| Death of Sergt. A. B. Yeomans. - A Brave Soldier Joins the Silent Army.
Sergt. Andrew Burrill Yeomans, a member of Company E, 15th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, of whom one of the captains of the regiment said, "No soldier in the old 15th ever performed his duty better," died at his residence, 50 Salem street, yesterday, of penumania. He was the son of Charles and Martha Yeomans and was born in Webster Oct. 11, 1835. He was one of the first to enlist in Company E of the 15th and went to the front with that regiment in August, 1861. He was in all of the engagements in which that historic regiment was engaged, including Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and the score of bloody battles of Grant's campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg. Furtunate in escaping, he was, however, taken prisoner, with most of his regiment, on the 22d of June, 1864, on the first movement of General Grant to extend his lines to the left around Petersburg. While being conveyed south he succeeded in escaping through the line of rebel guards on the road from Lynchburg to Danville, and made his way over the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, until at the end of 40 days he reached the Union lines, near Knoxville. After his discharge he returned to his native town, where he has since resided until last October, when he removed to Worcester. Sergt. Yeomans was a soldier of uncommon courage and intelligence. Under circumstances which sometimes made the stoutest-hearted waver he could always be depended upon, and with cool courage went even further than duty called. He was one of the original members of Charles Devens Post 27, G. A. R., of Oxford, and was its second commander. The funeral service will be conducted by Post 27 at Oxford tomorrow afternoon. In 1864 Sergeant Yeomans married Harriet M., daughter of John C. Hall of this city, and she, with one daughter, survives him. |