Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

530 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886.
Fiske and George S. Greene, of the Fifty-seventh ; Asst. Surg.
Albert R. Rice, of tlie Forty-ninth ; Capt. Ira B. Sampson, 1st
Lieuts. Alfred H. Kinsley and Horace L. Clark, of the Second
Heavy Artillery ; 2d Lieut. Willard Holden, of the Third Heavy
Artillery ; Asst. Surg. Homer H. Warner and 2d Lieuts. Horace M.
Butler, George Howe, and George D. Davis, of the First Cavalry ;
2d Lieut. Henry M. Phillips, of the Fourth Cavalry.
Brevet Brig. -Gen. Horace C. Lee was city clerk and treasurer
of Springfield at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and his eminent
military capacities, by which he had several years before risen to the
rank of colonel and acting brigadier in the State militia, made it
desirable that his services should be secured for his country. On
the 23d of August, 1861, he was offered the second place in the
field of the Twenty-first Regiment, then being formed, and went to
Boston to accept it, when he was given authority to raise, in western
Massachusetts, one of five regiments which had just been authorized.
This he did ; and on the 20th of September was commissioned
colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, forming a part of the Burn-
side expedition to North Carolina. He ably commanded the regi-
ment at the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, and until July 4,
1862, when he took couunand of the brigade, leading it in the Trenton,
Tarboro', and Goldsboro' expeditions, and winning praise for the able
handling of his troops in repulsing General Clingman's attack at the
latter place. He was recommended by General Foster for promotion
to the rank of brigadier ; but the commission was not granted, on
account of the number already given to Massachusetts officers. On
the departure of General Burnside he was appointed provost-marshal-
general of North Carolina, and, later, of the Department of Virginia
and North Carolina, and acted in that capacity until the office was
abolished by General Butler, in January, 1864. He then served upon
commissions and court-martial until the opening of the campaign, in
May following, when he resumed conuuand of his regiment, leading
it at Walthal Junction, Arrowfield Church, and Drewry's Bluff". In