The Republican journal., 1922-10-19
A Modest Hero.


uss one that announced that u.
% CIV Of East Boston is visiting rela-
-, Town" Clarendon W. Gray is a
u''--,bis man. Sixty years ago he was
w. quartet Of brothers, sons of Rue.
gu GU Of stockton, who won much glory
u's civil War; and three OF them died
r..ds The story Of such heroism and
rromotion for ability aud patriotic
:" .,;ce may well be told on this occasion,
has never appea ed in the papers
-. county IN which they lived. Rob
Fl f1.,-v was the eldest, who enlisted at
the ompany of Capt. Frank Nick
Fourth Maine Regiment. lie was
u. sergeant, was swounded at first
,,u Kun battle. his arm broken, taken
-:.oner the 9th day escaped, swan the
po,omac river with the aid OF a fence
md was made second lieutenant of
-. Company he was promoted lst leu
,,, the following year, and upon the
l,,ncement of Captain Whtcomb to
;or Lieutenant Gray was promoted to
.,in of the Company. When Major
ws;,conb was mortally wounded at Get
,r.burs Captain Gray succeeded HIM in
~ The first day in the wilderness he
- command Of the regiment and was
-. from his horse by three bullets, dy-
Nav 9th, and is buried in Fredericks-
burg cemetery.
u;s brother Manderson j. Gray enlisted
:, the same Company Oct. 2, 1861, at the
80. of l6 and was killed in the battle OF
fredericksburg, Dec. l3, 1862, and was
.,r;sd there by his brother Clarendon,
,.,r the Rappahanock, about a mile
/ from Fredericksburg.
Augustus l.. Gray, the youngest broth
ar enlisted at the age of 10, March /,
,a6s in the 7th Maine, and was killed at
Il Cedar Creek, under Sheridan.
Clarendon W., enlisted with his broth
ers in the 18th Maine, at the age OF ID, and
vas promoted to corporal Sept. 2, 1862;
20 serseant. Aug. 8, 1868; was awarded
Il tbe Kearney medal for heroic conduct,
having it pinned upon his breast by Gen.
81 n,nisl E. Sckles. Gray, supported by
n three comrades, having captured at Far
81 o.ks six confederates with their colonel.
~ Clarendon reinlsted at the close of the
n three wears service of the 4th Maine and
was transferred to the 10th Maine, where
his reputation had preceded him, and he
was assigned to the Color Guard and
given the colors. At the disastrous re
pulse Of the 2nd Corps at Reem's Station
in 1864, his gallantry in leading the
| charge of the regiment TO retake the
4 works from which they had been driven,
4 waving the flag and greatly encouraging
4 his comrades, led to a commission oil Zna
lieutenant He was engaged in 81 battles
and skirmishes from first Ball Kun TO
Apponattox. He was mustered out
In,s t865 having served exactly four
n years.
81 Mr. Gray resided in Stockton five
v..rs At the close of the war he re-
Il moved 70 boston, where he was a mem
# her for S5 years of the Metropolitan po-
4 lice force, from which he retired to enter
'# trade in East Boston, in which he was
n succeeded by his son. Such specimen
III of manly man deserves to have the
E story of his patriotism told anew when
n he returns to Waldo county for visit
4 A cousin, Christopher c. Gray, son
/ Of Abijah Gray, a near nelghbor IN
/ Stockton, also enlisted in the same Com
pany and was promoted during his nearly
three years service to 1st Lieutenant Of
the same Company, and fell in that
bloody grapple the first day in the Will
derness.
By an unfortunate and unintentional
error in the Stockton town history Major
Gray is recorded as a lst lieutenant and,
Lieutenants Christopher c. Gray and
Clarendon w. Gray are not given the
rank they achieved. or that same school
district Sylvanus |. Roberts, the first
Republican Sheriff of Waldo county, had
two sons in the same 4th Maine Com
j pany, and both were killed in battle.
Jacob P. Eames also lost two sons IN the
same Company, and Amerin Dickey OF
E of Belfast of the same district, now de-
ceased, was a survivor with Lieutenant
Gray.
CASSIUS c. ROBERTS,
Tampa, Florida.