return home he removed to Boston and entered as a partner into a substantial mercantile firm, and is now doing an extensive and successful business as a wool commission merchant in that city, under the firm name of Charles E. Hapgood & Co.

Feeling that his country needed him in her time of peril, when the constitution and laws were set at defiance, and the Union itself was threatened with destruction by misguided men at the South, Col. Hapgood entered the military service with the most unselfish and patriotic motives and sentiments, and performed every duty from first to last faithfully and religiously. As a Christian gentleman he enjoyed the unbounded respect and confidence of the men under and officers over him. As an officer he was brave, discreet, mindful of the comfort of the men in the field, and watchful and tender of sick and wounded in hospital, and set an example to all of sobriety and probity worthy of imitation.

MAJOR EDWARD E. STURTEVANT.

The following biographical notice of Major Sturtevant is taken from the Adjutant General's Report of 1865, and is eminently deserved, just and true: In the Spring of 1861, when the nation called for the services. of her sons, Major Edward E. Sturtevant was the first man from New Hampshire to enlist in our second war for independence; and was also the first man in this State to receive authority to recruit under the President's call for seventy-five thousand three months' men. His biographical record is brief, but honorable in the highest degree. He was born in Keene, August 7, 1826. His parents, George W. and Fanny W. Sturtevant are now living. The deceased was bred to the occupation of a printer in his native town; but removed to Concord soon after completing his apprenticeship, and found

employment in the office of the New Hampshire Courier, then in charge of John C. Wilson, Esq., in whom he found a generous and faithful friend. He was subsequently employed in the office of the Statesman, and at a later period upon the columns of the Washington Union, and the Richmond Dispatch, everywhere establishing a good name as a practical printer.

He was naturally, however, of too active and venturesome a spirit to be content with any sedentary employment, and in 1855 he accepted an appointment as one of the police force for the city of Concord, in which capacity he won an enviable reputation for shrewdness, fidelity and pluck. He held this position until the inauguration of civil war. Dropping without a moment's hesitation the pursuits of civil life, he was immediately appointed a recruiting officer, and in a few days, by his own personal influence and example, he enlisted two hundred and twenty-six men and received a commission as Captain in the First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

Major Sturtevant was influenced in taking up arms, mainly by a correct and thorough appreciation of the great principles which were at issue. He had, however, a natural fondness and aptitude for military life. In former years he marched at the head of the militia of the State capital, where he was often especially commended for the drill and discipline of his command. But Major Sturtevant was no holiday soldier. He had little fondness for parade and show. His spirit chafed at the inactivity which characterized the bloodless campaign of the First New Hampshire, and immediately on the expiration of his first term of service, he was ready again to take the field. He felt that he had enlisted for the war. In all his letters to his friends, he manifested no weariness nor impatience in the service to which he had devoted his energies-no thought of turning his

return home he removed to Boston and entered as a partner into a substantial mercantile firm, and is now doing an extensive and successful business as a wool commission merchant in that city, under the firm name of Charles E. Hapgood & Co.

Feeling that his country needed him in her time of peril, when the constitution and laws were set at defiance, and the Union itself was threatened with destruction by misguided men at the South, Col. Hapgood entered the military service with the most unselfish and patriotic motives and sentiments, and performed every duty from first to last faithfully and religiously. As a Christian gentleman he enjoyed the unbounded respect and confidence of the men under and officers over him. As an officer he was brave, discreet, mindful of the comfort of the men in the field, and watchful and tender of sick and wounded in hospital, and set an example to all of sobriety and probity worthy of imitation.

MAJOR EDWARD E. STURTEVANT.

The following biographical notice of Major Sturtevant is taken from the Adjutant General's Report of 1865, and is eminently deserved, just and true: In the Spring of 1861, when the nation called for the services of her sons, Major Edward E. Sturtevant was the first man from New Hampshire to enlist in our second war for independence; and was also the first man in this State to receive authority to recruit under the President's call for seventy-five thousand three months' men. His biographical record is brief, but honorable in the highest degree. He was born in Keene, August 7, 1826. His parents, George W. and Fanny W. Sturtevant are now living. The deceased was bred to the occupation of a printer in his native town; but removed to Concord soon after completing his apprenticeship, and found

employment in the office of the New Hampshire Courier, then in charge of John C. Wilson, Esq., in whom he found a generous and faithful friend. He was subsequently employed in the office of the Statesman, and at a later period upon the columns of the Washington Union, and the Richmond Dispatch, everywhere establishing a good name as a practical printer.

He was naturally, however, of too active and venturesome a spirit to be content with any sedentary employment, and in 1855 he accepted an appointment as one of the police force for the city of Concord, in which capacity he won an enviable reputation for shrewdness, fidelity and pluck. He held this position until the inauguration of civil war. Dropping without a moment's hesitation the pursuits of civil life, he was immediately appointed a recruiting officer, and in a few days, by his own personal influence and example, he enlisted two hundred and twenty-six men and received a commission as Captain in the First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

Major Sturtevant was influenced in taking up arms, mainly by a correct and thorough appreciation of the great principles which were at issue. He had, however, a natural fondness and aptitude for military life. In former years he marched at the head of the militia of the State capital, where he was often especially commended for the drill and discipline of his command. But Major Sturtevant was no holiday soldier. He had little fondness for parade and show. His spirit chafed at the inactivity which characterized the bloodless campaign of the First New Hampshire, and immediately on the expiration of his first term of service, he was ready again to take the field. He felt that he had enlisted for the war. In all his letters to his friends, he manifested no weariness nor impatience in the service to which he had devoted his energies-no thought of turning hig

into camp. On the 3d of November, in the midst of a rain, with roads in a very bad condition, the regiment formed a portion of Gen. Howard's Brigade ordered to Lower Marlborough, Md. They marched a distance of about fifty miles in two days, and after one day of rest, marched back over the same ground, and again went into camp at Bladensburg.

On the 27th of November the regiment marched across Long Bridge into Virginia, with Howard's Brigade, and was assigned to General Sumner's Division, and went into camp near Alexandria, at a place which was afterward known as Camp California. Here the regiment went into winter quarters, where they remained until the 10th of March. The regiment soon commenced doing picket and out-post duty at the front, and established the first line of pickets fronting the enemy at Fairfax Court House. The men were thoroughly drilled in regimental and brigade drill and in bayonet exercise. The commissioned officers were

also thoroughly instructed in the practical part of their duties. Schools were established by the Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel for the theoretical instruction of officers and sergeants, during the winter evenings. A "common school" for such boys in the regiment as needed instruction in the elementary branches, was also put in operation-the necessary books being donated by the Sanitary Commission.

Through the winter the regiment furnished heavy details to build roads, repair bridges and cut timber. Measles and mumps prevailed to an extraordinary extent, yet from six to eight hundred men were all the time fit for duty, which was more than any other regiment in the entire Division could turn out.

On the 10th of March the Fifth Regiment formed the advance guard of Sumner's Division, when it moved. from Camp California on Manassas, Major Cook com