DARTMOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR

This Report has to do only with the Dartmouth graduate veterans in the Civil War.

"Lest we forget, lest we forget" these men of Dartmouth who spent their best days, their strength, and in many cases, their lives in the Civil War forty-five years ago, this paper is written. At the suggestions of many of the alumni, the urgent request of some of the veterans themselves, and their friends, this Report is made to be published in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Only a few of the most important tacts bearing upon the record of the officers specified, are given.

Dartmouth stands preeminent among the colleges of our country as to the military services her alumni rendered in the Civil War.

This report includes 155 commissioned officers, who were in active service two, three, four," and five years.

The second part of this report includes the class, rank, full name, date of death and regiment in which each enlisted.

In this record, it will be found that Dartmouth was represented in the Civil War by thirty-one classes from 1522 to 1863, inclusive; that she sent into active .service 155 commissioned officers. Of these officers, 8 were killed in battle; 93 have died since the close of the war, from some "war-disability," leaving 54 living, so far as it has been possible to ascertain. Among the most important tacts in their military careers it may be stated that not one of the 155 officers but enlisted as a private, and owing in some degree perhaps to the education which hey obtained on those hard wooden benches of Reed Hall, Wentworth Hall, and old Dartmouth Hall itself, their promotions were rapid and deserving. Among them all, 16 were promoted to the rank of Brigadier General; 15 to that of Colonel; 6 to Lt. Colonel; 9 to Major; 43 to Captain; 17 to Ist Lieutenant, 29 to Surgeon, and 20 to Chaplain.

From the War Department and other sources it has been found that not one of the 155 officers was at any time during his military career, arrested for any misdemeanor or even reprimanded.

Another fact, obtained from periodicals, military journals, the Dartmouth magazines and from old "comrades in arms," is that not one of the 155 officers but was "sound physically" when he enlisted, but, sad to relate," hardly one at the close of the war was the man physically that he was when he enlisted, — the hardships and suffering incident to active army life having entailed upon his constitution in almost every case some war-disability.

The statement is reasonable that these 155 officers with their commands were a most powerful factor in the war.

Let us for a moment consider what power the 74 officers commanding men wielded in the many battles in which they took part all over the East, South, and West.

Each of the 16 brigadiers commanded no less that 3 regiments, which, when full, contained 3600 volunteers. Each of the 15-colonels commanded 12 companies, each containing, when full, 100 men. Each of the 43 captains commanded 100 men; all aggregating no less than 68,000 volunteers—68,000 soldiers under the command of 74 Veteran Dartmouth Alumni. Certainly they were a powerful factor to be reckoned with, and they were to our Government a strong arm.

These officers from Dartmouth were enlisted from 19 different states, from all over the country;—32 into the U. S. A. and U. S. N., commissioned by President Lincoln himself; 24 from Mass. ;22 from N. H. ;21 from Vt.; 4 each from Me., N. Y., and Mo.; 3 each from Conn., R. I., Pa., Kan., and Ind ; 7 each from Wis. and Ills.; 6 from Ohio; 1 each from N. J. and Mich., and 1 from East Tennessee. These officers with their commands were distributed all along the Atlantic, in the Gulf, up the Mississippi River to Vicksburg, and in no less than eight decisive battles in . Tennessee; viz.— Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Franklin, Pittsburg Landing, and Nashville.

The Records of the 155 Commissioned Officers in Active Service in the Civil War — Veterans of Dartmouth College.

