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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 7: muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics. (search)
to reach enemy's works in assault on Petersburg, April 2, 1865. One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois, Company A:--Lorenzo Brown; kicked to death by a mule at Somerset, Ky., April 23, 1864. Sixty-fifth Ohio, Company H:--Corporal Adam Glasgow; discharged May 27, 1865, on surgeon's certificate; both feet frozen while en route from Wilmington, N. C., to Annapolis, Md.; an exchanged prisoner of war. Twenty-first Massachusetts, Company E: From rolls attached to regimental history.--Sergeant Thomas Plunkett; lost both arms while carrying regimental U. S. flag at Fredericksburg; discharged May 9, 1863. Twenty-first Massachusetts, Company C: From rolls attached to regimental history.--Sergeant Elbridge C. Barr; killed at Fredericksburg while carrying the State flag. Twenity-first Massachusetts, Company A: From rolls attached to regimental history.--Sergeant Joseph H. Collins; died Jan. 3, 1863, of wounds received at Fredericksburg while carrying the colors. Seventh Wisconsin
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
to raise and equip a military company, and to pay them for time spent in drilling previous to being mustered into active service. The same amount was appropriated in 1862 for the payment of bounties and for State aid to soldiers' families, and ten thousand dollars in 1863 for the same objects. West Boylston furnished about two hundred and forty men for the war, which was a surplus of ten over and above all demands. Twelve were commissioned officers. One of the enlisted men was Sergeant Thomas Plunkett, who, while carrying the colors of his regiment (the Massachusetts Twenty-first), in the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864, was struck with a ball which took off both his arms. He fell forward with the colors under him. He was taken to the rear, where his arms were amputated. Strange to say, he recovered, and is now a respectable, healthy citizen of West Boylston. The regimental colors, deposited in the State House, retain the blood-stains of the gallant sergeant. The tot
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
15th Infantry, Lieut.-Col. I. H. Hooper, 7 officers, 15 men, two colors. 17th Infantry, Col. Henry Splaine, 9 officers, 100 men, 5 colors. 18th Infantry, Maj. Thomas Weston, 10 officers, 20 men, three colors. 19th Infantry, Col. Edmund Rice, 13 officers, 60 men, five colors. Three of the color bearers were one-armed. 20th Infantry, Col. F. W. Palfrey, 9 officers, 50 men, two colors. 21st Infantry, 25 men, 6 colors. Accompanying the color bearers of this regiment was Sergeant Thomas Plunkett, who had both arms shot off at Fredericksburg. 22d Infantry, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Sherwin, 100 men, four colors. 23d Infantry, Col. J. W. Raymond, 30 men, three colors. 25th Infantry, Col. James Tucker, 50 men, three colors. Third Battalion Rifles, Capt. M. S. McConville, 10 men, one flag. 26th Infantry, Col. A. B. Farr, 12 officers, 20 men, four colors. 27th Infantry, Adjutant J. W. Holmes, 2 officers, 12 men, three colors. 28th Infantry, Capt. John Miles, 50 men
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
, W. M., 474 Pine, Daniel, 542 Pinseno (or Pinsenault), Jacob, 542 Piper, Alfred, 542 Piper, Charles, 542 Piper, E. A., 406 Piper, I. F. V. B., 406 Pippen, William, 542 Pitman, N. F., 474 Pitman, T. H., 542 Pitts, J. H., 406 Plant, G. L., 406 Plant, William, 406 Platt, C. E., 474 Platte, William, 406 Platts, E. M., 474 Pleasanton, Alfred, 258 Plimpton, E. F., 542 Plumer, William, 75, 76, 92, 315 Plummer, G. E., 475 Plummer, Joseph, 406 Plunkett, C. T., 63, 288 Plunkett, Thomas, 77, 78, 151 Plympton, I. G., 475 Poland, George, 406 Poland, Jeremiah, Jr., 475 Polley, G. F., 406 Pollo, A. F., 406 Polson, F. B., 542 Pomroy, D. B., 475 Pomroy, W. C., 406 Pond, G. E., 107, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114 Pond, Roland, 406 Pontius, F. A., 542 Pool, J. F., 406 Poole, C. E., 542 Poole, E. G., 475 Poole, E. R., 542 Poole, H. F., 542 Poole, Henry, 406 Poole, J. F., 110 Poor, C. W., 406 Poor, J. M., 406 Poor, W. H., 475 Pope, A. R., 542, 546 Pope, G. W.,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, X. Massachusetts officers, soldiers and sailors receiving Medals of Honor. (search)
ishers in front of the 1st Division, 2d Army Corps. (Formerly Captain, 22d Mass. Infantry.) Murphy, Daniel J. Sergeant, Co. F, 19th Mass. Infantry. Medal issued, Dec. 1, 1864, for capture of flag of 47th North Carolina in action, at Hatcher's Run, Va., Oct. 27, 1864. Newland, William D. U. S. S. Oneida. Medal awarded, Aug. 5, 1864, for distinguished services in action at Mobile Bay, and faithful discharge of all duties on board U. S. S. Oneida. (Born in Massachusetts.) Plunkett, Thomas. Corporal, Co. E, 21st Mass. Infantry. Medal issued, Mar., 1866, for gallantry in action at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. (Lost both arms by a shell, in raising the flag, the color-sergeant having been shot down.) Rice, Edmund. Captain, 5th U. S. Infantry. Medal issued for conspicuous bravery in leading his regiment in the countercharge against Pickett's division, himself falling severely wounded within the enemy's lines, in the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., July 3, 1863
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
H. C., 116 Pitman, J. H., 116 Pitman, W. G., 476 Pitts, W. G., 116 Pixley, A. J., 116 Pizer, J. B., 224, 334, 549 Plaisted, C. J., 334 Plaisted, C. W., 116 Plander, J. E., 116 Platt, S. H., 334 Pleasonton, Alfred, 700 Plimpton, J. F., 334 Plumer, William, 334 Plummer, G. B., 334 Plummer, George, 334 Plummer, Israel, 583 Plummer, J. B., 191, 438, 476 Plummer, T. H., 116 Plunkett, C. T., 225 Plunkett, Christopher, 334 Plunkett, T. F., 583 Plunkett, T. F., Jr., 334 Plunkett, Thomas, 499, 700 Plunkett, W. A., 334 Pollack, John, 225 Pollard, E. A., 700 Plley, F. W., 334 Polley, G. F., 334 Pollock, S. H., 116 Pomeroy, Robert, 583 Pomeroy, Theodore, 583 Pomroy, G. H., 438 Pomroy, Rebecca R., 597, 700 Pond, G. E., 334, 700 Pond, J. M., 334 Ponderly, M. E., 335 Pool, J. F., 335 Pool, M. M., 335 Poole, F. H>, 116 Poole, Horace, 438, 476 Poole, Issac, 116 Poole, L. M., 116 Poole, Lysander, 335 Poor, A. B., 118 Poor, C. E., 335, 493 Poor, C. H., 33