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Captain Truxton Dougherty. Lieutenant Jabez Bradbury. Lieutenant James B. Cleaveland.
Ensign Jacob Saunders. Ensign Jeremiah Lord.
Ensign Haskell W. Johnson. Ensign Jeremiah Burnham, Orono.
Ensign James Dunning, Bangor.
Captain James Clark, Hermon.
Lieutenant William E. Atwood, Levant.
Ensign Nathaniel D. Eaton, Hermon. Lieutenant Amasa K. Walker, Hampden.
Captain Stephen Leighton, jr., Dexter.
Lieutenant Isaiah Beals, Dexter. Ensign Alvin B. Clark, Corinth. Captain William H. Mills, Bangor. Ensign Henry L. Stewart, Bangor. Captain Eliphalet I. Maxfield, Argyle.
Lieutenant Horatio Burnett, Springfield.
Ensign Goodridge Cummings, Passadumkeag.
Ensign Simon P. Atkins, Bangor.
Roll of Captain Nathaniel Sawyer's company of riflemen in the detachment of drafted militia of Maine, called into actual service by the State, for the protection of its northeastern frontier, the 20th day of February, 1839.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS ..
Captain Nathaniel Sawyer. Lieutenant Andrew D. Bean.
Ensign Charles Jones.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant John A. York.
Sergeant Hiram York.
Sergeant Joseph York.
Sergeant Sewall Chase.
Corporal Lewis Goodwin.
Corporal Daniel Pattee.
Corporal John Goodwin.
Corporal Simon E. Ricker.
Musician James Pattee.
Musician Wesley Grindle. Musician George Damon.
PRIVATES.
Jeremiah Avery, Charles Bickford, Thomas W. Bartlett, Josiah Brown, Richard H. Bedee, Obadiah Banks, Moses Copp, William Clark, William Corthell, Henry Craig, Alvin H. Carley, Salmon P. Drake, John Emery, Jacob W. Eastman, Ivory Frost, Joshua B. Floyd, Jeremiah Flagg, Carrell Garland, Stephen Grant, jr., Isaac Harden, Luther Hawse, William S. Hogan, Jeremiah Higgins, William Jame- son, George Hilley, Lewis Kimball, Royal Lancaster, Newell Long- fellow, Broadstreet Mason, jr., True Merrill, J. A. C. Mason, David Porter, jr., Alfred Packard, George Richardson, Samuel Ricker, Au- gustus W. Smith, Alexander Smith, Gustavus W. Smith, Nathan Stevens, Norres M. Staples, Samuel Sidlinger, Otis Smith, William Shirley, Asa C. Twitchell, Rufus York, Joseph D. Young, Oliver Luce, Josh D. Hemenway, John Bryant, William Meader, Joseph A. Mitch- ell, Joseph Bartlett, Daniel G. Sawyer, John Staples (servant to Cap- tain), Ambrose Fogg (servant to Lieutenant), Samuel Stevenson (ser- vant to Ensign).
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CAPTAIN MAXFIELD'S (BANGOR) COMPANY.
(Pay began February 20th or March 11, 1839, and ended, in most cases, April 22 and 26, 1839). COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Eliphalet I. Maxfield. Lieutenant Horatio Barrett.
Ensign Goodridge Cummings. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Horace Banks.
Sergeant Carlisle Dennis.
Sergeant Joseph Nelson.
Sergeant John Abott.
Corporal Alvin Merryfield.
Corporal Thomas J. Fowle.
Corporal Charles Davis.
Corporal Walker Darling.
Musician Nathaniel Fellows.
PRIVATES.
