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Peter L. Dumont's Civil War Site Themes

Alexandria/Washington

Alexandria was the location of many of Peter's regiment's encampments, which put them close enough to Washington DC that they could travel there by train.

Peter visited the General Hospital in Washington several times where his brother-in-law had been sent for an unidentified syndrome that resulted in his eventual discharge.

Some of the soldiers went to Alexandria and Washington to visit 'mean women' and 'got something to remember them by for some time to come.'

After Peter's capture at Chancellorsville and confinement in Libby Prison, he spent the summer of 1863 at a Parole Camp near Alexandria.

In September he went to Washington to ask his legislator to recommend a furlough from Parole Camp, and saw the Capitol, War Department, Navy Yard, and Smithsonian.

In October, he was sent back to his regiment without ever receiving a furlough. Rumors that they would return to Washington did not come true.

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Date	Summary	Transcript	Event Description	Theme
1862-10-22	10-22-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, may have camp itch, Washington Hospital, Antietem glass, small pox vaccine, paired with Fragment 4	m:b:a:
1862-11-07	11-07-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, embossed shield on letterhead,cold, snow, wet, bread, beans, and water,smoky tents	d:a:
1862-11-13	11-13-1862s.htm	Pending.html	5 day 60 mi march, unburied dead and horses, Bull Run, Gainsville, McClellan, 6 pgs	f:b:o:p:a:
1862-11-27	11-27-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Thanksgiving day, crackers and salt pork, near Washington, sick, marched 100 mi, Gen Lee	f:m:o:d:a:
1862-12-19	12-19-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp on Potomac Creek, sketch of Fredericksburgh made during bombardment, Tom to General Hospital	f:m:d:u:a:i:
1862-12-23	12-23-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp on Potomac Creek, reflects on peaceful life, buried 2 more, court martial 30 pound log, peace talk	f:u:d:p:m:a:
1863-01-17	01-17-1863s.html	01-17-1863t.htm	Camp on Potomac Creek, VA. Black tongue, Zouaves,hard tack box coffins. Dated Jan. 17 1862 (wrong year)	m:z:d:a:
1863-01-25	01-25-1863s.htm	Pending.html	building roads in mud, men would not cross, Lee said would help, men deserting, political war	d:p:a:
1863-02-19	02-19-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Tom back, William Jones, Demming, Tom Gray, Sergeant school, her walking to school barefoot	u:m:g:s:p:a:i:
1863-02-22	02-22-1863s.htm	Pending.html	sketch winter scene on home page Armyofthepatomic.gif, snow, tents, wood, sickness and death, froze finger, government shoes, Deming, shoemaker Dennison, Washington Birthday	s:p:d:m:a:
1863-03-13	03-13-1863s.htm	Pending.html	armed all night, extra cartridges, Rebels, 4th Oneida, Fordis Phelps, would desert if she needs money, conscription law, March 3 1862 (wrong year)	o:d:m:r:a:
1863-03-21	03-21-1863s.htm	Pending.html	firing around, smallpox vaccine,wants her to live with his parents, not her sister Julia, Tom may be discharged,George avoided draft?	m:u:r:d:a:
1863-04-19	04-19-1863s.htm	Pending.html	order to move, 8 days rations, sick to Washington, curious move, jokes she says she will be like poor girl, ammunition explosion, Hooker broke leg	f:p:a:
1863-05-22	05-22-1863s.htm	Pending.html	traveled all over and settled at Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, suffered past weeks, hopes to come home in August, needs money	c:a:
1863-05-31	05-31-1863s.htm	Pending.html	she is alone in shanty, Ft. Corcoran, Fletch, Givens, Billy and Charley Kirkland, Camp Seward easy, 146 not 4th of July soldiers, papers not come	u:d:o:a:
1863-06-18	06-18-1863s.htm	06-18-1863t.htm	rumors of another Bull Run, description Menzo Gibbs death on battlefield, sick soldiers, her idea to telegraph, beef bone ring, paired with Fragment 3	m:p:d:b:o:a:i:
