24    NEW-HAMPSHIRE    GAZETTEER.

iment that had thus far reached Washington. They were mustered
out at Concord, August 9, 1861.

New-Hampshire had in the service, through the rebellion, eight-
een regiments of Infantry; N. H. Battalion of New-England Cav-
alry ; First Regiment N. H. Volunteer Cavalry; New-Hampshire
First Battery; First Regiment New-Hampshire Heavy Artillery,
eighteen hundred men; Company “ E” First Regiment U. S.
Sharpshooters; Co’s. “ F” and “ G” Second Regiment U. S. Sharp-
shooters ; National Guards ; Martin Guards ; Lafayette Artillery;
and attached Company of New-Hampshire Volunteers. The last
four companies were stationed at Fort Constitution in Portsmouth
harbor, making in all that served against the rebellion, nearly
thirty-three thousand men.

The Second Regiment were three years men, and went into camp
at Portsmouth, and arrived on the field just in time to participate
in the first battle of Bull Run. The officers of this regiment were
Gilman Marston, Exeter, Colonel; Francis S. Fisk, Keene, Lieu-
tenant Colonel; Josiah Stevens, Jr., Concord, Major; Samuel G.
Langley,Manchester, Adjutant; John S. Godfrey, Hampton Falls,
Quartermaster; and Henry E. Parker, Concord, Chaplain.

The second regiment, being the first in the field of battle, saw
more service than any other, being nearly all the time in Virginia,
where more blood was spilt than in any other State in the Union.
The regiment had on its roll, over three thousand names. The
officers that have been commissioned for its own regiment, and oth-
er military organizations, are one Major General; two Brigadier
Generals ; five Colonels; ten Lieutenant Colonels; eleven Majors;
five Surgeons; ten Assistant Surgeons; three Chaplains; three
Captains of the regular army ; sixty Captains in the Volunteers ;
one First Lieutenant in regular army ; ninety first Lieutenants in
the Volunteers; seventy-one second Lieutenants of Volunteers; two
Captains and Assistant Quartermasters; one Captain and Com-
missary of subsistence ; and three Medical Cadets.

The Second marched over six thousand miles, participated in
nearly thirty battles, and lost over one thousand men. The most
important battles they were engaged in, were the first Bull Run,
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Frede-
ricksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, and the battles around Peters-
burg. They were mustered out of service at City Point, Va., Dec.
19, 1865.    '