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These forces started on an expedition of one hundred and fifty miles into the country on the day of their arrival, and during the first night surprised and captured four picket-posts of five men each, and captured an artillery camp of eight guns, called Camp Finnegan, after which they proceeded on to Baldwin Station, on the Jacksonville and Tallahassee Railroad, where they arrived at sunrise, February 9, 1864, and captured four cars loaded with ammunition, cannon, and forage, and also a quan- tity of turpentine, rosin and cotton. On the 10th arrived at Barber's Ford, on the South Fork of St. Mary's River. Here the forces engaged in fight about noon. During this engagement, Thomas F. C. Dean, of Stoughton, was killed. He was a member of Company I, from North Bridgewater. Four men were slightly wounded. The Union forces captured forty-five prisoners. The next night they bivouacked at San- dersonville, after driving Finnegan's forces from there, which was his headquarters at that time.
After destroying distilleries, corn, etc., started for Lake City, and arrived within one and a half miles of that place, when they engaged General Finnegan's force in sight of the city. After a severe fight of about two hours, ammunition becoming short, and having no supply- train, they fell back to Barber's Ford, by order of General Seymour.
On the 15th of February went to Callihan Station, on the Gainesville and Fernandina Railroad. At St. Mary's River destroyed three ferries, and returned to Barber's Ford on the 19th of February. On the fol-
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lowing day General Seymour engaged the rebels at Olustee with five thousand men, the enemy having thirteen thousand men. After a severe fight both sides fell back. On their retreat, the Union forces destroyed Baldwin village. Fought at Camp Finnegan February 23, Mile Run, February 25.
On the 30th of March the battalion was ordered to Pilatka, Fla., where they remained fourteen days. Where there they lost four men while on picket duty-Matthew Lincoln, of Abington ; H. F. Poole, of Easton ; John Sylvester, of East Bridgewater ; Roscoe Tucker,-who were carried to Andersonville Prison; the last three have since died. On the 14th of March the battalion evacuated Pilatka. At this time, part of the company having re-enlisted and gone on a furlough to the North, Captain Richmond was ordered to St. Augustine, Fla., with the remainder of the company; stopped there three days ; from thence removed to Jacksonville, Fla. On the 22d of April was ordered to Virginia; embarked for Hilton Head, and arrived there next day. May I, started for Yorktown, Va .; arrived May 3, joined General Gil- more, May 8, at Bermuda Hundred. The company was engaged in fights on the 8th and 9th of May at Swift Creek ; was engaged in front of Fort Darling from the 11th to the 16th of May, and fell back to Bermuda Hundred the same day. On the 9th of June was engaged in front of Petersburg, Va .; on the 28th of September was in front of Richmond, and from that time to middle of November was in several fights. About the 15th of November, was ordered to the headquarters of the Army of the James. under General Butler, and was employed on escort and courier duty. Captain Richmond was honorably discharged December 17, 1864, after thirty-nine months' service, in which he proved himself a brave and good officer. In the advance from Jacksonville to Lake City it was Captain Richmond's com- pany that led the advance, capturing and first engaging the forces of the enemy in front, and was in almost every instance successful.
In 1864 this company was consolidated into the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, so that the history of those from North Bridgewater, or belong- ing to Company I, may be found in that regiment.
List of men from North Bridgewater in Company K, First Massachu- setts Cavalry, Capt. James H. Case, of Bridgewater :
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Edmund Crockett,
Joseplı Dam,
Waldo Field, John Simonds, Austin H. Snow,
Hiram Thayer, William Welsh.
DEATHS, CASUALTIES, ETC .- List of changes, casualties, deaths, etc., that have occurred in Company I, of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, under Capt. Lucius Richmond :
Freeman H. Shiverick, 1st lieut., resigned July 28, 1862.
Lewis Cabot, 2d lieut., trans. to the 4th Mass. Cav.
B. Knight, jr., corp., disch. for disability at Beaufort, May 12, 1863. He was en- gaged in the battle of Pocotalgo, Oct. 22, 1862.
George N. Holmes, sergt., disch. for disability April 23, 1864.
Joseph T. Stevens, corp., died at Hilton Head, March 31, 1862.
