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Of Mr. Sparhawk, gun and bayonet,
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" Cambridge, Feb. 2, 1776. We the subscribers received of the Selectmen one gun each, valued at the price set against our names subscribed ; which gun we respectively promise to return or allow the price set against each name. Samuel Champney, £1.7. 0; William Fuller, £1. 4. 0; Abijah Brown, £1.0.0; Jonathan Deland, £0. 18. 0; March 4: John Lock, £2. 14. 0." December 16, 1776, " Voted, to desire the Selectmen of Water- town to find a Drum and deliver the same to Mr. Eayers, our drummer, for Capt. Blaney's Company now going to New York ; and in case there should happen any damage to said Drum, we will be at charges with them to make it good." August 4, 1777, "N. B. There being £6. 8. 0 money left of powder, voted to deliver the same to Capt. Locke, Deacon Hill, and Mr. Jack- son, to procure balls and flints. Memorandum : The powder last bought by Deacon Hill and Mr. Wyeth (at Watertown) came to £37. 10. 0." July 26, 1780. Voted to "meet at 5 o'clock next Friday to procure the horses." July 28, " Mr. Brown offers his bay horse for £1,000; the sorrel horse, £900; Capt. Jesse Putnam for his, £900; Mr. Locke, for money down, £1,000; Mr. Lemuel Blanchard, for a large one, £1,200, or £2,400 for two, that and another ; Thad. Wyman, £1,000 ; another horse of Locke's £1,000." The sad state of the currency appears also from sundry votes of the town : June 20, 1780, to assess £15,000 for the purpose of hiring soldiers ; June 22, the same sum, and June 29, £50,000, for the same purpose ; Dec. 18, 1780, to assess £60,000 for the purchase of 35,255 lbs. of beef for the
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use of the army, - being at the rate of very nearly six dollars per pound.
On the 17th of October, 1777, Gen. Burgoyne surrendered his army as prisoners of war. They were ordered to Cambridge, where they arrived in the following month, and were placed under the charge of Gen. Heath, the commander of this military district. " As soon as he was notified that these troops were coming under his direction, he set himself in earnest to prepare for their reception. The barracks at Prospect and Winter Hills were directed to be put instantly in order. The Council was applied to, to aid in the procurement of quarters from the citizens for the officers ; nor was this an easy task. The families of the citizens generally wanting the room in their respective houses rendered it difficult to obtain so many quarters as were necessary for so great a number, and extended the limits of the parole very considerably."1 Gen. Burgoyne had quarters as- signed to him in the Borland House, Gen. Riedesel in the Lech- mere (or Sewall) House, and others elsewhere. The soldiers occupied barracks on Prospect and Winter Hills.
" Between 11 and 12 o'clock " on the 5th of April, 1778, " General Burgoyne left Cambridge for Rhode Island ; " and on the 15th " a division of the Convention troops marched for Rut- land, under cscort of a detachment of militia, commanded by Major Read."2 The remainder of "the Convention troops marched for Virginia," on the 10th and 11th of November, 1778,3 after having been prisoners of war somewhat more than a year. During their continuance in and around Cambridge, vexatious collisions werc of frequent occurrence ; and two, of a more serious character, produced painful excitement. In January, 1778, " Col. Henley, who had the immediate command at Cambridge," being treated insolently by a British soldier, "pricked him with a sword or bayonet. Gen. Burgoyne immediately presented a complaint against Col. Henley, charging him with barbarous and wanton conduct and intentional murder." 4 A spicy correspondence ensued between Generals Burgoyne and Heath. The case was duly examined by a court martial, and Col. Henley was acquit- ted.5 June 17, 1778. " A British officer was shot by an Amer- ican sentinel on Prospect Hill, the officer attempting to pass con- trary to the standing orders." A jury of inquest, consisting of
