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At a town meeting held on the 25th of the following November, this committee, in respect to these services, made the following report which was then accepted by the town, including in the report the Hollis soldiers who afterwards, the same year, went to Bennington and Portsmouth.
"1775. To Cambridge, Et, tos. per month, S months,
1776. To New York and Canada for the year, 24
1776. To Ticonderoga, each time, 13
1776. To New York with Capt. Reed, 5
1776. To New York with Capt. Walker, 4
1777. To Bennington with Capt. Goss, 7
1777. To Portsmouth i mosth. 1000
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THE TOWN'S QUOTA FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
Special Town Meeting April 2, 1777. " Voted to give each man that shall enlist for three years, or during the War to make out our Quota of thirty men £46, including the Continental and State's Bounty and to raise the money by Tax, and also that the Selectmen shall give Security to each man that enlists for the sum that is to be given to the thirty men by the town."
THE TOWN'S QUOTA FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
Adjourned Special Town Mecting, May 4. - From the records. " The officers having received new orders to raise our men, (if they could not be got for three years, or during the war,) for eight or twelve months, if the town would supply their places with other men at the end of said time. Voted that the Committee appointed at this meeting should agree with the men for eight months. The Committee having reported that they had agreed with the men for cight months for £20, that sum was voted to them accordingly, and also that the Selectmen give security to the men to their satisfaction." .
HOLLIS SOLDIERS IN 1777, IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
In 1777, as in the year preceding, the State of New Hampshire, under the laws and resolutions of Congress, was required to furnish three regiments for the regular Continental army, commanded sev- erally this year, as in 1776 by Colonels Cilley, Hale and Scammel. The men to be raised for these regiments were assigned by the New Hampshire State authorities to the respective regiments of the State militia in proportion to their numbers and to the several towns, in accordance with the number of the militia in each town. The number so set to the town, was known as the town's " Quota," and the law made it the duty of the town to keep its "Quota " constantly filled. The number set to Hollis, in this apportionment, was thirty', and that number continued to be the Hollis quota for the regular army, till near the end of the war. It is shown by the returns of Col. Nichols, the commander of the regiment in 1777, to which the Hollis company of militia belonged, that the thirty men whose names are in the lists below composed the Hollis quota for that year, and were enlisted in the winter or spring of 1777. It appears from the same " return" that twenty of these men enlisted for three years and the rest for eight months.
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For three years.
For three years.
For eight months.
David Ames,
Samuel Hill,
John Ball,
Daniel Blood,
Asa Lovejoy,
Andrew Bailey,
Isaac Boynton,
Nathaniel Patten,
Joel Bailey,
Ebenezer Cumings,
Thomas Pratt, ' John Brooks,
Edward Carter,
Stephen Richardson, John Boynton, 3d,
William Connick,
David Sanderson,
James Colburn,
Jacob Danforth,
Ebenezer Townsend,
Jonathan Parker,
Ralph Emerson,
Lebbeus Wheeler,
Nehemiah Pierce,
John Godfrey,
John Youngman,
Eli Stiles,
William Hale,
Thomas Younginan,
Jacob Taylor.
Twenty of the men in the above lists enlisted in the sixth company of the ist New Hampshire regiment, commanded by Capt. John House, of Hanover, the rest of them, with but one or two excep- tions. in the first company of the 3d regiment of which Isaac Frye of Wilton was Captain. Of this last named company Samuel Leeman, Jun., of Hollis, was the Ensign, and was killed at one of the battles at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne and his army at Sara- toga in October, 1777. All three of the New Hampshire Conti- nental regiments fought in these battles and acquitted themselves with their accustomed fidelity and heroism. After the capture of Burgoyne and his army, the theatre of war was removed further south to New Jersey and the vicinity of Philadelphia. The New Hampshire troops being formed into a distinct brigade, shared in all the services and hardships of the campaign in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At the battle of Monmouth, a part of them, in- cluding the ist New Hampshire regiment, under Col. Cilley, be- haved with such gallantry, as to merit and receive the particular ap- probation of Gen. Washington.
