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William C. Howard being by marriage and residence, in part, an Essex man, and for that reason inserted here, was born at Fall River ; son of Stephen and Lucy Howard. He enlisted at the age of 27 years, in the Third Maine Regiment, Company A, Capt. Sawyer. He was sworn into the United States service, June 5, 1861, at Washington. On the 15th of July, following, they were marched to Centerville, Va., eight miles from Bull Run. He was in the first Bull Run fight about five hours, when they fell back twenty-eight miles to Alexandria, where they eneamped until the 5th of April, 1862, when the army were ordered down to Fortress Monroe and thenee to Yorktown, twenty-four miles, where they remained until the 28th of May. Mr. Howard was in the battle at Williamsburg, about the last of May, and also at Fair Oaks, where he was taken with a fever. This was the last of his service in the Third Maine. The Colonel of this Maine regi- meut was O. O. Howard ; Capt. Sawyer commanded this company.
On the 12th of August, 1862, he enlisted in the Tenth Vermont, where he served until the 3d of July, 1865, making two years and ten months. While in this regiment he fought in the first battle of Mine Run, on the 24th of November, 1864, and next in the Wilderness battle on the 5th of May. Here he lost two of the fingers of his right hand while on picket. The next battle, was on the 2d of April, 1865, breaking the lines before Peters- burg, and there they chased " old Bob. Lee," as the rebs used to call him, sev- eral days and captured Lee's rear guard of five thousand men, on the 6th of April. This, says Mr. Howard, was called Sailor's Run, and was the last battle of the Army of the Potomac, so he says he had the pleasure of saying he was in Bull Run first, and Sailor's Run last. Ilis Colonel was William Henry, Lieut-Colonel, J. Hunt, and Company, H. And to recapitulate, Mr. Howard fought as follows, viz. : in the Third Maine, July 21, 1861, at the first Bull Run battle ; in 1862, at Williamsburg and at Fair Oaks; and in
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the Tenth Vermont, as follows : November 27, 1863, at Mine Run ; May 6, 1864, Wilderness ; April 2, 1865, when he lost his fingers; April 6, 1865, Sailor's Run, being seven battles in all.
ROBERT WALLACE ALLEN.
Robert Wallace Allen, was enrolled September 6th, 1862, being the day preceding his 14th year, and was shortly mustered into the service at Camp Lauder, in Wenham, thence assigned to the Fifthi Regiment, Company E, Col. Pierson, Capt. John Kent. He did not return with the regiment, but went on board the gun boat Arletta, Capt. William Wright, Salem. He was discharged from the United States Naval Hospital, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and from the service, December 21, 1864. Not much fighting was done while the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment was stationed in North Carolina. It had a part, however, in several small expeditions. At the time of the battle at Fort Fisher, March 25, 1865, this soldier was under hospital treatment.
ALBION BURNHAM.
Albion Burnham, son of Samuel and Sallie Burnham, enlisted October 15, 1863, when at the age of 23 years, as first mate of the ship Carnation, and was stationed for a time off Port Royal. The Carnation was engaged as a part of the blockading squadron in the capture of Charleston, S. C., in February, 1865.
LYMAN H. CHASE.
Lyman H. Chase, (alias Lyman B. Chase, ) enlisted in the Fifth Regi- ment, Col. Pierson, Company K, Capt. Crafts, for three months. And after the expiration of that time during which term the regiment was under the command of Brig. Gen. Lawrence, M. V. M., it volunteered to return for nine months, when the President, in 1862, called for three hundred thousand nine months' men. It appears by Adjutant Gen. Schouler's Report for 1863, p. 117, that after the re-enlistment for nine months, this regiment left Boston the 22d of October, in transports for Newbern, N. C. It should be observed that while acting as three months' men, " this regiment acted a brave part in the first disastrous battle of Bull Run." Mr. Chase was 26 years old at the time of his first enlistment. By the Adjutant General's Report for 1863, it appears that Mr. Chase was acting as wagoner.
