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The new law required a certain number of companies of in- fantry, one troop of cavalry and one gun.
Northfield had two companies and the May trainings and militia musters were grand holidays. The expenses for these were paid by the towns and the state and the latter furnished arms. The last militia muster was held in 1847 (?) and the offi-
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cers' drills were continued for a few years after. When in 1861 the War of the Rebellion was thrust upon us there was no citizen soldiery in Northfield.
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There were, however, three regular organized companies in the state, viz .: Lyndeborough Artillery, Mccutcheon Guards of New London, Canaan Grenadiers. There was besides, the Amos- keag Veterans of Manchester, partly a voluntary organization.
MEXICAN WAR.
This war was fought with the regular army and no call for volunteers was made. There were but two natives of Northfield in service there: Joshua Smith, who died in Ohio on his way home, and Whitten Ludlow, who died at Corpus Christi.
WAR OF THE REBELLION.
Northfield was not free from the universal unrest and excite- ment that prevailed during the few years next preceding the out- break of the Civil War. The issues of the day were ardently dis- cussed in the highways and byways, the country stores and even the horse sheds on Sunday, and whilom worshipers took their accustomed places less intent on learning their duties to God than suggestions of their duties to their fellow men or to country. Nevertheless when the war had actually begun and the first call of the president for assistance came, a special meeting was at once called by the officers of the town to see what action should be taken to fill its quota. The first action was to vote a bounty of $300 to all volunteers and the same to such, now in the service on short terms, as might re-enlist. Provided a draft was neces- sary, every drafted man should have a bounty of $300 and $30,- 000 was appropriated for that purpose.
Upon another call for troops another special meeting was called and it was voted to pay every enrolled man, provided he was drafted and furnished a substitute, the sum of $300. In case the Legislature should increase the sum the selectmen were ordered to do the same. Thirty thousand dollars was ordered raised to carry out this or any other vote. In 1864, $15,000 was voted and after several trials as to sum, $800 was voted to each volunteer or drafted man, town notes to be given where they would be accepted.
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An enrollment was made of all between the ages of 18 and 36, which included 75 names, and those between 36 and 45 included 38, a total of 113. The first list was furnished the government when the first draft was ordered and the following were drawn : Charles B. Osgood, Oliver L. Dearborn, Josiah H. Littlefield, Thomas Keniston, Frederick Keniston, Jason Foss, Sylvester W. Eaton, Aram Riley, Smith W. Glines, Jesse Moore, Richard Batchelder, Charles Henry Ayers, Albert Keniston, Thomas Ben- ton Clark, Enoch J. Dearborn, Benjamin S. Clay, Reuben S. Whicher, Wesley M. Glines, John G. Heath, William Woodbury, Daniel Sanborn, Jeremiah Lake, Hazen I. Batchelder-23 in all. Several of these were for physical and other reasons exempt.
At a special meeting, held April 16, 1864, the selectmen were empowered and directed to furnish substitutes for the drafted men. As the war progressed nearly every man capable of doing military duty, and some who were not, volunteered for the service, as shown by the following list.
The final action of the town provided for a bounty for one- year volunteers, $500; for two years, $800; and for three years, $1,200 each.
The towns advanced the government bounty and the state gave $100. In 1864 the bounties aggregated $1,200.
"OUR BOYS WHO WORE THE BLUE."
The following lists include the names and record of service of the men who were mustered into the army of the United States in the War of the Rebellion under call of July 2, 1862, and subse- quent calls, and assigned to the quota of Northfield, and those who went prior to that date, as well as those who were natives of the town and enlisted elsewhere.
LIST I.
EDMUND SANDERS; Company F; Second Regiment; mustered in August 15, 1864, for three months; re-enlisted for three years; died of disease, March 7, 1865, at Laconia.
BENJAMIN HANAFORD; Company D; Fourth Regiment; enlisted in 1861 for three years; re enlisted from Sanbornton, 1863; died of disease, March 18, 1864, at Beaufort, S. C.
ISRAEL C. HALL; Company D; Fourth Regiment for three years; mustered in, February 28, 1864; captured, August 16,
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1864, at Deep Bottom, Va .; wounded January 15, 1865, at Fort Fisher, N. C .; discharged June 12, 1865, at Beaufort, S. C.
