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1 All who thus re-enlisted were called " Veteran Volunteers," received a thirty-days' furlough, a United States bounty of four hundred dollars, and, as an honorable distinction, " service chevrons " were authorized by the War Department. Over 136,000 tried soldiers were thus secured to the service. 10,000 re-enlisted in Massachusetts.
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FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.1 Co. A. PRIVATE. ARNOLD, CHARLES H. Non-resident.
Co. B.
PRIVATE.
WALSH, THOMAS.
Transferred to Fifteenth Battalion, July 12, 1864 ; non- resident.
FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT.2
PRIVATES.
BARRY, JOHN.
Non-resident.
FRISBY, JOHN.
Non-resident.
HAGGERTY, DANIEL.
Non-resident ; discharged for disability, Dec. 15, 1863. LEVER, RICHARD. Killed at " Battle of Spottsylvania," May 12, 1864,
JENKINS, GEORGE.
Non-resident.
1 The Fifteenth Massachusetts left the State Aug. 8, 1861. Was in battles of Ball's Bluff, of the Peninsula, and most of the other battles participated in by the " Army of the Potomac."
2 The Fifty-Ninth Veteran Massachusetts left the State April 26, 1864. It took part in the following engagements : Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Cool Arbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher's Run and Fort Stedman.
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MULCOTT, ADOLPHUS.
Non-resident
O'REGAN, MICHAEL. Non-resident.
Co. B.
PRIVATES. HALPINE, BARTHOLOMEW.
Non-resident.
LEWIS, WALTER H.
Non-resident.
JACKSON, HENRY M.
Non-resident.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM
A.
Non-resident.
PERKINS, BENJAMIN W.
Non-resident ; discharged April 18, 1865.
Co. D.
PRIVATES. MARRA, JAMES.
Non-resident.
PEASLEY, CHARLES D. Non-resident.
Co. F.
PRIVATES. ALDRIDGE, WILLIAM H.
Non-resident,
RYAN, MICHAEL.
Non-resident.
YOUNG, JOHN W.
Non-resident.
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Co. G.
LIEUTENANT. MORSE, GEORGE J.
Commissioned 2d Lieutenant Oct. 22, 1863 ; promoted Ist Lieutenant March 4, 1864; killed at the "Battle of Spottsylvania," May 12, 1864.1
Co. H.
SERGEANT.
STONE, HENRY.
Wounded through the hand at the " Battle of the Wilder- ness," May 6, 1864 ; taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad, Aug. 20, 1864 ; held in " Libby Prison " a month and then exchanged ; mustered out with the regiment, July 30, 1865.
THIRD HEAVY ARTILLERY.2 Co. C.
PRIVATES. CHEEVER, AUGUSTUS L.
Discharged March 9, 1865, for disability.
GROVER, ANDREW J. Mustered out with the regiment, Sept. 18, 1865.
1 For biographical sketch see " Roll of Honor."
2 The Third Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery was composed of unattached companies, part of which were on duty in the coast defences of this State ; in the fall of 1864 the regiment was sent to Washington, and served in its Forts until mustered out, Sept. 18, 1865.
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THIRD HEAVY ARTILLERY.
GROVER, GEORGE W., JR.
Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865.
HAMMOND, GEORGE.
Transferred to navy, July 28, 1864. 1 RICHARDSON, WILLIAM H. Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865.
Co. F.
PRIVATES. DAVIS, JOHN W.
Deserted at Fort Stephens, D. C., June 23, 1865 ; non- resident.
DAVIS, LOAMI G.
Left the regiment, June 18, 1865, by permission.
FARGO, CHARLES O. Discharged March 10, 1865, for disability.2
Co. K. PRIVATES. REARDON, LAWRENCE.
Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865 ; non-resident.
TURCK, JOHN. Discharged July 29, 1864, for disability ; non-resident.
! See chap. IX.
2 Served previously in the Tenth Maine Regiment ; severely wounded in the hip at " Battle of Cedar Mountain," Aug. 9, 1862 ; discharged Feb. 10, 1863.
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FOURTH HEAVY ARTILLERY.1 Co. C.
LIEUTENANT.
