The Graves we decorate : Storer Post, No. 1, Department of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the Republic, Portsmouth, N.H., Part 8

Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of New Hampshire. Storer Post No. 1 (Portsmouth, N.H.) 4n; Foster, Joseph, 1841-1930. 1n
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Portsmouth, N.H. : J.D. Randall, Printer and bookbinder
Number of Pages: 208


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Capt. Nathaniel Kennard was born on Kennard's hill in Eliot, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, and died in Portsmonth, N. IL. His son, Capt. Nathaniel Kennard, Jr., of Portsmonth, was captured in the "Harlequin" privateer in the War of Iste, and afterwards died in the West Indies of yellow-fever.


Kennedy, William-Ist Mass. H. Art.


"Private, Co. F. Residence, South Boston, Mass. Enlisted, Ang. 5, 1862. Date of Must.r, Ang. 5, 1862, for 3 years. Promoted to Corporal. Mastered out .Inly 8, 1861."


Adjutant General's Records, Mass.


Kennison, William S .- 13th N. H.


Enlisted as "William S. Keniston."


"Private, Co. E. Residence or assign-


heroes, cannot but feel an interest in the ment, Newmarket. Date of Muster, Sept.


19, 1862, For 3 years. Discharged for disability at Portsmouth, Va., Sept. In, 1863."


Adjutant General's Records, V. II.


Kent, John Horace-43rd Mass.


Member Storer Post, G. A. R.


"Private, Co. .. Residence, New


Bedford, Mass. Enlisted Date of Muster, Oct. 11, 1862, for 9 months. Promoted to Sergeant. Discharged, July 30, 1863, expiration of service."


-Adjutant General's Records, Mass.


Thence he was sent to France in a car- tel, where on the 20th April, 1779, he en- "Born in Rochester [Barnstead], N. 11., October 10, 1828-died at Concord. tered on board the . Bon Homme Richard,' under the celebrated John Paul Jones, N. 11., March 1, ESSS. . When the and was with him In some of the most desperate enterprises, in which that com- mander was engaged. From that vessel he was put on board a prize and ordered ; Massachusetts Volunteers, and went to for France. war broke ont he was at Prince Edward's Island." He returned to the United States, , "joined Co. A. of the 3rd Regiment of the Department of North Carolina, thence going to the Army of the Potomac. . . . In 1863 he was mastered ont, and appoint- ed a special agent of the Provost Mar- shal's Department for the district of New Hampshire, with headquarters at Portsmouth, holding the office until it was abolished."


Soldiers Memorial, ISSS. "Born in Barnstead, N. II. AAt the


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opening of the Provost Marshal's office 25, 1862, for 9 months. Promoted to in Portsmouth, N. IL., he entered that Corporal. Died of disease at Buffalo, N. service as a Special Agent and Deputy Y., Ang. 20. 1SGS." Provost Marshal, and served nutil the . Adjutant General's Records, N. II. Provost Marshal's Department was dis- continued." Post Records.


Storer Post is indebted to his generosity for the series of interesting and val- nable war views, and other pictures, which adorn its hall.


Kimball, Chas. H .- 17th & 2nd N. H.


"Private, Co. B, 17th N. Il. Residence or assignment, Portsmouth. Date of Master, Nov. 13, 1862, for @ months. Con- solidated with C'o. K, 2nd N. II. V., April 16, 1863.


Private, Co. K, 2nd N. H. Recruit. Residence or assignment, Portsmonth. Date of Muster, Nov. 13, Ist2, for 9 months. Transferred from 17th N. H. V., April 16, 1863. Mustered out Oct. ? , 1863."


Adjutant General's Records, N. II.


Laighton, Alfred S .- 2nd Mass. Cav.


Enlisted as "AAlfred Laighton."


"Alfred Seabury, son of Charles E, and Frances S. Laighton. Died at Washington, D. C., July 29, 1863." Stone.


"Private, Troop A ["California 100" ]. Enlisted in California, Dec. 5, 1862 Date of Muster, Dec. 10, 1862, for 3 years. Died at Hospital, Washington, D. C., Inly 28 [See above], 1863."


Adjutant General's Records, Muss.


Laighton, Alfred S .- U. S. Navy.


Alfred Stowe Laightou.


"Killed by the explosion at Fort Fisher."


