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Charles Gordon :
Surgeon's Mate Sept. 27, 1830.
William White: Paymaster . Sept. 13, 1830.
Charles Lane:
Colonel June 28, 1830.
John Stephenson :
Ensign Sept. 2, 1833.
Lieutenant June 9, 1837.
Lieutenant . June 23, 1838. 1st Lieutenant . 18 May, 1840.
1st Lieutenant . May 18, 1840. Captain March 31, 1841. Ivery B. Gerry: Captain May 3, 1838.
Charles Churchill: Ensign . Feb. 28, 1839.
Isaac G. Sprague :
Ensign June 19, 1832.
Lieutenant Sept. 2, 1833.
John C. Webb:
Ensign March 13, 1834.
Solomon L. Damon : Ensign March 18, 1834.
Joshua Tower, Jr. : Lieutenant . March 13, 1834.
Captain May 3, 1836.
Lincoln B. Sprague: Lieutenant
May 3, 1836.
July 13, 1841. . Joseph P. Batson : 3d Lieutenant . Aug. 6, 1841. 2d Lieutenant April 23, 1842.
Lieutenant
May 3, 1836.
Captain . May 7. 1839.
Benjamin S. Whiting:
Lieutenant . May 7, 1839. Thomas Corbett: Ensign June 9, 1837.
Lieutenant Feb. 28, 1839.
Captain . Aug. 15, 1839. Elijah L. Whiton : Ensign June 10, 1837.
Lieutenant Aug. 15, 1839.
Edward Cazneau: Captain April 23, 1842.
John Todd: 3d Lieutenant . April 5, 1841.
Quartermaster . July 13, 1841.
Rufus Lane, Jr .: 3d Lieutenant . May 18, 1840. Paymaster July 13, 1841
Joseph Sprague: 2d Lieutenant Adjutant
, May 18, 1840
Enoch Whiting: Ensign . Sept. 14, 1836.
Caleb Hersey :
John C. Eldridge: 2d Lieutenant May 27, 1840.
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Joshua Hersey, Jr. : Major . May 2, 1838.
Ezra Stephenson:
Surgeon July 13, 1841.
Joseph M. Whiting:
Ensign May 1, 1838.
Charles W. Seymour:
Ensign Dec. 25, 1833.
Lieutenant
June 10, 1837.
Captain
June 23, 1838.
Captain
April 5, 1841.
Colonel June 17, 1841.
Moses Humphrey : Ensign June 23, 1838.
Moses L. Whiton :
3d Lieutenant Aug. 22, 1840.
2d Lieutenant April 5, 1841.
Captain . Aug. 6, 1841.
Elijah B. Gill: 2d Lieutenant . May 18, 1840.
1st Lieutenant . March 31, 1840. Nehemiah Ripley, Jr. :
3d Lieutenant . May 18, 1840.
2d Lieutenant March 3, 1841.
Elihu Thayer, Jr .: 3d Lieutenant . May 26, 1841.
2d Lieutenant . Aug. 6, 1841.
Bela S. Hersey : 2d Lieutenant . Aug. 22, 1840 1st Lieutenant . April 5, 1841.
Lincoln B. Sprague: 3d Lieutenant . March 31, 1841.
Henry Lincoln, 3d: 3d Lieutenant . April 23, 1842. Nelson Corthell: Ist Lieutenant . May 27, 1846.
Christopher C. Eldridge: 4th Lieutenant . May 27, 1846.
By a general order April 24, 1840, very many of the above officers who were then in office were discharged, but some of the number received new commissions to the same rank as those pre- viously held. As early as 1831 the company commanded by Captain Nichols was disbanded and annexed to Captain Nicker- son's company in the Middle Ward ; thus the two north military wards became one. After the historical Second Regiment was disbanded, there remained in Hingham only the volunteer com- panies, the Hingham Rifles and Washington Guards. These were attached to the Third Battalion of Light Infantry, and with its disbandment March 31, 1843, the Rifles ceased to exist. The Guards appear to have lingered somewhat longer, for on May 27, 1846, Nelson Corthell and Christopher C. Eldridge were commis- sioned lieutenants in the company. Little was heard of it there- after, however, and Hingham was soon without a company of organized militia, for the first time in some two hundred years.