MARTIN, GEORGE T. Commissioned Senior Ist Lieutenant Aug. 16, 1864 ; died at Massachusetts General Hospital, March 13, 1865, of pyæmia.2
Co. K. LIEUTENANT. NICHOLS, GEORGE G.3
Commissioned Ist Lieutenant Twenty-Fifth Un. Co. Heavy Artillery, - afterwards Co. K, Fourth Regiment, -Aug. 18, 1864 ; appointed Regimental Quartermas- ter Dec. 17, 1864 ; appointed Acting Assistant Quar- termaster, Third Brigade, DeRussey's Division, on Staff Colonel William S. King, Commanding Brigade, Dec. 20, 1864 ; mustered out, June 17, 1865.
FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.4 Co. A. PRIVATES.
BUSH, HENRY. Died from burns, Feb. 23, 1863 ; non-resident.
1 The Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, like the Third, was com- posed of unattached companies and sent to Washington, and served in its defences until its muster-out, June 17, 1865. It was raised for one year's service.
2 For biographical sketch see " Roll of Honor."
3 Served nine months in 1862-3, in Forty-Second Regiment, but on Bos- ton's quota.
4 The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts was the first colored regiment raised in Massachusetts, and left the State May 28, 1863, and took part in the follow- ing engagements : Fort Wagner and the several engagements before Charles- ton, Olustee, James Island, Honey Hill and Boykin's Mills.
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THE FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM H.
Non-resident.1
FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.2
Co. B.
PRIVATE. YORK, BENJAMIN F.
Taken prisoner at "Mine Explosion," July 30, 1864; at Danville, Va., eight months ; exchanged April 1, 1865 ; mustered out June 16, 1865.
At the end of the year 1863, Massachusetts had fur- nished for the army in the field a total of eighty-three thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two (83,932) men ; sixty-three thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine (63,359) of which were for the three years' service, sixteen thou- sand, eight hundred and thirty-seven (16,837) for the nine months' service, and three thousand seven hundred and thirty-six (3,736) for the three months' service ; and from the commencement of the Rebellion to the end of this year, seventeen thousand, three hundred and four (17,304) men had entered the navy, for which Massachusetts had, as yet, received no credit on its quotas ; this made a grand
1 The whole number of negro troops commissioned and enlisted during the war was 186,017 ; the largest number in the service at any one time was 123,156. The State in which the largest number of colored soldiers was re- cruited or drafted was Louisiana, viz : 24,052 ; the smallest number, Texas, viz : 45. Massachusetts furnished 4,987 ; Melrose, 2.
2 The Fifty-Sixth Massachusetts Veteran Regiment left the State March 21, 1864, and took part in the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Cool Arbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher's Run and Siege of Petersburg.
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total of one hundred and one thousand, two hundred and thirty-six (101,236) men furnished by the State, up to the end of the year 1863, for the United States service.
The following commissioned officers from Melrose were in the service at this time : In the army, Second Lieuten- ant George J. Morse, of the Fifty-Ninth Regiment ; First Lieutenant J. Wesley Jones, of the Twelfth U. S. Infan- try ; Captain Joseph R. Simonds, of the Seventeenth Reg- iment ; Captain J. Spencer Drayton, and Major Archibald Bogle, of the Thirty-Fifth U. S. Colored Troops. In the navy, Acting Ensigns N. Mayo Dyer, James F. Perkins and Edward A. Small, and Lieutenant Smith W. Nichols, Jr.
Of the position held by Massachusetts in this great struggle at this time, Governor Andrew thus eloquently speaks in his address to the Legislature on the 8th of Jan- uary, 1864 :
But the heart swells with unwonted emotion when we remem- ber our sons and brothers, whose constant valor has sustained on the field, during nearly three years of war, the cause of our country, of civilization, and liberty. Our volunteers have rep- resented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost every field and in every department of the army where our flag has been unfurled. At Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson and Fort Wagner, at Chickamauga, Knoxville and Chattanooga, - under Hooker, and Meade, and Banks, and Gil- more, and Rosecrans, Burnside and Grant, - in every scene of danger and of duty, along the Atlantic and the Gulf, on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi and the Rio Grande, - under Dupont, and Dahlgren, and Foote, and Farragut, and Porter, - the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men
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AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT.
of all sections and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the heights where they thundered down from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, they have graven with their swords a record imperishable.