A. J. Keene, private, disch. for disability at Beaufort, April 22, 1863.
Joshua Turnbull, corp., disch. for disability Jan. 19, 1863.
A. W. Bartlett, private, died at Beaufort, from wounds received at Barber's Ford, Fla,, Feb. 10, 1864.
Joseph C. Stone, private, disch. for disability at Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, Aug. 29, 1862.
Henry T. Daggett, bugler, pro. to chief bugler, of the regiment May 7, 1864.
Richard Adams, private, disch. for disability April 20, 1862.
Virgil S. Blaisdell, private, disch. for disability April 8, 1864.
Caleb Badger, private, disch. for disability July 9, 1863, at Beaufort, S. C.
Joseph B. Bisbee, private, died July 14, 1862 ; was in action at Pocotalgo.
Thomas F. C. Dean, private, killed at Barber's Ford, Feb. 12, 1864. He was in action on James and Morris Islands during the siege of Fort Wagner and Pocotalgo, S. C.
Tolman French, private, disch. for disability May 4, 1864.
James Fitzpatrick, private, trans, to the Invalid Corps July 9, 1863.
Eben R. Faxon, private, disch. for disability at Beaufort, April 22, 1863.
James H. Howland, private, disch. for disabilty at Hilton Head, April 8, 1862.
John Jewett, private, trans, to Co. K Dec. 23, 1861.
Jeremiah Leavitt, private, pro. to hospital steward 1862.
Edward A. Lunt, disch. for disability at Beaufort, July 9, 1863.
George B. Mussey, com .- sergt., trans. to the non-com. staff April 9, 1862 ; disch. Dec, 10, 1862.
Francis A. Richardson, q. m .- sergt., disch. for disability at Hilton Head, December, 1863.
Gilbert R. Richardson, private, disch. Feb. 7, 1862.
W. A. Smith, private, disch. for disability at Hilton Head, April 8, 1862.
Frederic M. Wortman, private, fell overboard from steamer "Rebecca Clyde," in Port Royal harbor, Feb. 6, 1864, in action at Pocotalgo.
Hiram M. Wheeler, private, disch. for disability at Boston, November, 1862.
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R. S. Capen, private, pro. to sergt,-maj. in the 4th Mass. Cav.
S. C. Lovell, corp., trans, to Co. K ; pro. to ord .- sergt. Aug. 23, 1864.
F. A. Bliss, corp., trans, to Co. F; pro. to q. m .- sergt. Aug. 12, 1864.
J. E. Cole, private, tranf. to the non-com. staff as saddler's sergt. Sept. 10, 1864. John II. Walker, corp., pro. to q.m .- sergt., dischi. at the exp. of service, Sept. 24, 1864. Augustine A. Colburn, corp., pro. to com .- sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
J. H. Leonard, corp., hon. disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
Isaac Cox, private, disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
William S. Huntington, sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864. .
George N. Hunt, sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
F. O. Harlow, sergt., disch. Sept, 1864.
D. W. Jacobs, sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864. John T. Peterson, sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
J. R. Porter, sergt., disch. Sept. 24, 1864.
J. D. Darling, bugler, pro. to the non-com. staff Sept. 25, 1864.
H. P. Holmes, private, disch. Oct. 8, 1864. George S. Richards, 'private, disch. Oct. 14, 1864.
H. F. Howard, private, disch. Oct. 30, 1864.
A. J. Bailey, farrier, disch. Oct. 30, 1864.
E. W. Whitehouse, private, disch. Nov. 13, 1864.
John Sylvester, private, died at Andersonville, December, 1864.
Roscoe Tucker, private, died at Florence, S. C., Jan. 29, 1865.
Horace F. Poole, private, died on the passage home from Florence, where he had been confined as a prisoner of war, March 9, 1865.
Matthew W. Lincoln, private, was a prisoner at Florence ; exchanged March 9, 1865. R. H. Willis, private, pro. to 2d lieut. January, 1865.
George W. Leach, private, pro. January, 1865.
H. S. Kimball, private, pro. to 2d lieut. in colored infantry December, 1864.
Joel D. Dudley, corp., killed at High Bridge, Va., April 6, 1865.
