. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . 1862; and his bandaged head showed a severecontusion, produced, as he supposed, by the fragment of a gun-stock, set in motion by some rebel projectile. Comrades report him as never deficient in courage; and heis believed to have been present and to have taken part in allthe engagements of his regiment. He reports himself as havingnever been on the sick-list while in the army; although, fromsome special debility, he secured a passage by railroad from EastTennessee to Maryland, ins
. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . 1862; and his bandaged head showed a severecontusion, produced, as he supposed, by the fragment of a gun-stock, set in motion by some rebel projectile. Comrades report him as never deficient in courage; and heis believed to have been present and to have taken part in allthe engagements of his regiment. He reports himself as havingnever been on the sick-list while in the army; although, fromsome special debility, he secured a passage by railroad from EastTennessee to Maryland, instead of marching with the regimentover the rough passes of the Cumberland Mountains. Mr. Swan was the son of Sumner and Phebe Swan; born atPhillipston, Mass., Oct. 3, 1835. In stature he was five feet fiveinches and a half, with light complexion, auburn hair, and browneyes. At the time of his enlistment (July 31, 1862), he was en-gaged as a shoemaker; but he had previously been, to someextent, a sailor. His discharge is dated June 9, 1865; and henow resides in the State of Rhode Island. Hiram Leonard f IRAM LEONARD THURSTON was a son of John and Thurston. His native place was Oxford, Me. Sept. 3, 1852, he was married to Dora ColHns, anative of Ireland, by whom he had four children ;the youngest being but ten days old when the hus-band and father joined the army, Aug. i, complexion was rather light, with light hairand eyes; and he was five feet eight inches tall. For somereason, he very seldom wrote to his family; and the personal in-cidents of his army-life have been scantily supplied. From the few sources of present information, it is but fair toinfer that he did not fulfil his duties as a soldier with that enthu-siasm felt by some others. Nothing of special importance occurred from the time hisregiment (Thirty-eighth Infantry) left Massachusetts, Sept. 24,1862, until April 9 of the following year, when he went with hiscomrades on the Western Louisiana expe
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