Captain Paul Whipple
and the
Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers
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| Regimental Colours after the war. National Archives. |
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| Recruitment Poster |
On December 13, 1861 Paul Whipple was first mustered into the First Regiment of NH Volunteers, for three months. After being mustered out when that unit was disbanded, he immediately enlisted in Company K of the 7th under Captain. W. E. F. Brown. He was promoted to Sergeant and then First Sergeant shortly after “for good conduct and strict attention to duty”.
Captain Paul Whipple, brother of J. R[eed]. and J[ames]. B. Whipple, who was born here in 1840, is another man eminent in another line. At twenty-one years of age he enlisted in Company K, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, served throughout the war, and was discharged captain in August, 1865. He at once returned south to Darlington, S. C, and with the aid of several hundred colored hands, men, women, and children, he cultivated his own plantation of 5,000 acres. On his estate are fifty cabins, a church, and school-house, for his help, for whom he supports a teacher and pastor. He has won the love of the Southerners who at first were his bitterest foes, and has been honored by them with public office.
From the Granite State Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress. Volume XXII, Concord, N.H. Published by The Granite Monthly, 1897.
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Song
of the New Hampshire Volunteers.
By Marian Douglas.
Respectfully
Dedicated to the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment.
From
hill-top and mountain
We
press to the fight;
Up,
up with our Banner,
For
God and the Right!
We
dare not stay weakly
And
trembling at home;
The
moment for action,
For
conflict, has come!
chorus.
The
fire sweeps the prairie,
The
tempest the sea,
But
nothing can conquer
The
hearts of the free!
'Tis
ours to keep burning,
On
hill-top and glade,
The
fire on the altars
Our
fathers have made.
Our
hearts beat together,
And
shall to the last;
Who
fears for the future,
That
thinks of the past?
chorus.
The
fire sweeps the prairie,
The
tempest the sea,
But
nothing can conquer
The
hearts of the free!
Then
up with our Banner!
'Mid
sunlight or shade,
Before
we would suffer
Its
brightness to fade,
Amid
the wild tumult
Upon
the red plain,
Our
hearts, with their life-blood,
Would
dye it again!
chorus.
The
fire sweeps the prairie,
The
tempest the sea,
But
nothing can conquer
The
hearts of the free!
[Van
Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.]
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2001.05.0077:chapter=4&highlight=Seventh+New+Hampshire%2C
Annie
Douglas Green Robinson (a.k.a. 'Marian Douglas' 1842-1913) poet and author from Plymouth, New Hampshire. She published the collection of verse entitled Days
we Remember (1903), and several works for children such as Picture
Poems for Young Folks (1872) and Peter and Polly; or, Home Life in
New England a Hundred Years Ago (1876).
