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Cummings Letters Transcriptions · MSA 28 1 Charles Cummings Letters Transcriptions · MSA 28 1 Table of Contents List of Known Personalities ................................................................................................3 East Capital Hill October 28th, 1862......................................................................................................4 October 29th, 1862......................................................................................................6 Camp Seward - November 2nd, 1862 ...................................................................................7 Camp Vermont November 8th, 1862....................................................................................................9 November 16th, 1862..................................................................................................12 November 22nd, 1862.................................................................................................14 November 28th, 1862..................................................................................................16 December 4th, 1862....................................................................................................18 December 10th, 1862..................................................................................................21 Fairfax Courthouse December 14th, 1862..................................................................................................23 December 16th, 1862..................................................................................................26 December 22nd, 1862 .................................................................................................28 December 29th, 1862..................................................................................................29 January 2nd, 1863 .......................................................................................................32 January 11th, 1863......................................................................................................34 January 18th, 1863......................................................................................................36 Fairfax Station – January 29th, 1863 ....................................................................................38 Fairfax Courthouse – February 4th, 1863 ............................................................................41 Fairfax Station .....................................................................................................................42 February 27, 1863 ......................................................................................................45 March 9th, 1863..........................................................................................................47 March 16th, 1863........................................................................................................49 March 17th, 1863........................................................................................................51 March 21st, 1863(1)....................................................................................................52 March 21st, 1863 (2)...................................................................................................53 March 28th, 1863........................................................................................................55 March 31st, 1863 ........................................................................................................56 Union Mills April 4th, 1863............................................................................................................59 April 12th, 1863..........................................................................................................61 April 13th, 1863..........................................................................................................62 April 19th, 1863..........................................................................................................64 Washington, DC – April 27th, 1863......................................................................................66 Union Mills April 29th, 1863..........................................................................................................67 May 3rd, 1863.............................................................................................................68 May 11th, 1863 ...........................................................................................................70 May 18th, 1863 ...........................................................................................................72 May 21st, 1863 ...........................................................................................................73 May 26th, 1863 ...........................................................................................................75 From the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont. Transcribed by Eric Ward, 1999. Copied for reference purposes. Permission to publish must be obtained from the VHS. Charles Cummings Letters Transcriptions · MSA 28 2 Catlett’s Station June 1st, 1863 .............................................................................................................76 June 6th, 1863 .............................................................................................................78 June 15th, 1863 ...........................................................................................................81 Union Mills June 25th, 1863 ...........................................................................................................84 Near Poolesville, Maryland – June 28th, 1863.....................................................................85 Gettysburg, PA – July 6, 1863 .............................................................................................86 From the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont. Transcribed by Eric Ward, 1999. Copied for reference purposes. Permission to publish must be obtained from the VHS. Charles Cummings Letters Transcriptions · MSA 28 3 List of Known Personalities. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings, Executive Officer (second in command) of the 16th Vermont Infantry Regiment and author of these letters. Mrs. Elizabeth Cummings, Wife of Charles Cummings and receiver of letters. Colonel Asa and Mary Blunt, the Commander of the 12th Vermont Infantry and his wife would wintered with the regiment from November 1862 to March 1863. Lieutenant Jabez D. Bridgman, Adjutant (Regimental Personnel Officer) of the 16th Vermont from October 1862 to January 1862 from Rockingham, Vermont. Major General Silas Casey, Charles Cumming’s first divisional commander. Lieutenant William Danforth, The Second of Lieutenant of K Company 16th and a civil Engineer by trade. General Davis, Then Quartermaster General of Vermont. Colonel D’Utassy, Commander of the 39th New York Infantry and brigade commander in Casey’s Division. Lieutenant Colonel Roswell and Mrs. Mary Farnham Second in command of the 12th Vermont and his wife who wintered with him from December 1862 to April 1863. F.F.V. – First Families of Virginia. Major Halsey, Second Brigade’s Paymaster. Major General Samuel P. Heintziman, Commander of the Defenses of Washington. Lieutenant James Henry, Quartermaster of the 16th Vermont from Royalton, Vermont. Frederick Holbrook, Then governor of Vermont Colonel and Mrs. William Nichols, Commander of the 14th Vermont Infantry Regiment, and his wife who wintered with him in Virginia. Major General Fitz John Porter, Commander of the 5th corps of the Army of the Potomac in the spring of 1862. He was court martialed and cashiered for not following order and assisting General Pope in the Second Battle of Bull Run. Colonel Francis V. Randall, Commander of the 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment. Major William Rounds, Third in command of the 16th Vermont Infantry from Chester, Vermont. Major General Franz Sigel, Then Commander of the Army of the Potomac’s 11th Corps. Commissary Sergeant Charles Simonds, Chief Non-commissioned officer in the regimental commissary (rations) department and later promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company I, 16th Vermont. He resigned on May 4th, 1863. Major General Henry Slocum, Commander of the Army of the Potomac’s 12th Corps. Brigadier General George J. Stannard, Second commander of the Second Vermont Brigade. Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, First commander of the Second Vermont Brigade. General Peter T. Washburn, Then Adjutant General of Vermont. Adjutant and Mrs. Vaughan, Adjutant of the 12th Vermont and his wife who wintered with him, Mrs. Blunt, and Mrs. Farnham in Virginia Colonel Wheelock Veazey, Lieutenant Colonel Cumming’s Regimental Commander. Alonzo Webster, Chaplain of the 16th Vermont Infantry Regiment. Private Abner G. White, Company B, 16th Vermont. Colonel Percy Wyndham, A professional British Officer and Cavalry Brigade Commander of Casey’s Division located at Fairfax Courthouse in the spring of 1863. From the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont. Transcribed by Eric Ward, 1999. Copied for reference purposes. Permission to publish must be obtained from the VHS. Charles Cummings Letters Transcriptions · MSA 28 4 No. 1 East Capital Hill Washington, DC Oct 28th, 62 Dear Wife, Here we are on a little plateau a few feet elevated about an extension but slightly broken plain of table land with a view of miles in every direction. We are in plain sight of the
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