Class

1822 Chap. Henry Wood, d. 1873. U. S. A.

1831 Chap. Frederick Augustus Barton, d. 1881. 10th Mass.

1831 Chap. George Wheelock Woodward, d. 1887. 45th Ills.

1832 Brig.-Gen'l Joseph Dana Webster. d. 1876. 1st Ill. Art.

1835 Chap. Stephen Sewel Norton Greeley, d. 1892. Ist Vt.

1835 Col". Peter Thacher Washburn, d. 1870. 6th Mich. Cav.

1836 Capt. John Rodman Rollins. d. 1892. 4th Mass.

1837 Brig.-Gen'l Gilman Marston. d. 1890. 2nd N. H.

1837 Brig.-Gen'l George Foster Shepley. d. 1878. 12th Me.

1838 Col. Frank Emerson, d. 1894. 67th Ind.

1839 Surg. William Govan. d. 1894. 17th N. Y.

1839 Chap. Jonas Bowen Clark, d. 1894. 23rd Mass.

1840 Surg. Frederick Smith Ainsworth. d. 1878. 22nd Mass.

1840 Capt. Charles Foster. d. 1864. nth lowa.

1841 Capt. Daniel Foster, k. 1864. 33rd Mass.

1841 Chap. Henry Elijah Parker, d. 1896. 2nd N. H.

1841 Surg. Ira Russell, d. 1888. 11th Mass.

1842 Brig.-Gen'l Harrison Carroll Hobart. d. d. 1902. 4th Wis. _

1842 Chap. Royal Parkinson, d. 1882. 2nd U. S. A.

1842 Chap. Samuel Souther, d. 1864. 57th Mass.

1842 Surg. Abner Spicer Warren,

1842 Chap. Samuel Jones Spalding, d. 1892 58th Mass.

1842 Maj. Moses Hazen White, d. 1878. 22nd Ohio.

1843 Surg. William Dickinson, d. 1894. 4th U. S. A.

1843 Brig.-Gen'l Francis Skinner Fiske. 26th Penn.

1843 Brig.-Gen'l Joshua James Guppey. d. 1893. 10th Wis.

1843 Surg. Lewis Davis Harlow, d. 1895. U. S. A.

1843 Surg. Jonathan Smith Ross. d. 1877. nth N. H.

1844 Maj. Joseph Mills Bell. d. 1868. U. S. A.

1844 Chap. Edward Warren Clark. d. 1903. 47th Mass.

1844 Surg. Charles Haddock, d. 1889. 8th Mass.

1844 Capt. Samuel Green Sewall. nth Me.

1844 Chap. Seth Tracy Thacher. 93rd U. S. A.

1845 Surg. Charles Augustus Davis, d. 1863. 32nd Mass.

1845 Surg. Clark Gilman Pease. d.1894. 2nd wis.

1845 Capt. David Sands Vittum. d. 1880. 3rd Wis.

1846 Chap. James Joshua Blaisdell. d. 1896. 4th Wis.

1846 Chap. Alonzo Hall Quint, d. 1896. 2nd Mass.

1848 Col. William Badger, d. 1897. 4th N. H.

1848 Brig.-Gen'l J. Chaplin Beecher. d. 1886. 35th U.S. A,

1848 Col. Isaac Lewis Clark, k. 1863. 96th Ills.

1849 Surg. Charles Cogswell Hayes. 43rd Wis.

1849 Brig.-Gen'l Joseph Opdyke Hudnut. 38th lowa.

1849 Capt. John Marshall Kimball, d. 1887. 25th N.Y.

1849 Lt.-Col. Eugene Francis Sanger, d. 1897. Ist Me.

1850 Col. DeWitt Clinton Cram. Ist lowa Cav.

1850 Surg. Edward Curran Dickinson, d. 1882. 10th Mo.

1850 Chap. George Webb Dodge. d. 1881. Ellsworth's Zouaves.

1850 Surg. Charles Cogswell Jewett. d. 1884. 16th Mass. .

1850 Surg. John Ordronaux. d. 1908. U.S. A.

1851 Capt. Richard Burton Foster, d. 1901. 62nd U. S. A.

1851 Col" Nathan Lord. d. 1885. sth Vt.

1851 Col. Redfield Proctor. 3rd Vt.

1852 Surg. John Bell. d. 1883. U. S. A.

1852 Surg. George Cary. 13th Conn.

1852 Surg. Carlton Pennington Frost, d. 1896.

1852 Brig. Gen'l Charles Edward Hovey. d. 1868. 33rd Ill.

1853 Surg. Alpheus Benning Crosby, d. 1st N. H.

1853 Surg. Calvin Gross Hollanbush. d. 1861. U. S. A.

1853 Surg, John Augustus Lamson. 42nd Mass.

1853 Chap. Nathan Lord Upham. 35th N. J.

1853 Maj. Edward Jesup Wood. d. 1873. 48th Ind.

1853 Capt. Charles Augustus Young, d. 1907. 85th lowa.

1854 Capt. Joseph Clark. 6th N. H.

1854 Surg. George Anthony Collamore. 104th Ohio.

1854 Col. Hiram Benjamin Crowley. 18th Conn.

1854 Brig.-Gen'l John Eaton. U. S. A.

1854 Capt. Daniel Hall. U. S. A.

1854 Col. Artemas F. Haskell, k. 1864. 6th Wis.

1854 Brig.-Gen'l Reuben Delavan Mussey. d. 1892. U. S. A.

1855 Ist Lt. John Richard Baker. d. 1894. 48th Mass.

1855 Surg. Ira Norton Barnes. 116th Ills.

1855 Chap. Stephen Sargent Morrill, d. 1878. U. S. A.

1855 Col. David Quigg. 4th Ills. Cav.

1856 Capt. George Washington Bartlett. d. 1873. 27th Mass.

1856 Ist Lt. Charles Peter Clark, d. 1001. U. S. N.

1856 Ist Lt. Amos Noyes Currier. 8th lowa.

1856 Maj. Francis Brown Lord. d. 1873. 56th Ind.

1856 Ist Lt. William Bostwick Parsons, d. 1885. 2nd Kan. Cav.

1857 Brig.-Gen. Charles Arms Carlton, d. 1807. U. S. A.

1857 Surg. John Howe Clark. U. S. N.

1857 Maj. David Timothy Corbin. 3rd Vt.

1857 Capt. Edward Watson Denney. U. S. A.

1857 Capt. Henry Doane. d. 1865. 43rd Mass.

1857 Chap. Henry Martyn Frost, d. 1866 7th

1857 Brig.-Gen'l Henry William Fuller, d. 1885. U. S. A.

1857 15t Lt.William John Galbraith. 12th Penna.

1857 15t Lt. Arthur Edwin Hutchins. d. 1864. 11th N. H.

