History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 37

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706

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David Williams, age 18; private ; nailer. Joseph B. Whiting, age 20 ; private. William Williams, age 27; private; mechanic. Alfred B. Warner, age 25 ; private, corp .; printer.

The following recruits were added to the company at the specified dates :

Benjamin F. Bates, age 23; mariner ; March 1, 1862. Thomas B. Burt, age 23; shoemaker; March 10, 1862. Elisha S. Doten, age 26; shoemaker; March 1, 1862. Justus W. Harlow, age 24; tailor; March 1, 1862. Charles E. Kleinhans, age 20; mechanic; Feb. 27, 1862. George F. Peckham, age 38; mechanic ; March 1, 1862. Charles E. Tillson, age 31; mariner; Feb. 27, 1862.

This company was equipped by the town, in accord- ance with the vote passed May 11th, at an expense of $1025.29, and the uniforms were made by the ladies of the town. On the 18th of May the company left Plymouth, in obedience to orders received the day before from the adjutant-general of the State, and on the same afternoon left Boston for Fortress Monroc, on board the steamer " Cambridge," where it was mustered into the service on the 22d, and at- tached temporarily to the Third Regiment. On the 16th of July, 1861, it was attached, as Company E, to the First Massachusetts Battalion, and removed to Newport News, at the mouth of James River, where it was stationed at the time of the attack of the " Merrimae" on the " Congress" and " Cumberland." Its members were eyc-witnesses of the fight between the "Merrimae" and " Monitor," and in Osborne's history of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, to which the company was attached Dec. 13, 1861, may be found the most graphie deseription of the fight which has yet come under the author's cyc.

While stationed at Hampton, near Fortress Mon- roe, Simcon H. Barrows was wounded, July 14, 1861, and discharged July 21st. At Newport News, John F. Hall and Seth W. Paty were severely wounded, Feb. 11, 1862, by the bursting of a Sawyer rifle ean- non. After the incorporation of the company, as Company E, with the Twenty ninth Massachusetts Regiment and the capture of Norfolk, it was sta- tioned for a time at Suffolk, and afterwards joined the army of Mcclellan before Richmond. It was engaged in the various battles from Fair Oaks to Malvern Hill, and suffered its share of loss. At Gaines' Mill, Lieut. Mayo was killed; at Fair Oaks, Charles E. Kleinhans was wounded ; at White Oak

Swamp, George E. Wadsworth was wounded ; and at Malvern Hill, Charles E. Merriam, and at Savage Station, David Williams, Charles E. Kleinhans, and Thomas Collingwood fell into the hands of the enemy. From the Peninsula the company went to Alexandria and Georgetown, eoming up with the army iminedi- ately after the battle of South Mountain, and fought in the battle of Antietam, on the 17th of September, 1862, in which Lawrence R. Blake was killed and John Shannon and John T. Alexander were wounded. The company remained with the Army of the Poto- mac until after the battle of Fredericksburg, when it was sent to Central Kentucky and finally to Knox- ville, to join Burnside in his defense of East Tennes- see, where Seth W. Paty was severely wounded. It afterwards rejoined the Army of the Potomae after the battle of the Wilderness, soon after which the terms of service of such as had not re-enlisted ex- pired. Those who did not re-enlist were attached to the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and the following, who re-enlisted, remained in the old organ- ization :

Benjamin F. Bates. John Shannon.

William T. Nickerson. Orin D. Holmes.

Nathaniel Burgess. Charles E. Tillson.

Of these, Nathaniel Burgess and John Shannon were promoted to first and second lieutenants respec- tively for bravery on the field, Charles E. Tillson was captured Jan. 20, 1864, near Strawberry Plains, East Tenn., Nathaniel Burgess and Orin D. Holmes were killed at Fort Steadman, William T. Nickersou and John Shannon were taken prisoners, and Benjamin F. Bates was wounded May 30, 1864. Of those who did not re-enlist and were attached to the Thirty-sixth Regiment, James S. Holbrook and Samuel D. Thrasher were wounded at the battles of the Wilderness, and John T. Alexander and Samuel B. Morton were killed. In addition to the members of this company, the following recruits from Plymouth joined the Twenty-ninth Regiment at various times :

Curtis Eddy, private Co. C; carpenter.

Edward L. Daniels, ago 22; privato Co. HI ; shoemaker. Ephraim T. Lucas, ago 21 ; private Co. II ; shoemakor. Darius Perry, private Co. H.

