THE CIVIL WAR. 5OI 



render by his cordon of blue. The backbone of the Re- 

 bellion was broken ! While the Confederates still fought 

 on in a desperate defense for a couple of years, it was in 

 defense of a cause already lost. 



From time to time during the remainder of that year 

 and the next additional calls for men were issued, to fill 

 the places of the dead and of those whose terms of 

 enlistment had expired. Several of our Cohasset soldiers 

 reenlisted. Gustavus P. Pratt entered as an assistant 

 surgeon of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, July 20, 1863, 

 and was promoted to surgeon of the Nineteenth Regi- 

 ment, November 23, 1864. John C. Orcutt, of the Twenti- 

 eth Regiment, Company A, enlisted first for Boston, then 

 afterwards on December 21, 1863, for Cohasset on a 

 bounty of 1^325. William H. Bcals likewise received the 

 bounty of 1^325, enlisting in Company A of the Twenty- 

 fourth Regiment, in which regiment four of our Cohasset 

 men had already served. He died at Hingham, December 

 20, 1865. 



Four more of our men, three of them but eighteen 

 years of age, joined the Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, 

 Company A, on December 26, 1863. They served in 

 Florida, South Carolina, and at last in Virginia, riding into 

 Richmond after the great surrender. Their names 3.vQjohu 

 F. Bates, John O. Barnes, James Rooney,Jr., and Willie F. 

 Thayer. 



One soldier who had considerable hard service in Vir- 

 ginia, but whose name does not appear upon the Massa- 

 chusetts rolls, was David Lyons, who enlisted in the 

 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company F, but was afterwards 

 transferred to a New Hampshire regiment. Another who 

 was in a branch of the service outside of Massachusetts 

 companies was William L. Smith, one of the Guards of 

 District of Columbia. Dawes S. Nott was an unassigned 

 recruit from October 22, 1863, to February 8, 1864, as 

 \\k&yN\^Q. yN2i?> Morris Connor orv the $325 bounty. At the 