Samuel Patterson, private, captured in front of Jacksonville, March 16, 1864.
Ellis V. Lyon, private, died Sept. 24, 1864; funeral Oct. 2, 1864.
First Massachusetts Regiment :
Co. E, Capt. Clark B. Baldwin, John Donahue.
List of men in Capt. Francis H. Tucker's company, Company H, of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under command of Col. George H. Gordon, for three years' service, as mustered May 25, 1861, from North Bridgewater :
James P. Bell. John Cullen. Maurice Keating. Jeremiah Merea.
Charles M. Hall.
Linus B. Thomas.
Richard Casey. Patrick Keenan. Hugh O. Donald.
Benjamin N. Gardner. Patrick Murray.
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List of men in Capt. Ward L. Foster's company, Company G, of the Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Col. Darius N. Couch, as mustered into three years' service June 11, 1861, from North Bridgewater :
Charles W. George, corp. Oliver Horton.
Joseph Reynolds, Jr.
James S. Newman, corp.
Morgan Jones.
Horace M. Clark.
George I. Horr.
John B. Dean. Jacob Rotch.
Samuel F. Howard, Albert D. Hunt.
Alfred H. Tilden.
Alonzo S. Hamilton.
Edward B. Leach.
David Thompson, Jr.
Russell S. Iliggins.
Francis S. Packard. John Griffin.
We also find the following names in the same regiment as follows :
Co. A, Capt. David H. Dyer, John B. Cobb.
Co. K, Capt. Franklin P. Harlow, Walter C. Churchill.
Co. E, Capt. Horace F. Fox, William Douglas.
List of men in Company K, Capt. George W. Dutton's company, of the Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Thomas Cass, as mustered into three years' service June 15, 1861, from North Bridge- water.
John Lanagan. Michael Clark.
James Webb.
William Linnehan. Patrick Cunningham.
Roger Cunningham.
David Maguire. John Sweeny.
William Farrell.
William Mitchell.
John Scannell.
James Gilbridge.
Michael Connell.
Dennis Wheelan.
James Harris.
Charles O. Collins.
Also in Co. B, Capt. Christopher Plunkett, June 15, 1861 :
Thomas Hogan. John Horan. John Russell.
James Riley. Michael Kelly. Patrick Sheridan.
Co. E, Capt. John R. Teague, Michael Horan.
Co. I, Capt. James E. McCafferty, Jr., Owen Sweeney.
A list of men from North Bridgewater in the Eleventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers for three years, as mustered June 12, 1861 :
Co. B, Capt. John H. Davis, Thomas Donahue, William Walsh.
Co. C, Capt. Porter D. Tripp, George W. Wood.
Co. E, Capt. James R Bigelow, Dennis Downey, Miletus Luther, Patrick O'Brien, Perley A. Doyle.
In the Thirteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, Company K, Capt. William P. Blackmer, is
Charles Drayton, must. June 26, 1861.
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The muster-rolls of the Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. James Barnes, contain the following names, mustered in July and Au- gust, 1861 :
Co. A, Capt. Lewis N. Tucker, James Mathison.
Co. B, Capt. George C. Ruby, William Flannagan.
Co. E, Capt. Thomas Weston, Samuel Kimball, Ferdinand Robinson, David Sanford, Thomas W. Childs, Howard P. Keith.
Co. F, Capt. Henry Onion, Thomas P. Leyden.
Co. H, Capt. Joseph W. Collingwood, James F. Willis.
Co. I, Capt. Frederic D. Forrest, Ira Belcher.
Twentieth Regiment, Col. W. Raymond Lee :
Co. H, Capt. George M. Macy, George H. Howard.
Co. I, Capt. A. W. Beckwith, James Barney.
Twenty-second Regiment, under command of Col. Henry Wilson and Col. Jesse Gove :
Co. D, Capt. John F. Dunning, Francis E. Allen, Edward Lathrop.
Twenty- third Regiment, Col. John Kurtz :
Co. K, Capt. Carlos A. Hart, Moses Paron.
Twenty-fourth Regiment, Col. Thomas G. Stevenson :
Co. G, Capt. Robert F. Clark, George A. Howard, Justin Howard, Paul W. Jackson. Co. F, Capt. George F. Austin, Heman E. Packard.
