A total of 33,937 New Hampshire men served in the Union army. This equals 10.4% of the 1860 state population of 326,073. Of that number, 14.4% died, or 4882. What is not reflected in these numbers are the hundred of thousands of veterans maimed and handicapped, many dying of their wounds years later. (I copied this from a Civil War website).
I myself am from the South, but the Times calling New Hampshire racist turns my stomach.