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The public records (original) of the Massachusetts militia for the war of 1812, have been placed in the hands of the War Department at Washington. Only copies are available now at the State House in Boston. Mr. Baker has written up the mat- ter in a book entitled, "Records of Massachusetts Militia in the War of 1812-1814." From his work we glean the following names as soldiers which from the names would indicate that they came from Holland. They all enlisted in the Ware mil- itia company under command of Capt. Ephraim Scott, Lieut. Colonel Enos Foot's Regiment, Brigadier General Bliss' brig- ade. This Ware company was raised at Ware and vicinity. The names will be noticed as names found in the records of Holland :- Time of service, Sept. 10-Nov. 7, 1814, and place of service was Boston and vicinity.
The following is a list of those who served in the war of 1812, believed to be from Holland :-
Abel Damon (?) Asa Kimball
Perley Glazier Asa Thompson
William Graham ( ?)
Kimball Webber
Sylvester Howlett
Those with ( ?) are not fully proved to be Holland men but the names are those of well-known Holland families, and it is very probable that they belonged in Holland's quota.
War of 1812
Muster roll of Capt. Ephraim Scott's Company, Lt. Col. Enos Foot's Regiment. Time of service, from Sept. 10, to Nov.
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7, 1814. Raised at Ware and vicinity. Said regiment belonged to Brigadier Gen. Bliss' brigade.
OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY
Ephraim Seott, Capt.
Joseph Shaw, Lt.
Ezekiel Boyden, Ensign
Evander Darby, Sergt.
Allender Brackenridge, Sergt. Foster Marsh, Sergt.
Heron Wright, Corp.
Calvin Murray, Corp.
Phineas Converse, Musician
Officers, 11.
PRIVATES
Adolphus Abbey
Reuben Lazell
Waters Allen
Charles Levins
King Baldwin
Benjamin Lewis
Josialı Barton
Abial Lumbard
Ozel Boyden
David Lumbard
Samuel Carrier
William Mason
Benjamin Cleveland
Saul May
Sylvanus Collins
Jonathan Maynard
Eber Cutter
John MeIntosh
Cyprain Cutting Abel Damon
Perley Moulton
Samuel Demon, Jr.
Abner Needham
Darius Eaton
Jonathan Needham
Daniel Eddy
Reuben Nourse
Ira Eddy John Eddy
Isaac Osborn Levi Osborn
Asa Fisk
Ebenezer Pratt
Perley Glazier
Jonathan Pratt
William Graham
Pliny Richardson
Elijah Harvey, Jr.
Rufus Richardson
Andrew Harwood, Jr.
Daniel Ryder
Stotham Hinckley
Earl Sherman
Sylvester Howlett
Asa Kimball
Joseph Simmons William Spear Jesse Squire
Philip D. Lake
James F. Lamberton
Emory Stricklin
Reuben Lamberton
Lyman Thayer
John Grant, Musician
Jonathan Coolidge Jr., Sergt.
Isaae Merritt
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Asa Thompson Kimball Webber
Joel Wright Privates 58
Lyman Woolcot
E. G. Fuller was drafted for this war but furnished a sub- stitute, writes his grandson, E. G. Drake.
Since no militia list is available during the War of 1812- 15, a tax list for 1812 is not without interest, not only for showing who the residents of the town were, but for tracing the enlistments from the town for this war. It should be borne in mind, however, that the enlistments would be mostly from the young men as yet without estate. The tax list is as fol- lows :-
Abel Allen, Lt.
Stephen Lyon
Ezra Allen, Lt.
Walter Lyon
David Anderson
James Lyon
John Anderson
James A. Lynn
Smith Adams
James Marcy
Walter Ainsworth
Uriah Marcy
Joshua Barrett, Capt.
Elisha Marcy
Edward Blodgett
David Marcy
Judah Buck
Calvin Marcy
Loring Baker
Nehemiah May, Jr.
Shubaal Baker
Zuriel May
Lemuel Colburn
Ebenezer Morris
Moses Clark
Leonard Morris
William Chapin
Abram McIntire
Benjamin Church, Capt.
Elijah Munger
Samuel Church
Ebenezer Harwood
Isaac Church
Eleazer Howard
Amasa Deoulph
Ichabod Hyde, Dr.
James Frizell
David B. Dean, Dr.
