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Another nine months' enlistment was in the Forty- 

 fourth Regiment, into which were mustered September 12, 

 Thovias O. S. Gibbs and William Randall, both for Com- 

 pany C. Their maneuvering was done still farther 

 south, in North Carolina, at the battles of Whitehall, New- 

 bern, and Little Creek. 



It was about this time, September 26, 1862, that nine 

 more Cohasset young men, the oldest only thirty, enlisted 

 in Company A of the Forty-fifth Regiment. They were 

 Charles A. Gross, Richard H. Lincobi, Stephen Lincoln, 

 Lyman D. Willcutt, William. H. Pratt, Charles A. Vinal, 

 Cyrus H. Bates, Elias W. Bon me, and Caleb L. Bates, — 

 three more than in Company D of the Thirty-eighth. Be- 

 sides these there ^^^.s James M. Stveoiey in Company K of 

 this regiment, making ten from Cohasset in the Forty- 

 fifth. 



These also, like the Forty-fourth, were pushed into 

 North Carolina to trouble the Confederate Army of Vir- 

 ginia. Camp was established on the bank of the Trent, 

 some two miles from Newbern, from which the Goldsboro 

 expedition set forth December 12, 1862. Company A 

 was taken out some twelve miles on the railway one night 

 on a scouting trip and dumped into a cornfield ; there they 

 tried to get a little sleep in the furrows. It rained and 

 froze that night, and no wonder some of them took cold. 

 In the morning a charge was made upon the enemy, 

 and Caleb Bates accidentally injured his ankle in a pile 

 of iron rails. His cold settled in the bruise, and his 

 leg had to be amputated some time after the war was 

 over. 



The regiment won much praise at the battle of Kinston 

 and again at Whitehall. Their work having been done, 

 they remained encamped near Fort Spinola till June 24, 

 1863, returning to Boston on the thirtieth. Stephen 

 Lincoln was dying on the way, and here at his home he 

 was buried. 