1863-06-20	06-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	put up tents, 7000 convalescents arrived, sick to barracks, rumor furlough if sickness or death, new uniform curious, pities army hot	m:d:g:z:a:
1863-06-28	06-28-1863s.htm	Pending.html	has not gotten telegraph she said sending, Fletch, hard march, wants furlough badly, 4 pictures in case Ida and Willie, afraid folks offended	d:g:p:a:
1863-06-28DB	06-28-1863DBs.htm	06-28-1863DBt.htm	Dear Brother, would have written if knew in Utica, does not write all hardships, discourages from enlisting, love to father and mother	f:m:g:d:a:u:
1863-07-04	07-04-1863s.htm	Pending.html	no 4th of July, took telegram to Col who sent to War Dept, dream home so reverse- will not, picture with Fletch new uniform, rumor Lee captured	p:g:d:a:i:
1863-08-07	08-07-1863s.htm	Pending.html	got her picture, soldiers will fall in love, she cannot come or might be blackguarded, Jim Harper, new Camp Parole better, cannot get stamps	u:g:d:a:
1863-08-15	08-15-1863s.htm	Pending.html	upset letter from Bill Dagwell says she went twice to Hart and Dagwell for money, what Old [Top?] said at Carters, cannot do his country justice	u:d:a:
1863-08-16	08-16-1863s.htm	Pending.html	got letter and picture of Mother, carries a lot of pictures, yellow fever, whiskey and quinine, Joey, young [top?], Sarah Graff, true as steel	g:m:u:a:
1863-08-23	08-23-1863s.htm	Pending.html	has been a year, may never come home, remembers their parting, Regt reduced from 900 to 170, 4th Oneida had it easy, sending papers	d:o:n:u:p:a:
1863-08-28	08-28-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Julia letter, her hop picking, Dave Jones horrible news, Commissioners cannot agree on exchange, Negro Soldiers, busy in charge of 68 men, same power as Capt	g:u:p:a:
1863-09-03	09-03-1863s.htm	Pending.html	papers George not drafted, Sarah Graff, Mr. Place, mean women Washington, Philip Smith, Bill Sweatfager, Bill Dagwell, Charles Milburey, Brother Henry	d:u:s:g:n:a:
1863-09-08	09-08-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Lieut furlough, deserters to be shot, detached corps, Ben Chapman, Michael Keating, Phil Smith and Andy, Washington women, caught something, Tom, Sarah	d:u:m:g:a:
1863-09-16	09-16-1863s.htm	Pending.html	tramp to Washington, War Dept, Smithsonian, Navy Yard, Capitol, Dave Laughlin, father to Roscoe Conklin for furlough, Francis Kernin, strict orders	p:u:a:
1863-09-25	09-25-1863s.htm	Pending.html	got recommend Conklin, took to Lieut but exchange orders, going to front, Col said no one can leave, Rosecrans and Burnside, prisoners likely shot if take arms	p:n:a:
1863-10-08	10-08-1863s.htm	Pending.html	back with Regt, bewildered, Regt altered, looked on with pride, new drills, Uticans would wonder, uniforms, owe Uncle Sam, march 8 days rations	p:o:u:a:
1863-10-22	10-22-1863s.htm	Pending.html	13 days driving Rebels and retreating, captured more than them, Fletch march stocking feet, Fairfax, 96 conscripts, Bill Dagwood, paired with Fragment 1	g:p:o:m:u:a:
1863-11-09	11-09-1863s.htm	Pending.html	on move, 2 battles, took 2200 prisoners, 9 artillery, drove them to drown in river, log cabins, Rebel letter, railroad destroyed, Tom invalid corps, Garrard	g:p:m:a:
1863-11-24	11-24-1863s.htm	Pending.html	marched to cross Rapidan but rain and mud, Meade determined, Fredericksburg, made 2 pictures for a dollar, Boys need tobacco, Tom Washington discharge	g:p:s:m:f:a:
1863-12-20	12-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	no locations, Bealton Station? cold, exposure, hungry, buying bread, tent with fireplace,sent 2 letters since crossed Rapidan, afraid she is cold in old house, Tom letter	d:u:s:a:
1864-02-06	02-06-1864s.htm	Pending.html	2 days guard duty rail road, cannons, captured 7 guerrillas included major, those wounded, Cone and Stanford arrested, how treated Jakes wife, Sarah, Zouave sketch	p:u:g:z:m:a:
1864-02-11	02-11-1864s.htm	Pending.html	Julia mad at Tom, all owed money but prepare they may never get it, bounties exhaust Treasury, take $2 a week from Baker and City subsidy, lengthy cruel war statement	p:u:m:d:g:a: