NEW HAMPSHIRE
With only 326, 064 people scattered across her wooded hills, New Hampshire still enlisted 33,937, or 10.4%, of the overall population. Of these men, 882 joined the Navy or Marines, and 125 were free African-Americans.
The Granite State lost 4,882 of her sons, 1,903 from battle or wounds, 294 in POW camps, the majority from disease and accidents. There was no fighting in New Hampshire, and New Hampshire troops fought mainly in the eastern theater.
There were two regiments of cavalry, a regiment (and two companies) of heavy artillery, a single light artillery battery, three companies of sharpshooters, and eighteen infantry regiments formed in New Hampshire.
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