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Charles L. Sproul, 25, 3d sergt., North Bridgewater, stitcher, married.
Francis P. Holmes, 31, 4th sergt., North Bridgewater, awl- forger, married.
James B. Sampson, 24, 5th sergt., North Bridgewater, mer- chant, single.
James S. Tennet. 30, corp., North Bridgewater, wood-turner, married.
Criah Macoy, 35, corp., North Bridgewater, trader.
Roswell C. Amsden, 33, corp., North Bridgewater, boot-cutter, married.
Galen Edson, 33, corp., North Bridgewater, cabinet-maker, married.
Charles H. Reinhart, 39, corp., North Bridgewater, carpenter, married.
Frederick C. Packard, IS, corp., North Bridgewater, melodeon manufacturer, single.
Walter D. Packard, 20, corp., North Bridgewater, clerk, single. Edwin T. Cowell, 19, corp., North Bridgewater, baggage- master, single.
James Sullivan, 12, musician, Boston, single.
Joseph Lynch, 22, wagoner, East Stoughton, teamster, single. James A. Allen, 23, private, North Bridgewater, machinist, single.
Luther E. Alden, 30, private, North Bridgewater, boot-cutter, married.
James F. Andrews, 35, private, North Bridgewater, cabinet- maker, married.
Leander B. Andrews, 30, private, North Bridgewater, painter, married.
Lawrence Bnrke, 19, private, North Bridgewater, cooper, single. John Barry, 19, private, North Andover, machinist, single.
Isaac W. Blanchard, 25, private, North Bridgewater, butcher, married.
Henry Burns, 28, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Eli Bunker, 20, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single. Henry L. Bunker, IS, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
William H. Benney, 22, private, North Bridgewater, boot- maker, single.
John L. Colter, 2I, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Henry R. Coots, 40, private, Chelsea, shoemaker, married.
George W. Childs, 21, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
John Creighton, 21, private, Boston, lahorer, single.
Malcolm D. Halberg, 30, private, North Bridgewater, shoe- maker, single.
Thomas Doyle, 30, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Albert S. Dean, 27, private, North Bridgewater, machinist, married.
Aaron B. Dodge, 22, private, North Bridgewater, bootmaker, single.
Joseph P. Davis, 23, private, East Randolph, shoemaker, married.
Sargent Daniela, 37, private, North Bridgewater, butcher. Seth Edson, 33, private, North Bridgewater, carpenter, married. Aaron B. Frost, 23, private, Lowell, shoemaker, single.
Joseph W. Freeman, 22, private, North Bridgewater, needle- maker, single.
Henry W. Freeman, 33, private, North Bridgewater, shoe- maker, married.
Robert F. Fuller, 29, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, married.
John E. Ford, 25, private, Boston, barber, single.
Andrew J. Frost, 31, private, North Bridgewater, bootmaker, single.
John C. Greeley, 33, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, married.
Warren A. Holmes, 20, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Linus P. Howard, 24, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, single.
Rufus F. Hull, 23, private, Georgetown, manufacturer, married. Albert P. Hovey, 32, private, Boxford, wheelwright, married.
Nathaniel H. Hall, 30, private, North Bridgewater, stitcher, married.
Christopher T. Harris, 21, private, Plymouth, tin-worker, single. Volney Howard, 21, private, Randolph, bootmaker, single.
Clarence E. Hartwell, 25, private, North Bridgewater, boot- maker, married.
John S. Hamilton, 25, private, North Bridgewater, bootmaker, single.
John Hallihan, 24, private, Lowell, shoemaker, married.
Charles Howard, 20, private, North Bridgewater, farmer, single.
William W. Hayden, 17, private, South Bridgewater, clerk, single.
Andrew Jackson, 22, private, West Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, single.
Laban Jackson, 20, private, North Bridgewater, farmer, single. Thaddeus Keith, 28, private, North Bridgewater, farmer, single.
Dexter D. Keith, 29, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, married.
Benjamin J. Keith, 19, private, South Bridgewater, blacksmith, single.
Martin M. Keith, 22, private, South Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Carl A. Linstead, 27, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, married.
Timothy Leary, 18, private, West Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
F. A. Manchester, 33, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, married.
Francis N. Maroni, 20, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Henry E. Morley, 22, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
William W. Newson, 28, private, Boston, mechanic, single. Arthur J. F. O'Keefe, 18, private, Boston, printer, single. Isaac S. Porter, 19, private, Stoughton, farmer, single.
James A. Packard, 25, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, married.
Samuel N. Packard, 37, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, married.
Anthony P. Phillips, 19, private, North Bridgewater, shoe- maker, single.
Herbert A. Phillips, 24, private, North Bridgewater, bootmaker, single.
George A. Perkins, 23, private, North Bridgewater, bootmaker, single.
Gilman B. Parker, 21, private, West Boxford, shoemaker, single.
Henry C. Richardson, 18, private, West Boxford, mechanic, single.
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William H. Rugg, 21, privato, Boxford, shoemaker, single. William F. Robinson, 27, private, North Bridgewater, farmer, married.
Osgood Ring, 40, private, North Bridgewater, boot-trees, single. Charles Reed, 20, privato, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Henry Rogers, 27, private, South Bridgewater, shoemaker, singlo.
Frederick S. Symonds, 33, private, North Bridgewater, awl- forger, single.
Frank M. Stoddard, 19, private, East Stoughton, shoe-cutter, single.
Francis A. Sanford, 21, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
George G. Smith, 22, private, Easton, shoemaker, single.
Luther T. Snell, 18, private, North Bridgewater, machinist, single.
Harrison Stevens, 18, private, Boston, clerk, single.
George F. Tinkham, 24, private, North Bridgewater, shoe- maker, single. f
Ephraim Tinkham, 28, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, single.
Nathan M. Tripp, 25, private, North Bridgewater, carpenter, married.
Ira Temple, 23, private, Boston, teamster, single.
Joseph J. Vincent, 21, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-cutter, single.
George B. Walker, 22, private, Weymouth, hootmaker, single. George F. Whitcomb, 19, private, Randolph, lastmaker, single. Thomas W. Wall, 21, private, East Stoughton, shoemaker, single.
Lewis B. Wade, 19, private, Northwest Bridgewater, hootmaker, single.
Herhert O. Morse, 21, private, Boxford, shoemaker, single.
Webster Howard, 24, private, North Bridgewater, shoemaker, married.
Jerome R. Hodge, 27, private, Canton, Me., shoemaker, mar- ried.
Franklin M. Godfrey, 23, private, Easton, carpenter, single. Richard Packard, 20, private, North Bridgewater, shoe-striper, single.
Samuel E. Chandler, 24, private, Charlestown, clerk, single. Freeman Ranney, 44, private, Boston, merchant, married.
John Howard, private, East Bridgewater, school-teacher, single. William Woods, 21, private, Boston, medical student, single.
The Twelfth Regiment, of which Company F, of North Bridgewater, formed a part, was organized at Fort Warren by Col. Fletcher Webster (son of the late lamented and illustrious Hon. Daniel Webster, of Marshfield, Mass.), " a brave and generous gentle- man," who fell in the battle of Bull Run Aug. 30, 1862. The regiment, when mustered into service on the 26th day of June, 1861, numbered one thousand and forty men. Company F was recruited at North Bridgewater, and left that town April 29, 1861, at nine o'clock A.M. The event of leaving the town was the occasion of a grand demonstration by the people of the town, thousands of whom had turned out to bid them farewell. The company assembled in their armory, which they left under the escort of the North Bridgewater Light Dragoons, Capt. Lucius
Richmond, with the engine companies Nos. 2, 3, 5, and 6, and a large body of citizens, marching to the music of the North Bridgewater brass band, through the village to the railroad depot. The gathering was very numerous, probably never exceeded upon any occasion in that town. A sober feeling pervaded the concourse in view of the peril to be encountered by our townsmen, and sympathy for those who were part- ing with husbands, brothers, and sons, and perhaps forever. A large company of citizens with the band accompanied the soldiers in the train to Boston, and when arriving in Boston, marched in procession to Faneuil Hall, and from thence to their temporary quarters, at 71 Clinton Street. The company num- bered eighty, rank and file, when they left the town for Boston, to which there were large additions made soon after.
MARTLAND'S BAND .- Roll of North Bridgewater brass band attached to the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment of volunteers :
Band-Master.
William J. Martland.
Musicians.
Amasa S. Glover.
Fernando De Argome.
Thaddeus M. Packard. Minot Thayer.
George E. Sturtevant.
Samuel C. Perkins.
- Richard B. Atkinson. William Duhois.
Isaac C. Dunham.
George A. Bates.
John B. Emmes. James S. Bean.
Robert S. White. Louis A. Beaumont.
Lucius H. Packard. Charles M. Capin.
Henry C. Packard. Nathaniel Carver.
Joseph Kennedy.
John Calnan.
