THE CIVIL WAR. 



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New Orleans the vessel sailed after the capture of the 

 forts, drawing up before that angry city on the second day 

 of May, 1862. The climate of those low lands was too 

 trying for our Northern men. After the battle of Baton 

 Rouge the health of the men was badly broken, and our 

 James Shay was one of the many unfortunates who died 

 from exposure and disease. 



Lcander W. Groce, of the Thirty-second Regiment, Com- 

 pany A, was another of the enlistments of 1861. In the 

 same regiment were five more who enlisted for the credit 

 of Cohasset in December of 1861 or in February, 1862. 

 George A. LitcJifield, twenty-two years of age, George H. 

 Prouty, of thirty years, and Martin T. Ripley, of thirty-five, 

 all belonging to the same Company F ; Robert B. Shaw, 

 just come of age, and Joseph M. Tozvle, one year older, 

 belonged to Company E. A friend, Warren Fuller, of 

 Scituate, made up the seven who went from here into the 

 Thirty-second Regiment at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. 



The next May 25 six companies of the regiment were 

 hustled southward to protect the national capital. A dev- 

 astating malaria at Harrison's Landing, Va., marked 

 Litchfield one of its victims August 15, 1862. The regi- 

 ment joined the shattered Army of the Potomac at Manas- 

 sas, and followed in the wake of the main body back 

 towards the Potomac. The battle of Fredericksburg fell 

 hard upon this regiment December 15, 1862. After various 

 maneuvers in Virginia the regiment was tramped back to 

 Pennsylvania during June, 1863, to take part in the great 

 battle of Gettysburg. Groce had been discharged for dis- 

 ability January 6, 1863. It was the sad lot of Ripley to 

 be taken prisoner June i, 1864, and to be starved to death 

 at Andersonville, Ga., August 21. 



Besides the infantry regiments here noted there were 

 some heavy artillery men from Cohasset upon the third 

 call, James S. Beal, at twenty-two years of age, joined Com- 

 pany A of the First Battalion Heavy Artillery, February 



