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Of the interesting incidents and deeds of patriotism of that period this chapter must be equally deficient. They were many, as a few current traditions which we have been told might testify.
Franklin was not only intolerant of royalists and their sympa- thizers, but showed some special favors to British subjects who succeeded in escaping from the British armies. Tradition has it that more than one deserter found a safe hiding place in the scat- tered houses of this precinct. John Adams, ancestor of the Adams family in this town, was not the only victim of an English press- gang who found refuge here and a home. John Newton was per- haps a more striking case. IIe was a native of England, born about 1755. He had regularly learned the trade of ship carpenter, and had also served his full time as a soldier in the British army. But he was impressed on board a man-of-war at the beginning of the Revolution and brought to America. Feeling that he had a right to his freedom, he succeeded in communicating a plan of es- cape to some of the Yankees in or near Boston, who promised him assistance. On a stormy and dark night, while his ship was block- ading the harbor, he slid overboard undetected, and, guided by a beacon light which had been burning two or three evenings, he swam ashore, a distance of three miles. When he landed he could neither walk nor stand, but his waiting friends carried him to a shelter till he was recruited sufficiently to flee into the country. On his way to Dedham he was met and questioned who he was. He answered promptly, "John -going," and so he was, as rap- idly as possible, until finally he reached Franklin. The name which served him once so well he retained, and was known among our fathers as John Going, now modernized into Gowen. He mar- ried, according to the town records, 14th June, 1786, Mary Cook
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of Bellingham, and had four sons - Benjamin, Asa, John and Luther. Luther remained in town on the paternal farm, married a neighbor's daughter, Elvira Metcalf, and had also four sons - Warren. George, Charles and Horace, of whom the third is still a resident of Franklin, and the son of another keeps the Franklin House. The others have gone.
This town also once counted among its citizens a person who excited quite a commotion in his day. It was immediately after and consequent upon the Revolution, and hence finds a place here.
Genet and his successor Fanchet, French Ministers to the strug- gling United States, thought to forward our independence by exciting the Canadians to revolt, and, through Adet, it was pre- claimed to them that the French would aid them. Some over-en- thusiastie Americans rallied to Adet's private call. Among them was David Lane. Ile was a native of Attleboro, but traded au- tumns in North Carolina, where he somehow obtained the prefix of Me, and was known as MeLane. By this name he married in Franklin, 26th October, 1786, Rebecca Gilmore, and had one (laughter, Rebecca G. McLane, who, in due time, 26th March, 1818, married Robert Gilmore. On the early death of his wife, he married as second wife a Miss Davis, of Charlton, and had another daughter, Cynthia, lately residing in Worcester.
As a sample of his adventurous spirit, he, with Paul Draper, built the " old coffee house" on the north side of Market square, in Providence - the first house where the floor joists were laid on instead of morticed into the plates. It was a famous resort of merchants in its day, which the older men will remember. The State granted McLane a lottery to help him pay for it, but he be- came involved and desperate. In this mood he fell in with Adet, accepted a commission as General in his revolutionary project, and started for Canada in 1796. Ilis directions were to go privately to Quebec, raise a company of raftsmen, who, when mustered and all ready with their eight-feet iron-heade drafting pikes, were to make a dash and seize the garrison of Quebec, when the city would be at their mercy. MeLane gathered his men unconscious of his purpose, but on his way the next year, via St. John, to lead the project, he told his plans to a Frenchman, Charles Trichette, whom he had hired to assist, and to John Black, a Canadian ship-builder. But Black had just been elected to the Provincial Parliament, and
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for his own political advancement he handed over McLane to the authorities as a traitor and spy. The government determined to make him a warning to the French habitants. He was, therefore, solemnly tried, condemned, and publicly executed on the glacis outside the wall of Quebec, near St. John's gate, 21st July, 1797. The body was then taken down from the gallows, the head was severed and held up by the hair to the crowd, the entrails were taken out and burned, and the limbs severed, but not separated. and his remains were buried at a cross road, after the English pen- alty for treason. Grants of land were made to the informants and witnesses. But Black lost his reputation for his agency in the in- famous affair, and ultimately he became a loathsome beggar in the streets of Quebec. It was the last and probably the solitary in- stance of hanging, drawing and quartering in America, and that upon an American citizen and a Franklin man, who, it was said at the time, "might with more propriety have been treated as an un- happy lunatic than a criminal - a stranger, friendless and alone, he was altogether powerless."