William Frizell
Asa Kimball
Ichabod Goodell Sewell Glazier
Wm. Putnam
Shepard Glazier
Lyman Polley
Joseph Glazier
Calvin Polley
Ebenezer Lyon
Hollwill Perrin, Capt.
Ebenezer Lyon, Jr.
John Polley, Esq.
Ambrose Perrin
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John Rosebrooks
Adolphus Webber Eli Webber
Stephen Rogers, Capt. Angustus L. Fuller
Erastus Webber
Jeremiah Sherman
Willard Weld
Benjamin Smith
Elijah Spencer John Wallis
Reuben Stevens
Gordon Taylor Molly Fuller
Jacob Thompson, Esq.
Dea. David Wallis
NON-RESIDENT TAXPAYERS
Rinaldo Wallis
Aaron Allen
John Weaver, Lt.
Joseph Browning, Esq.
Freeland Wallis
Asher Badger
Willard Wood
Noah Butterworth
Ebenezer Weatherbee
Wm. Lumbard
Elisha Willis
Lt. John Holbrook
Andrew Webber
Dea. John Munger
Dea. Samuel Webber
Humphrey Needham
William Webber
John Perry
Capt. Ezra Webber
Micah Perry
Bradley Webber Reuben Webber
Abijah Shumway (heirs)
Trenance Webber
David McFarlin
Eleazer Webber
John Tarbell
Francis Webber
Moses Wallis (heirs)
Abner Webber
David Brown
Cyril Perrin
Joseph Bruce
Isaac Partridge
James Fuller
Samuel Patten
Mary Rosebrooks
Abijah Pierce
Othiel Brown
Willard Pike
Cyrus Janes
Ebenezer Pike
Darius Munger Esq.
Gershom Rosebrooks
Jabez Chapin
Willard Rosebrooks
Dated May 29, 1812
The above list is a fine source of history.
This tax list is given as a means of computing the highway tax the above year. The total tax was $250.18. The highway surveyors were : Dea. Samuel Webber, $63,17; Reuben Stevens, $75.96; Trenance Webber, $59.27; Uriah Marcy, $51.78. Total $250.18.
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Cyprian Stevens
Samuel Shumway
Nathaniel Rockwell
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MILITARY DRILL.
England has been a nation of fighters. Her situation com- pelled her to be, as well as virile blood and love of freedom, all impelled her to value military training. Her military leaders have been trained soldiers, and the man in the ranks was trained to obey and to act in unison with his comrades to add to the efficiency of the whole. We inherited the cus- toms, laws, and ideals of the English. Military drill was made compulsory with us after the Revolution, because it was be- lieved to be necessary, and it undoubtedly was. But after the war of 1812, the danger of external attack decreased and fin- ally led to the abandonment of compulsory military drill due in part also to its irksomeness. But while they lasted they were gala days, for the militia of a region were called out in uniform and with arms and were put through the evolutions.
We have noted how parson Reeve was chaplain of a Brim- field company, and Col. Lyon doubtless gave the present com- mon that he might have a better training field upon which to drill the men from Holland. The men were reluctant to take the drill, so to stimulate interest in the drill, the town in 1808 voted forty dollars to her soldiers who attended the muster at Hadley. It was a dangerous precedent however. A move to give them their poll tax in 1831 was defeated. These training days were times when the young men were full of jokes and pranks especially when off duty. Boxing matches, wrestling matches, various feats of strength were in order, to say nothing of feats of the mind in quick wit and ready repartee.
Tradition has it that on one of these training days one of the men of a neighboring town came up to a Holland re- cruit who was a natural wag as well as rhymester and said, "You have the reputation of making rhymes offhand upon any subject given you. Now my name is Right. I challenge you
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to do it with my name." The Holland recruit straightened up and instantly replied :-
Right, it is a very good name Saints and angels bear the same. But 'tis as wrong to call YOU Right As 'tis to call a black hog white."
He received no more challenges.
The militia list for the year 1840 is the first given in the town records. It will be of interest to many families for various reasons, chiefly as a source of history from which a little study and reflection will yield much.
MILITIA LIST FOR 1840
Lyman Adams
John Lilley
Wm. Anderson
Uriah P. Marcy
Harrison Allen
Albert Marcy
Roswell Blodgett
Elisha W. Marey
Lucius Back
David Needham
Albert Butterworth
Loring Parks
Elwell D. Burley
Willard Parks, Jr.
