5, 1863.įor some reason, perhaps his experience with big guns, Pierce transferred to the U.S. Heavy Artillery Regiment, mustered for duty on Oct. Five months later, he volunteered to serve again, joining the 2nd Mass. Infantry, formed in the fall of 1861 he served with that regiment until May of 1863. Military records show he was a member of Company D of the 23rd Mass. Pierce, which the family later spelled Peirce, holds the distinction of having served in two Union Army regiments as well as in the Union Navy. Steamer Nansemond on the Potomac River, on April 6, 1865,” just a month before the end of the war. It tells visitors he was “lost overboard from the U.S. Captain Samuel Pierce has one of the tallest stones in the old burial ground on Long Plain, at the north end of town. In the middle of the Ancient Cemetery on North Main Street is the graves of one Civil War veteran who didn’t return home from the fighting. Most local men served in the Union Army, but with Acushnet’s long nautical history, readers shouldn’t be surprised that at least a few of the town’s native sons served with the United States Navy during the bloody War Between the States. ACUSHNET – With the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War being recognized this year, The Advocate decided to take a look at a few of the dozens of local heroes who served as volunteers during the war.
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