. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . Henry Dana ^ENRY DANA PARMENTER became a sol-dier in the United-States service by enlisting fora term of nine months, Sept. 17, 1862, in the For-ty-fifth Regiment of Infantry, Company F, It was known as the Cadet Regiment, andnumbered among its privates, as well as officers, alarge proportion drawn from the e/z/e of Bostonand vicinity. On the 24th of October, 1862, it received orders to report toMajor-Gen. Foster, in North Carolina. On being transferredto
. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . Henry Dana ^ENRY DANA PARMENTER became a sol-dier in the United-States service by enlisting fora term of nine months, Sept. 17, 1862, in the For-ty-fifth Regiment of Infantry, Company F, It was known as the Cadet Regiment, andnumbered among its privates, as well as officers, alarge proportion drawn from the e/z/e of Bostonand vicinity. On the 24th of October, 1862, it received orders to report toMajor-Gen. Foster, in North Carolina. On being transferredto the steamer Mississippi, in Boston harbor, it was there veryuncomfortably detained for several days during the prevalenceof a severe gale. The good boat outlived the tempest, and safelylanded its living treasures at Morehead City, , on the 14thof November following. Mr. Parmenters impressions of men and things at his firstlanding on Southern soil may be inferred from the followingextracts from one of his letters to his friends: — We had heard so much at the North about the loyal peopleof North Carolina, that I expected to wit
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