Twenty members of the company entered the military service after being mustered out of Company K. Ten of this number joined Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, three of them forming the commissioned officers of the company. Of these ten, one was killed in action, five were wounded, seven were taken prisoners, of whom two died in rebel prisons. All but one of the ten is included in one or more of the above categories, and whether the tenth man was taken prisoner or wounded the writer has not been able to learn. The remaining ten enlisted in various organizations, but none of them lost their lives in the service.
In June, 1906, thirty-six members of Company K were known to be living. One has not been heard from by his relatives for about twenty years, and the remaining sixty-four are known to be dead. The commissioned officers are all dead. Of the non-commissioned officers, two corporals survive. Fourteen of the surviving men of the company are past labor by reason of age or infirmities, or both. Twenty are “still in the ring” pursuing their usual avocations; one has retired, and one is in the Soldiers Home, in Togus, Maine.
The company was mustered into the United States service on Sept. 23, 1862, and was mustered out on June 26, 1863. The members of Company K were mustered on the above dates unless otherwise noted.
Corrected Roster of Company K.
Samuel Bates, Captain; born in East Bridgewater, June 3, 1828. Boot-cutter; married; commissioned Sept. 3, 1862; died in Whitman, Mass., Sept. 26, 1879. After the war, Capt. Bates passed several years in the employ of the interior department in Washington, ending in September, 1879.
Nathan Fobes, First Lieutenant; salesman; twenty-two; single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Commissioned Sept. 3, 1862; died in East Orange, N. J., Oct. 14, 1899. Lieutenant Fobes was a traveling salesman for Boston and New York merchants.
Charles E. Churchill, Second Lieutenant; thirty-eight; married; shoe-cutter. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Commissioned Sept. 3, 1862. Lieutenant Churchill served as aid on the staff of Brig.-Gen. J. Jourdan from Feb. 26, 1863, until the return of the regiment. Lieutenant Churchill entered the service the second time and served as captain of Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded and taken prisoner Sept. 3, 1864, and discharged for disability, Feb. 10, 1865. Lieutenant Churchill lived in West Bridgewater, and died there on Feb. 4, 1901.
George F. Winter, First Sergeant; twenty-nine; bookbinder; married. Enlisted from Gloucester; died in Gloucester of heart disease Jan. 9, 1886. He was a bookbinder by occupation.
John B. Fisher, Sergeant; twenty-one; law student; single. Enlisted from East Bridgewater; died June 13, 1882, in East Bridgewater. He also served in the Thirty-sixth United States Colored Troops, known as the Second North Carolina Regiment.