History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 33

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co.
Number of Pages: 1100

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stantly engaged with the enemy's outposts. They re- turned and encamped at Brandy Station on the 3d of December, and there remained until May 4, 1864, when they crossed the Rapidan and engaged in the battle of the Wilderness on the 5th and sixth; also at Spottsyl- vania on the 10th, 12th and 18th, on which day they suffered severely, having 42 men killed. On the Ist of June they reached Cold Harbor, where, on the 2d, they charged on and carried the enemy's fortifications, which they held until the 13th, and then marched towards Petersburg, where they arrived on the 17th, and partici- pated in the attacks on the Weldon railroad on the 24th and 30th. On the 11th of. July the regiment debarked at Washington, and on the 12th was engaged in the de- fences of the city, and assisted in the defeat of the ene- my in its nearest approach to the capital. On the 13th they marched up the Potomac and through Snicker's Gap to the Shenandoah, returning to Washington on the 23d. On the 26th, they again started up the Potomac, crossing at Harper's Ferry on the 29th, and marched to the vicinity of Charlestown, where they remained until August 21st, 1864, when their original term of service having expired, the re-enlisted men and recruits were consolidated with the battalions of the Fifth and Sixth regiments, retaining the designation of the Seventh regi- ment until October, when it was changed to the First Veteran Volunteers. The officers and men whose terms of service expired August 21, 1864, returned to Maine, where they were mustered out and discharged from the United States service September 5th, at Augusta, by Cap- tain C. Holmes, United States Army.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain William Crosby, Bangor, Co. A. Captain Charles D. Gilmore, Bangor, Co. C. Captain George H. Buker, Bangor, Co. D. Captain George H. Buker, Bangor, Co. F. Captain Henry Warren, Bangor, Co. G.

Captain Edward H. Cass, Bangor, Co. H.

Captain Henry C. Snow, Hampden, Co. H.

First Lieutenant John A. Bachelder, Oldtown, Co. C. First Lieutenant Andrew M. Benson, Oldtown, Co. C.

. First Lieutenant Benjamin F. Bicknell, Bangor, Co. C. First Lieutenant George H. Buker, Bangor, Co. E. First Lieutenant Samuel S. Mann, Bangor, Co. E. First Lieutenant Henry W. Farrar, Bangor, Co. F. First Lieutenant John A. Bachelder, Oldtown, Co. G. First Lieutenant Thomas S. . Cates, Bangor, Co. H. First Lieutenant Henry Warren, Bangor, Co. H.

First Lieutenant Andrew M. Benson, Oldtown, Co. K. First Lieutenant William Crosby, Bangor, Co. K. Second Lieutenant William Crosby, Bangor, Co. B. Second Lieutenant Albert P. Titcomb, Lincoln, Co. C. Second Lieutenant Charles Lowell, Oldtown, Co. C. Second Lieutenant George H. Buker, Bangor, Co. D. Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Mann, Bangor, Co. E. Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Mann, Bangor, Co. F. Second Lieutenant William Crosby, Bangor, Co. G. Second Lieutenant Henry C. Snow, Hampden, Co. H. Second Lieutenant Luther C. Fairfield, Bangor, Co. H. Second Lieutenant Warren T. Ring, Oldtown, Co. H.

Second Lieutenant Henry W. Farrar, Bangor, Co. K. Second Lieutenant George R. Coney, Oldtown, Co. K.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Henry H. Warren, Bangor. First Sergeant Andrew M. Benson, Oldtown. Sergeant William H. Pitcher.

Sergeant William Crosby, Bangor.

