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The subsequent history of this company was uneventful ; it 

 may as well be briefly related here. Feb. 17, 1862, Joshua Morse 

 was elected captain, vice Luther Stephenson, Jr., honorably dis- 

 charged. May 26, 1862, the company, then numbering forty-two 

 men, was ordered to report to Boston for active service, but was 

 sent back to Hingham on the 28th. June 23, Captain Morse 

 having resigned, Peter N. Sprague was elected captain. Sep- 

 tember 29 of the same year, the company was disbanded. 



May 3, 1861, President Lincoln issued his first call for volun- 

 teers to serve three years. Elijah B. Gill, then a resident of 

 Boston, but a native of Hingham, enlisted in Company I of the 

 First' Mass. Volunteers, and was made lieutenant of the company. 

 Lieutenant Gill was mortally wounded July 21, and buried at 

 Centreville, Va. He was the first Hingham man killed in the 

 war. The following also enlisted in 1861 : — 



First Regiment. 



John William Gardner, Co. I; also in Navy. Died in service. 



George P. Kilburn, Co. I. 



John W. Chessman, Co. H. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 



Seventh Regiment. 



William Dunbar, Jr., Co. K. Born Hingham, Nov. 2, 1828. While 

 a member of the 35th Infantry he was mortally wounded at 

 Weldon Railroad, and died April 19, 1864, in the 36th year of 

 his age. 



Eleventh Regiment. 



James J. Healey, Co. E ; also Co. K, Sergt. ; twice wounded. 



Lemuel S. Blackman, Co. K. Quota Dorchester ; former resident 

 Hingham. Born Dorchester Feb. 18, 1840. Died June 13, 1870, 

 from disease contracted in service. 



Daniel H. Burr, Co. K. Born Hingham Feb. 19, 1838. Wounded 

 at Williamsburg May 5, 1862. Killed at Gettysburg July 2, 

 1863, aged 25 years. 



James S. Dustin, Co. K. Musician. 



Nathaniel Gill, Co. K. Musician. 



William T. Barnes, Co. K. 



Charles H. Marsh, Co. K. Born Hingham July 12, 1828. Mortally 

 wounded at Williamsburg May 5, 1862, and died the next day, 

 asred 34 vears. 



Edwin Humphrey enlisted April 20, 1861. June 13 he became 

 First Lieutenant Company G, and October 11 he was made 

 Captain of Company A. Captain Humphrey was the son of 

 Leavitt and Muriel Humphrey, and was born in Hingham 

 Sept. 6, 1831. He was the first man to enlist for three years 

 upon the town's quota. He was a brave officer, and was mor- 

 tally wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 ; he died the next 

 day. The Grand Army Post in Hingham is named in his 

 honor. 