Poorly shod, clad and fed, in the hard winter of 1777-8, they patiently shared with their companions in arms the privations and sufferings at the ill-provided winter quarters in the huts at Valley Forge. The people of Hollis, at home, in the mean time, were not forgetful of the wants and sufferings of their townsmen in the army. I find from the Hollis documents still preserved, that about the first of January, 1778, there were collected by contribution, and sent to them in the camp at Valley Forge, "20 Pairs of Good Merchantable Shocs, 20 Pairs of Good Woolen Stockings, 15 Shirts made of Good Merchantable Cloth," besides many other articles for the use and comfort of these soldiers.
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AGREEMENT OF THE HOLLIS MINUTE MEN. [1777
PATRIOTIC AGREEMENT OF THE HOLLIS MINUTE MEN.
Early in May 1777, Gen. Burgoyne assumed command of the large British army in Canada, composed of British Regulars. Hessians, Tories and Indians, collected and organized for the inva- sion of the Northern States, in the hope and expectation of put- ting a speedy end to the so-called rebellion. At the same time a formidable British fleet was cruising along the coast of New England ready for an attack upon the sea-board. The whole non !: was in constant and fearful alarm, uncertain upon what points the gathering storm would first break.
The patriotic agreement below presented, drawn up at this crisis, and in view of the impending perils, is in the hand writing of its first signer, Capt. Reuben Dow, and is still preserved. It has append- ed to it the original autograph signatures of forty-eight Hollis min- ute men, and tersely tells the manner and spirit with which they were ready to meet and to aid in welcoming the invaders. As the names of the signers merit honorable mention and grateful remem- brance, they are also presented.
" HOLLES, May 15, 1777."
" Whereas it appears that the enemies of the United States of America are laying every Plan in their power to ruin and destroy us-and it being hourly expected that a Fleet and Army will arrive on some part of our coast in order to prosecute their wicked pur- pose-we apprehend it to be the Duty of all the Inhabitants of these States to be in the greatest Readiness and Preparation to exert then- selves in defence of their country in this hour of danger."
" Wherefore we whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise and engage to equip ourselves immediately, with Arms. Ammunition, &c., and to be ready at a minute's warning by night or by day, to go and assist our Brethren wherever they may be attacked-that upon an alarm," we will immediately appear upor the Parade at the Meeting House in Holles, and be under the com :- : mand of such officer and officers as we shall choose ourselves or the major part of us, and that each of us will be provided with a good Horse in order that we the sooner may get to the place attacked."
*An aların was three guns fired in quick succession.
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" Reuben Dow,
Robert Colbarn, Jun.,
Enoch Noyes, Jun.,
Daniel Emerson, Jun.,
Josial Conant,
Solomon Pierce,
Benja .nin Abbot,
John Cumings,
Nathan Phelps,
Jonathan Ames,
Evan Dow,
John Piatts,
Benjamin Austin,
Stephen Dow,
Francis Po vers,
Daniel Bailey, Jun.,
Amos Eastman, Jun.,
Abil Shipley,
Eleazer Ball,
Benjamin Farley, Jun ..
Isaac Stearns,
William Ball,
Christopher Farley,
James Taylor,
Daniel Blood, Jun.,
Ebenceer Farley,
William Tenney, Jun.,
Francis Blood,
Stephen Farley,
Moses Thurston, Jun.,
Josiah Blood,
Josiah French,
Joseph Wheat,
Joshua Boynton,
Jacob Jewett, Jun.,
William Wood,
Eliphalet Brown,
Thomas Kemp,
Noah Worcester, Jan.,
Ephraim Burge,
Oliver Lawrence,
Benjamin Wright,
Benjamin Colburn,
Oliver Lawrence, Jun.,
Lemich Wright,
Robert Colburn,
Nathaniel Leeman,
Uriah Wright."
THE TICONDEROGA ALARM.
