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. Thomas R. Hadley2d Lieutenant. Samuel Lawrence3d Lieutenant. B. W. Parker4th Lieutenant. The number, including rank and file, is sixty. Their first parade was Oct. 12, 1854, when they were exercised in firing at a target. They are Company E, Fifth Regiment Light Infantry. There was a military manoeuvre designed and executed by Captain Thomas Pritchard, of Medford, while in command at New York, which deserves honorable mention. The English had taken possession of the city, Sept. 15, 1776, but were greatly annoyed by the American forces in its neighborhood. Captain Pritchard was personally known to some of the British officers, and he was remarkable for his celerity and skill in the war tactics. One day he had been making explorations with his company, when he came unexpectedly among a large force of British cavalry in a road. The English commander cried out to him, Well, Pritchard, we've got you at last. Not exactly, replied Pritchard; and he immediately ordered his