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Henry J. Parker.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
Frederick A. Jones.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
Robert F. Webb.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
John Quigg.
Credited to Pepperell. Mustered out at expiration of term.
Ransom C. Watson.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
George N. Spaulding. Daniel Sidelinger.
Mustered out at expiration of term.
These men enlisted for three months, but the record shows that they were mustered out, August 2, 1861. Most
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of these soldiers re-enlisted into other regiments, and their record will appear further on in this chapter.
It appears that the seceding states had been making preparations for a fight, for some time, while the North. with the exception of a few regiments of volunteer militia, in Massachusetts and one or two other states, was unpre- pared for either an offensive or a defensive war.
During the summer and fall of 1861, the North began to "get on its muscle," and "guess" that something must be done. In September, of this year, thirty-two Townsend men volunteered into the service, and joined the Twenty- Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, Company G. This regi- ment was mustered in, October 18, 1861, and mustered out. August 26, 1865. It sailed from Boston directly for Ship Island, where it arrived by steamer, in less than ten days from the time of its departure. It was a part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, Department of the Gulf. It took part in the engagements of Winchester, Cedar Creek. and Fisher's Hill.
The names and account of the Townsend men are as follows :-
Loren Hosley.
George A. Adams.
Charles W. Dix.
Discharged at expiration of term of service, Nov. 7, 1864. Discharged at expiration of term of service, Nov. 7, 1864. Promoted Sept. 27, 1863, to quarter-master sergeant. Re- enlisted Jan. 1, 1864. Pro- moted March 15, 1865, to second lieutenant Co. B. Dis- charged June 18. 1865.
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James Willard. Residence, White- field, Maine.
Ally B. Brown.
Elijah T. Bates.
Charles H. Brown.
Warren B. Clark.
Franklin F. Cross.
William Davis.
Russell O. Houghton.
Alvah Richardson. Charles Willard.
James A. Sanborn.
Frederick A. Jones.
Discharged for disability-date unknown. Enlisted for Town- send quota.
Transferred March 1, 1864, to what regiment is unknown.
Killed at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Killed at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Discharged at expiration of term of service, Nov. 7, 1864.
Died at Marine Hospital, April 12, 1863, at New Orleans.
Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company and regiment, Jan. I. 1864. Mustered out with the regiment.
Second sergeant, Nov. 1, 1861. Promoted to second lieutenant. Sept. 30. 1862. Promoted to first lieutenant, Dec. 12, 1863. Promoted to captain, Oct. 18. 1864. Mustered out with the regiment.
Mustered out with the regiment. Co. B, Capt. E. S. Clark, either re-enlisted, or was transferred to Mass. Third Cavalry. Died Nov. 9, 1863, at New Orleans. Drowned at New Orleans, Aug. 27, 1863.
Co. B, Capt. E. S. Clark. Killed in action, at Winchester. Va .. Sept. 19, 1864.
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Samuel W. Griffeth.
Merrick L. Gilson.
Charles R. Shattuck.
William Hunt.
Charles L. Spaulding. Myron F. Going.
Charles J. Hapgood.
Charles L. Hall.
Charles H. Martin.
Died Aug. 20, 1862, at St. James Hospital, New Orleans.
Discharged, from Mass. Gen. Hospital, March 28, 1864.
Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company, Feb. 1, 1864. Mus- tered out with the regiment.
Andrew H. Sloan.
Frank Stevens.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Co. B. Capt. E. S. Clark. Dis- charged at New Orleans, Oct. IO, 1862.
With Capt. S. R. Fletcher. Dis- charged for disability, at New Orleans, Sept. 11, 1862.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Died of diphtheria, Oct. 15, 1864. in Pennsylvania.
Promoted to commissary ser- geant. Nov. 1, 1861. Mustered out at the expiration of term of service.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Transferred to another regiment. March 1, 1864.
Aaron S. Petts.
Ai H. Spalding.
Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company. Feb. 1, 1864. Mus- tered out with the regiment.
