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Chapter 1
II. 1861.
THREE YEARS' MEN.

    On the 3d of May, 1861, President Lincoln issued his second call for troops,
which was for volunteers to serve for a period of three years, unless sooner
discharged; and on the same day our Selectmen issued a warrant, calling a Town
Meeting, to take place at "Concert Hall," on the evening of May 6th. A very
large and enthusiastic meeting was accordingly held, at which Mr. Charles F.
Esty was chosen Moderator, and the following votes were unanimously passed.

    That the Town of Melrose appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars
($3,000) for the relief of the families of the citizens of Melrose, now absent
in the service of the United States, or who may hereafter volunteer into the
service of the United States, or the State of Massachusetts. Also to aid
volunteers of the town in their equipment, and to give such relief in the
premises as the exigencies and necessities of each case may require.

    Also that above all other appropriations the sum of fifteen dollars per
month be paid to those persons having families, and the sum of ten dollars per
month to those who are single men, during their time of service in the war now
pending.

    It was also voted, that the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow such sums
of money as might be wanted from time to time to cover the appropriations then
made; and that the Selectmen - Colonel John H. Clark, and Messrs. William B.
Burgess and George M. Fletcher,- constitute a Committee to superintend the
disbursements of the money thus appropriated.

    A stirring and patriotic speech was made by the Hon. N. B. Bryant,
ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, then a resident of
Melrose.

    As Melrose raised no whole company for any regiment, our men, as they
enlisted, selected the regiment or battery in which they preferred to serve;
consequently they were much scattered, and entered many different organizations
before the war was ended.

    Our earliest enlistments were in the Second, Twelfth and Thirteenth
Massachusetts Regiments of Infantry, mostly in the latter regiment, which was
commanded by Colonel Samuel H. Leonard, of Boston.

    The nucleus of the Thirteenth Regiment was the Fourth Battalion of Rifles,
into which our men enlisted when the President issued his call for seventy-five
thousand (75,000) troops, or immediately after the assault upon the Sixth
Regiment in Baltimore, April 19th, and which was ordered to Fort Independence.
As no more troops for a short term were wanted, the Battalion was recruited to a
three years' regiment. On a Sunday evening, just before the regiment left for
Washington, the fourteen soldiers belonging to Melrose met in the Baptist
Church, when the pastor, Rev. James Cooper, presented to each one a Testament,
accompanied by an address and prayer. On a flyleaf of each Testament was
written, besides the name, the words "God and our Country."

    The roll of our men who enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment at this time, -
and later as recruits,-with items of their military history, is as follows:

THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. [1] 
Co. A.
CORPORAL.
  JONES, HENRY H. 
Promoted Corporal April 1, 1863; taken prisoner at "Battle of Gettysburg," July
1, 1863 [2] exchanged May 1, 1864; mustered out of the service with the
regiment, Aug. 1, 1864.

PRIVATES.

BARRY, WILLIAM F. [3]
Killed at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862. [4]

CROCKER, JOHN H.
Discharged Dec. 30, 1862, for disability.

DAWES, AMBROSE. [5]
Wounded in head at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862; mustered out with the
regiment, Aug. 1, 1864.

DYER, N. MAYO. 
Discharged April 15, 1862, to enter the navy. [6]

JACKSON, WILLIAM P. [7]
Discharged Jan. 22, 1863, for disability.

KILBY, THEOPHILUS.
Discharged July 20, 1862, for disability.

KING, GEORGE L.
Mustered out with the regiment, Aug. 1, 1864.

MORSE, GEORGE J.
Wounded in hand at "Second Bull Run Battle," July 30, 1862; discharged March 2,
1863, to become 2d Lieutenant in Second Regiment, U. S. Colored Troops, in
"Department of the Gulf." [8]

MUNN, THOMAS J.
Taken prisoner at "Second Bull Run Battle," July 30, 1862; paroled on the field
of battle; [9] exchanged in September 1862; taken prisoner at "Battle of
Gettysburg," July 1, 1863, but left in Gettysburg because wounded in thigh and
leg; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, [10] May 1, 1864; mustered out July
16, 1864.

SASSARD, AUGUSTUS. 
Discharged Nov. 14, 1862, for disability.

SHELTON, ALBERT F.
Wounded in right arm and side at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17th 1862;
discharged Dec. 23, 1862.

SHELTON, CHARLES W. [11]
Wounded in face at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862; detailed for duty in
Adjutant General's Office at Washington, D. C, Dec. 10, 1862; transferred as
Sergeant to the general service of the U. S. Army, Dec. 1, 1863; discharged
April 1, 1864.

SHELTON, JOHN P. [12] Killed at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862. [13]

SIMONDS, JOSEPH F. 
Discharged July 5, 1862, for disability. [14]

TAINTER, GEORGE A. 
Wounded in right arm at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862; discharged Feb.
14, 1863.

Co. D.
SERGEANT.
WHITNEY, EDWARD H. 
Promoted Corporal Nov. 1, 1863; Sergeant Nov. 19, 1863; mustered out with
regiment, Aug. 1, 1864.

