Amos L. Hamm part 9, 1910s

• 1910 Census Salisbury NH
• 1910 City Directory
• 1911 Residence Salisbury NH
• 1913 City Directory Salisbury NH
• 1914 Salisbury NH
• 1915 Death Certificate, Will, Probate

1910 Census, Salisbury NH

1910 Census Salisbury NH
Amos Hamm

Amos Hamm, age 78, born 1832 in Vermont.  Once again, no street name nor house number for their home in Salisbury, Merrimack NH.  He is living with his wife Mary J, this is the second marriage for them both, and they have been married for 39 years.  Mary Jane has had 5 children, three of whom are still living.  In this census, both of his parents are born in Vermont, not Massachusetts as is recorded the previous census.  Amos owns his own farm.  In this census we find out that Amos fought in the Civil War for the Union Army.

Please note the family just next door is Frank and Mertie Hamm Forsaith, Amos' daughter.  So, this Augusta C. Forsaith is Amos and Mary's granddaughter.  That will teach me to look at everybody on the page.

1910 City Directory

1910 City Directory, Salisbury, Merrimack NH

Amos L. Hamm, farmer on Andover rfd 1, Salisbury, Merrimack County NH.  Again, note the Frank Forsaith farmer.

1913 City Directory

1913 City Directory, Salisbury Merrimack NH

Amos L. Hamm, farmer on Andover rfd 1, Salisbury, Merrimack County NH.  Again, note the Frank Forsaith farmer.

1914 Directory

Amos Ham 1914 Directory
Salisbury NH

1915 Death Certificate and Will and Probate

Amos Ham Death Certificate Front

He's lived here for 40 years, died 11 February 1915, just days before his 84th birthday.  Here is confirmation he was born in Sutton Vermont.  He is a widower by this time, he died of Arteriosclerosis, which is hardening of the arteries.  The informant did not know any information about his parents.

Amos Ham Death Certificate Back

Not much more information on the back, either.  It doesn't even mention the name of his wife.  The physician is named, as well as the undertaker in Franklin NH.  He was buried in Shaw's Corner, Franklin NH on 14 February 1915.

Amos Ham Will

This is his will.  Please note that he signed using his mark.

Amos Ham 1915 will Detail

Ham, Amos L.  Will.
     Be it known that I Amos L. Ham of Salisbury County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire.  Being of a sound and disposing mind do make this my last will and testament.
1st -- That all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid
2nd -- I give and bequeath to my daughter Ella F. Sleeper the sum of one dollar
3d -- I give and bequeath to my daughter Myrtella M. Forsaith all the remainder of my estate wherever found
4th -- I appoint Myrtella M. Forsaith executrix of my will
Salisbury N.H. November 25.  I sign the above as my last will and testament
              his
Amos L [x] Ham
            mark
And we by his request and in his presence do sign as witnesses
George E. Fellows
Harold A. Prince
Mrs. Carrie J. Farnsworth

Some thoughts -- The person writing this had almost perfect penmanship.  It is a style easy to read, but I've been unable to identify the form of penmanship.  It isn't Spencerian which typically has elaborate calligraphy.  It may be Zaner-Bloser which was taught during this time frame, except this man's personal style is vertical.  Do you have an idea?

Amos Ham Probate

This is the probate, proving Amos' will.  He'd named Mertie as his executrix, leaving her his property, dated 23 February 1915.

Amos L. Hamm part 8 1900s

• 1900 Census, Salisbury NH
• 1900 City Directory
• 1902 City Directory
• 1904 City Directory Salisbury NH
• 1906 City Directory

1900 Census

1900 Census, Salisbury, Merrimack NH
Amos L. Hamm

Amos Hamm, age 69, born February 1831 in Vermont.  Again no street name nor house number, but living in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire.  He married Mary in 1868, and has been married for 32 years.  Both parents were born in Massachusetts, he is a farmer, owning his own farm.  He lives with his wife Mary J, and granddaughter Celia A. Forsaith age 5, born in April 1895 in New Hampshire.  Both of her parents were born in NH.  Celia must be the daughter of one of Amos' daughters who married a Forsaith.  What happened to the parents?  This is way before any world wars, and way too late for the Civil War.