In August, 1861, Capt. Joseph W. Collingwood, who had before the war commanded the Standish Guards, rcecived the necessary authority to recruit a company to be attached, as Company HI, to the Eighteenth Regiment. The organization of two Home Guard companies in the town-one of artil- lery and one of infantry-did much to facilitate enlist- ments. These companies drew into their ranks many young men, with little expectation of becoming actual

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soldiers, but the military spirit which they gradually imbibed at their drills and parades soon became too strong to be content with anything less real than ser- vice in the field. Capt. Collingwood's company went into camp at Readville, was mustered into the United States service Aug. 24, 1861, and left for Washing- ton August 26th. with the following soldiers from Plymouth :

Joseph W. Collingwood, age 37 : capt. : trader. Charles H. Drew, age 22; Ist lieut., capt. ; lawyer.

Stephen C. Drew, age 19; sergt., sergt .- maj., 2d lieut., 1st lieut. ; printer.

James S. Bartlett, age 27 ; private ; farmer.

John Duffy. age 45 : private : tailor.

John Duffy, Jr., age 21 : private : mariner. Thomas Haley, age 31; private ; truckman.

John F. Harten. age 24 : private.

John F. Hogan, age 19 ; private. John M. Harlow, private ; laborer. George P. Hooper, age 16; private.

Frederick W. Robbins. age 39 ; private, com .- sergt. ; clerk. Horatio N. Sears, age 22 ; private ; laborer.

In addition to the above, the following Plym- outh men were attached to other companies in the Eighteenth Regiment :

William H. Winsor, age 30 : 1st lieut., capt .; moulder. George W. Burgess, age 20; private Co. G ; lahorer. Winslow T. Burgess, age 19 : private Co. C; mariner. Zenas Churchill. age 17 ; private Co. C.

J. Q. A. Harlow, age 21 ; private Co. C; laborer. Ezra Burgess, age 37 ; private Co. C; mariner. S. M. Maybury, age 25; corp. Co. C; nailer. Winslow Churchill, Co. C; mariner.

The Eighteenth Regiment joined the Army of the Potomac at Hall's Hill, near Washington, and went to the Peninsula with Mcclellan. At the battle of Gaines' Mill a portion of Company H was cut off and obliged to rejoin the army at Harrison's Landing, on the James, by the way of Fortress Monroe. Capt. Collingwood and a few of his men followed the army and were engaged in all of the Seven Days' battles.

On the evacuation of the Peninsula Company H went to Acquia Creek, and thence to Falmouth, join- ing Pope at Rappahannock Station. It fought at the second battle of Bull Run; but after entering Mary- land it was a part of the rear guard at South Moun- tain, and of the reserve under Porter at Antietam. It was fully engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, 1862, where Capt. Col- lingwood received a wound, of which he died on the 24th, and Capts. Drew and Winsor were wounded. At the battle of Chancellorsville the company was again engaged, and Zenas Churchill was wounded. It was attached to the Army of the Potomnac in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the battles of Gen. Grant, from the Wilderness to Petersburg, until

Sept. 2, 1864, when all the Plymouth men, except Winslow T. Burgess, John Duffy, Jr., and John Q. A. Harlow, who had re-enlisted, were mustered out.

In September, 1861, Lieut. William B. Alexander received authority to recruit a company to be attached, as Company E, to the Twenty-third Regiment, and on the 21st of that month he went into camp at Lynn- field, and left Boston for Annapolis, November 11th, with a company of ninety-seven men, of whom sixty were from Plymouth, as follows :

William B. Alexander, age 31 ; capt. ; carpenter.

Otis Rogers, age 31 ; 1st lieut., capt. ; saloon-keeper. Thomas B. Atwood, age 32; 2d lieut. ; shoemaker. Josiah R. Drew, age 20 ; Ist sergt., 2d lieut., Ist lieut. ; printer. David W. Burbank, age 26; sergt. ; mechanic. Francis E. Davis, age 26; corp., sergt .; mechanic.

William S. Burbank, Jr., age 24; corp. ; printer. James C. Standish, age 23; corp. ; blacksmith. Hiram T. Lanman, age 27; corp. ; shoemaker. Albert Benson, age 29; teamster ; teamster.

Thomas C. Atwood, age 45; private ; mariner.

William T. Atwood, age 20 ; private ; shoemaker.

Charles H. Atwood, age 18; private.

John E. Burt, age 37; private ; mechanic. George Benson, age 35; private; nailer. Winslow Bartlett, age 18; private.

Henry C. Bartlett, age 20 ; private ; mechanic.