RICHARD DEARBORN; Company D; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 30, 1862; captured, May 16, 1864, at Drury's Bluff, Va., with Hickman's Brigade; was at Andersonville 11 months and 21 days; paroled; discharged June 26, 1865; died at North- field, July 16, 1901.
JAMES S. TILTON; Company D; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 30, 1862, for three years; mustered out as first sergeant, August 23, 1865.
WINTHROP PRESBY; Company D; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 30, 1862, for three years; killed July 27, 1864, near Petersburg, Va.
JAMES M. DANFORTHI; Company I, Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 30, 1862; killed August 16, 1864, at Deep Bottom, Va.
CHARLES SMITH was taken prisoner at Petersburg and died at Andersonville.
GEORGE DAVISON served in the Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers.
BRADBURY MORRILL served in the Twelfth Regiment. He was wounded in the wrist at Gettysburg.
AARON VEASEY; Company D; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 28, 1862; discharged, June 16, 1865, at Fort Schuyler, N. Y .; died at Amherst, June 21, 1904.
CURTICE WHITTIER; Company D; Fourth Regiment; mustered
. in, September 3, 1862; discharged, June 15, 1865, at Raleigh, N. C .; now resides at Meredith; is a wool sorter.
WILLIAM PARSONS (or PEARSONS) ; Company D; Fourth Regi- ment; mustered in, August 30, 1862; discharged, disabled, July 15, 1863, at Folly Island, S. C .; he died at Northfield, December 12, 1876.
JAMES S. MARTIN; Company A; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, December 31, 1863; discharged, February 2, 1864, at Camp Nel- son, Ky.
THOMAS KING; Company A; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, January 2, 1864; discharged, March 20, 1864, at Pittsburg, Pa.
JOHN JOHNSON; Company F; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, January 4, 1864; transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, October 24,
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1864, for Department of the Northwest, but not assigned to any regiment there; discharged August 30, 1865.
CHARLES MARSH; Company F; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, January 5, 1864; discharged, disabled, August 26, 1864, at Philadelphia, Pa.
JOSIAH ROBBINS; Company I; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, January 1, 1864; captured, October 1, 1864, at Poplar Springs Church, Va .; released and mustered out, July 17, 1865.
FRANK ELSON; Company D; Seventh Regiment; mustered in, October 15, 1863; captured at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864; paroled December 24, 1864; reported on M. O. roll, July 20, 1865, as absent sick at Annapolis, Md.
JOHN McDANIEL; Company D; Eighth Regiment; mustered in, December 20, 1861; died of disease, March 29, 1863, at New Or- leans, La.
JOHN PRESBY; Company D; Eighth Regiment; mustered in, December 20, 1861; appointed corporal; re-enlisted, January 4, 1864; credited to Sanbornton; discharged, January 2, 1865, at Natchez, Miss., as supernumerary non-commissioned officer.
GIDEON COTY; Company C; Eighth Regiment; mustered in, January 4, 1865; assigned to Company C, Veterans' Battalion, 'April 30, 1865; mustered out, October 28, 1865.
THOMAS GILE, JR .; Company C; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, July 17, 1862; was at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; dis- charged, disabled, February 1, 1863, at Annapolis, Md. He died at Tilton, 1892.
JAMES VAN PEABODY; Company C; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, August 5, 1862; discharged, disabled, January 26, 1864, at Concord.
WALTER F. GLINES; Company C; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, August 13, 1862; transferred to Company I, Fifteenth Vet- erans' Relief Corps, April 1, 1865; discharged, July 8, 1865, at Springfield, Ill .; he died at West Concord, April, 1887.
ALONZO F. HOYT; Company C; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, August 13, 1862; died of disease, January 1, 1865, at Falmouth, Va.
AMOS KENDALL COPP served in the Eighth Regiment and was wounded at Port Hudson, May 10, 1862.
HIRAM BRADLEY EVANS served in the Ninth Regiment and died
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in hospital, 1864, from a wound received in the Battle of the Wilderness.
HERBERT GOSS CHASE enlisted in the Ninth Regiment as a musician.
SMITH D. CORLISS; Company F; Fifth Regiment; died at Fal- mouth, Va., 1862; he retired on account of sickness and was stationed as a cook; he enlisted from Franklin.
CHARLES F. CORLISS served in the Second Regiment, Company F; he died at Washington, D. C., on his way to the front.
JOSEPH CORLISS served three years in Company F, Second Regiment. He died at Concord, on his way home.
WILLIAM H. ROBERTS; Company K; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, August 15, 1862; transferred to invalid corps; assigned to Company E, Eighteenth V. R. C .; discharged, June 24, at Wash- ington, D. C.
CALVIN W. BECK; Company D; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; discharged, disabled, February 11, 1863, at Falmouth, Va.
JOHN DALTON; Company D; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; discharged, disabled, August 25, 1863, at Alexandria, Va.
IRA T. WHITCHER; Company D; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; discharged at Falmouth, Va., April 15, 1863.
GEORGE W. NILES; Company D; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 16, 1862; wounded, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa .; died at New York City, August 2, 1864.
JOSEPH BENNETT; Company -; Ninth Regiment; died at Washington, D. C., as the result of wounds, January, 1863.
FRANK BRALEY; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; was at Falmouth, Va., December 12, 1862; mustered out, June 21, 1865.
CORNELIUS BRALEY ; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; wounded, May 3, 1863, at Chancellors- ville, Va.
JAMES C. FARLEY ; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; mustered out, June 21, 1865.
JOHN KENISTON; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May
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3, 1863; mustered out, December 13, 1863, at Falmouth, Va .; died at Northfield, January 31, 1902.
GEORGE ROBERTS; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; was at Chancellorsville; mustered out, January 21, 1865.
CHARLES WOODWARD; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mus- tered in, September 5, 1862; mustered out, June 21, 1865.
BYRON K. MORRISON; Company G; Twelfth Regiment; mus- tered in, September 9, 1862; discharged, disabled, December 8, 1862, at Washington, D. C .; died, October 12, 1863.
WILLIAM HERRICK or BILL HARRIOT; Company D; Eighth Regi- ment; mustered in, December 20, 1861; wounded, June 14, 1863, at Port Hudson, La .; re-enlisted and was mustered in, January 4, 1864; was transferred to Company A, Veterans' Battalion, Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers, January 1, 1865; mustered out, October 28, 1865; he died at Belmont, May 25, 1900.
CHARLES W. TILTON enlisted May 1, 1861, and was elected second lieutenant of Capt. Jonathan Bagley's company, June 12, 1861; September 20, 1861, he was appointed second lieutenant; mustered out to date, September 18, 1861; resigned commission, January 16, 1862; re-enlisted in Company C, Ninth Regiment, July 17, 1862; appointed first lieutenant, August 10, 1862; wounded, September 17, 1862; resigned December 5, 1862.
WARD GILMAN served in the Twelfth Regiment. He was wounded at Chancellorsville by a bullet, one half of which was taken from his side and is in the possession of his son; the other half could not be found. He received a second wound at Drury's Bluffs from a bursting shell and was nearly blind for some years.
WALLACE CHASE; Company A; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, July 3, 1862; discharged, disabled, December 4, 1862, at Fal- mouth, Va .; re-enlisted and credited to Durham, January 19, 1864, and died of disease, January 5, 1865.
ERVIN A. HURD; Company D; Sixteenth Regiment; mustered in, October 11, 1862; mustered out, August 20, 1863.
JOHN W. DOWNES; Company C; Eleventh Regiment; mustered in, February 23, 1863; transferred to Company C, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, June 1, 1865; mustered out, July 17, 1865.
FRED KENISTON; Company F; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 14, 1864; discharged, June 21, 1865, at Baltimore,
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Md .; died at Manchester, probably November 10, 1902; buried the 12th.
ALBERT MCDANIEL; Company H; Fifteenth Regiment; mus- tered in, October 11, 1862; mustered out and re-enlisted, Sep- tember 2, 1864, for one year in Company C, Heavy Artillery ; mustered out, June 15, 1865; is now in Soldiers' Home, Togus, Me.
THOMAS G. AMES; Company H; Fifteenth Regiment; mus- tered in, October 11, 1862, as first sergeant; died of disease, July 20, 1863, at Port Hudson, La.
RUFUS H. TILTON ; Company D; Sixteenth Regiment; mustered in, November 11, 1862; discharged, August 20, 1863.
JOHN W. PIPER; Company E; Sixteenth Regiment; mustered in, October 22, 1862, as musician; mustered out, August 2, 1863; again mustered in, September 13, 1864, to Eighteenth Regiment, and mustered out, June 10, 1865.
