This ID tag is a stamped brass disc with a Union shield at center of the obverse. The shield is nicely done and has excellent details with raised lettering that reads “UNION” on a riband across the center. Crisp raised lettering around the edge reads “AGAINST REBELLION 1861.”

The reverse is stamped “FRED SPOLLETT” around the top edge with “1ST N.H. ART.”

Tag is in exceptionally clean and crisp condition.

Frederick Spollett was born August 30, 1822 in Derry, New Hampshire. By the time of his enlistment he was a 38 year old married man with a daughter. Spollett enlisted as a Private in the 1st New Hampshire Light Artillery at Derry on September 17, 1861 and was mustered in on the 26th. At the time of his enlistment he is described as being 6 feet tall with a florid complexion, hazel eyes and black hair.

During its service the Battery was attached to the 1st and 3rd Corps and later the Artillery Reserve of the Army of the Potomac. The battery saw action at 2nd Bull Run and near Miller’s cornfield at Antietam. They were also engaged at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Po River, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. The battery ended its service as Battery M, 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery but they remained an independent organization.

Spollett was mustered out due to expiration of his term of service on September 25, 1864. After his service he returned to New Hampshire and lived in Hampstead where he died February 22, 1911.

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