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THE SIXTH REGIMENT,
This regiment was organized in Keene and mustered into service in November, 1861. . Two recruits which were eredited to the town of Candia, enlisted in that regiment, viz. :
John Stern, James Sullivan.
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FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE BATTERY.
The First New Hampshire Battery, which was organized in Manchester in 1861, was engaged in many of the hard fought battles of the war, among which were those at Fred- ericksburg, the second battle of Bull Run and Gettysburg.
James H. Brown and John G, Burbeck of Candia enlisted in this organization.
THE EIGHTH REGIMENT.
This regiment was organized at Manchester, in the fall of 1861. Hawkes Fearing of Manchester was Colonel, O. W. Lull of Milford, Lieutenant-Colonel and Morrill B. Smith of Concord, Major. The regiment was a part of the forces which belonged to General Butler's army at New Orleans in the spring of 1862. It served many months in Mississip- pi and took part in the assault on the rebel works at Port Hudson. The following are the names of the Candia men who enlisted in this regiment :
Daniel Bean, George H. Roberts, William Daniels George W. Willey.
THE NINTH REGIMENT.
The Ninth Regiment was organized at Concord, in the summer of 1862, and left the state under the command of Colonel E. Q. Fellows. In less than three weeks the regi- ment took part in the battle of South Mountain, and three days later engaged in the great battle of Antietam. It was afterwards engaged at Spottsylvania and various oth- er actions. Names of the Candia soldiers in this regiment:
Charles B. Carr, Edmund J. Langley, Charles Fitzum.
THE TENTH REGIMENT.
This regiment wes recruited at Manchester, in the sum- mer of 1862. Michael T. Donahoe of Manchester was Col- onel, John Coughlan of Manchester was Lieutenant-Colon
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el. The regiment left for the South in September and was soon employed in action. It was present at the battle of Fredericksburg, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Fort Harrison, Bermuda Hundreds and various others. Candia furnished the following men for this regiment :
Nathaniel G. Hardy, William Collins,
Henry T. Eaton,
David B. Langley,
Ezekiel L. Shurtleff, John H. Hanson,
Paul G. Robinson.
THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
The Eleventh regiment was organized in August, 1862, and mustered into service at Concord. Walter Harriman of Warner was Colonel, Moses A. Collins of Exeter, Lieut- enant-Colonel and Evarts W. Farr was Major. William Patten of Candia was commisioned a captain in this regiment and he proceeded to raise a company, the follow- ing being the names of the Candia men who enlisted in this company :
R. Baxter Brown,
Joel P. Bean,
Charles C. Page,
Jesse D. Bean,
Edmund Harris,
Manson M. Brickett,
George W. Brown,
Asa E. Buswell,
Heman O. Mathews,
Charles C. Brown,
William M. Clark,
Edward F. Brown,
Thomas J. Morrill,
Charles A. Jones,
. Albert M. Morrill, Charles R. Rowe, H. Dexter Reed,
Henry W. Rowe,
Charles M. Lane,
Llewlyn Wallace,
Levi Barker, jr.,
Edward B. Robinson,
Daniel C. Davis,
Robert Clark,
Reuben H. Dunn,
Leonard F. Dearborn,
Frederick F. Emerson, Joseph L. Gleason, Augustus B. Gile,
Ezra W. Foss,
John H. Gile,
Hiram G. Gleason,
George W. Grffin,
Woodbury Hartford,
George H. Hartford, Angustus Archer,
James H. Morrill.
Charles E. Wason.
Ansel Emerson,
John A. Haines.
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John Wilson, John Brown, John Nelson,
Charles Smith,
Thomas O. Reynolds,
George Smith,
Martin Rasser, Edward Black,
George C. Brown.
Edmund Harris of Candia, a soldier of the Eleventh, was the first man belonging to the regiment who was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. He was shot immediately after the regiment crossed the river and was marching through the town.
THE FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.
