Williams, Henry A.; 30; Dighton. Re-enlisted in Eighteenth Unattached Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Aug. 10, 1864. Discharged as sergeant Nov. 14, 1864. Selectman in Dighton for many years. Died July 3, 1895.
Williams, Caleb; 41; Rehoboth. Re-enlisted Jan. 21, 1864, in Company B, Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Died May, 1903.
Williams, Edmund; 25; Rochester. Believed to be dead.
Welden, Silas H.; 23; Swansea. On detached service at Plymouth, N. C. Discharged for disability Nov. 2, 1863. Re-enlisted in Company D, Sixtieth Massachusetts. Farmer. Resides in Dighton.
CHAPTER XII.
Company I, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
[Written by Lieut. Jabez M. Lyle.]
The signal service rendered by Company I, and the casualties suffered by it, make it quite proper to give a somewhat detailed history of its formation and of the general character of the men composing it. The following account is taken from an interesting paper written by Lieutenant J. M. Lyle, and is given in almost his own words: