Word: spottsylvania
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...uncle, John B. Noyes, of the Class of 1858. Noyes enlisted as a private early in the Civil War, became a captain of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, and after passing through a long and active service, including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers. His letters were written to various members of his family, and form an unbroken series from his first garrison duty at Fort Independence through the year 1864. Mr. Noyes died...
...regiment was mustered into the service of the United States July 18, 1861. It was engaged in the following battles: Ball's Bluff, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' Battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville. Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, the battles in the neighborhood of Petersburg, the fighting leading up to the surrender at Appomattox, and in many other smaller engagements...