1 Heath's Memoirs, p. 134.
2 Ibid., pp. 161, 162.
8 Ibid., p. 198.
4 Ibid., pp. 149, 150.
6 Ibid., p. 155.
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" William Howe, Benjamin Locke, John Brown, Ebenezer Sted- man, Samuel Manning, Nathaniel Austin, Joseph Read, jr., James Hill, Thomas Barrett, Benjamin Baker, Aaron Hill, Isaac Bradish, James Munroe, Joseph Johnson, good and lawful men of Cambridge," rendered their verdict on the 18th of June, " that the said Richard Brown was shot with a fire arm by the centinel in Charlestown, near Prospect Hill, between the hours of five and six, P. M., on the 17th day of June, A. D. 1778, in attempting to pass the centinel with two women, after being properly challenged by said centinel, and so came to death." 1
By the official census, it appears that the population of Cam- bridge was 1,586 in 1776, and 2,115 in 1790; a very large pro- portion of which number served in the Revolutionary Army. My list is doubtless imperfect ; yet it contains more than four hundred and fifty names. Among the officers were Colonels Ebenezer Bridge, Thomas Gardner, Samuel Thatcher ; Captains, Benjamin Locke, John Walton ; Lieutenants, Solomon Bowman, Samuel Butterfield, William Colson, Stephen Frost, Samuel Locke, Josiah Moore, Josiah Warren, Jotham Walton, John Wy- man ; Sergeants, Joseph Bates, Joseplı Belknap, Nathaniel Be- mis, Oliver Brown, John Burns, John Cutter, Josiah Dana, James Fillebrown, Thomas Fillebrown, Belcher Hancock, Wil- liam Harrington, Moses Hovey, James Kettle, Isaac Learned, Joseph Trask, Isaac Tufts, Elkanah Welch, Jeduthun Welling- ton ; Corporals, Michael Applebee, Ebenezer Brown, Stephen Cook, Moses Coolidge, John Cooper, Thomas Cutter, James Fowle, Joshua Gamage, John Hackleton, Nathaniel Learned, James Locke, James Perry, Solomon Phipps, Seth Stone, Jolın Tidd, James Tufts, John Warland, Thomas Warland. Abraham Watson, Jr., was Surgeon of Col. Gardner's Regiment, and James Winthrop was aid-de-camp to Gen. Prescott. Besides the pri- vate soldiers whose names appear on the before mentioned rolls of the two companies commanded by Capt. Samuel Thatcher and Capt. Benjamin Locke, those who are named in the list below appear to have been a portion of the Cambridge quota : -
John Abbott.
Nathaniel Austin. Benjamin Badger.
George Barrington.
Daniel Adams.
William Barber.
Thomas Beals.
John Adams. Thomas Adams.
Caleb Barrett.
Thomas Bemford.
Daniel Barrett.
Luke Bemis.
George Allen.
John Barrett.
Francis Bennett.
1 Heath's Memoirs, p. 175.
Jonathan Barrett.
John Acres.
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William Crosby.
Neptune Frost.
Ishmael Cutler.
Seth Frost.
Prince Cutler.
Charles Frothingham.
Amos Bordman.
Ammi Cutter, Jr.
William Frothingham.
Moses Bordman.
James Cutter.
Robert Fulton.
Richard Bordman.
Richard Cutter.
William Fuller.
William Bordman.
Samuel Cutter.
Jesse Gaffield.
Zechariah Bostwick.
William Cutter, Jr.
Samuel Gallison.
Andrew Bradshaw.
Silent Cutting.
Daniel Gamagc.
Christopher Brandon.
Benjamin Dana.
John Gardner.
Robert Bray.
Ezra Dana. John Dana.
Thomas Gardner.
Jonathan Bright.
Joseph Bright.
Richard Dana.
George Geyer. Jonathan C. Godden.
Abijah Brooks.
Henry Darling.
William Grady.
Abijah Brown.
Daniel Doland.
James Brown.
Paul Dexter.
Jolin Grandy. Isaae Greenleaf. William Gridley.
William Brown.
William Dickson.
Alexander Buckingham. Thomas Ditson.
John Bucknam.
Isaac Dix. John Dorin.
Benjamin Hastings.
Stephen Butterfield.
Thomas Dove.
Edward Hastings.
John Capell.
Zacheus Drury.
John Hastings.
Daniel Carmichael.
Daniel Duncan.
Richard Hay.
Thaddeus Carter.
David Edmands.
John Heywood.
