History of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Part 21

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co.
Number of Pages: 1124

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Carroll was represented by Jeremiah F. Hall, of Wolfeborough, surgeon, and a very few men.

John W. Kingman, of Durham, was its colonel, George W. Frost, of New- market, lieutenant-colonel, and Henry W. Blair, who had raised a company at Plymouth, major. William M. Weed, of Sandwich, was originally commis- sioned lieutenant-colonel, but resigned before being mustered in, for reasons perfectly satisfactory to himself and friends acquainted with the circumstances. During the latter part of the war he was state agent and paymaster of New Hampshire soldiers. Colonel Kingman, after peace was restored, was appointed governor of Wyoming Territory, where he now resides. Major Blair, promoted to lieutenant-colonel, entered political life, was a member of the house and senate, was twice elected to Congress, and is now serving on his second term in the senate of the United States.

The Fifteenth was a good regiment, and during its brief service performed important and valuable duties.

ROSTER.

Jeremiah F. Hall, Surgeon, William P. Gilman, C, Henry M. Bryant, D,

Wolfeborough Tamworth Moultonborough

Charles L. Bryant, D, Trueworthy L. Monlton, F,

Moultonborough Wakefield

The Sixteenth Infantry. - This was the second of the nine-months regiments. It went into camp at Concord in October, 1862, was mustered with the minimum number allowable for a regiment - after great effort to secure such number - about the middle of the succeeding month, joining Banks's expedition on the lower Mississippi. It suffered terribly from sickness, although it lost no men in battle, and was depleted far beyond the average mortality of conflict. It was at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Port Hudson, came north the following summer, and was mustered out August 20, 1863. In the organization of this command, Rev. James Pike, a presiding elder of the Methodist church, and one of its ablest ministers, was colonel ; Henry W. Fuller, of Concord late lieutenant in the First Regiment, lieutenant-

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colonel ; and Samuel Davis, Jr, of Warner, major. Colonel Pike was after- ward elected to Congress, and made an unsuccessful run for governor. He is still living at South Newmarket. Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller was brevetted brigadier-general, and after the war became a practising lawyer in Boston, where he died a few years since. This regiment did its duty well, and accomplished all that was assigned to it. Nearly all of Company B went from this county, chiefly from Wolfeborough and Bartlett, with Albert J. Hersey as captain ; Albert W. Wiggin, second lieutenant, afterward promoted to first lieutenant ; and Alvah S. Libbey, first sergeant, afterward promoted to second lieutenant, all from Wolfeborough.

ROSTER.