The muse herself demands the lapse of silent years to soften, by the influences of time, her too keen and poignant realization of the scenes of war - the pathos, the heroism, the fierce joy, the grief, of battle. But, during the ages to come, she will brood over their memory. Into the hearts of her con- secrated priests will breathe the inspirations of lofty and undy- ing beauty, sublimity and truth, in all the glowing forms of speech, of literature and plastic art. By the homely traditions of the fireside, - by the head stones in the churchyard, conse- crated to those whose forms repose far off in rude graves by the Rappahannock, or sleep beneath the sea, - embalmed in the memories of succeeding generations of parents and children, the heroic dead will live on in immortal youth. By their names, their character, the service, their fate, their glory, they cannot fail ;
" They never fail who die
In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls ; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom. "
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VII.
1864-5.
Our glorious banner no traitor shall mar, By effacing a stripe, or destroying a star ! Francis De Haes Janvier.
At the annual Town Meeting in March, 1864, Mr. Isaac Emerson, Jr., was excused, at his own request, from serv- ing longer on the Recruiting Committee, and Mr. William E. Fuller was elected Selectman in place of Mr. George M. Fletcher ; and the Recruiting Committee now con- sisted of the following gentlemen :- Colonel John H. Clark, Chairman and Recruiting Agent,1 William B. Bur-
1 PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE, 6TH DISTRICT, MASS., LAWRENCE, November 6, 1863.
To the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Melrose : -
Sir, - You are hereby informed that, under the authority of the Provost- Marshal General U. S., and by direction of Major F. N. Clarke, A. A., Pro- vost-Marshal General of this State, I have appointed you a Recruiting Agent for your town, in accordance with the Regulations for the Bureau of the Provost-Marshal General of Oct. 28, 1863.
Please report to me personally, if you accept the appointment. If you do not accept, so inform me by mail immediately.
Very respectfully, Your ob't servant, H. G. HERRICK, Captain and Provost-Marshal, 6th Dist. Mass.
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TOWN MEETING.
gess, William E. Fuller, Stephen W. Shelton, Rufus Smith and Charles H. Isburgh. At a subsequent Town Meet- ing, held April 11th, it was voted that this same Recruit- ing Committee continue its labors, and four thousand dollars ($4,000) were appropriated for its use. This Com- mittee acted throughout the continuance of the war; and by its spirited and strenuous exertions, - and also of the Committee as previously constituted, - no other draft 1 was ever needed in order to fill our several quotas under the calls of the President, issued in October, 1863, and February, March, July and December, 1864, in which calls a million and a half of men were asked for. A second draft was made, of the enrolled men, in April, 1864, but none of the drafted were required to report, as the quotas were then filled .?
Various measures were taken to aid this Committee in its efforts to procure men, with which to fill our different quotas. On the 6th of June, 1864, a Town Meeting was held, at which Colonel John H. Clark was chosen Moder- ator ; and, on motion of Mr. Walter Babb, it was voted :
That the Town of Melrose appropriate the sum of ten thou- sand dollars ($10,000) for the purpose of procuring recruits for any future calls there may be made by the President of the United States for soldiers, and to make up any deficiencies that there is, or has occurred, in the last call for volunteers; and that the present Recruiting Committee of the Town of Melrose proceed immediately to recruit or procure men in anticipation of the next call, or calls, that may be made by the President of the United States. And that the Selectmen be instructed to
1 One draft took place in July, 1863 ; for names of the citizens drawn, and the disposition of the same, see chap. X.
2 For names of the citizens drawn at this time, see chap. X.
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procure the bodies of all those of our citizen soldiers who have or may lose their lives in this war, and have them transported to their relatives or friends.
And it was also voted :
That the Town Treasurer be instructed to borrow, from time to time, such sums of money as might be required of the amount appropriated.
The raising of money for this purpose, in this manner, was illegal, as the Legislature of Massachusetts had pro- vided, by the act of March 16, 1864, that cities and towns might raise money by taxation, or otherwise, for the pur- pose of procuring volunteers, and pay to each one enlisted into the service as a part of the quota of said cities and towns, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125).
A petition was drawn up, signed by thirty-four citizens, and presented to the Supreme Judicial Court, asking for an injunction on the proceedings at the above Town Meeting. Such an injunction was issued by Chief Justice George T. Bigelow, on the 11th of June, 1864. This was afterwards so far modified as to permit the paying of one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125), by the Recruiting Committee, to cach recruit enlisted and accepted by the United States authorities under any call of the President made between the first day of March, 1864, and the first day of March, 1865, as a part of the quota of the town of Melrose under said calls.
