The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . enthe famous Twelfth regiment was raisedin Belknap county in ten days time,Laconia sent another company of onehundred volunteers, commanded byCapt. John Whipple, with the lateJoseph S. Tilton as first company, one hundred strong,with John Aldrich as captain, went outin the Fifteenth regiment, and when theNew Hampshire Heavy Artillery wasorganized, Laconia sent a company ofone hundred and fifty men. This listdoes not include all the men who en-
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . enthe famous Twelfth regiment was raisedin Belknap county in ten days time,Laconia sent another company of onehundred volunteers, commanded byCapt. John Whipple, with the lateJoseph S. Tilton as first company, one hundred strong,with John Aldrich as captain, went outin the Fifteenth regiment, and when theNew Hampshire Heavy Artillery wasorganized, Laconia sent a company ofone hundred and fifty men. This listdoes not include all the men who en- marched from their armory and took thetrain for Concord, where they weremustered into the United States servicefor two years. One hundred and sixmen was the strength of the companywhich left Laconia, and this city hadnumerous other representatives in com-panies from other sections of NewHampshire. Co. K was a part of theFirst New Hampshire Volunteers, andthe regiment was at Camp Thomas,Chickamauga Park, Tennessee, durino-the summer, and came back to Concordin September to be mustered out, ar-riving in Laconia on Tuesday, Ccmpany K, First New Hampshire Volunteers, ib98. listed from Laconia in the War of theRebellion, for detachments were formedfor other regiments, and quite a numberof Laconians joined the regular UnitedStates army. But for a town with apopulation of only 1,800, it will be seenthat Laconia was not lacking in patri-otism during the great civil war. In the spring of 1898, when Presi-dent McKinley issued his first call forvolunteers to enlist for two years, oruntil the end of the Spanish-AmericanWar, practically every member of theTetley Rifles, Co. K, of the New Hamp-shire National Guard, of Laconia,promptly signified his readiness to en-list. On the second day of May, Co. K 13th, for a thirty days furlough, pre-paratory to being discharged from theUnited States service. There were fourdeaths in the company while in camp atChickamauga Park : Capt. William A.
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