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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 6: removal to Muddy Branch. (search)
ompany arrived at Muddy Branch on December 13, 1861, bringing with it 125 men. Its complement was but 101, and all over this number were sent to the other companies as recruits. This brought the membership of the regiment up to 939 men. In the new company were many members of the Salem Zouaves who had served through the Three Months Campaign. Beside Capt. Devereux were First Lieutenant Albert Thorndike, First Sergt. Wm. R. Driver, Sergeants Albert C. Douglas, George B. Symonds and Samuel H. Smith and Corp. A. Frank Hutchings. This company was at once mustered into service as the new Company H, and given the nickname of The Lapstone Light Infantry. A family reunion of the Salem Zouaves naturally followed. Tents were issued to the new company, and everybody turned their attention to making themselves comfortable. Stockades were built about the tent, with fire-places and such other conveniences as the experience of those who had been longer domiciled could suggest. The offic
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 11: battle of Oak Grove. (search)
dwick for their assistance and gallant bearing upon the field under the heaviest fire, and particularly commend the bravery of Corporal O'Rourke, of Company E, who gallantly siezed the color (the flag of our Commonwealth) when its bearer, Sergt. Samuel H. Smith, was shot down, and continued to bear it through the fight. Moses Short, of Company G, died of his wounds. He was shot in the corner of his mouth, the ball passing down the neck, over the shoulder, down the back and lodging in the thi that it had to be amputated. John Tibbetts, of Company C, had a terrible wound in the shoulder. Benjamin H. Jellison had received two bullets in the chin where a minie ball had gone in one side of it and out the other. The wound of color Sergt. Samuel H. Smith was a peculiar one. Manfully steadying his color during the advance, he felt something strike his breast. Turning his head instinctively down and toward the side, another ball almost immediately struck him in the ear, passing into h
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
......................................... 104 Smith, James,................................................ 188, 330, 348 Smith, John (H),................................................. 322, 341 Smith, John,......................................................... 105 Smith, J. I.,.............................................. 288, 329 Smith, Martin,....................................................... 331 Smith, Michael,................................................. 293 Smith, Samuel H.,................................................. 45, 83 Smith, Sidney,....................................................... 348 Smith, Thomas C.,........................................... 353 Smith, Thomas H.,.................................................... 105 Smith, William, 1st,.................................................. 293 Smith, William, 2nd,................................................. 293 Smith, William,......................................286, 292,