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Perry, Thomas, boatswain's mate, Kearsarge. 



Peterson, Alfred, seaman, Commodore Perry. 



Phinney, William, boatswain's mate, Lackawanna. 



Pile. Richard, seaman, Kansas. 



Poole, William B., quartermaster, Kearsarge. 



Powers, John, seaman, Plymouth. 



Prance, George, captain maintop, Ticonderoga. 



Preston, John, landsman, Oneida. 



Price, Edward, cockswain, Brooklyn. 



Province, George, seaman, Santiago de Cuba. 



Purvis, Hugh, private marine, Alaska. 



Pyne. George, seaman, Magnolia. 



Ranahan, John, corporal marines, Minnesota. 



Eead, Charles A., cockswain, Kearsarge. 



Eead, George E., seaman, Kearsarge. 



Reed, Charlesj seaman, Magnolia. 



Regan, Jeremiah, quartermaster, Galena. 



Rice, Charles, coal-heaver, Agawam. 



Richards, Lewis, quartermaster, Pensacola. 



Ringnrold, Edward, cockswain, Wabash. 



Roantree, James S., sergeant marines, Oneida. 



Roberts, James, seaman, Agawam. 



Robinson, Alexander, boatswain's mate, Howquah. 



Robinson, Charles, boatswain's mate, Baron de Kalb. 



Robinson, John, captain hold, Yucca. 



Rogers, Samuel F., quartermaster, Colorado. 



Rountry, John, fireman, Montauk. 



Rush, John, fireman, Richmond. 



Ryan, Richard, seaman, Hartford. 



Sapp, Isaac, seaman, Shenandoah. 



Saunders, John, quartermaster, Kearsarge. 



Savage, Auzella, seaman ; Santiago de Cuba. 



Schutt, George, cockswain, Hendrick Hudson. 



Seanor, James, master-at-arms, Chickasaw. 



Scvearer, Benjamin, seaman, Hatteras Expedition. 



Seward, Richard, paymaster's steward, Commodore. 



Sharp, Hendrick, seaman, Richmond. 



Shcpard, L. C., seaman, Wabash. 



Sheridan, James, quartermaster, Oneida. 



Shipman, William, cockswain, Ticonderoga. 



Shivers, John, private marine, Minnesota. 



Simkins, Lebbeus, cockswain, Richmond. 



Smith, Charles H., cockswain, Rhode Island. 



Smith, Edwin, seaman, Whitehead. 



Smith, James, first captain forecastle, Richmond. 



Smith, James, seaman, Kansas. 



Smith, John, captain forecastle, Lackawanna. 



Smith, John, second captain top, Richmond. 



Smith, Oloff, cockswain, Richmond. 



Smith, Thomas, seaman, Magnolia. 



Smith, Walter B., seaman, Richmond. 



Smith, William, quartermaster, Kearsarge. 



Smith, William, seaman, picket-boat No. 1. 



Smith, William M.. corpora, marines, Brooklyn. 



Sprowle, David, orderly sergeant marine guard, 



Richmond. 



Stanley, William A., shellman, Hartford. 

 Sterling, James E., coal-heaver, Brooklyn. 

 Stewart, James, corporal marine guard, Plymouth. 

 Stoddard, James, seaman, Marmora. 

 Stout, Richard, landsman, Isaac Smith. 

 Strahan, Robert, captain top, Kearsarge. 

 Sullivan, James, seaman, Agawam. 

 Sullivan, John, seaman, Monticello. 

 Sullivan, Timothy, cockswain, Louisville. 

 Surflmers, Robert', quartermaster, Ticonderoga. 

 Swanson, John, seaman, Santiago de Cuba." 

 Swatton, Edward, seaman, Santiago de Cuba. 

 Talbott, William, captain forecastle, Louisville. 

 Tallentinc, James, quarter-gunner, Tacony. 

 Taylor, George, armorer, Lackawanna. 

 Taylor, Thomas, cockswain, Metacomet. 

