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It has been decided, however, to collect in this connection the names of all citizens of Lancaster who have borne commissions in the federal or state military service, and to publish entire the list of all who served for the town in the great contest of 1861-'65, with names of others in actual service in other wars.
The rolls of the adjutant-general's office at Concord are not com- plete, but they have been carefully examined, and such information as they furnish is here presented.
The state was early divided into territory assigned to each regi-
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ment, and as the population increased this territory was in many instances restricted, while the number of the regiments gradually increased until, when the old establishment was at its height, about 1850, there were forty-two regiments; that in the territory corre- sponding nearly to the southern judicial district of Coös county . being the Forty-second; a single command, the Twenty-fourth, prior to this division comprising the entire county as at present constituted, and Jackson and Bartlett in the county of Carroll, then part of the county of Coös.
For very many years there was an artillery company in each regiment; one always at Lancaster, and after the division, one at Stewartstown, in the Twenty-fourth. The original Lancaster com- pany had a light 3-pound brass cannon, without limber or caisson, manipulated by drag ropes attached to hooks at the ends of the wooden axle. The later guns were brass 6-pounders, with limber, managed in the modern way with horses and handled by bricoles. They were sent away during the days of the war to be rifled and recast, or turned in toward the procurement of the equipment of the First New Hampshire light battery.
There were at times a cavalry company and several independent. or light infantry companies. Lancaster has had at one time, under the old régime, an artillery company, an independent company, and the old line company, or, as it was sometimes most disrespect- fully called in the days of its decadence, the floodwood.
Perhaps the crack light infantry company of the county was the Jefferson Guards, a company of splendid physique, striking in white pants, with black leggings, black plumes, and bearing a white silk banner on which was a life-sized bust portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Of course the command was from the town of Jefferson.
But again a digression is checked. This chapter is not a history of the old militia or a description of its musters. It will not breathe of the shrill fifes or rattling drums, as heading the companies from Stark, or Carrol, or Dalton, or Jefferson, which streamed into Lan- caster before light of a muster morning,-they told of "The White Cockade," "The Road to Boston," or "Boney over the Alps"-but merely present a chronological record of the men who bore com- missions and who served the country in her later wars; and so the Assembly is ended and the Roll-Call begins :
GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL.
Jared Warner Williams, June 3, 1847. June, 1848.
MAJOR-GENERALS.
John Wilson, Second division, June 15, 1824.
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
BRIGADIER-GENERALS.
Edwards Bucknam, Sixth brigade, 1800.
John Wilson, Sixth brigade, June 29, 1822.
Ira Young, Sixth brigade, June 16, 1836.
Jacob Benton, Sixth brigade, June, 1857.
STAFF OFFICERS.
Richard C. Everett, inspector and brigade major Sixth brigade, 1800.
Charles J. Stuart, brigade inspector Sixth brigade, Aug. 10, 1822. Jared W. Williams, brigade inspector Sixth brigade, Gen. Lewis Loomis, Sept. 21, 1823.
William Cargill, aid to Gen. George P. Meserve, Sixth brigade, Aug. 9, 1824.
Jared W. Williams, division inspector to Maj .- Gen. Geo. P. Meserve, July 16, 1825.
Ira Young, division inspector to Maj .- Gen. Jonathan Poole, April 19, 1826.
Turner Stephenson, quartermaster Sixth brigade, Gen. John Wilson, Aug. 10, 1822.
David Burnside, quartermaster Sixth brigade, Aug. 9, 1824.
Jared W. Williams, aid to Brigadier-General Wilson, Sixth brigade, Aug. 10, 1822.
Hiram A. Fletcher, judge advocate Eighth brigade, 1850.
Mark R. Woodbury, aid to Brig .- Gen. Moses Cook, Sept. 25, 1834.
ON GOVERNOR'S STAFF.
Albro L. Robinson, aid to General Gilman, Aug. 17, 1839. Charles B. Allen, aid to General Gilman, Aug. 3, 1840.
Col. John S. Wells, aid to Gov. John Page, July 4, 1839.
Henry O. Kent, colonel and division inspector, Maj .- Gen. Nelson Converse, June, 1857.
Ira S. M. Gove, brigade major Sixth brigade, June, 1857.
Levi B. Joyslin, aid Sixth brigade, June, 1857.
