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The Fourteenth were again ordered to guard duty in the vicinity
of New Orleans—Maj. General Reynolds commanding. January
6th, they were ordered to the mouth of Red River, for camp duty.
■^c    On the first week in July, the regiment sailed down the Mississippi

to New Orleans, where they again sailed north to join the armies
in Virginia. Six companies went in the Continental, and the next
day the other four companies sailed in the steamer General Lyon.

The regiment was not united again till the nineteenth of August.
The four companies went to Washington, and the six to Bermuda
Hundred, and were in the attack at Deep Bottom. On the 31st
of July, they were ordered to Washington; and from thence, they
joined Gen. Sheridan’s Army, at Berry ville, on the 18th of August.
The next day Major Gardiner rejoined the regiment with his four
companies. The Fourteenth were in the great battles of the 19th
and 22d of September and the 19th of October, at Cedar Creek.
The 19th of September they lost one hundred and fifty men. Thir-
teen out of twenty-one officers were killed or wounded,—Colonel
Gardiner being mortally wounded. The duties of the army of the
fh    Shenandoah were hard, through the fall of 1864. It was a con-

tinual marching up and down the valley, with considerable hard
fighting. The Fourteenth was not in as many battles as some other
regiments, but was considered a reliable regiment, and performed
the duties assigned it, satisfactorily to its commanders. Mustered
out of service, July 8, 1865.

The Fifteenth Regiment was raised under the call of the President
for three hundred thousand men, for nine months’ service, and was
organized at Concord, in the fall of 1862. The officers were John
W. Kingman, Durham, Colonel; George W. Frost, Newmarket,
Lieut. Colonel; Henry W. Blair, Plymouth, Major; Edward E.
Pinkham, Laconia, Adjutant; Ira A. Moody, Dover, Quartermas-
ter; Jeremiah F. Hall, Wolfeborough, Surgeon; and Edwin M.
Wheel ock, Dover, Chaplain.

November 13, 1862, the Fifteenth left Concord for New York
^    City; went thence across East river and encamped on the grounds

of the Union race-course, Jamaica, Long Island. They remained
there about three weeks, when they left, in three detachments, for
New Orleans. The first detachment left, Nov. 30th, and the other
two respectively, December 4th and 13th. In due time they all
arrived at Carrollton, near New Orleans, and were again united,
December 26th. They remained in that vicinity all winter, per-