. History of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5 . e end of each month of the regiments service(March missing). Month Companies Present Absent Present For Duty Hick In arrest Total Sick Otherwise and Absent October 6 477 23 500 18 41 559 November 6 412 63 475 44 2 521 December 6 373 60 433 87 520 January 6 425 25 450 67 2 519 February 7 487 53 540 63 4 607 April 9 670 9 1 680 106 76 862 May 9 568 60 1 629 124 14 767 • Indudine; oxtra and special duty. After Muster Out At the close of the Civil War in 1865 the Union armynumbered nearly one million men. The quick disbandmentof this g
. History of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5 . e end of each month of the regiments service(March missing). Month Companies Present Absent Present For Duty Hick In arrest Total Sick Otherwise and Absent October 6 477 23 500 18 41 559 November 6 412 63 475 44 2 521 December 6 373 60 433 87 520 January 6 425 25 450 67 2 519 February 7 487 53 540 63 4 607 April 9 670 9 1 680 106 76 862 May 9 568 60 1 629 124 14 767 • Indudine; oxtra and special duty. After Muster Out At the close of the Civil War in 1865 the Union armynumbered nearly one million men. The quick disbandmentof this great host and the mingling of its members with thecommunities at home in orderly fashion and without disturb-ance, gave demonstration on an unprecedented scale of thecivic virtue of volunteer soldiers. As if their peaceful courseshad not be n interrupted, the fa mer returned to his fields,the mechanic to his bench, the smith to his forge, and theclerk to his books. This was true in a notable measure ofthe Eighteenth New Hampshire, and it can be said of the. PRINCIPAL MUSICIAN N. W. GOVE FRANKLIN P. WOODS, COMPANY D CORP. GEO. S. SMITH, COMPANY D CORPHENRY C. LOVEJOY, COMPANY E CORP. Ol HALL, COMPANY H 1 After Muster Out 75 young men who had served in it that contentment with lifein New Hampshire was as general with them as it was withthe average men of their age who had not been subjected tothe influence of military life and adventure. The Registerof New Hampshire Soldiers and Sailors (published in1895) records the residence, or decease, in New Hampshireof 380 of the survivors of the regiment, and in other states,of 105 of them. With the latter class there probably shouldbe counted nearly all of the 285 whose residence, not beinggiven in the Register, presumably was not in New Hamp-shire. (This makes no account of those who deserted beforegoing to the front, and who, with slight exception, did notbelong in the State at time of enlistment.) The low ratio of deaths among the me
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