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ern voyage was undertaken, and of the other two Arnolds, 

 George, after some fighting near New Orleans, was dis- 

 abled May 20, while Daniel endured the strain until 

 October 31, when he died. Some desperate fighting was 

 done during that summer by the Thirty-eighth at Port 

 Hudson before its surrender to the Union arms on July 

 9. Thomas Williston was dismissed October 20, 1863, on 

 account of disability. Three were left of our Cohasset 

 seven to return by transport to Fortress Monroe, Va., 

 whence they marched to Washington. 



The idle beginning had developed into some hard fight- 

 ing at the South, and it continued hard now when the regi- 

 ment returned to the Army of the Shenandoah. At the 

 furious battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, Bela Bates 

 was last seen fighting for the flag ; but no one can tell 

 what fate he suffered. The military records report him 

 "missing in action." These things happened to the re- 

 cruits who were mustered in August 20, 1862. 



The following day, August 21, 1862, our State ordered 

 another quota of men for service, this time only a short 

 service of nine months, to carry the war along until the 

 next spring. But before finding out who responded, we 

 shall have to complete the list of thirty-eight men on the 

 call for three years of which we have counted just one half. 



On September 2 Leavitt Whittier was mustered at Dor- 

 chester in Company H of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, his 

 two brothers, Charles and William, having entered, as we 

 saw, the heavy artillery. Twenty days later William R. 

 Carl was recruited in Company E of the Forty-first, which 

 was mounted the following June and became the Third 

 Cavalry. After about four months' service in the cavalry 

 Carl was dismissed on account of disability, November 5, 

 1863. 



The larger part of this quota was made up by heavy 

 artillery enlistments. Before the middle of October the 

 following six became a part of Company B of the First 