Albert J. Hersey, B, Captain, Wolfeborough

Albert W. Wiggin, B, 2d Lient, promoted 1st Lieut, Wolfeborough

Alvah S. Libbey, B, Ist Serg't, promoted 2d Lieut, Wolfeborough

George P. Cotton, B, Sergeant,

Nathaniel R. Scribner, B, Corporal, died June 20, 1863, Bartlett

Lewis F. Davis, B, Corporal, Wolfeborough

Harlin P. Crain, B, Corporal,

George Goodhne, B, Corporal, Brookfield

Charles P. Randall, B, Musician, died July 3, 1863, Wolfeborough

Peter C. Seavey, B, Musician,

Hollis P. Chapman, B, Wagoner,

Leonidas J. Avery, B, died July 26, 1863,

Charles H. Bickford, B,

Nathaniel D. Blazo, B, died Aug. 7, 1863, Bartlett

John C. Caryl, B, Wolfeborough

Thomas Chase, B,

Joseph W. Chamberlain, B,

Ossipee

William Corson, B, Wolfeborough

Joel E. Cook, B,

James W. Cross, B, promoted Corporal,

James C. Dwight, B,

Albert Emery, B, Bartlett

Moses Emery, B, Wolfeborough

Nathaniel D. Farnsworth, B,

George B. Fogg, B,

George W. Frost, B, died April 28, 1863,

Francis A Gale, B, Jackson

Benjamin C. Garland, B,

Bartlett

Alpha W. Ifall, B, promoted Corporal,

Charles C. Hall, B, died June 22, 1863, Bartlett

Elias M. Hall, B,

George W. Hayes, B, died April 13, 1863,

Joseph P'. Heath, B. Wolfeborough

Charles E. Johnson, B,

Ezra F. Johnson, B,

Ezra II. Keniston, 2d, B,

John S. Kenison, B, died June 7, 1863, Bartlett

David G. Kimball, B, died April 29, 1863,

Wolfeborough

John W. Lee, B,

Woodbury L. Leavitt, B, ,,

John H. Loud, B,

Jonathan Mead, B,

Bartlett

Levi Moulton, B,

Leander Nute, B,

Andrew F. Parker, B,

John C. Parker, B,

Phineas Parker, B,

William A. Parker, B, promoted Corporal,

Joseph H. Ricker, B, died July 24, 1863, Wolfeborough

Daniel Rollins, B, Charles G. Sherwood, B, died Jnne 14, 1863,

Cyrus F. Stanton, B, Bartlett

Edward Turner, B, Wolfeboronglı

Benjamin Trickey, B,

Joseph J. Whitten, B, William P. Ames, D, Tamworth

Elden Eastman, E, Bartlett

Albion G. Goodrich, E,

John W. Philbrick, E,

The Seventeenth Infantry. - Although this county furnished no men for this regiment, its history is so exceptional as to call for a brief review of the facts attending its formation and service.

In August, 1862, the President issued his call for 300,000 men for nine months. Governor Berry, on reception of this call, convened his council, and determined to call for three regiments of volunteers, first appointing their field officers and assigning the Fifteenth to the first congressional district, the

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Sixteenth to the second district, and the Seventeenth to the third district, then embracing the counties of Cheshire, Sullivan, Grafton, and Coös, so that the officers being thus selected, volunteers would understand with whom they were to serve.

The field officers of the Seventeenth were Colonel Henry O. Kent, of Lancaster; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Long, of Claremont; and Major George H. Bellows, of Walpole. The records of the adjutant-general's office show that 791 men at once volunteered in the territory assigned for this regiment. Almost an entire company was raised at Lancaster and in Coös county, although it was in excess of all quotas, and equal zeal was manifested elsewhere. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth regiments were at this time in process of formation and in camp at Concord. The War Department requesting urgency in forwarding troops, the state authorities, contrary to the under- standing when the field officers were appointed, ordered the companies first raised, irrespective of location, first into camp, thus assigning several hundred men raised for this regiment to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth, its numerical predecessors.

Thus denied the men enlisted for it, the Seventeenth went into camp at Concord in November, 1862, just as the Sixteenth left the state.

A regimental organization was perfected and drill and discipline commenced and continued. All through that dreary winter its officers were assured the command should be filled, but volunteering had ceased, the governor in person ordered the acceptance of substitutes discontinued, and no resources remained save the unfilled quotas of dilatory and unwilling towns. An attempt was made to secure the enforcement of a state draft authorized by the law and under the control of a board of draft commissioners. A draft was ordered for December 24, 1862, but it was postponed to January 8, 1863, and finally abandoned. With the surrender of the draft, all hope of aid from the state was given up, and February 9 the regiment was furloughed to April 1, when, it was said, decisive measures would be taken to put the command upon active service. This interval and the early part of April was spent in earnest efforts by the field and line officers, through memorials to members of Congress, to induce the War Department to convert the regiment into batteries of artillery, to send it out as a battalion, or to place it on detached service, that officers and men might together serve out their enlistment at the front. These requests were not approved, so that when the regiment reassem- bled in April, nothing remained but to follow a special order of the War Department which mustered out its commissioned and non-commissioned officers, and transferred the enlisted men to the Second Infantry, then at home on furlough, which was done April 16, 1863.

The men of the Seventeenth, thus taken from their own officers and command, found congenial association with the soldiers of that admirable

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regiment, the Second, exhibiting a high order of discipline and bravery at Gettysburg, losing as heavy a percentage in dead and wounded as any command in that historie engagement. At the close of their term of enlistment they were mustered out, but so conspicuous had been their work that the commanding officer of the Second, Colonel Edward L. Bailey, now of the regular army, issued a special commendatory order, which we reproduce : -

Headquarters Second New Hampshire Volunteers,

POINT LOOKOUT, Maryland, September 22, 1863.

GENERAL ORDER NO. 14.

Soldiers of the Seventeenth, - Aroused by the necessities of your country, you assembled under a gallant and accomplished leader, with justly high hopes, to lead with him a brilliant career. After months of uncertainty, you were consolidated with the Second.

You had no choice in your disposition. You have comported yourselves as men should, and have secured the respect of comrades and officers. During the terrible contest (Gettysburg) you stood shoulder to shoulder with the familiars of fifteen battles, fighting as valiantly.

ED. L. BAILEY, Colonel, Second New Hampshire Volunteers.

Lieutenant-Colonel Long, as recited elsewhere, became subsequently captain of Battery A, and colonel of the first and only regiment of heavy artillery. At the close of the war he returned to his home at Claremont. Major Bellows afterward served, with the same rank, in command of a battalion of infantry raised for service in that section of Virginia, near Washington, under control of the Union forces, wherein the state government, under Governor Pierpont, exercised authority.

With the untoward circumstances attending this regiment, arising out of the presumed exigencies of the service, it is a gratifying reflection that the officers and men of the Seventeenth Infantry did their whole duty wherever placed, obeying orders wholly unfortunate and destructive of their pride and hopes with soldierly alacrity ; that the men, in the most desperate conflict of the war, elicited special mention for their bravery, and this command enjoys fraternal recognition and equal regard from the members of every war organization from the state.

The above sketch of the Seventeenth, from the pen of Colonel Kent, is the best history of that regiment published, and in the fewest words.

The Eighteenth Infantry. - This was the last regimental organization mustered, and was made up of men who enlisted indifferently for different terms of service. Recruiting commenced in July, 1864, but with the organization of six companies the quota of the state was filled. During the next spring three more companies were sent out, but Company K was stationed at Galloupe's Island, Boston Harbor, and was never ordered to the front. The regimental organization was Thomas L. Livermore, of Milford, who had served in the First and with distinction in the Fifth, colonel; Joseph M. Clough, of New London, who was a first lieutenant in

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the First and had an excellent record as a captain in the Fourth, and who has since commanded the militia of the state as brigadier-general, lieutenant- colonel ; and William I. Brown, of Penacook, former adjutant of the Ninth, major. This command was engaged in front of Petersburg and had an honorable record. It was mustered out at Concord by detachments in June, July, and August, 1865. Charles H. Bell, since governor, was originally commissioned colonel, and J. W. Carr, of Manchester, formerly of the Second, lieutenant-colonel, but each resigned before muster. George F. Hobbs, of Wakefield, was adjutant, Moses T. Cate, of Wolfeborough, quartermaster, John S. Emerson, of Sandwich, late assistant-surgeon of the Ninth, was surgeon, and nearly enough officers, non-commissioned officers, and men went from Carroll county, chiefly from Conway and Sandwich, to make one minimum company had they all been together.

ROSTER.

