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"It may be said there was no branch of the service in the whole army, unless it be that of the chaplains, which understood and performed its duties so well as the regimental surgeons -- all physicians by profession." -- Count of Paris in "Civil War in America."

Whatever praise is due the medical department of the Twenty-Seventh for faithful and intelligent discharge of duty, should be credited largely to the example and teachings of the first surgeon of the regiment -- Dr. Otis.

Dr. George Alexander Otis, surgeon of the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt. was born at Boston, Nov. 12, 1830. He was educated in letters at Princeton, N. J., and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At the latter place, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine; but continued his medical studies at London and Paris. Upon returning to this country in 1856, he became editor of the Richmond (Va.) "Medical Journal," continuing as such until 1859. He then located at Springfield, Mass., entered into the general practice of medicine, and soon became distinguished for his skill and success in the practice of surgery. When Col. Lee received authority to raise the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt., he knew to whom to look for a surgeon. Results amply proved the wisdom of the choice, for Dr. Otis not only became the surgeon of this regiment, but the surgeon of the war. Surgeon Otis nominally served the

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Twenty-Seventh Regiment until July 20, 1864, but his distinguished fitness caused him to be frequently absent on special duty as medical director or purveyor of North Carolina, surgeon of the steamer "Cosmopolitan" in South Carolina, or medical director at Yorktown, Va., in 1863 and 1864. In the spring of 1864, Surgeon Otis was ordered to Washington, D. C., for examination for the corps of volunteer surgeons. His examination was so brilliant that the surgeon-general assigned him at once to the charge of the "Bureau of Surgical Records" and to the curatorship of the "Army Medical Museum." These positions were held by him until his death, Feb. 23, 1881.

While connected with the Bureau of Surgical Records, Dr. Otis published several important monographs on surgical subjects, the two most important being on "Excision of the Head of the Femur" and "Amputation at the Hip Joint." The work, however, of highest lustre to his name, and which has made him the most celebrated writer on military surgery in all lands is "The Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," in three royal quarto volumes, of about one thousand pages each. Two volumes had been published, and the third was ready for the printers at the time of his death. Surgeon Otis was fitted by education and talents to take the foremost place in the surgical department of the army. Wherever he was, his genius and animating spirit was felt and acknowledged. Not only did he excel as a surgical writer, but so skilful were all of his operations, that he was appointed by Medical Director Church, of the Department of North Carolina, as one of an advisory board of three, to pass upon all cases requiring superior surgery. His education was thorough, his will indomitable, his courage unquestioned, his industry what would be called "the two o'clock of the night kind." He knew the works of Ferguson and Baron Larrey almost by heart. He was accurate in prognosis, definite and perspicuous

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in details; and he despised mediocrity and incompetency.

With subordinates, Surgeon Otis encouraged self-respect, never countermanding their orders, yet seeing to it that any infraction of instructions was corrected by the one responsible. Surgeon Otis was generous to a fault, royal in his likes and dislikes, yet willing to acknowledge an error and to make the honorable amend. Impulsive and intuitive in his perceptions, still he was clear in his directions. He allowed no excuse for mistakes, but if a blunder was not repeated it was never referred to afterward. He remembered only that the end and aim of his profession was the relief of human sufferings.

Dr. George A. Otis was commissioned by Gov. John A. Andrew as surgeon of the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt., Sept. 14, 1861.

Subsequently, he held the following commissions: Assistant surgeon U. S. Vols., June 30, 1864; surgeon U. S. Vols., Aug. 30, 1864; assistant-surgeon and captain U. S. A., Feb. 28, 1866; surgeon and major U. S. A., March 17, 1880. He was also brevetted lieutenant-colonel of U. S. Vols., and later, lieutenant-colonel of the United States Army.

The story of our hospital beginnings is best told by the following letter from Surgeon Otis to the Surgeon-General of Massachusetts: --

"Springfield, Mass., Oct. 5, 1861.

Camp Reed was established on Saturday, September 21st. The following night was cold and rainy; but on Monday, the 23d, the weather was again fair, and, except for a shower on the afternoon of the 26th ult., there has been no interruption of the fine weather until to-day, when we are again annoyed by an easterly wind and occasional rain. Lieut. Col. Lyman has been in command, and has been constantly on the ground, sharing the rations and occupying similar quarters to those of the men. He has shown an intelligent interest in everything concerning the hygienic welfare of the regiment, and has lent a willing ear to all my suggestions on this point. For the first week the force on the ground averaged about

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three hundred; for the last week, from six hundred to seven hundred. Last night I understand there were seven hundred and fifty-two rank and file in the camp. For the first few days after their arrival the men were very subject to slight diarrhoea, and there were some cases aggravated by neglect, but still very amenable to treatment. The men unprovided with flannel were most liable to diarrhoea. In Company F (Westfield), one hundred strong, scarcely a man escaped. I attributed this to the delay in mustering in this company, and procuring suitable under-garments from the quartermaster. On the first day, I pitched three small tents and provided each of them with two bunks, rudely made by the carpenters at work on the ground. Each consisted of two lateral planks, six and a half feet long, six inches wide, connected by slats two feet in length. These, covered with straw and two blankets, made quite comfortable berths.

At the beginning of the second week I was able to exchange the small, ill-ventilated tents for large ones. The number of bunks has been adequate up to the present time. Opposite the intervals of the three hospital tents, I located two tents, -- one for the steward, Mr. Fuller, and one for a dispensary and office. The intervening space was spaded up, rolled hard, swept daily, and patrolled by a regular sentinel, to guard the sick from disturbance.

The sick-list has averaged, daily, five in hospital, thirty at quarters. The surgeon's call has been at nine A.M. daily, at which time the first sergeants have reported at the dispensary, accompanied by their sick. At ten, daily, I have reported to the commander, according to the form in the army regulation. I have also kept a case-book in due form, and notified the quartermaster that I should expect the rations of all hospital patients to be credited to the hospital fund, an arrangement in which he cordially acquiesced. I have had daily a large tray of rice served at the hospital, with abundance of flaxseed tea; and it has been sufficient in a majority of the cases of diarrhoea, to enforce abstinence, rest, and the wearing of flannel, with a single dose of paregoric, chalk mixture, soda mixture, rhubarb or castor oil with laudanum. We have rarely had the diarrhoea patients on our hands more than twenty-four hours. We have commonly had about twenty men daily at our rice dinners. Pie and candy vendors have been excluded from the camp, in obedience to my representations to Col. Lyman.

On the right of the camp was a stagnant pool, two rods wide. I suggested that it should be drained, and the lieutenant-colonel detached one hundred men, who, working in three reliefs, dug a ditch one hundred feet long and six feet deep, emptying the earth from the trench into the upper end of the pool, finally covering over the surface of the pool so that it was a firm marching ground. The ditch was then filled up. The whole operation lasted but two hours. A bathing tent was established on the hillside, and the men have orders to bathe twice a week. The officers

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have made arrangements to provide all the men with towels and combs. I believe that the men are generally attentive to personal cleanliness. Only five have been detected with vermin. They were sequestered in a "lazaretto tent," outside the camp, treated with inunctions and sublimate lotions and soap-suds twice daily till they were thoroughly cleansed. One escaped into camp and was taken back by an armed guard and treated to aloes and jalap in powder.

The police of the camp has been good. The sinks have been daily covered in with earth; the straw and blankets aired, the tents repitched once a week. The kitchens are supplied with drains; and refuse matters left about the tents have elicited a speedy rebuke from the police guard. On the whole, the camp has been healthy and orderly.

During the fortnight we have been in camp, I have spent the nights at my house, half a mile distant. I have reported at from seven to eight and a half A. M., and remained from seven till ten P. M. I have examined over seven hundred recruits.

With much respect, sincerely yours, George A. Otis, Jr., Surg. Twenty-Seventh Regt.

This letter shows a master-hand and a thorough, energetic and progressive man. The medical department consisted of George A. Otis of Springfield, Surgeon; Samuel Camp of Great Barrington, Assistant Surgeon, and George E. Fuller of Wilbraham, Hospital Steward. The hospital was organized with Ransom D. Pratt, Company D, Sunderland, Clerk; William Sanderson, Company I, Annapolis, Md., Apothecary; Warren S. Buxton, Company K, Wilbraham, Commissary; John O'Connors, Company I, Palmer, Cook; with Charles D. Fish, Company A, Easthampton; William H. Moody, Company D, South Hadley; Hiram Spooner, Company F, Southampton; Jabez C. Brown, Company H, Adams, and Charles R. Fay, Company K, Springfield, as Nurses. John King of Company E, Lenox, was the first to serve as a nurse, and he it was who being challenged at night in passing a guard, thrust a bed-pan under the sentinel's nose saying, "Begorra! isn't that countersign enough for ye?" Steward Fuller was the first medical officer to share

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the rations and quarters of the regiment. Hardly a night was passed without calls for relief from cholera morbus and colic, Col Lyman's order probibiting the sale of pies'n things not preventing many of the men from running the guard, and gorging themselves in the city. Most of the time while the regiment remained in the State was passed by this department in constant efforts to avert the dire effects of the pie-eat-y inclination of the men, and to check the tendency to disease from this entirely new mode of life. Colds and bowel-complaints were the prevailing troubles, resulting from sleeping upon the ground with only straw and a rubber blanket separating them therefrom.

The last of September we received our hospital supplies. The stores filled twelve large chests, one of them containing a miniature apothecary shop; two, other medicines in bulk; another, cooking utensils; still another, our mess stores; while the others were filled with sheets, ticks and blankets, sufficient for twelve cots, besides shirts, towels, lint and changes for the use of the sick. There were twelve iron bedsteads, four stretchers, three ambulances, and two two-horse transportation wagons. Surgeon Otis' experience in the hospitals of Europe proved of great value in arranging and equipping our hospital. His success is fully shown in that the organization of the great Base Hospital of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, in the campaign of 1864, was largely entrusted to members of the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Hospital Department. Steward, now Dr. Fuller, is in possession of a letter from the Medical Director of the Army of the James, in which he ascribes much of the efficiency of that hospital to them.

In leaving Springfield, Nov. 2, 1861, we took all our sick with us, including two severe cases of typhoid fever. This Surgeon Otis did, because he thought that any who were left behind would never rejoin the regiment. Before we had accomplished half our journey the surgeon wished he had

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left the severer cases in Springfield. A passenger coach at the rear of the train bearing the regiment was assigned us, in which we endeavored to make our sickest men comfortable upon stretchers placed across the top of the seats. The transferal of our patients and supplies to a steamer at mid of night at Hudson, N. Y., and again to cars at Jersey City, N. J., and the exchanging of cars at Philadelphia, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., was a task severely taxing the strength and endurance of our hospital department, as well as enfeebling and hazardous to our sick. While the regiment was refreshing itself at Cooper's Rooms and waiting for transportation, the ladies of Philadelphia obtained comfortable beds for our invalids and supplied them with delicate and stimulating food. The tender care bestowed by these patriotic women, did much to aid us in reaching Annapolis without serious results to our suffering men. In spite of the severe strain caused by this journey upon our fevered men, all of them recovered after reaching our destination. On arrival at Annapolis, Md., we attempted to get hospital accommodations, but without success until the following afternoon, when we got our sick into the post hospital. A more jaded set of men than the hospital department, when they had completed the transfer of their disabled men, and their supplies, is hard to be imagined.

November was a delightful month, and was attended with very little sickness, but December was dull and stormy. Measles became epidemic in camp and after a cold, raw storm, the cases which came to the hospital took on a very malignant type, and by the men were appropriately called "black measles," quite a number of cases proving fatal.

