Across the road from my house, in the Davis Hill Cemetery, lies the fallen, crumbling gravestone of Nancy Kennard. She and her husband owned the land where I live now. When the census marshal came through in 1860, he found them here with their teenaged son, Frank.
Frank enlisted in the Union army with several other South Conway men and boys in the summer of 1862. He was short and stocky — just over five foot four, but fairly solid at 140 pounds. His regiment left Concord for the front on August 25, reaching Washington two days later. After a week amid the fleshpots of the national capital, Frank and his neighbors marched off with the Army of the Potomac as it chased the Confederate Army through Maryland. On Sept. 17 they participated in the battle of South Mountain, and three days after that came the bloody fight at Antietam.
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