals
Marched
were
at seven,
sent
A.M.
;
forward
to
all
wagons and
Goldsborough.
passed through the Twenty-
through Goldsborough in column by divisions, with music; passed Generals Sherman and third
Corps
;
18
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
274
went out of the town, and partly round it, and camped on the Weldon Railway, about two miles
Slocum
;
northeast of the town.
The army had reached
communications again, and the campaign was ended.
sea
275
NORTHWARD.
XXI. NORTHWARD.
ON
March, 1865, General Sherman s congratulatory order was published, and read to the the 25th day of
troops.
A and
few weeks were to be spent in comparative
refitting the troops for the spring campaign.
rest,
The
camps of the brigade were
laid out in regular order ; feet by ten, and three seven logs, and a half high, covered each by four pieces of shelter tent. Water was plenty, but the men were out of
houses to be
on the 25th.
rations
On
made of
On
lieutenant.
the 27th,
The men worked on were issued, for the
On
Toombs was mustered
the 27th, Sergeant
some clothing was received. Regular rations
their quarters.
first
as first
time since the campaign began.
New Jersey took the Kingston Road, and marched to
the 28th, went out with the Thirteenth
for forage
;
about twenty miles from Goldsborough ; filled the fifty wagons with corn and fodder, returned four miles, and for camp, which and drew three days
bivouacked.
Started next morning
was reached
at
rations.
Drew
three,
P.M.
;
clothing on the 30th
;
and SOAP was
276
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
issued, the
opened.
the
since
first
On
campaign from Savannah
the 31st, extra animals were turned in.
Hospital-Steward Root,
who had
served
various
in
capacities from the beginning, was transferred
April 2 witnessed a dress parade.
regular army.
On
the
to
3d of April, General Mower was appointed
the
command of the Twentieth Corps, thus returning General Williams to the division. General Williams
to the
commanded from Atlanta, bravely and
had
The of
"left
was now transformed
wing"
The
Second,
"
Mower
General
"
reviewed the division on the 5th.
Clothing was issued to complete the
At Goldsborough, morning mishing
;
drills
new
outfit.
were had in skir
other movements in afternoons.
The Second
to be itself to the last.
On of
"Army
was again found in the Sanitary in the shape of pickles.
Georgia."
was
wisely.
into the
welcome news of the taking received, and read to the command.
the 6th of April, the
Richmond were
The end was drawing next
"The
objective,"
place this army, with
Roanoke River, with the
nigh.
Army
its
said full
facing west,
of the
General Sherman,
"is
to
equipment, north of the in full communication
...
Potomac."
So, on the 7th, orders were received to have ten days rations
on hand,
days coffee,
five
"
to last thirty
"
;
in
wagons,
days sugar, and twenty days
fifteen
salt
;
in
the hands of the men, one a half days salt meat (to last three days) three days hard bread, ten days sugar, and ,
the same of salt and coffee.
NORTHWARD.
On
277
the 9th, Captains Phalen and
Mehan
returned.
to
was thought best by brigade and higher commanders send some officers on recruiting service the number
of
men was
It
;
greatly reduced, and out of
proportion
Captains Brown, Oakey, Crownin-
to that of officers. shield, Parker,
all
Comey, and Perkins, Adjutant Fox and
Lieutenant G. J. Thompson, were therefore detailed on
The regiment was temporarily consoli two companies, under command of Captain
service.
this
dated into
Phalen.
On
the 10th, the
new movement began. The head The regiment marched
of every column was in motion.
through Goldsborough, and on skirmishing took place, and
at half past five, A.M.,
the Smithfield Eoad. the brigade
Camped
On
moved
Some
for
some distance
at five, P.M., after a
the llth, a light rain;
A.M.
;
camped
at
in line of battle.
march of fourteen
marched
miles.
at eleven o clock,
P.M., about half a mile from
six,
Smithfield, having marched twelve miles. On the 12th, marched through Smithfield crossed the Neuse on pon ;
toons about eight, A.M.
;
at six, P.M., after a
camped
hard march of sixteen miles, crossing Swift Creek. the 13th,
ment was eigh at
moved
at five, A.M., in
in advance.
a rain;
Marched very
noon without opposition.
of the
fast,
Camped
city, the weather becoming two days rations, drew last 14th, orders to forage on the country, and a "to
men was
On
the
On regi
entered Ral just outside
On
fine. "
five;
the
received
detail of
twenty under Lieutenant J. C. Thompson. organized
the 15th, the regiment
moved
out, at half past six,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
278
A.M., in a very heavy rain, but after going a few rods
was ordered back again. The orders to forage on the commissaries were country were also countermanded ;
Circumstances were changed. The news of the battles about Petersburg, and of the
to issue full rations.
evacuation of Eichmond, had reached General
Sherman
on the 6th of April. No longer needing to between Lee and Johnston, he had followed the
On
the
strike latter.
12th, he heard of the surrender of Lee at
Appomattox. He then planned to so move as to strike am anxious," wrote he, Johnston from the south. on the prevent his escape towards Georgia." But "I
"to
14th, General
Sherman received a communication from
Johnston, under a flag of truce, requesting an armis tice, and a statement of the best terms on which he could be permitted to surrender. man, the beginning of the end."
This
"
is,"
said Sher
"
It
was
this
note which arrested the march of the
Second on the morning of the 15th and, so far as war was concerned, arrested it for ever. On the 17th of April, came the news of the assassina ;
tion of President Lincoln.
On
the 20th, the suspension of hostilities
nounced.
On
the
22d, the corps
General Sherman, in Raleigh.
On
was an
was reviewed by the 25th,
moved
at
seven, A.M., marching thirteen miles southwest, to John s Cross-roads, returning to the old camp on the 28th.
Captain Thayer, with thirty-four recruits, came to the The men were put on half regiment on the 25th. rations, and a forage party of twenty organized under
279
NORTHWARD.
The party came in on Lieutenant J. C. Thompson. the 28th, fully mounted, with meal.
On
the 29th, orders
of Johnston, and that
Washington
to
The march
came announcing the surrender the troops were to march to
be mustered out.
The war had ended.
Washington began the next day.
to
the 30th, the regiment
moved
at five, A.M.
On
passed through Ealeigh in column, by platoons ; crossed the Neuse at Mantua Mills, and camped about a mile from the
having marched fourteen miles.
river,
;
The next day,
marched sixteen miles, in rear of trains, and camped near Tau River. On the 2d of May, crossed Tau on a fine road twenty miles, and miles two from Williamsborough. On the 3d, camped marched through Williamsborough, made twelve miles
River,
inarched
on a good road, and camped ordered out at half past marched three miles, crossed the Roanoke on five, P.M. ;
;
pontoons, and camped about a mile from the State line. On the 4th, marched at seven, A.M., and were soon in Virginia,
the
The time since Sept. 27, 1863. Crossed Meherrin River about five,
first
road was dusty. P.M., and
camped about two miles beyond, having marched twenty-two miles. On the 5th, moved at half past eight, A.M.
noon
;
;
made seventeen
from Nottaway River.
crossed Flat-rock Creek about miles,
May
and camped half a mile
6, crossed the Nottaway and
Nottaway the Richmond and Petersburg Rail at Black and White Station, about noon passed way, some of the Sixth Corps in camp and camped, after
Little
;
;
;
280
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
fourteen miles of march, near Mills Station.
Marched on the 7th, in advance of the division; crossed the Appomattox Eiver on pontoon bridge about noon had ;
made twenty-one miles, and camped near Clover Hill. On the 8th, moved at half past six, A.M. passed ;
through Clover Hill
and Fallin Creek
On
it.
;
crossed Swift Creek about noon,
at three, P.M,,
and camped on a creek.
On
the llth day of
In camp on the 10th.
May, moved
First Division in advance. ter
at
half past
eleven
at ten, A.M., the
Passed through Manches Crossed the James
o clock.
RICHMOND.
River, and entered /
and camped north of went three miles, ;
the 9th, marched, ten, A.M.
The regiment had
established
its first
camp
Massa-
in
It entered chusetts, on the llth day of May, 1861. Richmond on the llth day of May, 1865. Of the officers
\
\
I
of
Camp Andrew,
sand men,
\ Vears had
less
Of the
four remained.
than a hundred.
The march
thou-
of four
been lined with graves.
\\ The regiment marched through Richmond in column by platoons. Five miles beyond, it camped on Brook Creek.
The Chickahominy was
crossed on the 12th, at
Bower
Passed through Ashland Station at noon. Crossed the Fredericksburg Railway ; the South Anna at three, P.M., and camped a mile beyond, having made Bridge.
fifteen miles
over a hard road.
River on the 13th
Crossed
New Found
Anna, the Gordonsville and Richmond Railway
A.M.
;
at one, P.M.
;
and camped a mile from the North Anna,
after
;
the Little
at eleven,
a march
NORTHWARD.
On
of fifteen miles.
on pontoons
281
passed through Chilesburg
;
TaEiver and
the
Anna
the 14th, crossed the North
crossed the
;
Po on pontoons; and camped,
after
eighteen miles, two miles from Spottsylvania Court
house.
On
the 15th, passed through Spottsylvania
halted
;
two hours on the old Chancellors ville battle-ground, memorable to the regiment for the 3d of May, 1863 ; for
reached Rappahannock River, and camped on
its
banks,
On the 16th, crossed having marched fifteen miles. the river on pontoons at United-States Ford, where it passed Hartwood Church at ten, Crossed A.M., and camped after fifteen miles march. Cedar Run on the 17th, and made twelve miles. On crossed
May
the 18th, at
noon
;
6,
was
1863
at
;
Brents ville at
six,
A.M.
at Bull
;
at Fairfax Station, at five, P.M.,
Run,
and camped a
mile and a half onward, after a march of eighteen miles.
On
march, camped near miles from Alexandria.
the 19th, after fifteen miles
Cloud
s
Mills,
about
three
Colonel Morse returned, and took command. 20th, Captain
Brown
resigned,
the
The
officers
de
on recruiting service returned, and about forty
men who had been absent from wounds The regiment remained here until that day, the
Army
or disease.
the 24th.
of Georgia and the
Army
nessee passed in review at Washington. After the review, the regiment went into
densburgh.
On
the
war being ended,
with a brave and faithful record. tailed
On
the
On
the 28th,
29th, the
two
recruits
of
On Ten
camp at Bla-
were received.
camp was named Camp Slocum.
282
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Sergeant-Major Miles had been mustered as tenant in April
;
in
June, James Hanning
June, Sergeant George
W.
Morse.
It
;
lieu
first
and also in
was the
last
promotion.
On
the 6th of June, General
Hawley
published his
farewell order to the brigade.
On the 7th, the Twentieth Corps was broken up. General Williams published his farewell order to the division.
The Second was
transferred
to
General
Division of the District of Washington with the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, Fifth brigaded Bartlett
s
and One Hundred and Forty-third numbered the Second Brigade.
necticut,
;
and
Con
New York,
The friends of many campaigns were parted. Be tween no organizations could the parting have been more painful, though glorious, than between the Second Massachusetts and the noble Third Wisconsin.
Before
separating, this found formal expression in the following
papers
:
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY, CAMP SLOCUM, NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 1865. the undersigned, officers of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, wish to express to the officers of the Third Wis
We,
consin Infantry our heartfelt regret, that the fortunes of the service are about to separate our respective organizations. From the campaign of 1862, in the Shenandoah Valley, to the present glorious close of this bloody war, we have fought and marched side by side with you in almost every
To have been brigaded together for so time is in itself remarkable no less so is it that a long between our two regiments there should have always existed
rebellious State.
;
NORTHWARD.
283
such strong feelings of friendship and mutual regard, untinged by the slightest shadow of jealousy. As we recall, now, some of the hard positions we have in, we cannot help remembering how often our anxiety was lessened by the knowledge that the old Third Wisconsin was close at hand to support us. We know that you have had the same thoughts about us. Nothing in this whole war
been
will be pleasanter for us all to look
back upon than
this feel
ing of mutual respect and reliance. It not only elevated the tone of both of our regiments but, we honestly believe, it went a great way towards making our brigade and division ;
what they are now acknowledged
to be,
among
the very
best organizations of the army. assure you that in our own State, wherever the Second
We
Massachusetts
is known, its brother regiment is also famous. Whenever any of us have been at home, among the first
would be,
How
the Third Wisconsin
"
It has been with pride that we have answered, "It is the same staunch old regiment that fought at Antietam and Chan-
inquiries
"
is
?
cellorsville."
These are not compliments, but expressions of plain, We have been knit together by deeds, not words deeds, which, as time goes on, we shall look back
honest feelings. ;
upon with continually increasing pride. Together we have shared dangers and hardships, victories and defeats, and it is hard now for us to part but, in the ;
natural order of things, the war being over, you go towards your homes in the West, we stay near ours in the East.
Let us not, however, though separated by thousands of Let us rather cherish miles, forget these old associations.
them with our fondest recollections let it be a story to hand down to our children and children s children, how the Second Massachusetts and Third Wisconsin fought shoulder to shoulder through the great rebellion, and achieved together glory and renown. We ask you to accept this testimonial as :
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
284
a slight evidence of our affection and esteem. farewell, and God bless you, one and all.
We
bid you
C. F. MORSE, Lieutenant- Colonel, com. JAMES FRANCIS, Major.
C. E. MUNN, Surgeon. JOHN A. Fox, Adjutant. E. A. HOWES, Quartermaster.
Daniel Oakey, F. W. Crowninshield, E. A. Captains. Phalen, George A. Thayer, Theodore K. Parker, Dennis Mehan, Henry N. Comey, William E. Perkins.
George J. Thompson, Jesse Richard Moses P. Richardson, William T. McAlpine, Jed. C. son, William D. Toombs. Thompson, First Lieutenants.
THIRD WISCONSIN V. V. INFANTRY, CAMP SLOCUM, NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 1865.
To
the Officers
of the Second Massachusetts Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
The undersigned,
officers of the
Third Wisconsin Veteran
Volunteer Infantry, tender their heartfelt thanks for your It was with min friendly communication of the 4th inst.
unmixed gled feelings of pride and pleasure, not, however, with pain, that we perused it, pride at being thus associa ted with a regiment, which, by patient endurance, good and unflinching bravery, has won name as the Second Massachusetts
discipline,
for itself so
pleasure at the thought, that, even amid the stirring scenes of active war, the finer attributes of humanity are not forgotten, and that
honorable a
friendship, one
;
of the noblest sentiments of the soul, still pain at the recollections of the many
asserts her claims
;
whose names have been associated with gallant and brave the great struggle now happily terminated, but who in yours their lives for a country they loved so well. have given
That
"
to us than
every rose has
now.
While
its thorn"
in
was never more apparent
the toil and suffering of our
NORTHWARD.
285
active campaigns, we have looked forward with to the time when the angel of peace should once
unmixed joy more spread
her wings over the land, and we should return home to enjoy but now that the hour is the sweets of social and civil life ;
at
hand when we must say farewell
to those
with
whom we
have been so long associated in the service of our common country, when we must join the parting hand with you, our companions and brothers in arms, our joy is mingled with sadness, and our smiles with tears.
We
accept your communication, not only as a manifesta
tion of personal regard, but also as a fraternal greeting from the East to the West, which, rising superior to local jealousies
and factious
and remembering only the mingled dust many battle-fields, and the common country for which they sacrificed their all, proclaims us, in heart and in country, one and inseparable. strife,
of our dead on
In parting we assure you, that, highly as we prize this expression of sentiment towards us, and sacredly as we will preserve it as the highest honor yet received, it is not needed in order to secure
remembrance.
The
ineffaceable pictures of the past, deeply engraven in our hearts, and lit up by the eternal flame of friendship, will
ever
keep the Second Massachusetts Veteran Volunteer among our pleasing memories in the
Infantry prominent future.
Wishing you blessing,
we
We
all
success and happiness,
and Heaven
s
best
bid you farewell.
are, brothers, yours fraternally, B
GEORGE W. STEVENSON, WARHAM PARKS, Major.
Lieutenant-Colonel.
J. G-.
CONLY, Surgeon. T. J. KOPF, Assistant- Surgeon.
A. C. GAYLOR, Adjutant. I. T. MARVIN, Quartermaster. ISAAC E. SPRINGER, Chaplain.
286
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
Captains. Ralph Van Brunt, I. N. Hinkley, N. Daniels, E. Giddings, A. D. Haskins, C. R. Barrager, J. Woodford, John M. Schweers, John E. Kleven.
Stephen Lawrence, Oliver A. Hegg, D. Goodrich, John Agnew, John B. Du Bois, Abner Hubbell, J. D. Babcock, William W. Freeman, George H. First Lieutenants.
J.
Gutter.
Second Lieutenants. E. V. Moran, Lewis Colby, Edwin F. Proctor, Eben G. Beers, David Clark, A. S. Hill.
In publishing these Journal,"
letters,
the
"Wisconsin
State
of June 15, 1865, said:
The Second Massachusetts and
the
Third Wisconsin
Infantry have fought in the same brigade, side by side, throughout the war. Among the earliest regiments in the field, they first saw active service under Banks, in the Shen-
andoah Valley. force of
"forty
When thousand
Stonewall Jackson, with his usual men,"
fell
upon Banks, these two
regiments covered the rear, and bore the brunt of the fight ing. They stood together at Cedar Mountain, under the withering cross-fire of the enemy, when the noble Crane laid
down
his life for his country.
They fought
at
Antietam and
Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Subsequently transferred to the West, they formed a part of that invincible column,
which under Sherman hewed its way through the central mountain fastnesses of the South, and poured down, an irre through Georgia and the Carolinas. Both were regiments among those that re-enlisted for the war. We remember a conversation had, about a year ago, with sistible torrent,
an officer of the Third, respecting the comparative merits of Eastern and Western troops. He had served in the Army of the Potomac and at the West, and had therefore large The opportunities for seeing and judging upon the subject. best troops in the service, the steadiest, bravest, and most
NORTHWARD. trustworthy, he said, were those from
Northwest.
.
.
.
He
287
New
England and the
spoke particularly of the Second Massa
and chusetts as a specimen of New-England troops with first them, that, when the Third Wisconsin was brigaded ;
said>
our Wisconsin boys conceived a strong antipathy against The Massachusetts men were fitted up in the height
them.
of military style. They had the finest tents and wagons in the service, their uniforms were of the best material, they
wore white gloves on parade and our Wisconsin boys looked upon them as a set of dandies and counter-jumpers who would take to their heels at the first approach of actual dan ;
By and by the
ger.
hour of
trial
came.
Stonewall Jackson
launched his thunderbolt upon Bauks s little army. And lo while most of the troops were hastening out of harm s way? !
there were
the old Third, and those of the Second Massachusetts, side by side, hanging stubbornly at the rear, their hearts swollen with rage, covering the retreat, contesting every inch of
the
brawny boys of
"white-gloved fellows"
ground, and chastening the exultant foe with terrible punish ment from their well-aimed muskets. After that, said the there was no further distrust or contempt on either between the Third Wisconsin and the Second Massachu
officer,
side
setts, but mutual good-will, affection, and pride in each other, which were only increased as they became better acquainted under yet severer trials.
5
These two glorious old regiments have recently been parted, the Third Wisconsin being ordered west, and the Second Massachusetts retained on duty at the east. Prior to parting, the letter
to
Massachusetts regiment drew up and signed a sentiments
the Third Wisconsin, expressing the
which they felt upon parting. This, together with the response of the Third, has been forwarded to us for publica tion.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
288
XXI.
THE END. THE
Second remained in Washington until July 14. was on duty, furnishing patrols, and stationary
It
guards in various parts of the July, orders having
come
city.
On
the 12th of
for muster-out, Lieutenant-
Colonel Morse issued the following
:
HEADQUARTERS SECOND MASS. INFANTRY. WASHINGTON,
GENERAL ORDERS, No.
To
the Officers
and Men of
the
Second Massachusetts Infantry.
The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding opportunity to tender to
more than to
D.C., July 12, 1865.
26.
you
takes this, his last,
his congratulations, that, after
four years of hard service,
you are enabled again
your homes, and resume your peaceful avocations. go brief review of your history in this regiment cannot to
A
now to interest you. At the very outbreak of the late rebellion, the Second Massachusetts Infantry was organized. Its first year of service was not an eventful one, and it only became famous fail
good discipline and appearance. In the campaign of 1862, it had a more distinguished part
for its
On the night of May 24, your regiment, by its act. steadiness and bravery, beat back greatly superior forces of the enemy, and saved Banks s little army from total destructo
THE END.
289
All of honor that can be associated with the disastrous
tion.
to you. Next came same determined bravery, this regiment faced and fought three times its numbers and, in twenty minutes, lost more than one-third of its enlisted men, and more than one-half of its officers. Antietam, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, and the great campaigns of the West, with their numerous battles and skirmishes, followed in quick succession and the war ended,
retreat of the next
day certainly belongs
Cedar Mountain
there, with the
:
;
;
leaving with you a most brilliant and satisfactory record, a record of courage, gallantry, and tenacity in battle, of unflinching steadiness in defeat, of good discipline in camp,
and of respect and prompt obedience to all superiors this is the record which you can take to your homes, and it is known :
and acknowledged throughout the length and breadth of your State.
The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding does most sincerely who are now left in this command on having
congratulate you
passed safely through this great struggle, which has termi nated so gloriously. He feels sure that no one of you will ever regret your part in this war. As long as yoTi live, and whatever your future in life may be, you will think of your soldier s career with the greatest pride and satisfaction its :
hardships and sufferings,
you
all
nobler, better,
dangers and glories, have made
its
and more
self-reliant
men.
be with pleasure alone, that you recall the events of the past four years. With sadness you will bring to mind the appearance of this regiment as it marched out of Camp It will not
Andrew, July 8, 1861; and
will think
how many of the
noblest
and men then comprising it now fill sol diers graves. You will cherish the memories of these gallant men and, though you lament their loss, you will remember
and best
officers
;
that they died in battle, bravely doing their duty, fighting for their country and the right and you will thank God, when ;
you look about you, and see peace restored 19
to this
entire
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
290
country, that the sacrifice vain.
of their lives has not been in
The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding thanks you adherence to your duties, and your has had the honor to command you.
fidelity to
He
for
your
him, since he
assures you, that, in
taking leave of this old organization, he feels more pain than he has been with it since its first existence, has pleasure :
shared
its
dangers, privations, and glories
;
and now that
it
has devolved upon him to write these words of farewell he does so with unfeigned regret.
In conclusion, he hopes that the lessons taught by this war on your future lives, and that
will exert a beneficial influence
you may become good
citizens
and worthy members of C. F.
society.
Lieut. CoLj
MORSE,
Com. Second Mass. Infantry.
(OFFICIAL.)
On
men were mustered
the 14th of July, the
service, although not to be discharged until in
out of
camp
in
Massachusetts.
On
the 15th,
York,
it
it
started
by
rail for
home.
At New
was received and hospitably entertained by Col the
It agent for New-England troops. a cordial and received called also on General Hooker,
onel
Howe,
welcome.
It
had been in
New York
twice
before,
once on the 9th of July, 1861, when it stacked arms It in City-hall Park, a thousand and forty strong.
came back, a remnant, but thirty-eight field, staff, and
victorious
:
line officers.
it
had then
On
its
the 16th
of July, 1865, Brigadier-General Cogswell, LieutenantColonel Morse, and Major Francis were the sole offi cers of that thirty-eight
organization.
still
holding commissions in the
THE END.
291
The regiment proceeded by
the Neptune line of and the Providence Eailway to Readville, Mass., where it went into camp, waiting to be paid off and finally discharged. Its friends hoped that they
steamers
might give
it
a worthy reception in Boston
;
but, to
their great disappointment, although all possible efforts
were made, the orders of the
War Department would not Readville was
permit the regiment to go to that city. a barren and dull place to
men who had
served their
country so long, and* who
were impatient to reach home. But the delay was borne well. It is due to them to say, on the authority of Brigadier-General Pierce who was in charge of that
men
arms, the
camp,
that,
though without guards or
of the Second, as obedient as ever to
duty, gave no trouble.
Various complimentary promotions were made by the Lieutenant - Colonel Charles F. Morse to
Governor be
:
Major James Francis
colonel,
Francis
W.
to
be
lieutenant-
Crowninshield
to be Captain major, First Lieutenant Jesse Richardson to be cap tain, A. W. Emerson to be first lieutenant ; and colonel,
Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomas B. Thurston, First Ser geants Charles Hastings, Leander G. Bowley, Charles
Edwards, Edwin Harlow, Samuel S. Jepson, Charles H. Heald, Charles O. McKinstry, Andrew Yoll, and Commissary-Sergeant David Casey, as second lieuten ants.
allow
But the reduced them
to
force of the regiment did not
be mustered as such into the United-
States service.
But
the volunteer
service
several officers
were brevetted in
by the President
:
Lieutenant-
292
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Colonel Morse as colonel, Major Francis as lieutenantcolonel, to date from March 13, 1865.
The
last
order was issued HEADQUARTERS SECOND MASS. INFANTRY, READVILLE, MASS. July
Company commanders
will
turn over
all
19, 1865.
ordnance and
ordnance stores in their possession to an agent of Major of Watertown Arsenal.
Rodman, Superintendent
By command
of
.
LlEUTENANT-COLONEL C. F. MORSE. JOHN A. Fox,
Adjutant.
The arms were
On
useless
The war was ended. men broke ranks
now.
the 26th day of July, 1865, the
The Second Massachusetts had passed
for ever.
into
history.
On
the
22d day of December,
Second, with
of the setts
troops,
Fifty
men
escorted
were
of
them
the to
of
the colors
deposited
regiment,
their
in
1865, the colors all
the
the
Massachu
State
House.
under Major Francis,
resting place.
No names
of
were ever inscribed upon the battle-flag. Its and torn folds, riddled by shot and shell, silently pierced battles
tell its story.
On
the llth day of
May, 1866, some of the com Camp Andrew. It
rades went to the old ground of
was the
fifth
They paused
anniversary of the forming of that camp. at the familiar entrance
where the guard
THE END. had once challenged the
293
The house was un
visitor.
changed since the sentinel had ceased to walk before headquarters.
about the
first tents,
The marks
of the
little
his post
trenches
the rains had not yet washed away.
Here and there were found a few scraps of decayed can The flag-staff vas, and slight remnants of tent-pins. still
stood, from which no flag
had floated since the
summer day when the banner of the Second left it. Recollections of Dwight and Sargent, of Savage, Abbott, Gary, Goodwin,
Mudge, Williams, Sedgwick,
Hill,
all dead for Shaw, Robeson, Choate, and Perkins, their country, and of the hundreds of the brave and
ranks gone with them, were fresh in
faithful in
the
memory.
The comrades plucked some
flowers,
and
left
the spot to silence.
bright spring
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
THE MEN. I.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
THE
"
regimental
company books,
Some
descriptive is
book,"
compared with the
the basis of the following record.
omissions have been supplied from the records at
the State House.
When
discrepancies have been found
between the regimental books and those general
s
in the adjutant-
office, the former, except in cases of
known
have been followed, those books having been prepared and revised with great care. error,
No names
are included, except those found on the
books of the regiment. Hence those of many persons who enlisted but never joined the regiment, most of
them those who
bounty in 1864, and deserted on the road, are not, and ought not to be, found in this list. They were never members of the enlisted for the
regiment, although appearing upon the State House. It will
be seen that these
that of the vice
;
men
lists
records at the
are in two parts
enlisting during the
first
:
first,
term of ser
secondly, that of the re-enlisted men, and
the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
296
of the
recruits
term was held enlisted
men
second term of service.
to begin with
but, for those not re-enlisting, their term
;
ends with the three years service,
some
men
Hence
cases later. is
"
that the phrase
But
May 23,
1864, and in
this history of the re-enlisted
not completed in the
instances.
The second
Jan. 1, 1864, as to the re-
first list
See Second Term
"
men
the history of the
will be noticed
it
:
occurs in such
not re-enlisting
goes on, in the first list, past Jan. 1, 1864, to the pletion of their term of service.
The term bear
da.te,
always to be understood to Dec. 31, 1863, except in the very few cases "
ably denotes w
Discharged had not expired
May War it
The term of
"
mustered out
the
;
and theground of discharge
date of
"
invari
term of enlistment.
used only in cases where the
is
conformed
is
expiration "
The
"
re-enlisted
otherwise specified.
given.
com
"muster-out"
full is
for the first
term
always term is
to that given in the adjutant-general s report,
28, 1864, although, according to the decision of the
Department, it was May 23, 1864 while actually was May 30, at Chattanooga, and the men were not ;
discharged until June 7, the three years expired the
while, for whole companies,
May
10.
The
rule adopted
War
"
in
"
In the following
actually mustered in before the 20th. lists,
by
Department considered the original musterThe ten companies were to be May 24, 1861. the actual date of enlistment
cases,
all
before
brought to that date. 1865, as the day of
May
11,
is
The State
all
known
however,
being
given in
1861,
reports give July 14,
final discharge.
The papers were
THE ENLISTED MEN. made out
that day, but the
and paid
to
men were
The
July 26.
latter
297 kept in service
date
is
therefore
adopted in these pages.
The
various items regarding each soldier have been
compiled from the regimental and company descriptivebooks, the morning report-books, the monthly returns, as to casualties made the memoranda of the writer
upon the
field,
the diaries of various officers
;
corrected
by the personal information of many officers and men to whom all the first term s record was read, and by the help of some of
whom
it
has since been continued.
this personal consultation,
many
papers in the adjutant-general of the greatest service. is
s
office,
have also been
painfully conscious that
some
errors
found in these pages but, for each item, there authority, and no suspected error has passed without
will be is
By
were supplied,
The admirably compiled
and discrepancies reconciled.
The compiler
facts
careful investigation.
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
298
THE MEN OF THE FIRST TERM OF SERVICE.
COMPANY ALDRICH, Loammi B.
25.
A.i
Stanstead,
C.E.
Teamster.
11 May, 1861. Lowell. 2 Detailed regimental wagoner, I July, 1861 detached as brigade wagoner, 22 Dec., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. ;
ATKINSON, 1861.
19.
Ira.
Lowell.
Sandwich, N.H. Shearer. Deserted 23 June, 1861.
11
May
BAB COCK, Alonzo
11 J. 26. Weaver. Norwich, Vt. Lowell. Transferred 21 Dec., 1861, to May, 1861. Company H which see. BAIL ET, James H. 19. Lowell, Mass. Operative. 11 May, ;
1861.
ville;
in arm, 25
May, 1862, near
Taken
exchanged.
BAILEY, Walter II
Wounded
Lowell.
Winchester.
May, 1861.
S.
prisoner, 3 May, 1863, at ChancellorsMustered out 28 May, 1864. 19.
Lowell.
Calico printer. Lowell, Mass. 12 Feb., 1862; serCorporal,
1 The usual order is reversed, and the officers record placed hope of procuring additional information regarding some of the
last, in
the
latter, prior
to printing. 2 For the sake of brevity, the designation of the items of thejirst line, to each name, are omitted. This line, if printed in full, would read ALDRICH, Loammi B. Aged 25, when enlisted. Born in Stanstead, C.E. Teamster :
by occupation.
The words
Enlisted 11
May, 1861.
Residence when
in Italics are to be understood in each case
;
enlisted,
the
Lowell.
same order
being preserved, and ignorance of any item being denoted by points.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
299
Discharged 24 April, 1863, to re geant, 14 Jan., 1863. ceive commission of second lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts.
BALL, Henry C. 22. May, 1861. Lowell. at
Billerica,
Wounded
Mass.
11
Machinist.
in knee, 3 July,
1863,
Gettysburg; and died in consequence, 17 July, 1863, at
Gettysburg.
BARKER, Moses D. 31. Lowell, Me. Moulder. 1861. Lowell, r- Mustered out 14 Oct., 1864. BASCOM, Wallace. 31. Newport, N.H. Painter. 1862.
14 Oct.
6 Aug., Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Get
Lowell.
tysburg.
BASSETT, Joseph C. 1861.
Lowell.
Corinna, Me.
22.
Weaver.
Corporal, June, 1861.
9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. 27. Barrington,
BICKFORD, David.
11 May,
Killed in action,
N.H.
Farmer.
11
Detailed as regimental wag Tewksbury. to 1861 and again, 9 April, 1863, to oner, July, 1861, 26 Sept., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
May, 1861.
.
BLAKE, Charles G. May, 1861.
.
.
21.
:
Brownington, Vt.
11
Painter.
Appointed marker, August, 1862.
Lowell.
Wounded in head, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville re turned to duty, 10 Aug., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. ;
BOWMAN, James A. Aug., 1862.
25.
Lowell.
Painter.
Tyrone, Ireland.
Wounded
in leg, 3 July,
Gettysburg; returned to duty in a few days. out 28 May, 1864.
BOWMAN,
William.
23.
Tyrone, Ireland.
6
1863, at
Mustered
Moulder.
11
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. May, 1861. Lowell. BRIGGS, Franklin W. 29. Sumner, Me. Carder. 7 Aug.,
Wounded in shoulder, 3 July, 1863, at transferred to Invalid Corps. Gettysburg ; 37. BRIGGS, John, jun. Sumner, Me. Spinner. 7 Aug., 1862.
Lowell.
1862.
Lowell.
Wounded
in knee-joint, 3 July, 1863, at
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
300
Gettysburg
;
and died in consequence, 8 Aug., 1863,
at
Get
tysburg.
11 Weaver. Surrey, England. Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
27. BRIGHT, Henry. May, 1861. Lowell.
Cedar Mountain.
W.
Daniel
BROWN,
May, 1861.
21.
Lowell.
11 Hebron, Conn. Weaver. Detached to division ambulance
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. H. 20. 11 Lowell, Mass. Teamster. BROWN, George 1861. Lowell. Enlisted as May, regimental wagoner. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. corps,
16
Oct., 1862.
BULLARD, William 18 Aug., 1862.
T.
37.
Oxford,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
Killed in action, 3 July,
Framingham.
1863, at Gettysburg.
BULLENS, Frank M. May, 1861.
19.
Lowell.
Lowell, Mass.
Discharged for
Machinist.
disability,
11
25 Oct.
1862.
BURNS, John. 1861.
19. Machinist. 11 Sandford, England. Lowell. Wounded in head (by shell), 24
May, May, 1862, near Newtown, Va.
Wounded
;
returned to duty in a few
in
shoulder (exsection), 3 July, 1863, days. at Gettysburg; discharged in consequence, 27 Oct., 1863. (Rolls at State House say expiration of term of service.") "
BUTTERFIELD, Dexter. 15 Oct., 1861.
19.
Dunstable.
Farmer. Dunstable, Mass. Transferred to Company
A
from Company H, 21 Dec., 1861. Corporal, 1 Oct., 1863; Mustered out 14 Oct., 1864. sergeant, 1 July, 1864.
BUXTON, Frank W. 26. Londonderry. Commercial agent. Wounded in foot, 9 Aug., 1862, 1 L May, 1861. Lowell. at
Cedar Mountain; and discharged
in
consequence, 21
Nov., 1862.
George W. 28. Nelson, N.H. Truckman. 11 1861. Lowell. Corporal, 10 Dec., 1861. Wounded May, in both ankles, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain and died
Buxix
N,
;
in consequence, at Alexandria,
Va.
THE ENLISTED MEN. CALLAHAN, John.
Carder.
11 May, 1861.
Deserted 8 June, 1861.
Lowell.
CHENEY, David Aug., 1862. at
Ireland.
28.
301
38.
J.
Chancellorsville
Shrewsbury, Vt.
Wounded
Lowell.
Carpenter.
7
in wrist, 3
May, 1863, in 18 Jan., consequence, discharged
;
1864.
CONLAN, Allan H. May, 1861.
20.
Lowell.
June, 1861.
Dracut, Mass.
Blacksmith.
11
Corporal, 25 May, 1861, to ... been sent to hospital in Washington,
Having was appointed ward-master; and was discharged
in 1861,
War Department, 1 July, 1862, to receive the appointment of hospital steward. COOK, James W. 29. Reading, Mass. Furniture manu by order of the
facturer.
1861
;
1862.
Va.;
11
May, 1861.
Reading.
Corporal, 14 Aug.,
First sergeant, 27 Dec., Sergeant, 14 July, 1862 Wounded in hand, 24 May. 1862, at Kernstown, ;
not disabled.
Wounded
3 May, 1863, Promoted to be second See Commissioned Officers.
cellorsville; not disabled.
19 March, 1863.
at
Chan
lieutenant,
DAGGETT, Andrew J. 32. Burlington, Vt. Carpenter. 11 Detailed as hospital ward-mas May, 1861. Lowell. Died of small-pox, January, 1864, at ter, 12 May, 1861. Washington, D.C. DAVIS, James A. Oct.,
1861.
18. Farmer. 15 Dunstable, Mass. Duustable. Transferred to Company
A
from Company H, 21 Dec., 1861. Wounded in leg, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; and discharged in consequence, 23 Jan., 1863.
DAY,
Charles.
24.
Littleton,
N.H.
Teamster.
11
May,
Detached as wagoner, to corps head 16 Jan., 1863; to Quartermaster s Department, quarters, 16 Mustered out 28 May, 1864. April, 1864. Brigade, John F. 26. 11 May, Butcher. DEMMING, Saco, Me. 1861.
Lowell.
1861.
Lowell.
Corporal, 25
for disability, 17 Feb., 1862.
May, 1861.
Discharged
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
302
DUNNELL, Charles S. 22. Wiscasset, Me. Glass-silverer. Transferred to Com 24 May, 1861. East Cambridge. 4 from A Company April, 1863. Company B, pany musician, 4 April, 1863. DURGIN, Leavitt C. 18.
.
.
nition of his soldierly qualities ral,
.
N.Y.
See Second Term. Weaver. 11 May,
Corporal, 22 Dec., 1861
Lowell.
1861.
Re-enlisted.
B
4 July, 1862
;
and
;
conduct."
sergeant, 14 Jan., 1863
;
just recog Color corpo
"a
color sergeant,
28 Feb., 1863. Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys To lament with you the loss of our brave young burg. "
color-bearer,"
DUSTIN, Eben
said Colonel Cogswell in General Order. 19. Nashua, N.H. Tailor. 11 May,
S.
Wounded in elbow, 17 Sept., Nashua, N.H. in consequence, 4 Feb., 1863, and died 1862, at Autietam; Penn. at Harrisburg, 1861.
Freeman, Me.
DYER, Looman H. 24. Lowell. May, 1861. at
Watchman.
11
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862,
Cedar Mountain.
EMERY, Samuel T. 22. Piermont, N.H. Dealer. Discharged for disability, 19 May, 1861. Lowell. 1862.
11 Oct.,
.
FARNHAM, George W.
19.
East Pittsport, Me.
Lumber
Detailed as attendant in 12 Oct., 1861. Lowell. 16 1862. Detached as orderly June, regimental hospital, Mustered out at division headquarters, 3 Nov., 1863.
man.
28 May, 1864. FERSON, Levi O.
May,
1861.
21.
Lowell.
Nashua,
N.H.
Brakeman.
Corporal, 14 Jan.,
1863.
11
Ser
Wounded in arm, 9 Aug., 1862, at returned to duty in 1862. Wounded in head, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, 17 Aug., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 11 FLEMMING, James. 21. Tason, Ireland. Moulder. geant, 12
May, 1863.
Cedar Mountain
May, 1861.
;
Lowell.
Cedar Mountain.
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
THE ENLISTED MEN. FLETCHER, Orra A.
Westford, Mass. Operative. 7 Discharged for disability, 18 Nov.,
34.
Lowell.
Aug., 1862. 1863.
FOSTER, James L.
303
Weaver.
Rutland, Yt.
22.
7 Aug.,
Died of typhoid fever, 27 Nov., 1862, near Sharpsburg, Md. FOSTER, Nathaniel D. P. 21. Ludlow, Vt. Machinist. 1862.
Lowell.
11 May, 1861. Lowell. Wounded in breast, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; and transferred to Invalid Corps, I July, 1863.
FOSTER, 1862.
P.
Silas
31. Dresser. 7 Aug., Rutland, Vt. Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Get
Lowell.
tysburg.
FOSTER, Willard. 1862.
24.
leg, 3 July,
Vt.
Mendon,
Wounded
Lowell.
in
Carder.
7
Aug.,
arm (amputated) and
in
1863, at Gettysburg; and died in consequence,
8 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
FULLER, Charles May, 1861. at
H.
19.
Cedar Mountain
;
Lowell,
Wounded
Lowell.
Mass.
Spinner.
11
in ankle, 9 Aug., 1862,
discharged in consequence, 13 Feb.,
1863.
FULLER, Edwin A.
20.
II May, 1861. July, 1861.
Lowell.
GARLAND, John A. 11 May, 1861.
Lowell, Mass.
Carpet operative. Discharged for disability, 14
Tewksbury, Mass. Milkman. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
19.
Lowell.
GELRAY, Joseph W. 24. Manchester, England. Weaver. 11 May, 1861. Lowell. Trans Corporal, June, 1861. ferred 22 Dec., 1861, to Company H; which see. See also
Commissioned
Officers.
GEORGE, John F. 22. May, 1861. Lowell. sergeant, 4 July, 1862.
10 Aug., 1862.
Boscawen, N.H. Machinist. 11 Sergeant, 25 May, 1861; color
Promoted
to
See Commissioned
be second lieutenant, Officers.
304
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
GIFFORD, Leonard G.
Lowell, Mass.
Engine driver. Discharged for disability, 20
18.
Lowell.
11 May, 1861. Dec., 1861.
Norridgewock, Me. Watchman. Wounded in arm, 9 Aug., 1862, 11 May, 1861. Lowell. in consequence, 14 Sept., died and at Cedar Mountain; Va. at Alexandria, 1862,
GILMAN, Newhall G.
35.
GIROUX, Thomas C. 32. Montreal, C.E. Dresser. 11 Enlisted as company musician. May, 1861. Lowell. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. GLINES, Amos. 44. Moultonborough, N.H. Blacksmith. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Lowell. 7 Aug., 1862. GOODWIN, Alfred R. 21.
Lowell, Mass.
Operative.
Deserted 8 June, 1861. May, 1861. Lowell. GRAY, Timothy. 22. Lowell, Mass. Mechanic. 1861.
Died of heart
Lowell.
near Sharpsburg, Md. HALL, Jeremiah S. 32.
May,
1861.
Salem,
disease, 2
N.H.
Corporal, 1 4 Jan.,
Lowell.
11
11
May,
Nov., 1862,
Salesman. 1863.
11
Wounded
arm, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; returned to duty, 25 Dec., 1862. Wounded in abdomen, 3 May, 1863, at Killed Chancellorsville returned to duty, 17 May, 1863.
in
;
in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
HANSON, Ephraim Aug., 1862.
Lowell.
HARLOW, Edwin. May, 1861. July,
1863.
26.
Lowell.
1861, to
12
Ossipee, N.H. Mustered out 28
Liverpool,
At
Nov.,
N.S.
Box-maker.
May,
6
1864.
Salesman.
11
regimental headquarters, 25 Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1862.
See Second Term.
HASTINGS, Charles.
May,
33.
C.
1861.
26.
Lowell.
Amherst, N.H. Carpenter. 11 Ser Corporal, 14 Jan., 1863.
to 10 geant, 25 April, 1863,
May, 1863. Corporal again, 13 March, 1864. Detached as carpenter to artillery am munition train, 27 May, 1863, to 22 July, 1863. Re-enlisted See Second Term. 31 Dec., 1863.
305
THE ENLISTED MEN. HAYES, Edwin K. 1861.
Poland, Me.
21.
Operative.
11
May,
Dropped from
rolls, 27 July, 1863. Machinist. Boston, Mass.
Clinton.
HAZELTON, Henry T. 20. Killed May, 1861. Boston.
11
in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain.
HEOY,
Corporal, 12
Lowell.
tion, 3 July,
Lei trim, Ireland.
20.
Patrick.
1861.
11 May,
Killed in ac
1863, at Gettysburg.
HIBBARD, Thaddeus A. 11
Carder.
May, 1863.
Farmer. Franklinville, N.Y. Died of typhoid fever, 5 Aug.,
19.
Lowell.
May, 1861.
1861, at Hagerstown, Md. HINES, Richard S. 29. Munson, Me. Farmer. 11 May, Detached to division ambulance corps, 1861. Munson, Me.
16 Oct., 1862. HUNTER, Robert. 1862.
burg;
Discharged for 38.
Wounded
Boston.
1861.
11
1863.
Wounded through discharged in
INGALLS, Charles F. 1861.
4 Feb., 1864.
arm, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys 1863. consequence in .
25.
.
.
Lynn, Mass.
Wounded
Lowell.
16 Jan., 1863. 12 Aug.,
Laborer.
Trowbridge, England. Black Lowell. Corporal, 12 May,
22.
smith.
May,
N.B.
in arm, 3 July, 1&63, at Gettys
discharged in consequence,
HUNTLEY, Matthew.
burg;
disability,
St. Johns,
in
Clerk.
11 May,
3
May, 1863, at discharged in consequence, 22 Feb., 1864. 25. ... Ireland. Moulder. 11 May, 1861.
Chancellorsville
foot,
;
IVERS, James. Lowell. Wounded in
face, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; discharged in consequence, 22 Feb., 1864. JACKSON, John P. 23. Durham, N.H. Carpenter. 11
May, 1861. Lowell. JAQUES, Silas H. 18.
May, 1861.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
11 Manchester, N.H. Machinist. Lowell. Enlisted as company musician-
Discharged for disability, 29 Jan., 1863. 21. Farmer. JONES, Conley R. Andover, Mass. 1861. Lowell. Deserted 15 1861. May, June, 20
II
306
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Moulder. 11 KIDDER, John W. 21. Lowell, Mass. Wounded in head, 3 July, 1863, May, 1861. Lowell. at
transferred to
Gettysburg; 1864.
KITTREDGE, Edmund R. 11
May,
1862, at Antietam Dec., 1862.
15
Corps,
Newburyport, Mass.
22.
Wounded
Lowell.
18.61.
Invalid
in
leg,
Feb.,
Painter.
17
Sept.,
and discharged in consequence, 12
;
LADD, William W. May, 1861. Lowell.
26.
Mass.
Lowell,
Discharged
11
Currier.
for disability, 17 Nov.,
1862. 23. Langdon, N.H. Carpenter. 11 May, 1861. Langdon, N.H. Corporal, 14 Jan., 1863. Wounded in arm, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville not disabled. De
LAMB, George.
;
duty at Long Island, Boston Harbor, 27 July, Absent on recruiting service, 23 May, 1864, when
tailed to
1863.
mustered
out.
LANE, Lyman. 18. St. Albans, Me. Blacksmith. 7 Oct., Wounded in thigh, 9 Aug., North Tewksbury. 1861. Mountain at Cedar 1862, dropped from the rolls, 27 July, ;
discharged, no date given. M. 22. Stanstead, C.E. William LEE,
1863
;
May, 1861.
Lowell.
Chancellorsville
;
Wounded
not disabled.
11
Machinist.
in ear, 3
May, 1863,
at
Mustered out 28 May,
1864.
LEVERS EE, Wesley R. 11
May, 1861.
Smyrna, N.Y. Corporal, 14
24.
Lowell.
Color corporal, 14 Jan., 1863, to tered out 28 May, 1864.
LIVINGSTON, Nelson 11 May, 1861. at
S.
Lowell.
Carpenter. 1863.
Jan.,
12 Oct., 1863.
Mus
Salesman. Lowell, Mass. Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862,
19.
Cedar Mountain.
LOVEJOY, Jonathan W. 44. Lowell. 11 May, 1861. Discharged
N.H.
Policeman.
Corporal, 25
May, 1861.
Hollis,
for disability, 5 Nov., 1862.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
307
11 May, Carder. Decatur, N.Y. Sergeant, 25 May, 1861, to 14 July, 1862. Discharged for disability, 9 March, 1863. 11 MASON, Ripley E. 26. Mercer, Me. Shoemaker. 28.
MAGEE, Deyea.
Lowell.
18G1.
May, 1861.
Hospital attendant, 13 Aug., 1861.
Lowell.
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 July, 1863.
McALPiNE, Thomas D. 11
May,
Lowell, Mass.
22.
Wounded
Lowell.
1861.
in
Wool-spinner. shoulder (by
and in abdomen, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 19 Aug., 1862. Wounded in heel, 17
shell)
Sept., 1862, at Antietam; and discharged in consequence, 25 June, 1863. Commissioned as second lieutenant in
Invalid Corps.
Me ALPINE,
William T. 11
Saxon ville, Mass.
21.
May, 1861.
Wheel
Sergeant, 25 April, 1863. Wounded in arm, in thigh, and through the body, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain returned to duty,
wright.
Lowell.
.
;
Wounded Chancellorsville
;
in
the
head, 3
May, 1863,
returned to duty, 24 Aug., 1863. See Second Term.
.
.
at
Re-
enlisted 31 Dec., 1863.
MclNTiRE, Albion C. 20. Waterford, Me. Carpenter. 11 Detached to May, 1861. North Reading (Lowell?). Fourth United-States Artillery, 8 April, 1862. 4 June, 1862.
Discharged
for disability,
MCLAUGHLIN, Michael 11
May, 1861.
J.
Lowell.
19.
Clinton, Mass.
Taken
prisoner, 5
Grocer.
May, 1862,
Brock s Gap, Massanutten Mountains escaped from camp of the enemy, and reached the regiment, 13 May. Wounded in hand, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester. Dropped from the rolls as deserter (on furlough.) at
;
the
MILES, William H. 1861. July,
Term.
Lowell. 1863.
25.
Limerick, Me.
Carder.
Corporal, 14 Jan., 1863. Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863.
11
May,
Sergeant, 13
See Second
308
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY. Charles.
MINOR, 1862.
31.
Armand, C.E.
7 Aug., Operative. hand, 15 May, 1864, at Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Wounded
Lowell.
Resaca, Geo.
MORSE, Alexander.
19.
11 May, 1861.
Lowell.
in
South Boston, Mass.
Wounded
in
Fuller.
knee, 3
July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty in a few days. Wounded in hand, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
MORSE, George R. 23. Kennebunk, Me. Dentist. 11 June, 1861, to 14 May, 1861. Lowell. Corporal, Aug., 1861. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1861, at Winchester .
.
.
;
returned
to
company, 25
May, 1864. Moss, William. room,
26.
11
Mustered out 28
Oct., 1862.
Manchester, England. Lowell. May, 1861.
Operative in
Corporal, 25 10 to 1861. Wounded in 1861, Dec., wrist, 3 May, May, 1863, at Chancellors ville ; discharged in consequence, 10 Nov., 1863. NUTTER, Luther P. 22. Ossipee, N.H. Shoemaker. 11 cloth
May, 1861.
Lowell.
Killed in action, 3
May, 1863,
at
Moulder.
11
Chancellorsville.
O HARE, Andrew 1861.
May,
22.
J.
Lowell (Salem
Salem, Mass. ?).
Taken
1862, in hospital at Warrenton, Va. ability, 4 Nov., 1862.
O HARE, 1861.
Polinus.
21.
Portland,
Lowell (Salem?).
Me.
prisoner, 27 Aug.,
Discharged for dis
Farmer.
Discharged
11
May,
for disability,
20
Dec., 1862. 20. Harness-maker. Canaan, N.H. PAGE, George W. Lowell. Wounded in thigh, 9 Aug., 11 May, 1861.
1862, at Cedar Mountain, and taken prisoner; returned to Detached to division ambulance 23 Oct., 1862.
duty,
corps, PAGE>
28
Oct., 1862.
Lucius.
19.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Hyde Park,
Vt.
Machinist.
11 May,
Wounded in Corporal, 25 April, 1863. at Cedar in thigh, wounded 9 Mountain; 1862, arm, Aug., 1861.
Lowell.
THE ENLISTED MEN. 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville June, 1863, at
25.
Lowell.
11 May, 1861.
1863
14 Jan.,
Wounded
Lowell.
;
861.
S wanton, Vt.
40.
May,
Nov., 1862.
1 1 Currier. Leominster, Mass. May, 1861. Wounded
23.
Lowell.
See
11
Carder.
disability, 5
Corporal, 25
Mountain
shoulder, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar
consequence, 26 Jan., 1863. PHILLIPS, Samuel R. 34. Brecon, Wales. 11 May, 1861. Lowell. Sergeant, 25
charged
returned
Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863.
Discharged for
PHELPS, Francis D. in
Carpenter, ser January, 1862 25 1863. April, sergeant,
in side, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg;
PERKINS, Charles E.
1
Me.
Portland,
first
;
24 Aug., 1863. Second Term.
May,
in consequence,
Corporal,
to duty,
1861.
and died
;
Acquia Landing, Va.
PENDERGAST, Richard. geant,
309
and
;
dis
in
13 Feb., 1862;
Discharged for
color sergeant,
disability,
.
.
Book-keeper.
May, 1861,
1861, to
.
.
.
.
to
1862.
25 Oct., 1862.
PICKERING, Theophilus D.
22.
Gorham, Me.
Lamp
Detached to division lighter. May, 1861. Lowell. ambulance train, 16 Oct., 1862, to 16 July, 1863. Detailed as regimental wagoner, January, 1864. Mustered out 28 11
May, 1864. PROUTY, Sidney
S.
11 May, 1861.
31.
Onondaga
Co.,
N.Y.
Mason.
Wounded through
Lowell.
Gettysburg; and
knee), 3 July, 1863, at
leg (below died in conse
quence, 19 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
RICHARDS, William C n
26. Camden, Me. Cooper. 11 May, 1861. Lowell (Camden, Me. ?) Discharged for dis .
ability, ...
1862.
ROBBINS, Leverett. 28
Oct., 1862. Jan., 1863.
RYERSON, Horace. man.
Ipswich, Mass.
40.
Boston.
26.
12 Oct., 1861.
Carriage-maker. Discharged for disability, 16
Livermore Lowell.
rhcea, 3 Dec., 1861, at Alexandria,
Falls,
Me.
Lumber
Died of chronic Va.
diar-%
310
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
SARGEANT, John July, 1862. tered out.
18.
S.
Lowell.
SAWYER, Nathan D. A. Lowell. May, 1861.
Mass.
Lowell,
Salesman.
9
Absent 28 May, 1864, when mus Salem, Mass.
22.
Farmer.
11
25 May,
1861; ser Wounded through the chest, 25 geant, 12 Feb., 1862. May, 1862, at Winchester returned to regiment, 13 Sept. Corporal,
;
1862.
Promoted
to
See Commissioned
be second lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862.
Officers.
SEYMOUR, George H. 28. 11 May, 1861. Lowell.
Maidstone, England.
Painter.
for
disability,
17
Mass.
Scholar.
1
Discharged
Dec., 1861.
SHERMAN, George W. July,
1862.
18.
Lowell,
Wounded
Lowell.
1863, at Chancellorsville
in
not disabled.
;
shoulder,
3
May,
Missing on march
from Kingston, Ga., 6 June, 1864; probably prisoner.
Re
ported as having died in Andersoriville prison.
SHERMAN, William H. May, 1861.
Lowell.
20.
Lowell, Mass.
Wounded
Weaver.
11
in side, 3 July, 1863, at
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. H. 24. Portland, Me. James Moulder. SHIRLEY, Gettysburg.
May,
1861.
Lowell.
Cedar Mountain
;
Wounded
and discharged
in
11
arm, 9 Aug., 1862, at
in consequence, 6 Nov.,
1862.
SPAULDING, Oscar. 1861.
Lowell.
18.
Lowell, Mass.
Wounded
in thigh
Weaver.
11
May,
and in arm, 9 Aug.,
and died in consequence, Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain 1862, at Alexandria, Va. STACY, John R. 30. Manchester, N.H. Shoemaker. 12 ;
Oct., 1861.
Lowell. Discharged for disability (result of 16 1863. Jan., sun-stroke), STICKNEY, Henry E. 21. Andover, Mass. School-teacher.
12 June, 1861. 12 Aug., 1861.
Wilmington.
Discharged for
disability,
THE ENLISTED MEN.
311
23. South Thomaston, Me. Spinner. Lowell. 1861. Sergeant, 25 May, 1861, to 25 May, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 1863. April,
STOVER, Jesse G. 11
SWEAT, Joseph S. G. 18. Lowell, Mass. Sash and blind maker. 11 May, 1861. Lowell. Discharged for disabil ity, 1
June, 1861.
Tic EHTJRST, James.
Derby, Vt.
33.
Machinist.
11
May,
wagoner, 10 June, 1861 detached as wagoner in corps train, 21 Jan., Mustered out 28 May, 1863, and made master-wagoner. 1861.
Lowell.
Detailed
as
regimental
;
1864.
11 Lowell, Mass. Carpenter. Corporal, 25 May, 1861, to 5 Feb., in wrist, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Moun
TILTON, Charles F.
May, 1861. 1863.
23.
Lowell.
Wounded
returned to the regiment, but, being disabled, was de tailed as clerk to brigade quartermaster, 5 Feb., 1863 tain
;
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. TRIPP, James E. 22. Lowell, Mass. Machinist. 1861.
Corporal, 25 April, 1863, to
Lowell.
Wounded through
neck, 3
May, 1863,
returned to duty, 17 Aug., 1863. 1863. See Second Term.
TRUE, Emmons T. Aug., 1862.
24.
Lowell.
11
1 Oct.,
May, 1863.
at Chancellorsville
Re-enlisted
31
;
Dec.,
Freeman, Me. Watchman. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
7
TUCK, Andrew
J. 43. Dresser (overseer). Fayette, Me. 7 Aug., 1862. Lowell. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. TUCKERMAN, Prentiss. 19. Cambridge, Mass. Engine-
driver.
11
May, 1861.
Lowell.
Discharged for disa
bility, in 1861.
UPTON, Joseph. 11 May, 1861.
39.
Mass. Carpet-weaver. Detailed as company cook, 15
Tyngsboro
Lowell.
,
July, 1861, but served with his musket in each action in which the company was engaged. Wounded in right arm, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 20 Aug., 1862. Absent sick, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
(Universally esteemed and loved.)
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
312
Rosalvo
WALKER,
M.
19.
Wilton,
Me.
Weaver.
11
Taken Oct., 1863. May, Corporal, 25 at returned to Winchester; 1862, prisoner, May, duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Wounded in face, 3 May, 1862, at Chancel1861.
lorsville
;
Lowell.
1
returned to duty, 21 July, 1863.
Mustered out
28 May, 1864.
WRITTEN, Eben B. 1861.
24.
Wilton, Me.
First sergeant, 25
Lowell.
action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Spinner.
May, 1861.
11
May,
Killed in
Cedar Mountain.
Hudson, N.H. Carder (overseer). 7 Aug., 1862. Lowell. Wounded in head, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 17 May, 1863.
WILSON,
35.
Foster.
;
Wounded
in leg, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg;
to duty, 21 Dec., 1863.
returned
Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863.
See
Second Term.
WRIGHT, Lewis 1861.
Lowell.
C.
24. Weaver. 11 May, Berlin, Vt. Died of dysentery,. 5 Oct., 1862, at
Maryland Heights.
COMPANY
B.
Farmer. 25 May, Shapleigh, Me. 1 Me. Mus Oct., 1863. Corporal, Shapleigh, tered out 28 May, 1864. ALTON, Samuel T. 21. Sandwich, Mass. Cabinet-maker. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at May, 1861. Salem.
ABBOTT, James.
21.
1861.
Winchester; returned
to duty,
25 Oct., 1862.
in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg;
and died
Wounded in conse
quence, 17 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. APPLETON, James M. P. 19. Milton, N.H. Machinist. Wounded 17 Oct., 1862, at 14 Oct., 1861. Lowell.
Antietam
;
and transferred
to Invalid Corps,
27 Sept., 1863.
THE ENLISTED MEN. H.
Charles
BICKFORD,
20. Machinist. Boston, Mass. Killed in action, 3 May, 1863, at
Lowell.
May, 1861.
313
Chancellorsville. 21. Salem, Mass. Laborer. May, Discharged for disability, 28 Feb., 1863. Leander G. 18. ... Me. Farmer. May, 1861.
G.
BLAKE, Darius
Salem.
1861.
BOWLEY,
Chelmsford.
Corporal, 4 Oct., 1862. Sergeant, 15 Feb., in arm and side, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys
1863.
Wounded
Re-enlisted 31
burg; returned to duty, 16 Dec., 1863. See Second Term. Dec., 1863.
BREEN, Owen.
25.
Tyrone, Ireland.
Wounded
Lowell.
Farmer.
in foot, 9 Aug., 1862, at
tain; returned to duty, 11 Oct., 1862.
May, 1861. Cedar
Moun
Deserted 24 Aug.,
1863.
BROOKS, George.
26.
Gardner, Mass.
28 May, 1864, when mustered
hospital,
Laborer.
Corporal, 14 Aug., 1861.
Gardner.
1861.
May,
Absent
in
out.
BUTLAND, Edward. 20. Kennebunk, Me. Ship-carpenter. Taken prisoner, 25 May, May, 1861. Kennebunk, Me. 1862, at Winchester, and paroled; returned to duty, 13 Wounded in side, 3 May, 1863, at Chancel Dec., 1862. lorsville
;
1861.
Mustered out
returned to duty, 16 Dec., 1863.
28 May, 1864. CADY, John D. 20. Vassalboro
New ,
Me.
Sept., 1862, at Antietam
1862. at Frederick,
;
Bedford, Mass.
Farmer.
Wounded through and died
May,
chest,
in consequence,
30
17
Sept.,
Md.
Daniel. 21. Glass-maker. Cork, Ireland. 11 Aug., 1862. East Cambridge. Wounded in shoulder, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 9 Oct.,
CALLAHAN,
;
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. CARNEY, James. 20. England. Cordwainer. 1863.
not
May, 1861.
Wounded in head, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester disabled. Wounded in shoulder, 3 May, 1863, at Chan
Lowell.
cellorsville
;
transferred to Invalid Corps.
;
314
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS LNFANTKY.
CARNEY, John.
Baker. May, 1861. Cork, Ireland. in arm, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam ;
19.
Wounded
Haverhill.
and discharged in consequence, 23 Dec., 1862. Farmer. 18. Dracut, Mass.
CHEEVER, Appleton. 1861.
May,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 25. Shoemaker. Robert. Tyrone, Ireland.
Lowell.
CHRISTIE,
May, 1861.
Wounded
Lowell.
17 Sept., 1862, at
Killed in action, 3
tietam; not disabled.
An
May, 1863,
at
Chancellorsville.
CLARK, William W. 1861.
18.
Waterville,
Me.
Farmer.
May.
Re-enlisted and transferred 1 Jan., 1864,
Lowell.
See Second Term. Company K; which see. Thomas H. 24. Tamworth, N.H. Blacksmith, CLOUGH, 1861. Lowell. May, Corporal, May, 1861, to 12 Aug., to
1861.
Lowell.
CONLAN, 1861. side,
for disability,
Discharged
COLBY, Lucius.
Sutton, Vt.
35.
Discharged Peter.
22.
30 Nov., 1862. Painter.
9 Aug., 1862.
for disability, 18 Aug., 1862.
Monahan,
Ireland.
Laborer.
May,
Wounded through neck, through East Cambridge. and through leg, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; and
died in consequence, 9 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
COOK, Benjamin F. 1861.
22.
Shapleigh, Me.
Shapleigh,
Me.
Discharged
for disability, 21 Feb.,
Farmer.
May,
1862.
CORBETT, William 1861.
21.
J.
Lowell, Mass. in side, 3
Wounded
Lowell.
Laborer.
May, May, 1863, at
returned to duty, 27 Oct., 1863. May, 1864.
Chancellorsville;
tered out 28
CROOKER, Thomas.
32.
Eastport,
Me.
Laborer.
Mus May,
Deserted May, 1861. CROSSON, James F. 22. Philadelphia, Pa. Billiard-maker. Corporal, May, 1861, to 12 Aug., May, 1861. Salem. 1861.
Boston.
1861.
