"Having just lost his wife three months earlier, Orrin enlisted on August 25th.[19] He enlisted in the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. His enlistment was to last nine months. In total, President Lincoln had called for 300,000 men to enlist for nine months and Massachusetts was asked to fill a quota of 19,080 to help meet this goal. If Massachusetts could not find 19,080 volunteers than it would be necessary to employ a statewide draft. However, the quota was indeed filled and the 6th Infantry Regiment was to form at Camp Henry Wilson in Lowell. Most of the regiment’s companies, which included Company A, were mustered in on August 31st.[20]

Dracut had at the very beginning of the Civil War convened a town meeting to decide what action the town should take to aid the Union cause. On May 6, 1861, the citizens voted to pay $10.00 per month any man who enlisted. However, the town subsequently rescinded their vote from May 6, 1861 and a passed a new order which stated that a company would be raised from Dracut. This too was rescinded because Dracut men were volunteering in companies in Lowell.[21] It is not clear as to why Dracut men would enlist and join companies forming in Lowell, but they did, and Orrin Park was one of these young men.

Park’s Company A left Lowell and went first to Washington, D.C. and then to Fort Munroe, and finally to Suffolk, Virginia. The 6th regiment would eventually engage in battle with Confederate General Longstreet at Suffolk but Orrin Park would not live to see this engagement.[22] He died on November 15, 1862 from typhoid fever at Suffolk.[23] His body was brought back to Dracut and he was laid to rest with his late wife, Jennie at Claypit cemetery."

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