MOVEMENT TO WELLS’S FARM--THE CAMP AT PEGRAM’S
FARM--BUILDING OF WINTER QUARTERS--ORDERED BACK TO
PETERSBURG--DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE MEN--THE REGIMENT OCCUPIES
BATTERY NO. 11--FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PICKETS--BATTLE
OF FORT STEDMAN--THE REGIMENT MAKES A GALLANT FIGHT--THE
PRISONERS SENT TO LIBBY--CLOSING SCENES BEFORE PETERSBURG--THE
REGIMENT ENTERS THE CITY--DUTIES PERFORMED AFTER THE
BATTLE--DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN--ORDERED TO ALEXANDRIA,
AND FROM THENCE TO GEORGETOWN--PROVOST GUARD--THE GRAND
REVIEW--REGIMENT GOES TO TENALLYTOWN, MD.--SOLDIERS OF THE
THIRTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS ASSIGNED TO THE TWENTY-NINTH
REGIMENT--ORDERED TO MASSACHUSETTS--PARADE IN NEW YORK--IN
CAMP AT READVILLE, MASS.--THE LAST ORDER--DISCHARGED THE
SERVICE--CLOSING REMARKS.
The last chapter left the regiment at Poplar Grove Church. Here it
remained till the 27th of October, when, very early in the morning, the
Brigade advanced in line of battle to and a little beyond Wells’s Farm,
halted for the night, and the next morning fell back to Pegram’s Farm,
between the Squirrel Level and Vaughan roads, the regiment covering the
latter movement as skirmishers.
It was supposed that the corps was to pass the winter at this place,
and the regimental commanders were ordered to prepare winter quarters
for their men. No duty which the soldier is required to perform is so
pleasant as that of erecting a house to live in. Such orders after a
fatiguing campaign, promising both comfort and rest, are peculiarly
welcome, and always cheerfully obeyed. In this, as in every other
similar instance, the soldiers worked with great zeal, manifesting much
ingenuity in the construction and arrangement of their houses. The rude
idea of the negroes of building a chimney with sticks and clay, was
adopted by the men, with some improvements of their own, while each
hut was provided with comfortable bunks, spacious fire-places, and
shelves for their guns and clothing.
This was the first time in nearly two years that the regiment had even
seen the prospect of winter quarters, and was the first time in many
months that it had been out of the range of the enemy’s sharpshooters
and picket-firing. The camp was very unlike the ones it had occupied
in front of Richmond, or in Tennessee, but was upon a dry, sandy
knoll, well supplied with good water, and in full sight of Fort
Sampson, a strong redoubt, named after the brave Captain Sampson of
the Twenty-first Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, who fell there
in the battle of September 20, with the colors of his regiment in his
own hands, gallantly leading his men in a charge. Though the camp was
very pleasantly located, yet winter was near at hand, the trees had
already lost their foliage, and the cool autumn winds found their way
through the cracks and crevices of the humble huts of the soldiers,
often reminding them of the necessity of applying a little more of the
“sacred soil” of Virginia, if they would be wholly comfortable. Thus
quartered, it was natural that they should compare their present lot
with that which fell to them the winter before in East Tennessee, where
cold, hunger, nakedness, and danger were daily experienced for a dreary
succession of weeks and months. But the soldier’s fondest dreams of
comfort are often rudely dispelled, and so these anticipations of ease
and quiet were never fully realized; the men were scarcely ensconced
in their winter homes, before they were ordered to leave them. Any one
who has heard a soldier grumble, and has noted some of his expressions,
can understand what was said by the men about this change of location.
Captain Taylor, who was of a positive temperament, rose to the
sublimity of the occasion by swearing that “he would never lift another
handful of dirt as long as he remained in the army”; while some of the
soldiers declared that the officers were “a mean set,” and were bent
on ruining the health and destroying the comfort of the men as a mere
pastime.
As usual, all this rage was utterly impotent, and indulged in as a
sacred privilege. It operated something like a cushion, however,
lessening the severity of impact with a hard surface; to use less
elegant language, it “let them down easily.” The lesson of implicit
obedience to orders--not unquestioning, for volunteer soldiers were
never without their mental reservations as to the propriety of every
military movement--had already, and long since, been thoroughly
learned. On the 29th of November, when the weather was quite cold and
cheerless, the Ninth Corps was ordered to march. The men little dreamed
that they were going back to the old blood-stained trenches in front
of Petersburg, where they had borne the heat of the summer, and faced
the shells of a hundred mortars and as many cannon. Here, however, they
soon found themselves, and as they moved along over the battle-field
of the 17th of June, and among the graves of their brothers who died
for their country there, more than one eye was wet with the tears of
manly sorrow. The regiment was ordered to do duty as the garrison of
Battery No. 11, a small _ravelin_ covering about three-fourths of an
acre, having embrasures for two guns, but no guns being mounted. About
two hundred yards from this work was Battery No. 12, a large redoubt
mounting four cohorns, garrisoned by a portion of the First Connecticut
Heavy Artillery. On the right of Battery No. 11, one hundred and
twenty-five yards distant, was Fort Stedman, held by the Fourteenth
New York Heavy Artillery; and a little to the rear and left of Battery
No. 11 was the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers: while to the
left of Battery No. 12, and between it and Fort Haskell, was the One
Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers; and at the right of Fort Stedman,
the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment.
The pickets of both armies were stationed in rifle-pits large enough to
hold several men, midway between the respective lines, and these were
approached by covered ways.
Though under fire much of the time, the men found opportunity to build
quarters, and so far as protection from the cold was concerned, were
quite comfortable during the winter. As in the winter of 1863, while
the regiment was before Fredericksburg, the pickets of the two armies
became friendly; but as these familiarities were strictly forbidden,
they were never indulged in except at night.
The members of our regiment performed their full share of picket
service, and, like all the rest of our troops, had frequent parleys
with the Confederates. A member of the regiment has furnished the
writer with a detailed statement of several of the interviews which
took place on the picket line, from which it appears that this service
was a source of more amusement than danger.
When everything was quiet, one of our men would call out, “Johnnies,
have you got any tobacco?” “Yes Yanks; have you got any hard-tack?”
was the common answer. “Meet you half-way,” says the Confederate. “All
right; come on!” say our men. Then three or four men from each side
would leave the pits, crawl out over the space between the two lines,
shake hands, have an exchange of tobacco, hard-tack, and talk, crack
jokes, and separate with the understanding, that, as soon as each party
got back to the pits, they should commence firing, for the purpose of
misleading their respective officers.
This state of things was finally discovered by the Confederate and
Federal officers, and was terminated by strict orders forbidding the
practice under severe penalties. But the practice, though not worthy to
be encouraged, resulted in bringing about numerous desertions from the
enemy’s camp.
The proclamation of General Grant, encouraging desertions among the
Confederates, was, by means of these forbidden interviews, extensively
circulated, and scarcely a night passed, during the months of January
and February, which did not witness more or less of these desertions.
The Twenty-ninth had been very much reduced in numbers, having less
than two hundred muskets; and yet, because of its long and conspicuous
service, General Parke, commanding the corps, refused to consolidate
it with some other larger Massachusetts regiment, and allowed it to
retain a full list of field-officers, only one of whom, under the
then existing rules of the War Department, could be mustered. Captain
Willard D. Tripp, who had been commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel,
October 12, 1864, had been mustered out on the 13th of December,
1864, his term of service having expired. Captain Charles D. Browne
was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, October 14, 1864; Captain Charles
T. Richardson commissioned as Major, August 9, 1864, and mustered as
such; and Captain Thomas William Clarke commissioned as Colonel,
November 8, 1864. During the winter, Colonel Clarke was assigned to
duty upon the staff of General Hartranft, commanding the division;
Lieutenant-Colonel Browne made Inspector of the division; and Major
Richardson had command of the regiment.