John Butterworth
Charles Polley
Dwight Burley
Reuben Patrick
Winthrop B. Blodgett
Riley Parsons
Crawford Brackett
Stephen Williams
Alden W. Blodgett
Jonathan Williams
Wm. A. Webber
Edward Blodgett Rodney A. Bennett
Geo. L. Webber
Orrin W. Brown
James Webber
Sherman Church
Freeland O. Wallis
Zebinah Fletcher
Warren A. Wallis
Calvin W. Frizell
Stephen Weld
Wm. Frizell Jno. Gould John Glazier
Charles Webber
Isaac U. Wood
George Haradon
Stephen Jackson
Andrew B. Thorington John W. Kidder
Walter M. Blodgett
Gardner Walis
47 Men
John Wallis, town clerk
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THE WAR WITH MEXICO.
This war had its origin in the desire and determination on the part of the slave-holding states to extend the slave-holding territory of our country. That war was not a popular one in New England. Opposition to slavery was increasing year by year, from the social, economic and moral standpoints. It was regarded as harmful alike to master and slave, and des- truetive to the best interests of the country. Holland sym- pathized with the sentiment of New England in this matter and therefore no soldier of Holland is on the records of that war.
We give a list of the names of those liable to military duty for the year 1846, of whom, some, doubtless would have been enrolled, had duty and necessity called. If towns had been required to make and keep a roll of those liable to military duty it would be a simpler matter to trace the men enlisted from a given town. But 1840 is the first year, in which we find such a list.
MILITIA LIST OF HOLLAND FOR 1846
Harrison Allen Horatio N. Drake
Seymour S. Allen
Wm. Frizell
Alanson C. Allen
John B. Gould
Lyman Adams
Perley G. Green .
Rodney A. Bennett
Nathan Green
Orrin W. Brown
John Hall
Dwight Butterworth
Lewis Howlett
Roswell A. Blodgett
Horace Haynes
Albert S. Butterworth
Harvey Johnson
Ransom Badger
Cheney Janes
Loring Badger
Elisha Kinney
Lucius Baek
James F. Lynn
Amasa Coy
Jared S. Lamb
Henry S. Dean
Wm. A. Lynn
Andrew Darling, Jr.
Ebenezer Darling
(given for historical reasons)
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Paschal M. Lynn Uriah P. Marcy Loring Marcy John C. Miller
Nehemiah Underwood
Henry Robinson
Jefferson F. Webber
Warren A. Wallis
Eleazer Moore
Isaac U. Wood
Joshua Corbin
Wm. A. Webber
Edmund Niles
Geo. L. Webber
Wm. Orcutt
Jas. A. Webber
John C. Polley
Stephen Williams
Wm. Pratt
Hamilton Reeve
Jonathan Williams Hiram Wallis
Charles Sands
Ruel Williams
Jonathan Sikes
Emerson Webber
Elias Smith
Horace Wallis
Lewis Upham
Edwin Damon
CIVIL WAR.
The firing upon Fort Sumpter in April, 1861, united northern opinion and gave life and motive to northern senti- ment. Discussion of states' rights and human rights soon passed into the question of national unity and how it should be preserved. The dictum, "The Union must and shall be pre- served," was the only solution of the situation. President Lin- coln's statement, "that the Union could not exist half slave and half free," was coming to be a manifest truth. Peace with disunion was likewise impossible. Fugitive slaves would be the constant bone of contention in disunion. A civil war to settle the question and restore the Union was the only alter- native.
To enlist in this war many circumstances urged the young men, viz .- the brutal assault made upon a Massachusetts sen- ator (Chas. Sumner) in the discharge of his duty and the lion- izing by the slave-holders and their sympathizers of his coward- ly assailant; the taunts of cravenheartedness on the part of northern young men as against the valor of southern young men ; also the eternal principle of human brotherhood which
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poets and moralists of the day were constantly presenting to an awakened publie conscience. All these, and many more, could not but bring the thoughtful and patriotie northern young men to a sense of the duty he owed his country and his God. Under a sense of that duty the young men of Holland, with thousands of others, placed their lives upon the altar of sacrifice, and went forth to vindieate the spirit and philan- thropy of our country's founders, a heritage more precious with the flight of years, to which recent events in Europe add worth and glory.
