ROLL OF COMPANY A,
FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, M. V. M.

GEORGE P. DENNY, Captain.
George E. Pond, 1st Lieutenant.
Edw. H. Richardson, 2d Lieut.
Charles W. Barstow, Ord. Sergt.
George H. Watson, 2d Sergeant.
William R. Butler, 3d Sergeant. (Died Jan. 26, 1867.)
Wm. E. Wheaton, 4th Sergeant.
Geo. F. Woodman, 5th Sergeant. (Promoted.)
Charles B. Sumner, 5th Sergeant.
Luther F. Allen, 1st Corporal.
Augustus S. Lovett, 2d Corporal.
Chas. Eustis Hubbard, 3d Corporal.
Errol Grant, 4th Corporal.
Henry K. Porter, 5th Corporal.
Albert A. Chittenden, 6th Corp'l.
William F. Shaw, 7th Corporal. (Died Nov. 15, 1871.)
William B. Stacy, 7th Corporal.
Henry E. Merriam, 8th Corporal.
Samuel L. Allen.
Nathaniel Andrews.
Wm. B. Atkinson.
Caleb L. Bates. (Died Oct. 15, 1864.)
Cyrus H. Bates.
William H. Becket.
Charles H. Bennett.
William H. Berry.
Joseph H. Bingham.
Henry S. Bliss.
Charles H. Brooks.
George Brooks. (Died Feb. 10, 1863.)
Elias W. Bourne.
Louis H. Boutelle.
Edmund W. Buss.
Moses J. Colman.
Edmund P. Davenport. (Died 1878.)
Franklin H. Dean.
Reuben Edgett.
John B. Edmands.
Geo. W. Estabrook.
Frank A. Field.
Calvin W. Fitch.
John W. Fowle. (Died July 8, 1863.)
Geo. E. Fox. (Died Jan. 10, 1863.)
Joseph V. Freeland. (Died May 10, 1872.)
Rufus P. Furguson.
Stephen A. Furguson. (Died July 17, 1863.)
Gardner Gilman.
Chas. P. Goldsmith.
Elbridge Graves. (Died Dec. 17, 1862.)
Chas. H. Griffin.
Chas. A. Gross.
Abraham G. R. Hale.
E. Thomas Hale. (Died Sept. 7, 1868.)
Milo T. Hardy.
Francis P. Haskell.
Robert Hasty.
Horace Holmes. (Died Aug. 19, 1864.)
Chas. A. Howard.
Rodolphus K. Howard.
Levi D. Jones.
Thomas Kinsley.
Silas W. Lang.
Charles H. Leonard.
Richard H. Lincoln.
Stephen Lincoln. (Died June 30, 1863.)
Jeremiah R. Lord.
Edmund S. Lunt.
Albert W. Mann.
James H. Mason.
Joseph A. Morgan. (Died July 3, 1863.)
Edwin T. Morse.
John R. Morse.
Henry D. Norton.
Geo. B. Parker. (Died ——.)
Daniel Pert.
Francis B. Pert.
Wm. J. Pert.
Wm. P. Plimpton.
Wm. Poland.
Wm. H. Pratt.
Frank L. Putnam.
Wm. A. Richards.
Swartz Richardson. (Died Dec. 1, 1872.)
Oscar W. Sargent. (Died Oct. 19, 1877.)
Henry B. Scudder.
Frank H. Shapleigh.
Samuel B. Shapleigh.
Thomas W. Shapleigh.
Rufus S. Smith. (Died ——.)
Jeffrey T. Stanley.
Henry R. Thompson.
Edwin E. Tiffany.
Geo. W. Tower. (Died Jan. 20, 1871.)
Chas. A. Vinal.
John H. Watson. (Died Oct. 22, 1873.)
Isaac G. Wheeler.
L. Henry Whitney.
Israel D. Wildes.
Lyman D. Willcut.
Geo. Willmonton.
Henry T. Winslow. (Died June 30, 1863.)
Honorary Member.
Edw. W. Kinsley.

THE FORTY-FIFTH.

CHAPTER I.
CAMP-LIFE AT READVILLE.

Shortly after the President's call for three hundred thousand nine months' men, in the summer of 1862, a meeting was held by the Independent Corps of Cadets, in their armory in Boston, to consider the expediency of organizing a nine months' regiment, of which that corps should be, as it were, the nucleus. The proposition being favorably received, application was speedily made to Governor Andrew by various members in favor of the movement, for permission to recruit for such a regiment, under the title of the Cadet Regiment, but officially to be known as the Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

Charles R. Codman of Boston, then adjutant of the cadets, was selected as future commander of the regiment, subject, however, to the approval of the line officers, who were themselves to be elected by their respective companies in accordance with the militia law of the state, prior to receiving their commissions from the governor. Recruiting officers canvassed the state, and the companies ranked in the order in which their respective rolls were filled.