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Six and eighty years - and it seemed bnt a memory - Little left of all that glory, so we thought: Only the old firelocks hung on farm-house chimney, And rude blades the village blacksmith wrought.
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Only here and there a white head that remembers
How the frocks of homespun stood against King George, - 1 How the hard hands stretched them o'er the scanty embers, When the sleet and snow came down at Valley Forge.
Ah me! how long we lay in quiet and in error,
Till the snake shot from the coil he had folded on our hearth,- Till the dragon fangs had sprouted, o'erhatched of hate and terror, And hell in armed legions seemed bursting from the earth.
Once more, dear Brother State ! thy pure, brave blood baptizes Our last and noblest struggle for freedom and for right. It fell on the cruel stones; but an awful nation rises,
In the glory of its conscience, and the splendor of its might.
HARTFORD (Conn. ) PRESS. H. H. B
ALL HAIL TO THE STARS AND STRIPES.
BY GEO. T. BROWNE.
When home returning from the fight, They wend their way with noble scars,
They'll point to wounds by traitorous hands, Which fought against the Stripes and Stars. But noble wounds will be forgot, As each his blood-stained sabre wipes, And thinks how rose that dying voice, - " All hail the glorious Stars and Stripes!"
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" All hail the Stars and Stripes !" The words Are graven now on every heart : A nation's watchword, Freedom's song, Of every future act a part.
" All hail the glorious Stars and Stripes !" . The echo leaps from hill to hill ; We first drew breath beneath its folds, We'll live and die beneath it still.
"All hail the Stars and Stripes!" the cry From forest home to ocean shore. Ten thousand times ten thousand hands Are raised to free that flag once more. To each proud heart new hope is sent, To each strong arm new strength is given ; And, raised aloft from every home, The Stars and Stripes float nearer heaven. NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
ALL HAIL TO THE STARS AND STRIPES.
BY ANNIE M. LAWRENCE. " Decet et dulce, pro patria mori." Ebbed the purple life-tide slowly ; Drooped the eyelids yet more lowly ; On the face, the shadow holy Told that Death had come.
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Will he die without one token ? Will there be no last word spoken, That shall soothe some heart nigh broken In his far off home ?
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Suddenly new strength seemed given : Upward looking toward heaven, Sought his gaze the starry pennon Floating 'gainst the sky. Love and Faith and Hope seemed meeting, While with hands reached forth entreating, Spake his dying lips their greeting, Writ in gold on high.
Passed his life away, forth sending Words whose triumph seems unending : " All hail the Stars and Stripes!" whose blending Tells of Freedom won. In his agony of glory, Spake he what in letters holy,
Gleaming 'mid our nation's story, Patriots oft have done.
Words of old, yet now new spoken ; Cling we to them as a token,
That our Union stands unbroken, Safe each Stripe and Star. God-preserved from desolation, May we find a firm duration, While above our happy nation Freedom shines afar. STILL RIVER, Worcester County, Mass.
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THE MEN WHO FELL IN BALTIMORE.
DEDICATED TO THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT. - BY J. W. FORNEY.
Our country's call awoke the land
From mountain height to ocean strand. The Old Keystone, the Bay State, too, In all her direst dangers true,
Resolved to answer to her cry, For her to bleed, for her to die ; And so they marched, their flag before, For Washington, through Baltimore.
Our men from Berks and Schuylkill came - Lehigh and Mifflin in their train : First in the field they sought the way, Hearts beating high and spirits gay ; Heard the wild yell of fiendish spite, Of armed mobs on left and right ; But on they marched, their flag before, For Washington, through Baltimore.
Next came the Massachusetts men, Gathered from city, glade, and glen : No hate for South, but love for all, They answered to their country's call. The path to them seemed broad and bright ; They sought no foemen and no fight, As on they marched, their flag before, New England's braves, through Baltimore.
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But when they showed their martial pride, And closed their glittering columns wide, They found their welcome in the fire Of maddened foes and demons dire, Who, like the fiends from hell sent forth, Attacked these heroes of the North, - These heroes bold, with travel sore, While on their way through Baltimore.
