History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment [electronic resource] . clothes, one passing through the topof my cap without leaving a scar. The eleven days previousto Lees surrender, our regiment was under fire nearly everyday A part of our brigade were engaged in the last fight-ing I was on picket in the woods, when we were ordered toour regiment and learned that the end of the war was were well up to the front and witnessed the surrender. Thomas S. Osgood. At the age of fourteen I commenced to go to sea, andduring the next eleven years was coasting and in the WestIndies. Returned home a
History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment [electronic resource] . clothes, one passing through the topof my cap without leaving a scar. The eleven days previousto Lees surrender, our regiment was under fire nearly everyday A part of our brigade were engaged in the last fight-ing I was on picket in the woods, when we were ordered toour regiment and learned that the end of the war was were well up to the front and witnessed the surrender. Thomas S. Osgood. At the age of fourteen I commenced to go to sea, andduring the next eleven years was coasting and in the WestIndies. Returned home and worked on the farm untilAugust 20, when I was summoned to Boston to go as mate of HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. 819 the barque Governor Hubbard, bound to in Marseilles I joined a French Lodge of I. O. O. 1856 to 1862 was master of vessels engaged in thecoasting and West India trade. From fall of 1865 to springof 1871 was engaged in coasting After this I left the seaand was engaged in work on the granite and farming in. Bluehill principally Married September 14th, 1851), toHattie A., daughter of Moses and Abigail Pillsbury of Blue-hill. In 1N(i_> bought the Barrett place in Bluehill Village,which I occupied till 1S77, when I sold and the next yearbuilt on the homestead farm of my father, where I now September 20th, 1S62, in Company H, Twenty-Sixth Regiment, as second lieutenant; leaving the State 350 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. October 23d, arrived in Washington, D. C, the 27th; leav-ing there November 9th, we reached Newport NewsNovember 12th, where we remained till December 1st, whenwe embarked for New Orleans, where we arrived on the 16thand proceeded to Baton Rouge, where we were assigned tothe Third Brigade of Grovers Division. Remained here tillMarch 12th, 1863, when we joined in the reconnoissance toPort Hudson, returning on the 16th, and on the 28thembarked for Doualdsonville, Da. Engaged with
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