Concord on the 14th, and was finally paid and discharged on the 20th. Though this regiment saw but little hard fighting, it suffered as much from disease, induced by exposure and the malaria of southern swamps, as any from New Hampshire had done from all causes combined, in the same length of time.

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.

As has been stated in connection with the Fifteenth Regiment, in the autumn of 1862, a call was received by the Governor of the State for nine months' men sufficient to fill three regiments of infantry; and it was determined to apportion this levy between the three congressional districts—the Fifteenth to correspond to the first district; the Sixteenth to correspond to the second district, and the Seventeenth regiment to the third district. The field officers of the respective commands were immediately thereafter commissioned and announced accordingly. It was deemed advisable to fill the regiments in their numerical order, as fast as men were enlisted, without regard to their place of residence. Accordingly those who volunteered with promptitude in the third district were ordered into the Fifteenth and Sixteenth regiments, leaving for the Seventeenth the dilatory levies from all the districts. On the 19th of November the regiment was ordered into camp at Concord. The field and staff officers were: Colonel Henry O. Kent, of Lancaster; Lient. Colonel, Charles H. Long, of Claremont; Major, George H. Bellows, of Walpole; Adjutant, George A. Wainwright, of Hanover; Quartermaster, Edward N. Cummings; Surgeon, James D. Folsom; Assistant Surgeons, Luther C. Bean, Horatio N. Small; Chaplain, George S. Barnes, Sergeant Major, J. W. Perkins; Quartermaster Sergeant, John C. Jenness, of Lancaster, Commissary Sergeant, John P. Dennison, of Lancaster; Hospital Steward, Albra L. Robinson.

Nearly a full company, above the required quota of

the town, had volunteered for this regiment in Lancaster, the residence of the Colonel; and the records of the Adjutant General's office show that there were enlisted and mustered into the Seventeenth, and enlisted in the territory originally assigned it, seven hundred and ninety-one men. The unfilled quotas of the third district, at the time of the consolidation of the Seventeenth and Second, with this number, seven hundred and ninetyone, more than reaching the minimum number of men required by the regulations for a complete regimental organization.

The regimental organization was perfected, and the drill, discipline and instruction of the command commenced, and was scrupulously adhered to. In December it was decided to postpone the State draft, and orders were issued to reject all substitutes applying for enlistment on the unfilled quotas. Very few volunteers appeared, and on the 9th of February, 1863, officers and men of the Seventeenth Regiment were furloughed until the 1st of the succeeding April, at which time the command gain reported in camp, cheered by the official assurance that the regiment would be at once filled, in order to participate in the spring and summer campaign of 1863.

About this time orders were received by Governor Berry, from the Secretary of War, to consolidate the Seventeenth and Second Regiments, under such regulations as he might prescribe. On the 16th of April, 1863, this order was carried into effect, the officers and noncommissioned officers of the regiment mustered out, and the enlisted men transferred. The order effecting this expressed in emphatic terms the approbation of the civil and military authorities of the soldierly deportment of the regiment from the time of its organization, and the excellent discipline and deportment that had uniformly characterized the command, was remarked on every hand. The failure to fill and forward the Seven

teenth Regiment was in no way attributable to its offirs, and the circumstances which seemed to make the consolidation advisable were regretted alike by officers and men. The men proved excellent soldiers, and behaved so well at Gettysburg as to elicit a special order of commendation from the colonel of the regiment at the expiration of their term of service.

EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.

On the 19th of July, 1864, the War Department issued an order calling for five hundred thousand volunteers, and under this call the State authorities commenced recruiting the Eighteenth Regiment. Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, was commissioned Colonel, and James W. Carr, of Manchester, Lieut. Colonel, both of whom resigned before being mustered into the United States service, and their places were filled by the appointment of Thomas L. Livermore, of Milford, and Joseph M. Clough, of New London.

The quota of the State having been filled at the organization of the sixth company, no further companies were raised until the next call for troops, which was made on the 21st of December. The remaining companies were now commenced, and on the 17th of January, 1865, Major Thomas L. Livermore, of the Fifth, who was at the time serving on the staff of Major General Humphries, as assistant inspector general of the Second Corps, was commissioned Colonel. During the months of February, March and April, three of the new companies joined the regiment. Company K, however, was stationed on duty at Galloupe's Island, in Boston harbor, and was never ordered to the front, but was mustered out at that place, on the 6th of May, by order of the War Department. As soon as the tenth company had been mustered into service, Colonel Livermore was also mustered, and joined his regiment on the 8th of April. The following is the list of field, staff and company officers of this regiment, and the official record of each: