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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
w company, recruited, organized, uniformed, and equipped in two days. Company G, Concord Artillery, Concord. Officers: George L. Prescott, of Concord, captain; Joseph Derby, Jr., Humphrey H. Buttrick, and Charles Bowers, all of Concord, lieutenants. Company H, City Guards, Salem. Officers: Henry F. Danforth, of Salem, captain; Kirk Stark, William F. Sumner, George H. Wiley, and John E. Stone, all of South Danvers, lieutenants. Company I, Light Infantry, Somerville. Officers: George O. Brastow, of Somerville, captain; William E. Robinson and Frederick R. Kinsley, both of Somerville, lieutenants. Company K, City Guards, Charlestown. Officers: John T. Boyd, of Charlestown, captain; John B. Norton, Caleb Drew, and Walter Everett, all of Charlestown, lieutenants. This regiment did not receive orders to report until Friday, April 19. It was in readiness to go forward the next day, but was detained until Sunday, with headquarters at Faneuil Hall. The line was formed on Sou
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
as Cunningham. This gentleman was recruiting officer of the town during most of the war. 1861. The Somerville Light-Infantry Company having been ordered to Washington with the Fifth Regiment, to which it belonged, a large meeting of citizens was held on the 17th of April. Several speeches were made; a subscription paper was opened, and in a very short time $4,308.50 were subscribed and paid in for the benefit of the members and their families. Seven hundred dollars were given Captain George O. Brastow for the immediate use of the company, and smaller sums to each member. The remainder of the money was placed in the savings' bank, subject to the order of the selectmen of the town. After its return from three months service the unexpended balance of this fund (about $2,000) was appropriated by a vote of the Company to the erection of a handsome marble monument, on which is recorded the names of sixty-eight Somerville men who fell in battle or died of disease or wounds while in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
c. 5, 1862. Brady, James, Jr. First Lieutenant, 26th Mass. Infantry, Sept. 18, 1861. Captain, Dec. 6, 1862. Discharged (disability), Dec. 31, 1864. Bragdon, George. Sergeant, 3d Mass. Heavy Artillery, Jan. 10, 1863. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, Oct. 1, 1863. Mustered out, Sept. 18, 1865. Bragdon, William G. First Lieutenant, 23d Mass. Infantry, July 10, 1864. Captain, Oct. 14, 1864; not mustered. Mustered out, June 25, 1865, as First Lieutenant. Brastow, George O. Captain, 5th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., May 1, 1861. Mustered out, July 31, 1861. Brennan, John H. First Lieutenant, 28th Mass. Infantry, Oct. 8, 1861. Resigned, Mar. 10, 1863. Brewster, Charles H. Second Lieutenant, 10th Mass. Infantry, Dec. 5, 1861. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, Sept. 29, 1862. Mustered out, July 1, 1864. Brevet Captain, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Brewster, Ethan A. P. Second Lieutenant, 8th Infantry, M. V. M., in service
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
in Massachusetts. Lieut. Colonel, 3d Conn. Infantry, May 7, 1861; mustered, May 14, 1861. Mustered out, Aug. 12, 1861. Captain, 17th Conn. Infantry, July 18, 1862; mustered, Aug. 28, 1862. Major, Aug. 28, 1862. Discharged (disability), Oct. 21, 1863. Major, Veteran Reserve Corps, Nov. 23, 1863. Brevet Lieut. Colonel and Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 7, 1865. Mustered out, Dec. 15, 1866. First Lieutenant, 43d U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866. Appointment expired, Mar. 4, 1867. Brastow, George O. Born in Massachusetts. Major, Additional Paymaster, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 5, 1862. Resigned, Mar. 7, 1863. Brayton, George Mitchell. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 15th U. S. Infantry, May 14, 1861; accepted, July 2, 1861. Regimental Quartermaster, May 8, 1862, to Oct. 3, 1862. Captain, 15th U. S. Infantry, Jan. 3, 1863. Brevet Major, Mar. 13, 1865. Transferred to 33d U. S. Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866. Transferred to 8th U. S. Infantry, May 3, 1869. Major, 15th U
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
. P., 249 Bradt, J. G., 378 Brady, A. G., 402, 459, 509 Brady, Charles, 249 Brady, Edward, 18 Brady, James, Jr., 247 Bragdon, George, 249 Bragdon, W. G., 249 Bragg, I. W., 18 Brailey, G. F., 18 Braman, I. G., 580 Brann, John, 18 Brastow, G. O., 249 Brastow, G. O., 402 Brayton, G. M., 402, 509 Brayton, J. B., 18 Brayton, S. N., 18 Breck, Joseph, 580 Breck, L. M., 18 Breck, Samuel, 170, 402, 509 Breckinridge, W. C. P., 624 Breed, B. B., 378 Breed, B. B., 402, 509 Breed, H.Brastow, G. O., 402 Brayton, G. M., 402, 509 Brayton, J. B., 18 Brayton, S. N., 18 Breck, Joseph, 580 Breck, L. M., 18 Breck, Samuel, 170, 402, 509 Breckinridge, W. C. P., 624 Breed, B. B., 378 Breed, B. B., 402, 509 Breed, H. A., 580 Brennan, Christopher, 18 Brennan, J. H., 249 Brewer, A. L., 402 Brewster, C. H., 249, 509 Brewster, Cyrus, 402 Brewster, E. A. P., 207 Brewster, E. A. P., 249 Brewster, H. A., 249 Brewster, O. E., 378 Brickett, G. F., 18 Brickley, John, 18 Bride, W. J., 580 Bridge, H. M., 160 Bridge, N. W., 580 Bridge, W. W., 249 Bridgeham, T. S., 249 Bridgeman, Edward, 249 Bridgeman, Eliot, 249, 485 Bridgeman, Malcolm, 249 Bridges, B. A., 249 Bridges, I. N., 18 Bridges, Lyman, 459
