The Melrose memorial : the annals of Melrose, county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, in the great rebellion of 1861-'65, Part 16

Author: Goss, Elbridge Henry, 1830-1908
Publication date: 1868
Publisher: Boston : A. Mudge & Son, Privately Printed by Subscription
Number of Pages: 338


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6


One hundred days. Nine months. Three years.


« With Regiment. Disability. Expiration of service. ¥


Non-resident.


Nine months.


With Regiment.


Died Feb. 23,'63. Prisoner, Texas.


Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability. For promotion.


Non-resident. 66


Hos. Steward, U. S. Army.


Nine months. Three years.


Nine months. One hundred days.


With Regiment. Disability. Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Non-resident.


Non-res. des'tr.


248


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Clark, Frederick F.


Clark, James .


42 2d Cav.


C


Clark, Symonds .


4th U.S. Art.


A


Colbert, Thomas


5th U.S.Cav.


Condon, James


5th U.S.Cav.


Drum'er.


Conway, Thomas


Vet. R. C.


Private.


Corson, Frederick U. .


42


G


Cowan, Thomas


12th U. S. I.


I


Cox, James P.


50


E


66


Crane, William P., Jr.


48


D


Creeley, William


9


E


Crocker, John H.


I3


A


Private.


Crockett, Albert W.


17


K


Crockett, George F.


3d Bat.


Cronk, Sydnia


C


Currier, Henry


19 3d U. S. Art. I7


I


Currier, John H.


Cutting, William H. Jr.


45


D


D.


Darley, Caspar


3d U. S. Art.


Davis, Edmund W.


22


G


Private. Corporal.


Davis, James L.


-


42


G


Private.


Davis, John E.


7th Un.Co. I. 42 3d H. Art.


G


Davis, John W. .


E


66


Davis, Loami G.


33


3d H. Art.


66


Dawes, Ambrose


13


I


Crocker, Joseph C.


44


A


A


G


Private.


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


249


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Prisoner, Texas. Non-resident.


Three years.


Expiration of service. 6


Non-resident. 66


Nine months. Three years. Nine months.


With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas. Non-resident.


Three years, "


Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability. With Regiment.


Non-resident. 66


66


Disability.


Re-enlisted. Prisoner. Starv'd at Andersonville Aug. 1, 1864. Re-enlisted on Mansfield quota. Non-resident.


Nine months.


Disability. With Regiment.


Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability.


Non-resident. Pris., Belle Isle. Dicd July 22' '64. Prisoner, Texas.


Nine months. Ninety days. Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas. Non-res., des'tr. Re-enlisted.


Disability. Expiration of service.


Wd. Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.


-


32


Expiration of service.


250


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Dawes, Richard C.


44


H


Private.


Deshon, Francis


38


K


Devine, John


3d U. S. Cav.


I


Dix, Joseph O.


50


E


Domenico, Bilotto


5th U.S. Cav.


Donagan, Maurice


23


Dorring, John


45


I


Drayton, J. Spencer


35 U. S. C. T.


Captain.


Drew, William H.


29


F


Private.


Duffy, Bernard


Vet. R. C.


Dunn, Dennis


5th U.S. Cav.


D


Dycr, N. Mayo


Navy.


Lieut.


E.


Navy.


Sabine. G


Seaman.


Earl, William H.


39


Navy.


Mendota.


Seaman.


Eastman, William H.


2d Bat.


Eddy, Orrin


3d H. Art.


Ellis, Alvan T.


Ellis, Jacob M.


Emerson, James G.


G.


Corp'l. 2d Lieut. Private.


Emerson, James W.


K


Emerson, Joseph S.


Esbeck, Charles


Evans, Thomas C. .


3d H. Art. 45


D.


F.


Fargo, Charles O.


3d H. Art. 50


F


Private.


Farrell, Michael


E


42


G


K


Double, Edmund B.


13


A


Private.


Private. 6


13th Bat. 2d Bat. 42 7th Un.Co. I. 38 7th Un.Co. I.


251


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment.


Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Nine months. 66


Three years.


With Regiment. Disability.


Non-resident. Non-res., des'tr. Non-resident. Wd. Pris., Texas. Afterwards Pay- master, Rank of Major. Non-resident.


6


Expiration of service.


To enter Navy.


Now in Regular Service.


One year. Three years.


Expiration of service. Transferred. Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted. Wd. at Hagerstown, Md.


66


66


Nine months. Ninety days. Three years. Ninety days. Three years. Nine months.


With Regiment.


66


66


Disability.


Three years. Nine months.


Disability. With Regiment,


Prisoner, Texas. Non-resident. Non-res., des'tr. Re-enlisted. Prisoner, Texas.


Non-resident. Wd. Kinston, . Dec. 14, 1862.


252


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Ferguson, John .


Fimeyer, Philip .


39 8th U. S.I.


K


Fisher, George W.


I7


A


Foss, George A.


45


I


Foss, James T.


45


D


Frank, William


5th U.S. Cav.


F


Freeland, Joseph V.


45


A


Music'n.


Frisby, John .


59


A


Private.


Fuller, George P.


50


E.


Fuller, Henry F.


17


A


Fuller, William A. .


Navy.


Ft. Don- elson. I


3d Ass't Eng'r. Private.


G.


Gallagher, Edward .


5th U.S. Cav.


D.


Private.


Gallagher, John .


50 99 N. Y. Reg. 2d Cav.


G


Gillispie, John


D


Goericke, Frederic


U. S. Cav. 8th U. S. I.


K


Green, Augustus


22


G


"


Greene, Martin .


2


G


Grover, Andrew J. .


22


G


3d H. Art.


C


Grover, George W., Jr. .


C


Grover, John C.


3d H. Art. I7


K


66


Grover, William W.


5


-


I


Private.


Ferguson, John .


45


F


Gallagher, Richard .


Goffeney, Robert


253


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident. 66


Nine months.


Disability. With Regiment.


Non-resident. Wd. Kinston, Dec. 14, 1862. Non-resident.


Three years. Nine months. Three years. Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Died at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1861.


One year.


Expiration of service.


Nine months.


With Regiment.


Non-resident.


Three years. Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident. Non-res., des'tr.


.


66


66


66


Disability. With Regiment.


66


One hundred days.


Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Non-res., died from wounds, July 20, 1864. Non-resident. 66 Killed, Bethesda Ch. Va.,June 3,'64. Died from w'nds, Aug. 16, 1862. Re-enlisted.



254


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


H.


Hagan, John J.


Vet. R. C.


Private.


Haggerty, Daniel


59


A


Halpine, Bartholomew


59


B


Hamilton, Robert


50


E


Hammond, George


3d H. Art.


C


Navy.


Juniata.


Seaman.


Hanigan, John


32


C


Private.


Hare, Andrew


48


G


Serg't.


Harrington, Charles T.


50


E


Private.


Harris, John


45


I


Harris, Samuel


71 U. S. C.T.


Harris, William


2d Cav.


H G Miami.


Seaman.


Hawkes, John


Navy. 50 U. S. Cav. I7 5th U.S. Cav.


K


Music'n.


Heton, John .


42


G


Private.


Hinckley, George H.


20 2d Cav.


H


66


Howard, Avery B. .


3d Bat. 38


K


Private.


Howe, Francis E.


2d Bat.


Hughes, James


3d Cav. 42


G G


I.


Ireson, Alonzo D.


42


Ireson, David A.


Ingalls, Samuel .


42 5th Cav.


G G


Private. Music'n. Ass't


Surgeon.


Hart, Abner B.


44


Harvey, Franklin


E


Private.


Hayes, James


Haynes, Joseph W.


Hecker, Charles F. .


A


Hollis, Henry P.


Corp'l.


Howard, James R. .


Serg't. Private.


Hyde, George S.


255


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability. Expiration of service. With Regiment. Transferred. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


66


Nine months.


With Regiment.


Non-resident.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Rep. Recruit for David Fairbanks. Non-res., des'tr.


Nine months. Two years. Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted. Non-resident. Prisoner, Texas. Non-resident.


Disability.


Died at Melrose, Aug. 16, 1864.


Nine months.


With Regiment.