No event of particular significance occurred till the 25th of March,
1865. Long before daylight in the morning of this day, a large force
of the enemy--afterwards learned to be the corps of General Gordon,
supported by the division of General Bushrod Johnson--crossed the
level plain between Fort Stedman and the Appomattox River, fully a
quarter of a mile to the right of Battery No. 11, and the entire
storming party effected a wide breach in the works, and moved directly
upon Fort Stedman, entering the rear sally-port almost undiscovered.
So complete was the surprise, that the fort was captured at once.
Slight firing was heard from this direction by the garrison in Battery
Eleven; whereupon Major Richardson caused the men to be aroused, but
the firing was so slight, that when the regiment was ordered to “fall
in,” the sentinel stationed on the top of the parapet called out that
there was “no attack.” The men were not dismissed, however, and stood
silently in line for some time, peering into the gray, frosty air of
the morning, the Major taking a position on the top of the works,
listening intently, and looking down into the ravine below, where he
saw his trusty pickets standing quietly by their fires, apparently
unaware of any disturbance on the main line. But the commanding officer
soon became satisfied that there was an attack in the direction of Fort
Stedman; the right curtain of Battery Eleven was re-enforced, and the
bugler Pond having sounded the alarm, the garrison was wholly prepared
to repel any attack. Up to this time, no general alarm had been sounded
along the line, and no word from any source, indicating an attack,
had been received by Major Richardson; much less that the line had
been broken, or that any danger lurked in his rear. The regiment had
remained in line of battle nearly thirty minutes, when suddenly the
men in the right curtain commenced firing; they were ordered to cease,
lest they should shoot our own pickets, who had begun to come in. The
latter order had hardly been given, when some of our soldiers cried
out, “The Johnnies are coming in at the rear sally-port!” This was the
first positive information that the garrison had received of an attack;
but the worst was revealed now,--the enemy had actually captured Fort
Stedman, and though our pickets under Lieutenant Josselyn had not
been disturbed, yet at least five hundred of Gordon’s and Johnson’s
troops had suddenly appeared in our rear. These veteran soldiers of the
Confederacy were destined, however, to meet with a stubborn resistance;
a hand-to-hand encounter at once began; a Massachusetts battery
stationed at the left joined in the desperate conflict, which, in the
course of fifteen minutes, ended in the capture by our regiment of
three hundred and fifty of the storming party, at least one hundred and
fifty more than the whole number of the Twenty-ninth, and the temporary
closing of the gap in this part of our lines.
During this encounter, the officers and men behaved with signal
bravery. Captain Taylor was especially conspicuous, using a musket,
and dealing powerful blows with its breech. Major Richardson, mingling
with his men, was in the thickest of the fight, and received a terrible
blow on the head from an enemy’s musket, sufficient to overcome an
ordinary man; but he was not an ordinary man, and so far from quitting
the fight, he kept on in the desperate struggle, cheering his men, and
assuring them that the day was theirs.
The enemy now disappeared, the fort was cleared of the prisoners, and
word sent to brigade headquarters of the state of affairs at the camp
of the Twenty-ninth Regiment. General McLaughlin, commander of the
Brigade, soon came up, with the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment as
a re-enforcement, and was greatly surprised at the sight of so large a
number of prisoners as he found standing in the rear of the fort. The
General gave Major Gould, commanding the Fifty-ninth, imperative orders
to assist the Twenty-ninth in holding the fort, and then, with his
staff, rode over towards Fort Stedman; he had, probably, not been gone
five minutes, before he and all his staff fell into the hands of the
enemy. The best possible disposition was now made of what remained of
the garrison (for it is true that some had been captured in the first
assault and others had been killed and wounded) to resist the attack
of the enemy, which he was now preparing to make, having collected his
main assaulting column in a ravine in the rear of the battery. Major
Gould was offered the command of the forces here, being the ranking
officer, but declined; Major Richardson concluded to establish a strong
picket line in the rear of the battery, and, with Captain Taylor,
went personally to superintend the work. The enemy were already in
sight, and firing soon began; on returning to the fort, to their great
surprise these officers found the work nearly deserted, and saw in
the dim light of the morning the command of Major Gould, and some of
their own regiment, moving away down the ditch towards Fort Haskell,
which was still held by our troops. During the brief absence of Major
Richardson, Major Gould, who had discovered the approach of the enemy
in his rear, gave orders to his men to “Leap the breastworks, and
retreat between the rebel works and our own to Fort Haskell.”[55] No
resistance was now possible; in a few moments the enemy swarmed into
the battery, and Major Richardson, Captain Taylor, and a number of
their faithful men were captured. This was a cruel fate for these brave
soldiers, who had striven so zealously to beat back the enemy; and had
their example been followed by others who held equally responsible
positions, the little fort would probably have not been lost.
By this time the alarm had spread far and near, and though it was
scarcely light, yet the entire corps was under arms and in motion.
The left column of the enemy, passing down the line to Battery No.
9, drove the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts from the works. It next
encountered the Second Michigan, and though the regiment was surprised,
and some confusion followed, yet it soon rallied, and held its ground
against the most determined efforts of the enemy. Re-enforcements
arriving at this point, the enemy were repulsed, and fell back towards
Fort Stedman, in which their right column was now huddled, having been
checked in its further movements by our troops on that part of the
line.
The Twenty-ninth rallied about this time, near brigade headquarters,
where a regiment of General Hartranft’s command arrived; and the two
regiments at once charged and occupied a line of works about one
hundred yards in the rear of Battery Eleven, thus completely stopping
the opening in that part of the line.
At about seven o’clock, an advance was ordered upon the enemy, in all
directions. Battery Eleven was soon retaken by our men, Conrad Homan,
the color-bearer of the Twenty-ninth, being the first man who entered
the works; and for his distinguished gallantry on this occasion, was
promoted to be First Lieutenant, and received one of the medals of
honor voted by Congress. The only works now held by the enemy were
Fort Stedman and Battery No. 10, which, shortly after eight o’clock,
General Hartranft’s division was ordered to attack. The Two Hundred
and Eleventh Pennsylvania, though composed wholly of raw troops, was
chosen to lead the assault. A finer display of bravery was never
witnessed in the army, than that of these untrained soldiers. With
great impetuosity, they rushed upon the fort in the face of a blaze of
musketry, and in a few minutes were masters of the situation. At the
same instant other troops of the division stormed Battery No. 10, and
captured it.
The retreat of the enemy was now cut off by the fire from our other
works, and one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine of their number,
of whom seventy-one were officers, nine stands of colors, and a
large number of small arms, fell into our hands. And thus ended this
brilliant and well-conceived movement of the enemy. It was, to a great
extent, a fair offset to the mine affair, but the disadvantages under
which our troops labored could never have been overcome, except by hard
fighting and good generalship, which characterized our movements from
the beginning.
The events of this terrible battle were mostly sad and distressing;
but the affair was not without its ludicrous features. A soldier
of Company C,[56] who was captured in the early morning, made an
involuntary exchange of hats with a Confederate officer. The soldier’s
hat was nearly new, while that which he received from the officer was
exceedingly shabby. The soldier broke away from the guard and ran into
our lines, taking a gallant part in the charge just mentioned. While
circulating among the captured enemy after the battle, he discovered
the identical officer who had taken his hat from him. The soldier, in
a very droll manner, approached the officer and said: “Well, Mister,
if you please, I’ll take my hat now, and here’s yours back again, just
as good, and no better, than when I took it about three hours ago.”
The two again exchanged hats, and shaking hands “on it,” indulged in a
hearty laugh.
The following-named soldiers of the regiment were killed in this
action, which is known as the “Battle of Fort Stedman”: Company B,
Edward J. O’Brien (he was terribly bayoneted in the breast and killed
by one of the enemy, after he had been badly wounded, and was found
in this mutilated condition after the battle); Company C, Sergeant
C. Francis Harlow; Company E, First Lieutenant Nathaniel Burgess,
Sergeant Orrin D. Holmes, William Klinker, and Ruter Moritz; Company F,
Preserved Westgate; Company G, Nelson Cook, George E. Snow, and John
Cronin.
