Be sure to click to enlarge each image to read them. Especially the speech given by President Ford, when he acknowledges Uncle Hugh. The Bill was signed on George Washington's desk.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Hugh Stevens Doggett Absent on Surgeon's Certificate since March 3 1863
Captain Doggett was talked about by Uncle Hugh (Doggett Scott), Uncle Norman (C. Scott) my father (Richard) and others being wounded in the Civil War. The story was that Captain Doggett said, as they were taking him away from the battlefield suffering a "gut wound;" "My guts are draggin' the ground boys, but keep on shootin'".....now whether this is verbatim is to be debated.
The second family story was he was wounded at the Battle of Antietam (near Sharpsburg Maryland) which was in September of 1962. Antietam has a different date than this particular medical leave above. However, the family story is, Captain Doggett was shot 3 times. What I am not sure of, if this was at one battle, or over a series of battles.
Now it's your turn to help me get the facts straight.
What have you heard? Email the stories to me at debrafrieden@gmail.com, and I will hunt down the medical record during that date. If I can match the two - actual document date with family story, we can prove fact from fiction!
Hand Written Letter from Captain Hugh Stevens Doggett 1864 inquiring about family after Battle of Fredericksburg
This is a hand writtenlLetter from Captain Hugh Stevens Doggett Confederate States of American, 1864, inquiring about family after the Battle of Fredericksburg.
My cousin Norm Scott and I tried to translate it, by lightening the image.
If you can help us fill in a blank, please PLEASE help us do so, so we can discover the full intention of his letter.
This is in archives, and I discovered a digital file. I do not own the original. The original was very dark. What you see here is a lightened version, it in hopes we could fill in the blanks.
This is what we could decifer:
"Camp Lee June 7 - 64
Capt. __ Patterson
Capt, My family are in Fredericksburg and from what I have heard of the (pillage?) of the place, may be in_________& dry [garretts] or [garments] who are aged & infirm living between Fred & Spotsylvania Ct. -----robbed of everything & are without sustenance, my brothers who had aided them in so____ ___ _____have been carried off the_______by the enemy. I feel it my duty to look after them if I can. I would therefore respectfully ___absence for twenty days!
Respectfully Yours,
HS Doggett Capt.
Co B Ba 30 Reg
on duty with P&E Prison" - [Prisoners and Exchange]
My cousin Norm Scott and I tried to translate it, by lightening the image.
If you can help us fill in a blank, please PLEASE help us do so, so we can discover the full intention of his letter.
This is in archives, and I discovered a digital file. I do not own the original. The original was very dark. What you see here is a lightened version, it in hopes we could fill in the blanks.
This is what we could decifer:
"Camp Lee June 7 - 64
Capt. __ Patterson
Capt, My family are in Fredericksburg and from what I have heard of the (pillage?) of the place, may be in_________& dry [garretts] or [garments] who are aged & infirm living between Fred & Spotsylvania Ct. -----robbed of everything & are without sustenance, my brothers who had aided them in so____ ___ _____have been carried off the_______by the enemy. I feel it my duty to look after them if I can. I would therefore respectfully ___absence for twenty days!
Respectfully Yours,
HS Doggett Capt.
Co B Ba 30 Reg
on duty with P&E Prison" - [Prisoners and Exchange]
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