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The Portland daily press., 1885-06-22

The Thirteenth corps never adopted a badge
The Fourteenth was composed Of famous sAc0rn
Boys" hence the badge. The name was given be-
cause the men Of this command subsisted partly
on roasted acorns after the battle Chickamauga
for while. To commorate this, they chose the
acorn for the badge of their corps.
A famous anecdote is connected with the Fiji
teenth corps: 1t is, as will be seen, square en-
closing black cartridge box, with the motto
"Forty-rounds" upon the box. This is the story
OF its adoption: The Eleventh and Twelfth CORPS
eastern soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, were
ordered west to join the department of the Cum
berland. They were more sprucely dressed than
the Cumberland veterans, western men. and prid-
cd themselves on It, The western soldiers conse-
quently named them paper shrt-collar men, with
stars and crescents' The Fifteenth one Of the
western corps had not yet, adopted any badge.
An lrishman belonging to 1t met one day an east
ern soldier who asked him where his badge was
MY badge, is it2 said the ready lrishman slapp-
ing his cartridge box, "Here's my badge Forty
rounds. We've orders to keep forty rounds in
our cartridge box and we always do"
ThlS good story was passed from man to man of
the Fifteenth, and pleased them so well that the
cartridge box emblem was adopted as the corps
badge. The badge of the Sixteenth corps is cir
eular surface, with the outline of four mimic balls
pointing inward, in the shape of a Maltese cross,
cut out OF it, The cross was named from the com
mander, the A. j. Smith cross.
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LIST Lieut., John T. Sherburne.
" William P. Freeman.
:" Aaron Ring.
+" William K. Simmons.
ID liant TNilIinr,, IL Garnanf

Colonel Dow was made Brigadier General In
April, 1862. DR.. Gordon was promoted to a
Louisiana regiment, and Captain Moore after
spending night and day on the deep, seasick and
sorry, returned home, laden with the benedictions
of Gen. Butler
This regiment had the Ill luck of being assigned
to guard duty and garrisoning forts about all its
term of service, and for the most part It was I'M
Of consequence till April 1864, when they were
left alone on the flank of the army, while
strange regiment fed, its colonel taking cover
Red River with Gen. Banks looking on-funny
fighting thought he and the 18th. The regiment
dams wagons In ''the Valley" There was no
three-years' regiment from Maine that had so
little fighting and few that had such dreary time
Of II on the whole
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Twenty-EIghth Regiment Infantry.

This regiment was organi zed at Augusta Oct
18th, 1862 to serve nine months, and was ordered
TO Fort Schuyler to report for duty to Major Gen.
Banks. They went into camp in East New York
and remained there until the 18th Of Jan. On the
18th OF May, six companies were ordered to Port
Hudson, the others remaining at Fort Butler The
portion Of the regiment at Port Hudson was en-
ployed for two weeks day and night, In building
batteries and doing picket duty They participant
ed In the advance the 14th OF June but suffered
no loss. On the 22d they were ordered to assault
@ baston OF the rebel works, advanced to within q
short distance Of the enemy's Notifications but
their support not coming np retired in good order
with but small loss. On the 2Sth of June that
portion of the regiment at Fort Butler, was as
sailed by an overwhelming force of the enemy
but repulsed them at every point with heavy loss
On the 4th of July the six companies at Port Hud-
son embarked to reinforce Port Butler then be-
seged by the enemy. They arrived July 9th;
on the evening Of that day occurring the nendish
murder of Major Bullen then commanding at Fort
Butler by private Francis Scott of the LIST Lousi-
ana Vols. On the 10th the entire regiment pro
ceeded to Baton Rouge, starting for Maine on the
9th of Aug. aud arriving at Augusta on the 18TH
On the 3lst of Aug. the regiment was mustered
out Of the u s. service and the men paid and fin
ally discharged on the same day,
Colonel-E. w. Woodman
Lieut.. Colonel-Wm. E. Hadlock
MAORI. ID. Bullen.
Adiutant-N Cutler
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Twenty-sIxth Regime MT Infantry.