Upon the embarkation of the regiment with Burnside's Expedition, such of the sick as could bear removal were placed upon the hospital schooner "Recruit," while the more serious cases were left at the Annapolis hospitals. During the month we were storm-tossed at Hatteras we were favored

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as to sickness; vermin, however, abounded, and for them unguentum and sulphur had no terrors. Officers and men were mercilessly overrun, and doughty soldiers who had sworn to shed their blood if necessary to defend their colors, yielded their blood by day and by night to cohorts of lice, with which all were infested. We could not rid ourselves from them until after our arrival at New Berne, where soap and fresh water could be had in abundance. At Roanoke Island, Surgeon Otis and Steward Fuller were detailed upon the gunboat "Ranger" to participate in the naval engagement, while Assistant Surgeon Camp attended the regiment upon the battle-field. The skill, energy, and courage shown by the latter upon that field are worthy of all praise.

The story of New Berne is admirably related in a letter of Surgeon Otis to the Surgeon-General of Massachusetts: --

New Berne, March 28, 1862.
To the Surgeon-General:

Dear Sir, -- I landed at Slocum's Creek on the morning of the 13th with the first boat-load from our regiment, and having waded ashore, I marched (with the hospital department) to the point where we bivouacked. Our regiment, suffering terribly from long confinement on shipboard, turned out only five hundred and fifty men. The Twenty-First had but five hundred; the Twenty-Fifth seven hundred; the Twenty-Fourth mustered full ranks. The two last had enjoyed the privilege of a month ashore at Roanoke Island, and constant practice in drill and march; while our poor fellows were cribbed and cabined three days after Roanoke was taken. Still our stragglers were fewer than from either of the regiments in advance of it. Only five men declared their utter inability to keep up with the weary march. In the morning, about six, the few who could sleep were aroused by a prolonged fusilade. We were presently on the march, and soon came in sight of the long line of entrenchments. The Twenty-Seventh opened fire, quickly followed by the howitzers. About seventy-five yards in the rear of the howitzers, a lane led off at right angles from the road to the right, toward a farmhouse, two hundred yards distant, known as Harrison's House. On the lane, midway between the road and farmhouse, was a cluster of negro quarters. As I passed up the road, my orderly pointed to the farmhouse, where a red flag was floating, and said, "Sir, the doctors are collecting there." I afterwards learned that Dr. Church (medical director), and Drs. Green and Curtis of the Twenty-Fourth, had occupied this house, which was about two hundred

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yards in the rear of the line of the Twenty-Fourth, but that a shell had exploded in the yard, whereupon the medical director ordered them to fall back and establish an ambulance station in the woods, a half-mile further in the rear.

I replied to the orderly, that we would get nearer, and kept on till we came to the guns in position at the head of the road, where my men halted, a rod in rear of the line of battle. I had barely time to call to them, that their position near the battery was too dangerous, when our colonel gave the word, open fire. We hurried over toward the left wing of our regiment, but had hardly passed the centre when the enemy's fire became so heavy that most of my men began to throw themselves on their faces at each discharge of grape, which was poured in at a distance of two hundred and seventy-five yards from a battery of six twelve-pounders, served with great rapidity and accuracy. The stretcher-bearers, however, came up promptly when the first man dropped, a little fellow from Amherst, a true Massachusetts boy (John E. Cushman by name), whose left arm was shattered by grape. He was carried a little way to the rear and across the road, when I stopped to perform the operation. But we found the fire here hotter than at the front, one of my attendants being wounded in the shoulder by a fragment of shell, so Cushman was taken up and carried one hundred yards further, to the cluster of shanties I have mentioned. I amputated at the surgical neck of the humerus as rapidly as I could -- the shanty being struck more than once during the operation. I should perhaps have considered the propriety of moving further off, had not the wounded begun to throng the house before the first operation was finished, and to claim instant attention. I next removed Lieut. Warner's leg, and was engaged in this operation and had sent my assistant, Dr. Camp, to see if the farmhouse was occupied, when Dr. Derby came in with Capt. Sawyer, whose thigh he had just amputated. It was agreed that he should go to the farmhouse, where the wounded were now thronging. Meanwhile Dr. Camp and Dr. Lathrop, of the Eighth Conn., assisted me by attending to the minor injuries of the men outside. The severest cases were taken into the three shanties, or were carried on to the farmhouse, where Dr. Derby was, assisted by Drs. Rice, Batchelder, Upham and Stone; or to the rear, where Drs. Thompson, Green and Curtis were busily engaged.

My friend, Dr. Lathrop, however, had to leave to seek his regiment, which had removed from the reserve to the left, and as Dr. Camp had gone to the field, I was left alone. I did nearly all my operations with the assistance of Hospital Steward Fuller, who showed great firmness, though he had never before witnessed operative procedures under fire.

Sixty-four wounded of the Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fifth Mass., Fourth Rhode Island, the Eleventh Conn., and the naval brigade (which manned the howitzers) were treated at my hospital station. Thirty-one of those that had undergone operations, or were too severely

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wounded to be moved farther, remained alone there. I extracted, or cut out, two grape and three musket balls, and tied the radial artery for a wound above the wrist. There was one case in which amputation at the hip joint might have been practised, the case of James Sullivan, Company G., whose thigh was shockingly mangled by a solid shot; but the surgeons of the First Brigade are convinced that it is wisest not to attempt this procedure. One of our men with compound fracture of the forearm, and one with compound fracture of the tibia, have done well without operative interference. The operations sum up as follows: Amputations of the thigh, one; of leg, two; of arm, four; of forearm, one; total major amputations, eight. Amputations of fingers, or portions of the hand, three. Ball extractions, five. One of my most interesting cases is that of P. Sweeny, of Company C, who probably has a conical ball in the head of the right humerus. After being hit, he walked to a hospital station nearly two miles in the rear, where a cold-water dressing was applied and the arm placed in a sling. The next day he walked back to my hospital at the field. This developed excessive irritative action, and though I was anxious to attempt excision of the head of the bone, I listened to my better judgment and to Dr. Derby's wise counsel, and waited. When we moved the severely wounded to New Berne, four days afterward, Sweeny bore the journey ill, and he is still in a condition in which Dr. Derby and I consider any operation inexpedient. The severely wounded of the First Brigade were brought to New Berne on a steamer, which ran aground, and Derby and I were left in charge of seventy-one wounded, including twenty-one stumps of limbs, for the weariest night I almost ever spent. Dr. Upham had organized a general hospital, and Dr. Kneeland another, and here the wounded were consigned. Derby was put in charge of one and I was detailed to the other; but the immense number of cases in my regiment compelled me to insist on being relieved. I am now in charge of our regimental hospital, which contains, alas! sixty-seven beds. The regiment is encamped on the outskirts of the town. I occupy four pleasant cottages for my hospital; roses and hyacinths bloom around them, and the pure air is rapidly doing its beneficial work on the inmates.

Your very ob't serv't, G. A. Otis, Surg. Twenty-Seventh Regt. Mass Vols.

A few days after the battle our hospital opened in four neat cottages near the Fair Ground, with about seventy-five beds, all occupied, and still not enough to receive all who should have been accommodated with hospital care. There were also nearly two hundred sick in quarters. It will be

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seen, therefore, that the roses and hyacinths, which were in bloom, had few attractions for many of our weary, shipworn men, who, with constitutions seriously impaired by sixty-nine days' confinement on crowded transports, were sadly fitted for a summer's campaign, with the malarial miasms of North Carolina swamps and the diseases incident to a change of climate. As a consequence, typho-malarial fever and chronic diarrhoea prevailed extensively during our first summer South, and kept our hospital crowded and our men hard-worked. Even now, after the lapse of twenty years, the tears dim the eye as we think how often the drum corps and a squad of men with arms reversed came to the hospital to escort a beloved comrade to that most honored place on earth -- a patriot's grave. Fresh fruits and vegetables, and, later, the cool, invigorating air of autumn, brought new life, strength and vigor to our men, in place of the jaundiced countenance and weary shamble which had marked them during the summer. Assistant Surgeon Samuel Camp, who had been with us from the first, and who was popular with the men, a competent physician and surgeon, resigned March 27th, soon after the battle of New Berne, and returned to the practice of his profession in Great Barrington. Dr. Peter Emmet Hubon, of Worcester, was appointed to his place April 15, 1862, and reported for duty April 30. Dr. Hubon won the respect and esteem of the regiment, with which he remained until May 27, 1863, when he was promoted to be surgeon of the Twenty-Eighth Mass. Vols. After the war, Dr. Hubon visited Europe, and, returning, located in Worcester, where he practised his profession until his death, which occurred in 1875.

It was the custom for some time after our arrival at New Berne to give the men every morning a grain of quinine and a table-spoonful of whiskey, as a prophylactic. Our quinine soon gave out, and Dr. Otis ordered the whiskey doubled. No complaints were made on account of this change.

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May 1, Dr. Hubon accompanied the regiment to Bachelor's Creek as the medical officer; but the hospital was retained at the cottages, and the sick were brought in by ambulance. The hospital was maintained at the cottages till we were divided on the 9th of September. They were then given up, but Dr. Otis remained at New Berne as medical director. Dr. Hubon went to Newport Barracks, Dr. Hunt to Washington, and Hospital Steward Fuller to Bachelor's Creek. The last-named station proved healthful. Newport Barracks and Washington were hotbeds of malaria, -- especially Newport Barracks. The sickliest station where any of our regiment was located was Haverlock, near Newport Barracks, where a dam had broken through and a pond emptied, which had been in existence for more than fifty years This pestilential spot would render a whole company hors de combat in a week.

Dr. Franklin L. Hunt went to Little Washington and reported for duty August 15th. He became at once very popular, and was of disposition so amiable that one could not help but be attracted to him. His stay with us was short, for on November 18th he was fired upon by rebels in ambush, and fell, pierced by eleven bullets. Dr. Hunt's funeral was attended at New Berne by the whole medical corps. He was universally lamented.

November 30th, the several detachments of the regiment were ordered to New Berne, and established a hospital in a house opposite to Academy Green and the Academy Green General Hospital. This arrangement was of short duration, as the regiment was soon ordered to the field, and the hospital department accompanied it to Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro. Returning to New Berne we had hardly time to establish a hospital before we were ordered to Washington, N. C. Here we found a post hospital which Dr. Hunt, our lamented second assistant surgeon, had organized, and which, since his untimely death, had been in charge of

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Assistant Surgeon Hubon. This we enlarged, by taking possession of the Grice mansion, and were soon in as elegant quarters as we could ask for. Our wards, -- once magnificent parlors, -- had full-length mirrors and other luxuries not included in the list of supplies of the quartermaster's department.

While here a bakery was constructed, in which we baked the flour furnished by the government, thus saving one-half in the bread ration and increasing by so much our hospital fund. We could draw at stated periods one daily ration for each attendant and patient, but as the sick did not need full rations, only such parts thereof were drawn as were actually required by the sick and the attendants. The difference in value between the number of rations due a hospital and the stores issued to it, constituted a credit with the subsistence department in favor of the hospital. This credit was called the "hospital fund," and furnished the means for supplying the sick with extras needful for their health and comfort. In December, 1863, there was due the hospital $96.39 for four hundred and fifty-nine rations at twenty-one cents per ration, beside a balance of $15.18 from the previous month. We selected from the supplies included in the government ration, salt and fresh beef, flour, potatoes, onions, rice, tea, coffee, sugar and molasses to the amount of $74.83, and purchased at the expense of our fund delicacies to the amount of $15.00. For January, 1864, the cost of apples, lemons, butter, eggs, chickens, tomatoes, milk and oysters amounted to $40.57.

At Washington, malarial and catarrhal diseases abounded during the early winter; later on, these gave way to rheumatism and a few cases of measles. On the 21st of January there were ten sick in hospital and fifty at surgeon's call.

On the 26th, Companies G and H sailed for Plymouth, N. C., and with them went Ashley W. Barrows of Company G, who before joining the regiment had taken a partial course

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of medical lectures, after an experience of several years as a drug clerk. Barrows acted as hospital steward at Plymouth, remaining after the return of Companies G and H, until the town was captured and himself taken a prisoner.

