28    NEW-HAMPSHIRE    GAZETTEER.

The Eighth left their camp in Manchester, for Fort Indepen-
dence, in Boston Harbor, Jan. 24, 1862. March 27 the regiment
all arrived safe at ship Island, near the mouth of the Mississippi
River, and went into camp at the upper end of the Island, under
the command of General Butler. New Orleans having fallen into
the hands of the Union forces, they were ordered to camp Para-
quet, in the vicinity of that city. Through the summer they
were performing guard and garrison duty. In October the Eighth
was part of an expedition, under General Weitzel,up the Missis-
sippi, and were engaged in a battle near Labadieville, in which they
lost sixteen killed and forty-six wounded.

In the winter of 1862-3 they were performing camp duty in va-
rious localities in Louisiana. The next summer they were under
Gen. Banks at the siege of Port Hudson, and were engaged in both
assaults which proved a failure, not, however, from any lack of
valor, but owing to the impregnable position of the enemy’s works.
In these two assaults the Eighth lost two hundred and sixty men
in killed and wounded. Lieut. Colonel Lull was among the killed.
They were in the Red River expedition, under Gen. Banks, and
considered one of the best regiments in the Army of the Gulf. In
Dec., 1863, they were changed into cavalry, and called the Second
New-Hampshire Cavalry, Finally mustered out of service, Octo-
ber 28, 1865.

The Ninth Regiment was recruited at Concord, and left for Ar-
lington Heights, Virginia, August 25, 1862. The officers were
Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich, Colonel; Herbert B. Titus, Chester-
field, Lieut. Colonel; George W. Everett, New London, Major;
George H. Chandler, Concord, Adjutant; Carlton B. Hutchins,
Lisbon, Quartermaster; William A. Webster, Manchester, Sur-
geon ; and Edward M. Gushee, Dover, Chaplain.

The Ninth arrived in the vicinity of Washington about the tim
Gen. Pope was falling back, and Gen. Lee was pressing on with
his victorious army, towards Maryland. They joined the Union
forces under Gen. McClellan, for the purpose of checking Gem
Lee. On the fourteenth of September, only three weeks after they
left New-Hampshire, they were engaged in the battle of South
Mountain. On the seventeenth and eighteenth of September they
were engaged in the great battle of Antietam, and exhibited un-
common bravery. They were in the battle of Fredericksburg, and
lost heavily. After the battle of Fredericksburg, under command