Major Edward Everett Sturtevant (1826 - 1862)
Born at Keene (NH); died at Fredericksburg (VA). Newspaperman, police officer and soldier. The portrait, by artist Ansel Clough, was presented to the State by the citizens of Concord, 1869.

Sturtevant was born at Keene and apprenticed to a Keene printer. Later he moved to Concord, where he worked for the New Hampshire Courier and then for the Statesman.

He is also said to have been "upon the columns" in the Washington Union and Richmond Dispatch newspapers.

In 1855 Sturtevant was appointed to the Concord (NH) police force, and he held this position until war was declared. Then Sturtevant was made a recruiting officer for President Lincoln's call for troops. Initial enlistments were for ninety days, and within a few days Sturtevant "enlisted two hundred and twenty-six men and was commissioned Captain of Company I in the First regiment.." [Rev. Stephen G. Abbott, The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers (Keene, 1890).]

Within a short time Lincoln's administration realized that ninety-day enlistments were not going to be enough. Men already under arms were asked to re-enlist for three-year terms. New military units were created, and Sturtevant was transferred to the New Hampshire Fifth Regiment of Volunteers. Reverend Abbott writes:

Location: First Floor, State House