The statistics and gazetteer of New-Hampshire. Containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and villages statistical tables with a list of state officers, etc., Part 4

Author: Fogg, Alonzo J., comp
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Concord, N.H., D. L. Guernsey
Number of Pages: 728


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The second regiment, being the first in the field of battle, saw more service than any other, being nearly all the time in Virginia, where more blood was spilt than in any other State in the Union. The regiment had on its roll, over three thousand names. The officers that have been commissioned for its own regiment, and oth- er military organizations, are one Major General ; two Brigadier Generals ; five Colonels ; ten Lieutenant Colonels ; eleven Majors ; five Surgeons ; ten Assistant Surgeons; three Chaplains ; three Captains of the regular army ; sixty Captains in the Volunteers ; one First Lieutenant in regular army ; ninety first Lieutenants in the Volunteers ; seventy-one second Lieutenants of Volunteers ; two Captains and Assistant Quartermasters ; one Captain and Com- missary of subsistence ; and three Medical Cadets.


The Second marched over six thousand miles, participated in nearly thirty battles, and lost over one thousand men. The most important battles they were engaged in, were the first Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Frede- ricksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, and the battles around Peters- burg. They were mustered out of service at City Point, Va., Dec. 19, 1865.


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The Third New-Hampshire Regiment was the next in the field .- Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich, Colonel; John H. Jackson, Ports- mouth, Lieut. Colonel ; John Bedel, Major; A. A. Moulton, Surg. This regiment did good service in South Carolina and Virginia. They were in many a hard-fought battle and lost heavily in some of them. They were at James Island, Fort Wagner and its siege, Drury's Bluff, Half-way House, Bermuda Hundred, Deep Run, and several other battles. At the battle of Fort Wagner, they lost one hundred and four men, killed and wounded; at Deep Run, ninety-three. They stood high in the service as a brave and effi- cient regiment, and were an honor to the State. Mustered out, . July 20, 1865.


The Fourth Regiment was organized at Manchester, and mus- tered into service in September, 1861 .- The officers were Thomas J. Whipple, Laconia, Colonel; Louis Bell, Farmington, Lieut. Colonel; Jeremiah D. Drew, Salem, Major; Henry W. Fuller, Concord, Adjutant; and John L. Kelley, Manchester, Quarter- master.


The Fourth Regiment did good service in the field. When they left New-Hampshire they went to Washington, and went into camp near Bladensburg Toll-gate. Nov. 29th, they arrived at Port Royal, S. C. The regiment remained in South Carolina about three months, when they sailed for Fernandina, arriving there, March 5, 1862. They performed valuable service in the South, and were in several battles before Richmond. We have not the records we could wish of the movements of this regiment through the war, but it was considered one of New-Hampshire's best regi- ments. Mustered out, Aug 23, 1865.


The Fifth Regiment was organized at Concord, and mustered into service, October 26, 1861. The officers were Edward E. Cross, Lancaster, Colonel; Samuel G. Langley, Manchester, Lieut. Colo- nel; William W. Cook, Derry, Major; Charles Dodd, Boston, Mass., Adjutant; Edmund M. Webber, Somersworth, Quarter- master .; Luther M. Knight, Franklin, Surgeon; and Elijah R. Wilkins, Lisbon, Chaplain.


Through the winter of 1861-2, the Fifth were in the vicinity of Washington, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, doing picket and drill duty, and perfecting themselves for the coming spring campaign. On the fourth of April, they embarked at Alexandria for the Peninsula, and landed near Ship Point, Virginia, and went


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through that memorable campaign, under Gen. Mc Clellan, before Richmond, in the summer of 1862. They were engaged in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and all through the seven days' fight before Richmond to Harrison's Landing. From Harrison's Landing they sailed for Washington, and arrived in time to assist Gen. Pope, who was hard pressed by Lee's Army, and from thence they marched to Antietam, and were engaged in that great battle. At the battle of Fair Oaks, Col. Cross and Maj. Cook were severely wounded.


