Camp Dutton Traditional Cache
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A small cache in a historical locale.
This is where the following happened.
The Litchfield County Regiment, designated the Nineteenth Infantry, was projected in mass convention at Litchfield, July 22, 1862 in response to the appeal of Governor Buckingham, which followed President Lincoln's call July 1st) for 300,000 volunteers for three years.
August 24th, there had reported, at "Camp Dutton," Litchfield, nine companies, containing 815 men, and Major Elisha S. Kellogg of the First Artillery, who had been commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, began the task of molding the mass into an efficient military organization, and of inspiring in each member thereof "a knightly courage like his own."
Colonel L.W. Wessells attended to the details of organization, and on August 31st formed the tenth company (K) by sending to it such men as the commandants of the other nine might designate.
September 10th. Mrs. William Curtis Noyes presented a beautiful stand of colors to the regiment. On the 11th it was formally mustered into the service of the United States, and on the 15th it proceeded by rail to Washington, D.C., and to Alexandria, Va. where it was equipped with "A" tents and Enfield rifles. It was assigned to duty under General J.P. Slough, "military governor of Alexandria," encamping just outside the city, and relieved the Thirty-third Massachusetts in the disagreeable task of patrolling the city. This service soon began to tell on the health of the regiment. Colonel Wessells himself became seriously ill, as well as other officers and a large number of enlisted men; sixteen deaths occurring from disease in a single month.
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