Promoted to corporal, July 30. 1862. Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company. Jan. 6, 1864. Killed in action, at Winchester. Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
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Francis W. Wood.
Ransom C. Watson.
Lysander P. Taylor.
John Shattuck.
Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company, Jan. 3, 1864. Dis- charged for disability, June 19, 1865. Killed in action at Winchester. Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Discharged at New Orleans for disability, May 17, 1863.
Veteran-Re-enlisted in same company. Mustered out with the regiment.
As has been seen, Townsend sent forty-two men into the field during the first year of the war. Before June, 1862, the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh, had been fought and won against the secessionists. The mouth of the Mississippi had been cleared of rebel batteries, and its forts captured. New Orleans was under the military rule of General Butler. The success of the loyal troops, particularly in the west and southwest, in nearly every engagement, had been complete, and the people of the North were hopeful of a speedy suppression of the rebellion. But the reverses in the Shenandoah Valley, and the imminent danger of a successful attempt to take Washington, caused the President to issue the call for three hundred thousand men, for three years, which he did on the first of July, 1862.
Under this call, twenty-five men of this town, on the twenty-second of July, volunteered into the service, and joined the Thirty-Third Massachusetts Regiment of Vol- unteers, Company E, Capt. William H. H. Hinds, of Groton, (discharged May 17, 1863.) and afterward under command of Capt. George M. Walker, of Newton.
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This regiment was mustered into the service of the United States, August 13, 1862. Mustered out, June II, 1865. It took part in the engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge. and the several battles of Sherman's grand army. It may be mentioned that there were only one or two regiments from this Commonwealth, that endured as many hardships, or faced death on the battle-field, as often and as bravely as did the Thirty- Third Massachusetts Volunteers. On the arrival of the regiment at Boston, June 13, 1865, Mayor Lincoln gave it à generous reception : after parading the principal streets, the regiment marched to Faneuil Hall and partook of a bountiful collation, furnished by the city authorities. Names of the volunteers and their record :-
George W. Bennett.
Abijah W. Blood.
James Buckley.
George E. Clark. (Bugler.) Thomas Dalrymple.
Lewis Gonnier. (Naturalized, from Canada. )
Andrew D. Heselton.
Discharged for disability, Dec. 9, 1862.
Died of chronic diarrhoea, at Baltimore, August 12, 1863. Buried at Townsend Centre. Wounded March 16, 1865. Dis- charged at hospital.
Mustered out June 11, 1862.
Died at Lookout Valley Farm, of disease, 1864. Buried at Chat- tanooga.
Left regiment, 1864. Trans- ferred to Invalid Corps.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
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James King.
Clarence W. Sylvester.
Charles E. Marshall.
Dominick May. (Blacksmith.)
Waldo T. Tower. (Blacksmith.) Jonah Parker.
Henry J. Parker. (Enlisted first ser- geant.)
Charles W. Parker.
Simeon K. Richards.
Sylvester T. Wheeler.
Charles W. Wetherbee.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Discharged for disability, July 21, 1864. Died of consump- tion, 1864. Buried in Town- send.
Died of disease, at Germantown, Va., Dec. 4, 1862.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Wounded in the neck by a gun- shot, at Raccoon Ridge, Look- out Valley Farm, Oct. 29, 1864. Nearly lost his life.
Promoted to second lieutenant, March 29, 1863. Promoted to first lieutenant, July 16, 1863. Killed in action, at Resica, Ga., May 15, 1864.
Promoted to sergeant, August, 1863. Mustered out with regi- ment, at expiration of term of service.
Wounded at Resica, Ga., May 15, 1864. Died of his wound, June 25, 1864. Buried at Chat- tanooga.
Died June 10, 1864, from a wound received in action, at Resica, Ga. Buried at Chat- tanooga.
Died of disease, Dec. 29, 1862.
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Jefferson Whitcomb. Evander W. Wright.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Wounded slightly, at Lookout Valley Farm, Oct. 29, 1863. Mustered out of regiment on detached hospital duty, at Nashville, Tenn.
