Year End, 1862; Part 2

Introduction - What's On This Page

Keeping records was a crucial role of officers in military organizations during the war.  The Adjutant General's Office required each volunteer regiment to file a monthly report with that office.   This page contains the data compiled and published in Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler's annual summary report for the 13th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers.  It begins with a month to month recap of the regiment's movements throughout the year, and includes battle reports for 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. This is followed by tabulated charts which begin with a list of officers discharged, and promoted, followed by extensive lists of soldiers discharged, transferred, died, missing, deserted & dropped.   Each section has been split apart under its own heading for easier access. 

Please note, the sidebars on the left in the blue column, represent the Orders of Battle for the 13th Regiment, beginning with McDowell's Corps, during General Pope's Summer Campaign; then Hooker's Corps representing the Maryland Campaign, and finally, Burnside's Left Grand Division, representing the Fredericksburg Campaign.

Photo Galleries are inclued in each corresponding section, with images of men whose pictures for the most part, aren't yet posted on the website.

I am fortunate to have copies of some original documents of Surgeon's Certificates of disability for many of the Company I men listed, and these are posted on page 3, along with a brief biography of 2d Lieutenant Walter H. Judson, the one officer listed, “dismissed from service.”

Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler

According to Wikipedia, and historian Patrick Browne at his blog titled, Historical Digression*, William Schouler [pictured] was born, December 31, 1814 in Kilbarchan, Scotland.  He grew up mostly in West-Cambridge, Mass., where his father had established a silk-print textile business.  His brothers worked with father in the family business but William went off to begin his career as a newspaperman in 1842.

He edited the Lowell Courier for 6 years, then moved to Boston to become part owner of the Boston Atlas, which became a leading Whig newspaper in New England.  He was politically active through these times and also took an interest in the Massachusetts State Militia where he reached the rank of Colonel.   In 1853,  he moved his family to Cincinnati to edit the Cincinnati Gazette.  Due to his knowlege and experience with state militias, Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase appointed Schouler, Adjutant General of the State of Ohio in 1855.   In 1858 Schouler returned to Boston.

Governor Nathaniel P. Banks appointed Schouler Adjutant General of Massachusetts in 1860.  Recognizing Schouler’s ability, in-coming Governor John A. Andrew kept him in that office throughout his administration.  Schouler was a natural master politician and model of organizational ability.

A contemporary of Schouler, described his efficiency.  “[Schouler] organized and recruited Massachusetts regiments, consolidating fragmentary bodies in the State camps, and applying immeasurable tact and kindness to reduce the friction so constantly engendered among raw military aspirants and raw enlisted men, and to draw all together into harmony for the common weal.  Besides other high officials and legislators in his own State, he had national military organizers and officials to encounter, and to move smoothly with, in a common task which could not possibly escape asperities on the one hand nor permit of haughty compulsion on the other.”

His compassion for the common soldier was ever present in his actions.

 “He worked for the soldier with all the devotion of a personal friend. While marshaling and directing large numbers of armed men, he did not forget that they were torn from the homes of a lifelong peace to do the unaccustomed work of cruel war. Not a man went to the front from Massachusetts during the whole of that dreary period, without feeling that the friendship and sympathy of the adjutant-general accompanied him. He knew the stuff of which our regiments were made.”

Each year of the Civil War, Adjutant Schouler filed a detailed summary report for each Massachusetts Volunteer Military organization.  After the war he turned these reports into a masterful 2 volume history, “History of Massachusetts in the Civil War.”

The information presented on this page is lifted from Schouler’s 1862 annual report for the 13th Regiment, and cross-checked with other sources.

*Historical Digression post “Gen. William Schouler and Massachusetts Going to War” by Patrick Browne, posted at historical digression.com September 23, 2011.  His sources: [Sources: James Schouler, Historical Briefs, (1896), 207-262; Bob Leith, “Lincoln Thanks Mother for Sons’ Sacrifice,” Ironton Tribune, August 28, 2011.]

