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1805)
700
1,000
700
400
616,700
1806
700
2,000
700
450
656.407
1807
Soo
2,100
900
4.50
668,983
ISOS
Soo
1.500
700
5.00
648.300
1809
800
1,500
1.000
550
652.933
1810
Soo
1,500
1,000
600
659.600
ISII
800
1,500
1,000
300
657.753
1812
Soo
1.500
900
400
654,170
ISI3
Soo
2,000
900
4.50
664,023
ISI4.
Soo
1,500
1,000
550
680.017
ISI5
800
1,500
1.400
640
709,800
1817
Soo
2,000
1,000
Soo
680,583
ISI8
1,000
1,500
500
800
687,750
1819
1,000
2,000
900
800
671.000
1820
800
2,000
700
700
661.500
1821
800
2,000
700
800
688.800
IS22
800
2,000
600
800
621.870
IS23
800
2,000
500
800
633.666
IS24.
800
3,000
500
850
661.600
1825 )
800
2,000
3.50
800
668,233
1826
800
2,000
500
700
694,050
IS27
Soo
2,000
400
700
700,483
1828
1,000
2,000
400
700
709.983
1829
1,000
2,000
400
700
820,000
1830
1,000
2,530
500
750
841,030
1831
1,000
2,100
300
700
861,770
1832
1,000
2,550
700
750
879.850
1833
1,200
2,335
700
750
863,320
1834
1,200
4.100
500
750
930,330
1835.
1,200
4.600
300
750
922.820
1836 )
1,300
2,200
2,500
700
9.36,930
1837
1,300
2,200
1,500
700
1,069.260
1838
1.300
2,000
2.500
1,000
1.081,400
1839
1,300
2,500
4.000
1,000
1,104.230
1840
1,300
2,000
5,000
1,000
1,201,720
I841
1,300
3,000
5,000
1,000
1,298,550
1842
1,Soo
2,000
3,000
1,000
1,207,550
1843
1.800
2,500
3,000
1,000
1,199.100
I844
1,800
2.500
3.000
1,000
1.059.910
1845
1,800
2,000
4.000
1,000
I.C65,700
1846
1.800
2.000
4,000
1,000
1.115.060
1847
1,800
2,000
4.000
Soo
1,120.770
1848
1,800
2.000
4.000
Soo
1,121.900
1849
2,000
2,200
4.000
800
1,185 320
1850
2,000
2,000
4,000
Soo
1,152,810
1851
2,000
2,000
4,000
Soo
1,166.040
1852
2.000
2,200
4,000
Soo
1, 177.080
1853
2.600
2.100
4,000
800
1.209.070
1854 J
2.600
2,200
4,000
800
1,387,210
1816
2,000
1,500
800
687,617
Average, $1,000.
Average, $1,650.
Average, $2,370.
Average, $3,330.
NOTE. - No record of valuation till 1800.
.
Average, $350.
Average, $550.
268
BARRE CENTENNIAL.
Preaching.
Schools.
Roads and Bridges.
Town Debts.
Poor.
Valuation.
IS55)
2,600
2.200
4.000
800
1,606.730
IS56
2.900
2.200
5.000
Soo
1,656.720
IS57
2.900
2.200
4.500
1.200
1.655.730
IS5S
2.900
2.200
4.000
1.200
1,653.600
IS59
3.300
1,700
2.500
1,000
1.649.170
IS60
3.000
2.000
2.500
Soo
1,654.430
IS6I
3,050
2.000
4.000
800
1,6So,S60
1862
3.000
2,000
6.000
800
1,654.040
I 863
3.000
1,700
8.000
Soo
1,699.870
IS64 }
3.300
2.000
8.000
1,000
1,728.622
IS6; )
3.300
2,500
12.000
1.000
1.646, ISI
IS66
3,300
2.500
12.000
2,000
1,S07.470
IS67
3.350
2.500
13.000
1.SOO
1,804.023
IS6S
3.850
3.000
9.000
2.000
I.S37.442
IS69 |
3.850
1 3.000
9.000
2,000
I,S29.463
IS70
4.220
3.500
9.000
2.000
I,S32.8SS
1871
4,500
3.500
10.000
2,000
1,754.468
IS-2
4.500
3.500
10.000
2.000
I.S25.423
IS73
4,900
2,000
10,000
2,000
1,793,575
IS74 J
VOTES CAST FOR GOVERNOR.
17So. John Hancock
So ?
1795.
Samuel Adams .
James Bowdoin .
34 5
17SI. John Hancock
23
1796. Increase Sumner Samuel Adams
63}
I7S2. Artemas Ward
2 }
IO
1797.
Increase Sumner James Sullivan . Increase Sumner James Sullivan . Increase Sumner Moses Gill
6S
1785. Azor Orne James Bowdoin
95
1800. Caleb Strong ·
52 }
1786. James Bowdoin .
37
Elbridge Gerry
34 5
James Bowdoin .