Updated -- that daughter is, I think, Mertie Ham who married her neighbor Frank Forsaith.  This is what I suspect.

1900 City Directory

1900 City Directory, Salisbury NH

Amos L. Hamm, farmer on Warner Road in Salisbury, Merrimack County NH

1902 Directory

Amos Ham 1902 Directory
Salisbury New Hampshire

1904 Directory

Amos Ham 1904 Directory
Salisbury New Hampshire

Amos L. Hamm, farmer on Andover rfd 1, Salisbury, Merrimack County NH.  Of note is the Forsaith farming family with the same rural address.

1906 Directory

Amos Ham 1906 Directory
Salisbury New Hampshire

Okay, so I tried to Google this area.  I did find a South road, but nothing like Andover RFD1.  Do you know what this may be?  If so, give us a shout using the form on the right.  Thank you.

Amos L. Hamm part 7, 1890s

• 1890 Census Substitute, Salisbury NH
• 1890 Historical Insight -- Establishment of County Poorhouses
• 1897 Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter

1890 Census Substitute Index

No image.  Amos Ham, NH, Merrimack County, Salisbury, 1890, page 002 of the NH 1890 Veterans Schedule

Amos L. Ham II on Ancestry.com

1890 Census Substitute

Amos Ham 1890 Veterans Schedule

There are very very few censuses available for 1890.  That's because, in 1921, there was a fire in the Commerce Department Building, in which most of the population schedules were badly damaged.  Only fragments are available.  The list is found on this website.  

A newspaper photograph captured the scene after a
devastating fire and pointed out the need for safe
storage of national records.
Photo courtesy of the National Archives.

The Hollerith tabulator was used to tabulate the 1890 census—the first time a census was tabulated by machine. The illustration is of a Hollerith tabulator that has been modified for the first 1890 tabulation, the family, or rough, count -- the punched card reader has been removed, replaced by a simple keyboard. See: Truesdell, 1965, The Development of Punched Card Tabulation ..., US GPO, p.61
from Wikipedia, here

1895 Salisbury Town Report

In this town report for Salisbury for 1895, we find Amos Ham's name listed.  I'm not sure what this is for, exactly.

1897 Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter

Credit: Getty Images

Dr. Barnum Brown came from humble beginnings, but his interest in archaeology would lead him to world-renowned success. After his outstanding work as a student at University of Kansas, Dr. Brown was offered a spot on a fossil dig that was operated by the American Museum of Natural History. He was soon hired as a field assistant for the museum, and eventually became the curator over a massive collection of dinosaur fossils that he had found himself. While participating in a dig in Hell Creek, Montana, in 1902, he located “bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur. . . .[He had] never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous." Dr. Brown had, in fact, discovered the first skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Over the next few decades he made several more significant discoveries. Dr. Brown’s work made him a kind of scientific celebrity, and people flocked to see both him and the fossils he had unearthed.

Resources

• 1890 Census information
• https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/availability_of_1890_census.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census
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Amos L. Hamm part 6, 1880s

• 1880 Census, Salisbury NH
• 1884 Civil War Pension Filed
• 1888 Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard

1880 Census

1880 Census Salisbury, Merrimack NH
Amos L. Ham

Amos L Ham is 45 years old, living in Salisbury, Merrimack NH, no street nor house number. He is a farmer, and, according to this, he was born in Vermont, yet both parents were born in New Hampshire.

1884 Civil War Pension Index

1884 Civil War Pension Index

Amos Ham, soldier for Company E, 6th Vermont infantry.  Filed 21 February 1884, application number 506.664, certificate number 312.685.  I am unsure if this belongs to our Amos, as this one fights for Vermont, although he files from New Hampshrie.  It could be him, but both of these Pension indices cannot be the same person, right?

1888 Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard

1888 Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Great Blizzard of 1888
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

New England was buried under arctic drifts of snow during the “Great White Hurricane” in the spring of 1888.

