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The Thirty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865

Chapter 63: MAJORS
By Alfred S. Roe
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The narrative follows a volunteer regiment from its organization through training, marches, combat, and duty, documenting engagements in the eastern theater and episodes of capture and imprisonment. Company-level sketches, officers' reports, and veterans' recollections reconstruct daily camp life, battle actions, maneuvers, and periods of garrison and picket duty. The volume intersperses firsthand diaries and letters with a campaign chronology and includes appendices containing rosters, officers' lists, casualty returns, and veterans' association records, offering both readable accounts of soldiering and a reference resource for descendants and historians.

MAJORS

Henry M. Tremlett, b. Dorchester, July 15, 1833; 29, S.; merchant, Boston; Aug. 28, 1862; educated at Chauncy Hall School, Boston, he succeeded his father in mercantile life on Foster's Wharf; when Governor Andrew called for volunteers to serve in Fort Warren in the spring of 1862, he was one of those who filled the ranks of the Fourth Battalion, serving therein as First Sergeant. On the organization of the Twentieth Regiment, he was commissioned Captain and in that capacity bore his part in the fatal day at Ball's Bluff and was with the Army of the Potomac through the Seven Days' Fight. With the Thirty-ninth he participated in all of its experiences till, in the fall of '63, he was ordered to Boston where for quite a year, as Provost Marshal, he had charge of the draft rendezvous till after the death of Colonel Davis and the severe wounding of Colonel Peirson his return was necessary, serving thereafter as Lieut. Colonel.

Frederick R. Kinsley, July 13, '64, from Captain, Co. E; not mustered; captured, Aug. 19, '64, at the Weldon R. R., was held until the following March; came home in command of the Regiment; M. O. as Capt., June 2, 1865; soon after the war, with two brothers, he bought and worked a large farm in Dorchester, N. H.; represented the town in the Legislature; in 1911 he removed to Lowell where, in 1913, he makes his home.