THE SPIRIT OF THE BOYS OF 1861
We owe allegiance to the state, but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathics that God hath set within our spirit's core; Our country claims our fealty; we grant it so, but then Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
He's true to God who's true to men; Wherever wrong is done To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, und not for all their race.
God works for all. Ye cannot hem the hope of being free With parallels of latitude with mountain range or sca. Put golden padlocks on Truths lips, be callous as ye will, From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill.
Jas. Russell Lowell.
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Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sako, And with leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. -Jas. R. Lowell.
It was in attempting to make slave-catchers of the people of the North that the power of slavery received its first serious check. No Congress, no Supreme Court, no President, nor all combined conld suppress in the hearts of the men of the North the instincts of manhood and the natural feelings of humanity. Against these the power of slavery dashed and broke in vain, as vainly as the ocean billows dash and break against the rugged cliffs of a rockbound coast.
-- Daniel F. Howe.
MILITIA LIST FOR HOLLAND FOR YEAR 1861.
Lyman Adams
Wm. E. Cook
Edward P. Blodgett
Albert Webber
Freeman B. Blodgett
Dwight E. Webber
Roswell A. Blodgett
Henry W. Webber
Chas. B. Blodgett
Edwin P. Damon
T. D. Butterworth George Barnes
Wm. E. Fenner James Frizell
Merrick Brackett
George Ballard
Henry Bennett
Herbert A. McFarland
Henry Burnett
John B. Gould
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James Groves
C. W. Parsons
Wm. Groves
Chas. Sands
Wm. Harris
Henry J. Switzer
Henry Haradon
Wm. S. Wallis
George A. Haradon
Harris C. Wallis
Hollowell P. Marcy
Horace Wallis, Jr.
Oscar C. Marcy
Wmn. A. Webber
Osear Lynn
James A. Webber
Albert Mason
Ruel A. Williams
Loring B. Morse
John Williams
Ashable C. Meacham
Wyles Williams
TRIBUTES TO THE LEADING SOLDIER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Shrewd, hallowed, harassed, and among The mysteries that are untold, The face we see was never young Nor could it ever have been old. -ANON.
Simple and strong and large, type of the plan
Great Nature offers when God builds a Man! Great frame, great aim, great soul, great heart were thine, A chosen vessel for a task divine.
-Henry C. MeCook.
The following is the military record of the boys from Hol- land, being born here, or in whom for some reason Holland had a deep interest. Some of them were men whose parents had lived in Holland but had recently moved away. We had the assistance of two veterans of the civil war, James H. Walk- er and J. Brainerd Hall, working independently of each other. Sometimes one is more complete in his report and sometimes the other. What each furnished in the following record is in- dicated by their respective initials. The order is alphabeti- cal :-
John Anderson, Co. E. 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, Mustered Jan. 5, 1863, for 3 years, age 22. 2nd Lieut. 57th Mass. Infantry mustered February 4, 1864, and for 3 years, age
M'AJ. JOHN ANDERSON, U. S. A.
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23. Gunshot left arm and shoulder July 30, 1864, at the Crater, front of Petersburg, Va. Ist Lieut. March 13, 1865, and Captain by Brevet. March 25, 1865, and Lieut. 20th Veteran Reserve Corps. Entered Regular Establishment as 2nd Lieut. 25th United States Infantry August 10, 1867; 1st Lieut. 18th U. S. Infantry October 17, 1878; Captain June 21, 1890; U. S. Army, retired, June 6, 1894. Present rank, Major, U. S. Army, Retired. Residence, Belchertown, Mass.
J. B. H.
BELCHERTOWN-Retired Army Officer Dies .- Maj. John Anderson, United States Army, passes away at "The Bivouac."
Maj. John Anderson, United States army, retired, died at his home, "The Bivouac," yesterday morning at 4 o'clock after a long and painful illness. Maj. Anderson was born in Monson and entering the army in January, 1863, served as a private 11 months in the 1st Michigan sharpshooters. In 1864 he received a commission as 2d lieutenant in the 57th Massachusetts volunteers and served with that regi- ment in its many battles through Virginia. He was brev- etted for brave conduct and meritorious service in the battles before Petersburg, Va.
