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The daily diary entries end on May 27th, 1863, with Nye’s recount of a bloody skirmish with enemy in which two Colonel’s were mortally wounded and, as he writes, “our men were all broken and scattered our loss in Killed and wounded in our brigade was between 3 + 4 hundred”


“we came to the other narow belt of the woods in front and about ½ mile from the Rebell works we had to clime a fence and were marched forward By the wright flank in double quick and in climing the fence our Regts got spread out and confused as the Rebells opened on us with grape + Canester and also volley after volleys of musketry Gen Sherman + Gen Dow were both wounded”























The rest of Nye’s story comes from outside the diary. The 15th New Hampshire Regiment was mustered out on August 13, 1863. In his regiment, 27 men had died in battle and 134 died of disease.

When he came back home to Norwich, he returned to his wife and to the painting business, and had five daughters: Alice Minnie, Anna Bell, Mae Abbie, Nellie Louise, and Grace Florence.

This is what I knew from census and family history resources. But there are more resources are Nye’s life than I ever expected, scattered around the Upper Valley...