He left us during Sophomore Spring term, in 1862, and enlisted in the Company
of Captain A,. B. Jones ( 61) in "Berdan's Sharpshooters," as Captain's clerk. Before
leaving for active service, he returned home and enlisted in Company K, Sixteenth
Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. He was made a Corporal in his company, and
went with his regiment to New Orleans and the swampy country of Louisiana, where he
remained for nine months, the period of enlistment. He returned to Concord, New
Hampshire, with his regiment, on August 14, 1863. He was very feeble, and remained for
some weeks in the hospital at Concord, before he was able to get to his father's home,
which was then at Newington, New Hampshire. He afterward improved in health so
much, that, although he was troubled with chills for a long time, he was appointed as a
Passenger Conductor on the Concord Railroad, January 1, 1866, that being the first
employment he was able to engage in after returning from the Service. He made his
residence in Concord at this time. In January, 1867, he had become too feeble, from
hemorrhage of the lungs, to remain longer on the cars, and he went to Danbury, New
Hampshire, which was now his father's home. He continued to fail from that time, riding
or walking out occasionally, but confined to his bed more or less, until he died of
consumption, on May 18, 1867.
He was a member of the Congregational church.
He was married March 10, 1866, to Miss Ida Elsie Lamprey, of Concord, New
Hampshire, who survives him as the wife of Hobart W. Stevens, of Merrimac,
Massachusetts. They had no children.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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