Franklin S. Wright.
Killed at Lookout Valley Farm. Oct. 29, 1863. Buried at Chattanooga.
Andrew L. Woodard.
Died of disease, Nov. 8, 1864. Buried at Chattanooga.
William H. Wright.
Mustered out of regiment and detached on hospital duty at Nashville, Tenn.
Lewis T. Wright.
Promoted to corporal, April 16, 1864. Died of disease, Oct. 14, 1864.
Abram Clark. Oliver B. Osborn.
Discharged Jan. 4, 1863.
Died of disease, Nov. 4, 1862, at Thoroughfare Gap, where his comrades buried him "beneath a chestnut tree."
This regiment used up two stands of colors, which were so torn and mutilated by wear and bullets, that they would scarcely hang together. They were sent home and deposited in the state house, with other mementos of this sanguinary conflict. A third stand of colors was sent to the regiment, on which were inscribed the names of the twenty-two battles in which it was engaged.
The Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, re- enlisted in August, 1862, for nine months, and were
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mustered out, in June, 1863. It participated in the siege of Suffolk, Virginia, which continued from April II to May 4, 1863. It was in a skirmish at a place called Deserted House, where it lost several men, killed. Five Townsend men were with Capt. George F. Shattuck, of Groton, in this regiment, viz :-
Richard Pierce.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Albert D. Turner.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Alanson Withington.
Killed Jan. 30, 1863, in a skir- mish near Suffolk, Va., at a place called Deserted House.
Charles W. Hildreth.
Mustered out at expiration of term of service.
Charles A. Wright.
Detached on hospital duty. Mus- tered out at expiration of term of service.
The first of August, 1862, the President called for three hundred thousand nine months men. War meetings during that month were frequently held, at the town hall, to devise means to fill the quota of the town. At one of these assemblies of the citizens. Anson D. Fessenden was selected to recruit a company, if possible, if not, as many as he could. He attended to that duty in a commendable manner, and on the second day of September following, forty Townsend men, including himself, volunteered for nine months, and signed enlistment papers. A sufficient number of recruits enlisted, about the same time, in the town of Shirley, and other neighboring towns, which were added to the Townsend men, to make up a company. The
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officers chosen for this company were : Andrew J. Clough, of Shirley, captain ; Anson D. Fessenden, of Townsend, first lieutenant; Stephen W. Longley, of Shirley, second lieutenant.
This company was attached to the Fifty-Third Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and was designated Com- pany D. Mustered in, October 17, 1862.
Captain Clough was discharged at the city of New York, on the outward transit, January 23, 1863, "on sur- geon's certificate, by special order, No. 26."
Lieutenant Fessenden was in command of this company till September 2, 1863, when the regiment was mustered out.
Anson D. Fessenden, the son of Benjamin and Betsey (Stevens) Fessenden, was born February 18. 1839. At a suitable age he was sent to Wilbraham Academy, where he diligently applied himself to his studies, standing well in his class. He was prompt in his attendance, and gave strict attention to the exercises of that institution. During the year 1861, he was a member of the scientific depart- ment of Union College, where he pursued the studies of mathematics and civil engineering. The fact, that he has a good command of language. and just confidence enough to make him a good public speaker, is sufficient proof that he improved his time while he was a student. On the first day of January, 1864, he joined his father in the coopering trade. Since that time, this firm, doing business under the name and style of B. & A. D. Fessenden, has done an extensive business in the manufacture and shipping of goods in that line. As a manufacturer, he is as popular with his workmen as he was with the "boys in blue" under his command. He is a man of a social and
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agreeable disposition, and much respected as a townsman. He represented this district in the lower branch of the General Court, in 1865. He married Thirza A. Boutell, of this town, December 6, 1865.
The Fifty-Third Regiment served in the Department of the Gulf .- Nineteenth Army Corps-John W. Kimball, of Fitchburg, colonel in command.