Ilis youngest daughter subsequently, by courageous persistence, secured the mutilated remains, and they were brought to Franklin and decently interred, Dr. Emmons preaching a funeral sermon upon the occasion. They lie unmarked by a stone in our Central cemetery.
The muster-rolls for the war of 1812 are at present in Washing- ton awaiting the determination of claims under the recent pension law, and are therefore inaccessible to the public, except at the time and cost of a journey thither. But it is believed that few of our citizens engaged in that second conflict, excepting such as were ordered out a few days for coast defense. But the war of
THE REBELLION
met with a quick, wide and earnest response. As soon as the town meeting could be summoned, 2d May, 1861, the selectmen were authorized to draw $3,000 for war purposes, and to add to the United States pay to enlisted and accepted men $10 per month to single men, and $15 per month to married men, who enlisted within thirty days. The spontaneous feeling is indicated in this vote then passed nem. con. : -
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Resolved. That it is the duty of all good citizens to discounte- nance and frown upon every individual among us, if any there be, who shall express sentiments disloyal to the Government of the United States, or offer aid or sympathy to the plotters of treason and rebellion.
It was no ephemeral impulse, for when the grand conspiracy began to develop its formidable proportions and bitterness of pur- pose, the town again thus decidedly expressed itself, 19th July, 1862 : -
The seleetmen, clergy, and all good citizens are earnestly solic- ited to encourage and. stimulate by public meetings and otherwise the prompt enlistment of the required number of volunteers from this town, that our fellow citizens already in the service may be cheered and sustained by accessions of numbers and strength. the rebellion erushed, and peace and prosperity soon smile upon our common country.
As a result thirty-six men were raised on a quota of twenty- three, the overplus being credited to Dedham by some agreement. On the call of August. 1862, for 300,000 men, the seleetmen re- ported forty-three men raised on a quota of thirty-four. Subse- quent action shows an equally ready response by the town to each call of the Government for troops.
Not only the town officially, but individual citizens were gener- ous in their subscriptions towards paying bounties and aiding the families of volunteers. It may not be invidions to other equally marked instances to give one sample. In the levy of July. 1862, Adams Daniels offered $10 each to the first ten volunteers ; JJames P. Ray offered the same sum to the second ten which Frank B. Ray duplicated ; Henry M. Greene offered $10 to each of the last seven of the quota of twenty-seven, to which Albert E. Daniels added $5 each ; Davis Thayer then offered $5 to each of the twenty- seven, and Oliver Dean duplicated Mr. Thayer's offer. A similar subscription was made in 1864, in which a much larger number of citizens participated and a greatly increased sum was the result. But these facts are spread upon the town records for the use of the next centennial historian, and need not be quoted to the partici- pators now living.
An incident in connection with the first detachment of volun- teers - that over-quota of thirty-six - may find a place here. Lewis R. Whitaker, who had fought for liberty in Kansas, had
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been specially instrumental in raising this body of men, and had been commissioned their Second Lieutenant. It was called Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Just before their departure the citizens met them in the Town Hall, 10th September, 1862. for a farewell. The volunteers had mean- while procured a fine sword for their officer. This sword was presented by George W. Woodward with a telling speech to the surprised Lieutenant. The Captain of the company. Minot of Boston, followed, and others. A Bible had already been given to each man, and near the close of the meeting a temperance pledge was produced to the men. Captain Minot signed it, fol- lowed by Lieutenant Whitaker. He then called upon "the boys " to imitate his example, which they did with two or three excep- tions, rushing en masse upon the platform in their enthusiasm .* When it was announced that only twenty-three were called for. one of the thirteen declared they would all go if they went afoot and alone. These were not hirelings, but Franklin's own sons .. and held the spirit of their fathers of 1776.