This was the first regiment raised by the state under the call of the President for three hundred thousand nine months troops. The regiment was organized at Concord in the autumn of 1862 and J. W. Kingman of Durham was appointed Colonel, Henry W. Blair of Plymouth, Lieuten- ant-Colonel. The regiment sailed for New Orleans, and was attached to the army of General Banks. In May, 1863, the regiment was ordered to embark for Baton Rouge, and soon after it was engaged in the attack upon the rebel works along the Mississippi at Port Hudson and vicinity. From this time to June, 1863, it was employed in throwing up earthworks, building magazines, moving guns, digging rifle pits and supporting batteries. Subsequently the regiment took part in several severe engagements with the enemy and lost a considerable number of men in killed and wound- ed. The following are the names of the Candia men who served in this regiment :
George W. Taylor, Edward P. Lane*
Joseph Avery, Levi Barker,
Walter W. Bean,
John C. Fifield,
Franklin Clay, Samuel C. Nay,
David Hall, Benjamin F. Swain,
Andrew J. Mead, George C. Fifield,
John H. Brown.
*Died in the service.
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THE EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.
In July, 1864, an order was issued from the War De- partment, calling for five hundred thousand volunteers. Under this call the New Hamphire authorities commenced recruiting the Eighteenth regiment. Thomas L. Livermore of Milford was Colonel, Joseph M. Clough of New London was Lieutenant-Colonel and William I. Brown of Fisher- ville was Major. The regiment reported to General Fere- ro at Bermuda Hundreds in May, 1865. The regiment was engaged in Virginia for a short time before the surrender of General Lee to General Grant, and returned to New Hampshire in July, 1865. The following are the names of the men who enlisted in this regiment as a part of the quota of the town of Candia:
Samuel C. Nay, Lewis H. Cate,
William G. Fitts,
George L. Merrifield,
John W. Means,
John C. Fifield,
Orestes I. Bean, Frank G. Buzzell.
John L. Quimby,
Lewis D. Moore.
NEW HAMPSHIRE HEAVY ARTILLERY.
In April, 1863, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Long of the Seventeenth New Hampshire Regiment of Infantry was commissioned as captain of the First Company of Heavy Artillery of Volunteers for the special defence of Portsmouth Harbor. The Company was raised and station- ed at Fort Constitution. Other companies were raised and stationed at Portsmouth. In May, 1864, these companies were transfered to Washington to relieve the garrisons at the forts of that city. During the winter of 1865 a very large force of Heavy Artillery garrisoned a line of works ten miles in extent. During the latter part of 1864, the fol- lowing Candia men enlisted in this arm of the service:
Aaron F. Patten, Orlando Brown,
George H. Brown,
Cyrus W. Truel,
William F. Eaton, Reuben H. Fitts.
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FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE CAVALRY.
The First Regiment of New Hampshire Cavalry was raised in the state in the spring of 1864. Four companies of the regiment consisted of veterans who were raised in New Hampshire in 1861 and formed a battalion which became a part of the New England Cavalry. The first Major of the New Hampshire battalion was David B. Nelson of Man- chester. The battalion was mustered into service at Con- cord, and in December. 1861, went into camp in Rhode Is- land. In March, 1862, the regiment proceeded to Washing- ton and soon afterwards its name was changed from the New England to the First Rhode Island Cavalry.
In January, 1864, the New Hampshire battalion was de- tached from the Rhode Island Cavalry with a view of form- ing a regiment of men exclusively from the former state.
The New Hampshire battalion was mostly employed in in Virginia during the war and participated in various im- portant battles. The following are the names of Candia men who belonged to the regiment:
Edward Mathews, Charles H. Turner, bugler,
Edward Gleason, James Wright,
Thomas Harvey,
George Bower,
James Robinson, James Thomas,
Edward Batier, Charles Dubois,
Charles C. Morey. Lowell W. Marston,
Charles H. Fifield,
RECRUITS FOR THE COLORED REGIMENTS.
The following are the names of the men who enlisted as a part of the quota of soldiers of the town of Candia, the most of them assigned to colored regiments :
James Green, James O. Donnell,
Alexander White, Thomas Marks,
Richard Haward, Robert Field*
Jacob Shearman, William H. Williams, Thomas Smith, John Logan,
James Cheney,
Joseph B. Quimby,
Nicholas Johnson, f
William Robins,
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John Gardner, Frank Stanton,
Henry A. Turner, Orren Witherell.
Carl Neagle.
*Served in the marine. +Navy.
VETERAN RESERVE CORPS.
The following are the names of three recruits who enlist- ed in the U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps : Horace G. Coburn, Nelson Hurd, James Webber.
DIED IN SERVICE.
The following are the names of Candia soldiers who died in the service in addition to those alreayy mentioned :
Charles B. Carr, Edward F. Brown,
Nathaniel G. Hardy. Llewellyn Wallace,
Edward P. Lane, Daniel Hall,
Benjamin F. Swain, Charles F. Hoyt,
George W. Clay, William M. Clark,
George Mead.
ACTION OF THE TOWN OF CANDIA IN SUPPORT OF THE UNION.
The citizens of Candia during the great rebellion with unanimity rallied to the support of the Federal Government in exercising its authority over all the states and territories, and did all that was required of them in aiding in the en- listment of soldiers and in the support of their families.
At a legal town meeting held Oct. 17, 186 1, it was. voted that the selectmen be authorized and instructed to raise by loan a sum of money not exceeding five hundred dollars, and expend so much of the same as they think proper in aiding the families of such persons as have enlisted into the service of the United States from this town, also that the same provision be granted to all who may hereafter enlist.
At the annual town meeting in March, 1862, Voted that that the selectmen abate the poll tax of all soldiers that
JOSEPH C. LANGFORD.
Sketch, page 510.
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have enlisted into the U. S. service from this town. At a legal town meeting held Aug. $14, 1862, Voted, that one thousand dollars be raised to aid the families of volun- teers.
Voted, that the selectmen hire, at the lowest rate of in- terest, a sufficient sum of money to pay each volunteer who has enlisted, or who may enlist into the service of the Uni- ted States for three years, and who has been mustered into said service to make up the quota of Candia, agreeable to the last call of the President for three hundred thousand men, two hundred dollars.
Voted. to add one hundred dollars, making three hun- dred dollars to each volunteer.
It was also voted to pay the nine months men one hun- dred and fifty dollars each.
At a legal town meeting which was held January 10, 1863, it was voted, to appopriate six hundred dollars to aid the families of volunteers.
At the annual town meeting held in March, 1863, Voted, to raise one thousand dollars to aid the families of volun- teers.
At a town meeting held July 14, 1863, Voted, to appropri- ate two thousand dallars to aid the families of volunteers.
At a legal town meeting held Sept. 2, 1863, it was voted to pay each drafted man three hundred dollars whether he serves himself or procures a substitute.
At a town meeting held November 30, 1862, the select- men were instructed to procure a sufficient number of men at as low a rate as may be ; and that the town raise a sum . of money, not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and ap- propriate as may be necessary in procuring said men.
At the annual town meeting, held in March, 1864, it was voted to raise one thousand dollars to aid the families of volunteers.
At a legal meeting held April 28, 1864, it was voted to pay veteran soldiers three hundred dollars bounty. It was also, voted to raise two thousand, five hundred dollars as bounty to raw recruits and $5,000 to fiill quotas prior to March, 1865.
At a legal meeting held August, 1864, it was voted
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to raise fifteen hundred dollars to aid the families of volun- teers. It was also voted to raise five thousand dollars in addition to what had been already raised ; and to pay draf- ted, or substitutes for drafted or enrolled men, the highest bounties allowed by law.
