. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . st side of the river, (according to Lieut. Freret) threefourths of a mile distant. The Twenty-lirst at least firedsplendidly and did tremendous execution (see Freretsaccount), but out of such capacity are born squads of lies. Personal. — O. W. Lull was commissionedOctober i, 1861. He died fighting gallantly Ibr his coun-try at the head of his reg
. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . st side of the river, (according to Lieut. Freret) threefourths of a mile distant. The Twenty-lirst at least firedsplendidly and did tremendous execution (see Freretsaccount), but out of such capacity are born squads of lies. Personal. — O. W. Lull was commissionedOctober i, 1861. He died fighting gallantly Ibr his coun-try at the head of his regiment, on May 27, 1863, his agebeing thirty-seven years. He was a man of commandingpresence, of marked character, persistent, of great energy,even aggressive. Such a man always has enemies, buthis were ready to concede that he was honest and consis-tent. Whatever he was and whatever he accomplished,was done by no favoritism, but by his own efforts. In hisyouth, he received but a high school education, afterwardsteaching and studying law in Framingham, Mass., andfinishing the prescribed course with the Hon. David Crossat Manchester, New Hampshire, being admitted to the Middlesex countv, Mass., and the Hillsboro countv bar in A-i^ CL-^Z^-l-^-l-^ New Hampshire Volunteers. 233 In 1848, he married Mary Augusta, granddaughter ofGen. Stephen Hoyt, of Bradford, N. H. One child only remains living, a daughter, AdaGeorgianna, wife of Hon. M. J. Gray, now of CrestedButte, Col. Little Nell sleeps beside her father andgrand-parents who loved her so well. He commenced and continued a lucrative law practicein Milford, N. H., until the breaking out of the civil that time he held a commission as First Lieutenant inthe Governors Horse Guards. Instead of doing as someprominent military peace men did do, viz. : throw up hiscommission and attend to getting rich on the countrysmisfortunes, or wear in certain positions the insignia ofrank while shirking the dangers of war, he offered
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