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Promoted
Jan. 1, 1845
Promoted
July 3, 1847
Promoted
June 24, 1848
Promoted
July 6, 1849
Promoted
Promoted
Nov. 1, 1850 July 4, 1851
Promoted
David C. Willey Samuel H. Rollins Sherburne S. Merrill James S. Knowlton Alpha S. Ordway L. A. Follansbee Peter Hersey Franklin Ferrin
Aug. 27, 1836
Promoted
June 22, 1830
Promoted
Samuel H. Rollins
1840 1841
July 4, 1851
Promoted Mar. 2, 1831
June 24, 1831 July
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Major, 2nd Battalion
Date of Com.
Vacated
Samuel Martin
June 23, 1815
Promoted
Levi Flanders
June 19, 1817
Promoted
William Crawford
Nov. 7, 1818
Promoted
Joseph Moore
May 19, 1820
Promoted
Moses Sleeper
Feb. 2, 1821
Promoted
Adjutants
Robert Smith John Tolford
Feb. 17, 1823
Died Apr. 1823
George W. Sumner
Apr. 30, 1823
Feb. 5, 1824
Nathaniel S. Berry
June 15, 1824
Promoted
Samuel C. Brown
June 5, 1827
June 9, 1830
John W. Swett
June 30, 1830
Sept. 1, 1831
Oscar F. Fowler George Minot
Sept. 9, 1834
Promoted
Walter R. Webster
June 18, 1835
Promoted
Sherburn S. Worthen
July 31, 1837
Promoted
Solomon S. Sleeper
July 1, 1840
Sherburn S. Merrill
Aug. 3, 1842
Promoted
Samuel H. Rollins
Aug. 22, 1848
July 2, 1849
Charles C. Rice
Aug. 21, 1849
Mar. 14, 1850
Thomas Dunlap
Mar. 14, 1850
Charles Brown
May 12, 1850
James S. Knowlton
Apr. 29, 1852
Quartermasters
John Tolford, Jr.
July 17, 1815
Caleb Flanders
June 10, 1819
John Tolford
Sept. 20, 1819
Promoted
George W. Sumner
Feb. 17, 1823
Promoted
Samuel C. Brown
June 15, 1824
Promoted
David C. Pratt Solomon Cavis
June 5, 1827
June 23, 1830
Samuel B. Bryant
July 21, 1830
Mar. 2, 1831
Oscar F. Fowler
Apr. 6, 1831
Promoted
Lewis Heath George Minot
Sept. 1, 1831
Promoted
Walter R. Webster
Mar. 28, 1834 Sept. 8, 1834 June 8, 1835
Promoted
John B. Marston
Oliver Currier Solomon S. Sleeper Gustavus Bartlett
July 31, 1837 July 25, 1838 July 1, 1840 Aug. 3, 1842
Promoted
Josiah D. Prescott
William A. Berry
Aug. 27, 1845
Gilmona Martin
Aug. 22, 1848
Gustavus Emmons
Aug. 29, 1848
Nov. 20, 1822
July 17, 1815
Sept. 1, 1831
Promoted
Apr. 30, 1825
Promoted
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Quartermasters
Date of Com. Vacated
Aug. 12, 1849
Aug. 12, 1850
Mar. 27, 1851
Apr. 29, 1852
Paymasters
John Emmons
July 17, 1815
Meshech Cate
Apr. 21, 1817
George Sumner
Oct. 27, 1817
George Sumner
June 9, 1819
David C. Pratt
Feb. 17, 1823
Promoted
Solomon S. Cavis
June 15, 1824 June 5, 1827
John W. Swett
Aug. 28, 1828
Promoted
Luther Colby
Aug. 2, 1830
Elias Colby
Aug. 13, 1832
George Minot
May 20, 1833
Promoted
Walter R. Webster