Bradley B. Ayers, John W. Buck, Philip Bailey, Enoch W, Bickford, Daniel Bailey, William Brown, James Cooper, Sherburn W. Clark, Solomon Comstock, Albert Coombs, Joel F. Dam, Leader N. Dam, Asahel Davis, David B. Davis, Nahalie Doe, James Dealing, William Devo, John Elkins, jr., John B. Emery, Charles Emerson, Joseph Emerson, William Emerson, Benjamin Eastman, Daniel W. Edgerly, Wilmoth Haywood, Stephen R. Haynes, Moses Hodgdon, Moses In- galls, jr., Joseph Jordan, Benjamin Judkins, William Johnson, David Kneeland, Alfred L. Lovett, Solomon P. Lankester, Horace Lord, William H. McIntosh, Carleton P. Moody, John Morgan, James G. McIntosh, Samuel McPheters, Calvino S. Noyes, Samuel Norton, jr., Storer Perkins, Charles L. Smart, Thomas Smith, John Scott, James Sanborn, William A. Tosh, Israel Tracy, Joshua Watton, Mark G. Weymouth, David Young, Chandler Dammon, Josiah Miles, John Pratt, John Lawton, William F. Buzzell, George W. Merrill, Mathias Lane, Joseph Hodgdon, Josiah Richards, John W. Lane, William G. Rogers, Rufus Moody, Frederic Morrill, John Ayer (servant), Alger- non L. Barrett (servant), Lewis Bunker (servant), Eliphalet Leavitt.
CAPTAIN MAXIM'S (BANGOR) COMPANY. (Rendezvoused February 20, 1839; discharged April 24, 1839.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain George W. Maxim. Lieutenant Jonathan Louder. Ensign William H. Gibbs.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Orderly Sergeant William Averille.
Sergeant David Getchell.
Sergeant Daniel Moulton. Sergeant Joel Vickery. Corporal Dudley D. Bean.
Corporal Jeremy Baker. Corporal Jacob Holbrook. Corporal William W. Smith.
Corporal Greenlief M. Fogg.
Corporal James G. Patterson.
Corporal George S. Herrick.
Corporal Francis C. Keisor.
PRIVATES.
John Ames, Levi Bagley, Charles Buffum, Enoch M. Blunt, Rufus G. Curtis, Seth F. Cook, John Cowan, jr., Charles E. Chaplin, Reuben Cookson, Asa Davis, 2d, Joseph B. Damon, Benjamin Dillingham, Joseph Francis, John M. Fogg, Thomas Gould, Thomas Gullifer, Ephraim Glidden, Sumner Hamilton, Bradford Higgins, Samuel Hous- ton, Manasseh S. Hovey, Manoah Hurd, James S. Homans, William P. Hatch, David G. Ireland, Thomas Jenkins, Ephraim Johnson, Robert Littlefield, Moses Majnor, Ephraim B. W. Condray, Isaiah Mckinney, Shuter Nickerson, jr., Simeon Orff, James O. Rooke, John Parsons, Benjamin Pratt, George Pratt, Samuel Patterson, Norman Page, Enoch Peasley, Allen Rines, William H. Ramsdell, Jesse Russ, Wilmot Riggs, Christopher Smith, Asa L. Stiles, William Sherburn, jr., Asa Sawyer, David Shorey, Abram Libbey, Levi S. Torrance, Samuel S. Torrance, Daniel Willey, John Weymouth, Stephen White, Shuber N. Williams, John Witham, Francis Young, James B. Cleve- and.
CAPTAIN MILLS'S (BANGOR) COMPANY.
(Pay began February 20th, and at various times in March, 1839; discharged, in part, April 11th.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain William H. Mills.
Lieutenant James Henry Carleton.
Ensign Henry L. Stewart.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Elijah Low.
Sergeant George A. Longfellow.
Sergeant Jesse Snow.
Sergeant Hiram Fogg.
Corporal Jason L. Bourne.
Corporal Abraham Colomy.
Corporal Amos S. Myrick.
Corporal Isaac Lunt.
Musician Arthur Heald.
Musician Dennis J. Bither.
PRIVATES.
