Abram A. Oliver,[180] 1st Lieut.
John E. Smith,[181] 2d Lieut.
William H Burns, 1st Sergt.
Elbridge G. Kemp, Sergeant.
John W. Barnicoat, “
Aaron O. Atwill, “
Frank Goodwin,[182] Corporal.
Gardner Parker, “
Henry E. Hay, “
Nathaniel J. Downing, “
Alvin Moulton,[183] Musician.
Samuel L. Eaton, “
William H. Adams, Private.
Thomas Ashcroft, “
George W. Armstead, “
Joseph M. Badger, “
Charles I. Betton, “
William W. Bowman, “
Augustus A. Blaney, “
Charles C. Bonner, “
George L. Brown, “
James L. Brown, “
Charles A. Carroll, “
Joseph P. Caldwell, “
Isaac H. Childs, “
William Chesley, “
Charles Chamberlain, “
Edward F. Chase, “
John H. Cummings, “
Willard P. Dailey, “
James G. Dearmid, “
Charles Dodge, “
Charles S. Dow, “
John C. Dow, “
Joseph A. Dow, “
John A. Durgin, “
George W. Forsyth, “
George P. Fowler, Jr., “
Thomas S. Glass, “
Lucius B. Grover, “
William P. Green, “
Daniel Gould, “
John H. Hall, “
George H. Hammond, “
Charles E. Harris, “
Alonzo Hollis, “
George Horton, “
George W. Jewett, “
Joseph W. Knights, “
David Lee, “
George A. Lindsey, “
Joseph A. Millett, “
John B. Moulton,[184] “
Solomon Moulton, “
John S. Miller, “
James W. Noyes, “
Jacob Phillips, “
William Phillips, “
Thomas Pickett, “
Edmond C. Poland, “
Elbridge M. Rawson, “
George H. Rich, “
Curtis S. Rand,[184] “
Clifford I. Rogers, “
George Seeley, “
John H. Shaw, “
David A. Swan, “
William R. Swan, “
James M. Swan, “
George Sullivan, “
Andrew H. Tarr,[185] “
George Townsend,[186] “
Benjamin E. Thompson, “
William K. Williams, “
Isaac O. Willey, “
Addison B. Young, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Walter A. Kezar,[186] Private.
Edward G. Bachelder, “
John Q. Bachelder, “
Thomas R. Bartol, “
Ira A. Clark, “
Frederick A. Clark, “
Melvin F. Clough, “
Tennison P. Collins, “
Andrew Dinsmore, “
Oliver H. P. Doak, “
Orrin Fields, “
Benjamin S. Gardner, “
James F. Goodwin, “
Charles F. Gove, “
Eben T. Heath, “
Joseph A. Short, “
Lyman B. Williams, “
JOINED IN 1863.
Harvey G. Smith, Private.
ROLL OF COMPANY K.
The following soldiers originally composed this Company, enlisted April
20, 1861, and were mustered into the United States service, May 22,
1861:--
Joseph. H. Barnes,[187] Captain.
James H. Osgood, Jr.,[188] 1st Lieut.
William T. Keen,[189] 2d Lieut.
William Pray,[188] 1st Sergt.
Henry S. Braden,[190] Sergeant.
Francis J. Cole, “
James N. Greenwood, “
Henry A. Hunting,[191] Corporal.
David Warren, Jr.,[192] “
John B. Keen,[192] “
George R. Rumney,[193] “
Jason L. Blodgett, Private.
Edward Boston, Jr., “
Robert M. Blackball,[194] “
Loring Baker,[195] “
Thomas M. Bride, “
John P. Burbeck,[191] “
John F. M. Burk, “
James Brownlow, “
William R. Barker, “
Horace Colby, “
John H. Crafts, “
John L. Chapman, “
Benjamin L. Clark, “
William G. Chambers, “
Henry F. Creighton,[196] “
Edgar Curry, “
David Dockerty, “
Charles A. Daggett,[193] “
Joseph Drugan, “
Andrew P. Fisher, “
Alonzo B. Fisk,[195] “
John E. Fisher, “
Frederick A. Godbold, “
Isaac S. Hill, “
James T. Holmes, “
Abiel R. Henry, “
William H. Howe,[194] “
Richard Howes, “
Joseph F. Hooper, “
Nathaniel J. Huntress, “
John R. Hume, “
Freeman Hall, “
Thomas W. Kenny, “
Benjamin Loveland,[192] “
Abijah Lane, “
Gilbert T. Litchfield,[195] “
Augustus Leavitt, “
Charles H. Leavitt, “
John A. Linnell,[192] “
William P. Lander,[195] “
Charles Laslie, “
John A. McKie, “
William McAllister, “
Jesse Morris, “
William McFarland, “
Hiram A. Mosher,[195] “
Samuel F. G. Newton, “
Frederick G. Parsons, “
Meltiah T. Remick, “
Elisha Ranks, “
Charles Ramsell, “
Henry E. Stewart, “
William W. Sanborn, “
Joseph K. Stafford, “
John Tierney, “
John A. Tighe,[197] “
Ezra Vinal, Jr.,[198] “
Benjamin F. Valpey, “
Charles Walker, “
George Wright, “
Charles H. Winslow, “
George Wood, “
George P. Woodis, “
JOINED IN 1861.
John Ewart,[199] Private.
John B. Hibbert, “
Alexander McKinnan, “
Joseph S. Manning, “
JOINED IN 1862.
Joseph A. Brown, Private.
Martin Bird, “
Thomas F. Dolan, “
James A. Fisher, “
Joshua Grimes, “
Joseph H. Locke, “
John Moore, Jr.,[200] “
James H. Powers, “
Theodore S. Robinson, “
Nelson H. Snow, “
J. Sturgis Wright, “
JOINED IN 1863.
Sydenham Dumington, Private.
JOINED IN 1864.
William H. Moore, Private.
A list of soldiers whose names are not borne upon the foregoing rolls,
some of whom are known to have served, and others are reported as
having served in the Twenty-ninth Regiment for short periods during the
last few months of the war:--
Jeremiah Austin.
Otto Beyer.
John Brown.
Patrick Boyle.
Gerhard Briggerman.[201]
John P. Brennan.
William Barrett.
Larin R. Curtis.
Maurice Cronin.
John Conly.
William Cunningham.
Morris Collin.
William Claman.[202]
Francis Cassidy.
William Chapman.
Maurice Christian.
William Coulter.
Peter Doherty.
Parker Dwight.
Otto Duger.[203]
William Doody.
Jeremiah Dwyer.
Thomas Dyer.
James Doherty.
George Eaton.
Martin Esk.
John Easy.[202]
Francis Flora.
Louis Fruger.
Frederick Graven.
Frederick Gradholf.
Joseph F. Glass.
Edward Hazen.
Christian Holdt.
David Hannaford.
John H. Harbourne.
Michael Hilly.[202]
William Klinker.[204]
David Labonne.
John G. Moore.
Michael McFarland.
Louis Monplaiser.
James McLaughlin.
Herman Meier.
Thomas Mooney.
Ruter Moritz.[204]
Napoleon Mason.
Henry Moonshine.
Daniel Murphy.
Patrick Murphy.
Joseph Miller.
Robert Nelson.[202]
Alexander O’Brien.
James O’Bierne.
Leopold Obreiter.
Manuel Portello.
William H. Phillips.
Isaac Patton.
Henry Rose.
Frank A. Roberts.
Charles E. Robertson.[201]
Andrew J. Rider.
John Raftes.
Henry J. Sweet, Jr.
Hezekiah S. Sargent.[205]
John Smith.
Emile Taubert.[206]
George Townsend.
Eli Wigglesworth.
THE DEAD.
“True to their Country and God,
To meet at the last reveille.”
NOTE.
In deciding what names should appear upon the rolls of the dead, I
adopted this rule, which is that of the Pension Department in the
matter of granting pensions: First, those who died in the service from
disease, wounds, or injuries contracted while in the service and in the
line of their duties as soldiers; second, those who died after their
discharge from the service, of disease, wounds, or injuries contracted
while in the service and in the line of their duties as soldiers.
I feel confident that the following rolls, under the rule mentioned,
give the names of all the regiment’s dead, and that the name of no
soldier appears upon them which ought not to be stated, though I regret
that in several instances I have not been able to give the place and
date of death.
Having had access to the rolls of the dead prepared by the
Quartermaster-General of the United States Army, I have made a careful
search for the names of all members of the regiment borne on these
lists, and where I have been able to find their place of burial have
stated it opposite their names, hoping that the information may not
only prove comforting but useful to their friends and relatives.
The several company rolls of the dead show a total of one hundred and
seventy-three, including the Chaplain. Of these, twenty-two only found
a Christian burial at their homes; thirty-five are shown to have been
identified and buried in National Cemeteries; leaving one hundred and
sixteen who rest, and probably must forever rest, in unknown graves.
All of the comrades, five in number, who died at Andersonville,
Ga., were identified, and their graves suitably marked by a marble
block; but the name of comrade Theodore W. Dearing of Company H, who
fell a victim to the filth and exposure at Salisbury, is not found
in the long list of 3,538 Union soldiers buried at that place. Such
is also the case of Minot E. Phillips and Levi Trumbull of Company
H, who suffered martyrdom at Belle Isle, Va., and Isaac S. Hill of
Company K, at Florence, S. C. The facts in regard to the management
of the three last-named prison-pens relieves one of all wonder at
not finding the name of the soldier for which he may be searching.
Over 5,000 Union soldiers were originally buried at Salisbury, in
thirteen long trenches, “without coffins or boxes, and without any
means of identifying them (except sixteen belonging to the Masonic
Fraternity), ... who died while confined in the Salisbury prison and
in the hospitals near the ‘stockade,’ during the Rebellion. The burial
of these soldiers in so inhuman a manner was done by one Sergeant
Harris, under the orders of Major Gee, both of the rebel army. Out of
nine or ten thousand soldiers confined there, over five thousand fell
victims to the cruelty of the Rebels then in charge, by starvation and
disease.”[207]
As further showing how the rules of civilized warfare were disregarded
by the enemy, Major Dana, who makes the above report, says, that in
the Lutheran Cemetery, near the principal prison-pen, were buried
fourteen Union soldiers, “who, upon taking the oath of allegiance to
the Rebel Government, were admitted into the Rebel hospital, where
they afterwards died.” It seems by this, that the only way by which a
Union prisoner at this loathsome and accursed place could secure the
medical treatment which common humanity would extend even to a savage,
was by forswearing allegiance to his Government. Among the unfortunate
fourteen, however, not one belonged to the Twenty-ninth regiment.
The grave of William H. Murphy of Company B, and that of Sergeant Wm.
T. Hamer of Company A, who were killed in the battle of Spottsylvania,
May 12, 1864, and buried on the field under the names of “William
Murphy” and “William H. Hamer,” were found, and their bodies afterwards
removed to the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg, Va. None of the
other members of the regiment killed in that battle were found and
recognized by those who gathered up the dead for burial. This is not
in the least surprising, for the sad words, “Unknown United States
Soldier,” were placed upon the headboards of many hundreds who fell on
that bloody field. Large numbers who were killed in this battle were
not buried at all until General Sherman marched through the country in
May, 1865, when an agreement to that effect was made by that officer
with one Mr. Sandford, who resided near Spottsylvania Court-house. “It
was no unusual occurrence” says Assistant-Quartermaster Moore of the
United States Army, who had charge of the work of removing the dead
from this place, “to observe the bones of our men close to the abatis
of the enemy; and in one case several skeletons of our soldiers were
found in their trenches. The bones of these men were gathered from the
ground where they fell, having never been interred, and by exposure to
the weather for more than a year, all traces of their identity were
entirely obliterated.”
In the National Cemetery at Knoxville, which is one of great beauty,
ornamented with trees and shrubs, and situated about three-fourths
of a mile north of the city, were found the graves of four members
of the regiment; namely, Orrin Fields and Sergeant Henry G. Smith of
Company I; Sergeant John F. Smith of Company H; and Corporal Gilbert T.
Litchfield of Company K. In the cemetery are two graves, marked “Sergt.
John F. Smith, Co. H, 29th Mass.,” the date of death of one being given
November 29, 1863, and of the other, March 11, 1864. How this mistake
arose, or what the explanation of it is, I am unable to say, but
mistakes of a similar character appear throughout all the rolls of the
Quartermaster-General. For instance, Frank Hall of Company B, buried
in the Richmond National Cemetery, is buried under the name of “T.
Hall, Co. D, 29th Mass.,” but the date of his death is given correctly,
and this was one of the means by which I recognized him. In the Mount
Olivet National Cemetery at Frederick City, Md., was at one time
buried a soldier whose grave was marked, “Charles F. Adams, Private,
29th Mass., Co. D, date of death Oct. 2, 1862.” No such soldier ever
belonged to Company D, or any other company of the regiment. In the
same cemetery is buried a soldier whose grave is marked, “Walter W.
Horner, 29th Mass., Co. D,” and another called “Benj. Godfrey, Co. H,
29th Mass.” There were no such soldiers in the regiment. Again, in the
Knoxville Cemetery is a grave marked, “George Gault, Co. I, 29th Mass.,
died Mar. 4, 1864.” This is also an error.
In the Hampton, Va., National Cemetery, were found the graves of
seven members of the regiment, and in the same yard the graves marked
respectively, “Patrick Cain, Co. K, 29th Mass.; P. Finnigan, Co. A,
29th Mass.; C. C. Hadden, Co. C, 29th Mass., and J. C. Williams, Co. H,
29th Mass. Vols.” The names of neither of the three last-named soldiers
are found upon the rolls of the regiment, though it is probable that
“C. C. Hadden” is Charles H. Hayden of Company C, who died in that
department. Mistakes of this nature frequently occur throughout
the rolls of the Quartermaster-General, not only in regard to the
Twenty-ninth, but other regiments also, leaving in the minds of those
familiar with the subject, very grave doubts as to even the general
correctness of these lists.
AUTHOR.
THE DEAD.
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Rank. | NAME. | Place. | Cause. | Date.
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Chaplain, | Henry E. Hempstead, | Falmouth, Va., | Disease, | Dec. 21, 1862.
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COMPANY A.
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Private, | Henry G. Chase, | Harper’s Ferry, Va., | Disease, | Nov. 18, 1862.
“ | John McCarthy, | Newport News, Va., | Accidentally killed, | June 3, 1861.
“ | Timothy D, Donovan,[208] | Smoketown, Md., | Wounds, | Oct. 26, 1862.
“ | Edward O’Donnell, | Antietam, Md., | Killed in battle, | Sept. 17, 1862.
“ | Charles H. Dwinell, | Campbell’s Station, Tenn., | “ “ | Nov. 16, 1863.
“ | Matthew T. Fitzpatrick, | Great Bethel, Va., | “ “ | June 10, 1861.
“ | William M. Hobart,[209] | Newport News, Va., | Disease, | Sept. 19, 1862.
1st Sergt., | William T. Hamer,[210] | Spottsylvania, Va., | Killed in battle, | May 12, 1864.
“ | Richard Harney, | Near Petersburg, Va., | Wounds, | June 27, 1864.
Com. Sergt., | Joseph Leeds, | Knoxville, Tenn., | Disease, | Jan. 20, 1864.
Private, | T. D. Sullivan, | Antietam, Md., | Killed in battle, | Sept. 17, 1862.
“ | John Scully, | Jackson, Miss., | “ “ | July 15, 1863.
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COMPANY B.
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Private, | William S. Collins, | Near Petersburg, Va., | Killed in battle, | July 30, 1864.
“ | Edward T. Collier, | Washington, D. C., | Disease, | 1863.
Musician, | James Cable,[211] | Point Lookout, Md., | “ | July 31, 1862.
Private, | Lyford J. Gilman, | Vicksburg, Miss., | “ | Aug. 2, 1863.
“ | Frank Hall,[212] | Richmond, Va., | Disease, | Apr. 14, 1864.
“ | Ward Locke, | Billerica, Mass., | “ | 9, 1864.
“ | Martin Minton,[213] | Near Petersburg, Va., | Killed in battle, | June 17, 1864.
Sergeant, | William H. Mosher, | Spottsylvania, Va., | “ “ | May 12, 1864.
Private, | William H. Murphy,[214] | Spottsylvania, Va., | “ “ | 12, 1864.
“ | John J. O’Brien, | Antietam, Md., | “ “ | Sept. 17, 1862.
“ | Edward J. O’Brien, | Near Petersburg, Va., | “ “ | Mar. 25, 1865.
1st Lieut., | Ezra Ripley, | Helena, Ark., | Disease, | July 28, 1863.
Private, | James W. Shepard, | Newport News, Va., | Killed by burst’g of |
| | | a cannon, | Feb. 11, 1862.
“ | John C. Stewart, | Near Petersburg, Va., | Killed in battle, | June 17, 1864.
“ | John M. Thompson, | Annapolis, Md., | Wounds, | June 27, 1864.
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COMPANY C.
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Private, | George D. Brown, | Fair Oaks, Va., | Killed in skirmish, | June 15, 1862.
Sergeant, | Alfred B. Cummings,[215] | Andersonville, Ga., | Starvation & neglect, | May 22, 1864.
Private, | Marshall M. Chandler, | On transport, James River, | |
| | Va., | Disease, | July 31, 1862.
“ | Edward F. Drohan, | Washington, D. C., | “ | Jan. 13, 1863.
1st Sergt., | Silas N. Grosvenor,[216] | Near Petersburg, Va., | Killed in battle, | June 17, 1864.
Private, | Caleb L. Hudson,Jr.,[217]| Camp Dennison, Ohio, | Disease, | Sept. 11, 1863.
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THE DEAD.--COMPANY C--Continued
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2d Lieut., |Elisha S. Holbrook, |Fortress Monroe, Va., |Disease, |Aug. 20, 1861.
1st Sergt., |C. Francis Harlow,[218] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
Private, |Daniel W. Harden, |Annapolis Junction, Md., |Disease, |Sept. 22,1862.
“ |Charles H. Hayden, |Suffolk, Va., | “ |July 31, 1862.
“ |John C. Lambert, |Bethesda Church, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 1, 1864.
“ |David H. Lincoln, |Antietam, Md., |Disease, |Sept. 17,1862.
“ |Edward P. Mansfield, |Wilderness battle-field, Va.,|Killed in battle, |May 6, 1864.
“ |John M. Nason, |Camp Nelson, Ky., |Disease, | 1863.
Sergeant, |Edmund T. Packard, |Annapolis, Md., | “ |Apr. 24, 1864.
Private, |Wallace R. Ripley,[219] |Newport News, Va., | “ |July 9, 1862.
“ |Joshua S. Ramsdell,[220] |Mill Creek Hospital, Va., | “ |Oct. 6, 1862.
“ |Charles H. Turner, |Fort Wood, New York Harbor, | “ |Dec. 19, 1862.
Corporal, |Elijah H. Tolman, |Antietam, Md., |Killed in battle, |Sept. 17,1862.
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COMPANY D.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+--------------
Major, |Charles Chipman,[221] |Before Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Aug. 8, 1864.
Private, |Thomas W. D. Chapman, | -- -- -- |Disease, |Sept. 22,1862.
“ |Edward Donnelly, |Sandwich, Mass., | “ | 1865.
“ |Joseph W. Eaton, | “ “ |Wounds received |
| | | in the battle of |
| | | the Wilderness, |July 15, 1869.
“ |Benjamin Fuller, | -- -- -- |Disease, |Aug. 20, 1864.
“ |James G. B. Haines, | -- -- -- | “ |July 18, 1862.
“ |James H. Heald, |Annapolis, Md., | “ |Oct. 11, 1862.
“ | Charles E. Jones, | Newport News, Va., |Killed by the |
| | | bursting of |Feb. 11, 1862.
| | | Sawyer gun, |
“ | David S. Keene, | Camp Dennison, Ohio, |Disease, |Oct. 18, 1863.
“ | Patrick Long,[222] | Newport News, Va., | “ |Aug. 15, 1862.
“ | Martin S. Tinkham, | “ “ | “ |Sept. 28,1861.
“ | John Weeks, | “ “ | “ | 1862.
“ | William H. Woods, | “ “ | “ |Jan. 16, 1862.
“ | James Ward, |Wilderness battle-field, Va.,|Killed in battle, |May 12, 1864.
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COMPANY E.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Corporal, |John K. Alexander, |Battle of Spottsylvania, Va.,|Killed in battle, |May 12, 1864.
1st Lieut., |Nathaniel Burgess, |Near Petersburg, Va., | “ “ |Mar. 25, 1865.
Private, |Lawrence R. Blake, |Antietam, Md., | “ “ |Sept. 17,1862.
“ |Thomas Burt, |Washington, D. C., |Disease, |Oct. 31, 1862.
1st Lieut., |John B. Collingwood, |St John’s Hospital, | “ |Aug. 21, 1863.
| | Cincinnati, Ohio, | |
Corporal, |Thomas Collingwood, |Camp Parke, Ky., | “ | 31, 1863.
Private, |Patrick Cain,[223] |Craney Island, Va., | “ |Feb. 3, 1864.
Corporal, |Thomas W. Hayden, |Camp Parke, Ky., | “ |Sept. 4, 1863.
Sergeant, |Orrin D. Holmes,[224] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
Private, |Justus W. Harlow,[225] |Mill Creek Hospital, Va., |Disease, |Sept. 15,1862.
2d Lieut., |Horace A. Jenks, |Milldale, Miss., |Disease, |July 26, 1863.
“ |Thomas A. Mayo, |Gaines’ Mill, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 27, 1862.
Corporal, |Lemuel B. Morton, |Spottsylvania, Va., | “ “ |May 12, 1864.
Private, |William Morey, |Plymouth, Mass., |Disease, | 1862.
“ |Thomas P. Mullen, |Washington, D. C., | “ |Jan. 9, 1863.
“ |Charles E. Merriam, |Harper’s Ferry, Va., | “ |Nov. 12, 1862.
“ |George S. Peckham,[226] |Lenoir’s Station, Tenn., | “ | 1, 1863.
“ |Henry H. Robbins, |Washington, D. C., | “ |Dec. 4, 1863.
“ |Albert R. Robbins, |Plymouth, Mass., | “ |Mar. 5, 1864.
“ |Frank A. Thomas,[227] |Mill Creek Hospital, Va., | “ |Sept. 15,1862.
“ |Charles E. Tillson,[228] |Andersonville, Ga., |Starvation and neglect,|July 24, 1864.
Sergeant, |George E Wadsworth,[229] |Camp Parke, Ky., |Wounds, |Aug. 31, 1863.
Private, |David Williams, |Camp Dennison, Ohio, |Disease, |Sept. 14,1863.
“ |William Williams, |Plymouth, Mass., | “ | --
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COMPANY F.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Private, |James Black,[230] |Andersonville, Ga., |Starvation and neglect,|July 5, 1864.
“ |Hugh D. Conaty, |Harrison’s Landing, Va., |Disease, | 28, 1862.
Corporal, |Arthur Clifford, |On transport from Fortress | |
| | Monroe North, | “ |Aug. -, 1862.
Private, |Benjamin T. Godfrey, |Philadelphia, Penn., | “ |Sept. 7, 1862.
“ |Joseph Hamer, |Mill Creek Hospital, Va., | “ | 9, 1862.
“ |Abraham Haskell, |Long Island, N. Y., | “ |Oct. 4, 1864.
“ |James Liffin,[231] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Wounds, |July 29, 1864.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Private, |Edward Ratigan, |Antietam, Md., |Killed in battle, |Sept. 17, 1862.
“ |Granville T. Records, |Mill Creek Hospital, Va., |Disease, | 12, 1862.
| [232] | | |
“ |Culbert Reynolds, |Harrison’s Landing, Va., | “ |July 18, 1862.
“ |Solomon H. Smith, |Bolivar Heights, Va., | “ |Oct. 24, 1862.
“ |Francis H. Simmons, |Hospital at Georgetown, | “ |Sept, -, 1862.
| | D. C., |
“ |James Simmons, | “ “ | “ | -, 1862.
“ |Preston O. Smith,[233] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |July 30, 1864.
Corporal, |George E. Westgate, |Somet House Hosp., | |Dec. 19, 1862.
| | Alexandria, Va., |Disease, |
Private, |Cornelius Westgate, |Regimental Hospital, | “ | 26, 1862.
| | Falmouth, Va., | |
“ |Joseph Westgate,[234] |Frederick City, Md., |Wounds, |Oct. 9, 1862.
“ |Joseph L. Westgate, |Alexandria, Va., |Disease, | 21, 1862.
“ |Preserved Westgate,[235] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
“ |Edward Wilbur,[236] |Camp Nelson, Ky., |Disease, |Nov. 16, 1863.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
COMPANY G.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Private, |Henry Austin, |White Oak Swamp, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 30, 1862.
“ |William A. Burrell,[237] |Covington, Ky., |Disease, |Aug. 16, 1863.
“ |Charles W. Clifford, |Bridgewater, Mass., | “ |July 20, 1862.
“ |George C. Cobbett, |Craney Island, Va., | “ |Aug. -, 1862.
Private, |John Cronin, |Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
“ |Nelson Cook, |Near Petersburg, Va., | “ “ | 25, 1865.
“ |Joseph Duxbury, |Fort McHenry, Md., |Wounds, |Nov. 20, 1862.
Sergeant, |Ebenezer Fisk, |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |July 30, 1864.
Private, |Charles B. Griffin, |Attleborough, Mass., |Disease, |Nov. 26, 1862.
Corporal, |Charles D. Hodge, |General Hospital, | “ |Feb. 27, 1863.
Private, |Philip P. Lawall, |Arlington, Va., | “ |July 1, 1864.
“ |Minot E. Phillips, |Belle Isle, Va., |Starvation and neglect,| -, 1862.
“ |George E. Snow, |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
Private, |George W. Sprague, |Mississippi, |Drowned, |Aug. 16, 1863.
“ |Levi Trumbull, |Belle Isle, Va., |Starvation and neglect,| 1862.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
COMPANY H.
------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Private, |John H. Aldrich, |Long Island, N. Y., |Disease, |Oct. 22, 1862.
“ |David Barnes, |Harrison’s Landing, Va., | “ |July 28, 1862.
“ |George Curtis, |Charlestown, Mass., | “ | 1866.
“ |Edward Carroll, |Washington, D. C., | “ |Feb. 22, 1863.
“ |Edward E. Dearing, |Charlestown, Mass., | “ |Jan. 22, 1863.