In a little one-story wooden building, slightly altered in appear- ance in these later days for its occupation as the intermediate school at Centre Hingham, and standing near Spring Street, on what was once a part of the Common lands, and not far from the site of the old fort of brave John Smith and his men, there was quartered in 1861 a company of the Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, known in military circles as the Lincoln Light Infantry, composed of some of the best young men of the town, and having a wide reputation for its discipline and efficiency. It was organized on the 28th of October, 1854, and January 20 of the following year Hawkes Fearing, Jr., was elected its first commander. The other officers were : Joseph T. Sprague, 1st Lieut. ; Luther Stephenson, Jr., 2d Lieut. ; Edwin Fearing, 3d Lieut. ; E. Waters Burr, 4th Lieut. Edwin Fearing died, and E. Waters Burr became 3d
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Lieut., while William Fearing was chosen 4th Lieut. The two latter officers resigned subsequently.
July 4, 1855, the company had its first parade ; and from that date to the day of its disbandment in 1862, this last of the many military organizations which had faithfully served the country, and kept bright the honor of the town, maintained the reputation of its predecessors. At the opening of the Rebellion its com- mander was Joseph T. Sprague; but its high standing was largely due to its first captain, who had then recently become lieutenant- colonel of the regiment. To the little armory where were kept its arms, equipments, and colors, which had been the pleasant gathering-place of its members and the scene of its drills and instructions, came with sober faces, and probably heavy hearts, the soldiers of the company on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1861. The booming of the cannon across the bay of Charleston, sounding the minute-guns of slavery's death-knell, left to the townsmen of Benjamin Lincoln no alternative ; and in the great march towards liberty which then commenced, the Hingham which nestled in her bosom the sleeping remains of the heroes of four wars knew no faltering.
The voice of the great leader who had arisen was not strange in her ears; and as it reached the home of his ancestors and bade the descendants of the Hobarts and Herseys and Cushings and Lincolns take up the old battle for freedom and give their lives that others might live, the response was as in the days of Church, of Wolfe, and of Washington ; and the town whose forebears had first settled down here at Bare Cove and given it the name of the English home they had left, whose firstborn had helped subdue Philip, whose sons " went out " against the French, and strove with the Redcoats at Bunker Hill, through all the weary and sad and disheartening days of the long contest gave freely and gen- erously of her means, and honored many a southern battle-field with the graves of her children. The details of the story can be scarcely more than touched upon here; the briefly related facts expand too greatly the limits of this chapter. In glancing back at the history of this exciting period, we cannot repress a little local pride in the recollection that the beloved President belonged, at least in a sense, to the old town, being a descendant of the Hingham Lincolns; that the Governor of the Commonwealth was our own loved fellow-citizen ; that the company which upheld the town's honor and continued her noble record of devotion to duty was named after her great general, and its commander was descended from the old soldiers of the Revolution; and that, moreover, many of its members bore the honored names of ancestors who had faced death at the cannon's mouth nearly a hundred years before, - while the second officer of the regiment to which it was attached was a grandson of the Hawkes Fearing who drew the Hingham cannon to Hull in 1776, and a relation of Capt. Thomas Fearing of the Revolutionary army.
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On the 16th, after a meeting of the field officers of the regiments near Boston in the Governor's room at the State House, Licut .- Colonel Fearing came to Hingham and called a meeting of the Lincoln Light Infantry at its armory. During the day, Lieut. Luther Stephenson, Jr., had received a despatch from the Governor announcing the discharge of Captain Sprague, and ordering him to report with the company by the first train in Boston.
At one o'clock P. M. of Wednesday, the 17th, the members assembled at the armory, and at four o'clock marched out amid the ringing of bells and the cheering of the multitude. Taking the train, Boston was reached late in the afternoon; and the com- pany soon joined the Fourth Regiment, to which it belonged, at the State House. After receiving equipments and listening to a brief address from Governor Andrew, the Fourth and Sixth Regi- ments together marched for the depots, -the former proceeding by the Old Colony, and the latter by the then Worcester road. April 20, the Fourth reached its destination, Fortress Monroe. The following is the roll of the Lincoln Light Infantry of April 19, 1861 :
Luther Stephenson, Jr., Capt.,
Charles Sprague, 1st Lieut.,
Levi Kenerson, 66
Nathaniel French, Jr., 2d "
Josiah M. Lane, 66
Peter N. Sprague, Sergt.,
George R. Reed, 66
Joshua Morse, 66 Henry Stephenson, Corp.,
James S. Sturtevant, "
Lyman B. Whiton, 66
William S. Whiton, "
Samuel Bronsdon, Fifer,
George W. Bibby, Private,
Parker E. Lane,
66
Daniel W. Lincoln, 66 66
The above were members of the company previously, but the following joined at the time of its 'departure : -
George M. Adams, Private,
William T. Nelson, Private,
Charles H. Bassett,
Ebenezer F. Roberts,
Andrew J. Clark,
John S. Souther, 66
John Creswell,
William J. Stockwell, 66
Fergus A. Easton, 66
Alvin Tower,
John W. Eldredge, 66
Isaac G. Waters,
66
George A. Grover, 66 George Wolfe, 66
James M. Haskell, Elijah Prouty, Weymouth, Priv.,
George E. Humphrey, Theodore Raymond, Weymouth, Private, 66
John Q. Jacob,
Benjamin L. Jones, 66 Alfred W. Stoddard, Marshfield, Private.