George F. Hobbs, Adjutant,

Wakefield

James Carter, E,

Conway

Moses T. Cate, Quartermaster,

Wolfeborough Sandwich

William F. Dennett, E,

George II. Thom, E, promoted 2d Lieut,

Conway

Mark W. Dennett, E,

Albert C. Abbott, A,

Ossipee

Reuben Eastman, E,

James L. Bodge, A,

David B. Hill, E,

Joseph A. Cloutman, A,

Conway

Charles W. Heath, E,

Charles E. Keyes, A,

Ossipee

Lorenzo F. Hale, E,

Lucius II. Lovejoy, A,

Conway

Charles A. Hill, E,

John G. Mason, A,

George A. Heath, E,

Johnson D. Quimby, C, Ist Serg't,

Sandwich

John B. Kendall, E, Edwin A. Keith, E,

Frank N. Foss, C, Corporal,

IIngh MeNorton, E,

Lorenzo D. Bean, C, Musician,

John Mason, E,

Edmund C. Bennett, C,

Ormond W. Merrill, E,

George H. Boynton, C, Albert Fogg, C,

Joseph P. Pitman, E,

Ilezekiah T. Fogg, C,

Orrin Seavey, E,

Tobias N. Fernald, C,

Ossipee

Freeman G. Thompson, E, Ossipee

Charles A. Gilman, C,

Sandwich

David Brown, F, Tamworth

William N. Hart, C,

Frank K. Hobbs, F, promoted Sergeant, Ossipee

Charles E. Mudgett, C,

Harris W. Morgan, F, Wolfeborough Dana Weeks, F, Chatham

William II. Scriggins, C,

Charles D. Smith, Effingham

William L. Tappan, C,

Andrew McDonald, C, wounded March 29, 1865, Sandwich

Sewell J. Choate, D, died City Point, Va, Oct. 29, 1864,

Sandwich

John Drowne, G, Eaton

Calvin Durgin, D,

Effingham

Benjamin B. Thompson, Captain Company I,

Samuel Q. Dearborn, D,

Chauney Harriman, G, Eaton

Albert Paul, G,

Nicholas E. Whiting, I, Corporal,

John Stitson, D,

Robinson Blaisdell, I, Madison

Charles D. Swett, D,

Enoel L. Drew, I, promoted Corporal,

Josephus Glidden, I, Effingham

Charles A. Brotton, E, Corporal,

Conway

John Carson, E, Corporal,

Royal Harmon, I,

George W. Bean, E,

Isaac M. Harmon, 1,

Ezekiel W. Burbank, E,

Simeon W. Hatch, I,

Amos W. Bennett, E,

Sandwich

Eugene Harriman, I,

Wolfeborough

John C. Davis, D,

Sandwich

John Fry, D, James A. Leavitt, D,

Effingham

Thatcher M. Thompson, E, Sergeant,

", Ossipee

Timothy Gilman, I, died of disease, Madison

John Miller, C,

Benjamin N. Merrow, E,

George S. Cook, C, Corporal,

Henry Cook, E,

John S. Emerson, Surgeon,

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John D. Lord, 1,

Madison

Edward W. Burnham, K,

Sandwich

Nathan Stacy, I, promoted Corporal,

Charles S. Cloutman, K,

Samuel H. K. Stacy, I,

Thomas Flaherty, K,

Benjamin F. Wakefield, 1,

Darius W. Ham, K,

Brookfield

Sandwich

Luther II. Harriman, K,

Eaton

Charles S. Hill, K,

Sandwich

Samuel Thompson, K,

Eaton

Moses Bean, K, George W. Bacon, K,

Conway

Jesse Watson, K,

Conway

Melvin B. Tasker, K, Sergeant, Charles F. Burleigh, K, J. Cone Beede, K,

Sandwich

The Light Artillery. - This organization, which was a very complete and perfect one, was raised at Manchester in the summer of 1861. It was the only light battery recruited in the state. Its organization was George A. Gerrish, of Portsmouth, captain ; Fred M. Edgill, of Orford, and Edwin H. Hobbs, of Manchester, first lieutenants ; and John Wadleigh and Henry F. Condict, of Manchester, second lieutenants. It served with the army of the Potomac through the war, and distinguished itself in all its principal battles. In 1864 it was designated as Company M of the First Heavy Artillery, to allow that command to muster as a regimental organization. While the artillery service of the army of the Potomac was exceptionally good, this battery maintained a rank for excellence and bravery with the best. It was mustered out in June, 1865.