6
ISOI. Caleb Strong . Elbridge Gerry
21 5
17SS. John Hancock
S2
ISO2. Caleb Strong
105
Elbrige Gerry
58
1789.
John Hancock James Bowdoin . John Hancock
86
IO 5
61
ISO4.
1212
1791. John Hancock
98
1792. John Hancock
46
ISO5. Caleb Strong . James Sullivan
144
1794.
Samuel Adams .
48
ISO6. Caleb Strong . 127
William Cushing 36 S
James Sullivan
139 S
6
1783. John Hancock
50
179S.
96 3
1784. John Hancock
17
Azor Orne
22
I0 }
1799.
58 5
1787. John Hancock
90
90 3
James Bowdoin .
I M
ISO3. Caleb Strong . Elbridge Gerry Caleb Strong James Sullivan
SS
5S S
1790.
55.
1793. John Hancock
17
.
Average, $3,230.
Average, $3,370.
Elbridge Gerry .
14 S
James Sullivan
IS
269
APPENDIX.
1807. Caleb Strong James Sullivan
148 }
1832.
Levi Lincoln
190
136 S
Marcus Morton
103 5
1808. James Sullivan
130
1833. John Davis . 178 1
Christopher Gore I45 S
Marcus Morton 99 S
1809. Christopher Gore Levi Lincoln .
149 5
Marcus Morton
86
1810. Christopher Gore I42 Elbridge Gerry 148 5
1835. Edward Everett Marcus Morton
130 S
18II. Christopher Gore Elbridge Gerry
I28
1836. Edward Everett Marcus Morton
160 S
1812. Caleb Strong . Elbridge Gerry
159
1837. Edward Everett
232
Marcus Morton
205 S
1813. Caleb Strong
179
1838. Edward Everett
235 Marcus Morton
245 )
1814. Caleb Strong . Samuel Dexter
183
1839. Edward Everett Marcus Morton
251
1815. Caleb Strong 173 Samuel Dexter I44
Marcus Morton
287 S
1816. John Brooks 170
1841. John Davis
300
Samuel Dexter 138 S
Marcus Morton
262
1817. John Brooks
152
1842. John Davis
277
Henry Dearborn S
142
Marcus Morton
294 S
1818. John Brooks 172 Benj. Crowninshield 143 5
1843. George N. Briggs Marcus Morton
31I
1819. John Brooks
169 }
1844. George N. Briggs George Bancroft
300 S
1820. John Brooks
146 }
William Eustis
I31
1821. John Brooks 126 }
1846. George N. Briggs Isaac Davis .
169 S
1822. John Brooks
180
1847 George N. Briggs Caleb Cushing 199 S 227
William Eustis 157
S
1823. Harrison Gray Otis . 160
1848. George N. Briggs 249
Caleb Cushing 231 S
1824. S. Lathrop
18I
266 } 1849. George N. Briggs George S. Boutwell . 257 S
William Eustis
I86 5
1825. Levi Lincoln . Marcus Morton 9 5
93 }
IS50. George N. Briggs 259 }
George S. Boutwell 273 S
1826. Levi Lincoln
85
1851. Robert C. Winthrop George S. Boutwell 260 287
1827 .. Levi Lincoln IIO
1852. John H. Clifford . Henry W. Bishop · 241
279
W. C. Jarvis
I3
1828. Levi Lincoln
76
1853. Emory Washburn · 271
Marcus Morton 36
Henry W. Bishop · 229 5
1854. Henry J. Gardner · 289
Marcus Morton
149
Henry W. Bishop ·
48 S
91 } 1855. Henry J. Gardner ISO Į
E. D. Beach . 152 S
1831. Levi Lincoln
108 - 1856. Henry J. Gardner . 171 2
Marcus Morton 78 5
E. D. Beach . 1I2 S
257
Benj. Crowninshield
140
I845. George N. Briggs Isaac Davis . 285 ₺ 248 S
221 }
William Eustis 112 5
I45
5
257
1840. John Davis .
317 2
Joseph B. Varnum I34
150
1834. John Davis .
209
177
171
143 5
156
285 ৳
William Eustis 164
Josiah Quincy 82 S
1829. Levi Lincoln 19
1830. Levi Lincoln . Marcus Morton 33 .
270
BARRE CENTENNIAL.
IS57. N. P. Banks .
109
1866. A. H. Bullock 228 }
Theodore H. Sweetzer 61 5
H. J Gardner E. D. Beach
167
116)
I 867.
A. H. Bullock . 214
IS5S. N. P. Banks .
E. D. Beach .
I39 S
IS59. N. P. Banks .
