1892; Quincy and Co. D did the hospitable act, also for the third time,
in 1893, August 30; Roxbury and Company B were the entertainers in 1894
and Co. H of Dorchester received at the U. S. Hotel, Boston, Sept.
25, 1895; for 1896, no record is found, but Sept. 6, 1897, Co. E and
Somerville appear again; it is Medford and Co. C in 1898; Woburn and
her K Company in 1899. The old century ends, as far as our Regiment is
concerned, October 10, 1900, with I Company and Natick, while the new
one begins Sept. 7, 1901, on the old campground at Lynnfield; Sept. 22,
1902, finds the veterans again in Quincy; Sept. 24, 1903, in Roxbury;
August 19, 1904, with Co. H. at Nantasket. Then with no special company
distinctions the reunions follow, directed by the Executive Committee,
at Squantum Inn, Sept. 21, 1905; Bass Point, Sept. 6, 1906; in a
Dorchester hotel, October 23, 1907; again at Bass Point, Sept. 29,
1908; at Revere Beach for three successive years, viz. August 30, 1909,
August 18, 1910, and August 18, 1911. Fifty years after the departure
of the Regiment from Massachusetts, nearly a hundred (92) veterans
assembled again in Somerville with Company E and a large number of
prominent citizens to celebrate the semi-centennial; the state armory
was the gathering place and General Peirson was the marked figure on
the occasion while wives, daughters and other lady friends added to the
pleasures of the hour; Sergt. Abijah Thompson of Co. K was the oldest
man present, he having seen fully 90 years. After the dinner, over
which Comrade the Rev. John F. Locke said grace and at which Lieut. J.
H. Dusseault, Co. E, presided, there was speaking by Ex-Mayors Edward
Glines, C. A. Grimmons and John M. Woods, the latter a veteran of the
war, and the first named a brother of Fred Glines of Co. E who died
in Salisbury. Mayor Burns of Somerville extended the courtesies of
the city to the veterans and welcomed them all most heartily. General
Peirson was received with accustomed enthusiasm and was heard with
rapt attention. The half century event was a great success. The 51st
anniversary was observed in Medford, with the survivors of Co. C,
Sept. 6, 1913; the day, the place, the guests, quite one hundred in
numbers, made the event notable; the forenoon's meeting was in the hall
of the S. C. Lawrence Post, G. A. R., while the dinner was served in
the drill-room of the magnificent armory, presented to Medford and the
State by General S. C. Lawrence.
REGIMENTAL ROSTER
Nothing in the story of a regiment is of greater importance than its
Roster, for therein appears the record of the individual whether the
same be good or bad. One man alone makes a small appearance, yet a
thousand men make a regiment and every volunteer, whether commissioned
or enlisted, is entitled to the best that can be said of him. If, in
addition to his military service, his career in civil life may be given
in outline so much the better, for in America every able bodied man is
potentially a soldier. The foundation for the following Roster is found
upon the muster rolls, carefully preserved in the State House, Boston,
and additions have been made thereto through the information afforded
by members of the Veteran Association.
The careful reader will observe in scanning the data afforded by the
Roster that the ages of the soldiers almost entirely range between
those of eighteen and forty-five years, these being the respective
limits of legal enlistment; at the same time everyone is well aware
that a large part of the army was made up of boys in their early teens;
also we know full well that many a man went in long after reaching
the maximum age for military service. As a fact, then, very many men
lied their ages up or down; so far as the grand average, however, is
concerned the "over" age compensated for or offset those who were
"under." Since the muster-in rolls or enlistment papers are sources
of all data concerning the age of volunteer and, it being well known
that very many of them were and are incorrect, the wonder rises as
to the source of statements that have gone the rounds of the public
press in late years, wherein the ages represented by the soldiers are
carefully tabulated. However, from whatever source obtained, as worthy
of presentation here the following alleged facts are given:
Discussion has elicited an official statement that about 2,800,000
Union men enlisted; there were about 5,000,000 men called out on both
sides. Of these nearly 4,500,000 were under twenty-one; there were
about 332,000 who were under sixteen and there were 1,500 in the Union
Army who were not fifteen years old. Less attention has been given
to the men who were over age, but every regiment can give its cases
of men fifty, sixty and even seventy years of age whose great excess
would average up many a juvenile volunteer. When, however, the rolls
afford no such statements, where is the statistician acquiring his
alleged facts?