1857 Brig.-Gen'l Edward Follansbee Noyes. d. 1890. 39th Ohio.

1857 15t Lt. Ezra Knight Parker. U. S. A.

1857 Col. Samuel Everett Pingree. 3rd Vt.

1857 1st Lt. Lucius Stearns Shaw. k. 1861. 2nd Kan.

1857 Surg. Henry Martyn Wells, d. 1903. U. S. A.

1858 1st Lt. Henry Bacon, d. 1896. 34th Mass.

1858 Capt. Augustus Blodgett Clark, d. 2nd N. Y.

1858 Brig.-Gen'l Samuel Augustus Duncan, d. 1895. 4th U. S. A.

1858 Capt. Abial Walstein Fisher, d. 1895. 4th

1858 Capt. Edwin Brant Frost, k. 1864. 10th

1858 Surg. Samuel Lankton Gerould. 14th N H.

1858 Capt. Alanson Bertram Long. d. 1870. 52nd Mass.

1858 1st Lt. Thomas Lancaster Sanborn, nth

1858 Maj. Rudolph Warfield Stark. d. 1880. 1st Penn.

1858 Capt. Samuel Morse Smith, d. 1884. 12nd U. S. A. J

1858 Capt. Ai Baker Thompson, d. 1800. 5th Mass.

1858 Capt. Luther Thompson. 2nd N. H.

1858 Capt. Malcolm Webster Tewksbury. d. 1882. 10th Ills.

1859 Chap. William Richards Adams. 133rd Ills.

1859 Capt. Henry Brydge Atherton. d. 1898. 4th Vt.

1859 Lt.-Col. Fisher Ames'Baker. 18th Mass.

1859 Capt. Ainsworth Emery. Blunt. 1st E. Tenn. Cav.

1859 Capt. Charles Whiting Carroll, k. 1862. 18th Mass.

1859 Maj. Phineas Sanborn Conner. d. 1909 U. S. A.

1859 Capt. Edward Cowles. U. S. A.

1859 Surg. James Henry Denney. 2nd Mass.

1859 Capt. Charles Hall Dickinson, d. 1893 U. S. A.

1859 Col. Lucius Bonaparte Eaton. 65th Ohio.

1859 Capt. Roger Sherman Greene. 3rd Mo.

1859 Surg. Joseph Williston Grosvenor. nth R. I.

1859 Capt. Albert James Hersey. 16th N. H.

1859-Capt. Isaac Wallingford Hobbs. d. 4th N. H.

1859 Maj. Reeves Leonard, d. 1878. 9th Mo.

1859 Capt. George Washington Ouimby. k. 1862. 4th Vt.

1859 Capt. George Eugene Ross. d. 1887. 45th Ohio.

1859 ist Lt. Luther Tracey Townsend. 16th N. H.

1859 Col. Wheelock Graves Veasey. d. 1898. 3rd Vt.

1860 Capt. James McMillen Ayer. d. 1892. 15th Vt.

1860 Capt. William Ellingwood Benton. d. 1897. 14th N. H.

1860 Capt. Charles Henry Camp. 8th N. H.

1860 Col. George Ephraim Chamberlain, k. 1864. 11th Vt.

1860 Lt.-Col. George Henry Chandler, d. 1883. 9th N. H.

1860 Col. Oscar Adrian Hale. d. 1867. 6th Vt.

1860 Chap. Arthur Little, 1st Vt.

1860 Surg. Henry Clay Newell. 3rd Vt.

1860 Capt. Charles Edmund Parker, 1st R. I. Cav.

1860 Capt. George Parker. 6th Vt.

1860 Brig.-Gen'l Jacob Nelson Patterson. 2nd N. H.

1860 1st Lt. George Thompson White, d. 1884. 3rd Mass.

1861 Lt.-Col. George Anson Bruce. 13th N. H

1861 Lt.-Col. Henry Mills Caldwell. a. 1862. Berdan's Sharpshooters.

1861 Capt. David Farnum Cole. d. 1865. 12th Vt.

1861 Capt. Amos Byron Jones. Berdan's Sharpshooters.

1861 Ist Lt. George Augustus Marden. d. 1897. Berdan's Sharpshooters.

1861 Ist Lt. Sydney Augustus Merriam. d. 1876. 40th Mass.

1861 Capt. William Robie Patten, d. 1876. nth N. H.

1861 Capt. Francis M. Perkins, d. 1871. 2nd N. H.

1861 Ist Lt. Edward Dana Redington. 15th Vt.

1861 Maj. Edward Thomas Rowell. d. 1899. 5th N. H.

1862 Chap. Augustus Alvord. Ist Conn.

1862 Ist Lt. Amos Waters Crane. 153rd Ohio.

1862 Capt. George Farr. d. 1895. 13th N. H.

1862 Lt.-Col. Stark Fellows, d. 1864. U. S. A.

1862 Ist Lt. Edwin Franklin Palmer. 13th Vt,

1862 Surg. Augustus Chapman Walker. 18th N. Y.

1863 Capt. Thomas Cogswell, d. 1904. 15th N. H.

1863 Capt. Eri Davidson Woodbury. Ist Vt. Cav.