Non-res., des'tr. Prisoner, Texas.


Nine months.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas.


Resigned.


256


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


J.


Jackson, Henry M.


59


B


Private.


Jackson, Jacob F.


16


F


Jackson, William H.


39


G


Jackson, William P.


13


A


Jenkins, George


59


A


Johnson, William A.


59


B


Johnson, William H.


54


Jones, Charles S.


39


G


Jones, Davis .


58 U. S. C.T.


Jones, Henry H.


13


A


Corp'l.


Judkins, Roland C.


42


G


Wag'nr. Private.


K.


Kelley, Patrick


38


I Private.


Kendall, Edward W.


17


A


Bvt. I Lt.


Kennelly, James A.


38


I


Corp'l.


Kennerk, John


5th U.S. Cav.


B


Private,


Kenniston, Charles .


38


I


Music'n.


Kilby, Theophilus


I3


A


Private.


King, David H. .


2d Cav.


K


King, George L.


13


A


King, John S.


5th U.S. Cav.


F Tioga.


Scaman.


Kingman, William W.


50


E


Private.


Knights, Henry C. .


50


E


Kober, Charles


5th U.S. Cav.


Koeppen, John


2d U. S. I.


K


Kohler, Charles


Seaman.


Krantz, Frederick W.


Navy. 33


C


Private.


Junkins, Edwin W.


45


D


Kingdom, John .


Navy.


257


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability.


Non-resident.


66


Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


66


66


Nine months. 66


With Regiment.


Vet. Res. Corps. Rep. Recruit for Daniel Russell. Pris., Belle Isle. Prisoner, Texas.


Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service. Disability. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


With Regiment.


Wounded, Port Hudson, June 14, 1 863.


66


Disability. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Non-resident.


Three years. Nine months. Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. With Regiment.


66


66


66


.


Prisoner, twice.


Expiration of service.


33


258


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


L.


Lafferty, James .


Lahey, John .


Lalley, Thomas J.


Navy. Vet. R. C. Navy.


Seaman. Private. Seaman.


Lamb, John R.


Lane, Francis W.


Lane, John


30 Navy.


B


Private. Seaman.


Launzen, Christian


Lee, George E.


16


C


Serg't.


Leighton, William F.


45 Navy.


Maratanza. A


Private.


Lewis, Thomas


Navy.


Mahaska.


Seaman.


Lewis, Walter H.


59


B


Private.


Liffin, James


29


F


Drum'r.


Lindsey, Joseph


Littlefield, Cushing W.


24


B


Seaman.


Long, John


II


K


Private.


Longwood, John


19


Ludirzen, George S.


Navy.


Seaman.


Lutz, William


12th U. S. I.


B


Bugler. .


Lyall, David S.


8


E


Private.


Lyman, Henry H.


50


E


Lynde, Amos W.


42


G


Corp'l.


Lynde, Benjamin


38


K


Private.


Lynde, Charles B. .


42


G


Lynde, George W. .


I7


A


Bvt. 2 Lt.


D


Private.


Lemont, Henry .


Seaman.


Lever, Richard


59


Private.


Lombard, Charles E.


Navy.


7th Un.Co. I.


"


Lange, Andrew .


Leeds, Samuel


259


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


66


16


66


Re-enlisted.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident. K'ld., Spottsylva- nia, May 12, 1864. Non-resident.


Sub. for Henry W. Barrett. Wounded. Non-resident.


16


One hundred days. Nine months.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas.


Ninety days.


Three years.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Died at Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 18, 1863. Prisoner, Texas. Died at Melrose, Jan. 30, 1866.


66


Disability. Expiration of service.


$6


260


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Lynde, Sherman


Ist Cav.


G


Corp'l.


M.


Macey, James


I3


E


Private.


Macey, John S.


I7


A.


Marra, James


59


D


Marshall, Samuel


42


G


Marston, James M.


42


G


Martin, George T. .


38


K


IstLieut.


Martin, Jeremiah Jr.


4th H. Art. Navy.


Tritonia.


Paymas-


Martin, William H.


38


K


Serg't. Private.


McAllister, Daniel W.


22


G


McAllister, George H.


