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Born October 5, 1839, in Coldbrook, in the town of Oakham, the eldest child of George S. and Sophronia Green, and brother of Lyman Smith Green, and of Eliza Jane Green, the wife of F. P. Kimball.
Charles S. Green was a shoemaker living in the village of Coldbrook, and enlisted from Oakham in Co. F, 2d Mass. The regiment was organized at Camp Andrew, on the famous Brook Farm in West Roxbury. Co. F, with seventy-eight men, arrived in camp May 14. On July 8 the regiment left Camp Andrew one thousand and thirty-five men strong, went to the front, and joined the command of Major General Patterson at Williamsport. In December, 1861, it went into winter quarters at Frederick, Md., and with three other regiments occupied what was called "Cantonment Hicks," named in honor of Governor Hicks of Maryland. This camp was in a pleasant wood, four miles east of Frederick, on the Baltimore pike. The hospital was supplied by the Sanitary Commission.
Charles S. Green was the first man from Oakham to join the army at the outbreak of the Civil War. Within one month of the attack on Fort Sumter, he left his work and enlisted in a regiment forming in the eastern part of the State. When the regiment left Camp Andrew, he was detailed as regimental wagoner. At Camp Hicks he was taken ill with fever, and died January 30, 1862.
Ioth Mass. Infantry.
Nathaniel W. Colton. Mustered in, June 21, 1861. Discharged, October 5, 1862. Address, Veterans' Home, Napa Co., Cal.
Born in West Springfield, Mass., November 3, 1836. His father was Chauncey Colton, of Long Meadow, who removed to Oakham about
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1848; was village Postmaster from 1851 to 1855, and Selectman in 1856. In 1830 he married Lavinia H. Ware of Oakham, sister of James B. and A. Hazen Ware.
Nathaniel W. Colton was a shoemaker living in Springfield when the war began. He enlisted May 31, 1861, at the age of twenty-five, in Co. F, 10th Mass. The regiment went into camp June 14; left for the South July 25, and was encamped during the winter at Brightwood, near the residence of Francis P. Blair, Jr. March 27, 1862, it started down the Potomac to Fortress Monroe; was engaged with loss at Fair Oaks, May 31, and heavily engaged at Malvern Hill, July I. Colton was with McClellan through the peninsular campaign from March to July, and contracted disease, on account of which he was discharged for disability.
After recovering his health, he followed his occupation in Oak- ham, Worcester, Springfield, and Lynn, Mass., and in San Fran- cisco. In 1893 he was admitted to the Veterans' Home, Napa Co., Cal.
IIth Mass. Infantry. William A. F. Noyes.
Mustered in, August 3, 1861. Discharged, August 8, 1862.
Born in Oakham, November 9, 1822, son of Luther and Azuba (Smith) Noyes, and descendant in the sixth generation of Rev. James Noyes, of Newbury, who came to New England in 1634. His father, Luther Noyes, of Oakham, was born in Shrewsbury, May 2, 1776, and was the son of Daniel Noyes who served in the Revolutionary War, in Col. Jonathan Ward's regiment.
William Noyes taught school in Oakham when a young man. He built the house on the Coldbrook road just north of William S. Crawford's carriage repository. About 1850 he removed to Ashland, from which place he enlisted as a musician, in the 11th Mass., and served till the bands were discharged by the order of the War Department in 1862.
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After his return he lived in Ashland. He was a good citi- zen and held the offices of Selectman and Assessor in that town for several years. He was a charter member of the Col. Prescott Post, G. A. R., of Ashland.
June 2, 1844, he was married to Harriet A. Fitts, of Oakham, and had three children: Charlotte, born December 6, 1848, mar- ried Thomas M. Robinson in 1866; Charles F., born September 9, 1854, married Alice E. Nelson; Chester S., born September 9, 1854, married Mary J. Whitehouse in 1885.
Mrs. Noyes died November 25, 1885, at Ashland. Soon after 1900 Mr. Noyes removed to Farmington, N. H., where he died February 16, 19II.