JAMES HOWE BURNHAM.
James Howe Burnham, son of Abel and Esther Burnham, was drafted into the army, July 10, 1863, and was first mustered into the Eighteenth Massa- chusetts Regiment, but afterwards transferred to the Thirty-second, Company I. He was in the battle of the Wilderness and in several skirmishes, but never wounded. His entire term of service was twenty-three months and nineteen days, and he received his discharge on the 20th of June, 1865.
JOHIN L. MARTYN.
John L. Martyn, enlisted in December, 1861, into Company H, Massachu- setts Twenty-fourth, Col. Stevenson. He is believed to have been at the siege at Fort Wagner, but the details of his army life are not now available.
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JOHN S. JONES.
John S. Jones, ship-carpenter by trade, aged 30 years, was born in Essex, and was the son of Abraham and Mary Jones ; has a wife and two children. He enlisted August 2, 1862, into Company A, Capt. Shatswell, Fourteenth Regiment. He was detailed to work as a carpenter. On the 29th of May, 1863, he met with the accident of cutting off his great toe, and was sent to the hospital. Left for home, September 30, 1863, on furlough for fifteen days, with orders to report at the expiration of his furlough at the Mason General Hospital, Pemberton square, Boston. He remained there until the 5th of December, when he was transferred to the invalid corps, stationed at Camp Sumner, Wenham. The carpenter-work for which he was detailed was that of getting out timber for gun-carriages.
JEREMIAH POLAND, JR.
Jeremiah Poland, Jr., aged 34 years, was the son of Jeremiah and Betsey Poland. IIe enlisted first, December 31, 1862, in Company A, Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment. Re-enlisted December 31, 1863, at Fort DeKalb, in Company A, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Capt. A. A. Hosmer, for three years, and came home on thirty days' furlough. Mr. Poland, ac- cording to the sketch given of David B. Burnham (p. 407), is believed to have received his death · wound in the battle of Fredericksburg, May 19, 1864. But he is known to have died May 21, 1864, having been wounded by a shell in his body, also in one of his legs.
EDWIN A. HOWES.
Edwin A. Howes, aged 27 years, ship-joiner by trade, was the son of Col- lins and Rhoda Howes ; and was born in Chatham ; a widower with one child. He enlisted May 11, 1861, in the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, infantry, and left the State July 8, 1861. He was in Gen. Patterson's com- mand at Martinsburg, under the immediate command of Gen. Banks, from August, 1861, till September, 1862. On the date of his enlistment he was appointed corporal, and on the 20th of June was made fourth sergeant of Company F. On the 1st of October, 1862, he was appointed color sergeant, and on the 8th of December, following, was promoted commissary sergeant of the regiment. He was in the battle of Winchester on the 25th of August, 1861, and in that at Cedar Mountain, August 8, 1862. Mr. Howes was attached to the Twelfth Army Corps at Antietam, and was in the battle of September 17, 1862 ; also when Burnside was crossing at Fredericksburg, this corps was held in reserve, and was not engaged in the battle. It was, how- ever, in the battle at Chancellorsville and at Beverly Ford, also at Gettys- burg. On the 2d of August, 1863, this corps was ordered to New York to quell a riot there on account of the draft, and was absent from the army four weeks. . On the 24th of September, 1863, they were ordered to East Ten- nessee to re-enforce Gen. Rosecrans, and since that time have been a part of the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Howes had been in all the battles in
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which the regiment had been engaged up to the time of his promotion to the office of commissary sergeant, except during the six weeks in the Spring of 1862, when he was in the hospital at Frederic City, Md. Mr. II. re-en- listed for three years on the 30th of December, 1863, as commissary ser- geant of the Second Massachusetts Volunteers, infantry, and came home on a thirty days' furlough in January, 1864. Mustered out of service, August 1, 1865. Whole term of service, four years, two months, twenty days.
DANIEL DUGGAN.