We have a list of the casualties of the Fifth, in their first year's . campaign :- Two officers killed and 17 wounded, 60 enlisted men killed, 240 wounded, and 16 missing, besides 69 who died in hospi- tals ; making a total of 404 men.


Through all the subsequent years of the war, the Fifth took the front rank. At Fredericksburg Maj. Sturtevant was killed, and Col. Cross was killed at the great battle of Gettysburg. Mustered out, June 28, 1865.


The Sixth Regiment was organized at Keene, and left for the seat of war, Dec. 25, 1861. The officers were Nelson Converse, Marlborough, Colonel ; Simon G. Griffin, Concord, Lieut. Colonel ; Charles Scott, Peterborough, Major; Phin P. Bixby, Concord, Adjutant; Alonzo Nute, Farmington, Quartermaster; William A. Tracy, Nashua, Surgeon ; and Robert Stinson, Croydon, Chaplain.


Soon after the arrival of the Sixth at Washington, they were assigned to Gen. Burnside's Division, and proceeded to Hatteras Inlet, N. C. They performed some valuable service in North Carolina, but returned to Virginia in time to participate in the battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilla, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and some other battles. In some of these engage- ments they lost very heavily. The Sixth was at the siege of Vicks- burg and capture of Jackson, Miss., and all through the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna, Bowling Green, Cold Harbor, Bethesda Church, and arrived before Peters- burg, June 19, 1864. It was a hard-marching and hard-fighting regiment. They were in the unfortunate mine explosion before Petersburg, where no commanding officer could be, or ever has been, found willing to take the responsibility of that needless dis- aster. They did good service for their country, as their record plainly shows. Mustered out, July 17, 1865.


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the immediate supervision of Gen. Joseph C. Abbott. The officers were Halderman S. Putnam, Cornish, Colonel ; Joseph C. Abbott, Manchester, Lieut. Colonel; Daniel Smith, Dover, Major ; Thomas A. Henderson, Dover, Adjutant ; Andrew H. Young, Dover, Quar- termaster ; William W. Brown, Manchester, Surgeon ; and James C. Emerson, Fisherville, Chaplain.


The Seventh moved from Manchester to New York, Jan. 16, 1862. Feb. 13 they sailed for Tortugas, then they went to Beaufort, then to St. Augustine and Fernandina, Florida. In June, 1863, they sailed for Hilton Head. Up to this date they had done picket, gar- rison and fatigue duty the larger portion of the time, and being in a malarious country, they had lost nearly two hundred men. The first battle of any importance they were engaged in, was the unsuc- cessful assault on Fort Wagner, S. C. In this attack, Col. Putnam, Capt. Brown, Lieuts. Baker, Cate, Bennett, and Brown were killed, and four more officers died within a few days after the battle. Their whole loss in killed and wounded was two hundred and twelve men.


On the 20th of December, they were again ordered to Florida, and placed under command of Gen. Seymour. February 20 the whole of Seymour's forces moved towards Lake City. After a march of fourteen miles they met the enemy in force at Olusta, and a fierce battle ensued, in which the northern forces were de- feated. In this engagement the Seventh lost 209 men, in killed wounded and missing. May first they were ordered to Virginia, and landed at Bermuda Hundred, May 6, 1864. They were en- gaged in many of the battles before Richmond, mostly on the north side of James River, and lost many valuable officers and men. Although in not quite as many battles as some of the New- Hampshire regiments, they faced the enemy with as much courage and fought with as much determination to secure victory as any regiment in the service. Mustered out July 20, 1865.


The Eighth Regiment went into camp at Manchester and was mustered into service of the United States, December 23, 1861.