About the zoth of June of this year, Gen. Burgoyne with his fleet and army advanced up Lake Champlain, towards the important fortress at Ticonderoga, and soon after arrived with his forces at Crown Point, within a few miles of it, where he halted for a short time. Upon the news of this advance, known as the " Ticonderoga Alarm," a company was at once enlisted and organized at Hollis to aid in the defence of Ticonderoga. This company consisted of fifty-eight men, inclusive of officers, fifty of whom were from Hollis. The commissioned officers of this com- pany were Daniel Emerson, Jun., Captain, Robert Seaver ist Lieu- tenant, and David Wallingford ad Lieutenant, all of Hollis. The company started from Hollis ou the 30th of June, (the same day the British troops took possession of Ticonderoga) made a rapid march of sixty-five miles to Walpole, there had orders to return and reached Hollis again on the 4th of July. The next day the com- pany received orders to march a second time for Ticonderoga, started on the 5th of July, proceeded as far as Cavendish, Vermont, (one hundred miles) and there met a New Hampshire regiment, under Col. Bellows, on their retreat, Ticonderoga having been abandoned by its garrison. At Cavendish the company had orders a second time to return home, reached Hollis on the 15th of July and was disbanded. The wages of the private soldiers on these expeditions were three shillings a day, and three pence a mile for travel.
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HOLLIS COMPANY AT BENNINGTON. [1777.
NAMES OF THE HOLLIS MEN IN THIS COMPANY.
Daniel Emerson, Jun., Capt.
Eliphalet Brown,
Nathaniel Leeman,
Robert Server, Ist Lient.,
Benjamin Colburn,
Ephraim Lund,
David Wallingford, 2d Lieut., Stephen Conroy,
Samuel Merrill,
Joshua Boynton, Ser'gt,
William Cumings,
Joseph Nevins,
Ephraim Burge,
Stephen Dow,
Elijah Noyes,
Isaac Stearns, Corp.,
Joseph Farley,
Ephraim Pierce,
Noah Worcester, Jun., Fifer. PRIVATES.
Josiah Fisk,
Moses Proctor,
Nehemiah French,
Jacob Spalding,
Benjamin Abbot,
Lemuel Hardy,
Moses Thurston, Jun.,
Jonathan Ames,
Noah Hardy,
Ebenezer Townsen 3,
Eleazer Ball,
John Hobart,
Joseph Wheat,
William Ball,
Joshua Hobart,
Abner Wheeler,
Daniel Bailey,
Solomon Hobart,
Jonas Woods,
Francis Blood,
Ebenezer Jaquith,
Nehemiah Woods,
Josiah Blood,
Ebenezer Jewett,
Jesse Worcester,
Reuben Blood,
Jonathan Jewett,
Lemuel Wright,
Oliver Bowers,
Samuel Jewett,
Uriah Wright.
HOLLIS SOLDIERS AT BENNINGTON.
Upon the news of the fall of Ticonderoga, the New Hampshire General Court promptly met on the 17th of July, and, in a session of three days, adopted the most decisive and vigorous measures for the defence of the country and to stop the advance of Gen. Bur- goyne. An appeal was made to the New Hampshire militia and minute men which was at once responded to with the like spirit and patriotic devotion as in the years before. In the course of a very few days a brigade composed of three regiments of New Hampshire volunteers was enlisted and organized, and placed under the com- mand of the brave and popular Gen. Stark, two of these regiments consisting of ten companies each, and one of them of but five. These regiments were commanded severally by Colonels Nichols of Amherst, Stickney of Concord, and David Hobart of Plymouth, to which place he had removed from Hollis, a few years before. Of the 6th company of Col. Nichols' regiment, John Goss was Captain and David Wallingford, ed Lieutenant, both of Hollis. This com- pany left Hollis on the 20th of July, and was present and shared in the honors of the brilliant and ever memorable battle and victory fought and won at Bennington, mainly by the New Hampshire vol- unteers, on the following 16th of August. The company afterwards marched as far west as Stillwater. N. Y., and was discharged on the 28th of September, having been in service two months and nine days. It is shown by the Hollis documents and the return of Capt. Goss now at Concord, that in his company there were forty-two mes
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from Hollis, inclusive of officers, and that the wages paid the private soldiers were £4 1os, per month, and 3d. per mile for travel. The names of these men were
John Goss, Capt-, Thomas Kemp,
Jonathan Russ,
David Wallingford, Second Lt. Archibald McIntosh,
Ephraim Rolfe,
William Adams,
James McDonald, Jonas Shed,
Simeon Blood, Samuel Merril!,
Isaac Stearns,
Henry Bowers,
Daniel Mooar, Jun.,
Joseph Stearns,
Eliphalet Brown,
Jacob Mooar,
Ebenezer Townsend,
John Campbell,
Benjamin Messer,
Abner Wheeler,
John Connick,
Benjamin Nevins,
William Wood,
Jonathan French,
John Nevins,
Jonas Woods,
Timothy French,
Ephraim Pierce,
Nehemiah Woods,
Stephen Hazeltine,
Francis Powers,
Noah Worcester, Jun.,
Joshua Hobart,
Samson Powers,
Benjamin Wright,
Ephraim How,
James Rideout,
Samuel Wright,
Joseph How, Stephen Runnells,
Jesse Wyman.