This regiment was organized at Bangor. October
18th, 1862, to serve nine months, and arrived in
Washington on the 9th. On the 9th of Novem-
Der they embarked for Fortress Munroe, and re-
manned encamped at Newport News until Deem
Der 1st when they embarked for News Orleans.
Upon their arrival at this place, they proceeded
Immediately to Baton Rouge where they were as
signed to the Third Brigade of Growers Division
They remained at Baton Rouge until the 18th of
March, 1863. when they engaged in the recon-
noisance to Fort Hudson returning on the 18th,
and on the 2sth embarked for, Donaldson
Vile. Onthe morning of the 14th of April,
they were engaged with the enemy at
Irish Bend, and met with severe loss.
They were engaged In supporting battery at
Port Hudson, until June 12th, when they partici-
pated In the assault on that day, and returned to
their former position. After the surrender of Port
Hudson they remained on duty inside the FORTH
cations until the Goth OF July, when they embark
ed for Maine. They arrived at Bangor on the 9th
mustered out of the United States service and
the men paid and finally discharged.
Colone-N. H. Hubbard.
Lieut. Colonel-P. Hersey.
Major. N. Fowler.
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STEAMERS.
REDUCED OCEAN TICKETS.

pY the largest, fastest and best passenger and
D mail steamers between America and Europe.
Rates: First cabin, $50 to 500; second cabin,
outward and prepaid, to and from British ports,
SO, round trip $50; steerage, outward and pre-
paid, to and from Continental ports, SIT to $25.
Scandinavian and Sterling sight checks at lowest
rates. Apply to j. l.. FARMER, % Exchange st.
jel9 diff
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UnassIgned CompanIes,

Thirty unassigned or independent companies
sep is64 o 3pr ise5 iu Of Which fbs
Twenty-siXth and Twenty-ninth were from this
city.
:. The Twenty,sixth unaSsingned company of In
fantry, Capt. George L. Pickett, was recruited In
Portland and half of the men were residents of
our city. The company was finally assigned to the
"1st Battalion" Mustered in April 9th, 1865,
for one year. They served out their time in the
Shenandoah Valley, Washington and South Caro-
lima; but the war was virtually over before they
arrived on the field.
The Twenty -lintl company was raised In Port
land. Capt. Aaron Ring Lieuts.S Fred ID. Lowell
and T. Gilman Webster. About half the men
were Portlanders They were mustered in April
25th, 1865, and mustered out three weeks later
without having left the state.
The First Maine Veterans was a regiment made
by consolidation of the veteran and recruits of the
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh regiments We heve
already noticed the Portland officers excepting
DR.. Stilman p. Getchell at that time hailing from
Vienna, and I'd Lieut.. Edward j. Dolan, a young
Irish American who had been Sergeant in the
Fifth Maine There are not many Portland
names on the rolls of the "First Vets
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Fourth Battery,


The Fourth battery, likewise, gives no hint of
the existence Of Portland, except though Gus
Maine, who starting as Corporal rose in time to be
Second Lieutenant, and chung to 1t" from first to
last. There were also Lieutenants Lucius NJ S.
Haynes and Henry G. Haynes, brothers, who lived
in Portland many years when boys, and received
proper castigation at the hands of .Craney''
Jones' their schoolmaster, in spite of their being
mjniStpr'S sons
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FOREST CITY STEAMBOAT co.

On and after June 18th, the steamers of the
above line will run as follows:
STEAMER EXPRESS.
CAPT. JOHN FISHER, JR.
Leave Portland at 5.45, Z, ., 1890 a. M, Las,
8, 4.30, 6.10, 730 p. m.
Leave Forest City Landing Peaks Island at
Clio, 1926, 9.25, Ills a. m 2.1O, 3.25, BIO,
$50, p m.
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Third Battery.

