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Wilder Dwight.
Major 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 13, 1862; died September 19, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam, September 17.
Wilder Dwight, second son of William and Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 23d of April, 1833.
His paternal ancestor was John Dwight of Oxfordshire, England, who settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1636.
His mother was descended from William White of Norfolk Cou , in connection with it, all that such a power could do, towards suppressing the Rebellion,—this was the aim which bounded his horizon.
He was appointed, by Colonel Gordon's recommendation, Major of the regiment, which position he held until June 13, 1862, when he was promoted by Governor Andrew as its Lieutenant-Colonel.
During what remained to him of life, the history of the regiment is his history.
All I want, he once wrote, is the success of the regiment itself,—nothing more or less; and