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forming picket and provost duty. May the ninth, they received
orders to embark for Baton Rouge, and sailed on the 21st, with 26
officers and 546 enlisted men fit for duty. They arrived at Spring-
field Landing, the 23d, and took up their line of march for Port
Hudson. They remained there, through the siege, till it capitu-
lated to General Banks, July 9, 1863, and were engaged in the
two assaults made on the enemy’s works. The time of enlistment
having nearly expired, they turned over all ordnance and camp
stores, July 26th, and embarked, on the steamer City of Madison,
for Cairo, 111., going thence to Chicago, by rail, and arrived in Con-
cord, Aug. 8th, and were mustered out of service, Aug. 13, 1863.

The regiment suffered much from sickness, which proved quite
as fatal as battles. From July 31st to August 13th sixteen men
died, and of seven hundred and forty-one men and officers on the
roll, only four hundred and eighty were fit for duty. After leav-
ing Port Hudson for home, fifty men were left on the way on ac-
count of sickness, many of whom died.

No regiment in the service, for nine months, was ever more shat-
tered by sickness than the Fifteenth. It was a good regiment and    m

faithfully performed all duties assigned it.

The. Sixteenth Regiment were nine months men, and went into
camp at Concord, in the fall of 1862. The officers were James
Pike, Sanbornton, Colonel; Henry W. Fuller, Concord, Lieut.

Colonel; Samuel Davis, Jr., Warner, Major; Luther T. Townsand,

Salem, Adjutant; Albert H. Drown, Fisherville, Quartermaster ;

Thomas Sanborn, Newport, Surgeon; and R. M. Manley, North-
field Chaplain.

This regiment was assigned to the department of the Gulf, and
performed guard duty from New Orleans to Port Hudson. We
have not an extended record of the service of the Sixteenth in the
leld, but it was considered a good regiment. Like all of our regi-
ments who went into Louisiana and Mississippi, they suffered se-
verely from sickness, which proved fatal in many instances. In
nine months, one hundred and forty-three men and officers died.    ^

They were mustered out of service Aug. 20, 1863.

The Seventeenth Regiment were enlisted under the call for nine
months men, in the fall and winter of 1862-3. The officers were
Henry 0. Kent, Lancaster, Colonel; Charles H. Long, Claremont,

Lieut. Colonel; George H. Bellows, Major; George A. Wain-
wright, Hanover, Adjutant; Edward H. Cummings, Quartermas-