368 History of Hingham. 



IN THE NAVY. 

 CHIEF ENGINEER. ACTING ASSISTANT SURGEON. 



Charles H. Lormg. Franklin Nickerson. 



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ACTING MASTER. 



ACTING ENSIGNS. 



Edward W. Halcro: died in service 

 Thomas Andrews; died in service. Char]es M Fl(ller 



Lemuel Pope. Charles A. Stewart. 



ACTING ASSISTANT PAYMASTER. ACTING THIRD ASSISTANT ENGINEER. 



Andrew Tower. . John M. Trussed. 



Fifty -six Hingham men, who received commissions in the ser- 

 vice of their country during those eventful years in which was 

 fought the Civil War; fifty-six men who, like their comrades 

 in the ranks, served her faithfully and bravely, and in many 

 instances even unto death. 



No account of the soldiers of Massachusetts, however brief, and 

 especially of those belonging to Hingham, would be complete 

 without at least a reference to the loved fellow-townsman who 

 within the Commonwealth was commander-in-chief during the long 

 period of anxiety and sacrifice from 1861 to 1865. This is no place 

 in which to eulogize John A. Andrew, and for the people of the 

 town no eulogy is needed. Yet in this their book they would feel 

 it amiss, if to his noble wreath no laurel leaf were to be added 

 by them as a memorial to the kind words and warm-hearted deeds 

 with which the great chief sped his comrades from Hingham on 

 their way, cheered and sustained and cared for them in the field, 

 and received and welcomed them again to the common home ; a 

 leaf glistening and gleaming with the sunshine which his great 

 heart carried to the waiting hearths, beside which sat the wearied 

 and watching, — gold-lighted with its record of the hope his ten- 

 derness brought to the sorrowing, while he gently helped lay in 

 their mother earth the town's brave who had fallen asleep in her 

 service. Proudly and lovingly we claim this man as one of the 

 soldiers of Hingham. 



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Near the close of the record of Revolutionary services the num- 

 ber of the men bearing certain of the most numerous surnames 

 which occurred among those representing Hingham, and belong- 

 ing undoubtedly to the twenty -four largest families, was given. 

 A similar statement, but with the same selection of names, and 

 taken in the same order, may not be without interest to the dwell- 

 ers in this old town, which, while maintaining with little change 

 so many of the customs of the olden time, has preserved also no 

 inconsiderable number of the names of the early settlers in the 

 families of to-day. Serving in the Union army there were six- 

 teen Lincolns, eleven Cushings, live Beals, three Whitons, nine 



