Stone, James L., age 23, Co. F, 13th Regt.; July 16, 1861 to Nov. 10, 1862. Disability.

Stone, Joseph H., age 33, Co. A, 1st Batt. Heavy Art.; Feb. 25, 1862 to Feb. 27, 1865.

Stone, Lyman, age 19, Co. A, 51st Regt.; Sept. 25, 1862 to July 27, 1863.

Sullivan, James H., age 18, Co. K, 21st Regt.; July 19, 1861. Killed March 14, 1862.

Taylor, Robert, age 33, Co. H, 31st Regt.; Oct. 27, 1864 to Sept. 9, 1865.

Towle, Perry W., age 18, Co. C, 34th Regt.; July 31, 1862. Died July 13, 1863.

Trowbridge, Charles A., Sergt., age 34, Co. C, 15th Regt.; Co. G, 57th Regt.; July 12, 1861 to October 28, 1862. Disability. March 10, 1864 to June 19, 1865.

Twitchell, Frederick L., age 30, Co. A, 51st Regt.; Sept 25, 1862 to July 27, 1863.

Valentine, Walter, age 22, Co. F, 45th Regt.; 14th Batt. Light Art.; Oct. 28, 1862 to July 7, 1863. Feb. 27, 1864 to June 15, 1865.

Warren, Charles E., age 18, Co. C, 15th Regt.; July 12, 1861. Died Oct. 2, 1862.

Warren, William H., Co. G, 42nd Regt.; July 6, 1864 to Oct. 16, 1864.

Watterson, James, age 18, 3rd Batt. Light Art.; 5th Batt. Light Art.; Jan. 28, 1864 to June 12, 1865.

Watterson, William, age 32, 3rd Batt. Light Art.; 5th Batt. Light Art.; Jan. 28, 1864 to June 12, 1865.

Wetherbee, Emory G., Musician, age 15, Co. K, 21st Regt.; July 19, 1861 to Dec. 24, 1862. Disability.

Whitcomb, Levi, age 18, Co. D, 20th Regt.; Aug. 29, 1861 to March 25, 1865.

Williams, Warren W., age 21, Co. K, 13th Regt.; July 16, 1861 to Jan. 9, 1863. Disability.

Wood, Albert, age 28, Surgeon, 29th Regt.; 1st Cavalry Regt.; July 31, 1862. Resigned Nov. 1, 1864.

Wood, Henry Fox, age 26, Co. C, 1st Regt.; Cavalry; Sept. 23, 1861 to Oct 3, 1864.

Wyman, Benjamin F., age 23, Co. E, 5th Regt.; Sept. 16, 1862 to July 2, 1863.

Wyman, John C., Capt., age 39, 33rd Regt.; 3rd Cavalry; July 24, 1862 to May 15, 1865.

Yeaw, Jesse L., age 19, Musician, Co. A, 25th Regt.; Oct. 15, 1861 to Aug. 8, 1862. Disability.

Yeaw, Welcome P. M., Musician, age 45, Co. B, 32nd Regt.; Nov. 20, 1861 to June 5, 1862. Disability.

Yeaw, Daniel, Corp., age 25, Co. D, 3rd R. I. Heavy Art.; Aug. 30, 1861 to Aug. 8, 1865.

LOSSES IN THE WAR

Losses are Arranged in Chronological Order

Warren, F. Eames, Co. D, 20th Regt.; wounded at Ball's Bluff, Va., Oct. 21, 1861. Died two weeks later.

Thomas N. Woodward, Jr., Co. C, 15th Regt.; taken prisoner at Ball's Bluff, Oct. 21, 1861; died at Richmond, Va., Nov. 25, 1861.

James H. Sullivan, Co. K, 15th Regt.; killed at Newbern, N. C., March 14, 1862.

Francis Hanley, Co. H., 15th Regt.; died July 5, 1862. Albert H. Stacy, Co. K, 16th Regt.; accidentally killed at Warrenton Junc., Va., Aug. 27, 1862.

John Burke, Co. F, 28th Regt.; killed at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862.

John P. Larkin, Co. C, 15th Regt.; killed at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862.

Lucius F. Kingman, Co. A, 25th Regt.; died at Newbern, N. C., Sept. 24, 1862.

Waldo B. Maynard, Co. C, 15th Regt.; wounded at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17; died Sept. 24, 1862.

Charles E. Warren, Co. C, 15th Regt.; wounded at Antietam. Md., Sept. 17, died Oct. 2, 1862, at Hoffman Hospital, near Keedysville, Md.

First Sergt. Joseph P. Johnson, Co. C, 15th Regt.; wounded at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, died Oct. 14, 1862.

Joseph H. Proctor, Co. D, 20th Regt.; slightly wounded at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.

John Breach, Co. G, 38th Regt.; died May 11, 1863.