The officers of this Regiment were Hawks Fearing, Jr., Man- chester, Colonel ; Oliver W. Lull, Milford, Lieut. Colonel ; Mor- rill B. Smith, Concord, Major ; Orrin M. Head, Exeter, Adjutant ; Charles A. Putney, Manchester, Quartermaster ; Samuel G. Dear- born, Milford, Surgeon (but resigned) ; and Daniel P. Cilley, Farm- ington, Chaplain.


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The Eighth left their camp in Manchester, for Fort Indepen- dence, in Boston Harbor, Jan. 24, 1862. March 27 the regiment all arrived safe at ship Island, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and went into camp at the upper end of the Island, under the command of General Butler. New Orleans having fallen into the hands of the Union forces, they were ordered to camp Para- quet, in the vicinity of that city. Through the summer they were performing guard and garrison duty. In October the Eighth was part of an expedition, under General Weitzel, up the Missis- sippi, and were engaged in a battle near Labadieville, in which they lost sixteen killed and forty-six wounded.


In the winter of 1862-3 they were performing camp duty in va- rious localities in Louisiana. The next summer they were under Gen. Banks at the siege of Port Hudson, and were engaged in both assaults which proved a failure, not, however, from any lack of valor, but owing to the impregnable position of the enemy's works. In these two assaults the Eighth lost two hundred and sixty men in killed and wounded. Lieut. Colonel Lull was among the killed. They were in the Red River expedition, under Gen. Banks, and considered one of the best regiments in the Army of the Gulf. In Dec., 1863, they were changed into cavalry, and called the Second New-Hampshire Cavalry, Finally mustered out of service, Octo- ber 28, 1865.


The Ninth Regiment was recruited at Concord, and left for Ar- lington Heights, Virginia, August 25, 1862. The officers were Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich, Colonel ; Herbert B. Titus, Chester- field, Lieut. Colonel; George W. Everett, New London, Major ; George H. Chandler, Concord, Adjutant ; Carlton B. Hutchins, Lisbon, Quartermaster ; William A. Webster, Manchester, Sur- geon ; and Edward M. Gushee, Dover, Chaplain.


The Ninth arrived in the vicinity of Washington about the tim Gen Pope was falling back, and Gen. Lee was pressing on with his victorious army, towards Maryland. They joined the Union forces under Gen. McClellan, for the purpose of checking Gen. Lee. On the fourteenth of September, only three weeks after they left New-Hampshire, they were engaged in the battle of South Mountain. On the seventeenth and eighteenth of September they were engaged in the great battle of Antietam, and exhibited un- common bravery. They were in the battle of Fredericksburg, and lost heavily. After the battle of Fredericksburg, under command


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of Gen. Burnside, they went to Kentucky and Tennessee, and won an enviable reputation in the discharge of provost and garrison duty. From Kentucky they went down the Mississippi, and land- ed near Vicksburg. They took no immediate part in the siege of that celebrated city, but performed fatigue duty at Harris' Bluff, twenty miles up the Yazoo River. On the fall of Vicksburg they joined the column that went into the interior of the State after Johnston's army, who had hung in the rearof the Union forces at the siege, and participated in the battle fought near Jackson, the 12th and 13th of July, and at the capture of that city. Soon af- ter they were again transferred to Kentucky, and assigned to pro- vost duty at Paris.


In the spring of 1864, they again joined the Army of the Po- tomac, and were in all the battles from Spottsylvania Court House through to the front of Petersburg, and in all battles before that city, up to the celebrated mine explosion, and did good service through the war. It would take volumes where we can only spare pages to give a true history of this popular regiment through their various campaigns. Mustered out June 10, 1865.


The Tenth Regiment went into camp in the summer of 1862. The officers were Michael T. Donohoe, Manchester, Colonel ; John Coughlin, Manchester, Lieut. Colonel ; Jesse F. Angell, Manches- ter, Major ; William H. Cochran, Goffstown, Adjutant ; Thomas Sullivan, Nashua, Quartermaster ; and John Ferguson, Manches- ter, Surgeon.