This band was mustered out of the service May 8, 1862.
DEATHS, CASUALTIES, ETC .- An account of cas- ualties, deaths, desertions, promotions, and changes in Company F, Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment :
Alexander Hichhorn, capt., com. June 26, 1861; disch. May 13, 1862.
Alpheus K. Harmon, Ist lieut. June 26, 1861; capt. May 10, 1862; wounded at the battle of Bull Run ; disch. July S, 1864, at the expiration of three years' service ; pro. acting provost-marshal of the Ninth Massachusetts District June, 1864.
Hiram W. Copeland, 2d licut., com. June 26, 1861 ; disch. Jan, 8, 1862.
John S. Stoddard, enlisted in Co. F, of tho 12th Regt. of Mas- sachusetts Volunteers as a private, and immediately upon the organization of the company was appointed ordorly sergeant; afterwards commissioned as second lieutenant May 13, 1862; promotod first lieutenant Dee. 14, 1862. He was in the hattle of Gettysburg, and narrowly escaped heing taken prisoner; hut hy his native shrewdness and strategy he succeeded in getting back to his regiment; immediately after this he received a captain's commission, dated July 23, 1862; ho foll, while leading his men on in the very face of the enemy, pierced by n bullet, killing
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him instantly. May 10. 1864, in the battle of Spottsyl- vania, Va. In all the positions that he was called to fill he proved himself faithful, and an officer of unusual capacity, while his kind and considerate regard for his men, and his ever genial disposition, made him a favorite with all, wherever he was known, and the community in which he lived have reason to deplore the loss of one whose soldierly qualities commanded the respect of his associates. He was buried on the battle-field by his men.
Nathan H. Crosby, Ist sergt .. disch. for disability October, 1862.
Charles L. Sproul, sergt., disch. by order from War Depart- ment Aug. 1, 1863; afterwards attached to the navy on the Mississippi River; com. as Ist lieut. in Co. C, 60th Massachusetts Regt. for one hundred days' service, July 11, 1864 ; capt. July 30.
Francis P. Holmes, sergt., disch. Sept. 1, 1861; afterwards re- enlisted. and was killed.
James B. Sampson, sergt., pro. 2d lieut. Sept. 18, 1862, and assigned to Co. A Jan. 13. 1863: taken prisoner at the hattle of Gettysburg, Pa, and was an inmate of Libby Prison, Richmond, Va .; was a prisoner at Columbia, S. C., where he ran past the guard with two other fellow-captives, and reached the Union lines in safety, after a perilous jonrney of three hundred miles. .
James S. Tannett, corp., afterwards sergt., died July 13, 1862, of typhoid fever, at Manassas.
Uriah Macoy, corp., afterwards Ist sergt., taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg, and was a resident of Belle Isle Prison, Richmond, Va., till March, 1864; com. as capt. of Co. C, 60th Massachusetts Regt., in one hundred days' service, July 11th ; pro. maj. July 30, 1564; must. out of service Nov. 30, 1864.
Roswell C. Amsden, corp., disch. for disability Aug. 18, 1862. Galen Edson, corp., pro. sergt .; died Feb. 20, 1864, at Cul- peper Conrt-House, Va. He was engaged in the battles at Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Antietam, and Gettysburg. He was spoken of by his superior officers as a brave and faithful soldier, always at his post, never shrinking from duty or danger.
Charles H. Reinhardt, corp., disch. for disability May 30, 1862. Frederic C. Packard, corp., trans. to Co. D Nov. 18, 1861, and disch. for disability Oct. 17, 1862.
Walter D. Packard, corp., detached as hospital clerk at Fred- erick, Md., and hon. disch. July 8, 1864.
Edwin T. Cowell, corp., trans. to the United States Signal Corps Jan. 13, 1864.
James Sullivan, musician, disch. for disability Jan. 26, 1864. Joseph H. Lynch, wagoner, must. out of service July 8, 1864. James A. Allen, sergt., pro. to let lieut. Jnly 23, 1863 ; sergt .- maj. Jan. 25, 1863.
Lnther E. Alden, corp., trans. to Invalid Corps March 15, 1862, and afterwards to Vet. Res. Corps ; wounded at the battle of Bull Run.
James F. Andrews, private, must. out at the expiration of ser- vice Jnly 8, 1864 ; wounded at battle of Bull Run ; released from Libby Prison, January, 1884.
Leander B. Andrews, private, must. ont at exp. of service, July 8, 1864.