Taken
prisoner,
Va. 24 May, 1862, at Strasburg,
returned to duty, 28 Oct., 1862.
See Second Term.
;
Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863.
THE ENLISTED MEN. 20. Athol, Mass. Cordwainer.
CUMMINGS, Frederick. 1861.
DACE Y,
Discharged for Lowell, Mass.
Orange. John. 32.
315
disability,
May,
4 March, 1863.
Machinist.
May, 1861.
Deserted 9 July, 1861. 21. Alva. Buckfield, Me.
Boston.
Farmer. May, 1861, 25 Paris, prisoner, May, 1862, at Winches 25 returned to Mustered out 28 ter; Oct., 1862. duty,
DAMON,
Me.
Taken
May, 1864. DEERING, William. July, 1862.
33.
Lowell.
9 Tyrone, Ireland. Spinner. Killed in action at Averysboro ,
N.C., 16 March, 1865.
DILLON, Thomas.
31.
Brookline. July, 1862. at Antietam.
Clare,
Ireland.
24
Teamster.
Killed in action, 17 Sept., 1862,
29. Lyme, N.H. Laborer. 18 May, Detailed as regi Windham, Me. (Lyme, N.H.?).
DIMMICK, John G. 1861.
mental wagoner, 22 May, 1862.
Dow,
Charles H.
1861.
May,
July, 1861.
1
20.
Sanford,
Discharged for
Me.
disability,
Shoemaker.
May,
Me.
Corporal, 29 Nov., 1862, to 10 and 17 1863; again, July, 1863 ("for good behavior Sanford,
in action at Gettysburg"), to 1 Oct., 1863.
Mustered out
28 May, 1864.
DUNNELL, Charles S. 22. Wiscasset, Me. Glass-silverer. 24 May, 1861. East Cambridge. Enlisted companymusician. Transferred 4 April, 1863, to Company A; which
see.
EATON, Simeon.
Westminster, Mass. Painter. May, in back (side shot), 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 12 Oct., 1861.
24.
1862; discharged
EDWARDS, Henry. Aug.,
Wounded
Gardner.
1862.
in
consequence of wound, 18 Oct., 1862. 28 Gas-fitter. Boston, Mass.
20.
Boston.
June, 1863, at Beverly 9 Oct., 1863.
Taken prisoner (wounded), Ford; discharged
9
in consequence,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
316
EMERY, Martin B. Lowell.
Dixmont, Me. Farmer.
22.
Discharged
May, 1861.
for disability, 29 Jan., 1863.
43. St. Johns, N.B. Shoemaker. 8 Sent to hospital, Aug., 1862; discharged for disability, 4 March, 1863. EVANS, James A. 21. Limerick, Me. Laborer. 11 May,
EMMONS, Benjamin. Aug., 1862.
.
.
.
Limerick, Me. -Corporal, May, 1861. Sergeant. Drowned in the Shenandoah River, near Aug., 1861. Edenburg, Va., 9 April, 1862, while in discharge of duty. 1861. 1
FAGAN, Michael. 1861.
21.
Russell,
Wounded
Dalton.
in
Mass.
Currier.
arm, 25
May, May, 1862, at
Winchester; discharged in consequence, 9 Oct., 1862. FLANAGAN, James. 22. Lowell, Mass. Laborer. May, 1861.
Corporal, June, 1861, to 6 July, 1861-
Lowell.
Deserted 22 Aug., 1861.
Foss, John C. Lowell.
Deny, N.H.
36.
Killed in action, 3
Painter.
May, 1863,
9 Aug., 1862.
at Chancellorsville.
FREEMAN, George. 24. Birmingham, England. Laborer, Drowned in the Shenandoah River, May, 1861. Boston. near Edenburg, Va., 9 April, 1862, while in discharge of duty.
FRENCH,
Me. Blacksmith. May, 1861. prisoner, 3 May, 1863, at Chan returned to duty, 14 Nov., 1863. Mustered
Charles.
25.
cellorsville;
Porter,
Taken
Newfield, Me.
out 28 May, 1864. GARDINER, Benjamin B.
May, 1861.
Salem.
26.
Salem, Mass. Carpenter. in head, 3 May, 1863, at
Wounded
Chancellorsville and discharged in consequence. GARRITY, Daniel. 23. Lowell, Mass. Laborer. May, 1861. Lowell. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Wounded in face and ;
neck, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, 19 Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Oct., 1863.
GILSON, Albert. 22. Dunstable, Mass. 1861.
Lowell.
dar Mountain.
Teamster.
12 Oct.,
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at Ce
THE ENLISTED MEN. GLEASON, John.
Limerick, Ireland.
22.
Wounded
317 Laborer.
May,
knee, 3 July, 1863, at Chicopee. 17 returned to Jan., 1864. Mustered out duty, Gettysburg 28 May, 1864.
1861.
in
;
GORDON, Elbridge G. 1861.
Solon,
commissary, 1 1864.
Me.
24.
Me.
Solon,
Painter.
Detached as assistant
Mustered
March, 1862.
out
39. Groton, Mass. Teamster. Detailed as company cook, 1861. 31 Dec., 1863. See Second Term.
GOULD, John. Lowell.
GREEN, William R. Salem. Taken
21.
Salem, Mass.
to
Tanner.
May, division
28
May,
May, 1861. Re-enlisted
May, 1861.
1862, near Manassas Re-enlisted Junction; returned to duty, 17 May, 1863. 31 Dec., 1863. See Second Term. prisoner, August,
GREENOUGH, Daniel May, 1861.
Cedar Mountain ded
S.
in head, 15
31.
Salem, Mass.
Wounded
Salem.
Cordwainer.
in foot, 9 Aug., 1862, at
returned to duty, October, 1862. Woun May, 1864, at Resaca and died in conse ;
;
quence, 6 June, 1864. GRIFFIN, John. 21. Cork, Ireland. Upholsterer. 11 Aug., 1862. Boston. Wounded in leg, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 21 Aug., 1863. Mustered ;
out 28 May, 1864. GRISWOLD, Alonzo. 24.
1861.
Dalton (Hinsdale
Hinsdale, Mass.
Farmer.
May,
Sergeant, May, 1861. Color Detached on service at sergeant, Dec., 1862, to ... 1862. ?).
Long Island, Boston Harbor, 26 July, 1863; absent 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. GRISWOLD, D wight F. 21. New Orleans, La. Painter. Brattleboro Vt. May, 1861. Sergeant, May, 1861, ,
to 1 Aug., 1861.
Enlisted in Fourth ^nited-States Artil 27 Oct., 1862; was afterwards wounded, and died in lery,
consequence.
HAM, Edwin.
21.
Salem (Boston?).
Shapleigh, Me.
Discharged
Carpenter.
May, 1861.
for disability, 11 Aug., 1861.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INTANTRY.
318
HAM, Martin 1SG1.
L.
19.
for disability,
L.
Boston.
31.
first
1861.
May,
Kennebunk, Me. Ship-carpenter. Kenpebunk, Me. Sergeant, May, 1861 ; 22.
29 Oct., 1862. HEARN, James. 19.
May,
Laborer.
out.
Wounded through
Cedar Mountain
Aug., 1862, at
C.W.
in face
sergeant, 1 Aug., 1861.
;
shoulder,
discharged in consequence,
Blacksmith. England. Deserted June, 1861. Farmer. May, Kennebunk, Me.
Staffordshire,
Boston.
1861.
Discharged
and shoulder, 3 July, absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864,
1863, at Gettysburg; Robert.
Barnston,
"Wounded
when mustered
HATCH, May,
May,
Carpenter.
22 May, 1862.
HANSON, Gardner 1861.
Me.
Shapleigh,
Corporal, 14 Aug., 1861.
Boston.
HILL, James P. 21. 1861. Kennebunk, Me.
Enlisted in Fourth United-
States Artillery, 25 Oct., 1862.
Law student. May, Groton, Mass. served under General HaveHad Charlestown. 21.
HILL, Joseph. 1861.
lock in the
march 1
to
Lucknow.
First sergeant,
Aug., 1861, to receive
May, 1861
;
commission of second
discharged lieutenant in First Maine Cavalry ; was subsequently cap tain in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, and aide to General
Rosecrans; resigned in January, 1864. 20. Tipperary, Ireland. Machinist. May, Taken prisoner, 12 Dec., 1862, near Chicopee. Hillsboro Va. dropped from the rolls, 29 Feb., 1864;
HOGAN,
Patrick.
1861.
,
;
said to have been discharged in March, 1863. HOLLAND, John. 21. Tyrone, Ireland. Tailor.
May, 1861.
Lowell. company musician, June, 1861; taken prisoner, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellors ville. Mus tered out 28 May, 1864. Detailed
HOLMES, Charles W. smith. May, 1861.
as
21.
Black
Preston Hill, N.Y.
Dalton.
Taken
9
June, 1863, at Beverly Ford; returned to duty, 14 Nov., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. prisoner,
THE ENLISTED MEN. N.H.
HOLT, Henry H. 20
319
Dairyman. May, 1861.
Transferred to Invalid
Chelmsford.
5
1
Corps,
April,
1863.
HORGAN, 1862.
Michael.
HOYT, Charles N. 1861.
Boston, Mass.
20.
30 July,
Laborer.
See Second Term.
in hospital
Lowell, Mass.
20.
Taken
Lowell.
Frederick, Md., and paroled
in
duty, 3 April, 1863.
May,
Dairyman.
prisoner, September, 1862, while
Discharged
for,
returned to
;
22 April,
disability,
1863. 22. Farmer. HUFF, Thatcher J. Kennebunkport, Me. 1861. Me. "Wounded Kennebunk, May, through chest, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain, and taken prisoner;
discharged in consequence of wounds, 5 Feb., 1863.
Waterford, Ireland. Glovemaker. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester, and paroled; returned to duty, 13 Dec., r 1862. ounded in leg, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg;
HURLEY, Timothy. 22. May, 1861. Rowley.
W
absent until mustered out, 28 18.
JOHNSON, Augustus. 1861.
Wounded
Alford.
at Chancellorsville
tered out 28
May, JOHNSON, Thomas.
May, 1864.
Roxbury, Mass. in
shoulder,
Farmer. 3
May, May, 1863,
Mus
returned to duty, 17 June, 1863.
;
1864.
21. Liverpool, England. Cotton-spin 1861. Athol. colorMay, Corporal, 15 Jan., 1862 corporal, 12 Oct., 1863. Wounded in hand, 24 May, 1862,
ner.
at
;
Newtown, Va.
not disabled.
;
See Second
Re-enlisted.
Term.
KELLEY, George F. 1861.
19.
Pittsfield,
Mass.
Moulder.
May,
Boston.
Discharged for disability, June, 1861. 27. 7 Painter. KELSEY, Jeremiah A. Newport, N.H. Aug., 1862. at
Lowell.
Chancellorsville
;
Wounded returned to
in thigh, 3
duty,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. KEMP, William H. 28. Lowell, Mass. 1862.
Lowell.
Discharged
17
May, 1863,
Aug.,
Painter.
for disability,
1863.
29 July,
16 Jan., 1863.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
320 KENNY,
Martin.
in face, 15 Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Aug., 1862. 1864, at Resaca.
KERNE ALT,
.
Dennis.
May, 1861.
19.
Deserted 14 May, 1863. 20. North Chelmsford, Mass.
Boston.
KEYES, Stephen F.
Boston.
12 Aug., 1862.
student.
Law 1
Oct.,
Corporal, Practising law in
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
1863.
May,
Cordwainer.
Ireland.
Cork,
28
Shoemaker.
Galway, Ireland. Marlboro Wounded 35.
Boston.
KING, James.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 27.
KINMONTH, Hugh.
Manchester.
1861.
May, 1861.
Farmer.
Dublin, Ireland.
24.
Cambridge.
Currier.
Cork, Ireland.
May, 1861;
Corporal,
13 April, 1862, to 10 May, 1863 behavior in action at ("for good
;
May,
sergeant,
and again 17 July, 1863 Mustered Gettysburg").
out 28
May, 1864. LOVEJOY, William W.
May, at
1861.
Andover, Mass.
20.
Machinist.
Wounded in face, 3 July, 1863 Wounded in thigh, 15 May, disabled.
Andover.
Gettysburg
not
;
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Printer. 30. LUNDY, Francis. Manchester, England. May, 1861. New- York City. Sergeant, 12 Aug., 1861 1864, at Resaca.
;
first
Promoted
to
Nov., 1862
1
sergeant,
... Wounded
27.
Lowell.
Chancellorsville
;
Ireland.
Painter.
in
3
7 Aug.,
thigh, May, 1863, died in consequence, 25 Aug., 1863.
MARSHALL, Frederick Lowell.
See
Officers.
MANNING, John.
1861.
color-bearer at Antietam.
be second lieutenant, 30 March, 1863.
Commissioned 1862.
;
II.
22.
Corporal,
Bangor, Me.
May, 1861,
Dyer. 1861
to June,
at
May ;
and
Aug., 1861, to 11 Dec., 1861. Deserted 28 Jan. 1862, while on furlough. McKEAN, Peter. 36. Edinboro Scotland. Shoemaker. again
1
,
May, 1861. 1862, at
Bellingham.
Wounded
in
groin,
9 Aug.,
Cedar Mountain; discharged in consequence, 17
Nov., 1862.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
Me VET,
Michael.
MERRITT, Wesley M.
Teamster.
Sharon, Vt.
21.
Corporal, May, 1861
Lowell.
1861.
Cotton-buffer. Tyrone, Ireland. Deserted 22 Aug., 1861.
22.
Lowell.
May, 1861.
321
;
sergeant,
May, 1
Aug.,
1861, to 12 Aug., 1861. Discharged for disability (from March, 1863.
accident), 23
MINOR, Abraham. 1861.
disability, 5
Enlisted as
and taken prisoner
Saratoga, N.Y. in leg, 25
James
E.
in leg,
to duty,
;
tered out 28
Lynn, Mass.
24.
Wounded
Lynn. Cedar Mountain returned
for
May, 1861. Winchester, ;
dis
Cordwainer.
9 Aug., 1863, at
Mus
19 Aug., 1862.
May, 1864.
Francis.
23.
Middlefield (Boston?). 1863.
MURRY,
at
;
May, 1861.
MURRAY,
Clerk.
May, 1862,
paroled a few days afterwards consequence of wounds, 13 Jan., 1863.
in
charged
May,
Discharged
wagoner.
June, 1862.
MOSHER, Edwin. 21. Dalton. Wounded
MOULTON,
Laborer.
Danville, Vt.
35.
Lowell.
Troy, N.Y. Sawyer. May, 1861. Deserted from hospital, April,
James.
May, 1861.
23. Morocco-dresser. Cork, Ireland. Charlestown. Detached to gunboat on the
Mississippi, 28 Feb.,
1862
dropped from the rolls. Windsor, Vt. Cotton-spinner. Taken prisoner, 25 May, May, 1861. Windsor, Vt. 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862.
NEWMAN,
Charles H.
Wounded
in
disabled.
Re-enlisted.
ancle,
NUTE, William W.
.
;
19.
3
1863, at Gettysburg; See Second Term.
July,
25.
Dunbarton, N.H.
not
Cordwainer.
Detached to Fourth United-States May, 1861. Orange. enlisted in Fourth UnitedArtillery, 10 April, 1862 ;
States Artillery, 25 Oct., 1862. OAKES, James. 31. Lancaster, England.
1861.
Lowell.
Corporal, 13
action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
April,
Laborer. 1862.
May,
Killed in
Cedar Mountain, while a color
corporal. 21
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
322
O DoHERTY,
Francis.
Clerk. Londonderry, Ireland. Corporal, 15 Jan., 1862; ser Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862,
19.
Boston.
1861.
9 June,
1863. geant, 23 April, returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1863. at Winchester ;
26 Aug., 1863. ORR, Samuel. 41.
New
Bedford.
Wounded
Gettysburg; returned to duty, Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
in neck, 3 July,
1863, at
Albany, N.Y. Painter. 10 June, 1861. Sent to hospital in Philadelphia, 4 March,
1862, and discharged for disability in 1862. 24. Clerk. S. Boston, Mass.
May,
PACKARD, Joseph 1861..
Boston.
14 Aug., 1861; color cor Wounded in back (lateral), 3 July,
Corporal,
1862. poral, 4 July,
1863, at Gettysburg; 1863.
PETERSEN, Andrew maker.
May,
S.
1
Dec.,
Boyen, Norway. Cabinet Detached on signal ser Re-enlisted. See 17 Aug., 1862. 26.
Lowell.
1861.
28 Aug., 1861, to Second Term.
vice,
PLAISTED, Edwin.
discharged in consequence,
Watertown, Mass.
21.
Shoemaker.
Enlisted in Fourth 18 May, 1861. Windham (Me.?). United-States Artillery, 25 Oct., 1862. Teamster. May, POPE, Joseph N. 18. Salem, Mass.
Salem.
1861. chester.
POWERS, 1861.
Taken
prisoner, 25
May, 1862,
at
Win
Discharged for disability, 3 Jan., 1863. Patrick. 22. Waterford, Ireland. Laborer. May, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Chicopee.
PRESCOTT, 1861.
Morrill.
Holy oke.
24.
Buxton, Me. Manufacturer. May,
Sergeant, 11
May, 1861.
Discharged
for disability, 3 Jan., 1863.
REARDON, 1861.
Daniel.
Salem.
27.
Waterford, Ireland. Currier. May, prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win
Taken
returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Wounded in arm, ; 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; absent in hospital^ 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. (Subsequently re-enlisted in the
chester
same company.
See Second Term.}
THE ENLISTED MEN.
323
21. Cook s Corner, Vt. Teamster. RODGERS, Joseph. 18 May, 1861. Windham, Vt. Corporal, 6 July, 1861
;
first sergeant, 23 April, 1863. sergeant, 1 Nov., 1862 Wounded in right arm and in left foot, 9 Aug., 1862, at ;
Cedar Mountain; returned
to duty,
Mus
17 Oct., 1862.
May, 1864.
tered out 28
Butcher. 37. Wells, Me. SARGENT, Harrison. May, for Me. 1861. Kennebunk, Discharged disability, 3 June, 1862.
SCOTT, Thomas.
Tyrone, Ireland.
34.
Soap-maker.
10
Lowell. Sent to hospital, 12 Feb., 1864. July, 1862. Mustered out 20 July, 1865. 20.
SHUFELT, Stephen.
May, 1864.
Detached
to
St.
Ambrose, C.W.
Corporal, 4 Oct., 1862,
Lowell.
1861.
Machinist. to
29 Feb.,
Ambulance Corps, 16
Division
Oct.,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. SKINNER, Austin L. 26. Nashua, N.H. 7 Aug., 1862. Lowell. Discharged for disability, 26 Oct., 1862. 1862.
SMITH, Reuben.
18.
Cordwainer. Lancashire, England. Wounded in hip, 3 July, 1863, at returned to duty, 28 Aug., 1863. Re-enlist
Lowell.
May, 1861.
Gettysburg See Second Term. ;
ed.
SMITH, William H. 1862.
Dracut.
23.
Nashua, N.H.
Wounded
in
Painter.
14 Aug.,
leg, 3 July, 1863, at
Get
returned to duty, 3 Nov., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. SMITHICK, Maurice. 20. Methuen, Mass. Laborer. May, tysburg
1861.
;
Somerville.
Discharged for
disability,
22 April,
1863.
STANTON, William.
23.
Ireland.
Shoemaker.
May, 1861.
Lowell.
Discharged for disability in 1862. STEPHENS, Alexander. 18. Mayo, Ireland. Laborer. -11 Lowell. Oct., 1861. Wounded, 25 May, 1862, at Win chester; died in consequence, June, 1862, at Winchester.
STEPHENS, John. 1861.
Lowell.
22.
Mayo,
Wounded
Ireland. in
Moulder.
15 Oct.,
shoulder, 9 Aug., 1862, at
324
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Cedar Mountain; at Annapolis,
died in consequence, September, 1862,
Md. 21. Kennebunk, Me. Killed Kennebunk, Me.
STEVENS, Jesse.
May,
1861.
Ship-carpenter. in action, 3
May,
1863, at Chancellorsville.
STIMPSON, Jesse F. smith.
Fredericktown, N.B.
21.
May, 1861.
Taken
1862, at Winchester Wounded in ankle, 3
Milford. ;
Black
prisoner, 25
sent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. TAYLOR, George. 20. Kennebunk, Me. Sawyer.
1861.
May,
returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. May, 1863, at Chancellorsville; ab
Me.
Kennebunk,
Re-enlisted.
May, Second
See
Term.
THING, Henry.
22
May, 1861. Boston
(?).
for disability, June, 1861.
Discharged THOMPSON, William.
24.
Lancashire, England,
Weaver.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Roxbury, Mass. Machinist. May,
May, 1861. Salem. TUCKER, William. 24.
Corporal, May, 1861. Discharged for Aug., 1861. Shoemaker. WALL, Michael. 25. Tipperary, Ireland. Deserted 5 July, 1861. May, 1861. Boston (?).
1861.
Boston.
disability, 11
WALLACE, John A. 1861. erick,
Derry, N.H.
19.
Died of
Lowell.
Apothecary.
scrofula, 9 April, 1862, at
May, Fred
Md.
WATSON, Samuel
23. C. Iron-moulder. Easton, Mass. Boston for 1861. (?). Discharged disability, June, May, 1861. (State record says, "deserted.")
WELDON, Henry. .1861.
WHITTIER, Ruel. 1861.
May,
Mercer, Me. Carpenter. May, Corporal, 14 Aug., 1861. Killed in ac
26.
1863, at Gettysburg.
WILSON, Joseph H. 1861.
Machinist.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Lowell.
tion, 3 July,
Lowell, Mass.
19.
Lowell.
Salem.
20.
Salem, Mass.
Discharged
rhea), 28 March, 1863
;
six
Sailor.
May,
for disability (chronic
weeks
after, enlisted
diar
in the
THE ENLISTED MEN. naval service
;
was
in the Ossipee
from 8
tracted disease at Galveston, Texas,
Asylum, Philadelphia,
in
maker.
Sept., 1864; con and was in the Naval
December, 1865.
COMPANY ABORN,
325
C.
18. South Reading, Mass. Shoe Sylvester P. 12 Aug., 1862. South Reading. Wounded in
returned to duty, 29 hand, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg Re-enlisted. See Second Term. ;
Oct., 1863.
ALLEY, George W. 29 July, 1862. at
Gettysburg;
Lynn, Mass.
32.
Wounded
Lynn.
absent in hospital, 28
charged, time and place unknown. ANDREWS, Charles O. 22. Lincoln
Machine-sower.
in foot, 3 July, 1863,
May, 1864;
Co,,
Me.
11
dis
May,
Wounded in Ipswich. Sergeant, 24 May, 1862. 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain not disabled. De
1861. hip,
;
tached to
Division ...
10
Oct.,
1862.
Discharged for
disability, 9 Jan., 1863.
APPLETON, John L. 1861.
Salem.
BAILEY, Edwin A. 1861.
Salem.
38.
... Mass.
Discharged 26.
Taken
Salesman.
for disability, 9
Salem, Mass.
11
May, 186L
Aug., 11
May,
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar
Mountain; returned to duty, 14 See Second Term.
Dyer.
Sept., 1862.
Re-enlisted.
BARKER, Benjamin. 1862.
BENNETT,
44. Baker. 5 Aug., Salem, Mass. Discharged for disability, Jan., 1863. Thomas Y. 23. Nan tucket, Mass. Sailor.
Salem.
.
20 May, 1861. Nantucket. at Antietam. 1862,
BERRY, Eben. P. July, 1862.Lynn.
.
Killed in action, 17 Sept.,
Shoemaker. Andover, Me. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
36.
29
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
326
BROWN,
Frederick H.
18.
Lowell, Mass.
Farmer.
18
Missing, and doubtless killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. BROWN, George H. A. 28. Exeter, N.H. Shoemaker. 28 July, 1862. Lynn. Died of pneumonia, 3 Feb.,
June, 1861.
Lowell.
1863, at Washington, B.C. F. 25. Salem, Mass. Shoemaker. 28 July, 1862. Lynn. Wounded in left arm (amputated), 3 July,
BROWN, John
1863, at Gettysburg discharged in consequence, 7 Oct., 1863. [Was chosen a Representative from Lynn to the Legislature of 1864.] ;
BROWNING, George F. Salem. May, 1861.
26.
First
Salem, Mass.
Sailor.
11
sergeant, 24 May, 1861.
See Appointed quartermaster-sergeant, 9 Oct., 1861. Also Commissioned Officers. Non-commissioned Staff".
26.
BUMPUS, Ephraim. 1861. at
Mercer, Me.
Died of typhoid
Lowell.
Weaver.
fever,
7 Oct.,
30 Dec., 1861?
Alexandria, Va.
BURBANK, Nathan. 1861. Salem. 1862.
18.
Salem, Mass.
11 May,
Waiter.
Company-musician, April, 1862,
Deserted June, 1863. P. 19. Danvers, Mass.
BURNHAM, Amos
to 1 Dec.,
Shoemaker.
Wenham.
Corporal, 4 Sept., 1863. May, Taken prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; re Wounded in ankle, 3 turned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862. ville returned to duty, 14 at Chancellors 1863, May,
1861.
11
;
Re-enlisted 7
Sept., 1863.
Feb., 1864.
See
Second
Term.
BYRON,
Francis.
Gloucester.
19.
Oxford, Me.
Discharged for
Farmer. 20 Aug., 1862.
disability,
15 Feb., 1864.
19. Shoemaker. Ballihale, Ireland. CAHILL, Robert C. 11 May, 1861. Marblf head. Transferred, 28 Dec., 1861,
to
Company
H., which see.
CAREY, James. 29. N.S. Farmer. 7 Oct., 1861. Low Died of typhoid fever, 14 Feb., 1862, at Frederick, ell.
Md.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
327
CARL EN, Samuel.
35. 11 Shoemaker. Salem, Mass. 1861. 28 1864. Mustered out Salem. May, May, CASEY, David. 23.- Topsfield, Mass. Butcher. 11 May, 1861. Taken Topsfield. Sergeant, 24 May, 1861. prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain; returned
to
Re- enlisted. See Second Term. duty, 14 Sept., 1862. 27. CHASE, James A. Newburyport, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Hamilton. Wounded in shoulder, and paralyzed by bullet on breast-plate, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys burg; died in consequence, 16 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. 20. 11 Currier. CLEAVES, Henry F. Beverly, Mass.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, May, 1861. Beverly. while in hospital at Winchester discharged (a paroled prisoner) 16 July, 1862. ;
CLOONEY, John
Charlottetown, P.E. Island. Ap Boston. Company-musician, 24
15.
J.
1861.
prentice. May, May, 1861. Taken prisoner by
guerillas, 18 July, 1862, returned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862. See Second Term.
near Front Eoyal, Va. Re-enlisted.
-
;
Seaman. 11 Liverpool, England. Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
COCHRANE, John. 18. May, 1861. Salem. Cedar Mountain.
CONLEY, George. 1861.
Box-maker. May, Eastport, Me. 9 Oct., 1861. Sergeant, 11
19.
Lowell.
Corporal,
Wounded
March, 1863.
Mountain; returned
in
foot, 9
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Detached on
to duty, 7 Jan., 1863.
service at Boston Harbor, 26 July, 1863
1864,
when mustered 41.
CURTIN, Joseph. Oct., 1862.
Boston.
19.
May,
20 Aug., 1862.
Tailor.
to Division
Ambulance Corps, 19
Galway, Ireland.
Wounded
1863. at Gettysburg.
DAILY, Timothy. 1861.
absent, 28
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
DAILY, James. 1862.
Ireland.
Detached
Somerville.
;
out.
Salem.
36.
Printer.
5 Aug.,
in thTgh and in leg, 3 July,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Currier.
Mallow, Ireland.
Wounded
in thigh,
9
Aug.,
11
May,
1862,
at
328
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Cedar Mountain
discharged in
;
consequence, 14 Nov.,
1862.
DENNIS, William H.
26. 11 Marblehead, Mass. Baker. Marblehead. Taken prisoner, 25 May,
May, 1861.
1862, at Winchester; returned to parole camp, Annapolis, Md., 14 Sept., 1862 discharged for disability in 1863. ;
21. DEVENEY, John. 1861. May, Lynn.
Gal way, Ireland.
Wounded
Farmer.
11
in arm, 17
Sept., 1862, at Antietam discharged for disability, by order of Gen eral Martindale, 14 Nov., 1862. DONOVAN, William. 17. Liverpool, England. Shoemaker. ;
11
May, 1861.
Marblehead.
1862, at Cedar Mountain;
Wounded in chest, 9 Aug., died in consequence, 26 Aug.,
1862, at Alexandria, Va. DUFFY, James. 28. Boston, Mass.
Shoemaker.
11
May,
Marblehead.
Corporal, 12 Oct., 1861, to 22 Nov., Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; re 1861. turned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Re-enlisted. See Second
1861.
Term.
DYER, James. 1862.
Died
24.
at
Bridgeton, N.S.
Discharged for
Lynn.
4 Aug., 17 Jan., 1863.
Cordwainer.
disability,
Eastern Railway Station in Boston, on his way
home.
EDWARDS,
Charles
May, 1861.
W.
26.
Beverly, Mass.
Painter.
1 L
Salem.
17 April, 1863.
Corporal, 9 Oct., 1861; sergeant, Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
EMERSON, Asa W. 21. May, 1861. Rowley.
Rowley, Mass.
Blacksmith.
11
Detailed to Commissary Depart
ment, 7 Sept., 1861. Appointed quartermaster-sergeant, See Non-commissioned Staff. 1 April, 1863. EMERSON, Charles H. 19. Epsom, N.H. Shoemaker. 11 Killed in action (by shot from a May, 1861. Salem. house), 25 May, 1862, at Winchester. EVANS, William. 18. Kearney, Ireland. Shoemaker. 11
Wounded in groin, 3 July, to Invalid Corps. transferred Gettysburg;
May, 1861. 1863.
at
Marblehead.
THE ENLISTED MEN. FERRIE, William.
26.
20 Aug.,
Machinist.
England.
Wounded
Boston.
1862.
329
in leg, 3
at
May, 1863,
Chan-
discharged in consequence, 24 Sept., 1863. 20. Seaman. 11 FITZGERALD, Conrad. Salem, Mass. 1861. Salem. Desert May, Corporal, 24 May, 1861. cellorsville
;
ed 13 June, 1862. Patrick.
FLOOD, 1861.
24.
Lowell.
Askell, Ireland. for
Discharged
Farmer.
May,
28
Sept.,
disability,
1861.
FOSTER, John. Aug., 1862.
36.
12
Shoemaker.
Tyrone, Ireland.
Died of typhoid
Boston.
25 Jan.,
fever,
1863, at Alexandria, Va.
FRAMES, Murdoch.
Wheel
Upper Stewaick, N.S.
19.
Boxford (Topsfield?). Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. FULLER, David. 28. Danvers, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 May, 11
wright.
May, 1861.
1861. Danvers.
Enlisted wagoner, 24
derly at regimental headquarters, for disability, 12 July, 1862.
GARDNER, 1861.
Robert.
1
... Mass.
40.
Beverly (Salem?).
Or
May, 1861.
July, 1861.
Discharged
Seaman.
Discharged
11
May,
for disability, 9
Dec., 1861.
GILDAY, Edward.
Charlestown, Mass.
23.
Marblehead. May, 1861. not 1862, at Antietam Second Term. ;
GOETZ,
Fritz.
Brookline.
21.
Wounded disabled.
Germany.
Wounded
17 Sept.,
Re-enlisted.
Laborer.
11
Currier.
in leg,
See
20 Aug., 1862.
in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at
Gettys burg; died in consequence, 6 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. Shoemaker. GOODALE, Lewis E. 19. Danvers, Mass. Danvers. May, 1861. Discharged for disability, 9
March, 1863. GOODWIN, Horatio E.
May,
1861.
Danvers
26 July, 1862.
23. (?).
Term
Shapleigh,
Me.
Shoemaker.
Corporal, 24 May, 1861,
of service prolonged. action, 30 July, 1864, near Atlanta.
to
Killed in
330
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Shoemaker. 11 GOULD, Benjamin F. Andover, Mass. 18G1. Middleton. Detailed as May, regimental wagoner, 19 April, 1864.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
New
GOULD, James.
28.
May, 18 61.
Beverly.
Boston,
N.H.
Shoemaker.
Discharged for disability,
1
11
March,
1863.
GREY, Thomas H.
Troy, N.Y.
21.
Wenham.
1861.
Corporal, 24
GROVES, George.
Marblehead.
1861.
11
May,
Killed in
Cedar Mountain.
action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
28.
Seaman.
May, 1861. Grocer.
Cork, Ireland.
11
May,
Deserted 2 July, 1861.
HATCH, Daniel A. 23. Portsmouth, N.H. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Hopedale. Corporal, 24 May, 1861, to 9 Oct., 1861, when returned to the ranks at his own Wounded in chest, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg request. >
died in consequence in 1864, at York, Pa. VERT Y, John F. 19. Athenroy, Ireland.
HA
11 left
Shoemaker.
Wounded in May, 1861. Milford (Marblehead?). arm (amputated), 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain;
discharged in consequence, 26 Dec., 1862. 24. HENXESY, David. Mallow, Ireland.
May,
1861.
Chancellorsville
29
the
in
See Second Term.
enlisted.
HINES, John. 1861.
;
to
1861, hand, 3 May, 1863, at Rereturned to duty, 10 Aug., 1863.
Wounded
Nov., 1862.
11
Currier.
Corporal, 22 Nov.,
Salem.
18.
Sligo,
Marblehead.
Ireland.
Shoemaker.
11 May,
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain.
HOGAN, John 1861.
L.
24.
Marblehead.
Cork, Ireland.
Discharged
Currier.
11
May,
for disability (caused
by
accident).
HOYT, Albert May,
1861.
J.
18.
Northwood, N.H.
Epsom, N.H.
1863, at Chancellorsville
;
1863, at Washington, D.C.
Wounded
Shoemaker. in thigh, 3
died in consequence, 29
11
May, May,
THE ENLISTED MEN. HUNTRESS, William H. maker.
to
gunboat on the Mississippi, 18 Feb., 1862.
for disability in Jan., 1863.
Discharged
HUTCHINSON, Nathan H. 11
Shoe Worcester, Mass. Portsmouth (Plaistow?), N.H.
21.
11 May, 1861.
Detached
331
May, 1861.
21.
Shoemaker.
Rowley, Mass.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862,
Rowley.
returned to Annapolis, Md., and died there, at Winchester of typhoid fever, 25 Sept., 1862. ;
HYDE, Dearborn F. 23. Ossipee, N.H. Shoemaker. 11 Detailed wagoner, 1 July South Danvers. May, 1861. 20 out 28 May, 1864. to 1863. Mustered 1861, July, 11 Franklin. 18. JEWELL, Hopkinton, N.H. Seaman. in 9 Killed 1861. Salem. action, Aug., 1862, at May, Cedar Mountain. Jo YE, Robert H.
Oct.,
Wounded
1861.
maker.
Charles.
11
11
Painter.
May,
Corporal, 24 May, 1861; sergeant, 12
tam; discharged
JUHNKE,
Salem, Mass.
24.
Salem.
1861.
in hand, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antie-
in consequence,
21 Nov., 1862.
Fladerbarn
38.
(?),
Cabinet
Germany.
Manchester.
May, 1861.
See
Re-enlisted.
Second Term.
KIMBALL, Palmer.
21.
Salem.
May, 1861.
Kennebunk, Me. Discharged for
Shoemaker.
disability,
11
26 April,
1863. Josiah
KNEELAND, 11
1861.
May,
M.
36.
Ipswich.
Shoemaker.
Ipswich, Mass. Re-enlisted.
See
Second
Term.
KNIGHT, Jeremiah.
May, 1861. Antietam
;
Salem.
Salem, Mass.
43.
Wounded
not disabled.
Shoemaker.
11
in leg, 17 Sept., 1862, at
Discharged for
disability,
22
Enlisted subsequently in Second Massachu
Feb., 1863. setts Artillery.
LANGMAID, George W. 26. Chichester, N.H. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Salem. Corporal, 24 May, 1861; ser Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at geant, 14 Jan., 1863. Winchester
;
returned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862.
Wounded
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
332
in hand, 3
May, 1863,
at Chancellorsville
;
absent in hos
pital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. 28. Salem, Mass. LARIIABEE, William H.
11
May, 1861.
Shoemaker.
Sergeant, 24 May, 1861,
Salem.
to
26
July, 1862, when returned to the ranks, at his own request, on account of ill-health. Missing (doubtless killed in ac tion), 9
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
Shoemaker. 11 LARRY, Daniel. 20. Goffstown, N.H. See Second Term. May, 1861. Wenham. Re-enlisted. LEACH, Augustus A. 21. Stoughton, Mass. Clerk. 30 Wounded in leg, 3 May, 1863, Stoughton. July, 1862. at Chancellorsville
;
discharged in consequence, 22 Sept.,
1863.
LIBBY, Addison C. Boston.
G
29.
Discharged
.
.
Me.
.,
Farmer.
1864.
M
MAGARVEY, James. 11
May, 1861.
for disability (from accident), 2 Jan.,
Collihilan, Ireland.
Wounded
Marblehead.
May, 1861.
Sept., 1862, at
24.
Shoemaker. in
knee,
17
Antietam; discharged in consequence, 18
March, 1863.
MAGEE, May,
William. 1861.
18.
Hartford,
Marblehead.
Ct.
Shoemaker.
Re-enlisted.
11
See Second
Term. 22. MAGUIRE, James. 1861. Wenham. May,
Boston, Mass.
Shoemaker.
Corporal, 26 July, 1862.
11
Wound
ed in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, 5 Nov., 1863. Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
MANNING, Thomas
(1st).
May, 1861. Boston. sippi,
14 Feb., 1862;
37.
Boston, Mass.
Detached
Seaman.
11
gunboat on the Missis discharged for disability, 26 Jan., to
1863.
MANNING, Thomas
(2d).
22.
Tewksbury, Mass.
Taken
11 Oct., 1861. 1862, at
Tewksbury. Cedar Mountain; returned
Killed in action, 3
May, 1863,
9 Aug., 22 Oct., 1862.
prisoner,
to duty,
Farmer.
at Chancellorsville.
THE ENLISTED MEN. MARSHALL, William. 5 Aug., 1862.
333
East Weare, N.H.
32.
Boston.
Machinist.
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863,
at Gettysburg.
MARTIN, Thomas Aug., 1862. Sept., 1863.
35.
J.
Boston.
MARTIN, William. Aug., 1862.
42.
Chesterville,
May, 1861.
wagoner, July, 1861.
MCCARTHY,
Bootmaker.
6
Detailed
Tewksbury (Lowell?). Re-enlisted.
Charles.
May, 1861.
Me.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 22. Tewksbury, Mass. Cabinet
Medway.
MAYNARD, William W. maker.
Painter. 21 Boston, Mass. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1
18.
See Second Term.
Shoemaker.
Cork, Ireland.
Marblehead.
Wounded
11
hand, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 3 Nov., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. in
;
MCCARTHY,
Daniel.
May, 1861.
19.
Wounded
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. hospital, 16 June, 1864. leg, 9
MCCARTHY, 11
John.
20.
1861.
May,
Shoemaker.
Cork, Ireland.
Marblehead.
Springfield,
in
arm and Mustered
Mass.
Re-enlisted.
Beverly.
11
in each out, in
Shoemaker. See
Second
Term.
Me LAY,
James.
1862.
Dennis.
May, 1861.
Died of typhoid
Painter.
6 Aug.,
fever, 5 Oct., 1862,
Md.
at Frederick,
MEHAN,
Sydney, N.S.
18.
East Boston.
18.
Salem,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
Salem.
11
Appointed marker, 1861 corporal, 26 July, 1862; sergeant, 29 July, 1862; first sergeant, 1 Sept., 1862. Promoted to be second lieutenant, 9 Nov., 1862.
See Commissioned
MOORE, William A. .
May, L861.
at
Winchester
.
19.
Boston. ;
Officers.
East Woburn, Mass. Seaman. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862,
Wounded
returned to duty, 20 Oct., 1862.
(lost left eye), 3
to duty,
;
May,
18 Aug., 1863.
1863, at Chancellorsville Re-enlisted.
;
returned
See Second Term.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS IKFANTKY.
334
F.
MORGAN, William
Mariner.
Gloucester, Mass.
33.
28 July, 1862. Jan., 1863; ser Corporal, Lynn. in Wounded ankle, 3 July, 1863, at geant, 23 Dec., 1863. Re-enlisted. to duty, 21 Dec., 1863. returned Gettysburg; 1
See Second Term. 29
1862.
July,
23.
Lynn, Mass.
Lynn.
Wounded by
R.
MUDGE, William
through the head, losing both eyes, 3
(laterally)
May, 1863,
at
Chan-
discharged in consequence, 11 Oct., 1863. James. 23. Ireland. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861.
cellorsville
MURPHY,
Photographer. shot
;
May, 1863
Corporal, 3
Marblehead.
gallantry in
("for
color-corporal.
Was color-
bearer at the close of the action at Gettysburg.
Mustered
and
action at Chancellors ville"),
out 28
May, 1864.
MURRY, James M. Lynn.
OAKES, George A. 11
Ireland.
23.
May, 1861.
20.
1862, at Cedar Mountain Dec,, 1862. 1861.
ter
;
Beverly.
request.
Shoemaker.
in each leg, 9 Aug.,
5 discharged in consequence,
;
Shoemaker. 11 May, Corporal,! Nov., 1862, and color-cor
24.
Belfast,
poral, to 18 Aug., 1863,
own
Wounded
Wenham.
OLIVER, John H.
28 July, 1862.
Tailor.
See Second Term. Gloucester, Mass.
Re-enlisted.
Me.
when returned
to the ranks at his
at Winches prisoner, 25 May, 1862, See Re-enlisted. 1862. 22 Oct., duty,
Taken
returned to
Second Term. PEABODY, David B.
19.
Farmer.
Boxford, Mass.
Wounded
11
in leg, 9
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 18 Aug., 1863. ReMiddleton.
May, 1861. enlisted.
See Second Term.
PHALEX, Edward A. 1861. 9 Oct.,
1862.
and
20.
Salem, Mass.
Salesman.
11 May,
first sergeant, Salem. Sergeant, 24 May, 1861 second to be Promoted 1861. lieutenant, 13 July, ;
See
in leg, 9
Commissioned Aug., 1862, at
rival of commission).
Officers.
Wounded
in
arm
Cedar Mountain (before ar
THE ENLISTED MEN. PIERCE, John B. July,
1862.
335
Wellfleet, Mass.
21.
Teamster.
Re -enlisted.
Swampscot.
29
See Second
Term.
PINKHAM, Daniel G. 1802.
Boston.
PRESTON, John
Company-musician, 24 May, 1861, to when injured by accidental shot. Detached Division Ambulance Corps, 19 Oct., 1862. Discharged
1861. .
.
to
C.
42. Mason. 9 Aug., Milton, Mass. Discharged for disability, 18 July, 1863. 19. 11 May, Sailor. Salem, Mass.
Salem.
Sept., 1861,
for disability, 10 Nov., 1863.
1861.
Salem.
RECKARDS,
Salem, Mass.
19.
QUINN, Joseph.
Currier.
11
May,
Discharged as a minor, 1 July, 1861. 21. Turner, Me. Bootmaker. 30 July,
Philo.
North Easton.
Died of typhoid fever, 28 Sept., 1862, at Laytonsville (near Rockville), Md. 1862.
RECKARDS,
Seth.
Bootmaker. 30 Palmyra, Me. Deserted 28 Aug., 1862. Ireland. Laborer. 18 Aug., 1862.
24.
North Easton.
July, 1862.
REGAN, John. 40. Boston. Wounded burg; returned Second Term.
in
3 July,
wrist,
to duty, 3
Nov., 1863.
1863, at Gettys Re-enlisted.
See
19. RICE, William H. C. Islington (London), England. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Salem. Wounded in leg, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; in
consequence,
discharged
9 Dec., 1862.
ROWE, John M. 20. Gloucester, Mass. May, 1861. Wenham. Corporal, 24 enlisted.
C.
19.
.
.
.
N.H. Painter. 11 May, 1861. 1863. Taken prisoner, 25
Corporal, 14 Jan.,
May, 1862, 1862.
1 1
Re-
See Second Term.
SANBORN, Levi Lowell.
Shoemaker. Sept., 1862.
at
Winchester;
Wounded
returned to duty,
14
Oct.,
arm, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys burg; discharged in consequence, 6 Jan., 1864. 44. Lecturer. SCIIERB, E. Vitalis. Basle, Switzerland. 8 Aug., 1862.
in right
Boston.
and never returned.
Sent
to hospital,
Dropped from the
22 Aug., 1862,
rolls.
heart-disease, at Philadelphia, 11 July, 1865.
Died of
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
336
W.
SEBBENS, Kufus 1861.
20 Me. Carpenter. May, Enlisted in United-States Cavalry in
Lowell.
1862.
SHEA, David.
Salem, Mass.
11 May, Shoemaker. Died of typhoid fever, 28 Dec., 1861,
20.
Wenham.
1861.
Va.
at Alexandria,
SHEA, John J. 18. Boston, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Marblehead (Boston?). Wounded in side, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; returned to duty, 11 March, 1863. in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, 8 Oct., 1863. Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
Wounded
SOPER, William M.
30. Livermore, Me. 1861. May, Beverly. Company cook, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. ,
STACY, John
W.
Currier. 1
July,
11
1861.
Annismullen, Ireland. Shoemaker. Marblehead. Mustered out 28 May,
18.
11
May, 1861. 1864.
STANLEY, Joseph M. 20. Beverly, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. Beverly. Discharged for disability, 14 Dec., 1862. 11 Sebago, Me. Ship-carpenter. Killed in action, 25 May, 1862, at
STAPLES, George, 37.
May, 1861.
Salem.
Winchester.
.STEWART, John. 1861.
May,
27. 11 Middleton, Mass. Carpenter. Middleton. Re -enlisted. See Second
Term.
STEWART, Levi D. 30. May, 1861. Lowell. sion,
1862.
6 April,
Fox
Island,
Me.
Machinist.
Front Royal, Va. returned to duty, 12 Mustered out 28 May, 1864. at
;
STONE, Henry Van D. Aug., 1862.
ond
Officers.
19.
20
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Oct.,
1862.
Student.
7
Corporal, 19 Nov., 1862. Sec See Commissioned March, 1863.
Brookline.
lieutenant,
22
Detached as pioneer, First Divi Taken prisoner, 23 May, 1862,
337
THE ENLISTED MEN.
7 Aug., 1862. Promoted Sept., See to be second lieutenant, to date from 10 Aug., 1862.
STONE, James K.
Commissioned
Boston, Mass.
21.
Student.
Corporal, 24
Brookline.
1862.
Officers.
Shoemaker.
Lowell, Mass.
20.
STONEHALL, John.
11
Missing (and doubtless killed) in action. 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. STRAFFORD, James M. 32. North Attleboro Mass. En
May, 1861.
Danvers.
,
Corporal, 12 June, sergeant, 24 Sept., 1862; 1st sergeant, 1 Jan., 1863. prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; re
gine-driver.
1861
;
Taken
11
Salem.
May, 1861.
turned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862. Term.
SULLIVAN, Daniel.
Farmer.
Boston, Mass.
J7.
See Second
Re-enlisted.
1861.
11
May,
Jan., 1863. Corporal, Beverly (Lowell ?). Wounded in abdomen, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville died in consequence, 14 May, 1863, at Aquia Landing, Va. 1
;
Ireland.
18.
SWEENY, Morgan.
Currier.
11
May, 1861.
for disability, 15
Sept., 1861. Discharged listed subsequently in the Ninth Massachusetts.
Salem.
TUCKER, George H.
28.
Saco,
Me.
Shoemaker.
Detached
South Danvers.
1861.
24 July, 1861, to February, 1862. May, 1862, at Winchester; returned
En May,
to corps-post office,
Taken to duty,
prisoner, 25
22 Oct., 1862.
Taken
prisoner, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville; re turned to Annapolis, Md., and died there, of typhoid fever, 23 Nov., 1863.
Augusta, Me. Engine-driver. May, Detailed wagoner, 1 July, Tewksbury (Lowell ?). for Discharged disability, 22 Feb., 1863.
TYLER, Alonzo 1861. 1861.
C.
25.
VOLLER, Benjamin H. May, 1861. Salem. 1862.
[Died
in
Salem, Mass.
45.
Discharged
Salem,
Brewer.
for disability,
11
14 Oct.,
of consumption, shortly
after
wards.]
WALLACE, Thomas. Aug.,
1
862.
40.
Boston.
Teamster. 22 See Second Term.
Cork, Ireland. Re-enlisted. 22
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
338
WALTER, Horace A. Oct., 1861.
28.
Lowell.
Me.
Newfield,
Discharged
Shoemaker.
for disability,
.
.
7
Jan.,
.
1862.
WARREN, Loammi
B.
WELCH, David 1862.
C.
N.H.
18
Ipswich May, 1861. May, 1861. Deserted
Shoemaker.
11
Corporal, 24
(Ossipee, N.H.?). 9 June, 1861.
26.
Baltimore,
Wounded
Md.
Cigar-maker.
in leg, 3
29
1863, at 15 to Invalid transferred Feb., 1864. Corps, Gettysburg; 11 May, 22. Mass. William. Shoemaker. WHITE, Boston, July,
Lynn.
July,
Wounded in thigh, 9 Lawrence (Middleton?). returned at to duty, 5 Nov., Cedar Mountain; Aug., 1862, 1863. Mastered out 28 May, 1864. WILDES, William H. 18. North Andlover, Mass. Farmer. 1861.
11 May,
1861.
Middleton.
Corporal, 4
Sept.,
1863.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
WILLIAMS, Henry. 42. Downington, Penn. Shoemaker. Boxford. 11 May, 1861. Corporal, 24 May, 1861, to 9 Oct., 1861, when returned to the ranks at his own re Mustered out 28 May, 1864. WILLISTON, William W. 20. Salem, Mass. quest.
May, 1861.
Salem.
action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
WILSON, Benjamin H. 1861.
11
Cedar Mountain.
28
Md.
Machinist.
Deserted 17 Aug., 1861. Samuel W. 20. South Danvers, Mass.
May,
Groton.
WOODMAN, maker.
Printer.
Missing (and doubtless killed) in
11
May, 1861.
South Danvers.
Shoe
Wounded
twice in arm, in leg, and in side, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys burg; absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864. Mustered out, date and place unknown.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
COMPANY ALDEN, George H. May, 1861.
Wounded
339
D.
Templeton, Mass.
22.
Brakeman.
Appointed marker, May, 1861. En 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
Fitchburg.
in leg,
United-States Artillery, 2 April, 1863. 15 May, 22. Diana, N.Y. Machinist. 13 1862. Boston. Sergeant, 26 Corporal, July,
listed in Fifth
ALLEN, 1861.
Charles.
Nov., 1862. Wounded in leg, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg returned to duty, 17 Dec., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. ;
ANDERSON, John E. maker. May, 1861.
West
26.
Boylston, Mass.
Boot
West
Boylston. Corporal, 1 May, 1862. Sergeant, 15 Feb., 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, October, 1862.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
ANDREAVS, John.
England. Mariner. 7 July, Discharged for disability, 19 Dec., 1862. ANTONY, Wilbur F. 22. Dalton, Mass. Sawyer. May, 1861. Tyringham. Deserted 17 Corporal, May, 1861. 1862.
24.
.
.
.
Boston.
June, 1861.
BALCOM, Myron
L.
23.
Watertown, Mass.
May, 1861. Marlboro 1862, at Antietam.
11
.
Shoemaker.
Killed in action, 17 Sept.,
BARRY, Patrick. 22. Lenox, Mass. Mechanic. May, 1861. Lee (Northampton?). Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 28. Bootmaker. 16 BARRY, William. Cork, Ireland. Aug., 1862.
Boston.
Chancellorsville
;
Wounded
never returned.
in hand, 3
May, 1863, at Dropped from the rolls,
17 Dec., 1863, as deserter. BARTLETT, Anson B. 22. Boston, Mass. 1861.
Clinton.
Painter.
Corporal, 12 July, 1862.
May,
Wounded
in
neck, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; enlisted (without re turning to duty) in United-States Infantry, 2 April, 1863.
BEACH, William. 1861.
Oakdale.
Louth, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, Discharged as a minor, 30 May, 1862.
18.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
340
BEAN, Walter F. chester
;
Lowell, Mass.
18.
Teamster.
15 Oct.,
prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win Mustered out duty, 27 Oct., 1862.
Taken
Lowell.
186T.
returned to
15 Oct., 1864.
BERRIGAN, Kerin.
...
35.
Boston.
1862.
BICKFORD, Charles H.
Gardner.
Laborer.
7 July,
See Second Term. Boston, Mass.
26.
Shoemaker.
Deserted 8 Feb., 1863. Gardner, Mass. Fireman.
18 Aug., 1862. Lowell. 32. BICKFORD, Walter.
May, 1861.
Ireland.
Re-enlisted.
11
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain. BILLINGS, Alfred.
Reading, Mass.
21.
1861.
Re-enlisted.
Lunenburg. BILLINGS, Amos. 19. 1861. Little
12 May,
Reading, Mass.
Farmer. 12 May, Died of Lunenburg. diphtheria, 26 July, 1862, at Washington, Va.
BISBEE, Charles E. 11 May, 1861. prisoner, 25
25
Farmer.
See Second Term.
18.
Springfield, Vt.
House
New-York City (Fitchburg?).
painter.
Taken
Winchester; returned to duty, Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
May, 1862,
Oct., 1862.
BLIVEN, Arthur. Lenox. 1861.
at
Lenox, Mass. Teamster. 11 May, Corporal, 18 Feb., 1862. Sergeant, 4
19.
First sergeant, 11 May, 1863, to 25 Aug., Nov., 1862. 1863. Sergeant again, 4 March, 1864. Detached on re Re-enlisted 30 April, cruiting service, 11 April, 1864.
See Second Term.
1864.
F.
Stow, Mass.
Fireman. 23 June, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam returned to duty, 2 Nov., 1863. Absent sick, 30 May, 1865, in hospital at Worcester, when mustered out.
BLOOD, George
Boston.
1862.
23.
Wounded
in face,
;
20. West Boylston, Mass. Boot 11 May, 1861. West Boylston. Corporal, 26 Nov., 1862. Sergeant, 13 June, 1863. Wounded through 3 abdomen, July, 1863, at Gettysburg ; died in consequence,
BLUNT, William H. maker.
13 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
THE ENLISTED MEN. BOOTH, Alvin O.
24.
Alstead,
July, 1861.
1861.
20.
1861.
Littleton,
Winchendon.
Farmer.
Mass.
Deserted 19 May, 1863. ... Mass. Mechanic.
24.
Drowned
Westminster.
May, 1861.
11 May,
House
West
painter.
Corporal, 1 returned to the ranks
Fitchburg (Winchendon?).
to 11 May, 1863, when Re-enlisted. prolonged absence.
May, 1862, during Term.
May,
in Charles River,
Roxbury, Mass., 2 June, 1861. BRUCE, George A. 30. Fitchburg, Mass. 11
1
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
BROOKS, Albert E.
May, 1861.
Sawyer.
Detailed as regimental wagoner,
Ashby (Fitchburg?). BOSTON, George H.
N.H.
341
Second
See
CAHILL, John. 19. Lee, Mass. Mechanic. 11 May, 1861, Lee (Northampton?). Taken prisoner, 4 Sept., 1862, at Chantilly, Va.
;
returned to
22 Dec., 1862.
duty,
charged for disability, 15 Jan., 1863. CASSIDY, William. 28. Oxford, C.W. Farmer. 1861. Leominster. Deserted 3 Sept., 1863.
CHASE, Charles H.
Boston, Mass.
19.
11
Dis
May,
May, 1861.
Clerk.
company musician, May, 1861. Dis for charged disability, 28 June, 1861. CHASE, William P. 23. Holden, Mass. Bootmaker. 11 Boston.
Enlisted
May, 1861.
Oakdale.
1862, at Antietam; 1862.
CHENEY, Gilbert A. 14
May, 1861.
groin, in
thigh
Sept., 1862, at
Wounded
discharged 23.
Fitchburg
in
in shoulder,
17 Sept.,
consequence, 23 Nov.,
Worcester,
Mass.
(Newton?).
Fireman,
Wounded
in
(three places), while in color guard, 17
Antietam; died
in consequence,
29 Oct.,
1862, at Frederick, Md.
CHENEY, Harvey A. 18. Chesterfield, N.H. Chairmaker. 11 May, 1861. Ashburnham. Sergeant, May, 1861, to 14 Aug., 1861.
CHILDS, Isaac. 1861.
26.
Oakdale.
Discharged as a minor, 13 Sept., 1862. 11 May, Mechanic. Leicester, Mass.
Wounded
9
Aug.,
1862,
at
Cedar
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
342
Mountain
;
returned to duty.
Killed in action, 17 Sept.,
1862, at Antietam.
CLAPP, Cyrus J. 22. Leicester, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 Discharged for disability, 19 May, 1861. Rindge, N.H. Oct., 1861.
CLAPP, Samuel B.
May,
1861.
Peterboro
19.
at Alexandria,
,
N.H.
Mechanic.
11
Died of measles, 27 Dec., 1861,
Gardner.
Ya.
21. Dayton, Me. Seaman. 15 May, Me. Corporal, 6 Aug., 1861, to 26 Nov., Dayton, 1862, when returned to the ranks during prolonged absence. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, while hospital attendant at Winchester was paroled, but never returned to duty and was dropped from the rolls, as deserter, 8 Feb., 1863.
CLEAVES,
Charles.
1861.
:
;
COBB, Horatio 11
19.
S.
May, 1861.
1861.
East Bennington, Vt.
Blacksmith.
Lee.
Detailed company musician, June, Mustered out 28 May, 1864,
COLBURX, Charles H. 27 June, 1862.
22.
Boston.
Musician. Philadelphia, Pa. the from rolls, 7 Oct., Dropped
1862, as deserter.
COLEMAN, Michael. 19. Ballimasloe, Ireland. Hinsdale. Taken prisoner, 4 11 May, 186 !
near
.
Chantilly
;
dropped from the
COLVIN, Frederick.
May, 1861.
Mechanic. Sept., 1862,
from parole camp, and was 25 Dec., 1862. 11 Rhodesville, Conn. Spinner.
deserted rolls,
18.
Oakdale.
1862, at Winchester;
Wounded
in
abdomen, 25 May,
died in consequence, 1 June, 1862,
at Winchester.
CONANT, Alphonso. 1861.
21.
Fairhaven, Ct.
Salisbury, Vt.
Discharged
Joiner.
May,
for disability, 1 Jan.,
1863.
CROCKER, Harry A. 24. Moriah, N.Y. Mechanic. 11 MayylSCl. Winchendon. Sergeant, May, 1861. Wound ed in leg, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; discharged in consequence, 23 Nov., 1862.
THE ENLISTED MEN. CROSBY, Reuben G.
343
31. Brattleboro Vt. Engine-driver. 7 July, 1862. Boston. Detailed as hospital attendant, 1862. Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
CURTIS, George 11
,
Sussex Co., England. Farmer. Re-enlisted. See Second
22.
S.
May, 1861.
Luneuburg.
Term:
DEE, James
22.
Boston, Mass.
Boston.
Wounded
J.
Sept., 1862.
Plate printer.
11
in hand, 3 July, 1863, at
Gettysburg; deserted from hospital in Philadelphia, and rolls, 23 Sept., 1863.
was dropped from the
DERR, John.
28.
May, 1861.
Farmer.
Wodenburg, Germany.
11
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863,
Stockbridge.
at Gettysburg.
DOUGLASS, Robert. .7
Aug., 1862. at
1863,
Cambridge, Mass.
24.
Wounded
Cambridgeport.
Carpenter.
in hand, 3 July,
Gettysburg; transferred to Invalid Corps, 15
Nov., 1863.
DRAPER, Edward. 1862.
Boston.
Mountain
;
23.
Baltimore,
Taken
Md.
Clerk.
7 July,
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
dropped from the
rolls as deserter
Cedar
from parole
camp.
EAGER, William O. 1861. 1861. Oct.,
to
28.
Westminster.
Corporal,
Farmer.
May, 1861,
Detailed as regimental wagoner
1862; detached
26 July, 1863. 1863, to 30
Sept.,
.
to corps supply-train,
.
.
11
May,
20 June, 1862, to 18
to
30 Jan., 1863,
Detailed as regimental wagoner, 18 1863 and 13 Nov., 1863. Re-
Oct.,
;
See Second Term.
enlisted.
ELA, William H. 1862.
Barre, Mass.
Boston.
1862, to 11
May,
Printer. 13 Aug., Boston, Mass. Detailed as hospital attendant, 9 Nov., 1863. Wounded through lungs, 3 July,
29.
1863, at Gettysburg; died in consequence, 11 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
FARWELL,
23. Shoemaker. Abel, jun. Boylston, Mass. 12 May, 1861. Fitchburg. Corporal, May, 1861, to 4 1861. Ward-master in hospital at Frederick, Md. L Jkme,
344
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Discharged 28 Feb., 1863, to receive the appointment of hospital steward.
FAR WELL,
Charles B.
FAY, Benjamin F. clerk.
1861.
Shoemaker.
Boylston, Mass.
19.
May, 1861. Northboro Sept., 1861.
Discharged
.
for
disability,
Winchendon, Mass.
22.
11 May, 1861. Ashburnham. Color corporal, 4 July, 1862.
13
Railway
Corporal, 3 July, Killed in action, 9
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
FIELDING, Gershom 11
May, 1861.
W.
Columbia, N.Y.
32.
Tyringham.
Mechanic.
Discharged for
disability,
16 Dec., 1861.
FITZGIBBON, James C.
23.
Limerick, Ireland.
Machinist.
Corporal, 27 Aug., 1863. Taken Ashby. 25 at Winchester; returned to duty, May, 1862, prisoner, 25 Oct., 1862. Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
11 May, 1861.
GREY, William. 1862.
HADLEY, 1861.
24.
Boston.
Glasgow, Scotland. Miner. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
8 Aug.,
30. Isaac C. Moretown, Vt. Joiner. 11 May South Royalston (Winchendon ?). Discharged for
?
1861.
disability, 11 Oct.,
HALL, John
J.
Brandon, Yt.
27.
Teamster.
11 May,
Detailed as regimental wagoner, May, 1861. Fitchburg. for 1861. Discharged disability, June, 1861. F. 19. William Shoemaker. 11 HARRIS, Shirley, Mass.
May, 1861. Shirley. HASKELL, Charles T. 17 July, 1862. 30 Sept., 1863.
HAYWARD, Horace 11
May, 1861.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 35.
Lowell.
P.
18.
Fitchburg.
Machinist. Portland, Me. Transferred to Invalid Corps, Fitchburg, Mass.
Shoemaker.
Discharged as a minor, 10
Aug., 1861.
HEALD, Charles H. 25. Ashburnham, Mass. Carpenter. Ashburnham. 11 May, 1861. Corporal, 1 Nov., 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1863, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
1862.
Sharon, Mass.
39.
HEWINS, Henry.
Detached
Sharon.
345
Shoemaker.
to division
4 Aug.,
ambulance corps,
Died of chronic diarrhrea, to 4 Nov., 1862. 19 Dec., 1862, at Frederick, Md. Ornamental 18. HINES, James P. Providence, R.I. 11 May, 1861. Wounded in wrist, Gardner. painter. 29 Oct., 1862,
9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain; enlisted (without re
turning to duty) in the
Eighteenth United-States Infantry,
2 April, 1863.
HOLMES, Theodore D. 22. May, 1861. Tyringham.
Lee, Mass.
Papermaker.