B. F. Butler .
170
IS69. William Claflin 195
E. D. Beach .
140
IS6I. John A. Andrew ISS
IS70. William Claflin 167 2
Isaac Davis IISS
John Q. Adams IOS S
IS62. John A. Andrew I9S
Charles Devens, Jr. . 246
IS71. William B. Washburn 187 l John Q. Adams 89 S
IS63. John A. Andrew
219
Henry W. Paine
160S
IS64. John A. Andrew 142 {
Henry W. Paine 1315
IS65. A. H. Bullock
220 }
Thomas H. Plunket . 69
I873. William B. Washburn 119 ). William Gaston . . 103 5
THE CIVIL WAR OF 1861-65.
THAT gun fired at Fort Sumter, rousing the nation to the defence of its existence and integrity, in Barre, as everywhere throughout the North, welded all discordant sentiments into one burning spirit of loyalty and devotion to the Union our fathers had formed, and the government they had created. With the first body of troops that went from Worcester County, a Barre boy went as a private in the ranks, and was followed immediately by another son of Barre as an officer in the Holden Rifle Company. As the enthusiasm deepened and widened throughout the whole land, the feeling of the people found expression in a public meet- ing, at which the Town Hall was filled to its utmost capacity, and which was presided over by Dr. GEORGE BROWN, when were adopted unani- mously a series of resolutions pledging the citizens to drop all minor questions of political policy, and unitedly to stand by the country, its government, and its flag to the last extremity, and at any cost ; and, recog- nizing the necessity of additional organized force, extended sympathy, encouragement, and promise of support to such as should organize into a military company.
Spirited speeches in support of the resolutions were made by Mr. BRIMBLECOM, Mr. GODDARD, Capt. JENKINS, MOSES MANDELL and others, and a subscription of funds for the personal comfort of the men
IS68. William Claflin 3.56 l
129
John Q. Adams 142 S
IS60. John A. Andrew 236 }
John Q. Adams 125 5
IS72. William B. Washburn F. W. Bird IS9 } . 77 5
John Q. Adams 238 S
27I
APPENDIX.
who should volunteer, made on the spot, amounted to $1,907 ; and meas- ures were taken to put into practical shape the spirit that seemed to prevail. Subsequent meetings were held ; and, in accordance with a sug- gestion at one of them, a town-meeting was called May I, when it was voted to appropriate $4,000, to increase the pay of volunteers from Barre in the United States service to $18 per month, and to assist such families as may need assistance. At the same time $1,000 was appropriated to pay each member of the company fifty cents for each half-day employed in drilling. The 12th July appropriated $800 to procure a uniform for company raised in Barre.
July 17, 1862, a bounty of $100 was voted to each man mustered in to fill the quota ; and August 27 voted $100 to each nine-months man.
March 28, 1864, voted $4,000 to fill the quota of town on recent call of the President ; and June 10 voted $5,000 to fill the quota of the town under any call that might be made.
There were furnished in all 319 men, of whom II were commissioned officers. Appropriated and expended in aid of the war, $24,356.
The following is a list of volunteers from Barre, and the organizations to which they respectively belonged, date of their enlistment and dis- charge, with such particulars of their history as is known : -
COMPANY K, 2IST REGIMENT.
Matthew M. Parkhurst, Ist Lt. July, 1861.
March 3, 1862, resigned. 66
Sept. 25, 1862, d. of wounds received at Antietam.
Erastus B. Richardson, Serg. .
Aug. 27, 1864, ex. service.
Edwin Nye
Jan. 28, 1863, disability.
Francis P. Gethings
April, 1865, exchanged.
William D. Rider .
June 28, 1862, d. of consumption, Barre.
Rawson Parker
Sept. 17, 1861, deserted.
Henry E. Conant
July 12, 1865, ex. service.
Patrick Carney
Dec. 1862, disability.
James O. Fessenden
Mar. 14, 1862, k. Newbern, N. C.
July 12, 1865, ex. service.
William Harrington . -
July 30, 1864, k. Petersburg.
Edwin L. Howe .
Nov. 17, 1861, d. Annapolis, Md.
Sept. 17, 1862, k. Antietam.
Henry L. Holbrook, Ist Lt. Patrick Martin
June 21, 1865, E.
William H. Morrow, Ist Lt. .
June 21, 1865, ex. service.
Timothy W. Moses
Jan. 28, 1863, disability.
Benton Phelps, 2d Lt., 36th .
June 21, 1865, ex. service, Va.
Henry O. Stone " July 19, 1864, " " Mar. 19, 1862, k. Newbern, N. C.
Joseph E. Stone .
Charles A. Smith . "
July 12, 1865, ex. service.
Peter J. Tansey "
June 9, 1865, "
Henry G. M. Twichell
July 12, 1865, ", ",
John R. Tooley
Feb. 15, 1864, d. Barre, small-pox.
1
John B. Williams, 2d Lt. " "
George W. Davis, Serg.
George H. Gleason
272
BARRE CENTENNIAL.
