Nathaniel Low Jr.
Nathaniel Low, Jr., was born on August 29, 1838, in Dover, New Hampshire, to Nathaniel to Mary Low. His father was a physician who owned $38,500 of real estate and $17,600 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, until the 1850s, when they returned to Dover. By 1860, Low was working as a merchant, and he owned $2,500 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property. He became a local postmaster in 1861.
 
He resigned a year later in order to join the Union army. He received a commission as a captain in Company K of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry on September 4, 1862. He resigned a month later, but he was eventually recommissioned as captain. He became a quartermaster sergeant on June 16, 1864, and he mustered out on February 2, 1866.
 
Low married Jennie Niles during the war, and they had at least two children: Lillie, born around 1869; and Etta, born around 1870. They settled in Memphis, Tennessee, after the war, and Low worked as a merchant and cotton broker there. They returned to New Hampshire in the 1870s. He applied for a federal pension in February 1890, but he died before he received it. He passed away of a “congestive chill” in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on May 1, 1890.
1869
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(1869)Low, Nathaniel Jr.1838-08-291890-05-01
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Sergeant
  • Rank out: Captain
  • Rank highest: Captain
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 9

  • (6119) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 1 June 1863
  • (6120) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 2 June 1863
  • (6121) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 5 June 1863
  • (6122) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 7 June 1863
  • (6123) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 9 June 1863
  • (6124) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 3 July 1863
  • (6125) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 30 September 1864
  • (6126) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Low Jr. to Jennie Niles, 1 October 1864
  • (6134) [recipient] ~ Jennie Niles to Nathaniel Low Jr., 12 October 1864

People - Records: 1

  • (1870) Niles, Jennie is the [wife of] (1869) Low, Nathaniel Jr.

Places - Records: 2

  • (1490) [birth] ~ Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire
  • (1491) [death] ~ New Hampton, Belknap County, New Hampshire

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (575) [officer] ~ 11th New Hampshire Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; New Hampshire Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, available from Ancestry.com; Leander W. Cogswell, A History of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1866 (Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1891).