11
Detailed as ordnance clerk, 15
detached to corps post-office, 6 March, 1862. Sept., 1861 Mustered out 28 May, 1864. HOSMER, George B. F. 18. Dover, Me. Bootmaker. 11 Oakdale. Detached on signal service, 10 May, 1861. died of fever, in 1862, at Newbern, N.C. Sept., 1861 ;
";
22. 12 Lexington, Mass. Butcher. Leominster. Wounded in hand, 3 May, returned to duty, June, 1863. 1863, at Chancellorsville
HOUGHTON,
Albert.
May, 1861.
;
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
HOUGHTON, Roscoe May,
1861.
Detached I
E.
Lee.
21.
Lincoln,
Corporal,
Me.
May, 1861,
Papermaker. to 3 July, 1861.
31 Aug., 1861 order from War by Department. William. 25. Cheshire Co., England. to corps post-office,
;
discharged
Jan., 1863,
HYDE, II May, 1861.
Oakdale.
1863, at Gettysburg.
INGRAM, Gilbert B.
24.
Wounded
Mustered out 24 May, 1864. Becket, Mass. Farmer. 11 May,
1861.
Tyringham.
Detailed
1862.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
KELLEY, Richard.
Mechanic.
in shoulder, 3 July,
as
hospital attendant, in
22 Aug., Hatter. Boston, Mass. Deserted 22 Dec., 1862. 18. Ireland. Farmer. 17 Feb., KELLIHER, Michael. 1862. for 21 Dec., 1862. Discharged disability, 1862.
28.
.
Boston.
.
.
.
KENDALL, Charles W. 20. Leominster, Mass. Mechanic. 11 May, 1861. Ashburnham. Corporal, June, 1861, to
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
346
26 Nov., 1862, when returned request.
KING, Edward H.
own
the ranks at his
Pomfret, Vt.
33.
27 Aug.,
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
KING, Ossian M.
Moulder.
Boston, Mass.
28.
Boston.
1862.
to
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 July, 1863.
11
Blacksmith.
May,
Detached Nov., 1863. Corporal, Fitchburg. to Fourth United-States Artillery, 8 April, 1862, to 19 1861.
1
Detailed as regimental wagoner, 5 March, and 18 Sept., 1863, to 4 Nov., 1863.
1862.
Oct.,
1863, to July, 1863
;
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
KING, William
May, 1861.
Lenox, Mass.
44.
J.
smith, 21 July, 1861.
Blacksmith.
11
Detailed as regimental black
Tyringham.
Discharged for
disability,
9 Oct.,
1862. 22.
KINSMAN, Frederick. 1861.
May,
Fitchburg.
Cane-maker. Fitchburg, Mass. Detailed as attendant in regi
mental hospital, 27 Nov., 1861. ond Term.
LAKIN, Crosby.
Peru, Vt.
23.
Re-enlisted.
Farmer.
See Sec
11 May, 1861.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winches Fitchburg. Mustered out 28 ter; returned to duty, 19 Dec., 1862.
May, 1864. 22.
Jefferson.
LAKIN, 1861.
Fitchburg.
Bennington, Vt. Fireman. 14 May, Killed in action, 25 May, 1862, at
Winchester, Va.
LARGEE, Thomas. 23. Glasgow, Scotland. Soldier. 1 1 Deserted 28 Feb., 1862. May, 1861. Lunenburg. 22 Aug., Ireland. Tailor. 33. Richard. Cork, LEAHY, 1862.
Boston.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
Tanner. 23 June, arm, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam returned to duty, 26 Dec., 1862. Taken priso ner, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellors ville, and paroled; re turned to duty, 23 March, 1864. Wounded in leg, 15
LEAHY, Arthur. 1862.
Boston.
18.
Danvers, Mass.
Wounded
in
;
May, 1864, 1864.
at Resaca,
and died
in consequence, 18 June,
THE ENLISTED MEN. LITCHFIELD, Charles D. 11
1861.
May,
1862.
Lunenburg, Mass.
21.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted. 35.
Brookline.
Farmer.
Detailed as company cook,
Lunenburg.
February, 1862. LYNCH, Michael.
347
17 July, Corps, 30
Ireland.
Lamplighter. Transferred to Invalid
Sept., 1863.
MACOMBER,
19.
Elijah.
Bristol, Vt.
Iron-roller.
May,
Deserted 25 Aug., 1861. Fairhaven, Vt. MAUD, John. 42. Halifax, England. Painter. 30 Aug., 1862. Wounded in hand, 3 July, 1863, Framingham. returned to duty, 3 Nov., 1863. Mustered at Gettysburg 1861.
;
out 28
May, 1864.
MAYNARD, 11
ist.
to
Frederick.
24.
South Hadley, Mass.
May, 1861. Winchendon.
15 April, 1862.
Detailed as
29 May, 1862, to 26 Sept.,
Machin
Corporal, May, 1861, pioneer, First Division,
1862.
Killed in action, 3
July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
MILLER, Adam.
21.
Bavaria.
Accountant.
May, 1861.
Promoted to be second Sergeant, May, 1861. See Commissioned Officers. lieutenant, 13 June, 1862. Lee.
MOULTON, Ansel A. May, 1861. July, 1862.
NASON, Edwin
24.
Lyman, N.H.
Farmer.
11
Fitchburg. Corporal, 3 July, 1861, to 13 Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 Aug., 1863. F. 20. Shoemaker. 14 Cincinnati, Ohio.
May, 1861.
Fitchburg.
Wounded
9
June, 1863,
at
Beverly Ford.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. NELSON, Andrew. 18. Lowell, Mass. Printer. 1861.
Lowell.
23 Oct.,
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at
Get
tysburg.
NEWTON. George B.
26. Mount Holly, Vt. Bootmaker. 1861. Oakdale. Died May, Corporal, May, 1861. of putrid sore throat, 27 Dec., 1861, at Baltimore, Md. NEWTON, Windsor A. 19. Mount Holly, Vt. Bootmaker.
11
11
May, 1861.
in neck, 17
Oakdale.
Sept., 1862, at
Corporal, 1862.
Wounded
Antietam; enlisted in Eigh teenth United-States Infantry, 20 Dec., 1862.
348
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
NUTTING, Allen A. 18. New Ipswich, N.H. Chairmaker. 11 May, 1861. Ashburnham. Corporal, 26 Nov., 1862
;
11
sergeant,
Wounded
May, 1863.
Beverly Ford, 9 June, 1863 1863, at Alexandria, Va.
O BRIEN,
James.
Aug., 1862.
ORNE, David 1861.
41.
Stone-mason.
Vt.
Sutton,
Taken
Machinist.
prisoner, 25
28 May, 1864, when mustered
11
May, 1862,
chester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. pital,
26
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
23.
J.
Clinton.
died in consequence, 10 June,
;
Cork, Ireland.
Boston.
abdomen, near
in
May,
at
Absent
Win
in hos
out.
PALMER, William. 23. Northbridge, Mass. Shoemaker. 11 May, 1861. West Boylston. Corporal, May, 1861, -
to 15 June, 1861.
18 Feb., 1862 ment.
;
Detached
to
gunboat on the Mississippi,
War
discharged by orders of
Depart
PARKER, Theodore K. 19. Brighton, Mass. Machinist. First sergeant, May, 1861. May, 1861. Winchendon. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty,
24
24
Oct., 1862.
Oct., 1862.
Promoted
PARKHURST, William. 34. May, 1861. Springfield. PARTRIDGE, Henry J. 20. 11
to
See Commissioned
be second lieutenant,
Officers.
Townshend, Vt.
Shoemaker.
Deserted 5 July, 1861. Farmer. Westminster, Mass.
Westminster. Taken prisoner at Get returned to 22 tysburg; duty, May, 1864; mustered out 28 May, 1864.
May, 1861.
PETERSON, Boston.
John.
23.
Wounded
Clerk. Germany. 25 May, 1862,
in face,
May, 1861. at
Winchester
;
kept in hospital at Frederick, Md.* Discharged by order of War Department, date not given.
PHILLIPS, George R.
18.
Keene, N.H.
Shoemaker.
11
Corporal, 15 Feb., 1863. De tailed as attendant in regimental hospital, 16 Nov., 1862,
May, 1861.
to 11
Leominster.
May, 1863.
and taken prisoner out.
Wounded ;
3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg,
absent, 28 May, 1864, when mustered
THE ENLISTED MEN. PHILLIPS, James M.
Keene, N.H.
21.
Dropped from the
Leominster.
349 20 May, 1861.
7 Oct., 1862
rolls,
have been appointed a hospital steward. PHILLIPS, William P. 42. Boston, Mass. Clerk.
5
said
to
1862.
PIERCE, Henry O. 11
4 Aug.,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Boston.
18.
Mass.
Westminster,
Carpenter.
1861.
Discharged for disability, Fitchburg. 30 Dec., 1862 died two weeks after reaching home. PIERCE, Henry S. 18. Nashua, N.H. Farmer. 11 May,
May,
;
1861.
Wounded
Winchendon.
Chancellorsville
;
1864, at Resaca
not disabled. in hospital,
;
in
hand, 3 May, 1863, at in breast, 15 May,
Wounded,
28 May, 1864, when mus
tered out.
POLLARD, Edwin R. 23. Winchendon, Mass. Shoemaker. Winchendon. 11 May, 1861. Discharged for disability, 13 Sept., 1861.
PRESCOTT, James M. maker.
11
West
18.
May, 1861.
Boot
Boylston, Mass.
Taken prisoner, 25 Mount Jackson, and
Oakdale.
May, 1862, at Winchester; escaped at Re-enlisted. returned to duty, June, 1862.
See Second
Term.
PRESCOTT, William W.
Wounded
color corporal.
ca; mustered out 28
RAFFERTY, Thomas.
May, 1861.
West
20.
30 Aug., 1862. Oakdale. PRIEST, M. Augustus. 19. 11 May, 1861. Marlboro
Boylston, Mass.
,
Corporal, 1 Nov., 1863, and
.
in leg, 15
May, 1864,
23.
18.
East Boston.
ROPES, Edward E.
Galway, Ireland. Farmer. 11 prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Mustered
East Boston, Mass. Teamster. May, Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
25.
Milton, Mass.
Miner.
20 June,
Came from Kansas to Lawrence, Kansas. to enlist in a Massachusetts Va., chester, regiment. tered out 9 June, 1865. 1862.
Resa
Taken
Winchester; returned- to duty, 19 Dec., 1862. out 24 July, 1865. 1861.
at
May, 1864.
Lee.
REED, William H.
Farmer.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Marlboro Mass. Carpenter.
Win Mus
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
350
SADLER, Rupert Oct.,
1861.
J.
10 Dublin, Ireland. Machinist. color 26 1862; Nov., Corporal,
19.
Boston.
same
date. Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at while Gettysburg, carrying the colors. Farmer. 18. SHATTUCK, Danforth. Pepperell, Mass. 12 May, 1861. Pepperell. Wounded in side (three ribs broken), 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; returned to duty, 5
corporal,
April, 1863.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
SNOW, George W. 24. Orleans, Mass. Accountant. 11 Sergeant, May, 1861. Dis May, 1861. Nashua, N.H. disability, 2 Oct.,
charged for
1862.
SWEET, George H. 18. Tyringham, Mass. Farmer. Seized by writ of habeas May, 1861. Tyringham. pus, at Boston, 8 July, 1861, as a minor. Charles. 23. Phillips, Me. Shoemaker.
12
TARBOX,
Fitchburg. Corporal, 14 Feb., 1863. to Invalid Corps, 1 Aug., 1863.
11 cor
May,
Transferred
1861.
TAYLOR, James H. 21. Winchendon, Mass. Machinist. Enlisted as company11 May, 1861. Winchendon. musician.
Detached
to
brigade
25
band,
April,
1863.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
THOMPSON, Jedediah C. 23. 15 May, 1861. Marlboro
New- York
City.
Mechanic.
Corporal, 3 July, 1861. Ser 10 to 11 1862, July, geant, May, 1863, when returned to the ranks during prolonged absence. Again corporal, 1 .
Sept., 1863.
Sergeant,
1
Wounded
Nov., 1863.
in hand,
9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain ; returned to duty, Aug., Re-enlisted. See Second Term. 1863.
THURSTON, Thomas B. 34. Fitchburg, Mass. Brakeman. Ser 12 May, 1861. Corporal, May, 1861. Fitchburg. geant, 11 Aug., 1861.
First sergeant, 1 Jan., 1863, to 11
May, 1863, when made second sergeant Taken prisoner (being 5 Sept., 1863. ;
again first sergeant, disabled by shell),
25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., See Second Term. Re-enlisted. 1862.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
351
11 TICKNOR, George. 29. Brookfield, Mass. Farmer. 1861. for May, Tyringham. Discharged disability, 9 Oct., 1862.
TOOMBS, William D. 19. West Boylston, Mass. Boot maker. 1 1 May, 1861. Oakdale. Detached as attendant in
Twelfth Corps hospital, July, 1863; returned Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
to duty, 9
Dec., 1863.
Charles L.
TOWER,
4 March, 1862.
.
31. .
Braintree,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
disability, 5
Discharged for
.
Dec.,
1862.
WALKER,
Charles C.
May, 1861.
Shoemaker. 12 Stow, Mass. Transferred to Invalid Corps.
22.
Lunenburg.
WEBSTER, George W. May, 1861. Bedford.
37.
Hooksett,
Discharged
N.H.
Clergyman.
for disability,
Oct.,
1862.
Re-enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts. WETHERBEE, Joseph A. 24. Westminster, Mass.
13 May, 1861. disability, 30 Dec., 1862.
Westminster.
chanic.
WHYTE,
Alfred
May, 1861.
Wounded
M. West
17
22.
Sept.,
11 May, 1861.
,
1862, at Antietam;
quence, 8 Oct., 1862. WILCOX, Franklin B.
21.
Discharged for
N.H. Weaver. 11 Wagoner, 4 July, 1861.
Marlboro
Boylston.
died in conse
Mendon, Mass.
Westminster.
Me
Shoemaker.
Killed in action, 9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain.
WOODWARD,
Melvin M.
11 May, 1861.
Lee.
Kinderhook, N.Y". Mason. Corporal, 18 Feb., 1862, to 26 22.
Nov., 1862, when returned to the ranks during prolonged absence. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 July, 1863.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
352
COMPANY ADAMS, Edmund July, 1862.
Trader.
29
disability,
19
Farmer.
11
Bellingham, Mass.
38.
J.
E.
Discharged for
Bellingham.
Feb., 1863.
Bellingham, Mass.
30.
ADAMS, Lyman.
Franklin. Taken prisoner, August, 1861, May, 1861. near Harper s Ferry returned to parole camp, from which ;
he deserted.
ADAMS, Milton S. 27. Medway, Mass. Bootmaker. 11 Corporal, 25 May, 1861, to 29 Medway. May, 1861. 1862
Sept.,
;
again, 3
Nov., 1862, to
19
March, 1864.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
ALEXANDER,
24.
Isaac.
Ayrshire, Scotland.
Shoemaker.
Ware. Taken prisoner, August, 1861, May, 1861. near Harper s Ferry returned to duty, 24 March, 1862. Wounded in shoulder, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester dis 11
;
;
charged in consequence, 12 Oct., 1862. ALLEN, Sidney W. 18. Milford, Mass.
May, 1861.
Medway.
Cedar Mountain
Wounded
Bootmaker.
11
in hand, 9 Aug., 1862,
returned to duty, September, 1862. 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; returned Mustered out 28 May, 1864. to duty, 1 March, 1864. BACON, William H. 20. Palmer, Mass. Bootmaker. 11 at
Wounded
May, 1861. 1862
;
;
in heel,
Ware.
Left with wounded, in
and never returned.
August,
Dropped as deserter. Wrentham, Mass. Bootmaker.
BALLOU, Albert A. 30. 11 May, 1861. Medway. Corporal, 31 Aug., 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester returned ;
to duty,
23 Oct., 1862.
BANCROFT, George. 28 July, 1862.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 34. Bootmaker. Blackstone, Mass.
Medway.
Discharged for
disability, 5
Nov., 1862.
BARNES, sorter.
Julius
G.
20.
11 May. 1861.
New Ware.
WoolMay, 1861.
Braintree, Mass.
Sergeant, 25
THE ENLISTED MEN.
353
Absent in hospital since December, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. BARNES, Martin L. 18. Hardwick, Mass. Farmer. 11 Discharged for disability, 24 Sept., May, 1861. Ware. to
10 Nov., 1862.
1862.
1862. 25.
BATHE, Anthony. 11 May, 1861.
Wiltshire, England.
Wrentham.
Detailed
regimental
1862; and 21 Oct., 22 Mustered and 1863; Oct., 1863.
blacksmith, December, 1861, to
1862, to 19 Oct.,
Wheelwright. as
.
.
.
out 28 March, 1864.
BOYD, Alexander. 48. Carrickfergus, Ireland. Sailor. 21 Wounded in foot, by shell, in Medway. July, 1862. Mustered out 20 July, 1865. 24. Bootmaker. Boston, Mass.
front of Atlanta.
BRADLEY,
Patrick.
May, 1861. 1861.
BROWN, 1862.
Milford.
Aaron.
30.
Medway.
Discharged
11
for disability, 2 Dec.,
Milford, Mass.
Farmer.
Discharged for
disability,
28 July,
4 March,
1863.
BROWN, Henry W. May, 1861.
29.
Medway.
Medway, Mass. Discharged
Physician.
11
for disability, 7 July,
1861.
Weaver. 11 May, Cork, Ireland. Wounded, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester
BUCKLEY, John. 1861.
20.
Ware.
;
and taken prisoner; died of chronic diarrhoea, 16 Oct., 1862, at Richmond, while a prisoner. BULLEN, Edmund M. 28. Medway, Mass. Painter. 11
May, 1861. at
Medway.
Winchester;
Wounded
in
Taken
returned
chest,
3
to
May,
prisoner, 25
1863,
May, 1861,
December,
duty, at
1862.
Chancellors ville.
In hospital when mustered out term expired. CASS, John W. 21. Boston, Mass. Boot-striker. ;
1861.
Medway.
Discharged
for
disability,
11
18
May, Sept.,
1862.
CHILSON, Lucius H. 22. Perkinsville, Vt. Machinist. 11 May, 1861. Ware. Corporal, 22 Feb., 1863; sergeant, 23
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
354
Detached
6 April, 1863, to 26 June, 1863.
to
Company
United-States Artillery, 10 April, 1862, to 11 Wounded in hand, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys Oct., 1862. F,
4th
Absent 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. burg. CLARK, Albert H. 26. Medway, Mass. Boot-crimper. 11 Corporal, 24 Feb., 1862, to 30 May, 1861. Medway. Dec., 1862, when returned to the ranks during prolonged absence.
Wounded
in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at
returned to duty, 15 28 May, 1864.
tain
;
COATES, David.
May,
25.
Eton,
C.E.
North Stratford
1861.
30
Aug., 1862, to
Dec.,
1862.
Cedar Moun
Mustered out
Aug., 1863.
Bonnet-presser.
11
Corporal, 1 (Conn. ?). Transferred to Invalid
Corps, 5 Jan., 1864.
CONEY, Edward H. 18. Ware, Mass. Farmer. 11 May, Ware. Taken prisoner, 29 Aug., 1862, near 1861. Bristow, Va.
;
returned to parole camp, and deserted.
None.
18. CONVERSE, Charles C. Holyoke, Mass. Deserted 6 July, 1861. May, 1861. Ware. 23. COOK, Warren F. Bellingham, Mass.
11 May, 1861.
Wounded
Medway.
at
1861.
May, May, 1864.
18.
Bellingham, Mass.
Bellingham (Medway?).
COUGHLAN, Timothy. 21. 11 May, 1861. Medway.
May, 1862.
Cedar
arm, Aug., 1862, discharged in consequence, 8 Nov., 1862.
COOMBS, John V.
Milkman.
14
Corporal,
9
in
11
Mountain;
Farmer.
11
Mustered out 28
Kerry, Ireland.
Pile-driver.
gunboat on the Mississippi, 14 Feb., 1862. Dropped from the rolls. COWDEN, Jason E. 24. Amesbury, Mass. Hatter. 17
Detached
to
Detached to division ambu July, 1862. Amesbury. lance corps, 29 Oct., 1862, to 23 May, 1863; transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 Sept., 1863.
CUMMINGS, Charles E. 27. Franklin, Mass. Boot-striker. 11 May, 1861. Corporal, 1 Aug., 1862. Medway. Died of chronic D.C.
diarrhosa, 19 Jan., 1863, at
Washington,
THE ENLISTED MEN. GUSHING, Alexander M. July, 1862.
Newbern, Vt. Tailor. 28 Died of chronic diarrhoea, 23
39.
Medway.
Md.
Nov., 1862, at Sharpsburg,
DANIELS, William A.
May, 1861.
55
Medway, Mass.
21.
Wounded
Medway.
Wheelwright. and in arm, 9
in hip
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; died in consequence, 10 Aug., 1862.
DESPER, Charles M.
May, 1861. Feb., 1863. 11
DUD Y,
Medway.
Thomas.
May, 1861.
New
21.
Medway. not
disabled
FALES, John M.
;
Aug., 1862. Feb., 1863.
.
.
May,
1861, to 20
Discharged for
Dracut, Mass.
24.
Detached
Lowell.
to
1861.
24.
Westboro
Medway. 22.
11 Oct., 1861.
20
disability, 9
Hostler.
9 Oct.,
ambulance corps, Absent in hospital, 9
division
16 Oct., 1862, to 28 July, 1863. Oct., 1864, when mustered out.
FORCE, Emmons.
Farmer.
Bellingham, Mass.
23.
Bellingham.
FLINT, Henry E.
at
.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
April, 1864.
Nov., 1862. Foss, John F.
May,
25 May, 1862, at
wounded 9 Aug., 1862, at wounded in arm, 17 Sept.,
;
Detailed as butcher
Medway.
FISHER, Lewis L.
May,
Bootmaker.
in hand,
Discharged 8 April, 1863. Bellingham, Mass. Boot-treer.
26.
Ser
See Second Term.
Medway, Mass.
Wounded
1862, at Antietam.
1861.
11
Corporal, 30 Dec., 1862. Re-enlisted.
Cedar Mountain, not disabled
1861.
Bootmaker.
Haven, Conn.
25
Deserted 6 July, 1861. 21. Bootmaker. Medway, Mass.
geant, 22 Feb., 1863. FALES, Albert F. 23.
Winchester,
Discharged
for disability,
Medway.
DUNTON, Alonzo E. May, 1861. Medway.
1861.
Bootmaker.
Medway, Mass.
19.
,
Mass.
Discharged
11
Carpenter. for
disability,
21
Ky. Sewing-machine Agent. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862,
Louisville,
Lowell.
Winchester; returned
tered out 11 Oct., 1864.
to duty,
20 Feb., 1863.
Mus
356
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
FULLER, Charles F. 33. Medway, Mass. Bonnet-bloeker. May, 1861, Medway. Discharged for disability, 28 Jan., 1862. 18. GATCHELL, Thomas D. Northbridge, Mass. Boot maker. May, 1861. Milford. Enlisted company musi cian. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. GORMAN, John. 19. Tyrone, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, 1861. Medway. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 Sept.,
1863. 34. Bootmaker. May, Douglas, Mass. Medway. Discharged for disability, 30 May, 1861. GRANT, Frank S. 18. Wrentham, Mass. Farmer. May, 1861. Wounded in knee, 3 July, 1863, at Medway.
GRANT,
Charles.
1861.
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 14 Jan., 1864.
Gettysburg.
GRANT, James M. May, 1861. at
21.
Woonsocket, R.I. Boot-fitter. prisoner, 25 May, 1862 returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Mustered
Taken
Medway.
Winchester
;
out 28 May, 1864.
GREENWOOD, George maker.
May,
E.
1861.
19.
Franklin,
Medway.
sergeant, 30 Dec., 1863.
Mass.
Corporal, 9 April,
Wounded
Boot
1863
;
arm, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 18 Aug., 1863. Mus tered out 28 May, 1864. in
;
GREENWOOD,
Bootmaker. Franklin, Mass. Detailed as hospital-wagoner, I July, 1861, to 4 June, 1862. Detached to division am bulance corps in 1862, to Jan., 1863; and 1 Feb., 1863,
May, 1861.
Isaac C.
39.
Medway.
to
2o April, 1863
in
arm and
;
and again, 30 April, 1863. Wounded Mustered out
side, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca. 28 May, 1864.
GRUNDEL, maker.
Sebastian.
1862, at Winchester 1864.
Baden-Baden, Germany. Shoe Ware. Wounded in arm, 25 May,
21.
May, 1861. ;
not disabled.
Mustered out 28 May,
22. HARRINGTON, Peter. Roscommon, Ireland. Barber. II May, 1861. Wounded in elbow, 17 Sept., Medway.
THE ENLISTED MEN. 1862, at Antietam
357
discharged in consequence, 6 Dec.,
;
1862.
HARRINGTON, Thomas
28.
J.
Roscommon,
maker.
3 Sept., 1862. Medway. valid Corps, 30 Sept., 1863.
HATSTAT, William F. May, 1861. Ware.
Ireland.
Thorndike, Mass.
18.
Discharged
Boot
Transferred to In
for disability,
Farmer. 20 April,
1863.
HENRY, John. 23. 1861. Medway. Chancellorsville tered out 28
Sligo,
in breast, 3
May, May, 1863, at
Mus
returned to duty, 17 Aug., 1863.
;
May, 1864. 23. Farmer. Sharon, Mass. May, Wagoner, 4 July, 1861. Mustered out
HEWINS, Benjamin. 1861.
Bootmaker.
Ireland.
Wounded
Sharon.
28 May, 1864.
HILL, Edwin 1861.
W.
Medway, Mass.
24.
Corporal, 25 for disability, 29 Jan., 1862.
Medway.
HILL, Isaac. 1862.
24.
Montpelier, Vt.
Wounded
Franklin.
Antietam; returned 28 May, 1864.
HIXON, Alonzo. 1861.
35.
Bootmaker.
May, 1861.
May,
Discharged
Boxmaker.
28 July,
in hand, 17 Sept., 1862, at
to duty, Aug., 1863.
Medway, Mass.
Mustered out
Bootmaker.
May
Detailed as company cook, July, 1861. Mustered out 28 March, 1864.
HOG AN, May,
Medway.
Edward. 1861.
22.
Tipperary, Ireland.
Bootmaker, March, 1864. Cedar Mountain re
Medway.
Corporal,
Wounded
23
in hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at turned to duty, 10 Oct., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, ;
1864.
HOUGIITON, Albert 11
May,
1861.
Killed in action,
C.
Newton, Mass.
Boot-striker.
9
1863.
Medway. 3 May, 1863,
HOUGHTON, Alvin W. May, 1861.
20.
Medway.
18.
Corporal,
April, at Chancellorsville.
Swansey, N.H. Porter. 11 Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
358
HOWARD, Warren
V.
Ware, Mass.
19.
Painter.
May,
Corporal, 25 May, 1861, to 7 Feb., 1862 30 1862. Taken prisoner, May, 1862, near Nov., again, Strasburg, Va. returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Deserted
1861.
Ware.
;
;
2 Jan., 1863, while on furlough.
HUNT, George W. 1861.
Sudbury, Mass.
19.
Bootmaker.
May,
Wounded 25 May, 1862, at Winches Wounded in arm, 9 Aug., 1862, at duty.
Medfield.
ter; returned to
Cedar Mountain;
discharged in
consequence,
23
Dec.,
1862. 25. Marlboro Mass. Bootmaker. HUNT, Thomas E. Wounded in 25 Medfield. 1861. ankle, May, May, 1862, ,
at
paroled, and deserted. Farmer. Milford, Mass. May,
Winchester, and taken prisoner 21.
HUNTRESS, John.
;
1861. Milford. Discharged for disability, 26 June, 1862. Said to have re-enlisted in Seventh Massachusetts Battery.
IDE, George H.
26.
Medway, Mass.
Clerk.
May, 1861.
Corporal, 7 Juiy, 1861, to 24 Feb., Killed in action, & Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
Medway.
1862.
JEWETT, Richard H. L.
East Greenwich, R.I. 28. Civil1862. Boston. 30 Corporal, 30 Dec., Aug., engineer. 1862. Discharged 5 March, 1863, to receive commission of second lieutenant in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts ;
commission of that date captain, 19 July,
JOHNSON,
Francis.
;
lieutenant,
[first
22 May, 1863;
1863; mustered out 19 June, 1865.] 44. Three Rivers, C.E. Shoemaker. Lawrence.
19 Aug., 1862. Chancellorsville
;
Wounded
returned to duty,
.
.
.
3
1863.
May, 1863,
at
Mustered out
28 May, 1864. JOHNSTON, John C. 22. Antrim, Ireland. Farmer. May, Wounded in groin, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar 1861. Ware. Mountain, and taken prisoner
known,
KIMBALL,
;
died of wounds, date un
Richmond, Va., while a prisoner. Charles C. 19. Keene, N.H. Clerk.
at
11
May,
Sergeant, 25 May, 1861. Medway. Discharged, 24 Sept., 1862, to receive commission as second lieutenant
1861.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
359
. Massachusetts ; but, upon being mustered out of to refused be in again, remarking to the mustered service, Men have to crawl through small holes mustering-officer,
in the
.
.
"
sometimes."
Oxford, Mass.
22. KINNEY, James. 1861. Ware. May,
Taken
Winchester; returned to duty, 26 out 28 May, 1864.
LEARNED, Henry. 1862.
Aug.,
1864
;
New
43.
Brookline.
May, 1862, at Mustered
Oct., 1862.
Braintree, Mass.
Absent
in
Farmer.
hospital,
18
28 May,
no record of muster-out.
LEONARD, Lawrence. May, 1861.
28.
Milford.
at Winchester,
J.
M.
11 Aug., 1862.
4 March, 1863. MACK, David F. 1861.
Medway.
Cedar
Mountain
Wounded
Galway, Ireland. Boot-maker. Died from broken leg, April, 1862,
Va.
LIVINGSTON, Samuel mer.
Factory-operative.
prisoner, 25
21.
;
Discharged for
London, England.
Wounded
Far
Tewksbury, Mass.
20.
Boston.
disability,
Tailor.
May
in hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at
returned to duty,
11
March, 1863.
in leg, 3 July, 1863, at
Gettysburg; returned to 16 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Dec., duty, MALONE, Bernard G. 21. Galway, Ireland. Cordwainer.
May, 1861.
Deserted 24 Sept., 1862, while on
Natick.
furlough.
MANN, Albert W. May, 1861.
24.
Medway.
Wrentham, Mass. Sergeant, 25
Bootmaker.
May, 1861
;
first
13 July, 1861. Appointed sergeant-major, 10 See Non-commissioned Officers; also Com May, 1862. missioned Officers. sergeant,
MATHER, Samuel A. May, at^
1861.
Cedar Mountain
Mustered Second Term.
1863.
33.
Milford.
Winsted, Conn.
Wounded
Bootmaker.
in thigh, 9 Aug., 1862,
transferred to Invalid Corps 1 July, but re-enlisted 15 Aug., 1864. See out, ;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
360
MAWN,
Peter.
26.
Medway.
Bootmaker.
Ireland.
Wounded
12 Aug., 1862.
in leg, 3
at Chancellors-
May, 1863, discharged in consequence, 21 Aug., 1863. Edward A. 18. Attleboro Mass. Farmer.
ville;
MAY,
May,
,
1861.
Appointed marker, 1861.
Medway.
Discharged
for disability, 6 Dec., 1862.
MAY, James 1861.
B.
Attleboro
38.
,
Mass.
Medway.
in groin 9 Aug., 1862, at
Boot-treer.
Cedar Mountain
;
May,
Wounded
Aug., 1862.
Corporal, 1
discharged in
consequence, 8 April, 1863.
Me Co WAN,
19.
James.
May, 1861.
Derry,
Bootmaker.
Ireland.
Discharged for
Medway.
disability,
30
Dec., 1861.
McNANY, tive.
May,
Chicopee, Mass.
26.
Richard.
Factory opera Discharged, for disability,
Ware.
1861.
June, 1861.
METCALF, George L. 1861.
17.
Bellingham.
Bellingham, Mass. Farmer. May, Corporal, 9 April, 1863. Wounded
in knee, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; 1
returned to duty,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Nov., 1863.
METCALF, George O. 31. Newport, N.H. Wounded in hand, May, 1861. Medfield. at
Chancellors ville
Wounded
;
returned
to
duty,
16
hand, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca. 1864. in
28 May, METCALF, John
May, 1861.
18.
C.
Confectioner.
3
May, 1863,
Mustered out
Bellingham, Mass.
Bellingham.
Corporal, 30
30 Dec., 1863. sergeant, 31 Aug., 1863, to
1863.
Dec.,
Farmer.
Dec., 1862; Mustered out
28 May, 1864.
MIXTON, Thomas. 22. Roscornmon, Ireland. Bootmaker. Corporal, 6 Feb., May, 1861. Medway (Roxbury?). color-corporal, 22 July, 1862; sergeant, 3 Nov., Deserted while on furlough granted 9 March, 1863. MORSE, Joseph H. 21. Medfield, Mass. Hostler. May,
1862; 1862.
1861.
Medfield.
Detailed as regimental wagoner,
ammunition
1861.
Detached
1863.
Mustered out 28 March, 1864.
to
division
train,
1
July,
14 Aug.,
THE ENLISTED MEN. MUNDON, 1861.
Daniel.
26.
Newport, R.I. Detailed as
Medway.
1861, to
July, 1862.
1
NEWCOMB, John H. 1861.
22.
May,
Boot-crimper.
cook, 23 June,
company
Deserted 14 Sept., 1862. Farmer. Enfield, Mass.
Corporal, 25
Eufield.
361
May, 1861,
May,
30 May,
to
Wounded in leg, 9 Aug. Also, color-corporal. 1862, at Cedar Mountain discharged in consequence, 29 March, 1863. 1862.
;
O BRIEN,
Michael.
26.
Fireman.
Clare, Ireland.
Ware. Wounded at Cedar Mountain 1862, 1861.
in ;
discharged in
May,
9 Aug.,
(amputated)
leg
consequence,
10 Dec., 1862.
O DONNKLL,
Michael.
May, 1861. (arm
?),
to duty, 17
first
1
;
1862
;
Bootmaker.
1862;
ser
Wounded
May, 1863.
sergeant, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar
Sept.,
Mountain
;
returned
wounded
in hip, 3 July, 1863, at
hospital,
28 May, 1864, when
Absent in
Gettysburg.
mustered
Kilkenny, Ireland. Corporal, 3 Nov.,
Medway.
geant, 30 Dec., 1862 in leg
18.
out.
ONION, Alfred.
Medway, Mass.
18.
Sent
Medway.
^to
Farmer.
May, 1861.
hospital at Frederick, Md.,
1861; never returned; transferred
December, 23
to Invalid Corps,
Jan., 1864.
OSGOOD, Joseph. 1862.
43.
Bellingham.
Lancaster, Mass.
Died of chronic
Farmer. diarrhoea,
22 Aug., 8 Feb,
1863, at Stafford C.H., Va.
PANZLOFF, Boston. ville;
Julius.
25.
Wounded
Germany. in leg, 3
Sailor.
May, 1863,
25 Aug., 1862. at Chancellors-
discharged in consequence, 15 Aug., 1863.
PARSONS, William R. clicker.
35.
Lancashire, England.
Boot-
May, 1861.
First sergeant, 25 Medway. May, 1861, to 13 July, 1861, when made sergeant; first sergeant Wounded in hand, 17 Sept., 1862, again, 14 May, 1862. at
Autietam; discharged in consequence, 14 Jan., 1863. 44. Lynn, Mass. Machinist. 19 Boston. Detached to division ambulance Aug., 1862.
PURINGTON, Daniel.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
362
corps, 16 Oct., 1862, to 27 July, 1863.
May, 1864. EEMICK, Alfred P. 1861.
Gardiner, Me. Bootmaker. Enlisted wagoner, 1 July, 1861. 1864.
30.
Milford.
tered out 28
Mustered out 28
May,
May,
Mus
19. J. Boot Franklin, Mass. 1861. Franklin. Killed iu action, 17 May, at Antietam. Sept., 1862,
RICHARDSON, Erastus maker.
RICHARDSON, Gardner H. 14 at
Oct., 1861.
Antietam; returned
Tanner. Westford, Mass. in leg, 17 Sept., 1862,
18.
Wounded
Lowell.
duty, 8 Dec., 1862.
to
Wounded
in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at
7 March, 1864. 14 Oct., 1864.
Gettysburg; returned to duty, Mustered out Corporal, 1 July, 1864.
Thomas. 25. Boot Lancashire, England. maker. May, 1861. Medway. Corporal, 25 May, 1861 Deserted July, sergeant, 7 July, 1861, to 18 July, 1862.
ROLLINS,
;
1862. 22. 25 Sailor. Pazel, Switzerland. In action his 1862. Brookline. term Aug., every during of service. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
ROSER, Charles.
19. Cabinet Boston, Mass. SCHLUSEMEYER, William. maker. May, 1861. Medway. Discharged as a minor,
6 July, 1861. 29. SHERMAN, Hezekiah E. maker. May, 1861. Mansfield. color-corporal, 4 July,
1862
;
sergeant, 14 Jan., 1863, to 1
Mansfield,
Mass.
Boot
Corporal, 3 Feb., 1862
sergeant, 1 Aug., 1862
May, 1863
;
;
;
first
sergeant again,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. SLA YEN, Michael. 26. Ireland. Bootmaker. May, 1861. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Medway. 30 Dec., 1863.
SNOW, 1861.
Charles.
Ware.
Shoemaker. Ware, Mass. May, Wounded, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam;
18.
discharged in consequence, 8 April, 1863.
SPARROW, Herman S. May, 1861. Medway. at
Cedar Mountain.
20.
Medway, Mass.
Bootmaker.
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862,
THE ENLISTED MEN.
363
STARBUCK, George. 24. Quincy, Mass. Sewing-machine Enlisted company-mu operator. May, 1861. Quincy. sician.
Died of chronic
Washington, D.C. 22. STONE, Joseph.
.
.
.
Ware. Wounded Cedar Mountain returned
1861.
;
of lung fever, 22
3
diarrhoea,
1863, at
Farmer.
Canada.
in
March,
May,
shoulder, 9 Aug., 1862, at
to duty,
20 Feb., 1863.
Died
May, 1863, at Aquia Landing, Va.
Bootmaker. 19. SULLIVAN, Timothy. Kerry, Ireland. Detailed as orderly at regimental May, 1861. Melford. Taken prisoner, July, 1863 headquarters, 19 Oct., 1862. ;
Mustered out 28 May,
returned to duty, 14 Nov., 1863. 1864.
SUMNER, Eugene. 19. Fall River, Mass. May, 1861. Medfield. Dropped from
SWARMAN, John H.
Cabinet-maker. the rolls in 1863.
Farmer.
Boston, Mass.
25.
May,
prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win Medway. returned Wounded in to chester; duty, 23 Oct., 1862.
Taken
1861.
leg, 3 July,
1863, at Gettysburg
;
returned as far as
Nash
ville, Tenn., February, 1864, where he was detailed on Mustered out 28 May, 1864. special duty. TREEN, John S. 22. ... N.S. Bootmaker. May, 1861.
Killed Medway. TREEN, Lewis A.
1861. 1862.
in action, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam.
... N.S.
26.
Bootmaker.
May,
Corporal, 25 May, 1861, to 18 July, Medway. Deserted June, 1862, while on furlough.
22. TURNER, William H. May, 1861. Medway.
Feb., 1863
;
for
disability,
7
died afterwards, in Milford, Mass.
UFFENHEIMER, David. Aug., 1862.
Bootmaker.
Medway, Mass. Discharged
.
.
.
19.
Baden, Germany.
Killed in
action, 3
Baker.
May, 1863,
18 at
Chancellorsville.
UNDERWOOD, 9 Aug.,
Fisher E.
1862.
21.
Medway. 1864, when mustered out.
Medway, Mass. Absent
Bootmaker.
in hospital,
28 May,
364
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Farmer.
Uxbridge, Mass.
21 Aug., 3 face, Medway. May, 1863, at Chancellorsville. Absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when
VOSE, Jeremiah.
27.
Wounded
1862.
mustered
out.
WEBBER, George maker.
in
26.
C.
May, 1861.
Boot East Douglas, Mass. Mustered out 28 May,
Medway.
1864.
WHEAT,
Hancock, N.H. Bootmaker. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Alfred C.
1861.
27.
Medway.
May,
Mass, Bootmaker. May, 25 Corporal, Medway. May, 1861; sergeant, 14 1862. for May, Discharged disability, 11 Dec., 1862. Bootmaker. 26. Charles. WHITNEY, Holliston, Mass.
WHEAT, Henry.
29.
.
Billerica,
1861.
May, 1861.
Medway.
geant, 17 July, 1863;
Corporal, 25 color-sergeant,
May, 1861;
same
date.
ser
Hit in
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain, and dis abled for some days. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. breast-plate,
9
WILEY, Albert H. 35. Bellingham, Mass. Auctioneer. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 28 July, 1862. Medway. Machinist. WILLIAMS,, George H. 23. Wrentham, Mass. Detailed as 1861. company musician, May, Medway. 28 April, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. WILLIAMS, Henry. 44. Providence, R.I. Cook. 27 Aug., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Boston. WYNN, Daniel. 23. Sligo, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, 1861.
Killed in action, 17 Sept., 1862, at
Milford.
Antietam.
WOOD,
Richard.
45.
London, England.
Wounded
Laborer.
18
3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Feb., 1864.
Aug., 1862.
WORKMAN, maker. ability,
.
.
.
William M.
May,
1861.
30 May, 1862.
in
wrist,
Box18. Liverpool, England. for dis Franklin. Discharged
THE ENLISTED MEN.
COMPANY ANDREWS,
Prince A.
19.
365
F.
Essex,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
Wounded in thigh, 3 May, 1863, Ipswich. at Cliancellorsville; returned to duty, March, 1864. Mus May, 1861.
tered out 28
May, 1864.
22. Shoemaker. ANNIS, Charles H. Templeton, Mass. Absent in hospital, 25 May, 28 Aug., 1862. Lynn. 1863, when discharged by order of War Department. 27. Shoemaker. Fairhaven, Mass. ANNIS, Stillman L. Detailed as cook. Died 1861. company May, Lynn.
of dysentery, 21 Nov., 1862, at Frederick,
BATES, Frederick. 24 July, 1862.
24.
Md.
Bellingham, Mass.
Bootmaker.
Mustered out 28 May,
Bellingham.
1864.
BATES, Lewis H. Aug., 1862.
BESSOM, Charles.
Shoemaker.
28
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Printer. 17 Lynn, Mass.
Oct.,
Boston, Mass.
22.
Lynn. 18.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win Lynn. returned to duty, 1 Nov., 1862. chester, and paroled 1861.
;
Discharged
BESSOM,
for disability, 1 April,
43.
Philip.
1863.
Marblehead,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
17 Oct., 1861. Lynn. Company musician, 7 Nov., 1861, Detailed as hospital attendant, 6 April, to 6 April, 1862.
Discharged for disability, 2 March, 1863. 27. Shoemaker. BILLINGS, David E. Concord, N.H. 1862.
May, 1861. 1863.
Corporal, 24 Sept., 1862, to 1 July,
Athol.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
BILLINGS, Jeremiah B.
May, 1861.
Athol.
21. Shoemaker. Troy, N.H. Discharged for disability; 18 Feb.,
1862.
BROOKS, 1861.
Joel J.
Gardner.
23.
Gardner, Mass. Corporal,
.
.
Chairmaker.
May, 1861;
May,
sergeant,
24
Wounded in hand, 17 Sept., 1862, at AntieSept., 1862. not disabled. Taken prisoner, 3 July, 1863, at tam;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
366
Gettysburg.
Absent prisoner, or paroled
until
mustered
out.
Francis
BROWN,
W.
Boston, Mass.
26.
Detached
Hamilton.
1861.
to
Farmer.
May,
ammunition
division
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Orange, Mass. Shoemaker. May, Re-enlisted. See Second Term. Philipston.
train, May, 1862. BRYANT, Cyrus W.
1861.
28.
33. Essex, Mass. Carpenter. May, Discharged for disability, 25 Feb., 1863. BURRILL, Blenard. 22. Saugus, Mass. Shoemaker. May, Detailed as company cook, 28 Oct., 1862, 1861. Lynn.
Rufus.
BURNHAM,
Essex.
1861.
to
27 April, 1863.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 23. Norwich, Conn. Musician.
C.
BUSHNELL, Eugene Templeton. May, 1861. 1861.
Discharged
Company
musician,
.
.May,
for disability, 15 Aug., 1861.
BUTLER, Alonzo. 21. Ipswich, Mass. Sailor. May, 1861. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at, Winchester Ipswich. returned to duty, 9 April, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, ;
1864.
CAREY, Thomas.
37.
Ireland.
Bootmaker. 24 July, 1862.
Died from exhaustion, 9 Aug., 1862, on the Winchester. road from Culpepper to Cedar Mountain. CARR, Patrick H. 24. Ipswich, Mass. Factory operative. See Second Term. Re-enlisted. May, 1861. Ipswich.
CHAMBERLAIN, Garland A. 24. Lynn, Mass. Shoemaker. Wounded 3 July, 1863, at Gettys May, 1861. Lynn. burg. Absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
CHASE, George T. 24. Capetown, Cape of Good Hope. Farmer. May, 1861. Lynn. May, 1861 Sergeant, .
.
;
Wounded first sergeant, 18 Sept., 1862, to 31 Dec., 1863. returned to in hand, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville ;
duty,
1
July, 1863.
at Gettysburg.
mustered
out.
Wounded
Absent
in shoulder, 3 July, 1863,
in hospital,
28 May, 1864, when
THE ENLISTED MEN.
367
Concord, Me. Painter. May, 1861. Wounded, 25 May, 1862, at Win chester, and taken prisoner ; paroled, and died in conse quence of wounds.
CHURCHILL, Eben S. Norridgewock, Me.
CLARK, Charles H. 1861.
Topsfield.
Absent
in hospital,
Lynn, Mass.
19.
Wounded,
Shoemaker.
May,
3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
28 May, 1864, when mustered out. 25. Shoemaker. Topsfield, Mass.
S.
CLARK, Humphrey Mustered out 28 May, 1864. May, 1861. Wenham. CLARK, Thomas H. 26. Gloucester, Mass. Pedler. May, 1861.
Gloucester.
Corporal,
.
May, 1861,
.
to ...
May,
Detached as pioneer to First Division, 6 April, June, 1862 1862, to pioneer, with the regiment, from Mustered out 28 May, 1 June, 1862, to 26 Aug., 1863. 1861.
.
.
;
1864.
CLUTTERBUCK, William L. Pail-turner. May, 1861. ability (from accident),
CONANT,
Joseph C.
1861.
27.
Hamilton.
24.
Manchester,
Athol.
England. Discharged for dis
September, 1861. Hamilton, Mass.
Discharged
for
Seaman.
disability,
May,
26 Feb.,
1863.
COOK, Martin V. B. 24 July, 1862.
21.
Wrentham, Mass.
Bellingham.
Re-enlisted.
Bootmaker.
See Second
Term. 18. Danvers, Mass. Clerk. May, 1861. Dropped from the rolls in 1863. Said to be dis charged by order of War- Department. CROSBY, Pardon L. 18. Bellingham, Mass. Bootmaker. 24 July, 1862. Bellingham. Re-enlisted. See Second
COOPER, Robert. Lowell.
Term.
CURRANT, Thatcher M. May, 1861.
Lynn.
19.
Boston, Mass.
Re-enlisted.
Needle-maker.
See Second Term.
DAY, Albion W.
20. Templeton, Mass. Mechanic. May, Templeton. Corporal, 22 May, 1861. Wounded in hand and in back, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietain dis
1861.
;
charged in consequence, 31 March, 1863.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
368
DODGE,
F.
Otis
Topsfield, Mass.
Taken
Topsfield.
prisoner, 25
returned to duty, 19 Dec., 1862. 16 June, 1863.
DOUGLASS, John F. 1861.
24
24.
Calais,
May, 1861.
Clerk.
May, 1862,
at
Winchester
Discharged for
Me.
Brakeman.
Sept., 1862. ;
May,
Corporal, 8 July, 1861 sergeant, Wounded in shoulder, 17 Sept., 1862, at
Hubbardston.
Antietam
;
disability,
;
returned to duty, 19 Feb., 1863.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
DOWNES, Thomas May, 1861.
21.
J.
Ipswich.
Groveland, Mass. Shoemaker. Discharged for disability, 4 Oct.,
1861.
DURGIN, Daniel. Essex.
27.
Caulker.
Cork, Ireland.
Wounded
in leg, 17
Sept., 1862, at
returned to duty, 25 Sept., 1862.
Re-enlisted.
May, 1861. Antietam; See Sec
ond Term.
EATON, Charles Sept., 1862.
25.
S.
Lynn.
1863, to 7 Aug., 1863.
EMERSON, John D. 1861.
Athol.
17.
Shoemaker. 3 Lewiston, Me. Detailed as company cook, 6 May,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Royalston, Mass.
Detached on signal
Scholar.
service, 1 Sept.,
May, 1861
;
discharged 13 Oct., 1863, to receive the commission of second lieutenant in the Signal Corps. ESTES, Charles B. 21. Salem, Mass. Shoemaker. May,
1861. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Lynn. FIFIELD, Calvin S. 29. Lowell, Mass. Teamster.
1861.
Boston.
Enlisted wagoner, 1 July, 1861. 1864.
tered out 28
May, FINLAYSON, Duncan F.
...
Drowned
30
in Charles River,
May,
Mus
May, 1861. West Roxbury, Mass.,
2 June, 1861.
Fox, Columbus.
34.
Pompey, N.Y.
Painter.
May, 1861.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 24. Shoemaker. FOYE, John E. Chester, N.H. Athol.
1861.
when
May,
Corporal, May, 1861, to 11 April, 1862, returned to the ranks at his own request ; and again,
Lynn.
17 April, 1863.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN. FRENCH, Aurin B. May, 1861. Athol.
369
Manchester, N.H.
22.
Discharged
Shoemaker.
for disability (from acci
dent), 31 Dec., 1861.
FRENCH, Henry D.
Coventry, Vt.
19.
Cutler.
May,
Wounded in breast, 9 Aug., 1862, at Hopkinton. Cedar Mountain returned to duty, 1 Aug., 1863. Absent
1861.
;
May, 1864, when mustered out. FROST, George K. 23. Sanford, Me. Shoemaker. May, 1861. Wareham. Detached to division ammunition in hospital, 28
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Bootmaker. Boston, Mass.
train, May, 1862. GERSTLE, John, jr.
July, 1862.
23.
Bellingham. 19.
GERSTLE, Joseph. 24 July, 1862.
24
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Bellingham, Mass. Bootmaker.
Mustered out 28 May,
Bellingham.
1864.
GORTON, Samuel M. 29 Aug., 1862. Term.
44.
Cambridge, Mass. Re-enlisted.
Cambridge.
20. GOULD, Edward O. May, 1861. Topsfield.
Carpenter.
See Second
Shoemaker Boxford, Mass. Wounded, 25 May, 1862, at
Winchester; discharged in consequence, 25 July, 1862.
GREENE, Charles G. 21. Colebrooke (N.H. ?). Shoemaker. Detailed as regimental wagoner, May, 1861. Oakham. 8 July, 1861.
Died of
fever,
30 Jan., 1862,
at Frederick,
Md. HALL, William H. 1861.
Ipswich.
18.
Danvers, Mass.
Seaman.
May,
Enlisted in Third United-States Artil
18 Feb., 1863; was appointed corporal there. 19. HALLET, Charles O. Boston, Mass May, 1861. Brookline. Company musician, 3 Dec., 1862, to lery,
28 Feb., 1863; corporal, 1 July, 1863. Discharged, 19 to receive commission of second lieutenant in
March, 1864,
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, commission dated 4 Feb., first
lieutenant, 10 Feb.,
One Hundred
1865
1864
;
afterwards captain in the and Second United-States Colored Troops. 24
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
370
HANCOCK,
Charles P.
24 July, 1862.
Bootmaker.
Bellingham, Mass.
28.
Died of dysentery, 22 Jan.,
Bellingham.
1863, at Frederick, Md. HARTT, John T. 25. On the ocean.
Blacksmith.
14
Detailed as regimental blacksmith, Aug., 18G2. Lynn. 11 Jan.-, 1863, to 18 Jan. 1863; company musician, 9 See Second Term. March, 1863. Re-enlisted. ,
HASKELL, George W. May, 1861. Lynn.
Bridgewater, Mass.
21.
Discharged 1863; died soon after. 19. HAYES, George E. Gorham, Me. 1861.
Teamster.
for disability, 11 April,
Discharged for
Cambridge.
Painter. disability,
May, 9
Jan.
1863.
HEALD, William H. 1861.
Boston, Mass.
24.
Dec., 1861, at Baltimore,
HEY WOOD, maker.
Tinsmith.
May,
Died of typhoid pneumonia, 17
Hubbardston.
Theodore A.
May, 1861.
Md. 19.
Gardner, Mass.
Chair-
Mustered out 28 May,
Gardner.
1864.
HIGGINS, Henry H.
26.
Chesterfield,
N.H.
Turner.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, Boylston. returned to duty, August, 1863. Mustered at Winchester May, 1861.
;
out 28
May, 1864. HOWES, Edwin A. 26. May, 1861. 1862
Essex.
sergeant,
;
sergeant, 8 Dec., 1862.
HUNT, Horace. 1861 1862.
;
26.
Ship-carpenter.
May, 1861,
to
23 April,
Appointed commissarySee Non-commissioned Staff.
Salem, Mass.
School-teacher.
May,
16 July, detached as brigade-commissary s clerk, 21 April, Died of consumption, in 1864, at Athol, Mass. Athol.
1861.
Chatham, Mass.
Corporal, 2 June, 1862.
Detailed as commissary
s
clerk,
25. Chairmaker. Hubbardston, Mass. Hubbardston. Corporal, May, 1861, to 8 Absent July, 1861, when detached as hospital attendant. as hospital attendant, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
HUNTING,
Eli.
May, 1861.
THE ENLISTED MEN. JRPSON, Samuel L.
371
Berwick, Me.
21.
Shoemaker.
May,
Corporal, May, 1861, to 15 Feb., 1862 Ipswich. 5 1862. Wounded in leg, 17 Sept., 1862," March, sergeant,
1861.
at
;
Antietam
returned
;
to
Re-
10 March, 1863.
duty,
See Second Term.
enlisted.
.
20. Farmer. Gardner, Mass. KENDALL, Webster A. Re-enlisted. See Second Term. May, 1861. Gardner. 18. Farmer. May, Malone, N.Y. KIEUNAN, Charles. Wenham. Wounded in breast, 3 July, 1863, at 1861.
Gettysburg
;
died in consequence, 13 July, 1863, at Gettys
burg.
LAKE, Charles H. 1861.
Farmer.
Topsfield, Mass.
22.
Discharged, to receive
Topsfield.
May,
appointment of
hospital steward, 15 Nov., 1863.
LANG, Thomas. 1861. sippi,
19.
Gloucester.
Topsfield,
Mass.
Detached
to
Teamster.
May,
gunboat on the Missis
14 Feb., 1862.
26. Francis. Lynn, Mass. Shoemaker. May, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Lynn. 28. Shoemaker. LARRABEE, William H. Lynn, Mass. Detached as attendant in corps May, 1861. Lynn.
LARRABEE, 1861.
hospital,
20 May, 1863,
to
14 Aug., 1863.
Mustered out
28 May, 1864.
LAWRENCE,
19.
Jairus.
24 July, 1862.
Bellingham, Mass.
Bellingham.
Bootmaker.
Discharged for
disability,
15 Jan., 1863.
LEWIS, Warren E. Oct., 1861.
24.
Lynn.
Chancellorsville
;
29.
Biddeford,
Detached
Shoemaker.
in ankle, 3
May, 1863,
16 at
discharged in consequence, 1 Oct., 1863.
LINSCOTT, John F. 1861.
Saugus, Mass.
Wounded
to division
Alfred,
Me.
Me.
Blacksmith.
Blacksmith.
ammunition
train,
15 .
tered out 28
.
.
July, 1862.
May, 1861.
Mus
May, 1864. LOVEJOY, William S. (L ?). 29. South Danvers, Mass. Carpenter. May, 1861. ... Corporal, May, 1861. Discharged for
disability,
6 July, 1861.
372
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
MACINTIRE, George G. maker. May, 1861.
North Heading, Mass.
18.
North Reading.
25 Sept., 1861. Harry O. 19. Quincy,
Shoe
Discharged for
disability,
MADDEN, 1861.
Watertown.
charged
for disability,
MARSH, Edward, May, 1861.
May, Dis
1862.
Marblehead, Mass.
25.
jr.
Farmer.
111.
Corporal, 30 Dec., 22 April, 1863.
Seaman.
Swampscott. Corporal, May, 1861, to 1 Color corporal, 4 July, 1862, to 1 July, 1863.
July, 1863.
Wounded in shoulder, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
;
MARSHALL, Joseph T.
31.
New York
City.
Seaman.
r
Deserted 20 June, 1861. 22 May, 1861. New i ork. 32. Me. James. Shoemaker. 14 Sept., Portland, MARTIN, 1862.
Wounded in hand, 3 May, 1863, at Chanreturned to duty, 16 May, 1863. Mustered 1864.
Lynn.
cellorsville
;
out 28 May, MARTIN, Solomon.
1861.
35.
Portland,
Me.
Silk-printer.
May, 1861.
First sergeant,
Lynn.
May,
Killed in
action, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam.
MAYALL, John 1861.
Emngham, N.H. Spinner. May, Discharged, alleging that he had not 4 Aug., 1861. 19.
C.
Ipswich.
been sworn
McDAViTT,
in,
19.
Philip.
Ireland.
Shoemaker.
May, 1861.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Lynn. MCDOWELL, Thomas. 20. Bellingham, Mass.
24 July, 1862.
Bellingham.
Farmer.
Mustered out 28
May,
1864.
McLAY,
John.
19.
East Boston.
Sydney,
Enlisted in
N.S.
Mason.
United-States
May, 1861. Artillery,
15
Feb., 1863.
MERRITT, John R.
19.
Marblehead, Mass.
Shoemaker.
Swampscott. Company musician, 28 Mustered 17 out 1863. Oct., 1864. Feb., W. 20. Chairmaker. Orleans, Mass. MOORE, Ephraim
23
Oct.,
1861.
373
THE ENLISTED MEN. May, 1861. was .
Mountain
Wounded 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Culpepper, upon the evacuation, 18
.
.
left in
;
Aug., 1862, and died there.
MORRISSEY, John.
Bangor, Me.
18.
Wounded
May, 1861.
Servant.
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 4 Nov., 1862. Killed in action, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca.
South Boston.
MULHOLLAND, May,
James.
1861.
St.
in head, 9
19.
Johns, N.B.
St.
Confectioner.
Taken prisoner
Johns, N.B.
(in hospi
20 Aug., 1862, at Little Washington, Va. returned to duty 19 Dec., 1862. Mustered out 28 July, 1864.
tal),
;
NESBITT, Alonzo H.
May,
1861.
Artillery,
Fisherman.
Swampscott, Mass.
Swampscott.
Enlisted
in
United-States
15 Feb., 1863.
NEWHALL, Horace 1861.
19.
Lynn.
O.
Saugus, Mass.
19.
Sergeant,
May, 1861,
Company musician, June, 1861, May, 1864.
to
.
.
.
Clerk.
May, 1861.-
to June,
1861.
Mustered
out 28
NORWOOD,
Alonzo.
May, 1861. in hospital,
26.
Lynnfield,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
Absent
Corporal, 18 March, 1862. Lynn. 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
Veteran Reserve Corps. John. 19. Hopkinton, Mass. OSBORN,
Re-en
listed in
1861.
Hopkinton.
May, 1862,
at
Wounded
in
Law-student.
ankle and in
Winchester; discharged
in
May, ... 25
consequence, 31
Dec., 1862.
PARKER, Alfred R. May, 1861.
20. Hubbardston, Mass. Hostler. -Corporal, 28 Dec., 1863. Re-en See Second Term. .
listed.
.
.
PARKER, Stephen S. 19. Hubbardston, Mass. Farmer. Hubbardston. May, 1861. Corporal, 8 July, 1861 Wounded in thigh, 3 July, 1863, sergeant, 30 Dec., 1862. at Gettysburg. Absent in hospital 28 May, 1864, when ;
mustered
out.
PARKER, Thomas 1861.
S.
23.
South Gardner.
Boston,
Taken
Mass.
Clerk.
May,
prisoner, 3 July, 1863, at
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
374
Mustered out
Gettysburg; returned to duty, Nov., 1863. 28 May, 1864.
PHELPS, Leander W.
May,
Shoemaker. Walpole, N.H. Discharged for disability, 30 May,
.30.
Athol.
1861.
1863.
PHILLIPS, Erwin T.
May, 1861. Antietam 28 May,
;
Boxford,
Shoemaker.
Mass.
Wounded, 17
1862.
Bellingham, Mass.
21.
at
Mustered out 24
Teamster.
Re-enlisted.
Bellingham.
1862,
Sept.,
returned to duty, April, 1864. 1864.
PICKERING, Asa. July,
23.
Topsfield.
Second
See
Term.
W. M.
PIERCE, Ivory
May, 1861.
Lynn. (sabre-cut), 24 May,
turned to duty,
.
1862, at Antietam tered out 28
.
;
.
23.
Sanford,
Me.
Shoemaker.
Corporal 9 April, 1863. ,
1862, 1862.
near
Wounded
Kernstown, Va.
Wounded
in leg,
17
returned to duty, 11 Oct., 1862.
;
re
Sept.,
Mus
May, 1864.
PIXNEY, James.
May, 1861. Gettysburg.
19. Nottingham, Eng. Cabinet-maker. Wounded 3 July, 1863, at South Dedham. Absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mus
tered out. 18. J. Gardner, Mass. -Carpenter. Taken prisoner, 25 May, South Gardner.
POWERS, Lorenzo May, 1861.
1862, at Winchester, and paroled; returned to duty, 19 Wounded in ankle (amputation), 9 June, 1862.
Dei.-.,
1863, at Beverly Ford;
discharged in consequence, 22
Jan., 1864.
RATE, Alexander H.
32.
Glasgow, Scotland.
Engine-
Company musi May, 1861. Manchester, N.H. May, 1861, to Aug., 1861. Sergeant, 24 Aug., 1861.
driver. cian,
Deserted 28 Aug., 1861; brought back 29 Oct., 1861. Deserted again, November, 1861.
RICHARDS, Charles F. smith.
May, 1861.
to division
ambulance
28 May, 1864.
36.
West Roxbury, Mass.
Black
Detached as blacksmith
Roxbury. 21 Oct., 1862.
corps,
Mustered out
THE ENLISTED MEN. RICHARDSON, Delavan.
21.
Athol,
375
Mass.
Machinist.
Oct., 1862. Wounded May, in hand, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to 1863. Second 16 Re-enlisted. Term. See May, duty,
Corporal, 24
Athol.
1861.
;
SHAUGHNESSY, Michael.
May, 1861.
penter.
20. St. Andrews, N.B. Car Wounded 25 May, South Boston.
1862, at Winchester, taken prisoner, and paroled never returned; dropped as deserter, July, 1863. SLOCUM, Hazard P. 40. Tolland, Mass. Teamster. 24 ;
Died of dysentery, 19 March, Bellingham. 1863, at Frederick, Md. SMITH, George E. 18. Portland, Me. Teamster. May, July, 1862.
Cape Elizabeth, Me.
1861.
Enlisted in United-States
Artillery, 15 Feb., 1863.
SMITH, Hubbard V. 1861.
May,
Painter. Shutesbury, Mass. in side, 25 May, 1862, at
18.