Mar. 28, 1834
Promoted
John B. Marston
Apr. 25, 1835
Promoted
John Pillsbury
July 31, 1837
Gustavus Bartlett
July 25, 1838
Promoted
Jonas Minot
July 1, 1840
Pela Phelps
Aug. 3, 1842
Chas. Haddock
Apr. 7, 1843
Ira P. Ballou
Aug. 27, 1845
A. Russell
Aug. 11, 1847
Gustavus Emmons
Aug. 22, 1848
G. Martin
Aug. 29, 1848 Aug. 24, 1849
Gilford Martin
Aug. 12, 1850
Surgeons
William Gale
June 17, 1813
Apr. 2, 1817
Daniel Favor
Apr. 21, 1817
Daniel Favor
June 10, 1819
Robert Burns
July 2, 1823
Jacob S. Eaton
Sept. 17, 1828
Alonzo A. Whipple
Mar. 17, 1836
William Proctor
Aug. 9, 1837
M. C. Sawyer
July 25, 1838 Aug. 3, 1842
Rufus Fellows
Aug. 27, 1845
Moses C. Hoyt
Aug. 11, 1847
Francis Ayer
Aug. 22, 1848
Hadley B. Fowler
Aug. 24, 1849
Removed by address
Promoted
Nathaniel S. Berry
Apr. 30, 1823
Promoted
Promoted
Charles H. Rogers
Levi H. Sleeper
June 16, 1829
June 9, 1830
Frederick Clay
Dis. July 1, 1823 Discharged Mar. 16, 1836
Ira S. Chase
James M. Knowlton Joseph W. Fellows Edwin C. Brown Charles C. Follansbee
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Surgeon's Mates
Date of Com.
Vacated
Ariel Huntoon
June 17, 1813
Robert Burns
Apr. 30, 182I
Samuel Smith
Sept. 19, 1823
Robert S. Copp
Mar. 25, 1829
Apr. 2, 1830
Joseph Gould
Apr. 20, 1830
July II, 1831
Joseph W. Howe
July 11, 183I
Moody C. Sawyer
Aug. 20, 1833
Ephraim K. Webster
Mar. 17, 1836
Parson Whidden
July 25, 1838
David T. Huckins
July 1, 1840
Daniel S. Chase
Sept. 9, 1843
A. Moulton
Aug. 22, 1848
George M. Cavis
Aug. 26, 1850
Chaplains
Stephen Pillsbury
Apr. 30, 1821
June 18, 1828
Phineas Cook
Sept. 11, 1833
David Calley
Aug. 22, 1848
Lyman Culver
Aug. 21, 1849
Albert C. Manson
Aug. 26, 1850
Bristol Phalanx '- Eighth Company of Infantry
Captains
John S. Bryant
Aug. 31, 1837
Promoted
Nathaniel S. Berry
June 27, 1839
Dec. 6, 1839
O. F. Fowler
Dec. 6, 1839
Sept. 25, 1840
Samuel H. Rollins
Sept. 25, 1840
George W. Ingalls
Aug. 3, 1842
Apr. 14, 1844
Carr Huse
Apr. 26, 1844
Promoted
Alpha S. Ordway J. H. Johnson
Apr. 28, 1846
Promoted
Aug. 21, 1848
Lieutenants
Nathaniel S. Berry O. F. Fowler
June 24, 1839
Promoted
John C. Downing
Dec. 6, 1839
Sept. 25, 1840
George W. Ingalls
Sept. 25, 1840
Levi Nelson, Jr.
Aug. 3, 1842
Apr. 11, 1844
Levi Locke
Apr. 26, 1844
Jonathan H. Johnson
Oct. 7, 1845
Orrin C. Gordon
Aug. 22, 1848
Ensigns
Oscar F. Fowler
Aug. 31, 1837
Promoted
I This company was disbanded Sept. 7, 1849
I3
Aug. 31, 1837
Promoted
Oct. 7, 1845 Promoted
Promoted Mar. 25, 1829
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Ensigns
Date of Com.
Vacated
John C. Downing
June 24, 1839
Promoted Promoted
Levi Nelson, Jr.
Sept. 25, 1840
Peter Whittemore
Aug. 3, 1842
Apr. 5, 1844
Abram Dolloff
May 13, 1844
Aug. 22, 1848
Thomas H. Tucker
Sept. 21, 1848
First Company (In distinction from First Company Infantry. )
Captains
Moses Wells
July 17, 1815
July 10, 1817
Moses Sleeper
July 10, 1817
Promoted
John McClary
Aug. 17, 1821
Promoted
Daniel Sleeper
Aug. 24, 1824
Dec. 26, 1827
John Allen
Dec. 26, 1827
Nov. 18, 1830
Nicholas Dolloff
Nov. 18, 1830
Feb. 15, 1834
Daniel Darling
Feb. 15, 1834
Feb. 12, 1835
John Hastings
Mar. 27, 1835
Promoted
Henry Wells
Sept. 13, 1837
Apr. 18, 1839
George W. Dow
Apr. 13, 1839
By address
David C. Willey
July 1, 1840
Promoted
Lieutenants
Moses Atwood
July 17, 1815
Res. July 10, 1817
Horatio Kelley
June 10, 1817
Lewis Dolloff
Aug. 17, 1821
June 1I, 1824
John Allen
Aug. 24, 1824
Promoted
Sanborn Gale
Dec. 26, 1827
Feb., 1831
Daniel Darling
Mar. 2, 1831
Promoted
Jesse F. Kendall
Feb. 15, 1834
Apr. 3, 1835
Henry Wells
Apr. 4, 1835
Promoted
John M. R. Emmons
Sept. 13, 1837
Apr. 22, 1839
David C. Willey
Apr. 18, 1840
Promoted
Oliver S. Hall
July 1, 1840
Ensigns
Samuel Underhill
Sept. 17, 1815
Vacated
David Sleeper
Aug. 17, 1821
Promoted
Nester Young
Aug. 24, 1824
Mar., 1827
Nicholas Dolloff
Sept. 22, 1828
Promoted
Daniel Darling Jesse F. Kendall
Mar. 2, 1831
Promoted
John Hastings
Feb. 15, 1834
Promoted
John M. R. Emmons
Apr. 4, 1835
Promoted
George W. Dow
Sept. 13, 1837
July 1, 1840
Promoted
Samuel S. Fellows
Nov. 18, 1830
Promoted
Samuel H. Rollins
Apr. 16, 1840
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First Company Infantry
Captains
Date of Com.
Vacated
Ebenezer Webster Cyrus Cass
Apr. 20, 1820
Promoted
Edward Evans
Jan. 9, 1826
Dec. 29, 1826
John S. Bryant
Jan. 15, 1827
Promoted
Ephraim Sargent
Feb. 25, 1830
Richard R. Stuart
Sept. 13, 1837
Lieutenants
Cyrus Cass
Sept. 21, 1820
Promoted
Edward Evans
July 2, 1823
John S. Bryant
Jan. 9, 1826
Promoted
Samuel P. Flanders
Jan. 15, 1827
Died
Ephraim Sargent
Mar. 26, 1828
Promoted
Wm. L. Chase
Feb. 25, 1830
George S. Sanders
Aug. 29, 1837
Ensigns
Samuel Underhill
Sept. 17, 1815
Edward Cross
July 2, 1820
John S. Bryant
July 2, 1823
Promoted
Samuel P. Flanders
July 9, 1826
Promoted
Ephraim Sargent
Jan. 15, 1827
Promoted
Wm. L. Chase
Mar. 26, 1828
Promoted
Samuel E. Flanders
Feb. 25, 1830
Timothy A. Pillsbury
Aug. 29, 1837
First Company was disbanded May, 1838.
First Company Infantry
The company here named, having the same designation as the above, appears to have been organized in March, 1841.
Captains
George D. Hamilton
Mar. 22, 1841
Samuel S. Fellows
Sept. 7, 1841 Aug. 20, 1844
Thomas R. Emmons
Aug. 20, 1844 Apr. 1, 1846
Fred Kidder
Apr. 1, 1846
May 4, 1847
Rufus Eaton
Aug. 4, 1847
Mar. 17, 1849
James T. Sanborn
Mar. 17, 1849
Lieutenants
George Blodgett Fred Kidder
Mar. 22, 1841
Aug. 10, 1842 Promoted
James T. Sanborn
Aug. 10, 1847
Promoted
Hollis Thompson
Mar. 17, 1849
Disbanded
July 2, 1823
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Ensigns
Date of Com.
