Editing Dartmouth, Massachusetts (section)

==== 1864 ====
In April 1864, the people of Dartmouth voted to raise money to fill the quota of men for the service. At the [[Battle of Spotsylvania Court House]], Bradford Little from Dartmouth was wounded, and Edwin C. Tripp from Dartmouth died at the [[Battle of Cold Harbor]]. Three Dartmouth men were wounded at the [[Siege of Petersburg]]. Thos. C Lapham wrote to his uncle on Chase Road in Dartmouth from General Hospital Number One in [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]] on January 20, 1864. He described the cold weather in what he called <nowiki>''Old''</nowiki> Dartmouth, as well as writing about his maladies while serving in the South, and morale among the troops, before sending his regards to his family in Dartmouth. Nahum Nickelson was another resident of Dartmouth who served in the Civil War. He enlisted in the [[35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]] as a drummer in March 1864. He trained for five weeks in Boston Harbor before taking a transport ship to [[Alexandria, Virginia]], where he joined the [[Battle of the Wilderness]] and the battles in Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. He was mustered out in July 1865. Once returning to Dartmouth, he built a home and would eventually be rewarded the Boston Cane, which was awarded to the oldest living resident in Dartmouth, and would be buried in the Padanaram cemetery, where he used to be a caretaker. Private Humphrey R. Davis (a seaman from Dartmouth) died in May 1864 as a [[prisoner of war]] in [[Andersonville Prison]]. During the [[1864 United States presidential election]], 384 people in Dartmouth voted to reelect [[Abraham Lincoln]].<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=60–63, 85 |language=EN}}</ref>