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Edith May Bruce, born in Hubbardston, July 31, 1872.
Bessie Louise Bruce, born in Oakham, March 28, 1876, married May 16, 1895, to Clarence A. Stone, who died November 28, 1906.
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Charles S. Knight.
Mustered in, September 30, 1862. Discharged, November 26, 1862.
Name changed from Joshua Lawrence Knight. Born in Oakham, October II, 1818, son of Silas and Abiah E. (Richmond) Knight, and brother of Hiram Knight of North Brookfield. His father, Silas Knight, was grandson of Silas Knight, who was born in Sudbury, May 5, 1757, and who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Charles S. Knight began his career as a school-teacher in the winter of 1839-40, with forty-eight pupils, in the West Center District in Oakham, and continued to teach for several years in this and other towns, removing to Leicester in 1844, where he was installed as Principal of the first High School started in Leicester township. Later he was in business in Leicester for a number of years as a manufacturer of carriages. He served the town of Leicester as Constable, Assessor, Collector, Treasurer, member of the School Committee, and Selectman. In 1862, at the age of forty-four, he enlisted in the 42d Mass., but was physically unable to endure the hardships of camp life and was discharged at the end of a month.
After the war, he was in business in New York City till 1875. He was Warden of the North Brookfield Town Farm till 1882, when he bought a farm in North Brookfield, on which he lived till his death, September 11, 1893.
He was married, (1) May 21, 1846, to Anna S. Howard of Leicester, who died February 19, 1856; (2) November 16, 1860, to Louesa A. Edwards of Leicester. Children :
Charles A. H., born in Leicester January 17, 1849, died Sep- tember 25, 1849.
Ruth W., born in Leicester February 7, 1851, died in Wor- cester, April, 1897.
Fred, born in Leicester September 23, 1853, married Septem- ber 20, 1880, to Abbie E. Chase of Worcester, now connected with the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Frank, born in Leicester February 3, 1856, died April 11, 1856. '
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Cora B., born in Leicester August 4, 1864, now Mrs. Parkman T. Denny of Leicester.
James Arthur, born in Leicester October 9, 1867, died in North Brookfield March 30, 1883.
Charles Lester, born December 20, 1869, in Leicester, married in April, 1896, to Ina I. Richardson of North Brookfield, now a carpenter in Fairfield, Conn.
Louesa May, born in New York December 22, 1871, died there July 8, 1875.
Jennie L., born in North Brookfield March I. 1878, Librarian of the Levi Heywood Memorial Library of Gardner, Mass., till her death, December 3, 1912.
Charles E. Warren.
Died in the service.
Son of Eber H. and Miriam (Gibbs) Warren, and brother of Corporal Jonathan G. Warren of the 25th Mass., was born in Oakham, December 2, 1846.
While living in Hardwick on a farm, he enlisted, at the age of eighteen, in the 42d regiment. Soon after going South, he was poisoned while on a foraging expedition. He was sent home, and died in Oakham, November 28, 1864, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Joseph Blake.
44th Mass. Infantry.
John Adams.
Mustered in, September 12, 1862. Discharged, June 18, 1863. Reënlisted, April 6, 1864. Mustered out, July 30, 1865.
Born in Oakham, April 4, 1827, son of Dr. Charles and Sarah (McAl- lister) Adams. Dr. Charles Adams was born in Brookfield, February 13, 1782, and was a descendant in the sixth generation of Henry Adams who came from England to America about 1630 and settled in what is now Quincy. He was educated at Leicester Academy and studied medicine with Dr. Asa Walker of Barre. Dr. Adams settled, as a
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physician, in Antrim, N. H., in 1807. On the death of Dr. Seth Fobes in 1816, he removed to Oakham, where he continued in practice till his death, March 6, 1875. John Adams was brother of Charles Adams, Treasurer of the State of Massachusetts. His sister Charlotte, born in Antrim May 21, 1813, married John F. Howard of Boston, November I, 1835, and was the mother of Charles F. Howard of Co. H, 25th Mass.
