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THE
THIRD MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT
VOLUNTEER MILITIA
In the War of the Rebellion,
1861-1863.
BY
Rev. JOHN G. GAMMONS, Ph. D.
PROVIDENCE:
Snow & Farnham Co., Printers.
1906.
DEDICATED
TO
COLONEL SILAS P. RICHMOND
WHOSE PRUDENCE,
DISCIPLINE, AND DEVOTION
TO THE
WELFARE OF THE MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND,
WON THEIR LASTING ESTEEM
AND AFFECTION.
By the Committee.
To pick up the thread after it has been dropped;to supply the missing link after forty years; to stepinto the shoes of a dead comrade are things to bedesired only by a conceited egotist, yet all thesethings were forced upon me by a unanimous vote ofthe Third Regimental Association at their annualmeeting at Dighton Rock, in August, 1904.
The Rev. Charles Snow, the Association’s firstchoice (and no one was better fitted than he towrite the history of the Third Regiment), having been its chaplain and therefore acquainted with allthe facts in the history of the field and staff officers,as also with that of nearly all of the line officers,both before and after the war, was the man of allthe officers in the regiment to compile the RegimentalHistory and publish the same. Moreover, hewas retired from active service and considered it aprivilege rather than a duty to recall the past andagain live over the days with the “boys in blue” withwhom he had marched and suffered; but God haddecreed otherwise, and so Chaplain Snow was called[iv]to the great camping ground above. He died atTaunton, Mass., Nov. 28, 1903, at the ripe age ofseventy-four years.
Chaplain Snow had