Bio: John C. Eaton :Pittsfield, Merrimack Co, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman  rickman@worldpath.net
Date: March 15, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893


JOHN C. EATON
is a native of Pittsfield, son of John M. and Julia M. (Sargent) Eaton. He
always resided in town until he enlisted in Company C, Eighteenth New
Hampshire Volunteers, and was mustered into service September 14, 1864, and
served until the close of the war. He made a first-class soldier. He is now
at Great Falls, N. H., working for the same firm that has employed him for
nearly a quarter of a century.

A person who never witnessed it cannot understand the enthusiasm that
greeted the regiments on their way to the front. As the cars bearing the
soldiers passed through the country, men, women, and children could be seen
running across fields or pastures; the children would climb on the fence,
the boys on the topmost rail, while the elders stood around and with hats or
handkerchiefs cheered the  long train as it swept past. Then when we reached
a city and had to march across to another depot, the vast crowds on the
sidewalk would cease their busy traffic and send up cheer after cheer, and
the people at the windows above--who always reminded us of the swallows
peering from their nests in the old barn at home--would join in, and the
crowd on the high roof above would catch up the cry, and, amid the waving of
flags, hats, and handkerchiefs, the huzzas would roll down the street as
fast as we progressed. This enthusiasm was not confined to the first
regiments, but continued until the war closed.