At this time recruits for the army cost a larger sum than one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125); therefore a cit- izens' meeting was called, to take into consideration the best manner of raising a sum of money, as a recruiting
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fund, to aid the Committee in the furnishing of men for our quotas. There was a very large attendance at this meet- ing, and it was decided to raise the money needed by sub- scription. A paper was drawn up, which was headed by Mr. Wingate P. Sargent ; and at this and subsequent times, a sum of nearly six thousand dollars ($6,000) was raised for recruiting purposes, to be expended under the auspices of the Recruiting Committee.
At the second meeting, held for the purpose of raising this fund, the following gentlemen were chosen a Com- mittee to collect the amounts already subscribed, and to solicit additional subscriptions from the citizens. Messrs. Wingate P. Sargent, Daniel Norton, Jr., Levi S. Gould, Isaac Emerson, Jr., Thomas A. Long and Joseph D. Wilde. Mr. Sargent was appointed Treasurer, and, after the collections were made, the money was paid over by him to Colonel Clark, as Chairman of the Recruiting Committee.
The names of the subscribers to this fund, and the amounts paid, are as follows :
Wingate P. Sargent
$250 00
Daniel Norton, Jr. .
130 00
Rufus Smith .
100 00
Alverse L. White
100 00
Isaac Emerson, Jr. .
100 00
Wickham C. McNish
100 00
Samuel E. Sewall
100 00
Daniel W. Gooch
100 00
Daniel W. Foster
100 00
Samuel S. Houghton
80 00
Joseph D. Wilde
75 00
Elisha F. Sears
75 00
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Ralph Warren
75 00
Charles H. Isburgh
75 00
George A. Mansfield
75 00
Nathaniel J. Bartlett
75 00
George G. Wheeler .
60 00
Jeremiah Crowley
50 00
William H. Allen
50 00
Edgar M. Stevens
50 00
Levi S. Gould
50 00
Ira H. Bickford
50 00
Frank O. Dame
50 00
George Hart .
50 00
William F. Morse
50 00
Oliver Whyte .
50 00
Gardner Wheeler
50 00
Walter Littlefield, Jr.
50 00
Henry A. Norris
50 00
Napoleon B. Bryant
50 00
Andrew P. Trott
50 00
R. Watson Emerson
50 00
Augustus Barrett
50 00
John Baldwin .
50 00
Joseph H. Greene
50 00
William H. Stone
50 00
Simeon Locke
50 00
Alonzo V. Lynde
50 00
George Emerson
50 00
George F. Stone
50 00
Frank A. Messenger
50 00
Oren H. Peck
45 00
Joseph A. Fairbanks
40 00
George M. Fletcher
30 00
S. W. Heald .
30 00
CITIZENS' RECRUITING FUND.
87
James M. Beckett .
30 00
Edward R. Knights
30 00
John L. Allen
30 00
Jarvis P. Hudson
25 00
Albert P. Perkins
25 00
Thomas A. Long
25 00
Erastus F. Bradford
25 00
Benjamin F. Greene
25 00
George N. Noyes
25 00
Dr. George Macomber
25 00
Joel Bowker
25 00
Charles H. Blaisdell
25 00
Daniel Jefferson
25 00
Dr. Moses Parker
25 00
Allen C. Goss
25 00
Fernando C. Taylor
25 00
Joseph E. Westgate
25 00.
James A. Barrett
25 00
George C. Sargent .
25 00
Samuel S. Bugbee .
25 00
Anthony Crosby
25 00
John H. Clark
25 00
George Newhall
25 00
William O. Lynde
25 00
Charles Larrabee
25 00
John S. Higgins
25 00
John Shelton .
25 00
C. Edgar Buffum
25 00
Henry A. Leonard .
25 00
Rufus Leavitt
25 00
Robert J. Chute
25 00
Obadiah S. Edgerly
25 00
Sargent F. Severence
25 00
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Liberty Bigelow
25 00
John Conway, Jr.
25 00
Jonathan Barrett
25 00
Charles Boardman .
25 00
John W. Cobb
25 00
Elbridge Gardner
25 00
Peter Edgerly
25 00
Jeremiah Martin
25 00
Horatio N. Perkins
25 00
George F. Boardman
25 00
Josiah P. Mendum .
