Joseph ORCUTT^[1]

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• Name	Joseph ORCUTT
  Gender	Male
  Military Event	Civil War - 2nd MN Inf, Co C: Corpl: captured at Kennesaw Mountain, TN  [2]
  Served Civil War?	Y
  Military Flag	Y
  Cause of Death	Diarrhea
  Died	?	Camp Sunter [Andersonville Prison], Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia
  Person ID	I15215	Main
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	Caleb ORCUTT,   b. 19 Nov 1805, Hamilton, Butler, Ohio ,   d. 16 Aug 1864  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Helen HALL,   b. 4 Sep 1806, Hamilton, Butler, Ohio ,   d. 30 Mar 1874, Concord, Dodge, Minnesota  (Age 67 years)
  Married	21 Dec 1829
  Family ID	F6322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Kennesaw Mountain was the site of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, in which the Union forces of General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a bloody frontal attack on the Confederate Army of Tennessee, which was commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of Major League Baseball, was named after the battle, in which his father nearly lost his left leg.«s76»

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] Orcutt_001 gedcom file, Robert Waddell. [S77] Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service.