Lieutenant Burgess of Plymouth had been promoted for his great bravery
on the 17th of June. Orderly Sergeant Harlow was overpowered, and
ordered to surrender; he replied with spirit that he would not, fired,
and shot his antagonist; but another Confederate, standing near, seized
his gun, and shot the courageous Harlow through the head. After the
battle, the dead body of Harlow was found in the fort, lying upon that
of a dead Confederate officer, from which fact it was inferred that
Harlow shot the officer, and upon being himself killed, fell in the
position in which he was found. One of the comrades, who witnessed this
sad affair, states that the officer was one Captain Gordon, who led the
assaulting party. The death of Burgess causes us to remark, inasmuch
as he was the last officer in the regiment killed during its term of
service, that the first and last officer in the regiment who fell in
battle, were citizens of the historic old town of Plymouth.
NOTE.--The chief facts concerning this battle are
somewhat in dispute; two or three distinct and conflicting
accounts of it having been published. The version here given,
so far as it relates to Battery Eleven, was furnished the
writer by Major Chas. T. Richardson of Pawtucket, R. I.;
the comments upon that officer, and Captain Taylor, being
those of the author, based upon the statements of reliable
persons.--AUTHOR.]
The real mettle of the officers and men of the regiment was fairly
tested in this battle, and the result shows that they were among the
bravest soldiers in the army. In the depressing adversities of the
early morning, as well as in the success which followed later in the
day, their courage was equally conspicuous. Stubborn and unflinching
when the enemy burst upon them in greatly superior numbers, they were
impetuous and daring while on the charge.
Captain Clarke, as Adjutant-General of the Brigade, led a large body
of re-enforcements on the charge at six o’clock. Lieutenant-Colonel
Browne, while carrying an order from the commander of the division,
dashed on horseback directly through the lines of a Confederate
regiment. Captain Pizer, Lieutenant Josselyn, Lieutenant McQuillan,
and Lieutenant Scully, who were captured, all escaped, and fought with
great gallantry in the latter part of the battle, and for their bravery
were afterwards brevetted.
The captured of the regiment, who did not manage to escape, were
carried to Petersburg, and confined in a small room till nine o’clock
in the morning. They were then transferred to a large hall in the
village, where they were all searched, and their overcoats taken from
them. Towards noon they were marched from the hall, together with a
number of other prisoners, to an open field on the outskirts of the
town, and were kept there under guard till night, when they took the
cars for Richmond. During the day it rained and snowed by turns, and
the wind was cold and piercing, the poor soldiers, stripped of their
overcoats, suffering intensely. No food was given them till about noon
of the following day; and then nothing but a small quantity of bean
soup, without any seasoning, brought to them in dirty iron kettles. The
men were confined together in one room at the notorious Libby Prison;
and, as further illustrating the barbarous nature of their treatment,
it should be stated, that crowded into the same apartment, which was
filthy in the extreme, alive with vermin, and poorly ventilated,
were nearly two hundred other prisoners. The quantity and quality of
the food dealt out to them was such as hardly to sustain life: the
breakfast consisted of a small ration of smoked pork; for dinner they
had bean soup; and at night a small loaf of bread, with water. All
the food was of the most inferior quality; the meat especially, which
frequently emitted a nauseating odor.
Happily, these men were not compelled to endure such privations for
many days; but they were days of anxiety and suffering, as the author
well knows from his own experience. The life of the wicked Rebellion
was fast ebbing away; a few days before Lee’s surrender the men
were released, and sent to the prison depot at Annapolis, Maryland,
afterwards joining the regiment at Georgetown, District of Columbia.
After the repulse of the enemy on the 25th of March, and the recapture
of our works, the regiment again occupied Battery No. 11, supported by
the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth Massachusetts regiments. The final
movements of our army, which resulted in the surrender of General Lee,
were close at hand. A state of feverish excitement prevailed among
both armies in front of Petersburg. The enemy were disposed to be
belligerent, and for nearly a week kept up a constant fire upon our
lines.
On the 27th of March, General Sheridan began his grand movement on the
left, and the whole army had orders to be ready to march at a moment’s
notice.
On the 30th, General Parke, commanding the corps, was ordered to
assault the enemy’s works in his front at four o’clock the next
morning, but the order was subsequently countermanded by General Meade.
On the 1st of April, the order for an assault was renewed. At ten
o’clock that night our artillery opened all along our line, and at
the same time a heavy force of skirmishers was sent forward. General
Griffin’s brigade captured the enemy’s picket line, opposite Forts
Howard and Hayes, and a number of prisoners. During these movements our
whole line was forming for the assault, which was made at about four
o’clock in the morning of the 2d. The contest was a bloody one, but was
very successful.
At the close of the day, during which the enemy made repeated attacks,
General Parke was in possession of several hundred yards of the enemy’s
lines, on each side of the Jerusalem Plank Road, including several
formidable works. In the meantime a determined attack on the left had
been made by the Sixth, Second, and parts of the Twenty-fifth corps,
capturing a considerable number of prisoners.
During the battle on this part of the line, General A. P. Hill of the
Confederate army was killed. He was one of the most distinguished
officers of the long list of able and brilliant Southern Generals.
The tragic account of his death, given by E. A. Pollard in his “Lost
Cause,”[57] is probably incorrect, and is of the same sensational
character as much else that this pseudo historian has written.
The night of the 2d of April was passed by the Ninth Corps on its
advanced line with heavy skirmishing, continuing till near midnight.
The regiment did not become seriously engaged during the 1st and 2d of
April, though it took part in the demonstrations which were made in
front of Port Stedman.
At four o’clock in the morning of the 3d of April, all our troops were
put in motion, no opposition was encountered, the enemy having deserted
their lines. The Brigade was among the first to pass the Confederate
works; the Third Maryland Regiment having the honor of being the
first to enter the city of Petersburg. The Twenty-ninth, with other
troops, soon followed, but at once passed out on the Richmond Stage and
Chesterfield roads, where it was placed on picket.
From this time till the 5th, the regiment had its headquarters at a
place called Violet Bank, a fine old Virginia plantation, the house of
which had been long occupied by General Lee. “There were two pianos in
the house, and for two days one would have thought that some impresario
had his troupe there, in rehearsal of all the known, and some unknown,
operas.” The regiment recrossed the Appomattox on the 5th, and, with
its brigade, “was deployed across the country, from the river to the
Boydton Road,” with headquarters at Roger A. Pryor’s, “preparing to
advance and cover the reconstruction of the railroad, and to guard
that and the Cox Road, as the army advanced.”
In the afternoon of the 6th, the regiment marched to Sutherlands,
remaining there till midnight, and then moving out on the Cox Road
to Beazeley’s. By short marches, made at different times, it finally
proceeded to Wilson’s Station, “about twenty miles from Sutherlands,
and at the junction of the Grubby and Cox roads.”
While remaining here, the men received the sad news of the death of
Abraham Lincoln. Every soldier felt that he had lost a dear friend in
the lamented chief magistrate, whose heart always beat with joy at
their successes in the field, and sorrowed with the truest sorrow over
their reverses and misfortunes. Of all the many true men who stood
at the helm of the nation during the stormy days of the war, Abraham
Lincoln was pre-eminently the soldier’s friend; he always frowned upon
the harsh punishments inflicted by military law, and by his sympathy
for the erring, saved from death many who had been thus doomed by the
inexorable decrees of courts-martial.
On the 21st of April, the Ninth Corps was ordered to Washington, and
the men bid good-by forever to these scenes of their strifes and
sufferings. The regiment reached Alexandria on the 28th, and on the
next day was ordered to Georgetown, where it was detached from the
division and made provost guard at this place, and furnished all the
details for General Willcox’s district headquarters.
On the 23d of May occurred the grand review in Washington. The
Twenty-ninth was not permitted to participate in this triumphal march
of our noble army, but as provost guard, was assigned to the duty,
on this memorable day, of keeping the streets of Georgetown clear of
obstructions, and of guarding the various “approaches to the route of
the procession.” Several of the officers of the regiment, however,
who were on staff duty, were in the column, and Colonel Clarke was
intrusted with the formation of the First Division line, a duty that he
performed with great ability and credit to himself and the State.
