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Facts and Events
| Name |
Eabud D. Simonds |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
12 Jan 1820 |
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
| Marriage |
3 Dec 1843 |
First Universalist Church, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusettsto Mary Jane Frothingham |
| Census |
21 Sep 1850 |
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusettswith Mary Jane Frothingham |
| Residence[3][6] |
1856 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts61 Green |
| Occupation? |
1858 |
Lynn, Essex, MassachusettsSimonds Eabud, morocco dresser, h. Warren, n. Shepard Simonds Henry, shoemaker, h. 5 Fayette Simonds James M. shoemaker, h. 12 Warren |
| Census |
18 Jul 1860 |
Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusettswith Mary Jane Frothingham |
| Occupation? |
Bef 1862 |
Leather Dresser (Morocco dresser) |
| Military[7] |
Bet 22 Jul 1861 and 11 Jul 1865 |
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| Military[8] |
10 Feb 1862 |
Boston, Suffolk, MassachusettsCompany D, 17th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts |
| Military[9] |
9 May 1863 |
Newbern to Kingston, North CarolinaEvent-Misc |
| Military[10] |
1 Feb 1864 |
Batchelder's Creek, New Bern, North CarolinaCaptured |
| Military[4][11] |
5 Mar 1864 |
Belle Island, Richmond, VirginiaMilit-End |
| Military[12] |
4 May 1864 |
Exchange Department |
| Death[2][5] |
29 May 1864 |
Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia |
| Reference Number? |
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268 |
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References
- ↑ Early vital records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to about 1850. (Wheat Ridge)
Malden p.78. - ↑ George Henry Simpson Family Bible, Family Info: George Henry Simpson Family, Present Owner: Steve Milligan. (American Publishing Company, 22 Park Place, NY, NY, 1878).
- ↑ Website
http://www.lynnhistory.com/Directories/1856/Pg12.html.
- ↑ Website - Letters of the Civil War, Url: http:/www.letterscivilwar.com/3-5-64a.html.
- ↑ Surname: EABUD SIMONDS
Rank: PRIVATE
Company: D
Regiment: 17
State: MA
Arm of Service: INFANTRY
Death Date: MAY 29, 1864
Cause of Death: DIARRHEA
Remarks: EABUD SIMMONDS [1][2]; 07/10/1864 [1]; E. SIMMONDS [3]
Reference: p 22 [3]; p 302 [33]
Location of Capture: BATCHELDERS CR., NC
Date of Capture: 18640201
Page: 45
Notes: SIMMONDS - - -
More Information: NO
Code: 11458
Grave: 1458
Name: Eabud Simonds ,
Residence: Chelsea, Massachusetts
Occupation: Leather Dresser
Enlistment Date: 10 February 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Massachusetts
Unit Numbers: 907 907
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 10 February 1862 at the age of 35
Enlisted in Company D, 17th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 10 February 1862.
POW on 01 February 1864 at Batchelder's Creek, NC
Died of disease while a POW Company D, 17th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 29 May 1864 in Andersonville, GA
- ↑ Simmons H. shoemaker, boards 42 Silsbee
Simonds Eabud, morocco dresser, house 61 Green
Simonds Henry, shoemaker, house 5 Fayette
Simonds James M. shoemaker, house 12 Warren
Sims Phoebe A. widow, house 27 Howard
- ↑ http://genealogy.miningco.com/hobbies/genealogy/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?si te=http://www.civilwararchive.com/files.htm
17th Regiment Infantry
Organized at Lynnfield July 22, 1861.
Left State for Baltimore, Md., August 23.
Attached to Dix's Command, Baltimore, Md., to March, 1862.
Foster's 1st Brigade, Burnside's Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862.
Amory's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1863
Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864.
Sub-District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1865.
Sub-District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to March, 1865.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Beaufort, N. C, Dept. of North Carolina, to March, 1865.
