Research Guides: Religious Aspects of the American Civil War: Deaths & Funerals

Funeral Sermons and Memorials for Fallen Soldiers

October 22, 1861: William Lowell Putnam

Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. Our Sacrifices: A Sermon Preached in the West Church, November 3, 1861, Being the Sunday After the Funeral of Lieut. William Lowell Putnam. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.

May 5, 1862: Henry Brooks O'Rielly

Brief Memento of Captain Henry Brooks O'Rielly, of the 1st Excelsior Regiment, Who Fell in the Battle of Williamsburg, the First Battle of the Army of the Potomac on its March from Yorktown to Richmond, May 5, 1862. 1862.

August 9, 1862: William Blackstone Williams

Thompson, James W. Funeral Tribute: Words Spoken at the Obsequies of William Blackstone Williams, Late Captain in the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, Sunday, Aug. 17, 1862. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1862.

August 29, 1862: William R. Porter

Means, James H. A Sermon Preached in the Second Church, Dorchester, After the Death of Lieutenant William R. Porter, Eleventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 1862

September 27, 1862: Thomas Jefferson Spurr

Hill, Alonzo. In Memoriam: A Discourse Preached in Worcester, Oct. 5, 1862, on Lieut. Thomas Jefferson Spurr, Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1862.

September 27 (or 28) 1862: Edward F. Perkins

Woodbridge, Sylvester. Funeral Sermon of Brother Edward F. Perkins, of the Third California Volunteers. San Francisco, Eastman & Godfrey: Printers, 1862.

December 11, 1862: Arthur Buckminster Fuller

Fuller, Richard Frederick. Chaplain Fuller: Being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergyman and Army Chaplain. Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1863.

December 14, 1862: Sydney Willard

Bartol, C. A. The Nation's Hour, a Tribute to Major Sidney Willard: Delivered in the West Church, December 21, Forefathers' Day. Boston: Walker, Wise, 1862.

December 20, 1862: Edward Marshall Newcomb

Means, John Oliver. Waiting for Daybreak : A Discourse at the Funeral of Lieut. Edgar M. Newcomb, of the Mass. 19th Regm't, Who Died December 20, 1862, of Wounds Received at Fredericksburg. Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1863.

January 19, 1863: George Francis Boynton

Hall, Nathaniel. An Address Spoken in the First Church, Dorchester, February 1, 1863 at the Funeral of George Francis Boynton. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, printers, 1863.

April 14, 1863: David Kimball Hobart

Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. Conditions of Peace: A Discourse Delivered in the West Church in Memory of David Kimball Hobart, June 14, 1863. Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1863.

May 3, 1863: Gerald Fitzgerald

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May 27, 1863 & August 13, 1863: George T. and John H. Tucker

Anable, Cortland W. A Funeral Discourse, Preached in the Baptist Church, at Old Cambridge, May 8, 1864 on the Occasion of the Burial of the remains of George T. and John H. Tucker. Cambridge: 1864.

June 2, 1863: Pickering Dodge Allen

Allen, John Fisk. Memorial of Pickering Dodge Allen. Boston: H. W. Dutton and Son, 1867.

June 3, 1863: Solon A. Perkins

Street, Owen. A Discourse Delivered at the High St. Church, Lowell, Mass., June 21, 1863, on Receiving Intelligence of the Death of Lieut. Solon A. Perkins, of the Massachusetts Cavalry. Lowell, 1863.

June 15, 1863: Earl Ashley and Anson A. Fenton

Williams, Francis. Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Messrs. Earl Ashley and Anson A. Fenton, Killed in Battle, June 15, 1863. Hartford, Case: Lockwood & Company, 1863.

December 12, 1863: Henry P. Herrick

Fowler, Stacy. A Sermon Preached in North Yarmouth, January 4, 1863, Commemorative of Lieutenant H. P. Herrick, who Fell in the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 12, 1862. Portland: Printed by Brown Thurston, 1863.

October 19, 1864: Charles Russell Lowell, Jr.

Bartol, C. A. The Purchase by Blood: A Tribute to Brig-Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Spoken in the West Church, Oct. 30, 1864. Boston: Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1864.
Putnam, George. An Address Spoken in the College Chapel, Cambridge, October 28, 1864, at the Funeral of Brig.-Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, Who Fell at the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864. Cambridge: Printed by Welch, Bigelow, 1864.

October 29, 1863: Joseph Perrin Burrage

Cady, Daniel R. Memorial of Lieut. Joseph P. Burrage : A Funeral Sermon, Preached December 25, 1863. Boston: Gould, 1864.

February 22, 1864: James Sewall Reed

Morison, John Hopkins. Dying for our Country: A Sermon on the Death of Capt. J. Sewall Reed and Rev. Thomas Starr King; Preached in the First Congregational Church in Milton, March 13, 1864. Boston, Printed by J: Wilson and son, 1864.

May 8 and June 3, 1864: James Samuel Wadsworth and Peter Augustus Porter

William J. Hoppin, and Frederic S. Cozzens. Proceedings of the Century Association in Honor of the Memory of Brig.-Gen. James S. Wadsworth and Colonel Peter A. Porter; with the Eulogies Read. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1865.

June 27, 1864: Henry Ware Hall

Fox, Thomas B. Memorial of Henry Ware Hall, Adjutant 51st Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers: An Address Delivered in the First Church, Dorchester, Mass., Sunday, July 17, 1864. Boston: Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1864.

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