From every stifling den and street, They rushed the gallant band to meet : Forgot the cause they came to save ; Forgot that those they struck were brave ; Forgot the dearest ties of blood That bound them in one brotherhood ; Forgot the flag that floated o'er Their countrymen in Baltimore.
And the great song their son had penned, To rally freemen to defend The banner of the stripes and stars, That makes victorious all our wars, Was laughed to scorn, as madly then They greeted all the gallant men Who came from Massachusetts' shore To Washington, through Baltimore.
And when with wildest grief at last They saw their comrades falling fast, Full on the assassins in their track They wheeled, and drove the cowards back.
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Then, with their hearts o'erwhelmed with woe, Measured their progress, stern and slow ; Their wounded on their shoulders bore, To Washington, through Baltimore.
Yet while New England mourns her dead, The blood by Treason foully shed, Like that which flowed at Lexington, When Freedom's earliest fight begun, Will make the day, the month, the year, To every patriot's memory dear. Sons of great fathers gone before, They fell for right, at Baltimore.
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As over every honored grave, Where sleeps the " unreturning brave," A mother sobs, a young wife moans, A father for his lost one groans, Oh, let the people ne'er forget Our deep, enduring, lasting debt To those who left their native shore, And died for us in Baltimore.
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Col. Forney, the distinguished editor of the Philadel- phia " Press," wrote these lines, which give expression to the universal feeling that went out toward our regiment. The second stanza describes the men of Pennsylvania as having been first in the field. It should be remembered that the Pennsylvanians were unarmed and undrilled, and could have been of no possible service. The Sixth
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Massachusetts were the first soldiers to reach Wash- ington. L
THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS.
[Sung by Private Ephraim Peabody, on the night after the march through Baltimore.]
Come, all ye true Americans, that love the stripes and stars, For which your gallant countrymen go marching to the wars, For grand old Massachusetts raise up three rousing cheers, Three times three and a tiger for the Yankee Volunteers.
The 19th day of April, they marched unto the war, And on that day, upon the way, they stopped at Baltimore, And trustingly expected the customary cheers Which every loyal city gives the Yankee Volunteers.
But suddenly in fury there came a mighty crowd, Led on by negro drivers, with curses long and loud ;
With frenzied imprecations, with savage threats and sneers, They welcomed to the city the Yankee Volunteers.
So furious grew the multitude, they rushed at them amain, And a great storm of missiles came pouring like a rain : Amid a thundering clamor, such as mortal seldom hears, They tried to cross the city, did the Yankee Volunteers.
The murderous storm of missiles laid many a soldier low, Still the unswerving hearts forbore to give the answering blow, Till all the miscreants shouted, " They're nearly dead with fears; We'll hurry up and finish these Yankee Volunteers !"
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But lo! the guns are levelled, and loud the volleys roar,
And inch by inch they fight their way through the streets of Baltimore. Before them shrank the traitors, above them rise the cheers, As, though they throng a myriad strong, march on the Volun- teers.
Hurrah, then, for the old Bay State, that stood so well at bay ! Hurrah for those who shed their blood, and gave their lives away !
For grand old Massachusetts, boys, let's give three rousing cheers ; Three times three and a tiger for the Yankee Volunteers.
REGIMENTAL ROSTER.
In the following roster the author has endeavored to give the name of each officer and soldier, and to append to his name his subsequent military service, up to the close of the war; and, so far as he could, he has given the death or wounds of those who have been wounded or died, - on the authority, of course, of others. Brief notes of reference to the Massachusetts corps into which they have subsequently gone are ap- pended. To see the whole of the varied service in which they have engaged, the reader will be obliged to consult the published records of other states. Indeed, the history of the members of the Old Sixth impinges on almost every important event in the war, - on land and on many a glorious achievement on the seas.
