The American Perspective

Revolutionary War Dead  -

4,435

Vietnam War Dead -

58,152

World War I Dead -

116,516

World War II Dead -

405,399

Civil War Dead -

624,511

Pine Grove is an old town cemetery with at least one Revolutionary War veteran buried there.  There are 12 known Civil War veterans,  most of them from Pembroke, but also from the surrounding towns of Duxbury, Hanson and Marshfield.

Many of the veterans at Pine Grove belonged to the Massachusetts 4th Regiment Volunteer Militia, a Minute Man unit.  They were the  first unit to leave the state for the war zone.

James B. Curtis's body was moved from its first resting place in New Orleans to a Louisiana National cemetery after the war; records indicate it is still there.  Perhaps his widow was comforted by having the name of the husband she never saw again engraved on a headstone side-by-side with her own.  

Josiah Bourne, 36, farmer,  Hanson, 22nd Reg., Co. D, served in 3 different units	William F. Nash, 30, shoemaker,  Pembroke,  4th Reg., Co. I	Theo. Rost, 25, 3rd US Artillery., Co A	Martin Witherell, 41, box maker, Pembroke, 4th Reg., Co. I; his sister Maria was married to Calvin Peterson (2nd from right, bottom)

James B. Curtis, 46, carpenter, Pembroke, 4th Reg., Co. I, died in New Orleans from disease, April 29, 1863	The monument was vandalized, repaired and rededicated a few years ago - the inscription for 16 year old Lucius Chandler is wrong - captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, he died in Feb., 1864 in a Confederate POW camp.	John Jones, 26, engineer, Pembroke, 4th Reg., Co. I, died Brashear City, LA of disease, June 11, 1863 - the monument has his date of death inscribed incorrectly also

The Chandler Brothers Philip,  21, shoemaker, Pembroke,  4th Reg., Co. I;  Lucius, 15 (claimed to be 21), miller, Marshfield, 22nd  Reg., Co. D, died at 16 years of age in 1864 in the notorious POW camp at Belle Isle, VA Their brother Jacob, 22, also served, 7th Inf., Co. C.	George W. Whiting, 22, hostler, Pembroke, 39th Reg. , Co. G	Calvin Peterson, 35, box maker, Pembroke, 4th Reg., Co. I; married to Martin Witherell's sister Maria	Eugene W.  Paine, 19, shoemaker, Pembroke, 20th Unattached Militia - there is a picture of him at Pembroke Town Hall in his Grand Army of the Republic uniform in his later years