“ |Theodore W. Dearing, |Salisbury, N. C. , |Exposure and |
| | (prison-pen) | neglect, | 1865.
“ |Joshua G. Fuller, |Crab Orchard, Ky., |Disease, |Sept. 22,1863.
Corporal, |Richard Gurney, |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 17, 1864.
Private, |William H. Gould, |Jr., Harrison’s Landing, | |Aug. 13, 1862.
| | Va., |Disease, |
Corporal, |Robert F. Greenough, |Antietam, Md., |Killed in battle, |Sept. 17,1862.
Private, |Henry A. Glines, |Petersburg, Va., |Killed, | 21,1864.
Sergeant, |Edward M. Hastings, |Harrison’s Landing, Va., |Disease, |Aug. 12, 1862.
Musician, |Alonzo F. Howe, |Camp Dennison, Ohio, | “ |Sept. 20,1863.
Sergeant, |Ansel B. Kellam, |White Oak Swamp, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 30, 1862.
Private, |William O. Connor,[238] |Andersonville Prison-pen, |Starvation and neglect,|Oct. 17, 1864.
| | Ga., | |
“ |George S. Preble, |Charlestown, Mass., |Disease, |Dec. 16, 1864.
“ |Henry Proctor, |Danvers, Mass., | “ |Nov. 5, 1862.
Sergeant, |John F. Smith,[239] |Fort Sanders, Knoxville, | |
| | Tenn., |Killed in battle, | 29, 1863. |
Private, |George W. Smith, |White Oak Swamp, Va., | “ “ |June 30, 1862.
“ |John Schow, |On transport, Mississippi | |
| | River, |Disease, |Aug. 20, 1863.
Sergeant, |William F. Willis,[240] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 17, 1864.
Private, |Francis Wyman, |Charlestown, Mass., |Disease, | 2, 1866.
“ |Charles Young, |Craney Island, Va., | “ | 1862.
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COMPANY I.
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Private, |John Q. Bachelder, |-- -- -- |Disease, |Oct. 17, 1862.
“ |Joseph M. Badger, |Portsmouth, Va., |Disease, |June 3, 1862.
“ |James L. Brown, |Newport News, Va., |Disease, |Aug. -, 1861.
“ |John C. Dow, |Near Antietam, Md., |Wounds, |Sept. 20,1862.
“ |Orrin Fields,[241] |Knoxville, Tenn., |Disease, |Mar. 4, 1864.
“ |George W. Jewett, | “ “ | “ |Jan. 7, 1864.
“ |Thomas Pickett,[242] |Frederick City, Md., | “ |Mar. 22, 1863.
Sergeant, |Curtis S. Rand, |Near Petersburg, Va., |Wounds, |Sept. 19,1864.
Private, |Joseph A. Short, |White Oak Swamp, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 30, 1862.
“ |Harvey G. Smith,[243] |Knoxville, Tenn., |Disease, |Mar. 10, 1864.
“ |Andrew H. Tarr, |Malvern Hills, Va., |Killed in battle, |July 1, 1862.
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COMPANY K.
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Private, |Horace Colby, |Great Bethel, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 10, 1861.
“ |Edgar Curry, |Boston, Mass., |Disease, | --
“ |Thomas F. Dolan, |Spottsylvania, Va., |Killed in battle, |May 12, 1864.
“ |John E. Fisher, | “ “ | “ “ | 12, 1864.
“ |Frederick A. Godbold,[244] |Andersonville, Ga., |Disease and privation, |June 24, 1864.
“ |John B. Hibbert,[245] |Fayette, Ky., |Disease, |May 2, 1864.
“ |Isaac S. Hill, |Florence Prison, S.C., |Disease and privation, |Jan. 30, 1865.
“ |Charles Laslie, |Chelsea, Mass., |Wounds, | --
Corporal, |Gilbert T. Litchfield,[246]|Fort Sanders, Knoxville, |Killed in battle, |Nov. 29, 1863.
| | Tenn., | |
“ |Hiram A. Mosher, |Boston, Mass., |Disease, | 8, 1862.
Private, |Meltiah T. Remick, |Washington, D.C., | “ |Feb. 17, 1863.
“ |Nelson H. Snow,[247] |Camp Nelson, Ky., | “ |Nov. 1, 1863.
“ |William W. Sanborn, | -- -- -- | “ | --
Sergeant, |John A. Tighe,[248] |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |June 17, 1864.
Private, |Charles W. Winslow, |Newport News, Va., |Disease, |Oct. 30, 1861.
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RECRUITS OF 1864.
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Private, |William Klinker, |Near Petersburg, Va., |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
“ |Ruter Moritz, | “ “ |Killed in battle, |Mar. 25, 1865.
“ |Hezekiah S. Sargent, | “ “ |Wounds, |Jan. 2, 1865.
“ |Emile Taubert, |Arlington, Va., |Disease, |Feb. 13, 1865.
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APPENDIX.
REUNIONS OF THE REGIMENT.
The feelings of fraternity which grew out of participation in common
dangers and hardships naturally gave rise to a desire on the part of
the surviving members of the regiment to occasionally meet each other
in a purely social way, exchange greetings, and renew the old and
strongly-cemented friendships of army life.
THE FIRST REUNION.
The first of these reunions took place in Boston in June, 1870. A
small number of comrades assembled at Evans’s Hall, Boston, May 30,
1870; the meeting was called to order by Sergeant John B. Smithers of
Company B, and it was voted to form a temporary organization. Captain
Charles Brady was elected President, and Hospital Steward John Hardy,
Treasurer, _pro tempore_, whereupon the meeting adjourned till June 17,
following, at the same place.
On the 17th of June, 1870, the meeting again assembled, Captain Brady
in the chair, and a permanent organization was effected as follows:--
_President._--General Joseph H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--William H. Osborne, Company C; Sergeants B.
B. Brown, Company B; Samuel C. Wright, Company E; William H.
Burns, Company I.
_Secretary._--Lieutenant John Lucas, Company B.
_Corresponding Secretary._--John J. Ryan, Company B.
_Treasurer._--Hospital Steward John Hardy.
_Executive Committee._--Colonel Thomas W. Clarke; Captain
William D. Chamberlain; John J. Ryan, Company B; Sergeant John
B. Smithers, Company B; Corporal Martin L. Kern, Jr., Company D.
Some discussion was had concerning the rolls of the regiment,
and Colonel Clarke and Lieutenant-Colonel Willard D. Tripp were
appointed a committee to revise the regimental roll prepared by the
Adjutant-General. At this meeting it was announced that comrade William
H. Osborne was engaged in collecting material for the history of
the regiment, and Sergeant Hodgkins, Company B; Lieutenant Henry A.
Hunting, Company K; and Daniel B. Perkins, Jr., of Company H, were
chosen a committee to assist in the matter.[249]
This meeting was not largely attended, but nearly every company was
represented by one or more members.
SECOND REUNION.
In pursuance of a call published in several of the Boston papers, the
Association met at the Sherman House, Boston, May 13, 1871. Officers
were chosen for the ensuing year, as follows:--
_President._--General Joseph H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Lieutenant-Colonel Willard D. Tripp; Major
Samuel H. Doten; William H. Osborne, Company C; Sergeant B. B.
Brown, Company B; Colonel Henry R. Sibley.
_Recording Secretary._--Lieutenant John Lucas.
_Corresponding Secretary._--John J. Ryan, Company B.
_Treasurer._--Captain George H. Long.
_Executive Committee._--Colonel Thomas W. Clarke; Lieutenant
J. O’Neil; Samuel W. Hunt, Company D; Sergeant-Major George H.
Morse; Sergeant Samuel C. Wright, Company E.
At this meeting, which was largely attended and of unusual interest, a
very valuable paper was read by the President, reviewing an account,
written by one Henry Coppee, LL. D., of the battle of the Mine, July
30, 1864, and embracing a particular statement of the facts concerning
the transfer of the non-re-enlisting members of the regiment to the
Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment.
A vote of thanks was passed to comrades Ryan, Smithers, Captain George
H. Taylor, and Lieutenant Lucas, for the interest they had taken in
bringing about the reunion of the regiment.
It having come to the knowledge of the meeting that Major-General
Ambrose E. Burnside was then in the city, a committee composed of
Colonel Clarke, Lieutenant-Colonel Tripp, Captain Long, Adjutant
Braden, and comrade Ryan, was chosen to wait on the General, and extend
to him the kind greetings and regards of the members of the regiment
Action was taken concerning a regimental badge, and Colonel Clarke was
appointed a committee to prepare a design for it. This was the first
time that the Association dined together, a fine dinner being served at
the Sherman House.
THIRD REUNION.
This was Company H’s day; the Association assembled at Monument Hall,
Charlestown, May 14, 1872. Colonel Clarke reported a design for a
regimental badge, which was adopted. It was a rough bronze medal,
stamped with the figures of an upraised right forearm, grasping in the
hand an uplifted sword; beneath this a row of cannon-balls, and under
all the figures “29.”
