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Now in the library; "Genealogy of the Cooke and Cook family". New under the Moments in Time section: my "I Love Me Wall". (purely self-indulgent, I know.)
honoring our relatives that have served this country. This list is "in progress" and by no means comlete. If you feel we've overlooked someone please contact us using the "Suggest" tab on the top of their page.
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He enlisted as a Private on 5 August 1862 at the age of 32. He enlisted in Company C, 24th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 15 Aug 1862.Transferred into Company 9th, 2nd Battalion, Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 May 1864. He was wounded 15 May 1864 at Gettysburg and transferred out of Company C, 24th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 15 May 1864. He was discharged from Company 9th, 2nd Battn Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on 6 Aug 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
He enlisted 23 Nov 1863 for three years. On 4 Jan 1864 he mustered into the 57th Regiment Company B Massachusetts Volunteers..He was wounded before Petersburg, 24 June 1864 in left foot, and was discharged at Worcester Massachusetts 26 June 1865, at the close of war.
He was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, psychological service Oct. to Dec 1917 at Camp Dix. He was then assigned to Surgeon General's office in Washington DC with the group of psychologists revising army examinations. Jan to Mar 1918 he was at Camps Meade, Lee and Gordon, for psychological experiments. in Apr he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the Tank Corps, but did not go across to France.
Analyzing data from the Army tests he came to the conclusion that the white race was of superior intelligence. He wrote about this in his book; A Study of American Intelligence, Princeton University Press, 1923. Though he later retracted his views on the intellectual superiority and specifically disowned the book.
He was appointed fourth sergeant in captain Jonathan Wheeler's foot company, second regiment, second brigade and seventh division. He was promoted to captain. He resigned his commission as captain 20 Jan 1809.
He was a student at the Springfield, Massachusetts Y. M. C. A. College was recommended by the President of the College to receive training that he might become an instructor in the College in the fall of 1918. He enlisted in the U.S. Army July 28 1918 was sent to Plattsburg Barracks for instruction; while there was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. On September 20 he reported for duty at first station Student's Army Training Corps at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. He remained there until unit was disbanded Nov 8 1918. He received special orders to report without delay at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy New York on Nov 11. He was an instructor there until the Student's Army Training Corps was disbanded Dec 18, He was discharged Dec 23 1918.
He enlisted 14 July 1862, for three years. On 31 July 1862 He mustered into the 34th Regiment, Company C, Massachusetts Volunteers. He was promoted corporal. He was discharged, in the field, 14 Jan 1865 so that he might accept promotion to 1st lieutenant in 25th U. S. Colored Troops; and was afterward made captain.
He served in the Spanish War, on U. S. S. Prairie, as Senior Watch and Division Officer on blockade of Cuba and Porto Rico.. He was in engagement resulting in the destruction of Spanish S. S. Alphonso XII., near Mariel, 5 July, 1898. He was commissioned Lieutenant U. S. N., 23 April, 1898; resigned 28 Sept.
Enlisted 14 Aug 1862, Company F, 9th New Hampshire Volunteers. Wounded 30 July 1864, in a mine explosion before Petersburg, Virginia. 28 pieces of buckshot were taken out of his body.
He enlisted 29 1861 for three years. On 16 Jul 1861 he mustered into the 13th Regiment Company K Massachusetts Volunteers. He was discharged in the field, 23 May 1862, by reason of disability. Afterward he served 22 months in Brigade Band, Corps d'Afrique, stationed in Louisiana.
Daniel was a soldier during the French-Indian Wars. He died during the Crown Point Expedition.
The following is excerpted from "The Hundredth Town. Glimpses of Life in Westborough 1717-1817" by Harriette Merrifield Forbes
This was just before the war of 1758. Daniel Brigham, a young man of twenty-three, was drafted into the army, and the most strenuous efforts of the family failed to procure a substitute. Just before leaving home, as he was going up the road for the cattle, late one afternoon, he was startled by seeing before him a man wrapped in an Indian blanket. He recognized the figure and face of the man as his own. It disappeared. His brother, standing in the doorway of the old house, also saw the form. He went to the war with the conviction that he should never return.
A few weeks after, he fell ill of a fever, at Crown Point. When near the point of death, an Englishman found him attended by a friendly Indian, and wrapped in an Indian blanket. Afterwards the Englishman brought back to Grafton this account of the realization of their fears.
The exact spot where this apparition was seen has for many generations been pointed out to the children of the family. It is not far beyond the Brigham homestead, now owned by Mr. E. A. Brigham, on the " old road," just after passing the "dry bridge."
he was in Captain Ross Wyman's Artillery Company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's Regiment which marched on the Lexington Alarm; in 1777, marched on an alarm at Bennington in Captain John Maynard's Company, Colonel. Job Cushing's Regiment.
He went to sea in 1848, and became an officer in the merchant marine. He was in the U. S. Navy stationed on the African coast to intercept the slave trade in 1853. He was an officer of the "USS Albany," which, in 1854, was lost at sea with all on board.
He enlisted 11 Jul 1862 for three years. On 31 Jul 1862 he mustered into the 34th Regiment Company C Massachusetts. Volunteers. He was engaged in sixteen battles. He was wounded in left foot at battle of Stickney's Farm Virginia on 13 Oct 1864. He was promoted to corporal. He was discharged at Richmond Virginia 15 Jun 1865, at the close of war.
He served as a colonel in the Wisconsin Territorial Militia. Fort Blue Mounds was later built near his home, where he and his neighbors took refuge there during the conflict. He successfully defended the post against several raids by the Sauk and Fox.
He served as Captain in Major General Ward's Regiment. From "The History of the Brigham Family Vol 1" Capt. Edmund was also deacon; he settled near Chauncey Pond in the northeast part of Westboro, and was an important citizen. He was warden in 1774; member of a committee of vigilance and correspondence, '77 and '78; selectman, '79, '87, '88, '91, 93. Was also Captain of the Company of Minute Men who marched on the Lexington Alarm'. He took 18 men to the Northern Army, (who each had a bounty of £9), and at the surrender of Burgoyne he had command of a company of volunteers. Was kicked by a horse, which incapacitated him for further service in the army. British prisoners, destined for Boston, under charge of officers, accompanied him on his journey home, and were encamped on his grounds for a night, as they passed through Westboro. During the halt, a Hessian prisoner drew a map of Capt. Brigham's fine farm as the one he intended to draw for his service in conquering the country. This map was discovered, about 1800, by a citizen from the vicinity of Westboro, hanging upon the wall of an inn in Germany, and recognized. Up to this time, his descendants have failed to find the grave of this Revolutionary hero.
He served as a Private and Corporal under Captains Wheelock and Brigham, and as a Sergeant under Captain Houghton and Colonels Ward and Jonathan Smith.
Enlisted 9 Dec 1861, Company M, 1st New Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry. Re-enlisted 1 Jan 1864 wounded and captured 29 June, 1864, in Ream's Station Virginia. Released from Libby Prison, 30 June, 1865.
Elnathan Was a pensioner in 1832, and probably was the one recorded as being in Captain Rudd's Company, Tyler's Brigade, when attempting to dislodge the British from Newport, from Aug.2-Sept 12, 1778, and was at the battle of Long Island. Also in Captain Waterman's Company, 6 Sept. to 8 Sept., 1781, and on duty in New London.
