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Subject: [GM-L] Roll of Honor - Lancaster Men in the Civil War Part 6 of 6
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:59:58 EDT


Subject: Roll of Honor - Lancaster Men in the Civil War
Source: History of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Rev. Abijah P. Marvin 1879
Part 6 of 6

p.714 MISCELLANEOUS

Thomas A. G. Hunting had two sons in the war. As the family moved into
Lancaster about the
time of the outbreak of the rebellion, the two sons seem not to have been
properly recognized
in this town, or the town from which they came. One of these was Joseph W.
Hunting, aged 22
who enlisted in Company B, Sixteenth Regiment, July 2, 1861. He left at the
expiration of
his term of service, July 27, 1864 and has since died.

p.715

Albert C. Hunting, aged 19, Company B, Sixteenth Regiment; enlisted July 2,
1861. He was
killed at Fair Oaks, June 25, 1862 (both credited to Holliston, also).

Henry T. Taylor, Company A, Fifteenth Regiment. Enlisted July 12, 1861.
Disability, April
25, 1862. His eyesight was injured by a bursting shell which filled his face
with earth.
He was in the battle at Ball's Bluff, and swam the river. (Credited to
Leominster.)

The following names are on the marble tablet at the rear of the Library Room
in Memorial
Hall, Lancaster. The date of the decease and the age of each soldier are
given:

George Wright Cutler, Died October 21, 1861. Aged 23.

Walter Raymond Lawrence, Died October 21, 1861. Aged 28.

James Gardner Warner, Died October 21, 1861. Aged 31.

Luther Gray Turner, Died November 1, 1861. Aged 24.

Franklin Hawkes Farnsworth, Died May 31, 1862. Aged 19.

James Burke, Died September 1, 1862. Aged 26.

Robert Roberts Moses, Died October 3, 1862. Aged 26.

Ebenezer Waters Richards, Died December 13, 1862. Aged 37.

George Lee Thurston, Died December 15, 1862. Aged 31.

Henry Maynard Putney, Died April 26, 1863. Aged 20.

David Wilder Jones, Died May 3, 1863. Aged 46.

James Dillon, Died May 10, 1863. Aged 26.

Charles Timothy Fairbanks, Died June 19, 1863. Aged 27.

Henry Albert Cutler, Died July 4, 1863. Aged 19.

Oscar Frary, Died July 28, 1863. Aged 27.

Stephen Adams Keyes, Died August 10, 1863. Aged 19.

Walter Andrew Brooks, Died August 22, 1863. Aged 20.

John Patrick Wise, Died March 15, 1864. Aged 19.

John Chickering Haynes, Died March 19, 1864. Aged 30.

Stephen Wesley Gray, Died April 4, 1864. Aged 32.

James Andrew Bridge, Died May 15, 1864. Aged 21.

Henry Jackson Parker, Died May 15, 1864. Aged 28.

Sumner Russell Kilburn, Died May 16, 1864. Aged 21.

Solon Whiting Chaplin, Died June 5, 1864. Aged 40.

William Dustin Carr, Died June 20, 1864. Aged 40.

Samuel Mirick Bowman, Died July 26, 1864. Aged 28.

Caleb Wood Sweet, Died August 3, 1864. Aged 23.

Edward Richmond Washburn, Died September 5, 1864. Aged 28.

Horatio Elisha Turner, Died September 8, 1864. Aged 20.

p.716

William Shumacher, Died September 13, 1864. Aged 22.

Frederick Fordyce Nourse, Died September 13, 1864. Aged 22.

George Walton Divoll, Died September 21, 1864. Aged 37.

John Louis Moeglin, Died September 28, 1864. Aged 53.

Oren Hodgman, Died September 30, 1864. Aged 21.

Luke Ollis, Died October 13, 1864. Aged 21.

Fordyce Horan, Died November 9, 1864. Aged 21.

Francis Henry Fairbanks, Died January 4, 1865. Aged 30.

Edward Russell Joslyn, Died April 10, 1865. Aged 21.

Francis Washburn, Died April 22, 1865. Aged 26.

Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth


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