1st Brigade, Division District of Beaufort, to April, 1865.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--
Duty at Baltimore, Md., until March, 1862.
Ordered to New Berne, N. C., March 12, and duty there until December.
Reconnaissance toward Trenton May 15-16.
Trenton Bridge May 15. Trenton and Pollocksville Road May 22 (Co. 'I').
Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville July 24-28.
Demonstration on New Berne November 11.
Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 11-20.
Kinston December 14. Whitehall December 16.
Goldsboro December 17.
Provost duty at and near New Berne until April, 1863.
March to relief of Washington, N. C., April 7-10.
Blount's Creek April 9. Expedition to Washington April 17-19.
Expedition toward Kinston April 27-May 1.
Wise's Cross Roads and Dover Road April 28.
Expedition to Thenton July 4-8.
Quaker Bridge July 6.
Raid on Weldon July 25-August 1.
Duty at New Berne until February, 1864.
Operations about New Berne against Whiting January 18-February 10, 1864.
Skirmishes at Beech Creek and Batchelor's Creek February 1-3.
Expedition to Washington April 18-22.
Washington April 27-28.
Duty at New Berne and vicinity until July 27, and at Newport Barracks until September 23.
Veterans on furlough until November 10.
Duty at Newport Barracks November 20, 1864, to March 4, 1865.
Moved to Core Creek.
Battle of Wise's Forks March 8-10, 1865.
Occupation of Kinston March 15.
Occupation of Goldsboro March 21.
Advance on Raleigh April 9-14.
Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
Duty at Greensboro May 5-July 11.
Mustered out at Greensboro, N. C., July 11, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 21 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 147 Enlisted men by disease. Total 172.
- ↑ Enlisted in Company D, 17th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 10 February 1862
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7914/5-9-63b.html MAY 9, 1863. FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS. SEVENTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS. TWENTY-SEVEN MASSACHUSETTS. FORTY-THIRD MASSACHUSETTS. FORTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS. FORTY-SIX MASSACHUSETTS. FIFTY-EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA. Massachusetts Troops in North Carolina. A correspondent of the new York Herald who accompanied Gen. Palmer's recent reconnoissance from Newbern to Kingston, N. C., notices the conduct of Massachusetts regiments as follows:- The 45th Massachusetts and the Attack upon the Rebel Intrenchments. In consequence of the illness of Col. Amory, Col. Codman, of the 45th Massachusetts Volunteers, assumed command of the brigade, consisting of his own and the 17th Mass. regiment. At 4 P. M., on the 28th, Col. Codman arrived at the junction of the Dover road with the railroad, having encountered and driven in the enemy's pickets on the way. Company F, Daland, was ordered to relieve Company B in the advance, and the column pushed forward, one company of the 17th Mass. being left at the cross-road. As Col. Codman approached the junction, Lieut. Col. Peabody, in charge of the advance, sent word that there was an earth work across the railroad. A halt was ordered and a reconnoissance made. It was found that the breastwork had no ditch in front, from which it was inferred that the enemy had no artillery, as they might have used it with effect before this time. In a few moments the enemy fired a volley from their breastwork upon the advance of Col. Jones (58th Penn.), who had approached by the Dover road. The fire was immediately returned, and Col. Codman made dispositions for an attack. The breastwork was thrown up across the track, and extended some distance to our left. It also ran along the track, crossing the Dover road. Capt. Daland was ordered to open fire with his company, stationed on the railroad, and deployed as skirmishers on the right and left. The order was executed very vigorously. The Companies of Capt. Wales (E) and Capt. Homans (K), of the 45th, and subsequently two companies of the 17th Mass., were deployed as skirmishers on the left of the railroad, with orders to advance firing. The firing was rapid and energetic, and that of the enemy, which was sharpe for a time, soon slackened. A favorable opportunity was then presented for a charge, and as night was approaching, it was necessary to decide this affair at once. Company A, Capt. Denny, of the Forty-fifth, having the