"In man's regret he lives, and woman's tears, More sacred than in life, and nobler far For having perished in the front of war." Stone.


"Acting Ensign, ID December, 1863. Killed on "Gettysburg' [ See below], 16: Jannary, Isos."


Hamersty's General Navy Register.


lle was killed on shore at Fort Fisher, For date of birth see below.


North Carolina, by the explosion which took place the morning after its capture.


Laighton, Bennett-16th N. H.


"Born in Stratham, N. 11., Dled in Buffalo, N. Y. Ilis life was sacri- fieed in the war for the preservation of the Union." None.


"Private, Co. K. Residence or assign- ment, Stratham: Date of Muster, Oel.


Laighton, William F .- U. S. Navy. ''Thirty years in the U. S. N." Stonc.


"Carpenter, 7 April. 1849. Retired list,


18 November, 1877. Died, 25 June, Is;9." Hamersly's General Navy Register.


"Died at Revere, Mass., June 25, Is79." Navy Register. ISSO.


Laighton, William M .- U. S. Navy. "Carpenter, 29 September, 1836. Re- tired list, 15 April, 1872. Died, 23 May, [8;3."


Hamersly's General Navy Register.


"Died at Brookline, Mass., May 23, Nagy Register, IST.1.


Lake, Dayton W .- 14th Maine.


".Died at Brooklyn, N. Y."


"Private Co. I. Born in Portsmouth, Resident of Bangor, Maine. Date of Muster, March 23, 1865, for 1 year. Mastered ont and honorably dis . charged, Ang. 7, 1%, at New York City. N. Y., by reason of orders from War Dept. reducing Army."


Adjutant General's Records, Main.


Langdon, John-Rev. War.


"(or. J. Langdon and family." "John Langdon, born 1739, died Sept. 18, 1819." Tomb.


For date of birth see below.


"In memory of The Honorable John Langdon, L.L. D. Born 1789-Died [s] !. lle was a member of this church several years. Erected by Ilis great grandson, Alfred Langdon Elwyn, [890." Tablet, North Church, Portsmouth.


"In Memoriam.


Hononrable John Langdon, L.L. D. Born June 25, 1711. Died Sept. IS, 1819.


Governour Langdon honoured by his presence the Masonic ceremonial at the laying of the corner-stone of this church, June 21, 1-07.


Of honest stock: courage and wisdom crowned The man who still good as he looked was found: Whom all its honours to his country bound.


Best of the best In his New Hampshire home." Tablet, St. John's Church, Portsmouth.


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"Another mural tablet has been placed : his own company of Infantry and fol- in the vestibule of St. John's. It is in lowed to Bennington and Saratoga. Bir- memory of the lon. John Langdon, LL. goyne defeated, he returned home only to D., sometime governor of the Province ; labor in the good canse, and carly in [State] of New Hampshire.


The well I778, as agent of Congress, built the chosen words of the epitaph inscribed on Raleigh frigate. In this year, adso, he the monument are largely a translation mounted his company of infantry, of those inscribed on the tomb of Scipio . equipped them as cavalry, and marched Africanns, and were selected for this to the defense of Rhode Island. purpose by the distinguished and scholarly Mr. dobo Langdon Elwyn [ his grand-


In 1779 he was President of the New Hampshire Convention, in Gso Commis- son , now deceased. The monument was sioner of the I'mited States, and in 12; erected by the generosity of the Rev. Alfred Langdon Elwyn, of Philadelphia [his great- grandson ]."


Portsmouth Duily Eve. Post, Nov. 5, 1891.


"Col. John Langdon was one of the most zealons and worthy patriots of the time, at work in season and out of sea- son, with mind, hands and means, in the canse of liberty. He was born in Ports- the same year, and was again elveted mouth, in 1710 [ See above], and was the President of the State. son of John, and grandson of Tobias Langdon. He served an apprenticeship as a merchant in the counting-room of the Ion. Daniel Ringe [ Rindge ], but pre- ferring a sca-faring life, he went ont as supercargo of one of Ringe's [ Rindge's] vessels and subsequently as master or captain. He continued in this business until the Revolution, and had amassed a handsome fortune for the time. The British cruisers stopping entirely his shipping and mercantile operations, and early esponsing the patriot cause, he had inclination, lesiure and means to largely subserve the cause of inde- pendence.