13th Mass. Infantry.
William Bird Kimball.
Mustered in, July 16, 1861. Mustered out, July 11, 1864.
Born in Oakham, June 2, 1833. His father, Rev. James Kimball, pas- tor of the Congregational Church in Oakham from 1832 to 1860, was born in Bradford, Mass., October 5, 1797, and was a graduate of Middlebury College in the Class of 1820 and of Andover Theological Seminary in 1823. His mother was Emily Parker, who was born in Groveland, Mass., September 5, 1800, and was one of the early teachers of Bradford Academy.
William B. Kimball was graduated at Amherst College in 1856. February 17, 1858, he was married, in Enfield, Mass., to Frances C. Woods, daughter of Josiah B. Woods, who was born in Enfield and was closely identified with the early development of the industrial resources of his native town. Mr. Woods was for many years a manufacturer of flannels and satinet goods.
Mr. Kimball located in Westboro, buying the historic farm known as the Maynard place, on the Northboro road. He was one of the first to enlist in the Westboro company of the 13th Mass., raised in May, 1861, and was mustered in as Corporal of Co. K. A few days later he was made Orderly Sergeant. His genial manners and sunny disposition made him universally
CHARLES SUMNER GREEN
2d Mass. Infantry
EDWARD FRANKLIN WARE 15th Mass. Infantry
WILLIAM HARRISON BULLARD 25th Mass. Infantry
SERGEANT WILLIAM I. TEMPLE 25th Mass. Infantry
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beloved by the soldiers, and he was pronounced the best orderly sergeant in the regiment. He was made Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, May 1, 1862, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, May 25 of the same year. February 28, 1863, he was promoted to First Lieutenant. He bore an active part in the disastrous battle of Chancellorsville, in May, 1863, and at Gettys- burg, July 1, 2, and 3 of the same year. He was appointed Cap- tain, October 4, and assigned to the command of Co. K, on December 9. He was in the series of battles in May and June from the Wilderness to Petersburg, and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service.
When he returned from the war, the farm in Westboro had been sold, and Mrs. Kimball had removed to Enfield. He joined her there and made this town his residence for the remainder of his life. The people of Enfield honored him from year to year with almost every office in their gift. He represented the town in the State Legislature, was Selectman, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, and served as a mem- ber of the School Board for thirty years. He died at Enfield, January 22, 1908.
An appreciative obituary notice, written by Lieut. W. R. War- ner, was published in the Westboro Chronotype of Friday, Febru- ary 7, 1908. Mr. Warner said of him: "A flood of tender recollections comes pouring in upon me as I recall Kimball's always calm exterior and noble scorn of death. He was always the same man all through his life of seventy-four years, gener- ous to a fault, unassuming, often forgetful of self, and always mindful of others."
15th Mass. Infantry. Edward Franklin Ware. Mustered in, July 12, 1861. Died in the service.
Born August 28, 1835, in Oakham, son of Archibald and Caroline Cutler (Cooley) Ware. His father was son of Archibald Ware, who came to Oakham before 1797, when his name appears on the town records.
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Edward F. Ware was a shoemaker working at Brookfield when he enlisted, at the age of twenty-six, in Co. F, 15th Mass. The regiment assembled at Camp Scott, August 8; three weeks later was at Poolville, Md., on picket duty on the Potomac River. Here, on September 23, 1861, Edward Ware died, the second man to die in the regiment and the first soldier from Oakham to die in the war.
Amos B. Dean.
Mustered in, February 1, 1862. Discharged, May 1, 1862.
Born in Oakham, October 2, 1833, son of Dr. John and Nancy (Parks) Dean, and brother of Levi L. Dean of Co. H, 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery, and of Eliza Dean, the second wife of Andrew Spooner, of the 51st Mass. Dr. John Dean was son of Deacon James Dean, one of the first ten settlers of Oakham.
