Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Whiting” in chapter 6, page 197 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...These services show the high esteem in which the brave and beautiful young officer was held by his comrades and commanders.
The following elegiac lines, composed for the occasion, were written by Captain Whiting , of the Fifth Regiment :--
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