lle was one of the leaders in taking Fort William and Mary [now Fort Con- stitution], at Newcastle, in December, 1771, was a Delegate to the general con- gress in 1775-6, raised an independent


"Langdon, John. statesman, born in Portsmonth. N. 11 . 25 June, 1741, died company of light infantry, with rank of there, Is Sept., 1819. After receiving a Colonel, in June of the latter year, was common-school education he entered a counting-house and became a successful merchant.


judge of the court of common pleas in 1576, speaker of the House of Represen- tatives in 1776-7, in which last position, In 1774, with John Sullivan and others, during a session of three days, to devise he participated in the removal of the armament and military stores from Fort William and Mary [now Fort Constitu- ways and means to check the haughty Burgoyne, he rose at his desk and made the noble, generons, apt and effective tion in Portsmouth harbor. lle was speech of the Revolution :- 'Gentlemen, elected a delegate to the Continental Con- I have three thousand dollars In hard gress in 1775, but resigned in June, 1776. to become navy agent.


money, thirty hogsheads of Tobago rum, worth as minch, i can pledge my plate for as much more ; these are at the ser- vice of the State. With this money we can raise and provision troops, our friend John Stark will lead them. If we check Burgoyne, the State can repay me, and if


In 1777, while he was speaker of the the New Hampshire assembly, when means were wanted to support a regiment, Langdon gave all his money, pledged his plate, and subscribed the proceeds of seventy hogsheads of tobacco [ See above] we do not, the money will be of no nse , for the purpose of eqnipping the brigade. to me.'


with which Gen. John Stark subsequent -


Raising the funds and Stark on his'ly defeated the llessians at Bennington. way to Bennington, Langdon summoned : Langdon participated In this battle, and


Delegate to the Congress of the same. In 17815, he was a member of the New Hampshire Senate, and in this last year was President of the State, elected AS successor of Meshech Weare. In 1758 he was a member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of the United States, was Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in time of


In November of the same year [ 17ss], he was elected to the I'nited States Sen- ate, ant had the honor of being elected the first President fro tem. of that body, and in 1794, he was reflected for another term. In [sol he was elected a repro- sentative to the New Hampshire Legisla- ture and was elected for the three snc- cessive years, and was Speaker of the House in 1sos-when he was elected Governor of the State, and was rocketed to that oflice until iso9, and again in 1810-11. Col. Langdon died September 15, 1>19, aged 79 years .- D. P. Droten, Yonathan Eastman, John Farmer, and N. I. Rolls."


Adjutant General's Report, V. Il., Vol. 2, 1866.


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was in command of a volunteer company ; 1562, for 9 months. Mastered out Aug. In : 20, 1863."


at Saratoga, and in Rhode Island. 1779 he was Continental agent in New Hampshire. and president of the State convention.


Ile was again a delegate to Congress in 1783, was repeatedly a member of the Legislature and its speaker, and in 1787 a delegate to the convention that framed the constitution of the United States.


In March, Rss, he became Governor of New Hampshire, and in 17s? he was elected P. S. Senator, holding office till 1sol, and was chosen president of the Senate in order that the electoral votes for President of the I'nited States might be counted į lle thas officially announced the election of George Washington as the first President of the I'nited States. ] .1 president of the Senate had therefore a legal existence before there was either a president of a vice-president of the United States.


He was a Republican in politics and neted with Jefferson, who. on assuming office in 150, offered him the post of Secretary of the Navy, which he declined. From 1505 till 1812, with the exception of two years, he was Governor of New Hampshire, and in 1812 the Republican Congressional canens offered him the nomination for the office of Vice-Presi- dent of the I'nited States, which he de- elined on the score of age and infirmities, passing the remainder of his life in re- tirement."


Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biog- raphy.


A biography of lohn Langdon, by his grandson, the late John Langdon Elwyn, of Portsmouth, will be found in Vol. XX of the Curly State Papers of New Hampshire.'


Lear, Nathaniel M .- 2nd N. H.


"Private, Co. K. Residence, Ports- mouth. Date of Muster. Anne S, 1861, for 3 years. Discharged for disability at Washington. D. C . July 31, 1861."


Adjutant Cien rat's Records, N. 11.


Leary. Jeremiah 0 .- U. S. M. C.


His stone reads incorectly-"J. (. Leary, I. S. Navy."


