(aka John L. Haseltine) Enlisted on August 10, 1861, age 18, and mustered on August 24, 1861, into Company K, 3rd Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry (Union). Enlistment Rank: Private. Transferred to Company "G" on September 1, 1861.
The regiment was organized at Camp Berry in Concord and mustered in on August 23, 1861, for three years' service. After being mustered in, the 3rd New Hampshire left for Long Island, New York, encamping at Camp Winfield Scott at Hempstead Plains. From here, they went to Washington, D.C. and Annapolis, Maryland where the regiment embarked on the steamer Atlantic for the assault on Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Died of Disease at the Regimental Hospital on December 8, 1861, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
From page 86 of The Third New Hampshire and all about it; "Hazeltine, a drummer boy of Co. G (originally in Co. K) was buried on the 9th. He died the 8th, after a sickness of ten days, during which time he knew nothing whatever." [Note: after a long correspondence with the parents at home resulted in the taking up of the body and sending it home in a metallic casket, sent out for that purpose.]
Source: Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65; U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865; The Third New Hampshire and all about it by Daniel D. Eldredge, (1893).
(aka John L. Haseltine) Enlisted on August 10, 1861, age 18, and mustered on August 24, 1861, into Company K, 3rd Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry (Union). Enlistment Rank: Private. Transferred to Company "G" on September 1, 1861.
The regiment was organized at Camp Berry in Concord and mustered in on August 23, 1861, for three years' service. After being mustered in, the 3rd New Hampshire left for Long Island, New York, encamping at Camp Winfield Scott at Hempstead Plains. From here, they went to Washington, D.C. and Annapolis, Maryland where the regiment embarked on the steamer Atlantic for the assault on Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Died of Disease at the Regimental Hospital on December 8, 1861, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
From page 86 of The Third New Hampshire and all about it; "Hazeltine, a drummer boy of Co. G (originally in Co. K) was buried on the 9th. He died the 8th, after a sickness of ten days, during which time he knew nothing whatever." [Note: after a long correspondence with the parents at home resulted in the taking up of the body and sending it home in a metallic casket, sent out for that purpose.]
Source: Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65; U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865; The Third New Hampshire and all about it by Daniel D. Eldredge, (1893).
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