George Miller, 66
The company, which numbered forty-two at this time, was increased to seventy-nine on the 22d of May by the arrival of the following recruits : -
Benjamin S. Souther, "
Joseph N. Berry, Weymouth, Pr.,
Jacob G. Cushing, 66
Henry S. Ewer, Private,
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Henry F. Binney,
Jacob Ourish, Albert L. Peirce,
James B. Bryant,
John W. Burr,
Charles H. F. Stodder,
Thomas A. Carver,
Demerick Stodder,
Silas H. Cobb,
William Taylor,
Charles Corbett,
Charles H. Damon, W. Scituate,
Jerry J. Corcoran, Isaac M. Dow,
Hosea Dwelly, 66
Levi H. Dow,
Francis W. Everson, Weymouth,
George Dunbar,
Charles A. Gardner, W. Scituate,
George W. Fearing,
Henry C. Gardner,
Henry C. French,
John D. Gardner, 66
Albert S. Haynes,
Herbert Graves, 66
Edwin Hersey,
William B. Harlow, Hanover,
William H. Jacob,
E. A. Jacob, West Scituate,
William H. Jones, Jr.
John H. Prouty, 66 66
Alfred A. Lincoln,
William Prouty, Jr., " 66
Daniel S. Lincoln,
Alpheus Thomas, South
William H. Marston,
Two days after the departure of Lieutenant Stephenson with his men, a meeting of the citizens was held at the Town Hall for the purpose of devising means for the relief of such families of mem- bers of the company as might need assistance during its absence. Caleb Gill presided, and eight hundred dollars for the purpose was subscribed by persons in the hall. It was the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. On Sunday, the 28th, a large number of ladies, under the general direction of Mrs. Solomon Lincoln, met in Masonic Hall, in Lincoln Building, for the purpose of making clothing to be sent to Hingham's company at Fortress Monroe. April 30, Charles W. Cushing presided over a town meeting, at which six thousand dollars were appropriated to furnish supplies to the families of those who had been, or thereafter should be, called into the country's service. The Fourth Massachusetts was stationed a portion of its time at Newport News, and a portion at Hampton, from which last place it returned to Fortress Monroe on the expiration of its term of enlistment. It reached Boston July 19, and went into camp at Long Island. On the 23d the Lincoln Light Infantry, having with the rest of the regiment been mustered out of service, proceeded to Hingham, where it was given a formal public reception. A procession consisting of a detach- ment of the Second Battalion of Infantry, a company of "Home Guards," the fire department, a cavalcade, and a large number of citizens, was formed upon the wharf. Subsequently Cobb's Light Battery headed the escort. In front of Lincoln's Building a service of thanksgiving was held, and addresses were made. At the close of the exercises the procession proceeded to the Town Hall amid the ringing of the church bells and the firing of cannon ; here a collation was served, and the men returned to the homes which they had left so suddenly three months before.
George C. Dwelly, Hanover,
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The subsequent history of this company was uneventful; it may as well be briefly related here. Feb. 17, 1862, Joshua Morse was elected captain, vice Luther Stephenson, Jr., honorably dis- charged. May 26, 1862, the company, then numbering forty-two men, was ordered to report to Boston for active service, but was sent back to Hingham on the 28th. June 23, Captain Morse having resigned, Peter N. Sprague was elected captain. Sep- tember 29 of the same year, the company was disbanded.
May 3, 1861, President Lincoln issued his first call for volun- teers to serve three years. Elijah B. Gill, then a resident of Boston, but a native of Hingham, enlisted in Company I of the First Mass. Volunteers, and was made lieutenant of the company. Lieutenant Gill was mortally wounded July 21, and buried at Centreville, Va. He was the first Hingham man killed in the war. The following also enlisted in 1861 : -
FIRST REGIMENT.
John William Gardner, Co. I; also in Navy. Died in service. George P. Kilburn, Co. I.
John W. Chessman, Co. H. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
SEVENTH REGIMENT.
William Dunbar, Jr., Co. K. Born Hingham, Nov. 2, 1828. While a member of the 35th Infantry he was mortally wounded at Weldon Railroad, and died April 19, 1864, in the 36th year of his age.
ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
James J. Healey, Co. E ; also Co. K, Sergt. ; twice wounded.
Lemnel S. Blackman, Co. K. Quota Dorchester ; former resident
Hingham. Born Dorchester Feb. 18, 1840. Died June 13, 1870, from disease contracted in service.
Daniel H. Burr, Co. K. Born Hingham Feb. 19, 1838. Wounded at Williamsburg May 5, 1862. Killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863, aged 25 years.
James S. Dustin, Co. K. Musician.
Nathaniel Gill, Co. K. Musician.
William T. Barnes, Co. K.
Charles H. Marsh, Co. K. Born Hingham July 12, 1828. Mortally wounded at Williamsburg May 5, 1862, and died the next day, aged 34 years.
Edwin Humphrey enlisted April 20, 1861. June 13 he became First Lieutenant Company G, and October 11 he was made Captain of Company A. Captain Humphrey was the son of Leavitt and Muriel Humphrey, and was born in Hingham Sept. 6, 1831. He was the first man to enlist for three years upon the town's quota. He was a brave officer, and was mor- tally wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; he died the next day. The Grand Army Post in Hingham is named in his honor.
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TWELFTH REGIMENT.
Alexander Hitchborn, Co. F. Killed at Chancellorsville. Captain
Hitchborn was born in Hingham in 1822, and removed to Brockton in 1854. After resigning from the Twelfth Massa- chusetts, he became Assistant Surgeon in the Seventh Regular Infantry, and was killed at the opening of the battle. George Gardner, Co. E, Corporal.
John H. Blackman, Co. H. Quota Weymouth. Born Dorchester June 6, 1842. Killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862. Brother of Lemuel S.
Laban F. Cushing, Co. K. Quota Manchester.
James D. Dunbar, Co H. Quota Weymouth.
John J. Edmonds, Co. G. Transferred to V. R. Corps.
James Fitzgerald, Co. G. Born Nova Scotia, 1841. Mortally wounded at Antietam, and died Nov. 6, aged 21 years. Jacob Gardner, Jr., Co. H.
Samuel Spencer, Co. E. Mortally wounded at City Point, and died June 25, 1864, aged 20 years.
Henry Swears, Co. H. Quota Weymouth. Killed at Fredericks- burg Dec. 13, 1862, aged 20 years.
Francis Thomas, Co. H. Born Hingham, Feb. 1, 1844. Lieu- tenant Thomas was at the time of his enlistment but 17 years of age, and the first of five brothers to enter the service. Enter- ing the army as sergeant-major, he became in 1862 adjutant of the regiment, and in January, 1863, Inspector of the Second Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps ; he was killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1862, aged 19 years.
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT.
William Wallace Sprague, Co. B. Quota Boston. Prisoner at Belle Isle.
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.
William Carter. Transferred to 1st Heavy Artillery, 1862. Anton Tapp, Co. L. Transferred to 1st Heavy Artillery, 1862.
FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.
John E. Morse, Co. B. Quota Fitchburg. Captain in the Invalid Corps. Afterward in 20th Regiment.
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.
Michael Fee, Co. E. Born Leitrim County, Ireland, December, 1820. Wounded at Gettysburg, and died in service Sept. 26, 1863, aged 43 years.
Charles W. Blossom, Co. I, Corporal. Born Chicopee June 29, 1840, and died at Hingham from disease contracted in service Aug. 26, 1862, six days after reaching home.
Dennis Meagher, Co. A. Died or killed in service.
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SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
Owen Murphy, Co. C, Sergt. David Pettengill. Probably enlisted in 1861.
Philip Sullivan. Probably enlisted in 1861.
EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.
. Thomas Weston, Co. E, Middleborough, Capt. Colonel Weston entered the service as Captain of Company E., became Major Oct. 15, 1863, and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Sept. 2, 1864. He was a brave and efficient officer, and was wounded at the second Battle of Bull Run. Has been for many years a resident of Hingham, and represented the district in the legislature in 1892. Was Commander of Post 104, G. A. R., in 1890 and 1891.
Benjamin F. Meservey, Co. H, 4th M. V. M., Quincy, 2d Lieut. Major Meservey became Captain of Co. K, 18th Mass. and was wounded severely at second Bull Run. A brave officer. Brevet Major.