Perry W. Towle, Co. C, 34th Regt.; died at Washington, July 16, 1863.

Adelbert W. Bemis, Co. B, 57th Regt.; died at Andersonville Prison, Ga., Sept. 11, 1864.

Lorenzo Fletcher, Co. G, 57th Regt.; died at Washington, May 10, 1864.

Capt. S. Henry Bailey, 36th Regt.; killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864.

Thomas B. Davis, Co. H, 1st Cavalry; died at Andersonville Prison, Ga., May 31, 1864.

George F. Merriam, Co. C, 25th Regt.; killed at Cold Harbor,

Va., June 3, 1864.

Leander Fay, Co. G, 25th Regt.; wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, died June 5, 1864.

Corp. George A. Prouty, Co. C, 34th Regt.; wounded June 5; died June 17, 1864 at Harrisburg, Pa.

Gustavus Richardson, Co. K, 57th Regt. ; died at Philadelphia, Pa., July 25, 1864.

Joseph Dudley, Co. C, 34th Regt.; wounded March 31. Died at Pt. Rocks, Va., Sept. 4, 1864.

Sergt. Nathaniel Hodgkins, Co. C, 34th Regt.; died of wounds, Sept. 27, 1864.

Charles L. Shaw, Co. E, 20th Regt.; died at Andersonville Prison, Ga., Dec. 19, 1864.

Edwin W. Pierce, Co. C, 34th Regt.; wounded Oct. 13; died at Winchester, Va., Dec. 26, 1864.

Sergt. John W. Forbes, Co. C, 34th Regt.; died a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C., Jan. 13, 1865.

Albert H. Carruth, Co. C, 34th Regt.; died at Alexandria, Va., April 19, 1865.

Lieut. Joseph A. Davis, Co. K, 149th New York Regt.

CHAPTER XXII

NORTHBOROUGH IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

The Spanish-American War was the shortest war in which our country has ever engaged. It was waged from April to July, 1898. And so far as our country was concerned, it was fought for purely humanitarian reasons. It is not true that the destruction of the United States gunboat "Maine" in Havana Harbor on the fifteenth of March caused the war though that unfortunate event is sometimes said to have been the cause. Our great country never goes to war except for the furtherance of some great principle.

The real cause of this war was Spain's ill-treatment of Cuba. Spain, for three hundred years, was a great colonizing country. But she never knew how to treat her colonies. She exploited them for her own selfish purposes, with never a thought for the rights of her subject peoples. It has been said of that country by a very brilliant woman of our acquaintance that "Spain has carried the Cross of Christ into every corner of the globe, and everywhere she has crucified humanity upon it." And that is the reason why, one after another, in course of time, she has been bereft of all her colonies.

Her treatment of Cuba was no exception. That little island the Pearl of the Antilles was shamefully abused for three hundred years. The cries of those suffering people were wafted across the water and were heard by the United States; and the United States could do nothing to stop them, for it is a principle of international law that no nation must interfere with the domestic affairs of a sister nation.

But so piercing did the cries of the Cubans become, and their agony so intense, that the United States at last felt obliged to interfere, and the Spanish-American War resulted.

The war was of such short duration that not many soldiers were called into service.

Northborough was represented in that war by the following

men:

ELMER BERTRAND, Co, F, 6th U. S. V.

FRANK A. BOUVIER, Co. E, 6th U. S. V.

FRED W. ESTABROOK, Co. F, 6th U. S. V.; enlisted May 25; mustered out January 21, 1899; served in Puerto Rico.

CHESTER W. HUNT, age 23; enlisted in Co. F, 6th Regt., U. S. V. at Framingham; thence to Camp Alger, Va.; thence to Charleston, S. C.; thence to Puerto Rico on transport "Yale." Returned to Boston on hospital ship, "Bay State"; thence to Camp at Framingham where he was mustered out January 21, 1899.

JOHN W. KELLETTE, age 23; enlisted in Co. F, 6th Regt., U.S.V., at Marlborough; thence to Camp Dewey at Framingham; thence to Dunn-Coring, Va.; detached from Co. F, to Clendenning's "Rough Riders," a detachment made up of boys from the 6th Mass., 6th Ill., and 8th Ohio regiments, to take care of, exercise, break and bridleise green horses to be used as officers' mounts, at Charleston, S. C.; then to Puerto Rico (July 25) where he was reassigned to Co. F; campaigned in Puerto Rico until October 21, on which date the Spanish troops evacuated the island; contracted yellow fever at Ad Juntas which reduced his weight from 192 to 109 pounds; mustered out January 21, 1899.

JOSEPH J. KELLETTE, brother of above, served in the Marine Corps on the "Montgomery," previous to, during, and after the war; the "Montgomery" was a scout cruiser, which took part in Admiral Sampson's bombardment of San Juan, in which engagement Kellette was wounded in the right leg.