colors of the regiment, had been held in reserve, and were now ordered to fix bayonets and prepare to advance. They came up gallantly along the railroad in column of platoons, sypported by a company of the Seventeenth, and as they approached the work the first platoon fireda volley, and then stooding down, the second fired a volley over the heads of the first. The company then rushed forward with the bayonet, the whole line of skirmishers charging at the same time, and the colors of the regiment were planted on the work, the enemy giving way. Col. Codman then marched his troops back to camp. In this affair the regiment lost but one man killed-private H. M. Putney, Co. F, of Hopkinton, Mass.-shot through the head, and two wounded severely, viz:-Corporal G. C. Richards, Co. E., in the thigh, and private J. F. Ames, Co. K, in the cheek. Corporal Leatherbee, Co. K, received a slight wound in the thigh, and Captain Murdock, of the Forty-fifth, acting on the staff of Col. Amory, receiveda contusion from a glancing ball. Four of five of the enemy's dead were found behind the breastwork. The number of wounded could not of course be ascertained. The conduct of the troops was exemplary in every particular. THE FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS. is also deserving of praise for the prompt and spirited manner in which they fullfilled the orders of the commanding officer. This made their eighth expedition, and they had hardly had time to brush from their boots the dust received on their long Washington march, when orders came (Sunday night, 26th April) to cook three days' rations and march on Monday norning at daylight, with one hundred rounds of ammunition. The start was delayed until half past twelve o'clock, when they commenced their march to Bachelor's creek, where they arrived about half past four. After a brief halt, the march was resumed and continued to Cove Creek, about twelve miles. The following day was passed in performing picket duty on all the different roads, for the rebels were all around us, and great caution was necessary. On Wednesday the regiment received orders to march on the Dover road towards the intrenchment beyond Sandy Ridge, where Col. Jones had an engagement a few days before. The distance was about twelve miles. Orders were positive to be cautious and not to bring on an engagement unless the enemy was found to be in small force. After marching about seven miles the skirmishers of the fifth encountered the rebel pickets, and through woods and swamp, through briars and brush, they were persuded by the gallant boys of the fifth until they were driven to the cover of their earthworks. For more than an hour the Fifth remained in plain sight of them, and were the recipients of several volleys; but the nature of the ground was such that the balls did no damage, only whistling close to the heads of the men. By carefully reconnoitering it was ascertained that the enemy were in very strong force, with artillery in position, and only waiting to get our troops into a trap. Having gained the topographical information needed, the Fifth slowly retired to where the rest of the troops were encamped. THE FORTY-THIRD MASSACHUSETTS. were continually skirmishing and fighting, led by their gallant Col. (Holbrook) in person. Your correspondent saw him on foot, pushing through mud and swamp and over slippery logs, in pursuit of the foe. Detachments of the Twenty-seventh and Forty-sixth Massachusetts were on duty and behaved well. In short, the whole expedition, coving a space of four days, was admirably conducted, and its results were all that were anticipated. (Dedham Gazette; May 9, 1863; pg. 2, col. 5.)
- ↑ Battles And Campaigns - 1864
Attack On New Bern 'A Fine Plan Failed' February 1 - 2, 1864
On the morning of February 1, 1864, Gen. Seth Barton commanded the largest and most important of the three Confederate columns attacking Union-occupied New Bern, NC. With discipline and stealth, his men approached the town from the south, capturing Union pickets without firing a shot, until they came upon the enemy's main defensive line at the Trent River. Then Barton lost his nerve. Though he had the element of surprise on his side and could probably overrun the earthworks in a quick, sharp attack. Barton thought the Union position appeared too formidable to attack. Instead, he sent out patrols to find a weak spot in the Union line. When no weaknesses were located, Barton decided to not make the attack at all.
