488 HISTORY OF COM ASSET. 



Who they all were the writer has been unable to ascer- 

 tain, but some of them were as follows : — 



Leonard IV. Minot enlisted in Dedham in the Eight- 

 eenth Regiment, which went into winter encampment at 

 Hall's Hill near the nation's capital, and served on picket 

 duty. In the spring of 1862 Minot contracted a severe 

 cold and was taken to Philadelphia, where he died of 

 pleurisy, April 23, 1862. 



Franklin Joseph Crane, of Company K, went into the 

 Seventh Regiment, which did some serious fighting upon 

 Virginia soil, including the battles of Fair Oaks, Fred- 

 ericksburg, and The Wilderness. 



Ezekiel P. Bourne went into the Twelfth Regiment, 

 Company H, with a number of Weymouth men. Leav- 

 ing Fort Warren July 23, this regiment was stationed 

 near the Potomac River during August and September. 

 They had to do a lot of furious marching, sometimes 

 freezing and shoeless during that winter, having but one 

 taste of battle at Rappahannock, Va., the next spring, 

 April 18, 1862. Later in the month of August a battle 

 was fought at Cedar Mountain. Then in the latter part 

 of August came the sharp struggle at Manassas, or the 

 second Bull Run. 



At one o'clock on the last day of the fight the brigade 

 under command of our general. Zealous B. Tower, was 

 placed in support of Heintzelman and Reno in their 

 attempt to turn the Confederate left, and when that 

 attempt failed General Tower was ordered to Bald Hill, 

 which the enemy were making a desperate attempt to 

 possess. The Twelfth Regiment formed the right of the 

 brigade,- which took up the battle bravely ; but the per- 

 sistent onsets of the Confederates finally forced back the 

 Union line. General Tower was severely wounded in the 

 leg, and was laid up in the hospital at Washington until 

 well enough to return to Cohasset for complete recovery.* 



*See Massachusetts in the War, by James L. F5o\ven, p. 224. 