Col. William Burns, aid to Governor Williams, June 21, 1847.
Col. George C. Williams, aid to Governor Dinsmore, June 15, 1849. Col. Edmund Brown, aid to Governor Metcalf, June 20, 1855. Col. Chester B. Jordan, aid to Governor Straw, June 6, 1872.
Col. Edward R. Kent, aid to Governor Weston, June 19, 1874. Col. Ossian Ray, aid to Governor Prescott, June 7, 1877.
Brig .- Gen. Ezra Mitchell, aid to Governor Bell, June 23, 1881.
Brig .- Gen. Everett Fletcher, aid to Governor Hale, June 26, 1883.
Brig .- Gen. Philip Carpenter, aid to Governor Currier, June 17, 1885.
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HISTORY OF LANCASTER.
TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
Col. Joseph Whipple of Dartmouth (Jefferson), commanding. Edwards Bucknam, lieutenant-colonel, 1787.
TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT. FIELD.
Edwards Bucknam, lieutenant-colonel commanding, Dec. 28, 1792.
Edwards Bucknam, colonel, 1797.
Nathan Barlow, lieutenant-colonel commanding, June 9, 1801.
Richard Clair Everett, major First battalion, 1.802.
Hopestill Jennison, major Second battalion, 1802.
Richard Clair Everett, lieutenant-colonel, 1805.
Stephen Wilson, major, 1805.
Stephen Wilson, lieutenant-colonel commanding, 1812.
Sylvanus Chessman, major, 1812.
John Wilson, colonel, 1818.
John H. White, colonel, June 18, 1825.
Ephraim Cross, colonel, June 21, 1832.
Ira Young, colonel, June 25, 1833.
Jonathan W. Willard, lieutenant-colonel, July 8, 1826. Ephraim Cross, lieutenant-colonel, June 22, 1821.
John M. Denison, lieutenant-colonel, June 9, 1816.
John Wilson, lieutenant-colonel, June 19, 1817.
John M. Denison, colonel, June 19, 1817.
Jonathan W. Willard, colonel, June 26, 1827.
John M. Denison, major, June 14, 1814. Sylvanus Chessman, major, 1812.
Joel Hemenway, major, June 23, 1819.
John H. White, major, June 15, 1824. Jonathan W. Willard, major, June 18, 1825. Ira Young, major, June 21, 1832.
STAFF.
John H. White, adjutant, June 22, 1820. Charles. Baker, adjutant, July 9, 1824. Charles A. Going, adjutant, June 23, 1826. Ephraim Cross, adjutant, July 22, 1829. Joseph C. Cady, adjutant, June 22, 1831. George W. Perkins, adjutant, June 3, 1814. William Denison, adjutant, July 3, 1818. Richard Eastman, quartermaster, June II, 18II. Noyes Denison, quartermaster, Dec. 24, 1816. John W. Hodgdon, quartermaster, Nov. 10, 1827.
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
George Bellows, quartermaster, July 22, 1829. William T. Carlisle, quartermaster, Aug. 23, 1838. Edwards Bucknam, paymaster, Dec. 9, 1816. William Holkins, paymaster, July 9, 1824. Benj. H. Chadbourne, paymaster, Aug. 15, 1837. Eliphalet Lyman, surgeon, June 9, 1813. Jacob E. Stickney, surgeon, Dec. 21, 1836. George T. Dexter, surgeon's mate, Dec. 8, 1838. James R. Wheelock, chaplain, July 9, 1824. Orange Scott, chaplain, July 5, 1827. Haskell Wheelock, chaplain, July 22, 1829.
LINE. Cavalry.
Thomas Carlisle, captain, June 9, 1813. Charles Hilliard, captain, Dec. 9, 1819. Jesse Carr, lieutenant, June 7, 1813. James Dewey, lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1816. Stephen Wilson, lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1814. Samuel Bundy, lieutenant, June 9, 1813. John Lucas, lieutenant, July 15, 1820. William Mitchell, cornet, June 3, 1814.
Artillery.