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FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel -EDWARD F. JONES, Pepperell. - Col. Jones had distinguished himself as the inventor of the famous arrangement by which the kerosene lamp-wick is moved. He afterwards recruited the Twenty-sixth regiment,1 of which he was Colonel, until he resigned his commission, July 27, 1862. The old town of Pepperell has the distinguished honor of furnishing two colo- nels, who, from the places they have occupied in the country's service, can never be forgotten, - Col. Prescott, who was the commander on Bunker Hill, and Col. Jones, the commander at Baltimore. She can never cease to be proud that these two of her sons will forever be associated with June 17, 1775, and April 19, 1861.
Lieutenant-Colonel - BENJ. F. WATSON, Lawrence. - Col. Watson was in the legal profession in Lawrence. He was pro- moted from the majority, August 17, 1861. The Lieutenant- Colonel, Walter Shattuck of Groton, started for Washington with the regiment; but he resigned from age and infirmity. Col. Watson was appointed U. S. Paymaster, September 25, 1861, and was seriously injured in the performance of his duties, Janu- ary 30, 1864, and resigned in consequence, in October, 1864. He was in command of the post at Relay House, from May 13 to May 16, 1861, by order of Gen. Butler, and commanded the regiment from May 16 to July 25.
1 The Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment was recruited in Lowell, by Col. Edward F. Jones, commander of the Old Sixth. It contained many of the officers and men of the old regiment, about a hundred in all. It sailed from Boston, Nov. 21, 1861, and was stationed most of its term of service in the Department of the Gulf. It returned from the wars in the autumn of 1864, after three years of honorable service, leaving behind a goodly representation of veterans.
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Major - JOSIAH A. SAWTELLE, Lowell, was promoted from the Captaincy of compeny A, May 17, 1861. On raising the Twenty-sixth regiment, he was appointed to the majority, and promoted to the L'eutenant-Colonelcy, July 29, 1862, and was discharged October 14, 1864.
Surgeon - NORMAN SMITH, Groton.
Chaplain - CHARLES BABBIDGE, Pepperell. - Mr. Babbidge was pastor of the Unitarian Church in Pepperell, and was the first clergyman who was called into actual service to suppress the rebellion, as he was also the first graduate of Harvard University to enter the service. He was graduated in the class of 1828. Mr. Babbidge subsequently served three years as Chaplain of the Massachusetts Twenty-sixth.
Adjutant - ALPHA B. FARR, Lowell. - Adjutant Farr en- tered the Twenty-sixth as Lieutenant-Colonel, and was promoted to the command, July 28, 1862, and remained in command till the expiration of his service, November 7, 1864.
Quartermaster - JAMES MUNROE, Cambridge, was also Quartermaster of the Twenty-sixth, and died in the faithful per- formance of his duties, November 18, 1862.
Paymaster - RUFUS L. PLAISTED, Lowell.
Assistant Surgeon - JANSEN T. PAINE, Charlestown. Sub- sequently Post Surgeon in the Department of the Gulf.
Sergeant-Major - SAMUEL W. SHATTUCK, Groton, - became Adjutant of the Eighth Vermont, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Captain, and held the position of Assistant Ad- jutant General, 2d Brig. 1st Div. Nineteenth Army Corps.
Quartermaster Sergeant - CHURCH HOWE, Worcester, - was Quartermaster of the Massachusetts Fifteenth,1 and was promoted
1 The Massachusetts Fifteenth was organized in Worcester County, under command of Col. Charles Devens, Jr., and was mastered, June 2, 1861. It was at Ball's Bluff, in the Peninsula battles under Mcclellan;
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to the rank of Captain, Jannary 8, 1863. He was discharged from the service, April 10, 1863.
Commissary Sergeant - JOHN DUPEE, Boston. Drum Major - FREDERICK K. STAFFORD, Lowell.
Hospital Steward - WILLIAM H. GRAY, Acton, - has since held the position of Surgeon in the - U. S. colored regiment.
LOWELL BRIGADE BAND.