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Two other Hollis soldiers, viz., Samuel Goodhne and Jesse Wor- cester, served a part of this year in the garrison at Portsmouth, and were paid by the town £1, ios. each.
I do not find that any Hollis soldier, this year, died of disease in the service or was killed in battle, with the exception of Ensign Samuel Leeman, Jun., killed at Saratoga, at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne and his'army. He was the son of Samuel Leeman, Sen., and born in Hollis, Aug. 7, 1749, æt. 28 years at the time of his death.
In the foregoing lists of the Hollis soldiers' fourteen of the names occur twice, the men having enlisted more than once. Making the proper deduction, it will appear that there are in these lists one hundred and ten different names-a number equal very nearly to one in eleven of the population.
THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE TOWN IN 1777 FOR BOUNTIES AND
WAGES WAS AS FOLLOWS :
£ s.
To thirty Continental Soldiers, £20 cach, £ 600,
To men in Capt. Emerson's Company, " Ticonderoga alarm," 35, 4,
To men in Capt. Goss' Company to Bennington, &c .. 234,
To two men to Portsmouth, 3,
Making for this year £S75, 4,
DEPRECIATION OF THE PAPER CURRENCY, AND THE LAW
REGULATING PRICES.
During most years of the war there was no money in circulation as a medium of exchange, except the Continental paper money issued by Congress or the bills of credit of the States. This currency
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was issued in such quantities, both by the State and Congress, that both from its excess and also from the fact of its being exten- sively counterfeited, it begun to depreciate rapidly, and to an alarm- ing extent, as early as the second year of the war. This depreciation is very plainly indicated in comparing the wages paid to soldiers in 1775 with those paid in 1777. In the former year the wages paid to the Hollis soldiers who were at Cambridge and Bunker Hill were £2, or about $6.67, per month, and id. a mile for travel. In 1777 the wages paid to the Hollis soldiers who went to Bennington and New York in July of that year, were £4 tos. per month, and 3d. per mile for travel, nominally more than twice as much for wages and travel as in 1775. Both the General Court and the people be- came greatly and justly alarined at this condition of the only currency then in use, and in the hope of lessening or wholly arresting the evil, the New Hampshire legislature, carly in the spring of 1777; passed a law limiting and regulating the prices at which the common necessaries of life might be sold. A portion of the articles named in this law with the prices fixed for them are presented below.
s. d.
s. d.
Wheat per bushel,
7, 6, Cheese per lb.
s. d. 0, 6,
Beef per Ib. 0, 3.
Rye
4, 6, Butter
0, 10,
Tow Cloth per yard,
2, 3,
Indian Corn, “
3, 6, Coffee,
1, 4,
Flannel
3, 6,
Oats,
2, 0, Cotton, 44
3, 0,
Linen Cloth 6 4 4, 0,
Peas,
8, ( Woo!,
2, 2, N. E. Rum, per gal., 3, 10,
Beans,
6, 0, Flax,
1, 0, W. I. 4
10, 0, Pork
0, 4. 1-2, Molasses, ..