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Company E, 39th Massachusetts Infantry, in the Civil War. (search)
will go down to history as the Somerville company, was recruited during July and August, 1862, on Prospect Hill. The town, through its agents, the selectmen, encouraged the enlistments, which went on rapidly under the direction of the three officers who received their commissions from the selectmen. These officers were Captain Fred R. Kinsley, First Lieutenant Joseph J. Giles, and Second Lieutenant Willard C. Kinsley. All three had completed their term of service in Captain (later Major) Brastow's company, which enlisted for three months, the first-mentioned having been second lieutenant, and the two others privates in said company. These men were Somerville boys, although the Kinsley brothers were not natives of the town. As is well known, a camp was pitched on Prospect Hill, and a flagstaff erected, which stood until the hill was dug down, some fifteen years later. The company was filled quickly, and our historian was one of the first to enlist. There was the usual round
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
before the War.—(Il) (search)
like to and might say about Union Square, about other citizens not mentioned in my first paper, who came to that vicinity after 1846, but before the war, and built up its industries and contributed to its prosperity; of the various artisans who established themselves there; of such manufacturing enterprises as the Brass Tube Works, the Glass Works, Pump Works, etc. Nor have I said anything about the Somerville Light Infantry, of which in the fifties Francis Tufts, still living, and George O. Brastow were commanders, and which did such valiant service in the Civil War. And the fire department has received no mention, from whose members, however, were recruited a large number of the Somerville soldiers of the Rebellion, and whose experience in fighting fires at home helped to render them efficient as fighters of the fire of the Rebellion. A volume could be written about Union Square, as it could about almost any other community; what with gossip, tradition, and local history, eac
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Original English inhabitants and early settlers in Somerville.—(Ii.) (search)
ly. In 1842, the year in which the town of Somerville was incorporated, the prominent men were: John S. Edgerly, of blessed memory, a selectman the first year and for eleven years subsequently, and chairman of the Board a part of the time. Mr. Brastow, afterwards the first mayor of the city, gave Mr. Edgerly the sobriquet of Winter Hill eagle, because he lived at the top of the highest elevation in Somerville. The second person to name is Charles E. Gilman, who was town clerk in 1842 and tufts, Caleb W. Leland, Guy C. Hawkins, Alfred Allen, Levi Russell, Charles Miller, Francis Bowman, Columbus Tyler, Robert Vinal, Thomas J. Leland, Joseph Clark, Dr. Luther V. Bell, James Hill, Captain Edward Cutter, Fitch Cutter, Orr N. Towne, Colonel Samuel Jaques, of Ten Hills Farm renown, Clark Bennett, Samuel T. Frost, and George O. Brastow, all passed away. To continue the narrative down the generations would be foreign to my purpose and fail of historic interest, and I close the book.
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
ridge, 64. Boutwell, Hon. George S., 41. Bowdoin Square, 38. Bowman, Francis, 55. Bow Street, 7, 15, 16, 33, 36. Boxford, Mass., 18. Bradford, —, 79. Bradshaw, Edward H., 12. Bradshaw, Samuel C., 12. Brass Tube Works, 37, 42. Brastow, Captain, 17. Brastow, George O., 42, 55. Brick Yard Lane, 33, 34. Bridgewater, Mass., 2. Bridgewater, N. H., 1, 2. Brighton, Mass., 12. Brinsmeade, John, 30. Bristow Station. 23. Broadway, 25, 29. Broadway Congregational Church, 3, 4. Brastow, George O., 42, 55. Brick Yard Lane, 33, 34. Bridgewater, Mass., 2. Bridgewater, N. H., 1, 2. Brighton, Mass., 12. Brinsmeade, John, 30. Bristow Station. 23. Broadway, 25, 29. Broadway Congregational Church, 3, 4. Brooks, Elbridge S., 13. Brooks Family, 3. Bruce, George A., 76. Bucknam, D. P., 18. Buford's Cavalry. 2. Bullard's Bridge, 33, 34. Bullard, William, 31. Bull Run, 23. Bull Run Ridge. Va., 43. Bull's Church, 60. Bunker, George, 30. Bunker Hill, 36, 77, 84. Bunker Hill Day, 1864, 66. Burbank, Alonzo, 14. Burbank, William A., 74. Burt, William L. Esq., 41, 42. Burt, General William L., 7. Butler, General, 63. Caesar, 80. Cambridge Electric Light Co., 10. Cambridg
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Memoir. (search)
Hill Improvement Association, November 16, 1904; The Old Royall House, Medford, Historic Leaves, Vol. 4, April, 1905; Union Square and Its Neighborhood About the Year 1846, Historic Leaves, Vol. 6, April, 1907; Somerville's Development and Progress, Somerville Journal, May 3, 1907; Union Square Before the War, Historic Leaves, Vol. 6, July, 1907; Port Hudson, Historic Leaves, Vol. 7, October, 1908; Charles Tufts, read before the Somerville Historial Society November 24, 1908; Sketch of George O. Brastow, Somerville Journal, December 13, 1908. Mr. Elliot became a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers December 17, 1902. He was also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers from August 7, 1872, to January 4, 1898; the National Geographic Society; Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange; Somerville Board of Trade, in which he took a very active part, and to which he devoted much of his valuable time. He was a member of the Men's Club of the First Universalist Church; t
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