John Wilson, 3d, captain, June 13, 1820. Edwin F. Eastman, captain, Dec. 24, 1836. Seth Adams, captain, April 21, 1837. John Mason, captain, April 5, 1838. Josiah G. Hobart, captain, Aug. 8, 1828. William W. Chapman, captain, July 22, 1829. Jabez D. Philbrook, captain, March 3, 1831. Erastus Woodward, captain, July 1, 1834. John W. Spaulding, lieutenant, June 13, 1820. Fred G. Messer, lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1824. Jabez D. Philbrook, lieutenant, July 22, 1829. Joseph C. Cady, lieutenant, March 2, 1831. Erastus Woodward, lieutenant, Aug. II, 1831. Seth Adams, lieutenant, July 1, 1834. Caleb Walker, lieutenant, June 24, 1837. Ephraim Cross, lieutenant, June 13, 1820. Hezekiah M. Smith, lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1825. Harry Hobart, lieutenant, July, 1828. Joseph C. Cady, lieutenant, July 22, 1829. Erastus Woodward, lieutenant, March 2, 1831.
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Seth Adams, lieutenant, Aug. 11, 1831. . Elijah D. Twombly, lieutenant, July 1, 1834. John Mason, lieutenant, Dec. 21, 1836. Joseph Greenleaf, lieutenant, April 5, 1838. Prescott Lovejoy, lieutenant, Feb. 17, 1840.
FIRST COMPANY. Light Infantry.
Samuel White, captain, Dec. 9, 1824. Abel Leavins, Jr., captain, Aug. 10, 1827. Joseph Chessman, captain, March 2, 183I. Daniel W. Allen, captain, Dec. 21, 1836. George W. Perkins, lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1824. Benjamin Stanley, lieutenant, July 18, 1828. Seth Savage, lieutenant, Dec. 21, 1836. Abel Leavins, Jr., lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1825. Oliver W. Baker, lieutenant, March 2, 1831. Oren Mason, lieutenant, Dec. 21, 1836.
Infantry.
John Wilson, captain, June 3, 1814. Joel Hemmenway, captain, Sept. 1, 1817. William Stanley, captain, Aug. 9, 1819. Jonathan W. Willard, captain, June 17, 1820. Adna Crandall, captain, Aug. 8, 1825. Greenleaf C. Philbrook, captain, June 24, 1828. Levi F. Ranlet, captain, April 26, 1830. Harvey Adams, captain, June 14, 1832. Joseph Brackett Moore, captain, March 23, 1835. Daniel W. Allen, captain, Dec. 21, 1836. William D. Weeks, captain, April 25, 1839. Joel Hemmenway, lieutenant, June 3, 1814. Samuel White, lieutenant, June 3, 1814. Bailey Denison, lieutenant, Sept. 1, 1817. Jonathan W. Willard, lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1819. Charles Baker, lieutenant, June 17, 1820. William Moore, 2d lieutenant, June 17, 1820. Adna Crandall, lieutenant, May 31, 1824. Greenleaf C. Philbrook, lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1825. John C. Moore, 2d lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1825. John C. Moore, Ist lieutenant, June 23, 1828. Levi F. Ranlet, lieutenant, June 23, 1828. Harvey Adams, lieutenant, April 26, 1830. William D. Weeks, lieutenant, June 21, 1831.
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
Joseph B. Moore, lieutenant, June 13, 1832. Seth Savage, 2d lieutenant, March 23, 1835. Seth Savage, Ist lieutenant, Dec. 21, 1836. Daniel W. Allen, lieutenant, March 23, 1835. Oren Mason, lieutenant, Dec. 21, 1838. Edward F. Bucknam, lieutenant, April 25, 1839. John Sargent, lieutenant, April 25, 1839.
FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
Organized, as before stated, from the division of the Twenty-Fourth regiment, in 1840.
The last Regimental Muster was holden Saturday, Sept. 22, 1849, on " Burnside's Field on the Sand Hill"-the land now embraced by Pleasant Street, and its abutting properties. James H. Hall was colonel, Horace Whitcomb, lieutenant-colonel, and Orville E. Free- man, major. July 12, 1850, all parades, save of independent vol- unteer companies, were abolished. The muster of 1848 was on Baker Hill, where Winter street now is. In September, 1847, was an " Officers' Drill" of three days, on Cady's meadow, Gustave A. Breaux, a Norwich cadet, still living in New Orleans, being the instructor.
FIELD.
John S. Wells, colonel, June 22, 1840. James W. Weeks, colonel, July 6, 1846.
James H. Hall, colonel, June 30, 1849. Horace Whitcomb, colonel, Jan. 8, 1853.
Joseph W. Merriam, colonel, March 30, 1855.
Orville E. Freeman, colonel, March 20, 1857.
William D. Weeks, lieutenant-colonel, June 20, 1844.
Erastus I. Abbott, lieutenant-colonel, June 22, 1848. James H. Hall, lieutenant-colonel, May 24, 1849. Horace Whitcomb, lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 21, 1849. Joseph W. Merriam, lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 8, 1853. Orville E. Freeman, lieutenant-colonel, March 30, 1855. Henry O. Kent, lieutenant-colonel, March 20, 1857. William D. Weeks, major, Dec. 7, 1840. James W. Weeks, major, Dec. 20, 1845. James H. Hall, major, Aug. 5, 1848. Jason F. Nutter, major, June 3, 1849.
Orville E. Freeman, major, Aug. 31, 1849.
Charles E. Connor, major, March 30, 1855.
Henry O. Kent, major, Dec. 1, 1855.
Henry J. Whitcomb, major, March 30, 1857.
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George A. Cossitt, adjutant, Oct. 2, 184I. William A. White, adjutant, March 8, 1844. John M. Whipple, adjutant, Aug. 5, 1848. Joseph W. Merriam, adjutant, Aug. 3, 1849. Henry J. Whitcomb, adjutant, April 18, 1853. Jared I. Williams, adjutant, April 9, 1857. James H. Hall, quartermaster, Sept. 4, 1847. James Spaulding, quartermaster, Aug. 3, 1849. Paschal M. Hovey, quartermaster, April 18, 1853. Robert Sawyer, paymaster, July 8, 1844. David A. Burnside, paymaster, Sept. 14, 1848. Jacob E. Stickney, surgeon, Oct. 2, 1840. George T. Dexter, surgeon, March 20, 1843. John W. Barney, surgeon, March 30, 1844. Henry Hill, chaplain, Aug. 3, 1849.
LINE. Artillery.
Prescott Lovejoy, captain, March 4, 1841. John Mason, captain, July 25, 1844. John Weeks, captain, Nov. 20, 1844. Erastus I. Abbott, captain, April 25, 1846. Jason F. Nutter, captain, Sept. 4, 1848. John M. Lindsey, captain, April 29, 1851. Joseph H. Balch, lieutenant, Aug. 28, 1841. John Weeks, lieutenant, July 25, 1844. Erastus I. Abbott, lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1844. Jason F. Nutter, lieutenant, April 25, 1846. John M. Lindsey, lieutenant, Aug. 31, 1849. Mark Reed, lieutenant, April 30, 1850. George F. Stone, lieutenant, April 29, 1851. John M. Smith, lieutenant, Aug. 28, 1841. Benj. H. Darby, lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1844. Orville E. Freeman, lieutenant, April 28, 1847. M. D. L. F. Smith, lieutenant, Aug. 31, 1849. Edward E. Cross, lieutenant, May 14, 1850. John G. Derby, lieutenant, April 29, 1851. James S. Brackett, lieutenant, June 18, 1851.
Infantry.
Edward F. Bucknam, captain, Oct. 2, 1840. James W. Weeks, captain, May 8, 1843. Samuel H. LeGro, captain, April 25, 1846. James McIntire, captain, April 4, 1848.
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
Horace Whitcomb, captain, April 11, 1849. Charles E. Connor, captain, Aug. 31, 1849. William H. Heath, captain, April 16, 1855. Josiah Harrington, lieutenant, Oct. 2, 1840. James R. Whittemore, lieutenant, Sept. 2, 1841. James W. Weeks, lieutenant, Aug. 8, 1842. John Weeks, lieutenant, May 8, 1843. Samuel H. LeGro, lieutenant, Sept. 2, 1843. James McIntire, lieutenant, Aug. 11, 1844.
Horace Whitcomb, lieutenant, April 4, 1848.
Charles E. Conner, lieutenant, April 11, 1849. Charles S. Hodgdon, lieutenant, Aug. 31, 1849. Jared I. Williams, lieutenant, April 2, 1856. James S. Freeman, lieutenant, Aug. 31, 1849. William R. Joyslin, lieutenant, April 2, 1856.
