Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-21
Harvard MEN IN THE WAR.
A Glance at What DIR. Willard Parker
Called the ssWonderful Roll.,s
From the New York Sun.

From the New York SUM-
! There Is story, comparatively well known,
of a Harvard professor who at the time of the
war of the rebellion posted on the door of his
lecture room q notice which read: ION &C.
| count OF the absence Of most Of the men of nv
class with their regiments / will hold no further
Rotations" and the story ends with asserting
that the professor himself followed his class to
the front. In desk uptown is little pam
phiet OF forty-eight pages, Endorsed in o clear
but shaky hand, Wonderful Roll" The writer
| of those words was one of Harvard's most dis
| tinguished graduates, the late DIR. willard
Parker Of the class of 1926, and the pamphlet is
entitled. "Roll of Students of Harvard College
who have Served in the Army or Navy during
the War of the Rebellion" 1t was printed for
'Commemoration Day, July 81, 1866" and it
contains the names of $50 graduates and under
graduates of the college alone. 1t is an inter
esting little book, and looking over it's pages
one can quite believe the story told above
The first name is that of Charles Henry Davis
of the class of 1925, who became captain. COM
modore and rear-admiral during the war; the
last name is that OF Edward Winslow Fox of the
class OF 1867, who served as q private in the
| twelfth unattached company. Massachusetts
volunteers, from May 16 to August Is, 1864 The
first name to bear the fatal star (~) is that Of
James Samuel Wadsworth of the class of 1923,
made brigadier-general of volunteers as early
as August 8, 1861, who died in the Wilderness
May 8, 1864; the last that of Cabot Jackson
! Russell of the class of 1865, killed, while vet
only junior at college, at Fort Wagner, July
1S, 1853, he holding at the time a captains COM
mission in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts.
Perhaps to Harvard men the most noted
name of all in the book is that of VIM Francis
Bartlett, of the class of 1862. There is no star
against his name; the "quinquennial" of 1879
was the first in which his name was marked;
at dictin bpd
above his college mates. This is his record:
Private, Fourth Battalion. Massachusetts Y.
NJ, April II 1861; captain, Massachusetts TWEEN
tieth V; l.. July 10, 1861 colonel, Massachusetts
forty-nnth Y. l., November u, 1867; colonel.
Massachusetts ffty-seventh V. l.. August II,
1868; brigadier-general volunteers, June %,
1864" When Bartlett's class was graduated he
was present with the silver eagles of a colonel
on his undergraduate shoulders. the youngest
colonel ever on Uncle Sans books. Thrice was
he wounded and once taken prisoner. DAN
gerous wounds they were, too; it was while re-
covering from the last that he wrote to his ancee
offering to release her from her engagement to
broken up man like himself. To him she
wrote: 80 long as there is enough left Of You
to marry, 80 long shall l be ready to marry
YOU" They were married, and Bartlett lived
until 1876.
Another name in the book is that Of Charles
Russell Lowell. brother Of the poet Lowell, q
member of the class of 1854. bust has re-
Memorial hall at Harvard. 1t represents him
In the uniform of a colonel of cavalry. and
part of the inscription below it reads: Colo
mel Massachusetts second cavalry, April Is,
1868; brigadier-general volunteers, October 19,
1864; after thirteen horses had been shot under
him, he was MORALLY wounded at Cedar creek,
October 10, 1864. and died, without ever having
worn his stars, October 90"
Down in shady field on Davis avenue.
Staten Island, all last summer, an old, old
horse grazed and munched peacefully different
in nothing, apparently, except in age, from the
hundred horses that passed by every day.
Beryl was the old horses name; it was a big
bay animal, and looked as though it might once
have been charger or cavalry horse When
the distant notes of the campaign brass band
were heard the old horse would stop its graz
ing, raise its head and listen, and as the sound
came nearer, would grow younger, until at last
it would prance stiffiy around the field, SEEM
ing as young as the best Of horses The old
bay was once charger; he was Col. Lowelrs
fourteenth horse on that fatal October day, and
from his back the colonel fell, to be carried off
the field to die. So long as old Beryl lives he
will be cared for by his masters wife and
family; and now only the notes Of vensl
brass band remind the old fellow Of the stirring
times twenty-four years ago.
The Twelfth Unattached company Massa-
chusetts V. NJ, was composed almost entirely
of Harvard men. Its service during the war
was not brilliant, but it was none the less
valuable. Up on Garden street in Cambridge
stands the old state arsenal, and there, while
older troops were away at the front. the Har-
ward boys encamped, and for three months did
guard duty, relieving more experienced SOL
dlers, enabling them to be placed where they
would do the most good. Photographs Of the
arsenal as it appeared In those days are promi-
fent in the class albums of the four classes that
furnished men for this guard duty