On the 7th of June, Colonel Clarke was relieved from duty as Assistant
Adjutant-General of the division, and assumed the command of the
regiment.
On the 9th, a large portion of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment
was transferred to the Twenty-ninth. These men were mostly Germans
and Belgians, whose term of service did not expire before October 1,
1865. They were asked by their commanding general to which regiment
they desired to be transferred. Much attached to their officers, they
replied, that “they preferred to go where their officers could go with
them.” By an arrangement made with the War Department, eleven officers
were transferred with these men, and it speaks well for the regiment
that these officers chose to be transferred to the Twenty-ninth. Both
officers and men were superior soldiers, and the commanding officer
of the Twenty-ninth, in his last report to the Adjutant-General of
Massachusetts, speaks of them in terms of high praise.
On this day, the regiment marched to Tenallytown, Md., remaining here
till the 29th of July. The formalities of mustering the regiment out of
the service were completed on the 29th of July, and on the same day it
started for Massachusetts.
Upon its arrival in New York, it became the guest of the New England
Association, as also did the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment,
which left Washington at the same time. The Association asked the
regiments to parade in the city. The request was granted, and Brevet
Brigadier-General McLaughlin (Colonel of the Fifty-seventh) assuming
command, marched the troops through Broadway, from the Battery to Union
Square, and from the Square again to the Battery. The veterans were
greeted with cheers everywhere on the line of their march, and at the
close were met by General Burnside, who addressed them in a cordial
manner.
At the conclusion of the parade, the Association invited the soldiers
to partake of a dinner, at which were present, Major-General Joseph
Hooker, the patriotic Colonel Howe, President of the Association, and
the Rev. M. H. Smith (Burleigh). It has been said that this was the
last parade of Union troops in New York City.
Taking the cars on the Connecticut Shore road, the regiment reached
Massachusetts the next morning; but not having been paid or discharged
the service, still further delay became necessary, and it was for this
purpose ordered into camp at Readville.
It was wholly natural for soldiers who had been so long in the service
as had the members of the Twenty-ninth, and were now, at the close of
their protracted term, almost within sight and sound of their homes,
to feel a disagreeable sense of restraint at being thus detained. They
found some fault with this state of things, which they characterized
as “the last crop of red tape”; but their soldierly instincts and
self-respect kept them from the commission of any act which they or
their friends will ever have occasion to regret. Their conduct was so
exemplary under these perplexing circumstances, and this event in their
career in every sense so historical, that their commanding officer
was moved to address them upon the subject. This address was termed,
“General Orders. No. 12,” and was the last order issued to the regiment
from any source, or by any officer. As it is a well-written paper,
alike touching and soldierly in its tone, and altogether a pleasing
feature of the record of the regiment, we here give space for it:--
“GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 12.
“HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-NINTH MASSACHUSETTS VETERAN VOLUNTEERS,}
“READVILLE, MASS., August 3, 1865. }
“You hold the musket for the last time. From May, 1861, to
August, 1865, we are a part of the history of the Republic.
The very number of the regiment was prophetic; for twenty-nine
battles will be inscribed on the flag which we carry.
“To be soldiers who have never lost a color, have never left
the field without orders, have always cheerfully performed the
requirements of the service, is indeed a cause for pride. But
of one thing we should be prouder yet! Few regiments have had
so few desertions, so few dishonorable discharges, so little
punishment, of all who have served the Republic in the last
four years.
“During the past three days, your conduct has been deserving of
all praise. In receiving their welcome home, no men could have
proved themselves more worthy of the honors paid them. Trying
as the delay has been, anxious as you all were to return to
the Commonwealth, no single thing was done unbecoming the good
soldier.
“Around you cluster the memories of the two great armies of
the Republic: that which fought four long years for Richmond,
and that which opened the Mississippi to the commerce of the
Northwest.
“You hold in your hands the last muskets of the army of the
Potomac,--the last muskets of the army of Sherman. Remember,
then, the brilliant record which is yours; and remember
hereafter not to tarnish it.”[58]
In concluding this narrative, which the writer fears has already
been extended beyond the point which, in the estimation of a purely
disinterested person, might be regarded as its proper limit, it seems
essential to allude briefly, in review, to certain prominent and
remarkable features of the record given in the foregoing pages. The
seven companies of Captains Clarke, Wilson, Leach, Chipman, Doten,
Chamberlain, and Barnes, were among the first in the country to enter
the service for three years; while the regiment was among the last
of all the volunteer forces to disband: serving, including the term
of these original companies, a period of four years, two months,
and twenty days, which is rather more than the whole period of the
active hostilities of the war. During this time it served under
thirty-one general officers, of more or less distinction, in three
army corps, namely, the Second, Fifth, and Ninth; did duty in the
States of Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
and Tennessee, and in the District of Columbia: while it carried its
flags into fifteen States of the Union, travelling, in the course
of fourteen months, a distance of four thousand two hundred and
seventy-seven miles. Two of the companies participated in the first
pitched battle of the Rebellion; and the regiment was engaged in one of
the last battles of the war, which took place just seven days before
the surrender of General Lee and his army. The regiment was, therefore,
practically, present at the birth--it was also present at the death and
funeral--of the Rebellion. It took part in the four great sieges of
the war, namely, Richmond, 1862; Vicksburg, 1863; Knoxville, 1863; and
Petersburg, 1864-5; was engaged in twenty-nine pitched battles, beside
a large number of skirmishes, picket fights, and artillery duels. It
is chiefly in connection with the battle record of the Twenty-ninth,
that its surviving members have the greatest cause for feelings of
profound gratitude; the comparatively small losses sustained by it in
all these numerous encounters with the enemy forming, perhaps, the
most remarkable feature of its entire career as a regiment. And what
seems most singular, is the fact that this good fortune attended the
regiment, with two or three exceptions, from the beginning to the close
of its term. The time of its arrival at Gaines’ Mill, though it did
not operate to prevent it from performing valuable service,--a service
that aided in rescuing from destruction Porter’s troops,--alone saved
it from the slaughter that covered that sanguinary field with several
thousand wounded and dead.
At Antietam it chanced to be placed in a favorable position, while two
other regiments of the same brigade, on its right and left, were nearly
annihilated; at Fredericksburg it secured exemption from dreadful loss
by a timely transfer to another corps of the army, made in the ordinary
course of military changes, without the efforts of its officers, or the
knowledge on the part of any one as to what results would follow.
Even a cursory glance at the records of some of our Massachusetts
regiments which lost heavily in the war, will show that their losses
were mainly the fruits of unfortunate positions, and, in some
instances, that the major part of all their losses were sustained in a
single battle, as was the case of several at Ball’s Bluffs, Antietam,
and Gettysburg. While we have shown that this exemption of the regiment
from heavy battle casualties was in the main the result of accident,
yet, from the nature of things, it cannot be wholly so.
The death-lists of many new regiments were often largely increased by
the mere inexperience of the troops, and the insane idea sometimes
possessed by their officers, that recklessness and wanton exposure were
evidence of valor.
The Twenty-ninth was long in the field; its soldiers, for the last
three years of their term, were in every sense veterans, having
learned, by actual experience, the many little arts and devices always
employed by old soldiers to protect themselves while in perilous
positions,--a knowledge that the Confederate officers imparted to
their soldiers early in the war, and resulted in the saving of life,
and the winning of more than one important victory over our armies.
The romantic notion which for awhile possessed the soldiers, that it
was unmilitary and unsoldierly to make any effort to be comfortable,
or to shield themselves from the death-dealing minie, or the howling
cannon-ball, soon gave place to more sensible ideas; and long before
the close of the war, a rock, a fence, a log, a tree, or even a stump
or bush, were often used with great effect for defensive purposes, and
saved more than one soldier his life; while his cover, slight as it
was, enabled him to fire with greater precision and coolness.
