Please see the Chart to find dates and family lines.
1. Woodworth line
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| Wallace E. Woodworth enlisted on his 19th birthday, April 22, 1861, just eight days after President Lincoln's call to arms. |
Wallace
Eastman Woodworth at 19 enlisted in Franklin, NH and served from the early
weeks of the war to its end, first an infantryman (Company D, 1st NH
Infantry, then Company H, 4th NH Infantry) and later an artilleryman
(Companies B and F, 5th US Light Artillery). He served under Thomas
J. Whipple of Lakeport whom he admired. After the war he continued in the Army
and was a member of the detail at Fort Monroe, Virginia, that guarded Jefferson
Davis, the defeated and captured President of the Confederacy. In 1872, having
married Sarah Church Preble, he moved from Boston to Lakeport, the first of
four generations of Woodworths to establish a home there. A needlemaker all his
life, he took a four-year leave in the 1890s to serve as postmaster at
Lakeport.
2. Tucker line
John
Calvin Tucker enlisted from Amesbury, Massachusetts, and served as Bugler
with Battery E of the 5th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery.
The Bugler, on horseback, accompanied the Commander in the field to issue
orders by bugle. Near the end of his tour of duty, in October, 1864, he
suffered a bullet wound in the leg. John and his wife, Mary Antoinette
(Fellows) Tucker, died in a period of three weeks in late 1882, leaving six
children.
3. Hale line
Thomas
J. Hale enlisted from Laconia when he was 55. He marched as Drummer with
the 4th and 9tth NH Volunteers.
Though ill and discharged, he kept re-enlisting through four tours,
until he was 59. Two sons were also in the war: Charles L. Hale died at home in
1866 after four years of an infection contracted at the front in October, 1862,
and George W. Hale, wounded in action, and living with disability until 1900.
Thomas and Mary Ann F. (Paxton) Hale had
moved the family in the 1850s from Campton to Meredith to Gilford and finally
to Laconia, establishing the first Hale residence in Laconia a decade or so
before the War broke out.
4. Hyde line
Thomas
H. Hyde, son of Joseph and Betsey (Uttley) Hyde, enlisted from Barton,
Orleans County, Vermont on August 6, 1864 and served in Company D, 4th
Regiment, Vermont Infantry. By November he had contracted a disabling illness
(probably dysentery), and died in hospital in Montpelier, Vermont on March 7, 1865. His son, Horace Hazen Hyde, as a minor child received
pension benefits. His widow, Lovinia (Colley) Hyde, remarried twice, both times
to veterans: Stephen Mason and Levi Pickering.
She
is buried in Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire.
