. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . o not knowwhat pledges were made, but Iremember well the promise of thecaptain to my father that he•would be my friend and protect-or. In the formalities requiredfor the enlistment it is not in myrecollection, and I cannot say,whether I stood on the tip-toesto reach the required height orthe captain used his discretionPRIVATE E. J. copp. in making the entry. Under the law 18 years was the age limit and here again I supposethe captain used his discretion. It was fixed up, however,in some way, and I became a private in the ranks of Com-pan
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . o not knowwhat pledges were made, but Iremember well the promise of thecaptain to my father that he•would be my friend and protect-or. In the formalities requiredfor the enlistment it is not in myrecollection, and I cannot say,whether I stood on the tip-toesto reach the required height orthe captain used his discretionPRIVATE E. J. copp. in making the entry. Under the law 18 years was the age limit and here again I supposethe captain used his discretion. It was fixed up, however,in some way, and I became a private in the ranks of Com-pany F, 3rd Regiment, N. H. Volunteers, and we weresoon of¥ to the seat of war. We assembled at the old armory early on the morningof the 16th of August, marched down the long flight ofstairs into Main Street, and in platoon front took up ourmarch for the Junction, through Main and Canal passing the old bookstore I was on the left of theplatoon, and out from the crowd upon the street cameand walked along by my side a prominent citizen who 13. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION took me by the hand and instead of bidding me Godspeed, very much to my surprise, he said I wastoo young and ought not to go. I remember this little incident from the fact that later in the war this manwas one of the bitter Copperheads of the North, whowere allies of the rebels of the South, doing all that waspossible to discourage enlistments, and the class of menwhom the soldiers in the army so bitterly hated, as aworse enemy than those they were fighting at the front. The 3rd Regiment rendezvoused in Concord uponthe interval just across the Merrimack River about one-half mile from the city. This was the beginning of an experience that I littledreamed of at the time; the camp was pitched, as I re-member, under the direction of the major of the regi-ment, John Bedell, who was an old Mexican War officer,and whose experience was of great value to the newlyorganized regiment. Ten companies
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