Asaph S. Burbank, age 19; private ; mechanic.

Henry Baker, age 38; private; carpenter.

Homer Bryant, age 41 ; private; mariner.

George Bailey, age 29; private ; laborer.

James K. Burgess, age 17; private, corp., sergt.

Edward Bassett, age 21 ; private, corp., sergt. ; mariner.

Edward D. Brailey, age 29; private; mariner. Ichabod P. Bagnall, age 43; private; mariner. John Burns, age 33 ; private; laborer.

John R. Brailey, age 22 ; private ; mariner.

William E. Churchill, age 19; private, corp.

Joseph L. Churchill, age 19; private; shoemaker.

Augustus T. Caswell, age 18; private. Thomas Chandler, age 21 ; private; shoemaker. George H. Dunham, age 18; private. Theodore S. Fuller, age 23; private; printer.

Walter H. Finney, age 20; private, corp .; mariner.

George Feid, age 45 ; private; hostler. Warren Gibbs, age 41; private; laborer. Henry Gould, age 29; private, corp. ; laborer. Samuel W. Holmes, age 18 ; private.

Charles H. Long, age 24; private, sergt. ; mariner.

Perez McMahon, age 19; private; shoemaker. Henry Marshall, age 24; private; laborer. James W. Page, age 18; private; laborer. Seth Mchuren, Jr., age 22; private; laborer. William T. Pierce, age 17; private; mariner.

Daniel H. Paulding, age 29; private; mechanic. George O. Paulding, age 21; private; shipwright.

Nathan B. Perry, age 29; private ; laborer.

Isaac II. Perkins, age 19; private; laborer. John B. Ryder, age 27 ; private; laborer. William R. Swift, age 24; private; mariner. James II. Stillman, age 19; private, corp. ; laborer.

George W. Swift, age 22; private ; laborer. Andrew T. Sears, age 21; private; laborer.

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Edward Smith, age 21 ; private ; marble-cutter.

Thomas S. Saunders, age 27; trans. to Co. K ; trader. Charles C. Stevens, age 26; private ; mariner. Edward Stevens, age 30; private; mariner. Jacob W. Southworth, age 30; private, eorp., sergt. ; carpenter. John Taylor, age 33; private ; mariner. Benjamin Westgate, age 18; private; mariner.

On the 9th of January, 1862, the company sailed with its regiment on the schooner " Highlander" and gunboat " Hussar" for Hatteras Inlet, and was en- gaged in the reduction of Roanoke Island, and the battles of Newberne, Rawle's Mills, Tarboro', Kinston, and Whitehall. In the battle of Newberne, Joseph L. Churchill was killed, and in that of Whitehall, Harvey A. Raymond and Benjamin Westgate were also killed. On the 20th of January, 1863, the eom- pany sailed for Hilton Head, where it arrived on the 2d of February, and on the 14th of February re- turned to Newberne. On the 17th of October it sailed from Moorehead City for Fortress Monroe, ar- riving on the 18th, and going into eamp at Newport News. In May, 1864, it went with its regiment up the James, under Gen. Butler, and on the 29th of that month it temporarily joined the Army of the Potomac. On the 12th of June it returned to its eamp on the James, and September 4th returned to Newberne, where it remained until its term of service expired, Oct. 13, 1864.

The following rceruits were added to the company at the specified dates :

John Quinlan, age 30; private; Jan. 26, 1864; laborer. Harvey A. Raymond, age 27 ; private ; shoemaker.

Horatio N. Sears, age 24; private; Nov. 30, 1863; laborer.

Those who re-enlisted were as follows :

Charles H. Atwood. James W. Page.

John Burns. Charles C. Stevens.

Seth Mehuren, Jr. Ichabod P. Bagnell.

Andrew T. Sears. Henry Gould.

Edward Bassett. Isaac II. Perkins.

George II. Dunham. James H. Stillman.

Edward D. Brailey was killed on pieket at New- berne, Edward Stevens was mortally wounded at Whitehall, and Isaae H. Perkins at Coal Harbor. William R. Swift and John R. Brailey were severely wounded at Whitehall ; Hiram T. Lanman, John Taylor, and Edward Smith were captured at New- berne; John Quinlan was made a prisoner at Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864, and Theodore S. Fuller near Newberne, Oct. 10, 1864.

In addition to the members of Company E, the fol- lowing were members of the Twenty-third Regi- ment :

John Carlino, age 41 ; private Co. B; truckman.