50


' E


McDonald Angus


20


A


McKay, Gurdon .


5


G


2d Lieut.


McLaughlin, Frank M.


Navy.


Kearsarge.


Yeoman. Private.


McLaughlin, Hiram


6


A


McLaughlin, George W.


45


D


McMahan, Philip


I7 Navy. 5th U.S. Cav.


Tioga.


Seaman. Private. 66


Moran, Thomas .


Vet. R. C.


Morrison, Charles H. .


22


G


Morrison, Seth


4


F


Private.


A


Morse, George J.


13 2d U. S. C. T. 59


G


2d Lieut. IstLieut.


Navy.


Philippi. D


Seaman. Private.


Marshall, James


45


C


B


22


I


Mitchell, George


Moran, Bernard .


38


I


Serg't.


ters' Cl'k.


261


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability. Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted.


One year. Three years. Nine months.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas. Non-res., des'tr. Died at Boston, March 13, 1865.


Three years. One year.


Disability.


Expiration of service.


Three years.


Nine months. Three years. Three months. Three years.


Disability. With Regiment. Disability. With Regiment. Dismissed. Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Re-enlisted.


One hundred days. Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted.


Non-resident.


Disability.


Re-enlisted. Deserter.


Three months.


With Regiment.


Three years.


Disability.


WVd. Sec'nd Bull Run, Aug. 30, '62. Wd, Port Hudson, July 5,'63. Killed Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864.


Non-resident.


.


262


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Morse, Sydney B. 2d .


13


D


Corp'l.


Mullcott, Adolphus


59


A A


Private.


Munn, Thomas J.


13


Murphy, Patrick


Myars, John


Vet. R. C. 45


I


66


N.


Nichols, George G. .


42 7th U.Co. Inf. 4th H. Art. Navy. 50 4th U.S. Art. 5th U.S. Cav. 38


G


Serg't. IstLieut.


Nichols, Smith W., Jr.


Nichols, William R.


Nolan, Thomas


Noonan, Edward


Noyes, George O.


K


Corp'l.


O.


O'Donaghue John


E


Private.


O'Leary, Timothy


O'Regan, Michael


Otslott, Frederick


50 U. S. Marines. 59 8th U. S. I.


A K


P.


Page, Moses S.


.6


E


Private.


Parsons, William


50 U. S. C. T.


Peabody, Francis


22


G


Orderly.


Peabody, Torrey


22


G


Private. .


Peabody, Torrey, Jr.


17


K


K Shenandoah


D


A


Lieut. Music'n. Private.


16


I7


K


203


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


66


Expiration of service. 6


66


66


Died at Washing- ton, Sept. 16, '62. Non-resident. Wd. Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Vet. Res. Corps. Non-resident.


Nine months. Ninety days. One year.


With Regiment.


66


As Acting Lieut. Co. E. On Col. King's Staff. U. S. Navy. Non-resident.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Wounded, Port Hudson, June 14, 1863.


Nine months. Four years. Three years.


Expiration of service. Disability. Expiration of service.


Non-res., des'tr. Non-resident.


One hundred days. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service


Disability.


16


Disability. Expiration of service.


Rep. Recruit for Dexter Bryant. Re-enlisted. Re-enlisted. Died at New Berne, N. C., Oct. 3, 1864.


.


264


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Pearson, William H.


3d U. S. Art.


Private.


Peaseley, Charles D. .


59


D


Pemberton, Lewis E. .


F


Penn, Isaac


61 4th U.S. Art. 59


A


Perkins, Benjamin W.


Perkins, James F.


Navy.


D


Act. Ensign. Private.


Perse, William A.


8th U. S. I.


F


Private.


Pike, Jacob F.


39


G


Pilling, James L.


60


G


Pratt, Daniel S


Ist Cav. 8


F


Prentice, Charles


50


E


Prince, Albert G.


9th Bat. 18


E


Q.


Quinn, John E.


32


A


Private.


Quinn, John H. .


99th N. Y. 8


B.


Private.


Quinn, Patrick


E


R.


Rain, William G.


8th U. S. I.


D


Reardon, Lawrence


3d H. Art. Navy.


