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H I S T O R Y 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS: 
 
 ITS CAMPS, MARCHES AND BATTLES. 
 
 BY MARTIN A. HAYNES, 
 
 \ \ 
 PRIVATE OF COMPANY I. 
 
 We have shared our blanket and tent together, 
 
 And have marched and fought in all kinds of weather, 
 
 And hungry and full we have been; 
 Had days of battle and days of rest, 
 But this memory I cling to and love the best, 
 
 WK HAVE DRUNK FROM THE SAME CANTEEN . 
 
 MILES O REii.EY. 
 
 MANCHESTER, N. H. : 
 
 CHARLES F. LIVINGSTON, PRINTER 
 I 8 f, 5 . 
 
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 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by 
 
 CHARLES F. LIVINGSTON, 
 in the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the State of New Hampshire. 
 
THE BRAVE MEN OF THE SECOND, 
 WHOSE CONDUCT 
 
 EEFLECTED SO MUCH CREDIT UPON 
 
 THEMSELVES, THEIR REGIMENT, 
 
 AND THEIR STATE, 
 
 Cjjis Wolnmt 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 THE gallant men to whom this volume is dedicated have, by 
 their heroic deeds upon a score of battle fields, engraven their his 
 tory in imperishable letters, upon tablets more enduring than 
 marble upon the memories of a grateful people. In view of this 
 fact it were vain for the historian to attempt to add to or detract 
 from their fair fame, and the author of the following pages, in 
 presenting them to the public, claims only to give a plain, 
 straightforward account of what the Second New Hampshire 
 Regiment endured and accomplished while following the " Old 
 Flag" over the hills and through the vales of Maryland and 
 Virginia. He refrains from remarks of praise or censure upon the 
 conduct of General Officers, whose sphere of action is so far above 
 that of a private that it would be presumption to decry what was 
 generally so little understood by those not high in authority. 
 
 The history commences with the organization of the Regiment 
 in 1861, and is carried forward until the muster out of the origi 
 nal members, not re-enlisted, in 1864. Although the Second 
 New Hampshire Regiment still existed as an organization upon 
 the army rolls, and many of the old members still remained to 
 officer it, the interest with which the people of New Hampshire 
 watched its course sensibly diminished from that time, from the 
 fact that by far the greater portion of those remaining in the 
 regiment were men whose interests were not identified with those 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 of New Hampshire substitutes from New York and Baltimore, 
 importations direct from foreign ports, of every nationality and 
 tongue, who cared little whether New Hampshire were honored or 
 disgraced by their conduct. 
 
 For the members of the " Old Second " and their friends, this 
 volume is especially intended. Errors and omissions have without 
 doubt occurred, unavoidable from the scarcity of reliable doc 
 uments relating to the Regiment, and if, among the rock -bound 
 hills of the Old Granite State, some rugged and stalwart veteran 
 should read his own name in the list of killed, the author would 
 assure him that the pleasure of taking his hand with the strong 
 grasp of friendship would be far preferable to recording his death, 
 and in apology for such error respectfully refer him to the Report 
 of the Adjutant General of the State of New Hampshire, to 
 which the author is greatly indebted for the regimental roster 
 and names of enlisted men, although making such corrections as 
 his acquaintance with the facts would warrant him in doing. 
 
 If, by a perusal of the following pages, a smile is called upon 
 the face of some old comrade for the pleasing recollections awak 
 ened of by -gone times, when "marching to the music of the 
 Union," or a tear is dropped in memory of the fallen, who sealed 
 with their life-blood their devotion to the "starry banner," and 
 whose graves lie so thickly strewn along the banks of the Poto 
 mac, the Chickahominy, the Rappahannock, and the James, the 
 author s highest ambition will be satisfied, and he will retire with 
 the pleasing consciousness of having contributed his mite in 
 memory of the " GALLANT SECOND." 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 FROM PORTSMOUTH TO WASHINGTON, 9 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA, 13 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 BATTLE OF BULL RUN, 18 
 
 CHAPTER IY. 
 RETREAT FROM BULL RUN, 27 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 BLADENSBURG AND BUDD S FERRY, 32 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN, 41 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 THE BATTLE OF WILIJAMSBURG, 50 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 IN THE CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP G2 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS, 74 
 
VIII CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 PAGK. 
 
 HARRISON S LANDING, 84 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 SECOND BULL RUN CAMPAIGN, 93 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 FROM ALEXANDRIA TO FALMOUTH, 112 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, 117 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 FALMOUTH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, 126 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 MARCH TO GETTYSBURG, 131 
 
 CHAPTER XYI. 
 BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, 137 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 PURSUIT OF LEE, 147 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 POINT LOOKOUT, 154 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 BUTLER S CAMPAIGN ON THE JAMES, 163 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 COLD HARBOR, 173 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 ROSTER OF OFFICERS AND NAMES OF ENLISTED MEN, 179 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 FROM PORTSMOUTH TO WASHINGTON 
 
 NDER the call of President LINCOLN 
 for seventy -five thousand three - months 
 men, which immediately followed the 
 fall of Sumter, New Hampshire s quota 
 was one regiment. But such was the 
 alacrity with which the people sprang 
 to arms, that the First Regiment was soon filled, and 
 still the companies and squads of eager, patriotic men 
 came pouring in to the rendezvous. Accordingly a new 
 camp was established at Portsmouth, and active prepara 
 tions made for the organization of the Second Regiment. 
 THOMAS P. PIERCE, of Manchester, a man of great 
 popularity and who had seen severe and honorable service, 
 in the Mexican War, was appointed Colonel. The old 
 1 
 
10 SECOND N. II . REGIMENT. 
 
 rope -walks in the southern part of the city were fitted 
 up as barracks, and it was but a short time before more 
 than the requisite number of men were in camp. 
 
 These men were all enlisted for three months, but 
 before they could be thoroughly organized or mustered into 
 the service, the President s call for three hundred thousand 
 three - years men was made, and the further enlistment of 
 three -months men discontinued. This was a contingency 
 entirely unlooked for. Go for three years or not at all, 
 was the imperative command. The business of some 
 would not admit of so extended an absence, while others, 
 perhaps, thought that three years out of the prime of 
 their lives was too much to give even to their country ; 
 but, to their credit be it said, the mass of the men put 
 their names down for three years. Col. PIERCE resigning 
 his position, Hon. OILMAN MARSTON was appointed Colo 
 nel, with FRANK S. FISKE as Lieut. Colonel, and JOSIAH 
 STEVENS, JR., as Major. 
 
 It is not my design to enlarge upon the camp life at 
 Portsmouth. For information on that subject I would 
 refer the reader to the papers of the time or to the good 
 citizens of Portsmouth. They can tell of the "rag -hash 
 war," in which the entire company of " Abbott Guards" 
 were confined in their quarters two days for "mutinous 
 conduct;" specifications that they wouldn t eat the hash 
 ration furnished at the Commissary s, but marched to the 
 city in a body and procured more palatable food, &c. 
 They can also tell you of the numberless pranks of the 
 boys in gray swallow - tailed coats, and how patiently they 
 were all borne, because their authors were brave fellows 
 and were going to fight the battles of their country. 
 These are all interesting in their way, but have been 
 
FROM PORTSMOUTH TO WASHINGTON. 11 
 
 written and re -written until they are as familiar as house 
 hold words. My province is, rather, to give the record of 
 the regiment s glory its fierce conflicts, its weary 
 marches, and reminiscences of those whose lives were 
 given up beneath the shadow of its flag. 
 
 On the 20th day of June, 1861, the regiment left 
 Portsmouth for the seat of war. The joy of the men 
 was only tempered by the thought that many were taking 
 their last farewell of friends and relatives. They had 
 entertained great fears that they would not be sent on in 
 season to help crush out the rebellion, but now their long 
 ings for active service were to be gratified. 
 
 Arriving in Boston we were treated with open-hearted 
 hospitality by the "Sons of New Hampshire." After 
 being reviewed upon the Common by Governor ANDREW 
 a collation was spread in Tremont Temple, where we 
 listened to patriotic speeches from prominent sons of the 
 Old Granite State. 
 
 We were also handsomely received in New York, and 
 presented with a beautiful flag, the same flag which for so 
 many months braved the powers of the elements, which 
 was borne through battle - flame and smoke, until its 
 bright colors were faded and its folds rent and torn, but 
 was never deserted or disgraced by those who fought 
 beneath it. 
 
 At Jersey City, to our infinite disgust, we were placed 
 on cattle cars, two days rations of not over - sweet beef 
 were dealt out to us, and we went whirling off for Balti 
 more. The cattle cars and bad beef were, of course, the 
 cause of a great deal of grumbling, but the reception we 
 met with while passing through Pennsylvania restored 
 good humor to the crowd. The sturdy Dutch farmers 
 
SECOND N. II . REGIMENT. 
 
 along the route, wherever the train stopped, brought forth 
 their kegs of " lager," while their wives made a generous 
 distribution of bread and other edibles, all "free for 
 netting, because zey was good Union men all overs." 
 
 The great disappointment of the trip was in getting 
 through Baltimore without having a fight with the rabble, 
 but the city was by that time well under the control of 
 the United States authorities. At about noon of the 23d, 
 we were landed safely in Washington, and by 10 o clock 
 at night were in camp at Calorama Hill, a mile or so to 
 the north of the city, as weary a set of men as could well 
 be found, but elated with the idea that at last we had 
 reached our goal, "the seat of war." The only thing 
 which had seriously marred the pleasure of our trip was 
 an accident, by which, while we were passing through 
 New Jersey, Lieut. CHARLES W. WALKER of Co. B, fell 
 from the cars and was so badly crushed that he died 
 soon after. He was the first victim from our ranks, and 
 his memory is cherished as fondly as those who have fallen 
 upon the field of battle. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA. 
 
 AMP was laid out the morning after our 
 arrival, and in a short time the hill - side 
 was covered with the canvas residences 
 of a thousand men. Camp guards 
 were posted, piles of hard bread, beef, 
 pork and other "commissaries" fur 
 nished, and we went into a course of 
 training for coming campaigns. The 
 new camp was named "Camp Sul 
 livan," in honor of New Hampshire s 
 celebrated Revolutionary general. Our 
 routine of drill was the same adopted with all green 
 regiments. Long drills were the order of the day and 
 long rolls the order of the night. The camp was in a 
 continual furore over stories of spies seen lurking about, 
 and woe was sure to betide the unfortunate peanut ped 
 dler or trinket vender who came near our sentries after 
 tattoo. All this vigilance was more conducive to the 
 good of the service than to the comfort of the victims, 
 some few having been severely injured by the excitable 
 sentries. 
 
14 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 Nearly a month of this experience was gone through 
 with before we had the pleasure of being led into Vir 
 ginia against the boasting rebels. In the meantime 
 we were brigaded with three as gallant regiments as 
 ever wore army blue the First and Second Rhode Island 
 and the Seventy - First New York, all under command of 
 AMBROSE E. BTIRNSIDE, then Colonel of the Second Rhode 
 Island. The Second Rhode Island Battery was also attached 
 to the Brigade, and a battery of two Dahlgren boat how 
 itzers, served by men from the Seventy - First New York. 
 
 On the 16th day of July we marched from camp to 
 participate in the short campaign which ended so suddenly 
 and so disastrously at Bull Run. The regiment had 
 hardly ever shown as full ranks as on that morning. 
 Men who for weeks had been regular attendants at the 
 Surgeon s call for "ye halt, ye blind, lame, sick and 
 lazy," became suddenly rejuvinated, and would not think 
 of such a thing as being left behind when the " death 
 blow" was to be given the rebellion. So, with full ranks, 
 and overflowing with patriotism, we marched across Long 
 Bridge into Virginia, the band playing "Dixie" with 
 might and main, and the soldiers making the air resound 
 with their songs and shouts of mirth. 
 
 The day was hot and sultry, and many men fell from 
 the ranks exhausted as we toiled over Arlington Heights. 
 The woods along the road had been cut down to give the 
 gunners upon the forts an unobstructed view of any hos 
 tile approach, so that when at length we entered the shady 
 little glen where Arlington Mills were situated, it was 
 indeed a sudden transition from perfect misery to soothing 
 comfort. A picturesque little spot it was then, such as 
 an artist would not fail to find room for in his sketch 
 
ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA. 15 
 
 book. The dilapidated mill was mossy and gray with 
 age, and the water that fell in glistening cascades over the 
 motionless wheel was so clear and cool that one involun 
 tarily peered into the depths of the pool below, expecting 
 to see the spotted sides of the active trout in so favorable 
 a haunt. 
 
 Our camp that night was at Bailey s Cross Roads, and 
 the march was resumed early the next morning. Evidences 
 of the recent occupation of the country by the rebels 
 soon began to appear, for at various points the road had 
 been obstructed by felled trees, the removal of which cost 
 the pioneers much hard labor. At about eleven o clock 
 in the forenoon the word was passed down the line that 
 the advance had come upon a rebel earthwork, and that 
 the chances for a fight were promising. The column was 
 halted and formed in sections. For a minute, the ring of 
 rammers driving home the charges in thousands of guns 
 was heard, and then the column pressed rapidly on. We 
 soon came in sight of the work, a heavy battery of sand 
 bags, but it was deserted. No cannon belched defiance 
 from its embrasures, no bristling line of rifles rattled 
 death into the advancing column. All was quiet as the 
 grave, until we entered the deserted work, when shout 
 after shout arose over our "bloodless victory." Immedi 
 ately to the rear was a camp of bough huts, which had 
 been deserted in such haste that many valuable articles 
 were left scattered around. About a mile beyond was 
 the little village of Fairfax Court House, which we entered 
 as was becoming great conquerors, with flaunting banners 
 and serried columns, while the bands played patriotic airs 
 for the edification of the few secesh who remained. The 
 brigade marched into the village green and stacked their 
 
10 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 arms, while the flag of the Second was flung out from 
 the most conspicuous point in the vicinity the cupola of 
 the Court House. No sooner were the ranks broken than 
 the entire brigade resolved itself into an army of foragers. 
 The deserted rebel camps in the vicinity were thoroughly 
 ransacked for hard -tack, bacon, &c. ; the squeals and 
 shrieks of suffering porkers filled the air, and little clouds 
 of smoke in various quarters indicated where hives of 
 bees were suffering " martyrdom at the stake," their stores 
 of sweets proving their ruin. But sometimes the bees 
 had their minute of revenge, for we saw more than one 
 fellow with honey dripping from his hands, making across 
 the fields with strides more vigorous than elegant, and 
 leaping five -rail fences with apparently no more trouble 
 than if they had been so many straws, followed by clouds 
 of the vicious little insects, who not being thoroughly 
 smothered, had revived and attacked their enemy with a 
 vigor which admitted of nothing but an inglorious retreat. 
 Not the least interesting of the captures -was a rebel 
 mail bag. The contents were most decidedly Southern, 
 the letters being filled with those inordinate boastings and 
 conceits with which the rebels plumed themselvs until 
 Yankee steel had taught them to respect Yankee valor. 
 The recent dashing charges which Lieut. TOMPKINS and 
 his dragoons had made into the village, over and through 
 their whole force, was often spoken of, and they always 
 found much consolation in the idea that their thousands 
 gave the few Yankee squadrons " as much as they could 
 handle." Well, those were days when each party mis 
 judged the other: while they looked upon us as arrant 
 co\vards, we were equally confident that the campaign 
 which we had inaugurated was to end in the defeat of the 
 
ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA. 17 
 
 rebel armies, the capture of Richmond, and the complete 
 overthrow of the Confederate Government. We could 
 not foresee the four years of terrible war then but just 
 begun, during which armies should be raised in which the 
 " Grand Army of McDowELL " would hardly form a 
 respectable division. 
 
 Early Thursday morning, the eighteenth, the march 
 was resumed, and we felt our way slowly and cautiously, 
 towards Centreville. The woods along the route we found 
 to be swarming with swine, those gaunt, savage nonde 
 scripts peculiar to the South, which are allowed to run 
 wild and subsist upon such acorns, nuts and repti^s as 
 they can find. The numerous halts gave the boys plenty 
 of opportunities to hunt these uncivilized Confederates, 
 and they improved them to such an extent that our line of 
 march might easily have been traced by the slaughtered 
 porcines that lined the road. 
 
 It was on the afternoon of this day the first serious 
 encounter with the rebels was had, in which a portion of 
 the First Massachusetts regiment encountered a heavy force 
 of rebels near Blackburn s Ford, on Bull Run creek. 
 After a sharp little fight, in which several men were killed 
 and wounded, they retired. Persons a little out of the 
 noise and confusion of our column could distinctly hear 
 the roar of cannon and the rattle of musketry. The 
 excitement in our ranks grew as we advanced, and when, 
 that night, in camp near Centreville, we heard from some 
 of the wounded the story of the engagement, the fighting 
 spirits of our boys arose to fever height. 
 
 1* 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 
 
 OR two days we lay in our camp near 
 Centreville, chafing with impatience to be 
 let loose upon the enemy, and at length 
 the orders came. At one o clock on the 
 morning of the ill-fated twenty -first of 
 July, our brigade was roused from its 
 slumbers, blankets were hastily rolled, and 
 we crept off in the bright starlight in 
 the direction of Centreville. We passed 
 many regiments by the roadside all up 
 and in readiness for the march, and when 
 the morning sun arose the heights of Centreville were 
 far to our rear, and we were leading the brave, light- 
 hearted division of HUNTER in the direction of Bull Run. 
 The plan of this day s work is, perhaps, better known 
 than that of any other of the war. In a few words, it 
 consisted of a strong demonstration upon the enemy s 
 front, while the main attack was to be made upon the 
 rear of his position which was to be gained by means 
 of a road making a \vide detour to the right, and coming 
 upon the extreme left. 
 
BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 19 
 
 Arriving at the point where the two roads converged, 
 HUNTER S Division took the one to the right while the 
 other troops kept steadily along the main road. 
 
 The forenoon was by this time well advanced, and the 
 sun was pouring his rays down fiercely upon the toiling 
 columns. Far away to the left, in the direction of 
 Manassas, clouds of dust were arising where the Confed 
 erate troops were marching to meet the new movement of 
 our forces. 
 
 We got our first "reliable information" of the pros 
 pects ahead from one of the natives, a female, who 
 probably classed herself as one of the whites, and who 
 possibly might have been after a vigorous use of soap and 
 water. She stood in the door of a dilapidated log hovel, 
 and took delight in informing us that there were enough 
 Confederates a little ways ahead to whip us all out, and 
 that her husband was among them. And hardly were we 
 out of her sight before the roar of a heavy gun came from 
 the direction the left column had taken. We all felt that 
 this was the prelude of a conflict to come, and scores of 
 watches were drawn to note the precise time when the 
 first gun was fired. 
 
 We toiled on over the narrow, uneven road, expecting 
 every moment to hear the sharp crack of our skirmishers 
 rifles. At about half -past nine, while the men were 
 improving a short halt by filling their canteens from the 
 muddy waters of a little creek, an aide of General BURN- 
 SIDE dashed down the line with the information that the 
 enemy had been discovered in strong force but a short 
 distance ahead. We proceeded nearly half a mile further 
 when the ominous dispositions for battle, which we 
 afterwards learned to read so well, were made. The 
 
20 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 two Rhode Island Regiments suddenly filed from the road 
 into the fields at the left and disappeared in a belt of 
 woods to the front, but we kept steadily on up the road. 
 
 Scarcely had we entered the leafy cover of the woods 
 when, without any previous warning, a cannon ball came 
 screaming and crashing through the trees many feet over 
 our heads. This was the first time our ears had been 
 greeted with the sound of a rebel missile, and not a man 
 in the regiment but made an involuntary obeisance to the 
 hostile messenger. Its harsh voice had scarcely died 
 away in the depths of the forest when another followed 
 directly in its wake, and almost at the same instant we 
 heard the fierce rattle of rifles just ahead. The Rhode 
 Islanders had found the enemy. The excitement was 
 now wild and unbounded. Off from our shoulders went 
 blankets and other superfluous baggage (we intended to 
 come back for them when the little job ahead was 
 finished,) and we went tearing up the road at a speed 
 which in a few moments launched us from the depths of 
 the woods upon the field of Bull Run. A grand panorama 
 of the opening scene of the battle was spread before us. 
 The Rhode Islanders, in the field to the left of the road, 
 were having it hot and thick with a body of rebels in a 
 strip of woods about three hundred yards to their front, 
 and scores of wounded were streaming from their line 
 to the rear. The Rhode Island battery was thundering 
 into position on the right of the infantry line. 
 
 We filed into the field upon the right of the road, fired 
 a few scattering shots at a line of skirmishers which 
 opened on us, and then threw ourselves upon the ground 
 to escape the fire of a rebel battery upon the opposite 
 slope which had begun to pay its attention to us. By 
 
BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 21 
 
 this time the Rhode Island battery was in position and 
 opened fire. Its first shot was directed against the battery 
 which was annoying us, and with splendid accuracy. 
 The shell struck right upon the little work behind which 
 the gunners were protected, and the demoralized artillerists 
 streamed to the rear like ants from an ant hill, but they 
 were rallied by the officers and led back to their work. 
 
 They soon got a good range upon us, and many a poor 
 fellow was carried gasping and bleeding to the rear. For 
 half an hour we suffered this merciless pelting, when the 
 enemy showed themselves in great numbers in front of 
 the Rhode Islanders, evidently intending to charge the 
 battery, and we were ordered to the left of the road to 
 assist in repelling the threatened attack. Col. MAHSTON 
 was at this moment consulting with Col. BURNSIDE. 
 "Attention! left face double-quick march!" shouted 
 Colonel FISKE, who, in his shirt sleeves, and with per 
 spiration pouring from his face, had been striding up and 
 down the line. 
 
 As we rushed past the battery we were exposed to the 
 concentrated fire of the entire rebel force then in action, 
 and the sounds of their missiles, running through the 
 whole scale of warlike music, from the savage rush of 
 twelve pound shells to the spiteful "pish" of the minie 
 bullet, was ruinous to weak nerves. 
 
 We reached our position amidst this galling fire, and 
 threw ourselves upon the ground to await any demon 
 stration. It soon came. Along the edge of the woods 
 some three hundred yards in front of the battery, the 
 rebels appeared in strong force. The two howitzers of the 
 Seventy - First opened with grape and shrapnell, while we 
 rose from the ground and rushing with the Seventy - First 
 
22 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 over an intervening fence and through a cornfield, engaged 
 in a sharp fight with the rebels. It was hot work for a short 
 time. They were under cover of the woods, we fully 
 exposed to their aim. They soon fell back, but not until 
 the green leaves of the growing corn had been dyed red 
 with Northern blood and the ground strewn with corpses. 
 Col. MARSTON was wounded at this point. He had hardly 
 given the word "Attention!" for us to rise from the 
 ground, when he fell with a rifle ball in his shoulder and 
 was carried to the rear. 
 
 A body of United States marines now took an ad 
 vanced position upon the left of our brigade, looking, 
 with their white cross -belts and well - polished brasses, 
 much like a company of playday soldiers at a country - 
 muster, and at the same time HEINTZELMAN S crack Divi 
 sion arrived upon the field. It was a gallant sight to see 
 them as they rushed on to the fight shouting and cheering 
 like madmen. Regiment after regiment poured from the 
 woods, rushed by the position we had held so long 
 unaided, and halting hardly a moment to form in line, 
 pressed down through the little valley to the front of our 
 position, along the edge of the woods and up the opposite 
 slope. Now some of the most desperate fighting of the 
 day took place, of which BURNSIDE S brigade were allowed 
 to be spectators. The brigade had already lost heavily, 
 but was still well formed, in good spirits, and capable of 
 doing much hard fighting. We saw the regiments charge 
 gallantly into the woods, we heard the furious roar of 
 musketry, and then the broken lines came pouring back 
 into the fields to reform and go at the work again. We 
 heard the loud shouts of victory as our gallant fellows 
 pressed the rebels back from their positions, and we had 
 
BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 23 
 
 a good view of the celebrated charge of the Black Horse 
 cavalry. All these exciting scenes we witnessed, until 
 early in the afternoon the firing had almost died away, 
 the field was ours, and General McDowELL rode down the 
 line and told us we had won a great victory, at which we 
 cheered exultingly. 
 
 The field was ours, but the army was left in a sad 
 condition. It had been so badly broken up and scattered 
 that there was hardly a regiment which could count half 
 its members in the ranks. In this condition was our 
 army, while JOHNSTON was close at hand with heavy 
 reinforcements for the rebels, hastening to wrest our 
 hard-earned victory from us, and our reserves were 
 many miles away, in the vicinity of Centreville. To 
 add to all, at about this time, an unexplainable, un 
 accountable panic took possession of a great portion of 
 our troops, and while the thoroughly whipped rebels were 
 making post - haste for Manassas, they were fleeing with 
 equal speed towards Washington. 
 
 Thus stood affairs at three o clock in the afternoon, 
 when bodies of rebels who had been rallied by the rapid 
 approach of JOHNSTON, again renewed the fight. 
 
 The New Hampshire Second was then one of the few 
 regiments upon the field which was formed in good order, 
 and we were directed to the front into the positions from 
 which other regiments were falling back in disorganized 
 masses. 
 
 Col. MARSTON, having had his shattered arm bound up, 
 came at this moment upon the field to lead his regiment. 
 At every step of his horse the muscles of his face would 
 involuntarily show the pain he felt. The Spartan spirit 
 of their Colonel seemed to infuse itself through the ranks 
 
24 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 of the men, who greeted his appearance with tumultuous 
 cheers. "Now," he exclaimed, "the New Hampshire 
 Second will have a chance to show what it is made of," 
 and we filed down into the valley at a quick step, where 
 we were exposed to a terrible fire. Grape, shell and rifle 
 balls swept through the ranks of the Second, but the 
 column swept on down the road. It was a position 
 which might well appal stout hearts, one where we had 
 a taste of the h&rrors of war. The rail fence by the 
 roadside was shattered and prostrated by the terrible 
 storm of balls which leaped from the cauldron of flame 
 that crested the hill. The wounded and dead marked our 
 progress through the valley, and when we reached the 
 blood-stained slope our ranks were fearfully decimated. 
 For a few moments we halted behind a sheltering ridge 
 to form the ranks anew. Upon our left was stationed 
 one of our batteries, with only one gun in working order. 
 A part of the others were dismounted, and the faithful 
 gunners and horses lay around the useless pieces. The 
 few men still left were working the remaining gun, but 
 for every shot they sent screaming over the hill a dozen 
 were returned; and soon this gun also ceased its defiance. 
 The gallant BUEJSTSIDE at this time showed his bravery in 
 a most conspicuous manner. Riding up to the brow of 
 the hill, he drew forth his glass and through it took a long 
 and deliberate survey of the rebels, as coolly as though 
 lie was only gazing upon a beautiful landscape. It was 
 almost a miracle that his life was preserved amidst the 
 shower of bullets which whistled around him. 
 
 The ranks again formed we continued on up the hill, 
 where a few men the dare-devils of various regiments 
 still kept up a desultory fire. One of the Fire Zouaves 
 
BATTLE OF BULL HUN. 25 
 
 was particularly noticeable for his reckless behavior. 
 His foot had been crushed by a ball, but instead of being 
 carried to the Surgeon he maintained his ground, hobbling 
 around on his sound foot, firing as fast as he could load, 
 and keeping up all the time such a string of oaths as 
 would have surprised "The Army in Flanders." 
 
 The regiment came into position facing a rebel battery 
 of two or three guns, posted by the ruins of some log 
 houses, which served as good shelter for an industrious 
 body of rebels so industrious with their leaden com 
 pliments that the regiment was soon ordered to fall back 
 from the position. This they did, with the exception of 
 the two left companies (I and B) who rushed forward to 
 within a hundred yards of the battery, where, taking 
 shelter in a deep cut made by the side of the road, they 
 kept up a brisk and spiteful interchange of shots with 
 the rebels. 
 
 A rebel mounted officer attempted to pass from the 
 battery to the woods, but horse and rider fell lifeless to 
 the ground. Another rebel leaped upon a gun and waved 
 a flag defiantly in our faces ; he, too, fell. 
 
 For half an hour these two companies maintained this 
 position, losing but few men, which was owing to their 
 good cover, when a body of rebels filed across the road to 
 their right, pouring in a volley which unearthed them, 
 upon which they made some very rapid traveling down 
 the hill and up the opposite slope, in search of the 
 regiment. 
 
 As soon as they were fairly out of reach of the rebel 
 riflemen they took a view in the direction from which 
 they were retreating. A sight met their vision calculated 
 at once to appal and to demand their admiration. The 
 
26 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 insignificant force which had started them from their cover 
 had in those few moments grown into a host. 
 
 Instead of a small squad there now appeared a long line, 
 bristling with steel, and with numberless banners floating 
 above it in the summer air. The line continued to 
 lengthen, as regiment after regiment debouched from the 
 woods, until their hearts grew sick in calculating the 
 numbers. Then a second line appeared, forming with the 
 same threatening precision and silence as had the first. 
 Halting but a moment the serried lines faced to the front, 
 and came sweeping down the slope towards the dis 
 organized masses of Union troops. These new arrivals 
 were JOHNSTON S reserves, and from this moment the day 
 was irretrievably lost to us. The field where BTJRNSIDE 
 had opened the fight was still covered with squads of 
 troops hunting for their respective regiments, but before 
 the threatening approach of JOHNSTON S gleaming lines they 
 melted rapidly away, and helped to swell the great wave 
 of disastrous retreat which was sweeping so resistlessly 
 towards Washington. 
 
 Our regiment was forming in the edge of the woods, 
 near the point where we had first entered the field. Here 
 we remained until JOHNSTON was close upon us, and two 
 companies of cavalry, which had formed in line a short 
 distance to the left, broke for the woods, when we, too, 
 joined in that terrible retreat from Bull Run. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE RETREAT FROM BULL RUN 
 
 EN or tongue cannot 
 describe the retreat 
 from Bull Run. 
 Never was an army 
 more completely bro 
 ken up and demor 
 alized than was ours ; never were the real dangers of 
 any situation more intensely magnified than were those 
 which threatened us ; and never did men conjure up more 
 visions of danger which existed only in their own minds 
 than did we. In that wild torrent of retreat, organiza 
 tion could not for a moment exist. Although the Second 
 Regiment marched from the field in good order, it was 
 not long ere it would have been difficult to have found 
 a score of its members together. 
 
 About a mile from the field BURNSIDE made an attempt 
 to rally our brigade. By vigorous efforts a few hundred 
 men were got together, forming a line with no reference 
 to previous regimental or company formation ; but this 
 provisional organization could not stem the torrent, and 
 it soon melted away. 
 
28 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 
 
 The wounded men by the roadside begged piteouslyfor 
 aid to escape from the rebels. A few were placed in 
 empty wagons and ambulances, or upon caissons and gun 
 carriages, but the most of them were left to their fate by 
 their terror-stricken comrades. 
 
 "The cavalry are coming," was the cry which would 
 revive the energies of the drooping. "The Black Horse 
 Cavalry," numbering, perhaps, a hundred men, was the 
 bugbear of the flight. To tell the truth, the writer of 
 this did not see a rebel during the entire retreat, and is 
 inclined to set down at least nine -tenths of the hair 
 breadth escapes, terrible hand-to-hand encounters and 
 heroic defences by dashing vivandicrs, with which the 
 Northern papers teemed for weeks, as being made up and 
 cut out for the occasion. A history of the retreat can 
 never be written, only as compiled from individual expe 
 rience, so complete the disorganization in the ranks of 
 the Union Army. The writer speaks only for himself: 
 premising that his own experience tallies with that of 
 thousands of his comrades on that memorable day. 
 
 During the entire day we had suffered most intensely 
 from thirst, with scarcely a drop of water to alleviate it. 
 So when I came, to a pool of stagnant water a few rods 
 from the point where we entered the main road to Cen- 
 treville, I did not scruple to drain two dipperfulls of the 
 filthy fluid, or rather semi-fluid, for the passage of horses 
 and wagons through it had reduced it to this state. 
 
 I had fastened my dipper to my haversack, and was 
 about to enter the main road, when the roar of a gun and 
 the howling of a shell just overhead greeted my ears. 
 The crowd paused, bewildered. The next instant, a 
 shower of grape came humming into their midst, when 
 
RETREAT FROM BULL RUN. 29 
 
 they made a simultaneous rush from the road, over fences 
 and into the woods and fields. " Halt ! boys, halt ! don t 
 run ! a hundred men can take the battery ! " shouted Lt. 
 JAMES H. PLATT, who was close by at the time. But 
 exhortations had no effect, and we took to the fields with 
 the rest. 
 
 The battery which had created this new panic con 
 sisted, apparently, of but two pieces, which had been sent 
 along the main road to take a position where they could 
 command the point at which we must enter it, as well as 
 the Cub Run bridge, which crossed the creek at the foot 
 of the hill. Owing to the darkness of the evening which 
 by this time prevailed, neither the guns nor the gunners 
 were visible to the panic - stricken fugitives, and when 
 they opened, notwithstanding their proximity, they did 
 not stop to question whether there were twenty or five 
 hundred men engaged in the new attack, such terrors 
 have unseen dangers for all men. 
 
 After firing a few shots the battery ceased its play, and 
 the men began to swarm back into the road. I reached 
 Cub Run bridge and found it blocked with disabled 
 baggage wagons. While I stood debating as to the best 
 means of crossing, BURNSIDE came riding down the hill, 
 leaped his horse from the steep bank and forded the 
 creek. I was not particular about following in the steps 
 of illustrious greatness, especially when they led through 
 five feet of water, so I took the less dignified means of 
 attaining the same end, and crawled under the wagons. 
 I had just straightened myself after crossing the bridge, 
 when the battery again opened. The first shot whistled 
 past the wagons and went bowling down the road, tearing 
 the life from many a poor fellow who was perhaps at that 
 
30 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 moment congratulating himself on having at last safely 
 escaped the horrors of the day. Again there was a grand 
 exodus from the road, which was entirely abandoned until 
 the battery had once more ceased working. 
 
 Formed in line of battle across the road near Cen- 
 treville, we found our reserves, and as we passed through 
 the openings in their ranks we felt that at last we might 
 rest ourselves in safety. 
 
 Arriving at the camp which we had left so gaily the 
 morning before, we threw ourselves upon the ground 
 with an inexpressible feeling of relief. Men came 
 straggling in every few minutes. Among them was one 
 man from company A, whose arm had been shattered in 
 the affair at Cub Run. Amputation was necessary, and 
 it was performed by the nickering light of a camp - fire, 
 the heroic soldier uttering hardly a moan during the 
 terrible operation. 
 
 But our rest here was a short one. About midnight, 
 we were unceremoniously routed out, and told that the 
 implacable enemy was close at hand. Again we took our 
 position in the " grand army advancing up on Washington," 
 and to the credit of our pedestrian powers be it said, we 
 continued on until the goal was reached, although our feet 
 were blistered and bleeding, and every individual bone 
 and muscle of our bodies ached from fatigue. 
 
 Once more under cover of the forts on Arlington 
 Heights, we drew a long breath of relief, although some 
 of the most thoroughly terror - stricken still half expected 
 to see the ubiquitous Black Horse Cavalry come riding 
 over the frowning walls of the fortifications, overturning 
 the big guns in their fury and scattering death and 
 destruction in every direction. 
 
RETREAT FROM BULL RUN. 31 
 
 Arriving in Washington, most of the men, to escape 
 the pressing inquiries for particulars of the fight that 
 met them on every hand, secured conveyance to Camp 
 Sullivan. The sick men whom we had left in camp, we 
 found had organized themselves into a volunteer cook 
 corps, to distribute rations to the men as fast as they 
 arrived. But sleep and rest were the great demand, and 
 these wants were first and thoroughly attended to. 
 
 For several days the men came straggling into camp, 
 and it was some time before any definite estimate of our 
 loss could be formed. From nearly two hundred it grad 
 ually dwindled down until it was fixed at seven killed, 
 fifty -six wounded and forty -six prisoners. Many of 
 those reported wounded could have lived but a few hours, 
 while one or two reported killed came back to us as from 
 the grave, with thirteen months experience in rebel 
 prisons to tell to their wondering comrades. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 BL ADEN S BIT KG AND B TJ D D S FERRY. 
 
 ARLY in the month of August we 
 moved our camp to Bladensburg, a 
 little Maryland village, about four and 
 a half miles from Washington, on the 
 Baltimore road, noted in former days 
 as a place of resort for southern fash 
 ionables, for the battle -there fought 
 in 1814, and for the famous duelling 
 ground where so many brave men laid 
 down their lives at the shrine of a false 
 sense of honor. 
 As we filed into the field which had been designated as 
 our camping ground, a tall, plainly dressed, military - 
 looking man rode up and superintended the movements of 
 the regiment. This was Brigadier Gen. JOSEPH HOOKER, 
 who had just been assigned to the command of a brigade, 
 of which we were the first regiment to arrive at the ren 
 dezvous, and consequently the first regiment which 
 "Fighting Joe" commanded during the war. When or 
 ganized, the brigade consisted of the First and Eleventh 
 
BLADENSBURG AND BUDD S FERRY. 33 
 
 Massachusetts, the Twenty-Sixth Pennsylvania and Second 
 New Hampshire regiments. Gallant regiments they were, 
 too, as the glowing record of the "First Brigade of 
 HOOKER S Division," carved on many a bloody field, will 
 testify. 
 
 At Bladensburg we remained about two months, drilling 
 and preparing ourselves for the next trial of arms, which 
 we felt confident would end, under our new General, 
 MCCLELLAN, as victoriously as the former campaign had 
 closed disastrously. 
 
 About the middle of October we were ordered to the 
 lower Potomac, where the rebels had established a block 
 ade of the river, the effects of which were sensibly felt at 
 Washington, as it necessitated the carriage by rail of 
 nearly all the supplies for the great army which was then 
 gathering around the capital. 
 
 SICKLES Excelsior Brigade, with ours, were organized 
 into a Division, and HOOKER placed in command. After 
 a weary march of four days over the roughest of roads, 
 we arrived at Budd s Ferry, when the various regiments 
 were distributed so as to form a corps of observation 
 over the movements of the rebel blockaders. 
 
 For some weeks the Second was stationed at the 
 important village of Hill Top, consisting of one dwelling- 
 house, one store, and two negro cabins. Here we were 
 several miles from the rest of the Division and from the 
 rebel batteries, and as we could hear the roar of their 
 guns every day shelling some audacious little Yankee 
 blockade - running sloop or schooner, we grew impatient 
 to be nearer the scene of action. So when ordered to 
 join the rest of the Division, we obeyed with pleasure, 
 arriving just in season to witness an exciting little 
 2 
 
34 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 episode. One of our schooners had been driven aground 
 by the rebel batteries on Shipping Point, which was no 
 sooner observed than a boat full of rebel soldiers put off 
 from the shore and pulled rapidly toward the vessel, 
 with the intention of boarding and firing her under our 
 very eyes. A company of the First Massachusetts 
 dashed across the fields to meet the attack. The rebels 
 reached the schooner, boarded and fired her, then taking 
 to their boat again pulled vigorously for their side of the 
 river. At this moment the Massachusetts boys arrived 
 on the river bank, and poured in a volley which sent the 
 splinters flying in every direction and created considerable 
 confusion among the daring rebels. The First boys 
 boarded the boat in season to extinguish the fire, and so 
 thwarted an attempt which reflected much credit upon 
 the bravery of the rebels engaged. 
 
 During the months that now ensued we found plenty 
 to occupy our time and attention. When the condition 
 of the ground admitted we had a large amount of drilling 
 to do, and the broad fields of " Old POSEY" and WHEELER 
 were the scene of many a gallant charge, while the 
 woods were thoroughly scoured by heavy lines of skir 
 mishers. Then we had to build a corduroy road from 
 Hum Point, (our landing and base of supplies), as the 
 winter rains soon rendered the ordinary roads utterly 
 impassable. Winter quarters also demanded our atten 
 tion, as the advance of the season rendered it improbable 
 that an immediate movement would take place by the 
 Division, and we accordingly built log walls, upon which 
 to raise our tents from the ground, and thus secured 
 more roomy and comfortable quarters. Each tent was 
 supplied with bunks for its occupants, and also had a 
 
BLADENSBURG AND BUDD S FERRY. 35 
 
 fire place, built of logs and coated with mud. The great 
 disadvantages of the latter were that they would catch 
 fire occasionally, forming an illumination on a small scale, 
 and that when there was, from any reason, a particular 
 scarcity of firewood, the boys would not scruple to 
 improve the midnight hours by stealing two or three feet 
 off the top of their neighbors chimneys with which to 
 keep the fire going in their own. 
 
 For amusement we watched the running of the rebel 
 blockade, which could be performed only by the small 
 vessels, as the channel of the river ran close under the 
 rebel batteries. But hundreds of schooners with draft 
 light enough to keep close to the Maryland shore, defiantly 
 ran the whole line of batteries in broad daylight, and 
 though the rebel gunners managed occasionally to hit one 
 of the saucy little craft, none were sunk or disabled. 
 
 Soon after our arrival we were reinforced by the Second 
 New Jersey brigade under General PATTERSON, forming the 
 Third Brigade of HOOKER S Division. It soon became as 
 notorious for its strict discipline and inveterate drumming 
 as it afterwards did for gallant fighting on a score of 
 fiercely contested fields. It was a standing joke in the 
 Division that the commander of the rebel forces opposite 
 us sent word to Gen. HOOKER that unless he immediately 
 put a veto upon the drumming of those Jersey regiments 
 he would have to evacuate his position, as his men could 
 not be broken of their rest much longer. 
 
 About the middle of February, Gen. NEAGLEE of 
 Pennsylvania was assigned to the command of our 
 Brigade, who at the very outset incurred the dislike of 
 both officers and men. The day after he assumed com 
 mand he had the officer of the day, and the officers of the 
 
36 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 guard of every regiment in the Brigade, placed under 
 arrest for some very slight deviation from the strict letter 
 of the army regulations, and his after conduct was such 
 as to gain for him the reputation of a merciless tyrant, 
 albeit he was thoroughly conversant with military tactics, 
 and one of the best drilled officers ever commanding our 
 brigade. Among other things he inspected the guard 
 house of our regiment, where the prisoners were confined, 
 and immediately deciding that it was too comfortable a 
 place for prisoners, he gave Col. MARSTON orders to have 
 a dungeon built of logs. " Build it," ho said, "without 
 a crack or an opening so that it may be perfectly dark." 
 His orders were obeyed to the letter. In a day or two 
 he came over to see if the house had been properly 
 built, and his eyes beamed with pleasure when they 
 first rested upon the gloomy structure, but after having 
 looked upon all sides of it, he turned to Col. MARSTON 
 with a haughty air, and enquired where the entrance was, 
 and how he intended to get anybody into it. " O," re 
 plied the Colonel complacently, "that s not my lookout; 
 I have obeyed your orders strictly ! How does it suit 
 you?" The General went his way, and the dungeon 
 stood just as it had been built until the regiment left 
 Budd s Ferry for the Peninsula, the following spring. 
 
