. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . vessel Columbia,being sixty-two days in making the voyage fromHamburg to New York. He first worked in awire factory at Worcester, Massachusetts, but atthe time id the Civil war he put aside businesscares and all personal considerations that hemight aid his adopted country in the efforts topreserve the Union. When the first call for threeyears troops was made he offered his services andat Boston joined the boys in blue of Company B,Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry. While at thefront he took part in thirty-one engagements, em-bracing all of the princ
. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . vessel Columbia,being sixty-two days in making the voyage fromHamburg to New York. He first worked in awire factory at Worcester, Massachusetts, but atthe time id the Civil war he put aside businesscares and all personal considerations that hemight aid his adopted country in the efforts topreserve the Union. When the first call for threeyears troops was made he offered his services andat Boston joined the boys in blue of Company B,Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry. While at thefront he took part in thirty-one engagements, em-bracing all of the principal battles which led upto the final triumph of the Union arms. He wastwice wounded at Gettysburg, after which hespent some time in the hospital at PortsmouthGrove, Rhode Island. He was taken prisoner atAnlielam and was also captured in front, of Pe-tersburg in 1864, being incarcerated in Libby andal Belle Isle and Salisbury. North Carolina. Hebecame sergeant, after the battle of the Wilder-ness was commissioned first lieutenant, and after. CHARLES EOST. PAST AXD PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY. m the surrender of Lee was made regimental quar-termaster. He was honorably discharged in Bos-ton on the 14th of July, 1865, when the countryno longer needed his aid. He was a brave andloyal soldier, never faltering in the performanceof any duty and he returned home with a mostcreditable military record. There were nearly twothousand regiments in the Union army, andamong the five that suffered the heaviest lossesin battle during the Civil war is enrolled the nameof Captain Rosts regiment, the Twentieth Massa-chusetts Volunteers. Its loss is given by the de-partments in Washington as eighteen officerskilled, thirty-seven officers wounded, two hundredand eighty-nine enlisted men killed, six hundredand forty-one enlisted men wounded and lost asprisoners of war two hundred and forty-two. Theselosses date from the battle of Balls Bluff, October21, 1861, to the surrender of Lees army. Theregiment was
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