Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Henry M. Caldwell,died 1862 Civil War, buried at Dunbarton, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Dunbarton Center Cemetery, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire


CAPT. HENRY M.
Son of
Wm. & Eliza I. Caldwell
died
in Falmouth, Va.
July 12, 1862.
A.E. 23 yrs 7 mos.
His character was without stain, and in the
storehouse of having recollections his memory
will be enshrined in beauty forever.


Henry Mills Caldwell was the youngest son of William Caldwell and Eliza Ireland, born 22 December 1839 in Dunbarton, and died 12 July 1862 of fever during the Civil War at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia.  He attended Dartmouth College and was enlisted as a captain in the Company F, Second Regiment US Sharpshooters on September 1861.  "A friend describes him as possessed of a generous, noble, and manly nature." ( from page 455 of the book Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, by the Rev. George T. Chapman, D.D., 1867)   According to an 1861 commencement program, he wrote a poem "The Struggles of Liberty in the Netherlands" which he read at the graduation ceremony.  (see the blog post "1861 Commencement program, Darthmouth College at Hanover, New Hampshire", dated 20 January 2012  https://www.heirloomsreunited.com/2012/01/1861-commencement-program-dartmouth.html

William Caldwell was born 30 October 1794 in Dunbarton, and died there on 25 April 1879.  His wife, Eliza Ireland was born 25 September 1800 in Salem, Massachusetts and died in Dunbarton on 18 August 1880.  

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Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Henry M. Caldwell,died 1862 Civil War, buried at Dunbarton, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 29, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/09/henry-m-caldwelldied-1862-civil-war.html: accessed [access date]).

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