til April, 1864, guarding the depot of rebel prisoners. Capt. Patterson was appointed Provost Marshal for the district of St. Mary's, and placed in charge of all the prisoners, by Gen. Marston. He was appointed acting Major of the regiment on its arrival at YorktownMajor Sayles being absent, wounded. After the battle of Drury's Bluff the regiment went to Cold Harbor with the Eighteenth Army Corps, and was engaged in that battle. The three years for which the men enlisted had now expired, and those who did not re-enlist, with all the commissioned officers, returned to New Hampshire to be discharged. Patterson remained in charge of the veterans and recruits, about three hundred in all.

On the recommendation of Gen. Gilman Marston, commanding the Brigade, and Major Gen. W. F. Smith, commanding the Eighteenth Corps, Capt. Patterson was appointed Lieut. Colonel, June 21st, 1864. He was commissioned Colonel of the Second Regiment Jan. 10th, 1865, but there not being the requisite number of men he could not be mustered until June, 1865, when about three hundred men from the Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth Regiments were joined with those of the Second, making it up to one thousand strong. At this time many regiments were mustered out, and the three brigades in the Second Division were consolidated into two, and one of them placed in command of Col. Patterson, by order of Gen. Devens, commanding the Division.

On the 10th of July, 1865, the Second Regiment was ordered to Fredericksburg, Va., and Col. Patterson was assigned to the command of the sub-district of the Northern Neck, with headquarters at Warsaw. Here he remained until December, when he was ordered. with his regiment to City Point, to be mustered out of the service. In September, 1864, he was temporarily

in command of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, and commanded it in the action of Williamsburg Road, Oct. 27, 1864. Col. Patterson was appointed Brevet Brig. General, to date from March 13, 1865, for "bravery in battle and good conduct throughout the war," and most worthily was the rank bestowed.

Gen. Patterson was mustered out with the Second Regiment, Dec. 19, 1865, having served four and a half years; returned to New Hampshire; settled at Concord; married Miss Sarah C., daughter of Rev. Dr. N. Bouton, of that city, in March, 1867, by whom he has one son; was appointed United States Marshal for the District of New Hampshire, which office he now holds, and discharges his duties, as he did all in the army, most creditably.

COLONEL EDWARD L. BAILEY.

Col. Bailey, of Manchester, was commissioned Captain of Co. I, Second Regiment, June 4, 1861, which position he filled to the acceptance of men under and officers over him, until the 26th of July, 1862, when he was promoted to Major. On the 23d of October of the same year he was promoted to Lieut. Colonel, and on the 18th of April, 1863, to Colonel of the Regiment. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. He returned to New Hampshire with the Regiment at the expiration of its term of enlistment, and was mustered out of service June 29, 1864. Col. Bailey was in command of the Regiment during the battle of Gettysburg, and Brigadier General Graham, under whose eye it fought, conferred a well merited compliment upon its commander for the cool, gallant and efficient manner in which he handled and fought his regiment on that most trying occasion.

MISS HARRIET P. DAME.

No history of the Second New Hampshire Regiment would be complete without it contained more than a passing notice of Miss Harriet P. Dame, of Concord. She offered her services before the regiment left the State, and though not quite ready to go to Washington when they did, she soon joined them there, and was ever afterwards regarded as one of its most brave, patriotic, honored and beloved members. A lady writes the author asking that Miss Dame may be suitably mentioned here, and says: "She stepped forth, moved with a great purpose, and offered her life for her country. Such true heroism is unparalleled and unprecedented in the history of any country. She was more than the 'Florence Nightingale of America,' because she had not the secure protection of hospital, but stood with our soldiers beneath the rain and fire of bullets, undaunted. She knew no fear, and thought not for a moment of her personal safety, for God had called her, and she felt that His divine protection was over all."

Words are too poor and a few pages too circumscribed to do her anything like justice. Her good deeds are enshrined in the memory and hearts of thousands who, but for her timely and tender care, would be numbered with other thousands who, for want of it, died upon the field of battle from wounds, and in hospital from disease incident to the exposures and hardships of war.

Rev. J. W. Adams, Chaplain of the Second from December, 1863, furnishes the following beautiful tribute to Miss Dame:

My personal acquaintance with Miss Dame commenced in the winter of 1863, when I received my commission, and joined the renowned "Old Second," at Point Lookout, Md. Even then her praise was in all the New England Regiments. Many who had unex

pectedly recovered from sickness and wounds, had arisen from the sufferer's cot to call her blessed.

The exploits of heroic men were not related with more enthusiasm, nor with half the satisfaction with which her deeds of sympathy were rehearsed. Her name could hardly be mentioned in a New Hampshire regiment without calling forth the response, “I owe my life to Miss Dame." Though nominally connected with my regiment, our boys were not permitted the entire monopoly of her fame. All the Granite State regiments in the armies of the Potomac and James spoke her name and referred to her acts with equal pride. I have heard them tell how she toiled day after day on the bloody field of Gettysburg, sometimes, during the battle, between the lines, and once a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, still absorbed and self-forgetful, devoting herself to the relief of our wounded men. And when the darkness of night, and the exhaustion of her energies made rest imperative, she would pillow her head upon the gory field, and sleep amid the dead and wounded scattered around her.

During the winter of 1863 she had charge of the New Hampshire Soldiers' Relief Rooms in Washington, from which she frequently went forth on tours of inspection, that she might the more judiciously distribute the substantial aid and comfort directed to this channel, from the good people at home.

When the Army of the James was organized for the campaign of 1864, she arranged to leave her charge in Washington, and follow its destinies. She was a better general than McClellan, for she always managed to have a good stock of supplies, and was ready to move at a moment's notice. She also had the rare faculty of arranging the forces under her charge, and of leading off in the execution of her own plans. She was an incessant worker herself and kept every body around her at

work. If she were to frame a ritual, she would be quite sure to have in it something like this: "From empty titles and hollow pretensions,-Good Lord deliver us. From kid-gloved nurses who stand by the bedside of human suffering, merely simpering, my good fellow I pity you,-Good Lord deliver us."

During the sanguinary conflict at Cold Harbor, she established herself at White House, rendering great service to our soldiers, who suffered severely. It was here that Capt. Smith died, and here too, a few days after the original volunteers of the Second embarked for home to be mustered out, leaving the re-enlisted veterans and recruits to add new luster to the fame already achieved by this noble regiment. Miss Dame remained with us, caring for our sick and wounded, until we all swung around in front of Petersburg.

In the Eighteenth Army Corps field hospital, at Broadway Landing, she could be seen to advantage— one moment distributing garments, comfort-bags, cordials, &c., from her private tent, at another moving under the large cooking tent, surrounded with delicate and substantial articles of diet, and the large kettles steaming with wholesome and palatable food in a state of preparation. This tent was her throne; but she did not sit upon it. From this place she issued her orders, dispatched her messengers, and distributed luxuries to thousands. Here she not only ruled with system, but with sleeves rolled up, toiled harder than any of her assistants.

In visiting my sick men in the hospital, and in procuring such articles of comfort as were necessary to keep the partially indisposed from following them, I had occasion to call on Miss Dame quite frequently. Her first inquiries would generally be-" Well Chaplain, how are the boys at the front? Are any of them sick? When are they going to get their pay? Is there