John Cassell.
John Edmands.
Samucl Heywood ..
Isaac Champney.
Thomas Edmands. Andrew Ellis.
Samuel Hill.
Samuel Champney.
Richard Everett.
Thomas Hill.
Thomas Champney.
Thomas Farrington.
John Holbrook.
Joseph Child.
Absalom Farwell.
Joseph Holden. Reuben Hooker.
Norman Clark.
Josiah Fessenden.
James Connor.
Samuel Fillebrown.
Benjamin Cook.
Aaron Fisher.
Caleb Cook.
Ephraim Flagg.
Josiah Hovey.
Joshua Cook.
Benjamin B. Foster. Bennett Foster. James Fowle.
Thomas Hovey. . Samuel Howard. Simon Howard. Abraham Hurley.
Joseph Coolidge. Joshua Coolidge.
John Fowle, Jr. Samuel Fowle.
William Hurley. Peter Jackson.
Nathaniel Coolidge.
John Francis.
Job Jennens.
Simon Coolidge. Thomas Coolidge.
Cato Freeman. Abraham Frost.
Edmund Frost.
Richard Crease.
Ephraim Frost.
James Frost.
Jonas Jolinson.
Lawrence Johnson.
James Frost, Jr.
Phinehas Jennison. Abel Johnson. Abijah Johnson. Jesse Johnson.
Jazaniah Crosby. John Crosby.
David Farwell.
Thomas Hoppin. Edward Horton. Josiah Horton. Caleb Hovey.
Ephraim Cook. James Cook.
Benjamin Floyd. John Forman.
Thomas Cook.
Caleb Coolidge.
John Hill.
Nathaniel Champney.
James Dickson.
John Hagar. Richard Hales.
Jonathan Brown.
Edward Harrington.
John Bull.
Moses Child.
Joseph Biglow. Nathan Blodgett. Henry Bond.
Thomas Cooper.
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Philip Johnson.
Peter Quinn.
Ebenezer Tufts. John Tufts.
Wieom Johnson. James Jones.
Abraham Rand.
Jonathan Tufts.
John Kidder.
Moses Rand.
Nathan Tufts.
Henry King.
Thomas Ransford.
Nathaniel Tufts.
Peter Landman.
Jonathan Read.
Samuel Tufts.
Joseph Larkin.
Joseph Read.
George Turner. Wait Turner.
Jonathan Lawrence.
Staey Read.
James Learned.
John Riee.
Elijah Tuttle.
William Learned.
Elias Richardson.
Joseph Tuttle.
Jaek Leavenworth.
Moses Richardson.
John Vertys.
Robert Leonard.
George Richey.
John Vila.
Job Littlefield.
John Ridgway.
Thomas Wait.
Jonathan Locke.
Ebenezer Robbins.
Edward Walker.
Thomas Long.
Ephraim Robbins.
Israel Walton.
Richard Loring.
Jonathan Robbins.
William Warland.
Thomas Mason.
Gain Robinson.
Daniel Watson.
Edmund Masters.
Silas Robinson.
Isaae Watson.
Robert MeCleary.
York Ruggles.
William Watson.
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Arthur MeCord.
John Runey.
Ezra Weleh.
Daniel MeGuire.
Joseph Russell.
John Weleh.
Daniel MeNamara (de- serted).
Samuel Russell.
Henry Weld.
John Mead.
Jacob Sanderson.
Job Wetherell.
Thomas Melendy.
William Sanger. John Savage.
Andrew White.
Samuel Mills.
Richard Seaver.
James White.
Pierce Moran.
Joseph Shaw. John Sherrin.
Andrew Whitney.
Ephraim Mullett.
Ebenezer Simonds.
Nathaniel R. Whitney.
John Myriek.
James Simson.
Oliver Whitney.
Alexander Nelson.
John Smith.
Timothy Whitney.
John Palmer.
Blake Sparhawk.
Franeis Whittemore.
John Pareells.
Noah Sparhawk.
Nathan Whittemore.
Thomas Park.
Convers Spring.
Samuel Whittemore, Jr.
Jackson Parker.
Jonathan Stanley.
Thomas Whittemore.
Thomas Parrott.
Joseph Stanley.
James Williams. Nathaniel Williams.
William Penniman.
Jotham Staple. John Stearns.
Timothy Willison.
Jesse Perry.
Robert Steward.
Elijah Phipps.
Samuel Stimson.
George Wilson. Josiah Wilson. Thomas Wilson.
Samuel Phipps. John Pieree.
David Stone.
Joseph Pieree.
John Stone.
Samuel Pierce.
Aaron Swan.
Job Potamea.
Edward Prentice.
George Swan. Stephen Symines. Amos Taylor.
Charles Wyman.
Henry Prentice, Jr.
John Tidd. Joseph Trask.
Phipps Wyman. James Yates.
Jonas Prentiee.
Solomon Prentiee.
Stephen Tueker.
John Whiting.
William Morse.
Patten Russell.
Elijah Weld.
Thomas Wheeler.
Joseph Mills.
Thomas Perkins.
Amos Stone.
William Wilton. Henry Winship. Isaac Winship. John Winship. Coolidge Wood.
Henry Prentice.
Henry Ramor.
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The war against Great Britain, which was proclaimed on the 19th of June, 1812, was unpopular in Cambridge, as in New Eng- land generally. The muster rolls are not within my reach ; and I am unable to furnish a full list of volunteers who may have en- tered the army. A certificate remains on file, however, that the Cambridge Light Infantry were in camp at South Boston fifty- one days, commencing Sept. 10, 1814. The company consisted of Captain Samuel Child, Jr .; Lieutenant Jonathan C. Prentiss ; Ensign Eliab W. Metcalf; Sergeants, John Ruggles, William Hunnewell, Oliver L. Child, Rufus Roberts ; Corporals, Jacob H. Bates, Asa Wyman ; Fifer, Nathaniel Munroe ; Privates, William Bates, Elijah Bellows, David Bowtell, John Brackett, William Brown, James Child, Nathaniel Colburn, Charles Ev- erett, John Fillebrown, Timothy Flagg, Abraham J. Gould, Henry Greenwood, Sewall Hadley, Isaac Herrick, William Hol- lis, Isaac Kilburn, Richard Larrabee, Cyrus Morse, Harris Mun- roe, Seth Sanderson, Buckley Stone, Moses Thompson, Charles Walton, Galen Ware, Jonas Wyeth 3d. Besides these, William Burges, James Gilson, John Wheeler 2d, Samuel S. Willard, and Stephen Wyeth, were drafted into the service in August, 1814, and Samuel Carpenter, Peter G. Conant, William C. Davis, Thomas Dean, Jr., Edmund Morrill, Seth Tinkham, and John Wyman, served as substitutes for other drafted men.
To Cambridge rightfully belongs the honor of organizing the first company of militia in the United States, which was enlisted expressly for the defence of the government in the War of the Rebellion, 1861. Soon after the Presidential election in 1860, many who carefully watched the signs of the times were confi- dent that the Southern States would soon be in open rebellion, and that the national government could only be preserved by force of arms. Among those who foresaw the peril and did not shrink from it was James P. Richardson, Esq.,1 an attorney at law in Cambridgeport. In anticipation of the impending strug- gle, he issued the following notice: -
"The undersigned proposes to organize a company of volun- teers, to tender their services to our common country, and to do what they can to maintain the integrity and glory of our flag and Union. Any citizen of good moral character and sound in body, who wishes to join the corps, will please call at my office, Main Street, Cambridgeport. J. P. RICHARDSON." 2
1 Great-grandson of Moses Richardson, who was slain on the day of the Lexing- ton Battle, April 19, 1775.
2 Cambridge Chronicle, Jan. 5, 1861.
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On the 13th of April, 1861, it was announced that sixty per- sons had enlisted, and that the company had been accepted by the Governor. Two days afterwards, April 15th, the President of the United States issued a proclamation, calling for 75,000 volunteers, to serve three months, in defence of the Union. On the 16th, the Governor issued his orders ; and this company responded on the morning of the 17th, having in its ranks, when it arrived at the State House, ninety-five members, some having joined it on its march. It seems highly proper to preserve the names of those patriotic men, who, first of all, voluntarily offered their services to the country :-
CAPTAIN. Thomas Costello.