 During the winter months we remained at Budd s 
 Ferry, surrounded by oceans of mud, and, as a poet of 
 the regiment had it, 
 
 " Laboring like patient oxen, 
 By the banks of Chickamoxen/ 
 
 But when the spring months came and the warm winds 
 drank up the water from the soil so that solid ground 
 began to appear, the great army which for so many 
 
BLADEXSBURG AND BUDD S FERRY. 37 
 
 months had been marshaling under the leadership of 
 MCCLELLAN, began its advance upon Richmond by way of 
 the Peninsula. This movement necessitated a corres 
 ponding change of base by the rebel army, and the 
 abandonment of the line of defences they had occupied 
 during the winter, comprising the fortified positions at 
 Manassas and Oentreville, and the batteries with which 
 we had been hobnobbing. 
 
 On Sunday, the ninth day of March, the boys in camp 
 were turned out by the announcement that the entire line 
 of batteries had been abandoned, and the little hill which 
 commanded a view of them was soon covered with spec 
 tators. For a distance of five miles the Virginia shore 
 was enveloped in the thick smoke which ascended in 
 volumes from the camps of the enemy, from various 
 buildings, from their gunboat, the "George Page," and 
 from several schooners which lay in Quantico Creek. It 
 was the most extensive conflagration we ever witnessed, 
 and one of the grandest scenes. The little black " Ana- 
 costa, of the Upper Flotilla, was cautiously steaming 
 down the river, throwing shells into the upper battery to 
 make sure it was not tenanted. Arriving opposite the 
 bluff upon which it was situated, a barge was sent ashore 
 and soon we saw the Stars and Stripes floating proudly 
 from the same staff recently occupied by the rebel flag, 
 while the soldiers assembled on the Maryland shore sent 
 up shout after shout at the glorious scene. All the bat 
 teries were found deserted. They were thoroughly 
 explored the next day by detachments from our Division, 
 and it was found that an immense number of large guns 
 and a great amount of military stores had been left. The 
 
38 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 batteries were constructed in the most scientific manner, 
 and would have proved very formidable if attacked by 
 our gunboats. Many of the guns had been tumbled into 
 the river, but some had not even been spiked. A great 
 amount of sutlers stores and private property of the 
 soldiers was left behind, and secesh dippers, plates, knives, 
 clothing, knapsacks, puppies and other plunder, was 
 plenty in our camps, nearly every soldier having some 
 thing as a memento. Several heavy guns were found 
 buried in the ground. One of them, a ten - inch gun, 
 was buried about a mile from the river, and efforts were 
 made to recover it, in doing which, one of our men, of 
 Company E, named FASCETT, was murdered by guerillas. 
 He, with a companion, was going back from where the 
 men were engaged in digging, to procure some shovels 
 which were stored in a building not far from the river, 
 when three rebels in citizens dress, who had been skulk 
 ing in the bushes, confronted them with loaded carbines, 
 FASCETT immediately surrendered, but notwithstanding 
 this, they sent a bullet through his body, while his com 
 rade made good his escape. The guerillas eluded all 
 efforts to capture them. Had they not, Judge Lynch 
 would have presided at their trial. 
 
 On the fifth of April the Division broke camp and 
 embarked upon steamers with orders to report at Fortress 
 Monroe. The Second, with three companies of the 
 Twenty - sixth Pennsylvania, was crowded upon the crazy 
 old steamer " South America." Owing to some misman* 
 agement the boats carrying our brigade did not get under 
 way down the river until the morning of the seventh. 
 Arriving at the mouth of the Potomac, Chesapeake Ba.y 
 
BLADENSBURG AND BUDD S FERRY. 39 
 
 was found to be so rough that the captain of the South 
 America would not venture out of the river with her, and 
 he accordingly ran in shore and landed his passengers 
 upon " Point Lookout," afterwards noted as the great 
 general depot for prisoners. 
 
 We found good quarters here in the little tenements 
 which had been erected a few years previous for the 
 accommodation of those who might wish to patronize a 
 Southern watering-place, and by a free use for firewood 
 of the rail fence which surrounded the light -keeper s 
 little garden, we managed to keep ourselves quite com 
 fortable. Most of us were by this time entirely out of 
 rations, and we learned to bear hunger patiently before 
 more came. A raid was made upon a few hundred pounds 
 of bacon which were discovered in the vicinity, but that 
 was hardly a morsel in the mouths of our famishing horde. 
 Crumbs of crackers were carefully gleaned from the bot 
 toms of our haversacks, and tea and coffee grounds were 
 boiled over and over again. For three days we subsisted 
 thus before a boat arrived from Washington with provi 
 sions, when we again embarked, glad enough to leave the 
 inhospitable shores of " Point Starvation," as it had been 
 well named. 
 
 We arrived at Fortress Monroe, where we were ordered 
 to proceed to Yorktown, which place General MCCLELLAN 
 had just commenced to besiege. While we were coaling 
 up at the wharf, the rebel iron - clad monster, the Merri- 
 mack, steamed down out of the Elizabeth river in the di 
 rection of the Fortress, accompanied by two consorts, the 
 Yorktown and the Jamestown. All was excitement in 
 Hampton Roads, and it was but a short time before they 
 were entirely clear of vessels, with the exception of the 
 
40 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 "Monitor" and our little fleet of war steamers, which 
 patiently awaited the threatened attack. But after taking 
 a good survey of our preparations the ungainly monster 
 crept back to its den, not caring to try its hand again with 
 the ugly little " cheese -box on a raft." 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 
 
 )^o ATE on the afternoon of the 5th of April 
 the crazy old "South America" wound 
 her way up Cheeseman s Creek, through 
 the fleet of transports which crowded its 
 sluggish waters, and landed us upon 
 the soil of the Peninsula. Everything 
 about indicated the most stupendous pre 
 parations for prosecuting the siege of the 
 rebel stronghold. The shores of the 
 creek were lined with vessels discharging 
 their cargoes of war materials. Heavy 
 siege guns, huge mortars, shells and ammunition, and 
 great piles of commissary stores greeted the eye in every 
 direction. Thousands of soldiers were camped about, 
 waiting for orders to proceed to the front, the direction 
 of which was indicated by the occasional roar of a heavy 
 gun, and the sudden appearance of a little cloud of smoke 
 where the shell had burst in mid air. We were soon in 
 camp with the rest of our brigade, which had arrived 
 some time before, and it was not long before we had 
 gleaned all the items we needed to form our judgment of 
 2* 
 
42 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 the situation, of what had been done and what was to be 
 done. 
 
 We remained in camp by Cheeseman s Creek but a few 
 days, when we marched to the front to take our part in 
 the siege, which was then vigorously progressing. On 
 the road we were constantly meeting with new evidences 
 of the immense preparations going forward. Parks of 
 the heaviest artillery crowded the fields, and in the woods 
 squads from the engineer corps were busily engaged in 
 manufacturing fascines and gabions for the batteries. 
 
 Our division was attached to the corps of General 
 HEIJSTTZELMAN, which occupied the extreme right of the 
 position, directly in front of the town of Yorktown. Our 
 camp was by the side of the Williamsburg road, upon 
 the farm of the rebel General MAGRUDER. It was nearly 
 a mile from the enemy s works, and concealed from his 
 sight by intervening woods. Upon the opposite side of 
 the road, and in full view of the enemy, were the head 
 quarters of HEINTZELMAX and HOOKER, and also a steam 
 saw -mill, which was of great service to us. The rebels, 
 when they abandoned it, tried to blow up the boiler, but 
 were unsuccessful, and during the siege its merry hum 
 was heard night and day, sawing out plank and lumber to 
 be used in the construction of batteries. Just across the 
 road from HEINTZELMAN S headquarters was the balloon 
 apparatus of Prof. LOWE. Ascensions were made almost 
 every clay, which were by no means safe operations for the 
 man of science, as the appearance above the tree tops of 
 his serial monster was almost invariably the signal for a 
 well-directed fire from the rebel guns. On such occa 
 sions the pieces of shell were distributed about our camp 
 with no regard to the safety of life or property. Yet, 
 
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 43 
 
 strange to say, not a man of our regiment was ever in 
 jured during these affairs, and the greatest damage we 
 ever saw inflicted was the destruction of a haversack full 
 of "hard -tack." The owner was sleeping composedly 
 in his tent, using the aforesaid haversack as a pillow, 
 when a piece of shell struck it and scattered the contents 
 in every direction. Out rushed the man whose slumbers 
 had been so rudely disturbed, bristling with rage and 
 anxious for a fight with the scoundrel who had kicked his 
 haversack out from under his head. The intruder lay on 
 the ground close by, but the soldier s belligerence cooled 
 down when he saw what it was. 
 
 It was not long before we became aware that although 
 holding an honorable and responsible position, it was by 
 no means an easy one. An immense amount of work 
 was to be done and we were to do our share. Batteries 
 were to be erected, strong enough to withstand the shots 
 from the heavy guns on the walls of Yorktown. Parallels 
 for the protection of the infantry must be constructed, 
 and miles an:l miles of road over which to transport the 
 guns and ammunition to the batteries. 
 
 Much of the work in the trenches had to be performed 
 in the night, to escape the vigilant eyes of the rebel sen 
 tinels. Perhaps a parallel would have to be run out 
 toward the enemy s works. Then the engineers would 
 mark out its course, and the men in grim silence would 
 take their positions, and go diligently to work with shovels, 
 picks and axes. When morning dawned the rebels would 
 discover the new work, tantalizingly near, but behind 
 which the delving Yankees could laugh defiantly at their 
 hundred - pounders. 
 
 On such occasions the rebels could hear the sounds of 
 
44 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 our picks and shovels, but as they could not by sound 
 alone judge of our position the shots they fired were, of 
 course, at random. Yet these random shots sometimes 
 came nearer our persons than was desirable, and many 
 narrow escapes were had. One night the Second Regi 
 ment was in the trenches as support for a battery manned 
 by Hungarians. The rebels had a very good idea of its 
 position, although it was screened by woods, and sent 
 many shells over and even into it. One of these, a thirty - 
 two - pounder, struck upon one of the curtains of the 
 battery, bounded upon the magazine, and rolled under a 
 platform upon which five of the men \vere sleeping. 
 Fortunately it did not explode, else the dreams of " Father - 
 land " would have been over forever. 
 
 The following morning, Company H, of the First 
 Massachusetts, performed one of the most dashing exploits 
 of the siege. The rebels were in the habit of annoying our 
 working parties from a small lunette work a short distance 
 in advance of their main line. Becoming something of a 
 nuisance, HOOKER determined to abate it. In the gray 
 light of approaching dawn the brave Bay State boys 
 were drawn up behind the entrenchments, supported by 
 two companies armed with shovels. At the word, they 
 dashed forward toward the rebel work. Its occupants 
 were on the alert and poured in a volley which killed three 
 and wounded about twenty. But the First boys were not 
 to be turned back, on they rushed, nearer, nearer, and 
 over the battery with a yell. The rebels fled in dismay, 
 and the company with shovels soon levelled the M-ork to 
 the ground. 
 
 At first, when our men were subjected to the rebel fire, 
 they were very careful to keep low under the protection of 
 
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 45 
 
 their works. No sooner would a gun flash from the en 
 emy s lines than every head would be drawn under cover 
 until the rebel missile had passed. But familiarity bred 
 contempt in this case as well as others, and it was not 
 long before it had to be a furious shelling indeed which 
 could destroy the equanimity of the boys enough to drive 
 them to shelter. Sometimes a sociable game of cards 
 would be going on at the very point to which the rebels 
 were directing their fire. These games were often broken 
 up in a summary manner, as was the case with one in 
 which the writer had the honor to hold a hand. Four of 
 us were seated upon the grass to the rear of the pit, deep 
 in the mysteries of trumps and suits, when a huge shell 
 just brushed the top of our rifle-pit and with a stunning 
 explosion burst directly overhead, showering the unburnt 
 powder upon us without stint. It took but a moment to 
 recover from the shock, when the four euchre players made 
 a simultaneous plunge into the friendly pit, more regard 
 being paid to celerity of movement than to elegance. 
 
 The miles of road we built were by no means the least 
 of the labor performed. Sometimes they led across 
 marshes, which would swallow up thousands of feet of 
 lumber before a foundation could be established, all of 
 which had to be cut and carried to the spot by hand. 
 Miles of it were built along the sides of the creek, where 
 the banks often rose so abruptly that in digging down to 
 form a foundation, a declivity would be formed forty or 
 fifty feet high. 
 
 Night and day the men labored on these works, seeming 
 hardly to require any rest, so intense was the enthusiasm 
 which then pervaded the ranks. For a short time after 
 our arrival at the front, the few hours of rest which were 
 
46 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT, 
 
 granted us were wofully intruded upon by our brigade 
 commander, General NEAGLEE, who had many qualities 
 which tend to make a good officer, but was a 
 martinet in the worst sense of the word unmerciful in 
 his drills, and in the management of his men. Every 
 morning, long before sunrise, he had his brigade drawn 
 up in line, and there the weary men would be obliged to 
 stand to their arms for two or three hours, for no earthly 
 reason except to gratify his unbounded ambition to appear 
 always ready for emergencies. His men were mere pup 
 pets with which to build a name, and as such he used them. 
 But these morning parades soon came to the notice of 
 General HOOKER, who immediately put a stop to them, 
 and it was not long before NEAGLEE was appointed to a 
 command in another division, and General GROVER, of 
 Vermont, whom we all learned to love and respect, was 
 assigned to the command of the brigade. 
 
 Although we had plenty of hard work to perform, there 
 was much to interest and amuse us. To me, at least, the 
 historical associations connected with the spot were of 
 deep interest. The parallels which WASHINGTON had 
 built, eighty years before, could be traced as easily as if 
 erected only the day previous, and oftentimes the same 
 dirt which had been thrown up by our forefathers to es 
 tablish the Union was shoveled over by us to perpetuate 
 it. Many mementoes of that former conflict were dug 
 up, cannon balls and the bones of soldiers who had 
 fallen in the dying struggle of British power on our soil. 
 One can scarcely realize the reverential awe with which 
 we viewed these remains of the brave ancestry whose 
 achievements had always formed a part of our national 
 creed, and whose memory we had from childhood s hour 
 
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 47 
 
 been taught to treasure up, as having given their lives 
 that we might enjoy the blessings of a free country. 
 Their remains were always re - interred, and with as much 
 care and solemnity as when eighty years before the welter 
 ing bodies had first been placed beneath the sod. 
 
 Within three weeks our parallels had been advanced 
 close to the rebel works, most of the siege guns and mon 
 ster mortars were in position, and we congratulated our 
 selves that but little remained to do except to cut down 
 the trees which masked the batteries, and pour in a fire 
 which would make Yorktown a second Sodom. But the 
 coveted sight of the great bombardment we were doomed 
 not to witness, for the rebels, coming to the conclusion 
 that their vaunted position was not tenable, evacuated it. 
 Early on the morning of Sunday, the fourth day of May, 
 Professor LOWE ascended a few hundred feet in his bal 
 loon, and, as he glanced toward the rebel works, he shouted 
 to a signal officer on the ground beneath, " Telegraph to 
 headquarters that there are no men to be seen in the en 
 emy s works, and that a body of our troops are advancing 
 on them as skirmishers." The news spread like wild 
 fire, causing the most intense excitement, and it was not 
 long before we had positive confirmation of the fact from 
 the lips of those who had entered the deserted works. 
 Immediately came the orders to pack up ready for a march, 
 and hardly an hour after they were received our division 
 was marching up the dusty road toward- Yorktown, in 
 pursuit of the retreating enemy. So sudden and unex 
 pected was our movement that we had no time to draw 
 rations, and many of the men had hardly a bite of food 
 until the following Tuesday. 
 
 We marched straight through the immense works which 
 
48 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT, 
 
 had so long frowned defiance upon us. The heavy guns, 
 whose hoarse voices had become familiar, were silent, 
 some spiked, and some filled to the muzzle with sand and 
 dirt, while others had been left entirely uninjured. The 
 gun which had been the pride of the rebel garrison, a 
 rifled hundred -pounder, lay scattered about in fragments. 
 The rebels had attempted to return an unexploded shell 
 which had been sent into their works from one of our gun 
 boats, but the gun would not endure the use of the strange 
 projectile, and exploded, killing and wounding several of 
 the rebel gunners. 
 
 Actuated by the same fiendish, barbarous spirit which 
 afterwards prompted them so cruelly to murder our pris 
 oners in loathsome pens, and to perpetrate the heart - 
 sickening crimes, of which Fort Pillow and Milliken s 
 Bend are but mere examples, the rebels had planted the 
 roads and all ground likely to be trod by our men, with 
 torpedoes. Several soldiers were blown up by these in 
 fernal contrivances, before the men could realize that the 
 rebels had been guilty of such an atrocity. Then the 
 vicinity was carefully explored, and the locality of each 
 torpedo discovered indicated by a little red flag, or by a 
 sentinel posted near it. The natural effect of these con 
 trivances was to prevent straggling from the ranks, for 
 while the men could follow safely in the wake of their 
 file -leaders, a deviation of a few feet might send them 
 headlong into eternity. 
 
 We pressed briskly forward over the Williamsburg 
 road, occasionally coming across a wagon or caisson which 
 had been abandoned by the rebels. Late in the afternoon 
 we met about half a dozen wounded cavalry men going 
 to the rear. They told us the enemy were but a short dis- 
 
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 49 
 
 tance ahead, in line of battle, which announcement sent 
 an electric thrill through the whole line of enthusiastic 
 soldiers, and, halting for a moment to load our pieces, we 
 set out again with renewed vigor. 
 
 Night came, but still we blundered on over the rough 
 road upon which HOOKER led us. In the inky darkness 
 we could not pick our way, but alternated our time be 
 tween struggling knee -deep through the quagmires and 
 sprawling at full length over the obtrusive stumps, and it 
 was nearly midnight when we filed from the road and 
 threw ourselves to rest upon the ground of a little clearing 
 which had been hewn from the dense pine forest of the 
 region, 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF WILLIAM SBTJRG 
 
 COLD, drizzling rain ushered in the 
 morning of the " glorious Fifth of 
 May," in the midst of which the brig 
 ade resumed its march, the men picking 
 their way as best they could by the 
 side of the muddy road. We passed 
 a little work, behind which the rebels 
 had checked the advance of our cav 
 alry the day before, and had proceeded 
 about two miles from our bivouac when 
 a picket post of the enemy s was 
 encountered, who fired a few shots at our advance. Dispo 
 sitions were immediately made for a fight, which was the 
 signal for cooks, waiters and all other non - combatants to 
 stream to the rear. General GROVEB. came riding up to the 
 Second. " I want that New Hampshire company with 
 patent rifles ! Where are they ? " he exclaimed. The 
 company called for (Company B) and also Company E, were 
 detached from the regiment and sent forward as skir 
 mishers, while the brigade formed a line of battle, the 
 Second and the Eleventh Massachusetts on the right of 
 
THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. 51 
 
 the road, and the First Massachusetts and Twenty- Sixth 
 Pennsylvania upon the left. As the skirmishers advanced, 
 an almost impenetrable abatis of felled trees obstructed 
 their progress, but they wormed their way through it, all 
 of the time hotly engaged with the rebel riflemen. We 
 struggled on after them until the edge of the slashing was 
 reached, when, taking cover behind logs and stumps, we 
 waited the development of events and took our notes of 
 " the situation." 
 
 A broad, undulating plain lay before us, across which 
 we could see the spires and buildings of the little city of 
 Williamsburg peeping from their bed of forest trees, 
 Between us and the city a line of small redoubts rose 
 from the green bosom of the plain, the largest of which, 
 called Fort Magruder, mounted several guns and com 
 manded the road upon which we had advanced. A line 
 of rifle-pits dotted the field to the front of the fort, in 
 each of which crouched a rebel sharpshooter. Fort 
 Magruder shelled the woods and abatis so vigorously 
 and the sharpshooters kept up so brisk a fire that, al 
 though we kept well under cover, many of the men were 
 wounded. 
 
 For full three hours our solitary brigade remained in 
 this position. Although the rebels had a heavy force 
 massed under cover of th redoubts, they did not develop 
 it, thinking, evidently, that the greater part of our army 
 confronted them, and preferring to await an attack rather 
 than to make one. Meanwhile we amused ourselves in 
 watching the gunners on Fort Magruder flourish their 
 dangerous looking sticks around the guns which peered 
 over the walls ; and some tried their hand at sharp- 
 shooting with the rebel riflemen, and with good effect. 
 
52 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 " There," shouted one of our men, a good shot, as he dis 
 charged his piece, after having for several minutes kept 
 it steadily pointed at one of the little mounds, awaiting 
 the periodical appearance of the rifleman s head, " There, 
 I plugged that fellow s head, and he was black enough to 
 be a nigger ! " The next day an Indian sharpshooter was 
 found dead in the pit, drilled through the head by the 
 unerring bullet of the New Hampshire soldier. 
 
 As the time passed without bringing us any reinforce 
 ments, we began to grow impatient under the annoying 
 fire from Fort Magruder. But at last our hearts were 
 gladdened by the fierce notes of an artillery bugle, and a 
 regular battery came rumbling up the road, going into po 
 sition in the field to our front. Immediately all the rebel 
 guns were turned upon the battery, when, to our inex 
 pressible mortification, most of the gunners deserted their 
 posts and fled in dismay. Our entire regiment rose to 
 their feet with one impulse, cursing the artillerists for 
 their cowardly abandonment of the guns, and giving to 
 those who came into our ranks more kicks and hard blows 
 than most men would be willing to receive. But soon a 
 company of volunteer artillerists came up, manned the 
 deserted guns, and worked them with such a will that 
 every gun on Fort Magruder was silenced. 
 
 At length JOHNSTON, the re\>el commander, appeared 
 to have discovered that he had been deceived as to the 
 strength of the force in his front, and determined to as 
 sume the offensive. A heavy force of rebels filed out 
 from the rear of Fort Magruder and marched down across 
 the field to attack us upon the left. Fortunately for us 
 the remainder of our division had arrived and taken a 
 position to meet this new movement, the gallant New 
 
THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. 53 
 
 Jersey Brigade upon the extreme left, in the woods, and 
 the Excelsior Brigade connecting with their right. 
 
 Soon the sharp volleys of musketry in that direction 
 told us that the engagement had begun in earnest, and 
 the roar of battle increased until it became terrific. The 
 solid, pounding volleys of the Jersey boys mingled with 
 the fierce rattle of the rebel rifles, and above all the 
 shouts of the excited combatants would occasionally rise 
 as one side or the other gained some temporary advantage. 
 
 While this terrible engagement was going on so close at 
 hand, the Second boys were taking as much comfort as 
 possible in the situation. Many took out their shelter - 
 tents and spread them upon the bushes as a protection 
 against the drizzling rain, and some built little fires over 
 which to cook their coffee, despite the shells and bullets 
 which were whistling about their cars. More than one 
 shelter -tent was riddled with balls, and at least one cup 
 of coffee was sent spinning several feet, to the infinite 
 disgust of the unlucky owner. Among the coolest and 
 most unconcerned of the whole crowd was a large, noble 
 looking clog, who, whenever a ball passed near him, 
 snapped spitefully at it, as if he was catching flies. 
 " Tige" can thank his canine stars that he was not nimble 
 enough to catch one. 
 
 The brave troops on our left held their position man 
 fully, until the ground was covered with their dead, but 
 no reinforcements coming to their aid, they were at length 
 obliged to give way before the repeated onslaughts of 
 overwhelming numbers. This rendered our position un 
 tenable, and we were ordered to fall back to the edge of 
 the woods. In accomplishing this movement we lost 
 many men, as, in climbing over the felled trees, we were 
 
54 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 obliged to fully expose ourselves to the fire of the advanc 
 ing and exultant rebels. Several pieces of the artillery 
 which had silenced Fort Magruder were abandoned to the 
 enemy. 
 
 As soon as we had re - formed in the edge of the woods 
 we were ordered across the road to meet the terrible dan 
 ger which threatened to overwhelm all. We deployed as 
 skirmishers, with intervals of five paces, thus forming a 
 very long and very thin line, but not a weak one, as the 
 rebels learned to their sorrow. With orders to keep 
 covered as much as possible, we advanced, and were soon 
 engaged in a fierce bushwhacking fight with the enemy. 
 Some confusion was at first occasioned by a misunder 
 standing, which might have resulted in serious conse 
 quences. Many of the men, and even officers of high 
 rank, hesitated about firing upon the rebels when they 
 were encountered, fearing that their gray overcoats might 
 be those of the Massachusetts boys of our brigade, which 
 indecision oftentimes gave the rebels the advantage of the 
 first fire, and cost us many true men. 
 
 The rebels were somewhat surprised at the tactics of 
 the New Hampshire boys. One of them who was taken 
 prisoner remarked : " Those Jersey fellows kept a solid 
 line, and we felt sure of beating them, but when you 
 New Hampshire fellows went to picking us off from be 
 hind trees, it was another matter." 
 
 For four hours our line of skirmishers kept the rebels 
 at bay. It was a fight of desperation against numbers. 
 We were kept well reinforced by the fighting bloods 
 from other regiments which had been broken up and scat 
 tered. Now we would be forced back by the weight of 
 numbers, when a fierce stand would be made and the lost 
 
THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. 55 
 
 ground recovered. Often the parties mingled together in 
 hand-to-hand conflicts. Lieutenant "DAVE" STEELE, 
 with a few men of his company (G) encountered a squad 
 of rebels of twice their number. "DAVE" made a dash 
 among them, swinging his sword and shouting at the top 
 of his voice : " Surrender, you d d scoundrels, or Til 
 blow your brains out /" As he had no sign of a fire-arm 
 about his person, it is still a matter of doubt how he pro 
 posed to perform the operation ; but the rebels could not 
 resist his eloquent appeal, and threw down their arms 
 without delay. 
 
 Capt. LEONARD DROWN, of Company E, one of the 
 bravest officers in the service, was shot dead by a squad 
 of rebels bearing a white flag, whom he had called upon 
 to "come in," supposing they wished to surrender. 
 Rebel prisoners with whom we afterwards conversed, 
 alluded to the incident, but insisted that the flag which 
 deceived the brave captain and cost him his life, was only 
 a battle - flag, faded unftl the figure upon it was hardly 
 visible. 
 
 The guns of Fort Magrauder, no longer exposed to the 
 fire which had silenced them, again opened, while on our 
 side three Napoleon guns had been planted in the deep 
 mud of the road, and poured round after round of canis 
 ter into the rebel raaks. Gen. HOOKER, coated with mud 
 from head to foot, rode coolly up and down the road, en 
 couraging the men to deeds of heroism both by word 
 and deed. GROVER was everywhere, encouraging his 
 weary brigade. HEINTZELMAN rode furiously from one 
 point to another. " Give it to em !" " Pile em up !" 
 he shouted. Some of the men who had used up their 
 ammunition, informed him of the fact. " If you haven t 
 
56 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 got any powder, shout hooray make a noise do 
 something," he replied. Then turning to a musician 
 near, he inquired, " Here, you fellow, are you the band?" 
 44 1 am a musician, sir," was the reply. " Go to tooting 
 on your old trumpet, then Yankee Doodle, Dixie any 
 thing blow away!" Then turning to the men, "Hoo 
 ray! Richmond s taken! Reinforcements close at hand! 
 Be here in fifteen minutes ! Give it to em !" To realize 
 fully the ludicrous manner in which the sentences were 
 snapped out, the reader should know that the old general 
 was afflicted with a peculiar impediment in his speech, 
 and that his w^ords were run out as if on a wager to see 
 how many he could get rid of in a certain time. Soon 
 the bands struck up, the men who had no ammunition 
 cheered like madmen, and the reckless spirit of Gen. 
 HEINTZELMAN seemed to infuse itself through everybody. 
 It was nearly night before our reinforcements came 
 pressing up the road, as fast as was possible, through the 
 deep mud. The sounds of the Highlanders bagpipes did 
 not sound sweeter to the ears of the beleaguered at Luck- 
 now than did the distant cheers which heralded the ap 
 proach of KEARNEY S men to ours; and when the brave 
 regiments arrived and dashed in upon the rebels with a 
 fury which could not be withstood, we were glad to fall 
 back from the position, to maintain which so many valua 
 ble lives had been given up. The battle had been fought 
 and the victory won. HOOKER, from the very jaws of 
 threatening disaster, had plucked the first green laurel for 
 his fadeless wreath of glory, and his division had carved 
 a page upon American history which no true lover of his 
 country can read without feeling a glow of pride at the 
 glorious achievements of his countrymen. And may not 
 
THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. 57 
 
 such person question why for so many hours our single 
 division was left to maintain the unequal conflict, while 
 thousands of troops, eager to mingle in the fray, were 
 held inactive within hearing and almost within range of 
 the enemy s guns ? 
 
 The loss of our division on this ever - memorable day 
 amounted to three hundred and thirty - eight killed, nine 
 hundred and two wounded, and three hundred and thirty - 
 five missing and prisoners an aggregate of fifteen hun 
 dred and seventy -five. HANCOCK, in his little affair 
 upon the right, which many people in the regions where 
 his regiments were raised still persist in believing to be 
 the battle of Williamsburg, lost but thirty -one men, a 
 loss not equal to that of some companies in our division. 
 Impartial history will give the credit of the victory to the 
 proper persons, instead of recommitting the errors of 
 many people of our times, who, to gratify their local or 
 family pride, would appropriate for regiments from their 
 own section the glory won at a terrible sacrifice of pre 
 cious lives by others. By such a course they but do gross 
 injustice to the patriotic General HANCOCK and his brave 
 men, who afterwards won their full share of glory 
 wherever the Army of the Potomac measured its strength 
 with the enemy. 
 
 The loss in the Second Regiment was by no means so 
 heavy as that of the regiments in the SICKLES and New 
 Jersey Brigades, owing to the different modes of fighting. 
 It amounted to eighteen killed, sixty -six wounded, and 
 twenty - three missing. 
 
 As soon as it became certain that the victory had been 
 secured for our arms, the remnants of the division were 
 collected together and camped about a mile to the rear, 
 
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58 SECOXD N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 and though wet and chilled, hungry and weary, our mar 
 tyred comrades who lay stark upon the battle field were 
 hardly more oblivious to passing events than were we, 
 upon the water - soaked ground where we threw ourselves 
 to rest. 
 
 Early on the morning of the sixth, the troops who 
 had been held inactive the day before began to pour up 
 the road, "in pursuit of the retreating rebels," while 
 squads from the division went out upon the field in search 
 of wounded comrades who had lain all night in the cold, 
 drizzling rain. The scene of the conflict was ghastly in 
 the extreme, the men lying in every attitude, and exhibit 
 ing every form of shocking mutilation. The rebel dead 
 lay thickest in an old rifle pit of Revolutionary date, just 
 within the edge of the woods. It was in this pit that 
 KEARNEY S men first encountered them in their furious 
 charge, and in places the dead lay literally in heaps. 
 Seven bodies lay in one pile, by the side of a log just to 
 the rear of the ditch. The rebels had turned to flee 
 when the last onset was made, but had fallen all together 
 before the murderous volley from the advancing line. In 
 a partially obstructed road which ran through the slash 
 ing, lay scores of the Excelsior boys, gory and ghastly, 
 and on the left, where the Jersey Brigade had fought, the 
 dead lay in broad winrows. It was indeed a "harvest 
 of death," where 
 
 " A broad field was reaped Heaven s garners to fill." 
 
 That day we moved from the woods, pitching our camp 
 on the green plain in front of Fort Magruder, and com 
 menced the burial of the dead. Many were buried upon 
 the spot where they fell, but most of those belonging to 
 
THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG. 59 
 
 the Jersey and Excelsior Brigades were collected together 
 and buried in long trenches. This could not well be 
 done with the dead of our brigade, as they were scattered 
 upon all parts of the field. A piece of board, or a stick 
 with one side shaved down, and rudely lettered with the 
 soldier s name, regiment and company, was his only 
 tombstone. Sometimes a board carved with more than 
 usual labor would show where some soldier had paid his 
 last sad tribute to a dear friend s memory. How sad a 
 tale might some of these rude head -boards tell, were 
 theirs the gift of speaking : of two friends, perhaps, 
 going forth together to sustain the integrity of their 
 country and her flag ; of the long and weary marches, 
 enlivened by their mutual remembrances of home and its 
 dear ones; of the star -lit bivouac, where beneath the 
 same blanket bright visions of northern scenes and north 
 ern loves had come to them in dreams ; of privations and 
 dangers shared with more than brother s love, and all to 
 end in a little mound of earth on Williamsburg s field, 
 from which but one would go forth to the coming cam 
 paigns, with a great aching at his heart, but with strong 
 desire to meet those who had robbed him of his friend. 
 
 As soon as the dead had been properly cared for, the 
 arms and equipments which strewed the field gathered 
 up, and the felled timber thoroughly burned, the brigade 
 moved its camp to a position nearer the city. Gen. 
 GROVEE, was appointed Military Governor of the place, 
 and for some time we performed the duties of provost 
 guard, while the army pressed on up the Peninsula. 
 
 In the rebel camps around the city we found a large 
 quantity of first-class tents, some " Sibley," and others 
 wall tents, bearing the name of their maker, " S. J. 
 
60 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 MYERS, Richmond." These we appropriated as being 
 preferable to our little shelter tents, and some of them, 
 fitted up with chairs and tables, were perfect palaces, 
 when compared with what we had been accustomed to. 
 Rebel stretchers were eagerly seized upon by the men, 
 who slept upon them with hardly a thought that what to 
 them were couches of comfort and rest, had but a few 
 days before been beds of agony for the wounded and 
 biers for the dead. 
 
 We had plenty of opportunities for looking over the 
 city, and found it to be a quaint old place, in former days 
 a city of note, but now shorn of its glory, and struggling 
 hard to maintain an appearance of municipal respecta 
 bility. There were many fine public buildings, among 
 the most interesting of which was the College of Wil 
 liam and Mary, the oldest college in the United States, 
 where many of Virginia s most celebrated sons had been 
 educated. 
 
 The public halls and buildings were filled with rebel 
 wounded. Every day the Williamsburg ladies so they 
 called themselves visited these hospitals, which also 
 contained a number of wounded Union soldiers, bringing 
 with them dainties and delicacies for the rebels. This 
 was all very well, had they not taken every occasion to 
 insult and wound the feelings of the loyal sufferers in the 
 most outrageous manner. If, in distributing their dain 
 ties a cot was encountered on which lay a soldier in 
 army blue, the fair visitors would withdraw their skirts 
 to avoid the contaminating touch of the loyal hero, and 
 utter some insulting remarks concerning "cowardly Yan 
 kees," or " vile invaders." This intense bitterness of 
 feeling was, however, sometimes turned to good account 
 
THE BATTLE OF AVILLIAMSBUKG. 61 
 
 by the cunning Yankees, as was the case with one of our 
 teamsters, who, clad in a suit of dingy gray and with his 
 arm in a sling, introduced himself to a rabid secesh 
 family as a member of the Louisiana Tigers, severely 
 wounded in a terrific conflict with some half a dozen 
 Yankees, three of whom he killed outright, and put to 
 ignominious flight the remainder. He was, of course, 
 received with open arms, and was ever after sure of a 
 hearty welcome and a good supper, whenever he saw fit 
 to give his friends a call. 
 
 We remained in Williamsburg about a fortnight, when, 
 being relieved by a cavalry detachment, we started on up 
 the Peninsula in the footsteps of the army, which was 
 then sparring with the rebels across the turbid waters of 
 the Chickahominy. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP. 
 
 ( XTENDING from near Williamsburg 
 to the very gates of Richmond is the 
 Chickahominy Swamp, through which 
 the great army of MCCLELLAN strug 
 gled in pursuit of the rebels. Mile after 
 mile of almost impenetrable morass 
 there were, into the gloomy depths of 
 which the column of troops plunged, 
 toiling wearily on where the mud was 
 often ankle or knee deep. Where the 
 foot soldiers found so much difficulty 
 in making their way, the trouble encountered by the 
 teamsters with their heavy wagons, and by the artillery, 
 may be readily imagined. The whole country traversed 
 was by no means of this description, as there was a great 
 deal of high land intervening, which formed welcome 
 camping grounds for the men after a day spent in battling 
 with the mud of the swamp. 
 
 We reached the Chickahominy at Bottom Bridge in 
 
IX THE CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP. 63 
 
 about a week, where we found several divisions camped 
 awaiting the signal for advance. The day after our 
 arrival a reconnoissance in force was made in the direction 
 of Fair Oaks, by Gen. NEAGLEE, of CASEY S Division, 
 our former brigade commander, and HOOKER S Division 
 was ordered across the river as a support. The river was 
 swollen by recent rains, and the flats along its banks were 
 nearly covered with water, but across them we picked 
 our way and advanced about three miles upon the Rich 
 mond road, where we halted behind some rudely built 
 rifle pits, posted our artillery, and patiently waited the 
 whole day for some requisition to be made for our ser 
 vices. But they were not needed, and at sunset we 
 began to retrace our steps to camp. 
 
 Night came on, dark and gloomy, and we had those 
 flooded meadows to recross. This had been a difficult 
 matter in broad daylight, and the prospects for a safe 
 passage by night were by no means flattering. Two or 
 three men in the line were equal to the emergency, and 
 lighting the little pieces of candles which they carried in 
 their knapsacks, they stuck them into the muzzles of 
 their guns for impromptu torches. The cue thus fur 
 nished was immediately taken up by the rest of the men, 
 and thousands of the little flickering torches lit up the 
 line of march. It was a scene which could not have been 
 surpassed for picturesque effect ; but, produced as sud 
 denly as if by magician s wand, as suddenly it vanished, 
 for one of Gen. GROVER S aides rode back from the head 
 of the column, and put a damper upon the highly dra 
 matic scene, by a rather blunt and unpoetic order to 
 " Put out those devilish candles !" The general did not 
 wish to advertise his movements to any rebel lookout, 
 
64 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 who from some distant tree - top might be counting the 
 Yankee camp - fires and noting the positions of the vari 
 ous encampments. So we made our way across the 
 flooded flats as best we could in the darkness, floundering 
 half the way up to our waists in mud and water. Upon 
 reaching the river we soused ourselves and made our way 
 to the cheerless camp, dripping from head to foot. 
 
 In a day or two we again crossed the Chickahominy 
 and marched to Poplar Hill, about six miles from Fair 
 Oaks. The portion of the swamp in that vicinity was 
 known as White Oak Swamp, and White Oak Creek 
 wound around the foot of the hill. This was a very im 
 portant position, commanding the road from Richmond to 
 Bottom Bridge, the loss of which would have been a 
 serious disaster to our army at that time. 
 
 On the thirty -first of May began the great battle of 
 Fair Oaks. CASEY, with his division, at this time occu 
 pied an advanced and almost isolated position at Fair 
 Oaks, a large portion of the army being as yet on the 
 north side of the Chickahominy, while a terrible rain the 
 night previous had converted this usually sluggish stream 
 into a raging torrent, and the meadows along its banks 
 into broad lakes, seriously threatening the communication 
 between the two wings of the army. With all these cir 
 cumstances in his favor, JOHNSTON assumed the offensive, 
 and falling upon CASEY with forty thousand men, he 
 fairly crushed his little division by weight of numbers, 
 capturing nearly all of his artillery, his camps and stores, 
 and forcing him ba.ck in confusion until KEARNEY met 
 and checked the rout. In camp at Poplar Hill, we heard 
 the heavy volleys of musketry, but how near we came to 
 being active participants we never knew until the rebel 
 
IN THE CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP. 65 
 
 reports of the battle were received. From them it ap 
 peared that JOHNSTON S plans embraced the capture of 
 Poplar Hill, and an advance to Bottom Bridge, the pos 
 session of which would at the same time have cut off one 
 of the main avenues of retreat for CASEY, and prevented 
 the arrival of reinforcements. To accomplish this a 
 strong rebel division set out upon the proper road, but 
 when the commander heard the sounds of the attack upon 
 CASEY, like the model soldiers of holiday orators, he 
 ** marched towards the scene of conflict," thus defeating 
 one of the most important points in JOHNSTON S well- 
 devised programme. 
 
 The next day the battle was renewed. Grizzly old 
 SUMNER, by almost superhuman efforts, got a portion of 
 his force across the Chickahominy, while HOOKER, with 
 the Excelsior and Jersey Brigades, hurried away from 
 Poplar Hill to join in the fray. The result of this day s 
 work was a glorious victory, the rebels being driven into 
 the defences of Richmond in the wildest disorder. Dur 
 ing the day our brigade remained in line of battle, 
 momentarily expecting an attack. The bridges across 
 White Oak Swamp were torn up, and our artillery posted 
 so as to command the crossing, while the Eleventh Mas 
 sachusetts was deployed in the woods as skirmishers, and 
 every measure taken to insure a successful defense of the 
 position ; but the glorious work of SUMNER and HOOKER 
 secured to us immunity from attack. 
 
 On the third day of June, two days after the battle, 
 our brigade marched to Fair Oaks. The evidences of the 
 great contest presented themselves as we advanced. We 
 encountered first the stragglers from CASEY S Division, 
 camped by the roadside, who regaled the passing troops 
 3* 
 
66 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 with highly colored accounts of the fight ; then we came 
 to an incomplete breastwork where the rebel advance had 
 been checked, and from there the graves of both Union 
 and rebel soldiers were scattered along by the roadside, 
 while the trees were scarred and limbs severed by the 
 missiles of death. But not until we arrived upon the 
 field of Fair Oaks did we fully realize the magnitude of 
 that terrible two -days struggle. Hundreds of shallow 
 graves, from which the heavy rains had washed the dirt 
 until the arms and legs of the dead protruded above the 
 ground, and hundreds of the dead, as yet unburied, were 
 scattered through the abatis which lined the Williams- 
 burg road, and over the swampy, flooded plain. Where 
 CASEY S artillery had been posted the dead horses lay in 
 scores, and three houses, directly in the rear of his un 
 finished breastworks, were perforated by thousands of 
 bullets. 
 