PICTURE CREDITS:   All images are from the Library of Congress digital images collection, with the following exceptions: The Regiment in Camp, and, at Manassas, Col. Leonard's head-quarters at Martinsburg, along with portraits of Elliot Clark Pierce, Oscar F. Morse, A.H. Bryant, Charles F. Jackson, Cornelius Drisoll, Ephraim Wood, Ezra Trull, Paul E. Fiedler, Thomas R. Keenan, & Isaac Hall Stimpson,  are from the Mass. MOLLUS Collection, Army Heritage Education Center, Carlisle, PA;  The field where the regiment fought at Antietam, was taken by regimental historian, Charles E. Davis, Jr. in 1888, courtesy of Stephen Recker; All pictures of Company B men, are from my personal collection, courtesy of Mr. Scott Hann; Portraits of Company A men, Dana Estes, Walter C. Bryant, George F. Paine, & William H. Cundy, author's collection courtesy of Mr. Tim Sewell; Pictures of Thomas Rathburn, J.N.P. Johnson, Sewell Merrill, & Hollis L. Johnson, all of Company F, are from a book, The History of Berlin, Massachusetts; Henry C. Coffin, is from the author's collection, copied from an image in the Massachusetts State Archives, Executive Correspondence collection, (2 vols.) for the 13th Regiment;  Edward Rowe, Osgood Waite, George Pomeroy, & John P. Shelton, from various on-line auction houses; & the image of Henry Battles and John H. Moore is from the Sudbury Historical Society. Color Snapshots were taken by the author.  ALL IMAGES HAVE BEEN EDITED IN PHOTOSHOP.

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Adjutant General's Summary Report; 13th Massachusetts, 1862

Making a very educated guess as to the identities of these officers & men, I can with much confidence declare, Lieutenant Edwin Frost far left, Sergeant William Pfaff,  stought man, 2nd from left.  Captain William H. Jackson, Company C, standing in front of him in the foreground. The large man next to Jackson, is 1st Lieutenant Neat, Company A.  Next to him is 2nd lieutenant George N. Bush, same company.  Next is Lt-Col. N. Walter Batchelder in a familiar Batchelder stance.  The guy in the top hat has been identified as Chaplain Noah Gaylord, standing in front of the Library building he maintained in the camp.  The gentleman in the Scottish cap next to Gaylord is unknown to me.  On the far right is Surgeon Allston W. Whitney, again in a familiar stance. -- B.F.

Presented here is Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler's Summary Report, for the year 1862.

THIRTEENTH REGIMENT

The nucleus of this regiment was the Fourth Battalion of Rifles, M.V.M., which was recruited to a regiment at Fort Independence.  It was ordered to Washington, July 30, 1861.  I have received no answer from Colonel Leonard to my circular letter of October last; but from this regiment we have received monthly reports with great regularity, from which, and other documents in this office, I have been able to make a narrative of its services, which is accurate as far as it goes.

From the time it left Massachusetts until the spring of 1862, it was on patrol and outpost duty, on the upper Potomac in Maryland.  The following facts I gather from its monthly reports.

By monthly report of January, 1862, dated at Williamsport, Md., February 3d, this regiment was shown to be in a very healthy condition.  Huts had been built on their camping ground, which had been occupied by them for two months. 

December 31st, 1861.  Companies A, B, E and H were then at Hancock, Md., and in accordance with orders from head-quarters and General Kelly, in command of the Department of Cumberland and Harper’s Ferry, left in command of Captain J. A. Fox of Company A, for head-quarters, arrived January 2, 1862, at Williamsport, Md., about nine, P.M., and returned to camp.  They came by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

January 5th, 1862.  Companies C, D, I and K were ordered to march to Hancock, Md., and assist in repelling a rebel force at that point; were ordered to report to Brigadier-General Lander.  They left camp at three, P.M., and arrived at their destination by a forced march during a heavy fall of snow, at half-past one, A.M., January 6, 1862.*  The distance is twenty-six miles.  No action took place, the rebels having retired, after accomplishing their object, viz. – the destruction of some miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track, recently rebuilt by General Kelly’s command.  Those companies left Hancock for Williamsport, Md., Camp Jackson, January 30th, 1862 at half-past one, P.M., reached Clear Spring at nine, P.M., quartered in an old church during the night, and marched again at ten, A.M., arriving at two, P.M., in camp.  The regiment had been in camp through a “muddy month,” and several alarms had called them to arms.  No serious demonstration except alarms from Hancock.  “Bayonet exercise,” and drill in the “manual of arms” had been instituted in place of “battalion drills,” which were impracticable, owing to the muddy state of roads and grounds adjoining camp.

*NOTE:  The Regimental History states they arrived in camp January 7th.