K


Corp'l. Private. Seaman.


Rice, George


38


F


Richardson, Alfred C.


48


D


Private. Music'n.


Richardson, George E.


38


K


Private.


Richardson, John P.


17


K


B


Perkins, John, Jr.


45


G


Pratt, Henry W.


Prescott, Horace


Reynard John H.


-


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


265


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


One year. Three years.


"


66


Non-resident. 66


Nine months.


Disability.


Wd., Kinston, Dec. 14, 1862. Non-resident.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


One hundred days. Three years. One hundred days. Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Expiration of service. Disability.


Wd. Second Bull Run, July 30, '62.


Three years.


Disability.


Re-enlisted on quota of Boston ..


One hundred days.


Expiration of service. With Regiment.


Three years.


Expiration of service. 66


Non-resident. 66


66


Nine months.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Sub. for James O. Lynde. Non-resident. Non-res. Died at Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 8, 1863. Died at Salisbury, N. C., Nov. 3, '64. Re-enlisted.


34


.


266


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names:


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Richardson, William H.


3d H. Art.


C


Private.


Riley, James .


IIth U. S. I.


Riley, William


IIth U. S. I.


Roberts, Charles H.


44


E


Robertson, William


2d Cav.


D


Rowell, Stephen P.


18


H


Serg't.


Ryan, James .


19


Private.


Ryan, Michael


59


F


S.


Sassard, Augustus


I3


A


Private.


Sawyer, Obadiah


39


I


Seafferman, Henry .


5th U.S. Cav.


K


Seavey, Leonard C.


2d Bat.


Shannon, Martin


23


K


Shelton, Albert F. .


13


A


Shelton, Charles W.


I3


A


Serg't.


Shelton, John P.


13


A


Private.


Shelton, Thomas


50


E


Private.


Shrekler, Frederick


D


Shrodenback, Joseph


5th U.S. Cav.


Simms, Daniel


Simonds, Charles H.


50


E


Simonds, Joseph F.


13 3d Cav.


D


Captain.


Simonds, Joseph R.


I7


K


Simonds, Joseph W.


44


D


Private.


Sinclair, Thomas J.


8 8th U. S. I.


B


B


Skinner, Charles E.


5th Bat.


66


.


8 8th U. S. I.


E


A


E


Singler, Louis


50


D


267


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Nine months. Three years. «


Disability.


Non-res., des'tr. Re-enlisted.


Nine months. Three years.


Disability. With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Three years.


Disability. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


66


Disability.


66


General service.


Wd., Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Wd., Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Killed, Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Re-enlisted.


Nine months. One hundred days. Three years. «


With Regiment.


Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment. Disability. Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted. Wd. three times.


Nine months. One hundred days. Three years. "


With Regiment.


Re-enlisted.


Expiration of service. Disability.


Non-resident.


4


268


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Slocumb, Henry W.


Small, Edward A.


30 Navy.


E Wabash. B


Act. Master.


Smith, Thomas


5 4th Bat. 43 Vet. R. C.


A


Spaulding, Henry H. .


6


A


Spear, William S.


Vet. R. C. 12


A


Corp'l.


Stantial, Thomas B.


5th Bat. 26


A


Artificer. Private.


Stebbens, Thaddeus S.


39


G


Stevens, Charles H.


Ist Cav. 16


A


Private.


Stilphen, John E.


2d Bat.


Stone, Henry .


39


G


Corp'l.


Sumner, Stephen


5


H


Private.


Sweetser, Thomas T.


42


G


T.


Tainter, George A. .


13


A


Private.


Taltersall, Edward .


5th U.S. Cav.


F


Tobey, Samuel


9th Bat.


Todd, Thomas


48


D


Tower, Benjamin


38


K


Serg't. Corp'l.


Turck, John


Tucker, William L.


Tyler, William N. .


3d H. Art. 9th Bat. 8


K


Private. Corp'l. Serg't .- Maj.


Private.


Smith, Wayland R.


Souggroe, Timothy


Sprague, Samuel Jr.


Stevens, Thomas H.


59


G


Serg't.


G


2d Lieut.