These celebrated musicians accompanied the Sixth to Baltimore. Their transportation was in a baggage-car, in the rear of the train ; and, through some misapprehen- sion, it remained at the station after the regiment had left. There the band stayed, awaiting orders to move, and without arms, when the mob began to make hostile demonstrations. The doors of the car were closed by the band ; but the mob soon broke them open, and the musi- cians were forced to leave, abandoning their instruments and other property. The Baltimore police, many of them evidently in league with the roughs, were appealed to in vain to assist them, and they fled for their lives. A crowd of women, mostly foreigners, concealed them in their houses, and exchanged their uniforms for other clothing, in which disguise they were conveyed by a strong body of police, late in the afternoon, under in- structions from the mayor, on board the Philadelphia
at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg; and with Grant at the begin- ning of his successful advance on Petersburg. It has a most enviable record of service.
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train. They arrived in Lowell, April 22. In the music- store of Rugg and Carlton, Lowell, may be seen some of the battered relics of the day, in the shape of a bass drum and a brass instrument, much the worse for wear. Their names were -
George Brooks, Eli B. Carlton,
Lowell ; subsequently, 26th Mass. Band. 66 Boston.
Charles Colburn,
Abel F. Crocker, Oliver T. Davis,
Lowell ; subsequently, 26th Mass. Band.
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William K. Doe, John M. Lovett, 17th Mass. Band;1 59th Mass. Band .?
Greenleaf W. Metealf, 6th Mass. 9 months.
Eugene S. Muzzey, subsequently, 26th Mass. Band.
Coffern Nutting, Dracut.
Lowell, 13th N. H. Band. Deceased.
Henry G. Parshley, John H. Parshley, 13th N. H. Band. Charles J. Patterson, 66 James Polson, subsequently, 26th Mass. Band.
George A. Wilson, 66
Artemas S. Young, 66
1 The Seventeenth Massachusetts left Lynnfield, August 23, 1861, and was stationed in Baltimore several months. It then went to New Berne, in and near which it remained during the larger part of its service; meanwhile engaging in most of the battles of 1863-4. Eight of its compa- nies were from Essex, one from Suffolk, and one from Middlesex. Kin- ston, Washington, and Weldon, testify to its gallantry.
2 The Fifty-ninth Massachusetts was raised by the gallant Col. J. P. Gould, Major of the Thirteenth, and arrived in Washington, April 28, 1864. Ten days after leaving Massachusetts, it had its first fight. It performed noble service in the closing scenes of the war.
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COMPANY A, LOWELL.
Re-enlisted as a company nine months, 1862-3, in the same regiment. Disbanded by general order in 1865.
The Lawrence Cadets were originally named for Dr. Ambrose Lawrence, of Lowell; and the company was organized in 1855. In 1860, the name was changed to National Greys. Its officers have been as follows : -
Captain - J. A. SAWTELLE held command from the organiza- tion of the company till May 17, 1861.
Lieutenants - JAMES H. WARD, ENOCH W. BARKER, JAMES W. HART, FRANCIS N. CARR, E. W. RICHARDSON, CHARLES E. PEVEY, P. V. THOMAS, R. H. TYLER, AN- DREW J. JOHNSON, GEORGE W. LAWRENCE.
The Greys promptly responded to the Governor's call, and assembled in Huntington Hall, on the morning of the 16th, with companies C, D, and H, where a great and intensely excited crowd had assembled to say good- by. The Mayor, Hon. B. C. Sargent, addressed them, and they departed, as already related.
The company roster, with such facts appended as I have been able to procure, reads thus : -
Captain, JOSIAH A. SAWTELLE, Lowell ; promoted Major, May 17; Lieut .- Col. 26th Mass., 3 years.
Lieutenant, ANDREW J. JOHNSON, Lowell; 1st Lieut. Co. A, 26th Mass. ; discharged, April 10, 1862. ANDREW C. WRIGHT, Lowell; Capt. Co. A, 6th Mass., 9 months ; resigned, November, 1862.
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Sergeant, ENOCH J. FOSTER, Lowell ; 1st Lient. 6th Mass., 9 months; discharged, sick, and died.
