Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7.. You can also browse the collection for Pierson or search for Pierson in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
the day we had a battle at Kingston. There were quite a number killed. As near as I can find out there were forty killed and one hundred and fifty wounded. I saw some dead and wounded when we passed the next morning. Our army took the place and burnt the bridge. We privates in the ranks can't tell much about it. There are a thousand stories afloat. I suppose you will get the particulars before I do. The color bearers and guards slept that night in the church with the officers. Colonel Pierson found us with coffee. The prisoner stayed in the church all day, but when night came, he was put out of doors to sleep under guard, on the ground. There were none of our regiment in that battle, although two companies were ordered into Kingston Sunday night, to do guard duty. The weather all day Sunday was very fine and warm. The fifteenth, Monday, we marched twenty miles. We marched down toward Kingston about five miles, but left it on our right, so we did not see the place. I u