At a town meeting held December 28, 1864, it was voted to pay volunteers resident in Candia six hundred dollars for one year. It was also voted to raise a sum not exceed- ing twelve thousand dollars to pay volunteers and substi- tutes.
At the annual town meeting held in 1865 it was voted to raise twelve hundred dollars to aid the families of volun- teers.
THE BOUNTIES.
The town of Candia paid no bounties to the soldiers who belonged to the town previous to the summer of 1862.
In August and September, 1862, the town paid its soldiers a bounty of $300 each, and all the soldiers who enlisted for the town at that time signed a receipt in the Selectmen's books for that amount.
The town paid a bounty of $150 to soldiers who enlisted for nine months.
The men who enlisted in August and September, 1862, belonged mostly to the Tenth, Eleventh, Fifteenth and Eighteenth regiments.
The following are the names of the soldiers who enlisted for three years to fill up the quota of Candia in 1864, with the amount of bounty the town paid each :
James Thomas, $300. Thomas Harvey, $300.
James Wright, $360.
George Bower, $395.
Malcolm McKinne, $395.
Edward Baitor, $395. Charles Dubois, $400.
George A. Turner, $300.
William Robinson, $300.
Richard Haward, colored, -300.
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Alexander White, $400. Robert Field, $300. Nicholas Johnson, $300. Cyrus W. Truel, $300. William F. Eaton, $300. John W. Brown, $300.
DRAFTED MEN.
The following are the names of the mon belonging to Candia, who were drafted in 1863, to fill up the quota of the town, and the names of the substitutes they procured by paying them $300 each:
Drafted Men.
Substitutes.
William Patten,
Thomas Marks,
Frederick Clay.
Carl Fitzum,
Wallace N. Young,
John Stevens,
Caleb Brown,
James Sullivan, James Hern.
The following are the names of enrolled men and the names of the substitutes who went to the war in their places and were paid $300 each :
Enrolled Men.
Substitutes.
Daniel S. Bean,
Joseph B. Quimby.
John Batchelder,
Thomas Smith,
S. Freeman Rowe,
John Logan,
John H. Noyes,
Frank Rogers,
George F. Patten,
John Gardner,
John S. Patten,
Charles S. Fuller,
Jeremiah Brown,
Frank Stanton,
Edward W. Hall,
James Webb,
Moses French,
James Cheney,
George W. Morrill,
William Williams,
George Smith,
James Gunn,
Alvin D. Dudley,
John Haines,
Joseph. C. Smith,
Edward Boyle.
As the war went on men who were willing to take the field became much scarcer and largely increased bounties were offered. The following are the names of the men who enlisted in 1864 to fill up the quota of Candia and were
Franklin Hall,
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paid bounties by the town, and the amount paid to each as appears by the Selectmen's books :
Aaron F. Patten, for one year, $300.
Orlando Brown, $300. Reuben H. Fitts, $300.
Samuel C. Nay, $300.
John C. Fifield, $600.
Orestes Irving Bean, $600.
Lewis H. Cate, $600. William G. Fitts, $600.
Samuel S. Carr, $600.
George L. Merrifield, $600.
John W. Mears, $600. '
John L. Quimby, $600.
Frank G. Buzzell, $600.
Lewis D. Moore, $600.
STATE AND U. S. GOVERNMENT BOUNTIES.
' When the first eight regiments were raised and sent to the field the state paid each soldier a bounty of ten dollars.
In 1862, the state raised the bounty to volunteers, first to $20, next to $50, and $60 and finally near the close of the war offered $300.
The General Government near the close of the year 1864 offered re-enlisted veterans a bounty of $400.
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BOUNTY JUMPERS.
It will be readily seen that a large number of the men · who were enlisted to serve in the war as a [ art of the quota of Candia were substitutes, who were hired by the town authorities. It is probable that the most of the names un- . der which they enlisted were fictitious. The business of furnishing substitutes for the towns in all parts of the North · was carried on upon a very large scale, and the profits
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were so great that many of those who were engaged in it at the close of the war retired with a handsome fortune ..