II. J. Lucas; private Co. B; laborer.

Soth Mehuren, age 45; private Co. K ; laborer. James Ryan, age 40 ; private Co. B; laborer.

In December, 1861, Lieut. Josiah C. Fuller re- cruited a company, which was attached to the First Battalion of Massachusetts Volunteers, afterwards rec- ognized as the Thirty-second Regiment. It per- formed garrison duty at Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, until May 20, 1862, when it started for Washington with the following Plymouth men :

Josiah C. Fuller, age 33; 1st lieut., capt .; shoemaker.

George M. Heatlı, age 26; corp .; truckman.

Adoniram Holmes, age 43 ; eorp .; briekmaker.

James H. Allen, age 21 ; private, corp. ; elerk.

George W. Bartlett, age 33; private.

George H. Blanchard, age 17; private, corporal.

George B. Brewster, age 28; private; laborer.

Arvin M. Bancroft, age 29; private; mariner.

Levonzo D. Barnes, age 43; private.

John R. Davis, Jr., age 21; private, eorp .; shoemaker.

William M. Lapham, age 27; private; mariner.

Henry Morton, Jr., age 31 ; private; mariner.

Weldon S. Pierce, age 22 ; private.

Anthony L. Pierce, age 21 ; private, corp .; laborer.

Henry L. Raymond, age 43; private.

Eleazer Shaw, age 22; private, sergt. ; mason.

William H. Shaw, age 29; private; shoemaker.

David A. Taylor, age 16; private.

Weston C. Vaughn, age 33; private; mariner.

Perez C. W. Vaughn, age 19; private; mariner. Seth Washburn, age 32; private ; laborer.

In addition to the above the following Plymouth men enlisted in the Thirty-second Regiment, joining Company F :

Robert H. Barnes, age 26; private ; laborer.

George B. Beytes, age 18; private.

George F. Green, age 28; private; laborer.

Gustavus C. Green, age 17; private; laborer.

William H. Green, age 19; private; mariner.

Richard F. Green, age 26; private; laborer.

Albert F. Green, age 21; private; laborer.

Joseph IIolmes, age 42; private; laborer.

Charles H. Holmes, age 19; private.

John F. Hoyt, age 20; private.

Moses Hoyt, age 17; private.

Augustine T. Jones, ago 18; privato.

Charles W. Pierce, age 18; private.

Edward F. Finney, age 19; private, sergt.

Berri F. Phinney, age 20; private, 2d lieut.

Alexander Ripley, age 21 ; private.

William S. Robbins, ago 17; private ; clerk.

Edward S. Snow, private. Samuel Sampson, age 42; private.

Winson T. Savory, age 17; privato.

Nohomiah L. Savery, ago 18; private.

Charles F. Washburn, age 21; private.

The following Plymouth men enlisted in other companies in the same regiment :

Patrick Downoy, nge 35; privato.

Melvin C. Fanght, age 25; privato.

Thomas Felton, age 26; private Co. K.

Charles E. Foster, age 23; sergt. Co. C.

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Taylor Joyce, age 20; private. Abner Lncas, age 33 ; private Co. A. Patrick Manehan, private. John E. McDonald, private.

John Keller, age 21: unattached. Paul Kriem, age 20 ; private Co. D. Henry W. Roberts, age 21; private Co. C. Patrick McSweeny, private.

Edmund Read, age 24; private Co. I. James Rider, private.

David Zeigler, age 26; private Co. A.

The Thirty-second Regiment encamped, on its ar- rival at Washington, at Camp Alexandria, on Capitol Hill, and soon after near Fairfax Seminary, at Alex- andria, as a part of Sturges' reserve corps. On the 25th of June it started for Harrison's Landing, ar- riving there July 3d, and was at once assigned to Griffin's brigade, Morell's division, Porter's corps. On the evacuation of the Peninsula it retired to Wil- liamsburg, Yorktown, and Newport News, and thence, by the way of Acquia Creek, hastened to Stafford Court-House, near Fredericksburg. Joining Pope's army, it afterwards went into Maryland under Mc- Clellan, was a part of the reserve at Antietam, and was afterwards engaged in the battle of Fredericks- burg, in which William S. Robbins was severely wounded. In the battle of Gettysburg Charles H. Holmes was severely wounded, and in one of the battles in the subsequent Richmond campaign, in all of which the regiment was engaged, David A. Taylor, who had re-enlisted, and George W. Allen were killed. At the expiration of the three years' term of service the following Plymouth men re-enlisted :

George W. Bartlett. George T. Green. Abner Lucas. John R. Davis, Jr.