John Adams was a bookkeeper for the North Brookfield firm of T. & E. Batcheller, at their sales room in Boston, when he enlisted for the term of nine months, from Winchester, Mass., in Co. G, 44th Regiment. This regiment was sent to Newbern, N. C., and took part in the expedition to Goldsboro in December, I862.
After his discharge from the 44th, he enlisted again from Oakham in Co. K, 57th Mass. Perhaps no regiment suffered more than did the 57th between April, 1864, and July, 1865. They went through the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the first and second battles of Petersburg. The regiment met with terrible destruc- tion in the crater at Petersburg, July 30, when four thousand Union soldiers were sacrificed through the incapacity and cowardice of the division commanders.
After the war, John Adams took up again his old occupation of bookkeeper with the Batchellers. Later he was with the woolen company at Dennyville (now South Barre), and for several years with the Lakeville Woolen Company at West Rutland, where he died, November 28, 1889.
He was married, October 14, 1860, to Marietta Pierce of Boston.
46th Mass. Infantry. A
Payson Brainerd Humphrey.
Mustered in, September 25, 1862. Mustered out, July 29, 1863. Address, City Hospital, Springfield, Mass.
Born in Oakham, May 19, 1841, son of Nahum P. and Mariah Louise (Martin) Humphrey. His father, born in Littleton March 1, 1810, a carriage manufacturer in Oakham for twenty-five years, was a member
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of the Congregational Church and a prominent citizen. He was Postmas- ter under President Lincoln, Selectman in 1848 and 1850, and represented Oakham in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1856. In 1864 he removed to Springfield, where he was in the employ of the Boston and Albany Railroad. He died March 6, 1908, at the age of ninety-eight years.
Payson B. Humphrey went to Springfield in 1857 and became a salesman in the house of D. H. Brigham & Company, and had the reputation of being one of the best salesmen in the city. He enlisted in Springfield, September 25, 1862, in Co. A, 46th Mass. This regiment was ordered to Newbern, N. C., and took part in the Goldsboro expedition in December, 1862. It was sent to Fortress Monroe June 24, and after doing guard duty at Baltimore, joined the Army of the Potomac and moved with it into Virginia.
After leaving the army, Mr. Humphrey continued as a clothing salesman with D. H. Brigham & Company in Springfield.
He was married to Mrs. Orpha Fiske about 1869, and still resides in Springfield.
Joseph Joslyn.
Mustered in, September 25, 1862. Mustered out, July 29, 1863.
Born April 13, 1839, at Perkins, Ohio. His father, James Joslyn, son of Joseph and Nabby Joslyn, was born in New Braintree, November I. 1803. He went to Bethany, N. Y., and later to Perkins, Ohio, from which place he came to Oakham in 1840 and lived on the Joseph Chaddock place till 1852, when he went to California. He died in Springfield, Mass., in 1880. Capt. Joseph Joslyn, the father of James, was born in Lancaster, July 4, 1776, and died in 1814, in Pelham, Mass.
Joseph Joslyn went from Oakham to Springfield with his mother and brother Charles in 1854, and was employed as a bookkeeper in the business house of Tinkham & Company. In 1858 he came to Oakham and gave the young men of the town their first instruction in gymnastics. This resulted in improved physical development for many of them. He enlisted September 25, 1862, in Co. A, 46th Mass.
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After leaving the army, he returned to his former occupation of bookkeeper in Springfield, Mass. November 12, 1863, he was married to Orianna P. Humphrey, daughter of Nahum P. Humphrey and sister of Payson B. Humphrey of Oakham, his tent-mate in the army. They had three children, born in Springfield :
Payson H., born November 24, 1864, died August 9, 1894.
George B., born May 19, 1866, married October 30, 1895, to Sophie Stebbins. Address, 60 Garfield Street, Springfield, Mass.