Notwithstanding the remarkable escape of the regiment in many battles,
yet its list of the dead, as the reader will perceive, is by no means
insignificant; and though but a small part, it yet constitutes a
precious part, of the terrible price of human life which the Republic
paid for its final victory over treason and rebellion.
A regiment of soldiers is in some respects like a family, having its
own quarrels and jealousies, which family pride usually keeps hidden
from the knowledge of the world, and which family sufferings and common
interests finally cause, in a large measure, to be buried and forgotten.
To his comrades, the author, in closing, would say, let us all, as
members of the same regiment, forever forget the petty bickerings and
jealousies of the war, if they are not already forgotten; forgive with
a generous spirit all who wronged us,--even those who fought against
us in the field,--and turn our eyes upon the pleasant spectacle of a
Republic and a nation rescued from anarchy and ruin, in part by our
own efforts; and, finally, let us hope, that the record of our deeds
as volunteer soldiers, saved, it may be, from forgetfulness by this
printed volume,--humble as the deeds which it chronicles,--may in the
years to come serve, as has that of our fathers of the Revolution,
to keep bright and warm the fires of patriotism, and nourish a love
for the nation’s flag, and the principles it symbolizes, that neither
suffering nor danger can quench.
THE ROSTER OF THE REGIMENT.
NOTE.
There are some facts about the rolls of the regiment that demand
explanation. The published rolls of the Adjutant-General of
Massachusetts give the Twenty-ninth a total membership of eighteen
hundred and twenty commissioned officers and enlisted men. Of this
number, fourteen commissioned officers[59] and three hundred and
thirty-four enlisted men were transferred to it from the Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts, June 9, 1865. A large proportion of these enlisted men
are placed upon the rolls of the Twenty-ninth, without remark or note
indicating that they were transferred, and appear upon our rolls as
recruits for 1864. As they joined our regiment after the close of the
war, and have their record with the Thirty-fifth for all except about a
month of their entire service in the army, there seems to be no reason
for publishing their names in this volume. The Twenty-ninth is charged
with the desertion of some of these men, while in point of fact it
derived no benefit from their service.
Besides these men, and those who are placed upon the following company
rolls, there are found, as recruits for 1864, the names of about
ninety men on the published rolls of the Twenty-ninth. After a careful
consideration of all the facts, I have concluded to print the names
of seventy of these soldiers, though it is very doubtful whether all
of them actually served with the regiment. I print them in a roll by
themselves, for the reason that it does not appear with certainty with
what companies of the regiment they were connected. Five of these men
are reported to have died in the service, and I have placed their names
at the end of the roll of our dead.
The names of the following soldiers of the regiment do not appear at
all upon the Adjutant-General’s rolls: Thomas Burt, Edwin H. Hosmer,
Charles Kleinhans, Edward L. Pettis, of Company E; Leander Clapp,
Henry W. Pettee, of Company F; John Usherwood, Charles Young, George
S. Welsch, of Company H; Ira A. Clark of Company I; and Martin Bird,
Joseph A. Brown, David Dockerty, and William H. Moore, of Company K.
The name of Moore does not appear upon any of the rolls of the regiment
which I have been able to find.
The reader will observe that I have noted upon the following rolls the
death and wounding of certain soldiers. This has been done because
their names were omitted from the list of casualties given in the
narrative portion of the work.
The published rolls of the regiment give a list of forty-nine
“Unassigned Recruits.” There could not have been any unassigned men
who actually joined the regiment for duty, and the publication of this
list only shows the unsatisfactory condition of the records of both the
War Department and of our own State. With the help of kind comrades
in each company, I have closely examined this list, and taken from
it all identified names, and placed them with the companies to which
they belonged; and it may interest the comrades to know that, but for
this examination, some of the best soldiers in the regiment would have
suffered the mortification of seeing their names printed in a list of
“unassigned recruits.” After all the labor bestowed upon this matter,
there are still several soldiers in the list referred to whom we have
not been able to identify, and the conclusion is they were never
members of the regiment.--AUTHOR.
THE ROSTER OF THE REGIMENT.
FIELD AND STAFF
AT DATE OF ORGANIZATION OF REGIMENT, DECEMBER 13, 1861.
EBENEZER W. PIERCE, Colonel.
JOSEPH H. BARNES, Lieutenant-Colonel.
CHARLES CHIPMAN, Major.
ORLANDO BROWN,[60] Surgeon.
GEORGE B. COGSWELL,[61] Assistant Surgeon.
HENRY E. HEMPSTEAD,[62] Chaplain.
First Lieut. JOHN B. COLLINGWOOD, Adjutant.
First Lieut. JOSHUA NORTON, 3d, Quartermaster.
NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.
HENRY S. BRADEN, Sergeant-Major.
WILLIAM W. DAVIS, Quartermaster Sergeant.
JOHN B. PIZER, Commissary Sergeant.
JOHN HARDY, Hospital Steward.
MEMBERS OF STAFF
APPOINTED SUBSEQUENT TO DATE OF ORGANIZATION OF THE
REGIMENT TO FILL VACANCIES, WHOSE NAMES DO NOT ELSEWHERE APPEAR
UPON THE ROLLS.
GEORGE KING,[63] Surgeon.
ROBERT E. JAMESON,[64] Assistant Surgeon.
ALBERT WOOD,[65] Assistant Surgeon.
JAMES C. BASSETT,[66] Assistant Surgeon.
GUSTAVUS P. PRATT,[67] Assistant Surgeon.
EDGAR L. CARR,[68] Assistant Surgeon.
NOTE.--Promotions from Companies to the Field and
Staff will be found on the Company rolls.--AUTHOR.
ROLL OF COMPANY A.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
20, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 21,
1861:--
Thomas Wm. Clarke,[69] Captain.
Joshua Norton, 3d,[70] 1st Lieut.
John E. White,[71] 2d Lieut.
William W. Pray,[72] 1st Sergt.
William W. Davis,[73] Sergeant.
Albert H. De Costa, “
Albert N. Morin, “
Lysander A. Howard, “
Solomon B. Smith,[74] Corporal.
William T. Hamer,[75] “
Thomas Bacon,[74] “
William Coots, “
Henry Alexander, “
Charles T. Lovell, “
Charles H. Thayer, “
Horace Damrell, “
Hiram B. Butler, Musician.
James McGovern, “
Charles N. Drake, Wagoner.
Myron E. Alger, Private.
Cornelius Ahern, “
Alexander Bassett, “
Henry Blackstone, “
Alexander T. Barri, “
Edward C. Blossom, “
Sylvester F. Blake, “
Tom Brooks,[74] “
Oscar H. Bassett,[74] “
Charles Bassett,[76] “
Albert Butler, “
Michael A. Brady,[76] “
David Bly, “
James Brent, “
Malachi Coullahan, “
Joseph J. Crosby, “
Lawrence T. Chickey, “
Henry Carson, “
John Cunningham,[76] “
Hiram Cole, “
Thomas W. Cashman,[74] “
Henry G. Chase, “
Jeremiah J. Crowley, “
Barton De Costa, “
Charles Dwinell, “
Daniel A. Dailey, “
Timothy D. Donovan,[76] “
Michael Edmands, “
Matthew T. Fitzpatrick, “
Albert E. Frost, “
Thomas Foley, “
Levi B. Gaylord,[73] “
Edward L. Gunnison, “
James Golden, “
Charles D. Hodge, “
John Hollihan, “
Conrad Homan,[72] “
John Hardy,[77] “
Frank M. Hobart, “
William M. Hobart, “
Thomas Hawes,[76] “
Joseph E. Holbrook, “
William Henry,[76] “
Richard Harney,[75] “
Alanson K. Joslyn, “
Henry C. Joslyn,[78] “
Holden Johnson,[79] “
Edward Kelley, “
Joseph Leeds,[84] “
James Lyman,[80] “
Charles P. Locke, “
Joseph McAlery, “
James McGlinchy, “
John McCarthy, “
John W. McCarthy,[81] “
Patrick Muldoon,[81] “
Jeremiah Mahoney,[80] “
Martin C. Mullen, “
John W. Morse, “
Edward O’Donnell, “
Edward B. O’Donnell, “
Daniel Owens, “
Dennis O’Connor, “
Chandler H. Pond,[82] “
Edward L. Pickard, “
Isaac H. Perry, “
Henry P. Pitcher, “
Byron Rice, “
Sandford M. Richardson, “
Charles Ross, “
George F. Simpson, “
John Sullivan, “
Charles H. Shaw, “
John M. Sweeny, “
John Scully, “
David P. Scully,[83] “
Frederick C. Shaw,[81] “
George G. Towne, “
George Thomas,[80] “
Charles Vaughan, “
Levi S. York,[80] “
George H. Wise, “
JOINED IN 1861 (July 31).
