The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-18

well, Spencer: c E. Boyles, Sterling;
G. e. Smith, Orange; Stephen c. Hast
ings, Providence; George B. Proctor,
F'ftchburg; Sidney L. Reed, Worces-
ter; e. .. Lacombe, Boston: Francis
Gates, West Gardner; o. P. Boss,
Fitchburg; c. w. Adams, Worcester;
Capt. Emerson Stone, Spencer; Willard
Cheney, Worcester; E. r. Lawrence,
Worcester; L. X. Lowell, Wayland; C.
A. Hyde, Shrewsbury; DR.. George w.
Dixon, Worcester; Edwin Gleason,
Shrewsbury; John N. Davis, Webster;
II. A. White, Philadelphia; L. T. Hath
away, Pet6rshan; Eli Sawyer, West
boro; Scion Wheeler, Bolton; A. Con
nor, Worcester; Patrick Dorothy North
! Worcester; Nathan E. Murdoch, Bos-
ton; Theodore Barker, Worcester; Geo.
| w. Mellen, Worcester; George AL
| len, Hubbardston; Joseph Karay,
| Worcester; w. H. Edwards ,Uxbridge;
e. M Wheelock, Hopedale; George w.
| Wood, Upton; John Cross, Brockton;
Lyman Leighton, Clinton; L. D. Had
ley, Melrose; w. H. Chaplin, Milford;
j. G. McCarter, Hyde Park; William
Emery, Milford; G. E. Emery Whitins-
| vile; Andrew ]. Searles, Whitinsville;
Paran c. H. Belcher, Randolph; C. f.
| Leighton, Clinton; Ira d. Bates, New
Boston, Ct; Henry Adams Hopkinton:
| w. H. Burke South birmingham; Geo.
| '. DAN, COllGOTQ JulCIlOHg w. >. no.
! gan, Worcester; e. P. Walker Gard
ner; A. H. Seaver, Arlington; Fred
| Bartlett, Shrewsbury; Francis Bird,
Aver; w. E. D. Stone, Warren ]. M.
| Stone, Warren; Charles Brownhill,
/ Warren; John G. Leach, Warren; H.
]. Marcy. Auburn; George E. Childs,
4 Upton; A. w. Edwards, Providence;
4 Charles F. Tenney Boston; Theodore
] N. Gates, Worcester; Martin Mcclure,
faTs EIGT1 A q -.
/ William Conner, Worcester; w. L.
| Wheeler, Fitchburg; B. W. Mayo,
/ Turner's Falls.
| General Pickett was toastmaster and
a happy one he made. Each of the
/ speakers was felicitously introduced
Capt. Emerson Stone spoke for the
regiment, Capt F. A Easton for the
! flag, and Gen. A. B. r. Sprague, Chap
| lain George S. Hall of the Twenty
! first, Capt. John Anderson of the u. S.
army, retired, president Of the Fifty
! seventh Massachusetts, Chief of Police
/ James M. brennan, Capt. ]. Waldo
| Denny, Capt. j. B. Knox and many
! others also spoke. Most Of the speak
| ing was in a reminiscent vein, and the
campaigns of the regiment and the
! stirring battles in which they parti-
cipated, with such undying credit to
themselves, were fought over and over
| again. Many of the stories told had a.
| humorous cast, put not few were full
| of pathos. The Spartans at Therino-
| pylae could not have fought with
| greater courage than the old Twenty
fifth at Cold Harbor.
The following paper, prepared by
! Cen Pickett, shows the kind of stuff
! the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts boys
were:
The Twenty-ffth left Worcester Oct
/ 3, 1861, its aggregate enrolment being
! 1871, including recruits.
The regiment was in Il engagements,
| participated in the siege of Petersburg,
! and was In the finish with Gen. Scho-
| field, in North Carolina. The total
/ killed and wounded during the war
was 564. There died in prison, 81; died
| Of disease and accidents, 10S; dis
charged for disability from disease and
! wounds, 241, a total of 974 OF the 81
/ prisoners of war, only 36 survived. Af-
ter nearly four years service the sur
| viving members were mustered out Ju-
! ly 10, 1865. Their colors were never
captured, and three of their torn and
! tattered flags are at the state house,
| and one at the city hall in this city.
| One was blown TO shreds and destroyed
by shot and shell at Cold Harbor, when
| the regiment lost 215 in killed and
! wounded out OF 302 who went into ac-
I ton.
Gen. Pickett went out as senior cap
| tain, rose to colonel of the regiment by
| rapid strides and retired in 1855 be-
cause of wounds received in battle He
| was brevetted brigadier general for
! gallant conduct and heroism at Cold
Harbor.