For nearly half a century after the War of 1812, peace brooded over the green hills and fertile valleys of Vermont. Youths had grown to manhood and old age; the gray-haired grandsire, as he trotted the children upon his knee, rehearsed to them the tales they loved best to hear -- tales of the deeds of the brave McDonough, and "Old Ethan." Prosperity asserted itself in the hum of machinery, telling of the increase of manufacturing interests in the silver threads that were branching in all directions, proclaiming the route of the "iron horse" as it conveyed to prosperous marts the harvest surplus. The sun arose each morn upon a prosperous, happy, contented people; but, alas! as its rays gilded the Green Mountain summits on the morning of April 21st (sic), 1861, it awakened no answering smile in the hearts of the people. The first shot upon Sumpter (sic) had frightened away the angel Peace, and grim War asserted his rights. The hearts of the Green Mountain Boys were again touched with the old fire of martial ardor; the dreams of peace were forgotten; naught was remembered but their insulted flag -- the flag purchased with the blood of their fathers -- to which they owed their homes and the plenty which surrounded them.

Side by side with her sister states, Vermont endured the weary marches and bore the brunt of battles, and side by side their sons sleep the long sleep, -- some 'neath the sun-kissed plains of the willful South, and some rocked in the bosom of the broad Atlantic, "held in the hollow of His hand." Others have been borne to rest among their kindred, by sympathizing friends, who, year by year, to muffle drum-beat, wend their way to their consecrated tombs to deck their graves with beautiful spring flowers -- a national tribute to the memory of the gallant dead, 5,128 of whom Vermont sacrificed as her share toward the preservation of the Nation's unity, freed from the curse of slavery, so long a foul blot upon her fair fame. Vermont promptly filled every quota, and every dollar needed was furnished with alacrity. Of her treasure, $9,087,352.40 were expended in furnishing the 34,238 loyal sons and representatives who went out to fight the battles of their country, 5,022 of whom were discharged from service with shattered constitutions, or maimed in body, to renew the peaceful avocations of life as circumstances would permit. The following complete roster of men who went from Caledonia and Essex counties as commissioned officers, and of those, who enlisting in the ranks were subsequently promoted to a commission, is complied from the Adjutant and Inspector-General's report of 1866, and from other sources.

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Roster of Field, Staff, and Company Officers.