25 00
Stephen Shelton
25 00
Lewis G. Coburn
25 00
Frederick W. A. Rankin, Jr.
25 00
Thomas J. Kimball
25 00
John S. Sewall
20 00
George R. Forsythe
20 00
Sylvanus Upham
20 00
Charles Furneaux
20 00
Edward B. Newhall
20 00
John Smith
20 00
Nelson Cochran
20 00
John W. Buttrick
20 00
Daniel O. Morton
20 00
Leonard Lynde
20 00
Henry B. Newhall
20 00
Artemas Barrett
20 00
George W. Bartlett
20 00
Robert W. Pierce .
20 00
George W. Pollock .
20 00
Elbridge H. Goss
20 00
John W. Tower
20 00
P. Russell Ellis
20 00
CITIZENS' RECRUITING FUND. 89
George B. Sargent .
20 00
Caleb Howard
20 00
Christopher Kirmes
20 00
Joseph McIntire
20 00
James Astle
20 00
John L. Andrews
20 00
William F. Poole
20 00
Lyell T. Terwillager
20 00
Alfred W. Sprague
20 00
William H. Wells
20 00
George A. Chipman
20 00
Isaiah A. Young
20 00
Benjamin Underwood
20 00
Charles A. Messenger
20 00
Walter Babb .
20 00
Solomon Severy
15 00
John Q. Adams
15 00
Alonzo Patterson
15 00
Samuel O. Dearborn
15 00
Peter Batchelder
15 00
Joel Atwood
15 00
George C. Stantial .
15 00
Thomas W. Chadbourne
15 00
Asa H. Jones .
15 00
Samuel M. Tourtellot
15 00
George Hemminway
14 00
Samuel Barker
10 00
Martin Ellis
10 00
Walter R. Collins
10 00
William B. Burgess
10 00
Charles E. Keith
10 00
Samuel F. Summers
10 00
John Robson .
10 00
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Dr. Benjamin F. Abbott .
10 00
William W. Vaughn
10 00
G. W. Gilman .
10 00
Calvin Stone . 10 00
William D. Stratton
10 00
Sullivan C. Atwood
10 00
Calvin N. Chapin
10 00
Hiram D. Richardson
10 00
Azel E. Steele
10 00
Elbridge Green
10 00
Benjamin Roach
10 00
Charles P. Lynde
10 00
Rev. Nathan P. Selee
10 00
James S. Sturtevant
10 00
William M. Gilmore
10 00
William Clark
10 00
J. B. Daniels
10 00
Lawrence K. Munn
10 00
Charles F. Bowker .
10 00
Moses A. Noyes
10 00
Addison Lane
10 00
Edmund B. Little
10 00
William L. Pierce
10 00
Royal P. Barry
10 00
Lewis H. Richardson
10 00
Jabez G. Hayward .
10 00
Francis Fountain
10 00
George Sargent
10 00
Dexter Pratt .
10 00
George C. Brown
10 00
Dr. Abel Astle
10 00
James Small
10 00
Alvin Lynde .
10 00
CITIZENS' RECRUITING FUND.
91
George Lynde
10 00
Josiah H. Barker
5 00
Martin B. Loring
5 00
J. T. Marcy
5 00
George W. Fisher
5 00
Albert A. Gould
5 00
Benjamin R. Walker
5 00
Augustus Brooks
5 00
William Finnegan
5 0Ở
Dennis Finnegan
5 00
Joseph C. Bowker
5 00
Emery Close .
5 00
Ansel B. Pierce
5 00
George Woodward .
5 00
John Hurley
5 00
Edward Moore
5 00
Thomas Cowhey
5 00
Thomas Freeman
5 00
Solomon L. Howes
5 00
Paschal E. Burnham
5 00
John P. Buttrick
5 00
E. B. Southwick
5 00
Henry Robinson
5 00
Charles F. Upham .
5 00
Jasper F. Ferdinand
5 00
John Gateley
5 00
Ai Rowe
5 00
Walter Murphy
5 00
Henry J. Robinson
5 00
Daniel Conway
5 00
Joel Snow
5 00
Carlon Buffum
5 00
Osmore Jenkins
5 00
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Robert Wheeler
5 00
William A. Lamson
5 00
Aaron Green .
5 00
Oliver T. Wentworth
3 00
Reuben T. Haley
3 00
Nathaniel Howard .