John Barry, private, slightly wounded at the battle of An- tietam, September, 1862; must. out at the exp. of service, July 8, 1864.
Henry Burns, private, slightly wounded at the battle of An- tietam September, 1862 ; must. out at the exp. of service, July 8, 1864.
Eli Bunker, private, slightly wounded at the battle of Antietamu September, 1862; trans. to the Invalid Corps Jan. 16, 1864. Henry L. Bunker, private, slightly wounded at the battle of
Antietam, September, 1862; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
William H. Bennie, private, disch. on account of wounds re- ceived at Bull Run Feb. 12, 1864.
George W. Childs, corp., killed in action at the battle of Fred- ericksburg, Va., Dec. 18, 1862.
John D. Creighton, private, disch. on account of wounds re- ceived at Bull Run, June 11, 1863.
Malcolm F. Dhalberg, private, severely wounded at the battle of Antietam ; died Dec. 17, 1862.
Thomas Doyle, private, severely wounded at the battle of Bull Run ; discb. on account of wounds Dec. 15, 1862.
Albert S. Dean, private, disch. for disability June 4, 1862. Aaron B. Dodge, private, disch. for disability Jan. 9, 1863. Joseph P. Davis, private, must. out of service July 8, 1864. Sargent Daniels, private, trans. to the U. S. Cav. Oct. 13, 1861. Seth Edson, private, disch. for disability Dec. 19, 1862.
Aaron B. Frost, private, died in battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862. Joseph W. Freeman, private, disch. for disability Dec. 12, 1862. Henry W. Freeman, private, must. out of service July 8, 1864. Robert F. Fuller, private, trans. to the Vet. Res. Corps Jan. 16, 1864.
Andrew J. Frost, private, died at Fairfax Court-House Aug. 28, 1862.
John C. Greeley, private, trans. to brigade headquarters; wounded at the battle of Bull Run; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Warren A. Holmes, private, disch. for disability March 14, 1863. Linus P. Howard, private, killed at the second battle of Bull Run Aug. 30, 1862.
Rufus F. Hull, private, disch. for disability October, 1862.
Albert P. Hovey, private, must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Nathaniel H. Hall, private, trans. to division headquarters ; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Christopher T. Harris, private, disch. for disability Sept. 26, 1862.
Volney Howard, sergt., pro. to brig. com .- sergt. July 12, 1863. Clarence E. Hartwell, private, trans. to the U. S. Cav. Oct. 13, 1861.
John S. Hamilton, private, died of smallpox near Washington, December, 1862.
John Hallihan, private, disch. for disability June 11, 1863. Charles Howard (2d), private, wounded at the battle of Bull Run; disch. for disability on account of wounds Oct. 10, 1862.
William W. Hayden, minor, private, disch. June 28, 1862.
Andrew Jackson, sergt., slightly wounded in the eye at the battle of the Wilderness; must. out of service July 8, 1864. Laban Jackson, private, wounded in the side at the battle of the Wilderness; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Thaddeus Keith, 1st sergt., killed at the battle of the Wilder- ness May 6, 1864. At the time of his death he was at the fore-front of the battle, where he gallantly and bravely re- sisted several onsets of the enemy. His frank and generous nature made him a favorite in the company.
Benjamin J. Keitlı, private, disch. for disability Dec. 28, 1861. Dexter D. Keith, private, disch. for disability Jan. 29, 1863; afterwards re-enlisted ; lost his right hand in the battle of Plymouth, N. C., April, 1864, and taken prisoner.
Martin M. Keith, private, severely wounded at the battle of Bull Run.
Carl A. Lindstedt, private, slightly wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
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Timothy O'Leary, private, trans. te New York Battery ; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Francis A. Manchoster, private, slightly wounded at Antictam. Francis N. Maroni, cerp., killed in action at second battle of Bull Run, Ang. 30, 1862.
Henry E. Morley, private, slightly wounded at the battle of Antietam ; must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Isaac S. Porter, private, trans. te the Vet. Res. Corps July 1, 1863.
James A. Packard, corp., detached for hospital duty ; must. ent of service July 8, 1864.
Samuel N. Packard, private, disch. fer disability July 3, 1863. Anthony P. Phillips, private, disch. March 4, 1863; trans. to the Seventy-third Ohio Regiment.
George A. Perkins, private, killed in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.
Gilman B. Parker, private, slightly wounded at the battle of Bull Run.
Henry C. Richardson, private, trans. to the 39th Mass. Regt. June 25, 1864.
William H. Rugg, cerp., must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Herbert Phillips, private, must. out of service July 8, 1864.
