The Portland daily press., 1885-06-22


term of service, and for the most part it was I'M
pleasant and unhealthy business. Excepting
Ser wir Ap sf as H MSan Nc Of9 h
left alone on the flank of the army, while a
strange regiment fed, its colonel taking cover
Red River with Gen. Banks looking on,--funny
fighting thought he and the 18th The regiment
cams in epe %s she nj
three-years' regiment from Maine that had so
little fighting and few that had such dreary time
of 1t on the whole.
Fourteenth Regiment.
COL. MCPHERSON.
The Fourteenth Regiment had one PortIander
Lieut.. George Webster came in later, and both
resigned
Fifteenth Regiment.
COL. DYER.
The Fifteenth Regiment had fifteen Portlanders
in it at first Captain Charles S. Ilsley was the
only officer we furnished. He served his term, Len
tered the regular army, and is now Captain In the
15th resided in Portland while he was 3. S. Mar
shall, and Capt Henry A. Shorey is now iu the
custom house.
Sixteenth Regiment.
COL. TILDEN.
The Sixteenth Regiment had about dozen
Portland men in 1t, one of whom was that odd
stick, William II. BrOughton, the great checker
to- 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 ii. Beeeher, OF the 10th, 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 7.
Dodge, also OF the Sixteenth, and OF the rugular
army.
Seventeenth Regiment.
COL THOMAS A. ROBERTS OF PORTLAND
.,., =. -, :, a 800, - -. -. ..
NiussGIeu ~ aug. 20 1929, ioI Iinee years. oent
~ ~; ~ asnils.ol aug ~, an" 'issishou ~ tiie
Thano ,,,ara 49,, ts,+ ,oro o.uo, pou,,.,,a 49,,
nani meie Wy sas %1it cae th; col
ro,' o,bn iut 49, sho VI ~ Tn odie
as any in o,,r "iy Portsnd nana T ,on Tt w
a3 s n 10 ui nd y ~ M; garS lo,s ny VI
ana they dld their paft IN making the 18th the
eioiiou' 'iu u, ,oslhO' - Voc
Colonel Thomas A. Roberts.
Lieut.. Colonel, Charles B; Merrill.
Adjutant, Charles " Roberts
Quartermaster, Jacob Thatcher Warehouse.
c,,.as, JOSIAH kemc aS.,tr,
SSnSrgelon Nahum Nahum A u aersom Vsaniofd
cantain W SGiIsepn f f s ssyagee
George w Martin
Benjamin Q. Pennell.
Granville +. Sparrow.
g E Eobn r h PerrT
Ellis M. Sawyer (Cape Elizabeth).
William Il. Green
George w. Verrlll.
Albion Hersey Paris).
Edward B. Honghton
Andrew Stinson (kittery).
,.+I;o,t 9anlu sas ~ NJ IR1 rnln
i'' q eu'' 9smea 9 Rnharts
p TdwaYd II n ~ 9lrie
g E Few S mnlvteh
!. Innrv "a 80 Payytals
I'd Lieut., Stephen Graham
q Hnraca p = Tmmn1;ngs
Thomas Snowman.
Temhell SAWYER, brown o anu nOpeIts were
kIlled. Waierhouse dled IN ihe service. zen.
Mattocks nad checKered anu eVentIuI ca Ieer
will pay perlisal The names Of twenty-seven en-
agements are nseriDed on Inc cp1ois 'e most
burg. Locust Grove, the wilderness. etc, and he
baifii.a besore peteTshnre The losses were verv
basv and he btng aISvavs good Portland bay
ai~sys t' heen e nrond IF the 17fh and With anod
froa n,,r M1 o'iei ''oA 81 hu'
Fred RoswSorth for whom our No. Q Post of fine
f,rand 49,, - tba ,ennhiic WIS namad servnd
in this A regmen 1o and was Killed at Wappng
Heights, Aug 20, 1863
Nineteenth Regiment,
cor. sTARBIRD.
The Nineteenth regiment was raised on the
Kennebec, and like the Sd Maine, it made a most
iii late i tbe isaac Sarbird its Iast
Colonel, lived with us humber Of years after dis
5th IEpdenendent e. !. earned Second Iietena l
CIV in January isS5, Int died few weeks later
= ' 800 -. -, -
GEN. AmEs,
r,,o ,r,,.o,,.,o.,. -. 80 4Aai.o
Ten. Chainnefialns) was organized at Portland in
August, looz, Dut tne oMcers and men came from
other places, with hardly an exception These
exceptions were notable Gen. John NJ. Brown
FTesident OF our monument Association, began
ms military career here as Adlqtant; and VIM. L.
n1onneii stepped lnto browns shoes on his promo
tlon. Ut. ADner y. Shaw was the surgeon. Hol-
man s. Melcher, formerly of Topsham, who has
Tor many years been a wholesale grocer here
rose from the ranks to be Captain and Brevet-Ma-
Ur 70 oy ne OF being one of the
iWenty-Secono, IWen-
ty-Thlrd, Twenty-Fourth.
and Twenty fourth were nine Months reeSmnnts
raised in the autumn of 1862 The word Portland
was 0 Goone s N he os d oag d age virgin who
Cleaves also of the 23d. reside here now Their
Colonels were johnson, Jerrard, Virgin and At
Twenty-Fi Regiment.
COL. FRANCIS FESsENDEN, OF PORTLAND.
Mustered in Sept 29th 1862, for nine months.
Sent TO washington Oct. 10th.
Three Portland companies entered this regi-
ment A, u and r. Co. A was more distinctvely
a fortlana company than any which had been
raised since the LIST Maine regiment. 1t
had IN It's ranks great many young
known" OF, prominent citizens One cannot
read the roll without smile; and herein lies the
ioundatlon Of t1at harmless BIT Of irony so often
OF the best equipped regiments that ever left the
state in the item OF brain" yet it was its mis-
fortune to be kept guarding Long Bridge, digging
dirt, and picketing on the outskirts of Washing
tbe reamen nts came hack bon b wnen
dered into hattie MANY who had carefiIf7v staid Of
home criticised the regiment harshly. Any one
who ever saw the regiment knows that it needs no
defender The Portland officers were:
iient' GoIo laii Sb nessehees Shaw
Major Alexander nj Tolman
Chaplain, Edward B. Furnish.
u C 1pp a. + Iahk L, Jones, George II AbDott;
p EumaI Meis ~ r %leey =, Mnltmah sawyer
V1 1t iil Iiont anu n Sharies Iso4ase.
pI ~ Liguts., a; oIaIies D. Halli y Lew N
(Standish). -''"0 - ''"'0i
cd Lieuts, A. CYRUS II. ulsley: F. Frank q
Stevens: / George q Gosse " ~ :"
Twenty Sixth Regiment,
cor. HIrRpARn
Tho r,yenty-si,tt raairoant had 10 po,.,.,a
T., - i"ei'5- oiAei regiment hdo no fortiahders
Ill IL. r.e .
iWenty-Seventn Regiment.
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