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

On this day, the 29th of June, in 1906:

The LOUIS BELL Camp, No. 5, Sons of Veterans, of Farmington, New Hampshire, was mustered in with 33 members. Officers from Dover, NH had driven up in autos, but had arrived later than expected, preventing many more potential members from being mustered in until a later date.

The Farmington News, in their 6 July 1906 issue, posted the following elected officers (though a couple of names were left out from an earlier article about their camp organization):

The Brothers elected were:
Frank J Smith (son of George H, 3rd NH, 13th NH, & 1st NH Cav)
Ulysses S Knox (son of Simeon P, Co E, 1st ME Hvy Art)
Charles E Ayers (son of John O, Co G, 10th NH)
Eugene Ricker
Hollis B Pearl (son of Rufus K, Band & Co D, 5th NH)
Edward F Card (son of George V., Co C, 13th NH)
John E Pike (son of Edwin E, gr-son of John C, Co I, 15th NH)
Frank E Webber
Frank Dame (son of Albert W., Co K, 11th NH)
Nelson H Mathews (son of J. Frank)
Everett N. Noyes (son of Charles F, gr-son of William A.F., 11th MA)
Charles Drew (son of Charles G)
Horace Dudley (son of Charles C, Co G, 6th NH)
Howard R Hadlock (son of Charles H, Co F 50th MA)
Edwin E Pike (see above under son John)

This town had previously been home to a Camp of this same name in the 1880-90's, then No. 15, but had disbanded.

​The camp was named for Louis Bell, who was a lawyer living in Farmington at the time the war began, and had served first as Captain of Co A, 1st NH Infantry, then later became colonel of the 4th New Hampshire Infantry. He died, on 16 Jan 1865, of wounds received at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and is buried in Chester, NH.

There was also a GAR Post (Louis Bell Post, No. 3) in Manchester, NH named in honor of him.

Links:
Farmington News, June 1st, 1906 [camp being organized]
​Farmington News, July 6th, 1906 ["A New Organization"]