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HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH
NEW HAMPSHIRE
VOLUNTEERS 1864-5

BY
THOMAS L. LIVERMORE
Colonel of the Megiment

Boston, Mass.
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176 TO 184 High Street
1904

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
The Period at which the Regiment was Organized . . .8
Substitutes ... . . . ... 8
The Number in the State Available tor Service in July, 1864 . 10
The Expediency op Raising New Regiments . . .13
Authority for Raising the Eighteenth New Hampshire Vol
unteers  14
Personnel op the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers . . 18
Beginning op the Organization  20
Method op Organization . . .... 21
Progress op the Organization . . 23
Completion op the Companies and their Despatch to the Field . 26
Change op Field Oppicers . . .29
Officers Promoted . . 30
Officers Commissioned but not Mustered . . .31
City Point . . . . . 31
Service in Petersburg Trenches December 10-12, 1864 ... 41
Service in the Trenches at Bermuda Hundred . . . .45
Service in Fort Howard  .46
City Point, February 12 to March 17, 1865  48
Order for Consolidation with Another Regiment . . 49
The Assault on Fort Stedman .... .51
Assignment to Third Brigade, First Division Ninth Army Corps 52
The Engagement op March 29-30, 1864  53
Major William I. Brown  55
Events, March 30 to April 1 . . . .... 57
The Battle at Petersburg, April 1-3, 1865 ... .58
Private Barker  ... 61
A Story op President Lincoln . ... 66
The Completion of the Regiment  69
The Return to Washington ... .... 71
Mortality and Health . . .... 74
After Muster Out .... . . ... 74
Previous Service of Officers .... ... 76
Roster  . . .80
List of Deserters  119

ILLUSTRATIONS

opposite page
Officers Quarters, Company C  Frontispiece
Regimental Officers and Members of Company A  18
Regimental Officers and Members of Company B  20
Quarters of Company D at City Point, Va  22
Members of Company C  26
Lieutenant-Colonel Clough  30
Captains Kimball and Leamard, Adjt. Caswell, and Lieut. R. B. Porter 32
Camp of Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers at City Point, Va. . 38
Officers Quarters of Company E at City Point, Va  48
Major Wm. I. Brown  . 56
Captains Smith, Wallingford, Greenough and Gile. . . 60
Officers Quarters, Company A, City Point, Va  64
Members of Companies H, I, and K  70
Members of Companies D, E, and H, and N. W. Gove ... 74
Colonel Livermore  76

ABBREVIATIONS

W. R. — War of the;Rebellion. A compilation of the Official Records of the
"Union and Confederate Armies.
M. O. — Mustered Out.
Wd. — Wounded.
Disch. — Discharged.
Disab. — Disability.
Reg. Losses. — " Regimental Losses in the American Civil War," by Lieut .-
Col. William B. Fox.

PREFACE

This volume originated in the action of the Eighteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers Veteran Association at its annual
meetings, as follows: August 25, 1898, the President of the
Association (John Drowne) and its Secretary (Lorenzo D.
Bean) were instructed to correspond with the surviving
officers of the regiment to get all obtainable data of the
service of the regiment, and to turn them over to Capt.
W. A. Gile for publication; August 24, 1899, the Asso
ciation appointed President Drowne, Lieutenant Gibbs,
Samuel N. Robinson, and George S. Smith, with Captain
Gile, a committee to prepare a history of the regiment for
publication; August 22, 1900, the present writer was joined
to the committee in place of President Drowne, deceased;
August 29, 1901, the committee was discharged, and Messrs.
Alfred D. Emery and Edmund P. Fox were appointed as a
new committee with the same powers; August 27, 1902, the
committee was continued for another year, during which
the present writer, at the request of the Association, pre
pared and placed in the committee's hands that part of
the history drawn from the official reports substantially
as it appears in this volume; August 26, 1903, the com
mittee reported progress and, at its request, was discharged,
and the Association voted to leave the whole matter to the
present writer, who, prompted by a sense of duty rather
than the ambition for authorship, thereupon assumed the
preparation of the regimental history.
The several committees requested, first of the officers, and
later of all members of the regiment, narratives of their

6 Preface
experience and observation during service in the regiment and
any other information useful in preparing the history, as well
as photographs and records of prior service in other organiza
tions. Besides likenesses a number of letters, diaries, and
narratives were collected by them, extracts from which have
been used in the preparation of this volume, and credited in
the text to their authors, Messrs. Haven, Dearborn, Parker,
Chadwick, Bean, and Lovitt.
The author is indebted to General Clough and Major Potter
for matter which is credited to them in the text; to Captain
Gile for substantial aid in the preparation of the roster, for
much of the matter embodied in pages 36, 38, 39, 40, besides
that credited to him in the text, and for photographs; to
Major Greenough for the estimate of Major Brown and much
of the other matter embodied in pages 21, 37, 38, 39, 55, 57,
besides that credited to him in the text, and for photographs;
and to Lorenzo D. Bean for the record of deaths assembled by
him as Secretary of the regimental association. He is also
indebted to Adjutant-General Ayling, of New Hampshire, for
the facts furnished by him from the records and papers in his
office and for those taken for this work from his very valuable
" Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hamp
shire in the War of the Rebellion."
It is a matter of great regret that the committee's requests
for likenesses of members of the regiment were not more
generally complied with. All the wartime pictures which
were collected are reproduced in this volume. Although few,
they will serve as types of the men in the regiment to those of
later generations who shall be interested in learning what
manner of men bore arms for the Union in the Civil War.
THOMAS L. LIVERMORE.
August 1, 1904.

HISTORY

•OF THE

EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE
VOLUNTEERS 1864-S

The history of a regiment, the preparation of which is
begun as this one is, thirty-seven years after disbandment,
must Jack much of the color and many of the substantial
facts which at an earlier day might have been drawn from
the recollection of the survivors of the regiment whose num
bers are now much diminished; but the lapse of time having
served to magnify the Civil War and its results, it has come
to seem more desirable to place in permanent form a narra
tive of the organization and service of the Eighteenth New
Hampshire Volunteers, which, although its term of service
was less than a year and its contact with the enemy was brief,
will be of interest to future readers of history, both because of
the honorable part the regiment took in the closing scenes of
the war and because it is a type of what its state could offer
for the service of the nation at a time when its military
strength and its patriotism had been subjected to the tre
mendous strain of over three years of the great war. While
the writers take satisfaction in the belief that their work may
be of historical value, they also find pleasure in the hope that
it will give satisfaction to the regiment's surviving members
and to the living kindred of their former comrades whose
earthly career is closed, and that it will be of value as
a contribution to the imperishable record of the unflinching
patriotism and sturdy valor of the sons of the Granite State.

8 Period at Which the Regiment was Organized
The Period at Which the Regiment was Organized
The regiment was organized during the fourth year of the
Civil War, recruiting for it having been begun in August,
1864. Many fierce battles had been fought, there had been
two million enlistments in the Union Army,1 and about three
hundred thousand of its soldiers had lost their lives in battle
or by disease; but the end of the war was not yet in sight.
Missouri and a large part of Arkansas had been recovered,
the Mississippi had been opened to navigation, the Confed
erate ports had been effectually sealed, and Sherman's army
had penetrated the Confederacy to Atlanta; but Hood's
resolute army was still in the field, and Lee's veterans pre
sented to Grant a front still impenetrable after the tremendous
battles between the Rapidan and the Weldon Railroad.
Six hundred thousand more men were yet to respond to
the President's call to the ranks of the Union Army. Of the
two hundred and fifty thousand men who had volunteered for
terms varying from three months to two years, the term of
enlistment of all but seventeen thousand had expired before
July, 1863,1 and the losses in the million who, in 1861 and 1862,
had volunteered for three years1 had been so great that great
reinforcements were needed. Volunteering languished. The
patriotic impulse which had led so many to enlist had been
impaired by the many reverses to the Union arms, and
recruiting was discouraged by the lukewarm and actively
opposed by the disloyal citizens of the North. It had become
apparent that resort must be had to conscription, and March
3, 1863, Congress enacted the first law for what were called
" the drafts."2 Substitutes
This act provided that drafted men might furnish sub
stitutes to take their places in the draft, and this provision
1 Numbers and Losses in the Civil War, 50.
2 3 Mess, and Doc, War Dept., 1865-6, 12, 13.

Substitutes 9
proved to be the beginning of a sad chapter in the military
annals of the country. The large bounties offered for sub
stitutes attracted a great many men, chiefly of foreign b'rth,
who enlisted with the sole purpose of obtaining the bounty
and then deserting — the so-called " bounty jumpers." The
provost marshal-general of the United States Army 1 in his
report said: "It is a notorious circumstance that the great
mass of professional bounty jumpers were Europeans, . . .ad
venturers, unworthy of any country, who had no affection for
the republic and enlisted only for money. . . . The bounty
was meant to be an inducement to enlistment; it became,
in fact, an inducement to desertion and fraudulent reenlist-
ment." And again : " The services rendered by a large number
of substitutes have been valuable, while in some instances the
reverse of this is true, owing, in part, to the disreputable
character of the substitutes themselves and the bad influences
brought to bear upon them by an unprincipled class of men
usually termed ' substitute brokers,' ' who tempted them
and instructed them in the arts of desertion and bounty
jumping,' " and that under the large bounties " a set of des
perate characters presented themselves who would enlist and
' jump ' bounties as often as opportunities presented. A
man now in the Albany penitentiary, undergoing an imprison
ment of four years, confessed to having jumped the bounty
thirty-two times." The state of New Hampshire suffered
greatly by the acceptance of these men for the ranks of its
regiments. A count of the names in the " Register of New
Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors " shows that 4,576 substitutes
were mustered into service and that 3,500 of them deserted,
including (as is undoubtedly correct) about 1,000 of whom
the rolls contain no further record after that of muster in, or
despatch for, the regiments. The rolls of old and tried
regiments, some of which had won imperishable glory, are
marred by records of recruits of this character, such as, " De-
1 3 Mess, and Doc, War Dept., 1865-6, 75, 76, 152, 153.

10 Number in the State Available for Service
serted to the enemy"; "Forwarded from draft rendezvous,
no further record "; " Deserted April 25, 1864, returned May
11, 1864, deserted November 8, 1864 "; " Delivered to regi
ment March 14, 1865, City Point, Va., no further record";
" Deserted en route to regiment "; " Killed while attempting
to desert "; " Deserted to the enemy while on picket "; " Ex
ecuted by sentence of general court-martial "; " Deserted,
— jumped overboard from steamer en route to regiment."
There was nothing in the mere enlistment as a substitute
to deprive a man of an honorable character, and it is gratifying
to find that 1,000 of the 4,576 substitutes enlisted by the state
of New Hampshire fulfilled their contract by serving until
discharged or dying in the performance of their duty. Not a
few of them met the death of brave men in battle and some
received well-merited promotion for good service. The
record of these faithful men affords convincing proof that
with proper discrimination in accepting substitutes the state
might have sent, in place of the deserters, 3,500 men who
would have been good recruits for the ranks of the depleted
regiments. The evils which actually resulted from enlisting
substitutes came from the indifference of the authorities to
the character of those who were accepted as recruits. Some
guaranty of character, such as making the principal liable to
take the place of his substitute if the latter should desert, or
withholding payment of the bounty for enlisting until termi
nation of service, would have averted the disgrace of the
desertions and the loss of several million dollars invested in
the worthless rabble of deserters who were accepted as
substitutes for New Hampshire men.
The Number in the State Available for Service
in July, 1864
At the time of the President's call of July, 1864, for more
men, there were about fourteen thousand left in New Hamp-

Number in the State Available for Service 11
shire within the military age and not exempt from draft, as
shown by the following demonstration :
The census of 1860 recorded 70,410 males from eighteen to
forty-four years of age. Adding about 19,000 for those who,
from 1860 to 1864, arrived at the age of eighteen, gives a
total of 89,000 within the age liable in 1861-4 to military
service. Of this number about 32,000 had entered the
service prior to July, 1864. This number is reached by
deducting from 38,943 enlistments noted in the " Register of
New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors" (p. 1223) 120 furnished
under the call of July, 1864,1 1 ,293 enlistments under the call
of December, 1864,2 413 veteran reserve corps, 1,200 for mem
bers of First New Hampshire Volunteers and unattached
companies who had reenlisted or were available for service,
and 4,000 for substitutes who ' were not citizens of New
Hampshire. Computing the natural deaths among the
remaining 57,000 by the average rate at 17,000, and
the number who arrived at the age of forty-six before
1864 at 10,000, there would remain 30,000 as the
number within the age for miltary service; some had left
the state, but it is probably safe to accept this number in
view of the enrollment of 26,302 April 30, 1865.3 Of this
30,000 it is estimated that, at the same per cent as that of the
exempts in New Hampshire under the drafts July, 1863, to
July, 1864, in which 10,476 were drawn and 5,453 were
exempted,4 52 per cent were exempt from service by
physical disability or other cause. Without doubt, many of the
remainder of 14,400 were kept at home by burdens and duties
which justly outweighed the call to service, and it is possible
that many of them who were engaged in providing the muni
tions of war and transportation, in civil administration, and in
other work in aid of the armies in the field were rendering
1 3 Mess and Doc, War Dept., 1865-0, 198.
2 1 Adjt.-Gen.'s Report, N. H., 1865, xxxviii.
3 3 Mess, and Doc, War Dept., 1865, 157.
'Ibid., 1865-6, 174, 175, 184, 198. 199.

12 Number in the State Available for Service
service quite as essential as bearing arms; but without taking
such men into account there was an ample reserve free to
enlist, and it was high time for the state authorities to aban
don the practice of enlisting substitutes and once more to call
for volunteers to reenforce the army.1 Patriotic impulse,
which, as stated above, had become impaired by the early
part of 1863, had been revived to a degree by the successes
at Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga, but the tremen
dous losses of the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns, from
which no adequate result was then apparent, had again
greatly discouraged efforts to raise troops by volunteering.
At the same time the greatly increased rewards for labor in
the active state of business then prevalent in the North did
much to dissuade the able-bodied young men from service in
the army.
The evils of the substitute system were soon to impress
themselves in all their enormity upon the state authorities.
The adjutant-general of the state, August 24, 1864, in a
circular to the selectmen of the towns urging the encourage
ment of voluntary enlistments of the inhabitants, said:
" I should feel that I had not discharged my duty if I failed
to call your attention to the incalculable benefit which the
enlistments of our own inhabitants will render to the country
— one regiment of such men is more desirable than a brigade
of substitutes," and the governor in his proclamation of
January 4, 1865, stating that hundreds of men forwarded to
the regiments had never been received, that hundreds more
had deserted to the enemy on the first opportunity, and that
such men were disgracing the state and making the names of
some of its best regiments a byword and a reproach,
announced that, " The honor of the state demands a change
in this respect, and . . . the change shall be made," and
appealed for volunteers.2
1 Adjt.-Gen.'s Report, N. H., 1865, xxxvi.
2 Ibid., xxxvlii.

Expediency of Raising New Regiments 13
It is probable that the response which had already been
made to the call of the state officials for volunteers for the
First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery and the Eighteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers, by revealing to them the willing
ness of men to volunteer, had encouraged the governor to
take this resolute stand. It is appropriate to here note that as
against the fourteen thousand men of military capacity in the
state over two thousand volunteered in these two regiments,
and these volunteers, unlike the greater part pf the sub
stitutes, were citizens, and, mainly, natives of the state and
self-respecting men from the farms, trades, and professions,
as shown further along in the review of the personnel of the
Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers.
The Expediency of Raising New Regiments Instead
of Recruits for Old Ones
From April, 1863, to August, 1864, the state raised no new
regiments, but, excepting seven companies of the First New
England Cavalry and two companies of artillery for the
defense of Portsmouth, all its recruits were sent to old regi
ments then in the field. The advantage of sending recruits
to fill the ranks of old regiments over sending them organized
in new ones is axiomatic, and yet this advantage was not
invariable as applied to volunteers in the Civil War, for it
was sometimes the case that regiments which took the field
with inefficient officers never recovered from that misfortune,
and, as compared to such regiments, even after long service,
new regiments, well officered, were sometimes preferable.
If there had been established a system of organizing regiments
into three battalions and keeping two in the field and one in
the state to receive, drill, and discipline recruits, it is probable
that much greater success would have been had in attracting
citizens as recruits for such regiments than that which at
tended the attempt to induce them to enlist for assignment

14 Authority for Raising the Eighteenth
to regiments in which they saw they would be strangers and
would be under officers of whose character, disposition, and
competency they were ignorant. To the young man who
desired to serve his country, the new regiment offered much
greater attractions. He enlisted under a captain or lieutenant
from his neighborhood. He had for comrades friends and
old schoolmates and for a colonel some well-known citizen,
perhaps some soldier of established reputation. Each one
started on a level with the rest of the regiment, and had an
equal chance for promotion. Besides this, the presence of the
regiment in camp in the state, with its banners, music, and
parade, stirred the latent military ardor of those who thought
of enlisting. The fortune of war which awaited the regiment
was undetermined, and always might be better than that of
the regiments in the field whose places were fixed in brigade,
division, or corps, and whose lot perhaps was cast with seeming
permanency in front of some grim miles of earthworks brist
ling with hostile cannon. Such considerations, with perhaps
others, persuaded the governor of New Hampshire, as will be
seen in his despatches quoted further on, that in the autumn
of 1864 recruiting citizens of the state for new regiments
presented small difficulty, while recruiting for old ones was
impossible. It is entirely probable that representations made
by him to this effect led to the following despatch J :
Authority for Raising the Eighteenth New
Hampshire Volunteers
War Dept., Provost Marshal-General's Office,
August 22, 1864.
The Governor of New Hampshire, Concord, N. H.
You are authorized to raise one new regiment of infantry. Full
instructions by mail. Jas. B. Fry, Provost Marshal-General.
1 125 W. R., 634.

Authority for Raising the Eighteenth 15
The result was instructive on the question whether it was
better at that juncture to raise new regiments than to per
sist in recruiting the old ones indiscriminately. As shown
in the statement of the personnel of the regiment below,
about eighty per cent of the officers and twenty per cent
of the rank and file were veterans who had seen service
during the Civil War in other organizations, so that the
inexperienced recruits had all the advantage of instruction
by experienced officers and association with practiced soldiers
that they would have had in some of the old regiments then
in the field in which there were not over two hundred veterans
present for duty. In view of the fact that there were many
discharged veterans in the country, it probably would have
been the part of wisdom to employ them as far as possible for
the foundation of new regiments which would have attracted
native recruits, rather than resort to the baleful practice of
enlisting substitutes.
Two months in camp in the state would have been sufficient
for imparting to a regiment like the Eighteenth New Hamp
shire the requisite drill, discipline, and practice to fit it for a
campaign. Under such conditions as those under which most
of the New Hampshire regiments served in the field in 1864
there was but little chance to impart to their recruits any
drill or any discipline except that incident to the performance
of the irregular, arduous, and perilous duty of the trench or
picket line, in close contact with an alert and active enemy.
There can be no doubt that under the circumstances existing
in the last half of 1864 new regiments composed of the material
then available and drilled and disciplined by experienced
officers for two months before taking the field would have
given the country better service than was given by the re
cruits who were actually sent to, and stayed to serve in, the old
regiments in the trenches. These attenuated regiments, with
all their experience and valor, were unable to mold the recruits
who stayed with the colors into good soldiers soon enough to

16 Authority for Raising the Eighteenth
preserve the regimental prestige and pride from the injuries
inflicted by the want of training, to say nothing of the dis
grace incurred from the perfidy of those who deserted. One
of the saddest incidents of the Civil War was the subjection
of the Second Army Corps, of glorious reputation, to dishonor
at Ream's Station, by the infirmity of the recruits with which
its ranks were encumbered. Before that unhappy day this
corps had fought the hard battles of two years with un
blemished honor, and the impairment of its proud record in
this battle is to be attributed to the raw recruits in its ranks,
who had not acquired the steadiness which holds the veteran
in his place in the hour of peril.
General Hancock was called from the field late in 1864 to
raise an army corps by enlistment of the discharged veterans.
By April, 1865, he had assembled about eleven thousand men.1
If this brilliant soldier had been at liberty to raise new regi
ments, each with a nucleus of twenty per cent of veterans as a
minimum, it is entirely probable that he would have had a
corps of twenty thousand men ready to take the field in
February, 1865. If in future wars rigid conscription is not
to be enforced when recruiting for old regiments in the field
languishes, the authorities can profitably consider the system
which resulted in regiments like that which is the subject of
this history, as an alternative for the three battalion system
above referred to. It would be presumptuous to omit here
the following correspondence of Generals Grant and Meade
on the subject of filling old regiments rather than recruiting
new ones. It is possible that their opinons might have been
modified if they had had the assurance that the proposed new
regiments should contain as large a proportion of experienced
officers and men as were assembled in the Eighteenth.
' Reg. Losses, 527, note; 95 W. R., 524-527.

Authority for Raising the Eighteenth 17
Washington, December 24, 1864.
Lietjtenant-General Grant:
Applications are made by governors of states to raise new regiments
of volunteers under the recent call for 300,000 men. Although it is
easier to raise the men by new regiments, the desire of the department
has been, so far as practicable, to secure new recruits for old regiments,
and then keep up their organization. Before any authorizations to
raise new regiments are given, the Secretary of War desires your
views on the subject. Please reply fully by telegraph.
Thomas M. Vincent, Assistant Adjutant-General.
City Point, Va.,
December 24, 1864, 9 p.m.
(Same to General Meade.)
Hon. E. M. Stanton:
I would much prefer seeing the 300,000 men called for go in to fill
up old organizations than to see them come out in new regiments. It
will be much more economical, and the men will be more effective
under tried officers and alongside disciplined men. Unless there will
be a great saving of time in getting men into the field by accepting
regiments, I would not recommend new regiments.
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General.
Headquarters of the Potomac,
December 24, 1864, 9 p.m.
Major Thomas M. Vincent, Assistant Adjutant-General,
Washington :
This army now contains 2,490 company organizations, divided into
316 regiments and a number of battalions, and is deficient in enlisted
men to fill these organizations to the maximum over 84,000 men. I
am unhesitatingly of the opinion that the efficiency of this army will
be more speedily effected by filling the existing organizations rather
than adding new regiments. The latter may be more speedily raised,
but the former will be the soonest efficient, as new regiments require
considerable time to be broken in. Many of the regiments and battal
ions are now consolidated into fewer companies than a full organiza
tion. There would be no objection, in my judgment, in such cases in
adding new companies, and if it is finally determined that new organi
zations are to be raised, I would then suggest the immediate con
solidation of the several skeleton regiments and battalions from each

18 Personnel of the Eighteenth
state into full and efficient regiments, the surplus officers to be trans
ferred to the new organizations. George G. Meade, Major-General.
If General Meade's suggestions regarding the transfer of
surplus officers had been adopted and extended to sending
them to their states to assist in recruiting and organizing the
new regiments, it would probably have greatly accelerated
the work, as well as the work of converting the men into
soldiers.

Personnel of the Eighteenth New Hampshire
Volunteers
The regiment was composed entirely of volunteers. It had
no drafted men and only one substitute. Of the 961 men
who joined the regiment, 832 were natives of the United
States and 644 were natives of New Hampshire, or 67 per cent
as against 53 per cent natives of New Hampshire in the other
organizations of the state in the Civil War, excluding the
4,576 substitutes. Three hundred and seventy-five were
farmers, 343 were mechanics and craftsmen, 47 were students,
clerks and of the professions, 117 were of various other call
ings, and only 78 were laborers. Proof of the high physical
standard of the regiment is found in the recorded stature of
the members. Fifty-six were 6 feet and over, 459 were 5 feet 8
inches and over, and the average of all heights was about 5 feet
and 8 inches. They were mainly young men. One hundred
and sixty-seven were eighteen and under, 61 were nineteen,
103 were twenty and 80 were twenty-one including the
colonel and three captains and three lieutenants. Eight
hundred and thirty-seven were thirty-five and under, while 590
were recorded as twenty-five and under. The average of all
ages as recorded was 25.59 years. One hundred and eighty-
eight members, including 31 of the 39 officers, had served in the
Civil War before joining the regiment. This account of the

GEORGE R. JEFTS, COMPANY A
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Personnel of the Eighteenth 19
occupation, age, and previous service of the members of the
regiment shows that upon the whole the late enlistment in
this regiment was not a mark of late patriotism. Without
doubt numbers of the young men in enlisting recorded them
selves as being older than they were in fact, in order to avoid
the question of admission under the military age; but, taking
the ages as recorded, the 167 at eighteen years had not reached
the military age until 1864, while the 61 at nineteen years of
age had not reached it until September, 1863, and the 103 at
twenty had not reached it until September, 1862. The total
of these numbers and the 188 who had served before is 519.
Of those who were of military age it is fair to assume that
quite as many had delayed enlisting from necessity or from
duty to others as had delayed without as good a reason.
Allowing for the men who waited for the chance to join a new
regiment, not a great many of the Eighteenth are left who can
be suspected of having been attracted to it only by high
bounties, or by the expectation that the end of the war was
near. The record is not a discreditable one when compared
with that of the great body of enthusiastic patriots who,
within the first sixteen months of the war and before the draft
was invoked, volunteered for three years' service, and by
whom the larger part of the burden of the war was borne.
These enlistments were 1,316,556 out of the total 2,898,304
during the war,1 and of them the Comte de Paris wrote in his
" History of the Civil War in America " (p. 184) : " The average
age of the volunteers who enlisted in America before any
conscription had taken place was between twenty-four and
twenty-five years."
It is most regrettable that the fair promise of such a per
sonnel as that of the Eighteenth should be marred by what
the regimental history cannot omit to notice — the record of 83
desertions. The only " substitute " in the regiment lived up
to the reputation of the worst of that class by making himself
1 Numbers and Losses in the Civil War, 50.

20 Beginning of the Organization
one of this number. Following the roster of the regiment
(post, page 119) are the names and record of those in this list,
the time and place of whose desertion marked them as belated
" bounty jumpers " who, probably because they found that
the enlistment of substitutes was no longer favored, took the
honorable name of volunteers under which to enlist in the
regiment. Eighteen of them deserted on the way to the ren
dezvous or before being assigned to a company, and, there
fore, are not chargeable to the regiment and should not be
and are not herein counted as members of it, and 50 more,
by deserting before leaving for, or on the way to, the front,
morally lost the right to be counted among those who were
faithful to their engagement. The regiment is not fairly
chargeable with them, because they never were ranged under
its colors and never came under the influence of its com
manders or of association with the honorable men who filled
its ranks, and never felt the spirit of the corps which animated
and uplifted its members to steadfast and faithful service.
Of the 46 deserters who were foreign born 35 are in this
list, and 19 others who credited their birth to states other
than New Hampshire are also in this list. Entire confidence
is not to be placed in the claim of any one of these deserters
to a birthplace in New Hampshire or any other state. Omit
ting from the rolls of the regiment the names of those who by
deserting before reaching the front forfeited the right to be
counted as members of the regiment, the remaining 15 who
deserted were less than two per cent of its strength in the
ten months' service of the regiment.
Beginning of the Organization
Under the authority of the despatch of August 22, 1864,
above quoted, Governor Gilmore, on the same day, appointed
Charles H. Bell of Exeter — afterwards governor — colonel,
with authority to raise the Eighteenth New Hampshire Vol-

CHARLES H. DIMMICK, COMPANY B CORP. ALBRIDGE EATON, COMPANY B
IST SERG. LEWIS F. DAVIS, COMPANY B HALE CHADWICK COMPANY B

Method of Organization 21
unteers. Mr. Bell was a gentleman of such position and repu
tation in the community as to have great influence in attract
ing volunteers. He at once began to raise the regiment. He
designated the recruiting officers for companies A, B, C, D,
E, F, and G, and named captains and lieutenants. His active
interest in the matter had much to do with the quickness
with which these companies were recruited. Col. James W.
Carr of Manchester, who had lately retired from the Second
New Hampshire Volunteers, in which hard-fighting regiment
he had served with distinction for three years, was appointed
lieutenant-colonel, and immediately devoted himself to
recruiting for the regiment. His reputation, gained by
service in the field, gave confidence to those joining the
regiment who thought of the benefits to be gained from
experienced guidance and instruction in military duties, and
aided in attracting recruits.

Method of Organization
Besides the officers of the companies above mentioned,
Colonel Bell selected the adjutant and quartermaster. Those
selected for company officers were chosen primarily for their
character and experience, and, secondarily, for the ability to
secure recruits which they were presumed to have. Colonel
Bell, although himself not a trained soldier, displayed rare
judgment of men, great ability in organizing, and — what
was of the greatest importance to the future of the regiment —
the strongest resistance to the clamors of politicians who
sought commissions for their friends on political grounds.
He selected for company officers men who, though (with one
exception) veterans in service, were mainly young in years,
and he repeatedly urged upon recruiting officers the im
portance of getting as many veterans as possible in the rank
and file.
The method of raising and bringing in the companies is

22 Method of Organization
well typified in the following account of raising one of the
companies, given by Captain Greenough:
" August 22, 1864, at Concord, where I had been called by
him, I received from Hon. Charles H. Bell, who had been
named for colonel of the regiment, a proposal to assist in
recruiting men for this service. Having at this time fully
recovered from a serious and protracted debility resulting from
a year's service in the army, and being anxious to reenter the
service, I gladly accepted. Three days later, having returned
to my native town with the necessary authority, I opened re
cruiting headquarters in the Town Hall, and nine men, all res
idents in, and all but one natives of, the town, enlisted on
that day. During the next few days six more from adjoining
towns added their names to the enlistment roll. It seems to me
that in this connection it may not be out of place to record
some few facts that should, and I believe will, have value in
proving the strong and enduring patriotism of the people of
New Hampshire. The conditions affecting volunteering
which prevailed at this time in my town were practically
those of the whole state. This town, with a total population
of less than twelve hundred, had, prior to August, 1864,
given ninety-two of her sons to the service of their country in
the Civil War, and between that time and March, 1865, thirty-
four more, making a total of more than ten per cent of its popu
lation (not counting reenlistments or substitutes). Of this
number twenty-three joined the Eighteenth Regiment. Early
in September it was proposed that the recruits from my town
and vicinity should be consolidated in a company with those
enlisted by another veteran of the Civil War in a neighboring
city and some unassigned recruits from other sections of the
state, and my company was thus formed. The lieutenants,
nearly all the non-commissioned officers, and some of the
privates had seen previous service. Out of 86 on the roll, 81
were born in the United States, 80 in the New England states
and 60 in New Hampshire. The average age was 26.5 years
and the average height 5 feet 8 inches. There were 32 farmers,
38 mechanics and handicraftsmen, 5 professional men, 10 of
various callings, and 3 laborers. The company was assembled
in Concord in ' Camp Head,' and there uniforms and camp
equipage, except tents, were issued to it. A furlough of a.

Progress of the Organization 23
few days was then given to enable the members to visit their
homes. The company reassembled at ' Camp Head,' Sep
tember 30, and, after hasty preparations for leaving the
state for active service, the company with two others left
for the front."

