​The following is an 1889 pamphlet, listing the officers of the Wesley B. Knight GAR Post No. 41, Londonderry and Derry Depot, N.H., as well as the Woman's Relief Corps No. 54.

** Officers and Committee of **
WESLEY B. KNIGHT POST No. 41
William P. Nevins, P.C.
John C. Towns, S.V.C.
W. Irving Colburn, J.V.C.
Miner G. Frye, Adjt.
William Clark, Q.M.
Stephen Williams, Chaplain
Samuel N. Paine, Sergt.
William D. Moore, O.D.
George W. McKenney, O.G.
Andrew J. Benson, Q.M.S.
William Dustin, S.W.

MEETINGS: First Saturday of each month at Odd
Fellows Hall, Derry Depot, N.H.

** Finance Committee **
George H. Adams, Stephen Williams, George Richards

** Relief Committee **
Geo. O. Colby, Monday;
John P. Thurston, Tuesday;
John C. Towns, Wednesday;
George Richards, Thursday;
Andrew J. Benson, Friday;
William P. Nevins, Saturday;
Stephen Williams, Sunday.
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** Conference Committee **
William Clark, William S. Pillsbury, Miner G. Frye,
Granville F. Plummer, George H. Adams.

NOTE: Post No. 41 was organized in March of 1879, and was named for Wesley B. Knight of Londonderry, NH, who had served both in Co. C, 1st New Hampshire Infantry, and in Co. K, 4th NH Infantry. He was taken prisoner in May 1864, and died in Florence, S.C. that October. He is buried in Beaufort National Cemetery. 

- item from personal collection (S.Dow)

On Sunday, the 9th of June, 2019, the town of Richmond, New Hampshire held a dedication for its newly installed monument to honor their Civil War soldiers. The names of 79 men, and the regiments they belonged to, are inscribed on the plaque, with twenty-seven of them marked as having died during their service.

During the afternoon ceremony, the names of every man on the memorial was read, with the ringing of a bell following each one. The 6th NH Infantry, acting as honor guard for the event, closed the ceremony by firing several volleys.

The following are all of the names on the monument. Though the plaque has three columns for the inscriptions, spacing on this blog page wouldn't allow the same set-up. Here are the Richmond, NH soldiers of the War of the Rebellion:

Richmond Civil War Service
​1861-1865

2018 - Richmond Heritage Commission - Richmond Historical Society

The following is the program distributed for the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Charlestown, New Hampshire, which took place on Friday, October 6th, 1911.

​A Monument Association had been formed years prior, to raise funds for the monument. It was made of Barre granite, and stood 14.5 feet high. A white granite statue of a soldier at parade rest stands atop it, with bronze tablets on two sides, listing the names of the 144 men accredited to the town during the Civil War. The GAR badge adorns the front tablet. 

Three pages in the booklet contain the names of those men who enlisted for, or were credited to, Charlestown. As they were not listed in alphabetical order, they have been reorganized here as follows:

The Charlestown, NH Soldiers' Monument is located on the corner of Depot Street and Rt 12A, on the ground of the Charlestown Historical Society.

In this undated photograph, Civil War veterans (their spouses, widows and/or family members) of the 16th New Hampshire Infantry gather at their ​​regimental building located in the N.H. Veteran's Association complex at The Weirs in Laconia. Many of the men can be seen wearing GAR medals, as well as the NHVA Reunion (rectangle shaped) badges. Some of the women had Woman's Relief Corps (the auxiliary to the GAR) medals as well. On the back was written: "Mother Webber, Bernard, Andy Holt + wife, John Carkin", though there was no indication of where these people were standing in the above photo.

Mother Webber was probably Maria L. (Taggart), widow of Brooks K. Webber of Company I (16th NH). They had a son named Bernard born 1895, who may be the young man in the third row centered between flags. Brooks died in 1903, so this photo may in 1910's, based on Bernard's age in picture.

Andrew "Andy" Holt, a sergeant in Company G, was a Lyndeborough resident. His wife was Abby J, whose obituary mentioned she was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and she died in 1916. Andy passed away in 1924.

John C. Carkin was also a Lyndeborough native, and he had served in Company H. He died in 1923.

The New Hampshire Veteran's Association was originally made up of Civil War veterans, and was formed in 1875 (in Manchester, NH). Their second reunion was held at Weirs Beach (or The Weirs) in 1878, where they continued to hold their encampments in the decades to come. Land was donated the following year, and buildings were constructed to house the veterans of the individual NH regiments.

Read more about the location here:
http://weirsbeach.com/reasons-tovisit/history/veterans/nh-va-history/

The JOHN J. HANSON Camp, No. 30, Sons of Veterans, was formed in Newmarket, NH in the summer of 1907. 25 charter members gathered at the GAR Hall in June, where they planned instituting a camp in town. On Tuesday, the 2nd of July, they met under the guidance of the NH Division Commander, Samuel S. Smith of Exeter, to elect officers.

​The following article ran in the Newmarket Advertiser, Friday, 5 July, 1907 (pg 5):

They named their camp after Sgt John J Hanson, who had served during the Civil War in Co. D, 15th New Hampshire Infantry. He was later captain of the "Newmarket Guards", a company of State Militia. He was a GAR member, being the first commander of the George A Gay Post #18, in Newmarket. He died in Manchester, NH in 1899.

​The newly elected officers were:
- Commander Franklin A Brackett - himself a Civil War veteran, serving in the Martin Guards (Jul-Sept '64) and 1st NH Hvy Art (Sept '64 - Jun 65), he was the son of David Brackett of Co E, 13th NH 
- SVC Albert O. Smith, grandson of Cpl Orsamus T Smith, Co E, 13th NH Inf
- JVC, James T. Barrett, son of John Barrett (Co C, 6th NH)
- Sec, Herbert F. Davis, son of David O. (Co D, 2nd NH; Co F, 5th NH)
- Treas, Carl F. Brackett, son of Comm. Franklin A Brackett