Vacated
Rufus Eaton
Aug. 22, 1844
Hollis Thompson
Apr. 18, 1848
Promoted Promoted
George H. Hart
Mar. 17, 1849
Mar. 17, 1854
Fletcher C. Wells
Mar. 28, 1854
Company of Artillery
Daniel W. Stevens, captain, commissioned Apr. 20, 1820. Moses Sanborn, captain, commissioned Apr. 28, 1830. Samuel Wells, captain, commissioned Feb. 4, 1832. Blake Fowler, captain, commissioned Feb. 15, 1834. Moses Sanborn, first lieutenant, commissioned June 16, 1829. Blake Fowler, first lieutenant, commissioned Feb. 2, 1832. Moses Sanborn, second lieutenant, commissioned Mar. 30, 1828.
Blake Fowler, second lieutenant, commissioned Apr. 28, 1830.
In a company of artillery disbanded Nov. 1, 1833, the fol- lowing from this section served as officers :
Richard Sawyer, captain, commissioned Dec. 1, 1823.
Abbott Lovejoy, captain, commissioned Dec. 2, 1828. Webster W. Heath, first lieutenant, commissioned Nov. 24, 1824. Abbott Lovejoy, second lieutenant, commissioned Aug. 30, 1827. Levi Bartlett, cornet, commissioned Apr. 28, 1830.
May 16, 1816, Benj. Emmons was commissioned captain of a company of cavalry ; he was previously commissioned lieu- tenant of the same company, July 17, 1815. Richard Sawyer was commissioned first cornet, Nov. 3, 1819.
CHAPTER XIX
MILITARY HISTORY-THE CIVIL WAR
When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered.
-Tennyson.
The election of Abraham Lincoln, in the fall of 1860, caused all lovers of liberty to rejoice; yet it determined the South to carry out its many threats to withdraw from the Union. During the winter of 1860-61, state after state passed ordinances of secession, and every day increased the thick gloom that hung over the country. When, on the 13th day of April, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired upon, the entire North was aroused to action, and the wildest enthusiasm swept over the land. One senti- ment only was expressed-the Union must be preserved regard- less of cost. Two days later the President called for 75,000 men to serve three months to retake the property of the United States in the hands of the seceders, and such was the response that room could not be found for the thousands that offered themselves for the service.
New Hampshire was asked to furnish one regiment of one thousand men. On the morning of the eighth day after the call was issued, five men from Bristol went to Concord and enlisted in the First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. These men were Horace L. Ingalls, Webster Heath, Frank Darling, Charles H. Horne, and Moses Eastman. In this same party were Frederick W. Prescott, and his brother, Horace M., both residents of New Hampton, but natives of Bristol. On the nineteenth of this same month, the Sixth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteers, while en route to Washington, was attacked by a mob at Baltimore. The first bloodshed of the war ensued, three men of the Sixth Regiment being killed. Luther C. Ladd, who was born in Bristol, Dec. 22, 1843, was the first to fall; and thus a native of this town was the first who died in de- fence of his country in the Civil war.
As soon as the call to arms was sounded, the ladies of this town at once organized a "Soldiers' Aid Society " and had frequent meetings to prepare lint and bandages, to make "house- wives" filled with needles, thread, wax, and thimbles, and to prepare clothes and delicacies for those in the hospitals or in the field.