Wounded
Athol.
Winchester, taken prisoner, and paroled. consequence of wounds, 29 Dec., 1862.
Discharged in
SMITH, William H. 21. Dorchester, Mass. Farmer. May, East Cambridge. 1861. Detached to Third UjiitedStates Artillery, 14 Feb., 1863; transferred 16 Feb., 1863.
STATEN, William H.
May, 1861. enlisted.
19.
Ipswich.
Farmer. Gloucester, Mass. ReCorporal, 11 April, 1862.
See Second Term.
STEELE, Charles H.
Holden, Ma*s. Bar-tender. May, Discharged for disability, 25 Sept., 1861. STONE, Addison D. 18. Swampscott, Mass. Fisherman. 1861.
18.
Holden.
May, 1861. Swampscott. Dropped from the rolls, 24 March, 1864; transferred to regular battery. TODD, Thomas M. 22. Rowley, Mass. Shoemaker. May, 1861 Detached to gunboat on the Mississippi, Ipswich. ,
.
February, 1862.
TOWNS END, Edward May, 1861. Artillery,
L.
Athol.
23. Shoemaker. Athol, Mass. Enlisted in Third United-Slates
15 Feb., 1863.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
376
TYLER, Colraan
May, 1861. .
.
.
Canaan, N.H.
18.
J.
Watchmaker.
. 1861, to Ipswich. Company musician, Detailed as attendant in hospital, 3 March, .
1862.
.
1863, to 20 March, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 18. VOSE, Edwin O. Factory opera Royalston, Mass. 1861. tive. Wounded, 25 May, 1862, May, Royalston. at
Winchester; Winchester.
died in consequence, 25 June, 1862, at
Richmond, N.H. Farmer. May, Appointed marker, 2 Oct., 1862, to Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
WHIPPLE, Alfred P. 1861. .
.
.
23.
Gardner. 1863.
WHITNEY, Jared P. 20. Fitzwilliam, N.H. Teamster. Deserted 15 Sept., 1862. May, 1861. Templeton. F. 33. Edward WHITTAKER, Rochester, Vt. Chairmaker. Sergeant, May, 1861. 1862. March,
May, 1861. Gardner. for disability, 18
WILKINS, Moses D.
May, 1861.
Shoemaker.
Wareham, Mass.
35.
Wenham.
Injured during skirmish,
1862, between Strasburg and Edenburg, Va.
;
1
April,
discharged
1862.
in consequence, 5 June,
WILLIAMS, James M.
Discharged
Lynn, Mass. Clerk. May, Sergeant, May, 1862. Wounded, 25 May, Lynn. 1862, at Winchester; died in consequence, 27 May, 1862, 20.
1861.
at Winchester.
COMPANY ALLEN, James.
New
York.
G.
25. Newry, Ireland. Tailor. May, 1861. Detached to Fourth United-States Artillery,
Wounded, 24 May, 1862, near Stras April, 1862. Discharged in burg, Va., taken prisoner, and paroled. consequence of wounds, 19 Dec., 1862.
8
ALLEY, Benjamin 1861.
Lynn.
L.
34.
Taken
Lynn, Mass.
prisoner, 25
Crier.
May, 1862,
at
May, Win-
THE ENLISTED MEN.
Detached to returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. out 28 Mustered 1863. Oct.,
Chester; division
ambulance corps, 29
May, 1864. ANDREAVS, William.
May,
377
N
23.
.
.
.
South Danvers.
1861.
N.Y.
Morocco-dresser.
May, 1861,
Sergeant,
and again, 9 June, 1862. Killed in 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. BALDWIN, John D. S. 18. Nashua, N.H. Scholar. 20 July, 1861
1861.
;
Lowell.
Sept., 1861,
Company
when detached
May, 1861,
musician,
1861.
24.
26
Oct.,
Laborer.
May,
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 25
23
Indian Orchard.
May, 1861.
Deserted June, 1861.
BEDELL, Francis B. 24 July, 1862.
to duty,
Fermoy, Ireland.
Marblehead.
June, 1863. BASSETT, Addison.
13
again Taken prisoner, 25
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
BARRY, Thomas.
May, to
as adjutant s orderly;
company musician, 26 Oct., 1862. May, 1862, at Winchester; returned 1862.
to
action,
19.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bookkeeper.
Killed in action, 3
Boston.
May, 1863,
at Chancellorsville.
BILLINGS, James D. 1861.
Quincy.
Canton, Mass.
35.
Taken
prisoner, 25
Farmer.
May, 1862,
May, at
Win
chester; discharged for disability, 4 Feb., 1863.
BLANCHARD, William May, 1861.
J.
Mexico, Me.
18.
Hanover, Me.
Taken
Farmer.
25 May, 1862, at Winchester; exchanged, November, 1862, but never returned to duty. Dropped from the rolls, 17 Oct., 1862 (State rolls say "disability"). prisoner,
Carlos E. 35. HackWashington, Vt. 10 Oct., 1862. Boston. 1 Oct., 1863. Corporal, Wounded in hand, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
BOHONAN, driver.
BOSTON, Edward. 1861.
22.
South Boston.
Aug., 1861.
Fairfield,
Me.
Detailed as
Carpenter. May, company cook, 6
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
378
Bos WORTH, Orin W. 1862.
Aug.,
14
Mason.
Plymouth, Mass.
25.
3
Wounded, May, 1863, at Transferred to Invalid Corps, 31 Oct.,
Plymouth.
Chancellorsville.
1863.
BROOKINGS, Samuel H.
18.
Winchester.
July, 1862. Oct., 1862.
BURNHAM, George H.
Boston, Mass.
Painter.
25
Discharged for
disability,
31
West Cambridge, Mass. Butcher.
18.
Detached, in 1862, as hos Absent 28 May, 1864, when
Winchester.
May, 1861.
steward in Baltimore.
pital
mustered
out.
BURNHAM, Mellen P.
21.
Me.
Gilead,
Wounded
Winchester.
July, 1862.
in
thigh,
1863, at Gettysburg. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1864.
BURNS, Andrew J. 1861.
Boston.
Boston, Mass.
23.
An
"
Mississippi, 18 Feb., 1862,
3
July,
1 July,
May,
man."
Sergeant, Detached to gunboat on the
to 6 Feb., 1862.
May, 1861,
Sailor
old man-of-war s
21
Machinist.
and deserted while on the way
thkher.
CALLANAN, John. 24. Cork, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, 9 Aug., 1862, at Wounded in 1861. Weymouth. 3 Taken Mountain. Cedar May, 1863, at Chan prisoner, .
.
.
returned to duty, 10 Oct., 1863. Mustered May, 1864. Farmer. May, CAREY, Ephraim. 26. Brookfield, Mass. cellorsville
;
out 28
1861.
West
Brookfield.
Discharged
for disability, June,
1861.
CARLL, Alonzo W. 1861.
Lowell.
19.
Waterboro
Company
pointed principal musician, missioned Staff.
Me.
Scholar. May, ap May, 1861 See Non-com 1863.
,
musician,
1 July,
;
Ma 18. Macclesfield, England. CARROLL, Thomas S. Taken 1861. chinist. prisoner, 25 Chicopee. May, from the Winchester. at rolls, 17 Dropped May, 1862, Oct.,
1862 (State
rolls
say
"disability").
379
THE ENLISTED MEN. CLARK, James H.
May,
1861.
Easthampton, Mass. Blacksmith. Died of typhoid fever, 14
19.
Easthampton.
Aug., 1863, at Fairfax Seminary, Va.
COGGINS, John.
Taken
Lowell.
Va.
at Kernstown,
Morocco-dresser.
Riverstown, Ireland.
20.
May, 1861.
prisoner, 24 March, 1862,
discharged, while paroled prisoner,
;
May, 1862. 21.
COLES, George. 2 July, 1862.
Manchester, England.
Boston.
Wounded
in
Carpenter.
shoulder, 9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain; discharged in consequence, 28 March, 1863.
COMEY, Henry M. 1861.
21.
Nov., 1862 1862. See
Mass.
Hopkinton,
.
promoted to be second lieutenant, Commissioned Officers.
;
19.
CONNOR, Eugene.
May,
.
.
Corporal, 2 June, 1862; sergeant, 1
.Hopkinton.
Nov.,
May, 1861.
Laborer.
Ireland.
1
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 21 Nov., 1863. COOLEY, Marius S. 23. Springfield, Mass. Brakeman. 14 Aug., 1862. Brookline. Wounded in shoulder, 3 Lowell.
May, 1863,
Chancellorsville
at
transferred
;
to
Invalid
Corps.
COOK, Solomon.
21.
Canada.
Blacksmith.
17 Feb., 1862.
Detailed as regimental wagoner, February,
Springfield.
1862. Wounded in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain never returned, and dropped from the rolls, 17 Oct., 1862. Laborer. COWLES, William A. 27. Southbridge, Mass.
;
May, 1861.
Warren.
Discharged for disability (from
accident), July, 1862.
CRONIN, John. 25. Cork, Ireland.
Taken
Quincy.
prisoner, 25
Shoemaker. May, 1861. at Winchester;
May, 1862,
discharged for disability, 17 Oct., 1862.
CROUCH, George H. 1861.
Warren.
20.
Warren, Mass.
Discharged
for
Butcher.
May,
19
Nov.,
disability,
1862.
DANE, Hiram. Westford.
21.
Westford, Mass.
Discharged
Painter.
for disability,
May, 1861.
23 June, 1862.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
380
DANE, William. Westford.
18. Westford, Mass. Killed in action, 25
Farmer. May, 1861. May, 1862, at Win
chester.
DELAY, Thomas A. 1861.
Boston, Mass.
20.
Teamster.
May,
Wounded 25 May,
Boston.
1862, at Winchester, taken prisoner, and paroled; returned to duty, 19 Dec., 1862. Wounded, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville ;
transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 Sept., 1863. DILLINGHAM, Charles. 27. Brewster, Mass.
Feb.,
1862.
Chelsea.
Cedar Mountain
;
9
Wounded,
15
Clerk.
1862,
Aug.,
at
died in consequence, 9 Sept., 1862, at
Alexandria.
DILLON, Philip F. at
20.
Boston,
Cedar Mountain
Wounded charged
;
in side, 3
20.
May, 1863,
Corporal,
quence, 21 May, 1863. DOBBINS, George R. 19.
Cedar Mountain
Weaver.
May,
Antietam
Lowell,
Wounded ;
at Chancellorsville 4 dis
Germany.
Falls.
Lowell.
May,
13 Oct., 1863.
in thigh, 17 Sept., 1862, at
1861.
Jeweller.
in side, 9
Aug., 1862, returned to duty, 19 Jan., 1863.
in consequence,
Dix, Charles E. South Hadley
Mass.
Wounded
Providence, R.L
1861.
;
May, 1861.
1861.
Wounded
discharged in jconse-
Mass.
...
9
Oct.,
hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at discharged in consequence, 17 Feb., in
1863.
DOBBINS, Richard.
18.
Lowell, Mass.
Boiler-maker.
May,
Discharged for disability, 17 Oct., 1862. William D. 20. Machinist. DRAPER, Wayland, Mass. 1861.
Lowell.
Taken Wayland. Corporal, 1 Jan., 1863. 25 to at returned Winchester duty, May, 1862, prisoner, 23 Oct., 1862. Wounded in knee, 3 May, 1863, at Chan-
May, 1861.
;
cellorsville
;
discharged in consequence, 3 Nov., 1863. 18 18 Oct., 1861.
DRISCOLL, Michael. Lowell.
EAGAN,
Enlisted in United-States Artillery. 18. Somerville, Mass. Glass-blower.
Daniel.
June, 1862. 1862.
Boston.
Discharged for
disability,
30
15 Oct.,
THE ENLISTED MEN.
381
EATON, Hiram A.
Hatter. 21. Ludlow, Mass. May, Corporal, May, 1861, to 1 July, Southampton. Died of typhoid fever, July, 1862, at Frederick,
1861.
1862.
Md. FARRELL, Edward. 1
Lowell, Mass.
29.
Shoemaker.
May,
Corporal, 18 May, 1862; sergeant, 1 Oct., 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May,
Marblehead.
1861.
Jan., 1863, to
1862, at Winchester; returned Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
FISHER, Charles G.
20.
Taken
Boston.
1861.
26
to duty,
Woburn, Mass.
18.
Mustered out
Farmer.
1861.
22.
Shoemaker.
Cork, Ireland.
Wounded
Braintree.
May, 1861.
Killed in action, 3
Corporal, 1 Nov., 1861. 1863, at Chancellorsville.
Burlington.
May, FOLEY, William.
1862.
Clerk. May, Roxbury, Mass. 25 prisoner, May, 1862, at Win
chester; returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. 28 May, 1864.
FITCH, Albert.
Oct.,
May,
25 May, 1862, at
in hand,
Winchester; discharged for disability, 26 July, 1863. FRENCH, Henry P. 21. Andover, Mass. Watchmaker. Andover. Re-enlisted. See Second 16 June, 1862. Term.
FULLER, Harrison A.
Northampton, Mass.
19.
Farmer.
Dropped from the May, 1861. Indian Orchard. 17 Oct., 1862. Enlisted in regular cavalry.
FURBER, Joseph.
Westmoreland, N.H.
35.
21 Oct., 1862.
rolls,
Hack-driver.
(?)
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863,
Boston.
at Gettysburg.
GILLEEN,
John.
1862.
Lowell.
36.
GLENN, Alexander B. 21
June, 1862.
Chancellorsville
...
N.Y.
Discharged for 25.
Boston. ;
Laborer. disability,
Richmond, Va.
Wounded
3
24
23
June,
Oct., 1862.
Pattern-finisher.
May, 1863,
at
transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Nov.,
1863. 20. Saxony, Germany. Farmer. May, South Hadley Falls. Wounded in hand, 25 May,
GOODBIER, Robert. 1861.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
382
1862, at Winchester, taken prisoner, and paroled. charged 17 Oct., 1863.
Dis
GOODHIND, Richard. 18. Devonshire, Eng. Paper-maker. Taken Corporal, 1 April, 1864. May, 1861. Russell. 25 at returned to Winchester; 1862, duty, prisoner, May, 19 Dec., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. GOVE, Ira L. 44. Montpelier, Vt. Cabinet-maker. May, Winchester.
J861.
Wagoner,
1 July,
1861. Discharged
for disability, 19 Feb., 1862.
GOVE,
32. Moutpelier, Vt. Transferred Winchester.
Sorell.
1862.
Laborer.
23 July,
to Invalid
Corps,
1
Sept., 1862.
GREEN, Joseph D. 20. Petersham, Mass. Barber. 15 Transferred, 1 Jan., 1862, to Com May, 1861. Ware. pany H, which
see.
GREEN, Martin. 1861.
Roxbury, Mass.
39.
Melrose.
Wounded
in thigh
Shoemaker.
and
May,
in arm, 9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain was left at Culpepper, 17 Aug., 1862, in the evacuation of that place, and undoubtedly ;
died.
HATCH, Francis A.
24.
Winchester, Mass.
23 July, 1862. Winchester. 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
HAZELTON, Charles H. 1861.
Winchester.
Boston, Mass.
24.
Machinist.
Killed in action, 9 Aug.,
Mason.
May,
Corporal, Nov., 1861, to 30 Dec.,
Wounded in hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Moun returned to duty, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. HOWARD, Henry 0. 18. ... Mass. Mariner. 26 June, 1862.
tain
.
;
1862.
Springfield.
.
.
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain.
HOXSEY, Henry C. 26. Williamstown, Mass. Farmer. Killed in action, 9 Aug., May, 1861. Williamstown. 1862, at Cedar Mountain. HUBBARD, John. 28. Ireland. Boston.
Dropped from the
Laborer.
rolls,
7 July, 1862.
26 July, 1863
(rolls at
THE ENLISTED MEN. House say
State
383
monthly report says discharged for dis 19 July, 1862. Killed at Cedar Mountain.") Martin. 21. Clough, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, Lowell. Wounded in hand, 25 May, 1862; dis
ability,
HURNEY, 1861.
"
charged in consequence, 5 Feb., 1863.
JOHNSON, John W. 1862.
JONES, Edward.
July,
Discharged, 11 Jan.,
prolonged.
War
1865, by order of
7
Grocer.
Barre, Vt.
22.
Term
Boston.
Department.
34.
Cabinet
Manchester, England.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1861. Burlington. at returned to Winchester May, 1862, duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Died of typhoid pneumonia, 13 Nov., 1862, near Sharps-
maker.
;
burg, Md. KELLEY, Frederick.
21
Printer.
Boston.
May, 1861.
19 Oct., 1861. Discharged KEMP, Ezekiel. 22. Hopkinton, Mass. Shoemaker. May, 1861. Hopkinton. sergeant, Corporal, 30 Dec., 1862 for disability,
;
1 Oct., 1863.
burg
Wounded
in wrist, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys
returned to duty,
;
May, 1864. KING, Warren H. 1862.
1 Sept.,
1863.
Mustered out 28
13 March, Monson, Mass. ... Dropped from the rolls, 17 Oct.,
19.
Springfield.
1862.
KIRBY, Edward.
21.
Nova
Scotia.
Farmer.
May, 1861.
Taken
Cambridge. prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winches Wounded in thigh, ter; returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
1864,
when mustered
KITTREDGE, Malcolm G.
May, 1861.
Absent
in hospital,
27 Sept.,
out.
Painter. Nelson, N.H. Killed in action, 3 May, 1863,
26.
Brookline.
at Chancellors ville.
W.
TrackCharlestown, Mass. Detailed as company cook, 6 Aug., 1861, to 22 Jan., 1862. Discharged for dis 7 1862. ability, July,
LAFLIN, AVilliam master.
May, 1861.
LAMB, John. 1861.
.
.
25. .
35.
Warren.
Roscommon,
Discharged
Ireland.
Laborer.
May,
for disability, 11 Jan., 1863.
384
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTEY.
LAMB, Thomas.
Roscommon, Ireland. Laborer. May, Taken prisoner at Winchester?
28.
Lonsdale (R.I. ?) 25 May, 1862 returned 1861.
1862.
to duty, Oct.,
;
Discharged
for disability, 29 July, 1863.
LAWRENCE, George 24 July, 1862.
LAAVTON, John.
LEAHY,
43.
1862.
24.
Boston.
.
.
See
.
12
Carpenter.
Re-enlisted.
Coscomley, Ireland. Deserted, Aug., 1863.
LECKIE, Charles D. 1862.
Hair-dresser,
in thigh, 3 July,
Limerick, Ireland.
Brodkline.
Daniel.
1861.
Wounded
Gettysburg; transferred to Invalid Corps,
1863, at 1863.
Aug., Term.
Boston, Mass.
42.
C.
Winchester.
Second
Laborer.
May,
28 July, Clerk. Boston, Mass. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 1 Sept.,
18.
Brookline.
1863.
Laborer. May, LEE, Patrick. 30. Connaught, Ireland. Marblehead. 1861. Deserted 18 Feb., 1863, while hav ing a pass to visit Washington.
LINFEST, James H. Oct., 1861. 1862.
LINFIELD, Jonathan.
May, 1861. dar Mountain
Discharged
;
1861.
Boston.
1861.
Died of
18
Ship-carpenter. for
disability, 1
Stoughton, Mass.
21.
Canton.
LYNCH, James R.
port,
... Me.
34.
Lowell.
Wounded,
July,
Machinist.
9 Aug., 1862, at
Ce
discharged in consequence, 1 July, 1863. Halifax, N.S.
25.
Stone-cutter. May, May, 1861 sergeant, 1 Nov., typhoid fever, 29 May, 1862, at Williams-
Corporal,
;
Md.
MADDEN, Amos 1861.
L.
Milford.
18.
Milford, Mass.
Corporal, 3 July, 1863,
Farmer. "for
May,
gallantry
and color-corporal same day. Wounded in neck, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 10 Oct., 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. in
action
"
;
MALLARD, Levi W. wainer.
May, 1861.
31.
Tuftonborough, N.H.
Lynn.
Corporal,
July,
Cord-
1861;
THE ENLISTED MEN. color-corporal, 4 July,
on account of
to the
Discharged for
ill-health.
March, 1863. MANNION, John.
1 Nov., 1862, to 30 ranks at his own request,
1862; sergeant,
when returned
Dec., 1862,
385
27.
Queenstown,
disability,
30
Laborer.
Ireland.
Taken
Wareham.
prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. Wounded, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellors ville returned to duty, 28 1863. for July, disability, 30 Sept., 1863. Discharged
May, 1861.
;
MARSH, Allen A.
Coleraine, Mass.
20.
Wounded
South Adams.
1861.
in
Tailor.
May,
shoulder (by shell),
25 May, 1862, at Winchester, taken prisoner, and paroled rolls, 17 Oct., 1862.
;
dropped from the
Charles E.
MAYNARD, man. ability,
Ashburnham, Mass.
32.
14 Aug., 1862. Brookline. 18 Feb., 1863.
MCCARTHY,
John.
Lee, Mass.
19.
Brake-
Discharged for
Farmer.
dis
May, 1861.
Detailed as regimental wagoner, 20 Oct., 1861. Enlisted in Fourth United-States Artillery, 27 Oct., 1862.
Lee.
McCROHAN,
Daniel.
22.
Servant.
Tralee, Ireland.
1861.
May,
Wounded, Holyoke. Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. Enlisted in United-States Cavalry, 29 Dec., 9
1862.
John.
McDERMOTT,
MCDONALD,
Charles A.
sergeant, 5 Jan.,
1862
;
May, 1864. MEYER, Henry G. vice.
43.
Boston.
1862.
Wounded
not disabled.
first
May,
Corporal,
1
May, 1861;
sergeant, 1 Nov., 1862, to 19
when made second sergeant;
again, 17 July, 1863, to
5 Aug.,
Painter.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 26. Chatham, N.B. Currier,,
North Woburn.
May, 1861. April, 1863,
Halifax, N.S.
19.
South Boston.
1861.
Oct., 1863.
first
Bokenhein, Germany.
A
sergeant
Mustered out
corporal in
28,
Barber..
European
ser
abdomen, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg Mustered out 28 May, 1864. in
25
;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
386
Mo OAR,
13 23. Charles A. Student. Ipswich, Mass. Mus 1862. 1 1803. Oct., Aug., Ipswich. Corporal, tered out 28 May, 1864. MORIARTY, Dennis. 38. Kilkenny, Ireland. Stone-cutter.
Died of typhoid fever, 3 April, Quincy. 1862, at Quincy, Mass., while on furlough. Farmer. MORSE, Eleazar. 40. Rutland, Mass. May,
May, 1861.
West Medway.
1861.
March, 1864. NELSOX, John F. 1861.
Lynn.
1863, at Chancellorsville
May, ;
wounded
disability,
Oct., 1862.
Wounded, 3
returned to duty,
;
1
in hand, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
sent in hospital, 28
May, 1864,
;
when mustered
July,
Ab
out.
Burlington, Mass. Shoemaker. Detailed as regimental wag
NICHOLS, Alpheus 0. 29. May, 1861. Burlington. oner, 20 Aug., 1861
5
Lowell, Mass. Carpenter. May, prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win
returned to duty, 23
chester;
1863
24.
Taken
for
Discharged
detached to division ambulance corps,
16 Oct., 1862. Discharged for disability, 16 Jan., 1863. 20. Williamstown, .Mass. Student. NOBLE, Robert R.
May, 1861. charged
O CoNNELL,
Andrew.
May, 1861. 1863 ("
O
Williamstown.
for disability,
discharged by
May, 1861.
33.
May, 1861.
Dis
order."
28.
Quincy.
Laborer.
Kenmare, Ireland.
Dropped from the
Quincy.
CoNNELL, Maurice.
Sergeant,
18 Aug., 1861.
rolls,
26 July,
Adj. Gen.).
Kenmare,
Ireland.
Dropped from
Bootmaker.
the rolls, 26 July,
1863 ("discharged by order." Adj. Gen.). OTTO, Frank. 24. Saxony. Weaver. May, 1861. South Corporal, 1 Nov., 1861, to 1 Jan., 1864; trans Hadley. ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps,
18 May, 1862.
Mountain
;
chusetts.
Jan., 1864.
Currier.
Corporal, May, 1861
Wounded
discharged
Became second
1
Woburn, Mass.
PAGE, Theophilus F. 18. 1861. North Woburn. in
;
May,
sergeant,
Aug., 1862, at Cedar consequence, 26 Jan., 1863.
in hand, 9
lieutenant in the
Twenty-eighth Massa
THE ENLISTED MEN. PALMER, Azro. 1861.
387
Dickinson, N.Y.
22.
Dickinson, N.Y.
May,
Carpenter.
Discharged for
17
disability,
Oct., 1862.
N.H. 23. Peterboro Machinist. PARKER, Alvah J. "Wounded in arm (ampu N.H. 1861. Peterboro May, ,
,
Cedar Mountain; discharged
tated), 9 Aug., 1862, at
consequence, 11 Sept., 1862. PARKER, Charles
A
Absent 1861.
28.
Wounded
Absent
Gettysburg.
in
when mustered
in breast, 3 July,
hospital,
out.
Farmer.
Mass.
May,
1863, at
28 May, 1864, when
out.
Killed in action, 24
Warren. town, Va. PECK, Philo
H.
Farmer. May, 1861. May, 1862, near Kerns-
Hawley, Mass.
20.
PECK, Chauncy.
1862.
Billerica,
Burlington.
mustered
1861.
Oct., 1861. Lowell.
in hospital, 15 Oct., 1864,
PATIO, Timothy.
in
Hawley, Mass.
18.
Laborer.
May,
Warren.
Hospital attendant, 1861, to 13 April, Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
PENTLAND, William
J.
26.
Boston, Mass.
Painter.
May,
Detached as post mail agent, 20 March, 1863, to May, 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 24 Oct., 1862. 1861.
South Boston.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 20. Warren, Mass. Salesman. 15 May, 1861. Warren. Corporal, May, 1861; sergeant,
POWERS, Albert W.
Transferred, 20 Dec., 1861, to
May, 1861. which
PURCELL, James. 1861.
Company
H.,
see.
Natick.
27.
Shoemaker.
Dublin, Ireland.
May,
Corporal, 12 Feb., 1862; color-corporal,
15 Jan., 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win Killed in action, chester; returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. 3
May, 1863, at Chancellors ville, while 21. REMICK, Prescott. Gardiner, Me. March, 1862.
Boston.
Wounded
color-corporal.
Bootmaker.
in breast, 17
20
Sept.,
1862, at Antietam; died in consequence, 2 Oct., 1862, at Frederick,
Md.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
388
Jesse.
RICHARDSON, first
22.
Winchester.
July, 1862.
8 Clerk. Winchester, Mass. 29 1862; Nov., Corporal,
Wounded
Oct., 1863.
sergeant, 1
1863, at Gettysburg;
returned
to
3 July, Sept., 1863.
in head, 1
duty,
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
25. Farmer. RICHARDSON, Moses P. Woburn, Mass. Corporal, 9 Jan., 1862; serMay, 1861. Winchester.
geaut,
12
1862;
Feb.,
first
in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at
turned
duty,
to
26
1862.
Oct.,
19 April,
sergeant,
Wounded
1863.
Cedar Mountain; re Wounded in arm and
side, 17 Sept., 1862; returned to duty, July, 1863. Ap See Non-com pointed sergeant-major, 17 July, 1863.
missioned Staff.
ROOT, Warner A.
19. 11 May, Clerk. Vernon, Vt. South Hadley Falls. Appointed company clerk, 18 Jan., 1862 detailed as acting hospital steward, 17 Nov.,
1861.
;
See
1862; appointed hospital steward, 16 Feb., 1863. Non-commissioned Staff".
SAWYER, Jonas H. Oct., 1862.
Sidney, Me.
26.
Boston.
Wounded
10
Hack-driver.
in leg (broken), 3
May,
1863, at Chancellorsville, and taken prisoner; never re turned to regiment. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
SCANNELL, James.
26.
Croome, Ireland.
Wounded
1861.
in foot,
Quincy. chester, taken prisoner and paroled. sequence of wound, 22 April, 1863.
SHARON, Joseph D. 23 July, 1862.
Laborer.
25 May, 1862, at
Discharged
May,
Win
in con
29. Boston, Mass. Wheelwright. Winchester. Mustered out 28 May,
1864.
SMITH, George A. Feb., 1862.
Springfield, Mass.
18.
Wounded
Springfield.
1862, at Cedar Mountain 1862, at Washington, D.C.
SOUTHACK, George P. 1861.
Utah.
Boston. First
A
21.
;
17
Aug., died in consequence, 29 Oct., Boston, Mass.
soldier
sergeant,
Laborer.
in shoulder, 9
in
Soldier.
May, army in May, 1862.
United-States
May, 1861,
to
9
389
THE ENLISTED MEN.
t
arm, 9 Aug., 1862. at Cedar Mountain; transferred to Invalid Corps. 32. PaperSPENCER, Lorenzo D. Tyringham, Mass.
Wounded
in
maker.
May, 1861.
1
1862
July,
Russell.
detached
;
department, 9 Aug., 1861. Oct., 1862.
Corporal,
clerk
as
May, 1861,
division
to
Discharged for
to
ordnance
disability,
20
Laborer. 18. Deerfield, Mass. SPRAGUE, George W. 19 Aug., 1862. Deserted Adams. North 1861. May, STEVENS, Alfred. 21. Charlestown, Mass. Farmer. May, Died of typhoid fever, 8 April, 1862, 1861. Warren. at Frederick, Md.
STONE, Roswell L. Warren. 1861.
Warren, Mass.
21.
Wounded
in
Cedar Mountain; discharged
Laborer. 9
groin,
Aug.,
consequence, 9
in
May,
1862, at
March,
1863.
TEBBETS, Charles 21 Oct.,
W.
1862.
31. Bath, Me. Engineer. (M.?). Boston. Discharged for disability, 4
March, 1863.
TENNEY, Michael. Marblehead. 1862.
27
Sailor.
Corporal,
Wounded
1
in leg, 3
Nov., 1861
1862.
May,
Jan.,
30 Dec., ;
Mustered out 28 May,
Boston, Mass.
21.
sergeant,
1863, at Chancellorsville
returned to duty, 17 Dec., 1863. 1864.
THOMAS, Charles W.
;
May, 1861.
Salesman. 26 July,
Corporal, 30 Dec., 1862; sergeant,! See Com promoted to be second lieutenant.
Boston.
1863
missioned
;
Officers.
THOMPSON, Alfred 2 July, 1861.
24.
J.
Boston.
Coleraine, Ireland.
Mustered
Laborer
28 May, 1864. Bootmaker. May, 1861. out,
20. Ireland. TIFFANY, Owen. Wounded in side and arm, 17 Sept., 1862, Warren. Antietam discharged in consequence, 13 April, 1863.
at
;
TOAL, John. 1861.
35.
Dundalk, Ireland.
Wounded 25 May,
Quincy. and taken prisoner;
returned
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
to
Bootmaker.
May,
1862, at Winchester, duty, 19 Dec., 1862.
390
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
WALCOTT, George K.
18.
May, 1861
Mass.
Brighton,
Discharged for
Painter.
June,
disability,
18*61.
WATSON, Gerando
21. Farmer. Winchester, Mass. ,J. 21 July, 1862. Winchester. in the Previously Twentysecond Massachusetts. Discharged for disability, 30 Nov., 1862.
WELCH,
William.
Taken
1862.
Jan.,
Bootmaker.
Cork, Ireland.
38.
prisoner, 25
May, 1862,
returned to duty, October, 1862. ability, 31 Jan., 1863. ter
Daniel H.
sissippi,
Machias, Me.
21.
Machias, Me. 18 Feb., 1862.
1861.
Detached
at
Winches^
Discharged for
;
WHEATON,
May,
Detailed as company cook, 23
South Braintree.
1861.
Sailor.
dis
May,
gunboat on the Mis Dropped from the rolls, 26 July, to
1863.
Me. CarriageMe. Atkinson, Corporal, May, May, 1861, to 29 Nov., 1862, when returned to ranks during Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at prolonged absence.
WHIDDEN,
L.
Charles
Winchester; returned in hand, 3 pital,
Atkinson.
21.
1861.
builder.
May,
28 May, 1864, when mustered
18. WRITTEN, George. dresser. May, 1861.
Wounded
to duty, 19 Dec., 1862.
1863, at Chancellorsville.
Absent
in hos
out.
MoroccoNewburyport, Mass. Mustered out 28 May,
Chelsea.
1864.
WILLISTON, Roland
May, 1861. July, 1861
hand and Mountain per,
;
first
Holyoke, Mass.
26.
S.
Holyoke.
Barber.
May, 1861; sergeant, 18 May, 1862. Wounded in
Corporal,
sergeant,
in thigh (leg amputated), 9 Aug., 1862, at ;
Cedar
died in consequence, 18 Aug., 1862, at Culpep-
Va.
WILSON, Gordon 1861.
S.
20.
Plymouth, N.H.
Salisbury,
Corporal,
N.H. 1
Clerk.
Jan., 1863.
May, Killed
in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
YOUNG, Albert A. Manchester, N.H.
20.
Jay, Me.
Deserted
Teamster.
1 Sept.,
1861.
May, 1861.
THE ENLISTED MEN. YOUNG, John
E.
25.
Me.
Machinist.
Corporal,
May, 1861,
Belfast,
North Andover.
1861.
391 May, to
.
.
.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
1861.
COMPANY ACKERT, Lord M. Aug., 1862.
ANGELL,
New- York
31.
City.
20.
30
Machinist.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Webster, Mass. Shoemaker.
Peru.
Charles.
H.
May,
Corporal, September, 1861, to 20 Dec., 1861 and again, 1 May, 1862. Sergeant, 1 March, 1863. Wounded in leg, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietani; returned to
1861.
Dudley.
;
Wounded in hip, 3 May, 1863, at Wounded in hip, 3 July,
duty, 10 March, 1863.
not disabled.
Chancellorsville;
1863, at Gettysburg; not disabled. 1864.
Mustered out 28 May,
26. Weaver. 11 Norwich, Vt. BABCOCK, Alonzo J. Transferred to Company H, from May, 1861. Lowell. Company A, 21 Dec., 1861. Corporal, 21 Dec., 1861
;
sergeant, 21
Nov., 1862;
first
sergeant, 14
March, 1863.
Wounded
in arm (amputated above the elbow), 3 July, 1863, and died in consequence, 10 July, 1863, at Gettys
burg.
BALL, George. 23 May, 1861.
30.
Lancashire, England.
Shoemaker.
Sergeant, May, 1861, to Sep 29 Dec., 1861, to 1 Jan., 1862. tember, 1861; corporal, Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester returned
Roxbury.
;
to duty, October,
1862.
Company
cook, 16 Feb., 1864.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
BARRELL, Paschal. 1862.
25.
Chancellorsville;
Turner, Me.
Wounded
Brookline.
died in
Aquia Lauding, Va.
Farmer.
in groin, 3
8 Aug.,
May, 1863, consequence, 12 May, 1863,
at
at
392
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
BELL, James P.
35.
Searsport,
North Bridgewatcr.
1861.
Me.
23 May,
Shoemaker.
De
Corporal, May, 1861.
Sept., 1861. BINNEY, George L. 20.
serted
1
1 1 Clerk. Boston, Mass. May, s clerk, 11 Detailed as quartermaster Roxbury. May, 1861. Appointed quartermaster sergeant, 15 March, 1862. See Non-commissioned Staff ; also, Commissioned
1861.
Officers.
BIRMINGHAM, John.
Danvers, Mass.
19.
Danvers.
May, 1861.
Shoemaker.
Discharged for
disability,
11,
June,
1861. 22.
Boss, Charles. Lowell.
1861.
BROWN,
John.
22.
Sligo, Ireland.
1863. at Chancellorsville
;
Shoemaker.
Wounded
North Bridgewater.
1861.
22 Oct.,
Laborer. Albany, N.Y. 26 1862. Deserted, May, in
hand, 3
May, May,
Mustered out 28
not disabled.
May, 1864. Shoemaker. 21. Marblehead, Mass. Killed in action, 17 Sept., Marblehead.
BROWN, Thomas. May, 1861. 1862,
at
BCRDETT,
Antietam.
North Reading, Mass.
21.
Charles.
Shoe
North Reading. Corporal, 21 May, 1861. in 3 Wounded Nov., 1862. July, 1863, at Gettys leg, maker.
burg; died in consequence, 8 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. Shoemaker. May, BUKKE, James. 21. Cork, Ireland. 1861. at
Wounded in shoulder, 9 Aug., 1862, returned to duty, 6 Oct., 1862. Killed
Abington.
Cedar Mountain
in action, 3
;
May, 1863,
at Chancellorsville.
BURKE, Thomas. 20. Boston, Mass. Wounded May, 1861. Marblehead. 1862, at Antietam; returned Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
BURRILL, David,
May, 1861.
33.
jr.
Stoughton.
.
.
to
.
Shoemaker.
duty,
Mass.
10
11
17
Sept.,
Dec.,
1862.
in arm,
Shoemaker.
21
Enlisted wagoner, July, 1861,
September, 1861 company cook, September, 1861, to 20 April, 1863. Absent in hospital, 23 May, 1864, when mustered out. to
;
393
THE ENLISTED MEN. BOTTERFIELD, Dexter. to
Company A, which
CAHILL, Robert C.
see.
Ireland.
19.
Transferred to
Marblehead.
Shoemaker. May, 1861. Company H, from Com Killed
Corporal, 29 Dec., 1861.
pany C, 28 Dec., 1861. in action, 9
Farmer. Dunstable, Mass. Transferred, 21 Dec., 1861,
19.
Dunstable.
19 Oct., 1861.
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
CANNON, Thomas.
Ireland.
41.
23 July, 1862.
Farmer.
20 March, 1863. Winchester. Discharged Wood-turner. Ireland. 25. L. CARRAHER, Frank Armagh, 1861 Boston. 1861. 11 May, sergeant, Corporal, May, for disability,
;
July,
New-York 10
20 Dec., 1861. Detached to Corthran s Battery and to Fourth United-States Artillery, See Re-enlisted. 1862, to 19 Oct., 1862.
1861, to
April,
Second Term.
CASEY, Michael. 19. Tipperary, Ireland. Shoemaker. 15 Corporal, 5 Sept., 1861 May, 1861. North Bridgewater. first sergeant, 24 Aug., 1863. 21 1862; Nov., sergeant,
;
Wounded
in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain, and taken Mustered out
returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. 28 May, 1864.
prisoner
;
CHASE, George
May, 1861. at
W.
Webster.
Absent
Antietam.
mustered
Dudley, Mass.
22.
Mule-spinner.
1 1
Wounded
in leg, 17 Sept., 1862,
hospital,
28 May, 1864, when
in
out.
CHASE, Hiram.
23.
Dudley, Mass.
Mule-spinner.
May,
Corporal, 5 Sept., 1861 ; color-corporal, 4 July, 1862, to 1 Aug., 1862. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Dec., 1863.
1861.
Webster.
CHASE, Willard K. 11 1
May, 1861. Dec., 1862.
CLARK, John. 1861. April,
29.
Easton. 1863.
Groveland, Mass.
22.
Georgetown.
Boston, Mass.
Bootmaker.
Detailed wagoner,
Re-enlisted.
CRONIN, Dennis.
22.
Shoemaker.
Discharged for
1
July,
disability,
11
May,
1861, to 7
See Second Term.
Cork, Ireland.
Shoemaker.
11
394
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
May, 1861.
Went
Boston.
to hospital in
August, 1862
;
absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. CULLKN, John. 21. Longford, Ireland. Bootmaker. May, 1861. North Bridge water. Mustered out 28 May,
1864.
CORCORAN, William. May, 1861. Lowell. at Chancellorsville
20.
Cork, Ireland.
Wounded
Cloth-dresser.
in hand, 3
May, 1863,
transferred to Invalid Corps, 25 Nov.,
;
1863.
DAMMERALL, William May, 1861.
Culpepper, Va.
by
18.
II.
Taken
Chelsea. ;
St.
Johns, N.B.
Farmer.
prisoner, 16 Aug., 1862, at
returned to duty, 24 Dec., 1862. Injured May, 1863, at Chancellors
ball striking breastplate, 3
ville
;
returned to duty, June, 1863.
See
Re-enlisted.
Second Term.
DAVIS, James A. Nov., 1861.
Company A, which
DE WEALE,
Dunstable, Mass.
18.
see.
Alfred.
21 May, 1861.
10
Farmer.
Transferred, 21 Dec., 1861, to
Dunstable.
18.
Warwick, England.
East Boston.
"None."
Killed in action, 9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain.
DONNOVAX, John. 1861.
Laborer.
Kerry, Ireland.
22.
May,
Killed in action, 17 Sept., 1862, at
Lawrence.
Antietam.
DOOLITTLE, Samuel.
26.
Printer.
Oswego, N..Y.
May,
In hospital since August, 1862; was in convalescent camp, 7 May, 1863 absent in hospi 1861.
Toledo, Ohio.
;
tal,
28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
DUFFY, Thomas. 1861.
29.
Easton.
Farmanha, Ireland.
Laborer.
May,
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar
Mountain.
DUNBAR, John B. 18. West Bridge water. Farmer. May, Died of typhoid fever, 6 West Bridgewater. 1861. Md. Nov., 1861, at Seneca Mills, FARRINGTON, John E. Aug.,
1862.
Milford.
20.
Milford, Mass.
Wounded
in
Laborer.
30
abdomen, 3 July,
395
THE ENLISTED MEN. 1863, at Gettysburg
died in consequence,
;
.
.
July, 1863,
at Gettysburg.
FERNALD, Aug.,
Charles F.
1862.
Wakefield, N.H.
20.
N.H
Wakefield,
Farmer.
11
Wounded and missing
at Chancellorsville. (doubtless dead), 3 May, 1863, 29. FLYNN, Charles. Mayo, Ireland. Carpenter.
May,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 44. Wayne, Me. Bootmaker.
May,
1861.
Boston.
Foss, Phineas H.
Detailed as hospital orderly, 18 Sept., and again, 21 Nov., 1863, to 22 15 to 1861, Sept., 1863 See Second Term. Re-enlisted. 1864. Feb., 1861.
Boston.
;
GALLIGAN, Owen. May,
20.
North
1861.
Shoemaker. Longford, Ireland. 3 July, Deserted water. Bridge
1861.
GARDNER, Benjamin N. 28. North Bridgewater, Mass. 23 May, 1861. North Bridge water. Shoe-finisher. Corporal, division
May, 1861,
to
May, 1861.
ambulance corps, 29
Detached
Oct., 1862.
to division
Died of
disease,
31 Dec., 1862, at Frederick, Md.
GELRAY, Joseph W. 24. Manchester, England. Weaver. Transferred to Company H, Lowell. 11 May, 1861. from Company A, 22 Dec., 1861. In Company A, corpo in company H, sergeant, 22 Dec., ral, 25 May, 1861 ;
1861. tam.
at Antieseverely in arm, 17 Sept., 1862, 25 second be to Promoted Dec., 1862. lieutenant,
Wounded
See Commissioned
GILLEY, George.
May,
1861.
Re-enlisted.
GORDON,
John.
July, 1862.
Officers.
18.
Boston.
At
sea, off
Cape Cod.
Company
musician,
Sailor.
20
May, 1861.
See Second Term. 45.
23 Farmer. Hampstead, N.H. Died of chronic diarrhoea,
Winchester.
6 Jan., 1863, at Alexandria, Va. 25. Meredith,
Shoemaker. 24 First sergeant, 24 May, 1861, New York. May, 1861. Detailed as quartermaster s clerk, 30 to 19 Dec., 1861. March, 1862. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
GREENE, Charles F.
N.H.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
396
GREENE, Joseph D. 20. Petersham, Mass. Barber. 15 Transferred to Company H, from May, 1861. Ware. 1 Jan., 1862. G, Company Corporal, 31 July, 1863. De tached to duty at Long Island, Boston Harbor, 16 July, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Shoe-finisher. HALL, Charles M. 29. Rochester, Mass. North Bridge water.
May, 1861. 1861.
HALL,
Deserted, Freeman L.
1861.
;
Worcester, Mass.
18.
.
May,
.
Farmer.
May,
Wounded
in
leg,
discharged
in
consequence, 25 March,
Milbury.
Cedar Mountain
Corporal,
1861.
Sept.,
y
Aug.,
1862,
at
1863.
HANKY, William.
Randolph, Mass.
19.
Shoemaker.
2
Boston. Re-enlisted. See Second Term. Sept., 1862. 25. 11 Laborer. Ireland. HANNIGAN, Michael. Mayo,
Dedham.
May, 1861.
Killed in action, 3
May, 1863,
at
Chancellorsville.
HARBIRD, John. July, 1862.
HARRIS, William. 23 May, 1861. 1861. (in the
Brush-maker. Boston, Mass. Deserted 25 Dec., 1862.
21.
Boston. 21.
Wounded
Patrick
in breast, 3
May,
25 May, 1862, at Winchester taken prisoner and paroled returned to
street),
May, 1861.
Sergeant, 23
in neck,
;
duty, 24 Nov., 1862.
HEEL AN,
Shoemaker.
Kilkenny, Ireland.
North Bridgewater.
30
.
18.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Shoemaker. Limerick, Ireland.
Corporal, 21 Nov., 1862. Wounded at Chancellorsville; in hospital, 28 1863, May,
Easton.
May, 1864, when mustered out. HENNESSEY, Jeremiah. 26. Boston, Mass. Laborer. 7 July, 1862.
Boston.
HILL, Gershom 1861.
S.
Discharged for disability, 9 Jan., 1863. Bootmaker. May, Gardiner, Me.
26.
Discharged for
Cambridge.
disability, ..
June,
1861.
HOLYOKE, John A. May, 1861. Nov., 1862.
Marlboro
19.
Marlboro
.
,
Mass.
Discharged
for
Shoemaker. disability,
24
THE ENLISTED MEN. HOWE,
Leonard.
Shoemaker.
Ipswich, Mass.
29.
397 May,
Died of Corporal, 5 Sept., 1861. Georgetown. chronic diarrhoea, 28 Nov., 1861, near Seneca Mills, Md. 21. JELLISOX, William H. Rowley, Mass. Shoemaker. 1861.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Rowley. Winchester; returned to Washington, D.C., and died there, of typhoid pneumonia, 13 Oct., 1862.
May, 1861.
JOHNSON, Arthur.
21. Laborer. Stockbridge, Vt. May, Vt. Re-enlisted. Second Term. See Reading, JOHNSON, Richard. 19. North Bridgewater, Mass. Car penter. May, 1861. North Bridgewater. Discharged
1861.
for disability, 3 July, 1862.
KEATING, Maurice.
20.
Tipperary, Ireland.
Shoemaker.
North Bridgewater. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. Deserted, 1 April, 1863, while on furlough. 11
May, 1861.
22. Shoemaker. Longford, Ireland. North Bridgewater. In hospital since Au Regust, 1862; was returned, June, 1864, as deserter. enlisted 24 June, 1864. See Second Term.
Patrick.
KEENAN,
May, 1861.
KELLAHER, John. 1861.
35.
Boston.
Cork, Ireland.
Discharged for
Laborer.
disability,
12
May, Feb.,
1863.
KELLEY, Henry. 32. Leitrim, 1861. Lawrence (Pawtucket,
Laborer.
Ireland. R.I.?).
May,
Mustered out 28
May, 1864. Boston, Mass. Laborer. 22 Aug. Transferred to Invalid Corps,! Sept.,
19.
KELLIIIER, Hugh. 1862.
Boston.
1863.
KELLOGG,
Charles F.
May, 1861.
1861; and again, Discharged for
KENNEDY, 1861.
1863.
.
.
.
Lawrence. ;
23.
Painter.
23
Corporal, 23 May, 1861, to July, 1861. Sergeant, 20 Dec., 1861.
disability,
Michael.
Chancellorsville
Amherst, Mass.
36.
Amherst.
14 Feb., 1863.
Kerry, Ireland.
Wounded
in groin, 3
returned to duty,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Hatter.
May, May, 1863, at
18 July (20 Oct.?),
398
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
LEHANE, James. 1861.
24.
Shoemaker.
Cork, Ireland.
Taken
Easton.
Mountain; returned 28 May, 1864.
May,
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
to duty,
22
Cedar
Mustered out
Oct., 1862.
LEIGHTON, Daniel M. 1861.
45. Addison, Me. Mason. May, Discharged for disability, 16 Jan., 1863.
Boston.
LEONARD, John M.
35.
Tailor. St. Helens, England. Discharged for disability, 28 March,
Lee.
May, 1861. 1863.
Farmer. Newbury, Mass. 12 Corporal, May, 1862; Newburyport. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, sergeant, 1 March, 1863. at Winchester; returned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862. Mustered
LONGFELLOW, Nathan.
23.
May, 1861.
out 28 May, 1864. LYNCH, James. 27.
Longford, Ireland.
Boot-treer.
May,
North Bridgewater. Wounded in leg, 9 Aug., Mus 1862, at Cedar Mountain returned 2 Aug., 1863. 1861.
;
tered out 28
May, 1864.
LYON, John P. 1861.
Halifax, Mass.
44.
Taken
Abington.
Carpenter.
prisoner,
25
22 Oct.,
May, 1862,
at
Winchester; discharged for disability (without returning to the regiment).
MACOMBER,
Horatio N.
30 Aug., 1862.
Durham, Me.
29.
Shoemaker.
Detailed company cook, Mustered out 28 May,
Newburyport.
2 Dec., 1863, to 10 Jan., 1864.
1864.
MASON, Charles H.
McALEVEY, 1862.
25.
Boston.
May, 1861.
Painter.
Deserted 18 Sept., 1861.
Boston.
Daniel.
Chancellorsville
30.
Ireland.
Wounded
Boston. ;
in
28 Aug.,
Laborer.
hand, 3
May, 1863,
at
transferred to Invalid Corps, 25 Nov.,
1863.
McCREADY, James. maker.
May,
1861.
22.
Monahan,
Easton.
Ireland.
Discharged
Shovel-
for disability,
19 Nov., 1862.
MCDONNELL, May, 1861.
Philip.
Salem.
23.
Cork, Ireland.
Shoemaker.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN. McDouGAL, Duncan. 1862.
25.
John.
Aug., 1862.
McKiNSTREY,
Farmer.
26 July,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 25. Coachman. Sligo, Ireland.
Roxbury.
McGETRiCK,
Scotland.
399
12
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 19. Shoe Northbridge, Mass.
Brookline.
Charles O.
maker. cook,
Detailed as company May, 1861. Southbridge. See May, 1861, to 10 Jan., 1864. Re-enlisted.
Second Term.
MCLAUGHLIN, 1862.
Daniel.
43.
Ireland.
Farmer.
23 July,
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 30
Winchester.
Nov., 1863.
MIDDLETON, David A.
MOOERS, Andrew
Corporal,
Brookline.
MOORE, John
1
Shovel-maker.
Deserted
June, 1861.
Amoskeag, N.H.
24.
J.
26 Aug., 1862. Term.
Boston, Mass.
22.
May, 1861. Easton. 7 July, 1861.
Re-enlisted.
Machinist.
See Second
Antrim, Ireland. Plumber. May, in groin, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam dropped from the rolls, 27 July, 1863 (State rolls say mustered out 28 May, 1864). 1861.
(A.?). Boston.
24.
Wounded
;
MORSE, George W. 1861.
Athol.
18.
Newport, Ky.
Corporal,
1
Oct., 1863.
Farmer.
Taken
May,
prisoner,
25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 22 Oct., Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
1862.
MOTHERWELL,
John.
23 May, 1861. 1
Glasgow, Scotland. Blacksmith. Corporal, May, 1861 sergeant,
23.
Easton.
;
Dec., 1861
July, 1861, to 19
Taken
1862, to 4 July, 1863.
;
corporal again, 24 Nov., prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 13 Oct., 1862. in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
MULHKRN, sissippi,
Boston.
18 Feb., 1862
for disability, 21
MURPHY, John
Stone-cutter. Roxbury, Mass. Detached to gunboat on the Mis
20.
Philip.
May, 1861.
Absent
;
was there wounded, and discharged
March, 1863.
(1st).
18.
Cork, Ireland.
Shovel-maker.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
400
Corporal, 21
Easton.
May, 1861.
Nov., 1862, to
1
July, 1863, at Get Wounded in 1863. 10 to returned Dec., duty, tysburg; arm (amputated), 15 May, 1864, at Resaca; in hospital,
Wounded
March, 1863.
in breast, 3
28 May, 1864, when mustered out. MURPHY, John (2d). 38. Ireland. Tailor.
7 July, 1862.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Boston.
22.
Jeremiah.
MURRAY,
Shoemaker.
Ireland.
Clare,
Nonh Bridgewater. Corporal, August, Deserted August, 1861. Shoemaker. 26. Patrick. Cavan, Ireland.
1861.
May, 1861.
MURRAY,
Discharged for
North Bridgewater. 19 March, 1863. ability,
May, 1861.
MURRAY, Thomas.
Kildare, Ireland.
22.
dis
Shovel-maker.
Easton. 10 May, 1861. Company musician, 10 May 1861. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Laborer. 36. Patrick. Roscommon, Ireland.
NOONAN, 11 May,
1861.
Portland,
1863. turning to the regiment), 29 Jan., Ireland. 26. Cork, BRIEN, Jeremiah.
May, at
O
Antietam
Wounded
Boston.
1861. ;
May,
May,
11
in
Kerry, Ireland.
Shoemaker.
Killed in action, 25
May, 1862,
21.
Worcester.
Stone-cutter.
hip, 17 Sept., 1862, Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
not disabled.
CONNELL, John G. 1861.
prisoner, 25
re discharged for disability (without
1862, at Winchester;
O
Taken
Me.
at Winchester.
Blacksmith.
O DONNELL,
20. Donegal, Ireland. Hugh. Wounded North Bridgewater. 11 May, 1861.
9
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain
1864,
O
when mustered
REiLY, Michael. Boston.
in side,
28 May,
out.
25.
;
Carpenter. May, shoulder, 24 May, 1862,
Cork, Ireland.
Wounded
1861. near Kernstown, Va.
;
in hospital,
in
4 Oct., discharged in consequence,
1862.
PAUL, Joseph. 1861.
19.
Webster.
Williston, Vt,
Corporal, 22
22 May,
Shoemaker.
May, 1861,
to
5 Sept.,
401
THE ENLISTED MEN. Wounded
1861. ville
returned
;
in hand, 3
.
.
at Chancellors-
May, 1863,
Mustered out 28 May,
April, 1864.
1864.
Truro, N.S.
TERRY, Charles R. 22. tow, N.H. Corporal,
May, 1861.
5
to
Sept., 1861, Deserted 25 Dec., 1862. PIERCE, James. 21. Roscommon, Ireland.
1861.
May, at
Warren, Mass.
20.
Salesman. May, Company G, to Com In Company G, sergeant, May,
Transferred from
Warren.
pany H, 20 Dec., 1861. 1861; in Company H,
Wounded
Laborer.
Md.
POWERS, Albert W. 1861.
1862.
.
Died of diarrhoea, 20 Dec., 1861,
Roxbury.
Frederick,
Plais-
Jan.,
.
first
20
sergeant,
Dec.,
Cedar Mountain.
in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at
1861.
Pro
be second lieutenant, 12 July, 1862 but his commission did not arrive until after the battle of Cedar
moted
to
;
Mountain.
See Commissioned
James.
POWERS,
May, 1861. 1861.
Easton.
POWERS, James E. May, 1861. in head,
oner
;
Officers.
Shovel-maker.
Limerick, Ireland.
25.
24.
Boston.
Discharged
for
disability,
Limerick, Ireland. Book-gilder. Wounded Corporal, 5 Sept., 1861.
24 May, 1862, near Kernstown, Va.
paroled.
June,
Discharged
in
taken pris
;
consequence of wounds, 14
Oct., 1862.
POWERS,
Richard.
21.
May, 1861. Easton. 40. PRATT, John A.
Limerick, Ireland.
Shovel-maker.
Deserted 7 July, 1861.
11 Aug., Portland, Me. Dyer. Winooski, Vt, Transferred, 24 Aug., 1862, to Company K, which see.
1862.
37. PROCTOR, George. 22 May, 1861. Reading. timore, Md. 22. RANDALL, Vernon. 1861. Easton. May,
Springfield,
Vt.
Shoemaker.
Died, 24 Jan., 1862, at Bal
Easton,
Mass.
Shovel-maker.
Corporal, June, 1861.
August, 1861. 26
Deserted
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
402
RKES, Thomas.
23.
West
1861.
Bristol,
REMICK, Benjamin F. 22 May, 1861. West Medway. Sept.,
Patrick.
May, 1861. 1863. RIPLEY, 1861.
Silas
24.
K.
Discharged
Discharged for
and again,
1
21.
Shovel-maker.
for disability, 4
Easton, Mass.
25.
SANDERS, D. Henry. May, 1861. Rowley. ;
Killed in action, 17
Longford, Ireland.
Easton.
Easton.
1861
May,
Antietam.
1862, at
REYNOLDS,
Printer.
England.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 23. Bootmaker. Gardiner, Me.
Brookfield.
March,
Shoemaker.
disability, 3 July,
Rowley, Mass.
May, 1863.
Farmer.
23
Corporal, 23 May, 1861, to .. June, March, 1863. Detailed to regimental
band, ... 1861, to ... 1862.
Taken
prisoner,
25
May,
returned to duty, 28 Oct., 1862. in wounded groin, 3 May, 1863, at ChancellorsSeverely
1862, at Winchester;
ville
;
in hospital, 28
SANFORD, John M.
May, 1864, when mustered out. Sailor. Rochester, N.Y.
38.
15
May, Sergeant, May, 1861, to July, 1861. Detached to gunboat on the Mississippi, 18 Feb., 1862 1861.
.
.
.
;
discharged. SCHIEL, Charles.
31.
Germany.
Carpenter.
May. 1861.
Roxbury. Discharged for disability, 14 Oct., 1862. SE AVERS, Richard. 26. Dublin, Ireland. Laborer. May, 1861.
Easton.
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys
burg.
Chemist. 30 Aug., 18 Discharged, April, 1863, to receive commission of second lieutenant in the Fifty-fourth Massa
SMITH, Charles F. 1862.
23.
Boston, Mass.
Boston.
chusetts, but commission cancelled.
SMITH, Ervil L. 1861.
Died of typhoid Va. SMITH, John T. 1861. 1863.
21.
Essex, Mass.
Roxbury (Rowley ?).
Easton.
fever,
Shoemaker.
Corporal, 5
Sept.,
May, 1861.
28 April, 1862, near Harrisonburg,
May, Boston, Mass. Blacksmith. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 22 Nov.,
21.
403
THE ENLISTED MEN. Barrington, Mass.
22. SMITH, Orin E. Webster. 1861.
Corporal,
Sailor.
1861;
May,
first sergeant, 24 Nov., 1862. Sept., 1861 13 March, 1863, to receive the commission of ;
May,
sergeant,
5
Discharged, first
lieuten
5 March Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, dated Wounded at Fort Wagner, and captain, 31 May, 1863. resigned from disability, 25 Jan., 1864.
ant in
the
;
SMITH, William. 1862.
Montague, N.S. Caulker. 18 Aug., See Second Term.
25.
Boston.
Re-enlisted.
13 Boston, Mass. Carpenter. .. 13 to June, May, 1861, Corporal,
STETSON, Samuel L.
39.
May, 1861. Boston.
Detached as pioneer to First Division, 6 April, Taken prisoner, 23 May, 1862, at Front Royal,
1861. 1862.
Mustered out 28
Va.; returned to duty, 22 Oct., 1862. 1864.
May, TAYLOR, George. Oct.,
1861.
Md.
1862, at Frederick,
TIBBETTS,
James M.
May, 1861.
Farmer. 17 Dunstable, Mass. Died of consumption, 8 Feb.,
20.
Lowell.
41.
Frankfort,
Taken
Cambridgeport.
Me.
Carpenter.
prisoner, 25
May,
1862, at Winchester, and paroled returned to duty 28 Oct., 1862. Discharged for disability, 25 April, 1863. ;
THOMAS, Linus B. 21. Middleboro North Bridgewater. May, 1861.
,
Mass.
Shoemaker.
Wounded
in hand, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, 23 Nov.,, Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 1863.
THOMPSON, Thomas. 35. Sheffield, England. Shoemaker. West Bridgewater. Deserted 12 Sept. May, 1861. 1862.
WARD, Hugh. Boston.
37.
Ireland.
Wounded
Stone-cutter.
2 Sept., 1862..
in head, 3 July,
1863, at Gettysburg; discharged in consequence, 2 Nov., 1863. 32. WARNER, William B. Boston, Mass. Physician.
May, 1861. 1861.
WEBBER,
Fitchburg.
Sergeant,
May, 1861,
to 1 July,
Deserted August, 1861. Eldred.
32.
Hamilton,
Mass.
Bootmaker.
404
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Wenham.
1861.
May,
Wounded Mountain
in
19 April, 1862. Corporal, 9 (amputated), Aug., 1862, at Cedar
leg
discharged in consequence, 15 Jan., 1863. 19. John. Farmer. May, 1861. Cork, Ireland.
WELCH,
;
Wounded in hand, Corporal, 21 Nov., 1862. at in Chancellorsville 1863, May, hospital, 28 May,
Easton. 3
1864,
;
when mustered
out.
WHITRIIOUSE, Benjamin F. 8 Aug., 1862.
20.
Nevvfield,
Brookline
Me.
Farmer.
March, 1863.
Corporal, 1
Wounded
in groin, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; in hos 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. WHITTEMORE, Ezra G. 38. Pawtucket, Mass. Shoemaker. Re-enlisted. See Second Term. May, 1861. Easton. pital,
Oliver.
WRIGHT,
19.
Farmer.
May, 1861.
Taken
prisoner, 3 May, 1863, at returned to duty, 16 Dec., 1863. Mus
Chancellorsville;
tered out 28
Me.
Jay,
East Dixfield, Me.
May, 1864.
COMPANY ATKINS, William H. 11 May, 1861.
23.
Castine,
I.
Sailor.
Sheerness, England.
Me.
Deserted
1
June, 1862.
BAILEY, George M.
23. Shoemaker. Wilmington, Mass. Taken prisoner, .. Aug., 17 May, 1861. Wilmington. 1862, near Mauassas Junction returned to duty, 26 Oct., ;
Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
1862.
BAINE, James. 1861.
38.
Cornville,
Cornville,
Me.
Me.
Discharged
Farmer.
14 May,
for disability,
June,
1861.
BAIRD, William. 1861.
21.
Chelsea.
Scotland.
Glasgow, Corporal,
.
.
.
Clerk.
11 May,
1861, to 11 Aug., 1861
;
... 1861; and 1861, to again, 16 Feb., 1863, Detached as clerk at brigade headquarto 27 Sept., 1863. .
"again,
.
.
.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
405
Detailed as clerk at Aug., 18G2, to 26 Oct., 1862. to 5 May, 1863 20 1863, April, regimental headquarters, and again, 9 May, 1863, to 21 May, 1863 again, 15 Oct.,
ters, 6
;
;
Re-en
1863, to 31 Oct., 1863; again, 2 March, 1864. See Second Term.
listed.
BANCROFT, Thomas A. 27. Wilmington, Mass. Farmer. Detailed to commissary 17 May, 1861. Wilmington. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. department, July, 1861. BARRUS, John W. 20. Richmond, N.H. Shoemaker. 22 Wounded in breast, 3 July, May, 1861. Richmond, N.H. .
.
1863, at Gettysburg;
returned to duty,
.
July, 1863.
.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 24. Shoemaker. BARRUS, Marshall. Richmond, N.H. in wrist, 22 May, 1861. N.H. Wounded Richmond, 3
at Chancellorsville
May, 1863,
Corps, 16 March, 1864. BICKFORD, Charles E. 20.
May, 1861.
transferred to Invalid
Alton, N.H.
