Editing Dartmouth, Massachusetts (section)

==== 1862 ====
According to the [[New Bedford Republican Standard]], on September 4, 1862, Dartmouth fulfilled its part in the quota sent from [[Washington, D.C.]] Which called for 20 companies, three full regiments, and four regiments of militia to be brought from Massachusetts. The fighting force was meant to be made up of the strongest companies in the state. Dartmouth had eight men in the 18th Regiment, twelve men in the 38th Regiment, and one in both the 33rd and 40th.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Glennon |first=Beverly |title=Three Hundred and Fifty-Five Men for the Union |publisher=Command Print Solutions |date=October 2004 |location=New Bedford, MA |pages=15–37 |language=EN}}</ref>

In 1862, the town of Dartmouth voted to pay volunteers for the war. [[William Francis Bartlett]] stopped in Dartmouth after being wounded at the [[Siege of Yorktown (1862)|Siege of Yorktown]]. Several Dartmouth soldiers were at the [[Second Battle of Bull Run]]. George Lawton, Leander Collins, Robert H. Dunham, Frederick Smith, Joseph Head, Abraham R. Cowen, and John Smith were all present at the battle. They served in the 8th Battery MVM, the 16th, and 18th Regiment MVI, and the light artillery. In the New Bedford Republican Standards August 18, 182 issue it was reported that a Dartmouth town meeting voted to pay a $200  bounty to nine-month volunteers. In the month following the [[Battle of Antietam]], many Dartmouth men joined the 3rd regiment of infantry in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. They completed training at [[Camp Joe Hooker]] in [[Lakeville, Massachusetts|Lakeville]] before leaving for Boston on October 22, 1862. They then embarked on the Merrimac and Mississippi for [[New Bern, North Carolina]]. Dartmouth then proceeded to fulfil its second quota, sending 20 men to Company F, and three to company G. At the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]], Private Joseph Head, a machinist, Frederick Smith, a seaman, and Frederick H. Russell—all from Dartmouth—were injured. Isaac S. Barker, a carpenter, was killed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Glennon |first=Beverly |title=Three Hundred and Fifty-Five Men for the Union |date=October 2004 |publisher=Command Print Solutions |location=New Bedford, MA |pages=40–47 |language=EN}}</ref>