David Reuben Roys

From Claremont, he enlisted at age 18 in Company G, 5th New Hampshire Infantry. He was a drummer and bugler.

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

He reenlisted on 1 January 1864. He was detailed as Brigade bugler 1 May - 27 September 1864, and for periods thereafter. He was a "mounted orderly" at Appomattox, and mustered out on 28 June 1865.

He returned to Claremont, and was a longtime employee of the Sullivan Machinery Company, being a mechanic and "expert in mining machinery". He also lived in the "Trans-Mississippi regions", California (1871-72), and Vermont. He was employed by American Diamond Rock Boring Company, NYC, from 1880 to 1893. He was living in West Rutland, VT in 1893. He was a member of the New Hampshire House 1899-1903, and of the state Senate 1907-08. He was elected Department Commander of the GAR in April 1914. He was a member of the Board of the New Hampshire Soldier's Home from 21 May 1919 to his death.

Basic information from Child1. Further details from bio sketches in the The Granite Monthly (Vol. 39, 1907; Vol. 40, 1908), and in H.B. Brown's Biographical Sketches of the Governor... and New Hampshire Legislature (1899). His picture here from one posted by Mike Pride on his blog Our War.

03/03/1843; Claremont, NH

03/25/1924; Claremont, NH