Shoemaker.
Wounded
N.H.
Alton,
;
in
leg,
15
25 May,
1862, at Winchester; died in consequence, 16 Nov., 1863, at Alisona, Tenn.
BONNET, Wallace. 1861.
Boston.
Boston, Mass.
23.
Wounded
1862, near Woodstock, Va. regiment.
1861.
24.
the
first
Danville,
East Bridgewater.
April,
man wounded
in the
Me.
;
1863.
Farmer.
20 May, May, 1861, to 24 May, 1862, near
Sergeant, 20
Wounded
11 Aug., 1861.
Newtown, Va. died BRADISH, Addison S.
in groin, in consequence,
]
June, 1862.
Winchendon, Mass.
22.
13 May, 1
breast,
disability, 15 April,
Discharged for
BOSMORE, Horace.
;
Painter. in
slightly
Farmer.
18 May, 1861. Royalston. Wounded in leg, 24 May, LS62, near Newtown, Va. discharged in consequence, 25 July, 1862. ;
38. BRADY, Mathias P. 15 May, 1861. Boston.
Dublin, Ireland.
Discharged
Stone-cutter.
for disability,
15
Feb., 1862.
BROWN, David
B.
32.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Japanner.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
406
15 May, 1861. Boston. 1861. Wounded in July,
Corporal, 15 May, 1861, to side, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar
Mountain, and taken prisoner; returned
Wounded
1862.
in
26
to duty,
abdomen, 3 July, 1863,
at
Oct.,
Gettys
burg; died in consequence, 21 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. 11 BUTLER, Aaron. 43. Shapleigh, Me. Carpenter.
May, 1861. Woburn. BUTTERS, Theodore S.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
Wilmington, Mass. Farmer. Wilmington. Corporal, 24 March, 1863.
18 May, 1861.
19.
Wounded
in leg (amputated), 3 July, 1863, at Gettys in consequence, 30 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. died burg; M. 23. Portugal. Cabinet-maker. 13 Nicholas CAMARA,
May, 1861.
Boston.
Discharged for
disability,
14 Sept.,
1863. 22. Irvine, Scotland. CAMERON, Robert. Paper-maker. Boston. 14 May, 1861. Corporal, 18 Feb., 1862. Wounded in abdomen, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville
;
died in consequence, 8 May, 1863, at Washington, D.C. 19. Farmer. 18 CARTER, James O. Reading, Mass.
Wounded in cheek and hand, May, 1861. Wilmington. 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville; returned to duty, 30 Detached as orderly at brigade headquarters, 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 13 Sept., 20. 11 May, J. Sailor. Charles Ellsworth, Me. CHASE, Me. on the Mis Detached to 1861. Ellsworth, gunboat July, 1863.
sissippi,
18 Feb., 1862.
Dropped from the
rolls,
27 July,
1863.
CLEVELAND, Harmon S. 27. Dunham, C.E. Shoemaker. Canada. 18 May, 1861. Discharged for disability, 15 Sept.,
1861.
CODY, Stephen.
26.
May, 1861.
Boston.
at AVinchester
;
Sotkson
(?),
Taken
Ireland.
prisoner, 25
Glazier.
14
May, 1862,
returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862.
Killed
in action, 6 July, 1863, at Gettysburg, while carrying the colors.
COLLINS, Thomas A.
19.
Cork, Ireland.
Coppersmith.
407
THE ENLISTED MEN. 13 .
.
May, 1861. Dec., 1861
;
Corporal, 22 Dec., 1861, to
Roxbury.
Wounded
sergeant, 9 Oct., 1862.
17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam 24 Jan., 1863.
COXANT, James H. 18 May, 1861. 25 April, 1863.
COSTELLO, John.
;
in chin,
discharged inconsequence,
Londonderry, N.H. Spirit-merchant. Lawrence. Discharged for disability,
38.
Ireland.
20.
17 Feb., 1862.
Laborer.
Sept., 1862, at Antietam, and Springfield. the 27 July, 1863. from rolls, missing; dropped
Wounded, 17
19. New- York City. Weaver. 13 COULSON, Joseph. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. May, 1861. Roxbury. Cox, William. 34. Newark (?). Cigar-maker. 18 March,
1862.
Transferred to Invalid Corps,
Springfield.
1
7 Oct.,
1863.
CROXIN, Patrick. ville
;
Ireland.
28.
Wounded
Milford.
Bootmaker.
5 July, 1862.
arm, 3 May, 1863, at ChancellorsRe-enlisted. duty, 10 Aug., 1863.
returned to
in
See Second Term.
DAMON, 27
Isaac B.
35.
1862.
Scituate,
Mass.
Harness-maker.
Detailed
as regimental 1862. Detached to harness-maker, February, brigade train, 28 Dec., 1862, to 26 Sept., 1863. Detailed as regimentajl Mustered out 28 May, harness-maker, 17 Nov., 1863.
Feb.,
Weymouth.
1864.
D AVIGXOX,
Francis.
May, 1861.
44.
Med ford.
France.
Sevres,
Corporal,
1861.
Detached as
1862.
Discharged by order of
.
.
.
Artist.
1861, to
artist to corps headquarters,
War
.
.
11
June,
30 July,
Department, 11 May,
1863.
DAVIS, Lorenzo.
41.
Sangersville,
Me.
Mason.
28 May,
Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, East Abington. returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Killed at Winchester 1861.
;
in action, 3
DOERFLER, 1861.
May, 1863,
John.
Lawrence.
30.
at Chaucellorsville.
Germany.
Wounded
18 May, Weaver. 24 May, 1863, at
in knee,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
408
Kernstown, Va.
transferred to Invalid
;
1
Corps,
Sept.,
1863.
DRUG AN,
John A.
East Boston, Mass.
19.
Moulder.
16
Wounded in thigh, 24 May, May, 1861. Walpole. 1862, near Newtown, Va. discharged in consequence, 25 ;
July, 1862.
EASTMAN, Albert D. Lowell.
1861.
29.
...
N.H.
Chester,
Discharged for
1
disability,
18 May,
1862
5 Feb.,
;
but discharge papers were not received until 22 Feb., 1862, on which day he died, at Frederick, Md. 33. 13 Printer. EATON, Minot H. Rockingham, Vt. Corporal, 18 Feb., 1862, to 16 Lynn. 14 1863; Feb., sergeant, April, 1863, to 25 Aug., 1863. Wounded in neck, 24 May, 1862, near Kernstown, Va.,
May, 1861.
and taken prisoner the next day returned Re-enlisted. 1862. See Second Term. ;
EDMUNDS, James 18 May, 1861.
Charlestown, Mass.
29.
S.
to duty,
Wounded
Billerica.
23 Oct.,
Teamster.
in head, 9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 24 Oct., 1862. in hip and in arm, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg;
Wounded
died in consequence, 20 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. ELLSWORTH, Andrew B. 19. ... Machinist. 12 Oct.,
Detailed as regimental wagoner, Feb., 19 Oct., 1863; and 30 Oct., 1863. Re-enlisted.
Lowell.
1861.
1862, to
.
.
See Second Term. 19. FARR, Edwards D. May, 1861. Leicester. at
Cedar Mountain
;
Leicester, Mass.
Wounded
Seaman.
14
in foot, 9 Aug., 1862,
discharged in consequence, 14 Feb.,
1863.
FINN, Bernard.
Wrentham. ter
;
19.
Taken
Shoemaker. 20 May, 1861. prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winches
Ireland.
returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862.
Wounded
in shoulder,
returned to duty, 21 May, for 1863. Nov., Discharged disability, 23 Feb., 1864. FLAGG, Thomas B. 24. Kennebunk, Me. Farmer. 22 3
1863, at Chancellorsville
July, 1862. Nov., 1862.
Wilmington.
;
Discharged for
disability, 11
THE ENLISTED MEN.
409
32. Waterford, Ireland. Wood-turner. 1861. Waltham. Detailed company musician, May, Second Term. 1861. Re-enlisted. See May,
Patrick.
FLYNN, 11
FORD, John. 1861.
Wounded
14 May,
Laborer.
Galway, Ireland.
22.
Boston.
in hand, 17 Sept., 1862, at
An-
March, 1863. 14 Laborer. 22. FORNICE, William L. Salem, Mass. 16 1863. for Oct., 1862. ... Jan., disability, Discharged tietam
;
discharged in consequence, 2
FORREST, Michael A.
20. Cork, Ireland. 13 May, 1861. Cambridge. Corporal, 1 Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
FREEMAN, Omer W. May, 1861. Lynn.
Shoemaker. Sept.,
1863.
8 wanton, Vt. Shoemaker. 15 Discharged for disability, 24 April,
18.
1863.
FREEMAN, Willard 0. July, 1862. 1863.
44.
Lynn.
GILLESPIE, James
J.
May,
1861.
office,
5 Aug., 1862.
Swanton, Vt.
Discharged 20.
Carpenter.
for disability,
Galway, Ireland.
24
30 March,
Printer.
11
Detailed as clerk in adjutant
Boston.
Discharged
for disability,
28
s
Jan.,
1863. 32. New Durham, N.H. Shoe GLIDDEN, George A. maker. 13 May, 1861. Natick. Corporal, June, 1861
sergeant, 25 Feb., 1862. at
Cedar Mountain;
Wounded
in
;
arm, 9 Aug., 1862,
discharged in consequence, 2 Feb.,
1863.
HANCOCK, Leander
C.
21.
Boston, Mass.
Japanner.
15
May, 1861. Boston. Corporal, 26 Feb., 1862. Wounded in hand, 24 May, 1862, at Kernstown, Va., and taken pris oner
discharged in consequence of wounds, 11 Oct., 1862. 21. 15 Clerk. BANNING, James. Dumfries, Scotland. 1861. Boston. 1 1863. Wounded May, Corporal, Sept., ;
in neck, 3
July, 1863, at Gettysburg; not disabled.
enlisted.
See Second Term.
HANSCOM,
Charles D.
15 May, 1861.
Re-
23. Portsmouth, N.H. Carpenter. Portsmouth, N.H. Corporal, 22 Dec.,
410
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Wounded in hip, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellors discharged in consequence, 12 Dec., 1863.
1861. ville
;
HANSCOJT, Creighton G. 22. Portsmouth, N.H. 26 Aug., 1862. Portsmouth, N.H. Killed in
Printer. action,
3
May, 1863, at; Chancellorsville. 25. Brunswick, Me. Laborer. 23 HARDING, George. Boston. 1861. May, Discharged for disability, 21 Nov., 18G2.
HART, John L.
Laborer.
Sligo, Ireland.
24.
15 May,
1861, to 11 Dec., Corporal, Springfield. 1861. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 16 Jan., 1864. Laborer. 26. Ballinacurra, Ireland. HIGGINS, Charles. 14 May, 1861. Boston. Killed in action, 24 May, 1862, 1861.
.
at Bartonsville,
.
Va.
HILL, Charles H.
May, 1861.
.
Shoemaker.
Athol, Mass.
20.
Athol.
Wounded
22
3 July, 1863, at
in thigh,
Gettysburg. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Ireland. Tailor. 29. HINES, Michael.
3 July,
1862.
4 March, 1863. Discharged Me. Teamster. 14 May, 22. James. Livermore, HOBBS, 22 color1861. Me. Dec., 1861 Livermore, Corporal, ^Boston.
for disability,
;
corporal,
.
.
.
1863.
Wounded
in breast,
3 July, 1863,
discharged in Gettysburg, while carrying the colors consequence, January, 1864. HULMES, John. 22. Manchester, England. Baker. 18 Wounded, 24 May, 1862, near May, 1861. Lawrence. Newtown, Va., and missing dropped from the rolls, at
;
;
November, 1862. HUTCHINSON, James. 9
1862.
42.
Boston.
Londonderry, Ireland.
Wounded
in
Aug., 1863, at Chancellorsville; returned to 1863. Re-enlisted. See Second Term.
thigh, 3 duty, 19
Clerk.
May, May,
Baker. 17 20. Hereford, England. 22 1861. Dec., 1861; Wilmington. Corporal, May, sergeant, 16 Feb., 1863; first sergeant, 14 April, 1863. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester returned to
JAMES, John E.
;
duty, 23 Oct., 1862.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN. JAQUITH, Simeon.
411
Wilmington, Mass.
20.
Wheelwright. Dis
18 May, 1861. Woburn. Corporal, 11 Aug., 1861. charged as a minor, 25 Aug., 1861.
23. 1 Williamsburg, Mass. Farmer. Transferred to Invalid Williamsburg. Corps, 15 Feb.. 1864. 24. JOY, John. Kilkenny, Ireland. Waiter. 26 Aug., 1862. Boston. Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys
Calvin.
JOHNSON,
1861.
June,
burg.
KENNIER, Bartholemew.
25.
Ireland.
8
Operative.
March, 1862. Springfield. Wounded, 17 Sept., 1862, Antietam transferred to Invalid Corps, 20 Nov., 1863.
at
;
KERNES, Thomas A. 1861.
Natick.
22.
Ireland.
Discharged 18
Shoemaker.
for disability,
KITTREDGE, Charles E.
Died of typhoid
Lowell.
ick, Md. LENNON, Thomas H.
13 May, 1861. Term.
21 May,
22 Nov., 1862. 11 Oct., 1861.
fever, 7 Dec., 1861, at Freder
Roxbury, Mass.
22.
Re-enlisted.
Roxbury.
Teamster.
See Second
LTDON, Thomas. 1861.
.
chester;
22. Mayo, Ireland. Laborer. 13 May, Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Win returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Taken prisoner, .
.
9 June, 1863, at Beverly .
1864.
MARA, May,
Ford returned Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Patrick.
1861.
22.
;
Athlone, Ireland.
Wounded
to duty,
1
March,
Shoemaker.
18
arm, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned to duty, 30 July, 1863. Dis charged for disability, 24 Feb., 1864.
Roxbury.
in
;
MARTIN, John. Roxbury.
33.
... N.B.
4 June, 1862. May, 1863, at Chancel-
Carpenter.
Killed in action, 3
lorsville.
MATTHEWS, 1862.
John.
Boston.
Cedar Mountain. Hospital.
27.
Boston, Mass.
Wounded
in
Steward. 7 July, hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Deserted, 11 Oct., 1862, from General
412
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
MAXCEY, Edward. .
.
New
23.
New
May, 1861.
11 Sailor. Bedford, Mass. Corporal, 11 May, 1861, to
Bedford.
Detached to gunboat on the Mississippi, dropped from the rolls, 27 July, 1863. Simon O. 23. 15 Grocer. Enosburg, Vt.
Sept., 1861.
14 Feb., 1862
MAYNARD,
;
May, 1861.
Enosburg, Vt, Corporal, 15 May, 1861, to 11 Aug., 1861; and again, 25 Feb., 1862; sergeant, 22 Wounded in arm, 25 May, 1862, at Winches Oct., 1863. Mustered out 28 ter; returned to duly, 16 Sept., 1862.
May, 1864. 18. Ireland. 21 Operative. Corporal, 28 May, 1864 sergeant, 1 July, 1864. Wounded in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at Gettys burg returned to duty, 1 April, 1864. Re-enlisted, 23
MCCAFFREY,
Cornelius.
Boston.
Feb., 1862.
;
;
See Second Term.
Feb., 1864.
Michael.
MCCARTHY,
Boston, Mass.
19.
March, 1862.
Springfield.
Cedar Mountain
;
May, 1861.
Farmer.
13
9 Aug., 1862, at
discharged in consequence, 6 Nov., 1862. 24. Tyrone, Ireland. Teamster. 15
John.
McCoRMiCK,
Wounded,
Boston.
Enlisted
wagoner.
Discharged
for disability, 16 Nov., 1862.
MCLAUGHLIN,
22.
Patrick.
13 May, 1861.
.
.
Donegal, Ireland.
Currier.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
.
McTiGHE, Patrick. 18. Galway, Ireland. Carpenter. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. May, 1861. Roxbury.
McKENNY, May,
34.
Elisha.
1861.
Boston.
11
Woolwich, Me.
15 Carpenter. 11 15 to Corporal, May, 1861,
Detached as pioneer to First Division,.. April, 1862; and again, 6 April, 1862, to 23 March, 1863. Killed in action, 3 May, 1863, at Chan-
Aug., 1861.
Feb., 1862, to
1
cellorsville.
MOGLE, George, 1861.
.
.
.
MOORI-:, Thomas.
15 May, 1861.
25. jr. Troy, N.Y. Printer. Deserted 30 Aug., 1861.. 38.
Queen
Saxonville.
1863, at Gettysburg.
s
11
May,
County, Ireland. Shoemaker. Wounded in wrist, 3 July,
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
413
THE ENLISTED MEN. MUNROE, Andrew B. maker.
Shoe
North Reading, Mass.
25.
North Reading. Corporal, 11 Wounded in leg, 24 May, 1862, near Kerns-
May, 1861.
19
Aug., 1861.
town, Va., and prisoner
;
paroled
;
discharged in consequence,
in 1862.
21. NASON, Horace. May, 1861. Natick
Chesterville,
Me.
geant, 25 Feb., 1862.
Discharged for
15
Teamster.
Sergeant, 15 May, 1861
first
;
ser
disability, 2 Feb.,
1863.
NELSON, Thomas. 1861.
18.
28 May, prisoner, Aug., 1862, near returned to duty, 26 Oct., 1862. Boston, Mass.
Taken
Dorchester.
Driver.
.
.
Manassas Junction; Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
NICHOLS, Charles A.
21.
Lowell.
May, 1861. 1862.
Lowell, Mass.
Discharged for
Baker.
17
disability, 3 April,
Topsham, Vt. Shoemaker. 15 May, May, 1861; sergeant, 11 Aug., 1861. Discharged, 15 March, 1863, to receive the commission of second lieutenant in the Fifty-fourth Massa
NUTT, William. 1861.
24.
Corporal, 15
Natick.
chusetts, dated 5
in
March
;
first
lieutenant,
the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, 23
22
May
captain
;
May, 1863; major,
Mus
23 Nov., 1864; lieutenant-colonel, 25 June, 1865. tered out 29 Aug., 1865.
O CONNOR, 1862.
.
Lawrence. .
.
when mustered
O CONNOR, 13
29.
Ireland.
1862,
20. Law-student. Cork, Ireland. Detailed as regimental clerk, Ma}r, Severely wounded in breast by guerillas, 12 May, near Woodstock, Va. discharged for disability,
Timothy.
.
.
;
in 1862.
O DONNELL, 1861.
10 March,
out.
May, 1861.
1861.
Laborer.
In hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 10 April, 1865,
(Admitted to practice of law in Boston.)
Anthony. 34. ... N.H. Cutler. 11 May, Detached to gunboat on the Mississippi,
Boston.*
14 Feb., 1862. Dropped from the rolls, 27 July, 1863. Farmer. 11 PARKER, Rufus A. 20. Monson, Mass.
414
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
1862. Wounded through lungs, Springfield. 3 July, 18G3, at Gettysburg; died in consequence, 21 July,
March,
1863, at Gettysburg. PATTISON, Everett W.
27 May, 1861. 1861 promoted
Me.
Waterville,
Student.
sergeant, 27 May, to be second lieutenant, 4 Feb., 1862.
;
See Commissioned
PIERS ON, Hiram
22.
Worcester.
First
Officers.
Tewksbury, Mass.
28.
J.
Carpenter.
18 May, 1861. Tewksbury. Corporal, 18 Sept., 1861 sergeant, 14 April, 1863, to 25 Aug., 1863 corporal again, 24 Dec., 1863, to 29 Dec., 1863. Wounded in head, ;
;
9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain; returned
Wounded
1862.
to
duty, 25
Oct., shoulder, 15 May, 1864, at in and died Resaca, consequence, 11 June, 1864.
PRATT, Reuben A. maker.
11
May,
in
North Chelsea, Mass.
24.
North Chelsea.
1861.
Brick-
Discharged
for
disability, 15 Jan., 1862.
QUINN, George W. 1861.
19.
Boston, Mass.
Wounded
Boston.
Printer.
11
May,
24 May, 1862, near
in leg,
Kernstown, Ya. taken prisoner; parolled discharged in consequence of wounds, in 1862. 23 June, QUINN, Patrick S. 19. ... Ireland. Dyer. ;
1862.
Taken
Lowell.
Mountain
;
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at
never returned to duty
;
;
Cedar
discharged fur disa
29 Nov., 1862. RAMBECK, Leonard. 34. bility,
1861.
.
.
Germany. Spinner. 17 May, Died of typhoid fever, 19 Oct., 1861, at
.
Darnestown, Md.
REED,
Israel
Watchman. 17 32. Auburn, N.H. Died, 13 March, 1863, Hampstead, N.H.
S.
May, 1861. at Frederick,
REED, Levi G.
Md. 35.
Uxbridge, Mass.
Rivet-driver.
18
Deserted 17 June, 1862. May, 1861. Boston. 23. Shoe RICHARDSON, George W. Billerica, Mass. maker. 18 May, 1861. Billerica. Deserted 27 June? 1861.
THE ENLISTED MEN.
415
26. RICHARDSON, Harry G. Northampton, Mass. Car 14 1861. Sunderland. Sergeant, 14 penter. May, 10 1861. for Feb., 1863. Discharged disability, May,
Ross, James. June, 1862.
Manchester, P ngland.
26.
Boston.
Discharged
Spinner.
23
for disability, 2 April,
1863.
SAWYER, Andrew 22 July, 1862.
New
24.
IT.
at Chancellorsville
Me.
Gloucester,
Wounded
Boston.
in hip, 3
Sailor.
May, 1863,
died in consequence, 18 Aug., 1863, at
;
Washington, D.C.
SHEERIN, Charles
20.
S.
Boston,
Mass.
Printer.
14
Discharged 14 Feb., 1863, to re ceive the commission of second lieutenant in the Sixteenth
May, 1861.
Boston.
Massachusetts, of that date. 22. SHEPHERD, Joseph F.
Northampton, Mass.
Book
Corporal, 18 Northampton. May, 1861. to 5 for 1861. Dec., Sept., 1861, Discharged disability, 5 June, 1862. binder.
11
34. SMITH, Patrick C. 1861. Lawrence. May, at Chancellorsville
;
Tanner.
Dublin, Ireland.
Wounded
18
in arm, 3
May, 1863, transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Sept.,
1863. 1 1 Sailor. Newburyport, Mass. Wounded in leg, 24 May, 1862, near Kernstown, Ya., and taken prisoner returned to
STEELE, Joseph.
May, 1861.
32.
Byfield.
;
duty, 19 Dec., 1862.
Wounded
in breast, 3
May, 1863,
Chancellorsville; returned to duty, 2 April, 1864. tered out 28 May, 1864.
SYLVESTER, Loammi B. 27 Feb., 1862. at
29.
Boston.
Hanover, Mass.
Wounded
Cedar Mountain
Aug., 1862, 7 Sept., 1862, at Alexandria, Va. ;
in
died
Shoemaker.
arm and in
at
Mus
breast, 9
consequence,
TAYLOR, Elbridge G. 23. Wilmington, Mass. Carpenter. 18 May, 1861. Wilmington. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; died of fever, 16 Aug., 1862, Richmond, Va., while a prisoner.
at
416
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
THAYER, Alfred 1861
Boston, Mass.
30.
S.
Middleboro
1861.
Detached
.
18 May,
Clerk.
to signal corps,
.
.
Aug.,
transferred to signal corps, 1 Aug., 1863. TRAYNER, Charles. 29. Monaghan, Ireland. Laborer. ;
Wounded
Waltham.
May, 1861.
in leg,
13
24 May, 1862,
near Kernstown, Va., and taken prisoner; returned to Killed in action, 3 July, 1863, at duty, 19 Dec., 1862. Gettysburg.
TUCKER, William L. 14 Oct., 1861.
Roxbury, Mass.
24.
Lowell.
Discharged
Machinist.
16
for disability,
Feb., 1862.
VOELCKERS, Frederick S. Boston. 13 May, 1861.
22.
Boston, Mass.
Discharged for
Machinist. disability,
4
Jan., 1862.
WALSH,
Michael.
July, 1862.
WEBB, May,
Laborer. Luborn(P), Ireland. Deserted 26 Jan., 1863.
27.
Lowell.
James.
Haverhill, Mass.
32.
Lawrence.
1861.
Shoemaker.
Killed in action, 3
7
11
May, 1863,
at Chancellorsville.
WEBB, William H. 11 May,
1861.
34.
Haverhill, Mass.
Haverhill.
Discharged
Shoemaker. for disability,
6 July, 1861.
WHEELER, Austin May, 1861.
E.
18.
Lawrence.
Canaan, Me.
Wounded
Shoemaker.
in hip, 3
18
May, 1863,
at Chancellorsville; returned to duty, 18 Oct., 1863.
Re-
See Second Term.
enlisted.
21. Shoemaker. WHITE, John H. Framingham, Mass. 18 May, 1861. Wilmington. Detailed company musi Mustered out 28 May, 1864. cian, May, 1861. WHITEHOUSE, John S. 26. Somersworth, N.H. Mechanic. 18 May, 1861. Dover, N.H. Discharged for disability, in 1863.
WHITNEY, Turner. 23. May, 1861. Natick. 1862.
WIGGIN, John. 1862.
Natick, Mass.
Shoemaker.
15
Corporal, 11 Aug., 1861, to 9 Oct., Transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Dec., 1863. 19.
Boston.
Cambridge, Mass. Butcher. 7 July, See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
417
THE ENLISTED MEN. WILLIS, George H.
Wayland, Mass.
22.
Sergeant, 15
Natick.
May, 1861.
Clicker.
May, 1861;
15
color-
Killed in action,*
. . 1862, to 4 July, 1862. sergeant, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain. .
11 Laborer. 18. Norristown, Pa. WILSON, Francis. 9 in Wounded Pa. 1861. face, Aug., Reading, May,
1862, at Cedar Mountain
Roxbury, Mass.
21. WRIGHT, Samuel. 1861. Roxbury. May, 1
returned to duty, 10 Oct., 1862.
;
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
Driver.
28
Detailed as regimental wagoner,
Detached as wagoner to brigade head Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
July, 1861.
quarters, March, 1862.
F.
YOUNG, Benjamin 13 May, 1861. 10 Dec., 1861.
YOUNG, May, at
Ira
M.
28.
Strafford,
N.H.
Shoemaker.
18 Sept., 1861, to Deserted 22 June, 1862. 15 Machinist. 21. Waltham, Mass. Natick.
Corporal,
Wounded in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, Roxbury. Cedar Mountain discharged in consequence, 31 March, 1861.
;
1863.
COMPANY ACKERMAN, Joseph Aug., 1862. 1864.
L.
Ipswich.
ANGUS, John.
25.
South Boston.
K.
Ipswich, Mass.
41.
Discharged
Germany.
Painter.
9
for disability, 2 Feb.,
Laborer.
14 July, 1862.
Transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Dec.,
1863.
BACKUS, Marvin.
18. Great Barrington, Mass. Farmer. 30 May, 1861. Lee. Wounded in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain discharged in consequence, 19 Oct., ;
1862.
BAILEY, George.
May, 1861. Jan., 1863.
21.
Tewksbury, Mass.
Tewksbury.
Discharged 27
Shoemaker.
23
for disability,
19
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
418
BAKER, James S. 20 May, 1861.
Dumbarton, N.H.
18.
Railway-worker. rolls, 17
Dropped from the
Billerica.
Nov., 1862.
BANCROFT,
Norris.
May, 1861. July, 1861.
21.
BARTON, John F. Aug., 1862.
Bridgeport, Mass.
19.
S.
Canaan
May, 1861.
Discharged
14
Laborer.
for disability, 8
Randolph, Mass. Bootmaker. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
33.
Ipswich.
BEACH, Samuel
N.H.
Nelson,
Chesterfield.
8
29
Student.
Corporal, 1 July, 1861, to returned .to the ranks at his own
(?).
15 April, 1862, when Detailed in quartermaster s department, June, Detached as clerk *at division headquarters, 1861. Enlisted in regular service, and dropped, 8 March, 1864.
request.
.
BISHOP, Milton.
20.
Farmer.
Conn.
Salisbury,
.
.
29
Taken
prisoner, 3 July, 1863, Stockbridge. May, Reat Gettysburg; returned to duty, 29 Oct., 1863.
1861.
See Second Term.
enlisted.
BORTCHY, George. 39. Feichvaugen, Bavaria. CoachA cavalry soldier in maker. 25 May, 1861. Boston. Europe. Wounded in arm, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Moun tain
;
Killed in action, 3
returned to duty.
May, 1863,
at
Chancellorsville. 22. Farmer. 29 Stockbridge, Mass. 1 1861. Wagoner, Stockbridge. July, 1861, to May, 17 Dec., 1861; corporal, 15 April, 1862; sergeant, 1
BRACE, Charles E.
March, 1863,
to 1
June, 1863.
1863, at Chancellorsville
;
Wounded
in groin, 3
May,
transferred to Invalid Corps, 18
July, 1863.
BROWN,
Lewis.
19.
Jefferson,
.
.
.
Seaman.
22 May,
South Maiden.
Detailed as company cook, 23 June, 1861. Discharged for disability, 20 Aug., 1861. BUNNING, John F. 23. Holstein, Germany. Mason. 22 1861.
May, 1861.
Boston.
Killed in action, 3 May, 1863, at
Chancellorsville.
BURGHARDT, John H.
20.
Stockbridge, Mass.
Machinist.
419
THE ENLISTED MEN.
Detailed as regimental May, 1861. Stockbridge. Detached as brigade armorer, 6 armorer, 16 June, 1861. as division armorer, 21 May, Aug., 1862, to 18 Oct., 1862
29
;
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
1863.
22.
CAREY, Patrick.
May, 1861. 1 Sept.,
Ireland.
20
Shoemaker.
Transferred to Invalid Corps,
1863.
CARROLL, John. 1861.
Newtown,
Holliston.
Otis.
CARTER, Peter.
29 May,
Cork, Ireland. Tanner. Discharged 20 Oct., 1862. 26.
Wounded
Northampton. Cedar Mountain; returned
14 May,
Farmer.
Montreal, C.E.
33.
1861.
in hand, 9 Aug., 1862,
to duty, 10 Oct., 1862 ; dis of wounds, 17 Jan., 1863. consequence charged 23. CASEY, Timothy. Kerry, Ireland. Laborer. 20 May,
at
in
Wareham.
1861.
Corporal, 20
to
May, 1861,
1
July,
and again, 15 April, 1862 sergeant, 1 June, 1863. Wounded, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam. Taken prisoner, 1861
;
;
3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; in parole camp, 28 1864. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
CHRISTENSEN, Hans G. maker.
32.
13 May, 1861.
May,
Copenhagen, Denmark. PianoBoston.
ish service (color-bearer) in the
A soldier in the
war of 1848.
Dan
Sergeant, 13
June, 1861. Discharged 14 Oct., 1861. 30 42. Blacksmith. CLAPP, Thomas. Boston, Mass. as 1861. Ashland. Detailed company cook, May, May,
May, 1861
;
color-sergeant, 28
for disability,
1861.
Discharged
Aug., 1861. Northampton, Mass.
for disability, 9
25.
CLARK, Benjamin. 15 May, 1861. Northampton.
Farmer.
June, 1863.
1
Corporal, On recruiting service in Boston Harbor^ prolonged. in 1864. Mustered out July, 1865.
Term
CLARK, Joseph C. 28. Northampton, Mass. Detached to May, 1861. Northampton. nance department, 7 Nov., 1862. ond Term.
CLARY, Daniel.
31.
Driver.
13
division
ord
Re-enlisted.
Kilfaune, Ireland.
See Sec
Shoemaker.
22
420
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. West Randolph.
May, 1861.
27 Oct., 1862, when quest
Corporal, 22
Taken
1862.
25 May,
1862, at
Wounded
in chest, 3 July, 1863, at
to duty,
;
first
sergeant again, 29 Nov.,
;
May, 1861
sergeant, 15 April, 1862, to returned to the ranks at his own re
sergeant, 1 July, 1861;
returned
Winchester;
to
prisoner,
duty
.
.
.
Gettysburg; returned Re-enlisted 18 Feb., 1864. See
18 Feb., 1864.
Second Term.
CLARY, Ethan A.
27.
Mass.
Stockbridge,
Machinist.
29 May, 1861. Stockbridge. Corporal, 13 Feb., 1862, to 27 Sept., 1862. Wounded in hand, 3 May, 1863, at absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when Chancellorsville ;
mustered out.
COGSWELL, William. Aug., 1862.
26.
Ipswich.
Merchant. 8 Ipswich, Mass. Detailed as company cook, 1 Oct.,
and again, 1862, to 3 Oct., 1862 28 April, 1863. ;
.
.
Discharged for
.
disability,
COLE, Henry W. 1861. 1
19.
Northampton.
Barre, Mass.
July, 1861, to 10 Dec., 1861.
May,
1862, at
14 May,
Clerk.
Corporal, 14 May, 1861
Wounded
;
sergeant,
in thigh,
25
Winchester; discharged in consequence, 4
Oct., 1862.
CONLAN, James. 1861. poral,
25.
Laborer.
Dublin, Ireland.
A soldier
Boston.
22 May, Cor
in the English service.
22 May, 1861, to 27 Nov., 1861. Cedar Mountain.
Killed in action,
9 Aug., 1862, at
DAILY, Jeremiah.
21.
Cork, Ireland.
Machinist.
13 May,
Corporal, 1 July, 1861, to 10 Dec., 1861. Taken prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; re turned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Wounded in knee, 3 July,
1861.
Northampton.
1863, at Gettysburg.
Sent to hospital at Fort Schuyler,
and died 31 Dec., 1863. 28. Farbane, Ireland. DALY, Thomas.
May,
Killed in
1861.
Stockbridge. 1862, at Cedar Mountain. 20. DANIELS, William. Westport, N.Y.
May, 1861.
Lee.
Re-enlisted.
Farmer. action,
29
9 Aug.,
Butcher.
See Second Term.
29
THE ENLISTED MEN. DELANY, James.
24.
May, 1861. Boston. 19. DEVINE, Thomas. 22 May, 1861,
DITSON, Minot 1861.
421
Clothier. Yorkshire, England. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
New-York
27
Marble-cutter.
City.
Deserted 12 Sept., 1862. Dracut, Mass. Teamster. 14 Oct.,
Brookline. 23.
S.
Corporal, 30 Jan., 1863.
Lowell.
Wounded
in
Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, Wounded in arm, 3 July, 1863. at Gettys
leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at
10
Oct., 1862.
burg
;
discharged in consequence, 7 Jan., 1864. 25.
DONOVAN, Timothy.
Moulder.
Kinsale, Ireland.
16
Taken
prisoner, 25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862. Absent in hospital, 28 May, 1864, when mustered out. DUNBRACH, George G. 38. Halifax, N.S. Carpenter.
May, 1861.
21
Boston.
May, 1861.
Roxbury.
DUNN ELS, John M. 1862.
1863.
Corporal, 21 1861.
May, 1861.
disability, 5 July,
Discharged for
Ipswich, Mass. Tinsmith. 8 Aug., Detailed as company cook, 13 Dec., Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 23.
Ipswich.
ELDER, John. May, 1861.
28.
14
Machinist.
Dundee, Scotland.
Taken prisoner, 25 May, Haydenville. 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862.
Re-enlisted.
See Second Term.
ELLSWORTH, Thomas F.
21. Clerk. 8 Ipswich, Mass. 1862. 11 1863. Wounded Oct., Aug., Ipswich. Corporal, in ankle, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; not disabled. Re-
enlisted. See Second Term. FAY, Michael. 26. Mallay, Ireland.
Laborer.
23 May,
Wounded in Corporal, 26 Sept., 1862. . hand, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg; returned to duty, Aug., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 1861.
Boston.
.
FENNER, George W. May, 1861. Lee. 1863.
Wounded
in
22.
Abington, Mass.
H
29
hand (by bayonet), 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain; dropped from the
FLETCHER, James
Farmer.
Corporal, 13 Feb., 1862, to 1 June,
rolls,
31 Aug., 1863. 25 May, 1861.
422
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Boston.
charged for
.
.
remained
;
in hospital until dis
23 May, 1862. 26. Ipswich, Mass.
disability,
Wounded
Ipswich.
Farmer.
arm, 3
in
8 Aug.,
1863, at
July,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Gettysburg.
Tailor. 15 May, Leitrim, Ireland. Detailed as company cook, 10 March,
GILLANEY, John. 1861.
1861
.
FOSTER, Samuel P. 1862.
company K, from post of quarter
to
Assigned
master-sergeant,
19.
Boston.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 1863. HARDY, Augustus W. 33. Medway, Mass. House-painter. Detailed as company cook, 25 May, 1861. Franklin. .
.
May, 1861.
Transferred
to Invalid
1
Corps,
July,
1863.
1862.
Ipswich, Mass.
27.
HARRIS, George. Ipswich.
Farmer.
8 Aug.,
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
HAYNES, Amasa. May,
35. 17 Hopkinton, Mass. Shoemaker. 20 Medford. from the rolls, Oct., Dropped
1861.
1862.
HAUBOLDT, William. May, 1861. 1-862, at
31.
Chemnitz, Saxony.
Wounded
Boston.
Cedar Mountain; died
Clerk.
in six places,
in consequence,
25
9 Aug., .
.
Aug.,
1862, at Alexandria.
HAYWARD,
Albert.
May, 1861.
19.
St. John,
Taken
Newton.
Shoemaker.
Oct., 1862.
HOYT, Edward
J.
Farmer.
Brimfield, Mass.
19.
Term
1861.
Northampton. prolonged. charged by order of War Department, 10 June, 1864.
May,
28
4 May, 1862,
Deserted from hospital at Alex
near Harrisonburg, Va. andria, 30
N.B.
prisoner,
14 Dis
W. 21. Shapleigh, Me. Sawyer. 27 Me. Died of chronic diarrhoea, 1861. Shapleigh, May, 25 Nov., 1862, at Philadelphia.
JELLISON, John
JELLISON, Joseph R.
May, 1861.
Mississippi, 18 Feb.,
1862.
22.
Sanford,
Sanford,
Me.
1862
Me.
Detached ;
Shoemaker. to
27
gunboat on the
dropped from the
rolls,
5 Nov.,
423
THE ENLISTED MEN. JEWETT, John
Merchant.
Ipswich, Mass.
31.
J.
8 Aug.,
Wounded in breast, 3 July, 1863, at Ipswich. Gettysburg died in consequence, 5 July, 1863, at Gettys 1862.
;
burg.
JOHNSON, Albert F.
Westminster, Mass.
18.
Chairmaker.
Wounded, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; in consequence, 26 March, 1862. discharged Mechanic. 8 26. Daniel. KIMBALL, Newbury, Mass. 20 May, 1861.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Aug., 1862. Ipswich. 19. John. KNIGHTS, Lyman, Me. Farmer. 28 May, 1861.
Kenuebunk, Me. Frederick,
Died of typhoid
fever, 7 Feb., 1862, at
Md.
32. Shoemaker. 8 Aug., Ipswich, Mass. Wounded in side, 3 July, 1863, at Ipswich. Gettysburg; transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Jan., 1864.
KNOX,
Rufus.
1862.
LANDRIGAN, James R.
Clonnu-1, Ireland.
19.
15 May, 1861.
Moulder.
Discharged for disability
Haydenville. (from accident), 14 Oct., 1861.
LANE, Timothy C. 21. Manchester, N.H. Machinist. 23 Enlisted in Third UnitedMay, 1861. Manchester, N.H. States Artillery, 16 Feb., 1863. LAWLESS, John. 31. Athboy, Ireland.
1861.
Discharged
Stockbridge.
30 May,
Laborer.
for disability,
9 Aug.,
1861.
LE BARON, 1861.
Mobile, Ala.
26.
Charles.
Boston.
Discharged
for
Painter.
disability,
17
30
May, Sept.,
1861.
LIVINGSTONE, Asher.
May, 1861.
Lee.
18.
Canaan, Ct.
Blacksmith.
30
Killed in action, 9 Aug., 1862, at
Cedar Mountain. 20. Galway, Ireland. Operative. 30 Stockbridge. Corporal, 27 Nov., 1861; Wounded in each leg, 9 Aug., sergeant, 15 April, 1862.
LOGAN, William. May, 1861.
1862, at Cedar Nov., 1862.
LORD, Caleb. H.
Mountain 20.
;
discharged in
Ipswich,
Mass.
consequence,
Clerk.
8 Aug.,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
424 1862.
Ipswich.
1863
Oct.,
first
;
Corporal, 1 June, 1863; sergeant, 10 Re-enlisted. sergeant, 27 Nov., 1863.
See Second Term.
LORD, Moses G. 1862.
Aug., 8 Feb., 1864.
LORD,
Cabinet-maker. 8 Ipswich, Mass. Transferred to Invalid Corps, Ipswich. 42.
Ipswich, Mass.
44.
Nathaniel.
1862.
Ipswich.
8 Aug.,
Carpenter.
Discharged for
disability,
Ipswich, Mass.
Shoemaker.
Discharged for
disability,
9
March,
1863. 30.
Low, Winthrop. 1862.
Ipswich.
8 Aug.,
22
Dec.,
1862. 33. Ireland. Laborer. 13 Aug., 1862. LUCY, Daniel. out 28 1864. Mustered May, Ipswich.
22 Steward. London, England. Taken prisoner, 4 May, 1 862, near
24. MARTIN, Henry. Boston. 1861. May,
Harrisonburg, Va.
returned to parole camp
;
discharged
;
for disability, Sept., 1862.
MCCARTHY,
John.
May, 1861.
20.
Cork,
East Boston.
15
Laborer.
Ireland.
Corporal,
27
Nov.,
1861.
Wounded in foot, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; re Died of bronchitis, 28 turned to duty, 29 Nov., 1862. Md.
Dec., 1862, at Frederick,
MCDONALD, May,
John.
Wounded
Lee.
1861.
Chancellorsville
;
Lansingburg, N.Y.
19.
not disabled.
in neck, 3
Farmer.
29
May, 1863,
at
Re-enlisted.
See Second
Term.
McDoxALD, maker.
William.
25.
29 May, 1861.
Lee.
Dover,
England.
Paper-
Corporal, 14 Oct., 1861 ; Wounded in Oct., 1863.
sergeant, 27 Oct., 1862, to 11 hand, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville; returned to duty, 14 Sept. Transferred to Invalid Corps, Jan., 1864.
MclNTOSH, Augustus. 20. Brookline, N.H. Paper-maker. Detailed as company cook, May, 1861. Ashburnham. in 1862.
Corporal,
Second Term.
1
March, 1863.
Re-enlisted.
See
45
THE ENLISTED MEN. Michael.
McMuLLEN, at
23.
Laborer.
Aghrim, Ireland.
Wounded in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, Cedar Mountain. Wounded 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam
11 July, 1861.
Eastern.
;
Dropped from the
never returned.
MILLER, Jacob. 1862.
22.
Baden, Germany.
Boston.
for
Discharged
Aug., 1863. Baker. 17 July,
rolls, in
disability,
26 April,
Farmer.
29 May,
1863.
MINER, Addison 1861.
C.
to 1862.
18.
Lee, Mass.
Detailed as hospital attendant, 31 July, 1861,
Lee.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
29 Fort Ann, N.Y. Machinist. first 1861 1861. 29 Stockbridge. May, Sergeant, May, Died of typhoid fever, 22 Jan., sergeant, 27 June, 1861. 1862, at Alexandria, Va.
Mix, William T.
25.
;
F.
MONTAGUE, Benjamin
40.
Leverett, Mass.
26 May, 1861. Ashland. 1862, at Cedar Mountain. J861.
Bootmaker. 9
in action,
Painter.
Aug.,
20 May,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
Billerica.
MULLANEY, James. 29
Concord, Mass.
19.
MORRIS, George.
Killed
Blacksmith. Ballough, Ireland. Detailed as regimental May, 1862; and 31 July,
31.
May, 1861.
Stockbridge. blacksmith, 7 July, 1861, to 15
1862.
Absent
Detached as brigade blacksmith, 18 Oct., 1862. 28 May, 1864, when mustered out.
in hospital,
MULLANEY,
Michael.
29 May, 1861.
21.
Ballough, Ireland. Stone-cutter. Died of consumption, 27
Stockbridge.
Dec., 1861, at Frederick,
MULLER, John 27
May,
F.
1861.
Md.
Weaver. Crunitschau, Saxony. Boston. Re-enlisted. See Second 32.
Term. 19. John. Farmer. 22 May, Boston, Mass. Charlestown (Chelsea?). Company musician, 22 Re-enlisted. See Second Term. May, 1861. MURRAY, Jeremiah. 21. Dover, N.H. Shoemaker. 13
MUNROE, 1861.
May, 1861.
Salem.
corporal, 4 July, 1862.
1 July, 1861; prisoner at Cedar
Corporal,
Taken
color-
Moun-
426
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
tain; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862.
Enlisted in Third
United-States Artillery, 14 Feb., 1863. 20 31. St. John, N.B. Gasfitter. NEVELLE, James. Wounded in hand, 9 Aug., 1862, May, 1861. Boston. at
Cedar Mountain
Wounded
NICHOLS, William O. Aug., 1862. 1863.
May,
24.
Boston.
Mechanic.
4 June,
for disability,
Discharged
27
Laborer.
Ireland.
Mayo,
8
for disability, 2 April,
Discharged
Ipswich.
1861.
1862.
Oct., ;
Ipswich, Mass.
26.
Patrick.
BoYLE,
7
Gettysburg returned to Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
duty, 9 Dec., 1863.
O
returned to duty,
;
in leg, 3 July, 1863, at
1862. PEASE",
Franklin C.
May, 1861.
Halifax, Mass.
18.
13
Laborer.
Transferred to Invalid Corps,
Northampton.
1 Aug., 1863.
PEELER, Albert May, 1861.
1863, at Chancellorsville
,
Wounded
Vt.
;
Brattleboro
,
in hand, 3
15
May,
returned to duty, 6 Nov., 1863.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. PEELER, David L. 24. Vernon, Vt. 1861.
Farmer.
Springfield, Mass.
21.
S.
Brattleboro
Farmer.
14 May, Re-
Corporal, 11 Oct., 1863.
Vt.
See Second Term.
enlisted.
PERKINS, Lafayette. 20. Manchester, N.H. Farmer. 25 Taken prisoner, 9 Aug., Northampton. May, 1861. 1862, at Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, 23 Oct.,
Wounded
1862.
returned to
in thigh, 3 July, 1863, at
duty,
19
1863.
Oct.,
Gettysburg; See
Re-enlisted.
Second Term.
PETERSEN, Hans P. keeper.
13
May,
41.
1861.
Boston.
Danish service in the war of 1848.
May,
1861, to 27
June,
Book
Copenhagen, Denmark.
1861.
A
in the
soldier
First sergeant, 13
Detached as clerk
in
July, brigade commissary department, 23 July, 1861, to Detailed as regimental armorer, 28 July, 1863. 1863. .
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
.
THE ENLISTED MEN. PHIPPS, Rufus G.
May, 1861.
Framingham, Mass.
24.
Framingham.
Sergeant,
27
Clerk.
May, 1861,
to
company clerk, 15 Jan., 1862. Detached as clerk at General Hospital,.! June, 1862, to 19
29 Dec., 1861.
Detailed as
Detached as clerk
June, 1862.
at division headquarters,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. 43. Rowley, Mass. Teamster.
30 July, 1862.
PICKARD, David. 1862.
Ipswich.
1862.
Wounded
Detailed as
company
cook,
8 Aug., 1
Oct.,
in leg, 3 July, 1863, at
Gettysburg; dis charged in consequence, January, 1864. PORTER, George E. 28. Bridgeport, Conn. Merchandise15 May, 1861. Boston. Sergeant, 15 May, Wounded slightly in leg, 3 May, July, 1861. 1863, at Chancellorsville. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
broker.
1861, to
1
PRATT, John A. 1862.
40.
Company H, 24
Me.
Portland,
Winooski, Vt. Oct.,
11
Dyer.
Aug.,
Company K, from Company musician. Re-
Transferred to 1862.
See Second Term.
enlisted.
RADELL, William. 19. Siockbridge, Mass. Scholar. 29 Enlisted as company musi May, 1861. Stockbridge. 29 Detailed 1861. as adjutant s orderly, cian, May, as Mus 1861; Sept., regimental clerk, 12 May, 1862. tered out 28 May, 1864. RATHBURN, Joseph C. 29. Stockbridge, Mass. Carpenter. 29 May, 1861. Stockbridge. Corporal, 29 May, 1861; .
sergeant, 1 Feb., 1862, to 25 Sept., 1862. 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville.
Killed in action,
RIVERS, Lewis. 24. East Philipsburg, C.E. 23 May, 1861. West Boylston. Corporal, to
27 Nov., 1861
poral.
Re-enlisted.
ROBERT, Leon. 1861. Oct.,
25.
Montreal,
Shoemaker. 1
July, 1861,
and again, Nov., 1862; color-cor See Second Term. .
.
Montreal, C.E.
C.E.
Discharged
25 May, disability, 17
Teacher. for
1861.
ROBERTS, John R. 1861.
;
.
24.
East Boylston.
Sheldon, Vt.
Farmer.
Detached as pioneer
25 May, to
First
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
428
Killed in action,
Division, 6 April, 1862, to 5 Aug., 1862. 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain.
Moulder.
27
Deserted 30 Aug., 1863. 20. Shoemaker. Union, Me.
25
ROBERTSON, John H. 1861.
Batavia, N.Y.
28.
Lowell.
May, ROBINSON, Delano.
May, 1861. Lynn. SANBORN, Wheelock. 18 May, 1861.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
19. Bethlehem, N.H. Mechanic. Wounded in both Manchester, N.H.
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain returned to duty, 4 Nov., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
legs, 9
;
Paper-maker. Barrington, Mass. Detailed as company cook, 3 Oct.,
25. SANGER, Egbert. 29 May, 1861. Lee.
ambulance
1862.
Detailed
1862.
Detached as hospital attendant
June, 1863.
Discharged
SAXTON, Orin D. 1861.
division
to
23.
.
29
Oct.,
Washington, 2
Jan., 1864.
.
15 May,
Farmer.
Stamford, Vt.
Easthampton.
corps, in
Discharged for
disability,
24 April,
27.
Germany.
Baker.
1862.
SCHAEFFER, Frederick. 27 May, 1861.
Wounded charged
Ilsfesdlt,
Detailed bugler,
Chelsea.
in knee, 9 Aug., 1862, at
.
.
Oct., 1861.
Cedar Mountain
;
dis
in consequence, 2 Oct., 1862.
SKINNER, Charles M. Oct., 1861.
Royalston, Vt.
28.
Wounded
Lowell.
Weaver.
14
in shoulder, 9
Aug., 1862, 14 Aug., 1862.
Cedar Mountain; returned to duty, prisoner, 25 July, 1863, near White Plains, Va. mustered out at parole camp, 14 Oct., 1864. 24 SNOOK, John F. 21. Mallow, Ireland. Shoemaker. at
Taken
;
May, 1861. ond Term.
North Abiugton.
SPRINGER, William A. man. 22 May, 1861,
43.
Re-enlisted.
Robbinston,
Campton, N.H.
See Sec
Me. Lumber Taken prisoner,
25 May, 1862, at Winchester; returned to duty, 25 Oct., 1862.
Taken
prisoner, 2
returned to duty,
Second Term.
12
May, 1863,
Oct.,
1863.
at Chancellorsville
Re-enlisted.
;
See
THE ENLISTED MEN. STANDISH, Miles.
Foxboro
28.
429
Mass.
,
Shoemaker.
25
Taken prisoner, 14 Aug., Bridge water. 1862; dropped from the rolls, 17 Oct., 1862; returned; term prolonged mustered out 26 July, 1865. May, 1861.
;
STEVENS, William. 1862.
44.
Discharged
Ipswich.
Me.
Calais,
for
8 Aug., 22 June,
Baker. disability,
1863.
STOCKBRIDGE, Lebbeus.
Hanover, Mass. Farmer. Appointed master wagoner,
35.
Hanover.
25 May, 1861.
Appointed quartermaster-sergeant, 2 Dec., which 1862, position he held until 1 April, 1863, while absent sick. Discharged for disability, 27 Jan., 1864. 3 July, 1861.
Shoemaker. 22 Chelsea, Mass. Enlisted in United-States Artil
SULLIVAN, Timothy. 19. May, 1861. Ashland. lery, 8 Nov., 1862.
TEN NEY, 1862.
Albert.
Ipswich, Mass.
21.
Farmer.
8 Aug.,
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
Ipswich.
TOZER, William H.
27. Shoemaker. 8 Ipswich, Mass. Aug., 1862. Ipswich. Corporal, 21 Nov., 1862; ser Mustered out 28 May, 1864. geant, 27 Nov., 1863.
TULLY, Prescott W. May, 1861.
27.
Lowell.
Billeriea,
Farmer.
Mass.
Detailed wagoner, 5 July,
17
1861.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
TYE, James. 19. Tewksbury, Mass. Laborer. 24 May, 1861. Re-enlisted. See Second Term. Tewksbury. VAIL, John. 1861. 1862,
Taken
19.
Tipperary, Ireland.
Hadley.
when returned
to
14 May,
Printer.
Corporal, 14 May, 1861, the ranks at his
16 June,
to
own
request.
Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain turned to duty, 23 Oct., 1862. Mustered out 28 1864. prisoner, 9
VANCE, Lorin A. 1861.
Lowell.
18.
Antietam; returned See Second Term.
VOLL, Andrew.
Groton, Vt.
Wounded
30.
to duty,
in
4
Farmer.
;
re
May,
October,
hand, 17 Sept., 1862, at
Oct., 1862.
Re-enlisted.
Volkershausen, Saxony.
Brass-fin-
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
430
25 May, 1861.
isher.
war of 1848
A
Boston.
soldier in the service
a corporal
of Saxony for five years,
;
wounded
in the
; English service a year and a half, in the German legion sent to the Crimea. CoVporal, 1 1862. Re-enlisted. See 1861 25 Sept., Aug., sergeant,
also in the
;
Second Term.
WADE, David 1862.
L.
Ipswich, Mass.
41.
Wounded, 3
Ipswich.
8 Aug.,
Carpenter.
July, 1863, at Gettysburg
;
died in consequence, 26 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. WATSON, Thomas. 35. Paisley, Scotland. Machinist. 23 Killed in action, 9 Aug., May, 1861. West Boylston.
1862, at Cedar Mountain.
WEBBER, George H. May, 1861.
WEBER,
Shapleigh, Me.
32.
8 Aug.,
17
See Second Term. Southboro
20.
1863, at Chancellorsville
;
,
Mass.
Wounded
Manchester.
Re-enlisted.
15
Detailed as company cook, Nov.,
Boston. July, 1862. 1863. Re-enlisted.
May, 1861.
Bootmaker.
Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Baker. 22. Baden, Germany.
Ipswich. Frederick.
WELCH, Thomas.
Farmer.
See Second Term.
Re-enlisted.
Chicopee.
WEBBER, Moses. 1862.
Chicopee, Mass.
19.
18 Operative. 3 May,
in breast,
returned to duty, 30 July, 1863.
See Second Term.
26. North Adams, Mass. WHITE, William L. Papermaker. 29 May, 1861. South Lee. Corporal, 29 May,
14 Oct., 1861 ; first sergeant, 27 Oct., arm, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville; transferred to Invalid Corps, 15 Nov., 1863.
1861
1862.
;
sergeant,
Wounded
in
WHITEHEAD, Benjamin. 19 May, 1861. 3 Feb., 1862.
19.
Barrington, Mass.
Painter.
Discharged for
disability,
Stockbridge.
Laborer. 29 Lee, Mass. in chest, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam; discharged in consequence, 6 March, 1863.
WILSON, Alexander May, 1861. Lee.
C.
25.
Wounded
THE ENLISTED MEN
431
SECOND TERM.
THE MEN OF THE SECOND TERM OF SERVICE. 1
COMPANY
A.
VETERANS.
DUNNELL, Charles
S.
musician.
Company
Absent
sick, at
Worcester, Mass., 27 July, 1865, when mustered out.
HARLOW, Edwin.
Transferred,
1
July, 1864, to E, which
see.
1
of
It will
all
be understood that the following list does not include the names in service during the time covered by the second term,
men who were
which began the
men
Jan., 1864, and, of course, not all casualties. who entered the service in 1861,
1
not re-enlisting,
28 May, 1864; and that of some of those
who
The term of continued to
enlisted in 1862 continued for
Those who enlisted in the three full years, and of course into the year 1865. autumn of 1S61 were held only to the conclusion of the regular term ending in
May, 1864.
Those who enlisted
the Secretary of
War
in the
in 1862, prior to the date of 3 despatch of
summer, were held
for three full years,
notwith
standing they enlisted on an agreement with the mustering officer that they were to serve only until the expiration of the regular term. The Government, in 1864, repudiated the contract of
its
own
officers.
-In the
summer
of 1862,
Governor Andrew, to assure all enlisting men, communicated with the War Department, and received a reply from the Secretary of War, agreeing to But when the time came to muster out, in 1864, it was diffi this plan. When it was cult to convince the War Department of such an agreement. convinced, it insisted that the agreement was not a general one, covering the enlistments taking place at that time, although its officers had so pledged ;
but could operate only on those enlisted subsequently to that date. Hence the list of men in the first term of service includes quite a number who con tinued on in the period of the second term, and made the regiment larger than this list would cause it to appear. When no date of muster-out is given,
"26
July,
1865,"
is
to
be understood.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
43
Sergeant, 1 July, 1864 first sergeant, 1865. July, Appointed second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, Mus but not mustered in. See Commissioned Officers.
HASTINGS, Charles.
;
1
tered out 26 July, 1865. T. Sergeant. Detached on recruiting First lieutenant, 24 May, 1864. service, 13 April, 1864.
McALPiNE, William
See Commissioned Officers. MILKS, William H. Sergeant sergeant-major, 15 July, See Commis 1864; first lieutenant, 15 April, 1865. ;
sioned Officers.
PENDERGAST, Richard.
First
sergeant.
Wounded
in
arm, 20 Dec., 1864, in S.C. First lieutenant, to date from 23 Oct., 1864. See Commissioned Officers.
TRIPP, James E.
WILSON,
Deserted 22 Feb., 1864.
Foster.
Corporal, 1 July, 1864; sergeant, Mustered out 26 July, 1865.
1864.
1 Oct.,
RECRUITS.
Seaman. ACKLEY, George W. 31. East Machias, Me. Sick 28 May, 1864. East Machias, Me. Lanesboro * Tenn.
in hospital, Nashville,
BABCOCK,
Frederick.
22.
No
further record.
Schenectady,
maker, 1 June, 1864. Schenectady, N.Y. Deserted 5 July, 1864.
BARTSH, Emil.
New
York.
cester,
22.
20.
at Worcester,
24 June, 1864.
disability, at
The same
20.
order of items
Me.
Wor
Seaman.
Westminster.
No
Mass.
BERRY, Charles 0.
is
11 June, Sick in hospital,
further record. Pittsfield,
Mass.
Machinist.
8
observed as noted on page 298, with the
whose quota the man was assigned. East Machias, Me.," which denotes the residence, is Lanes which denotes the town on whose quota Ackley enlisted.
addition of the
Thus, after ,"
Jonesport,
Jonesport, Me.
1864.
boro
Merchant.
Discharged for
Cigar-
Tewksbury.
25 May, 1865.
BEAL, Edward.
1
Germany.
Dudley.
N.Y.
"
name
of
town or
city to
"
THE ENLISTED MEN June. 1864.
No
Pittsfield.
in the
433
Corporal, 27 Dec.
Salisbury.
Taken prisoner
1864.
SECOND TERM.
North-Carolina campaign-
further record.
BIERMAN, Ludwig.
New
1864.
BOCHMEK,
23.
York.
Albert.
1864.
Chelsea.
No
19.
Taken prisoner in the further record. 27 June, Shopkeeper. Clerk at brigade head
Germany.
Boston.
Holyoke. quarters, at Washington, D.C.
BRYAN, Henry. Boston.
26.
6 July,
Deserted 15 Aug., 1864. Germany. Druggist. 10 May,
North-Carolina campaign.
BOHRDT,
Farmer.
Germany.
Chelsea.
Frederick.
New
1864.
30.
York.
Mustered
out.
29 July, 1864. Mustered out 26 July, 1865. Moulder. 1 June, Tipperary, Ireland.
Germany.
Soldier.
Shrewsbury.
CASEY, John.
23.
1864.
Jersey City, N.J. Tewksbury. July, 1864. 19. COKTHEN, Arthur. Prussia. Clerk. Chelsea.
Deserted 6
16
May, 1864.
Chelsea.
Corporal, 27 Dec., 1864. Wounded, 22 July, 1864, in front of Atlanta. Wounded in thigh,
severely, 16 March, 1865, at Averysborough. at Worcester, 26 when
June,
1865,
In hospital
discharged for dis
ability.
COLLINS, Richard. Boston.
Ireland.
Sailor. 7 June, 1864. Deserted 16 Sept., 1864. Bavaria. Clerk. 18 July, 1864.
Northampton.
ERHART, Emil. Bavaria.
FORCE,
31.
Silas.
25.
No
Amesbury.
further record.
23
28 Nov., 1864. Medway. Mustered out 26 July, 1865. HALPIN, Thomas. 20 5 May, 1864. Bos
Medway.
ton.
Stockbridge.
Discharged for
disability,
15
May,
1865.
HANLEY(Hadley?).
25.
Ireland.
Soldier. 7 June, 1864. Deserted 16 Sept., 1864. 19. HARRIS, Benjamin F. Jan., 1865. Lowell. Lowell Mustered out 26 July, 1865. HAUG, John. 20. Germany. Laborer. 18 June, 1864.
New York.
Northampton.
......
28
n
434
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
New
York.
Holyoke.
No
Carolina campaign.
HAYWARD, James A.
Taken prisoner in the Northfurther record. 25 April, Clerk. Corporal, 25 June, 1865.
Boston.
18.
1864.
Boston. Campello. Mustered out 26 July, 1865.
...
HAYWARD, William Deserted 4 April, 1865.
HOLLAND, 1864.
.
HOMNAUG
Charles. .
.
New
19.
R.I.
Prussia.
22 July,
Spinner.
Mustered
out.
(Horning, Adj.-Gen.), Frederick.
30 June, 1864.
Clerk.
York.
Chelsea.
Prussia.
21.
Deserted
Holyoke.
8 Aug., 1864. HOWARD, William.
26. Laborer. 8 June, England. Taken prisoner in the Albany, N.Y. Boylston. North-Carolina campaign. Discharged, 12 June, 1865,
1864.
by order of War Department. 35. Sweden. JOHNSON, William. 1864.
Seaman.
No
Lee.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
29 June,
further record.
21. ... Locksmith. 17 Aug., Christopher. West Springfield. Boston. Disharged 29 June,
KERNER, 1864. 1865.
KINEMAN, KLEIN,
New KOLBB,
20.
Carlos.
New York.
30.
York. 25.
further record.
30 June, Waiter. Deserted 8 Aug., 1864. Wiirtemberg. Tailor. 14 July, 1864.
25.
Philadelphia, Penn. 33. LORENZ, Franz.
1865.
No
Switzerland.
Roxbury.
No
Wellfleet.
KUNZ, Ferdinand.
Boston.
Germany.
Shelburne.
Francis.
KRATT, Joseph.
New
York.
York.
1864.
Clerk. 30 June, 8 Deserted Roxbury. Aug., 1864. Baker. 20 1864. June, Germany.
23.
Charles.
New
1864.
...
New .
.
.
further record.
Merchant.
Marlboro
.
Soldier.
20 Dec., 1864.
Mustered 16 Aug.,
out.
1864.
Prisoner, 12 Feb., 1865, to March, Mustered out 26 July, 1865. Chelsea.
...
MAHONY, Timothy Joined for duty, 8 Jan., 1865.