As nearly as can at present be ascertained, 218 men were furnished by the town during the war, but many of these were non-residents. The rolls furnished by Mr. Sargent of the Cen- tennial Committee from the State House have been diligently compared with the list in the town clerk's office. and by sev- eral persons acquainted with the men, to determine who were properly citizens of this town. The following list is presented as the result. It is not claimed to be perfectly accurate, but it is the nearest to accuracy which the writer can obtain. The town might well appropriate a small sum to make the list and his- tory of its own soldiers in the rebellion perfectly complete and full. The next century will heartily approve of the expenditure, and future pension agents will lose three times the cost to the ben- efit of future claimants : -
* Lieutenant Whitaker, now resident in Franklin, bears the commission of the first police officer in the town, issued by the selectmen May 18, 1877. A good testimonial both to him and to the morals of the town that it needs but one policeman, after a century's growth, to gather in its " wild oats."
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REBELLION RECORD.
CHARLES R. ADAMS, son of Peter. Enlisted June, 1862, Company A, Thirty-third Regiment. Was transferred to Forty-first Regiment. Went to New Orleans and was changed to Third Cavalry. Returned in August, 1864. Was under Sheridan, and killed in the battle of Berryville, near Winchester, 19th September, 1864.
HENRY P. ADAMS, son of Oren W. Enlisted Jannary, 1861, in Third Infantry. Was taken prisoner November, 1864, and in Andersonville sixteen months.
WILLIAM M. E. ADAMS, son of Erastus. Enlisted July, 1861, in Con- pany 1, Eighteenth Regiment. Was discharged at end of service - Sep- tember, 1864.
ALVIN B. ADAMS, son of Oren W. Enlisted July, 1861, in Company G, Sixteenth Regiment.
WILLIAM W. ADAMS, son of Oren W. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was discharged at end of service.
ANDREW J. ALEXANDER, son of William. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
LOWELL W. ADAMS, son of Oren W. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company G, Forty-fifth Regiment. Re-enlisted March, 1864, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
WILLIAM G. ADAMS, son of Gardner. Enlisted August, 1862, in Con- pany K, Forty-fourth Regiment. Was in the battle of Little Creek, N. C. Was wounded at Newbern. Was honorably discharged at end of service.
CALEB W. BALLOU, son of Caleb. Enlisted August, 1862, in Company H, Fortieth Regiment. Was discharged for disability February, 1864.
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, son of Henry. Enlisted July, 1862, in Com- pany A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was taken prisoner. Died in Ander- sonville 23d October. 1864.
SETII BLAKE, son of Seth. Enlisted August, 1861, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted in 1864. Was captured in second battle of Bull Run. Was prisoner in Andersonville four months. Was honorably discharged.
ADIN BALLOU, son of Albert. Enlisted in Tenth Maine Regiment.
OWEN E. BALLOU, son of Barton. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Fourth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
CHARLES H. BEMIS, son of Henry. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
WILLIAM A. BALLOU, son of Albert. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
THOMAS COFFIELD, son of John. Enlisted July, 1862, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted for three years. Was honorably dis- charged.
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BARTON F. COOK, son of Milton. Enlisted September, 1861, in Com- pany H, Third Battalion, Rhode Island Artillery. Re-enlisted. Was honorably discharged.
. JOSEPH W. Cook, son of Winslow. Enlisted in Rhode Island Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
DANIEL C. CORBIN, son of Otis, Jr. Enlisted July, 1861. Was in bat- tle at Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Was wounded. Was discharged January, 1863.
ANTHONY CONNER, son of Isaac. Enlisted May, 1861, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted. Was transferred to the Thirty-sec- ond Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE CLARK, son of John. Enlisted May, 1861, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted. Was taken prisoner. Died in An- dersonville.
NATHAN CLARK, son of Alfred. Enlisted July, 1861, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted. Was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness. Was discharged. Died at home in consequence of wounds.
JAMES CLARK, son of John. Enlisted July, 1861, in Company B, Eighteenth Regiment.
BARTON A. COLVIN, son of Jasper. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
CHARLES A. COLE, son of -. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE W. J. COLE, son of . Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged. CORNELIUS DUGAN, son of - . Enlisted July, 1862, in Company K, Thirty-third Regiment. Was transferred to Third Cavalry. Was at the capture of Port Hudson. Was honorably discharged.
JOSEPH DAY, son of Hermon. Enlisted July, 1862, in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was transferred to veterans. Was sick and discharged.
EDWARD H. FREEMAN, son of James M. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE M. FARRINGTON, son of Nathan. Enlisted July, 1862, in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was promoted to First Sergeant. Was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Sulphur Springs, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Jackson, Miss. Was wounded and dis- charged.