This regiment was in the battle of Port Hudson, May 27, 1863 ; assault on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863 ; siege of Port Hudson, from May 24 to July 8, 1863 ; March 12, 1863, skirmish with enemy on the Bayou Road; skirmish at Pattersonville, La., near Fort Bisland, April 12, 1863 ; skirmish in front of Port Hudson, May 24, 1863. Names of Townsend men on the roll of Company D :-
John Q. Adams.
Isaac Allen.
Wallis S. Arlan.
John B. Blood. Daniel Brogan. John A. Brown.
William Bush.
Corporal-Promoted to sergeant. Discharged July 24, 1863, by special order No. 189. Re- enlisted on Banks' body guard. Died on his way home, on board steamer, near Memphis, Tenn .. Aug. 16, 1863, of chronic diarrhea. Buried at Memphis, Tenn.
Killed in action at Port Hudson, June 14, 1863.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Promoted to corporal, April II, 1863. Mustered out with the regiment.
Sergeant-Mustered out with the regiment.
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Charles S. Champney. Edmund O. Day.
William Farmer. Anson D. Fessenden.
Andrew Foster. Adams S. Graham. George S. Graham. Harlan F. Green.
John Haynes.
John P. Hildreth. Webster Hoffses. Leander C. Jefts. Dennisson S. Kimball.
Francis A. Laws.
Lewis O. Laws.
William Ordway. Henry C. Nichols.
Levi T. Parker. Shubell B. Pierce.
Mustered out with the regiment. In Co. C, with Leominster men. Mustered out with regiment.
Mustered out with the regiment. First lieutenant. Promoted to captain, May 21, 1863. Mus- tered out with regiment.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Fourth sergeant. Mustered out with the regiment.
Corporal. Died of typhoid fever. July 13. 1863, at Port Hud- son. Buried at Port Hudson.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Killed in action at Port Hudson. June 14, 1863.
Discharged Jan. 15, 1863. Sur- geon's certificate.
Died at Marine Hospital, New Orleans, Aug. 5, 1863.
Mustered out with the regiment. Died of typhoid fever, at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, March 21, 1863.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment.
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Hiram F. Richards. John Richards.
Edson A. Richardson.
Dennis J. Shehan.
George A. Sherwin.
Alden W. Smith. Benjamin B. Spalding.
Frederick F. Spalding.
Augustus G. Stickney. William E. Sylvester. Levi Wares.
Alson S. Warren.
William H. Woodward. Thomas H. Warren.
Mustered out with the regiment. Co. C, with Leominster men. Mustered out with regiment.
Died at Marine Hospital, New Orleans, of chronic diarrhea, May 6, 1863.
Died July 10, 1863, of wounds received at Port Hudson, June 14, 1863.
Discharged from Hospital, at New Orleans, June 18, 1863. Surgeon's certificate.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Veteran-Re-enlisted Aug. 24, 1864, into the Twenty-Fourth Mass. Regiment. Mustered out with the regiment.
Discharged by special order, July 24, 1863. Re-enlisted in Banks' body-guard.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Died Feb. 9, 1863, of inflamma- tion of the lungs. Buried at Cypress Grove, New Orleans. -Hospital record.
Died of chronic diarrhea, at Baton Rouge. La .. April 6, 1863.
Mustered out with the regiment.
Discharged July, 24. 1863. Re- enlisted in Banks' body-guard.
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The following are the names of Townsend men in various regiments :-
Patrick Murray.
Enlisted July 2, 1861, for three years, in Sixteenth Mass. Regi- ment. Wounded at battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Dis- charged by order of General Wadsworth.
Charles C. Cobleigh. (Bugler.)
Enlisted September. 1861, for three years, in First Mass. Cav- alry. Discharged Sept. 24. 1864.
Henry O. Adams.
Enlisted August, 1861, for three years, in Fifteenth Mass. Regi- ment. Discharged Feb. 7, 1863.
James E. Brooks.
Amos Pierce.