Mustered
out.
THE ENLISTED MEN MCLAUGHLIN, Michael .
.
Deserted
.
McMEE,
Alexander.
June, 1864. Aug., 1864.
MOORE,
John.
New
Blacksmith.
Scotia.
Died
Dudley.
in
hospital,
13
17
Laborer. 18 June, Deserted 18 Sept., 1864. 23. Farmer. 13 July, Jeffersonville, Ind. York. Wellneet. Mustered out. Switzerland.
20.
Chelsea.
23. Joseph. Chelsea.
MORO,
Nova
25.
Erie, Penn.
1864.
.
Ireland.
MILLER, John. 1864.
.
435
M
S. .
SECOND TERM.
Corsica.
Wounded
Soldier.
May, 1864.
6
"
Corsica.
Honorably
mentioned,"
30 July,
16 March, 1865, at Averysborough. In hospital at Worcester, 30 May, 1865, when discharged 1864.
in leg,
for disability.
20.
NEVILLE, Patrick. Brooklyn, N.Y.
NICHOLS, Thomas H.
May, 1864. 1864.
18.
Elgin, C.E. Richard. 22.
PEHMOLLER,
Boston.
RAND, David
C.
.
37.
.
.
.
.
.
20.
Chesterfield.
.
Butcher.
In hospital, 26 July,
Lowell.
Germany.
Clerk.
11 July, 1864.
Deserted 7 June, 1865.
Salisbury.
.
out.
Clerk.
Germany.
SCHMIDTGREELER (Schnudgueder, .
Mustered
22 July, Deserted 15 Aug., 1864. Gas-manufacturer. Salem, Mass.
26 Feb., 1864. Lowell. 1865, when mustered out.
SCHMIDT, Joseph.
Laborer. 11 June, 1864. Deserted 17 Sept., 1864. Nova Scotia. Farmer. 5
Ireland.
Chelsea.
14
Sept.,
1864.
24 (Adj.- Gen.), John. Boston. Lowell.
Taken prisoner; was wounded, March, 1865
(leg
ampu
attempting to escape from prison at -Florence, discharged for disability, 25 May, 1866 (1865?).
tated), in
S.C.
;
SCHULER, Frederick. 25. ... Plumber. 17 Aug., 1864. West Springfield. Boston. Deserted 17 June, 1865. 29. Tinsmith. 7 May, SCHULTZ, Edmund. Germany. 1864. ville.
Boston.
No
Chelsea.
SEPPELLER, Richard. Boston.
Sick in
hospital at
Nash
further record.
Chicopee.
26.
...
Clerk.
1
Nov., 1864.
Mustered out 26 July, 1865.
436
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
SHERWOOD,
Boatman.
2 June, Deserted 5 July,
Canada.
21.
Charles.
Canada West.
1864.
Southbridge.
1864.
SIEGRIST, John. 1864. Boston.
.
Averysborough discharged 20. SMITH, James. Chelsea. Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
.
SOLOMON, Maurice.
New
1864.
.
36.
.
30 June, 1864.
Hatter.
Germany.
Wounded
Holyoke.
.
25 June,
Carpenter. Germany. Mustered out.
Royalston. 28.
SMITH, Henry. .
22.
in leg, 16
March, 1865, at consequence, 30 May, 1865.
in
11
Laborer.
No
June,
1864.
further record.
Poland.
11
Machinist.
May,
Corporal, 27 Aug.,
York.
Stockbridge. Mustered out. 1864. Sergeant, 27 Dec., 1864. 20. SOMMERS, Henry. Germany. Clerk. 10 Aug., 1864. Philadelphia, Penn.
SPEISER, Henry. Boston.
21.
Lowell.
Deserted
Germany.
Tinsmith.
Northampton.
No
.
.
.
8 June, 1864.
further record.
23 Car-maker. STOWE, Henry A. 26. Nova Scotia. In hospital, 1 June, Maiden. May, 1864. P.E. Island. 1865, when discharged.
THOMPSON, William.
21.
Jersey City, N.J.
1864.
Ireland.
Chelsea.
Steward.
5
July,
Deserted 8 Aug.,
1864.
WARREN,
Michael.
21.
Rondout, N.Y.
1864.
Ireland.
Holyoke.
Laborer.
30 June,
Deserted 2
Dec.,
1864.
WEBER,
John.
Boston.
Nineteenth
39.
Germany.
Royalston.
New
Seaman.
25 June, 1864.
Claimed by One Hundred and
York, 11 Sept., 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN
437
SECOND TERM.
COMPANY
B.
VETERANS.
BOWLEY, Leander G.
Appointed first ser Sergeant. geant, 1 July, 1864; second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but
not mustered
See Commissioned
in.
Officers.
Mustered
out.
CLARK, William W. which
Transferred,
CRESSON, James F.
GOULD,
on re-enlisting to
K,
see.
John.
Mustered
Wounded
out.
in arm, severely, 22 June, 1864,
Kenesaw, and sent to General Hospital consequence, 24 May, 1865. at
Mustered
GREEN, William R.
HORGAN,
;
discharged in
out.
Deserted 22 Feb., 1864.
Michael.
JOHNSON, Thomas.
Color-corporal. Sergeant, 2 June, Deserted 26 1864, and color-sergeant to 25 June, 1865. June, 1865.
Charles H. Transferred Wounded PETERSEN, Andrew S.
NEWMAN,
March, 1865,
at
Averysborough.
to C, in
which
see.
elbow, severely, 16
Absent
in hospital,
26
July, 1865, when mustered out. Was mustered out 28 REARDON, Daniel. re-enlisted, 9 Sept., 1864, in the 1
Feb.,
1865, to
universal good
5 June,
1865,
"for
;
Wounded
Averysborough
again,
Mustered out 9 June, 1865. Corporal, 1 July, 1864 sergeant, 10 Sept.,
conduct."
SMITH, Reuben. 1864.
... 1865;
May, 1864, but same company. Corporal,
;
in
arm, severely, 16
in hospital,
March, 1865, at 26 July, 1865, when mustered
out.
TAYLOR, George L. (John ?).
No
further record.
Detailed to ambulance corps.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
438
RECRUITS. John.
ALEXANDER, Canada.
... Laborer. 28 June, 1864. no Sick in hospital at Nashville
24.
Holyoke.
;
further record.
ALLA,
24.
Christian.
14 July, 1864.
Farmer.
Germany.
Mustered out. Roxbury. BARTLETT, Wesley L. 18. Windsor, Mass. Laborer. 21 Middlefield. Middlefield. Mustered out, Dec., 1863. Thompsonville, Ct.
BILLINGS, Thomas E. 1863.
Farmer.
Lynnfield, Mass. Leominster. Lunenburg. 18.
Dec., 3 March, 1864, to D, which see. 19. BLISS, George. 1863. Middlefield.
BORRIS, Thomas.
Ct.
Seymour,
Middlefield.
Transferred,
Farmer.
Mustered
Laborer.
Ireland.
25.
9
21 Dec., out.
14 May, 1864.
In penitentiary at Nashville, when the regiment was mustered out. BROWN, Lebricht. 22. ... Soldier. 14 July, 1864. New Boston.
York.
Dorchester.
Boston.
Mustered
Douglas.
BRUNS, Wilhelm.
22.
Plymouth. Mustered
April, 1865.
BURTON, Abraham. Boston.
36.
out.
1 Aug., 1864. Clerk. 27 Prisoner, Nov., 1864, to 27
Germany. out.
...
Joiner.
Mustered
Roxbury.
1
Nov., 1864-
out.
20. 31 Laborer. Boston, Mass. BUTLER, Henry C. 18 Winchendon. Deserted Boston. 1864. Aug., May,
1864.
CALLAHAN, John. 1864.
CARROLL,
Boston. Patrick.
24.
Boston, Mass.
Templeton. 21.
...
Lowell.
Jersey City, N.J. ment was mustered out.
Laborer.
Mustered
8 July,
out.
11 Aug., 1864. Cooper. In hospital when the regi
COLLINS, George. 33. Colchester, Vt. Cabinet-maker. 31 Died of Brookline. Colchester, Vt. March, 1864. N.C. at 26 March, 1865, disease, Goldsborough,
THE ENLISTED MEN
DE FORNEY (De
Ferong, Adj.- Gen.), Edward M. 5 July, 1864. Hungary.
Aus
28.
Architect.
tria.
439
SECOND TERM.
Lynn.
Deserted 23 Nov., 1864. Corporal, 10 Sept., 1864. 29 June, 31. Prussia. Julius. DIETRICH, Surgeon. 1864.
Died of
Barre.
Prussia.
disease,
31
Aug.,
1864, in division hospital.
Farmer.
Canada.
39.
DUNKIN, George.
FAGAN, George.
18.
Feb., 1864.
Boston.
July, 1864.
1
Died of
South Danvers. Cario (Cairo?), N.Y. ease, 15 Sept., 1864, at Atlanta.
dis
Porter. 19 Cambridge, Mass. Dedham. Deserted 26 June,
1865.
E
FUNEY, joined
;
. D. Appears, by monthly report, as having but no further record. .
.
.
GREGG, Thomas.
Boatman.
23 Dec., 1864.
Deserted 26 June, 1865. Germany. Carpenter. 28 July,
Shelburne. 22.
HANSON, Randolph. 1864.
...
37.
Oswego, N.Y.
Winchendon.
Prussia.
HEANY, James. Newberg, N.Y.
Deserted 17 Jan., 1865. 1 June, 1864.
Farmer.
Ireland.
44.
Died on the march,
Kingston.
15
Feb., 1865.
HOLLINGS WORTH, Alexander A. Clerk.
Sent
to
7 July, 1865. HOUGHTON, Josiah Dec.,
18.
S.
Leominster.
3 March, 1864, to D, which see. KAMM, John. 26. ... Baker.
Indies.
LYNCH, Richard.
19.
1864.
Utica, N.Y.
1865,
when mustered Daniel H.
June, 1864. 1865.
Farmer.
9
Transferred,
12 July, 1864.
Ger
Deserted 26 Nov., 1864.
Wellfleet.
MADDEN,
West
Chelsea, Mass.
Leominster.
1863.
many.
21.
J.
28 April, 1864. New Jersey. Roxbury. hospital, 12 Sept., 1864, and there mustered out,
Utica,
N.Y.
Leicester.
23 June, Driver. In hospital, 26 July,
out.
21.
Fall River.
Fall River, Mass. Chelsea.
Soldier.
14
Deserted 25 June,
440
MARX,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. Peter.
40.
James.
MCCARTHY, Boston.
24.
35.
Brunswick, N.J.
John.
June, 1864. Aug., 1864. 20.
out.
Soldier.
18
Mustered
out.
Albany, N.Y. Boston. York.
21.
New
11
NITZ, William.
Prussia.
Wellfleet.
MYERS (Meyers ?),
O
Mustered
Charlestown.
MILLER, Henry.
1864.
Tailor. 12 Aug., 1864. Deserted 23 Sept., 1864. ... Laborer. 26 Jan., 1865.
Germany.
Westminster.
Boston.
July,
1864.
Coppersmith. Deserted 21
25 June, Blacksmith. Killed in action, 16 March,
Germany.
Prussia.
Royalston. 1865, at Averysborough. 23. Nova Scotia. NEILL, John.
June, 1864. Aug., 1864.
St.
PETERSON, John.
John
...
21.
Harvard.
Hartford, Ct.
Silver-plater.
RILEY, Thomas. 1864.
Laborer.
Mustered
Dorchester. 21.
England.
Fall River.
23 June, 1864.
Transferred, Aug., 1864,
Thirty-third Massachusetts. REARDON, Thomas. 33. ...
Boston.
No occupation. 9 Chelsea. Deserted 1
N.B.
s,
to
12 Nov., 1864.
out.
14 June, Deserted 21 Aug.,
Shoemaker.
Northampton.
1864.
ROBERTS, Thomas. 1864.
New
31 Dec., 1863. ville,
Chelsea.
W.
ROBBINS, Charles
7 July, Carpenter. England. Deserted 13 Aug., 1864.
20.
York.
19.
Pittsfield.
Ky., on the
way
ROBBINS, George R.
1864.
Boston.
18.
RYAN, John. 1864.
20.
21.
Died
Farmer. at
Louis
Middlefield, Mass. Middlefield.
Farmer.
Corporal, 10
Albany, N.Y. Farmer. 19 May, Deserted 15 July, 1864.
Sutton.
Patterson, N.J.
Patterson, N.J.
Jan., 1865.
Middlefield.
to the regiment.
31 Dec., 1863. Pittsfield. Aug., 1864. Mustered out.
ROBINSON, John.
Middlefield, Mass.
Machinist.
Northampton.
6 June,
Deserted 18
THE ENLISTED MEN SMITH,
FRANK
name, Peter ("true Boston. 27 July, 1864.
Clerk.
441
SECOND TERM. 23.
Millen").
.
.
.
Died
Winchendon.
of disease, 19 Nov., 1864, at Chattanooga. Ireland. Baker. 21. SMITH, Henry. New York. Northampton. Corporal, 13 Nov., 1864. Mustered out.
SMITH, James. 1864.
New
28.
York.
Patterson, N.J.
8 1
Sept., 1864, to
10 May,
Blacksmith.
Wounded
Chelsea.
1864.
June,
in
(leg amputated). 16
thigh
March, 1865, at Averysborough in hospital, 26 July, 1865, when mustered out. SMITH (Sinidt, Adj. -Gen.), John. 20. Ireland. Farmer. 2 June, 1864. 15 July, 1864.
SMITH, John. ada.
19.
;
Quebec, C.E.
...
SULLIVAN, Florence.
New
1864.
Caulker.
No
Princeton.
17 June, 1864.
Ireland.
Barre.
Sent
Laborer.
29 June,
to hospital, 13 Sept.,
In hospital at Evansville, Ind., when mustered out.
1864.
SYLVIA, John. 30. Italy. Sailor. 16 Dec., 1863. Brookline. Discharged; no date given. TAVEY, J
Can
further record.
21.
York.
Deserted
Southbridge.
.
.
.
D.
Joined,
as
by monthly
report,
Italy.
but no
further record.
VAN METER,
Charles E.
22.
Frankfort,
14 May, 1864. Staten Island, N.Y. Deserted 4 Nov., 1864.
WILKINSON, Benjamin A. 1864.
Sharon.
WILLIAMS, David.
18.
Boston. 21.
Student.
Farmer.
Mustered
25 April,
out.
London, Eng. Sawyer. 7 July, Winchendon. Deserted 17
Philadelphia, Penu. 1864. Aug.,
1864.
...
Ky.
South Hadley.-
44
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
COMPANY
C.
VETERANS.
Wounded in leg, 15 May, 1864, at Sylvester P. Buried at Resaca, and died in consequence, 25 May.
ABORN,
Chattanooga.
BAILEY, Edwin A.
BURNHAM, Amos
Mustered
P.
out.
Mustered
Corporal.
out.
CASEY, David.
Sergeant. Commissary-sergeant, 1 July, and meritorious services." See Non-com long
1864, "for missioned Staff.
CLOONEY, John Feb., 1864.
J.
Mustered
DUFFY, James.
;
out.
W.
First sergeant, 5 June, Sergeant. second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not mustered in.
EDWARDS, 1865
Deserted 22
musician.
Company
Afterwards enlisted elsewhere.
Charles
See Commissioned
GILD AY, Edward.
GOULD, Benjamin F.
Mustered
Officers.
Mustered
out.
out.
Wagoner
in January, 1865.
Mus
tered out.
Mustered
HENNESY, David. JUNKHE, Charles.
out.
June, 1864.
Corporal, 2
Mustered
out.
KENDALL, Webster A. Mustered
KNEELAND, LARRY,
M.
Josiah
Mustered
out.
Deserted 11 Nov., 1864.
Daniel.
MAGEE, William. MAGUIRE, James. Mustered
Transferred from F, on re-enlisting.
out.
Mustered
out.
Corporal.
Sergeant, 2 June, 1864.
out.
Mustered out. MAYNARD, William W. John. MCCARTHY, Corporal, 15 July, 1865.
Mustered
1864, to 22 June,
out.
MOORE, William A. MORGAN, William F.
Mustered Sergeant.
out.
Mustered
out.
THE ENLISTED MEN
May, at
March, 1865,
NEWMAN,
Averysborough.
Charles H.
in action,
443
Wounded Corporal, 2 June, 1864. in Killed at Resaca. action, 16 1864,
MURRAY, James M. in wrist, 15
SECOND TERM.
Transferred to
C
from B.
Killed
16 March, 1865, at Averysborough.
Mustered
OLIVER, John H.
PIERCE, John B. PRESCOTT, James M. Mustered
out.
Deserted 22 Feb., 1864. Mustered out.
PEABODY, David.
Transferred from D, on re-enlisting.
out.
REGAN, John. Discharged ROWE, John M. Corporal.
for disability,
30 June, 1865.
Wounded, 15 May, 1864, at consequence, 5 June. Buried at Chat
Resaca, and died in tanooga.
SHEA, John
Corporal, 5 June, 1865.
J.
Deserted 3 July,
1865. Hospital attendant, January, 1865.
STEWART, John.
Mus
tered out. First sergeant to 5 June, 1865, STRAFFORD, James M. when made sergeant in absence. Discharged, in hospital,
26 June, 1865.
TENNEY,
Transferred from K, on re-enlisting. 20 July, 1864, at Peach-tree Creek.
Albert.
Wounded
in breast,
Mustered
out.
WALLACE, Thomas
(D.
Discharged for
?).
disability,
Hospital attendant, Jan., 1865. 30 June, 1865.
RECRUITS.
ANDERSON, James. England.
DINSDALE, George. 1864.
England.
HAGERTY, John. Albany, N.Y.
England. Soldier. 1 July, 1864. Deserted 13 Aug., 1864. 32. 29 June, Soldier. England. Harvard. Deserted 13 Aug., 1864.
25.
Barre.
23.
Ireland.
Templeton.
Laborer.
Mustered
27 June, 1864. out.
444
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
HAYDEN, Charles. 24. England ... Absent in hospital. No LAMANT,
New
22.
Joseph.
1864.
Clothier.
Belgium.
Mustered
York.
.
.
.
further record.
16 July, 1864. out.
Northampton. ... Harness-maker.
23.
19 July, 1864.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Deserted 22 June, 1865. Beverly. Mechanic. 23. Westminster, Mass.
LANE, John.
MERRIAM, Wilder. 20 Feb., 1864.
No
ade band.
Detached
Gardner.
Gardner.
to brig
further record.
F
... ... 1864. Company K, which see. MORAN, Thomas. 21. New York. ... 25 June, 1864. Wounded in leg, 3 South Hadley. Brooklyn, N.Y,
MILES, John
Transferred to
Aug., 1864, in front of Atlanta;
in hospital;
no further
record.
MUNSON,
John.
22.
...
Boston.
EOGERS, William.
New York. Plasterer. 9 June, 1864. Deserted 22 June, 1865. Miner. 21. Schuylkill County, Penn.
North Brookfield. 29 June, 1864. Pottsville, Penn. Deserted 22 June, 1865. KYAN, William. 21. Elizabethport, N.J. Boatman. 16 Elizabethport, N.J.
June, 1864.
North Brookfield.
Mus
tered out.
SCANLAN, Salem.
29.
Patrick.
Northampton.
...
Laborer.
Mustered
29 Aug., 1864.
out.
Wirtemberg, Germany. Watch Boston. Northampton. July, Taken prisoner in the North-Carolina campaign. Mustered
SCHNEIDER, maker.
Albert.
21.
16
1864.
out.
SPENCER, John. July, 1864. tered out.
WILTON, 1864.
No
5 Machinist. 24. Wilmington, Del. Mus South Danvers. Wilmington, Del.
Harris.
Quebec, C.E. South Hadley.
22.
Boston.
further record.
Seaman. 23 June, Absent in hospital.
THE ENLISTED MEN
SECOND TERM.
COMPANY
445
D.
VETERANS. Mustered out. ANDERSON, John E. Sergeant. BERRIGAN, Kerin. Died, 24 Feb., 1864, at Albany, N.Y., when the regiment was returning to the field. Mustered
BILLINGS, Alfred. BLIVEN, Arthur J.
out.
Mustered
Sergeant.
Mustered out. BOOTH, Alvin O. A. BRUCE, George Corporal, 1
out.
July, 1864, to 13 Nov.,
1864; corporal again, 1 Jan., 1865, to 28 June, 1865. Mustered out. CROSBY, Reuben G. Hospital attendant, January, 1865. Mustered out. CURTIS, George
Mustered
S.
EAGER, William O. FITZGIBBON, James
HEALD,
Charles
out.
Mustered C.
H.
out.
Corporal.
Corporal.
Mustered
out.
Transferred,
28 May,
1864, to G, which see. HOUGHTON, Albert. Commissary
department, 26 April, North- Carolina campaign, 20 March, 1865, to 30 March, 1865. Mustered out, 12 June, 1865, by General Order 77. 1864.
Prisoner in
the
Mustered out. IHGRAM, Gilbert B. Mustered out. KING, Edward H. KING, Ossian M. -* Corporal. Sergeant, First sergeant, 1 July, 1865.
1864, at Resaca.
Mustered
Wounded
Jan.,
Appointed hospital steward, See Non-commissioned Staff.
LEAHY, Richard.
Mustered
1865;
May,
out.
KINSMAN, Frederick. 1865.
1
in thigh, 15
1
April,
out.
Mustered out. LITCHFIRLD, Charles D. O BRIEN, James. Deserted 23 June, 1865. PRESCOTT, James M. Transferred, on
re-enlisting, to
which
see.
C,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
446
REED, William H.
Transferred, 1 July, 1864, to G, which
see.
Taken prisoner at Waynesboro , 2 arrived at Feb., 1865; parole camp, 28 March, 1865. Mustered out 12 June, 1865.
SHATTUCK, Danforth.
Wounded in foot, 15 Sergeant. First lieutenant, 7 July, 1864.
THOMPSON, Jedediah C. May, 1864, at Resaca. See Commissioned
Officers.
First sergeant. TIIURSTON, Thomas B. 1 July, 1865. See Non-commissioned
Sergeant-major, Staff.
TOOMBS, William D.
Corporal, 15 July, ferred 30 Jan., 1865, to G, which see.
Transferred, on re-enlisting, from K.
WEBBER, George H. Taken
Trans
1864.
Mus
prisoner in the North-Carolina campaign.
tered out.
RECRUITS. (Olsten?), Peter. 25. ... Sailor. 23 June, 1864. Deserted 30 July, 1864. Boston. Dudley.
ALSEN
ALSTON, Michael.
22.
Boston.
Quincy. BILLINGS, Thomas E. B.
.
.
Boatman.
.
15 June, 1864.
No
further report. Transferred, 3 March, 1864, from
In hospital, at Jeffersonville, Ind., 26 July, 1865, when
mustered
out.
BOHS, Bernhard. Boston.
BLACK,
22.
Robert.
Kingston, C.W. BRADY, James.
21.
Lynn.
1864.
...
21.
Montreal, C.E.
BUCHER,
Germany.
Siegfried.
6 July, 1864.
Deserted 23 Sept., 1864. 12 July, 1864. Carpenter.
Mustered out. Beverly. 24. Farmer. Switzerland. Harwich.
Switzerland.
CARNEY, William. CARROLL, Michael. Baltimore, Md.
Painter.
Transferred to K, which see. ... Shoemaker, 12 July, 1864.
Chelsea.
No
record.
21.
...
Chelsea.
Mustered
20 July,
out.
Deserted 31 July, 1864. 7 July, 1864. Farmer. Deserted 8
Aug
.,
1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN CLAFFY, John.
...
19.
FOLEY, James. 1864.
30.
John
St.
John
St.
N.B.
s,
18 Feb., 1865.
Laborer.
Mustered
Worcester.
ton.
447
SECOND TERM.
Bos
out.
N.B.
s,
23 July,
Sailor.
Died of disease
Chelsea.
in
Douglas Hospital, 24 June, 1865.
GAYNOR,
Patrick.
Boston.
...
35.
Boston. July, 1864. March, 1865.
A.
Charles
HATCH,
July, 1864. HEPPEL, Carl. ton.
...
26.
3 Oct., 1864.
Machinist.
Deserted 25 June,
Josiah S.
29
Bos
1865."
Farmer.
Chelsea, Mass.
18.
Leominster.
1863.
Dec.,
Clerk. Andover, Mass. Eastham. Mustered out.
21.
Boston.
Roxbury.
HOUGHTON,
out.
16 Stone-cutter. Germany. Deserted 1 1 North Andover.
19.
GEISSLER, Eugene.
23 June, 1864.
Clerk.
Mustered
Boston.
Leominster.
9
Transferred
from B, 3 March, 1864. Mustered out, Deserted 8 Aug., 1864. JONES, Everett. .
LANGE, Adolph. Boston.
.
.
...
26.
Roxbury.
MATONE, Johann Boston.
Peter.
Painter.
3 Oct., 1864.
out.
Boatman. 25 Toronto, N.Y. Leverett. Deserted 23 Sept.,
19.
New York.
July, 1864.
Nov., 1864.
1
out.
...
36.
Mustered
Roxbury.
McNANNY, Thomas.
Bookbinder.
Mustered
1864.
MELEY, James. MOORE, Thomas. July,
1864.
.
.
Deserted 4 Aug., 1864.
.
York County, Penn. Farmer. 22 Deserted Louis, Mo. Northampton.
21.
St.
23 Sept., 1864.
MULLOY,
Patrick.
Lowell.
PARKER, John M. July,
26.
1864.
...
No
Harvard. 18.
Moulder.
20 July, 1864.
further record.
Pittsfield,
Worthington.
Mass.
Worthington.
Farmer.
25
Mustered
out.
SHOOTMETER .
.
.
25. (Schattonuller, Schattmuller?), Ignatz. 6 Aug., 1864. Chelsea. Germany.
Teamster.
In hospital, 26 July, 1865, when mustered out.
448
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
SHOTT, John.
...
32.
son, N.J.
Butcher.
5 July, 1864.
Patter
Deserted 8 Aug., 1864. WASNER, Heinrich. 26. ... Butcher. 29 June, 1864. Barre. Deserted 8 Aug., 1864. Germany.
WATERMAN,
Lynn.
John.
20.
Newark, July, 1864. serted 11 Nov., 1864.
Machinist. 14 Newark, N.J. North Brookfield. De
N.J.
COMPANY
E.
VETERANS.
DUNTON, Alonzo E.
Sergeant to 22 June, 1864.
Deserted
3 Aug., 1864.
HARLOW, Edwin
A.
First sergeant, 1
Transferred from A, 1 July, 1864. second lieutenant, 3 July,
July, 1864;
1865, but not mustered
Mustered
See Commissioned
in.
Officers.
out.
Was
MATHER, Samuel A. but re-enlisted 15
Au<*.,
mustered out 28 May, 1864, Mustered out 11 June,
1864.
1865.
RECRUITS. 22. New Jersey. Brickmaker. 28 June, Deserted 12 Brainbridge, N.J. Holyoke.
ARTER, Robert. 1864.
New
Aug., 1864. BROWN, James. ell.
BROWN, ton.
Lowell.
John.
...
23.
Tailor.
16 July, 1864.
Deserted 25 June, 1865. 25. Seaman, 25 June, 1864. .
Swampscott. 21. BUTLER, James.
.
.
Mustered
Low Bos
out.
Whitehall, N.Y. Laborer. 7 May, New Braintree. Whitehall, N.Y. Corporal, 10 Absent in hospital when mustered out. Sept., 1864.
1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN CAFFREY, Edward.
New
1864.
Albany, N.Y.
20.
York.
SECOND TERM. Painter.
Wounded
Chelsea.
in
449 10 June, head, 30
Mustered out. July, 1864, in front of Atlanta. 7 May, 1864. Prussia. 26. Clerk. Robert. GLAUS, York.
COLE, Charles E. Providence,
New
Deserted 3 Aug., 1864. 19. ... Farmer. 10 Sept., 1864.
Boston.
R J.
Mustered
Lowell.
out.
29 June, Deserted 8 Aug., 1864 ar rested 10 Aug., 1864; in penitentiary at Nashville when the regiment was mustered out.
CRONAN, 1864.
25.
Ireland.
Barre.
25.
DAVIS, Joseph.
;
Ireland.
Deny,
New
Laborer.
Ireland.
Patrick.
25
Pattern-maker.
Deserted from Swampscott. provost guard, 9 Aug., 1864; arrested; in penitentiary at Nashville when the regiment was mustered out.
June, 1864.
FORD, John.
New
York.
New
32.
York.
York.
Hatter.
13 July, 1864. no further
Sick in hospital
Wellfleet.
;
record.
GREEN, William. July, 1864.
Lancaster, Penn.
22.
Machinist.
14
De
North Brookfield.
Frankfort, Penn.
serted 9 Jan., 1865.
GREY,
Patrick.
Boston.
...
37.
West
Boiler-maker.
Springfield.
GUTHRIE, Henry A. (V. ?). 1 1 May, 1864. Stafford, Ct. 1865.
Mustered
HARPER, John.
Mustered 21.
17 Aug., 1864. out.
Stafford, Ct.
Operative. Corporal, 1 June,
Boston.
out.
31.
Scotland.
Laborer.
18 June, 1864.
Quartermaster s clerk, 3 Nov., 1864. Holyoke. In hospital, 22 June, 1865, when mustered out. 22. 8 Manchester, Eng. HENSHAW, James. Cooper. Boston.
June, 1864. 1864.
Boston.
JOHNSON, George. 1864.
22.
I-Iopkiiiton.
KELLIHER, Timothy.
Salisbury.
Deserted 15
July,
New Orleans, La. Sailor. 2 Aug., Lowell. Deserted 12 Sept., 1864. 21.
Boston, Mass. 29
Shoemaker.
9
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
450
June, 1864.
Deerfield.
Deserted; no date
Deerfield.
given.
York.
... Sailor. 3 Nov., 1864. New In hospital, 26 July, 1865, when mus
29.
Pierre.
LAMONT,
Easton.
tered out. 22.
LEONARD, George.
Baltimore,
Baltimore, Md.
1864.
Md.
Holyoke.
Laborer.
1
July,
Deserted 12 Aug.,
1864.
LYNCH, Edward.
New
1864.
MATHER.
New
27.
York.
Savoy.
Frederick A.
1864.
York.
...
38.
Milford.
Milford.
21 June, Laborer. Deserted 12 June, 1864. 15 Aug., Bootmaker.
Mustered out 11 June,
1865.
MATTESON, William E. 35.
McCAULEY, Henry. April,
1864.
1864.
Wounded Wounded
lanta.
20.
Vermont.
24 May, 1864.
Boston.
Averysborough.
South Shaftsbury, Vt. Turner. Mustered out. Chelsea.
Fermor, Ireland. Abington.
Laborer.
Corporal,
23
1
July, in head, 30 July, 1864, in front of At in thigh, severely, 16 March, 1865, at
In hospital, 17 June, 1865, when mus
tered out.
McTiERNEY (McTomey,
Adj. -Gen.), John.
21.
Yorkport, West Jersey City, N.J. Deserted 15 Nov., 1864. minster. MEHLER, Michael. 21. ... N.J. Laborer. 30 June, Boston. Deserted 16 Aug., 1864 1864. Royalston. N.J.
Farmer.
2 Aug., 1864.
;
in penitentiary at Nashville when the 17 Aug. regiment was mustered out.
arrested
;
MICKEY, Edward. 18. Hamburg, Germany. Comb-maker. New York. 9 May, 1864. Boston. Company musi Mustered
cian.
John.
MOORE,
Cohoes, N.Y.
when
out.
26.
discharged. Charles. 21.
MUNSOX,
Philadelphia.
Scotland.
Lowell.
Moulder.
2 Aug., 1864.
In hospital, 27 May, 1865,
Ireland.
Northampton.
Expressman. 6 June, 1864. Wounded, seriously, 30
THE ENLISTED MEN July, 1864, in front of Atlanta.
when mustered
MUNSON,
In hospital, 26 July, 1865,
out.
John.
New
22.
York.
Williamsburg, N.Y.
1864.
Aug., 1864. Jeremiah.
Montreal, C.E.
MUHPHY, Thomas. May, 1864.
Mustered
1865.
1864.
Brattleboro
21.
28 June,
Mustered ,
7 July,
Deserted 13
Boatman.
Holyoke.
Winchester.
NETH, Franz.
Carpenter.
Leicester.
Ireland.
19.
MURPHY, 1864.
451
SECOND TERM.
out.
Machinist.
Vt.
16
Corporal, 23 June,
Boston.
out.
6 July, Cigar-maker. Germany. Winchendon. Deserted 11 Aug.,
27.
Prussia.
1864.
O NEAL,
William.
21.
Port Kent, N.Y. PARKER, Richard 1864.
.
.
.
N. Y.
Farmer, 22 July, 1864. Deserted 12 Sept., 1864.
Wayland. 28.
S.
Ct.
Fairhaven,
9 July, Clerk. Salem, Mass. 12 Deserted Aug., Amesbury.
1864.
PIERCE, John A. Feb., 1864.
Milford, Mass.
32.
Medway.
PICKETT, Daniel
May, 1864.
Medway.
23.
S.
Boston.
Bootmaker.
Mustered
Prisoner, July, 1864
discharged (paroled) 5 June, 1865. RANDOLPH, James L. 25. Wilmington, Del.
June, 1864. Oct., 1864.
RHOUX,
Wilmington, Del.
Joseph.
Canada
li^ast.
Canada.
20.
Petersham.
1864, near Atlanta. 20. Ireland. RILEY, John. Boston.
Winchendon.
9
Laborer.
Kerry, Ireland. Boston.
25
out.
10
Deserted 22
Chelsea.
Laborer.
Clerk.
;
21 April, 1864.
Killed in action, 30 July,
Laborer.
31 May,
1864.
Wounded, 16 March, 1865, at
Averysborough. Mustered out. 23. ROBBINS, Arthur N. Cape of Good Hope. Sailor. 12 July, 1864. Deserted 13 Aug., 1864. Lynn. .
SHELDON, Duane Andover, Vt.
May, 1865.
.
C.
.
18.
Roxbury.
...
Clerk.
17 Oct., 1864.
Discharged for
disability,
27
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
452
SHEPHERD, Eugene. 1864.
New
Newark, N.J. Laborer. 7 May, Died of disease, Jan.,
19.
Bedford.
Chelsea.
1865, at Nashville, Tenn.
SMITH, Charles.
24.
Aug., 1864.
Lowell.
Tipperary, Ireland. .
...
SMITH, Henry. 21. ton. Chatham.
Shoemaker.
2
Deserted 12 Sept., 1864. Moulder. 3 Nov., 1864. Bos .
.
Deserted 10 June, 1865. 44. ... Painter. 20 Sept., 1864. Edward G. STEVENS, In hospital, 27 July, 1865, when Boston. Haverhill.
mustered
out.
SULLIVAN, James. 1864.
New
35.
York.
North- Carolina campaign. 1865.
SULLIVAN, John.
Discharged (paroled) 24 July,
29 June, 1864. Hostler. Deserted 8 Aug., 1864 arrested ;
in penitentiary
;
Taken
Ireland.
21.
Barre.
Cambridge. 10 Aug., 1864
26 July, prisoner in the
Clerk.
Kerry, Ireland.
Waylaud.
at
regiment was mustered out. SWEENY, Wallace H. 24. England.
Nashville
Laborer.
when
the
2 Aug.,
Deserted 17 Jan., 1865. Lowell. Brooklyn, N.Y. TAYLOR, Edwin. 26. ... Painter. 22 June, 1864. Spring Died of disease, 15 Oct., 1864, at field. Charlton. 1864.
Chattanooga. 34. TEISS, Ernest. Boston. Chelsea.
supposed prisoner
;
WALLACE, John A. 15 June, 1864.
Germany.
Baker.
7
May, 1864.
Straggled on march, August, 1864;
no further record. Manchester, N.H.
21.
Manchester, N.H.
Blacksmith.
Holyoke. prisoner; discharged (paroled) 20 July, 1865. WHITTEMORE, Charles L. 18. ... Teamster.
Taken 26 July,
Mustered out. Charlestown, N.H. Roxbury. Brewer. Penn. 27. WINTERS, William. Philadelphia, De 31 May, 1864. Tewksbury. Philadelphia, Penn. 1864.
serted 22 Oct., 1864.
WOODMAN,
John.
Brewer, Me. lina
campaign
18.
...
Needham. ;
Farmer. 22 Aug., 1864. Prisoner in the North-Caro
no further record.
THE ENLISTED MEN
453
SECOND TERM.
COMPANY
F.
VETERANS. Mustered
BILLINGS, David E. BRYANT, Cyrus W.
Taken
when mustered
in hospital, 18 July, 1865,
CARR, Patrick H. 1865. Mustered
In
out.
Absent
prisoner, 8 June, 1864. out.
commissary department, January,
out.
Mustered
COOK, Martin V. B. CROSBY, Pardon L.
Corporal,
out. 1 July,
1864; sergeant, 23
Mustered out. June, 1865; color-sergeant, 25 June, 1865. M. 1 Thatcher CURRANT, Corporal, April, 1864; sergeant, 5 June, 1865. Mustered out.
DOUGLAS, John
F. Armorer, 28 April, 1864. Sergeant. Prisoner, 8 Nov., 1864; not heard from.
Mustered out. DURGIN, Daniel. In hospital GORTON, Samuel M.
No
at Boston, 23 Feb., 1864.
further record.
HARTT, John T.
Company
JEPSON, Samuel L.
musician.
Sergeant.
1864, to 13 Nov., 1864;
First
Mustered
out.
sergeant, 1 March,
sergeant, 4 March, 1865;
first
sergeant, 23 April, 1865.
Appointed second lieutenant, 3 See Commissioned Offi July, 1865, but not mustered in. cers. Mustered out.
KENDALL, Webster A. which
PARKER, Alfred R. 1865, at
Corporal.
Killed in action, 16 March,
Averysborough.
PICKERING, Asa.
RICHARDSON, 1864.
Transferred, on re-enlisting, to C,
see.
Corporal, 23 June, 1865.
Delavan.
Mustered
Corporal.
Mustered
Sergeant,
out.
out.
April,
out.
STATEN, William H. Corporal. Sergeant, Mustered out. 1864, to 4 March, 1865.
WHIPPLE, Alfred P.
1
Corporal, 5 June, 1865.
13
March,
Mustered
454
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
RECRUITS.
BRADY, Thomas.
Newark, N.J.
21.
Boston.
1864.
Attleboro
BROWN, Edwin (Edward?). 1864.
Jan.,
1 June, Laborer. Deserted 11 Aug., 1864. 20. Germany. Sailor. 15 .
No
Rutland.
Philadelphia.
further
re
port.
BRYANT, Andrew A. Feb., 1864.
CAMPBELL, Robert. 6 July, 1864. 9 Aug., 1864.
CARTON 1864.
Athol, Mass.
21.
Phillipston.
Mechanic.
Mustered
Phillipston.
15 out.
Delaware County, Penn. Laborer. Deserted Winchendon.
20.
Philadelphia.
19. (Karton?), Charles. North Andover. Boston. .
.
.
Boatman.
4 July,
Deserted 20 Nov.,
1864.
CONNORS, Jeremiah. CROSBY, John.
29.
Salem.
Salem.
1864.
.
.
Stone-cutter.
Mustered
Rouville, Texas.
22.
Norfolk, Va.
1864.
.
18 Aug.,
out.
24 June, Deserted 7 Aug.,
Farmer.
South Hadley.
1864.
DAVIS, Frederick C. (Francis
?)
No further record. Corporal, 23 June, 1865. 1 Aug., 1864. 21. Ireland. Barber. DEVITT, Edward. ...
Deserted 4 Sept., 1864. Conway. Philadelphia. DILLON, Thomas (James?). 21. Syracuse, N.Y. Laborer. Wounded 26 May, 1864. Springfield. Templeton. 1 in front of Atlanta. Aug., 1864, (leg broken) by shell, Absent in hospital when mustered out. DUMPHREY, Edward. 21. ... Farmer. 10 Nov., 1864. Worcester.
DUNN,
New DUNN, ton.
Daniel.
York. Peter.
Worcester. 21.
Boylston. 21.
Deserted 10 June, 1865. 6 June, 1864. Laborer.
Ireland.
Ireland.
Warwick.
GILBERT, Frederick.
Deserted 7 Nov., 1864. Laborer. 1 June, 1864.
Bos
Deserted 9 Aug., 1864. 23.
...
Clerk.
9
July, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN Prussia. at
Wounded in
Salisbury.
Mustered
Averysborough.
GREGORY, Samuel D. Bellingham.
Mustered
Bellingham. 25.
Germany.
22 Aug., 1864. 14 April,
New
1865.
JOHNSON, James.
Prisoner in the North-
Chelsea.
Carolina campaign. 1865.
5 July,
Deserted 9 Aug., 1864. ... Tinsmith. 23 July,
27.
York.
Blacksmith.
Germany.
Lynn.
Charles.
HARRINGTON, 1864.
Farmer.
Prisoner,
out.
HARLAND, William. 1864.
neck, 16 March, 1865,
out.
...
18.
455
SECOND TERM.
Discharged for
disability,
2
July,
Laborer. 7 May, Baltimore, Md. from hos Deserted Chelsea.
35.
Baltimore, Md.
1864.
pital in Nashville
York.
;
25.
KAISER, Jacob.
no date given. ... Baker.
Amesbury.
KELLEY, John F. Canada.
23.
Salem.
Mustered
Boston.
KELLEY, Michael.
...
22.
Mustered
Lowell.
6 July, 1864.
New
Deserted 12 Nov., 1864. Canada. Machinist. 3 May, 1864.
KELLEY, William.
22.
8 June, 1864.
Boston.
out.
8 Sept., 1864.
Currier. out.
Roscommon,
Ireland.
Salisbury.
Teamster.
Deserted 9 Aug.,
18(54.
LANE, Gustavus E.
...
Boston.
MASON, William. Boston.
27
20 Sept., 1863.
Mustered
out.
England. Seaman. 23 May, 1864. 14 Aug., 1864, in front of
21.
Maiden.
Died,
Atlanta.
MEIIAN, Matthew. Salem.
York.
mustered
27.
Barre.
Laborer.
15 Feb., 1865.
out.
...
Shoemaker. 29 June, 1864. In hospital, 3 July, 1865, when
out.
NANGLE, Thomas. Canada.
Mustered
Ashby.
MULLER, Conrad.
New
...
20.
26.
Provincetown.
when mustered
out.
Ireland.
Clerk.
3
May, 1864.
In hospital, 17 June,
1865,
456
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
O BRIEN,
James. 22. ... 16 July, 1864. Carpenter. Lowell. Newtonville, N.Y. Corporal, 5 June, 1865, to 19 June, 1865. Deserted 19 June, 1865. PIERSON, Oscar. 18. Norway. Laborer. 10 Feb., 1864. Chelmsford. Chelmsford. Mustered out.
REGAN, Thomas.
New
York.
March, 1865,
Ireland.
20.
at
Grocer.
Wounded
Chelsea.
25 May, 1864.
in thigh, severely, 16
In hospital when mus
Averysborough.
tered out.
RILEY, James.
21.
New
York.
1
864.
RING, George. Haven, Ct
2 Aug., Clerk. Westchester, Ct. Princeton. Mustered out.
20.
.
.
.
Deserted 12 Nov., 1864. Canada. Machinist. 3 May,
26. ROBINSON, Charles. 1864. St. John s, N.B.
RYAN, James.
New
14 July, 1864.
Driver.
North Brookfield.
26.
Princeton.
Mustered
Ireland.
Tipperary,
out.
Boatman.
26
Prisoner in Templeton. May, 1864. Brooklyn, N.Y. North-Carolina campaign. In hospital when mustered out. RYAN, John H. 21. Newark, N.J. Laborer. 11 June, 1864.
WARD,
Newark, N.J. Peter.
21.
Deserted 9 Aug., 1864. 3 May, 1864.
Chelsea.
Laborer.
Ireland.
Philadelphia, Penn. No further record.
North
Brookfield.
COMPANY
Absent
sick.
G.
VETERANS.
BALDWIN, John D. S. FRENCH, Henry P.
Company Absent
(Probably discharged.) Charles H. Corporal.
HEALD, ing, 1
from D.
July, 1864.
Averysborough.
Sergeant, 28
Wounded,
in
musician. hospital,
out.
Transferred, on re-enlist
May, 1864;
slightly,
Appointed
Mustered
4 May, 1864.
first
sergeant,
16 March, 1865, at
second lieutenant,
3
July,
THE ENLISTED MEN 1865, but not mustered
Mustered
457
SECOND TERM. See Commissioned
in.
Officers.
out.
Wounded in leg, 15 May, 1864, at Resaca. John. Transferred to Invalid Corps, 17 Sept., 1864. Transferred, on re-enlisting, from D. REED, William H.
LAWTON,
Wounded, 30 July, 1864, in front Sergeant, 1 July, 1864. of Atlanta, and died in consequence, 4 Oct., 1864. Buried at Chattanooga.
See Commissioned
May, 1864.
TOOMBS, William D. from
Jan., 1865,
ant, to date
First lieutenant,
First sergeant.
Jesse.
RICHARDSON,
D
Corporal.
Officers.
Transferred to
sergeant, 30 Jan., 1865
;
from 4 Nov., 1864.
24
first
;
G, 30 lieuten
See Commissioned
Offi
cers.
RECRUITS.
BOWLER,
Jeremiah.
21.
25 June, 1865.
Mustered
CARRICK, Edward. July,
1864.
Ireland.
Pembroke.
Winchester.
5
Currier.
Corporal, 27
May, 1864.
Dec.,
1864, to
out.
Philadelphia, Penn. N.J. Wellfleet. Newark, 21.
Driller.
14
Deserted 15
Nov., 1864.
COCHLAN, Thomas. Boston.
Lee.
COLEMAN,
Patrick.
Salem.
Salem.
30.
Ireland.
Sailor.
27 May, 1864.
Deserted 22 July, 1864. 30. Ireland. Currier. 10 Aug., 1864. In hospital, 28 July, 1865, when mus
tered out.
CONNELLY, Benjamin.
23.
Boatman.
Ireland.
6 July,
Deserted 16 Aug., 1864. Troy, N.Y. Lynn. Cox, John. 18. Maiden, Mass. Clerk. 16 Feb., 1864. Maiden. Boston. Mustered out. 1864.
Cox, William.
May, 1864.
25.
Prince
Edward s
Prince Edward
s
Island.
Island.
Sailor.
Maiden.
30
Mus
tered out.
GULP, Joseph. 1864.
20.
Worcester.
2 Aug., Worcester, Mass. Laborer. Milton. Deserted 20 Sept., 1864.
458
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
FISHER, George. 27. Germany. Saddler. 1 June, 1864. Mustered out. Germany. Northampton. 12 July, 23. Charles. Sailor. FOLEY, Baltimore, Md. 1864.
1864.
Deserted 15 Aug., 1864. Wellfleet. 13 July, Laborer. Stamford, Ct. 15 1864. Deserted Nov., Beverly.
Wellfleet.
FOLEY, John.
20.
Conn.
FORD, Delos B.
New
18.
York.
Absent
Boston.
Roxbury. mustered
Printer.
15 Feb., 1864.
24 July, 1865, when
sick,
out.
FOREMAN (Fuhrman?),
Germany. Farmer. George. 24. 17 May, 1864. Boston. Chelsea. Wounded, 21 Dec., in Mustered out. Carolina. South 1864,
Fox, John.
West Derby, Vt.
21.
Farmer.
18 Feb.,
In hospital, 1 Oct., out. mustered when was and also 1864, regiment 1864. 13 Pedler. 24. James. June, FREY, Germany. Boston.
Stanstead, C.E.
1864.
Chelsea. Corporal, 10 Sept., 1864, to 30 Dec., 1864, when returned to the ranks at his own request. Wounded in breast and arm, severely, 16 March, 1865, at Averysborough discharged in consequence, 3 July, 1865.
Austria.
;
of items.)
(No record
35.
GASSELL, Henry.
Deserted
6 July, 1864.
(No record of
GIBSON, George.
Deserted 12 Nov.,
items.)
1864.
GLASER 1864.
(or Glozier), Louis.
Boston.
GREEN, John. 1864.
St.
32.
John
21.
s,
St.
John
N.B.
.
.
.
Mustered
Chelsea.
s,
N.B.
Kingston.
Sailor.
30 Nov.,
out.
Seaman.
2 June, Deserted 17 Aug.
,
1864. 18. Portland, Me. Laborer. 27 April, New Salem. Mustered out. Glastenbury, Ct. 31. ... Laborer. 25 Aug., Bartholomew.
HALE, Wilbur H. 1864.
HARLEY, 1864.
New
York.
HERRICK, James. Albany, N.Y. HOPKINS, John.
22.
Lowell.
Canada.
Wellfleet.
20.
New
Mustered Boatman.
out.
8 July, 1864.
Deserted 8 June, 1865. York. Printer. 5 May, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN Pembroke.
Cleveland, Ohio.
459
SECOND TERM.
Corporal, 10 Sept., 1864,
Deserted 12 Nov., 18G4. HUTCHINSON, David. 20. Scotland. Laborer. New Salem. 1864. Scotland. Dropped to 3 Nov., 18G4.
1864
;
have been shot by
to
supposed
28 April, 19
Dec.,
guerillas.
Trader. 1 June, 1864. 16 July, 1864. Deserted Shelburne. Germany. 22 July, York. 19. New Frank. KEEGAN, Spinner.
JONES, Frederick.
1864.
26.
Germany.
Chelsea.
Providence, R.I.
Savannah, Ga. 21. KING, John.
Died 5 June, 1865,
at
Canada.
26 July, Cooper. Deserted 18 Jan., 1865.
KNOWLES,
John.
21.
Lee.
England.
1864.
Ireland.
Salem.
England. Laborer. 27 May, 1864. Deserted 24 Aug., 1864. Canada. Boatman. 30 July, 1864.
20. LEE, William. Cobourg, C.W. Plymouth.
Discharged for
disability,
28 June, 1865.
LEIGHTON, Joseph.
No other record. LEUDO (Ledou?),
"Recruit
Frank.
from
MAGOUN,
...
Laborer.
Discharged by
War
Department, 11 June, 1865. William. 18. Shepton, Canada.
April, 1864. Dec., 1864.
MAYO,
Brick-
Mustered
Maiden.
Boston.
LUITER, Samuel D. (Luther, Joseph ?). 21 20 Aug., 1864. Douglas. Douglas. order of
1865.
April,
Montreal, C.E.
21.
27 May, 1864. out 26 July, 1865. maker.
depot,"
John.
Warwick, C.E.
Boston.
Teamster.
28
Deserted 20
2 July, 1864. Soldier. Montreal, C.E. Lancaster. Deserted 10 Aug., 1864. 19. 23 April Ireland. Mariner. George. 24.
Montreal, C.E.
McNAMARA, 1
864.
Ireland.
Sandwich.
1865, at Averysborough
;
Wounded
in leg,
1
6
March,
in hospital, 1 June, 1865,
when
discharged.
MERRILL, Truman. Jan., 1864.
18.
Salisbury.
Seabrook, N.H. Salisbury.
Shoemaker.
Mustered
out.
30
460
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
MONAHAN, Mahan
21.
(Malachi?).
20 April, 1864.
Teamster.
R.I.
Providence,
Boston.
Providence, R.I.
Deserted 19 June, 18G5.
Mum,
James.
partment.
...
23.
Clerk.
Detached
Chatham.
No
to
.
C.E.
Quebec,
.
.
De
Headquarters Military
further record.
MURPHY, Edward.
7 July, 1864.
Saddler.
Ireland.
21.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
South Danvers.
Discharged 14 July,
1865. Philadelphia, Penn. Chelmsford. Philadelphia.
MURPHY, William. 1864.
April,
21.
28
Sailor.
Mustered
out.
O MALLEY, 1864.
25.
Charles.
12 Aug.,
Laborer.
England.
N.Y.
Buffalo,
Deserted
Chelsea.
11
Sept.
1864.
Nova
PATTERSON, Robert. 21. 1864. St. John s, N.B. Mustered
1865.
PETERSON, ton.
out.
...
21.
Otto.
Clerk. 20 April, Corporal, 23 June,
Scotia.
Aldington.
Sunderland.
3 Sept., 1864.
Clerk.
Discharged
Bos Al
New
in hospital at
bany, Ind., 10 July, 1865.
RILEY, Thomas. 1864.
21.
Chelsea.
RUBY, Jacob F. 1864.
35.
Boston.
14 June, Shoemaker. England. Deserted 13 Aug., 1864. .
Germany.
Cohasset.
May, 1865. STEVENS, James. .12 July,
.
.
23 May,
Machinist.
Discharged in hospital, 30
Blacksmith. 22. Lancashire, England. Deserted 17 Aug., Boston. Salisbury.
1864.
1864.
THOMPSON, Matthew. 1864.
New
New
26.
York.
York.
Chatham.
Carpenter.
Deserted
2 July,
10 Aug.,
1864.
TURNER, Frank. 1864.
25.
Frederick,
Montreal, C.E.
Md.
2 June, Deserted 4 July,
Laborer.
Southbridge.
1864.
TURNER, George. Boston.
25.
Maiden.
...
No
Painter.
further record.
21
May, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN
Dresden, Me. Lanesboro
TURNER, Wellington II. 21. May, 1864. Dresden, Me.
WADE, 1864.
William.
.
Elmira, N.Y.
21.
N.Y.
Buffalo,
SECOND TERM.
28
Farmer.
Mustered
out.
Deserted
29 April, 21 June,
Seaman.
9 June,
Laborer.
Carver.
461
1865.
WILLIAMS, James. 1864.
St.
Nova
25.
John
N.B.
Scotia.
Chelsea.
1 Nov., 1864, to 13 Nov., 1864; corporal again, 27 Dec., 1864. Absent on furlough, and discharged, 24 June, 1865. s,
Corporal,
Boatman. 20 19. Hamilton, C.W. 1864. Deserted N.Y. Columbia, July, Northampton. 12 Nov., 1864.
WILSON, George.
COMPANY
H.
VETERANS. Mustered out. CLARK, John F. CARRAHER, Frank L. Corporal and 1864.
Mustered
color-corporal, 15 July,
out.
DAMMERALL, William H.
Corporal, 31 Dec., 1863, to 6 Mustered out. ... to 28 June, 1865. again,
Nov., 1864; Foss, Phineas H.
Hospital attendant. Company musician.
GILLEY, George.
HANKY, William. HARRIS, George. 1864, from K.
Mustered Mustered
out.
out.
Deserted 23 Feb., 1864. Transferred to H, 15 July, Corporal. Mustered out, 15 Sergeant, July, 1864.
Mustered
JOHNSON, Arthur.
out.
Deserted 28 Oct., 1864. KEENAN, Patrick. McKiNSTREY, Charles O. Corporal, 1 July, 1864;
ser
Ap sergeant, 28 June, 1865. pointed second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not mustered geant, 5 June, 1865;
in.
first
See Commissioned
MOOERS, Andrew
J.
Officers.
Mustered
out.
Deserted 23 Feb., 1864.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
462
MORSE, George W. 1
1865; Commissioned
Sergeant, 9 Jan., 1864;
first
Jan.,
Wounded
Corporal, 5
Mustered
first
sergeant,
See
1865.
Officers.
SMITH, William. Resaca.
17 March,
lieutenant,
in
15 May,
thigh,
1864, at 1865.
28 June,
1865, to
June,
out.
Mustered
WHITTEMORE, Ezra G.
out.
RECRUITS.
BLACK, Richard.
New
21.
York.
16 May, 1864.
Sailor.
Deserted 12 Aug., 1864. BURGEN, John. 43. France. Glass-cutter. 9 June, 1864. r onnded in arm, 14 Aug., 1864, Rowe. Salisbury. In hospital at Nashville when mustered near Atlanta. Boston.
Boston.
W
out.
CASWELL, Mo?es. 1864.
Boston.
Mustered
Dudley.
Co MPT ON, June,
21. Joseph. 1864. Chester,
out.
14 June, 1864.
Laborer.
Ireland.
21 July,
Sailor.
Mustered
Northampton.
20.
CLARY, Hugh.
Halifax, N.S.
19.
Grafton.
out.
Brakeman.
N.Y.
Chester,
N.Y:
11
Deserted 30
Chelsea.
June, 1865.
CORNEILLEE (Cannalin?), Herman. 14 June, 1864.
Finland.
CORNETT, James H. 1864.
New
bravery, 30 July,
New
28.
York.
19.
York.
Chelsea.
1864."
Absent
Finland.
Mustered
Chelsea.
Sailor. out.
6
Clerk.
May,
"
Distinguished in hospital
for
when mus
tered out.
ELLIKER, Robert (Albert?). Shelburne. 3 May, 1864.
24.
GONZENBA CH,
Germany.
1864.
1864, to
HENSHAW, Ireland.
Ferdinand.
19.
Baker.
Switzerland.
Boston.
Mustered Clerk.
out.
14 June,
Prisoner, November, Northampton. January, 1865. Mustered out 22 July, 1865.
Boston.
John.
Lynn.
23.
Ireland.
Carpenter. Deserted 7 Nov., 1864.
6 July, 1864.
THE ENLISTED MEN
4G3
SECOND TERM.
Seaman. 22 21. Liverpool, England. Loring. Died 26 Nov., Me. Essex. 18G4. June, Harrington, 1864.
HUNTLEY,
JONES, John.
22.
New
1864.
LARKINS, John.
...
26.
John.
Jacob.
29.
Prussia.
Deserted 3 Aug., 1864. Germany. Laborer. 7 June, 1864. Deserted 13 July, 1864. Northampton.
Charles. .
24.
30.
MURPHY, JOHN. Boston.
25.
MURRAY, James. 1864.
Ireland.
20 July, 1864.
Laborer. out.
Liverpool, England.
Sailor.
20
Northampton.
Deserted
30
June, 1864. June, 1865.
33.
Wurtemburg, Germany.
Boston.
Patrick.
18.
New
Boston.
Boston.
ROBINSON, John.
Northampton.
South Berwick, Me.
30.
June, 1864. Salisbury. 1865. Mustered out.
1864.
hospital,
out.
23.
8
1864.
in
England.
June, 1865. OFFINGER, Paul.
PAGE, John.
Absent
Chelsea.
Mustered
Chelsea.
Laborer.
Ireland.
Tyrone County,
Boston.
26 July, 1865, when mustered
REGAN,
27 May, 1864.
Laborer.
Deserted 15 July, 1864. Germany. Soldier. 9 June, 1864.
Chelsea.
German) MILLER, John. 24 May, 1864.
July,
out.
Chelsea.
30.
METZKE, Henry.
New
2 April, 1864.
Mariner.
Mustered
Germany.
Jersey City, N.J.
11 Jan., 1865.
out.
Ireland.
33.
West Cambridge.
Boston.
MILLER,
Laborer.
Mustered
Hatfreld.
McNuLTY,
June,
out.
10 Laborer. Jersey City, N.J. Deserted 13 Nov., Chelsea.
20.
LYNCH, James.
MERTZ,
Roxbury.
21
Butcher.
Mustered
New York.
June, 1864. 1864.
York.
Mass.
Pittsfield,
York.
21.
Springfield.
Shoemaker.
26
Corporal, 5 June,
Salisbury.
York.
Painter.
Deserted 30
Teamster.
Mustered
10 May,
out.
17 May, Albany, N.Y. Farmer. Deserted 11 Nov., 1864.
Ashfield.
464
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
ROBSON, JOHN. 1864.
New
22.
SANDER, William. Boston.
Mo.
St. Louis,
York.
...
37.
Bridge water.
Steward.
8 July,
Discharged 14 July, 1865. Cigar-maker. 10 Oct., 1864.
Lynn.
Discharged by order of
War
Department.
SHORT, James. Albany, N.Y.
20.
Deserted 30 June, 1865. Canada. Butcher. 12 May, 1864.
SMITH, Alonzo. 21. Boston. Canada. SMITH, Knox.
Deserted 30 June, 1865. 26 April, 1864. Laborer.
34.
Fall River.
Ireland.
Mustered
Roxbury.
out.
Pittsburgh, Penn. Boatman. 14 May, Penn. Mustered out. Dorchester. Pittsburgh,
STEWART, John. 1864.
9 July, 1864.
Laborer.
Hartford, Ct.
Wellfleet.
22.
COMPANY
I.
VETERANS. BAIRD, William. BUTLER, Aaron. campaign.
Adjutant
Taken
Mustered
s clerk.
in
prisoner
out.
North-Carolina
the
In hospital, 26 July, 1865, when mustered out.
CRONIN, Patrick.
Wounded, 15 May, 1864, 16 May.
at Resaca,
and
died in consequence,
EATON, Minot Mustered
II.
Quartermaster
s
clerk,
January, 1865.
out.
ELLSWORTH, Andrew January, 1865.
B. Acting quartermaster-sergeant, Mustered out 26 July, 1865.
Mustered out. FLYNN, Patrick. Company musician. HANNING, James. Sergeant, 1 July, 1864; Corporal. first sergeant, 10 Aug., 1864. Wounded, slightly, 16
March, 1865, at Averysborough. See Commissioned March, 1865.
HUTCHINSON, James.
Wounded
in
First
lieutenant,
17
Officers.
shoulder, severely,
1
6
March, 1865, Averysborough. In hospital at Worces 28 ter, Mass., July, 1865, when mustered out. at
THE ENLISTED MEN
465
SECOND TERM.
Killed in action, 30 July, 1864, in
LENNON, Thomas H. front of Atlanta.
MCCAFFREY,
Discharged for
Cornelius.
disability,
25 Jan.,
1865.
MOORE, Thomas. April, 1864. Discharged for disability, 15 WHEELER, Austin E. Corporal, July, 1864; sergeant, .
5 June, 1865
first
;
sergeant,
July, 1865.
1
.
Taken
pris
Mustered out. oner, 29 Aug., 1864, near Atlanta. in the North- Carolina cam Taken John. WIGGIN, prisoner Discharged 30 June, 1865. WILSON, Corporal, 28 June, 1864; sergeant, 15 in action, 16 March, 1865, at Averys1864. Killed July, paign.
Francis.
borough, N.C.
RECRUITS.
ALLEN, Henry T.
New
1864.
22.
St.
York.
John
s,
N.S.
Shelburne.
Seaman. 23 June, 25 June,
Corporal,
1865.
BAKER, John M.
New
York.
Germany. Tailor. 8 Aug., 1864. Absent sick. No further
26.
Chelmsford.
record.
Chester.
19.
Foster,
K.I.
BENSON, George.
22.
BENNET, 1864.
Rhode
Island.
Chester.
Laborer.
Discharged
7 July,
10 July,
1865. Ireland.
Miller.
8 June, 1864.
Wounded on
Boston.
Northampton. picket, 1 Aug., 1864, and died in consequence, 16 Aug., 1864. BRANDT, Ernest. 21. ... Mechanic. 13 Jan., 1864. Boston. Fitchburg. Acknowledged in report, May,
1865
;
no further record.
BROWNING, Daniel H.
27. WoolWarwick, R.I. Warwick, R.I. Holyoke. Discharged by order of War Department, 30 May, 1865.
sorter.
CAMPBELL,
New
C.
27 June, 1864. Charles.
York.
22.
Salisbury.
...
Engineer. 9 July, 1864. -In hospital, July, 1865.
466
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTEY. 22. Rondout, N.Y. Rondout, N.Y. Spencer.
CLARK, John. 1864.
Boatman.
9 June, Deserted 14 Aug.,
1864. 22.
CLINTON, Joseph.
CUNNINGHAM, James.
20
Philadelphia, Penn.
New
21.
Northampton.
Ireland.
21.
Clerk.
Mustered
Ireland.
Pembroke.
York.
GROSS (Grass?), Henry. Boston.
July, 1864.
Laborer.
Absent
Boston.
in hospital,
16
30
18 May,
Laborer.
in
Deserted,
1864,
20.