William F. Robinson, private, must. out of service July 8, 1864.
Osgood King, private, trans. to the Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 18, 1863.
Henry Rogers, private, disch. for disability March 4, 1863.
Frederick S. Simends, private, severely wounded at the battle of Bull Run; disch. for disability March 13, 1863.
Frank M. Stoddard, sergt., wounded at the battle of Fred- ericksburg; killed at the battle of Spettsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864.
Francis A. Sanford, private, killed at the second battle of Bull Run Aug. 30, 1862.
George S. Smith, private, trans. to the Vet. Res. Corps Feb. 20, 1864.
Luther T. Snell, private, severely weunded at the battle ef Antietam ; diseh. for disability March 3, 1863.
Harrison Stevens, private, severely wounded at the battle of Antietam; disch. fer disability Dec. 25, 1862.
George F. Tinkham, private, severely wounded at the battle of Antietam ; disch. en account ef wounds March 4, 1863. Ephraim Tinkham, private, wounded at Fredericksburg; trans. to the Vet. Res. Corps March 15, 1862.
Nathan M. Tripp, private, mnst. out of service July 8, 1864. Jeseph J. Vincent, private, pre. hesp. steward March 20, 1863. George B. Walker, private, severely wounded at the second battle of Bull Run; died at Washington of wounds Sept. 24, 1862.
George F. Whitcomb, private, disch. fer disability Sept. 1, 1861. Themas W. Wall, private, weunded at the battle of Antietam; dischi. fer disability November, 1862.
Lewis B. Wade, private, wounded at Fredericksburg; detached as prevost-marshal ; must. out of service July 8, 1864. Herbert O. Moore, private; ne report.
Webster Howard, private, detached to provost-guard; disch. April 29, 1863.
Jerome R. Ilodge, private, killed in the battle of Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862.
Franklin M. Godfrey, musician, disch. from the 12th Rogt .; re-enl. in the 33d Regt. ; must. out of service July 8, 1864. Richard Packard, private, killed in the battle of Fredericks- burg Dec. 13, 1862.
Samuel E. Chandler, private, pro. to q.m .- sorgt. Jan. 25, 1863. Freeman R. Ranney, private, trans. te Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 17, 1863.
John Howard, private, disch. for disability Dcc. 27, 1862. William Woods, private, disch. for disability Jan. 11, 1863.
Lyman Allen, private, was drafted in North Bridgewater July
. 15, 1863, and was detailed te do guard duty at Long Island, where, by strict integrity of character, he won the confidence of all with whom he had to do. With others he was sent to the front and attached to the 12th Regt., and was killed in the first battle that he was engaged in, near Spottsyl- vania, May 10, 1864.
Rodney M. Leach, private, was drafted July 15, 1863; trans. to the 39th Mass. Regt. June 25, 1864; weunded.
Henry L. Winter, private, killed at the battle of the Wilderness ! May 5, 1864.
Names of those having deserted from Company F, Twelfth Regiment, after being regularly enlisted :
Jehn L. Colter, private, Aug. 30, 1862, at the second battle of Bull Run.
Charles E. Reed, private, March 16, 1863, at Winchester, Va. Jehn E. Ferd, private, July 22, 1861, from Fort Warren, Bos- ton harbor.
Arthur J. O'Keefe, private, Aug. 30, 1862, at the second battle of Bull Run.
Lawrence Burke, private, July 1, 1862, at Manassas Junetion.
