tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22262602317616428752024-03-13T14:37:32.927-07:00The Gallant 7th Maine RegimentThis blog is to honor the men of the 7th Maine regiment and the sacrifices
they made for their country during the American Civil War. I am in hopes of following the 7th Maine regiment for the duration of the
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Civil War Sesquintennial.Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-56599403235699175132012-09-15T17:08:00.001-07:002012-09-15T17:08:26.841-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Again I find myself apologizing for the lack of postings on, "The Gallant 7th Maine Regiment", blog. Life gets in the way sometimes and for me that has been the case. I have been doing a great deal of research for my 7th Maine book and discovering some great material. So with the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam fast approaching I have been reflecting on my men from the 7th Maine, who were there that day. I say my men because the more I learn about them the more like old friends that become to me. It's almost like I knew them personally and that is why I feel it important to keep there memories alive for others to learn about the sacrifices they made for the greater good.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I had the great pleasure of spending the night at Antietam back in November of 1999. The Piper farmhouse was still a bed and breakfast at the time and I had the unique opportunity of spending the night in the second story bedroom that overlooked the battle field where the 7th Maine had made their gallant charge late the afternoon of September 17th 1862. I looked out the window the next morning and imagined what it must have been like for Major Thomas Hyde to lead his men into a crossfire of rebel musketry. I could see him on his horse leading his men into hell's fire. The greatest tribute to memorialize this heroic and tragic event for the 7th Maine was the painting done by Captain <a href="http://www.nps.gov/anti/photosmultimedia/hopepaintings.htm">James Hope</a> of the 2nd Vermont Regiment.</strong></span></div>
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Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-33594361481179770872011-11-27T15:45:00.000-08:002011-11-27T15:45:20.087-08:00Thanksgiving 1861<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I get the impression, from the various accounts of the first Thanksgiving of the Civil War, that the holiday experience was different for each regiment. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>In a letter from C. (a member of Company D), published in the Maine Farmer December 5, 1861 - "</strong><em><strong>28th. To-day has been Thanksgiving Day in the army. Thanksgiving! what pleasing recollections cluster around that day! Visions of the past from childhood to maturer years come thronging back upon the memory. Joyous meetings of dear friends, happy firesides and festive scenes in our bright northern homes, feastings, jolity, and thankfulness! Our Thanksgiving here is graver; mirth and feasting enter not into its arrangements; but the true thankfulness of the heart should - thankfulness that we are preserved alive when so many others are falling around us - that so many successes have crowned our arms, and that our cause is moving steadily and grandly on to certain triumph. We may suffer, we may fall, yet we are thankful that God has made us the instruments of so much good to the human race. Our Thanksgiving dinner was soup and hard bread - and it was hard. There were no drills to-day, but the regulations were</strong> <strong>read to the boys in the afternoon. This evening another solemn procession passed through the camp, bearing another comrade to his last resting -place upon the hill. Thus end the day in sadness, and the rain is falling gently upon our canvas roofs like angels' tears of pity and sympathy</strong></em><strong>." </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">In Maine Thanksgiving was celebrated on November 21, 1861. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"Annual Thanksgiving in Maine, November 21, 1861, the day of the anniversary of the signing of </em></span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>the immortal compact on board the Mayflower, by our Pilgram fathers and the day that venerated band first trod the soil of New England</em>."</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>pg. 70 Minutes <i>Of The General Conference Of The Congregational Churches In Maine At Their Thirty-Six Annual Meeting Held With The High Street Congregational Church, Portland June 24, 25, and 26, 1862. </i>Printed by Brown Thurston. Portland 1862.)</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>On November 24th 1861 another soldier at Camp Griffin, William A. Bowers, from Company K wrote to his sister Eliza, "<em>You [wanted] to know about Thanksgiving. I [will] tell you how we spent the day, and what we had for dinner. I come from picket about ten o’clock in the morning, and had breakfast of hard bread and salt beef, and for dinner, it was pea soup— and three [cups] water to one pea, and burnt in the bargain!— and hard bread, and for supper, hard bread and coffee. That [was] my Thanksgiving</em>." (</strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">William to Eliza, 24 November 1861, W. B. Pillsbury Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi.)</span></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
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</span>Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-18309516416498446982011-11-11T19:45:00.000-08:002011-11-12T09:15:20.072-08:00Veteran's Day 2011<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger's Note: In honor of all the 7th Maine men on Veteran's Day I post a letter written by Corporal John Babson Jennings of Leeds Maine who belonged to Company K. John's letter is a wonderful piece of history that keeps him and the people he writes about alive. Their role in history is recorded for future generations to appreciate the sacrifices they made to preserve our country.