Graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, Class of 1858

Asst. Superintendent at the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro, VT, from 1858 to 1862.
Employed at Manhattan Asylum for the Insane in New York City, 1862.

Returned home to enlist, on 16 Sept 1862, and was commissioned Asst. Surgeon of the 14th NH on the 23rd

En route to New Orleans in March 1864, following a furlough back home, he took cold while passing through New York.

He died from diphtheria at the New England Soldiers' Relief Association Hospital, New York City, on 28 March 1864. His body was returned home for burial in the Village Cemetery.

A native of Chester, NH, born 8 March 1837

Graduated from Brown Univ. in 1853, at age 18, and from Yale in 1856. Admitted to the bar when 21 years old, and began practicing in Farmington, NH in 1859.

Captain of Company A, First New Hampshire Infantry, in 1861.
Commissioned Lieut. Col. of the 4th NH Infantry in Sept.1861
Promoted to Colonel in May, 1862

Mortally wounded by a Confederate sharpshooter during the Battle of Fort Fisher, NC, on 15 Jan. 1865, while leading his brigade.

His body was returned home for burial in the Village Cemetery.

Manchester, NH's GAR Post was named in honor of him, as was a Sons of Union Veterans Camp in Farmington. 

Col. Bell, on several occasions, temporarily filled the brigadier general seat when needed. Due to this, many newspapers called him "Gen. Bell" following his death, and his family included this rank on his gravestone. The New Hampshire Statesman, on Feb. 3rd, 1865, wrote that Secretary Stanton had posthumously promoted Bell to Brevet Brigadier General, but later reports claim this was not true.