Biography of Isaiah Swain :Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Jody Goodson  kestrell@prodigy.net
Date: May 14, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893


Page 144

ISAIAH   SWAIN,
a son of Judith Sargent, was born in Pittsfield and always worked on a farm
until he enlisted in Company G, Fifteenth New Hampshire volunteers. He served
out his enlistment and was a good soldier. While on the way home he was taken
sick and left at Cairo, Ill., and was probably carried to Mound City and died
there.  Swain was a man of very small stature, too small in fact for a soldier.
By putting false soles inside of his stockings and combing his hair to stand
up, he managed to pass muster. One day before being mustered the regiment was
inspected. As Swain stood at the foot of his company he scraped with his feet
a pile of dirt, on which he stood; as the colonel looked him over he said, --
"I guess you will do, for what you lack in height you make up in sand."