In 1857 the militia was " reorganized "-all able bodied males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were enrolled yearly by the selectmen when taking the April inventory, and returned to the adjutant-general. Three divisions and six brigades were desig- nated geographically, and major and brigadier-generals, with staff officers, appointed.
There was no active militia for several years thereafter, and until after the great Civil War, save several incorporated associations, such as the "Amoskeag Veterans " and " Governor's Horse Guards," and a few independent companies, not more than half a dozen in all.
THE GOVERNOR'S HORSE GUARDS.
A command of four companies of cavalry organized as a regi- ment. Its especial duty was to act as escort for the governor-elect at the capitol on " election day." It first paraded in 1860, and its last parade was in 1865.
Henry O. Kent, colonel, March 17, 1864.
Henry O. Kent, major, Jan. 11, 1860.
SECOND REGIMENT, VOLUNTEER MILITIA.
LANCASTER RIFLES, COMPANY I.
Jared I. Williams, captain, March 24, 1865. John G. Derby, Ist lieutenant, March 24, 1865.
Francis L. Cross, 2d lieutenant, March 24, 1865. Disbanded 1868.
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HISTORY OF LANCASTER.
THIRD REGIMENT, INFANTRY.
FIELD.
Irving W. Drew, major, April 18, 1878.
STAFF.
Frank A. Colby, surgeon, May 8, 1878.
LANCASTER RIFLES, COMPANY F.
William G. Ellis, captain, April 11, 1878. Moses A. Hastings, captain, July 25, 1879.
George H. Emerson, captain, Aug. 30, 1882. Frank A. Colby, lieutenant, April 11, 1878. Solon L. Simonds, lieutenant, June 25, 1878. Moses A. Hastings, lieutenant, June 25, 1878. Willie E. Bullard, lieutenant, July 25, 1879.
George H. Emerson, lieutenant, June 24, 1882.
Henry J. Cummings, lieutenant, Aug. 30, 1882.
Richard B. Whitcomb, lieutenant, April 10, 1884. James H. Darby, lieutenant, April 10, 1884.
Disbanded May 16, 1884.
ACTUAL SERVICE.
In the earlier days of the state, regiments and companies were raised for scouting duty, for garrisons, or for different military expe- ditions, as occasion required, such as the taking of Crown Point, and the capture of Louisburg. In 1760 there were appointed ten regiments. The Twenty-fourth regiment was organized in 1792, after the adoption of the new state constitutions
So far as can be ascertained from tradition and scattered mem- oranda, the men of Lancaster who were participants in the French and Indian wars and in the War of Independence, were as follows :
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, 1755-'63.
Emmons Stockwell, Major Rogers Rangers.
Thomas Burnside, Major Rogers Rangers and John Stark Rangers. David Page, Jr., Major Rogers Rangers.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-'83.
John Burgin, lieutenant. John Weeks, lieutenant. Joseph Brackett, lieutenant.
Dennis Stanley, ensign. Phinehas Hodgdon, sergeant. Moses White, aide to Major-Gen- eral Hazen.
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Privates.
Rev. Joseph Willard,
Jonathan Willard,
Richard Clair Everett,
Abner Osgood,
David Greenleaf,
Samuel Page,
Ebenezer Twombly,
Moses Page,
Isaac Darby,
James Rosebrooks,
Samuel S. Wentworth, John McIntire,
Eleazer Rosebrooks,
Nathaniel White,
James Hardy.
Lieut. John Weeks was in service in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y .; Lieut. Joseph Brackett served at the forts about Portsmouth (N. H.) harbor; Ensign Dennis Stanley was engaged on scouting parties ; Jonathan Willard, Abner Osgood, Samuel Page, John Page, and Moses Page served under Captain Eames at the forts in the Cohas country ; James Rosebrooks served in Whitcomb's Rangers from 1776 to 1779, and Eleazer Rosebrooks, James Hardy, and the other men in the foregoing list, not specially designated as on duty elsewhere, were in the Continental Line regiments.
WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, 1812-'15.
John W. Weeks, major IIth U. S. Infantry. John W. Weeks, captain IIth U. S. Infantry.
Benjamin Stephenson, lieutenant IIth U. S. Infantry. Amaziah Knight, sergeant IIth U. S. Infantry. Edwards Bucknam, sergeant IIth U. S. Infantry. Allen Smith, musician IIth U. S. Infantry. Orvin R. Dexter, musician IIth U. S. Infantry.