In the opening of the spring, malaria increased, and then came the siege of Washington. Owing to the smallness of our force it was absolutely necessary that every man should be at the front. Rations were insufficient, vegetables were wanting, and very little rest could be obtained; so that at the close of the siege the men came out of the trenches wearied and debilitated by the long mental strain and bodily exposure. When we reached New Berne scurvy began to appear, and the men were utterly unfit for the rapid and exhausting marches to and from Gum Swamp. It was no wonder that men in such a condition, marching over the miry roads and drinking the marshy water from the roadside, should drop in the way by scores, but it was a wonder that any one possessing a spark of humanity could have called these soldiers "white-livered cowards," as our sick were called by the commanding general at this time. This was the same officer who afterward reprimanded the assistant surgeon in charge of the regiment for appropriating a mule-cart and a wagon for the purpose of bringing home the sick who were unable to walk. We were on a raid among guerrillas and these vehicles belonged to one of their leaders.

At Little Washington, during the siege, several cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis had occurred, but after reaching New Berne this disease became epidemic among us. Other diseases increased, especially bowel troubles and malarial fevers with congestive chills; so that we had from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty at sick-call daily.

July 12th the medical staff was strengthened by the arrival of Dr. Curtis E. Munn, just appointed second assistant surgeon, who, with jovial disposition and a happy tact for smoothing over rough places, became a general

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favorite. In August sickness had greatly decreased and the regiment was healthier than at any time since leaving Annapolis. The sanitary condition of the city over which we were acting as provost guard was excellent, owing to the most efficient labors of Capt. A. R. Dennison, street commissioner and member of the board of health. In October, owing to a long storm, coughs, colds and intermittent fever increased, until, when at Newport News, we had a very large sick list. In November the hospital caught fire and many of the regimental records were injured or destroyed. Sickness steadily decreased through November and December till at Norfolk, December 18th, we had only sixteen men on the sick list. In January, 1864, we had five or six men at surgeon's call and only ten in the hospital out of seven hundred and twenty present, and had passed nearly five months with but one death occurring in the regiment. In January and February, 1864, measles and small-pox appeared and we had twenty-four or twenty-five cases of the latter disease, three of which were fatal. One of these three was Corp. Harry R. Blackmer of Athol, Company B, who died January 26th, and whose death was felt to be a great loss to the regiment. Our hospital at Norfolk was located on Catherine Street, and was well equipped. Under the supervision of Steward Fuller and his faithful assistants, our sick received every possible care and attention.

At the beginning of the war, when men, stimulated by patriotism, enlisted from a sense of duty and a desire to serve their country, comparatively few recruits were found unfit for military duty by regimental surgeons; afterwards men, utterly unfit for service, stimulated by large bounties, were accepted by the surgeons at the recruiting stations, and sent to the regiments in the field. Thus, with many valuable recruits sent to the Twenty-Seventh at Newport News and Norfolk, were received many men broken down by old age and disease; men disabled by organic disease of the heart,

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chronic rheumatism, chronic alcoholism, scrofula and even imbecility. Some of these, after being rejected by the regimental surgeon, could not be got rid of. They were at last put upon the rolls, drew their pay, did little or no service, and now have a hope of becoming enrolled in the vast army of pensioners. At Julian's Creek, in April, we had little sickness, and fortunately, for we were without sufficient protection, owing to the want of hospital tents.

May 3, 1864, we landed at Yorktown "in light marching order"; "so light, indeed," as Dr. Munn remarked, "that our hospital equipage consisted of a towel; and would soon be cut down to a pocket-handkerchief." At Bermuda Hundreds, Dr. Fish and Steward Fuller were detailed to the corps hospital; but the former, desiring to stay with the regiment and share its fortunes, begged off from the detail, and Dr. Munn was taken in his place. Neither of these officers returned to the regiment, but remained at the corps hospitals until promoted. Dr. Munn first enlisted from Westfield in December, 1861, as hospital steward of the First Mass. Cavalry. He was promoted to assistant surgeon Twenty-Seventh Mass. July, 1863; surgeon Second Mass. Infantry December, 1864; mustered out July, 1865. Appointed first lieutenant and assistant surgeon U. S. A. November, 1868; promoted captain and assistant surgeon December, 1869. He is now stationed at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and is reputed one of the most skilful surgeons in the army.

It is but just to say that Steward Fuller was the right man in the right place. He was one in whose ability, discretion and trustworthiness the surgeons of the regiment placed implicit confidence. Leaving Amherst College to enlist in the Twenty-Seventh, he gave his whole heart to the work, and under the tuition of Dr. Otis became a model hospital steward. Fertile in expedients, and zealous for the welfare of those entrusted to his care, whatever of necessaries or luxuries were to be had for the sick were soon obtained.

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Under his rule no jealousies or divisions arose among "the hospital crew," but each worked faithfully and cheerfully for the common good. After the expiration of his enlistment in the Twenty-Seventh Mass., Steward Fuller served as a hospital steward in the regular army, at Washington, D. C., where he completed his medical course, and graduated from the Columbia Medical College. He is now in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice at Monson, Mass.

After Steward Fuller's detail, William E. F. Sanderson, of Company I, one of the hospital attendants, was made acting hospital steward, and performed the duties with great acceptance. At Port Walthall Junction, on the 6th of May, the brigade hospital, under Dr. Otis, was at the Mary Dunn house; while the temporary dressings of the wounds of the Twenty-Seventh men were done in a little storehouse halfway down the field towards the battle-ground. The latter place proved to be too far in advance, as it was with difficulty the wounded could be removed before the withdrawal of our forces. The bravest men, when lying wounded and helpless under fire, suffer from dread of further unnecessary hurt. This mistake was committed at New Berne, and at Petersburg on the 18th of June. The only excuse that can be offered for this, is the conviction of its surgeons that with a fair field before it, the progress of the regiment could not be stayed; a conviction so firmly fixed that not even the bloody repulses of Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor were sufficient to impair it.

At Arrowfield Church the wounded were sent to the corps hospital as fast as they fell; while at the close of the day our surgeons did what they could to relieve the sufferings of the enemy's wounded, only desisting for a short time while the enemy were shelling our ambulances. Here William Hopkins of Company D caught a bullet in his eye. This must have been a spent ball that lodged under the lid, and was picked out by one of his comrades. Strange to

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say, this ball did not break the globe, although the injury resulted in the loss of the eye. Our brigade had started out with only one day's rations, and when night came on, our men, hungry and cold, stood at their guns, comforted by the assurance of the commanding general that he could not relieve them, for he must have troops at this point on whom he could rely. The next forenoon, having had scarcely time to taste the scanty rations sent us, we started hastily to the rear, under the impression that Lee was coming down from Richmond, and the Star Brigade was wanted to ward off the impending danger. Owing to such exposure and fatigue, after suffering from heat and exhaustion at Port Walthall on the 7th, our sick list began to increase.

At Drewry's Bluff the hospitals were far to the rear. We succeeded in getting all the wounded into ambulances, and were not far behind the commanding general in his retreat.

While the regiment was engaged, a hurried record of the killed and wounded was made, as fast as the names of the men and character of their wounds could be learned. Owing to frequent changes in position, it would often happen that men of the Twenty-Seventh would be carried to the hospitals of other regiments in the brigade, as they might happen to be nearer, while many of other regiments were cared for in our hospital. After each engagement we endeavored by every means in our power to revise and correct our lists, yet in spite of every precaution many errors were made -- errors in names and dates, in location and character of wounds. Some of these were mistakes in the original entries, others were errors of transcription by hospital and other clerks. This will account in great part for the many errors in the printed records of the casualties of the war. Even many of the wounded now living will be found mistaken as to the date of the reception of their injuries, and whoever undertakes to compile a list of casualties of a veteran regiment, may find that he has killed men

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who are still living, wounded some who never received a scratch, and failed to notice other brave men who gave their lives or suffered grievous wounds in the service of their country.

At Cold Harbor, on the night of June 1st, the hospital department got lost in its vain endeavor to follow the regiment out on picket duty. By the 5th, it had been shelled out of three places in the rear, and had gone to the very front for safety. Two men were killed within a few feet of the first position; shells whistled, screeched and sometimes burst over the second; while they fell with a perfect abandon of recklessness all about the third. Next to the sufferings endured by our men in the rebel prisons may be reckoned the horrors of Cold Harbor. The greater part of our officers and men were gone, many of whom were our best loved and most trusted; the little food we could get, and the water we drank, were tainted with the overpowering odor of the decomposing bodies of our dead. Our little band was steadily melting away, until it seemed that inexorable fate had doomed our regiment to extinction. Here was laid the foundation of many lingering diseases that have done fatal work for our brave boys.

Among the many who fell on this fatal field should be mentioned the name of Hiram Spooner, of Southampton, one of our most faithful hospital attendants, who was at this time with the stretcher corps. On the 2d of June, as he was bravely endeavoring to carry off Carr of Company D, one of our wounded comrades, he fell mortally wounded.

At Petersburg, on the 18th of June, we first settled ourselves behind a low stone wall surrounding a private cemetery, a little to the rear of the "Pace house." As the brigade had gained ground in advance of the rest of the line, we could see the battle raging to our left, and found nothing but our little wall protecting us. The wounded who were brought here had to remain till night, as the ground in our rear was

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swept by the enemy's fire. After this, the hospital was established in a deep ditch, about five hundred yards from the front line of works, and the same from the ravine in the rear, in which the brigade rested; and it remained here forty-six days, or until it was washed out by the flood which swept so many of our troops down into the Appomattox, there to drown, or to be shot by the merciless enemy.

Every alternate two days was spent by the brigade at the front, and as all surgeons in charge of regiments were ordered to visit their commands every morning, those of us who obeyed the order were obliged to run the gauntlet of the enemy's sharpshooters, who continually covered the paths from the ravine to the front with their telescopic rifles. Hardly a day passed but some one was killed or wounded on these paths. Here several of our own boys fell, and here the chaplain of the Twelfth New Hampshire, Thomas L. Ambrose, was mortally wounded while returning from a visit to his regiment. He was a genial, kindly man, devoted to his work, and one we of the hospital had learned to love.

"To correct the popular fallacy that in time of battle the post of the medical officer is one of comparative safety," Dr. Otis, in his "Surgical History of the War," states that of the medical staff of the regular and volunteer forces in the Union army, nineteen were killed in action, thirteen were killed by partisan troops or assassinated by guerrillas or rioters, eight died of wounds received in action, nine died through accidents occurring in line of duty, and seventy-three were wounded in action, making a total of one hundred and twenty-two. The mortuary record, he says, is proportionately larger than that of any other staff corps.

The two days' rest in the ravine was of great service in saving the strength of the men. The summer proved to be unusually hot and dry, for which reason, perhaps, we had little malarial fever, and the season was passed without any great amount of sickness. Still our numbers were steadily

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growing less and what few remained were worn down by constant labor and exposure; so that when September found us back in North Carolina, at Carolina City, it was with thankful hearts that the few who were left of the old regiment drew nearer to each other and enjoyed sweet rest and peace. It was a quiet, pleasant location, and we had many things to make us contented; game was plenty in the woods, and crabs, clams, oysters, melons and sweet potatoes were easily obtained. Above all, we had that rest we so much needed, with only the memory of our great losses to mar our happiness.

While the yellow fever was raging in New Berne we were in fear that it would invade our regiment, but we had only one case -- that of Egbert B. Strong, of Company G. Here we built a log hospital, in which John H. Parker, one of our capable hospital attendants, just promoted to hospital steward, hoped to preside, but when just ready to settle down, we were assigned to another post. We arrived at Beaufort in good health and spirits, and remained so the rest of the year.

On the Hamilton expedition we should have suffered for want of provisions had we not lived upon the country, in compliance with orders. By the time we reached Spring Green Church there had been enough poultry contributed by the inhabitants to furnish every man of us with a chicken. The Twenty-Seventh and the Ninth New Jersey hurried off on their flank march without having time to cook their supper, and the next day our route, as we neared Fort Hamilton, could be traced by the dead fowls that lined the way.

As usual in the spring of the year, fever and ague, rheumatism and other diseases increased, so that our sick-list was large for the number of men we had. After the battle of South-West Creek, before Capt. Nutting with a few detailed men joined us, the regiment consisted of the surgeon, the hospital attendants, and two soldiers -- Wilson of

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G, and Bruce of K, both of whom had been captured with the regiment, but had escaped.

On the 12th of March, Surgeon Fish, having been detailed for the preparation and care of the new division, No. 18, of Foster General Hospital at New Berne, succeeded in taking with him the thirty men then present with the regiment, as patients, to be employed as attendants in the hospital. This "Division 18" was located on the old Fair Grounds, occupying the barracks and a large number of hospital tents. At times our labors were very severe, having at one time thirteen hundred different patients in our division, while at other times there were few in hospital, and we had very little to do. Here we remained until the close of the war.

The Signal Corps.

While in camp at Annapolis, Md., December, 1861, there were detailed from each regiment comprising the Burnside Expedition, two lieutenants and four enlisted men as a signal corps for the expedition. Those detailed from the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt. were Lieuts. William F. Barrett, Greenfield, Company C, and Luther T. Bradley, Lee, Company E; also Privates S. Parkman Janes, Westhampton, Company A; Alonzo Murdock, Northfield, Company B; Henry J. Bardwell, Amherst, Company D; and George H. Rossiter, Great Barrington, Company E. After such drill as the limited time previous to the sailing of the expedition allowed, the signal corps was assigned by squads to the headquarters of the command, including brigades and gunboats. They rendered efficient service at Roanoke and New Berne; and especially at the capture of Fort Macon, where from their stations they directed the fire of our guns or corrected their range when unsatisfactory.

In July, 1862, when Gen'l Burnside was ordered to Virginia, he was accompanied by most of the signal corps.

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The detail from the Twenty-Seventh Regt. was fortunate in being retained with Gen'l Burnside during his connection with the army of the Potomac and also during the famous twenty days siege of Knoxville, Tenn, with its privations and sanguinary strife. While at that place, Lieut. Barrett was complimented by Gen'l Burnside for the promptness with which he opened communication with Colonel Long of Gen'l Sherman's army, who was hastening to the relief of Knoxville.

The inventor of this system of signalling was Gen'l Albert J. Myer, later known as "Old Probabilities." He was born at Newburg, N. Y., 1828; graduated at Hobart College 1847, and at Buffalo Medical College in 1851. He entered the army as an assistant surgeon in 1854, and while on duty in New Mexico under the exigencies of service, devised and put into practice this system of communication. In 1860, upon his foreible presentation of the merits of his system, the position of "Signal Officer of the Army" was created, and Surgeon Myer appointed to fill the office. Upon the opening of hostilities, Major Alexander, educated to this service, joined the Confederate cause, necessitating a change in the code of signals, as well as enforcing watchfulness on the part of the Union signal force to discover their stations and interpret their messages. Until 1863 the signal corps was composed of officers and men detailed from volunteer organizations, but at that time Congress made it a branch of the regular army, with the grade of engineers, and its members were commissioned and mustered into this corps with discharge from their original regiments. Each army corps was furnished with one captain as chief signal officer, and eight lieutenants, seven sergeants, twenty first-class and thirty-four second-class privates, mounted and equipped as cavalry. A "signal kit" consisted of staff, flags, torchcase and torches, half-gallon can of turpentine, and a haversack of wicks, matches and shears. The flags were made of muslin or linen, white with black centre for dark backgrounds, -- as woods or dark buildings, -- black with white centre, for sky or light buildings, and red with white centre for use at sea or mixed background. Three sizes were used, six, four, and two feet square, the four being known as the service flag. The signal staff consisted of four joints, each four feet long, and the length used was governed by the distance to be signalled; usually three joints were sufficient. The flags could be read from five to twenty miles, as the atmosphere favored, a cloudy but otherwise clear day best answering the service. On such a day a message was signalled ten miles with a handkerchief on a twelve-foot pole. The torches for night work were eighteen inches long by one and a half inches in diameter, and

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when signalling with them a second torch was placed at the feet as an axis. The duties of the corps when in motion or adjacent to the enemy were to watch and report their movements from some commanding point to the central station, or, when the forces were encamped, to form a chain of observation and repeating stations. These stations were often at a distance of fifty miles from army headquarters, as when McClellan was at Pleasant Valley. In the movement of detachments, in co-operation, the service was invaluable by reporting the advance, position, and experiences of each column. A notable instance of its value was when Gen'l Sherman signalled from Vining's Station to Kennesaw, from Kennesaw to Allatoona over the heads of Hood's army, instructing Gen'l Corse at Rome to hasten back to the assistance of the Allatoona garrison, and "hold the fort for I am coming." Corse fulfilled the order, and somewhat profanely signalled, after the battle, to Gen'l Sherman, "I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet!" It was from Gen'l Sherman's message to Gen'l Corse the stirring religious refrain was composed by P. P. Bliss --

"Hold the fort, for I am coming."

Doubtless, the perfection of service in "repeating" stations was reached during McClellan's masterly inactivity, in the line from Washington along the Potomac to Harper's Ferry. Upon this line was the famous "tree station," partially represented in the heliotype, built in the top of a chestnut tree sixty feet from the ground. This station was operated by Capts. F. R. Shattuck of Boston and W. W. Rowley of Hartford, who, as a summary of the day's proceedings, improvised the familiar message, "All quiet on the Potomac." Stations wishing to communicate with another would raise their flag (if at night, a torch), the signal officer with field-glass watching the station called, while the flag, or torch, was swung from right to left until the station called responded with two dips to the left. The officer called off the message, while the men signalled it; one or more dips to the right or left, or a combination of both motions, indicated a letter of the alphabet or an abbreviation or contraction of a word or sentence, and each of those motions was designated by a number. For instance -- A was "22," two dips to the left and up to the centre; B, "2112," one dip to the left, over to the right, up to centre, down to right, over to left and up to centre; C, "121," one to right, over to left, back to right and up to centre. Ends of words, sentences or messages were indicated by one, two or three dips to the front. The force became so expert in sending and reading, that a closely written page of foolscap could be signalled in from twenty to thirty minutes. In the presence of the enemy, all important messages were signalled in cipher by the "disc code," which consisted of two card-board wheels, one smaller than the other, revolving on a common centre. On the circumference of the smaller was the alphabet, arranged in irregular sequence, and on the larger the signal numbers indicating the letters. By moving the small

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disc, only, a number might indicate any letter, to interpret which, it was necessary that an understanding existed between the officers as to the key letter and number used. At some stations and fields, where difficult to find suitable elevations for flag service, telegraph lines were maintained by the signal corps; the wire being insulated with rubber covering, and magnetic instruments with ten miles of wire carried on wagons. The wire could be run out rapidly, and was strung on limbs of trees, or on light poles carried for the purpose, or, if in haste, laid upon the ground, and as easily reeled up for removal. Many improvements, suggested by the experiences of the war, have been made in the signal service, including the adoption of the telephone; so that at the time of his death in 1880 Gen'l Myer was better than ever prepared, in the event of war, to render efficient aid to the government with this branch of the army.

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November 2, 1872, the surviving members of the regiment met at the town hall at Northampton, and organized the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regimental Association, in which any honorably discharged member of the regiment may unite, its object being "to sustain the relations cultivated amidst scenes of mutual sufferings and dangers, to keep alive the memory of the fallen, as well as to record in some tangible form the history and services of the regiment."

Under this organization, reunions have been held each year, and efforts have been made to revive and collect its records. For years Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its former chaplain, was elected its historian -- a gentleman every way fitted for the work by education, experience and sympathy -- and it is sincerely to be regretted that he reported in 1879: "My time and attention is so fully occupied I have no reason to think I shall be able to serve you in this capacity." Comrade Lafayette Clapp succeeded him, and unfortunately for us, he, too, was unable to accomplish the work. As a last resort the work was assumed by the writer, with no idea of special fitness, but with the feeling that a regiment which holds the palm in marks of service and suffering over any other regiment which left our State, was entitled to that record. This record is offered to our readers, not in a spirit of invidious comparison with other regiments, but simply in that of the proverb, "Honor to

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whom honor is due." That we bore the heaviest loss from our State is not urged as proof of valor above that of our comrades-in-arms, but as proof that the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt. shrank from no sacrifice to attest its sincere devotion to the State and Union.

The Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt. Association has made persistent effort to secure the name and residence of every surviving member. They report on their rolls to-day four hundred and twenty-seven members, and it is considered possible that the surviving members of the organization, which included fifteen hundred and fifty-seven men during the war, may to-day number five hundred men. It is a sad commentary on the ravages of time; for if this be true and a fair basis from which to reckon, then, of that grand army of two millions and more of loyal men who rushed to their country's defence, one and a half millions have received a final muster from the strifes of earth, and reported above. Statistics corroborate these facts, and in another decade, the veteran will be but "a reserve" waiting to join the command beyond.

In May, 1880, Comrade Charles C. Loud of Northampton, while temporarily at Washington, D. C., discovered the flags wrested from us at Drewry's Bluff, and upon reporting it to the association, its president, Luke Lyman, Esq., of Northampton, and its treasurer, W. P. Derby of Springfield, were appointed a committee to regain possession of them. This committee placed the matter in the care of Hon. George D. Robinson, member of Congress from the Twelfth District, with the circumstances connected with their loss, and a month later, received notice through him of the willingness of the War Department to return the same. They were received by Gen'l H. C. Lee about Jan. 1, 1881, when a call was made for a rally to receive our colors at the Opera House, Springfield, Feb. 22, 1881. It being through the success of our arms this occasion was possible, E. K. Wilcox

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Post 16, Grand Army of the Republic, was invited to join with us, and heartily united in the festivities of the day.

The following notices of the press are gratefully recorded: --

(Republican Notice, Feb. 22, '81.)

It is nearly twenty years since Col. H. C. Lee led a band of nine hundred and eighty gallant men, known as the Twenty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, through the streets of Springfield, on their way to that unknown locality, fraught with so many dark forebodings, "the front." The men, women and children of the city and Western Massachusetts, who saw that march from Camp Reed on the Sixteen Acres road to the depot that November Saturday afternoon, have by no means forgotten it, or the subsequent history of the regiment. But there are very many of our citizens to-day who need an explanation of the pageant which we are to witness in connection with the return of the battle-flags of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment to Springfield, and their lodgement for safe-keeping in the city library. And this explanation must necessarily include an outline of the regimental history.

The tattered flags on which the Music Hall curtain will rise at 12.30 today, once comprised three stands of colors, one national and two state, two of which, a national and a state flag, were the original colors which the regiment carried to the war, and were provided by the Commonwealth. The other banner, bearing the Massachusetts coat of arms on a silk fabric, was presented by the women of Springfield in the early summer of 1862, as a mark of their appreciation of the meritorious services rendered by the regiment in the North Carolina spring campaign, as a part of the Burnside Expedition. All of these colors were captured by the enemy at Drewry's Bluff, Va., on the James River, ten miles below Richmond, on the morning of May 16, 1864, when nine officers and two hundred and thirty-eight men were captured and taken to Richmond, many officers and men being killed or wounded. The regimental organization remained intact, however, till the very end of the war, and another set of flags were issued to it, and were duly returned to the state house on battle-flag day in 1865. The original banners were torn from their staffs by the enemy, folded up and laid away among the Confederate archives at Richmond, and eventually came into the possession of the national government with all the other official belongings of the "lost cause." They were placed in the government building at Washington devoted to the relics of the war, and two of them were casually discovered there last spring by a Northampton

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member of the regiment. Successful application was made for all three through Congressman Robinson, who had some trouble in finding the "ladies' flag," and who deserves much credit for his efforts in behalf of the regiment. Although they are to be deposited in the city library it is with the proviso that they are to remain the property of the regimental association until that becomes extinct, after which they will belong to the city.

(Republican Notice, Feb. 23, '81.)

The business meeting of the regimental association was held at the hall in the morning, presided over by Col. Lyman, and was well attended. The following is the text of the resolutions of thanks to Congressman Robinson: --

Resolved, That we, the surviving members of the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment of Infantry, are by the kindness, courtesy and service of Hon. George D. Robinson, member of Congress for the Twelfth District placed under lasting obligations to him for his successful endeavor to recover for and return to us the colors wrested from us at Drewry's Bluff, May 16, 1864.