We have not so good a history, in detail, of this brave regiment as we have of some others. They were in the battle of Fredericks- burg, and were constantly in active service, and participated in nearly all the battles around Richmond. It is not too much to say, there was no Regiment which left New-Hampshire that stood any higher in the service than they, and none that New-Hamp- shire feels any prouder of, than the noble Tenth. Mustered out June 21, 1865.


The Eleventh Regiment was organized at Concord, and left for the front Sept. 11, 1862. The officers were Walter Harriman, Warner, Colonel; Moses N. Collins, Exeter, Lieutenant Colonel ; E. W. Farr, Littleton, Major; James F. Briggs, Hillsborough, Quartermaster ; Charles R. Morrison, Nashua, Adjutant; Jona- than S. Ross, Somersworth, Surgeon, and Frank K. Stratton, Hamp- ton, Chaplain.


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The first battle, of any note, the Eleventh participated in, was that of Fredericksburg. They fought with unusual valor, for new troops, and lost two hundred officers and men. In the spring of 1863, they were ordered to Kentucky. They staid in various parts of that State till June 2, when they sailed for Vicksburg, and were engaged in that siege till its capitulation, July 4, 1863. They took a prominent part in the capture of Jackson, the capital of Missis- sippi; after which they again returned to Kentucky. From cen- tral Kentucky, they performed a march of two hundred miles, over an almost trackless mountain, to Knoxville, Tennessee. They were engaged in that siege, under Gen. Burnside, and remained there till Gen. Longstreet was driven out of East Tennessee and joined his forces with Gen. Lee in Virginia.


In the spring of 1864, the Eleventh again joined the army of the Potomac in Virginia, under Gen. Grant. They were engaged in all the battles in their march to Richmond. In the battle of the wilderness, Lieut. Col. Collins was killed and Colonel Harriman was taken prisoner. They lost very heavily in all these battles, on their march to the front of Petersburg. The Eleventh has seen a large amount of hard service. There has been inscribed on their banner, by order from the War Department, for meritorious con- duct in battle, " Fredericksburg, Jackson, East Tennessee, Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Grove Church, Hatcher's Run, Petersburg." This Regi- ment was considered one of the best in the service-mustered out June 4, 1865.


Twelfth Regiment. On the tenth day of August, 1862, the Gover- nor of New-Hampshire gave permission and issued recruiting pa- pers to raise and officer a Regiment in Belknap and Caroll counties, provided it could be done in ten days.


In six days from the date of the recruiting papers, the Adjutant General of the State was notified that ten full companies had been raised. They were encamped at Concord for drill, prior to their leaving for the seat of war.


The officers were Joseph H. Potter, Concord, Colonel ; John F. Marsh, Hudson, Lieutenant Colonel; George D. Savage, Alton, Major ; Daniel S. Beede, Meredith, Adjutant ; Isaac Winch, Mere- dith, Quartermaster ; H. B. Fowler, Bristol, Surgeon; Charles W. Hunt, Laconia, Assistant Surgeon, and Thomas L. Ambrose, Ossipee, Chaplain.


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September 26, 1862, they left Concord for Washington, and were placed in the defence around the Capital until the seventeenth of October, when they made a circuitous route through Maryland, and arrived near Falmouth, Va., Nov. 23. They were engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, and remained in the vicinity of that city, till April 30, 1863. May 3, they participated in the battle of Chancellorsville and lost very heavily. Col. Potter was shot through the leg and taken prisoner. Lieutenant Colonel Marsh and Major Savage were severely wounded. They went into the fight with twenty-eight commissioned officers, and five hundred and forty-nine enlisted men. Three commissioned officers were killed, and fifteen wounded; forty-two enlisted men killed, two hundred and twelve wounded, fifty-one taken prisoners and three missing ; making an aggregate loss of three hundred and eighty, or nearly two thirds of their Regiment engaged. July 2, 1863, they com- menced the battle of Gettysburg losing ninety-two officers and enlisted men.