William Adams, Samuel Barrows, Erastus B. Byram, Nehemiah Bartlett, William Cousins, Sandford Comery, Noah Clough, Lorraine I. Drew, Jason Dunton, Benjamin Emerson, Ebenezer Farrington, Lewis R. French, Asa Fowles, James Gorton, John Gorton, Benjamin Guptail, Joseph Gordon, Thomas Hodgkins, Stephen S. Hewes, David B. House, Isaac Hills, 2d, Jason Hills, James A. Lombard, Hiram Le- broke, David Miller, James Miller, jr., Sewall Miller, John Moore, Thomas McCausland, Levi B. Patten, John Paine, James Rogers, Jo- seph T. Sylvester, Sumner Smith, George A. Stevens, Francis J. Stur- devant, Jeremiah Thompson, Eli Towne, Samuel F. Walker, Charles Wiley, Asa Woodman, James Young, Watson R. Goss, James P. Davis, James M. Davis, Elisha Davis, Samuel W. Costelon, Peter B. Newcomb, John Ring, David Shepley, Daniel Batcheder, Hiram Stevens, Stephen C. Springer, James Adams, Joseph Grindle, Clark Perry, John A. Plum- mer, Joseph K. Cross, Almon Richards, Stephen B. Pattee, John W. Babcock, Ziba Burrill, Simeon B. Grindle, Robert H. Weymouth, Sam_ uel Abbott, Daniel C. Shepley.
CAPTAIN FISH'S (VEAZIE) COMPANY.
(Pay began February 20 and March 11, 1839 ; gener- ally ended April 1 and 24, 1839).
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Samuel L. Fish.
Lieutenant Francis J. Cummings.
Ensign Gilbert Emerson.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant David C. Jellison.
Sergeant John P. Davis.
Sergeant Moses S. Page.
Sergeant Joseph Budson.
Sergeant James S. Eldrige.
Sergeant Jesse Hutchings.
Corporal Josiah McPheters.
Corporal Charles H. Forbes.
Corporal Joseph Bray.
Corporal George Lincoln.
Corporal John B. Bond. Corporal Kenney Snow.
Musician Robert P. Chase.
Musician Solomon P. Rowe.
PRIVATES.
Thomas Abbott, Almarin Ames, John Boyd, Timothy Burton, Wil- liam Batchelder, Isaac Russell, William Ballard, jr., George Burns, David L. Billings, Justus L. Carr, Thomas Cunningham, William J. Chapman, Garey Chapman, Ephraim Dorr, William Dwelley, jr., Samuel Deering, James Dickinson, John Dunham, jr., Joseph Duran, Elisha M. Eveleth, Amasan S. Emerton, Chester Ferrin, Daniel Fow- ler, James H. Gilmore, William P. Guppy, Shadrach Gray, John Grin- del, Abial Harmon, Seth Holt, Abel S. Jordan, Joseph James, Levi K. Kilburn, Rowland Lawrence, William Lassell, David Lancas- ter, John N. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Henry Montgomery, John E. Miller, Charles Newcomb, Alvah Osgood, Roderick R. Park, Charles Patten, Samuel Peirce, Joseph Priest, Thomas Raymond, Joseph C. Stinson, Jacob P. Sweat, William C. Snow, Samuel Spen-
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cer, Samuel Sheets, John Southard, jr., Horatio N. Stinson, James Stubbs, George Simpson, Samuel S. Trivit, Timothy . C. Tapley, Levi Tower, Benson D. Wood, William B. Moody, Gilbert Knownton, Al- bion M. Fish (servant), Joseph W. Curtis (servant), Ebin B. Weston (servant).
CAPTAIN LEIGHTON'S (DEXTER) COMPANY.
(Rendezvoused February 20 and March 1I, 1839; discharged April 22, 1839.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Stephen Leighton, jr. Lieutenant Isaiah Beals.
Ensign Alvin B. Clark.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Reuben Flanders.
Sergeant Hiram Safford. Sergeant Asa Spooner.
Sergeant Seth Drew.