Resolved, That we tender to him a soldier's grateful thanks for his disinterested favor thus shown.

Resolved, That we tender him, as a partial estimation of his services, an election as an honorary member of the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment Association.

The stipulations under which the flags are held are carefully drawn, being as follows: --

The surviving members of the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment of Infantry in reunion assembled this 22d day of February, 1881, have voted as follows: That we deposit the battle-flags of this regiment with the city library of Springfield for safe-keeping, with the understanding that when, from any cause, the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment Association shall cease to exist, they shall become the sole and only property of the city of Springfield, to be preserved by them in remembrance of the services and sacrifices of this regiment in defence of the nation.

Sect. 1. Resolved, That these flags are deposited with the city library with the full and distinct understanding and agreement that these colors shall not be removed or used by any one except as hereinafter provided.

Sect. 2. Resolved, That at the annual reunions of the regimental association, the United States flag may be removed, by the color-bearer of the association filing with said library his certificate of election to that office, properly signed by the president and secretary of the association, with also a notice of said reunion, stating both the time and place of said meeting.

Sect. 3. Resolved, That for all other occasions said city library or its chief librarian alone shall be authorized to allow the removal of any or all said flags upon

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the filing of a written application of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment Association approved by the president and secretary of the organization, and also of Gen'l H. C. Lee, if in the judgment of said city library such approval could reasonably be obtained.

Sect. 4. Resolved, That upon application for the removal of any or all such flags as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of said library to require a receipt from said applicant conforming to a prescribed formula.

Sect. 5. Resolved, That whenever requisition for these flags shall be made previous to the day mentioned in the call for the reunion, as filed with said library, unless such request is approved by the president of the association on the certificate of office, it shall be the duty of said library to refuse to honor said application until the appointed day.

The election as an honorary member of our association was accepted by Congressman Robinson. Hon. H. G. Knight has also been elected to honorary membership for distinguished favors during and since the war.

(Republican Notice, Feb. 23, '81.)

The battle-flags of the Twenty-Seventh rest in the city library, along with the tattered banners of the Tenth. They were welcomed back to Springfield right royally yesterday, after twenty years of absence; welcomed with martial music, heartfelt eulogy and an enthusiasm such as only a soldier knows when his eye lights once more on the flag from which he has been separated. There was little of spectacular interest in the scene at Music Hall, in the street parade where the only uniforms were those of the musicians, in the gathering for dinner at the hotel. But there was a deep and lasting sentiment pervading the whole. "Springfield," said Major Brewster, "will be the better for this day; better men will live here because of it." The previously arranged programme was carried out in its entirety. The Grand Army Post escorted the invited guests from the Massasoit House to Music Hall a little after noon, where the regiment were already assembled, together with a good audience of men, women and children. The invited guests and Colt's Band were placed on the stage, behind the curtain. The guests included Mayor Haile, Rev. Washington Gladden, chaplain of the day, and various officers of other regiments residing in this city and other parts of the State.

The curtain rose as the first notes of "The Star-Spangled Banner" came from the band. Lieut. Col. Lyman cried, "Up, comrades, up!" and the regiment sprang to their feet with a three times three which probably contained more volume than anything those walls have ever echoed. Color-Bearer Gage stood in the centre of the stage-front proudly waving the "ladies' flag" of blue, supported on his left by Comrade Manning,

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who was with him at Drewry's Bluff, bearing the white state flag, and on the right by Comrade Place, with the national flag. The latter is tolerably well preserved, but the others are badly rent, the "heart" of the blue flag being almost wholly gone. After the first cheering was over there was a moment of silence, and then the shouts burst out again and were swelled to a louder key when Col. Lee stepped to the front. Indeed, the cries were so vigorous that the colonel said, "Not too much of that, boys, or I shan't be able to say anything." Quiet being restored, he said that it gave him great pleasure to introduce to them some old friends whom they seemed to recognize very well after a long absence from them. They were never surrendered, but were taken away by a force which it was impossible to resist, and they are welcomed back with such feelings as only old soldiers can understand. After Gen'l Lee's remarks the band struck up a medley of familiar airs, beginning with the reveille. When they came to "Marching through Georgia" the soldiers joined in the chorus, and they sang "The Battle-Cry of Freedom" on their feet. Gen'l Lee said that he was very sorry to have to announce that Gen'l Heckman could not be present, regretting that the return of an old disease, contracted at Libby, prevented his coming.

The address of Chaplain C. L. Woodworth, which followed Mr. Gladden's prayer, was about half an hour long, and received the earnest attention which it merited. He told how carefully he watched those colors from the time they first left this city, through many varying battles, holding them next in honor to the cross of the Saviour. "Those years that I spent with you in the army," said he, "made up an intense point in my life. The tendencies toward right thought and action were the strongest then. Somehow, although I have tried to do my duty as it fell to me, the years since then have seemed tame. What tides of memory come floating back on us to-day! Memories of our gallant comrades who never came back, who in their death became the seed of a better history for this republic. These banners mean much more than when we bore them hence. The flag is richer, for it is the flag of humanity. We have melted the chains of the slave. We have made free the men who nursed our sick, buried our dead, helped us to escape from prison. Beneath that flag human nature is ever secure. Nations are glorified by suffering, by a baptism of blood. Neither is there glory to the individual except through suffering." At this point the speaker reminded his audience that the "Mayflower" and the Dutch brig bearing a cargo of slaves came to this country the same year, and that for nearly two and a half centuries the good and the bad seen then sown was allowed to bear its legitimate fruit side by side. "To what better end could we have spent seven or eight billions of money and laid in the grave three hundred and fifty thousand of our best young men than the breaking of the shackles of the slave? We builded better than we knew. But was it worth the cost? Yea, verily, for before we were out of harmony with the law of the universe. We gained personally

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by the war. Would any one of you surrender the memories of those years for any millions that could be offered you? I tell you no! The republic is richer. If those memories could be wholly blotted out and her battle-flags burned, how irretrievable the loss! Year by year we are taking to ourselves five hundred thousand people from the old world. We are the star of hope to humanity. The cost of a redeemed country is none too great. If we do not see the full and adequate reward of our sacrifices now, we shall hereafter."

The exercises at the hall were all over in an hour, and then there was a parade to the library. First came the Hutchins drum band, then the Grand Army, eighty men, Colt's Band, Col. Lee and invited guests, and finally the regiment, some two hundred and fifty men, under the command of Col. Lyman. Mayor Haile stood at the head of the first tier of the library steps, and after the regiment had faced him, the color-bearers carried the flags up the steps, and Col. Lyman in a few brief words handed them over to the mayor, with a copy of the stipulations under which the city are to hold them, imploring him to see that they are well preserved, because the the men before him "dearly loved those tattered rags." The mayor assured him that they would be carefully and tenderly cherished by the city, with other historical archives, "as a memorial to our children and our children's children, long after we have passed away, of the valor and patriotism of the regiment."

We collate the following from a generous two-column notice of the "Springfield Union," Feb. 22, 1881: --

The gallant old Twenty-Seventh Regiment enjoyed in a measure some recompense for its valuable services when the country was in peril, by gathering at Music Hall in this city and receiving again the national and state flags which were wrested from them at Drewry's Bluff under a terrible fire, and virtually at the point of the bayonet.

The day was all that could be desired, the air crisp and bracing, the sun just warm enough to temper the northern breezes, and the sky as clear as a bell. Early in the morning the stars and stripes began to appear upon the roofs of the public buildings and business blocks, and by 10 o'clock a score or more of flags were displayed from the Main Street buildings. D. H. Brigham & Co. exhibited a handsome store front, profusely decorated with flags and shields. Across Main Street from the post-office building a large flag was suspended.

The gathering was one of pleasure, indeed, and the eyes of scores of men looked again upon the flags for the first time since on that eventful day, amid the smoke and rush of battle, the flags were torn from their grasp and disappeared from their view, to be placed among other trophies in the treasury building at Richmond. All of the men who fought under

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the flags that day were not present at to-day's joyful gathering. Many closed their eyes in death on the field or died in rebel prisons. There was not one of the brave men who sat in the hall and gazed at the torn and tattered colors whose eyes did not fill at the remembrance of comrades, tried and true as steel, who lie buried under Southern skies.

At 12.40 the bell struck, and as the curtain passed upward and out of sight of the veterans, there upon the stage stood Color-bearers Gage, Place and Manning, with their colors in their hands. The men rose to their feet with one accord, and cheer upon cheer burst from every throat, the band adding to the general enthusiasm by the Star Spangled Banner. After a time quiet was restored, and Gen'l H. C. Lee, with much emotion, addressed the regiment briefly, saying that he had the pleasure of presenting some old friends which every one seemed to recognize. Years ago, in the camp on the hill in this city, the colors were presented, and the regiment promised to cherish and protect them. These colors were not surrendered, but were wrested from the bearers by sheer force and under circumstances which no one could control. It is gratifying to know that two of the flags are now in the hands of the men from whom they were taken. While the colors are not as beantiful as when they were first presented, they are more sacred to the members of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment. The General closed his remarks amidst vociferous cheers.

(Homestead, Feb. 26, '81.)

It was a faultless day which "old Prob" furnished to welcome, on Tuesday, the veterans of the gallant old Twenty-Seventh Regiment; and though our staid city repressed its old-time emotion, the sun came out with a most expressive smile, and nature, like a modest maiden welcoming her guests, donned a clean "bib and tucker" in the shape of a gauzy robe of snow. It was a day of days to "the boys" as they gathered from far and near to welcome home again those dear old flags, consecrated by the lives of nearly four hundred comrades who had fallen whilst in active service.

It would have amply rewarded any one to have seen the constantly increasing crowd before and within Music Hall exchanging greetings from nine A. M. till nearly one P. M., until at the appointed time, nearly two hundred and fifty stood before the curtain, waiting for it to rise that their eyes once more might rest on those friends of yore.

When the curtain rose, they too arose, and with three times three made that house ring with their glad voices, tears streaming down many a manly face whose forms were now crowned by hoary heads and marks of declining years. Gen'l Lee came forward to address them, and this but excited more uproarious enthusiasm, until he was obliged to say, "Boys, if you

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don't stop this, I shan't be able to say anything," and it did require a very perceptible effort for him to restrain the deep feelings which moved him, as those colors and familiar faces brought to mind the eventful days of service.

Chaplain Woodworth proved himself as much at home as when in the tented field he daily surprised the men in their games of whist by his whole-hearted "Good morning, boys! how are you to-day?" With fitly chosen, though unwritten words, for over half an hour he held his audience to the end.

"There's something out of kilter to-day," said the boys, as they formed in line on Pynchon Street, "it always rains when the Twenty-Seventh moves." The slosh which "old Sol" had made of nature's morning gown was nothing compared with North Carolina and Virginia mud. Escorted by the gallant veterans of our own homes, E. K. Wilcox Post, G. A. R., led by Hutchins' drum corps, they marched to the city library and formally turned over to Mayor Haile those tattered banners, with the request that the city would cherish and preserve them, and right loyally our mayor promised fealty to the trust.

The veterans then repaired to the Haynes Hotel. When the feast was concluded, Secretary W. P. Derby of Springfield read the following letters of regret: --

From Hon. George D. Rodinson, Member of Congress.

The pressure of official duties during the closing days of the present session compels me to deny myself the pleasure of attending the reunion of the veterans of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment on the 22d inst., but I beg you to receive from me, and to express to all your comrades, my grateful appreciation of the honor of your invitation. The old colors, emblematic of the State and the nation, are again in the hands of those who bore them to the bloody fields of battle, in the defence of American civilization and liberty. Shot-pierced and storm-rent, they speak a language beyond the power of words to express. They tell of fatigue, of perils, of death. They bring before you again the forms and faces of those, once your comrades, whose dying eyes closed in a last look at these sacred emblems. They recall the thrilling appeal to heroism and the gladdening cheer of victory. They kindle anon and more intensely the fire of loyalty in every patriot heart. To none can these tattered and blood-stained relics be better entrusted than to those who never permitted them to go down in dishonor, whose valor and devotion contributed to the greatest achievements in American history. Accept for yourself and for those who meet with you my warmest greeting.

From Gen'l C. A. Heckman of Phillipsburg, N. J.

To look upon your recovered treasures, and mingle with the bold and true who so gallantly and snccessfully defended them on many hard contested fields, would indeed afford me great pleasure. But I am, unfortunately, in the condition of the fellow who looked longingly upon the luscious fruit, but could not reach it. I have been confined to the house since October last (my old disease contracted while sojourning

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at the Hotel de Libby), and perforce will have to forego the pleasure it would give. But I will think of you all, as in great joy you once again rally round your colors, covered with marks of heroism. Remember me to the boys.

From Gen'l J. L. Otis of Northampton.

If I am not there, say the very best things you can think of to the boys in my behalf, and then you won't half represent the warm sympathy which I, in common with the whole Tenth Conn. Regiment, feel towards them. Accept my best wishes, that you may have just as good a time as you deserve -- and you can't possibly have anything better.

From Col. A. B. R. Sprague, of Worcester, Twenty-Fifth Mass. Regt.

The friendships formed on the tented field in the day of our nation's peril are lasting. I deeply regret that I cannot embrace the opportunity offered to meet old friends and revive old memories so dear to comrades who marched under the old flag and fought in the cause of God and humanity. I recall the fact that I was a field officer in the same brigade with the Twenty-Seventh when they first met the enemy at Roanoke Island, in the spring of 1862; and, after serving in different fields for more than two years, we met in the field in the same division before Kinston in their last engagement with the enemy, in the spring of 1865.

From Col. Pickett, of Worcester, Twenty-Fifth Mass. Regt.

I expect you will have a grand good time -- and you ought to -- over the recovery of your standard. That was a dirty morning when we were thrown uselessly into the lion's jaws and left to our fate; for, properly supported, we should have whipped those rebel gentlemen out of their boots, and the trouble would have been on the other side.

From Capt. J. L. Skinner, of Sacramento, Cal.

Comrades of the Twenty-Seventh: Although there is a continent between us, and I cannot be present with you in the body on this "jubilee" occasion, I shall be present with you in spirit. I shall think of nothing else "from early morn till dewy eve"; and that I may the more effectually shut out all intruding thoughts I shall confine myself on this day to regular rations of hard-tack and coffee. So, while this letter is being read, you can all think of me in my pleasant home in the "city of the plains" in the wonderful "golden State," engaged in the aforesaid occupation of partaking of hard-tack and coffee, with my thoughts far away with my former comrades-in-arms in the city of Springfield, in the old "Bay State."

Comrades, I love you all, and only regret my inability to be with you. Allow me in closing to present this sentiment: --

The Twenty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers: -- When none are left to have a reunion on this side the river, may we have a reunion on the other side, in the land where time and space are annihilated; and may every comrade of the Twenty-Seventh be present at roll-call.

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From Lieut. E. M. Jillson, of Middletown, O.

Be kind enough to express to my old comrades my heartfelt gratitude that the old colors are where they were first received by the regiment and intrusted to their keeping nearly twenty years ago. The ladies of Springfield must feel gratified that their banner is with the old guard again. Unable to be with you in the flesh, I am with you in spirit; and may the day be one never to be forgotten by those whose sacrifices are shown in its tattered folds.

From Lieut. E. L. Peck, of Westfield.

I regret that I cannot rally with the old Twenty-Seventh boys around our colors on the 22d. I have a renewed interest in them now, as I visited the battle-field of Drewry's Bluff on the 10th of November last and fought the battle over again in memory, standing on the same ground where we stood that morning of May 16th, and where marks of the graves of our fallen are still to be seen. I formed the acquaintance of Lieut. Elliott, Eleventh Virginia Infantry, Kemper's Brigade, which formed a part of the column that charged our front. Together we reviewed the battle, he testifying strongly to the stubborn resistance of Heckman's Brigade against the successive charges made by his division on our line, and to the terrible effect of our fire on the ranks of the brave Virginians in our front. I tried to trace the route taken by the few of us who were fortunate enough to escape capture that morning; but I doubt if any of the party, who skedaddled so neatly through that swamp, took pains to notice any landmarks. We were endeavoring to "preserve the Twenty-Seventh," and each man did his utmost to preserve his individual part of it!

Please say to the boys that my heart is with them on this occasion, and always. I trust our friendship for each other may grow stronger until there is nothing left of the Twenty-Seventh but the Old Flag.

After the letters had been read, Col. Shurtleff, of the Forty-Sixth, was called to speak. He pointed out the fact that the Drewry's Bluff struggle was a gallant one on both sides, and remarked that the hearts of the soldiers on both sides reach out toward each other to-day, and those of the whole American people beat as one, if politicians and demagogues will only let them alone. And they are coming to repudiate any interference that keeps them apart. These sentiments were vigorously applauded. Col. Shurtleff spoke very pleasantly of his association with the Twenty-Seventh in North Carolina. Rev. Washington Gladden spoke of the death of a brother at the battle of Cold Harbor, and of the blessed heritage the sacrifice of that life is proving to him and his children. Capt. Dwight spoke very feelingly, and received great applause. He said that the soldiers of the war secured for themselves a grander monument than was ever cut in marble -- the United States of America. He was glad that since 1865 each president elected had been a veteran soldier. He would rather trust the country in the hands of the soldier than the politician. He made a touching allusion to the recent death of Adjt. J. W. Holmes, and mentioned the fact that the first use made of the recovered national flag was to place it as a drapery about his coffin.

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Loud cries for "Col. Luke" failed to bring any response from Col. Lyman except that he said he was ready to do any work for the Twenty-Seventh, but was not a talker and would not make a fool of himself that way. Color-Bearer Gage spoke briefly, saying that he had given up his flag to the mayor with much greater pleasure than when he gave it up on a previous occasion. He was still ready to do a soldier's duty, but he had learned that an enlisted man was expected to work and not to talk. Col. Whelden of Pittsfield testified that the Twenty-Seventh was the best regiment for provost duty he ever knew, and that when he was marshal of Norfolk seventeen men and a sergeant from that regiment kept a population of forty thousand as quiet as any New England city. Commander Smith spoke for Wilcox Post, J. W. Hersey for the Tenth Mass., Maj. H. M. Brewster for the Fifty-Seventh New York and Judge Wells for the Forty-Sixth.

A regiment with such associations cannot, in loyalty to itself and to its martyred dead, be otherwise than patriotic and law-abiding citizens.

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"They live, the fallen live, though ages fly;
God made the right eternal, its defenders never die."

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Our Government has taken up the bodies of the Union soldiers and buried them in National cemeteries, convenient to the place of their original burial. Comrades buried in North Carolina have been removed to New Berne; hence, numbers against the names of those who died in that State refer to the New Berne National Cemetery. Where no numbers appear, it will be understood that at the time of the removal, the bodies could not be identified. In other States, where bodies have been removed, the cemetery in which they have been buried, if known, is noted. The dates of death are those upon the headstones at the graves, and of our Hospital Record, and if differing from the Adjutant-General's record, it is stated under "Remarks." Upon some of the headstones the inscriptions are in error, while upon others the name is incomplete. Such facts are noted opposite the name, i. e., Insc. H-- S--, or Insc. -- Howard.

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        |                     |                   |               |Cemetery|       |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |   No.  |Section| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|--------|-------|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |        |       |     |
Maj.    | Walker, William A., |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  | See page 322.
A. Surg.| Hunt, Franklin L.,  |Washington, N. C., | Nov. 18, '62, |    -   |   -   |  -  | Body sent home.
Capt.   | Hubbard, Henry A.,  |Croatan S'nd, N. C.| Feb. 12, '62, |    -   |   -   |  -  | Body sent home.
Capt.   | Sanford, Charles D.,|Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  | Body not recovered.
Capt.   | Wilcox, Edward K.,  |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  |
1st Lt. | Goodale, Cyrus W.,  |Beaufort, N. C.,   | Oct. 30, '62, |  1535  |   9   | 19  |
1st Lt. | Lee, Edward D.,     |Portsmouth, Va.,   | April 17, '64,|    -   |   -   |  -  | Body sent home.
1st Lt. | Wood, Pliny,        |Hampton, Va.,      | May 31, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  | Buried at Hampton, Va.
1st Lt. | Wright, Frederick C.|Arlington, Va.,    | June 27, '64, |    -   |   -   |  -  | Body sent home.
2d Lt.  | Coombs, Edgar H.,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 4, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  |
2d Lt.  | Lawton, Joseph W.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62,|    -   |   -   |  -  |
2d Lt.  | Morse, Samuel C.,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |    -   |   -   |  -  |
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COMPANY "A."

        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Brady, Thomas C.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 11, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3178| Insc. F. Brady Co. F.
Pri.    | Buchanan, John,     |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 4, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 7758|
Corpl.  | Clark, Alvin W.,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 30, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - |10099|
Pri.    | Clark, Oliver A.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| June 27, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Dickinson, Henry,   |Charleston, S. C., | Oct. -- '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | See page 403.
Pri.    | Donovan, John,      |Blackshire, Ga.,   | Dec. 13, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Frey, Frederick,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3848| Insc. Patrick Fray.
Pri.    | Hernsworth, Freder'k|Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 3, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 7626|
Sergt.  | Kenney, Abel C.,    |Blackshire, Ga.,   | Dec. 10, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | See page 404.
Pri.    | Klisner, Frederick, |Andersonville, Ga.,| March 25, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - |12813| Insc.-- --K.Co. A.
Pri.    | McCaffrey, John,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 4, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 7823|

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Pri.    | Meir, Albert,       |Millen, Ga.,       | Oct. 20, '64, |   A   |   -    |  - |  45 |
Pri.    | Raftis, Richard,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 20, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - | 9349|
Pri.    | Robinson, Rufus C., |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 23, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3833|
Pri.    | Russell, Francis G.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| July 17, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3455|
Pri.    | Russell, Warren E., |Millen, Ga.,       | Oct -- '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Smith, Thomas F.,   |Annapolis, Md.,    | Nov. 28, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 1414| Returned prisoner.
Pri.    | Spooner, Ezra O.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 14, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 5600| Insc. -- U. Spooner.
Pri.    | Stone, Frederick P.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| Jan. 9, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |12420|
Pri.    | Taylor, Brainard E.,|Danville, Va.,     | April 17, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - | 1082|
Pri.    | Thayer, James F.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 23, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3812|
Pri.    | Birge, Joseph A.,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | July 25, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Cahil, Andrew,      |New Berne, N. C.,  | Sept. 5, '62, |   -   |  1532  |  9 |  16 | Adjt. Gen'l, Sept. 15.
Pri.    | Canfield, Robert,   |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 23, '62, |   -   |  1818  | 10 |  14 | Adjt. Gen'l, 1863.
Pri.    | Dunning, Samuel A., |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62,|   -   |  1854  | 10 | 150 |
Pri.    | Hathaway, Martin,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 24, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hayden, Edward,     |Roanoke Island, NC.| March 4, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Holbrook, Albert,   |Trenton, N. J.,    | June 13, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Killed on cars.
Corpl.  | Jassiman, Freder'k F|White H. L'd'g, Va.| June 8, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Knight, Nelson,     |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 3, '62,  |   -   |  1778  | 10 |  74 |
Corpl.  | Kingsley, Zenas M., |Schr. Recruit,     | March 15, '62,|       |        |    |  -  | Sent home. Adj. Gen., Nov. 15.
Pri.    | Loomis, Luther J.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 1, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Lyman, Elisha C.,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | Dec. 27, '62, |   -   |  1582  |  9 |  66 | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Lyman, Henry,       |New Berne, N. C.,  | Aug. 5, '63,  |   -   |  1859  | 10 | 156 | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Moran, Henry O.,    |Northampton, Mass.,| July 4, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Newman, William W., |Schr. Recruit,     | March 17, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Adjt. Gen'l Nov. 18.
Pri.    | North, John M.,     |City Point, Va.,   | May 11, '64,  |   F   | 1 Div. |  - |  50 |
Sergt.  | O'Connell, *,       |So. West Creek, NC.| March 8, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Pierce, George A.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | Sept. 2, '63, |   -   |  1550  |  9 |  34 |
Corpl.  | Quinn, Frank,       |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 1, '62,  |   -   |  1894  | 10 | 190 | Adjt. Gen'l, Jan. 1. Drowned.
Sergt.  | Senter, William H., |New Berne, N. C.,  | Sept. 15, '63,|   -   |  1549  |  9 |  33 | Insc. -- George H. Centre.
Pri.    | Smith, Lafayette,   |Portsmouth, Va.,   | July 13, '64, |   A   |  row 9 |  - |  14 | Hampton Cemetery.
Pri.    | Stevens, George,    |Kd. Walthall Junctn| May 6, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Corpl.  | Strong, Henry W.,   |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 17, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Thorp, Rinaldo C.,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 29, '61, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Thrall, Julius A.,  |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 21, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

