Fourteenth New Hampshire Regiment Company A Roster

James B. MASON, Lieut., son of John, Jr., a graduate of Dartmouth College, in 1871, lived in youth at in Sullivan; promoted to 1st lieutenant, in Co. A, U. S. Colored Troops; severely wounded in the mine explosion at Petersburg, Va., July 20, 1864, losing an arm; resided at So. Lancaster, Mass. after the war.

Charles C. WILSON, Sergt.; son of Chas. Franklin Wilson, enlisted Aug. 13, mustered in Sept. 22, 1862, as a private; appointed sergeant, Feb. 27, 1864; killed, Sept. 19, 1864, on the battle-field of Opequan. He was not killed in the action, but brutally murdered by a Confederate officer, as he lay on the field, wounded in the ankle, not being able to follow his retreating regiment. A wounded comrade lying near him overheard this young officer exclaim: "Here is a good pair of boots. I will have them. They are just what I need." He then began to pull a boot from Wilson's wounded leg. Unnaturally excited by the pain and terrible situation in which he then was, Wilson gave the officer a smart kick with the foot of the other leg, which he richly deserved, but which caused him, in rage, to thrust his bayonet through Wilson's neck and pin him to the ground. It was a horrible and unnecessary sacrifice, but one of the terrible things incident to war. His body was buried, with many others, in a common trench, and the state of New Hampshire has erected a very fine monument over their common grave. It bears this inscription: NEW HAMPSHIRE ERECTS THIS MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF HER BRAVE SONS OF HER 14TH REGIMENT, WHO FELL IN BATTLE, SEPT. 19, 1864, UPON THIS FIELD, AND ARE HERE BURIED IN ONE COMMON GRAVE. Then follow the names, among which is that of SERGT. C. C. WILSON. There appears also the name of his warm friend, Lieut. Jesse A. Fiske of Dublin. Young Wilson was a graduate of the Kimball Union Academy of Meriden, in 1859, and one of the brightest young men of the town. His cruel fate was a blow to his father's household from which no one of them ever recovered. They have all joined him in the higher life. His father caused his name to be inscribed upon a fine monument erected in his lot in Meetinghouse Cemetery, II. 1. His name is, of course, upon the Soldiers' Monument in Sullivan, as well as upon that on the Opequan battle-field, making three monuments upon which his name is inscribed.

George Osgood WARDWELL, Corporal; enlisted, Aug. 16, mustered in, Sept. 22, 1862, as a private; appointed corporal, Jan. 1, 1865; mustered out, July 8, 1865. He is a carpenter and builder and resided at Keene.

Frederick M. ADAMS, Private, resided Dublin, NH; enlisted Sept 22 1862; age 21; mustered out July 8 1865 Savannah, GA.

John AMSDEN, Private, resided Hinsdale, NH, enlisted Sept 22 1862; age 44; Transferred to Company G, 24th Infantry Regiment RC June 6 1864; discharged June 28 1865 Washington, DC; his widow, Sarah J. Amsden, applied for pension #266740 03 June 1880.

James W. CORBIN, credited to Charlestown, Sullivan; transferred from Company B, Nov 1862, mustered out July 8, 1865

Russell T. HOLT, Private, of Sullivan; enlisted Aug. 16 1862, mustered in Sept. 22, 1862 He died, June 21, 1863, in a hospital at Washington, D. C. His body was returned and buried in Meetinghouse Cemetery, II. 6. His wife had reached him before his death, at Washington. The funeral was at Sullivan.

George W. MARSTON, who lives on the Amos Wardwell, Jr., farm; enlisted, Aug. 15, 1864, for one year, from Marlow; mustered. out, July 8, 1865.

Edwin T. NIMS, Private; of Sullivan; son of Nahum, enlisted Aug. 16 1862, mustered. in, Sept. 22, 1862; died of disease, at Offutt's Cross Roads, near Poolesville, Md., Dec. 18, 1862, only four months after his enlistment. His body was brought to Sullivan and buried in Meetinghouse Cemetery, in Lot, II. 2. The date of his death in Ayling's Register is wrong.

Isaac W. RAWSON, son of Charles, born Sullivan; served three years; resided Westmoreland after the war.

David L. RICHARDSON, Private; enlisted, Sept. 13, 1862; mustered out, July 8, 1865, after a service of nearly three years.

Henry D. SPAULDING, was working in Surry when he enlisted and unfortunately was credited to that place, although his home and family were in Sullivan. He enlisted Aug. 13, mustered in, Sept. 22, 1862, as a private; He died of disease at Natchez, Miss., July 11, 1864, and his body was buried in the national cemetery at that place, in grave 120. He and his brother, Dauphin Spaulding, 2d of Company C, were the only sons of Dexter Spaulding, who, stricken with sorrow at their loss, yet braced himself to bear the trying ordeal and said that he wished that he had two more such sons for his country's service.