March 11, 1888 began as a spring day with rain along the Eastern seaboard, but in a short time temperatures plummeted, three to five feet of snow fell, and gale-force winds up to 80 mph created 20- to 30-foot snowdrifts from New Jersey to Vermont, isolating nearly every city.

Telegraph, telephone, and electrical lines went down, stranded passenger trains littered railroad tracks, and people remained trapped in their homes or businesses without access to food or heat. More than 400 people died, including U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, who died of exposure when he lost his way home.

In addition to the snow and freezing temperatures, citizens had to contend with fires that burned out of control and the floods that came when the snow melted. In the wake of “The Great White Hurricane,” Boston and New York City officials resolved to bury their cables and wires and run trains underground to prevent future disasters.

from Ancestry.com Historical Insight 

Amos L. Hamm part 5, 1870s

• 1870 Historical Insight -- 15th Amendment to the US Constitution
• 1870 Residence Salisbury NH age 36
• 1872 Civil War Pension Filed
• 1873 Daughter Mertie born, NH

1870 Census

1870 Census, Salisbury, Merrimack NH
Amos and Mary J. Ham

age 36, born 1834 in Vermont.  He is a farmer with $1850 personal estate value and $600 Real Estate Value.  His "inferred" spouse (as Ancestry.com calls it) is Mary J. Ham, and his daughter is age 13, Nellie, from a previous marriage.

of note is the Scribner family in close proximity, including George age 21 and Morrell K. age 14.  Morrell would later go on to marry Adella G. Scott.  Looks like they were childhood pals.

1870 Historical Insight -- 15th Amendment to the US Constitution

When the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in early February 1870, celebrations erupted in African American communities and abolitionist societies disbanded thinking their work was done. The amendment prohibited government at all levels from denying voting rights to men based on race.

The Republican Party gained an African American voting bloc in the North. However, African Americans who wanted to vote in the South were met with poll taxes they could not afford, literacy tests they could not pass, and threats of violence from the Ku Klux Klan they could not ignore. Voter registration among African American men in Mississippi decreased from 67 percent in 1867 to 4 percent in 1892.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1876 that poll taxes and literacy tests were legal, effectively nullifying the intent of the 15th Amendment and leading to the entrenchment of Jim Crow laws for another 90 years.

from Ancestry.com Historical Insight 

1872? Civil War Pension Index filing date

1872 Civil War Pension index

Amos L. Ham, soldier for Company B, 18th New Hampshire infantry.  filed 22 August 1872, invalid, application number 177317.  Does this belong to our Amos?

1873 Mertie born

Daughter Mertie is born 22 March 1873 in Salisbury, Merrimack NH.  The only source for this birth is the 1880 Census when she is age 7, and her Christmas marriage record of 1893 when she is documented as 21 years old.  These are both considered secondary sources.

Amos L. Hamm part 4, 1860s

• 1861 Historical Insight -- Medicine during the Civil War
• 1861 Historical Insight -- American Civil War -- Military Advancements
• 1864 Civil War Enlistment, NH, age 30
• 1868 Marriage to Mary Jane Bacon Scott age 34

Amos Ham must have farmed during most of the Civil War.  Must have been very stressful.  He volunteered late in the war.

1861 Medicine During the Civil War

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Medicine During the Civil War
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Image

During the American Civil War, the sheer volume of wounded soldiers forced doctors and nurses to develop life-saving medical techniques.