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Sergeant Luther C. Fairfield, Bangor. Sergeant Frank B. Holden, Bangor. Sergeant Samuel S. Mann, Bangor. Sergeant Charles E. Robinson, Bangor. Sergeant Martin V. B. Hutchins, Brewer. Sergeant Ira F. Stinchfield, Lincoln. Sergeant John F. Tobin, Lincoln. Sergeant Charles Lowell, Oldtown. Sergeant Eli Mclaughlin, Oldtown. Sergeant Warren T. Ring, Oldtown. Corporal George M. Baker, Bangor. Corporal Benjamin Cates, Bangor. Corporal Charles H. Pierce, Bangor. Corporal Franklin Whittier, Bangor. Corporal David Thompson, Bradley. Corporal Martin V. B. Hutchins, Brewer. Corporal Albion A. Messer, Enfield. Corporal George B. McKenney, Enfield. Corporal Josiah Smith, Garland. Corporal Albion Hardy, Hampden. Corporal Lewis B. Hardy, Hampden. Corporal William E. Larrabee, Hampden. Corporal Jesse Blake, Holden. Corporal Sanford Bruce, Lincoln. Corporal Wyman B. Roberts, Lincoln. Corporal Ira F. Stinchfield, Lincoln. Corporal Warren A. McPhetres, Lowell. Corporal Moses W. Mckay, Oldtown. Corporal Francis Laing, Passadumkeag. Corporal Joseph Loring, Passadumkeag. Corporal Hadley Fairfield, Patten. Corporal Samuel L. Kimball, Patten. Corporal Harmon S. Allen, Winn. Wagoner Benjamin F. Brichnell, Bangor. Wagoner Isaiah Allen, Lincoln. Wagoner William Kennedy, Oldtown. Musician William A. Taylor, Burlington. Musician Rueul D. Wooster, Hermon. Musician Benjamin W. Mitchell. Oldtown. Musician I. T. Stewart, Oldtown.

PRIVATES.

Peter Ames, Joshua A. Barker, John H. Brown, William P. Burgess, George R. Boyer, Henry Cowan, Henry A. Cole, William E. Chap- man, John Conway, Sumner H. Condon, Richard Davis, William H. Evans, Pat Earley, Henry W. Farrar, Pat McGowan, Thomas Malo- ney, John S. McLure, Michael McLaughlin, James H. Hasey, John Isham, John Kinney, Timothy Linnell, William Chann, John S. Mc- Luer, DeWitt C. Morrill, Edwin E. Small, George A. Stetson, Alfred Townsend, Edward Sargent, Ira Webber, Frank W. Whittier, Martin W. Tower, Bangor; Melville Marshall, Bradford; Edwin Jordan, Reuel N. Morris, Daniel D. Perkins, Colby Smith, Bradley; Samuel E. Coombs, Jesse Blake, Brewer; Albert F. Gates, Duncan McMullen, Sheldon R. Sibley, Burlington; Moses Palmer, John McGraw, Carroll; Elisha C. Debeck, Charles H. Eddy, Clifton; Nathan M. Cooley, Co- rinna; Hibbard C. Leeman, Ira Linnell, John Roncon, George L. Buswell, Joseph R. Bawn, Frank [. White, Dexter; George E. Bragg, Franklin Condon, Robert H. Morse, Dixmont; Silas R. Rowell, Walter Gilger, Moses Giles, William C. Mann, Henry C. Hold, Orlando I. Rowe, Eddington; Charles N. Farnham, Edinburg; Albert T. Curtiss, Warren Gray, A. J. McKenney, James Towle, Enfield; Alvah B. Doble, Etna; Franklin Young, Exeter; John M. Garry, Luke Grover, John T. Smith, Garland; Alfred Cressey, Moses Giles, Greenlief B. Staples, Daniel M. Worcester, Charles Worcester, Glenburn; Daniel Floyd, Dennis Hartford, Llewellyn Pollard, Charles Snow, Hampden; Newell Pomeroy, Solomon Holt, jr., Fred G. Thompson, John Thompson, Hermon; Joseph M. Blake, Holden; Joseph W. Ridley, Rufus K. Stebens, Hudson; James A. Thomas, Lee; David M. Knowlton, John P. Trask, Levant; Stephen Balf, Roscoe Doble, John Flemming, Au- gustine Gates, Andrew J. Hatch, Thomas S. Libbey, John M. Lindsay, Orrin Lombard, Johnston Lyon, Joseph Lyon, Benjamin F. Potter, Luther I. Turner, Adrian E. Turner, Alvin E. True, Osmund Warren, Samuel B. Bridges, Benjamin F. Davis, Peltiah B. Davis, Andrew Dunifer, Michael H. Smith, Lincoln; Henry C. White, Lowell; Frank O'Brian, Mattawamkeag; William H. Coolbath, Mattamiscontis; Wil- lis S. N. Lancaster, Maxfield; John Hanscom, James Shorey, Milford; Levi W. Chadwick, Elbridge G. Kelley, Edwin Smith, Newburg; Eben