For the sake of brevity and economy of space the following
abbreviations are used:
A. A. G. = Assistant Adjutant General; b. = born; bur. = buried; bvt.
= brevet; batt. = battalion; Capt. = Captain; Co. = Company; Col.
= Colonel; com. = commission or committee; Corp. = Corporal; cr. =
credited; d. = died or dead; des. = deserted; det. Serv. = detached
Service; dis. = discharged; disa. = disability; en. = enlisted; ex. of
s. = expiration of service; F. & S. = Field and Staff; G. O. = General
Order; H. Arty. = Heavy Artillery; Infty. = Infantry; k. = killed; lat.
add. = latest address; Lt. or Lieut. = Lieutenant; M. = married; M. I.
= Mustered-in; M. O. = Mustered-out; mos. = months; mus. = musician;
M. V. M. = Mass. Vol. Militia; N. F. R. = no further record; N. G. =
National Guard; O. W. D. = Order, War Department; Pris. = Prisoner;
prom. = promoted; re-en. = re-enlisted; rep. = reported; res. =
resigned; S. = single; S. H. = Soldiers' Home; S. S. = sharpshooters;
S. O. = Special Order; Sergt. = Sergeant; trans. = transferred; U. S.
C. T. = U. S. Colored Troops; V. R. C. = Veteran Reserve Corps; w. =
widower; wd. = wounded; W. D. = War Department.
In reciting facts pertaining to each name, the same order obtains
throughout the Roster; first comes the family name of the soldier,
next his Christian appellation; in some instances time and place of
birth are given; as a rule, age, whether married or single, occupation
and place of residence follow in order; next, date of enlistment or
muster-in; incidents of army life are next in place, and then the
time and manner of leaving the army; finally are given incidents of
civil life and latest address if the same be known. The application of
abbreviations and the order are seen in the following supposed case:
Jones, John, 20, S.; shoemaker, Natick; Aug. 22, '62; wd. May 5, '64,
Wilderness; dis. disa., Aug. 20, '64; Selectman, Natick, 1880, '81;
1913, Natick.
Printed in full the foregoing would be as follows:
Jones, John, at the age of twenty years, single, a shoemaker living
in Natick, enlisted August 22, 1862, or was mustered in on that date;
he was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and, on account of
wounds or disability therefrom, was discharged August 20, 1864; he was
a Selectman in Natick in 1880 and '81 and in 1913 is still residing
there.
FIELD AND STAFF
COLONELS
P. Stearns Davis, 44, M.; stationer, Cambridge; August 29, 1862;
Phineas Stearns Davis was born in Brookline, June 23, 1818, his
Christian names coming to him from an ancestor who bore a part in the
Boston Tea Party; his earlier education, received in the Brookline
public schools, was supplemented by a journey around the world; in the
publishing of schoolbooks he was long associated with his brother,
Robert, on Washington Street, Boston; deeply interested in Free
Masonry, Colonel Davis had been Master of Putnam Lodge, Cambridge, was
a member of St. Paul Chapter, Royal Arch, and was a charter member
of St. Bernard's Commandery, Knights Templar of Boston; entering
the Militia at a very early age, the beginning of the War found him
Division Inspector on the Staff of General Samuel Andrews of the
First Division; later promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, he
was serving in 1862 on a Board of Examination, thereby rendering
signal aid to Governor Andrew; he passed thence to the Thirty-ninth
Regiment. On leaving his home, he said to his mother who had expressed
wonder, if not regret, at his going, "Mother, if I should live to
see the end of this war without going and doing my whole duty to my
country, I should never rest," and he went away with her blessing.
Perhaps no man throughout the strife entered the service with
higher motives than those which prompted Colonel Davis. Possessing
as high an ideal of discipline and drill as he had of morality and
patriotism, he proceeded to enforce them with the result that few if
any organizations in the volunteer service excelled the Thirty-ninth
in true soldierly qualities. Early called to the command of a brigade,
it was truly said of him that he never was assigned to any position
which he did not fill. The particulars of his death, July 11, 1864,
have appeared in the body of this book; his funeral, held with Masonic
honors in the Unitarian Church of Cambridge, was on July 18, the
entire city being in mourning, with all places of business closed;
flags were at half-mast and in the audience assembled to honor his
memory were the City Council of Cambridge, Governor Andrew and Staff,
Adjutant General Schouler, Mayor Lincoln of Boston and a wide range
of other civil and military officers; Free Masonry in which he was
so prominent was represented by Putnam Lodge to which he belonged,
officers of the Grand Lodge, St. Bernard's Encampment of Boston, and
the National Lancers also were present. Speakers at the services were
the Rev. Chandler Robbins, who had officiated at his marriage, and
Chaplain E. B. French who had accompanied the remains of his commander
home. With the long escort, the body of Colonel Davis was borne to
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, having as bearers General Samuel C. Lawrence,
Colonels C. L. Holbrook and L. B. Marsh, Postmaster Leighton and
Deputy Sheriff L. L. Parker, the burial being with Masonic rites.
