. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . was a New Hampshire boy in aMassachusetts uniform. His name was LUTHER CRAWFORD LADD, and he was born in our town of Alexandria on the 22dday of December, 1843. Fifteen years of his life hadbeen spent at the paternal home in the uneventful roundof a farmer boy ; one year as an apprentice in a Lowellmachine shop. As a member of the Lowell CityGuard he march
. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . was a New Hampshire boy in aMassachusetts uniform. His name was LUTHER CRAWFORD LADD, and he was born in our town of Alexandria on the 22dday of December, 1843. Fifteen years of his life hadbeen spent at the paternal home in the uneventful roundof a farmer boy ; one year as an apprentice in a Lowellmachine shop. As a member of the Lowell CityGuard he marched with the Sixth Regiment to therelief of the national Capital. In the attack by the Bal-timore mob he early received a mortal wound on thehead. Stunned by the blow, but still moving onward,a ball passed through his thigh, severing an casting a farewell look at the flag that waved overhim, and fainting from loss of blood, he fell, exclaimingwith his dying breath, All hail to the Stars andStripes ! All history may be challenged for the recordof a more heroic death than that of this New Hamp-shire lad, who led in the way which more than a quar-ter of a million of loyal men were to tread, before the 194 FIRST NEW LUTHER CRAWFORD LADD. FIRST NE W HAMPSHIRE. 195 Old Flag should float again unchallenged and trium-phant. One moment simply a private soldier, his nameperhaps unknown even to those with whom he touchedelbows on either side, the next his fame was immortal;and New Hampshire will not soon forget that of herown sons she gave the tirst martyr to the cause of theUnion. On the same occasion Addison O. Whitney, ofMaine, was killed, and Sumner H. Needham was mor-tally wounded. Immediate!}^ on the arrival of the newsat Boston, Governor Andrews sent the following tele-gram to the Mayor of Baltimore : I pray you to causethe bodies of our Massachusetts soldiers, dead in Balti-more, to be immediately laid out and preserved in ice,and tenderly sent forward to me
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