Augustus B. R. Sprague

Civil War service At the start of the American Civil War, Sprague enlisted in the Union Army on April 17, 1861, and Sprague was mustered into United States Service as a captain in the Third Massachusetts Rifles on April 19, 1861.

On September 9, 1861, when the 25th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was raised by the authority of the state of Massachusetts, Sprague was designated the unit's Lieutenant Colonel.

Sprague served with the 25th Massachusetts Infantry in Burnside's North Carolina Expedition. to 1890 and was a member of the Worcester City Council.

On January 6, 1896 Sprague was sworn in as the Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts. He served until January 3, 1898.

Professionally, he was president of Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank and was also president of the Worcester Electric Light Company.

Family Source - Genealogy in Part of the Sprague Families of America; Augustus B. R. Sprague; pg. 28-29.

General Sprague was born in Ware, Massachusetts, to Lee and Lucia (Snow) Sprague. Sprague was a descendant of William Sprague who settled in Charlestown and Hingham, Massachusetts, in the early 1600s. He was also descendant from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

In 1846 he married Elizabeth Janes with whom he had five children. Elizabeth died in 1889. In 1890 he married Mary Jennie Barbour with whom he had one child.

Augustus B. R. Sprague died at his home in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 17, 1910.