{"id":20,"date":"2010-06-22T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-06-28T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T21:22:39","slug":"the-john-taylor-cuddy-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/06\/22\/the-john-taylor-cuddy-correspondence\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Taylor Cuddy Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32801\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21\" style=\"margin: 10px\" title=\"Cuddy Letter 07\/07\/1861\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/06\/1861_07_07_cuddy1-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/06\/1861_07_07_cuddy1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/06\/1861_07_07_cuddy1-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/06\/1861_07_07_cuddy1.jpg 1495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a> Sixteen-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5511\" target=\"_blank\">John Taylor Cuddy<\/a> left his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to enlist in Company A of the 36th Pennsylvania Infantry on <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32751\" target=\"_blank\">June 5, 1861<\/a>. \u00a0Over the next two years, Cuddy wrote 77 letters home to his family describing his experiences as a soldier in the Union army. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/theirownwords\/title\/m007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cuddy\u2019s correspondence<\/a> is available online as part of Dickinson College\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/theirownwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">Their Own Words<\/a>\u201d digital archive. \u00a0Over the course of his service in the army, Cuddy wrote his parents full of exuberance to go \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32759\" target=\"_blank\">lick the south<\/a>\u201d from his training camp at Fort Wayne, with a tempered tone of experience after fighting in the battle of Gaines\u2019 Mill, and with a critical analysis of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32755\" target=\"_blank\">old abe[\u2018s]<\/a>\u201d Emancipation Proclamation. \u00a0At the Battle of the Wilderness, which lasted from May 5 to 7, 1864, Cuddy\u2019s regiment was captured and sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32742\" target=\"_blank\">Andersonville<\/a>, a Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia. \u00a0With his capture, Cuddy\u2019s letters stopped. \u00a0Although John Taylor Cuddy never made it home to Pennsylvania (he died in a prison in Florence, South Carolina on <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32752\" target=\"_blank\">September 29, 1864<\/a>), his correspondence creates a living picture of the life of a teenage Pennsylvania soldier during the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old John Taylor Cuddy left his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to enlist in Company A of the 36th Pennsylvania Infantry on June 5, 1861. \u00a0Over the next two years, Cuddy wrote 77 letters home to his family describing his experiences as a soldier in the Union army. \u00a0Cuddy\u2019s correspondence is available online as part of 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