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HISTORY OF COM ASSET. 



ment, but the whole regiment was soon transformed into 

 heavy artillery of the First Regiment. These two broth- 

 ers were in some heavy fighting at Winchester, Fred- 

 ericksburg, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. 

 John A. Treat was taken prisoner at Petersburg, June 22, 

 1864, when the enemy cut through a slack place in the 

 Union lines and came upon our men from the rear in the 

 thick woods. After being confined in the Andersonville 

 Prison pen for a while, he was transferred to Florence, 

 where he died November 23 from starvation. 



Isaac PJiimiey was mustered into the Thirty-fifth Regi- 

 ment of infantry. Company A, in which he served his full 

 three years. Thomas LatJirop was mustered into Com- 

 pany G, August 12, 1862, belonging to the First Regi- 

 ment, of which we spoke when five of our first recruits 

 went into it. Two more, Albert F. Barnes and Harrison 

 Henry, were enrolled in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, 

 Company A, on August 14, where already two men from 

 Cohasset had entered. 



On the twentieth day of that month seven men, the 

 largest number yet mustered from our town into any one 

 company, joined Company D of the Thirty-eighth Regi- 

 ment. Their rendezvous was at Lynnfield, and their 

 names as follows : Daniel P. Arnold, George Arnold, Ed- 

 ward H. A mold, Bela Bates, Joseph W. Fish, Thomas O. 

 Hayden, and Thomas Williston. The regiment went by 

 rail and boat through Worcester, New London, Jersey 

 City to Washington, August 27. B^-om here, after some 

 fussing back and forth, they went to Hampton Roads on 

 board the Baltic, where they exercised until December 8. 

 Then they sailed around into the Gulf of Mexico and 

 landed at Ship Island, where they did some more tiresome 

 loafing. By the next February they did a little marching 

 in the vicinity of Baton Rouge and Carrollton, where our 

 James Shay had died a few months before. 



Edward H. Arnold had been disabled before the south- 