List of men in the Twenty-eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- unteers :
Co. B, Capt. Lawrence P. Barrett, Philip Donahue.
Co. C, Capt. John Brennan, Timothy Connelly, Michael Casey, Edward Duyer, John Doherty, Edward Magrane, Thomas Maloney, Thomas Sullivan, Uriah Phillips, John Flannagan.
Co. I. Capt. G. F. McDonald, Timothy Regan, Hugh Riley, John Canara.
Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, under command of Col. E. W. Pierce, three years' service, 1861 :
Co. B, Capt. Israel N. Wilson, Anthony La Rochelle.
Co. C, Capt. Lebbeus Leach, Edward F. Drohan, David W. Harden, John S. Howard, William Keith.
Co. G, Capt. Charles D. Richardson, George W. Pope.
Thirtieth Regiment, Col. N. A. M. Dudley :
Co. D, Capt. Marsh A. Ferris, D. M. Rochester.
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Thirty-second Regiment, Col. Francis J. Parker :
Co. B, Capt. George L. Prescott, Charles Augustus.
Co. G, Capt. Charles Bowers, Julius R. Churchill.
Co. H, Capt. Henry W. Moulton, Sylvester Russell, Daniel Shannahan.
Again the president, at the request of the various governors of the loyal States, issued a proclamation July 1, 1862, calling for three hun - dred thousand more volunteers to serve for three years, or during the war. The number of regiments sent from the State up to this date was twenty-seven, besides thirteen unattached companies, making in all thirty-one thousand three hundred and seventy- seven men.
The quota for Massachusetts was fifteen thousand ; the number called for from North Bridgewater was fifty-two. In response to the above call, a legal meeting of the town was held at the new church vestry July 19, 1862, at which it was " voted to borrow five thousand two hundred dollars for a term of years; and to pay one hundred dollars each to any person that should volunteer into the service of the United States, under the late call of the president."
After remarks by several gentlemen present, the following resolutions were offered by D. C. Cowell, and adopted :
Resolved, That earth has never seen a holier war than that now waged by the Gov- ernment of the United States to put down rebellion; and that we should be derelict and criminal in the highest degree, if we failed to make every needful sacrifice, in order to transmit to our prosperity the glorious heritage of popular government.
Resolved, That we hail with satisfaction the recent legislation in Congress, as an evi- dence on the part of the government that treason and rebellion shall be promptly and effectually crushed.
Resolved, That there shall be paid from the town treasury to each volunteer from this town, who shall enlist on or before the 30th inst., until our quota is complete, the sum of one hundred dollars.
Resolved, That while the citizens of this town will endeavor to do, and will do, their duty, and their whole duty, they have a right to expect that those in authority, whether in Congress, the cabinet, or the field, will pursue a vigorous policy, and make war in earnest, until the last rebel has laid down his arms, and acknowledge paramount alle- giance to the United States.
Resolved, That justice, which is the only sound policy and the best economy, demands that the government should call upon every loyal person without distinction of com- plexion or race, within the rebel States, to rally around the flag of the Union, and should give freedom and protection to all who obey the call, and that the neglect in the future so to do will be a stupendous blunder, unparalleled in the history of the world.
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Immediately after the above meeting the business of recruiting and filling the town's quota was brisk, resulting in the following persons en- listing for the term of three years, or during the war.
In the Thirty-third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers for three years' service, Col. Albert C. Maggi, commander, we find,-
Enlisted in July and August, 1862.
Co. B, Capt. James Brown, Andrew Anderson, Alexander Turner.
Co. HI, Capt. Edward B. Blasland, Thomas Drohan, Charles O. Flannagan, Arthur MeIntee, Peter Donahue, Patrick MeEstee.
Co. I, Capt. Elisha Doane, Caleb Athearns, Albert B. Dunbar, Matthew Grady, Gus- tavus Arfridson, Daniel Feeley, Oliver M. Holmberg, Joseph Beals, John Finnegan, Jolm Maguire, Charles Strommet.
Co. M. Capt. B. Frank Rogers, William O'Brien, John H. T. Sanford, John Mason, Harrison L. Higgins, Charles F. Swanstrom.