Amos B. Dean, a mechanic, enlisted, at the age of twenty-nine, from North Brookfield in Co. F, 15th Mass., and was discharged for disability after three months' service.
Not long after his return from the army, he removed from North Brookfield to Hiawatha, Kansas, where he died in Novem- ber, 1903.
Albert Henry Foster. Mustered in, July 12, 1861. Mustered out, July II, 1864. Address, North Brookfield, Mass.
Born November 12, 1839, in New Braintree. He was son of James R., Foster, who was born in Middleboro, February 24, 1798, and of Nancy (Henry) Foster, who was born in Rutland, September 20, 1796. They were married August 22, 1822. Mrs. Foster was daughter of Lieut. Sam- uel and Mary (Gates) Henry, and sister of Samuel G. Henry and of Mrs. Rufus Gould, the mother of Dr. John W. Gould, 25th Mass., and of Rev. Edwin S. Gould, 51st Mass. James R. Foster was a resident of Coldbrook in 1821; later he lived in Rutland and in New Braintree. In 1848 he purchased the Sheers Berry farm in the west part of Oak- ham, now known as the Foster farm, on which he and Mrs. Foster lived till their death. Mr. Foster died May 4, 1875; Mrs. Foster, April 17, 1880.
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Albert H. Foster went to North Brookfield when fourteen years of age and was employed in the Batcheller shop. May I, 1861, at the age of twenty-one, he enlisted in Co. F, 15th Mass .; was promoted from Corporal to Sergeant, March I, 1863; was taken prisoner in the battle of Ball's Bluff, October 21, 1861, and was in prison in Richmond four months. He was in the battles of Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863, and Gettysburg, July 2 and 3. July 28, 1863, he was detailed on detached service in Boston Harbor.
At the expiration of his term of service he returned to North Brookfield and resumed work in the Batcheller shop, where he was employed till 1879, when he established himself in the coal business, in which he still continues. He has been for several years a member of the Board of Investment of the North Brook- field Savings Bank.
He was married (I) January II, 1865, to Addie M. Ashby, of North Brookfield, who died, February 3, 1892; (2) December 13, 1894, to Alice W. Smith, of North Brookfield. Children : George B., born September 16, 1868, died September 8, 1869; Harold Abbott, born May 15, 1871; Frank Webster, born June 13, 1874.
Harold A. was married in April, 1893, to Jean Kidder, of Bos- ton, and has three children: Albert Edward, Maynard Ashby, and Elizabeth. He was appointed Postmaster of North Brook- field in 1902 and held that office till the close of the Taft admin- istration.
Frank W. was in the telephone business in North Brookfield from 1895 till September, 1910, when he removed to Oakland, California, where he is in the employ of the Cyphus Incubator Company.
2Ist Mass. Infantry. George Lyman Caldwell. Mustered in, July 19, 1861. Died in the service.
Born in Oakham, May 16, 1838, son of George and Eliza (Parker) Caldwell. His father, George Caldwell, son of James and Mary (Blake)
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Caldwell, was born in Oakham, June 27, 1818, and died in Oakham, January 4, 1881. Eliza Parker Caldwell probably came from Warren.
George L. Caldwell, at the age of twenty-three, a mechanic, enlisted from the town of Oakham in Co. K, 21st Mass., and was made Sergeant. The 21st regiment was organized in Worcester, at Camp Lincoln; left Worcester, August 23; went to Annapo- lis; was selected for the Burnside expedition, December 16; took part in the battles of Roanoke Island, Newbern, Manassas, Chantilly, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. In February, 1863, it was sent to Kentucky to serve as part of the 9th Corps in the Department of the Ohio. In August it moved to Camp Nel- son on the Kentucky River.
George Caldwell died November 17, 1863, at Camp Nelson. It was reported that he was killed while in his tent, by the accidental discharge of a gun which a soldier was cleaning in an adjoining tent.
Isaiah Dean.
Mustered in, February 29, 1864. Mustered out, July 12, 1865. Address, Barre Plains, Mass.
