. 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 .. . ollowing 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. All the expenses willbe paid by this Commonwealth. The Mayor of Bal-timore acquiesced in this request, assuring the Governorthat the dead should be t
. 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 .. . ollowing 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. All the expenses willbe paid by this Commonwealth. The Mayor of Bal-timore acquiesced in this request, assuring the Governorthat the dead should be tenderly cared for, and claimedthe right of Baltimore to meet all necessary reminded the Governor that the soldiers were con-sidered as invaders of the soil of Maryland. TheGovernor thanked the Mayor for his kindness to thedead, and added: I am overwhelmed with surprisethat a peaceful march of American citizens on the high-way to the defence of our common Capital should bedeemed aggressive to Baltimore. Through New Yorkthe march was triumphal. On the arrival of the bodies at Lowell, solemn andappropriate funeral services were held at HuntingtonHall, in which nearly or quite all the clergymen of the 196 FIRST NEW THE LADD MONUMENT. FIRST NE W HA MPS IIIRE. 197 cit} joined. Immense crowds were in attendance, anda procession not less than a mile in length, followed theremains to the tomb where the bodies of Ladd andWhitney were deposited. The following day the bodyof Ladd was taken to Alexandria, N. H., for burial,and afterwards, by the consent of the friends, wasreturned to Lowell and buried in the enclosure wherestands the beautiful monument erected to the memoryof the first dead of the great Rebellion. The body ofMr. Needham, who died a few days after he waswounded, was taken to Lawrence for burial. G. FOSTER. From a purely military standpoint, the most accom-plished soldier from New Hampshire was unquestion-ably Gen. John Gray Foster. He was bor
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