Marshall, born December 19, 1870, died of meningitis, Sep- tember 10, 1910, in Yokohama, Japan, where he was manager for the plant of the American Graphophone Record Company.
Joseph Joslyn went west about 1872, and died in Loudon, Tenn., September 22, 1890.
5Ist Mass. Infantry.
The 5Ist regiment, recruited in Worcester County in the summer and autumn of 1862, was mustered into service Sep- tember 25 to November II, left the state November 25, under command of Colonel A. B. R. Sprague, arrived at Beaufort November 30, moved to Newbern, and was assigned to Colonel Amory's Brigade. It took part in the expedition to Goldsboro in the early part of December. Companies B and F were detached from January 5 to February 15 for picket duty on the Neuse Road, three miles above Fort Totten. The regiment served from March 3 to May 4 on garrison duty along the line of the railroad from the Trent River to the Seaboard. Companies E and F were located at Beaufort, N. C., and had quarters in the Front Street House. The regiment returned to Newbern May 4, and on June 24 it was ordered to Fortress Monroe. Volunteering for further service after its term of enlistment had expired, it was sent to Baltimore, joined the Army of the Potomac near Hagerstown, and took part in the pursuit of General Lee's army into Virginia.
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Wilder E. Dean.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Address, North Brookfield, Mass.
Born August 14, 1841, son of Elijah, Jr., and Mary M. (Goodale) Dean. He was by occupation a farmer, and enlisted at the age of twenty-one.
Since his return from the war, he has resided in North Brook- field. For ten years he was in the meat business, and has since been a carpenter and builder. He held the office of Constable thirty-two years, is a member of Post 51, G. A. R., and has been Commander three years; is also a member of Woodbine Lodge 180, I. O. O. F., and is Vice Grand.
December 24, 1871, he was married to Lucella L. Woodis, and has had two children :
George A., born June 29, 1872; married October 10, 1901, to Florence A. Gilbert of North Brookfield. He is First Assist- ant Manager in the main office of the American Express Co. at Springfield, Mass., and resides at 106 Washington Road, Forest Park.
David W., born January 12, 1877; died March 26, 1902, in North Carolina, where he had gone with his father and mother for his health.
Edwin Sprague Gould.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Reënlisted, July 15, 1864. Discharged, November 27, 1864. Address, 226 Pine St., Providence, R. I.
Born in New Braintree, Mass., February 20, 1844, the youngest of eight children of Rufus and Mary (Henry) Gould, and brother of John Williams Gould of the 25th Mass.
Edwin S. Gould left Williston Seminary, where he had gone in 1861 with his brother John and a companion, L. D. Wood, and enlisted in Co. F, 5Ist Mass., at the age of nineteen. On December II, 1862, while on the Goldsboro expedition, he had
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a severe sunstroke, from which he has never fully recovered. He was discharged at the expiration of his term of service. In the summer of 1864, he enlisted again, in Co. F, 60th Mass., and was made Corporal.
After returning from his second enlistment in the fall of 1864, he resumed his studies at Phillips Academy, Andover, but in 1865 gave up further study in preparation for college by the advice of his oculist. He did newspaper work on the Hartford Courant and Post, and on the Worcester Gazette and Advertiser, for about four years, when he entered the Hartford Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1872. He was ordained and installed as pastor of the Richmond Street Free Congregational Church in Providence, R. I., October 1, 1873. Subsequently he preached at West Brookfield for nearly five years, and was called from the church there to what is now the Humphrey Street Congregational Church in New Haven, Conn., but decided not to accept the call.
In July, 1883, he suffered severely from a railroad accident in New York, and since that misfortune has not felt equal to the full work of a pastor, but preached at Woonsocket, R. I., from 1886 to 1889, and at Athol, Mass., from 1890 to 1896. He was for many years Department Chaplain of the Rhode Island G. A. R., and visited and addressed nearly all the Posts in the state.
He was married, October 20, 1875, to Phebe S. Gladding, a teacher in one of the Providence schools. She died September 2, 1899, at Danielson, Conn., where Mr. and Mrs. Gould had spent much of their time when on vacation.