James P. Richardson.
1ST LIEUT.
Robert D. Crabbie. Jere C. Cronin, Jr.
Timothy McCarty.
Thomas McDonald.
Samuel E. Chamberlain. Hugh Cunningham. 2D LIEUT.
Charles R. Dakin.
Eugene H. McQuillen. Michael MeQuillen.
Edwin F. Richardson. SERGEANTS.
Louis 1 P. Davis, Jr. Lowell Ellison. Edwin E. Fairbanks.
Horatio C. Moorc.
Francis M. Doble.
Thos. W. Frederickson.
George T. Nieliols.
George W. Smitlı.
Jolın C. Gaffney.
Thomas A. B. Norris, Jr.
Daniel F. Brown.
Abner A. Griffing.
William R. Russell.
John E. Howe. MUSICIAN.
Samuel L. Harty.
James Sheedy. Charles S. Slate.
John Charles Copp. PRIVATES. Leonard Arkcrson.
George W. Hastings. Levi Hawkes.
Samuel F. Slocomb.
Edwin Barry.
Frederick A. Hill.
Henry A. Smith. John Smith. Charles E. Stevens.
Andrew J. Bate.
Simon D. Hitchcock.
Warren F. Stone.
Joseph H. Baxter. Albert C. Berry. Isaae H. Blake.
Patriek Howard.
Michael Sullivan.
Robert F. Bourne.
William Kavanaugh.
Timothy Sullivan. William Tibbetts.
Charles B. Brown.
Frank E. Kelly.
Charles H. Titus.
Solomon M. Busnach. Joseph P. Cartwright. James Cate.
Paul Kennedy. John W. King. George W. Lamson.
Edwin H. Trulan. John Vosc. George W. Waters.
Edwin F. Chandler.
Sanıucl H. Libbey.
George W. Wheelock.
Frederick Chandler.
Samuel C. Lucy.
Henry White.
William Chandler.
Thomas H. Lucy.
John A. White.
William H. Clark.
Thomas Martin.
Andrew Wilson.
William A. Colby.
Richard T. Marvin.
1 Or, Llewelyn.
James W. Penniman.
Conrad D. Kinnear. CORPORALS.
Thomas Gamble. Joseplı Gay. John Green.
Calvin D. Peirce. Thomas Preston.
Augustus A. Thurston.
William W. Richards.
Benjamin F. Dexter.
James W. Haley.
William Shannon.
Willian A. Hayward.
Alfred F. Holt.
Charles M. Howlett.
Daniel R. Melcher.
John Kinnear.
Robert J. Gamble.
Alfred J. Mason. Joseph Mayer.
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Ninety-seven in all ; but Calvin D. Peirce and Edwin H. Tru- lan were not mustered in until the 6th of May, after the company arrived at Fortress Monroe.
At the expiration of its term of service, this company returned, and received an ovation from their fellow citizens July 23, 1861, at the City Hall. Nearly all its members reenlisted, and ren- dered further service to the country ; and many laid down their lives in its defence.1 Of its three commissioned officers, Capt. James P. Richardson received a commission as Captain in the 38th Regiment, Aug. 12, 1862 ; was promoted to the office of Major, Dec. 4, 1862, and to that of Lieut .- colonel, July 16, 1863; from which time he had the command of the regiment, as the Colonel was absent on leave from April, 1863, until the end of the war. Col. Richardson was severely wounded at the battle of Opequan, Sept. 19, 1864, but continued in service until the end of the war, after which he served in the regular army in a sub- ordinate office, and was for a considerable time Judge Advocate. He was afterwards appointed Judge of a court in Texas. Lieut. Samuel E. Chamberlain was commissioned Captain of a company in the First Regiment of Cavalry, Nov. 25, 1861; Major, Oct. 30, 1862 ; Lieut .- colonel, March 5, 1864; Colonel of the Fifth Regi- ment of Cavalry, July 26, 1865; and was discharged, Oct. 31, 1865, after the war ended, with the brevet rank of Brigadier- general. He was very dangerously wounded at Kelly's Ford, March 17, 1863. A bullet entered his left cheek-bone, and was long afterwards taken out from his spine between the shoulder- blades. He soon returned, however, to his post, and remained in active service more than six months after the surrender of Gen. Lee's Army. He afterwards served the Commonwealth as Deputy Quartermaster-general, from Ang. 24, 1866, to Jan. 25, 1872 ; and he is now Warden of the State Prison, to which office lie was appointed in December, 1871. Lieut. Edwin F. Richard- son received a commission as First Lieutenant of a company in the 22d Regiment, Oct. 1, 1861, which he resigned June 10, 1862. He soon afterwards enlisted as a private, became a Ser- geant, was mortally wounded in battle, May 18, 1864, and died on the 26th of the same month. He nobly redeemed his pledge at the ovation on the 23d of July, 1861, when he is reported to have said, " he was determined to go back to the seat of war,"
1 As nearly as can be ascertained, the ceived commissions, and twenty-one were whole number reënlisted, with only two
killed in battle, or died of wounds and exceptions ; twenty-seven of them re- disease contracted in the service.