Not single Portland mans name appears ON
the roll of the Third battery until March 10th
1864, when George L. Skillins comes in with a
I'd Lieut.s commission and he is soon after pre-
NOTED to LIST Lieut.. These Portland boys seem to
have had a ia ste for commits Sinras
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Colonel-N. HI. Hubbard.
Lieut.. Colonel-P. Jersey.
Major-J. N. Fowler.
.Adiutant-D. s. Sjmnson.
Adjutant-D. S. Simpson.
Twenty Seventh Regiment Infantry.

This Regiment was organized at Portland, Sept.
both 1852, to serve nine months, and arrived at
Washington on the 22d They were engaged In
picket duty, at Camp Seward, until the 18th of
Dee, when they marched to Camp Vermont, and
there guarded picket line eight miles in length,
extending from the Potomac near Mt. Vernon to
Orange and Alexandria Railroad. On the 25th of
june they returned to Arlington Heights. The
term term OF service OF the regiment having expired,
portion, at the request of the President and Secre
tary OF War. volunteered to serve short time
longer to aid, necessary, in defending the Capt.
tol against the rebel General Lee, who at that time
commenced the invasion Of Pennsylvania On the
4th OF July they left for Maine, arriving at Port
on the 9th. On the 18th they were mustered out,
and the men paid and finally discharged.
Colonels-R. P. Tapley. M. F. Wentworth.
Lieut.. Colonel-Jalnes F. Stone.
Major-J0hn ID. Hill.
Adintanf-E NJ Rand
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD

and Connecting Steamboat Lines.
On and after MONDAY, Oct. 30,
1854, Passenger Trains leave
Portland as follows:
For Bangor, Ellsworth. Bar Harber,
xancebOrO, 81. John, Halifax, aad the
Aroo.Iook County, Las ,. m, via Eewis,
ton, and 100 and t1f.15 p. m, via Augusta;
M, for skowhegnn, Belfast and Dexter,
1.25, 1.3O, Hills p. m; WRterviIIe, 100 q.
m, i25,, 100, t1i:15 p. M; for Augusta,
100, a. M, 1.3o, *5.15, III .16p H.; Bath, 90
a. M 1.3o, BIO p; m, and on Saturdays only at
aai 1S r E N hS od md and KTc1 4 Lila.
and Lcwision at SIS a. m, las, sos D. m;
LewistOn via Brunswiek, TOO 9. m, Hills
Winthrop, Oakland and North Anson,
1.l5 p. M; Farmington vim Brunswiek,
sThe 5.15 p m. train for Augusta viii run through
Monday morning.
sleeping ear attached and runs every night Sun
days included, but not through to Skoweegan on
Monday mornings or to Belfast and Dexter or
beyond Bangor, on Sunday mornings.
Trains are due in Portland as follows: The morn
ing trains from Augusta and Bath e.35 a. m.
gor and all intermediate stations and connecting
roads at IL 40 and 1916 p. M; the afternooa
trains from Waterville, Augusta, Bath Roekland
Express train at LEO a. m.
Portland, Bangor, Mt Desert and Ma
chias Steamboat Company.
COMMENCING MAY 1, 1886
STEAMER CITY OF RICHMOND
leaves Portland every TUESDAY and FRIDAY
at LOO p. after arrival Of night train from Bos-
ton, for Rocl5Iand, Casfine, Deer Isle, seds-
wick, South West Harder, Bar Harb@r,
millbridge, JonespoFt aud MachiasPortf
parties for last three named points desiring to
do 50 can proceed by rail to Mt. Desert Ferry
on days steamer sails from Portland, cross to Bar
Harbor by Ferry Boat and connect with the. Rich-
mond there, as It does not run to Mt. DesertFerry
on Eastward trips.
RETURNINGs Leaves Machiasport every
Monday and Thursday morning for Mt. Desert
Ferry, and there connecting with trains for Ban
gor, Portland and Boston, and leaves the Ferry
same forenoon for Portland via all landings and
connecting with night Pullman and early morning
trains for Boston.
Limited Tickets, first and second class, for
all points in the Provinces ON sale M
duccd rates.
PAYSON TUCKER, General Manager
+. E. B0OTHBY, Gen1 Pass. and Ticket Agt.
Portland, Oct. 16, 1884. ap25dn
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-22