Josiah Tooley . . Daniel A. Hunting
July, 1861.
April 4, 1862, d. Newbern, N. C., fever. Oct. 8, 1862, sick, discharged.
William Jerome .
Transf. 2d Cavalry.
David E. Todd
"
July 15, 1862, cons., Newbern, N. C.
Charles N. Caswell
Jan. 17, 1862, disability.
Charles E. Southland, Jr.
Aug. 30, 1864, ex. service.
Frank L. Stowell .
Jan. 1863, d. Alexandria, dropsy.
William Sweeney .
Aug. 31, 1862, d. Washington, fever.
George Barnes
William Gilwee
"
Patrick Friar .
David H. Woodward
Aug. 14, 1863.
Sept. 18, 1863, d. Kentucky.
Samuel Thomas .
Sept. 15, 1862.
Sidney Sibley .
Oct. 14, 1862.
May 23, 1864, disability.
Harrison D. Bliss
James A. Cooper .
July, 1861.
Nov. 10, 1862, disability.
George E. Wilson
Mar. 10, 1864.
July 22, 1865,
William A. Mullett 43 men.
July, 1861.
Nov. 10, 1863.
34TH REGIMENT.
Samuel F. Woods, Ist Lt., Adjutant.
Charles G. Allen, Asst .- Surg. 1864
George W. Howe
July 31, 1862.
Edson P. Kidder
July 17,
E. Gardner Davis
June 27, "
George Moran . June 28,
June 27,
"
William A. White
"
Allen E. King
July 17,
Christopher Goddard
June 27,
Jan. 31, 1863, d. at Barre.
John Buckly
"
H. Baxter King
July 4,
June 18, 1864, k. at Lynchburg, Va.
Joseph H. Whittier .
July 17,
Caleb H. Babbitt . "
Dec. 17, 1863.
Joseph H. Bacon
"
July 4,
John H. Archibald
July 17,
John R. Cobleigh
July „,
Joseph W. Smith
"
Thomas Connor
June 27, "
John Cambreau
July,
C. W. Johnson
July 17,
John R. Cobleigh, Jr.
"
"
Micah Graves . "
"
Emory G. Adams
July 19, "
George E. Rice
July 29,
April 24, 1864, d. Martinsburg, pneum. June 15, 1865, ex. service. "
Joseph M. Winslow .
July 17,
William Hildreth
Aug. 2,
June 30, " " "
Wounded at Stanton, d. at Worcester, June, 1864.
June 1, 1864, d. New Market, wounds. June 15, 1863, d. Washington.
July 31, 1864, d. Harper's F., sun-stroke. June 15, 1865, ex. service.
Charles L. White . John T. White
Nov. 28, 1864, Winchester, w. Sept. 19.
July 15, 1863, ex. service.
Aug. 8, 1862. Appointed sergeant.
Peter Brasseau
Porter W. Robinson
Anson S. Comee .
May 15, 1864, k. New Market. Jan. 14, 1863, discharged, sick. Nov. 1863, discharged.
July 16, 1863, dis., d. Washington, D. C. Killed in battle.
July, 1865, ex. service.
Deserted, k. Dec. 15, 1862, k. Fredericsburg.
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APPENDIX.
Michael Carney
July 5, 1862.
June 28, 1865, ex. service.
Joseph R. Lamon
Lewis Brasseau Dec. 8, 1863.
Charles L. Mullett
Dec. 9,
Feb. 22, 1865, Annapolis.
34 men.
IOTH BATTERY.
Edward A. Fales
Dec. 28, 1863. June 9, 1865, ex. service. Francis Mins .
Joseph E. Sweetzer .
Dec. 29,
Theodore A. Carter . Joseph Sheridan.
Asa W. Fay Jan. 1864.
"
Samuel H. Foster
Oliver W. Wheelock
"
May 10, 1863, k. near Spottsylvania, Va.
Emerson B. Mullett . Joseph F. Sanderson George W. Stetson Lyman W. Adams
", June 9, 1865. ~
"
Justus J. Rising .
Albert B. Spooner
" Aug. 20, 1864, d. Hospital, Brattleboro'.
Elbridge D. Thresher Doane
Mar. 31, "
Charles W. Amsden . 17 men.
Aug. 24, ,,
June 9, 1865.
42D REGIMENT.
J. Martin Gorham, 2d Lieut. . Sept. 16, 1862. May 14, 1863, resigned.
Charles L. Atwood .
April 27, 1863, d. Brashear, La.
George H. Allen .
July 4, 1863, New Orleans.
Benjamin F. Bacon .
Aug. 20, 1863, ex. service.
Elbridge G. Bacon Warren E. Bacon
"
Charles E. Baker
Francis G. Bates .