CORPORAL.
MORSE, SIDNEY B. 2d. 
Promoted Right General Guide, with rank of Corporal, July 5, 1862; died at
Finley Hospital, Washington, D. C, Sept. 16, 1862, of typhoid fever. [15]

Co. E.
PRIVATE.
MACEY, JAMES.
Mustered out with the regiment, Aug. 1, 1864.

    We had but one man in each of the Second and Twelfth Regiments, as follows:

SECOND REGIMENT. [16]

Co. G.
PRIVATE.
GREENE, MARTIN.
Wounded in thigh and arm at "Battle of Cedar Mountain," [17] Aug. 9, 1862; was
left at Culpepper, Va., Aug. 17, 1862, in the evacuation of that place, where he
undoubtedly died.

TWELFTH REGIMENT. [18]
Co. A.
CORPORAL.
SPRAGUE, SAMUEL, JR.
Promoted Corporal May 23, 1862; severely wounded in ankle at "Battle of
Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862; discharged June 24, 1863.

END NOTES Chapter II

[1]  The Thirteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was recruited at
Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, and left the State for the seat of war July
30, 1861. It was in arduous and faithful service for three years. Most of the
stirring scenes in which the "Army of the Potomac" participated were experienced
by the Thirteenth. It was in many sharp skirmishes, such as Bolivar, Dam No. 5,
etc., and in the following battles: Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Mine Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Laurel Hill, Cool Arbor,* and Siege of Petersburg.

 * This battle is given in Adjutant General Schouler's Reports as both Cold
Harbor and Coal Harbor; but Mr. Benson J. Lossing, in his History of the Civil
War, calls it Cool Arbor, and gives the following note: "Cool Arbor derived its
name from a tavern, at a delightful place of summer resort in the woods, for the
Richmond people, even so early as the time of the Revolution. The derivation of
the name determines its orthography. It has been erroneously spelled Coal Harbor
and Cold Harbor."

[2] For sketch of prison experience, see chap. XIV.

[3] Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug. 18, while on the Rapid
Ann River, Va.

[4] For obituary notice, see "Roll of Honor." National loss, at this battle,
12,469; 2,010 killed, 9,416 wounded, and 1,043 missing. Rebel loss about 21,500
in killed, wounded and prisoners.

[5] Enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, and joined the regiment Sept. 9, at Mechanicsville, Md.

[6] For items of naval history, see chap. IX.

[7] Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug. 18, on the Rapid Ann
River, Va.

[8] Wounded at Siege of Port Hudson, July 5, 1863; resigned July 20, 1863;
re-entered the service in the Fifty-Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, see chap. VI.

[9] Held seven days before being paroled; all the food he had during five days
of that time was one half pint of corn meal.

[10] The Veteran Reserve Corps was organized April 28, 1863, and consisted of
men in the service who had been disabled by wounds or disease, and who had been
discharged on account of wounds or other disability resulting from military
service, but afterwards re-enlisted. Over 60,000 men entered this Corps, and May
31, 1865, it consisted of 762 commissioned officers and 29,852 enlisted men. It
escorted thousands of prisoners, convalescents, recruits and conscripts, held
important military lines and positions, aided in the enrolment and draft, or
guarded depots of public property.

[11] Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug. 18, on the Rapid Ann
River, Va.

[12] Enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, and joined the regiment Sept. 9, at Mechanicsville, Md.

[13] For obituary notice, sec "Roll of Honor."

[14] Re-enlisted in the Third Cavalry Regiment, see chap. IV.

[15] For obituary notice, see "Roll of Honor."

[16] The Second Massachusetts Regiment was the first loyal three years regiment
raised for the United States service, and was mustered in May n, 1861, and left
the State July 8, 1861, under Colonel George H. Gordon. Its experience was
arduous and varied, and has been well told by its talented historian and
faithful chaplain, Rev. A. H. Quint, D. D. in his "Record of the Second
Regiment." The following are the principal battles in which it was engaged:
Jackson, Fort Royal, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek,
Atlanta, Raleigh, and Averysborongh.

[17] Called by the Confederates "Battle of Cedar Run," and "Battle of Southwest
Mountain." Nationals lost 2,000 killed and wounded, Confederates about the same.

[18] The Twelfth Massachusetts was raised by Fletcher Webster, who, on the day
after our boys were shot down in the streets of Baltimore, published the
following notice in the Boston papers:

 FELLOW-CITIZENS: I have been assured by the Executive Department that the State
will accept at once an additional regiment of infantry. I therefore propose to
meet to-morrow at ten o'clock in front of the Merchants Exchange, State Street,
such of my fellow-citizens as will join in raising this new regiment. The
muster-roll will be ready to be signed then and there.

                  Respectfully,     FLETCHER WEBSTER.

   The meeting was held accordingly, Sunday, April 21, the regiment speedily
raised and stationed at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. It left the State July 23,
1861, and was commanded by Colonel Webster until he was killed, at Second Bull
Run Battle, Aug. 30, 1862. It was in the following engagements: Second Bull Run,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Cool Arbor, and Petersburg.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

THE MELROSE MEMORIAL 
THE ANNALS OF MELROSE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS IN 
THE GREAT REBELLION OF 1861 - 65 
BY ELBRIDGE H. GOSS

PRIVATELY PRINTED BY SUBSCRIPTION 1868

ALFRED MUDGE & SON,
PRINTERS,
34 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON.


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