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Title: History of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Livermore, Thomas Leonard, 1844-1918
Subjects: United States. Army New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 18th (1864-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Boston, The Fort Hill Press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ttle tents. Like to froze to death. February 10. Cold and windy. Still at Park Station.Nearly frozen. February IL Warm and clear. Ordered back to CityPoint. Marched about nine oclock and got back aboutsunset. Pitched tents and was all right again. City Point, February 12 to March 17, 1865 Company G arrived at City Point and joined the battalionFebruary 19. The itinerary of the Engineer Brigade notes*February 12 to 28 that the troops were occupied in drill,camp duty, and work on fortifications. The previouslyincessant interruptions of the drill, so necessary to preparethe regiment for service under fire, did not cease. One ofthe diaries above mentioned notes no drill on ten of thetwenty-nine working days of this period. Whether due towork on fortifications, bad weather, or other causes, theseinterruptions of the essential practice in a soldiers callingwas a misfortune, for, although the regiment did not fail inany part of its duty in its subsequent service under fire, its 95 W. R., 72.
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\?^ ^U^ ^ Order for Consolidation 49 failure to impress a sense of its good quality on the command-ing generals led to an incident in its history which, althoughfortunately kept from general knowledge of the regiment atthe time, and arrested before it became a catastrophe, is anunpleasant one to record. The seeming lack of efficiency indrill and discipline prevented the commanding generals fromjustly estimating the possible value of this stanch body ofmen as an organization. The plan for breaking it up, relatedbelow, might not otherwise have been formed, even thoughcompletion of the ten companies was not assured. Order for Consolidation with Another Regiment Under date of March 17 ^ the itinerary of the EngineerBrigade records an order which nearly terminated the exis-tence of the regimental organization. The itinerary runs asfollows: The Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers orderedto report to commanding officer, Ninth Corps, to be consoli-dated with another regiment from the same sta

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