Privates IIth U. S. Infantry.
Stephen Bullard, Gad Beecher, John Burgin, 2d, John Bickford, John English, Joel Farnham, Samuel Gotham,
Robert Gotham,
Alpheus Hutchins,
John Hicks, John M. Holmes, Daniel Holmes, George W. Lucus, Jacob McIntire,
Harvey Moore, Shepherd Morse, Jacob B. Moore, John W. Moore, Daniel Perkins, James Perkins, Levi Pratt, Edmund Sanborn,
James B. Stanley, Israel Sanderson, John Wilson, George Ingerson, Abram Sanborn.
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HISTORY OF LANCASTER.
Capt. Edmund Freeman's (of Lebanon) company at the Canada line, 1812 :
Joel Hemmenway, sergeant. Stephen Hayes, fifer.
Privates.
Gustavus A. Hall,
George W. Moore,
John Perkins,
Amasa Page, David Taylor, Benjamin Upham.
Capt. James Mooney's* company at Indian Stream, 1835. The Indian Stream, or "Applebee War."
Privates.
James H. Balch,
Harry Boutwell,
Eli Kenerson, John Perkins,
Alfred C. Greenleaf,
Charles F. Stone,
Douglass Ingerson,
John Sweet.
Dennis Jones,
In Capt. Daniel Batchelder's (Bath) company, Ninth or New England regiment, Mexican War, 1847 :
Privates.
James Powers, Harvey Wade ("Tinker " Wade), Jefferson Perkins (" Gentleman" Perkins).
WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1861-'65. IN THE STATE SERVICE.
Henry O. Kent, aide to the adjutant-general with rank of colonel, April 16, 1861 (detailed to organize recruiting in Coos county) ; assistant adjutant-general of New Hampshire, with rank of colonel, April 30, 1861.
IN THE UNITED STATES SERVICE.
FIELD.
Edward E. Cross, colonel Fifth volunteer infantry (killed at Gettys- burg, in command of a brigade, July 3, 1863). Henry O. Kent, colonel Seventeenth volunteer infantry.
* Captain Mooney was from Stewartstown.
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
Richard E. Cross, lieutenant-colonel Fifth volunteer infantry (com- missioned colonel 1865, but not mustered by reason of deple- tion of regiment).
Richard E. Cross, major, Fifth volunteer infantry.
It seems proper, from the value and prominence of their services, to add the names of,-
Nelson Cross, born and reared in Lancaster; colonel of New York volunteer infantry; brigadier-general and major-general by brevet, who died in 1897.
Harris M. Plaisted, born in Jefferson; educated and always at home in Lancaster; colonel of Maine volunteer infantry; brigadier- general United States volunteers, and governor of Maine, who also died in 1897.
STAFF.
John W. Bucknam, surgeon Fifth infantry.
James D. Folsom, surgeon Seventeenth infantry.
Horatio N. Small, assistant surgeon Seventeenth and Thirteenth infantry, and surgeon Tenth infantry.
Ira S. M. Gove, commissary Seventeenth infantry.
REGULAR ARMY.
Francis L. Towne, assistant surgeon United States army, 1861 ; retired with rank of colonel; assistant surgeon general United States army, 1896.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
Alfred Titus Snell, rank of commander.
SPECIAL DUTY.
Ossian Ray, commissioned lieutenant and deputy provost-marshal during the later years of the war, assigned to duty in Coös county.
Horace A. White, sutler Fifth infantry.
Frank Smith, sutler Seventeenth infantry.
LINE.
Hugh R. Richardson, captain Company C, Second. Harrison D. F. Young, captain Company H, Second. Henry S. Hilliard, captain Company B, Fifth. Edmund Brown, captain Company B, Fifth. Charles P. Denison, captain Company A, Seventh.
Freedom M. Rhodes, captain Company E, Fourteenth.
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HISTORY OF LANCASTER.
Jared I. Williams, captain Company A, Seventeenth.
John G. Lewis, lieutenant Company H, Ninth.
James S. Brackett, lieutenant Company A, Seventeenth.
Joseph Chase, lieutenant Company A, Seventeenth.
Charles N. Kent, lieutenant Company C, Seventeenth.
Walter S. Bailey, lieutenant Company A, heavy artillery.