Enlisted Sept. 15, 1862. in Second New Hampshire Regiment. Received bounty from town of Temple, New Hampshire. Mustered out with regiment. Enlisted Sept. 20, 1861, in First Mass. Cavalry. Promoted to corporal Feb. 21, 1862. Trans- ferred to Fourth Cavalry. Dis- charged for disability, Nov. 25, 1862, on surgeon's certificate. Enlisted Sept. 28, 1861, for three years, in Twenty-Third Mass. Regiment. Wounded in action at White Hall, North Carolina, Dec. 16, 1862. Discharged June 12, 1863.
Boyd Todd.
Edward Potter.
Enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, in First Mass. Regiment. Mustered out with the regiment, May 25, 1864.
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Lorenzo Bruce.
James A. Willard.
George Spalding.
William H. Lewis.
Alden Adams.
Leonard O. Bruce.
William T. Barrett.
William T. Adams.
Enlisted Oct. 18, 1861, for three years, in First Mass. Cavalry. Discharged at expiration of term of service.
Enlisted Sept. 20, 1861, for three years, in First Mass. Cavalry. Transferred to Fourth Cavalry. Corporal-Discharged for dis- ability, May 11, 1862.
Enlisted Sept. 30, 1861, for three years, in First Mass. Cavalry. Transferred to Fourth Cavalry. Discharged at expiration of term of service.
Enlisted May 19, 1861, for three years, in Twelfth Mass. Regi- ment. Credited to the town of Weymouth. Mustered out with the regiment.
Enlisted for nine months, Aug. 29, 1862, in Forty-Fourth Mass. Regiment. Credited to Dorchester. Discharged at ex- piration of term of service. Enlisted for three years, July 26, 1862, in Thirty-Sixth Mass. Regiment. Corporal- Dis- charged April 29, 1863.
Enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, for three years, in Thirty-Ninth Mass. Regiment. Third Corporal- Mustered out with regiment. Enlisted Sept. 27. 1861, for three years, in Twenty-Fifth Mass. Regiment. Died in Libby Prison, July 23, 1864.
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Charles Searles.
Julius C. Eastman.
Henry H. Hosley.
Joseph O. Hildrith.
Oliver E. Hazard. (Colored. )
Horace Hazard. (Colored.)
Nahum G. Hazard. (Colored.)
Enlisted July 2, 1861, for three years, in Sixteenth Mass.Regi- ment. Discharged at expira- tion of term of service. Enlisted March 7, 1864, in Sixteenth Mass. Regiment, Light Battery. Mustered out with regiment.
Enlisted July 12, 1861, for three years, in Fifteenth Mass. Regi- ment. Discharged for disa- bility, Nov. 12, 1862.
Enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, for three years, in Fortieth Mass. Regi- ment. Mustered out with the regiment, June 16, 1865.
Enlisted December, 1863, for three years, in Fifty-Fourth Mass. Regiment. Wounded slightly, Feb. 20, 1864. All the men in this regiment, ex- cept the officers, were of African descent. Mustered out with the regiment.
Drafted. Served in Fifty-Fourth Mass. Regiment. This was the only Townsend man who was drafted that went to the war. Mustered out with the regiment.
Enlisted Aug. 27, 1864, for one year, in Fifty-Fifth Mass. Regi- ment, Company I. All colored men in this regiment, except the officers. Mustered out with the regiment.
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John J. Hennessey. (Colored.)
William A. Champney.
Edwin Adams.
Thomas H. Welch.
Robert Welch.
Daniel T. Goodwin.
George F. French.
Horace E. Lawrence.
Enlisted May 4, 1864, for three years, in Fifth Mass. Cavalry. Mustered out with regiment. All colored men in this regi- ment.
Enlisted July 19, 1862, for three years, in Thirty-Seventh Mass. Regiment. Credited to the town of Hadley. Mustered out at expiration of term of service. Enlisted for three years, in Sixteenth Mass. Regiment. Wounded severely in right hand by a shell. Lost his hand. Discharged-date un- known.
