490 HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



Alvan T'^w^T marched in Twentieth Regiment, Company 

 A. This regiment endured a terrible slaughter at Harri- 

 son's Island, October 21, 1861. The winter camp was 

 broken February 25, 1862, and they were started upon 

 the Peninsular campaign, Virginia, April 5. Alvan Tower 

 saw but little of this campaign, for he died in the General 

 Hospital June 8, 1862, from the effect of wounds. 



Samuel K. Diinster joined the Twenty-fourth Regiment, 

 Company K, as one of the Cohasset quota, but after- 

 wards reenlisted for Lynn and was a hospital steward. 



Benjamin Fi'anklin Oakes was of the same regiment, 

 Company H. He began his army career at nineteen 

 years, a sergeant, and was promoted to a captain August 

 26, 1863, in the Thirty-fifth United States Cavalry troops. 



Amos L. Poole belonged to the Twenty-sixth Regiment, 

 Company F. From September 12, 1 861, to August 26, 

 1865, this man was in the service of this regiment which 

 was the famous Sixth, rehabilitated after its first three 

 months' term, in which the Baltimore riot spilled the first 

 blood of war. 



James Shay was in the Thirtieth Regiment, Company 

 D. Only about one year of service was allowed this man, 

 for he died at Carrollton, La., October 22, 1862. This 

 Thirtieth was the regiment raised by General Butler for 

 the capture of New Orleans. It was transported to Ship 

 Island, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, where 

 the forces for that campaign were gathered during the 

 winter and spring of 1862. 



Here in the far South the service of Cohasset was again 

 utilized in an important function. The ship North America, 

 which bore the Thirtieth Regiment April 15-18 from Ship 

 Island up to the head of South West Pass in the Missis- 

 sippi River, was captained by James Collier,* a Cohasset 

 mariner of a family of mariners. Farther up the river to 



* A picture of the North America now hangs upon the wall in Captain Collier's 

 old home at the head of Beech Street. 