He was wounded at the battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864. At the close of the war he entered the regular army as 2d lieutenant and served through the different grades, holding various staff offices to the rank of major. He was in the campaign in Montana against the Sioux Indians under their chief, Sitting Bull, in 1881.
Maj. Anderson retired from active service in 1894, owing to ill health incidental to the service, making his summer home at Belchertown. He leaves a widow and daughter, the wife of Maj. F. D. Evans, adjutant to Gen. Funston at Mexico; a niece, Miss Annie D. Ward, who has been a member of his family from early childhood; and a sister in Springfield. The most of his service was in the 18th infantry, regular army. Maj. Anderson was 50 years in the United States army.
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Aside from the distinguished military career of Maj. Anderson was the social character of the man. Genial, with an ever-ready courtesy, quick sympathy and an intense love for humanity, Maj. Anderson has left a wide circle of friends. Children appealed to him and each Memorial day until his illness, he was always in earnest in addressing the schools and his coming was largely anticipated.
Funeral services will be held at the home to-morrow at 1.30 p. m. The burial will be in Arlington cemetery, Wash- ington, D. C. (Springfield Republican, Aug. 28, 1914).
Albert Back, Enlister at Worcester Sept. 8, 1862 in Co. F 51st Mass. Reg't. Discharged July 28, 1863, at Worcester, at the expiration of service. His father was Lucius Back and his mother's name was Hatch. He was born in Holland in 1838 but credited to Sturbridge.
J. H. W.
George Barnes,-age 44 years-Enlisted Aug. 27, 1862, and served in Co. G, 46th Mass. Infantry. Discharged July 29, 1863 .- Expiration of service. Died in Scituate, R. I. in 1887. He was born in Sturbridge, Mass.
J. H. W.
Baxter C. Bennett, age 18 years. Enlisted Aug. 27, 1862. Served in Co. G, 46th Mass. Infantry. Discharged May 30, 1863, on account of disability. Son of Rodney A. Ben- nett and Emily (Webber) Bennett.
J. H. W.
Henry H. Bennett, age 21 yrs. Enlisted Ang. 26, 1862, and was assigned to Co. G, 46th Mass. Infantry. Discharged June 17, 1863, on account of disability incurred at the battle of Goldsboro, N. C. Died at Warren, Mass., July 1, 1899. Born in Holland in 1840.
J. H. W.
Orderly Sergt. Charles D. Cutler-age 30 yrs. Enlisted at Buckland, Mass., June 21, 1861, into Co. H, 10th Reg't Mass. Infantry and was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.
J. H. W.
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Corp. Clement F. Drake, age 20 yrs. Enlisted June 21, 1861. Assigned to Co. H, 10th Reg't. Mass. Infantry. Discharged Feb. 21, 1864, to re-enlist. Re-enlisted Feb. 21, 1864. Trans- ferred June 19, 1864, to Co. B, 37th Reg't .. Mass. Infantry. Transferred June 21, 1865, to Co. C, 20th Mass. Infantry. Discharged July 26, 1865, by order of War Department.
J. H. W.
Gunshot wound of left hip in battle of Wilderness. Residence, Weisner, Idaho. Late Commander of Depart- ment of Idaho, G. A. R.
J. B. H.
John Franklin, age 22. Enlisted July 12, 1864, but never joined for service.
J. H. W.
James L. Groves, age 29 yrs. Enlisted Ang. 19, 1861, and was assigned to Co. I, 21st Mass. Infantry. Discharged Jan. 14, 1862, on account of disability. Enlisted Aug. 31, 1864, and was assigned to Co. D, 2nd Mass. Heavy Artillery. Discharged June 26, 1865. Expiration of service. Was then in Co. H, same reg't. Died in Brimfield Sept. 24, 1886. He was carried on the records as James L. Graves. He was born in Millbury, Mass., Aug. 13, 1832.
J. H. W.
Also counted in the quota of Sturbridge.
J. B. H.
Josiah Brainerd Hall, 1st Conn. Infantry. Enlisted April, 1861, for 3 months, not mustered. Declined Commission October, 1862, in 22nd Mass. Infantry. Enlisted December 30, 1863, Co. B, 57th Mass. Infantry. Mustered January 4, 1864, for 3 years. Age 21. Gunshot wound of abdomen May 6, 1864, Wilderness, Va. Transferred September, 1864, Co. A. 14th Reg't. Veteran Reserve Corps. By reason of wound on January, 1865, declined Commission of President Lincoln U. S. Colored Troops, and an appointment as Sur- geons' Steward U. S. Navy. Residence, 26 McKinley Road, Worcester, Mass.