Charles L. Peirson, from Lieut. Colonel July 13, 1864; owing to the
stress of the "Battle Summer" campaign, his severe wound at the Weldon
R. R. August 18, '64, and subsequent absence from the Regiment, not
to mention the red tape that ever did hedge military matters about,
it was not till the 23d of November, 1864, that Colonel Peirson
was mustered in to his rank: the Records of the War Department,
Washington, D. C., state:
Peirson is now held and considered by this Department, under the
provisions of the Act of Congress, approved February 24, 1897, to
have been mustered into the service of the United States in the grade
of Colonel, Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Infantry, to take effect
from July 13, 1864, and to have held that rank until the date of his
discharge from service.
Upon the recommendation of Major General G. K. Warren, Peirson was
commissioned Colonel of Volunteers by brevet, to date from March 13,
1865, for meritorious conduct in the battles of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania in May, 1864, and as Brigadier General of Volunteers,
by brevet, to date from March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
conduct in the battle of the Weldon Railroad in August, 1864.
[Illustration: COLONEL CHARLES L. PIERSON
B'v't Brigadier-General]
After months of prostration, incident to his wound, and on the clear
evidence of his inability to return to the Regiment, Colonel Peirson
resigned and was mustered out of the service January 11, 1865.
Subsequent to the war, General Peirson was long in the iron business,
Boston; on his retirement therefrom, he found occupation for his well
earned leisure in historical studies, particularly with reference to
the Civil War, being a member of the Loyal Legion, which he commanded,
1895, and the Massachusetts Military Historical Society. His city
residence is at 191 Commonwealth Avenue; his summer abode is at Pride's
Crossing, city of Beverly.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS
Charles L. Peirson, 28, S.; civil engineer, Salem; wd. May 8 and 10,
'64, Spottsylvania; prom. Colonel; Charles Lawrence Peirson was born
in Salem; was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard,
1853; was a Corporal in the Fourth Battalion, under Major T. G.
Stevenson, which in the spring of 1861 did gratuitous service in Fort
Warren, Boston Harbor; later commissioned First Lieut. and Adjutant in
the Twentieth Massachusetts, he was taken prisoner at the Battle of
Ball's Bluff and suffered three months' confinement in Libby Prison,
Richmond; on his return to his regiment he was detailed for special
service on the staff of General N. J. T. Dana and also later upon
that of General John Sedgwick, thus passing through the Peninsula
campaign; it was while on sick leave from such service that he was
notified of his appointment to his new position in the Thirty-ninth
Regiment.
Henry M. Tremlett, from Major July 13, 1864; absent at the time on
detached service in Boston Harbor he did not rejoin the Regiment until
October following; wd. March 31, '65, at Gravelly Run, he died of
wounds at his home in Boston, June 6th following, the very day of the
return of the Thirty-ninth. The six weeks immediately following the
battle were spent in the hospital at City Point; thence he returned to
Boston, getting there May 9th, apparently on the road to recovery, but
the setting in of intermittent fever proved to be too great a trial of
his strength; his body was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. Of him a
writer in a Boston paper wrote at the time:--
His standard of manliness was one of noble action rather than of
puling pretension, and his whole life showed him to be a loving son,
a dear brother, a kind and generous companion, a devoted friend and a
truly loyal man, willing to sacrifice his life for the noble cause for
which he contended.