George H. Taylor,[78] 2d Lieut.
JOINED IN 1862.
Joseph J. Farrell,[79] Private.
Philip Sullivan, “
T. D. Sullivan, “
JOINED IN 1863.
James L. West, Private.
JOINED IN 1864.
Morris Connor, Private.
Robert Grace, “
ROLL OF COMPANY B.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
18, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 14,
1861:--
Jonas K. Tyler,[85] Captain.
Samuel A. Bent,[85] 1st Lieut.
Thomas H. Adams, 2d,[86] 2d Lieut.
Walter Frost,[87] 1st Sergt.
Emery Hodgkins, Sergeant.
James Freel, “
Benjamin B. Brown,[88] “
Joseph L. Mitchell,[89] Corporal.
Warren Goodwin,[90] “
Charles F. Bowen, “
William Gray, “
William H. Baker, Musician.
John D. Atkinson, Private.
Ira D. Bryant, “
George Barnes, “
Stephen H. Caverly, “
John Clark, “
Harrison C. Campbell, “
Thomas Cruse, “
Michael Dorgan, “
John Donnelly,[91] “
Stephen H. Egan, “
Patrick F. Feeney, “
Richard R. Furbush, “
Thomas Finnerty, “
Lyford J. Gilman, “
William Graham, “
William H. Goss, “
John Gordon,[91] “
Samuel Grant, “
John Gallagher, “
John Hancock, “
Lawrence Hayes, “
Frank Hall, “
Thomas Hayes, “
Dennis Hanley, “
James B. Johnson, “
Thomas Kelley, “
Delevan Kimball, “
John J. Lynch, “
John Lucas,[90] “
Mathias Leonard,[92] “
Henry Lynch, “
George Mahann, “
William H. Mosher,[89] “
Martin Minton, “
Patrick Moran, “
Charles McNulty, “
William H. Murphy, “
Theobald M. O’Brien,[89] “
Thomas S. O’Brien, “
Thomas O’Dell, “
John Riley, “
John D. Ratchford, “
John G. St. Clair, “
John H. Hodder, “
Charles F. Hearns, “
Patrick Thompson, “
John M. Thompson, “
Otis S. Whiting, “
George S. Whiting, “
JOINED IN JULY, 1861.
Israel N. Wilson, Captain.
Ezra Ripley, 1st Lieut.
John B. Anderson, Private.
George B. Andrews,[91] “
Thomas Brady,[93] Private.
William C. Babcock,[94] “
James Brogan, “
William Baker, “
Henry W. Brigham, “
W. F. Britten, “
Oscar F. Carleton,[93] “
James Cable,[95] “
William Carlin, “
Edward T. Collier, “
Thomas Conway, “
Horace A. Dean, “
William D. Emerson, “
Timothy Fenton, “
George H. Gammons, “
C. E. Getchell, “
Allen Hingston,[96] “
Thomas Harris, “
James Hill, “
George Hale, “
Dan E. Higgins,[93] “
William Havilin, “
Albert N. Johnson, “
Robert Little, “
Anthony La Rochelle, “
Timothy J. Mahony, “
Bernard Molino, “
James S. Messer, “
Henry E. Magee, “
Edward J. O’Brien,[93] “
Francis D. O’Riley, “
Aaron L. Pearsons,[94] “
Philip Sullivan, “
John B. Smithers,[94] “
Henry H. Savage, “
Henry Tufts,[96] “
William Williams, “
JOINED LATER IN 1861.
George O. Bent,[94] Private.
John Bellam, “
William S. Collins,[93] “
James Campbell, “
Ezra A. Chase,[96] “
August Dickman,[93] “
Stephen E. Flood, “
John B. Gravlin,[93] “
George F. Gorham, “
John Gorham, “
Foster Ham, “
John Holton, “
Joseph Kelly, “
Ward Locke, “
Thomas Manning, “
Herman Marshall, “
John J. O’Brien, “
James Read, “
James W. Shepard, “
William E. Short, “
John C. Stewart, “
JOINED IN 1862.
George W. Fairbanks, Private.
John J. Ryan, “
ROLL OF COMPANY C.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
20, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 22,
1861:--
Lebbeus Leach, Captain.
Nathan D. Whitman, 1st Lieut.
Elisha S. Holbrook,[97] 2d Lieut.
Silas N. Grosvenor, 1st Sergt.
Thomas Conant, Jr.,[98] Sergeant.
George H. Morse,[99] “
Joshua E. Hayward, “
Francis M. Kingman,[100] Corporal.
Alfred B. Cummings,[101] “
Levi Wright, “
Lawrence V. Poole, “
Abner H. Holmes, Muician.
Walter M. Holmes, “
George W. Allen,[102] Private.
Thomas Arnold, “
James A. Bates, “
Isaac N. Bourne, “
Asa W. Bates, “
George D. Brown, “
Irving Bates,[102] “
Minot S. Curtis,[101] “
John Conant,[102] “
Edward F. Drohan, “
Charles Drake, “
Benjamin F. Edson, “
Curtis Eddy, “
George W. Fisher, “
Henry M. Folsom, “
Robert C. Fellows,[102] “
Henry K. Gould,[102] “
Caleb L. Hudson, Jr., “
Preston Hooper,[102] “
James W. Harding, “
Charles H. Hayden,[103] “
Damon Hoyt, “
John A. Holmes, “
C. Francis Harlow,[104] “
John S. Howard, “
Emery Jaquith, “
James G. Johnson, “
Charles E. Jordan,[102] “
William H. Johnson, “
William F. Keith, “
David H. Lincoln, “
Eugene A. Lincoln, “
James H. Leonard, “
Neil McMillan,[101] “
William H. Morse, “
Henry A. Osborne, “
Edward S. Osborne, “
William H. Osborne, “
Ebenezer H. Pratt, “
Edward P. Packard,[105] “
Horace A. Ripley,[101] “
Wallace R. Ripley, “
Joshua S. Ramsdell, “
William F. Rounds, “
William W. Smith, “
William B. Smith, “
John T. Sturtevant, “
Ira C. Shaw,[105] “
James W. Siddall, “
Benjamin Siddall, “
Elijah H. Tolman,[106] “
Charles H. Turner,[106] “
Daniel W. Tribou,[106] “
Freedom Whitman,[106] “
Asa W. Whitman, “
Charles C. Whitman, “
Nehemiah White, “
Thatcher P. Wright, “
Edward Williams, “
James E. White, “
JOINED IN SEPTEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1861.
William B. Hathaway, 2d Lieut.
Algernon S. Brett,[107] Private.
David Blakeman, “
Marshall M. Chandler, “
Thomas G. Clark, “
James W. Cooper,[106] “
Elbridge R. Curtis, “
George R. Dyer,[108] “
Isaac W. Drinkwater, “
Timothy W. Fisher, “
Charles W. Flagg, “
Granville H. Gould,[109] “
Daniel W. Harding, “
John C. Lambert, “
Harvey Lucas, “
Edward P. Mansfield, “
John M. Nason, “
Alpheus Packard, “
Edmund T. Packard,[107] “
John G. Sampson, “
Alonzo Sharp, “
Hugh Stran, “
Sylvanus Thomas, “
Vernon M. Thompson, “
James L. Washburn, “
Herbert O. White, “
Cyrus L. Williams, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Henry T. Manchester,[107] Private.