Progress of the Organization
Five companies x — A, B, C, D, and E — were mustered
into the United States service at Concord from September
12 to 30. A correspondence by telegraph between Governor
Gilmore and the War Department, beginning during this
period, explains the despatch of the regiment to the field in
fragments. It was as follows : 1 Concord, September 28, 1864.
Hon. E. M. Stanton:
I have the honor to request that the Eighteenth Regiment, now
being organized in the state, be allowed to remain until said organiza
tion is complete. By granting this I am satisfied that said organization
can be completed at a much earlier date than by sending oft by com
panies. It is believed, by report from assistant provost marshal-
general, that the entire quota of the state will be full in about two
weeks. From General Orders No. 131 I understand that the regiment
is under my control until fully mustered in. I will use all means in my
power to fill said regiment with all possible despatch. I shall retain
them here until I have positive orders from you. Please answer at
once by telegraph. J. A. Gilmore, Governor.
War Department, Washington,
September 28, 1864.
Governor Gilmore, Concord:
Every man must come forward without an hour's delay. The
Eighteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, cannot be detained
to complete the organization, but all enlisted men must hasten here
now. This department relies upon your energy and patriotic feeling
to urge them on. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
1 125 W. R., 748, 749, 756, 762.

24 Progress of the Organization
Concord, September 29, 1864.
Hon. E. M. Stanton:
I am in receipt of your despatch. Two companies of the Eighteenth
will leave here to-morrow morning. Three more companies will leave
in a day or two, — just as soon as we can send them. J. A. Gilmore.
There can be no doubt that the despatch of these five com
panies to the field in advance of the rest of the regiment
tended to retard the completion of the regiment, for the
reason that it raised doubts in the minds of possible recruits
whether if they enlisted in the companies to be raised pro
fessedly for this new regiment they would not be destined to
fill up the ranks of old regiments then in the field. That such
doubts discouraged enlistments is shown in the correspond
ence a few days later, as follows : 1
Concord, N. H., October 6, 1864.
Hon. E. M. Stanton:
It has been intimated by United States officials here that the War
Department will give no further time to complete the organization
of the Eighteenth New Hampshire, and Captain Silvey [United States
mustering officer] refuses to muster regimental officers to which the
number [of] men mustered into regiment entitles us. Is this by your
instructions? I trust not, for if the five companies which I have just
sent to the field without organization, at your urgent request, should
be consolidated with another regiment, volunteering would receive
its death blow in New Hampshire. We could not raise another
company except by draft. I have complied with every request of
yours in regard to this last call, all I ask in return is that the organi
zation of the Eighteenth may be completed. I will fill it to the
maximum with New Hampshire men. J. A. Gilmore.
War Dept., Provost Marshal-General's Office
Washington, D. C, October 7, 1864.
Gov. J. A. Gilmore, Concord, N. H.
I regret to learn through Captain Silvey that volunteering is nearly
at a standstill in your state. I sincerely hope you will be able to keep
1 125 W. R., 748, 749, 756, 762.

Progress of the Organization 25
it going long enough to fill up the Eighteenth Regiment and the
artillery companies. James B. Fry, Provost Marshal-General.
Chester, Vt., October 10, 1864.
Gen. J. B. Fry:
Your telegram reached me here. I return home to-day. I shall do
all I can to fill the Eighteenth Regiment and Twelfth Company of
artillery, but can't get another man unless I am able to promise that
the organization of the Eighteenth shall be completed and preserved.
Am ready to continue the payment of the state bounties, and shall urge
our towns to do the same, even after their quotas are full.
J. A. Gilmore, Governor of New Hampshire.
Washington, October 10, 1864.
Gov. J. A. Gilmore, Concord, N. H.
Your telegram received. You say you cannot get another man
unless you are able to promise that the organization of the Eighteenth
shall be completed and preserved. Its completion and preservation
are urged and desired by this department. Its preservation is, of
course, dependent in a certain degree upon its completion, and hence
my despatch asking your special aid in completing it.
J. B. Fry, Provost Marshal-General.
Encouraged by the assurance thus received, the governor,
by proclamation October 1, 1864, 1 announcing that the quota
• of the state was substantially filled, urged enlistments to fill
the Eighteenth and the Twelfth Artillery Company, in anti
cipation of the wants of the government. October 24, by
letter to Adjutant-General Head, Colonel Bell resigned his
commission, saying:
" When I received it I did so with the full belief that the
regiment could soon be raised and put into the field a com
plete organization, but from various causes I have since had
occasion to doubt whether this is likely to be done. If the
organization is to be left incomplete of course no colonel
can be mustered into the United States service. In this
doubtful state of affairs I have reached the conclusion that I
ought no longer to quit my urgent private business for the
contingency of the completion of the regiment."
1 125 W. R., 781.

26 Completion of the Companies
Completion of the Companies and Their Despatch to
the Field
In the meantime Company F had been organized and the
officers of Company G had been appointed. Companies
A and B were mustered into the United States service by
Capt. William Silvey, First U. S. A. Artillery; Companies
C, D, E, and F, by Capt. A. B. Thompson, U. S. A., retired.
Companies A and B left for City Point, Va., September 30,
under command of Captain Potter. Mr. Hale Chadwick, who
was a member of Company B, writes that Companies A and B
went by rail to New York, thence on the steamer Illinois to
Fort Monroe and thence in a smaller boat to City Point, and as
follows :
" City Point was at the time a supply depot for a large part
of the army. General Grant's headquarters being here,
and many will remember the landing-place, — the wharf with
its huge piles of boxes of hard-tack and other stores, the mule
teams, General Grant's headquarters on the bluff to the right,
the military railroad running up hill and clown dale, the
dusty trail to the front, with the bones and skeletons of mules
and horses scattered along the way, the large tents back from
the river with the sign ' Embalming ' across its front, the
soldiers' camps, the hospital tents, the long lines of graves,
which made rather a serious picture for our first experience on
landing. . . . Our camp here was some half a mile or more
back from the landing."
Companies C, D, and E left October 5, under Captain
Greenough, in the absence of Captain Wallingford, who was
detained on official business at Concord. The route taken
was by rail via Nashua and Worcester to New London and
thence by steamer to New York. Captain Greenough says
of his command:
" As the companies were without rations the men were
given permission in New York to obtain breakfast at
nearby restaurants. Upon reassembling in a street at

JOHN L. WORTHLEY, COMPANY C
CORP. FRANK N. FOSS, COMPANY C
SERG. GEO. S. COOK, COMPANY C

LORENZO D. BEAN, COMPANY C
SAMUEL R. ROBINSON, COMPANY C

Completion of the Companies 27
the head of the steamer wharf, preparatory to the continuation
of our journey via Jersey City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore,
there the men of the Eighteenth were permitted to witness
one of those spectacles of the war time, — then so familiar in
some of the large cities, but so new to us, the recollection of
which brings the blush of shame to the cheek of every true
American, — a large squad (about one hundred and fifty) of
substitutes was being taken through the city on its way to the
front under guard of two full companies of the Veteran Reserve
Corps; the men of the guard carried rifles loaded and cocked at
' ready ' and the officers and file closers cocked revolvers.
Some of the substitutes were handcuffed in pairs. Contrast
this picture with that presented by our battalion of the
Eighteenth. We were without arms, except the side arms of
the officers; no guard was maintained, the men were given
permission to leave the ranks in New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore to obtain refreshments, and yet there was not a
case of intoxication or disorderly conduct, and on our arrival
at City Point every man answered to his name at roll call.
Our battalion arriving in Philadelphia at 4 p.m. were ' lunched '
at the then famous Union Volunteer Refreshment Station.
Taking freight cars for Baltimore at 6 p.m. and arriving there
at 3.30 a.m., October 7, at 7 a.m., we marched two miles to the
Baltimore Refreshment Station for breakfast. Boarding the
steam transport Thomas Collyer at 2 p.m., arriving at
Fort Monroe in the early morning of the 8th, we voyaged up
the James. We saw on passing Newport News the historic
remains of the Congress and Cumberland, victims of. the
Confederate ironclad Merrimac. We arrived at City
Point October 9, at 7 a.m."
The following extract from the diary of Mr. Samuel Q.
Dearborn, who was a member of Company D, shows the
rapidity with which companies were formed and sent to the
front, with some details of interest :
"Tuesday, September 20, 1864. I enlisted with John
Stetson, E. D. Swett, J. A. Leavitt, J. C. Davis, C. Durgin.
" September 21. Started for Concord, mustered into
service.

28 Completion of the Companies
" September 23. At Concord in camp, mustered into
Company D.
" September 23. Drew our clothing.
" September 24. At Camp Head, got furlough and went
home. " September 28. Started for Concord.
" September 30. Rainy. I got up to go on guard duty
at 1 a.m., but did not go. Companies A and B left for the
front. " October 1. On guard duty from nine till twelve, three
till five, seven till nine, and one till three Sunday morn.
" October 4. Drew our bounty, $33.33. Went into the
city and got state bounty, $100.
" October 5. Left Concord at ten, by cars to New London,
thence by boat in night to New York, where we were at
daylight. " October 6. At New York, thence to Philadelphia, where
we had something to eat, — good baked beef, bread, and
coffee. By rail in night to Baltimore, where we were at
3£ a.m.
" October 7. Started at about 5 p.m. for City Point on.
steamer Thomas Colly er.
" October 8. Anchored at eve near Harrison's Landing
[James River].
" October 9. Steamed up to City Point ten miles and
marched up to camping-ground, drew tents, put up ours
[six men from Effingham]."
By General Grant's order (Special Orders No. 8), dated
October 19, 1864,1 the five companies under command of
Captain Potter were, with other troops, assigned to the Army
of the Potomac, and ordered to report to General Meade for
orders, and by the latter's order (Special Orders No. 285)
October 21, they were continued on duty with the Engineer
Brigade at City Point.2 Company F left Concord October 25,
1864, and, under command of Captain Bosworth, joined the
battalion at City Point, October 29, 1864. The band joined
on the same day.
'89W. R., 271. 2 89 W. R., 293.

Change of Field Officers 29
Change of Field Officers
Lieutenant-Colonel Carr having resigned his commission
Governor Gilmore, October 13, 1864, appointed Capt. Joseph
M. Clough of New London . lieutenant-colonel, and Adjt.
William I. Brown of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers
of Concord, major. The former was mustered in as lieu
tenant-colonel of the Eighteenth October 18, 1864. Major
Brown was mustered into the United States service in that
rank October 22, 1864, and, joming the battalion of six
companies, remained in command until the arrival .of
Lieutenant-Colonel Clough, who then assumed command.
Thomas L. Livermore of Milford was commissioned colonel
January 17, 1865. Under the regulations of the United
States War Department requiring the muster in of ten com
panies to entitle a regiment to a colonel, his muster in was
delayed until April 8, 1865.
January 19, two days after the appointment of Colonel
Livermore, the governor requested of the War Department
that he be ordered from the field to the state to aid in com
pleting the recruitment of the regiment, but this request was
refused as being contrary to the regulation of the War Depart
ment that officers must not be taken from the field for recruit
ing service. This request was afterwards twice repeated,
with the same result.
From the date of Colonel Bell's resignation recruiting for
the regiment was slow. This was no doubt due in great
measure to the fact that there was no field officer of the
regiment in the state to urge on enlistments and direct the
further organization. Although the governor, by proclama
tion dated October 13, 1864, urged enlistments to fill the
regiment, no further captain was appointed for over three
months afterwards. The officers of the remaining four
companies were selected by the governor. The appointment
of the captains and the date of departure from the state of
these four companies were as follows:

30 Officers Promoted
Company G, Captain Kimball appointed January 24, 1865,
company left the state February, 1865.
Company H, Captain Learnard appointed February 15,
1865, company left the state March 17.
Company I, Captain Thompson appointed January 24,
1865, company left the state March 23.
Company K, Captain Colby appointed March 23, 1865,
company left the state early in April.

Officers Promoted
The following officers were promoted after the first five
companies arrived in the field.
Captain Potter was promoted to be major vice Brown
killed, April 4, 1865.
Lieutenant Caswell, was appointed adjutant May 19, 1865,
vice George F. Hobbs, discharged.
Lieutenant Farmer was promoted to captam of Company
A, April 4, 1865.
Hiram K. Ladd was promoted to first lieutenant of Com
pany A, April 4, 1865.
First Serg. Joseph H. Cram of Company D was promoted to
second lieutenant of Company A, and was mustered in April 12,
1865. First Serg. George S. Whitney of Company E was promoted
to second lieutenant of that company March 15, 1865, vice
George H. Thorn, resigned.
Second Lieut. Oliver H. Gibbs of Company F was promoted
to first lieutenant of that company April 12, 1865, vice Samuel
H. Dow, discharged.
First Serg. Henry P. Gage of Company F was promoted to
second lieutenant of that company April 12, 1865.

LIEUT.-COL. CLOUGH
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS

City Point 31
Officers Commissioned but Not Mustered into the
United States Service
July 29, 1865, the day on which the last Companies (G, H,
and I) were mustered out of service, the governor compli
mented Lieutenant-Colonel Clough with the commission of
colonel and the officers and sergeants of those companies
with commissions as follows, but of course they were not mus
tered into the United States service on these commissions:
Company G, Captain Kimball, the commission of lieu
tenant-colonel. First Lieutenant Kimball, the commission
of captain. Second Lieutenant Dodge, the commission of
first lieutenant. First Serg. Frank P. Hall of Concord, the
commission of second lieutenant.
Company H, Captain Learnard, the commission of major.
First Lieutenant Perkins, the commission of captain.
Second Lieutenant Flanders, the commission of first lieuten
ant. First Serg. Edwin Hill of Concord, the commission
of second lieutenant.
Company I, First Serg. Horace H. Rolfe of Alton, the
commission of second lieutenant. City Point
City Point, a hamlet at the junction of the Appomattox
with the James, and the terminus of a railway from Peters
burg, lies eight miles easterly from Petersburg and sixteen
miles southerly from Richmond. The occupation of it, in
1864, as the headquarters of the armies and as a base from
which the supplies, water borne to it on the James, were
distributed to the army in front of Petersburg, marked the
second grapple of the contending forces in front of Richmond
and the beginning of what proved to be the final campaign.
In May, 1862, while the Army of the Potomac was moving up
the peninsula from Yorktown towards Richmond, the Union
gunboats had passed by City Point in the passage up the
James and back, and, in July and August of that year,

32 City Point
McClellan's army had lain at Harrison's Landing, three miles
below City Point on the opposite side of the James. Mc
Clellan's inactivity at that time encouraged Lee to send a
part of his army away from Richmond to join Jackson in his
movement across the Rapidan against Pope, and then the
Army of the Potomac was withdrawn from the peninsula to
reenforce Pope.
The following brief review of events between the with
drawal from the peninsula, in 1862, and the occupation of it
and City Point, in 1864, is to recall to those interested in the
small unit of the great armies whose history is here written,
the course of events which brought the regiment to City
Point in 1864.
From McClellan's departure in August, 1862, until May,
1864, Lee succeeded in confining the occupation of the Union
armies to the country north of the Rappahannock andRapidan.
In August, 1862, he defeated Pope at Bull Run and then in
vaded Maryland. Defeated at Antietam in September, he
retreated to Fredericksburg, and there, on the Rappahan
nock, sixty miles north of Richmond, he defeated Burnside
in December, 1862, and again at the same place and at
Chancellorsville he defeated Hooker in May, 1863, and
caused both of these commanders to retire to the north side
of the river. In 1863 the Confederate Army, invading
Maryland and Pennsylvania in June, was defeated at Gettys
burg in July and compelled to retreat to Virginia. A series
of maneuvers and minor battles followed, the result of
which established Meade on the Rapidan. Crossing the
Rapidan he attempted at first to divide and then to turn
the flank of Lee's army, but his attempt was defeated in
the battle of Mine Run in November, and the Army of the
Potomac again recrossed to the north bank of the Rapidan.
In May, 1864, Grant led the army across the Rapidan again,
with the design of passing through the Wilderness and at
tacking Lee's army, if possible, in the open country, where it

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CAPT. WILLIS G. C. KIMBALL, COMPANY G
ADJT. SAMUEL S. CASWELL

CAPT. SILAS F. LEARNARD, COMPANY H
LIEUT. REUBEN B. PORTER, COMPANY B

City Point 33
lay to the west and north of that dense woodland. Lee
moved rapidly into the Wilderness, and there attacked his
adversary. The result was a drawn battle in which both
armies kept the field, but Grant achieved a strategic success
in moving on towards Richmond and the moral triumph of
deciding Lee to keep to the shelter of earthworks. Never
again during the war did Lee venture to offer battle with his
whole army outside of intrenchments. Grant maneuvered
to Richmond, vainly trying, at every move, to flank the
enemy or to interpose between them and Richmond. He
fought a series of fierce battles with great losses, but he also
inflicted heavy losses. It was only by inflicting loss on the
enemy that he could finish the war. If he had merely
maneuvered without fighting, he would only have brought his
army to its final position in front of Richmond without
bringing the end of the war nearer. To end the war it was
necessary to destroy the Confederate Army, and, as it was
always sheltered behind works, it was necessary to attack it
there whenever there was hope of success. Every attack
was justified by the result or by the apparent chance of
success, excepting the last one at Cold Harbor, which was a
mistake. The strength and morale of the enemy were so
much impaired by the campaign that in June Grant was able,
in their face, to cross the James to move against the railways
connecting Richmond with the South, without the danger of
a counter movement by Lee against Washington, the road to
which was left open. From the 15th of June to October, in a
series of fierce battles, the Union Army took the Norfolk and
Petersburg and Weldon railroads, and established its lines in
close contact with Petersburg. From Fort Harrison, eight
miles south of Richmond, which was at the right flank of the
Union Army, to Fort Wadsworth, four miles south of Peters
burg, at the left flank, it was twenty-seven miles, and heavy
intrenchments covered twenty miles of this front. From
this time, Grant, by flank movements, threatened Richmond

34 City Point
on our right and essayed to reach the Southside Railroad on the
left, at the same time extending his lines to the left for vantage
ground from which to move against Lee's army when the
seizure of the Southside Railroad should compel it to abandon
Richmond and head for the South. During the summer
Early had made a dash via the Shenandoah Valley for Wash
ington, but withdrew from the force which he found in front
of him there. Grant's purpose to remain in contact with
Lee was undisturbed by this raid. By the month of October
Lee's hope was reduced to keeping the Union Army in " check
to the beginning of winter," J and he expressed the fear that
it would be " impossible to keep [it] out of Richmond." 2
From this time the effort on his part was to defer the clay
when he must abandon Richmond, and on Grant's part to
hasten that day and with it the hour when Lee's army should
be brought to battle outside its intrenchments. In the
opposing lines there were one hundred thousand men present
for duty under Grant and fifty-four thousand present for
duty under Lee.3 The disparity in numbers was none too
great for the great task before the Union Army, for, besides
constantly keeping on the offensive, it had to guard against
attack or raid set in motion by a hostile commander ever on
the alert to disconcert- or damage his adversary. The neces
sity of reenforcing the army caused all levies to be hurried to
the field as fast as they were assembled, and among them
were the first five companies of the Eighteenth New Hamp
shire Volunteers, which, under the pressure for haste, were
sent forward without adequate preliminary drill or discipline.
Upon their arrival at City Point they were at once assigned
to the Engineer Brigade under General Benham, upon which,
with one regiment and eight companies of raw troops, besides
those of the Eighteenth New Hampshire, — a total of 3,531
men, — was placed the defense of City Point, with all its
munitions and army headquarters. A report of October 25
1 89 W. R., 1134. 2 89 W. R., 1144. s 89 W. R., 457, 464, 1186, 1197.

City Point 35
notes of these raw troops," new recruits and in the trenches
or on picket ever since they joined "; 1,546 without
arms, to be armed that day; and two companies of the
Eighteenth New Hampshire "entirely without arms (expect
ing them from their state), to be armed to-day." x The ex
traordinary pressure which caused these inexperienced men
to be thrown into the trenches at once may be seen from
the following correspondence:
October 4. Humphreys (Meade's chief of staff) to
Benham :
" The commanding general desires that you will press
the construction of the redoubts on the inner line en
closing City Point to completion as rapidly as possible. The
connecting rifle pits can be thrown up at some other time.
The object now is to prevent a cavalry dash, which the
redoubts will do. The commanding general needs the
services of all troops on the intrenchments at the front."
October 4. Grant to Meade : 2
" I find that General Benham has got little or no work
done yet on the line of fortifications he was directed to
build. I have directed less elaborate works than he con
templated to be speedily thrown up. Until they are done
this place is in danger of a cavalry raid, particularly if the
enemy cavalry return here before we get ours back. I
would like to have daily scouting parties sent to the south
east, to see that no movement is made."
October 5. Meade to Grant :
Reports despatch of cavalry to scout in advance of Old
Court House, at Prince George's Court House and on the
plank road.
October 5. Humphreys to Benham:
" General Gregg is ordered to post a regiment of cavalry
on the telegraph road, about three miles out from Old
*89 W. R., 292, 293, 305, 343, 457, 458. 289 W. R., 69, 80, 82.

36 City Point
Court House, with instructions to the commander to scout
daily to and beyond Cooke's Mill, etc. ... He will . . .
give . . . early notice of any appearance of the enemy in
that quarter."
The apprehension was that the enemy's cavalry might pass
around the left flank of the Union line and approach City
Point from the rear of the line. The property and interests
at stake were great. At City Point were the great hos
pitals of all the corps, with thousands of patients, and the
quartermaster's and commissary's departments of all the
army, with their great stores of camp equipage, clothing,
and food for the army and the corral of spare horses.
There was also the great enclosure (familiarly called the
" bull pen " ) for recruits on the way to the front and for
deserters and prisoners of war from the enemy's ranks on
the way from the front. And not less important, though less
liable to capture, were the general commanding the army and
his staff with the field records relating to the whole force in
front of Richmond and Petersburg.
The battalion, consisting of companies A, B, C, D, and E
of the Eighteenth New Hampshire, was under the command
of Captain Potter, and, in his absence, of Captain Smith
until the arrival of Major Brown, and being augmented
October 29 to six companies, was kept at work erecting the
fortifications for the defense of City Point from October 4
until some time in December.1 These fortifications were
about two miles in front of City Point., They comprised
about three and two-thirds miles of works, including eight
redoubts,2 and extended from the Appomattox on the north
to Bailey's Creek on the south. Alternating with this work,
the battalion was engaged north of the Appomattox, begin
ning November 9, in building a corduroy road from the
Nelson House to the north bank of the Appomattox as an
approach to a projected pontoon bridge,3 to connect the line
1 87 W. R., 213, 214. 2 87 W. R., 214. 3 89 W. R., 321, 519, 634.

City Point 37
of defenses at City Point with another line of works which
were planned to prolong them on the north side of the Appo
mattox. Here the battalion for ten days or more worked in
a swamp cutting logs and with them building the road through
the swamp. The men were constantly in the water and their
work was hard. All the energy expended and the exposure
suffered proved to be useless, for the fortifications were not
built on the north side of the Appomattox. Lieutenant
Haven writes of the building of this corduroy road as follows :
" On election day [November 8], 1864, I was ordered tore-
port at brigade headquarters to go with a captain of General
Benham's staff, and under his instructions have the thing
built. I wanted to build a corduroy road winding in and
around the big stumps, but I was overruled and ordered to
build a sort of bridge all the way in a straight line, and so
over the tops of stumps. I am well aware that at the time
my action was subject to criticism by the old woodmen of
New Hampshire but my orders from the captain were impera
tive to build the same straight and wide, and not to turn out
for stumps but to go over them."
To counteract the exposure to which this labor in the
swamp exposed the men, rations of whiskey were offered to
them. This was repugnant to the principle of " total absti
nence " which had been planted in many of the men at home.
The diary of one of the captains, under date of November 16,
runs as follows: " All but eight men of my company refused
whiskey rations." This gives fair indication of the strong
character of the rank and file.
The vote of the battalion for President, November 8, was
233 for Lincoln and 72 for McClellan. The vote of the state
was nearly equal for the two candidates.
The following entries taken from the diaries of Messrs.
Lorenzo D. Bean of Company C and Samuel Q. Dearborn of
Company D give an outline of the daily life and work of
the battalion during this period:

38 City Point
" October 10. Roll called 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. Heavy firing
in front of Petersburg.
" October 16. Dress parade at 9 a.m. October 22. Dress
parade in the afternoon.
" November 2. At rest in the afternoon and completed
our fireplaces.
" November 7. Up in the woods cutting timber for tents.
" November 9. Went to build corduroy road across on
the other side of the Appomattox, which we crossed in boats.
The Eighteenth Regiment is to build about one mile of cordu
roy. To-day we built a footpath across the swamp of brush
and poles and started for camp at 3 p.m. All had to walk
through mud and water to get into the boats.
" November 10. Crossed the Appomattox into the woods,
took a long time to get to work on the other side. On return
ing built a long wharf to the channel of the river.
" November 11. Commenced laying stringers and covering
of small logs.
" November 12, 14, 15, 16, December 1. Building road.
" December 4. Sheridan's troops going against Peters
burg." For winter life at City Point, in its camp on a high and dry
plateau about two miles west of the James and half a mile
south of the Appomattox, the battalion built log huts of the
pine which was abundant in the vicinity. The skill in wood
craft, which was common among the men of the Eighteenth,
here came into good use, and there was warm rivalry between
the companies. The pine forests close at hand were drawn
upon for the materials for the walls. The soil furnished the
clay, and the brigade quartermaster, axes, shovels, picks, and
wheelbarrows. Logs of the straight-grained native pine,
ten to twelve feet long, were cut longitudinally in half;
smoothed with the axe on the split side, the halves were set
up on end in trenches two feet deep, with the bark, or a
roughly hewn surface, on the exterior. Projecting several
feet out of the ground the walls thus made gave sufficient
head room. The joints were thoroughly plastered with clay.

CAMP OF EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS AT CITY POINT, VA.

City Point 39
The pieces of canvas, six feet square, one of which served
each man as his portion of a " shelter tent," were laid over
a ridge pole for a roof. Doors were made of boards split from
the timber and hewn with the axe. Fitting an aperture at one
end or side of the wall a fireplace was laid up of bricks when
they were found, or of stones thickly coated with clay, topped
with a chimney of sticks " cob-house fashion," coated with
clay on the inner surface, and generally prolonged with an
empty and headless beef or pork barrel. Each hut — eight
feet by twelve, or twelve feet by sixteen — was for four or
more men. The ambitious band house was sixteen feet by
twenty-four. The officers' huts were rather larger than the
men's, and each served for three or less. Bunks were built
which raised the beds above the ground a foot or two, and some
times a bunk above made the " double-decker." Tables, chairs
and cupboards were also made, and sometimes neither bunk,
bed, nor furniture contained a nail, for wooden pins in holes
bored by the solitary " bitstock " in the command, made all
fast. Doors were often hung on improvised wooden hinges.
Wood was cut and drawn to camp and prepared for use
according to the custom of New Hampshire yeomen at home
in preparation for a New England winter. At Christmas
time the houses were handsomely hung outside with evergreen.
Although these quarters were narrow they were comfortable,
and life in them during waking hours was made sociable and
agreeable with tales, songs, and merriment. The company
cooks, who had served their apprenticeship with the lumber
men of the Connecticut and Merrimac and the New Hamp
shire lakes, were at home in cooking for the men who labored
on the earthworks for the defense of City Point. The battal
ion here came into touch with the evil results of the system
of recruiting the army with foreigners attracted by bounties
to enlist as substitutes or under the undeserved title of
volunteers. Many of the deserters from this class who had
been captured and returned to the army were tried for their

40 City Point
offense at City Point by a general court-martial, which was
convened by General Orders No. 308 of General Meade
November 14, 1864. It consisted of ten officers drawn from
the forces stationed near City Point, one of whom was Captain
Gile of the Eighteenth. This court sat almost constantly
until the middle of March, and it was not formally dissolved
until April 21, but its sessions were effectually terminated by
the preparations for the final campaign which ended at Appo
mattox, for its members requesting leave to join their com
mands for this campaign were permitted to do so. This
court tried a large number of men accused of desertion, and
convicted fifty of this crime, of whom forty-six were executed
under its sentence, approved by the President of the United
States. The court held its sessions in a cottage at City Point.
The Eighteenth Regiment Band, the largest and best of
those stationed within the defenses, frequently came in from
the regimental camp and serenaded General Grant's head
quarters as well as the cottage occupied by the court, where
they were received and entertained by its president, General
Collis, and his wife, who was a visitor there.
The remittance of the sentence in one case through the
characteristic benignancy of President Lincoln is authenti
cated by Captain Gile of the Eighteenth. He relates that
while in Washington on leave of absence, in March, 1865, he
called on the President, and during his presence in the Execu
tive Chamber the President's private secretary, Mr. John
Hay (since then Secretary of State), came in and said: " Mr.
President, that mother is at the door asking for the pardon
of her son. Shall I admit her next? " " No," replied Mr.
Lincoln; " but get me the papers in the case. I will pardon
him. I would pardon old Cain this morning if he were here,"
and then taking the record of the boy's trial in his hands,
which he had been resting on his crossed knee, he wrote,
" Let up on this boy. A. Lincoln," and passed it back to

Service in Petersburg Trenches 41
the Secretary to be transmitted to the commander of the
Army of the Potomac in official form.
Engineering work, although useful and instructive, was not
what the Eighteenth had volunteered for, and although they
did the work which was given them so well as to be highly
praised by the engineer officers, service at the front was
very generally desired by the officers and men of the com
mand, and many were the inquiries among them as to the
completion of the regiment, the arrival of the remainder of
the field officers, and the day when the command would be
permitted to join the other New Hampshire regiments in
front of the enemy, so short a distance away, in the works at
Petersburg and Bermuda Hundred. It was over two months
after the arrival of the first of the command at City Point
before the welcome order was received which gave them the
first sight of the Petersburg works, a delay which is insigni
ficant in retrospect, but which was long to those who were
eager for service in the face of the enemy.
Service in Petersburg Trenches, December 10-12, 1864
The first service of the Eighteenth immediately in front of
the enemy was incidental to a movement against the Con
federate line of communication between Petersburg and the
South, preliminary to the first attack on Fort Fisher in Decem
ber, 1864, which was projected in November. By the Weldon
and the Weldon & Wilmington railways it was about one
hundred and eighty miles from Petersburg to Wilmington,
and although the Union lines covered the Weldon Railway
about seven miles south of Petersburg, the Confederates
maintained it in operation further south from Wilmington
to the Nottoway River, between which river and Petersburg
troops and supplies could be passed around the left flank of
the Union lines in a march of about thirty miles.1 Sheridan
1 89 W. R., 1051.

42 Service in Petersburg Trenches
having extinguished Early's corps in the Shenandoah Valley,
General Grant, November 28, directed the return of the Sixth
Corps from the valley to Petersburg,1 and at the same time
projected a movement against the Weldon Railway.2 On
the next day he directed that Gen. I. N. Palmer should move
from New Berne, N. C, up the Roanoake River, with the
ultimate view of cutting this railway further south at Swift
Creek and Rocky Mountain.3 These movements against the
railway were no doubt intended primarily to impede the
despatch of reinforcements from Petersburg to Fort Fisher,
and to Wilmington, whose capture was contemplated if Fort
Fisher * should be taken, and, secondarily, to interrupt the
passage of supplies to Petersburg, and, if possible, to attract
a part of the Confederate forces at Richmond and Petersburg
out of their trenches. On the arrival of the two divisions of
the Sixth Corps they relieved the Fifth Corps in the Peters
burg trenches, and General Warren was despatched southward
December 7 with this corps, one division of the Second Corps,
and two brigades of cavalry — a force of about twenty-five
thousand men — to destroy the Weldon Railway to Heckman,
a point about fifty miles north of Rocky Mountain.5 General
Grant made all preparations for supporting General Warren's
force and for battle with any of the enemy's troops which
might be tempted out of their works. December 5 he wrote
to Meade:
" Whilst the expedition is out, reduce the number of men
in the line to the lowest maximum. Hold all the reserves
thus obtained in readiness to move south if their services
should be required." "
December 6 he wrote Butler :
" A movement [Warren's] will commence on the left to
morrow morning. Make immediate preparations so that your
1 89 W. R., 725, 739. 2 89 W. R., 726, 750. 3 87 W. R., 971; 89
W. R., 760. ' 89 W. R., 835, 1005. 6 89 W. R.,. 750, 784, 804, 805,
828, 829, 842. 6 89 W. R., 805.