ALBERT BROWN; Company B; Eighteenth Regiment; mustered in, September 15, 1864; mustered out, June 10, 1865.
ARTHUR F. MERRILL; Company D; Seventeenth Regiment; mustered in, September 21, 1864; mustered out, July 29, 1865; died at Providence, La., 1868.
SAMUEL, C. FIFIELD; Veteran Reserve Corps; mustered in, De- cember 19, 1863; discharged, November 13, 1864.
DEWITT C. MERRILL served in Nineteenth (Mass.) Regiment and also in the navy for four years.
PETER LA CASEY (sub.) ; Company D; First Cavalry; mus- tered in, April 30, 1864; appointed saddler, May 1, 1865; mus- tered out, July 15, 1865.
GEORGE W. KEYES; Company K; First Cavalry ; mustered in, October 10, 1862; wounded, November 12, 1864, at Back Roads, Va .; appointed corporal, April 1, 1865; sergeant, July 1, 1865; mustered out, July 15, 1865; re-enlisted elsewhere.
JAMES B. GOLD (sub.) ; Company L; First Cavalry; mustered in, December 31, 1863; deserted at Concord, February 21, 1864.
JOHN MORROW (sub.) ; Company L; First Cavalry ; mustered in, December 31, 1863; deserted, February 28, 1864, at Concord.
GEORGE SMITH (sub.) ; Company L; First New Hampshire Cavalry ; mustered in, January 1, 1864; supposed to have deserted en route to join regiment; no report at Washington, D. C.
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CHARLES SMART; Company A; First Cavalry; mustered in, March 15, 1864; appointed sergeant, May 1, 1864; second lieu- tenant, July 10, 1865, but was mustered out as sergeant, July 15, 1865. He was also in the First and Fifth New Hampshire Regiments, credited to other towns. Resides at Peabody, Mass.
WILLIAM CRAIGUE; Company D; First Cavalry; mustered in, April 30, 1864; discharged, May 11, 1865, at Concord.
ASA DART; Company D; First Cavalry; mustered in, April 29, 1864; appointed company quartermaster-sergeant, March 1, 1865; mustered out, July 15, 1865.
LUCIEN W. KNOWLES; Company D; First Cavalry; mustered in, April 29, 1864; contracted fever in camp at Concord; died at Northfield, September 3, 1864.
GEORGE STARK (sub.) ; Company D; First Cavalry; mustered in, April 29, 1864, and left for parts unknown, March 18, 1865, at Muddy Branch, Md.
CHARLES H. DAVIS; Company C; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, July 29, 1862; discharged, June 10, 1865; served in the Wil- derness campaign; was at Falmouth, South Mountain, Freder- icksburg and Vicksburg, Miss.
HIRAM H. CROSS; Company C; Heavy Artillery; mustered in for one year, September 2, 1864; mustered out, June 15, 1865.
ALBERT TITCOMB; Company G; Heavy Artillery; mustered in, September 6, 1864, for one year; discharged, June 15, 1865.
JOSEPH MILLS SIMONDS; Company H; Heavy Artillery; mus- tered in, September 17, 1864, for one year; mustered out, June 15, 1865.
JOHN DINSMORE; Company L; Heavy Artillery; mustered in, September 19, 1864; mustered out, June 15, 1865.
STEPHEN KENNEY (sub.) ; enlisted for three years as seaman ; served on Vandalia and Desoto; deserted, February 15, 1865, from receiving ship at Norfolk, Va.
CLARENCE H. ABBOTT (sub.) ; enlisted for three years as sea- man; served on Vandalia and Tioga; deserted, July 13, 1866, from the Tioga.
JOHN LYONS (sub.) ; enlisted for four years as seaman; served on U. S. ship Colorado; deserted, March 19, 1865, at Brooklyn, N. Y .; had served three previous terms as seaman and been hon- orably discharged.
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JOHN KELLEY (sub.) ; enlisted, September 13, 1864, for four years; deserted, September 19, 1864, at Portsmouth.
JOSEPH SWEENEY (sub.) ; enlisted, September 13, 1864, for four years and deserted, September 19, 1864, at Portsmouth.
JAMES McVEY (sub.) ; enlisted, July 23, 1864, for four years; served on U. S. ship Vandalia; deserted, February 22, 1865, from the Vandalia.