</strong></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Griffins Hill Va Nov 8 1861</em></span></strong></div><strong><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> Dear Father</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>I now take my</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>pen in hand to write you a</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>few lines I am well and are</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>having a good time we left</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Washington yesterday and came</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>acrost Chain Bridge into Va</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>we are clost to Fairfax Court</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>House the 6 Maine Regt is here</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>by the side of us we are in</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>General Smiths Division we</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>are clost to Munson hill</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>you ought to see the regt here</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>the tents are so thick that it</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>looks like snow for as far as</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>you can see It looks like</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>War, the report her[e] is that the</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>fleet has taken Charleston S.C.</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>page 2</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>whether it is true or not</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>I do not know I here enclose</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em><u>ten dollars</u> of the of the United States</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>bank you never saw one did</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>you it is good as gold. I</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>wished that you would take</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Mother and Sis and have your</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>miniature taken in a thin case</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>and send it to me it will not</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>cost more than a quatter<sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2226260231761642875#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup></a></sup> to</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>send it to me I would</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>like to have them first rate</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Direct to Washington DC Company K</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>7 Maine regt</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> Your Son</em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> <span style="font-size: x-large;">J.B.J-</span></em></strong></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></div><div id="sdfootnote1"><div class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2226260231761642875#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>1</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong> - quarter</strong></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>(Pension file of John B. Jennings)</strong></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="313" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xvbqmRoGhDQ/Tr3WqFxxySI/AAAAAAAAACg/igypk9LauU4/s400/Chain+bridge.jpg" width="400" /><strong>The 7th Maine crossed the Chain Bridge into Virginia on November 7, 1861. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></strong></div>Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-46709158446018122672011-10-30T15:20:00.000-07:002011-10-30T15:20:01.096-07:00Blogger's noteI apologize for the lack of postings. I have been having some trouble with my left arm not healing the way it should and I have to type one handed. I feel like I have let my 7th Maine men down by not posting the way I wanted to post. So starting today I am going try and get back on track. <br />
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Bobbie:-)Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-63163539627386421162011-09-17T12:54:00.000-07:002011-09-17T13:01:05.463-07:00149 years ago today, late afternoon, a gallant charge<center><strong><u>Casualties in the Seventh Me. Regiment</u> </strong></center><center><strong><u>in the Battle of Antietam</u> </strong></center><center><strong>Company A</strong> </center><center>Lieut. J.G. Butler - missing </center><center>Private James Lewin, Houlton - killed </center><center>Private Roger B. Haines, Houlton - wounded </center><center>Private Charles H. Wolhampter, Monticello - wounded knee, severe </center><center>Private Richard Keating, Houlton - wounded and missing </center><center>Corporal Augustus L. Merritt, Maysville - foot, severe </center><center><strong>Company B</strong> </center><center>Captain James P. Jones - wounded slightly </center><center>Lieut. William L. Haskell, Acting Adj't, Poland - wounded both legs, severe </center><center>1st Serg't J. C. McKenney, Phippsburg - missing </center><center>Private Thomas Crawford, Bath - killed </center><center>Private Calvin Elders, Bath - hip, slightly </center><center>Private John Skolfield, Bath - foot, slightly </center><center>Corporal Crossman Timmings, color corps, Bath - knee, slight </center><center>Private E. M. Tobey, Bath - missing </center><center>Private M. M. Hatch, Lewiston - leg, severe </center><center>Private Addison Grant, Frankfort - side, severely </center><center>Private William York, Skowhegan - thigh, mortal </center><center>Private Timothy Merro, Vassalboro - arm, slight </center><center>Private Charles B. Hawes, Union - missing </center><center>Private William H. Holbrook, Emden - missing </center><center>Private C.B. Thoits, Pownal - missing </center><center><strong>Company C </strong></center><center>Lieut. A. M. Benson - hip,slight </center><center>Serg't Eli McLaughlin, Oldtown - missing </center><center>Corporal W. A. McPheaters - hip, severe </center><center>Corporal A.S. Harmon, Lincoln - leg </center><center>Private George E. Bragg, Detroit - leg, severe </center><center>Private William C. Stickney, Springfield - arm </center><center>*Private Moses W. McKay, Oldtown - wounded </center><center><strong>Company D</strong> </center><center>Lieut. Charles A. Goodwin, Dresden - killed </center><center>Color Serg't Harry Campbell - killed </center><center>1st Serg't A. K. Burroughs, Houlton - leg, flesh wound </center><center>Serg't Flavell H. Goodwin, Biddeford - killed </center><center>Corporal George D. Saunders, Minot - both legs, severe </center><center>Private Horace