Col. James Dearing's assignment in the attack on New Bern was to capture Fort Anderson on the north side of the Neuse River across from the town. Once he had come within sight of the fort, however, Dearing, too, lost his nerve and decided the position was too formidable to be successfully assaulted. Only Gen. Robert Hoke's command completed its part of the three-pronged land attack, but it was too weak to capture the town without the support of the other two columns. A contingent of naval commandos led by Comdr.. John T. Wood did successfully complete its important mission- the capture of the Union gunboat anchored at New Bern. They had scrambled up the side of the USS Underwriter and, with cutlasses and pistols, had fought the Union seamen and taken over the ship. The commandos burned the Underwriter and then escaped upriver.
Confederate Gen. George Pickett had no choice but to call off the offensive and withdraw his troops. A fine plan had failed and a great opportunity had been lost. Though his men had inflicted about 400 casualties and suffered only 45 themselves, the attempt to capture New Bern was a dismal failure. Among the 300 Union prisoners were found 22 former Confederate soldiers. Perhaps out of frustration, Pickett had them court-martialed and executed.
Fascinating Fact: Seventy men from the 17th Massachusetts Regiment were among those captured by the Confederates. All but 11 would die while confined in the prison camp at Andersonville, GA..
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/battles-campaigns/1864/640201-02a.html
John F. Fellows
Birth: Jan., 1815, USA
Death: Jul. 6, 1887
Massachusetts, USA
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Lieutenant Colonel and commander the 17th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. On February 1, 1864, at New Bern, North Carolina, unaware a supporting regiment had withdrawn, he and his regiment were overrun at Batchelder's Creek by superior Confederate forces in an attack ordered by Major General George Pickett. Fellows, eight other officers and eighty-three men of the 17th Massachusetts were captured. Fellows was later exchanged and resumed command of the 17th Massachusetts.
Burial:
Harmony Grove Cemetery
Salem
Essex County
Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Seaview Avenue at Crocus Path
- ↑ Belle Isle
MARCH 5, 1864
SEVENTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS.
Latest from 17th Regt.-Eabud Simonds and Wm. M. Merriam, of Co. D, taken prisoners at the battle of Newbern, having written home that they are at Belle Isle, all well. The first prisoner did not arrive until February 25 1864 with 400 others from Richmond. His capture date of February 1 means he was held elsewhere prior to his transfer.
MAY 27, 1865
SEVENTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS.
Wm. N. Merriam, Co. D, 17th Reg. Mass. Vol., is reported, (May 22) at Surg. Genl's. office, as having died in the rebel prison at Andersonville, Ga., May 15, 1864. He has been dead over a year, and this is the first reliable intimation of his fate that has been received by his friends. (Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer; May 27, 1865; pg. 2, col. 3.)
- ↑ HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICE COMMISSIONER FOR EXCHANGE,
Fort Monroe, Va., May 4, 1864.
Honorable ROBERT OULD, Agent for Exchange, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: Will you please inform me as to the whereabouts and present condition of Leonard Albert Reese, Company I, One hundred and six-teenth Indiana Volunteers; Eabud Simonds, Company D, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, captured near New Bern, N. C., February 1, 1864; Samuel Slavens, Company E, Thirty-third Ohio Regiment; Samnel Shaw, Company I, One hundred and twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteers; R. W. Hurlburt, Arthur Taylor Kennedy, First Maryland Regiment; H. W. Squires, Company E, One hundred and forty-first New York Volunteers; Henry Clay Tucker, John P. Webb, Company C, One hundredth Ohio Volunteers; Newton Gilbert, Company K, One hundred and eleventh New York Volunteers; John L. Nelson, Company D, First Kentucky Cavalry; Charles H. Boswell, Company C, Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers; Frank Olive, Company B, First Ohio Regiment; Preston A. Champney, U. S. Signal Corps; John Whipple, Jr., Company C, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers; Captain Robert Pollock, Company D, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry; G. W. Johnson, Company H, Twenty-first Michigan Infantry.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/120/0113.cfm
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