s/o Elisha Grant and Martha Elkins
Twelfth Regiment, Company G., New Hampshire Volunteers
Killed in The Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, age 20
Grant, Nahum B. CO. G; b. Gilford; age 19; res. Gilford, cred. Gilford; enl. Aug. 15, '62; must. in Sept. 9, '62, as Priv.; killed May 3, '63, Chancellorsville, Va.
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1,1863.
On May 2, 1863, General Joseph Hooker received word of troop movement, eventually convincing himself that Lee was retreating south to protect supply lines to Richmond. The 12th New Hampshire paused in their advance about noon atop a hilltop clearing known then and now as Hazel Grove. From there, they proceeded southeast toward a small iron foundry called Catherine’s Furnace, a short distance from General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s line of march. After wading “nearly waist deep” across a brook at the bottom of a marshy ravine, the Twelfth climbed through brush and briars up a hill near the iron works. As they encamped that chilly night atop Hazel Grove, members of the 12th N.H. Regiment were perhaps disappointed they had still seen no significant battle action. With little or no sleep, maybe a hastily swallowed meal of a flour-and-water paste and raw or poorly cooked bacon, the soldiers of the U.S. and CSA armies were back in action at first light on Sunday, May 3. The 12th N.H. were preparing to use the vantage point of Hazel Grove; however, Hooker sent orders to defend another rise called Fairview, only a half mile from the Chancellor Inn and Hooker’s headquarters. The fiercest fighting of the battle—and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War—occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.
Sources:
"Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 2"
"History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion" by Bartlett, Asa W.
Note: Martha (Elkins) Grant and her son, Nahum B. Grant; Lydia Ann Elkins and her sister Hannah Elkins; parents of Martha, Lydia and Hannah, Richard Elkins and Susan Bean are all listed on the same monument.
Twelfth Regiment, Company G., New Hampshire Volunteers
Killed in The Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, age 20
Grant, Nahum B. CO. G; b. Gilford; age 19; res. Gilford, cred. Gilford; enl. Aug. 15, '62; must. in Sept. 9, '62, as Priv.; killed May 3, '63, Chancellorsville, Va.
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1,1863.
On May 2, 1863, General Joseph Hooker received word of troop movement, eventually convincing himself that Lee was retreating south to protect supply lines to Richmond. The 12th New Hampshire paused in their advance about noon atop a hilltop clearing known then and now as Hazel Grove. From there, they proceeded southeast toward a small iron foundry called Catherine’s Furnace, a short distance from General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s line of march. After wading “nearly waist deep” across a brook at the bottom of a marshy ravine, the Twelfth climbed through brush and briars up a hill near the iron works. As they encamped that chilly night atop Hazel Grove, members of the 12th N.H. Regiment were perhaps disappointed they had still seen no significant battle action. With little or no sleep, maybe a hastily swallowed meal of a flour-and-water paste and raw or poorly cooked bacon, the soldiers of the U.S. and CSA armies were back in action at first light on Sunday, May 3. The 12th N.H. were preparing to use the vantage point of Hazel Grove; however, Hooker sent orders to defend another rise called Fairview, only a half mile from the Chancellor Inn and Hooker’s headquarters. The fiercest fighting of the battle—and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War—occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.
Sources:
"Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 2"
"History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion" by Bartlett, Asa W.
Note: Martha (Elkins) Grant and her son, Nahum B. Grant; Lydia Ann Elkins and her sister Hannah Elkins; parents of Martha, Lydia and Hannah, Richard Elkins and Susan Bean are all listed on the same monument.
s/o Elisha Grant and Martha Elkins
Twelfth Regiment, Company G., New Hampshire Volunteers
Killed in The Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, age 20
Grant, Nahum B. CO. G; b. Gilford; age 19; res. Gilford, cred. Gilford; enl. Aug. 15, '62; must. in Sept. 9, '62, as Priv.; killed May 3, '63, Chancellorsville, Va.
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1,1863.
On May 2, 1863, General Joseph Hooker received word of troop movement, eventually convincing himself that Lee was retreating south to protect supply lines to Richmond. The 12th New Hampshire paused in their advance about noon atop a hilltop clearing known then and now as Hazel Grove. From there, they proceeded southeast toward a small iron foundry called Catherine’s Furnace, a short distance from General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s line of march. After wading “nearly waist deep” across a brook at the bottom of a marshy ravine, the Twelfth climbed through brush and briars up a hill near the iron works. As they encamped that chilly night atop Hazel Grove, members of the 12th N.H. Regiment were perhaps disappointed they had still seen no significant battle action. With little or no sleep, maybe a hastily swallowed meal of a flour-and-water paste and raw or poorly cooked bacon, the soldiers of the U.S. and CSA armies were back in action at first light on Sunday, May 3. The 12th N.H. were preparing to use the vantage point of Hazel Grove; however, Hooker sent orders to defend another rise called Fairview, only a half mile from the Chancellor Inn and Hooker’s headquarters. The fiercest fighting of the battle—and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War—occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.
Sources:
"Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 2"
"History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion" by Bartlett, Asa W.
Note: Martha (Elkins) Grant and her son, Nahum B. Grant; Lydia Ann Elkins and her sister Hannah Elkins; parents of Martha, Lydia and Hannah, Richard Elkins and Susan Bean are all listed on the same monument.
Twelfth Regiment, Company G., New Hampshire Volunteers
Killed in The Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, age 20
Grant, Nahum B. CO. G; b. Gilford; age 19; res. Gilford, cred. Gilford; enl. Aug. 15, '62; must. in Sept. 9, '62, as Priv.; killed May 3, '63, Chancellorsville, Va.
The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1,1863.
On May 2, 1863, General Joseph Hooker received word of troop movement, eventually convincing himself that Lee was retreating south to protect supply lines to Richmond. The 12th New Hampshire paused in their advance about noon atop a hilltop clearing known then and now as Hazel Grove. From there, they proceeded southeast toward a small iron foundry called Catherine’s Furnace, a short distance from General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s line of march. After wading “nearly waist deep” across a brook at the bottom of a marshy ravine, the Twelfth climbed through brush and briars up a hill near the iron works. As they encamped that chilly night atop Hazel Grove, members of the 12th N.H. Regiment were perhaps disappointed they had still seen no significant battle action. With little or no sleep, maybe a hastily swallowed meal of a flour-and-water paste and raw or poorly cooked bacon, the soldiers of the U.S. and CSA armies were back in action at first light on Sunday, May 3. The 12th N.H. were preparing to use the vantage point of Hazel Grove; however, Hooker sent orders to defend another rise called Fairview, only a half mile from the Chancellor Inn and Hooker’s headquarters. The fiercest fighting of the battle—and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War—occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.
Sources:
"Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 2"
"History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion" by Bartlett, Asa W.
Note: Martha (Elkins) Grant and her son, Nahum B. Grant; Lydia Ann Elkins and her sister Hannah Elkins; parents of Martha, Lydia and Hannah, Richard Elkins and Susan Bean are all listed on the same monument.
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