James Packard Macomber.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Died in the army.
Born in Oakham, August 26, 1843, son of John J. and Abigail (Pack- ard) Macomber.
James Macomber enlisted at the age of nineteen. He died of congestive chills at Newbern, January 17, 1863. The company
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was at Camp Sprague, a small log-house camp on the Neuse Road, three miles above Fort Totten, where Cos. F and B were stationed on picket duty. On the afternoon of Thursday, Jan- uary 15, he was taken suddenly ill, and on Friday he was removed to the Stanley General Hospital at Newbern, where he died on the following day. He was the first man in Co. F to die in the service, and his sudden death from disease, when he had been apparently in perfect health, made an impression on the company that was not soon forgotten.
When there was need of more men, James Macomber fol- lowed his four brothers and enlisted. Like them, he was a good soldier, brave, prompt, faithful, never absent from duty, glad always to do more than his share.
William Henry Maynard.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863.
Born in Oakham April 28, 1843, son of Artemas and Caroline Maria (Taylor) Maynard. His father was grandson of Francis Maynard, a tailor who came to Oakham from Rutland before 1777 and purchased the farm which has continued to be the home of the Maynard family till the present day. His mother was daughter of Roswell and Isabella (Ham- mond) Taylor, and was born in Spencer, Mass. After her mother's death, she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Aurelia (Hammond) Maynard (wife of Ezra Maynard), in a house on the old Turnpike, a little east of the schoolhouse.
William Henry Maynard was working with his father on the farm at the time of his enlistment, at the age of nineteen. In the spring following his return from the army, he went to Worcester and was employed for a time in a grocery store. In 1867 he began work with Burbank & Howland. Three years later he and Gough bought out Howland, and the business was continued under the name of A. L. Burbank & Co., till 1872, when Burbank withdrew and the firm of Maynard, Gough & Co. was formed. They were printers and blank book makers, and their specialty was hotel registers. After Mr. Maynard's
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death the business was incorporated under the name of the Maynard-Gough Company.
He was married January 16, 1889, to Dora Melinda Perham of Worcester, and had two children, both of whom died young : Marion, born May 25, 1890, died February 20, 1896; William Henry, born August 3, 1891, died December 25, 1891.
Mr. Maynard died of pneumonia, May 26, 1891. He was noted for his kindness and liberality toward the men in his employ. One day a workman came to him and asked to have a costly accident for which he was responsible charged to his account and the loss taken from his wages. Mr. Maynard replied: "You are a poor man, and have only what you earn by hard work. You are honest and faithful; we all make mistakes. Not a cent will be taken from your wages for this accident."
George Marshall Ross.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Address, Coldbrook Springs, Mass.
Born April 9, 1840, in Oakham. His father, David Sumner Ross, was porn in West Brookfield, October 3, 1808, son of Ansel and Hannah (Crowell) Ross, and grandson of John Ross, a Revolutionary soldier. The Ross family lived in West Brookfield for several generations, and were among the early settlers of the town. David S. Ross came to Oak- ham from Ware about 1837. He was Overseer of the Poor and Assessor for many years, Selectman for seven years, represented the town in the Legislature in the years 1854 and 1855, and was delegate from Oakham to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1853. The mother of George M. Ross was Ann (Packard) Ross, daughter of Parley Packard, and granddaughter of Nehemiah Packard, a Revolutionary soldier who served in the army that besieged Boston in 1777, and in the Northern Army under General Gates in the same year.
George M. Ross, a farmer by occupation, enlisted at the age of twenty-two. After the war he lived for a year each in Ware and Hardwick, spent a year in the west in Nebraska and Colo- rado, and returned to Oakham in 1867. He went to Warren
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the following year, and in 1875 removed to Barre and purchased the Broad Farm, near Coldbrook, on which he still resides.
