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Ground Squirrel Bridge, May 11. 1864

Co. A. —Co. A. — Prisoners, Sergts. Benjamin F. Fogg (died), Prentiss M. Clark (died),

Fathers, Sons, and Brothers by James 'Gus' Filegar (Author)

On the 27th of July 1862, Nathan marries Sarah, his sweetheart of two years. The following day, he musters in as orderly sergeant of the Masardis Militia and helps raise volunteers for the Maine Volunteer Infantry, in answer to President Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more volunteers to bolster the Union efforts to put down the rebellion that has torn this Nation in two for over a year. Nathan, George, and seventy other men from Aroostook County say their sad goodbyes and leave for Bangor in early August to join thousands of other Maine men that have answered the call to duty. These citizen soldiers and 900 others, additional recruits, would become The Twentieth Maine Regiment. Disease, Antietam, the cold, fiery hell at Fredericksburg, more disease, the daunting day at Gettysburg—follow Nathan and Company H through it all.