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In July, 1861, came the call for 300,000 volunteers for three years, and of these Bristol furnished six men. In July, 1862, came another call for 300,000 men for three years. Thus far, no action of the town had been needed to fill its quota, but when this last call came, a legal meeting was called for the fourth day of August. At this meeting a deep solemnity was apparent, for every one realized that the occasion was no ordinary one. William A. Berry was elected moderator ; Judge Oscar F. Fowler at once rose, and moved that the town pay $100 to each resident of Bristol who should volunteer under the last call, payable as soon as he should be accepted and mus- tered into the service. Abbott Lovejoy, who was one of the few Democrats in town opposed to coercing the South, hoping to defeat the measure, at once moved an amendment- that the words "one hundred " be stricken from the motion and the words " two hundred " inserted instead. The amendment was accepted ; and Mr. Lovejoy at once took his hat and left the hall, with the remark, "There, now, fight over it." But he had mistaken the spirit of the meeting. The amendment was not even discussed, and before Mr. Lovejoy had reached the street, the amendment was carried by a hand vote, sixty-four to fifty-six. This bounty was to be paid to all enlisting before Aug. 20, and the selectmen were authorized to borrow the money for the purpose.
When the last call was issued, Col. George W. Stevens and Col. Thomas J. Whipple, of Laconia, conceived the idea of raising a regiment in Belknap county and the towns adjoining. The idea was a taking one, and these two men and some others, rode through the towns within fifteen or twenty miles of Laconia, urging the raising of a regiment from this section of the state to be called the Twelfth Regiment. In every commu- nity visited by them, great euthusiasm was aroused, and men proposing to enlist called for other volunteers, and recruiting was brisk. Blake Fowler and David E. Everett, both of Bristol, called for volunteers from Bristol and vicinity. In a few days, Mr. Fowler enrolled seventy-one men, chiefly from Bristol and Alexandria ; and these, with others enlisted in Danbury by James T. Smith and in New Hampton by Hosea Q. Sargent, formed Company C. Mr. Fowler became its captain; Mr. Smith, its first lieutenant, and Mr. Sargent, its second lieutenant. Mr. Everett enlisted forty-three men. These were merged with others enlisted in Sanbornton by J. Ware Butterfield, Esq., and in Hill by Bradbury M. Morrill, and formed Company D. At an election held at Piper's mills in Sanbornton, Mr. Butterfield was elected captain ; Mr. Everett, first lieutenant, and Mr. Morrill, second lieutenant. The total number enlisting on the quota of Bristol in this regiment was forty. Thus it happened that a larger number from this section served in the Twelfth Regiment than
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in any other organization. Within the territory named, enough men enlisted in the short space of two weeks to fill the ranks of the regiment, one thousand strong-a record claimed at the time to be without a parallel in the entire country.
August 4, 1862, came a call for 300,000 nine-months' men, and Sept. 17, another special town meeting was held at which it was voted to extend the bounty of $200 to the nine-months' men. Under these two calls the town paid boun- ties to fifty volunteers, amounting to $10,000.
Sept. 25, 1863, at a special town meeting, it was voted "to pay $300 bounty to each member of the enrolled militia from Bristol who is or may be drafted or conscripted to serve in the army, or to each substitute for such conscript, and to authorize the selectmen to raise such sums as may be necessary for this purpose on the credit of the town."
As the war progressed, it became more and more difficult to obtain volunteers to fill the quota of the towns. Then came the evils of the substitute business, when large numbers of foreign- ers enlisted for the large bounties offered, many of them to desert at the first opportunity and reenlist under another name to obtain another bounty. From this practice came the term "bounty jumper." It is with no special pride that we record the fact that Bristol sent into the service forty-six substitutes. It should be added, however, that this was no more proportion- ately than were sent by other towns, and further, that some of these men did valiant service. Two who served on the quota of Bristol were killed in action and four wounded.
In 1863, the town paid $300 cash each to nine conscripts, amounting to $2,700, and hired twelve volunteers at a cost of from $540 to $575 each, a total of $6,802.