David A. Taylor. Peter C. W. Vaughn.

William H. Shaw. Adoniram Holmes.

George H. Blanchard.

Anthony E. Pierce.

Gustavus C. Green.

Weston C. Vaughn.

Nehemiah L. Sarery.

In addition to the above re-enlisted men the fol- lowing, belonging to other places, re-enlisted, and were credited to the quota of Plymouth :

George W. Allen. George C. Drown.

Henry W. Roberts. Elliott Pierce.

On the 26th of May, 1862, dispatches were re- ceived from the President by the Governor, urging him to send the whole available militia to Washing- ton. Gen. Banks had been driven from the Shenan- doah Valley, and the capital was thought to be in danger. In obedience to orders, Capt. Charles C. Doten reported in Boston on the 27th with his com- pany,-the Standish Guards,-numbering fifty-seven men. The alarm, however, was found to be ground- lese, and the company returned the next day.

In July, 1862, the author, then chairman of the Board of Selectmen, received authority to recruit two companies, to be attached as Companies D and G to the Thirty-eighth Regiment, to aid in meeting a call on Massachusetts for fifteen thousand men, of which the quota of Plymouth was sixty-three. He was also authorized to recommend their officers for commission. He first recruited Company D, and recommended Lieut. Charles H. Drew, of Company H, Eighteenth Regiment, for captain, but the War Department refused to muster him out to enable him to receive his commission. The Plymouth men in Company D were :

Albert Mason, age 24; 2d lieut., Ist lieut., capt., a.q.m. U.S. vols .; lawyer.

Francis Bates, age 27; musician ; watchmaker.

Gustavus D. Bates, age 38; private; teacher.

James E. Barrows, age 19 ; private, corp. ; printer.

James A. Bowen, age 19; corp., sergt., Ist sergt .; shoemaker. Timothy Downey, age 39; private; tender.

Benjamin F. Durgin, age 25; private, corp. ; painter.

George H. Fish, age 25; private ; hostler.

Solomon E. Faunce, age 20; sergt .; clerk.

Albert F. Greenwood, age 27 ; private; laborer.

Thomas Gallagher, age 16; musician ; musician.

Benjamin A. Hathaway, age 28; private ; accountant.

John H. Havistock, age 18; private; shoemaker.

Benjamin Harvey, age 44; private; tender.

George B. Holbrook, age 23; private; laborer. James Kimball, age 20; private; laborer.

Daniel Lovett, age 35 ; private; waiter.

William W. Lanman, age 19; private ; laborer.

Charles Mason, age 22; sergt., 2d lieut., 1st licut .; daguerreo- typist.

Patrick Maguire, age 37; private ; laborer.

Charles S. Peterson, age 35; private ; carpenter.

Bernard T. Quinn, age 20; corp., Vet. Res. Corps; printer.

Thomas G. Savery, age 18; private; farmer.

Israel H. Thrasher, age 34; private; farmer.

James T. Thrasher, age 22; private ; farmer.

The author then recruited Company G, with the following Plymouth men :

Charles C. Doten, age 29; capt. ; engineer.

George B. Russell, age 18; 2d lieut., Ist lieut., capt. Vet. Res. Corps, com. Ist lieut. and capt. in regular army ; student.

Charles E. Barnes, age 22; sergt., Ist sergt .; carpenter.

Joseph A. Brown, age 20; corp .; cabinet-maker.

Sanford Crandon, age 18; corp., sergt., Ist sergt., 2d lieut. ; clerk.

Job C. Chandler, Jr., age 24; trans. to Ist La. Cav .; mer- chant.

Timothy T. Eaton, age 41; private; truckman.

Lemuel B. Faunce, Jr., age 24; private; nailer.

Albert T. Finney, age 28; chief musician, non-com. staff; musician.

James Frothingham, age 31; private; ropemaker.

Edward E. Green, age 24; private; laborer.

Frederick Holmes, age 27; Ist sergt., sergt .. maj., 2d lieut. ; moulder.

William N. Hathaway, age 21; corp .; clerk Thomas Haley, age 30; private; mariner.

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Isaac T. Hall, age 28; private; teamster.

Issachar Josselyn, age 18; private; shoemaker. John Edgar Josselyn, age 18; private; farmer. Bernard T. Kelly, age 18; private. Charles W. Lanman, age 16; corp., sergt. Joseph MeLaughlin, age 18; private.

