Shaw, Asa T., shoemaker; 29; married. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Also enlisted in Company B, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts, and died a prisoner of war at Salisbury, N. C., Dec. 22, 1864.
Shaw, George T., shoemaker; 26; married. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Lives at Cocheset, in West Bridgewater. Is proprietor of a grocery store.
Shipman, John, moulder; 34; single. Enlisted from West Bridgewater. Shipman was the company armorer. The quality of the rifles furnished were such as to make his office no sinecure, and a large amount of work was necessary to put the arms in condition to be used at all. He was, however, equal to the occasion, as he was a trained man, and, if necessary, could make any part of a rifle. He enlisted in Company D, Fifty-eighth Regiment, was wounded in both legs in the Battle of the Wilderness, and was taken prisoner on May 12, 1864. He was a prisoner in Andersonville and other prisons for six months and nineteen days, and when exchanged weighed only eighty pounds. He was a large man and his usual weight was 200 pounds. He died in West Bridgewater, Dec. 3, 1905.
Snell, Issacher K., shoemaker; 22; married. Enlisted from Easton. Discharged March 12, 1863, for disability. Lived in Brockton and Boston, and died in Boston, Oct. 11, 1902; buried in Cocheset, West Bridgewater.
Sturtevant, Dexter M., farmer; 39; married. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Absent sick when the company was mustered out. Honorably discharged June 23, 1863. Lives in Bridgewater; has always been a farmer there and has kept the grocery store at “Sturtevant’s Corners,” Bridgewater. When the writer called on him in the last days of June, 1905, he found him engaged in mowing with a scythe.
Sturtevant, Zenas W., shoemaker; 39; married. Enlisted from East Bridgewater. Absent sick at East Bridgewater when the company was mustered out. Lived in East Bridgewater, and died there Aug. 21, 1899.
Townsend, John P.; machinist; 26; single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Was commissioned second lieutenant in Company D, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, Mar. 2, 1864; promoted first lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1864, and captain, May 3, 1865. Was taken prisoner in battle near Poplar Spring Church, Sept. 30, 1864; was confined in Petersburg, Libby Prison, Salisbury, N. C., and Danville, Va. Released Feb. 22, 1865; came home on furlough, returned to the regiment Apr. 9, 1865, and was mustered out of the service July 18, 1865. Mr. Townsend is foreman of a large machine shop and foundry in Bridgewater.
Washburn, John M., shoemaker; 19; single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Has been in business mostly in the west; now with the American Clock Company, Chicago. Lives in Chicago; address, 2885 North 46th Street, Jefferson Station.
Washburn, Nathan H., stonecutter; 26; single. Enlisted from Bridgewater. Lives in Brockton, “Campello.” Has been employed in various capacities in shoe factories since the war.