It was well understood that some of the substitute brok- ers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts cleared from. $20,000 to $50,000 or more apiece.
Gov. Walter Harriman, who was Colonel of the Eleventh N. H., regiment, in his history of Warner, refers to this mat- ter in the following terms : "The town, state and na- tional bounties in 1864 amounted to $1,000 or $1, 200 per man and bounty jumping became a business. A man would enlist for a certain town, take his bounty, ' desert, and, under another name, enlist for another town; and so continue enlisting and deserting to the end of the war. The South was visited, the great cities were hunted and. Canada was raked over for recruits. Even the doors of the jails and prisons were opened in certain cases and the in -- . mates were granted immunity from punishment on enlist -- ing as soldiers to vindicate the integrity of the government. . Of such recruits 625 were sent to fill the depleted ranks of: the Eleventh, N. H., regiment ; but only 240 of them ever reached the regiment at all.
"The N. H. Adjutant General's Report for 1865 gives the: names of 425 recruits who were enlisted in 1864 under the stimulus of extravagant bounties, 300 of whom "deserted in. less than two months; 122 are not accounted for, two, died .. and ONE served his country."
SPECULATING IN SOLDIERS' CLAIMS.
In the course of the war the state and town authorities- frequently gave their notes to the soldiers for bounties for the reasou that they had no money in the treasury at the time. Many of the soldiers, especially many of those who were hired as substitutes, were so anxious to get their mon- - ey at once that they were willing to make extravagant dis- counts on their claims. Here was a grand opportunity for the shrewd speculator who loved (?) his country. With. his pockets chock full of bank bills he was ready to accom- odate these poor soldiers. Sometimes the aforesiad specula-
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tor would buy a claim of $300 or $400 against a town or state for half its face value, and in a few days afterwards the claims were paid and he was rejoicing that his noble deed of charity was so soon rewarded.
THE WAR DEBT OF CANDIA.
At the close of the war in 1865, the debt of Candia was upwards of $50,000. Sometime after that date the town re ceived from the state bonds to the amount of $12,000 to- wards the payment of its debt.
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W.W.S HILVORK
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
CHAPTER XXI.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Continued.
THE CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY.
Rev. Tristram Gilman, who, in 1768, declined to accept a call to the work of the ministry in Candia was born in Durham and was graduated at Harvard College, in 1759. He became the settled minister of a church in North Yar- mouth, Mainc.
Rev. Jonathan Searle, who also declined a call to settle in town, was a graduate of Harvard College. After leaving Candia he was ordained as a minister of the church in Sa- lisbury in 1772. He was dismissed in 1789 and died in 1818 from the effects of intemperance.
Rev. David Jewett the firstsettled minister in town was a graduate of Harvard College, of the class of 1769. Dur- ing his residence in Candia the war of the Revolution was in progress and he took an active part in support of the patriot cause. He voluntarily deducted three pounds from his salary to aid his parishioners, who were heavily taxing themselves to raise the means to carry on the war. Upon one occasion he assisted in forwarding ammunition and a supply of flints to the soldiers who were serving at the front. He settled over a church in Winthrop, Maine, in 1782, and died there after a ministry of fourteen months, at 34 years of age.
In 1770, while Mr. Jewett was settled in Candia the Con . gregational church was organized.
The following are the names of the first members: Ste- phen Palmer, John Hills, Amos Knowles. Theophilus Sar- gent, Benjamin Batchelder, Jonathan Hills, Nathaniel Bur- pee, Susan Robie, Abraham Fitts, Samuel Mooers, Henry Clark, Nathaniel Emerson, Nicholas French, and Mehit- able Robie; Stephen Palmer and John Hills were chosen deacons.
