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rder Col. A. B. Jewett commanding brigade. May 15. Samuel Abbott (Abell)? having been discharged is dropped from the roll. Lieut. Adams returned. May 17. Leroy E. Hunt returned to duty. May 19. Received notice of the discharge of Joseph Brooks on the 11th inst. for disability. May 20. Received notice of the discharge of John Norton on the 11th inst. for disability. Frost and Beal sick in quarters. May 21. Sergeant Alden started yesterday on 48 hours leave of absence for Washington. Beal reported for duty and Corp'l Shattuck to quarters. May 22. George H. Nichols reported sick and in hospital. May 23. Moses G. Critchett absent without leave. May 24. Serg't Alden returned from Washington yesterday. May 27. Dropped Critchett from the rolls as a deserter. Received notice of Samuel A. Hanson's discharge. June 1. Nichols reported for quarters. June 2. Wilson reported for quarters. Received notice of the discharge of E. T. Atwood for disability May
ived in the battle of Hatcher's Creek, Henry H. Granger, Senior First Lieutenant Tenth Massachusetts Battery, aged 47 years. In the death of this gallant soldier not only the Battery which he so faithfully served, but the whole division sustains severe loss. Inheriting the loyal spirit of his grandfather, Capt. John Granger, (who in former time of our country's peril gathered a company of sixty minute-men in New Braintree and towns adjoining, and marched to Cambridge at the call of Gen. Washington,) he but renewed the old record with others of the same lineage. Upon the day of his last battle, a great-grandson of the old patriot, Capt. D. A. Orange, at the time commanding the Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry, fell mortally wounded while passing the colors from the color-bearer who had fallen to another. Lieut. Granger rode over to his fallen kinsman and promised to send a stretcher for his removal, but was directly ordered into action, and soon after received his own death-wound