New York.
JOHNSON, Lewis. 1864.
New York.
Wounded
Athol.
16 March, 1865, at Averysborough quence, 29 June, 1865.
JONES, Thomas. 1864.
1864.
35.
Rudolf.
New
LAWRENCE,
Jairus.
23 Feb., 1864. Daniel.
in head, seriously,
discharged in conse
9 June, Laborer. London, Eng. Deserted 15 July, 1864.
Mason. Germany. Mustered out. Berkley.
23.
York.
March, 1865,
;
Chelsea.
Florida.
KIRCHOFF,
Bellingham, Mass.
21.
25
s
Island,
5
Aug.,
Bootmaker.
Bellingham.
Bellingham.
David
at
Died, 6
N.Y. 9 Jan., 1865.
Deserted 11 June, 1865. 18. MAHONEY, John. Cork, Ireland. .
May, 1864.
Albany, N.Y. Laborer. 10 June, Chelsea. Deserted 24 June, 1865. 19. New York. Carman. 30 April,
Patrick.
1864.
.
5
hospital.
HENRY,
LEAHY,
out.
Deserted 25 June, 1865. 20. Laborer. Germany.
May, 1865, when mustered out. HANVIN, Henry. 24. Hartford, Ct. West Roxbury. 1864. Webster. from
1864.
Deserted 7 Aug., 1864. 28 Aug., 1864.
...
24.
Northampton.
FINLEY, Luke.
New
8 Sept.,
Chelsea.
John.
EBERHARDT,
May,
Deserted 23 June, 1865. Laborer. 23 July, 1864.
Lowell.
Albany, N.Y.
7
In hospital at Evans-
Lancaster. Burlington. ville at date of muster out.
DOHERTY, John.
Laborer.
Burlington, Vt.
1864.
Boston.
.
March, 1864.
Boston.
Boston.
Teamster.
Mustered
out.
10
THE ENLISTED MALLEN, John.
MARTIN
Canada.
18.
Dover, N.H.
SECOND TERM.
MEN"
Farmer.
Mustered
Leicester.
23. (Masters?), George. 18 May, 1864. ...
Farmer.
MARTIN, James.
20.
Albany, N.Y. 1865,
Ireland.
MOORE, Thomas.
New Durham, N.H. ...
Mustered
out.
8 July, 1864.
In hospital, 27 May,
for disability.
Ireland.
22.
23 June, 1864.
out,
Laborer.
South Danvers.
when discharged
467
Moulder.
22 July, 1864.
Deserted 7 Aug., 1864. Chelsea. York, Perm. MULLEN, William. 32. Saratoga, N.Y. Laborer. 8 July, 1864. Boston. Mustered out. Salisbury.
NORMAN,
John.
April, 1864.
24. Oyster Bay, N.Y. Boatman. 30 Boston. Deserted 11 Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Aug., 1864.
O BRIEN, Henry. 20. New York. Lynn. PIERCE, George W.
Ireland.
Plumber.
6 July, 1864.
Deserted 25 June, 1865. 28. New Bedford, Mass. Sailor.
4
Charlestown. South Hadley. June, 1864. Corporal, 7 Nov., 1864. in Discharged hospital, 25 May, 1865. 18 June, 1864. RILEY, James. 21. New York. Butcher.
New York.
Princeton.
Prisoner in the North-Carolina
campaign. Mustered out. 20. RINE, Richard. Philadelphia, Penn.
May, 1864.
Philadelphia,
Penn.
Lee.
Butcher.
27
Deserted 23
Aug., 1864. 26. Ross, Lewis. North Andover.
19 July, 1864. Waiter. Germany. North Andover. Absent on furlough,
25 July, 1865, when mustered out. 24. 30 June, Sailor. RYAN, William. Boston, Mass. 1864. Boston. Deserted 13 Holyoke. Aug., 1864.
SPERY, Thomas B. Berlin, Ct.
22.
...
Farmer.
17 Feb., 1865. Discharged by order of War
Springfield.
Department, 16 June, 1865.
THOMPSON, William. July,
1864.
1864.
22.
Springfield.
Springfield, Mass.
Maiden.
Farmer.
1
Deserted 7 Aug.,
468
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
.
TOOMEY,
...
21.
Joseph.
Westfield.
...
26.
TURNER, George.
New
Phvtsburg, Penn.
19 Oct., 1864.
Teamster.
Mustered
Bridgewater.
out.
Boatman.
Marlboro
14 Dec., 1864.
Deserted 22 June,
.
1865.
WARREN, Eugene May,
Aug., 1864. WELCOME, Levi.
Boston.
.
T.
Saco, Maine.
21.
Biddeford, Me.
1864.
.
Canada.
21. .
Mustered
1864.
21. ZOPFIE, Frederick. 1864. Shelburne May,
Deserted
Dudley.
26 11
12 May, 1864.
Laborer. out.
WILSON, George. 20. Canada. Chelsea. Brockville, C.W. Prisoner, 27 Aug., Wilmington, N.C.
Whaler.
Laborer.
10 May, 1864.
Corporal,
10 Aug., 1864.
Died,
12 March, 1865, at
Switzerland. -
Boston.
Rope-maker. 3 Died of chronic diar
rhea, 29 Aug., 1864, near Atlanta.
COMPANY
K.
VETERANS. BISHOP, Milton.
Mustered
out.
Mustered out. CLARK, Joseph C. W. William CLARK, Transferred, on
Mustered
re-enlisting,
from B.
out.
CLARY, Daniel. Oct., 1864. DANIELS, William.
Sergeant.
Mustered
Mustered ELDER, John. ELLSWORTH, Thomas F.
Discharged for
disability,
6
out.
out.
Discharged, 19 Jan., Corporal. 1864, on receiving commission of second lieutenant in the He be 24 Oct., 1863. Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, dated
came 1864.
first
lieutenant,
20 June, 1864;
captain,
1
Dec.,
THE ENLISTED MEN
469
SECOND TERM.
Transferee!, 15 Corporal, 2 June, 1864. July, 1864, to H, which see. First sergeant. LORD, Caleb H. Mortally wounded, 19
HARRIS, George.
Had been
Kenesaw; died 29 June.
1864, near
June,
24 May, 1864, but the commis sion had not reached him. See Commissioned Officers.
appointed
MCDONALD,
first
lieutenant,
Mustered
John.
MclNTOSH, Augustus.
out.
Wounded
Corporal.
ously, 16 March, 1865, at Averysborough July, 1865, when mustered out.
MINER, Addison G. MULLER, John F.
Mustered
PEELER, David L.
Corporal.
out,
Corporal,
17 June, 1865,
PRATT, John A. RIVERS, Lewis. 1865, to
Mustered
Sergeant,
1
out.
July, 1864.
out.
PERKINS, Lafayette. pital,
Mustered
15 July, 1864.
Corporal, out 26 July, 1865. MUNROE, John. Company musician.
Mustered
;
in head, seri
in hospital, 27
1
when
Company
1
July,
In hos
1864.
discharged. musician. Mustered out.
Color-corporal. Corporal, Mustered out. July, 1865.
23
April,
ROBINSON, Delano. Discharged in hospital, 14 July, 1865. John F. Mustered out. SNOOK, William A. in thigh, 15 May, 1864, Wounded SPRINGER, at
Resaca.
Transferred to Veteran
Reserve
Corps in
April, 1865.
TENNEY,
Albert.
Transferred, on re-enlisting, to C, which
see.
TULLY, Prescott W. TYE, James.
Mustered out. Died of pneumonia, 23 March, 1864,
lahoma, Term VANCE, Lorin A.
Mustered
at Tul-
out.
VOLL, Andrew.
First sergeant, 1 July, 1864. Sergeant, Appointed second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not mus tered in. See Commissioned Officers. Mustered out.
WEBBER, George H. which
see.
Transferred, on re-enlisting, to D,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
470
Taken
Frederick.
WEBER,
Mustered
lina campaign.
WELCH, Thomas.
prisoner in
the North-Caro
out.
Mustered
out.
RECRUITS.
BOHS, Bernhard.
21.
Germany.
6 July, 1864.
Painter.
Transferred from D. Sick in hospital, 6 Sept., 1864, and until mustered out, 26 July, 1865. 20. Ireland. 6 June, 1864. Laborer. BRADY, James. Boston.
Chelsea.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Northampton.
BREDSHTA, William.
26.
France. June, 1864. BROOKINGS, Charles S. Winchester.
CRAVEN,
John.
ton.
...
Painter.
out.
5 Feb., 1864.
Winchester.
Mustered
21.
7 July, 1864. Ire of brain fever, 9 Sept., 1864.
Ireland.
Died
21.
...
Templeton.
No
DAVIS, James.
Mustered
Kingston. 23.
Winchendon.
land.
Deserted 2 July, 1864. Shoemaker. 6
Switzerland.
DAVIS, William.
25 May, 1864.
Printer.
Bos
further record.
...
36.
out.
Sailor.
Laborer.
25 May, 1864.
Deserted 21 June, 1865. Dudley. 24. HALL, Thomas. Manchester, England. Bookkeeper. Deserted 31 June, New York. Lynn. 6 July, 1864. Springfield.
1864.
HORN, William F.
27.
New York.
1864.
Germany.
Cigar-maker. 20 July, Deserted 1 1 Aug.,
North Andover.
1864.
LKVERING,
Silas.
Canada.
1864.
LUDESCHER,
New
York.
MCCARTHY,
Louis.
6 July, Laborer. Montreal, C.E. 13 Deserted Aug., 1864. Amesbury.
33.
37.
Farmer. 4 May, 1864. Died 10 April, 1865. Farmer. 8 June, 1864. Ireland. Austria.
Pembroke. John.
21.
Deserted 30 Aug., 1864; arrested Boylston. In confinement. 2 Sept., 1864. Transferred from C; no further MILES, John F. ... Boston.
record.
THE ENLISTED MEN MILLER, John. 1864.
21.
France.
SECOND TERM.
Switzerland. Chelsea.
MINER, Roswell E.
Laborer.
Mustered
Lee, Mass.
18.
471 13 June,
out.
Farmer.
26 Jan.,
1864.
Mustered out. Egreraont. Egremont. QUIXN, John. 23. Ireland. Boiler-maker. 3 June, 1864. Chelsea. Clifton, C.W. Ab Prisoner, 5 Dec., 1864. sent sick, 26 July, 1865,
when mustered out
QUINN, Thomas
Recruit received
No further record. 1864). 34. SMITH, Peter. Germany. Chelsea. Philadelphia, Penn.
Cook.
Aug., 1864. Frederick.
VOLMER, 1864.
WAGNER,
New
32.
Boston.
John.
York.
.
33.
1864.
WILLIAMS, John. 1864. bility,
4 May,
Steward. 23 July, 1864. Deserted 11 Aug., 1864. Prussia. Merchant. 16 May,
Chelsea. 31.
Brockville,
Farmer, out.
Germany. 25.
Boston.
(July,
23 July, 1864. In hospital since 10
Germany. Mustered
.
Chelsea.
WILHELM, Eugene, x
.
"
C.W.
3 March, 1865.
Mustered
Canada.
Lynn.
out.
Apothecary.
6 July,
Discharged for disa
THE NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.
S E R
BLAKE, George W.
A
G E A N T-M A
Bradford, Mass.
39.
J
R.
Shoemaker.
25 May, 1861.
serving in the Florida and Mexican wars in Florida, Second United-States Dra Sergeant-major, 25 May, goons in Mexico, cavalry and artillery. 1861. Discharged for disability, on surgeon s certificate, 8 May,
Boston.
soldier in the United-States
Army,
;
;
1862.
MANN, Albert W. 1862
;
From E, which see. Sergeant-major, 10 May, See Commissioned Offi second lieutenant, 31 March, 1883.
cers.
From G, which see. Sergeant-major, 17 July, 1863. Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863. Appointed second lieuten ant in Fifty -fifth Massachusetts, 9 June, 1864, but declined. First See Commissioned Officers. lieutenant, to date from 24 May, 1864.
RICHARDSON, Moses P.
MILES, William H.
From A,
major, 15 July, 1864
;
second term, which see. 15 April, 1865.
first lieutenant,
Sergeant-
See Com
missioned Officers.
From D, second term, which see. Sergeantmajor, 1 July, 1865; second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not See Commissioned Officers. Clustered out as sergeantmustered in.
THURSTON, Thomas B.
major, 26 July, 1865.
QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT. ... Cabinet-maker. 25 May, 1861. MedActing quartermaster-sergeant, 25 May, 1861. Discharged,
AYER, Henry H. field.
42.
1 July, 1861.
FLETCHER, James
H
1861.
Of K.
(Quartermaster-sergeant, 1 July, 1861, to Oct., 1861.
Company K,
Dec., 1861, which see.
Boston.
Re-assigned to
THE NOX COMMISSIONED STAFF.
473
F. From C, which see. Quartermaster-sergeant, 9 Oct., 1861; second lieutenant, 11 Feb., 1862. See Commissioned
BROWNING, George Officers.
From H, which see. Was quartermaster s clerk BINNEY, George L. from 11 May, 1861 quartermaster-sergeant, 15 March, 1862 ;
;
second lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862. See Commissioned Officers. From K, which see. Master-wagoner from STOCKBRIDGE, Lebbeus. 3 July, 1861
when
quartermaster-sergeant, 1 Nov., 1862, to 1 April, 1863, absent in long-continued sickness. See again. :
K
EMERSON, Asa W.
From
1 April, 1863.
C, which see. Quartermaster-sergeant, Re-enlisted. First lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not
mustered
See Commissioned
in.
Officers.
Mustered out as quarter
master-sergeant, 26 July, 1865.
COMMISSARY-SERGEANT. CARLL, Erastus B. Boston.
30.
Unity, Me.
Manufacturer.
A soldier in the Fourth United-States
Commissary-sergeant, May, 1861 See Commissioned Officers.
HOWES, Edwin A.
From
;
May,
1861.
second lieutenant, 23 Oct., 1862.
F, which see.
Dec., 1862. Re-enlisted. Commissioned Officers.
11
Artillery, 1850-55.
Commissary-sergeant, 8 See May, 1864.
First lieutenant, 24
Com C, second term, which see. and meritorious services," 1 July, 1864 second lieutenant, 3 July, 1865, but not mustered in. See Com missioned Officers. Mustered out as commissary-sergeant, 26 July,
CASEY, David.
From Company "
missary-sergeant,
for long
;
1865.
HOSPITAL STEWARD. NUTTING, Joseph W.
29
...
Chemist.
25 May, 1861.
Boston.
Hospital steward, 25 May, 1861. Died of consumption, 14 Jan., 1863, at Quincy, Mass., while on furlough.
ROOT, Warner A. 1863. ard, 31
From
G, which see. Hospital steward, 16 Feb., Transferred to Regular Army as hospital stew
Re-enlisted.
March, 1865.
From D, second term, which see. Hospital attendant from 27 Nov., 1861 hospital steward, 1 July, 1865. Mus tered out as such, 26 July, 1865.
KINSMAN, Frederick G.
;
PRINCIPAL MUSICIANS. KESSELHUTH, Henry. 28. Brunswick, Germany. Musician. 25 Had served in the Brunswick army in the May, 1861. Boston. war of 1848. Drum-major, 25 May, 1861. Discharged, with regi mental band, 16 Aug., 1862.
474
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
SPIEGEL, Charles. 35. Berlin, Prussia. Musician. 25 May, 1861. Maiden. Band-leader, 25 May, 1861. Discharged, with regi mental band, 16 Aug., 1862.
From A, which see. Company musician in A, CAKLL, Alonzo W. from 11 May, 1861 principal musician, 1 July, 1863. Mustered ;
out as such, 26 July, 1865.
II.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
GEORGE HENRY GORDON, son of Robert and Elizabeth S. (Carlisle) Gordon, was born in Charlestown, Mass., 19 July, 1824. Was at school at Framingham Academy appointed to West Point in 1842, ;
Brevet second lieutenant, 1 July, 1846, in the Mounted Rifles (Colonel Persifor F. Smith), and immediately sent to Mexico. Was engaged in all the battles of General Scott, from Vera Cruz to the capital. Wounded at Cerro Gordo, and brevetted first for gallant and meritorious conduct in that lieutenant, 18 April, 1847, Was severely wounded, after the fall of the city, near Vera action."
and graduated in 1846.
"
Cruz. After recovery, he joined his regiment Oregon, where it protected the settlers against the hostile Indians, and after one year it was sent to the frontier States, near the Mississippi there, and on the in"
;
and
prairies
at the
was transferred
Rocky Mountains, he served
until 1853,
when he *
Coast Survey, where he served a year. First lieutenant in August, 1853 resigned 31 Oct., 1864. Studied law at Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to practice in 1857. to the
;
His assistance in preparing the three-months troops has been de and his work in raising, organizing, and leading the Second Massachusetts Infantry, of which he was commissioned colonel, 24 scribed
;
1861.
May,
He was recommended,
unanimously, by the Massachu
setts delegation in
adier
;
Congress, in August, 1861, for appointment as brig but did not receive it until he had compelled it by his energetic
s retreat, where he commanded a brigade, term of service. He commanded the Third Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Corps, at Cedar Mountain, Pope s retreat, and Antietam. Early in 1863, his health failed. Partially
and
skilful service in
as he
had
for
most of
Banks his
recovering, he was placed in
command
of a division, and participated
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
and the movements, under General Dix, towards and afterwards, with his division, in the Army of the Po tomac, in pursuit of Lee. Ordered (with his division) to join General Gilmore, he served at Folly Island and vicinity. In July, 1864, was sent to the Gulf, and was engaged on the Mississippi in keeping open com munications with General Steele, in Arkansas and afterwards under General Granger, near Mobile, in connection with Farragut. Near the close of 1864, he was selected by General Grant, knowing," wrote that general, that no persuasion could make him swerve from duty,"
in the siege of Suffolk,
Richmond
;
;
"
"
to
command
ill-health.
He continued in
the district of East Virginia.
headquarters at Norfolk
Brevet major-general, 9 April, 1865
24 April, 1865. Massachusetts.
that position
consequence of and mustered out,
until relieved, in 1865, in ;
He was The
appointed, in 1866, United-States Marshal for history of the Second is a sufficient and enduring
sketch of his military abilities. General Gordon was married, 16 June, 1864, to Miss beth, daughter of the late Benjamin H. Scott.
GEORGE LEONARD ANDREWS,
Mary
Eliza
son of Manasseh and Harriet (Leon
ard) Andrews, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., 31 Aug., 1828. Edu cated in common and high schools, and graduated, in 1846, at the State
Normal School,
under the care of Nicholas
at Bridgewater, then
linghast, a graduate of
West
Point.
Being appointed
graduated in 1851, at the head of his class
;
to
West
Til-
Point, he
brevetted second lieutenant,
Engineer Corps, 1 July, 1851. He was assigned to duty as assistant to Colonel Thayer, then in charge of the construction of Fort Warren, In August, 1854, in Boston Harbor, where he remained three years. he was ordered to West Point, as acting Assistant Professor in the De partment of Civil and Military Engineering, the Science of War, &c. The then small pay of an officer was insufficient to support a family, and Ire resigned, 1 Sept., 1855, to enter the service of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, N.H., as engineer, where he remained until 1857. He then became employed by the Government as a civil en In 1860, and to the opening of the war, he was connected gineer. with a large business house in Boston.
He was tendered, on the appearance of hostilities, a position as col onel of one of the Massachusetts regiments, and also (from Washing ton) the place of paymaster, but preferred to accept the commission of May, 1861) of the Second. His influence in shap r ing the regiment, and his w ork as commander, are already described He commanded the regiment in Bank s retreat, Cedar in this book. lieutenant-colonel (24
Mountain, Pope
s
Appointed brigadiercampaign, and Antietam. and assigned to duty with General Banks, then
general, 9 Nov., 1862,
preparing for
New
Orleans, in which
work he rendered good
service.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
477
Was chief-of-staff to General Banks for some period ; and was, after the reduction of Port Hudson, assigned to the organization and com mand of the Corps d Afrique, in which position his abilities were of great value. He served in that department or vicinity until the close of the war.
Was
brevetted major-general, 26 March, 1865
;
and was
honorably discharged, 24 Aug., 1865.
He was married, 21 Dec., 1853, to Sara Bridge Fisk. Children: Helen Bridge, born 27 Sept., 1854; Percy, born 23 Jan., 1857; Arthur Dearborn, born 16 Mayj 1860. WILDER D WIGHT, son of William and Elizabeth A. (White) Dwight, was born in Springfield, Mass., 23 April, 1833. Fitted for college at Phillips
Academy, Exeter, N.H.
;
and graduated
at
Harvard
Entered the Law School the same College, with high rank, in 1853. year ; but went to Europe in 1855, where he remained fifteen months.
He read law in the offices of Caleb Cushing, Ebenezer II. Hoar, and Horace Gray, jun. was admitted to the bar in 1856, and began prac ;
tice in 1858.
"
After more than a score of years spent in
courts," says G. Abbott, "almost living in them, ... I can only say, without being invidious to my friends around me, I never knew so young a person, in the whole of my acquaintance, or in the whole length or
Hon.
J.
breadth of the Commonwealth, whose future had more promise than On the approach of war, he resigned Dwight."
the future of Colonel all
his prospects.
Early deliberating upon the best means of forming a
regiment, his plans fell in with those of Colonel Gordon. His success in raising the regimental fund, his errand to the Secretary of War, and his efficiency in the formation of the regiment, earlier pages.
He was
have been described
appointed major, 24 May, 1861
;
in
lieutenant-
He commanded the rear-guard in the various skirmishes of the 24th of May, 1862. Our major," wrote an officer, has won for himself the heartfelt admiration of the regiment. His indomitable pluck and sangfroid were beautiful." In passing through
colonel, 13 June, 1862.
"
"
Winchester, he became a prisoner, while advancing to assist a woun ded soldier; but was soon paroled. He rejoined the regiment near Damascus, on the march to Antietam. He fell at Antietam, and died
While mortally wounded, opening and finding the chaplain bending over him, he said, It is all right, Mr. Chaplain, I know I am done for but I want you to understand I don t flinch a hair. I should like to live But apart from a iew days, so as to see my father and mother. on the 19th of September, 1862.
his eyes after a period of exhaustion, "
;
.
God
calls for
me
.
.
minute, I am ready to go." His genial qualities, care of the men, coolness, endurance, and
that, if
this
eminent ability, had won, equally, respect and affection. He was buried in Brookline, six companies of the Massachusetts Forty-fourth doing escort duty.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
478 On
the 24th of September, the
members
of the Suffolk Bar assem
bled in large numbers, on a call from Sydney Bartlett, Benjamin R. Curtis, Josiah G. Abbott, and Richard H. Dana, jun., who were ad
dressed by Mr. Abbott, Josiah Quincy, jun., Mr. Dana, F. E. Parker, and Horace Gray, jun., and adopted resolutions, which were presented at the October term of the Supreme Judicial Court, Mr. Justice Hoar presiding, by Hon. J. G. Abbott, who introduced his motion to enter them on the records, with appropriate remarks. The proceedings of the Bar, and at the term of Court, were pri Harvard Memo vately printed. A sketch of his life appears in the "
rial,"
i.
271-293.
Lucius MANLIUS SARGENT, son of Lucius M. and Sarah C. (daugh Samuel Dunn), was born in Boston, Mass., 15 Sept., 1826. In 1844, he entered Harvard College, but ended his connection in the second year. He received, however, the degree of A.M. with his
ter of
class.
Studying medicine, he graduated at the Harvard Medical As a physician and surgeon, he was a man of rare
School, in 1857.
promise. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he promptly offered his ser vices as surgeon of the Second, and was appointed 28 May, 1861. His faithfulness and success will long be remembered by the men of
He was offered the place of brigade-surgeon but resigned his medical commission, and accepted, 31 Oct., 1861, that of captain in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, under Colonel Robert the regiment.
Williams.
Long
;
before he
more thoroughly exact
became a
field-officer, it
was
said that
"
no
soldier, in the theory of regimental cavalry
and evolutions, existed out of the French service." In reconnoissance, the lamented General Stevens esteemed him as of the first among volunteers.
tactics
He was promoted major, 2 Jan., 1864 lieutenant-colonel, Was severely wounded, near the region of the heart, ;
1864.
17 June, 1863, and
30 Sept., at Aldie,
dead upon the field. But he returned to weeks absence, with his wound unhealed. At in a most gallant charge, contributing in Bellfield, Va., 9 Dec., 1864, an eminent degree to the success of the late movement," says General Davies, he fell in front of his column, sword in hand," and in two left for
service after a few
"
"
hours expired. Colonel Sargent was married, 22 Sept., 1847, to Letitia Sullivan, daughter of Jonathan Arnory, Esq., of Jamaica Plain. She and four children survive him.
An obituary was published in the "Boston Advertiser," 20 Dec., Harvard Memorial," i. 142-146. 1864, and one in the FRANCIS LELAND, son of Joseph P. and Tryphena (daughter of Dr. "
479
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Abijah Richardson, a surgeon in the Revolutionary army), was born in Sherborn, Mass. Graduated at Brown University in 1888. Studied medicine at the Tremont Medical School, and graduated M.D., Har vard, 1842, and
commenced
practice in Milford,
where he
still
resides.
appointed surgeon in the Second, 11 Oct., 1801. Was himself wounded in the head, while attending to the wounded on the field of
He was
Cedar Mountain. He soon returned to duty, but subsequent impaired health proved inadequate, and he resigned 24 Oct., 1862. His kindness, faithfulness, and skill are gratefully remembered.
battle at
LINCOLN RIPLEY STONE was born in Bridgeton, Me., 5 Aug., 1832; son of (Rev.) Thomas T. and Laura (Poor) Stone. Studied medicine with Dr. William Mack, of Salem graduated M.D., Har Was commissioned assistantvard, in 1854, and practised in Salem. ;
surgeon in the Second, June 1, 1861, and immediately went to Camp Andrew. In August, 1861, he was temporarily detached to the hos pital at
Hagerstown.
Was
in charge of the large hospital at
erick, Md., in the winter of 1861-62.
When Banks
was
Fred
at Harris-
burg, he was in charge of the hospital (built by the rebels) at Mount When Jackson entered Win Jackson, and afterwards at Strasburg. chester, Dr. Stone became a prisoner, remaining at the post of duty.
His brave conduct at Antietam insured his promotion, which was dated Nov. 7, 1862. When Shaw left the Second to become colonel of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, Surgeon Stone was transferred to that regiment, and was on duty in the events when Shaw fell. He was
afterwards appointed assistant-surgeon of volunteers, and surgeon of volunteers, 3 Dec., 1863, and was placed in charge of different hospi tals until
the close of the war.
He was mustered
out in 1865.
He was
married, 17 Feb., 1864, to Harriet Hodges, of Salem. WILLIAM HENRY HEATH, son of Douglas M. and Rebecca
(Currier) Heath, was born in Epsom, N.H., 19 March, 1829. Read medicine with Dr. Edward Moore, of Boston, and graduated M.D., Harvard, in 1853. Commenced practice, in 1854, in Stoneham, Mass.
When news came Banks
s retreat,
general.
He
that both the surgeons were
Dr. Heath was
consented to
summoned
made
prisoners in
Boston by the surgeonleave that afternoon, and did so without to
returning to his home. He joined near Bartonsville, 3 June, 1862, and soon accepted, 27 July, 1862, the place of second assistant-sur He served with geon. He was appointed surgeon, 24 April, 1863. great faithfulness and zeal, being distinguished as a very careful and skilful operator. His health failed before Atlanta, in consequence of his untiring attention to duty.
He was
out Mountain, and died 23 Aug., 1864.
Mass.
sent back to hospital on Look He was buried at Stoneham,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
480 He was
married, 22 Aug., 1861, to Delia Maria Belknap, of Stone-
ham.
ALONZO HALL QUINT, Quint,
was born
only son of George and Sally W. (Hall) 22 March, 1828. Fitted for
in Barnstead, N.H.,
college at Franklin Academy, Dover, N.H. graduated Dartmouth, 1846 studied medicine a year and a half; entered Andover Theo ;
;
and remained a year for ordained pastor of the Mather (Trinitarian Con gregational) Church at Jamaica Plain, West Eoxbury, Mass., 27 Dec., 1853. Was member of the State Board of Education, 1855 to 1861
logical
Seminary
further study.
in 1849, graduated in 1852,
Was
;
member
New-England His corresponding member of New-
of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
Society, and Hampshire and New- York Historical Societies. Early in June, 1861, was appointed chaplain of the Second, for which his church gave him leave of absence for two years. Was commissioned 20 June. Was se
toric-Genealogical
verely sick in 1863, in consequence of exposure in the line of duty," from which he did not recover completely, though returning in Au In the Atlanta campaign, partly by advice of surgeon, and gust. partly from other considerations, availed himself of the opportunity to be mustered out. Was settled over the North Congregational Church, New Bedford, Mass., 21 July, 1864. Received the degree of D.D., "
from Dartmouth, in 1866. Mr. Quint was married 31
Jan., 1864, to Rebecca P., daughter of Children Allen Putnam, Esq., of Salem. George Putnam, born 21 Oct., 1854, died 15 Nov., 1855 Clara Gadsden, born 23 July, 1858 Wilder Dwight, born 15 Nov., 1863. :
;
;
JAMES WIGHTMAN, son
of Joseph
Wightman (Mayor
of George
town, Prince-Edward Island), was born in Georgetown, Prince-Ed ward Island, 1 April, 1840. He came to Boston in 1858; read medi cine with Dr. Campbell, of East Boston, and graduated at Harvard
He was appointed second assistant-surgeon March, 1862, and joined for duty on the 28th. In the battle of Chancellorsville he did faithful service and after it, was assigned to duty at Acquia Creek hospital, where his unremitting la bors, added to the previous exposures, induced typhoid fever, of which Medical School in 1862.
in the Second, 19
;
he died,
at
Washington, 15 June, 1863.
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
Jun., son of (Dr.) William and Rebecca (Donahoe) Nichols, was born in Boston, Mass., 10 Dec., 1840. Fitted for college at Boston Latin School, and Brookline High School but his ;
health failing, went to Fayal. He read medicine with Dr. Josiah Was em Curtis, of Boston, and took his degree at Harvard in 1861. ployed in medical service with the army from 10 April, 1862, to 20 April, 1863
;
was appointed assistant-surgeon
in the Second, 5
May,
AP LA
481
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
18G3. He served at Gettysburg, with great bravery and zeal and in the campaigns to Atlanta (on the field at Resaca) and Savannah. He was appointed surgeon, 27 Sept., 1864, but accepted instead the posi tion of surgeon of the Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 9 Dec., ;
1864, with Avhich he served, as well as in charge of medical service in the forts about Washington, until he was mustered out, 18 Sept.,
1865.
CURTIS EMERSON MUNN, son of Apollos and Elmira Munn, was born in Windsor, Vt., 2 Feb., 1836. Was civil engineer, but studied medicine with Dr. James Holland, Westfield, Mass., and graduated at Harvard Medical School in 1863. Was appointed assistant-surgeon, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, 3 July, 1863 ; surgeon in the Second, 5 Dec., 1864, joining at Savannah. Mustered out with the regi ment.
CHARLES WIIEATON,
was born
in
Warren, R.I., 31 May, Wheaton. He was educated at the Collegiate Institute, in Warren, and had entered on mercantile business in Boston, Mass., when the war commenced. He was appointed adjutant, being commissioned first-lieutenant May 28, some time after having entered upon his duties at Camp Andrew. 1835
;
Jun.,
son of Charles and
(....)
Declining promotion in the line, he continued to be adjutant, until de upon the staff of General Gordon in early summer in 1862.
tailed
Being appointed commissary of subsistence, with the rank of captain, 17 July, 1862, he was assigned to duty with General Gordon he was afterwards chief-commissary of General Weitzel s Corps, and entered Richmond with that General. With him, also, he went to Texas. He served until the end of the war. ROBERT MORRIS COPELAND, son of Benjamin F. and Julia (RugWas in gles) Copeland, was born in Roxbury, Mass., 11 Dec., 1830. business when war approached. Appointed quartermaster of the Sec ond about 22 April, 1861 commissioned 28 May. Obtained Brook Farm, West Roxbury, for camp ground, and had the entire work of procuring supplies, c. His unwearied and faithful industry, together ;
;
with his business
ability,
proved of great use. In August, 1861, he was
detailed as aide to General
Banks
;
and, 27 Nov., appointed assistant
He served with General Banks adjutant-general, with rank of Major. while he remained in service. At the battle of Kernstown, in March, was conspicuous. His strong sympathies with the movements against slavery led him to seek a transfer to the command of General Hunter but, on the 6th of August, 1862, he was suddenly
1862, his gallantry
;
dismissed the service, by order of the Secretary of War, on the alleged violated an important trust ; a charge which ground of having All Senator Sumner, after full examination, pronounced unjust. "
"
31
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
48
efforts to obtain a hearing, though aided by Governor Andrew and some of the most eminent citizens of Massachusetts, failed. His fellow-citizens knew him too well to believe him guilty of dishonorable conduct." That the charge was unjust, appears perfectly clear. A "
full
account
is given in a pamphlet. married, 29 June, 1854, to Josephine Gannett Kent. Chil Frederick Kent, born 22 Aug., 1855 ; Kobert Morris, born 29
He was dren
:
Aug., 1857, died 9 Sept., 1858 Ella Bradford, bora 30 Nov., 1858 Robert Janies, born 8 Jan., 1801 Josephine Russell, born 28 Sept., ;
;
;
1865, died 22
May, 1866. FRANCIS HENRY TUCKER, son of William (late of Boston) and Mary Ann (Kirkly) Tucker, was born in Boston, Mass., 28 Feb., 1830. Removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1845; was in business there 1
until
March, 1861.
Captain in the Second, 24 May, 1861
;
resigned
12 Dec., 1861.
GREELY STEVENSON CURTIS, son
of James F. and ...(...) was born in Boston, Mass., 21 Nov., 1830. Was in the public Latin School two years, and a year and a half in the Scientific School at Cambridge. Engineer from 1848 to 1851; and subsequently in California, the East Indies, and Canada. Captain, 24 May, 1861 Curtis,
;
major in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, 31 Oct., 1861 lieutenantHe was in command of that regiment in the colonel, 30 Oct., 1862. action at Kelley s Ford, 17 March, 1863, and in the various actions and movements up to the middle of July. Disability, from disease, ;
him to resign, 4 March, 1864. JAMES SAVAGE, jun., only son of (Hon.) James and Elizabeth
forced
Otis
(Stillman) Savage, was born in Boston, Mass., 21 April, 1832. Fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1854.
After passing a year in Europe, being in poor health, he settled At the first shot, he determined to in Ashby, Mass.
upon a farm,
enter the service
;
and becoming associated with Colonel Gordon, began
Company D. Captain, 24 May, 1861 rendered good service with Company D in Banks s retreat, both on the road and as skir
to enlist
;
mishers, on the 25th of May. Major, 13 June, 1862. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, his horse was shot under him ; and, very soon after, he was wounded by the flank fire of the enemy, being struck by two
one of which broke the upper bone of the right arm near the shoulder, and the other shattered the lower bone of the right leg. He
balls,
1 From this point, the names occur in the order of rank, except that first lieu tenants Wheaton and Copeland (adjutant and quartermaster) were understood to follow the original ten captains. The rank, on the regimental books, was determined by date of muster, not date of commission.
483
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
was taken prisoner, and carried first to a farm-house in the neighbor hood, and afterwards to a hospital in Charlottesville, where his brotherin-law, Professor William B. Rogers, had formerly resided, as professor in the University, and where attached friends were not unmindful of the claims and duties of that friendship. The nature of his wounds it necessary that both the arm and the leg should be ampu
made
upon the latter the operation was successfully performed, and upon the former was delayed till the exhausted system might gain strength enough to bear the new drain upon its energies. At it proved that his system could first, the symptoms were favorable, but not meet the demands which Avere made upon it, and he died, 22 Oct.,
tated
:
that
1862. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel took place after he was made a prisoner, on 17 Sept., 1862. All who knew him can appreciate the following extract from the
Boston Advertiser He had a heart of feminine "He was as gentle as he was brave. tenderness, and a character of feminine purity. He shrank from no danger or exposure himself; but he Avas always thoughtful and consid He was a fine combination of the gentleman, the erate for others. Christian, and the soldier, carrying into the profession of arms, and maintaining, amid scenes of blood and violence, the high sense of "
"
:
duty, the disinterestedness, the elevated tone, Avhich ensure confidence in the avocations of peace."
and respect ,
A
sketch of his
life is
given in
"
Harvard
Memorial,"
i.
pp. 328-
350.
EDAVARD GARDINER ABBOTT, son of (Hon.) Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was born in LoAvell, Mass., 29 Sept., 1840. Was fitted for college at LoAvell
He commenced
1860.
Lowell.
High School, and graduated at Harvard in laAv with Samuel A. Brown, Esq., of
reading
The day after the attack of the Baltimore mob upon the Sixth commenced raising a company in Lowell, Avhich Avas im
regiment, he
and organized under the militia laws. His company Camp AndreAv, on 11 May, 1861. Commission He Avas actively engaged in the skirmishes and dated, 24 May. His company was engaged as skir battle of "Banks s Retreat." mishers at Cedar Mountain, \vhere he Avas killed, 9 Aug., 1862, by a ball striking him in the neck. His body Avas sent home for burial.
mediately
was the
The
filled,
first to
go to
took place in Emanuel Church, Boston, 17 exercises at the church consisted of the usual
funeral services
Aug., 1862.
The
Episcopal burial-service, conducted by Rev. Dr. Edson, of Lowell, and Rev. Charles Grafton, of Baltimore with a feAV touching remarks ;
on the virtues of the deceased, by his old pastor, Dr. Edson. A dele gation of the city government of LoAvell was present, having arrived
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
by a special train from Lowell. At the request of many friends, the parents of the deceased consented to have the remains buried at Lowell.
The whole population of Lowell, and many from surrounding towns, turned out to witness the funeral cortege, and to pay the last tribute of respect to one who, in the flush of manhood, tendered his services to the government in the first hour of her danger, and gallantly per
formed his duty until the fatal bullet deprived the country of one of her bravest sons. Of fine abilities, brave, manly, and true, his loss
was greatly deplored. In addition to appreciative notices published in the Boston and Lowell newspapers, a sketch of his life is given in Harvard Memo "
rial,"
pp. 82-96.
ii.
SAMUEL MILLER QUINCY, son of (Hon.) Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in 1833.
Fitted for college in the school of
Head law
ated at Harvard in 1852.
Josiah Quincy, jun., and Boston, Mass., 13 June,
W.
H. Brooks, and gradu
in the office of P.
W.
Chandler,
and was admitted to practice in 1855. Was one of the editors (with Hon. John Lowell) of the Law Reporter." In 1861, he was a member of the House of Representatives, from Ward 4, Boston and it was during this service that he was commissioned as captain, 24 May. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, he was wounded in two places the wound in the foot proved severe, and permanently injurious. He was taken prisoner at the same time, was carried to Stanton, and then to Libby Prison, Richmond, where he endured hardships which, with "
;
;
wound, severely taxed his strength. Paroled, he arrived in Wash ington in October, 1862, but he was entirely unable to return to duty until 6 March, 1863. He was a captain when he had last seen the
his
such had been the losses as colonel, hav regiment; he returned ing been promoted major, 17 Sept., 1862, and colonel, 9 Nov., 1862.
Commanded
the regiment in the Chancellorsville campaign and battle, it to Stafford Court-house. But the hardships of
and returned with that
movement
satisfied
him
over-estimated his strength,
that he had, in his earnestness, entirely weakened by the wounds from which
suffered, and by his captivity. Unwilling to retain a posi whose duties he could not fully discharge, and in the hope of obtaining a staff position, where he could be useful with less hard
he
still
tion
ship,
till
he should regain his health, he resigned the colonelcy, 2 June,
He was
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-third United-States Colored Troops, 20 Oct., 1863, and detailed as inspector on the staff of General Andrews, at Port Hudson. Colonel, 21 May, 1863.
1864, and transferred (by consolidation) to the Ninety-sixth ; and, on the muster-out of that regiment, colonel of the Eighty-first United-
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
485
On 13 March, 1865, he was States Colored Troops, 5 Jan., 1866. for gallant and meritorious services dur brevetted brigadier-general, ing the war." "
RICHARD CART, youngest child of (Hon.) Thomas Graves and Mary and named (Perkins) Gary, was born in Boston, Mass., 27 June, 1835, for Colonel Richard Gary, who served on the staff of General Wash
Was educated at the Boston Latin School. At seventeen, he ington. was sent South for his health, and formed, in Mobile, Ala., pleasant which led him, a few years later, to select that city for his 25 Oct., 1858, he was married to Helen Eugenia, daughter of Philo S. Shelton, Esq., of Boston, and returned to Mobile, where he had entered into the firm of D. A. D wight & Co., commissionmerchants. In 1860, he left this firm, and commenced business for himself in New Orleans. He returned North in March, 1861, and
relations,
residence.
entered the service as soon as possible. May, 1861, in command of Company G.
Captain in the Second, 24 He served in Banks s re
and at Cedar Mountain, where, 9 Aug., 1862, he was mortally wounded. He lived until the following day, lying upon the field in the hands of the enemy, but watched by the faithful Williston, first sergeant of his company, also mortally wounded. He died without His body was sent home, and buried from Trinity Church, 18 pain. Aug., 1862. The body, which was hermetically sealed in a metallic coffin, enclosed in a casket, was borne to the church from the resi dence of Mr. Quincy Shaw, No. 26, Mount- Vernon Street. The casket was draped with the American flag. The burial service of the Epis copal Church Avas read, after which the minister made a brief address. The remains were buried at Mount Auburn. No person in the Second enjoyed more respect than this manly, honorable, and capable officer. WILLIAM COGSWELL, son of George* (M.DJ and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born in Bradford, Mass., 23 Aug., 1838. Fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, N.H., and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Entered Dartmouth in 1855, but left in 1856. Went to sea, and was gone fifteen months. Began to read law in 1858, and received the degree of LL.B., at Cambridge, in 1860 admitted to practice in 1860, and opened an office in Salem. On the morning of 20 April, 1861, he began to recruit a company, which was speedily filled, and went into camp on Winter Island on the 22d. May 14, it arrived at Camp Andrew, as part of the SECOND. His commission was dated May 24. In Banks s retreat, his services, and those of Company C, have been mentioned. In the autumn of 1862, he was in command of the regiment and, on the 23d of October, he was promoted from captain to lieutenant-colonel. At Sharpsburg, his expedition over the river has been referred to. At the battle of Chantreat,
;
;
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
cellorsville,
he was severely wounde d
in the
shoulder
;
returned, though
In the but partially recovered, 10 July. Colonel, 6 June, 1863. West, he made, with the Second, the reconnoissance at Eesaca, 15 May, When Sherman entered 1864, which proved the pivot of the action.
made post-commandant. From Atlanta to Milledgecommanded a brigade. young officer, zealous, active, and
Atlanta, he was ville,
"A
Was
1864.
Bre\ et-brigadier-general, 17 Dec., of the Third Brigade, Third
Hooker.
General
said
brave,"
assigned to the
Division, Twentieth Corps. rough has been described.
command
His service at the battle of Averysbomustered out, 25 June, 1865, and
Was
returned to the practice of law. General Cogswell was married, 20 June, 1865, to of the late Thorndike Proctor, of Bradford, Mass.
Emma,
daughter
JOEL PARKER WHITNEY, son of George and Sophia (Greenwood) in Gardner, Mass., 27 June, 1836. He lived in Orleans until his tenth year entered ShurtlefT College, 111., but
Whitney, was born
New
;
was compelled his health,
to leave,
and engaged
by
ill
health
;
made
several sea voyages for He was a member of
in business in Boston.
Captain in the Second, 24 May, 1861 but resigned, He was afterwards tendered a position in the Twentieth
the Cadets.
;
2 July, 1861.
Massachusetts, and also a position as major in the Sixteenth Massa
Mr. Whitney was married, 30 June, 1859, to Frances, daughter of William Keith, of Roxbury, Mass.
chusetts, but felt obliged to decline each.
ADIN BALLOU UNDERWOOD, son of Orison and Hannah B. (Cheeney) Underwood, was born in Milford, Mass., 19 May, 1828. Fitted for college at the University School, Providence, II. I., and graduated Was in manufacturing business for one year; at Brown in 1849. commenced Europe
;
the study of law in 1850 passed one year, 1852-53, in to the bar in 1853 practised a year and a ;
was admitted
;
opened an
Boston in 1855. His early con nection with Colonel Gordon in the formation of the Second is already mentioned. Captain, 24 May, 1861. His service with Company I at Bartonsville has been described. In July, the llth, he was appointed major in the Thirty-third Massachusetts, then forming on the 24th, lieutenant-colonel and on the 3d of April, 1863, colonel. As such he half in Milford
;
office in
;
;
commanded
it
where was not
at Chancellorsville,
out to attack Jackson Corps, to which
it
s
trains,
belonged.
his brigade,
having been sent Eleventh
in the rout of the
At Gettysburg, he was on Cemetery
Hill.
In the West, he was in the movement of Hooker, which cleared the south side of the Tennessee to the base of Lookout Mountain when, at Wauhatchie, 29 Oct., 1863, he was most severely wounded, ;
"a
compound comminuted
fracture of the upper third of the right thigh
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His life was despaired of, but he was taken to Nashville, where, after weeks of patient care, he so far recovered as to go North. Unasked for, the commission of brigadier-general was sent him, 22
bone."
When sufficiently recovered, he was made president of a Jan., 1864. the Presi military commission at Washington. Being appointed by dent, 1 Sept., 1865, to the office of surveyor in the Custom-house at Boston, his resignation was accepted but not until he was bre vetted was major-general, to date from 13 March, 1865. General Underwood ;
married to Jane Lydia Walker, of Newton, Mass., 5 June, 1856. Children: Amy, born 28 March, 1857; Anna, born 4 May, 1859; William Orison, born 5 May, 1861. RICHARD CHAPMAN GOODWIN, son of Ozias and Lucy N. (Chap
man) Goodwin, was born
in
Boston, Mass., 11 Oct., 1833.
Fitted for
under private instruction, and in the Boston Latin School; and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He entered the counting-room of William S. Bullard, of Boston, but soon went to Europe, where college,
he remained until 1858. Captain in the Second, 24 May, 1861. He served faithfully with the regiment, though suffering much from ill-health. His devotion to duty was entire. Once, when asked why
he did not get into an ambulance, he replied to the chaplain, I can not ride while my men must go on foot," though at that time his socks were wet with blood. He fell at Cedar Mountain, where, almost His body helpless from disease, he had been assisted up the hill. was sent home. The Rev. Mr. Bartol, in a commemoration sermon "
Aug. 24, said, "You know that another of our number one of the four captains that fell together in the gone from us, battle of Cedar Mountain, and the fourth officer during the year slain from among ourselves, in this rebellion against God and man, while a fifth sank under a fatal disease. I need not mention the name, long (printed),
is
it is, which has already been on all your has dedicated his prime to the duty of the hour.
familiar in this place as
He,
tongues.
The
too,
captain of
Company K,
setts Volunteers,
which
motion of his own
will,
in that
Second Regiment of Massachu
a shining page in our history, at the obedient to the pleading within him of his
will
fill
country s call, gathered his men, and, from his situation of indepen dence and comfort, went into all the labor and hazard of the war, with the simple purpose of doing his part honor to solve our awful problem.
as
he has, with unspotted
The
colonel of the regiment
what we learn on all hands of the respect he won from his and the devoted regard of those whom he See sketch in Harvard Memorial," i. 294-5. CHARLES REDINGTON MUDGE, son of Enoch Redington and Caro line A. (Patten) Mudge, was born in New York, 22 Oct., 1839.
testifies to
brother-officers, "
led."
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
488
Fitted for college in the school of
Thomas G.
Bradford, of Boston, immediately began an educa tion for manufacturing but, on the approach of the war, he was active in raising a company, obtaining many men in Lynn and Swampscott, near his father s home in the summer. First lieutenant, 28 May,
and graduated
at
Harvard
in 1860.
He
;
1861
;
At Winchester he was wounded
captain, 8 July.
He was
hit
by a
which pierced
bullet at Antietam,
in the leg.
his clothing
all
and cut the skin, but did not disable him. Major, 9 Nov., 1862, and lieutenant colonel, 6 June, 1863. After Colonel Quincy s resignation, and in the absence of Lieutenant-colonel Cogswell in consequence of wounds, he was action near
in
command
Brandy
of the regiment, and as such led
it
in the
and at Gettysburg. Its history at was after saying, It s murder but
Station, 9 June,
that place is already given. It it s the order," he bravely led the regiment onward. But, halfway across the meadow, he fell dead. His body was sent home, and buried "
;
Lynn, after a funeral service in Emanuel Church, Boston (Rev. Dr. Huntington officiating), where he had been con firmed a few months previous. Not twenty-four years of age, but manly, and judicious, and of course brave. A valuable memorial was privately printed, and a sketch appears in "Harvard Memorial," ii.
in the cemetery at
151-162.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE WILLIAMS, son of Moses and Mary (daugh Thomas Blake, an officer of the Revolutionary army), was
ter of
born in Boston, Mass., 18 Sept., 1830 removing to Jamaica Plain in 1832. Educated at the public schools, and in drawing and mathe matics under private teachers. Studied a year in the office of Mr. ;
was employed on the Western Railroad, and and Columbus Railroad, where he continued until 1850, when he was selected as one of the corps of engineers to survey a railway route across the Isthmus of TehuanteAfter a year, the sur pec, in which he crossed from ocean to ocean. vey was abandoned he returned, and engaged with others in building sections of the Maysville and Big-Shanty Road and then as a con tractor on the Mobile and Ohio Road. After finishing his contracts, he went to Europe in 1858, where he spent a year and a half. Soon after Whitney,
civil
engineer
;
assistant-engineer on the Cleveland
;
;
his return, the rebellion broke out.
He
entered the service as
first
commissioned 28 May, 1861, Company E. He was in Banks s retreat, and at Cedar Mountain, where he was killed, 9 Aug., Generous and upright, cool, reflective, sagacious, resolute in 1862. purpose, courageous, it was no common loss, as a man and an officer. lieutenant,
His remains were sent home, and buried, 17 Aug. of the 18th of August Boston Journal Said the services of this brave and popular officer, who fell at the "
"
"
:
The
funeral
battle of
Cedar
o
WGflJLOARO
So
WO L10AP] So
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COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Mountain, were observed in the Unitarian Church at Jamaica Plain, yesterday afternoon. The other churches were closed, out of respect
The casket, draped with the American flag and covered with the most exquisite flowers, rested upon a table in front of the pulpit. Over the casket was placed Captain Williams s sword, on which was a beautiful cross of white flowers, with the hilt just to the deceased.
The pulpit was also draped with the national flag. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Thompson, the pastor, who gave a discourse [printed] in which the character, life, and death visible at the top.
of Captain Williams were dwelt upon, and an appreciative considera and results of the war, in which so
tion given to the cause, objects,
many
After the services, the remains were
brave lives are sacrificed.
borne to Forest-Hills In
Cemetery."
well said Dr.
all the elements of genu due proportion, and compacted into a stature of rare beauty and com physical, intellectual, and moral pleteness a soldier worthy of his name, without a stain upon his life to make his father sad or ashamed. Born to the prospective inheri tance of ample wealth, he scorned the indolent effeminacy which such "
whom,"
ine manliness were
mixed
Thompson,
"
in
;
a condition too often induces.
Though opposed
to the political party
which brought the Administration into power, yet he saw at a glance that there was but one course for a patriot like himself to take and that was, to devote his energies and his life, without reserve or stint, to the defence and preservation of the national existence thus auda ;
ciously
imperilled."
HEXRY STURGIS RUSSELL,
son of George R. and Sarah (daughter was born in Dorchester, Mass., 21 June, 1838. Fitted for college under the care of Epes S. Dixwell, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. First lieutenant, 28 May, 1861 cap of Robert G.
Shaw)
Russell,
;
He was taken prisoner at Cedar Mountain, Dec., 1861. 9 Aug., 1862. Was appointed colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, 5 April, 1864, and served in Virginia. He was wounded, in tain, 13
the shoulder, at Bailor
s farm, before Petersburg, Va., 15 June, 1864. honorably discharged, 15 Feb., 1865. Was married, 6 May, 1863, to Mary Hathaway, daughter of John M. Forbes. Children: James Savage, born 8 March, 1864; Ellen Forbes, born 30 Dec.,
Was
1865.
MARCUS MORTON HAWES, son of William and Maria (daughter of Governor Marcus Morton) Hawes, was born in New Bedford, Mass., 23 Sept., 1836. Removed to Boston in 1844. Fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and in the care of Epes S. Dixwell, and gradu ated at Harvard in 1858. He was in commission business until the war.
First lieutenant, 24
May,
1861.
Was
acting-quartermaster, 12
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
490
Aug., 1861, and appointed to that place, Nov. 27. On the 31st of March, 1862, he was acting brigade-commissary, and was appointed
He
assistant-quartermaster, with the rank of captain, 17 July, 1862.
was with General Gordon
until
November, when he was assigned
to
duty with General Andrews, then about to go South in the expedition of General Banks. He assisted in the preparations at New York, and to New Orleans in January, 1863. Was subsequently assigned duty with the chief quartermaster, and served until February, 1865, when his resignation was accepted. He remained in business in New
went to
Orleans.
GEORGE PEMBERTOX BANGS, son of George P. (late of Boston) and Elizabeth (Simpkins) Bangs, was born in Boston, Mass., 29 July, 1835. Fitted for college under a private tutor, and entered Amherst but removed to the Scientific School at Cambridge, where he studied a year. In 1855-56, he sailed to California and the East Indies and ;
;
in 1857 travelled in Europe.
com
First lieutenant in the Second;
missioned, 28 May, 1861; captain, 13 June, 1862; was in the battles but resigned 29 of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, and Antietam ;
March, 1863, on account of continued disease, contracted in the
line
of duty.
WILLIAM DWIGHT SEDGWICK,
only son of Charles and Elizabeth
(Dwight) Sedgwick, was born in Lenox, Mass., 27 June, 1831. Fit one year at a French school in New York, and at ted for college, Stockbridge and Lenox and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He spent the winter in a law office then went to Europe, where he remained seventeen months, studying at the universities of Gottingen and Breslau returning, spent a year at the Cambridge Law School, and com ;
;
;
He returned to enter the service ; practice in St. Louis, Mo. Ordnance officer of the lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861.
menced first
was appointed assistant adjutant-general, with division, 14 Aug. the rank of captain, 16 Sept., 1861, and placed on the staff of Gen He eral Sedgwick, with whom he served with distinguished ability. ;
was promoted major, 7 Aug., 1862. In the battle of Antietam, he was mortally wounded, dying 29 Sept., at Keedysville. He married, in 1857, at Hanover, Germany, Louisa Frederica, daughter of Professor A. Tellkampf, of that place. sketch of his life appears in Harvard Memorial," i. 179-189. CHARLES FESSENDEN MORSE, son of Robert M. and Sarah M.
A
"
(daughter of Fessenden Clarke) Morse, was born in Boston, Mass., 22 Sept., 1839. Graduated at the Cambridge Scientific School (B. S.) He took an in 1857, and for three years was occupied as architect. active part in the formation of the Second first lieutenant, 28 May, 1861. Either with the regiment or on staff of a general officer, he ;
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COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
was in every action of the regiment. Captain, 11 July, 1862; major, 6 June, 1863 ; lieutenant-colonel, 4 July, 1863. Was provost-marshal of the Twelfth Corps in the Chancellorsville campaign, and was pVesent witli General Slocum at Chancellor House
;
and held the same
position until the consolidation of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, early in 1864. When that took place, he returned to the regiment* of which
he was repeatedly in command on the campaign towards Atlanta, and from 16 Jan., 1865, the time of Colonel Cogswell s brevet as brig As such, he was in the battle of adier, he continued in command. Averysborough, 16 March, 1864, where he was seriously wounded in the shoulder. He led home the regiment in June, 1865. Commissioned and was brevetted colonel colonel, by the Governor, 24 July, 1865 by the President, "for gallant and meritorious service, during the recent campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas, a colonel of volun teers by brevet, to rank as such from the 13th day of March, A.D. ;
;
1865."
THOMAS LAWRENCE MOTLEY, son of Thomas and Maria B. (Davis) Motley, was born in Boston, Mass., 23 Sept., 1835. Was two years on a voyage to China. At the breaking out of the war, went to Fort Independence, as a member of the New-England Guards. First lieu tenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861. Dec. 25, 1861, he was com missioned captain in the First Massachusetts Cavalry was promoted to be major, 5 March, 1862. He was severely wounded in right ;
leg and the right arm, at Ashland, Va., 11 May, 1864, in Sheridan s movement; he has never entirely recovered the use of his arm.
Was
appointed assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of major;
and mustered
out, 1 Sept., 1866.
EDWIN RUTHVEN HILL, Hill,
was born
son of Benjamin and Anstiss Peirce (Lane) He served in the war
in Salem, Mass., 18 April, 1826.
with Mexico, and there contracted disease which never entirely left First lieutenant (Company C), 28 May, 1861. Resigned from disability, 29 Nov., 1861. Upon partial recovery, he served, in the
him.
Salem Cadets, wards enlisted
six
months at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. He after Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and was com
in the
missioned 21 Sept., 1864.
The
He
fell
in action, 9 Dec., 1864.
Boston Transcript said First lieutenant Edwin R. Hill, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts (and acting aide on the second brigade staff), was killed near the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, on the 9th instant, by a shot through the thigh, severing the artery, and caus "
"
"
:
ing hemorrhage that proved fatal before a surgeon could be procured, Lieutenant Hill being at the vevy front. correspondent writes from Hilton Head that this young officer was formerly a lieutenant in the old Second Massachusetts, where he maintained a high reputation,
A
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
492
resigning from ill-health. He afterwards recovered, and enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry. While serving in this capacity, on tolly Island, he met, in the Fifty -fifth Massachusetts, some of his old friends of the Second, to the
Government
by whose
influence he
was recommended
He was mustered
for a commission.
as first lieu
tenant the very day on which the regiment left Hilton Head on the expedition, and in the action at Honey Hill he was very efficient,
He was knocked off and somewhat injured in this action, but returned to the front. Lieutenant Hill was a man of quiet, dignified manners, and fine military judgment and experience. His career in the Fifty -fifth was brief, but it leaves a glorious record, which will be tenderly cherished by his companions in arms/" Mr. Hill was married, 6 Sept., 1852, to Abby E. H. Kinsley, of Salem, and left children. HARRISON GRAY OTIS WEYMOTJTII, son of Stephen and Sarah Curtis (Cornor) Weymouth, was born in Clinton, Me., 16 Aug., 1840. Resided in Lowell. First lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861 acting as aide-de-camp in the hottest of the
from his horse by the concussion of a
fire.
shell
;
resigned, 2 July, 1861 captain in the Nineteenth Massachusetts, 3 Aug., 1861, and served until 4 April, 1863, when he was discharged ;
having lost his left leg at the battle of Fredericksburg, 13 Dec., 1862, while in command of the regiment. Was appointed major in the First United-States Volunteer Infantry, a regiment
for disability,
recruited from rebel prisoners at Point Lookout and served as such until the regiment was mustered out, 27 Nov., 1865. ROBERT GOULD SHAW, jun., son of Francis George (now of New ;
York) and Sarah B. (Sturgis) Shaw, was born in Boston, Mass., 10 Was educated at St. John s College, Fordham NeuOct., 1837. chatel, Switzerland; and Hanover, Germany; and three years in Harvard College, in the Class of 1860, which he left to enter the house ;
of
II.
1861.
New
He
served as private in the NewWashington in the spring of Second lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861; first lieu
P. Sturgis
&
Co.,
York Seventh, when
it
York.
was summoned
to
tenant, 8 July, 1861 captain, 10 Aug., 1862. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, he was aide to General Gordon, who officially mentioned ;
and coolness." Captain Shaw was selected to command regiment of colored troops, and was accordingly commis sioned major of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, 31 March, 1863, and His history from that time to his fall at colonel, 17 April, 1863.
his
"labors
the
first
Wagner, he fell.
is
national.
He was
killed 18 July, 1863,
and buried where
In addition to private record, a sketch appears in morial," ii.
183-211.
"
Harvard
Me
493
COMMISSIONED OFFICEBS.
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON, son of George and Mary Cabot (Lee) New York, 18 Nov., 1834. Soon after his
Higginson, was born in
removed
birth, his parents
Fitted for college at Boston
to Boston.
Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1851. Went to Europe in 1852, and remained a year and a half. After some time in the count
ing-room of a mercantile house, he again went to Europe, in 1856, and remained until 1860. On the 28th of May, 1861, second lieuten ant in the Second
first lieutenant, July 8. Appointed captain in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, 31 Oct., 1861; major, 26 March, 1862; but left the service, 9 Aug., 1864, on account of continued disability ;
from disease.
OCHRAN HANKS HOWARD, son of Benjamin and Mary (Sturtevant) Howard, was born in Ware, Mass., 19 Oct., 1838. Was in the Naval Academy, 1857 to 1861. Second lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, first lieutenant, 17 Sept., 1861 Was captain, 10 Aug., 1862. detached on service in the Signal Corps, 27 Aug., 1861, and never returned and was transferred to that corps when organized, 12 Sept.,
1861
;
;
;
1863, to rank from 3 March, 1863. He was in the Port Royal expe dition served in the special commands of Sherman, Hunter, Gilmore, ;
and others Texas.
;
with Grant at Vicksburg
He was
officer of the
He was
and
;
Department of the
in every rebel State except
brevet-major, and chief signal
in service in 1866, Gulf.
married, January, 1861, to Miss Catharine Breck, of
An
Md. JAMES FRANCIS, son of James B. and Sarah W. (Brownell) Fran Was in the school cis, was bom in Lowell, Mass., 30 March, 1840. of Mr. Allen, Jamaica Plain and had spent a year in the studies of mechanical engineering, when, in April, 1861, he was appointed lieu
napolis,
;
company raised by Captain Abbott (A). Second lieuten ant in the Second, 28 May, 1861; first lieutenant, 1 Nov., 1861; At the battle of Antietam, he was wounded captain, 10 Aug., 1862.
tenant in the
returned to duty, hand, requiring amputation of fingers Dec. 1. Served in Georgia on the staff Major, 4 July, 1863. of General A. S. Williams, as division inspector. Was appointed
in the
lieutenant-colonel
;
by the Governor, 24 July, 1865 and was brevetted by the President, 13 March, 1865. ;
lieutenant-colonel of volunteers,
Mustered out of service with the regiment
THOMAS RODMAN ROBESON,
son of
in July, 1865.
Thomas
(late of
Philadelphia)
and Sybil (Washburn) Robeson, was born in New Bedford, Mass., 7 Nov., 1840. Fitted for college under the care of Francis M. Tower, Second lieutenant of Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. in the Second, 28
May, 1861
;
first
lieutenant, 30 Nov., 1861.
tached for service in the Signal Corps, in the
fall
of 1861
;
De
and was
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
494
Roanoke Island and Newbern. Applying to be came back in the spring of 1862. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, he was wounded in the arm. Captain, 10 Aug., 1862. He was mortally wounded, in the thigh, at Gettysburg, 3 July, 1863, and
in the actions at
returned, he
died there, July "The
6.
country,"
said the
"Boston
Advertiser,"
"has
lost a brave,
competent, and faithful officer in Captain Thomas Rodman Robeson, of Cambridge, of the Massachusetts Second Regiment, who fell severely
wounded under
the terrible
fire to
which
his
regiment was exposed at
Gettysburg, on Friday morning, the 3d instant. His company had been posted in advance as skirmishers and, when his heroic regiment was ordered to make the charge in which half their number were cut ;
when he fell, with the upper por many pieces by a bullet. His remains New Bedford. Few officers of his rank were more
down, he had just started
to advance,
tion of his thigh shattered into
were interred
at
serviceable than this brave
young man.