List of men in the Thirty- fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volun- teers for three years' service, Col. Edward A. Wild commander :
Enlisted in July and August, 1862.
Co. A, Capt. Stephen H. Andrews, Thomas P. Barnfield, Albert G. Drake, Marcus E. Paekard, Alden Cushing, Charles N. Paekard, Edwin L. Snow, Dudley Wade, Henry C. Ames.
Co. C, Capt. Traey P. Cheever, Preston Holbrook, Davis B. Reynolds, William P. Roberts, Elmer W. Holmes, Heman F. Stranger, John Kendall, James Ide. Horatio D. Snow, Edward F. Snow, George L. Robinson, Elisha A. Cushing, Henry A. Willis, William Deane.
List of men in Company K, Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, Col. Timothy Ingraham :
Capt. James H. Slade. Gibbon Sharp, jr. William A. W. Averill.
George A. Jenks. Samuel H. Sanford, jr. Thomas R. Broadhurst. Edmund A. Landers. John Kendall.
Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. P. Stearns Davis:
Co. A, Capt. George S. Nelson, Sylvanus E. Packard, George W. Cole, Samuel Dean.
Co. F, Capt. Joseph J. Cooper, Fernando C. Skinner.
Co. H, Capt. Charles N. Hunt, Franeis J. Childs, Ephraim F. Howard.
List of men in Company A, Capt. James T. Lurvey, Fortieth Regi- ment of Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Burr Porter :
Nelson Cushman. A. G. Tinkham. John D. Sanford. John L. Mason,
Lueius S. Perkins.
Albert W. Hayden.
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The following men enlisted in the Ninth Massachusetts Light Battery in July and August, 1862, for three years' service, under the command of Capt. Achille De Vecchi :
David Brett. John H. Kelley.
Bartlett C. Edson.
Henry F. Nash.
H. A. Packard. Reuben L. Willis.
Henry Fenn.
Henry Packard.
Austin Packard.
Richard Holland.
Elcazer Cole.
List of men in Tenth Massachusetts Battery, under the command of Capt. J. Henry Sleeper, for three years' service, mustered September 9, 1862 :
John P. Apthorp. Franklin Ward. Charles N. Packard.
In the early part of the year 1862, permission was given to raise a company of heavy artillery for garrison duty at Fort Warren, Boston harbor. This company was raised by Stephen Cabot of Boston.
For this service we find the name of
John Geary, mustered March 6, 1862.
Again in August came a call for three hundred thousand more troops, as follows :
Ordered, First, that a draft of three hundred thousand militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve nine months, unless sooner discharged.
Ordered, Second, that if any State shall not, by the 15th of August, furnish its quota of the additional three hundred thousand authorized by law, the deficiency of volunteers for that State shall be made up by a special draft from the militia.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
The quota for Massachusetts, under this call, was nineteen thousand and eighty. In response to this call the people were, as in previous calls, " wide awake." Early on Thursday morning, August 21, 1862, a large handbill was circulated, with the following announcement : "War meeting ! Grand rally ! Volunteering vs. drafting ! Rally to your country's call!" etc. The meeting which this bill called to- gether was held on the afternoon of Thursday, the 21st, at two o'clock, in the new church vestry. Patriotic speeches were made by Hon. B. W. Harris, of East Bridgewater, J. C. Cluer, of Boston, and others of the town, the sentiment of the meeting being decidedly in favor of crushing the rebellion. This meeting closed at five o'clock P. M., to give way for a legal town-meeting to be held in the same place. At
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the close of this meeting, which had been adjourned to the Saturday following, after remarks by several persons present, the following reso- lutions were offered by David L. Cowell, which were adopted by the meeting :
Resolved, That the citizens of North Bridgewater, in furnishing their quota of the three hundred thousand volunteers for three years, and the additional quota for nine months, have neither exhausted their means nor their patriotism, but that they are ready to respond to another call, and still another, if necessary, to put down treason and re- bellion.
Resolved, That the present rebellion is an insurrection of political slaveholders against republican institutions, and therefore the power of slavery should henceforth be turned to the use of freedom ; that the slaves of rebels should be liberated, and as many of them as are willing armed ; and, while we have unwavering confidence in the honesty and patriotism of the President, we earnestly implore him to have faith in the people, and go ahead.