The vast majority of deaths during the American Civil War were not on the battlefield; they were caused by disease. In 1861 germ theory did not exist, the root of infection remained a mystery, and medical training was crude. Little advancements had been made in the field since the American Revolution; some physicians still championed medieval methods of bloodletting, purging, and blistering to rebalance the body’s humors. However, development in weaponry, namely faster, more accurate rifles and shells killed hundreds of thousands and left many more badly wounded. Thus the war forced doctors and nurses to rethink medical treatments, as tens of thousands of soldiers flooded the ill-equipped field hospitals. The sheer volume of injured men prompted rapid amputations. By 1865, a surgeon could remove a limb in six minutes flat. Anesthetics were common—chloroform and ether were given to patients, along with morphine for the pain. Ambulance service also was born during the Civil War. The fallen were gathered from the field, their wounds wrapped up, and they were shuttled to battle-side hospitals. But for many, these advancements in techniques and sanitation came too little too late—upwards of 500,000 Americans died from disease and infection before the war’s end. from Ancestry.com

1861 Military Advancements

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Civil War, Military Advancements
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Image

Advancements in military weapons made the American Civil War a conflict of unparalleled carnage.

During the American Civil War, new weaponry revolutionized battle. The repeating rifle with Minié balls that allowed soldiers to fire seven rounds in 30 seconds without reloading replaced the musket. The repeating rifle increased accuracy, extending the firing range from 80 yards to 1,000. Thus forces were spaced further apart on the battlefield and to protect themselves built extensive fortifications and trenches.

Hand grenades and land mines also came into use during the war. However, the new explosives were finicky—sometimes Confederate soldiers used blankets to catch the incoming explosives and simply tossed them back to Union lines, where they exploded.

From the skies, passenger balloons spied on enemy lines and from below, Confederate submarines attacked ironclad ships enforcing the Union blockade. Unfortunately, technological advancements outpaced medical innovation.

The wounds caused by these new weapons were often deadly. In battle, modernized weapons proved harrowing. The sheer scale of fatalities and injuries was unmatched and, today, the Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in American history.

from Ancestry.com

1864 Military

Amos Ham 1864 Military Service

This document is entitled "Dispersments in Aid of Families of Volunteers by the Town of __________________"  The town name is left blank.  More than halfway down, we have Amos L. Ham, 18th NH Regiment, Company B.  He started September 17 1864.  He has a wife Mary A and a Child under 10 (this would be the child Nellie).  This aid was from September 30 1864 through April 30 1865, seven months.  The family was paid 56$.  The notation says "supposed to be with Regiment" whatever that means.

WAIT a minute!  His wife is Amelia, not Mary.  What gives here?

1864 Civil War enlistment

I don't have an image of this information.  I found it on Ancestry.com here.  His name is Amos L. Ham, enlisted at age 29 on 13 September 1864.  He was a private when he enlisted in Company B, New Hamspire 18th Infantry Regiment.  He mustered out on 10 June 1865.  It says he was born about 1835.

How to Come Home Safe

I found this story when I entered Amos' name into the Google search field.  Several books were written which included this inspirational story, I chose Incidents of the United States Christian Commission by Edward Parmelee Smith 1871.  Published by J.B. Lippincott & Company, United States.  The information for the book is found here, and the story is found here 

Amos L. Ham, of Co. B, 18th N.H., told us how he was arrested by a message from his little daughter [ed note:  this would be Nellie].  he labored under deep emotion as he spoke.  His wife had written him a letter.  Before sealing it, she turned to her little daughter and asked -- "What shall I write Father for you?"  "Tell him," said little Nellie, "to look to God and trust Him, and then he will come home safe."  The message went to the father's heart, humbling him at the foot of the cross, as a "little child."

1861 Amelia Hart Ham died

I don't have proof of the date of death, yet.  Perhaps never.  However, she had to have died somewhere before 1868 when he marries Mary Jane Bacon Scott, whose husband died a few weeks or days before the end of the war.  Perhaps these two men knew each other?

I have in my files that she died 26 August 1861.  This doesn't jive with the story above, where Nellie's mother was writing to Amos.  Something is wrong, probably my records, since I don't have proof.

1868 Marriage to Mary Jane Bacon Scott

They were married in Franklin, Merrimack NH on 1 May 1868.  She was 30 years old, her father is listed as Henry Bacon.  Her spouse is Amos L. Ham, also 30 years old.  New information!  His father is also Amos L. Ham!  From Ancestry.com. New Hampshire, Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

I found another date of marriage as 20 May 1868, also from Ancestry.com.