"
"
Jotham E. Bigelow
"
Luke F. Bowker . Edward Bradbury Porter Carter George Desper
"
"
"
"
Sept. 20, "
"
Edward Fisher
",
July 25, 1863, d. Algiers, La.
John M. Gates
" "
Cyrus Hartwell
"
"
"
"
Lewis J. Matthews
"
George Lane
" Aug. 26, 1863, ex. service.
Dennis Mara
Dec. 1862, deserted, Brooklyn.
"
"
" "
Austin Hawes . Andrew J. Horton Adam Howe George L. Johnson James Mins
"
",
" April 26, 1865, d. Berksville Station, Va.
35
274
BARRE CENTENNIAL.
Charles Robinson
Sept. 20, 1862. Aug. 20, 1863, ex. service.
James Savage .
"
"
Leonard Stark
"
"
Julius P. Varney .
"
John B. Williams
" " " Aug. 20, 1863, ex. service.
Addison J. Williams
"
"
T. Hanson White
"
"
"
"
Joseph S. Bruce . 32 men.
53D REGIMENT.
Pliny H. Babbitt, Ist Lt. . . Sept. 15, 1862.
Sept. 2, 1863.
Abijah L. Shattuck, 2d Lt.
Joseph W. Holbrook
" " ,
Joel M. Adams
Eugene D. Clark .
Levi C. Hicks
Forister A. Hicks
J. Harding Allen . Harding Allen, Jr.
Charles G. Allen .
"
" Apr. 19, 1863, k. Berwick Bay.
John Q. Adams
James R. Brown .
"
" " " " " " June 16, 1863, d. Brashear, La. Sept. 2, "
George R. Chaffee
John Carville .
"
" Dec. 1862, deserted. Sept. 2, 1863.
Nathan Elliott
Edward A. Fales
William H. Fields
William G. Fessenden
Willard B. Fessenden
"
" "
Walter A. Forbush .
"
June 2, 1862, k. Port Hudson.
Phineas Heywood, 2d
"
"
Sept. 2, 1862.
Samuel S. Hamilton Daniel P. Hemenway William Hinchcliff Joel Hodges
"
May 29, 1863, k. Port Hudson.
Henry N. Heald .
Sept. 2, 1863.
Martin S. Johnson
"
"
June 14, 1863, k. Port Hudson. Sept. 2, 1863. "
George M. Kempton
"
"
June 14, 1863, k. Port Hudson.
Fred Lilley
"
Gamaliel Luce, Jr.
"
"
Henry H. Lindsay
">
"
"
"
John P. Allen .
James L. Ainsworth .
June 28, 1863, d. Baton Rouge, La.
Sept. 2, 1863.
William Augustus Bullard .
Josiah Bliss, Jr.
Thomas P. Blakely
"
"
"
"
.
" "
Dec. 1, 1862, d. Groton.
" June 14, 1863, k. Port Hudson.
Nelson W. Jameson .
Charles G. B. King . John Kennedy
"
"
George Knights
Sept. 2, 1863.
"
"
"
" "
"
„
Ezra F. Elliott
"
Aug. 24, 1863, d. at Barre.
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APPENDIX.
George H. Mitchell .
Sept. 16, 1862. June 26, 1863, d. New Orleans.
George F. Newton
Sept. 2, 1863.
Theodore S. Pierce
"
May 11, 1863, d. Berwick Bay.
David W. Robinson .
" " June 6, 1863, k. Baton Rouge.
Elbridge L. Robinson "
June 14, 1863, Port Hudson.
Patrick Rogers "
Sept. 2, 1863.
J. Andrew Rogers Samuel E. Smith .
"
Sept. 2, 1863.
Granville C. Smith "
"
" " "
Lucius Spooner .
"
Henry H. Wyman Marcellus Whitman 53 men.
"
"
"
"
SUNDRY REGIMENTS.
George N. Wheelock
July, 1861.
July 3, 1863.
15th Reg't.
William A. Mullett .
Leander T. Hatheway
Oct. 12, 1861.
Oct. 22, 1862, disab. and w.
25th
Edward E. Hatheway
Oct. 15, " Mar. 3, 1862, Newbern, N.C. deserted.
Henry W. Crawford .
James A. Cooper .
July, 1861.
Nov. 10, 1863, disability.
Henry M. Mullett
Dec. 1863.
July 22, '64, Andersonville.
" 3d Artil'ry. 3d Cavalry. 8th Batt'ry.
George B. Woods
Daniel D. Cole
Sept. 17, 1861. Nov. 7, 1863.
Ist Reg't.
Henry W. Cole
May, 1861.
w. Winchester, and disch. from service, 1862.
2d
George W. Robinson, Jr.
29th
Daniel G. King
Jan. 15, 1862.
3Ist
Edwin Capron
"
Aug. 1864, deserted.
3Ist
Fred. W. Capron
"
Sept. 9, 1865.
3Ist
Albert G. Wilder .
