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��Windham, N. H.

��WINDHAM IN THE REBELLION.

The long contest between the North and the South in relation to the ques- tion of slavery was nearing its end. The moral sense of the nation was awakened to the fearful wickedness of the system of human slavery, and the people were determined that " Freedom should be national," "Slavery should be sectional," and that the peculiar institution should be confined to the limits it then occu- pied. To this its sui)porters were opposed, and demanded ample pro- tection to their property in slaves in all the states and territories of the Union. There was an ''irrepressible conflict " between the adiierents and suppprters of slavery and those ar- rayed against it. The conflict was destined to be waged till decided, not in the arena of debate, not in the halls of legislation, but upon the field ■of battle, where hostile armies met and struggled for the mastery.

Abraham Lincoln having been elected President in 1860, this was made a pretext by the states of the South for an attempt to withdraw from the Union. The Rebellion com- menced by an attack upon Fort Sum- ter, April 12, 1861. Tlie roar of the rebel cannon awoke the slumberino- millions of Northern freemen, who rallied by tens of thousands in defence of the government.

The soldiers of this town in the 1st Regiment were Walter J. Burnham, Asa Bean,* Seth N. Huntley,* Will- iam Wyman, Moses Wyman.* In •other regiments they were, —

Josiah S. Everett, Lewis A. McConihe,* John Dunn,


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��John McGowan, Joseph White, Jesse C. Crowell,* Thomas Crook, Russell W. Powell, Joseph R. Everett,* Albion K. Goodwin, Charles Cole, John G. Johnson,* James Murphy, Caleb G. Wiley,* James G. Batchelder, John Calvin Hills, Lemuel Maiden, Lewis Ripley,* Samuel Haseltine, Moses Myrick, James C. Stone, Theodore Clark, Horatio Gleason, Edward H. Gallagher, John Inshaw, David Lyon, Daniel Sullivan, Wentworth S. Cowan, Frederick Otis, James Murphy, Patrick Han nan, Bernard McCan, James Stevens, Charles E. Bailey, Horace W. Hunt, James Brown, Oliver Burns, Jacques Dreux, William Anderson, Austin L. Lamprey, George W. Coburn, David Brainurd Fessenden, Micajah B. Kimball, Reuben O. Phillips, John G. Bradford, Henry W. Chellis, John W. Hall, Albert Fletcher,

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