Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil Wars

Keene and the Forth NH Regiment

FORTH REGIMENT
Extracted from “A History of the Town of Keene” 
   by S. G. Griffin, Keene NH 
Sentinel Printing Company 1904

Only one, man from Keene served in the Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers: 

Drummer, Charles H. Co. P; age 23; enl.  Aug. 31, '61; app. 2d lieut.  Sept. 20, '61; resigned March 21, '62.  See First N. H. V., and U. S. navy.

The operations of that regiment during the first two years of its service were wholly in the South-in the Carolinas and Florida.  In 1864, it joined the Army of the James, afterwards that of the Potomac, and assisted in the siege of Petersburg.  It was -mustered out at Concord on the 23d of August, 1865.