July 26, they were ordered to report to General Marston, then stationed at Point Lookout, to guard prisoners. They remained there till April 11, when they left for more active and dangerous service before Richmond and arrived at Bermuda Hundred, May 6, 1864. Space will not permit us to give any of our Regiments, the full credit that belongs to them. The twelfth were engaged in many of the battles around Richmond, and at the battle of Cold Harbor, and lost, in killed and wounded, one hundred and sixty-five men and officers. They have seen much hard fighting and have done honor to themselves and the State. Mustered out, June 21, 1865.


The Thirteenth Regiment went into camp at Concord in the fall of 1862. Its officers were Aaron F. Stevens, Nashua, Colonel ; George Bowers, Nashua, Lieutenant Colonel; Jacob I. Storer, Portsmouth, Major ; George H. Gillis, Nashua, Adjutant ; Percy C. Cheeney, Peterborough, Quartermaster ; George B. Twitchell, Keene, Surgeon, and G. C. Jones, Nashua, Chaplain.


The Thirteenth left Concord for the defences around Washing- ton, October 6, 1862. They remained there until the first day of December, when they moved for Falmouth, Va., opposite Fred- ericksburg, arriving there three days prior to the battle of Fred- ericksburg. They were in the thickest of the fight and lost forty- one men and officers. They remained a+ Falmouth till February,


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1863, when they moved with the Ninth Army Corps to Newport News. The thirteenth of March, they moved to Suffolk, to defend that position. On the 3d of May, at the battle of Suffolk, they lost thirty men, killed and wounded. A short time after the battle of Suffolk they retired to the vicinity of Portsmouth, Va., and re- mained there until the Spring of 1864, with the exception of two Companies who were ordered to Fort Tillinghast on Arlington Heights, and were instructed in Heavy Artillery exercises, through the winter of 1863-4.


May 7, 1864, the Thirteenth commenced to move towards Rich- mond, being in the Second Brigade, first Division of the Eighteenth Army Corps, and participated in many of the battles around Rich- mond. They were in the battles of Walthall Road, Swift Creek, Kingsland Creek, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Battery 5 Peters- burg, Fort Harrison, besides several smaller ones. The General commanding the Army ordered these battles to be placed upon the national colors of the regiment. The Thirteenth did good service, and were distinguished for their daring bravery. Mustered out, June 21, 1865.


The Fourteenth Regiment was organized at Concord, in the latter part of the summer of 1862. The officers were Robert Wilson, Keene, Colonel; Tileston A. Barker, Westmoreland, Lieut. Colonel; Samuel A. Duncan, Plainfield, Major ; Alexander Gardiner, Clare- mont, Adjutant; Willian A. Hurd, Sandwich, Quartermaster ; William Henry Thayer, Keene, Surgeon; and Elihu T. Rowe, Plainfield, Chaplain.


The Fourteenth left Concord for Washington, the latter part of October, 1862. Through the fall and winter they did picket duty on the Potomac River. In the latter part of April, 1863, they were ordered to Washington and remained there till February, 1864, doing provost duty. They furnished guard for the old Capi- tal Prison, Central Guard House, and ten other posts in the city. Their duties, in the city, were so varied, that our pages will not permit us to give a detailed account of them.


February 27, 1864, they received orders to take transportation, at New York or Boston, for the department of the Gulf, with the permit to visit their homes in New-Hampshire before sailing. They left New York for New Orleans, March 20th, in the steamer Daniel Webster, with seven companies, and Major Gardiner, in the steamer Liberty, with three companies. The Webster had a long, stormy voyage, but arrived all safe. .


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The Fourteenth were again ordered to guard duty in the vicinity of New Orleans-Maj. General Reynolds commanding. January 6th, they were ordered to the mouth of Red River, for camp duty. On the first week in July, the regiment sailed down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where they again sailed north to join the armies in Virginia. Six companies went in the Continental, and the next day the other four companies sailed in the steamer General Lyon.


