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Lempster's World War I Memorial

8/8/2020

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1917 HONOR ROLL 1919
To the memory of
DON SYLVESTER HOOPER
who made the supreme sacrifice
and to
LEWIS E. ALLEN
BENJAMIN ANIRALAIJOS
ARTHUR ARMSTRONG
FLORED BAGATY
WILLIAM H. GEORGE
SAMUEL D. HAMLIN
WILLARD HAMLIN JR

who served in the World War
This monument is dedicated
by the
town of Lempster
A.D. - 1920
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Pvt. Don Sylvester Hooper was killed in action on 1 Nov 1918, and is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France. He served in Co. K, 309th Infantry, 78th Division.
Find a Grave Memorial: Don S Hooper
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Pittsfield, NH Civil War Memorial

1/1/2020

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In Pittsfield, New Hampshire's Floral Park Cemetery, there is a memorial stone, engraved with the names of the soldiers from this town who never returned home from the Civil War. It was erected by the Capt Asa W. Bartlett Camp, No. 39, Sons of Veterans.

Using Ayling's Revised Register and the History of Pittsfield, I've added the soldier's unit and cause of death to their memorial.
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Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, NH - taken 3 May 2009
IN HONORED MEMORY OF
George W. Berry - Co. K, 13th NH; wd 6/15/64, Petersburg, VA; died of wnds 6/16/64
John Brooks - Co. H, 3rd NH; wd 6/16/64 Ware Bottom Church, VA; d. 6/17/64, Bermuda Hundred
Henry Plummer Brooks - Co. H, 3rd NH; died of dis, 4/14/65 Wilmington, NC 
William Campbell - Co. G, 7th NH; KIA 7/18/1863, Fort Wagner, SC
John Cate - Co. G, 15th NH; wd 5/27/63, Port Hudson, LA; d. wnds 6/8/63, Baton Rouge
Joseph M. Chesley - Co. E, 2nd NH; KIA Gettysburg, 7/2 or 7/3
Willard K. Cobb - Co. E, 4th NH; KIA 9/29/64, New Market Heights, VA
George W. Davis - Co. E, 4th NH; a POW, d. after being paroled in Annapolis, MD
Joseph C. Dennett - Co E., 4th NH; d. of sickness, Hilton Head, Jan '64
Justice C. Drake - Co. B, 1st NH Cavl d. 8/14/64, Andersonville Prison
John J. Drake - Co. D, 11th NH; d. of dis. 11/10/64
Israel Drew - Co. G, 8th NH; died Camp Parapet, LA, 8/23/62
John S. Eaton - Co. E, 8th NH; disch for illness, died on voyage home, 11/2/62 and bur at sea
Lewis E. Edgerly - Co. G, 7th NH; missing at Fort Wagner, 7/18/63
Samuel R. Green - Co. A, 5th NH; wd at Gettysburg, 7/2/63, died 7/29/63
Edwin A. Kelley - Co. F, 12th NH; KIA Chancellorsville, 5/3/63
William T. Knight - Co. E, 2nd NH and Co. B, 12th NH; KIA 7/2/63 at Gettysburg 
Henry B. Leavitt - Co. G, 7th NH; wd at Fort Wagner; died after amputation of leg, 7/22/63, Charleston, SC
Jeremiah Marston - Co. F, 12th NH; wd/killed 6/3/64, Cold Harbor, VA
John C. Mason - Co. G, 15th NH; died 8/3/63 Sandusky, OH, on way home due to sickness
John B. Merrill - Co. F, 12th NH; KIA Chancellorsville, 5/3/63
George F. Meserve - Co. F, 12th NH; captured at Petersburg 5/16/64; died in Andersonville Prison
James D. Meserve - Co. B, 7th NH; killed at Fort Wagner, 7/18/63
George H. Reynolds - Co. F, 12th NH; KIA Chancellorsville, 5/3/63
Isaiah Swain - Co. G, 15th NH; sick on return home, died at Mound City, IL, 8/5/63
Daniel P. Tilton - Co. G, 7th NH; captured at Olustee, FL; died at Andersonville, 7/26/64
William H.H. Watson - 14th NH; died of fever 5/30/64, New Orleans
Hazen W. Willey - Co. G, 7th NH; wnd at Fort Wagner 7/18/63 and captured; died in Charleston, SC, 7/20 or 7/21
George Winkley - Co. F, 12th NH; died at Falmouth, VA, 5/24/63, of disease
​Enoch M. Young - Co. G, 15th NH; died at New Orleans, 6/2/63, from exhaustion/sickness
WHO ENLISTED FROM PITTSFIELD TO SERVE
THE UNION IN THE CIVIL WAR, BUT DID NOT
RETURN; WHOSE SAD PORTION WAS A SOLDIER'S
DEATH AND AN OBSCURE SOUTHERN GRAVE.
ERECTED BY
CAPT. ASA W. BARTLETT Camp No. 39, S. of V.
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See:
History of Pittsfield, N.H. in the Great Rebellion on [Internet Archive], for excellent biographies of all the men who served from Pittsfield, including those engraved on the above memorial.
Notes:
The Sons of (Union) Veterans Camp No. 39 was named for Asa W. Bartlett, who was captain of Co. C, 12th NH Infantry (prev 2nd Lieut of Co. G, and 1st Lt of Co. K). He was author of the History of the Twelfth NH Regiment. Camp information, such as charter date, is not known at this time. 
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Department Officers, 1948

9/1/2019

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This photograph was found in the archives of Canney Camp #5, and was labeled "State Officers 1946 (approx), Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War". Half of the men were named, as follows:
Front row:
unk, unk, Homer Atkins Jr., Kenneth Wheeler, unk, Andrew Crown
Back row:
Warren Brown, Homer Atkins Sr., Jackson Carr, unk, unk, unk

The attached note also mentioned that Atkins Jr was Commander and Wheeler was Vice-Comm in the photo. On a list of Department Commanders, Homer Atkins Jr held that position in 1948. Kenneth Wheeler, in an article printed in the Hillsborough Messenger on 18 Nov, 1948 (pg 1), was SVC at this time. He would be elected Commander the following year.