By monthly report of February, 1862, dated at Martinsburg, Va., March 3d, 1862:—

The caption for this picture indicates it was Colonel Leonard's Headquarters at Martinsburg.  The regiment was here in March, 1862.  Surgeon's Allston Whitney and Theodore J. Heard were here, with the Sergeant Major.  (Mass MOLLUS collection, Army Heritage Education Center, Carlisle, PA.)

By monthly report of March, dated at Warrenton Junction, Va., April 5th, 1862:—

This is attributed to be men of the 13th Mass, at Manassas around March, 1862.  I have also seen this or a similar image attributed to the 9th NY.  Both regiments are in the same brigade, so it may in fact be the 13th.  However, none of the men pictured here, are immediately recognizable when compared with other images.

Monthly report for April, 1862, dated at Warrenton Junction, Va., May 2d, 1862:—

Monthly report for May, dated near Front Royal, Va., June 6th, 1862:—

Pictured is the West side of Thoroughfare Gap, looking East.

In a letter from Colonel Leonard, dated June 8th, 1862, accompanying this report, he says:  

Monthly report for June, dated at Manassas, Va., July 1, 1862: —

Monthly report for July, dated near Warrenton, Va., August 1, 1862:—

Monthly report for August, dated at Sharpsburg, Md.:—

Monthly report for September, dated near Sharpsburg, Md., October 12th:—

Monthly report for October, dated “In the field," November 2, 1862:—

Monthly report for November, dated near Brooks’ Station, Va., December 1st, 1862:—

Monthly report for December, dated at Fletcher’s Chapel, Va., January 2d, 1863:—

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Battle Reports for Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg

The following is a condensation of the report made to your Excellency, of the part taken by the Thirteenth Regiment at the battle fought at Manassas, on the 30th of August, 1862.

Pictured is the ruined Mill at Thoroughfare Gap.  Company K took possession of this building during the fight, August 28, 1862.

Manassas

It had taken part in the battle at Thoroughfare Gap on the afternoon of the 28th of August.

It left Thoroughfare Gap on the afternoon of the 28th, and encamped at night at Gainesville.  At daylight on the morning of the 29th it marched to Manassas Junction, via Bristow Station on the Alexandria and Orange Railroad, and thence to a position near the first Bull Run battle-field, where it bivouacked.  Early on the morning of the 30th the brigade in which they were was ordered forward to the line of the expected battle.  During the forenoon their division took position in massed column on the right of the line of battle as a reserve, and as such made such movements as were necessary to support the advanced line in its changes of position.  In the early part of the afternoon, the brigade made a reconnoissance to the extreme right.  On returning, the division marched to the extreme left of the line of battle.  After a halt of a half-hour, and at about four o’clock, P.M., the division, by command of General McDowell in person, returned, and when nearly opposite the centre of the left wing, their brigade marched directly to the front line then in action, and, by a flank movement to the left, along in rear of the line of battle, formed on the left in support of the troops, then wavering from the crushing force opposed to them, this regiment having the left of the entire line of battle.  Shortly after gaining this position, it was discovered that our left had been flanked by a heavy force, and this regiment especially was receiving the enemy’s fire from two directions.  Soon the supported line fell back, passing through the regimental line to the rear.  Not until thus uncovered did this regiment return the fire of the enemy.

After nearly half an hour’s brisk firing, many having been disabled, it became evident that the Thirteenth could not, unsupported, long hold the position, exposed, as it was, to a fierce enfilading fire from both the enemy’s artillery and musketry.  At this time their Colonel received an order by one of General McDowell’s aids, to flank to the woods, then partly occupied by the enemy, about one hundred yards distant, across a small brook and ravine, much exposed to the enemy’s fire.  While accomplishing this movement, the left wing of our whole force gave way generally, and this regiment retired with the other troops, to reform in the rear of the hospital.  At night they retreated about two miles and bivouacked, and early the next morning reached Centreville.

The losses sustained by this regiment at this battle were 19 killed, 108 wounded, and 66 missing; total, 193.

TIn the center distance to the woods behind, are the fields on Chinn Ridge where the 13th Regiment fought, August 30, 1862.  View to the east.

