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The next February, 1863, Ezekiel P. Bourne was dismissed 

 on account of being disabled. 



Charles Frederick Befuiett was in the Sixteenth Regi- 

 ment, Company A. Corporal at twenty-one years of age. 

 The company was made up mostly of Cambridge men, 

 and they left Boston August 17 by way of Fall River for 

 the scene of war. The next June, the twelfth, they were 

 attached to the corps of Heintzelman just referred to in 

 the account of Manassas, and their first blood was in the 

 skirmish of Fair Oaks three days later. Other battles 

 in which Corporal Bennett fought were Malvern Hill, Va., 

 August 5, 1862, where he was wounded ; Chancellorsville, 

 May 2, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1863; Mine Run, 

 Va., November, 1863 ; The Wilderness, Va., May, 1864; 

 Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864; Hanover Junction, Va., 

 May, 1864; Cold Harbor, Va., June, 1864; and Petersburg, 

 Va., July 12, 1864. That was a three years' service in the 

 thick of the fight. 



In this connection should be mentioned Bennett's chum, 

 Andrezv IV. Williams, who served in the regular United 

 States army in the Battalion of Engineers, Company C, 

 being engaged for three years in all the principal battles 

 of the Army of the Potomac except the second Bull Run 

 and Gettysburg. 



Three others who should be added to our Cohasset list 

 of engineers or sappers and miners are Charles H. Pratt, 

 Zenas Stoddard, Jr., and Elbridge Willciitt. The last 

 named was in the service as a mason, and Zenas Stoddard 

 had the rank of orderly sergeant for daring conduct. 



George F. Leithead was a member of the Nineteenth 

 Regiment, Company G. This regiment was proniinent in 

 the famous Seven Days' Battle at the beginning of July, 

 1862, when the Army of the Potomac changed its base to 

 James River. High praise at Antietam was won by this 

 regiment September 17, 1862. After many engagements 

 Leithead was discharged disabled, April 2, 1863. 