Resolved, That, without detracting from the merit of those who have gone before, the alacrity with which our young men come forward in response to the call for nine months' men eminently entitles them, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, to be called volunteers.
The number that had enlisted up to the close of the meeting was seventy, each of whom generously offered to relinquish fifty dollars of their bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars, as voted by the town to be paid to each volunteer.
From August 25 to December 9, 1862, the following persons enlisted in the nine months' service, as appears on the rolls of the various com- panies from North Bridgewater :
List of men in Company K, from North Bridgewater, in the Third Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, for nine months' service, under Col. Silas P. Richmond, from September 23, 1862 :
Samuel Bates, capt. Albert L. Marshall. Nathan F. Packard.
Augustus Davenport. Isaac P. Osborne. George Phelan.
N. M. Davenport, jr.
James H. Packard. Henry L. Manly.
Luther M. Morse. Shepard B. Wilbur. Elisha Reynolds.
The above regiment served in the commencement of the war as three months' volunteers from the old militia organization. After their term of service at Fortress Monroe had expired it returned to its old place in the militia of Massachusetts. When the call was made for a draft of nine months' men, the Third Regiment, Col. Silas P. Richmond, volun- teered at once, and was sent to Camp Joe Hooker, at Lakeville, where
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it filled up its ranks to the full requirement. The above company em- barked on board the steamers Merrimac and Mississippi, at Boston, Oc- tober 22, 1862, and sailed for Beaufort, S. C., the same evening.1
List of men in Company E, Fourth regiment of Massachusetts Volun- teers, Col. Henry Walker, for nine months' service, from September 26, 1862 :
Lewis Soule, capt. Henry F. Dearborn. Albert S. Peck. Matthew T. Packard.
This regiment went into Camp Joe Hooker, at Lakeville ; afterwards in service, under General Banks, at New Orleans.
List of men in Company C, Forty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under Col. Isaac S. Burrill, for nine months' service, mus- tered in October, 1862 :
Orville W. Leonard, capt. David Murphy.
Volney H. Dunbar.
Frederick C. Blanchard.
William McGrane.
Cornelius Duffy.
Augustus Bowley.
Patrick McGrane.
Frank Langren.
Christopher Corcoran.
Andrew P. Olson.
Hugh McIntire.
Swan P. Colberg.
Willard F. Packard.
Robert Owen.
Josiah Edson.
Albert Thompson.
George F. Parker.
Leroy S. Hamilton.
Thomas Farrell.
Michael Reardon.
James Kenyon.
Hiram A. Freeman. James Corcoran.
Thomas Kelly.
This regiment was recruited at Camp Meigs, Readville, the nucleus of which was the Second Regiment, afterwards changed to the Forty- second. It was ordered to General Banks's department, in the Gulf, and was on duty at New Orleans, Galveston, and Carrollton, La.
List of men in Company K, Forty-third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under Col. Charles L. Holbrook, mustered September 16, 1862, for nine months' service :
J. Emory Rounds, capt. John S. Perry.
Cyrus F. Copeland. Martin V. B. Dunham.
Aaron S. Harlow. Daniel B. Lovell.
George H. Fullerton.
Sherman T. Merea.
Charles Tillson.
This regiment was recruited through the influence of the Second Bat- talion, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, First Brigade, First Division, otherwise known as the "Tiger Regiment ; " was in camp at Readville ; left camp, and embarked on board transport, October 24, 1862, and
I See Col. Richmond's " Report " for further items concerning their service.
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sailed for Newberne, N. C., where it was in service in General Foster's division.
In the Forty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Francis L. Lee, nine months' service :
Co. D, Capt. Henry D. Sullivan, Howard Davis.
This regiment, otherwise known as the " New England Guard Regi- ment," encamped at Meigs, Readville, embarked on steamer Merrimac, for Newberne, N. C., October 22, 1862.
List of men in the Forty-fifth Regiment of Volunteers, for nine month's service, under Col. Charles R. Codman, Company G, Capt. Joseph Murdock :
George E. Allen. Richard Field.
Marcus H. Reynolds.
William S. Brett.
Robert S. Maguire.
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