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unable to look upon the face of the dead, which, although emaciated by
disease, bore the soldierly impress it was wont to bear in life. The
arrangements at the house were under the direction of Captain Solomon
Spalding.
The city flags were at half-mast, minute guns were fired from 10 until
12 o'clock, and all the bells in the city were tolled. The cortege
received the remains at his mother's residence and proceeded to the
Church of the Immaculate Conception, the nave of which was heavily
draped in mourning, via. Orange, Concord, Main, East Pearl and Temple
streets, where the body was placed in front of the altar, and the
funeral service of the Catholic Church was performed by the Right Rev.
Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina. The funeral oration was delivered by
Rev. Robert Fulton, S. J., and President of the Boston College,
connected with the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which the
deceased soldier was a member.
The singing, which was grand and appropriate, was by the choir of the
Church of St. Aloysius, assisted by General Michael T. Donahue and
others, from Boston, and John McEvoy, of Lowell.
At the close of the exercises in the church the procession was
re-formed, when it proceeded through Amory street to Canal street, up
Canal street to the Nashua Cemetery, in the rear of the Unitarian
church, where the remains of the gallant dead were interred with those
of his kindred, and the grave blessed by Rev. Father O'Donnell.
The following regiments participated in these battles:
Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. S. P. Richmond.
Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Geo. H. Pierson.
[A]Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. F. J. Coffin.
Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. T. J. C.
Amory.
Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Major J. G.
Chambers.
Twenty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. T. G.
Stevenson.
Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. Josiah
Pickett.
Twenty-seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. H. C.
Lee.
Forty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Chas. L.
Holbrook.
Forty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Francis S.
Lee.
Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Chas. R.
Codman.
Forty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Geo. Boler.
Fifty-first R
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