Eldad Alexander Rhodes

A student at the St. Johnsbury Academy, VT, he enlisted at age 20 in Company B, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 4 December 1861. He was appointed Sergeant in January 1862. He was wounded in action on 1 July 1862 at Malvern Hill, VA.

He was wounded through the lung in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was discharged due to his wound on 3 February 1862 at Frederick, MD.

He moved to Guildhall, NH in 1876 and represented the town in the State House 1878 - 80. He was appointed Adjutant of GAR Col. E.E. Cross Post, No. 16, Lancaster, NH when it was re-chartered in 1878. He was in Sullivan County, NH at the 1890 US Census, and living in Claremont, NH by 1893.

Basic information from Child1. Details from a brief bio in Joint Rules, Rules and Orders of the Senate and House of Representatives (State of Vermont, 1878), pg. 39, and family genealogists. His brother Freedom M. Rhodes was a Captain in the 14th New Hampshire Infantry. His wife was Abigail (Abbie) Eunice Edson [photo].

See more about Eldad after Antietam in a post by Mike Pride on his Our War blog.

01/16/1841; Northumberland, NH

06/15/1913; Claremont, NH; burial in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Claremont, NH