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HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



Another nine months' man was George IV. Sczvall, of 

 Company G of the Forty-seventh Regiment, who mus- 

 tered in November 6, 1862, and was in service at Carroll- 

 ton, La. After his discharge in July, 1863, he entered 

 the civil service of the government. The last to be men- 

 tioned of these short call men in the army is Joseph R. 

 Davis, who was our only representative in the light artil- 

 lery. It was the Eleventh Battery, engaged upon garrison 

 duty about the Potomac. 



In the navy, however, there were a few of the nine 

 months' men. Alfred Whittiiif'toji Lincoln and Hiram 



Low tide, looking toward Boston. 



Whittington, both landsmen on board the Montgomery, 

 were two of these. Whittington was promoted October 

 30, and was in the engagement which took the Confederate 

 steamer Caroline. There is one more man required to 

 make up the eighteen furnished for the nine months' call, 

 and the writer is not sure whether that man was JoJin F. 

 Bates, a sailor upon the Vermont, or Robert V. Beal ; for 

 both of these enlisted in that month of August. More- 