Antietam

About three o’clock on the 13th [16th is correct — B.F.] of September, the division to which the regiment belonged marched from its position near Keedysville, on the right bank of Antietam Creek, to the extreme right of the anticipated battle-ground, by the Smoketown road, and halted near the Hagerstown pike.  About six o’clock an advance towards the enemy’s line was ordered, and by a succession of manoeuvres, most of the time exposed to a rapid shelling from the enemy’s artillery, during which the regiment suffered no casualties, the brigade arrived, about eight o’clock, at a position in line  of battle, at a short distance only in rear of our line of skirmishers.  In this position they remained during the night, lying upon their arms.  At five o’clock on the morning of the 17th, the brigade, being in line of battle, commenced advancing, and at six o’clock came under the fire of the enemy, both artillery and infantry.  Still advancing, by a movement to the right and again to the left, they gained a position within about seventy-five yards of the enemy’s line, and commenced returning their fire.  From this position two supporting lines of the enemy could be seen.  Our line was partly along the border of a piece of woods, and partly in an open field.  In consequence, their right wing was more exposed, and suffered more severely.  For two hours this regiment was thus spiritedly engaged.  Their brigade was composed of four regiments, of which the Twelfth Massachusetts was on the right, the Eighty-Third New York on the left, and the Thirteenth Massachusetts on the right of the left wing.  The battle raged fiercely at this point.  After a full hour’s hard fighting, the right wing of the brigade, holding a more exposed position, and suffering a heavy loss, fell back. This regiment was the last to retire, and not until the Ninetieth Pennsylvania, which came up as a reinforcement in the place of the Eleventh Pennsylvania, and the Twelfth Massachusetts had retired from their right, and the Eighty-Thrid New York from their left, did their Colonel receive the order to fall back.

This photograph shows the East Woods and the fields where the 13th Mass. fought at Antietam.  The photograph was taken by Charles E. Davis, Jr., in 1888.

Their division having retired, shortly formed again, and were again placed in line of battle, where they remained, awaiting orders.

The following casualties occurred on this battle:  Killed, 15; wounded, 120; missing, 4; total, 139.

Fredericksburg

For the part which the Thirteenth Regiment took at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., I am indebted to a letter from Adjutant Bradley, from which I make the following extract, dated Falmouth, Va., December 17th, 1862:—

The Field where the men of the 13th Mass. skirmished with the enemy at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.

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Massachusetts Adjutant General's Report:  Abstract

The following information continues from Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler's Report, dated January, 1865.  I have added the names of the soldiers to the lists whereas Adjt. Schouler simply stated, “8 First Lieutenants promoted Captains.” — B.F.

The following is an abstract of the roster of this regiment:—

1 Assistant-Surgeon promoted Brigade-Surgeon:  J. Theodore Heard on May 1, 1862.

1 Captain promoted Colonel 23d Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers:  Captain John Kurtz Co. C, on Sept. 25, 1861.

1 Captain promoted Major 1st Regiment Maryland Cavalry:  Capt. Charles H. R. Schriber; Major 1st Md. Cavalry on August 1, 1862.

  8 First Lieutenants promoted Captains:

1.  1st Lt. Samuel Neat, Capt. on Jan. 28, 1862.
2.  1st Lt. John G. Hovey, Capt. on Jan. 31, 1862.
3.  1st Lt. William H. Jackson,  on Sept. 25, 1861.
4.  1st Lt. Charles H. Hovey,  on Nov. 6, 1861.
5.  1st Lt. Abel H. Pope, Capt. on Nov. 29, 1862.
6.  1st Lt. Moses P. Palmer, Capt. on Aug. 15, 1862.
7.  1st Lt. Elliot C. Pierce,  Capt. on July 25, 1862.
8.  1st Lt. William H. Cary, Capt on Dec. 30, 1862.

10 Second Lieutenants promoted First Lieutenants:

1. George N. Bush, on Jan. 31, 1862.
2. Augustine N. Sampson, on June 28, 1862.
3. William H. Cary, on Feb. 7, 1862.
4. Charles F. Morse, on July 23, 1862.
5. John H. Foley, on July 26, 1862.
6. David L. Brown, on July 25, 1862.
7. Charles B. Fox, on Aug. 16, 1862.
8. Melvin S. Smith, on Nov. 5, 1862.
9. Thomas J. Little, on Nov. 29, 1862.
10. Oliver C. Livermore, on Dec. 30, 1862.

