I first
entered service, as private, enlisting at New Ipswich, New Hampshire
and mustered in on August 1862, at Concord, N. H. with Co. I 13th
N. H. Infantry and this company detached on April 1, 1863.
On April
1, 1863, I was transferred to Battery A 1st Penn Light Artillery.
During my service, I still held the rank of private and at the close
of the war it was still the same. I was not discharged until the
close of the war and it was on June, 1865 I was discharged at Richmond,
Virginia.
The first
battle I took part in was in 1862 at Fredericksburg.
I also
was engaged in the engagements at Suffolk, Va., Edenton Road, Va.
Reconnaissance to Hanover Court House, Ballyhack Station Siege of
Petersburg, Va., Chapin's Farm, Va., Seven Pines, Va., & Richmond,
Va.
I was never
wounded, confined in hospital or taken prisoner.
Among my
most intimate comrades were William Hardy & Alexander C. Leyde.
What I
considered the most important events of my career during service
were going to Richmond & being discharged.
There is
no other event that I can state that is connected with my life while
engaged in service.
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