344 History of Hingham. 



Twelfth Regiment. 



Alexander Hitchborn, Co. F. Killed at Chancellorsville. Captain 

 Hitchborn was born in Hingham in 1822, and removed to 

 Brockton in 1854. After resigning from the Twelfth Massa- 

 chusetts, he became Assistant Surgeon in the Seventh Regular 

 Infantry, and was killed at the opening of the battle. 



George Gardner, Co. E, Corporal. 



John H. Blackmail, Co. H. Quota Wevmouth. Born Dorchester 

 June 6, 1842. Killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862. Brother 

 of Lemuel S. 



Laban F. Cushing. Co. K. Quota Manchester. 



James D. Dunbar, Co H. Quota Weymouth. 



John J. Edmonds, Co. G. Transferred to V. R. Corps. 



James Fitzgerald, Co. G. Born Nova Scotia, 1841. Mortally 

 wounded at Antictam, and died Nov. 6, aged 21 years. 



Jacob Gardner, Jr., Co. H. 



Samuel Spencer, Co. E. Mortally wounded at City Point, and died 

 June 25, 1864, aged 20 years. 



Henry Swears, Co. H. Quota Weymouth. Killed at Fredericks- 

 burg Dec. 13, 1862, aged 20 years. 



Francis Thomas, Co. H. Born Hingham, Feb. 1, 1844. Lieu- 

 tenant Thomas was at the time of his enlistment but 17 years 

 of aire, and the first of five brothers to enter the service. Enter- 

 ing the army as sergeant-major, he became in 1862 adjutant 

 of the regiment, and in January, 1863, Inspector of the Second 

 Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps ; he was killed at 

 Gettysburg, July 3, 1862, aged 19 years. 



Thirteenth Regiment. 



William Wallace Sprague, Co. B. Quota Boston. Prisoner at 

 Belle Isle. 



Fourteenth Regiment. 



William Carter. Transferred to 1st Heavy Artillery, 1862. 

 Anton Tapp, Co. L. Transferred to 1st Heavy Artillery, 1862. 



Fifteenth Regiment. 



John E. Morse, Co. B. Quota Fitchburg. Captain in the Invalid 

 Corps. Afterward in 20th Regiment. 



Sixteenth Regiment. 



Michael Fee, Co. E. Born Leitrim County, Ireland, December, 



1820. Wounded at Gettysburg, and died in service Sept. 26, 



1863, aged 43 years. 

 Charles W. Blossom, Co. I, Corporal. Born Chicopee June 29, 



1840, and died at Hingham from disease contracted in service 



Aug. 26, 1862, six days after reaching home. 

 Dennis Meagher, Co. A. Died or killed in service. 