Feb. 1, 1864, the President issued a call for 500,000 men ; and March 12, following, came another call for 200,000, and this was followed, July 18, by still another call for 500,000 more. August II, of this year, the town held a special town meeting, when the following vote was passed :
Voted to raise a sum not exceeding $25,000 to be appropriated as bounties, and the selectmen be authorized to borrow the whole or any part thereof found necessary on the credit of the town and pay such bounties as they may find necessary and deem it expedient to pay in cur- rent funds or coin to each volunteer, who shall be mustered into the ser- vice of the United States, or who has been so mustered into said service since the last call of the president for 500,000 men, to fill the quota of the town, and to each soldier who has volunteered under this call as a sub- stitute for an enrolled man, or to the person entitled thereto, provided the enrolled man represented by such substitute pays $100 of the sum neces- sarily furnished to procure him, and that the town furnish a substitute for each enrolled or drafted man who will hereafter pay to the selectmen or into the town treasury, for the use of the town, the sum of $100 until our quota is full, and that the same vote apply and be applicable to each enrolled man in town subject to a draft or who may hereafter be drafted
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under any future call for more men, upon said enrolled or drafted man's paying a like sum, and authorize and instruct the selectmen of the town to borrow the necessary amount of money on the credit of the town to carry into effect this vote.
Under this vote, any man who paid $100 into the town treasury was entitled to have a substitute furnished by the town regard- less of cost. Nineteen men paid into the treasury $1,900; and the town paid for eighteen substitutes to take their places, $17,- 915; an average of $995.29. It also paid this same year for twenty-three volunteers, $5,500; an average of $247.82 each. The incidental expenses in procuring these men were $738.90. James T. Sanborn secured most of these, but Samuel H. Rol- lins was associated with him a part of the time. One item of expense was $100 paid a party for a trip to Canada to procure substitutes.
It will thus be seen that the town paid for bounties and incidental expenses during the war, $43,655. Of this great amount, the general government refunded to the town $10,895. The selectmen disbursed during the war state aid to families of soldiers, to the amount of $4,951.
During the progress of the war, there were many homes in Bristol made desolate by the loss of loved ones. After each bat- tle where Bristol men were engaged, there was intense anxiety to learn who of her sons had fallen. . This was especially true after the battle of Chancellorsville. The newspapers had reported, correctly, a loss of more than half of the men of the Twelfth Regiment, engaged, and such was the desire of the people to know the truth, that a letter from the author of this history, one of the survivors, was taken from the post-office, opened and read to the assembled crowd, before it was delivered to the party to whom it was addressed. Bristol lost at Chancellorsville five killed and ten wounded.
By the Roll of Honor given below, it will be seen that Bris- tol furnished one hundred and twenty-two different men for the service ; that five served two terms, and one three terms, equal to one hundred and twenty-nine men in all ; that of these, twelve died of disease ; twelve were killed in action or died of wounds, and twenty-two were wounded, of whom ten were wounded twice and one three times. Still others were discharged on account of wounds or disease and died soon after.
ROLL OF HONOR
The military record is here given, briefly, of each soldier who served on the quota of Bristol. This is followed by a like record of seventy-seven natives of Bristol who served from various towns and states in the Union army, but not on the quota of Bristol. The record of battles in which each was engaged and other services performed is as complete as can be gathered. It
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should not be considered as conclusive that a soldier was in no engagements because none are mentioned. All organizations named are of New Hampshire unless otherwise stated ; where no rank is given, a private is to be understood ; when no term of en- listment is stated, three years is to be understood. "See Gen." means see genealogy for further facts.
I. Ash, Moses, Co. D, 4th Regt., was born in Hill and was a resident of New Hampton when he enlisted, Aug. 14, '61. He reenlisted in the same company Feb. 14, '64. But little is known of his record except that he died of wounds Nov. 14, '64, at Fortress Monroe. His second enlistment was on the quota of Bristol.
2. Belcher, Franklin W., Co. A, Ist Regt. Cavalry, was born in Francestown, enlisted Mar. 24, '64, age 20; saw service in the Army of the Potomac. He died of disease at Darnestown, Md., Apr. 30, '65.
3. Bodwell, George, Co. A, 17th Regt., was a native of Concord, 22 years of age when he enlisted, Nov. 18, '62 for nine months; transferred to Co. B, 2nd Regt., Apr. 16, '63; de- serted, May 25, '63 ; returned, Aug. 1I, '63 ; discharged, Oct. 9, '63.
