MASSACHUSETTS MINUTEMAN MEDAL OF JOHN D. WHITE: SERVED 19 APRIL 1861 TO 9 JUNE 1865!

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Authorized in 1902, the two-piece bronze medal consists of a rectangular pin-back bar reading “MASSACHUSETTS MINUTE MEN OF 1861” and a circular drop with the  Seal of the State of Massachusetts at center of the obverse and the reverse reading,  “THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA WHO WERE MUSTERED INTO THE UNITED STATES SERVICE IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS APRIL 15, 1861.” Approximately 3,800 of these were struck, stamped on the rim with the soldier’s name, rank, and unit and available for the veterans and family members.

The edge of this one is stamped “JOHN D. WHITE. PRVT. B. 3d BTN. RFN.” This is company B of the 3rd Battalion of Riflemen, Mass. Vol. Militia. John D. White spent almost every day of the Civil War in the service. He was a 19 year-old mechanic from West Boylston when he enlisted as private 4/19/61 in Co. B of he 3rd Mass Battalion of Rifles, mustering in 5/19/61 and mustering out 8/3/61. He joined up again less than three weeks later, mustering in as a sergeant in Co. E 21st Mass. 8/23/61 and transferred 10/23/61 to Battery G 4th US Light Artillery, serving with them until discharged 8/23/64, and then mustering into the 10th Mass Light Artillery 9/7/64, serving until muster out 6/9/65. He died in 1875.

The Third Battalion of Rifles, three companies, was activated 18 April 1861, immediately after Ft. Sumter and left Boston on the night of April 20. It sailed initially to Annapolis and then to Fort McHenry, at Baltimore. A fourth company joined it May 15 and only on May 19 was the battalion formally mustered into service. The 21st Mass served at Annapolis from late August 1861 to January 1862, when it joined Burnside’s Coastal Expedition. During White’s service with Battery G 4th US it spent most of its time in the Army of the Potomac, as part of the 5th Corps, Artillery Reserve, and 11th Corps, seeing action in the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and then transferring west with the 11th Corps in Fall 1863, with service at Chattanooga, Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, and elsewhere, eventually consolidating with Battery I. The battery has a monument at Antietam and two at Gettysburg, where it expended 1,400 round of ammunition and, commanded by Bayard Wilkeson, was posted on Barlow’s Knoll on July 1, and was on Cemetery Hill under Lt. Bancroft on July 3. The 10th Mass Light Battery, Sleeper’s, was part of the 2nd Corps, serving at Petersburg, and heavily engaged at Hatcher’s Run in October 27, 1864. It also served in Forts Henry and Siebert, fought at Armstrong’s Mill in February 1865 and fired its last hostile shots on April 7, 1865, at Farmville, in the pursuit of Lee.  [sr] [ph:L]

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