Aug. 1862.
April 21, "
3Ist
William H. Smith
10th
22
Leonard M'Farland
Thomas M'Clarance .
25 E.
John A. Maynard
Mar. 31, 1864. June 12, 1865.
Sig. service.
Samuel Thomas
Sept. 15, 1862.
37th Reg't.
The responsibility of rendering due recognition on all fit occasions to these honored names, whether living or dead, and the importance of pre- serving a distinct knowledge of what they did and suffered for the infor- mation of the future, prompts to an attempt briefly to sketch the career of the regiments where our men rendered service. Forty-three of the citizens and sons of Barre made part of Company K of the Twenty-first Regiment. They elected at home their officers, and were uniformed at the expense of the town. At a public meeting these officers were presented with hand- some swords, and the company left town for Worcester, carrying with them the recollection of cheers, benedictions, and tears that accompanied
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Thomas Hill .
Jan. 1864.
Robert Adamson .
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their departure. After a brief stay in camp, the regiment started for the seat of war, August 23, 1861, and first encamped at Annapolis, where for nearly five months it performed the duty of protecting the road to the Cap- itol and keeping the State of Maryland in the Union. In January, 1862, it started for North Carolina, its colonel, who had been a brigadier-general in the militia, having resigned soon after their arrival, and Lieut .- Colonel Clark being commissioned colonel the next day. It made part of Gen. Burnside's expedition, and was engaged in the battles at Roanoke Island, at Newbern, and at Camden. Fessenden, Martin, and Stone were the first of the sons of Barre to give up their lives in defence of their country. The regiment remained South till the famous campaign of Gen. Pope, in July of 1862, when the command of Gen. Burnside was sent in as a reinforcement, and it landed at Aqua Creek so as to take part in the battles at Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Chantilly, Antietam, and Fredericsburg. At Falmouth it remained on picket duty through the months of December and January, and broke camp without regret, Feb. 9, 1863, reaching Paris, Ky., April I, where the State Fair Grounds fur- nished the men a resting-place of four days, when they proceeded twenty- two miles to Mount Sterling, where it remained three months, vindicating the character and title to respect of Massachusetts troops at the hands of Western men. In July they were at Lexington, and afterwards at Camp Nelson, and started for East Tennessee 12th September, marching one hundred and eighty-five miles to Knoxville. Oct. II, a spirited engage- ment occurred at Blue Springs, when the Twenty-first drove the enemy from his position, and pursued him twenty-six miles, having marched fifty-one miles to reach that point. From this time to the end of the year their service was severe and their conduct heroic. They are said to have marched and countermarched through storm and cold without tents and on half rations, poorly clothed and badly shod, twenty men doing duty through November barefoot, and yet doing their duty cheerfully and with such alacrity as to have acquired the name of the "Fighting Regiment." At the siege of Knoxville they did active duty, being one night on picket and the next in the rifle-pits ; and the 24th November, in company with another picked regiment, they made one of the most brilliant charges of the siege, driving the enemy from the houses, the fences, and the rifle-pits in the neighborhood, and keeping up the work constantly till the siege was raised the 5th December ; and though only able to have for their subsistence two ears of corn per day, yet following hard on the footsteps of the retreating enemy into the woods of East Tennessee ; and then, with the memory of what they had passed through, and realizing what was before them, half starved as they were, they crowned their ser- vice of two and a half years by a further re-enlistment for three years. If any men ever deserved well of their country, surely such as these did. It is worthy of note, that all but thirty-six of the regiment who were alive and present for duty became veterans. In January, 1864, they came
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home on a furlough, and were honored with an enthusiastic reception at Worcester as a regiment, and a no less cordial one at Barre was tendered to Company K. Returning, they were reviewed and welcomed back by President Lincoln, and, marching by the battle-fields of Bull Run and Bristow's Station to the Rapidan to co-operate with the army of the Potomac in the final pounding out of the Rebellion, they made a part of that force with which Grant said he should "fight it out on that line if it took all summer." They were on the road to Richmond all that year ; and in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, at North Anna, Coal Harbor, Petersburg, Welden Railroad, Poplar Spring Creek, and at Hatches Run, they met the shock of arms, and proved veterans in deed as well as in name.
The casualties of the service, and the draft which had been made upon the physical systems of the men, had reduced the numbers of the regi- ment to that point that it became necessary to break up the organization ; and so, on the 18th August, 1864, the regiment was broken up and its men transferred to the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts, and the officers were mustered out of service together with the men who had not re-enlisted.
Its record during its entire period of service was a most honorable one, and more than once it had the credit of having, by its courage and dash, saved or turned the fortunes of the day, and either achieved a suc- cess or prevented a rout. Especially was this true of the first battle of the Wilderness, when the Second Corps gave way, and, rushing across the lines of the Ninth, threw every thing into confusion ; then the Twenty- first Massachusetts and the 100th Pennsylvania succeeded in restoring order out of confusion, and prevented the entire destruction of the army. All honor, then, to the officers and men of the Twenty-first Massa- chusetts !