The Heavy Artillery. - Immediately upon the consolidation of the Seven- teenth with the Second, Lieutenant-Colonel Long, of the former regiment, obtained authority to raise a company of heavy artillery to garrison Fort Con- stitution in Portsmouth harbor. This company was soon raised, Lieutenant- Colonel Long being its captain, he taking with him several non-commissioned officers of the Seventeenth. Later, Captain Ira McL. Barton, of Newport, of the Fifth, and late captain in the First, obtained authority to raise a second company for garrison duty at Fort McClary, across the Piscataqua from Fort Constitution. These two companies, A and B, were mustered during the summer of 1863. In the early autumn of 1864 authority was granted to augment this nucleus to a full regiment of twelve companies of 1,800 men. The attractions for this enlistment were great, and recruiting went on briskly. Companies A and B had, at this period, been for some time in the defences of Washington on the line of earthworks north and west of the city, and the new companies were forwarded to the same assignment as fast as mustered. Recruiting lagged with the organization of the eleventh company, and in order to give the command a muster of regimental officers, the light battery, which had been in active service since 1861, was designated as Company M, and transferred to the "Heavys." Colonel Long being mustered, and the regimental organization thus completed, the battery was ordered on detached service under General Hancock's command, so that its only connection with the regiment was to enable it to muster as a complete organization. Battery A was ordered back to Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, in January, 1865, and

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Battery B in February following. Colonel Long was assigned to duty in command of a brigade in Harden's Division, and Lieutenant-Colonel MeL. Barton commanded the regiment. It was a splendid body of men capable of performing most efficient service. It remained in the defences about the Capitol, save batteries A, B, and M, until the summer of 1865, when it was ordered to New Hampshire, and mustered out June 19, 1865. The field officers were Charles H. Long, of Claremont, colonel ; Ira MeL. Barton, of Newport, lieutenant-colonel; George A. Wainwright, of Hanover, Dexter G. Reed, formerly second lieutenant in the First Infantry, of Newport, and Frederick M. Edgill, of Orford (of the light battery), majors. Colonel Long resides in Claremont. Lieutenant-Colonel McL: Barton went to Arkansas, reached the grade of general of militia, was active in local military troubles, and died not many years after the close of the war. Major Wainwright, who was adjutant of the Seventeenth, resides in Hanover.

Although there was no company organization in the heavy artillery from this county, there were large delegations of several companies, chiefly from the towns in the central part; some of the men served in the light batteries also.

The county was well represented in the artillery.

ROSTER.

