. A history of the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . goods firm of J W Briggs & Co.,at Keene, for a year and a half, when he went to Boston andwas employed as salesman and bookkeeper for LibbyBrothers, and later as an expert bookkeeper on private ac-counts. On account of poor health he went to northern NewYork, and kept a general store at Rouses Point and FortCoUington, which business he relinquished in 1857, when hewent to Concord and entered the employ of John P Johnson,as salesman, and remained until the war broke out in 1
. A history of the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . goods firm of J W Briggs & Co.,at Keene, for a year and a half, when he went to Boston andwas employed as salesman and bookkeeper for LibbyBrothers, and later as an expert bookkeeper on private ac-counts. On account of poor health he went to northern NewYork, and kept a general store at Rouses Point and FortCoUington, which business he relinquished in 1857, when hewent to Concord and entered the employ of John P Johnson,as salesman, and remained until the war broke out in enlisted under the first call for three months troops, butwas not mustered into service. He received the appointmentof commissary sergeant of the Fifth New Hampshire Volun-teers, was mustered in Oct. 26, 1861, and mustered out , 1864. After his return from the war he resided in EastConcord for a time, when he moved to Manchester. He returned to Concord in 1874, where he afterwardsresided. He was appointed deputy secretary of state by thelate secretary, A. B. Thompson, in 1877, and filled that posi-. ^(2<2C^iY^^^ BIOGRAPHICAL. 317 tion most acceptably for ten 5ears. He was then electedlibrarian of the New Hampshire Historical Society, whichof&ce he held until he was obliged to relinquish it on accountof sickness, and he edited the 9th volume of the Societyscollections. He was appointed editor of State Papers in1881, and edited eight volumes of that series. He was deputy United States marshal for taking the censusin 1870; a member of the New Hampshire constitutional con-vention in 1876; secretar}- of the New Hampshire college ofelectors in 1884; commander of E. E. Sturtevant Post, , G. A. R.; assistant quartermaster-general, Department ofNew Hampshire, G A. R., in i889-9o; vice-president ofthe Manufacturers and Merchants Insurance Compan}- He was a member of the New Hampshire Historical Societyand the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; anhonorary membe
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