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board the Sciota. In March of the next year Alexander 

 Liiidsey went into the service as sailor upon the Ino. At 

 the same time TJiotnas T. Spear engaged in the St. Claire, 

 and was promoted September, 1862, to quarter gunner 

 in the Fort Donelson fight on the Mississippi River, sup- 

 porting General Grant. 



In May of that year, 1862, Stephen P. Lincoln enlisted 

 as sailor upon the King Fisher. While procuring water 

 one day, June 2, 1862, on the coast of Florida, he was 

 captured and taken to Libbey Prison. Here he fortunately 

 had only three months when he was exchanged in October. 



It was the spring of 1862. The war had now dragged 

 on for a full year, and a serious disappointment filled many 

 hearts who had prophesied that the Rebellion could be 

 quelled in three months. Many who were lukewarm sup- 

 porters of the government at first had grown so indignant 

 at the persistent and widespread efforts of the confedera- 

 tion that they were prepared to go at the enemy with 

 more determination than ever before. 



The fifth call for State volunteers was issued upon the 

 Fourth of July, and men in Cohasset began a new series 

 of enlistments. The town furnished thirty-eight men in 

 response to this call for a three years' service, and it spent 

 six thousand fifty dollars to secure the men. 



Among the first to be mustered in at this call were six 

 young men, three of them not twenty years of age, who 

 chose the heavy artillery service of the First Battalion, 

 Company A : Sergeants Charles A. Pratt and John IV. 

 Tower ; Corporals George T. Af orey a.nd Caleb F. B. Tilden ; 

 also Vr'wzXQ?, Joseph J. Bates, who was afterwards promoted 

 to second lieutenant, 2Lnd Johti J. Richards. These became 

 a part of the same Company A which already had drilled 

 twelve of our Cohasset men in Fort Warren, Boston Har- 

 bor, for their heavier work in Virginia. 



Then followed, August 9, John A. Treat and Sylvamis 

 Franklin Treat, who were enrolled in the Fourteenth Regi- 



