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Howard Rand was the son of Daniel T. and Julia A. (Jewett) Rand. He was born
December 8, 1839, at Napoleon, Jackson County, Michigan. His preparatory course was
taken at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and he entered our class at the beginning of
Freshman year, August 24, 1860. He left us in October, 1861, during the Fall term of
Sophomore year, and on November 28, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company K,
Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. He was very soon promoted to Sergeant for
meritorious conduct. In the absence of superior officers, he commanded his company
from the date of the second Bull Run battle, August 29, 1862, until his death. At Bull
Run the colorbearer was killed, and amid a shower of bullets, Rand bravely gathered up
the colors and bore them from the field, an act of heroism witnessed with the warmest
approbation by many of his comrades. He was on the right of Burnside's Corps in the
charge across the "Stone Bridge" at the battle of Antietam, where he was shot in the
head, and instantly killed, on September 17, 1862. His body was recovered and buried at
Rindge, New Hampshire.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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