Son: Samuel Poor, Company H, 2nd Regiment, NH Volunteers, mustered in on June 5, 1861, he was promoted to corporal and fought in the Battle of Bull Run. he was captured at Gettysburg, PA, in July 1863, and later died in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, GA. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners, almost 13,000 died there because of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, disease, abuse and blunt weapon executions from guards.
Son: Eri Poor, Samuel's brother, enlisted in Company A, 7th Regiment, NH Volunteers, in 1862. Only five men of his company of 101 came home and he was one of those five. Before and after the war he was employed at the Head brickyards on Merrimack Street as a brick burner. He died in 1906 at age 80.
Information source for sons Samuel and Eri from Hooksett Banner dated February 9, 2012, article authored by Kathie Northrup.
Son: Samuel Poor, Company H, 2nd Regiment, NH Volunteers, mustered in on June 5, 1861, he was promoted to corporal and fought in the Battle of Bull Run. he was captured at Gettysburg, PA, in July 1863, and later died in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, GA. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners, almost 13,000 died there because of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, disease, abuse and blunt weapon executions from guards.
Son: Eri Poor, Samuel's brother, enlisted in Company A, 7th Regiment, NH Volunteers, in 1862. Only five men of his company of 101 came home and he was one of those five. Before and after the war he was employed at the Head brickyards on Merrimack Street as a brick burner. He died in 1906 at age 80.
Information source for sons Samuel and Eri from Hooksett Banner dated February 9, 2012, article authored by Kathie Northrup.
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