Cummings Durham, Civil War

6/16/2020 ~ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K2QH-QD2

1860 Census ~ living in Gouverneur Township, St. Lawrence County, New York

1864 ~ mustered out of the Army in New York area.

1870 Census ~ living in Ellis Township, Hardin County, Iowa.

1880 Census ~ Hayes, Mitchell County, Kansas

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42390068/cummings-durham

6/16/2020 ~ Did an extensive search before changing the 1840 date of death on profile. I can find no evidence of the death or burial of any Durham in the United States in that year, age, and name. There is no "Blue Hill Cemetery" north of Hunter, KS, but there is a town close by called Blue Hill.

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/leavenworth-soldiers-home/12209

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 June 2020), memorial page for Cummings Durham (3 Mar 1822–14 Jan 1902), Find a Grave Memorial no. 42390068, citing Rose Valley Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by TLC (contributor 46919197).

Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Cummings Durham mentioned: https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/106thInf/106thI...

106th Infantry Regiment, Civil War, St. Lawrence County Regiment https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/106thInf/106thI...

Unit Roster https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/Infantry/106th_I...

UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 106th Regiment, New York Infantry https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleU... https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=3... https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=4...

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/106th_Regiment,_New_York_Infantry

106th Regiment Infantry "St. Lawrence County Regiment"

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf8.htm#8

• • Organized at Ogdensburg, NY, and mustered in August 27, 1862.
• • Left State for Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1862, thence ordered to New Creek, Va.
• • Attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept., to September 1862.
• • Railroad District, West Virginia, to January 1863.
• • Martinsburg, W. Va., Milroy's Command, 8th Corps, Middle Dept., to March 1863.
• • 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps, to June 1863.
• • Elliott's Command, 8th Army Corps, to July 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1864.
• • 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah, to June 1865.

SERVICE

• • Guard and provost duty in Defenses of the Upper Potomac, with Headquarters at New Creek, Va., until June 1863.
• • Expedition to Greenland Gap April 15-22, 1863.
• • Fairmont April 29. Martinsburg, W. Va., June 14.
• • Battle of Winchester, Va., and retreat to Harper's Ferry June 14-15.
• • Guard stores to Washington, D.C., July 1-4.
• • Join Army of the Potomac at Frederick, Md., July 5.
• • Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24.
• • Action at Wapping Heights, Va., July 23.
• • Duty online of the Rappahannock and Rapidan until October.
• • Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• • Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• • Kelly's Ford November 7.
• • Brandy Station November 8.
• • Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
• • Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• • Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15.
• • Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
• • Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12.
• • North Anna River May 23-26.
• • Online of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• • Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• • Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• • Before Petersburg June 17-18.
• • Siege of Petersburg June 17-July 6.
• • Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23, Ordered to Baltimore, Md., July 6.
• • Battle of Monocacy, Md., July 9.
• • Expedition to Snicker's Gap, Va., July 14-24.
• • Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.
• • Near Charlestown August 21-22.
• • Battle of Winchester September 19.
• • Fisher's Hill September 22.
• • Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.
• • Duty at Kernstown until December.
• • Moved to Washington, D.C., thence to Petersburg, Va., December 3-6.
• • Siege of Petersburg December 1864, to April 1865.
• • Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865.
• • Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• • Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• • Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.
• • Sailor's Creek April 6.
• • Appomattox Court House April 9.
• • Surrender of Lee and his army.
• • March to Danville, Va., April 23-27, and duty there until May 16.
• • Moved to Richmond, Va., thence to Washington, D.C., May 16-June 2.
• • Corps Review June 8. Mustered out June 27, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• • 10 Officers and
• • 127 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• • 4 Officers and
• • 166 Enlisted men by disease.
• • Total 307.
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• Military_service: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States - 1895
• Residence: Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States - 1850
• Residence: Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, United States - 1860
• Residence: Ellis, Hardin, Iowa, United States - 1870
• Residence: Hayes, Mitchell, Kansas, United States - 1880
• Residence: Hayes & Pittsburg Townships, Mitchell, Kansas, United States - 1900
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