 The brigade marched directly to the front, relieving the 
 Excelsior Brigade in trench duty. Our position during 
 the night was uncomfortable in the extreme. The late 
 attack had imbued our officers with unusual vigilance, 
 and formed in the rear of CASEY S ditches we received 
 strict orders against building fires, or even resting our 
 selves upon the ground. Through the night, wet and 
 shivering, and surrounded by putrefying corpses, we stood 
 under arms. Gen. GROVES, continually trudged through 
 the mud from one end of the line to the other, stirring up 
 those who, against the orders, endeavored to steal a few 
 moments sleep, and making sure that no sudden rebel 
 attack would find the First Brigade napping. The pick 
 ets, posted a few hundred yards to our front, kept up a 
 scattering fire, which sometimes, however, grew so brisk 
 
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 that we sprang hastily into line, expecting the next mo 
 ment to hear the shrill, discordant yell with which the 
 rebels heralded their charges. Through the night and 
 most of the next day we maintained our position, when 
 we were relieved and camped a short distance to the rear. 
 Some of the regiments pitched their tents in the night, 
 and when the morning came many of the men discovered 
 that they had been sleeping with but a few inches of 
 earth between them and the bodies of the dead. One 
 man, whose survey by the sense of feeling impressed him 
 with the idea that he had secured an elegant site for a 
 tent, was horrified when he opened his eyes the next 
 morning at discovering a hand, long and ghastly, pro 
 truding from the ground but a few inches from his head. 
 The rebels, during their temporary possession of the field, 
 had buried most of their men who fell on the first day ; 
 but the burial of those who fell on the second day fell to 
 us. This was performed in a very hasty and imperfect 
 manner, and soon the terrible stench which arose from 
 the decaying bodies, aided by hard labor and the swamp 
 water we were obliged to drink, began to tell on the 
 health of the men, and our sick list increased to a fright- 
 ful degree. 
 
 Two brigades from our division were on duty regularly 
 each day, one under arms as trench and picket guard, 
 the other laboring upon the trenches and redoubts. The 
 remaining brigade lay in camp, liable at any moment to 
 be double - quicked to the front, whenever a threatening 
 demonstration was made on our picket line. Thus we 
 were almost continually on duty of the most fatiguing 
 nature, and a night of uninterrupted rest was something 
 not often realized. 
 
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 About the middle of July our brigade was reinforced 
 by the arrival of the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, 
 which came to us with full ranks and new clothes, having 
 never seen rougher work than a little picket duty along 
 the Blackwater. They had been three days on their jour 
 ney to the front, and had suffered during that time almost 
 incredible hardships, having been, as some of the men 
 earnestly avowed, three days without a morsel of soft 
 bread. Their sudden introduction into the stern duties of 
 war, and upon such a field as Fair Oaks, found them but 
 illy prepared for the rough fare and hard blows they were 
 to receive ; but they were composed of true metal, and 
 the old men of the First Brigade never had cause to blush 
 for their younger comrades in arms. 
 
 Little affairs of the pickets were of almost daily occur 
 rence, rarely assuming a very serious nature. A few days 
 after their arrival, the Sixteenth Massachusetts was sent 
 forward on a reconnoissance, and going in with all the 
 headlong rush of green troops, they stirred up the rebels 
 in furious style, charging clear over the rough breastworks 
 of the rebel picket reserve, and losing not far from sixty 
 men. 
 
 On the twenty -third of June, late in the afternoon, 
 five companies of the Second, and a few Massachusetts 
 companies who had been on picket for the previous twen 
 ty-four hours, advanced and drove the rebel pickets about 
 a quarter of a mile. Receiving orders to drive the enemy 
 as far as possible, we left our picket posts and crept .cau 
 tiously forward through the thick growth of bushes. 
 Our route lay over a low swampy piece of ground, where 
 blueberry bushes, bending beneath their burdens of lus 
 cious fruit, grew luxuriantly. Our almost uninterrupted 
 
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 diet of hardbread and salt beef had given us an appetite 
 for a change, and while we crept cautiously forward, 
 expecting every moment to receive the fire of the rebel 
 pickets, we improved the opportunity to fill ourselves 
 with the luxury so bountifully offered. So stealthily did 
 we advance that some of the men were within a rod of 
 the enemy s videttes before discovered. But the report of 
 a rifle, sharp and sudden, had an effect as magical as was 
 the whistle of RODERICK DHU, which 
 
 " Garrisoned the glen 
 
 At once with full five hundred men," 
 
 for from every bush and stump rushed forth a live Yan 
 kee, and away went the frightened rebel pickets helter- 
 skelter for their reserves. We dashed after them for 
 nearly half a mile, when, coming to a field in which a 
 chimney, blackened by fire, stood solitary sentinel over 
 the ruins of what had once been a peaceful home, we 
 halted for the purpose of reforming our line, it being 
 evident that we had already advanced so far that the com 
 panies who were to deploy from our flanks and keep up 
 a connection with the main picket line, had not been able 
 to do so. We were, in fact, isolated, and in a position 
 where a rebel force might have marched unmolested to 
 our rear, and bagged the whole party. While hurriedly 
 discussing the dangers of the situation, we received a 
 sharp volley from the woods across the field, to which we 
 had hardly replied when another volley greeted us from 
 the bushes in the rear, wounding one man \>f the party. 
 That we were surrounded by rebels was the natural im 
 pression, but turning with the determination to make a 
 headlong rush for liberty, we discovered that our new 
 
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 assailants were some of our own men who had been left 
 in camp sick or on detailed duty, but who, when we 
 advanced, shouldered their rifles and came out to have a 
 hand in the fight. Coming up just at .the time we had 
 become engaged with the picket reserves, they became 
 unduly excited, and fired a premature volley which came 
 near being attended with serious consequences. This 
 affair was barely settled, when with a loud yell the rebels 
 came charging down upon us in full force, a solid front, 
 before which we scattered and struck for our lines as rap 
 idly as the rebel pickets had just been obliged to run 
 before us. At the edge of the field in front of our works 
 we found Col. COWDIN, of the First Massachusetts, with 
 several companies of his regiment, upon which we rallied. 
 "Let em come on now," said the Colonel. "There 
 wont half as many go back as come out ! " A man was 
 sent up the "lookout tree," who, though the bullets sung 
 merrily about his ears, maintained his position until he 
 had counted several rebel battle flags. But the enemy 
 contented themselves with establishing a strong picket on 
 the old line, and we maintained our former position with 
 out any opposition. 
 
 This affair of the twenty-third of June was but a pre 
 lude to a bloodier one which occurred two days later. On 
 the twenty -fifth the entire division was under arms, and, 
 leaving a portion of the Jersey Brigade in the works, 
 advanced down through the fields to attack the rebels in 
 force. Our brigade made the attack upon the left. We 
 halted upon the edge of the field and the First Massachu 
 setts was sent in to wake up the enemy. They disap 
 peared in the brush, and hardly a minute elapsed before 
 a deafening roar of musketry arose and the wounded came 
 
IN THE CHICK AHOMINY SWAMP. 71 
 
 streaming back in large numbers. The First boys closed 
 in on the rebel pickets with their accustomed impetuosity 
 and captured several of them, among others a lieutenant, 
 who, on his way to the rear, passed Gen. HOOKER and 
 saluted him, which our gallant General returned with true 
 soldierly politeness. 
 
 The First soon encountered a stronger force than they 
 could master, and Co. B of the Second was ordered in as 
 a reinforcement. The spiteful crack of their Sharp s 
 rifles soon rose above the din of conflict, and so unflinch 
 ingly did they perform their duty that of the forty -two 
 men who went into the fight, twenty -two were killed or 
 wounded. Soon four companies more of the Second were 
 ordered in, and so, a few companies at a time, as needed, 
 we advanced into the melee. The rebels made an obsti 
 nate fight but were forced back until we reached the limit 
 of our advance on the twenty - fifth, where a halt was 
 ordered and the lines straightened and established. 
 
 While this was being performed a rebel regiment 
 crossed the farther end of the field to our front, in gallant 
 style, at a double-quick step, and entered the bushes near 
 where one of the Jersey regiments was stationed. The 
 Jersey boys, lying flat upon the ground, waited until the 
 rebels were close upon them, when they delivered a volley 
 which for terrible effect hardly had its parallel during the 
 war, according to reports in the Richmond papers of the 
 time. But a very small portion of those who went so 
 bravely upon the field retraced their steps in that helter- 
 skelter flight, and as they came within reach of our rifles 
 we gave them a cross fire which dropped many of those 
 the Jersey boys had spared. 
 
 Sharpshooting now became the order of the day, and 
 
72 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 bullets were continually spinning across the field in every 
 direction. As a protection against the rebel riflemen our 
 men built a breastwork about two feet high, of rails, logs, 
 and anything convenient, which doubtless saved many 
 lives. The lone chimney about midway across the field 
 was taken possession of by riflemen from the Second, and 
 more than one rebel received his death wound from this 
 advanced post. Rebels with stretchers appeared, pick 
 ing up their wounded who lay upon the field, but their 
 office was a full guarantee of safety, and not a bullet was 
 directed towards them. Two pieces of our artillery were 
 with great labor hauled through the brush, and brought 
 to bear upon the rebels, who in return brought out a couple 
 of pieces and kept up a lively exchange of shell until our 
 battery, having used up all its ammunition, returned to 
 the works. 
 
 Night closed over the scene, but still the riflemen kept 
 steadily popping away, and crouching on the ground we 
 could hear loud orders repeated in the depths of the woods 
 to our front, as if rebel officers were there moving heavy 
 bodies of troops into position. 
 
 At .midnight we were relieved by a portion of Gen. 
 COUCH S Division. The rebels hearing the unusual noise 
 occasioned by the moving troops, opened a brisk fire, 
 when both of our lines faced to the front and poured in 
 one deafening, stunning volley. This was our " good 
 night" to the rebels and a sad one too, judging from the 
 cries of the wounded, the shouts of officers rallying their 
 fleeing men, and the calls for stretchers which ensued. 
 
 The loss of the Second this day was not less than 
 seventy men, and other regiments suffered in the same 
 proportion. Yet the position which it had cost so many 
 
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 lives to gain was abandoned that very night by the troops 
 who relieved us, who came running back towards the for 
 tifications in terrified squads. They had been so long on 
 duty in the rear that they couldn t get the hang of picket 
 ing in the face of the enemy. Let this be an excuse for 
 their cowardly conduct, and also the fact that many officers 
 of high rank were not backward in the movement. A few 
 companies were deployed in front of the works, and if the 
 skulkers were not driven back to the picket line they were 
 allowed to go no farther to the rear, and they received 
 cursings enough to satisfy them as to the opinion JOE 
 HOOKER S fighting division entertained of their courage. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE RETREAT FRO 
 
 FAIR OAKS. 
 
 HURSDAY and Friday, June twenty - 
 sixth and twenty -seventh, 1862, were 
 fought the battles of Mechanicsville and 
 Games Mills, which resulted in the with 
 drawal of PORTER S Corps from the north 
 to the south side of the Chickahominy, 
 and the retreat of the entire army to 
 Harrison s Landing, on the James. In 
 camp at Fair Oaks, we heard the deep 
 "thrum" of PORTER S siege guns, and 
 at night we were told that " PORTER 
 had whipped them on the right," which ever after was 
 the common expression among the men whenever at 
 tempts were made to deceive them as to the true con 
 dition of affairs. 
 
 Early on the morning of the eighth we were under arms, 
 and commenced the retreat from Fair Oaks. Every arti 
 cle of property which could not be carried was destroyed. 
 Tents were slashed until they were in shreds, barrels of 
 
THE RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS. 75 
 
 coffee, sugar, and other commissary articles opened and 
 the contents scattered in the mud of the swamp, gun-bar 
 rels were twisted around trees, while their stocks were 
 broken into splinters, and sutlers, with unexampled gener 
 osity opened their tents and told the men to help them 
 selves to what they wanted. Our brigade relieved the 
 troops in the works, who marched to the rear down the 
 Williamsburg road, and in a short time we followed and 
 Fair Oaks was abandoned to the rebel pickets, who almost 
 immediately advanced and occupied the field. 
 
 About three miles from Fair Oaks we were drawn up 
 in line of battle, connecting with SUMNER upon the right, 
 to cover the passage of our trains across White Oak 
 Swamp. The position of the Second Regiment was such 
 that we had a view of the railroad in the direction of Fair 
 Oaks Station. The smoke of burning camps and Quarter 
 masters stores hung over all like a thick pall, but it was 
 not long before we could see the forms of the rebels cross 
 ing and recrossing the railroad. The pioneers cleared a 
 place in front of the regiment, upon which a battery was 
 placed in a position to rake the railroad. We lay in line 
 full two hours without molestation, when the rebels sud 
 denly opened a battery to the right of our division, one 
 shot from which struck a man lying upon the ground asleep 
 and nearly tore his arm from his body. One of our bat 
 teries immediately went into position and silenced the 
 rebel guns. Then a heavy attack was made upon a por 
 tion of SUMNER s line, and for a short time the infantry 
 firing was brisk until the rebels were handsomely repulsed. 
 The object of the halt being accomplished the long line of 
 battle melted away from the sight of the rebels, regiment 
 after regiment filing to the rear and marching rapidly down 
 
76 SECOXD N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 the road which led to Poplar Hill. The Second Regiment 
 and the Twenty -Sixth Pennsylvania made a blunder which 
 for a time raised serious apprehensions in our minds. 
 The leading regiments marched so rapidly that they gained 
 a considerable distance upon us, and at length coming to 
 a place where two roads branched off the preceding regi 
 ments not being in sight we were obliged to guess at 
 which one to take. The left one was chosen, and we had 
 marched rapidly on it for full an hour when we became 
 aware that we were on the wrong track. To go back and 
 take the right road was out of the question, as the rebels 
 were doubtless by that time in possession of the fork, so 
 we kept on with all possible speed, not knowing but what 
 we were marching directly into the rebel lines ; but at 
 length we had the pleasure of coming out at Poplar Hill 
 with the rest of the brigade. That night the whole army 
 was safely across White Oak Swamp and the bridge by 
 which it had crossed White Oak Creek torn up to prevent 
 pursuit. 
 
 Monday morning the line of our army was formed in a 
 huge semi-circle, extending from White Oak Swamp to 
 Charles City Cross Roads, or Glendale. *At the latter place 
 HOOKER S Division lay in the thick woods by the roadside, 
 with pickets thrown out in the direction of Richmond* 
 while the great wagon train of the army was continually 
 rumbling by towards Harrison s Landing. During the 
 forenoon the right of the line was actively engaged with 
 the rebels across White Oak Creek, and at about three 
 o clock in the afternoon a brisk firing commenced on the 
 picket line to our front. The men knew instinctively that 
 a battle was to ensue and those who were lying upon the 
 ground in the grateful shade of the forest trees, without 
 
THE RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS. 77 
 
 waiting for orders rose from their beds of moss and leaves 
 and prepared for action. The divisions of HILL and 
 LONGSTREET, composing the attacking force, rushed so 
 furiously upon our lines, that the Pennsylvania Reserves 
 were forced from the rude entrenchments in which they 
 were stationed, but HOOKER immediately brought his di 
 vision into action, quickly regaining the position which 
 had been lost by McCALL. 
 
 The Second Regiment was detached from the brigade 
 for awhile, and double-quicked full three-quarters of a 
 mile down the dusty road toward the right of the position. 
 We formed in line across a road which led through an open 
 pine forest, but in a short time orders came for us to re 
 join the rest of the division. As we retraced our steps the 
 battle was at its height. Forty pieces of artillery, sta 
 tioned in the field to our right, were showering their deadly 
 missiles upon the woods through which the rebels were 
 advancing, while the infantry were pouring in volley upon 
 volley of musketry. As we reached the broad lane down 
 which the division had marched into the fight, an aide of 
 Gen. HOOKER, met us, who swung his hat aloft and 
 shouted exultantly, " Gen. HOOKER has whipped the en 
 emy handsomely ; and he wants you to join the division," 
 upon which we cheered lustily and marched with lighter 
 hearts than we had before felt since leaving Fair Oaks, to 
 join our brave comrades. We filed in the field and formed 
 our line to the rear of the Massachusetts Sixteenth, which 
 lay behind a rail fence upon the brow of a little ridge 
 facing the woods through which the rebels had advanced. 
 The rebels once repulsed, soon reformed and returned to 
 the fight. At their first volley Col. WYMAN of the Six 
 teenth fell dead from his horse, and several of the regi- 
 
78 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 ment were killed or wounded. The regiment rose to their 
 feet and returned one scattering volley ; then came a mo 
 ment of that halting and indecision which to an expe 
 rienced eye is evidence that a line is about to give way, 
 and the Sixteenth broke and rushed to the rear, with the 
 exception of a few sturdy heroes who stood up unflinch 
 ingly and returned the rebel fire. The Second leaped to 
 their feet and its bayonets formed a bristling wall which 
 neither friend nor foe could scale. The Sixteenth boys 
 soon recovered from their momentary panic, and returned 
 to the fence, and ever after they were ready to thank us 
 that we checked them when they would have tarnished 
 their proud regimental fame, and perhaps brought disaster 
 to the Union cause. 
 
 The rebels were again repulsed, whereupon an immedi 
 ate advance was made by the brigade. The Twenty- 
 Sixth Pennsylvania, upon the left of the Sixteenth, leaped 
 the fence, and charged down into the woods, making a 
 " right half- wheel," which spread the regiment out until it 
 looked like a huge fan ; the Sixteenth and Second moved 
 to the right and advanced. The First Massachusetts ran 
 into a terrible snare. Two rebel regiments, formed like a 
 large V, with the open part towards our lines, lay concealed 
 in thick underbrush, into which the First unwittingly 
 rushed. Major CHANDLER and scores of brave men fell 
 before the fire which poured in upon both sides. " Get 
 out of this the best way you can," shouted Gen. Grover, 
 not standing at such a time upon military forms, and the 
 order was promptly obeyed ; but it was a sad fragment of 
 the gallant regiment which emerged from the fatal snare. 
 
 At nightfall we were moved still farther to the right in 
 support of a New York regiment. The Colonel came to 
 
THE RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS. 79 
 
 Col. MARSTON and inquired " Colonel, can I rely upon 
 your regiment to stand by me in case of an attack ?" 
 "Yes, sir," exclaimed MARSTON, proudly, "there wont a 
 man of my regiment run away, sir; not a man!" "What 
 regiment is yours ?" " The New Hampshire Second !" 
 "Good! I have heard of you before;" and immediately 
 afterwards we heard him exhorting his regiment to do their 
 duty, telling them that one of HOOKER S regiments was 
 supporting them, and "a bully one, too." No attack was 
 made upon our lines after this, although shots were con 
 stantly exchanged by the skirmishers. A regiment of 
 "Zouaves" a short distance to our right, one which fig 
 ured largely in the illustrated papers of the times, re 
 ceived a few scattering shots, upon which they broke and 
 ran in confusion. Gen. GROVER and other officers dashed 
 in among them and managed to rally a portion, who were 
 led back to their old position. 
 
 Night came, and the noise of battle gradually died 
 away ; the firing grew less frequent, and the men, lying 
 in line of battle, hardly uttered a word, as they listened 
 anxiously for the sounds which should herald the expected 
 attack. But as the other sounds died away, the most 
 terrible ones a soldier can hear, those best calculated to 
 unnerve him, the shrieks and groans of the wounded rose 
 painfully sharp and clear upon the night air. Hundreds 
 of wounded, nearly all rebels, lay between the two lines, 
 where neither friend or foe could help them, and the chorus 
 of agonized cries which swelled up from the woods was a 
 commentary upon the cruelty of war which could not but 
 appeal to the hardest of hearts. 
 
 Before daybreak of the next morning we marched from 
 the field of battle, upon which we had not been able to 
 
80 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 snatch a moment s sleep, and with the utmost haste 
 pressed on toward the goal of our desires, the James river. 
 It was but little after sunrise when we reached Malvern 
 Hill, where the entire army was placed in position for the 
 last great battle of the retreat. Malvern Hill, though very 
 steep and precipitous upon the north and west sides, ex 
 tends to the east in broad swells, over which the divisions 
 and corps of the great army marched and countermarched 
 to their respective positions, forming one of the grandest 
 military pageants ever seen. 
 
 The enemy was close upon our heels, and soon his 
 cavalry and skirmishers appeared upon the field at the 
 point where we had entered it. We watched every move 
 ment with breathless interest, the cavalry riding furiously 
 from one point to another, and the infantry skirmishers 
 deploying along the edge of the woods. A rebel light 
 battery suddenly went into position a few hundred yards 
 distant, and saluted us with its iron compliments. The 
 batteries of the division were immediately placed in posi 
 tion, and such a shower of shot and shell poured among 
 the rebel gunners that they limbered up their guns and 
 dashed to the rear with the utmost dispatch, the drivers 
 lashing their horses furiously, and the cannoniers scatter 
 ing in every direction to escape the concentrated fire of 
 HOOKER S batteries. 
 
 The position of HEI^TZELMAN S Corps in the line that 
 day was the left centre. No sooner was the line estab 
 lished than the men went to work with a will throwing 
 up breastworks. The Second Regiment, posted in a 
 dense wood, was soon sheltered by a bullet-proof wall, 
 built of the decaying trunks and limbs of trees which 
 were scattered about ; and so secure did we feel behind 
 
THE RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS. 81 
 
 our rude breastwork, so confident that no force of rebels 
 whatever could drive us from it, that the crack of rebel 
 rifles in our immediate front would have been the most 
 welcome sounds which could have greeted us. Col. MARS- 
 TON walked down the line inspecting the work with a sat 
 isfied air, accompanied by a volunteer surgeon, whom the 
 pressing want of medical attendance in the army had 
 called temporarily from private life. The fighting had 
 commenced in good earnest to our left, and the men of 
 the regiment, expecting every moment to be attacked, 
 were carefully priming their pieces, spreading bunches of 
 cartridges where they could be readily seized when needed, 
 filling the chinks of the breastwork with sods and sticks, 
 and making the other numberless little preparations 
 which should insure a successful defence of the position. 
 "Your men have got a good position," exclaimed the sur 
 geon, whose eyes "were constantly peering into the depths 
 of the woods to our front. "Yes; my boys are great on 
 entrenchments," replied the Colonel. "Do you think 
 you will be attacked?" "Well, we may be; they are at 
 it pretty brisk on the right." "How many men would it 
 take to drive you out of here?" "How many? Well, 
 six thousand might, possibly, but five thousand would get 
 killed doing it." The pluck of the boys would have 
 made good the Colonel s words, had there been occasion 
 to display it, but though the battle raged furiously at 
 other parts of the line, we were not disturbed. 
 
 The battle of Malvern Hill is recorded in history as a 
 series of the bloodiest repulses ever inflicted upon any 
 army. The rebels, maddened by the whisky which had 
 been freely dealt out to them, advanced again and again 
 to break the Union lines, but were each time flung back, 
 
82 SECOND N. H. EEGIMENT. 
 
 with their columns crushed, bleeding and disorganized. 
 Three hundred pieces of artillery, worked by as good 
 gunners and brave as ever any army could boast, poured 
 shell, grape and case - shot into their ranks with merciless 
 profusion. The huge siege guns which had been brought 
 along with the army were posted upon the crest of the 
 hill, to the rear of the light batteries, while the gunboats 
 upon the James hurled their ponderous eleven -inch shells 
 into the dense masses of rebels upon the left. The ground 
 fairly shook beneath this terrible cannonade, which has 
 no parallel in the history of warfare. Never did the 
 world witness more desperate and determined efforts than 
 were put forth by the rebels to gain possession of Mal- 
 vern Hill ; and had their efforts been crowned with suc 
 cess, that day would have been a sad one in American 
 history. The Army of the Potomac would there have 
 ceased to exist as an army, for it would have been driven 
 into the James or forced to surrender ; and who can esti 
 mate the disasters to the Union cause which would have 
 followed the loss of the great army upon which the loyal 
 North had founded so many hopes? But such disasters 
 were averted by the heroism of the army which, though 
 fearfully outnumbered and retreating before an exultant 
 foe, yet turned day after day and wrested from him victo 
 ries which will ever be named as proud monuments of 
 northern valor and endurance. 
 
 At one time the rebels pressed so fiercely upon the 
 lines that the Excelsior Brigade was withdrawn from our 
 support and hurried to the point of attack, where they 
 arrived in season to give a good account of themselves, 
 making a splendid bayonet charge, and capturing two 
 pieces of artillery. 
 
THE RETREAT FROM FAIR OAKS. 83 
 
 The day passed with the alternate periods of deafening 
 uproar which attended each attack, and of comparative 
 quiet which followed each bloody repulse, and until late 
 in the night the fiery globes circled through the air; but 
 one by one the guns ceased to Avork, until the quiet of 
 utter exhaustion reigned over Malvern, and shrouded the 
 two hostile armies, the victors and the vanquished. 
 
CHAPTEE X. 
 
 HABRISON S LANDING. 
 
 HE "change of base" was effected on 
 the second day of July, the day after the 
 battle of Malvern Hill. A heavy rain 
 set in which soon converted the roads 
 into beds of mud, adding much to the 
 difficulty of moving the wagon trains and 
 artillery, and especially the siege train of 
 huge, unwieldly guns. At Harrison s 
 Landing nearly the whole army was as 
 sembled upon the broad fields which 
 bordered the river. Where the road en 
 tered the plain, aides from each division were stationed to 
 direct the stragglers to their respective commands, and in 
 many regiments this class composed by far the larger por 
 tion of the men. The field, under the tread of thousands 
 of feet, was converted into one great sheet of mud, upon 
 which the men were to pitch their tents and make them 
 selves as comfortable as possible. The boughs of trees 
 were laid in the mud and over these, bundles of grain col- 
 
HARRISON S LANDING. 85 
 
 lectcd from the adjacent fields were spread by the men, 
 that they might enjoy the luxury of a dry and comfortable 
 bed for a short time at least. 
 
 The rebels could not let us alone even, then for the day 
 after our arrival they opened with a light battery and 
 threw several shells into the bivouac of our division. A 
 force was immediately sent out from camp which came up 
 in the rear of the obnoxious battery and took charge of 
 the guns, to the infinite disgust of the rebels. 
 
 In a few days our lines were established, when we went 
 to work with a will to fortify the position ; and it was not 
 long before we were ready to bid defiance to the combined 
 armies of the Confederacy. A line of works of the most 
 elaborate character was constructed, from which hundreds 
 of pieces of artillery commanded every avenue of ap 
 proach by the front, and the gunboats upon the James 
 formed an equally formidable barrier in that direction. As 
 soon as our works were completed we were allowed a pe 
 riod of rest to prepare ourselves for the struggles yet to 
 come. Besides an occasional review or tour at picket 
 duty there was little to be performed, and the time was 
 passed in erecting bough houses to screen us from the 
 blazing sun, in visiting the various points of interest 
 within our lines, or in bathing in a large mill-pond near 
 the camp of the brigade. 
 
 The antiquarians found plenty to interest them. The 
 old house of the HARBISON family, in Avhich President 
 HARRISON was born, was one of the most prominent ob 
 jects within the lines, and \vas used as the headquarters of 
 the Signal Corps. Nearer the river stood the mansion of 
 the lords of " Westover," which plantation is mentioned as 
 the second one settled in Virginia. The house was built 
 
86 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 more than one hundred and thirty years ago by Col. WIL 
 LIAM BYRD, and was a most expensive affair, being built 
 of brick brought from England. One mantle - shelf is re 
 ported to have cost twenty -eight hundred dollars, and all 
 the other appurtenances were in keeping. The lawn, ex 
 tending to the river bank, was inclosed by a brick wall 
 with massive iron gates. In the family burial - ground near 
 the house the lords of the manor were sleeping, with long 
 lists of titles and shining virtues carved upon the crum 
 bling marble. One of these ancient stones recorded the 
 name of " Capt. WILLIAM PERKY," a companion of Capt. 
 JOHN SMITH. Eight miles above " Westover" w r as " Shir 
 ley," another of the old plantations of Virginia. The 
 buildings made of English brick were very extensive, and 
 were built by a man named HILL, whose tombstone re 
 cords that he died in 1700. 
 
 Nothing, however, amused us more than the news we 
 received of our movements and condition, through the 
 medium of the northern papers, and the stories which 
 were freely circulated concerning our food, deserve partic 
 ular mention. These papers represented us as feasting 
 upon all the heart could desire, esculent vegetables and 
 the best quality of meat and bread, when, in reality, the 
 meat was generally the worst description of " smoked 
 sides," oily and unpalatable, which might have passed 
 muster in the rebel army, but was a bitter dose to the 
 beef- eating Yankees ; the " vegetables" were of that kind 
 known as "desiccated vegetables," a villainous compound, 
 about as palatable as so many chips, and the man who 
 invented the new way of desiccating vegetables was de 
 servedly unpopular with the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 Under the long inaction in which we were held the men 
 
HARRISON S LANDING. 87 
 
 began to chafe and long for active service of some kind to 
 relieve the dull monotony of camp life. Gen. HOOKER 
 seems to have partaken of this feeling, for he devised a 
 plan for the capture of Malvern Hill, then held by a rebel 
 force of several hundred men, with artillery, which plan 
 was approved by Gen. MCCLELLAN, and our fighting gen 
 eral ordered to carry it out. On the afternoon of the 
 second day of August the division marched from the en 
 trenched camp to execute the movement, but being misled 
 by a guide, it returned the same night. On the fourth, 
 however, we again set out, and this time there w^is no 
 misleading or taking wrong roads. The division followed 
 a circuitous route which led to Charles City Cross Roads, 
 the scene of the great battle on the thirtieth of June. In 
 light marching order, and with the cool invigorating night 
 air in our favor, we marched rapidly, passing through mile 
 after mile of pine forest and Virginia clearings, and it was 
 late in the night w r hen w T e approached Charles City Cross 
 Roads, which was held by rebel pickets. As the success 
 of the movement depended much upon its secrecy, the 
 utmost silence was enjoined upon the men. The inhabit 
 ants along the line of our march had all been placed 
 under guard, that they might not carry news of the move 
 ment to the rebels, and in the bivouac that night where 
 thousands of men lay upon their arms within pistol shot 
 of the enemy s pickets, not a loud or incautious word was 
 spoken, by which the rebels might gain a clue to the move 
 ment, but silently the men munched their hardtack, washed 
 it down with a drink of water from their canteens, and 
 stretched themselves upon the ground with their trusty 
 rifles by their sides. 
 
 With the first beams of approaching day we were 
 
88 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 roused from our slumbers. Col. MAKSTON busied himself 
 with waking the sleepers, giving to this one a poke with 
 his foot, to the next one a punch in the ribs with his 
 sword scabbard, and so on. Coming to a surly fellow who 
 was snoring away at a furious rate and showing no signs 
 of waking, he gave him a vigorous punch and an order to 
 rout out. The sleeper went on with his snoring and 
 gave not a sign of obeying orders, when the colonel gave 
 him a still rougher poke, upon which the half -roused man 
 gave his tormentor a gruff invitation to go to the father 
 of iniquity, adding that he had better let him alone for he 
 "didn t belong to his company." "You don t, do you! 
 I ll learn you whose company you belong to, you rascal," 
 exclaimed the colonel, and he gave the irate soldier a few 
 vigorous blows with the flat of his sword, which brought 
 him -to his feet instanter, perfectly satisfied when he dis 
 covered that it was " OLD GIL" who had been pounding 
 him instead of some lieutenant or captain. 
 
 The regiment of cavalry and the batteries of flying ar 
 tillery which accompanied the expedition took the lead. 
 The rebel pickets at the Cross Roads fired a few shots and 
 then dashed away, while our column turning sharp to the 
 left, took the same road which we had followed on the 
 retreat from Glendale to Malvern Hill. Small squads of 
 rebel cavalry hovered about the flank and rear of the col 
 umn, picking up the stragglers, although sometimes the 
 stragglers had things their own way, as was the case with 
 one party from our brigade which encountered a squad of 
 rebels of equal numbers and forced them to give up their 
 arms, dismount and trudge afoot, while the weary victors 
 took their places in the saddle. 
 
 A number of rebel pickets were captured by the cav* 
 
HARRISON S LANDING. 89 
 
 airy, and as we approached Malvern Hill the rebels opened 
 with two pieces of artillery. This battery was posted by 
 the side of a quaint old brick house which during the 
 battle of Malvern Hill had been prominent as a signal 
 station. Even before we came in sight of the rebel gun 
 ners they were planting their shells fairly in the ranks of 
 the division, which was effected by means of a lookout, 
 who, stationed upon the top of the house, could observe 
 our movements and direct the aim of the gunners beneath. 
 
 Our cavalry was massed behind a thin screen of pines 
 when we arrived upon the field, but the batteries were in 
 position and replying to the rebel fire briskly and with 
 splendid accuracy of aim. Gen. HOOKER, seated upon 
 his favorite white horse, and surrounded by his staff, 
 coolly directed our movements from beneath the shadow 
 of a broad-spreading wayside tree. Our brigade was 
 quickly formed in line of battle, and had the movements 
 of the rest of the division been executed with equal ce 
 lerity, the capture of the entire force on the hill would 
 have been insured. The rebels were between two fires, 
 the gunboats upon the James opening upon them with 
 eleven -inch shell from a point directly opposite our posi 
 tion. Many of these shell not exploding at the proper 
 moment passed harmlessly by the rebels and came howl 
 ing about our own ears, so that at times we were really 
 in greater danger from our friends than from the enemy. 
 One of these monster bolts struck not three feet from one 
 of the men and exploded in the ground, enveloping the 
 soldier in a cloud of dust and smoke, from which he 
 emerged terribly frightened, but with not a scratch or a 
 bruise resulting from the affair. 
 
 The only avenue of retreat for the rebels was the river 
 
90 SECOND N. II. KEGIMENT. 
 
 road leading north toward Richmond. Gen. PATTERSON 
 was ordered with the Jersey Brigade to take possession of 
 this road and thus bag the rebels upon the hill, but this 
 general the truth may as well be plainly told was, on 
 this occasion at least, too drunk to attend to his duties, 
 and failing to move promptly the rebels limbered up their 
 guns and dashed off towards Richmond at a furious pace. 
 Thus the main body of the rebels escaped, and we cap 
 tured only about a hundred men. When it became evi 
 dent that the rebels were running, we immediately ad 
 vanced and occupied the hill, the mounted officers and 
 orderlies dashing across the fields after the scattered squads 
 of gray -backs whose speed was not sufficient to enable 
 them to keep up with their comrades. Lieut. JOE HUB- 
 BARD, then aide de camp for Gen. GROVER, dashed alone 
 after a squad of five, headed them off, and told them they 
 might as well go back with him for they could not escape. 
 They took his word and allowed themselves to be captured 
 by one man. Squads of rebel pickets kept hurrying in 
 from the woods and were somewhat surprised to find the 
 hill in possession of the " Yanks," and themselves pris 
 oners to their hated enemy. Where the enemy s battery 
 had been posted two ghastly rebels lay upon the ground, 
 one still firmly clasping in his lifeless hands the shell 
 which he was carrying to his gun when he fell. 
 
 Our cavalry regiment was sent in pursuit of the fleeing 
 rebels, and followed them sharply for several miles, having 
 a few skirmishes, in one of which the lieutenant colonel 
 in command was mortally wounded. 
 
 This movement, though a failure in its main object, the 
 capture of the rebel force upon the hill, was most effectual 
 in arousing to activity the rebel army in Richmond, and 
 
HARBISON S LANDING. 91 
 
 an immense force was dispatched to retake the position. 
 On the sixth we were reinforced by the divisions of COUCH 
 and SEDGWICK, and as the rebel force was in our imme 
 diate vicinity a smart fight was anticipated, and our pre 
 parations were made accordingly. The line of battle was 
 formed in the most favorable position, the batteries posted, 
 and houses which interfered with the range of the guns 
 burned to the ground; but after occupying the hill for 
 two days orders were received from Gen. McC-LELLAisr to 
 retire to our entrenchments at Harrison s Landing, which 
 movement was effected on the morning of the seventh, so 
 silently that the rebel pickets knew nothing of it until the 
 morning light revealed the unoccupied hill. During the 
 night the Second Regiment was formed in line of battle 
 across a road leading to the hill, extending on either side 
 into a dense forest. Not a picket was thrown out, but 
 hour after hour the men stood in line so silently that there 
 was hardly a sound to break the deep quiet of that Vir 
 ginia forest, except the wild call of the whippowil or a 
 momentary rustle occasioned by some soldier changing the 
 position of his weary limbs. No attack was made, how 
 ever, and long before morning we were withdrawn from 
 the position, and by night the whole force was again 
 under cover of the entrenchments at Harrison s Landing. 
 With the inauguration of HALLECK as General-in- 
 Chief came a new programme of operations against Rich 
 mond, the approach by way of the Peninsula being aban 
 doned and Gen. McG LELLAN ordered to join his army to 
 that of Gen. POPE, which was then menacing Richmond 
 from the north. In pursuance of these orders Harrison s 
 Landing was evacuated on the sixteenth day of August, 
 the knapsacks of the men and the heavy material of the 
 
92 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 army having been previously sent away upon transports 
 down the James. 
 
 The march down the Peninsula occupied five days. On 
 the twenty -first the regiment embarked on the "State of 
 Maine," and the following day the little fleet bearing 
 "JoE HOOKER S fighting division" steamed away from 
 under the guns of Yorktown and Gloucester, out upon the 
 billowy Chesapeake. 
 
 The campaign upon the Peninsula w r as ended, that 
 campaign which had begun so auspiciously and with such 
 promise, and which, though recorded as a long series of 
 victorious sieges, battles and skirmishes, will yet present 
 the strange contradiction of a fruitless and even disas 
 trous one. Of all that great army which had landed so 
 proudly upon the " sacred soil" none had won a more glo 
 rious name than the Division of JOE HOOKER, which, 
 under the guidance of their brave leader, had ever plunged 
 bravely into the shock of battle, well knowing that the 
 clear mind of a true soldier guided the movement, and 
 one who loved his men too well to sacrifice their lives in 
 aimless or useless conflicts. 
 
 Let no prouder record be left for it than the words of 
 Gen. HOOKER himself: "It always slept upon the field 
 where it fought.* 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE SECOND BULL HUN CAMPAIGN. 
 
 URING the night of the twenty -third the 
 division arrived at Alexandria, and dis 
 embarked the following morning. Late 
 in the afternoon of the twenty -fifth we 
 were packed upon cattle trains, every 
 available space, inside and out, being 
 covered, and whirled away over the Or 
 ange and Alexandria Railroad to rein 
 force Gen. POPE. We arrived at Manas- 
 sas Junction in the night. Our former 
 pilgrimage to this place in 1861 having 
 unfortunately ended several miles distant, 
 we felt a great interest in the locality, and strained our 
 eyes to discover what sort of a place it might be. But 
 all we could make out in the darkness was the general 
 outline of the immense plain, with the redoubts built by 
 the rebels looming up dimly against the background of 
 blue sky. The train stopped a few minutes at the Junc 
 tion, and the cavalry guard stationed there learning that 
 
94 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 we were " some of MCCLELLAN S men," surrounded the 
 cars and became very communicative. The very name of 
 "OLD STONEWALL" we found was a terror to them, and 
 not without reason, for the very next night he came down 
 with a swoop like a hawk, and carried away the whole 
 crowd. That they were badly demoralized was but too 
 evident, and the men who had been trained under HOOKER 
 to fear no earthly man or power, laughed scornfully at 
 their terror, and told them that they had brought a gen 
 eral or two up from the Peninsula to show OLD STONE 
 WALL a few tricks in strategy that he never dreamed of. 
 Yet, as we afterwards learned from prisoners, his advance 
 guard was even then concealed by the side of the railroad, 
 where they might easily have fired into the train had it 
 not been his policy to conceal their proximity. 
 
 At midnight we arrived at Warrenton Junction, and 
 the next day we went into camp in a beautiful position, 
 near Cedar Creek. Perhaps the beauty of the place was 
 enhanced in the eye of the men by the fact that the con 
 veniences for foraging were unlimited. Large fields of 
 green corn waved in the breeze, and orchards of peach 
 and apple trees, and in a stone mill not far from camp 
 was stored hundreds of bushels of wheat, which the men 
 ground up into flour as fast as the mill -stones could turn 
 it out. 
 
 In this Virginian paradise we were assured that we 
 should probably remain for several days ; but alas for the 
 frailty of human hopes, we spent just one night in our 
 new camp. Early on the morning of the twenty -seventh 
 we were roused from our sweet slumbers, and ordered to 
 be in readiness to march at five o clock. The occasional 
 report of a cannon in the direction of Manassas indicated 
 
SECOND BULL EUX. 95 
 
 to our minds that there was trouble in the rear, and the 
 name of STONEWALL JACKSON was naturally coupled with 
 any rebel movement in that direction. And sure enough 
 the great rebel leader was there, having descended through 
 the gaps of the mountains with forty thousand men, and 
 captured Manassas Junction with its garrison and the im 
 mense train of valuable material accumulated there. But 
 if JACKSON was rapid in his movement, the counter move 
 ments to check and punish him were equally prompt. 
 The various corps of POPE S army were immediately with 
 drawn from the line of the Rapidan, and set in motion to 
 intercept and crush JACKSON in case he might attempt to 
 retreat through the gaps of the Blue Ridge. 
 
 Our corps, the nearest the scene of action, marched 
 down the railroad directly for Manassas Junction. At 
 Catlett s Station, but about three miles from where we 
 had encamped, the first evidences of the raid presented 
 themselves in the remains of several wagons which had 
 been burned; and here a heavy skirmish line was thrown 
 out to cover the advance of the column, companies K and 
 B being detached from the Second Regiment for that pur 
 pose. The day was intensely hot, and many cases of 
 sunstroke occurred, yet the column was pushed forward 
 with all of HOOKER S accustomed energy. At various 
 points we encountered the ruins of bridges and culverts, 
 and at length, as we emerged from, the woods into a broad 
 field, a rebel battery was discovered in position upon the 
 other side. The line of battle was immediately formed, 
 with GROVER S Brigade upon the right of the railroad, 
 but when we advanced the rebel battery disappeared in 
 the direction of Manassas, without firing a shot. 
 
 About two miles further on, ho^vever, we came upon a 
 
96 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 portion of JACKSON S force drawn up in line of battle at 
 Kettle Run, near a point upon the railroad known as 
 Bristow Station. Our two skirmish companies nearly 
 ran into the rebel line, concealed in a dense growth of 
 little pines, before they discovered it. In fact, Company 
 B would inevitably have been taken prisoners or slaugh 
 tered en masse had not the orderly sergeant of Company 
 K seen the danger just in season to prevent such a catas 
 trophe. Our main column was at this time concealed 
 from the sight of the rebels by a screen of pine trees, and 
 although our skirmish line was permitted to withdraw 
 without firing a shot, they opened briskly with a battery, 
 bursting their shells directly over our heads. One of our 
 batteries was pushed along by the side of the railroad 
 through the woods, and was soon working briskly, sup 
 ported by portions of the Jersey and Excelsior Brigades. 
 