Leary, Timothy 0 .- 16th N. H. & U. S. M. C.


Enlisted as . Timothy O'Leary."


Member Storer Post, G. A. R. "Timothy O. Leary." Stone.


" Private, Co. K, 16th N. Il. Residence,


Adjutant General's Records, N. II.


"Enlisted in I. S. M. C. Dis- charged from U. S. M. C. Sept. 8, Is6s." Soldiers Memorial, 1800. "Birthplace, Ireland." Post Records.


Leslie, George T .- 7th Ill. Cav,


Eulisted as "George T. Brown." "Private, Troop B. Probable ilate of death, Nov. 3. 1868." Letter from Treasury Department.


"Captured. Died at Cahawba Prison, Ala., January, 1863 [ 1861. ] Buried at Ca- hawba." Post Records.


Lester, David G .- War 1812.


"A native of Salisbury, Mass,, a sol- dier of the war of Is12." Store.


Lewis, John C .- 1st N. H. & U. S. N. "Private, Co. B, Ist N. Il. Residence, Dover. Date of Muster. May 2, 1861. for 3 months. Mustered out Ang. ? ,


Landsman, C. S. Navy. Residence, Dover. Enlisted, Dec. 12, 1841. Served on l'. S. vessels 'Ohio,' 'North Carolina,' 'Princeton,' and 'St. Louis,' Rated Sea- man. Discharged from U. S. Ship North Carolina,' for disability, August 1. 1863 [ See below ]." .Adjutant General's Records, N. II. "Birthplace, New Durham. N. Il. · . Enlisted Dec. 12, 1861, as Ordinary Sea- man on l'. S. Ship .Constellation,' from which ship he was discharged as Or- dinary Seaman, Feb. 11, 1865, expira- tion of service." Post Records.


Ile was for some time a member of Storer Post, but not at the time of his death.


Libby, George W .- 13th N. H. "Private, Co. C. Residence or assign- ment, Newcastle. Date of Muster, Sept. 19, 1862, for 3 years. Mastered out June 21. 1865."


Adjutant General's Records, N. H.


Locke, Edwin W .- U. S. Navy. "Died in New York." Słone.


Locke, Fletcher D .- U. S. Navy.


Locke. John H .- 5th N. H.


Member Storer Post, G. A. R.


"First Sergeant, Co. B. Residence or Portsmouth. Date of Muster, Det. 25, assignment, Portsmouth. Date of Mus-


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ter, Oct, 23, 1861, for 3 years, Wounded at Fredericksburg. Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Discharged for disability Jan. 5, 1863."


Adjutant General's Records, N. 11.


"Birthplace. Barrington, N. II. Struck in six different places by one minnie ball, at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13. 1502 : lost parts of both hands, Died June 15. 1889. He was Commander of Storer Post in 1870, and Quartermaster from the second organization of the Post [ 1878 ] nutil his death. A faithful comrade and an honest man."


Post Records.


Locke, Joseph J .- 12th Maine,


"Son of Jeremiah and Hannah A. Locke. . . Killed at Port Hudson, May 25, 18G3, aged 19 years, 6 months. Ile sleeps -- where he fell in defence of his country." Stone.


"Private, Co. K. Born in Barrington. N. 11. Resident of Portsmouth, N. IL. Date of Muster, Nov. 20. 1861, for 3 years. Killed May 28 [ See above ]. 1865, at Port Hudson, Louisiana."


Adjutant General's Records, Maine.


Locke, William W .- U. S. Navy. Lombard, Harry-40th Mass.


Enlisted as "Henry Lombard." Member Storer Post, G. A. R.


"Harry Lombard, died May 31, 18SS." Stone.


"Private Co F. Residence, Newbury- tee of Safety for Portsmouth, and was en- port, Mass. Enlisted Aug. 20, 1802. Date of Muster, Sept. 8, 1862, for 3 years. Wounded at Drury's Bluff; May 16, Is61. Discharged Jan. 10, 1865."


Adjutant General's Records, Muss.


"Born in France, 1836, and was a sol- dier in the French army. He served with distinction in the Crimea with the French navy, and received a medal of honor for his bravery and devotion. He was also in the Italian campaign, where he did faithful service. Came to this country. Enlisted [ Ang. 20, and mustered ] Sept. 3, 1862, as Private in Co. F. Anth Regt., Mass. Infantry. While in the advance on Drury's Bluff. . on or about May IS [16], 1861, he was shot, which wound necessitated amputating the right arm at the shoulder joint, and he, with thousands of others, carried the empty sleeve for the past twenty-five years. He was discharged from the J'. S. service January 10, 1865. - He died May 23 [8], DASS."