3 00
Samuel D. Blanchard
2 00
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Total
$5,650 00
With the above amount, so liberally contributed by our citizens, the Recruiting Committee were enabled to obtain all the men required to fill our several quotas, by adding to the amount paid to each recruit by the Town, -one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125), - whatever sum was necessary ; the average cost of a recruit at this time, in addition to the State and United States bounty,1 being about two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).
Very few of our own citizens enlisted during the last year of the war, although quite a number that were already in the service re-enlisted ; such re-enlistments counting on our quotas the same as new enlistments.
The names of most of the recruits obtained by the Committee, at various times and at various places, during the last year of the rebellion, may be found in the alpha- betical list at the end of the volume.
1 Massachusetts paid no bounty until 1863 ; then $50 ; Oct. 17, IS63, it was increased to $325. The United States paid $100 bounty until Oct. 17, IS63 ; then $300 to new recruits, and $400 to veterans until July IS, IS64 ; afterwards $100, $200 and $300 to one, two and three years' volunteers.
VIII. 1864.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN.
" All hail the Stars and Stripes ! " 1 the cry From forest home to ocean shore, Ten thousand times ten thousand hands Are raised to free that flag once more. To each proud heart new hope is sent, To each strong arm new strength is given ;
And, raised aloft from every home, The Stars and Stripes float nearer heaven.
George T. Brown.
In July, 1864, the Secretary of War made a requisition upon Massachusetts for five militia regiments, to serve for the period of one hundred days, during the time the re-enlisting troops were having their furloughs ; and, as usual, the Old Bay State responded with alacrity, and the regiments were recruited and equipped with all possi- ble despatch.
These one hundred days' men were not to be credited to the quota of Massachusetts, but it was conceded that whoever should serve for this length of time should not be liable to the draft then pending. Five thousand four hun-
1 The last words of Luther C. Ladd, of the Sixth Regiment, who was killed while marching through Baltimore, April 19, 1861.
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dred and sixty-one (5,461) men went forth from the State under this call.
As heretofore, under the various demands made, Mel- rose responded with its proportion of men, and sent a few into four of the five regiments then raised, viz: The Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Sixtieth ; and their names are as follows :
FIFTH REGIMENT.1 Co. K.
PRIVATE.
GROVER, W. W.
Mustered out with the regiment, Nov. 16, 1864.
SIXTH REGIMENT.2 Co. A.
LIEUTENANT.
CHIPMAN, GEORGE A.3
Mustered out with the regiment, Oct. 27, 1864
PRIVATES. BURNHAM, OLIVER R. Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
1 The Fifth Regiment was mustered into the service July 28, 1864, and was stationed at Fort Marshall, near Baltimore, Md.
2 The Sixth Regiment was mustered into the service July 20, 1864, and was stationed at Arlington Heights, Va., and at Fort Delaware, Md., a depot for Confederate prisoners.
3 Also served nine months in Forty-Fifth Regiment in 1862-3 ; see chap. V.
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EIGHTH REGIMENT. -
MCLAUGHLIN, HIRAM.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
WAITT, JOHN R.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. WYMAN, GEORGE W.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
WYMAN, WESTON.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
Co. E.
PRIVATES. PAGE, MOSES S.1
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
SPAULDING, HENRY H.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864.
EIGHTH REGIMENT.2 SERGEANT-MAJOR. TYLER, WILLIAM N.3 Sergeant of Co. E at first ; promoted Sergeant-Major July
3 Acted as Postmaster of the regiment while at Arlington Heights, and Assistant Postmaster and Inspector of Rebel correspondence at Fort Dela- ware.
2 The Eighth Regiment, - like the Fifth and Sixth, as stated on previous pages, - was one of the three months' regiments that responded so quickly when the first call for troops was made in April, 1861, and marched to Washington by the way of Annapolis, Md., overcoming many obstacles .* The Eighth was now mustered into service July 26, 1864, and was stationed at Baltimore and Cockeysville, Md.
3 Also served three months in the Fifth Regiment in 1861, and nine months in the Fiftieth Regiment, in 1862-3, but on the South Reading quota.
* The National Intelligencer said of it, the day after its arrival in Washington, " We doubt whether any other single regiment in the country could furnish such a ready contin- gent to reconstruct a steam engine, lay a rail-track, and bend the sails of a man-of-war."
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