 During the height of the engagement the rebels at 
 tempted a charge, and came rushing down upon our brave 
 men with a yell which was expected to intimidate and put 
 to flight ; but the men opposed to them had heard that 
 same yell too often to feel the tremor of fear, and with 
 shouts as loud and as fierce they dashed forward to meet 
 the rebels. This was more than the gray -backs had bar 
 gained for or expected, and the grand rebel charge sud 
 denly ended in an " about face," executed with amazing 
 celerity, and a display of ragged coat - tails which would 
 have excited the envy of any Chatham-street dealer in 
 "old clo ." 
 
 The rebel force now made for Manassas with all possi 
 ble speed, and though HOOKER had no cavalry to harass 
 them he pushed his infantry rapidly forward in pursuit. 
 Our brigade marched across the battle field, thickly scat- 
 
SECOND BULL HUN. 97 
 
 tered with the bodies of the slain, and through the camps 
 of the rebels, which they had been obliged to leave so 
 unexpectedly that their beef still lay in the same places 
 where the cattle had been slaughtered, their food was yet 
 cooking over the camp fires, and kettles and other camp 
 equipage were scattered about just as they had left them 
 when called to take their places in the line of battle. The 
 rebels for a time kept up a sharp fire upon the brigade 
 from a light battery, which, however, was limbered up 
 and drawn away as fast as we came too close for the safety 
 of the guns. 
 
 The division at nightfall halted within about a mile of 
 Manassas Junction, and that night men who at the front 
 performed picket duty, beheld in the eastern sky the light 
 of burning trains and stores which JACKSON was destroy 
 ing, preparatory to an evacuation of the place. 
 
 The next morning the division of Gen. RENO came up, 
 and after a short halt to rest from its forced march, 
 during which the general advanced to the picket line 
 and made himself acquainted with the position of affairs, 
 it continued on towards Manassas, which was found aban 
 doned, JACKSON having moved in the direction of Centre- 
 ville three hours before. 
 
 In the afternoon HOOKER S Division also advanced, 
 passing through the Junction, and going into bivouac late 
 in the night at Blackburn s Ford, on Bull Run Creek, 
 abvut midway between Manassas Junction and Centreville, 
 
 The following morning, the twenty - ninth of July, was 
 ushered in by the booming of cannon far away to the 
 northwest, indicating that JACKSON had encountered some 
 portion of our force in that direction. We were soon in 
 motion, rapidly following the broad ridge of land which 
 
98 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 terminates at Centreville in the celebrated Ccntrcville 
 Heights. From that point, commanding a view of the 
 whole country as far as the Blue Ridge, we could see the 
 smoke of battle ascending above the tree - tops many miles 
 away, while long lines of white dust showed where the 
 various divisions of the army were centering in upon the 
 rebel lion at bay. 
 
 We took the same road McDowELL had advanced on 
 thirteen months before, but arriving at the point where 
 HUNTER had made his detour to the right we continued 
 straight forward upon the road the left column had taken 
 on that occasion. The reports of artillery greeted our 
 ears at intervals, and as we drew near the scene of action 
 scattered volleys of musketry became audible. About 
 a mile from the battle field we met several hundred of our 
 men unarmed and marching to the rear. These were 
 JACKSON S prisoners, whom he had paroled and sent into 
 our lines as soon as it became evident that he had got to 
 fight, well knowing that every one of his men would be 
 needed in beating back the Union legions pouring down 
 upon him. 
 
 It was not far from noon when we reached the field, 
 Gen. HEINTZELMAN, surrounded by his staff, sat upon his 
 horse by the side of the road, pointing out to a general 
 officer the position of the troops engaged. "There," he 
 exclaimed, pointing with his finger to the right, "is 
 KEARNEY S line, extending from that house to where you 
 see that gun flash." Our brigade was assigned for the 
 day to Gen. SIGEL, who was engaging the enemy in the 
 centre, and we marched rapidly down the road to our po 
 sition. The scene was familiar to most of the men in the 
 regiment, for we were upon the old Bull Run battle field. 
 
SECOND BULL RUX. 99 
 
 Looking up the hill to the right we saw the field where 
 the regiment had received its first baptism of fire, and to 
 the left the hill where the rebel battery had stood which 
 first opened upon us on that memorable twenty -first of 
 July. We crossed the road down which we had advanced 
 to make our last fight in that ill-starred action, and the 
 men pointed out the very spots where friends and com 
 rades had fallen, and looked anxiously to see if there 
 might not be a mound of earth in the immediate vicinity 
 to indicate the burial places of the martyred heroes. The 
 buildings which had been used as hospitals were still 
 standing, and stacks of grain which had served as shelter 
 for the sharpshooters ; the sun shone just as bright and 
 clear as on that day, and all the surroundings brought it 
 most vividly to mind. After months of danger and hard 
 ship passed through in safety, the inscrutable mysteries of 
 war had brought us back to the scene of our first conflict, 
 there to make a still further donation of precious lives to 
 the cause we had sworn to maintain the lives of men 
 who had rejoiced over their own escape from the dangers 
 of that former fight while lamenting the loss of comrades 
 who had fallen, but whose forms now moulder by the side 
 of the friends they so truly mourned. 
 
 The brigade was massed not far from the little village 
 of Groveton, near the woods in which the rebel lines were 
 formed awaiting an attack. A scattering fire of musketry 
 was heard in the woods to our front, and occasionally a 
 smart volley, accompanied by the cheers of a charge. The 
 rebel batteries, posted on a hill to the rear of their infantry 
 lines, threw a shell over our heads just often enough to 
 let us know that, they were aware of our presence. One 
 of our batteries attempted to go into position near the 
 
100 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 brigade, but the rebel guns poured in such a fire of shell 
 at short range that they were glad to get out of the way 
 as soon as possible. 
 
 We remained in this position fully two hours, when or 
 ders were received from Gen. SIGEL to advance into the 
 woods and charge the rebels. To hear was to obey, and 
 the line was formed silently in the open field at the edge 
 of the woods, the First Massachusetts upon the right, the 
 Eleventh upon the left, and the flag of the Old Second 
 floated in the centre. The Sixteenth Massachusetts and 
 Twenty -sixth Pennsylvania formed a second line, and 
 beside these two regiments the three assaulting regiments 
 were entirely without reserve ; three small regiments, 
 numbering not more than a thousand men, to charge un 
 supported upon the entire corps of EWELL, in a chosen 
 position, and formed in a triple line of battle ! Yet the 
 gallant brigade was never in better spirits for the fight, 
 and never made a more gallant one than on this occasion. 
 
 There was for a moment an earnest consultation be 
 tween Gen. GROVER, his colonels, and an officer who was 
 acquainted with the lay of the land and the position of the 
 rebels. "They are behind a railroad bank, and the only 
 way you can dislodge them is to charge," we heard the 
 officer tell GROVER, and well we knew that a few minutes 
 would precipitate us into a fight such as we had hardly 
 ever seen. 
 
 Col. MARSTON came to the regiment and quietly gave 
 the order, " Fix bayonets !" A cloud was on his brow, 
 for he fully realized the position we were to advance upon, 
 and his heart was sad in contemplating the useless slaugh 
 ter of his brave boys which must ensue. 
 
 Gen. GROVER, still maintaining his imperturbable 
 
SECOND BULL RUN. 101 
 
 smile, uttered a few words, and to the point: "Don t 
 waste a shot, my men let every bullet tell." Then 
 came the magical word, " Forward," and the men ad 
 vanced into the woods, to honor, to glory, and many, too 
 many, to the grave. No sound was heard but the crash 
 ing of the underbrush, or the muttered orders to " Give 
 way to the right," or "to the left." The left of the line 
 soon encountered an open field, where a halt was ordered, 
 and Gen. GROVER stepped forward to reconnoitre. Sev 
 eral Union soldiers, dead and wounded, lay about in the 
 bushes, and a dozen bullets whistled about the general. 
 The line was moved further to the right, and then again 
 came the order, " Forward." 
 
 The moment was now close at hand which might usher 
 any of us into eternity, and well we knew that the lives 
 of many were numbered by minutes or even seconds. 
 Yet not a man was there who flinched in that dreadful 
 moment, for all so inclined had as usual been suddenly 
 taken sick when the first sounds of conflict were heard, 
 and were then lurking in the rear, ready to recover when 
 ever the battle should be decided. 
 
 Suddenly the deafening roar of thousands of muskets 
 broke the stillness of the woods, and a shower of bullets 
 tore through the air. " Charge !" shouted GROVER, at 
 the top of his voice, and with a loud, ringing New Eng 
 land yell, we dashed forward, every man for himself. In 
 a moment the Second had swept over the railroad upon 
 the first line of rebels. This line was taken at a disad 
 vantage, for most of the men, loth to expose themselves 
 above their breastwork, had delivered their volley from 
 the ground, and were still in a prostrate condition when 
 we leaped into their midst. Some few of the bravest 
 
102 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 attempted resistance, but the bullet or the bayonet did its 
 work quickly with such ; some threw up their hands, beg 
 ging for mercy, and were either taken to the rear or left 
 lying upon the ground, while those of the Second who 
 remained uninjured, wild with excitement, dashed after 
 those who were running for their second line. Suddenly 
 right in our faces burst a sheet of flame, and the second 
 line rose from the bushes to receive us. But almost 
 before they could realize it, our fearfully diminished and 
 disorganized regiment was upon them and in their very 
 midst. For a moment there was a desperate struggle 
 between the fiery Georgian regiment we encountered and 
 the sturdy Granite State boys. The dull "thug" of the 
 bayonets as they were buried in quivering flesh, the sharp 
 crack of rifles and revolvers, the whistle of bullets, the 
 fierce shouts of hatred and the moans of the wounded, 
 ascended together from that scene of deadly conflict. But 
 northern pluck was bound to win, and soon the second 
 rebel line was scattered and put to flight. Scores of our 
 men had by this time been placed hors de combat, and no 
 semblance of formation as a regiment remained, but with 
 unloaded pieces the men dashed after the flying rebels. 
 
 EWELL, the rebel leader, had been carried to the rear 
 with a shattered leg, two of his lines had been broken be 
 fore our fierce onset, and victory was apparently within 
 our grasp ; but another line was yet to be encountered, 
 the last one, against which it might have seemed madness 
 for our scattered squads to throw themselves. But with 
 out counting the fearful odds in numbers to be encoun 
 tered, we closed in upon this last obstacle between us and 
 victory; and even that line showed signs of breaking, 
 having doubtless been somewhat demoralized by the quick 
 
SECOND BULL KUN. 103 
 
 and unceremonious manner with which we had disposed 
 of the two lines in their front. But our charge was sud 
 denly checked at the very moment when it seemed about 
 to be crowned with complete success. Our headlong rush 
 had carried us much farther than either the First or the 
 Eleventh had penetrated, and thus while we had hewed a 
 deep notch into the rebel position, the second line at least 
 upon either flank was left intact, in a position to close in 
 upon our flanks and rear. This was what the rebels did. 
 A sharp volley greeted us from the right, which we had 
 no sooner returned than another came from the left. We 
 had hardly men enough to form a respectable skirmish 
 line, and with rebels swarming upon three sides it was 
 useless to longer maintain the fight ; so we turned and 
 fled towards the railroad, barely escaping capture, and 
 leaving many of our wounded in the hands of the enemy, 
 among others the brave Captain JOSHUA F. LITTLEFIELD 
 of Company B, who, with several severe wounds upon 
 his body, lay exposed upon the field for many days, and 
 finally died. First Sergeant FRANK O. ROBINSON, of 
 Company C, shot through the bowels, was also left behind, 
 dying. "I might have brought him out," said Captain 
 CARR, of the same company, "but he was dying is 
 dead by this time ; so I helped out one of my men who 
 was not so badly wounded but that he has a chance to 
 recover." Just after crossing the railroad, the writer 
 encountered Lieutenant SYLVESTER ROGERS, of Company 
 G, with one wound through his leg, near the knee, and 
 another in the small of his back, from which the blood 
 was pouring in a torrent. One of the men from his own 
 company,, with an arm around him, was endeavoring to 
 urge him forward, and with the writer s assistance he was 
 
104 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 carried several rods, when in answer to our words of 
 encouragement, " Cheer up, ROGERS, we will carry you 
 safely out of this," he uttered a faint moan, gasped, his 
 head fell forward upon his breast, he was dead! We 
 laid his lifeless form upon the ground, and left it where 
 rebel bullets were singing the patriot officer s requiem. 
 
 The rebel artillery, which had remained silent while 
 the opposing forces were mingled together, now opened 
 fire, and vigorously shelled the woods through which we 
 were retreating ; but so scattered were our men that no 
 damage was done, except to the tree tops through which 
 the missiles screamed and crashed. 
 
 Shattered and bleeding the brigade emerged into the 
 field where the line had formed for the charge. Here 
 the flight ended, the men rallying around the colors of 
 their respective regiments with shouts which showed how 
 little daunted they were by the ordeal through which they 
 had passed. A line was hastily formed in the open field, 
 about two hundred yards from the edge of the woods, 
 where the men, lying behind the shelter of a slight ridge 
 of land, awaited the attack which GHOVER, with a true 
 soldier s intuitive foresight, knew might be expected. 
 
 The brigade in which was the Sixth New Hampshire 
 Regiment arrived at this time, and disappeared in the 
 woods just to the right of where we had entered. We 
 heard a roll of musketry, lasting but a few moments, and 
 then the scattered squads came pouring back into the 
 field, the brigade not having been able to penetrate even 
 BO far as the railroad. 
 
 This repulse was followed up by an immediate advance 
 on the part of the rebels, although the officers of the 
 regiments which encountered our brigade in its furious 
 
SECOND BULL RUN. 105 
 
 charge were obliged in many cases to drive their men 
 forward with their swords, they not relishing the rough 
 manner in which HOOKER S men had handled them in the 
 former encounter. 
 
 The rebel line appeared in the edge of the woods, and 
 the fight was renewed by a well - directed volley which 
 we delivered into their dense ranks. There was sharp 
 work for a few minutes, but what could the bravery of 
 our decimated brigade avail against the overwhelming 
 numbers opposed to it? Officers and men were falling 
 upon either hand, and we commenced to fall back toward 
 the hill upon which our batteries were posted under the 
 direction of HOOKER. Exultant yells arose from the 
 rebel lines, which, however, were of short duration, for 
 one of our batteries came tearing down the hill, went 
 into position, and hurled round after round of deadly can 
 ister into the rebel ranks, which created such slaughter 
 that they disappeared as suddenly as if the ground had 
 opened and swallowed them into its depths. 
 
 During this affair many of our best men fell, among 
 the bravest of whom was Lieut. NORTON R. MOORE, of 
 Company F, who for his daring at Fair Oaks on the 
 twenty -fifth of June had been promoted from the rank of 
 sergeant major, and whose hand at the time of his death 
 bore the unhealed wound he had received on that oc 
 casion. 
 
 The remnants of the brigade were now collected to 
 gether beneath a little clump of trees by the side of Bull 
 Run Creek, and the rolls called that we might estimate 
 the loss we had sustained. The Second Regiment went 
 into that fight with three hundred and thirty -two men, 
 and of these sixteen were reported killed, eighty -seven 
 
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106 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 wounded, and twenty -nine missing. Of those reported 
 missing, the greater part have never been heard from. 
 Shot down in the dense woods through which we had 
 charged they had fallen and died unobserved by any of 
 their comrades ; and the only record which can ever be 
 made of their fate is, that they were "missing in action." 
 
 Twenty - one commissioned officers went into the fight 
 with the Second, and of these ten were killed or wounded. 
 Lieutenants ROGERS and MOORE were killed, and Captain 
 LITTLEFIELD was mortally wounded ; Lieutenant HOL- 
 MAN received a terrible wound in the thigh, which inca 
 pacitated him from ever performing duty in the field; 
 Lieutenant COOPER, shot through the right lung, was at 
 first reported mortally wounded, but finally recovered ; 
 and Lieutenants BALLARD, ROBERTS, STEELE, YOUNG 
 and GORDON were all slightly wounded. 
 
 The habitual smile for once vanished from GROVER S 
 face. MARSTON could hardly restrain the tears when he 
 visited the hospital where so many of his men were lying 
 mutilated and bleeding ; and HOOKER, when he saw the 
 fate of his old brigade, murmured sadly, "Too bad! too 
 bad ! My brave men !" 
 
 That night our entire division slept just to the rear of 
 our line of batteries, upon the identical spot where the 
 Second Regiment had formed its first line of battle in the 
 fight of 1861. Our batteries were exchanging shots with 
 the rebel guns until late into the evening, when darkness 
 closed the first day s work of the Second Bull Run Battle. 
 
 The forenoon of the thirtieth passed very quietly, but 
 about two o clock in the afternoon the battle was renewed, 
 upon the ridge to the south, where MCDOWELL S Corp s 
 was formed in line of battle. LEE, descending through 
 
SECOND BULL RUN. 107 
 
 the gaps in the Blue Ridge, had arrived upon the field 
 with his entire army, and was directing his battalions 
 against this portion of our line. A long line of forest, 
 which we could see in the distance, screened the move 
 ments of his troops from our observation, while the whole 
 extent and formation of MCDOWELL S line could be easily 
 observed from elevated points within his lines. A few 
 shells from a rebel battery, which suddenly appeared in 
 the edge of these woods, created an immense commotion 
 among MCDOWELL S men, and they streamed to the rear 
 in numbers which suggested to our minds either that there 
 must have been an extraordinary proportion of camp fol 
 lowers, cooks, waiters and other non-combatants, or 
 that those whose business it was to do the fighting were 
 deserting their posts upon the approach of danger. 
 McDowELL, ever unfortunate, did not possess the confi 
 dence of his men, and hundreds and thousands deserted 
 their posts without a show of fighting, most of them only 
 too glad to excuse their shameful cowardice by declaring 
 that it was of no use to fight where McDowELL led, for 
 the day was sure to go against them. So much the more 
 credit to those who stood and maintained the battle 
 bravely, even though they may not have had the fullest 
 confidence in the abilities of their general. 
 
 By four o clock the engagement had extended along the 
 whole line, and the thunder of battle shook the earth. 
 HOOKER S division watched the progress of the conflict 
 with intense interest. Regiment after regiment marched 
 up the slope to reinforce the battling line, with ranks 
 splendidly formed, bayonets glistening in the sun, and 
 banners floating proudly on the summer air. The Old 
 Flag was gallantly sustained, and at times our hopes were 
 
108 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 bright that the results of the battle might be a brilliant 
 victory. Officers mentioned the names of PORTER, SUM- 
 NER and FRANKLIN, and spoke of the thousands of men 
 they would shortly bring into the fight ; but most of these 
 troops were nearer Washington than the battle field, and 
 PORTER, upon whom more depended than upon almost 
 any other man, was committing that unpardonable crime 
 which his friends can neither excuse nor palliate. 
 
 Suddenly the orders rang out for our division to "fall 
 in," for the rebels were advancing upon our immediate 
 front from a point near the village of Groveton. Our 
 batteries rapidly replied to a rebel battery which opened 
 upon them, and the division hastened forward to repel the 
 threatened attack, which proved to have been only a feint, 
 as the rebel force quickly disappeared back into the woods 
 from which it had emerged. 
 
 This affair was hardly over before an aide of Gen. 
 HOOKER dashed up with orders for the entire division to 
 report upon "the other hill" immediately. Batteries 
 were limbered up in a hurry, and we moved rapidly in 
 the direction indicated. 
 
 In the movements of the troops we could now read the 
 sad fact that the day was against us, that POPE, de 
 serted by those upon whom he had too implicitly relied, 
 was withdrawing his forces rapidly from the unequal fight. 
 Moving from one point to another the brigade formed 
 several lines of battle, and, as a curious coincidence, it 
 may be mentioned that the last line formed by the Sec 
 ond Regiment in this fight was upon the identical spot 
 where in the first battle of Bull Run it had paid its fare 
 well compliments to the enemy, in the deep - gullied road 
 where Companies B and I had maintained themselves 
 
SECOND BULL RUN. 109 
 
 until forced from their position by JOHNSTON S arrival 
 upon the field. 
 
 That night the army fell back to Centreville. We 
 forded Bull Run Creek where the water was waist deep, 
 and traveled rapidly in this second retreat from the ill- 
 fated battle ground; but although the road was crowded 
 with troops, with wagons and batteries of artillery, all 
 pressing forward as fast as possible, there was but little 
 confusion, and not a sign of the panic which had ani 
 mated the former retreat. 
 
 The army occupied the old rebel works upon Centre 
 ville Heights and invited an attack, which the rebels were 
 wise enough to decline. But on the first day of October 
 they attempted to get possession of the road between 
 Centreville and Fairfax Court House, and the divisions of 
 HOOKER, KEARNEY and STEVENS were sent to the threat 
 ened point. The battle of Chantilly ensued, and the 
 rebels were driven back, but not until two of the division 
 generals had been killed, STEVENS and KEARNEY. But 
 few men could have been more sincerely mourned by our 
 division than was the latter of these. Brave and chiv- 
 alric, his soul a brand of patriotic fire, no brighter model 
 of northern chivalry can be named than one -armed PHIL. 
 KEARNEY. Commanding the twin division of HEINTZEL- 
 MAN S Corps, his name and HOOKER S had been indis- 
 solubly bound together in the history of many a hard- 
 fought battle, and his form was familiar to the men of 
 our division, as with his reins in his teeth and his lone 
 arm swinging his sword in air, he led his men into battle. 
 Farthest from the scene of action when HOOKER opened 
 the ball at Williamsburg, and yet the first to come to his 
 assistance, the same spirit which actuated him then cost 
 
110 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 him his life at Chantilly. It is reported that STEVENS, 
 when he became aware of the numbers opposed to him, 
 sent to other generals for assistance. His appeal was 
 put off successively by one general after another, until it 
 came to KEARNEY, but there it met a hearty response. 
 "Yes," exclaimed the general; " I wont refuse to stand 
 by STEVENS." And not an hour had passed before he lay 
 dead within the rebel lines. The next morning his body 
 was sent into our lines, to be mourned over by the brave 
 men of his division, by the army, and by the entire loyal 
 North. 
 
 This battle was fought in the midst of a cold drizzling 
 rain, which soaked to the skin and rendered our condition 
 as uncomfortable as could well be imagined. The brigade 
 was in a position covering the road over which our trains 
 were crowding towards Washington, and with pickets 
 thrown out into the woods upon our front, we stood in 
 line, cold and shivering, while the battle was being fought 
 upon the right. Numbers of the wounded passed us on 
 their way to Centreville to find hospitals, and also many 
 demoralized skulkers, who could tell much more about the 
 fight than those who had been "facing the music" of the 
 rebel bullets. A mounted officer, a lieutenant, claiming 
 to have been the adjutant of one of the regiments en 
 gaged, furnished an immense fund of amusement for our 
 boys to enliven their cheerless position. His regiment 
 had been "all cut to pieces," and hardly a man had es 
 caped to tell the tale, so he informed us, and while 
 he made great efforts to appear wholly unconcerned, the 
 men quickly realized the true state of his mind, and went 
 to work to harrow up his already over - tasked feelings. 
 He made particular inquiries as to the roads in the vi- 
 
SECOND BULL RUN. Ill 
 
 cinity, where they led to, whether there were any rebels 
 on them, and so on, and the men were very communica 
 tive, in fact much more so than usual on these points. 
 The poor fellow s eyes distended wider and wider with 
 fear as the appalling dangers of the situation were nar 
 rated to him, and, to tell the truth, had half the stories 
 he swallowed so readily been true, no earthly power could 
 have saved us from annihilation. 
 
 The fighting was kept up long after the darkness of 
 night had come, but when the firing had ceased and the 
 rebels, thwarted and beaten, had retired from the field, 
 we were withdrawn from the position we had held, and 
 marched to a point near the scene of the battle, where 
 was spent a cheerless and uncomfortable night, one - third 
 of the men remaining under arms, while the remainder 
 sought rest and sleep, although exposed to a pelting rain. 
 
 Two days later, on the afternoon of the third, the di 
 vision arrived at Alexandria, where for a time it formed a 
 portion of Gen. BANKS Corps, occupying Washington 
 and its defences, while the army was engaged in the cam 
 paign which at the great battle of Antietam, so gloriously 
 turned back the tide of rebel invasion from northern soil. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 FROM ALEXANDRIA TO F A L M U T H . 
 
 EN. HOOKER having been appointed 
 to the command of MCDOWELL S old 
 corps, the command of our division 
 devolved upon Gen. SICKLES; but 
 though our new commander was de 
 servedly popular with his men, yet 
 the division still proudly bore the 
 name of "HOOKER S Division," al 
 lowing no other name to usurp the 
 place of his who, taking it in its in 
 fancy, had trained and reared it in 
 the art of war, and led it forth a giant in strength to glo 
 rious victory. At the same time the brigade lost its gen 
 eral, GROVER, he being appointed to a more important 
 command in another department. 
 
 Our duty was by no means light while we remained in 
 Alexandria. After camping for a few days near Fort 
 Lyon, we removed to Fairfax Seminary, and then com 
 menced an almost uninterrupted round of duty. With 
 
ALEXANDRIA TO FALMOUTH. 113 
 
 our small number of men we were obliged to maintain a 
 very long picket line, about two miles out from camp, and 
 large details were made daily from the division to dig 
 upon the forts and other works in the vicinity. So we 
 were not sorry when, on the first day of November, the 
 division broke camp and took up its line of march in the 
 direction of Manassas, which place we occupied on the 
 third, while SIGEL S Corps was pushed forward to take 
 possession of the important passes in the Blue Ridge. 
 Our duty now consisted of guarding the line of the rail 
 road to Alexandria, and for this purpose the division was 
 scattered in detachments at the most important points. 
 The Second Regiment, with a battery, was sent to occupy 
 the heights of Centreville. A section of artillery was 
 placed in each of three redoubts, which, forming the 
 points of a triangle of works, supported each other, and 
 commanded the country about, and upon the area inclosed 
 by this great triangle the regiment was encamped. 
 
 The log barracks built and formerly occupied by the 
 rebels, were still standing, and from the doors, shelves, 
 tables and other articles containing boards we soon 
 erected comfortable quarters little huts, warm and dry, 
 accommodating from one to a half dozen persons, with 
 fireplaces of stone or brick, and with wood enough close 
 at hand to have supplied the whole army, in the old bar 
 racks of the enemy. 
 
 On the seventh came the first snow - storm of the sea 
 son, and the sentinels who from the three redoubts sur 
 veyed the country beneath, its hills and valleys and roads 
 and fields, to detect the first sign of any hostile approach, 
 were by no means to be envied in their exposed position. 
 At night the men in camp kept close within their snug 
 
114 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 shanties, listened to the dismal howling of the wind out 
 side, and basked in the genial warmth of the fires which 
 blazed in their rude fireplaces, and above all thanked their 
 lucky stars that they were not detailed for guard that 
 night. 
 
 We furnished a provost guard for the village of Centre- 
 ville, and occasionally an escort for a wagon train going 
 to MCCLELLAN or SIGEL, and all in all, our duties, though 
 well performed, were light, and the time passed very 
 pleasantly. Many of the men visited the battle field of 
 Bull Run, either to gratify their curiosity or to identify 
 the remains of comrades who had fallen in the two bat 
 tles. A few bodies were identified, among which was 
 that of Orderly Sergeant FRANK O. ROBINSON, which 
 was first recognized by the teeth, and then, after a re 
 moval of dirt from the breast, by his name marked upon 
 the shirt. The sword scabbard of Lieut. NORTON R. 
 MOORE was also found near the spot where he fell. 
 
 We remained at Centreville until the eighteenth, when 
 we marched to join the main army at Falmouth, then 
 under command of Gen. BURNSIDE, who had superseded 
 Gen. McC LELLAN. One of SIGEL S regiments was to 
 garrison the heights and occupy the little huts we had 
 erected, which arrangement was not to the liking of some 
 of our men, who declared that if they had been contin 
 ually engaged in digging trenches for other troops to fight 
 behind, they were not willing also to build barracks for 
 them to live in. This was, of course, a foolish spirit, 
 but when we consider that some of the men had but just 
 completed their houses after a great deal of labor, it will 
 be seen that it was also a very natural one. So many of 
 these cross - grained fellows applied the torch to the dry 
 
ALEXANDRIA TO FALMOUTH. 115 
 
 boards of which the huts were composed, and we left 
 Centre ville amidst clouds of smoke, and followed by the 
 curses of a half dozen Dutch officers, who were running 
 around briskly among the burning buildings and pouring 
 forth in broken English their maledictions upon the " tarn 
 rascals who had purned up their men s shanties." 
 
 During the first halt after leaving Centreville, one of 
 those laughable incidents occurred which furnish such a 
 fund of amusement to enliven the dull passages of sol 
 dier life. Newspapers had been a rarity in our regiment 
 for some time, and we were almost entirely in the dark as 
 to the movements of the outside world. One of the men, 
 espying a piece of newspaper near where he was resting, 
 picked it up and glanced at it. . Halloo !" he exclaimed, 
 " if here aren t a paper with the latest news from the seat 
 of war. Let me see dated the thirteenth; well, that s 
 not very old, is it!" and while the men clustered around 
 he began to read an article which from the liberal display 
 of headings promised to be of unusual importance. 
 " SHERMAN S EXPEDITION," was the opening, and the 
 sage remark passed around the circle without dissent, 
 that " they knew BURNSIDE would get up some kind of 
 an expedition as soon as they heard he had command of 
 the army." The "sub-headings" were gone through 
 with, and the man was busy reading the dispatches, when 
 one of the listeners remarked that it sounded most amaz 
 ingly like something he had read before. " What did you 
 say the date of that paper was ?" inquired another, over 
 whose face a broad grin was beginning to creep. "The 
 thirteenth November thirteenth!" "Yes but the 
 year?" "The year! why this year of course here it 
 is 18 what! hang me if it aren t 1861; and hero 
 
116 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 I ve been reading all about SHERMAN S expedition to 
 Port Royal just one year ago." "Fall in!" shouted the 
 colonel at this moment ; and the column was formed amid 
 shouts of laughter and loud calls for the latest news from 
 "SHERMAN S expedition." 
 
 The second day s march brought the division to Wolf 
 Run Shoals, a ford upon Occoquan Creek, not far from 
 where it empties into the Potomac. This place, present 
 ing the greatest natural advantages as a defensive position 
 had been occupied and fortified by the rebels the winter 
 previous. The creek here rushed down through the 
 rocky gorges and clefts of the precipitous hills, which upon 
 either side were covered with dense forests, forming as 
 wild a scene as could well be imagined, and it was well 
 deserving of its name, " Wolf Run." Upon the hill com 
 manding the ford from the south the rebels had erected 
 two rough redoubts, and between these and the creek a 
 line of rifle pits extended through an abqtis of slashed 
 timber. So precipitous were the hills that in many places 
 their ascent was next to impossible, and at night the men 
 of our brigade, camped below the redoubts, beheld the 
 camp-fires of the remainder of the division, upon the 
 hill, as if they had been huge torches suspended in mid 
 air almost directly overhead. 
 
 We remained at Wolf Run Shoals four days, when we 
 continued our march on through Dumfries, which was 
 directly opposite our camp at Budd s Ferry, the preceding 
 winter, and had then been the goal of our desires, and on 
 the twenty - eighth we joined the army at Falmouth. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF F K E D E R I C K S 33 U R G . 
 
 a fortnight we lay inactive in our 
 camp about two miles below Falmouth, 
 although daily expecting a movement, as 
 it was not thought BUENSIDE would put 
 his army into winter quarters, even if the 
 delay in the arrival of his pontoons had 
 enabled the enemy to possess the heights 
 of Fredericksburg, which he had contem 
 plated occupying when his rapid move 
 ment was made from Warrenton. 
 
 From the steep bluffs upon the Fal 
 mouth side of the river we could look down upon the city 
 of Fredericksburg, and with a glass could even read the 
 names upon the signs in the business streets. Groups of 
 sight - seers collected daily upon these commanding posi 
 tions and watched the rebels moving about the town or 
 across the fields which afterwards became so memorable 
 as the scene of SUMMER S furious assault. 
 
 Under Gen. BUK^SIDE the army was organized into 
 
118 SECOND N, H, REGIMENT, 
 
 three Grand Divisions, SUMNER commanding the right, 
 HOOKER the centre, and FRANKLIN the left. Our corps, 
 commanded by Gen. STONEMAN, and consisting of the 
 two divisions of HEINTZELMAN S old corps, with the ad 
 dition of a new division under Gen. WHIPPLE, waa 
 attached to the Centre Grand Division. 
 
 On the eleventh of December, 1862, commenced the 
 battle of Fredericksburg. At early dawn we were up, 
 and with everything packed in readiness for a movement, 
 when the roar of guns in the direction of Fredericksburg 
 greeted our ears, the sounds reverberating along the 
 Falmouth bluffs in a thousand echoes at every discharge. 
 We moved to within about a mile of the river, there to 
 await our turn at crossing as soon as the pontoon bridges 
 should have been laid. The incidents of the day are well 
 known. The engineer corps made repeated attempts to 
 lay the pontoons but were repeatedly driven from their 
 work by the rebel sharpshooters upon the opposite bank. 
 A furious cannonade was opened upon the rebels from a 
 hundred and fifty pieces of artillery, from which the city 
 was set on fire in many places, and the rebel riflemen 
 forced to keep under cover until the fire slackened and 
 the engineers again resumed their work, when they would 
 emerge from their hiding places and drive the pontoniers 
 from their labors. This was repeated again and again, 
 until a forlorn hope of brave men, seized with a sudden 
 inspiration, leaped into the pontoon boats, pushed across 
 the river, and charging up the steep bank drove the rebel 
 riflemen from their position. The bridges were soon 
 completed, and troops enough pushed across to maintain 
 the foothold so much time had been "wasted to gain. 
 
 The next day was a busy one. Our army pressed 
 
BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 119 
 
 across the river in long columns, SUMNER, crossing upon 
 the right near the city, and FRANKLIN some two miles 
 farther down the river, while HOOKER S Grand Division 
 was held in reserve upon the Falmouth side. Our di 
 vision was for a time massed upon the bluffs directly 
 opposite the town, from which point all the movements of 
 SUMNER S Division could be distinctly observed, while at 
 the same time we were in full view of the rebels upon the 
 opposite heights. Their artillery shelled the pontoons 
 upon which SUMNER was crossing, and occasionally one 
 of their shots would strike near where we lay, but we 
 were at too great a distance for them to shell us with any 
 effect from their field-pieces. 
 
 In the afternoon we were marched toward the lower 
 pontoons, which we crossed during the night, after having 
 waded through the oceans of mud to reach them. 
 
 On Thursday, the thirteenth, the grand attack was 
 made to carry the heights. The Second was left to guard 
 the bridges, and thus while doing our duty, we had a 
 chance to watch the progress of the fight without sharing 
 its dangers. From the river s bank we could plainly see 
 the forces engaged upon the left, but upon the right we 
 could only see the crest from which the rebel batteries 
 were pouring death into the ranks of SUMNER S brave 
 division, the movements of our troops being hidden from 
 view by the trees upon the plain and by the shattered 
 buildings of Fredericksburg. But from the incessant vol 
 leys of musketry, and from the lively way in which the 
 rebel guns were working, we knew that a desperate effort 
 was being made to carry the heights. Rebel signal flags 
 waved at various points along the ridge, and some of our 
 heavy guns, planted upon the Falmouth heights, threw 
 
120 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 their shells across the river and over the heads of SUM- 
 NEK S men into the rebel works. But though the Right 
 Grand Division did everything and dared everything that 
 a devoted heroism could prompt them to do, it was worse 
 than useless, for while thousands of their killed and 
 wounded marked the spot where they had fought so 
 bravely, the rebels, who had suffered comparatively but 
 small loss, retained full possession of the heights. 
 
 The fighting also was furious upon the left, and during 
 a charge made by one of our brigades, an entire North 
 Carolina Regiment was taken prisoners. They were 
 brought to the vicinity of the bridges, guarded by a de 
 tachment from RUSH S Pennsylvania Lancers. The 
 lieutenant colonel who had commanded the regiment ap 
 peared to feel keenly the disaster to his command, and 
 was making strong efforts to discover how the thing was 
 done. It appeared that the rebels were lying flat upon 
 the ground in a dense growth of bushes, when our regi 
 ments charged so suddenly upon them that they were 
 taken unawares, and gave up without firing a shot. The 
 lieutenant colonel would have it that some one of his reg 
 iment called out "Don t fire; they are our own men," 
 when the Yankees charged down upon them, by which 
 means the volley which should have checked the charge 
 was prevented. To discover who the " traitor" was he 
 made diligent inquiries among his men, but failed to find 
 out the offender. 
 
 In no position did we ever witness such a mixture of 
 sad and of ludicrous incidents as at the bridges. No 
 man, except the wounded or those who had passes from 
 the proper authority, was allowed to cross to the Fal- 
 mouth side, yet that fact did not prevent scores of "lay- 
 
BATTLE OF FKEDEKICKSBURG. 121 
 
 backs" from attempting to pass the guards upon one pre 
 text or another. These men generally claimed to have 
 been wounded, and while their faces indicated that they 
 were suffering the most intense pain, they would show 
 the hole through their clothing where the bullet had en 
 tered, and even stains of blood. A close inspection gen 
 erally discovered these holes to extend no farther than the 
 skin, and the blood to be that of some braver comrade 
 who had been wounded in the fight. Every man who 
 came along was examined by the guard the wounded 
 passed on, and the sneaks were sent back to the front. 
 
 At about sunset a furious artillery duel was fought 
 upon the left, lasting but a short time, but resulting in 
 the death of Gen. BAYARD, who, as the youngest general 
 in the service, had already achieved an enviable name in 
 connection with its cavalry arm. This affair is of interest 
 to New Hampshire readers, as it was here the "Man 
 chester Battery" was hotly engaged, and lost several men. 
 
 About midnight we were relieved of our duty at the 
 bridges by the Second New York Regiment, and marched 
 to the front to participate in the expected battle of the 
 morrow. We joined the brigade in a cornfield at the exr 
 treme front, which had been trampled by horses and men 
 and cut up by wheels until the mud stood ankle -deep. 
 We formed to the rear of the Twenty -Sixth Pennsylva 
 nia, and those who were fastidious about making their 
 beds in the soft mud of the field, entered into conversa 
 tion with the Pennsylvania boys, who were under arms 
 ready to awake their slumbering comrades upon warning 
 from the pickets. Our pickets were about two hundred 
 yards to the front, and the rebels were within easy rifle 
 shot. In fact, although the brigade had not been engaged 
 
 
 
122 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 the day previous, the rebel sharpshooters had picked off 
 some twenty -five men from the Twenty - Sixth as they 
 lay in the line df battle. The enemy s camp fires, gleam 
 ing upon the hills to our front, seemed so near that we 
 might almost have thrown a stone into them from the 
 hand, and the bullets fired by their pickets whistled over 
 our heads and struck in the fields far to our rear. 
 
 As the light of morn gradually approached the firing of 
 the pickets became brisker; and to inaugurate the day, 
 as the sun arose the rebels ran out a battery a few hun 
 dred yards to our front and commenced to shell the brig 
 ade. Several men had been wounded, when Gen. GARB, 
 ordered Col. MARSTOX to send out twenty or thirty rifle 
 men to silence the battery, and Company B was ordered 
 to advance and pick off the gunners. Deploying as skir 
 mishers, they advanced, and soon their Sharp s rifles were 
 cracking briskly along their picket line. The rebel artil 
 lerymen could not stand the fire of the New Hampshire 
 riflemen, and their battery was whisked out of range as 
 fast as the horses could haul the guns. 
 
 The skirmish thus inaugurated was kept up until nearly 
 night, the regiment having one company out at a time, 
 relieving as fast as ammunition was exhausted. The po 
 sition in front of the Second offered many good places for 
 skirmishers to conceal themselves. There was the soli 
 tary, fire - blackened chimney, without which no Virginia 
 scene would have been complete, the massive gateposts 
 on either side of the road, the pile of lumber in the fields 
 upon the right, and the ditches running at right angles 
 with the rebel lines, from which a dozen men, lying one 
 behind another and firing over each other s heads, kept a 
 stream of bullets pouring down the road, that being the 
 
BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 123 
 
 only way in which the rebels could be prevented from 
 getting a raking fire down the ditch. 
 
 About a dozen of the regiment were wounded during 
 the day, among whom was Sergeant CHARLES VICKERY. 
 His position as "left general guide" would have excused 
 him from the fight when the entire regiment was not 
 engaged, but when his company ( I ) began to deploy, he 
 would not think of being left behind, and taking his 
 position in the line, advanced with it. Taking shelter 
 behind the pile of lumber before spoken of, he was care 
 fully reconnoitering the position, when a rebel rifleman 
 sighted him and sent a bullet straight towards his heart. 
 But the brass eagle -plate upon his cross -belt interposed, 
 and the bullet, warded from the vital part, glanced and 
 buried itself in his neck, inflicting a severe but not fatal 
 wound. 
 
 Near four o clock in the afternoon a rebel officer came 
 out with a flag of truce, and the firing ceased immedi 
 ately. A truce had been established by FRANKLIX upon 
 our left some time before, for the purpose of removing 
 the wounded and burying the dead who lay between the 
 lines, and though his skirmishers had shouted until they 
 were hoarse for us to cease firing, the boys had kept 
 industriously popping away, as did the rebels in our front. 
 Yet, but a few minutes after the white flag appeared, the 
 men who had been so busily engaged during the day in 
 shooting at each other, laid down their arms and mingled 
 together as cordially as though they had always been the 
 best of friends. The rebels exchanged tobacco for coffee, 
 and their papers for such as we happened to have. One 
 of our boys had a copy of Harper s Weekly, with illus 
 trations of the war, which excited much interest among 
 
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 the rebels, who crowded around to see the pictures. A 
 broad caricature upon the Confederacy was greeted with 
 shouts of laughter, the rebels appearing to enjoy it as 
 much as we did ourselves. 
 
 Notes were compared as to the result of the firing dur 
 ing the day, and they acknowledged a considerable loss. 
 The captain of the battery which had greeted us in the 
 morning, when informed that it was a New Hampshire 
 company which drove him from his position, told us 
 that one of his men killed at that time was from New 
 Hampshire. Thus a renegade son of the old Granite 
 State, received from her loyal sons the punishment due 
 for his treachery. 
 
