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login or register. UNH Civil War Exhibit at Portsmouth Public
Library Thursday, January 17, 2013 DURHAM — Letters from New
Hampshire soldiers written during the Civil War and gifted to
the University of New Hampshire form the basis of an exhibition
now on loan to the Portsmouth Public Library. “Confronting the
South: New Hampshire People During the Civil War” will be on
display at the library through February. The exhibition is a
collaboration between the University Museum and UNH’s Milne
Special Collections, recipients of the correspondences. New
Hampshire’s 18 regiments lost 4,882 men during the Civil War.
The 5th New Hampshire Volunteers Regiment saw more casualties
than any other unit. And yet, in the day-to-day life of battle,
there was the ordinary. Soldiers wrote home of the beautiful
countryside; of resentments at missed promotions; of playing
cards and football, and what they had for dinner. The former
shopkeepers and farmers and teache