This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 2012-01-10 edition. Excerpt: ...Privates, seventy-seven. The company performed their three months' term of enlistment in honor, rendered effective service and was mustered out of the service at Boston, July 22, 1861. In October, 1861, Company D, Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, was recruited in New Bedford, most of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 2012-01-10 edition. Excerpt: ...Privates, seventy-seven. The company performed their three months' term of enlistment in honor, rendered effective service and was mustered out of the service at Boston, July 22, 1861. In October, 1861, Company D, Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, was recruited in New Bedford, most of the men of the company being residents of the city. When they departed the officers of the company were: Cornelius Howland, Jr., captain; Samuel C. Hart, first lieutenant; Anthony Lang, second lieutenant. The Twenty-third saw hard service, and inscribed upon their regimental battle flag are the battles of Roanoke, Newbern, Rawles Mills, Kinston, Goldsboro, Wilcox Bridge, Newton, Smithfield, Heckman's Farm, Arrowfield Church, Drury's Bluff and Cold Harbor. They were mustered out at Readville, July 12, 1865. The Fifth Battery was the outgrowth of the artillery company organized at New Bedford for coast defense in the summer of 1861. A large proportion of its officers and men were New Bedford citizens, and when the battery left for the front the following New Bedford men were its officers: Max Eppendorf, captain; John B. Hyde, first lieutenant; Robert A. Dillingham, second lieutenant; Timothy W. Terry, quartermaster-sergeant. The battery armament was four rifled six-pounders and two twelvepounders, all of which were exchanged in 1862 for three-inch guns. The battery was one of the fighting units of the Army of the Potomac, and by orders from headquarters was authorized to emblazon on its flag: Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mills, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Petersburgh, Weldon Railroad...
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