 There was considerable bantering and jesting between 
 the men. "What makes your folks leave us so many 
 good clothes and fine blankets?" enquired an unshorn 
 confederate, who looked as if good clothes had not trou 
 bled him for some time. "We obey the injunction to 
 clothe the naked and feed the hungry. But, I say, 
 Johnny, what made you keep your stretchers so busy over 
 there to-day?" "Why, the fact is, your fellows were 
 such good shots that they treed some of our men out 
 skirmishing, so that they couldn t get away without being 
 shot ; so they stayed out till they starved to death ! " 
 
 Before parting, a mutual agreement was entered upon, 
 that no more picket firing should take place unless an 
 advance was made, and we accepted the polite invitation 
 of the rebels to " call the next day." 
 
 Sunday and Monday, fourteenth and fifteenth, we lay 
 upon the plains inviting an attack, and Monday night the 
 army was withdrawn across the river to its old position, 
 in perfect order and leaving no material for the enemy. 
 
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 The night was favorable for such a movement, rainy and 
 dark, with a high wind blowing, which drowned the noise 
 of rumbling wheels and tramping columns, and the first 
 intimation the rebels received of our departure, was when 
 the morning light revealed to them the unoccupied plains, 
 and the long lines of blue - clad soldiers disappearing over 
 the heights upon the other side of the river. But the 
 movement did not surprise the rebels more than it did 
 some of our own pickets, who in the morning found 
 themselves entirely without reserves, and many of whom 
 arrived at the river s bank just in season to cross upon 
 the pontoons before they were taken up. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 FALMOUTH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 HE new year, 1863, opened upon the 
 army at Falmouth, passing its time in 
 reviews and drills, and preparing against 
 the rains and snows of winter, until the 
 twentieth of January, when the move 
 ment familiarly known as " BTJRNSIDE S 
 mud scrape" was commenced. Gen. 
 BURNSIDE had, the day before, issued 
 an address to the army, informing them 
 that they were about to be led against 
 the enemy, and calling upon them to 
 fight with all their old spirit and enthusiasm. 
 
 On the twentieth the division left camp and marched 
 about two miles in the direction of Falmouth, where, 
 after shivering for hours in a cold rain, the men, at nine 
 o clock in the evening, were marched back to camp. On 
 the morning of the twenty -first the division was again on 
 the move, and marched about six miles in the direction of 
 the fords at which Gen. BURXSIDE designed to cross the 
 
FALMOUTH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 127 
 
 army, encamping in dense pine woods. The day was 
 rainy, and the roads soon became broad beds of mud, 
 through which the men made their way with the utmost 
 difficulty, and the mules and horses attached to the artil 
 lery and wagons floundered and struggled in vain en 
 deavors to drag their loads where they could not easily 
 have made their way unencumbered. Light field -pieces, 
 with a dozen horses attached to them, were stuck fast in 
 the mud, and the wagons composing the unwieldly pon 
 toon train were scattered at various points along the 
 route. The rebels soon found out the state of affairs in 
 our army, and strongly guarded the fords. An attempt 
 to advance was now worse than useless, and, in fact, to 
 return to the camp we had left and take with us our 
 heavy trains was no easy matter. On the twenty - second, 
 details from the division were busy corduroying the roads, 
 and on the twenty - third the troops returned to their old 
 camp, the sun, which had for several days hid itself from 
 sight, dispersing the clouds and shining warm and clear 
 as soon as the retrograde movement was begun. 
 
 Shortly after this Gen. BUKNSIDE was relieved of the 
 command of the army, and the men of the division with 
 pride saw their old general assigned to the position. Re 
 forms were immediately inaugurated, extending into the 
 minutest details of camp life, which served to inspire the 
 army with the knowledge that their new leader was mas 
 ter of the situation. The organization of the army into 
 three grand divisions was abolished, and the army corps, 
 of three divisions each, designated by numbers. A sys 
 tem of corps badges was established the lozenge for the 
 First, the trefoil for the Second, and so on the glorious 
 old diamond, the brilliant of them all, being the emblem 
 
128 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 which the Third Corps, commanded by SICKLES, made as 
 proud a decoration as was the cross of honor to the 
 French soldiers of Napoleon. 
 
 The time passed with alternate seasons of snow and 
 rain and mud, of drills, inspections and picket tours, until 
 Thursday, the twenty - sixth of February, when one of 
 the most important movements in the history of the Sec 
 ond began, the return to New Hampshire of the entire 
 regiment upon furlough. The intense joy with which we 
 greeted the order for the regiment to " report to Maj. Gen. 
 JOHN E. WOOL, commanding Department of the East," 
 can never be realized by outsiders ; and though the roads 
 were muddy and the knapsacks heavy, there was no strag 
 gling from the ranks when the regiment marched to 
 " Stoneman s Switch," there to take the cars for Belle 
 Plains. 
 
 On the morning of the twenty - seventh we moved to 
 the " Soldiers Rest" from the boat which had conveyed 
 us from Aquia Creek, and on the following day started 
 for Philadelphia, where we arrived Sunday morning, and 
 were furnished with dinner at the "Soldier s Refreshment 
 Saloon." Monday we arrived in New York, and on Tues 
 day morning again set foot upon the soil of our native 
 New England, and inhaled her free and bracing air. Our 
 friends at Boston greeted us on our return as warmly as 
 twenty months before they had bidden us "Godspeed" 
 upon our mission, and at Faneuil Hall spread a collation 
 which furnished a strange contrast to our accustomed 
 army fare. 
 
 But it was in our own State, at our own homes, we re 
 ceived our warmest welcome. At nine o clock, Tuesday 
 evening, the train bearing the regiment thundered into 
 
FALMOUTH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 129 
 
 the depot at Manchester, and the men, thronging from 
 the cars, met such a reception as they could have received 
 from none but their "own people." Salvos of artillery 
 pealed out on the night air, and escorted by a grand pro 
 cession the regiment proceeded to Smyth s Hall, where 
 tables were spread with a profuseness which might have 
 supplied the wants of two half- starved regiments instead 
 of one which had been feasted in Boston but a few hours 
 before. The galleries were filled with the lady friends 
 and relatives of the soldiers, most of whom had shown 
 their pluck by maintaining their position manfully 
 hour after hour, even before the regiment had arrived in 
 Boston. Mayor ABBOT welcomed the regiment in a neat 
 speech, which was responded to by Lieut. Col. BAILEY, 
 when the men accepted the invitation to attack the eata 
 bles which the ladies had bountifully spread upon the 
 long tables. The wants of the inner man being supplied, 
 Hon. FREDERICK SMYTH was introduced as toast-master, 
 and short speeches by men of the regiment and by citi 
 zens, with responses to patriotic sentiments, filled up the 
 time until a late hour, when the men scattered to seek 
 the more welcome reception awaiting them upon the 
 thresholds of their own homes. 
 
 The next day was a gala day at Concord, and the re 
 ception was upon a magnificent scale, consisting of a 
 grand procession, dinner at the hotels, and speeches of 
 welcome. Gen. WOOL was there to add eclat to the 
 occasion, and everything passed off to the unbounded 
 satisfaction of all concerned. 
 
 The headquarters of the regiment were established at 
 Concord ; and while seven companies were stationed at 
 that place, three companies (D, E and K,) were sent to 
 
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130 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 Portsmouth and quartered at Fort Constitution. Fur 
 loughs for a few days were granted, which were usually 
 extended for as many weeks by the men, who preferred 
 the comforts and pleasures of home to the rough accom 
 modations which the barracks afforded. But though 
 many members of the regiment visited Canada, the refuge 
 of sneaks and runaways, the first call for the regiment to 
 assemble, preparatory to returning to the seat of war, 
 brought these men from the shelter of the "neutral" soil 
 once more to take their places beneath the old flag, and 
 to share its dangers and its glories. 
 
 Before leaving the State the Seventeenth Regiment, 
 numbering about one hundred and fifty men, was consoli 
 dated with our regiment, after the officers of the former 
 commissioned and non-commissioned had been dis 
 charged. The men at first were very unwilling to consent 
 to any such arrangement, and stuck up placards which 
 read, " The Seventeenth or nothing," which the veterans 
 of the Second read and commented on by remarking that 
 " there was not much choice between the two," which was 
 supposed to be sufficiently sarcastic upon the men who 
 were unwilling to become members of such a regiment as 
 the Second. But when we returned we took them with 
 us, and during the nine months they served with us no 
 more faithful men were found in the ranks ; and at Gettys 
 burg they distinguished themselves by their good behavior 
 and lost a large proportion of their number. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE MARCH TO GETTYSBURG. 
 
 EMAINING at home until the twenty - 
 fifth of May, we set out to return to 
 Washington, where we arrived on the 
 twenty -eighth, and went into camp on 
 East Capitol Hill. Here we remained 
 until the eleventh of June, when we took 
 steamer for Aquia Creek, once more to 
 join the Army of the Potomac. The 
 strategic movements which finally cul 
 minated in the battle of Gettysburg had 
 already commenced, and when at about 
 dark we arrived at Stoneman s Switch the deserted camps 
 in the vicinity proclaimed that the army had gone. The 
 next day, however, we were once more with our old com 
 rades, joining the Excelsior Brigade at Hartwood Church, 
 nine miles above Falmouth. On the thirteenth we joined 
 the Jersey Brigade, to which we were attached as long as 
 we remained with the Army of the Potomac. We made 
 on that day a march of nearly thirty miles, to Rappahan- 
 
132 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 nock Station, where we remained during the following 
 day, in the evening of which we commenced one of the 
 most trying marches we ever made. Although under 
 arms at sunset we were not on our way until nearly ten 
 o clock, when, striking the railroad, we followed that in 
 the direction of Warrenton Junction. 
 
 The division was marching rapidly along the track, 
 with its unceasing tramp, tramp, tramp of thousands of 
 feet, and the monotonous clatter of tin dippers against 
 bayonets and canteens, when the horses attached to a 
 caisson of one of the batteries became frightened and 
 unmanageable, and dashed through the column near the 
 head of the Second Regiment, making a furious clatter 
 and severely injuring one or two men who could not get 
 out of the way with sufficient agility. The men in the 
 immediate vicinity scattered in every direction to escape 
 injury from the frightened brutes. Those farther beyond, 
 who could hear but not see the cause of the commotion, 
 naturally supposed that some infernal rebel trap had been 
 sprung, and when they saw the men in that direction 
 scattering for the bushes they followed suit. The stam 
 pede spread from company to company, and from regi 
 ment to regiment, through the whole division, the men 
 seeking shelter from the unseen danger in wild flight. 
 Officers shouted "Halt! Halt!" at the top of their 
 voices, at the same time running away as fast as any of 
 their men. In such a pellmell rush there were naturally 
 many collisions the men could not get out of each oth 
 er s way fast enough and the ditches upon either side 
 of the road were filled with prostrate forms, writhing and 
 kicking, scratching and clawing like a nest of Kilkenny 
 cats. Those who got beyond the ditches generally brought 
 
MARCH TO GETTYSBURG. 
 
 133 
 
 up over a stump or log, which sent them sprawling in one 
 direction while guns and other loose articles flew in an 
 other. Never, in its fiercest rights, had the division seen 
 as many men fall in so short a time as on this occasion. 
 But the panic was soon over, and the men came swarming 
 back upon the railroad. Then came loud calls for miss 
 ing articles. "Where s my gun?" "Who s seen any 
 thing of a stray hat?" " My haversack and three days 
 rations missing liberal reward!" and so on. Many of 
 the men were obliged to resume the march minus these 
 articles ; and if some relic seeker should light upon the 
 spot where the stampede occurred he would doubtless 
 consult his note -book to discover what great battle was 
 fought between Warrenton and Rappahannock Station, 
 and might collect relics enough to furnish any museum of 
 moderate pretensions. The uninitiated may laugh at this 
 affair, and call it a " cowardly skedaddle," but they must 
 bear in mind that the men engaged in it were the same 
 who had borne the brunt at Williamsburg, who at Chan- 
 cellorsville had stemmed the tide of disaster which threat 
 ened to engulf all, forming with their bayonets a bulwark 
 against which the exultant legions of JACKSON hurled 
 themselves in vain, and who afterwards at Gettysburg 
 fought with a desperation which was never excelled dur 
 ing the war. 
 
 At Warrenton Junction, where the division arrived the 
 next morning, we rested for a few hours, when the march 
 was again resumed toward Manassas, down the railroad 
 and over the same route we had before traveled on the 
 day of the battle of Bristow Station. As on that day 
 many men were sunstruck, but the column was pushed 
 wearily on, mile after mile, hour after hour, until at mid- 
 
134 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 night the halt was sounded within the line of works 
 which encircled Manassas Junction. 
 
 The army was working its way northward, HOOKER 
 maneuvering so as to constantly interpose a barrier 
 between LEE and Washington. For several days the 
 division was encamped at "Gum Springs," a little village 
 of half a dozen houses, where Gen. BRADDOCK had also 
 encamped during his ill-fated campaign; and on the 
 twenty -fifth we broke up our camp there, crossed the 
 Potomac at Edwards Ferry upon a long pontoon bridge, 
 and were led upon the "tow-path march," of which we 
 will tell the story and leave the reader to judge of the 
 wisdom and humanity of it. Gen. HUMPHREYS, tempo 
 rarily commanding the division, can have the full credit 
 of the affair, for no general ever has or probably ever will 
 be found willing to contest for the honors resulting from 
 that night s work. 
 
 After crossing the river at Edwards Ferry the point to 
 be reached was the mouth of the Monocacy, not far from 
 twenty miles above. The "Ohio and Chesapeake Canal" 
 followed the windings of the river for that distance, upon 
 one side of which \vas a highway broad and direct, afford 
 ing excellent passage for troops, upon the other the " tow - 
 path," a narrow bank between the river and canal. Upon 
 the latter road the division was led, and the general con 
 gratulated himself that he had got his machines upon a 
 track where there was no opportunity for straggling. His 
 stout horse led off at a slashing gait, and the column fol 
 lowed after. Night came on dark and rainy, and the men 
 splashed along the narrow pathway which soon became 
 coated with mud and slime. Occasionally a "souse" 
 would be heard as some unfortunate soldier lost his pre 
 
MARCH TO GETTYSBURG. 135 
 
 carious foothold and slipped into the canal. The men 
 began to grumble and wonder why they were led upon 
 such a road when one so much more passable ran parallel 
 with their course and not a dozen rods distant. No halt, 
 no rest, and yet they kept manfully on after the horse 
 which led the column, hoping soon to come to a bridge 
 across the canal by which a camping ground might be 
 gained. A light appeared ahead, beaming from the win 
 dows of a canal -boat bound for Georgetown, and as it 
 approached, the men, hailing the driver of the tow -horse, 
 inquired how far it was to a bridge. "A trifle rising of 
 twelve miles," was the reply, which put a damper upon 
 the men s hopes of rest anywhere but on the tow-path 
 that night. Horse-flesh won. One by one, and then 
 squad by squad the exhausted men sank upon the ground 
 and refused to go farther, until the little plots of land 
 which occasionally intervened upon the river side were 
 covered with the stragglers. Commanders of regiments 
 were left without the colors and almost without men, and 
 finally some of them followed the example of the men, 
 until when the general had arrived at his goal he had 
 hardly men enough left to form a respectable headquarters 
 guard.- In the morning a stream of men poured from the 
 tow-path across Monocacy Aqueduct, and when a good 
 portion of the division had been collected together the 
 march was resumed, the bivouac that night being not far 
 from Point of Rocks. 
 
 On Sunday, the twenty -eighth, while passing through 
 Frederick we heard with sorrow that Gen. HOOKER had 
 been relieved of the command of the army, and that Gen. 
 MEADE had been assigned to the position. But the men 
 were not of that stamp to let their prejudices and feelings 
 
136 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 work upon their efficiency, and they ever yielded to Gen. 
 MEADE a hearty support. The regiment passed and 
 loudly cheered its old commander, MARSTON, upon whose 
 shoulders shone the stars of a general. 
 
 On the first day of July, the brigade arrived at Em- 
 mettsburg, a large village near the Pennsylvania line, the 
 business portion of which had been consumed a few days 
 before by an incendiary fire. It was on this day that the 
 battle of Gettysburg was begun, when the First Corps 
 and a portion of the Eleventh encountered the rebels in 
 and about the city of Gettysburg in the severe fight which 
 cost Gen. REYNOLDS his life. Squads of our men went 
 out into the country, many of them "over the border" 
 into Pennsylvania, buying bread, eggs, harn, and anything 
 which the Dutch farmers of the region could be induced 
 to spare from their larders, while those who remained in 
 camp pitched the shelter tents, dug ditches around them, 
 and collected beds of pine boughs upon which to rest their 
 weary limbs. The foragers scoured the country so thor 
 oughly that soon not a loaf of bread could be bought 
 within five miles of camp for either love or money ; but 
 the men displayed their greenbacks so liberally as to 
 arouse the avarice of the Dutch farmers to an uncontrol 
 lable degree, and while their stout wives went vigorously 
 to work mixing dough, they brought forth the " Dutch 
 ovens," or built big fires in the brick ones, promising the 
 men that they should have bread in any quantity in the 
 morning. Many of the men paid in advance, so as to 
 make sure of their share, but the brigade was far away 
 before the next morning, leaving the disconsolate Dutch 
 farmers with bread enough upon their hands to last their 
 families for many weeks. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 
 
 T two o clock, on the morning of the 
 second day of July, 1863, we were 
 routed from the quarters we had so 
 carefully prepared, and the brigade set 
 off through the darkness in the direc 
 tion of Gettysburg. Tramp, tramp, 
 and splash, splash, we kept our way, 
 halting a few minutes at sunrise to 
 rest and cook coffee, and early in the 
 forenoon we arrived upon the field 
 which will ever be so memorable. 
 Our sharpshooters, scattered along in the fields to the left 
 of the road upon which we marched, told us that the 
 entire rebel army lay in and beyond the woods, within 
 rifle shot. Screened from our observation LEE was mov 
 ing his troops into position for the approaching fight, 
 rapidly extending his lines towards his right, opposite our 
 left; and, in fact, half an hour after we had passed up 
 the Emmet tsburg pike, a rebel line of battle was formed 
 
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138 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 across it, which would have given us a warm and unex 
 pected reception had we been a little later. 
 
 The brigade joined the corps, and participated in the 
 movements preliminary to the grand final struggle. Al 
 though at first marched to a point almost in front of the 
 town of Gettysburg, we gradually worked our way back 
 in the direction from which we had come, until the brig 
 ade lay massed in a little grove at the foot of the ridge 
 upon which the Third Corps was soon to make the last 
 and most desperate of all its fights as a corps, for but a 
 few weeks afterwards it was incorporated into the Second 
 Corps as a division, and the number of the glorious old 
 " THIRD" disappeared from the rolls of the army, although 
 the men still proudly wore upon their hats the diamond 
 which had been to them so proud an emblem. The re 
 ports of the skirmishers rifles were now occasionally 
 heard, and to "draw out" the enemy, the brigade, still 
 closed in mass, was advanced up the slope into the open 
 field. A rebel battery almost immediately opened with 
 shell, and for a few moments the pieces whistled about in 
 a Lively manner, one of which struck the staff which sup 
 ported the colors of the Second and broke it in twain, at 
 the same time wounding several men of the color guard. 
 
 The object of the movement accomplished, the brigade 
 was withdrawn to the grove, while a battery of brass 
 pieces, going into position in gallant style, rapidly replied 
 to the rebel guns. Col. BERLIN, commanding the brig 
 ade, in a few words informed the men that they were to 
 double - quick by the flank to the rear of the battery and 
 take their respective positions in the line of battle. Upon 
 the crest of the ridge was an orchard of small peach trees, 
 in which was stationed one of our batteries, six broad- 
 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 139 
 
 mouthed brass pieces, bellowing and thundering in re 
 sponse to the rebel guns, which were pouring in a mur 
 derous fire of shell and spherical case. The Second Reg 
 iment was ordered to report to Gen. GRAHAM, and by him 
 was placed in support of this battery. Company B, whose 
 position in the line was upon the left, was transferred to 
 the right that its Sharp s rifles might be made most avail 
 able in case of an infantry attack from that direction. 
 Never, in all its history, was the regiment exposed to such 
 a terrific artillery fire as it received while lying upon the 
 ground to the rear of this battery. The air was fairly 
 alive with bursting shell and whistling canister; the 
 leaves fell in showers from the peach trees, and the dirt 
 was .thrown up in little jets where the missiles were con 
 tinually striking. But the gunners worked their guns 
 bravely and without flinching, and when the rolls of our 
 companies were called while men were being struck from 
 the ranks every moment, only eight men of the whole 
 regiment were missing from their places. A stream of 
 wounded was constantly pouring to the rear, some shells 
 skimming along the ground and wounding as many as 
 half a dozen men in their course. One shell struck 
 square upon the cartridge - box of Corporal THOMAS BIG- 
 NALL, of Company C, driving the cartridges into his body, 
 where they exploded one after the other, with a popping 
 like that of a bunch of fire -crackers. The next moment 
 three men were wounded in Company I, and another car 
 tridge-box exploded, that of Sergeant JAMES M. HOUSE, 
 and thus it continued for nearly two hours, until many a 
 vacant place was made in the ranks of the regiment. 
 During this time the conflict was also going on upon the 
 right, on Cemetery Hill, and to the left, where nearly a 
 
140 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 mile distant we could see one of our batteries belching 
 forth its contents from the rocky summit of " Little Round 
 Top" into the woods below, through which the rebels 
 were struggling in their efforts to turn our left. 
 
 At half -past four in the afternoon the volunteer battery 
 we had supported, after having done its duty manfully, 
 was relieved by a regular battery of rifled guns. The 
 regulars did not serve their guns with the same spirit 
 which had characterized the volunteers, and the difference 
 was soon painfully apparent from the increased fire of the 
 rebel guns. Their infantry also began to show themselves 
 in large bodies, advancing from the woods behind which 
 it had been screened, to capture our batteries. Our skir 
 mishers came pouring in, and so near did the rebels ap 
 proach that a lieutenant of the battery to our front spiked 
 his guns, expecting they would soon be captured. Col. 
 BAILEY, commanding the regiment, pointed out the state 
 of affairs to Gen. GRAHAM, and requested permission for 
 the regiment to charge and check the advance. It was 
 given, and springing to their feet the men rushed forward, 
 shouting and cheering, passing by the guns of the battery 
 and down through the peach orchard. A line of the ene 
 my was encountered which would not stand the deter 
 mined charge, but fled pellmell and took refuge in a ravine 
 which traversed the plain to our front. The regiment 
 was halted near the Emmettsburg road, and there it made 
 as determined a fight as was ever made upon any field. 
 The enemy s artillery was served vigorously and at short 
 range ; the line we had driven maintained a hot fire from 
 the ravine where they were sheltered ; two regiments were 
 moving across the fields by the flank about three hundred 
 yards to the front; and from the woods a whole brigade 
 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 141, 
 
 of rebels was advancing upon the Sixty - Third Pennsylva 
 nia, formed upon the right of the Second. The two 
 regiments marching by the flank were soon disposed of, 
 being forced to flee in confusion, but the brigade advanc 
 ing upon the right steadily maintained its course. The 
 Second, unmindful of the scattering shots upon its own 
 front, turned its attention to this threatening advance, and 
 poured in. a brisk fire to the right oblique. But this had 
 no effect to stay the march of the dense mass of rebels, 
 which approached nearer and nearer, its front blazing with 
 flame and wreathed in smoke, while the rebel artillery 
 poured in canister with redoubled vigor. By the right of 
 the regiment was an old farm house, behind which a num 
 ber of Company B s men stationed themselves, many be 
 ing wounded, and, as sharpshooters, devoted their especial 
 attention to the colors of the advancing brigade. Color - 
 bearer after color -bearer was shot down by the unerring 
 riflemen, who kept popping away until forced to abandon 
 their position by the proximity of the rebels. 
 
 The regiment upon our right could not withstand the 
 shock, but gave way, and at the same time the regiment 
 upon the left about - faced and marched to the rear in good 
 order. For the Second Regiment longer to maintain its 
 position \vould have been madness, and the orders were 
 given to fall back, which was done rapidly but without 
 panic or undue haste, the men constantly facing about 
 and discharging their pieces into the ranks of the yelling 
 enemy. 
 
 The wounded men who had been sharpshooting behind 
 the old house, when the rebels were close upon them 
 scrambled down a rollway into the cellar, and called to a 
 man from another regiment who sat beside it to come in 
 
142 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 and shut down the cover. Had he done so they would 
 probably have escaped undiscovered, as the ground was 
 occupied not long after by Union troops ; but the stupid 
 fool sat as if paralyzed until the rebels came pouring by 
 the house, when he discovered the hiding place to them 
 by exclaiming, "Here we are; we are all in here." 
 Then, of course, there was no escape, and the men were 
 obliged to crawl forth, and take up their long and weary 
 march to Richmond as prisoners of war. 
 
 The ground was covered with the wounded and dead, 
 for so near were the rebels upon us that the worst shot in 
 the army could not well have missed his mark. Gen. 
 GRAHAM was wounded and taken prisoner, and Gen. 
 SICKLES, who dashed up to the position amid the terrific 
 fire, had his leg shattered by a piece of shell. Arriving 
 at the top of the ridge, the regiment was halted and 
 about-faced, and the line hastily reformed. But its num 
 ber had been so terribly reduced that it could not stem 
 the torrent, and it was again forced to fall back beyond 
 the point where it had laid when supporting the battery. 
 
 At this portion of the line the rebels had gained a tem 
 porary advantage, and the Third Corps, for the first time 
 in its history, had been worsted not by any lack of skill 
 in its generals or of valor in the men, but by the mere 
 weight of the numbers which were hurled upon it. Some 
 ungenerous partisans of other corps (newspaper men, for 
 none were more willing to do honor to the bravery of oth 
 ers than the soldiers,) took the occasion to cast a sneer at 
 the corps, but we will only remind such that upon the 
 Third Corps fell the brunt of LEE S attack ; and when the 
 grumblers will point out an instance where a single corps 
 during the whole war lost over half its men in a single 
 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 143 
 
 fight, as did the Third, on this occasion, to them we will 
 cheerfully award the honors due. 
 
 The break thus made in the lines was quickly mended, 
 for portions of the Sixth Corps, and other troops who had 
 been repulsing the rebel attacks upon the right of the 
 army, were hastily crossed from that portion of the lines 
 and thrown into the breach, and most of the lost ground 
 was speedily recovered. The sun went down that night 
 upon a discomfitted rebel army, beaten at every portion 
 of the lines, and the tide of invasion was thus turned 
 back from the North almost before it had gained a foot 
 hold. 
 
 The Second Regiment when it rejoined its brigade that 
 night was but a sad remnant of what it had been in the 
 morning when it went so proudly forth to battle. When 
 the rolls were called under the fire of the enemy s artil 
 lery, twenty -four officers and three hundred and thirty 
 men had responded to their names. Of these nineteen 
 had been shot dead upon the field, one hundred and 
 thirty -six had been wounded, and thirty -eight were miss 
 ing nearly all reported in the latter class being wounded 
 and prisoners or killed. The loss was particularly severe 
 in officers. Every one of the field officers was wounded, 
 Col. BAILEY and Lieut. Col. CARR slightly; and Maj. 
 SAYLES, with a bullet through his thigh, was left upon 
 the field in the hands of the enemy, but being disabled 
 by his wound he was not carried off as a prisoner. Capt. 
 HENRY N. METGALF, of Company F, Lieut. GEORGE W. 
 ROBERTS, of Company C, Lieut. WILLIAM W. BALLARD, 
 of Company B, and Lieut. EDMUND DASCOMB, of Com 
 pany G, were shot dead. Capt. JOSEPH A. HUBBARD, 
 of Company B, was shot in the forehead; he wandered 
 
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 into the rebel lines, where he lived for some two hours, 
 and being identified as a Mason he was buried by rebel 
 members of the fraternity and his grave so marked that 
 it was recognized by our men after the retreat. The 
 day after the fight members of his company who were 
 prisoners were told by their guards of a handsome Yankee 
 captain who had strayed into their lines and there died. 
 In the description given the men recognized their captain, 
 and upon one of them showing the guard a photograph of 
 Capt. HUBBARD, he recognized it immediately as that of 
 the dead Yankee captain. Lieut. CHARLES VICKERT, of 
 Company I, was mortally wounded, and remained in the 
 hands of the rebels until they retreated, when he was 
 taken to our hospital, where he died on the eighth. 
 Lieut. CHARLES N. PATCH, of Company K, was wounded 
 in the abdomen and died on the tenth. Lieut. ALBERT 
 M. PERKINS, of Company D, and Lieut. LEVI N. CON 
 VERSE, of Company A, lost each an arm, and in addition 
 to those mentioned eight other officers were wounded. 
 This was the heaviest loss the regiment ever sustained 
 upon any one field. A total of one hundred and ninety - 
 three out of three hundred and fifty -four. 
 
 On Saturday, the third, there was some fighting, mostly 
 by artillery, although upon the right the infantry was oc 
 casionally hotly engaged. In the afternoon our brigade 
 supported a battery, but the regiment lost no men. 
 
 On the morning of the fifth the brigade was sent out 
 upon picket, but the rebel army had retreated, and we 
 returned to our bivouac. Many of our wounded had re 
 mained in the hands of the rebels for three days, receiving 
 but little if any care, and our dead were as yet unburied. 
 A detail was made from the brigade to go out to the Peach 
 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 145 
 
 Orchard, bury the dead and bring in such wounded as 
 could be found. The detachment, under command of 
 Lieut. Col. CARR, of the Second, had started out upon its 
 errand of mercy, when a peremptory order arrived from 
 the general commanding the division, ordering it to 
 return immediately to the brigade. This the men were 
 exceedingly averse to doing, and while the body of the 
 detachment was obliged to return, many of them bade 
 defiance to the orders of the division general, and went 
 with stretchers upon the field to give succor to their man 
 gled, suffering comrades. Many of these unfortunates 
 were thus rescued, but our dead were interred by burial 
 parties from other regiments, and many a body which 
 might have been recognized now sleeps in an unknown 
 grave. 
 
 The New Hampshire wounded in the hospitals will 
 never forget the promptness with which substantial aid 
 and comfort reached them from their native State. Prompt 
 with the news of the battle, a body of devoted men left the 
 State upon their errand of mercy, and to their untiring ef 
 forts in the hospitals many a soldier is indebted for his life, 
 while the pathway of others to the grave was smoothed 
 by the thought that they were surrounded by friends who 
 would sincerely mourn their loss and carry their last words 
 to the loved ones among the mountains of the Old Granite 
 State. 
 
 In this connection we must not omit to mention one 
 without whose name no history of the Second Regiment 
 would be complete Miss HARRIET DAME, of Concord. 
 Following the fortunes of the regiment, her services in 
 the hospitals had been of the most important character. 
 Unceasing and untiring in her attentions to the sick and 
 
146 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 wounded, many a soldier s heart will warm at the very 
 mention of her name, as he calls to mind her womanly 
 ministrations over the cot where he lay racked with pain. 
 In the hospitals at Gettysburg, as ever before, she was 
 indeed a ministering angel, and we are ready to say, with 
 hundreds of others, who received the benefits of her good 
 ness, "God bless her!" 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE PURSUIT OF LEE. 
 
 EN. LEE, with his shattered hordes, 
 rapidly retreated toward the Potomac, 
 followed by our army, which was in 
 the highest spirits, and confident that 
 he could never reach Virginia soil. 
 Reinforcements of new troops were 
 constantly arriving for our army, until 
 it actually numbered more than be 
 fore the battle. One entire division 
 was added to our corps, composed of 
 new regiments, and forming the larg 
 est division in the corps. Our cavalry was constantly 
 pouncing down upon the wagon trains of the rebels, and 
 a portion of LEE S pontoon train, invaluable to him in 
 crossing the Potomac, was captured and destroyed. 
 
 Over the hills and through the beautiful valleys of 
 Maryland the army pressed in the pursuit. Our division 
 passed through Emmettsburg and Frederick City, over 
 many portions of the Antietam battle field, and on the 
 
148 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 twelfth, with the entire Army of the Potomac, confronted 
 LEE at Williamsport, who had been brought to bay at the 
 crossing of the Potomac. On this day Gen. MEADE 
 issued an order which was read at the head of every regi 
 ment, to the effect that he was about to attack the enemy, 
 and with every prospect of a glorious success. The men 
 were in high spirits and greeted the order with shouts of 
 joy. They were ready, they said, to go in and wind up 
 the rebellion by putting an end to the existence of LEE S 
 army, its head and front. But the twelfth passed without 
 an advance by our army, as did also the thirteenth. En 
 trenchments were built along the front, and heavy guns 
 brought up and placed in position. In vain, however, 
 were these preparations, for LEE was improving the golden 
 moments of delay, and by Tuesday morning, the four 
 teenth, most of his army was safely across the Potomac. 
 Then the army advanced over the rough breastworks which 
 the rebels had erected, while KILPATRICK charged with his 
 cavalry upon the enemy s rear -guard, and captured several 
 hundred prisoners. But the rebel army, which should 
 have been totally destroyed here, had escaped, and nothing 
 remained but for us to follow after it in its unob 
 structed course toward Richmond. On the seventeenth 
 the division crossed the Potomac at Harper s Ferry, be 
 neath the shadow of the overhanging crags which towered 
 for hundreds of feet above the narrow road between their 
 base and the river. 
 
 From here we followed the eastern slope of the Blue 
 Ridge, through one of the most beautiful countries the 
 eye of man ever rested upon. "Pleasant Valley," its 
 name surely was no misnomer, as we can testify, who, 
 marching along our elevated roads could view the beauties 
 
PURSUIT OF LEE. 149 
 
 of the landscape for miles away with its stretches of 
 woodland and green fields, its little streams winding about 
 like ribbons of silver, and its lines of road, dotted here 
 and there with the white canvas coverings of our wagons, 
 as they crawled lazily along. 
 
 We camped for two days near Ashby s Gap, upon the 
 broad fields of Upperville, which had been the scene of 
 many a deadly cavalry struggle, as was evidenced by the 
 remains of horses which were scattered over the green 
 plains in every direction, and the numerous graves where 
 the fiery Southern "Cavalier" and the sturdy Northern 
 " Roundhead" slumbered peacefully side by side upon the 
 same spot where they had closed with each other in 
 deadly conflict. 
 
 On Thursday, the twenty - third, the corps entered Ma- 
 nassas Gap, where the cavalry under Gen. BUFOKD had 
 for three days been skirmishing with the enemy. This 
 pass, several miles in length, offered many strong defen 
 sive positions, and upon the steep hills commanding the 
 western entrance the rebels had posted themselves in con 
 siderable force, to cover the passage of their wagon trains 
 down the Shenandoah. The cavalry division passed to 
 the rear, and a line of infantry skirmishers was thrown out, 
 which advanced up the steep sides of Wapping Heights, 
 rapidly replying to the fire of the rebel skirmishers upon 
 the summit. The rebels were quickly driven from the 
 eminence* and the whole division advanced, the Excelsior 
 Brigade commanded by Gen. SPINOLA, leading in line of 
 battle, closely followed by the two other brigades, closed 
 in mass by division. The height from which the rebels 
 had been driven was soon reached, and here the line 
 halted while Gen. MEADE rode up and from the command- 
 
150 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT . 
 
 ing position, where the whole country could be seen for 
 miles, surveyed the field. An advance of the whole line 
 was again ordered, and the division swept down the rocky 
 steep, crashing through the thick brush and leveling the 
 rail fences which obstructed the march. A ravine was 
 reached, not more than one hundred yards wide, with 
 very steep sides covered with huge boulders and twining, 
 creeping vines. Upon the opposite side a body of rebel 
 infantry was posted, but the Excelsior boys, with one of 
 their peculiar yells, plunged down the steep bank, led by 
 Gen. SPINOLA and the dare-devil Col. FARNHAM, upon 
 horseback, and followed by the blue mass of the two sup 
 porting brigades. The colors were shot down, and SPI 
 NOLA and FARNIIAM severely wounded ; the men tripped 
 upon the creeping vines and sprawled headlong among the 
 rough and jagged rocks, but the charge was irresistible, 
 and the rebel line fled in the direction of Front Royal. 
 Night was now approaching, and the halt, was sounded. 
 While the Excelsior boys with the instinct of old soldiers 
 hastily erected a breastwork but a few inches high, the 
 rest of the division remained within the shelter of the 
 ravine. A rebel battery opened at a distance of five hun. 
 dred yards, and the pieces of shell and shrapnell hummed 
 about in a lively manner, but owing to the conformation 
 of the ground our batteries could not well be brought into 
 action. A line of rebel skirmishers also appeared upon 
 our front, within rifle shot, but at dark they were with 
 drawn. 
 
 The next morning, the rebels having withdrawn from 
 our front, an early advance was made down the road in the 
 direction of Front Royal. A body of cavalry led the way, 
 followed by the Second Regiment deployed as skirmish- 
 
PURSUIT OF LEE. 151 
 
 ers. The road was strewn with bunches of cartridges 
 and fragments of letters and papers which had been torn 
 up by the rebels, and the long line, extending far out 
 upon either side of the road, continually encountered rebel 
 stragglers, who had fallen from the ranks for the purpose 
 of being taken. When within a mile of Front Royal a 
 smart skirmishing fire was heard in advance, and a caval 
 ryman who came riding back told us that there were any 
 quantity of rebels in and about the town, with whom the 
 cavalry were having a hot time. A little round -topped 
 hill intervened between us and the town, behind which 
 we could hear the brisk popping of carbines as we ad 
 vanced. We halted near this hill, in a position where the 
 left of the line could observe all the movements of the 
 cavalry and of the enemy. We were opened upon by a 
 rebel battery, but when one of our batteries went into 
 position to reply the rebel guns became silent. Two of 
 our cavalry skirmishers rode up the steep hill to the left 
 of the town across a field where the grain had been cut 
 and placed in shocks, behind which several rebels were 
 concealed, who suddenly commenced popping away at the 
 invaders. An about-face was executed by the cavalry 
 men with amazing celerity, and we venture the assertion 
 that never was more furious riding exhibited than on this 
 occasion, the horses leaping the highest fences and broad 
 est ditches until the foot of the hill was reached. 
 
 Gen. WARREN came riding down the road, attended by 
 a single orderly, and halted at our skirmish line, "I 
 wish to speak to some officer," he exclaimed, and Capt. 
 GORDON stepped forward. "A squad of cavalry will be 
 here soon my escort and you will direct them down 
 the road I take. They will inquire for Gen. WARREN." 
 
152 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 These were the directions of the little brigadier, and then 
 he rode down towards the spot where the skirmishing was 
 going on. Soon after we also advanced, but the rebels 
 retreated, and the pursuit was not followed beyond the 
 town, the troops returning to the Gap that afternoon. 
 
 The next day the corps made a march of about fifteen 
 miles, passing through the pleasant village of Salem, and 
 early on the morning of the twenty -sixth we arrived at 
 Warrenton, where a most agreeable surprise awaited us. 
 Gen. MARSTON was there with all necessary authority for 
 detaching the Second, Twelfth and Fifth New Hampshire 
 regiments from the army, with which to form a brigade 
 for duty at Point Lookout, at the mouth of the Potomac, 
 where the government was about to establish a great gen 
 eral depot for prisoners of war. It was with light hearts 
 that we took the cars for Alexandria, and were whirled 
 through Warrenton Junction and Manassas, scenes so 
 familiar, and away from the Army of the. Potomac. 
 
 We did not arrive in Alexandria until late at night, 
 and the men improved every little halt or delay of the 
 train to cook their coffee the article of a soldier s diet. 
 No sooner would the train stop than the men, leaping 
 from the cars, would kindle little fires with a dispatch 
 which none but soldiers could equal, over which they 
 held their cups until the train started, when there would 
 be a scramble for the cars, and at the next halt the same 
 movements would be repeated, and so on until the coffee 
 was made. Talk of perseverance while laboring under 
 difficulties ! If ever there was such a thing, it was well 
 illustrated by the soldiers that day, some of whom kin 
 dled half a dozen different fires at as many points along 
 the road before their coffee was made palatable. 
 
PURSUIT OF LEE. 153 
 
 That night we inarched from the cars, in Alexandria, 
 about two miles towards Long Bridge, and went into 
 bivouac with the consciousness that we might sleep with 
 both eyes shut, for there were no rebels near to turn us 
 out by demonstrations along the picket line. 
 
CIIAPTEE XV III. 
 
 POINT LOOKOUT. 
 
 UARDING a squad of some three 
 hundred rebel prisoners, the Second 
 and Twelfth Regiments remained in 
 Washington two days, quartered at 
 the "Soldiers Rest." Some of these 
 were natives of Washington, and re 
 ceived visits from their relatives and 
 friends, who brought them clothing 
 and other articles which they had left 
 behind when going into the rebel 
 army, but were likely to stand in 
 need of during their stay with us as prisoners of war. 
 "It is mighty hard to be held a prisoner here in my own 
 city," exclaimed one of these in conversation with a 
 guard. "If you had remained at home in your own city 
 you would never have been a prisoner," was the response, 
 which the rebel could not well gainsay. Among the 
 number was an Irishman who was well acquainted with 
 many of our boys, having lived in Manchester and Con- 
 
POINT LOOKOUT. 155 
 
 cord some years before the war. His story was, that 
 being South at the breaking out of the war, he had been 
 forced into the rebel service, from which he had taken the 
 first opportunity to desert. An old story; the stereo 
 typed tale of thousands of demoralized deserters. 
 
 At nine o clock, on the morning of the thirty -first of 
 July, 1863, the Second and Twelfth (the Fifth had not 
 then joined us) landed at Point Lookout, with the squad 
 of prisoners we had been guarding in Washington, and 
 thus laid the foundation of the great depot for prisoners 
 for which the place afterwards became famous. 
 
 The Point was admirably adapted for the purpose for 
 which it had been chosen : a long, narrow finger of land, 
 with the Potomac upon one side and the Chesapeake upon 
 the other, and connected with the main -land by a sand 
 bar scarcely two rods in width. A comparatively small 
 force of troops was necessary to guard the prisoners, as 
 the gunboats, of which there were sometimes as many as 
 a dozen about, could have poured in a fire from all sides 
 which would have annihilated the rebels in case of an 
 uprising. 
 
 On the second of August, at dress parade, "General 
 Orders, No. 1," was read, in which Gen. MAHSTON as 
 sumed command of the " District of St. Mary s." A 
 routine of duty was established for the troops, and twenty 
 men were detailed from the Second and Twelfth, to serve 
 as mounted scouts. Their business was to scour the 
 country about, the counties of St. Mary s and Charles, to 
 observe suspicious movements, and ferret out the smug 
 glers who were continually crossing over into Virginia 
 during the night. Their labors were occasionally re 
 warded by the discovery of a boat - full of salt or other 
 
156 SECOND N. II . REGIMENT. 
 
 articles valuable in Dixie, carefully concealed in some 
 secluded creek, awaiting a favorable opportunity for run 
 ning the line of gunboats on the river. 
 