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        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Blair, David,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 28, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3973|
Pri.    | Bliss, John T.,     |       -           |      -        |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Bolles, John,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 10, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Brizzee, John W.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 15, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Davis, Charles,     |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 20, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - | 9421|
Pri.    | Dresser, George S., |       -           |      -        |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Galer, Theodore E., |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 2787|
Pri.    | Howe, John W.,      |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3871|
Pri.    | Hollenbeck, *,      |       -           |      -        |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Oliver, Sylvanus E. |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 4640|
Sergt.  | Rankin, Mark,       |Millen, Ga.,       | Nov. 11, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Rich, Samuel,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 29, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 4233|
Pri.    | Tilden, Asa,        |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 23, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6549|
Pri.    | Woodard, Wesley A., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 23, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6564|
Pri.    | Wright, Charles E., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 21, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6368|
Corpl.  | Blackmer, Harry R., |Norfolk, Va.,      | Jan. 26, '64, |   A   | row 17 |  - |  1  | Hampton Cemetery.
Pri.    | Burgess, John R.,   |Annapolis, Md.,    | April 21, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Cushing, Miles S.,  |Beaufort, N. C.,   | July 28, '62, |   -   |  1730  | 10 |  26 |
Pri.    | Dodge, George H.,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 6, '64,  |   D   |   -    |  - |  47 |
Pri.    | Drake, Joseph,      |New Berne, N. C.,  | Mch. 14, '62, |   -   |  1814  | 10 | 110 | Insc. T. B. Blake.
Pri.    | Gilmore, John W.,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | Apr. 12, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Adjt. Gen'l, April 30.
Pri.    | Hill, William,      |Roanoke Isl'd, NC.,| Feb. 8, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hodge, James S.,    |Springfield, Mass.,| Sept. 20, '63,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Killed by cars.
Pri.    | Huse, Hiram M.,     |Norfolk, Va.,      | Feb. 26, '64, |   A   | row 16 |  - |  8  | Hampton Cemetery.
Pri.    | Jillson, Leander L.,|Roanoke Isl'd, N.C.| Feb. 24, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Lamere, Francis H., |New Berne, N. C.,  | Nov. 13, '62, |   -   |  1535  |  9 |  19 | Grave marked unknown.
Corpl.  | McClellan, Horatio W|Philadelphia, Pa., | June 21, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 1234| Adjt. Gen'l, June 2.
Pri.    | McGowan, Patrick,   |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 28, '61, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Oaks, H. William,   |Hatteras Inlet, NC.| Jan'y 21, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Buried at sea.
Pri.    | Powers, Isaac,      |Washington, N. C., | Apr. 8, '63,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

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Pri.    | Reynolds, Charles,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 27, '61, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Robbins, Harvey,    |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 29, '63, |   -   |  1553  |  9 |  37 | Insc. Isaac.
Pri.    | Sprague, William H.,|Royalston, Mass.,  | May 10, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Stone, William,     |New Berne, N. C.,  | Feb. 2, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Thrower, Robert W.  |New Berne, N. C.,  | Mch. 31, '62, |   -   |  1548  |  9 |  32 |
Corpl.  | Twitchell, *,       |Arrowfield Ch., Va.| May 9, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Wheeler, Charles W.,|Arrowfield Ch, Va.,| May 9, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Wood, Nelson G.,    |Arrowfield Ch., Va.| May 9, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

[* Nathaniel B.]

Pri.    | Ball, Daniel E.,    |Charleston, S. C., | Oct. 5, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Blair, Joseph W.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 13, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3337|
Pri.    | Bradburn, George W.,|Andersonville, Ga.,|      -        |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Britt, Oscar C.,    |Florence, S. C.,   | Dec. 1, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Drury, Lewis A.,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 26, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6883| Insc. Drewrey.
Pri.    | Elder, William R.,  |Florence, S. C.,   |      -        |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Emmons, Chauncey L.,|Millen, Ga.,       | Nov. --, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hitchcock, James C.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 19, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - | 9223|
Pri.    | Howard, Charles T., |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 31, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Returned prisoner.
Pri.    | Merritt, Mahlon M., |Andersonville, Ga.,| June 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Murphy, Patrick,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Mar. 15, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |12783| Insc. March 15, 1864.
Pri.    | Packard, Merrick A.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 11, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 5340| Insc. M. M.
Pri.    | Phipps, Mayhew M.,  |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 5, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 4763|
Pri.    | Richards, Joseph,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 11, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3156|
Pri.    | Ripley, Brigham S., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 21, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Taylor, George W.,  |       *           | May 31, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | While escaping.
Pri.    | Witherell, Andrew M.|Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6213| Insc. O. Witherell, 47th Mass.
Pri.    | Woffenden, John W., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 15, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Wright, Merritt E., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6288|
Pri.    | Amsden, Thomas O.,  |Beaufort, N. C.,   | Sept. 23, '62,|   -   |  1847  | 10 | 143 | Insc. Co. B.
Pri.    | Baker, Peter F.,    |Annapolis, Md.,    | Feb. 4, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Beach, David M.,    |Washington, N. C., | Mar. 6, '63,  |   -   |  1775  | 10 |  71 |
Corpl.  | Brizzee, Levi W.,   |Montague, Mass,    | April 15, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | While on parole.
Pri.    | Brown, Frank C.,    |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 8, '62,  |   -   |  1780  | 10 |  76 | Insc. Francis.

[* Kd. near And'v'le, Ga.]

        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Carter, Dennis C.,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 27, '61, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Adjt. Gen'l, 1862.
Pri.    | Collins, Philip C., |Washington, N.C.,  | Oct. 31, '62, |   -   |  1783  | 10 |  79 |
Pri.    | Davis, James J. P., |Pt. Lookout, Md.,  | June 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  95 | Insc. J. C. Davis.
Pri.    | Fisher, Henry,      |Hampton, Va.,      | Mar. 19, '65, |   D   | row 21 |  - |  19 | Insc. Co. E.
Pri.    | Gifford, Henry A.,  |Readville, Mass.,  | July 12, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Last death. Adjt. Gen'l, Ga.
Pri.    | Gray, Amos W.,      |Washington, N. C., | Dec. 4, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Harris, Aaron N.,   |Schr. Recruit,     | Mar. 13, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Johnson, Henry H.,  |City Point, Va.,   | May 17, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Insc. H. W.
Pri.    | Johnson, James S.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 5, '63,  |   -   |  1561  |  9 |  45 |
Pri.    | Jones, Capus,       |Norfolk, Va.,      | Feb. 13, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Colored cook.
Pri.    | Jones, Frank W.,    |Beaufort, N. C.,   | Dec. 9, '64,  |   -   |  1828  | 10 | 124 |
Pri.    | Lawson, Chauncey N.,|Baltimore, Md.,    | Sept. 15, '64,|   *   |   *    |  * | 744 | Insc. Chancel.
Sergt.  | Longley, Edmund,    |New York City,     | Sept. 19, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Sergt.  | Mantor, Alfred L.,  |Walthall Jc., Va., | May 6, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Mantor, Francis W., |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 2, '62,  |   -   |  1908  | 10 | 204 |
Corpl.  | Mowry, David C.,    |Washington, N. C., | Oct. 10, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | O'Connor, Michael,  |So. West Cr'k, N.C.| Mar. 8, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Packard, Horace C., |New Berne, N. C.,  | July 6, '63,  |   -   |  1552  |  9 |  36 |
Pri.    | Quinn, John,        |Pt. Lookout, Md.,  | July 4, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 326 |
Pri.    | Rice, Jacob,        |Washington, N. C., | Jan. 9, '63,  |   -   |  1907  | 10 | 203 |
Pri.    | Richards, John,     |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 9, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Richardson, John J.,|Washington, N. C., | Oct. 13, '62, |   -   |  1777  | 10 |  73 |
Pri.    | Ryther, Henry A.,   |Petersburg, Va.,   | Aug. 19, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 1420|
Pri.    | Seymour, Lewis,     |Washington, N. C., | Jan. 29, '63, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Stevens, Alvin E.,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 3, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Stevens, William D.,|Bark Guerrilla,    | Jan. 29, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Sweeney, Patrick,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 4, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Taft, Manton E.,    |Washington, N. C., | Mar. 18, '63, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Terry, Aaron A.,    |Hampton, Va.,      | May 28, '64,  |   C   | row 8  |  - |  9  |
Pri.    | Waite, Arthur A.,   |Portsmouth, N.C.,  | Jan. 27, '63, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

[* Loudan Park Cem.]

Pri.    | Collins, Charles R.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6714|
Pri.    | Kelsey, Ezra,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6275|
Pri.    | Smith, Charles A.,  |Andersonville, Ga.,| Oct. 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |10256| Insc. Co. C.
Pri.    | Amadon, Henry M.,   |City Point, Va.,   | Aug. 26, '64, |   D   | Div. 4 |  - | 127 | Insc. H. D.
Pri.    | Baker, Charles K.,  |Amherst, Mass.,    | April 7, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Barrett, Dwight,    |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Bolio, Levi M.,     |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Carr, Watson E.,    |Arlington, Va.,    | Oct. 7, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Buried in Arlington Cem'y.
Pri.    | Chapin, Samuel A.,  |Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Cole, James O.,     |Beaufort, N. C.,   | Nov. 14, '62, |   -   |  1770  | 10 |  66 | Insc. J. C.
Corpl.  | Cook, Rufus A.,     |New Berne, N. C.,  | Feb. 25, '63, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Insc. April 7, 1862.
Pri.    | Cowles, Marshall,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 18, '65, |   -   |  1517  |  9 |  1  |
Pri.    | Cowles, Rollin,     |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  32 |
Pri.    | Cowles, Silas,      |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 16, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Cutter, Ptolemy P., |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 5, '64,  |   -   | Div. C |  - |  33 |
Pri.    | Draper, George A.   |Hampton, Va.,      | July 23, '64, |   E   | row 15 |  - |  20 |
Pri.    | Dunakin, Henry,     |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Ferry, Elliott P.,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 5, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Frary, Thomas,      |Morehead City, N.C.| Nov. 6, '64,  |   -   |  1731  | 10 |  27 | Insc. T. Franzy.
Pri.    | Grover, Joseph,     |Newport, N. C.,    | Nov. 3, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hall, David I.,     |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 24, '63, |   -   |  1554  |  9 |  38 |
Corpl.  | Haskins, James D.,  |Portsm'th Grove, RI| Sept. 26, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hervey, Eugene B.,  |Pt. Lookout, Md.,  | July 12, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 171 |
Pri.    | Howard, Daniel S.,  |Portsmouth, Va.,   | April 1, '64, |   A   | row 13 |  - |  3  | Hampton Cemetery.
Pri.    | Howard, Henry E.,   |New Berne, N. C.,  | July 21, '62, |   -   |  1750  | 10 |  46 | Insc. -- Howard April 24.
Pri.    | Jockett, Alonzo D., |New Berne, N. C.,  | Oct. 18, '64, |   -   |  1542  |  9 |  26 | Adjt. Gen'l, Oct. 10.
Pri.    | Latham, William W., |Petersburg, Va.,   | July 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Manley, Alfred E.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | Jan. 6, '63,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Manley, Edward W.,  |Washington, N. C., | Feb. 21, '63, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Discharged, but too late.
Pri.    | Manley, Nathaniel F.|Hampton, Va.,      | June 3, '64,  |   C   | row 7  |  - |  22 |
Pri.    | Marsh, Ephraim, Jr.,|Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Montague, James H., |Newbern, N. C.,    | July 10, '62, |   -   |  1539  |  9 |  23 | Insc. J. R.
Pri.    | Mullett, Charles D.,|Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Olds, Madison R.,   |Morehead City, N.C.| Jan. 20, '65, |   -   |  1771  | 10 |  67 |