The Twenty-fifth corps was composed entirely
of colored soldiers, under command of Gen. God
frey Weitzel They were the first to enter Rich
1nond when it fell, April g. 1865. Their device is
square placed diagonaly within a square Gen.
HancOcks veteran volunteers wear double
laurel wreath, surrounded by a seven pointed flg-
ure A wide red band passes through the center
Of the circle formed by the wreath.
The Sheridan cavalry badge is only worn by
commissioned officers. 1t is two gold crossed sab
ers on blue field surrounded by glory in silver
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2e Lieutenant, George H. Bailey.
co. (RIFLE GUARDs).
Captain, William NJ. Shaw.
LIST Lieutenant, Albert ii. Estes.
"a Lieutenant, John M. Marston.
co. cd co. OF RIFLE GUARDs).
Captain William M. Quimby.
1St Lieutenant, Nehemiah + Furhish
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Thirty-second Regiment.


The Thirty-sec0nd Maine was the last full regi-
ment raised in our State. The officers and nom
commissioned officers were for the most part vet
Grams. Six companies were hurried off to the
front and assigned to the Ninth Army corps, April
90 1864, the other four went later. Capt. Chad
wells and Capt. Sargents companies had a large
number of Portland men in them The Portland
officers were:
Lieut.. Colonel, John Marshall Brown.
Captain c, Herbert X. Sargent.
III, George ii. Chadwell.
I'll, Thomas p Beals.
I'd Lieut.. II, Henry G. Mitchell.
Col. Brown had served in the Twentieth and on
General staff. Captain Caldwell in the First and
Twelfth, Captain Sargent in the First and Tenth,
and Captain Beas in the Seventh. Brown and
Sargent were wounded, Chadwell died, and
Mitchell was captured. The regiment had an ex-
ceedingly trough service under Grant In the
Wilderness, and so on to the battle of the Crater
or Mine explosion, from which they emerged with
only fifty men, The remnant of the regiment was
transferred to the Thirty-frst Maine in December
after short and active career" during which 1t
"did comparatively as much and as hard fighting
as any other organization"
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Previously

the works of the steamer Ella Morse, built at
Bath, which was bought by the government and
used as a tow boat at New Orleans.
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Fifth Battery.

The Fifth battery had eighteen original mem
bers from Portland, including Lieuts. William f.
Twitchell and Ezra Clark, ir.,. Dr. Charles O.
Hunt, now surgeon in charge of Maine General
Captain Leppien is also credited to Portland.
though he was not citizen of Maine at all. Lep-
pien was one of the finest soldiers ever commits
stoned from Maine, and he disciplined the Fifth
battery till there nothing better either in the
regulars or Rhode Island. He fell at Chaneellors-
vile, and TWltchell at the Second Bull Run.
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Maine sharpshooters.

+ EbbENDENt
company of sharpshooters was raised In
Maine, November, 1861, by our townsman the
late James D. Fessenden, who starting here
gave long and valuable service to the country,
mostly in western armies, and finally came back
wearing the Brig Generals star, to command his
brother Franks brigade in Sheridan's army.
Dapei II cummings a t WAS "a Leu aha after
known as Co. d, Second U. S. Sliarpshooters.
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Thirtieth Regiment.

three years, Left Augusta for New Orleans
Feb 7, 1864, and assigned to the Ninteenth
Army corps.
Like the Twenty-ninth this was a Veteran
regiment; it carried the traditions of the old
Twenty fifth, and recruited all over the State
The officers and non-commissioned officers were
a majority of men from any one town, but Port
land men predominated in Co. /, Capt. Frank l..
Jones, whom we have already seen In the Twenty
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fifth The other Portland officers beside Colonel