Ross, Bowdoin - leg, severe </center><center>Private Charles P. Penbrook, Bath - leg, severe </center><center>Private Jacob Page - shoulder, severe </center><center>Private Joseph E. Babb, Bowdoin - leg, slight </center><center>Private Thomas A. Richards, Dresden - missing </center><center><strong>Company E</strong> </center><center>Lieut. A. F. Emery, Kendall's Mills - abdomen, slightly </center><center>Private Rufus Preble, Winslow - killed </center><center>Private Thomas Hennabry, Hartland - killed </center><center>Corporal N.S. Burrill, Hartland - hand </center><center>Corporal S. R. Tuttle, Fairfield - hand, slight </center><center>Private Abram Batchelder, Pittsfield - arm, severe </center><center>Private E. H. Hammond, Pittsfield - foot, severe </center><center>Private Thomas Dolan, Portland - arm, slight </center><center><strong>Company F</strong> </center><center>Lieut. L. M. Shorey- foot, severe </center><center>Private Fred C. Tibbets, Athens - killed </center><center>Private C. B. Chase, Canaan - shoulder, ankle and leg </center><center>Corporal W. H. Benson, Athens - hip, slight </center><center>Private Hiram Wixon, Albion - hand </center><center>Private Israel A. Foster, Portland - leg, severe </center><center>Private Patrick O'Brian, Portland - leg, mortal </center><center>Private E. Townsend, Portland - hand, severe </center><center>Private H.D. Philbrick, Skowhegan - hand, slight </center><center>Private B.C. Studley, China - missing </center><center><strong>Company G </strong></center><center>Serg't William H. Motly, Portland - face, severe </center><center>Serg't James H. Armstrong, Portland - shoulder, severe </center><center>Corporal Robert H. Jackson, Naples - foot, severe </center><center>Private Charles H. Waterhouse, Portland - thigh </center><center>Color Corporal William P. Nason, Portland - leg, slight </center><center>Private John R. Begg, Portland - arm, severe </center><center>Private J.H. Norton, Bath - missing </center><center>Private Dennis Coffer, Bath - face, severe </center><center>Private Edward Murphy - elbow, severe </center><center>Private James H. Johnson - leg, mortal </center><center>Private J. H. Cobb, Saccarappa - foot, severe </center><center>Private Alvah J. Sprague, Bath - taken prisoner </center><center>Private Charles J. B. Smith, Portland - missing </center><center>Private James W. Lent, Richmond - missing </center><center>Private T. J. Waterhouse, Scarboro - missing </center><center><strong>Company H</strong> </center><center>Lt. Henry Warren, Bangor - missing </center><center>Private J.F. Commey, Oldtown - killed </center><center>Private G.W. Hodgkins, Stetson - missing </center><center>Private G. R. Boyer, Bangor - hip </center><center>Private C. H. Eddy, Clifton - hand, slight </center><center>Private O. J. Rowe, Clifton - leg, severe </center><center>Private E. Debeck - foot, slight </center><center><strong>Company I</strong> </center><center>Captain John B. Cook - leg, severe </center><center>Lt. Harlow P. Brown, Bethel - killed </center><center>Corporal Enoch B. Turney - leg, severe </center><center>Private W.T. Jordan, Strong - side, severe </center><center>Private Lewis E. Hardy, Hampden - leg </center><center>Private D. Hartford - foot </center><center>Private A. B. Whittier - leg </center><center><strong>Company K</strong> </center><center>Captain G.P. Cochran - ankle, severe </center><center>Corporal E. Collins, Lewiston - leg, slight </center><center>Color Corporal J.G. Carver, Lewiston - side, severe </center><center>Private H. Baker, Bowdinham - killed </center><center>Private G.W. McKenney - hip, severe </center><center>Private J.A. Wilcox - leg, severe </center><center>Private E. S. Fargo - hand, slight </center><center>Private P. McHannan, Lewiston - missing </center><center>Private G. H. Putney - missing </center><center>Private G. B. Hall - wounded and missing </center><center><strong>N. C. Staff </strong></center><center>Serg't Major John B. Parsons, Houlton - killed </center><center>Those reported missing may some have been taken by the enemy, some killed, and their bodies not identified, and some have found their way to some remote hospital. </center><center>Thos. W. Hyde </center><center>Major Commanding 7th Maine Vols. </center><center>Lewiston Falls Journal </center><center>Lewiston, Maine </center><center>October 2, 1862 </center><center>*From Maine Adjutant Generals Report Vol. II page 173 </center>Bobbie M. Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129264427334976429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226260231761642875.post-7290172077491789612011-08-31T18:24:00.000-07:002011-08-31T18:24:23.209-07:00The Journey Continues.....<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The steamer <em>Bay State </em>went "<em>passing up the Sound between the Long Island and Conneticut shores</em>." On the morning of the 24th</strong><strong> t</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>he regiment touched at New York where they changed boats for Elizabethport, NJ. Upon reaching there they boarded the cars for Baltimore via Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The night long train ride found the men of the 7th sleeping on the hard seats and straw covered floors of the cars. The morning of the 25th found them in York, Pennsylvania where they met the first troops that had seen action, "red caps". </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;">The route southward from York to Baltimore seemed “semi hostile” with soldiers posted along their route, but before long they arrived in Baltimore and camped in the western part of the city. (From a letter to the <em>Maine Farmer</em> written August 26th and printed on Sept. 5th 1861 by a member of Co. D.)</span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><em>On August 23rd 1861 the 7th Maine Regiment began their </em></strong></span></span><strong><em>journey south to join in the fight to preserve the union. They would strike tents at 1:00 a.m. at their camp in Augusta and three hours later were marching to the train depot to board the cars. They arrived in Boston at 4:00 p.m. and marched from the train station to Faneuil Hall where they were fed a splendid supper.</em> <em>After resting and filling their haversacks rations the regiment </em></strong></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>marched to the Fall River depot where they boarded the cars again and by midnight were on the steamer Bay State.</em></strong></span></span></span></span><br />
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