 Liz Hallett places rosemary on the section marker for New Hampshire graves in Gettysburg during Remembrance Day 2011. |
Michael Patrick DuMont retired from the USAF with 32 year’s service. Healso retired from Princeton University, Office of Radiation Safety and Occupational Health. His military career began as an Air Force Para-rescue jumper, medic, and transitioned into Bioenvironmental Engineering and Nuclear incident response. He's been researching and writing a book on Civil War Desertions for over 10 years and often present on that subject to various Civil War Round Tables and Educational institutions. Mike's maternal GG Grand Father was a member of the 3rdNY Cavalry along with his brother who were both captured during the battle of Ream’s Station in June 1864. Both were initially listed on the muster reports as “Deserted.” Only latter when the fact of their capture was known, the muster roll was never corrected. That is what got him so interested in the entire subject of desertion." From an email, he tells me," My wife and I moved to New Bern, NC in November 2005 and I immediately became involved with the New Bern Historical Society who owns about one-third of the land where the Battle of New Bern was fought on March 14, 1862. I became the Chairperson of the battlefield guides and have been involved in the protection of a precious part of that battlefield. Ironically, the 3rdNTY Cavalry was stationed in New Bern in 1863-64 prior to moving north to join in Grant’s Overland Campaign. They also were involved in Potter’s Raid in North Eastern NC working out of New Bern. Both of these facts I only learned after moving here, so there is some Twilight Zone type karma involved in our move, I dare say. My GG Grand Father’s brother was sent to Salisbury North Carolina Military Prison where he died. MY GG Grand Father was sent to Andersonville where he survived although suffered for the remainder of his life from the privations and diseases he experienced during his captivity." |
