Seventeenth Men in the Second Regiment XXXIV. Third District Men in the Fifteenth Regiment XXXV. Third District Men in the Sixteenth Regiment HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. CHAPTER I. NEW HAMPSHIRE'S RECORD. Why turn we to our mountain homes, 'Tis here that Freedom's altars burn And Freedom's sons are kneeling. Farmer's Museum, Walpole. (Colonial.) From earliest colonial days, New Hampshire has ever maintained an enviable position in the front rank of civilization, patriotism, true manhood, and educational progress. "God sifted a whole nation," said Stoughton, "that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness." 66 The militia, the town, the school, and the church are the corner-stones of the temple of liberty," writes Sanborn, and here from the beginning, they were all to be found, actively organized in a form nowhere else so complete, nowhere else so effective for the purposes they were instituted to maintain. New Hampshire was the first royal government in New England, and its people, so long as justice was meted out to them, were faithful subjects to their sovereign Lord and King; but immediately upon the establishment of this government, and as a safeguard against future tyranny or oppression, the assembly proceeded to assert its rights in its first code of laws to the effect that, "No act, imposition, law, or ordinance shall be valid, unless made by the assembly and approved by the people.” "Thus, at the earliest |