Service in Petersburg Trenches 43
force can be used north of the river [Appomattox] if the
enemy withdraw, or south, if they should be required, . . .
and during to-morrow night withdraw to the left of your line
at Bermuda the force you propose sending south." l
December 7 General Meade ordered preparations to move
all public property " within the defenses of City Point at
very short notice, should this become necessary," and for the
ready removal of sick to the same place; directed General
Benham to prepare his infantry to move at a few hours'
notice; 3 and gave instructions to General Humphreys' com
manding the Second Corps, for holding the lines in front of
Petersburg, depending on the enclosed works principally
if it should become necessary,2 and all preparations were
made for a campaign. December 8 General Grant asked
General Meade, " If the enemy send off two divisions after
Warren, what is there to prevent completing the investment
of Petersburg with your reserve? " 3 and suggested as an
alternative the attempt " to force a weak place in his
lines." 4 On the same evening he directed that the next
morning a division should be sent out to help the cavalry to
" force a crossing of Hatcher's Run and find out what the
enemy are doing." News of movements of a strong force of
the enemy around the left flank of the army towards General
Warren was received December 9 and 10,5 and General Grant
telegraphed General Meade 1.20 p.m., December 10:
" I think it advisable to move with all the force you can
to Warren's relief. Benham will be ordered up, as you sug
gest, to support line held by Ninth Corps. I don't think
there should be any delay in starting out reinforcements to
Warren." Miles' division was sent to Hatcher's Run,8 all the avail
able troops of the Second, Sixth, and Ninth corps were as-
1 89 W. R., 834. 2 89 W. R., 847, 848. 3 89„W. R., 865. * 89 W. R.,
865. 689 W. R., 867-899, 903, 905, 908, 911. e 89 W. R., 911.

44 Service in Petersburg Trenches
sembled in reserve ready to move to the left,1 and the
reserve of the Ninth Corps was sent out to join Warren's
force.2 One division of the Sixth Corps having been detained
in the Shenandoah Valley 3 General Meade ordered Benham's
command, except the artillery, to move up to support that
part of the Ninth Corps which remained in the trenches.4
Arriving on the 11th it, including the Eighteenth New Hamp
shire, was massed early in the morning near the site of Shand's
house,5 and later was drawn up in line of battle somewhat
to the rear of the works on the left of Fort Davis, but did
not come under fire. It passed a portion of the night in
Fort Sedgwick (" Fort Hell "), and on the 12th it was
ordered back to the defenses of City Point. This tour of duty
was performed in rain, snow, sleet, and fog,6 without canvas
shelter. Frozen ears and cheeks were common.
The following are entries in the diaries above mentioned
for this period :
" December 10. Packed everything and started for the
front in the afternoon, very cold and rainy. Camped on the
ground all night, cold and rainy.
" December 11. On the march, pitched tents, and at night
marched to and into Fort Sedgwick or ' Hell.' Camped on
the ground, left before morning.
" December 12. Marched back to our old quarters at
City Point, got there at dark."
Chadwick writes of this tour of duty:
" Had a hard storm of rain, sleet, and snow while on this
march, clearing off very cold, and the officers and men suf
fered extremely, being without shelter and not prepared for
such cold weather, some of them freezing their hands and
feet." General Warren's command having destroyed the Weldon
Railway from the Nottoway River to Hicksford — a length
1 89 W. R., 901-921. 2 89 W. R., 918, 935. 3 89 W. R., 953. 489
W. R., 921, 926. 6 87 W. R., 42; 89 W. R., 966. 6 87 W. R,, 445; 89 W.
R, S42, 921.

Service in the Trenches at Bermuda Hundred 45
of about twenty miles — returned within the lines December
12.1 Although the expedition against Fort Fisher sailed
from Bermuda Hundred December 8 and arrived at the
rendezvous near Fort Fisher on the 15th, the attack was
delayed until the 25th.2 As soon as the Confederates
learned that it had left Fort Monroe, Hoke's division was
despatched from Richmond, December 19, to reenforce Wil
mington. The wisdom of destroying the Weldon Railway
was shown by the fact that Hoke's division was obliged to go
around by the Danville and Piedmont railways, so that of
this reenforcement only one brigade reached Wilmington on
the 25th and four hundred men of another brigade on the
26th.3
Service in the Trenches at Bermuda Hundred
The arrival of Confederate troops in front of the Union
lines at Bermuda Hundred December 16, 1864 (apparently
Rodes' division under General Grimes from the Shenandoah
Valley), led General Ord to ask for a reenforcement of Ferrero's
division at that point,4 and, on that day, under orders to send
one thousand men, General Benham directed Lieutenant-
Colonel Clough of the Eighteenth to march rapidly with
three hundred men of his battalion, five hundred of the
Fifteenth New York Engineers, seventy-five of Hall's Michigan
Sharpshooters, and one hundred and twenty-five of First Maine
Sharpshooters, all of whom were placed under his command,
via the pontoon bridge at Broadway Landing across the
Appomattox to the Bermuda Hundred line, and there report
to General Ferrero, commanding the defenses, for temporary
duty.5 On the same day Colonel Clough with his command,
including all the companies of the Eighteenth then at City
Point under command of Major Brown, reported to General
1 87 W.R., 444, 449. 2 87 W. R., 966, 967. 3 87 W. R.,1279, 1334, 2680.
4 89 W. R., 984, 1011, 1015, 1021. 5 87 W. R., 42; 89 W. R., 800,
1019, 1020.

46 Service in Fort Howard
Ferrero, under whose orders, for a week, the battalion was in
the trenches and picket line in front of Bermuda Hundred.
Here it first came under the fire, participating in the constant
exchange of shots between the picket lines and expending
much ammunition, with the zeal of men new to experience of
this kind. December 23 Colonel Clough with his command
reported to General Benham in the City Point defenses.1
Service in Fort Howard
The second term of duty of the Eighteenth on the Peters
burg front was incident to another movement of the Union
Army against the Confederate line of communication with
the South. February 4, 1865, General Grant directed Gen
eral Meade to send his cavalry out " to destroy or capture as
much as possible of the enemy's wagon train, which it is
understood is being used in connection with the Weldon
Railroad to partially supply the troops about Petersburg." 2
Accordingly, February 5, Gregg's cavalry division went to
Dinwiddie Courthouse on the Boydton plank road, about
twenty miles west of the Union entrenchments, and captured
a few wagons and prisoners, but finding that the road " was
but little used since the destruction of the bridges on it,
and on the Weldon Railroad," he returned. The Second and
Fifth corps had moved out to prolong the Union line to the
left and support the cavalry, and on the 5th and 6th were
in a severe engagement near Hatcher's Run.3 This led to
withdrawing from the Petersburg trenches several divisions
to reenforce the troops engaged,4 and to partially fill their
place Benham's brigade, under command of Col. Wesley
Brainerd, Fifteenth New York Engineers, was ordered to the
front on the afternoon of February 5 to report to General
Parke, commanding the Ninth Corps.5 The itinerary of the
Engineer Brigade for this period runs as follows : 6
1 89 W. R., 1061. 2 96 W. R., 367. 3 95 W. R., 150-152. * 96 W.
R., 405, 408. 6 96 W. R. 408, 436, 438, 439. 6 96 W. R., 72.

Service in Fort Howard 47
"February 5. The whole command, nineteen hundred
strong — composed of the Fifteenth New York Volunteer
Engineers, Sixty-first Massachusetts Volunteers (leaving the
pickets on Bailey's Creek), Eighteenth New Hampshire, First
Maine sharpshooters (two companies), and Michigan sharp
shooters — started via railroad for the front at about 5 p.m.
with order to report to Major-General Parke, commanding the
Ninth Corps. Bivouacked near Avery House. February 6.
Received orders from General Parke to move the brigade to
the Aiken House. The troops of the command occupied the
line between Batteries No. 24 and 26, the right resting on
Battery 24, headquarters of the brigade in rear of Fort
Howard. A detail of two hundred and eighty-seven men from
the Engineer Brigade relieved theTirst Division, Sixth Corps,
from picket duty. February 7. Troops under arms at 5 a.m.
until 8. a.m. February 8. The Fifteenth Engineers and
Michigan sharpshooters occupied that portion of the line
between Battery 24 and the marsh, the Eighteenth New
Hampshire and Sixty-first Massachusetts, Battery 25 (Fort
Howard). Three hundred and eight men on picket duty.
February 10. Troops in same position as yesterday. Feb
ruary 11. T.he Engineer Brigade relieved this morning by
General Griffin's troops of the Ninth Corps, and ordered to
return to City Point and occupy their old camp at that place.
Column started at about 10 a.m., reaching City Point during
the afternoon."
February 6 Colonel Brainerd was ordered to report
with the brigade to General Getty, commanding the Sixth
Corps, to strengthen the line then occupied by the Sixth
Corps from Fort Howard to Fort Dushane, which had been
weakened by the withdrawal of Wheaton's division, which
had been sent to reenforce troops at Hatcher's Run,1 and
reporting under this order was assigned to duty as stated in
the itinerary above quoted.2 With this part of the line the
Engineer Brigade came under command of General Parke
February 8.3 . During this week of duty in the trenches, the
Eighteenth was under picket and artillery fire every day.
1 96 W. R., 405, 438. 2 96 W. R., 492. 3 96 W. R., 493.

48 City Point, February 12 to March 17, 1865
The weather was inclement, and with slight shelter, whether
in trenches or in bivouac, there was suffering even among the
hardy sons of New Hampshire, accustomed as they had been
at home to extreme cold in winter. The laconic entries
quoted below from one of the diaries above referred to,
although exaggerated in familiar style, give convincing
evidence of this:
" February 5. Left camp at three o'clock and marched up
to Avery House (about eight miles). Camped on the ground
all night. Had three days' rations.
" February 6. Marched about twelve o'clock to Park Sta
tion (about ten miles), got there at nine o'clock, camped by
the side of some breastworks. Cold and windy.
" February 7. Cold and rainy.
" February 9. Cold and windy. Camping on the ground
in little tents. Like to froze to death.
" February 10. Cold and windy. Still at Park Station.
Nearly frozen. ,
" February 11. Warm and clear. Ordered back to City
Point. Marched about nine o'clock and got back about
sunset. Pitched tents and was all right again."
City Point, February 12 to March 17, 1865
Company G arrived at City Point and joined the battalion
February 19. The itinerary of the Engineer Brigade notes1
February 12 to 28 that the troops were " occupied in drill,
camp duty, and work on fortifications." The previously
incessant interruptions of the drill, so necessary to prepare
the regiment for service under fire, did not cease. One of
the diaries above mentioned notes " no drill " on ten of the
twenty-nine working days of this period. Whether due to
work on fortifications, bad weather, or other causes, these
interruptions of the essential practice in a soldier's calling
was a misfortune, for, although the regiment did not fail in
any part of its duty in its subsequent service under fire, its
1 95 W. R., 72.

OFFICERS QUARTERS OF COMPANY E AT CITY POINT, VA.

LIEUT. HAVEN LIEUT. HARRIMAN

FRANK P. HARRIMAN, COMPANY CLERK

Order for Consolidation 49
failure to impress a sense of its good quality on the command
ing generals led to an incident in its history which, although
fortunately kept from general knowledge of the regiment at
the time, and arrested before it became a catastrophe, is an
unpleasant one to record. The seeming lack of efficiency in
drill and discipline prevented the commanding generals from
justly estimating the possible value of this stanch body of
men as an organization. The plan for breaking it up, related
below, might not otherwise have been formed, even though
completion of the ten companies was not assured.
Order for Consolidation with Another Regiment
Under date of March 17 1 the itinerary of the Engineer
Brigade records an order which nearly terminated the exis
tence of the regimental organization. The itinerary runs as
follows: " The Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers ordered
to report to commanding officer, Ninth Corps, to be consoli
dated with another regiment from the same state." At
this time there were seven companies in the battalion. This
unhappy order no doubt resulted from the belief of those in
authority that the state would not send out the remaining
three companies to complete the regiment. But the action
was hasty, for the eighth company left New Hampshire for
the front on the day the order was issued, and a week later
the ninth company left Concord for the field, and the tenth
was partly recruited. There is no doubt that recruiting for
these companies would have proceeded at a more rapid rate
if there had been a field officer of the regiment in New Hamp
shire to direct and promote it, but the regulation of the War
Department that no officer should leave the field for recruit
ing service was inflexible against the efforts which were made
in this direction. January 17, when the colonel was appointed,
Governor Gilmore requested the War Department to order
1 95 W. R. 73.

50 Order for Consolidation
him to report for duty in New Hampshire, " to assist in the
completion of the recruitment " of the regiment. The reply,
January 23, was " the regulations of the War Department
will not admit of the grant of your request, but upon
notification from you that the regiment is full to the mini
mum, Captain [Major] Livermore will be discharged to accept
the colonelcy thereof." March 10 Colonel Livermore, who
was then serving in the field as acting assistant inspector-
general of the Second Army Corps, requested leave of absence
for twenty days to assist in the completion of the regiment;
but, although his application was approved by General Hum
phreys, commanding the corps, and by the inspector-general
of the Army of the Potomac, General Meade replied by his
adjutant-general March 14:
" While the commanding general has every confidence in the
zeal and ability of Major Livermore, and would desire to
further the object proposed, he cannot grant him leave for
this purpose without violating an established rule, to which
no exception can be made. He will, however, take great
pleasure in forwarding to the adjutant-general, with his favor
able opinion, any communication Major Livermore may please
to make to the governor of New Hampshire in regard to the
completion of this regiment."
It was impossible to believe that in three days after the date
of this reply its author could have knowingly issued the order
to break up the regiment above referred to. Fortunately
Colonel Livermore, having learned of the order on a visit
to General Benham's headquarters March 19, was able in
this emergency to avail himself of his acquaintance at the
headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Going there at
once, with the support of Col. R. N. Batchelder, chief quarter
master of the army (formerly quartermaster of the First
New Hampshire Volunteers), he obtained the assurance that
the order should be revoked from the adjutant-general, who
stated that he had issued it without realizing the identity of

The Assault on Fort Stedman 51
the regiment with that referred to in General Meade's reply
of March 14. This will explain the change of intention
recorded in the following reports of General Parke, command
ing the Ninth Corps, March 20 :*
" The Eighteenth New Hampshire battalion has arrived
[on the 19th], and as soon as report of strength is received
the name of another New Hampshire regiment will be sub
mitted for consolidation."
And again, March 27 : 2
" All of Hartranft's regiments are now relieved and in
reserve except one. This I propose having relieved to
night by the Eighteenth New Hampshire, which I have pro
posed assigning to Willcox's division instead of consolidating
with the Sixth New Hampshire, as was suggested some days
ago." This terminated the project of consolidation.
The Assault on Fort Stedman
Early in March the situation of the Confederate Army at
Richmond and Petersburg was so precarious, that, at a
conference between President Davis and General Lee, it was
determined to retire from Virginia and to endeavor to unite
with Johnston's army, and with the combined force to fall on
Sherman's army (which was then marching northward through
the Carolinas), in the effort to defeat that army before Grant
could come to its relief, and then carry on the war in the
interior of the Confederacy; but it was necessary to delay the
project for the settling of the roads and also to accumulate
supplies and to improve the condition of the horses.
A week or two later an assault was made on Fort Stedman
in the hope of drawing Grant's troops away from his left
flank, and thus averting the impending danger of a movement
from that flank against the Southside Railroad until the
1 97 W. R., 54. 2 97 W. R., 204.

52 Assignment of Eighteenth N . H. Volunteers
season was suitable for the Confederate retreat.1 Fort
Stedman was about one hundred and fifty yards from the
Confederate line, and the pickets were at this point only
fifty yards apart.2 About half Lee's army was massed oppo
site this fort,1 and just before daylight, on March 25, this
force rushed across the ground between the lines and carried
Fort Stedman and a portion of the lines on either flank of
it; but during the morning it was driven out with large loss
by the Ninth Corps, from which the works had been captured.
The Eighteenth New Hampshire marched to the front March
18, and until the 25th had lain in camp near the
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, on the ground in rear of,
and overlooking, Fort Morton in this portion of the lines.
When the enemy attacked Fort Stedman the Eighteenth
New Hampshire was moved up to support the Eleventh
Massachusetts Battery, which, posted in Fort Friend, poured
a fierce fire into the enemy.
Assignment of Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers
to Third Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps
The regiment remained in rear of the Union line until
March 27, when it was ordered into Fort Stedman. At this
time it became a part of the Third Brigade, First Division,
Ninth Army Corps, then commanded by Col. Gilbert P.
Robinson, Third Maryland Infantry, and composed of the
Third Maryland Infantry, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts
Volunteers, Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, Fifty-
ninth Massachusetts Volunteers, Fourteenth New York
Heavy Artillery, One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volun
teers.3 This brigade was holding Fort Stedman and Bat
teries 10, 11, and 12 when the above-mentioned assault
was made. It was censured in General Meade's General
1 Rise and Fall of the Confed. Gov., Vol. 2, 648, 649, 652. 2 95 W R
316. 3 95 W. R., 331, 342.

The Engagement of March 29-80, 1864 53
Orders No. 13 of the next day,1 in the statement that the
enemy had succeeded in breaking through the lines and
capturmg the works, " through the reprehensible want of
vigilance of the Third Brigade, First Division, Ninth Corps."
General Parke, the commander of the Ninth Army Corps,
immediately requested that this clause should be stricken out
of the order as incorrect in fact, and stated that while the
distance between the lines was so slight that the small force
on its extended front could hold in check a large mass of troops
only for a few moments in the night when they could not be
seen by troops on the right and left, " Fort Stedman, the
only inclosed work taken, was not surprised, but overwhelmed
after a sturdy resistance. It was surrounded on all sides." 2
General Meade promptly suppressed the order.3 Its error
was afterwards made more apparent by the reports of both
the Union and Confederate commanders and the congratula
tory order issued by Gen. O. B. Willcox, the commander of
the division.4
The Confederates made their attack of the 25th none
too soon, for, on the 24th, General Grant had issued
orders for the concentration of a large part of the army
on its left flank for the final campaign.5 This concentra
tion, undelayed by the attack on Fort Stedman, was
made on the 29th, and it was made so secretly that General
Lee remained ignorant of it for several days.
The Engagement of March 29-30, 1864
The advance of the Union Army moved out beyond the left
of its entrenchments and towards the Southside Railroad
on the 29th of March, and, although Lee, remaining unaware
of the concentration above mentioned, was not warned that
the Union Army had begun its final movement against his
1 97 W. R., 174. 2 97 W. R., 206, 232. 3 97 W. R., 232. 4 Rise and
Fall of the Confed. Gov., 650. 5 95 W. R., 50.

54 The Engagement of March 29-30, 186 J,.
line of communication with the south, he, alive to all chances,
projected a portion of his army from his right flank in a
vigorous attack on the Union advance. That night the
artillery and pickets in the Confederate lines directly in front
of Petersburg opened and maintained an active fire on the
opposing lines occupied by the Ninth Corps.1 The Eighteenth
New Hampshire, — a few in the picket line, a portion of
Company A, stationed in Fort Stedman, and the remainder
of the battalion in the trenches extending from that fort to
the right, — exchanged a rapid fire with the opposing force.
It was under the heaviest of the fire, and suffered the loss of
Major Brown, killed, and Lieutenent-Colonel Clough, and
Privates Harris J. Groff of Company F and Andrew Mc
Donald of Company C, wounded March 29, and Private
Daniel A. Webster of Company B killed on the 30th.
General Willcox, commander of the division, in his report
of this action said:
" About 10.30 o'clock [March 29], the enemy threw up
signal rockets and opened a heavy fire along my whole
front. The artillery fire in front of the First Brigade
was concentrated on Fort Morton, that in front of the
Third Brigade, on Fort Stedman. At the same time the
enemy poured [a fire] on us with infantry from his main works.
They also advanced a line as far as the skirmish pits on front
of the left of the Third Brigade near the Norfolk Railroad
bridge. The pickets fought them their best, but were tem
porarily driven in at this point. The enemy's further advance
was checked by the fire from our main works. At 11 the
enemy's artillery ceased for a few minutes, and I appre
hended an assault, but our fire kept up vigorously, both
artillery and musketry, no part of the line being driven out
or silenced by this the heaviest fire of all arms combined I
have ever known from the enemy on this line. Great credit
is clue to the troops for their steadiness. The casualties are 51,
viz.: 9 killed, 40 wounded, and 2 missing. Among the
killed is the major of the Eighteenth New Hampshire, and
1 97 W. R., 261, 263, 264, 274, 1362.

Major William I. Brown 55
among the wounded is the Lieut.-Col. J. M. Clough of the same
regiment. The attack was kept up till 12.30 a.m., when it
fell off into desultory musketry, and so continued till morn
ing." 1
During the first period of firing mentioned by General
Willcox, a portion of the pickets from other regiments in front
of the works held by the Eighteenth ran in and reported that
they had been driven from their trenches by the enemy's
advance, and that the latter were forming for an attack on
that part of the works. Major Brown constantly moved
back and forth behind the regimental line, overlooking the
men and encouraging and directing them. His constant
caution to the men was to " Fire low." During the cessation
of the enemy's artillery fire, mentioned by General Willcox,
Major Brown, in company with officers of the general's staff,
warned the command that an assault by the enemy was
expected, and ordered that the fire should be vigorously
continued. Soon afterward, while standing at the breast
works, head and shoulders above them, face to the front,
giving directions to Captain Greenough, who stood beside him,
Major Brown was killed by a Confederate bullet, which struck
him in the forehead. Major William I. Brown
William Ide Brown, son of John S. and Deborah (Ide)
Brown, was born in Attleboro, Mass., August 27, 1839.
The family removed to Fisherville (now Penacook), N. H.,
in 1843. He prepared for college at the New London
Literary and Scientific Institution, graduating from that
academy in 1858, and entered Brown University, Provi
dence, R. I., in the fall of that year. His intention was to
enter the ministry upon the completion of his studies, but
the call for volunteers in the summer of 1862 was so
1 97 W. R., 318.

56 Major William I. Brown
urgent that he gave up his plans and began recruiting for
the Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and on the
organization of the regiment he was commissioned second
lieutenant in Company K, his commission being dated August
10, 1862.
On March 1, 1863, he was made first lieutenant and trans
ferred to Company B. November 1, 1863, he was appointed
adjutant, and held that office while he remained with the
regiment. He was an active participant in the campaigns of
the regiments until the fall of 1864, when he came home on
furlough and was appointed major of the Eighteenth Regi
ment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and commissoned as such
October 13, 1864.
When Major Brown joined the battalion at City Point,
although he was a stranger to nearly all its members, his
excellent record of prior service had created a very favorable
impression of him in the command. His personal appearance
and manner were in his favor. Although below the medium
stature, he was of good and erect figure and of a fine soldierly
bearing. He had large and very expressive gray eyes, firm
features, and brown hair and beard. In bearing, speech, and
face he manifested a strong, clean, and manful character.
His quiet dignity in dealing with all under his command
impressed itself on officers and men. During the short time
in which he commanded the battalion in Colonel Clough's
absence, Major Brown was untiring in his efforts to perfect
Its discipline and drill. Schools for military instruction of
commissioned, as well as one for non-commissioned officers,
were held, and careful attention was given to drill of the
battalion and company in line and as skirmishers, and to
target practice as far as the other work would allow. In a
very short time every officer and man saw that a thorough
soldier was in command. He used few words, but it was
apparent that he saw everything.
Off duty his bearing towards his officers was friendly and

Wa

MAJ. WM. I. BROWN,
EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS

Events, March SO to April 1 57
dignified. His soldierly qualities and careful attention to
all details became conspicuous in the tour of duty in front of
Petersburg December 10, and again in the Bermuda Hundred
lines, where he was in command of the battalion. He im
proved all the opportunities given by sendee in these tours
of duty to harden the battalion and fit it for further service
in front of the enemy. His conduct during his last night was
conspicuously characteristic of him. From twilight until
his end came, he was alert, energetic, cool, and attentive to
everything that could strengthen the defense against the
expected assault, and from the beginning of active hostilities,
at 10 o'clock, until 11.30, when he fell, he was constantly
moving along the line and encouraging every one to do the
best that was in him. His death terminated the military
career of a volunteer of the best type, who, if he had survived
to enjoy the peace which came so soon, could not have failed
to fill a high place in civil life.
Events, March 30 to April 1
Sheridan's cavalry having reached Dinwiddie Courthouse,
several miles beyond the right of the Confederate intrench
ments and about eight miles south of the Southside Railroad,
and the Second and Fifth corps having extended from the
left flank of the Union's lines at Hatcher's Run out into the
intervening country, all these troops moved forward on
the 30th. The cavalry gained several miles with a slight en
gagement, and the Second and Fifth corps held their
ground against the renewed attack of the enemy in a
severe engagement.
Orders were issued, March 30, for an assault on the 31st,
by the Sixth, Ninth, and Twenty-fourth corps, on the
Confederate works between Hatcher's Run and the Appo
mattox. This was in anticipation of the withdrawal of a
part of the force from those works for extension westward

58 The Battle at Petersburg
to meet the Union movement above noted, but the absence
of conclusive evidence of such withdrawal and a heavy rain
on the 30th led to a revocation of these orders.1
On the 31st Sheridan, again moving northward, en
countered the enemy's cavalry and five infantry brigades
under Pickett, and was forced back to Dinwiddie Courthouse.
On the 1st of April Sheridan's cavalry and the Fifth Corps
moving northward attacked Pickett's infantry and the
Confederate cavalry in their works at Five Forks, defeating
and routing them, and on the same day the Second Corps
seized the White Oak Road to prevent Lee from reenforcing
the force in Sheridan's front by that road, and made repeated
attempts to find a vulnerable spot in the enemy's intrenched
line for an assault to prevent Lee from abandoning his works
and marching to fall on Sheridan's force.
The Battle at Petersburg, April 1-3, 1865
On April 1 the orders were renewed for an assault at
Petersburg on the morning of the 2d, and on receipt of
the news of Sheridan's victory at Five Forks, mentioned
below, artillery and skirmish fire was at once opened from
the Union works on the Petersburg front, to develop the
strength and preparation of the enemy in the opposite
works, with a view to the earliest possible assault on the
latter.2 General Parke directed that on the Ninth Corps front the
assault should be made on the works in front of Fort Sedg
wick by the Second and Third Divisions and the First Bri
gade of the First Division, and that the other two brigades of
the First Division, including that of which the Eighteenth
New Hampshire was a part, should be held in the lines ready
to advance upon the enemy's works on receipt of orders.3
The assault was made at about 4.30 on the morning of
1 97 W. R., 285, 315, 321, 325, 371. 2 95 W. R., 603, 1015, 1016,
97 W. R., 394-397. 3 97 W. R., 429.

The Battle at Petersburg 59
April 2. The forces on the left of the Ninth Corps carried
the enemy's works, cut their army in two, and captured or
dispersed the western portion. The Ninth Corps carried the
works in front of Fort Sedgwick and held them, but the Con
federates here opposed a fierce resistance to the capture of
the city, which would have opened the way for the Union
Army to cut off the retreat to the south of the Confederate
Government and the forces in Richmond. The battle raged
on this front all day long.
The part taken by that portion of the division including the
Eighteenth New Hampshire is narrated in the report of 1
the division commander, General Willcox, as follows:
" I was directed to make a vigorous demonstration along
my whole division line with the rest of my troops at the
same hour.
" The demonstrations ordered along the line began precisely
at four. Some of the enemy's picket pits were captured
near the old crater by Colonel Bolton [commanding Fifty-first
Pennsylvania Volunteers]. The pickets of the Third and
Second Brigades, strongly reenforced, advanced handsomely,
the artillery opened vigorously, and large portions [of the
enemy] were drawn down to oppose what they considered a
real attack in force. . . . Through the clay offensive opera
tions were kept up and the batteries playing in aid of the
more serious work of the day going on farther on our left.
In the afternoon and evening the enemy strengthened their
line opposite me."
Col. James Bintliff, Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry,2 in
his report as commander of the Third Brigade of Willcox's
division, said that on the night of April 1 preparations were
made for assaulting the enemy's positions opposite Fort
Stedman, and that one hundred men of the Third Maryland,
supported by the One Hundredth Pennsylvania, advanced
and attacked, and that " at 11 a.m. it was resolved to again
attempt the enemy's line, with a view of at least retaining the
troops then facing us in their position, and two companies
1 95 W. R., 1039. 2 95 W. R., 1050.

60 The Battle at Petersburg
of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers were advanced
against the works on the [our] right of Spring Hill, receiving
a strong fire and stopping the further weakening of the line
on our front."
Lieutenant-Colonel Clough, in his report 1 of the action, said :
" In the demonstrations made upon the enemy's lines by the
Third Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, on the
1st and 2d inst., Captain Greenough and one enlisted man
were wounded in the trenches and four wounded in a line of
skirmishers thrown out on the 2d inst."
Captain Greenough was wounded in passing over the para
pet of the fort with Companies A, B, and D, which had been
placed under his command as an advance party for an assault,
which was later countermanded. This was at about 4 a.m.,
April 2, and was incident to the demonstrations mentioned
by General Willcox in the passage above quoted. Privates
Clarendon H. Cochran of Company B and Stephen B. Bart
lett of Company A were wounded at the same time. The
last advance mentioned by Colonel Brintliff as occurring at
11 a.m., April 2, was made by the skirmish line of the Eight
eenth, supported by three companies under Captain Potter.
In this advance Private Wilfrid Barker of Company G was
killed and Privates Chester Bailey and Eben C. Chase of
Company C were wounded. Major Potter writes :
" We were to move at a signal and go forward till we drew
the rebel fire, and retreat on a signal to be given. We got the
signal and promptly moved out over the open field between
the two lines till the enemy opened fire, when we were
recalled by the signal."
Capt. W. S. Greenough was promoted to brevet-
major " for gallantry " ' in this action, and General Parke,
commander of the Ninth Corps, recommended that " for con
spicuous gallantry — bringing off from the picket line under
a heavy fire a comrade [Cochran of Company B] who had
1 95 W. R., 1053. 2 95 W. R., 1024.