 To say that we enjoyed ourselves in our new camp 
 would but feebly express our feelings we were in the 
 seventh heaven of the soldier s paradise. Poets may sing 
 of the soldier s longing for the battle tumult, the fierce 
 charge and the sturdy stand, but we know that after they 
 have had their turn at these, nothing is more grateful than 
 to be placed in such a camp as we were in at Point Look 
 out. The facilities for bathing, for fishing and for boating 
 were unbounded, and Gen. MARSTOX, knowing that he 
 could trust the men in his command, allowed us as wide a 
 range of privileges as the most liberal construction of 
 military rules and discipline would permit. The men 
 when not upon duty were given passes to visit St. Mary s, 
 Leonardstown and "The Pines," all little villages a few 
 miles above, and some of them improved their opportu 
 nities so well that certain daughters of rabid old seces 
 sionists were induced to forego their traditional hatred of 
 the Yankees, and even to marry members of the pro 
 scribed race. 
 
 The men collected boats from the coast above, most 
 of them "dug-outs," until the beach by the camp was 
 lined with the little boats. The men soon became very 
 expert in the management of these frail crafts, and would 
 venture in them out upon the river or even round into the 
 bay in the roughest weather. Those acquainted with 
 them know that of all boats a dug - out is the most un 
 manageable, yet a capsize was of very rare occurrence. 
 Three of our men, enterprising experimenters, fitted a 
 keel upon one of these craft, and setting a sail large 
 
POINT LOOKOUT. 157 
 
 enough for a boat of twice its size, ventured out into the 
 bay with a stiff breeze. Everything went swimmingly 
 for a few minutes, when with a sudden lurch the boat 
 capsized and left the three luckless adventurers flounder 
 ing "on the ocean wave," until rescued by a gunboat 
 which happened to be in the vicinity. 
 
 Within a stone s throw of camp, in the river, were 
 enormous oyster beds, from which boat -load after boat 
 load of luscious bivalves were taken, the men improvising 
 oyster rakes for that purpose ; and in the proper season a 
 score of little schooners were daily engaged in dredging 
 to supply the Washington and Baltimore markets. 
 
 Bodies of prisoners soon began to arrive, sometimes in 
 small squads and often hundreds at a time, until there 
 were several thousand to guard. As the prisoners camp 
 increased in size, a larger number of guards was required, 
 until half the men were on guard each day, and oftentimes 
 standing upon their post twelve hours out of the twenty - 
 four. 
 
 The discipline and rules of the prisoners camp were 
 soon established, and all the arrangements were charac 
 terized by a humanity \vhich formed a striking contrast 
 with the treatment of Union prisoners at Belle Isle, at 
 Millen and at Andersonville. Comfortable tents "Sib- 
 ley" and "A" such as we received, were furnished in 
 sufficient numbers to give every man a shelter ; good 
 rations, of the same quality as were dealt out to us, were 
 given to the prisoners, and eight houses erected with am 
 ple accommodations for cooking. The camp was kept 
 well policed, and all sanitary measures taken necessary to 
 preserve the health of the prisoners. A board fence, 
 about twelve feet high, was erected around the whole 
 
158 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 camp, with a walk upon the outside, near the top, for the 
 guard. Capt. JOAB N. PATTERSON was appointed Pro 
 vost Marshal of the district, and Capt. GEOKGE E. SIDES, 
 of Company K, placed in command of the camp. The 
 prisoners were organized into companies of one hundred 
 men, over each of which one of their number was placed 
 as sergeant. 
 
 Confinement in a palace would be unendurable. No 
 one will dispute this. Then it cannot be wondered at 
 that the brains of our rebel prisoners were constantly at 
 work devising means of escape. Not one in ten of these 
 schemes \vas crowned with success, although the novelty 
 of some should have insured their escape. The great 
 conspiracy was discovered in February of 1864, which 
 embraced a large number of men, and for which great 
 preparations had been made. Wind was got of the con 
 templated movement, and measures taken to prevent it. 
 The Second and Twelfth were placed under arms, and 
 while the prisoners were all marched from their quarters 
 a thorough search was made through every tent. Several 
 muskets were discovered, and many bunks were found to 
 be little boats, constructed of pieces of boards, with oar 
 locks cut in the sides and the cracks filled with grease 
 and soap so as to render them w r ater - tight. Oars and 
 paddles were also found, all of which were destroyed by 
 the relentless Yankees. 
 
 The individual enterprises in this line were common, 
 some attempting to tunnel out, some to bribe the guards, 
 and others to secrete themselves when outside the camp 
 for firewood or with working parties. Two of this latter 
 class were observed to crawl under a house one evening 
 when their party was returning to camp. The officer of 
 
POINT LOOKOUT. 159 
 
 the guard posted half a dozen men near by, with orders 
 to watch till the concealed rebels, thinking the coast clear, 
 should crawl out from their hiding place, and then to 
 fire and give them a good fright, but not to injure 
 either of them. In the evening the heads of the two 
 prisoners appeared, carefully reconnoitering the ground, 
 when half a dozen rifles cracked and as many bullets 
 whistled within a few inches of their ears. Neither of 
 them were wounded, but they were both terribly fright 
 ened, and made piteous appeals to our boys not to shoot 
 again, as they were perfectly willing to give up beaten. 
 This little affair had a good effect upon the prisoners in 
 camp, giving them the idea that we kept a heavy and 
 vigilant guard outside of their camp as well as in. 
 
 To pass away time and as a source of revenue, the 
 rebels manufactured rings, bosom -pins, watch-chains 
 and an immense variety of other trinkets, from bone and 
 gutta percha, which they sold to our men, and also many 
 other articles which displayed a high degree of ingenuity. 
 One man manufactured a clock which kept excellent time, 
 the front and back being made of the sides of a tin can 
 teen; and another man built a stationary steam-engine, 
 perfect in all its parts. An important branch of industry 
 was brick - making. Every sunny day scores of the 
 men might be seen kneading the clay and sand, filling 
 little square boxes with the mixture and dumping it on 
 the ground to dry in the sun. Some of the most enter 
 prising made enough of these bricks to build themselves 
 little adobe houses, and sold many to our men at fifty cents 
 a hundred to build chimneys in our own camp. 
 
 Gambling, however, was the chief occupation, and 
 scores of professional sharpers set up their establishments 
 
160 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 and worked with as much zeal to cheat their unfortunate 
 comrades out of a chew of tobacco the common stake 
 as was ever displayed at any board when thousands were 
 changing hands every minute. 
 
 The Provost Marshal had his hands full in a short time, 
 as applications to take the oath of allegiance and to be 
 allowed to go north, poured in by thousands. Many, also, 
 wished to enlist into our army or navy, and a camp was 
 established for them outside of the prison bounds. Two 
 regiments were raised, known as the First and Second 
 United States Volunteers, officered by men from the regi 
 ments in the department. These did good service at 
 Norfolk as Provost Guard, and are now engaged in fight 
 ing the Indians in Colorado Territory. Several enlisted 
 into the Second Regiment, and braver, truer men than 
 they proved themselves never fought beneath the old flag. 
 
 On the fourteenth of November, the Fifth Regiment 
 arrived from New Hampshire, where it had been upon 
 furlough, bringing with them several hundred of that class 
 known as "bounty -jumpers." Now the men had the 
 double duty to perform of guarding the rebel prisoners 
 and at the same time the men their State had sent out to 
 fill up their ranks. The boats which had been such a 
 source of enjoyment, were taken away, to prevent the 
 substitutes from escaping in them, and strong guards were 
 stationed where guards had never been stationed before. 
 The Second Regiment soon received its instalment, as did 
 the Twelfth. Several of these were drowned in attempts 
 to escape one while out on Chesapeake Bay in a coffin 
 which he had taken from a pile at the Point and caulked 
 up to use as a boat. Of these men we will have more to 
 say in the next chapter. 
 
POINT LOOKOUT. 101 
 
 On the twelfth of January, 1864, Gen. MAKSTON led a 
 raiding party into the counties of Virginia lying opposite 
 Point Lookout. The force consisted of three hundred 
 infantry, picked men, one hundred and fifty cavalry, and 
 a section of a Rhode Island battery. The expedition left 
 the wharf early in the morning, convoyed by gunboats, 
 landed upon the Virginia shore, and for three days created 
 quite a commotion among the rebels, a large force of 
 whom were on the south side of the Rappahannock, but 
 were prevented from crossing by our gunboats in the 
 river. Saltworks and tanneries were destroyed, and sev 
 eral rebel officers and soldiers home upon furlough, were 
 captured. On the afternoon of the fifteenth, the expe 
 dition returned to the Point, having lost one man acci 
 dentally killed, and about a dozen missing. 
 
 On the twenty -third of February, the Thirty -Sixth 
 Regiment of United States Colored Troops arrived upon 
 the Point to assist in doing guard duty, as four hundred 
 and fifty men were to leave the next day on furlough of 
 twenty days for New Hampshire, These men were trans 
 ported by water to Boston, upon the "Admiral Dupont," 
 formerly the blockade -runner "TubalCaln," which was 
 lost at sea in the summer of 1865. 
 
 Point Lookout was the scene of a terrible snow-storm 
 on the twenty -third of March, one of the most severe we 
 ever witnessed in the South. The storm set in during 
 the afternoon, and by night the snow lay in huge drifts in 
 the streets and by the sides of the tents. The next day 
 a great snow -ball battle was fought between the Second 
 and Twelfth. The battle was contested upon either side 
 with as much valor and stubbornness as was ever dis 
 played where more deadly weapons were used, and quite 
 
162 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 a respectable list of wounded was rolled up. Black eyes 
 were plenty in both regiments for some days, and the 
 surgeons state that there was also an unusual demand for 
 sticking - plaster . 
 
 Gen. MARSTON was relieved of the command at Point 
 Lookout on the fourth day of April, by Gen. HINKS : and 
 three days later the Second Regiment embarked on the 
 steamer " Escort," once more to try its fortunes on the 
 soil of the Peninsula. 
 
PI AFTER XIX. 
 
 BUTLERS CAMPAIGN ON THE JAMES 
 
 ARCHING from the boat early on the 
 L^k^U morning of Thursday, the eighth of 
 April, 1863, we passed through the 
 fort encircling YorktoAvn, and camped 
 upon the green plain to its front. 
 The post was under the command of 
 Gen. WISTAR, the garrison of which 
 consisted of the One Hundred and 
 Forty -Eighth New York, and a brig 
 ade of colored troops, camped near 
 the old parallels of MCCLELLAN. On 
 the eleventh the Twelfth Regiment came down from Point 
 Lookout, and one of the colored regiments was sent up 
 to take its place. 
 
 We were not fairly in camp before our bounty -jumpers 
 began to show their colors. Within three days over a 
 hundred men had deserted, some going towards the rebel 
 lines, and others, not understanding the geography of the 
 country, towards Fortress Monroe. A large proportion 
 
164 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 of these men were captured, and it was considered neces 
 sary to make an example of some of the number in order 
 to put a stop to such wholesale desertion. Four of them 
 had been captured in an open boat, while making their 
 way along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. They 
 were observed by the captain of a boat bound down from 
 Baltimore, who immediately steered towards them, when 
 they attempted to reach the shore, but having only rough 
 pieces of board for paddles they could not make much 
 headway, .and were overhauled. A court-martial was 
 immediately assembled, and " JOHN EGAX," of Company 
 A, one of those captured in the boat, placed upon trial, 
 found guilty of desertion, and sentenced to be shot the 
 following day, the thirteenth. All the preparations were 
 made for the execution, the regiment marched to the 
 ground, and EGAN was on his way to the spot, when a 
 reprieve arrived, and arrested the proceedings. The mis 
 erable man threw up his cap and danced for joy, evidently 
 thinking that the authorities merely intended to frighten 
 him, and then pardon, as had been done scores of times 
 before during the war. But he soon found that the court 
 was terribly in earnest, for two days after he was again 
 taken forth, accompanied by one of his companions, 
 HENRY HOLT, who had been tried and sentenced in the 
 meantime. The spot selected for the execution was a 
 grass - covered plot about a mile from the fort, near the 
 brow of a steep bluff overhanging the York River. The 
 Second Regiment, with unloaded muskets, was drawn up 
 in line immediately facing the spot upon which the mis 
 erable men were to pay the penalty of their crime with 
 their lives ; upon the left of the regiment, in position to 
 rake the line, a section of artillery was placed; to the 
 
BUTLER S CAMPAIGN. 165 
 
 Tear the One Hundred and Forty - Eighth ; and upon the 
 left, with its line formed at a right angle with the regi 
 ment, two colored regiments, with loaded muskets. The 
 condemned men rode astride their coffins, and acqompa- 
 nied by a Roman Catholic priest. They glanced at the 
 dreadful preparations with as unconcerned an air as pos 
 sible, but the fixed eye and swelling throat showed that it 
 was only by intense effort they could master their feelings. 
 The carts stopped at a point directly in front of the regi 
 ment, where they alighted, and their coffins were placed 
 upon the ground side by side. The Provost Marshal read 
 the findings of the court and the sentence, when the 
 twelve men detailed for the purpose were marched to the 
 front of the coffins, a few feet distant. The prisoners 
 removed their coats, and knelt upon the green grass while 
 the priest commended their souls to God. Arising, they 
 shook hands with the provost marshal in token of forgive 
 ness for the part he was to perform, and also with the 
 reverend father ; their eyes were bandaged and their wrists 
 bound with white handkerchiefs, when they were seated 
 upon their coffins. Then followed a terrible moment; 
 the marshal raised his hand, and the sharp click of a 
 dozen gunlocks was heard; again, and the pieces sprang 
 to the shoulder; a third time, and the two culprits fell 
 back across their coffins dead. After a reasonable time 
 had elapsed the bodies were examined by the surgeons to 
 see if life was extinct, when the troops were marched by 
 them and back to camp. The two companions of these 
 men were afterwards tried, convicted, sentenced and exe 
 cuted at Williamsburg on the twenty -ninth. These 
 measures were harsh, but they had a most salutary effect 
 and the desertions were immediately checked. 
 
!<>(> SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 BUTLER S "Army of the James" began to assemble at 
 Yorktown and Gloucester soon after our arrival. Vessels 
 from Port Royal, from North Carolina and from other 
 points steamed up the river almost daily, laden with 
 troops and batteries of artillery. The army comprised 
 two corps the Eighteenth, commanded by General 
 " BALDY" SMITH, and the Tenth, commanded by Gen. 
 GILLMORE. To the former, WISTAK S Brigade was as 
 signed, consisting of the Second and Twelfth New Hamp 
 shire and the One Hundred and Forty-Eighth New York. 
 On the twenty- second, the brigade removed to Williams- 
 burg, where it remained encamped until the fourth day of 
 May, on the afternoon of which day the tents were struck, 
 and the brigade marched towards the James River, where 
 it was embarked late at night upon transports, from an 
 old pier which had been newly planked for the occasion. 
 The boats anchored in the stream until morning, when, 
 with the first rays of the sun, the great fleet conveying 
 the Army of the James began to pass up the river, having 
 passed from the York river during the night around into 
 the James, to land the expedition at City Point and Ber 
 muda Hundred, while the rebels were expecting the blow 
 to fall at West Point or at the White House, on the York. 
 First came the gunboats, saucy "double -enclers," moni 
 tors, and the ram Atlanta, captured off Savannah by the 
 Weehauken. Closely following these came the trans 
 ports, every style and variety of craft being represented. 
 There were old stern - wheelers, looking like huge saw 
 mills afloat on the tide, huge black ocean steamers and 
 little river boats, tugs dragging schooners loaded with 
 rations for man or beast, and dispatch boats darting from 
 one point to another. In this great fleet the boats con- 
 
BUTLER S CAMPAIGN. 1(>7 
 
 veying our brigade took their position, and steamed up 
 the river. We passed many points of interest on the 
 toute the ruins of Jamestown, the first settlement of 
 [Virginia, in striking contrast with the early settlements 
 bf our Pilgrim Fathers ; Fort Powhattan with its frown 
 ing battlements and precipitous sides, up which were 
 moving negro troops to take possession; Harrison s Land 
 ing with its lonely mansion house and barren fields ; and 
 Malvern Hill, the scene of the deadly conflict of 1862. 
 At nine o clock in the evening we were at City Point, 
 which from a distance with its thousands of lights dis 
 played from the vessels comprising the fleet, presented 
 the appearance of a large city. 
 
 The army disembarked during the night and the follow 
 ing morning, and an immediate advance was made in the 
 direction of Petersburg. The popular belief among the 
 men was that Fort Darling, a few miles above, was to be 
 immediately invested, and most of them were so sanguine 
 that they expected to see that rebel stronghold in our 
 possession before night. The body of the army, however, 
 advanced no farther than to the neck of the peninsula 
 formed by the James and Appomattox, of which Bermuda 
 Hundred was the apex, although a force was sent out a 
 few miles farther to feel the enemy. The Eighteenth 
 Corps encamped on a high plateau near the Appomattox, 
 from which the spires of several churches in the city of 
 Petersburg could be seen miles away, rising above the 
 intervening forests. Near the camp, upon the most com 
 manding point of the plateau, stood a dwelling. house. 
 The engineers selected the spot as the site for a redoubt, 
 and the day after our arrival details from the regiment 
 demolished the building, filling up a well with the bricks 
 
168 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 from the chimney. In the evening a rebel signal light 
 was seen through the darkness in the direction of Peters 
 burg. A section of artillery was brought out and a few 
 shells thrown in the direction of the waving ball of fire, 
 but the range was necessarily bad, and the rebels paid no 
 attention to our messengers. 
 
 On Monday, the eighth of May, a general advance was 
 made towards Petersburg. Our light -draft gunboats 
 worked their way up the sluggish, shallow waters of the 
 Appomattox to engage certain strong rebel works, while 
 the army advanced by land, encountering the enemy in a 
 continuous running fight, during which the Second Regi 
 ment had one man killed and six wounded. The Rich 
 mond and Petersburg Railroad was reached, and a con 
 siderable portion of it destroyed. The next day the army 
 returned to its camp. The gunboats engaged Fort Clif 
 ton and other rebel works ; and the Brewster, which from 
 its light draft was enabled to ascend the river farther than 
 the rest, received a hot shot and shortly after blew up, 
 her crew escaping by swimming to the shore. 
 
 On the twelfth the army again advanced, this time in 
 the direction of Fort Darling, a sufficient guard being left 
 in the camp to protect it from any movement from the 
 direction of Petersburg. The rebels were steadily pressed 
 back, until our army confronted the outworks of Fort 
 Darling. GILLMORE S Tenth Corps gallantly charged and 
 captured the enemy s works upon the left, while the 
 riflemen of the Eighteenth drove the rebels from those 
 upon the right, commanding the telegraph pike to Rich 
 mond. HECKMAN S Brigade formed the extreme right of 
 the line, and to their left our brigade first the Second, 
 then the One Hundred and Forty - Eighth, and the Twelfth 
 
BUTLER S CAMPAIGN. 169 
 
 across the pike, where a battery was posted upon the 
 reverse side of the captured rebel works. Three hundred 
 yards to the front loomed up a strong rebel fort from 
 which floated two gaudy flags, while. a half dozen log bar 
 racks just outside were occupied by rebel sharpshooters. 
 Skirmishers were thrown out, who drove the rebels from 
 the barracks, and kept up such a fire from behind the logs 
 and stumps close under the fort that not a head appeared 
 along the whole rebel line. 
 
 On the fourteenth and fifteenth, the regiment erected a 
 breastwork of logs, in front of which, from stump to 
 stump, a network of telegraph wire was strung, to trip an 
 advancing enemy. 
 
 On the morning of the sixteenth of May was fought 
 the celebrated " fog fight," Beauregard concentrating his 
 troops about Fort Darling, and making a grand sortie 
 to drive back the besiegers. Under cover of a dense fog 
 the rebels silently formed their lines outside of the works, 
 and made a furious attack upon the extreme right, to turn 
 that flank of our army. HECKMAN S and WIST AH s Brig 
 ades bore the brunt of the attack. The Second fought, 
 among other rebel troops, several companies of the " fine 
 young men" of Richmond, who had been brought out for 
 the emergency. A rebel flag was planted a short distance 
 at the front of our line in a spirit of bravado, and then 
 the mass of charging rebels burst into sight. The rifles 
 of the regiment were emptied into the advancing ranks 
 with terrible effect, while the line was thrown into inex 
 tricable confusion by the wires upon the stumps, which 
 tripped the men and sent them sprawling upon the ground, 
 the wounded and the uninjured piled up together. Our 
 men, in the excitement of the* moment, leaped upon their 
 
170 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 log breastworks, and plied their rifles with terrible effect. 
 The attack was renewed again, desperately, but with the 
 same result. The ground in front of the breastworks 
 was literally matted with mangled gray -clad forms. The 
 regiment never in any fight inflicted such terrible punish 
 ment upon the enemy as here, Lieut. Col. COOPER (then 
 adjutant) estimating their loss in front of the regiment at 
 not far from two thousand. A rebel who was engaged in 
 the fight and afterwards taken prisoner, acknowledged to 
 one of our men that their loss on the right of the turnpike 
 was about eighteen hundred, and also expressed the opin 
 ion that the wire arrangement was a " d d rascally con 
 trivance." Yet we suffered a very slight proportionate 
 loss four killed and fourteen wounded. Among the 
 killed was the lamented Capt. JAMES H. PLATT, of Com 
 pany E. During the hottest of the fight he had just 
 called the attention of Lieut. LOED to the withering 
 effect of our fire, when a rifle bullet pierced his brain, 
 and he expired almost immediately. His body was con 
 veyed in an ambulance to City Point, embalmed and sent 
 to New Hampshire, where it now sleeps in the beautiful 
 Valley Cemetery at Manchester. 
 
 But while we were repulsing the rebel attacks so hand 
 somely, a strong force was inarching clear around the right 
 of HECKMAN S Brigade, which suddenly received a volley 
 from the rear. The brigade was broken and crushed, the 
 men slaughtered, and the general wounded and taken 
 prisoner. The right was thus turned, and the Second 
 was ordered to fall back, which it did for a short distance, 
 when, in obedience to orders, it advanced and occupied 
 the breastworks far a second time until the whole line was 
 withdrawn, and a new orie established a few hundred 
 
171 
 
 yards to the rear. The remainder of the d^y was passed 
 in skirmishing and maneuvering ; and at night BUTLER 
 withdrew to Bermuda Hundred. 
 
 We were now placed in a state of siege, and the utmost 
 diligence was displayed in the erection of a line of works 
 across the Peninsula, which were soon completed, the men 
 laboring night and day. The portion of the line occupied 
 by the Eighteenth Corps, presented an unusually strong 
 front, a part of its distance being swept by the gunboats 
 on the Appomattox, and the rest fronting upon almost 
 impassable ravines. Upon the centre and right were 
 broad, open fields, over which the Tenth Corps were con 
 tinually fighting with the enemy, and many a time did the 
 firing upon that portion of the line become so brisk that 
 the whole Eighteenth Corps was turned out and formed 
 behind the works. On the twentieth a severe fight was 
 had over some of our advanced rifle-pits, in which the 
 rebel Maj. Gen. WALKER was severely wounded and 
 captured. At night the gunboats often shelled the woods 
 in our front, their ponderous shells howling and crashing 
 through the trees in a line parallel with the works, until 
 they ended their career in stunning explosions. 
 
 Thus the time passed until the twenty -seventh. On 
 that day our division deserted the works, which were 
 occupied by dismounted cavalry, squads of invalids and 
 detachments from the Tenth Corps. We marched about 
 a mUoito the rear, and camped until five o clock on the 
 afternoon of the twenty- eighth, when we crossed the 
 Appomattox on a pontoon bridge, and marched to City 
 Point, which was garrisoned by the negro division of our 
 corps. The movement was a blind one to the men, who, 
 for once, were at a loss to account for the movement or to 
 
172 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 guess at its destination. It afterwards came out that the 
 movement was commenced with a view to a morning as 
 sault upon a portion of the rebel works about Petersburg, 
 but an order arriving from Gen. GRANT for a reinforce 
 ment from BUTLER S Army, we were diverted from our 
 original course and sent to join the Lieutenant General, 
 as will be detailed in the next chapter. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 
 COLD HARBOR. 
 
 T sunrise on the twenty - ninth of May, 
 the division embarked upon transports 
 and steamed down the James, the Sec 
 ond Regiment occupying the new pro 
 peller " General Lyon." At nine 
 o clock the little fleet anchored off 
 Yorktown; and early the next morn 
 ing we were again on our way, up the 
 turbid waters of the York. At West 
 Point we entered the Pamunky, nar 
 row, tortuous and difficult of naviga 
 tion. Our troubles now commenced, for the General 
 Lyon, with its great draft of water, was continually run 
 ning aground, and one time she remained with her keel 
 in the mud for five hours before she was extricated. To 
 the Pamunky we are willing to give the palm as being the 
 most crooked river we ever traversed. One could hardly 
 trace upon paper a line with more contortions than is dis 
 played by this stream. At one time we saw, as it ap- 
 
174 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 peared to us, the leading transports turn and steam their 
 way back. The conclusion was that a rebel battery had 
 been encountered, and that the transports were coming 
 back to give the gunboats a chance ; but we soon discov 
 ered that we had been deceived by a huge ox -bow turn 
 of the river. 
 
 When about two miles from White House our transport 
 ran aground and could not be pulled off. So the next 
 morning we were taken off by a ferry-boat and landed at 
 White House. The wreck and ruins of canal -boats and 
 barges which had been destroyed during the Peninsula 
 campaign still lined the shores, and the two blackened 
 chimneys were all that remained of the celebrated " White 
 House." During the forenoon the knapsacks and all 
 superfluous luggage was packed to be sent to Norfolk, 
 and at three o clock in the afternoon we set out to join 
 the Army of the Potomac, which had so valiantly fought 
 its way from the Rapidan to Cold Harbor. We camped 
 at about nine in the evening near Old Church, where the 
 western horizon was bright w r ith the light from the camp - 
 fires of GRANT S great army. 
 
 The next day, the first of June, we joined the Army of 
 the Potomac. The division guarded a wagon train to 
 Gen. GRANT S headquarters, and immediately pushed on 
 where the Sixth Corps was skirmishing with the enemy, 
 about a mile beyond. The division was marched rapidly 
 down the dusty road, and precipitated into the fight im 
 mediately. There was much hot work, and the rebels 
 were driven into their main line of entrenchments, leaving 
 many prisoners in our hands. The Second Regiment, 
 although under a hot artillery fire, and losing several men, 
 was not actively engaged. The next day the division lay 
 
COLD HARBOR. 175 
 
 in an open field, across which, within long rifle range, a 
 rebel flag waved defiantly in the summer air. In the 
 woods to either side of the field lay line upon line of our 
 troops, while a single line was extended across the field, 
 sheltered by a rude breastwork, in front of which were 
 little holes from which the pickets kept up a continual 
 fire. At night the division moved to the right, and made 
 their bivouac just to the rear of a triple line of breast 
 works. It was well known that there was to be a terrible 
 fight on the morrow, and the men, as they sipped their 
 coffee by the camp-fires discussed the position as only 
 soldiers can, and wondered who of the number would 
 "go up" in the approaching conflict. 
 
 The morning of the second dawned, and with its first 
 beams the division advanced down through the works and 
 formed in the cover of the woods. The charge which 
 ensued upon the rebel works the battle of Cold Har 
 bor was bloody in the extreme, but we shall confine 
 ourselves to the movements of our own brigade and regi 
 ment. The brigade w r as closed in mass by battalion, the 
 Twelfth New Hampshire being the first and the Second the 
 fifth battalion in the column. The order was given to ad 
 vance, and as the brigade dashed from the woods it w^as 
 greeted with a terrible fire from artillery and from the 
 thousands of deadly tubes which bristled from the rebel 
 works. The men dropped by scores, but the column 
 dashed forward for full two hundred yards more than 
 half the distance when the Twelfth, which had been 
 slaughtered mercilessly, halted, and was throw r n back by 
 the pitiless hail. The three intervening regiments also 
 broke, and the ranks of the Second were thrown into confu 
 sion ; but in the edge of the woods the men halted and re- 
 
176 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. 
 
 formed the lines. The rebel bullets every moment sought 
 their victims, and to protect themselves the men, lying flat 
 on the ground and using their hands, bayonets and knives, 
 threw up little mounds of earth to shelter themselves, 
 which were afterwards added to and elaborated into ser- 
 vicable rifle-pits. Men were being constantly wounded. 
 Capt. GEORGE W. GORDON, of Company I, was struck in 
 the top of the head by a bullet, and died at the hospital 
 in less than an hour. Capt. WILLIAM H. SMITH, of 
 Company B, was wounded through both legs, and though 
 no bones were injured he died on the seventh. Lieut. 
 HARRY HAYWARD, of Company D, was using a rifle, 
 shooting at a point where an obnoxious sharpshooter was 
 stationed, when a bullet pierced his neck, and he lived 
 but a few hours. Sergt. Maj. MOSES L. F. SMITH was 
 shot through the thighs, living a short time in dreadful 
 agony. A bullet struck close by the head of Lieut. GEO. 
 T. CARTER, of Company I. "CARTER S got it!" ex 
 claimed a Qomrade. "No, I guess not," exclaimed the 
 lieutenant, raising his head, when a bullet, better aimed 
 than the first, struck him in the head and inflicted an ugly 
 wound. Dr. BTJXTOX, the assistant surgeon, established 
 a field hospital in a hole which he dug with his own hands 
 a short distance from the line of battle, and thus rendered 
 prompt aid to many for whom delay would have been 
 dangerous. The entire loss of the regiment this day was 
 not far from seventy, and many of those killed had but 
 four days longer to serve, when their three years of ser 
 vice would have expired. 
 
 The dead and wounded remained upon the field between 
 the two lines, and during the night the men crawled out 
 to the assistance of their wounded companions, and many 
 
COLD HARBOR. 177 
 
 were brought in who lay close by the rebel pickets. Dur 
 ing the days which now ensued there was a constant fusil- 
 ade, and men were wounded and killed daily. Regiments 
 whose time had expired often had men killed in the ranks 
 while marching to the rear on their way home, and the 
 field we have before spoken of was dotted with the graves 
 of men who had been shot while crossing it. 
 
 On the morning of the eighth the original men who had 
 not re-enlisted were marched from the trenches to return 
 to their native State. It was a sad occasion, the parting 
 of the men who for three years had stood together as 
 brother^ in danger and trial, and if tears were shed they 
 were not evidences of unmanly weakness. "I will tell 
 you what it is, boys," exclaimed one of the men, "when 
 I think what we have been through together, and all 
 about the last three years, it makes me almost decide that 
 I ll not go home till you do." And not a man but felt 
 more or less of this sentiment. 
 
 On the ninth we embarked at White House on the 
 Young America, anchoring for the night near Yorktown. 
 The next day we went to Norfolk for our baggage, which 
 had been stored there ; and on the eleventh the quarter 
 master at Fortress Monroe informed us that if we would 
 unload the propeller Detroit we could have her as a 
 transport to New York. The ship was unloaded in an 
 astonishingly short time, and at half -past eight we bade 
 farewell to the soil of Virginia, the scene of our three 
 years campaigns, the grave of so many brave comrades. 
 
 We arrived in New York during the evening of the 
 thirteenth, took the "Commonwealth" the next day for 
 Groton, and at eleven o clock in the forenoon of the sev 
 enteenth were once more in the capital of the old Granite 
 
178 SECOND N. H. REGIMENT. 
 
 State. The citizens of Concord laid out for a grand 
 reception, which did not come off because the soldiers 
 scattered for their homes until hardly two of them re 
 mained together. They appreciated the good feelings of 
 the Concord people, and thanked them sincerely, but after 
 such an absence as they had experienced, the claims of 
 families and personal friends took the precedence. 
 
 On Tuesday, the twenty -first day of June, 1864, the 
 men assembled at Concord, and in the State House Yard 
 listened to the last roll-call of the companies, and the 
 words of the mustering officer which once more made 
 them citizens "Mustered out of the United States 
 Service." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS. 
 
 THOMAS P. PIERCE, Colonel. Resigned June 4, 1861. 
 
 GILMAN MARSTON, Colonel. Promoted to Brig. Gen. April 17, 1863. 
 
 FRANCIS S. FISKE, Lieut. Colonel. Resigned Oct. 13, 1862. 
 
 JOSIAH STEVENS, JR., Major. Resigned July 25, 1862. 
 
 SAMUEL G. LANGLEY, Adjutant. Pro. Lt. Col. 5th N. H., Oct. 26, 1861. 
 
 FRANK FULLER, Quartermaster. Resigned June 3, 1861. 
 
 GEORGE H. HUBBARD, Surgeon. Resigned June 3, 1861. 
 
 JAMES M. MERROW, " Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 WILLIAM P. STONE, Assistant Surgeon. Pro. to Surgeon, June, 1864. 
 
 GEORGE P. GREELEY, " Resigned June 3, 1861. 
 
 OSCAR WORTHLEY, " Resigned Sept. 17, 1862. 
 
 SYLVANUS BUNTON, " Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 HENRY E. PARKER, Chaplain. Resigned July, 1862. 
 
 GEORGE S. BARNES, " Resigned April 25, 1863. 
 
 JOHN W. ADAMS, " 
 
 NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. 
 
 WILLIAM G. STARK, Hospital Steward. Pro. Asst. Surgeon June, 1864. 
 GEORGE W. GORDON, Sergt. Major. Pro. to Capt. Killed June 2, 1864. 
 JAMES A. COOK, Commissary Sergt. Pro. to Captain and Commisary 
 
 [of Subsistence. 
 
180 APPENDIX. 
 
 LINE OFFICERS. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 TILESTON A. BARKER, Captain. Resigned Sept. 1, 1862. 
 HENRY M. MKTCALF, First Lieut. Promoted to Captain Co. F. Killed 
 
 [at Gettysburg. 
 HERBERT B. TITUS, Second Lieut. Promoted Major 9th N. H. V. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 SIMON G. GRIFFIN, Captain. Promoted Lieut. Col. 6th N. H. V. 
 CHARLES W. WALKER, First Lieut. Killed by R. R. accident, June, 61. 
 ABIEL W. COLBY, Second Lieut. Pro. to Capt. Died May 13, 1862. 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 JAMES W. CARR, Captain. Pro. to Lieut. Col. Mus. ont June 21, 1864. 
 JAMES H. PLATT, First Lieut. Pro. to Capt. Killed May 16, 1864. 
 SAMUEL 0. BURNHAM, Second Lieut. Wounded severely May 5th. Pro. 
 
 [to Capt. Trans, to Inv. Corps. 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 HIRAM ROLLINS, Captain. Resigned Oct. 14, 1864. 
 SAMUEL P. SAYLES, First Lieut. Promoted to Major. Wounded sev ly 
 [July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 WARREN H. PARMENTER, Second Lieut. Pro. 1st Lt. Resigned July, 62. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 LEONARD DROWN, Captain. Killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 WILLIAM H. SMITH, First Lieut. Pro. Capt. Died of wounds June 7, 64. 
 
 Ai B. THOMPSON, Second Lieut. Entered Regular Army, Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 THOMAS SNOW, Captain. Resigned Aug. 12, 1862. 
 JOSHUA F. LITTLEFIELD, First Lieut. Pro. to Capt. Died of wounds 
 
 [received Aug. 29, 1863. 
 HARRISON D. F. YOUNG, Second Lieut. Pro. Capt. Mus. out J e 21, 64. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 EPHRAIM WESTON, Captain. Died Dec. 9, 1861. 
 
 EVARTS W. FARR, First Lieut. Pro. to Capt. Resigned Sept. 4, 1862. 
 
 SYLVESTER ROGERS, Second Lieut. Pro. 1st Lt. Killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
COMPANY A. 181 
 
 LINE OFFICERS COMPANY H. 
 
 ICHABOD PEARL, Captain. Resigned Aug. 12, 1861. 
 JOAB N. PATTERSON, First Lieut. Pro. Col. on muster out of original 
 
 [members of Reg t., not re-enlisted. 
 WM. H. PRESCOTT, Second Lieut. Entered Regular Army, Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 EDWARD L. BAILEY, Captain. Promoted to Colonel. Mas. out June, ? 64. 
 SAMUEL G. LANGLEY, First Lieut, and Adft. Pro. Lt. Col. 5th N. H. 
 JOSEPH A. HUBBARD, Second Lieut. Pro. to Capt. Killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 WILLIAM 0. SIDES, Captain. Resigned July, 1861. 
 
 JOHN S. GODFREY, First Lieut. Pro. to Capt. and Asst. Qr. Master. 
 
 JOHN S. SIDES, Second Lieut. Pro. to First Lieut. Resigned Jan. 7, 63. 
 
 ENLISTED MEN. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Fred. W. Cobb, First Sergeant. Pro. First Lieut. Resig d Aug. 31, 62. 
 
 Levi N. Converse, promoted to Captain. 
 
 Milton W. Clark, discharged for disability, May 31, 1863. 
 
 Christian Pressler, discharged by order, Dec. 15, 1862. 
 
 Center H. Lawrence, Promoted to Ass t. Adj t. General. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Jonathan Calif, died of wounds, Aug. 14, 1861. 
 Rufus Atwood, promoted Sergeant. Died Jan. 23, 1864. 
 Isaac W. Derby, discharged for disability Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Sanford A. Atherton, discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 Joseph W. Wetherbee, discharged Oct. 22, 1862. 
 Henry H. Johnson, discharged July 21, 1861. 
 William Dunton, discharged by order Nov. 6, 1862. 
 John P. Stone, promoted to Sergeant. Killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Shnbeal White, unaccounted for. 
 Henry Holton, died March 19, 1863. 
 
182 APPENDIX. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Emery W. Grandy, mustered out, June 21, 1864. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Adams, Charles W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Blake, John A., wounded July 2, 1863, discharged June 7, 1864. 
 
 Bowen, Alfred R., promoted to Corporal, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Blodgett, Calvin A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Blodgett, Charles S., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bryant, John F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Burbank, Daniel E., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Burrill, John H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Brooks, Daniel S., died in hands of enemy, Oct. 21, 1861. 
 
 Belknap, Chester, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Blake, Charles H., discharged Nov. 17, 18(52. 
 
 Capron, J. Foster, discharged Oct. 22, 1861. 
 
 Calif, William W., discharged Jan. 27, 1863. 
 
 Cummings, Thadeus, discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 
 Coolridge, George, discharged Aug. 19, 1861. 
 
 Drummer, John A., died Dec. 9, 1861. 
 
 Darling, John G., discharged July 25, 1862. 
 
 Davis, Nathaniel D., discharged Feb. 7, 1863. 
 
 Davis, George G., discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 
 Davis, James, died Jan. 9, 1863. 
 
 Emerson, Quincy A., re-enlisted. 
 
 Eaton, Orleans S., discharged April 27, 1864. 
 
 Eddy, George P., discharged Feb. 7, 1863. 
 
 Farr, Charles M., discharged Nov. 5, 1862. 
 
 Forristall, Jonas, died Oct. 25, 1862. 
 
 Gillson, Aaron R., discharged July 28, 1861. 
 
 Greenwood, True M., discharged Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Hunt, Lucius F., discharged July 28, 1861. 
 
 Howe, Lucius T., unaccounted for. 
 
 Hammond, John W., re-enlisted. 
 
 Heaton, George S., discharged date unknown. 
 
 Hodskins, William H., died July 25, 1862. 
 
 Kurd, Warren H, discharged Jan. 25, 1864. [tered out June 21. 1864. 
 
 Hay wood, Allen B., promoted to 1st Sergt. Wounded July 2, 1863, mus- 
 
 Holbrook, Samuel F., pro. to 1st S gt. W ded July 2, 63. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Heustis, Aristides, deserted Dec. 22, 1862. 
 
 Heaton, Albert W., died May 25, 1862. 
 
 Hay wood, Silas L., promoted First Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hildreth, William H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Holden, Jonathan M., discharged Oct. 19, 1861. 
 
COMPANY A. 183 
 
 Isham, Charles H., discharged June 25, 1863. 
 
 Jewell, Elhridge E., discharged July 28, 1861. 
 
 Jaquith, Dana 8., Mustered out July 21, 1864. 
 
 Joslyn, Joseph H., promoted to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Joslyn, John K., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lane, Nathaniel P., killed May 5, 18(52. 
 
 Lawrence, Abraham R., died Jan. 14, 1862. 
 
 Mclntosh, Charles H., re-enlisted. 
 
 Marsh, Henry H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 McManus, Michael, w nded July 2, 63. Pro. Corp. Mus. out June 21, 64. 
 
 Miles, Danvers, discharged July 30, 1862. 
 
 Miles, George, killed June 25, 1862. 
 
 Nims, Ruel P., wounded July 2, 1863. Transferred to Invalid Corps. 
 
 Nash, Frank, discharged Feb. 7, 1863. 
 
 Freckle, William H., discharged February 3, 1863. 
 
 Pratt, Edward R., discharged July 28, 1863. 
 
 Pickett, George L., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Ritchie, Edmund F., died Oct. 2, 1862. 
 
 Ruffle, Benjamin F., wounded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Rice, John L., commissioned in 16th N. H. V. 
 
 Simmer, Aaron B., promoted Sergeant. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Spring, William H., killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Sherwin, Horace E., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Shirgley, Charles H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, George C., wounded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Sebastian, Charles, deserted, date unknown. 
 
 Sebastian, Samuel, discharged July 28, 1861. 
 
 Sanborn, Mattison, discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Taft, Edward N., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Turner, Gardner W., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Tower, George R., discharged July 16, 1861. 
 
 Taft, Josiah 0., died June 30, 1862. 
 
 Thorning, William H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Turreil, Aaron B., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Walker, Albert R., pro. Sergt. W nded July 2, 62. Trans, to Inv. C ps. 
 
 Whittemore, Daniel W., discharged Aug, 10, 1861. 
 
 Whitman, George H., discharged Aug. 18, 1862. 
 
 Woodward, Daniel B., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 White, Henry, died Dec. 9, 1861. 
 
 Wheeler, William C., discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 
 White, Gilraan E., died Feb. 20, 1862. 
 
 Wheeler, John F., died of wounds June 8, 1862. 
 