Daniel Duggan, aged 26 years, laborer, was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, and was the son of Dennis and Honora Duggan. He enlisted May 20, 1861, in Company F, Capt. Mudge, Second Massachusetts Regiment, infantry, and was sent to Camp Cameron, Roxbury, and there remained till August 8th. The regiment was then ordered to Western Virginia. He was in the battle and retreat at Ball's Bluff, and was in the second Bull Run battle, also at the battles of Cedar Mountain, Antietam and Gettysburg, besides many skirmishes. In one of these battles he received a flesh wound in the leg. In September, 1863, his regiment was ordered to East Tennessee, where he re- mained on guard duty until the 7th of January, 1864, when the regiment was ordered home on furlough, he having previously re-enlisted. He arrived home on January 21st. The furlough was for thirty days. He was mustered out July 26, 1865. His whole term of service was four years, two months, fifteen days.
ROBERT W. BURNHAM, JR.
Robert W. Burnham, Jr., aged 21 years, ship-carpenter by trade, was born . in Essex ; son of Robert W. and Clara Burnham. He enlisted for three years as band musician in the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Gor- don. He left Camp Andrews, Roxbury, for the seat of war July 8, 1861 ; was discharged by a general order, No. 9, after fifteen months of hard service, during which time the regiment was in two or three battles, besides being almost continually on the march. They arrived home September 8, 1862. The number of the original members of the regiment at this time was six hun_ dred only, out of ten hundred and forty that left Camp Andrews one year and two months before. Mr. Burnham enlisted again in the band of the third brigade, twelfth army corps, and was sworn into the service of the United States April 16, 1863. The brigade arrived at Stafford Court House, head- quarters of the brigade, April 20th. They left the Army of the Potomac September 26, to join the Army of the West in Tennessee, and January 7, 1864, they left Tullahoma for home with the Second Massachusetts Regiment, having re-enlisted for three years. Arrived home January 21, 1864. Mr. Burnham kept a journal daily, from which the following facts are chiefly derived. We shall feel precluded by the crowded state of the book from inserting much that would deeply interest the reader, but must find room for the following : " June 8, 1862, crossed the Potomac to Falling Waters ; bivouacked for the night; constant rain. On the 11th, marched towards Martinsburg; encamped 53
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at Bunker Hill, distance eighteen miles ; 12th, to Newton, eighteen miles. On the 15th, Gen. (late Col.) Gordon made his farewell address to the regi- ment. . . . . July 6th, marched four miles ; crossed the Shenandoah; passed through Front Royal and encamped. .... On the 28th, grand review; 30th, our band played at a funeral here. August 9th, formed in line of battle nine miles from Culpepper, on the right of Banks' command ; heavy firing of artil- lery till six o'clock ; grand charge of infantry from the enemy on the whole line ; assisted in earrying off the wounded ; narrowly escaped being taken prisoner."
GUSTAVUS S. PERKINS.
Gustavus S. Perkins, aged 28 years, was the son of Abraham and Abigail Perkins. He received his commission September 1, 1861, as Second Assist- ant Engineer of the Colorado steamer, and was ordered to Mobile, where he served fifteen months. He then received a furlough of two weeks. after which he was ordered on board the Donaldson, stationed on the blockade off Wilmington. He here served as First Assistant or head Engineer until Au- tumn, when, after another short furlough, he was ordered on board the Gettys- burg on the blockade off Wilmington. He remained there till the end of the war, being in the engagement at Fort Fisher. After this engagement he was allowed another furlough of three months, after which he received his discharge, September, 1865.
GEORGE DODGE.
George Dodge enlisted in the Massachusetts Twenty-third Volunteers, in- fantry, Col. John Kurtz, Company I, Capt. Hobbs, which was ordered to join Gen. Burnside's army. This company was in the battles of Roanoke Island, Newbern, Kinston and others. After remaining at Newbern about a year they were ordered to Hilton Head, S. C., where they remained but two days, when they returned to Newbern and thence to Fortress Monroe, where they remained as late as February, 1864. Col. Raymond, who at one time commanded this regiment, pays a compliment which every soldier in the regi- ment ought to share. " Their excellent conduct, while I had the honor to command them, their coolness and bravery under fire, their vigilance and fidelity at all times displayed, entitles them to the highest praise . . . ... I shall account it the greatest honor of my life, that I have been privileged to command them." We regret to say we are unable to obtain other facts re- lating to Mr. Dodge.