CAPT. ELIAS F. SMITH, COMPANY B
CAPT. JOHN O. WALLINGFORD, COMPANY C

CAPT. WM. S. GREENOUGH, COMPANY D
CAPT. WM. A. GILE, COMPANY E

Private Barker 61
been shot through both legs," J — the medal of honor should
be given to Privates John Wilder Boutwell and Carlton N.
Camp of Company B." Private Barker
Concerning the manful manner in which death was met by
Wilfrid Barker of Company G, Major Potter writes:
" When I placed the men on the skirmish line, I cautioned
them to keep down in the trench which connected the picket
stations, and not expose themselves till ordered to move.
On my way to the right of the line, after placing the men, as
I was passing Barker he raised himself up in the trench, and
I heard him give a sigh and saw he was hit. As I was walking
erect and was exposed above my hips, the shot must have been
intended for me, for he was exposed only an instant and I
was only a step or two from him. I directed the men in the
regular picket station to go to him. They reported to me
afteiwards that they went to him to bring him behind the
station, which was as high as the head; that he declined to
move, said he was going to die, and wanted to die right there.
He gave them the address of his people at home, and told
them how to dispose of his effects ; told them to set him up in
the trench, and to tell his friends that he ' died with his face to
the enemy.' Later his comrades bore him to a hospital in
the rear where he expired."
Colonel Clough gives the following account of events
occurring later on April 2 : An aid of General Willcox
brought Colonel Clough the message that the general, believ
ing that the enemy had abandoned the works in front of those
held by the Eighteenth New Hampshire, directed that the
regiment should go forward to occupy them at 4 p.m. Colonel
Clough requested leave to first send forward a skirmish line
to draw the fire of the enemy if they still held their works,
which was granted;, whereupon about fifteen men, from dif
ferent companies, were sent forward under Captain Farmer.
The rest of the command was formed in line behind the works,
1 95 W. R., 1032.

62 The Battle at Petersburg
ready to move forward, and Colonel Clough stood on top of
the works to give the signal to go forward with a handkerchief,
which he held in hand. The skirmish line drew on itself a
fierce fire from the enemy in their works in front. This
induced General Willcox's aid to countermand the order for
the advance. If it had been made, the command would
inevitably have suffered great loss.
On the morning of April 3, shortly after midnight, it was
discovered by members of the Third Brigade of Willcox's
division that the Confederates had abandoned their works,
and soon afterwards the brigade marched through Peters
burg, and then, crossing the Appomattox, moved northward
towards Richmond on the turnpike, about two miles, and
camped at Violet Bank, where it remained until April 4.1
The battles as seen from the ranks are outlined in the
following narratives. Hale Chadwick writes:
" On the night of March 29 another attempt was made to
capture Fort Stedman, which failed, and our regiment must
have the credit for the victory. . . . Towards midnight the
firing began, and every man to his post was the order. The
enemy's artillery from in front, and from the forts and bat
teries to the right and left, was concentrated upon our position
in Stedman, also a heavy fire of musketry; a storm of missiles
filled the air with their music of death, unseen, except the
mortar shells, whose flight could be traced by their trail of fire
from the burning fuse as they came circling over from the
rebel batteries, some bursting in the air and scattering their
deadly fragments around, others striking the ground before
exploding. . . . Webster of Co. B was killed by a piece of
shell. ... So many pieces of artillery being in action with
the musketry fire, the report of a single gun could not be dis
tinguished — it was one continuous roar. ... I assisted as a
volunteer in carrying ammunition from the ravine [in the rear]
to the men in the lines. Sergeant-Major Wheeler had a few
men in charge detailed for this purpose. . . . The fire that
swept the space between the ravine and the fort was very
heavy — musketry, mortar shells, and shot from their rifled
'95 W. R., 1051.

The Battle at Petersburg 63
guns hissed and screamed through the air, or tore up the
ground. It hardly seemed possible to cross without being
killed. At this time our men were getting short of cartridges,
and it was feared that if their ammunition gave out the
enemy would break the lines. They made several attempts
to charge, but were repulsed each time, with heavy loss.
Our musketry fire, the guns of Stedman, Haskell, Batteries
10, 11, and 12, with the fire from the forts on the hills in
the rear, which were sending shot and shell over our heads into
the enemy's ranks, was something no body of men, however
brave, could face without being annihilated. . . . April 2 a
general attack was made along the whole line, and General
Lee's army was withdrawn from their defenses outflanked.
. . . April 3 we went through the Confederate works and
the city of Petersburg. I have now some trophies that I
took from their quarters there, — paper Confederate money
and a furlough given to Moses Klutts of the Fifty-seventh
North Carolina Regiment, signed by company, regimental,
brigade and division commanders and by order of General
Lee. Reason given why he should have the furlough was that
he was a tanner by trade, had hides in the vats, and had sold
leather to soldiers' families at reduced prices. Approved for
fifteen days."
Mr. James Lovitt of Company H writes:
[Company H left New Hampshire March 23 for Galloupe's
Island, Boston Harbor, and for City Point, where it took train
to the front, arriving there March 30.] " That night [March
30] we lay back of Fort Stedman. The next day we had our
arms and ammunition, and we went through the drill of load
ing and firing. We could see the Johnnys' [familiar designation
tor the Confederates] lines, and that night about nine or ten
o'clock they struck in and we heard the shells going like the old
deuce, and the sky was all red. Our captain yelled, ' Fall in.'
We jumped around and got into line, and up we went through
Fort Stedman to the breastworks. We were ordered to
load and fire as fast as we could. Then it set in to rain, and
we lay there all night in the wet. Our knapsacks and blankets
were back of the fort. All day Sunday [April 2] there was
heavy firing on our left, and on that day we were going to
charge and orders were to ' Fix bayonets ' [the charge was

64 The Battle at Petersburg
not ordered]. Then the picket line had charge and the Johnnys
cracked away. All Sunday night we could see the Johnnys
going back and forth, and early Monday morning our lines
started after them."
The diary of Mr. N. Addison Parker of Company B runs as
follows :
" March 30. Very dark night. Rebs flashed through
our picket line, formed a line of battle between our pickets
and our line of works. We opened fire on them. . . . Com
pany H reported with us amid the battle.
" March 31. We were put into a line to make a charge on
their line of works. There were twenty of our pickets ad
vanced. Cochran was shot through near the hips. [This
happened April 1.] Boutwell and Carlton Camp went out
from the picket line, and dragged him in amid their hail of
bullets. These three were Company B boys.
" April 1. Shelling all night.
" April 2. Companies A and B taken out for a charge.
Captain Potter was to command. . . . Finally Lieutenant
Farmer went around with us, but we were too late for any
service. " April 3. Our pickets advanced in the night and took their
line of works. Their troops had left."
It was a severe trial of the men of Company H to put them
in battle on the day after they were armed, and their good
conduct is most convincing evidence of their stanchness and
courage. The failure of the authorities to confer medals of honor on
Privates Boutwell and Camp contrasts strangely with the
later generous distribution of these medals, which continues
after thirty-nine years. It is for deeds like theirs that the
British Government confers the Victoria Cross.
The experience of the Eighteenth in the fort and trenches
during the seven days, March 27 to April 3, was a very trying
one for new soldiers. The main works, which were made of
heavy earth embankments revetted by logs, .gave protection
against direct fire, but the fragments of shells bursting over-

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The Battle at Petersburg 65
head were sometimes deadly, while from the mortar shells
which were thrown over and dropped vertically behind the
works there was no protection outside the bomb proofs, the
shelter of which could not always be taken. As has been
stated above, Fort Stedman was only about one hundred
and fifty yards from the main line of the enemy's works,
and at this distance it was dangerous to expose a hand above
the parapet. The pits or earthworks behind which the
pickets kept watch were only fifty yards from the enemy's
picket lines, and at this close range the men, during their tour
of picket duty, had to lie close behind their shelters. These
picket pits or works could be approached in daylight only
by the zigzag ditches leading to them from shelter in their
rear, which had been dug for that purpose. Without warn
ing, day and night, storms of shells and bullets flew over the
lines, grazing the tops of the works and scattering fragments
among the men who were lying behind them, or, dropping
vertically behind the works, exploded there. At all times the
pickets had to keep every sense alert to detect the first sign
of a rush of the enemy across the narrow space between the
works, and at night, when darkness distorted and magnified
every object, this watch was a trying one. In truth, it was
only the intrepid and calm spirit, characteristic of American
soldiers, that averted a thousand false alarms, which the
tension of such a situation might have provoked with men
of a different type. The conduct of the Eighteenth in the
works at this time, as inexperienced as it was in the trade of
war, was a creditable chapter in the history of New Hampshire
soldiers. By order of the War Department the names of the following
engagements were placed upon the colors of regiment :
Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865.
Attack on Petersburg, April 2, 1865.
Capture of Petersburg, April 3, 1865.

66 A Story of President Lincoln
General Meade's order of April 3, for the march westward to
pursue and cut off the retreating Confederates, directed that
a division of the Ninth Corps should occupy Petersburg and
guard the railroad depots.1 Willcox's division performed this
duty two days, and then moved along the Southside Railroad,
following the rest of the army, until April 9, leaving detach
ments to guard the railroad, until the division stretched from
Sutherland's Station to Blacks and Whites Station, a distance
of twenty-five miles. The headquarters of the regiment
during this period was at Ford's Station, near which it was
when Lee's army surrendered at Appomattox Court House
seventy miles ahead, and remained until April 20 2 upon
guard against renewed movements of Confederates still at
large, and repressing pillaging by friend and foe.
A Story of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was at City Point during the momentous
period of March 24 to April 7.1 An incident then occurred
which deserves to be permanently recorded among the many
in the life of that great patriot which sprang from the kind
ness and sympathy of his great soul and the unaffected
simplicity of his character. That a living member of the
Eighteenth was a witness, and now tells the story, is the
warrant for inserting it in this history. Major Greenough
who, as above related, was wounded April 2, was carried to
the hospital at City Point nine miles in the rear. Following
his description of the hospital below is the story as written
by him.
The hospital buildings were of uniform size and construc
tion, placed equi-distant from each other on both sides of,
and "end to," a wide open way or avenue; in size about
twenty by eighty feet, with end and side walls of pine logs
1 97 W. R., 96, 508, 640.
2 95 W. R., 1019, 1041, 1051; 97 W. R., 608, 651, 833.

A Story of President Lincoln 67
placed in the ground in upright position, the logs of the side
walls being sawed off at a height of about eight feet from the
ground, capped and bound together by hewn plates. Lighter
logs formed the rafters of the sloping roof, over which frame
work a covering of cotton cloth was tightly drawn, affording
an excellent interior light. In the side walls were a few
small windows and one in each gable end for purposes of
ventilation. The floors were of rough pine boards. In the center of
each end of the building was a door, — not generous in dimen
sion, — and from door to door ran the main passageway or
aisle. On either side of this main aisle were placed the
narrow iron cots, sixty in all to each building. Major Green
ough writes:
" In the first of the long row of buildings, the one
known as the ' officers' ward,' there were, on the after
noon of April 2, 1865, sixty officers of the Ninth Corps, all
of whom had been wounded in the Fort Stedman fight of
March 25, or in the operations on the Petersburg lines of
April 1 and 2. As one entered the building from the main
avenue there lay in the first cot of the right-hand row a young
officer in whom all the other occupants of the building (who
were not too much engrossed in their own troubles) were
deeply interested, Capt. Charles H. Houghton of the Four
teenth New York Heavy Artillery. Captain Houghton had
borne a highly distinguished part in the daybreak fight at
Fort Stedman, and, later in the morning, in the heroic defense
of Fort Haskell, where he received three severe wounds.
Two of these wounds had been received very early in the
action, but the captain had resolutely refused to leave his
command until Gordon's Confederates had all been killed,
captured, or driven back, Fort Stedman retaken, and our
lines reestablished. His splendid bravery had been highly
commended by his superior officers, and for it he was pro
moted by the President to the rank of brevet-major.
" When placed in the next cot to Major Houghton's, late in
the afternoon of April 2, I was familiar with the story of his
bravery, — as were most of the men of our division, — and,

68 A Story of President Lincoln
so long as life lasts, shall I be thankful for the privilege of a
fortnight's study of his patience, modesty, cheerfulness,
and heroism. , Major Houghton's age was probably about
twenty-two or twenty-three. About six feet in height, and
slender, with classic features, very black hair and large black
eyes, he was a noble-looking young soldier. He had suffered
amputation of the left leg, — above the knee, — and, in con
sequence, was extremely pale, his life, indeed, was thought
to hang by a thread, and the first inquiry in the morning
and throughout the day from the occupants of the cots was,
' How is Houghton? Will he pull through? '
" It happened that my injury necessitated lying on my
left side, and so, separated as our cots were, by little more
than an arm's length, I was privileged to watch, to study, to
pity, and to love this man. On the night of the 6th of April,
there came a serious crisis in Houghton's case through a
secondary hemorrhage of an artery of the amputated limb.
Surgeons and nurses worked until daylight to assuage the
flowing lifeblood. All in the ward were deeply interested,
and there was many a sigh of relief from his companions
when, in the early morning, word went down the line of cots
that the artery had been ' taken up,' and there was yet ground
for hope. About nine o'clock of the following forenoon the
door — which I lay facing — opened, and from the surgeon
in charge of the corps hospitals — Dr. McDonald — came the
command, 'Attention: the President of the United States.'
To myself, and probably to most of us, this was unexpected,
for we had not known that President Lincoln had been
visiting the army.
" Raising my eyes to the doorway, I had my first sight of
the President, and it was not an impressive one ! His clothes
were travel-stained, ill fitting, and very dusty; his hat was an
immensely exaggerated type of the ' stove-pipe "' variety ;
his neckwear was awry, and his face showed pressing need
of the services of a barber. In short, his whole appearance
seemed to justify the caricaturists of those days in their
worst cartoons.
" Unescorted, except by the surgeon, the President, bow
ing his tall form to enter the low doorway, stepped in, turned
a step or two to the right and, tenderly placing his hand on
Houghton's forehead, stood for an instant looking into his

The Completion of the Regiment 69
face; then, bending down to the low cot, — as a mother would
to her child, — he kissed Houghton's white cheek.
" In voice so tender and so low that only my near prox
imity enabled me to hear, he began to talk to him, telling him
how he had heard from Dr. McDonald all the story of his
bravery in battle, his heroic fight for life and quiet cheerful
ness in hospital, and of the sad happening of the night.
" Poor Houghton could only reply with faint smiles and
whispers that were too low to reach my ears, but Mr. Lincoln
heard, and a smile came to his grave face. Turning to the
surgeon the President asked to be shown the major's wounds,
especially the amputated limb. Dr. McDonald tried to dis
suade him by saying the sight, especially after what had just
taken place, would be too shocking. But the President
insisted, turned down the light coverings, and took a hasty
look. Straightening up, with a deep groan of pain, and
throwing up both his long arms, he cried out, ' Oh, this
awful, awful war!' Then bending again to Houghton with
the tears cutting wide furrows down his dust-stained cheeks,
and with great sobs shaking him, he exclaimed, ' Poor boy!
Poor boy! You must live! You must!' This time the major's
whispered answer, ' I intend to, sir,' was just audible. (And
here let me say in parenthesis — he did live, many long and
useful years.) With a tender parting handstroke and a
' God bless you, my boy,' the President moved to the next
cot in line, and to the next, and soon down the right and
back on the left side of the ward, with a warm handclasp and
a simple, kind, fatherly word for each one. Then he passed
out the same door he had entered perhaps fifteen or twenty
minutes before.
" But for us it was a different place — we had seen there
the soul of our chief.
"Decoration Day, 1904."

The Completion of the Regiment
Company I left New Hampshire March 23 and joined the
regiment April 12. The recruitment of the Tenth Company
(K) had lagged excessively, it was mustered into service
at Concord April 6, and was immediately moved to Gallops

70 The Completion of the Regiment
Island in Boston Harbor, where, in consequence of Lee's
surrender, it was detained until it was apparent that there
was no need to send more soldiers to the field, and then was
mustered out May 6.
Colonel Livermore had remained upon the staff of General
Humphreys, commanding the Second Corps, and had taken
part in the various actions of that corps during the final
campaign, including the battle of Farmville, April 7, at the
close of which, judging that Lee's army had made its last
fight, he rode back fifty miles to Ford's Station and was
mustered into the Eighteenth, and took command April 9,
relieving Lieutenent-Colonel Clough. On this day, at Appo
mattox Courthouse, seventy miles west of the ground occu
pied by the Eighteenth, the final act in the great conflict
between the armies in Virginia took place in the surrender of
Lee's army. The regiment was then scattered by companies
along the Southside Railroad for a mile or more at and near
Ford's Station. Up to this time there had been little, if
any, chance to impart the knowledge of drill or exact disci
pline to the regiment, owing to the protracted assembling of
the companies in the field, labor on roads and fortifications,
arduous and frequent marches, and duty in the trenches
before the enemy, which had occupied the time of the com
mand from the arrival of the first five companies at City Point,
and it is to be confessed that on the 9th of April the command
was far from perfect in drill, discipline, and the routine and
eitquette of military duty, and that its arms were dirty and
its clothes ragged. But the stress of active hostilities having
ceased, the opportunity to give attention to these particulars
was seized, and the regiment soon manifested the beneficial
effect of instruction, drill, and inspection, which from this
time were the regular features of every day not devoted to
marches. April 15 the news of the assassination of President Lincoln
reached the regiment. With the great grief which the event

CHARLES WILSON, COMPANY I THOS. M. LEAR, COMPANY I
M. A. NORTHROP, COMPANY K
ANDREW J. CANNEY, COMPANY H EDWIN E. MAXFIELD, COMPANY H

The Return to Washington 71
brought to every man in the army, there came a deep resent
ment against the Confederates, for, at first, it was naturally
supposed that the deed was to be laid to them. Although this
suspicion was dispelled by the evidence which was made
public at a later day, the influence of it for a long time uncon
sciously repressed the cordiality with which the men of the
Union Army were at first disposed to welcome the return of
the Confederates to the privileges of citizenship in the Union.
The Return to Washington
April 19 General Grant sent the following order to General
Meade by telegraph:
Send the Ninth Army Corps to Washington as rapidly as their places
can be filled by such troops as you may designate to take their place.
Let the shipment of such as can be spared before their places are filled
be commenced at once.1
The corps marched for City Point April 20,2 and embarked
on steamers April 21-25.3 The purpose was to send the corps
to North Carolina, where the Confederate Army, under John
ston, was supposed still to oppose Sherman's. In fact, General
Sherman on the 18th had agreed with General Johnston
upon terms for the surrender of the latter's command, but
the news of this did not reach Washington until the 20th,4
and on the 21st President Johnson disapproved of the
terms, and orders were issued for the renewal of active
operations against Johnston's army. On the 26th of April,
Sherman and Johnston made the final agreement for sur
render, and the plan of sending the Ninth Army Corps to
North Carolina was abandoned.
On the march back from Ford's Station to City Point,
which the Eighteenth made April 20 and 21, the regiment
passed over the battlefield of Sutherland's Station, and there
197W.R., 832. 297W. R., 864. 3 95 W. R., 112; 97 W. R., 876, 893.
MOO W. R-, 257.

72 The Return to Washington
gathered enough of the arms which lay scattered on the field
to make good on its return those which had been lost or
injured. At City Point the regiment embarked on the steamer
United States in the evening of April 21, and was trans
ported on her to Alexandria, reaching there on the 23d,
and camping near Camp California of 1862, remained there
until the 26th, on which day it marched to Tennallytown,
D. C. The marches were greatly lightened by the excellent
marching music of the band, a feature which commanding
officers in the Army of the Potomac rarely employed.
. At Tennallytown, the regiment settled down to a routine of
drill, discipline, inspections, and reviews, ameliorated by such
indulgences in the way of furloughs for visits to the capital
as could be safely granted, and by the unaccustomed luxuries
in food, shelter, and clothing, which the proximity to markets
and quartermaster's and commissary's depots allowed. As
all the Confederate armies north of Texas had laid down their
arms, and there seemed to be no probability of any further
active service in the field, it was not apparent to the rank and
file of the regiment that drill and discipline were necessary any
longer, and it was natural that some should think that they
should not be insisted on. But to those of deeper insight,
it seemed otherwise. The Confederate Army in Texas still
remained a menace to our peace, and across the Rio Grande
the French troops were maintained in direct violation of the
Monroe Doctrine, and such was the danger of hostilities there
on a large scale, that May 17 General Sheridan was assigned
to command west of the Mississippi with an army of about
seventy thousand men, not only to compel the surrender of
the Confederate troops in that region, but also to induce
Maximilian and the French to quit Mexico.1 The chance
that further troops might be sent to Texas, connected with
the persistent rumor that a part of the force about Washing
ton was to be sent there, made it apparent to commanding
1 Sheridan's Memoirs, vol. 2, 208-210.

The Return to Washington 73
officers in the Ninth Corps that it was their duty to put and
maintain the troops in condition for such a call at any hour.
Besides this, the presence of two hundred thousand soldiers
about Washington made it imperative, in the interests of
good order, that the accustomed routine of military life should
not be essentially relaxed. It is a creditable record for the
men of the Eighteenth that in the main they cheerfully and
faithfully conformed to the requirements made of them in
these particulars.
Lieutenant-Colonel Clough was in command from April 29
to May 15, during the disability of Colonel Livermore from an
accident. Soon after the arrival of the Eighteenth at Ten
nallytown, it was selected to alternate with a regiment from
another army corps in tours of four days' duty in guarding
Four and a Half Street, Washington, from Pennsylvania
Avenue to the arsenal, where the court-martial was trying
the conspirators against President Lincoln. It began this
duty May 6, and continued it until June 6 and during the
entire session of the court. The selection of the Eighteenth
out of the great army around Washington, for this impor
tant and conspicuous duty, gave high testimony to the char
acter, discipline, and soldierly appearance of the regiment.
It was the means of preventing it from taking part in the
great final review before the President, for on the day of the
review it was retained on guard. In the general disbandment
of the volunteers, Companies A, B, C, D, E, and F, and Quar
termaster Cate were mustered out of service at Tennallytown
June 10, excepting those members who had enlisted for three
years. Those men were .transferred to the remaining compa
nies, G, H, and I, which were then placed on duty as provost
guard at Georgetown, D. C. They there remained on duty
until July 29, when they were mustered out. They arrived
in Concord August 2, and were disbanded on, and paid to,
August 8. Lieutenant-Colonel Clough and the rest of the
commissioned staff were mustered out July 29.

74

After Muster Out

Colonel Livermore was appointed president of a general
court-martial June 8 by the commander of the First Division,
Ninth Army Corps, and by order of the same commander,
June 15, was assigned to the command of the Third Brigade
of that division. He and Major Potter were mustered out
June 23. Mortality and Health
During the regiment's service, three of its members were
killed in battle, thirty-four died of disease, accidents,
and causes not recorded, and six were discharged for disa
bility. The following is the record on file of the companies at the
front at the end of each month of the regiment's service
(March missing).

Month

Companies

Present

Absent

Present

For Duty
L Sick In arrest
Total
Sick Otherwise and
Absent
October
6
477
23
500
is
41 559
November
6
412
63
475
44
2 521
December
6
373
60
433
87
520
January
6
425
25
450
67
2 519
February
7
487
53
540
63
4 607
April
9
670
9
1
680
106
76 862
May
9
568
60
1
629
124
14 767
1 Including extra and special duty.
After Muster Out
At the close of the Civil War in 1865 the Union army
numbered nearly one million men. The quick disbandment
of this great host and the mingling of its members with the
communities at home in orderly fashion and without disturb
ance, gave demonstration on an unprecedented scale of the
civic virtue of volunteer soldiers. As if their peaceful courses
had not be n interrupted, the fa mer returned to his fields,
the mechanic to his bench, the smith to his forge, and the
clerk to his books. This was true in a notable measure of
the Eighteenth New Hampshire, and it can be said of the
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HENRY C. LOVEJOY, COMPANY E CORP. OI HALL, COMPANY H
After Muster Out 75
young men who had served in it that contentment with life
in New Hampshire was as general with them as it was with
the average men of their age who had not been subjected to
the influence of military life and adventure. The Register
of New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors (published in
1895) records the residence, or decease, in New Hampshire
of 380 of the survivors of the regiment, and in other states,
of 105 of them. With the latter class there probably should
be counted nearly all of the 285 whose residence, not being
given in the Register, presumably was not in New Hamp
shire. (This makes no account of those who deserted before
going to the front, and who, with slight exception, did not
belong in the State at time of enlistment.)
The low ratio of deaths among the members of the regi
ment since muster out, is evidence of strong vitality in the
survivors. In the Register and the minutes of the Regi
mental Association there is record of 306 deaths since
muster out, and without doubt this list is substantially com
plete for all deaths occurring among those whose residence
is recorded in the Register. It includes 104 for whom the
Register gives neither residence nor place of decease, but in
the nature of the case it is not a complete list of this class.
Assuming the ratio of deaths in this class to have been the
same as that in the remainder of the regiment's survivors,
it follows that, all told, 184 have died in this class ; which
gives a total of 386 deaths among 947 men during the thirty-
nine years since muster out, and leaves 60 per cent now
living. It is not improbable that survivors of the regiment will
remain through another thirty years, to inspire the patriot
ism of the coming generation with memories of City Point
and Petersburg, Grant and Lincoln. They, to the last man,
will ever have reason for pride in the patriotic and honor
able service of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers.

76 Previous Service of Officers
Previous Service of Officers
The previous military records of those of the original com
missioned officers and non-commissioned staff officers of the
regiment who had served before were as follows :
colonel livermore
Private, First New Hampshire Volunteers, June 24 to
August 9, 1861. First sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieu
tenant, captain, major, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers, ,
October 12, 1861, to April 7, 1865, brevetted lieutenant-
colonel, and colonel to date from April 7, 1865. Served in
1863 on the staffs of Generals Hancock, Hayes, and Warren,
commanding the Second Army Corps; in 1864 on the staffs
of General Hincks, commanding Third Division, Eighteenth
Army Corps; and Generals Smith, Martindale, and Ord,
commanding Eighteenth Army Corps ; and in 1864-5 on the
staffs of Generals Hancock and Humphreys, commanding
the Second Army Corps.
lieutenant-colonel clough
First lieutenant, First New Hampshire Volunteers, April
26 to August 9, 1861. Captain, Fourth New Hampshire
Volunteers, September 18, 1861, to September 17, 1864.
major brown
Second lieutenant, first lieutenant, adjutant Ninth New
Hampshire Volunteers, August 15, 1862, to October 20, 1864.
ADJUTANT GEORGE F. HOBBS, WAKEFIELD
First, New Hampshire Artillery, Company L, September 23
to October 18, 1864.
SURGEON JOHN S. EMERSON, SANDWICH
Assistant surgeon, Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, from
July 10, 1862, until joining the Eighteenth.

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Preiious Service of Officers 77
ASSISTANT SURGEON AARON W. SHEPHERD, NASHUA
Hospital steward in Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers,
July 26, 1862, until joining the Eighteenth.
CAPTAINS
Alvah K. Potter, Concord, Company A; first lieutenant in
Company H, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, Novem
ber 12, 1861, to June 30, 1862.
Elias F. Smith, Plainfield, Company B; captain Company
A, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, November 18, 1862,
to August 20, 1863.
John 0. Wallingford, Somersworth, Company C; sergeant
major, and second lieutenant, Company I, Fifteenth New
Hampshire Volunteers, October 30, 1862, to August 13, 1863.
William S. Greenough, Chester, Company D; private,
Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in United States
service, September 11, 1862, to August 28, 1863.
William A. Gile, Franklin, Company E; sergeant in
Company E, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, Octo
ber 27, 1862, to August 20, 1863.
George W. Bosworth, Lyndeboro, Company F; captain,
Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, October 27, 1862,
to August 20, 1863.
Benjamin B. Thompson, Company I, Wolfboro; private,
Company K, Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers, March
24, 1864, to February 21, 1865.
John A. Colby, Company K, Swanzey; private, Veteran
Reserve Corps, December 29, 1863, to April 6, 1865 ; previous
record not found. FIRST LIEUTENANTS
Augustus B. Farmer, Company A, Warner; private, cor
poral, sergeant, and first sergeant, Second New Hampshire
Volunteers, Company B, June 1, 1861, to June 21, 1864.

78 Previous Service of Officers
Reuben B. Porter, Sutton, Company B; private, Company
D, First New Hampshire Volunteers, May 2 to August 9, 1861;
first sergeant, second lieutenant, Company H, Sixteenth New
Hampshire Volunteers, November 15, 1862, to August 20,
1863. Samuel S. Caswell, Strafford, Company C; private, New
Hampshire Light Battery, August 12, 1863, to October 4,
1864. William A. Haven, Company D, Portsmouth; second
lieutenant, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, November
13, 1862, to August 20, 1863.
David C. Harriman, Warner, Company E; second lieutenant
and first lieutenant, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers,
August 29, 1862, to June 27, 1863.
Samuel H. Dow, Campton, Company F; private, Forty-first
Massachusetts Volunteers (Third Mass. Cav.), September 4,
1862, to May 24, 1863.
Clarion H. Kimball, Hopkinton, Company G; private and
corporal, Company E, First United States Volunteer Sharp
shooters, August 27, 1862, to October 16, 1864.
Washington Perkins, Londonderry, Company H; second
lieutenant, Company H, Fifteenth New Hampshire Vol
unteers, October 11, 1862, to August 13, 1863.
Frederick L. Dodge, Portsmouth, Company I; private,
Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, September 12,
1862, to June 18, 1863.
Henry S. Brown, Concord, Company K; private, Company I,
First New Hampshire Volunteers, May 4 to August 9, 1861;
Eleventh Massachusetts, August 19, 1863, to March 14, 1865.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS
Hiram K. Ladd, Company A, Haverhill; private, first
sergeant and first lieutenant, Companies G and I, Second
New Hampshire Volunteers, June 5, 1861, to June 21, 1864.

Previous Service of Officers 79
Wilson Gray, Company C, Strafford; corporal and sergeant,
Second New Hampshire Volunteers, May 10, 1861, to October
30, 1862.
John Underhill, Company D, Chester; sergeant, Company
I, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, September 6, 1862,
to March 26, 1863.
Oliver A. Gibbs, Company F, Dover ; corporal, Strafford
Guards, May 5 to July 28, 1864.
Thomas F. Dodge, Company G, Concord; private and
corporal, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, November 1,
1861, to November 11, 1864.
Robert K. Flanders, Company H, Concord; corporal and
sergeant, Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, September
19, 1862, to January 11, 1865.
Edward Nettleton, Company K, Newport; first lieutenant,
Company D, First New Hampshire Volunteers, May 2 to
August 9, 1861; private, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volun
teers, November 21, 1862, to August 20, 1863.
NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF
Quartermaster Sergeant Samuel N. Brown, Concord,
promoted from private in Company B, November 1, 1864;
had served in Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers as
private, October 25, 1862, to August 20, 1863.
Hospital Steward Frank H. Newman, Hillsboro, pro
moted from private in Company F, November 1, 1864; had
served in Company B, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers,
as private, October 20, 1862, to August 20, 1863.
Principal Musician Nathan W. Gove, Concord, had served
in Third New Hampshire Volunteers as musician and second
principal musician, August 26, 1861, to November 19, 1862.
Principal Musician William S. Mudgett, New Boston,
promoted from private in Company D, January 1, 1865;
had served in Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers as musi
cian, September 18, 1861, to September 16, 1862.