John C. Jenness, lieutenant Company I, heavy artillery.
Richard E. Cross, lieutenant, Company H, Fifth infantry.
William H. Shurtleff, lieutenant Company I, heavy artillery.
RESIDENTS OF LANCASTER, AT PERIODS SINCE THE WAR, BUT NOT DURING SERVICE.
This list is necessarily incomplete, but as full as possible from attainable data.)
Dr. Ezra Mitchell, Ninth Maine, medical cadet U. S. A.
E. W. Wyman, lieutenant Maine infantry.
Parker J. Noyes, Eighth Vermont; lieutenant United States colored troops.
Alexander M. Beattie, Company I, Third Vermont; has congres- sional gold medal of honor.
Sergeant Levi H. Parker, Eighth Vermont.
Dr. Dan Lee Jones, Fourth Vermont and U. S. A.
Thomas Sweetser, Fifth and Fiftieth Massachusetts.
Thomas S. Thayer, Fifth New Hampshire.
Stephen Simmons, Seventeenth Vermont.
James N. King, National Guard.
Frank M. Lucas, Eighth Vermont.
George R. Bush, Sixth Vermont.
Alvah B. Sleeper, Eleventh Vermont.
Davis T. Timberlake, Twenty-third Maine.
Charles Couture, Nineteenth Maine.
Sergeant Charles E. King, Seventeenth New Hampshire.
Harlow Connor, D, First Cavalry.
Edward B. Beach, Ninth Vermont.
Frank C. Grant, Vermont Volunteers.
George W. Cummings, Sixth, Ninth, Seventeenth New Hampshire. Patrick Gleason.
Joseph Forshy.
Sergeant Charles Forbes, Company H, Thirteenth New Hampshire. John W. Stevens, First Vermont Cavalry.
Calvin Fuller, Third Vermont.
Henry J. Cummings, A, Third New Hampshire.
(It is impossible to present the names of non-resident soldiers, deceased, sometime resident of Lancaster.)
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THE SOLDIERS OF LANCASTER.
SECOND REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Chas. W. Fletcher, sergt. Co. F. Jerome H. Brown, Co. F.
Richard O. Young, Co. F.
Ebenezer Carpenter, Co. F.
Charles Buck, Co. F.
Ira G. Douglass, Co. F.
George Burt, Co. F.
Oliver P. Day, Co. H. Morrill C. Day, unknown.
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Joseph Benway, Co. F. George W. Morgan, Co. F.
James Martin.
Patrick McCaffrey, Co. F.
Charles E. McIntire, Co. G.
Charles F. Nutter, Co. F.
Samuel O. Nutter Co. F.
George Robinson, Co. F. John Puryea, Co. K.
Gilman Aldrich, Co. F.
Benjamin Sawyer, Co. F.
Levi P. Barrows, Co. F. Joseph Thompson, Co. D.
THIRD REGIMENT.
Orville R. Moulton, sergt. Co. I. Thomas Cassady, corp. Co. I. Edwin R. Jones, corp. Co. I. Nelson B. Lindsey, corp. Co. I. John W. Morse, musician Co. I. James Blanchard, Co. I.
Charles H. Kane, Co. I. William Wilkins, Co. I. Calvin O. Wilkins, Co. I.
Frederick A. Wentworth, Co. I.
Charles M. Blood, Co. I. Andrew J. Fowler, Co. I.
Frederick T. Bennett, Co. I.
James Moulton, Co. I.
John H. Cameron, Co. I. Oscar Gaines, Co. I.
John W. Moulton, Co. I.
FOURTH REGIMENT.
Orange Fisk, Co. H.
Charles Williams, Co. K.
George L. Harrington, Co. K. James Taylor, Co. C.
Michael Geno, Co. D.
FIFTH REGIMENT.
Freeman Lindsey, wagonmaster. Sylvanus Chessman, Co. F. John G. Sutton, Co. B. Richard Fletcher, Co. B. William A. Corson, Co. B. James Cummings, Co. B. Alexander Cummings, Co. B. William G. Ellis, Co. B. Levi J. Corson, Co. B. Michael Cassady, Co. B. James Cassady, Co. B. Michael Eagan, Co. B. Erastus W. Forbes, Co. B. Leonard W. Howard, Co. B. Francis Heywood, Co. B.
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