1 Second Lieutenant dismissed the service:   Walter H. Judson on Nov. 22d 1862.
           [See notes on page 3.]

13 Second Lieutenants have been taken from enlisted men:

1.  Sergeant-Major Thomas J. Little, on March 16, 1862.
2.  Sergeant-Major Oliver C. Livermore, on June 28, 1862.
3.  Q.M. Sergeant Thomas R. Wells, on Nov. 5, 1862.
4.  Sergeant Morton F. Tower, on July 23, 1862.
5.  Sergeant Jacob A. Howe, on July 23, 1862.
6.  Commissary Sergeant William B. Kimball, on May 25, 1862.
7.  Commissary Sergeant Melvin S. Smith, on Feb. 17, 1862.
8.  1st Sergeant David Whiston, on July 26, 1862.
9.  Sergeant Henry N. Washburn, on Nov. 23, 1862.
10.  1st Sergeant Samuel C. Whitney, on Dec. 30, 1862.
11.  Sergeant Oscar F. Morse, on July 25, 1862.  [pictured.]
12.  1st Sergeant David Whiston, on July 26, 1862.
13.  Sergeant Charles W. Whitcomb, on Nov. 28, 1862.

32 Commissions have been made for this regiment during the year 1862.

Resignations of Commissioned Officers and Discharges of Non-Commissioned Staff

The Band

The Band was mustered out on August 31, 1861 by order of the War Department.

Thomas C. Richardson, of Sudbury, Leader, age 22;
John Brown, of Marlborough, age 30;
Silas B. Bull, of Marlborough, age 24;
James B. Fuller, of Berlin, age 20;
Foster W. Gassett, of Marlborough, age 23;
John M. Holt, of Marlborough, age 24;
Stephen A. Howe, of Malden, age 20;
William G. Howe, of Marlborough, age 23;
Francis W. Knapp, of Marlborough, age 25;
Elbridge Lane, of Rutland, age 47;
Austin B. Lawrence, of Marlborough, age 32;
Frank W. Loring, of Marlborough, age 19;
Edward J. Morton, of Shrewsbury, age 22;
Samuel S. Prentiss, of Reading, age 48; (mustered out June 10, 1862, disability);
Edward P. Richardson, of Northborough, age 24;
Edwin Rice, of Marlborough, age 22;
John Viles, of Waltham, age 44;
Frank O. Ward, of Lynn, age19;
Charels H.Williams, of Westborough, age 32;*
Charles F. Witherby, of Marlborough, age 21;
William R. Witherby, of Marlborough, age 21.

*On a personal note, Charles H. Williams was married to William Henry Forbush's sister Mary Sophia Forbush.  (The webmaster's ancestor.)

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Adjutant General's Charts; Discharged Men

Methodology For The Following Charts

The following compiled lists started with Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler's Report of January, 1865.  That list was supplemented with data from the roster included in Charles E. Davis, Jr.'s regimental history, “Three Years in the Army,”  Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1894.  Errors abound in both these lists.  To resolve descrepancies I turned to other resources in my personal collection of records.  These included  copies of Pension Card Files from the National Archives; copies of original documents from the original company books of Company I, (shared with me by Mr. Richard Humphrey) and notes and rosters compiled by Mr. Arthur A. Kent in his G.G. Uncle Austin Stearns' Memoirs “Three Years with Company K"  Associated University Press, 1976.  Some Massachusetts town histories (accessed on-line) were also useful in sorting out discrepancies in individual soldier's records.

Differences between the Adjutant General Report, and the Regimental Roster are noted.  “Regt. says” refers to a soldier's record in the regimental history.  “AG says,” refers to information in the Adjutant General's Report.  I have given preference to the regimental history for soldiers' names, and the AG for data.  Between the two main sources, small differences in a soldier's recorded age were ignored.  Greater differences are noted.  I have sometimes used the notation m/o for "mustered out."  There were many conflicting dates. — B.F.

Photo Gallery - Discharged Men

Dana Estes, Walter C. Bryant , George F. D. Paine, Company A.

Frank O. Baker, Francis J. Baxter, Elbridge Dexter, all of Company B.

Edward F. Hilman, Solon Holmes, Irving S. Hunt, Company B.

 William A. Field, & Alfred W. Brigham, Company B.

 Winsor Smith & Melvin S. Smith, of Company B, (or vice versa, it is not clear who is whom) with Warren B. Stetson, on the right; all of Company B.

Henry C. Coffin, Company C.

John N. P. Johnson, Company F, &  Sewell H. Merrill, Company F, both from Berlin, Mass.

Albert H. Bryant Co H,  &  Charles F. Jackson, Company C.

Cornelius Driscoll, Company A, & Ephraim Wood Company C.