fifth. The other Portland officers beside Colonel
Fessenden and Capt. Jones were
EAdjutant Charles F. Larrabee.
q Quartermaster, Frank III. Coffin
Asst. Surgeon, Thomas II. Breslin.
Captain, Whitman Sawyer.
Me11l" Levi M. Prince.
1stLieut., Henry b. Cleaves
~ 81" Charles b. Hall
E2d!Lieut., Franklin T. Holmes
g Lewis f. Cummings
HoeT1N'' Burnett H. Beale.
William H. Motley.
Larrabee and Hall were commissioned In the
regular army after the war. Lieut.-Col Royal E.
Whitman, whose business was in Portland before
the war, was also commissioned in the regular
army.
The regiment took part in the battles of the Red
River campaign, in one, of which, Cane River
Crossing" Col. Fessenden won his Brigadier
Generals star, but lost his leg. He was COM
manding the brigade at the time, and it is worth
noting as a curious coincidence that this brig
ade, late in the war, fell to the command of his
brother, Brighten. James d. Fessenden. Coming
north in July with the Ninteenth corps, the Thif-
teth went first to Deep Bottom then to the Valley
where Sheridan set them to guarding his long
trains. The remnants of the Thirteenth Maine
were consolidated with the Thrtieth, In Noyem-
Der, 1864, at which time the companies were re-
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Thirty-first Regiment.

The Thirty-first was new regiment though
many of the officers and noncommissioned officers
were Veterans" 1t was organized at Augusta,
and recruited in the eastern part of the State.
There were no Portlanders among the original
members. The Thirty-second Maine was cons0li-
dated with it in December 1864
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Second Battery.

The Second battery had six original members
that hailed from Portland including Lieuts Samll-
ell Paine and Samuel Fessenden; the last was the
younger brother of Gems. James D. and Frank
and one of the most geniel and open-hearted
young men that ever wore blue. He fell at the
second Bull Run.
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Fourteenth Regiment.

COL. NICKERS
The Fourteenth Regiment had one Portlander
on its original roll, Captain George H. Cheney.
Lieut.. George Webster came in later, and both
resigned.
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Fifth Regiment.

-i"e'0iou III June 20 and ID, 1861, for three
mi, years Sent to Washington June &c.
There were three Portland COMPANIES here:
70 70 +, Japan George p. Sherwood; Co. G, Capt
mon. F 49, ~
p Sherwood was wounded and invaded at Bull
nun. 5nolnas eventually became Brigadier-G Gen.
e s anu IS now paymaster in the regular army.
scamnon was promoted to Colonel lost his health
and died. Three men were successfully appoint
GRAHAM, George w. Bicknell Whitman RESIGNED
shortly after appointment and re-entered the navy
III which he had previously served. GRAHAM en-
tered the regular army, died 1882. Bicknell was
for many years pastor of the India st. Universe
list Church. The other Portland officers were Mai.
Henry K. Millett, hailing from Palmyra and now
living at Gorham, but well known from long res
idenee mere after the war, and Capts. Thomas J.
Sawyer, Album P. Harris George f. Brown Ma
Z. Stevens, Charles o. Waterhouse, George w.
Martin, Ambrose s. Dyer, Richard C. Shannon;
I'd Lleuts., j. Augustine Grenier Frank G. Patter-
son, Robert J. Mcpherson Samuel Munson.
OF this long list, only Capt. George +. Brown
the photographer, remains here now. Clark was
mortay wounded at Spottsylyania. He was one
of the most l0yable of men. Shannon and Munson
were promoted, by the President, to the general
staff. Col Dunnell is credited to Portland, though
he resigned after holding his Colonels commission
a few months.
The fifth had long and creditable service after
they once got started in the right way. Especially
noteworthy was the assault on Marye's Nights
lFredericksburg) May 3, 1868; the charge at
Rappahannock station, Nov. 7, 1868, when as
party making the ASSAULT and the grand charge
under Cen Upton, at Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864.
Inc term OF service OF the original members ex-
OF Petersburg; the recruits were consolidated
with the 9Th and 18th Maine shortly after and call
ed the LIST Maine Veterans.
Few Maine regiments were engaged in so many
battles or took such prominent part in them
as did the old Fifth. The Fifth was in the famous
Sixth corps. The list of the battles begins away
back with the first Bnll Rum takes in the Peninsl-
la campaign, Champion Gap and Antietam Md.
Fredericksburg, Rappahannock Station, Spott,
sylvania, and Cold Harbor. Gen. Upton, in his
parting address to them, said you have cap
tured the battle1ags of five of the proudest regi-
ments in the Confederate service; and while IN
iicting loss equal to your own, you have in add
ton captured more prisoners than you have names
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TRAINS LEAVE BOSTON FOR PORT
SUNDAY TRAINS.