He was married June 7, 1871, to Eliza J. Skipper of Warren, and has four children : Frank Eugene, born September 14, 1872; Mary Anna, born December 11, 1875; Elsie Louise, born March II, 1878; Jennie Eliza, born August 24, 1880.
Frank Eugene was graduated in 1896 from the School of Technology in Worcester and is now with the Gilro Machine Company, Oakland, Cal.
Mary Anna and Elsie Louise were graduated from Becker's Business College in 1900. Mary Anna was married October 26, 1904, to Charles C. Camber of Revere, Mass., and has three children: Grace Elizabeth, born May 20, 1907; Stephen Ross, born February 4, 1909; Ruth Weston, born August 18, 1910.
Jennie Eliza was graduated from Burdett's Business College in 1908, and is living with her brother Frank in Oakland.
Levander D. Sargeant.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Address, North Brookfield, Mass.
Born in Franklin, Mass., February 18, 1844, son of Charles A. and Susan (Brown) Sargeant, and brother of Edward J. Sargeant of the 25th Mass., also of James Sargeant of Oakham, and S. M. Sargeant of Worcester. Charles A. Sargeant was son of Asa S. Sargeant of Franklin.
When the war began, Levander D. Sargeant was working as a shoemaker with his father in Oakham. He enlisted at the age of eighteen.
After his return, he worked at his trade in Oakham till he became of age, and later located in North Brookfield, where he was a machine operator in the Batcheller shoe factory.
He was married October 29, 1874, to Carrie R. Harrington, daughter of Warren and Mary Ann (Gault) Harrington of Oakham.
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Hiram P. Shedd.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Address, 514 W. 24th St., Cedar Falls, Ia.
Born in Oakham, August 8, 1842. His father, Israel Proctor Shedd, was born April 1, 1812, in Springfield, Vt., and died September 26, 1879, in Oakham. He was a member of the Methodist Church and a prominent citizen. He was married April 2, 1839, to Mary Hoar, who was born August 15, 1815, in Templeton, Mass., and died September 29, 1876, in Oakham.
Hiram P. Shedd was working on his father's farm when he enlisted, at the age of twenty. Soon after returning from the war, he removed to North Brookfield. In the early part of 1871, he went west and settled in Marion, Iowa, which had been, for several years, the home of Ames Fobes. Two years later he removed to Cherokee, Iowa.
He was married May 6, 1868, to Lydia Alvira Barr of North Brookfield, who was born July 3, 1849. By this marriage there were three children: Ada Maria, born August 9, 1870, in North Brookfield; Walter Edward, born January 22, 1872, in Marion ; Arthur Lyman, born October 25, 1873, in Cherokee.
Mrs. Lydia Shedd died November 25, 1879, in Cherokee, and on December 26, 1883, he was again married to Lizzie Jane Pendleton of Cherokee, who was born March 10, 1856. By this marriage there were four children, all born in Cherokee: Edith Mary, September 20, 1884; Amy Belle, June 28, 1886; Harry Proctor, October 24, 1893; Jesse Edwin, April 2, 1895.
Ada Maria married October 20, 1892, John A. Pendleton of Cherokee, brother of her stepmother, and has seven children, all born in Cherokee: Charles Hiram, October 2, 1893; Mary Belle, August 29, 1895; Ray Arthur, July 9, 1897; Rena Jane, February 9, 1899; Rex Walter, October 23, 1900; Helen Elizabeth, April 16, 1902; and another son, February 12, 1908.
Walter Edward married June A. Linthurst of Loveland, Colo., October 6, 1908. A child, Walter Linthurst, was born October 6, 1909.
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Arthur Lyman was married in Cherokee to Emma Pendleton, sister of his stepmother.
Andrew Spooner.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863.
Born October 22, 1817, in Oakham, son of Deacon Andrew and Sally (Adams) Spooner.
Andrew Spooner was by occupation a farmer, and enlisted at the age of forty-four. After the war he returned to Oakham and followed farming for the remainder of his life. He served the town as Overseer of the Poor, Assessor, and member of the School Committee.