NARRATIVE OF THE TWELFTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT .- "On the 23d of July, 1861, this regiment left Boston, and arrived at Sandy Hook, Md., en the 27th inst., and went into camp. They marched twenty-one miles to the Menocacy River, and encamped, remaining there several days; frem that place they marched te Hyattstewn, a distance of six miles; to Darnes- town, eighteen miles ; to Muddy Branch, seven miles; to Ed- ward's Ferry, fifteen miles; and to Seneca Mills, by the way of Poolesville, fifteen miles. They went inte winter quarters at Frederick, Md., having arrived through Darnestown and Barnestewn, a distance of thirty miles. Upon the 27th of February, 1862, they broke camp at Frederick, and went into camp at Shenandoah City, Va., distant twenty-five miles from Frederick. March Ist they went to Charlestown, Va., by the way of Belivar Heights, a distance of seven miles; they left Charlestown, March 10th, fer Winchester, Va., by the way of Berryville, twenty-four miles; marched from Winchester te Snicker's Gap, by the way of Berryville, on the 21st of March, eighteen miles ; March 23d went te Aldie, distant eighteen miles ; they returned te Snicker's Gap en the 24th, from whence they marched to Geose Creek, distant eleven miles ; en the 28th they left for Cub Run, and on the 29th marched to Bull Run, five tuiles. They were almost continually on the march frem place to place through the Shenandoah Valley between the 1st of April and August 1st, seldem remaining long in one camp; August 9th they were engaged in the battle of Cedar Mountain, in which they lest Capt. N. B. Shurtleff, Jr., and ten men wounded ; after this they made several marchos and counter- marches, and on the 20th of August were engaged in the battle of the Rappahannock, in which they suffered no loss; from this to tho 30th they were almost constantly on tho mareh, and on the day last mentioned, in un engagement at Grevetown, near Bull Run, Col. Webster, Cupt. Kinubull, and ten men wero killed, and one hundred and thirty-five mon were woundod and missing. After this battle, tho regiment retreated to Centre- ville, arriving there the next day ; on the 14th of September, they marched te South Mountain, and wore engaged in that battle, in which one man was killed and five weundod ; frem that place they went to Keedysville, and on the afternoon ef the 16th, formed in line of battle und bivouacked for the night; they engagod the enemy at five o'clock in the merning, but
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were ordered to leave the field at nine A.M., and withdrew in good order. They went into this fight with three hundred and twenty-five men. and lost forty-seven killed and one hundred and sixty-six wounded, several of whom subsequently died of their wounds. On leaving the field, bringing off their regi- mental colors, four officers, and thirty-two men, they volun- teered to support a battery; after which they rejoined their brigade, and participated in the pursuit of the flying enemy, who withdrew across the river.
" The regiment was at this time under the command of Capt. B. F. Cook. of Company E. On the 22d of September, Col. James L. Bates took command of this regiment. From this time until November 10th they were mostly on the march in Maryland and Virginia, and arrived at the Rappahannock Station November Sth, near which they encamped.
" At the battle of Fredericksburg, fought on the 13th of De- cember, 1862, the Twelfth Regiment was in Gen. Gibbons' division. The division was formed in three brigade lines, and the third. commanded by Gen. Taylor, had the advance, the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment acting as skirmishers for the division. Col. Lyle's brigade, composed of the Twelfth Massachusetts, the Twenty-sixth New York, and the Nineteenth and One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiments of Pennsylvania Volunteers, formed the second line, this regiment having the right. The third line was Col. Root's brigade, the Sixteenth Maine Regiment having the right. The position of the Twelfth Regiment was taken at nine o'clock A.M. ; the enemy were hidden from view hy a thick wood. Our men remained lying down until one o'clock p.M. under a brisk fire of shot and shell, the skirmishers being hotly engaged, and the balls of the enemy passing over us. During these four hours there was but one man of this regiment injured. At one o'clock the signal to ad- vance was given to the whole division and immediately obeyed. A heavy fire of musketry broke from the whole line of woods in onr front. Gen. Taylor's brigade stood the fire some thirty minutes, when the brigade in which was this regiment was or- dered to relieve them. As they advanced they became sepa- rated from the brigade by the retiring regiments of the Third Brigade, and continned to advance independently, taking a posi- tion and firing until their ammunition began to fail. Their brigade had fallen to the rear, and they were alone until the third line came forward; their solid ranks broke the right of this line, which openei to the right and left to get to the front, where it was quickly formed. The Twelfth Regiment followed the one in their front, the Sixteenth Maine, a short distance, and being ont of ammunition, were ahout to join their brigade in the rear, when they were ordered by Gen. Taylor to pre- pare for a charge. The colonel thereupon gave the command to fix bayonets, and filed to the right of the brigade and charged with thetn into the woods in their front. About two hundred of the enemy rushed through our lines and gave themselves up as prisoners of war. We carried the position and remained some twenty minutes expecting support, but none was in sight and the men were constantly falling before the fatal fire of an unseen enemy. Captains Ripley, Reed, Packard, and Clark, and a hundred of the men had fallen. After consulting with the officers the colonel gave orders to about face, and they fell back slowly and reluctantly and in very good order, bearing their tattered banners with them to their brigade. After reach- ing the place, they were ordered to fall back to where they were supplied with ammunition and rations. They remained under arme all night, and early on the morning of the 14th they were ordered to another position, where they remained till the night of the 15th, when they recrossed the river to Falmouth with their corpe. During the battle the Twelfth was under fire six hours, and their loes was chiefly sustained during the last
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