Corporal Stephen D. Jennings.
Corporal Charles Jumper.
Corporal Cyrus Jumper. Corporal Calvin Safford.
Musician John M. Shaw.
PRIVATES.
Lemuel Arnold, Willard Abbott, David Berry, Levi Bridge, jr., James P. Burleigh, William McE. Brown, David G. Brown, Isaac Bedee, Reuben Brown, William Bosworth, jr., Othniel Barden, Ben- jamin Brown, jr., James Crowell, Gardner Copeland, John Cole, Ellis, Cushman, Andrew N. Day, Thompson Dyer, David Densmore, Levi Emerson, Stephen Fish, Joseph Gould, David R. W. Grindell, Daniel H. Howard, Albert G. Hunt, Charles M. Hodsdon, Samuel Hillman, William Jumper, Benjamin Ireland, William L. Johnson, Robert John, son, John Kimball, Charles Jennings, James Lane, Sebah F. Leighton, Silas Leavitt, Edward P. Longley, John Leavitt, Charles R. Logan, George P. Logan, George Oakes, Horatio Pratt, Isaac W. Pickering, Daniel Palmer, Jonathan Pitcher, jr., John Ricker, Curtis Sturtevant, Darius Sampson, John Safford, Henry A. Sprague, Luther H. Shaw, Simeon Safford, jr., Henry K. Sawyer, Henry Snow, Isaac Tucker, Milton Twitchell, Benjamin F. Tosier, John Fowle, Charles D. Tren- orgy, Harrison G. O. Thomas, Andrew C. Winslow, Eli Winslow, Charles Wyman, Peleg Washburn, Burnham Wardwell, Ira Wardwell, William B. Walker, George Whittemore, Rufus Williard.
CAPTAIN CLARK'S (HARMON) COMPANY.
(Rendezvoused and pay began February 20, 1839.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain James Clark. Lieutenant William E. Atwood. Ensign Nathaniel D. Eaton.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Joseph Leslie. Sergeant Solomon York.
Sergeant John N. Emerson, Sergeant Timothy M. Cook.
Corporal William M. Johnson.
Corporal Ezekiel C. Jackson.
Corporal Laomi S. Herrick. Corporal Hazen Messenger. Musician John Swan. Musician Jacob Swan. Musician Annanias Dodge.
PRIVATES.
Samuel Allen, Aaron Barden, Samuel Blagdon, Samuel Baker, Ira Bither, Levi Blake, Edward D. Baker, Carlos Bean, John N. Budge, Silas Bunker, jr., William Corliss, William Cross, John O. Chadman, Joseph Cushman, Valentine Dunning, Benjamin Dyer, George W. Ed- dy, John E. Foss, David French, Abraham Grover, Arthur L. Grant, Francis Goodwin, Hiram Glidden, Daniel Hewes, William Harris, Reuben Hale, Thomas C. Herrick, Charles A. Howard, Bowman Herrin, Lorenzo Hinkley, John Jenness, Freeman Luce, Charles Low, Nelson Mitchell, Enoch R. Mayo, William H. Mayo, Philip McIntire, Reuben Myrick, Jason Miller, Ira Mansel, Israel B. Norcross, Nathan- iel Perkins, Benjamin Patterson, James Prescott, Joseph Rose, George B. Reed, Harvey Reed, Hiram Swan, Nathaniel Swan, Elijah Sylves- ter, Gorham Smith, John Shaw, Howard Stevens, Samuel V. Millet,
Daniel Sargent, Dudley D. Spratt, Nathan S. Shaw, Daniel L. Stinch- field, Augustine Triggs, Azariah Wadleigh, William Willey, George B. Webber, Vincent Williard, Aaron H. Walker, Charles Whittier, Peter Wheelden.
CAPTAIN HAMBLET'S COMPANY.
(Pay commenced February 20, 1839; ended April 26, 1839.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Charles R. Hamblet.
Lieutenant Amasa K. Walker.