William Perry, age 18; private; farmer. Christopher A. Prouty, age 16; private ; musician. Heman Robbins, age 22 ; private, corp. ; ropemaker. Levi Ransom, age 20; private; baker. Adrian D. Ruggles, age 18; private; clerk. Otis Sears, age 20; private; shoemaker. Horatio Scars, age 44 ; private ; farmer.

Joseph F. Towns, age 39; private; truckman. John M. Whiting, age 21; private; shoemaker.

Charles C. White, age 23; private, corp. ; shoemaker.

Charles T. Wood, age 20; private ; book-keeper,

The remainder of the quota was made up of the following men :

James A. Blanchard, age 21; private Co. D, 38th Regt .; laborer.

Charles H. Drew, age 23; capt. Co. D, 38th Regt. ; lawyer. George Feid, age 44; private Co. D, 38th Regt. ; hostler.

Frederie R. Raymond, age 24; private Co. D, 38th Regt .; carder.

George B. Sawyer, age 24; private Co. D, 38th Regt .; jeweler.

James D. Thurber, age 23 ; private, 1st lieut. 13th Regt., capt. 55th Regt .; clerk.

Erik Wolff, age 25; private 20th Regt.

George F. Wood, age 25; hosp. steward 35th Regt., after in regular army ; teacher.

Recruits filling this quota received one hundred dollars bounty, in accordance with a vote of the town passed July 21, 1862. Charles H. Drew, as before stated, did not join his company, and James A. Blanchard and George Feid did not finally enter the service, consequently these three received no bounty .. On the 3d of January, 1865, Edward Allsworth, thirty-nine years of age, joined the Thirty-eighth Regiment as a reeruit, to the eredit of Plymouth, and was transferred to the One Hundred and Nine- teenth United States Cavalry, and commissioned second lieutenant. The regiment, after having been equipped at Lynnfield, left for Baltimore Sept. 24, 1862, from which place it embarked in the " Baltic," November 9th, for the gulf. It disembarked at Ship Island December 13th, and re-embarked on the 19th in the " Northern Light" for New Orleans, where it was ordered into eamp at Carrollton, about four miles from the eity. From Carrollton it proceeded, March 6th, to Baton Rouge, and thence to Port Hudson. From Port Hudson it went to Algiers, Brashear City, and Bisland, at which last place it received its bap- tism of fire, and Frederick Holmes, Joseph Mc- Laughlin, Otis Sears, and Timothy Downey were wounded. Its next move was to Alexandria, and again to Port Hudson. At the siege of the latter

place on the 27th of May, George H. Fish was wounded, and on the 14th of June Lieut. George B. Russell, Sergt. Sanford Crandon, Israel Thrasher, Albert F. Greenwood, Thomas G. Savery, and Charles C. White were wounded, and Frederick Holmes was killed. After the fall of Port Hudson the regiment proceeded to Baton Rouge, again to Alexandria, and in April, 1864, took part in the Red River expedi- tion. From Alexandria it went to Morganza Bend, and in July embarked for Algiers and Fortress Monroe, which latter place it reached July 28th. From the fortress it .proceeded to Washington and Harper's Ferry, and joined the Army of the Shenandoah. In the Shenandoah Valley it was engaged in the battles of Opequan Creek, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, in the first of which John M. Whiting was killed. On the 20th of December, 1864, the regiment started for Baltimore, and embarked for Savannah Jan. 13, 1865. From Savannah, after the evacuation of Charleston, it started for Newberne, where it remained until Richmond capitulated. On the 8th of April it proceeded to Goldsboro', joining there the army of Gen. Sherman, and remained on provost duty until May 1st, when it went to Morehead City, and onee more embarked for Savannah. On the 30th of June it embarked for Boston, where it arrived on the 6th of July, and was mustered out at Galloupe's Island on the 13th.

In August, 1862, thirty-seven men were called for from Plymouth as its quota of three hundred thou- sand men called for by the President for nine months' service, and of nineteen thousand and eighty required from Massachusetts. It was ordered that a draft should be made unless the quota was filled within a specified time. The Third Regiment of the State militia undertook to raise the men for the towns within its jurisdiction, but as Plymouth, Plympton, and Carver, adjacent towns, each had a company be- longing to this regiment, it was thought impossible to reeruit each up to the standard. It was agreed, therefore, that the three companies should unite as Company B, Standish Guards, with the captain of the Carver company as eaptain, and with its first and second lieutenants from Plymouth and Plympton re- spectively. Under this arrangement the company organized and went into camp with the regiment at Lakeville, with the following thirty men from Plym- outh :

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History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 37

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1706

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706