Isaac H. Bates, “
Rodney Churchill, “
Amos L. Dorr, “
Theodore C. Rodman, “
Patrick Frawley, 2d, “
William J. Stanley, “
ROLL OF COMPANY D.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
20, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 22,
1861:--
Charles Chipman,[110] Captain.
Charles Brady,[111] 1st Lieut.
Henry A. Kern,[112] 2d Lieut.
William Stuart, 1st Sergt.
James H. Atherton,[113] Sergeant.
William H. Woodward, “
Edward Brady, “
David B. Coleman, Corporal.
George F. Bruce,[114] “
Benjamin H. Hamlin,[115] “
William Breese, “
George E. Crocker,[116] Musician.
Christopher B. Dalton, “
George W. Badger, Private.
Gustavus A. Badger, “
James Ball, “
John T. Collins,[117] “
James Cox,[118] “
James Cook, “
Patrick Clancy, “
Thomas W. Chapman, “
Alfred Cheval, “
John Campbell, “
Thomas F. Darby,[119] “
Timothy G. Dean, “
Warren P. Dean, “
Edward Donnelly,[118] “
Joseph W. Eaton, “
Perez Eldridge, “
John Fagan, “
Benjamin Fuller, “
John H. Gray, “
James M. Getchell, “
James Guiney, “
John Gordon, “
Samuel W. Hunt, “
Alden P. Hathaway, “
Charles Harkins, “
Michael Heslin, “
James H. Heald, “
David A. Hoxie,[115] “
Charles H. Hoxie, “
Zenas H. Hoxie, “
Samuel N. Haskins, “
Charles E. Jones, “
William D. James, “
David S. Keen, “
Martin L. Kern, Jr.,[118] “
Patrick Long, “
Peter McNulty, “
John McAlaney, “
William McDermont, “
Michael McKenna,[118] “
Patrick McElroy, “
Isaac H. Phinney, “
Peter Russell, “
Caleb T. Robbins, “
Philip Russell, “
William J. Smith,[120] “
Francis C. Swift, “
Martin S. Tinkham, “
Joseph Turner, “
Charles G. Wright, “
Anderson Wright, “
John Weeks, “
John Woods, “
Francis Woods, “
William H. Woods, “
James H. Woods, “
James Ward, “
JOINED IN JANUARY, 1862.
Augustus D. Ayling,[121] 2d Lieut.
Frank G. Bumpus, Private.
Nathaniel F. Ford, “
Andrew Gaffney, “
James G. B. Haines, “
Joseph J. C. Madigan,[121] “
Edmund L. Pray, “
ROLL OF COMPANY E.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted May
6, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 22,
1861:--
Samuel H. Doten,[122] Captain.
John B. Collingwood,[123] 1st Lieut.
Thomas A. Mayo,[124] 2d Lieut.
Edward L. Robbins, 1st Sergt.
Horace A. Jenks,[125] Sergeant.
John M. Atwood, “
George S. Morey, “
Peter Winsor,[125] Corporal.
Benjamin F. Bumpus, “
Ichabod C. Fuller,[126] “
Samuel D. Thrasher, “
Charles Atwood, Private.
Columbus Adams, “
John K. Alexander,[127] “
Winslow C. Barnes, “
Antonio Beytes, “
Nathaniel Burgess,[128] “
Moses S. Barnes,[127] “
Simeon H. Barrows, “
Ellis D. Barnes, “
George E. Burbank, “
George F. Bradford, “
Andrew Blanchard, “
Charles C. Barnes, “
Lawrence R. Blake, “
Cornelius Bradford, “
Sylvanus L. Churchill, “
Thomas Collingwood,[127] “
Barnabas Dunham, “
Henry F. Eddy, “
Philander Freeman, “
William P. Goodwin,[127] “
Timothy E. Gay, “
Thomas W. Hayden,[127] “
James S. Holbrook,[126] “
Orrin D. Holmes,[126] “
Seth L. Holmes, “
Samuel H. Harlow,[127] “
William H. Howland, “
John F. Hall,[127] “
Alexander Haskins, “
Henry W. Kimball,[126] “
Thomas P. Mullen, “
Charles E. Merriam, “
William R. Middleton, “
Lemuel B. Morton,[127] “
William Morey, “
Isaac Morton, Jr., “
John E. Morrison, “
John A. Morse, “
William T. Nickerson, “
George F. Pierce, “
Seth W. Paty,[127] “
William H. Pittee, “
John H. Pember, “
Otis W. Phinney, “
Henry H. Robbins, “
Albert R. Robbins, “
Winslow B. Standish,[127] “
Albert Simmons, “
Frank H. Simmons, “
Miles Standish, “
William Swift, “
John Shannon,[125] “
Patrick Smith, “
James E. Stillman, “
Walter Thompson, “
Frank A. Thomas, “
Francis H. Vaughan, “
Leander M. Vaughan, “
George E. Wadsworth,[129] “
Alfred B. Warner,[130] “
John Washburn, “
David Williams, “
Joseph B. Whiting, “
Samuel C. Wright,[129] “
William Williams, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Benjamin F. Bates, Private.
Thomas Burt, “
Patrick Cain, “
Elisha S. Doten, “
Edwin R. Eaton, “
Charles A. Faunce, “
Edwin H. Hosmer, “
Justus W. Harlow, “
Charles Kleinhans, “
George H. Partridge, “
George S. Peckham,[130] “
James L. Pettis, “
Charles E. Tillson, “
Albert C. Wilson, “
ROLL OF COMPANY F.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted in
the autumn of 1861, and were mustered into the United States service,
December 30, 1861:--
Willard D. Tripp,[131] Captain.
John A. Sayles, 1st Lieut.
Thomas H. Husband,[132] 2d Lieut.
Joseph O’Neil,[132] 1st Sergt.
Robert Clifford, Sergeant.
Charles S. Packard, “
Bela H. King,[132] “
George D. Williams,[133] “
George W. Child, Corporal.
George E. Westgate, “
Lyman N. Caswell,[134] “
Arthur Clifford, “
John N. Perry, “
Stephen Hodgkins, “
Baylies R. Chase, “
William H. Phillips,[135] “
Ira Bryant, Musician.
James Booth, “
George A. Alexander, Private.
James Black, “
Edward Belcher, “
Darius Bonny,[136] “
Philip H. Borden, “
Charles G. Bosworth,[132] “
Alexander Brickell, “
David P. Brooks, “
Kendall Brooks, “
George W. Brown,[137] “
George W. Burns, “
Joseph Boyden,[138] “
Leander W. Caswell, “
Linus E. Caswell,[134] “
Leander Clapp, “
Hugh D. Conaty, “
Joseph Davis, “
Benjamin F. Dean, “
Charles Dolan, “
James Dugan, “
Philip Dennehy,[139] “
Charles Dunn, “
Thomas Dixon, “
Alonzo Garvin, “
Michael Geary, “
Benjamin T. Godfrey, “
John Goodwin,[137] “
Peter Harrington, “
John Harvey,[140] “
Ephraim Haskell, “
Martin V. Haskell,[137] “
William Haskell, “
Timothy Hayes,[141] “
Albert D. Hunt, “
Otis S. Hewatt, “
Martin F. Jefferson, “
John Kelly, “
John Kearvin, “
Martin Lackore, “
William Lang, “
Charles Logue, “
John McCarty, “
Owen McMannus, “
James McQuillan,[142] “
Thomas Murphy,[143] “
Timothy O’Sullivan, “
George Pierce, “
Lewis R. Pierce, “
James Pittsley, “
William Pittsley, “
Edward Ratigan, “
Granville T. Records, “
Culbert Reynolds, “
Charles E. Robertson,[144] “
Mason Rogers, “
Thomas Rooney, “
Joseph Short, “
James S. Sherman, “
Francis H. Simmons, “
James Simmons, “
James W. Smith, “
Preston O. Smith, “
Solomon H. Smith, “
Charles Stone, “
Benjamin F. Stowell, “
John Sullivan, “
Edward W. Tarbox, “
Leander Tripp, “
Silas Townsend, “
George Townsend,[145] “
William H. Tyndal,[146] “
George W. Welch,[144] “
Cornelius Westgate, “
Elisha Westgate, “
Elisha B. Westgate, “
John Westgate, “
Joseph L. Westgate, “
Preserved Westgate, “
Oliver A. White, “
Edward Wilbur, “
John Wragg, “
JOINED IN 1862.
