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Miscellaneous.
Residents or the town and Credit to other places.
321.
Joseph P. Burrage,
2d Lieut., age 22, Thirty-Third Regiment Infantry (three years), May, 18, 1863, credited to
Cambridge.
Killed Oct. 29, 1863,
Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
A graduate of Harvard University in 1862.
His remains were brought home in December, 1863, and funeral services were held in the
Orthodox Church, before the town authorities, and many relatives and friends.
Rev. Mr. Cady preached a discourse on the occasion, which was afterward printed for gratuitous distribution at the expense of
Mr. John Field.
322.
Edward Clark.
See 22d Regiment Infantry, note.
323.
Warren H. Freeman,
Sergt., age 18, Co. A, Thirteenth Regiment Infantry (three years), Dec. 1, 1861, credited to
Boston.
Transferred to Co. A, 39th Regt., July 14, 1864.
Discharged Sept. 13, 1864, order War Dept.
A little book, entitled ‘Letters from Two Brothers serving in the
War for the
Union, to their Family at Home in
West Cambridge, Mass.’ (
Cambridge, printed for private circulation, 1871),
1 is deserving of high commendation.
It is the record of
Warren H. Freeman, who served as a soldier in the Thirteenth and afterward in the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Regiments, and his
brother Eugene H. Freeman, who was an engineer in the transport service, sons of
Mr. J. D. Freeman.
Warren H. joined Company A, 13th Mass. Regiment, in
Maryland, on the third day after leaving home on Dec. 1, 1861, and his first letter from the army is dated Dec. 21.
He was then engaged in campaigning in
Virginia.
Received a corporal's warrant some weeks before April 13, 1863, was made prisoner at
Gettysburg, Pa, first day of the series of battles July, 1863, and afterward paroled; promoted to sergeant, warrant dated July 1, 1864; transferred to Co. A, 39th Regt., and discharged Sept. 13, 1864, in the field, by reason of no vacancies existing in the regiment to which he was assigned.
The letters of Eugene H. are confined to matters on the
Potomac River and its neighborhood.
324.
Charles C. Haskell, age 25, Co. I, Sixtieth Regiment Infantry (one hundred days), July 23, 1864, credited to
Boston.
Drowned July 29, 1864, Readville.
Buried here.
326.
Thomas Martin, age 22, Co. G, First Regiment of Cavalry (three years), Sept., 23, 1861, credited to
Charlestown.
Died of wounds June 10, 1863.
Buried here, age 24—monument.
326
George H. Sprague, age 30, Co. B, Forty-Third Regiment Infantry (nine months), Oct. 11, 1862, credited to
Boston.
Died March 27, 1863, at
Newbern, N. C. Buried here.
327.
George Trask, age 18, Co. M, First Regiment of Cavalry (three years), Oct. 1, 1861—residence or place credited to not given-transferred to Co. M, 4th Cavalry.
(Died May 3, 1862,
Port Royal,
S. C.—
Family account and monument. )
328.
Rev. Samuel A. Smith, minister First Congregational Parish, missionary to the army, died of a fever contracted at
Norfolk, Va., on May 20, 1866, aged 36.
Given in
Letters from Two Brothers, and not previously mentioned:
329.
Alfred Bloxham, age 26, First Battery Light Artillery (three years), July 24, 1862, to Oct. 19, 1864, credited to
Cambridge.
330.
George H. Cutter, age 19, Co. H, 3d Wisconsin Infantry, enlisted April 24, 1861, for three years, re-enlisted Dec. 25, 1863; promoted Corp.
Nov. 21, 1862;
Commissary Sergt, Oct. 29, 1864;
First Lieut., May 21, 1866.
(See
Cutter Book, p. 235.)
