Letter from a Union soldier stationed in Rappahannock Station, VA in 1864 as part of the 11th US Infantry. He wrote to his aunt about his visit North. Ingham describes his intent to visit his aunt in Schenectady and how he opted to visit his brother at Yale instead. The letter describes individuals such as a Douglas Campbell and an Alex and Clara Pennington. The letter goes on to descibe how he sat with the Pennington couple for a carte and stereoscopic picture. The leter mentions General George Sykes, whom Ingham describes as sending his regards.
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First Lieutenant George Trenchard Ingham was born in 1839 in Salem County, New Jersey. His parents were Jonathan and Harriet Howell Sinnickson Ingham, and had three siblings, Sarah Ann, William Henry, and Mary Rebekah Ingham. George attended Union College in Schenectady, New York and graduated in 1860. On April 25, 1861, George was commissioned as First Lieutenant of Company I of the 4th New Jersey Militia. On June 1st, 1861 he was discharged and commissioned as First Lieutenant of the 11th United States Regular Infantry, where he served throughout the American Civil War until he resigned on August 9, 1864. He married Ann Thorpe Ingham and had five children, Alice Winslow Williams, Margaret Morgan Ingham, Augusta Thorpe Evans, Helen Howell Rea, and Winslow Brewster Ingham. George died at age 60 in 1899 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was interred at Saint John's Episcopal Churchyard in Salem County, New Jersey.