J. B. H.
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Josiah Brainerd Hall, oldest son of Rev. Ogden and Har- riet Walker Hall, became of age while his father was a resi- dent of Holland and served in the civil war as a part of the quota of the town. Immediately after his discharge from the army he was appointed clerk in the Claim Agency Department at Boston, of the New England Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission. In the summer of 1873 he joined the Editorial staff of the Worcester Evening Gazette; for some 12 years or more he was its Court reporter and Editor of the weekly edition, and was City Editor when in July, 1889, his wounds received at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, forced his resignation. March 1, 1890, he resumed active practice in the Departments at Washington and has since 1893 been the senior member of J. Brainerd Hall & Son, Pension Solicitors and Claim Agents, with the main office at Worcester.
In 1895-6 he was Adjutant General of the Massachusetts Department of the Union Veterans' Union, and in 1902 was elected Colonel of Gen. William S. Lincoln Command No. 18, U. V. U. of Worcester, Mass. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Society of the Army of the Potomac. The New England Association of Survivors of Southern Prisons and The Massachusetts Association of Pris- oners of the War.
Geo. A. Haradon, born in Holland, 1834. Age 28 yrs. Enlisted at Brookfield, Mass., July 31st, 1862, and was assigned to Co. A, 34th Mass. Infantry. Discharged Oct. 10, 1862, for disability. Dead.
J. H. W.
John Harding, age 21 yrs. Enlisted July 10, 1864. Served in Co. H. 1st Mass Cavalry. Discharged June 26, 1865. Expiration of service, as absent from company sick in hospital.
J. H. W.
John B. Blodgett, born in Holland in 1840, enlisted from Stur- bridge, son of Winthrop and Elizabeth (Brackett) Blod-
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gett. He enlisted Jan. 5, 1864, for three years and was mustered into service of United States on the day of his enlistment. He died of disease Feb. 25, 1865, at New Berne, North Carolina. His occupation is given as a farmer. He served in Co. B, 17th Reg't. Mass. Volunteer Infantry.
E. J. (B.) W.
Henry B. Blodgett of Dudley, aged 21, a shoemaker, born in Holland, enlisted 26th May, 1862, in Co. D, 25th Reg't Mass. Volunteer Infantry for three years, and was mustered into service of the United States May 26, 1862. He was discharged on the 18th day of March, 1863, for disability. Henry B. Blodgett of Southbridge, age 22, telegrapher, enlisted and mustered Aug. 22, 1864, for one year in Co. D, 4th Reg't. Mass. Vol. Heavy Artillery. Mustered out June 17th, 1865.
Adjutant General.
Isaac L. Burley, aged 20 yrs., enlisted at Cherry Creek, N. Y., into a reg't. belonging to that state and killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. A headstone bearing his name and date of death has been erected in Holland cemetery. He was born in Holland in 1843. His father moved to Carry, Pa., in 1857 or 1858. His parents were Perry and Charlotte (Partridge) Burley.
J. H. W.
Sergt. John C. Burley, aged 25 yrs. Enlisted at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 8, 1862, and served in Co. F, 51st Mass. Infan- try. Discharged July 27, 1863. Expiration of service. Died at Wales, Feb. 14, 1905. Born in Wales, Aug. 17, 1839. Father was Ferdinand L. Burley. Mother was Louisa (Colburn) Burley.
J. H. W.
Orson L. Burley, aged 28 years. Enlisted at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 8, 1862, and was assigned to Co. F, 57th Mass. Infantry. Discharged July 27, 1863. Expiration of service. Enlisted at Auburn, Mass., Aug. 15, 1864, into Co. F, 4th Mass. Heavy Artillery. Discharged June 17, 1865. Expiration of service. Died in Wales July 12, 1904.
J. H. W.
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Charles J. Clapp, age 18 yrs. Enlisted Sept. 28, 1861, and served in Co. K 23d Mass. Infantry. Discharged Dec. 2, 1863 to re-enlist. Re-enlisted as from Mansfield, Mass., Dec. 3d, 1863, in the same company and reg't. Discharged June 25, 1865. Expiration of service.
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