. The Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865 . Church in the morning and,in the afternoon. Lieutenant McLaughlin, U. S. A., cameout from Boston and mustered the Company into theUnited States service. Monday, the 25th, the men returnedto camp, all save three, who were apprehended as desertersand sent after their fellows, everyone proving himself agood soldier afterwards; they were just a trifle dilatory inkeeping up. Captain, Edward A. Spear; first lieutenant,William G. Sheen; second lieutenant, Charles H. Porter. COMPANY E. SOMERVILLE. For the apportionment of fifteen thousa
. The Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865 . Church in the morning and,in the afternoon. Lieutenant McLaughlin, U. S. A., cameout from Boston and mustered the Company into theUnited States service. Monday, the 25th, the men returnedto camp, all save three, who were apprehended as desertersand sent after their fellows, everyone proving himself agood soldier afterwards; they were just a trifle dilatory inkeeping up. Captain, Edward A. Spear; first lieutenant,William G. Sheen; second lieutenant, Charles H. Porter. COMPANY E. SOMERVILLE. For the apportionment of fifteen thousand men to theCommonwealth, Somerville had to raise ninety-two menand this she succeeded in doing within the months of Julyand August. The aggregate bounty paid each enlistedman was one hundred and twenty-five dollars, one hundreddollars coming from the town, the remainder from privatesubscription. The selectmen, acting as agents, had recommended threemen as commissioned officers of the projected company,and these, all of whom had seen service in the Sommerville. Caitain Fkkdickic k R. KixsluyBvt Major and Colonel Company E-F 17 Company of the Fifth Regiment, M. V. M., in its threemonths tour of duty, applied themselves diligently totheir task. Camp was pitched on Prospect Hill and theflagstaff, erected there and then, remained until the diggingdown of the hill some fifteen years later; this occupationif possible added to the fame of the spot on which IsraelPutnam had intrenched himself after falling back fromBunker Hill. The stay on elevated and breezy Prospectwas far from tedious, the nearness of home supplies morethan compensating for any hardships incident to campduties. Mustered into the U. S. service, August 12, theCompany remained here until September 2nd, when itproceeded to Boxford, there to join the other companieswhich were to constitute the Thirt^^-ninth Regiment,having had no taste of the stay in Lynnfield, the rendezvousof the other companies. The Commissioned offi
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