OFFICERS FOR 1872-73.
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Major S. H. Doten, Colonel H. R. Sibley,
Major Charles T. Richardson, Captain W. D. Chamberlain,
Lieutenant J. Lucas.
_Recording Secretary._--J. J. Ryan.
_Corresponding Secretary._--Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Tripp.
_Treasurer._--Captain George H. Long.
_Executive Committee._--Major S. H. Doten; Sergeant S. C.
Wright, Company E; Colonel T. W. Clarke; Captain Charles A.
Carpenter; Emery Jaquith, Company C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Tripp presented the Association with the two large
printed volumes entitled, “The Record of Massachusetts Volunteers,” for
which a vote of thanks was tendered him.
It was voted to hold the next reunion at Plymouth. A committee of ten,
consisting of one member of each company, was chosen to prepare a
perfect roster of the regiment.[250]
FOURTH REUNION.
PLYMOUTH, May 14, 1873.
The meeting assembled in Grand Army Hall, and after listening to the
reports of its Secretary and several committees, proceeded to choose
officers for the year 1873-74.
The officers elected were as follows:--
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Major Samuel H. Doten; Surgeon George B.
Cogswell; Adjutant H. A. Braden; Sergeant John H. Hancock,
Company H; Sergeant G. Townsend, Company I.
_Recording Secretary._--J. J. Ryan, Company B.
_Corresponding Secretary._--J. S. Manning, Company K.
_Treasurer._--Colonel T. W. Clarke.
_Executive Committee._--Captain W. D. Chamberlain; Corporal
H. E. Hay, Company I; Captain A. A. Oliver; Sergeant George
Townsend, Company I; Sergeant J. F. Smith, Company H.
An act of soldierly love for a dead comrade distinguished this meeting
from all that had preceded it; indeed, from all that have since been
held.
During the latter part of the war, a certain well-known foreigner,
with the aid of the friends and relatives of our dead soldiers of
this and other States, established in the city of Boston a portrait
gallery, which was known as the “Gallery of Departed Heroes.” The
friends of Major Charles Chipman had contributed liberally towards an
elegant oil-portrait of this worthy soldier of the regiment, which,
with a costly frame, had been placed in the aforenamed gallery.
Through improper management, leading to the pecuniary embarrassment of
the originator, all the portraits in the gallery had become heavily
mortgaged, and shortly prior to this meeting, the several mortgages had
been foreclosed, and the property not being of a generally saleable
character, much of it had fallen into the hands of the mortgagees,
including the portrait of Major Chipman.
Previous to this reunion, Sergeant Samuel C. Wright, whose love for his
comrades, living and dead, is as pure as refined gold, redeemed at his
own expense Major Chipman’s portrait, and brought it to Plymouth with
the purpose of eventually presenting it to the widow and family of the
deceased. The comrades would not suffer him to bear the whole of this
burden, but, at this meeting, generously contributed each one his share
of the expense incurred, and then, by an unanimous vote, granted the
fine portrait, as a token of their love and esteem, to Mrs. Chipman and
her children.
The portrait was soon afterwards sent to the donees, accompanied by a
touching letter from the President of the Association.
This reunion was the first that was attended by the wives and lady
friends of the comrades, and was one of great enjoyment, the citizens
of Plymouth doing all in their power to contribute to its success,
and by their many acts of kindness, reviving the memory of the
unselfishness and flowing bounty of 1861.
Dinner was served at the Samoset House, at which the Plymouth Band, and
many of the first citizens of the town, were in attendance.
FIFTH REUNION.--LYNN, MAY 14, 1874.
OFFICERS.
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Major S. H. Doten; Colonel Henry R. Sibley;
Surgeon George B. Cogswell; Wm. H. Osborne, Company C; Sergeant
G. Townsend, Company I.
_Secretary._--J. J. Ryan, Company B.
_Corresponding Secretary._--Sergeant Samuel C. Wright, Company
E.
_Treasurer._--Colonel T. W. Clarke.
The business meeting was held in the hall of General Lander Post,
G. A. R., at the close of which the comrades and their ladies took
carriages and drove to the Relay House, Nahant Beach, where a fine
dinner was served. Captain D. W. Lee acted as toast-master for the
occasion, and sentiments were responded to as follows: “The President
of the United States,” by letter from General Banks; “The Day we
Celebrate,” by Surgeon Cogswell; “The Army of the Union,” by General
Barnes, who closed by offering this touching sentiment: “Our Heroic
Dead: God keep their memory green.” This was responded to by all the
comrades, who rose in token of respect to their memory. The other
sentiments were, “The State of Massachusetts,” responded to by the
band; “The Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment,” by Colonel Clarke and
W. H. Osborne. Corporal A. B. Fiske of Company K closed the literary
exercises by an eloquent speech.
“The company then spent some time strolling on the shore, enjoying
the fine water views and pleasant weather. The day had been warm, and
closed like a superb mid-summer day, calm and still, giving the water
the appearance of a sheet of silver.” At half-past six o’clock the
members took the carriages and drove to the Lynn depot, taking the
evening train to Boston.
SIXTH REUNION.
The sixth reunion was held at Downer’s Landing, Hingham Harbor,
September 17, 1875. The comrades and their families, to the number
of about one hundred, assembled at the Boston wharf of the Hingham
Steamboat Company quite early in the morning, took the boat for the
Landing, where, upon arrival, a business meeting was held, and officers
for the year 1875-76 chosen, as follows:--
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Wm. H. Osborne, Company C; Corporal Alonzo
B. Fiske, Company K; Sergeant W. B. Standish, Company E;
Sergeant Geo. Townsend, Company I; Sergeant J. B. Smithers,
Company B.
_Recording Secretary._--Sergeant Sam’l C. Wright, Company E.
_Corresponding Secretary._--H. E. Stewart, Company K.
_Treasurer._--Colonel Thos. W. Clarke.
_Executive Committee._--Colonel H. R. Sibley; Lieutenant John
Shannon; Captain D. W. Lee; Lieutenant J. O’Neil; Lieutenant J.
Lucas.
Comrade W. H. Osborne was called upon to report what progress he had
made in writing the history of the regiment, and when he had reported,
Colonel Sibley offered a resolution, which was passed, pledging the
assistance of the comrades in publishing the work.
The cold and windy character of the day tended to render this meeting
of the regiment less successful and interesting than those of former
years.
SEVENTH REUNION.--AMERICAN HOUSE, BOSTON, May 15, 1876.
The Association met at one o’clock, P. M., and chose officers and
transacted business.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Major Chas. T. Richardson; W. H. Osborne,
Company C; Sergeant Geo. Townsend, Company I: Colonel H. R.
Sibley; Captain Lebbeus Leach.
_Recording Secretary._--Sergeant Sam’l C. Wright, Company E.
_Corresponding Secretary._--H. E. Stewart, Company K.
_Treasurer._--Colonel T. W. Clarke.
_Executive Committee._--Colonel H. R. Sibley; Lieutenant J.
O’Neil; General J. H. Barnes; Captain D. W. Lee; Colonel Thos.
W. Clarke; Sergeant Sam’l C. Wright; Wm. H. Osborne; Corporal
Geo. W. Allen, Company C.
A vote of thanks was extended to comrade Wm. H. Osborne for his
services in writing the regimental history, and also for his invitation
to the Association to hold its next meeting at East Bridgewater.
At 3 o’clock, P. M., the Association, with its invited
guests,--among whom was Governor Rice,--sat down to dinner. Colonel
Clarke acted as toast-master, and the first toast, “The President
of the United States,” was proposed, and a letter read from
Collector Simmons in response to the sentiment. “The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts” called out Governor Rice, who was received with cheers,
and who said, in the course of his remarks, that he considered it
a greater honor to have been a faithful soldier of the Union than
Governor of Massachusetts; and also, that if the Association found any
pecuniary difficulty in publishing the history of the regiment, to call
upon him, in which case he would gladly aid the worthy undertaking.
Letters were read from Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania, Mayor Cobb,
and others. Speeches were made by the President, Colonel Clarke, Major
Doten and Corporal Fiske.
About eighty comrades were present.
EIGHTH REUNION.
The eighth reunion was held at East Bridgewater, June 18, 1877, two
hundred, including members and their families, being present.
The day was one of the most lovely in June, and was keenly enjoyed by
the visiting comrades, their wives and children, who strolled about
the quiet, shady streets of the town, visited the soldiers’ monument
upon the common, which bears the names of a number of the dead of the
regiment, and walked through the adjacent groves. The citizens of the
town met them everywhere with smiles and words of welcome, and at one
o’clock provided them with a bountiful dinner in the lower hall of the
Town-house, where a large committee of the ladies of East Bridgewater
were in attendance to wait on the tables and testify by their presence
and numerous attentions their respect for these veterans of the war.
At the close of the enjoyments at the table the company assembled in
the main hall to listen to some fine singing by members of the East
Bridgewater Musical Society. After this came speaking, in which several
of the townspeople and comrades took part.