Though but twenty-two
years of age, he had a thorough manliness of character, in harmony with his tall, strong form and this, with his personal dignity and un and gave him failing courage, gained him the respect of his men, ;
unusual success in keeping them cool and steady in
A sketch
action."
given in Harvard Memorial," ii. 261-274. CHARLES PAINE HORTON, son of Henry K. and Helen M. (Barnes) Horton, was born in Boston, Mass., 1 Oct., 1837. Fitted for college of his
"
life is
Was at Chauncy Hall, Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. in business at the South, but returned, and was commissioned second first lieutenant, 1 Nov. lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861 He was upon Colonel Gordon s staff a short period, when that officer was in command of the brigade in the fall of 1861 and again in the ;
;
spring of 1862, serving as such in Banks s retreat, when he had his and was men as he usually did in battle shot under him, "horse ;
and gallant services in He was upon General Greene s staff when that officer was action." assigned to the command of the brigade, and continued with him when the general was transferred to another command. Assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain, 17 July, 1862. He was, as such, in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
tioned by General Gordon for
He
"
efficiency,
also served as aide to General Heintzelman, being appointed 24
He remained in service until October, 1865. RUFUS CHOATE, only son of (Hon.) Rufus and Helen
Aug., 1863.
(daughter of Hon. Mills Olcott, of Hanover, N.H.) Choate, was born in Salem, Mass., 14 May, 1834, from which place his father soon removed to Boston. at
Fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated Studied law with his father, and at the Law in 1855.
Amherst
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
495
School (being absent in Europe in 1858) ; and commenced practice as a partner of his father and J. M. Bell. After the death of the former in 1859, he joined Henry F. Durant in practice, in which he continued
when he entered the army. Commissioned second lieutenant (Company I), 28 May; first lieutenant, 13 Dec., 1861 captain, 17 Aug., 1862. He was in Banks s retreat, at Cedar until the spring of 1861,
;
Severe and long-continued neuralgia, contracted, or at least greatly aggravated, by exposure in the mala rious districts, forced him to resign, 31 Oct., 1862. His disease in
Mountain, and at Antietam.
creased, affecting the brain ; and, after intense suffering, he died, 25 Jan., 1866, at the house of his brother-in-law, Edward E. Pratt, in
Dorchester.
The Boston Traveller said When our civil war broke out, Mr. Choate was in the practice of the law in this city, having, for a "
"
"
:
young man
just starting in his profession, a large clientage.
Every There was every inducement, But the echoes from selfishly speaking, for him to remain at home. Sumter had scarcely ceased before he had offered his services to the thing looked prosperously for him.
for the war.
government, "
He was
determined, to use his
through/ and chusetts
own
for this reason,
among Regiment, which was, we
language,
to see the thing
others, joined the
Second Massa
believe, the first in the country
organized for that length of time. Mr. Choate remained with his till the autumn of 1862, when the disease, which attacked
regiment
him
shortly after he joined the army, compelled
him
to resign his
commission.
He
returned to his home, hoping that in a few months his health sufficiently restored to enable him again to join his regiment. But this hope was not to be realized. "
would be
His sufferings during the last four years have been almost unin terrupted and almost incredible. Death is to him literally a release. Yet during the whole he showed the same sweetness of temper, the "
same patience, the same uncomplainingness, that had always charac terized him. And yet they say I suffer/ said he, when the horrors of Andersonville were read to him.
Through these four long and
own sufferings, except when when compared with those of others. brother officers, as of all who had ever
dreary years he completely ignored his
he
tried to
show
their lightness
The testimony of his known him well, is unanimous "
ing humanity. inheritance.
Choate has
as to his wit, his
And, indeed, the son of
When left,
humor, and
his unfail
his father took these
by
he resigned his commission, one of them wrote, and with him goes the life of the regiment. No
more fun now, but simple duty/
496 "
the
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
At
the battle of Cedar Mountain, he and three other officers of so ill, that none but themselves thought
same regiment were
of their taking part in the impending conflict. They were helped or carried on to the
ever.
wrote
Not so they, how field.
One
present
:
All our officers behaved nobly. Those who ought to have stayed away, wouldn t. Goodwin, Gary, Choate, and Stephen Perkins were all Ghoate is the only quite ill, but would not stay away from the fight. one of the four not killed. It was splendid to see those sick fellows walk right up into that shower of bullets, as if it were so much "
rain.
"
JAMES MARCH ELLIS, son of
Granville and Mary Ann (March) was born in Boston, 23 Nov., 1835. Fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Amherst in 1856. Studied law with Thornton Lothrop, Esq., and at the Cambridge Law School was in Europe in 1857 admitted to practice in 1858, and opened an office Second lieutenant, 28 May, 1861 commissary of subsist in Boston. ence, with the rank of captain, 22 Nov., 1861, and assigned to duty with General Abercrombie, with whom he had been serving since Ellis,
;
;
;
8 Sept. Was afterwards with General Hartsuff, in the Department of the Gulf; and chief commissary of the Twenty-third Corps, with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Left service in July, 1865. of Robert (late of Salem) and in Salem, Mass., 19 April, 1840.
EGBERT BANCROFT BROWN, son Mary (Cleaveland) Brown, was born
Was
educated at Salem High School.
Commenced
the office of S. C. Bancroft, Esq., 22 March, 1859. 28 May, 1861; first lieutenant, 28 Nov., 1861.
reading law in Second lieutenant, He was on duty at
General Banks s headquarters, in the quartermaster s department, in the spring of 1862 ; but was relieved, at his own request, immediately Was after the battle of Cedar Mountain, to return to the regiment. appointed regimental quartermaster, 1 Sept., 1862; captain, 23 Oct., He remained with the regiment until the war was ended, 1862. having been in command at Atlanta and in South Carolina. Though
most of the battles of the regiment, he was never wounded. The war being ended, he resigned his commission, 15 April, 1865, being then senior captain. He had been admitted to the bar, in Salem, in in
February, 1864.
ANSON DAVID SAWYER,
son of David (late of Tinmouth) and Sawyer, was born in Tinmouth, Vt., 17 Feb., 1833. He went to Boston in 1852. Was receiving officer at the House of Correction from 5 Sept., 1852, to March, 1861. Second
Lucretia (Stafford)
lieutenant in the Second, 28 1861 ; captain, 9 Nov., 1862.
first lieutenant, 25 Dec., last-named he declined, and was
May, 1861;
The
497
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
appointed quartermaster, 1 Jan., 1863. This position he held until ill health made it necessary for him to resign, 3 Nov., 1864. STEPHEN GEORGE PERKINS, son of Stephen H. and Sarah (Sulli
van) Perkins, was born in Boston, Mass., 18 Sept., 1835. Fitted for college under the instruction of Thomas G. Bradford and William P. Atkinson, and graduated at Harvard in 1856, having entered in 1851,
and heing absent one year. Went to Europe in November, 1856, and returned in October, 1857. Entered the Cambridge Law School in March, 1858 the Scientific School, as student in mathematics, in ;
Second lieu 1859, where he remained until the war commenced. He was killed first lieutenant, 11 July, 1862. tenant, 8 July, 1861 in the battle of Cedar Mountain, 9 Aug., 1862, and buried at Alex ;
andria.
A
sketch of his
life is
given in
"
Harvard
Memorial,"
i.
373-382.
FLETCHER MORTON ABBOTT, son line
of (Hon.) Josiah G. and Caro born in Lowell, Mass., 18 Feb., 1843.
(Livermore) Abbott, was s School (Rev. Dr. Coit), Corfcord. N.H., which in April, 1861 his brother (Edward G.) was
Educated at St. Paul he had just left when
Company A, in which he was chosen a lieutenant. He was appointed second lieutenant (Company D), 8 July, 1861; first lieu Served in Banks s retreat, Cedar Mountain, tenant, 13 June, 1862. Was appointed on the staff of Brigadier-general and Antietam.
raising
I) wight, and accompanied him to Louisiana, and passed through the campaigns of 1862-63 present at all the engagements and most of the skirmishes of that winter and spring; at Port Hudson during its siege, having previously accompanied General Dwight on
William
;
and being present at the first assault In the latter part of the fall of 1863, chronic disease,
his mission to General Grant,
on Vicksburg.
contracted in faithful discharge of duty, resign, 23 Dec., 1863.
made
it
necessary for him to
JAMES INGERSOLL GRAFTON, son of Joseph (a major in the war of 1812) and Maria (Gurley) Grafton, was born in Boston, Mass., 16 June, 1841. Fitted for college under private tutors, and entered Harvard
in 1858. Left college to enter the service was appointed second lieutenant in the Second, 1 Nov., 1861, and joined the regi ment at Frederick; first lieutenant, 21 July, 1862; captain, 9 Nov., 1862. He was wounded in the head, at the battle of Cedar Moun tain returned to duty, 1 Oct., 1862. He was wounded at Chancellorsville in the leg, above the knee, and the ankle-bone of right leg ;
;
struck
;
returned before fully well.
At
the battle of Averysborough,
N.C., 16 March, 1865, the last action of the regiment, he was killed. It was on the skirmish line, which was but a short distance in ad
vance.
The enemy was
so near,
and 32
his fire so close, that it required
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
498
the greatest exertion to hold him until the necessary relief should arrive to attack his position. Captain Grafton had command of about
twenty men, his own company and another, and worked hard with them against heavy odds, until he was struck in the leg. He started to the rear, but in his anxiety to do his whole duty, turned back to give some last instructions to his men, and received a mortal wound in the neck. He was seen staggering back, and was helped to the He could not rear but he never spoke, and died in a few minutes. have found a nobler death," says the historian of the Great March, nor could we have lost a nobler soul." notice of him is given in The Story of the Great March ; and a sketch of his life is given in "Harvard Memorial," ii. 283-288. EUGENE EDWARD SHELTON, son of Philo S. and ...(...) Shelton, was born in Boston, Mass., 28 Dec., 1840. Educated at Boston High and Latin Schools. Second lieutenant, 1 Nov., 1861 ; first lieutenant, 21 July, 1862 adjutant, 13 Aug., 1862. He went to New Orleans on the staff of Brigadier-general Andrews, in the win ter of 1862-63, and was appointed Commissary of Subsistence, with rank of captain, 19 Feb., 1863. He was subsequently wounded, while "
;
"
A
"
"
;
in service at the South.
[See "Additions."] of William F. (of New York) and Sally (Sul Oakey, was born in New-York City, 5 July, 1842. Second
DANIEL OAKEY, son
livan) lieutenant, 30 Nov., 1861; first lieutenant, 23 July, 1862; captain, 20 March, 1863. He was seriously wounded at Cedar Mountain re ;
turned to duty, 11 Sept., 1862.
He
mand
every action. New York.
1865,
of
He
com
resigned, 3 July,
into business in
Thomas B. and Feroline W. Newburyport, Mass., 23 Dec., 1835. Was 1858 then architect, until the war opened.
JOHN ANDREWS Fox, (Pierce) Fox,
was born
civil engineer,
1854 to
Second
in
Company D, being
and entered
served through the war, in
son of (Rev.)
in
;
lieutenant, 6 Jan., 1862; first lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862; adju
tant, 1 Jan., 1863, in
declining promotion.
to the end of the war, the battles during his term of service,
which position he served In
all
and how faithfully, all will remember but never wounded. He was mustered out, 26 July, 1865. Returned to the profession of archi ;
tect.
HENRY BRUCE
SCOTT, son of Benjamin H. and Sarah (Carlisle) March, 1839. Graduated at Harvard College in 1860, and began the study of law. Second lieutenant, 16 Jan., 1862. Appointed assistant adjutant-general, with rank of cap Was tain, 17 July, 1862, and attached to staff of General Gordon. Scott,
was born
wounded, the
Army
in Peru, Ind., 15
in the head, at Chancellorsville.
of the James.
He was
He
afterwards served in
appointed major in the Fourth
499
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Massachusetts Cavalry, 18 Jan., 1865; lieutenant-colonel, 23 April, 1865, and mustered out, 14 Nov., 1865. FRANCIS WELCH CROWNINSHIELD, son of Edward Augustus and Caroline Maria ( Welch) Crowninshield, was born in Boston, Mass., 12 In 1856-58 1843. Fitted for college at Boston Latin School. was in Europe. Entered Harvard in 1860, but left to enter the array. Second lieutenant, 25 Dec., 1861; first lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862;
May,
March, 1863. Wounded at Winchester, in leg, 25 May, 1862; returned, 17 Aug. Wounded at Antietam, in leg, 17 Sept., 1862 returned in Jan., 1863. At Chancellorsville, was bruised by a
captain, 30
;
Severely wounded at ball, which struck him in the chest. Gettysburg, 3 July, 1863 returned, 28 Nov., I860. Wounded in the leg, near Raccoon Creek, in the Atlanta campaign, 6 June, 1864, but Appointed rejoined in November, and served through the war. spent
;
major, 24 July, 1865, but not mustered as such. After the musterout, he went to Europe, hoping to repair a constitution shattered by
wounds and hardships. But Rome, 21 May, 1866, of
at
the hope proved fallacious
;
and he died,
disease contracted in the line of duty.
Enthusiastic and ardent, brave and generous. Harvard Memorial," ii. 456-460. sketch appears in
A
"
EVERETT WILSON PATTISON, son of (Rev. ...(...) Pattison, was born in Waterville,
Dr.) Robert E. and Me., 22 Feb., 1839.
Fitted for college at Pierce Academy, Middleboro , Mass., gradu After teaching in academies, was ated at Waterville in 1858. reading law in 1861. Enlisted as private, Company I, 27 May, 1861 ;
and
first
sergeant.
Second lieutenant, 4 Feb., 1862
;
first lieutenant,
10 Aug., 1862. Was long attached to General Williams s staff as com missary of musters. Captain, 13 Sept., 1863. Was mustered out, 28 May, 1865. At St. Louis, practising law.
GEORGE FRANKLIN BROWNING,
son of George B. and Elizabeth B.
(Patterson) Browning, was born in Salem, Mass., 21 April, 1837. Enlisted in the Second, 13 May, 1861, and first sergeant of Com pany C. Quartermaster-sergeant in October, 1861. Second lieutenant,
Company C first lieutenant, 9 Aug., 1862. While Company C, he was severely wounded, 9 Aug., 1862, Cedar Mountain. The wound (in the right hip) caused permanent
14 Feb., 1862, in in at
command
;
of
lameness, and he was discharged, 23 Dec., 1862. First lieutenant in the Invalid Corps, First Regiment, 13 June, 1863. In December, 1866, was quartermaster upon the staff of General Swayne, Bureau of Refu
He was
gees and Freedmen, Department of Alabama.
Winchester, Va., in 1862. ADAM MILLER, son of John C.
(late
married at
of Stockbridge, Mass.),
born in HofFenbroebrach, Bavaria, 9 July, 1839
;
came
to
was
Stockbridge
,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
500
Enlisted as private,
in 1842.
Company D,
21
May, 1861
15 June, 1861; second lieutenant^ 13 June, 1862;
first
;
sergeant,
lieutenant, 10
Aug. K 1862. Was severely wounded, in face, at Cedar Mountain, and prisoner; paroled, 24 Sept., 1862, and left Richmond, that day, reach ing the regiment, 28 Nov. But he was unable, from wounds, to dis.
charge his duties, and resigned, 30 Dec. Veteran Reserve Corps.
He was
afterwards an
officer in the
He was married, in the Darnestovvn, Md.
fall
of 1862, to Miss Heath, of Lee, at
ALBERT WATSON POWERS, son of John H. and Clarissa (Patrick) Powers, was born in Warren, Mass., 1 Nov., 1839. In a mercantile house in 1861. Enlisted as private in Company G, 15 May, 1861, and made sergeant; first sergeant in H, 20 Dec., 1861. Wounded in leg, Second lieuten at Cedar Mountain, and in arm, at Chancellorsville. ant, 12 July, 1862; first lieutenant, 23 Oct., 1862; captain, 1 Nov.,
Mustered out 28 May, 1864.
1862.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS PHALEN,
son of Lawrence (late of Boston) and Anne (Johnson) Phalen, was born in Salem, Mass., 17 June, 1840. At High Schools in Danvers and Salem. Enlisted in Company C, 20 April, 1861 sergeant, 22 May first sergeant, 9 Oct. second lieutenant, 13 July, 1862; first lieutenant, 9 Nov., 1862; captain, 31 ;
;
;
March, 1863. Was wounded, severely, at Cedar Mountain; returned, 15 March, 1863. Mustered out, 28 May, 1864. CHARLES JAMES MILLS, son of Charles H. and Anna Cabot Lowell (Dwight) Mills, was born in Boston, Mass., 8 Jan., 1841. Graduated at Harvard in 1860, and entered the Scientific School, to study engineering. Second lieutenant in the Second, 14 Aug., 1862, and first lieutenant, 17 Aug., joined for duty at Culpepper, Aug. 17 Was acting adjutant in the battle of Antietam, and was so 1862. ;
severely
charged
wounded
never wholly to recover. Was dis March, 1863. As soon as able, he re-entered lieutenant and adjutant of the Fifty -sixth Massa
in the leg as
for disability, 18
the service, as first chusetts, 22 Aug., 1863
; captain, 7 July, 1864. Was appointed assistant Was as adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, 6 Aug., 1864. signed to headquarters of Ninth Corps, and afterwards of the Second Corps. He was killed in action, 31 March, 1865, at Hatcher s Run,
while on the staff of Major-General Humphrey.
He was
buried at
Forest-Hills Cemetery.
The
"
Boston Transcript
"
said
Mills exhibited qualities of a noble
good
soldier
and
to fight
"
:
Youthful
manhood.
in appearance,
Major
His ambition to be a
bravely for the national flag was gratified, by and unflinching courage. His mili
his zeal, perseverance, faithfulness,
tary career, though brief, was brilliant.
He met
the hardships and
^
501
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. sufferings of his profession bravely, and faced death without fear. to that large body of the young men of Massachusetts,
belonged
by education and conviction, were prepared to genial work of war, conscientiously and from rebellion lifted the
the
sword
to destroy the unity
He
who, enter upon the uncon
when
principle,
and
the
free institutions of
republic."
A
sketch of his
life
appears in
THOMAS BAYLEY Fox, Feroline Walley 1 Feb., 1839.
"Harvard Memorial,"
Jim., son of (Rev.)
was born
(Pierce) Fox,
Was
fitted for college at the
141-150.
ii.
Thomas Bay ley and
in Newburyport, Mass., Dorchester High School ;
and was offices of Hon.
graduated at Harvard in I860, near the head of the chosen class orator. He began the study of law in the John A. Andrew and A. G. Browne, and entered the
class,
Law School at Was commissioned second lieutenant in the Second, Cambridge. 14 Aug., 1862, and joined, the same month, on the Rappahannock, in charge of recruits, and was kept in charge of them until near the time of the battle of Antietam, when he was assigned to duty with Com pany C, with which he fought in that battle. First lieutenant, 1 Nov., 1862; captain, 6 June, 1863. He was at Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, and Gettysburg. His bold service with Company K, in the darkness of the night, July 2, has been referred to. On the 3d of May, 1863, in the centre of the meadow, he was hit in the left ankle.
Of this wound he died, at Dorchester, 25 July. He was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, 28 July. Another hero has fallen," said Chaplain Humphreys, at his funeral. Another lover of his country has sealed his devotion with "
"
his
life.
Let us not weep.
monument
is
his
The
remembered
sacrifice
life.
.
.
.
was
The
willing.
.
.
His
.
record of his
fitting
life is
sim
A
the simplicity of purity and nobleness. ... casual acquaintance did not see his best qualities. He was so frank, that he would not conceal his worst side and so strong in his conscious integ
ple,
but
it
is
;
he cared not to put forward with the Second, no one saw a worst
rity, that
his best
side."
In his service
and cheer although it took time to fully appreciate the noble and gen erous qualities, and the force of character, which his modesty covered. "
side"
in this genial
ful officer;
His brief service was long enough to show a devotion
to
was
make
entire, ability sufficient for
any emergency, and
to
duty which a record
brave and bright.
JOHN FRANCIS GEORGE, son of Edward 0. (of Lowell) and Ruth G. (Carter) George, was born in Boscawen, N.H., 29 Aug., 1838. Learned business of iron-machinist. Enlisted in Company A, 11 May, 1861, and colors at
was made sergeant. Was color sergeant, and carried the Cedar Mountain, 9 Aug., 1862; second lieutenant, 10 Aug.,
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
502 1862
;
first
lieutenant, 25 Dec., 1862
;
captain, 4 July, 1863.
Mustered
out 28 May, 1864.
NATHAN DANE APPLETON SAWYER,
son of Leverett A. and
Mar
tha A. (Kehew) Sawyer, was born in Salem, Mass., 25 Feb., 1839. At school in Salem at the West four years in business in Nashua, N.H., one year. Enlisted in Company A, 11 May, 1861 corporal, 25 ;
;
;
sergeant, 12 Feb., 1862; second lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862; first Was wounded at lieutenant, 31 Dec., 1862; captain, 7 July, 1863.
May
;
Winchester
Wounded
the body) returned, 13 Sept., 1862. Severely wounded at Peach-Tree Creek, and resigned from disability, 15 May, 1865. He was
(ball
through
;
at Gettysburg.
22 July, 1864
;
then appointed military storekeeper, quartermaster s department, with rank of captain of infantry, 28 Sept., 1865, and stationed in Boston.
GKORGE LORING BINNEY,
son of Charles J. F. and Clarissa (daugh Dea. George Loring, of Duxbury, Mass.) Binney, was born in Boston, Mass., 2 Sept., 1840. Enlisted in Company H, 11 May, 1861, ter of
and detailed
as
quartermaster
s
clerk.
Appointed quartermaster-
Second lieutenant, 10 Aug., 1862; first sergeant, 15 March, 1862. Detached to corps quartermaster s de lieutenant, 19 March, 1863. partment, 1 March, 1863. He served as aide to General Slocum, at the battle of Chancellorsville.
Detailed as aide to General Kuger,
18 April, 1864; and again, 7 Nov., 1864, going with that general into the department of the Ohio, and served with him during the re mainder of the war. He was brevetted captain, and also major, United-States Volunteers, to date from 13 March, 1865, "for gallant at the battle of Franklin." Mustered out, 26
and meritorious services July, 1865.
GERALD FITZGERALD, son of William P. N. (of New York) and Sarah A. (Goodyear) Fitzgerald, was born in Troy, N.Y., 6 Sept., Educated at sub-department of Georgetown College, D.C. 1835. Entered Cambridge Divinity School in 1855; spent the year 1857-58 in Europe; graduated in 1859, and was ordained minister (Unitarian). Enlisted in Twelfth Massachusetts, 24 April, 1861, where he was Second lieutenant in the Second, 25 Aug., 1862; sergeant-major. He fell at Chancellorsville, first lieutenant, 20 March, 1863. a cul tivated scholar, a brave officer, and a courteous man, and buried on the field.
JAMES KENT STONE, son Stone,
was born
of (Rev. Dr.)
John
S.
in Boston, Mass., 10 Nov., 1840.
3
May,
1863,
and Mary (Kent) Fitted for college
Boston Latin School; entered at Harvard in 1856; left in 1857, and went to Europe for a year returned to Harvard, and remained until
at
;
near the close of senior year, when he went to Germany, and spent a year at Gottingen. Was teacher in Boston Latin School until 4 Aug.,
503
COMMMISSIONED OFFICERS. when he
1862,
enlisted as private in
Company
C.
Corporal, October,
Second lieutenant to date 10 Aug., 1862. Was obliged to He was resign, from disability contracted in service, 9 Jan., 1863. 1862.
subsequently appointed professor in Kenyon College. GEORGE AUGUSTINE THAYER, son of Elihu and Elizabeth (TirAt school rell) Thayer, was born in Randolph, Mass., 6 Dec., 1889.
South Braintree. Taught in various academies. Second lieutenant, 16 Oct., 1862; first lieutenant, 29 April, 1863; Served throughout the war, being in the va captain, 26 July, 1863. rious battles, and was mustered out with the regiment. ERASTUS BURBANK CARLL, son of Nathaniel and Frances (Woods) Carll, was born in Unity, Me., 8 Nov., 1830. Enlisted, 5 Dec., 1850, in United-States army, to join the Second Dragoons, but was trans ferred to Battery G, Fourth Artillery served at Fort Leaven worth, in Sioux campaign, and in General Harney s expedition, until 5 Dec., at Hollis Institute,
;
Was
1855.
in business until
and commissary-sergeant. lieutenant, 1
April, 1863.
May,
1861.
Enlisted, 11
May,
1861,
Second lieutenant, 23 Oct., 1862; first Mustered out 28 May, 1864. He was
Mary E. Galvin, of Boston. THEODORE KENDALL PARKER, son of Gilman D. and Sarah (Fos ter) Parker, was born in Brighton, Mass., 3 Sept., 1841. Was in iron work at Winchendon. Enlisted in Company D, 11 May, 1861, and married, in 1859, to
first
Taken prisoner at Winchester, 25 May, 1862, and sergeant. to Belle Isle returned 24 Oct. Second lieutenant, 24 Oct.,
taken
1862
;
;
first
lieutenant, 31
wounded, 3 July, 1863,
March, 1863
at Gettysburg.
;
captain, 24
May,
1864.
Was
Mustered out with the regi
ment.
DENIS MEHAN, son of John and Mary (Gorigan) Mehan, was born in Salem, Mass., 25 Dec., 1843. At school, in New York. Was in shoe business. Enlisted in Company C, in April, 1861. Marker, 1861; corporal, 26 July, 1862; sergeant, 29 July, 1861; first sergeant, 1 Sept., 1862; second lieutenant, 9 Nov., 1862; first lieuten Was wounded, 3 July, ant, 4 May, 1863; captain, 24 May, 1864. 1863, at Gettysburg. Mustered out with the regiment in July, 1865.
in
HEXRY NEWTON COMEY,
son of Elbridge
G.
and Abigail
J.
(Pierce) Comey, was born in Hopkinton, Mass., 4 March, 1840. At school in Hopkinton. Enlisted in G, in May, 1861. Corporal, 2
June, 1862; sergeant,
1
Nov., 1862; second lieutenant, to date from
1 Nov., 1862; first lieutenant, 6 June, 1863; captain, 24
Was wounded,
3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg.
May,
1864.
Mustered out in July,
1865.
JOSEPH WILEY GELRAY, son of Robert Gelray, was born 28 Feb., Came to America in 1844. Was
1840, in Manchester, England.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
504
and Richmond, Va.
printer, in Lowell, Mass.,
Enlisted in A, 11
May,
Corporal, 25 May, 1861 transferred, as sergeant, to Com pany H, 22 Dec., 1861. Wounded, severely, in right shoulder and Second lieutenant, 25 Dec., right thigh, 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam. 1861.
1862;
;
first
lieutenant, 4 July,
1863.
Wounded,
3 July; 1863, at
Gettysburg, in right arm, so near the former wound as to require amputation. Discharged 13 Oct., 1864, to receive commission of Was captain, dated 25 July, 1864, in Fifty-seventh Massachusetts.
put on General Bartlett s staff, as assistant inspector-general. Was appointed, 22 Aug., 1864, colonel of the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts, but the regiment was too small to allow of his being mustered as such. Major in Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 14 Nov., 1864.
Mustered
out, 17 June, 1865.
WILLIAM EDWARD PERKINS, (Amory) Perkins, was born for college in care of Epes 1860.
and
son of William and Catharine C.
in Boston, Mass., 23
March, 1838. Fitted and graduated at Harvard in Studied law with Horace Gray, jun., and Wilder Dwight,
at the
Law
March, 1865. 4 July, 1863.
Enlisted in Forty-fourth Massachusetts, 12 Company F. Second lieutenant in
School.
1862, and Second, 26 Jan.,
Sept.,
S. Dixwell,
sergeant in first
1863;
Mustered
lieutenant,
7 July,
1863; captain, 17
1863, at Chancellors ville out in July, 1865. 3
Wounded,
May,
;
returned,
GEORGE JAMES THOMPSON, son of (Rev. Dr.) James W. and Mary (James) Thompson, was born in Salem, Mass., 10 Sept., 1839. At Master Worcester," in Salem. Went a voyage to sea. school, under
J.
"
Enlisted in Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, 17 Sept., 1861, and ser Second geant; first sergeant, October, 1862; served at Newbern. lieutenant in
SECOND, 10
captain, 15 April, 1865. at Chancellorsville, and
with the regiment.
Jan., 1863
Was
ball
by
;
first lieutenant,
slightly injured
by
26 July, 1863
shell, 3
in front of Atlanta.
May,
;
1863,
Mustered out
Appointed, in 1867, second lieutenant in United-
States Artillery.
HENRY VAN DYKE STONE, son of (Rev. Dr.) John S. and Mary (Kent) Stone, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 9 Aug., 1843. Fitted for college in Brookline, Mass. entered Yale Scientific School in 1861. ;
Corporal, 21 Nov., 1862 ser second lieutenant, 20 March, 1863. He was A modest and brave officer. killed at Gettysburg, 3 July, 1863. JAMES WARREN COOK, son of James D. and Rebecca W. (Coney) Cook, was born in Reading, Mass., 3 Aug., 1831. In business of manu
Enlisted in
Company
C, 4 Aug., 1862.
;
geant, 1 Jan., 1863;
facturing furniture, in Boston and Reading. Enlisted in Company A, 11 May, 1861. Corporal, 14 Aug., 1861; sergeant, 14 July, 1862; first sergeant, 27 Dec., 1862. Wounded, in hand, 24 May, 1862, at
505
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Kernstown. Slightly wounded, 3 May, 1863, at Chaneellorsville. Second lieutenant, 19 March, 1863; first lieutenant, 13 Sept., 1863. Mustered out 28 May, 1864. Was married, 1 May, 1853, to Sarah J. Pinkham, of Reading, Mass. FRANCIS HENRY LUNDY, son of William and Marion (Steen)
Lundy, was born
in Manchester,
England, 14 Nov., 1830.
Enlisted
in Eighty-eighth (British), in 1851, and served four years and ten months; in hattles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkermap; was sent
Came to Lowell, Mass., December, 1856. En B, in May, 1861. Sergeant, 12 Aug., 1861 first sergeant, 1 Nov., 1862 color-bearer at Antietam second lieutenant, 30 March, 1863; first lieutenant, 24 Dec., 1863. Resigned 22 Oct., home
to drill recruits.
listed in
Company
;
;
Was
1864.
;
married, April, 1859, to Sarah Mansfield, of
New
York.
CHARLES WARREN THOMAS, son
of Sylvanus and Sophia (Kent) Thomas, was born in Boston, Mass., 26 July, 1841. At school in Charlestown, Mass. Clerk in jobbing house when enlisted, in Com
pany G, 26 July, 1863
;
Corporal, 30 Dec., 1862; sergeant, 1 Jan., Mustered out 28 May,
1862.
second lieutenant, 1 April, 1863.
1864.
ALBERT WARREN MANN, Mann, was born ness
when
in
son of Albert and Caroline S. (Pond) 1836. In shoe busi
Wrentham, Mass., 14 Aug.,
enlisted, in
Company
1864. pole,
Was
Sergeant, 25 sergeant-major, 10 May, Mustered out, 28 May,
E, in April, 1861.
sergeant, 13 July, 1861; 1862; second lieutenant, 31 March, 1863.
May, 1861;
first
married, 11 Sept., 1860, to
Mary A. Hartshorn,
of Wai-
Mass.
EDWIN AUGUSTINE HOWES, Howes, was born in Essex,
when
in
son of Collins and
Chatham, Mass., 4
enlisted in
Company
Jan., 1834.
Rhoda (Bangs)
Was
ship-joiner
F, in May, 1861.
Corporal, sergeant, 2 June, 1862; commissary sergeant, 8 Dec., first lieutenant, 24 May, 1864. Appointed quartermaster, 3
May, 1861;
1862; Nov., 1864, and served until mustered out in July, 1865. was Sophia E. Andrews, of Essex.
His wife
MOSES P. RICHARDSON, son of Samuel and Susan B. (Persons) Richardson, was born in Woburn, Mass., 17 Sept., 1835. Was a farmer in Winchester. Enlisted in Company G, in May, 1861. Cor poral, 9 Jan., 1862; sergeant, 12 Feb., 1862; first sergeant, 19 April, 1863. Was wounded in leg, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain; re
turned, 26 Oct. eellorsville
;
Wounded
returned in
Re-enlisted, 31 Dec. 1863.
in
...
arm and
side,
3 July, 1863, at
Chan
1863.
Sergeant-major, 17 July, 1863. Appointed second lieutenant in Fifty-fifth
Massachusetts, 9 June, 1864, but declined commission. First lieu tenant in Second, to date 24 May, 1864. Mustered out with regiment.
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
506
Brevet-captain, 13 March, 1865.
Was
married, since the war, to
Sarah B. Marsh. JESSE RICHARDSON, son of Samuel and Susan B. (Persons) Rich ardson, was born in Woburn, Mass., 31 March, 1840. Was clerk, in Winchester. Enlisted in Company G, 8 July, 1862. Corporal, 29 Nov., 1862 first sergeant, 1 Oct., 1863. Wounded slightly, in foot, ;
Wounded in head, 3 July, 1863, at Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1863. First returned, 1 Sept. Mustered out with regiment. Was mar lieutenant, 24 May, 1864. 17 Sept., 1862, at Antietam.
Gettysburg
;.
28 Jan., 1864, to Mary M. Pearson. WILLIAM TAYLOR MCALPINE, son of
ried,
McAlpine, was born
in
Peter and
Mary (Taylor)
Framingham, Mass., 20 July,
carriage-making business, in Lowell, in 1861. A, 11 May, 1861 sergeant, 25 April, 1863. ;
Was
1840.
Enlisted in
in
Company
Was wounded,
9 Aug.,
1862, at Cedar Mountain, in arm, in thigh, and through the body. Wounded in the head, 3 May, 1863, at Chancellorsville returned, 24 ;
First lieutenant, 24
Re-enlisted 31 Dec., 1864. Mustered out with the regiment.
Aug., 1863. 1864.
May,
JEDEDIAH CLARK THOMPSON, son of Ralph and Martha Ann Thompson, was born in Berkshire, Vt., 23 Dec., 1839. Parents moved in 1852, to Burlington, Vt. He was in Marlboro to New- York City ,
;
Mass., when he enlisted in Company D, 15 3 July, 1861 ; sergeant, 10 July, 1862, to 11
May, May,
1861.
Corporal,
1863, when long sergeant, 1 Nov., 1863. Corporal, 1 Sept., 1863 Wounded in hand, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain returned in Aug., 1863. Re-enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863. Wounded in foot, 15 May,
absent,
wounded.
;
;
Went
to Colorado.
SAMUEL STORROW, was born
Mustered out with
First lieutenant, 7 July, 1864.
1864, at Resaca.
regiment.
son of Charles S. and Lydia (Jackson) Storrow, Entered Harvard in 1860
in Boston, Mass., 24 July, 1843.
in 1862, an affection of the eyes rendered
;
it
necessary to refrain from
from May 1 to Sept. 1, when he re study, and he went to Fayal, joined his class. Enlisted in Forty-fourth Massachusetts, 20 Sept., 1862. Corporal in Company H, and served in North Carolina mus ;
tered out 18 June, 1863. First lieutenant in the Second, 22 Sept., He was detailed as aide 1864, and joined at Atlanta, 15 Jan., 1865. to Brevet Brigadier-general Cogswell, and so served until his death. He was killed in action, 16 March, 1865, at Averysborough, N.C. "A brave, faithful, intelligent, and most promising officer," wrote General Cogswell. He was buried near the field; but his remains were reinterred, 6 Jan., 1866, at
See sketch in
"
Mount Auburn.
Harvard
RICHARD PENDERGAST,
Memorial,"
ii.
462.
son of Isaac and
Mary
(
)
Pendergnst,
507
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. was born
Resided in Lowell, a carpen in Portland, Me., 31 May, 1836. Enlisted in Company A, 11 May, 1861. Corporal, January, 1862;
ter.
sergeant, 14 Jan., 1863
first
;
Was wounded
sergeant, 25 April, 1863.
returned to duty, 24 Aug. ReWas wounded in right arm, severely, 20 enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863. Dec., 1864, in South Carolina, near the Savannah. Was appointed first lieutenant, 23 Oct., 1864. Mustered out with regiment.
in side, 3 July, 1863, at
Gettysburg
;
WILLIAM D. TOOMBS, was born in West Boylston, Mass., in 1841. Resided in West Boylston. Enlisted in Company D, 11 May, 1861. Mustered First lieutenant, 4 Nov., 1864. Re-enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863. out with regiment.
JAMES HANGING, was born sided in Boston.
Enlisted in
in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1840.
Company
I,
15 May, 1861.
Re
Corporal,
Wounded
1 Sept., 1863.
enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863.
Rein neck, 3 July, 1863, at Gettysburg. First lieutenant, 17 March, 1865. Mustered
out with the regiment.
GEORGE W. MORSE, was born in Newport, Ky., Enlisted in Company H, in May, 1861.
in Athol.
Taken
1863.
Oct.
Resided
Corporal,
1 Oct.,
returned, 22 First lieutenant, 17 March, 1865.
prisoner, at Winchester, 25
Re-enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863.
in 1842.
May, 1862
;
Mustered out with the regiment. Entered Dartmouth College. WILLIAM HOWARD MILES, son of Oliver H. and Rachel (Decker) Miles, was born in Limerick, Me., 2 Dec., 1836. Was an operative at Lowell, when he enlisted in Company A, 11 May, 1861. Corporal, 14 Jan., 1863
Re-enlisted, 31 Dec., 1863. sergeant, 13 July, 1863. Sergeant-major, 24 May, 1864. Was taken prisoner in the campaign to the sea, but escaped in a few days. First lieutenant, 15 April, 1865. Mustered out with the regiment.
The tered
;
following enlisted
in, as officers
men were
commissioned, but never
mus
:
Caleb H. Lord, first sergeant of K, first lieutenant, to date from 24 May, 1864 but the commission had not arrived when he died, 29 June, 1864, of wounds received 19 June. ;
Thomas
B. Thurston, sergeant-major
;
second lieutenant, 3 July,
1865.
Asa W. Emerson, quartermaster-sergeant
;
first
lieutenant, 3 July,
1865.
David Casey, commissary-sergeant; second
lieutenant,
3 July,
1865.
And tenants
the following :
first
sergeants, 3 July, 1865, to be second lieu
508
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTKY.
Charles Hastings, of A; Leander G. Bowley, of B Charles W. Edwin Harlow, of E Samuel L. Jepson, of F Edwards, of C Andrew Charles H. Heald, of G; Charles 0. McKinstrey, of H; Voll, of K. ;
;
The
;
;
following persons declined commissions
:
29
July, 1863, George B. Peck, of Boston, assistant surgeon, reduced size of the regiment not allowing of muster in. 23 Nov., 1861. Henry R. Dalton, of Boston, second lieutenant,
the
1862. Ozias Goodwin, jun., of Boston, second lieutenant, 14 Aug.,
509
FIELD AND STAFF.
III.
FIELD AND STAFF,
George H. Gordon, 11 May, 1861,
COLONELS.
to 12 June, 1862.
George
Samuel M. Quincy, L. Andrews, 13 June, 1862, to 9 Nov., 1862. 9 Nov., 1862, to 2 June, 1863. William Cogswell, 6 June, 1863, Charles F. Morse, 24 July, 1865 ; not mustered ; to 25 June, 1865. brev.-col.
U.S. Vols.
George L. Andrews, 11 May, 1861, to 13 Wilder Dwight, 13 June, 1862, to 19 Sept., 1862. James Savage, 19 Sept., 1862, to 22 Sept., 1862. William Cogs
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. June, 1862.
Charles R. Mudge, 6 June,
well, 23 Oct., 1862, to 6 June, 1863.
Charles F. Morse, 4 July, 1863, to 24 July, 1863, to 3 July, 1863. 1865. James Francis, 24 July, 1865 not mustered brev.-lieut;
;
col.
U.S. Vols.
Wilder Dwight, 11 May, 1861, to 13 June, 1862. James Savage, 13 June, 1862, to 17 Sept., 1862. Samuel M. Quincy, 17 Charles R. Mudge, 9 Nov., 1862, to Sept., 1862, to 9 Nov., 1862. 6 June, 1863. Charle s F. Morse, 6 June, 1863, to 4 July, 1863,
MAJORS.
James Francis, 4 July, inshield, 24 July, 1865
1863, to 24 July, 1865. ;
Francis
W. Crown
-
not mustered.
Lucius M. Sargent, jun., 28 May, 1861, to 9 Oct., 1861. Francis Leland, 11 Oct., 1861, to 24 Oct., 1862. Lincoln R. Stone, William H. Heath, 24 April, 1863, 7 Nov., 1862, to 20 Nov., 1863. Curtis E. Munn, 5 Dec., 1864, to the end. to 23 Aug., 1864.
SURGEONS.
CHAPLAIN.
Alonzo H. Quint, 20 June, 1861,
ASSISTANT SURGEONS.
to 28
May,
1864.
Lincoln R. Stone, 1 June, 1861, to 7 Nov., 1862. William H. Heath, 24 July, 1862, to 24 April, 1863. Joseph Wightman, 19 March, 1863, to 15 June, 1863. William Nichols, jun., 5
May,
1863, to 9 Dec., 1864.
510
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
ADJUTANTS.
Charles Wheaton, jun., 28 May, 1861, to 21 July, 1862. Shelton, 13 Aug., 1862, to 1 Jan., 1863. John A. Fox, 1 Jan., 1863, to the end.
Eugene E.
R. Morris Copeland, 28 May, 1861, to 27 Nov., QUARTERMASTERS. 1861. Marcus M. Hawes, 27 Nov., 1861, to 14 July, 1862. James Francis, 14 July, 1862, to 1 Sept., 1862. Robert B. Brown, 1 Sept., 1862, to 6 Dec., 1862. Anson D. Sawyer, 1 Jan., 1863, to 3 Nov., 1864. Edwin A. Howes, 3 Nov., 1864, to the end.
THE COLORS AND THEIR BEARERS.
511
IV.
THE COLORS AND THEIR BEARERS.
I.
The
United- States Colors, presented by the ladies whose names This was the battle-flag, used only in action,
are given on page 27. and carried in every
engagement except Winchester. The tassels were shot off at Cedar Mountain. Its staff was shot in two at Antietam, and given to Mrs. William D wight. The new staff was presented by Miss Fannie Mudge. That staff was shot into fragments at Gettys burg, and a new one was given by Misses Marie Louisa Mudge and Feroline P. Fox. No hostile hand ever touched this flag, and it never knew dishonor. It has been in Rhode Island, New York, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, District of Columbia, Ohio, South Carolina,
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia on Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac, and the Atlantic Ocean. It now rests at the State House, with no names of battles upon it. ;
II.
The
III.
The
only on
presented by the ladies whose names are was never carried in action, and is now at the
State Flag,
given on page 28. State House.
It
State Flag, white, furnished by the State, and carried It is now at the State House.
drill.
IV. The United-States Colors, presented by the ladies of Harper s Ferry, as recorded on page 40. It was carried on drill, &c., and in the battle of Winchester. It was reserved as private property.
V. The Garrison Storm-Flag, of bunting, hoisted in various camps. Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
It floated in
512
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY,
COLOR-SERGEANTS. Hans G.
Christensen, Co. K, 28 June, 1861, to 14 Oct., 1861,
discharged for disability. Samuel R. Phillips, Co. A, 14 Oct., 1861, to 13 Feb., 1862. George H. Willis, Co. I, 13 Feb., 1862, to 4 July, 1862.
when
He
carried
He
carried
the colors at Winchester.
John F. George, Co. A, 4 July,
1862, to
Sept., 1862.
.
.
the colors at Cedar Mountain, and was. promoted to be second lieu tenant, to date the
day following.
He carried Oct., 1862. Francis Lundy, Co. B, Sept., 1862, to the colors at Antie tarn, and was afterwards promoted to be second .
.
.
.
lieutenant.
Edwin A. Howes, Co.
F,
.
.
Oct., 1862, to 8 Dec., 1862.
Alonzo Griswold, Co. B, 8 Dec., 1862, to Leavitt C. Durgin, Co. A, 28 Feb., 1863,
1863. to 3 July, 1863.
He
carried
the colors at Chancellorsville (in part), Beverly Ford, and Gettys in action. burg, where he was killed took the colors temporarily at Co. j. color-corporal, D, Sadler, Rupert
Chancellorsville,
and
also at Gettysburg,
where he was
killed in
action.
Stephen Cody, private in Co.
I,
took the colors at Gettysburg, and
was killed in action. James Hobbs, Co. I, color-corporal, took the colors at Gettysburg, and was wounded in action. James Murphy, Co. C, color-corporal took the colors at Gettysburg, and carried them to the close of the action. mus Charles Whitney, Co. E, 17 July, 1863, to 23 May, 1864, when ;
tered out. He Thomas Johnson,
carried the colors at Resaca.
Co. B, 2 June, 1864, to 25 June, 1865. He carried the colors into Atlanta, to Savannah, and through the Carolinas, including the battle of Averysborough. Pardon L. Crosby, Co. F, 25 June, 1865, to the end of service.
513
THE REGIMENTAL BAND.
V.
THE REGIMENTAL BAND.
See Non- Commissioned Staff.
Spiegel, Charles, leader.
Burnham, Robert W., jun. .. Essex, Mass. Re-enlisted in band of the Brigade. Clark, John.
Gloucester, Mass.
31.
Cook, Jerry C.
Reading, Mass.
27.
De la Fontaine, Jose. De la Fontaine, Victor.
28.
Teamster.
Brussels, Belgium.
Essex.
Gloucester.
Cabinetmaker.
Reading.
Cooper.
Roxbury.
20.
Brussels, Belgium. Cooper. Roxbury. Gloucester. Gloucester, Mass. Printer.
Elwell, George, jun. Re-enlisted in band of the Brigade. Fisher, John S. 40. Maiden, Mass. Currier. .
Engineer.
.
Maiden.
Discharged
for disability, 3 June, 1862.
Hinman, Lucius
S.
Derby, Vt.
32.
Shoemaker.
Holliston.
Lord, Jacob S. 23. Gloucester, Mass. Shoemaker. Gloucester. Loud, Francis P. 29. Weymouth, Mass. Bootmaker. Quincy.
Mess, Joseph. Nutting, Abel.
20. 22.
Skilmaker. Gloucester. Gloucester, Mass. Stonecutter. Lisbon, Me. Quincy.
Pearce, David P.
18. Carver. Gloucester. Gloucester, Mass. Discharged for disability, 19 Dec., 1861. Subsequently enlisted 8th Mass., and died in service.
in
Perry, Reuben. 23. Gloucester, Mass. Blacksmith. Gloucester. Re-enlisted in band of the Brigade. Proven, Charles. 27. Upper Stevviack, N.S. Shoemaker. Reading.
Rawson, Charles E.
36.
Natick,
Mass.
Taken
Shoemaker. Natick. and was not
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain, exchanged until after the date of muster-out.
Smeath, William.
26.
Embosser.
Exeter, England.
Taken
prisoner, 9 Aug., 1862, at Cedar Mountain, exchanged until after the date of muster-out.
Standish, Me.
Thompson, Charles E.
28.
Travis, Daniel F.
Holliston, Mass.
35.
Carpenter.
Boot-finisher.
Amesbury. and was not Maiden. Holliston.
514
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
Twitchell, Reuben A. 22. Dublin, N.H. Re-enlisted in band of the Brigade.
Cabinetmaker.
Boston.
Walker, Charles R. 23. South Reading, Mass. Shoemaker. Read Discharged for disability, 12 July, 1861, at general hospital. ing. Watson, Benjamin. 44. Durham, N.H. Stonecutter. Quincy. Wing, Neil. 27. Gloucester, Mass. Shoemaker. Gloucester.
The
were
In all reckoned as 25 May, 1861. members of the band rendered good service at Cedar Mountain, in removing the wounded from the field of battle, in which two of their number were taken prisoners. dates of enlistment
addition to excellent music, the
An Act of Congress discharged all regimental bands 16 Aug., 1862 ; but this band actually served until 8 Sept., 1862, such members only excepted as are mentioned in the above list. Several members reenlisted in the brigade band (authorized by the same Act), which was raised in Massachusetts, joined for duty at Stafford Court-House, Va., early in 1863, and served to the end of the war.
NATIVITIES.
VI.
515
516
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
"IVIOJ,
CASUALTIES IN ACTION.
s
517
518
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
519
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SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. .
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS ACCOUNTED FOR.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
523
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. THE
list
of subscribers to the original regimental fund,
tioned on page 5,
is
as follows
:
George 0. Hovey. Bryant & Sturgis.
E.
Nathaniel Thayer. James Davis, jun.
Samuel G. Ward. Richard
William
J. Ingersoll
S. Bullard.
Denny, Rice, & Co. George B. Cary. F. H. & J. B. Bradlee. S. Willard & Son.
II.
Eldridge.
Thomas Lee. S.
Fay. Bowditch.
Charles G. Loring. James Parker. Edward Austin. H. P. Sturgis & Co.
Warren. Joseph S. Fay. James Lawrence. John E. Lodge. George W. Wales. Mrs. Franklyi Dexter.
James Savage.
Henry Sayles. Henry Sigourney.
Foster
J. S.
Little,
lasigi,
Brown, & Co. Goddard, & Co.
Homer &
Sprague.
Bayley, Rollins, & Co. D. N. Spooner. Ozias Goodwin. J. M. Forbes & Co. Ticknor & Fields. John A. Lowell. Gardner Brewer. -Thomas G. Appleton. Naylor & Co. George B. Blake. James M. Beebe. Sarah P. Pratt. Francis B. Crowninshield. Charles P. Curtis.
Augustine Heard, jun.
John
C. Gray. Charles Mifflin.
George F. Parkman. David Sears.
&
Taylor.
Samuel Win! well. Arthur Dexter.
Thomas Wiggles worth. Samuel A. Appleton. R. M. Mason. John S. Farlow.
Henry Wainwright. G. Howlartd Shaw. Charles F. Choatc. E. R. Mudge.
William F. Weld. George Gardner. R. W. Hooper. S. R. Putnam. Augustus Lowell.
Henry Cabot.
Larkin, Stackpole, Mrs. T. G. Cary. Moses Williams. Charles F. Adams. Josiah Quincy. Moses Grant. F. W. Lincoln.
Mary A. Wales.
Israel
M. Warren. George P. Upham. Huntington Wolcott.
J. J.
John A. Blanchard. Charles Amory. George L. Pratt. E.
I).
Peters
&
Co.
Dana, Farrar, & Hyde. J. B. Glover.
Charles Merriam.
&
Lombard. Samuel Hooper.
Mrs. E. B. Bowditch. William H. Swift. M. P. Grant. William H. Gardner. George A. Gardner. George R. Russell.
Co.
men
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
524
Henry M. Comey, then of G,
72, line 12.
Page
through the
battle,
99, line 7.
Page Page
About
121.
joined for duty, in
also fought all
with an Ohio regiment. For grapes read cherries. time, second lieutenant T. B. Fox, jun., of recruits.
this
command
Page 137. The second foot-note should be numbered 2. Costello, of I, wounded and missing." Page 140, line 13. Insert For fifty read fifty-one. In second note, the losses of the SECOND "
should read
killed, 18
148, line 28.
Page Page Page Page Line
"
150, line
7.
176, line 16.
182, line 10.
13, insert
"
wounded, For Sharpsville read Sharpsburg. For Leesbury read Leesburg. For seventy read twenty. For Cady read Cody. Insert Seavers, of "
Hatch, of
192, line 14.
Page Page
61."
;
201, line 22.
H."
C."
For Hooper read Hooker. Add Capt. N. D. A. Sawyer and Lieut. "
Thomas were in the stockade with Capt. Grafton." Page 229, line 15. For Bohman read Bohonan ; for Lawson read Lawtan. Line 16, erase Pierson, of "
I."
Page Page Page Page Page
For Cothren read Coethan. For Maun read Munn. 259, line 6. 288. For XXI. read XXII. Add ami Lieut. M. P. Eichardson as captain." 292, line 2. 388. Add to Jesse Richardson, wounded slightly, 17 Sept., 17 Sept., 1862," read 3 May, Moses P. Richardson, for 241, line 3.
"
"
"
1862."
"
1863."
Page Page Page
Fenner,
McMullen,
481, line 27.
He was
1866.
Page Page
consequence of wounds." discharged in consequence of wounds." Captain Charles "Wheaton served until May,
421. 425.
"discharged in "
brevetted colonel, December, 1865. Captain C. P. Horton, brevetted
494, line 38.
lieut. colonel.
Captain Eugene B. Shelton was post commis sary at Port Hudson until March, 1865, when he was sent to Texas chief commissary on the Rio Grande. Brevet-major, 14 July, 1865. 498, line 20.
;
Wounded
in the
left
leg,
13 Nov., 1863, at Port Hudson.
Dis
charged 14 July, 1865. Coffin, in
"Four
Years of Fighting," page 198, mistakes a statement
Potomac and Rapidan," regarding the battle of Chaneellorsville. Three times," says Coffin, the flag from the old Bay State changed hands. But, before the rebels could carry it from the field, it was
in
"
"
"
rescued,"
sively
fell.
&c.
No
The
changed color-bearers only, as they succes hand ever touched the battle-flag on any occa-
flag
rebel
NDEX
I
OF PRINCIPAL PLACES AND EVENTS.
A. Abercrombie,
Gen., in brigade of,
42, 51.
Additions and corrections, 523. Alexandria, Va., 126, 185, 188, 192, 281.
Allatoona Mountains,
Ga.,
283,
235.
Alston
s
Ferry, S.C., 262.
Ames, Gen.,
in
command
of,
175.
Anderson, Tenn., 199.
Andrew, Gov., address by, 210. Andrews, Col., in formation of regiment, 5 et seq. ; commanding regiment, 46, 70 et seq., 98-146. Antietam, 131 et seq., 144, 183.
Appomattox River,
Va., 280. Argyle Island, S.C., 253. Atlanta, Ga., 239 et seq. Averysborough, N.C., 268 et seq.
Band, Regimental, 18, 513. Banks, Gen., in command
of,
41-
132.
Banks
s Retreat,"
Brandy Station, Va., 121, 192. Brown, Capt., commanding regi ment, 245-249. Bull Run, 125, 189, 281. Bunker Hill, Va., 37, 96. Burnside, Gen., in army of, 145152 ; address by, 214. Burke s band destroyed, 145. Buzzard s Roost, Ga., 225. C.
Andrew, 14
Camp
et seq.,
80
et seq.
Bartlett, Gen., in division of, 282. Barton s Mills, Va., 85, 97.
Bellbuckle, Tenn., 198, 200. Bentonville, N.C., 272. Berryville, Va., 69, 71. Beverly Ford, Va., 122, 175. Birthplaces of men, table of, 515.
292.
Cassville, Ga., 230. Casualties in action, table of, 519.
Cedar Creek, 83. Cedar Mountain, 105 Chancellorsville, 156 Chantilly, Va., 125.
B.
"
Blackburn s Ford, Md., 144. Bladensburg, Md., 281. Boston, Mass., 33, 204. Bridgeport, Tenn., 223.
et seq., et seq.,
517-
190. 281.
Charlestown, Va., 38, 67. Chattahoochie River, Ga., 240, 242.
Cheraw, S.C., 265. Chickamauga, 223. Christian Commission,
154, 219. Christiana, Tenn., 193, 200. Cogswell, Col., commanding regi ment, 143-152, 184-256 ; post at Tullahoma, 219; post, Atlanta, 243 brigade in Third Division, 256. ;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
526
Colgrove, Col., Twenty-seventh Indiana, 70; biographical note,
et seq.,
130, 177,
183.
Freemason s Lodge, 61. Fund, regimental, 5, 10, 235. Furlough to re-enlisted men,
249.
Colors, 24-30, 40, 41, 292, 611. Color-sergeants, 512. Columbia, S.C., 262.
Commissioned
Frederick, Md., 60
204.
See Offi
officers.
G.
cers.
Companies raised and in camp, A, 29811-17; lists of men, B, 312-325, 437312, 431-437 441; C, 325-338, 442-444; D, ;
339-351, 445-448; E, 352-364, 448-452; F, 365-376, 453-456; G, 376-391, 456-46 1 H, 39 1-404, 461-464; I, 404-417, 464-468; K, 417-430, 468-471. Conrad s Ferry, Md., 51. ;
Corrections, 524. Cox s Bridge, N.C., 273. Crawford, Gen., commanding divi
Germanna Ford, Va., 157. Gettysburg, 178 et seq. Goldsborough, N.C., 273. Gordon, Col., raising and com manding regiment, 1-98 brig ade, 46, 47, 70-154; division, 139 post of Harper s Ferry, 38. Grant, Gen., in command of, 219 ;
;
et seq.
Greene, Gen., commanding brig ade, 93.
sion, 100, 135.
H.
Culpeper, Va., 104, 120.
Hamilton, Gen., in
D.
of,
Hardeeville, S.C., 258. Harrisonburg, Va., 76. Harper s Ferry, 38, 67, 149, 192. Hawley, Gen., in brigade of, 254-
Dallas, Ga., 233.
Darnestown, 46 et seq. Davisboro Station, Ga., 251. Decherd, Tenn., 196, 199, 222. Dwiglit, Major, in formation of regiment, 3 ct seq. ; commanding regiment, 82; rear-guard, 86; death, 139.
282. Hillard, G. S., address by, 28. Hooker, Gen., in command of, 152177, 192-241.
Hyattstown, Md., 46.
E.
Edenburg, Va.,
command
51.
I.
Indianapolis, Ind., 193, 204, 218. Indiana, Twenty-seventh, in brig ade, 70.
74.
Edwards s Ferry, Md., Elk River, Tenn., 198, Enlisted men, lists of,
51, 177.
201. first
term,
295-430 second term, 431-474 accounted for, table, 520. Enlistment, first term expired, 231.
J.
;
;
Johnston
s
surrender, 279.
K.
F. s
Ford, Va., 157, 184, 190.
Fairfax, Va., 125, 126, 150, 176,
Kelley
177, 179, 281. Fayetteville, N.C
Kenesaw, 237, 238. Kernstown, Va., 86 et seq. Kettle Run, Va., 123, 189.
,
266, 267.
Field and Staff, list of, 509. Fox, Rev. T. B., visit of, 202.
Kingston, Ga., 233, 235.
INDEX. L.
Leesburg, Va., 150, 177. Lincoln, Mayor, address by, 209. Washington, Va., 102. Lost Mountain, Ga., 236. Louisville, Ky., 193, 204, 218.
527
for,
table,
(see
Staff).
Otis,
522;
field,
509; staff
Mrs. H. G. supplies from, 54.
Little
M.
Patterson, Gen., in command 35-39. Patterson s campaign, 33 et seq.
Mansfield, Gen., in corps
of,
132-
135.
Marietta, Ga., 239. Martinsburg, Va., 85, 90, 192. Maryland Heights, 42, 143, 184. Massanutten Gap, Va., 77. Meade, Gen., in army of, 177-192. McLellan, Gen., in army of, 127145.
Middletown, Md., 131, 183. Middletown, Va., 83. Milledgeville, Ga., 250. Millen, Ga., 252. Morell, Gen., in division
Perrysburg, S.C., 258. Phalen, Capt, commanding regi ment, 277. Pine Mountain, Ga., 236. Pope, Gen., in army of, 100 et seq. Pumpkin- Vine Creek, Ga., 233. Q.
Quincy, Col., commanding regi ment, 152-173.
E. of,
145.
.Morse, Lieut.-Col., commanding regiment, 181, 231-239, 256 et
Raccoon Creek, Ga., 236. Raccoon Ford, Va., 191. Raleigh, N.C., 277-279.
Rappahannock
seq.
J. L.,
of,
Peach-Tree Creek, Ga., 240.
Manassas, 123, 189.
Motley,
P.
address by, 24.
Mount Jackson, Va., 75. Mower, Gen., in corps of, 276. Mudge, Lieut.-Col., commanding regiment, 152, 173; death, 180.
Station, Va.,
121,
185.
Readville, Mass., 291.
Recruiting
offices, 7, 10.
Recruits, 49, 121, 233, 239, 242, 248. Re-enlistments, 202. Regiment proposed, 1 raised and ;
N.
Narrow Pass, Va., 74. Nashville, Tenn., 193, 204, 218. New-Hope Church, Ga., 233, 236. Newmarket, Va., 76. Newtown, Va., 84. New- York City, 34, 185 et sea., 290. Nickajack Cave, 223 trace, 225.
organized, 5-21 forwarded, 31, 32 ; brigaded, 44, 46, 47, 70, 93, 282; in division, 47, 282; in in Division of the corps, 70 Shenandoah, 41 ; in Army of Virginia, 100 in Army of the Potomac, 127 in Army of the Cumberland, 195 in Army of Georgia, 276 in Division of the District of Washington, 282;
Non-commissioned staff. See
mustered
;
;
Staff.
;
;
;
;
;
out,
Readville, 291
O. Officers, commissioned, 5, 6, 1118, 21, 22, 50, 64, 65, 94, 120, 148, 153, 174, 248, 259, 282, 291 ; list of,
and sketches, 475
;
accounted
288
;
reached
discharged, 292. Regimental Aid Association, 56. Resaca, Ga., 226 et seq. Rice, H. A., assistance by, 59. Richmond, Va., 280. Robertville, S.C., 259. Rockville, Md., 128. Rocky Face, Ga., 225. ;
SECOND MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.
528
Rosecrans, Gen., in
army
of,
194-
T.
199.
Ruger,Gen., commanding brigade, 143, 154-247 biographical note, ;
Taylor s Ridge, Ga., 225. Thanksgiving Day, 52, 146, 201, 251.
154.
Thomas, Gen.,
in
army
of,
199.
Ticknor, Mrs., supplies from, 55. Tullahoma, Tenn., 197, 198, 218-
Senders ville, Ga., 251.
Sandy Hook, Sanitary
222.
Mel., 67, 184.
Commission, 154,
U.
193,
276.
Savannah, Ga., 252
United- States Ford, Va., 167, 171,
et seq.
Scott, Lieut.-Gen., order of, 31. Seneca Creek, Md., 51.
281.
Sergeants, First, 18, 19.
Shelby ville, Tenn., 197.
Sherman, Gen., in army
of,
220
et seq.
Grand Division
Sigel, Gen., in 151.
of,
Warrenton, Va., 99. Washington, D.C., 192, 281 etseq. Waterloo Bridge, Va., 122. Williams, Gen. A. S., command
Sister s Ferry, S.C. 259. Slocum, Gen., in corps of, 141221, 243 et seq. ; biographical note, 144. Smyrna Church, Ga,, 239. Snake-Creek Gap, Ga., 226.
division, corps, 128, 135, 241-276; graphical note, 48. Williamsport, Md., 34, 90, 92, Winchester, Va., 69, 72, 87 et
Snicker s Ferry, Va., 70. South Mountain, Md., 131.
Winnsborough, S.C., 263. Wisconsin 1 hird, in brigade, 70
Spottsylvania, Va., 281.
ing brigade, 47
;
commissioned, 11, 17, 18, 50, 97, 147, 153, 174, 242, 248,
Wolf-Run Shoals, Va., Woodstock, Va.,
151.
73.
259, 509. Staif,
non-commissioned,
18, 472.
X.
Stafford, C.H., Va., 152, 172. Stevenson, Ala., 193.
Strasburg, Va., 73, 78, 81. of officers and men, 522.
Summary
Sumner, Gen.,
in
command
128.
Supplies from friends, 54-59.
CAMBRIDGE
:
of,
;
184. seq.,
96.
parting, 282.
Staff,
70 bio
Xenia, Ohio, 193. Z.
Zouaves d Afrique,
PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.
100, 111.
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