He was married in Paxton, September 10, 1844, to Mary Brown of Leicester, by whom he had four children: Marion Frances, born May 27, 1846, in West Brookfield; Mary Ella, born October 14, 1851; Hattie Ann, born June 3, 1855; Lucien Brown, born January II, 1857; the last three in Oakham.
Mrs. Mary B. Spooner died December 17, 1857, and he was again married to Eliza Dean, daughter of Dr. John and Nancy (Parks) Dean, December 14, 1864, and had one child: Lilla Bell, born September 4, 1868.
Marion Frances was married to Charles Dayton, June 10, 1872. Mr. Dayton died February 28, 1883, and she was again married, May 19, 1900, to Charles A. Ware of the 6th Unattached Mass. Vol. Militia.
Mary Ella began to teach in the schools of Oakham when fifteen years of age; entered Mount Holyoke College in Sep- tember, 1868; was made instructor in that institution in 1872, where she continued for twelve years; taught in Oahu College, Honolulu, for seven years; studied in the University of Cali- fornia, and received from that institution in 1893 the degree of Bachelor of Letters. On June 26, 1894, she was married to Julius Waverly Brown of Leicester, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Brown taught five years in New Hampshire, and several years
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among the colored people of Virginia, and in the highlands of Kentucky. They now reside in Springfield, Mass.
Hattie Ann married Emory B. F. Draper of Leicester, in November, 1880. Children: Mary Anna, born February 26, 1882, married June 15, 1911, Fred Lester Tucker; Ella Jane, born November 20, 1884, graduated from Mount Holyoke Col- lege in 1907, missionary under the Baptist Board at Nellore, India, sailed September 21, 1910; Arthur Daniel, born November I, 1886, graduated from Brown University as Bachelor of Arts in 1909, and resides in Worcester; Walter Emory, born in 1888, educated at Worcester Academy and Cornell University.
Lucien Brown married Flora Blake of Worcester, October, 1880, and has six children : Winifred Grace, born July 26, 1881 ; Bertha Miller, born August 9, 1883; Mabel Louise, born August 3, 1886; Francis Albert, born October 21, 1888; Wilfred Blake, born April 12, 1897; Mary Brown, born March 31, 1899.
Lilla Bell studied at Northfield Seminary and taught in the public schools of Oakham. She was married August 24, 1893, to Walter M. Robinson, son of John and Ruth Hathaway (Egery) Robinson, and has three children, born in Oakham: Sylvia May Daphene, September 4, 1894, student at Northfield Seminary; John, November 21, 1895, member of the Senior class in the North Brookfield High School; Hazel Dorothy, July 8, 1897, student at Northfield Seminary.
Andrew Spooner died February 10, 1879, in Oakham.
Henry Parks Wright.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863. Address, 128 York St., New Haven, Conn.
Born in Winchester, N. H., November 30, 1839, son of Parks and Relief Willard (Woolley) Wright. His father, Parks Wright, was descended from Deacon Samuel Wright, who was in Springfield in 1639. His mother was daughter of Dr. David Woolley, of Hinsdale, N. H., a Revolutionary soldier, and was granddaughter of Capt. John Crawford, of Oakham, also a Revolutionary soldier.
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After the death of his father and mother, Henry P. Wright came, in January, 1846, with his grandmother, Mrs. Hannah (Crawford) Woolley, to Oakham. He was for several years a teacher in the district and select schools of Oakham, and twenty-four of the soldiers in the Civil War had been his pupils. When the war began, he was a student in Phillips Academy, at Andover. At the end of Middle year, he left the Academy and enlisted. On November 4, 1862, he was appointed Sergeant. He was clerk of Co. F, and served as Assistant Quartermaster to the detachment when the company was on picket duty with Co. B on the Neuse Road, three miles above Fort Totten, near Newbern, N. C., and when on provost duty with Co. E at Beaufort, N. C.
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