1st Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry

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Brief History
The 1st Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry was organized at Concord and mustered in on the 1st of May, 1861. The length of service was for 3 months. They were ordered home to New Hampshire August 2, 1861 and mustered out on the 9th.

For more information about the 1st Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry and its history, see:


 * Stephen G. Abbott, The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion, Keene, New Hampshire : Sentinel Printing Company, 1890. Available online at  Google Books, (accessed 11 Mar 2011).  Also available at the Family History Library  or   Contains the story of campaign, an account of the "Great uprising of the people of the state," and other articles upon subjests associated with the early war period.
 * First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry - A Sketch, (accessed 11 Mar 2011), by Stephen G. Abbot, Chaplain and Historian. Rays-Place.
 * 1st New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, (accessed 11 Mar 2011).

Company Rosters

 * First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry - Surnames Abbott to Fuller, Surnames Gage to Osgood, Page to Youngman, (accessed 11 Mar 2011).
 * New Hampshire Infantry Page, (accessed 11 Mar 2011). New Hampshire Heritage
 * Roster and Biographies of many who served First New Hampshire Regiment, (accessed 11 Mar 2011). This is not a complete roster.
 * The following rosters, (accessed 11 Mar 2011), come from the book The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion, by Stephen G. Abbott.


 * Company A - Roster starts on page 455.
 * Company B - Roster starts on page 460.
 * Company C - Roster starts on page 465.
 * Company D - Roster starts on page 469.
 * Company E - Roster starts on page 475.
 * Company F - Roster starts on page 481.
 * Company G - Roster starts on page 488.
 * Company H - Roster starts on page 494.
 * Company I - Roster starts on page 500.
 * Company K - Roster starts on page 507.

Source Material

 * Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, (accessed 1 Apr 2011), can be searched by soldier's name or by regiment; includes regimental rosters and additional history of the regiment. This site uses Joseph H. Crute's book, Units of the Confederate States Army, as their main source for the regiment history. Family History Library book 973 M2crua,, WorldCat, (accessed 1 Apr 2011).


 * Footnote.com, (accessed 1 Apr 2011). (A subscription website, but is available for use at the Family History Library and some Family History Centers). It has digital Civil War soldier service records and brief regiment histories (located at the bottom of some of the muster rolls).


 * Civil War in the East, (accessed 11 Mar 2011). Timeline of the 1st New Hampshire Infantry.


 * New Hampshire. Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Oaths, 1861-1865, Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975.  Available on microfilm at the Family History Library


 * Otis F.R. Waite, New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion, Claremont, New Hampshire: Tracy, Chase &amp; Co., c1991. Available online with Google Books, (accessed 11 Mar 2011).  Also found at the Family History Library,  This book shows a list of the field, staff and company officers, and the official record of each.  First Infantry, see page 57.


 * Augustus D. Ayling, Adjutant General, Revised register of the soldiers and sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, Concord, New Hampshire : Ira C. Evans, 1895. Available at  Internet Archives, (accessed 11 Mar 2011).  Also found at the Family History Library,  or FHL US/CAN Film 1697872, Item 1-2.  Book that contains a good summary of each New Hampshire regiment. Also contains alphabetical that list the birth place, age or enlistment, place of residence at the time of enlistment.