Ayer, Don C., Sheffield
Ayer, James M., Danville
Beattie, Alexander M., Maidstone
Bigelow, Alexander T., Ryegate
Blake, George H., Sutton
Blanchard, Enosh, Lyndon
Blanchard, John C., Peacham
Blunt, Asa P., St. Johnsbury
Bonnett, George W., St. Johnsbury
Bradbury, Frank B., Danville
Brainerd, Charles D., Danville
Bridgeman, George W., Hardwick
Brown, George F., Lyndon
Brown, Moses F., St. Johnsbury
Bullard, Gates P., St. Johnsbury
Carlton, Charles H., Burke
Carpenter, Joseph W. D., St. Johnsbury
Chamberlin, George E., St. Johnsbury
Chase, Henry R., Guilford
Chase, Oren, G., St. Johnsbury
Cheney, Nathan C., Lunenburgh
Clark, Joseph H., Sheffield
Cook, John F., Hardwick
Cummings, Ephraim C., St. Johnsbury
Cummings, William G., Barnet
Currier, William H., Brighton
Davidson, Anthony W., Hardwick
Dewey, Henry H., Barnet
Duhigg, Dennis, Lyndon
Elkins, Stephen O., Wheelock
Fisher, Abial W., Danville
Fisher, Lewis W., Danville
Ford, George O., Granby
Foster, George P., Walden
French, George F., Lunenburgh
Frost, Carlton P., St. Johnsbury
Frost, Edwin B., St. Johnsbury
Fuller, Benjamin H., Barnet
George, David B., Hardwick
Gerry, Lucius S., Hardwick
Gray, John, Hardwick
Gray, Sanford G., Wheelock
Griswold, Edward F., St. Johnsbury
Grout, Josiah Jr., Kirby
Hall, Austin H., Waterford
Hall, Joseph S., Burke
Hammond, Charles E., Lyndon
Harrington, Ephraim W., Kirby
Hartshorn, Eldin J., Lunenburgh
Harvey, George N., Barnet
Hatch, Marshall T., Hardwick
Haviland, Danford C., St. Johnsbury
Henderson, William J., Ryegate
Hill, George W., Lunenburgh
Hovey, Edwin L., Waterford
Howard, Adoniram J., Brighton
Hubbard, William H., Lyndon
Hutchinson, John H., St. Johnsbury
Ide, Horace K., Barnet
Jones, Alvin, Peacham
Kennedy, Ronald A., Concord
Laird, Robert W., Danville
Lee, Edward P., Waterford
Lee, Oscar R., Waterford
Lyman, Moses Jr., Barnet
Mattocks, Edward, Lyndon
May, Dennis E., St. Johnsbury
McMillan, Putnam D., Danville
McGaffey, Stephen R., Lyndon
Miller, Henry C., Ryegate
Moore, Josiah H., Barnet
Morrill, Edwin J., St. Johnsbury
Morrill, Hollis D., St. Johnsbury
Morrill, Julius A., St. Johnsbury
Nason, Horace E., Brighton
Nelson, Thomas, Ryegate
Newell, Henry C., St. Johnsbury
Newell, Oliver W., Burke
Noyes, Robert P., Brighton
Porter, Perry Jr., Sutton
Powers, Isaac L., Waterford
Preston, Addison W., Danville
Redington, Edward D., St. Johnsbury
Ripley, John A., St. Johnsbury
Rogers, John B., Walden
Ross, Charles, Waterford
Sargent, Andrew J., Barnet
Smith, James W., Newark
Spaulding, Charles F., St. Johnsbury
Stephens, Xerxes C., Barnet
Stone, Silas H., Danville
Tenney, Charles H., Hardwick
Thompson, James S., Danville
Thompson, John R., St. Johnsbury
Trussell, Jacob, Peacham
Walbridge, Dustan S., St. Johnsbury
Whitcher, John, Ryegate
Woodbury, Charles H., Concord
Woodbury, Eri D., St. Johnsbury
Woodward, George B., St. Johnsbury

Of the 5,022 men discharged, 317 commissioned officers resigned; sixty-one commissioned officers and 3, 865 enlisted men were discharged for disability; forty-four commissioned officers and 596 enlisted men for wounds received in action; eleven enlisted men were paroled prisons; and twenty-eight commissioned officers and one hundred enlisted men were dishonorably discharged. Among the whole number of troops it is to be expected that some were not true; and the records show that 2, 219 men (mostly if not all of whom were substitutes) deserted.

In Conclusion

It may be well to state that the War Department accredited to this state 35, 242 men; being one thousand and four more than are show by the state records, and gives the state credit over the aggregate quota under all calls, of fifteen hundred and thirteen men. "This discrepancy may be, and probably is to be accounted for, " says Adjutant-General P. T. Washburn, "by enlistments in organizations of other states, to the credit of this state, which appear upon muster-rolls of these organizations and were not reported to the state.”

Source: Hamilton Child's Business Gazetteer, 1880s

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Towns in Caledonia County which had men credited to them during the Civil War:
Barnet	Burke	Danville	Groton	Hardwick
Kirby	Lyndon	Newark	Peacham	Ryegate
Sheffield	St. Johnsbury	Sutton	Walden	Waterford
Wheelock

Towns in Essex County which had men credited to them during the Civil War:
Bloomfield	Brighton	Brunswick	Canaan	Concord
East Haven	Granby	Guildhall	Lemington	Lunenburgh
Maidstone	Victory