Perry C. Moore, A, Serg't,

Ossipee

William P. Thurston, G, Corporal, Eaton

Albert H. Leonard, A, Corporal,

James Stevenson, G, Corporal,

Wolfeborough

Jolın A. Frost, A, Corporal,

Mayhew C. Allard, G, Eaton

Alonzo Cushing, A,

Freedom

George A. Adams, G,

Monltonborough Wolfeborough

Robert C. Gunnison, A,

Nathaniel W. Bryant, G,

Moultonborongh Wolfeborough

Peter Marquet, A, ",

George F. Cate, G,

Charles W. Page, A, promoted Corporal, Wakefield

William K. Chase, G,

Albany

Oberon Payne, A,

Ossipee

James E. Dore, G, Isaiah K. Drew, G,

Wolfeborough

Henry Philbrick, A,

Freedom

John Sanborn, A,

Charles J. Edgerly, G,

Edward Smith, A,

Ossipee

Elbridge Gerry, G,

Charles Willey, A,

Charles F. Garland, G,

Granville W. Bragg, B,

Moultonborough

Orin A. Hidden, G, Frank B. Horn, G,

Wolfeborongh

Nathaniel Meserve, B, Freedom

John B. James, G,

Moultonborough Wolfeborough

Alvah S. Libbey, G, Ist Lieut, promoted Capt. Wolfeborough

George W. Horne, G, 21 Lientenant,

Caleb T. Keniston, G,

John Kane, G,

George E. Kimball, G,

Calvin S. Adams, A,

Wakefield

James A. Cook, B, Sandwich

John W. Fogg, D, Serg't, promoted Ist Serg't,

Charles HI. Lyman, G,

Albany

Jonathan Q. Mason, G,

Madison

Edward P. Eastman, D,

Conway

Jeremiah Kimball, D,

Warren Nason, G,

Albany

Noah Shaw, G, Corporal,

Gilbert M. Nash, G,

Moultonborough Eaton

Charles S. Parris, G, Corporal,

Wolfeborough

George S. Parker, G, Corporal,

Benjamin Kennison, G, Corporal,

Albany

Alexander E. Raitt, G,

Wolfeborough

Horace II. Monlton, D,

Wolfeborough Wakefield

Thomas F. Marston, G, Lewis C. Merrow, G,

James Marden, G,

Wolfeborough

Joseph P. Heath, G, Sergeant,

Wolfeborough Freedom

William H. Palmer, G, Charles Robertson, G,

Moultonborough Madison

Daniel Downs, B, Tamworth

George J. Jordan, G,

Ezra H. Keniston, G,

William D. Haley, L, promoted Com. Serg't,

Tuftonborough

George F. Kimball, G, Stillman S. Kent, G,

Eaton

George De Marsh, A,

Ossipee

John M. Avery, G,

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Samuel Stokes, G,

Freedom

Charles Young, K,

Almon D. Thurston, G,

Eaton

Albert II. Sanborn, L,

Daniel Thurston, G,

John Davis, L,

William M. Towle, G,

Charles W. Dame, L,

Tuftonborouglı

Samuel Ward, G,

Madison

Iliram O. Tuttle, L, Effingham Eaton

George W. Warren, G,

Wolfeborough

Leavitt Alley, L,

Joseph J. Whitten, G,

Charles Davis, L,

Ossipee

Franklin Wilkinson, G,

Freedom

William T. Dorr, L,

Wolfeborough

Hiram Pray, K, Corporal,

Ossipee

William II. Donnelly, L, Chatham

Gideon Gilman, K, Corporal,

Henry Eldredge, L,

Freedom

Jacob Abbott, K,

Elijah S. Ilaley, L, Tuftonborough

Stephen Bean, K,

George F. Hobbs, L, promoted Adj't, 18th N. II. Vol. Inf. Wakefield

Edward R. Bickford, K,

Joseph W. Johnson, L,

Tnftonborough

John Edgerly, K,

George M. Lewis, L, Effingham

John W. Folsom, K,

Daniel MeFarland, L, Tamworth

George M. D. Garland, K,

John A. Peavy, L, Tuftonborough

Samuel E. Hanson, K,

Freeman Richards, L, Freedom

John F. Hanson, K,

Nehemiah C. Snell, L,

Madison

Charles II. Larrabee, K,

George L. Stackpole, L,

Tuftonborough

lvory Miliken, D,

Charles E. Thurston, L,

Eaton

James M. Moulton, K,

James R. Thurston, L,

James Miliken, K,

Joseph D. Tuttle, L, died at Fort Slocum, D. C., Sept. 27, 1864,

Effingham

IIenry A. Neal, K,

Tuftonborough

Diamond L. Dana, M,

Madison

Thomas J. Orne, K,

James E. Ferren, M,

Martin V. Rieker, K,

Ossipee

Sewell E. Glidden, M,

Robert G. Ross, K,

Charles llarmon, M,

John Il. Stiles, K,

Chatham

Charles Spring, M,

Brookfield

Samuel E. Wentworth, K,

Ossipee