MAJORS
Henry M. Tremlett, b. Dorchester, July 15, 1833; 29, S.; merchant,
Boston; Aug. 28, 1862; educated at Chauncy Hall School, Boston, he
succeeded his father in mercantile life on Foster's Wharf; when
Governor Andrew called for volunteers to serve in Fort Warren in the
spring of 1862, he was one of those who filled the ranks of the Fourth
Battalion, serving therein as First Sergeant. On the organization
of the Twentieth Regiment, he was commissioned Captain and in that
capacity bore his part in the fatal day at Ball's Bluff and was with
the Army of the Potomac through the Seven Days' Fight. With the
Thirty-ninth he participated in all of its experiences till, in the
fall of '63, he was ordered to Boston where for quite a year, as
Provost Marshal, he had charge of the draft rendezvous till after the
death of Colonel Davis and the severe wounding of Colonel Peirson his
return was necessary, serving thereafter as Lieut. Colonel.
Frederick R. Kinsley, July 13, '64, from Captain, Co. E; not mustered;
captured, Aug. 19, '64, at the Weldon R. R., was held until the
following March; came home in command of the Regiment; M. O. as Capt.,
June 2, 1865; soon after the war, with two brothers, he bought and
worked a large farm in Dorchester, N. H.; represented the town in the
Legislature; in 1911 he removed to Lowell where, in 1913, he makes his
home.
ADJUTANTS
Henry W. Moulton, 21, M.; currier, So. Danvers; Aug. 18, '62; was
first commissioned in the Thirty-fifth, Aug. 12, '62, and was trans.
as above. Owing to the detailing of Adjutant Washburn, Lieutenant
Moulton took his place; wd. May 10, 1864, Laurel Hill; absent, sick,
until his discharge; dis. disa., Dec. 5, 1864.
Orville A. Barker, from Co. C, Dec. 5, '64; prom. Captain, April 3,
'65; not mustered; M. O. June 2, 1864; a druggist for many years in
Taunton, Captain Barker found time to serve as Treasurer of Morton
Hospital and for thirty-five years was Clerk of the Baptist Church; he
died Feb. 21, 1912.
QUARTERMASTER
Edward E. White, 34, --; --, Cambridge; August 25, 1862; prom.
Captain, April 3, '65; not mustered; brevet Capt. and Major, U. S.
Volunteers, March 13, 1865; M. O. as 1st Lieut., June 2, 1865.
SURGEONS
Calvin G. Page, 33, --; physician, Boston; August 22, 1862; dis. as
Major, disa., Nov. 16, '63; an A. B., Harvard, 1852, he took his M. D.
there in 1854; d. March 29, 1869.
William Thorndike, 29, M.; surgeon, Beverly; Nov. 17, 1863; an A. B.
from Harvard, 1854, he also gained there his M. D., 1857; had seen
service as Ass't Surgeon, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers,
whence he came to the Thirty-ninth; his efficiency in the Regiment was
thoroughly appreciated by the men, and General Peirson affirms that
recovery from the wound received at the Weldon R. R. was the result of
the care and attention of his surgeon; the son of the latter, William,
Jr., also Harvard, 1892, and M. D., 1896, is a Boston practitioner,
whose wife is a daughter of the late General William Tecumseh Sherman;
Surgeon Thorndike died in 1887.
ASSISTANT SURGEONS
James L. Chipman, 31, --; physician, Milford; August 25, 1862; dis.
as 1st Lieut. disa., May 23, '64; later, June 26, '65, 1st Lieut. and
Ass't Surg. Forty-third U. S. C. T.; M. O. Oct. 20, '65.
Henry H. Mitchell, 23, --; physician, East Bridgewater; August 25,
1862; res. Nov. 3, '64, as 1st Lieut. for prom. as Major and Surgeon,
Thirty-sixth U. S. C. T.; res. June 15, 1864.
John F. Butler, --, --; physician, Chesterfield, N. H.; 1st Lieut.
May 27, 1863; an M. D. from Harvard, 1854, a classmate of Surgeon
Thorndike, he was M. O. June 2, 1865.
CHAPLAIN
Edward Beecher French, 29, M.; clergyman, Chatham; August 18, 1862; a
graduate of Harvard's Divinity School, 1859, Chaplain French enlisted
as a private from his pastorate, and was commissioned from the ranks;
of him Thomas E. Small remarks, "At the battle of the Wilderness the
Chaplain was right up at the front with the boys and when Daniel
Burnham of our Company was shot and about to die, the Chaplain took
his last message and whatever he had to send to his wife and family
and comforted him in his last few moments of life; he accompanied the
remains of Colonel Davis from Petersburg to Cambridge and spoke at the
funeral; M. O. June 2, 1865; he was born in Lowell, Nov. 20, 1832;
his earlier years were spent in Holliston; his first pastorate was in
Chatham, whence he was the first man to enlist in the Thirty-ninth;
after the war he served pastorates in Babylon, L. I., and Perth Amboy,
N. J., but his health, enfeebled by exposures at the front, broke and
recovery was sought in Texas and Wisconsin, but without avail. He died
July 14, 1907, in Harwich with relatives of his wife, who had preceded
him to the other world, and his body was laid by the side of hers in
the Harwich burial ground."
NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF
SERGEANT MAJORS
Charles Henry Chapman, 21, S.; student, Cambridge; prom. 2d Lieut. Co.
G, Nov. 11, 1862; Brown University, Class of 1861.
T. Cordis Clarke from Co. B; Dec. 8, '62; prom. 2d Lieut. Nov. 13,
'62; vide Co. E.
Charles W. Hanson, from Co. A; Dec. 6, '62; prom. 2d Lieut. Jan. 25,
'63; vide Co. H.
Joseph A. Merrifield, from Co. A, Feb. 20, '63; prom. 2d Lieut. Sept.
20, '63; vide Co. F.
Edwin Mills, from Co. E; Sept., '63; prom. 2d Lieut. Jan. 8, '64; vide
Co. A.
Charles K. Conn, from Co. K, April 28, '64; wd. and pris. May 8, '64;
prom. 2d Lieut. Feb. 1, '65; vide Co. H.
George H. Dennett, from Co. K, Feb. 1, '65; prom. 2d Lieut.; not
mustered; M. O. June 2, 1865, as Sergt. Major; d. Malden.
QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT
Henry B. Leighton, 25, --; --, Cambridge; Sept. 4, 1862; prom. 2d
Lieut. April 3, '65; not mustered; M. O. as Q. M. Sergt. June 2, 1865.
COMMISSARY SERGEANT
Lucius W. Hilton, 21, --; --, --; Sept. 4, 1862; M. O. June 2, 1865.
HOSPITAL STEWARD
Frederick Harvey, 27, M.; apothecary, Dorchester; dis. Sept. 7, 1863,
S. O. W. D.
Orville A. Barker, from Co. F, Oct. 13, '62; prom. 2d Lieut. Nov. 8,
'63; vide Co. C.
George A. Stuart, 22, S.; chemist, Boston; March 9, 1864; trans. June
2, 1865, to Thirty-second Infantry.
PRINCIPAL MUSICIAN
Matthew Woodward, from Co. F, Nov. 1, '63; M. O. June 2, 1865.
(To avoid needless repetition of dates in regard to transfers to and
from the Regiment the following facts are stated here:--June 25, '64,
on the M. O. of the Twelfth Massachusetts Infantry, the men whose
enlistments had not expired were trans. to the Thirty-ninth, and on
the 13th, of July, '64, under similar circumstances, men were received
from the Thirteenth Massachusetts. When, June 2, '65, the Thirty-ninth
was preparing to go home all members whose terms were not expiring
were trans. to the Thirty-second Massachusetts and were M. O. with
that organization June 29, 1865).
In battle-names, Spottsylvania may include both Alsop's Farm and
Laurel Hill.
COMPANY A
From South Danvers, after the War to become the town of Peabody.
CAPTAINS
George S. Nelson, 27, M.; tanner, South Danvers; August 18, '62; res.
March 2, 1865; had been commissioned Captain in the Thirty-fifth,
August 12, '62, and was trans. as above; at last account, Capt.
Nelson's address was 880 Seminary Avenue, Chicago.
As Acting Captain, 1st Lieut. Henry F. Felch of Company E commanded
the Company on its return to Boston.
FIRST LIEUTENANTS
Emory Washburn, Jr., 24, --; lawyer, Cambridge; Aug. 25, '62; the son
of Ex-Governor Emory Washburn, he was born in Worcester, Oct. 1, 1837;
graduating from Harvard College in 1860, he had just taken his degree
of LL. B. in 1862 when he was commissioned in the new regiment then
forming; evidently his direct service, if any, in the Thirty-ninth was
brief, for on the first Monthly Report he appears as detached and a
member of the staff of General Charles Devens, also a Worcester man;
in this capacity he did excellent work, as appears in the report of
General Devens, after the battle of Fredericksburg, written Dec. 17,
'62, wherein he says, "I am under especial obligations, for their
zeal and fidelity, to my staff," including with two others, "my aide,
Lieut. E. Washburn, Jr." It would appear that Adjutant Washburn
returned to the Regiment for one week at Poolesville, Md., resigning,
January 24, 1864; he died in 1885.