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and "to fight till the war was over; and if need be he would leave his bones to bleach on southern soil."1 He sacrificed his life, but his remains, transported by friendly hands, were honor- ably deposited in the Soldiers' Lot in the Cambridge Cemetery.
Cambridge furnished about two hundred commissioned officers, during the War of the Rebellion. The following list is doubtless imperfect ; yet it is the result of an examination of the Adjutant- general's Reports, supplemented by personal inquiry, and an in- spection of the names on the Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge.
BRIGADIER-GENERALS. Thomas O. Barri.
William Plumer.
Henry L. Eustis.
Joseph H. Baxter.
Josiah Porter.
Charles Russell Lowell.
James B. Bell.
Thomas R. Robeson.
BREVET BRIGADIER-
George N. Bennett.
J. Emery Round.
GENERALS.
Robert T. Bourne.
Taylor P. Rundlett.
Samuel E. Chamberlain.
John T. Burgess. Richard Cary.
John S. Sawyer. George A. Selimitt.
Charles F. Walcott. COLONELS.
Charles H. Chapman.
J. Lewis Stackpole.
P. Stearns Davis.
Joseph H. Clark.
Norwood P. Hallowell.
J. Warren Cotton.
George H. Taylor. Levi P. Thompson.
Albert Ordway.
Lewis S. Dabney. Alexander J. Dallas.
Charles C. Wehrun.
BREVET COLONEL.
George H. Dana. James T. Davis.
Henry C. Wells. Thomas R. Wells.
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Horaee Dexter.
Edward E. White.
William W. Bullock.
Edward G. Dyke.
William H. Whitney.
Jeremiah W. Coveney.
Charles W. Folsom.
John B. Whorf.
J. Durell Green. William H. Lounsbury. George A. Meacham.
Arthur Hodges.
Andrew Wilson.
David P. Muzzey.
George F. Holman.
John T. Wilson.
James P. Richardson.
Henry A. Homer.
J. Henry Wyman. BREVET CAPTAIN.
Samuel W. Richardson. Albert Stickney. MAJORS.
Samuel D. Hovey.
William G. Howe. Alpheus Hyatt. William H. Jewell.
Anson P. Hooker.
Charles C. Parsons.
Edward B. P. Kinsley.
Alfred A. Stocker.
Henry L. Patten.
Leodegar M. Lipp.
John T. Richards.
Roger S. Littlefield.
Atherton H. Stevens, Jr.2 Frederiek A. Lull.
BREVET MAJOR.
John W. McGregor.
Henry O. Marcy. FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
Charles J. Mills.
Samuel Mckeever.
John S. Allanson.
CAPTAINS.
Robert R. Newell.
Thomas H. Annable.
William J. O'Brien.
William B. Allyn. John Bigelow.
1 Cambridge Chronicle, July 27, 1861.
2 To Major Stevens was allotted the privilege of conferring special honor on Cambridge. On the morning of April 3, 1865, he received from the Mayor of
Richmond a formal surrender of the city, led his squadron within the walls, and displayed the Stars and Stripes upon the State House.