Dinsmore, Henry Davis, Levi L. Davis, Newport; Stilson E. Sibley, Leonard Milan, No. I Plantation; Felix Betters, James Carney, George Cole, Thomas Dougherty, Charles H. Dougherty, Folsom Dutton, Edward Felix, Thomas Fish, Calvin Gillisson, Oliver Hall, William W. Harris, George Kinsell, Octavius Liscott, Annis Morrill, Joseph Moreau, Joseph Neddo, Shepard Parmer, Alonzo Patten, Edward Pelkey, George W. Rines, Madison C. Rowe, Vander Sawyer, Jacob Weymouth, Henry M. Curtis, George R. Coney, Abraham Grover, Wayland F. Jacobs, Calvin Leavitt, Sebatis Mohawk, J. W. Neddo, Benjamin Oakes, Thomas P. Smith, John I. Seaton, John Tashoe, Oldtown; Ephraim K. Bartlett, Jesse Bartlett, Jedediah Hans- comb, George Lessor, Augustus O. Whitmore, Daniel W. Freeze, Eben Densmore, Joseph C. Kelley, John Lishon, Orono; James Dol- loff, James Haynes, Luther Haynes, Royall Nash, Charles Grumm, Aaron Haynes, jr., Passadumkeag; Timothy Fowler, Andrew Kim- ball, Charles H. Noyes, Uriah F. Palmer, Thomas B. Powers, Russell Royall, Moses Palmer, jr., Robert Vance, Patten; Henry Wiley, Plymouth; Chandler Pike, William W. Plummer (band), William C. Stickney, Springfield; George W. Fogg, G. W. Hodgkins, Stetson; Jacob Holmes, Swanville; Nelson S. Fales, Thomaston; Charles Knowles, Edward Myrick, George E. Tilden, Troy; Henry O. Gilcs, Veazie; David B. Grassey, Edward Reynolds, Winn; James Pond, jr., Woodville.

EIGHTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.

This regiment was organized at Augusta, Maine, Sep- tember 7, 1861, to serve three years, and left September roth for Hempstead, Long Island, New York, and sub- sequently for Fortress Monroe, Virginia, where they formed a part of General Sherman's expedition to Port Royal, South Carolina, which sailed October 29th. On the 8th of November, they landed at Hilton Head, where for several months they were engaged in throwing up breastworks, building fortifications, etc. On the Ist of May, 1862, they moved to Tybee Island and took a prominent part in the attack and capture of Fort Pu- laski, large detachments of the regiment having been detailed to man several batteries engaged in the bom- bardment of the fort. From Tybee Island they returned to Hilton Head, and from that time until the spring of 1863 were employed for the most part in doing guard duty at that place and at Beaufort, South Carolina. On the 19th of March, 1863, they were ordered to Jackson- ville, Florida, which they occupied after a spirited en- gagement with the enemy. On the 25th they made a reconnoissance on the line of the railroad toward Bald- win, engaged the enemy, and lost 2 men killed and I severely wounded. On the 29th they were ordered back to Beaufort, to make preparations to participate in the contemplated attack on Charleston, and embarked on the 3d of April for Stone River, where they lay on board transports during the bombardment of Fort Sum- ter on the 7th, after which they returned to Beaufort, ar- riving on the 12th. Subsequently they were again or- dered to Charleston and embarked to proceed thither, but went no farther than Hilton Head, where they remained until the 14th of November, then returned to Beaufort and there remained until the 2d of March, 1864. On that day, 16 officers and 330 enlisted men, who had re-enlisted for an additional term of three years, were granted a furlough for thirty-five days, and pro- ceeded to Maine. The remainder of the regiment con- tinued at Beaufort until April 13th, when they were trans- ferred to the Department of Virginia, arriving at Glouces- ter Point on the 16th, and assigned to the Tenth Army Corps. On the 26th the veterans rejoined the regiment,