Charles H. Porter, from 2d Lieut. Co. D, Jan. 25, '63; prom. Captain,
Sept. 8, '64; not mustered; M. O. as 1st Lieut. June 2, 1865; as
a member of the Loyal Legion, Captain Porter was conspicuous in
promoting its interests; was Junior Vice-Commander, 1897; Registrar,
1903-5; Recorder, 1906-11; no veteran of the Regiment took more
interest in its annual reunions than did Captain Porter, and for years
he was practically its motive power. His papers on the campaigns in
which he bore a part were valuable contributions to the Massachusetts
Military Historical Society. Born in Weymouth, 1843, he was only six
weeks old when the family removed to Quincy; his early education
was had in the Quincy High School; his business life was that of
insurance; he was almost constantly in public life, twelve years on
the School Board, three years Selectman, the First Mayor of Quincy,
1888, he was re-elected; several years on the State Board of Health;
first Commander, Paul Revere Post, G. A. R.; commissioned as Lieut.
Colonel in Seventh M. V. M. by Governor Andrew, he was widely known as
Colonel Porter; he was seven years Trustee of the Chelsea Soldiers'
Home and was ever prominent in local business organizations and in
Masonic Circles; d. Aug. 10, 1911.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS
George H. Wiley, 23, M.; shoemaker, So. Danvers; Aug. 18, '62; res.
Jan. 7, '64; had been commissioned in the Thirty-fifth Aug. 12, '62,
and was trans. as above; was 3d Lieut. Co. H, Fifth M. V. M., three
mos. service; d. May 19, 1910, Boston.
L. F. Wyman, Feb. 23, '64, from Co. K; returned to "K," Mar. 2, '64.
Edwin Mills from Sergeant Major, Jan. 8, '64; dis. on account of wds.
rec'd May 10, '64, Oct. 19, '64.
ENLISTED MEN
Adams, Francis D. (Corp.), 27, M.; upholsterer, Boston; July 9, '63;
recruit to Twelfth Infty.; trans. thence to the Thirty-ninth and later
trans. to the Thirty-second and afterwards M. O.; Pris. Aug. 19, '64,
Weldon R. R.
Adams, Joseph, 44, M.; mechanic, Stowe; Aug. 18, '62; wd. May 8, '64;
dis. disa., Jan. 18, '64.
Aitken, Samuel, 19, S.; mason, Boston; June 26, '61, in Co. A, Twelfth
Regiment; to compensate for protracted absence without leave to Oct.
1, '63, he was trans. to the Thirty-second and thence M. O.
Ames, John, 21, S.; laborer, Boston; July 9, '63; recruit to the
Twelfth Infty., trans. thence to the Thirty-ninth; trans. to One
Hundred Sixty-eighth Co., Second Batt. V. R. C.; dis. June 7, '65.
Andrews, Timothy, Jr., 33, M.; spar maker, Essex; Aug. 18, '62; M. O.
June 2, 1865; d. 1896.
Badger, George H., 30, M.; shoemaker, Stoughton; Aug. 18, '62; dis.
disa., Oct. 22, '63.
Bancroft, George W., Jr., 20, M.; teamster, So. Danvers; Aug. 18, '62;
dis. May 20, '65--report of Adjutant General says, "ex. of s."
Barden, Jonas P., 18, S.; farmer, Lynnfield; Aug. 18, '62; k. June 22,
'64, Petersburg, Va.
Barnard, Henry, 21, S.; stonecutter, Hanover; Aug. 15, '61; in Co. C,
Twelfth Regiment by way of compensation for unexcused absence was, at
last, trans. to Thirty-second Massachusetts Volunteers for final M. O.
Batchelder, Benjamin A. (Wagoner); 40, M.; teamster, Chatham; trans.
Sept. 7, '62, V. R. C.; d. --.
Bean, Thomas, b. Mar. 19, 1833; 29, M.; shoemaker, Easton; Aug. 18,
'62; Corp. April 27, '63; Pris. Aug. 19, '64; M. O. June 2, '65;
shoemaker and farmer; in Legislature, 1870; has held all offices in G.
A. R. Post; 1913, Easton.
Belcher, John, 28, S.; shoemaker, Framingham; July 13, '63; dis.
disa., May 4, '65.