| Another victim of the Wilderness, of which honorable mention can be made, Antonio Phillips of Company D. The Worcester Spy of jan 12, 1865, speaks of him as follows: "Intelligence has been received by the return of Doctor Gould of Fitchburg, who arrived home from Andersonville, Ga., December 26th, of the death of Antonio Phillips of Oxford, by starvation in the rebel prison at that place, on the 15th of September, 1864. Mr. Phillips originally entered the service in Company D, of the 15th Mass. Regiment, from which he was discharged on account of injuries received in the service. He afterwards enlisted with the 51st regiment and served with it during its nine months of service. On the organization of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, he enlisted again and was captured the 7th of May last. During a considerable part of his different terms of service, he was employed as an assistand in hospital, a work for which he was particularly adapted, and many a good soldier in the three regiments will read with pain the announcement of the unfortunate end of one who administered so faithfully and so cheerfully to their wants while under his care." |