Soldiers Memorial, ISSO.


Long, Pierse-Rev. War. "In memory of ('ol. Pierse Long." Stone. "Pierse Long (the father of ('ol. Pierse Long of Revolutionary memory) WIL- born in Limerick, Ireland, about the com- meucement of the eighteenth century, and served an apprenticeship with one who did business with America; and by him was sent out with goods, the manufac- ture of Ireland, to this town, in the year 1780" Here he settled, married, and had three children ; one son, and two daugh- ters ; the latter died nnmarried. "Pierse Long, the senior, died in 1710."


"Pierse Long. Ir. (afterwards Col. Long), was born in 1789. He received instruction in the elements of education from the celebrated teacher, Samuel Hale, At the age of fourteen, Pierse was apprenticed as a clerk to Robert Trail [ Traill ]. an emigrant from Scot- land, and a distinguished merchant of Portsmouth. At the close of his appren- ticeship, Pierse Long was established in business by Mr. Trail [Traill], as a shipping merchant, which he continued to prosecute with snecess until the war of the Revolution.


In this Mr. Long took an carly and de- cided part, and in 1775 was chosen one of the delegates to the first provincial Con- gress, convened at Exeter. In this office he continued for some time, acting also about this period as one of the Commit- gaged with Langdon, Pickering, Drown, and abont forty other citizens, in surpris- ing and capturing the fort at the month of Portsmouth barbar.


l'ierse long continued to fill different offices under the then province and town until May, 1776, when the provincial Leg- islature appointed him to the command of the First New Hampshire regiment. . This regiment continued in the service of the Province until July 15, 1776. . when, it being determined by the general government to receive into the service no more provincial troops, it was disbanded, but immediately rienlisted into the Con- tinental service, under Pierse Long as Colonel and commander.


This regiment continued to be stationed at the forts around Portsmouth harbor (a company in Portsmouth being sta- tioned near the Old South) until October [November 23], 1776, when it received orders to march to the canada border, near Lake Champlain [to reinforce the army at Ticonderoga, and marched for that post in February following j.


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It reached there safely in about twenty Congress, which post he illled through days ; and reporting for duty to Gen. St. three or four sneeessive years till 1786 Clair, Col. Long was assigned to the command of Fort Independence, across the Lake, with his own and C'ol. C'arle- ton's regiments; and at the same time was made Brigadier General, by brevet. [ 1781-5 6| From the year 1786 to 1789 [ 1788-9- N. H. Manual. ] he was elected State Senator or Councillor, and in 1758 was delegate to the Convention to adopt the present Constitution [of the I'nited States], and gave his influence and vote for its reception by New Hampshire.


The lake being closed with ice during the latter part of the fall, the winter and part of the spring, nothing of note


When Washington was chosen Presi- occurred until about the middle of aInne, dent, he appointed Col. Long Collector of the ('nstoms at Portsmouth ; but before he had taken possession of his office, he. was found dead in his bed. lle retired English, Canadians, Tories, and Indians, in apparent health, but died without any


1777, when the English flotilla of many guns advancing by water, to be joined by Gen. Burgoyne, with ten thousand by land, it was determined by Gen. previons warning, of (as it was supposed) St. Clair, in a council of ollieers, to gout in the stomach, at the carly age of abandon his position with his small army fifty. April 3, 1789. Ills remains are in- terred m the lot in the Proprie ors' bury- of three thousand men, and retreat with the American flotilla up through Lake ing ground, belonging to his son, at the George, towards Fort Edward.


Col. Long was entrusted with the com- mand of the flotilla, consisting of one schooner of sixteen guns, one of ten, and several smaller crafts, with orders to correct merchant and a good soldier."


blow up the vessels to prevent their fall- ing into the hands of the enemy,-which was accomplished after they had disem- barked his own and C'ol. Carleton's regi- ment at Skenesborough.