ROSTER OF EIGHTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS

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FIELD AND STAFF

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Name and Rank

Col. Thomas L. Livermore
Lt.-Col. Joseph M. Clough
Major William I. Brown
Major Alvah K. Potter
Adjt. George F. Hobbs
" Samuel S. Caswell
Quartermaster Moses T. Cate
Surgeon John S. Emerson
Asst. Surg. A. W. Shepherd
Chaplain Anthony C. Hardy
Serg. -Maj. W. G. C. Kimball

App't'd 186S
Jan. 17
1864
Oct. 13

Oct. 13
Sept. 30
1865
May 19
1864
Sept. 12
Mch. 22
Nov. 10
Sept. 21
Enlisted
Sept. 12

MilfordNew London
Concord (Fish
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Concord Wakefield
StraffordWolfboroSandwichNashua
Croydon
Concord

Record

Must, in Apr. 8, 1865; m. o. June 23, 1865, Delaney House, D. C. App't'd
Brevet Col. U. S. V. " for highly valuable and meritorious
services," to date from Apr. 7, 1865.
" " Oct. 18, 1864: wd. Mch. 29, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va. ; m. o. July 29,
1S65. App't'd Brevet Brig.-Gen. U. S.V., "for gallant and meri
torious services during the war," to date from Mch. 23, 1865.
" " Oct. 22, 186-1; killed Mch. 29, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va.
" April 4, 1865; m. o. June 23, 1865. For prior record, see Co. A.
" " Oct. 23, 1864: disch. for disab. Mch. 8, 1865. Died Oct. 7, 1891,
Somerville, Mass.
out July 29. For prior record, see Co. C.
Must, in Sept. 15, 1S64 ; m. o. June 10, 1865, Delanev House, D. C. Died
Oct. 25, 189S.
" " Apr. 16, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died Sept. 23, 1886, Lvnn,
Mass.
" " Dec. 18, 1864; m. o. Julv 29,1865. Hosp. St'd,9th N. H. V., July
26, 1862, to Dec. 26, 1864.
" " Apr. 21, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died Sept. 15, 1902.
' Sept. 15, 1864; priv. Co. G; promoted to Serg.-Major Oct. 24,
1864 ; promoted to Capt. Co. G Jan. 24, 1865.

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Serg.-Maj. Leonard H. Wheeler
Q. M.-Serg. Samuel N. Brown
Com.-Serg. Henry Jj. Harris
Hosp. St'd Frank H. Newman
Prin. Mus. Nathan W. Gove
" Wm. S. Mudgett

Sept.

9

Sept.

23

Sept.

9

Sept.

24

SuttonConcord (Fisherville)
ConcordHillsboroughConcordWeare

App't'd Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. June 10, 1865. For other record, see Co. B.
Must, in Sept. 14, 1864; priv. Co. B; promoted to Q. M.-Serg. Nov. 1,
1S64; m. o. June 10, 1865.
Must, in Sept. 24, 1864, priv. Co. F; promoted to Com.-Serg. Nov. 1,
1864; m. o. June 10, 1865.
" " Sept. 14, 1864, priv. Co. F; promoted to Hosp. St'd Nov. 1,
1864; m.o. June 10, 1865. Died, date unknown.
App't'd Jan. 1, 1865; m. o. June 10, 1865. For prior record, see Co. F.
Died Aug. 8, 1871, Concord, N. H.
" Jan. 1, 1861. For prior record, see Co. IX Died Jan. 28, 1868,
Contoocook.

COMPANY A
Mustered in 1864, and Sept. 13, unless Otherwise Stated. Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.

Capt. Alvah K. Potter
1st Lieut. Augustus B. Farmer
2d Lieut. Hiram K. Ladd
2d Lieut. Joseph H. Cram
1st Serg. John F. Hunt
Serg. Charles H. Weston
" Frank F. Noyes
" Lemuel O. Hunt
" Charles Ii. Green
Corp. George J. Riplev
" J. Scott Durgin"
" Ezra G. Huntley
" Charles F. Harrington
" J. Ansel Rawson
" Hiram Cutler

Sept.
Aug.

2
29

Sept.

7

Sept.

1

Sept.Sept.Sept.
Sept.

12 6 1
3

Sept.Sept.Sept.Sept.Sept.Sept.

5 25
3 3
9

Concord Warner
Andover New Boston
SwanzeyPittsfieldLisbonSwanzey
AlsteadTroyConcordMarlow
AlsteadAlstead Hopkinton

Must, in Record
Sept. S, priv.; appointed Capt. Sept. 12; promoted to Major Apr. 4, 1865.
Aug. 29, priv.; promoted to 1st Lieut. Sept. 12, 1864, and Capt. Apr. 4,
1865. Died June 17, 1893, Bow, N. H.
Sept. 7, priv.; promoted to 2d Lieut. Sept. 20, 1864, and 1st Lieut. Apr.
4, 1865. Died Apr. 7, 1867, Haverhill, N. H.
April 12, 1865. For prior record, see Co. D. Died Dec. 19, 1873.
14th N. H.V., Co.F, Serg., 1st Serg., and priv., Sept.23, 1862, to Aug. 4, 1863.
Died April, 1898.
Sept. 12. Died, date unknown.
Trans, to V. R. C; disch. June 29, 1865, Washington, D. C.
16th N. II. V., Co. I, Nov. 13, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
14th N. H. V., Co. B, Corp. Oct. 2, 1862, to Feb. 22, 1863. Died March 17,
1900.
Reduced to ranks Apr. 27, 1865; disch. June 25, 1865; died, July 8, 1900.
Died Apr. 27, 1870, Concord.
Died Dec. 14, 1892.
Promoted Serg.; 15th N. H. V., Co. K, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 13, J.863.
Co. B, 2d N. H. V., Sept. 17, 1861, to Nov. 19, 1862. Died Aug., 1898.

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Name and Rank

Record

Enlisted

186J,
Corp. Charles F. Welch
Sept.
13
Stoddard
Died date unknown.
" Charles Arling
Sept.
5
Hillsborough
Disch. June 16, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Musician Andrew T. Nudd
Sept.
30
New Boston
Oct. 6, muse; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Died
Privates
Jan. 9, 1882, Bristol.
Abbott, Albert C.
Sept.
9
Ossipee
Abbott, Albert F.
Sept.
2
Antrim
Allan, Joseph A.
Sept.
8
Acworth
Disch. May 16, 1865. Died Jan. 11, 1885, Acworth, N. H.
Andrews, Charles H.
Sept.
2
Henniker
Died of disease Nov. 16. 1864, en route to Washington, D. C.
Ballou, Jotham M.
Sept.
6
Swanzey
Disch. disab. May 20, 1865, Concord.
Barrus, Lucius A.
Sept.
3
Alstead
Bartlett, Stephen B.
Sept.
7
Epsom
Wd. Apr. 3, 1865, Petersburg, Va.; disch. June 5, 1865, Concord. Died, date
unknown.
Blanchard, James A.
Sept.
9
Hinsdale
Sept. 9.
Blodgett, Charles E.
Sept.
1
Swanzey
Bodge, James L.
Sept.
9
Ossipee
Died May 18, 1884, Tuftonborough, N. II.
Boome, Nathaniel, Jr.
Sept.
2
Swanzey
Britton, Levi
Sept.
3
Alstead
Died Aug. 17, 1890.
Brockway, John R.
Sept.
9
Hinsdale
Sept. 9; disch. May 25, 1865. Died Oct. 8, 1871, Hinsdale, N. H.
Co. K,
2d N. H. V., June-July, 1861; U. S. N., Mch. 6 to June 6, 1861
Burtt, Charles W.
Sept.
2
Bennington
Died Oct. 8, 1867.
Carpenter, Lewis
Sept.
9
Swanzey
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Carroll, Joseph A.
Sept.
5
Keene
Clark, Benjamin F.
Sept.
1
Swanzey
Died May 19, 1898.
Clark, James M.. Jr.
Sept.
5
Epsom
Clifford, Albert L.
Sept.
6
Landaff
Sept. 6.
Cloutman, Joseph A.
Aug.
31
Conway
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; disch. July 3, 1865, Delaney House,
D. C.
Cragin, Moses A.
Sept.
3
Marlow
Dickerman, William E.
Sept.
9
Hinsdale
Sept. 9; disch. June 2, 1865.
Dickinson, Edward
Sept.
3
Swanzey
Disch. June 9, 1865. Died, date unknown.
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Eastman, Simeon
Fairbanks, Silas P.
Foot, Alonzo
Foot, Patrick M.
Foot, Thomas F.
Gassett, Manley W.
Gleason, George H.
Gould, George G.
Gould, Nathan
Haskell, Orrick L.
Hovey, Sylvander S.
Holt, Franklin J.
Hooper, Ira H.
Houghton, Clark H.
Howard, William H.
Jackson, Edward G.
Jefts, George R.
Jewell, Martin
Kenion, Edwin A.
Keyes, Charles E.
Leland, George M.
Lovejoy, Diah
Lovejoy, Lucius H.
Marden, Rufus S.
Marsh, Charles
Mason, John G.
Moses, William F.
Nudcl, Andrew T.
Urdway, George O.

Sept. 9
Sept. 8

Sept. 12
Sept. 6
Sept. 2
Sept.

Sept. 5

Sept.Sept.Sept. 9
Sept. 1
Sept. 1
Sept. 4
Sept. 3
Sept. 8
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 1
Sept. 9
Sept. 3
Sept. 9
Sept. 9
Sept. 3
Sept. 7
Sept. 7
Sept. 3
Sept. 12
Sept. 12
Sept. 30

Hinsdale PlymouthWinchesterFrancestownFrancestownFrancestownMarlowCanterbury GreenfieldHinsdale
Swanzey Swanzey
Chesterfield SwanzeySwanzeyKeene Landaff
StoddardSwanzeyAlstead OssipeeHinsdaleEpsomConway EpsomSwanze3rConway PembrokeNew Boston

Sept. 3 Henniker

15th N! H. V., Co. B, Oct. 8, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died May 10, 1887,
Plymouth, N. H.
Died, date unknown.
Died May 23, 1867, Francestown, N. H.

Deserted Apr. 1, 1865.
Sept. 9. Died Nov. 28, 1897.
Trans, to Co. H, June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
App't'd Corp. Sept. 29; 15th N. H. V., Co. I, Oct. 23, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Died, 1868.
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; disch. July 29, 1865. Died Sept. 29, 1894.
Disch. July 1, 1865.
Died, date unknown.
Sept. 6.
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
App't'd Corp. Apr. 28, 1865.

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Sept. 9. Died, 1895.
Sept. 3.
Tr. to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Died Sept. 2, 1899, Epsom, N. H.
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.
Died, disease, Jan. 18, 1865, City Point, Va.
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m o. July 29, 1865. Died Feb. 1, 1879, 3
Pembroke, N. H.
Oct. 6, muse; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died
Jan. 9, 1S82, Bristol.
Disch. June 3, 1865. Died Aug. 7, 1871, Henniker, N. H.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1864

Pickering, Warren A.

Sept.

3

Swanzey

Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; disch. Aug. 17, 1865.

Proctor, John G.

Sept.

12

Francestown

Died Nov. 30, 1884, Francestown, N. H.

Ramsey, James A.

Sept.

3

Alstead

5th N. H. V., Co. E, Oct. 19, 1861, to May 31, 1862.

Rawson, Edward A.

Sept.

3

Alstead

Raymond, Hercules W.

Sept.

3

Alstead

1st N. H. V., Co. G, Mav 2 to Aug. 9, 1S61; 9th N. H. V., Co. I, priv. and
Corp. Aug. 15, 1862, to Mar. 28, 1863.

Ripley, William N.

Sept.

3

Swanzey

Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; deserted July 5, 1865, Georgetown, D. C.
Died, 1896.

Roundy, Arvin S.

Sept.

3

Alstead

Sanborn, Charles E.
Sept.
S
Plymouth
5th N. H. V., Co. C, Oct. 12, 1861, to Mch. 10, 1862.
Sawyer, Charles C.
Sept.
5
Keene
Died July 21, 1876.
Sebastian, Frederic E.
Sept.
9
Swanzey
Sevmour, Charles
Sept.
2
Henniker
Promoted to Corp.; 7th N. H. V., Co. E, Nov. 7, 1861, to June 5, 1863.
Sheldon. David P.
Sept.
13
Stoddard
Smith, Austin E.
Sept.
3
Alstead
Steele, David
Sept.
1
Antrim
2d N. H. V., 1st. Serg., 2d Lieut., 1st Lieut., Capt., June 5, 1861, to June 25,
1864. Died Oct. 8, 1890, Colusa County Hospital, Cal.
Stevens, Henry H.
Sept.
13
Stoddard
Died, disease, Oct. 3, 1861, New York Citv.
Sweetser, George W.
Sept.
1
Swanzey
Trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Upton, George W.
Sept.
13
Stoddard
Wallace, John
Sept.
2
Hillsborough
Died, date unknown.
Wardwell, Joshua D.
Sept,
2
Francestown
1st N. E. Cav., Co. L, Dec. 27, 1861, to Apr. 4, 1862.
Waters, Jonas C.
Sept.
7
Swanzey
Wilson, James E.
Sept.
°'
Alstead
Disch. Mav 2.5, 1865; 1st N. H. V., Co. G, May 2 to Aug. 9, 1861. Died
June, 1865.
Wilson, John Q. A.
Sept.
2
Swanzey
Died, date unknown.
Wilder, Henry
Sept.
6
Alstead
Died, disease, Mch 6, 1865, City Point, Va.; 14th N. H. V., Co. B. Sept. 22,
1862, to Mch. 28, 1863
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Capt. Elias F. Smith
1st Lieut. Reuben B. Porter
2d Lieut. Charles I/. Porter

1st Serg. Lewis F. Davis
Serg. George P. Martin
" Leonard H. Wheeler
" James Richardson
" Barney Bai-ker
Corp. Daniel B. Russell
" John G. Warren
" Moses C. Tyler
" John Q. Lane
" Albridge Eaton
" Edwin Bugbee
" Samuel E. Jones
" N. Addison Parker
Wagoner Hazen P. Hutchins
Privates
Ames, Gorham B.
Barrows, George A.

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Otherwise

App't'd 1864
Sept. 20

Lebanon

Enlisted 1864
Sept. 5

Sutton

App't'd 1864
Sept. 20
Enlisted

Lyme

1864
Sept. 2
Sept. 7
Sept. 5
Alton Orford
Sutton
Sept. 13
Lebanon
Sept, 13
Sept. 13
Sept. 13
HanoverHanover Lyme
Aug. 30
Hopkinton
Sept. 2
Sept. 5
Sept. 7
Sept. 2
Sept. 5
Sept. 13
Lyman
WarnerOrford
AltonWilmot Hanover
Sept. 2
Sept. 13
Alton Richmond
COMPANY B
ed. Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Must, in Record
Sept. 20.
Sept. 5; app't'd 1st Lieut. Sept 20. Died Feb. 4, 1878.
Sept. 20.
Sept. 14; 16th N. H. V., Corp. Co. B, Oct. 18, 1862, to Aug. 20,1863.
Sept. 7; 16th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
App't'd Serg.-Maj. Feb. 16, 1865; 16th N. H. V., Co. H, Oct, 23, 1862, to
Aug. 20, 1863. Died Aug. 14, 1877, Sutton, N. H.
16th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863. Died; date
unknown.
Resigned warrant Jan. 1, 1865.
App't'd Serg. Jan. 1, 1865; 1st N. E. Cav., Co. I, Corp. and saddler Dec.
17, 1861, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Reduced to ranks Nov. 22, 1S64; 2d N. II. V., Co. B, Sept. 16, 1861, to
July 9, 1863.
Reduced to ranks Nov. 17, 1864.
Sept. 14.
Sept. 7.
Sept. 14.
16th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 1 6, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863. Died, 1871.
Sept, 14; 8th Mass., Sept. 15, 1862, to Aug. 7, 1863.
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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1864

BeU, Frank J.

Sept. 7

Orford

Sept. 7.

BeU, John
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7. Died Dec. 10, 1893.
Bishop, Joseph W.
Sept. 8
Fremont
Sept. 14. Died, date unknown.
Blood, Daniel A.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7.
Blood, Stephen C.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7.
Blodgett, Webster P.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept, 7.
Boutwell, John W.
Sept. 13
Hanover
Boutelle, Ezra
Sept. 13
Lyme
Died, date unknown
Brown, Samuel N.
Sept. 9
Concord
Prom, to Q. M. Serg. Nov. 1, 1864.
Brown, Albert
Sept. 15
Northfield
Sept. 15.
Burnham, WUliam S.
Sept. 5
New Boston
Buzzell, John
Sept. 6
Andover
App't'd Corp. Jan. 1, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Camp, Carlton N.
Sept. 13
Hanover
Chase, Eben C.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Wd. April 2, 1865, Petersburg, Va.; disch. May 26, 1865.
Chase, Edward F.
Sept. 6
Hopkinton
App't'd Corp. Jan. 1, 1865.
Chamberlain, Moses
Sept. 6
Epsom
Died, date unknown.
Chamberlain, Asahel D.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Chesley, John E.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7; disch. Mav 29, 1865. Died Aug. 16, 1892, Orfordville, N. H.
Chadwick, Hale
Sept. 5
Andover
Serg., Co. C, 17th'N. H. V., Dec. 29, 1862, to Apr. 16, 1863.
Cochran, Clarendon A.
Sept. 13
Lebanon
Wd. Apr. 2, 1865, Petersburg, Va.; disch. June 8, 1865.
Connor, Otis R.
Sept. 6
Andover
Davis, Alfred H.
Sept. 6
Warner
Trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Dike, Charles L.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Died, disease, Feb. 18, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Derby, Henry B.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7. Died, disease, Jan. 31, 1865, City Point, Va.
Dimmick, Charles H.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Estey, Henry H.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Elmer, Charles
Sept. 13
Lebanon
Died, disease, April 5, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Gilman, Irad B.
Sept. 2
Alton
Sept. 14; 15th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 6, 1862, to Aug.
1863.
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Hale, Moses T.
Ham, Amos L.
Haves, John J.
Horton, Henry A.
Huntley, Philander T.
Hutehins, Hazen K.
Jameson, William E.
Jaquith, Edwin C.
Johnson, Charles F.
Kibbee, Howard 0.
Knowles, Jesse M.
Learned, George E.
Lyman, Rawson F.
Miller, John
Mitchell, John C.
McDole, David
McCollom, David A.
Nelson, John
Osborn, Horace J.
Parker, Caleb J.
Pingree, Irenus II.
Pollard, Alexander
Powers, Edwin V.
Reed, Henry B.
Richardson, Jesse W.
Richardson, Silas J.
Rollins, George A.
Rollins, Adelbert C.
Sanbom, William H.
Sargent, Henry H.

Sept. 2

Alton

Sept. 13

Lebanon

Sept. 13

Lyme

Sept. 2

Alton

Sept. 7

Orford

Sept. 2

Lyman

Sept. 13

Hanover

Sept, 12

Concord

Sept. 5

New Boston

Sept. 13

Hanover

Sept. 13

Lyme

Sept. 5

Northwood

Sept. 7

Orford

Sept. 13

Hanover

Sept. 13

Lvman

Sept. 7

Orford

Sept. 5

Henniker

.Sept. 12

New Boston

Sept. 13

Lyme

Sept. 13

Lyme

Sept. 13

Lyman

Sept. 13

Hanover

Sept. 13

Lyme

Sept. 13

Lyman

Sept. 7

Orford

Sept. 13

Lyman

Sept. 13

Lebanon

Sept. 2

Alton

Sept. 9

Alton

Sept. 13

Lebanon

Aug. 31

Pembroke

Sept. 14.
Died Jan. 2, 1883, Orange, N. H.
Sept. 14; 15th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 20, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
Sept. 7; app't'd Cdrp. Jan. 1, 1865. Died Apr. 11, 1900, Man
chester, N. H.
16th N H. V., Co. A, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 15. Died Aug. 1, 1892.
11th N. H. V., Co. H, Sept. 2, 1862, to Dec. 28, 1863; 2 Batt. I. C, Dec.
28, 1863, to Apr. 22, 1864.
Sept. 7.
Disch. May 29, 1865, Washington, D. C. Died, date unknown.
Died, date unknown.
Sept. 7; U. S. N. Dec. 20, 1862, to Dec. 21, 1863. Died Apr. 22,
1897.
Disch. disab. Dec. 10, 1864, Washington, D. C. Died Oct. 25, 1895.
Sept. 15.
Disch. May 16, 1865.
App't'd Corp. Jan. 1, 1865.
Died Dec, 1895.
Disch. June 7, 1865.
Sept. 7. Died, 1870.
Disch. May 29, 1865.
Sept. 14.
Sept. 14. Died, date unknown.
Disch. June 30, 1865.
Trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1864

Shepard, James M.

Aug. 30

Concord

Disch. June 25, 1865, Manchester, N. H. Died Apr.
hill, N. H.
Sept. 7.

7, 1895, East Haver-

Simpson, Daniel G.

Sept. 7

Orford

Scribner, Enoch 0.
Sept. 6
Andover
Died, date unknown.
Simonds, Nehemiah S.
Sept. 3
Lyme
Sept. 15; disch. disab. May 29, 1S65.
Simonds, Joseph V.
Sept. 1
Wilmot
Sept. 15; 6th N. H. V., Co. H, Dec. 12, 1861, to Jan.
19, 1863.
Smith, Elijah K.
Sept. 13
Lyman
Died April 2, 1894.
Small, John N.
Sept. 5
Northwood
Died Sept. 30, 1885, Londonderry, N. H.
Stevens, Nelson
Sept. 5
Wilmot
Stevens, Frank
Sept. 12
Concord
Sept. 14. Died Oct. 12, 1881.
Stickney, Augustine W.
Sept. 13
Hanover
Tallman, Charles C.
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7. Died Mch. 30, 1889, Orford, N. H.
Thrasher, Edwin
Sept. 13
Lyme
11th N. H. V., Co. H, Sept. 2 to Dec. 15, 1862.
Twiss, James G.
Sept. 12
Weare
Sept. 14; disch. May 23, 1865.
Ward, Richard W.
Sept. 13
Lebanon
Ward, Simon, Jr.
Sept. 13
Lebanon
Webster, Samuel P., Jr.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Webster, Daniel A.
Sept. 5
Fremont
Killed Mch. 30, 1865, Petersburg, Va.
White, Peter
Sept. 7
Orford
Sept. 7.
Woodward, Charles R.
Sept. 13
Hanover
Woodward, John C.
Sept. 13
Lyme
Died Mav, 1903.
Worthley, Samuel M.
Aug. 30
New Boston
Sept. 15. Died Oct. 31, 1901, Manchester, N. H.
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Mustered in 1864, and Sept. 14, unless Otherwise Stated. Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Record

Capt. John O. Wallingford
1st Lieut. Samuel S. Caswell
2d Lieut. Wilson Gray

1st Serg. Johnson D. Quimby
Serg. Enoch Joy
" Oliver A. Gibbs
" George A. Currier
Corp. Alonzo H. Caverly
" George S. Cook
" James B. Hill
" James F. Goodwin
" Horatio H. Shackford
" Samuel H. Clark
" Henry F. Tuttle
" Frank N. Foss
Mus. Albert F. Stackpole
" Lorenzo D. Bean
Wagoner John Gowen

App't'd

1864

Sept,

21

Sept.

21

Sept.

30

Enlisted

1864

Sept.

12

Sept.

2

Sept.

2

Sept.

5

Sept,

12

Sept.

14

Sept.

17

Sept.

14

Sept.

19

Sept.

9

Sept.

2

Sept.

12

Sept.

14

Sept.

7

Sept.

13

DoverStraffordStrafford

SandwichPittsfieldDover Bennington
StraffordSandwichPittsfieldDover BarnsteadBarnstead
PittsfieldSandwichDoverSandwichDover

Must, in
Sept. 22. Died Mch. 23, 1872, Dover, N. H.
Nov. 5; app't'd Adjt. Mav 19, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died Oct.
26, 1870.
Oct. 1. Died June 20, 1S84, Strafford, N. H.
1st N. H. V., Co. B, Mav 5 to Aug. 9, 1861; 1st N. E. Cav., Co. I, Corp.
Dec. 17, 1861, to Apr. '19, 1862.
App't'd 2d Lieut. Co. F, Sept. 30, 1864.
Sept. 13; reduced to ranks Jan. 1, 1865; Co. G, 13th N. H. V., Sept. 19,
1862, to Apr. 13, 1863.
Deserted Oct. 3, 1864; enlisted 1st Mass. Cav.; ret. to 18th N. H. V., Apr.,
1865, as deserter; disch. July 7, 1865, with loss of pay and allowances.
Sept. 15; app't'd Serg.: 5th N. H. V., Co. H, Oct. 19, 1861, to Nov. 11,
1862. Died Jan. 23, 1868.
Sept. 19; reduced to ranks Jan. 1, 1865; disch. disab. May 29, 1865,
Wilmington, Del.
Sept. 19; app't'd Serg. Jan. 1, 1865; Strafford Guards, May 5 to July 28,
1864.
Sept. 19. Died, May, 1902.
Disch. May 12, 1865. Died Jan. 26, 1885, Pittsfield, N. H.
3d N. H. V., Co. G, Aug. 23, 1861, to Dec. 13, 1862.
Sept. 20; Strafford Guards, May 5 to July 28, 1864.
Sept. 19; deserted Oct. 3, 1864, Concord. Died, date unknown.

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Privates

Enlisted 1864

Austin, James S.

Sept. 12

Kensington

Sept. 15; promoted Corp.

Austin, Edward P.

Sept. 12

Kensington

Sept. 15; disch. May 12, 1865.

Adams, Alvah 0.

Sept. 8

Barnstead

Blake, George W.

Sept. 9

Barnstead

Co. G, 15th N. H. V., Oct. 11, 1S62, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died June 2, 1897.

Baker, Jacob H.

Sept. 9

Rochester

Disch. May 29, 1S65. Died Sept. 11, 1898, Rochester, N. H.

Buzzell, Charles

Sept. 6

Pittsfield

Blaisdell, Nathaniel
Sept. 1
Barnstead
Died July 14, 1867, Barnstead, N. H.
Bartlett, Jonathan W.
Sept. 3
Pittsfield
Brown, Stephen H.
Sept. 12
Kensington
Sept. 15; disch. Mav 23..1S65; Corp. Co. E, 13th N. H. V., and musician
Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1863. Died June 30, 1877, Kensington, N. H.
Bennett, Edward C.
Sept. 7
Sandwich
Boynton, George H.
Sept. 7
Sandwich
Disch. June 6, 1865, Washington, D. C. Died, date unknown.
Bailey, Chester
Sept. 6
Hopkinton
Sept. 13; wd. Apr. 3, 1865, Petersburg, Va.; disch. May 29, 1865; Co. E,
1st U. S. S. S. Aug. 27, 1862, to Oct. 22, 1863. Died, date unknown.
Buzzell, Lendon C.
Sept. 2
Danville
Sept. 13; Co. K, 15th N. H. V., Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died, date
unknown.
Brown, Aldin
Sept. 2
Warner
Sept. 13; Co. B, 7th N. H. V., Nov., 1861, to Mar. 24, 1862.
Bonzey, Orra L.
Sept, 12
Stoddard
Died, date unknown.
Connor, Isaiah C.
Sept. 14
Dover
Sept. 19. Died June 14, 1901.
Clough, Horace
Sept. 9
Barnstead
App't'd Corp. Jan. 7, 1865.
Currier, John A.
Sept. 13
Kensington
Sept. 15.
Caswell, Alphonzo
Sept. 5
Epping
Died 1904.
Chase, George L.
Sept, 5
Henniker
Sept. 13; Co. H, 2d N. H. V., June 5, 1861, to June 21, 1864. Died, date
unknown.
Dooley, James
Sept. 16
Londonderry
Sept, 16; Co. K, 4th N. H. V., Sept. 18, 1861, to Mar. 12, 1863. Died
July 13, 1895, Londonderry, N. H.
Ellison, William H.
Sept. 5
Barrington
Emerson, Samuel M.
Sept. 12
Strafford
Eaton, Charles F.
Sept. 8
Pittsfield
Died Nov. 12, 1874, Pittsfield, N. H.
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Eaton, Samuel P.
Evans, Enoch
Foss, Eli H.
Fogg, Albert
Fogg, Hezekiah F.
Fullerton, Albert C.
Fern aid, Tobias N.
Faulkner, Stephen P.
Green, Charles H. N.
Glazier, Walter W.
Griffin, Joseph
Gilman, Charles A.
Hill, William E.
Hodgdon, Joseph H.
Hamlin, Edward F.
Home, Lewis F.
Hall, Benjamin
Ham, James C.
Hart, William N.
Herrick, Dwight L.
Howe. Barton, Jr.
Kiiimc, James
Kaime, Charles
Messenger, Henry E.
Mudgett, Charles E.
Miller, John
McDonald, Andrew
Robinson, Samuel R.
Scriggins, William H.

Sept.

6

Sept.

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Sept.

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Sept.

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Sept.

7

Sept.

13

Sept.

17

Sept.

9

Aug.

31

Sept.

13

Aug.

31

Sept.

14

Sept,

7

Sept.

15

Sept.

14

Sept.

9

Sept.

3

Sept.

5

Sept.

9

Sept.

12

Aug.

31

Aug.

31

Sept.

3

Sept.

3

Sept.

14

Sept.

7

Sept.

7

1865

Feb.

22

1864

Sept.

5

Sept.

7

PittsfieldStraffordStrafford BarnsteadSandwichSandwich PittsfieldOssipee
Chesterfield PittsfieldChesterfieldPittsfield SandwichStraffordDoverDoverRochesterBarringtonBarnsteadSandwich
ChesterfieldChesterfield BarnsteadBarnstead
StoddardSandwichSandwichSandwichBenningtonSandwich

Died, date unknown.

Died June 10, 1889, Sandwich, N. H. S3
Died Oct. 17, 1S89, Sandwich, N. H. §
Sept. 19; app't'd Corp. Mar. 1, 1865. Died Nov. 8, 1890, Boston, Mass. to
Died Aug. 2, 1900, Ossipee, N. H. 0
Aug. 31. ~-*
Sept. 13. fcq
Aug. 31; disch. May 30, 1865. Died Aug. 18, 1895. <§•
Died, date unknown. 3?
Died May 21, 1890, Sandwich, N. H. §
Sept. 17. 3
Sept. 19. 3-
App't'd Serg.; Strafford Guards, May 5 to July 28, 1864. ?g.
Trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; disch. Julv 29, 1865, Concord; 15th N. H. J1
V., Co. I, Oct. 14, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died Dec. 26, 1890. S
Deserted Oct. 3, Concord; ret. Feb. 23, 1865. Died Dec. 18, 1880, E. j^
Barrington. §
Died May 6, 1870. "g
Aug. 31 ; app't'd Corp. §*
Aug. 31. Died Jan. 6, 1892. J'
Died Dec. 7, 1891. ^
Sept. 15. g-
Disch. Mav 18, 1865. Died Mar. 17, 1904. s
Sept. 13. "Died Aug. 11, 18S3. to
Feb. 24, 1865; wd. Mch. 29, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va.; disch. for wds. July
25, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Sept. 5, 1864. 0

COMPANY C — Continued

Name and Rank

Privates
Tebbetts, George B.
Tuttle, Daniel D.
Tappan, WiUiam L.
Whitehouse, Alonzo
WiUey, Alfred S.
Woodes, John H. C.
Wells, Isaac K.
Worthley, John L.

Enlisted

1864

Sept.

10

Sept,

3

Sept.

12

Sept.

O

Aug.

3!l

Sept.

14

Sept.

12

Sept.