Ensign John Nelson.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Elbridge H. Bragdon.
Sergeant Benjamin M. Page.
Sergeant Attillius A. Ladd.
Sergeant Samuel F. Eells.
Sergeant Thomas Webb.
Corporal Elias Harriman.
Corporal Barzillal Huckins.
Corporal Benjamin C. Sanders.
Corporal William W. Burnham.
Corporal Sabin H. Kimball.
PRIVATES.
Amariah W. Ames, Jotham S. Ames, William Appleton, Samue Beal, Thomas A. Burgess, William Barney, Ira B. Buck, Thomas Bradley, Daniel Bean, Daniel Bailey, Freeman Crocker, Henry Crocker, Moses Crocker, James Carver, Jonathan Carter, Jonathan Chase, Jo- seph C. Chase, Thornton Card, Nathaniel Capers, Isaac Dexter, Stephen Dow, Nathaniel B. Fish, Levi O. Farnham, Ebenezer O. Ger- ry, John Gorden, Isaac Gould, Daniel Howard, Christopher Harvest, Ezra Holmes, Nathaniel Hanscomb, Daniel Brooks, John Knox, Hiram Larrabee, James Lee, Orman F. Lothrop, Walter D. Maddock, Wil_ liam McKenney, Lyman Miner, Isaac Rider, George W. Rogers, Silas Royal, Peter P. Rich, George R. Sampson, Henry Sibley, Seth Sever- ance, Williams C. Stevens, W. Simpson, William Trask, Joseph Tilton, Alexander D. Walton, Levi M. Wilkins, Nelson Whittemore, Simon Whittemore, John Woodard, James West, Stillman Newcomb, Joseph Rose, Nathaniel E. Roberts, Ira Washburn, Albert R. Young, William Shepherd, Samuel Mitchell, Richardson B. Hamblet (servant), Lorenzo Knowles (servant), John B. Stevens (servant), Tuttle D. Leathers.
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THE MEXICAN WAR.
It is unnecessary to embrace in this record even a cur- sory account of the origin, progress, and result of this episode of our National affairs, whose events so little affected the current of history in Eastern Maine, and drew so lightly upon its patriotic citizens for recruits to the army in the field. The following brief extract, from the report of the Adjutant-General of the State for 1847, sufficiently states the action taken by Maine, in answer to the requisitions of the Government, upon the out- break of the war :-
It having been declared by the Congress of the United States, on the 13th of May, 1846, "that, by an act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war existed between that Government and the United States," the Governor of Maine, under authority from the Secretary of War, called upon the citizens of Maine for a volunteer corps of one regiment of infantry. Immediately after the publication of the proclamation and general order, efficient persons in different parts of the State were commissioned to raise companies of volunteers. In some sections it was found impossible to obtain volunteers, while in others full compan- jes were raised with the greatest promptitude.
The following officers from Penobscot county were elected to the command of companies A and F :-
Company A .- John H. Morrill, Bangor, captain; John H. Bryant, Bangor, first lieutenant; John B. Williams, Bangor, second lieutenant. Company F .-- George W. Cummings, Bangor, captain; James W. Thompson, Passadumkeag, first lieutenant; James H. Burgess, Old- town, second lieutenant,
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No further rolls of these companies have been fur- nished by the Adjutant-General's office - if, indeed, they exist there.
THE GREAT REBELLION.