RUFUS BURNHAM.
Rufus Burnham, ship-carpenter, single man, was the son of Humphrey and Eliza Burnham, and was born in Essex, November 17, 1838. He en- listed May 9, 1861, in Company F, Capt. Patterson, Second Regiment, Mass- achusetts Volunteers, infantry. They were ordered to Martinsburg under Gen. Patterson, and were in the battles of Winchester and Cedar Mountain. Mr. Burnham was discharged February 26, 1863, on a certificate of disabil- ity, signed by Surgeon Gen. Dale. This soldier died at his father's in Essex, on the 22d of January, 1867, aged 29 years and 2 months, much lamented.
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CHARLES PERRY LUFKIN.
Charles Perry Lufkin, shoemaker by trade, was born February 19, 1843, and was the son of John P. and Elizabeth Lufkin. He enlisted December 2, 1861, in Company C, Capt. Pratt, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. They were ordered to join Gen. Burnside', d' ision, and were in the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, and were then ordered to Charleston harbor, and were in the assault on Fort Wagner, on the 25th of July, 1863, when Mr. L. was struck in the back by a ball from Fort Sumpter. He was carried to Beaufort hospital where he died on the 1st of August, 1863, from the effects of the wound. The first effect of the ball was to pro- duee paralysis of the legs only, but his whole system shared in it, and he died as above stated. His grave is in the National Cemetery at Beaufort, and affec- tionate comrades placed a head-stone above the consecrated spot where sleep the remains of Charles P. Lufkin. Besides the battles named above, he was in the secret expedition to Columbia, March 8, 1862 ; in the battle at Vanter's Creek, June 5, 1862 ; at Rawle's Mills, November 2; Kinston, December 14; Whitehall, December 16; Goldsboro, December 17,-all the above being in North Carolina ; also at James' Island, S. C., July 16, 1863, and at Morris Island, July 18, 1863.
CHARLES F. MORSE.
Charles F. Morse, aged 33 years ; enlisted in Company H, Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, Capt. Devereaux, which was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac under Gen. McClellan. They were in the seven days' battles on the Peninsula, also, at the battles of Yorktown and Fair Oaks. He was taken sick on the march to Antietam, and sent to the hospital at corner of Fifth and Buttonwood streets, Philadelphia, where he died after a sickness of two months, aged 33 years. He was in the service about eighteen months, and leaves a widow and three children. A member of the same company and an acquaintance of this soldier, states that Mr. Morse, like some others, frequently expressed his fears, that he never should survive the campaign, and for some reasons had no expectation of ever reaching home again.
REUBEN ANDREWS.
Reuben Andrews, aged 25 years, by trade a shoemaker; was the son of Obed and Ruth Andrews, and was born in Essex. He enlisted November 25, 1861, in Company H, Capt. Devereaux, Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teers. The regiment, as before stated, was ordered to join MeClellan's army. He was in the battles on the Peninsula and at Yorktown, and died at Harper's Ferry, October 27, 1862, of typhoid fever. He left a widow and one child. For further allusions to Mr. Andrews, see the sketch of John C. Butman.
CHARLES EDWIN ANDREWS.
Charles Edwin Andrews, aged 26 years, shoemaker ; was the son of Ira and Martha Andrews, and was born in Essex. He enlisted in Company H,
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Capt. Devereaux, Nineteenth Regiment. They were, as before stated, or- dered to join the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Andrews was in the battle at Yorktown, and was killed by a ball through his head, in the seven days' fight on the Peninsula, at White Oaks. This battle was on the last day of May and first day of June, 1862, and he sleeps with multitudes of others on the banks of the Chicahominy River. It is said of him, that from the time of his enlistment, he had a premonition of the final event, and while putting on the military dress at Salem, made some remark to a comrade strongly indicative of the sad result. Reference may also be had to the. sketch of J. C. Butman, page 424.