Leave Portland for Boston and Way STA
tiOus at LOO p. mn. Leave Boston for
Portland at 600 p. mn. Leave Portland
800 ID. m.
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PORTLAND IN THE REBELLION.

The following sketches of Maine regiments en-
listed in Portland, and of Portland members who
served in the war, in other Maine regiments and
the navy, by Major J. NJ Gould and B. W. Strick-
land, will prove interesting to many
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-22
First Battery.

OF the seven batteries Of mounted artillery all
but the First belonged in the Army of the Poto-
mac The First was raised in Portland: Here
Eastport, entered upon his military career which
ended in his being made Brevet-Colonel and Chief
corps the First battery was part. Portland also
furnished thirty-one of the original members of
the battery and about as many more recruits at
xror fipoac
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Fifteenth Regiment.

The Fifteenth Regiment had fifteen Portlanders
In it at first Captain Charles S. Ilsley was the
only officer We furnished He served his terme en-
7th U. s. Cavalry. Gen Ben b. Murray, of the
18th, resided in Portland while be was o. S. Mar
shall, and Capt. Henry A. Shorey is now i'll the
custom house
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Sixth Regiment.
COL. BURNHAM.

The Sixth regiment was recruited in the eastern
part Of the State but rendezvoused at Portland.
Mustered in July 15 1861. for three years and
were, twenty Portland men among the orig
inal members, and Chaplain Zenas Thompson and
Dnrtla
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Second Regiment.

Inc Second Maine Regiment, rendezyoused In
Bangor; According to the Adjutant Generals re-
port, tnere We're twenty-three Portland men
among its 'orignal members" Horatio Staples.
tne wei known dry goods dealer, was LIST Lieut. of
Co. G, but hailed from Bangor then - ie"s "a
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The Seventh regiment had one Portland COM
pany," Capt Charles H. Gilman's, Co. g. but many
of the men came from suburban towns. There
original members, and Col Mason is credited to
Portland though more properly his hail should
have been U. S. Army. For other Portland Off
GERS we have Capt. Joseph H. Walker who died in
the service, Captains William NJ Cushman and
George mckinley. The last served three month
in the LIST Maine and was transferred to the LIST
Veterans, and so served through the war. Capt
Albert A. Nckerson who also served long and well
made Portland his home for number of wears
Lieut.. George B. Knight and Luther B. Crosby also
hailed from Portland.
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First Maine Artiller,

The First Maine Heavey Artillery known Mt
first as the Eighteenth Infantry, and called the
First Heavy for short had hardly Portland
name except that of Lieut.-Coonel Thomas H.
Talbot. well known i'll our city before the war but
not residing here since. Lieut.-Colonel Zimro A.
Smith who was for number of years one of the
editors of the Portland PRESS and now editor of
the Boston Journal, served the entire term Of the
raoinnant
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Sixteenth Regiment.
COL. TILpEN.

The Sixteenth Regiment had about dozen
Portland men in it, one of whom was that odd
stick, William H. Broughton, the great checker
player who rose from the ranks to be Captain of
Co. d, and served with honor and distinction to
the end of the war. (The Adjutant General did not
tabulate the original members by towns and cities
after the 18th regiment.)
Lieut.. Fred III. Beeeher, of the 10th, a young
man of great promise, who was commissioned in
the regular army after the war, and was killed by
Indians could without much violence be reckon
ed Portlander, as could also Lieut. William T.
Dodge also of the Sixteenth, and of the rugular
army