he was a colonel in the pennsylvania militia. i don't know if he ever did any in the pennsylvania militia. this tells us bachelder was a good person at making connections with people who were powerful. he was very good at that. he will stay in reading until 1853. i don't know why he leaves. he goes back to capture. toworks -- -- the ghost back -- he goes back to new hampshire. he is an artist, a very good artist. he dabbled a bit in photography. toward the late 1850's, what he was hoping to do was write the definitive history of the battle of bunker hill. and he was going to illustrate it. the problem he encountered was that that a was extremely poorly documented. he really wasn't going to be able to write the tech of -- type of history he wanted but the war came along. bachelder apparently, and i don't know what type of illness he might have had, but he said at one point he physically was not in the condition he needed to be to serve in the army. he does not go into the army. he is very committed to the union cause. but he's ver