Starbuck, George M.


Private.


269


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted.


Re-enlisted.


Non-resident.


Non-resident. Wd., Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.


Non-resident.


Wounded. Died at Boston, March 26, 1863.


Expiration of service. Died at Melrose,


66


Disability. With Regiment.


June 25, 1865. Wounded. Pris- oner, Libby.


Wounded. Pris- oner, Texas.


Three years.


Disability.


Expiration of service. With Battery.


Nine months. Three years.


With Regiment.


Wd., Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Non-resident. Wd.,Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Non-resident. Wounded, Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. Non-resident.


One hundred days.


Disability. With Battery. With Regiment.


Also on S. Read- ing quota.


Three months. Three years. Nine months. Three years. One hundred days. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment. Expiration of service. With Regiment. Expiration of service. Disability.


Abolishment of office. Expiration of service. Disability. Expiration of service.


Nine months.


270


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


'Tyrrill, Andrew .


Navy.


Seaman.


U.


Upham, Charles H.


42


G


Private.


Upham, Henry W.


60


G


V.


Vinton, Edwin A.


42


Private.


Vinton, Gray .


8


W.


Waitt, John R.


6


A


Private.


Wallace, John


19


Walsh, Thomas


I5


Ward, Reuben D. .


Navy.


B George Mayhew.


Seaman.


Warren, Nathaniel .


Waters, Henry


Watts, Simon C.


Navy.


Neipsic.


Weeks, Seymour


Welden, George E.


Wells, Charles A.


II Navy.


I


Wharton, Joseph


White, Charles L.


Ist H. Art.


E


Seaman. Private.


Whitney, Edward H. Wilbur, William H.


I3 Navy.


D St. Law-


Serg't. Seaman.


Wilde, Benjamin F.


42 Navy.


H


Private. Seaman.


Wilkins, Charles B. Wilkinson, Robert . Williams, Charles J. Williams, George


Navy.


Seaman.


St. Law- rence.


8


66 Private.


rence.


271


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years.


Expiration of service. Sub. for Daniel W. Wilcox.


Nine months. One hundred days.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas.


Nine months. One hundred days.


With Regiment.


Prisoner, Texas.


One hundred days. Three years.


With Regiment. Expiration of service.


Non-resident.


"


66


Wd., Warrenton Junction.


Non-resident.


Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service.


Deserter. Non-resident.


6


1


272


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Williams, Walter


Navy.


Wilson, John .


.50


F


Seaman. Private.


Wilson, John


39


I


Seaman.


Wilson, Thomas E.


Aries.


"


Woodman, Robert .


«‹


Wyman, George W.


6


A


Private.


Wyman, Weston


6


A


Wyman, William


5


B


C


Y.


Yeaton, George .


29


A


Drum'er. Private.


York, Benjamin F. .


56


B


York, Josiah R. .


42


G


York, William B.


42


G


7th Un. Co. I.


Young, John W.


59


F


MELROSE CITIZENS WHO SERVED


Names.


Regiment.


Company.


Rank.


Barrett, David A.


Chambers, John L.


17th Mass. Navy.


K Morning Light.


Corp'l. Master's Mate. Private.


Davis, Charles L.


8th Maine. 66


E


Elliott, George W. .


E


Krantz, William F.


33d Mass. Vet. R. C.


C


66


Macey, William H.


3d Maine.


F


66


Martin, Charles H.


Thompson, John


4th Ms. H. A. Navy.


C


Rhode Isl'd.


Corp'l. Seaman.


Wilson, Samuel .


Navy.


66


24


7th Un.Co. I.


273


ROLL OF SOLDIERS.


Term of Enlistment.


Discharged.


Remarks.


Three years. Nine months. Three years.


Expiration of service. Expiration of service.


Non-resident. Non-res., des'tr. Non-resident. Sub. for George Emerson 2d. Non-resident.


One hundred days.


With Regiment.


Three months. Three years.


Expiration of service.


Re-enlisted. Wounded. Re-enlisted.


Three years.


Expiration of service. 66


With Regiment.


Non-resident. Pris., Danville. Prisoner, Texas.