At last the time came when the patriotism and the patience, the courage and constancy of the Penobscot valley, as of all other portions of the United North were to be fully tested by the war between the Nation and the rebellious States. The struggle is too recent and the lit- erature of its history too copious and readily accessible, to make any summary of its beginnings and events here necessary. We have only to do with the brilliant record which Penobscot county made from the first to the last of the gigantic conflict. Happily, the materials for this have been provided, with extraordinary fullness of detail, and, no doubt, with all practicable accuracy, in the volu- minous reports issued annually for some years by General John L. Hodsdon, now of Bangor, who was Adjutant- General of the State during the entire war-period, and who served with great efficiency and the most conscien- tious fidelity. He and the attaches of his office "builded better than they knew" in the carefully labored prepara- tion of these reports. We have found nothing else so valuable for the preparation of local military history dur- ing the rebellion, in the Adjutant-General's Reports of a number of the loyal States. Whatever of interest or per- manent value occurs in the remainder of this chapter, is due solely to General Hodsdon's Reports. This work is indebted to them, not only for the rosters of Union sol- diers and sailors, but for the several histories of the regi- ments and batteries,-which are given, in general, in the very words of the original text,-and, indeed, for all other matter, in almost every point and particular.
Besides General Hodsdon, who served the country so ably in the State Bureau of War, Penobscot county had many eminent names in the field. Major-General Joshua L. Chamberlain, afterwards Governor of the State, and now President of Bowdoin College, was a native and resident of Brewer. Brevet Major-General Cyrus Ham- lin was from Bangor. Of Brigadiers the county fur- nished George F. Shepley and Charles D. Jameson* of Bangor, James H. Carleton of Orono, and Lysander Cutler of Dexter; of Brevet-Brigadiers, Henry M. Plaisted of Bangor, now Governor of Maine, Charles Hamlin and Charles D. Gilmore also of Bangor, Jonathan A. Hill of Stetson, and Llewellyn G. Egtes of Oldtown; of Colonels, Charles W. Roberts, Daniel Chappin,* Daniel White, and George Varney of Bangor, and Simon G. Jerrard of Levant; of Lieutenant-Colonels, Daniel F. Sargent of Bangor, and George Fuller of Corinth; and Majors Joel W. Cloudman of Stetson, Stephen D. Carpenter and William L. Pitcher of Bangor; with many others of similar or less rank, who also distinguished themselves in service. Charles A. Watcher, of Bangor, killed while commander of the United States war-steamer Gazelle, is another of the slain heroes. Among promi- nent regimental surgeons, several of them reaching the
grade of Brigade-Surgeon, were Drs. Daniel McRuer, Eugene F. Sanger, Augustus C. Hamlin, and Samuel B. Morison, of Bangor; Alden P. Palmer, of Orono; and J. B. Wilson of Exeter. Dr. John Mason, of Bangor, also rendered great service in the army hospitals. Luther H. Pierce, of Bangor, became a Brigade Quartermaster. Among the Paymasters appointed on the General Staff of the army were the Hon. Jabez True of Bangor, and Jeremiah Fenno and Elias Merrill, of the same. Gen- eral Charles Howard, a member of the staff of his brother, Major-General Oliver O. Howard, and now of Chicago, was a student in the Bangor Theological Sem- inary at the outset of the struggle. Many of these offi- cers will receive due biographical notice in connection with the histories of their several towns.
Colonel Gideon Mayo, of Orono, was commandant of Camp John Pope, at Bangor, in 1862. Elijah Low, of the latter place, was Provost Marshal for the counties of Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Aroostook, during the drafts of 1863. Henry H. Worcester, of Bangor, was the Military Agent of the State at Washington City, and H. A. Holden, of the former city, was one of his assist- ants. Among the gentlemen appointed early in the war, under the system of allotment of soldiers' pay, as trus- tees to receive and disburse moneys upou the allotment rolls, were the Hon. Isaiah Stetson, Mayor of Bangor, and E. B. Pierce, Cashier of the Lumberman's Bank of Oldtown. Aaron A. Wing of Bangor, and J. S. Emery of Hampden, were afterwards Allotment Commissioners.
BANGOR IN THE WAR.
