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The Lawrence Light Guard. by Helen Tilden Wild.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, May 19, 1902.]
IN an oration delivered in Winchester, July 4, 1860, Hon. John A. Bolles said: Of the Winchester Light Guard I can find no surviving trace. . . They and their guns have both gone off.
The orator could not have made a very extensive search, for that organization has a lusty surviving trace which has existed over forty years within three miles of its first armory.
The military company of Winchester went off to Medford and formed the Lawrence Light Guard.
The company was organized March 27, 1851, with Frederick O. Prince, afterward Mayor of Boston, as captain.
It was named in honor of Col. William P. Winchester.
The armory was on Main street in Winchester.
It was organized as Co. A, 7th Regt., designated as Co. E, 7th Regt., December 15, 1852, and as Co. E, 5th Regt., in 1855. Captain Prince commanded from 1851 to 1853; Capt. Wallace Whitney, 1853 to 1855. Capt. Wm. Pr
The Lawrence Light Guard.—Continued. by Helen Tilden Wild.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, May 19, 1902.]
AS soon as Co. C, 39th Regiment, was dismissed from the United States service, in June, 1865, the members renewed their old associations with the Lawrence Light Guard and resumed regular meetings in the Town Hall the following October.
It was suggested that the company join the Lawrence Rifles, but the Light Guard positively refused to do so, and chose the following officers: Capt., I. F. R. Hosea; 1st Lieut., J. Henry Eames; 2d Lieut., Henry A. Ireland, Jr.
In May, 1866, the 5th Regiment was inspected at the race course (Mystic Park). Co. E had three officers, fifty-seven men, and fifty-five guns.
Fully two-thirds of the company were veterans; about thirty had served with the three years men. In June, 1866, the company began to fit up rooms in Usher's Building.
The drill hall was shared with the Lawrence Rifles.
At this time, when the Light Guard is a