Leaving Skenesborough, the troops proceeded on towards Saratoga, and the of Washington," New York, 1882, Vo !.


next day (July 6) Col. Long and his command was overtaken by the British ninth regiment, under the command of C'ol. Hayes. An action ensued, in which the British were beaten, and retreating left the field in the possession of the Americans.


At about this time, the period for which the troops had enlisted having expired, they all asked and received their dis- charge, ollicers as well as men, except- ing Edward Evans, chaplain; Noah Emery, paymaster ; and Lieut. or Col. [ Lieutenant] Meshach Bell, and C'ol. Long's servant, James Mullen.


'These, with Col. Long, continued on to Saratoga, and there volunteered their services to the commander-in-chief [Gen- eral Gates ], and assisted in the capture of General Burgoyne and his army [who surrendered October 16, 1777].


Col. Long being ill, arrived in Ports- month. Dec. 6 [1777] ; and continued con- flned to his house for six months, with the disorder usual to camps; nor did he entirely recover till a year had expired. As soon as he had sulliciently recovered his health he resumed his mercantile por- suits, but at the same time suffered from attacks of the gont, and sometimes could not move without the aid of crutches.


In 1784 he was appointed by the State of New Hampshire a delegate to the old


western end of the granite monuments. [monument ]. Col. Long was a hand- some, porily man, of unblemished chris. tian character, amiable and courteous, a Rambles About Portsmouth, First Series.


An interesting account of the retreat of the Americans from Fort Ticonderoga in 1777, with special mention of Col. Long's services, will be found in Irving's "Life III. pages 103-110.


Col. Pierse Long was twice married and had three children. Hon. George Long, a successful shipmaster and mer- chant of Portsmouth, born July 4, 1762, who died April S, 1819; the father of Mrs. Henry H. Ladd and the late Samnel P. Long of Portsmonth, and of the late Commodore John Collings Long, P. S. Navy, of Portsmouth and Exeter, N. H . who was a midshipman on the "Consti- tution" when she cartnred the British frigate "Java," Dec. 29. 1s12. Abigail, who married George W. Prescott, and died at St. Bartholomews. in 1793. Mary, who married C'ol Tobias Lear, private Secretary to Gen. Washington, April 22, 1790, and died of yellow-fever in the fam- ily of Gen. Washington, at Philadelphia, in 1791.


A beautiful Memorial Record Book was presented to Storer Post, G. 1 .. R., on its twenty-fifth anniversary, celebrated November 11, 1892. by Mrs. Henry Il. Ladd, of Portsmouth, in memory of her grandfather, Col. Pierse Long. A full account of the presentation was printed in the Portsmouth Daily Evening Times, of November 15, 1892, and the following vote was passed at the next meeting of the Post :


' Resolved, That the carnest thanks of Storer Post are hereby tendered to Mrs. Marcy E. Ladd, of Portsmouth, for the


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magnificent volume recently presented by her to the Post in memory of her grandfather, Colonel Pierse Long of the Revolutionary army ; and the Post gladly accepts the opportunity to inscribe there. in the record, of Colonel Long and the Personal War Sketches of its Comrades, for future preservation."


Lynch, Timothy-U. S. Navy. Member Storer Post. G. A. R.


"Born in Ireland. 1835, and entered ; service August 25, 1863, as Ordinary Sea- man, U. S. N .. for term of 1 year, and was discharged August 25, 1861, his term of enlistment having expired."


Soldiers Al morial, IS87.


Lyon, John H .- U. S. Navy.


Marden, John H .- 10th N. H.


"Private, Co. G. Residence or assign. ment. Portsmouth. Date of Muster, S .pt. 1. 1862, for 3 years. Mustered out Inne 21, 1865."


Adjutant General's Records, S. 11.


Marden, John L .- 2nd Mass. Cav.


"Killed in a skirmish near Charleston | Charlestown ], Va." Stone.


"Private, Troop K. Residence, Bos- ton, Ward 6. Enlisted Dec. S. 1863. Date of Muster, Dee. S, 1863, for 3 years. Killed in action at Charlestown, Va., Ang. 27, 1861."


Adjutant General's Records, Muss.


Marshall, Christopher J .- 2nd N. H.


"A kind Husband and affectionate Father." Stone.


"Corporal, Co. K. Residence or assign- ment, Portsmouth. Date of Muster, June 8, 1861, for 3 years. Wounded and missing at Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861. Gained from missing. Discharged on account of wounds, July IS, 1862."




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