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malarial fever; and the exposure of camp-life in winter was too severe. He retained command of the regiment for but a brief period, yet for a portion of that time he was in command of the brigade. Col. Wright resigned his commission February 9, 1865, and was discharged from the army March 18. Not until some time after the war closed, did he measurably recover his health.

After the war closed, Col. Wright, the third, last, and only living colonel of the Fourteenth, resumed his law-studies; and in October, 1865, was admitted to the bar at Keene. Col. Wright's intention of settling down to the practice of law in Keene was frustrated by his broken health, and he engaged in the furniture business. Recovering, he was admitted to the bar in Boston, and began, in October, 1867, the practice of patentlaw with great success. In 1871 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, and re-elected the next year. In 1873 he was appointed, by Gov. Washburn, Chief of Bureau of Statistics of Labor; which office he now holds, and in which he is a recognized authority throughout the country and the world.

In 1876 Col. Wright was a Republican presidential elector for Massachusetts, and served as the secretary of the State electoral college. He took the census of Massachusetts in 1875 and in 1880. In 1879 Col. Wright delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, and was a University lecturer at Harvard in 1881. He is an expert on the factory system for the United-States census, and has officially investigated the system in Europe.

A bare statement of the services of Col. Wright is sufficient. His eminent fitness for the highest position in the Fourteenth Regiment is unquestioned; and throughout the existence of the organization Col. Carroll D. Wright helped to make it what it was at its best, and was and is an honor to it.

December 6, 1864, Capt. F. L. Tolman, of Company E, was made major of the Fourteenth. He continued in command of the regiment until the 29th, when Col. Wright assumed the authority.

V.

THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.

It was the lot of the Fourteenth Regiment to round out its service and close its career in the war of the Rebellion, in a most interesting if not dramatic manner. Its final experiences were less thrilling and imposing than those of the veterans who confronted Lee at Five Forks and Appomattox; yet its last months of duty in the South, while not easy nor free from the dread ravages of disease, were still constantly eventful and full of somewhat novel episodes. An entirely new field was entered; and the scenes and services of the regiment in 1865 were important to the organization itself in placing it among those who saw most of the Southern country, and encountered the war in most of its varied phases.

Suppose the Fourteenth had remained in the Valley until mustered out: its final service must have proved tame, and its end unsatisfactory. As it was, the regiment was in scenes of excitement to the close of the war; and, in fact, bore a share in the culminating event, the capture of the arch-traitor, the petticoat hero, the starver of our Union boys, the still unreconstructed, rabid Rebel, Jefferson Davis. Furthermore, the Fourteenth enjoyed the rare opportunity of studying life in the heart of the South, during the. secession era, but after the Rebellion was practically crushed, and in a locality where a Yankee soldier had never before been seen. The Southern life of the olden time was all undisturbed; and society, under the "peculiar institution," was not broken up, although upon the verge of irretrievable collapse.

On the 5th of January, 1865, the second division of the Nine

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teenth Corps left its winter camp, and quitted the Valley forever. It was but the initiatory step to the dissolution of the organization; for while the first division remained in the Valley until April 20, the order discontinuing the grand old Nineteenth Corps was issued from the War Department, March 20. Sheridan left Winchester, February 17, and marched up the Valley to Waynesborough with all the cavalry, where he captured the remnant of Early's army, the apple-jack hero himself barely escaping with a small guard. Our corps commander, Gen. Emory, remained at Stephenson's Depot in command of the troops.

When Sheridan left the Valley to join Grant, Gen. W. S. Hancock took command of the department, and at once made himself immensely unpopular by issuing an order forbidding all men in the ranks to wear boots. It was an unnecessary and contemptible order, and caused much suffering in the midst of the prevailing snow, ice, and mud.

A portion of the second division left the valley on the 5th of January, 1865; but the Fourteenth did not start until the 6th. At eight A.M. the line was formed; at one P.M. the regiment took the train, reaching Harper's Ferry at three, and there tarrying until six o'clock. Major Tolman was again in command, Col. Wright having gone to the hospital seriously sick.

MAJOR F. L. TOLMAN.

Flavel L. Tolman was born in Fitchburg, Mass., May 4, 1840. He left home when but eight years old, there being a large family; and from that time he earned his own living. For the first four years after leaving home he worked on a farm, for his board, clothing, and schooling, - very little of the latter.

When thirteen, he determined upon bettering his situation, and started for the city. Securing a position in a store for two weeks, he remained four years, rising rapidly to a responsible position. But he never forgot his rural home, and never lost his taste for farm-life, a point wherein he happily differed from the average country boy hurrying to the city. Mr. Tol