Benjamin Vaughn. SURGEONS. Alfred F. Holt.
Ezra P. Gould.
C. Frederick Livermore.
Henry P. Hoppin.
John Wilder.
Joseph A. Hildreth.
George O. Tyler.
Edmund Rice.
James B. Smith.
William H. Gertz.
John C. Willey.
A. Carter Webber. ASSISTANT SURGEON.
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George W. Booth.
Lebbeus H. Mitchell.
Amos W. Bridges.
William S. Buck.
William Mullett.
Joseph P. Burrage.
Isaae H. Bullard.
James Munroe.
Edward F. Campbell.
John H. Butler.
Isaac H. Pinkham.
Howard Carroll.
A. L. Chamberlain.
John H. Rafferty.
William M. Cloney.
Daniel H. Chamberlain.
W. Carey Rice.
George Cole.
Frederick Chandler.
Darius P. Richards.
Daniel G. E. Dickinson.
William H. Clark.
Edwin F. Richardson.
Lowell Ellison.
Theodore Collamore.
Ezra Ripley.
George A. Fisher.
Marcus M. Collis.
William A. Robinson.
Thomas J. Fletcher.
John H. Conant.
Nathan Russell, Jr.
Nathan G. Gooch.
George H. Copeland.
Frank N. Scott.
James B. Hancock.
Calvin A. Damon.
Jared Shepard.
Stephen S. Harris.
Henry C. Dana.
George B. Smith.
Harrison Hinkley.
Charles M. Duren.
George W. Smith.
Henry C. Hobbs.
Gerald Fitzgerald.
Charles B. Stevens.
Andrew J. Holbrook.
Charles F. Foster.
Frank E. Stimson.
George M. Joy.
John C. Gaffney.
William B. Storer.
Henry B. Leighton.
Thomas L. Harmon.
Humphrey Sullivan. Robert Torrey, Jr.
Edmund Miles.
Charles V. Holt.
Emory Washburn, Jr.
Daniel S. Parker.
George H. Howard.
Charles P. Weleh.
William L. Putnam.
Eli P. Kinsley.
Austin C. Wellington.
Hiram Rowe.
Thomas J. Langley.
William L. Whitney, Jr. George P. Small. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. William H. B. Smith.
James R. Lawrence.
Edward M. Livermore.
Leonard C. Alden.
William A. Tarbell.
Charles A. Longfellow.
Pardon Almy, Jr.
William H. Tibbetts.
James J. Lowell.
Rudolph N. Anderson.
Payson E. Tueker.
Alphonso M. Lunt.
John V. Apthorp.
Oliver H. Webber.
Timothy McCarty.
Charles P. Blaisdell.
Nathaniel S. Wentworth.
William McDermott.
George L. Bradbury.
To these should be added three officers in the Navy, whose names are inscribed on the Soldiers' Monument : Assistant Surgeons William Longshaw, Jr., Henry Sylvanus Plympton ; Assistant Engineer, John M. Whittemore. And it would be un- pardonable to omit the name of Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, who rendered active and efficient service during the War.
On the 17th of June, 1869, the Mayor and City Council laid the corner-stone of a monument,1 which was dedicated, with fit- ting ceremonies, July 13, 1870. It stands upon the Common in front of the College, and bears this inscription : " THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF CAMBRIDGE, WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE IN-
1 The committee charged with the eree- tion of this monument give due credit 10 the persons engaged in its construction : " Designers of the Monument and Artists of the Statue, Cyrus and Darius Cobb, of Cambridge; Arehitcet, Thomas W.
Silloway, A. M., of Boston ; Contraetors for the Stone and Masonry, MeDonald & Mann, of Cambridge; Manufacturers of the Tablets, The Metallie Compression Company, of Somerville."
John Me Clintock.
John C. Heymer.
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HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE.
SCRIBED, DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY, IN THE WAR FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION. TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THEIR VALOR AND PATRIOTISM, THIS MONU- MENT IS ERECTED BY THE CITY, A. D. 1869-70." The names are inscribed on eight tablets, two upon each buttress. It is surely no more than just that they should also be inscribed here :
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