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Corporal Titus Moss Letters, September 1862 – March 1863 Page 82 Company first took in the retreat. He was lying nearly on his back his “feet to the foe” and the Col. thinks he received a mortal wound and died very soon after. The Col. was under a guard of the enemy who hurried him through as fast as possible and he gave most of his time to the wounded of whom there were not a few, but he knows he saw your brother as his face was in full view and he had often seen him in camp at Fairfax and remembered him as coming to see Mr. Sanford who messed with the Col. at that place. Yet he did not remember his name and put id down as Joel Brooks, whom Capt. William C. Doolittle told him he saw killed, Doolittle not knowing that your brother was also killed. A burial party from our Corps of six men visited the field under flag of truce for the purpose of disinterring some officers. One of these men belonged to our regiment. He found nothing belonging to any member of Co. “A” and saw nothing except an envelope with the West Cheshire post mark on it and recognized it as belonging to one of Co. “A” and therefore marking the spot we occupied in the fight but he did not remember the name on it nor pick it up to see if anything was in it. The men did not occupy the same position all the time in relation to each other while behind the works. Owing to some miscalculation or other cause, there was not room for the men to all stand up in two ranks and put their guns through or over the works & some had to step back after firing and reload while others took their places to fire. In that manner the men became changed somewhat in their relative positions. When the Paroled prisoners return to the Reg’t, I may be able learn some additional particulars about your brother during the march and fight and will communicate them to you. Three of our absent sick men have recently returned to the Reg’t on Comp and we expect more soon including the paroled prisoners. Poor Thomas Simons met his death at the hands or rather through the incompetency of the very set of men he has so often denounced for their treatment of others. I say this because I must believe that a competent surgeon must find out whether a bone is broken or not in less than three weeks after the casualty. The news from the South is of a cheering character and we indulge the belief that when Charleston is ours the Rebellion is virtually crushed. Some feel the real brutality and horrors of war more than the soldiers whose moral sense is not entirely obliterated, and I can assure you none feel more anxious to have this terribly destructive war brought to a close – still feeling that our cause is just, we cannot think submitting to any peace which is The Cheshire Historical Society Cheshire, Connecticut 06410 http://www.cheshirehistory.org April 2005
Corporal Titus Moss Letters, September 1862 – March 1863 Page 83 not honorable to our country and just to the men who have fallen by tens of thousands in defense of the same great principles we are still fighting for. Please present my best compliments to my old friends of the Church Union and tell Mrs. Bryant I have not forgotten the quiet hallowed sabbaths I use to spend in the old Brick Church and think of them often in contrast to the every day alike system which prevails in the Army. Trusting to hear from you again if inclination prompts. I am as ever Your truly Timothy Guilford The Cheshire Historical Society Cheshire, Connecticut 06410 http://www.cheshirehistory.org April 2005
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