The folder contains Dakin's State of New Hampshire Volunteers enlistment documents signed by Allen Tenny and New Hampshire Governor Joseph A. Gilmore, discharge by reason of promotion papers, and muster-in roll for Dakin as 1st Lieutenant of the N.H. Light Artillery, Battery "A", signed by Captain F.B. Doten. Documents date October 9, 1864 through December 3, 1864.