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He went to Haverhill, Massachusetts, the last week in August,
1861, and enlisted as a private in Company H, Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteers. This regiment was one of two -- the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third -- raised by Hon. Henry Wilson, then United States Senator from Massachusetts. After remaining in
camp at Lynnfield, Massachusetts, about six weeks, they went to Washington, D. C., in
October, 1861, under the command of Colonel Henry Wilson. They went immediately to
Virginia, being assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, commanded
by General Fitz John Porter. In March, 1862, his regiment participated in the advance on
the "Quaker Guns" of Manassas, and then went to the Peninsular under General George
B. McClellan, landing at Fortress Monroe just after the fight between the Monitor and the
Merrimac. He was also present at the siege of Yorktown in April, 1862. He then took part
in the demonstration at Hanover Court House, which was made while the great battle was
going on at Fair Oaks. In the seven days' battle, he took part in that at Mechanicsville on
June 28, the Chickahominy on June 29, where his regiment lost three hundred men,
including Colonel Gove and most of the other officers, and at Malvern Hill on July 3,
-- the last of a desperate series of battles. When the Army of the Potomac left the Peninsular in
August, 1862, to reinforce General Pope at Bull Run, he went with his regiment as far as
Fredericksburg, where he was compelled to leave it, being sick with swamp fever and chronic
diarrhoea. He was discharged for general debility at Baltimore, Maryland, on March 24,
1863.
Owing to continued ill health, he was unable to resume his studies, as he was very
desirous of doing. On March 10, 1864, he sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, for Louisiana,
where he remained until June, 1865. While there, he had six months' experience on a large
sugar and cotton plantation, and also taught a colored school for six months, under the
United States Bureau of Education. He removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1869,
where he was engaged in the shoe and leather business for nine years. In 1878 he made a
change to the furniture business, in which he continued until March, 1883, when he removed
to South Vineland, New Jersey, and bought a small farm, where he is at present engaged
in general farming, fruit and poultry raising.
In his religious preferences, he is liberal. In politics, he is an Independent
Republican.
He was married October 17, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth A. Wells, of Salem,
Massachusetts. They have no children.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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