Grandfathers in the Civil War

Please see the Chart to find dates and family lines.

1. Woodworth line

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, 1^st NH Infantry, then Company H, 4^th NH Infantry) and later an artilleryman (Companies B and F, 5^th 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 5^th 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 9^tth 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, 4^th 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.