66 GEORGE M. DICKERMAN, Lowell ; Capt., May 18, 1861. Capt. Co. A, 26th Mass .; prisoner in Shenandoah Valley.
= GEORGE W. SNELL, Lowell ; 2d and 1st Lieut. Co. A, 6th Mass., 9 months; Capt., January, 1865, when disbanded.
JOHN F. SWETT, Lowell.
Corporal, LINUS M. CADWELL, Lowell; - N. H., Color Serg.
66 W. F. LOVREIN, Lowell; Serg. Maj. 6th Mass., 9 months; U. S. R. R. service, prisoner, 1864.
ALFRED J. HALL, Lowell; 2d Lieut. and Capt. 6th Masy., 9 months.
66 JOHN W. CARTER, Lowell.
66 SOLOMON CLARK, Lowell; 2d Lieut. 6th Mass., 9 months.
66 AARON ANDREWS, Lowell; discharged at Relay House, May 16, 1861.
Musician, FRANK W. GREENWOOD, Lowell ; Drum Major, 26th Mass.
66 LEWIS A. YOUNG, Lowell ; 6th Mass., 9 months.
PRIVATES.
Julius T. Adams, Lowell ; - Mass.
Oren L. Bowker, Lowell ; since in a Maine regiment.
Frederic A. Barron, Lowell ; 2d Sharpshooters,1 Mass.
John Bulmer, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
Isaac Chesley ; Lowell.
1 The Second Massachusetts Sharpshooters were attached to the Mas- sachusetts Fifteenth and subsequently to the Twentieth. The history of those regiments includes that of this company.
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George S. Crocker, Lowell ; 6th Mass., 9 months.
Horace T. Durgin, Lowell.
George W. Dightman, Lowell ; - N. H.
Charles F. Emerson, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
John Foss, Lowell; since in - Mass. John Frost, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
Joseph Fields, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
Frank R. Grout, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
Andrew J. Herrick, Lowell; Co. A, 6th Mass., 9 months ; died November 30, 1863.
Thomas H. Huntington, Lowell ; Co. A, 6th Mass., 100 days. A. J. Howe, Lowell.
Winthrop H. Hall, Lowell; Adj. 23d Maine.
William H. Higson, Lowell.
Gilb rt A. Hood, Lowell; 2d Mass.1 H. A. or 1st Mass. Batt., killed.
James F. Hudson, Lowell ; Co. D, 26th Mass.
Stephen Homans, Lowell ; 33d Mass.2
Alfred G. Jones, Lowell ; Sergt. Co. C, 27th Mass.3
William H. Luce, Lowell.
Joseph Marshall, Lowell; Sergt. Co. G, 19th Mass.+
1 The Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery left for the seat of war in the beginning of 1864, and was distributed along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, in various fortifications.
2 The Thirty-third Massachusetts left the state, August 14, 1862, and was encamped near Washington till January, 1863. It has taken part in the battles of Gettysburg, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain, and has a national reputation.
3 The Twenty-seventh Massachusetts was raised in the western part of the state, and was mastered September 20, 1861. It took part in the principal engagements in North Carolina, and did valiant service.
4 The Nineteenth Massachusetts was organized at Lynnfield, and left Massachusetts under Col. Hinks, Angust 28, 1861. They were in Ball's Bluff, before Richmond, second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Get-
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Charles Miner, Lowell ; in - Mass.
Robert Motley, Lowell ; Navy.
Bradford S. Norton, Lowell ; Co. A, 26th Mass.
Merrill D. Pevey, Lowell ; 1st N. H. Batt.
William H. Packard, Lowell ; 1st Mass. Sharpshooters.1
Gordon Reed, Lowell ; in - Mass.
J. G. Reed, Lowell.
Charles H. Richardson, Lowell ; 26th Mass.
Martin Richards, Lowell.
Scott Stewart, Lowell; - Mass. killed.
Warren M. Tuck, Lowell ; re-enlisted in -
James M. Torsey ; 1st Sergt. 6th Mass., 9 months.
Henry M. Woodward ; Sergt. 6th Mass., 9 months.
COMPANY B, GROTON.