In the summer of 1862, after the repulse of the Shenandoah, the Thirty- fourth Massachusetts was recruited in Worcester County, and its adjutant and thirty-three men of Company E were from Barre. It was ably offi- cered and splendidly equipped, being commanded by Col. Wells, who left the Bench at Boston to join the army, while its lieut .- colonel was a son of Governor Lincoln, and its major had an experience in the field, and had been a prisoner in the hands of the rebels. The drill and disci- pline of the regiment was carefully attended to during its sojourn at Worcester and while it remained in camp near Washington, so that when it left for the more active duties of the field its reputation for soldierly qualities was unsurpassed by any that were stationed there. And the precision and perfection of its manœuvres and parades were only second to its exhibition of the sterner qualities of courage and endurance that characterize the patriotic soldier. At Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights it had something of an experience of life in the field, as it was assigned to picket duty and the maintenance of order and loy- alty ; but its first engagement was at Charleston, where a portion of the
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regiment was surprised and captured. In fifteen hours it marched thirty- five miles, fighting for more than ten miles with double its number, and being without food or rest.
The Ioth December it became important to divert attention from an important strategic movement of Averill's, and the Thirty-fourth was assigned to that duty, which it discharged satisfactorily, though it came near being surrounded by the force of Gen. Early, with six or seven thousand men, while our force numbered only about fourteen hundred. On the 24th it returned to camp to turn out in perfect order without a single straggler, and all its equipments bright and shining, though it had been fifteen days in a campaign without tents.
February 1, 1864, it went to Cumberland, returning to Harper's Ferry the 7th to repel an attack. Martinsburg was the place of its encampment March 7th, and April 2d back again to Harper's Ferry ; 17th to Martins- burg ; May 2d to Winchester ; May 9th to Cedar Creek; May 11th to Woodstock ; and on the 14th to New Market, a march of twenty-one miles, with only a halt of ten minutes. Here occurred a gallant fight and a severe loss ; and though the fortune of war was against them, so that out of five hundred men, two hundred and twenty-one were killed or wounded in half an hour, yet such was the ardor of the men to advance, that Col. Wells could only stop the regiment by seizing the color-bearer by the shoulder and holding him by main strength ; and as they retired by order, the men were heard to say to each other, "For God's sake, don't run, Thirty-fourth ! Don't let them drive you !" All that night they marched to Woodstock, to get the first sleep or rest for two days. Hunter's expedition to the Shenandoah was poorly supplied with food, and when the army was ordered to live on the country, the bark of birch-trees was peeled off to eat and flour from deserted mills swept up to be cooked. All through that terrible summer of 1864 they were engaged in the fiercest of the fight, having been engaged in nine battles and lost six hundred and sixty-one men, while every commissioned officer in the regiment was either killed or wounded.
At the opening of the campaign in the spring it was assigned to the Army of the James ; and on the 2d of April it made a desperate charge on Battery Gregg, hanging upon the works for the space of twenty-seven minutes, with grape and shell pouring in upon it, when, with a rush, and a short hand-to-hand struggle, the parapet was gained, the fort and its entire garrison captured. And in numerous engagements, till the surrender of Lee on the 9th, the Thirty-fourth promptly and heroically met the requirements of the situation ; and on the 16th June, at Richmond, it was mustered out of service with the flattering tribute that it had been always first to advance and last to retreat, maintaining its organization unbroken under all circumstances.
The Twenty-first and Thirty-fourth were the only regiments of three years' men that had companies from Barre. A reference to the list will
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show that in various other three years' regiments were a few men ; and it would be a pleasure as well as a duty, did space permit, to trace these regiments, as each wrote out under fire and in camp its military history, honorable to its members and honorable to the State.
Of the Forty-second and Fifty-third Regiments of nine months' men, who each had a company from Barre, and were in Banks' command in the expedition to New Orleans, there is much that might be said, but the story must be briefly told. Thirty-two enlisted men were with the Forty- second, which left Readville, Nov. 21, 1862, for New Orleans by way of New York, where, finding no provision had been made for its reception, it bivouacked in the streets and sheds near for its first night out of Mas- sachusetts. It sailed for Ship Island the 2d December, in four leaky transports, arriving the 16th, from whence three companies sailed the 19th for Galveston, Texas, where they landed without opposition the 25th, but were attacked and captured by a superior force the Ist January, having, however, made so gallant a resistance that out of respect to it they were allowed to retain all of their private property. By this capture, having lost their colonel, the regiment seems to have lost its distinctive organi- zation, the companies being detailed to special and independent duty. Capt. Davis, the commander of Company K, was assigned to provost duty, and Company K was detached as pontoniers (Feb. 16), building bridges with such energy and skill as to receive high praise, and perhaps rendering as important, if not as conspicuous, services as any arm of the service. On 18th February, a pontoon-bridge at New Orleans ; on 10th March, a bridge 100 feet long, at Bayou Montesino; on 15th took it up, and retired to Baton Rouge ; on 9th April, a bridge 300 feet long on Bayou Bœuf; on 12th, across Bayou Teche ; on 26th May, Sandy Creek, 280 feet long ; then, at storming of Fort Hudson, took bridge to pieces, and bridged ditch for storming parties.