Rev. Joseph Prince was born in Boston, in 1723. When
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he was 7 years old he lost the use of one of his eyes by an accident, and when he was fourteen years old the other eye failed him and he became completely blind. On this ac- count he became very despondent and gave expression to his feelings in a poem. He had a very remarkable mem ory and was able to report sermons and addresses with great accuracy.
He began his religous work at the time when the cele- brated George Whitefield of England visited America the first time. He began to exhort and pray at revival meet- ings and in private dwellings, and in a short time the places where he held forth were crowded. His exhortations were acceptable to the people, but when he began to preach he met with much opposition. His father was greatly offen- ded by his attempt to preach without a license and rebuked him in severe terms. Sometime afterwards, however, he relented, having become convinced that he had wronged his son and invited him to preach in 'his own house.
Mr. Prince visited Connecticut where the laws were very strict against itinerant preachers, and soon met with great opposition. He was finally arrested and punished by ban- ishment; as he was hurried along by the constables he often made appointments to preach. He afterwards traveled through the most of the New England states, seldom stop- ping more than two days in any one place. Upon an av- erage he preached ten sermons a week. In 1747, he mar- ried Sarah Carpenter, a daughter of Captain Ezekiel Carpen- ter of Attleborough, Mass. They had twelve sons and one daughter. All these children became in their turn guides to their sightless father.
Mr. Prince was employed for sometime as an assistant to Rev. Nicholas Gilman of Durham. From Durham he re- moved to Barrington and was ordained as the first minister in that town. He was dismissed in 1768, and removed to Wiscasset in Maine. The war of the Revolution was then raging and Wiscasset was bombarded by a British frigate. This circumstance and other troubles incident to the war made it necessary for him to seek a place of greater safety.
He came to Candia, in 1878, and made an engagement to take charge of the religious soiety for a certain period,
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but he was not permanently settled. His sermons were carefully thought out at his home and arranged in his mind and delivered from memory. His wife or some other member of the family read to him such books as were re- quired, and he was always attended by some one when he called upon his parishioners. On Sundays he was escorted to the meeting house and conducted through the broad aisle to the pulpit.
He preached in Candia about seven years, and then he ceased to hold the position of pastor of a church, though he continued to preach as opportunities offered. While he was on a visit to his brother in New York he preached several times in that city and also in New Jersey. While sojourn- ing in the latter state he made an appointment to preach at the town of Manchester. On his way to the church he was much prostrated by a paralytic shock. He was able, how- ever, to fulfil the engagement to preach, but he never occu- pied a pulpit afterwards.
In 1790, he removed to Newburyport, Mass., and died there in 1791, at 68 years of age. Rev. Mr. Murray, a dis- tinguished clergyman of Newburyport, preached a sermon at the funeral in which the deceased was described as an eloquent orator and devout Christian. His remains were deposited in the vault of the First Presbyterian Church by the side of those of George Whitefield, who had died in that place a few years previous.
After Rev. Mr. Prince removed from Candia, Rev. Mr. Lambert, Rev. Mr. Howe, Rev. Mr. Tilley and other cler- gymen were employed at various times to preach for the church and society.
Rev. Jesse Remington was born in Abbington, Mass., in 1760, and was graduated at Harvard College, in 1784. In 1808, the college conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He studied theology and came to Candia, 1790. After preaching a few Sabbaths he was invited to settle as minister over the church and society.
He accepted the call and was ordained in the fall of that year.
While he was preaching as a candidate he boarded at the residence of Dr. Samuel Foster, who then owned the place
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on South Road recently possessed by A. J. Edgerly and now owned by Mr. Clough.
The members of the Council of Ministers and delegates from the neighboring churches, who took part in the ordi- nation services were entertained at Dr. Foster's residence at an expense to the town of ten pounds and sixteen shil- lings. Soon after Mr. Remington took up his residence in Candia he was married to Polly Jenness, a daughter of Thomas Jenness of Deerfield. They had quite a large family of children.
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