Re-enlisted as a company in the same regiment, in the nine months' and one hundred days' campaigns. It still retains its organization.
With the exception of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, Boston, this is probably the oldest military company now existing in the state. Amos Farnsworth, of Groton, was commissioned as first lieutenant of a company of artillery, October 19, 1778, to be attached to the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. It had, at that time, been in the habit of meeting for drill since 1775, and was commanded by Capt. William Swan. Lieut. Farnsworth's commission, signed by fifteen members of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, is here printed verbatim :-
tysburg, and other great battles, in all of which, they have covered them- selves with glory.
0 1 The First Company Sharpshooters was attached to the Massachusetts Nineteenth, and shared the dangers and honors of that regiment.
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State of Massachusetts, The Major part of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, L.
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To Amos Farnsworth, Gentleman, Greet- ing: You being appointed First Lieu- tenant of a Company of Matrosses Com- manded by William Swan, raised in the Sixth Regiment of Militia, in the County of Middlesex, whereof Jonathan Reed, Esquire, is Colonel, to Rank as Captain ; By virtue of the Power vested in us, We do by these Presents, (reposing Special Trust and confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct,) Commission you accordingly. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant, in Leading, ordering, and exercising said Company in Arms, both Inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in Good Order and Dis- cipline, and they are hereby commanded to obey you as their first Lieutenant, and you are yourself to observe and follow such orders and instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Major Part of the Council, or your Supe- rior Officers.
Given under our hands, and the Seal of the said State, at Boston, the nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord 1778
Jolin Avery Dy Secraty- S By the Command of the Major part of the Council.
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This company has been well known to the people of Middlesex county, for three generations, as the " GROTON ARTILLERY." Until the rebellion of 1861 broke out, it had always kept two brass field-pieces in its possession, at its head-quarters, though it had, at the same time, for many years done duty as Company B, Sixth Mass.
In the war of 1812, it was stationed on Dorchester Heights, commanded by William Farnsworth. It has uniformly been ready for duty for almost a century. Some years after, it was attached to the Fifth Regiment of Artillery, and afterwards it was returned to the Sixth.
I have been able to obtain the following among the captains and lieutenants previous to 1861. Unfortu- nately, the books of this ancient company were lost in Annapolis, in 1861: -
CAPTAINS. - James Lewis,* William Farnsworth,* William Dalrymple,* Aaron Brown,* Jonathan Pierce,* P. G. Prescott (twice), Sumner Shattuck,# Joel Shattuck, Albert Shattuck, Andrew Blood,* ' Andrew Shattuck, Charles Prescott, William Shattuck (twice), Bradford Russell,* Walter Shattuck, George Shattuck (twice), T. S. Farnsworth.
LIEUTENANTS. - Most of the above, and Charles Blood, Charles Woolley, Rodney D. Cragin, Ezekiel Needham, Asa T. Whiting (Pepperell), William P. Taylor (Pepperell), Norman Kemp (Dunstable), Joseph Fitch. 2
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1 Andrew Blood was Lieut .- Colonel, Third Louisiana, Dec. 5, 1862.
2 These names are recollected and furnished me by Colonel Walter Shattuck.
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April 15, 1861, late in the day, Capt. Clark re- ceived a despatch from his colonel, to report for duty the next morning, at seven o'clock, in Lowell; and, though the members were scattered through eight or ten towns, at the designated time the company was on hand, " armed and equipped, as the law directs," and sustained itself nobly in the part assigned it.
Captain, EUSEBIUS S. CLARK, Groton ; Capt. in 26th Mass. ; also Maj. July 29, 1862; wounded, Shenandoah ; died, Winchester, Oct. 1864.
1st Lieutenant, GEORGE F. SHATTUCK, Groton ; promoted to 1st Lieut. May 2; Capt. in 6th Mass., 9 months, and 100 days.
2dl Lieutenant, SAMUEL G. BLOOD, Groton ; 1st Lieut. in 9 months' campaign, 6th Mass .; Ensign in Navy, 1864.
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