The whole meeting was conducted in a pleasantly informal manner, and
was, for that reason, all the more productive of enjoyment and profit.
Nineteen new members were added to the roll of the Association, and
in view of the deep interest taken by the wives of the members in the
meeting, they were, by vote, made honorary members of the Association.
While the business meeting was in session in the morning, Captain
Leach, whose absence all had been regretting, suddenly came into the
hall. The members all rose in their seats and gave him three hearty
cheers, to which warm welcome the brave old Captain, now slightly bowed
by the weight of seventy-seven years, responded by choking words of
gratitude and thanks.
One of the saddest and bravest chapters in the history of the old
regiment was brought freshly to remembrance by a fine photograph,
suspended in front of the speaker’s desk, of Major Charles Chipman,
Lieutenant Burgess, and the three standard-bearers, Grosvenor, Tighe,
and Willis, who lost their young lives on the 17th of June, 1864.
The officers elected for the year 1877-78 were:--
_President._--General J. H. Barnes.
_Vice-Presidents._--Major C. T. Richardson; W. H. Osborne,
Company C; Sergeant George Townsend, Company I; Colonel H. R.
Sibley; Captain Lebbeus Leach.
_Treasurer._--Colonel T. W. Clarke.
_Recording Secretary._--Sergeant S. C. Wright, Company E.
_Corresponding Secretary._--H. E. Stewart, Company K.
_Executive Committee._--Colonel H. R. Sibley; Lieutenant J.
O’Neil; General J. H. Barnes; Captain D. W. Lee; Sergeant S. C.
Wright, Company E; Colonel T. W. Clarke; William H. Osborne;
Corporal George W. Allen, Company C.
The author sincerely hopes that the Secretary of the Association will
have the pleasure to record the proceedings of many future meetings of
his comrades, and that none will prove to be seasons of less joy and
gladness than this, the eighth annual reunion.
PARADE OF THE REGIMENT,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1877.
The beautiful and costly monument erected by the city of Boston in
memory of its heroic dead of the late war was dedicated with imposing
ceremonies on the 17th of September, 1877, which was the fifteenth
anniversary of the battle of Antietam. The monument, one of the finest
in the country, is erected on a little hill on the Boston Common, at
the foot of which stood the famous Old Elm, destroyed by wind, February
15, 1876. There was once a powder magazine on the hill occupied by the
monument, which, during the siege of Boston, was the site of a British
fortification bombarded by Washington. In the war of 1812, a body of
troops designed to protect the town was encamped about this very spot.
On the side of the monument, facing the south, cut in bold, square
letters, is the following inscription:--
TO THE MEN OF BOSTON
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
ON LAND AND SEA IN THE WAR
WHICH KEPT THE UNION WHOLE
DESTROYED SLAVERY
AND MAINTAINED THE CONSTITUTION
THE GRATEFUL CITY
HAS BUILT THIS MONUMENT
THAT THEIR EXAMPLE
MAY SPEAK
TO COMING GENERATIONS.
Honorable Charles Devens, Attorney-General of the United States,
delivered the oration; and General Augustus P. Martin of Boston acted
as Chief Marshal. Colonel Henry R. Sibley of the Twenty-ninth Regiment
was honored with the command of the Suffolk County Division of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Twenty-ninth Regiment
Association, held September 1, 1877, it was voted to parade as a
regiment on the occasion of the dedication of the monument, and
General Joseph H. Barnes was chosen to act as Colonel and Commander,
Colonel Thomas William Clarke as Lieutenant-Colonel, Major Charles
T. Richardson as Major, Lieutenant Henry S. Braden as Adjutant, and
Captain D. W. Lee as Quartermaster. On the 7th of September, General
Barnes issued a circular letter addressed to the comrades of the
regiment, inviting them to parade on the 17th, and requesting them to
assemble at 29 Pemberton Square, Boston, at 9 o’clock in the morning of
that day.
One hundred and fifty comrades responded promptly to the invitation of
their old commander, dressed in dark clothes and wearing their corps
and regimental badges. Sergeant Samuel C. Wright, who was wounded in
four different battles, was assigned to the proud position of National
color-bearer. General Barnes, Colonel Clarke, Major Richardson,
Lieutenant Braden, and Captain Lee, were handsomely mounted; elegant
wreaths of choice cut-flowers adorning the necks of their fine horses.
The procession moved at a little past 12 o’clock, and the regiment
took the position assigned it, in the Second Division, commanded
by Colonel Edward O. Shepard; in which also marched the First,
Second, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twenty-first,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth Massachusetts Veteran Infantry regiments; also, the
Massachusetts Veteran Batteries under Colonel O. F. Nims, the hero of
many a battle-field; several Army and Navy Associations; the Third
Massachusetts Cavalry; Massachusetts members of General Hooker’s “Old
Brigade,” under General Gilman Marston; also the Second New Hampshire
Infantry; “Maine Veterans in Massachusetts”; Ninety-ninth New York
Infantry, under Colonel David W. Wardrop, and the “Survivors of Rebel
Prisons.”
The route of the procession was very extended, and the parade was not
concluded till nearly dusk. The day was warm and fine, and it seemed
as if every town and city in Massachusetts had emptied their entire
population into the streets of Boston. Business in the city was wholly
suspended, and the buildings along the route of the procession were
tastefully decorated with flowers and bunting. The gay plumes and gaudy
uniforms of the militia attracted their usual share of attention; but
when the veterans went by, with war-like tramp, carrying the shreds of
old war flags, many eyes were wet with tears, and many of the adult
spectators gazed with half-quivering lips upon these remnants of the
Nation’s Grand Army of Freedom. The presence in the column of Generals
McClellan, Hooker, Burnside, and many other old heroes of the war,
tended greatly to increase the enthusiasm of the vast throngs of people
along the sidewalks, and when a pause was made, hundreds gathered about
the carriages in which these soldiers were riding, and greeted them
with cheers and gifts of bouquets of fragrant flowers.
The Twenty-ninth made a fine appearance; its mounted officers riding
at the head of its column, and the orderly arrangement of its ranks,
reminded one forcibly of the bygone days, when it marched in review
before its commanding generals; while the earnest, bright faces of the
boys showed plainly enough that they had caught again the old spirit
that so often, from 1861 to 1865, led them to triumph over the dangers
and toils of the war. Captains Leach and Chamberlain, and Surgeon
Cogswell, all of whom are somewhat infirm, and were unable to march,
and several of the disabled members of the regiment, rode in a carriage
in the immediate rear of the regimental column.
The Boston “Home Journal” of September 22 published a very extended and
complimentary article concerning the Twenty-ninth Regiment, entitled
“Who Are They Now, and Where Are the Rest of Them?” The first part
of this question was answered in a manner that must cause its living
members and their many friends the keenest satisfaction, while the
inquiry, “Where Are the Rest of Them?” which we only have space to
quote, touches most tenderly the sweetest and the saddest chords of a
soldier’s memory:--
“Where are the rest of them? Half of the living men of 1861
were in the line. The other half are scattered. All parts of
the State sent up their contribution. Every New England State
sent up its quota. From Maine to Oregon, from the great lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico, the residue of the living three hundred
are scattered. About seven hundred are dead. The killed in
action; the men who died of wounds; the men who died of disease
while in the service; the men who died, after their discharge,
of disease contracted in the service; the men starved to death
in rebel prisons; the men incurably weakened by famine and
malaria at Knoxville and Vicksburg and Jackson,--they have all
gone. It was the strongest of them that we saw on Monday, the
best constitutions, the hardest muscles, the toughest fibres,
and all of them were prematurely aged, and the boys’ faces
which most of them wore at the time of enlistment, have now no
trace of youth in them. To an old comrade, this age, this worn
look, was inexpressibly sad, but sadder yet it was to think of
the long roll of dead comrades, and how they died.
“And yet, on every man’s face, at some time in the day, in
the presence of some old and loved friend, there momentarily
returned the transfiguration of youth, and the faces of
1861,--a flash and play of the “battle light” of an earnest,
honest, human heart, full of enthusiasm, love, and duty. This
was recognizable, and invariably was recognized, no matter how
worn and gray the older face and hair might be.
“To have returned to the Commonwealth at least two hundred
good citizens, with characters educated by hardships and
trials, and by the friendships of the valley of the shadow of
death, into a willing and intelligent acquiescence in the rule
of law, and the importance of preferring the common weal to
mere individual pleasure and profit, is not the least credit
of that old regiment; and if the military service has merely
succeeded in teaching the necessity of orderly and systematic
organization, and the ability to govern one’s self, as it has
in most instances everywhere, the work of the war can never be
undone, and never should be.”
FOOTNOTES:
[1] There is but one other military body that can claim a share of this
honor, to this extent; viz., Capt. P. A. Davis’s company of Lowell, an
independent company of infantry called the “Richardson Light Guards,”
afterwards organized as the Seventh Massachusetts Light Battery. This
company was mustered originally May 21, 1861.