Nine months. Ninety days. Nine months. Ninety days. Three years.


Prisoner, Texas.


Expiration of service. Non-resident.


ON OTHER QUOTAS.


Term of Enlistment.


On what Quota.


· Remarks.


Three years.


Malden. Boston.


Prisoner over two years.


Augusta, Me.


Malden. Douglass. Skowhegan, Me.


One year.


Franklin. Boston.


Pris'r, 4 Months. Re-enlisted. Re-enlisted. Died June 13'66. Died at Alexandria, Va., Aug, 30, 1862.


35


APPENDIX.


.


APPENDIX.


A.


CERTIFICATE OF A NON-RESIDENT RECRUIT.


BOSTON, Dec. 20, A. D. 1862.


I, William R. Riddle, a Ist Lieutenant Twentieth Mass. Vols. in the military service of the United States, and duly author- ized to act as a Recruiting Officer, do hereby certify that I have, on the twentieth day of December, A. D. 1862, caused to be mustered into the military service of the United States, in Co. A, Twentieth Regiment, to serve for three years or during the war, unless sooner discharged, George H. Hinckley, to be applied upon the quota of the town of Melrose ; and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the said George H. Hinckley has not been previously reported to the Adjutant-General's office, and is not a resident of any other town or city in this Commonwealth.


WM. R. RIDDLE, Ist Lieutenant Twentieth Mass. Vols., Recruiting Officer.


B.


FORM FOR PAYMENT OF BOUNTY.


MELROSE, Aug. 16, 1862. No. 30.


MR. CALEB HOWARD, TOWN TREASURER.


Sir : Pay to Joseph A. Chapin of Melrose, a recruit accepted and mustered into the service of the United States by Lieu- tenant Adams, for the Ninth Battery Massachusetts Volunteers, the sum of One Hundred Dollars bounty, as per order of the


278


THE MELROSE MEMORIAL.


Town, passed July 28, 1862, he being a part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the Town of Melrose, for three years unless sooner discharged by proper authority.


JOHN H. CLARK, WM. B. BURGESS, G. M. FLETCHER, Selectmen of Melrose.


I hereby certify that I enlisted the above named Joseph A. Chapin into the Ninth Battery, and that he was mustered into the service of the United States, on the 29th day of July, 1862, by Lieutenant Adams, of the United States Army.


ALEX. H. WHITAKER, Lieutenant Ninth Battery.


This was indorsed as follows :


MELROSE, Aug. 16, 1862. No. 30.


I, Joseph A. Chapin, hereby acknowledge to have received of the Town Treasurer of Melrose, One Hundred Dollars as bounty for enlistment in the service of the United States, as within.


JOSEPH A. CHAPIN.


Witness, WILLIAM B. BURGESS.


The form of payment of Bounty for the nine months' men differed from the above only in the date of Town action - Aug. 21, 1862, - and the amount paid, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.


C.


CERTIFICATE OF CONSENT TO THE ENLISTMENT OF A MINOR.


I, Hiram Mclaughlin, do certify, that I am the father of George W. Mclaughlin, that he is nineteen years of age ; and I do hereby freely give my consent to his enlisting as a soldier in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, for the period of nine months in the service of the United States.


HIRAM MCLAUGHLIN.


Witness, ROYAL P. BARRY.


Dated at Melrose, this first day of October, A. D. 1862.


279


APPENDIX.


D.


The following is a copy of the circular and list of the citizens of Melrose, liable to Draft in 1863, posted in our town by direction of Provost-Marshal Herrick.


ENROLLMENT LIST, SIXTH DISTRICT MASSACHUSETTS.


List of persons enrolled in Sub-District No. Nine, Town of Melrose.


Any person herein enrolled may appear before the Board of Enrollment, at Lawrence, on the days of December, 1863, from eleven to one o'clock, and two to five o'clock, and have his name stricken off the List, if he can show to the satisfac- tion of the Board that he is not, and will not be at the time fixed for the next Draft, Jan. 5, 1864, liable to do Military duty on account of


I. Alienage. 2. Non-residence. 3. Unsuitableness of age. 4. Manifest permanent physical disability.


CLASS I.




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