Homer L. Atkins Sr. and his son, Homer L. Atkins, Jr. were both from Camp 4 in Troy. The father held the top Department seat in 1943 and in 1950, while his son led the New Hampshire Brothers only in 1948.

Kenneth T. Wheeler belonged to Camp 38 in Milford, and was DC in 1949 and 1976. His wife, Emma (Yeaton) Wheeler, was the Dep't President of the Auxiliary in '49.

Andrew Crown was perhaps the man from Troy, NH, a WWI veteran, though newspaper searches failed to find anything about him in relation to the SUVCW. Maybe the photo was mislabeled, and this is actually Andrew J Crooker of Hillsborough? He was a Son, and held many officer positions in the Thomas Carr Camp. He was elected DC in 1957, dying the following April.

Jackson Crooker Carr was a Hillsborough man, and belonged to Camp 15. He was Department Secretary-Treasurer in 1948. He served as DC in 1922.

Warren C. Brown of Troy was a long time member of the Sons. In 1902, when the Thomas M. Carr Camp, No. 15, was organized, he was serving as Department Secretary. In 1904, he was Commander.  

​Sadly, this still leaves six men in the above photo unnamed. Hopefully, a record of the 1948 proceedings of the annual encampment can be found, and the other officers can be identified.
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Wesley B. Knight Post No. 41, 1889

8/31/2019

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ROSTER OF
WESLEY B. KNIGHT POST No. 41,
G.A.R.
​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.
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** 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.
​
** Conference Committee **
William Clark, William S. Pillsbury, Miner G. Frye,
Granville F. Plummer, George H. Adams.

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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)
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Richmond, NH's Monument Dedication

6/10/2019

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photo taken during monument dedication, 9 June 2019
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.
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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.
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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
Arlon S. Atherton, 3rd NH
Andrew S. Arnold, 16th NH
*Moses Allen, 14th NH
Charles A. Ball, 14th NH
Charles W.W. Ball, 14th NH
Alden F. Ballou, 16th NH
Andrew S. Ballou, 1st NH Art
Henry E. Ballou, 27th Mass
Abner S. Barden, 14th NH
*Otis A. Barnes, 14th NH
Albert E. Barrow, 18th NH
Albert E. Barrus, 18th NH
*Benjamin F. Barrus, 3rd NH
*George A. Barrus, 18th NH
Ira Marshall Barrus, 2nd Mass
John W. Barrus, 2nd Mass
*Otis A. Barrus, 14th Mass
Albert Bolles, 1st NH Cav
*Henry R. Bolles, 3rd NH
*John Bolles, 27th Mass
Alfred R. Bowen, 2nd NH
Edwin N. Bowen, 3rd NH
Frederick R. Bowen, 2nd NH
Henry R. Bowen, 16th NH
William Brown, 6th NH
*Amos Buffum, 36th Mass
​*Cyrus G. Buffum, 36th Mass 
​*David Buffum, 16th NH
*E. Napoleon Buffum, 6th NH
James H. Buffum, 1st NH
Anson L. Cass, 5th NH
*Jarvis Cass, 16th NH
*Artemas B. Colburn, 14th NH
Reuben H. Combs, 14th NH
Roland M. Combs, 14th NH
Harvey G. Cheney, 2nd Mass
Henry O. Curtis, 1st NH Art
John Dingman, 16th NH
Rufus Freeman, 16th NH
*Caleb Harris, 36th Mass
*Elisha Harkness, 16th NH
​Lorenzo Harris, Jr., 14th NH
John H. Hitchcock, 3rd NH
Almon L. Jillson, 14th NH
*Anson R. Jillson, 2nd Mass
Nathan M. Jillson, 27th Mass
*Silas F. Jillson, 25th Mass
Herman L. Lincoln, 6th NH
George Martin, 16th NH
*Stephen W. Martin, 25th Mass
*Ansel Macomber, 6th NH
John A. Morse, 16th NH
*Benjamin Newell, Jr., 14th NH
​John E. Norwood, 14th NH 
*John A. Paine, 16th NH
*Dexter Palmer, 16th NH
*Edgar Parkhurst
Daniel H. Pelkey, 3rd NH
Amasa W. Perry. 11th NH
John Pickering, 18th NH
Warren Pickering, 18th NH
Volney Piper, 4th NH
*Nahum Putney, 16th NH
Denzil Rice, 3rd NH
Charles W. Scott, NH Vol
*Walter Scott, 14th NH
*John Starkey, 6th NH
Jonas L. Thompson, 4th NH
Samuel Thompson, 6th NH
Alfred A. Tolman, 16th NH
Henry E. Tolman, 16th NH
Alfred P. Whipple, 2nd Mass
Julius M. Whipple, 2nd Mass
*Russell Whipple
Vibbert Whipple, 2nd NH
William Whipple, 16th NH
Stephen W. Williams, 16th NH
S. Wright Wood, 6th NH
L. Warren Wright, 14th NH
*Deceased
2018 - Richmond Heritage Commission - Richmond Historical Society
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6th NH Vols
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Griffin Camp #10, NH SUVCW

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