In the Fifty-third Regiment were fifty-three Barre men. This left Mas- sachusetts the 29th November, 1861, and embarked for New Orleans, Jan. 17th, occupying twelve days. In the campaign it had a prominent and active part, being in several very important engagements, and especially in the several charges upon Fort Hudson, and at Brashear City and through the Teche Country, capturing Fort Bisland, and showing under fire all the steadiness and nerve of veteran soldiers. The regiment lost in its campaign, from all causes, two hundred and forty men ; the Forty-second, one hundred and fifty-seven men, of whom seventy-two were deserters. Both regiments arrived home in August, 1863, and the two companies from Barre were tendered a public reception by the citizens of Barre, and a collation was spread, to which every single family in town was invited to contribute, and was in all respects an enthusiastic and satis- factory affair.
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ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT OF "GREAT AND LITTLE FARMS" IN THE NORTH-WEST QUARTER OF RUT- LAND BY THE PROPRIETORS, APRIL 29, 1735; Nov. 23, 1736; Nov. 24, 1737 ; AND JUNE 14, 1738.
No. I. Samuel Waldo. 560 acres.
2. Thomas Hutchinson. 560 acres.
3. Rev. Joseph Parsons. 560 acres.
4. With little Farm H. annexed.
to Henry Franklin's heirs.
2 to Joshua Heywood, or his assign, William Nightingale, Jr.
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8 to Daniel Willard. 8. to Anna Bosworth. 1 to Susanna Cowdrey. 1
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126 to Sarah Hope.
›› 5. With little Farms D., E., and F. 782 acres.
to John White's heirs.
¿ to Joshua Heywood.
„, 6. With little Farms B. and C. 794 acres, 126 rods.
¿ 'to Anthony Stoddard. ¿ to John Charnock's heirs. 7. Rev. Thomas Prince. 560 acres.
" 8. to Ebenezer Allen, heir of James Allen. 560 acres.
to Samuel Howard, Benjamin and Jonathan Parker.
9. to John Oulton. 560 acres.
to John Buttolph. to Barral Dyer.
„, IO. Thomas Prince. 560 acres.
II. to Benjamin Prescot. 560 acres.
to John Buckley.
,, 12. to Richard Bill. 560 acres.
to William Salter.
,, 13. Samuel Waldo. 560 acres.
to Samuel Willard. 560 acres.
,, 14. 10/ 00 MK to Charles Apthorp.
,, 15. Cornelius Waldo. 593 acres.
16. Francis Brinley. 645 acres.
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,, 17. Jonas Clark. 560 acres.
,, 18. Thomas Brintnall's heirs. 560 acres.
19. Col. Adam Winthrop. 560 acres.
,, 20. With little Farm G. annexed. 651 acres. Robert Blood's heirs.
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No. 21. With little Farm A. 670 acres.
¿ to John Jeffries. ¿ to Maj. Samuel Sewell.
,, 22.
Col. Isaac Winslow. 664 acres.
,, 23. to John Jones. 560 acres.
to Thomas Sparhawk.
to Noah Sparhawk.
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" 24. 12 to John Dolbeare. 660 acres.
to Mary Leland. to James Pemberton. to Bartholomew Cheever.
", 25. Rev. Thomas Prince. 560 acres.
,, 26. to Samuel Waldo. 560 acres.
1 to Cornelius Waldo. ¿ to John Oulton.
,, 27. Col. Estes Hatch. 644 acres.
28. Thomas Fitch's heirs. 575 acres.
,, 29. Col. Estes Hatch. 630 acres. to Nicholas Davis. to Peter Lucy.
" 30. William Allen. 652 acres.
", 31. 1%% to Thomas Child. 680 acres.
3 to Dr. William Douglass.
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to Dr. William Douglass.
1 to Elizabeth Rice. 63
1 to Mary Ellis. 63
1
to Mehitabel Baxter.
126
1 to Sarah Hope.
", 32. to Nathan Prince. 617 acres.
to Samuel Denney.
to Mrs. Hannah Fayerweather.
" 33. With little Farm K. and L. 768 acres.
{ to Benjamin Brown's heirs.
1 to Richard Estabrook. 10
to John Willard.
2 to Samuel Waldo. 1
10 to John Checkly.
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