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2nd Vermont Infantry
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A MOST TRAGIC 4TH OF JULY CIVIL WAR MONUMENT DEDICATION
Roll of HonorOn the Maple Street side [of the monument] the following names are inscribed:
Capt. Myron C. Pratt, 1st Mass. Calvary, killed at Snickers Gap, Va., Oct. 21, 1862
Joel M. Lochling, 1st Mass. Cavalry, missing in action. Nov. 29, 1863, died at Andersonville Prison, May 17, 1864
John Minehan, 1st Mass. Cavalry, died of disease at Emory Square Hospital, Feb. 26, 1864
John H. Wild, 1st Mass. Cavalry, died of wounds at Emory Square Hospital, Nov. 4, 1862
Maurice Henman, 3d Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, Aug. 10, 1865, four months after the war, at New Orleans.
Thomas S. Holman, 1st. Mass. Infantry, wounded at Second Bull Run, died at Goshen, Mass. Dec. 7, 1862
Sgt. Roland S. Williston, 2d Mass. Infantry, killed at Cedar Mountain, Va. Aug. 8, 1862
Cpl. Hiram A. Eaton, 2nd Mass. Infantry, wounded at Second Bull Run, died at a hospital in Frederick, Md, July 20, 1862
Sgt. Amos Pettis, Jr., 10th Mass. Infantry, promoted and decorated for bravery, January, 1863, killed in action at Salem Heights, Va. May 17, 1863, just before the Battle of Gettysburg.
Sgt. John R. Walker, 10th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds received at Portsmouth, Va. In Grove Hospital Rhode Island.
Cpl. Hibbard K. Bean, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action at Fair Oaks, Va. May, 1862
Cpl. James Baldwin, 10 Mass. Infantry, died of wounds in the Wilderness Campaign, June 1864.
Cpl. Osmyn B. Paul, 10th Mass Infantry, promoted and decorated three times for bravery, killed in action, Spottsylvania Court House, May 1864
John Barry, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Salem Heights, Va. May 1863
James W. Burr, 10th Mass. Infantry, died of fever at Washington's Brightwood Hospital, Sept. 1861
Herbert J. Boyington, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action at Salem Heights, Va. May 1863
Levi W. Brooks, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed on picket duty, Wilderness campaign, July 1864
Anthony Cain, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Salem Heights, Va. May 1863The Hampden Street side bears the following names:
James Connors, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action at Petersburg, Va., May, 1864
William H. Estes, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Fair Oaks, Va., May 1862
John Falvey, 10th Mass. Infantry, died of fever, Warwick Court House, Va., May 1862
Michael Gorman, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action outside Petersburg, Va., May 1864
Charles E. Hovey, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action at Salem Heights, Va., May 1863
Joseph Maguire, 10th Mass. Infantry. Died of disease and wounds, Rappahannock River Station, Va., Nov, 1863
Abner D. Otis, 10th Mass. Infantry, died of fever at Washington, D.C., Sept., 1863
Robert J. Stewart, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Fair Oaks, Va., May, 1862
Simeon P. Smith, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed on picket duty, Rappahannock River Station, Nov., 1863
Daniel D. Shea, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May, 1862
Stevenson Sill, 15th Mass. Infantry, died of disease and wounds, Point Lookout, Md. July, 1862
Capt. John D. Frazier, 21st Mass. Infantry, died of wounds received at Second Bull Run, Sept., 1862
Patrick Cushing, 21st Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Newburn, N.C., March, 1862
Josiah Gleason, 21st Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May, 1864
J.W. Bartlett, 24th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds in an aid station near Newbern, N.C. March, 1862
Cpl. Richard Curry, 27th Mass. Infantry, killed in action near Spottsylvania Court House, May, 1864
Henry Lyman, 27th Mass. Infantry, died at aid station, Newbern, N.C., May 1863
B.F. Mackinster, 27th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Newbern, N.C., April, 1862
Robert McDonald, 27th Mass. Infantry, taken prisoner near Newbern, died at Andersonville prison, March, 1865On the northwest or Chestnut Street side are the following names:
James Sullivan, 27th Mass. Infantry, killed in action at Newbern, N.C., March, 1862
Thomas Sullivan, 27th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, Newbern, N.C. August, 1862. (There is no record to show if James and Thomas Sullivan were brothers).
Lt. Frank A. Cook, 31st Mass. Infantry, died of disease and wounds, Baton Rouge, Pa., August, 1863
Cpl. W.C. Van Valkenburg, 31st Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, May, 1864
Patrick Devine, 31st Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Alexandria, La., May, 1864
John Donahue, 31st Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Yellow Bayou, La., May, 1864
Sgt. Eben G. Clark, 34th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Piedmont, Va., June, 1864
Cpl. J.M. Perkins, 34th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Piedmont, Va., January, 1864
Cornelius Donahue, 34th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, Petersburg, Va., May, 1864
Malcolm Smith, 34th Mass. Infantry, killed in action, New Market, Va., May, 1864
Cpl. Charles R. Avery, 35th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds at Washington, July, 1864
Daniel Cronan, 10th Mass. Infantry, killed at Winchester, Va., Sept., 1864
Richard Wall, 46th Mass. Infantry, killed at Goldsboro, N.C., 1862
Fred S. Fairbanks, 36th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, July, 1864
Sgt. James P. Brooks, 10th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, Alexandria, Va., 1863
William Prentiss, Jr., 57th Mass. Infantry, died of wounds, June 1864
George M. Williston, 95th N.Y. Infantry, a Holyoke boy, killed in action, Chancellorsville, May, 1863
Dr. Elbridge G. Pierce, volunteer surgeon who served with many units, died of illness at Hampton Hospital, 1864
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