 Taylor, William G., captain forecastle, Ticonderoga. 

 Thielberg, Henry, seaman, Minnesota. 

 Thompson, Henry, private marine, Minnesota. 

 Thompson. William, signal quartermaster, Mohican. 

 Tobin, Paul, landsman, Plymouth. 

 Todd. Sainuel, quartermaster, Brooklyn. 

 Tomlin, A. J., corporal marines, Wabash. 

 Tripp, Othniel, boatswain's mate, Seneca. 



Troy, William, seaman, Colorado. 

 Truett, Alexander H., cockswain. Richmond. 

 Vantine, Joseph E., fireman, Richmond. 

 Vaughan, P. R., sergeant marines, Mississippi. 

 Verney, James VV., quartermaster, Pontoosuc. 

 Wagg, Maurice, cockswain, Rhode Island. 

 Ward, James, quarter-gunner, Lackawanna. 

 Warren, David, cockswain, Monticello. 

 Webster, Henry S., landsman, Susquehanna. 

 Weeks, Charles H., captain foretop, Susquehanna. 

 Weisbogel, Albert, captain mizzentop, Benicia. 

 Wells, William, quartermaster, Richmond. 

 White, Joseph, cockswain, New Ironsides. 

 Whitfield, Daniel, quartermaster, Lackawanna. 

 Wilcox, Iranklin L., seaman, Minnesota. 



Wilkes, , landsman, picket-boat No. 1. 



Wilkes, Perry, pilot, Signal. 



Williams, Anthony, sailmaker's mate, Pontoosuc. 



Williams, Augustus, seaman, Santiago de Cuba. 



Williams, John, boatswain's mate, Mohican. 



Williams, John, captain maintop, Pawnee. 



Williams, John, seaman, Commodore Perry. 



Williams, Peter, seaman, Monitor. 



Williams, Robert, signal quartermaster, Benton. 



Williamsj William, landsman, Lehigh. 



Willis, Richard, cockswain, New Ironsides. 



Wood, Robert B., cockswain, Minnesota. 



Woods, Samuel, seaman, Minnesota. 



Woon, John, boatswain's mate, Pittsburgh. 



Woram, Charles B., seaman, Oneida. 



Wright, Edward, quartermaster, Cayuga. 



Wright, William, yeoman, Monticello. 



Young, Edward B., cockswain. Galena. 



Young, Horatio N., seaman, Lehigh. 



Young, William, boatswain's mate, Cayuga. 



(See colored plate facing page 329.) 



MEMORIAL DAY. With the busy Anglo- 

 Saxon race, holidays are of comparatively slow 

 growth. Protestants have few saints of such 

 generally recognized prominence that with 

 common consent days can be set apart to their 

 honor, and, even if they had, popular prejudice 

 against blocking the wheels of commerce would 

 probably check the multiplication of holidays. 

 The more mercurial Latins have a dozen holi- 

 days where we have one, and the Mother 

 Church has always stood ready to encourage 

 her children to their observance. 



Christmas and New Year's were brought 

 over the ocean from the old country. Thanks- 

 giving grew out of Puritan customs, and was 

 local until after the civil war. Washington's 

 Birthday and the Fourth of July were the 

 natural outgrowth of the war for independence, 

 and with these we were content for the better 

 part of a century. 



Memorial Day, or, as it was at first known to 

 the Northern States, " Decoration Day," is the 

 last one added to the list, and it will probably 

 be many years before the number is increased. 

 The observance of this day may be said to have 

 originated at the South before the close of hos- 

 tilities. It was inaugurated there by Southern 

 women, who, by almost imperceptible degrees, 

 established the custom each year in early 

 spring of decorating with flowers the graves of 

 their dead. When the war closed, the custom 

 had become quite general, and an unwritten 

 law had fixed upon the 30th of May as the day 

 for its observance. At the North, while simi- 

 lar services had been inaugurated, no especial 

 unanimity developed until 1868, when for the 