But the definitive answer is 1 May as evidenced by the image of the actual marriage record.  

1868 Marriage record for Scott/Hamm front

1868 Marriage record for Scott/Hamm back

Both are aged 30, Amos is a Farmer, and he was born in St. Johnsbury Vermont.  This is a second marriage for both of them, as both spouses died leaving them both widowed.  

Well, here's another record only it is for 20 May.

So, there is evidence for both dates, however one of them is transcribed later and is written in error.  The second one is transcribed in 1906.  The first set has no transcription date.  I suspect the May 1st date is the correct one, and I think the one transcribed 38 years later is erroneous.  

These are just my thoughts on the subject of both dates, I am open to suggestions.  Is this your family?  If you have any clarifications or want to connect, I'm happy to entertain options.  Use the connextion form on the right.

Resources:

• Incidents of the Unites States Christian Commission book details

• https://books.google.com/books?id=cKk8AAAAYAAJ&dq=amos+L.+Ham&source=gbs_navlinks_s

• Story "How to Come Home Safely"

• https://books.google.com/books?id=cKk8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345&dq=amos+L.+Ham&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj15rSU6tnYAhVH3mMKHVRUAfcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=amos%20L.%20Ham&f=false

Amos L. Hamm part 3, 1850s

• 1850 Census age 16, Sheffield Vermont
• 1855 Marriage Amelia Hart

1850 Census

age 15, Sheffield, Caledonia Vermont, living with 33 year old Farmer and his wife, David and Clarissa Jenness, and their children Amos age 6, Chas age 4, Hiram D. age 1.  Is he an orphan by this time?  Or is Clarissa his sister?

Hmmm.  Where is that census image?  Why did I not include it here, and I cannot find it in my computer file?

Here it is.  I accessed the information, but failed to include the image.  Silly me!

Amos Ham age 15
1850 Census, Sheffield VT

1855 Marriage Amelia Hart

Amos Ham 1855 marriage Amelia Hart

Amos is 20 years old when he married Miss Amelia Hart in Manchester NH.  Again, notice the dearth of information.  No parents' names, no places of birth, no residences.  AHHHHHch!  That, dear readers, is the sound of frustration.  Ok.  Move it along.

How did they meet?  Why is Amos in New Hampshire?

Amos L. Hamm part 2, 1835 - 1849

• about 1835 -- birth, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

About 1835

I only have secondary sources of the birth of Amos Ham, born St. Johnsbury Vermont.  I also know that Amos' father was also Amos L. Ham Senior.

Vermont, with St Johnsbury in red

from WikiPedia, St. Johnsbury Vermont

Bird's eye view about 1910
from Wikipedia St Johnsbury Vermont

South Main Street about 1905
from Wikipedia St Johnsbury Vermont

"This monument, located in Courthouse Park, honours those volunteers who died in the Civil War.
From Wikipedia St Johnsbury Vermont

Resources

• St Johnsbury Vermont Wiki -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johnsbury,_Vermont
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Harvey Scott Part 9 Pension Index

• Pension Index

Harvey Scott 1868 Civil War Pension Index
from Ancestry.com

Harvey Scott.  Widow Mary J. Scott.  Curiously, B.E. Badger is written in the "minor" line and is listed as "Gd'n" which, according to Ancestry, the abbreviation "Gdn" means guardian.  Not sure who was guardian for whom.
On an Ancestry Message Board, the abbreviation as it is listed here might mean that Badger is the guardian or decision-maker for Mary Bacon Scott.

On the lower half is some information I should be able to use later on.  1865, April 22, the Widow Mary J. Scott made an application 90531, certificate 99380.

On 1868, October 23, on the Minor line, is application 166.981, certificate 122.800 -- did Badger make another application for Mary?  or what?  He had three children, Marshall born 1856, Adella born 1860, and Silia born 1862.

Another Index, found on Fold3

NARA T289. Pension applications for service in the US Army 

between 1861 and 1900.

So, I wanted to see if I could get some information using the Civil War pension application numbers.  Below is some information to that effect, but I haven't accessed it yet.  It is here for your perusal.