The Sharpshooters. - There were in the service two regiments of picked marksmen equipped with superior weapons for special or detached duty, as their designation indicated. From the nature of the organization it was impossible that the companies should serve in regimental order, and they were scattered as the exigencies of the service required. Company G of the Second regiment, ninety-eight officers and men, had a number of its best men from Carroll, and was mustered at Concord December 10, 1861. It performed the duties entrusted to it with devotion and unflagging zeal. Not exempt from casualties, its record of dead and wounded was equal to that of the most daring. In every respect these men were most creditable soldiers and admirable repre- sentatives of the stanchest element of the county. The state was not represented in the Field of the original organization, but later the field officers from New Hampshire in this command were : Major E. T. Rowell, of Company F, and Major Amos B. Jones, of Company E. George A. Marden, since speaker of the Massachusetts House, and on the regimental staff, was a sergeant in Company G. Major Rowell and Major Marden both reside in Lowell. The sharpshooters served in the Virginia campaigns and were at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, and in the Valley. The original men were mustered out in December, 1864, and those of the three companies remaining were consolidated and made Company K of the Fifth infantry.

Ossipee Wakefield Effingham

Alfred M. Cate, K,

Henry C. Nichols, K,

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ROSTER.

Ilosea Reynolds, F, Wakefield

Joseph Sanborn, G, Cor., promoted Serg't, wounded, Tamworth

James Y. Webster, G, Cor., wounded, Antietam, Sandwich

Charles E. Quimby, G,

William H. Davis, G, promoted Corporal,

transferred to 5th N. HI., Jan. 30, 1865, Sandwich Daniel N. Smith, G, wounded June 5, 1864, ,,

True D. Moulton, G, Tamworth

Freeman Sanborn, G,

Isaiah H. Wiggin, G, died of disease,

Recruits for Sharpshooters. - Andrew Berry, G, died at Brandy station, Va, April 7, 1864, Tamworth; Alvin G. Hayward, F, transferred to Fifth New Hampshire, Eaton ; Joseph Murry, Chatham.

Reenlisted Veterans, Second United States Sharpshooters. - Ira S. Blake, promoted corporal, G, wounded June 16, 1864, died of wounds October 27, 1864, Tamworth ; William H. Davis, G, promoted corporal, Sandwich ; James M. Gilman, G, corporal, transferred to Fifth New Hampshire, Tamworth ; George A. Langley, G, promoted corporal, transferred to Fifth New Hamp- shire, Tamworth.

The First Cavalry. - There was but one cavalry regiment proper from the state, and that was organized for three years somewhat late in the war. As stated, the Eighth Infantry, then in Louisiana, was for a time mounted and known as the Second New Hampshire Cavalry, but its service was more partic- ularly as infantry. Early in the war a battalion of four companies of New Hampshire men was raised and incorporated with the First Rhode Island Cav- alry. It was found that the union of companies from different states in one regiment was not altogether desirable, and this battalion was made the nucleus of the First Cavalry. This regiment and battalion served in Virginia and Maryland, and was first united in March, 1865. It left the state December 22, 1861, was made a regiment January 7, 1864, and mustered out July 21, 1865. It was composed of good material and did excellent service. The heaviest wholesale desertion of the war was of several hundred "bounty- jumping" recruits, who had been mustered to fill the regiment, and who broke away at Giesborough Point, below Washington, in the autumn of 1863, to the relief of the good soldiers left, who were in no way responsible for the presence or absence of these "scalawags." Its original officers were : David B. Nelson, major of battalion. Regimental: John L. Thompson, who died recently in Chicago, colonel; Ben T. Hutchins, lieutenant-colonel ; Arnold Wyman, J. F. Andrews and John A. Cummings, majors. One captain, Pierce L. Wiggin, formerly captain in the Third, and a few men were from this county.

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History of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Part 21

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co. Number of Pages: 1124

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co.
Number of Pages: 1124