1

DoverStraffordSandwichDoverPittsfield Dover
CanterburyAntrim

Record

Disch. June 7, 1865. Died Sept. 14, 1866.
Disch. May 24, 1865. Died Oct. 16, 1880, Pittsfield, N H
Sept. 19; app't'd Corp. Jan. 7, 1865.
Died, disease, Apr. 6, 1865, City Point, Va.
Sept. 13. Died Jan. 22, 1869, Marlow, N. H

Mustered in 1864.

Capt. William S. Greenough
1st Lieut. William A. Haven
2d Lieut. John Underhill
1st Serg. Joseph H. Cram
Serg. William H. Weeks
Serg. Samuel C. Nay
Serg. Albert F. B. Edwards

Aug. 25
App't'd
Sept. 30
Sept. 30
Enlisted
Sept. 17
Sept. 15
Aug. 31
Aug. 27

COMPANY D
Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Must, in Record

ChesterPortsmouth
ChesterNew Boston
Epsom
CandiaChester

Sept. 14, priv ; app't'd Capt. Sept. 30, 1864, wd. Apr. 2, 1865, Petersburg
Va ; appt'd Brevet-Major U. S. V. for gallantry before Petersburg to
date from April 2, 1865
Oct. 1.
Oct. 3. Died July 19, 1894, Chester, N. H.
Sept. 19; promoted to 2d Lieut. Co. A, Apr. 12, 1864; 11th N H V Co B
Aug. 28, 1862, to Feb. 5, 1864. Died Dec. 19, 1873 ^ n- v-' ">• a>
Sept. 17; 2d N H. V., Co. C, and 5th U. S. Art., Co. B, June 1, 1861
to June 2, 1864. Died Dec, 1871, Washington, DC
'Octt', «&:£££ fl^es " ^^ ^ l' 1865; 15th N" H- V- °°- D'
SeAug14i3?i863: aPp,t'd Serg'; 13th N' H- V-' °°- K> 0ct 16' 1862> t0

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Corp. Thomas T. Trott
" Samuel V. Osgood
" Edmund P. Fox
" George Harned
" Joseph W. Ham
" Franklin P. Woods
" George S. Smith
" Charles IJ. Swett
Musician Life Wiggin
Musician William H. Drew
Wagoner Perley C. Ingalls
Privates
Burpee, Gain
Boynton, John E.
Brown, Warren J.
Brown, William E.
Barnett, William
Butler, Franklin J.
Currier, Richard H.
Carson, Benjamin W.
Caswell, Joseph F.
Choate, Sewell J.
Chandler, William A.
Clark, George A.
Chandler, George H.
Dodge, William B.
Dodge, Fred
Durgin, Stephen A.

Sept.

17

Sept,

5

Aug.

30

Sept.

20

Sept.

15

Sept.

13

Sept,

2

Sept,

3

Sept.

20

Sept.

15

Sept.

20

Sept.

5

Sept.

19

Sept.

10

Sept.

19

Sept.

10

Aug.

30

Sept.

21

Aug.

29

Sept.

3

Sept.

20

Sept.

20

Sept.

21

Sept.

19

Sept.

12

Sept.

12

Sept.

1

Sept.

S

Portsmouth
Chester New Boston
Portsmouth
CanterburyDanville
Chester EffinghamEpsom
New Boston
Chester Pembroke
LitchfieldCanterburyCamptonConcord Deerfield
Chester EpsomStraffordSandwich
Campton GoffstownNew Boston
New Boston
Keene
Sandown

Sept. 17, as priv. ; app't'd Serg; 2d N. IT. V. June 1, 1861, to June 21, 1864;
priv. and Corp. Co. C.
Sept. 20, as priv.; app't'd Corp.; Serg. Mav 1, 1865.
Sept, 14, as priv.; app't'd Corp.; 15th N. H. V., Co. K, Oct. 16, 1862, to
Aug. 13, 1863. Died, date unknown.
Sept.'20, as priv.; app't'd Corp.; 1st N. H. V., Co. K, May 7 to June 12,
1861 ; 16th N. H. V., Co. H, Oct. 22, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Sept. 20, app't'd Corp.; 11th Mass. V. June 13, 1861, to July 24,
1864.
Sept. 14, app't'd Corp. Died Sept. 11, 1897, East Canterbury, N. H.
Sept. 13, app't'd Corp.
Sept. 14, app't'd Corp.
Sept. 21, app't'd Corp.
Sept. 17. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 20.
Sept. 14. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 19. Died, Dec. 30, 1892.
Sept. 19. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 21; disch. Julv 20, 1865.
Sept. 21. Died July 20, 1885, Waterville, N. H.
Sept. 13.
Sept. 21; diseh. Mar. 28, 1865, to accept promotion.
Sept. 14; disch. Julv 6, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 13. Died Nov. 4, 1893.
Sept. 20. Died, disease, Mav 9, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Sept. 21. Died, disease, Oct. 29, 1864, City Pomt, Va.
Sept. 21. Died Nov. 13, 1870, Plymouth, N. H.
Sept. 19.
Sept. 15; 11th Mass. Inf. Aug. 3, 1861, to Aug. 8, 1S62.
Sept. 15; 11th Mass. V. Aug. 3, 1861, to Aug. 8, 1862. Died May 5,
1893, Antrim, N. H
Sept. 1; disch. June 30, 1865. Died Feb. 6, 1883, Keene, N. H.
Sept. 19.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1864

Durgin, Calvin
Sept. 20
Effingham
Sept. 21. Died June 24, 1901, Maiden, Mass.
Dearborn, Samuel Q.
Sept. 20
Effingham
Sept. 21.
Davis, John C.
Sept. 13
Effingham
Sept. 21. Died June 5, 1870, Effingham, N. H.
Everett, George O.
Aug. 31
Derry
Sept. 14.
Emerson, Parker F.
Sept. 19
Lyme
Sept. 19.
Evans, Benjamin, Jr.
Sept. 19
Campton
Sept. 21.
Fry, John
Sept. 21
Sandwich
Sept. 21, 14th N. H. V., Co. K, Sept. 24, 1862, to Oct. 2, 1863.
Flanders, George J.
Sept. 7
Warner
Sept. 17; t?ans. to Co. G June 10, 1865; in. o. July 29, 1865. Died,
date unknown.
George, Charles
Sept. 6
Sa,ndown
Sept. 14. Died May, 1902.
Grant, David
Sept. 12
Weare
Sept. 15. Died Oct. 2, 1902.
Hood, Andrew J.
Sept. 17
Weare
Sept. 19.
Harriman, Jeremiah P.
Sept. 19
Strafford
Sept. 20. Died Dec. 28, 1893.
Jess, Thomas
Sept. 17
Milford
Sept. 20.
KimbaU, Edward P.
Sept. 19
Pembroke
Sept. 19.
Ludlow, Kendrick
Sept. 16
Canterbury
Sept. 17.
Lewis, John W.
Sept. 1
Hampton
Sept. 20; 1st N. E. Cav. Jan. 20 to June 20, 1862. Died April, 1896.
Leavitt, James A.
Sept. 20
Effingham
Sept. 21 .
Merrill, Arthur T.
Sept. 21
Northfield
Sept. 21. Died Mar. 7, 1869.
Maynard, James
Sept. 21
Dover
Sept. 21; trans, to Co.G June 10,1S65; m.o. July 29, 1865. Died Jan. 19, 1900.
McClure, James G.
Sept. 20
Goffstown
Sept. 20; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July, 29, 1S65.
Mudgett, John F.
Sept. 8
Hopkinton
Sept. 14.
Mudgett, Ezra T.
Sept. 12
Weare
Sept. 14; 11th Mass. Inf. Aug. 3, 1861, to Aug. 8, 1862.
Mudgett, George S.
Sept. 12
Weare
Sept. 14. Died Julv 22, 1899.
Mudgett, William S.
Sept. 2
Weare
Sept. 14; promoted to Prin. Mus. Jan. 1, 1865; 4th N. H. V. Sept. 18, 1861,
to Sept. 16, 1862. Died Jan. 28, 1868, Contoocook.
Nute, Jeremy H.
Sept. 13
Epsom
Sept. 14. Died, date unknown.
Pelton, Josiah C.
Sept. 23
Lyme
Sept, 23; 16th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863. Died
Oct. 8, 1899, Lyme, N. H.
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Patterson, John P.
Piper, John W.
Pickett, Leroy S.
Robinson, William H.
Selingham, Frank W.
Savoie, Francis
Sargent, Aaron D.
Stitson, John
Thomas, Jones B.
Tarlsen, George P.
Tangney, James
Upton, Edson
Underhill, Isaac F.
Wason, Albert
Wason, Eugene
Warren, Ephraim
Wyman, George R.
Winn, Samuel, Jr.
Wells, Thomas F.
Webster, David

Sept.

12

Sept.

12

Sept.

7

Sept.

6

Sept.

19

Sept.

19

Sept,

3

Sept.

15

Sept.

20

Sept.

9

Sept.

10

Sept.

16

Sept.

19

Sept.

3

Sept.

1

Aug.

29

Sept.

12

Sept.

10

Sept.

21

Sept,

20

Sept.

13

New Boston
Campton Northfield
WinchesterConcord Woodstock
ChesterChester Effingham
HinsdaleCampton Portsmouth
HopkintonChester
Chester New Boston
New Boston
Pittsfield
HinsdaleGoffstownWoodstock

Sept. 17. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 21. Died, disease, Jan. 12, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Sept. 13; 16th N. H. V.,Co. E, Oct. 23, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863. Died Oct.
29 1885
Sept.' 13; 2d N. H. V. Aug. 7, 1861, to Aug. 8, 1862. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 19; trans, to Co. G, June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Sept. 21; 3d N. H. V., Co. F, Aug. 23, 1861, to Oct. 21, 1862.
Sept. 19.
Sept. 17; disch. disab. Mch. 10, 1865, Concord; 15th N. H. V., Co. K,
Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
Sept. 21.
Sept. 9; 2d N. H. V., Co. F, Sept. 17, 1861, to Jan. 19, 1863. Died Feb.
21, 1880, Hinsdale, N. H.
Sept. 21. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 20; Co. K, 2d N. H. V., and Co. B, 17th N. H. V., Nov. 13, 1862, to
Oct. 9, 1863.
Sept. 19.
Sept. 14; app't'd Corp. May 1, 1865.
Sept. 14. Died, disease, Oct. 26, 1864, City Point, Va.
Sept. 20. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 15. Died April 23, 1S83, New Boston, N. H.
Sept. 17. Died, disease, Dec. 6, 1864, City Point, Va.
Sept. 21. Died Nov. 15, 1899.
Sept. 20.
Sept. 21; 15th N. H. V., Co. B, Oct. 8, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.

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Mustered in 1864, unless Otherwise Stated. Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.

Name and Rank

Capt. William A. Gile

1st Lieut. David C. Harriman
2d Lieut, George H. Thorn
2d Lieut. George S. Whitney
1st Serg. George S. Whitney
Serg. Harlin S. Blanchard
" Horace. W. Smith
" Norman D. Safford
" Thatcher M. Thompson
Corp. Oratus J. Verry
" Charles A. Broughton
" Daniel E. Smith
" Charles B. Lewis
" Albert W. Smith
" James F. Kimball
" John Carson
" Walter M. Flanders
Musician George Ames
Edwin R. Farley

App't'd 1864

Sept.

30

Enlisted 1864

Aug.

29

Sept.

22

Sept.

16

Sept.

22

Sept,
Sept.

23 17

Sept.Sept.

12
27

Sept.Sept.Sept.

2226 17

Sept.Sept.Sept.Sept,Sept.Sept.

23 23 22 12
2322

FranklinWarnerConwayThorntonThorntonHaverhill
CamptonChesterfield OssipeeSwanzey
ConwayConcordChesterfieldConcord Woodstock
Conway Warner Francestown
Concord

Record

Must, in
Oct. 1.

Sept. 17; priv.; app't'd 1st Lieut. Oct. 6, 1864. Died Mch. 4, 1900, Warner,
N. H.
Sept. 24; disch. disab. Mch. 13, 1865. Died May 12, 1899, Chelsea, Mass.
Mch. 15, 1865. For prior record, see below.
Sept. 28; promoted to 2d Lieut. Mar. 15, 1865; 15th N. H. V., Co. B, Serg.
Oct. 8, 1802, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died Sept. 26, 1894.
.Sept. 27; resigned warrant; disch. May 20, 1865. Died Jan. 7, 1880,
Haverhill, N. H.
Sept. 27. Died Dec. 20, 1901.
Sept. 24; app't'd 1st Serg. Apr. 1, 1865; 6th N. H. V., Co. E, Nov. 28,
1861, to Oct. 6, 1862. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 21; resigned warrant Jan. 1, 1865.
Sept, 27; resigned warrant Nov. 22, 1864; 16th N. H. V., Co. I, Oct. 23,
1802, to Aug. 20, 1863; 5th N. II. V., Co. F, Oct. 26 to Dec. 13, 1861.
Sept. 24; app't'd Serg. Apr. 1, 1865.
Sept. 26; resinned warrant Jan. 1, 1865.
Sept. 20; app't'd Serg. June 1, 1865; 17th U. S. Inf., priv. and Serg., Sept.
17, 1861, to Jan. 21, 1863.
Sept. 21. Died Feb. 27, 1880.
Sept. 27; app't'd Serg. Jan. 1, 1865.
Sept, 24. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 17; disch. May 30, 1S65.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 24.

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Bateman, John H.

Sept. 22

Concord

Bean, George W.

Sept. 22

Conway

Burbank, Ezekiel W.

Sept. 22

Conway

Booth, Charles

Sept. 26

Canterbury

Bennett, Amos W.

Sept. 26

Sandwich

Blaisdell, Franklin A.

Sept._16

Thornton

Bagley, James 0.

Sept. 16

Thornton

Batchelder, George W.

Sept. 24

Concord

Butterfield, Solomon H.

Sept. 26

Haverhill

Baker, Nathaniel E.

Sept. 14

Concord

Callahan, Michael

Sept. 22

Concord

Carter, James

Sept. 22

Conway

Cook, Henry

Sept. 22

Conway

Chase, David M.

Sept. 7

Hopkinton

Colby, John

Sept. 16

Thornton

Came, Joseph

Sept. 27

Haverhill

Dennett, William F.

Sept. 22

Conway

Davis, Timothy

Sept. 24

Concord

Donavan, William

Sept. 16

Thornton

Davis, Frank D.

Sept, 26

Haverhill

Dennett, Mark W.

Sept. 22

Conway

Eastman, Reuben

Sept. 22

Conway

Emery, James

Sept. 27

Newbury

Elliott, Alonzo W.

Sept, 23

Alton

Foss, Elbridge G.

Sept. 16

Thornton

Fuller, Henry F.

Sept. 3

Dover

Gibson, Lewis C.

Sept. 2

Henniker

Gammel, James M.

Sept. 27

Bath

Sept- 24. „ ^T TT
Sept. 24; app't'd Corp. Nov. 22, 1864. Died Mch. 30, 1886, Conway, N. H.
Sept. 24.
Sept. 26; deserted Oct. 4, 1864, Concord.
Sept. 27; 14th N. H. V., Co. K, Sept 24, 1862, to Feb. 14, 1863.
Sept. 27; 6th N. H. V., Co. A, Nov. 27, 1861, to June 24, 1862. Died,
1868.
Sept. 27; 15th N. H. V., Co. F, Sept. 2, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died
Nov. 22, 1898, Campton, N. H.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 15; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865; Co. A, 5th
N. H. V., Sept. 14, 1861, to Feb. 28, 1863.
Sept. 24; Co. F, 10th N. H. V., Sept. 23, 1862, to June 22, 1863. Died
June 1, 1871, Concord.
Sept. 24. Died Jan. 3, 1902.
Sept. 24.
Sept. 26. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 27. Died Apr. 6, 1895.
Sept. 27; deserted Oct. 4, 1864, Concord.
Sept. 24.
Sept. 24. Died Feb. 14, 1891.
Sept. 27. Died Jan. 13, 1865, Citv Point, Va.
Sept. 27. Killed Sept. 30, 1869, on N. Y. & N. H. R. R.
Sept. 24; disch. May 30, 1865, Washington, D. C. Died Nov. 4, 1885,
Conway, N. H.
Sept. 24. Died, date unknown.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 23; disch. June 5, 1865.
Sept. 27. Died, 1892.
Sept. 27. Died Feb. 26, 1896.
Sept. 3.
Sept. 27; disch. June 16, 1865.

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Privates

Enlisted 1864

Harriman, Frank P.

Aug. 29

Warner

Sept. 17; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.

Hill. David B.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24.
Heath, Charles W.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24; disch. June 27, 1865. Died 1894.
Hale, Lorenzo F.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24.
Hill, Charles A.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24. Died Nov. 11, 1899.
Harriman, Leonidas
Sept. 5
Warner
Sept. 17; app't'd Corp. Jan. 2, 1865. Died Sept. 30, 1891.
Holmes, Ozias J.
Sept. 24
Campton
Sept. 27.
Hix, Orrimas S.
Sept. 27
Haverhill
Sept. 27.
Heath, George A.
Sept, 22
Conway
Sept, 24; disch. May 30, 1865. Died June 20, 1900.
Hill, John P.
Sept. 8
Swanzey
Sept. 21 ; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Jones, WiUiam
Sept. 20
Woodstock
Sept. 27.
Johnson, Romanzo
Sept. 20
Thornton
Sept. 27. Died 1893.
Kendell, John B.
Sept. 22
Woodstock
Sept. 24.
Keith, Edwin A.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24. Died, date unknown.
Leach, Samuel M.
Sept. 22
New Boston
Sept. 24.
Lovejoy, Henrv C.
Sept. 26
Epsom
Sept. 26.
McNorton, Hugh
Sept, 22
Conway
Sept. 24; app't'd Corp. Apr. 1, 1865.
Mason, John
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24.
Merrill, Ormand W.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24.
Merrow, Benjamin N.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24. Died, date unknown.
Murphy, John H.
Sept. 23
Concord
Sept. 24. Died June 13, 1870.
Morton, Wilson E.
Sept. 23
Concord
Sept. 24. Died Dec. 19, 1893, Concord.
Myers, Peter W.
Sept. 23
Concord
Sept. 26.
Morrison, Alva
Sept. 16
Thornton
Sept. 27; disch. June 27, 1865.
Merrill, Walter 0.
Sept. 20
Thornton
Sept. 27; disch. June 17, 1865.
Merrill, David
Sept. 20
Thornton
Sept. 27; disch. June 15, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Owens, Patrick
Sept. 21
Concord
Sept. 21; 6th N. H. V., Co. G, Nov. 28, 1861, to June 9, 1863.
Purkis, John M.
Sept. 19
Campton
Sept, 24.
Pitman, Joseph P.
Sept. 22
Conway
Sept. 24; app't'd Corp. Jan. 1, 1865. Died, date unknown.
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Puffer, Simon E.
Rines, Alvah C.
Smart, Thomas J.
Seavy, Orin
Sackett, Noble
Smith, Thomas J.
Thompson, William G.
Thurston, Frank J.
Wilson, James E.
Willis, Don F.
Whitney William H.
Welsh, Charles
Wallace, Person

Sept. 20

Campton

Sept. 26

Haverhill

Sept. 26

New Durham

Sept. 21

Concord

Sept. 22

Conway

Sept. 13

Barnstead

Sept. 20

Woodstock

Sept. 20

Campton

Sept. 20

Thornton

Sept. 26

Campton

Sept. 26

Haverhill

Sept. 20

Thornton

Sept. 9

Hinsdale

Sept. 24

Haverhill

Capt. George W. Bosworth
1st Lieut. Samuel H. Dow
2d Lieut. Oliver A. Gibbs
2d Lieut. Henry P. Gage
1st Serg. Henry P. Gage
Serg. Bowers H. Bell
" Daniel O. Beverstock
" Humphrev M. Tyler
" Curtis Hicks
Corp. William F. Hanscom
" Freeman W. Fairfield

Sept. 27. Died July 8, 1891.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 26; 7th N. H. V., Co. H, Nov. 8, 1861 , to June 5, 1863.
Sept. 24. Died Mch. 1, 1900, Brentwood, N. H.
Sept. 24; disch. June 6, 1865. Died Mch. 7, 1900.
Sept. 26; 12th N. II. V., Co. B, Aug. 30, 1862, to Aug. 29, 1863. Died
Aug. 27, 1885, Barnstead, N. H.
Sept. 21.
Sept. 27; app't'd Corp. June 1, 1865. Died Dec. 11, 1867, Campton, N. H.
Sept. 27; 4th N. H. V., Co. D, Sept. IS, 1861, to May 3, 1862.
Sept. 26.
Sept 27; disch. Mav 27, 1865, Concord.
Sept. 27.
Sept. 9.
Sept. 29; disch. June 23, 1865. Died, date unknown.
COMPANY F
Mustered in 1864. Mustered out June 10, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Must, in Record
Sept. 30, as priv. ; app't'd Capt. Oct. 13, 1864. Died Dec. 8, 1901, Amherst, N. H.
Sept. 13, as priv. : app't'd 1st Lieut. Oct. 13, 1864; disch. disab. Mch. 13, 1865.
App't'd Sept. 30; promoted 1st Lieut. Apr. 12, 1865. See Co. C.
Apr. 12, 1865. For prior record, see below.
Oct. 30; promoted to 2d Lieut., Co. F, Apr. 12, 1S65.
Sept. 28; Co. F, 1st N. H. V., May 1 to Aug. 9, 1861: Co. L, 3d Mass.
Cav., Oct. 14, 1861, to June 16, 1862.
Sept. 27; Co. G, Serg. 16th N. H. V., Oct. 25, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Sept. 14. Died May 26, 1887, National Home, Togus, Me.
Sept. 27; disch. June 3, 1865. Died Sept. 12, 1891.
Sept, 28. Died Mav 29, 1896, Lynn, Mass.
Sept. 24; 1st N. H! V., Co. G, "Mav 2 to Aug. 9, 1861; 2d N. H. V.,
Co. A, Aug. 24, 1861, to Aug. 24, 1864.

Sept.

20

Sept.

7

Sept.

2

Sept.

1

Sept,

20

Sept.

27

Sept,

3

Sept.

21

Sept.

9

Sept.

24

LyndeboroCampton Dover Orford
OrfordNashuaNelson
Milford HaverhillBarnsteadStoddard

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Name and Rank

Corp. Milan W. Atwood
" Harris J. Goss
Leonard Stewart
" Horatio A. Eaton
Levi E. Cross
" Charles W. Fifleld
Musician Nathan W. Gove
" Edwin H. Grimes
Privates
Adams, Charles
Allen, Winfield N.
Brown, David
Bagley, Charles M.

Buttrick, Caldwell
Braddish, Levi
Bully, Peter
Baker, William H.
Burns, Matthew
Clark, John H.
Curran, John
Cilley, James A.
Cross, Cyrus
Chandler, Benjamin

Enlisted

1864

Sept.

27

Sept.

27

Sept.

12

Sept.

21

Sept.

19

Sept.

14

Sept.

24

Sept. 27

Oct.

1

Oct.

5

Sept.

29

Oct.

4

Sept.

19

Sept.

28

Oct.

12

Oct.

17

Oct.

19

Oct.

11

Oct.

1

Oct.

1

Sept.

19

Oct.

14

NelsonWentworth
WarnerWashingtonHudson
ConcordConcordConcord
Concord New Boston
Tamworth Goffstown

Pelham
HaverhillManchester
Holderness
Manchester
ConcordConcord
ConcordHudsonManchester

Record

Sept. 27. Died June 15, 1865, Georgetown, D. C.
Oct. 27; wd. Mch. 29, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va.; reduced to ranks Jan. 19,
1865; disch. Mav 25, 1865, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sept, 17. Died Jan. 10, 1900.
Sept. 29; 16th N. H. V., Co. I, Oct, 23, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Sept. 28; Co. A, 8th N. H. V., Oct. 25, 1S61, to Oct. 27, 1862.
Sept. 21; 8th N. H. V., Oct. 25, 1861, to Oct. 27, 1862.
Sept. 24; promoted to Prin. Mus. Jan. 1, 1865. Died Aug. 8, 1871
Concord, N. H.
Sept. 30; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; disch. Aug. 11, 1865.
Oct. 1.
Oct. 6; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.
Sept, 29; disch. June 21, 1865.
Oct. 4; trans, to Co. II June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865; Co. A, 6th N
H. V., Nov. 27, 1861, to Julv 27, 1862, and Co. A, 15th N. II. V., Oct
20, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died June 18, 1884.
Sept. 28.
Sept. 28. Died Jan. 10, 1885, Grand Junction, Colo.
Oct, 14; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.
Oct. 17; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; disch. July 5, 1865.
Oct. 19; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 11; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 3; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865; Co. C, 3d
N. H. V., Aug. 23, 1861, to Aug. 23, 1864. Died, date unknown.
Oct. 1.
Sept. 28.
Oct. 14; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; re., o. July 29, 1865. Died,
date unknown.

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Duffy, J oh .
Dow, George L.
Doneley, John
Duffy, John
Dow, Samuel H.
Eastman, Rendall
Flanders, Laurin
Furgerson, William
Garnett, John
Gordon, Orville C.
Harris, Henry Ii.
Hobbs, Frank K.
Hancock, Nathan P.

Hancock, Henry H.
Holt, Joseph
Hunt, Frank S.
Jacobs, Timothy
Jones, Israel
Johnson, John
Kingsbury, George
Knowlton, Henry J.
Kinerson, Francis W.
Lowery, Patrick
Lewis, James
Lacomb, Simon M.
Lesherville, Joseph
Lamarche, Azrie
Lagen, John

Sept

27

Oct.

5

Sept

28

Oct.

5

Sept

27

Sept

7

Oct.

20

Sept

22

Oct.

19

Oct.

1

Oct.

17

Sept.

23

Sept,

14

Oct.

10

Oct.

10

Sept.

27

Oct.

17

Oct.

18

Sept.

28

Oct.

19

Sept.

27

Sept.

27

Oct.

19

Oct.

15

Oct.

17

Oct.

17

Oct.

20

Oct.

20

Oct.

1

NelsonManchesterGilfordNewburyNashua
Campton.Concord Nashua
ManchesterManchesterGilford
Concord Ossipee
Concord

Windham
Chesterfield Concord ManchesterWoodstockManchester Francestown
NelsonManchesterManchesterManchesterConcordManchester
ManchesterCanterbury

8th N. H.
Died, date

Sept. 27.
Oct. 11; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Sept. 28. Died, date unknown.
Oct, 5; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Sept. 28; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Sept. 13; disch. disab. Mch. 13, 1865, as 1st Lieut.
Oct. 20; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 28. Died Sept. 15, 1894.
Oct. 19; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 1; trans, to Co. II June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct, 17; disch., injury, June 14, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Sept, 24; app't'd Com. Serg. Nov. 1, 1864.
Sept. 24; app't'd 1st Serg. May 1, 1865.
Oct. 10; trans, to Co. G June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865;
V., Co. F, and V. R. C, Dec. 20, 1861, to Apr. 18, 1864.
unknown.
Oct. 10; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Sept. 28; disch. May 18, 1865.
Oct. 17; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
unknown.
Oct. 18; deserted May 26, 1865, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sept. 28.
Oct. 20; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 1.
Sept. 27. _. ,
Oct. 20: disch. disab. May 11, 1865, Washington, D. C. Died Oct.
1876,' Andover, N. H.
Oct, 17; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct, 17; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 17; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 20; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865. Died, disease, June 14, 1865.
Oct 20; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; disch. July 11, 1865.
Oct, 3; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died, date
unknown.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1864

Maguire, Scott

Oct. 20

Manchester

Oct. 20; deserted Apr. 23, 1865; appreh. and ret. to 59th Mass
Apr. 25, 1865, as a deserter.

. Inf.

Merrill, Stephen

Sept. 28

Thornton

Sept. 28; disch. June 2, 1865. Died July 17, 1900.

Morgan, Harris W.
Oct. 6
Wolfeborough
Oct. 6; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865. Died Jan. 2,
1889, Wolfeborough, N. H.
Masterson, William
Oct. 12
Manchester
Oct. 14; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.
McCartee. John
Oct. 20
Manchester
Oct. 20; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; disch. June 26, 1865.
Newman, Frank H.
Sept. 9
Hillsborough
Sept. 14; app't'd Hosp. St'd Nov. 1, 1864; 16th N. II. V., Oct. 23,
to Aug. 20, 1863.
1862,
Osborn, Alverton P.
Oct. 1
Concord
Oct. 3; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. Julv 29, 1865.
Piper, Charles W.
Sept. 30
Concord
Sept. 30.
Peaslee, Jesse H.
Sept. 21
Thornton
Sept. 28.
Robertson, Curtis B.
Oct. 1
Concord
Oct. 1. Died Feb. 21, 1898, Boston, Mass.
Roundly, Edward D.
Sept. 27
Surry
Sept. 27.
Robinson, James
Sept. 28
Concord
Sept. 28.
Reed, WiUiam
Oct. 4
New Boston
Oct. 5; app't'd Corp.; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; disch. June 23,
1 Qfi£
Rush, John F.
Sept. 7
Orford
loOD.
Sept. 7; 6th N. H. V., Co. A, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Jan. S, 1902, Enfield, N. H.
Died
Reynolds, Thomas
Oct. 20
Manchester
Oct. 20; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Stmehour, Freeman R.
Oct. 11
Alstead
Oct. 11; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; in. o. July 29, 1865.
Sharon, Stephen S.
Sept. 28
Woodstock
Sept. 28; app't'd Wagoner.
Saunders, Edward
Sept. 29
Concord
Sept. 29.
Snow, Henry E.
Sept. 6
Warner
Sept. 13.
Town, Solomon
Oct. 19
Manchester
Oct. 19; disch. disab. Apr. 4, 1865, Philadelphia, Pa.
Verrv, Charles W.
Oct. 4
Winchester
Oct. 4; trans, to Co. H June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Whittier, Clarion T.
Oct. 1
Concord
Oct. 1. Died, date unknown.
Williams, John
Oct. 5
Stratford
Oct, 5; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
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Wells, Gustavus B.
Way, Charles

Oct. 14
Oct. 15
Oct. 17

Chatham ManchesterManchester

Oct. 14; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; m. o. July 29, 1865.
Oct. 17; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; disch. July 1, 1865.
unknown.
Oct. 17; trans, to Co. I June 10, 1865; disch. July 21, 1865.
COMPANY G

Died, 1873.
Died, date

Mustered in 1865, unless Otherwise Stated. Mustered out July 29, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.

Capt. Willis G. C. Kimball
1st Lieut. Clarion H. KimbaU
2d Lieut. Thomas F. Dodge
1st Serg. Frank P. Hall
Serg. George F. Batchelder
"' Horace L. Ingalls

" Amos F. Varnoy
" Charles H. Allen
Corp. Orrin C. Temple
" Orestes I. Bean
" Samuel C. Bruce
" Charles M. Hayden
" Alfred H. Colburn
" Ransom R. Wheeler

William Tabor
William G. Fitts

Enlisted 1864
Sept. 12

Concord

App't'd 1865
Jan. 24
Feb. 14
Enlisted
Feb. 6, 1865
Dec. 3, 1864
Dec. 16, 1864

Hopkinton
LondonderryConcord Concord Bristol

Nov. 16,
Jan. 2,

1S64
1865

East Kingston
Dover

Nov. 30,
Dee. 30,
Jan. 16,

1864
18641865

AntrimCandiaConcord

Jan. 26,
Feb. 4,
Jan. 27,

186518651S65

Concord Bradford Gilsum

Dec. 3,
Jan. 2,

18641865

ConcordCandia

Must, in Record
Jan. 24; app't'd Capt. Jan. 24, 1865.