Born in Oakham, March 21, 1845, son of Elijah and Delotia (East- man) Dean, and brother of Seth and Daniel W. Dean of Co. K, 36th Mass.
In the winter of 1864 he enlisted, at the age of nineteen, for the town of Barre, in Co. K, 21st Mass. Late in October, 1864, after the members of the regiment whose time had expired had been discharged, he was transferred to the 36th Regiment. On June 8, 1865, the remnants of the 21st and 36th Regiments were transferred to the 56th, from which they were discharged at the close of the war.
December 16, 1870, he was married in Oakham to Susan A. Simmons, daughter of Job and Sarah Simmons. His wife died June 1, 1887.
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25th Mass. Infantry.
Twenty-one men from Oakham enlisted in Co. H, 25th Mass. in the late summer of 1861, and three whose early home had been in Oakham enlisted in the same company from other towns. One Oakham man joined Co. A in 1862. This was a Worcester County regiment, organized at Camp Lincoln in the city of Wor- cester, largely under the charge of Capt. A. B. R. Sprague. It was mustered into service from September 26 to October 12, and left the state October 31 for Annapolis, where it was encamped for about two months. While stationed here, the Oak- ham men were visited on December 14 by Washington Stone and William R. Gould, who brought letters and delicacies from home. They remained two days, and, after visiting the city of Washing- ton, stopped again for two days on their return.
The regiment formed part of General Foster's Ist Brigade in the Burnside expedition to North Carolina and was given the right of the line; took a prominent part in the battle of Roanoke Island, February 8; was engaged at Newbern, March 14, remained on provost duty in the city till May 9, and was later at the front. As part of the 3d Brigade, it shared in the Golds- boro expedition in December, supporting the batteries at Kinston, supplying volunteer sharpshooters at Whitehall, and was active at Goldsboro. In December, 1863, the regiment was ordered to Newport News, Va., where four hundred and thirty-two men reënlisted, who returned in February, 1864, to Massachusetts on furlough.
The command was reunited March 26, forming part of General Heckman's Red Star Brigade, 18th Army Corps. In the recon- noissance to the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Edwin Wil- bur and Lorenzo K. Lovell were wounded, May 6, 1864, at Port Walthal Junction. From May 6 to May 16, the regiment was under fire nine days. In Beauregard's daybreak attack on the right flank of the Union troops at Drury's Bluff on May 16, 1864, the 25th fought against overwhelming numbers till it was surrounded by the enemy, and then fought its way out, saving its colors and organization. The regiment lost sixteen killed,
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sixty wounded, and sixty-nine prisoners. Willard A. Frink and Henry H. Ware were killed, Jonathan G. Warren was wounded, and David O. Lovell was wounded and taken prisoner. At Cold Harbor on June 3, in the unsupported charge of Heckman's Brigade on the strongest position in the Confederate line, the 25th lost fifty-three killed, one hundred and thirty-nine wounded, and twenty-eight prisoners, making a total loss of two hundred and twenty out of three hundred men fit for service who answered to their names at roll call that morning. William H. Bullard and Lyman N. Parker were killed, and Corporals Julius D. Hill and George W. Stone were wounded. The regiment took part also in the assaults of June 15 and 18 at Petersburg, and remained on duty in the trenches till August 25. It was ordered to North Carolina, September 4, and stationed near New- bern. The original term of service expired in September, 1864. The reënlisted men, organized as four companies, forming the 25th Mass. Battalion of Veteran Volunteers, united with Sher- man's army near Goldsboro, moved to Raleigh in April, and, after the surrender of the Confederate Army, to Charlotte, where they performed patrol and guard duty till the termination of the war.
William Harrison Bullard.
Mustered in, September 21, 1861. Reënlisted, January 18, 1864. Died in the service.
Born April 22, 1840, in Oakham. His father was Joel Bullard, born October 7, 1796, son of Silas, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Silas was the son of Jonathan Bullard, and was born in Weston, May 24, 1746.