 Young, Edwin, promoted to Sergeant. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
184 APPENDIX. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Charles Holmes, First Sergeant. Pro. to Capt. 17th U. S. Inf ty. 
 George W. Boyden, pro. to First Lieutenant. Resigned May 20, 1862. 
 Charles S. Cooper, taken prisoner July 21, 1861. 
 Frank W. Perkins, promoted to Capt. and Asst. Quartermaster. 
 Charles A. Milton, app. Medical Cadet, Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 John 0. Stevens, pro. to Sergeant. Died of wounds rec d July 2, 1863. 
 John D. Cooper, Jr., pro. to Lt. Col. on muster out men not re-enlisted. 
 George M. Shute, pro. to First Lieut. 
 Hiram F. Gerrish,pro. to Capt. and A. Q. M. 
 Charles H. Shute, pro. First Lieut, and Regimental Quartermaster. 
 Wells C. Haynes, wounded July 21, 1861, and died in hands of enemy. 
 Thomas E. Barker, discharged on account of wounds. 
 Thomas B. Leaver, pro. to Sergeant. Killed July 25, 1862. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 John W. Ocllin, transferred to 3d N. H. V. 
 Edward G. Tuttle, discharged Aug. 16, 1862. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 William W. Casson, discharged March 3, 1863. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Anderson, Daniel, re-enlisted. Killed at Cold Harbor June 2, 1864. 
 
 Brown, John L. T., wounded and discharged. 
 
 Burbank, Calvin M., pro. to Corp. W nded July 2, 1863. Mus. out 64. 
 
 Ballard, William W., pro. to First Lieut. Killed July 2, 183. 
 
 Boody, John, discharged Aug. 19, 1861. 
 
 Brown, Wilbur F., taken prisoner July 3, 1863. 
 
 County, George B., transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Corser, Hamilton T., discharged Aug. 19, 1861. 
 
 Carter, George T., w nded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. Pro. to Capt. 
 
 Clay, George H., discharged July 15, 1862. 
 
 Cheever, George N., pro. to Sergt. Taken prisoner July 2, 1863. 
 
 Clifford, William, re-enlisted. 
 
 Chase, Samuel H., discharged July 19, 1861. 
 
 Carr, Samuel L., discharged Nov. 15, 1862. 
 
 Cotton, John F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Clement, Orrin B., died Dec. 3, 1862. 
 
 Carlton, William E., wounded July 2, 1863. Discharged Nov. 20, 1863. 
 
 Chapman, Joseph E., wounded and discharged Dec. 5, 1862. 
 
COMPAOT B. 
 
 185 
 
 Damon, George H., pro. Corporal. Killed June 25, 1862. 
 
 Dickey, William, pro. to Principal Musician. Discharged. 
 
 Dickey, David G., discharged Nov. 20, 1863. 
 
 Demerett, George W., wounded June 3, 64. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Eastman, John L., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Emerson, George C., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Eaton, John H., discharged Feb. 15, 1863. 
 
 Foss, Charles H., unaccounted for. 
 
 Farmer, Augustus B., pro. to 1st Sergt. W n d June 3, 64. Mus. out. 64. 
 
 Fitts, John L., wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Goodwin, Charles E., discharged Nov. 20, 1863. 
 
 Goodwin, Aaron, died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Goodwin, Hiram S., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Godfrey, Edwin J., discharged Aug. 19, 1861. 
 
 Gillispie, Samuel J., deserted Jan. 14, 1863. 
 
 Hadley, Sylvester E., trans, to Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Harmond, Charles, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Holden, Wyman, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hastings, Alfred S., mustered out June 21, 1864 
 
 Hoitt, James W., discharged July 31, 1861. 
 
 Heath, Charles N., deserted May 4, 1862. 
 
 Hanaghan, Patrick H., killed June 25, 1862. 
 
 Hanscom, John H., wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Harlow, Albert, deserted Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Kasson, Harry B., pro. to Corporal. Taken prisoner July 3, 1863. 
 
 Keyes, Franklin L., discharged Nov. 27, 1862. 
 
 Killiher, Michael, discharged Aug. 9, 1861. 
 
 Lees, Thomas, taken prisoner July 2, 63. Pro. 2d Lt. Mus. out June, 64. 
 
 Lamprey, John L., wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lang, Charles A., discharged July 30, 1861. 
 
 Lang, Thomas M., promoted to Corporal. Discharged March 10, 1863, 
 
 Little, Thomas B., discharged July 30, 1863. 
 
 Ladd, George W., died of wounds Sept. 25, 1862, 
 
 Lamprey, Horace A., killed June 25, 1862. 
 
 Mayo, Giles 0., pro. to Corporal. Wounded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Mitchell, Sewall, pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Moon, Henry, discharged July 15, 1862. 
 
 May, James A., discharged Oct. 22, 1862. 
 
 Moore, John W., discharged to accept promotion March 29, 1863. 
 
 McCatherine, Thomas, unaccounted for. 
 
 Mace, Charles A., discharged May 28, 1863. 
 
 Mace, John H., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Noyes, Edward R.*, discharged March 8, 1862. 
 
186 APPENDIX. 
 
 Parker, Charles M., deserted Oct. 20, 1862. 
 
 Philbrick, Charles W., killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Patch, William H. H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Perry, Charles H., discharged July 15, 1862. 
 
 Roberts, Andrew J., discharged July 30, 1863. 
 
 Soesrnan, Flavius, re-enlisted. Wounded June 2, 1864. 
 
 Seavey, Smith M., discharged. 
 
 Sanger, Austin T., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Swett, Nelson S., died of wounds received June 25, 1862. 
 
 Small, P^dwin F., wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out Sept. 8, 1864. 
 
 Tilden, Charles T., discharged. 
 
 True, Roby M., discharged April 1, 1864. 
 
 Tuttle, Freeman H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Tuttle, Horace, promoted to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Varney, Benjamin P., wounded May 16, 1864. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Woodman, Alfred, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Wallace, Nathaniel D., taken prisoner July 3, 1863. 
 
 Willdns, Charles, pro. to Hospital Steward U. S. Army. 
 
 Worthen, John H., discharged June 26, 1863. 
 
 Wallace, William, discharged Aug. 5, 1862. 
 
 Watson, Jacob W., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Norton R. Moore, 1st Sergt. Pro. to 2d Lieut. Killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Richard A. Lawrence, discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Benjamin F. Chase, killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Alvin L. Wiggin, pro. 1st Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Prank 0. Robinson, pro. to 1st Sergt. Killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 James M. Bush, pro. to Sergt. Killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Alfred W. Berham, wounded July 21, 1861. Pro. Sergt. Trans, to Iny. C. 
 
 Lemuel M. Cox, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Abner H. Clement, deserted Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Charles Dresser, discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 David W. Colburn, pro. to Sergeant. Killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Sylvester M. Gordon, died Aug. 16, 1861. 
 
 James C. Furbush, discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 
 Charles R. Farnum, discharged. 
 
COMPANY C. 187 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Sullivan Silver, discharged. 
 
 Allen, Frederick R., discharged July 10, 1861. 
 
 Allen, Lester H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Ball, Kimball, deserted July 21, 1861. 
 
 Barker, John A., pro. to Corp. W n d July 2, 63. Disch d June 7, 64. 
 
 Black, Horace W., discharged. 
 
 Brown, Charles W., deserted Aug. 25, 1862. 
 
 Bean, Edward D., promoted to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Bartlett, Charles, deserted July 27, 1861. 
 
 Calef, William, taken prisoner July 2, 1863, and died in hands of enemy. 
 
 Carey, Henry P., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Clement, Charles C., discharged July 10, 1861. 
 
 Chase, John, pro. to Corporal. Wounded and missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Clark, Edward, promoted to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Cole, John H., promoted to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Colby, Harvey M., deserted, captured and pardoned on re-enlistment. 
 
 Conuel, Andrew M., wounded July 21, 1861. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Craig, George W., mustered out June 21, 18"64. 
 
 Davis, Hazen, Jr., wounded July 3, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Davis, John, pro. Corp. Captured July 21, 61. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Davis, Martin V. B., discharged Aug. 31. 1861. 
 
 Dearborn, Lewis H., wounded and discharged Sept. 26, 1862. 
 
 Dearborn, Frederick W., deserted Jan. 29, 1862. 
 
 Dresser, John C., pro. to Sergt. Deserted March 20, 1863, 
 
 Emerson, Thurlow A., deserted June 9, 1863. 
 
 Everett, Henry H., mustered out June 21, 1864, 
 
 Farley, Bernard J., discharged Dec. 23, 1861, 
 
 Fife, Henry C., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Fitzgerald, William, wounded and discharged Feb. 19, 1863. 
 
 Fowler, Barnett E., deserted June 30, 1863. 
 
 French, Charles L., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hadley, George, promoted to Corporal. Deserted. 
 
 Hanson, George R., deserted Dec., 1862. 
 
 Hastings, Cornelius, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Horn, Stephen B., deserted July 5, 1861. 
 
 Holmes, W T illard M., pro. to Sergeant. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hill, Harvey, discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 
 Hudson, William, wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Kendall, William G., died Nov. 15, 1861. 
 
 Kelso, William C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
188 APPENDIX. 
 
 Kidder, Samuel A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Levering, Samuel G., discharged August 31, 18G1. 
 
 Lord, James J., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Mason, John A., discharged July 10, 1861. 
 
 Martin, Daniel, captured July 21, 1861. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Meader, Hamilton A., promoted to Corp. Deserted Feb. 10, 1863. 
 
 Morse, Elijah, discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 McGovern, Felix, w n d July 2, 63. Pro. Corp. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 McGlauflin, Charles, re-enlisted. Promoted to 1st Lieut. 
 
 Noyes, George, discharged July 10, 1861. 
 
 Nichols, Andrew, missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Nichols, John, discharged July 10, 1861. 
 
 Nixon, George W., re-enlisted. Promoted to 1st Lieut. 
 
 Perry, George F., discharged on account of wounds Oct. 9, 1862. 
 
 Pickup, George, wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Plummer, Edwin, w n d July 2, 63. , Pro. Corp. Mus. out June 21, ? 64. 
 
 Pratt, Charles A., deserted May 24/1863. 
 
 Pike, Timothy H., discharged Sept 1, 1861. 
 
 Quimby, Jonathan C., discharged Oct. 31, 1861. 
 
 Quimby, James M., pro. to Sergeant. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Quimby, William H., killed July 21, 1861. 
 
 Randall, George W., discharged Aug. 31, 1861. 
 
 Rand, Charles J., discharged Aug. 31, 1861. 
 
 Reynolds, George M., discharged. 
 
 Relation, Lewis N., died of wounds received July 21, 1861. 
 
 Richards, John E., deserted Nov. 29, 1862, returned April 20, 1864. 
 
 Sargent, George H., pro. Sergt. W d July 2, ? 63. Mus. out June 21, 64. 
 
 Sauborn, Alfred J., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Sawyer, Joseph C., wounded and captured July 2, 1863. 
 
 Smith, William, discharged Sept. 1, 1861. 
 
 Smith, Alvin R., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Stark, John M., discharged July 3, 1863. 
 
 Stearns, John M., discharged. 
 
 Stevens, Horatio N., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Sherburne, Laroy D., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Tabor, Charles L.. wounded Aug. 29, 1862. Discharged Feb. 4, 1863. 
 
 Tilton, William H., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Tuttle, George B., discharged March 17, 1864. 
 
 Tuttle, Marcus M., discharged Aug. 24, 1861. 
 
 Tucker, Franklin K. f pro. Cor. W d June 3, 1864. Mus. out June 21, 64. 
 
 Wethcrbee, Franklin F., w d July 21, 1861, and died in hands of enemy. 
 
 Weeks, William H., deserted Aug. 4, 1863. 
 
 Worcester, George, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
COMPANY D. 189 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Jacob Hall, First Sergt. Pro. to First Lieut. Wounded May 16, 1864. 
 
 [Miis. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Henry Hayward, pro. to First Lieut. Killed June 2, 1864. 
 Moses Otis, discharged July 30, 1861. 
 Euoch F. Demerett, died Aug. 11, 1862. 
 Thomas Walker, discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Wilson Gray, pro. to Sergt. Discharged Oct. 31, 1862. 
 Theron F. Varney, pro. to Sergt. Deserted May 25, 1863. 
 Edwin S. Tash, discharged July 30, 1861. 
 James M. Venner, discharged July 18, 1862. 
 Moses J. Colby, discharged July 30, 1861. 
 David 0. Davis, discharged Sept. 21, 1862. 
 Luther W. Chadwick, discharged Aug. 17, 1861. 
 Daniel Sherburne, discharged Oct. 15, 1862. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Charles G. Hill, discharged Aug. 28, 1861. 
 Charles E. Hale, discharged Aug. 28, 1861. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 James Thompson, re-enlisted. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Abbott, Alexander L., discharged Sept. 21, 1862. 
 
 Adams, Enoch G., app. Capt. 2d U. S. Vols. 
 
 Ayers, Joseph F., discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Blake, James W., discharged Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 Brennon, John W., deserted Aug. 9, 1861. 
 
 Burnham, Moses, deserted July 7, 1862. 
 
 Chadbourn, Moses W., deserted July 7, 1862, and returned. 
 
 Chase, John, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Clay, Bradley, died Oct. 6, 1861. 
 
 Corson, Monroe J., discharged April 22, 1862. 
 
 Coyle, Thomas C., discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Cross, Ezra P., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Currier, James H., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Davis, James, discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Deshon, Stephen M., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Downs, Calvin C., re-enlisted. 
 
 Drew, Dana L., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
190 APPENDIX. 
 
 Drew, Martin V., discharged July 29, 1861. 
 
 Drew, Warren C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Durgin, John H., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out Nov. 1, 1864. 
 
 Dyer, Albion, deserted May 25, 18G3. 
 
 Emerson, Henry H., discharged June 30, 1862. 
 
 Foss, Samuel A., wounded Jnly 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Foss, Solomon W., died Feb. 5, 1863. 
 
 Garland, Wingate, discharged Feb. 17, 1863. 
 
 Gerrish, Benjamin F., deserted May 2">, 1863. 
 
 Goodwin, Ezra C., pro. to Sergt. Wounded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Grover, Charles A., re-enlisted. 
 
 <5ravlin, Francis, deserted Oct. 11, 1863. 
 
 Hanscoin, John H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hardison, John F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hayes, John 0., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Head, Alvah K., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Heath, Franklin W., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hunt, Israel T., discharged Sept. 2, 1861. 
 
 Jackson, Charles, re-enlisted. 
 
 Jenness, Henry 0., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Jones, Charles E., pro. to Sergeant. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Jones, Christie L., discharged July 30, 1862. 
 
 Kane, Peter, discharged June 21, 1862. 
 
 Kidder, Aluen F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Heathers, Alphonso D., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Logan, Johnson C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lord, John F., missing July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lord, Oliver, re-enlisted. 
 
 Mahoney, Thomas J., discharged Feb. 11, 1863. 
 
 McCabe, John, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Merrill, Noah D., died of wounds Sept. 16, 1863. 
 
 Miller, Robert, pro. 2d Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Morrison, Andrew, discharged July 30, 1861. 
 
 Molloy, John, discharged April 21, 1862. 
 
 Molly, Peter, pro. Corp. Discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Osborne, John, killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Otis, John H., transferred to Yet. Reserve Corps. 
 
 Pendergast, George P., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Perkins, Charles C., deserted Aug. 24, 1863. 
 
 Pinkhaui, Andrew J., discharged Aug. 21, 1861, 
 
 Place, Charles H., deserted Dec. 19, 1862. 
 
 Porter, Festus, discharged Aug. 24, 1861. 
 
 Ramsey, Newton A., pro. to 1st Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
COMPANY E. 191 
 
 Randall, Horace, discharged Aug. 21, 1861. 
 
 Roberts, Charles P., died of wounds Oct. 23, 1862. 
 
 Roberts, Charles R., unaccounted for. 
 
 Rogers, Stephen H., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Sanborn, John H., discharged July 30, 1861. 
 
 Saunders, Charles C., missing Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Scruton, George H., deserted Dec. 9, 1862. 
 
 Smith, Moses L. F., pro. to Sergt. Maj. Re-enlisted. Killed June 2, 1864. 
 
 Stark, William G., re-enlisted. Promoted to Assistant Surgeon. 
 
 Stearns, George H., pro. to Corp. Killed July 3, 1863. 
 
 Stevens, Abram C., died May 1, 1862. 
 
 Stevens, Benj. F., deserted May 25, 1863. 
 
 Tibbetts, James H., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Talhour, Charles A., died Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Tripp, William H., deserted May 25, 1863. 
 
 Varney, John S., pro. Corp. W d July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Waldron, John F., discharged Oct. 31, 1861. 
 
 Wallace, Sylvester B., discharged May 1, 1862. 
 
 Walsh, Richard, discharged Feb. 11, 1863. 
 
 Watson, Charles E., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Welch, Benjamin F., deserted June 30, 1862. 
 
 West, Henry, deserted May 25, 1863. 
 
 Willey, Nathaniel, discharged March 26, 1863. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Albert M. Perkins, First Sergeant. Pro. Capt. Lost arm at Gettysburg. 
 
 [Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Isaac N. Vesper, Pro. First Lieut. Resigned May 6, 1863. 
 Hiram F. Durgin, killed in action Aug. 29, 1862. 
 Joseph Wolcott, disch. for disability March 18, 1863. 
 Henry M. Gordon, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Arthur T. Leonard, discharged for disability Aug. 10, 1861. 
 George A. Jones, pro. Sergt. Died of wounds July 2, 1862. 
 Wm. H. Colcord, pro. First Lt. W ? d at Cold Har. Must, out June, 64. 
 James Thompson, re-enlisted. 
 
 George A. Taylor, discharged for disability Aug. 2, 1861. 
 Joseph C. Swett, discharged for disability Aug. 2, 1861. 
 Nathan E. Kuse, pro. Sergt. Died of wounds Aug. 1, 1863. 
 Orren Brock, re-enlisted. 
 
192 APPENDIX. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 John H. Hale, discharged by order Aug. 30, 1862. 
 
 Clarence A. Brackett, transferred to Co. C July 20, 1861. Deserted. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Philip C. Eastman, re-enlisted. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Alden, Frank W., re-enlisted. 
 
 Bacon, Josiah H., deserted near Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 
 
 Brooks, Woodbury, missing in action Feb., 1863. 
 
 Bruze, John H., missing in action July 1, 1862. 
 
 Bride, John W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Baker, Jacob B., disch. for disability Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Bennett, John H., transferred to 4th U. S. Art y Nov. 4, 1862. 
 
 Brown, George L., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bean, William C., discharged for disability March 14, 1863. 
 
 Colcord, Charles E., discharged for disability Aug. 2, 1863. 
 
 Crane, Henry 0., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Currier, Andrew J., w d severely June 2, 1863. Must, out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Colbath, Levi W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Chase, Howard J., unaccounted for. 
 
 Chase, Charles H., died of wounds received July 21, 1861. 
 
 Carlton, Wilton H., unaccounted for. 
 
 Carmey, James M., unaccounted for. 
 
 Church, Freeman L., disch. for disability Aug. 5, 1861. 
 
 Cliesley, Joseph M., killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 
 
 Davis, Daniel T., discharged for disability Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Durgin Abner F., promoted to Quartermaster. 
 
 Dearborn, Calvin L., died in hospital Nov. 16, 1861. 
 
 Dudley, John F., pro. First Sergeant. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Ellison, Frank, unaccounted for. 
 
 Everett, Aaron, discharged for disability Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Everett, Joseph, discharged for disability Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Emerson, John A., captured at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 
 
 Elkius, Geo. S., died at Washington Dec. 2, 1862. 
 
 Flood, Charles A. W., deserted Dec. 26, 1862. 
 
 Flood, Samuel, disch. for disability March 15, 1862. 
 
 French, Geo. W., discharged for disability Aug. 30,1861. 
 
 Gravlin, Peter, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Haley, William, died at Concord, N. H., March 4, 1863. 
 
 Heath, Simeon M., re-enlisted. 
 
 Haines, Isaiah T., pro. Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Jones, John W., promoted to Sergt. Captured July 2, 1863. 
 
COMPANY E. 
 
 Jones, Josiah, unaccounted for. 
 
 Knight, William T., discharged Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Long, Nicholas, pro. Corp. W d June 3, 1864. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lavine, Edward, discharged Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Leavitt, Elbridge H., discharged Oct. 16, 1862. 
 
 Lamprey, John, pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lamprey, David, discharged Oct. 4, 1862. 
 
 Locke, Charles A., pro. to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Muzzy, John B., missing in action, July 29, 1862. 
 
 Merserve, Joseph C., discharged Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Masters, Charles A., deserted Nov. 1, 1862. 
 
 Murphy, Dennis, re-enlisted. 
 
 Morrill, William H., unaccounted for. 
 
 Morse, Joseph D., discharged Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Morse, Joseph R., discharged Nov. 13, 1862. 
 
 Parker, Edwin T., wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Pike, David, pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Pervere, Orren, deserted May 24, 1863. 
 
 Quinn, William J., pro. Sergt. W d July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 64. 
 
 Rowell, Martin P., discharged Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Rowell, Abram M., re-enlisted. 
 
 Robertson, Harrison, discharged Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Robinson, William, w d July 2, 1863. Pro. Sergt. Mus. out J e 21, 1864. 
 
 Randlett, George H., deserted Oct. 2, 1862. 
 
 Robinson, John S., deserted Oct. 13, 1862. 
 
 Rogers, Daniel A., died Oct. 8, 1862. 
 
 Sullivan, John. Jr., discharged Sept. 30, 1861. 
 
 Smith, Charles H., discharged Aug. 16, 1861. 
 
 Smith, Horace 0., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Daniel G., died of wounds, March 2, 1863. 
 
 Sorrill, Abram, discharged Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Stover, Alcot, missing in action Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Shaw, Henry M., deserted May 25, 1863. 
 
 Storey, William H. H., discharged May, 1863. 
 
 Storin, Michael, discharged on account of wounds May 15, 1863. 
 
 Thurston, John 0., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Thyng, George H., re-enlisted. 
 
 Tetherly, John B., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Treferthen, Francis G., unaccounted for. 
 
 Tanner, Jeremiah, re- enlisted. 
 
 Wentworth, Jacob, discharged Aug. 2, 1861, 
 
 Willey, Horace J., mustered out Aug. 28, 1864. 
 
 Walker, Richard A., unaccounted for. 
 
194 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Whicher, John W., discharged Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Wood, Lewis, pro. to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 Weeks, George, discharged March 8, 18G3. 
 Young, Alvin, re-enlisted. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Welcome A. Crafts, First Sergeant, pro. to First Lieut. 5th N. H. V. 
 
 Freedom M. Rhodes, promoted to Captain, 14th N. H. V. 
 
 Hugh R. Richardson, pro. to Captain. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Charles W. Fletcher, discharged July 21, 1861. 
 
 Lovell W. Brackett, missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 William 0. Lyford, discharged Sept. 4, 1861. 
 
 William H. Tucker, deserted Feb. 14, 1862. 
 
 Osco H. French, unaccounted for. 
 
 James S. Merrow, re-enlisted. 
 
 John Chandler, discharged March 15, 1863. 
 
 David Clark, deserted Oct. 4, 1862. 
 
 Richard 0. Young, died June 29, 1862. 
 
 James H. Swain, promoted to 2d Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 James A. Wiggin, discharged Nov. 1, 1862. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Wentworth Goodwin, died March 27, 1864. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Adler, Lorenzo D., pro. Sergt. Re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864. 
 
 Alexander, William, discharged July 21, 1861. 
 
 Aldrich, George, deserted Oct. 4, 1862. 
 
 Ames, John G., pro. to Sergt. Cap. July 2, 63, died in hands of enemy. 
 
 Barney, John, enlisted in Regular Army, Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Buck, Charles, discharged on account of wounds, Jan. 21, 1862. 
 
 Burt, George, wounded July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Benway, Joseph, enlisted in Regular Army Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Bean, Darius K., pro. Corp. W d July 2, 63. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Brown, Robert, discharged Feb. 9, 1863. 
 
 Bassett, Sylvester F., missing in action Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Bancroft, William E., pro. Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bachelder, Hiram H., died March 4, 1863. 
 
COMPANY F. 195 
 
 Baker, James FT., pro. to 1st Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bresenhen, James, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Corliss, Charles F., died July 27, 1861. 
 
 Corliss, Joseph G., died March 4, 1863. 
 
 Clement, John S., deserted June 27, 1863. 
 
 Chase, George S., discharged on account of wounds Sept. 5, 1861. 
 
 Chancy, George A., re-enlisted. 
 
 Clough, Samuel H., died Aug. 27, 1862. 
 
 Colbath, Uriah S., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Clark, David J., pro. to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Cook, Mark F., enlisted in Reg. Army, Oct. 31, 1862. 
 
 Cloutman, James A., deserted July 3, 1861. 
 
 Dame, Oliver M., re-enlisted. Pro. to Commissary Sergeant. 
 
 Dow, George E., discharged July 4, 1862. 
 
 Dore, Charles H., w r d July 2, 63. Pro. Corp. Disch d June 1, 1864. 
 
 Eastman, Charles H., pro. to 1st Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Flint, Henry A., pro. to 1st Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Folletts, Francis A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Folsom, Peaslee H., discharged Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Foye, James H., discharged July 31, 1861. 
 
 Gaines, Edgar, enlisted in Regular Army Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Goldsmith, William H., pro. to Corporal. Re-enli?ted. 
 
 Henderson, John, died of wounds received July 2, 163. 
 
 Billiard, Henry S., pro. to 2d Lieut. 5th N. H. V. 
 
 Hagan, James, pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Harriman, Allen 0., re-enlisted. 
 
 Johnson, Bernard, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Jewctt, Charles E., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Jones, Jonathan, discharged March 15, 1863. 
 
 Kenney, Thomas, missing in action July 2, 1863. 
 
 Leach, John H., discharged Aug. 21, 1861. 
 
 Labornty, William A., died of wounds at Alexandria, Va. 
 
 Morgan, George, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Mayhew, James, re-enlisted. 
 
 Merrill, Cyrus W., missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 Merrill, Simon, wounded July 2, 1863. Discharged June 1, 1864. 
 
 McCaffrey, Patrick, died July 8, 1862. 
 
 Moody, Ammon, discharged Aug. 12, 1863. 
 
 Murry, William F., hung for murder Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Mead, James M., discharged Oct. 23, 1861. 
 
 Nutter, Charles F., enlisted in Regular Army Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Orel way, John, discharged March 15, 1863. 
 
 Plummer, John A., deserted Aug. 25, 1862. 
 
196 APPENDIX. 
 
 Piper, William H., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Paul, Frank, re-enlisted. 
 
 Peterson, Calvin B., deserted June 27, 18G3. 
 
 Parrish, William E., discharged July 31, 1861. 
 
 Robinson, George, discharged Oct. 23, 1861. 
 
 Rollins, Solomon, deserted July 3, 1861. 
 
 Rollins, Isaac C., died June 16, 18G2. 
 
 Staples, William H. F., wounded July 2, 63. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Severance, Thomas J., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Stevens, Clark, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Sargent, Albert M., deserted Feb., 1863. 
 
 Smith, Herman, pro. to Corp. Died of wounds June 7, 1862. 
 
 Sanborn, Benjamin, deserted June 27, 1863. 
 
 Saunders, Edmund, discharged Feb. 17, 1863. 
 
 Stillings, James G., deserted June 27, 1863. 
 
 Sauuders, John 0., discharged Oct. 2, 1862. 
 
 Thurston, Icliabod H., discharged June 20, 1863. 
 
 Tibbetts, Stephen R., discharged Aug. 21, 1863. 
 
 Vittuui, George S., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Witham, Levi, pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Wallace, Ira M., wounded Aug. 29, 1862. Discharged Oct. 13, 1862. 
 
 Wiser, John R., discharged Oct. 23, 1861. 
 
 Willis, Charles H., trans, to Inv. Corps Sept. 1, 1863. 
 
 Wiggin, James M., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Wilkinson, Joseph H., pro. to 2d Lieut. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Willey, Orrin, deserted July 17, 1861. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 David Steele, First Sergeant. Pro. to Capt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hiram K. Ladd, pro. to 1st Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Thomas E. Marshall, pro. to 1st Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Orrin S. Leighton, unaccounted for. 
 
 Frank A. Fletcher, wounded July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Enoch F. Jackman, w d July 2, 1863. Pro. 1st Lt. 1st U. S. Col d Tr ps. 
 
 Elmer J. Starkey, discharged Jan. 19, 1863. 
 
 William G. Wolcott, discharged Feb. 16, 1863. 
 
 Edmund Dascomb, pro. 2d Lieut. Died of wounds July 13, 1863. 
 
 John A. Hartshorn, killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Merrill N. Hunt, died Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
COMPANY G. 197 
 
 John Reagan, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Charles F. Noyes, wounded July 2, 1863, and transferred to Inv. Corps. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 Orlando W. Garvin, re-enlisted. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 David M. Hibbard, discharged May 28, 1863. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Ames, Alpha E. f discharged Aug. 17, 1861. 
 
 Aldrich, Daniel J., discharged. 
 
 Barrett, Charles A., deserted June 25, 1863. 
 
 Baxter, Albert F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bragg, Charles H., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Buck, Simon C., deserted Nov. 29, 1862. 
 
 Barley, Alonzo B., died in hands of enemy Sept. 12, 1861. 
 
 Bean, Burnis R., unaccounted for. 
 
 Bowman, Henry E., discharged on ace. of wounds, Nov. 1, 1861. 
 
 Beard, Samuel J., discharged Dec. 9, 1862. 
 
 Bourne, John, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bolio, Joseph, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Bagley, Isaiah, deserted April 4, 1864. 
 
 Collister, Charles 0., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Coburne, George C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Currier, George W., discharged Jan. 24, 1862. 
 
 Carson, Jacob W., pro. to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Coffin, William D., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Duncklee, Sylvester C., w d July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Dillon, Michael A., discharged Oct. 18, 1863. 
 
 Duffey, Nicholas, captured July 2, 1863. 
 
 Darling, James A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Dix, Charles H., discharged Dec. 3, 1861. 
 
 Driver, Francis, w d July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Felt, George D., died Nov. 6, 1862. 
 
 Farnsworth, Albert J., pro. to Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Foster, ^Charles E., re-enlisted. 
 
 Forbush, Abbott A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Fox, John M., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Furnald, William H., pro. to Corporal. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Gould, Gilman T., pro. to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Gould, Daniel W., discharged. 
 
 Goulding, Charles H., discharged Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Glazier, Van Buren, unaccounted for. 
 
198 APPENDIX. 
 
 Green, Daniel H., pro. to Corporal. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hutchinson, Timothy H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hutchinson, James W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hannaford, Alonzo M., pro. Sergt. W d July 2, 63. Mus. out J e 21, 64. 
 
 Hall, Newman, died Dec. 11, 1862. 
 
 Heard, Nelson, died June 3, 1803. 
 
 Holt, Charles F., discharged Oct. 31, 1862. 
 
 Hix, Curtis, wn d July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hall, Marvin J., died of wounds Sept. 16, 1862. 
 
 Hibbard, Joel E., discharged July 16, 1861. 
 
 Hagan, John, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Houle, John B., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Haynes, A. C., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hines, John D., w d July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hutchinson, Albert S., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Hoagg, George M., pro. Corp. W d July 2, 63. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Jones, Henry L., died Nov. 14, 1861. 
 
 Joslin, Levi J., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Kenney, John, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lawrence, Charles E., re-enlisted. 
 
 Lyle, Alexander, killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Mellen, James L., died June 19, 1863. 
 
 Moore, John J., pro. to Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 McRobie, Alexander, killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Nutting, Augustus G., discharged Dec. 3, 1861. 
 
 Noyes, Frank F., wounded July 2, 1863. Discharged Dec. 27, 1863. 
 
 Pingree, George R., discharged Aug. 9, 1862. 
 
 Pinkham, Charles B., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Pettingill, William, discharge J Jan. 19, 1863. 
 
 Place, George, discharged /fay 22, 1862. 
 
 Peaslee, Charles E., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Peabody, Daniel A., discaarged July 16, 1861. 
 
 Quimby, Jonas T., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Richard, Levi, re-enliste d. 
 
 Russell, Frederick, re-enlisted. 
 
 Shaw, Lyman, discharged. 
 
 Shedd, Herman, killed >une 25, 1862. 
 
 Saunders, James E., pro. to Sergt. Major. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Smith, Arthur P., discharged Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Sawtelle, William W., died Oct. 26, 1861. 
 
 Titus, Henry, discharged Sept. 22, 1861. 
 
 Twiss, John, died July 2, 1861. 
 
 Vose, John M., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
COMPANY II . 199 
 
 Wellman, James M., discharged Jan. 30, 1863. 
 Wright, Edward, discharged Oct. 31, 1862. 
 Whitney, George G., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 Wilson, Stephen D., discharged Aug. 3, 1861. 
 Winn, Harvey H., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 Weller, William W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 Walcott, John S., discharged Aug. 3, 1861. 
 
 COMPANY H. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 John F. Holman, First Sergt. Pro. Capt. Seve ly wounded at Second 
 
 [Bull Run. Trans, to Inv. Corps. 
 Charles Messer, discharged for disability Oct. 1, 1861. 
 Albert A. Emerson, discharged for disability Oct. 1, 1861. 
 Joseph K. Pearl, discharged for disability Oct 1, 1861. 
 Andrew G. Bracy, pro. First Lieut. Must, out June 21, 1864. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Oscar C. Allen, died disease Oct. 18, 1862. 
 
 William Montgomery, w ded sev. July 2, 1863. Pro. Sec. Lt. Mus. out 
 George F. Goodwin, discharged for disability Oct. 1, 61. [June 21, 1864. 
 James B. Silver, dis. for disability Nov. 19, 1863. 
 Geo. B. Tenney, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 James B. Reed, pro. Sergt. Wd. sev. at Gettysburg. Dis. by order Dec. 
 James W. Clark, commis ; d 18th Maine Vols. Aug. 20, 1862. [8, 1863. 
 Selden T. Chandler, enlisted in 4th U. S. Arty. Nov. 1, 1862. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 Eleazer D. Noyes, died of wounds May 5, 1862. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Lorenzo D. Allard, discharged for disability. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Allen, Heman, pro. Corporal. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Allen, Edward S., missing at Gettysburg. Died at Columbus, Ga. 
 
 Andrew, James H., pro. Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Barber, Lewis G., deserted July 21, 1861. 
 
 Beatry, Thomas, deserted from hosp., Philadelphia, Penn., Aug. 7, 1863. 
 
 Burke, Henry, enlisted in 4th U. S. Arty. Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Bowman, Henry, deserted Oct. 12, 1862. 
 
 Buntin, John B., missing at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Conner, William H., died in hands of the enemy. 
 
 Coffin, William H., discharged Jan. 27, 1863. 
 
 Collins, Proctor, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
200 APPENDIX. 
 
 Chase Alonzo, dis. for disability April 27, 1864. 
 
 Chase, George L., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Corbit, Andrew, deserted at Concord May 5, 1863. 
 
 Currier, George D., discharged for disability Aug. 6, 1861. 
 
 Came, Virgil M., discharged for disability March 24, 1863. 
 
 Clement, Wyman R., died of disease Aug. 1, 1801. 
 
 Downing, Joshua, discharged for disability Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Davis Ziba L., enlisted in 4th U. S. Art. Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Eastman, Frank A., killed at Bull Run July 21, 1861. 
 
 Elliott, John A., deserted at Washington, D. C., June 10, 1863. 
 
 Farmer, Lucius, deserted July 2, 1801. 
 
 Flanders, Henry J., pro. Corp. Disch. for disability Sept. 29, 1862. 
 
 Foster, William H., died of disease April 11, 1804. 
 
 Francis, Daniel S., wd. sev. July 2, 1863. Must, out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Finnigan, Thomas, pro. Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Friend, Franklin, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Farrington, George H., died of disease July 14, 1861. 
 
 Goodwin, John H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Grout, Galen H., discharged July 21, 1862. 
 
 Goodrich, William H., disch. for disability Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Harnbleton, Albert, discharged May 20, 1863. 
 
 Hanson, Harlow P., deserted Sept. 3, 1862. 
 
 Hanson, Albert J., pro. Ser. Wd. severely at Gettysburg. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Haley, Michael C., pro. Corp. Deserted at Concord May 5, 1863. 
 
 Hill, Clarence M., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hoyt, Hugh, disch. for disability Sept. 21, 1861. 
 
 Hobbs, John F., deserted at Fair Oaks, June 27, 1862. 
 
 Harvey, Abner F., died Feb. 13, 1863. 
 
 Hannaford, Abial A., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hanlon, Michael, unaccounted for. 
 
 Hoyt, James J., discharged Aug. 15, 1861. 
 
 Joy, Samuel M., discharged June 23, 1863. 
 
 Kearns, Patrick, killed July 21, 1861. 
 
 Looby, Hugh, unaccounted for. 
 
 Langtus, George, died in hands of enemy. 
 
 Lord, John W., pro. to 2d Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1804. 
 
 Lord, Woodbury, died Feb. 20, 1863. 
 
 Lord, Albion, died in hands of the enemy. 
 
 Manahan, John, deserted Sept. 3, 1862. 
 
 Mott, Perkins F., discharged Aug. 15, 1861. 
 
 Mullen, Michael, discharged Feb. 24, 1863. 
 
 Nash, Philip E., deserted Sept. 5, 1862. 
 
 Orr, Julius, pro. to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
COMPANY I. 
 
 Page, Horace, discharged Oct. 23, 1861. 
 
 Parker, Eugene A., enlisted in 4th U. S. Artillery, Dec. 6, 1862. 
 
 Parrish, Lyman F., died Feb. 20, 1863. 
 
 Patrick, Henry W., unaccounted for. 
 
 Philbrick, William R., wounded July 2, 1863. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Poor, Samuel, pro. to Corp. Taken prisoner July 2, 1863. 
 
 Putnam, Charles E., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Ricker, David L., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Richardson, James, pro. to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Roy, Henry F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Sawyer, Adoniram J., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Saxton, William, deserted May 6, 1863. 
 
 Saxton, Timothy, discharged June 19, 1863. 
 
 Smith, Charles H., died Oct. 27, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Erastus, discharged for disability. 
 
 Straw, Andrew J., died in hands of enemy. 
 
 Straw, John, discharged Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Straw, George H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Swett, Nathaniel F., pro. Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Symonds, John G., discharged Dec. 10, 1861. 
 
 Tallen, Joseph, deserted Sept. 28, 1862. 
 
 Tibbetts, Henry, discharged April 22, 1862. 
 
 Wiggin, James M., discharged Nov. 27, 1862. 
 
 Wilkinson, James, discharged July 29, 1862. 
 
 Williams, George W., re-enlisted. 
 
 Walker, William H., discharged July 21, 1862. 
 
 Wright, Nelson, deserted Oct. 12, 1862. 
 
 Wetherbee, Charles W., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Homer M. Crafts, First Sergt. Discharged May 28, 1862. 
 David M. Perkins, promoted to 2d Lieut. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 Rodney A. Manning, enlisted in 2d U. S. Cav., Oct. 27, 1862. 
 Oscar A. Mooar, pro. to 1st Lt. Died July 31, 1863. 
 Thorndike P. Heath, discharged Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 William H. Griffin, discharged July 29, 1863. 
 Hazen B. Martin, discharged June 18, 1863. 
 Perkins C. Lane, enlisted in 2d U. S. Cav., Oct. 22, 1862. 
 
 Stephen H. Palmer, died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 y 
 
 201 
 
202 APPENDIX. 
 
 Charles Vickery, pro. to 2d Lieut. Died of w ? ds rec d July 2, 1863. 
 Charles H. Smiley, killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Stephen J. Smiley, pro. to Principal Musician. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 Frank C. Wasley, pro. 1st Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 Samuel T. Newell, enlisted in 2d TJ. S. Cavalry Oct. 27, 1862. 
 Daniel W. Newell, pro. to Prin. Mus. Discharged Jan. 22, 1863. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Daniel Mix, deserted while on furlough. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Appleton, William H., pro. to Corp. Discharged July 30, 1863. 
 
 Aldrich, Lyman M., wounded July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Adams, Benjamin W., deserted and arrested. 
 
 Allison, Samuel, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Burns, Michael, deserted July 30, 1861. 
 
 Burns, James G., discharged Nov. 5, 1862. 
 
 Boutelle, Frank M., discharged May 29, 1863. 
 
 Biglin, Nicholas M., enlisted in 2d U. S. Cavalry, Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Brown, John, killed June 25, 1862. 
 
 Barry, John H., discharged June 2, 1862. 
 
 Chandler, James 0., pro. to Corp. Discharged May 28, 1863. 
 
 Carr, James R., discharged June 13, 1862. 
 
 Clay, George W., died April 2, 1864. 
 
 Galley, John S., died April 11, 1864. 
 
 Corliss, Leonard B., enlisted in 2d U. S. Cav. Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Conner, Joseph B., discharged on ace. of wounds Jan. 21, 1862. 
 
 County, Dennis, discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Cilley, George W., pro. to Corp. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Collins, Edward W., discharged Aug. 16, 1861. 
 
 Converse, Granville, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Dewey, Jesse E., pro to Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Damon, George B., deserted Jan. 24, 1863. 
 
 Dickey, Lyman A., pro. to Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Davis, James M., deserted Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 Dunn, James P., deserted Sept. 21, 1861. 
 
 Desmond, Daniel, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Davis, John W., taken prisoner July 2, 1863. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Eastman, Moses L., discharged Jan. 2, 1862. 
 
 Farrow, Sidney A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Ford, Byron K., died Oct. 29, 1861. 
 
 Gardner, Orrin S., deserted May 24, 1863. 
 
COMPANY I. 203 
 
 Gleason, Joseph H., pro. to Corp. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Gunnison, Norman E., discharged Feb. 7, 1863. 
 
 Hazewell, Eugene G., enlisted in 2d U. S. Cavalry Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Haynes, Martin A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Hardy, Charles T., enlisted in 2d U. S. Cavalry Get. 29, 1862. 
 
 Hubbard, Luther P., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 House, James M., w d July 2, 1863. Pro. 1st S gt. Mus. out J e 21, 1864. 
 
 Hunkins, Moses A., discharged Aug. 8, 1861. 
 
 Hall, Edward, enlisted in 2d U. S. Cavalry Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Hall, Albert L., discharged June 2, 1863. 
 
 Howard, Charles F., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Holt, Harry, killed July 21, 1861. 
 
 Johnson, George H., discharged. 
 
 Kenaston, Edgar D., died March 4, 1862. 
 
 Lawrence, George F., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Laroy, Joseph, enlisted in 2d U. S. Cav. Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Minor, Michael C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Merrill, Jonathan, w d July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Morse, Henry L., killed July 21, 1861. 
 
 Morgrage, William 0., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Ogden, John E., pro. to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Oliver, Samuel H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Parrott, Charles F., killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Pillsbury, Henry M., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Porter, Solon F., died March 14, 1862. 
 