4, 0.
7, 8, Salt, ..
DEPRECIATION OF THE PAPER CURRENCY.
On the second of June, 1777, a special town meeting in Hollis was summoned to consider what should be done by the town in ref- erence to this law, from the record of which meeting we make the following extracts : " Voted to choose a Committee agrecably to the late Act of the General Court, called An Act in addition to an Act regulating Prices of Sundry articles thercin enumerated, and that Capt. Reuben Dow, Dea. Enoch Noyes, Capt. Noah Wor- cester, Capt. Daniel Kendrick, and Capt. Daniel Emerson, be said committee."
At a subsequent special town meeting, on the 28th of Septem- ber of the same year. called to consider the same subject, the town passed the following vote: " Voted that we highly disapprove of the conduct of any persons in endeavoring to forestall or unrea- sonably raise the prices of the necessaries of Life ; and that we will
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hold every such person inimical to our present cause ; and that we will treat all such Persons with neglect and will have no Deal- ings with them, and that the Committee of Safety of the Town shall judge and determine when any Person shall transgress the true intent and meaning of this Vote, and shall post every such Per- son's name in the Public Houses in town and in the Public Prints."
But all these vigorous, well meant and patriotic efforts of the General Court, town meetings, and Committees of Safety, to check this growing evil, were wholly fruitless, and this paper cur- rency, from month to month, continued to lessen in valuc, so that before the end of the war it became utterly worthless. The peo- ple of Hollis, however, seem at last to have gained a sensible idea of the only practicable remedy for this excessive issue of irredeem- able promises to pay, as is shown by the doings and votes of a special town meeting on the 27th of November of this year. At this meeting, as appears from the record, the town " Voted. Ist, To give our Representative. the following Instructions, viz .. to use his Influence to sink our State money by way of Taxes, and 2d, also Voted that it is our mind to pay a Tax of twelve double of what it was last year." (12)
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CHAPTER XVI.
DOINGS OF THE TOWN MEETINGS AND HISTORY OF THE WAR COR- TINUED .- COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1778 .-- SOLDIER'S FAMI- LIES .- CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS IN 1778 .- VOLUNTEERS FOR RHODE ISLAND .-- COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1779 .- CONVEN- TION TO FIX PRICES .- CONTINUED DEPRECIATION OF PAPER MONEY .- SMALL POX IN HOLLIS.
RESOLUTIONS AND VOTES OF THE TOWN MEETINGS IN 1778.
Articles of Confederation and Union. Onthe 15th of Novem- ber, 1777. the Continental Congress adopted articles of confedera- tion and perpetual union of the States, to be submitted to the States severally for their approval. On the 19th of January, 1778. a town meeting in Hollis was called to consider, among other things, these articles of confederation, at which the town's approval of them was expressed as follows : " Voted unanimously our approbation of the. articles of confederation and perpetual union recommended by the Continental Congress to all the States."
The Town's Quota for the Army. Also at the same meeting, " Voted that the Militia Officers, Selectmen and Committee of Safety of the town agree with the men to supply the places of our eight months' men as cheap as they can, and give the security of the Town for their services in the Continental Army."
Committee of Safety for 1778. Annual Town Meeting, March 2. 1778. " Chose for Committee of Safety this year, Noah Wor- cester, Esq., Mr. Oliver Lawrence, Mr. Edward Taylor, Dea. `Enoch Noyes and Mr. Nehemiah Woods. Also Voted that the Selectmen take care of the Continental Soldiers families if they stand in need."
War Tax. Special Town Meeting April 6, 1778. " Voted to raise ES30, to be levied by a Tax on the Town to defray the charges of our ten Continental men."
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Soldiers' Families. "Voted that Capt. Daniel Emerson, James Jewett and Jonathan Taylor, be a Committee to provide for the Continental Soldiers' Families, and that they have the Necessaries of life at the price stated in 1777. and that the overplus be paid out of the Town Treasury."
