. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . n Light as guard over a thousand men, madeup of convalescents, substitutes, and recruits. Having landedthese men at Washington, , the company proceeded to CityPoint, in Virginia, and was attached to the third brigade in thesecond division of the Ninth Army Corps, and immediately as-signed to duty. Mr. Dean was in three several engagements. At a skirmishwith Mosbys men near Culpeper, sixty men and one lieutenantwere captured. During eleven months service, the companywas statio
. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . n Light as guard over a thousand men, madeup of convalescents, substitutes, and recruits. Having landedthese men at Washington, , the company proceeded to CityPoint, in Virginia, and was attached to the third brigade in thesecond division of the Ninth Army Corps, and immediately as-signed to duty. Mr. Dean was in three several engagements. At a skirmishwith Mosbys men near Culpeper, sixty men and one lieutenantwere captured. During eleven months service, the companywas stationed, for longer or shorter periods, at City Point, FortStevens, Fort Barnard, Fort C. F. Smith, and Culpeper CourtHouse. CHARLES FRANKLIN DEAN. 163 Mr. Dean was constantly with his company; and his uninter-rupted good heaUh enabled him fully to sustain his part in theduties assigned. After the close of the war, the company re-turned to camp on Galloupes Island; and the men were dis-charged June 29, 1865. After his return, he married Lucy C. Bradshaw of Wayland,and now resides in Dover, Thomas Alfred NI MATED by the spirit that swept through theNorthern States in opposition to the rebelliousspirit of the South, Mr. Dean, with several otheryoung men, came forward as volunteers in themilitary service on the seventeenth day of Sep-tember, 1862. The Cadet Regiment (Forty-fifth Infantry)was then recruiting at Camp Meigs, Readville,near Boston; and, by mutual consent. Company F of this regi-ment was selected by Mr. Dean and four of his comrades forenrolment. Mr. Dean speaks of this company as in every respect one ofthe most desirable; and of its commander, CajDt. Daland, as aperfect pattern for an officer; always taking the lead in difficultand dangerous movements, thus inspiring his men with con-fidence and bravery. Camp-life in Massachusetts passed without any incident ofnote. The severe gale experienced while the regiment was em-barked in Boston harbor was rather a sour
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