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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 5., The Lawrence Light Guard. (search)
ewing old friendships and of doing easy work. July 12, 1863, just after the Battle of Gettysburg, the regiment marched to Funktown, Maryland, and joined the Army of the Potomac, under General Meade. The Rappahannock was reached July 27. Samuel W. Joyce died of typhoid fever in an ambulance wagon during the march and was buried at Middleburg, Virginia. During a short halt the company gathered around, a hurried burial service was said, a volley was fired, and the body placed in a hastily mo had died in foul prison pens. Many in the ranks were but shadows of their former selves, some had been left behind in the hospitals, others had come home to die. The first duty of the Light Guard was to bring home the dead. The bodies of Samuel W. Joyce, George Henry Champlin and George H. Lewis were sent home through the personal supervision of Capt. Hutchins, who was called South to testify in the trial of the commander of Salisbury Prison. (To be concluded in January number.) The t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
of parents and pupils the School Board recently (1889) voted to establish military instruction for the young men and the town made an appropriation therefor. In the late civil war more than forty of the alumni, in the spirit of their patriotic declamations, seeing behind the starry flag the Union and the Law, rushed to the field of strife. The following, and probably others, lost their lives therein: William H. Burbank, Edward Gustine, Joel M. Fletcher, Edward Ireland, Alfred Joyce, Samuel W. Joyce, Samuel M. Stevens, Herman Mills, and Isaac J. Hatch. Give them the soldier's meed, To them the patriot's honor yield; The holy cause their hearts espoused Their martyr blood has sealed. Conclusion. The school has now reached the fifty-seventh year of its existence, and its influence is patent to every observer. It has afforded instruction to about twenty-two hundred youth, and most of them have done it honor in after years. Many have occupied high positions of trust and in