[2] Chap. 222, Acts of 1861.
[3] Adjutant-General’s Report, 1861, page 7.
[4] Letter of Captain Tyler.
[5] This vote was faithfully carried out, each original member
of the company receiving three months’ extra pay, amounting to
$30.--AUTHOR.
[6] The commission of Captain Bates described him as a “Captain of
Company C, Third Regiment of Infantry, Second Brigade, First Division
of the Militia of this Commonwealth,” and was dated May 4, 1861.
[7] This sermon was afterward printed in pamphlet form, with the motto,
“Stand by the Flag!” and circulated among the volunteers at Fortress
Monroe, Va.
[8] “Sandwich Advocate,” April 22, 1861.
[9] Letter in “Barnstable Patriot,” May 21, 1861. This flag was for a
time carried by the company, and is now in the possession of Mr. Samuel
Wells Hunt of Sandwich, an honored member of that company, who has
taken great pains in preserving from forgetfulness the record of the
deeds of his comrades.--AUTHOR.
[10] So called (as the author has learned, from an ancient tradition
among the inhabitants of that region) from the fact, that, about
the year 1609, the starving colonists of that place were succored
by the timely arrival of a fleet of vessels, laden with provisions,
under the command of Admiral Newport of the English navy. The worthy
admiral brought the pinched colonists _good news_, and in honor of the
event, and as an expression of their gratitude, they called the place
_Newport’s News_.
[11] “First Year of the War,” by Pollard, page 77.
[12] General Butler’s report to Lieutenant-General Scott, published in
New York “Tribune” of June 14, 1861.
[13] Letter to the New York “Tribune,” June 14, 1861.
[14] General Butler’s report to Lieutenant-General Scott, printed in
New York “Tribune” of June 14, 1861.
[15] Statement of Adjutant Walker, “Mass. Military Record,” page 158.
[16] Statement of same officer, ibid., page 169.
[17] Some fellow, in a spirit of fun-making, had filled the
cartridge-box of an unsuspecting comrade with white beans; an incident
that greatly amused the inspecting officer, and led him to inquire of
the soldier if he had mistaken his cartridge-box for his haversack.
[18] Also called Union Coast Guard.
[19] These facts were related by the father and mother to members
of the Battalion, and were afterwards substantially admitted by the
officer referred to, to whose credit be it said, that he “very deeply
regretted it.”--AUTHOR.
[20] As an example of the discipline at this time enforced in the
department, we will state in brief the sentence of one of these
unfortunate soldiers. By the sentence, he was to forfeit all pay and
allowances during the remainder of his term; to be confined, at hard
labor, during that time on one of the Tortugas islands; to wear a
twelve-pound ball attached to his right ankle by a chain three feet
long; and for a certain number of days in each year be kept in solitary
confinement on bread and water.--AUTHOR.
[21] Colonel Pierce was commissioned December 13, 1861.
[22] “Charlestown Advertiser,” December 28, 1861.
[23] At the proper time the bond was awarded to Sergeant John H.
Hancock, who gave one of his arms to the country, and who was a brave
and deserving soldier.
[24] Brigadier-General of the militia.
[25] This court-martial was composed of the following officers:
Colonel Brown, Twentieth Indiana; Colonel Schley, Fifth Maryland;
Colonel Dyckman, First New York; Colonel Von Schack, Seventh New
York; Lieutenant-Colonel Holland, Fifth Maryland; Lieutenant-Colonel
----, Twentieth Indiana; Lieutenant-Colonel Keller, Seventh New York;
Lieutenant Dale, Judge-Advocate.
[26] Report of Captain Van Brunt
[27] General McClellan’s “Report and Campaigns,” page 150.
[28] Formerly, this engine was the property of the Old Colony Railroad
Company of Massachusetts, but had been purchased by the Government.
[29] Now Major Twenty-fourth United States Infantry.
[30] The Count makes a mistake as to the composition of this brigade,
though the Twenty-ninth Regiment, which was a part of the brigade, can
still claim a share of this high compliment.--AUTHOR.
[31] General Sumner’s testimony before the Joint Committee of Congress
on the conduct of the war. See Report on the “Conduct of the War,” Part
I., page 364.
[32] “Peninsular Campaign in Virginia,” page 293.
[33] The net losses of the Army of the Potomac, from June 20 to this
time, amounted to 15,249 men, of whom 1,582 were killed, 7,700 wounded,
and 5,958 missing. The loss of the Confederates during the seven days
amounted to 20,000 men, to which should be added 5,000 rendered unfit
for service from various causes.--_History Civil War in America, by the
Compte de Paris, Vol. II., pages 147, 148._
[34] General McClellan’s Report.
[35] General McClellan’s Report, page 382.
[36] General McClellan’s Report, page 382.
[37] Charles C. Whitman, a very brave soldier.--AUTHOR.
[38] Corporal Tribou lost his left foot by a cannon-ball while carrying
the State colors; he was a good soldier. Corporal Allen, who was
likewise a well-drilled and gallant soldier, received a very dangerous
wound in the head, from which he has never fully recovered. Lieutenant
Atherton, a brave man and true, who was afterward commissioned a First
Lieutenant, received a severe wound in one of his arms. Corporal Samuel
C. Wright was one of the brave volunteers to pull down the fence on the
morning of September 17.--AUTHOR.
[39] The Author does not know what finally became of the four missing
ones, though he believes they all afterwards joined their company, and
were all wounded while entering the fight. The full name of one of the
latter soldiers is not known to me. The names of these men, as they
appear in the above list, were taken from the “New York Herald” of
September 19, 1862.
[40] Soldier’s diary.
[41] “Rebellion Record,” Vol. VII., pp. 407, 408.
[42] Pollard’s “Third Year of the War,” pages 161, 162.
[43] Adjutant-General’s Report, Massachusetts, 1863.
[44] Irving’s “Life of Washington,” Vol. III., p. 354.
[45] Soldier’s letter.
[46] Diary of Preston Hooper, Company C.
[47] Lieutenant Long was severely wounded, losing a portion of the
ulna bone of his right arm. He was promoted to Captain, June 8, 1864,
and discharged for this wound, October 8, 1864. He was subsequently
commissioned in the Veteran Reserve Corps, and served to the end of the
war.
[48] “Burnside and Ninth Army Corps,” pages 409, 410.
[49] The author has been unable to learn that any others actually
engaged in this brave exploit, and, though several slightly different
versions have been given him, he has chosen this as being in his
opinion the correct one. This statement is based upon that of three
very reliable soldiers of the regiment, who were present and witnessed
the affair.--AUTHOR.
[50] James Liffin was mortally wounded, and died July 29, following.
[51] Letter of General Burnside to General Meade, dated July 26, 1864.
[52] Report of Committee on “Conduct of the War,” Vol. I., pp. 11, 12,
1865.
[53] Report of Committee on “Conduct of the War,” Vol. I., pp. 11, 12,
1865.
[54] The following recommendation was sent forward for Colonel Barnes’s
promotion:--
“HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,}
September 13, 1864. }
“Captain JOHN C. YOUNGMAN, A. A. Gen., Ninth Army Corps.
“CAPTAIN: I have the honor to forward Brigade
Commanders’ lists of recommendations for brevet.
“I beg permission to add my own recommendation in favor
of ... Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. Barnes, Twenty-ninth
Massachusetts, lately commanding brigade, First Division, Ninth
Army Corps, for distinguished gallantry and success in action,
at Blick’s House, Weldon Railroad, resisting enemy’s attack on
Ninth Corps’ right.
“Very respectfully, your ob’d’t serv’t,
“(Signed) O. B. WILLCOX, Brig. Gen. Com’d’g Div.
“Official: W. V. RICHARDS, Capt. and A. A. A. G.”
[55] Report of Fifty-ninth Regiment in Report of Adjutant-General,
1865, page 595.
[56] Horace Ripley, an excellent soldier.
[57] The “Lost Cause,” page 692.
[58] The author does not vouch for the statement, that the regiment
held the last muskets of the armies of the Potomac and Sherman, as
he believes there were regiments of both of these armies, that were
mustered out even later than the Twenty-ninth.--AUTHOR.
[59] On page 337, the number of officers transferred from the
Thirty-fifth Massachusetts to the Twenty-ninth Regiment, is erroneously
stated as eleven.--AUTHOR.
[60] Resigned.
[61] Promoted Surgeon, August 7, 1862. Discharged for disability, March
15, 1864.
[62] Appointed January 4, 1862.
[63] Mustered March 18, 1864. Discharged May 15, 1865.
[64] Mustered May 27, 1863. Discharged as Assistant Surgeon, July 29,
1864.
[65] Mustered July 31, 1862. Promoted to Surgeon First Mass. Regt.
Cavalry, July 6, 1863.
[66] Mustered August 20, 1862. Resigned February 27, 1863.
[67] Mustered July 20, 1863. Transferred to Nineteenth Mass. Regt.,
Dec. 7, 1863.
[68] Mustered September 26, 1864. Expiration of term, July 29, 1865.
[69] Promoted to Colonel.
[70] Appointed Assistant Quartermaster Volunteers.
[71] Resigned July 31, 1861. Captain Ninety-ninth New York Volunteers.
[72] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[73] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[74] Promoted to Sergeant.
[75] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[76] Promoted to Corporal.
[77] Promoted to Hospital Steward.
[78] Promoted to Captain.
[79] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[80] Promoted to Sergeant.
[81] Promoted to Corporal.
[82] Promoted to Principal Musician.
[83] Promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant.
[84] Promoted to Commissary Sergeant.
[85] Resigned July 18, 1861.
[86] Mustered as Ensign. Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[87] Unjustly reported as a deserter.
[88] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[89] Promoted to Sergeant.
[90] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[91] Promoted to Corporal.
[92] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[93] Promoted to Corporal.
[94] Promoted to Sergeant.
[95] Appointed Musician.
[96] Transferred to U. S. Battery.
[97] Mustered as Ensign.
[98] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[99] Promoted to Sergeant-Major.
[100] Promoted to Sergeant and Color-Sergeant.
[101] Promoted to Sergeant.
[102] Promoted to Corporal.
[103] Transferred to U. S. Battery.
[104] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[105] Appointed Musician.
[106] Promoted to Corporal.
[107] Promoted to Sergeant.
[108] Promoted to First Sergeant and Brevet Second Lieutenant.
[109] Appointed Bugler.
[110] Promoted to Major.
[111] Promoted to Captain.
[112] Mustered as Ensign. Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[113] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[114] Promoted to Hospital Steward U. S. A.
[115] Promoted to Sergeant.
[116] Promoted to Principal Musician.
[117] Commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Colored Troops.
[118] Promoted to Corporal.
[119] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[120] Wrongly reported as a deserter. Entered United States navy, and
received an honorable discharge.
[121] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[122] Promoted to Brevet Major.
[123] Appointed Adjutant.
[124] Mustered as Ensign.
[125] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[126] Promoted to Sergeant.
[127] Promoted to Corporal.
[128] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[129] Promoted to Sergeant.
[130] Promoted to Corporal.
[131] Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel.
[132] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[133] Promoted to Captain.
[134] Transferred to U. S. Battery.
[135] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[136] Appointed Musician.
[137] Promoted to Corporal.
[138] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[139] Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corp.
[140] Wounded June 17, 1864. Lost an arm.
[141] Promoted to Sergeant.
[142] Promoted to Captain.
[143] Wounded at White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862.
[144] Promoted to Corporal.
[145] Promoted to Sergeant.
[146] Promoted to Corporal, and made Color-Corporal.
[147] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[148] Promoted to Major.
[149] Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel.
[150] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[151] Promoted to Captain.
[152] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[153] Promoted to Sergeant.
[154] Reported “Absent without leave,” but he afterwards returned to
duty.
[155] Wrongly reported as a deserter; received an honorable discharge.
[156] Wrongly reported as a deserter.
[157] Did not desert as reported.
[158] Received an honorable discharge; wrongly reported as a deserter.
[159] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[160] Improperly reported as a deserter.
[161] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[162] Promoted to Sergeant.
[163] Promoted to Corporal.
[164] These two soldiers enlisted in the autumn of 1861; but were
rejected, as being too young, by Captain Ames, U. S. A. Mustering
Officer. They were taken as orderlies by Colonel Pierce to Newport
News, and afterwards, by his order, placed on the rolls of Company G.
[165] Killed March 25, 1865; Fort Stedman.
[166] Promoted to Colonel U. S. Volunteers.
[167] Promoted to Captain.
[168] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[169] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[170] Promoted to Sergeant.
[171] Commissioned in U. S. Colored Troops.
[172] Transferred to U. S. Cavalry.
[173] Erroneously reported as a deserter; was wounded at White Oak
Swamp, and received an honorable discharge.
[174] Promoted to Corporal.
[175] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[176] Promoted to Corporal.
[177] Promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant.
[178] Erroneously reported as a deserter.
[179] Promoted to Sergeant.
[180] Promoted to Captain.
[181] Mustered as Ensign.
[182] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[183] Promoted to Corporal.
[184] Promoted to Sergeant.
[185] Killed at Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862.
[186] Promoted to Sergeant.
[187] Promoted to Brevet Brigadier-General.
[188] Promoted to Captain.
[189] Mustered as Ensign. Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[190] Promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant.
[191] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[192] Promoted to Sergeant.
[193] Promoted to First Sergeant.
[194] Promoted to First Lieutenant.
[195] Promoted to Corporal.
[196] Sergeant in Howard’s U. S. Battery.
[197] Promoted to Sergeant and Color-Sergt.
[198] Promoted to Corporal.
[199] Promoted to Second Lieutenant.
[200] Promoted to Sergeant.
[201] Corporal.
[202] Discharged by order of War Department.
[203] Sergeant; discharged by order of War Department.
[204] Killed March 25, 1865.
[205] Died of wounds, January 2, 1865.
[206] Died February 13, 1865, of disease.
[207] Report of J. J. Dana, Major and Quartermaster U. S. A., Brevet
Brig. Genl. Roll of Honor No. XIV., page 134.
[208] Wounded September 17, 1862.
[209] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 12. Section C.
Number of grave, 25.
[210] Buried under name of “Sergeant William H. Hamer,” in
Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Va. Terrace Section No. 8. Number of
grave, 167. Body removed from Beverly’s Farm, Spottsylvania County.
[211] Buried in National Cemetery at Point Lookout, Md. Number of
grave, 63.
[212] Buried in Richmond National Cemetery, Va., under the name of “T.
Hall.” Number of grave, 1,272.
[213] Buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Va. Division D. Section
D. Number of grave, 218.
[214] Buried under name of “William Murphy,” in National Cemetery
at Fredericksburg, Va. Terrace Section No. 4. Number of grave, 290.
Originally buried on farm of Harris, Spottsylvania County, Va.
[215] Buried in National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Section C.
Number of grave, 1,290.
[216] Buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Va. Division D. Section
D. Number of grave, 215.
[217] Buried in National Cemetery at Camp Dennison, Ohio, under name of
“C. D. Hudson.” Number of grave, 240.
[218] Buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Va. Division A. Section
C. Number of grave, 103.
[219] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 9. Section B.
Number of grave, 39.
[220] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 3. Section D.
Number of grave, 4.
[221] While in command of the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery
Volunteers.
[222] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 9. Section B.
Number of grave, 23.
[223] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 20. Section B.
Number of grave, 17.
[224] Buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Va. Division A. Section
C. Number of grave, 102.
[225] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 1. Section E.
Number of grave, 27.
[226] Buried in National Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn., under the name
of “G. T. Peckham.” Section H. Number of grave, 159. Originally buried
at Loudon, Tenn.
[227] Buried in National Cemetery at Hampton, Va. Row 1. Section E.
Number of grave, 1.
[228] Buried in National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Section T.
Number of grave, 3,898.
[229] Wounds received at White Oak Swamp, Va.
[230] Buried in National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Section B.
Number of grave, 2,908.
[231] Wounded June 17, 1864.
[232] Buried under name of “G. Record,” in National Cemetery at
Hampton, Va. Row 14. Section D. Number of grave, 48.
[233] Battle of the Mine.
[234] Buried in National Cemetery, Mount Olivet, Frederick City, Md.,
under the name of “Joseph Tresgate.” Number of grave, 250. Wounded in
battle of Antietam.
[235] Battle of Fort Stedman.
[236] Buried in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Ky., under the name of
“Edward Wilber.” Section D. Number of grave, 50.
[237] Buried in Linden Grove National Cemetery, Covington, Ky. Section
C. Number of grave, 104.
[238] Buried in National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Section O.
Number of grave, 11,080.
[239] Buried in Knoxville National Cemetery, Tenn. Section 6. Number of
grave, 98.
[240] While carrying the flag. Buried in Poplar Grove National
Cemetery, Va. Division D. Section D. Number of grave, 220.
[241] Buried in Knoxville National Cemetery, Tenn. Section 7. Number of
grave, 54.
[242] Buried in Mount Olivet National Cemetery, Frederick City, Md.
Number of grave, 834.
[243] Buried in Knoxville National Cemetery, Tenn. Section 4. Number of
grave, 161.
[244] Buried in National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Section G.
Number of grave, 2,414.
[245] Buried in Lexington National Cemetery, Ky. Circle 12. Number of
grave, 531. Originally buried at Lexington, Ky.
[246] Buried in National Cemetery at Knoxville, Tenn. Section 4. Number
of grave, 143.
[247] Buried in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Ky. Section D. Number of
grave, 51.
[248] While carrying the colors. Buried in Poplar Grove National
Cemetery, Va. Division A. Section C. Number of grave, 216.
[249] This committee never discharged its duties.--AUTHOR.
[250] This committee never did its duty.--AUTHOR.
[Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]