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and on the 4th of May they moved to Bermuda Hun- dred, where they took part in all the active operations of the Army of the James. On the 16th they participated in the engagement at Drury's Bluff, losing 3 men killed, 64 wounded, and 29 taken prisoners. On the 27th they proceeded to White House Landing, thence on the 31st to Cold Harbor, in the meantime having been perma- nently assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth Army Corps. On the morning of June 3d, they participated in the assault on the enemy's lines at Cold Harbor, losing during the day 10 men killed, 53 wounded, and 16 taken prisoners. On the 12th they moved to White House Landing, and from thence to Petersburg where on the 15th, 16th, and 17th, they were engaged with the enemy. On the 18th, they made a successful attack and carried a portion of the enemy's line, losing 11 men killed and 39 wounded. From this time until the 25th of August they remained in the trenches in front of Petersburg, under continual fire and engaged in very exhausting duties. On that day they moved to the opposite side of the Appomattox, going into the works before Bermuda Hundred. On the night of the 28th of September, they crossed to the north side of the James River with the Eighteenth and Tenth corps, and were engaged in the assault successfully made the next morning on the enemy's works, near Chapin's Farm. On the 27th of October, they participated in the unsuccessful assault on the enemy's lines near the old battle-field of Fair Oaks, where they lost heavily. On the next day they returned to the trenches near Chapin's farm. On the 5th of December, upon the re-organiza- tion of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, they were assigned to the Fourth Brigade, First Division, Twenty- fourth Corps, and moved near Deep Bottom, taking po- sition in the fort at Spring Hill. On the 10th of Decem- ber, they lost 5 men killed and 6 wounded, in the reconnoissance made by the enemy on the right of the Union lines in the vicinity of Spring Hill. They re- mained near Spring Hill until the 27th of March, 1865. On that day the regiment proceeded towards Hatcher's Run, where they arrived the next day and remained do- ing picket duty until the 2d of April, when they partici- pated in the assault and capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin, and on the 3d proceeded towards Burksville, which place they reached on the 5th. On the 6th they bore an honorable part in the engagement at Rice's Sta- tion, and on the 9th in that at Appomattox Court House. After the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, they, with the rest of the troops of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, proceeded to Richmond, Vir- ginia, where they remained encamped until August. At that time they were ordered to Manchester, and there remained until November, when they were ordered to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, at which place they remained until the 18th of January, 1866, when the regiment was mustered out of the United States service by Lieutenant M. Harper, Assistant Commissary of Musters, and pro- ceeded to Augusta, where the men were paid and finally discharged.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Twitchell, Patten.

Major Joseph F. Twitchell, Patten.

Adjutant Spencer W. Young, Patten.

Quartermaster Stetson Sidelinger, Bangor.

Surgeon Paul M. Fisher, Corinna.

Assistant Surgeon William R. Benson, Bangor.

Chaplain Henry C. Henries, Lincoln.

Chaplain J. E. M. Wright, Camden.

Commissary Sergeant Stetson Sidelinger, Bangor.

Hospital Steward Alfred Walton, Alton.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Joseph F. Twitchell, Patten.

Captain America Walton, Patten.

Captain John Conant, Bangor.

Captain Henry Brawn, Oldtown.

Captain Hillman Smith, Bradley.

Captain Hiram N. Parker, Glenburn.

First Lieutenant Luther B. Rodgers, Patten.

First Lieutenant America Walton, Patten.

First Lieutenant Franklin E. Gray, Plymouth.

First Lieutenant George Capers, Exeter.

First Lieutenant Samuel Gould, jr., Dexter.

First Lieutenant Horatio B. Sawyer, Bradley.

First Lieutenant Henry Brawn, Oldtown. First Lieutenant Hillman Smith, Bradley.

