1860s CIVIL WAR cdv 5th NEW HAMPSHIRE Vol Infantry BATTLE FLAG by KIMBALL NH

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1860s CIVIL WAR cdv 5th NEW HAMPSHIRE Vol Infantry BATTLE FLAG by KIMBALL NH:
$960.00

Superb 1860s Civil War albumen cdv of the tattered Battle Flag of the hard fighting 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry taken by Kimball & Sons ,Concord ,NH.Great close-up of the legendary 5th NH Flag with \"Peach Orchard\" ,\"Antietam\", \"Fair Oaks,\" Frederickburg\" and the names of their other hard-fought battles stiched into it.

The 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 18 officers and 277 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 176 enlisted men to disease. This is the greatest loss sustained in battle of any regiment of infantry or cavalry in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Battle of Antietam

The 5th New Hampshire went into battle with 319 men and lost 7 men killed and 120 wounded, including Colonel Cross. During the fighting at the sunken road Colonel Cross, conspicuous with thered bandanna on his bare head that became his battle trademark, had roared for the regiment to “put on the war paint!” while streaking his face with cartridgepowder. He then called for them to “Give ’em the war whoop!”

Caldwell’s Brigade relieved Meagher’s and became heavily engaged with the Confederate Infantry occupying the Sunken Road and Piper’s cornfield south of it. After an obstinate contest, the Brigade succeeded in dislodging the Confederates from the Sunken Road and, having repelled several attempts to turn its flanks, advanced to the high ground overlooking Piper’s house, where it was halted by command of General Richardson.

Battle of Fredericksburg

The regiment lost 200 of the 270 men engaged. Captain Welcome Crafts of Company B was shotin the left leg. It was testified that bodies of the men of the 5th New Hampshire, along with those of the 69th New York and 53rd Pennsylvania, had advanced closest to the stone wall beneath Marye’s Heights.

Battle of Gettysburg

When Colonel Cross was mortally wounded by a Confederate sharpshooter, Lt. Colonel Hapgood pointed out the man to Sergeant Charles Phelps, who dropped the Rebel. Phelps, in turn, was himself mortally wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Hapgood would be promoted to colonel and Major Cross to lieutenant colonel effective July 3.

From the monument:

Here July 2nd, 1863 from 5 p.m. till 7 the 5th N.H. Vols. stood and fought. Total engaged 182. Killed or mortally wounded 31. Total killed and wounded 81.

On this spot fell mortally wounded Edward C. Cross, Col. 5th N.H. Vols. Comdg. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, July 2nd, 1863

Killed or mortally wounded: 2nd Lieut. Ruel G. Austin; Sergeants Oscar D. Allen, Samuel Dolbear, Charles H. Phelps, William B. Welch; Corporals Charles F. Burrell, Edwin B. Cilley, George H. Hackett, Warren M. Parker, George W. Sylvester, Edward G. F. Stinson, Joseph Tricky; Privates Byron Bennett, Horace Bolii, Joesph Bond Jr., George H. Bucknam, James Burns, Joseph Craig, Charles A. Damon, Lucius Feeney, Andrew J. Foss, Samuel R. Green, Charles Kimball, George Kimball, Charles A. Lovejoy, Nathan B. Osmer, Eliph. B. W. Stevens, Roland Taylor, Nathan B. Thompson, Otis scans for condition .

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