Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . regimental quartermaster after the battleof Newbern for about three months and was pro-moted captain July 29, 1862. The losses of hiscompany by wounds, disease and death in the cam-paigns of 1862 were such that he had in his com-pany only nine men left for duty. One of hislieutenants was killed at Chantilly and the other atAntietam. Though so fortunate himself as to es-cape serious wounds, he suffered much from ma-laria. As the other comp
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . regimental quartermaster after the battleof Newbern for about three months and was pro-moted captain July 29, 1862. The losses of hiscompany by wounds, disease and death in the cam-paigns of 1862 were such that he had in his com-pany only nine men left for duty. One of hislieutenants was killed at Chantilly and the other atAntietam. Though so fortunate himself as to es-cape serious wounds, he suffered much from ma-laria. As the other companies of this regimenthad suffered similar losses to those of CompanyC, the colonel and several other officers, of whomCaptain Harlow was one, resigned with the expecta-tion that the Twenty-first would soon be consoli-dated with some other regiment. He received an-other commission, as major of the Fifty-seventhVeteran Regiment, and assisted in recruiting it. butdid not go with it to service in the field. He returned to the practice of law in Worcesterin October, 1863, and continued it there until Jan-uary, 1866, when he went to California with a view. WORCESTER COUNTY 459 to locate there. At Red Bluff in the SacramentoValley, (head of river navigation,) where hisbrother Thomas had been living for several years,and was then extensively engaged in wheat rais-ing, Major Harlow remained nearly two after his arrival there he received appointmentsas county surveyor (Tehama county) and assistantassessor of United States internal revenue. Withthese offices and practice of law he did not lackemployment, but suffered much from malaria con-tracted during the war, more, in fact, than he hadever suffered in the river valleys of the Neuse andRappahannock. He finally on account of healthdecided to return to Massachusetts, reluctantly giv-ing up his business in California; for he said thatlike opportunity for doing well in the law and mostother kinds of business he had never found e
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