First Lieutenant John McCowan, Lagrange.

First Lieutenant John L. Taylor, Hampden. First Lieutenant George A. Baldwin, Oldtown. Second Lieutenant Luther B. Rodgers, Patten. Second Lieutenant Lorenzo Warren, Patten. Second Lieutenant America Walton, Patten.

Second Lieutenant Spencer W. Young, Patten. Second Lieutenant George Capers, Exeter. Second Lieutenant Samuel Gould, jr., Dexter. Second Lieutenant Walton H. Hill, Exeter. Second Lieutenant Hillman Smith, Bradley. Second Lieutenant John McCowan, Lagrange. Second Lieutenant John L. Taylor, Hampden.

Second Lieutenant Hiram N. Parker, Glenburn. Second Lieutenant Horatio B. Sawyer, Bradley.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Howard Collins, Bradley. Sergeant Thomas W. Berry, Bangor. Sergeant Nathaniel Wentworth, Bangor.

Sergeant Lucius W. Elliott, Bradford.

Sergeant George A Baldwin, Bradley. Sergeant Horatio B. Sawyer, Bradley. Sergeant Samuel Gould, jr., Dexter. Sergeant George Capers, Exeter. Sergeant W. H. Hill, Exeter.

Sergeant Hiram M. Parker, Glenburn.

Sergeant Stephen Danforth, 2d, Lagrange.

Sergeant Orlelus Stevens, Lagrange. Sergeant Daniel W. Ingersoll, Lincoln. Sergeant Ephraim P. White, Lowell. Sergeant Fernando Jellison, Milford. Sergeant Newell J. Givens, Newport. Sergeant Charles E. Parker, Newport.

Sergeant John B. Philbrook, Newport. Sergeant George A. Baldwin, Oldtown. Sergeant Americus Walton, Patten. Corporal Moses French, Bangor. Corporal John Sample, Bangor. Corporal Ernest Ellsworth, Bangor. Corporal George Wheeler, Bangor.

Corporal Philip H. Wall, Bangor. Corporal Edward M. Stover, Bradford.

Corporal George A. Baldwin, Bradley.

Corporal Timothy Crockett, Carmel. Corporal Lewis F. Leighton, Corinna. Corporal John C. Weeks, Corinna. Corporal Charles H. Mann, Enfield.

Corporal George Capers, Exeter.

Corporal Walter H. Hill, Exeter.

Corporal Hiram N. Parker, Glenburn.

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Corporal William H. Folsom, Greenbush.

Corporal John L. Tyler, Hampden.

Corporal Daniel R. Boobier, Lagrange.

Corporal Benjamin P. Hinckley, Lagrange. Corporal Leonard Keliher, Lagrange.

Corporal Jonathan Knowles, Lagrange. Corporal Almond L. Sanborn, Lagrange.

Corporal Erastus Noble, Lincoln. Corporal John T. Shaw, Lincoln. Corporal James Sawyer, Oldtown. Corporal John C. Bachelder, Passadumkeag.

Corporal Amza Grant, Patten. Corporal Abraham Walton, Patten. Corporal Walker G. Harriman, Patten. Musician Almond L. Sanborn, Lagrange. Musician Samuel C. Clark, Oldtown.

Musician William Partridge, Oldtown. Wagoner Josiah Decker, jr., Lagrange.

PRIVATES.

