Nice clear image of George B. Lane as Commissary Sergeant. He is posed seated by a table and wears a dark commercial sack coat with lower outer pockets, buttoned at the throat. On each sleeve are the chevrons of a Commissary Sergeant. Beneath the coat is a dark military vest opened to reveal a white shirt. He also wears matching dark trousers with a wide NCO stripe.

Image is clear with great contrast. There is some surface dirt scattered over the image surface. Just above Lane’s head are three smudges that look like ink.

Reverse has a period ink inscription that reads “GEO. B. LANE / COMS’Y SERGT / 12 N. H. V.” There is also a photographer’s imprint for LADD & CO… LACONIA, N. H.

The 12th New Hampshire was assigned to the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Potomac where it saw its first action at Fredericksburg.

The regiment suffered heavily at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863 and at Gettysburg where the regiment defended the area around the Klingle farm along the Emmitsburg Road suffering 17 killed, 68 wounded, 3 captured and 18 missing.

In December of 1863 the 12th was transferred to the 18th Corps and saw action at Williamsburg, Swift Creek, Drewry’s Bluff, Fort Stevens, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.

George Bodwell Lane was born August 5, 1841 in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He enlisted as a Private in Company F of the 12^th on September 9, 1862. Of him the regimental history says:

“Receiving a liberal education, he was at the time of his enlistment employed as insurance agent in the office of his father, and being thus peculiarly fitted by education and experience for the position of clerk, acted in that capacity and as mail agent (for the regiment) until promoted to commissary sergeant, February 4, 1864. He was commissioned second lieutenant of Company D, but not mustered.

Although never facing the foe in the ranks, the service that he rendered was quite as important, if not as hazardous; and he deserves credit for being always found ready and able to perform it quickly and well.

He married Mary J. Webber, widow of Daniel H. Webber, of Company G, November 1870, and has one child, Ada F.”

Lane was mustered out at Richmond on June 21, 1865 and after the war lived in Laconia, New Hampshire. He died there on March 11, 1919 and is buried in Union Cemetery in that city.    [ad]

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