In the
American Civil War, he became chaplain to the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on August 1, 1861.[1] He was honorably discharged on December 10, 1862, on account of failing health. On the day following his discharge, being present at the
Battle of Fredericksburg, he volunteered to join the Nineteenth Massachusetts in crossing the
Rappahannock River and was shot to death while attempting to drive the Confederate sharpshooters out of the city.
He edited several works of his sister Margaret. Among his other publications are:
Sabbath-School Manual of Christian Doctrine and Institutions (Boston, 1850)
Historical Discourse delivered in the New North Church, Boston, 1 October 1854
Liberty versus Romanism, two discourses (1859)
Notes
^Matteson, John, A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021, p. 123.
^Herring, Joseph.
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