 Pendleton, William H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Robinson, Albert B., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Roberts, Orsino, missing July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Roundsville, Charles W., pro. to Corporal. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Reed, Jonathan P., discharged Dec. 23, 1862. 
 
 Rainbosh, William S., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Ramsdell, William H., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Rahn, William J., pro. to Com. Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Sleeper, Levi H., Jr., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Sholes, Albert E., pro. to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Swain, Josiah S., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Simmons, Albion R., w d Aug. 29, 1862. Discharged Nov. 20, 1862. 
 
 Slade, George H., died Oct 2, 1863. 
 
 Storey, Albert, discharged Aug. 16, 1861. 
 
 Taft, John, discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Thompson, Willard P., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Tyler, George E., died March 3, 1863. 
 
 Vosburg, Charles N., unaccounted for. 
 
204 APPENDIX. 
 
 Wood, William W., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Wright, Charles B., mustered out Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 Whitefield, Smith A., discharged Sept. 12, 1862. 
 
 Wells, Albert A., discharged Aug. 8, 1861. 
 
 Wilkius, William W., discharged Sept. 30, 1861. 
 
 Woods, Alba, pro. to Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Woods, Lyndon B., w d July 2, 1863. Mustered out June 21, 1864, 
 
 Waldrick, Lymau, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Andrew J. Sides, First Sergeant. Discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 George E. Sides, pro. to Captain. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 Charles W. Patch, pro. 2d Lieut. Died of wounds July 10, 1863. 
 Oliver F. Maxwell, discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 George R. Raitt, discharged July 9, 1863. 
 
 Bickford L. Rand, Jr., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Christopher J. Marshall, missing July 21, 1861. 
 
 William W. Shaw, pro. to Sergt. Discharged July 9, 1863. 
 
 James Ricker, pro. to Sergt. Died of wounds Sept. 21, 1862. 
 
 Daniel D. Wendall, discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Rufus L. Bean, pro. to 2d Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Charles E. Gleason, pro. to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 
 James W. Taylor, re-enlisted. 
 
 WAGONER. 
 
 Benjamin J. Lake, discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Alton, George A., w d July 2, ? 63. Pro. Corp. Mus. out J e 21, 1864. 
 
 Adams, Samuel, missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 Allen, Charles N., discharged Oct. 1, 1863. 
 
 Avery, John, deserted July 15, 1861. 
 
 Allen, Oliver N., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Bell, John W., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Bell, Allen P., died May 6, 1862. 
 
 Blye, Van Buren G., re-enlisted. 
 
 Brock way, John R., unaccounted for. 
 
 Boyle, Hugh, deserted July 24, 1861. 
 
COMPANY K. 205 
 
 Blaisdell, Lewis E., missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 Chase, James H., enlisted in Regular Army. 
 
 Danielson, Nathaniel M., deserted Jan. 15, 1864, and returned. 
 
 Doe, Joseph A., discharged. 
 
 Dearborn, John F., pro. Sergt. Mus. out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Downs, Charles W., unaccounted for. 
 
 Dearborn, Horace L., deserted Aug. 12, 1862. 
 
 Dame, Joseph, discharged Dec. 24, 1862. 
 
 Fifield, Francis A., deserted July 24, 1861. 
 
 Goodwin, William H., discharged May 21, 1863. 
 
 Gordon, Joseph E., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Gray, Clarence S., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Gammon, James T., pro. to Corp. Missing July 2, 63. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Gannon, Thomas, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Huntress, Charles E., died Sept. 30, 1862. 
 
 Hill, Jacob H., deserted Dec. 1, 1862. 
 
 Hill, George E., discharged July 15, 1861. 
 
 Hodgdon, Harlow P., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Harvey, John, discharged April 21, 1862. 
 
 Haines, John, discharged Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Holbrook, Charles W., discharged Dec. 12, 1861. 
 
 Johnson, George C., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Janvrin, Joseph E., pro. Asst. Surgeon 15th N. H. V. 
 
 Kenniston, William H., died Aug. 3, 1861. 
 
 King, William S., pro. to Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Lear, Nathaniel M., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Lever, Robert, discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Leslie, Edwin A., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Long, Michael E., pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Locke, James E., pro. to 1st Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Lawson, William H., discharged Dec. 9, 1863. 
 
 Lowd, Sedley A., mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Manson, Alvah, pro. to Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Merrow, Albert, pro. Corp. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Mix, William ft., pro. Corp. Disch. by order Sec. of War, Dec. 22, 1863. 
 
 Murphy, Jeremiah, deserted Aug. 25, 1862. Returned March 31, 1863. 
 
 Mclntire, William C., Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Mahoney, Jeremiah, deserted Aug. 31, 1862. Arrested Feb. 12, 1864. 
 
 McDonald, John S., pro. Second Lieut. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 McGraw, Morris F., honorably discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Moulton, Joseph, pro. Sergt. Mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Marr, John, missing at Bull Run Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Neligam, Daniel, wounded severely and missing at Gettysburg. 
 
206 APPENDIX. 
 
 Norton, Henry C., discharged for disability. 
 
 Oxford, William P., died at Richmond Aug. 5, 1861. 
 
 Pollock, John, deserted July 24, 18G1. 
 
 Plaisted, Charles E., re-enlisted. Pro. to Adjutant. 
 
 Palmer, Nathaniel P., died at Harrison s Landing Aug. 9, 1862. 
 
 Rodgers, Joseph W., unaccounted for. 
 
 Reynolds, Samuel E., deserted May 21, 1863. 
 
 Rutlege, James, mustered out June 21, 1864. 
 
 Riley, John, unaccounted for. 
 
 Roberts, George W., pro. to 1st Lt. Killed July 2, 1862. 
 
 Ridge, Charles, missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 Sawyer, George, Jr., missing in action July 21, 1861. 
 
 Smith, Daniel P., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Seavey, James E., drowned at Aquia Creek, Va., Aug. 23, 1862. 
 
 Smith, Horace M., pro. to Corp. Discharged on ace. of wounds. 
 
 Spinney, William, discharged June 30, 1861. 
 
 Sides, Robert C., Jr., pro. to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Seaver, Thomas B., discharged March 15, 1862. 
 
 Steward, Alexander, enlisted in Regular Army. 
 
 Sheppard, Joseph P., enlisted in Regular Army. 
 
 Teague, Freeman B., deserted June 5, 1862. 
 
 Twilight, William H., discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Taylor, Samuel, discharged Aug. 1, 1861. 
 
 Tenney, William H., discharged Oct. 8, 1862. 
 
 Trickey, George W., discharged July 15, 1861. 
 
 Walker, Henry, killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Warren, Charles H., unaccounted for. 
 
 West, Joseph D., missing in action, July 2, 1863. 
 
 Willard, Andrew J., died at Harrison s Landing, Aug. 9, 1862. 
 
RECRUITS. 
 
 Adams, Orren S., discharged May 30, 1863. 
 
 Adams, John, mustered out Sept. 2, 1864. 
 
 Austin, Charles F., wounded June 9, 1864. Mustered out Sept. 14, 1864. 
 
 Allen, Harlan P., deserted Aug. 4, 1862. 
 
 Allen, Charles P., discharged Sept. 28, 1862. 
 
 Allen, Charles H., pro. to Corp. Mustered out Sept. 12, 1864. 
 
 Ashton, Benjamin F., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Aldrich, Oilman, wounded at Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. 
 
 Austin, Alonzo F. 
 
 Ayer, George W. 
 
 Adams, Nathaniel W., wounded June 3, 1864. Must, out Sept. 12, 1864. 
 
 Alson, Robert, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Allen, Clark, wounded July 5, 1864. 
 
 Ames, Theophilus. 
 
 Allen, George L. 
 
 Adams, Thomas, deserted at Yorktown, Va., April 9, 1864. 
 
 Alexander, Julius, deserted at Yorktown, Va., April 9, 1864. 
 
 Anderson, Henry, deserted Jan. 5, 1864. 
 
 Alfarst, Hilts, transferred to Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Anderson, James, Transferred to Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Barber, John H., deserted June 21, 1864. 
 
 Burcham, Joseph., discharged for disability. 
 
 Black, Orrin, Jr., deserted March 15, 1863. 
 
 Blaisdell, George, deserted at Bladensburg, Md., Oct. 8, 1861. 
 
 Billings, Marcus P., deserted Dec. 16, 1862. 
 
 Brackett, Charles A., deserted July 25, 1862. 
 
 Breede, Frank T., re-enlisted. 
 
 B arrett, C. F., missing at Gettysburg. 
 
208 APPENDIX. 
 
 Blye, Elbridge G., re-enlisted. 
 
 Black, Silas L., died Dec. 20, 1861. 
 
 Burnham, Joseph, discharged for disability. 
 
 Bowen, Amasa W., discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Burpey, Merrick M., re-enlisted. 
 
 Batchelder, John, discharged. 
 
 Bridge, Sterry W., mustered out Sept 14,1864. 
 
 Bignall, Thomas W., pro. Corp. Killed at Gettysburg. 
 
 Buckminster, Arthur E., re-enlisted. 
 
 Barrows, Levi P., died of wounds June 15, 1864. 
 
 Brown, Jerome H., died June 19, 1862. 
 
 Boutell, Equality W., discharged March 29, 1863. 
 
 Berry, George. 
 
 Bowers, Charles W., discharged by S. 0. No. 135, W. D., April 2, 1862. 
 
 Bolio, Edward, died of wounds received June 3, 1864. 
 
 Batchelder, Sewall D., discharged May 16, 1863. 
 
 Bean, Caleb G. 
 
 Brown, Harry F., died March 5, 1863. 
 
 Bean, Beniah J., wounded July 5, 1863. 
 
 Bonner, Wm. H., deserted June 2, 1864. 
 
 Bassett, Charles, re-enlisted. 
 
 Burley, Josiah, discharged Nov. 8, 1861. 
 
 Burnham, Charles A., pro. Asst. Surgeon Third N. H. V. 
 
 Billings, Warren, discharged Aug 2, 1861. 
 
 Bean, Joseph, died of wounds received June 2, 1862. 
 
 Brown, George, died of wounds received June 3, 1864. 
 
 Bullen, John, pro. to Hospital Steward. 
 
 Brown, David, wounded May 16, 1864. 
 
 Biggs, William, died Nov. 4, 1864. 
 
 Barry, John, died of wounds received May 16, 1864. 
 
 Blumrn, Falsh, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Brown, George, died of wounds June 21, 1864. 
 
 Beuton, Henry, wounded Aug. 20, 1864. 
 
 Branke, Henry, wounded June 5, 1864. 
 
 Boodrow, Frank, died Oct. 8, 1864. 
 
 Brady, Michael, wounded May 8, 1864. 
 
 Burnett, William, transferred to Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Brown, John, transferred to Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Baker, Augustus, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Broard, William, transferred to Navy, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Cole, M. S., deserted at Concord, N. H., May 24, 1863. 
 
 Carter, Charles, transferred to Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Crosby, John, transferred to Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
RECRUITS. 209 
 
 Cornell, William, died of disease at New York, Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Callaver, Andrew, transferred to Navy April 27, 1864. 
 
 Clement, George F., killed at Gettysburg. 
 
 Cushiug, John, re-enlisted. 
 
 Cruden, Henry, died Feb. 26, 1864. 
 
 Cutler, Frederick P., discharged March 26, 1863. 
 
 Corey, Amos L., discharged Feb. 2, 1863. 
 
 Colegan, Abel W., mustered out Sept. 14, 1864. 
 
 Calkins, William, mustered out Sept. 14, 1864. 
 
 Calkins, Lorenzo, mustered out Sept. 15, 1864. 
 
 Cook, Herbert E., re-enlisted. 
 
 Cleary, Cornelius, died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Carroll, Philip S., discharged May 20, 1863. 
 
 Cutler, Hiram, discharged on account of wounds Dec. 14, 1862, 
 
 Crawford, Thomas, discharged Sept. 30, 1862. 
 
 Carpenter, Ebenezer, died Feb. 4, 1864. 
 
 Chamberlain, George C., discharged Sept 20, 1862. 
 
 Cole, Uriah W., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Carr, Brackett L., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Chase, Charles M., wounded May 8, 1864. Pro. to Capt. Col d Troops. 
 
 Chase, Algernon F., died Aug. 28, 1862. 
 
 Chickering, Edwin, discharged May 5, 1863. 
 
 Cross, James M., discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Chickering, Frank, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Craig, Allen A., discharged May 30, 1863, 
 
 Clark, George W., discharged Sept. 22, 1863. 
 
 Clifton, Henry F., mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Carr, Thomas T., wounded July 2, 1863. Mus. out Sept. 16, 1864. 
 
 Chapman, T. O., discharged May 29, 1863. 
 
 Copeland, David B., wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Crowley, Timothy, wounded May 1, 1864. 
 
 Colligan, Michael, wounded June 3, 1863. 
 
 Cruden, George, died Feb. 22, 1864. 
 
 Cavanaugh, Arthur, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Corcoran, Michael, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Collins, Thomas, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Clark, Frank, wounded June 30, 1864. 
 
 Coleman, George H., discharged July 27, 1864. 
 
 Drummer, William C., wounded and missing July 2, 1863, 
 
 Dean, John, discharged March 17, 1863. 
 
 Davis, Martin V. B., discharged July 17, 1863. 
 
 Davis, Amos, discharged May 1, 1862. 
 
 Davis, Harrison L., mustered out Sept. 20, 1864. 
 
210 APPENDIX. 
 
 Dunlap, Whitney, discharged July 9, 1863. 
 
 Danforth, Johnson N., died of wounds Oct. 4, 1862. 
 
 Douglas, Ira (>., discharged July 12, 1862. 
 
 Danforth, John, wounded and missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Daniels, John S., wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Deets, George C. N., discharged March 2, 1863. 
 
 Dillon, William, wounded and missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Ducham, Moses, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Durand, Adolphe, wounded May 14, 1864. 
 
 Drapeau, Michael, died of wounds received June 3, 1864. 
 
 Daley, Peter, died of wounds received May 16, 1864. 
 
 Davis, Sidney, wounded Aug. 25, 1864. 
 
 Dirval, William, died July 7, 1864. 
 
 Daley, Louis, missing Oct. 28, 1864. 
 
 Doolittle, Edgard, deserted Sept. 30, 1861. 
 
 Davis, Orris F., deserted at Concord, May 25, 1863. 
 
 Day, Morrill C., deserted March 31, 1862. 
 
 Decker, Isaac, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Duncan, Peter, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Dunn, John, deserted. Arrested April 12, 1864. 
 
 Denick, Frank, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Emerson, William A., deserted at Washington, June 27, 1863. 
 
 Erickson, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Eastman, William, discharged Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 Ellis, David C., deserted and returned. 
 
 Everton, John W., discharged July 18, 1863. 
 
 Egin, John, executed for desertion at Yorktown, Va., April 15, 1864. 
 
 Ensemof, Alexander, died Aug. 31, 1864. 
 
 Elliott, Charles, died of wounds received June 3, 1864. 
 
 Edgerly, James E., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Fisk, John I., missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Fih eld, Simon P., re-enlisted. 
 
 Fisher, Sumner P., wounded June 3, 1864. Mustered out Sept. 7, 1864. 
 
 Felt, James W., pro. to Corp. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Fassett, Luther W., killed by rebel guerilla, April 2, 1862. 
 
 Freeman, Nathaniel, wounded June 3, 1864. Must, out 18G4. 
 
 Fassett, Joel E., disch. Oct. 16, 1864. 
 
 Forrest, Edward W., re-enlisted. 
 
 Fulsom, Asa, dis. on account of wounds, March 14, 1863. 
 
 Fairfield, Freeman W., wounded June 3, 1864. Must out Aug. 25, 1864. 
 
 Fraser, Alexander, pro. Sergt. 
 
 Fray, George, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Freeman, Charles, died Oct. 6, 1864. 
 
RECRUITS. 211 
 
 Fife, John, deserted and returned. 
 
 Fry, Henry, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Guion, J., deserted at Washington, D. C., June 10, 1863. 
 
 Gregg, William, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 28, 1864. 
 
 Green, John, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Gates, George, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Gregory, William H., discharged Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Gleason, Aaron F., transferred to Invalid Corps. 
 
 Gilbert, Charles N., discharged May 15, 1863. 
 
 Gowdey, Edwin W., discharged June 23, 1863. 
 
 Guillon, Gleneira, mustered out Sept. 12, 1864. 
 
 Gould, Charles 0., killed May 16, 1864. 
 
 Goodwin, E. L., discharged Jan. 22, 1862. 
 
 Grave, Frederick, killed May 16, 1864. 
 
 Gilbert, George, died Aug. 6, 1863. 
 
 Gaylor, James, killed May 16, 1864. 
 
 Head, Orrin M., discharged. 
 
 Hutton, Samuel, re-enlisted. 
 
 Howard, Charles A., re-enlisted. 
 
 Hubbard, Deloss, discharged May 15, 1863. 
 
 Howe, Frank E., killed at Fair Oaks, June 23, 1862. 
 
 Harvey, Charles F., discharged November 29, 1862. 
 
 Hodgkins, Daniel G., killed May 5, 1862. 
 
 Hurd, George, discharged Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Hanson, John, wounded July 2, 1863. 
 
 Home, James M. 
 
 Hubbard, I. P. 
 
 Hoyt, Francis S., died in hands of enemy Nov. 5, 1864. 
 
 Hill, George H., wounded June 1, 1864. 
 
 Hall, Isaac G., transferred to Invalid Corps June 15, 1864. 
 
 Hutton, James, re-enlisted. 
 
 Hewey, Francis H., promoted to Q. M. Sergeant. 
 
 Hannaford, James M., mustered out Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 Heath, John, discharged May 16, 1863. 
 
 Hayes, James, wounded and captured at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Hoyt, Charles W., died Aug. 14, 1863. 
 
 Holt, Henry, executed for desertion April 15, 1864, 
 
 Howes, James, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Hartwell, John H., wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864. 
 
 Horton, George G., deserted June 13, 1862. 
 
 Hubbard, Daniel R., dishonorably discharged Feb. 9, 1864. 
 
 Harop, Mark, deserted at Concord, N. H., April 29, 1863. 
 
 Hart, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
212 APPENDIX. 
 
 Hendrick, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Holt, Amos, pro. Corp l. Transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Holmes, Andrew J., discharged by order May 12, 1864. 
 
 Johnson, Peter, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Joslin, Joseph R., discharged June 16, 1864. 
 
 Joslin, Henry H., discharged. 
 
 Jones, Luther D., mastered out Aug. 31, 1864. 
 
 Jones, Charles A., mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Jones, Burley K., died of wounds June 25, 1862. 
 
 Jenson, Jens, died at Port Monroe, Dec. 14, 1864. 
 
 Jones, Thomas, wounded July, 1864. 
 
 Johnson, William, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Kempton, William H., wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Kendall, John A., discharged Sept. 19, 1863. 
 
 Kerby, Joseph, killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Kelley, William, wounded Aug. 19, 1864. 
 
 Kelley, William J., wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Kelley, John, wounded July 3, 1864. Deserted. 
 
 Kimball, Hubbard S., dischaiged for disability at N. Y., Dec. 13, 1864. 
 
 Kelley, David, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Kennison, John, discharged for disability May 12, 1864. 
 
 Kerby, Thomas, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864i 
 
 Littlefield, Charles H., deserted June 30, 1862. 
 
 Lang, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Lawrence, Houghton, discharged July 11, 1862. 
 
 Leary, Jeremiah, re-enlisted. 
 
 Legro, Edgar B., pro. to 1st Lieut, and Adjutant. 
 
 Lego, Eben, mustered out Aug. 27, 1864. 
 
 Langmaid, J. G., mustered out Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 Linden, James F., mustered out Sept. 16, 1864. 
 
 Lanphire, Orlando, mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Lehan, Charles H., discharged April 27, 1864. 
 
 Leathers, John W. P., discharged Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 Lloyd, William B., died Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Lair, George, died June 24, 1864. 
 
 Leblanck, Octavia, wounded June 1, 1864. 
 
 Lehman, Lewis, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Larion, Peter, died Aug. 1, 1864. 
 
 Lynch, John, wounded June 31, 1864. 
 
 Lowd, George, missing in action June 3, 1864. 
 
 Lord, Thomas, missing Oct. 28, 1864. 
 
 Lumbeck, Asaph, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 McMillen, Thomas, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
BEC11UITS. 213 
 
 McNichols, Daniel, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 Morton, Hiram F., transferred to U. S. Nary April 29, 1864. 
 Miller, Alexander, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 Morrison, Frank, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 Mullen, Herman, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 Morris, Robert, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 18(54. 
 Murphy, Charles, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 Morgan, Frank W., pro. to Sergt. Re-enlisted. 
 Martin, Hazen B., discharged June 14, 1863. 
 Martin, James M., died Aug. 11, 1862. 
 Morgan, Paul C., discharged March 20, 1863. 
 Martin, James, enlisted in Regular Army, Dec. 6, 18G2. 
 Martin, Addison S., discharged Aug , 1864. 
 Moore, Charles A., killed July 2, 18(53. 
 Moores, Timothy G., discharged March 14, 1863. 
 Harden, Alfred L., discharged March 10, 1863. 
 Morse, William E., died of wounds Dec. 16, 1863. 
 Martin, Daniel S., died of wounds Dec. 16, 1863. 
 Moulton, Hosea B., discharged Dec. 10, 1863. 
 Messer, Fifield H., died of wounds received June 30, 1864. 
 Messenger, Addison G., killed June 3, 1864. 
 Moore, John H., mustered out Aug. 20, 1864. 
 McKinnon, George, mustered out Aug. 20, 1864. 
 McKinnon, Walter H., mustered out Aug. 18, 1864. 
 Monroe, Robert, discharged Aug. 16, 1864. 
 
 McKinnon, Malcom, wounded July 2, 1863. Discharged- Dec. 22, 1863. 
 Mitchell, Edward I., discharged Oct. 1, 1862. 
 McEray, John, killed at Drury s Bluff, Va., May 15, 1864. 
 McPherson, John, missing at Fair Oaks, Oct. 28, 1864. 
 McDonald, Owen, executed for desertion at Williamsburg, April 29, 1864. 
 Marks, William, died of wounds received June 3, 1864. 
 Meyers, Henry, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 McMartin, John, died of disease Nov. 12, 1864. 
 Magilio, Joseph, wounded June 1, 1864. Deserted. 
 Mason, Lewis, missing at Fair Oaks, Oct. 28, 1864. 
 McGuire, James, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 Moore, Samuel, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 Nutter, Samuel 0., enlisted in Regular Army Dec. 5, 1862. 
 Nichols, Fred H., wounded July 2, 1863. Mus. out Aug. 20, 1864. 
 Newell, James, mustered out Oct. 31, 1864. 
 Newman, Charles, killed at Cold Harbor June 4, 1864. 
 Nielsen, John, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 wton, John, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
214 APPENDIX.. 
 
 Nealy, Ezra, died Sept. 30, 1861. 
 
 Noyes, Fail-field, died Dec. 16, 186-. 
 
 Noyes, Lucius P., missing July 2, 1863. Mus. out Sept. 16, 1864. 
 
 O Brien, Thomas, discharged June 3, 1863. 
 
 Omerson, John A., discharged May 22, 1863. 
 
 O Brien, Cornelius, mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 O Malley, Thomas, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Olsen, Julius, died Feb. 4, 1864. 
 
 Plummer, E. J., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Putney, Ira A., missing July 2, 1864. Mus. out Aug. 22, 1864. 
 
 Parker, William, discharged Aug. 8, 1861. 
 
 Parker, Phineas A., discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Prentiss, Elbridge G., re-enlisted. 
 
 Phelps, Charles, killed Ang. 29, 1862. 
 
 Patterson, Samuel F., mustered out Sept. 11, 18fi4. 
 
 Piper, Thomas W., pro. to Sergt. Died of wounds Aug. 19, 1863. 
 
 Pnryea, John, deserted March 10, 1863. 
 
 Pierce, Alexander, died April 9, 1864. 
 
 Poor, Joseph, missing at Fair Oaks, Oct. 28, 1864. 
 
 Page, Charles, died Nov. 12, 1864. 
 
 Pollard, Levi J., wounded July 2, 1863. Mus. out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Putney, Henry P., discharged on account of wounds Sept. 26, 1862. 
 
 Peake, James, wounded May 16, 1864. 
 
 Parker, George, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Peterson, Charles, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Presly, Thomas, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Parker, Charles, drowned in attempting to desert April 7, 1862. 
 
 Quin, Carlos, discharged for disability. 
 
 Ruffle, Jonah, discharged Aug. 20, 1862. 
 
 Richardson, Edward, promoted to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Rand, Ira, discharged Feb. 4, 1863. 
 
 Rand, Cyrus, enlisted in 2d U. S. Cav. Oct. 27, 1862. 
 
 Rugg, Andrew J., died July 24, 1862. 
 
 Ripley, Joseph F., deserted at Falmouth Feb., 1863. 
 
 Rolfe, John S., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Ross, Merrick M., wounded at Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. 
 
 Richardson, Samuel C., discharged for disability. 
 
 Ruffle, Charles,"re-enlisted. 
 
 Rice, Frederick A. S., deserted Aug. 25, 1862. 
 
 Ruffle, Samuel, died Aug. 15, 1864. 
 
 Rand, John C., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Roberts, Charles 0., wounded July 2, 1863. 
 
 Raudlett, James, trans, to Inv. Corps Feb. 4, 1864. 
 
RECRUITS . 215 
 
 Riley, Thomas, deserted April 9th, 1863. 
 
 Rouse, Patrick, deserted April 11, 1864. 
 
 Roberts, Jean, deserted Feb. 19, 1864. 
 
 Richardson, James F., mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Rogers. J. W., wounded June 3, 1864. Mustered out Aug. 20, 1864. 
 
 Ruffle, George, discharged May 30, 1863. 
 
 Robinson, C. N., discharged June 16, 18G3. 
 
 Rand, Charles J., discharged Aug. 31, 1861. 
 
 Ricker, Nathaniel, promoted to Prin. Mus. July 11, 1863. 
 
 Root, Byron, discharged Sept. 8, 1862. 
 
 Roarke, William H., pro. to 2d Lieut. U. S. Colored Troops. 
 
 Robertson, Hugh, died Nov. 13, 1864. 
 
 Rose, John W., died Oct. 9, 1864. 
 
 Roberts, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Reinhart, Joseph, deserted Feb. 19, 1864. 
 
 Rowden, Thomas, deserted April 9, 1864. 
 
 Reed, Charles, deserted from Navy and returned. 
 
 Riley, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, Reuben F., honorably discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Sargent, Charles G., deserted. 
 
 Stanley, Dennison, deserted Oct. 13, 1862. 
 
 Straw, James B., deserted at Concord, N. H., April 29, 1863. 
 
 Smith, Thomas, transferred to U. S. Navy April 28, 1864. 
 
 Sweeney, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Albert, discharged for disability July 12, 1864. 
 
 Steele, William, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, Rueben F., discharged May 22, 1862. 
 
 Sawyer, Peter, deserted April 11, 1864, and returned. 
 
 Seavey, Jeremiah, re-enlisted. 
 
 Surnam, Thomas, died of wounds July 2, 1863. 
 
 Staro, John, deserted Jan. 20, 1864. 
 
 Sweeney, John, deserted from Navy and returned. 
 
 Sands, John, deserted Jan. 18, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Edward, deserted from Navy and returned. 
 
 Stenny, Thomas, missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Stevens, B. F., wounded and missing July 2, 1863. 
 
 Stimpson, Curtis, wounded June 3, 1864. Mus. out Sept. 9, 1864. 
 
 Stickney, Silas S., died of wounds received July 2, 1863. 
 
 Sumner, Alonzo A., discharged June 9, 1863. 
 
 Stone, Charles A., mustered out Sept. 14, 1864. 
 
 Streeter, Charles H., promoted to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Sumner, David, discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Spalding, Milan D., promoted to Sergeant. Re-enlisted. 
 
216 APPENDIX. 
 
 Stone, Albert G., died of wounds Nov. 2, 1862. 
 
 Stack, James, promoted to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Straw, William, deserted June 11, 18G3. 
 
 Sawyer, Daniel, unaccounted for. 
 
 Sawyer. Benjamin, deserted June 27, 1863. 
 
 Spague, William M., promoted to Corporal. Re-enlisted. 
 
 Stebbins, Warren L., mustered out Sept. 15, 1861. 
 
 Scott, John A., re-enlisted. 
 
 Stark, Samuel A., mustered out Sept. 12, 1864. 
 
 Safford, Otis, mustered out Sept. 2, 1864. 
 
 Satter, Atwine, died in hands of enemy Aug. 7, 1862. 
 
 Sage, Thomas, died Oct. 17, 1862. 
 
 Shattuck, Henry, discharged Sept. 22, 1862. 
 
 Stevenson, William B., discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Sanborn, DeWitt C., killed Aug. 29, 1862. 
 
 Smith, L. Alba, missing in action July 2, 1863. 
 
 Stevens, Benjamin G., killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 
 
 Sherwood, Jason, wounded July 2, 1864. Died Aug. 22, 1864. 
 
 Sanborn, James H., wounded July 2, 1863. Wounded May 16, 1864. 
 
 Smith, William, discharged Aug. 29, 1864. 
 
 Southworth, Orliti R., mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, William, deserted from Navy and returned. 
 
 Sidney, William, mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Summers, William, mustered out Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 Sawtelle, Amaziah, w d June 24, 64. Pro. Corp. Mus. out Aug. 24, ? 64. 
 
 Spaulding, John L., mustered out Oct. 29, 1863. 
 
 Stevens, John B., discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Simpson, John, discharged July 9, 1862. 
 
 Smith, William, discharged Sept. 7, 1864. 
 
 Smith, John, died of wounds received June 24, 1864. 
 
 Sullivan, Patrick, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Schaffer, Conrad, died June 19, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Patrick, killed near Petersburg Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 St Pierre, Prudent, killed in action June 3, 1864. 
 
 Schutz, George, discharged June 18, 1864. 
 
 Smith, William, died Sept. 11, 1864. 
 
 Scott, James, executed for desertion at Williamsburg, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Seymour, Joseph, died of wounds June 23, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Peter, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Sauuders, Joseph, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, Edward R., wounded June 1, 1864. 
 
 Totteu, J., killed at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. 
 
 Thompson, Henry A., discharged June 9, 1863, 
 
RECRUITS. 217 
 
 Tyrrell, Everett, discharged May 23, 1863. 
 
 Thatcher, Lucius, discharged Oct. 16, 1862. 
 
 Thurston, James, deserted May 24, 1863, and captured. 
 
 Thomas, Jener B., discharged Feb., 1863. 
 
 Thayer, Nathaniel, pro. to Hospital Steward U. S. Army, Sept. 17, 1864. 
 
 Tyler, Moses C., discharged July 9, 1863. 
 
 Tyler, Henry C., re-enlisted. 
 
 Tuttle, Charles D., re-enlisted. 
 
 Terrell, Davis B., mustered out Aug. 24, 1864. 
 
 Thomas, John, wounded Aug. 6, 1864. 
 
 Traynor, Edward, wounded May 18, 1864. 
 
 Thompson, Joseph, deserted. 
 
 Tracy, James, discharged July 10, 1864. 
 
 Taylor, James, killed May 16, 1864. 
 
 Tatro, Joseph, deserted at Concord, N. H., May 20, 1863. 
 
 Thompson, John, transferred to U. S. Navy, April 29, 1864. 
 
 Veuney, Henry, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Varney, Richard M., re-enlisted. 
 
 Webber, Conrad, died Feb. 8, 1863. 
 
 Worth, Charles H., killed July 2, 1863. 
 
 Ward well, Lyman E., pro. Corp. Mas. out Sept. 16, 1864. 
 
 Whipple, William, discharged July 9, 1863. 
 
 Warren, John S., discharged Oct. 14, 1864. 
 
 White, William, discharged on account of wounds May 15, 1863. 
 
 Wood, John R., died in Hospital, Nov., 1862. 
 
 Williams, Charles H., mustered out Sept. 13, 1864. 
 
 Wilber, William, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Wilcox, Calvin H., discharged Oct. 12, 1862. 
 
 White, Rodolphus J., died Dec. 20, 1862. 
 
 White, Asa M., discharged, date unknown. 
 
 Wiggins, George A., discharged Sept. 19, 1862. 
 
 Williams, Augustus M., deserted March 30, 1862. 
 
 Wright, Samuel D., deserted June 27, 1863. 
 
 Whidden, William, discharged Oct. 7, 1862. 
 
 Workman, George, deserted March 5, 1863. 
 
 Wilson, Harrison H., died of wounds Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 Walker, Henry J., discharged June 9, 1863. 
 
 Wetherbee, Edward H., wounded July 2, 63. Discharged Jan. 1, 1864. 
 
 Watson, John L., discharged Sept. 22, 18G3. 
 
 Woods, John L., discharged June 23, 1863. 
 
 Wilson, Asa M., died Sept. 3, 1863. 
 
 Walsh, James, wounded Aug. 18, 1864. 
 
 Woodward, Samuel, w d July 2, 1863. Dis. on ace. w ds Oct. 14, 1864. 
 
218 APPENDIX. 
 
 Willey, John H., mustered out Aug. 28, 1864. 
 
 Wright, John B., mustered out Aug. 23, 1864. 
 
 Wright, William F., died Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Westerman, William, died of wounds June 14, 1864. 
 
 Waldam, Earnest, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Weeks, Charles B., died of wounds July 3, 1863. 
 
 Woods, Henry, discharged Aug. 14, 1864. 
 
 Watson, James, wounded June 3, 1864. 
 
 Williams, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 20, 1864. 
 
 Weiland, Gustavus A., transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Tumbul, deserted in the face of the enemy, June 2, 1864. 
 
 Willoughby, George D., unaccounted for. 
 
 Williams, Henry, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Williams, John T., transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Wilson, John, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Wilson, Henry, transferred to U. S. Navy April 29, 1864. 
 
 Young, Joseph, killed in action June 5, 1864. 
 
SPECIAL ORDER OF GEN. SICKLES 
 
 ON THE DETACHMENT OF THE SECOND REGIMENT FROM THE ARMY 
 OF THE POTOMAC, ON DUTY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY CORPS, 
 
 25th February, 1863. 
 SPECIAL ORDERS, i 
 No. 13. f 
 
 The General Commanding cannot sever, even temporarily, his rela 
 tions with the Second New Hampshire Volunteers, without expressing 
 his regret that this gallant regiment no longer belongs to his command. 
 
 Entering the service at the beginning of the war, this regiment has 
 participated with distinction in the combats which have made the cam 
 paigns of this army illustrious. 
 
 Unchallenged in loyalty as in valor, the devotion of the Second New 
 Hampshire to our sacred cause is to-day as unyielding as when the fall 
 of Sumter inflamed the Union. 
 
 Soldiers ! your patriotic State will soon fill up your ranks. You will 
 be greeted at home with affectionate welcome by those who appreciate 
 your worth, and share your unselfish love of country. 
 
 You will, perhaps, encounter not a few who find everything to deplore 
 in the means employed to suppress this rebellion, and nothing to com 
 mend, except their own exertions to confer authority upon those who 
 apologize for treason, and sue for peace with the traitors who spurn 
 them. You have offered your own lives for the Union. You have buried 
 many brave comrades on the bloody fields of the rebellion. You will 
 know how to repel the approach of renegades who would betray the 
 cause for which your flag has been proudly borne in battle. 
 
 To your Commanding Officer, Colonel GILMAN MARSTON, twice 
 wounded at the head of his regiment, distinguished for gallantry in the 
 field and for signal ability in the national councils I desire to acknowl- 
 
220 GEN. SICKLES ORDER. 
 
 edge my obligations for bis able and zealous co-operation as an officer of 
 this command. 
 
 Your comrades in those heroic Divisions which are forever inseparable 
 from the names of HOOKER and KEARNEY, will always cherish their recol 
 lection of the glorious service in which you have been associated ; nor 
 will they cease to look with solicitude to the day, which all hope will not 
 be distant, when you will return to the THIRD ARMY COBPS with renova 
 ted ranks and nudiminished ardor, eager to share with us the honors of 
 new and eventful campaigns. 
 
 By command of 
 
 D. E. SICKLES, 
 
 Brigadier General. 
 (Signed) 0. H. HART, 
 
 A. A. General. 
 Official : H. D. F. YOUNG, 
 
 Capt. and Aid de - Camp. 
 
OFFICIAL REPORT OF COL. BAILEY 
 
 ON THE ACTION OF THE SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT IN 
 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, PA. 
 
 ,UNTEERS. } 
 ,D CORPS. V 
 
 i, 1863. ) 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND REGIMENT N. H. VOLUNTEERS. 
 THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, THIRD CORPS. 
 Near Gettysburg, Pa., July 5, 
 
 GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the 
 part taken by my regiment on the second inst., in the battle at this place : 
 
 Commencing at the time it was detached from your command, it then 
 being in position with your brigade in front of the Emmetsburg road, at 
 three o clock P. M., I had the honor to receive your order to report to 
 General GRAHAM, and immediately moving by double-quick in the front, I 
 had the honor to announce myself to that General with twenty-four com 
 missioned officers and three hundred and thirty rifles. I was at once 
 ordered to support Battery G, First New York Artillery, and one section 
 of a battery unknown, all light twelve-pounders, brass ; in this position my 
 left rested upon the right of the Sixty-Third Pennsylvania, my right cov 
 ered by a wood house situated upon the Emmetsburg road, my line form 
 ing a right angle with that road. Two hundred yards in my front the 
 Third Maine Regiment was skirmishing with the enemy. At four o clock, 
 while experiencing a terrific fire of spherical case and canister from 
 batteries in my front and on my right six hundred and fifty yards distant, 
 I directed the rolls of my companies to be called and found but eight of 
 the total number equipped absent. These had fallen out of the ranks 
 from sunstroke and exhaustion, while moving by double-quick to the 
 position. At 4 : 30 P. M., the Third Maine were withdrawn from our 
 front to our rear and about this time a battery and a section of Rodman 
 pieces were substituted for those we were supporting; these pieces were 
 worked with great inefficiency and at five o clock it was observed that a 
 
222 APPENDIX. 
 
 brigade of the enemy was advancing on our right in column of battalion 
 massed, while two regiments were moving directly parallel with my front 
 to the left, evidently with design to turn that flank. I reported the facts 
 to General GRAHAM and asked permission to charge the enemy ; being 
 close upon us, so near that the officer commanding the section of battery 
 spiked his pieces, fearful that he should lose them. The General gave me 
 directions to go forward. When I gave the order my regiment started 
 immediately, and advanced one hundred and fifty yards at a run with a 
 yell and such impetuosity as to cause the enemy to return to a ravine two 
 hundred and fifty yards in our front, where they were screened from our 
 fire, when I directed the fire of my battalion to the left oblique upon the 
 two regiments moving along my front by the flank at about the same dis 
 tance. My fire was so galling, assisted by that from the Third Maine 
 which had come up and taken post upon my left, as to cause them to 
 break and seek shelter, when my attention was again called to my right, 
 strengthened by the Sixty-Third Pennsylvania, forming at right angles 
 with my front and parallel with the Emmetsburg road, upon which was 
 advancing the brigade of the enemy moving by battalions in mass in line 
 of battle. I immediately directed the fire of my regiment to the right 
 oblique full upon it ; yet their line of fire assisted by a terrible discharge 
 of spherical case from their batteries caused the Sixty-Third Pennsylvania, 
 to return, and at the same moment the Third Maine moved to the rear, 
 though in good order, two hundred yards. Finding myself thus unsup 
 ported and the enemy still advancing, I ordered my regiment to fall back 
 slowly, firing, which was fully executed. I moved to the rear one hundred 
 and fifty yards and halted my line under the brow of the hill, halting also 
 on the brow to give a volley to the enemy, then distant but twenty yards. 
 The position of the three regiments was that of echelon at about twenty 
 paces, my regiment being the apex. The enemy continued advancing till 
 they reached the brow of the hill when their left swept towards the Sixty- 
 Third Pennsylvania, in such overwhelming numbers as to cause it to give 
 way, and fearing that those regiments which had been observed marching 
 towards my left might appear upon that flank, and knowing our efforts 
 must prove futile against such fearful odds, I gave the order to retire, 
 which was done quite rapidly yet coolly and without excitement, many 
 halting to fire upon the enemy as they went. I rejoined the brigade at 
 about 6 : 30 P. M., fearfully diminished in numbers, yet firm and fearless 
 still. 
 
 This battalion entered the fight with a firm determination to do or die, 
 and the long lists of fallen comrades already submitted will show how 
 well that resolution was kept. When all did so well it would be invidious 
 to make comparisons. Let it suffice to say they did their part as becomes 
 BOMS of the Old Granite State. For our fallen braves who have so glo- 
 
COL. BAILEY S REPORT. 223 
 
 riously perished fighting for their country we drop a comrade s tear, 
 while we would extend our heartfelt sympathy to those dear ones far 
 away, who find the ties of kindred and friends thus rudely severed, and 
 for those who must suffer untold agony and pain through long weeks of 
 convalescence, our earnest sympathy, yet leaving them to the watchful 
 care of Him who will not prove unmindful of their necessities. 
 
 I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 ED. L. BAILEY, 
 
 Col. Id N. H. Vols. 
 
LIST OF BATTLES 
 
 IN WHICH THE SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT HAD BEEN 
 
 ENGAGED UP TO TIME OF MUSTER OUT OF THE 
 
 ORIGINAL MEMBERS NOT RE -ENLISTED. 
 
 1. First Bull Run, July 21, 1861. 
 
 2. Siege of Yorktown, April 11, 1862, to May 3, 1862. 
 
 3. Williamsburg, May 2, 1865. 
 
 4. Skirmish at Pair Oaks, June 23, 1862. 
 
 5. Fair Oaks, June 25, 1862. 
 
 6. Savage Station, June 27, 1862. 
 
 7. Peach Orchard, June 28, 1862. 
 
 8. Glendale. June 30, 1862. 
 
 9. Malvern Hill, First, July 1, 1862. 
 
 10. Malvern Hill, Second, August 5, 1862. 
 
 11. Bristow Station, August 27, 1862. 
 
 12. Second Bull Run, August 29, 1862. 
 
 13. Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862. 
 
 14. Fredericksburg, December 11 15, 1862. 
 
 15. Gettysburg, July 13, 1864. 
 
 16. Wapping Heights, July 23, 1863. 
 
 17. Swift Creek, near Petersburg, May 8-, 1864. 
 
 18. Drury s Bluff, May 14 16, 1864. 
 
 19. Cold Harbor, June 2, 1864. 
 
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