ABE LIBBY; Company F; First Regiment; mustered in, May 3, 1861, for three months; mustered out, August 9, 1861; then enlisted in Company H, Fourth Regiment; mustered in, Septem- ber 18, 1861; transferred to Company B, United States Ar- tillery, November 3, 1862; re-enlisted, February 2, 1864; dis- abled and discharged, November 12, 1864.
CHARLES STEVENS (sub.), (alias FRANCIS BENTLY) ; Company F; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, August 20, 1863; discharged, August 23, 1865.
PETER HILTON (sub.) ; Company A; Third Regiment; mus- tered in, August 20, 1863; severely wounded, May 13, 1864, at Drury's Bluff, Va .; died of his wounds, May 31, 1864, at Point Lookout, Md.
JAMES LYNCH (sub.) ; Company H; Fourth Regiment; mus- tered in, August 19, 1863; deserted, May 31, 1864, at Bermuda Hundred.
CHARLES C. COFRAN; Company C; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, September 18, 1861, as corporal; was drowned, June 30, 1862, at St. Augustine, Fla.
CHARLES W. YORK; Martin Guards, New Hampshire Volun- teer Infantry; mustered in, July 25, 1864, for three months as corporal; mustered out, September 16, 1864. He had served previously in the First New Hampshire Artillery.
ABRAM L. DEARBORN; Company B; Fourth Regiment; mus- tered in, September 18, 1861; disabled and discharged, Septem- ber 15, 1863, at Beaufort, S. C .; credited to Exeter.
JOHN COLLINS; Company E; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, July 26, 1864; wounded by explosion of magazine at Fort Fisher, N. C .; discharged, June 20, 1865, at Southville, N. C.
GEORGE W. CLARK; Company H; Fourth Regiment; mustered in, September 18, 1861; re-enlisted, February 20, 1864, and credited to Canterbury; mustered in, February 28, 1864; de- serted, October 13, 1864; reported, May 10, 1865, under presi-
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dent's proclamation and was discharged, May 11, 1865, at Con- cord.
The following natives of Northfield enlisted elsewhere:
LIST II.
. DR. JEREMIAH F. HALL, credited to Wolfeborough, was ap- pointed surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment, November 1, 1862, and went with it to Louisiana; resigned, on account of ill health, January 19, 1863; May 6, 1863, was chosen surgeon of the First New Hampshire District, and served until the dissolution of the board, August 1, 1865; resided at Portsmouth, where he died, March 1, 1888.
HORACE B. EVANS served in the Twelfth Massachusetts Regi- ment and died in hospital, May, 1864.
N. MARTIN DAVIS served in the Nineteenth United States Ar- tillery; was in the Army of the Potomac; was discharged and re- enlisted; last discharge was dated June 6, 1877.
WALTER TIBBETTS enlisted in Chicago in 1863. He was at Pittsburg Landing and has ever since been a helpless invalid.
LUCIEN CHASE; Company A; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, July 3, 1862; died of disease, August 12, 1863, on hospital boat Tycoon on the Mississippi River.
ASA WITHAM; Company D; Twelfth Regiment; mustered in, September 5, 1862; discharged, disabled, August 25, 1863, at Alexandria, Va .; died, February 7, 1898, at Laconia.
CHARLES M. DINSMORE; Company I; Sixth Regiment; mus- tered in, December 11, 1861; died of disease, October 7, 1863, at Russellville, Ky.
JOSEPH DINSMORE; Company I; Sixth Regiment; mustered in, December 11, 1861; discharged, disabled, October 7, 1862, at Washington, D. C .; burned to death in his room at Tilton, 1889 (?).
CHARLES L. ARLIN; Company D; Eighth Regiment; corporal; mustered in, December 20, 1861, for three years; re-enlisted in Company A, Veterans' Battalion, August 16, 1865.
REV. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN was sent by Governor Berry to look after New Hampshire men anywhere and everywhere, who were in the service. He was pensioned by special act of Congress. He died at Northfield, January 1, 1893.
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JOHN LOW PHELPS; Company C; Eleventh Regiment; was taken prisoner and died in Libby Prison, November 11, 1864.
ERWIN GIRARD CATE; sergeant; Company G; Twelfth Regi- ment; was wounded in the head at Cold Harbor; was also at Gettysburg.
JOHN G. BROWN enlisted in the Twelfth Regiment and died at Fairmount, Va.