4. Brown, Charles S., Co. C, 12th Regt., enlisted Aug. 8, '62; was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and at the latter engagement was severely wounded in the thigh by a minie ball, which was not extracted till after his death, twenty-three years later. By reason of his wound he was trans- ferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, 86th Co., 2nd Battalion. He was discharged for disability at Fairfax Seminary, Va., Oct. 7, '64. (See Gen.)
5. Chase, John F., Co. D, 12 Regt., enlisted Aug. 12, '62, and was discharged at Washington, D. C., Feb. 23, '63. (See Gen.)
6. Cheney, Charles W., Co. C, 12 Regt., enlisted Aug. 15, '62 ; was at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- ville ; was killed at the last named battle, May 3, '63. (See Gen.)
7. Clark, Sergt. Stillman, Co. B, Ist Regt. Cavalry, en- listed Mar. 24, '64; served in Army of the Potomac ; was in battles of White Oak Swamp, Wilson's Raid, June 22-30, '64, which included a battle each day for seven days ; appointed ser- geant, July 1, '65 ; mustered out, July 15, '65. (See Gen.)
8. Clement, Charles H., Co. H, 14th Regt., was a native of Newport, 23 years of age when he enlisted, Aug. 2, '64, on the quota of Bristol ; was discharged May 18, '65. He had previ- ously served eight months in the 6th Regt.
9. Cochrane, Russell R., Ist Co., Heavy Artillery, enlisted Aug. 19, '64 ; age, 22 ; a native of New Hampton. He saw ser- vice in the defences of Washington ; mustered out, Sept. II, '65.
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IO. Corser, Sergt. Norman D., Co. C, 5th Regt., enlisted Sept. 2, '61. He served in Army of the Potomac ; was wounded at Fair Oaks, June 1, '62 ; reenlisted, Mar. 29, '64. The last enlistment was credited to Littleton. He was appointed sergeant ; wounded, June 3, '64, at Cold Harbor ; mustered out, June 28, '65. (See Gen.)
II. Currier, George C., Co. D, 12th Regt., enlisted as a drummer, Aug. 12, '62. In action the duties of the musicians were to look after the wounded. In this capacity he saw much of the fighting in which his regiment was engaged, though he did not carry a musket. He was mustered out with his regi- ment June 21, '65. (See Gen.)
12. Damon, Amos, Co. D, 12th Regt., enlisted Aug. 12, '62, as a musician (fifer). He spent nearly all his enlistment as a nurse in the hospitals and was most efficient and faithful in this position. He was mustered out with his regiment June 21, '65.
13. Danforth, Corp. Eugene A., Co. M, N. H. Battalion New England Cavalry, was born in Bethel, Vt., and 20 years old when he enlisted, Jan. 15, '62. He reenlisted Feb. 1, '64 ; ap- pointed corporal, July 1, '65 ; mustered out, July 15, '65. His second enlistment was credited to Bristol.
14. Darling, Sergt. Frank, Co. I, Ist Regt., and Co. D, 12th Regt., was a native of Hill, but had resided in Bristol from boyhood, and at date of first enlistment was 22 years old. He enlisted Apr. 23, '61, in Ist Regt. for three months, and was mustered out May 4, following. Aug. 14, '62, he enlisted in Co. C, 12th Regt. and was mustered as sergeant. He was mustered out with the regiment June 21, '65. In April, '66, he went to Richmond, Va., where he died some months later.
15. Dennison, Sergt. John P., Co. C, 17th Regt., was a native of Brookline, Mass., and a resident of Bristol, 44 years old, when he enlisted, Oct. 21, '62, for nine months. He was appointed quartermaster sergeant, and was mustered out Apr. 16, '63. He served later as quartermaster sergeant in Ist Heavy Artillery on the quota of Lancaster.
16. Dow, Jacob H., Co. H., 4th Regt., was a native of Claremont, but for some years had been a resident of Bristol, and was 41 years of age when he enlisted, May 30, '61. For some reason he was not assigned to any regiment or mustered into the U. S. service under this enlistment, but did service at Portsmouth, until discharged, Aug. 17, following. The next day he reenlisted in the 14th Regt. He was discharged for disability at Morris Island, S. C., Oct. 31, '63. He died at Hill Apr. 20, '84.
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