ALFRED J. FITSPATRICK, son of John L. Enlisted July, 1861, in Com- pany H, Eighteenth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
JOHN M. FISHER, son of Weston. Enlisted August, 1862, in Company C, Thirty-eighth Regiment. Was killed at Berryville 19th September, 1864.
WALTER M. FISHER, son of Walter H. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
MARCUS GILMORE, son of Marcus. Enlisted July, 1862, in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Was honorably discharged.
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WILLIAM S. GILMORE, son of Philander. Enlisted in Company F, Tenth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
NATHANIEL S. GROW, son of Nathaniel. Enlisted September, 1862. in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
SAMUEL E. GAY, son of Willard. Enlisted September, 1861, in Com- pany K, Thirty-first Regiment. Was discharged at Kennea, La., Oeto- ber, 1862, for disability.
PLINY A. HOLBROOK, son of Ellis. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
JOSEPH W. HOLBROOK, son of Eliphalet. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
SAMUEL C. HUNT, son of Rev. Samuel. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was Hospital Steward in Foster General Hospital, Newbern, N. C. Was honorably discharged.
FRANK F. HODGES, son of Willard. Enlisted September, 1862, in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
NORMAN HASTINGS, son of Nathaniel. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Died on return 27th June, 1863, as the ship was entering Boston harbor.
ALBERT L. JORDAN, son of Alfred. Enlisted July, 1862, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Was wounded at Gettysburg, the bullet passing through his wallet and his wife's picture; also at Antietam, Bobster Mills (?), Blackburn's Ford, and Chancellorsville. Was honorably discharged.
HENRY A. JORDAN, son of Alfred. Enlisted October, 1861, in Company H, First Cavalry. Re-enlisted in Third Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
SAMUEL H. JORDAN, son of Alfred. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Re-enlisted in Company I, Eigh- teenth Regiment. He lost his left arm at Cold Harbor. June, 1864. Was discharged disabled.
EDWIN A. JORDAN, son of Alfred. Enlisted October, 1861, in .Com- pany H, First Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE KING, M. D., son of George. Enlisted August, 1863. Sur- geon in Sixteenth Regiment. Was discharged April, 1864. Re-enlisted as Surgeon of Twenty-ninth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
H. D. KINGSBURY, son of Nathaniel D). Enlisted for three years in Company K, First Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
EMERY T. KINGSBURY, son of Fisher A. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE A. KINGSBURY, son of Horatio. Enlisted for nine months in Company B, Forty-second Regiment. Was taken prisoner at Brashier City, La. Was paroled and discharged.
HERBERT L. LINCOLN, son of Manley. Enlisted July, 1862, in Con- pany A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was wounded at South Mountain. Died in Baltimore 9th October, 1862. Body interred in Franklin.
GRANVILLE MORSE, son of Levi F. Enlisted for three years, May, 1861, in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted in Thirty-second Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
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LEWIS L. MILLET, son of John W. Enlisted for three years in Com- pany E, Twelfth Regiment. Was wounded at Bull Run 30th August, 1862. Died in Georgetown, D. C., 2d October. Buried in Franklin.
EUGENE H. MARSU, son of Lewis H. Enlisted June, 1861, for three years, in Second Rhode Island Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
JEREMIAH MURPHY, son of Thomas. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment, for nine months. Re-enlisted in Com- pany K, Fifty-sixth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
CHARLES M. NASON, son of George W. Enlisted July, 1862, in Com- pany A, Thirty-fifth Regiment, for three years. Was honorably dis- charged.
WILLIAM E. NASON, son of George W. Enlisted July, 1861, in Com- pany A, Eighteenth Regiment. Detailed to the Quartermaster's Depart- ment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE W. NASON, Jr., son of George W. Volunteered 19th April, 1861, in Company I, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, for three months. Was discharged 31st July. Re-enlisted 14th August, 1861, in Company H, Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, for three years. On January 4, 1862, was appointed Commissary and Store- keeper in the fleet with Burnside's expedition at Annapolis, Md. March 20th was transferred to Provost Marshal's Department at Newbern, N. C. May 2, 1864, was appointed Colonel of Fire Department Regiment. Was honorably discharged 23d June, 1865, at end of service. [The Fire Department Regiment consisted of 800 white men, and was organized by the Commanding General both as infantry soldiers and to protect the Government stores at Newbern from rebel incendiaries. Colonel Nason was first elected Chief Engineer by ballot of the regiment, and then ap- pointed Colonel by the General in command.]
