Bio: Jonathan W. Bartlett : Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman rickman@worldpath.net
Date: March 10, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893



JONATHAN W. BARTLETT

Jonathan W. Bartlett was born in Pittsfield in 1842, son of Josiah and
Hannah (Clark) Bartlett. He enlisted September 3, 1864, in Company C,
Eighteenth New Hampshire volunteers, served with his regiment until the
close of the war, and was discharged June 10, 1865. He is now living
at Woodland, Ind.

The small boys of Pittsfield were as patriotic as the men; some of them ran
away from home to enlist, and their parents would have to go for them to get
them back. Many a mother lay awake nights, worrying for fear her darling boy
would leave home to go in the army. There are scores of middle-aged men who
will tell how they tried to plan some way to pass muster as eighteen years
of age. One man relates how he returned from his work and found his little
son some eight years old sitting on the doorstep, looking very disconsolate.
" What is the matter?" inquired the father.

" I was thinking," said the lad, " how ashamed I shall feel when I grow to
be a man. I shall have to tell my little boy that my father did not go in
the army." A few months later his father did enlist, and served until the
close of the war.