1862, Charles Dwight, P.O.W, Battle of Seven Pines, firsthand battle content

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This is an original letter dated June 7, 1862, In the Field, before Richmond,(Battle of Seven Pines) where Charles Dwight has written to his mother regarding a great battle...a forced march was ordered and that business was meant...we met masses of our troops saying we have had it, there's nothing but rebs to be seen,,we got to the battlefield where Casey disgraced himself...we had been driven back 4 miles..we had been whipped. We lay on the ground 2 or 3 nights, waiting. We were bushwacked...thrown into the woods after wading through swamps, passing the dead and wounded,...we were attacked on our left, 20 killed or wounded...it has rained all week, we are truly exhausted, we whipped the rebs, their loss tremendous,the ground piled with bodies of the dead, the stench is awful...signed on front page; Charly. Second sheet, a post script, relates to the fact that most of the officers were drunk during the fight...and another write on back discusses the issue....Letter is 6 pages with post script, 6x9, folds, else in very good condition.
In 1863, General Casey testified before the Joint Committee of the Conduct of the War, a congressional committee that investigated Union military operations, about his role in the Battle of Seven Pines. Casey vigorously defended the mettle of his division and stated: ‘In my humble opinion from what I witnessed…I am convinced that the stubborn and desperate resistance of my division saved the army on the right bank of the Chickahominy from a severe repulse, which might have resulted in a disastrous defeat. The blood of the gallant dead would cry to me from the ground on which they fell fighting for their country had not I said what I have to vindicate them from the unmerited aspersions which have been cast upon them.’
Charles T. Dwight  was born May 5, 1842 attended Harvard University but left to join the army. Charles was lieutenant in the 70th regiment, taken prisoner in Libby Prison, but lived until March 9, 1884..... Enlisted on 11/1/1861 at Camp Farnum, MD as a 2nd Lieutenant.
On 11/1/1861 he was commissioned into "B" Co. NY 70th Infantry He was discharged on 6/30/1864
He was listed as: * POW (Libby's Prison) * Exchanged 9/21/1862 Aiken's Landing, VA.
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