Henry Jones, Co. E, Sergt. Quota Duxbury. Wounded at Bull Run, and again at Petersburg.
William H. Jones, Jr., Co. K. First served in Lincoln Light Infantry. Became Sergeant in Captain Meservey's company, in which, also, his father served. A brave soldier. Born Wey- mouth Jan. 26, 1841. Died from disease while in service, Feb. 12, 1864, aged 23 years.
Nelson F. Corthell, Co. A, Corp. Born Hingham April 1, 1838. Killed at second Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862, aged 24 years.
Thomas Churchill, Co. A. Quota Boston. Born Hingham, Feb. 5, 1808. Died in service, Aug. 7, 1862, aged 54 years. James M. Downer.
John Q. Jacob, Co. K. Transferred to V. R. Corps. First ser- vice in Lincoln Light Infantry.
William H. Jones, Co. K. Afterward Co. C, 4th Cavalry. Born Boston, March 23, 1816, and died in service Sept. 19, 1864, aged 48 years. Mr. Jones was the father of Sergt. Wm. H. Jones, Jr., and of Gardner Jones, both of whom also laid down their lives for their country.
Samuel T. Mears. Quota Duxbury.
William W. Robinson, Co. K. First served in Co. H, 4th Infantry, M. V. M. Born Hingham, April 14, 1835. Died of disease contracted in service.
Jeremiah Spencer, Co. K.
George E. Smith, Co. G. Edward L. Tracy, Co. K. Robert Tufts, Co. K.
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NINETEENTH REGIMENT.
Musician. Also served in Lincoln Light
Samuel Bronsdon. Infantry, M.V.M. James McKay, Co. I.
TWENTIETH REGIMENT.
Alvin Tower, Co. A. Born Cohasset, Sept. 13, 1832. Mortally wounded at Fair Oaks June 1, 1862, and died June 8, aged 30 years. First service in Lincoln Light Infantry. Edward O. Graves, Co. K. Afterward in 59th and 57th.
TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
George A. Grover, Co. E. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry ; wounded. Andrew Jacob, Co. E.
TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
Charles F. Alger, Co. K. Quota Boston.
John B. Crease, Co. A. Quota Boston. Born Scotland, May 26, 1839. Died in service May 16, 1862, aged 23 years. William B. Cushing, Co. D.
TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
George E. Humphrey, Co. H, Sergt. Wounded. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry.
Edward C. Blossom, Co. A, Corp. Also in 29th Regt. of Infantry.
Andrew J. Clark, Co. H. Also in Lincoln Lt. Infty.
Samuel M. Lincoln, Co. H. Born Hingham Dec. 28, 1841; died in service Oct. 2, 1864, aged 23 years.
TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
George L. Gardner, Co. E. John W. Lincoln, Co. C. Quota Northborough.
Justin A. Carver, Co. C.
Thomas Conway, Co. F.
TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Peter Ready, Co. F.
TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT.
Joseph H. Barnes, Co. K, Capt. Boston. Captain Barnes became Lieutenant-Colonel in December, 1861. Brevet Brig .- Gen. Waldo F. Corbett, Co. H, Corp. 1st Lieut. 1st U. S. Heavy Artil- lery (Colored).
George Thomas, Co. A.
THIRTIETH REGIMENT. Jacob Ourish, Co. I, Sergt. Wounded. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry. Joseph C. Burr, Co. C, Corp. Also in V. R. C.
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John Brown, Co. E. William J. Stockwell, Co. I. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry. Born Hingham, Feb. 24, 1842. Died in service, Aug. 9, 1863. John Sullivan, Co. E.
THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
The Thirty-second Regiment, of which the basis was a battalion originally raised to garrison Fort Warren, contained many more men from Hingham than did any other in the service. Indeed, three of the companies, A, E, and F, were so largely composed of recruits from this town as to be regarded almost as Hingham organizations ; and the movements of the regiment were prob- ably followed with greater interest by our citizens than any other in the army. Its magnificent record for bravery and faithful- ness more than fulfilled and repaid the expectations and pride felt in it. Capt. Luther Stephenson, Jr., recruited and commanded Company A, which eventually contained twenty-four from Hing- ham. Captain Bumpus, of Braintree, commanded Company E, in which thirty-two Hingham men enlisted, and in Company F there were twenty-two of our fellow-townsmen ; besides these, there were six others scattered through other companies, - making eighty-four Hingham soldiers in the regiment. The names of those enlisting in subsequent years will be found in their proper places.
