. History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States ... and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachuetts . cClellan in May 1861. OnJune 3, 1861 they participated in the firstbattle of the Civil War, Phillippa, WestVirginia. They took an active part in allMcClellan and Roscoes movements inWest Virginia until August 18, 1861,when they were discharged from serviceby reason of expiration of service. He re-enlisted September 10, 18
. History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States ... and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachuetts . cClellan in May 1861. OnJune 3, 1861 they participated in the firstbattle of the Civil War, Phillippa, WestVirginia. They took an active part in allMcClellan and Roscoes movements inWest Virginia until August 18, 1861,when they were discharged from serviceby reason of expiration of service. He re-enlisted September 10, 1861, inCompanj- H, Fifty-first Regiment, ,and discharged for disability July 15,1862, re-enlisted in Company M, , July 22, 1863 and was dischargedJuly 20, 1865, end of war. During his twoyears service in this Regiment he had onehorse killed and one wounded, was in thesaddle nearly every day, was sixteen daysinside the rebel lines, was sent to burn arailroad in central Alabama and to cutoff supplies from Johnsons army inAtlantic. Was actively engaged in theAtlantic campaign. He marched withSherman to the sea and through the Caro-linas under General Judson years later he came east and is nowresiding in Worcester, Mass. 318 Minute men of 61. Geo. W. Burke, Melrose, Mass. Minute Men of 61 1st N. H. 3d Mass. Cav. George Wallace Burke was born inNashua, N. H., December 12, April 19,1861, served under Gen-eral Patterson at Harpers Ferry and inthe West Virginia campaign in the Shen-andoah Valley; discharged at Concord,N. H., August 9, 1861, by reason of expir-ation of term of service; worked at histrade in Boston, for James Boyd & Son,making army equipments, until his secondenlistment on September 30, 1861, in(Reads Company of Mounted Rifle Rang-ers), the first company of UnattachedCavalry, Massachusetts Volunteers, saidcompany was afterwards merged into theThird Massachusetts Cavalry, in camp atIvowell, Mass., until January 2, 1862, whenhe
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