William H. Smith, John E. Merrill, A. G. Walton, William H. Norcross, Alton ; Thomas D. Brown, Samuel P. Danforth, Malcom McDonald, Argyle; Thomas Burk, Patrick Carlton, William Caswell, Augustus Conant, James Curley, John A. Farnham, Jackson Hall, Joseph A. McClure, Abijah A. Roberts, J. Sanborn, Rodney C. Stet- son, Alanson C. Thomas, John Thornton, Joseph Adams, Eugene S. Chamberlain, William Dugans, John Delien, Charles E. Dunning, George Kieth, William W. Reed, Charles Ellison, Albert N. Marsh, Alfred B. Merrick, John W. Melton, Ebenezer Smith, Nelson Wilt- shire, Lewis Wentworth, William R. Fish, Leander H. Evans, Amos P. McKenney, Owen Monaghan, Jere Readson, John T. Webb, Leander Doyle, George N. Foster, Henry R. Nickerson, Bangor ; Benjamin F. Brookins, William P. Emerson, George N. Huston, Albert F. Dearborn, Andrew G. Storer Bradford; Frank Mishon, Alvab A. Clewly, Solomon Cormiera, Edward F. Collins, George W. Collins, Thomas Violet, Bradley ; John S. Clapham, George McLaugh- lin, Carmel ; Joshua M. Page, Levi B. Speed, Jared Hyde, Thomas Tarin, Henry McCoy, Charleston ; Daniel D. Shaw, John T. Shaw, Richard H. Shaw, Chester; William S. Given, Corinna; Stillman Guppy, Henry G. Prescott, Corinth ; John H. Briggs, Dennis Thomp- son, Edwin C. Copeland, Dexter; Granville B. Bean, George L. Crocker, William L. Howes, Dixmont ; Alfred Haskell, William Forbes, Enfield; James H. Emerson, Joseph Turner, Etna; Sylvanus C. Andrews, Edwin Blanchard, James Osgood, Allen P. Walker, Charles F. Atkins, Chandler Eastman, Exeter; James Penderton, Nathan Larabee, Glenburn; John H. Avery, Simeon Pratt, Hezekiah Richardson, George W. Riggs, Columbus D. Tasker, Cornelius Flynn, Greenbush; Israel L. Hogan, Peter W. Witham; Alonzo C. Hersey. John H. Small, Greenfield ; Stetson Sidelinger, George W. Young, John L. Bean, Edward C. Betts, Hampden ; Samuel Sidelinger, War- ren Hall, Albert T. Webber, Otis Whitmore, Hermon; Ephriam S. Bailey, H olden; Leonard P. Mann, Horatio B. Sawyer, Hudson ; Nathaniel Henderson, jr., Kenduskeag ; Jeremiah Bean, Jeremiah Boobier, Charles Booden, William R. Bryant, Alvin L. Cary, Retire Freeze, Samuel Lamphire, Charles H. Littleheld, Samuel H. Murphy, William Sanborn, Luther W. Spering, Edward Spring, Lagrange; John Brinnin, Charles H. Burke, Lee; Hiram B. Morrey, Levant ; Ami Kimball, Adolphus Perry, Addison G. Osborne, Lincoln; Tobias Lord, Albert L. McIntire, Lowell; Charles Myrick, Mattawamkeag ; Stephen Inman, David Willett, John H. Jackson, Milford ; Charles O. Gerald, Milton Smith, Joshua S. Otis, Newburg; David L. Boyle, Tobias A. Fernald, Daniel Litchfield, Allen P. McLure, Rodolphus Mills, Benjamin F. Smith, Warren C. Tibbetts, William F. Wheeler, Newport ; James Early, No. 2, Range 6; James H. Clark, William Commier, Moses Grant, David Knox, Isaac Moores, George Richard- son, Alpheus Spaulding; John A. Spaulding, William Spaulding, Charles Willett, Moses C. French, Boardman Davis, Alfred C. Rigby, Albert S. Russ, Alfred R. Varney, Orrin L. Richardson, Orrin P. Richardson, Andrew Cakes, Oldtown; Sylvanus Bragdon, Benjamin King, Orono; Joshua E. Blackwell, Lewis Clement, jr., John Fitz- patrick, Peter Gemo, Joseph C. Hill, Daniel S. Legrow, Erastus Le- grow, Samuel D. Legrow, James E. Parker, Francis Scribner, Martin B. Shaw, Robert Smart, Jethro H. Sweet, John Troop, Joseph E. Clark, Lyman P. Dolloff, Charles B. Heald, William Hackett, Jonathan A. Perry, Henry A. Ricker, Barzilla H. Ricker, William H, Scribner, Daniel W. Sawtelle, Patten ; Awando H. Mitchell, Stacyville; Levi M. Scribner, Charles R. Johnson, Springfield ; Orren Brand, Veazie.

NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.

This regiment was organized at Augusta, September 22, 1861, to serve three years; left September 24th, and arrived at Fortress Monroe, where they formed a portion of General Sherman's expedition for the capture of Port Royal, South Carolina. November 8th the regiment land- ed at Hilton Head. February 7th, 1862, went to Warsaw Island, and on the 21st joined the expedition which cap- tured Fernandina, Florida. Remained at Fernandina until January 17th, 1863, when they returned to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where they did outpost duty until June 24th; then moved to St. Helena Island. On the 4th of July they went to Folly Island, and on the 10th landed on Morris Island, charged and carried the enemy's rifle-pits in front of their works. On the 1 1th they joined in the attack on Fort Wagner, and only fell back when left alone by the other regiments and ordered to retreat. They also formed a part of the assaulting column in the attacks of the 18th of July and on the 6th of Sep- tember. Their casualties in the several assaults on Fort Wagner were over 300 men in killed, wounded, and missing. On the 30th of October they moved to Black Island, and remained there until February 10, 1864; in the meanwhile 416 of the original members re-enlisted for an additional term of three years. On that day they returned to Morris Island, when the re-enlisted men were granted a furlough of thirty days, and proceeded to Maine; the remainder of the regiment continuing there until the 18th of April, when they proceeded to Gloucester Point, Virginia, arriving on the 22d, and where the re-enlisted men rejoined the regiment on the 28th.

On the 4th of May they sailed up the James River, disembarking at Bermuda Landing on the 5th. On the 7th they engaged the enemy at Walthall Junction. On the 17th they engaged the enemy at Drury's Bluff. On the 20th they again engaged the enemy at Bermuda Hundred, losing 9 killed, 39 wounded, and 4 missing. On the Ist of June they participated in the assault on the enemy's works at Cold Harbor, losing in the engage- ment 10 killed, 49 wounded, and 12 missing. On the 23d of June they arrived in front of Petersburg, and on the 30th engaged the enemy, losing 10 killed and 39 wounded; also, on July 30th, losing 7 killed, 34 wounded, and 5 missing. On the 16th and 18th of August they engaged the enemy at Deep Bottom, losing in the en- gagement 8 killed, 38 wounded, and 10 missing. They returned to Petersburg on the 20th, and there remained on duty in the trenches until September 28th. In the meantime, on September 21st, the original members, numbering 158 men, who did not re-enlist, lett the regi- ment for Maine, where they were mustered out and dis- charged the United States service, their term having expired.

On the 29th of September the regiment, numbering 195 enlisted men and 6 officers present, formed a part of the forces which made the assault on Fort Gilmore, and remained doing duty in the trenches at Chapin's Farm until the 26th of October. On the 27th they engaged the enemy at Derbytown Road; casualties 7 killed, 38

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wounded, 3 missing. After further service at Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and other points in North Carolina, the regiment was mustered out at Raleigh, July 13, 1865, and returned to Augusta for payment and discharge.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Surgeon Alden D. Palmer, Orono.

Surgeon Delon H. Abbott, Orono.

Assistant Surgeon Delon H. Abbott, Orono.

Sergeant Major Dutsin P. Dority, Bangor.

Sergeant Major David O. Hoyt, Passadumkeag. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain George W. Brown, Co. C, Newport.

Captain Benjamin J. Hill, Co. D, Stetson.

Ceptain George W. Cummings, Co. I, Bangor.

Captain Scollay D. Baker, Co. I, Bangor.

Captain Billings Brastow, Co. I, Brewer.

Captain Samuel S. Mann, Co. K, Bangor.

First Lieutenant Elton W. Ware, Co. F, Orrington.

First Lieutenant Benjamin J. Hill, Co. H, Stetson.

First Lieutenant Scollay D. Baker, Co. I, Bangor.

First Lieutenant Billings Brastow, Co. I, Brewer.

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History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 33

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co. Number of Pages: 1100

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co.
Number of Pages: 1100