Image is an 1890’s copy of an earlier photograph of Horace A. Lamprey. He wears a dark civilian coat, white shirt and dark bowtie. Bottom of the mount has a printed caption that reads “HORACE A. LAMPREY CO. B.”

Image has good contrast and clarity. Paper and mount are excellent.

Reverse has photographer’s imprint for M. S. LAMPREY…PENACOOK, N.H.

A native of Groton, N.H., Horace Lamprey was an 18-year-old apprentice harness-maker in Concord when the war began. He was the first of five sons of Ephraim and Bridget Lamprey to join New Hampshire infantry regiments during the war.

Horace enlisted in the 2nd New Hampshire on May 27, 1861. He was a private in Co. B., known as the Goodwin Rifles. The 2nd fought in the first battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861 and lost heavily.

The following year Lamprey and the 2^nd found themselves with McClellan’s Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula. During the battle of Oak Grove on June 25, 1862 the Colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire sent his men to extend both ends of the line of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, which was already heavily engaged. Under fire, the men advanced “through the fallen timber and into a swamp covered with a dense growth of bushes.” Armed with Sharp’s Rifles, Co. B., including Private Lamprey, pushed even farther forward.

During the fighting, Lamprey was badly wounded in the head and suffered “a severe fracture.” The wounded Lamprey was carried to the ST. MARK, a clipper ship that the U.S. Sanitary Commission had just fitted out to care for hundreds of sick and wounded soldiers. Lamprey died aboard the ship on June 26, one day shy of his 20th birthday.

He is buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.  [ad]

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