Salem, NH's Civil War Heroes
ISAAC NEWTON CLUFF
1839 - 1863
15th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
ISAAC NEWTON CLUFF
1839 - 1863
15th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
ISAAC NEWTON CLUFF was born in Salem, New Hampshire on 17 March 1839, a son of Ezekiel and Sally (Hawkins) Cluff. In the 1860 census, he was living with his older brother Benjamin, both of them employed as shoemakers.
23-year old Isaac signed up for nine months with the 15th Infantry, on 11 Sept. 1862, and was mustered in as a private on 16 Oct. 1862.
23-year old Isaac signed up for nine months with the 15th Infantry, on 11 Sept. 1862, and was mustered in as a private on 16 Oct. 1862.
The Fifteenth New Hampshire was sent south to Louisiana, where many men in the regiment were overcome with illness. While en route back home, thirty soldiers of the 15th NH were put ashore at Memphis, TN, too sick to continue their voyage north. Isaac would succumb to disease at the Washington General Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, on 2 Aug. 1863. It is not clear where he was buried, but his name (and that of his brother Benjamin, who died in '62) are memorialized on the family stone of their parents in Pine Grove Cemetery, Salem.
The CLUFF family stone, in serious need of a cleaning (Apr 2023)
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