Discharged

More information on many of these men can be found on this website at the corresponding pages for the campaigns in which they are listed as being wounded.

*Source for Josiah Beals: roster in Austin Stearns Memoir  “Three Years In Co. K” ed. by Arthur A. Kent, Assoc. Univ. Press, 1976.

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Adjutant General's Report; Transferred Men

Photo Gallery; Men Transferred to Other Units

Thomas R. Keenan, Company A.

Thomas R. Keenan

Captain Keenan's Biography is copied from, “History of the Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.”  (1911).

Captain Keenan’s first military service in the Civil War was as private in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Infantry early in 1861.  He was second lieutenant in the Seventeenth Massachusetts Infantry in 1862 and first lieutenant in 1863.  He was captain in the 56th Massachusetts Infantry during part of 1864, and became lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery during the latter part of that year.  He then returned to the Seventeenth Massachusetts February 3, 1865, as captain.  He was finally mustered out of service July 11, 1865.

Captain Keenan was born at Lynnfield, Mass., 1841 and was the son of Doctor Keenan, an Irish gentleman of undoubted good standing both in his native land and the land of his adoption.

Captain Keenan’s full name was Thomas Romney Van Tromp Keenan.  He often told the writer that there was a strain of noble Dutch blood in his veins, of which he seemed to be very proud.  He was six feet six inches in his bare feet, straight as an arrow, and was soldierly in bearing, and a handsome fellow.  He was well educated and suave and gentlemanly in his relations with everyone.  His conduct was at all times above reproach, and he commanded the respect of all the officers and men of the regiment.

He was brave to a fault, and never shirked any responsibility or duty which fell to him.  He was a proficient drill-master, a good disciplinarian without being cruel, and was indeed an officer his men were proud to follow.

Captain Keenan saw considerable service in several regiments.  He was shot through the neck, in acton in 1864.  He never fully recovered from the effects of this wound which finally caused his death early in 1867.

*Written and compiled in part by Thomas Kirwan; Edited and Completed by Henry Splaine, Copyright 1911, by Colonel Henry Splaine.  Published for the Committee on History by the SALEM PRESS CO. Salem Mass.

Edward A. Rowe, Company C,  & George Pomeroy, Company B.

Corporal William H. Cundy, & Corporal Ezra Trull, of Company A.  Both shared a fondness for dressing in fancy uniforms after the war.

Charles C. Howland, Company B, & Osgoode W. Waite, Company  D.

Transferred

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Adjutant General's Report; Died

Name spelling varies sometimes greatly between the Adjutant General's Report and the Regimental History.  There are also many discepancies between the two, for middle initials such as when an N is printed as an H or W; B is printed K; H is printed M; etc.  I have given preference to the names as they are listed in the regimental history, Three Years in the Army. — B.F.

Picture Gallery;  Men who Died

Corporal Paul E. Fiedler, Company A, Killed at 2nd Bull Run, August 30, 1862.

Isaac Hall Stimpson, Company C, & John P. Shelton, Company A.  Both died from wounds received at Antietam.

Thomas T. Rathburn, Company F, took sick and died during the advance to Winchester in the Spring of 1862.

Died

AG says:  Total: 83 Died.
        This chart = 84 names.

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Adjutant General's Report; Missing, Deserted & Dropped

These men were originally reported as missing in the Massachusetts Adjutant General's Report of 1865.  Several of these men were later added to the killed list in the 13th Mass. Roster contained in the regimental history; "Three Years in the Army" by Charles E. Davis, Jr., (Written, 1893, published, 1894).

Hollis L. Johnson, Company F,  Killed at 2nd Bull Run, August 30, 1862.

Missing

Deserted & Dropped

Many times sloppy record keeping caused a soldier to be put on the deserted list.  If they did not take the time to correct their record the error remained.  In order to give a soldier on this list the benefit of the doubt, I checked to see if they filed for a pension.  This does not clear them of the charge, but it contains a kernal of the suggestion that their service may have been honorable.  However, in one case not listed here, I know for a certainty the soldier in question, Walter S.C. Heath, Company K, who filed for a pension, was a deserter, and a scammer.

Pictured left to right, Henry S. Battles, George T. Smith, & John H. Moore, all in Company F. Sudbury, MA Historical Society.  (There is some question that the man in the middle is George H. Curtis, Co. I.)

Deserted & Dropped

Soldiers with an asterisk* filed for a pension.

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