The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

EARLY SERVICES OF THE EIGHTH MAINE. 23
Early Services of the Eig-hth Maine.
HY KENUAI.L POLLAKl) (il CO. K.
At the call of President Lincoln in 1861 for three hundred
thousand men for three years, or during the war, the Eighth
Maine Regiment sprang into existence, and the first of Septem-
ber, 1861, found the regiment ready to go forward. It left
Maine September 7th, 1861, with the following named officers
in command : Colonel Lee Strickland, Lieut. Col. John D.
Rust, Major Joseph S. Rice, Adjutant James Dingley, jr.,
Quartermaster Augustus H. Strickland, Surgeon Paul M. Fisher,
Assistant Surgeon Jonathan S. Houghton, Chaplain Henry C.
Henries; Co. A, Capt. Ephraim W. Woodman, ist Lieut. Aus-
tin S. Bump, 2d Lieut. John M. Adams; Co. B, Capt. Joseph
F. Twitchell, ist Lieut. Charles C. Perry, 2d Lieut. Luther B.
Rodgers ; Co, C, Capt. John C. Bryant, ist Lieut. Isaac H.
McDonald, 2d Lieut. William H. Timberlake; Co. D, Capt.
Henry Boynton, ist Lieut. Franklin E. Gray, 2d Lieut. John
R. Sprague; Co. E, Capt. Thomas Hutchins, ist Lieut, Thomas
S. Hutchins, 2d Lieut. Isaac A. Phillips; Co. F, Capt. John
Heminway, ist Lieut. Alonzo E. Kimball, 2d Lieut. John w.
Roberts; Co. G, Capt. Augustus A. Hoyt, Ist Lieut. Wilbur F.
Lane, 2d Lieut. Edwin B. Bates; Co. H, Capt. John F. Milliken,
1st Lieut Edward A. True, 2d Lieut. Charles P2. Howard;
Co. I, Capt. William M. McArthur, Ist Lieut. Charles H. Rob-
inson, 2d Lieut. John E. McUrda ;
Co.
K, Capt. John Conant,
1st. Lieut. Henry Brawn, 2d Lieut. Hillman Smith, making ten
good companies of men and officers as ever left the State ;
and
no State in the Union shows a better record for gallantry in the
war than the Pine Tree State. Its soldiers never faltered, never
shrank from any known duty.
At Hampstead Plains, L. I. , we
remained three days, thence
to Washington where we arrived Monday morning just at break