Feb. 13.
Mch. 6.

Died 1902.

Feb. 6; 16th N . H. V., Co. D, Serg., Oct. 24, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Dec. 3, 1864; 17th and 2d N. H. V., Dec. 26, 1862, to Oct. 9, 1863.
Dec, 16, 1864; app't'd Com. Serg. July 25, 1865; 1st N. H. V., Co.
I, May 4 to Ausr. 9, 1861; 8th N. H. V., Co. H, Corp. and Serg.,
Dec. 21, 1861, to May 21, 1863.
Nov. 16, 1864; reduced to ranks Mch. 13, 1865.
Jan. 2; reduced to ranks July 6, 1865. Serg. Co. K, 3d N. H. V.,
Aug. 24, 1861, to Sept. 22, 1864. Died June 20, 1894, Plaistow.
Nov. 30, 1864; app't'd Serg. Mav 29, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Dec. 30, 1S64; reduced to ranks Mar. 23, 1865.
Jan. 16; Co. F, 5th Mass. V. Militia, July 16 to Nov. 10, 1864.
Died 1896.
Jan. 26; reduced to ranks Apr. 30, 1865.
Feb. 4; app't'd Serg. July 6, 1865.
Jan. 27; reduced to ranks June 12, 1865; 1st N. H. V., Co. D, Mav
2 to Aug. 9, 1861; 4th N. H. V., Co. I, Sept. 18, 1861, to Sept.
27, 1864.
Dec. 3, 1864; disch. Aug. 8, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Jan. 2; disch. June 17, 1865. Died Mch. IS, 1877, Candia, N. H.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted

Brown, Joseph
Nov. 16,
1864
Dover
Nov. 16, 1864; deserted May 29, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Blanchard, Charles H .
Dec. 29,
1864
Groton
Dec. 29, 1864.
Burnes, James
Jan. 12,
1865
Holderness
Jan. 12.
Batehelder, Andrew J.
Jan. 6,
1865
North Hampton
Jan. 6.
Blake, Orlando L.
Jan. 6,
1S65
North Hampton
Jan. 6.
Blood, Daniel F.
Jan. 30,
1865
Plainfield
Jan. 30; Co. A, 14th U. S. Inf., Aug. 27, 1861 , to Feb. 4, 1863.
Blood. George W.
Jan. 16,
1865
Plainfield
Jan. 16.
Barrows, Albert E.
Jan. 27,
1865
Richmond
Jan. 27.
Barker, Wilfrid
Feb. 6,
1865
Portsmouth
Feb. 6; wd. and died of wds. Apr. 2, 1865, Petersburg, Va.
Bailey, Stephen E.
Feb. 9,
1865
Concord
Feb. 9.
I'radly, James
Feb. 8,
1865
Walpole
Feb. 8; deserted May 29, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Boyle, Henry
Feb. 11,
1865
Concord
Feb. 11; app't'd Serg. Mar. 13, 1865; reduced to ranks May 29,
1865; reported on m. o. roll as absent, sick, since May 2, 1865.
Burns, John
Dec. 20,
1864
Boscawen
Dec. 20, 1864. Died accidental wds. Jan. 24, 1S65, Concord.
Conner, Thomas
Nov. 28,
1864
Dover
Nov. 28, 1864.
Carter, Frank A.
Dec. 14,
1864
Concord
Dec. 14, 1864; app't'd Corp. June 19, 1865. Died June 5, 1888,
Concord.
rate, Lewis If.
Jan. 2,
1865
Candia
Jan. 2.
Carr, .Samuel L.
Jan. 5,
1865
Candia
Jan. 5; Co. B, 2d N. H. V., June 1, 1861, to Mch. 15, 1862; U. S. N.,
1862-63. Died Aug. 12, 1881.
Corev, Ashton L.
Sept. 6,
1864
Hanover
Sept. 6, 1864; disch. June 10, 1865.
Clark, Edwaid J.
Feb. 8,
1 865
Concord
Feb. 8; deserted Mar. IS, 1S65, Citv Point, Va.
Drowne, John
Jan. 27,
1865
Eaton
Jan. 27. Died Jan. 27, 1900, Providence, R. I.
Davis, William
Feb. 9,
1865
Stark
Feb 9.
Easlman, Edson A.
Feb. 3,
1865
Concord
Feb. 3; 7th N. II. V., Co. A, Nov. 7, 1861, to Feb. 18, 1862.
Floreiic, Charles H.
Nov. 16,
1S64
Dover
Nov. 10, 1861.
Fifield, John C.
Dec. 29,
1864
Candia
Dee. 29, 1S64; diseh. June 17, 1865. Died May 17, 1897.
Franklin. George B.
Jan. 3,
1865
So. New M'k't
Jan. 3; diseh. June 30, 1S65.
(leary, Martin
Jan. 12,
1S65
Allenstown
Jan. 12; deserted May 29, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
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Goss, John
Huse, Stephen D.
Happeney, James R.
Hunt, Henry
Harriman, Chancy
Ingalls, Hiram B.
Ingalls, William H.
Jones, James
Jenness, Samuel
King, James
Lain, William
Lamprey, Clarence S.
Lowell, Joseph W.
Merrifield, George L.
Mears, John W.
Mace, John W.
Moultroup, Charles
Martin, George
Murray, Jackson
McGinnis, Thomas J.
Moores, John
Mason, George A.
Marden, David
Mc\lpine, Gilman
Nichols, Robert
Pelren, Severe
Paul, Sidney N.
Paul, Albert
Powers, Thomas F.
Pratt, Isaiah
Pattee, Henry H.

Jan.

9,

1865

Feb.

7,

1865

Dec.

29,

1864

Dec.

28,

1864

Dec.

13,

1864

Jan.

27,

1865

Dec.

16,

1864

Dec.

28,

1864

Jan.

6,

1865

Dec,

12,

1864

Dec.

1,

1864

Nov.

16,

1864

Dec,

28,

1864

Feb.

H,

1865

Jan.

2

1S65

Jan.

3'

1865

Jan.

7,

1865

Dec.

31,

1864

Dec.

1,

1864

Dec.

10,

1864

Dec.

10,

1864

Dec.

10,

1864

Jan.

23,

1865

Dec.

26,

1864

Jan.

7,

1865

Nov

16,

1861

Jan.

3,

1865

Dec.

15,

1864

Jan.

27,

1865

Jan.

0,

1865

Dec.

31,

1864

Jan.

IS,

1865

Kingston
Hanover Bristol
ConcordAntrim Eaton
Franklin Lebanon
Concord Strafford
Antrim Dover
ConcordConcordCandiaCandia North Hampton
Walpole Gilford
LebanonLebanonCanaan Dover
Concord GrotonDover
Concord DoverEaton
Concord
WalpoleAlexandria

Jan. 9; disch. Aug. 11, 1865; 60th Mass., July 23 to Nov. 30, 1864;
U. S. N. May 14, 1863, to May 13, 1864.
Feb. 7. Died, date unknown.
Dee. 29, 1864. Died Jan. 12, 1902, Bristol, N. H.
Dec. 28, 1864.
Dec. 13, 1864; deserted Mch. 28, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va.
Jan. 27; disch. June 30, 1865.
Dec. 16, 1864; 1st Mass. Inf. May 22 to July 27, 1862.
Dec. 28, 1864; app't'd Corp. Mav 29, 1865; reduced to ranks June
19, 1865.
Jan. 6.
Dec. 12, 1864.
Dec. 1, 1864; deserted Apr. 28, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Nov. 16, 1864; deserted Mav 29, 1865, TennaUytown, D. C.
Dec. 28, 1864.
Feb. 11.
Jan. 2. Died, date unknown.
Jan. 3; app't'd Corp. July 9, 1865.
Jan. 7.
Dec. 31, 1864.
Dec. 1, 1864. Died July 15, 1893, Portsmouth, N. H.
Dec. 10, 1864.
Dec. 10, 1864.
Dec, 10, 1864; disch. Aug. 11, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Jan. 23; disch. June 2, 1865.
Dec. 26, 1864.
Jan. 7; disch. disab. May 16, 1865.
Nov. 16, 1864; deserted May 29, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Jan. 3.
Dec. 15, 1864.
Jan. 27.
Jan. 6; deserted Apr. 1, 1865, Ft. Stedman, Va.
Dec. 31, 1864. Died Sept., 1S70.
Jan. 18; app't'd Corp. May 29, 1865.

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Name and Rank

Privates

Enlisted

Priker, David

Feb.

H,

1865

Deering

Smith, Charles E.

Jan.

19,

1865

Barrington

Snider, William

Jan.

10,

1865

Hooksett

Sargent, Joseph E.

Jan.

7,

1865

Concord

Schnider, Herman F.

Jan.

31,

1S65

Bedford

Stevens, Edward

Jan.

31,

1865

Bradford

Sweeney, John

Dec.

2,

1864

Boscawen

Scales, Charles F.

Jan.

6,

1805

Concord

Smith, John

Nov.

17,

1864

East Kingston

Smith, William

Feb.

2,

1865

Concord

Shanks, John

Dec.

3,

1S64

Concord

Wilkinson, John

Jan.

10,

1865

Hooksett

Whitehouse, Jeremiah

Jan.

19,

1865

Barrington

Welch, Joseph

Dec.

13,

1864

Concord

Wheeler, Benjamin F.

Feb.

9,

1865

Salem

Record

Feb. 11; disch. July 8, 1865.
Jan. 19; disch. disab. May 20, 1865. Died Mav 23, 1890.
Jan. 10; app't'd Corp. Mch. 13, 1865.
Jan. 7; 15th N. H. V., Co. G, Oct. 18, 1802, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died
Mch. 17, 1865, Gallops Island, Mass.
Jan. 31.
Jan. 31; 16th N. II. V., Co. H, Oct, 23, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Dec. 2, 1S64.
Jan. 6; app't'd Corp. Mch. 23, 1S65; 3d N. H. V., Co. E, Aug. 23,
1861, to Aug. 23, 1864.
Nov. 17, 1864; disch. May 6, 1865.
Feb. 2; app't'd Corp. June 1, 1865.
Dec. 3, 1864. Died, date unknown,
Jan. 10; deserted May 29, 1S65, Tennallytown, D. C.
Jan. 19. Died July 17, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Dec. 13, 1864; deserted May 29, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Feb. 9. '

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Mustered in 1865. Mustered out July 29, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Must, in Record

Capt. Silas F. Learnard
1st Lieut. Washington Perkins
2d Lieut. Robert K. Flanders

1st Serg. Moses N. Holmes
Serg. Cyrus S. Dolloff
" Edwin Hill
" Augustus P. Greenough
" David M. Howard
Corp. David W. Coffin
" Jackson C. Bickford
" Nathaniel O. Kimball
" Benjamin F. Kelley
" Joseph Russell
" Frank G. Bussell
" John T. Lovitt
" Timothy G. Moores
Musician Joseph R. Morse

App't'd 1865

Feb.
Feb.

9
20

1864

Nov.

30

Enlisted 1865

Feb.

14

Jan.

26

Feb.
Jan.Jan. Feb.

4
.27 27 21

Feb.

3

Feb.Feb.

IS 3

Feb.

21

Jan.Jan. Feb.Feb.

302721
21

Chester Londonderry
Concord

Londonderry
ChesterConcordChester Rochester Londonderry
Manchester
Concord Northwood
Gilford
Candia
Chester Concord
Chester

Mch. 7. Died Aug. 4, 1890, Chester, N. H.
Mch. 7. Died July 10, 1895, Londonderry, N. H.
Mch. 7.

Feb. 14; reduced to ranks June 15, 1865; Corp. Co. H, 15th N. H. V.,
Oct. 11, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
Jan. 26; 16th N. H. V., Co. K, Oct. 16, 1862, to Oct. 16, 1863. Died
March, 1897.
Feb. 4; app't'd 1st Serg. Julv 1, 1865.
Jan. 27.
Jan. 27.
Feb. 21; Serg. Co. C, 1st N. H. V., Mav 2 to Aug. 9, 1861; 2d Co.,
N. H. H'y Art., Aug. 18, 1863, to Sept. 15, 1864.
Feb. 3; app't'd Serg. July 1, 1865; Co. D, 3d N. H. V., Aug. 23, 1861, to
Aug. 23, 1864.
Feb. IS; 8th N. H. V., priv. and Corp., Sept. 12, 1862, to Jan. 2, 1865.
Feb. 3, as priv.; app't'd Corp. Mar. 7, 1865; reduced to ranks Apr. 15,
1865; disch. July 1, 1865, Concord.
Feb. 21; reduced to ranks Mav 15, 1865; app't'd Corp. Julv 1, 1865. Died
Dec. 23, 1888, Nashua, N. H.
Jan. 30; reduced to ranks Apr. 15, 1865.
Jan. 27.
Feb. 21.
Feb. 21. 2d N. H. V., June 3, 1861, to Aug. 7, 1S62. Died Dec. 21, 1877,
Chester, N. H.

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Musician Lewis D. Moore
Wagoner Ephraim Nichols
Privates
Adams, Samuel S.
Ballou, Jonathan
Pallou, Alexander M.
Burns, Arthur
Brown, John
Bowley, John
Clay, David
Creed, Cornelius
Colburn, Willard E.
Canney, Andrew J.
Cate, John G.
Clark, Thomas B.
Dow, Ephraim
Davis, I.ucian H.
Davis, John L.
Dorsey, James H.
Drown, Oscar A.
Erley, Michael
Esty, John H.
Fra'ry, Jedediah C. W.
Fowier, Abel K.
Foster, Silas E.
Goldsmith, Albert B.

Enlisted

1865

Feb.

7

Jan.

27

Jan.

27

Feb.

14

Feb.

It

Mch

3

Feb.

24

Feb.

21

Feb.

10

Feb.

25

Jan.

26

Jan.

27

Feb.

8

Feb.

8

Feb.

21

Feb.

21

Feb.

21

Feb.

28

Feb.

21

Feb.

16

Feb.

14

Feb.

10

Feb.

9

Feb.

15

Feb.

7

CandiaChesterChester Auburn
Auburn Loudon
Mont Vernon
DerryBarrington
Canaan
Chester FarmingtonRochesterPortsmouthA c wort h
GilfordGilfordWalpoleSan down
LancasterLondonderryBowSouth Hampton
Bradford
Chester

Feb. 7. 17th Mass Inf. July 22, 1861, to Mch. 12, 1862.
Jan. 27. Died, date unknown.
Jan. 27; app't'd Corp. Mav 15, 1865. Died Sept. 19, 1872.
Feb. 14; Co. E, 15th N. H. V., Oct. 15, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died,
date unknown.
Feb. 14.
Mch. 3.
Feb. 24. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 21; diseh. June 17, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 10; disch. June 16, 1865.
Feb. 25.
Jan. 26. Died Jan 27, 1901.
Jan. 27.
Feb. 8; Co. G, 8th N. H. V., priv. and Corp., Dec. 20, 1861, to Jan. 18,
1S65. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 8. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 21; diseh. disab. Mav 29, 1S65.
Feb. 21 ; disch. June 3, 1865.

Died, date unknown.
Died, date unknown.

Feb. 21.
Feb. 28; disch. June 12, 1865.
Feb. 21 ; disch. June 16, 1865.
Feb. 16; disch. June 17, 1865.
Feb. 14; diseh. July 8, 1865.
Feb. 10; disch. May 6, 1S65. Died Sept. 20, 1874, Concord.
Feb. 9; 15th N. H. V., Co. I, Oct, 14, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863. Died
Mch. 17, 1898.
Feb. 15. Died Feb. 24, 1898, Manchester, N. H.
Feb. 7. Died, disease, Feb. 25, 1865. Concord.

Greely, Frank O.
Howard, Ephraim
Hall, Oi
Hook, Henry H.
Johnson, George W.
Jackson, Nicholas
Kelley, Charles O.
LawTence, Richard C, Jr.
Lane, George McL.
Langley, Joseph A.
Lovett, James
Mulligan, Edward
Morse, Fred D.
Main, Jacob C.
Maxfield, Edwin E.
Merrill, George E.
MarshaU, William
Nevens, William P.
Pearl, George 0.
Plummer, Granville F.
Prescott, Thomas R.
Quimby, John L.
Roby, Benjamin F.
Robie, William B.
Robie, Charles B.
Reed, Alpheus S.
Robbins, Walter S.
Roberts, Andrew J.
Reed, George
Shaw, Jackson
Stimpson, Curtis

Feb.

21

Jan.

27

Feb.

17

Jan.

26

Jan.

28

Feb.

7

Feb.

10

Jan.

26

Mch.

16

Feb.

14

Feb.

21

Feb.

6

Jan.

27

Feb.

7

Feb.

22

Mch

6

Feb.

28

Feb.

14

Feb.

9

Feb.

14

Feb.

17

Jan.

30

Jan.

5

Jan.

26

Jan.

27

Feb.

S

Feb.

9

Feb.

10

Feb.

24

Jan.

28

Jan.

31

Londonderry Rochester Bradford
Chester RochesterBarrington
SalemChesterHooksettNottinghamGilford
Manchester
ChesterConcord GilmantonDerryDerry
LondonderryRochesterLondonderry Nottingham
CandiaConcordChesterChesterDoverLondonderry RaymondDerryRochesterRaymond

Feb. 21. Died, disease, Mch. 6, 1865, Concord.
Jan. 27.
Feb. 17; promoted Corp. Apr. 15, 1865.
Jan. 26; Martin Guards, July 25 to Sept. 16. 1864. Died, disease, Feb. 2,
1S65, Concord.
Jan. 28. Died, disease, May 27, 1865.
Died, date unknown.

app't'd Corp.; Martin Guards July 25 to Sept. 16, 1864.
60th Mass., July 23 to Nov. 30, 1864.
Died Feb. 27, 1896, Manchester, N. H.

G, 1st Lieut.,

Feb. 7.
Feb. 10.
Jan. 26;
Mch. 16;
Feb. 14,
Feb. 21.
Feb. 6.
Jan. 27; disch. June 30, 1865.
Feb. 7; disch. Aug. 17, 1865; 8th N. H. V., Co.
Dec. 23, 1861, to Mch. 3, 1863. Died Aug. 21, 1880.
Feb. 22; disch. July 1, 1S65. Died Aug. 12, 1898, at Gilmanton.
Mch. 6. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 28. Died, disease, Mch. 29, 1865, City Point, Va.
Feb. 14.
Feb. 9.
Feb. 14; disch. June 21, 1865.
Feb. 17; disch. disab. June 15, 1865.
Jan. 30; disch. June 17, 1865.
Jan. 5; deserted Feb. 11, 1865; appreh. Feb. 13, 1S65. Died May 11
1871, Concord.
Jan. 26. Died Jan. 20, 1874, Bradford, Mass.
Died Oct. 23, 1871.
Died May 12, 1S97.
Died Nov. 30, 18S2, Wentworth, N. II.
disch. June 17, 1865. Died Aug. 30, 1887, Eppinsr, N. H.

Jan. 27
Feb. 8.
Feb. 9.
Feb. 10;
Feb. 24
Jan. 28:
Jan. 31 ;

15th N. H. V., Co. I, Oct. 11, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
2d N. H. V., Co. B, Sept. 9, 1861, to Sept. 9, 1864.

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Privates
Slate, Lyman J.
Smith, George W.
Sanborn, Orrin O.
Scully, John C.
Sock, Peter
Shepard, Fldgar H.
Thorn, Charles
Underhill, William H.
UnderhiU, Benjamin F.
Woods, Horace E.
Wallace, WiUiam P.
Williams, Charles W.
Wilson, George W.
Wilson, Daniel J.
Woodbury, Samuel L.

Enlisted

1865

Feb.

14

Feb.

21

Feb.

21

Feb.

27

Mch

6

Feb.

23

Feb.

15

Jan.

26

Jan.

27

Feb.

9

Feb.

21

Feb.

21

Feb.

27

Feb.

27

Feb.

14

LondonderryGilford
Gilford
Londonderry
ManchesterDerryWhitefield
Chester
ChesterLondonderryLondonderryHampsteadLondonderry
Hampstead
Londonderry

Record

Feb. 14;
Feb. 21.
Feb. 21;
Feb. 27.
Mch. 6;
Feb. 23.
Feb. 15.
Jan. 26.
Jan. 27.
Feb. 9.
Feb. 21.
Feb. 21.
Feb. 27;
Feb. 27;
Feb. 14.

disch. June 22, 1865.
disch. July 1, 1865. Died Aug. 16, 1865, Lake Village, N. H.
deserted June 10, 1865, Georgetown, D. C.
Died, disease, Mch. 6, 1865, Concord.
Died, date unknown.

disch. June 17, 1865.
disch. May 6, 1865.
Died, disease, Feb. 27, 1865.

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Mustered in 1865. Mustered out July 29, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.

Capt. Benjamin B. Thompson
1st Lieut. Fred'k L. Dodge
2d Lieut. Edward K. White
1st Serg. Horace H. Rolfe

Serg. Samuel T. Dow
" M. Thos. H. Maguire
" George B. Cram
" Seth B. Keith, Jr.
Corp. Edward W. Cowan
" Edward B. Earle
" George W. Demeritt
" Nicholas E. Whiting
" Charles H. Lee
" Nathaniel A. Tuttle
" Granville A. Siegars
Mus. William F. Wallace
" Thomas M. Lear
Wagoner Smith Emerson
Privates
Amadon, Frank E.
Barr, Albert T.
Blaisdell, Robinson

App't'd

1865

Jan.

24

Feb.

22

Enlisted

Mch.

3

Feb.

20

Feb.

28

Feb.

7

Feb.

16

Feb.

17

Mch.

1

Mch.

7

Feb.

6

Feb.

15

Feb.

7

Feb.

13

Feb.

28

Mch.

6

Mch.

9

Feb.

21

Mch.

1

Feb.

14

Feb.

14

Wolfeborough Portsmouth
ManchesterAlton

Northwood
Manchester Raymond
LaconiaManchesterStratfordLee Eaton
ManchesterManchesterFarmington
ConcordConcord Kingston
TroyManchesterMadison

Must, in

Record

Mch. 22.
Mch. 22. Died Sept. 10, 1891, at Detroit, Mich.
Mch. 3, as priv., Co. K; app't'd 2d Lieut. Mch. 22; m. o. July 3, 1865.
Died, date unknown.
Feb. 20; 9th N. H. V., Co. F, Serg. and 2d Lieut. Aug. 5, 1862, to Mar.
11, 1863; 8th Me., Serg. and 2d Lieut. Sept. 2, 1861, to May 23, 1862;
2d Mass. H'y Art., Serg.; and U. S. N. Oct. 5, 1863, to Nov. 18, 1864.
Died Oct. 22, 1867, Concord.
Feb. 28; 15th N. H. V., Co. D, Oct. 8, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
Feb. 7.
Feb. 16; reduced to ranks Apr. 24, 1865.
Feb. 17. Died May 18, 1865, Tennallytown, D. C.
Mch. 1 ; app't'd Serg. Apr. 24, 1865.
Mch. 7; disch. June 21, 1865. Died Feb., 1901.
Feb. 6; app't'd Serg. Mav 18, 1865; 2d N. H. V., Co. B, June 1, 1861,
to June 21, 1864. Died May 1, 1869, Standish, Me.
Feb. 15.
Feb. 7.
Feb. 13; National Guards, May 9 to July 27, 1864.
Feb. 28.
Mch. 6.
Mch. 9. Died Sept. 16, 1892.
Feb. 21. Died Dec. 21, 189S, Durham, N. H.
Mch. 1.
Feb. 14; National Guards, Mav 9, 1864, to July 27. 1864.
Feb. 14; disch. June 16, 1865'. Died, 1873.

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Name and Rank

Record

Privates

Enlisted 1865

Bills, Charles W.
Mch. 15
Manchester
Mch. 15.
Died Jan. 5, 1902.
Brown, Benajmin F.
Mch. 21
Canterbury
Mch. 21.
Cook, Benjamin C.
Feb. 14
Maanchester
Feb. 14.
Died, date unknown.
Corey, Augustus 33.
Mch. 15
Manchester
Mch. 15.
Cotton, Richard R.
Mch. 18
Milton
Mch. 18.
Drew, Enoch L.
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14;
app't'd Corp. June 22, 1865.
Densmore, Charles
Feb. 17
Nottingham
Feb. 17;
13th N. H. V., Co. F, Sept. 19, 1862, to Mch. 30,
Charle
s Leathers.
Davis, John P.
Mch. 21
Bow
Mch. 21.
Dyke, George W.
Mch. 8
Stratford
Mch. 8.
Died, disease, Mch. 14, 1865, Concord.
Evans, Owen
Mch. 8
Manchester
Mch. 8.
Freeman, Stephen R.
Jan. 30
Barrington
Jan. 30.
Freeman, Ezariah
Jan. 30
Barrington
Jan. 30.
Died July 30, 1877.
Flinn, Barney
Mch. 21
Manchester
Mch. 21.
Greenleaf, George W.
Feb. 28
Northwood
Feb. 28.
Died July 3, 1897, Lynn, Mass.
Glidden, Josephus
Feb. 24
Effingham
Feb. 24;
disch. disab. June 20, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Goddard, John
Mch. 7
Milton
Mch. 7.
Goss, Henry C.
Mch. 16
Epsom
Mch. 16.
GuptiU, George
Mch. 16
Milton
Mch. 16.
Died June 8, 1889, Milton, N. H.
Gilman, Timothy
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14.
Died, disease, Mch. 19, 1865, Concord.
Harmon, Royal
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14.
Died Oct, 21, 1S96, Crescent, N. Y.
Harmon, Isaac M.
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14.
Hatch, Simeon W.
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14.
Died May 13, 1903, Ossipee, N. H.
Harriman, Eugene
Feb. 14
Madison
Feb. 14.
Hill, Alfred R.
Feb. 28
Northwood
Feb. 28.
Howland, Hibard S.
Mch. 8
Franconia
Mch. 8;
disch. June 20, 1865. Died, date unknown.
Howe, George H.
Mch. 15
Manchester
Mch. 15.
Houghton, Alvin W.
Feb. 28
Swanzey
Mch. 28.
Hunt, George L.
Mch. 22
Salem
Mch 22.
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Johnson, Joseph G.
Knowles, Thomas L.
Knowles, Samuel P.
KendaU, George H.
Kendall, Daniel B.
Lawrence, George W.
Lupean, Francis
Lord, John D.
McFee, John
McFarland, Robert J.
Magoon, David
Marsh, Thomas D.
Mack, Patrick
Page, John C.
Plummer, William H.
Pervier, Amasa J.

Parsons, William H.
Prescott, Josiah F.
Pelkey, Lecton
Rounds, John F.
Robinson, Isaac S.
Stacy, Nathan
Stacy, Samuel H. K.
Smith, Andiew J.
Stuart, Zechariah B.
Sargent, Samuel D.
Sebastian, Edward P.
San Sover, Oliver
Sharpies, Ralph

Feb.

24

Mch.

21

Feb.

7

Feb.

28

Mch.

8

Mch.

S

Mch.

o

Mch.

11

Feb.

14

Feb.

28

Mch.

1

Mch.

20

Mch.

16

Mch.

21

Feb.

28

Mch.

6

Feb.

27

Mch.

2

Mch.

IS

Mch.

17

Mch.

15

Mch.

IS

Feb.

14

Feb.

14

Feb.

28

Feb.

8

Mch.

15

Feb.

28

Mch.

16

Mch.

20

ManchesterHooksett ManchesterNorthwoodFranconiaFranconia Rindge
LondonderryMadisonManchesterManchesterManchesterMilton Manchester
CanterburyManchesterManchester

Rindge
Milton Rindge
ManchesterMiltonMadisonMadisonCanterburyManchesterStratfordSwanzeyLondonderryConcord

Feb. 24. Died May 8, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Mch. 21; 16th N. H. V., Co. D, Nov. 13, 1862, to Aug. 20, 1863.
Feb. 7.
Feb. 28; disch. June 20, 1865.
Mch. 8.
Mch. 8; disch. June 27, 1865.
Mch. 2.
Mch. 11. Died, date unknown.
Feb. 14. Died, disease, Mch. 17, 1865, Concord.
Feb. 28. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 1.
Mch. 20.
Mch. 16; app't'd Corp. Apr. 24, 1865; 7th N. H. V., Co. D, Nov. 6, 1861,
to Dec. 27, 1864.
Mch. 21.
Feb. 28.
Mch. 6; 3d N. H. V., Co. I, Aug. 22, 1861, to May 21, 1862.
Feb. 27; 3d N. II. V., Co. A, Mch. 6, 1862, to Mch. 17. 1863; 1th N. H. V.,
Co. F, Sept. 18, 1861, to Jan. 19, 1862. Died Jan. 28, 18S4, Amherst,
Mass.
Mch. 2.
Mch. 18. Died, disease, Apr. 16, 1865, Gallops Island, Mass.
Mch. 17.
Mch. 15; disch. disab. June 15, 1865.
Mch. 18. Died, disease, May 7, 1865, Petersburg, Va.
Feb. 14; app't'd Corp. Mch.' 26, 1865; 6th N. H. V., Co. D, Nov. 27, 1861,
to Feb. 26, 1863. Died 1898.
Feb. 14. Died Dec. 29, 1880, Madison, N. II.
Feb. 28.
Mch. 8.
Mch. 15. Died Feb. 11, 1887, New Britain, Conn.
Feb. 28; 6th N. H. V., Co. E, Nov. 28, 1861, to Nov. 12, 1862.
Mch. 16.
Mch. 20.

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Privates

Enlisted 1865

Snell, Seth

Mch. 16

Milton

Mch. 16; app't'd Corp. Mav 18, 1865; 7th N. H. V., Co. F,
to Dec, 27, 1864.

Nov. 7, 1861,

Sullivan, Patrick

Mch. 21

Manchester

Mch. 21.