The regiment was not united again till the nineteenth of August. The four companies went to Washington, and the six to Bermuda Hundred, and were in the attack at Deep Bottom. On the 31st of July, they were ordered to Washington; and from thence, they joined Gen. Sheridan's Army, at Berryville, on the 18th of August. The next day Major Gardiner rejoined the regiment with his four companies. The Fourteenth were in the great battles of the 19th and 22d of September and the 19th of October, at Cedar Creek. The 19th of September they lost one hundred and fifty men. Thir- teen out of twenty-one officers were killed or wounded,-Colonel Gardiner being mortally wounded. The duties of the army of the Shenandoah were hard, through the fall of 1864. It was a con- tinual marching up and down the valley, with considerable hard fighting. The Fourteenth was not in as many battles as some other regiments, but was considered a reliable regiment, and performed the duties assigned it, satisfactorily to its commanders. Mustered out of service, July 8, 1865.


The Fifteenth Regiment was raised under the call of the President for three hundred thousand men, for nine months' service, and was organized at Concord, in the fall of 1862. The officers were John W. Kingman, Durham, Colonel; George W. Frost, Newmarket, Lieut. Colonel; Henry W. Blair, Plymouth, Major; Edward E. Pinkham, Laconia, Adjutant ; Ira A. Moody, Dover, Quartermas- ter; Jeremiah F. Hall, Wolfeborough, Surgeon; and Edwin M. Wheelock, Dover, Chaplain.


November 13, 1862, the Fifteenth left Concord for New York City ; went thence across East river and encamped on the grounds of the Union race-course, Jamaica, Long Island. They remained there about three weeks, when they left, in three detachments, for New Orleans. The first detachment left, Nov. 30th, and the other two respectively, December 4th and 13th. In due time they all arrived at Carrollton, near New Orleans, and were again united, December 26th. They remained in that vicinity all winter, per-


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forming picket and provost duty. May the ninth, they received orders to embark for Baton Rouge, and sailed on the 21st, with 26 officers and 546 enlisted men fit for duty. They arrived at Spring- field Landing, the 23d, and took up their line of march for Port Hudson. They remained there, through the siege, till it capitu- lated to General Banks, July 9, 1863, and were engaged in the two assaults made on the enemy's works. The time of enlistment having nearly expired, they turned over all ordnance and camp stores, July 26th, and embarked, on the steamer City of Madison, for Cairo, Ill., going thence to Chicago, by rail, and arrived in Con- cord, Aug. 8th, and were mustered out of service, Aug. 13, 1863.


The regiment suffered much from sickness, which proved quite as fatal as battles. From July 31st to August 13th sixteen men died, and of seven hundred and forty-one men and officers on the roll, only four hundred and eighty were fit for duty. After leav- ing Port Hudson for home, fifty men were left on the way on ac- count of sickness, many of whom died.


No regiment in the service, for nine months, was ever more shat- tered by sickness than the Fifteenth. It was a good regiment and faithfully performed all duties assigned it.


The Sixteenth Regiment were nine months men, and went into camp at Concord, in the fall of 1862. The officers were James Pike, Sanbornton, Colonel ; Henry W. Fuller, Concord, Lieut. Colonel ; Samuel Davis, Jr., Warner, Major ; Luther T. Townsand, Salem, Adjutant ; Albert H. Drown, Fisherville, Quartermaster ; Thomas Sanborn, Newport, Surgeon ; and R. M. Manley, North- field Chaplain.


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This regiment was assigned to the department of the Gulf, and performed guard duty from New Orleans to Port Hudson. We have not an extended record of the service of the Sixteenth in the ield, but it was considered a good regiment. Like all of our regi- ments who went into Louisiana and Mississippi, they suffered se- verely from sickness, which proved fatal in many instances. In nine months, one hundred and forty-three men and officers died. They were mustered out of service Aug. 20, 1863.




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