| Obituary that appeared in Chicago Journal September 14 (1410 words) |
 | Charles Bigelow and Lieutenant Parks, who was with major Bigelow in the great fight at Gettysburg, and who is 84 years and 5 months of age, started west at once. |
| But, Charles Reed, our bugler, helped him off the field, and a the reserve artillery of 20 pieces, gotten into position while we held back the advancing enemy, and now ready to open up, held fire of some of its guns for the moment while Captain Bigelow was taken away. |
| One of the last acts of Major Bigelow's life was the extending by him of an invitation to the surviving comrades of his battery to attend a dinner at Young's in Boston. |
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