From a Rootsweb threadThe numbers are the application numbers. If you send to NARA for the pensionfile, you will use at least one of these numbers.

http://www.pacivilwar.com/cwpahelp.html 

This page should help you out; even though, it is Pennsylvania.

http://www.searchforancestors.

com/genhelp/military/nara.html 

This pagewill help, as well.

http://www.archives.gov/research

_room/obtain_copies/military_and

_genealogy_order_forms.html 

This page is where you can order the forms that you will need to order records from NARA.

[UPDATE] I searched on Google and found (again) Fold3.  I have a premium account there, and they've provided me with most of those documents I wanted from NARA!  yay!

Widow's Application

Below is a Widow's Pension application for Mary and her three children.  It looks like she made this application with the help of B.E. Badger of Concord NH.

Widow's Pension listing all three children
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

No 99.380; New Hampshire; Mary J. Scott
Widow of Harvey Scott; Private, Company E, 10th Regiment NH Volunteers
Concord (NH) Agency; Rate per month -- $8 starting 31 January 1865
Additional sum of $2 per Month for each of the following children until arriving at the age of 16 years, commencing July 25 1866 wiz:
Marshall W., 10 October 1872
Adella G., 3 July 1876
Lilla E. 12 March 1878
Certificate dated 12 September 1867; Sent to B.E. Badger, Concord NH
Act 14th July 1862
Book C, Volume 9, Page 289

Claim for Widow's Pension, with Minor Children

Here is another application with more detail.  The quality of the image is not very good, but it is still readable.

Another Pension application
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

Concord
War of 1861, claim 99.380
Brief in the case of Mary J. Scott, Widow of Harvey Scott, Private, Co E, 10th NH Volunteers
Post office address Salisbury NH
Proofs Exhibited
Service -- Adjt. Genl (Adjutant General) Reports Harvey Scott musterd into Service September 14, 1862.  and died in US Hospital Jany 30, 1865, of Phthisis.
Death -- Surg. Genl. Reports Harvey Scott as having died Jany 30th 1865 at Hampton Genl. Hospital, Fort Monroe, VA, of Phthisis.  Lient. Tucker certifies that Harvey Scott died of Consumption got by exposure in the US Service and in the line of his duty.
Marriage -- Records shows that Harvey Scott and Mary Jane Bacon were married Jany 2, 1855
Names and dates of birth of children

• Marshall W. Scott, born Oct 11th 1856, who will be 16 years old Oct. 10th, 1872

• Adella G., born Feby 4th, 1860, who will be 16 years old Feby 5th, 1876

• Lilla C, born March 13th 1862, who will be 16 years old March 12th 1878

Proof of ages -- Affidavit of Persons present
Loyalty -- Shown
Agent and his PO address -- B.E. Badger, Concord, NH
Issue certificate for Eight dollars per month, commencing January 31st, 1865, and two dollars per month additional for each of the above-named children, commencing July 25, 1866
Signed C.M. Tompkins, Examiner; Passed September 2nd, 1867
Approved S.F.S.; I.B.M

My thoughts about this document:  It looks well preserved, but I'm looking at photos of scans of photos -- you get the idea.  The writer who filled this document out has wonderful handwriting, and it looks like Spencerian penmanship.  You can get the similar books and improve your own handwriting!

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In the proof of death, we find the connection between Phthisis and consumption, another term for pulmonary tuberculosis.  Also we notice that this disease is spelled differently.  We also find written down how he contracted this, and that it was in the line of duty.

We find a secondary proof of marriage date.  It is secondary, in that it isn't the original marriage document, but the writer looked at and obtained the date from that primary source.

We have the exact dates of birth for each of the children.  The third child I've always seen spelled as Silla.  This may have been an error in deciphering Spencerian handwriting, but it is Lilla.

We find that Harvey Scott was a loyal soldier.

