Daniel. H. L. Gleason enlisted into the National Lancers seeded Company G 1st Massachusetts
Cavalry in 1861.He became a 1st Sergeant and was then commissioned and lead a squadron in a
charge at the Battle of Brandy Station.
Later he was wounded and detailed to the Provost Marshal Office in Washington D.C. and was in the
Investigation into the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
After the War he moved to Natick, Massachusetts where United States Senator Henry Wilson had his
shoe shop before entering politics. There Gleason became the Worshipful Master of the Meridian
Lodge of Freemasons.
In 1911 he published his memoirs on the Lincoln Investigation. 1911 was the year Meridian won the
Kentucky Derby as well.
Cavalry in 1861.He became a 1st Sergeant and was then commissioned and lead a squadron in a
charge at the Battle of Brandy Station.
Later he was wounded and detailed to the Provost Marshal Office in Washington D.C. and was in the
Investigation into the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
After the War he moved to Natick, Massachusetts where United States Senator Henry Wilson had his
shoe shop before entering politics. There Gleason became the Worshipful Master of the Meridian
Lodge of Freemasons.
In 1911 he published his memoirs on the Lincoln Investigation. 1911 was the year Meridian won the
Kentucky Derby as well.
The 26th Recon Troop was the cavalry unit for Yankee Division in World War Two and was
placed in Natick for Guard service in 1947.
When the unit was converted into the 110th Armor in 1959 it was eventually assigned a
Distinctive Unit Insignia and a different Coat of Arms.
These have a reference to the play that Lincoln was watching when he was killed at Ford's
Theater named Our American Cousin.
In the play the man and the mother and her daughter are discussing archery, that is reflected on
the coat of arms, and then the conversation turns into the fact he will not inherit any of his
family's money. So they leave and this is reflected by the distinctive unit insignia having the
green ring with gold letters as a turning lead into the precious metal reference.
Lincoln's last thoughts before he was shot was of the fact she would not marry the man as he
had no money or Man is that Chick a Gold Digger.
placed in Natick for Guard service in 1947.
When the unit was converted into the 110th Armor in 1959 it was eventually assigned a
Distinctive Unit Insignia and a different Coat of Arms.
These have a reference to the play that Lincoln was watching when he was killed at Ford's
Theater named Our American Cousin.
In the play the man and the mother and her daughter are discussing archery, that is reflected on
the coat of arms, and then the conversation turns into the fact he will not inherit any of his
family's money. So they leave and this is reflected by the distinctive unit insignia having the
green ring with gold letters as a turning lead into the precious metal reference.
Lincoln's last thoughts before he was shot was of the fact she would not marry the man as he
had no money or Man is that Chick a Gold Digger.