ERASTUS HOWES.
Erastus Howes, was born in Chatham, Barnstable County, July 4, 1834, and was the son of Enoch and Azubalı Howes. He enlisted on the 17th of October, 1861, for three years, into the Massachusetts Twenty-fourth, Col. Thomas G. Stevenson, and Company C, Captain Robert H. Stevenson. He was sworn in as a Massachusetts volunteer at Readville, and mustered into the United States service at Annapolis, in December, 1861. Mr. Howes sailed with the Burnside expedition to Hatteras, N. C. The follow- ing is a list of the battles in which he was engaged, from an early period to the literal close of the war. The first was that at Roanoke Island, N. C., on the 8th of February, 1862; secret expedition to Columbia, N. C., March 8, 1862; Newbern, N. C., March 14, 1862 ; Tranter's Creek, N. C., June 5, 1862; Rawles Mills, N. C., November 2, 1862; on detached service from December 1, 1862, to June 20, 1863; at Newbern N. C .; joined the regiment at Folly Island, S. C., July 10, 1863 ; battle of James Island, S. C., July 16, 1863 ; charge on riffe-pits of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C., August 18, 1863. On the 25th of September, the regiment, being very much reduced in numbers by hard service and malaria, were ordered to St. Augustine, Florida, to recruit health. Re-enlisted at the latter place, on the 4th of January, 1864, for three years. Ordered to the Army of the James ; joined Butler's command. Captured Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 6, 1864, and the battle of Petersburg Railroad, Va., followed on the 13th. Mr. Howes was wounded while charging a rebel battery, and sent to the hospital at Point Lookout, Md.,-thence transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, April 13, 1865. He was ordered to Washington, D. C., in August and placed on duty in the Capitol prison, and as an appropriate conclusion to his military career, was an assistant at the hanging of H. Wirz.
LIEUT. CYRUS ANDREWS.
Lieut. Cyrus Andrews, was born at Essex, and was the son of Israel Jr., and Keziah Andrews. He enlisted at Gloucester, Mass., October 18, 1861, joined the Twenty-fourth Regiment at Readville, and was mustered into the service on the 23d. About the last of October, the same year, he was ordered with Companies A, B, C and I, to guard prisoners at Fort Warren in Boston
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harbor. Joined the regiment again at Readville, on the 2d of December, but on the 9th, left for Annapolis, Md. Arrived there December 12th, and on the 21st were detached. for duty on board the steamer Eastern State and remained on board till the battle of Roanoke Island on the 8th of February, 1862. It was the fate of Mr. A. to double stormy Cape Hatteras no less than fourteen times. He was in the battle of Roanoke Island, N. C., on the 8th and 9th of February, 1862, and it was the grateful duty of this regiment (Twenty-fourth, ) to receive the surrender of all the rebel prisoners taken on the island, two thousand five hundred in number. Mr. A. was also with his regiment at the battle of Newbern, 14th of March, 1862, and at those of Kinston, 14th of December, Whitehall on the 16th, and Goldsboro, on the 17th of the same month and year (1862.) He left North Carolina for Hilton Head, S. C., in January following, and remained on St. Helena Island, S. C., for three months, and thence was ordered to Brook Island, S. C., where he remained until July. He was at the siege of Morris Island through July and August, and took part in the charge on the rifle-pits on the 26th of August, 1863. When subsequently and next at St. Augustine, Fla., on the 4th of January, 1864, Mr. Andrews re-enlisted, and was mustered in as a veteran volunteer. After a furlough of thirty days, he reported him- self at Washington, D. C., and after remaining three months at Arlington Heights, he joined Butler's foree at Gloucester Point, Va. On the 2d of May, 1864, embarked on Butler's expedition up the James, landing at Ber- muda Hundred. He was engaged in the battles of Green Valley, Chester Station, and Drury's Bluff, all in the same month of May, at the latter of which, he was slightly wounded. In June following he was in the battle of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, also in that at Weir Bottom Church. The army moved across the James on the 13th of August, and fought in the bat- tle of Deep Bottom on the next day ; in that at Deep Run on the 16th of August, and again at Flusser's Mills on the 18th. Mr. A. was in the siege of Petersburg in August and September, 1864, also at New Market Heights on the 29th of September. He saw fight again at Four Mile Run in October, and at Darbytown Road at two different times in the same month. After considerable other service, we find him detailed in July, 1865, to take charge of Castle Thunder Prison, under Capt. W. J. O'Brien, where he re- mained until the 22d of January, 1866.
