Winter Quarters of the Vermont Brigade
In Front of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1862-1863
Artist: James Hope (1818 - 1892)
Vermont Historical Society

William O'Brien
Co. A- 2nd Vermont
Frank's Genealogy

Name Unknown
2nd Vermont
Library of Congress

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Tabulated history of the 2nd Regiment
Roster of Co. E of the 2nd Regiment

The Second Vermont Regiment was comprised of ten companies of soldiers from the towns of Bennington, Brattleboro, Castleton, Fletcher, Ludlow, Montpelier, Tunbridge, Vergennes and Waterbury. (Rosenblatt)

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"Four years, four little years ago, through all our sunny land, sat wives and mothers, calmly blessed, beside each household band; And still the bright days glided on, and quiet nights dropped down, Wrapping it in one soft web of dreams, cot, hamlet, vale, and town. A bugle blast rang through the land, a war cry loud and shrill, each mountain peak caught up the strain, hill sent it back to hill, "To arms! to arms! ye stalwart men, for freedom and for God, and tread yourselves the glorious paths your noble sires once trod."

Excerpted from :"The Vermont Volunteer"
- Julia C. Dorr - January 11, 1864


Congressional Medals of Honor awarded to:

Capt. Dayton P. Clark (Spotsylvania)
Sgt. Ephraim W. Harrington (Fredericksburg)
Pvt. William W. Noyes (Spotsylvania)
Lt. Augustus Robbins (Spotsylvania)
Lt. Col. Amasa A. Tracy (Cedar Creek)

Brevetted to higher rank for gallant
and meritorious service:

Capt. Erastus G. Ballou to Bvt. Major
Capt. Ephraim W. Harrington to Bvt. Major
Lt. Col. Amasa A. Tracy to Bvt. Colonel
Maj. Enoch E Johnson to Bvt. Lt. Colonel
Capt. Elijah Wales to Bvt. Major

The enrollment of the 2nd Regiment was 1,858. The regiment as a whole lost 399 men:*

6 officers killed
218 enlisted killed
175 enlisted died from disease

The enrollment of Company "E" was 173.
Of the above 399, Company "E" lost 37 men:

2 officers killed
19 enlisted killed
18 enlisted died from other causes

* This number only includes those who died while in the service, while many more died soon after their discharge on account of wounds or disease.


Suggested Reading:

Full Duty
Vermonters in the Civil War
Howard Coffin - ISBN 0-88150-349-5

Letters to Vermont
Donald Wickman - ISBN 1-884592-11-2

Put The Vermonters Ahead
George W. Parsons - ISBN 0-942597-97-4

Hard Marching Every Day
Rosenblatt