The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . since the war, anddied there a few yearsa&°* Joe Currier enlistedfrom Penacook but livedin Concord after the war. WAR PICTURES. H; He died a few yearsago. Here is, as the boys usedto call him, Old Detail,Adjt. Alfred H. Hill, seatedon what was as comfortableas a rocker, a barrel withone side sawn half waydown, leaving the other asa back. This made a mostcomfortable chair, in theabsence of the real arti-cles, and, on account ofthe back, preferable tothe camp stool. AdjutantHill was a veteran of theMexican war, serving
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . since the war, anddied there a few yearsa&°* Joe Currier enlistedfrom Penacook but livedin Concord after the war. WAR PICTURES. H; He died a few yearsago. Here is, as the boys usedto call him, Old Detail,Adjt. Alfred H. Hill, seatedon what was as comfortableas a rocker, a barrel withone side sawn half waydown, leaving the other asa back. This made a mostcomfortable chair, in theabsence of the real arti-cles, and, on account ofthe back, preferable tothe camp stool. AdjutantHill was a veteran of theMexican war, serving in the samecompany with Major Bedel and Col-onel Jackson. He belonged in Ports-mouth and died a few years ago. Heleft the regiment in 1862. Seatedinside is Iyieut. William Ladd Dodge,at that time the adjutants clerk. Hewas in the custom house, Boston, formany years since the war, and is stilla resident of the Hub. From appearances here is anothergroup of the detail for guard, not afamiliar face among them, but themajority in years mere boys. How r \ ... - 1? I .:v. JMT- Old Detail Adjt. Alfred S. Hill and Wm. Ladd Dodge. would the mothers of to-day like topart with their sons as did themothers of 1S61 ? It would not besurprising, however, if among theforms depicted, are not a few of thosewho later on earned their captainsstraps ; the real heroes of the war,who went in at the beginning andstayed till the end. It was the menof this class that conquered the rebel-lion. All honor to them ! Headquarters, Company A, ThirdNew Hampshire comes next, andseated in the foreground, on the right, & JK » f .: iS • t% / / - m. ?-,. ? iIII ?•?•? • • &* * x: ? The Dttarl for Guard. ? I4-S WAR P/CTCRES. is Lieut. John R. Hynes, reading theManchester Mirror, probably, and onthe left Lieut. A. H. Libbey. Hynesworked in the Mirror office before hisenlistment, and used to write enter-taining letters home which were pub-lished in that paper. He was, lateron, transferred to the regular serv
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