CDV – Signed By 1st Lieutenant Calvin A. Damon 6th Massachusetts Infantry – SOLD

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CDV – Signed, 1st Lieutenant Calvin A. Damon 6th Massachusetts Infantry.

Calvin A. Damon, from Cambridge, Ma. enlisted as a 1st Sergeant on September 5, 1862, into Co. F., 6th Mass Infantry. He was promoted to 1st Lt. in February of 1863.  Mustered out at Lowell on June 3. 1863.

Under the call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia to serve nine months, 19,080 being assigned to the quota of Massachusetts, the 6th Regt. again volunteered for duty, thus helping to avoid the employment of the draft to raise troops in this Commonwealth. Its rendezvous was at Camp Henry Wilson, Lowell, Mass. Its companies were mostly mustered in on August 31, but Company F was not mustered until September 8. Proceeding to Washington and thence to Fort Monroe, the regiment was engaged during the fall and winter in the Blackwater region, and during the spring participated in the defense of Suffolk, Va., when that city was menaced by a large force under Gen. Longstreet. At Carrsville, Va., May 14-16, 1863, the regiment was engaged with loss. The siege of Suffolk being ended, on the 26th of May the regiment left for Boston, where it arrived on the 29th. Proceeding to Lowell, on June 3 it was mustered out of the service. Source: Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors & Marines in the Civil War.

He was a member of GAR Post # 78, Whitman, Mass.  Signed on the reverse.

Photographed by Warren, Cambridgeport, Ma.

Very good condition, trimmed on the bottom of mount, and one small corner of image top left.