        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Potter, E. Henry,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Prior, Frederick S.,|Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Russell, John F.,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Adjt. Gen'l, June 21.
Pri.    | Sears, Arthur,      |Amherst, Mass.,    | June 22, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Skinner, Lyman W.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 1, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Smith, Frank D.,    |Beaufort, N. C.,   | Oct. 31, '62, |   -   |  1851  | 10 | 147 |
Pri.    | Spear, James W.,    |Petersburg, Va.,   | July 6, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Stewart, Jarvis W., |New Berne, N. C.,  | May 4, '63,   |   -   |  1523  |  9 |  7  |

Sergt.  | Cowles, Joseph H.,  |Millen, Ga.,       | Nov. 22, '64, |   A   |   -    |  - | 139 |
Pri.    | Dolan, Hugh,        |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 1, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | A returned prisoner.
Sergt.  | Monnier, Wm. H.,    |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 4, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | A returned prisoner.
Pri.    | Martin, George A.,  |Danville, Va.,     | April 24, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - | 695 | Adjt. Gen'l, April 28.
Pri.    | Scott, Jonas,       |Richmond, Va.,     | June 7, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 2632|
Pri.    | Williams, James,    |Richmond, Va.,     | June 4, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 3349|
Pri.    | Baker, Rodolphus L.,|Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Benedict, George H.,|Morehead City, N.C.| Nov. 6, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Bentley, James S.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | Sept. 4, '62, |   -   |  1534  |  9 |  18 |
Pri.    | Bowker, Luke F.,    |City Point, Va.,   | July 17, '64, |   D   | Div. 4 |  - | 140|
Sergt.  | Brewer, George W.   |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Comstock, Gilbert C.|New Berne, N. C.,  | Nov. 18, '62, |   -   |  1527  | 11 |  9  |
Pri.    | Davis, Charles H.,  |Hampton, Va.,      | July 3, '64,  |   E   | row 18 |  - |  26 | Adjt. Gen'l, killed June 18.
Pri.    | Duncan, George,     |Roanoke Island, NC.| May 13, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Dwyer, William,     |Washington, N. C., | April 27, '63,|   -   |  1820  | 10 | 116 | Adjt. Gen'l, April 23.

Pri.    | Glover, Henry,      |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hamlin, James M.,   |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 7, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Drowned.
Pri.    | Hecox, William,     |Cheshire, Mass.,   | April 1, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hewitt, John H.,    |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | July 12, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hull, John V.,      |New Berne, N. C.,  | Nov. 11, '62, |   -   |  1531  |  9 |  15 |
Pri.    | Jackson, Edward A., |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62 |   -   |  1774  | 10 |  70 |
Sergt.  | Merry, Willard L.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 19, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Insc. Willard A.
Pri.    | Searl, Henry,       |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 28, '65,|   -   |  1591  |  9 |  75 | Insc. Henry B.
Pri.    | Sheffield, Hiram,   |Roanoke Island, NC.| Feb. 19, '62, |   -   |  1469  |  8 | 149 | Insc. H.--S. -- Feb. 27, 1863.
Pri.    | Thompson, James E., |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Turney, Thomas J.,  |Lee, Mass.,        | Feb. 15, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Tymeson, William M.,|Drewry's Bluff,    | May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.

Pri.    | Dorflin, John,      |Richmond, Va.,     | May 22, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 852 | Insc. 27 Maine.
Pri.    | Howe, Chauncey P.,  |Jeff. Barracks, Ky.| April 19, '65,|   -   |   -    | 45 | 204 | Adjt. Gen'l, Md.
Sergt.  | Holcomb, Chauncey,  |Richmond, Va.,     | June 6, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 1461| Adjt. Gen'l, May 22.
Pri.    | Liswell, Seth,      |Andersonville, Ga.,| Jan. 8, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |12413|
Pri.    | Woodruff, Proctor,  |Danville, Va.,     | April 28, '65,|   -   |   -    |  - | 890 | Insc. W. Proctor.
Pri.    | Andrus, Luman,      |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 4, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Anthony, Mark,      |New Berne, N. C.,  | Feb. 27, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Colored cook.
Pri.    | Baldwin, Charles E.,|New Berne, N. C.,  | Sept. 4, '62, |   -   |  1524  |  8 |  9  |
Pri.    | Beach, William H.,  |Washington, N. C., | March 13, '63,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Brewer, Charles C., |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Brewer, John W.,    |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Cavanaugh, Michael, |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 7, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Drowned.
Pri.    | Clark, Levi,        |Roanoke Island, NC.| Feb. 8, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Cook, Erastus L.,   |Roanoke Island, NC.| Feb. 17, '62, |   -   |  1816  | 10 | 112 | Insc. Co. E.
Pri.    | Cornwell, Homer P., |New Berne, N. C.,  | June 15, '65, |   -   |  1557  |  9 |  41 |
Pri.    | Cowles, Emerson J., |Arlington, Va.,    | June 27, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Insc. E. J. Coles.
Pri.    | DeForrest, Harvey,  |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Doyle, Joseph,      |Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Corpl.  | Eggleston, Charles T|Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Fuller, Louis H.,   |So. West Cre'k, NC.| March 8, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Gibson, Lorenzo D., |Goldsboro, N. C.,  | Dec. 17, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | See battle of Goldsboro.
Pri.    | Godditt, Joseph,    |Hampton, Va.,      | June 15, '64, |   E   | row 1  |  - |  45 | Adjt. Gen'l, June 27.
Corpl.  | Hale, George M.,    |Roanoke Island, NC.| Feb. 8, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Hibbert, Franklin M.|Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Holcomb, Franklin,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Dec. 25, '61, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body sent home.
Pri.    | Marshal, Lyman M.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62,|   -   |  1410  |  8 |  91 |
Pri.    | Oaks, Leroy S.,     |Petersburg, Va.,   | June 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Phillips, George W.,|So West Cre'k. NC.,| March 8, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Pomroy, Daniel B.,  |Arlington, Va.,    | July 26, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Richards, Reuben A.,|Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Roberts, Joseph W., |Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Rowley, John,       |Core Creek, N. C., | May 23, '63,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Searle, Charles H., |Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Soule, William C.,  |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Spooner, Hiram,     |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 2, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Vaille, Luther P.,  |Drewry's Bluff, Va.| May 16, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Walker, Henry,      |Hampton, Va.,      | Aug. 3, '64,  |   E   | row 17 |  - |  45 | Insc. Hiram M.
Corpl.  | Weiser, Hiram H.,   |Hampton, Va.,      | Aug. 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Wing, Julian A.,    |Chalamette, La.,   | Oct. 24, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | There by mistake.
Pri.    | Woodworth, Leander, |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 14, '62,|   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Wright, Gustavus A.,|New Berne, N. C.,  | Aug. 20, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |

Pri.    | Boice, George A.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 10, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - | 8338|
Pri.    | Cavanaugh, Michael, |Millen, Ga.,       | Nov. 5, '64,  |   B   |   -    |  - | 137 |
Pri.    | Kellogg, Edward G., |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 21, '64,|   -   |   -    |  - | 9467| Adjt. Gen'l, Aug. 1.

Pri.    | Patridge, William W.|Millen, Ga.,       | Oct. 16, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Pratt, Charles S.,  |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 2, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 347 |
Pri.    | Smith, Edwin,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| Jan. 21, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - |12499|
Pri.    | Splane, Michael,    |Annapolis, Md.,    | Jan. 31, '65, |   -   |   -    |  - | 380 |
Sergt.  | Wight, William Q.,  |Millen, Ga.,       | Nov. 20, '64, |   A   |   -    |  - | 184 |
Pri.    | Wilbur, Eleazar,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6715|
Pri.    | Williams, Charles,  |Andersonville, Ga.,| Aug. 24, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 6661|
Pri.    | Bardwell, Henry C., |Roanoke Island, NC.| Feb. 8, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Chapin, Irvin W.,   |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Cone, Cornelius,    |New Berne, N. C.,  | March 24, '62,|   -   |  1589  |  9 |  73 |
Corpl.  | Curry, Richard,     |Arrowfield Ch., Va.| May 9, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Sergt.  | Hendrick, Edwin C., |Cold Harbor, Va.,  | June 3, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Kearney, Robert J., |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 5, '62, |   -   |  1544  |  9 |  28 | Insc. R. S. Kenney.
Pri.    | Lombard, George S., |Morehead City, N.C.| Jan. 3, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | McInster, Benj. F., |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 9, '62, |   -   |  1666  |  9 | 150 | Insc. H. Inster.
Pri.    | Porter, Thomas J.,  |Plymouth, N. C.,   | Nov. 7, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Corpl.  | Paige, William J.,  |So. West Creek, NC.| Mar. 8, '65,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Body not recovered.
Pri.    | Risley, Justus,     |New Berne, N. C.,  | April 1, '62, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Smith, William D.,  |Washington, N. C., | Nov. 7, '62,  |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Strong, Egbert B.,  |Carolina City, N.C.|Oct. 4, '64,   |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Sullivan, James,    |New Berne, N. C.,  | Mar. 14, '62, |   -   |  1486  |  8 | 166 |
Pri.    | Wilson, John,       |Hampton, Va.,      | May 21, '64,  |   A   | row 16 |  - |  22 |

Pri.    | Bracey, William P., |Millen, Ga.,       | Oct. 12, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  | Shot by the guard.
Pri.    | Bulfin, John,       |Richmond, Va.,     | June 7, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 404 | Adjt. Gen'l, killed June 3.
Pri.    | Clark, Edward P.,   |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3648|
Pri.    | Davidson, Wardrop,  |Andersonville, Ga.,| Nov. 16, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |12037|
Pri.    | Donlon, James,      |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 20, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 3678|
Corpl.  | Hare, Thomas,       |Andersonville, Ga.,| Dec. 13, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |12276|
Pri.    | Heisler, Casper J., |Richmond, Va.,     | May 18, '64,  |   -   |   -    |  - | 1376| Insc. -- Heisler.

        |                     |                   |               |       |Cemetery|    |Grave|
  Rank  |        NAME         |  Place of Death   | Date of Death |Section|   No.  |Plot| No. |        REMARKS
--------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|-------|--------|----|-----|-----------------------
        |                     |                   |               |       |        |    |     |
Pri.    | Kent, Sylvester,    |Andersonville, Ga.,| Sept. 9, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 8552|
Pri.    | Lacey, Andrew,      |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |  -  |
Pri.    | Morgan, Charles H., |Andersonville, Ga.,| June 25, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 2456|
Pri.    | Morton, Emory P.,   |Millen, Ga.,       |       -       |   B   |   -    |  - |  27 |
Corpl.  | Regan, Christopher, |Andersonville, Ga.,| Nov. 18, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - |12094| Insc. C. Ragan.
Pri.    | Spooner, Charles L.,|Andersonville, Ga.,| July 28, '64, |   -   |   -    |  - | 4153| Adjt. Gen'l, July 22.
Pri.    | Thompson, James M., |Andersonville, Ga.,| July 24, '64, |   -