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ere unable to look upon the face of the dead, which, although emaciated by disease, bore the soldierly impress it was wont to bear in life. The arrangements at the house were under the direction of Captain Solomon Spalding. The city flags were at half-mast, minute guns were fired from 10 until 12 o'clock, and all the bells in the city were tolled. The cortege received the remains at his mother's residence and proceeded to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the nave of which was heavily draped in mourning, via. Orange, Concord, Main, East Pearl and Temple streets, where the body was placed in front of the altar, and the funeral service of the Catholic Church was performed by the Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina. The funeral oration was delivered by Rev. Robert Fulton, S. J., and President of the Boston College, connected with the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which the deceased soldier was a member. The singing, which was grand and appropriate, was by the choir of the Church of St. Aloysius, assisted by General Michael T. Donahue and others, from Boston, and John McEvoy, of Lowell. At the close of the exercises in the church the procession was re-formed, when it proceeded through Amory street to Canal street, up Canal street to the Nashua Cemetery, in the rear of the Unitarian church, where the remains of the gallant dead were interred with those of his kindred, and the grave blessed by Rev. Father O'Donnell. The following regiments participated in these battles: Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. S. P. Richmond. Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Geo. H. Pierson. [A]Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. F. J. Coffin. Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. T. J. C. Amory. Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Major J. G. Chambers. Twenty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. T. G. Stevenson. Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. Josiah Pickett. Twenty-seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Col. H. C. Lee. Forty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Chas. L. Holbrook. Forty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Francis S. Lee. Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Chas. R. Codman. Forty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Col. Geo. Boler. Fifty-first R
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