JESSE KEZAR served three years in the Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers; credited to Franklin.
WILLIAM KEZAR; Sixteenth Regiment; enlisted for nine months; died at Concord on his return, August 29, 1863; credited to Franklin.
HIRAM HODGDON ; sutler of the Twelfth Regiment; credited to Ashland.
DR. SAM G. DEARBORN; surgeon; Eighteenth Regiment; mus- tered in, December 25, 1861; resigned, August 19, 1862; ap- pointed surgeon of the Eighth Regiment, September 29, 1864, but declined the appointment. He was credited to Milford.
WILLIAM A. GILE; Company E; Sixteenth Regiment; mustered in as sergeant, October 30, 1862, for one year; mustered out, August 30, 1863; re-enlisted and appointed captain in Company E, Eighteenth Regiment, October 1, 1864; re-enlisted in the United States colored troops. He was credited to Franklin.
FRANK A. GILE; Company E; Sixteenth Regiment; mustered in, November 10, 1862, for one year; mustered out, August 20, 1863; also credited to Franklin.
ยท GEORGE WHITCHER; Company F; Eighth Regiment; mustered in, December 20, 1861; deserted, January 20, 1862, at Man- chester ; credited to Sanbornton. .
WILLIAM C. WHITTIER enlisted, first, in the Fifth Massachu- setts for three months; re-enlisted for three years in Company D, First Massachusetts Cavalry; mustered in, September 17, 1861; re-enlisted for the third time from Newton, Mass., on Captain Mead's staff and was one of his bodyguard. He once remained in his saddle for three weeks. He returned home worn out and died nine days later.
THOMAS AUSTIN; Company K; Ninth Regiment; mustered in, August 15, 1862; credited to Canterbury; wounded, September 24, 1862, at South Mountain, Md .; transferred to Company 156,
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Second Battalion, Veterans' Reserve Corps; discharged, July 15, 1865, at St. Louis, Mo ..
DICK ROGERS; Company G; Fifteenth Regiment; mustered in, October 11, 1862; mustered out, August 13, 1863; credited to Loudon.
GEORGE R. CLOUGH; Company C; Eighth Illinois Cavalry; credited to Evanston, Ill .; died at Columbia College Hospital, Washington, D. C.
CHARLES W. CLOUGH; credited to New Boston; joined the regu- lar army under Gen. Joseph Hooker at Lookout Mountain; was retired on account of moon blindness.
HENRY L. CRAM enlisted from Westfield, Mass., for three years.
JOSEPH PERRY; mustered in, July 27, 1864, as a marine for four years. (This name does not appear in the Adjutant-Gen- eral's list.)
JAMES MORRISON; enlisted in the First United States Ar- tillery for three years; mustered in, September 26, 1863. (This name is not credited to any town on the records of the Adju- tant-General.)
BENJAMIN W. CLARK; Twelfth Regiment; enlisted, September 5, 1862; has also no place on state records.
WALTER L. BAILEY; drafted July 12, 1863; Company K; Six- teenth Massachusetts Regiment; transferred to the Eleventh Regiment, July 13, 1863; credited to Natick, Mass.
PROF. RALZO M. MANLEY; president of New Hampshire Con- ference Seminary; was commissioned chaplain of the Sixteenth Regiment and left, October 30, 1862.
OBADIAH JACKSON HALL; surgeon; Thirty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; credited to Portsmouth, O.
AUGUSTUS BLODGETT CLARK; enlisted in the Second New York as lieutenant and was later promoted to captain.
TRUEWORTHY LOUGEE; enlisted at Laconia in the Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment.
THOMAS BENTON CLARK; enlisted from Chelsea, Mass., in Company L, Second Massachusetts Cavalry; mustered in, April. 15, 1864; transferred to Veterans' Relief Corps, January 1, 1865; drowned at Tilton, August 11, 1872.
CHARLES C. TIBBETTS; enlisted in the Northern army from Missouri and died of fever.
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ORVILLE F. Roamas, M. D .; assistant surgeon; One Hundred and Seventeenth United States Infantry, for three years ..
SELWIN B. PEABODY; entered the service in the Fortieth Massa- chusetts Regiment; was at the siege of Fort Wagner, Ten-Mile Run, Drury's Bluff, Petersburg Heights, Bermuda Hundred, Fair Oaks and the capture of Richmond. He was wounded at Petersburg.
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