William H. Bullard was a farmer living on the Silas Bullard place, when he enlisted at the age of twenty-one. At Cold Har- bor, June 3, 1864, he was severely wounded, falling among the living and the dead as the line went down before that fatal fire on three sides of the Angle into which the charge was made. Bullard could not cover himself, and was shot to death, lying on the ground between the lines, his living companions unable to help him.
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In writing of this battle, Col. Higginson said: "Saddest of all was the vast number of wounded who expired in the narrow pass between the hostile lines, on the days following the battle, simply from the inability of their own friends to succor them."
Sergeant White says of Bullard: "He was one of the reliable men of the company, and participated in all the battles up to the time of his death. His bravery was conspicuous at Drury's Bluff, May 16."
Henry Willis Crawford.
Mustered in, September 26, 1861. Discharged, August 30, 1862.
Born in Oakham, November 29, 1829. His father was Hosea Willis Crawford, a captain in the militia and grandson of Capt. John Crawford who commanded a company in the Northern Army at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne. His mother was Caroline M. Gault, daughter of John and Rebecca (Kenney) Gault.
Henry W. Crawford played double bass in Crawford's Cornet Band, and was known as "Big Henry," to distinguish him from Henry A. Crawford, who played the E Flat cornet. He enlisted as a musician in the regimental band of the 25th, and at the end of a year was discharged by act of Congress, and returned home.
After his return, he lived in Oakham, Fitchburg, and Barre, and followed his trade of carpenter and builder.
December 28, 1853, he was married to Lucy Ann Browning of Rutland. They had two children, both of whom died young. After the death of his wife, he was married again, October 31, 1859, to Ellen Sibley of Barre. Children: Fred E., born in Barre, July 8, 1867, now police officer at Gilbertville, Mass., and Deputy Sheriff for the County of Worcester; George H., born in Barre, June 19, 1869, a machinist; Charles, born in Fitchburg, December 19, 1871, a teamster; Nellie A., born in Oakham, October 6, 1875, now Mrs. Ackland Eddy of Worcester, Mass .; Frank, born in Barre, December 21, 1878, a teamster.
Mr. Henry W. Crawford died in Gilbertville, May 18, 1895.
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Charles D. Dean.
Mustered in, September 23, 1861. Reënlisted, January 18, 1864. Mustered out, July 13, 1865.
Born on June 9, 1843, at New Salem, Mass. His father was Charles Dean, son of Richard Dean, a soldier in the War of 1812 and a descend- ant of Walter Dean, who came from Chard, England, in 1637, and set- tled in Taunton, Mass. His mother was Abbie Deland of Andover, Mass., daughter of a Baptist minister.
Charles D. Dean was nephew of Mrs. Alonzo Lincoln, and was living with Mr. Lincoln when he enlisted, at the age of eighteen, from the town of Oakham. He reënlisted as a veteran from the town of Sunderland.
After the war, he was in the restaurant business for about twenty-five years. In 1895 he became a manufacturer of bak- ing powder. He lived in Somerville from 1892 to 1908, when he removed to Medford. He was Commander of the Willard C. Kinsley Post, 139, G. A. R .; was Chairman of the Committee from the Post, which, in conjunction with a citizens' committee, made arrangements for the dedication of the Somerville Soldiers' Monument on May 30, 1909.
July 4, 1869, he was married to Maria F. Leonard, of Boston, and had one child, Grace G. Dean, born August 25, 1870, mar- ried, January 5, 1912, to Walter Shippard Smith, and now living at 7 Benham St., Medford, Mass.
He died November 20, 1909, in the hospital of the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Sunderland. The Somerville Journal said of him: "Comrade Dean was one of the most active, faithful, and efficient members of Post 139. Modest and unassuming in manner and conduct, he was always ready for duty at the call of his comrades."
Sergeant White of Co. H. writes: "I remember Dean as one of our best soldiers, ever faithful, quiet, and self-respecting. He came out of the service a man, worthy of the respect of the world, as he had been of all his old comrades in arms."