Luther Stephenson, Jr., who, it will be recalled, commanded the Lincoln Light Infantry on the departure of the Fourth Regiment, M. V. M., was born in Hingham, April 25, 1830. He became Major of the Thirty-second Regiment Aug. 18, 1862, and December 29 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg, and again on the 18th and 22d of June, 1864. Colonel Stephenson was a brave officer, and by order of General Grant was breveted colonel and brigadier- general March 16, 1865, for gallant services. He was chief of the State Detective Force from March, 1875, to July, 1878, and in 1883 was appointed Governor of the United States Soldiers' Home at Togus, in Maine, with the rank of a brigadier-general in the army, which office he still holds.
George R. Reed, Cos. A and I. Born Hingham, Dec. 17, 1839. First service in Lincoln Light Infantry. Sept. 1, 1862, became 2d Lieut. ; 1st Lieut. Dec. 30; July 20, 1864, commissioned Captain.
George W. Bibby, Co. A. Member Lincoln Light Infty. Aug. 21,
1862, 2d Lieut., and 1st Lieut. Aug. 22, 1863. Killed May 20, 1864.
Nathaniel French, Jr., Co. A. Born Hingham, Aug. 28, 1858. 2d Lieut. Lincoln Light Infty. April 20, 1861, and of Co. A, 32d Regt. Nov. 16; 1st Lieut. March 7, 1862, and transferred to Co. D. Died in service, Aug. 9, 1862.
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Amos P. Holden, Co. A. 2d Lieut. March 26, 1862.
Edward T. Bouve, Co. G, 1st Lieut. See 4th Cavalry.
Lyman B. Whiton, Co. I. Born Hingham, Jan. 17, 1834. Sergt. in Lincoln Light Infty ; 2d Lieut. Co. 1, 32d Regt. ; 1st Lieut. May 26, 1862; Capt. 3d Co. Heavy Artil., Dec. 31, 1862 ; Major 3d Regt. Heavy Artil. Sept. 8, 1864 ; Commander Post 104, G. A. R., 1892.
Thomas A. Carver, Co. E, Sergt. Wounded. Trans. to V. R. C. ; first served in Lincoln Light Infantry.
Charles Corbett, Co. A, Sergt. Memb. Lincoln Lt. Infty.
John W. Eldredge, Co. E, " Wounded. 66 66
Henry S. Ewer, Co. A, 66 66 66 66
James M. Haskell, Co. A, " 66 66
Born in Augusta, Me .; one of six brothers in the service. Mortally wounded at Gettysburg.
James McCarty, Co. A, Sergt. A very brave soldier.
Charles S. Meade, Co. A, " Born Walpole, N. H., March 1, 1844. Enlisted at 17 years of age, and died in service, March 7, 1864.
Peter Ourish, Co. E., Sergt. Born Buffalo, N. Y., April 15, 1845.
Enlisted at 16 years of age. Mort. wounded; died June 8, 1864, aged 19 years.
John Parry, Co. A, Sergt.
Nathaniel Wilder, 2d, Co. E, Sergt. Transferred to V. R. C.
John C. Chadbourn, Co. A, Corp. Wounded.
Silas H. Cobb, Co. E, Corp. Member Lincoln Light Infty.
Jacob G. Cushing, Co. D, Corp. Member Lincoln Light Infantry.
Born Oct. 8, 1836. Mort. wounded at Laurel Hill, May 12, 1864. John C. Eldredge, Co. E, Corp.
Harvey M. Pratt, Co. A, 66
Wounded.
Edgar P. Stodder, Co. E,
Sumner A. Trask, Co. A,
Edwin Hersey, Co. E, Musician. Also in Lincoln Light Infty.
Charles H. F. Stodder, Co. E, Musician. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry.
Otis L. Battles, Co. E. Wounded at Cold Harbor.
William Breen, Co. A, Corp. Died a prisoner in the service.
Henry F. Binney, Co. E. Also in Lincoln Light Infantry.
Ichabod W. Chandler, Co. E. Transferred to V. R. C.
William Fardy, Co. E.
George French, Jr., Co. A. Transferred to V. R. C.
Stephen P. Gould, Co. E.
Warren Hatch, Jr., Co. A.
Samuel J. Henderson, Co. A.
John Q. Hersey, Co. E. Born Hingham, Sept. 23, 1829. Died .in the service.
William Hersey, Jr.
Wallace Humphrey, Co. E. Born Hingham, Sept. 2, 1836. Killed at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864.
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