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Simon Goodell Griffin
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1. SIMON GOODELL3 GRIFFIN (NATHAN2, DEACON
SAMUEL1)[1] was born August 09, 1824 in Nelson,Cheshire,NH[2], and died January
14, 1902 in Keene,Cheshire,NH[3]. He married (1) URSULA J. HARRIS 1850[4],
daughter of JASON HARRIS and BETSEY GURLER. She was born July 15, 1825 in
Nelson,Cheshire,NH[5,6], and died February 25, 1852[7,8].
He married (2) MARGARET LAMSON (photo right)
Abt. 1861, dau. of CHARLES LAMSON.
Notes for SIMON GOODELL GRIFFIN:
Simon Griffin mustered in military service 4
June 1861.
He was Captain of ''Goodwin Rifles, Co B, 2nd NH Volunteers that was at the
first battle of Bull Run, 21 July 1861. A description of this battle showing
Griffin's position is given in '' Great Battles of the Civil War '' by John
Macdonald (New York, Macmillan Publishing,1988)19.
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th NH Volunteers on 26 Oct 1861.
In April 1862 he was in a battle at Elizabeth City, NC.
He was at the battle of Camden,NC,19 April 1862.
On 22 Apr 1862 he was commissioned Colonel.
In July he went with the 9th Corps of NH in the second battle of Bull Run.
He also was in the battle of Chantilly, South Mountain and Antietam.
He was with General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg and joined forces with General
William Sherman in his campaign against General Joe Jackson.
In the spring of 1864 he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division that
joined the Army of the Potomac near Rapidan River and was at the battle of the
Wilderness on 6 May 1864.
For his skillful and gallant action at the battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse on
12 May 1864 he was nominated a Brigadier General.
General Griffin was at the battles of North Anna River, Tolopotamay Creek,
Bethsaida Church and Cold Harbor.
The engagements at Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Creek, Hatcher's Run and
Petersburg culminated in the attack on Fort Sedgewick led by General Griffin.
There is a quote from him in ''The Civil War; Death in the Trenches, Grant at
Petersburg' by William C. Davis, ETAL, Time-Life Books,Alexandria,VA,1986(45)
He was promoted to Major General of volunteers and joined in the pursuit and
capture of General Lee's army ,and, with the war over mustered out on 24 August
1865. He was the highest ranking officer of any volunteer in NH.
He returned home and represented Keene several times in the state legislature
and served two terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
He is the author of '' A History of the Town of Keene ''(Keene, NH, Sentinel
Printing Co,1904). The source for much of this information is ''A Sketch of the
Author'' in this book, by Rev. Octavius Applegate, Jr., M.A.
Endnotes
1. Letters to Mr. Charles A. Bemis, from Ida Harris Cheasbro, early 1900's.Copy
on file at Historic Harrisville Inc, Harrisville, NH.
2. Griffin, Simon G ; A History of the Town of Keene (NH) ,Sentinel Printing Co,
Keene, 1904, page 5.
3. Griffin, Simon G ; A History of the Town of Keene (NH) ,Sentinel Printing Co,
Keene, 1904, page 12.
4. Griffin, Simon G ; A History of the Town of Keene (NH) ,Sentinel Printing Co,
Keene, 1904, page 6.
5. Letters to Mr. Charles A. Bemis, from Ida Harris Cheasbro, early 1900's.Copy
on file at Historic Harrisville Inc, Harrisville, NH.
6. New Hampshire Vital Records, Dept of Health and Human Services, Concord, NH.
7. Letters to Mr. Charles A. Bemis, from Ida Harris Cheasbro, early 1900's.Copy
on file at Historic Harrisville Inc, Harrisville, NH.
8. Gravestone, Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, NH.
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