Enlisted September, 1864, for one year, in Heavy Artillery.
Enlisted Aug. 2, 1864, in Second Regiment Heavy Artillery.
Enlisted Aug. 31, 1864, for one year, in Nineteenth Regiment Heavy Artillery. Mustered out with regiment.
Enlisted at Sioux City, in Spring of 1861, in First Nebraska Regiment, with Capt. Hollins. Died at Syracuse, Missouri, of fever, Nov. 24, 1861.
Enlisted at Boston, for three years. March 12, 1862, into Third Regiment Rhode Island Artillery. Discharged at Hilton Head, for disability, Dec. 26, 1862. Died and was buried in Townsend, in May, 1863.
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The following is a list of the names of men who enlisted in August, 1864, for one year, and were mustered in on the twenty-fifth of the same month. They are described in the records as belonging to the "Twenty- Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Unattached Heavy Ar- tillery." They were stationed at Fort Delaware and near the city of Washington :-
Vernal Barber. John A. Brown. William Coombs. George H. Ellis.
Jonas L. Jennerson. Benjamin F. King. Augustus Lovejoy. Newell F. Putnam. Nathaniel A. Ripley. Benjamin B. Spalding.
Amos Webber.
Elbridge A. Wright.
Mustered out with the regiment. Discharged May 3, 1865. Mustered out with the regiment.
Died at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C., Dec. 30. 1864.
Discharged May 5, 1865.
Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Mustered out with the regiment. Served with Fifty-Third Mass. Regiment. Re-enlisted in this regiment, August, 1864. Mus- tered out with regiment.
Credited to the quota of Fitch- burg. Mustered out with the regiment.
Mustered out with the regiment. Committed suicide ; shot him- self, May 17, 1872.
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A roll of the men who enlisted, July 7, 1864, for one hundred days, and proceeded to Washington and per- formed guard duty at Arlington Heights, and at other places, near the Capital. The men are represented in the record as belonging to Company B, Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. No casualties happened to these men during their absence :-
Charles Adams.
James C. Moody.
Joseph Baxter.
Ai Richards.
James Brogan.
Charles Spaulding.
Rufus T. Brown.
Marshall D. Spaulding.
George H. Green. Henry Sturtevant.
Samuel K. Gilson.
William R. Wright.
George S. Graham.
John B. Spaulding.
Charles W. Hildreth.
In closing the record of those who thus gave their best efforts to preserve the Union, it must be remembered. that to every call for troops, a response from the citizens of the town went forth as generous as the revolutionary fathers returned one hundred years ago. While the town was pouring forth its treasures without stint or reluctance, these patriotic men gave their presence in the "tiger strife,"-their lives to the cause. The terrible battle-fields of Virginia, Louisiana, and other states, testify to the bravery of these Townsend young men, twelve of whom were killed in action, and twenty-two lost their lives by starvation in rebel prisons. disease and the casualties of war.
The loss of their lives caused many sorrowful hearts : many tearful eyes watched for the news from every battle-
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field. Their widows and orphans are still mournful at their early bereavement of husbands and fathers.
"How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest, Where Spring with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall find a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
"By fairy forms their dirge is sung. By hands unseen their knell is rung ; There Honor comes a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell a weeping hermit there."
The foregoing rolls contain the names of all the Townsend men, as far as is known, who volunteered to assist in suppressing the rebellion. No mention of the substitutes has been made, as they were mere merchandise, used for the time to shield the men who chose to purchase them rather than to take the risks of war upon their own shoulders.
It has been a source of pleasure to the writer, that, during the entire labor of examining muster rolls, dis- charge papers, diaries, Adjutant-General's reports, and town records, in order to present a correct history of these volunteers, that the word "deserted" has never been found. written or printed, opposite to the name of one of them. Nearly every one of these volunteers, who returned after the rebellion was crushed, assumed the duties of indus- trious citizens, with as much fidelity as though they had never been introduced to "grim-visaged war."
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