. Massachusetts in the rebellion : a record of the historical position of the commonwealth, and the services of the leading statesmen, the military, the colleges, and the people, in the civil war of 1861-65 . =1E P^*^ .V^VA^^. CAPT. SHURTLEFF AND LIEUT. BURNHAM. 641 Mv. ShurtlefFwas his first recruit, ealisting on tbc 20th of April, — the firstactually enlisted to serve three years, or until the close of the war. Hewas chosen by his men, and commissioned by the Grovernor, as captainof Company D, early in May, 1801. This regiment was first broughtunder fire at the battle of Cedar Mountain, near
. Massachusetts in the rebellion : a record of the historical position of the commonwealth, and the services of the leading statesmen, the military, the colleges, and the people, in the civil war of 1861-65 . =1E P^*^ .V^VA^^. CAPT. SHURTLEFF AND LIEUT. BURNHAM. 641 Mv. ShurtlefFwas his first recruit, ealisting on tbc 20th of April, — the firstactually enlisted to serve three years, or until the close of the war. Hewas chosen by his men, and commissioned by the Grovernor, as captainof Company D, early in May, 1801. This regiment was first broughtunder fire at the battle of Cedar Mountain, near Culpeper, in it was that Capt. Shurtleff fell on the 9th of August, 1862, at the ageof twenty-four years. His death was instantaneous; a ball having passedthrough his chest as he raised himself to caution his men against unnecessaryexposure, they lying on the ground by command of their general body of Capt. Shurtleff was embalmed, sent home for burial, andwas deposited at Mount Auburn with military honors, after an imposingceremonial at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. LIEUT. HOWARD MATHER BURNHAM. Howard Mather Burnham was born in Longmeadow, Mass., March 17,1842 ; and died on the
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