Mr. Andrews had been appointed corporal in June, 1864, and sergeant on the 1st of December, the same year, and was finally promoted lieutenant January 1st, 1866.
THOMAS A. MORSE.
Thomas A. Morse, son of Samuel and Anna Morse, was 20 years of age when he enlisted. He enlisted in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. Hinks, Company II, Capt. Charles Devereaux. This soldier fought, as he states, in fifteen battles. He was wounded in a muscle in the right arm, and was discharged on the 21st of December, 1863.
The published report enumerates the battle at Ball's Bluff, before Rich-
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mond, the second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, all previous to Jan- uary 1, 1863. Many of the battles referred to by this soldier may have been, and probably were, of minor importance. That at Gettysburg, in July, however, could not have been called so. The regiment was marched to the front ; and finally took their position on the left of Cemetery Hill, be- ing the centre of the line of the army. That position they kept, under heavy artillery fire until five o'clock P. M., on the 2d of July. On the morning of the 3d inst., this regiment was " for one hour and forty minutes under the most terrific cannonading during the war." Second Lieut. S. S. Robinson, was killed by a round shot, besides whom several men were killed or wounded. The regiment to which Mr. Andrews belonged (Nineteenth, ) secured a large number of flags, among which were the colors of the Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Fifty-third, and Fifty-seventh Virginia Regiments. Three of them were taken from the hands of the rebel color bearers, and one was picked up beyond the stone wall. Of the other engagements in which this soldier fought, we have not room to speak.
WILBUR BURNHAM.
Wilbur Burnham was born in Essex, May 24, 1842; parents, Nathan Burnham, 3d, and Margaret B. ; carpenter. He enlisted in Essex, July 28, 1862, under the call for three years' men. With ten other Essex men he joined the Thirty-fifth Regiment at Lynnfield, but that regiment being larger than was allowed by army regulations, the company to which he was attached was transferred, and became Company A, of the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts. Col. P. S. Davis, was commander of the regiment, and Capt. George Nelson of the company to which the soldier belonged. The company was mustered in at Lynnfield on the 18th of August, and he was appointed corporal the same day ; he was soon after promoted as sergeant, which position he held at the time of his death. The Thirty-ninth Regiment was removed to Boxford after remaining at Lynnfield a short time, but left the former place for the seat of war on the 6th of September, 1862. They were at once detailed for picket duty up and down the Potomac, and so continued to be during the then ensuing Autumn and Winter, not being engaged in battle at all. On the 31st of De- cember, this Thirty-ninth Regiment was in bivouac near Mitchell's Station, Va., and they remained on picket and provost duty through the Winter on the northern side of the Rapidan. It was in Washington that the death of this young and rising warrior occurred. While on a march to guard rebel prisoners in the lower part of the city, he was suddenly seized with a fainting fit, and was conveyed to the hospital. It was at first supposed that the at- tack was sun-stroke, but it soon developed itself as varioloid, with typhoid fever of a most malignant type, which terminated his life on the 21st of May, 1863; and it may with confidence be added, that if among the thousands of the patriotic young men of the Union army, there was one who was actuated by a spirit of pure patriotism, Wilbur Burnham was that young man. As one of the twenty-four fallen brave of Essex, he is entitled to honorable mention.
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