Tobin, William
Mch. 22
Henniker
Mch. 22.
Vermett, Amos
Mch. 16
Milton
Mch. 16. Died Mch. 17, 1896.
VVUson, Charles
Feb. 10
Manchester
Feb. 10.
Wakefield, Benjamin F.
Feb. 16
Madison
Feb. 16; disch. June 30, 1S65.
Woods, Peter
Mch. 1
Concord
Mch. 1 ; disch. June 30, 1865. Died July 17, 1887.
WiUard, Amos P.
Mch. 1
Winchester
Mch. 1 . Died Dec, 1902.
White. George F.
Feb. 27
Manchester
Feb. 27. Died Oct, 13, 1898.
Webster, Isaiah N.
Mch. 17
Salem
Mch. 17.
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Mustered in 1865. Mustered out May 6, 1865, unless Otherwise Stated.
Capt. John A. Colby
1st Lieut. Henry S. Brown
2d Lieut. Edward Nettleton
1st Serg. Nathaniel D. Bean
Serg. Melvin B. Tasker
" Horace C. Pickard
" Charles York
App't'd 1865
Mch. 22
Mch. 29
Mch. 25
Enlisted
Apr. 5
Mch. 29
Mch. 28
Feb. 21
ConcordConcordNewportThornton SandwichManchester
Middieton
Must, in
Record
Apr. 6.
Apr. 6.
Mch. 25, as priv. ; app't'd 2d Lieut. Mch. 29.
Apr. 5; U. S. N., 1862; Serg. 15th N. H. V., Co. D, Oct. 8, 1862, to Aug.
13, 1S63. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 29. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 28.
Feb. 21.
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Serg. Joseph F. Webster
Corp. Samuel N. Robinson
Walter A. Green
Patrick Driscoll
Euseba ErreU
Nathaniel Bright
Edwin N. Tuttle
Joseph A, Temple ton
Sylvester S. Ingalls
Musician Frederick H. Lull
" George T. Dudley
Wagoner Major A. Northrop
Privates
Aldrich, Eliphalet
Burleigh, Charles F.
Beede, J. Cone
Brackett, Cyrus
Bradbury, George
Baker, Hazael
Buckham, John E.
Belknap, William H.
Bean, Moses
Bacon, George W.
Burnham, Edward W.
Boorne, Henry G.
Burroughs, John R.
Burroughs, Walter S.
Barton, Bernard B.
Colby, Milo J.
Coburn, Orin B.
Corey, William

Mch. 31 Farmington

Mch. 21
Mch. 31
Mch. 24
Mch. 22
Mch. 25
Mch. 25
Mch. 20
Mch. 25
Mch. 25
Mch. 23
Mch. 20

Mch.Apr.Apr.Apr.Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch.
Mch.Mch.Mch.Mch. Mch.Mch.

MadburyManchesterManchesterHooksettNewportManchesterHanoverNewportNewportHanoverHanoverHanoverSandwichSandwich RochesterMiddietonHennikerNashuaNewport
Conway SandwichSandwich
Winchester Alstead
AlsteadNewportManchesterNew Durham
Hanover

Mch. 31; 8th N. H. V., Co. I, priv. and Corp. Dec. 20, 1861, to Jan. 12,
1865.
Mch. 21; 11th H. N. V., Co. K, Sept. 2, 1862, to Jan. 20, 1863. Died
Jan. 11, 1891.
Mch. 31; 11th N. H. V., Sept. 2, 1862, to Jan. 20, 1863.
Mch. 24.
Mch. 22.
Mch. 25; 16th N. H. V., Co. F, Oct. 23, 1862, to Aug. 23, 1863.
Mch. 25 ; National Guards, May 9 to July 27, 1864.
Mch. 20. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 25.
Mch. 25.
Mch. 23. Died Sept. 22, 1899.
Mch. 20; 15th N. H. V., Co. H, Oct. 16, 1862, to Aug. 13, 1863.
Mch. 22.
Apr. 5.
Apr. 5.
Apr. 5. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 7.
Mch. 22; 2d U. S. 8. S., Co. G, Nov. 26, 1861, to Jan. 14, 1863.
Mch. 23.
Mch. 25.
Mch. 28. Died, date unknown.
Mch. 29.
Mch. 30.
Mch. 22.
Mch. 29.
Mch. 29.
Mch. 29.
Mch. 27. *
Mch. 21.
Mch. 21; 5th N. H. V., Co. E, Oct. 19, 1861, to Oct. 29, 1862. Died
May, 1893, Hanover, N. H.

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Enlisted 1865

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Carlisle, David II.

Mch. 22

Hanover

Mch. 23; 1st N. E. Cav. Co. A, and lnv. Corps, Dec. 27, 1861,
1864.
Mch. 24.

to Dec. 27,

Carlisle, Charles W.

Mch. 24

Hanover

Cloutman, Charles S.

Apr. 1

Sandwich

Apr. 1.

Conner, Daniel
Mch. 30
New Castle
Mch. 30.
Chase, James
Apr. 4
Deering
Apr. 4; 16th N. H. V. priv. and Corp. Co. B, Oct. 23, 1862, 1
1863.
Feb. 20.
a Aug. 20,
Copp, John
Feb. 20
Manchester
Downs, Charles II.
Apr. 3
Milton
Apr. 3.
Davis, Charles
Mch. 22
Winchester
Mch. 22.
Dimond, Frank W.
Apr. 3
Jefferson
Apr. 3.
Dustin, John S.
Apr. 3
Francestown
Apr. 3.
Emery, Sylvester E.
Apr. 3
Auburn
Apr. 3.
Emery, Carlton
Apr. 3
Auburn
Apr. 3.
Emery, Alfred D.
Apr. 3
Auburn
Apr. 3.
Emery, Alonzo D.
Apr. 3
Auburn
Apr. 3; 3d N. H. V., Co. H, Aug. 23, 1861, to June 29, 1862.
Foote, John
Mch. 25
Newport
Mch. 25.
Foote, Charles F.
Mch. 25
Newport
Mch. 25.
Flaherty, Thomas
Mch. 30
Sandwich
Mch. 30.
Griffin, Daniel
Mch. 28
Londonderry
Mch. 28. Died May 18, 1882, Londonderry, N. H.
HUton, Jackson
Mch. 7
Concord
Mch. 7.
Home, Harlan P.
Mch. 23
Rochester
Mch. 23.
Ham, Darius W.
Mch. 27
Brookfield
Mch. 27.
Harriman, Luther H.
Mch. 21
Eaton
Mch. 21 ; 13th N. II. V., Co. H, Sept. 18, 1862, to May 12, 1863
5, 1897, East Tilton, N. H.
Died Apr.
Hodgman, Samuel A.
Mch. 29
Shelburne
Mch. 29. Died, date unknown.
Hawkins, William A.
Apr. 1
Dummer
Apr. 1.
Jenness, Stephen S.
Mch. 21
Rochester
Mch. 21; U. S. N. May 21, 1862, to July 4, 1864.
Jones, George N.
Apr. 1
Jefferson
Apr. 1.
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Mch. 27

Hampstead

Mch. 27.

Leonard, Thomas

Mch. 2S

Milford

Mch. 28.

Lindsey, John A.

Mch. 29

Manchester

Mch. 29.

Lee, Charles H.

Mch. 27

Nashua

Mch. 27. Died Apr. 5, 1865.

Mulheren, Hugh
Mch. 16
Londonderry
Mch. 16.
S3
Marshall, David M.
Apr. 1
Newport
Apr. 1.
00
Nutter, John H.
Mch. 22
Rochester
Mch. 22; U. S. N. Aug. 29, 1861, to Aug. 28, 1864. Died Sept. 8, 1883,
3
Rochester, N. H.
Pike, John S.
Mch. 11
Middieton
Mch. 11. Died Feb. 24, 1896.
Poole, WiUiam Henry
Mch. 20
Hanover
Mch. 20.
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Poole, John
Mch. 21
Hanover
Mch. 21.
«5
Perry, Kimball S.
Mch. 27
Salem
Mch. 27.
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Apr. 3
Nashua
Apr. 3.
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Philbrick, Daniel M.
Apr. 4
Thornton
Apr. 4.
3
Quindley, Luther C.
Apr. 4
Wentworth
Apr. 4.
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Roberts, Elmidore
Mch. 28
Newport
Mch. 28. Died, date unknown.
^
Richardson, Alpheus C.
Mch. 24
Hanover
Mch. 24.
TO3.
Ricker, Frank D.
Apr. 4
Thornton
Apr. 4.
Stevens, George
Mch. 11
Middieton
Mch. 11.
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Mch. 20
Nelson
Mch. 20.
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Smith, Galen C.
Mch. 29
Shelburne
Mch. 29.
3
SmaU, Edwin E.
Apr. 1
Rochester
Apr. 1.
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Tinkham, Richard
Mch. 28
Dalton
Mch. 28.
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Thompson, Samuel
Mch. 21
Eaton
Mch. 21.
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Mch. 29
Unity
Mch. 29.
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Wilkins, Timothy C.
Mch. 7
Concord
Mch. 7.
Watson, Jesse
Mch. 28
Conway
Mch. 28. Died 1887.
3^
Wood, George A.
Apr. 3
Auburn
Apr. 3.
3
White, Edward K.
Mch. 3
Manchester
Mch. 3; promoted to 2d Lieut., Co. I, Mch. 22, 1865; m. o. July 3, 1865.
Died, date unknown.
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Name

Date of
Muster In

Birthplace Claimed

Town to which
Credited

Record

Abnor, George

Sept. 14

Germany

New London

Did not join regiment.

Adams, John C.

Sept. 22

Sharon, Vt.

Haverhill

Did not join regiment.

Booth, Charles

Sept. 26

Ottawa, Canada

Canterbury

Deserted at Concord Oct. 4.

Burr, John T.

Sept. 20

Toronto, Canada

Canterbury

Did not join regimeut.

Burroughs, Joseph

Sept. 20

Charlestown, Mass.

Wilmot

Did not join regiment.

Camp, Albert D.

Sept. 6

Hanover

Hanover

Did not join regiment.

Cassidy, Patrick

Mch. 25

Dracut, Mass.

Lancaster

Deserted from Co. K Apr. 7.

Cegan, William

Mch. 30

Ireland

Northumberland

Did not join regiment.

Chester, Wesley

Mch. 1

Canada

Manchester

Deserted from Co. I Mch. 10.

Clark, John

Sept. 19

Prince Edward Island

New Boston

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

Colby, H. Milton

Sept. 7

New London

Plainfield

Did not join regiment.

Cotton, Thomas H.

Sept. 21

Woodstock, Me.

Barrington

Deserted from Co. D Sept. 29.

Davis, James

Oct. 19

Ireland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. F at New York.

Day, John

Sept. 19

Ireland

Warner

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

Dexter, William

Sept. 13

Hatley, Canada

Wilmot

Deserted from Co. A Sept. 30.

Dickerson, Henry

Sept. 20

Charlestown, Mass.

Canterbury

Deserted from Co. D Sept. 29.

Dodge, John S.

Oct. 1

Fremont, Me.

Concord

Did not join regiment.

Dudley, Charles E.

Apr. 4

Dundee, Scotland

Haverhill

Deserted from Co. K Apr. 7.

Fisher, George

Oct. 5

Canada East

New Boston

Deserted from Co. F Oct. 22.

Foster, George

Sept. 19

Gloucestershire, Eng.

Hopkinton

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

French, James

Sept. 13

Newburyport, Mass.

Wilmot

Deserted from Co. A Sept. 20.

French, Nathaniel

Sept. 13

Stanstead, Canada

Wilmot

Deserted from Co. A Sept. 20.

Ganther, Joseph

Oct. 17

Canada East

Manchester

Deserted from Co. F Oct. 23.

Go wen, John

Sept. 13

Sanford, Me.

Dover

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

Hill, Charles S.

Mch. 30

Montreal, Canada

Sandwich

Deserted from Co. K Apr. 6.

Hogan, John

Feb. 21

Gilford

Gilford

Deserted from Co. H Mch. 15.

Jones, John

Sept. 13

Halifax, N. S.

Wilmot

Deserted from Co. A at Concord Nov. 1.

Keller, Patrick

Oct. 18

Ireland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. F Oct. 27.

Lee, John

Sept. 26

Nashua

Pittsfield

Deserted from Co. E Oct. 4.

Lee, John M,

Feb. 25

Brownfield, Me.

Canaan

Deserted from Co. H Mch. 15 at Concord.

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Name

Date of
Muster In

Birthplace Claimed

Town to which
Credited

Record

Tie Porte, Odilon

Feb. 22

Canada

Manchester

Deserted from Co. H Mch. 15 at Concord.

Locke, George M.

Sept. 19

Alexandria

Alexandria

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

Manley, Charles S.

Sept. 12

Rutland, Vt.

Warner

Did not join regiment.

Manning, George F.

Sept. 19

Berwick, Me.

Dover

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

McAloon, Thomas

Feb. 13

Ireland

Concord

Deserted from Co. H Feb. 21.

McElroy, James

Sept. 19

Ireland

Warner

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

McGinley, James

Apr. 4

Scotland

Haverhill

Deserted from Co. K Apr. 7.

McGuire, John

Sept. 15

Ireland

Pittsfield

Did not join regiment.

Merrill, Joseph

Oct. 5

Canada East

New Boston

Deserted from Co. F Oct, 27.

Morse, Alexander

Feb. 27

Penn.

Loudon

Deserted from Co. H Mch. 7.

Morton, Henry

Oct. 19

New York

Manchester

Deserted from Co. F Oct. 27.

Morton, James

Sept. 19

England

Hopkinton

Deserted from Co. C Oct. 3.

Mullen, James C.

Apr. 8

England

Henniker

Deserted Apr. 11.

Mulligan, Michael P.

Feb. 9

Ireland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. H Feb. 12.

Oliver, Olden

Oct. 14

Manchester

Manchester

Deserted from Co. F Oct. 25.

Patterson, George A.

Sept. 14

Maine

Wilmot

Did not join regiment.

Reagan, Richard

Mch. 1

New York

Farmington

Deserted from Co. I Mch. 23.

Ridlon, John W.

Mch. 8

Maine

Wilmot

Deserted Mch. 17.

Robinson, Peter

Mch. 1

Scotland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. K Mch. 18.

Rooney, Patrick J.

Sept. 15

Ireland

Pittsfield

Deserted at once.

Ryan, John J.

Feb. 21

Ireland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. H Mch. 15.

Seavey, Peter A.

Sept. 13

Pittsfield

Pembroke

Deserted from Co. B Sept. 30.

Shehan, Jeremiah

Mch. 10

Ireland

Manchester

Deserted from Co. K Mch. 18.

Smith, Charles D.

Sept. 21

Effingham

Did not join regiment.

Smith, James

Feb. 28

Manchester

Manchester

Deserted from Co. I Mch. 10.

Staub, Henrv

Sept. 14

Germany

New London

Did not join regiment.

Tallcott, Charles

Sept. 13

Germany

Wilmot

Deserted from Co. B Sept. 30.

Thomas, Henry

Dec. 10

New York

Canaan

Deserted from Co. G Jan. 14.

Thompson, Freeman G.

Sept. 21

Ossipee

Ossipee

Deserted from Co. E Oct. 4.

Walker, Benjamin S.

Sept. 17

Concord

Warner

Deserted from Co. E Oct. 4.

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Abstinence, Total, 37.
Age of men in 18th N. H. Vols., 18,
19, 22.
Alexandria, 72.
American soldiers, 65.
Antietam, 32.
Appomattox campaign, 40.
Appomattox Court Bouse, 66, 70.
Appomattox River, 36, 37, 38, 42, 45,
57, 62.
Arkansas, 8.
Arms, 35, 70, 72.
Army of Northern Virginia, 34, 51.
Army of Potomac, 28, 31, 32, 34, 50,
72.
Arsenal at Washington, 68.
Assassination of President Lincoln,
70, 71.
Avery House, 47, 48.
Bailey, Chester, 60.
Bailey's Creek, 36, 47.
Baltimore, 27.
Band of 18th N. H. Vols., 28, 40, 72.
Barker, Wilfrid, 54, 60, 61.
Bartlett, Stephen B., 60.
Batehelder, Col. R. N., 50.
Battery 10, 52, 63.
Battery 11, 52, 63.
Battery 12, 52, 63.
Battery 24, 47.
Battery 25, 47.
Battery 26, 47.
Bean, Lorenzo D., 37.
Bell, Charles H., 20, 21, 22, 25, 29.
Benham, Gen. Henry W., 34, 35, 37,
43, 44, 45, 46.
Bermuda Hundred, 43, 45, 46, 57.
Bintliff, Col. James, 59, 60.
Blacks and Whites Station, 66.
Bolton, Col. William J., 59.
Boston Harbor, 63, 70.
Bosworth, Capt. George F., 28, 77.
Bounties, 9, 28.
Bounty jumpers, 9, 20.
Boutwell, John Wilder, 61, 64.
Boydton Plank Road, 46.
Brainerd, Col. Wesley, 46, 47.
Broadway Landing, 45.
Brown, Lieut. Henry S., 78.
Brown, Quartermaster Serg. Samuel
N.,79.
Brown, Major William I., 29, 36, 45,
54, 55, 56, 57, 76.
Brown University, 55.
Bull Run, 32.
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., 32.

Camp California, 72.
Camp, Carlton N., 61, 64.
Camp Head, 22, 23, 28.
Carolinas, The, 51.
Carr, Lieut.-Col. James W., 21, 29.
Caswell, Lieut, and Adjt. Samuel
S., 30, 78.
Cate, Quartermaster Moses T., 73.
Censure of 3d Brigade, 1st Division,
9th Army Corps, 52, 53.
Chadwick, Hale, 26, 44, 62.
Chancellorsville, 32.
Character of men in 18th N. H. Vols.,
18, 19, 22, 27, 73.
Chase, Eben C, 60.
Chattanooga, 12.
Christmas, 39.
City Point, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38, 40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 63,
66, 71, 72.
Civil War, History of, by Comte de
Paris, 19.
Clerks in 18th N. H. Vols., 18.
Clothing, 22, 70.
Clough, Lieut.-Col. Joseph M., 29,
31, 45, 46, 54, 55, 56, 60, 61, 62, 70,
73, 76.
Cochran, Clarendon H., 60.
Colby. Capt. John A., 29, 77.
Cold Harbor, 33.
Collis, Gen. W. H. T., 40.
Colors, Inscriptions on, 65.
Company A, 18th N. H. Vols., 23, 24,
26, 28, 30, 60, 62, 73. Company B,
18th N. H. Vols., 23, 24, 26, 28, 36,
60, 64, 73. Company C, 18th N.
H. Vols., 23, 24, 26, 28, 36, 60, 73.
Company D, ISth N. H. Vols., 22,
23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 60, 73. Com
pany E, 18th N. H. Vols., 23, 24,
26, 28, 30, 73. Company F, 18th
N. H. Vols., 23, 24, 26, 28, 36, 73.
Company G, 18th N. H. Vols., 26,
29, 31, 48, 60, 73. Company H,
18th N. H. Vols., 29, 31, 49, 62, 64,
73. Company I, 18th N. H. Vols.,
29, 31, 49, 73. Company K, 18th
N. H. Vols., 29, 49, 68.
Comte de Paris, History of Civil War,
19.
Concord, 22, 26, 27, 28, 49, 69, 73.
Confederate Army in Texas, 72.
Confederates, Feeling towards, 71.
Confederate ports, 8.
Congress, U. S. ship, 27.
Conscription, 16.
Consolidation, Order for, 49-51.

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Index

Conspirators, Trial of, 73.
Cooke's Mill, 36.
Cooks, 39.
Corduroy road, 36, 37, 38.
Courts Martial, 40, 73, 74.
Craftsmen in 18th N. H. Vols., 18, 22.
Cram, Serg. and Lieut. Joseph H., 30.
Cumberland, U. S. ship, 27.
Danville Railway, Richmond &, 45.
Davis, Jefferson, 51.
Davis, J. C 27.
Dearborn, Samuel Q., 8, 27, 37.
Deaths in 18th N. H. Vols., 54, 60, 74.
Deaths in New Hampshire, 11; in
Union Army, 8; in 18th N.H. Vols.,
54, 60, 74.
Deaths among survivors of 18th
N. H. Vols., 75.
Deserters, 9, 10, 12, 19, 20, 39, 40.
Diaries, 27, 28, 38, 44, 48, 64.
Dinwiddie Court House, 46, 57, 58.
Disbandment of Union Army, 74.
Discipline and drill, 34, 48, 70, 72, 73.
Dodge, Lieut. Frederick L., 78.
Dodge, Lieut. Thomas F., 31, 79.
Dow, Lieut. Samuel H., 78.
Drafts, 8, 11, 14.
Drill and discipline, 34, 48, 56, 72, 73.
Durgin, C, 27.
Early, Gen. Jubal A., 34, 42.
Earthworks, 33, 64, 65.
Effingham, 28.
Eighteenth Army Corps, 76.
Eighteenth New Hampshire Vol
unteers, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20,
21, 23, 34, 35, 36, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49,
51, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65,
68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 79.
Election, 37.
Emerson, Surgeon John S., 77.
Engagements, 51, 53.
Engineer Brigade, Army of Potomac,
28, 34, 46, 47, 48, 49.
Engineering work, 36, 37, 38, 41, 48.
Enlistment, 9.
Enrollment in New Hampshire, 11.
Executions, 40.
Exemptions from draft, 11.
Farmer, Lieut, and Capt. Augustus
B., 30, 61, 64, 78.
Farmers in 18th N. H. Vols., 18, 22.
Farmville, 70.
Ferrero, Gen. Edward, 45, 46.
Field Officers, 18th N. H. Vols., 29, 70,
76.
Fifth Army Corps, 42, 46, 57, 5S.
Five Forks, Battle of, 58.
Flanders, Lieut. Robert K., 31, 79.
Ford's Station, 66, 70, 71.
Forts: Dushane, 47. Fisher, 41,
42, 45. Friend, 52. Harrison, 33.
Haskell, 63, 67. " Hell," 44, 58.

Howard, 46, 47. Monroe, 26, 45.
Morton, 52, 54. Sedgwick, 44, 58.
Stedman, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59, 62, 63,
65, 67. Wadsworth, 33.
Four-and-a-half Street, Washington,
73.
Fredericksburg, 32.
French troops in Mexico, 72.
Fry, Provost Marshal-Gen. James B.,
14, 25.
Furloughs, 22, 72.
Furlough, A Confederate, 63.
Gage, First Serg. and Lieut. Henry
P., 30.
Gallops Island, 63, 69.
General Orders No. 13, Army of
Potomac, 53.
Georgetown, D. C, 73.
Getty, Gen. George W., 47.
Gibbs, Lieut. Oliver H., 30, 79.
Gile, Capt. William A., 40, 77.
Gilmore, Gov. John A., 20, 23, 24,
25, 29, 49.
Gordon, Gen. John B., 67.
Gove, Principal Musician Nathan
W., 79.
Grant, Gen. U. S., 8, 16, 17, 26, 28, 33,
35, 40, 46, 51, 53, 71.
Gray, Lieut. Wilson, 79.
Greenough, Capt. and Brevet Major
William S., 22, 26, 55, 60, 66, 77.
Gregg, Gen. David MoM., 35, 46.
Griffin, Gen. Simon G., 47.
Grimes, Gen. Bryan, 45.
Groff, Harris J., 54.
Guard duty, 28, 66, 73.
Hall, First Serg. Frank P., 31.
Hancock, Gen. Winfield S., 16. 76.
Harriman, Lieut. David C, 77.
Harrison's Landing, 28, 32.
Hartranft, Gen. John F., 51.
Hatcher's Run, 43, 46, 47, 57.
Haveii, Lieut. William A., 37, 78.
Hay, Secretary John, 40.
Hayes, Gen. William, 76.
Head, Adjt.-Gen. Natt, 25.
Health in 18th N. H. Vols., 74.
Heckman, 42.
Hicksford, 44.
Hill, First Serg. Edwin, 31.
Hineks, Gen. Edward W., 76.
Hobbs, Adjt. George F., 30, 76.
Hoke, Gen. Robert F., 45.
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 32.
Hospital at City Point, 66, 67.
Houghton, Capt. and Brevet Major
Charles H., 67, 68, 69.
Illinois, Steamer, 26.
Inspections, 70, 72.
James, Army of, 34.
James River, 27, 28, 31, 33.

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Johnson, President Andrew, 71, 73.
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 51, 71.
Killed in 18th N. H. Vols., 54, 60, 74.
Kimball, Lieut. Clarion H., 78.
Kimball, Capt. Willis G. C, 29, 31.
Klutts, Moses, Confederate soldier, 63.
Laborers, Number in 18th N. H. Vols.,
18.
Ladd, Lieut.Hiram K., 30, 79.
Learnard, Capt. Silas F., 29, 31.
Leavitt, J. A., 27.
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 8, 32, 33, 34,
51, 53, 63, 66, 70.
Lincoln, President Abraham, 37, 40,
66, 68, 70, 73.
Livermore, Col. Thomas L., 29, 30,
49, 50, 70, 73, 74, 76.
Log huts, 38, 39.
Losses in Union Army, 8; in 18th
N. H. Vols., 74.
Lovitt, James, 63.
Maine, 1st Sharpshooters, 45.
Martindale, Gen. John H., 76.
Maryland troops, 32, 59.
Massachusetts troops, 47, 52, 77, 78.
Maximilian, 72.
McClellan, Gen. George B., 32, 37.
McDonald, Andrew, 54.
McDonald, Surgeon, 68, 69.
Meade, Gen. George G., 16, 17, 18,
28, 32, 35, 40, 42, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53,
66, 71.
Mechanics, Number in 18th N. H.
Vols., 18, 22.
Medals of honor, 61, 64.
Merrimac, Confederate steamer, 27.
Mexico, 72.
Michigan, Hall's Sharpshooters, 45, 47.
Miles, Gen. Nelson A., 43.
Military age, Number of men of, in
New Hampshire, 10, 11.
Mine Run, 32.
Mississippi, Operations west of the,
72.
Mississippi River opened, 8.
Missouri recovered, 8.
Monroe Doctrine, 72.
Mortality in 18th N. H. Vols., 74.
Mortars, 65.
Mudgett, Principal Musician William
S., 79.
Music on the march, 72.
Muster out, 28, 73, 74.
Nelson House, 36.
Nettleton, Lieut. Edward, 79.
New Berne, N. C, 42.
New Hampshire, adjutant>general of,
12; number of men in, 11, 13, 14.
New Hampshire, Natives of, in 18th
N. H. Vols., 18, 22; substitutes
from, 9, 10; volunteering in, 12, 13.

New Hampshire, Revised Register
of Soldiers and Sailors of, 9, 11.
New Hampshire troops. Infantry
regiments: First, 11, 50, 76, 78,
79. Second, 21, 78, 79. Third,
79. Fourth, 76. Fifth, 76, 79.
Sixth, 51. Seventh, 76, 79. Ninth,
29, 56, 76, 77. Eleventh, 78, 79.
Twelfth, 77. Thirteenth, 79. Fif
teenth, 77, 78. Sixteenth, 77, 78,
79. First Heavy Artillery, 13, 76.
Artillery companies, 13, 25, 78.
First Cavalry, 13. Strafford Guards,
79. Also under " Record " in
Roster pp. 80 et seq.
New London Literary and Science
Institution, 55.
New York troops, 45, 46, 47, 52, 67.
Newman, Hospital Steward Frank
H., 79.
Ninth Army Corps, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47,
49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66,
67, 71, 73.
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, 33, 52,
54.
North Carolina, 71.
North Carolina troops, 63.
Northern Virginia, Army of, 34, 51.
Nottoway River, 41, 44.
Number in Union and Confederate
armies, 34, in 18th N. H. Vols., 18.
Ord, Gen. E. O. C, 76.
Palmer, Gen. Innis N., 42.
Pardons, 40.
Parke Station, 48.
Parke, Gen. John G., 46, 47, 51,
53, 58, 60.
Parker, Addison N., 64.
Peninsula, The, 32.
Pennsylvania, Invasion of, 32.
Pennsylvania troops, 52, 59.
Perkins, Lieut. Washington, 31, 78.
Personnel of 18th N. H. Vols., 18.
Petersburg, 12, 31, 33, 38, 41, 42, 46,
51, 53, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 67.
Philadelphia, 27, 28.
Physical standard of 18th N. H. Vols.,
18, 22.
Pickets, 52, 55, 64, 65.
Pickett, Gen. George E., 58.
Piedmont Railway, 45.
Pontoon bridge, 36.
Pope, Gen. John, 32.
Porter, Lieut. Reuben B., 78.
Potomac, Army of; 28, 31, 32, 34, 50,
72.
Potter, Capt. and Major Alvah K.,
26, 28, 30, 36, 60, 64, 74, 76.
President of United .States, 10, 40.
Professional men in 18th N. H. Vols.,
22.
Promotions in ISth N. H. Vols., 30.
Provost Marshal-General, 9, 14.

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Rapidan River, 8, 32.
Rappahannock River, 32.
Ream's Station, 16.
Recruiting for 18th N. H. Vols., 24,
25, 29, 49, 50, 69.
Recruiting in the North, 8.
Recruiting for old regiments, 13, 15,
24.
Recruits, 35.
Residence of survivors of 18th N. H.
Vols., 74, 75.
Regiments, New, 13, 14, 15.
Reviews, 72, 73.
Revised Register of N. H. Soldiers and
Sailors, 9, 11, 71.
Rio Grande, 72.
Richmond, 31, 32, 33, 34, 45, 51, 59,
62.
Richmond & Danville Railway, 45.
Roanoke River, 42.
Robinson, Col. Gilbert P., 52.
Rocky Mountain, 42.
Rodes, Gen. Robert E., 45.
Rolfe, First Serg. Horace H., 31.
Schools for military instruction, 56.
Second Army Corps, 16, 43, 46, 50, 57,
58, 70, 76.
Service, Previous, of members of 18th
N. H. Vols., 18, 76.
Shand House, 44.
Sharpshooters, 1st U. S. Vols., 78.
Shenandoah Valley, 34, 42, 44.
Shepherd, Assistant Surgeon Aaron
W., 77.
Sheridan, Gen. Philip H., 38, 41, 57,
58 72
Sherman', Gen. W. T., 51, 71.
Silvey, Captain, 24.
Sixth Army Corps, 42, 43, 44, 47, 57.
Skirmish drill, 56.
Smith, Capt. Elias F., 36, 77.
Smith, Gen. William F., 76.
Southside Railroad, 34, 51, 53, 57, 66,
70.
Stanton, Secretary of War Edwin M.,
17, 23.
Steamers 26, 27, 28.
Stetson, John, 27.
Students, 18.
Substitutes, 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 27,
39.
Substitute brokers, 9, 27.
Survivors of 18th N. H. Vols., 75.

Sutherland's Station, 66, 71 .
Swift Creek, 42.
Target practice, 56.
Tennallytown, 72, 73.
Texas, 72.
Thorn, Lieut. George H., 30.
Thomas Colly er, Steamer, 27, 28.
Thompson, Capt. A. B., 26.
Thompson, Capt. Benjamin B.,
29, 77.
Underhill, Lieut. John, 79.
Union Army, Number in, 8, 19 ; deaths
in, 8; age in, 19.
Union Volunteer Refreshment Sta
tion in Philadelphia, 27.
United States, Steamer, 72.
Veterans, 15, 16.
Veteran Reserve Corps, 11, 27, 77.
Vicksburg, 12.
Victoria Cross, 64.
Vincent, Assistant Adjt.-Gen. Thomas
M., 17.
Violet Bank, 62.
Volunteering, 8, 12, 13, 24, 25.
Volunteers, Call for, 10, 12.
Wallingford, Capt. John O., 26,
77.
War Department, 23, 29, 30, 49, 50.
Warren, Gen. G. K., 42, 43, 44, 71,
72, 73, 76.
Washington City, 33
Weather, 44, 48.
Webster, Daniel A., 54, 62.
Weldon Railroad, 8, 33, 42, 44, 45, 46.
Weldon & Wilmington Railroad, 41.
Wheaton, Gen. Frank, 47.
Wheeler, Serg.-Major, Leonard H.,
62.
Whitney, First Serg. and Lieut.
George S., 30.
Wilderness, The, 12, 32, 33.
Willcox, Gen. O. B., 51, 53, 54,59,
60, 61, 62, 66.
Wilmington, 40, 45.
Winter quarters, 38, 39.
Wisconsin troops, 59.
Woodcraft, 38.
Wounded in 18th N. H. Vols., 54, 60.
Yorktown, 31.