And, finally, we find the name B.E. Badger again.  He seems to have acted as Mary Jane's liason, helping her with the government forms, endless forms.  Did he act free of charge?  Or did he charge a commission to help families out?  Perhaps this is a subject for another search, when I run out of ideas.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

Harvey Scott Part 8 Death and Burial

• 30 January 1865 Harvey Scott Death 
• Phthisis
• Burial
• Cemetery
• Historical Insights -- Medicine during the Civil War

This is only three months before the end of the Civil War.

January 1865

Harvey Scott January 1865 Death Register

This is the handwritten register which includes Harvey Scott's death.  He was a Private of Company E, 10th NH Infantry, died 30 January 1865.  He died at G.H. Ft. Monroe, Virginia.  He died of Phthisis.  I've never heard of this, I'll get back to it.  Comments says E. McClellan AF?A.

Phthisis

from Medicine Civil War -- Nurses

Phthisis is a progressively wasting or consumptive condition; especially :  pulmonary tuberculosis, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.  He died of tuberculosis. If you look at the register, you'll see several men died the same day.  

Civil War Diseases: Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis killed about 14,000 soldiers during the war. There was no known cure for it during the war. Even today there is no real cure, it can be treated but never cured. Once you get this disease you get it for life. -- Civil War Academy

From Pinterest

Harvey Scott 1865 Veterans' Gravesites
from Ancestry.com

This is an index from National Cemetery Administration's US Veterans' Gravesites list.  Harvey Scott was in the US Army, died and was buried the same day, 30 Jan 1865.  He is buried at Hampton National Cemetery, Cemetery Road at Marshall Avenue, Hampton VA.  Section E, Site 944.



This is the entrance to the Cemetery

Harvey Scott Cemetery Entrance
Find A Grave Memorial# 118519019

This is a photo of the gravestone.  USA.  Harvey Scott.  N.H.  Pretty worn down.

Harvey Scott gravestone
Find A Grave Memorial# 118519019

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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below information from Ancestry.com's 

Historical Insights: Medicine during the American Civil War

Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesHarvey Scott

HISTORICAL INSIGHTSMedicine during the American Civil War

Medicine during the American Civil War

Ambulance wagon trains lined up near battlefields in
preparation for the wounded soldiers who would
inevitably require their assistance. 1863, City Point, Virginia. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

During the American Civil War, the sheer volume of wounded soldiers forced doctors and nurses to develop life-saving medical techniques.

The vast majority of deaths during the American Civil War were not on the battlefield; they were caused by disease. In 1861 germ theory did not exist, the root of infection remained a mystery, and medical training was crude. Little advancements had been made in the field since the American Revolution; some physicians still championed medieval methods of bloodletting, purging, and blistering to rebalance the body’s humors. However, development in weaponry, namely faster, more accurate rifles and shells killed hundreds of thousands and left many more badly wounded. Thus the war forced doctors and nurses to rethink medical treatments, as tens of thousands of soldiers flooded the ill-equipped field hospitals. The sheer volume of injured men prompted rapid amputations. By 1865, a surgeon could remove a limb in six minutes flat. Anesthetics were common—chloroform and ether were given to patients, along with morphine for the pain. Ambulance service also was born during the Civil War. The fallen were gathered from the field, their wounds wrapped up, and they were shuttled to battle-side hospitals. But for many, these advancements in techniques and sanitation came too little too late—upwards of 500,000 Americans died from disease and infection before the war’s end.

Media Gallery

 

Army doctors were unprepared for the scale and type of injuries that flooded the field hospitals. At the time of the Civil War, there was little understanding of sanitation—infections were common and often required the amputation of limbs. 1863, USA. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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Many hospitals were at capacity because of the immense number of wounded soldiers. Makeshift infirmaries were set up in tents in all major cities, including the nation’s capital at Washington, D.C. May 1864, Washington, D.C.. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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For amputees the recovery process was long and difficult. Many had to relearn to walk, while some remained wheelchair-bound. 1865, Washington, D.C.. Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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In hospitals, disease spread quickly. With little knowledge of hygiene, doctors and nurses put their lives at risk to treat the flood of incoming wounded soldiers. About 1862, USA. Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images