The importance of this city, as the chief place in the county, and its convenience of accessibility by rail and river, naturally made it a prominent point during the whole of the Rebellion. The arsenal located here be- came at once the centre of military operations, and proved extremely useful through all the bloody years. General Hodsdon says, in his Report for 1861:
The use and occupation of the State Arsenal and lot at Bangor, almost throughout the entire season, for rendezvousing and quartering the Second Regiment and numerous squads of recruits and detach- ments and companies of volunteers, from the northern and eastern portions of the State, for regiments organizing at Augusta and Port- land, has obviated the necessity of hiring, at great expense, extensive buildings and grounds at Bangor for that purpose. Much of the ord- nance, the gun-carriages, and other munitions of war, stored at the arsenal, have, from time to time, been removed and necessarily left un- sheltered to afford lodgings for the troops. For this reason, and through the careless but natural intermeddling of the soldiers with the small arms and appendages deposited there, the State has experienced severe loss and damage to its property, aside from the injury to the arsenal buildings and grounds inseparable from the tumultuous charac- ter of the occupation.
Later in the war, a most beneficent institution, called the Soldiers's Rest Hospital was established by the patri- otic citizens of Bangor. The Adjutant-General gives the following account of it:
Early in May, 1864, immediately after the battle of the Wilderness, so large a number of sick and disabled soldiers were returned to Bangor that the liberal citizens established a "Rest" for their accommodation, supporting it at first entirely by voluntary contributions. The institu- tion was subsequently assumed by the State, and on the 7th of October, 1864, by the General Government. Dr. S. B. Morison, of Bangor, gratuitously devoted the largest portion of his time from April to Oc- tober to the care of the sick and wounded within its walls. In October,
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however, he was appointed by the Medical Director of the Department of the East to take charge of Soldier's Rest Hospital, which continued in operation for one year. During this latter period, more than 3,000 soldiers were admitted, which should be added to the number of about 2,500 who were accommodated previous to the last change.
The Second Regiment of the Maine Infantry and the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery were rendezvoused and organized here. In the late summer of 1862 the drafted troops for the nine months' service, under the President's call of August 4th, of that year, from the counties of Aroostook, Piscataquis, Penobscot, Hancock, Washing- ton, and Waldo, and three towns in Knox county, were ordered to rendezvous at Camp John Pope, the first named in Bangor. Colonel Mayo, as already noted, was made commandant, with, a little later, Benjamin A. Foster designated as post-adjutant, and Llewellyn J. Morse as quartermaster. Drs. Mason and Weston, of Bangor, had charge of the Medical Department.
Valuable aid was rendered early in the war by the firm of Messrs. Hinckley & Egery, foundrymen, who re- modeled and rifled at their establishment eighteen old- fashioned smooth-bore cannon, which made them greatly more efficient. Five of them were sent to Portland Har- bor, two to Wiscasset, and two to Rockland, for coast defence.
Among other patriotic local industries, Messrs. Wheel- wright, Clark & Co., in 1862, manufactured very rapidly, under the stress of the period, the clothing for eight of the nine months' regiments recruited that year.
In April, 1861, at once upon the call for men to go to the country's aid, $12,000 were subscribed in Bangor for the support of the families of volunteers. The city authorities, however, allowed only a part of this to be collected and disbursed, as the council presently assumed the expense of such patriotic benefactions. The ladies of the city began to organize for provision for the sick and wounded of the army as soon as their services were needed. Military drill, on the recommendation of the Mayor and by formal order of the city council, was in- troduced as an exercise in the Boys' High School; and one or more of the boys' select schools of the city also adopted it, while the citizens organized in voluntary com- panies for drill.
Space would fail to tell of all the good words and deeds of Bangor, as well as the rest of Penobscot county, during the terrible contest. One-fifth of the entire male population of the city, between the ages or eighteen and forty, entered the service of the country during the first year of the war. Nine hundred and fifty-eight volun- teered in the year reported-1861-62. In the official year, 1864-65, when it had become so difficult to procure men for the service, 524 were enlisted at Bangor. In all, about 2,700 from this one city aided in the field or on the seas to save the Nation from destruction. The bounties for enlistments paid from the city treasury amounted to $21,300; by the citizens, $17,655.
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