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John Williams Gould. Mustered in, September 26, 1861. Discharged, August 30, 1862. Address, 23 Maywood St., Worcester, Mass.
Born in New Braintree, June 12, 1840, brother of Rev. Dr. George H. Gould, and of Rev. Edwin S. Gould, Co. F, 51st Mass. His father, Rufus Gould, was born in Charlton, Mass., September 3, 1792, son of Thomas and Hannah (Williams) Gould. Thomas Gould, born November 24, 1755, was in the Revolutionary army. John W. Gould's mother, Mary Henry, was daughter of Lieut. Samuel Henry, who was born in Rutland, Novem- · ber 15, 1765, and was married in 1795 to Polly Gates. The Henry family came from Rutland to Oakham not far from the beginning of the 19th century.
John W. Gould came to Oakham when he was nine years old. When thirteen, he sang alto in the church choir, and when six- teen, he joined Crawford's Cornet Band, being the youngest member. He organized a double quartette of mixed voices, that furnished acceptable music for social gatherings in Oakham for a number of years. He taught school in Ware and Hubbards- ton, teaching singing school at the same time in Hubbardston. In the spring of 1861, he, with his brother Edwin, and L. Dwight Wood, entered Williston Seminary at Easthampton. The out- break of the war brought him home, and he enlisted as a musi- cian in the 25th regimental band. At the end of a year, all bands were discharged by act of Congress, and he returned home.
The following spring (1863), the family removed to West- boro, and he began the study of dentistry with his uncle, Dr. Samuel G. Henry. In the spring of 1864 he opened an office for the practice of dentistry in Oakham, in the Irene Clapp house. March 1, 1866, he established himself in Worcester, where his practice has been one of the best in the city, and his close attention to business has given him but little time for other things.
When he went to Worcester, he united with the Old South Church, but when his brother, Rev. Dr. George H. Gould, became pastor of the Piedmont Church, he transferred his connection to
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that church, where he was one of the deacons for eight years. He has been a member of the Worcester Congregational Club almost from its beginning, of the Worcester County Dental Association, and of the Massachusetts Dental Society.
In 1877 he was married to Nellie Melissa Muzzy. She was daughter of Alexander and Iris Melissa (Earle) Morrison of Leicester, and was adopted by Edwin A. Muzzy of Worcester after the death of her parents. Of a family of six children, only two are living: Dr. Rufus Henry Gould, a graduate of the Har- vard Dental School, now in practice with his father. Mary Earle Gould, a graduate of Wheaton Seminary, now a teacher of music.
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Julius Dexter Hill.
Mustered in, September 16, 1861. Reënlisted, January, 18, 1864. Mustered out, July 13, 1865. Address, Littleton, Colo.
Born in Spencer, Mass., August 13, 1842. His father, Dexter Hill, the son of Joshua Hill, came to Oakham in 1843. His mother was Eliza Prouty, daughter of Gardner and Ruth (Howe) Prouty.
Julius D. Hill, at the time of his enlistment at the age of nine- teen, was clerk in the store of his uncle, Alanson Prouty, at Oakham. He was wounded at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, but returned to his regiment and remained in the service till the close of the war.
After the war, he was clerk in the Express Office in Worces- ter, Mass., for two years. In 1866 he went to Colorado, and in 1869 settled in Littleton. Here he began on a farm, but soon opened a general store and remained twenty-eight years in one place. He was Postmaster of Littleton for fifteen or twenty years. He disposed of his store, and with a partner established the Littleton Creamery. Competition forced them to merge with an eastern concern, and his company became part of the Beatrice Creamery Company. When a national bank was established in Littleton, he became Director, Vice-President, and Local Mana-
DAVID OSCAR LOVELL 25th Mass. Infantry
HENRY HAZEN WARE 25th Mass. Infantry
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ger, and he is now Vice-President of the First National Bank of Littleton.
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