Sgt. Alma Milliken, 12th New Hampshire Infantry, Co. H; b. Buxton, Me.; age 26; resided in Gilford,NH credited to Gilford; enlisted Aug. 14, 1862; mustered in Sept. 9, 1862, as Corp.; wounded May 3, 1863, Chancellorsville, Va.; appointed. Sergt. Dec. 1, 1863; discharged. June 28, 1865.

SERGT. ALMA MTLLIKEN.

This, one of the four patriotic sons of Amos and Sally (Milliken) Milliken, was born July 16, 1835, in Saco, Me. His three brothers were in the Union army and all earned honorable records. Moses S. and David served in the Seventeenth Missouri and Twentieth Illinois, respectively ; and Lieut. Abraham H. received a commission in the Twelfth Regiment. (See roster as corrected below.)

In Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (where he was wounded in left arm), and Cold Harbor, where he was so badly injured by a fall in the charge as to disable him from taking the field again and affect him for life. He was sent to hospital and soon was furloughed home. Upon his return to Washington he again was sent to hospital until April, 1865, when he was sent into Pennsylvania after recruits, getting to Harrisburg the same day that the martyred Lincoln lay in state there. From there he was sent to North Carolina and thence back to Washington where he was discharged. See incident, page 417.

DOUGHNUTS.

One of the sergeants of Company H, whose first name is Alma, was a great lover of doughnuts, and different from most of young husbands he thought his wife could make quite as good or better doughnuts than his mother. So he wrote home to her from Point Lookout for a recipe how
to make them.

He received in reply a box, containing not only the desired information, but also many nicely cooked eatables, among which, of course, were a big lot of his home-made favorites. When these were gone, to the sweet relish of his own, and the delicious taste of many a comrade s, palate, he concluded to test his own skill in the fat and flour business ; and procuring the necessary materials by the aid of one of the officers giving him an order on the commissary. His effort was crowned with so much success that he soon not only supplied himself, but also many of his comrades, who quickly purchased all that he had to spare.

He had not anticipated the money-making part of his culinary effort, and was all the more pleased to see how nicely the pleasure and profit of eating and selling run together. But one day there came a sad end to his newly established business. His fat caught fire, the fire caught the tent, and all save the cook and
his kettle went up in smoke.

He was married December 13, 1858, to Harriet E. Lee, of Paw Paw, Mich. Children, Willie L. (deceased) and Hattie J.

He was a dyer by trade when he enlisted, but after the war worked twelve years in a repair shop at Bangor, Mich., and then moved to Michigan City, Ind., where he lived two years, when he removed to Crete, Neb., where he now resides. A farmer most of the time since discharge, being employed at present as a large market gardener.

Since the printing of the roster at the end of this book, the order of "dishonorably discharged " in the case of Lieut. A. H. Milliken, above referred to, has been revoked by the War Department and he restored (see how it reads).