. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . OF THE WAR OF 61 SUMNER PAINE Second Lieutenant Twentieth Infantry,May, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pennsyl-vania, July 3, 1863, after only two months inthe service of his country. Sumner Paine was born May 10, 1845. Ateleven years of age he went with his twobrothers through most of the passes of CentralSwitzerland, climbing the highest mountainswithout the least fatigue. He returned homein 1858, and graduated with his class from theLatin School, entering Harvard College inJuly, 1861. Sumner entered the arm
. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . OF THE WAR OF 61 SUMNER PAINE Second Lieutenant Twentieth Infantry,May, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, Pennsyl-vania, July 3, 1863, after only two months inthe service of his country. Sumner Paine was born May 10, 1845. Ateleven years of age he went with his twobrothers through most of the passes of CentralSwitzerland, climbing the highest mountainswithout the least fatigue. He returned homein 1858, and graduated with his class from theLatin School, entering Harvard College inJuly, 1861. Sumner entered the army in May, 1863, asSecond Lieutenant, Twentieth MassachusettsVolunteer Militia. When just eighteen hereached the railway at Fredericksburg. TheBattle of Chancellorsville took place the nextday. His cousin, Captain O. W. Holmes, wasvery soon wounded, and on Friday, July 3,Sumner took the command of his company,which he held through that terrible came the forced marches to and Thursday had left the fortunesof war trembling in the balance. Friday, the. SUMNER PAINE SUMNER PAINE 63 Second Corps under Hancock held the leftcentre, the key to our position. Here GeneralLee ordered Picketts Division, veteran troops,to make their last terrible assault. Not a shotwas fired by the Twentieth until the enemy wasnear and Lieutenant Macy gave the began the fire, quick and deadly. Tenor twenty rods to our right the weight of theenemy crushed through our line, passing it upa little hill. This was the crisis of the day, ifnot the turning-point of the war. GeneralsHancock and Gibbons had both been received orders to lead the Twentiethagainst the enemy, gave orders to Abbott andto his Adjutant, but before they were repeatedto any one else both were shot down. Othertroops came up. It was in the thickest of thefight, in front of his men, that Lieutenant Painewas struck by a ball which broke his leg. Fall-ing on his knee he waved his sword and urged
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