John Booth, Private.
William H. Burns,[147] “
Joseph Hamer, “
Abraham Haskell, “
Henry L. Hill, “
Michael Mahoney, “
Albert R. Pittsley, “
Henry W. Pettee, “
Edward H. Pierce, “
John B. Pizer,[142] “
Joseph Westgate, “
JOINED IN 1863.
David Cohn, Private.
JOINED IN 1864.
James Liffin, Private.
ROLL OF COMPANY G.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted in
the autumn of 1861, and were mustered into the United States service,
December 31, 1861:--
Charles T. Richardson,[148] Captain.
Freeman A. Taber, 1st Lieut.
Charles D. Browne,[149] 2d Lieut.
George W. Pope,[150] 1st Sergt.
Charles A. Carpenter,[151] Sergeant.
A. Baylies Richmond, “
Robert L. Watts, “
James C. Allen, “
Lemuel Capen, Corporal.
George D. Hodges, “
Joseph Bunker, “
Ephraim E. Follett,[152] “
Charles D. Hodge, “
Ebenezer Fisk,[153] “
Edward W. Greene, “
Robert E. Harris, “
Samuel A. Wilkinson, Musician.
John F. W. Clark, “
James H. Ladd, Wagoner.
Henry Austin, Private.
Daniel B. Blaisdell, “
Joseph Baker, “
Robert Burns, “
George W. Burnham, “
William Brophy, “
John Bartlett, “
William A. Burrill, “
Joseph Bosell, “
Nelson Cook, “
Charles N. Cotton, “
Hiram F. Chace, “
Edward Carney, “
Henry Campbell,[153] “
James F. Clark, “
Lafayette W. Carpenter, “
Patrick Cullen, “
Charles W. Clifford, “
Francis Clark,[154] “
Albert Cobbett, “
William E. Cobbett, “
George C. Cobbett, “
James H. Cram, “
Charles Debelino, “
Joseph Duxbury, “
George E. Darling,[155] “
Patrick Duffy, “
Willard Drake, “
Thomas W. Dean,[153] “
Edmund Davis, “
Elijah H. Esty, “
John Field, “
Albert E. Follett, “
Henry H. Fairbanks, “
Solomon R. Foster, “
Barney Galligar, “
Charles B. Griffin, “
William H. Hudson, “
Henry Ide,[156] “
Talbot Jenks, Jr., “
Daniel A. Jillson,[150] “
Roger Kennedy, “
Patrick McManimay, “
Daniel H. Morey, “
George E. Miller, “
Patrick McLoughlin,[157] “
Lorenzo Macomber, “
Richard Owen, “
John O’Neil,[158] “
Henry J. Paine, “
Hiram Porter, “
Minot E. Phillips, “
James P. Parker, “
William H. Perry, “
Nelson N. Randall, “
Franklin L. Ramsell,[159] “
William B. Richards, “
Albert W. Smith,[160] “
George W. Sprague, “
Orange S. Stearns,[161] “
George E. Snow, “
Charles H. Smith, “
John Thayer, “
Nathaniel I. Thurber, “
Levi Trumbull, “
Henry B. Titus,[162] “
Thomas Ward, “
Daniel Whitmore,[163] “
Roland T. J. White, “
Cornelius L. White, “
Henry Walker, “
James Wood, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Charles M. Dunn,[162] Private.
Albert Lincoln,[164] “
Charles F. Roberts,[164] “
JOINED IN 1864.
Wesley L. Beals, Private.
George Burns, “
John Cronin,[165] “
Philip P. Lawall, “
ROLL OF COMPANY H.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted in
the autumn of 1861, and were mustered into the United States service,
January 13, 1862:--
Henry R. Sibley,[166] Captain.
Daniel W. Lee,[167] 1st Lieut.
William R. Corlew, 2d Lieut.
T. W. Wrightington, 1st Sergt.
Ansel B. Kellam, Sergeant.
George H. Long,[167] “
William F. Pippey,[168] “
Charles F. Colburn,[169] “
George Merritt, Corporal.
William F. Willis,[170] “
Edward M. Hastings, “
Lorenzo L. Billings,[171] “
Joseph Dominick, “
George Curtis, “
Waldo F. Corbett,[171] “
Robert F. Greenough, “
Alonzo F. Howe, Musician.
James A. Forbes, “
George C. Wheeler, Wagoner.
Charles H. Almeder, Private.
John H. Aldrich, “
Lyman H. Bigelow, “
Edwin F. Bassett, “
George G. Brigham, “
David Barnes, “
Ezra C. Bemis, “
Charles W. Bates, “
Nathaniel L. Battles, “
Jeremiah Barnett, “
Charles E. Brown, “
Edwin C. Bemis,[170] “
Eben B. Clifford, “
Edward A. Clark, “
James Culter, “
John H. Clark, “
William Coakley, “
Edward E. Dearing, “
Theodore W. Dearing,[172] “
Edward L. Daniels, “
Jacob H. Dow, Jr., “
Chris. C. Eldridge, Jr., “
Obed H. Ellis, “
Daniel C. Easton,[173] “
William P. Farnsworth,[168] “
Henry W. Fuller, “
William H. Gould, Jr., “
John H. Galloway, “
Rufus H. Gurney, “
Joseph P. Gardner, “
Malvin Gear, “
Albert E. Gear, “
Richard Gurney,[170] “
John H. Hancock,[170] “
Albert A. Hill, “
Alanson S. Howe,[170] “
William E. Hadlock, “
John F. Hoit, “
Benjamin F. Hall, “
William Keith, “
Ira W. Keyes,[174] “
George H. Leman, “
Edward L. Loveland, “
Henry O. Lawrence, “
William Henry Lee, “
Ephraim Lucas, “
William McGill, “
John E. McDonald, “
John C. Martin, “
Daniel McDonald, Jr., “
Nathaniel S. Mellon, “
James Neville, “
Charles L. Nightingale,[175] “
Daniel B. Perkins, Jr., “
Frederick Peabody, “
John S. Pulsifer, “
Henry Proctor, “
Horace H. Packard, “
Darius Perry, “
Albert H. Prouty, “
Lewis Prescott, “
George S. Preble, “
John S. Robinson,[176] “
Alonzo C. Richardson,[177] “
Thomas H. Sylvester,[178] “
John H. Spear, “
Artemus Sylvester, “
Silas S. Smith, “
George W. Smith, “
Joseph Staples, “
John F. Smith,[179] “
Timothy Sullivan, “
George W. Swain, “
Henry A. Stephens, “
John Schow, “
Isaac H. Taylor,[176] “
John B. Thomas, “
George L. Woodbury, “
Chris. H. Westphal, “
Jacob W. Wasch, “
Ebenezer Whiting, “
Charles Young, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Etheridge Bryant, Private.
Abel W. Burroughs, “
Patrick Boland, “
George A. Bryant, “
Edward Carroll, “
Caleb Clark, “
Ira W. Clark, “
Nathaniel Cobb, “
Joshua G. Fuller, “
Charles J. Hale, “
Michael Harrington, “
William Jones, “
Mathew Kerwin, “
Ira F. Martin, “
William McGaughlin, “
Franklin J. Noyes, “
William O’Conner, “
George B. Perkins, “
Bernard Rooney, “
William Story, “
James E. Sanborn, “
John Usherwood, “
Francis Wyman, “
George S. Welsh, “
JOINED IN 1864.
Henry A. Glines, Private.
ROLL OF COMPANY I.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
17, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 14,
1861:--