Representatives to Concord. "Chose Noah Worcester, Esq., and Dea. Enoch Noyes to represent this Town in the General Con- vention of the State to be held at Concord on the roth of June next."
This convention was called in pursuance of a resolution of the General Court, to agree upon and present to the people for their acceptance a system or " Plan for a State Government."# It ap- pears that the plan of government agreed upon and proposed by this convention, on being submitted to the people. was rejected.i
Soldiers for Rhode Island. Special Town Meeting, June- 15, 1778. From the Town Records. "At a meeting of the In- habitants of the town of Hollis, called on account of orders from Col. Nichols for four men to be raised from this town to go to Prov- idence to join Col. Peabody's regiment. Voted to give to each man that will enlist $3 3s. 6d. per month from the time they shall en- list till discharged, and that if enough do not enlist, that the men who are drafted and go and serve shall receive the same sum : and also voted that the Selectmen join with the commissioned officers to draft men at all times when there is occasion."
Soldiers' Families. Special Town Meeting. Oct. 5, 1778. "Voted that the Committee appointed to take care of the Conti- nental Soldiers' families adhere strictly to the law of the State, in respect to them, and that they take care of the families of the. Widows' Cumings and Wheeler as if their husbands were alive." The deceased soldiers referred to in this vote were Ebenezer Cum- ings and Lebbeus Wheeler, both of whom enlisted for three years in the Continental army in the spring of 1777. Cumings had died in the army of small pox, leaving (as appears from the Hollis records of births) a widow and eight children, among whom was Jacob Abbot Cumings, born Nov. 2, 1772, afterwards a graduate of Har- vard College, and the author of Cummings' School Geography and other literary works. Wheeler was a son of Peter Wheeler, born in Hollis, October 15, 1750, and died in the army of " disease or wounds." July 10, 1778, leaving a widow and one child.
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Representative to General Court. Special Town Meeting, Dec. 1, 1778. " Chose Capt. Reuben Dow to represent the town in the General Assembly to be held at Exeter on the 3d Wednesday of December next."
RECRUITS FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
In the month of January, 1778, ten men were wanted to fill the Hollis Continental quota to supply the places of the men who had enlisted for eight months only. On the 19th of that month, as we have seen. a special town meeting was promptly called to supply this deficiency. and the Selectmen, Committee of Safety with the militia officers. were instructed to engage the men and to pledge the security of the town for their services. It is shown by the returns of Col. Nichols. (now at Concord) that these ten recruits were very soon engaged and that most of them were mustered into the com- pany of Capt. John House, in the Ist New Hampshire Continental regiment. It appears from the " Great Return" of the Selectmen of Hollis, that nine of them were paid from £40 6s. Sd. to £50 each. Their names were
John Auld, John Conroy, Jun .. Jacob Danforth, Nathaniel Patten,
Reuben Blood. Stephen Conroy,
Simeon Blood. Samuel Boyd,
William Cowen,
Joel Proctor.
It is stated in the return of Col. Nichols that Auld and Cowen belonged to Merrimack, and Boyd to Goffstown, but that they were all enlisted for and paid by Hollis. It appears from the rolls at Concord. that John Conroy, Jun., died in hospital at Danbury, Conn., in September of this year. He was the oldest son of John Conroy. Sen., and born in Hollis. December 2S, 1761. Daniel Blood, another Hollis soldier, who enlisted for three years, in the spring of 1777, died in the army of " wounds or disease," November 28. 177S, making a loss by death this year of four of the Hollis Continental quota .*
Men in Co !. Peabody's Regiment. About the middle of June of this year, a brigade of New Hampshire troops was raised for service in Rhode Island, commanded by Brig. Gen. Whipple. One of the regiments of this brigade was commanded by Col. Stephen Peabody, of Amherst. In the Second company of this regiment, of which Ezekiel Worthen of Kensington, was Captain. were three Hollis soldiers, viz., Jonathan Jewett. Oliver Lawrence
*Kidder's History of First N. H. Regiment, p. 134
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