This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1AC.2ACI/1814.1 Message Board Post: Volunteer Sailors and Marines. ~Jesse J. COLBY Residence: Waterbury, VT Date of Enlistment: Aug. 1, 1863 Ships-Dates of Discharge, etc. Paymaster's Steward: "Gem of the Seas," Discharged March 1865." Engagements: ~Fort Wagner, S.C., August 17, 1863. ~Sabine Pass Batteries, September 8, 1863. ~Siege of Charleston, September, 1863. ~Rebel Ram Albemarie, May 5, 1864. ~Mobile Bay, Ala., August, 1864. ~Fort Fisher Bombarded, December 25, 1864. ~Fort Fisher Captured, January 15, 1865." Source is "ROSTER of VERMONTERS who served in the CIVIL WAR," prepared and republished under the direction of Martha T. Rainville, The Adjutant General, Vol. 2, Camp Johnson, Colchester, Vermont, ©1998, page 700. Transcribed by Jan Jordan