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lie . To this family belonged . amor g other 

 noted men. General Joseph Warren, the 

 hero of Bunker Hill. 



Young Warren's boyhood was spent on 

 the farm: his school days being limited to 

 a few week's attendance in the middle of 

 each winter in the district school. At fif- 

 teen, after the death of his mother, he be- 



ll 3 enlisted in the famous Forty-ninth 

 Massachusetts Volunteers. 



As a private soldier Mr. Warren was 

 with hi-* regiment at Plains Store.Donald- 

 son. and in the engagement before Port 

 Hudson. During the siege of the latter 

 place the Forty-ninth was ordered to fur- 

 nish a contingent of volunteers from each 



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gan to feel the need of a more liberal 

 education. To secure it he went to work 

 for a dairyman for small wages in order to 

 get funds to pay for his boari while at- 

 tending the Hinsdale academy where he 

 went to school until the breaking out of 

 the civil war. when at the ngeof seventeen 



E. WARREX. 



company for the danserousduty of preced- 

 ing the column of attack, and filling up 

 with facines the ditch in front of the 

 enemy's earthworks. Warren was one of 

 ihe volunteers. As the forlorn hope, as it 

 \\a-i termed, marched on the field, fire was 

 opened upon it from all of the opposing 