ALBERT D. NASON, son of George W. Enlisted September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment, for nine months. Was honorably discharged.
ALBERT J. NEWELL, son of Arnold J. Enlisted for three years in Com- pany I, Twenty-third Regiment.
OLNEY P. NEWELL, son of Hiram. Enlisted September, 1861, for three years in Company B, First Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
DUANE NEWELL, son of Nelson C. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Re-enlisted in Twelfth Heavy Artillery. Was discharged for disability.
GEORGE L. PARTRIDGE, son of Seth. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months in Company B, Forty-second Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
WHIPPLE PECK, son of Whipple. Enlisted for three years in First Rhode Island Regiment. Was discharged for disability in 1864, on ac- count of wounds.
HORACE W. PILLSBURY, son of Stephen. Enlisted May, 1861, for three years in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Was wounded at second bat- tle of Bull Run, August, 1862. Was discharged disabled September, 1863.
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ALFRED J. PIERCE, son of Israel. Enlisted February, 1862. for three years in Third Rhode Island Artillery. Was honorably discharged.
ISRAEL F. PIERCE, son of Israel. Enlisted in Rhode Island Cavalry. Was honorably discharged.
HENRY M. PICKERING, son of Samnel. Enlisted September, 1862. for nine months in Company C. Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably dis- charged.
JAMES M. RYAN, son of James. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Re-enlisted in Twelfth Heavy Artillery. Was honorably discharged.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, son of -. Enlisted July. 1862, for three years in Company K, Thirty-third Regiment. CHARLES H. SCOTT, son of -.
Enlisted July, 1862, for three years ยท in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment.
SMITH O. SAYLES, son of Oren W. Enlisted in - Rhode Island
Cavalry.
THOMAS W. SAYLES, son of Oren W. Enlisted in Rhode Island Cavalry.
MICHAEL O. SULLIVAN, son of Jeremiah. Enlisted September, 1862. for nine months in Company C. Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
GEORGE W. THOMPSON, son of Thaddeus. Enlisted May, 1861, for three years in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted, and was in the whole campaign of MeClellan's. Was at the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Was transferred to Thirty-second Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
RANSOM TIFT, son of James. Enlisted May, 1861, for three years in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Was at the battle of Antietam. &c. Was honorably discharged.
WILLIAM H. THOMAS, son of Sandrus. Enlisted July, 1861, for three years in Company I. Eighteenth Regiment. Re-enlisted for nine months in the Forty-second Regiment, and re-enlisted as a veteran in the Heavy Artillery.
ABIRAM W. WALES, son of Amos A. Enlisted July, 1861, for three years in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment. Was in the battles at South Mountain and Antietam. Was honorably discharged.
SHEPARD G. WIGGIN, son of Joseph. Enlisted August. 1862, for three years in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Died in Falmouth, Va .. 16th January, 1863.
SILAS H. WILSON, son of Enoch. Enlisted July, 1862, for three years in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was wounded in the battle at South Mountain, taken prisoner, and confined in Richmond. Was paroled and discharged for disability.
OTIS WINN. son of Peter. Enlisted August, 1862, for three years in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment. Was in the battles at South Moun- tain and Antietam. Died in Alexandria, Va., 6th March, 1863, and was buried in Franklin.
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HENRY J. WARD, son of Reuben. Enlisted for nine months in Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably discharged.
OWEN W. WALES, son of Otis, Jr. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was discharged.
LEWIS F. WILLIAMS, son of William. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months. Re-enlisted as a veteran in the Twelfth Heavy Artillery.
JOHN B. WHITING, son of Sydney. Enlisted September, 1862, for nine months, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was honorably dis- charged.
LEWIS R. WHITAKER, son of Richard. Enlisted for nine months, September, 1862, in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment. Was appointed Second Lieutenant 3d September. Re-enlisted and appointed Second Lieutenant in the Twelfth Heavy Artillery. Was honorably discharged.
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